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It Is mack euier to suppress a firtt desire to satisfy thote ienthiet THE cast Jar ManiifhimtU; GeaenOy tdr MMtfaKMtf wtrw (MifW ud Saturday, except quite so want tfce VOL. LXV. NO. 54 FITCHBURG, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937-SIXTEEN PAGES TWO CENTS Directors O. K.

Stand ByWallace Board Meets Toda; Sa Demands, With Clarifications, Can Be Met OPPOSE AGREEMENT FORCING DISCH Strikers Hear Organizers At Mass Truck Runs Picket Line Gamut Furniture Mover Buys A'CMJ Plates The board of dimtois of the Fitchburg Paper Co fo'lcnving a lengthy meeting this morning Endorsed the stand of President George Wal'ace in his dealings with employes of the company, members of Local 12 International Brotherhood of Papermakers, now striking STATE HOUSE Boston July 9--Joseph Goudieau, Biddeford, furniture mov er, will never orgct bis eventiul trip to Boston vesterday The following a log of the journej 930 a Slopped in Wellesley state truck inspector Warnsc to secure mtersta'e propert carrier plates 4 --Parked trutk be- hnd public works building and applied at the Department of Public Utilities for plates Cost $11 402 i truck flames from of Public Works building 4 12 Fla-nes fnall extinguished Bos'on fire department approximately 10 engines arrived 4 15 Djmage to truck approx ma'ek S150 loss for 'he City Stews As Mercury Cracks 97 While New England Swelters 1 Only in Three Other Years Since 1861 Has This I Mark Been Surpassed RECORDS 99 'AT SO. FITCHBURG Orange Man Is Prostrated at Work in Independent Lock Co. Plant Yesterday I In a statement released immediately after the meeting, the directors stated that with clarifications union demands could be met Thev further stated that the companv should encourage collective bargaining but were "unanimously opposed to entering anv agreement which could later be used as a basis for compelling the management to discharge an employe who might be faithfully performing his duties The complete statement follows The full board of directors of the Fitchburg Paper Co coisidered for several hours this morning a pro- posed agreement submitted by Local No 12 of the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers as a basis for end'ng the strike at the plant The board felt that in principle and with clarification the union demands could be acccp ed bv the companj and that the companj should encourage collective bargam- 'ng The board was u-iammou'lv opposed tr the compan into any agreement with the union which could later be used as a for compelling the management (Continued on Page Earharl Search Crucial Stage Entered Todav Fitchburg recorded its hottest day this year when the temperature climbed to 97 yesterday with indication that the weather will remain as hot today At the weather ob-j servatory in South Fitchburg, Herbert Allen recorded 99 degrees Both marks were reached at 4 o'clock The intense heat resulted in Rain Storms Threaten to fa prostration of Patrick Interfere Wilh Hunt, Getchell of Orange at his em- Cher Phoenix Isle 4rea ployment in the Independent Lock Co, and continued to cause widespread discomfort among thousands in this section Gambler's Wife Sues 'Bookies' For Big Loss Clash Marks Hearing On Ford-Union Issue "mmnnmflimiiti Special Council Meeting'Called To Speed Jennison Land-Taking Is HONOLULU, July 9 ram squalls threatened to interrupt the search for Amelia Earhart which a airmen considered was entering its most crucial phase todav Despite a forecast of rain and poo 1 visibility officers aboard the Daf'e- ship Colorado planned to her three planes aloft again in expectation of an acr al search the Phoer tomorrow Todav and Saturdav thev said ng they felt was the most critical period union slnce tne coast guard cutter slanted the search just a week aao Airmen felt in flights vestendav and Wednesaday they definitely eliminated the possibility she was in the area around Wmslow reef sea and air search for the missing aviatrix and her navigator Frederick J. Noonan has encompassed approximately 136 000 square miles without even sighting some of the shoals and spits supposed exist in the vast area The fl ers anished a week ago toaav an attempt to flv the 2750 miles from Lae New Guinea to Well-provisioned and with best communications equinment, the Soviet polar camp was established on drifting ice. Tents were pitched; ice blocks were packed about them.

Here a a home-building scene a few miles from the North Pole In spite of extreme cold and the inconveniences of heavy clothing, the men reported they were quite comfortablt. to i i i- Rowland island a dot of land out Causing reoenil rorces two feet above the sea to Mark Time on Finer Because the arm men and equipment are marking time waiting fjr the official taking of about 9000 square feet of land of the Jennison Co and the removal of a building from the land a special meeting ot the city council has been called foi 7 clock Monday night to speed action on acquiring the land The taking of this laid and othei pieces of propertj along the river, together with the removal of buildings and other preliminary work which the contracted to do has been lagging and is now holding up the work of the armv The taking of the Jennison Co property came before the council at (Continued on Page Twehe) During July and Au- Igust the following 1 Florists Will Close 1 SATURDAY EVENINGS at 6.30: Moeckel i Lesure Ritter Three plares from the battleship Colorado stearnmc steadily from ihe equator southward to the Phoenix islands soa-ed ovtr the area east and south of Howland island esterda but sighted no trace of the pair The planes piloted Licuts 0 Lambrecht Fox and Short Jr cou'd not even find Wmslow. reef i old charts showed peeked above the sea 175 miles southeast of Rowland. (Continued on Page Vine) The weather man gave but little encouragement for a break in the tornd spell He promised light show ers late th afternoon but predicted that the relief would last catapult hardly more than an hour or two As cit dwellers continued to shelter in the of the torrid 1 jvdve manv sought relief nea bj posls and lakes Families deserted their homes as the brought 1-ght suppers to be eaten on the shores of places The trek back the was generallv made at a i late hour but even then not much relief was experienced because the mercury remained at a high peak The extreme heat also affected emploment conditions in several plants here todav Postmaster Patrick Shea ordered an afternoon hohda for all carriers on the delivery of mail except those in the business district The Independent Lock Co closed at noon and will pot reopen until Monday morning The heat treating departments at the Simonds Saw Steel Co closed at 3 The thermometer at the city hall which rests the shade all da long, climbed to 98 before noon to- c'av Once before on a JuK 8th the thermometer climbed to 97 That was in 1912, according to records on file in The Sentinel office The 97 Vegetable Man Dislikes C. Clark Gable, War; Likes Cooking And H.

S. The vegetable man was cutting up watermelons the other nornmg as he chatted away on the strike situation that is the talk of the country at this point His ideas on the subject were very definite The trouble is all caused bv the pie in them work four or i weeks and earn onlv about a pay The big labor organizations can get to them, so they stir up trouble i i the big companies, where the men work all the time and get good wages I think the I is just a big political organization They don't help the people should be helping Turning from the labor s'tuation Dr. U. C. Russell Completes Trip To Washington Dr Ubert Russell official representative of Fitchburg council, Boy Scouts of America has just re- recording howeve- is not the record turned from the annual meeting of for this city as a pe two dajs within the the temperature soared to the cen- turv mark On July 4 1911 it reached 100 and exactly eigh' years later (Continued on Page Twelve) One Beer and Wine License Each 5000 Is New Law; None May Be Issued Here To mil Hit, Because of a new statute opera i since June 15 limiting the number of beer and wine licenses which ma be issued in cities to one for 5000 unit of population it will be a long time before anv new li- cences of this kind be issued here There are at the prpvnt time 16 beer and wine licenses here divided as follows Restaurant? 7 clubs 6 and package stores 3 The new law does not prevent the rerewal any licenses granted prior to June 15 Condensed Statement of THE SAFETY FUND NATIONAL BANK of Fitchburg, Mass.

as rendered to the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D. Close of Business June 30, 1937 RESOURCES Cash on Hand and in Bank, $2,024,690.07 United States Treasury Nates 1,437,370.64 Commercial Paper 1,520,000.00 $4,982,060.71 Loans and Discounts 2,669,301.34 Other Bonds and Securities 706,880.82 federal Reserve Bank Stock 30,000,00 Banking House 150,000.00 $8,538,242.87 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $500,000.00 Surplus 500,000.00 Undivided Profits 357,085.39 Reserves 31,075.51 7,150,081.97 $8,538,242.87 Msmber Federal Reserve System -r FJ v-t Corporation Should any of these licenses in excess of 9 be surrendered thej could not be issued to anyone else A study of the records of the li- I cense commission indicates that there should be no concern ever this re- stnction so far as the annkmg lie is concerned, for 'here are at the present time no 80 places in the city where liquors of one kind or another may be purchased Of the total of 80 there are 42 all- alcohohc licenses tabu'ited as follows Restaurants 25 taverns 6, hotels 2 and package stores 9 There are 13 druggists' licenses and, in separate quota, there are 9 club licenses The revenue from these 80 together with the fees from special one-day licenses granted for picnics and outings for the current is estimated at $31 000 ak figure On i the national council in. Washington past 26 years i This meeting was in conjunc- tion with the na'ional jamboree of the Scouts which began June 30 and ends Held in a different cit each vear the purpose of the meeting is to transact business and to adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of scouting in the ensuing year This year session was under canvas in the center of tne jamboree encampment not more than 200 feet from the foo of the Washington monument Approximately 27 000 Scouts and leaders from 535 local councils have been (Continued on Page Ten) Two Killed As Car, Truck Crash in N. H. FRANKLIN, July 9 -Leo Forcier, 59, of Chicopee Falls Mass, and Norbert DeCelles, 70, of Woonsocket, I.

were killed and the letter's wife, Mart critically hurt today when their car and a truck collided City Marshal John Dodge said the Forcier car and a truck, owned and (Continued on Page Twelve) giimiiiinHiHiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiii nmiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiimiiimiiiiimniiiiu: I F. L. DRURY SONS CO. I Genuine Spring i Lamb Legs, lb. I Fancy Native Fowl, lb Fancy Native I lb Native Veal Chops, lb Boneless Veal to 1 Roast, lb Native Sterling I Ducks, lb Blue Ribbon Smoked Shoulders, 1 lb.

I Fresh Killed I Turkeys, lb. Batchelder Sny 34C 34c 39c 33c 31 29c 29c 36c 39c 25c 15c Fresh Broccoli, 21bs. Native Wax Beans, 2 Ibs. aCOC Fancy Native Cukes, 2 for Fresh Native 4 Carrots 2 bun. 9 Best Juice Oranges, 9 A doz O9C Overland Chicken and Egg Noodle, jar Creole Tomato 4CM Catsup .2 bots.

33 Overland Tomato OQ A Cocktail. .2 bou; 33V Home- Fudge, lb. 5KJC Mm P. O. N.

Amber --A 33c to lighter things, he admitted that he liked the movies a lot. With no hesitation he named Barbara Stan- wyck as his favorite actress Greta Garbo was good, but she had been slipping in the past few yeais He wasn quite as sure about his favorite actor Robert Taylor and Clark Gable didn appeal to him at all But he thought Gene Raymond was good Hed seen him in a oicture a little while ago, and he liked Again changing the subject. he said, "looks quite so had as a girl wearing last years hat He likes the styles this ear and thinks they look well on most women (Continued on Page Ten) Public Utility Industry Can Be Choked to Death Babson Warns Investors to Watch Taxes; Thinks Bearishness Overdone 4 Electrocuted At Power Plant In Oldtown, Me. OLDTOWN Me Jul 9 Four emplojcs of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre working on a company dam and power plant on the Penobscot ruer, were killed toda when a derrick boom came in contact with a high tension wire The men killed were Edwin Tler, 21, and George Shorerte, 63 foreman and Romaine Shorette, 22 all of Bradley, and Ernest Pelletier 31, of Oldtown Romaine was a nephew of the elder Shorette. George Shorette and Pelletier were marned The bodies of all four ere badl curned by the current, making immediate identification difficult Plant employes said the line with which the derrick came contact carried a voltage of 440 000 and ran from the Veazie dam of the Hydro-Electric Co to the fibre plant The men had just begun their day work repairing the fibre com(Continued on Page Nine) Open Warfare Threatened By Soviet Russia By ROGER BABSON (Special to The Sentinel) BABSON PARK, July 9--No industry is giving investors more concern than the utility group Thursday was the fifth anniversary of the 1932 bear market low but power stocks are up onlv 60 per cent against nearly a 300 per cent gain for industrial and railroad stocks Politics and taxes have prevented investors fiom sharing equally in the huge recovery which has taken place securities as well wages, farm prices, and real estate Furthermore, there are still no signs of the sun breaking through the clouds hanging over the utilities Only the people who hold bank deposits and own insurance policies are larger in number than those who have invested money in the power and light business Probably 8,000000 people have directly loaned their savings--and millions of others in- (Conbnued on Page Fourteen) At the time of the Spanish conquest there were about 300000 llamas in in Bolivia for carrvmg silver from the famous Potosi mines Below a depth of one mile ocean water remains in temperature, tude.

DETROIT, July 9 counsel for the Ford Motor Co. and a National Labor Relations Board tnal examiner lashed toda over testimony that "hoodlums' and a mystenous "leader of the down-river gang" participated in the rout of union members who sought to distribute pamphlets at the Ford River Rouge plant May 26 Testimony of Arnold Freeman, Detroit Times photographer, led to the contention Freeman was a witness as the L. R. resumed a hearing on its complaint that the Ford company was guilty to unfair labor practices. Iiouis J.

Colombo, conducting the Ford defense, objected to several questions and answers in a row, asserting the answers were immaterial, irrelevant, incompetent and high, prejudicial to the, company. Examiner John T. Lindsay interrupted. "Mr Colombo," he said "Before this hearing started I told you I wanted short objections. There is no need for encumbering the record as you are doing "Shouldn't I be the sole judge of when to object," Colombo demanded heatexily "Am I not here to protect my clients constitutional rights'" "You can protect your rights by entering objections when direct examination is over," Lindsay replied The Ford attorney on cross- examination brought out that Freeman is a member of the American Newspaper Guild, and that the guild is affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization--parent organization of the United Automobile Workers Freeman had testified he encountered "hoodlums" wearing "Ford badges' during the May 26 fracas, which union organizers were severely beaten.

Cotton Wins British Open Second Time English Pro Posts 290 For 72-Hole Tourney, Placing in Rain CARNOUSTIE. Scotland, July 9 Henry Cotton. British professional, won the Bnt'sh open golf (Continued on Twelve) Steel Union Chiefs Call New Strike in Yoimgstown But Workers Ignore Order MOSCOW, July 9 OP)--The Soviet government threatened Japan with open warfare today if Japanese troops do not keep out of Siberia Maxim Latvinoff, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, warned the Japanese ambassador, Mamoru Shigemitsu, that Russian troops along the Siberian-Manchoukuoan border had firm orders "in no case to allow Japanese-Manchurian troops to cross Soviet frontiers" "All possible means," the foreign commissar told the Japanese representative, would be used to dnve out any Japanese or Manchoukuoan troops that set foot on Russian territory YOUNGSTOWN Ohio July 9 --Steel union leaders called a new strike today in Republic Steel Cor- porat.on's plant here in a move to reform lines punctured by reopening of mills two weeks ago But the call apparently was ignored by workars, as none of them left the mills George Simcox, vice-preisdent of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee unit at the Republic plant, announced the new strategy at a meeting last night Tom White, president of the lodge, confirmed the call, which set the walkout for 1130 a (E. today Simcox staement followed by a few hours the assertion made by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, that "the steel strikes are lost" Green has been at odds with John Lewis, ex-officio leader of the steel strikes as chairman of the Philip Murray chairman said at Pittsburgh he had not heard of the move planned at Youngstown and declined comment Simcox said the strike call was issued here only to Republic employes and that similar action in the plants of Youngstown Sheet Tube Co would be taken later He asked all strikers to gather at the Poland avenue gate of the Republic mill and 'show Tom Girdler that the real Republic workers are not the plant Republic reported yesterday that (Continued on Page Nine) Sit-Down Strike at Warsaw WARSAW, July 9 W-Some 600 members of the staff of the Standard Nobel Co staged a sit-down strike today when the employes said they learned the recent amalgamation of the company with the Socony Vacuum Oil Co had involved a non- Committee for Industrial Oreaniza- twn, parent body of the S. W.

O. numbe of discharges and no led a rebellion in the ranks recogniUon of vacation schedules of the A of his fight for vertical unionization Green based his assertion on his claims that the S. W. 0. had en- i rolled only a minority when it called the strikes and that it lacked public support because of "the violent policies pursued by the C.

I Some ultra-violet rays are invisible to people, but visib'e to i bees. Also Attaches Alice Hudson, Hastings, Keith Mrs. Anna Chrostowski Takes Action Against Dignam and Moyuihan MATE LOST $2000 ON HORSES, SHE SAYS Attempts to Recover Three Times That Amount From Operators, Building Owners' George Dignam and George Moyruhan have been named defendants in suits brought by Mrs. Anna Chrostowski, 104 Snow street, for $6000, three times the amount of money alleged to have been lost by her husband "playing the at booking establishments conducted by the two defendants. Alice Hudson, Charles A.

Hastings and Thaddeus F. Keith, owners or trustees of buildings in which Ehgnam and Moynihan are alleged to have conducted the booking offices, have been sued for $2000 each Bank accounts and real estate owned by the five defendants have been attached by Allen Allen, attorneys, who represent Mrs Chrostowski in the actions The writs are returnable in superior court, Aug 2. It is alleged by Mrs Chrostowski that her husband Herbert Chrostowski, who is known throughout the city as Herbert Chrost, frequented the bookie offices alleged to have been conducted by Dignam and Moynihan and lost at least $2000 playing the horses at their establishments during the past year. (Continued on Page Heavy Uniforms Of Police Here Bother Visitor Retired Y. Force Officer Saj Fitchburg Traffic Men "Don't Get Break" "This is the first place I ve struck where the police don a fair break in the summer volunteered a former New York traffic officer this morning after he had seen police here in their heavy, warm uniforms.

The officer was Nelson J. Merrill 21 Highland avenue, Binghamton who has retired after 25 jears on the New York force He was a patrolman and sergeant, and was retired as lieutenant On his way to New Hampshire for a vacation Nelson noticed the uniforms of Fitchburg officers and became quite heated about them "It burned me up to see those men in heavy shiris and he said 'With the temperature at 99 there is no excuse for those warm clothes' "Consideration is shown men in other cities In Worcester the police are in their shirt-sleeves--not blouses, but white shirts The same for Hartford, Danbury and about a dozen other cities I came through "In New York City," Nelson continued, "the police have diffarent uniforms for all the seasons They wear light khaki material hi the summer, and no puttees'" Nelson noted that one officer on lower Main street was covering two or three stations "Where are all the reserves''" he wanted to know. The annual per capita consumption of wine in the United States increased from less than a quart in 1934 to nearly a half gallon 1S4. Columbia university is the third richest university the United States, with endowments totaling $69,000,000 (Continued on Ten) If you own real estate- i If you want to buy-- 1 5 If you want to sell- I If you want to rent-- you may find it helpful to jtalk with us. FITCHBUR6 CO-OPERATIVE BANK 298 Main St.

Tel. 212 Do Yw Plan To Save? We suggest two good which, if followed, will bring fortune. 1. Buy nothing unless you can pay for it or have every reason to believe your future income will take care of iU 2. Save a part of your weekly or monthly earnings and put them in this Mutual Savings Bank where they will earn compound interest.

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