The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 1

6:00 Grand -Central Station 7:00 Millions for Defense 8:00 Glenn Miller Orchestra 9:15 The World Today Radio Table on Faye 10 KFH BROADCASTS BALL GARffi The important Brooklyn Dodger and St Louis Cardinal fame which will have direct bearing on the National league pennant race win be broadcast over KFH Thursday at 3 i 70 El EVENING VOLUME 15 PRICErln the City 3c Outside the City 5c WICHITA KANSAS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1941 FOURTEEN PAGES NUMBER 143 J- -r' 17777? Law Oim Oslo CHANGES PLANT NAME ampm fe Carlson Thinks Loan Provision Bettered Price fAPITAI TFNSiF Ac? uAiicr ic Ad HUUdb 13 CALLED BACK FIRST TJILL FILED HEBE ft I1UHC0PATIUE BEQUEST SPECIFIC ABOUT HORSES Teslafor Who Lived at Park City Once Ri Berlin Says Biitpr Hand-to-hand Battle Is Raging in Outskirts 1 STEARMAN TO BE KNOWN AS BOEING HERE Change in Name Is An-nounced Today by Schaefer and Johnson val Took Cara to Mention Each of the Steads lie Bequeathed Germany1 Invokes Sum mary Death Sentence to Fight Horse Disorders ORDER CURFEW OSLO NORWAY (via Berlin) Sept German authori-' ties today invoked drastic regulations including the summary death sentence under martial law against Norwegian factory strikers (Dispatches from Stockholm reported that strong German arm concentrations surrounded Oslo an controlled all roads arresting per 1 sons without special' permits to en ter the capital and that Commun-" lsts were blamed fpr widespread general strike threats and antl- Nazi demonstrations) The factory workers simply walked out on Tuesday and said 4hey were not returning to their 'jobs It was not known when work might be resumed: Under a state of emergency and martial law declared by the German authorities it was provided that a maximum death sentence could be imposed without appeal for violation of the regulations A minimum sentence of 10 years hard labor was ordered' Any resistance will be broken by armed force the German officials warned in connection with1 the gov- recent declaration that violence would be met with violence if there was resistance to Norway's collaboration in the European new 'order The new decree forbids strikes public meetings or street gatherings and provides -a 7 to 4 a curfew Several strikes began in Oslo Tuesday All theaters and motion picture wUl: devise that my beloved wife shall have in lieu of all dower ive thousand dollars to be kept invested in some safe way by my executors the proceeds of which she may draw at least annually without trouble to her That in addition to said amounts she shall have a home and pasture for her stock two cows one horse and uggy all of the household and dtehen furniture of which we may be possessed at the time of my decease or as much thereof as she may wish also money sufficient for one Further along this wUl there is this interesting tem: my son my driving horse that I am driving at the time rl my decease and if the same should be gentle enough for my wife to drive to my wife then he is to have one hundred and fifty dollars 2 In some of the pioneer wills find striking expressions In one of them for instance I discoverec these provisions a special bequest to a son followed by a bequest to wife: give to my son one yearling colt also one yearling heifer (also one rifle gun) these to be fed and maintained on the dace so long as he remains with his mbther I give and bequeath to my daughter my undivided interest in the harvester now owned by myself and her husband AU the property die possessed of having come to me through my wife I do but simple act of justice in returning to her and leaving it to her to make such provision for the children as she may see fit at her Among the early day testators were some who made gifts to grandchildren' usually in the form of money the amounts usually running arotind $300 to $350 In the first instrument of this kind filed in Sedgwick county April 18 1872 the testator made his will orally in bis last sickness It was therefore nuncupative It was made before witnesses and- reduced to writing and thereafter was referred to In the records as 'written testamentary ords" Two fitnesses afterward testified to the authenticity of the instrument before Probate Judge William Baldwin who probated the will who noted in the record that it was nuncupative Nuncupative wills had their origin in Roman law England admitted them for centuries if the testator bequeathed before seven witnesses Eventually England barred such wills except for sailors and soldiers The Scotch allowed this kind of will only if the be quest did not exceed $500 EARL SCHAEFER general manager of the former Stearman Division of the Boeing Airplane company who will continue as general manager of the Wichita Division of the Boeing Airplane company He is a vice president of the Boeing company The change in the name of the Wichita plant was jnade to simplify and condense the Boeing organizational procedure Schaefer and other Wichita officials will be key men in flying fortress mass production SET UP BOARD DEFER STRIKES President i -Men to Study Rail Dispute STRETCH TIME 60 DAYS HYDE PARK Sept (UP) President Roosevelt seeking to avert a nationwide railroad labor strike set up a five-man board today to investigate the disputes between unions and railways and to report its findings within 30 days It was the first public official act of the President since his mother Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt died last Sunday)' The board was established by a Presidential proclamation which emphasized that It was essential because the disputes Involving op- erating and non-operating railway employes threaten substantially to interrupt Interstate com-merce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transportation Usually such boards are composed (Continued on Page Column 1) SINKS IN 2 MINUTES WASHINGTON Sept 10-(UP) American operated freighter Sessa sank within two minutes after it was torpedoed without warning it was revealed today in accounts of the survivors given to the state department 1 The three survivors picked up by the destroyer USS Lansdale were a Dane' a Swede and a Portuguese They told navy officers that the Sessa was torpedoed without warning at midnight on Aug 17 about 300 miles from Reykjavik Iceland while proceeding to that port from New York The 24 other members of the erew and officers were lost After it was torpedoed the Sessa was struck smidships by two shells and sank within two minutes of the first torpedo the survivors said IS OUTSTANDING FIRM Stearman Aircraft is now known as the Wichita division Boeing Airplane company it is announced today by Johnson Boeing president and Schaefer vice president and general manager of the Wichita division The official statement follows: change of name of the Stearman Aircraft Division of Boeing Airplane company to Division Boeing Airplane Pa JOHNSON was announced today by Johnson Boeing president and Schaefer vice president and general manager of the Wichita division new name which is effective Immediately reflects the closer coordination between the Boeing plant ii) Seattle and the Wichita plant which is now participating in the production of Boeing four engine bombers for the National Defense program as well as the training planes for which the Wichita plant has always enjoyed an enviable reputation change makes for simplifi cation in the name structure of the organization arid consistency of name in the handling of govern xhent contracts It was pointed out It In no way affects the operation (Continued on 1 Page 3 Column 4) HENRY ALLEN TO TALK ON BRITAIN Visited England in Behalf of Children TO ARRIVE SATURDAY Henry Allen who returned to the United States from England ills week will lecture at the Arcadia theater of the Forum next Tuesday night on his observations abroad Allen went to England as a representative of the Save the Children ederation which has as its purpose the evacuation of the youthful victims of war from England He has received scores of invitations to lecture to clubs and organizations here but he will make only the one speech he Informed the Chamber of Commerce by tele-phone from New York City today Admission will be by ticket only These-may be obtained without cost at the Chamber Commerce office The meetings and programs committee of which Paul White is chairman is in charge of arrangements Allen will arrive in Wichita Saturday night JTiouses were closed Cut Semi-recess Short FR Extends Speech Time Calls His Leaders FORMING P0UCY WASHINGTON Sept (UP) The house taf representatives today was Summoned back a week early from its semi-recess Legislative leaders were asked to meet with President Roosevelt tomorrow morning at the White House in a conference which suggested an important development in the international scene President Roosevelt arranged today to meet tonight or tomorrow with his three leading cabinet advisers on foreign Secretary of State Cordell Hull Secretary of War Henry Stlmson and Secretary of Navy Frank indicating that an important development in the international situation may be forthcoming shortly President Roosevelt has extended from 15 to 25 minutes the time to be consumed by the radio address he will deliver to the nation and world at 9 EST (8 CSTj tomorrow White House Secretary William Hassett revealed that the president had completed his address which apparently was revised in the light of latest developments in the international situation Rayburn Makes Request The request for the early assembly of the house was made by Speaker Sam Rayburn and' was transmitted here to Speaker Pro-tempore Clifton Wood rum Rayburn asked that all members meet on Monday instead of 'Sept 2 the date previously agreed upon as the earliest at which controversial busi ness would be taken up Wood rum said that the request did not reveal (Continued on Page 3 Column 2) CLARK ATTACKS ONE-SIDED POLICY Charges Film Industry Pic- tures British Views WILLKIE WANTS PROOF WASHINGTON Sept (UP) Bennett Clark Mo charged before a senate Investigating group today that a of men have transformed the 17000 American theaters 17000 daily and nightly mass metings for Clark testifying before a senate interstate commerce subcommittee investigating alleged propaganda activities by motion pictures and radio said a small clique of Hollywood executives have opened theaters the idea of war to the glorification of war to the glorification of imperialism to the creation of hatred of the people of Germany and now of France to the hatred of those in America who disagree with As Clark spoke Wendell Winkle counsel for the film Industry filed a statement asking that the inquiry be limited to an examina tion of pictures alleged to constitute propaganda Willkle insisted that the investigators have one prime function to report to the senate whether there is reasonable ground for an authorization of the film and radio Inquiries Jlence he argued it must be shown first that an has been committed That is impossible without an evaluation of the films themselves he asserted demanding that the committee discontinue hearing witnesses and look at the pictures In a statement to reporters Will- (Continued on Page 3 Column 2) The Weather IBv Weather Bureau) under tjhe 3 Column 3) de- (Continued on Pagi T- JAP WAR CHIEFS OKAY US PLAN A ''-Xv ifStrjWi fi 'K I s4: FRANK CARLSON Agriculture must have an adequate program and the present one has been of some real benefit to the farmers of Kansas in the opinion Frank Carlson Concordia congressman from the Sixth Kansas district Congressman' Carlson was a -Wichita visitor today He called on a number of his friends here today and with Col Frank Barr visited the Stearman and Cessna aircraft factories Mr Carlson said that he had (Continued on Page 3 Column 41 EAGLE SCHOOL AIDS MOTHERS Study to Meet Soaring Cost of Food Products HEAR MISS HNGSLEY With food prices soaring Wichita housewives who must stay within their budget are deeply grateful for the menus and lectures on food given each day at The Wichita Eagle cooking school by Miss Ann Kingsley Chicago Miss Kingsley as a representative of the National Live Stock and Meat board is rendering a service to all housewives when she lectures and demonstrates on various cuts of meat With a limited budget such as the majority of housewives have in view Miss Kingsley Is devoting a good part of the program each day to informing! her audience how they can save on their meat bills by purchasing the less expensive cuts of meat and by proper Rooking have as tasty meat as the more expensive cuts Nutritionists recommend liver for the family dinner fat least once a week Fried liver- smothered in onions is not always the meat dish to fit with the meal so today Miss Kingsley is demonstrating how to have baked liver with dressing Beef i (Continued on Paso 3 Column 3) RELEASING 1075 FORT RILEY KAN Sept 10 Capt Leo Guiboults assistant adjutant at the cavalry replacement training -center said today that 1073 selectees over 28 years of age would be discharged from active army duty beginning Sept 15 mm By VICTOR MURDOCK It is something to reflect upon this there was a time here when a man on his deathbed making a verbal will and thinking of his earthy possessions put among them definitely and specifically certain horses he owned and which he rized so highly that he included hem separately in his last testament That such was the case is shown in the first will probated in Sedgwick county the will of a citizen of Park City the early rival of Wichita for county seat honors The will was nuncupative Recently Fred Mankoff a native of Sedgwick county and I were talking over frontier days and Sedgwick county pioneers when he mentioned that he had seen at the Court House hot long ago a volume containing the record of the early wills probated here and in it the entry of this "nuncupative bequest Since that conversation I have read this first will and others in the volume The majority of the pioneer wills unlike this one were obviously drawn with lawyer- help The exacp legal terms are In them which we associate with wills to this day Many of the documents open with In the name of God or the name of the benevolent Fathqf of Generally the wills open heir provisions with reference to he payment of and uneral expenses Codicils are quite frequent Attestation by witnesses of the and the of the maker of the will and lis freedom from is invariably included Often wills made In other states and probated where made were iled here In Wichita and recorded in this books for legal reasons' in these are to be found occasionally bequests' out of the ordinary In one of them I came across this phrase: my eldest son has signified to me that he already possesses as much property as both he and his family are likely to need and that be does not wish share In the division of my estate give to him after his decease my large sized photograph likeness now hanging in the parlor and so much of my library as he may desire to receive and to his wife two hundred dollars for the purchase of such memento as she may 1 The bequest of favorite pictures in that era brought into another will a copy of which was filed here the gift of a of the United States from a father to Che will made by an early WiChitan left his diary and the Bible to a friend not of his name In this particular will as in many others the father of the family evidenced greAt care In safeguarding the interests of the widow Here is a provision from the same MILE-WIDE RIVER CREST PASSES IOLA Expect Serious Flood Conditions on South CHANUTE IS ENCIRCLED IOLA KANm Sept The crest of the flooding Neosho river had passed Iola today but the mile-wide wall of water was moving on Chanute Parsons Oswego and Erie and serious flood conditions were expected at those towns Highways were blocked traim (Continued on Page 3 Column 6) Receives line-tenths of Estate BOMBlilG METROPOLIS It BERLIN Sept The German air force launched heavy attacks on Moscow Leningrad and Odessa last night German quarters said today as the high command re-ported that German armies on the eastern front were engaged in and successful The great parade road outside Lenin-" grad has been reached it was asserted German propaganda company reporters flying over Leningrad reported great fires on both sides of the Neva river where Russians had set villages and farms aflame as they retired but the dispatches ad- mitted Red army resistance The enemy on the Neva river bend Is holding positions obstinate-ly and returning shot for shot against concentrated German one dispatch said far as we could determine a bitter battle Is raging for every single houpe and every inch of ground The town of Schlisselburg (rail Junction 22 miles east of Leningrad) Is burning flashes showed heavy artillery and exploding bombs fall ing into the second capital of the Soviet The raids on Moscow Leningrad and major German objectives in were believed to mark an intensification of German warfare against the Soviets Leningrad and Odessa are under- the di- lect fire of attacking German land fences but Moscow is far from the actual fighting front Air- attacks on the three cities were believed linked the intensive fighting reported in a com- Continued on Page 3 Column 1) ODESSA BOLDS OUT AFTER LONG SIEGE Cla im Rumanian Army Smashed in Assaults-7 DEFENSE IS GROWING i MOSCOW Sept The Red army was reported tonight to have destroyed 538 Nazi tanks and inflicted more than 80000 casualties on the Germans in a mighty counter offensive oh the centraF front while in the south one-half of the entire Rumanian army was said to have been wiped out German forces on the central front were reported in pell-mell retreat after suffering terrible losses and dispatches from Odessa as the city entered its second month of siege indicated growing confidence in ability of defenders of the big Black Sea port to hold out -Red army troops popular guards and marines defending Odessa claimed destruction 'jot one-half of the entire Rumanian army in the first month of slegej Barricade System Elaborate Ouerevlch secretary of the Odessa Communist party telegraphed Moscow that the barbarous bombing nor the artillery fire against civilian quarters are (Continued on-Page Column 8) MM Hear Leaders Favor Paci-t fie Peace Agreement IN PRELIMINARY STAGE SHANGHAI Sept Reliable diplomatic informants said today that Japanese cabinet leaders had approved Japanese-United States negotiations designed to ef- WASHINGTON Sept (UP) Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that he had no advices which might Indicate that an announcement might -come soon regarding the Japanese tlonsL feet a preliminary agreement on Pacific problems The preliminary agreement as re- ported would provide the basis for long-range negotiations aimed at fitting together the interests of the United States Great 'Britain Japan and China It was emphasized' that' the Japanese approval of the negotiations held so far was dependent on acceptance by army leaders and other Continued on Page 3 Column 3) HILLTOP MANOR YOUTH CAN ATTEND SCHOOL GRANDCHILDREN ATTENDANTS In this first Sedgwick county will the testator at Park City bequeathed bare mare my bay horse my' black along with his other live stock his in moneys and credits and per sonal property BRITAIN SIGNS PACT WITH To Keep Lend-lease Supplies Off Market TO FIGHT PROFITEERING WASHINGTON Sept The state department today released a memorandum in which the British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden declared that all materials received by Great Britain under the lend-leaseact were used exclusively for war purposes Eden denied that any goods were being diverted to private commercial channels The memorandum was sent to the state department by the American ambassador in London John Winant after conversations in Lon don regarding charges that British exporters were using lend-lease materials to take the business away from American firms with whom they competed in the world market The memorandum from Eden transmitted by Winant to the state department follows: All materials which we obtain (Continued on Page 3 Column 3) BAN EXPANSION WASHINGTON Sept The supply priorities and allocations board ruled today plant expansions to Increase productive capacity of civilian goods cannot be undertaken' during the emergency If the projects require materials essential to defense TO i POUGHKEEPSIE Sept 10 (UP) President Roosevelt will receive the greater part of the estate of his mother Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt her will filed in Duchess county court revealed today The entire Hyde Park estate of some 1200 acres and nine-tenths of his mother's personal property cash securities and bank deposits will go to the President One-tenth of the personal property including cash securities and on page 3 Column 2) MR AND MRij A COOL 250 Ida who were married Incite chapel of the1 Hillside Christian church Tuesday evening by Rev Barbee Robertson with 'their grandchildren aS attendants Sirs Coolwas'the former Mrs Flora Belle Gaghagan of RossvQle Kan Her-grandson Marion Dean Mann 14 acted as best man and Mr granddaughter 3Iary Lou Cool 13 was bridesmaid Mr and Mrs Cool had been engaged for four years but Mrs Cool put off the wedding day because she wanted to care for her aged mother In Rossville She later decided that Mr Cool who is employed at Beechcraft Reeded someone to make a home for him here and later Mrs Cool's mother will come' to Wichita to spend ialintH mini weather mlltitu fer put 24 hears FOR WICHITA: (Falr and wanner tonight and Thursday FOR KANSAS: Fair and wanner tonight and Thursday Sun sets 6:45 Sun rises 6:07 HIGH TEMPERATURES LOW 70 Yesterday 53 80 Today 5 85 Tomorrow 51 PreetaltatleB Chaaute IO ColomDui IS Kaasae City IS DONALD ALLEN SMITH nine-year-old resident el Hilltop manor was awfully glad to tee Harry Me Cormick attendance officer for the board of education today" became McCormick told him that he cquld start to school tomorrow Donald will enter the sixth grade at Ingalls school which Is located at Tenth and Grove Many of the children will travel a number of miles to school each day Some do have transportation and wUl have to ride with neighbors 1-i ihe winter.