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WEATHER Cloudy and probably light rain ec- snow tonight Thursday; illghtly colder tonight Sun Sets 3:19 Suk Rises TIME ERALD Edited for Southwestern New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania Yesterday's Circulation City 5,129 Suburban TOTAL 11,256 VOL. LXXVIL, No. 241 "PRINTED AFTER NOON" WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1937 PRICE THREE CENTS WAGE ACTION URGED Germany Will Give Belgium Full Respect Guarantees To Observe Integrity Of Frontiers And Territory. BERLIN--Germany in a formal declaration today guaranteed to respect the integrity and inviolability of Belgium's frontiers and territory. The declaration ones made by Great Britain and France six months ago, recognizing Belgium's desire to remain neutral in any European war.

It was made in the form of a joint note issued by Baton Konstantin Von Ncuratb. German Foreign Minister, and Vicomte Jacques Davignon. Belgian Minister to Germany. Germany pledges, at did Great Britain and France, to assist Belgium If she the object of attack I or invasion. German portion of the joint nnte lists thrre points: cfj Belgium's intention "in full ereirnty to pursue a policy of in-1 dependence" and Belgium deter-1 minalinn to defend her OWTI soil against any attack or invasion, anJ to prevent her tciritory from being used as U.

S. Consul Is Murdered by A Council For War Approved Ten Japanese Of Prominence To Lead Nation Against Obstacles. Bj ARI) BLATTIC. JB. i i Prr! TOKYO--Emperor Hlrohito and the Privy Council today approved plans for a Supreme War Council to lead the nation against any ob- ssassm The brilliant diplomatic career of J.

Theodore Marriner. below, tlj lca tiit ojiy ou- U. S. consul-general at Beirut, stacles to victory In the Chinese Syria, was ended in a shower of 't was announced semi-offi- bullets fired at close range by cially. It was understood that the list secured his reputation as one of the more promising young American was forty- five and unmarried.

an Armenian, in efforts to get a passport to go to the United States. Marriner. jinence who are to form the coua- whose work at the Paris em- cil would be completed late today bassy 3-1 charge d'affaires had or tomorrow. Then the imperial decree em- powering the council to act wgl be promulgated officially and it will I begin work at once-- a national "brain trust" and in effect, an emergency cabinet. with approval of the war council plan, there start- ed a "national spirit mobilization I week" to bring home to men.

wo- i men and children the necessity absolute unity and for self! sacrifice in order that the war I may be pursued to the end despite any obstacles that foreign nations might offer. The Privy Council met at the Imperial Palace. In the rreser.ce oi tne Kmperor. lor the jmnt ap- roval of the war council plan. Prince Fumimaro Konoye.

the Fiemier, personally explained the plan. route of march of operations in an at-: Flames Stab Deep Into Wooded Hills Stabbing tongues of flames eating deep into timbered hills with the accompanying heavy clouds of smoke are seen in this view from the sky of a raging brush fire which swept through a large mountain area in Ventura county. California. The blaze destroyed four homes and jeopardized the derricks of the 55,000,000 Texaco Oil Company near Santa Paula. Congress To Hold Special Session Soon President Roosevelt Calls Lawmakers To Convene November 15--First Reaction From Legislators Is Not Enthusiastic.

Russian Purge Is Near End By LVLK C. UIL-SON niUd Miff WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today pointed the Nov. 15 special session of Congress the legislative battle front' where Democratic majorities rebuffed him the Campaign Of Extermin-! session just closed. At i Mr. Roosevelt laid down ation i sr Conclude! On Revolution's Anniversary.

Br XOBMAN B. DEl'CL Iniud Fmi Still Anti-Trust Trials Resume ck by one foreign againM i Report Collapse Gf rmany tmphaaizes that Bel- inviolability asj ir.lfgr.ty aie of common interest to Western In Chinese Ranks TOKYO Japanese dispatched Onnjrster To Face Charge Of Murder ME James Dalhover. I Mi pf the Brady gang of mid- west bank robbers and killers, probably will be flown to Indianapolis. Ind. today to answer a charge of ma ruler.

EC a state policeman in a bank holdup last May. companion." in crime--Al i MADISON. Trial of 23 oil companies on charges of conspiring to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act resumed today at the point where Judpe Patrick T. Stone denied a motion to throw out all the government's documentary evidence. William Donovan, chief defense counsel who made the motion, pointed out that after defendants objected to legality of indictments, a second grand jury was drawn to return new ones.

Kuropean powers and affirms her reported today there were ir.creas- Brady, gang leader who Communication Severed determination never to impair this inviolability and integrity. She an intention to icspect Bel- ing signs of collapse of Chinese termed John Dillincer a "cream rrr.star.cf in North China. puff." sr.j Brady 1 henchman. It was Mid that one of the Clarence Lee Shaffer. gian territory imle.w Belgium co- North jj r( yesterday by G-r-rr.

in operates military action against jvancir.g In Saiyuan Province. thrilling cur. battle in the Germany any armed conflict in had captured Tungtaheiho. four street of Bir.gor. which Germany may be involved.

miles southeast of Kewisui. the i Dalhover escaped the federal Germany pledges aid to Belgium capital. Artillery units bombarded iar.cr.ts fire, but suffered minor If she la the object of attack in preparation for an in-(lacerations in a scuffle in an at- antr a vsncf according to the tempt to flee. It was announced that Fascist I reports CEKBERE. FRENCH-SPANISH FRONTIER Spanish Nationalist airplanes, raiding Portbou just the frontier in Catalonia, jevrrea communication on the vitally important Barcelona railroad today.

The piar.rs ilircc: hits on Portboa r.iiln.\;i f.a'.ion cat the tracks anJ destroyed waitir.f; rooms. ALBANY--More than 200 dele- cates to the annual convention of the State League of Women Voters gathered today for their first taiinc-as session. The convention will continue through Friday with election of officers seated for the closing session. of today's program include a tea at the executive mansion with Mrs. Herbert H.

Lehman, wife of the Governor, as ho-'tesji. After a supper delegates will gather for a question and an- r.ver session and study the league's activities during the past vear. for Congress in a fireside chat to the Natica last night an immediate five-point domestic a weighted with crop control and legislation for minimum wages and maximum hours. His most urgtnt MOSCOW --Russia's merciless concern 'or toe "lowest paid purge of enemies of the He called, for regime is nearly ended, it was a lon ht 4 A understood today. It helieveH the eam- paign of extermination might be I ended by November 7.

twentieth anniversary of the Bolihevii Rev- olution. A United survey listed a First reactions from legislators wu not enthusiastic. Republicans sioa was unnecessary, while New Deal Democrats felt that Mr. Those Democratic Senators who total of 517 Person, know-rT to i the 'S ht ain3t Roose Ihave been executed in the purged velt Su Freme Court enlargement I Probably the total is larger. I a lait MMlon ot Coc jit was not believed to be rt uc tajot co ent I rially so.

If it is found possible before they had studied his in detail. Touching briefly oa foreign af- "chat" Mr. Roosevelt I free of men suspected of deviating i wlrllea we cailnot avoid ifrom the strict Communist Party I 'sn on it- He Implied exten- 'line. and the campaign for the sioa to of American coIirs: election under the new con- efforts-perhaps by constitution cculd without acf of But to end tie campaign by the revolution i anniversary, the country would be fai TM in hl suspected of deviating raed i by ignonn thought of "traitors." The eiec- the President said again that he Italy had been appraised of tne contents of the note--another reminder to othei powers of the "Berlin-Home of cooperation between Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini. to Bishops Consider Divorce Proposal CINCINNATI--A proposal liberalize the Prote.v.mt Episcopal Church Marriage Canon to permit the remarriage of divorced with the approval of the Bishop of their diocese, defeated ycsierda hy the House of Deputies at the General Church Convention, goes to the House of Bishops for consideration.

The proposal WAS j-ubmttte.) to the deputies by Prof. Jcwph H. Bc-aics. It wis defeated after many delegates, including those from Virginia. Per.sylvar.ia and South i numbe-red 30.000.

including troops under command of Gen. Ma Chan- The defense forces reportedly Windsor Workers shan. famous Chinese General who BERLIN--The Duke of Windsor recently emerged from retirement. the behind today to Town Joins Search For Grave Robber STIIKETSVII.I.E. Ont.

Enraged and horrified townspeople i to visit Potsdam if the joined Provincial and local police weather to several nearby to.vns to German workers svttle-, mrr.ts. st.iye.i in i Jiiitf at the Kaiserhof Hotel. She; in a determined search for a rroci.im cailcd for who robbed the grave a Ordrrsburg of Hayden Pope, twenty, stole the Krmvir.sw i he will Inspect 1 Fret fill SALAMANCA--Harold Dahl. I Champaign. 111., flier, whose blcnJe wife's pica to General Franco saved him from death.

growing fretful today over the continued failure of Mrs, Dahl to come to Nationalist Spain. Dahl. who had been forced behind the Nationalist u.t ish governmcr.t. wired his wife reassuring her that it was absolutely safe for her to enter Franco territory. Confident 1 DUBLIN.

I I i STATE Eamon de Valcra. president cf thf Irish Free state. today he was more confi- I dent than ever he would attain a united and ir.ueper.dcr/. a-- Ireland Republic. I Addressing the national convention of the Fiar.na Fail Party- last night.

De Valcra said that Fiee State has voted "clearly defines the aims and aspirations of Ireland and under it we can i work out our freedom." I Chinese Sentry i Shoots Girl Spy SHANGHAI--The Chinese press reported today that a Chinese sentry had shot and killed a "Mala Hari" who refused to answer his challenge. The Japanese girl spy. identified as Yoshiko Monioaki. eighteen, was dressed in a Chinese soldier's uniform, the report She had been operating behind the Chinese lion is to be held December 12. There was every indication that reports that the purge was ending i were true.

Oa the calendar as publicly an- nounced. there remain but eight I I political trials, involving sixty-two i rot onl the financial there might be more. But it was! fcad et wdl Mr Roosevelt i believed there be few. if any a "bated war" and promised to guided by experiences of the Woodrow administration, of which he was a member, in determining what not to do. Keying his chat to the theme of new cases.

Javwalkers Receive To Court 'dance without waste. What you I wart such governmental rules of the game that Isbor a ancl imius- try will produce a balance abun- BUFFALO Jaywalkers were giver. today as the po- lice department began a drive to i So tcnj this intf to et co -TM cent com anJ body and left a. note the N.ui Pch.wl. ncr ti nr.J the Music $100 "ransom" fcr the return of the txidy.

School for Workers. Labor Federation Rejects Lewis Faction Peace Offer Carolina, contended that the ir.cour.-.i.i It was predicted that It also would dcfeate.1 by the Bishops. Hoover And Garner At Mills Funeral NEW YORK--Korrrer Herbert Hoover and vice president John N. Gamer head the list "-nnonrv pallbearers to scrve tomorrow nt funeral services for former secretary of the trear.iry Ogclen I. Mills, who died suddenly at his home Monday.

Sis u.eir.tnTs cnbir.et also weic on the list: Walter Brown, postmaster general: Charles Francis Adann. frcretary of the navy: Arthur Hyde, secretary of the interior: Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the Interior; William IV Mitchell, eitoir.oy general: ar.d Patrick liur or I DENVER--The American Federation of Labor countered a committee for Industrial Organization "conditional" peace projvisal day by offering to sit in and chs- cuss settlement of the labor war i "with no strings attached." Flatly rejecting the peace offer from the John L. Lewis faction as "unfair and Insincere." the Federation leaders said they would be willing to negotiate "without sion of the conflict which has iJiviJid tir.iia men between tr.e A. F. of L.

craft unions and the C. I. O. industrial type unions. William Green, president of the Federation, was understood to believe that the offer of the Lewis faction might eventually lead to progress toward a settlement.

I Georjc L. Harrison, vice picsi- dcst of UK Federation and chali- man of the permanent committee cf three appointed to negotiate with the C. 1. O. said the A.

F. of L. would welcome any indica- tioa that the insurgent unions were willing to attend a peace conference but without conditions. The offer from the C. I.

O. war i amnul at Atlantic City was for leach side to send a delegation of 100 to negotiate with one another. i It was received with suspicion bete at almost the hour that the convention voted. to l.JIfi. tn bir Charles Hiv.v.ird.

I 'wcittary anil picM.lctit of the International Typographers Union. as a delegate to the convention. The eviction of Howard, voted after three hours of heated debate, came while the C. I. O.

secretary was en route to Atlantic City to attend the rival oijaaua- lion's cauac.il. Viclim TORONTO. ONT. Charles Gray, s'cxty-iour-ycar-old cripple, was charged today with shooting sixteen-year-old daughter. Margaret, as the child sat on her bed Us: night talking to her mother ar.d her sister Eva.

A .32 calibre rifle bullet pierced her right kidney, lodging in the intestines Doctors at the hospital i sne was rushed slid her condition was 'grave." i Expcnsive SAN FRANCISCO George Whittell. millionaire sportsman, soon will fly t-ne of the largest privately-owned airplanes in the worl.1. it was announced today. He has ordered the Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle to him cne of their huge four- motored monoplanes, similar to the fortrev" tecently completed for the U. Army.

The will casl between J300.000 and MOO.OOO. Reward SHANGHAI--Handbills offer- i ing a "reward" of one Yuan (19's cents' to each Chinese soldier rurrenVrirg to Japanese authorities were dropped behind Chinese lines today by airplanes. talitlcs here. '-'aster thcve prices rr.ean for all UnJer the newly enfcrceil pedes- -'--for ever corning back again. tr.ar.V all inus: farmers them- at intersections and then.

want to cooperate to builJ jonly when the traffic light withi' 1 all-weather farm program so I 3 in the long rui prices will Two days warning-- Monday KKt They believe ard Tuesday-- were to a fc- rition.il bud- er" that these who surrtr.Jer bring with them one of the handbills. Tuesday-- were the public. Traffic policemen were or. all corners ar.J warned pedestrians ho violated the regulation. Acceptance --Tentative acceptance by Presides: of an invitation to dedicate the S3.SOO.OOO Benjamin Franklin Me.ciori.il.

which houses the Franklin Institute, was announced by Philip Staples. Insti- iji. u.so.n.:; assurr.l officials he uou! come here May the tes if possible. Received ROME--Premier Benito received Gen Attilio Ter- iiino. leaJer of the volunteer Blackshirts in Spain.

It was understood Terunio urged that Additional be sent at once but Mussolini is u.TAiiiinc to increase tr.r numijer until he learns France open h-r Home HDYK PARK President Roosevelt arrived here aboard his special train at A. M. K. S. T.

tivlay for a week stay at his Hudson River Country Poisoned PAP.IS-Mrs Malcolm IXvjg. las national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, was confined to the American Hospital today with ptomaine poisoning her condition was not svnoas. Secret Sessions Resumed By CIO Council Leaders ATLANTIC CITY. N. The the I.

O. yesterday to offer to i Committee for Industrial Organ- send 1'V deiegatej a cenfer- iiation war council resumed svcret ence with 100 A. F. of L. dele- s'sjicns today that the gates.

American Federation of Labor's To disprove statements by wnfereace would cause a rev.St in the C. I. O. docs not want peace the Federation rank ar.d file and and has refused to discuss truce to a unified labor ir.overr.esu with a three-man peace cornmit- Charges by President William tee svt up by the A. F.

of L. Green of the Federation that To solicit public irport bv peace prrposal cf the C. I the FrJeratioa 02 the there were r.ot as- t'V John Lewis. he.i.i oi Trr biar.cn i the tee C. I O.

C. i O. extended bore a large From fnvale expressions, how- thorn. The thuia whica bruunht ever, it apjx-Aied that the about the original of C. I.

o. offer was part of care- i fully pn-paird strategy that has a the C. I. O. unions from the A.

F. of and which has brought them unified labor movement or com- to the verge of expulsion--the plete ilotiuition of the Krdera-1 njht to unionize mass production tion as its iiUinialr goal. workers in "one big union" In m- Two immediate needs i i i i i ran be ilone. an get kept out of the Mr. ri "big: rr.anu.'.^eturerV who object to crop control as an "indefensible economy of scarcity." He eite.l industrial policies which caused plants to close when confronted i over production ar.1 averted thit the two were identical.

it it their hi by who i tne measles, he continued, they i call not 'economy of scarcity' but business JTI "Sometime- I get sittlnr Washington hearing ctrtun reople talk and talk about at! that ought not do--people i emmcst b.ick in the days when I financial institutions and the roa Is were baile-l out la bjile I cut by the government. I ta go out through country a ioiv.n-.dn WIS.IOITI the time to repair reof wben tat tun is Tucked in the boly cf the was challenge to Oase Kuthern 'Alia balked UX suai- n.n wages and hours ItgUU- Uoil ull If.c I tilt It KOuiJ.