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CARROLL DAILY HERALD THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AN INLAND EMPIRE OF EIGHT COUNTIES SIM HERALD Mii TOWS EIGHT PAGES TODAY CARROLL, IOWA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938 Odd Mclntyre, Famed Columnist, Dead Europe Discusses New Plan for Peace Italy May Gain Open Recognition of Ethiopia Germany May Be Given Colonies She Is Demanding S('( Ol il London chancellories (Al')- European todnv discus- prospeeis European appeasement in wliicli Italy would British recognition of her Ethiopia conquest and (iermany would regain colonies lost in the World War. A in of an looking toward satisfaction of (iermany's shouted demands Tor sources ol' raw material under her own flag was suggested as the "Uig surprisi''' to come in a reiclistng speech next Sunday hy reichsl'ueli- rer Adolf Hitler. Hitler's dramatic confer- with Aus- von Schusch- was believed to cure Saturday tria's Kurt nigg, which have eased long standing Austrian (lerman tension, was a condition to what was regarded widely as a new and more hopeful approach to peace for Europe. Michigan Floods Drive Hundreds From Their Homes $100,000 Loss Estimated At Mt. Acres Flooded VOL.

LXIX. NUMBER Crucial Battle Raging In China-May Conclude War Only Exit for Chinese Forces Is Being Closed Annihilation of 400,000 Men Imminen Would Finish War STATION MAN DOESN'T INTEND TO BE ROBBED Kmmetsburg IP) ci- met's pillow may be rocky, but he's determined robbers won't get lie profits of his country oil near here. Before he bought the business, the station was robbed six times Army All But Trapped in in six months. Life-Line Lunghai Corridor Shanghai (jp) ol" tin- world's greatest battles was raping today on central China battlefields. When the Mongol horsemen of Genghis Kahn, 700 years ago struck terror into the heart of Asia, a conquering Japanese army seemed to be closing the only exit from Generalissimo hiang Kai-Shek's life-line cor- JAY FORCE Annihilation of his -1 UU.OdO men, the cream of China's defense forces, might force China to sue for peace with a Japan that has been punishing her for seven months.

The Japanese push from the north in conjunction with another from the south against China's "life line" Lunghai railway had all but trapped the Chinese army within a corridor bounded on three sides by China's eastern coast a Japanese-conquered areas in north China and the Yangtze River Valley. ONLY KSCAI'K The narrowed bottle-neck to the west was the only chance of escape from the crushing impact of a war machine that already had littered railway right-of-ways, cities and 'villages and fertile plains oftentral China with thousands of Chinese dead. Zcimct sleeps with a shotgun and a pistol, both loaded, under his pillow. B. H.

Schlerman Dies Following i Serious Illness Mt. Carmel Man Had Been In Poor Health for Nearly a Year Members of Charles Carroll Council No. 780, Knights of Columbus, will pray the rosary for Iternard II. Schler- inan at his home one and one- half miles north ol' Maple Hiver at o'clock Tuesday evening- They will meet at the Knights of Columbus Hall and go from there to the Schlerman home. Naval Parity For Japan Is New Proposal Rep.

Fish of New York Suggests Another Conference Worst Rampage in Years Causes Damage In 7 Other Cities Detroit waters that drove hundreds of Michigan families from their homes over the week-end generally were receding today. 35 Senate Passes Farm Measure By 56-31 Vote 'Hometown Boy' Closes Brilliant Writing Career Wife By His Side as He Breathed Last Words Bill Now Awaits FDR Signature To Become Law Marketing and Production Control Effort Now To Be Effective Leaves Hospital Rated One of Nation's Most Famous Writers Of Comment For Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Tobacco Farm Bureaus Not To Be Trustees Of Co-Operatives Carroll County Listed in Group Making This Declaration City (VP)---A statement urf policy issued today by representatives of eight county farm bureaus said "it is not the purpose of the county farm bureau to act as a trustee or in any way assume active management of any co-operatives." A Wright county farm bureau member released the statement here. He said the policy was outlined at Ames last Thursday. Other counties joining in the action were Floyd, Cori-o Gordo, Worth, Mitchell, Carroll, Guthrie and Linn. Uernard H.

Schlerman, 03, a resident of the Mt. Carmel community for many years, died at 10 o'clock Saturday night "after being in failing health for about a year. He had been seriously ill since Feb. The body was taken to the family home one and one-half miles north of Maple River from the Gregory Funeral Home afternoon. KI AI i A Funeral services will be held at Our Lady of Mt.

Carmel Church at o'clock Wednesday morning. (Continued on Page 8) Angeles l'auI A. Wright insanity trial was abruptly completed at, noon today after the prosecution had presented only four witnesses. The defense offered none. arguments may he completed this afternoon.

Washington King, (I)), Itah, asked Congress today to instruct President Roosevelt to call an International arms conference. Washington Representative Fish, (R), New York, suggested to the House Naval Committee today that another disarmament conference should be called and Japan granted naval parity with the United States. Naval experts, he said, have stated that Japan could not attack this country successfully even with a navy as large as the American fleet. "Why can't we give Japan equality," he asked, "unless we intend to do what I think we are trying to do and that is police and quarantine the world." Fish testified at hearings on the proposed $800,000,000 naval expansion program. He said he believed the navy now "is larger than necessary for all purposes of national defense." Detroit New Michigan floods over the week-end drove T- i i- i i hundreds of families from their Quotas 10 Be Established dwellings, blocked highways and caused damage far more serious than last week's inundations.

The property loss at Ml. Clemens alone was more than- $100,000, Mayor Donald It. Westendorf said. The Clinton River at that point went on the worst rampage in' thirty-five years, inundating more than 700 acres within the city. Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, I'ontiac, Utica, Rochester and Jonia were suffering from overflowing streams, but their conditions were not to be compared with those prevailing at Mt.

Clemens approximately -KM) houses were surrounded by water and refugee stations had to be set up. FEBIU ARY THAW A relentless February thaw and torrents of rain caused the latest overflow of Michigan rivers. Much colder weather was forecast for today and it appeared immediate relief might result. Los Angeles (TP) -Paul A. Wright, appearing worn and haggard after a week-end in a jail hospital, went on trial today in an insanity case growing out of the slaying of his wife and his friend, John Kimmel.

A jury convicted Wright on two counts of manslaughter for the double slaying and today's trial was on his plea of innocent by reason of insanity. High Winds Block Plans to Rescue Soviet Scientists romaoe, Norway IP) igh winds sweeping from the north today balked plans of the Soviet ice breaker, Taimyr, to send planes to the rescue of the four scientists of the "north pole camp." HACK FltOM TEXAS Mr. and Mrs. M. G.

Emmick returned Sunday night from their two weeks' motor trip to Alice, Tex. Suspect Held In Assault and Robbery Case Valley Youth Identifies Man Who Slugged Him, Stole Car Council lUufis -Sylvester LeGrande, 2fi, of Fremont, is being held in county jail here, Sheriff Joe Terry said today, in connection with the assault, and robbery of Howard Growcock, 20, of Valley, near here, Feb. 4. LeGrande brought to Council Bluffs on a warrant charging him with larceny of a motor vehicle, was arrested at his home in Fremont Saturday night, Perry said. He said LeGrande was named by Growcock as his assailant, but that the former denied the attack on the Valley youth who was found on a highway south of here badly beaten and delirious.

Washington (JP) administration's new farm program received Senate approval today after weeks of congressional controversy. The roll call vote was 5fj to 31. The bulky measure now goes to the White House for President Roosevelt's signature. The president's approval will make effective the huge effort at production and marketing controls for five major crops on which Congress began work last fall. The bill, which sponsors predicted would be signed promptly by the president, provides for continuance of the present soil conservation program and for establishment of marketing quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice when supplies are heavy and growers approve in referenda.

Slight Earthquake Felt in Los Angeles At 8 :25 A. M. Today IJOS Angeles (JP) slight, short earthquake was felt in Los Angeles today about. 8:25 a. CST.

Supreme Court Rules on Truck Weight Limits Decision Relative to State- Federal Power Boundaries New York 8. Driscoll, editor of McNanght 'N Syndicate, said the salary of O. O. Mclntyre for many years had been over $2500 a week and that the writer was worth "upwards of a million dollars" despite heavy financial losses in 1920. New York City Oscar Odd Mclntyre, newspaper columnist to whom millions of Americana looked for impressions of New York City, died today in his Park Avenue apartment.

INCREASING FAME One of the most famous newspaper men of the nation, he came to New York from a small Ohio town and always boasted that he never lost the naive curiosity of the "hometown boy." For a quarter of a century his daily column "New York Day By Day" gained increasing fame and in recent years was published in almost 500 newspapers. 54 YEARS OLD Mclntyre, who would have been fifty-four on Friday, died at two o'clock this morning. Cause of death was not known immediately, but his health had uot been good for some time. Only Mrs. Mclntyre was with the columnist when he died.

She said his last words were: (Continued on Page 7) Memphis, Rev. Israel Harding Noe, the former fasting dean of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, made ready to leave his hospital bed today and return home. William Johns To Be Released From Ft. Madison Governor's Order Is Relayed to Warden Glen Haynes lies Moines (JP) --Harry White, chairman of the Iowa Board of Control, said he had telephoned Warden Glen Haynes at Ft.

Madison penitentiary to release William J. Johns, former deputy vMarion county treasurer, today mn leave. White said Gov. Nelson asked to have Johns released pending either a parole or a pardon, Johns is under sentence for embezzlement. Young: Teacher Denies Blame In Child Death Washington (JP) The Supreme Court held today that provisions of a South CargFina law limiting the gross weight of trucks to 20,000 pounds and the width to 90 inches can be applied to vehicles operating in interstate commerce on standard concrete or asphalt highways.

Justice Stone delivered the decision on another of the many controversies over the boundaries of federal and state power. Declares Innocence 3 Charges Filed Against Her of Philadelphia K. O'Connor, 19-year-old husky blonde, today denied all charges that she caused the death of 5-year-old Nancy Glenn last Labor Day. She pleaded innocent to charges of murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter before Judge Joseph Sloan. Her attorney, William A.

Gray, indicated her flefen.se would be "unique" in the face of statements introduced at hear'ngs that the young physical education student struck down the child in auger over her teasing and left her for dead, face clown in a mud puddle. NEW MANAGER Mrs. Marie Harper, who had been relief manager of the local Western Union Telegraph office since the first of December, loft Monday morning for Marcus, where she will spend two weeks instructing the telephone operators there in teleprinter operation. E. W.

Eckwert, who came here from Clinton, succeeds Mrs. Harper as relief manager. He began work Sunday. Dr. Townsend to Leave Thursday For Jail Term Advises Friends He Will Serve 30-Day Sentence In Washington Claude R.

Cook Addresses GOP Dinner Meeting Attendance at Lincoln Day Gathering Cut By Bad Weather The conditions which confront the country today are just as serious as those confronting the country at the time Lincoln became president of the United States, Claude R. Cook told republicans Saturday night who gathered at the Burke Hotel for the Lincoln Day dinner. The bad weather cut the attendance considerably as no one from outside the city was able to get to the meeting. More than forty though attended from Carroll. Dr.

O. W. Wyatt of Manning', county chairman, was unable to get to the meeting. Chicago IP) Dr. Francis Townsend, old age pension plan advocate, advised his organization's national headquarters here today he would leave Long Beach, Thursday for Washington, where he will serve a 30-day sentence for contempt of a house investigating committee.

CRITICALLY ILL Earl Loudenbacx, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Loudenback living northeast of Glidtlen, was brought to the St. Anthony Hospital in the Huffman ambulance Monday morning. The young man is critically ill.

FEARFUL WAR'S LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE IN SAME PLACE apprehension of people who live under constant threat of death-from-the-sky is registered on the faces of the men in the photo. They are members of rescue parties which dug out the victims bf a recent air-raid by Rebel bombers on Barcelona, the Loyalist of Spain. Pausing as they stumble over debris, the rescuers gaze aloft to see if the Rebel bombers are coming back'. Lake City Woman Injured in Crash Sunday Evening Lake City (Special) Mrs. Ray Wollcn of Lake City is in the hospital with serious injuries to her hack, and her husband and daughter, Beryl, are slightly cut and bruised as the result of a highway collision five miles west of Rockwell City on route 20 at 6 o'clock Sunday evening.

The other vehicle, which was driven by a farmer living near Lavinia, was quite badly damaged and the driver, whose name was not learned, suffered broken ribs and some cuts on his face. Inquest Planned Into Death of Ft. Dodge Man A. R. Newby Dropped Dead at Home of Friend Ft.

Dodge (JP) Robert Forbes, Webster county coroner, today was investigating the death of A. R. Newby, 45, who dropped dead at the home of a friend early today after having taken seriously ill Sunday evening. Dr. Forbes said he would perform an autopsy today to determine the cause of Newby 's death.

TEMPERATURES LAST HOURS HOW 'LIVING DEATH' Seeking compensation for ru- ilium poisoning allegedly contracted when she worked for a watch dial factory in Ottawa, 111., Mrs. Catherine Donohuo, iibove, demonstrates to the Illinois Industrial Commission how she moistened brushes with her tongue while painting radium on the watch dials. Doctors had testified that Mrs. Donohue is certain to die from the effects of the poisoning, which Is believed to have killed nine women who worked with her. Thirteen other women who claim to be victims of the "living death" asked compensation awards along with Mrs.

Donohue. The Weather In Carroll Saturday's high 43 Saturday's low 27 Rainfall (24 hours prior to this morning) Sunday's high 29 Sunday's low 7 At noon today 21 The Forecast fair tonight and Tuesday; colder In central and east portions tonight; continued cold Tuesday. Shippers forecast: Northwest, zero to 5 below; northeast, to 10 below; south half, zero to above. Weather A Year Ago It was cloudy with snow ries a year ago today. The perature at 7 a.

m. was 27 jug! high for the day was also 37,.