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Ohio's Most Complete Newspaper FINAL EDITION AKRON BEACON JOURNAL With The Best Features And News Service Of The Akron Times-Press jir Associated Tress -k United Press ic International News NINETY-NINTH YEAR NO. 316 AKRON, OHIO, SATURDAY EVENINO, NOVEMBER 26, 1938 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS F.B IM ll Ul WEATHER Light snow this afternoon and tonight; colder tonight. Sunday, snow flurries and colder. Warmer Monday. The highest temperature yesterday was 28 at 1 p.

the low, 11 at 6:30 a. m. ORDERS II mm ti VS: UL ''ov Anv ri rpi'Tiivr nnnr ornn rurL nLuuog 'biinThi TO 1 ILL 84 Die In Storm; Renewal Of Snow Threatens Akron Gypsy Rose To Tell All SFTERSEIZURE Pontiff Shows Rapid Improvement After Retains Title As Ambassador To Germany But Will Remain Here Night Of Rest WILL RESUME ACTIVITIES F. D. R.

AWAITS REPORT Is Rising Temperatures Relieve Sub-Normal Cold In Northern Ohio Dollar Volume Boost Highest In State For October Physician Pleased As Patient Leaves Bed To Receive Cardinal Assignment To State Department Unusual In Diplomacy By I'nited Press REPORT GAIN 14.6 PCT. 1 I EAST STILL DIGS OUT ROME, Nov. 26. Pope Pius XI was recovering rapidly today from a series of heart attacks which for many hours had put him close By Internationa! News Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.

America's ambassador to Germany, Hugh R. Wilson, will be reassigned to the state department as an adviser for an indefinite time, Acting Secretary to death. Ohio-Wide Average Over September Is Up One Per Cent Three Ships Aground As Wintry Gale Whips Canadian Shoreline The rugged constitution of the pontiff brought him through, however, and today the Vatican announced that he would resume normal activities "after several or state bumner Welles announced today. davs' rest." Reflecting an upturn in busi Akron and Summit county Welles' statement todav was the He had such a calm and restful night, that this morning he was permitted to leave his bed and sit ness conditions, the dollar volume of retail sales during Oc -'J first official admission that the peremptory summons which in an arm chair. He then received Cardinal were gripped in a cold wave today in the wake of the nation's worst November storm in years that caused serious injury to a young Akron coaster and claimed at least 84 lives in the coun Pacelli, papal secretary of state.

No other audiences will be granted however, until he is fully rested, Vatican officials said. Vatican officials said that the Season's First Coasting Victim! Akron's first coasting victim of the season, 6-year-old Stanley Lewis is shown above in a Children's hospital bed. His mother, Mrs. Wayne Lewis, 824 Bisson is there to comfort the young coaster, injured when his sled ran from the driveway of his home into the path of an automobile driven by Robert Pryor, 40, of 785 Bisson av. The child suffered a skull fracture.

pope breathes easier when seated in the chair which was duui especially for him. tober in Akron showed the greatest gains of any city in the state, Ohio State university's bureau of business research reported today. While the state-wide average showed a gain of but 1 prr cent over September, gains in dollar volume of retail sales in Akron were 14.6 per cent above the previous month, the report showed, Kresge Gives Bonus The sales report was divulged as other business indices continued their upswing in a trend which started last summer concurrent with the stirrings along the production lines in Detroit's auto plants. Added to heartening news in Akron was the announcement by the S. S.

Kresge Co. that approximate Instructs cardinal In conferring with Cardinal Pacelli, the pope instructed him to give absolution to Mrs. William J. B. Macaulay.

wife of the Irish brought Wilson home from his Berlin post as an American protest to Nazi Germany's persecution of racial and religious minorities probably will keep him in Washington indefinitely. Welles said Ambassador Wilson will go to Warm Springs, tonight to make a personal report on conditions in Germany to President Roosevelt. When Wilson returns to Washington, Welles said, he will be assigned to the department for duty as an adviser on German affairs. Retains Capacity Welles was careful to explain that Wilson will retain his capacity as ambassador to Germany, and that no change in that direction is being made at present. But it was admitted privately that the assignment of a visiting ambassador to duty in the state try.

Sliding from the driveway of his home into the street, Stanley Lewis, 6, of 824 Bisson became Akron's first coasting victim of the season Friday when struck by a machine driven by Robert Pryor, 40, of 785 Bisson av. Fear Skull Broken Admitted to Children's hospital With a possible skull fracture, the boy was reported in "fairly good" condition today. Slowly rising temperatures ended a threatened subnormal cold wave when the mercury dropped to an all-time low of 11 above zero NEW FIRES ROAR MAY CALL TROOPS IN COLONY IN FRENCH STRIK minister to the Holy See, who died Thursday. A wealthy American, she had been created a papal duchess because of her work for the church. At noon Cardinal Pacelli received newlyweds and 400 pilgrims who had been scheduled to see the pope.

The pope received Cardinal Pacelli not in his bedroom but in ly 350 employes in its three local stores would wliare a Christmas GVrSV ROSE LEE Tomnin department as an adviser is "un- me and Shirley lemple. i bonus of $2,000, based on length of Flames Sweep Down Canyon Toward Fields, Astor, Temple Homes Daladier Confers With Military As 5 Million Plan 'Idle' Wednesday continuous service. his private library. Vatican attendants who transported him Dies Probers Want Story Of Stars' Gifts To Spain early Friday, but the Akron district continued to shiver today in what the weather bureau described as a "normal cold." After dropping back to 19 degrees above at 9 p. m.

Friday, the temperature rose steadily presaging the possibility of further snow today. A slight flurry during the night was an aftereffect of the Btorm that swept this area Thanksgiving day. Akron Streets Cleared Traffic moved through Akron and the district without difficulty after crews from municipal, county and state highway departments cleared main thoroughfares, but By RVLTH HEINZE.V United Press Staff Writer PARIS, Nov. 26. Premier Ed-ouard Daladier conferred with high military commanders today.

He was believed to be preparing The Associated Press That announcement follows the annual practice of that firm and others of sharing gifts at Christmas time with employes. Other Akron firms will make similar announcements in the near future, it was learned. For the rubber industry, yesterday's report of the Rubber Manufacturers association for October showed sales in that month greater than any previous month since August, 1937, and eight per cent greater than the same month last year. 225,000 Units Spurred by automobile production which hit approximately 225,000 units during the month, shipments of tires were 4,285,233 Welles conferred briefly with Wilson this morning, but said he was unable to discuss the nature of their talk. Nor was he able to say just how long Wilson will remain with the president at Warm Springs.

But it was indicated that Wilson's visit will be of sufficient length to give the president a complete fill-in on the entire trend of events in Germany during the 11 months in which Wilson has been in the Nazi capital as this country's ambassador. Silent On Report Wilson also conferred with other officials at the state department following his talk with Welles. These included James C. Dunn, the department's political adviser on European affairs and Pierrepont Moffat, chief of the European division. strong measures to suppress increasing labor and left wing pro CLEVELAND, Nov.

26. An exploratory wing of the Dies congressional committee resumed an investigation of affairs educational today after Gypsy Rose Lee of the "strip-tease" conditionally accepted an invitation to testify about Hollywood. By United rress LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. Palatial homes of movie stars and millionaires, isolated in the foothills for seclusion and safety, were menaced anew today by a raging brush fire.

The flames roared down to the floor of Mandeville canyon, back of Hollywood, where are the homes of Shirley Temple, Mary Astor and W. C. Fields. Fire lines were mobilized in the lower canyon reaches between the flames and the homes. With a wind fanning it, the fire "I'll bare everything if the there, said the improvement in his condition was clearly ejvident.

The pope asked his 'doctor's permission to leave his bed because he felt so much better. After a thorough examination, Dr. Aminto Milani, his personal physician, permitted him to get up with the assistance of an attendant, and sit in a big armchair near a window overlooking St. Peter's square. The square was bathed in warm sunshine.

Tatient Better Dr. Milani left the pope's apartment at 10:30 a. m. apparently convinced that his patient was recovering. From his armchair the pope began arrangements to resume his daily consultations with Cardinal Pacelli, papal secretary of state and other church officials.

Father Agostino Gemelli, the pope's personal friend and a prominent physician, visited him and gave him a thorough exami- (Conllnued On Page Eight) KELLY-SPRINGFIELD committee will come to Columbus," roguishly remarked Miss Lee at the state capital, where she is appearing at a theater. tests against his "reform" decrees. Mote than 5,000,000 workers will cease work for 24 hours on Wednesady in protest against the decrees which suspend the 40-hour wojk week and levy taxes which hit hardest the working class. The premier, his cabinet threatened by increasing opposition and nation-wide strikes, now involving more than 100,000 men, was reported to be considering the dissolution of the Communist party. (Continued On Page Eight) in Washington before the entire committee, Mosier said.

Among persons questioned yesterday. Mosier said, was a Western Reserve university student who described activities of the American Student union, labelled a "communist front" organization by the congressman. Names of witnesses are withheld. Ohio's Rep. Harold Mosier, and production 4,275,619, wnicn was 7.7 per cent greater than September's total and 7.3 greater than October last year.

Replacement tire sales, which bolstered the industry during the late spring and summer months, also are believed to have been in democrat, member of the committee investigating un-American ac reached a road at the bottom despite the efforts of hundreds of weary, smoke-blackened city firemen. Sparks shot 250 feet up, spreading the conflagration through the tinder-dry brush like in the rest of the nation trainc accidents on ice-glazed streets contributed largely to the mounting storm toll. Police renewed their warnings to parents and youngsters after the Lewis child slid into the path of Pryor's machine in front ot his home in the city's first and only coasting accident since thousands of children dragged out their sleds to greet the season's first snowfall. Pryor told police the child coasted out of a driveway directly into the path of his car. He said he braked and swerved sharply but was unable to avoid hitting the boy.

Placing the child in his car, Pryor rushed him to Children's hospital. Two Akron men, injured in accidents also attributed partially to the weather, were tn local hospitals with minor injuries. Admitted to St. Thomas hospital with a broken leg was Jacob Glazman, 52, of 519 Bell in- (CoMiniied On Pago Eight) tivities, had asked the actress by telephone to come to Cleveland by plane for an interview concerning a movie capital campaign for a prairie fire. 800 On t'treiuieg The wind then swung to the funds for the Spanish government i east, temporarily turning the fire EDWARD AND WALLY (Continued On Page Eight) WILLKIE PREDICTS UTILITY 'BAD TIMES' back on itself.

Fire Chief Kalpn Scott ordered 100 fresh men into the fight, making a total of 800 on the firelines after the city council voted a 15,000 emergency appropriation for the worst fire in INVITED TO ENGLAND He was reticent concerning his "report and consultation" with the president, clearly indicating that nothing concrete could be said pending his personal report to the chief executive. Ambassador Wilson returned to this country on the Liner Manhattan yesterday. He had time for a brief conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull who sailed a short time later as chief U. S. delegate to the Inter-American conference at Lima.

Peru. Confers With Hull Neither Hull nor Wilson would comment on their conversation, held in Hull's cabin. Their meeting was so brief, however, that it was apparent Wilson had no more than outlined the report he will make to the president. Although Wilson had been ordered from Germanv "on the first TO REOPEN MONDAY Employes Instructed By Union To Resume Work Fol-. lowing Dispute PREMIER WILL LET QUINTS GO TO FAIR Hepburn Says He Has 'No Objection' To Showing In New York TORONTO, Nov.

26. ('Canadian Press) Premier Mitchell Hepburn today said he had "no objection to allowing the Dionne quintuplets to be exhibited at the New Will Be In Same Shape As Rails Unless U. S. Policies Change, He Says Official Bid To Royal Family; Visit Planned Next March forces. "I can't go I got four shows a day here," Miss Lee commented.

"I got a whole company depending on me. And the flying weather's bad." While describing the incident as "a big joke," the shapely exponent of expose said: "Maybe we did give parties out there to raise money for poor kids and women in China and Spain. Is that un-American? I thought it was the American creed to help the downtrodden." Miss Lee recalled that another film actress, tender in age but strong at the box office, was once mentioned in a Dies committee OUR WEATHERMAN CUMBERLAND, Nov. 26. (UP)- Union members have been instructed by their officials to return to work Monday at the Kelly-Springfield plant, idle as employes WASHINGTON, Nov.

26. UP) Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth and Southern predicted today that the utilities soon would be in "as bad shape as the railroads" if pres FAFJS, Nov. 26. (HE) The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have been invited officially to visit England and have told friends they are likely to go in March, it was learned today.

The question of granting the duchess a royal title, as demand if i boat," during the height of the York World's fair next year Los Angeles history. Scott called firemen off the ridge separating Mandeville from Sullivan canyon when sparks (Continued On Page Eight! A Case Of Double-'Crossing The B'ar' NEW LONDON, Nov. 26. (P) August Bonnin climbed atop a pile of brush near Three Lakes to watch for deer while his hunting partners were beating the bush for him. The pile of brush heaved, and a growling black bear made tracks for the tall timber.

One shot from Bonnin's rifle brught the bear down, and the second killed it. the guardians, including the father1 nrotested the susnension of a anti-bemitic campaign in Germany, both he and Hull implied union member, George Rose. ana ine aocioi, ueem acuiHaoie. i that there was nothing urgent Premier Hepburn said represen-! about their conference. With the tations had been made to have the i I'nited States delegation to Lima Although the company opened ed by the duke, remains to be hearing settled.

It was learned that cer the gates for work Friday, prac "It's the first time I ever got quints appear at the fair and that uara wiayea c.u.i.. rr 11 sailmr 40 mini tea waiting for tain ladies of the British court have been exerting strong pres tically all of the 900 employes failed to report. The week's sus billing with Shirlev Temple," she sure against granting the title. pension was ordered by the com he had referred the question to Wilson. For a time it appeared the guardians.

that Wilson might be longer delay- At Callander, Dr. Allan ed and when Santa Clara officers Roy Dafoe, phvsician to the quints a'ed "uU he.th" t0 i delay the ship indefinitely, he re However, Prime Minister Chamberlain is expected to pany for Rose and Ira Leasure, exclaimed," and I think it's marvelous." Mosier and Rep. Noah Mason are conducting an inquiry here as a special Dies sub-committee into alleged communist activities in non-union member, following an mediate and find a solution. AKRON AND VICINITY Light snow this afternoon and tonight; colder tonight. Sunday, snow flurries and colder.

Warmer Monday. ent administration power policies are continued. The policies of TV A and PWA, he said, have destroyed the market for utility financing, preventing needed expansion. Willkie, whose company operates numerous utilities in the TVA area, predicted, too, that the utilities would spend $100,000,000 at most next year on the expansion program proposed as a part of the national defense program. Administration spokesmen, who conferred with utility leaders on the program several weeks ago, reported afterwards that a expenditure was in prospect for the next two years.

Mrs. Aubrey Field altercation. since their birth, said the entire; Rose will be eligible to return question was "up to the govem- plied that it was of no great importance whether he met Wilson before sailing. Ohio schools. Some of those ques- tioned probably will appear later ment." 6 D.

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A demand for a week's pay for Rose because he was not the aggressor in the altercation is to be filed with the national labor relations board, according to union leaders. Do You Know Enough About Current Affairs To Pass Quiz? HOW MUCH do you know about current affairs A test of your knowledge is another feature of the Sunday Beacon Journal, Midnight Father Coughlin 'Muzzled By Nazi Press Charges, As Station Bans Priest 1 2 3 a. 23 4 a. 23 5 a. 23 Is Wed In London By Vnited Press BERLIN, Nov.

26. The Nazi press, commenting on the refusal of radio station WMCA in New York to broadcast the regular speech of Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit tomorrow, Where To Find Today's Features LONDON, Nov. 26. IP) Mrs.

Aubrey James Field, former w-ife of Marshall Field III, Chicago mercantile heir, announced today that she DAILY TEMPERATURE REPORT 1:30 a. m. Y'day's City Condition Today Max. Amarillo clear 22 44 Atlanta cloudy 30 44 Boston cloudy 14 24 Buffalo cloudy 28 28 rhir.ntin 26 30 i charged today that Jewish organizations had "muzzled Father Coughlin." starting tomorrow. The quiz appears on "The World This Week" page in the editorial section.

Try it! QECONDS count when Akron fire-men dash to a blaze. The Sunday Beacon Journal's rotogravure section tomorrow will give you a closeup picture of Akron firemen as they prepare for a fire run. In the same section readers will learn imands. A sham battle was held jat Doeberitz by motorized infan- trymen using heavy machine guns I and shooting real ammunition. There followed a counter-attack by tanks.

Communication units also took part. Later, Pirow was shown the infantry school in Olympic village. I It was revealed that the States embassy had sent a note to the foreign office regarding Austrian foreign bonds. The con 1 and Peter Pleydell-Bouveenebn, brother of the Earl of iRandor, were married yesterday, No details of the ceremony were disclosed. the truth," the Zwoelfuhrblatt said Might Displayed Pare Amusement 5 Around The Town 5 AstroloirT Bradv, nr.

William 1 Brant At Carter 11 Rroun. Heywood lit Churrh News. 3 Clapper, Raymond 11 Cluh News 6 Collier's Sclertion 11 Comics 15. 1. Crane, Dr.

Frank in a featured article on its front i page, this afternoon. I "The action against Father Coughlin is a sample of the men-idacity of the so-much lauded free-idom of speech in the United i States." the newspaper said. It Page Intercepted letter 4 Palrl. Angrlo 6 Peeler. Weslhrnok Roosevelt, Mrs.

Flcanor 1R Radio News, Pros-rams 1.1 Schlcmmcr's Column 10 Serial. "iiOvrrs Aweifh" 8 Socially Speaking Town Crier Trade Winds ...13 Voice Ot The People 4 Winrhell. Walter 9 IS Years Aso 4 Johnson, 18 Stenographer Slain In Railroad Office Cincinnati snow 30 34 Cleveland cloudy 28 30 Columbus 27 30 Denver clear 8 28 Detroit snow 30 30 Duluth Pt. cloudy. 10 20 El Paso clear 28 68 Kansas City clear 16 44 Los Anseles clear 58 82 Miami cloudy 76 76 New Orleans 44 48 New York cloudy 22 36 Phoenix clear 38 68 Pittsburgh Pt, cloudy, la 28 Portland, Ore.

clear 42 50 San Francisco clear 80 70 Washlnston clear 22 34 Washington clear 22 34 Winnlpca 0 12 Yesterday's blah: Miami -76. Today's low; Le Pas, Manitoba, 4 below zero, "This attempt at veiling the truth shows not only the enslavement and submission to Jewry, but also is indicative of boundless cowardice. The dreary, slimy motivation of this step demands attention." Germany's military might was displayed today to Oswald Pirow. defense minister of the Union of tents and the tenor of the note were withheld. The United States has announced that it would hold Germany responsible for Austrian debts and that United States Sec- NEW YORK.

Nov. 26. T.P) Miss Marion Wheeler, stenographer, charged that "Jewish organizations camouflaged as American organizations have conducted such just how many licenses they need to live. "qARNEY GOOGLE," the famous little comic character, will be in Sunday's big 16-page full color comic section. Follow the adventures of Barney and his pal, Snuffy Smith.

was shot and killed today in the i crossword mimiim nffii-a nf the New York I Pmzle a campaign that the radio-castin retary of State Cordell Hull had previously indicated that a Ger- (Continued On Page Eight) company has proceeded to muzzle South Africa, who came here to i the well-beloved Father Coughlin, confer on Germany's colonial de- C.rar. Donald 7 Helen snd Warren 3 Central railroad by a man who then committed suicide..