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PAGE FOUR; THE DAILY COURIER, GONNEL.LSVIL.LE,. fA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22,, 1940, Ohmrtrr HHE COURIER COMPANY Publisher! Umes J'. Driscoll and General Mgr. It.

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what At aGl ance WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1910 -Negotiations for leasing -by -Great Britain of, air and naval -bases in British possessions along 'the Atlantic seaboard to tlie United States are closely up witb. the proposal to turn over over-age -Amer-. 'ican. destroyers to -Britain. -Military and naTal officials are out and out advocates of the two plans.

This applies to men who have heen retired" from the service By CHAHLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist. Ex-Representative Samuel B. Pettengill Indiana is a Democrat. Also a democrat.

Note the distinction. As a democrat he be- lifjves in democracy. He's a vehe- supporter of It, in fact. As a Democrat he belongs the a i party. He's been an, ex representative i the last ended.

At -that juncture tie retired from poli- he puts it. Human Interest Angle Sidelights and Comment on Happenings Here and There. but who. "live in the present." Theyvsee i- eye.withjncumbeiit officials. Typi- expressions; in behalit of Bull, short of "war, are: i General John-, Pershlng-- proper, can' be 'found, America: will aafcguart by pr Canadian wticii.

afei-iiefit 'f rbm the days of that's the way I'd say he's still in chief of naval a British fflejisure; upon destroyers ,5 to guard war. should send to -heiip the. British if they need pur. ships, arid tiey. do, to.

prevent the possible loss of British their whole i Rear Admiral Harry Yarhcll, com- 'tmander "of A9iatic.fleet^ri936^39-- Segr. we lace danger, with .3 Site? i of and navy--i3 all that "v.stjinds Hitler' and -his ultimate goal---the reso.urces of the. Ani.ericas and "the their The de; 7 will be. fighting; for America effectively by' being to the carry out the. -wishes -the; S3 heads wilibut violation; law" is! the prohiem "of the Admihiatr'jitlon.

Perhaps, the as -C to" s.plve it in his 'defense agreement NEWS BEHIN -perplexity 'over: what Adolf -Hitler will KKWhen former Problem President' il Americans 27,000,000 persons p'-be fed in.Nprway, Holland, idevastated by Hit-of'. any' "but. motives 'behind: his sugges- States- 'sufferers its; politics up to his neck', so far as his activity's concerned. 'Officially, he's however. He's against President Roosevelt's Possibly he's in sympathy, with certain of FDR's politico-socio-economic but he objects emphatically to the which'FDR.

has been' trying.to arrive-atrthem. He--also a few' D-democrats are like that. number of', them have -bolted, the 'Democratic- party and are plugging lor Wendell Wfflkie. Ex-Congressman Pettengill refuses to He's going to work like fury against Roosevelt, 'but he isn't going to campaign for It's a political commonplace that a lot of elections are- decided, not by the voters' preference for the winning candidate but by. their hostility to his opponent.

This seems to be ex-Congressman 'Fet- tengill's complex, but' I think he has-it better thought out the average voter has. Stands by His Party. The ex-congressman is a novelty in part because, while ah outstanding anti Roosevelt D- lie 'isn't a D-demqcratic bolter. 'He proposes Inside his party, regardless 'of his objecr tion to its present candidate and the latter's methods of going after his D-democratic leaders income of 'the Southern-staies "are puzzled, as "to the bolting proposition. I notice it in Virginia.

There are notabilities there who oppose Roosevelt- ianism vigorously; but if'they bolt they're: afraid they'll lose a good bit of. their D-demqcratic representation in They're anxious to eat their cake--that is; defeat FDR. But. it; being just-as in" Washington as 'they've had. Pettengill may.

or may prove, to; have, done something -toward solving, pro Writes a-Book. He's done his best, in any event. He's written- a book for their guidance. He calls it "Smoke His is that no 'sudden coup d'etat" will spring totalitarianism on us--that, if done'at all, it will be done "under a smoke' screen. of jectives;" That's the, called 'Smoke A of its.

sub-titles, are, "Karl "Socialism Through the In land I'haa armies ia "-The -can iayader. Hoover xiaake certain: domestic 'ftfod production :5 -areas to wliat tliird; tovpermit aided and lltiEnst-'rf ourttiito allow: free, passage mpHcati6ns 'iiaye MIshan.Mars Wedding Festivities. One of the many accidents 'in the home which wo are warned brqile-in with tragic suddenness last Thursday evening on pre-. parations for a wedding at the home of Mr, and Mrs. William Sheldon of Fremont, Ohio, where the mother-in-law of Welday O.

Adrian, manager of the plant of the Connellsyilie Laundry Company, was a guest. The victim was Mrs. I. L. Coffman Uniontown, mother of Sheldon and Mrs.

Adrian--Kay, to her circle of friends and musical acquaintances here' and in Uniontown. Tripping over a Coffman fell heavily, suffering'a hip'fracture, which at her age of 70 is- the more serious. Happy at the prospect of returning to-her home, at Fayette countyseat 'the next. day with her honeymooning granddaughter, Harriet Mrs. Coffman was busied with cithers of the household preparations for the wedding (Friday morning) when misfortune befell her.

Of course the was- -solemnized on schedule, but the accident to Grandma caused general gloom. That she would not be denied the pleasure of witnessing the ceremony a. hospital bed was set up in the room where it took That was a lot of satisfaction to all. But Mrs. Coffman was denied the, privilege of the ride home with her grandson-in-law and bridegroom--he is John Starwald.

Mrs. Adrian is with her mother. Triplet Calves Curiosity. Many visitors a being attracted Delmore Sheets farm near Laurelville, -where, triplet calves, one week old Monday, are being proudly shown. The mother is half Holstein and half Guernsey.

The sire is a registered Guernsey. The largest is black and white, and the other two are brown' and'white. The combined weight at birth was 125 Make Goodly Haul. Seven hundred two flsh--that's the catch a party lovers of the sport of fishing.from Indian Head, Normalville, Connellsville. and elsewhere, made--riot in the Yough River, but in Delaware Bay.

That's a lot of" fish, but there was a numerous company engaged in luring them into the boat: Mr. and Mrs. James May, Mrs. Nellie May, Miss Malinda' Craig and William Kalp, all of Indian Head, Miller of Normalville, arid Mrs. Clifford.

Banner and son Jimmy of Vanderbilt and Edward Collins of Councils-' ville. scene of operations was off Bowers, Del There.were, you will note if you count them, 10 in the party, which would mean an average of 70 fish--more. than.one ordinarily catches in a-" season in Fayette county, bass trout streams. Hard on Suckers. This starts out like a fish story but it soon loses that characteristic.

Suckers jot their second setback in'recent weeks as number pool operators in Fayette county into effect new cut numbers which in combinations will.affect the on many choice The new orders of the number barons call for the cutting of all triples, double "ones" and still a number of night cards the. changes were distributed throughout the county, showing all the cuts. hits on the black listed figures will be "paid off" at the rate of 300 to 1. With the coming the also came, possibilities of an open "number'war," as the Uniontown pool threatened to desert and join the 700 to.1 pool from Pittsburgh throughout the county. By MlLfrtALLON WASHINGTON, Aug.

fantasia of the Riom war guilt trial is macje plain and under-, standable.in a report of the well- scheme behind it, brought here a competent official authority. The have likened It to.the melodramatic propaganda blurb of the famed Russian trials of Moscow fifth Some American observers. scent the same Hitler mouse that der' fuehrer to burn down the Reichstag and then try. the Communists for it. But the less prejudicied-' acquired by officials here bare the, whole inside story in an entirely 'different and more authentic way.

The prosecution will present such evidence as.this: A sub-cabinet officer, i the French- treasury was head of a very large clique of government officials who speculated in the fall of the franc after the outbreak of war. They used their knowledge that the would decline, to make small private themselves. profits for STRENGTH FOR YOUR TASK By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

HELP LEFT BURDEN Sometimes it seems that we can endure our troubiles no longer; and then suddenly circumstances compel us toj help someone else bear 'ai burden, arid lmmediateiy a of strength.that we never knew existed rushes in to meet, the As we help someone bear a burden with.this added strength, the weight of our own burden grows less. But something 'deeper and more, divine than that really happens. The more we busy ourselves with the 'affairs of others, the more do the proportions our own soul grow, and the bigger our souls, the richer and. deeper, the more do they become, a fit. abiding place for the spirit of Christ.

We cflve a cup of cold water to a famished one in His name, and we have given. It to' Christ. We feed the clothe the naked, comfort, the'sor- rowing, pray. and 16, as we "do things for we find them, tor the. Lord of us So every gentle act of love and mercy- makes 'our souls more, them from little'hovels' into stately palaces, from dark little rooms into beautiful, holy chancels.

GRAB BAG One-Minute Test. 1. many room's are in the Vatican at Home? 2 What per cent of the boys who enter Point are graduated from there? 3." What became of James the. man who discoverec gold AS OTHERS THINK A government leader was. seized at the Spanish frontier with two secretaries carrying suitcases stuffed with 20 million francs (about $500,000 at that time) and a horde of jewels belonging to his mistress.

(He is. slated 'to get about 2 0 years). An. heroic, educational official in the government was caught running from the front in a stolen car long before anyone else, started to (He will get a long, sentence for desertion)'. The distrust of French officials for.

each other was so great that M. Reynaud, the premier, did not even trust his own foreign minister, M. Daladier, to deliver his intimate personal messages to the British in the last days. He gave them to a personal friend, a woman, and she failed to get most of them MR. WILLKIE'S ACCEPTANCE (New York Times.) In the heart of a Middle West that can no longer cherish its old faith that it lives in secure isolation behind the of the protecting seas, -Wendell Willkie accepted yesterday the Presidential nomination of his party.

A grim fate set', the stage for. this performance in a quiet Indiana town. Here, to meet the eye and. ear, were all the pleasant arid familiar trappings of a gala Notifica- on Day: the friendly anners flying "in streets, th'e arty slogans and the marching ds, and of a avorite son: But.the echo of the German bombs that fall on Brigand could be heard 'by thougbt- ul men in music of the. bands.

No 'evidence actual treason has been discovered. or is ex-, peeled. The real treason was done by the French. Communists, although the Nazis now are getting credit for it; munists' The French Corn- long secretly occupied key positions in every government department and acted eagerly as'. spies for French Nazi leaders.

the few above the And those choes shouted.the warning that the dread on Britain egun, 'that fury ol German air power had been loosed gainst. the only democracy that till guards the eastern approaches if our own Atlantic world. The aan is blind who does not see that Mr. Willkie-spoke yeserday at a ateful moment in the worloTs ory; that not since-the days of sur own tragic. War Between the States has it fallen to the lot of a lepublican to accept his party's eadership in an hour fraught with greater danger.to his country.

It can be said to Willkie's credit that he met. courageously and honorably the responsibilities which this occasion and: this crisis mposcd on him. He spoke He threw his nfluence on the side ol national Slicks the Bureau- formulated -it V. asking Britain to with his until-a truck on' curve. Then; the at the town hospital 1 drivers' expose themselves to Hthe same You'll see.

them every day about- Connellsyine. Some; even have JJ.thaPis the-iiand 5'of- a nToW.than^e othe'rt'pne Cabout of argi'rl -Cf re recorded as VThat gives zn' idea little volume's One' doesn't havei. to agree with -it ali: t6.find it "'Th'ere' "are 126: pages ol -if it's packed, 9f information. The had 'a Ueal of experience on Capitol Hill: and, he's a 'close student. ConatHutlonal Committee Head.

Sam present head of what's kh'owij' National Committee to Constitu- tipnal, non-partisan 6r'. original head'-' was Frank the Neiv' York chain newspaper pub- but Gannett i had 'to drop the Republican 'presidential, nomination, -as" we 'alT' he didn't get'-V booklet, Sam "asks, 1 'lor the "Are we expressed in is, if, en" to- oJ it. It's why he a split; disorganize our legislative ''sHe the- essential 'end of goy- 'erhment. Out of the Past Today in Local History From. Courier: FUes, Life every man holds dear; bufc honor.far more precious, dear, than Let dogs delight to bark bite, for God 'hath made them so let tisT.their"' "nature isaac'-Watts.

'ana T-tie self-educated by -nised'. ''5haVesna 1 fear "of pther nation "if, it; is i a a i 7 'America'. duf: v. fj perhaps "doii't-'stbp to how -really great America is, '-if 'it preparedness imndcd. Bible Jhoughf A FOR WE JDCr NOT Let not your heart faint, not, nor tremble, neither be afrig'ied at them, for the Lord your God is He that goeth with you, to fight Cor you against 'your THIRTY YEARS AGO Walter Johnson, nine, small son of Mr.

-and Mrs. Walter Johnson Wheeler, dies at Cottage State Hospital Irom.burns sustained May 17. Mr. and Mrs. Henry P.

Snyder and J. H. S. Stimm'ell return from Sparrow'Lake, Ontario, Canada, where they had gone on a fishing trip. The Indian guides dubbed Mr.

Stimmell "Big. Bass" because of. his prowess, and the boss of The Couriers mechanical department lives up his reputation as a fisherman. 5 a West Penn street car makes a quick stop while crossing the Yough bridge, an automobile operated by George "Doc" Enos collides with the rear, end, smashing the vehicle's head. Neither-.

Doc or his passenger, W. W. Glbtlelty, is injured. Damage to the car is estimated at $50. TWENTY YEARS AGO -Lieutenant Reigh A.

Marietta, Mess Sergeant Harry R. Rodgers and Privates Fred Banner-and Alphonsus Stillwagon are' selected by Captain Audrey -S. Skomp to represent Company in the State rifle matches at Camp Gretna. The West Penn Hallways Company secures permission from the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission to advance trolley rates'from five- cents'to six and one-fourth cents a.zone, pro- payment is by'ticket, and to eight cents payment is in'cash. the Pittsburgh fe'Lake Erie Railroad at Dickerson S.un, resigns take a position with the'Corrado Coal-Com- 'pany of.Connellsville.

Sutton. succeeds chief clerk.i Thomas Pierce, a. member of the' South Cpnneilsvrlle Fire Department, arrives here after making.a "trip; from Conrieaut Lake by bicycle. to pass near Confluence" lands, in a meadow of the Bird estate and. discharges a-passenger, E.

W. Cleveland 'of Houston, '-It is piloted by Lieutenant. James B. Cole, an Army J. Mitchell, superintendent of the WaVren' Company, Warren, Ohio, a lormer well- 1 known resident, visits here with his mother, Mrs.

Li S. Mitchell of TEN-YEAKS AGO Ahnouncement is made of the application lor'a charter for a new national' bank with trust powers for Connellsville, the institution to be Kfflliate'd with the Mellon. banking interests! of Dawson is the new-barik. three-foot tomato plant, bearing 106 toma-: toes, is the center of attraction in the garden of and Mrs; Bruce Henry of Pearl street. ''-Miss Helen Carroll South Prospect street is elected principal of the junior high.school at California, Pa.

She will, also have of the student from the- California Teachers College. George Browji an active member and is elected grand chef de train of the State organization at the convention at "Happy" Witmer of near Prittstown catches two bass while fishing at Layton, the larger weighing seven and a quarter pounds. Dr. Simeon Clare Truby, 58, a practicing physician here the past L8 dies at his oflice in West Crawford avenue. Petain is an honest and engaging old character who is trying to hold his country together.

He is not a Hitler stooge. He is not pulled by wires from Berlin. He is not Fascist or bul rather realistic and religious. He is. laced with a wholly disillusioned nation.

The French people demand a. goat belore they will believe in anything else. The populace must have an adequate explanation ol how the dreams 01 security which they had been, fee lor decades evaporated almosi instantaneously in the lace of-the first The trials were conceived by Petain to provide them with quieting answers in order that confidence in a new regime may be built up. The key to his scheme was furnished in decision of his well chosen court. The death penalty was at the outse Irom possible No one going to get killed.

The court likewise announced it proposed to investigate everyone who has been the governmen for the past 10 years, which meai that this judicial antidote for dis illusionment will continue to fed to the people not. for month but for years, until the necessity it is ended. No matter what the Italians have just said in an attempt to spool the tribunal, the court is lair. Men able to sway the.great- est confidence of the people, were chosen. That may 'sound surprising but the whole movemen: would have failed ol its only purpose if this course had not been Frenchman in this country, upon reading personnel of the trial, board, in amazement: "Why these men are honest!" and wirec Petain immediately ol bis willingness to return to France to ap pear belore them at any time.

followed. A well-known nity. He showed once more that has a true understanding of'the emendous forces- which 'now ranging, the. world's" history, lor any years to come. To those of his own party who ave recklessly advised the Ameran people to believe' that we ave no proper interest and no al stake in the great clash-be- veert two ways of in Europe, affirmed his.

own belief that iere is no such thing as isolation; lat the i destruction of British sea ower, and the consequent dominion of the Atlantic by Germany, A power -hostile to our way of le," would be calamitous for the nited States; that while we must involve-' lent in this conflict, we must ex- end to democracy in Europe "the laterialresources ol this lat we must recognize that "our ay of life is In competition with and tell our- elves that if we wish to preserve ur freedom we have no alterna- ve but to outdistance" Hitler in ly contest he may enter -with; us, nd "beat him oti our own terms, nd in the.American way." These are blunt words -and hon- st words. They' give the lie to he suspicion once he became an active candidate Mr. Willkie. vould drop 'the quality of''pis in peech that won him the respect and friendship ol so many people who' are tired, of the customary leverness of politicians. Mr.

Willie is hot that 1 lust face the-threat of Hitler. He not afraid to -tell, we mst do a great deal more than we re doing now if we "to. keep. Sitter and' his Ideas oh his' -own ide of the is not Iraid to tell us, despite "the ad- rice ol the timid politicians, that le lavors selective service as inly democratic way" of obtaining he trained men we need ade- numbers lor 1 our natipnal He. is not alraid tell us the unpleasant the loosevelt Administration losses over or does not really understand--with- possibly.

tragic; Consequences lor all of us--that we can become a stronger, nation only if we all work harder. There are approximately, from 2,400 to 2,500 parts in the average touring automobile. The initial procedure may havi seemed to Americans (and will continue to seem) absurd legally This is due to the fact that th court is following old lav, rather than English common lav such as ours. Under Roman law the judges first conduct extensiv investigations of the case, an then after assuming who is guiltj act as prosecutors to develop th public evidence to sustain thei judgment. i 5HJNY NOSE DON7 NECESSARILY INDICATE, A SUNNY DISPOSITION However, ownership is' mighty apt to indicate a -happy, family.

There's a feeling of security in khowjng your home is YOURS! Let our mortgage plan, help you to that goal. Jlembcr Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Hints on Etiquette. One. is' not obliged' Ho send bride a.

gilt- when to her weeding is sending of a 1 gift is'a" one's own- ability. and. Today's Horoscope: A somewhat trying, difficult awaits those who are brating birthdays, should 'not change-, residence: employment or sweetheart. Help will, reach. from source, however.

The child: is born on this date both of and-' character. He or. she: wilTbe.lorcetul and also idealistic and musical or artistic. Gainr through accompanied'by worry, is indicated. One-Minute Test 1..

There 1,100: 2. About: 55-per He. Book a Day 'By DON MAUST "Move On Touih!" by T. Otto Nail (Friendship Press, New York) is a collection of stones, each of. -which a -young man who necessary to "move on Biding across the country a bus, pausing under a a'corriervof a- alongside a deslc in a modern stopping at camps beside the road, the author talked' with young people about their difficulties, their plans and their hopes But.

the are more; than incidents- based they-are -histories' that high light reasons for migration, the hardships of those wh.o;move" and those who a multitude questions to the thoughtful reader--aadi perhaps some A revealing book youth today. Factographs To get the best results Irom a thermometer it should -be- hiing- on the north side of file house, in a sheltered place, amr- the hook should be long enough to keep the thermometer an inch or. two fronrthVwalL-. The coldest -place, -in "the'yworld where people live is Verkho- in-, the province of- Yaltu- as low as 90 degrees below "zero have been there. Persons walking on a state! highway should walk on the left side of the road, lacing the oncoming' traffic.

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