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News Notes OF LOCAL Happenings CJjtUtcotfje VOL LI DAILY EDITION CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941 SIX PAGES NO. 88. PAUL BENNETT HOME Paul Bennett of Camp Funston, Kansas, came to Chillicothe yesterday, called by the death of his father. Earl Bennett. DISMISSED FROM HOSPITAL Miss Opal Jones of Dawn, who was admitted to the Chillicothe COMMUNIST PARTY PRESS PLEASED WITH JAPAN-RUSSIA PACT Envoy Ignores Recall SPOKE AT MARCELINE SUNDAY Hospital April 6 for a major oper-! Clears the Way for Political and Economic Cooperation, It Is Claimed.

ation, was dismissed Sunday, April 13. Miss Janes" home is in Dawn. JIMMY ROST IS ILL Jimmy Host has been ill and away ora work three days. He is ill of WAS SIGNED SUNDAY tonsilitis and complications. He ex- i Regarded as Rivaling in Im- pects to return to work about Thursday.

Host lives at 1109 Elm street. i DU. PHELPS "WEAK" After 10 days with her father, Dr. T. G.

Phelps, who is ill, Mrs. Fannie portance Accord of Ger- manv-Russia. .1 MOSCOW, April alnl 14 A Holt returned today to her home at Japanese 24 neutrality years of Soviet- pact strained Far Newtown. Dr. Phelps is reported as "wak Eastern relations, was welcomed to- day by the party press DIES IX CHICAGO a clEarin the way for political and Victor Alex received word Satur- cooperation without, day of the death of his sister-in-law, i howover, binding Russia to the Axis.

Mrs. Roxana Alex of Chicago. Fun- act si ned yesterday, was eral arrangements had not been regarded by observers as rivaling in I importance the non-aggression ac- of 1939 between Germany and made at the time of ABLE TO BE OUT Mrs. J. B.

Goins, who has been ill I Russia. Prof. Earl Low Was Guest Speaker at Banquet. Services tor Mrs. Elizabeth Fair at Mooresville.

Prof. Earls Low, in- Funeral services for 'Mrs. Eliza- structor at the local high school, beth Fair were held from-the Chris- was the principal la.t week tian church at Mooresville" Sunday at Marcellne at the afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev. sons banquet of the Mai'celine Fu- L. L.

Rudolph. Burial was in the ture Faimers of America chapt.r. Mooresville cemetery. He spoke on as a Busi- Mr. and Mrs.

Vern W. Willis, C. C. Cokerham and George McMillen sang "Have Thine Own Way," "Sweet Bye and Bye," and "Abide With Me." Mrs. Price Hudgins was the accompanist.

Pallbearers were Jim Robers, Frank Roberts, Clyde Roberts, Paul McClure, Sam Brookshire, Dennis Sullivan. ness." Layton Jackson, president of the Chillicothe F. F. went with Prof. Low to Marceune.

WAGE INCREASE AT U. STEEL PLANT NEW POSITIONS TAKEN TIP BY THE BRITISH IN GREECE DEATH OF EARL BENNETT SUNDAY This Move Was Made Inflicting "Severe Casualties" on Nazi London War Office Said. DEMOCRATIC ML1 IS ISSUED TODAY A CIO Work Stoppage Which Was Scheduled for Tuesday, Night Averted. Prazza, Communist party organ. at her home, 1111 Clay Street, was said the pact and its accompanying able to be out on Easter Sunday for i declaration, pledging the respDct of the first time in several the integrity of Manchukuo and Mrs, Goins' condition is very much i outer Mongolia, "clears the way for the regulation of other unsolved The Danish foreign office in Copon- PITTSBURGH, April 14 The United States Steal Corporation today granted a ten cent an hour wage increase and more liberal va- mann Cabove) as minister to the United States but the envoy, who Greenland and the averting REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING GALLED The Funeral Services Will Be GERMANS GATHERING Mass Meeting Will Be Held at City Hall On Thursday Night, April 17.

From Norman Funeral Home -Tuesday. FOR A DECISIVE BLOW EaiT Pennett, a Livingston coun- ty farmer for the last fifty years, i died at Chillicothe hcspital morning at 3:40 o'clock from a com- plication of ailments. Mr. Bennett had been ill for some time but his Will Be Held in the Circuit! condition became serious Friday I London Report Said British i i the British forces Courtroom Wednesday Night, April 16. 'in Greece of John P.

and Elizabeth Wig- Republican mass meeting has gms Bennett been called by M. J. Bice, chairman A sale agreements with this day midnight. RETURNS FROM ST. LOUIS Marvin Tanenbaum returned Saturday morning following a week's questions between the U.

S. S. R. and Japan." The pact is effective for five years and is renewable for an additional visit in St. Louis with relatives and 5 year term un ess Qne side de friends.

Tuesday he will occompany olmces a year beforc atlon Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pringle to Den- i Qf tns flrst period ver, for about a week's stay. It is to be ratified as quickly as RETURNS TO WORK SSlbl and the formal of Earl Pepper, barber at the H. V.

I documents is to take, Hffl barber shop on the south sidsj piace In Toky0 of the square, resumed his work this i The document was signed by i morning after a four weeks' illnrss. Japan's touring foreign minister, Mr. Pepper has been ill of pnsu- Yosuke Marsuoka, and the Soviet i premier-foreign commissar, Vy-! acheslaff Molotott, at the Kremlin at 2:30 p. m. i Matsuoka, iiagen has recalled Henrik de Kaulf- cations to 240.000 wage earners, CIO work stoppage scheduled for Tues- of the Republican County Central Committee, to be held in the circuit, has determined to disregard the or- Representatives of the corporation osurtrocm Wednesday -night, April Homs Tuesday afternoon at two der.

"The instructions obviously ami thc CIO teel workeis organiz- I 16 -for the purpose of clectin" dele- P' clook conducted by Rev. C. E. irls ccmmi announced a new gates to a convention to be held at tUmtaid a "and the 'minister feels i contract replacing 0115 signe- in the same placo Friday r-ivht, when he was removed to the hos- i have withdrawn to new posi- pilal. He was a native of Macon tions after inf icting severe County, being born March 2.

1872, a 'casualties on their German foe, the London war office Funeral services will be held Said late toda J'- the chapel at the Norman Funeral Earlier London reports said Brit- his duty to remain here." Sharrah. Interment hi the TJtica infantry had routed the elite S. Adolf Hitler division" northern Greece. Infantry Had Routed the i Weckman, chairman of the ic Ti-ii i Democratic City Central Commit- El te S. S.

Adolf Hitler tee today for mass Division in Greece. meeting of Democratic voters at the city hall Thursday'night," April 17.. at 8 o'clock. The purpose of the mass meeting Mr. Weckman stated, is to delegates to the Democratic City, convention which has been called for Saturday night, April 19, at 8 o'clock at the city hall.

At the meeting of delegates Saturday night candidates will be nam-' to fill the various city offices "Mto be voted on at the city election to be held en Mondav. Msv 5. 1037, NAME ATTORNEYS IN VOTEJECOUNT R. B. Taylor to Represent McDaniel and Don C.

Black Gov. Forrest Donnell. estimatsd the increase would 18 for the purpose of naming a a add about to the annual ticket to be voted on at the regular i payrolls. city election lo held on Monday, The new agreement provides for May 5. I changes in grievance machinery, a Following is the number of dele- I five-day consecutive work week and gates to be chosen by wards: a form of company union commis- sion to establish equalized wags rates on new jobs.

First Ward Second Ward Third Ward Fourth Ward 21 21 24 22 11 bile 'family home this afternoon. Surviving are his wife, three sons. Ray and Forrest of the home, and Paul of Camp Funston, one daughter, Lorene, also of the home, one sister, Mrs. W. R.

Sellers, Oklahoma City, and four nieces and two nephews. A brother John Bennett violently strafing Nazi troop col- County Clerk J. Olenhouse received word Saturday evening of the appointment of attorneys to represent Lawrerce C. McDaniel and Gov. Forrest C.

Donnell in the count of general election votes cast for governor November general elec-" tion. Richard B. Taylor will represent McDaniel and Don C. Black i Students to High School Contests The delegates will select a can! flidate for mayor, councilman-at- large, councilman from each of the I four wards treasurer, auditor, as- 0 -U- UlO.v ij.1 LilC i i 0 eight-day old battle of jeach of the four wards, city clerk, Greek front line dispatches pre-1 city attorney, city constable, police-- viously had asserted that Hitler's! judge, city treasurer, city- auditor panzer columns had failed in their and city assessor. drive against stiffening British- Greek defense and an RAF com- munique said British planes were pass-ed away September.

in Independence last I umns driving into the Aegean king- i ing. One man and one 'woman will be selected from as members of the Democratic City Central Committe at the Saturday night meet- dom. 1 In this issue of The-Constitution- Mud and snow were said to have Tribune appears the official Demo-. State high" school contests at Co- tries in the speech festival, Prof. S.

Taylor Dowell said this morning, Prof. J. R. Huckstep declared he plans to take all the music students who rated No. 1's in the recent sub- district music and speech festival here as well as a few who got No.

2's. monia. I TRIP TO MEXICO Mr. and Mrs. J.

N. Stemm are on Matsuoka, for whom the pact their wav to Olm Mexico. Mr. was a signal triumph, arrived here by a local 23'for'a 1-day stay on his 'implement firm, and Mrs. journey for Axis conferences in is with ttre farm security ad- I Berlin and Rome where he saw ministration, Idt Saturday and ex-1 Adolf Hitler and Bemto Mussolini.

pect to bs gcae 10 days. He saw MolotofI then in the pres- tense of Stalin. IS SLIGHTLY IMPROVED Returning from Berlin and Rome The condition of Mrs. E. H.

Lake, i last Monday, he saw Molotoff four the counc Ls to be caIT i e( on before now hi a hospital in St. Joseph, is more times, including one confer- Qle con testee and contestant or their slightly improved. Mr. Lake visited ence of three and a halt hours, and representatives. Since it is obviously -his wife Sunday.

Saturday was Mrs: another conference yesterday in i mpos for McDaniel and Don- Lake's birthday and she wishes to which Stalin again engaged. lo attend each recount in the thank all her friends who sent her while Russia's relations with its state, they are' naming represeiita- a birthday or an Easter card. Far Eastern neighbor apparently tives in each of the counties in were clarified by the pact, the So- the state to represent them. Low anticipates sending some I United States naval escorts for war INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS viet's attitude toward events in Eu- The attorneys will have the right i contestants in individual events. materials would break wide open in An installaion of officers of the rO pe, and particularly the Balkans, i to chalenge any of the ballots and Agriculture and music contests the senate this week.

One Hundred From Chilli- 3ess01 Judge, constable, clerk, cothe High School Will attorney. Participate I The official cal1 appears elsswhere Formerly Operated a Cloth- I TM this issue of the Constitution-! 4 r-usi Tribune. impeded the Nazi thrust against the cratic call. allied front stretching from Albania Died in Kansas City I bases to the Gulf of Salonika. rinsino- Prnoram i Simultaneously Yugoslav armies FOgTam at were reported to have captured Durazzo on the Adriatic sea which ing Department for Children at Spring Hill School lumbia this spring will draw a him- dred Chillicothe high a Gov.

Donnell. The appointments sicians and several agricultural stu- I were made by the contestee and the dents. Three, are to be no local en- contestant. Under orders received by Olenhouse for the conduct of the recount, Miss Hazel Bargar, who formerly reuoi in Foreign Policy a clothing department for the Yu oslavs children at Anderson's in Chfflico- Proposal to Forbid U. S.

Naval, Escorts for War Material to Come Up Soon. the British icrm the nJajor port" of Italian "troops fighting in Albania. Fascist reports acknowledged that were making strong mass assaults on Italian troops at Scutari in Northern Albania. Fresh troops, including new Gresfc were rushed I tin- WASHINGTON, April 14-- Critics of the administration foreign policy There will be no farm judging forecast today that the-'long develop- teams from this school, but Prof, ing debate over a proposal to forbid Boy L. Burkett Post.

No. 838 Veter- was ar om clear. ans of Foreign Wars will be held Tuesday evening at the Veteran i are set for Friday. April 25, at the their challenges are to be recorded by the clerk and reported to the University of Missouri. state legislative committee in charge tlir Asxvciulcil I'rrfg) Hall, 5mi Jackson Street.

The WASHINGTON, April i of the contest. Mr. Taylor, active in ladies auxiliary of Veterans of For- a ry declared today that the! Democratic politics, has served as new Russian-Japanese neutrality pact "could be overestimated" and that the policy of the American government remained unchanged. The secretary of state in a lormal his press conference, the, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Kansas City Saturday evening at 10 o'clock, following a brief illness.

i Funeral services will be held at to threatening positions while allied the Meadville Methodist Church patrols skirmished with. Nazi ar- Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. G. B. Minor.

Burial will be in Meadville cemetery. The body of the young woman, prepared for burial at the Gordon Home for Funerals, was removed to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M.

Bargar, at Meadville this afternoon and will lie in state there I until the funeral hour. targe" Asseiribly-of'SitfdeBts" and Patrons. Present Friday Afternoon. I A large assembly of students and patrons was present Friday afternoon 'for the closing program at Sends Note eign Wars will be -invited to the installation SPENT WEEK END HERE Mrs. C.

S. Noble and daughter, Miss Mary Lou, of Oskaloosa, statement at spent the week-end with Mrs. 'said: Noble's "sisters. Mrs. Frank Ponclet Miller, and Mrs.

i prosecuting attorney of Livingston county, and Mr. Black is the present city attorney. The convoy question was of main immediate concern to the legislature and their interest was sharpened by these developments: Miss Bargar operated the chil- I 1--President Roosevelt's removal i dren department at Anderson's, 10 United OtateS I of the Red sea from the list of about four fiars a and Previously waters closed to American shipping i she operated her own shop on the Axis Considers Itself under the neutrality act. Says Free to Attack Ships in African Waters. North side of the square.

Recently Held Saturday "The agreement would seem co be i ROME, April 14--Virgimo Gavda, authoritative Fascist editor, notified I 2--Announcement of the Russian- i Japanese neutrality agreement--foes of naval convoys said this pact would tree the Japanese for further south! ward moves in the Orient. she had been employed in the children's department at Harzfeld's in I Kansas City. Miss Bargar was born in Mead- units. Reports from the front said the Germans, busy mopping up Yugoslav troops fig'hting at then- rear, were bringing up reinforcements for a strong offensive in Greece. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans in a battle apparently fought in the territory of Thorlina, Greece and the Bitolji pass, in Southwest Yugoslavia.

(Kif tliu Associated I'rcss) BERLIN, April 14 Axis forces plunging across North Africa in the and Assistants Met Extension Office. at the United States today Axis considers itself frse that the to attack any or all ships bearing aid for the British in Afrcian waters. I and Mrs. Joe Miller, and ddscriptive of a situation which has! 4-H Club Clothing Leaders Noble's mother, Mrs. Mary Robert- in effect existedl be tween the two son.

Mary Lou will return to her countr i es or some time past. studies at the University of Kansas It therefore comes as no Tuesday. although there has existed doubt, i whether the two government would BACK FROM VACATION or would not agree to say it in writ- i 1 thln 8 leaders and assistants Glen Maxey returned to work this mE i Saturday in the Livingston entering the Red Sea, Gayda said: morning in the radio department County extension office. "African waters still are engaged Montgomery Ward Company, fol- cpONSORTTVP PROPRAM I nlustrative material was made, I by Italy in war. Whatever passes two week vacation.

He. owvun J. including notebooks and in the enemy service may legiti- and Mrs. Ruth Burke, home demon- Imately be attacked and Four Killed in A Prison Break Spring 1 Hill School. They brought baskets of saw a program and had their pictures taken.

The teacher, Gladys Lucas, reports a good attendance record'for the year. Out of a passible 22, the pupils overaged 21.25. Attendance prizes were awarded Charles Rae Zullig, Doris Mae Zullig, Bobby Johnson and Dorothy-Figg. Spelling prizes went to Mildred Figg, grade; Sylvia Pigg, second grade; Norma Saale, third; Charles Rae Zullig. fourth; Bobby Johnson, sixth, and Ruth Rose and Shirley Saale, eighth.

Seventeen of the 22 enrolled received state reading certificates. direction of Britain's Suez canal lifeline, has entered Egypt from Libya capturing Salum, the German high command said today. I Salum in Egypt just across the! border from Libya and Fort Ca- puzzo, Libyan fortress south of I Besides her parents she is Axis occup ie Bardia, were cap- 1 tured in quick succession by the 18,000 Trees Are Received Here ville, August 10, 1910, the daughter of Thomas M. and Mattie Jackson Bargar. survived by these sisters and brothers: Miss Eunice Bargar and Miss lowing a visited during that time in South A training meeting for 4-H Club i Referring to President Roosevelt's lifting of the ban on American ships Two Long-Term Convicts Are Captured After Flight From Sing Sing.

Helen Joseph Bargar Evans this city, Mrs. Meadville, Miss Held Near Wheeling This rapidly advancing German and Ital- ian units, the daily war bulletin de- Ruth L. Bargar of Los Angeles, Mrs. (Premier Mussolini's high corn- Robert Stephens of Ramona, Forrest B. Bargar and Carroll R.

Bargar of MeadviUe. i Garrison Students Will Be Featured April 18. Missouri, Kansas City, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.

E. Maxey of Harrisonville, and spent part of the time in Chillicothe. When he" entered the door at home, his mother recalled that it was a year before at iecus progtam Friday cvenim stration in alteration of patterns, pin-fitting and basting sleeves. The Bethel M. E.

Sunday i These who attended were Miss School is sponsoring a misccllan- Mary Lay of the Sampsel Go-Getters AprJjClub; Miss Katherine Stone of the OSSINING, N. April 14--Two stration agent, conducted a Axis forces which are ever long-term convicts who shot their I Arlrlit" 1 1 i way out of the Sing Sing prison in- i A-lHUUOnal MaSS mand acknow i edge however, that I the Bri tish garrison at Tobruk, 80 miles west of Bardia, was still re- sisting fiercely against encircling; German and Italian forces. BenclieS firmary in a sensational break 1 I wnicl1 cos foul uves cre captured OCOUl irOOp. a fcw j-, oul latcl today a oods across Ui-s Hudson river. the same hour that she received a 18, at the'church.

Garrison schcol Mcoresville Mixers; Miss Dorothy Seats for Forty Have Been The two convicts and a conf d- Plans Are Held Up Kiwanis Dinner i rn Farmers interested in wind at Jlaie lOnignijp Jantmg post-timber plantto wire that told her that Glen who had students will be featured. To and Miss Melba Gordon. Chil- i There will be a small admission Willing Workers, and Miss I (Continued on Page 3.) charge or ne entertainment, which ''starts at 8 o'clock. Benjamin Bland 1 i is superintendent of the Sunday School. Miss Jeneva Basye is chair- man of the program committee, and i A the Rev.

W. B. Coleman is pastor, i TKEWEATHR Coll of the Ludlow 4-H. BOY LOST IN A BARN 7-IIcur Installed in Washington Street Meeting Place. They're going to be more corn- cratc, who later was slain, had broken from the prison in a battle in which a prison guard and an Ossining policeman were killed and Action Caused by In- cumbered Funds.

It Is Said. W. McCormick, state forester with the extension service, will hold a tree-planting demonstration on the Abie Corzette farm, two miles south of Wheeling, Wednesday morning at 9:30. A shipment of trees arrived in the county this morning from the Missouri Commission. Eighteen thousand trees were included in this shipment.

-break: nr arid Plans for additional national de- fense industrial classes here are now Made for 130 Members and Wives for Occasion. WILL SPEAK HERE i a convict patient died of shock. i abeyance. No more classes will fortable from now on at meetings of Thg convicfcs are Riordan set up under the out-of-school fehc Lions' Club Boy Scout troop. MISSOURI: Showers and local thunderstorms east, and south this afternoon and tonight except partly cloudy southeast this afternoon, cooler west and north tonight: Tuesday cooler, precede ed by showers.

Saturday's Temperatures Maximum 84 Minimum 61 Sunday's Temperatures Maximum 80 Minimum 59 Rainfall 41 of an inch Search for Plattsburg naven had seating, 4, Is Successful. and whcn they go to mx to ITALY SENDS NOTE CAMERON, April 34--A 7- ON SHIP SEIZURE hour search for the 4-year-old son and Charles McGale, ssntenced for robbery. both under youth program because "funds made Reservations have been made for 130 Chillicothe Kiwanis members and wives for a dinner tonight with Prof. Fred McKinney to Assembly. i available by federal apporpriation Hale meu and woman.

The dinner Md frfr freedom Biorde for payment of these courses have 55 being arranged by women of the I Prof. Fred McKinney, psychology night the Scouts will find brand McGale and John Water5i tue slain I been encumbered," according to in- Hale Methodist Church and will be instructor from the University' of. Scout Commissioner Dee Shern 1 new benches, enough to seat 40 boys. memter of the tno km one formation received by Co-ordinator served in the basement- of their Missouri, win and Marvin Gutekunst. vice-ohair- ot Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Deume of tin- j.s.-fc..-10/ni rrrsi) Plattsburg Ended here last man county camping activities, WASHINGTON, April 14 Italy i wnen the was found in a barn ma( 3 the benches at the lumber Ralston from the State De- delivered a new note to the United on a farm, two miles from where he States today'in connection with the; last seen. i seizure of 28 Italian merchantships; The child strayed from the home 1 on charges of sabotage. An Italian i of his grandmother, Mis. Wallace embassy official said the note was Goad.

When found, he said he had a further explanation of the Italian been unable to find his way out of point of view. I the barn. yard where they obtained the material for them. Troop 123 meets in the second floor rooms on Washington street where Stilwell's sign company was before moving into the Boehner building, sining fight. policeman in a running gun payment of Education.

church. speak at a high school assembly program Wednes- SDFFERED ATTACK Charles Lmville suffered a heart! attack Saturday and is confined at his home on Springhill road. He was reported some better this morning. Charles Ferguson, who has charge i day morning at C. H.

Supt. H. R. When these funds are unencumb- of the program, said Dr. A.

Sterling MeCaU announced this morning, in- ered new classes appearently will be Ward, pastor of the First Methodist viting the public to come and hear allowed. Church, will be the main speaker of Prof. McKinney speak. The Chillicothe School System now the evening Charles Murphy and McKinney is said to be a most in-' has'-application on file -with the Al Evans, C. B.

C. students will offer i teresting The state uni- state for new classes. Mr. Ralston musical entertainment, and little i versity is sending him out to appear said the prohibitions have no effect on N.Y.A. instruction.

Paul Arthur Callaway is to give a reading. on several programs and alumni banquets this week. VSPAPERr.