The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 9

I MONDAY, APRIL 10,.1939. UNIONTOWN, NEWS STANDARD PAGE FIVE Boake Carter Today Contrary to popular belief, this writer feels that war in Europe is no nearer today than it was a couple of weeks ago or even last September. The reasons for such belief are these: The British, themselves for months on the "spot," have turned the tables. They have now put Poland and Rumania on the "spot." Chamberlain has given "guarantees" that Britain will fight when these and other countries, if attacked, will fight first themselves. Mr.

Chamberlain's "guarantees" have been neatly hedged with the words "provided that" and If, for instance, German pressure becomes such that Poland can resist no longer, Poland must decide FIRST whether or not to fight. If she decides to fight, then and only then does Mr. Chamberlain enter the picture. And Mr. Chamberlain understands well.

enough, as do most other statesmen Europe, that! such a decision would mean able ruination for Poland. She would be devastated by the horrors of war. The Poles will think a long before fighting! And Mr. time Chamberlain that also. Therefore, what the British have done is actually to give no guarantee to.

any one. They have most neatly turned the tables and said: YOU fight first, we'll join you." The Poles are not deluded in the least, despite all the excited comment in America. Nor are the British. Nor are the Germans. Nor is one in Europe.

America any excited. going on is the is old Armenian rug game. "It good isn't worth $1000, my dear sir, but don't you insult me with an offer of ten bucks!" Foreign Minister Colonel Beck, of Poland, has been in London. For back a few years in just why, go history. Before Poland made the nonagpact with Germany in .1934 gression -now much talked about todaythat famous old war horse and Polish dictator, Marshal Pilsudski, The French had promised to journeyed to Paris.

support Poland. in an agreement ing against not at any the attack. morrow, Pilsudski, but years, the 1939. period -was ahead, "Do these scraps of paper. mean anything, anyway?" he asked the French.

"What about the Polish Corridor?" he -asked them. "What about Danzig? What will you do if we're attacked at these points? Will you fight for US 11 Austria He was a canny old gentleman, even though he was a The French, despite their roseate promises, hedged, hummed and hawed. Finally they indirectly admitted they would not do anything. That was all old Pilsudski wanted to know. He was simply looking out himself and his nation.

So he returned to Warsaw and--made the 1934 deal with Germany. Colonel Beck has been in London on the same sort of mission. He is asking the British. cold turkey, how, when and will they What ships will they send? How will they. send the tanks? How the troops get through France, Germany and reach Poland? What planes will the British dispatch.

What routes will they take? And since it is obvious that England would have to attack Germany from the French frontier ACrOSS the Rhine--the old World War battleground again--and pretend this was "defending" Poland, it is likely that Colonel Beck will find the British as! full of "ifs," "ands" and as old Marshal Pilsudski found in Paris in 1934! And if that is what the estimable colonel discovered in London, it is not unlikely that he also will -like the old marshal -make other deal with Germany. The deal may be the giving up of Danzig to Berlin--although strictly speaking, Danzig is not Polish territory, but an area operated internationally under a League of Nations commission. And, indeed. why not? The Poles discounted Danzig long ago. That is why they established 8 neighboring seaport at Gdynia, in the Corridor.

If Danzig went to the Germans, they would still possess an outlet to the sea in Gdynia. It is possible that the British: might lend the sort of aid. if Poland chose to fight. that Germany and Italy, France and England lent to the warring sides of Spain for two years. The sending of British planes overland to fight in the Polish air arm and the sending of British ships to fight, disguised perhaps, with Polish ships in the Baltic.

But that is greatly to be doubted. As Chamberlain declared a day or two ago: "I am no more a man of war today than I was last September." And those who know him and understand the British policy, are Inclined to agree with him. He has merely parked the ugly baby, which has been languishing on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street for these many months on the doorsteps of Poland, Rumania and the others, and is smiling up his sleeve. One should not overlook the fact that the British have been pressing the French hard to concede someting to Mussolini. If the Germans can be induced to sell out the Italians, the British will not hestitate to sell out the Armenian Yes, it is the rug racket.

"It's not worth $1000, but don't you dare offer me ten bucks!" Statesmen may talk and make flamboyant speeches, but I don't sec war any nearer today than It was at Munich-despite the dally bogeys seen by the American terin brigade. Behind The Scenes In Washington (Continued From Page Four) ment offices here. The senator hopes to get the committee's life so that it may be a- continuing organization, on the theory that its mere existence as sort of court of appeals for government workers may mitigate many abuses. BOOST FOR EFFICIENCY? But he sees the ultimate effects of his committee's work as being valuable not merely to workers who have been discriminated against, but to the caliber of government work itself. "We get these complaints of people who have worked 20 years or more without promotion," he says.

"That may mean rank favoritism, of course. On the other hand, it may mean rank inefficiency. There are plenty of clock-watchers working for the government. As things stand now, there is no way of weeding them out. They're protected, and a department head can't do much about them.

"What we need is a revision of the law to make these instances of favoritism impossible and, aiso, to make it possible to weed out the -watchers and the time-servers. If we can't do that, let's go back to old spoils system." (Copyright 1939, NEA Service, Inc.) Deaths MRS. AGNES B. HOUGH Mrs. Agnes B.

Hough, 74, wife of D. Elmer Hough, died at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, at the family residence near Scottdale, after a brief illness. She was the mother of C. Smitley, Fairchance. Mrs.

Fought was a daughter of the late Aaron and Agnes McKelby Wells of the Ligonier Valley. On! April she was married to D.I Elmer Hough, who survives in addition to the following children: Mrs. Wilbur Stoner, Scottdale; David Hough, Greensburg; Mrs. D. Smitley, Fairchance; Mrs.

Burrell Hixson, Scottdale; J. B. Barnhart, Butler; Mars. Earl Bennett, Youngwood, and Clarence L. Brown, Wesley Chapel; also 25 grandchildren and great grandchild.

Mrs. Hough was a member of the Wesley Chapel M. E. church and munity. Brief funeral rites will be well-known a throughout ho that comheld at o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the family residence, followed by additional services at 2:30 p.

m. in the Wesley Chapel church, Rev. Karl H. J. Schoenborn of Connellsville will officiate and burial will follow in Scottdale cemetery.

MRS. FLORENCE C. CARTER Mrs. Florence Corristan Carter, wife of Robert J. Carter, died at 4:20 p.

Sunday in the family residence, 229 West Berkeley street, following an extended Illness of a complication of In addition to her husband, she leaves two sisters, Mrs. Harold Guyton and Miss May Corristan. Friends will be received at the family residence with the time of services to be arranged in charge of the Ferguson Funerel horte. MATTHEW CEPLECHA Matthew Ceplecha, 89. father of Joseph and Ceplecha.

wellknown Dunbar barbers, died Saturday, following a lingering illness. In addition to the two sons, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. James Smith, of Star Junction; two grand-; children and several great children. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock: Tuesday afternoon at the home of Joseph Ceplecha, Dunbar. Rev.

William Hamilton will officiate and burial will follow in Mount Pleasant cemetery. THOMAS FUNERAL Brief rites were held at 1 o'clock this afternoon for Mrs. Elmira Thomas, Shoaf, in the home of Mrs. Stanley Gardner. House 163 Shoaf, followed by additional services at 3 p.

m. in the Jeannette Free Methodist church. Rev. Rambeau will officiate and burial will follow in Brush Creek cemetery, near Irwin, Pa. PAUL JOHN CULZIE Paul John Culzie, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Culzie. died at 10:30 a. Saturday at the home of his grandparents. Mr.

and Mrs. George of near Elliottsville. Funeral services will be held at o'clock Tuesday morning in the family residence. Rev. Fr.

Henrich, of Pittsburgh. will offciate and burial will follow in Elliottsville cemetery, under the direction of R. L. Sharp of Fairchance. DANIEL PHILLIPS Daniel Phillips.

66, died at 5:30 o'clock Saturday morning. at his home at Gray's Landing following an extended illness. He leaves the following children: Charles. Joseph, Mrs. Clara Julion and Mrs.

Margaret O'Lear, all of Grays Landing. Five -grandchildren also survive. His wife preceded him in death by two years. Funeral services were this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. Burial was in Greendale cemetery.

JOHN NALEPRA John Nalepka, 57. well-known resident of Allison Heights, suffered A heart attack upon returning home from Easter services at Cardale and died before medical ald could be summoned. Surviving are the widow, Caroline Nalepka, and the following children: Rudolph, New York City: William. John. Frank and Caroline.

home: Anna. of New York City, and Nellie, of Brooklyn, also 15 grandchildren. The body was removed to the Haky. Funeral Home. Uniontown.

and was to be taken to the family residence this afternoon. HOMER J. CONN Homer J. Conn, 59. who was in charge of transporting the U.

S. mall from the post office in Smithfield to the railroad station for 8 number of years, died at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, in the Uniontown hospital where he had been a patient for six weeks. Mr. Conn leaves one brother. Benjamin Conn, of Smithfield.

R. D. 1. The body was to be taken afternoon from the 0. S.

Vance Funeral Home. Smithfield. to the residence of Edward Confi, at Headlines Syria Mosque Show ing to Duquesne Garden, under the sponsorship of Syria Mosque for six days starting April 17. Captain Proske, better known as "the world's most daring and courageous showman," is the only wild animal trainer in the world who has accomplished the feat of entering a den of murderous tigers. feeding them pounds of raw meat and, then, without fear, snatch the away, This exploit has, been accomplished by the Austrian born trainer without the aid of whip, chair or guns.

Captain Proske, the only rival of Captain Clyde Beatty and his of lions, will headline the Hamid-Morton Circus at Duquesne Garden which will be replete with elephants, horses, ponies, daring aerial and acrobatic acts, many of which acts formerly were with Ringling. Barnum and. Bailey Circus. I i Above is Captain Roman Proske and his Royal Bengal Tigers, featured act of the -Morton World Famous Three Ring Circus com- Americanism Day To Be The Greatest Yet; Plans Are Completed Many Organizations To March In Parade, Smith Reveals. Arrangements for the sixth annual observance of Americanism Day here May 1 are moving along according to schedule, Sergeant James H.

Smith, general chairman, reported today with organization acceptances pouring in daily. With the big event three weeks away, 58 organizations have indicated that they will appear here in a body for the mammoth patriotic parade with musical organizations. The state executive committee meeting held at Williamsport went record supporting the celebration here. The report was made in a letter. from Department Adjutant Edward Linsky.

Most recent organizations reportto the general committee are: Smithfield American Legion post and Community band; New Salem volunteer department Will F. Stewart Camp 180, Sons of Union Veterans; Mon Valley Post VFW, Faylette Clellandtown: City; Junior Order No. Post 74, Amer- McHughes ican Legion, Dunbar; Jamison Local UMWA and band; Lodge Vittorio "Emanuelele No. 497, Sons of Italy; Sergeant Walter Cooper Post American Legion and band, Squadron 51, Sons of Legion; Junior auxiliary. Lafayette Post No.

61; Brightwell-Daugberty Post, Fayette City, and band; Lodge 433. Independent Order Sons of Italy; and the Fayette City volunteer fire department and bugle corps. General and reception committees will meet Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in the White Swan hotel. Notices to the, reception committee have been issued by Dr. S.

A. Baltz. Paul H. Griffith, past department coinmander now located in Washington, D. will be the presiding officer.

Members of the committee anticipate the appearance of approximately 200 members of the Regular Army Reserve. To those who are members of. the reserve and have not received an invitation, the committee extends a cordial invitation through the press. Those members having uniforms are requested to wear them. Arrangements for the informal dinner in the White Swan hotel for distinguished guests will be made at Wednesday night's meeting.

Sound motion pictures will be taken of the parade and the speaking to be shown later in Jocal theaters. Chief Alfred W. Davis, co-founder of: the patriotic observance, is arranging proper policing to handle the large crowds expected here on May 1. Kenneth Long, of Leechburg, spent Sunday in this city visiting friends. Hill Grove cemetery in charge of Funeral Director Charles A.

McCormick. HIGH GRADE Monuments Since 1865 Call or Write Marshall's Morgantown St. Uniontown, Senate Adjourns Out Of Respect To James H. Lewis Veteran Member Of Upper House Succumbs To Heart Attack. WASHINGTON, April 10-(UP) -The Senate met at noon today and quickly adjourned In respect to the memory of James Hamilton Lewis, soldier, diplomat and statesman- dock laborer, and a political Beau Brummel, too.

Senator Jim Ham died last night In Garfield hospital of a heart attack. Congress has lost its only genuine dandy. He chose lifetime of politics-he was senate Democratic "whip" when he died--and death gave him one more passive political role. The senate is wallowing in dispute over 8 $50.000.000 item of immediate unemployment relief funds. The 100 per cent New Deal brigade been filibustering for time to permit President Roosevelt to get back and put his personal influence in the balance.

It has been a dispute over entirely. and Lewis' death gives New Dealers an unexpected extra day. Successor New Dealer successor, to be appointed "by Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois. is virtually certain to.

be a New Dealer 8 consistent than Lewis. more, open breaks with Mr. Roosevelt have been few. But the senator generally was counted! among those who viewed with increasing uneasiness the trend. of I administration monetary and some aspects of administration labor strategy.

Lewis supported the President's supreme court reorganization bill but denounced early New Deal moves toward joining the world court. Red-whiskered--they were not really pink as some writers usually described them--and dressed, as said those kill, Lewis descended on the capital. in 1896 as congressman-at-large from the state of Washington. In 1912 Lewis came to the senate for his first term. handicraft, machinery: Ambrose Urbany, safety; Willard May, handicraft, machinery; Junior Helmick.

lifesaving. firemanship; J. L. Burger, electricty; Glen Donley, woodcarving, bird study and swimming. Clarksville Jack Wortman, civics, physical development: Bob Halbert, handicraft, public health, personal health; Wallace Fowler, athletics, civics: William Bell, civics, pathfinding.

Mather--Matthew Toward, safety, handicraft; Jack Thomas, civics, athletics, first ald; Allen Sternberger, athletics, lores. try, first aid; Dale Newell, forestry, reading; Allen Newell. first ald; John Machesky, personal health; Bob McDowell, athletics, personal health, public health, Elmer Johns, athletics, personal health, public health; Charles Filer, conservation, automobiling, Joe public health, personal health; Jack Courtley, firemanship, handicraft. Nemacolin Troop 1- George Holupka, firemanship, swimming, han-. dicraft; Arnold Wilson, civics; Milroy Waggett, photography; Leroy Waggett, personal health, swimming; Vincent McMahon, metal work; James Medley, metalwork, civics; G.

McLaughlin, safety. Nemacolin Troop 2-David Zagoric, first aid, physical development; Wayne Knight, physical de- reptile study; Allen Stephenson, velopment, first aid. Clearance! MISSES and WOMEN'S SPRING SUITS Reduction of to EARLY SPRING COATS GREATLY REDUCED Regardless of Former Prices! MONTGOMERY WARD 31-37 Morgantown Street Phone 3340-3341 Marian Anderson Sings To 75,000 At Capital Negro Contralto, Barred, Thrills Throngs, Nation. bridgetown. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Smithfield Presbyterian church.

Officiating will be Rev. C. D. A. Hoon, Rev.

Samuel Stewart and Rev. Paul Trimpey. Burial will follow in the Baptist cemetery, Smithfield. Nicholas Vidovic, 35, Masontown, died suddenly Saturday afternoon, in the Uniontown hospital. Surviving are the following and sisters: Anthony, of Highland Park, Michigan; Mrs.

Anna Paull, Granttown. W. John, Smithfield; Elizabeth, of New York City, and Mrs. C. Laumenede, of Long Island, N.

Y. The body was to be taken from the Yoney Funeral Home to the residence of a sister, Mrs. Anna Paull, this afternoon. MICHAEL SHERWANICK NICHOLAS VIDOVIC Michael Sherwanick, 46, World War veteran and a. well-known resident of Allison Heights, died at 9 o'clock Sunday morning, in the Brownsville hospital following cerebral hemorrhage suffered urday evening.

He- was a member of the Brownsville Post 377,. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are the widow, Anna; four daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Jarek, Crucible; Sister Mary Emma, of St. Vincent's: at Perrysville, and Louise and Ruth, at home; a grandchild, Marion Jarek; one sister Mrs.

Nicholas Kuchta, of Detroit, and al brother, Joseph, in Gary, Indiana. Brief rites will be held at 9 o'clock! Wednesday morning in the family residence, followed by high mass of requiem in Holy Rosary R. c. church, Republic. Rev.

Fr. A. Balok will officiate and burial will follow in the church cemetery. The VFW Post will have charge of the services at the grave. FRED P.

DONALDSON Fred P. Donaldson died at 9:40 Sunday night, after a brief illness, in the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. D. Hagerty.

Millsboro, with whom he had made his home for the past several years. He was a member of the Millsboro M. E. church, in which he took an active part. Surviving are one daughter.

Mrs. Hagerty, and sister, Mrs. James, Murral, Fairmont, W. Va. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

MADDEN SERVICES Funeral services for Lillian E. Madden, widow of William E. Madden, who died at 4:45 Friday morning at her Pittsburgh home, were to be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. Paul P.

Holden, burgh, officiating and burial in South Side cemetery. Friends are being received at the J. H. Slater and Sons chapel, 228 Brownsville road, Mt. Oliver.

Serving as pallbearers were Arthur R. Hall. George Winters, George Campbell, Walter Sankey, W. W. Simons and Frank L.

Stroup, of Uniontown. Surviving are two daughters. Mrs. David M. Ensell and Mrs.

Ralph B. Worthington, of Uniontown, and two sons, William and Frank B. Madden. JAMES WELLS James Wells 54. died at 9:30 a.

m. Sunday at his home near Layton, after having been ill for some time. Surviving are his wife, two small children, and two step-children. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the Blair: funeral home, Perryopolis, Rev. Fred L.

Fink officiating. Burial in Mt. Washington cemetery. STEPHEN BALUCH Stephen Baluch, 53 years old, 218 Ohio street, Connellsville, near the high school stadium, died suddently at 6:15 o'clock Saturday morning of cerebral hemorrhage. Mr.

Baluch who had been resident of this community for years, was employed for 25 years by the Yough Brewing company and later in the car yards of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad. He 1s survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary. Beck, and 11 children: Stephen, Uniontown; Joseph, South Connellsville; John. Ohio street; Mrs.

Crawford, Connellsville; Mary, Frank, Thomas, James, Albert, William and Robert. at home. There are 13 grandchildren and two brothers and one sister: John of Perryopolis; Paul of Smock and Mary. of New York. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from his late home with Dr.

W. H. Hetrick, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church, officiating. Burial will be made in Green Ridge Memorial Park in charge of Funeral Director Charles A. McCormick, PIERCE FUNERAL Funeral for Mrs.

Sarah Jane Pierce were to be held this afternoon. The body was removed from the home. 214 South Prospect street, to the Methodist Protestant church st 10 o'clock this morning where it was to lie in state until 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon when service was to be conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. R.

Mansberger. Burial in WASHINGTON, Marian Ander-! son, Negro contralto who was barred from Washington's concert, auditoriums because of her race, sang to more than 75,000 persons yesin a free. open-air concert beneath the statue of Abraham Lincoln. Miss Anderson's voice was carried by amplifiers to the throng jammed the mall between the shrine of the Great Emancipator and the Washington monument. It was broadcast by the National Broadcasting company to millions of others.

The concert climaxed a contro-1 very that began when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused Miss Anderson the use of their Constitution hall because of her race. That auditorium 4,000 persons. The District of about Columbia board, bar--be ring her because of race once, ally agreed to allow the concert ini a high school auditorium but only on condition that it would not considered a precedent. Miss derson's sponsors decilned to accept on that condition. Miss Anderson was introduced by! Secretary of Interior Harold L.

Ickes. who, D.A.R. and school ban. arranged for the cert 011 the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "In this great auditorium under the sky.

all of us are free." Ickes said. He indirectly criticized the D.A.R. and school board by declaring that "there are those. even in this great capital of our Democratic who are either too timid or. too indifferent" to follow the principles of racial tolerance laid down by Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.I The D.A.R.'s bar of Miss Anderson resulted in the resignation of Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. who was listed with other high government officials as a sponsor of the con-! cert, but who. was in Hyde Park, N. and did not attend.

LOOKING BACKWARD (Continued from Page Four.) Tuesday, April 10, 1934 After extensive sniping in the region yesterday. the coal fields were comparatively quiet today. State, county and city police; MARION ANDERSON: were looking for John Dillinger, the bandit and killer, reported to. traveling by auto through West-. ern Pennsylvania.

Construction of huge tunnel under the Monongahela to Greene county was under the consideration of the H. C. Frick Coke company, it was learned. A Pion Inez Hamilton and sister, Roberta, of Shady Lane, spent Pittsburgh. CHILDREN'S COUGHS (due to colds) Don't let distress of chest colds or spasmodic croupy, coughs due to colds.

go untreated! Rub Children's Musterole on child's throat, chest and back at once. This milder form of regular Musterole: penetrates the surface skin, warms and stimulates local circulation. Floods the bronchial tubes with its soothing, relieving vapors. Musterole brings such speedy relief because it's MORE than "just salve." Recommended by many doctors and nurses. Three strengths: Regular, Children's (mild) and Extra Strong, 404, Approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau.

All druggists. CHILDREN'S BETTER THAN MUSTARD PLASTER! A MILD Greene Co. Has Court Of Honor Many Promotions For District Scouts. Numerous promotions marked Greene county's largest court of honor on record, held last week, with one boy advanced to Life scout and three to Star scout ranking. The new Life scout is Alan Newell, Mather; new Star scouts are Harold Donley, Carmichaels; Wallage Fowler, Clarksville, Robert Frick, Nemacolin.

Among other awards were: Second class scouts: Carmichaels--Allen Gwynne and George Caranaggio. Mather---Kenneth Wilson. Millsboro- Billy Morgan, Fred Giles and Jake Fowkes. Nemacolin- Aris Valli. Albert Herrington and Joe Hartley.

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