Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - October 6, 1939, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT 14 Pages VOLUME 21 ASSOCIATED WIRE SERVICE MOBERLY MISSOURI FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 6 1939 ESTABLISHED INDEX JEST 1016 DEMOCRAT NUMBER 82 BOOM THEN DIRE DAYS IF EMBARGO Catastrophic Consequences Predicted as Sen Downey Debates Proposal FIRMLY AGAINST ANY INTERVENTION A Dozen Senators Offer to I Accept a Revised Measure Won't Yield on Embargo WASHINGTON Oct 6 Senator Downey D Calif fore- cast in the Senate today that repeal of the arms embargo would lead ultimately to inflation and a boom of catastrophic ences The Californian followed tor Thomas D Utah who urged removal of the embargo Thomas contended no nation could object because under the full neutrality American ships would be prevented from carding war supplies to a Cerent Downey asserted I am firmly act against any further tion in by the sale of war materials there in or Hearing Saturday On Abandoning of Glasgow Branch Three local Wabash officials W Greeland division super- intendent L R Wilson division passenger and freight agent and L A High trainmaster will go to Glasgow tomorrow to attend an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on the abandonment of the Glasgow branch of the which the railroad is seeking The hearing is to be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Electric theater at Glasgow Wabash officials will meet with I C C representatives and dents of Glasgow and Salisbury The Glasgow branch of the road is operated between gow and Salisbury FOR PHARES WEIS His 25 Years Association With Fund In- surance Co Is Celebrated SPEED AID TO LINER IN MID OCEAN Navy Rushes Ships to ican Vessel Reported Marked for Attack WASHINGTON GIVEN TIP BY GERMANY Another Athenia Case Is Inferred in Report Given Little Credence Chandler To Take Logan's Place In Senate Monday FRANKFORT Ky Oct 6 Gov A B Chandler a high of- source disclosed today will resign Monday and be appointed TJ S senator by Lieut Gov Keen Johnson who will succeed him as the state's chief executive Chandler will take the seat left vacant by the death early day of Senator M M Logan TWO HOUSES BURN IN INCENDIARY FIRE Celebrating his 25 years with the Fund Insurance Co of San Francisco Phares Moberly insurance man now also the city's ter was guest of honor last night at a testimonial dinner intended as a surprise to which the com- pany had invited a dozen of his close friends and business ates war Let us not help attack the peoples of another continent Let us attack our own tasks at Besides ending the embargo the neutrality merce with belligerents on a cash and carry basis and establish other controls over shipping and travel in an effort to prevent incidents with either wide Offers A Slogan Downey proposed this slogan their incomes One half of For the Americas both North and South billions for defense but not a single son for butchery The predicted em- bargo repeal probably Would mean a tax on the American equal to 25 to 50 percent of our population now live on meagre he and I am unwilling to de- grade them further to benefit tions abroad and profiteers at home He assumed he said that the war would be prolonged and that the British and French would be willing and able to buy in this country If these assumptions were cor- he said approximately of war supplies would be purchased by the Allies ing prices and raising living costs Slump Would Follow After a year Downey argued cash resources of France and Britain would be exhausted We then either have to extend credit to the Allies to buy or cut off the employment of millions of workers over he said Beyond doubt the latter native would with other existing conditions precipitate a even greater than what curred in 1929 Should we choose Three state and regional of- of the company came here to attend the affair held at the Merchants Hotel and Mr Weis was presented with a framed ver certificate in formal tion of his quarter of a century's successful representation of the Fund group Chicagoan Is The dinner was arranged by Max Jones special agent for the company at Kansas City and E D Chicago manager of the western department office acted as toastmaster following the dinner Earl A Spink St Louis also a special agent was the third representative of the com- pany Mr Jones reviewed his own business relationship and ship with Mr Weis which he said had continued through 23 years Mr Lawson commended Mr Weis upon his Here and added tKat he was widely known throughout insurance circles where for his thorough knowledge of the insurance field A Session Local guests gave reminiscences of Mr career as a printer and newspaper reporter politician insurance agent and postmaster in talks which bore greater re- semblance to a gridiron session than the conventional testimonial gathering These speakers were A B Chamier Oak Hunter ple Stephens Paul Stevenson Louis Klein W T Van Cleve J K Van Cleve Forrest Martin James Todd Ben Glassen Dr T S Fleming and Pete Stauffer Mr Weis pleading the ness of an attempt to reply to the disclosures of his friends made only a brief talk in which he ex- pressed his appreciation Favors at the dinner were ages of P K chewing gum Dalton Farmer Dies of Injuries WASHINGTON Oct 6 Navy and coast guard craft sped today toward a mid- Atlantic with e American liner Iroquois after the White House disclosed receipts of startling in- formation that the steamship was to be sunk The tip came from the head of the German navy but it left unanswered the questions of how and why and by whom the mg was to be done Likewise it offered no explanation of how the Reich acquired the tion The White House disclaimed any belief in the report several naval ships and a coast cutter were ed to accompany Iroquois to New York where she is due next Wednesday The captain was dered to search the ship for ex- plosive and to double his outs and patrol watchmen The Iroquois a ton vessel left Ireland on Tuesday with a crew of 212 and 584 sengers Ambassador Kennedy said in London last night that only those who were able to prove American citizenship had been permitted to book passage The navy declined to divulge the names or number of the ships racing toward the Iroquois It also kept secret the latter's position While House Statement The White House statement late yesterday -of r the Taylor Viley Negro Held After Flames Destroy Sturgeon Street Homes The home and belongings of Ed Beverly negro and the home arid most of the belongings of Frank Boyer white at 415 and 417 South Sturgeon street respectively were destroyed by fire about o'clock yesterday afternoon The blaze was declared incendiary and Taylor Viley another negro was held in the city jail today for in- Beverly told officers he and his wife left home earlier and that there was no fire burning in the house stove He said he had been told that Viley was seen going to the home with a bundle of papers and a few moments later came running from there to the Boyer home carrying bucket and asking Boyer to help me put out the fire The Beverly home was almost totally in flames by that time and the fire spread to Che Boyer home Marion E Lamb prosecuting attorney said Viley had admitted to him that he had been in the Beverly house and had started a fire in the stove but he denied any intention of burning the house The two by John Beuth are just east the ple Stephens warehouse which was threatened for a time but the flames were extinguished before damage was done LOUD NOES TO HITLER'S PROPOSALS Only a tory Will Assure Peace Daladier Declares HITLER IN LAST STATEMENT PROPOSES EUROPEAN PEACE ON BASIS TO AWAIT REPLY CONSIDER TODAY'S PROPOSA S But London Notes Nothing Offered Europe From Aggression Britain and France on credit it is that we may find our own national debt increased from KANSAS CITY Oct 6 Ballowe 73 Dalton Mo er died at Northeast Hospital day as the result of an automobile near Brunswick Mo Tuesday Robert Cox 70 of ton injured in the same crash was taken to a Moberly Mo hospital German navy Grand Admiral Raeder informed the American Government through the United States naval attache Commander A E Schrader in Berlin that according to mation on which he relied an American ship the is to be sunk when it nears our American east coast The sinking of the Iroquois Admiral Raeder would be accomplished through a repetition of circumstances which marked the loss of the Athenia The British liner Athenia with many Americans on board was sunk off the coast of land the day England declared that a state of war existed with Germany The British blamed a torpedo from a German ine but in Germany there were contentions that the Athenia had been sunk by foes of the Reich Arthur to arouse feeling in the States United its present 50 billions to 75 or 100 run billions of dollars ISAM CRAVENS OF The resultant collapse of solvency would be the V supreme tragedy of all with at- tempts at dictatorship with dis- order and perhaps rebellion in the country i Downey urged a steady tion in trade with Europe as a permanent policy to prevent den dislocations in time of war Compromise Offer lered today to accept revised neu r legislation which would re- tain the arms embargo in for cash payments on ents purchases Senator Borah R Idaho said the group concurred in the statement We are still willing as has been our position from the first to accept the administration if the administration will leave in the law the embargo on arms and implements of and provide for cash instead of credit on other commodities on Page 4 SALISBURY INJURED BY FALL AT HOME Sam Cravens of- Salisbury year-old father of County Judge Roy Cravens of Huntsville was brought to McCormick Hospital here yesterday for treatment of O V I CtX Cll V W I y W W 4 AA ported resting well and doing j mander of the German navy Secretary Hull said at his press conference today the state ment was seeking the fullest able facts as to who was the thor of what he termed the ardly act of the sinking of the liner He said this in telling reporters he had no information with re- gard to the Iroquois in additon to that given out at the White House British Comment LONDON Oct 6 Brit- ish admiralty commenting on the German statement that the United States liner Iroquois might be sunk said it was surprising that an officer of the former imperial German navy like Admiral Raeder should bernean his uniform by lending himself to such ness The suggestion made to ington through United States al attache at Berlin by the com- Here and in Paris Arthur Basse tt general mana- ger of the Shanghai China office of the American Tobacco Company visited briefly with and friends here in Paris Tuesday afternoon while en- route across the United States Mr and Mrs Bassett made an annual trip to this country this summer Mr Bassett continued to England for conferences in the home office of his company and upon his return to America at- tended the national American gion convention in Chicago Mr Bassett was born in Paris where several of brothers and sisters now live and is a ate of the University of Missouri Among his relatives are an aunt Mrs H P Jennings and eral cousins including Miss Mae Jennings Mrs George White Mrs Ernest Zahl Mrs W W land Mrs R C Lamke and Mrs W K Megee Mr Bassett left here for San Francisco where he was to rejoin Mrs Bassett They will sail for China from Seattle Mr Bassett visited here last year He told friends here day he plans to continue his an- summer visits to the United States until 1941 Upon his ment then he hopes to return to this country to make his home Mrs C E Canote to Be Delegate to Methodist Meet PARIS Oct 6 Premier Daladier today in effect turned down- Hitler's peace proposals with a- personal declaration that only a victory regime of real and lasting peace in Eu- r The blunt-spoken premier's sertion was to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee only Hours after Hitler outlined his peace formula to the German Reichstag A communique issued after the meeting said that Daladier ring to the con- ception of peace This peace excludes all ination in Europe It can be founded only on the rights of ples to life and liberty France and Great Britain will never lay down their arms that has been effectively assured To Be Considered LONDON Oct 6 Brit- ish Government said tonight that Adolf Hitler's peace proposals would be subjected to careful examination in consultation with the governments of the ions and the French Republic the statement added it is necessary to remember two First no peace proposal is likely to be accepted which does not effectively free Europe from the menace of aggression Second that something more would be required to confidence -in any proposals Germ might Little Basis for Peace in Hitler Proposal Unless Allies Back Water By DeWitt MacKenzie Herr Hitler's peace proposals call for a general conference which would deal broadly with all Eur- political and economic ills and also would provide for a ure of disarmament There were conciliatory touches in his long speech delivered be- fore the Reichstag today The most notable was his dec- amental points on which the Allies have taken what they claim to be irrevocable stands These briefly 1 That they will not make peace while German troops occupy land and that Poland must be re- stored 2 That they will no longer cept the unsupported word of the Nazi government that his proposed 3 That they will not cease war ence must not be held under a until they have crushed threat of force presumably an answer to the Anglo-French re- to consider terms ied by threats Again the Fuehrer made a ing of any further excepting for his colonial demands And he said the colonial claims weren't made in the form of an ultimatum but were based on political justice In fact Hitler said his interests in both Eastern Europe and were wholly economic Strives for Favor On the whole it appeared that he was striving without giving way on any vital points to present a program which might attract attention His peace proposals would seem to be sweeping enough so that they would call for- full tion of the Anglo-French hood were it not for the fact that he leaves unanswered several ism a declaration which some observers have thought took in a good deal of territory to say the least As regards Poland Hitler firmly that the Poland of the Versailles treaty can't be re- constructed Indeed he declared that German Russia alone will determine what Poland is to become His Plan for Poland He proposed as a concession that there be established a Polish state with boundaries which shall do justice to historical ical and economic facts If Hitler has said his last word and that is what he said it is patent that the Allies can find no basis in his proposals for a con- ference unless they are prepared to back water and a lot of it Some Nazis called Hitler's ad- dress the greatest speech for peace Continued on Page Frequently Conciliatory in Tone in Speech On Aims and Tasks TO WORK WITH REDS FOR A PEACE ZONE FAMILY BELIEVES DR BRAGG INSANE The statement read by a office man said that Hitler's proposals in their present form x x are in- many respects vague and ob- scure But ft is noted that they no suggestion for ations for wrongs done by Jermany to other peoples In Two Parts The statement said however he speech was apparently ed into two parts The first is mainly a survey of past events said the government abounds in perversions of the truth which will be readily by the people of this country and indeed of the whole The second part the statement added contains what Hitler de- scribed as a few proposals for peace The Government asserted that the repeated suggestions that Great Britain responsible for the war have ho foundation in fact It said that on the con- trary the efforts of His ty's Government to preserve peace during the successive crises brought about by Germany are well known and recognized French quarters said Hitler's speech followed lines the French had expected They added that this inferential gestion for creation of a small Polish buffer state with many and Russia partitioning the rest of- the country had been turned down by British and Daughter and Others Are Trial at Mexico PARALYSIS VICTIM BABY LIVES MEXICO Mo Oct 6 sanity of Dr Kelly R tired Mexico dentist was in dis- pute today at his trial on a charge of murder in the slaying of his Members of Dr Bragg's family including his daughter Mrs Jean O'Rear of Jefferson City and his daughter-in-law Mrs Marjorie Bragg testified they believed the aged man was insane when and killed his wife last May 24 Respirator Borrowed From Fred Snite Delivery of Child CHICAGO Oct 6 Gertrude Epstein 22 who gave birth to a baby girl yesterday ing a brief time she was ed from an iron lung respirator died today at Mt Sinai Hospital She succumbed to what Dr A I Doktorsky described as heart paralysis Hospital attendants said the pound baby was ing well The defense witnesses said Dr Mrs Epstein an infantile Bragg's mind broke under constant criticism his wife who said became morose and virtually confined to her home after an which left her face badly even before ly today Mr Cravens was at work at his farm home southwest of Salisbury Wednesday the day also was his birthday doing some repair work on a building He fell backward over a carpenter's horse and the injuries Two Boys Killed at Rail Crossing ST LOUIS Oct 6 their way to school David Black 9 years his brother James 7 were killed by a train today They apparently were crossing the tracks when struck FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY Both Die Day SEDALIA Mo Oct 6 Thirteen hours after the death of her husband William Kilgore 81 Mrs Nancy Costello Kilgore died today at her home They had been married 52 years A son and a daughter survive Gives Casualty LONDON Oct 6 Air Ministry issued a casualty list tonight of 20 killed 19 missing and two wounded on various dates Grand Admiral Erich Raeder the admiralty asserted enables us once to realize and the criminal mentality of the Party leaders Pleasant Weather Is To Continue ST LOUIS Oct 6 heavy fog hovered over this city this morning but a bright sun soon broke through to bring another summerish day typical out Missouri Maximum temperatures day were generally in the middle 80s with a few scattered HILL Mo Oct Mrs Charles B Canote has been elected delegate the conference of the three Methodist churchs in St Louis next week Mrs Canote will represent the Methodist churches from the west side of the fq and Providence Mrs Canote will also Grand Chapter of the Star which will be held in St Louis at that time also attending the conductress and associate con- banquet at the Melbourne Hotel Wednesday night Strike of Armour Plant BAST ST LOUIS 111 Oct 6 hog division of Armour Company's packing plant at National City was closed today when 145 additional employes 1 By Associated 3 Oct 6 Antwerp as main body of troops leaves Germans bombard WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday Warmer in north and central portions tonight For Central Fair night and Saturday warmer night Local Weather Data Maximum temperature day 82 minimum 63 Low last night 49 ers reported in the southeastern joined ISO workers in the killing part of the state and butchering departments who French statesmen it was made Italy was hopeful the als might lead to peace but not optimistic Press Comment Keynote of early British re- action was the single word No Continued on Page 4 All told stories of the happy home life before the dent about eight or nine years ago when gasoline fumes caught fire while Mrs Bragg was cleaning clothes and she was severely ed on the face Dr Bragg was adjudged insane by Judge Cornett in a civil action in probate court July 3 but the hearing had no connection with the murder trial Death of Mother of J C Ferber J C Ferber 120 North Morley street went to St Charles this called there by the death of his mother Mrs Frank man Mr Ferber had had no that his mother was ill and her death was unexpected She was 78 years old She is also survived by another son Al Ferber of burgh Pa and by nine victim was removed from a full length respirator and en to the delivery room while fire department rescue squad men ad- ministered artificial respiration aided by a light portable rator borrowed from Fred B Snite Jr the young man who lived in an iron lung for years Medical records showed only 11 known cases of an infantile complication in pregnancy and no other case where a tor was used at delivery Seeks a Resettlement of Tells Horrors of War Germans Killed By LOUIS P BERLIN Oct Adolf ler today proposed a European peace settlement on a but added that if the Allies rejected his ed hand this statement will have been my last Then we shall he went on and pictured the new war as one sure to bring unprecedented horror to the world those peoples and their leaders who are of the same mind as himself now make their re- he said in his hour and 20 minute speech to the Reichstag and the world And let those who consider war to be the better solution re- ject my outstretched hand He challenged the Allies to in- these opinions of mine as cowardice if they like I need not occupy myself with what they think I make these statements simply because it goes without saying that I wish to spare my own people this ing To Await Reply Collaborators said Hitler ed his proposals as formal and that he would now await for tain and France to act on them The fuehrer was time and again conciliatory in tone specifically to both Britain and France The world's history he showed that in war there have never been two victors but tpf lapse of will conquer he declared It is for the of our people These were among the other -J most material phases of his speech 1 A renunciation of further FAMILY OF NOTED REPORTER LANDS WILL VISIT HERE Funeral arrangements are yet known here not Mrs R W Collins 513 street talked by telephone for eral minutes last night with her sister Mrs Frank Smothers who with her three children landed in New York late yesterday after an ocean voyage from Paris Mrs Smothers is the wife of a noted European correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and the family had been living for some time in Paris Mrs Smothers and the children will come to later to visit her sister and her father Mike who makes his home with his daughter here American Flags On Threatened Mercy Ship A pleasant week-end appeared went on strike yesterday in the with fair weather Officials of the C I O united forecast for tonight and packing house workers union clay It will be warmer tonight j threatened to call a general strike in North and Central Missouri and in the St area SO Pet Retail Gain KANSAS CITY Oct 6 The Federal Reserve Bank today reported retail sales here last week increased 30 per cent over the total for the week a year ago Sales in the entire Tenth eral Reserve District were 4 Temperature at this after- cent higher and Kansas stores aoon showed a 17.8 percent Increase at the plant unless the company reinstated 80 men discharged in a consolidation of the two de- The union claimed a membership of 1150 of the 1200 em- ployes DRAGONS LEAD At the close of the first half of their football game here today with Kirksville the Dragons of Moberly Junior High School were territorial claims save for his old colonial demands 2 A declaration that Germany and Soviet Russia together would relieve one of the acutest spots of Europe for a peace zone in Eastern Europe 3 A specific assurance to the world that he had no designs on Rumania the Ukraine the Urals or Denmark and an expression that in Eastern Europe generally and Scandinavia as well his inter- ests were wholly economic New Order In Poland 4 A declaration that of Germany's tasks in dealing with fallen Poland was the ment of a new order of ethno- graphic that is to say resettlement of and a further declaration that it was a problem not restricted co this particular sphere but a with far wider implications for the East and South of to a large extent filled with ters of German nationality whose existence cannot maintained that if the present war was allowed to go on the vigor of every nation will be sapped on the Hitler added it would be a struggle in which there are no longer any islands obvious reference to vulnerability to air attack Such a war carried to the end he added would leave a frontier of ruins and endless graves be- tween Germany and France The Pact With Reds As to Germany's currently close relations with Russia he ledged that in the past he had de- clared that the U S S R was organized on principles which fer from those held in Germany But he Since it became clear that Joseph Stalin saw nothing in these principles which should prevent him from cultivating friendly relations with states of different political creeds National Socialist Germany sees no reason why it should adopt an- other criterion The new pact he said was not only one of peace but also of constant cooperation for both states He put great stress on what he declared had been his efforts to rid our relations with France all trace of and to render them tolerable for both nations In the address which some Nazis called the greatest speech for peace since the World War Hitler coupled his suggestion for a eraL attempt to solve Europe's problems with a declaration that it could not be done while are thundering or mobilized armies are bringing pressure to bear upon it If x x x these problems must be solved sooner or he said then be more sensible to vessel sailed AF Void this country's cast coast The Ireland Get with a crew 275 584 passengers all Americans Uons
