The Daily News Leader from Staunton, Virginia • 1

I JUN 30 il5- FORTY-NINE YEARS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE udy, occAslotu-l i Friday. Oldest Virginia Dally West of the Blue Ridge wanner. 60th YEAR. No. 155 STAUNTON, Va, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1939 MORNING)' LEADER EST.

101 DAILY MEWS EST. list price two MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATIONS IIELD IN BABY'S "SALE" SEES-SUHER- -TLniestJRefugee FILLED WITH WAR THREATS Winston auro- 4 iXa -AY t. rf Hitler "Look ReguIarAtlantic Passenger Sjervice Becomes a Reality Dixie Clipper, Carrying 22 Paying Passengers, Is Due to Arrive at Horta, The Azores, at Breakfast Time This Morning; Craft Given Gala Send-off at Port Washington, N. Yankee Clipper Arrives at Southampton. Port Washington, N.

June 28. The first paying passengers ever to be flown by airplane across the Atlantic stepped rather casually aboard the big gray Dixie Clipper today and a minute later were off for Europe scheduled to arrive at Horta, The Azores, by breakfast time tomorrow. While 5,000 spectators waved, and harbor craft saluted with whistles, the $750,000 flying boat of Pan-American Airways taxied smoothly over Manhasset bay then upward and out, opening a new era in aviation. -Bi fou Leap" Advice; Fears s. Report-Free Corpse-Being Organized by Germans in Danzig Poles Declare Themselves Ready to Defend Their Land at "Drop of a Hat" as Reports Reach Warsaw That Soldiers of New Free Corps 'Are Drilling; Reports Denied by Danzig Authorities, Called Untrue by Berlin Officials.

BULLETIN Paris, June 28. (Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet conferred in rapid succession today with both the United States and British ambassadors and was said to have imparted information on German moves in Danzig which circles close to the foreign office said might come to a head in a short time. United States Ambassador William C. Bullitt also held a long conference in the late afternoon with Premier Daladier, who only yesterday declared the European, crisis was the gravest since the end of the World war. Next Three Months.

London. June 28. Winston Churcnm, one of the first British leaders to sound alarm over Ger many secret rearmament, today predicted a summer of tension and cautioned Adolf Hitler to pause and "consider well before you take the plunge into the terrible Britain's wartime first lord of the admiralty echoed the grim forecast of crisis made in Paris yesterday Dy premier Daladier. "I am In a position to know that a state of extreme vigilance Is pre With the ship's departure scribed in many of our defense forces particularly our alrsdefense forces," Churchill declared. Tiniest of the more than 900 Jewish refugees from the German liner St.

Linda, this baby is lifted aboard a train In Antwerp, Belgium, for journey to Holland. The St. Louts wandered about the ocean for three weeks seeking a haven for the refu gees before Belgium. Holland and England at the last minute offeree them aanctnary. Mrs.

Isabelle Farrell, twenty-four, and Don Harmon, thirty-one, are pictured after their arraignment in Cleveland, Ohio, on statutory at two-twelve p. m. E. S. T.

on a flight, aviation's long-cherished dream of regular transatlantic passenger service by plane became a reality. Twenty-two passengers, some whom applied for passage as long as eight years ago, and a crew of eleven were aboard tha 41. inn f.v. charges. They are held in connection with the alleged sale of a new Warsaw, June 28.

The Free City of Danzig reinforced her police today with recruits which inconfirmed reports' said were well-trained Germans not Danzigers who were being organized into a "free corps." Churchill, a conservative who sharply criticized the Chamberlain government while it followed the "appeasement" policy, but now a supporter of Its effort to build an alliance to face the Rome-Berlin axis, aired his views in a luncheon speech before the City Carlton club. born baby to a Pittsburgh woman. Mrs. Farrell's husband Is in Ohio penitentiary. The Pittsburgh, woman, who police say acted in good faith, paid $25 delivery charges for the child and assertedly promised to pay another $25.

Tonight, while Poles declared themselves ready to defend their land "at the drop of a hat," reports reached Warsaw that soldiers of the new "free corps" had, been drilling all day. "II one were to consider," he said, tag boat that started the schedule "only the German preparations, the tone of their government-controlled press, and the speeches of their oi iwice-weecy cupper nights to Europe. Twentv-flve minutes ftei- MONETARY BILL MORE Procedure of Labor Board They were said to be holding exercises with machine guns away from the city where civilians were not permitted to approach, while in. the barrack party leaders, there could be no con Dixie Clipper's departure, another elusion possible but that the worst would happen and happen quite yards soldiers were drilling mgni enaea on tne otner side of the Aautk, when the Tanfcee Clipper, inaugurating retrular mail wrvira Is Condemned M'fflNAWAY'S with rifles. soon.

"I must consider and I think we between the United States and Eng. must all of us consider July, August, and September as months in Russian Report Says Japanese Lost 2 Planes Moscow, June 28. Fifteen Japanese Manchoukuo bombers, protected by fighting planes, invaded Outer Mongolia on new border raids today, a Tass communique said, and lost two planes shot down by Soviet-Mongol anti-aircraft guns. The communique of the official Soviet news agency said the planes dropped several bombsneax. Lake Bor, and then retired to Manchoukuo territory without engaging in battle.

The two disabled planes fell in Mongolian territory. It was said. 0- Festival of Sacred Music, Week July 17 A week of the richest musical activity offered in this section of the nation has been prepared for the approximately 150 ministers of music and a host of other artists who will attend the twelfth annual school of sacred musio at Massanetta Springs the week of July 17-23, it was said last night. Dr. John Finley Williamson, head of the Westminster Choir college, Princeton, N.

is director of the summer school at Mas These reports said the requisitioning of horses had started and about 1,000 were turned Cincinnati, June 28 A INVOLVED Administration Leaders Watch Big Monetary Measure Go Bouncing U.S. REFUSES TO EVACUATE JHipRTS Charles Gauss, United States Consul-General at Shanghai Informs Japanese They Will Be Held Responsible for Consequences of Their Occupation of Two Ports. federal appeals court today condemned national labor board pro Europe in which tension will become most severer 1 am in entire accord with the overtoday to the "free corps." It also was declared Danzig au SUCCESSOR IS SELECTED cedure eliminating from further thorltles had begun to store meat consideration an AFL union which ran second to a CIO union In an In a refrigerating plant lor possible French prime minister that we are in a period of danger more acute and more laden with ugly facts than any which we have known In the hard, disturbed period through emergency use. from One Sad Predicament to 4,000 Germans There Another; See Dim Chance that iana via Newiounaiand, arrived at Southampton. Band music and cannon salutes from four yacht clubs sounded as the Dixie soared away on her Journey to Horta, Lisbon, and Marseille.

Woman Dead, Mate Badly Wounded Newport News, June 28. Mrs. Virginia Lee White, twenty-eight, died and her husband, William J. White, about thirtv-sl. wax which we have lived our lives." (Reports reaching London said 4,000 German officers and men had indecisive plant election.

The labor, board had ruled employers must decide, in the runoff, whether they wanted the CIO or no union at all. The sixth U. S. circuit court said today that was like Hobson's choice (any one renting a horse from Thomas Situation Can Be Straightened Out Soon. entered Danzig within the last twen At about the same time.

Prime Minister Chamberlain told the house of commons of Japan's agreement to start negotiations for settling the Board of Visitors, Meeting In Executive Session in Richmond, Name Successor to HcManaway as Superintendent of V. S. D. Name Withheld Pending ty-four hours, while gas masks had been distributed to Danzig police. Danzig shipyards also were reported to have been ordered to dismiss Po Tientsin dispute, which has forced Hobson, 17th century liveryman.

the government to divide attention Shanghai. June 28. A firm American rejection of a Japanese between Europe and the Far East lish workers. warning for all foreign vessels to in a critical condition at a local He said negotiations would start Immediately In Tokyo "to effect a leave the ports of wencnow ana Foochow by noon Thursay (eleven (Express Telegraph agency reports reaching Warsaw said new mufti-clad recruits from East Prussia numbered 1,400, swelling the settlement of various conditions re Washington, June 28. Administration leaders In congress watched their big monetary bill go bouncing from one 6ad predicament to another today.

They gloomily conceded that there was only a dim chance, growing dimmer hourly, that the confused and angry situation could be straightened out soon. And, un n. m. Wednesday E. S.

marked today's developments In Japan's fric lating to Tientsin." He said the British government assumed that Danzig free corps to 2,400. tion with wetsern nations aiong uie incidents Involving Britons at Tien Richmond, June 28. (AV-The board of visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, In executive session here tonight named, a successor to Howard M. sanetta Springs. He will bring with him several of his instructors from Princeton and will dally China coast.

(In the Czecho-Slovak crisis of last September, a "free corps" of tsin such as those he last week called hospital tonight as result of bullet wounds suffered In their trailer-home here late today. Mrs. White, daughter of the Rev. J. F.

Slye, of Isle of Wight, died a few moments after local oSicers prepared to carry her to 6he did not regain consciousness before her death. Detective Sergeant John B. Lavton. who lnvestlitated. Janan's warnlnz accompanied a JSudeten Germans was organized on conduct classes on sacred choral declaration of hex intention to occu "Intolerable insults," would cease.

Proposal Accepted German soil by Konrad Kenleln. less the bill Is passed by Friday midnight, the administration will McManaway as superintendent of music, vocal technique, choir con dv the two ports. Already Japan had to take the animal chancing to be nearest the door). The court virtually ordered NLRB to revise his runoff election method, which it has customarily followed. i "We fiie order was Illegal and that the proposed election -was unfair in said Judge Ben.

Hicks: "The employee was not given full freedom of choice. If he voted, he could either ratify or reject the nominee of the board but If he rejected it, he was through. "He had no alternative he could not choose for himself. He could take the representative offered him or none at all a parallel of Hobson's choke" has seized nearly all China's major ducting. Interpretation, diction, etc Tokyo, June 28 VP) Japan has Sudeten Germans who left Czechoslovakia to join the corps made several attacks on Czech border coastal cities.

Only a few minor accepted Britain's proposal that said. they seek a settlement of their ports In the south remain in Chinese hands. Tientsin crisis at a Tokyo confer lose Important powers over foreign exchange and the currency. They apparently received little consolation from the fact that the $1,735,000,000 relief appropriation bill was making good progress through the senate. It also has a ence table but tonight important differences of view as to the Parley's posts In the days preceding the Munich agreement.) Reports Denied (Free City authorities denied a To Be Held Responsible Clarence E.

Gauss, United States scope cropped out. consul-general at Shanghai, noti British spokesmen (Including Friday midnight deadline, but. Just "free corps" was being organized, fied Japanese officials that Japan Prime Minister Chamberlain in would be held responsible for any damage to American interests in London) insisted that only local issues connected with the 'Japanese The Instruction of the week win lead to the climactic concert by the festival chorus massed on Vesper hill under the direction of Dr. Williamson on the evening of Friday, July 23. 'Prominent Artists A long roster of prominent musicians who will be present on both July 20 and 21 will be Geoffrey O.Hara, American composer who has written scores of songs, both sacred and secular.

Massanetta Springs will have the honor of presenting Martha Lipton In her first concert since she won the young artist concert sponsored by the National Federa- (Continued on Page 2, Col 4) Dr. G. Colbert Tyler, city coroner, examined the body of Mrs. White. He said she succumbed to two gunshot wounds la the heart.

Two bullets of the same .23 punctured White's left lung and he was described as In a "very bad" condition. Governor of Mass. Refuses to Return Woman to Virginia Richmond. June such operations. army's 15-day-old blockade of the Meanwhile, there was matted les British and French concessions at sening of tension at Tientsin, where in case it gets into trouble too, the leaders are ready with a simple resolution, possible of speedy passage, which will prevent any Interruption to the dispensing of relief.

Nor were the leaders cheered by the fact that the $1,194,000,000 farm appropriation bill was finally cleared through congress and sent to the Tientsin would be considered. But Japanese, especially military the Japanese army has been block and denied there was any unusual infiltration of Germans, although It was known Danzig was Increasing police force. (In Berlin, officials said the numerous stories from Poland regarding Infiltration" of Germans Into Danzig, organization of a "free corps" and importation of war materials were not true. the Polish government believed them true, It would have protested Immediately In Berlin, and this has not been done," they leaders, indicated that demands for Continuance of Two Projects Is Given Approval Britain's "Cooperation" in Japan's ading the British and French concessions since June 14. This coincided with the announcement that Japan had agreed to negotiate at Tokyo- for settlement of the crisis.

program for a new "New Order in East Asia," especially its economic the Staunton institution, but withheld his name, pending his acceptance of the office. McManaway, superintendent of the school for twenty years, resigned last April, His resignation becomes effective Aug. 1. Curry Carter, of Staunton, Is chairman of the board of visitors of the school. Other members of the board are Mlnetree Folkes of Richmond; Dr.

E. G. Gill, of Roanoke; Dr. Sidney B. Hall, state superintendent of public Instruction; Mrs.

Florence Jodzles, of Fairfax; Eugene C. Hurt, of Chatham, and John Livers, of Charlottesville. Superintendent McManaway did no tasslgn any reason for his resignation and It was accepted by the board with "profound regret In a resolution accepting his resignation, the board said 'his technical and professional training has been a great service to the school and to department of education in Virginia." Heironimus to Preach Tonight Formerly a pastor here, the Rev. H. I.

Heironimus, of Wllmore, Ky who Is on a short visit In Staunton, will preach at the revival services now In progress at the Bev White House and that other meas tary of the Commonwealth Ray Tientsin food conditions greatly im phases, would figure vitally in the negotiations. ures less important but also labeled "Friday midnight at the latest," proved. Washington, June 28. PH The mond L. Jackson said today the refusal by the Massachusetts Governor to return Mrs.

Flossie It was believed the talks, with were at last receiving quick action. Gauss reasserted the declaration Foreign Minister Hachlro Arita and Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Crai- First Object of Concern The monetary bill was the first xaae uujonte to Virginia on a (The reports reached Paris, too, of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, nt the United States Asiatic fleet, that American' ejie the ohief negotiators) sala- senate, approved a continuation of the federal theatre and other WPA art prejeeto-tonlght with a ttrlrt, limitation upon the amount to be expended for such purposes. kldnao cnarse would referred Object" of their concern. In addi begin before the weekend.

Only the to Portsmouth authorities for wit arrival of officials from Tientsin was further action deemed advisable. tion to the powers for the President which It involved, It also presented a challenge to their own lead naval vessels would go wherever necessary to protect American citizens. Admiral Yarnell had reaffirmed this policy only last week as awaited. A Japanese vice-consul Mrs. LaBonte.

who cow resides At the urging of senator wagner (D, N. it allowed $13,000,000 prepared to fly here tomorrow and in Attleboro, was charged Two Charged With Motorcycle Theft Charged with larceny of a motorcycle, Robert M. Flagg and James Montgomery Flagg, city, were arrested yesterday afternoon and subsequently released on bond. Complainant was Mrs. Mae E.

Flagg. The latter was arrested on Greenville avenue at two-twenty and bonded in the sum of $250 for his appearance in police court with kldnapinir her niece, slx-vear- ership and that of the administration as well. The bill, continuing the the Japanese warned foreign vessels to evacuate Swatow. old Frances Wanlta Haywood. for the art projects as compared with approximately $25,000,000 spent upon them during the current fiscal year.

and takine her to Massrhiut.faL 000,000 International exchange stab- Similar Stand The British yesterday took a sim llizaton fund and the President's lower to devalue the dollar furth a British consul was expected soon after. (Major G. A. Herbert, consul at Tientsin, arranged to go to Japan aboard the Statements of Japanese Military men Indicated that a major Japanese objective would be to Compel Britain to agree to end her financial aid to the Chinese government at Chungking. er (both otherwise scheduled to die where persons close to the foreign office expressed the fear a crisis rapidly was approaching in the free city which Adolf Hitler wants Incorporated Into the xelch.) Plane Fined On Meanwhile, Berlin official sources confirmed a report from the Polish port of Gdynia that a German military plane had been fired upon by Polish guns on Monday.

It was denied the plane had been shot down, however, as first reported by a British news agency. The Gdynia reports said it was not known whether the plane had been hit. Warsaw military circles said there had been numerous violations of the Polish frontier by German planes in recent weeks. Governor Leverett Saltonstall refused to sign papers for her return because, he said, residents of Attleboro had testified they believed the ends of justice would be better served for the time be in? ilar stand regarding Foochow and Wenchow, which lie about 500 and 300 miles south of Shanghai, respectively. (The French foreign office announced that France also had (Continued on Page 2, Col.

2) 0 14 Houses to Be Servel by Sewer erley street Methodist church this July 0. Signing the bond wtih him was Mrs. W. J. Rohr evening at eight o'clock.

Earlier it had approved an amendment requiring that the states contribute 25 per cent of the cost of all WPA projects within their areas, and rejected a proposal that be appropriated for a new public works program. The decision on the federal theatre was a compromise. The house had ruled -It out altogether, and the senate committee had proposed that It be continued only under local sponsorship. In the warrant upon which The Rev. Mr.

Heironimus is an SAFETY SLOGAN by leaving the child in the custody of Mrs LaBonte, who has cared for the child since she was a few days old. James Flagg was arrested, It is ex-pastor of this church, having alleged that he fraudulently re rejected the Japanese warning.) Today there were no United States naval vessels at either of the two ports. The Japanese were reported preparing for direct attacks against them, and villages outside served there for seven years, and Is Richmond, June 28- Today's Mrs. LaBonte was aecuxed hv weu Known throughout this sec ceived and secreted a motorcycle which had been levied upon. state police safety slogan: her sister.

Mrs. William H. Hov. tlon. The public Is cordially Invited "A car in hand is worm iwo near nan.

Foochow were bombed from the air. of Portsmouth, of kidnaping the child. hi the ditch." Robert Flagg was arrested at three-thirty. He posted cash bond of $100. The Massachusetts Governor, la The offense with which the refusing the return, suggested that Virginia authorities make a further study of the case.

EMBARGO ii COMPROMISE ON pair Is charged Is alleged to have occurred on June 21. Leaders Predicting President Will Sign Nine Japanese transports were reported to be In the vicinity. From the foreign mission colony at Foochow, where twenty Americans live, came a message saying "all remaining," apparently referring to all foreigners. Eighteen foreign missionaries. Including Americans, were reported to have left Wenchow by the British steamer Joan Moller.

Waynesboro, June 28. Construction of a new sewer on Delphlns avenue and 11th street, now under way In East ward, will provide sewer service for fourteen residences not heretofore served. The new sewer line will extend from 10th street southward to 11th street on Del-phine, and then eastward on 11th street to an alley at Winchester and Elklns avenue. Work, which began two weeks ago and will take about six weeks longer to finish is a WPA project, with the federal agency furnishing labor and forty per cent of the materials, and the city responsible for the remaining sixty per cent of materials, labor, and supervision. Following the completion of this prjoect.

one block of Delphine avenue will be surfaced between 10th and 11th streets. Personnel of County PROVISION OF NEUTRALITY LAW PROPOSED BY BARTON "Boosted" Farm Bill Chinese dispatches said that Jap Welfare Board Chosen For Additional Terms anese landing parties near the two ports thus far numbered only a lstratlon. These Include direct ben Washington, June 28. JPy A farm bill, carrying eflt payments to farmers, removal of few hundred men. 11,194,498,633, emerged from con At Tientsin markets In the Brit farm surpluses, and the farm ten ancy program.

gress late today and was sent to ish and French concessions had President Roosevelt's desk. Another sizeable chunk would go fresh supplies of vegetables, meat, After more than five months of At a meeting of the Augusta lor federal activities that directly affect the general public as well as and fish after two lean weeks, and bustling crowds, with little sign of County Welfare board yesterday, legislative hearings, disputes, and dickering, the big supply measure won final approval in the senate the mental strain of the past fort the farmer. These Include about $200,000,000 for highways and roads, the personnel currently handling this work was appointed to office night, jammed the market areas. Washington, June 28. A "compromise" limiting the neutrality law embargo to "lethal weapons" rather than all so-called munitions was proposed today by Representative Barton N.

during house debate on the administration's measure to revise the neutrality statute. Present law calls for an embargo on the shipment of all war implements to nations at war. The administration seeks to repeal that provision entirely, Barton, a foreign affairs committee member, suggested the new embargo clause to meet what he described as a general desire of Americans not to be without a record vote. $7,000,000 for the weather bureau CONCERT Although President Roosevelt has for another year. No vacancy exists on the board that requires fUllng at this time.

and Its forecasting services, and 000,000 for the food and drug ad ministration. Take No Definite Stonewall Brigade Band publicly criticized some of the creases in the measure, congressional leaders predicted he would Members of the welfare staff who were reappointed In their Action on Revised Health Program Gypsy HiU Park Thursday, June 29, 8:15 P. M. The bill carried $725,000,000 for benefit payments to cotton, wheat, corn, rice, and tobacco farmers who comply with the crop control act. positions are: Mrs.

Mattie F. Rice, superintendent; Mrs. Margaret Covelle, clerk; Miss Caroline Quarles, intake secretary; Miss 'partners in the shedding ofl. 1 VI xiuuiau uiuuu. year appointment.

O. Dayton Hodges, the third member, was appointed last July for a two-year period. Mrs. Rice and members of her staff also held a routine meeting with City, Manager W. L.

Hall, the city's representative In the local welfare setup. Lexington Man Injured in Crash Lynchburg, June 23 WLtLJ Y. Thompson, about forty, of Lexington, was painfully 1 when the automobile he was driving turned over cn a curve i miles west of Forest today. Thompson, former the Washington and Lee slty faculty was brought mortal hospital where rediscovered several rreswent Roosevelt recommended $485,000,000 for these, the house raised this to $500,000,000. and then For the purpose of discussing a Nellie-1 Hanger, stenographer; Miss to White House Barton's proposal, which revised county health program, a Carolina Moffett, case worker; was defeated in the house for finally accepted a senate increase of Miss Katherine Browning, case worker; Miss Ann Turnbuss, case $225,000,000 additional.

joint meeting of the Augusta county board of supervisors, the county health director, and representatives eign affairs committee, will be offered as an amendment to the neu Another $113,000,000 can be used worker; Miss Drucilla Sibert, sign it. The fiscal year ends at midnight Friday and many of the federal agencies will need new funds carried In the measure. Total Was Boosted As finally passed, the bill contained about $350,000,000 more than recommended In President Roosevelt's budget and some $237,000,000 more than last year's act. Senate-house however, had whittled about $23,000,000 from the total first voted by the senate, although adding $360,000,000 to the amount originally approved In the house, Most of the funds provided about $900.000,000 will go for farm programs developed by tbji admin-j to remove farm surpluses, bv nur- of the welfare department was held trality measure later in the week. special child welfare worker.

March: The Squealer Huff Overture: Bohemian Girl Balfe Walts: Straussiana Seredy Popular. A. Alexander's Rag Time Band Berlin B. Penny Serenade Hallifax C. You're a Sweet Little Headache Robin Intermission March: Parx Excellent Sells Selection: Maritan Wallace Idyl: Glow Worm Llncko March: March of Time Rkhards Dixie Joseph Crowder, Conductor chaslng products for distribution to The New Yorker said "lethal weapons" would be less broad than "mu in the supervisors' temporary meeting room yesterday morning.

relief clients and by granting export subsidies. This is In addition to Washington, June 28. President Roosevelt returned to the capital tonight to take personal charge of an effort to break a legislative log-jam In congress. He arrived from his Hyde Park home while the senate leadership was attempting to crowd one of the key measures In the Jam the relief appropriation bill through to passage before the end While the subject was aiscussea since the latter term Included many other things besides $30,000,000 available from custom receipts for these purposes. Cotf-1 arms and ammunition.

pro and con, no definite action was taken at that time. The supervisors plan to hold another meeting, for Members of the three-man board are appointed to serve one, two, and three years each, the positions thereafter being filled for three-year terms. K. Yancey was appointed in June for one of the three-year terms, and W. Drive? iervicg his sr Unlike some of his Republican gressmen from dairy and livestock regions, which do not share to direct benefit payments, obtained this colleagues the committee, Bartuu Repressed general approval of th consideration of this matter.

Clerk C. K. Yancey said, with members of the medical present, fund. neutrality legislation. the fiscal year on Friday.

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