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News Notes OF LOCAL lemngs ClnDicotljE Constitution-Crihrne VOL LI DAILY EDITION CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941 SIX PAGES NO. 88 PAUL BENNETT HOME Paul Bennett of Camp Funston, Kansas, came to Chillicothe yesterday, called by the death of his father. Earl Bennett. DISMISSED FROM HOSPITAL Miss Opal Jcnss of Dawn, who was admitted to the Chillicothe Hospital April 6 for a major oper-! Clears the Way for Political ation, was dismissed Sunday, April 13. Miss Jones' home is in Dawn, i JIMMY HOST is ILL Jimmy Host has been ill and away Wfrom work three days.

He is ill of tonsUitts and complications. He ex- Regarded as Rivaling in Im- pects to return to work about Thurs- por tance Accord of Gerday. Host lives at 1109 Elm street. DR. PHELPS "WEAK" After 10 days with her father, Dr.

T. G. Phelps, who is ill, Mrs. Fannie Holt returned today to her home at COMMUNIST PARTY PRESS PLEASED WITH JAPAN-RUSSIA PACT and Economic Cooperation, It Is Claimed. WAS SIGNED SUNDAY many-Russia.

tit a the MOSCOW, April 14 A Soviet- Japanese neutrality pact whkh Envoy Ignores Recall 4 Eastern relations, was welcomed to- day by the Communist party press I DIES IX CHICAGO i as clearin tn2 wav for litical i Victor Alex received word Satur i Anemic cooperation without, day of the death of his sister-in-law, binding Russia to th3 Axis. Mrs Roxana Alex of Chicago. Fun- act si ned yesterday, was eral arrangements had not been i regarded by observers as rivaling made at time of Uie message. ABLE TO BE OUT Mrs. J.

B. Goins, who has been ill Russia. Prazza, Communist party organ. SPOKE AT MARCELINE Prof. Earl Low Was Guest Speaker at Banquet.

Prof. Earle Low. instructor at the local high school, FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY Services for Mrs. Elizabeth Fair at Mooresvflfc Funeral services for 'Mrs. Elizabeth Fair were held from the Chris- The Danish foreign office in Copenhagen has recalled Henrik de Kauffmann (above) as minister to the was the principal week tian church at Mooresville Sunday at Marccllne at the afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev.

sons banquet of the Marcjline Fu- Rudolph. Burial was in the ture of America chapt.r. Mocresville cemetery. He spcke on "5 arming as a Busi- Mr. and Mrs.

Vern W. Willis, C. C. ness." Cokerham and Mrs. George McMil- Layton Jackson, president of the len sang "Have Thine Own Way," Chillicothe F.

F. went with Prof. "Sweet Bye and Bye," and "Abide With Me." Mrs. Price Hudgins was I the accompanist. Pallbearers were Jim Robers, Frank Roberts, Clyde Roberts, Paul McClure, Sam Brookshire, Dennis 1 STEEL PLANT NEW POSITIONS TAKEN UP BY THE BRITISH IN GREECE Lew to Marceiine.

DEATH OF EARL BENNETT SUNDAY This Move Was Made After! Inflicting "Severe Casual- ties" on Nazi Foe, Lon- don War Office Said. DEMOCRATIC CALL IS ISSUED TODAY WAGE INCREASE AT The Funeral Services Will Be: GERMANS GATHERING Mass Meeting Will Be HeH at From Norman Funeral Home Tuesday. A CIO Work Stoppage Which Was Scheduled for Tuesday, Night Averted. ItH tin 1 PITTSBURGH, April 14 The United States Steal Corporation today granted a ten cent an hour waje increase and more liberal va- REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING CALLED Earl' Pennett, a Livingston coun- ty farmer for the last fifty years, died at Chillicothe hcspital Sunday i mornin? at 3:40 o'clock from a com- i plication of ailments. Mr.

Bennett had been ill for some time but his Will Be Held in the Circuit i condition became serious Fridayj FOR A DECISIVE BLOW London Report Said British Infantry Had Routed the Elite S. Adolf Hitler Division" in Greece. (Ita the British forces in Greece Courtroom Wednesday Night, April 16. when he was removed to the hos- have withdrawn to new posi- pital. He was a native of Macon tions after inflicting "severe cations to 240.030 wage earners, A Republican mass meeting has gms Bennett.

County, being born March 2, 1872, a son of John F. and Elizabeth Wig- an rtin3 a CIO work stoppage i been called by M. J. Rice, chairman at her home, 1111 Clay Street, was said the pact and its signed the Greenland and the ship able to be out on sg Easter Sunday for declaration, pledging the respsct of sa i agreements with this da midnight. United States but the envoy, who schedulsd for Tues-lof the Republican County Central im and the shin Funeral semces wlU Committee to hew tne cil cuit the chapel at the Norman Funeral the flat time in several months, the integrity of Manchukuo and! has determined to disregard the or- of toe RETURNS FROM ST.

LOUIS Marvin Tanenbaum returned Saturday morning following a week's Wnrfn A Home Tuesday afternoon at two I Wednesday night, April foe, the London war office from i said Iate to av Earlier London reports said Brit- infantry had routed the elite City HaO On Thursday Night, April 17. C. N. Weckman, chairman of the i Democratic City Central Committee, today issued a caO for a mass meeting of Democratic voters at the city hall Thursday night, April 17. at 8 o'clock.

The purpose of the mass meeting Mr. Weckman stated, is to elect delegates to the Democratic City convention which has been called for Saturday night, April 19, at 8 o'clock at the city hall. At the meeting of delegates Saturday night candidates wiB be nam- visit hi St. Louis with relatives and 5 year tenn unless one side de- friends. Tuesday he will occompany ncunces it a year De Ore expiration Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Pringle to Den- I of the first period i ver, for about a week's stay. RETURNS TO WORK the re-ulation of other unsolved in? ccmmittee announced a new gates to a convention to be held at questions between the U. S. S.

R. it contract replacing and Japan." The pact is effective for five years and is renewable for an additional. by Rev. C. E.

Adolf Hitler division" Sharrah. Interment in the Utica northern Greece. ed to the various oMices 111 to be voted on at the city election i to be held on Mondav. 5. The his duty to remain here." NAME ATTORNEYS IN VOTE RECOUNT each of the four wards, city clerk, 1937, estimated the increase would 18 for the purpose of naming a I' u.c PO.C.

Payrolls. city election to bs held on Monday, I judge, city treasurer, city auditor The new agreement provides for May 5. Ray and Forrest of the home, and viously had asserted that Hitler's possible and the formal exchange of Tavlor to Represent ravu.t«o ratmcatioa documents is to take i ack Earl Pepper, barber at the H. V. McDaniel and Don C.

JSiacK i iri I nirvfi Vniirwin-, th nnm of Paul of Camp Funston, one panzer columns had failed in their changes in enevancs machinery, a Following is the number of dele- daughter, Lorene, also of the home, drive against stiffening British- I one sister, Mrs. W. R. Sellers, Okla- Greek defense and an RAF com- hcma City, and four nieces and two munique said British planes were A brother John Bennett i violently strafing Nazi troop col- five-day consecutive work week and gates to be chosen by wards: a form of company union commission to establish equalized wage rates on new jobs. Hfll barber shop on the south side place in Tokyo.

of the square, resumed his work this i The document was signsd by i morning after a four weeks' illness. Japan's touring foreign minister-, Mr. Pepper has been iU of pnm- Yosuke Matsuoka, and the Soviet! monia. TRIP TO MEXICO acheslaff Molotoff, at the Krem.m at .30 p. m.

i Gov. Forrest Donnell. County Clerk J. Olenhouse reword Saturday evening of the of attorneys to repre- C. McDaniel and Gov.

First Ward S3cond Ward Third Ward Fourth Ward 21 21 24 22 Students to High The delegates will select a can! didate for mayor, councilman-at-' and city assessor. One man and one woman will be selected from each? watd as members of the Democratic City Central Corn- nephews. passed away in Independence last I umns driving into the Aegean king- ing. September. dom.

i mitte at the Saturday night meet- oCllOOl C-iOnteSlS, large, councilman from each of ne ce four wards, treasurer, auditor, as-' iV11SS ndzel Forrest C. Donnell in the count of I Hundred From Chillicothe High School Will Participate. sessor, judge, constable, clerk, attorney. In this issue of The Constitution- Mud and snow were said to have Tribune appears the official Demo' impeded the Nazi thrust against the i allied front stretching from Albania Died in Kansas City bases to the Gulf of Salonika. Simultaneously Yugoslav armies Mr.

and Mrs. J. N. Stamm are on Matsuoka, for whom the pact genera i election votes cast for gov- tbeir way to Olm Mexico. Mr.

was a signal triumph, arrived here i ernor atltne November general elec- by a local March 23 for "a 1-day stay on his; tion Richard B. Taylor will repre- State high ssliool contests at Co- i lumbia this spring will draw a hun- 'implement firm, and Mrs. joumry for Axis conferences in sent McDan i i Don C. Black' dred Chillicothe high school mu- he saw I The official call appears elsewhere Formerly Operated a in this issue of the Constitution-1 Tribune, ing Department for dren at Anderson's. were reported to have captured Durazzo on the Adriatic sea which the British term the major "escape port" of Italian troops fighting in Albania.

-n i- Miss Hazel Bargar who formerly I Fascist reports acknowledged that in Foreign FollCy operated a clothing department for tne Yugcslavs were making strong i children at Anderson's in Chillico- mass assaults on Italian troops at Scutari in Northern Albania. Fresh troops, including new cratic call. Closing Program at Spring Hill School Large Assembly of Students and Patrons Present Friday Afternoon. to Come Up Soon. Funeral services will be held at to threatening positions while allied I the Meadville Methodist Church patrols skirmished with Nazi af- 2 o'clock, mored units.

from the front said the conducted by the Rev. G. B. Minor, Burial will be in Meadville cemetery, body of the young woman, mopping up Yugo- Gordon reinforcements for An installaion of officers of the rope, and particularly the Balkans, i to chalenge any of the ballots and Agriculture and music contests; the senate this week. Mrs T.

M. Bargar, at Meadville this i their challenges are to be recorded are set for Friday. April 25, at the I The convoy question was of main aftemoon and Ue state tnere Boy L. Burkett Post No. 858 Veter- was far from clear.

ans of Foreign Wars will be i by the clerk and reported to the University of Missouri. Tuesday evening at the Veteran (ISjl thr Asm i atci rr i state legislative committee in charge Hall, Jackson Street. The WASHINGTON, April 1 of the contest. Mr. Taylor, active in Qayda Sends Note ladies auxiliary of Veterans of For- uU declared today that the Democratic politics, has served as United StatCS of The TO DUliCb of the Red eign Wars will be invited to the new Russian-Japanese neutrality prosecuting attorney of installation i pact "could be overestimated" and county, and Mr.

Black is the present that the policy of the American gov- city attorney. Says Axis Considers under the neutranty act. immediate concern to the legislature funeral I and their interest was sharpened, I by these developments: i l-President Roosevelt's removal dren's department at Andersons from the list of I about four vears and reviouslv Miss Bargar operated the chil- Heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans in a battle apparently fought in the territory of Thorlina, Greece and the Bitolji pass in Southwest Yugoslavia. the Aisociated waters closed to American shipping SPENT WEEK END HERE ernment remained unchanged. Mrs.

C. S. Noble and daughter, Tag secretary of state in a formal Training" Meetinff i. jnvovistn Miss Mary Lou, of Oskaloosa, statement at his press conference, spent the week-end with Mrs. sa Noble's sisters, Mrs.

Frank Ponclet The agreement wou i seem to be Free to Attack Ships in African Waters. I of the Russian! Japanese neutrality she operated her own shop on the I BERLIN, April 14 Axis forces North side of the square. Recently plunging across North Africa in the she had been employed hi the children's department at Harzfeld's in Held Saturday! I of naval convoys said this pact would Kansas citv I free the Japanese for further south- RCME, April Gayda, ward moves in the Orient. i Fascist editor, notified and Mrs. Joe Miller, and deECr i tive of a situation which has! 4-H Club Clothing Leaders; the United states tcday tnat tne lkT TUTflTV ef 3 1 tKn A 2 1 Axis considers itself to attack Noble's mother, Mrs.

Mary Robert- in effect ex i ted( between the two son. Mary Lou will return to her countries for some pas t. studies at the University of Kansas It therefore comes as no surprise, and Assistants Met at Extension Office. Tuesday. i although there has existed doubt.

any or all ships bearing aid for the British in Afrcian waters. Four Killed in A Prison Miss Bargar was born in Mead- direction of Britain's Suez canal lifeline, has entered Egypt from Libya capturing Salum, the German high command said today. Predict a Break is with farm security ad-'(Berlin and Rome where he saw Gov Donne ii. The appointments sicians and several agricultural stu- vu tne xugcsiavs were masuig mmisteation, Jfift Saturday and ex-! Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, were made by the conte stee and the dents. Three are to ba no local en- children at Anderson's in Chillico- assaults on iea iian troops at) arge assemb swdente pect to fee gcae 10 days.

He saw Molotoff then in the pres- contes a nt. tries in the speech festival, Prof. S. Vnrh TT N-i I at st Joseph's Hospital in Nortnern Albania. PatrOD Wa fc StaUn Under reCeiV6d by Olen- Dowell said this monUng.

Ma'ter" £LHill IS SLIGHTLY IMPKOVED from Bsrlin and Rome house for the conduct of the recount, Prof. J. R. Huckstep declared he vd 1 10 following a brief illness. Gresk rese rvists, were being- rushed The condition of Mrs.

E. H. Lake, i last Monday, he saw Molotoff four the counc is to be carried on before plans to take all the music students now in a hospital in St. Joseph, is more times, including one confer- the contestee and contestant or their who rated No. 1's in the recent sub- slightly improved.

Mr. Lake visited ence of three and a half hours, and representatives. Since it is obviously district music and speech festival his wife Sunday. Saturday was Mrs. another conference yesterday in impossible for McDaniel and Don- here as well as a few who got No.

Lake's birthday and she wishes to which Stalin again engaged. i ne to attend each recount in the 2's. of the administration foreign policy thank all her friends who sent while Russia's relations with its' state, they are naming There will be no farm judg-lng forecast today that the long develop- a birthday or an Easter card. ar Eastern neighbor apparently tives in each of the counties in teams from this school, but ing debate over a proposal to forbid i were clarified by the pact, the So- 1 the state to represent them. Low anticipates sending some I United States naval escorts for war INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS i viet's attitude toward events in Eu- The attorneys will have the right i contestants in individual events.

materials would break wide open in hMM Qf her DarentSj and and had their pictures taken. The teacher, Gladys Lucas, reports a good attendance record for the year. Out of a possible 22, the pupils overaged 21.25. Attendance prizes were awarded Charles Rae Zfullig, Doris Mae Zuflig, Bobby Johnson and Dorothy Flgg. Spelling prizes went to Mildred Figg, grade; Sylvia Mgg, second grade; Norma Saale, third; Charles Rae ZuDig', fourth; Bobby Johnson, sixth, and Roth Rose and Shirley Saale, eighth.

Seventeen of the 22 enrolled received state reading certificates. vllle. August 10, 1910, the daughter Salum in Egypt Just across the 1 border from Libya and Fort Ca- of Thomas M. and Mattie Jackson torttess south of Bargar. Besides her parents she is Axis-occupied Bardia, were cap- tared in quick succession by thej lers: Miss Eunice Bargar and Miss rapidly advancing German and Ital- W1.1CU.1C1 U1C bWU BACK PROM VACATION would not agree to say it in writ- lr Glen Maxey returned to work this morning in the radio department of Roosevelt's Montgomery Ward Company, fol- SPONSORING PROGRAM lowing two week vacation.

He i and assistants was lifting of the ban on American ships in the Livingston entering the Red Sea, Gayda said: 1 County extension office. "African waters still are engaged i Illustrative material was made, by Italy in war. Whatever passes Captured After Flight From Sing Sing. Helen Bargar of this city, Mrs. ian un jt S) the daily war bulletin de- Joseph Evans of Meadville, Miss Ruth L.

Bargar of Los Angeles, Mrs. (Premier Mussolini's high com- 18,000 Trees Are Received Here Tree-Planting Demonstration WiH Be Held Near Wheeling This Wednesday. L. W. McCormiek, state forester with the extension service, will hold a tree-planting demonstration on the Able Corzette farm, two miles Robert Stephens of Ramona, mand acknowledged however, that I sout of -Wheeling, Wednesday visited during that time in South; including notebooks and patterns, and Mrs.

Ruth Burke, home i Garrison Students Will Be Featured stration agent, conducted a demon- April 18. i stration in alteration of patterns, Missouri, Kansas City, with his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. F.

E. Maxey of SJisonville, and spent part of the I and basting sleeves. When he The Bethel A' M. E. Sunday i Thfse who attended were Miss tered toe door at home, his mother i School is sponsoring a miscellan- Mary Lay of the Sampsel Go-Getters in the enemy service may legitimately be attacked by: Italian and Axis forces which are ever present," OSSINING, N.

April long-term convicts who shot their I Forrest B. Bargar and Carroll R. Bargar of Meadville. way out of the Sing Stag prison in- Benches for firmary in a sensational break, the British garrison at Tobruk, 80; morning at 9:30. that it was a year before at eous pi-ogiam Friday evening, April Club; Miss Katherine Stone of the -f DCOUt hour that she received a 18, at "the churchT Garrison school Mcoresville Mixers; Miss Dorothy; eats for Forty Have Been The two convicts and a conf d- that told her that Glen who students will b3 featured.

er an Miss Melba Gordon. Chil- i i There will be a small admission hroth Willing Workers, and Miss i charge for the entertainment, which Virginia Goll of the Ludlow 4-H. on Page 3J Instailed in Washington Street Meeting Place. which cost four lives, were captured a few hours later today in a. woods i tj on ause by Ini across the Hudson river.

cumbered Funds. It Is Said. miles west cf Bardia, was still re- A shipment of trees arrived in the sisting fiercely against encircling: county this morning from the Mta- German and Italian forces. souri Conservation Commission. i Eighteen thousand trees were Are Held Up i Kiwanis Dinner i cludcd tnis 4 at nltrht Banners interested in wind-break post-timber planting erate, who later was slain, had i broken from the prison in a battle in which a prison guard and an THEWEA11ER Plans for additional national de- Ossining policeman were killed and I fense industrial classes here are now in abeyance.

No more classes will Made for 130 Members and Wives for Occasion. Reservations have been made for WILL SPEAK HERE 3UISSOURI: Showers and local thunderstorms east and south this afternoon and tonight except partly cloudy southeast this afternoon, cooler west and north tonight; Tuesday cooler, precede ed by showers. Saturday's Temperatures Maximum 84 61 Sunday's Temperatures Maximum 80 Minimum 59 iSchool. Miss Jeneva Basye man of the program committee, and i A Search for Plattsburg i tte Rev. W.

B. Coleman is pastor, i Child, 4, Is Successful. club Boy Scout oop liaven had adequate seating, be set up under the out-of-school 130 Chillicothe Kiwanis members under 'youth program because "funds made and wives for a dinner tonight with I available by federal apporpriation i Hale men and woman. The dinner i ITALY SENDS NOTE CAMERON. April H-A 7- ON SHIP SEIZURE'hour search for the 4-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Dennie of an( Marvin Gutekunst. vice-chaii-- the i Plattsburg- ended here last man of county camping activitiss, WASHINGTON, April 14 Italy i wnen the was found in a barn mads the benches at the lumber sentenced for robbery. school assembly program Wednas- Scout Commissioner Dee SherrU i firmary guard and lew another s-i Ed C. Ralston from the State De- policeman in a running gun Payment of Education, I fight.

delivered a new note to the United i a farm, two miles from where he today in connection with the; was last seen. i seizure of 28 Italian merchantships; The child strayed from the home on charges of sabotage. An Italian! of his grandmother. Mis. Wallace embassy official said the note was Goad.

When found, he said hs had I a further explanation of the Italian been unable to find his way out of 41 of an inch I point of view. the barn. yard where they obtained the ma- SUFFERED ATT ACK 1 ri terial for them Troop 123 meets in the second Charles Linville suffered a heart TVnnn 163 Ificrcio nc i "rH: where before moving building 1 into ing. Charles Ferguson, who has charge day morning at C. H.

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

Sterling McCall announced this momtag ta- ered new classes apparently will be Ward, pastor of the First Methodist the public to come and hear allowed Church, will be the main speaker of Prof. McKinney speak. fhP pvpnintr Charles Murphy and i McKinney is said to be a most in- The Chillicothe School System now speaker musical entertainment, and little i versity is sending him out to appear ilon several programs i banquets this week. on file state for new classes. Mr.

said the prohibitions on N.YA. instruction. i reading..