Dubuque Telegraph Herald (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Dubuque, Iowa
The weather sunday partly Cloudy. Continued mild temperature. Price 7 cents volume 104 Dubuque Iowa sunday March 31, 1940 sunday morning edition number 14-22 Pagell. S. Ignores chinese a president i s Azis More to come if americans resist snack spokesman declares sensational papers May be released say u. S. War exposures Only started Hull declines a f 1 to recognize May face probe berlins in a the sixteen Docu bits which the German foreign office published Friday As a a finds in the archives of the polish foreign office were Only a cheap wine compared with costly vintages yet to follow an authorized German source asserted saturday. Citing the Bible Story of Jesus conversion of water into wine this source observed a american statesmen must not go out on a limb and try to put yesterdays publication Oft with the remark that these were after All the opinions of polish ambassadors As to what american policy is. A remember How at Cana the ruler of the feast complained to the bridegroom for keeping the Best wine until the end. Maybe that a what we re More to come he intimated that the German government was in Possession of communications by the United states ambassador to Paris William c. Bullitt and others. A new German White books even More sensational in its International repercussions than the first has been prepared for use in shattering any Campaign to discredit the polish documents published Friday which accused the Roosevelt administration of War mongering. The newspaper achtau Sogabe for instance had the Banner headline a America tremendous impression of War guilt All the newspapers printed Many ambassador bullit Washington up a rep. Fish . A said saturday night that he would demand a a Complete investigation of the German White Book and would seek impeachment of ambassador William c. Bullitt a if the facts warrant. In a radio address. Fish said that president Roosevelt and bullitt owed the american people a a categorical and detailed answer to every charge made in the Book. It was no answer he said a to raise the Hue and cry of a propaganda or to Sprinkle a few grains of Salt on its fish said that Congress probably would wait for publication of the full text of the alleged correspondence a in order to properly examine it and determine its Dubuque gop Johnson says eur has Dardanelles to enter full a Harpoon do candidates to be open to Allied ships spurned county slate demos ship 24 delegates to state gop convention Are named Wharton out of mayor race Dubuque county republicans will strive to place a full slate of candidates for All county and Julien township offices in the Field fort the general election in november. That announcement was made by Harvey m. Lange chairman of the Dubuque county Republican Central committee at the Republican county convention held at the courthouse saturday morning. Chairman Lange s announcement brought applause from the convention delegates. Hope for Large vote chairman Lange said that a full slate of Republican candidates in the county and township elections would be the Means of bringing out a larger vote. He remarked that Seldom has there been a full slate of republicans in the Field and asked the convention delegates to give their cooperation in getting a Complete Republican ticket in the november election. The convention was called for the purpose of electing 24 delegates and 24 alternates to the state Republican convention to be held at Des Moines april 12. The state convention will elect delegates to the National convention. Controversies avoided Dubuque county a d e i e g a i Ion goes to the state convention uninstructed in regard to the fight Between h. E. Spangler Cedar rapids and Martin m. Cooney West Union for National commit Washington a up a senator Johnson . Declared saturday night 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 a floundering in the coloradans who is supporting senator Wheeler . For the democratic nomination added in a statement Quot 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 j should abandon the scuttled demo j critic ship he must accept the re-1 a possibility 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 want the president to run a for the simple reason that he can a a year ago the democratic party had a dozen attractive prospective candidates a Johnson continued. A had political developments permitted to take their course Many of these Able men report Turkey ready to Aid Black sea blockade sen. Edward Johnson would have grown in Public esteem with the months. A however the president perhaps with the noblest of intentions has stymied democracy a most dependable sounding Board the primaries and he has a spooned and torpedoed other candidates for the presidency until now on the very eve of the election the majority party is marking time floundering in confusion and trailing in Public arrest bares if outs guilty Bucharest in a Turkey was represented in unusually Well in formed Balkan diplomatic quarters saturday night As having agreed to permit passage of British and French warships through the Dardanelles to choke off Germany s Supply line from Russia in the Black sea. The newspaper be moment regarded As close to the French embassy Here reported moreover that Turkey had agreed to place naval bases at Trebizond. Sam Sun and sin Ope at the allies disposal for use As contraband control bases. Official 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 reached decision at Parley informants Here reported the turkish decision was reached at a British French turkish military conference a few Days ago at al Lepo although such action is contrary to the Monteux convention i of 1936 to which Turkey was a party. This convention stipulated that the Dardanelles would be closed i to warships of belligerent nations japs puppet says Kai Shek still has allegiance of people Wang Ching Wei he was inaugurated a acting president of China saturday but Secretary of state Hull said that the United states would not recognize the new government reputedly under japanese domination. Huge Illinois vote forecast predict 2,900,000 ballots in primary Chicago a in a a huge vote in the Illinois primary elections a Lin Kimo co i do fir a Inilisi Sinito warships of belligerent nations forecast saturday by political pro m u Lull u Nullar l or except when the it were be tons is. Mall we Kluuni l us Minim Hiu under league of nations mandate predictions Are i which have been set up in Chin i or helping a victim of aggression a a non i under the seels of an outside under a Mutual assistance pact. Borne out approving Cly -,9j0,00 j Gran j which in their fun columns of the alleged reports o r n a Iwest Union for National commit no i a r la ii in i i on ii concluded within the framework citizens a record primary turn in , favor the inter Hatim. Refuses Post in Advance Teeman or for any of the Cand led Iowa Asylum in rail jury deliberates 30 hours of the league to which Turkey turning especially favor the Washington ims a Secretary of state Cordell Hull made it Plain saturday that this nation will not recognize the new japanese sponsored chinese government established at banking. Hull issued a formal statement declaring that the United states has ample reason to believe that the National government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek at chunking a still has the allegiance and support of the great majority of the chinese the United states he said recognized the National government of the Republic of China 12 years ago and continues to recognize in this is the government now established at chunking after being driven from banking. The statement from Washington followed a banking announcement that Wang Ching Wei had been inaugurated act ing president of a japanese organized a chinese National a in the Light of what has happened in various parts of China since 1931. The setting up of a new regime at banking has the appearance of a further step in the program of one country by armed Force to impose its will upon a neighbouring country and to Block off a Large area of the world from Normal political and economic relations with the rest of the world a Hull s statement said. Outside rights denied a the developments there appear to be following the pattern of other regimes and systems foreign office officials invited foreign correspondents to inspect the original documents of which copies were released. On heavy paper the documents offered As reports by count Jerzy Potocki. Polish ambassador to Washington who is alleged to have reported to Warsaw conversations with bullitt were written on heavy paper watermarked with the monograph Mph under which were the words a papier a Lettres a under which in turn was the word the reports attributed to count Edward Raczynski polish ambassador to London which told of alleged conversations with the american ambassador in London. Joseph p. Kennedy were on a paper watermarked a Waterton those attributed to Julius Kuka Siewicz ambassador to Paris also said to have reported on conversations with bullitt were on a paper of English or american origin watermarked Quot extra array of signatures the first pages of practically every document bore an imposing array of signatures of various polish officials each using a different coloured Pencil. Often marginal notes were made by someone examining the document. Also there Ere frequent underscoring of sections considered important. Officials were non committal about the Date of publication of the next Batch of documents. The impression was Given however that foreign minister von Ribben trop is merely waiting for someone in the United states to furnish the occasion. Release of the polish a a find so a5 Robed Public attention that the speech of russian Premier foreign commissar Zolotoff before the soviet p a r 11 a ment concerning a Rich three had been great expectations in Germany went almost unnoticed. Americans blamed morning papers blamed american diplomacy in great measure for the outbreak of the european conflict German officialdom sidestepped Cor ment with the assertion that the documents a speak for in Washington president Roosevelt answered queries concerning the alleged polish documents by look for two on fag two election monday 1 dates for the presidential nomination. No mention was made of the _ National committeeman fight or the i presidential candidates. Councilman Albert Wharton will e a a Adam was a chairman of not accept election to toe office convention and mrs. Edna wid of mayor when the City Council meets monday night to organize for the new fiscal year. Now held in California Wladyslaw Orche Duski. 47, the jabbering Lunatic arrested Here in to convict Union agent j Way Jor Turkey to get around this however was explained by Deputy Petko Stainoff of the for after de eign affairs committee of the bul out will cast ballots a week from of that outside Power and intimates of councilman Wharton have known that he would not accept the office if it were offered him by his associates on the Council. And. Saturday after published reports erroneously stated that he had already been elected mayor the councilman announced publicly that he would not accept the office. With councilman Wharton out of the picture. Councilman Frank Thompson is believed to be the next Choice of the Council if mayor Murphy is not reelected. Members of the Council Are expected to meet informally sunday to discuss organization plans. The official organization meeting will be held monday evening at 7 30 of clock. At that time councilman Carl a. Clark will retire from the Council to be succeeded by Bernard Ben Schueller elected in last mondays City election As a candidate of the citizens party. Mayor Murphy will begin his new three year Council term. He was a candidate endorsed by the Dubuque trades and labor Congress. The new terms of councilman Wharton reelected on the citizens ticket and councilmen Thompson and Frank Van Duel Man reelected As labor Congress candidates do not begin until april 1941. Missing child found asleep this was the first information Dowson was Secretary. At the conclusion of the convention the. ,. _. Delegates gave a rising vote of thefts from Homes of Dubuque thanks to or. Lange and mrs. F. W. Trader chairmen for their work. The delegates the delegates Are Harvey m. Lange e. Marshall Thomas Paul Smith Walter Koerner g. D. Rose Edward Diehl. Ira Davenport Frank Geary Eugene Adamss gtd Ney Haudenshield Roy Curtis. Eugene Frith c. W. Varner Louis Stoffregen mrs. T. Ben Loetscher d. L. Mcdonald. John rider Wallis p. K. A Arbeit a Walter Paisley and Arthur Taylor All of Dubuque mrs. Dorothy link Dyersville Charles Datisman Jefferson township George Canfield. Whitewater township and John b. Cousin table Mound township. The alternates the alternates Are George stub or Fred Truland. Charles g. Kretschmer mrs. T. G. Efferding James Gronen or. V. B. Vanderloo mrs. Pearl Hoerner. Mrs. Helen Altman mrs. Dorothy Bauer mrs. B. A. Ruegnitz mrs. Hazel y Okorn. J. J. Roshek mrs. J. F. Jones mrs. Sadie trader. Albert Wharton Arthur m. Bennett mrs. Hazel Johannsen mrs. Cora Wolfe Walter Daykin and Arthur Trapp All of Dubuque James Bevins Cascade c. E. Meis new wine township Frank Sullivan Dubuque township and or. W. A. Mcvane Dyersville. Following Are the returns from look for three on Page two Sioux City. La. A in liberating nearly 30 hours a Dis-1 Garian chamber of deputies who july. 1937, a a Hurt m. Mend for i Quot i a a Ort a a a a 8h�rujr of eur s old it he sofa �?�6fpa?.er �1�7� o clock saturday night reported to that Turkey would let herself be judge a. O. Wakefield that it had j forced to fail to prevent British found Howard Fouts. Business j warships from crossing the 8tra�?~ president Garner on Quot a the demo agent of the truckers and team Telic Dardanelles j crat a Sije Thomas e. Dewey is county priests has enjoyed five months of Freedom but is again in custody. Sters Union. Al. Here guilty of Dubuque county officials Learned kidnapping in connection with the this saturday when the police de a siege forced holding of three out apartment received a report from town truck Drivers in Sioux the Federal Bureau of i Vestiga a lotion that Orche Duski was being the jury of to men and two held by Berkeley calif., police for women received final instructions investigation. 1 about 3 p. In. Friday afternoon and announced that it had reached next tuesday. Drawing the electorate toward the polls Are a number of magnetic factors. Chief attraction from a National perspective is the presidential preference referendum. President Roosevelt is pitted against vice Bulgaria without a competitor on the re. A Batton. Bulgaria i publican list. Supporters of each is vitally interested in this pos it Are toward a common of Jet Ives a big vote for their re Turkey might satisfy formalities. Spec Tive candidates in this Early other persons indicated by Toic ins Imp a rant test of popularity. A protest against passage of the j Allied warships and having this crowded Field of aspirants for protest a duly filed in the Archive the nine state wide nominations a verdict about 8 30 of clock sat league of nations. At stake in the primaries of both hat county officials had received urday night jury members said be moment stated flatly that parties also exerts a powerful pull hat Orche Duski had escaped from Thev ,08t count of the number of Turkey would give the Green Light toward the voting Booths. Eighteen a i j ?08pita,1 for Thel insane ballots taken but said that three i to the Allied warships a so that democrats and 49 republicans have entered the various races. At Independence last october. Jurors were holdouts until late i these ships can control the traffic Orche Duski w a a arrested for saturday afternoon. I of War supplies from russian ports maximum penalty 5 years t0 the conviction carries with it j the Black sea blockade be a maximum penalty of five years i comes reality diplomats Here pre imprisonment. Judge Wakefield russians non German Trade set april 13 As the Date for pro i wil1 be scrupulously respected bouncing sentence and hearing of it for Monus the allies tried officials believe girl had been held captive breads 111. A a a three and one half year old Helen Louise Chenoweth mysteriously missing nearly 48 hours was found asleep saturday in a pig lot Only a Quarter mile from farm Home near Here. Deputy sheriff Floyd Morse discovered the child on the farm of Richard Martin adjoining that of the Chenoweth. While searchers combed the Countryside. Although the child was unharmed Morse said he believed she had been held captive by someone who decided to release saturday because of fear of being Mercury hits 70 As Sun shines Here drive on unlicensed a a Innuse i Leer i be Aux to cirs marts i Omorrow detected. clothes were dry lies Moines. La. A in a High patrolmen have been instructed to begin monday to pick up motorists without 1940 License plates on their cars state Public safety commissioner Karl w. Etcher announced saturday. Fischer pointed out that the Law directs county treasurers to provide their sheriffs with a list of ears on which the licenses have have not been renewed by March 15. Registration figures show that 02.000 vehicles were licensed up to March i this year compared to 26.000 at that Date last year and 795,000 for the entire year of 1939. And did not appear As though they had been wet despite the fact a heavy rain drenched the District the night she disappeared. As Many As 200 men had sought the girl since she disappeared from Home Early thursday evening whue Mother was visiting a neighbor. A Legger sentenced Indianapolis a ams a Nick Richard Dinora. 23. Of Springfield 111., saturday pleaded guilty in Federal court to charges of possessing add transporting 240 Gallons of unstamped alcohol and was sentenced to serve three years in fed eral prison. A beaming Sun and Southwest breezes combined saturday to push Dubuque thermometer readings up to the highest Mark recorded Here in five months. The High for the Day. 70 degrees was recorded at 4 of clock in the afternoon by the Dubuque weat air Bureau. Continued mild weather was forecast for today. The arrival of mild weather was preceded by a Brilliant display of Northern lights or Aurora boreal is that lighted nearly the entire sky Here Friday night. In the North was a Brilliant co perish glow reminiscent of the Western sky a few hours after Sunset while overhead a Long Wisp of White a a Clouds a in reality the reflection of the magnetic Equator twisted turned and swirled. To the East slow Brilliant flashes of the Northern lights shot up and Over the Zenith. The display reached its greatest brilliance Between 8 and 8 30 p. In. Astronomers blame Sun spot activity for the Aurora boreal is. Thefts from the Homes of the Rev. M. J. Meyerhofer at Epworth and the Rev. A. Bomholt at holy Cross and in the investigation that followed county officials Learned that he was wanted Many places throughout the Midwest for thefts from Homes of priests and for other robberies. Other escapes from asylums while the investigation was being made. Orche Duski apparently went violently insane. It was later Learned that he had been confined to hospitals for the insane at new York Wisconsin and Connecticut and had escaped from these institutions. It was also Learned that a Poland his Birthplace had been issued by the Bureau of immigration and naturalization of the United states department of labor. For a time Orche Duski was a real problem to county officials. County attorney John l. Duffy then filed an insanity information against Orche Duski who was found insane by the Dubuque county insanity commission. On aug. 9, 1937, he was taken to the we Ard for the criminally insane it the state reformatory Anamosa. Motions for a new trial and of objections to the instructions. Few persons aside from the principals in the Case court officers and attendants and the jurors were in the court when the verdict was handed to judge w Alefeld and read. Among those present were Ralph Johnson also a business agent of the Union who was indicted on a like count. Fouts heard the verdict solemn warrant for his deportation to in Eye Joherl Kean. Inland. His birth Alaee. Had a pin ,. A an conferring with judge Wakefield and assistant county attorney Thomas Murray about the Date for sentencing. Seized Drivers the state contended Fouts. Johnson Charles Cunningham Secretary treasurer of the Union Here and Jack Webster a Union member seized Merrett Brazier and George Brown two truck Drivers in the employ of h. D. Gibson Havelock. La., truck operator and Marvin Cooklin a companion in an Effort to Force Gibson into signing an a Over the Road con there in november. 1937, he was j tract with the Union. Rolend state by re of the state ale de Braz Rbrown alienist and found insane. He was land Cooklin were held in Union Given subsequent examinations by Headquarters Here and were driven the state Board in june and no about the City in an automobile vember of 1938 and each time found before they were released Cun insane. In january 1939 he was nil Kham. Jnson and Webster transferred by the state from the indicted also on counts Cha Rad be Cnance a a a h�8pita�?~ a a cons lira a Quot a ustas Folb dependence. Given separate trials. Not deportable after Orche Duski had been taken to the reformatory county attorney Duffy brought his Case before officials of the Bureau of immigration and naturalization. After an investigation these officials informed the county attorney that Orche Duski was not deportable. When he Learned saturday of Orche Duskis a arrest at Berkeley sheriff Leo j. Eisbach communicated with officials of the state Hospital at Independence and was told of the escape from the institution last october. In their investigations county officials Learned that Orche Duski had been carrying on a systematic bites off an ear hearing next Friday Des Moines. La. Up a preliminary hearing for Duane Stinson 16. Charged with biting c. Versteegt sear off during an argument Over parking a truck is scheduled for next Friday. The youth who is married pleaded innocent to a charge of mayhem before municipal judge c. Edwin Moore Stinson a father pleading for leniency said a sending the boy away wont put the ear backs and the Man does no to want to press the charge. He wants the boy to clean robbery of priests Homes in Var up his Raspberry Patch and the vainly and at a tremendous Cost in men to Force the Dardanelles to get at the enemy during the world War when Turkey was fighting on the Side of Germany. Now Turkey is a non belligerent ally of the Western Powers to whom she is linked by a Mutual assistance pact pledging help to one another a in the event of aggression leading to War in the Mediterranean this pact however has nothing to do with the league of nations. Russia to stay out soviet Premier foreign minister to Lotoff a reiteration Friday of russian a non belligerency was regarded in some quarters Here As a promising sign for any Allied blockade in the Black sea. In the event Russia remains oat of the european War which Zolotoff emphasized she will do the allies will be free from the danger of attack from Black sea coasts unless Germany herself pushes through the Balkans. In that Case the British French armies assembled in the near East estimated As 500,000 men can Start operations. The opinion of several Southeastern but open a foreign diplomats was summed up by Deputy Stainoff when he told Slovon the War probably will be decided in the Black sea area. Oil is vital for without it Germany cannot continue fighting. Germany gets All Oil from Rumania and Russia and All the russian Oil shipped across the Black sea. If a Black sea blockade can be mad1 effective France and Britain will win the an Exchange of broadsides Between adherents of Dwight h. Green and Richard j. Lyons rivals for the Republican gubernatorial nomination gave a fresh fillip to popular interest in the final fortnight of the Campaign. Democrats were engaged in a feud from the Start. In the Battle a Trio of insurgent aspirants Are arrayed against entrants backed by the United factions of mayor Edward j. Kelly and National committeeman p. A. Nash and gov. Henry Horner. Total 2,900,000 insurgent Headquarters Here estimated that 1.625,000 illinoisans would vote in the democratic primary. Justus Johnson former chairman of the Republican state Central committee who seeks the nomination for Secretary of state has calculated that More than 1,275,000 would Mark Republican ballots. Kelly Nash Horner organization statisticians postponed their prognostications until next week. The two forecasts totalled 2,900,-000. In the 1936 primaries the total was 2.674,713. Democratic votes numbered 1.597.418 and Republican ballots 1.077.295. The heaviest vote Ever cast in Illinois was in november 1936, when it came to 3.995,088. Deny to nationals of the United states and other countries enjoyment of Long established rights of equal and fair treatment which Are legally and justly theirs. A the government of the United states has noted statements of High officials of that outside Power that their country intends to respect the political Independence and Freedom of the other country and that with the development of affairs in East Asia this intention will be demonstrated. To this government the circumstances both military and diplomatic which have attended the setting up of the new regime at banking do not seem consistent with such an intention. Against arms Force a the attitude of the United states toward use of armed Force As an instrument of National policy is Well known. Its attitude and position with regard to various aspects of the situation in the far East has been made Clear on numerous occasions. That attitude and position remain unchanged. A this government again makes full reservation of this country a rights under International Law and existing treaties and agreements. A twelve years ago the government of the United states recognized. As did other governments the National government of the Republic of China. The government of the United states has ample reason for believing that that government with its capital now at chunking has had and still has the allegiance and support of the great majority of the chinese people. A the government of the United states of course continues to recognize that government As the government of look for four on Page two to a 8 willing to do British Steamer Calls for help new York a a Mackay radio reported saturday night it had picked up a distress Call from the British Steamer King Edward 5,-224 Gross tons saying she had lost rudder and needed immediate assistance. She reported position it about 350 Miles South East of Newfoundland. Home port is London. 4 die in Illinois Oil Well explosion Centralia. 111.�? it pm four men were killed and four other persons were burned seriously saturday in the worst Oil Well explosion and fire in the three years of the current Illinois Boom. A acting president banking. China a a Wang Ching Wei was inaugurated acting president of a japanese organized a chinese National government saturday on a 10-Point program dedicated formally to chinese Jap Anse Amity but aimed for practical purposes at undermining the chinese government and bringing a collapse of China a resistance to Japan. Burned in effigy Wang. A former Premier of China who was burned in effigy at chunking the chinese capital Friday and is under a death sentence imposed in absent a by the chinese government took the oath of office with his colleagues in the japanese sponsored regime at the civil service building. Ironically Wang took the oath seared when a pocket of escaping Gas ignited and exploded at i As actin amp president a spending the the Well West of Centralia the return of president Lin sen to dead were John Smith about 19 years old and Dave Hardin both of Hominy okla. Charles Underwood. 54, of drum Wright okla. And d. E. Red Becan of Tulsa okla., All Oil workers. They died in a Hospital a few hours after the Gas. Exploding in a one big Sheet of flame a set fire to the Well Anu a House. The other burned in the sudden intense Flash of the explosion were Joe Butrick. Of Hominy and Ca-1 Lycette of Avant okla., also Oil workers and or. And mrs. R. W. Stow formerly of Kilgore Tex. but Lin Loyal to the chinese government ordered at chunking Friday All chinese officials to try to arrest Wang so he could be executed As a traitor. Would Stop fighting in preparation for the ceremony Wang and his men last week ordered All chinese troops to Stop fighting the japanese. Hence any hostilities from now on will be strictly unofficial in Wang a ayes if not those of the japanese. The Wing regime also ordered All chinese officials to report to Nan look for one on fags two