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Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Joplin, Missouri The weather Missouri Fau sunday and monday continued mild. Oklahoma fair sunday increasing cloudiness monday continued mild. Kansas fair sunday increasing cloudiness monday continued mild. Arkansas partly Cloudy with mild temperatures sunday and monday. In be full associated press reports final edition vol. Xiv. No. 202. Publication office 117 East fourth Street Joplin Missouri sunday morning March 31, 1910. Thirty four pages. I Ubl Tahud Kinry morning except monday Price five cents no Clark fight at Harmony is keynote As Roosevelt is backed unanimously for third term As president. Reynolds Sigars Given endorsements neither senator nor governor is mentioned by speakers names avoided in resolutions. Carthage mo., March 30.-Harmon was the keynote and prevailed at today s county democratic convention in memorial Hall Here to the extent that the Clark Stark figh for command of the Missouri delegation to the National convention at. Chicago was not even hinted at on the convention fireworks Between St re and Clark supporters was conspicuous by its absence and an instructed delegation with 46 votes was selected to represent Jasper county at the state Conven Litton in St. Louis april .15. / ". Shy from. Floor fight. Speakers failed to mention governor Stark or senator Clark in their talks. The resolutions com-1 Mittee studiously avoided injection of their names with the apparent intention of avoiding any fight on the convention floor and in the interest of maintaining Harmony. Praises of the Roosevelt administration were Sung by All speakers. Vigorous applause greeted each mention of the president and a Resolution endorsing him for a third Jerm was adopted by unanimous ote despite the fact that it was submitted by the resolutions committee without recommendation. A Resolution endorsing state senator Allen Mcreynolds for governor and Vernon Sigars for congressman from the seventh Dis Fifick also was approved by unanimous vote. A the Mcreynolds and Sigars Resolution was one of two submitted by the resolutions committee with the recommendation that they be second Resolution recommended by the committee declared it necessary to continue the present program of peace and Prosperity As outlined and promulgated luring the dark and revolutionary period following the debacle of the helpless Harding Coolidge Hoover regime in Washington when the nation was on the verge of chaos and stating that. The succeeding eight years of National government under the leadership and Faith of our great Patriot and statesman Franklin Delano Roosevelt have seen the nation Rise from bankruptcy to Prosperity courage of the people restored Banks and banking safeguarded Public works encouraged business stabilized the labourer and aged Given Aid and Security in their declining renew allegiance. The Resolution closed with the declaration that we again renew our Faith and allegiance to the everlasting principles of the democracy of Jefferson Jackson Bryan Wilson and the great Roosevelt not being frightened by the bogey of a third term and it further resolved that we Send our delegates to the state convention april 15 in St. Louis inspired and enthused with party Success in county state and nation and free to endorse any and All measures or Junen who the Well be ing and happiness of our country As exemplified by the. Policies of the Roosevelt the Resolution submitted by a Lakeside group resulted in considerable debate and finally was voted upon after a number of other recommendations not dealing with the third term were eliminated. The Resolution As adopted stated that we endorse president Roosevelt for a third term for president As the greatest exponent of democracy and the rights of the common in. The first District composed of Carthage and the Eastern part of the county 15 delegates and 14 alternates were selected after lengthy wrangling which brought Victory to a faction headed by mrs. A Boyd Over one headed by r. A. Mate Newham. Harry Easley of Webb City was left off the be Jerond District delegation after a slate containing his name was presented and judge Ray e. Watson objected that Easley was not on the county delegation. A Twenty six delegates with a half vote each were elected by the Central District group. No contest in third. No contests developed in the third District which includes Jop Lin and 36 delegates with a half vote each were elected. The District group elected Stanley Clay chairman and Georgia Kessinger Secretary. oth Hie second and Bird Dis continued on Page 10 a Helpenstine charged with Tampe ring with grand jury witness in Mitchell probe Noel Man accused of instructing Shubert Price As to what his testimony would be before investigators both appeared before jurors called to investigate mysterious murder of Seneca druggist Helpenstine freed under $7,500 Bond. Special to the Globe. Neosho mo., March 30.-Tracy Helpenstine Noel Cabinet maker and Carpenter was arraigned before Justice James Farrell late today on a felony charge of tampering with a witness who appeared before a grand jury Here in february 1938. The jury was called to investigate the murder of Norman e. Mitchell Seneca druggist. Helpenstine arrested thursday night at Noel following the removal of Shubert Butch Price from the Mcdonald county jail to Neosho was questioned at length today by prosecuting attorney Herbert Douglas the Latte said in connection with the Mitchell Case. Price charged with first degree murder in the Shotgun slaying wednesday night of mrs. Thelma Smith Price is purported to have stated he could name the Slayer of Mitchell if Given the right kind of a shortly after Price was brought to the county jail Here Newton county officers and state Highway troopers arrested Helpenstine at his Home in Noel. He is a brother of Mitchell s widow. Helpenstine was granted a preliminary hearing for april 8, and allowed to furnish $7,500 Bond for his appearance. Price and Helpenstine appeared As witnesses before the Newton county grand jury. Helpenstine Douglas said is accused of instructing Price As to what his. Testimony would be before the jury. The charge filed today against Helpenstine was the result of questioning Price Douglas said. Douglas said tonight that officers were work Rig on some angles that might Lea to startling developments in Mitchell s mysterious slaying. On the other hand the prosecutor said out entirely. We just can t afford to Overlook anything. I talked for a Long time this afternoon to Price and helped Shubert Butch Price. Stine but at this time i can not disclose said regarding the Hie declined to reply when asked if it is possible other arrests will be made before the investigation closes. By i a a a a a a i. Mitchell widely known in Jasper and newter Yco untied we i Jai t continued , .10.avoters to pass on third term Wisconsin primary to be held tuesday Roosevelt Garner entered. Milwaukee March 30.-up the third term question and a Choice Between Thomas e. Dewey and senator Arthur h. Vandenberg confront Wisconsin citizens in next tuesday s balloting on delegates to the major party nominating conventions. For1 those voting in the democratic primary the third term Issue is Clear Cut and May be met in two ways by recording a preference for president Roosevelt or vice president Garner and by voting for Delegate candidates pledged to one or the other. The presidential preference vote merely is advisory in no Way binding on the state s 24 delegates. Literature distributed. The Garner campaigners stress the Point that a vote for their Delegate ticket would be an anti third term declaration. Literature expounding this theory was distributed so widely that Republican leaders recently took note of it by urging their followers to avoid the democratic fight and vote in their own primary. Factional strife resulting in presentation of rival slates of Roosevelt pledged candidates complicates matters for the president s adherents. One group the officially endorsed Roosevelt Farley delegates is led by National committeeman c. E. Broughton. The other is known As the democratic party organization of Wisconsin ticket. The candidates Are pledged to support or. Roosevelt s Choice of a successor should he refuse to run. They question their opponents loyalty to the president but the latter maintain that mention of postmaster general Farley in heir slogan merely is complimentary. Charges Are hurled. Each Side charges the other with splitting the president s strength and with secretly desiring nomination of Farley or Paul v. Mcnutt. In the Vandenberg and Dewey Republican Camps the rivalry likewise is keen but not so bitter. The Dewey workers strategy is to raise the cry that activity of their opponents is directed at stopping the new York District attorney. Climaxing his drive Dewey toured the Poulous areas of the state yesterday and today delivering a major speech in Milwaukee set up in China japanese backed regime makes bid for International recognition. Banking March 30.-up 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 Friendly nations and an intention to re open 1940-0-217334 Seal in ?l0pe and tt6turn to census Here s How you can answer the census Man s questions about your salary in secret. He will give you on request a Blank to fill out giving your answers to the questions. You May Seal this in an envelope he provides and return it to him for mailing unopened to census Headquarters in Washington. Fish to ask probe of German charges declares he will seek impeachment of ambassador bullitt if facts Washington March 30.-4jp rep tentative fish Republican new York said tonight that he would demand a Complete investigation of the German White Book and would seek impeachment of ambassador William c. Bullitt if the facts in a radio address fish said that president Roosevelt and bullitt owed the american people a categorical and detailed answer to every charge made in the Book. It was no answer he said to raise the Hue and cry of propaganda or to Sprinkle a few grains of Salt on its the paper made Public by Germany yesterday purported to be documents seized in the polish foreign office and were described by German officials As showing the United states part in bringing on the War. Nazis Promise new disclosures declare polish documents include communications from bullitt. Turkey said to have agreed to permit passage of democracies fleets through Dardanelles Straits. Threat to German War Supply line shipments of Oil and other materials from russian ports probably will be stopped. Berlin March 30.-13? German officialdom 24 hours after unleashing a diplomatic Blitzkrieg of 16 documents about alleged United states pre War diplomacy leaned Back tonight in Gleeful contemplation and promised even More explosive sensations nobody need try to prove an Alibi to the effect he was misunderstood or that he was misquoted by polish envoys said one official speaking of the documents to come. Spokesmen would not co Samit 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. Spoils of Conquest. Yesterday s 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 the United states ambassador to London Joseph p. Kennedy at length the quotes being attributes 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 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 yesterday s White Book was cheap just when the Vintage stuff is coming was not disclosed. Officials shrugged their shoulders when asked and said it takes time to sift and translate it was obvious however that they had the next Batch of diplomatic ammunition ready for firing. Hourly temperatures a new seasonal High temperature Reading was recorded at 4 05 o clock yesterday afternoon when the Mercury reached the 79-degree Mark. Continued fair weather with mild temperatures is forecast for today. High and Low readings a year ago yesterday were 41 and 39 degrees. Hourly temperatures 1 a. 561 1 p. 74 2 a. 54 2 p. 77 3 a. 52 3 p. 78 4 a. 4 p. 78 i 4 05 p. 70 5 a. 501 5 p. M., .78 6 a. Ra.53 6 p. 77 7 a. 481 7 p. 74 8 a. 571 8 p. 72 9 a. Oil 0 p. 71 10 a. 6s10 p. Rn.70 11 a. 71iu p. 68 noon .72lmlilnight .68 sunday. 1 a. Ra.661 2 a. 61 Bucharest March 30.- # 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 s Supply line from Russia in the Black sea. The newspaper be moment a i Garden As close to the French embassy Here reported forever that Turkey had agreed to place her 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 in 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 conferred at Allevo. Informants Here reported tha turkish decision was reached at a British French turkish military conference a few Days ago at Allevo although such action is contrary to the Monteux convention of 1936 to which Turkey was a party. 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 waa a party. A Way for Turkey to get around this however was explained by Deputy Petko Stainoff of the foreign affairs committee of the bulgarian chamber of deputies who told the Sofia newspaper Slovon that Turkey would let herself be forced to fail to prevent British warships from crossing the Strate i Gic Dardanelles Straits. I As a Black sea nation Bulgaria is vitally interested in this possibility. Could voice protest. Turkey might satisfy formalities other persons indicated by voicing a protest against passage of the Allied warships and having this protest dully filed in the archives of the league of be moment stated flatly that Turkey would give the Green Light to the Allied warships so that these ships can control the traffic of War supplies from russian ports to Germany if the Black sea blockade becomes reality diplomats Here predicted Russia s non German Trade will be scrupulously respected. For months the allies tried 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 in the event of aggression leading to War in the Mediterranean this pact however has nothing to do with the league of nations. Speech promising sign. Soviet Premier foreign minister Zolotoff s reiteration yesterday of Russia s non belligerency waa regarded in some quarters Here As a promising sign for any Allied blockade in the Black sea. In the event Russia remains out of the european War which Molo Toff 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 High As 500,000 men can Start operations. The opinion of several Southeastern Europe s foreign diplomats was summed up by Deputy stain off when he told Sloop the War probably will be. Decided in the Black sea area. Oil is vital for tha i a Ermany can not continue pm be. Germany gets All her Oil frpn5ttoriania and Russia and All the russian Oil is shipped across the Black sea. If a Black sea blockade can be made effective France and Britain will j win the

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