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Daii Readm More Ontario County readers than any other Ontario County paper Western New York: MwrtJy oudy tonight and possibly showers, cdoler Established in 1797. Vol. 157. CANANDAIGUA, N. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1936.

Single Copy, 3 Guilts FRENCH REFORM PROPOSAL IS AWAIT 3 FOLD PROGRAM AND RAIN HELP DROUGHT AREA Residents of Ravaged Sections Are Cheered By New Plans DROUGHT SEARS MIDWEST PRAIRIES GOVERNMENT AIDS Million Head of Cattle to Be Bought; Will Spend Five Millions DULUTH, Minn. in the form of rain and a three-fold program of government aid cheered residents of drought ravaged agricultural sections of the nation today. Showers fell in southern states and in ths Great Lakes region. In many cases they meant the difference between a fair crop and at all. Precipitation was forecast for the parched upper Mississippi Valley.

But there was no moisture to sol ten the hardpan prairies of Minnesota and the Dakotas--focal points in a widespread $250,000,000 drought. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace authorized federal purchase and processing of up to 1,000,000 head of distressed cattle in North Central states. Even as he took the actioii here yesterday, livestock was being shipped from sun seared pastures in the northwest by the trainload. The movement at seme centers equalled that of disastrous 1934. At Washington, officials indicated $5,000,000 would be used in removing cattle from burned out ranges in a joint undertaking by the A.

A. A. and the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. The meat products will be donated to state relief agencies for distribution. It was indicated extensive buying would not be necessary if drenching rains occur in the next fortnight.

Roads Are Planned Works Progress Administrators in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wyoming completed 23 DEAD, MANY HOMELESS; FLEE IN BIGJLOODS Damage to Property and Crops Reported Now at Three Millions Second Siamese Twin Is Dead; Planned Operation M'EDFORD, Mass. A baby girl Siamese twin who lived nearly 30 hours attached to the body of her dead sister, died this morning. EMERGENCY ACUTE Force Expected to Diminish As Lowlands Absorb Water CUERO, Tex. (ff) Hundreds' of lowland people, warned by disaster upstream, fied from the muddy waters of the notorious Guadalupe river today and gave way to its ruinous spread over the coastal country of South Texas. Damage to property and to crops nearly ready for harvest mounted irom the $3,000,000 mark.

Twentythree persons are known dead, mostly in the area between Austin and San Marcos. The emergency today was most acute between here and Victoria, a 'MEDFORD. Mass. sician prepared today for a des'per- r.te attempt to save a living- "Siamese" twin baby by separating her from her dead sister-- an operation so delicate as to be without successful precedent in the memory of one noted research authority. "I am going to have to operate," said Dr.

John B. Vernaglia. The five-pound survivor was reported gaining strength in the battle against death to which she was linked by bony tissue at the back of her head. The doctor, who delivered the babies to Mrs. Diego Fiorenzo of Everett, Wednesday night, indicated he might operate today.

The dead twin, a seven pound baby, died five hours after birth. longer he put off the operation the less of a shock it would be to the tiny infant and the clearer would be the line of demarcation between the living and dead organisms. A phy- Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, said he had never heard of a successful operation to separate living and dead Siamese twins. Dr.

Fishbein asserted that every time such an operation was attempted the living twin died. Dr. Vernaglia said he would not use anaesthesia, but would cut through connecting tissue just beyond the line of demarcation and that it would be comparatively painless. The area of union between the two bodies is about three inches square. Mrs.

Fiorenza was spared word of the operation. Relatives told the 23-year old mother she had given League Revision ns Dr. Vernaglia explained that the' birth to an incubator baby. Burned to a crisp by a blazing sun after many days without rain, pastures In many parts of the midwest and northwest have become barren and crop prospects are pooiv These pictures, taken near Bismarck, N. show horses In virtually grassless pasture land, and dust dunes i i In a roadway.

(Associated Press Photos) FARLEY'S CASE I BITTER FIGHT SHELVED; PLAN AMONG LABOR FOR CAMPAIGN! NEARING END WASHINGTON (ff) The New Deal temporarily shelved the question of Postmaster General James A. Farley's resignation from the cabinet today, while concentrating on Montana: psriecting plans for a whirlwind, plans lor $2.000,000 campaign to re-elect construction of farm-to-market, Pl eI dent os evelt. roads and wafer conserving TM? enf Blg Jlm commander-in- They hoped to put the first contins- tlic Democratic campaign ent of an army of 50,000 cropless I forces emerged late yesterday from city of 11,000 where the lowlands appeared certain to be flooded, AE the crest passed here last night fanning acres were inundated and 40 negro homes were evacuated Motorboats carried the refugees to safety. The bulk of the flood was about 50 miles up from the Gulf of Mexico this morning- and its force was expected to diminish as the water I spread out over lowlands near the coast. i After two days of destruction I over several counties the tiny creeks that wrought the first ruin and all larger streams but the Guadalupe were back to normal or had receded at least below danger- cus levels.

The business section of Victoria expected to escape the flood since STATE GOP OFF TO START; GETS OFFICE OPEN farmers to work in several days. In the national capital, President nccsevelt's special drought committee shaped a general assistance program. Reports to the resettlement administration indicated 100.000 farm families would need aid. World wide alarm over the situation precipitated a buying stampede en both sides of the Atlantic yesterday. High price records for the season were shattered on the Chicago market by every grain on the list.

Wheat's sky ride lifted it past the long-sought "dollar a bushel" level. Its five cent advance at Chicago was a three-hour conference with Presi- I dent Roosevelt, reporters crowded around him, pencils poised. They expected to take down Farley's farewell to the post office department and an announcement that he would devote his full time to his task ay Democratic national chairman. But Farley quickly informed them that no announcement about the resignation, long rumored, was in store, at least for the present. He said the subject did not even come up in the conference.

Charles Michelson, director of publicity for the Democratic party. added that no news one wav 01 the halted by exchange rules forbidding other would be expected before Mona bluge of more than a nickel a day. day. Corn surged up the allowable limit of four cents. Own Convention Being Planned By Farm Unit Contractors Held in Ruling of High Court ST.

PAUL Congressman Usher Burdick of North manager of Congressman ALBANY (ff) An Appellate division ruling that general contractors are responsible for wage payments on public projects even where Dakota, i sub-contractors default was hailed William! by Attorney General John J. Ben- WASHINGTON iff) Informed sources expressed the opinion today that bitter conflict within the American Federation of Labor may be'river, but the lowlands braced for ended and the rift welded in the heat i high water, of a campaign, now getting underway, to unionize the vast steel and iron industry. These sources would not be surprised if some sort of compromise bargain were between John L. Lewis, head of the unionization drive and ardent advocate of industrial It; citizens were chased to uplands unionization, and the dominant A. F.

of L. faction which leans toward craft unions. Sentiment within the A. F. of L.

unions to cease internal quarrels and present a united front against the embattled steel employers was said to be impelling the rival factions in the direction of a settlement of differences, i Whether a settlement will, in fact, SEATTLE un- take place, is not expected to be predictable congressman, Marion A. AY DEMOCRATS FOLLOWED GOP ON PLATFORM ous Assembly Thrown Into an Uproar Today by Suicide 3 of Photographer FLASHES OFIIFE NEW TORK (ff) Leasing an entire floor in an office building here for Republican campaign managois loi Governor Alf M. Lar.clcn of prepared to' launch a drive i.ne astern states within a few aeys. Representative John W. Martin, of Massachusetts, said that Representative Hancock, of Syracuse, would head the eastern speaker 1 bureau with Joseph McCune, of WribhMi.igfor.

as his assistant. He said in the New York State 'drive, the Landon regional forces is built considerably higher than the -would work through the New York (By The Associated Press) Less Said the Better TACOMA, Wash. George McAlvey's wife shouted that clothes in I a closet were burning. He rushed in, 1 housed the flames and rescued a smoking coat. In a pocket he found his pet pipe, which he had put away with tobacco still burning.

From another pocket he took his favorite badge the honorary one the Tacoma fire department gave him when he retired as its chief. Crippled communication lines carried appeals for aid from many stricken sections. In the Gonzales region two families were reported 1 missing. West of Gonzales the i century-old community of Leesville was a scene of desolation and waste. and trees as skies dumped between 18 and 20 inches of rain in a brief oeriod.

I Zioncheck Will Face Constituency Today Stele committee, which has leased offices in the same building. They are expected to be opened July 13. Before leaving for Washington, Martin said he was confident the Republican nominee would carry New York and the New England states. "Upper New York never in better shape for a large Republican vote than it is lie s.iicl. Martin arrived here yesterday from a trip through New England and said he found in the eastern industrial centers a resentment against the Roosevelt administration.

known for some days at least. Meantime, however, it was noted that in the past several days the craft unionists headed by President William Green of the A. F. of L. have hurjed no more verbal thunderbolts at committee for industrial organization.

Lemke's Union Party presidential nett, today as "a great step for- campaign, as its head, a "rump" ward in the protection of workers organization of the National Farm-! on public contracts." ers Holiday Association today pro-1 The immediate effect of the de- ceeded with plans for its own "na- i cision, given in Rochester, will be "with-1 the release of at least, $2,000 in wages being withheld from employes, State Comptroller said. ticnal convention" to be held in 60 days." The group headed by Burdick yesterday seceded from the organization that had just elected John Bosch of Minnesota as president claiming the Holiday Association Uai3 met till, was under Communistic control and that "the purpose of the assemblage (the national convention here Tuesday and Wednesday) did not appear Morris S. Tremaine to be representative of the national body." Annual Soaring Meet Drawing to a Close ELMIRA (ff) Pilots at the national glider contest here looked forward to good weather today as the annual soaring meet drew to a close. The meet will end tomorrow with an air circus staged on the last two days in connection with the Chemung county centennial celebration. The best flight yesterday was made by Chester J.

Decker, of Glen Rock, N. who soared an hour and fifty-three minutes at an altitude 5,000 feet after a winch takeoff. Revision Is Ordered HOLDING FESTIVAL TOWNSENDVILLE (ff) Just eight houses and an old church -but Townsendvillc today is having its 53rd annual festival. Conducted by the Seneca county hamlet's citizens, the festival each year draws 1,500 to 2,000 persons who wander about Townsendville's four or five corners and hear again their historic importance. ALBANY (ff) A revision of gas and electric rates of several utilities estimated to save consumers $116,400 annually, was announced today by the Public Service Commission.

Companies affected include the Iroquois Gas Corporation, serving Erie, Cattaraugus, Wyoming and Livingston counties; Niagara, Lockport and Ontario Power Company; the Lockport and Newfane Power and Water Supply Company; the Niagara Electric Service Corporation and the village plant in the Village of Mohawk, Herkimer county. 99 Year Old Veteran Still Awaits Bride OLD FORGE Jeannette, 99-year-old Civil war veteran said today he still expected to hear from Mrs. Ella B. Manning, 55-year- old widow, who made a hurried departure from Old Forge on the eve of their wedding here last Saturday. "I don't blame her," Jeannette i said as he puffed complacently on an old briar pipe, "but I still believe she will come back to talk things over," Jeannette said he had received a I "bundle" of letters from women i throughout the country sympathizing with him.

Some, he added, offered to discuss marriage. Zioncheck, faced his constituency I today for the first time since his' eastsrn encounters with "cops and cockroaches." His wife arrived by surprise last night, slipping in quietly by plane i and immediately secluding herself. She was met at the airport by her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. William Nadeau, who tcok her to the Zioncheck home.

The fun-loving representative, Hearing home by train after being- refused passage on a plane, had said several hours previously his wile was in Washington, D. "but I don't know just where." Tammany Celebrating Anniversary Saturday CHICAGO (ff) Modelers of the 193G Democratic platform today faced the accusation by John D. M. Hamilton, Republican National Chairman, that some of their planks were expediently plagiarized from the Republicans. He declared, at a dinner given last night by the Illinois Republican finance committee, that Democratic pronouncements of opposition to monopoly, plans to balance the budget and promises to uphold the civil service system were made with strange Hobo an eye to the platform KANKAKEE, 111.

Scottv Wai- adopted at the rival nominating don went to the rescue of his cat convention. when he saw the animal battling "Hardly was the ink dry on the with what appeared to be a snake Punctual Prisoners SELMA, Ala. Honesty is the coolest policy. Twenty trusty prisoners in the Selma jail are allowed to go home each night to escape the stifling heat inside the cells. So far not one has failed to report back on time each morning.

anti monopoly plank of the Re- at the edge of a creek. But it wasn't publican platform when Mr. Roose- I a snake it was a squid, a small velt suddenly deplored the evils of monopoly and added our pledge on salt water dwelling member of the octopus family, fully 1,000 miles this issue to his own platform," said i from the nearest ocean. Hamilton. "Hardly was the ink dry oil the civil service plan when Mr.

Roosevelt again followed our lead, to the astonishment of the nation which is well aware of his record on civil service. After reading the Cleveland platform, Mr. Roosevelt decided once more to promise a balanced budget." Vice Ring Is Split In Various Prisons The cat won the fight and Waidon salvaged the tentacled traveler's remains to prove he wasn't seeing thing's. There's A Difference TULSA, Okla. Mrs.

H. T. Hay, ward, secretary of the S. P. C.

A. i complained that Dog Catcher Em- cry Johnson refused to pick up stray cats. "I presented him with i. special cat box but he won't use it," she said. "I can catch cats," returned.

Johnson, "but I'm paid to catch dogs. I won't chase cats. They scratch." Charge Communism Is Talked Before Girls DESMOND HONORED NEWBURGH Employes at state institutions at Middletown, Poughkeepsie, Wallkill, Woodbourne, Orangeburg and Warwick honored State Senator Thomas C. Desmond at a testimonial dinner here for his efforts toward passage of the eight- hour law for state employes SAVINGS IN RELIEF ALBANY (ff) Net savings of $2,416,804 in local relief costs outside New York City for the first four months of 1936 were reported today by Lester W. Hcrzog, upstate WPA administrator.

He said the local cost in 1936 was $9,546,300 and in 1935 it was $11,863,104. Crop Insurance Now Proposed By Wallace ST. PAUL Crop insurance, with the premiums paid "in kind," was suggested today by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as a poss'ible method of helping farmers to bridge crop failures. Outlining the plan in an interview here while enroute to Des Moines, Iowa, the secretary that it was merely a suggestion, and that there was no present intention of the government setting up sucn a plan. "For instance," he said, "if a farmer raised wheat, he could pay wheat premiums when he had a good crop, receiving the insurance wuen crops failed." PIERMONT Charges that communism was "favorably" discussed and patriotic American songs parodied by girls at Camp Jane Addams, a federal project in Bear Mountain Park, were made today in a resolution adopted by a committee of the Rockland County American Legion.

Clifford O. Poole, chairman of the County Legion Resolutions Committee, said his group adopted a resolution which asserted that young women at the camp, named after the noted American social worker, were lavorably discussing communism. NEW YORK (ff) The Society of Tammany celebrates the 150th anniversary of its founding tomorrow --with its political influence in national affairs only a shadow of its great strength of other years. President Roosevelt leads off the list of honorary patrons of the celebration, and Alfred E. Smith is one of the Tammany sachems on the official committee but there will be no meeting of the one time political friends and now foes.

Former Governor Smith went to a Long Island resort last night with his family to spend the Fourth of July holiday and will not attend the celebration. Death Toll Up to 18 In Labor Disorders MERIDA, Yucatan (ff) The death toll of labor and political disorders rose to 18 today as federal troops paced Capital streets. Three men and two police officers died in a four-hour gun battle in the town of Tizimin after a political adding to 13 fatalities in 1 a strikers' I TO MAKE STUDY ALBANY (tf) Industrial Commissioner Elmer A. Andrews announced today that he would appoint an advisory committee to make a study of machinery and methods for the prevention of dust disease hazards in New York industry as the first step toward formulation of permanent regulations by the State'In- dustrial Board. DISPUTE IN STRIKE SYRACUSE (ff) A statement by Earl Harding, an official of Remington-Rand, that the "strike of company employes is broken," was disputed today by strike leaders here.

assistant to President James Rand, said 269 workers returned yesterday to the plant, crippled by a strike called nearly two months ago. Woman In Naval Spy Case Is Questioned LOS ANGELES (ff) Prosecutors of a wife-murder charge against Robert S. James turned to a woman witness today in an effort to picture him as a bluebeard who made love when he should have been in mourning. The witness was Madge; Reed of Los Angeles. Attorneys fo: the state said she would tell the jury that James, a red-haired barber with inscrutable green eyes, proposed to her just one week after the death of his seventh wife, Mary.

The state charges he killed Mary last August by drowning her in 'a bathtub after exposing her to a rat- tJesnake in a plot to collixo $20,000 in life insurance. OSSINING (ff) The state pleted the breaking up of New York i city's "vice ring" today with the transfer from Sing Sing to widely separated prisons of James "Lucky" Luciano and six of his confederates. Luciano, overlord of the vic-3-gang convicted recently in the drive against racketeers conducted by special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, was taken to New York state's "Si- Priscn at Dannemora. With him went Ralph Liguori and David Bettiilo.

Japanese Disapproval Slaying Court Ruling PEIPING (ff) A storm of Japanese disapproval today greeted a British consular court decision denying implication of two British soldiers in the slaying of a Japanese soldier. Japanese called a mass meeting to i "consider counter-measures," and besieged the Japanese embassy to protest the court's finding. (The consular court decided evidence was not sufficient to link the two British soldiers with the killing of Kisaku Sasaki, Japanese soldier who was injured in a fight May 26 and died two davs later. Much Ado MINNEAPOLIS Nine fire companies rolled down Marquette avenue into the heart of downtown Minneapolis, unreeled hose lines, grabbed axes and looked for the fire. They didn't find one.

Three ixilice squads who arrived moments later found a bewildered woman. She said somebody stole her purse in a tavern. "I rang for the police over there," she related, pointing- to a fire alarm box. Round by Round TAMPA. Fla.

A 21-pound tarpon hooked by Milton Luiburrow leaped high out of the water and i struck him squarely on the back, knocking him partially off his feet I The fish fell back into the bay hut the line held. Lufburrow rose without taking a count and hauled in his prize after a few more minutes of brisk battling. tn Ul Milk Class Payments Report Mrs. Cooper Has Left Hospital JERSEY CITY, N. J.

(ff) Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, wanted in California on a charge of mayhem in connection with an alleged sterilization operation on her daughter, was discharged "sometime last night" from the Medical Center, it was reliably reported ab- the hospital. A nurse in the psycopathic ward where the woman has been a patient since last February said early today that Mrs, Hewitt had been "discharged some time last night." She had appeared in court Wednesday to answer charges of attempted suicide and being a fugitive from justice. Two Men Are Held in Teacher's Kidnaping NORWICH WV-Two men were under arrest on charges of kidnap- ing and assault today as the aftermath of a midnight raid on rooming house here and the -spiriting away of a pretty pa jama-clad school teacher who planned tc be married Saturday. Warrants sworn to by Floyd Phetteplace, rooming house proprietor, accused Gus Turkett, 36, and Roscoc Coons, both of Middleburg, of carrying off Miss Ora Wager, 25-year-old rural school teacher and bride-to-be of Melvin Morse, 23, a grocery clerk here.

TREASURY REPORT WASHINGTON The position of the treasury July receipts, expenditures. net balance, $2,711,697,286.87, custom receipts for the month, $753,192.25. ALBANY (ff) State Agriculture Commissioner Peter G. Ten Eyck reported today that minimum prices paid to New York state producers for milk delivered in June showed increases in five classes over the same month last year. The commissioner said the increases were in milk for manufacture upstate into ice cream, cream cheese, evaporated milk, butter, and American cheese.

Prices for fluid milk of 3.5 per cent butterfat and for manufacture into ice cream in New York city remained unchanged. A decrease of 10 cents was reported in milk used for fluid cream and plain condensed milk. GENEVA War sanctions have lost their meaning and the "last crusade is Jayme. Fonseca Monteiro of PortiigaT told" the League of Nations Assembly today. --By lifting sanctions, league states admit certain articles of the Covenant are "too lofty" to be workable, be said.

The league must be made practical and must b.e made a great market of unrealizable dreams," the Portuguese minister asserted. Spanish Foreign Minister Augusto Barcia vigorously opposed the League Covenant. He' argued to the delegates: rsii "The law is good. What is batf is the way it has been enforced." The Spanish delegate -declarfid what should be reformed is not'thje Covenant, but the practice spirit of carrying out- the Covenant's PrbposalsrAwaited The awalfr ed French proposals for, expected to exclude suggestions any prospective amendments; y. The suggestions, authojritative sources predicted, for fresh interpretations by theosEssem-' bly to facilitate application.of existing Covenant articles.

Yvon Delbos, French foreign min- to the plan, which would include at least two proposals: Article XVI of the Covenant, dealing with sanctions in event of war, would be newly interpreted to provide "quick" military sanctions" in addition to economic and financial penalties against the -aggressor i nation. The npytary "punitive" measures, under OieY'iFferich plan, would be authorized under the scope of regional pacts of mutual assistance between league states. (Great Britain and France have agreed in principle, if not in detail, on the regional pacts as a means of strengthening geographical alliances between nations. The British.pro- posed three such regional accords but the French demurred on the grounds Germany, a non-member oS the league, would be allowed a free hand in Eastern The French counter suggestion has not been made public. (Originally, the league paragraph on military sanctions empowered the council to "recommend to the several governments concerned what effective military, naval, or air force the members of the league shall severally contribute'to the armed forces to be used to protect, the The second section of the French suggestion, an administrative detail, would create a special committee to discuss the plan, together with any others submitted, and make a formal report to the September Assembly session.

Photographer Suicides GENEVA Stefan" Lux, Chechoslovakian photographer, shot himself in the head, League of Nations officials said today, as the Assembly began its fourth day session. Lux was carried from the league auditorium in a dying A witness to the shooting said the photographer exclaimed "this is the last." The Assembly was thrown into utmost confusion as many delegates believed one of their members had been attacked. The shooting came without previous warning when the sound of an explosion rang through the hall and Lux slumped to the floor. The incident interrupted translation of a speech by Augusto Barcia, Spanish foreign minister. Lux was sitting in a gallery beside delegates.

No Paper Saturday In Observance of Independence Day THE DAILY MESSENGER Will Not Be Published Tomorrow SENTENCED TO PRISON ITHACA County Judge lard M. Kent sentenced Richard C. Robinson, Ithaca broker, to' one to three years in Attica prison for larceny in connection with stock sactions, Robinson was convicted, of the charge by a county court jury. He formerly operated offices in Oneonta, Binghamton and Hornell. REPORT FIVE HURT ROCHESTER (If) Although the sale of fireworks Is banned persons were reported by Fourth of July explosives, Hone the injuries was serious.

Polfa) firecrackers and ing '-bootlegged" into the city nearby towns, which have no ordinances barring them..