Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 1

Weather Colorado--Fair Friday niglit and Saturday: cooler in east Friday ulght, warmer in north Saturday. Wyoming--Generally lair Friday night and Saturday; warmer Saturday afternoon. Locsl lor 24 hours ending 8 m. Friday: high 93, low C2. THE GREELEY REPUBLICAN VOLUME I 288 AFTERNOON EDITION GREELEY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, 1939 TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1870 Jap Mob Attacks British Embassy on War Anniversary English Scored At Anniversary Of Chinese War Chiang Kai-Shek Sees Chinese Victory Within a Year (Associated Tress) All Japan solemnly commemorated today the'secoiid anniversary ot the war in China.

In Tokyo where the public mood was one of resignation to the trinis of the conflict and perplexity that a Japanese victory still had not come, Euiperor IJirohito went to Btirine in his moat-surrounded palace aud prayed for repose of the souls of the dead. Shrine, the "Japanese Arlington" was the scene of national services where relatives of slain soldiers offered prayers. The war's cost iu lives, higher tuxes and living costs and other restrictions on normal lite have left the puhlic resigned as they would be toward a national ca tastropho--earthquake or storm. The Japanese are told Iliat Great Britain, France, and Russia are pre- i an early collapse hi China. In Chungking, the Chinese capital, tlie day was ushered in with a.

raid by Japanese bombing planes. Four bombs Tell near (lie 400-ton British gunboat, Falcon, anchored in the Yangtze Tiver. Her doors were blown in and her lower deck washed. There were about CO casualties among the Cliinoae. Several botnUs fell near homes of foreigners.

i a Kai-Shek Sees Victory In Year Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek addressed an anniversary message to his neople declaring the war probably would end within a year. Ho said "our enemy is making a last struggle and we may now Inflict the most severe and final blow." Another oriental conflict, the fighting near Lake Bor on the Man- clioukuo Outer Mongolian frontier A heavy Tjattle was in its fourth day On National Defense Program at College Colonel K. B. Edmunds, acting commandant of the Command and General Staff school at Fort Leavenworth who has a prominent place on the national series at Colorado State College of Education beginning week. Artillery Will Be Brought Here In Defense Talk One ol the outstanding features of the summer school session at the Colorado Slate College of Education i be a display of some of the big guns of the United States Army on Wednes, July 12.

Dr. O. 51. Dickeison, professor of WPA Pushes 2 More Changes Despite Strike Thousands Quit Work When Law Slashes Hourly Pay (Associated Press) Washington, July 7. Despite a widespread walkout pro testing the 130-hour requirement ot the IHMV "relief uct, the works project administration pushed ahead Friday with preparations to put i effect two other provisions which may cattle further complaints.

I3y Sept. 1 officials must revise th security wage scale to abolish geographical differentials but a i a i Hie national average in effect June 30 --about $52.50 a Tho scale now ran goo from a month for unskilled laborers hi small southern towns, tip thru various categories to $94 for professional and technical employee in large northern cities. The new differential will be based on the cost of living. They also must lay off for tliirty daya. all WPA workers who have been on the rolls for 18 months.

Commissioner F. C. Harrington told reporters this would affect 000,000 or more, or about one fourth of all WPA workers. "It's a rigid restriction," he said, "and I have no discretion in tho matter. It's going to make It difficult to administer projects efficiently." This, in effect, was Harrington'G reply alsu to the protest against the ISO-hour provision which requires WPA workers to put in 130 hours to collect their monthly pay, with a result ant lowering oC the hourly pay rate.

I Signs Contract To Coach Eaton High H. Campbell, Eaton Coach Paonia Mentor Takes Kenneth Hyde's Position a Campbell, forrfier Denver University footbaN center and Paonia high school coach, who lias signed to succeed Kenneth Hyde as Eaton high school coach. nd. political sciences, 1 1ms. Harrington instructed all stale administrators to explain to the workers that tho provision waa an enactment of congress which the WI'A had no roops apparent lH.ll- ed i a drive ngalnsf the center of Public UK.

MnHnO'qii'vTiH iini tne nue. history us completed the plnus to bring field! authority to change. At the same time nc luu pieces and other military equipment they were reminded of tlie establish 'TM Tokyo, July attempt forcibly lo enter the British embassy was Diadp Friday by. a large body of demonstrators celebrating (ho second anniversary of the Sino-Japanese war. Polka reinforcements wero called out aud dispersed the crowd.

Tho neighborhood of the embassy was plastered with posters demanding: "Britishers! Withdraw from Iho continent of Asia!" 76t l'. nspection the On tlie same day, eniiucnt army and navy officers, including Colonel K. B. Edmunds, Acting Commandant, Corn- to dismiss workers what one lauSr leader termed" a "light to the finish" to force congressional recoik3i(leration of the new federal relief act, thousands maud and General Staff school, Fort of WPA workers Idled Friday or pre- Lcavcnworlli, and Commander I pared to walk off their jobs In protest Leland P. Lovctte, public relations of-1 against extension of laboring hours, ficer of the navy department in Washington, will also present lectures 11- luslraleil with slides and motion pictures.

Colonel Edmunds subjecl will be "Weapons and Equipment." Among the equipment, which will be Tho assault on the embassy came on display on the campus south of the after some of Ihe highest Japanese government officials attacked Britain, charging tliat her support ot the Chiang Kai Slick regime was responsible for prolonging the war. In an Indirect reference to Ihe Tientsin blockade, directed against Britain for allegedly supporting Chiang, Foi-etgn Minister Hachlro Arita said "some third powers aro still blind to the actual situation, or they cherish ambilions to keep China in a tending to July 27. Commander Lo' semicolonial state." Lieutenant General Seishiro Hagaki, war minister, said: "Japan's Immediate enemy is not the Chiang government alone. Cbi- ang Is sti'll resisting Japan in complicity with third powers which have ambitions In east Asia. "These third powers must be crushed in order to give tho final blow to Chiang." In the strongesl official statement yet issued about British Japanese re- lulions, Colonel Moriaki Shimizu, director of the army information bureau, bl library, will bo 75 mm.

field gnu, 37 mm. gun, a Stokes mortar, lirowning automatic, Browning machine gun and- the new semi-automatic intanlry rifle. This Is probably the first time, Dr. Dlckerson believes, that sucli an exhibition has ever been ottered. Colonel Edmunds and Commander Lovette are scheduled for a series of lectures.

Colonel Edmunds' first lalk will be given July 10, his series ex- vette i give five talks beginning July The leclures will be In Kcp- ner hall at 3 p. m. Two Weld County Men At Aggie Poultry School Two Weld county men will have a parl on Ihe program ot the flflli annual poultry school, being sponsored by tho department of husbandry at Colorado State College In Fort Collins July 10-14. Leonard Abbott, halcheryman from still, then the shrieking dramatically was cul off inlo silence. The Geulral League for Nallonal Moral Mobilization sponsored a huge rally in Tokyo, and similar events were held in oilier cities.

Princes Chicliihu and Takamatsu, younger brothers of Emperor Hlrohito, witnessed a mock aerial battle with land and amphibian planes participating. Small Cyclone Wrecks Farr Barn on Willow Creek Wednesday JNight Small cyclone Wednesday niglit wrecked an old barn on tho Fan- place 10 milea'eas't of Lono Tree Filling station on Willow Creek, It was reported here by Earl -Anderson, prominent rancher who lives nearby. Hoof was lorn off and the structure generally wrecked, Mr. AndWcon said. Numerous miniature- cyclones, covering a space a few feet wide were reported In tbo Greeley area tho past two No real damage was done.

Tho whirlwinds accompany clouds which promise rain but pay off In sprinkles and wind. Fined by Ljpton Juitlce C. L. Murphy 'of Denver was Thursday fined $3 and costs by Justice Howard Murray of Fort Luplon for driving without proper Inspection cor- llflcate or operator's license. was Courtesy Patrol case.

Cliicka." John H. Shaw Hearing Postponed Denver, July ugainst John Henry Shaw, 02. of Greeley, in Denver police court, was postponed again today. Hearing on charges of drunkenness, drunken driving, reckless and carelesB driving made against Shaw, set for today after an earlier was put over until July 2C. 34 Senators To Fight Change in Neutrality Law (AssocTatcd Press) Washington, July declaration which Senator Johnson, republican of California, said was signed by 34 senators stated today, the group would fight any change In the existing neutrality law by "every honorable and leglllmalo means at our command." Tlie statement was Issued by Johnson aflcr a conference In hfs office- with olher senalors.

It was Immediately Interpreted as a llircal to engage In a prolonged debate, on ddmlnlstralion nculrallty proposals. The- senators said they considered busier. It an open threat of a (Hi- de-suite the "take it or leave II" ultimatum from Washington. Abandonment of the "prevailing wage" principle for skilled WPA laborers, thru a a increase of work- Ing hours por month, appeared the crux ot the disaffection. Formerly, WPA wothers were paid the a i i union wake in their communities and worked only a sufficient number of hours each lo earn Ihe WPA maximum pay.

Windsor Youth Dies of Burns Windsor, July Hott, 13- year-old son of Mr. and'Mrs. John Hotl of Walnut street, died in the Windsor hospital Friday morning at 9:30 from severe burns which bo received last Salurday while working with a weed burner at the A hose from the gasoline tank to the burner apparently became detached and sparks ignited the boy's gasoline soaked clothing. Desperately trying to save his life, the boy rolled in the gravel, but wheu this failed to extinguish the flames, be ran some distance and plunged Into an Irrigation box. Henry caretaker of tile cemetery, rushed him to a hospital.

The burns covered his body from chest to stomach, a leg and both arms. Monday Ills condition appeared to be slightly improved, but at the same time hospital attendants said no definite statement of recovery could be made for couple ot days. Besides his parents, Edward Is survived by two younger sisters. Garner Doesn't Want To Be Candidate With Roosevelt on Ticket Washington', July 7--Vice President John Nance Garner, while in a receptive mood loward Ihe Democrallc prcijidcnlial. nomlnalion in 1940, la unalterably opposed to running again with President Rooftovelt on a third term ticket, cloae friends aaid Friday.

The vice, president feels so strongly against violation of the third term tradition, they said, Ho will rellro to prlvalo life next year rather than become Iho running mato of flooscvelt for a llilrd term. If Roosevell Is re- nominated, they added, Garner either will remain aloof from the campaign or publicly cxprcra his personal op- position'to a llilrd term. Bricklayer AdmlU Torso Slaying (AsioelKled Cleveland, July Mnrlln L. O'Donnell 'quoted a 62-year-old bricklayer ns sayln? today he- had killed Mrs. Florence Ppllllo, 42, one ot Iho 12 "torso murder" victims, found hero since.

September, 1935. O'Donnoll said Iho man disclaimed any connection with tho other 11 slaylngs. State Lays Off Men To Secure Budget Balance Denver, to comply i Governor Ralph L. Carr's request for a 10 per cenl slash in expenditures in the 193D to 19-11 i i already have been started by several Colorado state departments and institutions, Jaines Noonan, budget commissioner, reported today. Among the first steps toward trimming a i i a i expenses was action of Secretary of State George E.

Saunders in laying off six typists, clerks, and Invesligalors in the liquor licensing department. "Saivridcrs said the lay-offs were necessary "both to keep i i the 11- iiuor department's appropriation and to comply Governor Carr's request for all possible economies." The action was taken, the secretary fjf utate said, "even Iho we need thosa workers badly." Noonan reported that numerous de- purtiiienis and institutions In submitting Iheir lentutive budgets for Ihe now fiscal year, which started July 1, had provided for substantial economies, a i a in travel and Incidental expenses. Meanwhile, the budget commifislon- er and State Auditor Homer V. Bedford were preparing to attempt a new system of budgetary control under which the executive council inay bo able to hold every depnrtmenl and Institution within Us budgeted expenses for each quarter ol year. McGuIre Admits Kansas Killing (AMOctutwi Prrssl Lamar.

July McGuire rushed here lust night when officers said he confessed a Kansas killing, was taken from the Jail today after guards refused to permit him to tell a reporter about his claim of paying poker a week ago with two convlcls who vanished from Alcatraz federal prison. The officer announced Ihcy wero taking the prisoner back to Syracuse, where be was secretly arraigned before being brought to Iximar. He was charged with killing Undorsheriff Kay Kumpt at Syracuse. Bible School Opens Monday Daily Vacation Bible school opens at Ihe lielhel Baptist church Monday. July 10 and will conlliiuo thru July 21.

Sessions open al 9 n. in. and close al 11:15 a. in. daily.

Housing singing, object lessons, Bible study, games and an Interesting program Is provided. Every boy and girls from 6 to 16 years of age is welcome. Showers Bring Relief of Heat a July Campbell, 2C, former Denver University football star and successful coach at Paonia high school the past two years, was today announced as new football couch for Kalon high school, having been given a one year contract, starting this fall, by the Katon school board. Mr. Campbell a to move to Eaton in August.

He succeeds Kenneth Hyde who goes to Englewood, Campbell produced highly creditable football and olher major sports teams at Paonia. While at Denver. Campbell held down the center position and was Ued i being one of the mosl dependable linemen in the llocfey Mount a i conference. He played with Alex Drobnitch. He was selected for center position in tho a i a east-west game 1 at San Francisco on New Year's day, 193C.

The next year he was associated I with the Denver U. freshman football coaching a Campbell started his athletic career at Kearney, high school where he won four letters in foolbull, four In basketball and four In track. Moving on to Denver he made three letters in footluilI under Percy Locey, tour in basketball uiul three in track. At Eaton Mr. Campbell will teach biology, history and mathematics as well as coach.

His wife is also a graduate of Denver U. They have a suven- months old daughter. Suspect in Hotchkiss Slaying Surrenders Delta, July 7--Thomas Allen hunted since July 4 in connection with tUo slaying of Merle Cochrun, near HoUa-1 kiss, gave himself up voluntarily lalci yesterday i suld today. I Allen walked Into the ranch home of Sam Allen, scene of the shooting i yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Un-1 dcr Sheriff Allen PlttBcr said. "By Incidence," he said, "Sheriff Hay Lockhart was at the ranch at the time." A man hunt had been a since the shooting Tuesday.

Possemcn were combing the slopes of Grand Mesa, i the well known Holcli- kiss sheepman. Naval Secretary Who Died Friday Claude A. Swanson, one time senator from Virginia whose death Friday left a a the sec- retaryship of the navy. 55 Kentucky Flood Bodies Are Recovered Classes at College Saturday JleciiiLsi; of the Monday and Tuesday holidays, regular classes will be held at the Colorado Stale College of Education on Saturday. Potatoes Are $2.00 Per Cwt.

(Associated Chicago, July siiowers rolled eastward across Borne of iho middla weat today, bearing rollot from a hot spell thai has taken at least 13 lives. J. K. Lloyd, government forecaster, reported showers cooled scorched sections ot Iowa, Minnesota, the- eastern Dakotas, and Nebraska this morning and that they would reach tho Great Ijukea area -tonight or tomorrow. SouthwesteYncTS i lo swelter, howovor, Mtho It was cooler In Ihe northwest.

It was slightly cooler in Kansas, whoro most points reported readings of above 100 yesterday, Pullllpsburg's 111 topping tho Moat of New England swoltercd for tho fourth successive day with no re- Hot sighted 'before Augusta, had 55 at noon ana lidston 87 Mils morning. Missouri temperatures this morning wore In tho 'SO'f. Tr miters were iniylng $2.00 a tor red potatoes ou I ot the field in llio Gllcrcsl district Thursday. First; dug wore MI lining slightly bolter than 150 sucks to the ncro making a gross of $300 iiti to llic gvower. There is very little digging as yet.

IndiciitioitH arc for a good price Llmiom lite digging ssea-sini. tanners bcltcvo. Many competing ureas a liad sharp reductions In yield from ond other unfavorable- conditions, Wilfred Mauck Dies Here at Age of 89 Wilfred Maiick, 80, of the Delta district, east Greolcy, died at his homo Thursday eveninc. Mr. a had lived on the farm where be died 35 yeaiH.

1 Mr. Mauck born In Kirksville. I In 1850. Ho cnmo to Colorado! In the late SO's. In 1834 ho was a Tied to Mi33 teltzu Sterling, sister of Asa Sterling, and lived in Weldou Valley for several years.

Tho a i moved to Greetey In 1004, and Mr. Mauck bad resided on the Delta farm since that time. Mrs. Mauck died four years ago. Mr.

Miuick Is survived by a sister- in-law, Mra. NV. L. Miner ot Greeley, and by eight nephews and nieces: Fred Mauck of Whitewater, Harvey' Mu uck of California, Mrs. Allcu K.

Orlggs o( Oklahoma City, Mrs. Aiinlo Coblceutz of Stlllwntor, Carrlo Mauck of Mrs. W.I U. Osboldsumo of Colorado Springs. Sterling Miner of Denver, Bernard Miner ot Fort Worth, Mrs.

Georgo Uobcrls of LIvermorc, and Mrs. Norma Latch ot Fort Collins. Services at 2:30 p.m. Saturday from Macys drawing room. Interment Linn Grove.

Forest Fire Near Trinidad Trinidad, July One hundred CCC ennip firefighters were rushed into the mountains, miles southwest ot Trinidad near the Colorado-New Mexico Thursday lo stem blnzo which already has burned over nevoral hundred acres of scrub timbcrlnnd. owanson, Navy Head, Dies Friday Ailing Cabinet Member Succumbs At His Summer Camp On Rapidan Jackson, -The 55th body wiis recovered today in eastern a i flood. Forty-one persons still arc missing. Property damage estimates run inlo millions. Disease-prevention work was rushed the area in iMoruIieud.

a director. Dr. A. K. Kvans, issued a i ordering all portions innoeuluU'd for typhoid ff-ves 1 Dr.

Evans said "danger disease is gieat." Already, 1200 have been in- no ciliated there. Sight scors begun Interfering with the work of searchers for additional bodius and stale highway pal ml men stepped In, refusing admit persons, other than those on i i a business and residents, to lor Ihe flooded area. Sheriff Walter Deuton estimated 75 persons drowned in a i I'Vozen creek valley. Searchers ox- pressed the opinion bodies of some of the victims might never he found. P.

K. i i asslslnnt Kentucky health commissioner, said in Louisville it would be Impossible to reckon the full loss of life and prop erty for several days. Mayor Warren C. Lapp in of Morehead, It wan county, call mated the property loss in that college town alone would approximate one million dollars. Dean Thomas P.

Cooper of University of Kentucky college of agric said reports from his field agents indicated damage lo crops and farms in thai county would be alxml one-hiilf million dollars. $351 Paid in Police Court for Fines Over July Fourth Holidays Police court fined levied mostly I against persons arrested over the 4 holiday mounted to a total of $351 when the final iwllce court session was held on such cases a night. The a i i a i JLSUS Hodriquex, Katon, for I i i I'cte i of a JG.nO for ells-' i i i SchrHiuir of (JreeU-y roulc four, 511-50 for disturbance; II. O. i of 810 Sixth street.

$11.50 for i i Hoy Ulwiivtl, and Joe Vargas of Kort Morgan, each for iR-ing dnmk. Charles Mason HJJ8 lOEcvonth ve: nue, $0.50 for reckless i i Kil a of 82-1 Twenty-Fourth street, I $0.50 for reckless i i M. M. Max- well of Windsor and Carl Webber Greelny route two, each J3.50 Tor i ing signal i i a of Lexington, for speeding; Ismfal Pedroza of Baton and Oi-tav-' iano Medina of Worhtml, each $3.50 for parking too near a fire hydrant. Naffziger Given Creeley Post's Endorsement (Associate Prrss) Washington.

July Hooseveit announced Friday the a of Claudd A. Swanson. secretary of the navy, at the RapMan camp in Virginia, Swunson, former governor and senator from Virginia and secretary of" the navy sincR President Uoosfveil look office in 1933, was 77. He had been in ill health a months. Roosevelt Praises Swanson First word of Swanson's a came from the i house when Roosevelt Issued this statement: is with profound a I have learned of the death i a at Ihe Kaiiiuau Camp, i i i a of tho greatly Jo veil Secretary of the a A.

Swanson. "I join i i country in i him as one whose in any ycnrs of a i service in i i hitvo fin cleared him tr a I i wiso and his philosophic a i of a problems will livo a liiui in the hearts and i of tliofin of ns who have a the privilege of boiiit; liis associates. "He hri-uplit to a public service not a i i and in I grit y. a i lo i i iind to from which no consider a linn could move him. n.v his example ho has provided an inspiration for rill public servant R.

"I mourn tlie passing find fast and I i a friend for than quarter of a century." a Senate a a a i a SwanKori went from the a i a ship of senate naval coin mi I tee to the cabinet. The i i i i i was reported to a heun offered the post by Mr. Roosevelt a hfs senate colleague. Carter Claps, declined another cabinet post, I he treasury secret nrysliip. Hebind the vueran i i a was 11 years of public service, which began with i of fires in Virginia, several terms in house, a I as governor of Virginia, to be i olio wed i by the hoeiniiiiig of his senate service in Me served in the senate i named tn I cabinet.

Included in bis public activities waa i in the American lo (to.iova- disarmament conference sin Swiihson WEI s'born nt Swaiisonville, i vas the son of a tobacco a He is survived by his widow a stepson. Tliniou: all bis years as a legts- lalOL-ho a "big navy" mim, iiltho the World war he curbed his a i i fur (lie American fleet to the ratio limits of the London treaty. I i interests in American seu IKIW- er wus nut limited to fighting ships In i i a speech for 1112? cruiser bill. Swunsou urged cua- tiou of "a merchant marine 10 luniillo cur foreign commerce." ivlth the usjorltoii thai "however strong tho American navy may be, i merchant a i in lime of war" tin- a i i of a fighting force is "reduced than f)0 per cent." Swnnson bL'gan seeing eye to eyo with Roosevelt when iho latter was 1 assistant SLcretary of the navy in th'j Woild wur period, and former was chairman of the senate a a I i EI Irs committee. Al thin linie Roosevelt was supposed to have shared Swanson'H el roam of "an American umpire ot i fortrcHSOB second to A i he ilevolcul years of his lifetime for i i "vrim-ut of the navy, the secretary himself, was never a "sea going secretary' us was h.s pre- Charles Francis A a tit Massachusetts.

He found pleasure in i "if someone- else was doing the navigai- Hen Nnffziger was endorsed tor Iho position of national executive commit- Iceman from Colorado by the Victor Cnndlln Post of the American Legion here Thursday nlfilit. NV.ffzlgcr, who IB completing hts term as commander of the Depart men I'ot Colorado, ta able to report the largest departmentnl nicmhersMp In the organization's August Klilncr was nominated for post commander, Olher nominees are: Cheet Peters, vice a Herman adjutant; Frank Detf- ko, sergeant at arms; oxcentlvo hoard for llirco yeara, Dean Recven, Driver of Accident Car Here for Observation Prank Keongh. 1C, caretaker of the i reservoir, was brought to tlu Weld county jail Thursday i i for observation following an accident on i ihtrh properly late a In i iie lost control of his new car and drove I tiie i i a Two riding i him ruteivcd i i which i hospital i i i i ai Kort Morgan, but were i lo be released Friday as i in juries were not serious. Kcmigli was in a highly nervous ru nd it ion following the accident. Di-fiuty Sheriff Guy llalliuger said ho was to be released Friday a The accident occurred on properly, Ncsbilt Will Speak At Union Services Union service for Greeley churches will be held al Park Congregational church, Eighth street and Tenth, avenue, the coming Sunday evening a I o'clock.

licv. M. Nesbilt, pastor of the United Presbyterian church, will preach the sermon on "The larger Patriot." Rev. II. A.

Hagemeter of the KvangoHcal church is lo bo in char go of the service. Silver Price Unchanged From Friday's Figure (Associated FrcsS) Washington, July foreign silver price of the treasury was changed at T.G.75 cents nn ounce today. Failure of the treasury lo change the prico of yesterday's quotation marked at least temporary cessation which had brought both the United States treasury and world prices ot silver down from -U 1 cents per ounce', on June 2fi..