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MARSHALL EVENING CHRONICLE SIXTIETH YEAR MARSHALL, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1938 PRICE THREE CENTS: FISHER BODY PLANT STRIKE IS ENDED THEY Here MAKE and NEWS There Star Rises in Red Sky In the country where men rise to positions quickly, and sometimes disappear just as quickly, Lavrenti Barea (above), former Georgian secret police chief, hus emerged as third most powerful man in Russia. He has been uppointed acting assistant to commiswar for home affairs. "No Charmer!" Authority, said the power-flood control project is extremely "valuable" factor in national defense, that the valley should be a leading munitions center. Noel Carter. (above), pretty Broadway showgirl, admitted friendship with wealthy William P.

Buckner, but denied she went to Washing. ton in the alleged party" to charin political leaders. Buckner, was arrested in New York an alleged T. V. A Witness IT.

B. Parker, chief engineer of the iT. V. testifying before the spe: clal committee in Washington investigating the Tennessee Valley FACTOGRAPHS It WAS on Oct. 30.

1753. that George Washington received his first commission from Governor Dimwiddie of Virginia. The late President Woodrow Wilson once was 8 football couch. At the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. bananas were such'.

a novelty that they were wrapped in tinfoil and sold at a dime each. Keeping shoes well polished will. not only make them look but it will prolong the Ute of the uppers considerably. Insurance experts regard authors as poor risks. They list them somewhere between quitera and divers.

PETITION CARRIED TO SUPREME CT. Kellay Seeks Writ of Mandamus in Recount A 28-page petition for writ of mandamus was being this morning in the office of Atty. N. A. Cobb.

of Battle Creek. for presentation to the Michigan preme Court. In connection with the recount battle between Sheriff Perl J. Kellay and Albert W. Schuler.

the latter having Seated Kellay for re-election by a majority of 305 votes 'The petition asks that the high "ourt prevent the county board of canvassers from carrying out its decision announced Saturday ternoon. to count close to 150 ballots which Mr Cobb maintains are technically Irregular. It Is estimated that the appeal to the Supreme Court will entail an expense of close to $150 for Mr. Kellay. Mr.

Cobb planned to take the petition to Lansing some thine today. matter is being carried difreetly to the high tribunal so AS ito expedite completion of the owing to the fact that if It wAS appealed to circuit court. Is regarded as 1 virtual certainty that the losing side would appeal to the Supreme Court. Attorneys Argue Mr. Cobb contends that many of the absent voters ballots should be ruled invalid because they were not properly recorded in the poll books.

Attys. James W. Cleary and Ronald Ryan, representing Mr Schuler, argue that this would disenfranchise many voters because of errors of election Inspectors (Concluded on Page 5, Column 2) THIRD-TERM BOOM JARS DEM. RANKS Guffey Says Pennsylvania's 72 Votes for Roosevelt In 1940 WASHINGTON. D.

unexpected boom to renominate President Roosevelt In 1940 threatened today to Involve the new Congress in a -term debate which would jar the Democratic party from top to bottom. Mr. Roosevelt WAS put forward to beat the "camouflaged Fasicsm" of the Republican party by Senator Guffey, Democrat, Pennsylvania, a member of the Democratic nation(Concluded on Page 3, -6) CCC Completes A Dangerous Enterprise CUSTER, 8. -Harney Peak, highest mountain east of the Rockies, grew 35 feet the past year -the height of A new stone. fire lookout erected on top of the Black Hill's pride and joy.

CCC enrollees, working the Harney National Forest service, completed the lookout's new tower and living quarters this season, but the terrace, wall and steps remain to be next summer. Supervisor E. A. Snow described construction of the stone tower, on top of an 80-foot cliff, as a stupendous undertaking and one of the largest and most difficult projects ever undertaken by the cCC. No Roads To Top "There are no roads to the top of the mountain." he related, "and all material had to be trucked to the foot of the peak and then relayed upward on two sleds pulled by horses." Tramways and a mine car were used to get supplies to the top of the cliff, while the men climbed rope ladders.

80 dangerous was the work that nets were spread below to catch any man who might have fallen from the scaffolding. There were no accidents. Harney Peak's first lookout was built in 1911. A larger wooden lookout, replaced the original ture in 1919., Living in the lookout's modern and up-to-date are MY and Mra. Howard Culver, newlyweds.

Culver has been stationed on the lookout three years. Son Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Father CHILLICOTHE. O. Robert Bready, 29, charged with the slayIng of his father. A Methodiat minister at Bainbridge, pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder charge today and was held for grand jury action.

The plea was entered by Pauli Hertenstein, attorney for Reading of the indictment WAS waived. Justice of the Peace Samuel G. Briggs ordered Bready held for action of the Ross county grand jury without bond. Prosecuting Attorney Lester S. Reid said the grand jury probably would meet Jan.

3 and the trial would be held 30 days later. Brendy. who confessed to the prosecutor that he shot his father while in a drunken stupor, appeared in court today but said nothing. WIll Attend Funeral He will be permitted to attend the funeral of his father, Dr. Russell H.

Brendy, d2, In the Bainbridge Methodist Episcopal church ot 8:00 o'clock tonight. The service will be public and the Rev. J. Ira Jones. district Methodist superintendent, will give the sermon.

Robert will be accompanied to his father's funeral by Deputy Sheriff Don Lowery. However, he will not be permitted to attend the burial in Pioneer, Tuesday. MRS. C. VAUDES KILLED BY HIT LAND RUN DRIVER Former Fredonia Woman Dies of Injuries in Jackson Mrs.

Caroline Yaudes. 72. of Jackson. formerly of Fredonia, and 0 sister of Herbert; Hiram, Fred and Charles Katz of Fredonia and Mrs. Carroll Walbeck and Mrs.

Ida Sutherland of this city, was killed by A hit-and-run driver in Jackson shortly before 6:00 o'clock Saturday evening. Jackson police were searching for an old black Chevrolet sedan. Mrs. Yaudes was crossing east Michigan avenue in Jackson when was struck by the automobile traveling east. A bystander who witnessed accident said the driver of the car increased his speed after having struck the woman and was going too fast to see, the license number.

Mrs. Yaudes died a short time after her admittance to Foote pital. Deep gashes in her face. fractured right leg and internal injuries caused her death. Mrs.

Yaudes was proprietor of a roomIng house in Jackson and had sided in that city for the past fifty years. In addition to her brothers sisters she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Blanch Sliger, and a son Ralph, both of Jackson. The funeral will occur tomorrow after-; noon at 1:30. o'clock at the Bailey funeral home.

The interment will be at Lyon lake cemetery In Fredonia. James Roosevelt To Enter the Movie Business HOLLYWOOD- -James Roosevelt son of the President. broke a White House precedent today by going into the movie business. He became vice president of Samuel Goldwyn, Ltd. Never before has the 5011 of 8 President been in the amusement field.

the another Roosevelt son, Elliott, Is a radio executive. First task of the smiling, 31-year-old James Roosevelt was to hold press conference to tell of his transition from 8 $10,000 post in the White House secretariat to a reputed $50,000 job as the right-nand man of "the Great Goldwyn," producer of million-dollar Alms and subject of perhaps 75 per cent of the quips concerning Hollywood. Must Learn Business Young Roosevelt's second task was to learn the picture business, from censorship to sound rooms, under the tutelage of Goldwyn, who, whatever his reputation as a speaker of the king's English, is acknowledged as the old master among his movie-making contemporaries. Roosevelt has been a frequent. house guest of Goldwyn since recovering from 8 major operation and his entrance into picture business has been rumored for the last month.

Figuring Ways and Means of Laws Revision COLUMBIA COMMIT I 012 CLAIMS Representative Allen T. Treadway, of Ways and Means Committee seems to be some of the 117 new representatives on vacancies have occurred. All around aigna that hang outside STATEMENT BY FORD HIT AT BY COUGHLIN Priest Claims that Rabbi Franklin Was Its Author DETROIT--Harry Bennett. sonnel manager of the Ford Company. today defended the Henry Ford statement on Nazi persecution which Father E.

Coughlin assailed in his radio address yesterday. Father Coughlin charged that Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth El wrote the statement, that It distorted Ford's comments; and that Ford actually -did not belleve there WAS widespread persecution of Jews in Germany. Bennett said that the statement. was published as "authorizcd" by Ford after 8 discussion by Dr.

Franklin, was "absolutely correct." He said he read the statement before it was released and added that it was "reproduced exactly as my copy of it read. In his discourse yesterday. Fr. 'Coughlin said that representatives of Social Justice had asked Bennett if the statement was authorized by Ford. He said: Bennett IsI sued A signed statement saying: Claims It Inaccurate "The direct quotation carried in the paper I Editor: Reference was to A copy of the Detroit Free Press) 15 totally inaccurate and was' not written by Mr.

Ford but was composed by Rabbi Franklin." Father Coughlin declared that (Concluded on Page 3, Column Open Inquiry Into Automobile Patents WASHINGTON. D. Attorney General Thursman Arnold opened an inquiry into automobile patents by the National Economic committee today, asserting that anti-trust enforcement be used to remove obstacles to full industrial production. "Anti-trust enforcement," Me said. "must be linked to the successful operation of our economic system.

It should not, be used blindly to disturb the efficiency of mass production. Neither should it be used to upset orderly marketing conditions which increase, the efficiency of distribution." Arnold is in charge of the justice department's anti-trust division. His statement ushered the committee into: a new phase of its work, specific investigation of various industries in a two-year study of monopoly, concentration of economic power, and government policies. He said the automobile industry had been selected AS starting point, together with the glass industry, on which hearings will follow, "not with an intent to single out those industries, but because they Illustrate typical situations which are common thruout the industrial deld." Forum AND BANQUET ON CALENDAR: Both Events Are Scheduled For Thursday The Twin Valley debate tournament at Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, and the Rotary club football banquet at the Parker Inn. Albion.

the latter event scheduled for Thursday eve-' ning at 6:30 o'clock, are the high-' lights of the high school calendar for the current week. The Albion Rotary' club is to be host. to the Marshall club. and the high school' football teams of the two cities. The complete calendar follows: Monday Teachers' field course in Battle' Creek at.

4:30 o'clock. Tuesday Nothing scheduled. Wednesday Home room programs at 11:30. Massachusetts, member of the Dramatics class plays in the thinking of ways and means to get ditorium at 8:00 p. m.

Admission various House committees where 10c. him, in his Washington office, are Thursday committee rooms. Twin Valley debate tournament I at W. S. T.

at 2:00 o'clock. CONSERVATION COMM. TO FACE NEW PROBLEMS. One Is Reduction of Michigan Deer Herd LANSINO-Multiplicate legislamatters, Including A proposal to extend the Pearson act to help stabilize Michigan's vanishing logging industry, will face the state conservation commission Friday. Conservation Director P.

J. Hoffmaster said legislative proposals Included: Reduction of the deer herd, more rigid control over commercial fishing, revamping of the "water bill," enabling measures for taking over by, the state federal land demonstration projects, diverting of some oil royalties to the game protection fund; expansion of the Pearson law. and setting the budget. Effective in 1925 The Pearson law (named for former State Senator William J. Pearson, now a conservation commissioner), became effective in 1925.

It permits a person to list with the state lands on which the taxes are deferred until timber is cut. A tax of five cents an acre is paid. without Increase, until trees are cut. Then the owner Ls assessed a severance tax. Taxes on some timberland outside the act range up to $1 an acre.

F. P. Struhsaker, lands divisor chief, said landowners had requested that the law be expanded to take in more land that has been or may be selectively cut, aging scientific logging and reforestation. About 100,000 acres now are listed. Broadening of the act might increase that figure to coo.

he said. The question of what to do about Michigan's surplus deer long has confronted the commission. I H. Bartlett, department deer expert, has recommended that the herd be reduced by. killing does and fawns.

Others have proposed that authority to fix seasons and power of life and death over does and fawns be transferred from the legislature to the commission. Minor Fire Today At State Capitol LANSING--The acrid odor of smoke permeated Michigan's 66- -old capitol building today, the result of 8 waste-paper fire in a sub-basement. A fire of undetermined origin started among baled paper in sub-basement below the steps of the north entrance. It was discov-1 ered by teletype operator in the secretary of state's office, who summoned Lansing firemen. Sixteen bales of paper were charred, but drivers' license records in adjoining rooms were not damaged, either by fire or water.

The baling rooms are entirely crete and the fire had little chance I to spread. Damage wan negligible, Is to Be Held Here Tomorrow, The next of the current series of federal forums will be held Tuesday evening at the high school auditorium. starting promptly ati 7:30 o'clock. Dr. Bristow of Washington, D.

C. widely known educator. will be in charge of the meeting. all There is no ndmission charge and who are interested are invited to attend. The topic is, "The Role of Parents' and Teachers in Guilding NEW STRIKES ARE THREAT TO FRANCE Maritime Strike Has Already Tied Up 33 Ships -A new outbreak of strikes was threatened today AS the government prepared to welcome Joachim VanRibbentrop.

the German foreign minister, due here tomorrow to sign French-German peace declaration. Efforts of Premier Edouard Daladier and his cabinet colleagues failed to end maritime strike which immobilized 33 ships, including the crack Miners Normandie. Ile De France, and Paris. at LeHavre and Boulogne. Dock workers threatened today to start a sympathetic strike to support the seamen, who struck in protest against the dismissal of some of their fellows and then were dismissed themselves.

The government dispatched labor Inspectors to industrial cities all over the country to order employers to reopen factories which were closed as the result of the abortive one-day general strike last, Wednesday. Textile Mills Olosed Many plants were expected to reopen during the day, but there was still tension in some cities. Fiftyone textile mills, employing eighty per cent of textile workers In the Lille area, were still closed. Nearly all metallurgical plants In the region remained shut. One hund(Concluded cn Page.

4, Column 7) Marshall Wins Saturday At East Lansing The Marshall debate squad won all of its debates at the East Lansing high school tournament Saturday, The schools' debated were: Ionia, Lansing Eastern, Flint Northern and Central. Catherine Aalbregtse, Myron Ells, Kenneth Ferguson, Kenneth Peabody, Joe Schroeder and Rex Warfleld were the students who represented Marshall. Thursday afternoon, Dec. 8 at Western State Teachers' college, Kalamazoo, the first Twin Valley debate of the school year will be held. The other schools in this league are: Adrian, Albion, Coldwater, Hillsdale, Lakeview and Sturgis.

Another tournament will be held in January, with the place to be determined later. For the past two years, these events have been held at Albion college. France Will Not Give Up Any Possessions -Premier Edouard Daladier repiled to Italian agitation for possession of French Tunis in northern Africa and the Island of Corsica with A statement today declaring that France will defend the integrity of all her possessions. Caladier said in a communique that he had received thousands of telegram of loyalty from Corsica and Tunis. Yesterday's demonstrations against Italy in Corsica and Tunis were the best reply to Italian manifestations and proved that the French are ready to hold their possessions wherever the Tricolor floats, the communique said.

The demonstrations. were evoked by a clamorous demand by members of the Italian chamber of deputies last Wednesday for cession to Italy of Tunis, Corsica, Savoy, and Nice. Daladler, saying that the Italian government had virtually disavowed the demonstration by the deputies, asked the Corsicans and Tunistaris to refrain from further MEN EXPECTED TO RETURN TO WORK TONIGHT Buick Plant Closed Today, However, Awaiting Bodies LATE BULLETIN FLINT, Mich. Henry Wilson, president of the Fisher Body Local of the United Automobile Workerg Union, said today that he believed the union memhership would reject a strike settlement just reached by UAW President Homer Martin and officers of General Motors Corporation. Rotary club football banquet at Parker Inn.

Albion, 6:30 p. m. Friday High school assembly at 11:15 m. Party for seventh and eighth graders in the girls' gym at 7:30 p. n.

Youth dance in the boys' gym-: nasium at 9:00 p. m. Broadcast by the high school choir over WKZO. Kalamazoo, at 4:30 p. STRIKE ENDS AT CHICAGO STOCKYARDS: Normal Operations Resumed for First Time Since Nov.

21 CHICAGO The Chicago Livestock Exchange resumed normal operations today under terms of a temporary agreement reached yesterday by yard officials and striking handlers affiliated with the Congress for Industrial Organizations. The strike had paralyzed the exchange since Nov. 21. Cattle, sheep and hogs from farms within a 100 mile radius of Chicago began moving into yards last night after the strikers, numbering about 350, voted almost unanimously to return to work. Leaders of the union, Livestock Handlers' local 567, immediately sent a skeleton force of men to the pens to feed and water the stock.

The (Concluded on Page 6, Column 2) Wants to Make Texas An Industrial State FORT WORTH, Lee 0'Daniel, Fort Worth flour salesman who was elected governor of Texas the first time he ran for public office, has prepared a program which he hopes will make Texas an industrial state. His proposals will be put before the legislature soon after 'Daniel takes office in January. "It looks foolish to raise Texas steers and to send hides to New England for them to be tanned into shoes to send back to Texas," O'Daniel said. "We have to pay the freight both ways. "That silly, but the state government has been too busy with politics to do anything about it." Proposes "Little R.

F. 'Daniel has proposed the creation of "a little reconstruction finance corporation" to develop, the new industries which he believes the state needs to balance its agriculture. "Some high officials say it can't be done -but I say it cAn and must be done," O'Dantel said. "I'll give the business men a chance to organize the corporation first, and if they don't want to do it. the state will step in." One new industry, he said, should be the making of textiles but of the wool grown oll Texas sheep.

DETROIT. A strike of 6,400 workers at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 at Flint was settled today, but the Buick factory, employing 13,000 men, was forced to close until tomorrow of a shortage of bodies by Fisher. Formal picketing at the Fisher plant meanwhile pending a vote tonight by the factory's un-: ion membership on a settlement agreement. Officials of General Motors Corporation and the United Workers Union reached the agreement early today, over wage payments for unit.

employes Approval by the local in the stamping was anticipated and operations at the Fisher plant were expected to be resumed late today, possibly with the regular night shift. DETROIT-A strike of 6,400 men at the Fisher Body Plant No. settled early today at" in Flint was 8 conference between representatives of General Motors Corporation and the United Automobile Workers Union. Production will be resumed prolate today. Strikers will vote' bably formally on settlement of the wage tonight, but there WAS dispute liklihood they would refuse little the terms.

Termination of the strike, which began at noon. Friday, ended (Concluded on 4, Column 5) 15 Missing After Freighter. Sinks LONDON--Fifteen members of the crew of the Greek freighter Akti were listed as missing today after the ship sank in a collision with the German steamer La Plata. The owners reported to Lloyd's. that the collision occurred at 1:50 p.

m. yesterday near the 'entrance, to the English channel. Atki, of 3,960, WAS bound for Rotterdam from The Rio De Janeiro with a cargo of ore, La Plata, a passenger steamer of 8,056 tons, was bound for Buenos Aires from Hamburg. It was badly damaged and was taken in tow by the tug Abellle, which headed for Brest. The steamer probably will have to be beached.

La Plata rescued the Akti's second and third engineers, radio operator, chief steward, five firemen, three seamen, and three cabin boys. THE WEATHER DETROIT--The weather forecast: Lower Michigan: Occasional snow probable tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight and in east portion Tuesday. Weather Conditions: Disturbances are central this morning in Lower Michigan arid the Canadian northwest. Pressure Is highest in Idaho, Texas, and No. va Scotia.

Since Saturday morning precipitation has been general west of the northern Rocky mountains, in the northesst region far west as'. Wisconsin, Iowa and of the southeast. Mild temperatures continue east of the Mississippi river, and they are mild in Alberta and Montana also. The sun seta tonight st 5:04 and rises tomorrow at 7:48. THE TEMPERATURE High for Low for Temperature 01.