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The man who isn't wortu his salt is usually too fresh. IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE The wisest owl occasionally hooto at the wrong time. VOLUME 20, NUMBER 146. ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICE IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1939. 14 PAGES SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS FEAR 10 DEAD IN ELEVATOR FIRE Deadlock in Coal Industry Is Over Federal Conciliator Says Crisis Ended As Far As Public Is Concerned.

CHIEF STUMBLING BLOCK New York, May Dr. John R. Steelman, chief of the U. S. conciliation service, said late today that Insofar as the public was concerned the deadlock in the soft coal industry "is over." Dr.

Steelman said "evidence has been presented to indicate that a large percentage of the operators already have a 'union shop' in practice." This point was one of the chief stumbling blocks to a contract agreement. Requires New Joiners The "closed shop" means all em- ployes must be union members. The "union shop" permits nonunion em- ployes to remain so if they desire at the time a union shop becomes effective, but requires new employes to join the union, usually after a specified length of employment. i A edadlock in negotiations for a new contract for the eight-state- Appalachian area, basic fcr the entire industry, has thrown 450,000 miners into idleness since the old contract expired March 31. A last effort for a blanket Appalachian agreement will be made in a meeting at 2 p.

m. (CST) today. Unless agreement is reached, individual contracts also will be sought with Appalachian operators. Didn't Provide Shop The government's proposal of in- dividual contracts was presented by Dr. John R.

Steelman. federal med- later, after expiration of the 24- hour deadline for settlement set Tuesday by President Roosevelt. Steelman advanced the plan when the deadlocked committee seeking to reach a new agreement Poison Suspect Mrs. Antonio Giacobbe, of Philadelphia, holds her head after taking poison in a second attempt at suicide. Charged with the murder of her husband and suspected of being a "customer" of a bizarre murder-for-insurance ring, she tried Chamberlain Warns Against Attempt to Change Situation By Force.

SAYS BRITAIN SINCERE London. May 11 Minister Chamberlain said in an Albert hall address today that any attempt "to change the situation by force" so as to "threaten Polish independence would inevitably" start a general war in which Britain would be involved. Chamberlain said: "In many minds the danger spot in Europe today is Danzig where our assurances to Poland are clear and concise. Although we would be glad to see the differences between Poland and Germany amicably settled by discussion, although we think that they could and should be so settled, if an attempt were made to change the situation by force in such a way as to threaten Polish independence, why then that would inevitably start a general conflagration in which this country would be involved." The prime minister spoke to a meeting of woman members of the Hopes Military Alliances Will Prevent Catastrophe. WANTS COLLABORATION Conservative party shortly after I takings' Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax Paris, May Dal- adier told the chamber of deputies today that France "in accord with all other states which wish to live honorably" had concluded specific military alliances to prevent "violence and threats from leading Europe into catastrophe." "The true problem," he said, "Is to know if the different interests which can divide peoples will be regulated by methods of peaceful collaborations or by violence and force." He asked if it were necessary to recall promises, tornup accords, nations which have disappeared or been subjugated despite the most solemn promises made at the same hour when contrary decisions were being taken." For "Free Collaboration" Daladier declared the "love of peace is so profound for all peoples of the world that no one must call on it to cover all forceful under- BUST LEVELS uaily Globe Photo Suspects in Armed Robbery Shown With Officers Police Chief Thomas Jeffery, left, and Sheriff Sam Giovanoni of Iron county, extreme right, are shown above with the two men held in connection with the armed robbery of the Green Arbor tavern, Oak street, early this morning.

The two suspects, Stephen Trader, 31, left center, and Joseph Niski, 53, right center, were arrested in an Ashland freight yard this morning about 10:30 by Ashland officers. The picture was taken outside of the local police station this afternoon shortly after the officers returned from Ashland with Trader and Niski. had received Ivan Maisky in smooth out Russian-British negotia- Soviet Ambassador a new effort to to shoot herself, and when thwarted tions for an alliance. This meeting coincided with in- He asked if peace consisted of invading other countries and presenting '-continual new demands which can lead to conflict, condemning peoples to misery." i The premier's message took up dications by izvestia. the Russian aga the slogan of "domination or government's organ, that Moscow would reject Britain's latest proposals for cooperation in eastern European guarantees.

Chamberlain said that ex-Premier Leon Blum of France, who visited London yesterday, asserted that there was one main danger of war the rest of Europe might become convinced that Britain and France were insincere and could not out their Claim Members Keep Congressman From Laying Cornerstone. be relied upon to carry Plotted tOi pledges of mlutary aid collaboration" which he first broadcast to the nation May 5. France, he said, has decided to base her action on "free collaboration." "This," he said, "is the thought, this is the wish of the nation. "France knows no hate. She feels sincere sympathy for all peoples.

She knows besides by long experience that war would not solve any of the present problems, that it would only make their solution "No more deadly mistake could more difficult and more ruinous." the prime minister as- Pays Tribute to Britain The premier emphasized the partnership of Britain and France and paid tribute to British sacri- Washington. May if -The house committee investigating the WPA heard testimony today that for the Appalachian area adjourn- member of the Alliance which said Sec 10. jplotted unsuccessfully to prevent i forcibly a congressman from tending the Reading. postoffice cornerstone-laying ceremonies be: cause he voted against increased relief funds. Chris Doose.

committee investigator, read an affidavit from a members of the Alliance which I that at a meeting of the Drganiza- lion's Reading branch last Tuesday night a man named Ben Rubin sought adoption of a resolution pro- i viding that if Representative Mo- I ser (D-Pa) attended the cornerstone-laying next Saturday, they be made. serted, than to attribute such in- I sincerity to the British-French I front. He added: "It would be a frightful thing if Europe were to be plunged into war on account of a misunderstanding." THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG "NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS" Will Attend Badger Boys State at Delafield June 17 to 24. Washington BY RAY TUCKER REPF.AT—Latest new deal agency to fall into discredit with its best Roosevelt pntl Senator George the federal power commission. Its antics and dissensions have precipitated reports that it will soon be reorganized from top to bottom, with Brain Truster Ben Cohen acting as FDR's axe man.

Except for Basil Manley, not a member understands the meaning of the law they are posed to administer. They have hundreds of thousands of dollars in examining utility rate schedules, in evaluating the cost of private plants, in making cost over which they have no jurisdiction. The majority has protested because Mr. Manley was called in by the war department as an adviser in mobilizing the utility industry for war crises, demanding that they be let in on the secrets. But FDR has backed both the W.

D. and Mr. Manley in a private The net is that, despite tremendous expenditures, the commission has been a complete failure. Fact is that the president is suffering from "commission trouble, and he is beginning to realize it. Like several predecessors, he thought it was a simple matter to establish agencies to handle vital national problems.

Now he knows that he can't find enough able men to do the job. But he won't admit it for obvious reasons. would remove him bodily from the platform. Moser Will Attend Doose said the resolution did not pass and that Communist members i boys are Robert Flandrena, Hurley, nf tl-io Alltanr.0 wi li rnnr ft-nrtt 11-1 snnnsnrpH hu tVip I The nominations of four Iron county youths for the Badger Boys State were approved last night at a meeting of the Edward L. Cossette fices in iristitiitlh'g'" military conscription.

"The solidarity between France and Britain is closer and more confident than ever." he said. "It remains the basis cf French policy and we will not let it be weakened by intrigue or by odious and lying propaganda. "At a moment when by clear and voluntary effort the British people are breaking tradition to impose freely on themselves the discipline of obligatory military service, the French people renew their fraternal greetings." Daladier, like President Albert LeBrun in an earlier speech, as parliament reconvened after the eastern recess, paid respect to President Roosevelt. LeBrun, addressing a joint session of the chamber and the senate, declared that "none must doubt Two Men Arrested Nine Hours After Holdup of Local Tavern post of the American Legion. The ue area a ne musc aouDt bovs are Robert.

Flanrii-Piia HnrW Dances unshakeable resolve to of the Alliance withdrew from the sponsored by the post; Richard ner ngh wlth stren sth meeting in protest. Sleight, Mercer sponsored by the ner Moser sat at one end of the com- Mercer Woman's club; Merico Got- ru tlu Uncertain mittee table as Doose testified and ta. Iron Belt, sporsored by the' we reiteratea France ardent told newsmen he "certainly would" Eagles lodge o'f Hurley on recom- attend the postoffice exercises Sat- mendation oi Supt. M. R.

Hymer, of urday. Doose read an affidavit bearing the signature of Henry D. Mattes of Reading. Maurberger, It stated that George general foreman of the WPA. had sold workers alliance buttons to workers on the skyline "in Reading for five drive cents project apiece.

The affidavit asserted that Maur- See 10. the Iron Belt school, and Emanuel Endrizzi, Hurley, sponsored by the and sincere wish for peace," declaring her loyalty to the principles stated in President Roosevelt's peace message, but warned that American Legion Auxiliary oil re- "the future still is uncertain." commendation of Supt. J. E. Mur- i Da 'adier gave a detailed explana- phy.

of the Hurley schools. 1 1 PRESSING Attorney General Murphy has promised vigorous prosecution of the billion-dollar Northern Pacific land grant case after years during which some of his predecessors showed no disposition to demand a settlement. In some respects it Is the most unsavory case in the recent history of the of J. Roughly, it involves the question of whether vast 3,000,000" to the railroad now belong to the government or private interests. Over a long period it was handled by competent and aggressive counsel for the government, but several years ago new lawyers were retained.

Most of them were political appointees sponsored by a Montana lawyer- lobbyist close to of topnotch- ers and also close to the railroad Interests. They suggested a com- The Badger Boys State will be conducted this year at St. John's Military academy Delafield. June 17 to 24 by the Wisconsin department of the American Legion, The boys selected were named for their general scholastic athletic and leadership ability. The post made plans for the observance of Memorial Day and renamed John Morris marshal of the Tentative plans call for a par' ade to begir at the Iron County Memorial building and end at the Hurley cemetery, where a firing squad will take part in rites.

Wreaths are also to be placed on I the graves of 64 veterans in the cemetery. Included in the parade will be pupils of both the public and parochial schools, the Sons of the Legion Drum corps, the Hurley fire department and all organizations Felix Obertone will be in charge of the arrangements for the observ- Republican Leaders Hope to Adjourn No Later Than May 26. Lansing, May leaders arranged an executive session of the Michigan senate to- ance, and headsTthe day an attempt to grease the committee for placing the wreaths on thp graves. The cemetery committee consists of Frank Erspamer. Alef Pearson and Dreseley.

The speaker and chaplain for the day are to be announced soon. The post also appropriated $50 for i tion of the accords in which France is participating. He cited the initiative taken March 20 when the French government let Rumania know she cculd expect immediate aid in defense of her independence. Similarly, he continued, "we assured Greece of our immediate assistance in case that country were menaced with aggression." Daladier said France and Britain both had concluded reciprocal guarantees with Poland, which he called a "noble and courageous nation." Negotiations, he added, are pro- See 10. Two Board Members to Be Named; Ballot on Raising Tax Limit.

The annual school district election for the city of Ironwood will be held Monday, June 12 and at that time two members of board of education will be elected for four year terms. The terms of Thomas Robins, Hjalmer B. Wester expire this year. Saturday, May 27, is the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions. June 3 is the final day for registration of voters who are not now registered.

Persons eligible to vote in school elections are citizens who are owners of property assessed fcr school taxes or who are the parents of children of school age. Besides voting for school board candidates, the electors of the district also will ballot on the question of whether the district is to remain under the 15 mill limitation, with the county tax allocation board deciding how many mills may be levied for school operating purposes, or whether the school board is to be permitted to levy up to 10 mills on each $1 of assessed valuation fcr such purposes. Saturday of this week will be the first registration day for the election. Registration clerks will be on duty in each of the four precinct polling the Sleight, Luther L. Wright, Norrie and Newport 8 a.

m. to 8 p. m. The same procedure will be followed on the final registration day, Saturday, June 3. Between those dates voters may register at the office of the school board secretary at the high school building during regular office hours.

Transients Picked Up in Ashland After Hopping Freight Train. Two shabbily dressed transients were being held in jail here this afternoon in connection with the armed robbery of the Green Arbor tavern. Oak street, at 1:10 this morning. The men, Stephen Trader, 31, of Duluth and Joseph Niski, 53, of Ashland were arrested in an Ashland freight yard about 10 o'clock this morning shortly after getting off a freight train. arrest of the two suspects just nine hours after the robbery occurred in Ironwood is one of the quickest arrests ever recorded here in a robbery case.

The quick action of the local police in notifying surrounding cities and the fine cooperation of Police Chief Clarence Overdahl and his Ashland officers led to the arrest. Anton Gust, bartender at the tavern, reported the robbeiy shortly after it occurred at 1:10 this morning and the local police department notified Ashland, Hurley and state police and the sheriff department. At 11 o'clock Chief Overdahl telephoned two men had been apprehended and at 1 o'clock Police Chief Thomas Jeffery was back in Ironwood with the men. Gust told local police that two shabbily dressed men, one about 45 years old and the other about 25 years old, entered the tavern and. brandishing a gun, scooped up $14 in one dollar bills off the bar where Morgenthau Will Urge Congress to Remove Deter rents From Laws.

Washignton, May (if, tary Morgenthau asserted today the treasury intends to ask congress remove business deterrents Irom the tax laws. A reporter asked whether Presi dent Roosevelt had virtually for bidden him to present a tax revi sion program to congress. Morgenthau replied: "That's ridiculous. We're living under a democracy, thank God." Although declining to discuss any details of his tax views, Morgen thau said specifically he stood by a press conference statement of i few months ago that he hoped congress would clear the tax laws of business deterrents and thus encourage business to take normal investment risks. He also asserted he stood by his March 3 letters to Chairman Harrison (D-Miss) of the senate finance committee and Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the house ways and means committee promis- Gust had been counting them and mg to present certain unspecified skids for early action on budget- balancing appropriations bills which are before the house of representatives and foi adjournment of the current legislative session not later than May 26.

rr Senator F.jlix H. H. Flynn, Cadil-! a Hurfey American junior baseball team with Roy Melvin, athletic officer of the post, in promise costly to the government, but that arrangement was blocked by a few Progressives who had the ear of the president. Now Mr. Murphy has taken the case out of the hands of the Mon'" See 2, lac.

president pro tern of the senate and Republican floor leader, agreed to a plan to sidetrack general legislation so members of the committee on finance and appropriations could give their undivided attention to the job of budget-balancing. The of the committee, Senator Don Vanderwerp. Fremont Republican, said yesterday a week or two of hearings were in prospect before appropriation bills could be reported to the floor. Vanderwerp said he would refuse to vote the expenditure of public funds "on anybody's say-so" and hinted at the advisability of Junkets to some institutions. 'My committee is certain to be the last resort for departments Whose requests have been turned down in the.

house," Vanderwerp said. "These people will want hearings, they're entitled.to them'and so far as I'm concerned, they're go- Ing to get charge, and voted tn conduct a Poppy Day sale May 27. The next meeting of the post is to be held June 14. when officers are to be elected. Before this meeting applications for custodian of the Iron County Memorial building will be accepted.

Ft-lix Obertone served in that, capacity during year. the last Nice Catch! Spooner, May Leroy Zaksaska is one fisherman who doesn't care whether the big ones got away. White spearing suckers in the Yellow river yesterday, he missed a big fish but speared a pocketbook containing $8. An an Grand View Open to Visitors Tomorrow From 2 To 5 p.m. Grand View hospital and the newly equipped and decorated nursery will be open to visitors tomorrow from 2 p.

m. to 5 o'clock, infant incubator together with infant oxygen therapy unit, purchased at a cost of $400, will be new features of the nursery which can be inspected by the general public tomorrow. The nursery is now equipped with an isolation unit, incubator unit, crib unit and dressing table, formula table with electric plates for preparing formula for babies. The outside windows are of glass brick to provide light without draft. The ceiling has been covered with acoustical material and each ot the units is enclosed in glass so that a complete view ol the nursery can be had without exposing the baby of cny outside contact.

These improvements make the Brand View nursery one of the finest in the northwest. Expect Judge Risjord to Set Date for Iron County Term Monday. The May term of circuit court in Iron county, scheduled to open Monday, will be postponed until June, according to J. Paul Sbraggia. Hurley clerk of circuit court.

Circuit Judge G. N. Risjord, Ashland, is expected be in Hurley Monday and may set a definite date for the term then, Sbraggia said. Members of the jury panel wiil be notified later as to the date they are to appear for duty. One criminal case, that of Olindo Minuzzo, Hurley, charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife nine years ago.

and one civil case, Mellen Produce company against Louis Castagna. Hurley, appear on the court calendar. The court also is asked to find facts by Thomas Collins, town of then took $25.29 in silver from the cash register and a quart of whiskey off the back bar. When apprehended in Ashland a revolver was taken from the men and a half-filled quart bottle of whiskey, the same brand as reported taken, was recovered. The men had about $29 in dollar bills and silver.

The gun chambers were found to be stuffed with tinfoil paper, making the chambers appear as though they contained lead bullets. No shells were found in the gun taken from the men. Gust, who made the trip to Ashland with the police, identified the two men at the police station here this afternoon. Two patrons in the tavern at the time of the robbery were unaware of the holdup until told by Gust that two men had used a gun in taking about $40 in cash. tax studies whenever the committees wanted them.

Morgenthau ejf- pects the house committee to summon him in about a week. Morgenthau took time out from fiscal problems on his 48th birthday anniversary today to order red roses for a new treasury garden. Mercer, in county in a suit against connection with deeds Iron which he has obtained on three sections of land near Lake of the Falls on Turtle flowage. The county also holds deeds on the property, obtained through tax delinquencies- JURY RETURNS VERDICT AGAINST BALL PLAYER New York, May diet of $8,000 was returned by a jury in supreme court today against Paul Derringer, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, who was sued for $35,000 by Robert E. Condon, industrial engineer, of Larchmont, N.

Y. Condon accused the ballplayer of attacking him in a Philadelphia hotel on June 37, 1936, during the Democratic national convention. Official Figure Revealed Today; Two Cuts Total 440 Here. The second slash in the number of workers on WPA in Gcgebic county leaves 1,855 on the payrolls as of Tuesday, May 9, it was revealed today at the local WPA headquarters after an official check. The 210 workers dropped from the rolls last Monday brought the total number removed from WPA in the county to 440, 230 being dropped April 7.

When the first cut in the number of WPA workers in Gogebic county was made by the district office April 7. it was stated that a second slash would be made on or about May 1. The termination certificates, were received at the local office last Saturday. "Insufficient funds" was the reason given for the layoffs by the district offices in both instances. ver- CHARGE BRANIGAN WITH England to Advance Credit Of $23,400,000 in Exchange for Wheat.

London, May 11 (IP) Oliver Stanley, president of the board of trade, announced in the house of commons today that Great Britain and Rumania had signed a trade agreement under which Britain would advance a credit of 5,000,000 pounds (about $23,400,000.) Britain will take 200,000 tons of Rumanian wheat and the credits she will advance to Rumania will be used for the purchase of United Kingdom goods. Stanley said the protocol of the agreement was sighed in Bucharest today following the recent "successful" visit of a British trade mission. It was expected Rumania mainly would purchase armaments with her credits. Britain pushed the agreement as part of her campaign to offset Reichsfuehrer Hitler's economic ATTEMPTING JAILBREAK BeloM, Wis, May R. Branlgan, Beloit fuel dealer and political figure who is serving a term in the Rock county jail for criminal libel, was charged In municipal court today with aiding an attempted jaflbreak.

penetration of central and southeastern Europe. (The British trade mission was sent to Bucharest after; Rumania and Germany signed trade agreement.) Flames Spread and Envelop Quarter Square Mile In Searing Heat. FOUR MEN IN HOSPITAL Chicago, May and an explosion levelled a mammoth south side grain elevator today, giving rise to firemen's fears that ten menw ere killed, then buffeting winds spread the flames to two neighboring elevators and enveloped a quarter square mile in searing heat. Reports that the casualties might reach a score were unconfirmabie because rescuers could not approach within a hundred feet of the furnace. Fire Marshall Michael J.

Corrigan said it was the largest fire in Chicago since the $8,000,000 conflagration at the stockyards May 19, 1934. Five city firemen and four other men, two seriously hurt, were taken to hospitals. List Those Trapped W. H. Gassier, superintendent in charge of operations for the Rosenbaum Brothers Grain company, said the following men were believed to have been trapped in elevator, where the fire originated: Ernest Barg, Albert Homer, Linn Keefer, Henry Kriel, Louis Oldberg, Charles Regashus and Joseph Ved- ish, all employes, and Ernest Lindgren, a board of trade weighmaster.

Four city firemen, not immediately identified, were taken to St. George's hospital, and Fireman William Hack, and four other men were taken to South Chicago hospital. Flames spread to and elevators of the Norris Grain company. The fireboat, Joseph MediU, poured water on them in an effort to keep the flames under control. The nine elevators situated in the Calumet district have a total capacity of 15,000,000 bushels.

Grain traders estimated that of the 19,000,000 bushels of grain stored in the Chicago area at present one-half was housed in the Calumet tanks. Freight cars on neighboring sidings caught fire; piers, a sand barge and dredging scow in the adjoining Calumet river smouldered; parked automobiles ignited; but a shift in wind saved residences a block: away. Blames Combustion A city fireman and four other men, two critically injured, were taken to South Chicago hospital. It was the most serious fire in Chicago in many months. A 5-11 alarm and a half dozen specials brought more than 400 fire fighters and all the available apparatus and police units in the area.

The blast, its origin early un- uiown but believed by firemen to have been caused by a dust explosion or internal combustion, bucked the warehouse of the Rosenbaum Brothers Grain company. A company spokesman said 800,000 bushels of grain, principally wheat and valued at $200,000, was stored there. The elevator was valued at $200,000 and unofficial estimates placed the eventual loss at Tanks Are Threatened Some 30 or 40 workmen were to have reported for work at ele- ator this morning and several were trapped. The grain burned lotly, and flames spread to adjoining and elevators of the same firm. elevator, with a capacity of ,250,000 bushels, was constructed of netal clad wood, embraced a square block and towered 150 feet.

It was ituated at One Hundred and Sec- street and the Calumet river. Near the cluster of elevators, a eries of concrete storage tanks was threatened by the heat. The group constituted one of the argest of grain in the Chicago area. Many miles away in the loop grain traders went up in the Board Trade skyscraper to watch the smoke and speculate on the amount gram destroyed. Shoot Water Across River Unable to approach the fire from he same side of the river bank, iremen lined five powerful engines the opposite shore and shot wtter across the narrow river.

A tug toat was forced to hug the opposite jank. Robert Thomas, a witness, said a sudden explosion" hurled flames about 300 feet in the air." Smoke was visible on the south edge of the loop, several miles away. South Chicago hosptlal said two men identified as David Marvin and 'lifford Over were brought there in ritical condition. Less seriously inured, attendants said, were Frank See 10. ASSEMBLY TO CONDUCT CONSERVATION INQUIRY Madison, May assembly decided today to conduct its own investigation of the conservation department since the senate previously had opposed the inquiry.

The house, by a vote of 63 to 19, adopted a resolution by Gruszka (Rep) Mosinee, directing the speaker to name a committee of five assemblymen with power to subpoena witnesses and records. A Joint resolution with the same purpose was passed by the assembly some time ago, but was killed by the 'senate. THE WEATHER UPPER MICHIGAN: Fair tonight and Friday, cooler in southwest tonight; slightly wanner in northwest Friday. WISCONSIN: Fair tonight; and Friday; continued cool tonight with heavy to killing slightly wanner in northwest and north- central Friday. 'for the 34 ending 13 o'clock noon today, 63; minimum for same period, 33.

HIGH AND LOW the last 24 hours: Abilene, Tex. 103; Devils Lake, N. 34..