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Ohio's Most Complete Newspaper ONE-HUNDREDTH YEAR NO. 316 AKRON, OHIO, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17,: 1939 FORTY-SIX PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS no Stretching Way To Job i i uV JV Girl Still Needs Quarter Of Inch Height To Qualify $286, 846 Chest Drive To Goal w. AH (II NAZIS -OPPOSE Leaves Post Climbing AM TO JOIN IN RELIEF PLEA NEW Gib III ON IN CHICAGO? Aims Final Assaults On 425,000 BLOCKADE 1 HO ThU 50 Column -85 Shows 75 Per Cent 20 Raised feo- in 50.. 55 Chest "45 Drive. 40- -as Give 30 Your 2o Share' -25 io- Today 5 rj IfiJ.Z.

i Acme Photo-One Inch in height is what pretty Kathleen Hildebrand, above, 19-year-old student of Kansas' City junior college, Kansas City, is trying to attain so she can meet the physical requirements of the civil aeronautics authority for student pilots. She added half an inch to her five feet, one inch stature by stretching, and another quarter-inch by a self-inflicted bump, and here she is back to stretching for that extra quarter-inch. i Officials Believe 0'Hare Was Slain By Capone Mob For Two Timing' MORE KILLINGS FEARED Shutdown Of Racing Service Complicates Affairs For Probers By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Preaa Staff Writer CHICAGO, Nov. 17.

Investigation of the shotgun assassina tion of Edward J. O'Hare, millionaire race track magnate, pointed directly at the powerful Capone syndicate tjbday and official sources expressed fear the slaving had marked the opening of a new era of gangland war fare in Chicago. State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney and his assistant, Capt. Dan Gilbert, said they had no doubt O'Hare was slain by the mob in revenge for "two-timing" its leader.

Other officials had the same view, basing their beliefs on these developments: An unimpeachable source revealed that O'Hare in 1931 supplied the government with the witnesses whose testimony convicted Capone of income tax fraud and sent him to prison. 2 Chief Deputy Coroner Anthony Prusinski found a letter among CJ Hare personal effects, dated Oct. 6, 1937, and signed George," which informed him two convicts released from Alcatraz had heard Capone swear he was "going to have The let ter confirmed information obtained from a high federal source at Washington that O'Hare had in formed officials that Capone had threatened his life. Investigators received reports that "trigger men" of the Capone syndicate responsible for hundreds of homicides in Chicago, were returning to the city. Police had reported during the course of the O'Hare investigation that several hundred members of the Capone mob had been seen recently at Sportsman's Park race track, of which O'Hare was president and (Continued On Page Two) OWEN D.

YOUNG active work RETIREJFROWI G.E. C. E. Wilson To Be President While Philip D. Reed Heads Board Another Photo On Page 2 NEW YORK, Nov.

17. General Electric Co. announced today retirement of Owen D. Young and Gerard Swope from active management of the company. E.

Wilson will become president and Philip Reed chairman of board. The changes become effective Jan. 1, 1940. Wilson has been executive president of the company and Reed assistant to the president. Young and Swope will assume the titles, respectively honorary chairman and honorary president.

Began As Office Boy Wilson began his career as an office 'boy at the age of 13 with the Sprague Electric a former constituent company of General Electric. He Is a native of New York City. Reed, who was born in Milwaukee, General Electric in its law department in 1926. The elevation of Reed and Wilson came almost as a birthday gif to both, for yesterday Reed was 40 years old and tomorrow Wilson will be 53. The directors of General Electric declared a dividend on the common stock of 65 cents a share, payable Dec.

20 to holders of record Nov. 24. It brings the total common stock payments for the year to $1.40 a share compared with 90 cents in 1938. Served As Tutor Young, who is 65 years old, was born in Van Hornsville, N. and put himself through Boston university's law school by tutoring and serving as a His law work brought him into engi neering circles where he attracted" the attention or Charles A.

Coffin, then General Electric president. In 1913 Coffin named Young general counsel for the company. His work with the electrical concern widened and he became known as one "of the leaders in the miblic utility industry. When Coffin resigned in 1922, Young was chosen chairman of (Continued On Paf a Two) Bricker Sees Fire, Arouses Family WOOSTErI Nov. 17.

Gov. John W. Bricker appeared on the porch of, the L. Brenner home, two miles east of West Salem on route 42 at 1:30 a. m.

today to warn the occupants that the house was afire. The governor was passing on ma way to coiumbus from Cleveland. The house burned with a loss of YOUNG AND SWOP Adds To Cleveland Demand For. Special Legislative Session 1939 DEFICIT $300,000 Toledo Also In Dire Straits, Sends 2 To Conference In Columbus Faced with a 1939 relief deficit of approximately Akron city officials and representatives of the unemployment relief committee today planned to send representatives to Columbus Monday to add Akron's plea to that of Cleveland for an immediate special session of the legislature. Mayor Harold H.

Burton of Cleveland will take a delegation to Columbus Monday to meet John W. Bricker and leaders of the house and senate and reiterate the plea for a special session to meet the relief emergency of Ohio's large city counties. Representing Akron at the meeting wiU be Philip W. Ferguson, city finance director, and Jacob M. Zang, director of charities.

-Committee Meets "The Akron unemployment relief committee, headed by Rabbi David Alexander, met yesterday at the courthouse and decided to invite State Senator-Frank Whittemore, senate floor leader, to another re lief session here at 10 a. m. Nov. 28 in the county -commissioners' 4f flee, at which time the facts of Akron's relief emergency will be assembled. Whittemore will attend the conference at Columbus Mon- dav.

i The local Committee hopes to enlist the aid of the senate leader in bringing pressure on Bricker to call an immediate special session. Toledo Represented Toledo, facing the same plight that confronts Akron and Cleve land, will send Vice Mayor John Q. Carey and Martin S. Dodd, city law director, to the Columbus conference Monday to join Cleveland's delegation in-asking for a special session. 1 Break Down Figures Rabbi Alexander yesterday sug gested that all figures on relief be assembled in black and white, and turned over to Senator Whittemore, so that he can tell the governor how many persons are on direct relief, how many on WPA, what money ia available now and how much will be needed, and otn-er pertient facts.

"We've gone as far as we can, legally, in our efforts to take care of our own problem," said County Commissioner Henry B. Bixler. "Why not a levy, which is cheaper than a bond issue? We've got to get down on a direct levy, a pay-as-you-go basis, one year at a time. We've got to stop trying to borrow our way out of debt. It's up to us to sell the idea to the public of a levy on a lower percentage We must sell the legislature the idea that we (Continued On Pag Two) NAZI TROOPS OCCUPY PRAGUE UNIVERSITY PRAGUE, Nov.

17. (HE) Armed German storm troopers and Ger man policemen occupied. the Czech university and high' school at 2 a. m. today and later, reinforced by; the gestapo secret police occupied the student house.

tt Yesterday, 12. persons. had been injured in a Czech Fascist demon stration In Wenceslaa Square, heart of the city, and the day before, Czech students, shouting "for freedom, had been dispersed by storm troopers. Today, armed German storm troopers took up positions alongside Czech policemen in front of university buildings. At 10:30 a.

m. motorcycles and cars entered the city bearing addi tional storm troopers armed wiin field guns. 4 General Motors Units Fined $5,000 SOUTH BSND, Nov. 17 UPv Federal Judge Walter C. LIndley imposed fines of 35,000 each today on General Motors corporation and three affllaites convicted last night by a jury of violating the Sherman anti-trust law.

Prior to imposing the fines, the maximum provided by law, the judge overruled motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment. The three affiliates convicted were General Motors sale corporation. General Motors accept ance corporation, and General Motors acceptance corporation ef In diana. Tell Baltic States Warships Will Stop Trade With England ACT AFTER BRITISH PLEA London Says Hitler, Army Staff Disagree; Blamed For Inaction By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, JB.

United Presa Staff Writer BERLIN; Nov. 17. -The Nazi press warned Belgium today against cooperating with the British blockade and announced that German warships were going to put an end to secret shipments of timber to Great Britain from certain Baltic states. Voelkischer Beobachter, the Nazi organ, said Germany henceforth must convince herself that neutral cargoes were not destined for Britain and that "this goes primarily for timber cargoes which in recent weeks have, in a striking manner and in great quantities, been going from the Baltic to neutral countries where they have never gone before." 'Cheat Warships' "If these sudden new trade routes are suspicious, there are also other grounds for suspicion," the newspaper said. "There are" many cases of ships which previously always plied to Britain.

These ships now give as their destination even the United States, although they are not equipped for Atlantic voyages- In certain neutral ports, strange market organi- Nazis Cancel Order To Invade Holland PARIS, Nov. 17. (INS) An assertion that German plans to invade Holland last weekend were "mysteriously cancelled" came today from the lips of an American observer who has just arrived In Paris from Germany by way of a neutral country. "The Germans," he said, "were all set to invade Holland last week-end. There is absolutely no question of it.

The plan was mysteriously and suddenly cancelled." zations for timber trade have been created which only exist from inventing new method to cheat German warships. "The German government haa watched these goings on for sev-. eral weeks. It is determined now, however, to put an end to them." In the case of Belgium, Voel-Wscher Beobachter, of which Adolf Hitler once was editor, referred to a recent request made to Belgium by the British ambassador at Brussels, urging that the country help speed uu Britain's contraband control. "The British ambassador thus admits that Belgium's cooperation in British measures would include support of the British economic war against Germany," the newspaper said.

Belgium Fears Port, Loss "Belgium will understand, if. under this Interesting viewpoint. Germany follows with attention Belgium's attitude toward the British demands." In Belgium, the fear of a Ger man Invasion of that country or Holland still not dissipated and a United Press dispatch from Brussels reported some speculation on the idea that by invading: Holland, weaker of the two, Germany could virtually cut off all Belgian access to the sea. The Bel. gian ports of Ostend, Ghent, Zee-brugge and Antwerp either have (Continued On Page Two) thrust suggestively Into a held up Crosser'a cafe at 837 W.

Exchange at. As he ran from the scene, a waitress who had walked out of. the back room watched the bandit discard his coat. ThU was the case, too, at Klstler'a. Detectives Howard Turner and Goble Waddell tried to' locate Bope but he had moved.

Detectives waited patiently until he showed up to report on his parole yesterday and nabbed him. Bope admitted the job. Given a prelim-. inary hearing in municipal court. Bope entered a technical ia not guilty and was bound over to (Conttnuad Oa Paga To 'More People Abje To Give Workers' Army Hears From Litchfield BULLETIN Reporting new pledges of $33,844 at noon today.

Community Chest solicitors brought the total amount pledged to date in the 1939 campaign to Pledges Friday 33,844 Previous total m.t.-s.t.w.. $253,002 Total to date 286,846 Heartened by the assertion by President P. W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. that his company's payrolls are up and "there are more people able to give" to the Coanmunity Chest this year, the chest's 2,000 workers moved into position today for a final assault on the towering goal of $425,000.

Contributions at the end of three days' solicitation stand at $253,002. A total con-tributionof $42,260 from seven divisions of the army was reported yesterday noon as Chest workers met with the Kiwanis club at a joint luncheon. Another Report Today -The results of yesterday's cam paigning will be known at another noon luncheon' at the Mayflower hotel today when each division will report new totals. i Principal speaker at today's re port meeting will be Rev. Fr.

Albert J. Murphy, D. of Cleveland, director of Catholic charities in the Cleveland diocese. Father Murphy was formerly assistant to Rt. Rev.

Fr. John O'Grady, secretary of the Nation al Conference of Catholic Charities, at Washington, D. C. 'Good Insurance Litchfield, speaking at yesterday's report meeting, called the Chest "good insurance." Litchfield declared the Chest represents the difference between (Continued On Page Twol after his discharge. Murphy added that relatives had assured him the racketeer, who served his time for Ijncome tax evasion, would go Kfraigni.

Hospital attendants who saw apone said he looked "pale and Mveak." CANADIANS FIRE SHOT AT AMERICAN VESSEL SEATTLE, Nov. 17. UPi Puget Sound shipping circles were stirred today by the report of a veteran American skipper that a Canadian ship had fired across his steamer's bow. when he failed to heed an order to halt promptly for inspection at Prince Rupert, B. C.

Capt. A. J. Borkland of the steamer North Coast said the warning shot was fired Sunday as his ship headed Into Prince Rupert on a trip southward from Alaska. He declared he had reported to advance that he Intended the North Coast into Prince Rupert, but a dominion vessel hailed his ship, questioned him as to why it was there and ordered that he hoist two signal flags.

"I ordered the flags brought up, but, as the vessel was In danger, ous waters, I kept her moving for steerage way to prevent grounding." Captain Borkland said. "Before the flags arrived, the Canadian vessel fired a shot across the bow of the ship and I then brought her to a fun atop. Wooden Let Minor Mishap Deter Him EMMETT. Idaho, Nov. 17.

CY) George Proctor suffered a broken leg on a deer hunt. Unflinchingly, he permitted companions to set the limb and then went on with the hunt. P.S.Xt was a woofea leg. iilllll Co-Ed Seeks To Get Plane Instructions u. S.

However, May Relent A Bit Bump Fails To Make Grade By Cnltcd Press KANSAS CTTT, Mo, Nov. 17. The civil aeronautics authority, working on the theory that one good stretch deserves another, indicated today that it might stretch its tape measure for Kathleen She is 'the- 19-year-old red-haired college girl who wants to take student pilot instruction so badly she has almost stretched herself out of joint trying to attain a height of 5 feet 2. That's the CAA's minimum requirements, and Kathleen, despite all her efforts, was a quarter of an inch short of the mark this morning. That despite a bump on the head which produced a quarter of an inch of temporary added height before the swelling subsided- The CAA's medical man, Dr.

Paul Platt, will give Kathleen her final test late today and just be-fbre the zero hour she will make the supreme "I'm going to an osteopath and have him crack my back," she said. "That may do the trick. If that fails then my only hope is that nice man in Washington who said he admired my pluck and might let me into the class anyway." Richard Boutelle, CAA safety regulations chief, is the Washington man. He explained that a pilot as small as Miss Hildebrand would have trouble seeing over the side of the cockpit if she sat low enough to reach the pedals with her feet. Report Huge Plane Orders Placed In U.S.

OTTAWA, Nov. 17. The Canadian war supply board was reported unofficially today to have placed huge orders for planes and other war equipment and supplies in the United States. The board, however, withheld official information on any deals concluded. It acts as purchasing agent for the British supply board, charged with responsibility for buying war material from toothpaste to torpedo boats.

FBI Guards Sickly Al Capone In $30-A-Day Hospital Suite By The Associated Press BALTIMORE, Nov. 17. Broken, flabby and ailing, "Scarface" Al Capone stared vacantly at the ceiling of a $30-per-day hospital suite today, free of prison cells in which he lived for seven years but sentenced now to a lingering brain disease. 11 FAULTY S. SHIPS FIXED, SAYS R.

President Says There's No Need For Probe Into Building By The Associated Press HYDE PARK, N. Nov. 17. Showing little concern over the 'fact that some. naval vessels' had been found to be topheavy.

President Roosevelt asserted today the condition had been corrected and indicated he saw no heed of congressionaj inquiry into the matter. After acting navy secretary. Charles Edison, had disclosed that some recent destroyers had been topheavy, some suggestions mat congress make an investiga' tion. Told at a press conference that Senator Wheeler, democrat, of Montana, had suggested one, Roosevelt said that all congress would learn would be this: When the 3hips were designed and plans were drawn, there was a amerence oi opinion among navai ana private architects and engineers over what the metacentric height should be. That height, which Mr.

Roosevelt was unable to define, is not the same as the cen ter of gravity. Weight Added While the ships were under construction, there were new inventions and designs and weight was added, throwing the (Continued On Pas Two) DEWEY TAKES STAND, DENIES HATING KUHN District Attorney Admits He Considers The Bund 1 A Nuisance NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (INS) District 'Attorney Thomas E. Dewey today denied at the trial of Fritz Kuhn that he "hated-'i the bund leader although he admitted that he considered the.

bund i a "nuisance" and a possible threat to civil liberties. Dewey, at ease on the stand, protested "I can take care of myself at one point when an assistant objected to a question put to his chief. Dewey produced a letter sent him by Mayor F. H. La Guardla on May 17 and his answer written on May 18 while his, staff was working on the bund recordsl The letter from La Guardia referred to facta submitted "with this letter" compiled by the commissioner of investigation of the city and bearing on the conduct at the bund's affairs.

Dewey's reply war to acquaint the mayor with the fact that the bund's records had been seized and were being checked. WHERE TO FIND TODAY'S FEATURES Page Akron. Jr. 6 Amusements 34 Astrology 24 Brady 24 Ned Brant -37 Broun 18 3L 3 Clapper Crane Clubs ,.....1 Comics ....43, 45 Crossword ....45 Editorials 6 Has kin 24 Kerr 8 Markets ..33, 40 Page My Day ..18 Pa tri 16 6 Pegler 18 Pyle 6 Radio Recipes Bchlemmer ..35 Serial 45 Society ..14 35 to 38 Town Trade Winds 40 Your Garden 24 WincheU .23 HIGHER JOBLESS PAYMENTS URGED Atkinson's Plea Follows Taft Attack On U. S.

Budget Policy Beataa Journal Special DUpaie CLEVELAND, Nov. 17. Higher monthly benefit payments under the unemployment compensation law in Ohio were urged by H. C. Atkinson, state administrattor of the tbenef its, in a speech today at the Ohio chamber of commerce's 46th annual convention.

-The Akron man's talk today followed a speech last night in which Robert Taft. Ohio's presidentially minded republican senator, proposed that -e congress create a "budget committee" to police federal expenditures. Taft declared the "real -threat" to the nation's welfare "is still produced by domestic policies." He occupied the speakers table with Gov. John W. Bricker, Senator Edward R.

Burke, democrat, of Nebraska, Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton and a myriad of Ohio business leaders. Talks In Forum Atkinson, former Akron newspaperman and chamber secretary, was one of the main speakers today in a forum on social security. Pointing out that Ohio stands ISth among the states in the average weekly benefit paid to unemployed workers, while it is fourth in the size of the, average annual wage paid, Atkinson asserted: "It is my and studied (Continued On Page Two) AKRON AND VICINITY Increasing cloudiness tonight. Saturday cloudy and somewhat colder.

Rain at night Record high for this date, 73 in 1931; low, 9 in 1933. At 7:30 last night, barometric pressure, 30.22, humidity, 65: at this morning, pressure, S0.23, humidity, 88. BOl'UT READINGS p. m. ss 7 p.

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m. 84 Noon 1 p. .61 3 p. 6J DAILY TEMFIBATrBB REPORT 7:30 a- m. T6f Condition Today Max.

AmeriHa pt.ooay. a Atlanta, 4J Boston pt. cloudy. 44 Buffalo 37 Chicago 4 Cincinnati- tcir 3 Cleveland pt. cloudy.

3 Columbus 38 Denver 3 Detroit Pt. cloudy. 40 DuluttT S8 El Pao 49 Kansaa City 60 Lo Angeles 68. Miami 75 4 70 1 Kw Orleans New York SI pajpeeraburf 42 Phoenix 48 Pittsburgh 41 Portland. Ore.

43 San Franciaeo clear w.ahtnffton clear S3 Teaterday a hiih Phoenix. 80. Today low MorU platt. 1- Outside the one-time Chicago gang czar room sat a male orderly and a nurse. In near the hospital were three federal agents, assigned by Attorney General Murphy to keep fallen vicei emperor under surveillance because, Murphy said, "certain things have come to our attention." Whether the agents were tdr guard Capone from himself or from possible gangland reprisal was not made clear.

No uniformed police were assigned to Union Memorial hospital. The gangster chief came here secretly yesterday from the federal prison at Lewisburg, and entered the hospital. He is suffering from paresis softening of the brain but it was learned that, while his condition is serious, he is in no immediate danger. Murphy said Capone would be under treatment possibly three weeks and planned to go to Miami 20 years, started "sinning precisely at 7:30 p. m.

last night. The dinner was Inspired by a remark made by CXO. President John Lb Lewis. He called Mr. Garner "a poker playing, whisky drinking, evil old man.

Garner wasn't there. He was down in the brush country shooting at deer. Through fire and brimstone and those scorching milk cocktails, the cld-timers waded. Then they emerged in a political field of daffodils, convinced the democrat will nominate Garner in 1940 and elect' him prudent. Trap Robber Who Used Same Tricks Too Often 'Evil Old Men9 Start Sinning, Toast Garner By Ifca Associate Presa DALLAS, Nov.

17. -Spittoons were placed 40 feet away from tobacco chewers and snuff dippers as a bunch of "evil old men and wicked old women" toasted Vice President Garner with. EDWARD BOPE, 26-year-old paroled robber, was back In jail on a new highway, robbery charge today because he refused to change the pattern of his stickups. At the same time ritMMva milk. But don't be misled by the milk in their goblets, it was no namby-pamby affair.

The vile occasion was "dedicated to sin and corruption by the friends of the Honorable John N. Garner of Texas, vice president of the United States of America." If it smacked of decency or of law and order "such Incident or incidents were purely coincidental and had no reference to nice persons, living or dead," the bunch roared after a few' rounds of liquid. The rowdies, members of the Texas Editorial association and frienjs of the vice president tor launcnea a nunt for two bandits who this morning held up Naum eireasorr, or 13 Ido av In the La Paloma cafe at 1571 S. Main st. and relieved him of 345.

Bope was the bandit who. usincr a raincoat for a dismiss can opener for a gun. held up Klstler'a restaurant last March 8 and took 350 from the cashier. Cantured tha nmi rHcrVtf TAnA confessed two other holdups. When he appeared before Common Pleas Judge Walter B.

Wanamaker. however, he was given a break. He got a five-year parole. Then last Jnn 27 bandit, hat pulled low over the collar of his coat andua hand.