Mansfield News Journal (Newspaper) - April 30, 1940, Mansfield, Ohio li o w c r cooler MANSFIELD VOL. 56, NO. 55 CANAL 4251 APRIL 30, 1940 United Intel national News Son Ice PRICE THREE CENTS NAZIS SAY AS TWO ARMIES JOIN FORCES FUND NEAR VICTORY Majors Report Only Go 24 Hours After Workers Get Go-Ahead Sure of Success SURE SUCCESS PREDICTED Figure Announced at Luncheon Today Tops All Records In Mansfield will go over the top again in its Community Fund That seemed a safe tion today as 24 hours after workers the green light to reported S The fust report uas made this j oon at a luncheon meeting for majors at the Clyde K. general man of the for the second consecutive piloted the to success last said that the figure the largest ever turned in for the first work m any Mansfield Community Fund and that it hung up a With a goal of report leaves only 613 to be is no doubt in my mind today that we will not only reach our goal before the end of the but will top Smaltz told his workers hope we for the goal set up this year w as a minimum figure under which our agencies could operate out seriously crippling their grams and is pledged beyond that minimum will be located among the One division had already ped its c arries more than 50 per of the Community Fund after A had subscribed on a quota of Nor is figure the final cording to Harold jor of the industrial who said that he still had several industrial plants jet to The next largest report today on Page 3, Col. 3) CONFESSES TO KILLING OHIO SUGAR WORKER Man Who Entered Army After Disappearance of Slaying Victim Admits Defies Troops Are Moving LIE DETECTOR HELPS Clyde K general chairman of the Mansfield Com- munity Fund drive lor the ond consecutive seemed certain today to duplicate his victory of last more than 75 per cent of this j goal was reported 24 houis the drive The dine is scheduled to close THREE INJURED IN ACCIDENTS Two Drivers Are Victims of Traffic Crashes In Mansfield An Ashland uas in eral hospital here todav suffering from injuries yesterday afternoon in one of three accidents reported in this vicinity yesterday and early todav He is Ronald 19. and was injured the he was riding struck a chuck hole in route 545 four miles north of throwing mm from the Hospital said he a fractured right possible skull and of the face and His condition was reported as Two Plymouth and Shelby motorists received minor ies their cars collided at a. today on route 39, two miles north of li i h w a j patrolmen The drivers were Robert 41. R. D. 1 who received bruises of the right knee and and Parker L. 31. of who body bruises and a cut of the Witnesses told patrolmen dict struck Kitting as the latter was making a left turn Riding fin Norman uo to ncr Berl and Columbus for Tells of Striking Fremont Man In Quarrel About Work After Drinking BULLETIN FREMONT Alpha 31, clad in U. S. army pleaded innocent to first degree murder today after con- Prosecutor A. L. that he fatally beat 24, in an ment over a He was bound oxer to the grand TALK RELIEF Six county and city officials ill confer this afternoon in Columbus with William H. state Frakes all of Shelby None was Two other motorists escaped in- in an accident at p. m. Monday on route 42. A L. Hyzer announced today that Alpha 31. had confessed to the slaying of Walter 24-j sugar refinery last Oct. 31. Hyzer charged now in the U S with first degree Woessner signed a written he was ed with the aid of a lie detector at the Toledo police The prosecutor said hen informed investigators learned he and Snyder engaged in a fist fight before the latter dis- I killed I'll ghe the prosecutor a Snyder's bruised body was found in the Sandusky river three miles north of Fremont Dec. 7. One cje was badly hurt and the nose was broken who enlisted in the 8. was returned to mont two weeks ago from Fort for The accused that he entered a Fremont tavern the night of Oct 31 and joined who was drinking had two bottles of and we got into an er quoted The cutor said the argument ed a job of calking windows which Snyder accused ner of taking from The confession said the fight curred in an CONSOLIDATION OF ALLIED SITION HERE DIRECTION OPERATIONS DIRECTION or NAZI OPERATIONS REPORTED TO HAVE REACHED STOEREN PORTANT BATTLE At the Carl president oC the Norwegian who flatly denied German claims that it invaded Norway after learning that the British planned to do so. At the a map that shows the position of the fighting forces of Allies and Nazis in day's dispatches reported that the Nazis shown in the map heading for had passed that point and might have taken Stoeren The other shown aimed at is said now to have cap- tured the vital city of strategic Allied rail The British admit their sition here is but say operations in the Namsos area are in and that Narvik not shown on operations are Poles and Czechs Join Allied Army In Norway relief on a relief three miles south of gram for 1940. They were Marcel la R MERCURY AT 73 Reading Hits Top for Tornado Rips with a thermometer Long A waited Test of Seems About to Offensive Expected Soon Against Norway has now become a battleground for almost all the armies of Europe and a gigantic Allied may soon be expected to halt the German Barbro noted woman war correspondent of the International News reveals in the following dispatch from the fighting By BARBRO ALVING Staff ON THE NAMSOS Norway's tragic role as the battlefield for all of Europe's war was emphasized today with disclosure that Polish and Czech legions have joined the Allied ranks of fighting To participate in the major battle that is now developing in central these hard-bitten troops are now ing down Norwegian roads and through the rums of burned Norwegian towns to cross swords at last with soldiers of that power which made them troops and men without a country HUSTON FREES ASHLAND YOUTH Places Raymond Jacobs Under Probation for Three Years For Automobile 24, who admitted he stole an bile in Mansfield April 21 and drove it to Ashland where he wrecked was placed on tion for three years today when he was arraigned before Judge C. H Huston in common pleas Allies Routed In Berlin Claims Vital Rail Point Captured in Speedy Advance of London Admits Troops Have Fallen Are In BULLETIN Norwegian military officers of the frontier asserted day that Allied forces still control the railroad from to BULLETIN German troops in Arctic their artillery were reported today to be clinging to machine-gun nests under heavy bombardment from British naval BULLETIN convoy of 12 believed to be was dispersed in a new battle in the Skagerrak last on the ish shore said Nazi were landed Saturday night at these once proud and free Czechs and and according to the testimony of a British officer at Allied field FATHER DROWNS Hartsough gave no indication of 26. of and John w hat he planned to j 28. 5 of 73 had the they have swung into j Parent Ot Caught Under Mohican Spillway the front line of battle with the Norwegians and French who are ready now for the for and long-awaited test of David 43, father of seven was drowned 15 miles southeast of ty officials were of the told warmest weather of the ear to at 3 p m I that th Nzi nrl nere al that he would ask them for suggestions for changing thc state relief Under the plan the state provides men that Miss Cooper collided with a i that the generally weatherman advanced their last kilometer fishing with two friends below the uc en by as she alternated to Ca todav lhat spring is here to j before a huge Allied offensive by of the Mohican iw i t a 1.1 operating a motor vehicle without thc owner's He has been in the county jail since the George W. and L A represented Judge Huston placed thc youth on probation because he is a first offender and Probate Judge S. Boffenmyer of Ashland county asked that ha be given another Judge Boffenmyer agreed to approve thc youth's monthly reports to Harry county probation United official news agency said today that German troops smashing northward through central Norway had taken the key railroad town of after other columns had sliced through lied defenses and made contact with the German forces from The high command said that German forces had seriously defeated the Allied troops on the central Norway front and Nazi newspapers reported that the Germans were smashing rapidly ahead in an effort to blast the British and French expeditionary forces from their foothold on the Norwegian was regarded as the most important key to the success or failure of the Allied force in central Norway of as it controls the entire cations system needed by the British and French to oppose the a German column from Trondheim made according to the high German troops from the south and thus circled the only other important rail town on Page 3, Col. 1) People Given Responsibility With Leaders fBy United Pi ess J German people as well as the Nazi leaders are responsible for the prolongation of Europe's Prime Minister Neville told the house of commons W. Marriott said i who had dodged questions regarding on Page 2. Col. 3; acar driven bv funds for about 40 per cent of the I 23. of was not County Commissioners C. L. Mitchell and Kay Auditor Norman L. County neer C. City En- gineer W. C- Mayor William Morris of Shelby were scheduled to The city and county engineers v invited because of their ork with WPA projects in connection with the relief program lne j cloudy and the forecast The temperature at noon iday was and the average for past 24 hours was 62, about 10 CHILD RESCUED FROM STARVING The first RULING Ford Ordered to Take Back St. Louis WASHINGTON The 3-ibor board today that thc Ford Motor company had violated the Wagner act at its St. Louis plant and ordered the company lo reinstate with hack pay 94 j who participated in a 1937 Baby Gains Pound a al i CLEVELAND Marilyn was discovered when I brother starved to SIX in a a i heat brought a- baby tornado to tral Illinois re- in the death of one son and causing property age estimated at Fred 38. killed the wind demolished his sea and air is to be launched to break the the German Thc north jcr has now been It is a line rather than a British This is because the English troops are not equipped with thc skis for operations in thc i County Mayor Locke Sets row boat n one of his friends setting trout lines about feet from thc bank and was knocked from the boat into about J2 or It feet of water by a wire stretched across Jhc stream for thc City Baseball Day In Proclamation i progress of the war in uas in the light H f i recent speech In Alfred Duff 1 out lhat thc former fust loul of thc i hcs no vindictive designs I who said the Allies the German people but i must in the I on the other thc j man people as well tho i musl thc Major W. 3. Locke thc I The gates of the dam had seal of his office today to and the current earned I body about 700 feet for a Lacking this a Brit- stream where it was later isb battalion was torn to pieces ered by his two companions and the sheriff last Its members have now on 3. Col. his personal enthusiasm new day in the sport in He issued thc following mation making after- Thc speech was criticized by some British nn the grounds that it madr difficult thc possibility of a stable future in body was removed to Akron noon in the Tho only 17 neighed when she was to the hospital April CO: today she H eishod Al first shr was so weak she could not feed but she has gained a aco ordered the com- and President's Mother Recovers From Food Poisoning Attack Sale for JOIN COP The board piny to bargain upon request with United Auto Workers union as she exclusive representative of the Louis plant s i and DIE IN FLAMES Two Philadelphia Men Trapped In PHILADELPHIA Two men burned lo death and five other persons NEW YORK A man at the home of Mrs Sara De- lano Roosevelt today that thc president's mother was and had recovered from an attack of food poisoning The spokesman Mrs. had spent a quiet nicht and appeared to have no ill effects from thc ness with which she was stricken while returning by automobile to her home from the New York World's Mrs Roosevelt for two IN DOG HOUSE Missing BOT Merely Sleeping With Canine S. dis- parents of Wecky 5. hunted high and low him swept a in West without After several Philadelphia as they were considering calling The victims WTC in walked W rubbing 26. and 28 forced to order her chauffeur hn trapped on the second to slop and ask for 1 cot tired and crawled into floor of Ihe bluing and relumed lo her home dog house with he apparently were overcome in New York where she reach fi Island drug store while she recovering from the nausea which Orchestra quits to Become 1 KANSAS CITY Dancers at one of the swankier night I spots whirled about but I ii was ihe music that vas to blame i members of gave yp jusi before Ihe under wav to police force and play in the newly organized cop EGG CURRENCY recognition of thf fact that Mansfield should haw a good and in col- laboration with public citizens who aro giving their and money toward in 1 all of the citizens of our city to 1ho parade which is to start at 7 15 Wednesday evening and attend the came at ground at 8.30 thai William of city of declare Wednesday May Kt. 1S40. as Mansfield Baseball W J i man people n' i spon for prolongation of thc war and its sufferings I theirs as well that of thc Nazi leaders remains the attitude of his my speech at Mansion Chamberlain and Oliver House on on Page 3. Col. 4> Disguised Germans Slip Through Allied Lines By and the first impression 1ha1 the German soldiers must ha ON THE NORW Gorman all as individual so tin ouch the of ruses to 1o sl A allied Rural Mail Carrier Takes Egg for Postal Card J rural found this along an in box of one of don't know what happened MRS. mr. I guess I must have been hut nnt have been cording to lied On the to thc front 1 passed one little prison camp where several man Alpine troops and three ators were under 3 was told German livers from which had shot or automobile forced down had interned in collision killed Dean 19- this region Ohio Slate It would from Columbus and that young fig two five miles east here are among 7h" worlds Jake this and of hero and trained TTV a poMal also of Columbus and Experienced trav Barnes and had egg Mrs Davis of Fort on skis are now having KILLED taken to a Luna Cannings on this unusual 1 At the moment sharp pi- liol activity occurs but thj forested area of the w front is developed into a rn A British issued at said that land arc in touch w ith the enemy of 1 made six at- to attack Namsos dav but were driven off by British One German plane was shot the British j Readers arc reminded dispatches from the j nations of Europe and from Par East are subject to i j
