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Beckley Sunday Register (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Beckley, West Virginia Germans pleased with polish War documents. Promise More sensational disclosures by the associated press berlins German officialdom 24 hours after unleashing a diplomatic Blit Skrlen of to documents about alleged United states pre War diplomacy leaned Back tonight in Gleeful contemplation and promised even More explosive sensations Quot nobody need try to prove an Alibi to the effect he was misunderstood or that he was misquoted by polish envoys a said one official speaking of the documents to come. Spokesmen would not commit themselves As to precisely what it would be named in the forthcoming release although d that the German government is in Possession of direct icat Lons by the United states ambassador to Paris William i. I Uii itt. Yesterdays White Book made up of 16 documents said to have been taken As spoils of Conquest from the vaults of the Warsaw foreign office purported to quote bullitt and u. S. Ambassador to London Joseph p. Kennedy at length the quotes being attributed to diplomatic reports of polish diplomats in Washington Paris and London made in late 1938 and the first half of 1939. They ascribed to bullitt the conviction that America would Quot finish the War on the Side of the allies to Kennedy a Promise to put pressure on the British to lend Money to Poland. President Roosevelt by indirection was declared to have fostered an american War psychosis in order to help the allies in the coming conflict and to have charged bullitt to Stop any further British attempts at appeasement. These reports were wholly denied by official Washington nevertheless German officials expressed themselves today As completely satisfied with the effects of their Surprise move and let everyone know that compared to the Vintage material that is in the offing yesterdays White Book was Quot cheap they also let German newspapers have a Complete digest of editorial comment and news reports from the United states with the result that the afternoon press blazed with american reaction to the documents. The achtau Sogabe. For instance had the ban Nerline Quot America tremendous impression of w a guilt bullitt s name was featured by More than one paper. Sic just when the Quot Vintage stuff is coming was not disclosed. Officials shrugged their shoulders when asked and said Quot it takes time to sift and translate it was obvious however that they had the next Batch of diplomatic ammunition ready for firing. The officials invited foreign correspondents to inspect the Quot original documents found in Warsaw. Those reports attributed to count Jerzy Potocki polish ambassador to Washington were w Ritten on a rather heavy paper watermarked with the Monogram Quot met a under which were the words in French Quot papier a Lettress letter or Rostand under that the word reports attributed to the polish missions in London and Paris were on paper of american or British make. Undag Hedger member of the associated press and volume 59�?no. 238. Beckley West Virginia sunday morning Marcu 31. 1910. Price 5 cents disastrous floods threaten states Center says voters will Settle Trade Battle Mcnary predicts nation will defeat those who voted for new Deal s treaty policies both associated press Washington a senator Mcnary Republican Leader contended tonight that the people would override the Senate in november on the reciprocal Trade by a 44 to 41 vote yesterday the chamber refused to require Senate ratification of Trade agreements. Republicans voted solidly for the proposal which was offered As an amendment to House approved legislation continuing the Trade program for three years. Quot the Battle will continue in the various states a Mcnary declared Quot and i believe that in november the electorate will approve the attitude of the republicans and of those democrats in Congress who supported the ratification proposal. A while the first skirmish ended in defeat the Issue will mean Victory in the chamber will consider monday a proposal by senator Mccarran . To exempt from the program the commodities covered by import excise taxes Oil Coal lumber and Copper. Wang setup a government by Jap decree sheriffs plan convention plans for the annual state convention of West Virginia sheriffs association to be held in Williamson May 20, 21 and 22 were made by the executive committee shown above in session at Fayetteville a few Days ago. Shown front Row left to right sheriff Fred l. Ray Mcdowell sheriff j. M. Slack Kanawha president of the association sheriff Dell White Boone. Back Row l. H. Hardin Mcdowell sheriff j. R. Aliff Fayette Deputy sheriff Hall Boone sheriff w. E. Burchett Mingo. Photo by sheriff j. R. Aliff. Puppet regime promises open door policy for All who recognize japanese sovereignty by the associated press banking a Wang Ching Wei and his japanese sponsors made a bid for International recognition of his regime inaugurated Here today by declaring respect for the rights and interests of Quot Friendly nations and an intention to re open China a Quot open door to the peaceful economic activity of Powers who Quot conform to the new situation in East in his declaration announcing formal establishment of the japanese backed regime with himself As provisional president and Premier. Wang said his Aims included International cooperation against communism and promotion of foreign Friendship. He declared his banking regime to be the Only Legal government of China and warned foreign Powers against interfering with China a internal affairs by continuing Active support of Chiang Kai Shekus chunking government which Wang termed Quot a regional refugee Secretary of state Cordell Hull in Washington today said that the United states continues to recognize the chinese nationalist government at chunking rather than the japanese sponsored regime get up at banking the Hull statement added that the establishment of the banking regime Quot has the appearance of a further step in a program of one country by armed foce to impose its will upon a neighbouring country a to test More census takers shortage of workers causes repetition of testing tomorrow examinations will be Given in the circuit courtroom of the courthouse at 9 a. In. Tomorrow for people who wish to qualify As census enumerators. These tests will be Given to a second group of people who received notices that they Are eligible to try out for the positions. There Are several places yet to be filled. Tests were Given to 42 people last week yet there were 46 positions As census takers to be filled. Enumerators will begin their work this week taking the population farm and housing censuses. The farm census must be completed in 30 Days the others in two weeks. Each enumerator will have Between 1.200 and 2.500 people to reach. The number of people in a Given area Are based on the 1930 census. Approximately 70 people were Given the privilege of taking last weeks test. Only 42 of them were in the courtroom by the time the quizzes were Given. Midget stars by tile associated press Kansas ttys Jay Mccreary a gum chewing Blond midget in a Forest of physical giants poured in 13 Points tonight As Indiana University Defeated the University of Kansas 60 to 42, for the basketball title of the National collegiate athletic association. Or on Jawed Man Falls 56 feet by the associated press Minneapolis the trouper a Tenet the show must go on resulted in serious injuries to Costica Flores que Quot the Man with the Iron jaw who fell 56 feet at the Northwest sportsmen s show at the municipal auditorium. Costica had Beer appearing in an Aerial act. Tuesday he had several Teeth extracted. Yesterday he insisted on going through with his act. He finished by hanging by his jaws. But his jaws we Cre sore and lacked their former powerful grip. He missed a safety rope and dropped to the top of an exhibition Booth while spectators gaped. He was taken to a Hospital. Silas Richmond is a candidate Beckley Man files As candidate for House of delegates Silas e. Richmond a resident of Beckley for the past eight years is a candidate for democratic nomination for the House of delegates. He is employed by the crab Orchard improvement company at Eccles. A native of Raleigh county he was born at Crown son of Charles l. Richmon Richmond attended the Public schools and later took commercial and technical courses in Charleston and Richmond. He we As formerly with the c. A o. Railroad in the transportation and accounting departments. Demos overrun Churchill warns neutrals banquet Hall at Pineville have too More than expected judge Bailey says democrats did t cause county a debt by a Prister staff writer Pineville in what was described by Many As the biggest political meeting Ever held in Wyoming county the democrats officially a kicked the lid off the 1940 campaigns last night at the Community building. Well Over 300 people attended Hie banquet. Plans had been made to accommodate Only about 200. About too of those present listened to the music and speeches and then we Ere taken to the cow shed on Jesse Mountain for dinner. The Pineville ladies Aid served 200 at the Community Cabin. The democratic gathering unanimously endorsed the new Deal and what it has stood for to Date. R. D. Bailey principal speaker besides endorsing the new Deal repudiated propaganda Given by republicans at a recent rally to the effect that the democratic party is responsible for an enormous increase in the county courts debt. Judson Davis president of the Young democratic club was master of ceremonies and head of the arrangements committee responsible for the banquet. He introduced All democratic candidates present. Music was furnished by Frankie Thornton and his orchestra. Of More intense warfare a a by the associated press London a pugnacious Winston Churchill Britain s first lord of the admiralty coupled a new warning of intensification of the War tonight with the significant hint that Britain scarcely could be expected in the future a to take As a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give All advantages to the the belligerent speech broadcast to America and elsewhere recalled the first lords declaration of january 20 in which he called on Europe a anxious neutrals to join the allies in a United action to bring the War against Germany to a speedy end. It followed closely too upon continuing demands from various quarters in great Britain for a More vigorous prosecution of the War and the disclosure that the Allied navies Are determined to tighten their stranglehold on Germany by Way laying scandinavian Ore ships and by greater activity in the Pacific against shipments of raw materials from Mexico to Vladivostok from a there they can find their Way to Germany. Some quarters saw a distinct relation Between Churchill s assertion that Quot time has been on our Side hut it is a changeable ally Quot with the Treasury a annual statement showing a deficit of $3,071,720.000 for the first fiscal year of the War. Britain s expenditures for the fiscal year ending tonight totalled $7,267,392,000 against revenues of $4,196,852,000 despite a 35-percent income tax and other heavy levies. Weston roads Are blocked by the water West Fork to Cov a Clarksburg Fairmont Highway even if there s no More rain doctor Walker gets credit for psychic cure but he a a ghost by the associated press Haverford. Pay a self styled minister denied charges that he professed to he a doctor or received fees for Quot spirit treatments of wealthy women patients at seances in his mansion in this fashionable Philadelphia suburb. Pollee Captain William Shaeffer said Stocky red haired Emerson Gilbert 45 told of three persons receiving treatment in his Home but denied that he gave the treatments. Quot or. Walker was responsible for whatever Healing was Gilbert was quoted by Shaeffer. But state investigators said they Learned Quot or. Walker Quot was a ghostly Luminous figure which appeared through a window and purported to be the spirit of a physician dead 300 years. Gilbert was released in $1,500 Hail to appear monday for a hearing on charges by state agencies of practising Medicine without a License. Hinton gets 3rd award for safely went through three years without Highway fatality a. A by resister staff writer Hinton for the third successive year the City of Hinton has been awarded Tho safety certificate of the National safety Council for Freedom from fatal traffic accidents. Hinton is one of six West Virginia cities of 5,000 to 10,000 population to receive the award for 1939, the others being Welch Princeton Richwood Williamson and Grafton. Hinton so record of More than three years without a Highway fatality was broken on january la 1940, by the death of g. C. Maddy at Bellepoint. March going out like that lion weather gives Little Hope for display of Spring finery poor weather conditions w Erc expected again today after people who were cheated of Sunshine on easter sunday watched yesterday for a let up in the Early Spring downpour of rain. The ones who hoped to garb themselves in new Spring attire saw Little Relief from the rain last night. A total of eighty seven hundredths of an Inch of rain had continued on Page eight Rich aged Hubby taken away Shell try again by the associated Presa los Angeles Superior judge Clarence m. Hanson annulled the marriage of a woman of 53 to an 83-year old wealthy Hollyw Ood property Owmer ruling the bridegroom was of unsound mind and commenting Quot history Back to the dark Ages is Replete w Ith instances of Young women marrying men who had already reached the Banks of the River the annulment was asked by b. C. Beers son of the bridegroom Frank Boers. The Bride mrs. Brownie Parker Beers testified she had a no mercenary reason whatever for marrying Beers. Quot my Irish is up a mrs. Beers said after the hearing. Quot in a going to marry him in Broad Daylight and in California so it can to be song convention Here april u wardens buy lot in Lilly Heights Sprague family made homeless neighbors smash window to save Small daughter singers from Southern four real estate trans Section will meet All Day sacred surgers from Southern weft Virginia will gather Here sunday april 14. For the monthly meeting of the Southern District singing convention announced Ray l. Martin Secretary yesterday. Singers from throughout the Southern portion of the state Are invited to participate in the program w hich continues All Day at the memorial building beginning at to a. In. The convention. Martin said is made up principally of singers in Raleigh. Wyoming. Mercer and Summers counties but singers from other counties Are welcomed. The Day we ill be spent in the singing of sacred songs unaccompanied by duets qua tettes soloists choruses and the congregational. J. L. Hamlet of Pemberton i president of the organization. Fers recorded at clerks office or. And mrs. Paul Warden bought a lot in Lilly Heights addition of Beckley from or. And mrs. Bailey Mills said a deed on record in the county clerks office yesterday. Other transfers Kyle Harper special commissioner needed approximately 54 acres at crab Orchard to w. S. Carter. Harry f Payne trustee sold two lots in the j. W. Harper addition of Beckley to the Beckley service loan and investment company. Bud Jones or. And mrs. Ash Mankin deeded to Ernest and Minnie wills five lots on state route 65 in Marsh Fork District. Three year old Betty Saunders was Safe today though homeless with the other nine members of her family after neighbors rescued her through a window a few minutes before the mining family a Home at Sprague collapsed in flames Early yesterday morning. Smoke from the Kitchen of the four room House aroused mrs. Clyde Saunders a few minutes Tyor Midnight and less than an hour before Lier husband operator of a Coal cutting machine returned from the mine. Seven of the Saunders eight children were taken to safety by the Mother and an older son. Little Betty was rescued after neighbors smashed a window leading to the room in which she slept. The Saunders said they had no insurance to cover the Complete loss of their household goods and clothes. A company spokesman said the House was covered with insurance. He said the dwelling was too far away from a fire plug to fight the flames with fire Hose and that the fire had gotten too much headway to summon the Beckley fire departments Utility equipment. Plumbers will meet april 7 9 by the Areola Ted press Weston a one of the worst floods in Weston a history seemed imminent late tonight after torrential Rains sent the West Fork River and its tributaries in Lewis county out of their Banks. Five feet of water tonight covered s. Route it at 11aleville, necessitating a Detour by Way of Berlin and Jesse a Bun to Jane Lew. At id p. In. The West Fork also covered the Jackson a Mill Road Al Butchersville to a depth of four feet and the Rise continued. The Wes ton Buckhannon Road was closed at Edmiston and water lie Gan to Block routes 33 and lit interfering with Weston Glenville traffic. Except to hinder traffic Terr floods had caused no great damage so Fai. The West Fork at Weston was rising at the rate of a foot an hour late tonight. At two or three Points lie twee n Clarksburg and Weston water was endangering Street car service. At Jane Lew lost Creek and other towns streams Rose to near flood level and at Clarksburg the stage of the West Fork was slight two feet below flood stage. The Waler Board there predicted flood conditions Early sunday. Even if no More rain should fall the West Fork was expected logo Over route id at White Rock within a few hours and May inundate the Highway Between Clarksburg and Fairmont officials said. Weather generally fair and Wanner sunday monday fair. By the associated press Bluefield master plumbers �?250 of them Are expected to attend the annual convention of their state association Here april 7-9. Half a dozen talks on Trade matters Are planned. Officers Are president Guy Hawkins of Fairmont Secretary John Matthews of Charleston and m. C. Dingess. Of Williamson vice president. By the associated pres Pittsburgh swollen by a driving All Day rain. Western Pennsylvania streams Rose rapidly tonight pouring Over their Bank at some pots and halting traffic on several Low lying highways. At Johnstown Stoney Creek swirled Over its Banks at one spot and flooded part of the Bethlehem steel company Scambria Plant. Company officials however said they did not expect the water to get High enough to Stop operations. Water poured into basements of some Johnstown business houses and merchants were hurriedly removing merchandise. A Crew of w. P. A. Workers stood ready with pumpers As the Stream reached 14.3 feet at 9 p. In. Flood Stag for Stoney Creek is 17 feet. Southern producers lose fight for Low freight rate a by the associated press Washington shippers of bituminous Coal from Southern West Virginia Virginia and Eastern Kentucky to Hampton roads va., for transshipment outside the Virginia capes were refused reduced Railroad rates today by the interstate Commerce commission. The commission s 6-5 decision was handed Down in a Case brought by the property owners committee representing producers and shippers of bituminous Coal from the new River Pocahontas tug River Kanawha Kenova Thacker and Kentucky District Fields. Quot we Are of the View that the assailed rates Are not shown to be higher than warranted by both the Cost and the value of the service and that this record does not warrant a finding condemning these rates As unreasonable Quot the commission said. Defendants in the procedure were the Chesapeake and Ohio railway the Norfolk and Western railway and the virginian railway. The complaints testified they could not meet the increased Competition of fuel Oil and other Coal substitutes unless the i. C. C. Ordered a reduction of about 50 cents a ton in freight rates to Hampton roads. At Charleston and Huntington we. Va., Coal operators expressed disappointment at the decision and one said it might he appealed to the courts. L. E. Woods president of the Crystal Block Coal company and a member of the property owners committee representing producers and shippers in the new River Pocahontas tug River Logan and Kanawha Fields said the existing rate of $2.62 a ton Quot was not justified and is All out of proportion to the distance of the James d. Francis president of the Island Creek Coal company and one of the committee which sought the lower rate said at Huntington tonight that a conference probably will be held in new York next week to determine whether Coal operators will Appeal the ruling. Complaints contend High freight rates were an important a a a a cause if not the principal one. For the decrease in the movement of bituminous Coal into new England. The defendants argued on the other hand that the decline was not due to freight rates but to the increasing demand for Coal substitutes the . Majority said of this Quot while the present level of freight rates probably has the effect of retarding the movement and Sale of bituminous Coal to an important extent it is Clear that the use of improved techniques in fuel consumption have resulted in savings per unit of product and also that the substitution of other fuels which require less labor and attention to produce a Given Quantity of heat have also contributed greatly to reduce the demand for bituminous i a

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