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XXXII, NO. 232 Bwt of Ne PMturw, and Plctoruu Servtow COSHOCTON, OHIO TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1941 Pull LMaed Wire Report ot Dotted THREE CENTS NAZIS SMASH BRITISH-GREEK DEFENSE LINES; JUGOSLAVIA NEAR SURRENDER STIMSON SAYS 1). S. MUST BE ABLE TO FIGHT War Secretary Calls on Army and Navy To Be Ready WASHINGTON Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that the United States army and navy must be prepared to fight in any part of north, south or central America, "or even possibly other regions" where it may be necessary to use them in defense of this country and its possessions.

Stimson's statement was made at the opening meeting of the special senate committee's investigation of the defense program. His reference to the necessity of training American armed forces "for the possibilities of war in many and varied terrains," followed a warning that the United States faces an infinitely greater danger than it did din-ing the World war days. However, he said there were many encouraging factors in the defense situation, because of the "intelligent advance planning" by the War Department in collaboration with American industry. Planning Necessary Stimson pointed out that Germany had been preparing intensively for war since 1933 and asserted that "to plan for war today a nation should commence its preparations at least three to five years in advance." "Today," he said, "not only are we facing a dangerous emergency, but there is strong evidence that this emergency may be very prolonged and that we may have to continue our effort for a long time." He did not mention strikes or bther disputes which have created demands in congress for legislative action against work stoppages in defense industries. He emphasized the complexity of defense problems since the World war and expressed his pleasure with the way the army has coped with them.

Production Rises He told the committee that industry has raised production of war materials to a point where it is running eight to 12 months ahead of wartime levels of 191718. Initial phases of the war department's production responsibility have been completed arfd this summer forces in training will be "well on their way to being fully he said. "No soldier will lack the basic weapons sufficient to carry his training well ahead and his heavier equipment will be coming forward steadily and in substantial quantities," he said. "From this point forward, the chief responsibility for the speedy completion of the equipment will rest upon American industry." THE TEMPERATURES (Hourly Temperatures are Obtained Dailv from the Local Sub-Station of the Ohio Power Company) 4 Slain in Southern Mine War 250 Men Participate In Pitched Battle; Many Injured MIDDLESBORO, Ky. Four men, including two company officers were shot and killed and seven others were wounded when union and non-union miners fought a violent gun battle early today near the Fork Ridjie Coal and Coke Co.

mine across the state line in the rough moun- I tainous country of northern Tennessee. Between 15 and 20 other men received minor injuries and were given first aid treatment in hospitals here. Approximately 250 men participated in the fighting which took place about 2 a. m. on a narrow mountain road leading from this southeastern Kentucky community to Fork Ridge in Claybourne county, near where the mine is located.

Union pickets, members of the United Mine Workers (CIO) some of whom were said to have come from Harlan county, where there have been two outbreaks of violence during the current bituminous shutdown, went to the region to prevent non-union miners employed on 1 a. 56 2 a. 54 3n. 54 4 a. 55 5 a.

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2 m. I MARRIAGE LICENSES Charles Bachman, 30, Route 3, papermill worker, and Grace Johnson, 23, Coshocton. Father A. J. Domm.

GET WAGE INCREASES BUFFALO, N.Y.--Approximate- ly 1,200 Great Lakes tugmen were given wage increases today under two collecting bargaining contracts between the Great Lakes Towing (fompany of Cleveland and two American Federation of Labor Un- GIRL MOTORIST KILLED CLEVELAND, Lorctta Stanton, 19, Paincsv illc, was killed today wlicn the automobile in which she was returning to her home from a dance crashed into a safety zone abutment in East Cleveland. INJURED IN FALL Mrs. a les Hardesty of Conesville suffered severe facial lacerations and bruises Monday cnmg when she off the low i a i i wall at the rity hospital a i lof. Don tinned on Page Ten) Moffitt Retains Seat in Council Re-elected by Members After Moving From First Ward Paul Moffitt, Republican first ward councilman, was unanimously re-elected to city council at the regular meeting last night after his absence from his ward for approximately eight weeks had necessitated a special vote to fill his vacated position. At the last regular meeting three weeks ago it was called to the attention of council that the position of first ward councilman had been vacated and Mr.

Moffitt was told that he would have to be living in the first ward by the time of the meeting last night in order to be re-elected to his position on council. Before being elected last night he gave his address as 429 South Third the address of his mother-in-law. Councilman Wesley Clark acted as spokesman for a group of citizens in his neighborhood last night, asking council to have the alley running from Bank to Alder sts. between Seventh st. and jSouth Lawn av.

graded so that during rainy seasons the water will drain to Alder and Bank rather than into the adjoining garages and lots as is now the case. Street Commissioner John on Page Ten) RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Earl McFee returned to his home- Saturday on Coshocton Route 2 from the Veterans' hospital, Chilh- cothe, where he has been confined the past three and a half months He is slightly improved. ENDS LIFE WITH RIFLE ZANESVILLE, O-- Sherifl Ed. Redman reported today that Howard George, 60, Hopewell farmer, committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. You Asked for It-Tribune readers have been demanding- a serial that is unusual, different.

Here's our POWER" by Oren Arnold, beginning today. Here are thrills of modern science atomic pouer released in destructive fury--a story that goes ahead of the headlines--to five you a glimpse into the future. Here's romance--a jealous, brilliant woman matching her scientific genius against the love of a beautiful girl. Here's excitement--a mountain explodes a midnight train robbery--a girl's parachute jump from a storm-lashed airplane. You'll find all this, and more, too, in Thr Trlhunr's new serial, "LOVE POWER." Community Chest Drive for $17,125 is Under Way Today Intense Campaign is Planned at Dinner Monday Night A streamlined campaign to put Coshocton's 1941 Community Chest over the top was launched today by scores of solicitors following the kick-off dinner Monday evening in American Legion hall.

The drive will continue only one week this year, instead of 10 days as in 1940. Since the goal, $17,125, is slightly higher than last year, this means the workers must intensify their efforts and make the best possible use of the time available. "We're going to raise this money as quickly as possible, and take no more of your time than is absolutely necessary," said Dr. Floyd W. Craig, 1941 campaign chairman in explaining the "streamlining" of the present drive.

Dr. Craig also announced that campaign headquarters will be located in a storeroom next to the Park hotel at 319 Main sfr. The telephone number is 19. Workers are requested to report there promptly thruout the campaign. Tom Carton was toastmaster at last night's dinner and Mayor Ben Hardy, as the first speaker, pointed out that the Community Chest goes into this year's drive with increased confidence in view of the success achieved in the initial campaign last year.

Dr. Craig then spoke and paid tribute to Stuart Lane, Jirst chairman of the Community Chest board of control, Lawrence Burns Jr the new chairman, Knox Stewart, secretary, and Guy Clow, on Page Ten) Bickel, Cox Held Under Huge Bond BULLETIN YOUNG STOWN, Bickel, 21 and Harold Cox, 20, both of Coshocton, were held today under $10,000 bond each on charges of robbing and slugging Miss Edna Shea, former telephone operator at Youngstown city hall. Police said the youths were wanted authorities a Greensburg, and Kalamazoo, on purse-snatching charges but said they would be held here until their trial. Bickel and Cox both pleaded innocent when arraigned before Judge George H. Gessner.

No date has been set for the trial. They had been charged previously with the murder of Mrs. Alphonsus Folcy, 3fi- ycar-old mother of nine children, but were exonerated in a lie detector test. The youths claimed they -were in Greensburg when Mrs. Foley was killed here.

Greensburg police said their alibis checked with purse-snatchings which occurred there on the night of the murder. AAA Meeting Slated Wednesday at Fresno An AAA meeting will be held Wednesday night at the Fresno school auditorium, in charge of Mrs. Margaret Gcphart. county key woman of the Home Conservation Council. Principal speakers will be Berle White, head of the Home Conservation Council, J.

O. Sherrick of and Herald Mikesell, a i a of the Coshoc- lon county AAA. BIRTH NOTES 1 A daughter was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schlarb, Coshocton Route 3.

BOAT CAPSIZES SHELBURNE, N. 132-foot fishing schooner capsized while being launched today and police bc- several workmen crushed under it. I What the Y.W. Means Give to the Community Chest Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles on the participating agencies in the Community Chest. Your contributions to the Chest campaign, which starts today, helps to support these agencies.

Part of every Community Chest dollar goes to finance Girl Reserve and Young Women's Christian Association activities which are an important part of the training of young Coshocton girls. Here is the "long view" of what these organizations actually do lor young women, written by a Girl Reserve in her own words and from her own point of view: By A GIRL RESERVE The YWCA is one of ttoe good things oi hie that most of us Girl Reserves just take for granted. Just as we have hot running water, electric lights, school and comfortable clothes, so do we have the YWCA. Why, life is simply im- Heart Attack Fatal To Warney Palmer Residence Today Warney D. Palmer died at 10:30 a.

m. today at his home, 181 Park of a sudden attack of heart disease. He was 70. The attack followed his convalescence from a fractured knee-cap sulfered in a iall recently. He was born Feb.

7, 1871, in township, and spent almost all his life in this county, except for a few years during which he resided in Trinway. He operated a coal truck during recent years. He was married three times, first fo Jessie Arnold, who died in 1914, second to Laura Dile, who died 15 years ago, and last, in 1928, to Mrs. Rebecca Wills, who survives. Also surviving are nine children by the first marriage, Rus- Palmer of Ottawa, Kansas, and George.

John and Ward, all of Akron: Mrs. Pat Thompson of Warsaw; Mrs. Frank Johnson of Route Mrs. Julia Farver and Donis Darr of this city, and Mrs, Clarence Smalley of West Lafayette. No funeral arrangements have been made.

Part of the Girl Reserves' program is to teach girls social poise, as Is shown above by a group at a tea held at the Y.W.C.A. possible to conceive without this second home! Where else, besides our own homes, do we receive such a cordial welcome? When we have an urgent phone call to make, what do we do? Why, dash into the YW! If we must wait for someone, or even if we're ju.st plain tired, where do we go? To the YW, of course! If we need inspiration for school or personal project, where do we get it' You're rifihl--from the YW! But even these things, important as they are to us high school girls, are trivial when compared with ihe benefits we derive from our Girl Reserve clubs. They say that one ceases to make friends (friends are lifelong intimates) after he is an adult. It follows, then, that if we are to gain the priceless treasures of friendship, we must gain the friendships while we are still practically children. The Girl Reserve clubs offer a superb opportunity to "win friends and influence people." We "sophisticated seniors" look back with a smile to our seventh grade attempts to be "important," but when we slop to think, we realize that we WERE important.

Local Medical Men Called Into Service Two Coshocton physicians and a dentist have been called to duty as officers in the U. S. army. The physicians, Di. T.

F. McAllister. North Seventh and Dr. H. F.

WhcrJey, South Third will leave within the next three weeks. Dr. McAllister i report May 5 at Fort HIURR, N. and Dr. Whcrlcy i go to Fort Knox, May 1.

Dr. W. II. Carpenter, the denti.it, is awaiting instructions as to where and when to icport. Their families will join them later.

BOY KILLED BY AUTO BELLAIRE, Leo Hoyt, 10, was killed last night when his bicycle swerved into the path of an automobile. Our Kolah club was as important to us as the various women's clubs are to the women, and besides, it was, and still is, only club for seventh-grade girls. It was back in the Kolah and Winona clubs that we first learned how meetings are conducted, and it was there that we first gained courage to actually participate in club activities. It was there that we saw our first style show and attended our first tea. Then, when we entered high school and the Pioneer club, we "pioneered" into new fields--nearly every Girl Reserve remembers with pleasure the various Girl Reserve dances.

Now we P.E.P.'s have fun doing all these things. These things may seem rather superficial, but they arcn'l. It's important to polish off the edges-to smooth and case our contacts with people, and the only way we can do that is to meet and mingle with people. Important as these things arc, (Continued on Mrs. Caroline Kirch Dies Early Today at Home Near Danville Mrs.

Caroline Kirch died at 8 a. m. today at Ihe home of a daughter, Mrs. H. J.

Mizcr, Danville Route 1. She was 81. She was born in Newcastle township Feb. 29, 18(30, and spent her entire i in that vicinity. She was a member of Dutch Run Evangelical church.

Her husband, Lewis Kirch, is deceased. i i are two children, Mrs. at whose home she died, and G. S. Kirch of Walhonrling Route; a sister, Mrs.

B. F. Stillingcr, A five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services i be held at 1:30 p. Thuisclay at the Mizer home, followed by a i i a rites at 2.30 m.

at Dutch Run chinch. Rev. Ray Har'sough of Glonmonl i be in charge and burial will be made in Tiverton cemetery. Britons Prepare To Flee Balkans, Germans Assert Panzer Divisions Storm Thru Greece as Defenders Withdraw of present fighting uniformly south of the northern defense system which had run from Phlorina to Gianitza. The Greeks admitted evacuation ot Corizza, the Albanian roads center, which gave Italian and Ger(Continued on Page Ten) By UNITED PRESS Adolf Hitler's panzer divisions stormed across Greece today, shattering the whole first line of Greco- British defenses and carrying the battle near Mount Olympus, fabled home of ancient Greek gods.

Nazi hammer blows splintered defenses which had been thrown up across northern Greece from Phlorina to Giunilza. The Greeks and their British allies appeared to be falling 1 back to mid-Greece for another stand from loannina to Larisa. German rumors said that to the north the Jugoslavs were asking for an amistice and capitulation might come within a short time. Nazi propagandists insisted the British were preparing to evacuate their expeditionary force from Greece but there was no confirmation of these rumors from Athens or London. The German high command said two columns were thundering southward in the eastern sector of the Greek front.

The, communique of the Greek high command indicated one or two other- columns are smashing southward farther Close In On Olympus One Nazi column thru about 45 miles south of Phlorina and moved southeast across the Aliakmon river, to enter the town of Scrvia, 17 miles northwest of Mount Olympus. A second German column was moving down the coastal road from Salonika the direction of Mount Olympus. To the wc.st the Greeks appeared to be abandoning their hard- won gains in Albania because of danger that their positions would be flanked and made untenable by the loss of Coriz7.ii and German movements houthwestward from Bitolj. Axi.s sources repeated again and again that the British are preparing to evacuate their expeditionary force from Greece. Some reports said the withdrawal already was under way.

The Nazi Luftwaffe repeatedly at shipping in Greek harbois which might be used for evacuation. Retreat in North From London and Athens there was no confirmation ol the reports of a British embarkation. But a detailed statement by the Greek high command, coupled with brief statements from British sources, made plain that a general withdrawal from northern Greece was under way. The towns mentioned by the Greek high command as locations Adding Machines Bot for Two Courthouse Offices START BIG PI-ANT AKRON, A i a Corp i i a said today construction work would be immediately en a $3,600,000 a i a parts a The new plant is ex- pcctcd to a employment for 5,000 workers. Lie Detector Clears Bickle of Murder CLEVELAND, O.

Cleveland police revealed today thai their new lie detector had cleared three young "confessed" murderers, from Coshocton, Ohio. A in Kalamazoo, Owen Bickel, 21, and Harold Cox, 20, were taken with Cox's wife, Jane McKnight Cox, 14, and Eileen Sullivan, 16, to Yotmgstown after they admitted robberies in several cities. Subjected to a severe (frilling; by Youngstown police, the girls and one youth admitted the murder. They named the other as the trigger man in the robbery-slaying- of Mrs. Margaret Folcy, 36.

The other stoutly denied the killing and police sent for ballistics Superintendent David L. Cowles, of Cleveland. A six-hour session with the lie detector convinced the confession was false. Cox and ISickcl had hern charged with fir.st decree murder but no charges were filed against the girls. Charges were withdrawn and instead the quartet was turned over to Greensburg, authorities who sought them on a warrant charging robbery in connection with alleged pursc-snatchings.

Ooxvlcs said they had "con- frvsed" to escape further ordeals of a long: frilling. The county commissioners this week purchased two adding machines tor u.sc in county offices from the i a Office Supply Co. A Sunstrand, priced at $175.50 less $40 allowance for an old machine, was obtained for u.io of the county auditor, and a Remington $127 model was purchased for the county treasurer for $92 cash and $35 allowance on an old machine. Rotary Entertained by Scherrer Trio at Meet Hopkins Head of Lend-lease Aid F. D.

Names Right-Hand Man as Chief of Program A I President Roosevelt today formally placed his right-hand man, Harry L. Hopkins, in command of the lend- lease program of aid to democracies. In a letter to Secretary the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Mr. Roosevelt terminated the liasion committee established Dec. 6, 1939, to coordinate foreign military purchases with America's own defense program.

Simultaneously, he designated Hopkins to supervise purchase 'by all countries in the lend-lease area." BUSINESS SECTION OF OHIO VILLAGE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE Coshocton Rotarians were entertained with piano music and tap clancmK by the young Schcrrer trio today noon at the weekly luncheon at Pail: hotel. Robert Seherrer favored with a group of piano solos and a novelty dance was presented by Peggy and Jackie Schcrrer, accompanied by Margaret O'Haia. FIRE SWEEPS LUMBER YARD DAYTON, firemen and a woman spectator today were recovering from injuries received i a fire which destroyed one- half of the i Lumber Co. y.ird causing damage estimated at $75,000. MARIETTA, W.

O. Lindamood today began an investigation into the cause of a fire which virtually wiped out the business district of the village of Bratlctt causing damage estimated at more than $100,000. Firemen from four different eommumities and state highway patrolmen brot the fire under control early today after seven buildings had been destroyed and a number of others damaged. State Fircmarshal Ray Gill said at Columbus that one of his deputies stationed at Glouster may be on his way to Bartlett. He said he had received no request for an investigation.

The fire was discovered about 10 p. m. last night. Firemen from Marietta, Bclpre, Beverly and Athens fought the blaze with water obtained from wells and cisterns. Barlldt, located 22 miles from here, a trading center for a large rural area.

Buildings destroyed included the post office. HOSPITAL NOTES Mary Heisser, 444 Locust minor operation. Homy Banks, Laylarid, minor operation. Infant Dies The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Dennis Ott, Bakersville, died at 8M5 p. m. Monday, shortly after birth. Fuueral services will be held this evening at the Jones-Lydick chapel in Newcomorstown. Rev.

H. I Leo of iho Presbyterian church i i i a rind burial will be in the Bakcrsville cemetery. NEWSPAPER! NEWSPAPER!.