Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - December 13, 1939, Hamilton, Ohio COURAGE AND QUALITY That is the reason for the Jonr present position in Thats the reason the carries quality and quantity The Journal News has a full appreciation of its OBLIGATIONS TO THE PEOPLE cu Jot HAM I LTD N NAL FORT HAMILTON IN 1791 335 DECEMBER 1939 Entered Second Ohio JE THREE CENTS v day is the Journal News family 20 PAGES WEATHER HAMILTON AND VICINITY PARTLY CLOUDY AND COLDER THURSDAY COUNCIL IMPLIES SOVIET PULSION RUSSIA MASSES ARMY FOR ATTACK REPORT NAMES RUSSIANS AS MAJOR THRUST IS EXPECTED IN ISTHMUS Red Planes Augment Million And Half Men FINNS REPORT BREMEN SAFE IN HOME PORT NAVY CHIDED BY BRIT Steamer Sinks Off North apan Island 87 Known Hundreds Are Missing PRESS Vazis Claim Plane Routed Submarine Offers Taft Prize To Balance Budget the took place all Smashing Soviet Attempt To Outflank Mannerheim Line Defenses 1renx The Finnish telegraphic agency circulated a report today that Soviet by Finlands massing one million five hundred thousand soldiers for a crushing This array of equal to the male population of Finland and perhaps double the number of men now engaged on both sides of the be supported by the agency The major according to the is expected in the Karelian where en trenched in the zigzag line of for called the Mannerheim have fought off red invaders since the war started 14 days The source of the report was not The agency merely said information had coine into its Smash Attack Word of the imminent broaden ing of the red campaign followed closely upon a Finnish commu nique yesterday reporting that Finnish troops and planes had smashed a largescale offensive on the Karelian isthmus and or Lake Apparently the eastern phase of the Russian drive was part of a wide flanking maneuver against the Mannerheim attempt to round Lake Ladoga for an as sault on the eastern part of the strong isthmus The fighting appeared to be some of the Avars The enemy launched a powerful attack today along several sectors of the Karelian communique Hard fighting especially on a hill overlook ing a church at Almost a constant series of attacks were re the enemy suffering tre mendous We destroyed many tanks and left hundreds of the fallen enemy lying before our Severe Defeat fighting occurred also at eastern particularly at and cost the Russians a severe Three enemy bat talions were We cap tured 27 25 express 13 and other materials in addition destroyed several Finnish meanwhile awaited complete reports on the sinking of a German freighter bj submarine in the gulf of Both Several of 26 survivors from the identified as the declared upon reaching the Finnish port of Mantyluoto yesterday that the attacker Avas Russian undersea There was no positive The second officer and radio operator were killed when the submarine fired 15 shells into the fierceness of Finlands re Distance was emphasized by re portf reaching Moscow from Len ingrad which told of a stead stream of red casualties from the Finnish Unofficial ad vices said churches at Leningrad had been converted into militar HOLDUP BARRAGE OF BULLETS Grocer Charles Hunter ignore a pointed pistol lae night and met a demand for with Hunter fired four cally wounding the holdup man Police Record Clerk Collin listed the victim as Frank Pierce age of Pierce gave his name as James record for a balanced national budget in about two Senator Robert Taft of Ohio pressed the cam for New England support of is republican presidential nomi ation aspirations today with a platform advocating assistance or business through elimination f the evils of Tafts assertion yesterday that e budget could be balanced in two ears drew a prompt challenge rom President At his ress the President aid he would be glad to offer a ery handsome prize to the sena or if he supply him with a nil of particulars on a method or achieving a balanced budget ithin that The administration aft retorted in an always say that the budget can be There is only one to that That is national bankruptcy and the destruction of he American system of private and probably the de of democracy hio State Grange Formulates Policy Soviet Expulsion May Draw Stalin Into Hitlerian War ers of the Ohio State grange be policymaking deliberations oday as they studied assertions y two leaders that re ief and unemployment were the outstanding problems affecting heir future well Louis national grange declared important en emies of farm ownership are high and increasing debt state and anc government cost in service m The Ohio granges Wai er Kirk of Port said homes and real estate should be protected through retention of the limitation and the require ment of the 65 per cent majority vote for special levies and bone Kirk added that national cry should be speeded by remov ing the shackles from business increasing employment and ing the relief BULLETINS RED ENVOY DEPARTS circles said tonight they had learned that the new Russian am to Nicolai Corel left Rome suddenly for Moscow without presenting his PROBE SEA BATTLE Buenos British naval officials said they were investigating that the British cruiser Achilles had been sunk in a battl with battleship Admiral Scheer hut had been unable to obtain any MDONALD WITHDRAWS New McDonald withdrew in the interest of my as head cf the Brooklyn Institut of Arts and from con for the presidency o Ohio State DRYS TO CONVENE IN CHICAGO MAY I prohibition national committee announced today th partys annual convention woul be conducted in Chicago May and 10 to for the eighteenth time in the organizations seventy year candidates for na political BULLETIN More than 700 including women and were missing today and be drowned or frozen to death in the wreck of the Russian steamer Indigirka on the treacherous coast of Hok Eightyseven p e v s o n s were to have died and between 00 and 500 were believed to be lissing today in the sinking of the steamer Indigirka off the sland of The Japanese foreign office an that the had rescued 390 f the Russian passengers nd Reports as to the number still The foreign office said the cause of Ihc sinking not Hokkaido is the northernmost of the main islands of The went down High seas hamp ered rescue Russian coastal steamers plying between Vladivostok and ports farther especially those hav ing fish frequently carry passenger lists out of nor mal proportion to their This is especially true when cannery crews are being returned from the Lloyds shipping register shows the Indigirka originally was an American ship built in A number of older American ships have been sold to Russia in recent By MACKENZIE Foreign New Moscow having rejected the of fer of mediation in the lish of Nations las on its hands a grave problem n the Argentine motion for ion of the soviet There is danger in it both from he standpoint of the European var crisis and from that of the Jeague Rodolfo of the Argen in urging expulsion declared he League was faced with an is ue of life or It could hrow Russia or resign its unction in the spirit of truly sui cidal In Tough Spot It is a tough since the Jeague will be damned if it and damned if it It will ose at least one important member whichever way the voting since the Argentine has said it will resign if the motion is de Should the League expel Russia it will be the first time such dras tic action has been taken against any The reaction of outlaw cer tainly would bo one of bitterness and possibly of World condemnation means the same to a nation as does community con to the Two days ago I suggested that the expulsion of Russia might even have the ultimate effect of draw ing the soviet union into the Hit lerian war on the side of Ger Russian circles in Geneva Continued On Pane 10 Ohioans Die In Traffic Accidents TWO NAZE TRAINS COLLIDE 17 DIE UP persons were killed and 41 were injured last night when two passenger trains collided The cause of the accident was still not cleared up This was the seventh of a se ries of railway many since the disasters outbreak Ger A total of 123 persons have been killed and more than 158 Last Sunday killed when a struck a bus near 18 persons Avere passenger train CANADA TO CONTINUE OPEN WHEAT POLICY Canadian government plans to continue its wheat policy as the best means of re lieving the glut and dis posing of Canadas huge Continued trading will be per mitted as usual on the Winnipeg grain it Avas learned last and British Avar pur chases of wheat Avill have to be made through ordinary trade channels on the grain The permanency of this Avill depend entirely on the wars Survivor Clutches Body Of Officer to be the sole survivor of a of 26 of a Danish vessel sunk by a a Danish sailor picked up today by an Aberdeen He had been adrift on a for four days and found was clutching the body of a dead He failed to name his vessel before lapsing into unconscious ness but said she had been sunk last least 10 Ohioans died in traffic acci dents Roads made slippery by light rains were blamed for several of the deaths in the unusually high John age and Rose both of were killed near San dusky when their car overturned after a tire blew Lowell of was injured fatally when his auto col with a milk truck near In Alfred age died of injuries suffered when an auto hit his hi cycle and Joseph 56 succumbed to injuries when an auto struck age was killed near Canton when his auto plunged into a Killed In William age died of injuries suffered in an accident near Harold age was killed when an Erie railroad pas senger train hit his car near Kent Frank 87yearold retired Antwerp was killed near Fort when an auto struck a In Luther Owens age of died of in juries suffered in a crash earlie fatal to Bern Everett age also of Teddy III To Wed Rules Of Sea Warfare Were Carried Admiralty Explains In Defense 1renn Germans exulted today over the of the twenty million dollar liner Bremen in a home port the approach of a British to within torpedo Commodore Adolf Ahrens thus wice outwitted the British he first occasion being when he ailed his vessel from few York to Soviet arriving in the wars early A high command communique ast night The fast liner 3remen arrived home tonight from The navy department lad taken measures to bring the ship home Among were detailed to give the hip the necessary Attack Thwarted A British submarine in the Vorth sea attempted to attack the One of the planes sent o protect the Bremen forced the so far under the water hat the attack was Although the port of arrival was lot belief was ex the Bremen is in Brenier The British which irst disclosed the Bremens per lous voyage from the Arctic to said its submarine re rained from attacking without warning because of the rules of sea Some sections of the British iress chided the navy for letting he German liner Bremen get ionic The which admitted a British submarine was within torpedo range of the said it followed the rules of warfare in not attacking with out Such an attack would have been the only sort possible for the submarine be cause of the Bremens superior Mystery Of Bremen The Daily Mail headed its ar ticle The riddle of meeting a British submarine The new mys tery of the It Why wasnt she at least crippled 1 Isnt she in fact a legitimate object of at tack The said news attempted vainly to obtain additional information con the Bremen story anc the public which read the admiralty statement asked obvious WSB SOLD TO COX Sale of the Atlanta Journal anc its radio to James former governor of was announcer late today by James ed itor of the The announcement was made after the Federal Communication commission approved transfer control of WSB and its portable to who is pub Usher of the News the and th The sale price was not an To resident Theodore is Louisville horsewoman will be married February Hospitals Over Send Wounde Reciprocal Trade Pact Extension Looms As New Big Issue tension of the reciprocal trade advocated by President was shaping up today as ene of the issues for the 1940 Shortly after the Chief Execu tive told reporters late yesterday that he would ask for renewal of the reciprocal trade which ex pires June Senate Minority Leader McNary ROre predicted its overwhelming Several including Senators Pitt man Wheeler DMont Johnson and Clark D have come out agains continuance of the trade treaties The President said yesterday that the trade program should b continued in an effort to reac potential foreign markets opportunities for increased sale of American Many of however have said they opposed the pro gram on the ground that it ha permitted an increase in tural imports while this countr laced crop Roosevelt grandson of here with Miss Anne Junior to whom he were Churches in Leningrad converted into military hospitals us a steady of reel irmy casualties from the fronts overtaxed the citys While soviet official news distributed conti nent Russias rejection of the League of Nations mediation of cr in the Finnish gave glowing reports that Finns welcomed their Russian lih in the sec Workers in the United Britain and the pera welcomed the new eorn peoples government set up at the border village of Red organ of the said that workers of United States as elsewhere throughout the looked to the soviet union for lead Diplomatic Front On the diplomatic specula tion was aroused by the arrival of Joseph president of Slo on an undisclosed A red army communique re Reds To Churches yesterday that troops oc two Finnish villages and railroad station a The advance reported ve reached seven les southwest of Salla and 45 within the frontier in central The army announced the occupa of t 30 miles from the soviet on the north bank of Lake and the station of Kon on the Pit GRANT NEW TRIAL TO MOE SNYDEK Los district court of the conviction of Martin Moe the Gimp Snyder for the attempted murder of pres ent husband of Snyders former Singer Ruth The ruling came only a few days after Snyders attorney had won his conditional liberty on his pending outcome of the NAMED LIQUOR DEALERS CHIEF James Donovan of Cincinnati Avas president of the Buckeye Retail Liquor Dealers association of Ohio were Frank vice president and John 1 I Ralph Graver of Toledo was named The association adopted a resolution calling fox closer cooperation county and state enforcement of in liquor SESSION SOUGHT BY Congress of Industrial Organ today joined officials of large cities in efforts to rcc John to 11 a special session of the legis to provide additional funds poor Governor Bricker has refused call the general assembly on ounds that municipalities failed exhaust all means of obtain money The announced a plan contact members of the legis ture in a campaign to work up in favor of a special early next The labor also sought the support of e states ministers in the move Huilds Waves Goodbye Long 7P Henry had had his share of His 10 months A few weeks later a falling plank fractured his leav ing him periodically In one blind period his auto mobile killed a He called on his Oscar at an oil While Hendershot was busy Bergner care fully built a wooden platform beneath the heavy counterpart of the pumps walking Hendershot returned in time to see Bergner call goodbye lay his head on the f The concrete mass said f AGGRESSORS League Members Invited To Give Aid To Finland UNANIMOUS VOTE Is Required To Toss Reds From League Of Nations China May Balk I A 13nation committee of the League of Nations today adopted a resolution con demning Russia as an aggres sor and containing an implied demand that Russia be ousted from the League for invading The which was then submitted to the League which may act on it incorporated a re port drawn up by a inviting League members to give Finland all possible In addition it suggested that nonmember nations such ae the United States might be asked to join in helping Finland if the of Nations council Tho report now goes to a special 33nation committee considering the conflict be fore being submitted to the League assembly and hen to the Majority Vote Approval of the part naming Russia an aggressor and suggest ing aid to Finland seemed certain since only a majority vote of the assembly is Action on expulsion of a member requires a unanimous council Tiie also con Russia as a violator of the League covenant and recommended entire technical staff of the health and financial lands A League assembly vote to oust Russia for her invasion of Finland certain after Moscow turned down the league mediation What action the League vvhich must unanimously approve expulsion of any would take remained uncertain since one council is indebted to for aid against Russian predicted the soviet union would be expelled within 24 British and French spokesmen went as far as to forecast that a resolution call ing for such action would be sent to the assembly and Several steps in League dure on the matter Final Action The 13nation committee consid ering the problem must pass on the subcommittees recommendations before submit ting it to the League assembly and council for final Argentina led the way to a showdown in the League on the ex pulsion of Russia with the threat that she would if the so viet union remained a The ouster proposal was re ferred to the 13nation committee on the Finnish Russian Should it be included in their final it will be presented for a vote of the assembly this after To become it must have the unanimous support of the League meeting tonight or Rodolfo Argentine dele told the assembly his govern ments decision to resign is unal so long as Russia is a His address Avas heard after the assembly learned officially of sias refusal to accept the Leagues offer to mediate her Avar with Fin Suicidal Defeat The League has no doubt lost all coercive Freyre de but there still is one ges ture that it has to one ges ture that it cannot refuse to unless it is prepared to re sign its function in the spirit of a truly suicidal declared the soviet union had violated the League Continued
