Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 1

FOUNDED IN 188L LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1940 FIVE CENTS. rn zu 'V J0mm. jr" LruL. The weather WONT -YOU WALK INTO MY AXIS SPIDER TO THE FLY SAID THE Ahiarillo situation serious British raid ICrupp works, BelrIiivR.

R. stations, and other German and German occupied sections. By The Associated Press. Germany's aerial armada smashed overnight at the west English seaport of Bristol in another "Coventry" assault, nazi quarters said Monday, setting 45 major fires amid a deluge of 700,000 pounds of explosive bombs and 10,000 incendiaries. Bristol was described as the chief port of entry for goods from the United States, presumably including war supplies for Great Britain.

Stormbound, no water, power DALLAS. UP. Stormbound Amarillo faced a serious situation, according to a special radio message received from the beleaguered city by the AP, because there was not enough water in the mains to xigill lues lur uiau xi minutes. No fires have ocurred but the danger exists, the message stated. Ire still is fnrminB but more Rlowlv.

Power plants were expected to be operating on a partial basis later Monday, but the -city had no water supply Monday morning. were without power, but no serious storm injuries were rnnrtfH This special message, the first to reach the outside from Amarillo. was received by short wave radio from a grounded airplane thru torriinh mmmiinirntfnn was main tained. ice-bound area extended from Amarillo 25 miles south and east and northwest Into Colorado and New Mexico. Snowplows and repair crews battled snow and ice over northeastern New Mexico behind one of the worst November storms ever to strike that region.

Snow two feet deep blanketed the north em part of the state isolating -communities off main All air line traffic across New Mexico was cancelled, and buses and trains reached Albuquerque far behind schedulelTTA heavv foe A Bnusn communique, wiuioui overlay the Rio Grande valley and weBt across the continental" divide. Moderate temperatures enabled the state highway department to keep traffic moving on all main highways, both north and east. A major flood threatened in the Lower Little River valley which See AMARILLO, Pare 4, CoL 4. Criticise high protective tariff at farm meetings By L. Maathrr Ioim.

For Lincoln and vicinity: Cloudy Monday night and Tuesday: occasional light rain Monday night and early Tuesday morning; not much change in temperature. For Nebraska: Cloudy, occasional light rain in east and central Monday night; Tuesday partly cloudy preceded by light rain in extreme southeast in early morning; not much change in temperature. Tuesday sun rises 7:18 a. sets 5:02 p. m.

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C. Diers resigns from university Other faculty changes made Theodore Diers, radio director of the University of Nebraska the past 15 years, has resigned to accept the post of Nebraska state VPA music supervisor. Hin sign auun, Chancell Boucher follow ing approval by the -board or regents, is ef fective Nov, 30, Mr. Diers be came radio di rector in 1925 and -was given the additional 1 title of super i -visor of exten sion in music in 1932. He has Theodora C.

nir. served as radio i tor and music extension supervisor since that time, arranging and directing a large number of broadcasts from the Lincoln stations' studios and from the university studio in tne Temple building. He has also Interested in creative writing. Outstanding among his contributions to the Prairie Schooner, university liter ary magazine, was a radio play which appeared in the winter issue of 1939. Mr.

Diers has been secretary of the Nebraska Writers guild the past 11 years. New Appointments. Chancellor Boucher also an nounced the resignation of Warner F. Bowers, instructor in surg ery who came to the university in the fall of 1939 and is leaving now to accept active duty as an officer the army, and of Ed ward W. Zeman, instructor in pediatrics, who also came to the See T.

C. DIERS, Page 4, CoL 2, Ray Jicha' is fined $60 for drunken driving Ray Jicha, 25 year old plumber who lives at 1131 No. 28th, was fined -Monday $60 and -costs by Municipal Judge Jicha pleaded guilty. Jicha was arrested Nov. 10 fol lowing a collision with a Traction company bus between 30th and 31st on Vine.

Police said Kenneth Capley, 25, of Epworth Lake park, was the driver of the bus. In another drunken driving case, Mrs. T. J. Christensen, of 1005 No, 30th, was on trial before Judge Fisher.

Mrs. Christensen pleaded not guilty when arraigned a week ago. Police arrested Mrs. Christensen a few hours after an accident on Vine between 30th and 31st Police said Mrs. Chrlstensen's car struck Jim Brochu, 14, who was riding nia oicycie west, on vine, Brochu was iiot seriously hurt, Mrs.

Butler in critical state HOLDREGE, Neb. W). The condition of Mrs. Hugh Butler, wife of Nebraska's senator-elect, remains ''very critical," it was re ported Monday. Mrs Butler, injured last week in an auto accident near Atlanta, is in a hospital here.

She suffered a fracture of a vertebra. is still paralyzed from the shoul ders down. Dreams of order, finds it in mail ALBION, Neb. (UP). Melvin Glantz, district insurance repre sentative here dreamed that he had received his army order to report for service.

Next morning he told his bride of three weeks about the dream, then walked the postoffice for his mail. There was the order he had dreamed about Second Lieutenant Glantz will report for service "with the field artillery at Fort Sill, OkL, on Dec. 2. Identifying the target said a sec tion In the west of England was heavily attacked from dusk to midnight "almost causing damage to buildings with some residents killed and wounded. The Bristol raid climaxed a week end of fulrously intensified war in the with British R.

A. bombers striking a series of heavy blows ranging from the heart of Berlin to the royal arsenal and the big Flat works at Turin, Italy, Krupp Works Fired. British airmen brought back re ports of flaming destruction at the vast Krupp armament works at Essen, at three Berlin railway stations and freight yards, as well as Essen, Leipzig, Duisbergruh-rort, Boulogne, Brest and Lorlent the latter three on the nazi -occu pied French "Invasion" coast Hitler a high command said nazi warplanes by the hundreds attacked Britain's big industrial cities and important ports, dropping more than 660,000 pounds of bombs on Birmingham and anotner 600,000 pounds of explosives and 12,000 incendiaries on Southamp ton. Indication arose that little Bul gariawhose 200 mile wlds king dom is all that separates nazi troops from Greece may have scorned German pressure to Join See WAR, Page 4, Col. 3.

Navy reservists are called up CHICAGO. (UP). A tentative schedule of calling all the naval reservists except merchant marine men in the Ninth naval district to active duty by Jan. 6 was an nounced by Rear Admiral John Downes, district commandant. The reservists, who in previous calls have been permitted to avoid service for family or business rea sons, will be called with or with out their own consent under the new order.

Downes announced tentative dates for calling all the district's 22 divisions. Each division Is com prised of 100 men and four offi cers. Units tentatively scheduled for duty on Pacific ocean ships all to be called, about Dec, 16 in eluded a division from Omaha. The order provides that the men shall remain in active duty for the duration of the emergency. OMAHA.

(UP). About one hun dred in Omaha will be affected by the call to duty of midwestern naval reservists. officers here said. Reserve headquarters here listed one man from Glltner, six from Iowa and the rest from Omaha as comprising the Omaha district detail called to service in the Pacific. Three officers also will make the trip.

Beatrice hunter killed by own gun BEATRICE. (UP). Kenneth Genchark, 15, died at a hospital here, several hours Rafter being wounded in the head by his own khnrriin The youth's stepfather. R. H.

Klotz, said Genchark's 410-gauge shotgun discharged accidentally as he looked Into the barrel for dirt, according to Deputy Sheriff Ned Maxwell. Court refuses Georgia review Concerned with compensation WASHINGTON. UP). The su preme court refused to review a decision which Georgia officials contended would "seriously endanger" the successful administration of employment compensation pro--- grams of 33 states. The decision, by the Georgia su preme court, barred the state from treating two or more concerns under the same ownership or control as a single unit in determining whether there were sufficient employes to warrant the collection of unemployment compensation assessments.

Before adjourning for two weeks, the tribunal also declined to pass on a circuit court ruling that brokers selling securities owned by others are liable for misrepresentation under the 1933 "truth In securities" The set aside the convic tion of a Texas Negro on the ground that his constitutional rights were violated because mem bers of his race had been excluded from grand Juries. Justice Black delivered the unanimous opinion. applying to Edgar Smith of Houston, convicted of criminally as- saulttng a white woman. The court also delivered two opinions which the government aid would thwart the avoidance of income taxes. The tribunal ruled that the fed eral government might collect an income tax from the owner of bonds, when the interest coupons had been transferred to a son and the latter had included the income in his tax return.

The decision ap plied specifically to Paul R. G. Horst, Brooklyn. In the other decision the court held that a life insurance agent, Gerald A. Eubank, New York City.

who had assigned to others re newal commissions on policies sold, was subject to a federal income tax on the commissions. Justice Stone delivered the two 6 to 3 tax decisions. Justice Mc-Reynolds wrote a dissenting opinion in which Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberta concurred. Final decisions were postponed at least until Dec. 9 on litigation involving regulation of the nation's hydroelectric plants and two freedom of speech cases.

Journal index Miss Perkins Said to Have Resigned, Mark Sullivan Page 2 Today's war Page 3 Liquor store has appeal Page 3 Mere Mention 4 Society News Page 5 Editorial 6 Sport "Pitfalls of Love," continued story, Bridge, Ripley Page Markets 10 Want Ads Page 11 Radio 11 Comics Page 12 May freeze helligercnt credits Barkley say topic is not coming up. WASHINGTON. (UP). Freezing of all belligerent credits in the United States to. enablethegov-ernment to determine where and how foreign funds are spent is Press was No decision has been reached.

But it is known that if undertaken, the freezing process would be adjusted to prevent interference with British purchase here. President Roosevelt and Secy. Morgenthau are regarded interested in the plan. Mr. Roosevelt is expected to de vote much of his time here this week to work on American aid to Britain and Latin American prob lems.

He will meet either Mon day or Tuesday an Argentine economic delegation which has been here a week discussing the possi bility of extensive credits. WASHINGTON, un, senator Barkley expressed the opinion after a conference with President Roosevelt the question of British credits would not be taken up at the current session of congress. Other sources said that possible repeal of the Johnson act, pro hibiting further credits to default ing nations, was discussed at the hour and one-half conference also attended by Speaker Rayburn Tex.) Confer on Program, Barkley asserted that the con ference was concerned chiefly with "projecting on the future" and that "the whole program" for the new congress convening Jan. 3 was gone over in a general way. Rayburn told newsmen that "there wasn't anything done ex-See CREDITS.

Page 4, CoL 2J1 British to get first deliveries TUP). The navy will permit Great Britain to take first deliveries on a new type of longe range patrol, bomber now coming off assembly lines of the Consolidated Aircraft plant at San Diego, Calif. Officials emphasized the arrange ment does not Involve formal negotiations or trade such as occurred recently when the army released its biggest and newest type bombers. Authoritative quarters said that the huge twin engined flying boats PBY-5's are being assembled on twin lines, one for United States and the other for Britain, Australia and Canada. The com pany is understood to have orders for about 200 planes for the navy and a similar number for the others.

They cost about $100,000 each The program envisages deliveries to each nation at an equal rate. Tom Sweeney is head of realtors At the weekly meeting of the real estate board at the chamber of commerce Monday noori, an i appointeq com- mittee nomi nated officers for the new -year. The nom- i a 1 1 will stand as -a for mal election, no two board mem bers bein nominated the same office The nominees I areThoma I I Sweeney, presi I dent: Harla fl Eastonjvic vice oweencj a Acker. man, secretary; BJanchard Anderson, treasurer, aril Don Harrison, H. T.

Theobald and Chester Gel-latly as the executive committee, mani icatuciifc a I A m. Cox proposes strikes banned for emergency WASHINGTON. UP). Represent ative Cox asserting strikes against the government" were "the "most shameful thing that has happened in this country in a long time," proposed congress outlaw all such strikes during the emergency period. He told the house membership, assembled outside the capltol for the first time Since 1857, that 'labor racketeers" were respon sible for the strikes.

'I am wondering," he said, "if congress does not have the vitality or the real courage to take notice of what idWiappening to this coun try and do something in an effort to remedy it." The house had no business be fore it and the session was devoted to speeches on various The meeting was held in the ways and means committee room of one of the two house office buildings because of repairs being made to the capitol roof. The senate, likewise, vacated its chamber and moved tnto another room of the capitol, the one in which the senate met in the early days of the republic and which later was occupied by the supreme court The capitol is being repaired. Newspapermen sat on horse hair benches. In the last row there was room for about 50 spec tators. Senator Hattie Caraway among her democratic See COX, Page 4, CoL 5.

Registrants deferred if any aepenuents National Administrator Dykstra of the selective service system, has advised state headquarters here that a registrant's parents, grand parents, brothers and sisters may be considered as grounds tor determent of training. The letter said local boards should consider all dependencies of a registrant and not lust those of husbands and wives. The letter said aeg lstrant could be deferred because of dependents only if a person was "dependent in fact" upon him. This includes wives as well as other claimed dependents. "Selective service regulations clearly say that, a dependent may be a parent grandparent brother, sister, or tinder 18 years of age, or any person who is pny-sically or mentally handicapped whose support the registrant has assumed in good faith.

Support of these dependents is as impor tant to one man as another sup port of his wife. Local boards should always consider this fact in carrying out the selective service policy of preserving the American home as a unit They should also remember that the theory of the dependent deferment is that se lective service should not make public charges of dependents nor iit i aJi kvva--7r-: can halt nazis without shot NEW ORLEANS. CP). Sir Walter Citrine executive secretary of the British trade union congress, told the American Federation of Labor German bombing had rendered practically all eastern British ports unusable for large ships, Dut declared American workers by speeding arms production coifld 'conquer the nazis without firing a shot." "We peed planes, planes and more planes. The British navy may be the first line of defense for America but I want you to make the first line of defense for all democracy in your workshops" he said.

Sir Walter said British labor, in Its effort to help progress of the war, had surrendered its right to strike "in the belief we were doing a communal service and that it would be recognized when the struggle is over." Andrews minister North Ireland- BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Iff). John Miller Andrews was elevated from the post of deputy prime minister of Northern Ireland to be prime minister, succeeding Viscount Craigavon, died unexpectedly Germans grab spilled apples 'r, BERLIN. ISlAbout 100 Germans beat the strict food rationing system when a truck spilled 200 apples on Berlin's main street Making a short turn into Under Den Linden, the truck lost part of its load.

Before the driver could stop, hundreds of pedestrians ran into the street and scrambled for the fruit. Some got three or four apples. Some got one or two. An A. P.

correspondent was among 50 who "alsoran" and got none. The driver scratched his head in puzzlement and drove off. Only children heretofore have been getting apples, but Sunday it was announced that each adult adul have one pound within the next two weeks. i Those who were lucky day got more. TTie only parallel incident seen recently was when a truck cutting a corner spilled a few hunks of coat Women filled shopping bags, with the smutty fuel.

Neither incident necessarily indicates a shortage it merely means that apples and coal don't fall as manha from heaven every day in wartime Germany, i. It was officially announced' Monday that two more eggs can be purchased by each adult be- tween now and Nov. 30 and that a quarter-pound of candy per capita may be dished out between now and Dec. 31 enough to fill fie toe of a Christmas stocking. High protective tariffs came in for some rather severe criticism as the annual Organized Agriculture meetings started with the open ing of the convention of the Ne braska Farm Bureau Federation.

Attendance waa above former years in the gatherings which are in progress at the University of Nebraska college of agriculture and which, continue thru Friday. The Farm Bureau Federation was the only group to meet Monday. C. Y. Thompson, West Point president presided.

Terms of two board of trustee members, M. E. Swanson and Marsh race undecided The close election contest be tween Frank Marsh, republican, and Harry Swanson, democratic incumbent for the office of secretary of state was still in doubt Monday altho the official results were polled by the state canvassing board. There is one Holt county prt- cinct still missing-and -with the returns from that place unknown Swanson had a lead of 59 votes, but an unofficial report on the missing precinct indicated that Marsh was ahead by eight votes. The total for Swanson as tabu lated by the state canvassing board is 278,076 and for Marsli the total is 278,017.

The missing precinct, however, unofficially cast 152 votes for Swanson ana 218 for Marsh, making Swanson's total 278,228 and Marsh's total 278,236. The one missing is the Verdlgre precinct County Clerk John Gallagher in an affadavit to the state board said that the poll book apparently had been sealed in the ballot box with the votes and that he could not open it. Atty. Gen. Johnson, member of the board, said that he had advised Gallagher that he could call the election judges and the county can vassing board together and -open the ballot box in their presence to obtain the book.

After he has done this he will file a new return with See SWANSON, Page 4, CoL 7. II duce's paper praises British ROME (UP). Premier Mussolini's Milan newspape.1, Popolo d'ltalia, had praise for Great Britain's resistance to German- Italian air attacks. "It would be a grave error for the axis to undervalue the great resistance England is making as demonstrated by the English of all classes," the newspaper Baid. "The fleet, the royal air force, industry, high finance, labor, the merchant marine and the government Is doing all possible to fulfil their task." Cadwallader of Oxford and Steward of Lincoln, expire this year and will be filled at the bust ness.

session Tuesday afternoon. It was apparent that some "hot" resolutions will be offered later in the Farm Bureau sessions. M. Cadwallader is chairman of the committee and other members In elude Elvin Lawrence, Adams county; Roscoe Little, Burt county; Frank Schlutz, Chase county; Mrs. E.

Rupp, Hamilton county; A. L. Searle, Keith county; Ira Snyder, Lancaster county; Arch Hos Sec TARIFF, Page 4, CoL S. Light rain falls central area during afternoon Light rain fell in central and western Nebraska early Monday afternoon as overcast skies prevailed over the remainder of the state Temperatures generally hovered around the freezing mark except at Omaha with Big-Springs with 37 and Sidney 39. Lincoln had a 33 degree reading at 12:30 p.

m. The airport weather bureau re ported light rain was falling at Overton and North Platte and light drizzle at Hayes Light rain was forecast for wide areas of the state Monday night, The mercury climbed to 53 de grees at Chadron for the state's high mark Sunday and fell to 22 Monday night at Sidney. Nazi defeat inevitable, says archduke Speaking In precise but heav ily accented English, Archduke Felix, son of Empress Zita and the late Emperor Karl of. Austria- Hungary, appearing on the Junior League Town Hall series at the Comhusker Monday evening, told reporters, "It is Just a matter of time until perhaps created by starvation, will defeat Hit ler's imperialistic dictatorship." "Itis inevitable that Germany will be defeated in her war with England," the archduke continued. "The small Danubian countries who have been forced under the yoke of German rule are constantly looking forward to the day, probably in the' not too distant" future, when the invaders will be driven back and they will be free to unite, economically and militaristically, and forever prevent any further invasions by Germany in their direction." Archduke Felix, in the United States a little over a year, plans to return to England in the sum mer, depending on war His retunrwould be of political nature, he told reporters.

He has been in exile since the occupation of Austria by nazi troops, See DEFEAT. Pate 4. CoL 8. Greek regiment without food or sleep stands off Italians 4 days (UP). A GreeK regimental Lieut Theof i-los Hadjitheodorou, related his regiment had stood off the Italian blitzkrieg in the Plndus mountains for four days while the Greek high command organize its campaign.

Until reinforcements arrived, after four days, the regiment fought without food or sleep against overwhelming odds, he said. "Some of the men had high fevers due to exposure to mountain winds and a' driving but they refused to budge." The doctor said that six men from the regiment charged one Italian machine gun nest with bayonets, "reaching their objective in a storm of bullets and bayoneting all the gunners One of the Italians "played he said, and suddenly rose and threw a grenade, bringing down the Greek officer in charge of the raiding party The other Greeks killed the Ital- lan. "As regimental hur-; ried to the officer's along, with stretcher The wounded officer, rather than submit to treatment demanded to helped to his feet. He bleeding badly and his wound obviously was very painful, -but we complied with his request. Back on his feet the officer waved to his men and shouted Forward boys! Forward ror The doctor praised the Greek forces highly.

He said he saw one of them jump onto an Italian tank whose retreat had been blocked, and drop grenade' lnt the turret perishiEur even reduce their.