Monessen Daily Independent, The (Newspaper) - February 27, 1941, Monessen, Pennsylvania ft jr f t WEATHER The Monessen Daily Independent PA THURSDAY FEBRUARY Leased Service of the United Press TWO CENTS EVEN KILLED AIRPLANE CRASH 5 Famed Is Selected piNNER SET MARCH HUMORIST IS CHOSEN directors of the Monessen of Commerce are at a special meeting late this to approve the selection G C Murphy Co Leases More Space on Donner Takes Lease on Double Room Vacated by F W Woolworth The double storeroom at the Murphy company will make no Donner avenue which recently was effort to secure until that vacated by the F W Woolworth Co j date has been leased for a term of 20 j architects are now busy years by the G C Murphy it with three other Mr was announced today by Reed it may ba agents for the property The property is owned by Dr G eral weeks before have our plans in several will compare favorably in size and in lines of merchandise fJ 0 3 A Pittsburgh j He said the new when com- who resided in Monessen several years ago When the Murphy Company takes possession of the room on May it wiO have a total frontage of 132 feet on Donner avenue The ent store occupies three fiom 518 to 526 Donner Earl head of the real estate department of the Murphy told the Independent this morning that definite plans for the expansion have not been completed Woolworth is under lease until April Mr McClune and Raps Lend as Turks Meet In Important Parle TOKYO ORDERS JAPS TO LEAVE FRENCH COLONY carried with the large outlet at where the home office of the company is located Monessen store deserves an expansion of our Mr Clune we are glad of this to provide Although the rental was not an- Michael of the realty said the tion was one of the largest to be in recent years famed war as the principal for the Annual juet of the Chamber on March 18 The speakers committee also is to recommend William iey Sims as the humorist for i occasion Beginning its fourth decade as ne of the outstanding civic affairs the An- Banquet succumbs this year the war fever Knickerbocker is of the gi eatest of the war i and he will a fresh view of the news prom the European battlefronts The subject of Knickerbockers will be Role in has followed wais over the mostly as a Innter foi the Hearst newspapers tri indicate He has spent j c Bane today denied from 01 tne last tne of tope and has an intimate safe thefts wete indicted by j jn office miS By HARRISON SALISBURY P Staff The Far Eastern crisis was in- suddenly by Japan today in a series of ominous acts ing around French Indo-China Senator Henrik Shipstead Rapping the lease-lend consummated in retail circles here j vital effect on the turn of the war The threat in the increasingly ator shi tead of Minne troubled Pacific overshadowed the first-class diplomatic and military i to'd the senate that if con- conversations under way between j Britain and Turkey at conversations which may have a gress approves the will pay the with our our resources and the precious blood of Two Indicted in Safe Cracking Feb Two of the principal in the Bane on Stand to Refute Charges Of Misconduct Feb District Attorney in the the Mediterranean and Africa Tokyo suddenly ordered ese citizens to leave Indo-China as a precautionary move in event mediation between the French colony and Thailand fail The implication was that Japan may force a settlement upon Indo- China if the French prove and that Japanese citizens were being cleared from the area of possible hostilities Will Use Force The Japanese emphasized their determination to settle the Indo- 11 Draftees Leave For Army Under Conscription Act Eleven brand new all selected by the Monessen Draft Board to answer the Army's third call for one-year trainees under the Selective Service and still m their were- sent to the in- duction station in Pittsburgh this morning for final physical ination If successful they will be sent to Fort uniforms Bethlehem Asks Nine Injured as Big Liner Crashes Near Ga Eddie Rickenbacker Seriously Hurt in Accident Feb Airlines announced shortly before noon that seven sons were killed and nine injured early today in the wreck of a New plane near here The three members of the crew were but none of the passengers killed was identified by the line knowledge of the men and the Federal grand jury today on the of numbers and conflict and left and year in Uncle Sam's Army made his first and Walter sinko on a which have formed the of this hectic period Hitler's Rise He was in Munich in 1923 when his base He was in when Trotsky was dis- from the Soviet war and banished from Russia He in Vienna when Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria was by the in Isre the Italian airmen led that Ethiopian city in in three days later after the of the Spanish civil was in Shanghai when that Chinese city was Jed by the Japanese in and he pas in the Sudeten territory of when the Germans m after Munich when the war broke out Knickerbocker in Pans During the Summer Id when Prance was was in the thick o-f te and covered the Western for International Seivice throughout those I we weeks Sims an after-dinner leaker of wide will provide the comic relief to packer's portraits of war speakers were selected by a headed by R Clyde charges of conspiracy to defraud j tery rackets in Washington doubt that they would use the United States government The Federal grand jury named Thomas McKeesport Strike Is Begun N Feb Erie office and of the Bethlehem Steel asked Gov Herbert H Lehman today to send state troops to the closed Lackawanna of sporadic minor violence Military Police Patrol Started At Indiantown i m the the dinner will be gymnasium of the Junior School President of the Chamber is w appoint the necessary com- on arrangements after the and the date approved fay the been church benefit Parish We s seat sale pe Station charge of conspiracy Tauber was charged with giving the combination of the port postoffice safe to Sinko after Tauber had been called to repair the strongbox Two hundred and fifty films in the Monongahela centering around recently had their safe combinations changed after county detectives revealed Sinko had a list of the tions and allegedly had planned to carry out systematic on the safes Greensburg Man Facing Charges Pa Feb 27 C member of a prominent Greensburg day pleaded no defense to charges of embezzlement in connection with liquidation of the moreland Building Loan ation Saul S of the State Banking who ed the alleged defalcations at proximately said the ages occurred after Nov following the last audit of the Building and Loan Association The indictment against Kurtz contained 19 counts INDIANTOWN Feb of military police was established today at N Feb 27 nearby Lebanon and plans were Leaving Monessen for induction Bethlehem Sted Cor- made for early extension of mto the Army at the Old Post Of- plant appealed to the dior authority at and ty force if necessary the Army at the Old Post Of- plant appealed to the dior authority at and Testifying in his own The settlement on which Japan this for protection today Harrisburg after the Commonwealth rested insists would give Thailand great ing mP striking workmen were The patrol was the first Am-..- 1 n n 1 i ut T i J f 111 CT COC n-F 11 i its case late Bane said territorial concessions in Indo- he prosecuted rackets defendants China The Vichy government last Leroy 624 nut Clarence Edward during his term i Saturday rejected such a Chestnut Paul of and frequently went and without meals in the prosecution of other important cases Bane and Michael J Powell and William J former ty are accused of conduct in office in the present trial Last they were quitted of embezzling funds seized in rackets raids the prosecution the defense asked for a directed dict of acquittal on grounds that the commonwealth had not rested its but Judge W Russell Carr of Fayette County denied the motion Also summoned as defense witness for Bane was George T present district attorney and successor Cummins testified that lottery cases are still pending against four persons who testified for the commonwealth at the present trial Cummins said that Roy former judge of Schuylkill who headed the original grand probe of the rackets had asked him to delay tion of the cases against the four Bane denied testimony by Anies of a former bers that he had told Haddad to make peace with on Page ment I 530 Ninth Lawrence terror about the cise of authority beyond the huge tion creates a real menace to the Feb Eastern Airlines plane 1C persons including Capt Eddie was found wrecked in the woods ol Atlanta today and seven other persons viere listed as in At- lanta hospitals with injuries but seven of the other eight aboard the including Rep William D Md were feared dead Despite the lists of injured given out by L J Eastern Airlines reported from the scene of the miles south of ten including the crew of had been killed The according to pital Eddie Rickenbacker U E Short N J P L New York City R B Atlanta J S Rosenfeldt New Orleans C M New ing shock and exposure Mrs H E shock Rickenbacker and the five to Piedmont Hospital An annistice between Indo-China 1335 Summit defense Rudolph Robert 39 E Luce Fiank 238 Indiana John 1332 Leeds Fiank John 718 Ninth Charles W Donner Guido Dematteo Knox and Alfred 1040 Morgan avenue Of the 11 men only Majors and aie volunteers the last man on the has order No 138 Wade F Draft Board printed alarming reports that announced that five and Thailand is in effect until March 7 but some Far Eastern ob- servers foresaw a showdown even before that possibly by thc week-end unless the French yield The Japanese press accused a of maneuvering to stiffen French resistance The reference was not clear as to whether Great the United States or both was meant There was talk of strengthening the Japanese cabinet because of the crisis and the that local police protection had military cantonment since the broken and that National Guard was inducted into ers service being examined at 9 a Charles H ni and their conditions had not commander pf the been determined Pickets of the Steel Workers Committee be- Police emphasized attendants appeared to have sieged the a strike i that the military police power been injured that union leaders threatened to concerns only Civil The other eight aboard the spread to Bethlehem properties hold no sold'iers for any plane throughout the tieing up work on in ment defense orders Police reports indicated that only minor acts of violence had curi ed at two plant entrances Some of the 11 p m shift had law violations less than a he explained Curfew for soldiers on pass is 1 a m They are subject to tary arrest after that time The precaution was taken as the Division turned its attention Hundreds Plan to See Company D Off to Gap 000 Chinese troops had been moved into Bui ma to fill gaps left by transfer of British troops to apore This was in line with the Japanese thesis that the British and Chinese are cooperating to foim a common war front in the Far East Shanghai said that Japanese prestige appeared to be involved in the Indo-China a factor which probably would compel Tokyo to take drastic action in order to avoid loss of There were reports that China and Britain are studying joint de- fense arrangements in the triangle and it was said that a British banking ation had frozen assets of Japanese firms in Indo-China Joins Conference Importance of ish discussions at Ankara was en- hanced today by word that Sir i ford British atj on Page men have been selected as ments in case any of the 11 are rejected by the Army at the induction station The nates Samuel Handy col- 1044 Morgan as Andrew 57 maker Ernest Paul 511 and Frank 932 Locust street order number is 175 Filling of the third quota ment brings to 22 the number of local men called for military duty under the conscription law Two both went in the first and nine in the second call last month The next quota for Monessen is 8 Formal Opening of Store Tomorrow tued to foree their way through the thc intricate task of moving Y- picket line last night and the mcn in and out of a small shields and windows of their auto- depot in two days with mobiles had been smashed Several the and most unpredictable mcn had been slightly in the i part of troop movement The Capt G E pilot L E co-pilot Clarence steward Rep William D Md C M N skirmishes A Negro picket was ar- rested for attacking Chief Sheriff William Mahoney with a knife A company statement this ing said that local authorities completed Signal for the start of the job Juan of San Salvador A of Atlanta N of New York City weie conflicting re- ports about the fate of Hansell He was first reported taken failed to afford western first of the protection to men who sought to go infantrymen who will be in to work on the third p i camp tomorrow night for a year's was arrival early today of 20 of- the wreckage alive but fleers and 192 men of the Infantry regiment from The Daily Independent's Features News R ms Several hundred sisters and children are expected to line the streets of essen tonight to give the 94 officers and men of Monessen's Company D a rousing when they march from thp State Armory to Lock to entrain for Indiantown Gap pnd a year of training with the United States Army The Armory was a scene of much activity today as the soldiers quickened their efforts to get packed and in readiness for the overnight trip The who will leave the Armory at spent most of this morning loading their equipment aboard a baggage Lieutenant John M company com- stated Lieutenant Boas said the men Will be given most of this afternoon and to spend with their j and evening nt the ilies and friends After the Armory for relatives and friends mess at Johnson's Restaurant the men were dismissed for the after- noon The company will assemble again at 8 p m with full ment for the march to Lock Four The train leaves at Led by the Monessen Volunteer Fire Department Company D will march west on Donner avenue to 12th up 12th street onto Schoonmaker avenue and continue west on Schoonmaker to the bridge After ing the bridge to Lock Four the men will the troop train at the West Monessen Pennsylvania station The to the station is limed reach the depot in timer for relatives and friends to bid boys goodbye before the train pulls oat The only ceremonies marking the departure of the man company will be an open house Draft Board to Move to Armory The MoneSsen Draft Board an- today it was moving to the State Armory tomorrow from its present quarters in the Old Eagles Building at the corner of Donner avenue and Eighth street Clarence secretary of the said the Board would cupy the officers office and the recreation center across the hall He said the new quarters would of- fer more protection for the valuable records Mr Murphy said he also under- stood that the remainder of the Armory would be taken over by the local post of the American gion Veterans of tonight at The Agnes Monessen's newest ladies apparel will observe its formal opening be- tween 7 and 9 p m tomorrow Although the which is located at 550 Donner has been open for business for several the two hours tomorrow have been aside for public in- of the remodeling and furnishings Mrs Agnes ski is the proprietor Fight Reopens on Swimming Poof Feb The court fight to prevent Negroes from using the Clairton municipal swimming pool was reported in common pleas court today as John A Clairton city asked that an injunction issued against city officials be dismissed Spaghetti supper Legion 6 Public Invited shift The mayor of not only refused to give any ance that adequate police tion would be but he admitted that 68 members of the CIO have been in as special deputy policemen Mr ward Entwisle on Pace training The Infantry gade will be in barracks before nightfall the Brigade will join it For two days trains will roll in- to the tiny station of the Company's Lebanon and Tremont branch and disgorge on Page 71 Indicted by U S in Alleged Lottery Racket Feb A Federal grand jury today ed 71 persons from 45 communities in five states on charges of ating the owners Association of described as the nation's largest lottery which paid off on the Federal treasury balance results and other number combinations Acting Dist Atty George who obtained thc ment before a grand jury sitting in special claimed the syndicate was headed by Louis wealthy resident of delphia and Miami and former Boston attorney Cohen's four brothers and two brothers-in-law were principal lank charged The 65 listed as of five from New York and each from New Jersey and were charged counts of violations and one of conspiracy in connection with distribution of millions of lottery chances throughout eastern states Postal inspectors characterized the syndicate as the nation's largest While unable to estimate total stated evidence indicated one of the ring's dozen lotteries grossed as much as a week Headquarters of the syndicate were listed as adelphia Others indicted from vania Joseph Joseph Peter F Lloyd C there was no record of him at the The Big Douglas sleeper plane was to have landed at the Atlanta at p m but after making a preliminary radio contact from north of the nothing more was heard from the ship early reports of a crash came from about 15 miles south of the airport Searching parties went out and at dawn the wreckage of the plane was found in a clump of four miles north of Jonesboro The plane was smashed TJie wreckage was scattered for 300 yards and one wing section was on Page Seriously Hurt Cunt Eddie C E Thomas W McKeesport Overt acts were listed as shipments of lottery tickets from and mailing in ing the tickets Bonds ranging from wert set for the ants
