Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive

Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 1

Location:
Cumberland, Maryland
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

I The WEATHER Local thowert and thunderstorms tonight and Friday; tUghtly warmer on tht coatt tonight. crrr WHAT nun For the H-hour utrtod tnclluf Maximum 89 Jeet Today Cloudy Minimum a. m. 75 VOL, 158 22 Paces CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939 cuuci DMVTBD PRICE THREE CENTS RELAHIM Incidents Between Soldiers and British Citizens Cited As Causing Strife TOKYO PRESS SAYS JAP SHD? SHELLED Is Accused of Taking: Attitude Due to Belief U. S.

Will Support Moves Tyro Pilot Bound for Mars Lands in New Jersey Jail rAZI GESTAPO SEIZES POLISH Tokyo, June 8 Relations turi Great Britain have been ag- Usevated "almost to the breakini by the increasing number ol In China, a government asserted today A spokesman for the Admiralty I declared at the same tune a "calm littitude" mus't be preserved' if International repercussions' lire to be avoided. as-Asa- .1 put it, Britain "is seemingly eu- Ide.ivorlng to intimidate Japnn, 1 she adopted a stronger attl- Incle in the belief the United States back her and because she fears resistance of Generalissimo I Chiang Kai-Shek is weakening be- tha Japanese military hi China Ship Fired Upon The latest of the incidents creat- the present situation was re- Ifcrted last night by Domel, the Jap- lancse news agency, which declared foreign warship, "apparently a cruiser," tired upon a Jap- liwse air transport east of Hong- llcng. (Japanese naval parties have Ibcarded several British coastal lin- ler.s just outside Hongkong waters the past three weeks, against the British have protested 5Vy.) -Incidents include: death of a British, cotton mill at Shanghai of wounds risUined in a fight with Japanese who entered the miH to op a fight between working em- and Arrest by Japanese Army meu at Kalgan. of two British officers, Lieut. Spearrmilitary at- ache, MM! Lieut.

Jobs. Cooper. ts charged witb seeking in- Jcrmaiaon of Japanese military op- in a restricted area. Coop- went to look for him. May 38, days after the first arrest, was Chinese Protected The refusal by the British Con- K'ite at Tientsin to surrender om the International Settiemeni Chinese wanted by the Japan- K-e as suspects in the slaying of a offirial.

(Japanese at Petp- indicated further representa- would be made. They thought '-o Cooper might be released soon that Spear would be questioned A pilot who missed his goal by ft couple of hundred million miles so is Csehter L. EsheUnan, of Sar- lisle, Pa. Rescued by fishermen after sinking his rented plane In the Atlantic, he said his destination hac been the planet Mars. Eshelman took off from a Camden, N.

airport and cracked up in the midst oi a fishing fleet 174 miles southeasi of Boston. Above he is pictured (directly behind calendar) -in a Boston police station, where he was charged with stealing the plane. BRITISH RUSH WORK ON PACT WITH SOVIETS English Expert Will Fly From Moscow Office to Speed- Mutual Aid Formula WAS EDEN'S AIDE Foreign Office Expects to Settle Hitches In Russian Pact With England, France STUDENT SAVED AFTER PLUNGE IN SEA IS HELD Young Mechanic Chargec With Stealing Plane Owned By Camden Flying School FATHER INCENSED Insurance Agent Asked to Raise $5,000 Bond For Son Who Set Out For Mars The Admiralty spokesman said death of the Shanghai mill em- pye. R. M.

Tinkler, was of itself -mall incident, but it created a unpleasant impression," and the Navy "officially" does not his reported actions as an I'-'-Mt 'there is not one Japanese who does not regard it Ht- hoped, the Admiralty said, that the British would the Shanghai incident calmly. Charge Intimidation "Hie Asahl editorial read in pai't: 'Havlng succeeded in obtaining ncan cooperation in the Ku- affair, Britain apparently is ling a stronger attitude and is endeavoring to tntimi- Japan. (British, American anil ch sent landing parties to Ku- to forestall complete absorp- of the Kulangsu International by Japanese. British 1 that this might be a prelude to efforts to take over the settlement at Shanghai.) Tne frequency of friction Britain and Japan in China be' ascribed to growing British to assist his (Chiang Kal s) tottering regime. It cannot that this hell for leather -Japanese policy by Ambassador 'Sir Archibald, British am(Continued On Page 6) London, June 8 William Strang, head of the Central European Department of the Foreign Office and also an expert on Soviet Russia, hurried home from a vacation today to rush Britain's new mutual assistance formula to Mos- Strang, a 46-year-old career dlp- omat, was expected here by plane 'rom Warsaw in late afternoon to receive instructions which Prime Minister Chamberlain hoped would ead to quick conclusion of a Brit- Ish-FVench-Russian pact.

May Leave Tomorrow No time had been set for his de- aarture for Moscow but it was believed he probably would leave by plane tomorrow Strang was regarded by diplomatic observers as an ideal man for the job of the nearly three- month-old dickering for three- power collaboration dickering which started after Germany's March 15 annexation of Bohemia and Moravia. The principal hitch in negotiations was the opposition of Finland, Latvia and Estonia to Russia's desire to have a pact guaranteeing all states touching on her western frontier. Oambden, N. Junt 8 Cheston fthleman, 52-year-olc airplane mechanic and student plto was in tiny Camden county ja: cell today, hoping his father wouli post $5,000 ball for release on charges of larceny of the small plan in which started for "Mars" an landed In the Atlantic Ocean Cape Cod. Eshleman was returned here lat yesterday after he was met at Bos ton by a Boston detective arme with a warrant for his arrest insteai of the welcoming throng he appar ently had expected.

rescuet at sea by the Trawlei Villanova. Th $30-a week mechanic was charget with larceny -'by bailee of the uninsured monoplane value at $3,160 and blind flying instru ments worth $500 which sank a sea. Letters Ciied ecret Police Reported to Have Rounded Up Thousands In New Anti-Jew Drive POLES WARN NAZIS w'arsaw Repeats Warning That Germans Will Be Ousted From Poland As Retaliation ThousandsThrong Washington Greet England's Monarchs With 'Royal Welcome' Parade Berlin, June 8 (fP) Jews number more than 10,000 in Germany were reported be big ounded up today by the Gestapo for deporta- ion or concentration camps, in a new Nazi effort to get rid of foreign 'ews. Jews said groups were being es- sorted to the Polish frontier daily after being given notice as short as 4 hours that they must leave. So ar only men have been involved in the drive.

In Munich 400 Jews were reported under arrest. Undetermined num- jers were in custody in Berlin and 3reslau. Several hundred Jews in Dresden were given until noon tomorrow to get out of Germany. Some Are Confined Those who lost their Polish passports under a new Polish citizenship law last November v-re being taken to concentration camps while those whose passports are in order are being put across the Polish frontier. The sending of new thousands to concentration camps was interpreted as a means of putting pressure on wives and other relatives to speed efforts towutu nnding new homes outside Germany.

Jews said two general reasons were given them by the Gestapo for trie Germany would not tolerate foreigners without passports and that it was a measure to counter recent Polish deportations of German citizens. Not Considered Cttuenc Many of them no longer are considered by Poland Polish citizens (jecause they haw lived in Germany ten or move years. This fa the second phase of Germany's effort to rid herself of Pol' Lsh Jews, which began suddenly Oct. 18, 1938, before a new Polish citizenship law -went into effec Nov. 1.

At that time many thousands were escorted to the Polish border. Negotiations on what to do with them suits. KING'AND QUEEN LEAVE SYMBOL OFU.SJJITY Residents Along Border Cherish Peace Sign In Their Visit to Niagara Falls produced no conclusive re Many were left stranded a several Polish border points, especially Zbasyn where Polish thorities established camps them. Served With Eden There perhaps is no other British diplomat who has a more thorough knowledge of Russia anrt Russians than Strang. As far back as 1924 he began a.

closet contact with Soviet affairs, as a member of the secretariat of the British-Russian London Conference. From 1830 to 1533 he was attached to the embassy in Moscow, (Continued On Page 6) Never to School But Graduates With Honors Boy, 18, Had Legs Injured At Birth and Never Developed, But His Mother, Former Teacher, Instructed Him In Regular School Subjects June 8 Al- never in a classroom, 18-old James Michael Boyle gra- ta 1 with honors from nearby High School. lega were injured at birth never developed but he gPW home with amazing speed. around his father's 118-acre farm in a small automobile he built from spare parts of farm apparatus It is powered with a washing-machine motor. Jimmy's mother, Mrs.

Leo 8. Boyle, was a teacher and gun early to Instruct her physical i ne floor and handicapped son in the AUO's down on his hands. jand the three R's. Four years pawed the (ConUnued On Page 3J with machinery one bobbiea. He reiterated his story that had started for Mars and letters received by Philadelphia newspap ers "supported" him.

The lette: signed by Eshleman said his rea sons for the flight were "to return the visit of Mars on Sunday evening, October, 1938 (the night of the Orson Welles broadcast) on behalf of the people of the U. and "to aid my country in the race for air supremacy and have the CAA (Civil Aeronautics Authority) stimulate private flying with the general public by demonstrating the practicability and use of modem flivver planes," and "to survey a temporary hideout for the harmless people so they may escape in time of war." Not So Nonchalant Eshleman lost his smiling sangfroid, however, when he talked by telephone with his father, Sairluel G. Eshleman, an insurance agent at Newvlile, near Carlisle. "He's all right," the son- said sob(Continued On Page 2) REPLACING POLICE GHOST CARS RAPPED 'Harks Back to Days of 'Gum Shoe' Methods," Saya Pittsburgher Pittsburgh, June 8 (tf 3 Lewis W. Mclntyer.

Pittsburgh Motor Club executive, declared today that the plan to replace the State Motor Police white "ghost cars" with conventional automobiles "harks back to the days of 'gum shoe' methods. -'Motorists have respected the white-'ghost' cars of the motor police and we believe these carr have been a great contributing factor to the sharp reduction of traffic fatalities in the state," Mclntyer stated In a letter to Ocv. Arthur H. James protesting the change. "When an officer patrols the road In a consplcious car, enforcing the law optnly.

The officer In a conventional car harks back to the days of 'gum shoe' methods when were unceremoniously hauled before a 'fining' squire," be eeld. Poland Warns Germany of Retaliatory Deporting Warsaw, June 8 new Ger man order expelling Polish Jews was reported today to have prompt ed the Polish government to repea a warning of retaliatory measures against Germans in this country. Last October the Polish govern ment was said to have arrestec 1,000 Germans, threatening to sen them into Germany if the transfer ot Jews to the "Polish frontier dii not cease. The latest German effort accord ing to the Krakow newspaper Hus trawany Kurjer, involved Jews, Including some from Vlenn who, it was said, were brought recently to the German frontier sta tion of Hindenburg, in Silesia. Jewish circles in Warsaw said an attempt was made yesterday to drive about 100 Polish Jews into Poland from Neubentschen, main German frontier station on the Berlin-Warsaw railway.

members of families previously expelled from Germany, some of these were permitted to remain in Poland. Royal Pair Aboard Train )OUPLE WELCOMED BY HULL AND WIFE Press Devotes Much Space to Visit of Rulers; "Times" Issues Extra Niagara Palls, N. June 8. Residents along the unfortified Canadian-United States border cherished another symbol' today in a century-old tradition of amity between visit of King eorge VI and Queen Elizabeth of Sn gland. Soldiers and police along the sorder separating the two countries rlaxed their vigilance after night's historic greeting extended by Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the first reigning British sovereigns ever to set foot on United States soil.

Ceremony Simple Extreme simplicity marked the epoch-making welcome, which took' place on the carpeted platform of a dingy old railroad station at the United States end of a bridge spanning the Niagara River. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, presented Mr. and Mrs. Hull to the royal visitors. Both couples acknowledged the presentation, with smiles and chat- led for approximately five minutes.

A State Department spokesman announced later that Hun greeted the royal guests with, these words: "Your Majesties: "In behalf.of the government and the people of liie United States I have the honor and pleasure of extending to you our warmest welcome. All are delighted with your The people of my country in the most genuine spirit of cordiality, hospitality and frendllness have every desire to make your stay a thoroughly enjoyable one." Queen Is Welcomed To Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Hull said: 'It is a great honor for me to meet and greet you." After a 19-minute pause, the royal train left for Washington with the Hulls aboard. ROYAL COUPLE GIVEN OVATION BY HUGE CROWD ISpecial Train Arrives In National Capital On Time A fter Fast Trip From Falls QUEEN'S PARASOL FOILS TORRID SUN King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are pictured above on the ibservation platform of their special train during their history-making our of Canada, which is climaxed today by their arrival In Washington. Thep are the first reigning monarchs to visit the United States.

ENGLISHMEN SHARES VIEWS OF FIRST LADY Both Women Beloved By People and Like to Mingle With Them At All Times British Press Generous London, June 8 The United States' reception to King George and Queen Elizabeth shoved every- (Contlnued On Page 6) DRIVER IMPRISONED AFTER 50-CENT HOLDUP Indianapolis, June 8 Two holdup men, in a half-dollar robbery, turned Ear! Taylor's own automobile into a hell-on-wheels for the 35-year-old Greencastle cement worker. They left him bound, gagged and cramped into a small space on the car floor yesterday, with doors locked and windows up. He suffered seven hours under a hot sun before a passerby rescued him. When he was found, Taylor was half conscious, numb and covered with sweat. He had been in a coma most of the time.

Noted Singers to Appear At Vjfhite House Reception Lawrence Tibbett, Star of Metropolitan, and Marian Anderson to Be Headliners PLAN FOLK SONGS Kate Smith and Square Dancers, Spiritual Singers Included On Varied List Washington, June 8 you the White House musical program for king and queen tonight is It doesn't begin to ten the story. Stars of the concert sUge, opera radio world known will alternate with iinfers and dancers whone have gone unheralded outside their own communities. Here are thumbnail of the performers: Marian Anderson, MariM An in MII who gamed worldwide recognition at the Salzburg Festival in 1B35 waa born In (he Philadelphia negro (Continued On Pagt WEAR BLUE GOWNS Queen and President's Wife Possess Common Interests, Despite Guifln Status GREET COUPLE INBALTIMORE Severail Hundred Attend Brief Ceremony Today At Station On Way to Washington By BETH CAMPBELL Washington, June 8 (fP) of England, a rosy-checked young queen, and Eleanor Roosevelt, hospitable, smiling First Lady of the United States, brought a wealth of common interests to their widely-heralded meeting today. The 38-year-old queen, revered by a people who hold her office dear, was fresh from a Canadian tour nn which she frequently mixed with crowds just as Mrs. Roosevelt often does, and won friends on her own ay a natural manner.

Her hostess, whose role as First Lady doesn't have the official status accorded a queen, had a string ol similar, friend-making tours behim! that have made her a personage in her own right, at 54. Appearance In appearance, the two women contrasted sharply. Although some an illusion of more height, her five- feet-five seemed short compared with Mrs. Roosevelt's six-stature. Her brown hair is quite dark; Mrs.

Roosevelt's is lighter and graying. For their meeting at the ztaUon, Mrs. Roosevelt chose a dress of the sheer, azure-blue wool fabric pre- (Contlnued On Puge 2) REORGANIZATION PLAN SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT Resolution Will Permit Two to Go Into Effect On July 1 Washington, June 8 dent Roosevelt signed today a resolution which win permit hU two plans for reorganization of the executive branch of the gorernment to go Into effect July 1. Under the reorganization act, the plans would have eone into effect 60 days after their submission to Congress, unless both Senate ana House disapproved them. The Senate and House Toted down of disapproval.

One will permit grouping of nutneroiM government agtiuucft Into new units in charge of welfare, lending necurity. The, other provides fof Inter-departmental ahifu of bureaus. TRAIN IS GUARDED Queen Receives Roses From Mrs. Emma Price, Who Represe ted Mayor Jackson Baltimore, June 8 -W) Several hundred Marylanders got a close view of a few stepped right up Tor a the special train carrying King George and Queen Elizabeth of England paused here for nine minutes today. The royal party enroule from Buffalo to Washington for a garden party and visit with the President King Wears Uniform of Admiral, While Other Men In Party Add to Brilliancy Washington, June 8 smile and a friendly handshake irom President Roosevelt nnd the bombing salute of military honors welcomed King George of Britain today to the capital of a republic town great fiwn thirteen one-time Cngli.sh colonies.

Their faces crinkled into corditU sniiies as their hands met as if to symbolize ties of friendship between two Englteh-fipcuklng peoples who xirted ways in 1T76. Secretary of State Hull, who accompanied King George and his queen from Canada, introduwd them. "Mr. President. I have the honor to present their Britannic Mnjes- tles," Hul! said.

Mrs. Roosevelt "Kow are you? I'm glad to you." Mr. Roosevelt eald. The king and queen then greeted Mrs. Roosevelt and Brigadier Gen- E.

M. Watson, the President's military aide. The royal couple and the first family of the United States chatted briefly for a moment and formalities got under way. The British monarch's suite WHS Introduced to the President and Mrs. Roosevelt.

After the 'Chief Executive hod met the members of the royal suite, high-ranking officials of the American government were introduced to the king and queen. The king and queen had strolled into the blue and gold presidential reception room at three minutos after II a. and walked Up to the President and Mrs. Roosevelt wait- Ing beside lustrous mahogany table. From the presidential the king with President Roosevelt, on his left walked out onto the carpet leading to waiting automobiles.

Directly behind His Majesty walked Mrs. Roosevelt and to her left behind the Chief Executive was the queen. As they reached a spot midway down the carpet, the Marine Bond struck up "God Save the Klnp." The king in admiral's uniform of blue and gold raised his right hand and stood In salute. and Mrs. Roosevelt, arrived at Pennsylvania Station at 10:01 a.

m. (EST) King George, attired In a uniform, and the queen, dressed in periwinkle blue crepe, stepped to the platform and waved to the cheering group. They smlied, chatted and shook the hands of a few who pressed to the edge of the pistfcrm. Mrs. Emma Price, representing Mayor Howard W.

Jackson, handed the queen two bouquets of Baltimore-grown from the shoots of the first hybrid tea roses developed in America. Mrs. Price said the queen expressed interest in Baltimore and asked several questions about the city and Its history. Queen Elizabeth wore a short coat, with fur-trimmed sleeves, three strands of pearls and diamond shoulder clip, and a pcri- (Continued On Page 2) Play National Anthem There was a brief pause and then the martial music of "The Star Spangled Banner." Again the king raised his right hand in solemn salute and to stood to the playing of the national anthem. As the music stopped, the cannons across the plaza began the 21-gun salute.

Here the king began smiling and laughing and Joking wilii the President. On the Hth gun, His Majesty and the President started for their long black touring machine with the top down. The Chief Executive entered first. Blmoflt sat. upon his top hat, then saw it and whipped it out and put it on his head.

The king grinned and climbed In beside Mr. Roosevelt. queen ftnd Mrs. Roosevelt then got into their car, Roosevelt on the left behind driver and the queeu on her right When members of the reception committee were presented (Continued On Page 8) Mickey Mouse is Chief Aide In "Mapping" Human Smiles Differences In Personality Associated With the Sids of the Face Which Predominates When One Cracks a Grin, Connecticut Prober Asserts, After Study Boston. I by Mickey Mouse, a Connecticut scientist is "mapping" human smiles to fortifiy preliminary findings that differences in personality are asso- their elated with the ilde of the face which predominates when one a grin.

Dr. John Lynn, of Stamford. described today how a groun of right-handed persons of known temperament grinned on the right xtdft of their during a Mickey Mouse performance, while another group of right-hnnd- era, of a "retiring" type, showed er.Joyment on thr port side. Mickey's flyer In science started when Lynn sought substantiation smile cludlca and several rnade at a children's camp In New Vork state some time ago, Xn the camp visually (Continued On Page 3).

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

About Cumberland Evening Times Archive

Pages Available:
213,052
Years Available:
1894-1977