The Kingston Daily Freeman from Kingston, New York • Page 1

The Weather Tonight, dear, cold Saturday, clear, colder rfraturr' 37: IS Detailed report on last page mm Local, National, Foraisrn Ulster County's Leading Advertising Medium VOL. 130. CITT OF KINGSTON, N. FBIDAT ETENING, MAECH 21, 1941. PRICE FOUE CENTS.

WORK ON $1,848,000 BOAT CONTRACT I EEK AT HILTEBRANT DRY Yugoslavia Decision To Join Axis May Now Cause Internal Strife Three of Jugoslav Cabinet Ministers Angrily Proffer Their Resignations: Signature Date Set for Sunday, Quarters Declare circles have been among the most vigorous opponents of a surrender to Germany. Government circles said the remaining high officers had agreed to the government's decision. Nervousness in the capital was accentuated by paralysis of the city's trolley, telephone and light- sen-ices for a short period at fjfloon. Engineers" said the trouble vvas technical. German circles said the formal- King of Yugoslavia's emrv into closer relations with the "Reich would be swift, with Premier Cyetkovic and Foreign Minister AiKsander Cincar-Markovic due to leave tonight or tomorrow for Vienna where thev would sign the document Sunday.

i Serb feeling against the govern- man's decision was described as I mounting feverishly. Pictures of President Roosevelt and British nme Minister Winston Churchill May Run Again Soys Lehman Albany, N. March 21 C2t-- Governor Lehman state's 1942 gubernatorial plum before his "silent political Lieutenant Governor- -Poletti, last ought with one 'reservation "I inight run-myself." in tails and top hat and-bouncing a.Polefe-bannered ouuueii across ois Knee, his thought, in a song about next year's governorship during the Albany legislative correspondents' 41st annual political show, "Gone With the Winner." Before some 350 guests," -including Wendell former Governor Alfred-E. Smith Democratic a Chairman James A. Farley, Manhattan District Attorney Thomas- E.

Dewey, the Governor Lehman and other prominent national and state political ures, "Herbie'- crooned: Victory is near lad, Forty-two's the year, lad! Stars say you'll win bv -a mile But there's one big if, kid-I might run, myself Charlie boy! 1 By The Associated Press Yugoslavia's crown council decision to join the Rome-Berlin- Tokyo alliance gave Adolf -Hitler the green light today for his expected invasion of Greece, but at the same time precipitated a gov- icrnmcnt crisis in which three Yugoslav cabinet ministers angrily i proffered their resignations. Belgrade dispatches said the three ministers predicted serious internal strife would develop in Yugoslavia. Regent Prince Paul, acting for the boy King Peter, subsequently refused to accept any cabinet resignations, declaring no one would be- allowed to quit until the agreement is signed. German quarters declared the signature date was set for Sunday, with Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisa Cvetkpvic and Foreign Minister Alksander Cincar-Markovic slated to leave tonight or -tomorrow for Vienna. Yields to Pressure The Yugoslav government yielded today to German pressure and prepared to follow four of her neighbors into a working agreement with the Axis but forthwith found itself confronted by an internal generated by powerful pro-British elements.

Prince Paul, the chief regent, refused to accept, the resignations of three ministers who in protest against the Yugoslav capitulation, ild proposed to walk out of their pices. 'A fourth cabinet- member was reported to be planning to end. feverish political Vrnt r-arptal tnncn i Premier Dragisa Cvetkoyic called an emergency meeting of key ministers who conferred on the crisis for several hours. In the early afternoon the premier. the Croat peasant leader, Vladimir Hacek, who is vice premier, and the Slovene leader, Gu- lovez, hastened to the white palace to confer with the r-i jent.

The tenseness was "heightened by disclosure that four of Yugoslavia's most prominent generals were pensioned early in the week as a "mere routine matter." Observers pointed out that army Where Minesweepers Are to Be Built Soon First Keel For 6 Craft To Be Laid Freeman riioto General view of the C. Hiltebrant Dry Dock Company shipyard at Connelly ori banks of the Rondout creek. This view was taken from the village In the center of the picture may be seen a large barge which has been built recently at the yard. This is the yard where six minesweepers will be constructed for the U. S.

Navy. Tension Relieved Treasury Enrolls Contracts for NdVV i I A A A A A Total $100,315,682 Between Ford Co. 1500,000 to Sell Its lAnd-Auto Workers New Defense Bonds! Laidr'Gpnciliatbf Declares Campaign Workers Prospects for Amicable Adjustment Now Is Greatly Enhanced Detroit, March 21 (5) James -Dewev. federal lar-or rnnrriia- Be Sent to Employers, Schools, Unions and Banks in Drive Several Other Concerns To Make Same Type Craft as That to Be Built Here Washington, March 21 navy has awarded contracts totaling 5100,315.652 for construction of Washington, March 21 L5 1 )-- 'to TVoPClJT-V tArTuv l-vrr-ST, nr-fnTT. -1OO 11 today that pros- ing an army of 500,000 persons to! craft.

pects'- for an- amicable adjustment assist in a campaign to sell bil- The contracts, announced last of the disjmte'between the United lions. of dollars worth of the new inight by Secretary Knox, covered Automobile Workers (C. I. and defense saving securities to the 130 large wooden minesweepers to the Ford -Motor have American public. 'cost a total of fiftv greatly, enhanced by mediation Gale F.

Johnston, St. Louis in- i small wooden minesweepers 'past few weeks, surance man who will supervise! thirty wooden subchasers. Dewey indicated that steps lak- the drive, said the campaign work- ten steel fleet tugs, en Ford and the a ers would be sent out to ask em- nineteen steel minctional: Labor Relations Board had plovers to-use the" securities for sweepers. relieved the tension' between the i employe savings plans; to canvass 1 The awards inc union and the company since thej the schools; to urge labor union included: Small wooden minesweepers -East Coast Yard, Noank, strike" at the Rouge.and Lincoln plants here. i The Ford Company employs ap- i Donds bou ht for regularly; Marine Construction proximately 100.000 workers-in the ford, four 5306,800.

Stam- Mrs. M. E. Moore Awarded $5,000 and charged to their accounts, and Detroit and has to organize other promotional ac-i Small wooden minesweepers worth of defense contracts. tivities.

Greenport Basin and Construction Dewey said the company had Governors, mayors and other Greenport. N. four re-employed "most" of the" 1.000 prominent local officials will be 000. Rouge plant emploves that the U. asked to name committees in even' Large wooden minesweepers -A.

O. had charged were smallest communities. C. Kiltebrant Dry Dock Co- dismissed for union activirv over Johnston explained that the Kingston. N.

six. SI.848.000:! a period of the past seven months. theme of the drive would be for Robert Jacob, City Island. N. I He explained further that Harrv continuous purchases rather four Greenport H.

Bennett, Ford personnel direc- i large lunro sum transactions. Basin and Construction Green- tor, had agreed to work out any For example, he said, the idea-Port- twelve problem-with me that my attention, such as reinstatement of men whose work has been But 10 Selectees Have Appealed to President Washington, March 21 10 selective service eligibles out of some classified to date have appealed to Presi- "dent Roosevelt, it was learned today, from local board rulings that they were immediately available for military training. The negligible number of appeals was interpreted by some highly placed officials as indicating "remarkably small amount" of dissatisfaction among registrants who have been put in Class 1A by their local boards. All the cases involved the issue of dependency, the only ground on which an appeal can be carried lo the President under the law. Mr.

Roosevelt returned about half of the 10 cases to local draft boards to be reopened. This ac- tion'was taken, it was learned, on technical grounds because Britain to Permit Two Shiploads of Wheat to France Handling of i Then Lead to a Supplies Being Shipped Might Waslunglon, March 21 An i -rp- jsatisfactory." Action Was to Ford Dewey said, had as Beneficiary Under Insurance Policv would be to encourage a school i Henry D. Nevins. City Is- child in the habit of buying one! lan N. seven, 52.205,000.

10-cent savings stamp a week or 1 month, rather than to have the Methodist Missionary Dead child buy $5 worth at one time, Greenwich Conn "1 given assurances-that "it is un-1 and then forget about the Rev! Samud Walter Graff-i likely that any further layoffs will occur" from lack of -business. Jlrs. Minnie E. Moore of Weils- i Swallows Diary Key displayed publicly in manyivilk, was awarded a ver- i was heightened by the in fiisclosure that four of the nation's again niost prominent generals re- Insurance Waenis of a surrender to Ger- (Continued been quietlv pensioned carfcer this week. In the aerial siege of Britain, J-ne jue pi j.o-year-oia I diet in the sum of Thursday I Smith is a dosed book--at least 'n supreme court in her action it will be until they recover the the Commercial Casulty diary key which she accidentallv! Will Be Graded lin, 71.

of The new securities, announced i industrial missionary regular purchase nrograms fit into Dr Grafflin helped in avertin almost any size Dursc -Strikes in the Pennsylvania COB! With some officials hoping to in other sections of the; Company, an action swallowed while at school yestei- multiplv several times the country by teaching the principle idcbt rmfirfjn rJ "i -C 3 -s--" 11 Ul v. wo. a. i over on Fssre 10) i doctor. "baby' bonds have been sold, hTe ln industry." A native of Balti- are the investment wares thev: piore, Dr.

Grafflin served churches place on the market May 1: TM th "ty, Washington. D. uom Clmnrl Dftm ftrtra-txtf Thrntr Postal Savings Stamps--10. 25 a TM k- president IjrrUflU IsOUiee Lram BlggeSt JLtling and 50 cents, and SI and S5 units. Bear no interest.

Redeemable in 50C pressing Ever Made by Man to Work Tomorrow lion ol President a aft and a weekly column for the Washi: ton Star. Grand Coulee, March 211 would be deemed large almost identical with existing "baby high explosives i Grand dam seven anywhere" eke. Each is" 13 feet which they will replace port city not long after the i years a had visited the thing ever made Stales i to work tomorrow. same size'to beserupare infants and Series Bonds-- a one teacher had been drooped -szi In simple ceremonies, switches i alonrade the dghteen cs'" denominations ava i rlo-i-o? Md 1:3 i machines to be installed. S5.000 and nfir 5 (p to start These tabines, the world's largest wheels of two 10.000-kflowatt tor- waterwheel generators, each i SnrfL damage 33 i bines churning the energy of faB-j produce 30 pa- cent acre power: ing water into first electric; than is produced by any 'other One Teacher Dropped -ew York, March 21 to Type of Mine Sweepers To Be Constructed Are 135 Feet Long Six minesweepers for the U.

S. avy will be built at a cost of at the C. Hiltebrant Dry Dock Company yard in Connelly, and it is expected that the keel of the first vessel will be laid in about two weeks. Word that the Hiltebrant Company had been awarded the federal contract was received early this morning. During 1917-1S in the days of the first World War the Hiltebrant yard constructed 25 sub- chasers and four tugs for the U.

S. Navy. The minesweepers to be built at the local yard will be of wooden construction and 135 feet long. They are a larger vessel than the subchasers built there ia 191S which were 110 feet long. Preliminary work in getting the boatyard ready for actual struction on the naw riroipof- started this morning and officials of the company said it was expected that fast as the work progressed additional men would be employed.

During the years of the first World War the yard employed approximately 32o men, and that number, if not a larger force, are expected to be at work at the yard before the contract is comrjleted. WTiile the Hiltebrant Compsny is busy on the contract the' yard will be placed under guard, and no one will be admitted excent on business. During the night hours the plant will be illuminated by electric lights which will shortly be installed. There will also be several government inspectors assigned to the yard to watch the construction of the minesweepers. Officials of the company said today that the same conditions will prevail this year at the plant as during the days of 1917-18 when the yard was closely guarded while the subchasers were under construction.

Covers 30 Acres The Hiltebrant shipyard covers 30 acres of land and there are a number of modern buildings on the ground. The yard is one of the best equipped wooden boat building yards along the Atlantic coast, and for years has been engaged in the construction of scows, lighters, tugs and other vessels. The government contract was said, would not interfere with the commercial work of the company which would be carried on as usual this year. Established 1S68 The Hiltcbrant yard was established in 1S6S by the late Conrad Hiltebrant, and was incorporated in 1910 as the Hiltebrant Dry- Dock Company. The present officers of the company are: O.

R. Hiltebrant, president; S. D. Hiltebrant. vice-president and treasurer, and F.

J. Walter, secretary. Aside from the fact that thr i oration return to work toaay. minesweepers to be constructed greatest transit ticup Union and company spokesmen will be 135 feet in fcnnh ended by an agree- 5 aid DU5C5 vojld slart ilir iS at and much larger than thn a. m.

lomorrow. restoring 95 subchasers constructed at the yard per cent of Mannatian's surface during the World War no further loarls of American wheat through the British blockade for unoccupied France is expected to be an- nounced within the next few days, it was learned today, after weeks I of involved negotiations between the American, British and French governments. The wheat-- an American gift to I the people of unoccupied France -is to be shipped in two French vessels now tied up in ports here and distributed in France by the American Red Cross. It was understood that the British have given sympathetic consideration to the proposal both as an emergency act and as a "trial I 1 I 3 L7t.A.CLLi^'J the boards had 'lacaked some shipment --ana final approval awaits only formal Franco-British i agreement on conditions govern- jing the disposition of the supplies essential information when the classifications were first made. The remainder of the cases were decided by the President in favor of the men who appeal- abroad.

The wheat cargoes would be cd, and they were therbupon shi PPed for immediate relief pur- given deferment from immedi- i ses said, view of re- ate service rts by Gaston Henry-Haye, the French ambassador, that the flour shortage in unoccupied France was rp i ma 't necessarv to reduce the Ircasury Keceipls ration "from one "thick slice to Washington, March 21 The i 11 cc bread per person position of the treasury March 19: i a day." Expendi- At liie same time, it was pointed Net balance out the grain supplies would serve More Than 300 Men To Be Employed As Soon as Job Gels Under Wav To Be All Wood I-, rTM increasei previous day here to France and distributed there under ican supervision. Strike Ended by Arbitration 'Curtain Raiser', Asserts Union by an agree- drivcrs and operators arbitrate a wage scale, was transportation. Sold corporations as details were permitted under or the Noel i. Dowiing. ore of a three- provisions of the contract "to members fact-findinc board named made public.

oihcr teachers named officials acknowledged sics frorn fire, with three movie theatre, fauiid- homes dsn nQ I-- Vi-- member was said resign. tTMwn Council i power from this project. tvaterwheel generator hi existence she Srst Gr37v3 Cpule? elec-' It toox 142.224.009 iriBn-hoiir 11 to energize the 235-jnfle; bring the Grsria Coiifee project line to tp its preseat there caxne into beisg cms of thirds -was throagh JTKH-C cnsis. a jgiggst integrated power sys-' than 40 states. terns the West: It took 5128.450.00) for labor.

ciirities -svere designed so sad of fabor at' the "cani: the pirrchassrs frorr: Jjqus- itched rest trent for nsterjajs sa cszzx-; therfl befc-re maturity be- to be Coulee (a recoced load volis be switched: Con 1 counsel or Union. the by Mavor F. H. ransport attempts lo last nisht ounce- zs Oear Wealhrr 5o ride 2.145 buses for the first in 13 days. "What the verdict -Kin be in of the Fifth av for the fir.al ro'jrrf." Sacher said, "vnll on the we get from labor leaders" "and the rank ard -the ana company arc acquainted uith thn steps to be taken in carry on awarded, tho comp- War days.

ariy Th-? contract afford a Jarjc namber of roen. Oi "citizen's." of company said todav that 1S17-1S Jhere were 325 men who employed on the subchasers and ovrr tucs. ard that the sanx nf to repJace will be esraJoyed csi the March 1. origin- sweepers, and as ihe work TOJ- rage ircreases aver- tbs force; weeks' would be even larger. holi- Already a number of men of thr 'hr jhipj-ard --y-ere sot msae public, oa VAJS.