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Columbus- Daily Telegram Complete United Press Wire Service From Every World Capital Only Dally Newspaper Published in East-Central Nebraska PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR NUMBER 2S0 I i AFL Fails jFDjR Seeking New CoSd Wave Holds East and South in An Icy Grip to Break Fremont Baby Born in Auto FREMONT, (IP) A child was born to Mrs. Eugene Harper of Fremont as she was being rushed to an Omaha hospital by her husband this morning. The birth occurred in the Harper automobile on the road between Fremont and Valley. Harper called an ambulance and mother and child were taken to the home iiunmen and "Moll" Flee Trap Shoot Up Michigan Police Car; Ditch Kidnap Open Farm Course Wednesday Four Speakers Billed for Program at Sales Pavilion CIO Strike "Teeth" For Neutral JuCiw L2r Tr I nifc ii I ft of H. Tillman on route 3, where Union Willing to End Walkout; Is Accused of Communist Backing CHICAGO (1P CIO leaders of Victims in Wild Chase they had been living.

A physician then was called and said mother and child a husky baby boy were getting along fine. -two Pope Plan CROWN POINT. Ind. UP) fered today to end the week-old Mmm i. mJV, -fel I I Sill ti UT7F rrrsjB Xh 3k' gunmen and a woman companion I today released three kidnap victims ipanion I strike which has paralyzed the Chi at Schererville, near cago livestock market if the Union Says Administration Hoping to Amend Act Against Aggressors NEW YORK Copyright, 193S.

by United Press) A plan to amend the United States neutrality act so that the president could apply an embargo on any nation he deemed to be an aggressor is being prepared by government experts for prescn sped westward toward Chicago Stockyard and Transit company Priest Hits would negotiate for a written con tract. The offer was made after an at 'Atheist9 Jews Pontiff Resumes Work Quickly After His Brush With Death tempt to reopen the market with American Federation of Labor stock handlers had failed. AFL leaders tation to President Roosevelt. Heights. I1L They fled in a car belonging to Louis H.

Karr of South Bend. Ind, whom they had abducted earlier today. Released with Karr were Henry Metty and Claud Mennis. farmers of near Vicksburg. who had been kidnaped by the desperadoes during a wild flight across southern Michigan.

Escapes Rear Trunk Crown Point police reported that announced 350 handlers had returned Fr. Coughlin Blames Them for Communism; Attacks Nazi Pogrom to work but a survey of the yards showed only three AFL men at work. The offer of a settlement was made by Van A. Bittner, director of (Picture on Page 4) The second annual farmers' short course opens Wednesday of this week in Columbus for a two-day session. Farmers from all parts of east central Nebraska are invited to attend.

There is no charge for admittance. In order to make attendants at the course more convenient, sessions will be held on the afternoons of Wednesday, Nov. 30, and Thursday, Dec. 1, only. There will be no morning meetings.

Meetings will be held in the sales ring at the Columbus Sales pavilion, rather than at the city auditorium. By changing the location of the meetings, sponsors said farmers will not only be able to see the demonstration-talks better, but at the same time, need not feel obligated to "dress up" for the meetings. Through co-operation with the Platte county farm bureau and University of Nebraska, the agricultural bureau of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the annual fall event, was able to secure four speakers from the university and extension service of the college of agriculture as speakers. Two of these the Congress of Industrial Organiza DETROIT, (XPt The Re. Charles E.

Coughlin planned today to ex 4" tions' drive to organize the packing tend the Jewish-Communist contro Metty had been placed in the rear industry. The striking handlers are members of a union affiliated with versy with renewed attacks on "atheistic Jews." ROME (IP) Pope XI. who was near death on Friday, resumed almost normal activity today and was reported to be planning an encyclical on world problems. The pontiff. 81 years old.

demonstrated his remarkable vitality yesterday, when, without assistance, he walked to his throne in Consistorial hall to give an audience with 400 Hungarian pilgrims. Reports that he would soon issue an encyclical were based chiefly on the belief that the pope was convinced that another series of heart attacks similar to Friday's would prove fatal. It was believed, therefore, that he The proposed amendments would be designed to transform the neutrality law into one of the most powerful diplomatic weapons in existence. Up to Congress State department and other officials are preparing the plan. It calls for sweeping changes which would put "teeth" into United States foreign policy.

The proposals, after submission to the president, will be worked over with congressional leaders in an effort to clear the way for legislation amending the neutrality law at the next session of congress. One diplomatic expert described the proposed changes as giving the Station WMCA of New York which the CIO's Packing House Workers' Organizing Committee. Want Forced Dues Collection accused Coughlin of preaching "mis takes of fact in his weekly talk a Bittner proposed that the men re-week ago and asserted that his speech turn to work while the union and trunk of the car and that he suc- ceeded in climbing out and hanging on the rear of the machine. When he escaped the bandits decided to release all the captives. The gunmen left a car at South Bend when they stole Karr's machine.

I Those released told state police that one of the bandits and the wom-; an companion were wounded in a gun fight with Michigan state police the company negotiate the other is sues on which the strike was called last Monday a closed shop, forced I was anxious to reaffirm his position was calculated to stir up religious and racial hatred and dissension," barred it yesterday along with stations WJJD of Chicago and WIND of Gary, Ind. WMCA refused to broadcast Coughlin because he did not provide station officials with a copy of it in advance. Coughlin said the stations "showed very poor intelligence." He said they cancelled his speech "because they are Jewish-owned stations." He said he would on various world problems, such as The freakish snowstorm which wracked most of th country chose the chief executive more power in lor- near Mendon, earlier today. men are billed for Wednesday, the in the world as an ign affairs than at any time in his Empire State building in New York the tallest appropriate backdrop for this enormous drift. collection of union dues by the company from the pay of the men, time and one-half for overtime and pay increases for 65 men receiving less than 62 cents an hour.

The CIO massed 250 pickets before the main gate to the sprawling stockyards early this morning after the AFL had announced its men were other two for Thursday. The Program tory and correspondingly increasing weight of United States' views on Here is the program of the short the policies of other nations. New England the south. Weather forecasters predicted rec Freezing Temperatures Extend Into Middle West; 100 Are Dead course: Wednesday. 1:30 p.

Dr. W. S. Alford, department of animal pathology, speaking on "Problems of Sleep ing Sickness, Swine Erysipelas and his condemnation of armed conflicts and communism and his pleas to leading statesmen to co-operate in the maintenance of peace. Ignores Warnings Despite the warnings of Prof.

Am-inta Milani, his personal physician, against activities which would tax his heart, the pope began his arduous week-long spiritual exercises last night in his private chapel. He planned to continue his practice of receiving newlyweds on Wednesdays and Saturdays. After a light breakfast Sunday and a consultation with Dr. Milani. the pope was carried Into his library The fugitives were carrying a supply of dynamite, extra auto licenses, rifles and pistols.

Will "Shoot to Kill" State police headquarters warned that the -desperadoes would "shoot to kill." All roads in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois were blockaded. State police from Indiana, Michigan and Illinois and county and city officers from the region were participating in the man hunt. The three men. after being released, immediately started for their homes. Michigan troopers at Paw Paw, devote his talk next Sunday to the ready to resume handling stock and same subject.

tne company had said work would In yesterday's talk, Coughlin reit- be resumed for ali rep0rting back on erated the views he advanced the ne job previous Sunday and broadcast aj Two AFL men entered, punched a transcription of that talk which time clock and fcegan feeding and brought protests from prominent lib- watering catUe on the regular, day erals and Jews. It alleged that Jews sWttt a thir a ft. man ininH Bang's Disease." In the course of his talk. Dr. Alford will demonstrate locations and effects of the three dis By UNITED PRESS Most of the United States, from the Rockies to the eastern seaboard and from Maine to the southern tip of Florida, was experiencing the sec- ord low temperatures for the season in the southern states.

McAl-ester, Sunday had a low of 14 degrees, the record in the area covered by the New Orleans weather bureau. Yesterday's temperatures from 45 to 50 in Miami were expected to drop even lower Freezing temperatures struck the middlewestern and north central states. In parts of Minnesota and eases on live animals. Discussion period. Changes One Word Of importance in that connection, is a suggestion that the present act be amended to permit the president to prohibit shipment of arms, implements of war and all materials necessary to the conduct of war by an aggressor.

The act now empowers the president to prohibit shipments of "arms, ammunitions and implements of war" to both belligerents after a state of war is declared or after he finds that a state of war exists. By 'substituting the "munitions' for "ammunition" the act would become a much more powerful diplo them. Commission men, who repre-. i 4U The freezing weather followed a sent the farmers in deals with the double-blizzard over the Thanksgiv- packing houses, aided caring for ing week-end which established rec where he beean a heavv nroirram de- ord November snowfalls and was Mich, said that Bennis Dixon, 27. spite advice agamst it.

wanted in Kansas on assault and i Seated romfortabW in a snecial the light shipments which arrived. About 2.000 head of livestock arrived but the commission men voted not to conduct a market with the light deliveries pending the second mediation meeting. Dyer act violation charges and an chair noar a window overlooking St unidentified companion had an- t. mntn siirwxKlv responsible for more than 100 deaths in the east and middle west. New England, digging itself out of snowfalls ranging fromt10 tj.

2 inches, reported 29 deaths. Total fa- were leaders of Communism in Rur-sia and Germany before the advent of national socialism (Nazism) in 1933. Condemns Nazi Pogrom He said yesterday that he had been accused of making a "most un-American speech, of defense of Nazism and the nazi pogrom, of being a sadist, and of gross errors In fact." Introducing the transcription. Coughlin said it would prove that the charges against him were "gross misrepresentations of fact," "Admittedly," he said, "I did attack and will continue to attack W. E.

Tolman. extension animal husbandman, "Livestock Rehabilitation and the Use of Grain Sorghums in Livestock Rations." Discussion period. Thursday. 1:30 p. J.

R. Redditt, extension poultryman. "Care and Feeding of the Laying Flock for Winter Egg Production." Discussion period. M. L.

Flack, extension dairy specialist, "A Permanent Program for the Man Who Milks Cows." Discussion period. Prizes for Farmer Talks by each of the four speakers will extend about 45 minutes, and with the discussion periods and About 85 AFL men gathered at swered gOnfire of state police whn- audiences to Vatican' officials, then they were sighted near Mendon. was moved to the Consistorial hall. They, had been followed from Mott- He was greeted wilh the simpleHun-ville after a request for their appre- I garan exciamation "eljen," meaning hension had been received irom the pjigrims having Kansas police. They were believed bpen warned aeainst aDDlause which the Dakotas the temperature went below zero.

Storm warnings had been raised ajong the entire eastern seaboard. In New York City, 42,000 -weary shovelers dug at an icy sheath hardened by four days of freezing weather. The city's snow bill already had passed $1,000,000 and was expected to go higher before all the snow is carried away. The weather bureau predicted that there would be no more heavy snowfalls for a while, however. Thirteen and a half inches had fallen in the metropolitan area since mid-afternoon on Thursday.

their local union headquarters but talities in New York's metropolitan made no attempt to penetrate the area from the cold or from accidents picket line, which later was dis- on icy highways and streets reached persed. Police guards were reduced from 100 to a squad. LiSht snow flurries were predict- The AFL spokesman insisted 350 fo today along with a decided might excite him, matic weapon in the hands of the president. Ammunition means only the materials used in the "charging of firearms and ordnance of all kinds." Munitions would include all materials necessary for conduct of war, food, clothing, and all types of raw materials. Thus, by making such a change and giving the chief executive power to distinguish between an aggressor and a defending nation, the United State would be in a position to exert pressure on governments which need supplies from America atheistic Jews and atheistic gentiles.

headed from Topeka, to Detroit. Flatten Police Tires With a 30-30 rifle, troopers said. Although he was somewhat paler than usual, he appeared in high spir- had reported for work. arP ln temperature. But I will prove that actually I in i "These men have no grievance! freezing lemperaxures were re- its.

He rose from the gestatorial with the Union Stockyards and Tran- ported in the middle west as low as 10 in some suburban areas of vited and still invite the non-communist, non-atheistic Jews, whom I respect and with whom I deeply sympathize, to join me in combating communism. said. "They were left holding the Chicago and a decided drop in bag when the forces of the CIO took chair and walked the several yards to the throne entirely alone. During his 12-minute speech he made no mention of his illness. He gave the benediction with a steady hand.

command and forced a walkout the bandits flattened two tires of a pursuing state police car and thus managed to escape. Troopers traced the pair to Metty's farm nine miles southeast of Vicksburg, where they commandeered another automobile and took Metty as hostage. At the Mennis farm nearby they stopped for gasoline and forced Charge Communism "Every attempt was made this "I will prove that I did not de fend nazism but condemned it vigorously. I will prove that I con demned the nazi pogrom." New Deal Doubles the National Debt Norris Says FDR Still is Popular morning to halt our men from re- to conduct war and in that way to back up United States foreign policy. A large part of the world would be dependent upon supplies from this continent in event of a general international conflict.

turning to work. Handbills were i When the transcrirjtion of the con- Irrworwinl nnrtirm nf fho nrPvin.K passed Out which had the taint Of Engineers "Switch" Platte River Flow Mennis to accompany them. Dixon, whose alias is William Harrison, was described as 5 feet 7 inches WASHINGTON. IP Sen. predicted today that Presi-1 dent Roosevelt will be forced to run sermon had been broadcast.

Coughlin quoted what he said was proof that Kuhn, Loeb an! company of New York helped finance the Russion other details of the course included, each afternoon's program is scheduled to be completed about 4:30 o'clock, affording farmers plenty of time to return to their homes for the evening chores. In addition to the valuable information contained in the four talks, it will be worthwhile for farmers to attend both afternoon sessions, as from $15 to $20 in merchandise will be given away each afternoon by the Columbus merchants, the Chamber of Commerce committee announced. Only farmers will be given tickets at the door, which will place them "in the running for the prizes," it was noted. Although short in their duration, the talks to be presented Wednesday and Thursday will be packed with information, and are of the same type presented at the college of agriculture in Lincoln at annual farm meetings there, it was announced. POLAND CLOSES B'NAI B'RIGH LODGE OGALLALA UTV-Tri-County public power engineers within the next 10 days plan to shift the regular flow of the Platte river to the reservoir communist propaganda and which WASHINGTON, IP) Treasury were much like the handbills which figures showed today that the gov-were handed out by communist agi- ernment is going into the red al-tators before the men were killed at most twice as fast now as in the the South Chicago steel affair (the Previous fiscal year, so-called "Memorial day massacre" The net deficit figures indicate of 1937 in which 15 were killed when that the government's average police fired on a parade of strikers spending beyond income each month approaching the Republic steel since this fiscal year started has been plant).

almost $330,000,000 compared with "We are fully aware that some of an excess of spending over receipts the communist agitators who partic- of about $170,000,000 per month one ipated in the steel affair are active year ago. for a third term if his legislative ta and sighing 160 pounds. He program is blocked by congress. was believed to be driver of the Norris said in an interview that.bandlt carj the November elections will have the effect of uniting progressives BttCkfirC CctltSCS and "belittling the necessity of par- Plane to Burn "I think yet," he said, "that the! president is popular with the peo- OGALLALA UP-A backfiring en-ple and at the present time there g'ne today was held responsible for i nn nlhpr man in lif. nr the destruction of a four-place Stin- WARSAW.

Ift The Polish lodge of the Jewish B'Nai B'Rith organization was closed by the government today. Its funds and archives were confiscated. Last week President Ignacy Mos-cicki signed a decree banning all free Mason lodges in Poland. 30,000 Strikers Are Denied Jobs PARIS (in The General Labor federation (CGT) defied Premier Edouard Daladier's government today and re-afiirmed its order for a President Roosevelt has had some outlet tunnel through which all of the water of the stream is to be diverted during the period of construction of the gigantic Kingsley dam. The move will permit the crowding of the stream into a narrow, artificial channel, thus leaving the natural bed clear for work of constructing the dam, which is to be the second largest earth-filled dam in the world.

There will be no reservoir, engi I in fomenting this present stockyards son cabin plane owned by S. F. .1 fn. i trouble. out that could cope with him.

What changes the next two or three years 'p will develop I cannot say. IJ0" budget discussions with visitors at Warm Springs, where he is on his annual two weeks' Thanksgiving holiday. He will take up the budget for final decisions when he returns here. ROOSEVELT GETS PERSECUTION VIEWS "The same voter who is for Roose. Becomes "Corn FIVE NEBRASKA WPA PROJECTS APPROVED ship was being tuned up at the airport here.

Krantz had flown here 24-hour general strike on Wednesday in protest against the government's economy decrees. Daladier was firmly putting down the premature and unauthorized strikes which have been in prog with S. Lindberg and G. Drew of OMAHA IP Presidential approv-I Mr- Roosevelt last estimate was Omaha for a duck hunt. al was given to five Nebraska WPA that the gross debt would exceed velt against anyone else will disregard his advice on voting for someone else.

This was true also if Teddy Roosevelt, who tried the same thing and failed. But the man who thinks President Roosevelt has lost his grip on the American people has got another guess coming." $40,000,000,000 on June 30, 1939, the neers said, until the dam is completed. When that time arrives the water will be diverted to fill a reservoir 26 miles long, several miles wide and up to 200 feet in depth. Switching of the river from its natural bed will be an engineering applications totaling $123,335, according to word from Washington. end of the fiscal year.

The national debt began establishing new records in the fiscal year of Largest of the grants is the Southern Cal to Play in Rose Bowl 855 given to the University of Ne I feat that is expected to draw thou- 1934. It was a mere $2,975,000,000 on June 30, 1917, three months after the United States entered the world war. In a year it rose to more than I Los Angeles, IPv-The University I sands of srectators. braska college of medicine at Omaha for improvement of buildings. Other approvals included $10,000 to build a park at Lawrence, $1,680 for WARM SPRINGS.

ll President Roosevelt renewed his conversations with the American ambassadors to Germany and Italy on subject of European religious and racial persecutions today. It was reported that the conferences might lead to an even more positive policy in this regard. For more than four hours, the chief executive sat before an open in the living room of the little White House here. listening to Hugh Wilson, ambassador to Germany, and William Phillips, ambassador to Italy. To all questions they Mid that the conference was as yet incomplete of Southern California football team FREMONT MAN CONTESTS ELECTION a rural school building project in today was selected to represent thej LINCOLN MAN VERY Pacific coast conference in the an-i crDinilC! IMIIIDrn ress.

The only new strike today was among 5,000 shipyard workers "at Dunkerque. An intimation of reprisals against unauthorized strikes was given today when the gates of the Renault Automobile Works were locked against strikers who tried to return to work. More than half of the 30,000 Renault workers reported expecting to resume.work. The company virtually locked them out, saying it was necessary to repair damage done machinery last week when mobile King" Third Time CHICAGO (U'i William H. Curry, huge-framed Tipton, farmer, was adjudged "corn king of the world" today and became the first person in history to win the title, warded annually in the International Livestock exposition, for three successive years.

Curry, a veteran competitor in the hay and grain division of the exposition which climaxes fall showings of prize grains and livestock from the nation's farms, exhibited 10 ears of Reid's Yellow Dent corn from the same field in which he grew the 1936 and 1937 championship specimens. Third place in the class for Polled Shorthorn bulls, 2 to 3-year-olds, was won by Fred Blomstrom Sons, Waverly, Neb. Adams county, $10,800 for improve FREMONT. U-Reg. W.

Rey Jnual Rose Bowl game Jan. 1. oiiiiuuoi.i iiuunm i The Trojans, defeated twice, will nffinU ment of the water system at Stanton and $8,000 for improvement of nolds filed a petition with County the water system at Gibbon. $12,000,000,000, and after two years of war the national debt was 000. From that point it began to slide downward until by June 30, 1931.

it stood at $16,801,000,000. Depression finally hit the treasury the next year and the national debt began an uninterrupted growth which has added more than $20,000,000,000 to Judge Fred C. Laird contesting the.51 l0 easte representative. the con1ition of Adolph election of his opponent. Myron R.

The Trojans were voted into the Weibor? of Lincon as -quite Kri. Bodell. as county supervisor from j1 bf Seraphic ballots cast by ous- after a collision at the jnter. district seven. I secUon of the Cornhusker high- but indicated that if any talking was to be done.

Mr. Roosevelt would do it Reynolds charged that 100 votes ul cutoff and oH syA road were illegally counted for Bodell in Six votes from conference faculty t(yiay guards forc.bly evicted sit-down strikers from the plant. SEE LESS DAMAGE FROM GRASSHOPPERS LINCOLN. IP O. S.

Bare, extension etomologist at the Nebraska college of agriculture, said today the figure in seven years and four 'the first and fourth wards in Fre- w're lo lne Company officials had consulted i oosi-season iooioau nonor. months under the New Deal. rnunu coaeu receivea a seven-vuie i 1 with the government. It was said Weiberg, an attending physician reported, sustained serious head and chest injuries and deep shock. He was still unconscious early to- riav AtithnrittAe u-hn invcf iffafew! margin after completion of the of-1 ficial canvass and tabulation of theTcxai Christian.

Duke and Tennes-to oifin tn, Texas Christian and Duke have that the workers had broken their collective contract by an illegal that a complete state grasshopper survey reveals a general reduction SECOND PERSON DIES strike and, therefore, new workers Rpvnnlds aliened that Bo- f'l'shed unbeaten in their regular the accident said an driven NORTON STILL HOPES FOR SHORT BALLOT LINCOLN UV State Senator John N. Norton of Polk, author of the short ballot amendment proposal defeated at the general election, said today he "was gratified at the consideration it received I do feel rfn nrf nf th rn, i-1 schedules, while Tennessee must would be hired in their places. Daladier charged that the general northeast on the highway cutoff by IN BEATRICE CRASH BEATRICE, IP Louis Weideman. nlav Mtcsicctrtni navt SaturHaw T)uV Batten collided with Wei- can county central committee EUgene strike was designed as a demonstra of 15 per cent or more in egg population. Bare added "there is a big improvement in the southeastern section.

North and west the improve gaily gathered 15 disabled ballots was berg-g car. ule, and finished last Saturday in REVOLUTIONISTS GET PRISON TERMS LISBON ill Thirteen persons charged with disseminating subversive propacanda were sentenced to prison today by a special military tribunal. tion to show that syndicalism, com 38, died early today of injuries re- munism and socialism actually dom inate France. the ballots of approximately 15 vot-; 7 t(L0 victory over Pitts-j usi.pav cq jsay ers in the first and fourth wards." kurnv The Trojans play Notre "irMA ALiU MAT Dame Dec. 3.

ELIA, VOLPI DIES FLORENCE, Italy UP Elia Volpi. LONDON (in Well-informed quarters understood today that Vis- ment is less. In the extreme northern area and some western panhandle counties, the egg population is greater than a year ago." He attributed the increase to the flight of migratory grasshoppers. Bare estimated about 20,000 tons of poison bran bait went through county mixing stations. He said the amount used probably was about ceived in an automobile accident Sunday in which Joan Walker.

8, his niece, was instantly killed. Both were residents of Beatrice. Joan was the daughter of Ray Walker. Weideman's car, in which the two were riding, collided with a car driven by William Oswald, of Beatrice. Oswald was uninjured.

County Attorney E. A. Hubka continued investigation of the accident today. that progress has beon made and that the short ballot will be adopted eventually." He suggested that the next legislature resubmit that part of the amendment providing for single four-year terms fir state officers, staggering state and national elections so that they would not occur the same year and including provision for recall of officials. DISMISS DAMAGE SUIT BEATRICE 'IP) A $2,914 damage suit against the Spiegel Auto company of Beatrice, filed by Adolph Anderson of Omaha, was dismissed in district court at Anderson's re quest.

The suit was a sequel to an auto-truck collision near Ashland in July, 1937. 100 INJURED WHEN STAIRWAY COLLAPSES LISBON IP One hundred persons were injured last night when an iron stairway collapsed in a motion picture theater. 9 THE WEATHER (By United Press) NEERASKA: Fair tonight and Tuesday; not so cold central and east portions tonight. 80, painter, restorer of the works of count Halifax, foreign secretary, masters, and a collector of art, died would accompany King George and yesterday. When he was 22 he won Queen Elizabeth when they visit a first prize at the Boston world's Canada and the United States next fair.

He was well known by collect- summer. He would act as minister ors in the United States. in attendance. 000 tons less than that used in 1937..