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MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22 1940. PRICE FOUR CENTS. ALL PASSENGERS ABOARD ITALIAN LINER SAVED Barmann Brewery To Make Famous Evans Ale in'City Nation Pays Tribute To Borah at Funeral Rites Held in Senate Formula and Manuf 1 of Brew introduced in Koosevelt Leads Officials at Simple Episcopal Service; Spray of Dark Red Roses Rests Atop His Local Concern Purchases Fo of 1786 Placed on Market Warehouse Maintained at Hudson; Ale Placed oh Sale Saturday Photograph on page 3 Evans ale, famous since 1786, is now being brewed in the Barmann avenue plant of the Peter Barmann Brewery, which has taken the formula and manufacture of the ale that had made the city of Hudson world known. For years ale has been manufactured in the C. H.

Evans Sons brewery in Hudson which was destroyed by fire some time ago, and at the plant here it was said today that a warehouse was being maintained in the city of Hudson in charge of the sons of the former operator of the Evans brewery in that city. Evans ale manufactured at the Barmann brewery was placed en the market for the first time from the local brewery on Saturday, and this morning repeat orders were received from Hudson where the brewery is maintaining a warehouse to handle the orders irrthat territbpyv-V: First Brewed in 1786 Evans. ale 'first brewed. in 1786, and -during "all the years," Vacant Desk; Court Is Present Washington, Jan. 22 of the government he served for more than three decades joined today in a solemn state funeral for the senate's "great appositionist," William E.

Borah. President Roosevelt sat silently in front of Borah's gray steel casket in the well of the chamber which had echoed for year after year the mighty eloquence of the Idaho statesman. Members of the supreme court, the cabinet and the "diplomatic corps were, seated nearby. Senators and representatives occupied the 'remainder of the floor space. Mrs.

Roosevelt was seated in diplo- Successor? hibition years, the ale 'has been manuractured ana piacea on saie throughout the world. There was hardly a country in the world where Evans ale could not be purchased. In taking over the formula and manufacture of Evans ale the lo- cal brewery management did so, realizing that there was a wide- 1 spread demand for the ale that had made Hudson famous through all the years. Cellar Temperature William H. Godron, brew master at the Barmann brewery, this morning said that the best way to serve the ale was at cellar temperafure; not too cold, so that the real flavor of the ale could be enjoyed.

Special bottles will be used to bottle the ale for the market. These bottles have been ordered, and are expected In addition to the manufacture of Evans ale the local brewery will continue to manufacture the beer for which the brewery has been famous since the days before the Civil War. At the- present time the brewery is giving work to men, has a weekly payroll of Major General Dies Washingtoon, Jan. 22 15')--Major Treasury General Omar Biindy, who fought the Sioux Indians In South Dakota in 1890-91 and later saw action in the Spanish-American and World Wars, died yesterday at the age of -78. He commanded the First Brigade of the American Expeditionary Force in 1917, win- malic' sallery.

The Idaho Republican, 74 years old and dean of the Senate, died from cerebral hemorrhage last Friday after four days of a virtually continuous corna. Borah's desk toward the rear of the chamber the one he had used for years-- was-left vacant. A spray of dark red roses rested on the mahogany top. Flowers were banked about the casket. There were pink carnations from President and Mrs.

Roosevelt, 'and a wreath of white carnations from the Senate itself. The simple Episcopal funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, Senate chaplain, assisted by the Rev. James Shera Montgomery, House chaplain. The.

Senate convened at 12:15 p. m. (EST) and after a prayer by Dr. Philips, suspended business while the mourning guests were escorted A special 1 reserved for more than 150 Idaho The publicjgalleries: were packed, -in "the- -thiBothhiahicoastwere-ibombed but Soviet May Attack Finns Over Frozen Estonian Waters Finland Says Her Troops Are Ready to Meet Any Onslaught From That Direction Cold Wa've Karelian Isthmus Is Scene of Mil itary Activity Seven Ships Are Sunk in Ocean War; Four Are Neutral Boats Canton Defense Reported Crumbling Helsinki, Jan. 22 UP)--Freezing of the Gulf of Finland from the Estonian to the Finnish shore has confronted Finland with the possibility of an over-ice attack.

from Soviet Russian bases in Estonia. Foreign military observers speculated today on the chances of success for such a thrust, but Finns insisted they were well prepared to meet it. The coast, in some sections least, has been fortified and barri-j caded with barbed wire. The frozen beach at Hanko, for example, is laced with barbed wire. Hanko, southernmost Finland, lies at the tip of a Gulf of Finland Peninsula, 55 miles northwest of Baltiski, Soviet Russia's Estonian air base.

Almost as though in. anticipation of such a Russian move, Finland was reported to have struck at Russian aviation bases on one of the few occasions in which the fledgling Finnish air force has challenged the big Russian aerial armada. Overhanging clouds ay scanty repb'rfs- -'6n yesterday's operations by the Reds- several Finnish' towns, including -Uleaborg and vicinity on JL ,3 I 5 fc: 50 100 MILES I r- 1 ife. fc fc h-( CHINA SEA' Map shows where Chinese a ring of steel (broken line) has been forming around Japanese-held Japan's outer defenses of South China's largest city were reported by the Chinese to be crumbling after serious setbacks had been handed the invaders. mere was-not-a sound in the chamber.as Dr.

Phillips began the services. Mrs. Borah--the senator's beloved seated-in the Senate. just outside the Miss Cora Rubin, Borah's secretary, for more than 30 years, and Miss Grace Hileman. the senator's personal secretary for 20 years were with Forty-eight survivors brought here aboard a French warship were confined to beds in two-hotels converted into hospitals.

Most sur- William E. Borah, top, viyors were rescued by the fondly known in Washington as ton Italian liner Cpnte Borah" was mentioned in mano. Others were saved by the speculation over her husband's steamer Colombo and smaller ves- successor in the senate. She might be named temporarily. On the sels.

The commander of the French nmg decorations from both the I manufacturer shoved aside other hand Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen warship said that his lifeboats of Idaho, resign and made four trips through the storm- be named successor to "The Lion." I tossed sea to take off passengers' and crew members after most of the ship's own lifeboats burned. Several survivors said only two were undamaged.

Survivors brought to Marseille including 25 women and three small children, said many passengers threw themselves into the sea to be-picked up while others huddled on deck until rescued in lifeboats from other ships. The Orazio was 38 miles south of Toulon when the first SOS went out at 5:12 a. m. yesterday. Tiie brief Episcopal service was preceded by a Kindly Mrs, Henrietta Baiter Plum.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord," intoned the Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House. "He that Soap Maker Elbows Hollywood's Stars Aside With Salary Publishes New List of Nation's '400' Wealthiest, but Sonic Arc Kept Obscure Washington, Jan. 22 LSI--A compare with the sweep-ofi Saturday's, attack when hundreds of sighted -and-'tnous- of bombs were dropped. Cdlfl Ware Ends A letup in the cold wave which had tumbled temperatures in-some parts of to the zero Fahrenheit was accompanied by reports of revived military: activity on -the-Karelian Isthmus front northeast of Lake Ladoga.

Finnish officials 'said Russian airmen in at least one instance carried out a night raid with the aid of parachute flares. The. date and place of the bombing were not given. The officials also asserted "the Soviets continued their reckless bombardment of hospitals. Altogether three hospitals have been damaged, but the casualties are not yet determined." The high command announced that Finnish warplanes, "in addition to carrying out reconnaissance flights and repelling enemy aircraft, successfully bombed certain enemy air bases." (A Reuters news agency dis- satch from Helsinki said Finnish airmen had bombed the Soviet Unon's great naval base at Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland and the Estonian port of Baltiski, where a Russian air base was set up recently by Russian-Estonian Anglo Destroyer Among Crafts Sunk by Mine or Torpedo; Asia Acts (By The Associated Press) A British destroyer and si.x merchant ships, four of them neutrals, were counted as new sea war losses over the week-end.

Another British merchantman ran aground. Britain's 21st warship casualty of the conflict was disclosed by the admiralty which said the destroyer Grenville was sunk "by a mine or torpedo" in the North Sea. Eighty-one men were known dead or missing and 118 were saved. Three British merchantships went down and one each of the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Estonian merchant fleets. Sinking of the destroyer Grenville, flotilla leader, "by a mine or torpedo" was announced by the admiralty yesterday.

was the fourth British destroyer sunk in nearly 'five 'months of war and Britain's 21st. acknowledged loss to her fleet. When she sank was not disclosed. The admiralty said 118 officers and men had been saved, but "eight are known to have been killed and 73 arc missing and must be presumed to have lost their lives." It listed the commander, Capt. G.

E. Creasy, among the 81 dead. Among survivors landed at an east coast port were some gravely wounded. Sad Sequel To Britons, the disastrous weekend a sad sequel to words of Winston. Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, who declared.

Saturday, "thing have never gone so well in any naval war." But they found consolation for Canton Heavy Snowstorms Sweep Central China, but Southern Troops Besieging Metropolis Are Favored by Mild Spell Hongkong, Jan. 22 UP)--Heavy end, "taxing the capacity prac- ui. i -TiUUot Lilat Drench and American the fabulously-paid motion I believcth in Me. though he were picture colony as the na-jdead, yet shall he Jive: and who- naid corporation soever- livelh and believeth in Me 1 1 1 A A Treasury Receipts Washington, Jan. 22 CD--The i Position of the Treasury January I 29: Receipts 513,425,698.94.

Expenditures S21.040.011.66. Net balance Working balance I tion's highest paid employe in 1938. The 5469,713 salary and bonus! (Continued on Pajrc Five) i shall never treaty. (Press Stockholm dispatches reaching reported that Kron- snowstorms sweeping a China and milder weather along south China coast were dominant factors today in the Japanese war. Favored by mild weather, forces pressing Canton, south China' metropolis, were said by Chinese lispatches to be tightening their ines against the Japanese.

reported a a soldiers had Military sources stream of several wounded Japanese poured into Canton over the week- tically all the hospitals there. Sharp fighting was reported at Tsenshing, 45 miles northeast of Canton. Curtailed fighting in northern Kiangsi, northern Hunan and- southern Hupeh provinces. The opposed forces, shivering in the sub-zero cold, contented themselves with digging in and exchanging desultory fire. Meanwhile, the Chinese nationalist press fired- editorial broadsides at a pact reported signed by (Continued on Page Five) stadt and an Estonian coastal base were attacked by 20 planes which returned safely to Finland, (An Oslo newspaper said irr-rt group of foreign volunteer fliers wvlll I jPftVtl for Finland, including several JI TM II Swedes, staged a one-hour raid on Kronstadt a few days ago.) Sunnyside Woman Pays To Learn Tracks Constitute 'Highway' for Trains Only 'their.

the hundreds of warship and mer chantmen were moving in and ou of British ports a steady of supplies and food, and Churchill's assurance that th chances against a convoyed shi'i being sunk are 500 to one. Britain's own sea offensive, par ticularly her far-flung patrols to blockade Germany, also broughi her a diplomatic headache. While United States officials in Washington were watching anxiously the apparent shrinking )f American farmers' export markets as a result of British shipping restrictions, the possibility arose in Tokyo that Japan might make a formal protest against the stopping of the Japanese liner Asama Maru by a British warship. Besides the Grenville, grief to hese eight other ships became uiown during the week-end: The ton British tanker 'aroni sank suddenly Saturday an unexplained explosion vhen she was only 20 minutes ut on a trial run after refitting. Her crew of 55 was saved, but ere flung high into the air and cveral were injured severely.

The British steamer Protesilaus, ,577 tons, sank yesterday after triking a mine off the west coast if England. A rescue vessel jrought her crew of 60 safely ashore. Agents Say Few of Crew MenMssing Italian Line i Former Estimates of 104 Persons Lost in Catastrophe Blast Starts Fire Unexplained Explosion at 5 A. M. Sets Off Raging Blaze Marseille, France, Jan 22 Italian officials announced late this afternoon that all of the 412 passengers aboard the burned Italian motorship Orazio had been rescued, despite heavy seas and the speed with which fire ravaged the vessel yesterday off the south coast of France.

Agents of the Italian line, owners of the vessel, said that "only a few" members of the crew of 231 still missiing after a new check-up of survivors taken aboard half a dozen rescue ships. Previously the line had announced that 104 persons, including 40 passengers, were missing. The missing crew members were feared to have been killed outright by an explosion of undetermined cause which occurred about 5 a. m. yesterday and started a fire which raged all day.

The vessel still was burning, today. Survivors Beach Port Marseille, France, Jan. 22 ta)-First 'Survivors of the burned. Italian liner Orazio reached here today with harrowing -stories of a sudden- explosion which enveloped The Finnish command also re- The chaplain then read the les- ported shooting down an obscrva- (Continned on Page 10) I (Condoned on Pago F-TC) What 1940 Offers: Crisis or Harmony Albany. N.

Jan. 22. veiling of New York's proposed WOrKing DaianCC I -mr fi-m ri 1 rr -m-r 1,621,004,996.10. customs i Miss Mary McJblrov Lommits suicide at Her jaome! ncwbudg ct tonight DA ZilA 1 rr rt-r-n VM; for month 23o.209.283.49. Excess of expcndi- Gross debt Kansas City, Jan.

22 (JP-- Increase over oa -ch hpr fa Pwious day 510,243.333.70. Gold Crushc dcath ass cts 335.86 ncr an brooding over the punisn- iment of the men who kidnaped Edwin Catewe Dies her, Miss Mary McElroy. daugh- Jan. 22 tcr of Kansas City's ousted city I manager, shot herself in the head. sur" I Her maid yesterday found the iaid his death was caused by bodv, a small pistoi nearby.

a attack. j-. McEbroy. stornry- autocrat iiey Causes Fire of city had been both fs confronts ap- proving Republican legislative Kansas City; Broods Over Fate of Kidnapers lcaders a crisis expected to result in continued harmony or a "rebellion" jeopardizing thcparty's presidential election chances in the state, Despite GOP chieftains' expressed satisfaction with Governor Lehman's spending program, a product, of bi-party conferences, the other legislators awaited their first glimpse of the state's finan- icial plan strictly "on their own" land unpledged to support the Headers' views. The Republican majority's agreement on the budget would lead, the legislators believe, to a "short and sweet" session.

But opposition to the spending program and rejection of the lead- ers' opinions, they pointed 35 Mrs. Florence Casey Also Loses Driver's License; Auto Damages Some Automatic Signals Apparently Hits Mine The British steamer 'eryhill sank apparently after triking a mine off the northeast oast. Two survivors were land- (Continucd on Page Five) destroyed all but two of her lifeboats. The 47 survivors, brought to safety by a French auxiliary cruiser said most. of the Orazio's passengers and crew threw themselves into the stormy Mediterranean, where they were picked up by lifeboats launched from three Italian merchantships and two French warships standing by.

More survivors were due this morning aboard two French destroyers. Special hospitals were ready to care for those who had uffered burns and exposure. Refugees from the abandoned iouth America-bound liner said he explosion occurred about 5 m. yesterday in her engine oom while she was fighting her through a tempest 60 miles ff Barcelona. While two French warships, the 3.350-ton Italian liner Conte i a a a the talian liner Colombo and the Italian freighter Recca ut out their lifeboats the two emaining Orazio lifeboats were aunched.

Survivors said one. believed to ave carried an Italian diplomat, vas lost. He had been enroute his South American post. Because she Shore Railroad used the West I tracks, between the railroad station and the Broadway crossing, as a street over i which to drive her automobile, Mrs. Florence Casey, 28, of 5005 43rd street, Sunnyside, L.

was fined S50 in police court when she pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and her operator's license was revoked by Judge; Matthew V. Cahilj. In using the railroad tracks as i (Contiaocd on Mountain Branches Allowed to Suspend Washington, Jan. 22 The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the New York Central railroad today to abandon two branch lines in and Ulster counties, York. The lines were the 19.2 mile branch from Phoenicia to Kaaterskill and 2.7 miles from KaaterskiU to Hunter.

The commission held traffic was insufficient to justify continuance of the branches." Coal Is on Move Again 5,000 Handlers to Resume Deliveries York, Jan. 22 man on each Insck as a coal handlers to rer ssfciy mezscre and to akl I would'undoubtedly brhigV sura deliveries today following a The Italian minister to Panama, lenato Firenze, xvas aboard the urned motorship. Former Belian Premier Paul van Zfeeland reported to have been a passenger, might not yet have boarded the ship, later information indicated. Another lifeboat was said to have been picked up by a French auxiliary cruiser, one of the rescue fleet sximrr.or.cd by tvro distress calls from the Orazio. The United States liner Washington, bound from New York to Genoa, also answered her SOS.

Many Burned Badly AH survivors who had reached Marseille so far were Italian and i German. Many were burned bad: ly, and all suffered exposure, i Estimates of the number of i persons aboard varied from 900 to 940. (Officials in Rome withheld the exact number of passengers and crew members.) zssaidc Although all aboard were reported removed from the flaming liner. Italian shipping officials sought word of three lifeboats with 107 or 109 survivors who they hoped had been picked up by one of the French ivarshins or Italian rescue vessels. Ships answering SOS searched throughout the night for the lifeboats bobbing in the storm on the western Mediterranean.

The crew fought the blaze throughout Sunday afternoon, but the captain finally decided Jo abandon the ship. last nig ing to the boats--all "tak- shsps ap- Jan. believed 1 w.v been caused by an over-: and son. Their inocr.er i chimney resulted in were babies, and McEiroy Dutch Reformed brought them up, dressed them, at 9:45 a. m.

Sunday. thezredu; es 'ouniteer fire companies cation, iiary and "UK Osa noy, ed the blaze In a short las she called her father, had 1 inseparable companions. 1 Marv McElrov. slender 32-year-i Fined S10 iold brunette, had seen the wfli to: ssssz fiTM and other 3 organi- the idd-j paid mttOnmsm Tne tharcd Ite i JW 1 od i coal ld bc foTCcd trac fairs ca Pase from SI to $1.20 an hour, with an granted all unions. (Continued oa rage AP state for a party presidential tract negotiations be started iail Seven years ago.

tte'fimrand'InaP" 5 trial, a defense ed on Three) organi- Photo shows -Mary McKJroy, who committed suicide in her Kansas 1 The controversial measures City home, with her fatr.er (right? and brother, H. F. McEJroy, JrJ clear the way for installatio TM-T. i jcrt after her release 5n 3933 by Wdnaoera io K-bcra her father i The to'coal deliveries.