Logansport Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1939, Logansport, Indiana jJ Weather Mostly cloudy Sunday and Monday with occasional showers cooler northwest day LO 1921 H Founder Publisher -1938 So They Say Poland has overrun but rise again Lord of British Admiralty VOL 19 NO 99 INDIANA SUNDAY 1939 PRICE THREE CENTS SOLONS URGE FDR TAKE PEACE ROLE White House Silent At H tiler Offer London Cool Opens With New Fighting Sporadic Exchange of Fire Reported on Moselle River FLASHES By Associated Press French and German guns boomed along the western front last night in an artillery duel which topped a day of speculation by Europe's diplo- mats on the allies probable answer to Adolf Hitler's peace formula The French general staff in its night communique ed the artillery action red between the Moselle and Saar rivers along with patrol activity in the region south of Zweibruecken The German communique sued earlier referred to the ar- tillery fight as only a sporadic i ot fire The Nazi i however declared local and troop actions of the were repulsed and two French planes were downed Yesterday's reactions in Berlin mid Paris on Hitler's were represented as ing widely The French and English were said in Paris to be playing a ing action on the western until the blockade Germany could be made more by winter Paris sources indicated the lies were confident that it many was forced to go through a winter without sensational land battles to bolster her morale the Nazis would be much weaker with the coming spring In connection with the ade the reported their navy stopped tons of destined for Germany during the first week of October In Berlin the Nazi slogan waa out of the Siegfried line by Christmas There was no further word night from the British ad- ou what it said was an at- tack by German flying boats on two British minesweepers in tha North sea The announcement however said there were no on either side Apparently confident that all their reserve manpower would not be needed in the immediate future Rumania Yugoslavia and Hungary have begun partial de- mobilization of their armies A by the ian government disclosed that the M Continued on Paga 2 Dies Probe Gets Good Looks into Bishop Francis McConnell Washington Oct 7 house committee investigating un- Americanism began an inquiry day into the Spanish Refugee Re- lief Campaign of which Secretary Ickes was described as honorary chairman Officials said tha com- was trying to determine the campaign is a Com- munist front organization Douglas Jacobs of New York director of the refugee group said Ickes was honorary man and that Leon Henderson of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission was head ot local unit Bishop cis J McConnell New York City is the national chairman he said During brief Questioning cobs said he was not a member the Communist party but that his contact with it had been close as a result his work Before taking his present position he was an organizer for the American Newspaper Guild he said L Alice Faye's Rancho Gets Hot Burns Up Hollywood Oct 7 destroyed the new ranch home of Alice Faye blond film actress and Singer Tony Martin So the San Fernando valley today Miss was working at the time and Martin was not home The condition of Earl gardner city councilman con- fined to county hospital with an undiagnosed illness was reported serious early today as was that of Dwight Jones car crash victim Dr A 3 Newell Converse Miami coroner under an oxygen tent at Marlon Gen eral hospital remained critical early Sunday Harrison Route J mers reported his 1930 coach license stolen early day from Third street James Walton route 6 and Warren and Charles Beattie route 2 were jailed early today for Intoxication as officers clamped down on drivers drinking Helsinki Finland Oct 8 day Uusi Suomi quoted Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander today as saying Finland had accepted a Soviet Russian invitation to a ence and would send a delegate but not foreign minister Eljas Erkko New York Oct 8 designer Anthony Fokker's streamlined yacht Q E D burst to flames on the Hudson river late last night but newly married aboard aud the crew of nine apparently escaped Several suffered burns shock Copenhagen Oct 8 German military ing plane a forced landing at the coastal town today and police took charge of the ship and pilot Indianapolis Oct young woman was killed and four other persons were hurt near here tonight when an rammed the rear of a wagon hauling 13 Butler sity students on a sorority hay ride Margie Sims 19 of apolis pledged only yesterday Lo Pi Beta Phi sorority died In the wreck At a Glance BV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and French in artillery battle on Western front French general staff reports French navy seized tons of dise during first week in October British and French sources ed playing waiting game delaying fighting until winter makes man more effective ize artillery ou western front us sporadic say two Jfrench planes downed Nazis assert troops may leave trenches by Christmas if powers desiring peace act Immediately on Hitler's peace LONDON British comment foreshadows statement of French war aims as reply to ler's proposals admiralty says two minesweepers attacked no cas BUCHAREST Rumania Yu- and Hungary decreasing armed forces by partial Balkan neutrality bloc seen MOSCOW hopes for retailing Wilno traditional capital dimmed by Wilno workers objections Finland next on Soviet list in Baltic expansion STOCKHOLM Finland calls up army reserves delays reply to Russian bid to Moscow ence Speaking of News Here's Aplenty The unseasonably warm Saturday brought the folks to Logansport in droves making the streets look like a mid-summer night stores were crowded sales were up and parking space was at a premium Tivo women came near having a battle over a pair of men's work socks the last in the bargain the was settled one lady gave In saying she didn't like the col- or any way Larry Gettings was hustling toward Market street in Fourth during the evening rush Mrs Paul Forkner and small son who came all the way from Wabash were just entering the ment store to do some shopping Ellsworth Smith also ed in a bit of a hurry tice of the Peace James Held commenting on the Delphi nal weekly newspaper with a one hundredth birthday this month says ae hag copies of the Delphi Oracle published in and Called To Fight Fast Lightning Army New Unit Patterned on Lines of European Washington Oct 7 iP In a new move to reinforce national defenses the War Department day ordered unprecedented mass training this winter for more than procedure in- tended to army divisions mobile fighting force At the same time an intention to ask congress to expand the regular army by an additional 000 men to its full peacetime strength of was indicated by disclosure of tional divisions when and if in- creases are authorized Approved by President velt the announcement for of the fighting force from Secretary It omitted reference to the Euro- pean war or to earlier defense measures taken since Mr proclamation of a limited national emergency There was no hint whether the request for further army sion would await the regular sion or would be presented to the special session of congress after conclusion of the neutrality de- bate The extraordinary winter ing was described by as essential in view extremely limited able for the defense of the United States as an initial protective force In extensive war games in army history some 000 or more troops of five new Wilno Orphan of Poles Now Wants Moscow Oct 7 AP Lithuania's that she would regain her former tal Wilno in return for con- cessions she WM expected to make to Soviet Russia ed a setback tonight with re- port that Wilno op- posed such action Soviet broadcasts of reports of the workers meeting said that speeches and resolutions demanded annexation with Soviet White Bussia Wilno historic Lithuanian capital was seized in 1920 and added to Poland it is in the sian occupied part at the country REMC Pole First County Lines Under Way Monday Installation of the first for the Cass and Miami county REMC project will take place Monday on the township line five miles east of Walton on state road 218 officials announced Saturday The formal inauguration of the project will be held at 8 o'clock Monday morning with appropriate ceremonies Marion Apple REMC director Robert Hetzler project superintendent will have charge of the opening project work A large crowd of subscribers and persons interested in Rural Electrification are expected to at- streamlined divisions tend the setting in of the first ial units are to be the next few weeks from scattered posts first to different tration points in the south and northwest it announced Then they will be massed late in the winter at a central probably Fort Benning Ga officials training as the first actual American army combat corps organized since the World War At the same time two cavalry divisions of about men each will be trained at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas The intensive training in large scale combat teani tactics will continue for months officials said When Is Termite Worth Cash Bug Expert Called for Oct 11 Jury Trial Delphi Oct 7 When is a termite not a termite will be put to the petit jury of Carroll ty summoned for Wednesday 11 to case of the State of vs James King in the Carroll circuit court King is held in the local jail on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses Prosecutor Mahlon Kerlin will appear for the state It is ed that Professor E H Davis of Purdue prominent entomologist will be one of the state's star Walter Peru will appear for the defendant The case involves termite eradication PRESIDENT TALKS President Roosevelt will speak on community cheats in broadcast Monday night to inaugurate the 1939 ity mobilization for human needs which is designed to reinforce local community chest campaigns in 520 cities The program including a re- ply to the President oy Charles P Taft ot Cincinnati chairman will be carried by the combined networks of the NBC CBS and mutual systems from to m First Corn Victim of Season Loses Left Hand The first corn picker victim of the season ig John Edward Cain 24 of Brookston Rural Route 1 badly injured Saturday morning about o'clock while working on the farm of his ther Joe Cain at Round Grove His left badly mangled in a and he was en to St Elizabeth hospital fayette An operation for the putation ot the nand was formed poles on the project Co-operation of subscribers in wiring of their homes Is asked in order that the installation work can be ed as soon as possible Besides Mr Hetzler those in of the REMC work are the following directors Earl ness chairman of the board Marion Apple Henry Preiser Glen Wilson Dio Milton Wilson A Fouts Tom Kelsey Messrs Myers man and Harrison of Peru Mrs Maude Sowers Injured in Fall at South Bend Friday Mrs Maude 2038 High street is confined to her home with an injured knee tho result of in Bend Friday afternoon The local woman who was iting Mrs South Bend received medical treatment there and was then brought to her home here AMES OUT ON George Ames 33 of port held for the past three weeks in Cass county Jail on charges of contributing to the de- of a minor a charge a count of tory assault was freed on ball raised last night and another youth are defendants in actions instituted by the welfare department of the county after police picked up a young girl under the curfew ute Train Hits Gar Driver Escapes Harry Belk 65 of Lincoln Unscathed Inside Car Harry Belk 85 farmer living an eighth of a milt west of the Lincoln elevator crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad was left seated in his auto the front wheels and motor ed off about 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon by a southbound senger train Lester DePoy and others at the elevator where DePoy is er rushed to the wreckage to find Belk stepping out unhurt His car slid onto the from a slight grade just an the train which left some time after 3 p m arrived at the crossing Belks not so much as ed was still at the wheel the controls when the train had roared past in a shower of scrap iron The neer G C Hoots Richmond halted his train and the crew rushed back to find the drvier unhurt V C McCann conductor was the other man on the train Belk apparently was driving into the setting sun and slightly blinded Hidden Tax Total High 88.96 Per Cent of Tax Toll Indirect Oct 7 ff Indirect state taxes produced percent Indiana's state in- come during the 1938 fiscal year the National Consumers Tax Com- mission reported today Mrs W H Ball state director pointed out that Indiana ranked sixth among the states in proportion of shiftable or indirect taxes South Dakota where assessed collections were equivalent to 92.53 percent of the led the list Principal source of revenue the said in Indiana was the tax on gasoline and related ducts which accounted for Other Indiana collections said by the to have been assessed included general sales payroll un- employment motor 663 ot the total coholic beverages in- surance companies property of the chain stores and franchises Listed as were returns of on motor vehicles for pleasure perty and inheritance and gifts TEMPERATURES SATURDAY 5 a 7 a 9 a 11 a 1 p 3 p ru 82 5 p Laura Weeps At Thought of Her Without Plane Washington Oct 7 Jf Laura Ingalls woman flier who showered the capital with peace leaflets lait month pleaded civil tics authority today not to take away her permit Flying IB my chokingly told trial examiner Roscoe Walter I would ther fly than eat drink or run around She asked the examiner to consider this an unfortunate She is charged with two lations of CAA regulations Bishop Is Sentenced Shortage Draws 1 to 10 Years Marquette Mich Oof 7 JP Within two hours after he was indicted for embezzlement of church funds Hayward S white former Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of ern was sentenced today to serve one to ten years in prison The former dignitary of the church appeared in court shortly after Judge Herman Behnke Jury investigating shortages of diocesan funds estimated at more than issued a warrant for his arrest The court said the investigation had disclosed that the Bishop had appropriated the money for his personal use The never denied re- ports that he was frequent tor to night clubs DBS Connolly Jr Des said day he is preparing a motion for a for William Sentner St Louis C I O union official who was convicted yesterday at Montezuma la on a charge of advocating criminal syndicalism NEW Kuhn tional of the American Bund who has been held in Tombs prison since Sept 29 in default of bail furnished the bail in cash today and was released His trial on charges of grand larceny has been set for Oct 30 Think Aged Man Started South David Fair 78 Is Believed Hiking The possibility that David Fair 78 of 2104 Bast Market street missing since Tuesday may have gone to was voiced last night by friends who recalled that the elderly man had recently spoken of ing south for the winter His ance caused much concern among members of his family and his description was police stations along the route he may have taken possibly hitch-hiking Meanwhile the possibility that he is ill and to cate with his family ls being studied also England Stands Firm on War as Reich Angles Reace Poland too Great a Price for Peace London Oct 7 detailed statement of war aims describing the kind of Eu- rope the western powers want as a reply to Adolph Hitler's peace proposals was foreshadowed night in the British press and comment in political circles Chamberlain has described the war aims as the removal of and the redemption of Europe from the perpetual threat of German aggression Restoration of an independent Poland and Czechoslovakia also have been cited as war tives But allied proposals for sting a new order in Europe have been urged in political quarters and In the press since long be- fore the outbreak of the war Foreign circles know Britain's refusal to make peace at the price of Poland There was official silence on dispatches from Berlin ing that Hitler would agree to an armistice were it proposed by President Roosevelt or the head of any other important neutral power J Edgar Looks Into Sabotage On Battleship San Francisco Oct 7 Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are looking into reported sabotage aboard the U S battleship zona Its machinery and water tanks were rumored He said what happened aboard the Arizona was one of those things I One rumor told of damage and an- other mentioned a casualty Hoover explained an gation had been ordered The Arizona is flagship of rear Ad- miral ship division one DAUGHTER Mr and Mrs William son Logansport route 6 are parents of a daughter born at Cass county hospital early day Reich Looks Toward Finns Turks Reds Berlin Oct 7 Adolf Hitler represented ai ly expecting his peace proposals to bear fruit the Nazi slogan night was out of the Siegfried line by Christmas Nazi leaders said they no reason why the and cockpits could not by Christmas if power desiring peace acted immediately Hitler would diate if such were proposed by President Roosevelt Soviet Russia's invitation to Finland to send representatives to Moscow to discuss political and economic matters greatly prised Finnish circles here land last spring declined te sign a pact many The Nazis were Impatient at Turkey's slowness in reaching an agreement with Russia Informed quarters asserted that Turkey must intimating that If Turkey does not wholeheartedly climb aboard the bandwagon then Russia will occupy the elles Say Bride Aided Mate In Escape Strange Story of Flight from Jail Is Unfolded Anew Atlanta Ga Oct 7 troopers hunting ard G Gallogly and his blonde bride puzzled tonight over their flight in the motor car of a prison inspector from a deputy sheriff who didn't shoot Matthews had been hired by Gal socially prominent family with state assent to guard the prisoner during months in which he was under treatment in an At- lanta hospital for respiratory trouble He said he did not try to Sullivan said because Gallogly was armed with a gled the woman was in the car and his mother waa standing by on the road Matthews and Ferguson ed Gallogly pistol forced them from an automobile and left them on a south Georgia roadside Prison inspector Roy K Mann charged that the bride 23 gled the pistol to her husband after he had left the hospital The trip was made in Mann's personal car a green sedan bride is Miss Vera Hunt former music teacher at the Georgia state college for in Milledgeville whom he met while he was in the old state pris on at tUat city He married her May 12 while hospitalized So Atlanta Window Glass For Jail County Installs New Steel Sash 1st Floor One-way vision for Cass ty's first floor prisoners at the jail North and Fourth streets is in prospect with installation yesterday completed on steel sash and new one-way vision glass The sash replace wooden ones hung with weights that have been pulling old frames out of shape The work is the first major vation in the structure classed by the state welfare department in- as one of the poorest In the state A feature of the first floor bull pen glass is that it light but not vision from the outside The jail last night held 15 prisoners a continuation of the recent high average A year ago only four or five persons held the cells Four Injured Here As Cars Crash On Dead Man's Curve Four persons were ed at St Joseph's hospital early Sunday when they were injured in the crash of their car four miles east of the city on road 24 at Dead Man's Curve Sheriff Dewey Schmidt was called to the scene and the tims were removed to the pital several of them critically hurt Taken to St Joseph's hospital by Chase ambulance Charles Butzin 17 ot 472 West Sixth street Peru scious head injuries cuts Virgil Fry 18 of 508 West Sixth street Peru leg injuries but conscious and who fied the trio Carl 18 of the block St Peru unconscious head ies At Cass county hospital taken by passing motorists were two others also from Peru The Peru youths here for a skating party said they did not know how the accident occured Greewald suffered fractures of both legs State Excise officers baiting at the scene called the sheriff and kept traffic moving A 39 model Cadillac der car struck 1937 Chevrolet sedan demolishing the machine In this machine were John Crume East Fifth street and Keith Herd Wesley Farms Peru They were the three youths east the youths were passing another machine only to run into tha path of the Cadillac Armistice Is OK but Terms Can't be Ours Agree on War but Want No Part in Terms off Now BY WELLIAM B Washington Oct 7 strong wave of sentiment de- in the senate today President Roosevelt to step into the role of maker in Europe Senators on both sides of the neutrality controversy ex- pressed the opinion that the chief executive should take advantage of any clear afforded by overtures from Berlin to aid in ending the European war Administration quarters ever remained silent Secretary Hull declined comment on tlie dispatches from Berlin indicating that Chancellor would welcome a move by Mr velt to European ment At Hyde Park N Y Mr Roosevelt sent word to reporters that he had nothing to say It was pointed out In circles that this ment has consistently taken the position that it waa ready and willing to help Europe reach a general understanding on eco- nomic and disarmament tions but had no intention of be- ing drawn into its political dis- putes This was the tenor of Mr Roosevelt's peace appeals to Hitler prior to the beginning of the conflict Senate comment on the Berlin almost without ex- ception was to the effect that there was no reason why Mr Roosevelt should not endeavor to effect a peace and every reason why he should Senator Wheeler told reporters that the president has the greatest opportunity of any American president in history to serve humanity and bring about a permanent peace in Europe while preventing the slaughter of millions human beings I Wheeler added that democracy will be driven from the face of the earth it land and Prance persist in trying to restore the former government of Poland because that means war clear across the eastern phere with incalculable damage to peoples and the democratic form of government Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations com- voiced the opinion that Continued on Page 21 In a Mine French Blast Toll High 5 in S A Plane Quito Qct 7 IP Enrique Ribadeneira in- spector of the Ecuadorian army aud five other military men were reported today to have been killed yesterday in a crash near The plane was said to have fallen in the mountains 10 miles from the coastal town 50 miles north of Guayaquil while ou a flight from the latter city to Puerta Manta ST ETIENNE least 21 coal miners were killed and about 30 injured today by an explosion which occurred during the afternoon shift change in a shaft here The cause of the blast was not determined yet Foremen Will Hear Lubrication Talk by South Bend Man R L Jenkins of South Bend will be speaker at the Logansport club meeting Tuesday October 17 at Roosevelt will be invited to this session Mr Jenkins wil show moving pictures relative to lubrication Winemiller ig president of the local club Willard B Hill ii chairman of the program tee Meeting of all committees will be Tuesday at hiffh
