Monessen Daily Independent, The (Newspaper) - March 28, 1940, Monessen, Pennsylvania HE En far If V WEATHER Cloudy with occasional in south and in north Friday occasional n Full Leased Service Of the United Press MARCH TWO CENTS sen John Missing Since January 13 BODY SIGHTED TODAY NEAR PITTSBURGH STEEL ec- er- in ltd ter nd nd ter in- i The body of John a miner who has been ing from his home since January was found floating in the river near Decora at 9 o'clock this morning by Donora lice The man had not been seen since January 12 The following John a friend of received a note from him ex- pressing his threat to commit cide Since that time police of the dis- have conducted a search that failed to find a trace of the missing man or his body Chief ofT Police Camino of Belle has searched the river banks near Belie Vernon frequently since uary reported that no trace of Simko could be found anywhere Camino that ko conceivably jumped from the Belle bridge into the channel which is kept open by river causing the body to drift either towards Monessen or towards Fayette City Is Sighted Here The body was first sighted this morning by a yard foreman of the Pittsburgh Steel the bridge The foreman immediately notified the local police Shortly after receiving the call the local police asked valley police to be on the lookout for the body which was floating rapidly wards George Donora and R R Donora found body as it was floating down the river while they were touring the river Tri a The body was taken to Donora funeral home and as ko's by his Elizabeth t Contable John of soon after Simko disappeared expressed the belief that he was dead Turner said when the man left his home he had little money and had been drinking when he he was ing old and it was unlike Accused of forcing state em- ployes to contribute a percentage of salaries for a party David L chairman of the vania state Democratic is on trial at Harrisburg on con- court He is shown in Simto is survived by his at and William of D C Funeral arrangements have not Witness Denies Conspiracy to Mace Democrats March former treasurer of the ferson county Democratic denied in Dauphin county court today that he solicited defendant Carl K resident secretary of the party's state to assist in a bituminous mine inspector for a political con- in 1937 sixth witness for the prosecution in the state payroll of Democratic State Chairman David L Deen and six other party testified in a manner plainly to state's attorneys who repeatedly asked him to re- freshen his memory by reading a transcript of his testimony before the grand jury that indicted the eight Democrats the preceding four denied knowledge of the conspiracy the prosecution charges existed whereby motions and continued service of state employes during the cratic Reporter Describes Envoy's Tour of Europe ALLIES CONFIDENT OVER LONG HOLLES SAYS EDITOR'S Everett Press staff was the only press to pany Welles on his finding tour of Europe In the following free of or other Holies begins his report on the Undersecretary of State's tour of the European capitals By EVERETT R HOLLES P Staff NEW March 28 Welles returned today tour of Europe's war capitals carrying a small brown case crammed confidential reports for president Roosevelt I accompanied the American Un- der Secretary of State every step of the way Welles isn't for the ord But for any one who followed every phase of his inquiry into con- ditions in the belligerent countries and in Italy certain trends can be reported which must have affected the American diplomat's sions These trends sometimes ed abroad by censorship or other Believe Allies Plan New Move f rjp Fli 1 I TTi J I Ti 1 lo friendship of Italy JL Y Fears floods as Drifts Melt M rge Council to Improve Relations March Allied Supreme War Council met in London today decided on future of Ihc Allied forces The Allies it was announced that neither would conclude s separate armistice or peace The Council was the first since French Premier Paul naud formed a new government in response to demands from the public for a more vigorous war policy I firing of Strikers Is Upheld March National Labor Relations Board ruled today that Swift Sioux had good cause in discharging 154 striking who refused to leave the Company's citing the i down strike de- in the Metallurgical fatten case af North dismissed charges that Swift violated the Wagner Act in these employes fnc board also ordered the com- pany reinstate immediately all who were- on strike except the 154 discharged administration of former contingent upon ments of three to five per cent of the salaries into party coffers The witness confirmed the earlier testimony that the state tee fixed collection quotas for the 67 county Democratic on the basis of the of the state employes appointed from each but said he knew of no dismissals or demotions for re- lo pay the assessments The assessments were three cent on salaries under and five per cent of the higher and total collections were to be remitted to the state committee Heavy Snowfall In North Counties March D bi Slovak hall te at 3 invited JOBS EVERYBODY Hall The Thompson 4 4 3 8 While Southwestern ia enjoyed its first warm weather in the northern tier of ties today were digging out from under a snowfall ranging up to 13 inches in depth Cameron and counties were hardest hit by the snow which struck yesterday An average of 12 inches was reported in with five to eight inches in the other conn ties indicated by the following observations based on European reaction to the Welles 1 Premier Benito Mussolini for last three weeks has been jig many Europeans the sion that he believes Germany now has a chance to win the war For almost the first time started press under is boasting of the alliance and is ng use of the word Allies Confident 2 The Allies are confident they are winning air superiority over they have barely tapped their resources or er which are being organized to wage a war of eight or ten years if necessary 3 Allied confidence in the early effectiveness of their blockade of the Reich is less strong than it was two months due largely to the still unanswered question of how great a role Soviet Russia can or will pby in the final showdown 4 Inside there is nothing to indicate a crack-up in morale Regimentation of war effort is at a peak and it is difficult to see any basis at the moment for Allied hopes of internal troubles plaguing Adolf Hitler Peace Unlikely 5 There is little chance that anybody find any acceptable formula for peace in the immediate future We visited Paris and in that order on a journey that began February stopping in Rome a second time on the homeward trip WeDes saw Mussolini twice by the time we sailed for New the Fascist Premier's position was creating more speculation in Eu- ropean capitals than that of any Floods were feared in upper New York as snow drifts as high as 30 eet began melting after the worst lizzard since 1888 Whole towns and thousands of rural dwellers were marooned by the snow with transportation at a standstill At least seven persons were dead as a result of the storm The Syracuse area was among those hit Photo shows a county snow plow pushing through the mountainous drifts to relieve a marooned car just west of Syracuse By FREDERICK P Stair March here tti today that when the Supreme Allied War Council meets soon French Premier Paul Reynaud will advocate a strong Allied bid for Italian friendship Allied relations with proposals to adopt a more policy regarding of neutral by German ships and the possibility of intensifying the also were expected to figure prominently on the Council's other Here is how the atmosphere changed in Rome during the Welles The Italian press paid little at- tention to the arrival of the on Page Hold Annual Dinner Here Last Night An enthusiastic crowd of persons last heard Oliver M former Commissioner of Fisheries in make an for an extension of the miles of good when he spoke at the second an- banquet of the Monessen Association t Besides the address by attendants at the banquet were treated to a served by the members of the Isabella class of the Methodist to entertainment by Jack and to remarks by outdoor sports seated at the speakers table whose tulk was the one of the humorous defense of the cating fisherman and an earnest appeal for more sporting and less whose jokes and poetry flowed in an endless stream built the entertainment to a max of imitating a traveling hawker Among sporting figures of state and Bounty fame who were W C state gam Sameul county fish and R D county game protector so making a standing appearance were and land owners who have cooperated with the ation in the township game Monessen Man In First On Dem Ballot Alderman Michael J of will occupy the coveted on the Democratic for representative in the State Assembly from the third Westmoreland it was an- today by the State tions Bureau The name of Dr H J of did not appear on the unofficial secured by the United Press in and Dr well was attempting today to learn what place had been drawn for him yesterday afternoon Other Westmoreland County Austine B Lytel S liam M John Yukon Frank L Frank S Charles F Carl West John G Arthur E Firemen Colled To Minor Blaze Monessen firemen answered a call to the Palace of Sweets store 447 yesterday afternoon at and extinguished a small blaze that started in the rear of the store said the stack of papers piled a flight of steps leading to the Morris said the blaze caused a Youth Charged With On Reed Ave John of 119 was -a prisoner in the local juH mth as it result of his to post bond after a hearing man Joseph Sistek last at trie wires damage to the steps and which it was that he took anil Change from a woman on Reed near Sixth street lust j The name was claimed thai Kontilak William M John W Arnold College Girl Is Slain By Sex Fiend t her after she left a cor- i drug placed a gun j against ribs and took and some change He then forced her to with him down Reed avenue to the bridge the woman turned down Fourth STATE March j street ami along McKee Beaten anil criminally j avenue to an alley near the inter- the of a a at section of she was The woman said that Kontilak Slate was wiLh bcr ovn an found in front of a school house at four milts of today Obviously the victim of a sex the girl was State John Hr of N H John R Mt Pleasant Legislature district Michael J George C Joseph David H dolph Malcolm D Monessen National convention district to be selected by each Francis James C Willis S James F C V New H A Youngwood Alternate delegates ed Lewis E New Henry S Greensburg Roy C La t Garfield A Mc- Stale committees Dora M H Mc- Deny arine iver M Greensburg W Pa Communist Charged by Dies March Dies committee voted today to bring its second contempt citation against a Com- George secretary of the Western Pennsylvania Communist Party Chairman Martin Dies announced the after a riotous hearing during which Powers defied the refused to answer ens ot and accused the committee of decking to up Communists in industry against a home who enrolled at September The al mul student the body of the j intimated that he intended assault She could furnish police with only a meager which led them to suspect who was arrested about a year police for indecent ex- who was believed to be delinquent Although Kontilak pleaded not before Alderman Sistek last chubby girl was at a police say they have a by Harold janitor at I cti confession of the stick-up ob- the consolidated after intensive who almost ran over the victim as j And in spite of the plea of not he drove up to fire the school t Kontilak maintains that nace used a pipe and not a gun to ob- A physician who performed an j the autopsy on body said the girl j definitely was a victim of a sex maniac Her skull had been crushed as though with a heavy and there wore other marks of mutilation on the body The scene of the a ly is not far from Rock view at Third Attempt Made to Return Safe Suspects James Hanaro and Patsy Sappo of and Allegheny County Detective Mike Jordan arid State Motor Policeman George Kirchner of were all in New York City today attending a 2 p m session of the court in an effort effect the ex- tra dittori of Morris and Morris who face charges of attempted in sen and suspicion of participating in scores of robberies in the burgh district who is something of a prise Witness in the and am are both reported to have and in crowded courtrooms during one stage of the case's passage through magistrate's court and through the court of a New York municipal Hanam and Sappo left Monessen last night after notification that they would be needed at the super- ior court session this afternoon Joseph who WHS held cap- tive by the bandits time the attempted has refused to go to New York to identify the men held dos it is is essary to place the men at the scene of thn attempted but lice have been unable to persuade him to make the identification Funds Up March The today reaffirmed its dc tec mi nation to exceed President Roosevelt's budget by adding to the National Youth Ad- ministration fund for 1941 da French and British officials their War Council's agenda but foreign diplomats believed thiat future relations with the Balkans and large action in RafFaele Italian sador to after assuming the premiership summoning Andre French Ambassador to report were of Reynaud's desire to win i Italian Finns Made Peace to Avoid Certain Defeat Turkey Develop Plan For Near East The war in Finland ended two weeks people arc still asking how the Finnish army could have col- lapsed after a brilliant record on the battlefield In the following Edward W who was there and who had seen other armies and other countries go down to de- the re- straint of the war in Finland ended us it did March A source said today tnat the conference at Aleppo reached complete agreement regarding the nature of operation in the Near East in event the war was ed as result of German or Russian The source said also that Col H director of the Munich military returned to Berlin yesterday after a visit to the Near East during which he was reported to have expressed lively apprehension because of the i But rapidity with which the Allies and 1 seen a country whose armies Dy EDWARD W BEATTIE I Stuff March lost her war with sia in a battle that was never fought I have seen wars in many lands T have seen tions beaten into Turkey coordinated their Aleppo dispatches hud said that the conferees had reached on Turkey's collaboration in t mutual aid pact have defended it as forcefully na the Finns did accept defeat wnd agree to onerous terms of peace Why did it happen in Because the Finns knew that ft battle was in the making ably would be raging at this very moment had not peace been signed which their troops would no longer be able to withstand the fresh waves of Russian troops The Finnish command era knew they were going to lose tle They made peace the desperation and hopelessness of that impending catastrophe com- them to take even terms from the Russians than they two The suddenness of the Russo- peace startled many Finns and many observers outside land who had been in the of Finnish successes especially north of Lake a portent of ex- tended resistance and even ft stalemate What was was that despite the small losses of the Finns a compared with the total of killed and ed even those fractional casualties severely weakened the small but compact Finnish army Estimate by reporters who were on Page was sired to resume negotiations of last October which were reported to have to meet Italian de- for territorial and economic rights in anil the Ababa railroad Since it was Premier Bon i to who was not satisfied with French offers of increased Italian influence m has increased his demands The impression prevailed that Britain was inclined to tain a cautiously aloof attitude wards Italy while awaiting a more propitious moment for attempting to draw Italy from Germany Contrary to press reports an- nouncing failure of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's plan to reconcile Italy and Russia and with them undertake to guarantee the status quo in usually well informed continued to reckon with the possibility of such a development This strengthened belief among foreign diplomats that the War Council would interest itself in economic measures in the especially to increase Allied ases in southeastern cept in Turkey where already they bave reached huge proportions Talks on Balkans In this connnection there was in- terest in the summoning to London of Owen British Minister to for economic and cal consultations It was expected that other British representatives in the Balkans would be called home for similar consultations It was understood that the War Council also would be interested in the economic and political implications of the peace and the possible future of events in Scandinavia Conjectures regarding the War Council's discussions also centered heavily on the attitude wards Russia Opinions differed but several ambassadors here opinion that the French demand tot the recall of Jacob Soviet Ambassador to might biu the first move towards a in Franco-Soviet relations Such a it was facilitate the French drive at home Boy's Leg Broken In School George a freshman at the High fa con- fined to his home at 651 Reed nue with a broken right re- this morning while taking part in the gym exercises at High School Paul gym said Rose was injured While forming a running broad jump ex- in the gym class at this morning was treated by local -j and then sent home II I
