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Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Bluefield, West Virginia Did you know that a West Virginia a Coal mines were worked with pick shovel and wheelbarrow at first but Are now equipped with the most modern and labor saving electric machines forecast West Virginia generally fair and Wanner sunday. Monday fair. Volume Xvi. No. 63.blueficld, w. Va., sunday morning March 31, 1940. Price five cents f nazi officials Promise More a revelations Berlin basks in Gleeful contemplation of More exposures a soon officials Challenge attempts to Alibi spokesman decline to state precisely what statesmen will be named in forthcoming release hint More bullitt quotes by Louis p. Lochner Berlin March 30 up a German officialdom 24 hours after unleashing a diplomatic Blitzkrieg of sixteen documents about alleged United states pre War diplomacy leaned Back tonight in Gleeful contemplation and promised even More explosive sensations a 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 statesmen would be named in the forthcoming release although one hinted that the German government is in Possession of direct communications by the United states ambassador to Paris William c. Bullitt. Yesterdays White Book made up of sixteen 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. Envoy Calls Belll tto a convictions they ascribed to bullitt the conviction that America would a a 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 Gmo jew Rte Mihir we t these reports wears wholly need 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 a cheap release to frees 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 Nash Taus Gabe for instance had the ban Nerline Quot America tremendous impression of War guilt bullitts name was featured by More than one paper. Just when the a Vintage stuff is coming was not disclosed. Officials shrugged their shoulders when asked and said a it take 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 a original documents found in Warsaw. Those reports attributed to count Jerzy Potocki. Polish ambassador to Washington were written on a rather heavy paper watermarked with the Monogram a a map a under which were the words in French a paper a Lettreas letter or Rostand under that the word reports attributed to the polish missions in nazi official a see fag s streams Rise in Central Western sections of state by the associated fress heavy All Day Rains sent streams rising rapidly in Central and Western West Virginia yesterday saturday blocking highways and gorging at least the West Fork River to flood stage. The West Fork and its tributaries in Lewis county were out of Banks and roads in places were four and five feet under water with further rises expected. One of the worst floods in Wea tones history seemed imminent. At Clarksburg the West Fork Rose to within two feet of flood Point and the water Board said a Rise of a foot an hour would bring the River to flood there Early on sunday. Jane Lew lost Creek and Owr towns in Central West Virginia saw streams Rise toward the overflow Mark. U. S. Route 10 at a Leville was five feet under water and traffic was detoured. The Jackson a Mill Road at butchers Lyle was covered late in the night to a depth of four feet. Weston Buckhannon Road was closed at Edmiston. Route 14 at Reedy Roane county was closed As were other highways in the area. At Charleston the state Road commission reported four primary roads blocked in five counties and Bald the rapid Rise of streams would Block other routes before Dawn. Count Jerzy Potocki polish ambassador at Washington is pictured at front door of his embassy shortly after publication of German White Book charging u. 8. Officials fostered the european War. The nazi papers quoted diplomatic documents allegedly written by Potocki in which anti German sentiments were said to have been voiced by William bullitt u. S. Ambassador to France. Suite primary impression is gleaned from recent gop meet in capital unlikely any others will file belief by Max Fullerton Charleston w. Va., March 30. Up a an impression gleaned from the Thomas e. Dewey meeting in Charleston is that the new yorkers name will not be in the West Virginia Republican preferential primary in which Case it is unlikely any others will file. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Charles p. Sisson who talked to West Virginia party leaders in ther the Young Manhattan District attorney will Send in a certificate of candidacy. Sissons Only comment was a decision had not been made. Among the 250 persons who attended the dinner there were Many who expressed the belief that wishes of party leaders would be carried out and the state would Send an entirely uninstructed delegation to the Philadelphia convention in june. There was a hint the Dewey managers might make up their minds about West Virginia after the Wisconsin primary next tuesday. If Dewey does filed before the april 14 deadline it is entirely possible that senator Robert a. Taft of Ohio will so and make a contest of it. National committeeman Walter Dewey May skip see Page x recognition of regime sought decries Edos sen. Johnson Colorado says silence has torpedoed other candidates Points democrats in state of confusion declared president must accept responsibility for disaster if he Abandons the scuttled democratic ship at the eleventh hour by William b. Ardery Washington March 30 up a senator Johnson d., col declared tonight that president Roosevelt while keeping silent on the third term Issue had a Sharp owned and torpedoed other potential presidential candidates until the democratic party was Quot floundering in the coloradans who is supporting senator Wheeler d., Mon of Montana for the democratic nomination added in a statement a if the president intends to go through with it and accept the nomination no one can Well complain because smart politics Are played in that cold blooded Way but if at the eleventh hour he should abandon the scuttled democratic ship he must accept the responsibility for the disaster which is so obviously and relentlessly bearing Down upon Johnson said that the president a is certain to be nominated for a third term unless he positively refuses to accept the the a practical hard boiled politicians a he added a want the president to run for the simple reason that he can Wang Ching Wel and Jap sponsors declare respect for rights of Friendly nations intend reopen a door banking March 30, pm Wang Ching Wei and his japanese sponsors made a bid for International recognition of his regime inaugurated nere today by declaring respect for the right and interests erf a a Friendly nations and an intention to re open China so a 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 s internal affairs by continuing Active support of Chiang Kai Shekus chunking government which Wang termed a a re Floral refugee Secretary of state Cordell Hull in Washington today said that the United states continues to recognize the chinese nationalist a everment at chunking rather than the japanese sponsored regime set up at banking. The Hull statement added that the establishment of the banking regime a has the appearance of a further step in a program of one country by armed Force to impose its will upon a neighbouring country the japanese government echoed Wang a declaration with a statement that a Japan desires to cooperate with third Powers in China and share with them the benefits of International the Tokyo statement warned however to a so Long As China a remaining pro communist. Anti japanese forces fail to awaken from their illusory dreams Japan will not Lay Down her arms favors third term during the Day another Westerner senator Schwartz d., Wyo declared he favored a third term for the president. Schwartz previously silent on the third term Issue told reporters that a in View of conditions throughout the world i think it highly advisable that the president remain at the the Wyoming senator made a in his belief however that re were other candidates fitted for the presidency who could be called on if or. Roosevelt refused to run again. In Boston meanwhile former governor James m. Curley one of or. Roosevelt a earliest supporters in Massachusetts declared his support for the presidential candidacy of James a. Farley. Curley asserted that Farley More than any other individual enjoyed the Confidence of democrats. Score Dewey the round of political speech making this week end included a declaration by senator Lucas d., 111.that Thomas e. Dewey has become a the number one rabble rouser of the speaking before a Philadelphia Young democrats meeting Lucas recall Dewey a recent charge that the administration had demonstrated a fundamental Lack of integrity and a cynical disregard for principles of common honesty. The senator added a the utterances constitute the most Brazen piece of effrontery and Campaign buffoonery that Ever fell from the ups of a Man who is being considered seriously As a candidate for president. A a a this peddle of political Poison indirectly challenged the honesty and integrity of the president of the United states. A a a a you see the sorry spectacle of Tom Dewey the Glamour boy from new York City becoming the number one rabble rouser of the Dewey meanwhile was campaigning in Wisconsin for that s t a the a s presidential preference primary next tuesday. He arranged nine train stops in a Rush Day of speech making. Dewey is opposed in the Republican primary by senator Vandenberg <r., Mich. Another contender for the Republican nomination. Senator Taft it re a Ohio told a Newport news. Va., audience that a it is perfectly obvious that the president does not desire to reduce Taft argued that As Leader of the democratic party or. Roosevelt has control of Congress. A if the deficit for next year is As big As the deficit this year a he added a it is because the president sire that deficit. Representative Martin r Mas the House minority Leader declared at Hartford conn., that the republicans a can win the 1940 War spreads to Waters of far last s trans siberian Railroad said to bring a boats to Pacific from Germany naval bases u. S. A Jap ones ship routes conflict in the Pacific Waters of the far East threatens As British strike a blow at German Supply lines there with seizure of Copper Laden soviet ship. Extension of blockade to cover ships routes from u. 8., charted on map May bring retaliation sinking from Nasi a boats reported based South of Vladivostok. Speak upstate Dawson urges steady improvement and development of Trade routes the states secondary roads fog delays Ocean liners and planes new York March 30. Pic an a Day fog. Which even rain could not Wash away delayed Ocean liners and forced cancellation of flights from and to la Guardia Field today. The italian liner Conte Sav Oia. With 337 passengers pulled away from her pier 90 minutes late and was believed anchored in the Bay. The incoming Panama liner Cristobal anchored All Day near the Entrance to Ambrose Channel with 390 passengers. Visibility was 200 Yards at quarantine and a Quarter mile at Sandy Hook. A total of 143 flights today and 202 for two Days were cancelled at la Guardia Field. Webster Springs w. Va., March 30 pm Republican aspirants for the gubernatorial and senatorial nominations brought their campaigns to Webster county tonight. Mayor Boone Dawson of Charleston campaigning for the governorship told a party rally that a one thing which can and must be done by the republicans who Are elected this year is the steady improvement and development of a Trade routes of this state the secondary he shared the speakers platform with state senator Thomas Sweeney of Wheeling who is seeking the u. 8. Senatorial nomination. Sweeney urged the voters to help inject a Young blood into the party which could carry it revitalized into the general ejection. Dawson is a prepared text declared that in the state there Are 29,000 Miles of secondary roads a six Hundred and sixty one Miles have been improved a he added. A the remaining 20,000 Miles Are still on paper and the people who live on them Are in the one of the a a major problems which must be solved said Dawson is that a your schools be taken out of he advocated non partisan school boards saying a when we have these boards in this manner we will find that our teachers will have a Boarder Conception of their duties and will have More initiative and ambition to carry out the things they have been appointed to which is train Young citizens under the present system said Dawson a a great Many of our teachers feel that their employment is political employment and that its length is determined by the length of time the political party that first employed them continues to stay in Sweeney declared a in 1940 we face a crisis. The people will decide at the polls whether or not it will be the policy of this nation to continue to live on debts. A a Victory for the present administration will amount to an endorsement of the practice of living on debts. Any sane Man knows that this is the Road to bankruptcy and that it is a Road which rapidly becomes too Steep for anyone to Trun inc refuses to Cut Coal rates shippers of bituminous Coal from Southern West Virginia Virginia and Eastern Kentucky lose plea Washington. March 30. Up a 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 commissions 8-5 decision was handed Down in a care 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 a 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 the commission said. Ford Churchill on neutrality objects to taking matter of fact interpretations of neutrals couples warning with increase War Promise follows continuous demands from various quarters in Britain for More vigorous prosecution of conflict shows expenditures Turkey to open Dardanelles to Allied warships coed murder baffles probes railroads protected defendants in the procedure were the Chesapeake and Ohio railway the Norfolk and Western railway and the virginian rail Way. The complainants testified they could not meet the increased Competition of fuel Oil and other Coal substitutions unless the inc ordered a reduction of about 50 cents a ton in freight rates to Hampton roads. At Charleston and Huntington. W. Va., Coal operators expressed disappointment at the decision and one said it might be 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 $2.82 a ton a was not justified and is All out of proportion to the distance of the win discuss Appeal James 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. Complainants contended High freight rates were an important inc refuses to see Page 2 beavers win three of four sectional speech contests members of Beaver High school speech teams won three of four events in a sectional speech contest held at Athens yesterday and last night. The contest was sponsored by West Virginia University. Barbara Ann Williams of Beaver won first prize in the extemporaneous speaking event. June Sharp also of Beaver won first place in the poetry interpretation contest. Shirley Lennett. Beaver won first place in the debating event. Lawman cd Slifkin Beaver won third place in the oration contest. Nancy Spangler of Princeton of won the oration event the four winners will enter the finals at Morgantown april 12 and 13. Four year scholarships to the University Are the prizes. Thirteen schools of the area were represented in the contest Beaver. Sandstone. Big Creek. Princeton Talcott Mccomas Greenville Hinton Athens. Peterstown Spanishburg Matoaka and Bramwell. Judge for the contest was Roy c. Brown of the Virginia inter Mont College staff. Miss Bertie Rodgon is coach of the Beaver team. Miss Irene Norris is the Princeton coach. Winners of the contest at Mullens. Which was attended by 84 representative from 18 schools were As follows poetry Reading. Jean Fugate. Welch debating Anna wills. Shady Springs oratory. W. E. Davis. Jr., Beckley and extemporaneous speaking Angelina Saunders of trap h1u. Judges for the contests Wera May Hunter Carroll Woodrow Eckard and Richard Nebinger All of Concord College. Compete throughout state Huntington. W. Va., March 30. Pic More than 100 High school students competed in sectional contests throughout the state today in the annual West Virginia University speech scholarship contests. Winners in the preliminaries will enter the finals at Morgen town april 12 and 13. Four Yeai scholarships to the University Are the prizes. At Huntington. Miss Katherine Peters. Point pleasant won the poetry Reading contest Ralph Dickerson. Ceredo Kenova took the debating contest Robert Rice of Huntington was first in oratory. And Alex Booth of Ceredo a e n o v s. The extemporaneous speaking event. Winners in the contest at beavers win 3�?see Page x by Drew Middleton London March 30. A pugnacious Winston Churchill Britain a 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 Quot 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 where they can1 find their Way to Germany. Time As ally some quarters saw a distinct relation Between Churchill s assertion that a time has been on our Side but it is a changeable ally with the Treasury s annual statement showing a deficit of $3,071.720,000 for the first fiscal year of the War. Britain a 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. The 1940-1941 War budget to be announced april 23 is expected to run around $5.000,000,000. New and higher taxes Are anticipated. Churchill a assertion that a there is no need for Russia to be drawn into this struggle unless she wish it so and that a we have no quarrel with the italian or the japanese Peoples reiterated the British wish to confine the War to a Hitler and the nazi German a it is no part of our policy to seek War with Russia a he said. Asserting a fall is quiet on the Western front and today also thus far nothing has happened on the sea or in the air a he went on ready to strike a but More than a million German soldiers including nearly All their Active divisions and armoured divisions Are drawn up ready to strike at an hours notice All along the frontiers of Luxembourg Holland and Belgium. A at any moment those Neutral countries May be subjected to an Avalanche of steel and fire and the decision rests in the hands of a haunted morbid being who to their eternal shame the German people in their bewilderment have worshipped As a god. A that is the situation in Europe tonight. A and can anyone wonder that we Are determined to bring such a hideous state of alarm and menace to an end As soon As May be for once and for All a he said the finnish War had a exposed to the whole world the ravages which communism makes upon the Fibre of any nation which Falls victim to that deadly mental and moral turning to the suffering of neutrals Churchill asserted that 200 Neutral ships had been destroyed and nearly 1,000 Neutral seamen a slaughtered in Hitler s frantic Endeavor to terrorize All who seek to Trade with Britain. Will not shrink his direct reference to intensification of the War was a it seems to me that intensification of the struggle is to be expected and we certainly Are by no Means inclined to shrink from he alluded to the Power of the Allied fleets by asserting that Only one in 800 ships which have taken advantage of British and French convoys has been sunk. As Churchill spoke informed London sources were of the opinion that the Allied War Council had decided thursday that a tightening of the blockade against Germany sore ships from Scandinavia and a stronger contraband control in the Pacific were the Best Means of closing gaps in the blockade. Diplomatic circles believed the scandinavian and Pacific sea drives would be synchronized with economic and diplomatic advances in Southeastern Europe where Germany now is viewed As a standing tightening of the British Block aae and advances on the economic and diplomatic fronts appeared to be the Only action in Prospect for the near future. Warfare on land and sea and in the air continues sporadically despite widely heralded promises in the press that a decisions taken in the War Council soon will Bear state College. Pa., March 30. A crack criminologists investigating the baffling three Day old sex lend murder of Chubby Rachel Taylor. 17-year-old coed admitted tonight their exhausting work had led them nowhere but up a Blind Alley. Announcing that a suspect who had been questioned for two Days had been a definitely eliminated from the puzzling Case. Commissioner Lynn g. Adams of the state motor police declared a we Are just As much in a fog As a. He said the suspect who had been nabbed in Philadelphia on the tip of a negro Porter and whisked 200 Miles to this excited College Community would be taken before a Justice of the peace and formally released. This was necessarily. The commissioner explained. Because the Man had been held on a charge of a suspicion of felony. To close today his older boys to conclude 3-Day meet with Church services at Trinity methodist Church this morning chokes nazi Supply line Turkey to place naval bases at allies disposal London is silent move seen As important Aid in tightening blockade of Germany delegates to the state Fly older boys conference held in Bluefield since Friday will conclude their meeting this morning with Church services to begin at Trinity Church at 11 of clock. The delegates will attend sunday school with their hosts at 9 30 a. M. ,. At the morning session yesterday or. 8. W. Grafflin. Noted lecturer editor and boys worker counselled the Young delegates that they must have a vision consecration and Power to conquer tomorrows new frontiers or. Graffito defined the a old frontiers As land Liberty civilization communication transportation and facilities. A a we be conquered them All a he declared. Emphasised Frontier the speaker went on to emphasize that a new frontiers which the youth of today must conquer Are cultural social and spiritual. To put Over his Point he cited the difference Between the ancient civilizations of Carthage and Israel Carthage or. Grafflin reminded formed the most perfect civilization the world has even known. But he went on a not a hymn not a poem not a great priest came out of that and he finished significantly a Carthage is Israel he described As a Little Rocky Patch of land across the boys meeting see Page x t to Subi count tabulation of nations population will begin tuesday four other counts to be taken at same time Washington March 30. Up a an army of 120.000 census takers rested its Arches today ready to trudge to each Doorstep in America for the biggest question Campaign of the decade. The Zero hour will be 12 01 a. M. Local time monday though count won t actually begin until tuesday. Everyone alive at that moment will be counted disregarding either births or deaths a few minutes later. Four other censuses will go on at the same time. The censuses of manufacturers and other business such As wholesalers and retailers started Jan. 2 and Are still operating. A tally of housing and agriculture will Start next week. Population enumerators will Start their rounds on tuesday cause of a technicality. Ten years ago Congress ordered censuses to begin on april 2 each decade because april 1, 1930. Was a sunday. Things to be tabulated include not Only the age. Sex and location of every person but such other items As individual income from wages up $5.000, location five years ago. Education citizenship employment status marital status. And occupation in the housing census will to questions about value Type and size of structures mortgage indebtedness and whether occupancy is by owners or renters. The agricultural census will tabulate the number acreage and value of farms and farm buildings nature and different crops mortgage in debt Ednes and number of sror kers. Next to the population total the figure most a ought in the census will Bethe county the unemployed the first such ovulation in Hist Oiw. This figure May be the basis of far reaching legislation in the future. Bucharest. March 30 up a Turkey was represented in usually Well informed Balkan diplomatic quarters tonight As having agreed to permit passage of British and French warships through the Dardanelles to choke off Germany a Supply line from Russia in the Black sea. The newspaper it moment regarded As close to the French embassy Here reported moreover that Turkey had agreed to place her naval bases at Trebizond Samsun and sin Ope at the allies disposal for use As contraband control circles in London professed no knowledge of the proposed agreement with Turkey. It was said however that if it is True it will be a Strong boost to the Allied diplomatic offensive in the Balkans and an important Aid to tightening the Allied blockade of Germany open under league mandate that convention stipulated that the Dardanelles would be closed to warships of belligerent nations except when they were serving under league of nations mandate or helping a victim of aggression under a Mutual assistance pact concluded within the framework of the league to which Turkey was a party. A Way for Turkey to get around this however was explained by Deputy Petko Staynoff of the foreign affairs committee of the bulgarian chamber of deputies who told the Sofia newspaper Slovon that Turkey would Quot let herself be forced to fail to prevent British warships from crossing the strategic Dar Danelle As a Black sea nation Bulgaria is vitally interested in this Poss Buty. Voice protest Turkey might satisfy formalities. Other persons indicated by voicing a protest against passage of the Allied warships and having this protest a duly filed in the archives of the league of be moment state flatly that Turkey would give the Green Light to s the Allied warships a to that these ships can control the traffic of War supplies from russian ports to Germany a reports from Istanbul said that French Admiral Mouren had arrived there to organize anti aircraft defense of that City As Well in turkish Black sea ports. Meanwhile a protest by the German minister at Belgrade brought the release of seven Laigo German Oil barges seized by yugoslav patrol boats on the Danube on grounds that they lacked special transit permits. Five hungarian barges two belonging to the Socony vacuum Oil company still were held at the port of Belgrade and la German tankers waited or permits on the Edge of yugoslav Waters. The Possis Iutva of Tutum ser loud complications were seen in j Yugoslavia a a application of and decree requiring Speorl of All Oil barges passing through that country. Strict application com a Hitt off the Danube to germans As a mean of transporting Oil sup plies from Rumania and Russia appointment of Russell revoked hew York March 30. of the grounds that Bertrand Russell a has taught in his books immoral and salacious doctrines whose practice would violate the penal Laws of new York state a state supreme court Justice today revoked the appointment of the British Sari philosopher to a professorship at City College. The appointment declared Justice John e Mcgeehan in a 4,-000-word decision which he himself term was a an insult to the people of the City of new and in effect an attempt by the City Board of higher education to establish a a chair of indecency at the parti coeducational institution of 8.600 Stu la thus was climaxed a bitter controversy touched off by episcopal Bishop William t Manning shortly after russells appointment to an $8 000-a-year Post in the department of philosophy effective in february 1941, announced several months ago. Pros and cons were Flung into the debate by noted personages and with the Case As a springboard the state legislature this week set up a committe a investigate new York City a educational system

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