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The Sunday Times FAMILY OF 50,000 READERS HAS MORE TIME TO READ THE ADS ON SUNDAY WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WEEK Rain Monday, ending by or during Thursday, (hen generally fair except for rain Thursday or Thurs-day ntuht. Colder at beginning of week, warmer by Thursday and colder at end of week. Temperature for week will average considerably above normal. Established 1792 36 Pages Including Comics NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1939.

Complete City County Edition Five Cents Rutgers Student AviatorsTake to Air Nor is Hits ar Funds For Nation Dutch Liner Sunk In North Sea By Mine; 140 Lost Rutgers Rumbles Over Springfield For 13 Straight Germans Blamed for Destruction of Vessel, Simon Bolivar WOMEN, CHILDREN AMONG MISSING Survivors, Some Injured, Are Taken to Port in Britain i wz These Rutgers aviation students went up in the air for the first time yesterday after two weeks of ground training, sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. All told 20 took part in first flights yesterday at Hadley Airport, starting early in the morning. There are 30 Jiore in the Rutgers group of novice pilots, who will make their maiden voyages during the coming week. In the picture are, left to right, Michael Gritt, instructor, Lloyd Eves, Don Schwitzer, William Hoffman and George Chris-tensen. The training is part of a program in which 200 colleges and universities are participating, to increase the number of aviators available for servict in the United States.

Budding Air Pilots at Take First Flights Over Campus Nazis Decree Martial Law In Czech Area Stern Measures Taken in Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia FRAGUE, Nov. 18 (X) Nazi Germany used the firing squad again today and then added martial law to its stern measures to stamp out anti-German moves in the protec torate of Bohemia-Moravia. The execution of three more persons, two policemen and an unidentified Czech, brought to 12 the number shot to death in 48 hours. Nine students were executed yesterday. Martial law, established in Greater Prague, Prague-Land, Kladno, Beraun and Horcho-witz, did not affect German citizens.

All these districts are near Prague, Kladno to the west, Beraun to the southwest and Horchowitz to the northeast. Simultaneous with the establishment of martial law, President Emil Hacha broadcast a warning, that "any further sacrifice for the Czech nation serves no purpose." Hacha declared that demonstrations would be suppressed by the "public might" of the German and Czech governments ad urged the people of the protectorate to "obey with all discipline the appeal which i ana the government direct to you." Prague appeared calm outwardly, but reaction to the executions of the alleged ringleaders In the anti-German acts, and the closing of Prague academies and universities for three years was reported to have spread to pther sections of the protectorate. It apparently was for this reason that martial law was introduced in the five areas Incidents similar to those In Prague were reported to have occurred In Bruenn (Brno), the protectorate's second largest city. The first detailed picture of what occurred during the night from Thursday to Friday preced-inK the executions was pieced together through Informed sources. Schools Occupied Detachments of Schutzstaffel I ower rooluall Alter Pep Talk by Ilarmau Nets 17-7 Win TOUCHDOWNS MADE IN THIRD QUARTER Field Goal by Scarlet Only Tally Made in First Half By JACK CASEY Orator Harvey Harman is never at a loss for words.

He found the right ones during the halves yesterday and talked his Rutgers football team into swarming all over little Springfield College in the third quarter. His powers of elocution were transformed into two touchdowns and two placements which bolstered a 3-point half time advantage and gave the Roaring Reds a 17 to 7 win over the Indians in their farewell to this grid campaign. Two Brr-vn University scouts In he press box fidgeted and fumed their way through the 60 minutes of fine-sided play which gave them a first-rate preview of what the Bruins up 'rovidence way can expect on the mighty marauders Continued on Page Ten Visitors to Pay To See Library At Hyde Park Cornerstone to Be Laid by President; Free to Students HYDE PARK, X. Nov. 18 W) It's going to cost money for the casual sightseer dro.) in at the Fiar klin D.

oosevelt Library, whose cornerstone will be laid by the President tomorrow. William D. Hassett, a presidential aide, said today a small entrance fee would charged visitors and the money would be used to defray costs of maintaining and staffing the library after It has been turned over to th. goveinment. The library probably will be opened officially In mid-1941.

Students and research workers will liave free access, to 6,000,000 presl- Continued on Page Eighteen Initial Group of 20 Students Goes Aloft at Iladley Airport Afler Completing Two Weeks Will Oppose Administration Request for Increased Appropriation i WOODRING WANTS 'PERFECT' ARMY Secretary of War Says Numbers Less Important Than Training WAS1UXGTON, Nov. 18 Norris who usually supports administration legislation, said today that he would oppose increased defense appropriations at the next session of Congress because he believed the money could spent more wisely for relief of unemployment and agricultural distress. Voicing the opinion that enactment of the present neutrality statute had minimized the chances that this country would become Involved In the European war, the veteran Nebraska legislator said he thought Congress should give its attention primarily to domestic problems. "If we didn't have any other troubles," Norris told reporters, "I wouldn't feel so strongly against spending large sums for the Army and Navy. But we can't stop the expenditures for the relief of unemployment and agricultural distress." Reports as to the amount that Congress may be asked to appro-i priate for national defense have been highly conflicting.

Some well-informed legislators said they understood that requests for the Army might total 000 and those for the Navy but departmental experts have protested that these figures were too high. In an interview today, Secretary of War Woodring Indicated that the War Department's annual budget would exceed $700,000,000 compared to this year's figure of approximate ly $450,000,000. Without mentioning any speclfls figure, Woodring said that the department' objective was a "perfect army" of moderate size and "real striking force." Woodring For Perfection "Whatever size army Is agreed on, the time has come that we must have a force that is 100 per cent perfect," he said. "Numbers are less important than training and equipment. "We cannot afford to depend longer on a skeleton army such as we have had for the last several Continued on Page Eighteen Nazi Laborers Must Work 10 Hours Each Day Pay for Ninth and Tenth Hours Tax Free; Extra Money for Holidays BERU.V, Nov.

18 Nazi Germany Increased the laborer's working day In essential Industries today from eight to 10 hours. Kobert Ley, leader of the Nazi Labor Front, announced the longer working day and said that pay for the ninth and 10th hours, although at the same rate as for the first eight, would be tax free. Women will not be asked to work nights and an extra day rate will be established for night and holiday Tug of War Scheduled Tomorroic Afternoon By Rutgers Students Rivalry between freshmen and sophomores at Rutgers University will flare up again at 4:30 tomorrow (Monday) afternoon when a tug-of-war will be staged on College Field, which is located directly back of the Rutgers gymnasium on College avenue. This will be the first scheduled clash since Friday evening, when close rivalry rose to such a pitch that a brief armistice became necessary. Among the highlights on Friday was the shackling of two members of the freshman class in stocks, reminiscent of Puritan days, and the storming of a fraternity house by a group of vengeful freshmen.

Two Proposals Loom to Solve Racing Dispute Suggest Six-Man Control Board of 3 Republicans and 3 Democrats TREXTOX, Nov. 18 UP) Two proposals bobbed up today as possible solutions to the difference of opinion which has kept the New Jersey Senate and Assembly haggling over horse race control legislation during recent months. One proposal suggesting creation of a six-man control board of three Republicans and three Democrats was termed the "best compromise In sight" by Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe (R-Union). The other, credited as a suggestion from Assemblyman Fred E.

Shepard (R-Unlon), recommended a four-member commission of two Republicans, one each to be named by The Senate and Assembly, and two Democrats to be selected by Governor A. Harry Moore. An all-Republican conference committee of six senators and six assemblymen will organize Monday in an effort to break the existing deadlock, which has threatened to delay creation of a commission to such an extent as to make Impossible the renewal of racing In New Jersey until 1941. 42-Yeor-OId Ban Removed The state electorate removed a 42-year-old ban against pari-mutue! betting at horse races from the New Jersey "institution at a special referendum last June. Discarding the recommendations of a previous Joint conference committee, the Assembly passed a bill naming three Republicans and two Democrats to a non-salaried corn- Continued on Page Eighteen 13, 1621.

as a day on which his people should give thanks to God foi their good fortune. We have probably all seen pictures, or drawings I should say, of this first Thanksgiving Day. Wild turkeys were killed and a great feast was pie-pared for the celebration. The In dian chief, Massasolt, with 90 of his Indian braves attended the feats. The only thing missing was a football game.

Another Thanksgiving Day was held about eight years later in the city of Boston. The Hay Colony held a public celebration on February 22, K30, to give thanks for the safe arrival of ships from Europe bringing friends and food. We really shouldn't put up such howl about the changing of Thanks giving. It Isn't the first time it tun been changed. Thanksgiving Dav has been shoved around a pod deal In its day.

As we have already seen, the first Thanaksgivlng was on December 13 and the second one on February 22. Between the years lfi30 and lfiKj there were about 21 Thanksgiving Days and all at -t different time. It was not until 1789 that a day I was set aside by law as a Thanks giving Day. During the session of Congress of thBt year a man by thu name of Eaudinot made a motion that a day be set aside for the giving of thanks to the Almighty. The otion was carried and President Washington named Thursday.

November 6. as the diy. Apparently the choice was not popular or was simply Ignored, because each state gradually drifted away from the appointed day and made its own choice. In the period Just before the Civil War earn state of the Union had its own Thnnksgivlng Day. They were all in Novembei.

however. Lincoln, in the year 1H0O set aside the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day so it has stood until President Roosevelt decided to change it asain. fr Wllllnm tins moved to 17? Livingston Ave. i (Black Shirt Elite Guards) u.i Training Ellis Parker Fights Ruling Upon Pension Wendel Kidnaper Plans to Appeal to N. J.

Supreme Court ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 18 W.Robert Crlscuolo, counsel for Ellis H. Parker said today he wouid appeal to the Supreme Court for a writ to compel Burlington county to pay the former county detective a year's salary and a pension. Supreme Court Justice Joseph B. Perskle refused today to grant the writ, but reserved for Parker the right to renew the motion before the entire Supreme Court.

Convicted of conspiring to kidnap Paul H. Wendel, Parker ia serving a ix-year term In the Lewlsburg, Federal penitentiary. He sought the writ on the grounds his conviction did not disqualify him from a pension under New Jersey laws. In opposing Parker's move, Burlington County Solicitor Christopher N. Pedltto said such an Interpretation would permit a person convicted of crimes In 47 other states to ret jrn to New Jersey eligible for a jension.

Parker, with his son, Ellis 1 was convicted at Newark In 1937. Youna Parker was sentenced to three years at Lewlsburg. 3 'Car SniCiSll Sends Five To Hospital Collision on Koute 29 Near Three Bridges; Physicians Hurt I I i I LONDON, Nov. 18 ffl The Netherlands passenger liner Simon Bolivar sunk in the North Sea with a possible loss of 140 lives today after striking a mine which the British admiralty charged the Germans had laid without notifying neutral shipping. The vessel carried 400 persons, including women and children.

A total of 260 survivors, of whom 140 were said to be crewmen, were landed at an unnamed British port. Many of the rescued were reported "hadly Injured." Official sources here expressed fear that all those missing were dead. Aside from British naval losses, It was the worst sea disaster of Europe's current war. The heaviest loss ta nnn.fli'ht. Ing ship previously was in the sinking of the British liner Athenla, northwest of Ireland September 3 the day Britain and France declared war on Germany.

The Athenla's loss was reported at 112 persons. The admiralty charged the Germans laid the mine in the rhnnnni followed by merchant ships with out notice to neutrals and added that "there Is no doubt that they were laid for the specific purpose of destroying such shipping." The statement added that the mishap to the Simon Bolivar "is a further example of the utter of International law and dictates of humanity shown by the German government." Among the survivors hospita'lzed tonight was an 11-month-old baby and a little boy who called continuously "where Is my daddy?" Charge 'Gangster Methods jnimu ouiiuay ttiunung with one voice attributed tha The British Sunday Mo: nine sinklng to "Nazi gangster methods' und described It as "another ruth less blow at peaceful shipping." (Tho last listing of the Pinion Bolivar in the New Yoik Jnaiti.ou register showed the vessel sailtd October 17 from Barbados, West Indies for Amsterdam). A Briti.sh admiralty coimiuini'iue said: "Tho mining of tha Dutch pus Uilt co(18t tngland is a furtiie" ot tho u(tel. uiaregaid of international law end tho dictates of humanity shown by tho German government, "The mines were laid without any notification In the channel any r.ouncuiion in ino tnannei mi- lo by mcrchant pupping, both Lritish and neutral, and there Is no douU that they vt.re laid foi the of iUcU tthirjninor. (Llovds rcL-lster lists the Kiinou iiouvar as an vessel whuta home port was Amsterdam, hhe was nome port was amsieraam.

Mne was i i 419 feet lonir and was bu It in i I I A lie i.ri'.i i 1111- i.tiwu Netherlands Steamboat Vnprinv. Doctors and ambulances waiVl at the quayside as the injured er brought to shore at tho ummmi British port. The gravely Injured were hiinu-1 to hospitaltf'whllc others were given first aid at the dock. Of the rescued. 110 were toI.I to be members of the crew.

Special to The Sunday Times Copyright 1939. All light reset. id. The French liner "Normindie" will slip out of New Yoik hnitmr bound for Europe carrying mm of war supplies within the next few days, Coir.eliue Vandeibllt author of the "Going Places" column published In The Dally Home News, advised ys-tenlay by wire from Ottiwa, Canada. Three British superdreadnair hts, "Tho Hood," "Repulse" and "Re-nown" have crossed the Atlantic, Vandeibllt states, and are wailing off the coast of Nova Scotia to convoy her to fiance.

Portions of the slant liner have been removed and 18 bombers stored In the hold. Fourteen more are stored below decks and 47 pursuit ships have been placed atvard. In adlition. one hundred million rounds of ammunition hss been loaded on the ship. Loading hit hern going on In the New Yo: harbor under cover of dirkness, Vanderbilt says.

He did not reveal the source of his information. wncsr mnii ymi run tiny T1 I'. Clria i-ys i S. E. Av, Cui.

L. laUr St. a-U V. Rutgers Balmy Spring Day Mocks Tradition Of November Everything But Robins in City Yesterday When Mercury Hits 68 There were no robin flitting through the trees, branches were barren of leaves and lawns ap peared dried and faded In New Brunswick yesterday. But that's where the resemblance to a typical November afternoon ended.

It was "spring" In New Brunswick, Instead. The weather was balmy. The mercury climbed to 63 degrees at noon and remained thete during most of the afternoon. Shop girli handed out Christmas Cheer coupons, but went about their duties humming "June In January." Soda Jerkera grew arm-weary dishing out "cooling" sundaes, sodas and" cokes." The "hot choco late" jar gathered dust People crowded the business tho. oughfares and mothers took babies out for an airing.

Several thou- ioe CrtMm sod sand persons Days Return viewed the Kut- gcrs-Springflcld game In a "baseball" atmosphere, and golfers flocked to local links. The temperature ise yesterday climaxed three day of better-than-good weather in the city. The outlook for today Isn't quite as bright; "Colder," says the weatherman. Japanese Army Reports 50-Mile Advance Into nto angxi rovincc HONGKONG, Nov. 18 W) Japanese army announced that It had made a 50-mlle ad- vance In four days and entered Kwangsl Province in its thrust at China's southwestern "lifeline" supply routes.

If this is true Kwingsl, famed for fighting men, becomes the 14th of China's 24 provinces to be ln-jvaded since the Japanese began In 35 miles from the French Indo- China border. The Japanese said they had captured a Kwangsl walled town only 30 miles from Nannlng, chief military center of the province from which run a narrow-gauge railway and a highway Into French Indo-Chlna. Vital, supplies have been reaching the Chinese srmy over these routes. Government Claims Victory Over Swift and Co. WASHINGTON, "ov.

18 P) The Justice department claimed a "major anti-trust victory" todsy In an nouncing approval of a court order I for disposition of $28,000,000 worth of shares of cspital stoc of Libby, I McNeill and Ubby, owned by Swift and Company. be I I The today Don't Howl! Tkankssivhig Dav Has Been Shoved Around Before stationed In the streets where the students' homes were located. Ma- chine-guns were set up In some i.iriif-a aim uuiiiiu a ciiiiv riiuin- Ing hours the schools were occupied suddenly. In the Svehla Instl- tule, according to one version secret printing establishment was discovered. discovered.

Another report said that the Schu zsta fel found an illegal radio hroarlCHStlni? stnttnn In nnemtlnn I there It was said that entry Into the school was forced when the stu- dents attempted to dock the S.8. dents attempted to dock the 3, guaros. 1 Barricades In doorways were broken down with hatchets, A university professor and right I students seized were reported missing today. I Between 4 and 5 o'clock In the morning heavy machine gun tire I was heard, especially before the student home of Masasyk College, Continued on Page Eighteen of Ground Rutgers students enrolled In the aviation course got an aerial view of the campus yesterday In their first actual flights. Twenty of them went aloft from Hadley Airport all morning and early afternoon In shifts of two every 45 minutes.

After special preliminary instruction the future pilots climbed Into new yellow and red Aeronca planes and were taken for a flight over the campus. They were allowed to handle the dual controls In their cockpits but only a few who had previously been In the air were permitted to operate the plane. All 20 students had completed two weeks of ground school training at the Rutgers College of Engineering. The ground training will continue along with the air experience until they qualify for a regular pilots' license next spring. Victor Aubry of 205 Townsend street, Stanton Shaken of 801 South i First avenue, Highland Park, and W.

Donald Davison of Cranbury were among those who went aloft yesterday morning. Will Fly DaUy The aviation students will go up daily as soon as a complete schedule for the entire 50 students enrolled In the course can be completed. The boys who flew yesterday will continue their lessons tomorrow and all next week. The other 30 will Join them as soon as their ground courses are finished and schedules arranged. Instructors In the flights yesterday were Michael Gritt and Donald Wroncy.

As soon as the full schedule is completed, five Instructors will be In charge of the flights. First flights will be made daily at 7 a. m. The early start li necessary because several students have full class schedules and cannot report during the day, Rutgers became the fourth university in the country yesterday to Continued on Page Eighteen Xoit'Drinker Tests DrunUometer and Gets 'Intoxicated'' OAKY, Nov. 18 (P) Kichard S.

Kaplan, president of the Gary Safety Council, drank four ounces of two year-old Bourbon whiskey at the city hall today for safety's sake. That was enough to intoxicate him, according to a drunk-omrter. The test, made In the presence of police officers and members of the safety council, was disigneel to prove the value of drunkomcter evidence in prosecutions for drunken driving and Intoxication cases. Kaplan took four one-ounce drinks within 10 minutes, then waited an hour before blowing his biiath Into the little balloon of the drunkometer. An analysis of hit breath showed .104 of 1 per cent of alcohol In his blood.

Cndcr Indiana law a person Is intoxicated if the al-rohoi count teaches .15 of 1 per rent. "This test," said the 40-yesr-oUI attorney after the finding was anounced. "has been conducted for scientific purposes only. I'm not a drunkard snd I don't di ink. I ought to go down In histoty as a martyr." of the Gary safety council said they would insist, as a result of th experiment, that courts lecognize the worth of diunkometer tests.

City Judge William Fletcher, who the test, had no I (The announcement closely fol-- lowed a series of moves to boost production and meet a labor short- Says Norniaudic Ready to Sail With War Supplies for Allies July. 1937, their effort to conquer SOMEItVILI.E.Nov.l8(T-Three cha physicians and two other men, one The' announcement came from of them I serious condition, were he on Dragon Head admlttsd to merset Hospital af- whlcn ter a three-c collision today on Wednesday effected a landing un-Route 29 near Three Brlcges, 1'' der the guus of a fleet on the west-miles from Kwanutune Province coast only Editor's Note: Shift In the date of Thanksgiving Day, how It started, and other niattrrs dealing with "Turkey Day" are covered In the following story by 8. A. Rogers, columnist for The Sunday Times who writes the "How It Bogan" serlea deal-In with tho origin of siipemtl. lions and customs.

You'll find aa you rend that Thanksgiving Day has been changed before and probably will be again. By S. A. ROGERS I may be sticking my neck out when I start discussing Thanksgiving Day but I'll take thftt chance. For all I know the big turkey day may be a XTTiJ.fN gain or yWe thl com-In-: Thuis-i! ly, but if It there nr.y be a of you who are l' Ions a out the football and turkey day For you and me on Novrmlwr 23 anvway.

so here gees. No doubt all of us would gel a mark of 100 If apked the question, "Who started Thanksgiving?" We nil know, or cf itainly should know, tbnt it was the Put-Hani who flist briian this answer to a turkey raiser's prayer. The first year the Puritans were In North America they suffered many severe hardships. Forty-six of the 101 who landed In New England perished. However, In the summer of 1621 the remaining survivors were blessed with a good crop and autumn bi ought a bounteous harvest.

First Thankglvlng Day Po the leader of the colony, Gov- ernor ttiauiuia, set asiue ucceniber done away ifipIj). with by the time you; fi should MtUy.Ji age. The economic institute In Ber lin reported the Reich faced sn acute labor shortage as long ago as May 27. (During the summer and fall, decrees placed women under 25 and atudnnts at work on farrmvjiarvest-Ing the crops and drafted Czech Continued on Pas Eighteen Ifflr Wont Influence Toy Manufacturers; llicycles Predominate CHICAGO, Nov. 13 tll't Spokesmen for toy wholesalers in the merchandise mart reported today that so far as their Industry was concerned, the European war was a dud.

They said sny urns In the possession of play soldiers found around Chrlftmns tieei this year be beating a retreat before an ove army of bike riders, embryo engineers and housekeepers, wood workers, model airplane builders, and electric ttain opctatois. The principal reason, the toy men said, wss that American "kids" Just can't I excited about a In which their own country is not invol' ed. But war or no war they predicted business would be th best on record. One estimate wss hit fa'her lay J211-C0T on th3 line for toys this year. A'eir Xeutrality Means Arduous Work I For State Department WASHINGTON, Nov.

18 -Ad- mlni.itiation (if the new neutrality i act has proved far more arduous1 1 In its flrt foitnight than the one i I it replaced, but it Is unlikely that I i the Department will ask Xongrers for any new legislation. I Deluged with Inquiries concern- ing the act and Interpretations of particular sections, the department has had to l-sue a long analysis of the section relating to commerce with warring nations. Some officials would like to have seen this section written mon simply, but they will not make any effort to change the wording. Issuance of licenses for the export of arms, ammunition snd 1m- plcments of war Is rapidly pyramid- I ing. Before the previous neutrality: act was invoked, the State Depart- ment was Issuing about 125 a week, After the embargo was Imposed.

U-. censes fell to between 70 and 80 a week. Now In one day they have i 50. mostly owing to the hichlog of orders piled up i by the embargo. The Dr.

Eugene English, .48, of North Bergen, possible hip 'fracture; Dr. Alvin Spencer. 49. of i Dover, scalp lacerations; Charles Ridgefleld Park, in 'serious condition with head Injuries; Philip of Dover, back Injuries, The three physicians were In one of the cars and the other men In the other machine. Details of the crash were not available.

Settles Suil Over Monkey Gland Treatments LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 hero and villain Victor Mac-Laglen settled for $2,789 today a suit brought against him by Dr. 3. G. Conneland for monkey gland treatments.

comment. Fletcher has refused I to accept drunkometer findings supported by corrobora-' tive evidence..