The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 1

THE LINCOLN STAR home edition THE WEATHER Nebraska: Fair tonight and Thursday: not so cool northwest and extreme west: light to locally heavy frost tonight warmer Thursday. Lincoln: Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer Thursday; light frost tonight; lowest temperature, about 35 above. Telephone B1234 Police Number B6844 THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1938 FIVE CENTS TP frn 0 ILL) Lra mm 14 SjiearJ Haiilfi mer Saved gM Robert Gray Is -Killed-ln--Gun Accident Shotgun Discharged As Packing Plants Will Stay Open, (governor Says THE WEATHER Lincoln and Vicinity Fair tonight and Thursday; wanner Thursday; light frost tonight; lowest temperature abool degrees.

Nebraska: Pair tonight and Thursday: not so cool In northwest and extreme west, light to locally beary frost to-nirht. warmer Thursday. Kansas; Pair tonight and Thursday, somewhat colder in southeast, light fro tonight; rising temperature Thursday. i Pilot Acclaimed For Landing His Kraschel Acts To Keep Order After New Violence; More Workers Idle lazing Graft Pilot Hero 11 Passengers And 3 Crewmen Escape Serious Injury In Alabama Descent MONTGOMERY, Oct. 19 (AP) A new hero of the airways was acclaimed today, as a mass of burned wreckage marked where Pilot Dave Hissong, with flames lapping about him, brought 1 1 passengers and three crewmen safely to earth In his burning Eastern Air Lines plane.

With one voice of gratitude the passengers testified, "He saved us." The 14 passenger twin-motored Houston-to-New York ship burst into flames near midrfight a few miles from Montgomery, and though his hands were seared, the fuselage burned and one motor dropped out, Hissong stuck to the controls and put the craft down on a dark and strange field. Flames Destroy Ship. A moment after passengers Blighted the flames destroyed the ship. No one aboard was hurt badly. Among the passengers was J.

V. Connolly, general manager of Hearst newspapers, New York, and E. D. Rivers, son of Georgia's governor. Eastern Air Lines listed the others aboard as J.

H. Sotham, New York; J. H. Bonck, New Orleans- 7.. I-ehenson.

New York: Prominent Ins a nee Man Was Getting Out Of Car In Garage Robert Gray, 62, 1901 street prominent Lincoln insurance man, was killed by a wound from a shotgun whifh was discharged into his breast as he returned home from a hunting trip early Tuesday night The tragic incident apparently occurred as Tie was getting out of his car in the garage at the rear of his home. Mr. Gray was an agent for the New York Life Insurance com pany. He was an active church ROBERT CRAY worker and prominent in Masonic Circles Funeral Thursday. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'clock Thursday morning at Westminster Presbyterian church, with Rev.

Walter Aitken and Rev. Melvin V. Oggel officiating. Masonic services will be held at the church with Lancaster lodge No. 54, A.

F. A. M. in charge. Ed Boehmer will sing.

The body will lie in state at the church from 8 to 9 o'clock. Burial will take place in Ord. The gun was apparently discharged when the trigger caught on the emergency brake lever, according to Deputy County Sheriff Cecil Ward, who investigated. Ward said the trigger guard was looped over the brake lever when the gun was found. Mrs.

Gray had heard her hus- (Continued on Pagt Eight) Heads Elect Mrs. M'Cloughan Deceased Members Are Honored At Annual Memorial Service Mrs. Lillie McCloughan of Ong was elected president of the District Deputy Presidents association of the Rebekahs at a luncheon meeting Wednesday at the Lincoln hotel as the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs continued their annual state convention. Miss Edith Lancaster of York was the retiring president. Other officers elected are Mrs.

Violet Sweeney of Omaha, vice president; Mrs. Vera Green of Gresham, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Harriet Cain of Omaha, dean. Honoring the memory of de ceased members, a joint memorial service was held in the afternoon, a feature of the day sessions. Memorial Address.

The memorial address was given by W. D. Hamilton of Cambridge, grand chaplain. Other speakers who paid tribute to past members were Laura Knapp of York, past president; Louis F. Etter of Oma ha, past grand patriarch; E.

S. Davis of North Platte, grand sec retary; Margaret I. Chamberlain of Chadron, president' of the Re' bekahs; Ray Butler of Gering, grand master of the lodge; John Pittman of York, past grand mas ter; and Gen. George I. Brelel of Southgate, grand lodge director of development and extension, Speaking for the organizations were Charles E.

Barney, of Omaha, outgoing grand patriarch of the Rebekah.Deputy Nazi Agents Rifled Mail Spy Testifies Rumrich Tells Jury Of Scheme To Forge FD.R. Signature To Obtain Information NEW YORK, Oct 19 (AP) Nazi German agents opened a mail bag on the liner Europe- to obtain a copy of a contract between the Bethlehem Steel Corp. and the Amtorg Trading Corp. of New York, the government's principal witness testified at the espionage trial of two men and a woman to day. Members of the same group, he swore, engaged his younger broth er as a spy in Prague in anticipa tion of Germany's march on Czechoslovakia.

The testimony was given just before court adjourned for the day. Guenther Gustav Rumrich, the 32-year-old former U. S. army sergeant who deserted and became a spy, made the disclosures after calmly telling Federal Judge John C. Knox and a jury of a scheme to forge President Roosevelt's signa ture to faked white house station ery in order to procure informa tion about two U.

navy airplane carriers. Shown Photographic Copy. Staring at Assistant S. At torney Lester C. Dunigan and avoiding -the gaze of the three de fendants Erich Glaser.

former Mitchel field soldier; Johanna Hoffmann, hairdresser on the German liner Europa, and Otto Her man Voss, airplane factory worker Rumrich said he was incredulous when he heard of the opening of the mail bag. The information was relayed to him, he said, by Karl Schlueter, messenger and payoff man for the spy ring, in the presence of Miss Hoffmann, and that when hs appeared skeptical Miss Hofmann herself showed him a photographic copy of the contract. Speaking in a low d'spirited voice as though he were tired of the whole fantastic espionage business, Rumrich said ex- (Continued on Paga Eight) Chrysler ires 34,000 NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (AP) K. T.

Keller, president of Chrysler announced here today the company has increased, its production schedules 20 per cent, and since Aug. 1 has recalled 34,000 employes. "We now have approximately 54,000 men at work in our plants and expect employment will increase right along into November," he said. "Open orders on our books today call for a total of 137,000 new 1939 passenger cars," Keller said. "Until we get into full production, we are getting as rapid retail turnover as physical movement of the cars will permit Meanwhile, stocks of cars in dealers' hands are 31,500 today as against 98,000 at this time a year ago," Keller added.

"Current business is brisk and we hope that the demand will continue to show such vitality as to make it necessary for. us to increase our schedules again." Air Hero Married A Nebraska Girl NORFOLK, Oct 19 (AP) Dave Hissong, airliner pilot who landed a burning plane' safely near Montgomery, is acquainted with a number of Norfolk residents, having visited here several times in recent years. Mrs. Hissong is the former Miss Rose Ryan, formerly of Norfolk, and is a sister of Mrs. Harry Meistcr, Wahoo.

Hissong is a son-in-law of Mrs. John Ryari, former Norfolk resident who now lives with her daughter at Wahoo. Hissong visited In Norfolk a number of times before he "was married and later he and Mrs. Hissong came here to visit Reh Rev. Gosnell Is New Rector Of Successor To The Late Rev.

Marsden Comes From Fulton, N. Y. Rev. Harold Gosnell, rector of the All Saints church in. Fulton, N.

is the new rector of the Holy Trinity Episcopal church in Lincoln. Rev. Gosnell, who preached here about a week ago, will take the place left vacant by the death of Rev. Henry H. Marsden.

Rev. Gosnell will take up his new duties on Dec. 30. Rev. Gosnell was born in Syra- cuse, N.

Y. in 1 9 0 8 and received his early education in public schools and high school of Syracuse. He entered the i ersity of Syracuse fol lowing a re-medical course and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1930 While at school, Rev. 11 Rev. Gosnell was active in cross country running, ice hockey, and dramatics.

He was a member of Psi Upsilon social fraternity. After his graduation from Syra cuse, Rev. Gosnell changed his mmd and instead of following medicine, decided to study for the Episcopalian ministry. He enrolled (Continued on Pag Sales Tax Is Seen As Fruit Of $30Pension Cochran Savs He Cannot Compete With Warner, Bryan On Promises A $30 per month minimum old age pension, such as C. W.

Bryan has been promising and which Charles J. Warner, G. O. P. candidate, now endorses can only mean' that they are favorable to "a heavy general sales tax," Governor Cochran declared at his press conference Wednesday morning.

"That is the only way the stae can finance the payment of such sums as my two opponents have in mind," the governor said. "I am very glad, however, to have these clarifying statements. It gives the people a chance to decide the question absolutely. The election will be a mandate from the voters which ever way it goes. It is a question of whether we are going to abandon our traditional fiscal policy or whether we are going to continue it." Cites Colorado Case.

The governor pointed to the Colorado situation where a constitutional amendment provides for a $45 pension but although it has been in force two years the old folks there are getting only $28 a month and all of the people of the state are paying a heavier property tax than Nebraska and a sales tax, a service tax and a state income -tax to boot. "I am not going to try to compete with either Mr. Warner or Mr. Bryan in campaign promises," Cochran declared. "Despite what either one of them may say, you cannot get away from the fact that it will take a very heavy sales tax-perhaps 6 per cent in addition to the property tax to finance the plan.

If they are sincere I think they should come out and admit you cannot spend millions more each year without getting the money from the taxpayers. They should admit that it is going to take a general sales tax or else a much heavier levy on property. To me that would be unthinkable." Given Prison Term John O'Brien, 60, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by District Judge Cha 1 1 Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery. He admitted writing the name "Dan Dcllcy" on a $5 check drawn on the Nebraska City National bank on June 4, and payable to Mrs, G. G.

Westholm. Holy Trinity 1 i COCHRAN TALKS TO VOLUNTEER FIREMEN FREMONT, Oct. 19 (AP) Delegates to the convention of Nebraska Volunteer Firemen's Association heard addresses today by Gov. R. L.

Cochran and J. D. Stevens of San Francisco, California state fire marshal. John W. Guthrie of Alliance prepared a memorial service for 23 members of the association who died during the past year.

Stevens will speak again tomorrow, along with Sidney Owens of Lincoln, state director of vocational training. An outside drill by the Omaha fire department will pre cede the convention ball tonight. Trusts Ought To Be Smashed Agents Are Told AAA Official Says They Have Destroyed System Of Free Markets Agricultural extension has the largest selling job of any group in Nebraska in getting farmers to adopt improved farm and home, practices, Walt Willey of the Federal Land bank at Omaha told state and county extension work ers at the college of agriculture as their annual conference neared an end. He said extension has a large inventory to sell on all im portant agricultural matters. Salesmanship and teaenmg were described bv Willey as parallel terms.

Selling, he said, is something like teaching, ine professors sell actual facts to students. A sale, in contrast, must be of mutual benefit to buyer, and seller. Willev alone with Wayne Dar- row of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration appeared as the chief morning speaker. Elton Lux presided. Lauds Paul Stewart.

Willev Daid tribute to P. H. Stewart, former extension agronomist at the agricultural college and now with the. Federal Lan tfanK. tie saia Stewart is ue-veloping a farm management svstem there second to none in any section of the country.

Willey said agricultural extension is selling ideas in the form of farm stability through diversified farming, livestock through sorghums and other field crops, and the like. AAA Expert Talks. Darrow predicted much greater emphasis on finding new markets for farm produce in the future. (Continued on Pagt Eight) Tugboat Strike At Y. Settled NEW YORK.

Oct. 19 (AP) Approximately 1,000 tugboat workers who went on strike Saturday after a wage dispute voted today to return to work at midnight under the terms of a settle ment proposed by Mayor r. LaGuardia. The mayor's plan suggested a procedure to be followed in future wage negoiations. The strike, which forced the liner Queen Mary and other ships to dock without the aid of tugboats over the weekend, involved an additional 1,000 members of an A.

F. L. union who did not attend the meeting at which the settlement was ratified. Docking of the Italian liner Conte Di Savoia, which arrived today with more than 1,300 passengers, was delayed ten hours by the strike. Deportation Of Strachey Ordered WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (AP) The Immigration service affirmed today a board of inquiry's order excluding John Strachey, British author and lecturer, from the United States.

The service decided that Strachey was a "non-Immigrant not In possession of a valid passport visa" and ordered him to return to England on the "next sailing, October 22, 1938." Labor department official said Strachey can appeal. today's decision only to federal courts, Tells Story Of Landing; BY CAPT. DAVE HISSONG. Eastern Airlines Pilot, told to the International News Service. MONTGOMERY, Oct.

19 (INS) Right after we took off I noticed a slight vibration in the right motor. It wasn't so bad at first. As we got higher it continued to grow worse and toward the last it got quite severe. We decided to get back to the field but right after we started to turn the right motor began burning and fell out. The wing went up.

Clyde (Co-Pilot Clyde R. Russell of Mesa, now stationed in Atlanta) had as much to do with it as I did. As soon as the vibration got bad he cut the gasoline to the motor. Then he released the fire extinguisher on the. flames.

It didn't do much good. When the wing went up because of its lightness after los-' ing the motor, there was not much we could do but wrestle with it as we came down. When we hit the ground the whole side was afire We didn't make a hard impact? I didn't even know that one wing was torn off as we landed until I had gotten out. After we had climbed out and saw the passengers were okay, we went over to the other fire where the motor fell about a half a mile away. We came back and were carried ovei to the airport.

That's all. Ruth Effing Tells Grand Jury Snyder Made Death Threats LOS ANGELES, Oct 19 (AP) Nervous" and Ruth Etting, went before the Los Angeles county grand jury today to tell of the shooting of her husband, Myrl Alderman, pianist, in an affray Saturday night that landed her former spouse, Martin (Col. Gimp) Snyder, in jail. The first witness called in the investigation of the shooting, Miss Etting said she was, prepared to relate that her husband for 17 years threatened to kill her on a number of occasions. Of the hsooting she said: "If the lights had not gone out I am certain Myrl, Edith daughter of her husband by a former marriage) and myself all would have been dead now." She said two of the death threats were made by her husband by long distance telephone from New York last January.

"The first call came to Edith, who lives with me," said Miss Etting. "He asked for me. Edith told him I was not there and would not want to peak to him anyway. He anwered that he would 'fix her ticket too," then hung up. "Later that ame evening he called back and talked to me." Miss Etting said she put her cousin, Arthur Etting, on an extension phone and that he also heard Snyder's threats.

Japan Rapidly Nearing Canton HONGKONG, Oct 19 (AP) Japanese columns gathered new momentum today and appeared to have slashed their way through The temperatures lor past 24 nours: 1 P. m. 4 p. 5 p. p.

m. 1 p. p. m. p.

m. .64 3 .60 57 64 .51 .41 3 a. m. 4 a. a.

m. 6 a. m. a. m.

a. ft a. m. 10 p. 48 11 p.

44 11 midnight 4 1 a. a 40 10 a. 41 11 a. 49 13 noon 53 1 p. 54 1 a.

31 3 p. 59 Wind Telocity at p. IT miles per hour. Weather through the state at a. clear to partly cloudy.

Highest temperature a year ago, SO: lowest. 51 Dry Wet Rel. Bulb Bulb Hum. 6:30 a. 36 33 73 13:30 p.

m. 63 43 41 Sua and Moon. Sun rises, 6 44 a. sets, 5:41 p. m.

Moon rises. 3:37 a. sets 4:04 p. m. (Additional weather on Page 9.) matISaOsm blamed for WORLD EVILS Preparations For War Are Decried At Eucharistic Congress In Orleans NEW ORLEANS.

Oct. 19 (AP) Materialism was blamed for the "multplied evils" of the world by Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil of Chicago in a sermon today at the eighth national eucharist congress. "The world," said the bishop, addressing a special mass for youth in the city park stadium, "is largely impotent intellectually, bankrupt economically and ominous politically." "We look with dismay upon the bloody juggernaut of war, rolling steadily forward in its triumphant course, crushing into red pulp millions of human lives, destroying in a single hour of mad fury what whole generations cannot rebuild or replace, leaving in its wake ghastly famine, hopeless misery and black despair." Appalling Sums for War. "We see every day the appalling sums which governments are wringing from sorely impoverished peoples to provide; new engines of war, bigger, more de structive battleships, aeroplanes to rain death from the skies upon defensely peoples, endless miles of menacing fortresses stored with every kind of death-dealing device the mind of man can in vent." iSSa bishop-said- if seemedclear to him "this whole hideous brood" was the natural and necessary offspring of the "stark, blatant materialism which ha1 dominated our civilization for the past 100 years and more." Priests and laymen addressing the mass meetings, condemned religious and racial persecution and many of them in blunt lan guage lashed at dictatorships which they said crushed freedom, economic, political and religious.

Dedicate Youth To Temperance Delegates To Nebraska W.C.T.U. Meeting Affix White Ribbons HASTINGS, Oct. 19 AP) The younger generation was dedicated to the temperance cause at the Nebraska Women's Christian Temperance union con vention here Wednesday. White ribbons were tied to the wrists of babies in a special ceremony Wed nesday afternoon. A temperance picture, "The Pay-Off," featured the morning session.

Young orators compete tonight for gold medals, in speeches up holding the merits of total absti nence from alcoholic liquors. The Hastings youth temperance coun cil will present a playlet, and the girls' choir of the Christian church a musical program. Transport Hearings Here WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (AP) The interstate commerce com mission announced today hearings will be held in Lincoln, be fore Joint stattf boards on appli cations of six common truck car riers to haul petroleum products. The schedule: Hov.

jflj-uirjch Oil West Point, be'' tween KnnsAs-Kebrftftks. Dee. 1 Ault Brothers Transport Co. Alma; 3. M.

Rsyflrld Transport Co. Mul len. both between Kansas-Nebraska. Deo. 3 Leroy Anderson, Burwell, between Kansas-Nebraska.

Dec. 13 Canuch Motor Butte; Kyaer A Tyler, Holdre. both between Kaneaa- flebraaka-aouth Dakota, DES MOINES, Ia Oct. 19 (INS) Military rule was or dered by Gov. Nelson G.

Kraschel today in the riot-torn Sioux City stockyards area, where fighting broke out last night and two more large packing plants closed today. Without actually declaring martial law. Governor Kraschel announced that the plants will be kept open with the aid of state troops. The Swift Co. plant with between 600 and 700 idle, has been strike closed since Sept.

29. The Cudahy and Armour plants closed today under what the C. I. O. union conducting the strike called "merely a one-day holiday" order.

These two had an estimated 900 idle today. Governor's Statement. Tfrnorriffl's statement said: "Upon the request of District Court Judge O. S. Thomas, Sheriff (W.

Tice and County Attorney (Maurice) Rawlings of Woodburv countv. Mayor (David) Loepp and Commissioner of Pub lic Safety (Harold) Sturgeon or Sioux City, I am directing that' troops be mobilized and that they proceed immediately to the riot area of Sioux City, dispel the rioters and establish peace. "Based on my present knowledge of the situation, I propose to permit the Swift plant to operate providing all employes who desire be permitted to return to their work pending negotiatoins of the difficulties or submission of these difficulties to arbitration as provided under the laws of Iowa." Labor Strife Spreads. SIOUX CITY, Oct. 19 (INS) Labor trouble resulting in a clash during which two police were slightly injured last night in the Swift Co.

strike today spread to the Cudahy and Armour packing plants. While hastily reinforced squads of officers patroled the stockyards area where a crowd of was dispersed with tear gas and threats, the C. I. O. union declared a "holiday" at the Cudahy and Armour plants.

Approximately 1,500 were idle today, including about 600 in the Swift plant and 900 affected by today holidayr1- The "holiday" is not a strike, such as that which has kept the Swift Co. premises closed since Sept. 29, but is "just a day off," union officials insisted. One police car was overturned, another was damaged, most of the (Continued on Pagm Eighth Boys At Kearney Plead Guilty To Murder Charges Oct 19 (AP) Gary Ames, 14-year-old Massachusetts school boy, and Leroy Gallaway, 22, former steel worker at Shelby, pleaded guilty to first and second degree murder charges here today, filed against them for the robbery and mutilation slaying of a middle-aged Chicago man near Odessa last Thursday. Truck Strikers Say They Were Fired Af OMAHA, Oct.

19 (AP) Three striking truckers complained to the county attorney's office that a truck operator fired a gun at them at noon today. Walter Bigley, Everett Toland and Frank Rule, all of Omaha, said they and a fourth man were driving along a highway when they found two trucks blocking the road. The trucks had halted another car in which, they raid, was a man who is part-owner of another truck line. The truckers said they stopped their car and osked the drivers to move the trucks to permit them to get by. As they approached the trucks the truck operator poked a gun and fired one shot at them.

The bullet passed between Rule and the fourth man, the truckers said. J. T. Nix, New Orleans; D. Drucker, New York; R.

B. Kahle, New York; George Stewart, Atlanta; Co-Pilot R. Russell; Steward Frank Gibbs; W. O. Foote, Montgomery Eastern Air Lines manager, and F.

T. Vonne-gutt, New Orleans, Eastern Air Lines city traffic manager. Pilot Praised. Connolly said "the heroism and fine work of the pilot simply were beyond description." Young Rivers said "if it hadn't been for that pilot I wouldn't be here." i Hissong's herojsm and effective performance as a pilot. "We left the Montgomery field," he said, "about three minutes before the right engine got rough Continued on Pagt Eight) Ask Abolition Nebraska Rail Commission Fifth District Farmers Union Not Satisfied With Work YORK, Oct.

19 (AP) The fifth district Farmers' union went on record today with a demand that the Nebraska railway commission be abolished. The convention passed a resolution asking removal of the commission and op posing all rate fixing by the inter state commerce commission after H. G. Keeney of Omaha, state president, voiced opposition to the rates established by the commiS' lion for truckers in Nebraska. Carl Cedarbery of Osceola was re-elected district president F.

O. Swanson of Stromsburg is vice president, and T. A. Collins of Wahoo, secretary-treasurer. The group will meet in Cass county next spring.

Hope Abandoned For Turkeys President ISTANBUL. Oct 19-(AP) Hope was virtually abandoned today for Kamal Ataturk, president and strong-man of Turkey, gravely ill with an old liver ailment. Reliable sources said the end fnight come at any moment or that the president, principal creator of modern Turkey, might live for several hours. Chinese defenses to threaten Canton from both the northeast and the cast. Terrific air bombardments aided troops of the invaders at the outset of the second week of the Japanese south China offensive.

It was stated authoritatively that one' column had reached Shcklunit, on one of four Islands In the East river crossed by the Canton-Kowloon railway about 35 miles east of Canton. 1 (Conllnued on Pag Eight) Both Wrists Broken KEARNEY, Oct. 19 (AP) Miss Malvina Scott veteran member of the Kearney state teachers' college faculty, is recovering from fracture of both wrists, suffered In a fall down a stairway at her home..