The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 1

VOL. XXIX NO. THE ESC AN AB A DAILY PRESS A ssociah ri ss eased irk ews ervice ESC AN ABA, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, FEHKt AKY ms Pi ninsui I I At wsrAPER (10 PAGES) SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS MICHIGAN RIVER FLOODS DYNAMITED ARDENT NAZIS GET KEY JOBS IN NEW PURGE GERMAN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE WILL BE SHAKEN UP BY Loris P. LfXHXKR Berlin, Feb. 7 -Chancellor Adolf Hitler and newly- elevated foreign minister, Joachim von Klbbentrop, are believed to be considering a clean sweep of the German diplomatic service to put Nazis of unquestioned loyalty at all pivotal posts.

This Impression was gullied from reliable foreign office circles ns Von Klbbentrop was closeted today with der fuehrer at his mountain home at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. Even VIrich von Hassell, recalled ambassador to Rome, Is regarded as "too these sources said, and consequently would not be sent to London as Von Kibbentrop's successor. It had been assumed universally he would get that post According to the best information available a further purge of the army as well as a diplomatic cleanup will take place. The army changes will not take the form of arrests but discharges like those the 1 generals who were dismissed In Hitler's startling assumption of direct control Friday of the armed forces and the foreign office Of the army changes the new task assigned to General Walter von fleichenau Is assuming more Htid more interest. Strained His appointment to succeed Col Gen Werner von Frltsch as commander-in-chief seemed so certain last Friday It was disclosed unt fficially by government sources to some foreign correspondents.

Instead, he was placed in of the fourth army group with headquarters at Leipzig but with jurisdiction also over Havana where he previously had commanded at Munich In view of the strained Ions between Germany Czechoslovakia and Germany's pronounced Interest in the Nazi minority across the border, this ardent party man may be called upon to act very quickly in the event of untoward incidents at the frontier. Rumors continue to circulate about the arrest of some high officers during last week's cabinet crisis although they are met with categorical official denials. HtnbuMsicM Vacant It seems certain, nevertheless, that for a brief period Von Fritach, leader in the army demand for a showdown on party control of the army, was ordered not to leave his house. Since then he has been seen cleaning up his desk at the war ministry where his post was taken over by (Jen Walther von Hruachltsch. Hitler's reorganization of the government left the Koine, London, Tokyo, and Vienna embassies vacant while the ambassador to Russia has not been at his post for some time.

Lbcrhard von Stohrer, now ambassador to the Spanish insurgent regime, will go to London according to the present plans. Count Freiderich Werner von der Sehul- Port Huron Bridge Opening On Sept. Roosevelt Coming Port Huron. Feb 7 i4Ti President Roosevelt lias dof ly indicated that he will attend the opening ceremonies for the new Hlue Water International bridge here next September, V. 11.

Steinbaugh. chairman of the Michigan bridge commission, declared today. Work was ordered speeded on the bridge in an effort to permit opening by September 1 after Stelnbaugh's announcement. Steinbaugh said that word of the President's contemplated vis wan learned from an authoritative source in Washington, lie added that Roosevelt probably would speak in Detroit after the ceremonies. Plans for the American Plaza, customs and Immigration offices have been approved by the bureau of public roads, Steinbaugh said, contracts for the Plaza and two buildings are slated to In- awarded March 1 with work starting two weeks later.

Steinbaugh said he had advis'd that the Ontario commission plans to start on the Canadian Plaza and toms and immigrations build-! ings by March 1. Big Bertha Builder In Taken By Death ltadeti, Austria, Feb. Os wald IMrmoser. university profes-1 sor and engineer who constructed cannons of World war fame, died today. He was Hig Hertha was nickname of' the German long-range gun.

manufactured by the Krupp Arms Works, which in 1 1 created a sensation by shelling Paris from the forest of Corn at a range of miles. The bombardment extended over HO days and killed persons. I The gnn tired a 264-pound shell. Blood Fatal been road work CI1S- rela- and iiiiiii. fur.

OUSTED IN AFL Three Big: CIO Unions Lose Charters i Labor Dispute (Continued on Two) Miami. Feb. 7 iJP) The American Federation of Labor announced today the complete ouster of three unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization. presaging intensified warfare between the two rival labor organizations. The AFL charters of the Vnlted Mine Workers, the Mine.

Mill and Smelter Workers and the Flat Glass Workers were revoked, opening those fields for AFL affiliates. The charters of these and other CIO unions had been suspended by the AFL a year and a ago but the latest action severed their last ties. John L. Lewis, head of the Mine Vnion and of the CIO, issued a statement at Washington saying action is unimportant and without significance" and asid he would have no further comment. The AFL executive council exercised the power given it at the Denver convention last October and voted to recall the charters last Friday, but the move was not announced until today pending receipt of a certified copy of the proceedings at the Miners convention in Washington last week.

WEATHER I.AKE MICHIGAN: Mostly fresh southerly winds; cloudy Tuesday, rain hv afternoon or night. LOWER MICHIGAN: Cloudy and warmer Tuesday; rain probable in west portion by afternoon or night; rain Tuesday night and Wednesday, changing to snow in north; colder Wednesday in west and north. UPPER MICHIGAN: Snow Tuesday or Tuesday niglit and probably on Wednesday; warmer Tuesday in east and south; rolder Wednesday. At Last 7:34) P. M.

34 Hours ESCAXABA 18 17 Yesterday below zero. Alpena Los Angeles. 50 8 Ludington 28 Marquette 24 2 2 Cincinnati 36 Milwaukee 28 Cleveland 32 P. 18 Cochrane 2 Montreal Denver 8 New Orleans 56 31 New York 4 8 Parry Sound 12 Edmonton Port Arthur 6 Evansville 3 6 6 Galveston 58 St. Louis-----36 Gr.

Rapids 30 Salt Lake 34 Green Bay 20 Frisco ---------50 Jacksonville- 62 Soo, Mich. 10 Kamloops 26 Washington- 50 Kansas City- 28 Winnipeg, 8 Two Yout Its Break Jail At Coldwater Harvey Firestone Harvey S. Firestone, intimate friend of Henry Ford and of the late Thomas A. Edison and John Hurroughs, died suddenly at his Miami Heach home Monday of a blood clot near his heart. Mr.

Firestone, was founder and chairman of the board of the gnat Firestone Co. CLEANUP MADE BY INSURGENTS Spanish Frontier Sector Around Teruel Taken from Government llendaye. ish Frontier, Feb. gent troops today at the Span- 7 Insur- eompleted the gov- oc- es in 'cruel only bis ss in, first stage of reducing the eminent threat against their ern communications with th cupatiou of 3ST, square mil northern the front Insurgents reported tho government position ti 1 area was a mountain fort re the Sierra Palomera ranges where a small garrison was holding out. The insurgents planned to clean up the entire conquered about miles long and 1- miles wide.

before continuing their drive toward the sea in an effort to cut Catalonia off from the rest of government Spain. An insurgent spokesman estimated the government had lost 15,000 men through casualties, captures and desertions during the three days of the offensive north of Teruel. He said the government had rushed 60,000 troops to that sector. Coldwater, Feb. 7 A search for Jack Ford.

of Detroit, and Arthur Weber, 15, of Coldwater. who escaped from the county jail here was in progress tonight. Officers said the pair removed bricks from their cell wall and crawled down a chimney shaft to the basement of the building to escape. Weber was held on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon while Ford was In jail In connection with an automobile heft. Parke Davis Head Dies In Florida Detroit.

Feb. 7 The death I of Oscar W. Smith, president of Parke Davis Detroit pharmaceutical manufacturers, occurred today at Palm Beach, Fla. He was 67. Smith went to Fllroda January 13.

hoping to recover I from an illness. Dionne Quintuplets Head Colds Better Callander, Feb. 7 Allan Roy Dafoe allowed the Dionne quintuplets to get out of bed today for the first time in more than a week. The physician said the famous sisters were almost completely recovered from head colds which have kept them confined. INMATE QUIZZED IN SEX SLAYING Trusty on Prison Farm Accused in Grafton Hornbeck Murder Elvira.

Feb. 7 Lorain County Prosecutor Howard Butler announced tonight he would call a special session of the county grand Jury to consider evidence against a Grafton prison farm inmate as a suspect in the sex-slaying of ty Louise Hornbeck at nearby Grafton last Octo. 18. Butler made the announcement after returning from Massillon where the suspect was examined by Dr. Arthur G.

Hyde, superintendent of the state hospital. Butler refused to authenticate a report that the suspect, a 2 2- year old trusty at the prison farm, had made a confession in tlie Hornbeck killing. Deputy sheriffs said the trusty was absent from the prison farm during the time when the Horn beck murder was believed to have taken place, and that he was also absent from the farm last Thursday night when another Grafton girl struggled and escaped from a man who molested her near the scene of the Hornbeck killing. Two other confessions already had been made in the Hornbeck case. The first, by a 1 year old youth arrested at Marshall, was found by officials to be without basis.

Alexander Maneff, West Homestead, hitch-hiker, who made the second confession, was placed in the Lima state hospital when a court found he was not sufficiently sane to stand trial. DEATH TAKES FIRESTONE AT MIAMI BEACH FOUNDER OF (ilANT RIIBBKR BUSINESS STRICKEN Miami Beach. Feb. 7 Harvey s. Firestone, a farm boy who b.iilt one of largest rubber businesses In tile world, died of a blood clot near his heart as he slept arly today.

The year old industrialist met a peaceful end in the great mansion of Harhel Villa, an ocean front estate he acquired ill Of his large family, only a son, Russell A Firestone, was reported to have hand at the time. Mrs Firestone and their four other soils were believed to In the north a daughter. Elizabeth, at Smith tollege. wllel'e she is a senior. Attack Unexpected The funeral will be held in Akron on Friday.

The word given out on behalf of the family was a brief announcement by Kusnell Firestone S. Firestone passed away in his sleep earh this morn lug at his home here. funeral will be held in Akron later this week." Firestone's death was unexpected. He attended services at the Miami Heath (Congre gatlonuD church Sunday, as was his custom, and went for an auto mobile lido the afternoon with a niece, Mrs. M.

L. Ake. After dinner lie complained of in digestion. A local physician was tailed, hut the complaint was not considered serious. Born On Farm cause of death was oronary artery thrombosis, the coronary artery being one ot two main ves sels leading from heart.

Firestone suffered a severe old last month and Dr. Andrew S. Rob instm here from Akron. Ohio, to treat him. recovered rapidly and the physician returned several days ago.

The rubber magnate visited a Miami Beat physician's office late last week, but only lor a routine checkup. arrived from Akron this season tin his birthday, December Horn on a farm near Columbiana. Ohio, in 18158. Firestone as a hoy expressed a desire for a commercial career. After graduating from high school ami business college he obtained bis tirst position as bookkeeper for John W.

Taft in a Columbus coal firm. After serving the company as salesman and sales manager, interested himself in rubber tires by the rapidly-growing automobile in dustry, he went into business for himself in Chicago with an initial investment of less than $15.000. He sold out a few years later for $1.254,000. Only Ford Left Moving to Akron, Firestone bought a renovated machine shop and launched the company he into one of largest industrial concerns. He retired as president of Firestone company in 1932 and was succeeded by John W.

Thomas, first chemist. Firestone came chairman of the board. A controlling majority of Gladstone Winter Queen Vandenberg Urges Limit Of 1 Percent On Security Taxes Sen- pro- it esent, it on re- after upon opln Washington. Feb 7 a tor Vnndenberg posed today that old age taxes he limited to pr payroll levy of per ret employer and employes until uress can study the -ocial act In light of lie said congress should view whole subject" there has been which to base a conclusive I'nder the present law, the tax is to be increased every three years until it Is three per cent. Vandenberg's proposal was one of amendments he offered to social security act.

Th second would require that payroll taxes go automatically reserve account, halting what Vandenberg called the "Indefensible practice of payroll collections with treasury revenu general The third amendment would re- that old age pension re serves usi'tl to retire federal indebtedness, limiting the issue of or special bonds for debt irenient to a fix e-year mat urit v. HIGH WATERS LEAVE HOMES STREETS INUNDATED AT FRANKENMUTH; RO WHO ATS USED Mary Hoden has been stone Winter Carnival. II to I a ot i contest to as member Detroit, Feb. 7. that caused heavy damage in north central states over the week-end receded today, although ice-gorged rivers still menaced some communities, principally in Michigan.

In Illinois and Wisconsin, well as Michigan, flood waters receded as rains ceased and J7thPgen- dynamite blasts dislodged ice spent for dams that sent scores of rivers and streams out of their banks. In western Ontario, tho temperamental Thames river dropped after rising so rapidly that 500 persons fled from their homes. Water HO inches deep still Inundated much of Frankenmuth, a village of 1,000 popula- to reign as queen of C.lad Five girls also chosen in i of her court. Photo Chinese Make Desperate Stand To Hold Railway hanghal.Fri» (Tut day) (ioneralisMimo Chians Kai-Shek was reported today to have taken direct command of a desperate stami in North Central China prevent Japanese from taking important Lunghai Railway. Chinese mi id Chiang had arrived in the Tmntsin-Pu- kow Railway Zone, Northwest of Nanking, and taken over leadership of the two armies, one holding back alley nort It of other blocking the south.

lleavoy fight going aloni' ito miles ttiurh the Japanese gains last however. they Mi Smhow and invader ng the to be (Continued on Pace Two) National City Man la Fatally Burned Tawas City. Feb. 7 if- p) Pending further investigation an inquest into the fatal burning early Sunday of William Saffcl, 4 1, of National City was adjourned today. It was at lirst believed that Saffel had set his home by overturning an oil lamp.

State police said that tho only other person in house at time was Rolx'it Saffel, 17, the dead son. TRADING STAMP IS RULED LEGAL Act of Legislature Was Log-Rolling, Says Circuit Judge Grand Rapids. Mich Feb. 7 The right of business concerns to distribute trading stamps with purchases by customers was up today by Circuit Judge ard I). Vet dier.

The court granted a permanent injunction to the Sperry llutchin son Company, of New York, and the Rrock Ktlerle company, of Orand Rapids, restraining offi dais from enforcing an act passed I by the 1 iCt 7 legislature that slip ulated that petroleum and pastry dealers could not legally distribute stamps. legislature succumbed to the log rolling influence of two pressure groups in passing Judge Verdier asserted. I added that the groups referred to oil station operators and dealers in baked He ruled that the supreme court has upheld use of trad ing stamps as a legitimate means of attracting trade. IXIH STRIALISI I Ann Arbor, Arthur (J. Judson, 5(5, industrialist, died lien was secretary of tin Haler Co.

and Ann A i boi 7 Ann Arbor today. He Kcouomy former cashier of Railroad company. Legislators Launching Campaign For Wage-Hour Bill, Profits Tax Washington, Feb. 7 (ff proposals to house liberals jointly i then made ment. Crash Near Owosso Takes Three Lives Owosso, Feb.

7 Harold Gardner, 19, badly burned in the crash of an airplane which killed two coinpanloiis last June 6, died today. The other victims were George Harder, high school youth, and Gavra Rimiskie, Flint pilot. than thirty urged upon President Roosevelt today a legislative program calling for a wage-hour bill, retention of the much-criticized undivided profits tax and a stronger capital gains tax. Led to the White House by Rep. Maverick (D-Tex), they asked, In addition, a direct farm assuring farm prices ling the cost of production at least, and a permanent public works program capable of absorbing all the able-bodied unemployed.

president listened Maverick said, when he distributed copies of the group's newspapermen, a general corn- a report- to re- It sympathetic er asked. always sympathetic the heavy-voiced Texan plied. While strongly urging the intention of the undistributed profits tax, the group suggested two changes: An amendment to permit small corporations to minimum reserves out of earnings l'ree of An amendment to give stock dividends the status of distributed profits, and permit their deduction in computing the tax to be paid. is reported llwai River, of Suchow. where made important asserted, had blocked Jap- efforts to cross river, in while the om ma ntier-in- of army in Central China ordered his subordinates to halt of (iisclpllne which have damaging prestige of Imperial army.

Homei newagcncy) described iwane action as in tho annals of the Japanese Foreigners from Nanking report tour truckloads of Japanese were and wiped out on roatl to Chinkiang, GO miles east of Nanking. Of 200 Japanese sent to attack a band Chinese Guerrillas, only 15 returned. The Japanese then sent a punitive of to annihilate band. Of 0 only 135 returned. At Hangchow, miles southwest of Shanghai, Guerrilla bands reported by foreign sources to bo operating just of city.

METAMORA RANK SUSPECTS HELD Lansing and Detroit Pair Accused of Robbery Jan. 7 Detroit, Feb. 7 Joseph Simuuov, Detroit, charged with taking part in the robbery of the Metamora (Mich.) State Savings Hank Jan. 7. inno in federal court todav and was held under $100,000 bond.

The arrest of Simuuov followed I hat 11 oilier C. Price, I. I sinu factory in Lansing Saturday night entered police there to com plain that several men had tired at him. The nun, Harold Mulbar ot said, ftnlera 1 troopers seeking Price. Simunov, arraigned before I Commissioner J.

Stanley Hurd. said had served four years and four months of a five-ylear term! in the state prison of southern Michigan for grand larceny as well as IK months In a Pennsylvania prison for robbery. Lieut. Mulbar said Fred Donnet-, IX, cashier of the bank who was kidnaped during the robbery, identified Price as one of his two abductors. The robbers got more than $3,000 in the holdup.

U. S. STEEL MAY SIGN WITH CIO Renewal of Contracts Sought for 500,000 Men in Industry York, Feb. 7 a closely guarded but apparently fruitful conference CIO asked the C. S.

Steel corporation today to renew contracts for more than fiOO.OOO men. At the end of some two hours of talk, everybody concerned was silent for the record, but authori- union sources plainly indi- privately a feeling of satis- tion that CIO would be granted a new contract to replace tho one expiring February L'S. One high union official predicted a Another, asked whether the might have to be concluded in Pittsburgh, headquarters of tho steel section, replied appears they will bo wound up Also supporting the privately expressed union view that C. S. Steel would again sign was the fact that CIO Head John L.

Lewis was not among conferees. PLENTY OF SNOW While other communities were having rain, Lscanaba was being blanketed with another heavy snowfall Sunday morning. The storm brought 11.1 inches of wet snow, according to the local weather bureau, making a total of Inches now on the ground. A temperature drop last night made slippery driving conditions. Russian Dirigible Crashes 13 Killed tion In Saginaw county.

Two of the three hotels In the village could be reached only by boat and 200 persons were marooned in their homes. A dynamite blast dislodged part of an ice jam in tho Cass river below the village, but the wafer had not receded late Half of the village of Vassar, in Tuscola county, was left without gas or telephone service when the Cass river washed away a temporary bridge which also carried wires and uas mains. A central heating plant anti a theatre were among tho buildings still flooded at Vassar. Damage Over 100,000 Kxcept for the stubborn Cass river, tho dozen or more rivers that had overflowed their banks in Michigan were receding. Huge ice cakes left by the flood waters of the Sebewaing river were strewn over much of the village of Sebewaing.

in Huron county, where flood damage in excess ol $100.000 reported. Scores of dwellings still wero surrounded by flood waters of Clinton river near Mt. Clemens, but the water was falling. Search for four fishermen re- mred. ti oil a and I let ect i 1.1**111 the state police agen and state to apprehend London, Feb.

8 (Tuesday) Reuters (British News Agency), id i ported to have been earned into Lake St. near Mt. Clemens, on an floe ended when Sheriff Robert C. Havel received word they had been taken off in a rowboat, All army mail pilot joined in the search. Flood conditions in Wisconsin were reported definitely on the wane today, except in Kenosha county.

30 iniles south of Milwaukee. where waters of the Fox river were reported to be the highest, since 1SSS. The town of Wilmot, in Kenosha county, was virtually isolated. Klsewhere in Wisconsin and in Illinois, liberal use of dynamite had broken ice gorges and streams, swollen by rain and melting Ice and snow, were flowing normally. Poles Sheared Off Dammed by two ice gorges, waters of the Cass river were rising in the village of Frankenmuth at the rate of three iuches an hour this morning.

Karly this in it planes were Councilman for a return I Henry to Selfridge I dynamite five village. The isoe was forced section ot in a Moscow dispatch today 1 persons iu the crash of Russian dirigible on a practice flight in the dalaksha district, above the arctic and near Finnish front ier. Three others in Three crew or unhurt. The dirigible was trial flight between Moscow Murmansk, to decide whether it should be flown to aid of the four Russian scientists adrift on an ice floe in the Greenland sea. First reports said the dirigible struck the top of a mountain in poor visibility.

Self ridge Fliers Ready To Return; One Ship Missing (VP) as re- Drvden, Falls In Manhole; Woman Gets $900 Detroit, Feb. 7 (TP)- Mrs. Mary Kuk of Newr Baltimore, who fell into a manhole on a city street Nov. 1 and sued for damages, was voted $900 dav the common council. LI Paso, Feb.

Minus one of their numb suit of a craekup near 1 army pm groomed tonight i i ht tomorrow Field. Mich. Lieut. J. L.

BW to bale out when his ship apparently developed engine trouble and crashed enroute here today. Bledsoe was uninjured. flight is ou a formation of 4,600 miles. Noted Astronomer Dr. Pease Stricken afternoon.

City nry Fischer and off a charge of miles below tho blast dislodged a ice that was Pasadena, Feb. 7 Dr. Francis G. Pease, 5 7, noted astronomer of California Institute of Technology and the Mt. Wilson observatory, died today in a Pasadena hospital.

He underwent a major operation February 1. Dr. Pease was one of those chiefly responsible for the grinding of the 200 -inch mirror for Paloiuar mountain telescope. Dr. Pease was an associate of the late Dr.

Albert A Michelsen. in the famous final ex periments to determine the speed of light. i lied so rapidl.v downstream by the current that it sheared off tele- phone poles. In western Michigan, tributaries to the Grand river were receding. and fears of flood conditions at Grand Rapids abated.

I Some highway and hundreds oj acres of lowlands in Kent and Muskegon counties were uuder water. Two dozen families moved to quarters on higher ground. The turbulent Rogue river, that (Continued on Cage Reed City, Feb. 7 Injuries received when he was struck by an automobile January 2.1 proved fatal today to Charles Filter of Lincoln township. was hurt when lie out of his car to clcau the windshield..