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Cumberland Times (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Cumberland, Maryland C the generally fair and warmer to Day monday Lair 28 pages today vol 91 Cumberland Maryland sunday March 31 1940 direct associated frets Price seven cents Roosevelt is Tien Tom senator Johnson says his silence and action has party floundering in confusion hits Harpoon ing of All aspirants meanwhile senator sch Wartz declares he favors third term curly for Farley indicted As Trade conspirators flood Waters cover Section of Tomstown Stoney Creek overflows its Banks in spots and seeps into steel Plant at Cambria by William b Ardery Washington March 30 Tor Johnson col declared to night that president Roosevelt while keeping silent on the third term Issue had a spooned and torpedoed other potential presidential candidates until the demo cratic party was floundering in confusion the coloradans who is support ing senator Wheeler Dmont of Montana for the democratic Nomi nation added in a statement Trie president intends to go and accept the nomination no one can Well com Plain because smart politics Are played in that coldblooded Way but if at the eleventh hour he should abandon the scuttled demo cratic ship he must accept the responsibility Lor the disaster which is so obviously and relentlessly Bear ing Down upon her certain of nomination Johnson said that the presided is certain to be nominated for a third Terri unless he positively re fuses to accept the office Thi politicians1 he added want the president t run for the simple reason that i can win during the Day another Western or senator Schwartz Wyo declared he favored a third term for the president silent on the third term Issue told reporters that in View of conditions throughout the world think it highly advis Able that the president remain at the the Wyoming senator made Plain his however that there were other candidates fitted for the presi Dency who could be called on if or Roosevelt refused to run again Curley for Farley in Boston meanwhile former governor James n Curley one of or Roosevelt earliest supporters in Massachusetts declared his sup port for the presidential candidacy of James a Parley Curley asserted that Parley More than any other individual enjoyed the Confidence of democrats the round of political speech making this weekend included a declaration by senator Lucas d 1111 that Thomase Dewey has be among the 102 individuals unions and concerns indicted recently by a Federal grand jury in Cleveland for criminal conspiracy to freeze plumbing prices above Normal Levels were Walter j Kohler ormer governor of Wisconsin and president of the Kohler company and Charles b Nolte president of Crane the group indicted s said to control 80 of the nation plumbing business 1laihs county officials Are being pressed being threatened with loss of appropriations for Road construction Radcliffe says says promises made offered Large funds sen Ator says provided they support candidacy of Bruce death on u s vessel being probed body of Charlotte Gran son 18 found aboard naval Reserve train ing ship died during party three Young men an two girls in custody one says it was a Drunken orgy pumpers stand by water pours into base ment of some business houses merchants removing stocks Pittsburgh March 30 Len by a driving Allday rain West Ern Pennsylvania streams Rose rap idly tonight pouring Over their Banks at some spots and halting traffic on several Lowling High ways at Johnstown historic flood City Stoney Creek swirled Over its Banks at one spot and flooded part of the Bethlehem steel company Cambria Plant company officials however said they did not expect the water to get High enough to Stop operations merchants moved goods water poured into basements o some Johnstown business houses and merchants were hurriedly removing merchandise a Crew of spa workers stood ready with pumper As the Stream reached 143 feet n 9 p m flood Butge of Stoney Creek is 17 feet state motor police from Punxsutawney reported u s route 219 was covered by 12 inches at the Village of Patchin Ville in Dinna county and several Centra Pennsylvania routes were closed by High water at Pittsburgh weather observe w s Brotzman said there n immediate danger of High water he pointed out that the Snow fall Over the watershed had been melted before the rainfall began Turkey opens Dardanelles to Allied warships to choke off German Supply line is report a Portia Aid Berlin warned Britain plans vigorous War deny berlins paper Bombshell Winston Church ills speech reveals Navy determined on tight ening stranglehold seek to confine War to Hitler ism holds no need for Russia to be drawn into Strug Gle no quarrel with Italy Baltimore March 30 George i and Clifty declared today he had been advised that commissioners and other officials in Sev eral Maryland counties Are being uttered Large for the construction of roads in their coun ties with state fur Ida provided they support the candidacy of Howard Bruce Radcliffe and Bruce Are demo cratic candidates for nomination As United states senator in the May primary election says commissioners threatened the senator added that the county officials on the other hand Are threatened that they will chive such funds for the construction of their roads if they vote for me Radcliffe declared in a statement that in at least two counties Anne Anodel and Calvert certain officials had publicly stated that they were supporting Bruce because they could obtain More benefits from the state government both Law and sound govern Detroit March 30 red eral government late today took full charge of the investigation of the death of 18yearold Charlotte Granson whose body was found aboard the uss Dubuque a naval Reserve training ship after anal night party the Federal Bureau of investigation and naval officers shared jurisdiction in the Case at least for the present and it was indicated that the primary purpose was to determine whether any crime has been committed on Federal prop erty come the number one rabble rouser of the nation speaking before a Philadelphia Young democrats meeting Lucas recalled Dewey recent charge that the administration had demonstrated a fundamental Lack of integrity and a cynical disregard for principles of common honesty the sen Ator added held Brazen effrontery the utterances constitute the most Brazen piece of effrontery and Campaign buffoonery that Ever fell from the lips of a Man who is be ing considered seriously As a Candi Date for president x x x this peddle of political Poison Tel indirectly challenges the honesty and integrity of the president of the United states x x x you see the sorry spectacle of Tom Dewey the Glamor boy from new York City becoming the num Ber one rabble rouser of the nation Dewey meanwhile was campaigning in Wisconsin for that talks presidential preference Pri Mary next tuesday he arranged nine train stops to Busy Day of Speed making Dewey is opposed in the Republican primary by senator Vandenberg Rulch in a speech from the Capitol Steps continued on Psge 2 col i mental policy require that the state roads commission be free from political influence Money already available Only recently the state roads commission under the provision of Thesz state Laws published a de tailed statement showing that Money will be available for each county in the state for the Road building program for 1340 is someone trying to interfere with the Legal allocation of these funds and the manner in which the selection of the roads to be built Are made i am certainly not ready to be Lieve that the state roads com Mission is a party to any of these promises or threats but the fact remains that both promises and threats Are being made throughout the state and arc not being questioned or denied Broening gets support Baltimore March 30 a3 the three men two girls held in custody were three Young men and two girl Sal under 21 years old inspector John o Whitman of the police homicide squad described them As the surviving members of an Al night drinking party aboard the Dubuque which is anchored in the Detroit River it the naval re serve armory one of the girls is 16 years old juvenile authorities took charge of her tile other girl is Marjory Smith 19yearold chum of miss Cranson the Young men being questioned Are John w Lanauskas 20 a Reg ular Navy Seaman assigned As care taker of the St Buque Dnald pal Mer 19 and Robert Newman 18 said it was Drunken orgy William e Dowling chief Assis Tant prosecuting attorney described the Curty aboard the gunboat As a Drunken orgy he quoted Lanauskas As saying it was very wild although conflicting stories were told about the circumstances under which miss Cranson was found unconscious she was finally taken about 7 a m to the office of a physician nearby you do not need a physician the group was told this girl is dead there were no external signs of major flood looms in California area san Francisco March 30 flood of major proportions is rapidly developing in the Sacramento Valley after a week of almost rec Ord rainfall Federal meteorologist e h Fletcher said tonight terming the situation critical1 he named the Sacramento Feather and american Rivers As chief danger spots the new menace followed by a month a devastating flood that in undated Many thousands of acres in Northern California forced gom persons from their Homes Anc caused damage estimated by state officials at nine per sons lost their lives in Low lands flooded the Marysville area Toda by Drew Middleton London March 30 Pugna Cious Winston Churchill Britain first lord of the admiralty coupled n new warning of intense ligation of Tho War tonight with the significant hint that Britain scarcely could be expected in the future to take As a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give All advantages to the aggressor the belligerent speech broadcast to America and elsewhere recalled the first lords declaration of Jan uary 20 in which he called on eur opes anxious neutrals to join the allies in United action to bring the War against German to a speedy end to tighten stronghold it followed closely too upon con in lung 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 Scanda Navari Ore ships and by greater activity in the Pacific against shipments of raw materials from Mexico to Vladivostok from where they can find their Way to Germany some quarters saw a distinct re Tion that time has been on our Side but it is a changeable ally with the Treasury annual statement showing a deficit of for the first fiscal year of the War Britain expenditure for the Fis Berlin dropped a Bombshell in International diplomacy by publish hip a White paper which implied the United states played a part in bringing about the european War and based part of the charge o purported conversations Between William c bullitt America ambassador to France and Jeray Potocky polish Ambas Studo to the u s in Washington both denied they talked to each Otic about americas position authorities puzzled Over death of coed tightening crack criminologists admit probe into murder of Rachael Taylor led them nowhere to free suspect contractor quizzed in state College crime de scribed As Peculiar kind of individual Bucharest press says Istanbul also agrees to use of naval bases by Allied Powers London professes no knowledge newspaper be moment states flatly Turkey will give Green to Allied warships by Robert p Parker or Bucharest March 30 was represented in usually Wellin formed Balkan diplomatic tonight As having agreed to pen ult passage of British and French War ships through uie Dardanelles w choke Oft Germany Supply line from Russia in the Blatt Ben Tho newspaper be Mont regarded Aji close to the French embassy Here reported moreover that Turkey Hud no cd to place her naval of tsp try Blond Samsun mid Sloop of i the allies disposal for users con Traband control bases London professes Iso Knowles codicil circles in in Inion pro fessed no knowledge of the proposed agreement with Turkey it waa said however that u it is tic it will be r Strong boost to the Ellica Promise even More a diplomatic in Balkans Rhar Btl important nid tightening sensations Keziar kmc1 of Germany ing to purported u b Thal convention stipulated that activities the Dardanelles would to closed to warships of belligerent nations except when they were Jienne under league of nations nimwfli0 of help nazis Gleeful Over exposure of diplomats about 10000 acres of Low farm and Dairy land was flooded in Napa toward the coast 100 or More Home were isolated after the Napa rive broke Over its Banks at three place in the town the families had removed to safety Napa Resi dents were considerably alarmed Over prospects the River would Crest tonight meeting the oncoming High tide and spreading the Back Educ Waters Over the City in the Foothills of the sierras recurring cloudburst poured vast volumes of water into tributaries of the Sacramento rive which empties into san Francisco Bay and has sources As far nor i As the Oregon Border emergency Calls sent out emergency Calls went out for additional help in patrolling dikes and in hastening repairs on levees breached by last months flood in san Francisco the spa acted As a Clearing House for requests for eng necks workers and equipment to be sent to River Points flood fears recurred in Pennsylvania Philadelphia March 30 fears recurred in Pennsylvania to violence on the girls body but investigators found evidence that any As heavy Rains and rapidly support of two Republican party leaders Galen l tilt and Jacob France was claimed tonight by the Headquarters of William f Broen ing candidate for the Republican nomination As to s senator Paul Robertson chairman of the Republican City committee said continued on Page 2 col j chloroform had been administered liberalization of episcopal Church Laws recommended would permit divorced persons who have been in communion with Church to remarry after reasonable time and desires As does partner to Union blessings of Church new York March 30 if Atlon of the episcopal Church Laws of Harding divorce and remarriage of divorced persons has been recommended by a committee of women n the Church after a two year the present episcopal Church w prohibits the marriage of divorced persons except that of the innocent party in a divorce for adultery and then Only after cer and decisions by the Bishop or an ecclesiastical court committee recommended if a divorced person who has been in communion with this Church desires to remarry after a reason Able time and desires As does the partner of this second marriage the mess not of the Church this might bestowed when the Parish priest or a suitable commit tee Are assured after examination of the circumstances involved of the genuine desire and purpose of both participants to Lead a Christ Ian life the report added however that on Pigo t got Rockefeller plan ordered abandoned labor Board rules it inter fers with employees rights to self organization Washington March 30 Colorado fuel and Iron corporation of Denver largely owned by John d Rockefeller or was ordered by the Board today to abandon its widely known employee representation plan the Board ruled unanimously that the company dominated and financed the plan which it said was sponsored by Rockefeller after the Ludlow strike 25 years ago by this domination the Board held the company Intorf erred with employees rights to self organization under the Wagner act known in Industry As the Rocke Feller plan the system of representation functioned through wha was known As the employees representatives organization with work ers and management equally represented on committees which met to consider employee affairs in its decision the Board Sal hat charges of unfair labor proc to pcs had been initiated against the company in j938 by cup unions continue Don Page 2 col i Cal year ending tonight totalled against revenues of despite a 35percent income tax and other heavy levies new taxes anticipated the 104019u War budget to be announced april 23 is expected to run around new and higher taxes Are anticipated Church ills assertion that there is no need for Russia to do drawn into this struggle unless she wishes it so and that we have no Quarel with the italian or the japanese Peoples reiterated the British wish to con Fine the War to Hitler Sud the nazi German Power it is no part of our policy to seek War with Russia he said asserting All is quiet on the Western front and today also thus far nothing has happened on the sea or in the air he went on but More than a million Ger atm 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 hol land and Belgium terms he incr marked Belnap 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 continued on Page x col 6 state College a March 30 crack criminologists investigating the baffling three Darold six fiend murder of Chubby Rachel Taylor 17yearold coed admitted tonight their exhausting work had led them nowhere but up a Blind Al Ley 3 envoys targets Roosevelt by indirection held Mohave fostered psycho Sis to Aid allies by Loots p Lochner Berlin March 30 officialdom 24 hours after unleash ing a diplomatic Blitzkrieg of 1g documents about alleged United states prewar diplomacy Len cd Back tonight in Gleeful Contemp la ing a victim of hug Scialon under Mutual assistance pact concluded within the framework of the league to which Turkey was a party get around h a Way for Turkey to pet around this however was explained by Deputy Pytko stain soft of the for eign affairs committee of the Bui a Arian chamber of deputies who told the Sofia newspaper Sovo that Turkey would let her self a forced to fail to prevent British War ships from crossing the Dardanelle Straits announcing that a suspect who had been questioned for two Days had been definitely eliminated from the puzzling Case commissioner Lynn g Adams of the state motor police declared we Are just As much in a fog As ton and promised even More sex sea tuition Bulgaria Plosive sons nylons soon l a Kay interested in this posse nobody need try to prove Alibi to the effect he was i Sunder Turkey might satisfy formalities stood or that lie was misquoted by other pc Usoris indicated by voicing polish envoys said one official protest against in singe of the Allied speaking of the documents to come j suspect to freed pc said the suspect who had been nabbed in Philadelphia on the lip 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 tills was necessary the commissioner explained because the Man had been held on a charge of suspicion of felony miss Taylor 120pound athletic and blonde freshman at the Penn Sylvania state College Wujs slain Early thursday her nearly nude body battered bruised and mis treated was found several hours continued on Page i col 6 doctrines of philosopher bar him from College Post child Bride of year ago becomes Mother court rules appointment of Bertrand Russell to faculty insult to people of new York judge terms his ruling dynamite cites immoral and Salac ious teachings in britishers books As basis for opinion by Gregory Hewlett new York March 30 on the grounds that Bertrand Russel has taught in his immoral and salacious doctrines whose practice would violate the Pena Laws of new York state it state supreme court Justice today revoked the appointment of the Brit ish ear philosopher to a professor daughter born by caesarean operation to mrs Clifford Atkins age 14 Logan a March 30 the birth of a daughter brought 14 Henrold mrs Clifford Atkins Back o Public notice today More than a car after child Bride mar Inge to a23yearold Man the former Helen Lydns was married november 10 93b after her parents gave their consent the baby to the mud pork couple now on Relief last night after a operation at the Hospital today mrs Atkins Aid she would name the child mar Garet after my aunt in Chicago Munich tons by inc United states Aruba wader to Palis William c bullitt three envoys Xander yesterdays White Book made up of 16 documents sold 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 be in attributed to diplomatic reports of polish diplomats in Washington Paris and London made in late 103b and the first half of 1939 they ascribed to bullitt the conviction that America would finish the War on the Side of the allow to 1 and having this protest spokesmen would not commit j duly filed in the archives of the themselves As to precisely what league of nations statesmen would be named in the Jross says agreement forthcoming release although one be moment stated flatly Fiat tur hinted that the German Pover Niccy would give the Green Light to ment is in Possession of direct Coni Tho Allied warships so that these can control the traffic of War supplies from Rusann ports to Ger Many from i Sunbul said thai French Admiral Muren had arrived there to organize defences of that City As Well is in turkish Black sea ports meanwhile a protect by he Ger Man minister at Belgrade brought the release of seven in pc Germau Oil barges seized by yugoslav Retro boats on the Danube on grounds that uses lacked special Tran rat per five hungarian five hungarian Barren two be longing to the Socony Notum Oil company still Ocie held it the port it City College the appointment declared Jun tic on Paga col i Kennedy a Promise to put pressure of Belgrade and 16 German tank on the British to lend Money towers wanted for permits on Poland president Roosevelt by in direction was declared to have Fos an american War psychosis in order to help the allies in the com no conflict and to have charged continued on Page t col 3 of yugoslav in Turk the pass ability of future complications were sep in Yugo Salvias application of an army de Cree requiring up Fidel permit of a3i continued on Page t co finnish minister married in Virginia biggest question Campaign in decade starts tuesday army of 120000 census takers resting Arches today for trudge to each Doorstep in America every one alive will be counted starts tuesday because of technicality Fairfax a March 30 mar Procope the finnish minister was married today in a quiet Home ceremony to miss Margaret Shaw daughter of mrs James Edward Shaw of Yorkshire England the ceremony in which the reverend Yrjo pastor of the finnish lutheran Church of Brooklyn n y officiated wus performed before r Flower bedecked fireplace in the Home of r Walton Moore coun of uie depart Tot a Washington March 30 an army of 120000 Consu renvers rested Ita Arches today ready to tin dec to each Doorstep in America for the biggest que Stroh Campaign of the decade the Zero hour will be a m local time monday though count wont actually begin until tuesday everyone alive at that moment will counted either or deaths a few minute1 it bar will go of at the same time the censuses of manufacturers and other by slim such wholes Lars and rein Lucri started Jan 2 and Are still operating Tho icily o housing and Angrl culture will Start next populations enumerators will Start their rounds on tuesday because of n technicality ten years ago con Resi ordered censuses to begin on april 2 each dec non became april 1 1030 Abji r sunday Tai Irik to be tabulated include continued on

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