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Italian Royalty Visited by Pope Pius on Thursday THE PIQUA DAILY CALL FORECAST Cloudy wlih snow Hurries in east por tion, continued cold tonight; Friday fair. PIQUA, OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 PRICE THREE CENTS 57th YEAR. No. 60 RUSSIA INVADED BY FINNISH SOLDIERS Faces Battle Over Custody Peggy Ann narner, grand niece of Vice President Garner and newest Hollywood success story, above, lias been made the legal ward of her mother, Mrs. Virginia Oalg Garner in Holly wood.

The guardianship conn ters a suit brought by the child's lather, William H. Garner, government attorney, who is sek in her custody in a divorce action. Peggy Ann, now 6, has appeared on the New York stago and has had featured roles In Ihrre. 'movies. Currently, her mother said, she is earning WORKED FOE GARFIELD Mentor, Deo.

SS, (U.B Thomas Northcott, once a farm foreman for. James A. Garfield when the latter was a United States senator, quietly observed his 93th birthday arinlversary today. "Mr. Garfield could swing a scythe with the best of ns," Northcott, a native of England, recalled.

"Be enjoyed driving a yoke of cattle arid helping bis farm hands in the fields." Northcott planted the maple trees at Awnfield, family home of the lat Route 20. LOTS OF WORK FOR MANY SAVED AFTER MAYOR LYONS ACTS Ends Efforts of City Council to Remove Words Lenin, Leningrad from Printed Matter. Cambridge, Dec, 28, Mayor John A. Lyons today ended the eSorts of the city council to remove the words, Lenin and Len ingrad, from all printed matter ii the city of Cambridge, He thereby saved the authorities of Harvard university, the Massa chusetts Institute of TecnnDlogy Radcliffe college and other Cam bridge education institutions the task of deciding whether they would go through all the books and maps in their extensive libraries to delete the words wherever they occurred. He also snared the newspaper, and magazines of residents and the 5D.000 commuters who pass through Cambridge daily.

They would have been subject to confiscation if they contained the proscribed woras mi (Concluded on Page rwoi 2 CONDEMNED NEGROES MURDER GUARD IN PEN Raleigh. N. Dec. JS, Two condemned negroes today confessed they tilled Guard J. S.

Chcsser In an unsuccessful attempt lo break out of "death row" at the slate prison. Chwser was killed lost night by Clarence Rogers and William Young. His body, bound and gagged, was discovered by other guards. Chcsser was parroted with a piece of cord and beulcn on the head with a sock full of hard son p. The slaying occurred about 11:30 last night and the two negroes confessed the crime today.

Thousands Die in Earthquake and Dead Streets Reports From! REFUGEES HOMELESS ANDCOLD Suffering Intense as Cold Weather Prevails in Addition to a Driving Snow Relief Hurried. Istanbul, Turkey, Dec 28, (UP.) Dead littered the streets of towns and homeless refugees sought shelter from intense cold and driving snow today after an earthquake which had devastated a wide area of eastern "Turkey. Disrupted oranmurucatloris made authentic casualty compilations impossible. But it seemed certain that the death toll would be high in the thousands and that tens or scores of thousands of refugees were homeless. Fragmentary reports indicated that the earthquake might, prove to have been the mct disasterbus In.

Turkish records. Reports of death, destruction and came from towns area or more man square miles. The city "of east of Istanbul, with a population of. 80,000, was nearly obliterated. ding to reports.

In other towns the streets were strewn with dead and injured. Such, cities as Samson and Ordu, tobacco centers on theBlack Sea coast; Amasia, Sivas, Tokat, Re fahiye and Yozgad were reported to have suffered tragic nun ana cas (Concludeo on Page Two) RUSSIANS PLANNING TO FORCE DECISION IN ISTHMUS SECTOR Army Chiefs Believed to Have Decided Upon Battle Plan Against the Struggling Finns. With the Finnish Army at the Karelian. Isthmus Front, Dec. 28, (U.R) Russian array chiefs apparently have decided to try to win the Finnish war, by forcing a decision on the 60 mtle Karelian Isthmus front, according to information which reached the Finns today.

Finnish reports are that more than 370,000 fresh Russian troops are to be brought from the interior of Russian and thrown into the fight, and 12 divisions from Caucasia, accustomed to snow and low temperatures. Preparations, according to the Finnish reports, point to an attempt at a front attack, accompanied by Concluded Page Seven) Board Takes Action Washington, Dec, 28, CU.R) The National Labor Relations Board today directed the International Furniture Chicago, to disestablish the Employes Welfare Association as bargaining agency for its workers at Rushvllle, Ind, The two negroes picked lock of their cells with a piece of string and' cardboard, They hid lh an empty cell on death row and Jumped on Chcsser as he made lit rounds. Young was scheduled to be cxecut ed tomorrow 1n the lethal gas chamber at the ptison along with Natan lal Bryant, another negro. After escaping from their own cells, Rogers and Young unlocked Bryant's cell also, officials said, but he refused to go with them. The two negroes were nrmed with crude gum made from boep.

Hitler Steps Out Germany claims Adolf Hitler was an. easy target for French, gonniw at he strode bow ly moot me captured area between Forbach and Saarbruecken, but no poilu. ftfed at the Fuehrer. Hitler is shown chatting with a Nail soldier during his holiday tfsit the Wcsfern Front LAVISH CEREMONY IN ROME IS HELD TODAY Hope for Restoration of Peace in Europe Rises as Result of Program Today Mussolini Plans to Pay "Visit of Homage" to Catholic Head. Rome, Dec.

38, (UEMSepe for peace, in Europe ilnant theme today when Pope Pius paid slate vl! to King Victor Enunariuel and Queen Elena and when it was WINNER OF BEAUTY CONTEST ARRESTED "Miss Lancaster" Charg ed with Smuggling Saw Blades Into Fairfield County Jail. Lancaster, Dec. 28. (U.PJ A 17 year old girl whD won the title of "Miss Lancaster" in a beauty contest was held today by juvenile authorities, who said she admitted smuggling hack saw blades into the Fuirfleld county jail. SheriE William J.

Belhorn found a hole in a cell occupied by William S. Hart, IB, Middletown, and Robert S. Lee, 18, Norwood, accused of the slaying last suit of Axel stromstead, an employ Ihn Boys' Industrial School. The sheriff said the hole was nearly large enough to permit their Miss Nellie Ericft, IT, who was "Miss Lancaster" in a summet beautv contest at Buckeye Lake was said to have confessed that she toon the blades to her mother, Mrs Jennie Erick, 44, and Alice Leach, both held on forgery charges, who occupied a cell above that occupied bv Hart and Lee. Sheriff Belhorn said the youths exchanged not.

with tne women and the saws were dropped through a crack by a heating pipe. NOMINATE CRAWFORD TO HEAD THE GUILD Washington. Dec. as, :u.PJ Ken neth Q. Crawford, Washington correspondent for the New York Post, was nominated today by the Wash ington Newspaper Guild ss ft can didato for president of the Amerl can Newspaper Guild.

Election of a successor to th late President Heywond Broun, who died two weeks ro, will take piaa soon nflcr the first of ihe year Crawford, a native Belolt, Wis. and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Is now vice president of the Washington Guild, on French Sofl If Visit to Front Line Trenches announced that Premier Benito Mussolini would make a "Visit of homage" to, Vatican City. The lavish ceremonies emphasiz ing restoration of close relations between the church and the Italian followed persistent reports that Italy and the Holy See were in ac in regard to parallel action concerning peace efforts and plans for opposing LQic spread of com munism in Europe. Our hope li mat the world win follow your motto of peace with Justice," Prince Glan Glacomo Bor ghese, governor of Rome, told the pope during the ceremonies in which the pontiff and the Italian king both intensely interested in emircs toward ending the European war conferred for 35 minutes. Replying to the Prince's greet ing, the Pope said: "We joyfully bless the King ana ie Duce and Italy." (Concluded on Page I Cooper Rites Friday Akron.

Dec, 28. (U.EJ Funeral services will be held here toidorrow for D. O. Cooper, 74, former Summit county treasurer and Republi can party leader, who died in a hos pital yesterday. Conner served two terms treasurer, beginning In 1927 and was succeeded by his son, Cooper.

In 1031, NUDE BODY OF Los Angeles, Dec. IU.B The artificial red rose crushed brncath The girl, blonde and about 10, had had been cut away. Turkish SCRIP IS BURNED Youngstown, Dec. 28, lil.R This oily apparently has "money to burn." Municipal Finance Director Frank W. Barton consigned to the under the city hall DELIVERY IS HELD UP ON SHIPMENTS Washington, Dec.

28. (U.R) Efforts by Finland to arrange Immediate delivery on proposed orders of the latest type American guns rebuffed today because of federal restrictions and insufficient stocks on hand in Industrial plants. GOERING IS MAD London, Dm. SB, (U.PJ The Daily Herald reported today that Field Marshall Hermann. Goering was fn disfavor with Adolf Hitler and had retired to his shooting chalet at Schnrfheirir, Germany, where he was planning a come back campaign "on his own terms," Discussing the alleged status of Goering, Nail No.

Hitler's official heir, chief of fhe German air force and dictator of the four year plan of self sufficiency, the Daily Herald said: "For more than eight weeks Hitler and Goering have not exchanged more than a few words. The last time Goering visited Hitler's Chancellery at Berlin was Nov. 24. when there was an 'unfortunate incident' a woman thrust into Goering's hand a letter demanding better rationing of food and clothing. WOMAN FOUND nude body of a young woman, an ii, was found In a vacant lot today.

been stabbed and part of her scalp SALINAS AREA ROCKED THURSDAY Salinas. Cal Dec. 28. (U.R) All earthquake shock rocked the Salinas area, loday. No damage was reported.

BRITISH CRUISER ENTERS PORT Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dee. 2R. An unidentified British Cruiser entered the port of Itlo de Janeiro today. JONES SAYS HE'S ON WAY HOME Cleveland, 0 Dec. 38.

(U.R) City Relief Commissioner Frank G. Jones telephoned his wife that he was on his way heme today, after Cleveland and suburban authorities had been searching for hhn several hours. BUND OFFICIAL UNd1rARREST New York. Drc. 28.

U.li James Wheeler Hill, national secretory of the German American Bund, was charged with perjury today In an informal handed up by the grand jury, and vms Immediately placed Centers TERRITORY AND RAILROAD DAMAGED CORRESPONDENT SAYS RUINOUS DROUGHT IS FACED IN THE GREAT DUST DUWL Only Heavy Rains in the Near Future Will Prevent Condition, Scientists Declare. Columbus, Dec. 28, U.F9 Dr, J. Weaver, of the University of Ne braska, predicted today the most ruinous drougnt in history for tne middle western "dust bowl" next summer. Only heavy rains in the near fu ire will prevent it.

If the rains do at come, he said, the dust howl 111 be enlarged by hundreds square miles. oNiEaiiaas lStftte" college, 88 grazing ranges in western braska and Kansas, southwestern South Dakota, eastern Wyoming and Colorado, and the Oklahoma Panhandle. This comprises region of the so called dust bowl They reported today at the meeting of the American Association for the advancement oe science. The worst sections of the bowl, they reported, were still descrt llke, studded with cacti, and "gave no sign of life In fact life seemed ex tinct." Last summer's draught damage was the worst since 1934, they said. But only continued rains in greater than normal amounts would prevent next summer's sun doing even great damage.

Recent snows have helped but little since (Concluded on Page Twol REGISTERED NAZI PROPAGANDIST ON REGENT U. S. TOUR Dies Committee Charges Dr. Colin Ross With Having Attempted to Take Photographs. Washington, Dec.

28, (UP.) The Dies committee charged today that Dr. Colin Ross, a registered Nazi propagandist, recently toured the United States In a special sutomn bile equipped with motion picture cameras and attempted to photograph "specialized industrial plants. His activities, the committee charged, "appeared to come within the category of espionage." The committee recommended that Ross, a German of Scottish descent, "be prevented from ever setting foot on American soil" He was In Ihe United States as recently as March 17, when he sailed for Japan aboard the Japanese liner Asama Maru. The report on the activities of oss was made public by Rep. H.

Jerry Voorhls, chairman of a subcommittee investigating Nazi and fascist propaganda, He said that all six other members of the committee concurred in the findings. REMOVAL ORDER IS FACED DY CORPORAL Columbus, 0., Dec, 28, CJ.n The State Civil Service Commission was notified today of a removal order against Coriioral nay B. Stewart, of the state highway patrol, ci fcctlve January 2. on charges that he" was abusive to a person he sought to arrest at Sidney and at Troy last month. The person whom Stewart was charged with abusing was not identified In the charges, but the olTIcei was accused of thraelenlng him with physical violence in an effort la obtain a confession of a cvlme, Litter Reveal IS ENTERED BY HAROLD PETERS D.

P. STAFF CORRESPONDENT Copenhagen, Pee. 2.8, (U.PJ Dispatches to Scandinavian newspapers today reported that Finnish soldiers had thrust into Russian territory and damaged the Important Russian railroad running from Leningrad fo Murmansk, The dispatches said that the Fin nish trusts to the railroad had been confirmed but failed to state whnt points the road vital artery of Russian supplies to the northern fighting fronts had been damaged. The correspondent of the Stock holm Aftanbiadet reportea iron Helsinki that it had been confirm ed that the damage done to the road was hampering seriously the delivery of Russian food supplies to the central and northern fronts. There' were reports In Helsinki the correspondent said, of wide spread hunger among Russians in the north as a result ot interruption of supplies and civilians were described as suffering the greatest That the Finns had sent some forces dashing' tWottid frontieY in to Russia some of them on skis appeared certain but.

neutral observers here wer inclined to discount the possibility that great damage could be Inflicted by such Isolated thrusts. The Leningrad Murmansk railroad Is 75 or SO miles from the Finnish frontier in the southeast, i. Concluded on Page SPven) ENTIRE TOWNS ARE LEFT IN RUINS DY QUAKES IN TURKEY 10,000 Are Dead and Scores of Thousands Are Camping in Snow Without Food. IAN CAMPBEI CORBESPO London, Dec. 28, (U.R) An earthquake that tumbled entire towns In ruins and left thousands destitute in the midst of billiards was described today in reports from Turkey.

Press dispatches, hi early estimates, put the number of dead over a wide area of eastern Turkey above 10,000 and told of scores of thousands camping in open fields In snow and driving winds, without food. Villages over an area of 4.000 square miles, only a part of the disaster zone, were in ruins, according these dispatches, and tragic damage was. done in seven large towns at least, Samsun, Ordu, Amasia. Slvas, Tokat, Refahiye and Yor gad. (The United Ptcss Istanbul correspondent reported met trzin can, larger than any of these towns.

(Concluded on Page Seven) CHICAGO PROFESSOR AWARDED COLE PRIZE Columbus, 0 Dec, 18, (U.B A. Albert, professor at the University of Chicago, today was awarded the Cole prize for the most outstanding contributions on algebra in Am erican mathematical periodicals by the American Mathematical aoct ety. Albert won the prize, which li given every five years, lor his solu tion recently of a famous mathematical problem 'dealing wllh "Rio maim" matrices. Matrices are rec (angular arrays of numbers pro duced in connection with dealing with surfaces defined by algebraic equations. Launch Strong Attack Copenhagen, Dec.

28, (U.f!) The newspaper Bcrlinkskc Aftenavis re parted loday that tho Finnish irinles on the Soiln inorth central) front had launched a strong attack I an effort to drive Russian forces back across their own fiontler. CHICAGO ENDORSED Washington, Dec, 28. (U.R) Prominent Republican and Democratic senators recommended today that the 1940 national political conventions be held In Chicago or in a city farther west In order to be close to the important farm hell, Senate minority Leader Charles L. MeNary, and Sens. Burton Wheeler, Arthur H.

Vandenberg, and Arthur Capper, all endorsed Chicago for the conventiuti site, IMcNary, who hopes to supervise the drafting of his party's farm plank, said he favored Chicago "its in the center of Republican strengfh In normal times and Is the mojor trading market for Ihe farmers of the country." "I think the Democratic convention should go to Chicago west of Chicago," Wheeler said, "particularly because Hie Republicans are going to make their big drive in the west. They rea Uie that unless they recapture the west, they haven't got a chance. That's evidenced by the Tact that the various Repnblican candidates arc going to Minnesota to make speeches." PLAN TO RECOVER LAND IN THE FAR NORTH EXPLAINED Columbus, Dec. 28, (II.RD A method of making large sections of trie polar regions productive and able was described to tne an nual meeting of the American As sociation the Advancement oi Science today. sylvania state college, suggested time the polar wastes might be sprinkled with coal Coal dust, he said, absorbs 00 pOr cent of the energy radiated by the sun.

Therefore, sprinkled liberally. It would greatly enhance qualities Of short Arctic day, melt snow and ice, and ecover the Sand, coal dust could be ueed to malee icy highways safe for traffic and ngthen the growing seasons in northern lands, he said. At present, coal dust la a wast product of mining and large quantities are available. Dr. Landsberg said that experi ments had been conducted at tho college during the past three winters.

While froaen surfaces so treated absorbed more than 00 per cent (Concluded on Page Seven) MUSSOLINI PLANS TO PAY VISIT TO POPE NEXT MONTH Vatican City, Dec. 28. (U.PJ Premier Benito Mussolini will visit the Pope on Jan. 4, it was announced officially today. Church quarters, hi announcing the coming visit, described It as a "visit of homage." TRADE AGREEMENT MAY DE HELD UP TtftTO, Dec.

So. (U.BPremler No buvuki Abe said today ihat the chances of a new Japanese United trade agreement being signed before the present treaty expires Jan. 26 were remote, Abe said. In an interview with Japanese newspapermen that he hoped "expedient measures" would be instituted so amicable trade relations could continue without a formal agreement, "Roll Out The Barrel" They say "Music hath charms" authorities in Salem, India, suggested to former drink addicts that with the coming of prohibition hi the district they quell the longing for Intoxicants by listening to evening radio programs. It should prove a very effective method to aid sobriety but still there's danger In the power of suggestion being too much for these habituols espetially with such rouslns munbers as "Beer Barrel Polka" running rampant over the ether waves.

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