Daily Capital News (Newspaper) - April 13, 1939, Jefferson City, Missouri DAILY CAPITAL NEWS Jefferson Citys Leading Leased Wire of the Associated Press and United Press PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK DAY MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY XXVIII NO 37 JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI THURSDAY APRIL 13 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS IA Reports Nazis Have Renewed Bid for Danzig Chamberlain to Make Declaration to Halt Expansion By The Associated Press As reports circulated in Warsaw that Germany had renewed de mands upon Poland for Danzig and a strip of the Polish corridor the British and French govern ments prepared to make momen tous governmental pronounce ments today to forestall further moves by the axis The scheduled British declara tion in particular was designed to thwart further expansion toward the strategic Dardanelles straits between the Mediterranean and the Black seas a move feared in some quarters since Italys Easter conquest of Albania The statement was ex to give a provisional guar antee of inde Italys conquest of Albania moved further Wednesday as the Albanian national assembly meeting in Tirana offered the crown of the fugitive King Zog I to Italys king Vittorio Emanuele and proposed a personal union of the two countries It was con certain it would be speed ily accepted Report of Demand Denied Although the Polish foreign of fice denied that German demands in Poland previously refused had been repeated diplomatic and other sources persisted in discuss ing them They were said to have been brought from Berlin to War saw Wednesday by the Polish am Joseph Lipski Diplomats believed Germany either hoped to bluff Poland into a stand on neutrality or was pre pared to bargain on a basis of loosening her new de fense ties with France and Brit U S Agencies Take Precautions Against Coal Shortage Contract Talks Go On West Point Academy Rations Its Supply Officials Estimate Government Buildings in Washington Have Enough for 10 Days meanwhile waited NEW YORK April Federal government agencies took precautions today against a coal shortage affecting their own buildings as union representatives and bituminous operators contin ued here their monthlong nego a new labor contract that would put 338000 ian area miners back to work The United States Military Academy at West Point rationed its coal under an order by Brig Gen Jay the super intendent for the strictest con servation In Washington the treasury de directed that a quick survey be made to determine whether the public health serv ices marine hospitals had enough coal The treasury estimated that the central heating plant for govern ment buildings had a 10day sup ply and the capitol plant enough for 5 days By apportioning the available fuel officials said all government buildings could be heated for eight days Mayor Laguardia of New York telephoned John L Lewis presi dent of the CIO and head of the United Mine Workers delegation of conferees asking assurances said a mayoral secretary that no essential city service would suffer in the event of emergency Lewis announced the commit tee had agreed to hear Mayor La guardia tomorrow morning The miners president said the mayors letter called attention to the men acing shortage affecting various facilities of the city of New York and had requested the privilege of discussing the situation with the negotiators He added additional messages from cities and institutions run ning short of coal were received today and Charles ONeill New York spokesman for the operators had this to say We admit shortages of coal or possible shortages at public in and of other con sumers We are not prepared to say how serious this situation may Continued on Page 2 am Germany for Poland to make the next move toward settlement of man problems and officials in Berlin suggested that the Polish theGer demands which led to the assistance publication of the demands would show the world they in no way endangered the independence or territorial integrity of Poland As Britain and France prepared to make their declarations Prime Minister Chamberlain is to address an extraordinary session of parliament and Premier Dalad ier isto make a statement sup porting the British countries were militarily prepared to the hilt Daladier U Ready to Back Up Chamberlain LONDON April decla ration designed to forestall further expansion toward the Dardanelles and still leave the way open for appeasement of Italy was under preparation tonight by Prime Minister Chamberlain for delivery tomorrow to an extra ordinary parliamentary session Edouard Daladier the French premier was ready to back up the British stand with blunt words of his own in a parallel declaration tomorrow The air land and sea forces of Britain matched those of her everready French ally in rising to the new slogan Weve got to be prepared which flames from every billboard Warplanes sped over the east coast of Britain in allnight patrol extraordinary precaution j against any lightning thrust j Antiaircraft units were lea well past full peacetime j strength One hundred and twen ty British warships churned the Judge Resigns as Grand Jury Probes Financial Affairs Resignation of Edwin S Thomas of Connecti cut to White House WASHINGTON April resignation of Federal Judge Edwin S Thomas of Con whose financial affairs and activities have been under grand jury investigation at New York was announced today at the White House Attorney General Murphy dis cussing the case at a press con ference said the resignation has made it unnecessary to give fur ther consideration to the question of impeachment The grand jury will continue its investigation he said weeks ago Judge Thomas was recalled from a vacation to South America in the investigation of the Martin T Manton and McKesson Bobbins cases Manton Indicted Manton former States circuit court judge resigned and was subsequently indicted on charges of accepting loans from companies s which had litigation pending before his court Late last year Judge Thomas set up an equity receivership at Hartford Conn for the McKes son Robbins drug firm The receivership was dissolved later when the concern filed a bank petition in New York after its president F Donald Coster Musica was unmasked as an ex convict A statement by Attorney Gen eral Murphy said today It is well known that for a number of weeks the financial affairs of Judge Thomas and his action in certain cases have been under investiga tion by John T Cahill U S at torney for the southern district of New York and a special grand jury Judge Thomas is at present un der the care of a physician Expressing regret at the illness of Thomas and hope for his re covery Murphy made public a Jury May Continue Probe of Pendergast Business Dealings Official of Boss Concrete Firm Told to Appear Monday KANSAS CITY April that a federal grand jury which indicted T J Pendergast on tax evasion charges will continue its investigation in to his business affairs when it re convenes Monday became appar Continued on Page 2 Si S t Mediterranean most of them at I broke out or near the island of Malta Forty Drivers Truck Helper Killed in Chicago Strike Violence CHICAGO April One man was killed and several were beaten today as violence ent today E L treasurer Schneider secretary of the Ready Mixed Concrete Company of which Pen is president was sub asx the first witness Agents of the intelligence unit of the treasury department have been examining the companys books f days The jury also will resume its investigation of the Sanitary Serv ice Company which holds the gar bage disposal contract with the city The jury questioned Lester Jordan president of the Sanitary company several times before it recessed for a week Meanwhile Attorney General Frank Murphy said in Washington the government expected no un due delay in prosecution of the Pendergast case in Kansas City Asked whether he intended to ask a continuance of the grand jury beyond April 24 when its regular term expires Murphy replied he was not familiar with this Indicted with Pendergast was R E OMalley former state insur ance superintendent Both were charged with receiving parts of a mystery fund involved in Mis souris 1935 fire insurance rate settlement on which they failed to pay income taxes Sea Power of US Is to Be Put on Parade Foreign Attaches to Be Invited to Formal Fleet Review April 27 WASHINGTON April nation will parade much of its sea power on April 27 when the first formal fleet review to be held in the Atlantic in five years will be staged off the Vir ginia capes Navy officials emphasized the review had nothing to do with Europes crisis and that it was decided upon months ago However it was apparent the administration was not loath to display the strength as a factor to be reckoned with in an unsettled world Foreign naval attaches it was announced will be invited the spectac ular procession of 70 which will be heading for the worlds New York Eight battleships will head a 16mile column of ships com prising the backbone of the ar mada which recently perfected hemisphere defenses in war games in the Caribbean and south At Secretary of the Navy Swan son other cabinet members and congressmen will be among those re viewing the ships Help Foreign Nations ReArm Meanwhile the state depart ment released figures showing American manufacturers are help ing substantially in the rearma ment drive of Great Britain and France Licenses for the export of about worth of war supplies to those nations were issued in the first three months of this year made up the bulk of the However only supplies actually were exported during the period No licenses for export of war materials to Japan were on this months list Rearmament of Indies continues apace according to the departments figures show ing that orth of war supplies had to the Netherlands East posses sions in the months of this year in addition to to the Netherlands themselves Neutrality Act Discussed On capitol hill neutrality legis lation continued to be a topic o French naval vessels were said to be on active duty in the Mediter ranean To Protect Greece Turkey Two Hundred Masons Attend Grotto Dinner Masons and their families attended the Moberly night and family night dinner given by the Khan of Jefferson City at the Missouri hotel last night Delegations from Moberly Fulton Mokane and other cities of this area were in attendance The entertainment and dinner was under the direction of Victor H Lyon Monarch Lee H Krueger re ported on the progress of the drive now being made by Karim Khan lodge to obtain the neces in number for a helpers at the four charter Grand Monarch E Winter of Toronto Canada will Continued on page 2 Wieboldt department stores James Lawrence 45 a in Jefferson to present was dead of gunshot wounds inj the at a public curred when four men in a sedan j Mav 10 Chamberlain in parliament a Wieboldt truck in which j morrow is expected to give a pro four men were riding The driv visional guarantee of j erj Roy Rogers was beaten ish independence j The Wieboldt company then ob yf D He was reported authoritatively i a temporary injunction in Y to have decided to say that superior court restraining two Jo ain would consider any action of tne international Brother Mrs Stanley P Howard of Jef ferson City was named president Proposes New Plan To Hike Pay Amendments Would Limit All State Salaries to Day Rep Arthur R Kincaid Clay county said yesterday he planned to introduce in the house a constitutional amendment calling for a pay hike for the fourth such pro posal this he has a new wrinkle A companion amendment to be voted on by the people at the same time would limit the salaries of all and employes including the governor and other elective officials to a the same base pay as he proposes for the lawmakers The measure would set the maximum state salary at a year considerably less than the approved by the assembly at this session for supreme court judges for instance amendment would es a salary of a day for senators and representatives in the first 100 days of a regular session a day thereafter For revision sessions the would extend to 120 days Now the legislators receive a day for 70 days of an ordinary session and 120 days of a revision session but only a day there after Pay increase measures uniformly have met defeat at the polk Kincaid said he would intro duce his two amendments today lo Extend 2 Pel Sales Tax Approved Senate Group Alters Measure lo Overcome Attack on Its Validity A extending the life of the 2 per cent sales tax two years came out of the senate ways and means committee marked for passage yesterday altered to over come an attack on its constitution The house after most of the day on a different sales levy measure adjourned without bringing it to a perfection vote after Democrats had charged Re publicans with filibustering the proposal The senate committee struck out the body of a as introduced by D Taylor Key tesville substituted the present law and advanced the dale of ex to Dec 31 1941 The present law expires at the close of this year Amends One Section Senator Phil Donnelly Lebanon said the Taylor as passed by the house did not reen act the present law but only amended one section and ad the expiration date two years Because these defects the attorney general held the Tay lor unconstitutional The amended measure must go back to the house for concurrence after senate action The commit tee changes struck out a house ap proved amendment to bring laun dry and cleaning under the tax The debated by the lower body is designed to strengthen the tax by giving the stale auditor added enforcement powers and broadening the base somewhat The proposal retains the 2 per cent rate and extends it to Dec 31 1941 A similar measure was beaten by the house several weeks ago the ways and means commit tee rewrote the eliminating some of themore stringent fea tures Offer Reps Frank Lowry Cape Girardeau and Howard Elliott St Louis county had offered a long series of amendments clip ping the auditors powers when acting Majority Leader Morris Osburn Shelbyville made his sudden adjournment motion I think we ought to have more Democrats in their seats if the Republicans are going to filibuster against this Osburn said five amendments all were defeated but Elliott adopted as Democrats began to filter out of the chamber Also adopted was an amend ment of Rep David Hess St Louis placing laundry and clean ing under the sales tax The house shouted down an at tempt of Rep Frank If frig St Charles to remove the levy from foodstuffs for home con sumption a move that ers estimated would cut off at least 25 per cent of the revenue Taylor explained the action of the house in considering another sales tax measure after adopting his by saying he thought the senate should be given an oppor to consider also the broad ened measure which was spon sored by Reps V E Phillips Kansas City Roy Hamlin Hannibal and Edgar J Keating Kansas City The house constitutional amend ments committee approved for passage last night s proposal of Rep W O Hanks Joplin which would require all governors to have served a term in the gen p era assembly It would be sub to the people at the No vember 1940 election j Also approved by the commit I tee was an amendment of Rep Arthur S McDaniel Dunklin I county which would give the legislature power to exempt homesteads from taxation and pass laws providing that taxes on agricultural lands be graduated on the basis of the total assessed val owned by any person or corporation Proponents See Boost for Police jg Qmg Dinn AI It f I Broken Up at in Narcotics Ring Arrests in K C Thats Just More Evidence on Our Weakley Says Asks Senate Body to Double His Fund Shopping Event in Capital City To Attract Big Crowd Jefferson City store employes yesterday put the finishing touches on their windows and interior displays in preparation for a huge shopping event which will open this morning and continue through Friday and Saturday The Capital News this morn ing is carrying the largest num ber of bargain items Capital City merchants have offered at similar postholiday sales Hun dreds of shoppers are expected to crowd the citys stores today to take advantage of the low prices and quality merchandise Indications were an unusually large number of shoppers will also be here dur ing the event in the legisla ture saw a boost for their side yesterday when federal agents cracked a narcotics ring they said had and its hub in Kansas City Meanwhile Attorney General Roy McKittrick preparing to prosecute crime indictments re turned by Jackson countys recent grand jury appeared before the Uniformed Policeman One of Those Seized in Federal Roundup KANSAS CITY April of a u coast drug ring with the seizure senate appropriations committee j of 13 men in Kansas City New and urged it double the York and Oklahoma was an today by J J Anslinger threatening the independence of j hood of Teamsters from mass these countries as an pitting or interfering with elect of the womens auxi Britain j iness operations of the stores the state medical society Later shots were fired at two convention in Excelsior Springs other trucks Several yesterday drivers reported to police they had Mrs Paul F Cole of Springfield was installed as president for the corning vear Other officers elect ed included Mrs J B McCubbin of Fulton treasurer end JM D of Columbia i auditor auxiliary of friendly act against Britain iness operations of the stores i the state medical society at the Some diplomats thought the premier also might give a flat military guarantee to Greece Chamberlain is expected to con demn the Italian invasion of Al bania but to give Mussolini er chance to prove peaceful in tentions in the Balkans and the Mediterranean been beaten Continued on page 2 WEATHER EggNog Fed Beef is Newest Farm of Local Thats the latest farm wrinkle in j this section Because eggs bring j i A MISSOURI Cloudy rising ternon about n cents a A w i possibly showers in weit Eisworth Icca dairy farmer is I Mrs Bailey Landsdown re Thursday Friday un standard one i word last night of the death better and calves eggi of her soninlaw Dr G 1ir at Park Ridge 111 Friday warmer with un local settled and showers Temperature High 46 Low 20 River Starts 123 Karsas Fail 155 Oi 166 0 2 nog St Thomss 81 Riff 05 IS 8 n S lul W at Park Ridge 111 Dr With more than 200 chickens died unexpectedly yester nn providing a surplus of eggs at age of 41 is worth uses four to five dozen aj He is survived by his wife tne day mixed with milk as part of former Ila Landsdown the ration for his 24 calves iof Jefferson City and two The animals relish the unusual dron din to be dum wo Mi un it he said Mary and Richard left for night Slate Medical Association Hits Health Insurance Now Before Congress EXCELSIOR SPRINGS Mo wide the door to a April of state socialism is the Slate Medical Association coni destructive to our present con tention passed z resolution today kept of representative democra condemning the health insurance j cy measure now before congress was for he I The resolution called the proposed amendment to the social i Dr James R Kansas security act destructive to our City vas installed as president present concept of representative i for the coming year at the conven democracy and says it icons closing session today Other i Definitely establishes too great j officers elected were i concentration of power and au Dr Cyrus E Burford St Louis in the federal government presidentelect Dr E Sanborn over matters that are the direct j Smith Dr Guy E Cal concern of the individual citizen Springfield and Dr J fc The represents the Springs vice of a crying need federal i presidents Dr Emmet Kane St aid for and control of medical and i Louis and Dr McVay delegates hospital life in America which in to A M A convention Dr Jos truth and fact docs not exist C Peden St Louis and Dr resolution said and provides A W Zimmerman Cape Gi 1he of enormous sums Dr f br If St cx House Republicans Refuse to Support Police as Unit Decide at Caucus to Let Individuals Act One Informant Says An informed source said last night the house Republican minor ity had rejected a proposal to pledge itself as a unit in support of Gov Lloyd C S larks drive for state control of Kansas Citys police department Most representatives have agreed all but a few of the 51 active Republicans would back the tp place Kansas Citys police force under the supervision of a state board to be named by the executive The minority was locked in secret caucus for some time after yesterdays session but most mem bers declined 16 discuss the meet Say had One informant said however a Republican member suggested a petition which would have pledged the entire minority tothe support of the governors pro posal The caucus declined to support the petition as a unit leaving the matter to the indi vidual Two Divorce Suits Are Filed in Circuit Court Two petitions for divorce were filed in the office of circuit clerk Guy M Sone yesterday Mildred I Rollings alleging general indignities asked divorce Rollings and petitioned that custody of their 5year old son be given to his grandmother Mrs Maud Clardy The couple was married Aug 21 1933 and separated in Oct 1937 Charging general indignities David Cundiff filed for divorce from Gertrude Cundiff and asked that the defendant be given cus tody of their old child but that he be permitted to visit him at stated times They were married Feb 14 1937 and separated about a year later Standard Oil to Hold Sales Meeting Over will be spent in advertising principally through newspapers by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana in this terri tory during the next year com pany officials here announced yes A preview of the advertising will be a feature of the dealers meeting which is being held to night at Selinger Centre Dealers representing cities within a 65 mile will be present The company sponsors these meetings to give their dealers an idea of the type of advertising will be given their products and to en able salesmen to form new ac in the firm war chest voted him by If Im going to respond to all these demands for cleaning up crime Ive got lo have more money than the the house voted me McKittrick declared Gov Lloyd C Stark who sent McKittrick into the Kansas City vice drive originally recommend ed for the investiga tion and prosecution of cases but the house halved the amount in its appropriation Welcome Sucrow as Witness The attorney general yesterday welcomed as a witness M G Su crow the governors ace detec tive in his own private Kansas City probe but complained again that other inves would give him no co operation A house committee heard Tuesday night that four or five Stark investigators furnish ed the bulk grand jury evi dence in Kansas City This fellow Sucrow is the only one who is willing to help the prosecution McKittrick said yes He wrote the governor acknowledging his instruction to Sucrow to aid added McKittrick and However I again respectfully request that all persons under your control who have any knowledge that would aid in the prosecution at Kansas City be directed by you to give such information to me The governor was in Washing ton Rep William B Weakley D Pike county pilot of the adminis tration for state control of the Kansas City police department saw a bulwark for the federal narcotics who Walter S Bliss federal Immigra tion agent before the house ju committee Tuesday night during a public hearing on the Kansas City police the narcotic situation in Kan SHS City is unbelievable BHss testified and added that police apparently refused to cooperate with the federal authorities Statement Rep Edgar I Keating D Kansas City look issue with the agents statement Isnt it a fact he asked that the police of Kansas City have given excellent cooperation to the federal narcotics agents in the last 10 years but have permitted the federal men lo make the arrests and prosecute the cases Bliss said that wasnt his infor mation Weakley quiet Pike county orchardist nodded yesterday when he learned of the Continued on page 2 Canine Choirmaster Put On 3 Years Probation BUFFALO JN Y April like a hound and leading a canine chorus to the disturbance of sleep are among the privileges Adam Wachowicz 37 must give up for the next three years at least Chief City Court Judge George W Woltz suspended three fines on the defendants pleas of guilty to intoxication disorderly conduct and refusal to obey n police officer but placed him on three years probation Record April Cold Wave Creeps Toward South U S commissioner of narcotics who termed Kansas City the cap ital of narcotics distribution in the midwest One of the seven here was a uniformed patrolman of the Kansas City police depart ment which was accused last night by a federal official of making no effort to assist in the control of drugs Goy Lloyd C Stark is backing a legislative fight to wrest control of Kansas Citys police from the powerful Pendergast Democratic organization and place the depart ment under Silent on Political Aspects Anslinger would not comment on the political aspects of the ar rests The facts speak for them selves he said Confiscated or purchased by undercover agents during the 18 months the investigation was un der way were an estimated 500 000 grains of narcotics with an il legal retail value of more than Eight suspects were arraigned here before U S Commissioner Charles H Thompson who set bonds ranging from down to Murice M Milligan U S dis said he would re quest the federal to turn its attention to the narcotics cases ahead of its investigation in to Kansas City gambling The grand jury is in recess un til Monday The policeman Otis H Jack Colburn 40 was held under 000 bond He was charged with the purchase possession and sale of a drug A re as a convoy in the movement of drugs Higgins director of po lice promptly suspended Colburn said he did not know Col burn personally Charles and Dominick Tony arrested in New York City Maj Garland Williams of theUS narcotics bu reau in Cassesa was thechief of drugs for the Kansas and de as one of Cas principal lieutenants Held Under Bond Held here under bond was squat dark Donnici 64 operator of a saloon in a build ing adjoining temporary quarters of the U S district court district attorney and other federal cers Richard K Phelps district attorney told assistant Commis Thompson evidence will be presented to show Donnici was the man behind the scenes in this case that many people are now doing time because of him and that he was responsible for the in duction of drugs into this city Rader described himas the best known man in Little Italy a section on Kansas Citys crowded NorthSide In granting Phelps request for high bail Commissioner Thomp son said the amount of narcotics Donnici was accused of handling whole saling Donnici has supplied bond for many federal defendants in the past Other defendants arranged here and the bonds set were Angelo Bossie Nigro 42 sa loon proprietor James J Abbott 34 i Charles Ferguson 59 farmer j and lake resort proprietor at War Mo Jack Ancona 50 An j cona described as a wholesaler CLEVELAND April under another bond in A big shipment of winter im an earher narcotics charge from Canada made the j Charles Crapisi 50 weather market polar bearish Mike alias Carsi 24 day from Maine to the Rockies U Agents Uncover Big Gold Coin Conspiracy SAN FRANCISCO April U S secret service said tonight it had uncovered the biggest gold coin conspiracy on record in the United State with ramifications from San Fran cisco to New York Federal indictments men now in custody will be sought here tomorrow Detained in New York was a man listed here as Morris Anolik U whom Capt Thomas Foster of the secret service said was shipped around in gold coins for disposal The other 12 were held in California Capt Foster reported jewelers and brokers were collect ing gold pieces from hoarders who had the gold ro mn Mir presidents proclamation of 1933 April 12 in history A blizzard struck Cleveland Snow shovels scraped sidewalks in some com in 15 states Light snows and flurries were common Chicagos 21 was seven degrees colder than 1900s April 12 the Wisconsin I Minnesota nnd South Dakota had I temperatures down to 8 The weather was freezing in parts of New England Pennsylvania and New York but New York Citys low was 38 President of Kennett Bank Dies at Age of 64 j KENNETT Mo April j Shelton 64 president and chairman of the board of the board of the Bank of Kennett tonight of a kidney ailment I For years he operated a large 1 general mercantile store here He an honorary on the if the laic Gov D I not guilty and Commissioner Thompson set their hearings for April 20 j Three men were under arrest j in Oklahoma i Anslinger who came here from i Washington to be in at the final roundup said the investigation had the cooperation of District Attorney Maurice Milligan who llast week obtained the indictment i of Boss Tom Pendergast on charg es of evading income taxes on income The government i charges the money was from a i fund raised to expedite the com promise of a fire in rate case through which policy holders received only 20 per cent of impounded premiums This is the beginning of the traffic roundup part of the na Anslinger said Never was Jan illegal drug ring so widely m It has ramifications I in Oklahoma Seattle and Denver i Announcement of the arrests came only a few hours after Wal Continued on Page 2
