Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - April 19, 1939, Billings, Montana MONTANA WEATHER Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday somewhat unsettled west of divide cooler Wednesday and east portion Thursday VOL 167 FINAL MORNING EDITION WYOMING WEATHER Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday cooler Thursday and north portion Wednesday ASSOCIATED PRESS BILLINGS MONTANA WEDNESDAY APRIL 19 1939 UNITED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS CALL LINDBERGH TO CONDUCT AIR SURVEY The Washington Scene By David Lawrence 1939 ever for the i to and which HItle In in be pope md to ent the ting lenc Ltent Washington April there was an opportune moment the forces of peace throughout world to Join together In a the governments of Germany Italy it is in the next 10 days must elapse before Herr answers before the German relch the proposal of President Throughout the world the tance of the interval is recognized many influential quarters and many capitals and it would not surprising if In the interim the p at Rome were prevailed upon to 1 the great weight of his position the efforts initiated by the presid of the United States If the pope while not entering into the details of the pre dent's proposal were to indorse t spirit of Mr Roosevelt's and wish It well such a move co not but have a profound in Italy and perhaps to some ext In Germany The States government is maintaining an attitude of complete detachment from all endeavors which may be made in the direction because the position taken here from the outset is that ments everywhere should express themselves or remain silent as they please without any suggestion or in- from the American For the last thing the here would wish to see is an artificial lining up of governments for or against the proposal Delay Is Gratifying The fact that a formal reply has been delayed lor 10 days is in itself a gratifying event because it em- the serious nature of the American intervention and the great potentialities of moral force when spoken so plainly as in the dent's message Too many things are at stake for a blunt reply or an im- pulsive action to be taken for while the form of the message or the ness ot the language might have been disconcerting to the Berlin and Rome governments the truth is Herr Hitler Signer Mussolini might well think twice before rejecting the American proposal which they are to note is related as much to economic readjustment as it is to the idea of a truce against aggression So far as the cabled reports from Berlin and Rome are concerned it is apparent the newspapers there have not grasped the meaning of the American offer The fascist and editors seem to think the posal merely asks Germany and Italy whether they will assure the world against attack on the 31 countries listed The president plainly said he would also ask Britain and Prance and the other countries to give lar assurances to Germany and Italy It was not a trick question or one- on Page 2 Column 2 I Notice in The Gazette THE WEATHER LOCAL WEATHER REPORT Data for 24 hours ending at p m yesterday furnished by United States weather bureau station at municipal Temperature at a m 27 Temperature at p m 74 Maximum Minimum Mean temperature 50 Relative humidity at a m 64 per cent Relative humidity at P m 12 per cent Precipitation None Barometric pressure at elevation of 3570.49 At a m 26.56 Inches At P m 25.27 inches Character of day Partly cloudy Sunrise today at a m at P m today at a m Moonset at p m STATE WEATHER REPORT Helena April and minimum temperature and precipitation in the cities for the last 24 hours ended at 6 o'clock Tuesday night re- ported here Max Min Free Bozeman 29 Cut Bank 71 48 Fort 74 29 Glendive 70 20 Great Falls 72 43 26 Malta 75 27 Poplar 3 18 Havre Helena -2 34 72 32 Miles City 72 26 Cheyenne 58 20 Denver 66 26 Boise 76 40 Boston W 36 44 Calgary 64 44 Chicago 44 44 08 Galveston 68 56 Jacksonville 80 66 Kansas City 42 34 Los Angles 50 64 Minneapolis 36 32 New York 54 40 06 Omaha 40 34 Portland 78 55 Salt Lake City 70 34 San Francisco 60 48 Spokane 74 42 Seattle 63 34 64 24 VITAL STATISTICS DEATH John S Mahlstedt 4 of Circle BIRTHS Girls Mrc Myers Avenue E Mrs Horace Peters Pryor star route Mrs Edward 514 Broadwater nue LICENSES David LCQ O'Connell 33 Absarokee Muriel Ifl Broadview DIVORCES GRANTED Mary M from James L Marion Sanches from Demo DIVORCES ASKED George J SI Urn an from Helen H from Edward Lenhart F D R PLANS ASKING BIG RELIEF FUND President Says That Figure Now in et for Fiscal Year Beginning July 1 SAYS REVISION MAY BE MADE President Expects to Confer With House Groups Next Week April VV Roosevelt Tuesday indicated that within j the next 10 days he will ask j congress which is fighting to pare relief costs and to scrap WPA for to finance aid to the nation's needy during the fiscal year beginning July 1 The figure coincides with the one which Senate Majority Leader Alben W Berkley Democrat Kentucky said would be submitted The president however at his press conference day did not close the door to changes in it He said the mate was in his budget and while he saw nothing in the current situation to force a revision the amount still is under discussion A sizable cut in relief costs and repeal of deterrent taxes have been sought by business to spur trade The chief executive said he expected to confer next week with heads ol the senate and house tees but other indicated these conversations would evolve about continuation of present ance levies and proposed freezing of pay roll taxes under the social curity act rather than about spread revisions in corporate rates Administration leaders at the tol have informed the president a shakeup in the relief operations is virtually certain to be forced by a bloc of conservative Democrats nnd Republicans in both houses The general Scrapping of WPA compelling states to bear a larger share of the relief burden on Page 2 Column 4 Home on Lake ington Endangered by Blaze in Brash Seattle fires threatened suburban residential dis- across from Seattle on the ern shores of Lake Washington late Tuesday Homes near Phantom lake In the Bellevue district were endangered by fires racing through the dry brush A strong north wind fanned the blaze which got out of control and dents of the section considered It as dangerous as the fire that burned over that area 15 years ago AH reserve fire equipment and man power was called to Bellevue The town of Fall City 30 miles due east of Seattle In central King ty was threatened for several hours by a brush fire which covered four square miles The fire was halted about four miles from Falls State and county fire wardens were busy fighting scores of brush fires in western Washington although none of the blazes were as serious as those near Seattle and they were under control WPA workers CCC enrollees men and volunteer workers fought fires in numerous vicinities around Puget sound The danger from fires was rable to midsummer conditions be- cause of unseasonal warm weather and lack of moisture Mentioned as a possibility lor appointment to the national labor relations board is cis J Haas of Catholic university at Washington D c former ber of the NRA advisory board More Than 25 Craft Leave for Maneuvers in Gibraltar Area of Mediterranean Berlin April than 25 warcraft of the modern German navy steamed toward maneuvers in Spanish waters Tuesday night The warships left Kiel and and when remained a for the area near the Strait of French warships now are patrolling the strait while the British ranean fleet Is concentrated near the strategic British base of Malta Hitler Tuesday sought to strengthen his hand In Turkey by dispatching Franz von who has been In retirement since he engineered the Austrian occupation as ambassador to that former German ally now considering an alliance with Britain and France Preparations for Chancellor Hitler's fiftieth birthday anniversary on Thursday overshadowed other man political developments Newspaper attacks on President Roosevelt continued Hitler and his chief lieutenant Field Marshal Hermann Goering returned to Berlin Tuesday night for the birthday celebration The chancellor had spent in days In his Bavarian mountain home In Munich where he conferred about President Roosevelt's week-end peace appeal and In Austria where he in- spected progress in training Austrian soldiers along the Prussian pattern Field Marshal Goering had been In Italy since March 22 when he re- a vacation and was under- stood to have discussed Continued on Page 2 Column Plane Crash Kills Mrs Roosevelt's Nephew Mexico City April S Roosevelt Identified as a nephew of Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and j a companion were killed Tuesday when their plane crashed Into a mountain near Victoria In Puebla state His companion was Peter of Sands Point L I Both Roosevelt and Rumsey were Harvard students They flew to Mexico several days ago on a seeing tour Their plane crashed on a return flight to the United States Mussolini Opens Hoped to Link That Nation With ASSOCIATION ALREADY CLOSE Albania Occupation Is Said New and Not Final Sign of Fascist Ascendancy ROME April mier Mussolini and leaders of the Hungarian government Tuesday night began tions which fascists hoped would link Hungary to the lin axis in the event of war The Hungarian premier Count Paul Teleky and foreign minister Count Stephen are to go to Berlin later to complete negotiations In talks with Chancellor Hitler Fascists snid the trend toward closer association already had been established by Hungarian adherence to the pact and from the league of nations Tuesday night the new chamber of fasces and guilds de- scribed Italy's occupation of Albania as a new and not final sign of the strong and wise ascendancy of fascist Italy The quotation was Included In an address which It approved at Its re- sponse to the speech King made In accepting tho banian crown Neither the word nor the word can characterize tho nature of our present relations with the chamber said adding that relations are In a state of suspense Rome Informants added that Brit- ain's guarantee to Rumania brought Hungarian Interests closer than over to the policies of Rome and Berlin A potential cause of friction be- tween Hungary and Rumania IH Transylvania former Hungarian tory which Rumania got after the World war Some observers believed the ent conversations might result In a mutual assistance pact to become applicable In the event of war In which Rumania was on the side of Britain and France The Italian foreign n ster Count Continued on Page j Column 6 Hull Declares Trade Pacts Can Be Used to Resist Pressure TAKES LEADERSHIP AND SLOVAKS CHICAGO April Benes self-exiled former president of Tuesday night accepted ship of more than Czechs and Slovaks seeking to establish a new republic Benes said after an agreement in London Parli Moscow and Washington he Intends to j was Issued after a manifesto to all hla people representatives from American which they could start new organizations preparing the groundwork of a Czech tional council composed of Czechs political action It means simply that In the name of the countries which arc unable to today freely for Benea said we enter tho ranta ot those atates which are and Slovaks in Canada the South American states and other countries asked him to lead the movement for Czechoslovak independence Washington April tary of State Cordell Hull Tuesday night necessary economic weapons for nations wishing to the pressure of International methods practiced hy Germany and Italy may be found In the reciprocal trade treaties gram His views were regarded as a new invitation for wider participation In the reciprocal plan They wore con- In a special statement in which he said commerce department figures Indicated the United States has onen far more successful Germany in restoring Its commerce with agreement countries He referred to President Roosevelt's pledge of economic aid to Latin ican nations against economic sure exerted by totalitarian trade The trade agreements program IP well calculated to alleviate such sure in this hemisphere as well as he Economic sure is brought to hear by countries which force barter and compensation trade policies upon those from whom they buy By facilitating normal profitable GETS NEW POST Continued on Page 2 Column 3 King Will Place Wreath on Tomb of George Washington Washington April George VI of Great Britain will lay a wreath on the tomb of the George Washington who led tbe revolt of the colonies against the British emr during his visit to the United States the state department disclosed Tuesday night King George and Queen Elizabeth first monarchs of the British empire to visit this country will go to Mount Vernon Friday June 0 for the ceremony according to j j The state department revealed that the royal arrive by way of Canada on Wednesday June 7.1 A career diplomat Alexander W to has been named United States to Spain to succeed Claude G Bowers Original Signatures on First Call foi Organization to Be Put on Exhibition Original signatures on the first call for organisation nf un tana dated Sept 30 1003 and tho original and bylaws of the society when It Inter was formed will be 031 tion nt thr n mum I meeting of the Finn ecru of Eastern Montana at tho Billing Commercial club Saturday Seventy-five nil of whom won In Montana by and many as as the on the original document ami of ber 43 the anil of ent organization Only six of the 43 now arc living so fur an known hnrc and arc living of the original 75 who met In known to living include Dr William A Alton Henry A O F C M Balr G Ci I D V J bury and c H John H A II Murray B and O W have out of touch with club find their art not known About 175 of the society and will nl Ih 0 o'clock Saturday dinner at the Com- club according to There will bn a meeting at p in In the afternoon when officers for the four on Page Z Column G N L R B Head Gives Testimony Before Senate Committee Washington April ing that the Wagner act be retained In its pro son I form man J Warren Madden of tional labor board declared Tuesday that a series of amendments proposed by Senator Burke Democrat braska were designed to revoke the liberties the net confers on labor an old feud Burke in an appearance before the senate labor committee Madden said the Nebraskan had voted the when it was originally before the senate had made serious lic charges against the tion of the act without any able evidence to sustain them find had been generally unfriendly to the purposes of the In question The committee conducting ings on the Burke amendments ami other changes In the act Burke's amendments would restrict the of the labor hoard additional outlets for the appeal of board decisions to the courts mit an employer to petition for a labor board election to determine the collective bargaining agent of hiB em- and unfair labor practices which the unions would bo forbidden to follow Sending of Troops to Spanish Morocco Post-War Demobilization Step LEBRUN SIGNS SEVEN DECREES Nationalists Said to Be Resentful Over Delay in Receipt of Gold War Supplies PARIS April obtained assurances from Burgos political informants snid Tuesday night that troop ments Within Spain and to Spanish Morocco were aimed neither at France nor Britain The Spanish ambassador Felix told Foreign Bonnet those sources mild Unit return of large forcon of can troops to Spanish Morocco was merely a step In post-war tlon and contrary to repot ts Franco had not been to tho of French Morocco Diplomatic sources reported that both tho French nnd won concerned over the movement of a Gorman naval squadron into The pocket of tho type suld were Ideal they carried ger guns than of tlm and nnd word than French or British In of war diplomatic theorized might bo to cut supply linen with tho Americas white a Gorman fleet kept tho Gorman and North ncri open resentment delay by tho French In handing over to tho government nnd war plies defeated Spanish brought Into France Include In Hold currently 410 and merchunt and Continued on i 2 Column 7 One Member of Crew Is Burned to Death Another Is Injured HEADS BANK His new fla president ot Midland National brought E T to A former Bismarck nnd N banker he the late II New Midland al President Also Will Be Member of Board of Directors K T former of tlm N D First hank and tho N D Union National bauk arrived in to tako over UN of the Midland National hank n pout to which ho March u the late H Mr In addition to tut will bo a member of tho board of directors to tho Hillin him to tin year and with F T Merrill vleo of tho Midland National bunk Mr of his day In In Mr and won arrive in within it few ho Both the bank and the brink of nre with the Stock Mr nnd are western He In R native of North Dakota at- tended the University of Minnesota and with brother In ex- farming operations in the Red valley prior to the Wednesday April I In a u liner of tho French Him wan by fire lier dock iere tarly a hours jrc duo to nail for New York with n capacity 11 fit The fire chief WHB burned to death and a city fireman wan In critical condition from Thu origin of the fire was it tery hut there was a of in- An Italian dock for All fire of Havre to the dock by of the harbor the fire equipment aboard thr The Paris built In for the French line 735 feet and th ono of the liners of the French line fleet Tho Paris wan completely Jar Railing for U the New York fair had packed tho ship of the bunk of Ht In capacity ami an on 2 Column 5 Commons Members Introduce Motion For Conscription Tendon April A JfJr and j by M f MIC Dramatic Move Made by War Department to Insure American Plane Leadership F D R CONFERS WITH ADVISORS W a y s of Protesting Nation From Eco- nomic Shock in Case of War April VV Col Charles A Lindbergh the world's most famous flyer was called to the colors Tuesday Ih a dramatic move to insure that the United States army shall have world leadership in the development of warplanes A few days export witnesses had told congressional committees that Germany was building better planes than United States tho announcement Issued by Secretary of War that Lind- bergh an corps reserve officer hnd gone on active duty and would make a of American aviation for the army nir corps The Long Eagle reported day ut tho office oT the chief ol tho nlr MaJ Gen Henry Arnold He then departed on an Inspection trip of centera Later ho wlir make a confidential report to General Arnold his world-known an a practical flyer Lindbergh linn been In close touch during hla prolonged stay with aero- nautical In In his capacity na reserve colonel and a member of tho national ad- committee for ho a kept hero In touch with developments which came under his Lindbergh recently re- to the United atates for an Indefinite stay from Lindbergh's knowledge of It was was counting on his world ro- to the lem and thereby facilitate action on It colleagues of Lindbergh in tho advisory committee which IB the official body directing government had on Pago 2 Column 8 of co win In that of motion IK of of tin principle of man and of thr by L K Kir W M MINERS COAL OPERATORS ACCEPT FEDERAL MEDIATION NEW YORK April mediation was accepted Tuesday by representatives of union miners and bituminous for more than five weeks have sought In vain to gree upon a new contract and thus reopen the idle mines of the Appalachian area James F of the United States department of labor Intervened n behalf of Secretary Perkins at the arne time however that ic held no brief from the White louse itself He talked with both announced both Bides lave accepted me as mediator and ho tired conferees went back then nto direct negotiations At the time the United Mine Workers C I Its preliminary nthraclto for a now con- tract to replace one expiring April 30 to cover between and hard coal Pennsylvania miners Thus amid growing complaints of coal shortages attributed to tho shutdown substantially tha entire coal Industry was represented here at the labor conference table John L Lewis head of the U M W of the C I O has threatened to cell a strike In the entire Industry n bituminous settlement comes Seek to Include Both Turkey and Bulgaria jn Front of Nations April were to get both allies Jr UK World wiir the of The efforts upon fn Sofia und London until tile are known It 4 unlikely that agreement with icey alone will he announced by Prime Minister Chamberlain Ho told parliament Tuesday that conversations were continuing Russia that Britain welcomed with satisfaction the Roosevelt to Italy und Germany for a that necessary military and otherwise would bo maintained with nations in tho bloc Chamberlain also told a questioner that Britain was interested in the independence of the Netherlands Switzerland and Denmark but hacl made no specific commitments to sist any of those countries The Turkish ambassador Aras visited the foreign office this morning the Bulgarian minister Nicolas left for Sofia to consult his government and the viet ambassador Ivan flew to Moscow to report to Foreign Minister Maxim Political Informants understood 1 Turkey and Bulgaria agreed they could expect no immediate aid from Britain or France unless Soviet sia definitely supported the alliance sponsored by those two powers 2 Turkey was being urged to use her Influence to bring Bulgaria Into tho front Britain and France already have guaranteed to aid Poland Greece and Rumania If they are menaced 3 London suggested Russia mako unilateral declarations that military aid would be sent to nations of tho front if ns and when they requested It A factor in this has been Rumanian objections to transporting Russian troops across Rumanian territory It was under- stood Tuesday night that Rumania now was considering waiving these ob-
