Olean Times Herald (Newspaper) - December 12, 1939, Olean, New York THE WEATHER Cloudy and warmer followed by rain and snow Wednesday rain and Sun Sun Rises TIME ERALD Edited for Southwestern New York ind Northwestern Pennsylvania GOOD The farm house of live have all the comforts of a dty and then Read how te Marian article on Pift VOL. No. 292 Pally us Second N. Y. TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1939 Daily Week PRICE THREE CENTS League Of Nations Ignored By Red Army Batters At Finnish Defenses British Sub Crew Spares Bremen From Destruction Douglas Greatest Of Silent Films Passes Red Bombs Shatter Building Fired by a blast from the a bile stands near the heap of shattered once a where Russian bombers made a direct hit during air raid on Rules Of Warfare Would Have Been Violated If Liner Had Been By HECEL S. United SUIT ty in a statement today said the German ury liner en route from the Russian Arctic coast toward had been by a British submarine because it would have been contrary to the rules of warfare to torpedo the ship without The brief and in- definite communique said that the Bremen was sighted by the British submarine en route to a home which reliable sources said meant that the big liner was making its way from Murmansk on the Arctic coast of Russia toward a German port. The submarine could have fired a torpedo since the Bremen was in according to the but it refrained from doing so because it haa no opportunity to give the The Bremen is a speedy ger ship and probably could make twice as many knots as a sub- so that tHe underwater craft could easily The fast do fifteen Knots on the The Bremen probably can do twice as many The route followed by the men from Murmansk would be the same as that which the American City of Flint attempted to follow under command of a German prize crew which took the freighter to then came down the coast Norwegian in an effort to go through the and into German The Oty ol Flint was seized and liberated under international law by the Norwegians when the German prize crew halted in waters Little had been of the Bi since she rived at at tne end of a thrilling dash from New York through the British blockade at the start of the Whether the Germans decided to risk the trip from tc Germany because it was no longer advisable to re- main in the Russian port or for other reasons had not been Robin Hood And Don Juan Of Old Time Movies Dies At Santa Child Succumbs After Eating Laxative Pills SCHENECTADY old Michael Franklin found a bottle of laxative in bis home and began eating Ha mother was occupied with her The child last night hours after nis mother found the almost amply Michael was the Coroner E J. ad had eaten ninety a giam The extreme dosc he Bj C. t 1' Hollywood Correspondent SANTA Douglas greatest of ull the silent screen died suddenly early today in his fog shrouded Santa Monica He was He succumbed so unexpectedly that his beautiful the er Lady Sylvia was Mary his former was notified and burst into His Douglas Jr. who is carrying on in tures where his father left rushed to the cottage on the shore of the Pacific So did brother Yesterday the Hood and the Don Juan of the old time movies and the man who made and balcony ing into a profession became was about ten o'clock in the reported bus Mrs. Robert His wife called his who did not believe his condition was All said wa- that Doug needed a few rest night we phoned home and his wife said he was resting quietly and very He seemed as gay and as happy as There was a nurse in as a precautionary and we went to sleep at one A. came the news of his It was so den we were We could hardly think death came as a shock to all which had regarded him as a man who never grew who remained as and as muscled as he was the day he went to work for D. W. fith in 1P14 at the then dazzling salary of a Only a few hours before he he discussed with his plans to start ducing a motion picture at ed Artists where he con- to maintain though he had seldom used them the last He had hoped to produce the adventure picture to end all ad- with his son and namesake in the stellar role and with himself perhaps taking a minor part. was to have been called The reported Clarence his we were almost ready to Now that is all over and I cnn be for is that died as he would have liked just lamed en or in his bed and Kidnapped Boy Found In Attic Found bound and gagged in a de- attic after being Irwm was returned to his Mr. and Fred Mingle of Port Tex. Dr. W. C. has been arrested in investigation of the None of ransom asked was Mary Pickford Secludes Herself At Chicago CHICAGO Mary Pickford secluded herself in her hotel suite today when notified of the death of Douglas her second She arrived from Hollywood to visit her third Charles orchestra leader now playing at a Lake Shore Drug Store Empire Founder Is Dead CHICAGO R. who started nis career as an apprentice for a Mi- lage pharmacist and founded a drug store died late last mchl at his He had been ill for nearly a. KOTH months IP lighten his hr resigned AS dent of the Walgreen and was succeeded by Jus Jr He remained a clave as of Ibo rhanse did not Jus Dunne Ihe past week condition gi became Indians Still Insist On Return Of Niagara Falls Mail Boat Esthonia Seized By Germans FINL A re- Jhe o an mail boat named inc since been by German and taken to a German port. was mentioned the V. said WASHINGTON There is cw iroing on in upper York State and the peace pipe v on t be passed until the Rives back Niagara Falls to the Indians There arc no wat plays war paint or the ing of torn loms on the i tion of the Seneca Nation of In- dians To Europeans still believe the Indian west of the nies il would he a disappointing en route to Sweden But it's warfare Indian lo be on with to a agency And the among the ing are being en- gaged in no less vigorously than of colonial Their the Indians are not is A bic The Indians little property But there one dear M it be to that is dearer to the hearts of the Indians Niagara The Seneca have made claim to the Falls in a tition to the Federal Power Com- mission that the license of the Niagara Falls Company 3o operate n plant be either to protect the claim or cancelled Today the and the of York formal the Commission opposing any proposal Jo the Falls back to the that was in the of a to Jol of lands waters fry the company and that the has no to determine such a The State's statement by John Ji and confined to denials of Indian Fighting Renewed Along Wide Finns Hold Ground Moscow Government Fails To Reply To Four Hour Ultimatum For Soviets To Agree To Withdraw Troops And To Arrange For Peace By JOE 3IOBBIS Press Foreign Editor Sonet Russia today ignored oJ Nations efforts to end the Red army invasion of Finland and continued to batter at Finnish defenses along a front In the far dispatches trickling through Norway there was a renewal of fighting in which Finnish troops appeared to be holding their ground against forced Soviet But on the middle along the eastern frontier of the Red army claimed slow but steady Temperatures Fall Throughout State cold weather accompanied by snow was ed in sections of New York Stale The Weather Bureau fore- cast further declines in ture State police and automobile clubs advised motorists to ceed with caution on ice-covered highways Three inches of snow in ern slowed vehicles on route downstate with The mercury dropped to seven degrees at Utica and Fort Plain in the Mohawk Valley nine de- grees at Albany and Syracuse twelve at Bear Mountain and fourteen at Rochester and teen at Snow in Albany and other state areas measured one Company Unable To Meet Wage Demands N. R. Rumbles of vice president of Remington Inc. said today it was to meet the demands of office equipment workers for an increase in Rumbles said the earnings of the company for the past six months had been thirty per cent lower than for the same period last He added that ton Rand has expended in excess of 000 for improvement of the Tonawanda The local Equipment Union will hold a meeting this week to vote on the question of Striking if pay increase demands are not met. Oiled Silk Products Factory Is Destroyed mately 100 men faced the maa holidays today without em- ployment when fire gutted a tory at near here was estimated The plant manufactured silk products The flames visible for miles as drums of thinner and other highly in- flammable liquids exploded Firemen from communities were aided by a favorable wiad which helped save the adjoining building in which bales of sUk were Four men were working in a room when a spark from tric fan used dry lacquer started the Around Brief News Bits From All Corners Radio And Telegraph TtiG World The United MINE VICTIM The Swedish steamship Tome struck a mmj Swedish waters south of bo today The ship sank but bow remained aboie The crew was FREE PASSAGE must have a free passage from the Mediterranean to insure its independence and in which its increasing population and Premier Bonito Mussolini sufficient to regarded .is a for the Fore zn a sanio s SUGGESTION OPPOSED WASHINGTON Chairman Howard W. day termed a suggestion of National Labor Relations Board Counsel Charles Fahy that the House Committee call Board Chairman J. Warren Madden and Member Edwin S. Smith to give an im- mediate answer to criticisms by their Building Construction In State On Increase ALBANY The State Labor Department revealed today 154 budding plans the highest number for the The plans contemplated investments of Eighty-four plans for new in- with estimated investments of cantile new tory buildings and public bly buildings were prominent among the Albany County plans for construction estimated to cost 570.200: 5C6.500. BLOOMING ROSE Mrs. Robert Miter found a nose sr. her The temperature was about above streets and highways a thin coaling of ice. TALK CHICAGO Rep Hamilton Fish Jr. N led the fighi against repeal c-f ihe Arms 05 5upportrrs here to an- his candidacy for 1S30 Republican in an address the Chicago Athletic Club He arrived today from where he cd a speaking tour of the West Coast RULES ON DECISION ALBANY Attorney General John J. Bennett said today a United States Supreme Court decision evidence obtained by tapping telephone wires had no effect on a New York Constitutional Provision permitting use of such evidence in state told the United Press that the Supreme Court decision based on provision of the Federal Communications and Act prevents wire ping and use of evidence by Tapping that plies to Federal not to State Current Milk Prices Termed Satisfactory re- port today tensed current and re- that production running of last year weather No- ard sent production two cent over tie the report No- vember estimated at be for the month 1PCC. MtBB tailed Press Staff Warnings were received by foreign quarters today that Helsinki might be subjected to new airplane ments on the first day of good The warnings came from non- Finnish It was assumed that they were given in order that foreign citizens might have an opportunity to leave the Finnish and Swedish mine swept the waters of the Gulf of between Finland and watching for sian mine It was believed that mine layers might nave or penetrated the mine field around the Aaland It was announced that the had sent a special envoy to the United States in tion with financial matters FINNS QUIT TOWN An army communique admitted that the Finns had evacuated on the north shore of Lake and in the northern part of the There was fierce righting at the communique It was indicated that the al from was a It was asserted that the Finns seven Russian tanks in the eastern part of the Karelian and the communique added that repeated terant to cross the Vuoksi Lake system at the important head of had At- tacks elsewhere in the and at farther were repulsed it was said In the Ilomantsi miles north of Lake the Finns three sian by at- tacks at was The communique expressed be- lief that the Finnish at Koivisto on the Gulf of Finland had damaged urits of the Russian a hour gun duel heavy SMITH DANCKS YORK t holding Western Front sector in the south of have An German raiding patrols and heavy French military dispatches re- ported British losses v. ere not but the French that the German of Germany's Export Trade Reported Almost Stopped neutral were reluctant transport German exerts Because of neutral that s the its To this t is that ind ships protests of stopped 50 far haie cleared addition the much more speed than haie 45 en- for contraband the soods on v. to This has possible be- The first fv it is to detect of German origin hard to ft right inters Use and one of the selected a dignified old a rows from thr The gentleman turned out 1" be Alfred K. former and former candidate lor LONDON Chancellor of Exchequer Sir John Simon an- in the of Com- mons today that a financial agreement had been reached with including a de- to that the export hid successful si German been 01 er to a court Biat the harden a of if the export were calculated to opinion against w possible peace Bj FRANK SAVE tinted Staff Russia failed tonight to reply to a League of Nations message which had given the Moscow government twenty four hours to agree to withdrawal of the Red army from land and to undertake ful negotiation of con- The twenty-four hour period ended at S P. ESTl on the basis of the time that gue message was sent to Upon expiration of the deadline no reply had been A British delegation man that if a reply by Geneva P. it would be as fulfilling the ments of the League Reports circulated that quit the Should the Russian reply ar- rive during the there stall would be ample time to adjust tnu it was Although opinion was believed veering toward favoring expulsion of enough position formed a serious obstacle to unanimous The Chinese delegation opposed ex- Chinese are in a difficult a spokesman told the United vote against shall be ungrateful to the nation which helped If against the would say we are with the Some delegates claimed that German sources agitating for expulsion u e n t i y. these said they opposed such action if on grounds tnat Germany expects to profit by Russia's The question 01 expulsion was no means settled The in of Finnish of which delegate is the circumstances of the dispute at the session The committee drafted a report was sub- tj it. but decided to a second in Russia and between the second it was would useful to the assembly in event the dis- advances further into of thr and Gerard Swope Becomes Head NEW YORK Gerard t of the of the New York H h rates of the pound and franc the T to thing that ship There a to be- that rf Gei -an throws might a la Nathan S U S from cm 33 will without pav Hf active i from a
