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SOUTHWEST ARIZ WAMLFUt-flP 97 50th Year, No. 165, Phoenix, Arizona 112 N. CENTRAL AVE. TELEPHONE 3-1111 Monday Morning, October 30,1939 NAZIS OF FLINT Nation Car Death Toll Drops U. S.

Average Is Topped By Arizona Oct. The nation is just about holding its in safety this year, with a two per cent decrease in deaths for the first nine months nared with the corresponding period of 1938, the National Safety Council announced today. Arizona showed a 12 per cent decrease, with 18 lives saved. The record was so the council said, that the slight im- nrovement might be entirely wiped out during the final three months of the year, when more hours of darkness fog, rain, sleet, snow and Ice add to the perils 'of driving. Adds Word Of Caution The council added a word of caution to drivers and pedestrians alike to use extra care during the remainder of the year to'main- tain or better the 1938 record, which was 18 per cent better than that of 1937.

By the end of September, 22,240 persons had been killed in traffic accidents, a decrease of 570 from the first nine months of 1938. The improvement, the council reported, was due almost entirely to a decrease in pedestrian accidents. There was an eight per Gets Final CM cent drop in pedestrian fatalities, but no change in other- types of fatal accidents. Coast Deaths Increase The greatest improvement the nine months was in. the North Atlantic states, a decrease.of 11 per cent.

In contrasC'the north- central states showed a drop of only one per cent. Traffic deaths in the Pacific coast states jumped three per cent. For the first eight months of the year there was a six per cent increase in travel over the same period in 1938, the council reported, 'adding that this advance, combined three, per cent drop in traffic deaths for the eight-month period, represented an eight per cent improvement over last year in the national motor, vehicle death rate, based mileage. In September the decrease in deaths amounted to only one per cent as compared with a year ago. Furthermore, the council said, the September toll of 3.040 was 13 per cent creater th an it was for August.

More deaths were reported in April. June and July of this year than in those months" in 1938. Kansas City Leads Only 17 of 37 -cities with more than 250,000 population improved their records so far this year. Kansas City led with a 50 per cent drop. New York City, with a nine per cent drop, showed the greatest ac- ALICE BRADY The noted stage and screen star, Alice Brady, died Saturday night in New York, it was learned yesterday.

She had known for a year that her illness would be fatal. Noted Stage. Screen Star Reaches End Alice Brady's Death Follows Lengthy Mlness NEW YbRkrdct' (AP) Alice Brady, celebrated star of and screen, died here late stage last night, only a few days before her 47th birthday. Her death was attributed to cancer. The end came only three weeks after her famous producer-father, for William A.

Brady, rushed her here the illness, which months or more would tual savin deaths. of life, with 53 fewer Treasury Fund Profit Is Shown WASHINGTON. Oct. The treasury's 52,000,000,000 stabilization fund made $5,181,203 profit above running expenses in the fiscal year which ended last June 30. Profits since the fund was created in 1934 total 515.055,650.

Reporting the profit today, the treasury said it was made through collection of handling; oharces from foreigners selling gold to this interest on government bonds owned by the funds and profits on dealing in foreign cur- rencics. Expenses, including salaries and cable tolls, amounted to $237,819 during the year. from Hollywood for treatment for sw for 12 In Also Leaves Son addition to her father and ler stepmother, Grace George, also an actress, she is survived by a son, Donald Crane. The latter's father is James Lyon Crane, actor, from whom Miss Brady was divorced in 1922. Private funeral services will be held in New York tomorrow and burial will be in Sleepy Hollow, N.

Y. Miss Brady, known along as one of the theater's most enthusiastic troupers, continued her stage and screen career as long as she was f.ble to a performance despite her illness. One of her greatest triumphs came as late as 1938, her performance of Mrs. O'Leary in the "motion picture of "In Old Chicago," a performance that won her the Motion Picture Academy award. Miss Brady, whose mother was Rose Rene, a Parisian singer, started out to be an opera singer and did study at the Boston Conservatory of Music.

After singing the leads in several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, she turned to serious drama. Gains Stardom In 1912 she won her first fame as a straight dramatic actress when she played Meg in "Little Women, and this triumph carried her on to stardom in silent pictures in such films as and Paid For and "The Gilded Cage. She returned to the stage in 1918 in her most successful part that of Jennie in "Forever After, which she played two years In 1931 she triumphed on the stage aeain in one of the leading roles of Eugene O'Neill's trilogy 'Mourning Becomes Electra. At one time on Broadway she appeared in 12 consecutive plays of which were failures. She refused to quit and the 13th play was.

a hit. Her last screen role was with Henry Fonda in "Young Mr. Lincoln." She spoke French, Italian and German fluently. She spoke Latin fairly well and was studying that language to the end. Dead Man At Wheel, Smashes Dock, Warehouse Ferry ferry's bridge.

Sixty-nine years old, he was apparently the victim of a heart attack. William O. Thorniley, ferry company executive, -said damages to the Crosline were slight, whereas the wrecked part of the dock an old wing not in active use. The warehouse, built atop, dock, was filled with. 'feed, ana other merchandise owned by.Al Reuter, Manchester.

The entire structure was pushed into the bay, most of its contents. No estimate of this damage was available. Robert the ferry baAdng into Chester dock at 1:20 p. m. today, wrecking a damaging her own superstructure and terrifying some 25 Paf 8611 6 nlnll hpl onto Careening from the dock at full reverse speed, she ploughed, onto the beach and was halted, a few feet short of going high and dry a frantic mate succeeded in stopping her engines.

After the crash, Capt. Frank Clements, Kingston, temporarily assigned to the Manchester run, was found dead on 'the her slip after a run from Seattle when he, standing on the auto deck, signaled the bridge for reduced speed in preparation for actual docking. The bridge failed to he said, and the fantall (stern) the beat crashed into under the old part of dock. The superstructure nit the warehouse above. Most of the passengers were in their automobiles in the center the.

Crosline and out of the way falling" debris. Vetters himself was forced to Jump quickly to avoid being crushed between the ship and the pilings. The Croslme's stern was rippec above'the rail line, but the vesse returned: to Seattle under Vetter' command and was able to remain on its regular run the rest of th day. Airplane I Killing Is Confessed Lochinvar Blames Mid-Air Battle For Slaying Oct. (UP) Pletch, 28 years old, early today confessed the 7 antastic airplane kidnap- murder of a Missouri flying instructor, Carl Bivens.

Young Pletch's costomary bra- ado vanished as he related to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pletch, of the past week-end dur- ng which, he said, he shot and killed Bivens, of Brookfield, after a mid-air fist fight. A few hours after the meet- ng with his parents, Pletch was xansferred to Missouri officials at the Illinois-Indiana state line and itarted for Macon, to face prosecution. "Flying Lochinvar" Weds Pletch, who gained- the nickname "flying Lochinvar" last sum- ner when he kidnaped an Illinois farm girl he wanted to marry, rer vealed to his broken-hearted parents that he had married a second He said hie second wife was a Missouri girl.

-His first marriage ended in divorce and he has a four- year-old child by that marriage. Pletch signed an 800-word statement that he killed Bivens in the tiny cabin of a cub plane as the craft careened crazily toward earth with no one at the controls. He told his tale of murder In mid-air several hours after he was seized when he landed the ship in clearing of a forest preserve, 70 miles sputh of here. BivensTbody was-found last night a pasture near Cherry Box, about 50 miles from the scene of kidnaping, at the same hour Pletch was captured. Plane Widely Sought The plane, in which Bivens and Pletch took off from the Brookfield airport Friday, had been the object of a nationwide search.

About an tour before he was seized, Pletch ilew over his father's homestead. He stunted the craft, dipped the plane low enough so his mother could recognize him, waved and then disappeared to the southwest. The mother memorized the'reg- stry number on the wings of the )lane. She notified police who said numbers tallied with those of plane missing from Brookfield. The mother's tip to police subsequently led to her son's capture.

In his confession Pletch said he leaded toward Indiana after kill- ng Bivens and intended to commit suicide in spectacular fashiorh He said he planned to crash the plane nto the barn on his father's farm so that he might die close to his family. Changes Mind On Suicide Thai, he related, was the reason he flew over his homestead. He changed his mind once he got there, however, he said, and decided against ending his life in such a manner. At first, police said, Pletch explained that bloodstains found in the cabin of the plane were the result of a nosebleed he suffered flying at high altitude. He said he had let Bivens out of the plane" Friday night, but did not explain where.

He explained the presence in the plane of a recently fired pistol by saying he had used it to shoot ducks while flying over Springfield, 111. earlier yesterday. Decides To Talk When confronted with information that Bivens' body had been found with two bullet holes in the jack of the head, Pletch decided to 'make a clean breast of it," police said. He said he fired two bullets into the back of Bivens' head during a terrific fist fight in mid-air and then seized the controls just in time to keep the diving plane from crashing into a fence. He landed a few minutes later, he said, placed Bivens' body near a fence and took off again.

Pletch related he had killed Bivens with a pistol he purchased here a month ago because "my father-in-law had threatened me if I ever came on his place in Missouri "My father-in-law didn't like rrie because I-had'been working in a carnival," the statement read got the gun in self-protection inasmuch as I intended to go over there and get my wife." This was the first intimation that Pletch was married. Out Of Jail Two Weeks Last summer he had stolen plane from the Frankfort airporl and, during a series of wild flights kidnaped Miss Goldie Gehrken in Illinois, later releasing her. Pletch was released on bond two weeks ago from Frankfort iai where he awaited for plane theft in connection with this summer's episode. Oldest Newspaper Celebrates Birthday HARTFORD. Connl, Oct.

Hartford Courant America's oldest continuously pub lished newspaper, celebrated its 175th birthday today by publishinj a 226-page anniversary edition. Among those sending congjatu lations was President Slayer Of Pilot ERNIE PLETCH Known since summer as "the flying Lochinvar" because, in a stolen plane he tried to kidnap a girl he wanted to marry, thrill-seeking Ernie Pletch yesterday confessed' he shot to death Carl Bivens, a Missouri flying instructor, and his act was the climax of a fierce battle in the air during which the plane flew with no one at the controls. Is Elided By Calif ornians Tarroll And Schlieper Spend-726 'Hoiirs Over Dry Lake" LONG BEACH, Oct. Carroll and Clyde Schlieper landed their seaplane at Marine Stadium at 3:09 p. m.

today, concluding a month-long endurance flight. The new record, they proudly announced, is 726 hours. Their 30-day air tour, over Rosamond dry lake 60. miles north of Beach was three 'days over previous world record for sustained flight. Broke Record Thursday The 25-year-old fliers broke the former 653-hour mark, established in 1935 at Meridian, by Fred and Al Key, Thursday.

Weakened by their long flight, the men were carried from their ship to taxis, taken to a hotel and carried into a room for physical examination. "We feel all right, but our legs are awfully wobbly," said Carroll. "We can't support our weight. yet, but we'll be all right in a day or two." "We want a bath first, and then a real bed to sleep in." The men have slept, at two-hour in a narrow compartr ment in the plane, in quarters so they were unable to turn as slept. Most of the flight was over Rosamond dry lake, where refueling operations were simplified by level terrain and where the temptation to land would be comparatively slight.

Will Exhibit Plane The plane, a $1,800 50-horse-power piper cabin ship, will be placed on exhibition at the Seal Beach Airport, of which Carroll is-manager, near here. Schlieper said their flight demonstrated Hie dependability of modern, moderately priced aircraft motors and equipment. He said they had flown about 55,500 miles, used 3,000 gallons of gasoline and 300 quarts of oil. 'First to greet the men were their wives. Mrs.

'Schlieper spent the month on the desert, cooking for the fliers. Mrs. Carroll is employed here. Red Troops Reach Latvia RIGA, Latvia, Oct. The first trainload of troops arrived the frontier station of Zilupe, under the Russian- Latvian pact which gave Russia naval and military concessions.

Blimp Is Kept Aloft By Wind SWEETWATER, Oct. Goodyear-blimp "Volunteer" hovered over the airport tonight, its two navigators unable to moor because of gusty winds varying from 14 to 30 miles an hour. The blimp, en route from Phoenix to Akron, ran into head Midland, at noon, and failed to reach Dallas tonight as planned. A ground crew. tried unsuccessfully more than an hour to moor the ship to a temporary the gondola with no food since breakfast at Pecos, Tex, were Capt.

A. T. Sewell, pHot, and Fred tenders, copilot. James Oliver, radioman, left the blimp -to lighten the load when the ground crew pulled it to the ground in an attempt to tie it. Leaders Poll House Doubt Is Cast On Margin For Bill Oct.

with conflicting reports of how. the house stands on the question of repealing the' arms mbargo; Democratic leaders began a poll of their party members today on their attitude toward the senate-approved neutrality measure. Representative Boland, Demo- chief whip, said he poll would be completed by Tuesday, when house debate on the measure is expected to begin. The checkup -was ordered after Representative Fish, Republican, New York, disputed a claim by administration leaders that the house, would' approve the bill by at least 30 votes. Fish said the margin of victory for either side would be less than 10.

In-a statement today, Representative Rankin, Missis- ippi, said the senate amendment epealing the arms embargo faced 'probable defeat" in the house. "Step Toward War" "The house win.accept the sen- ite amendments to keep our ships and our people out of the danger zone," he said, "but I seriously doubt if it will accept the senate- amendment to repeal the embargo, as many members regard such repeal as a preliminary declaration if war." Democratic leaders have been unable to make a comprehensive poll of -party heretofore with no business louse, many representatives went lome while was battling over the neutrality bill. Eleven Changes Shown An Press poll of 60 Democrats who i-voted for continuance of the embargo last June showed at least 11 had changed their minds. Many others refused state their positions publicly. Chairman Bloom, Democrat, New York, of the house foreign affairs committee, asserted that -he was assured of 21 such switches.

Despite general expressions of confidence on the part of Democratic proponents of the bill, Fish fight it every'step of the way to the final house vote, expected by the'end of this week. The New Yorker said he would wage his first battle in the rules committee tomorrow, to obtain provision for house amendments to the bill. Under the procedure that the house leadership has in mind, the measure would not be open' for amendment ip the house. Will Go To Conference Speaker Bankhead announced that the leadership's-plan was to send thfe measure to a joint senate- louse conference committee to compose differences between the neutrality bill just by the senate and that approved by the house in June. latter "provides or an embargo while the former does not.

Bankhead indicated, 'however, house would be given-one opportunity to change the senate provisions: When the Joint conference is ordered, a motion will be entertained to give specified Instructions to the to what they shall Insist on in behalf of the house. Fish said he would propose such nstructions, if he fails in his effort to have the rules committee open the bill wide to any and all house" amendments. One- instruction he will propose, he. said, will be that the conferees include ifi bill's final draft the same arms embargo provision which the house voted-214 to 173 last summer. Five Boys Die In Explosion ROCK SPRINGS, CAP) Five Rock Springs schoolboys were killed today an explosion in a mining district 'at 'the northern outskirts of this city.

M. J. Dankowski, said he had not determined what exploded. He speculated that the five might have found some dynamite or black powder 'around one of the near-by coal mines. The dead were identified as Gordon Grant, nine years old; his brother, O'Dea, David Chamberlain, seven; Donald Cooper, eight, and Valentine Herrira, 12.

The windows of several residences were broken, by explosion. The sheriff and: J. Warden- Opie coroner, opened an investigation to determine what caused the blast They said they had learned of any other boys being with the five who were Cbroner Opie said tonight no witnesses to, the tragedy had been found. Officers found near the acqden' some wrappings- that they believed may: have used on dynamite. Coroner Opie said a thorough in vestigation would be -made before an inquest was calledJr LJ'i7 1 erms rimer S.

Peace Danger Hi! Phillips (Copjriiht) re, Oct. Glass, senator, said today that only one person could get the United States into the wretched creature," Adolf Hitler. The 81-year-old Virginia Democrat declared it was "the sheerest drivel" to say that the President could involve this country in a foreign conflict. Saying that only congress has the power to declare war, Glass added that "the only person who may drag this nation into war is Hitler, x'x His pledged word is not worth a thrip. He is a fervent believer in the immoral Machiavellian doctrine of the end justifying the means, however vile the end may be.

(In British slangi a thrip is a three-penny piece.) "He Has Repeatedly Lied" 'He has repeatedly lied as to his mrposes since the deplorable kfunich conference, and it may confidently be expected that under lis wretched domination Germany still regards written'-, treaties as mere scraps of paper." Glass granted an interview in his sickroom in a Washington hotel. The senator, attired in blue- trimmed white pajamas, propped limself on a pillow and asserted he still believed in the principles he enunciated in 19161 when he spoke against a bill which would have iad congress warn Americans that they traveled in belligerent vessels at their own risk. At that time, Glass, speaking of his two sons, said that he "would rather be pursued through time and eternity by the pitiful apparition of their shattered forms than to see my country dishonored and Its flag hauled down, ir disgrace." The glanced across the room at of Gen. John J. his children and his jrandchildren.

"One of my sons was gassed, and he other was a combatant soldier," le remarked. "But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas, and must devoid of self-respect and unworthy of the of other nations. "This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and to the movies. That would, be a sorry- contribution to modem civilization." Glass, who has been ill for month, said he was "distinctly distressed" at his inability to cast his senate for. repeal "of the abominable.embargo act." Disapproves Shipping Provisos He expressed sharp disapproval however, of provisions in -the bill which prohibit American ships from trading with belligerent nations.

"Not In. my 80-odd years of life," the Virginian said, "have I known or heard of a more humiliating spectacle than that by 'the legislative body of a great, rich and powerful nation spending months. in devising expedients to contravene immemorial requirements of international law through positive fear of a Central European assassin." "No sane person conceives that either. Great or France, is going to sink any of. our merchant vessels, or ruthlessly, drown any ol our nationals without warning and in shameless of international law," Glass added.

Hits "Shocking Spectacle" "Nobody has ventured to suggest that Italy or even Russia capable of doing anything of "this is only Hitler who is expected to do it; and it is in fear of this wretched creature, dripping- with the blood of women' and children and nbricombatants, boasting of his ravages of open towns in one of his conquered nations, that we have the shocking spectacle of this great nation relinquishing its rights on the seas The senator said he would "have voted against the so-called cash- and-carry provisions of the neutrality bill' but added that "the circumstances were such, unhappily, to make the action taken expedient, if not desirable." "This country went into the World War to vindicate its rights on the high seas, and now to relinquish these rights through fear of Hitler is to dishonor our dead," Glass said. Indian Gold Ban Placed LONDON, Oct. government of India has prohibited Lhe import or export of gold except -under, license, it was announced officially here today. Allies Honor Dead Germans DDNKERQDE, France, Oct. German navy men whose bodies were found floating in the sea near here were burled hi a single grave today with full honors of the French and British The French said discovery of the bodies established proof of the destruction Thursday'of a German Both the French and British navies placed wreaths on the caskets, draped with German colors and ornamented with an iron cross.

French nuurine firing squad paJd-flnal tribute to the enemy dead at the- bodies were lowered into the grave after services by a Protestant pastor and Catholic priest. Bodies of a German officer and three were picked up'at sea by a fishing trawler while the other two bodies washed ashore at'this seaport city near the Belgian border. Allan Roy Dafoe says the Dionne quints have never heard a thing about the war, and unless it runs for years. Wanna bet? Maybe the quintu plets have heard about it but haven't said a word to Dr. Dafoe because they dont think he knows about It yet.

Gas masks hi colors and so cut as to look like Mickey Mouse have been adopted for children in England. The do not resist or fear them. But it must' make Mickey Mouse feel like a rat. Earl Browder testified at Washington that he used fake passports. Indicted, he pleads not guilty.

One of him must be wrong. Earl once was the Communist candidate' for president. He faces a 10-year prison term. And if he wants a second one, okay. far Man H.

I. i Man The H. I. EditorUI Winnie Judd Search Still Is Clueless Rumors Are Checked; Reward Offer Has Little Effect THE 'CLUELESS SEARCH for Winnie Ruth Judd settled down yes- erday- to a patient sifting of reports that she had been seen every- vherevfr.om Central -ayeiiue and Washington street to points half a continent away. Only one thing was certain: Authorities apparently know not one thing more about the trunk slayer's escape from the state hospital now than they knew when escape was some 12 left the institution.

Endless fantastic stories were be- ig checked in the hope they might hold a kernel of fact, and. every report was investigated thoroughly. If Dr. William C. 'Judd, her see whom, and to avoid "persecution," Mrs.

Judd informed Governor Jones she was leaving In a letter left with her was in Phoenix he was keeping his whereabouts a secret. The government hospital at Saw- elle declined to say whether he iad returned there. California police said they had checked "hundreds of tips" on Mrs. fiidd's appearance, but that all were ruitless. Posting of a $100-reward 'or.

the 'Slayer's return seemed to have little influence on the progress of the hunt. Mrs. Judd escaped from the institution which had been her home: for six years, last Tuesday night, on, the eighth'anni- versary of her arrest for the' murders of Agnes Anne LeRol and Hedvig Samnelson here October 17, 1931. A jury in Final county which sent ler to the insane hospital saved ler from the gallows to which a 'rial jury condemned her. Norwegian Ship Sunk; 30 Saved LONDON, Oct.

30 Norwegian, steamer was sunk in the North sea today, but the name of the vessel was not given-in dispatches passed for publication. The crew of 30, including three injured, were landed "at an undisclosed port. Members of the- crew reporter they did not know how the, ship was sunk. Dem nstrators Favor Russia BELGRADE, Oct. student demonstration in the capital streets in favor of Soviet Russia and against Great Britain and France-was halted quickly by police this -morning.

Police minimized the incident, de daring the students were "victjns ol Pwrijlav- propaganda." Secrecy Imposed Denmark. Says Loose Mines Are Threat ERLIN, Oct. Military secrecy was imposed today on the whereabouts of the United States freighter City of Flint, seized Germany as a contraband car- ier. So far as could be learned from ifficial sources, the ship was flying he swastika flag somewhere en oute from Murmansk, the north- rn Russian.port she reached last Monday, presumably for Hamburg. "War" Is Quiet The army high command meanwhile established a-new mark for erseness in its war bulletins by ssuing on this dark and rainy day a three-word cpmmunique: "No special happenings." Beyond the word that the City jf Flint was en route from Mur- mansk, authorities were tight- ipped.

They asserted "anything involving the ship now falls within the sphere of military secrecy, hence nothing will be said until the vessel is safely in port" Conflicting information emana- ing 'from official sources yester- lay as to whether the City of flint had left Murmansk may have leen caused, it was believed, by a lesire not to reveal. her movements. Russian official news agency, reported the freighter sailed last night from Murmansk after her engines were repaired.) Nazis took the view that giving irecise information--when the ship eft Murmansk- would be tanta- nount to inviting, a British attempt o. capture her. Authorities have aid the City of Flint would be convoyed by submarines and warships.

From available Information, observers believed the freighter should be heading down the Norwegian coast toward the Skager- rak, between Norway and Denmark. Legal Seizure Claimed The Frankfurter Zeitung asser- ed in an editorial today that Germany seized the ship legally and hat Russia released her legally to jermany after the prize crew put nto Murmansk harbor, "because the ship was unseaworthy." The owners were lucky, 'in the newspaper's view, that the pocket lattleship Deutschland did not sink the freighter when she -was seized in the Atlantic. SOXES ENDANGER VESSEL COPENHAGEN, Oct. The passage of the American, teamship City of Flint from Mur- mansk to Germany, if that is its destination, is imperilled by'storms the German minefields which have displaced many live mines, it was'learned today. The storms have been driv- ing mines ashore near Siege, Danish port on the Baltic, where week ago the German patrol boat Este was blown up with a loss of 89 It was estimated that more than 30 mines had been'washed ashore during the past two days.

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