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SBC earn SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1938 PAGE TWO Phone 2263 Pottstown Mercury Central Press FRANCE WORRIED RY REICH PLANS OF MOBILIZATION WtM mats. More Than 1,000.000 German Reservists Reported Called to Colors PARIS. Aug 12 Frencn government, alarmed by reports of military underway in Germany, today sought information on Reichsfuehrer Hitler's intentions through French diplomatic representatives abroad. The That army had requisitioned private automobiles, trucks, furniture vans and even municipal buses hi Bavaria in connection with forthcoming Autumn maneuvers. That more than 1.00,000 German reservists had been called to the colors.

That Germany speeding up construction of fortifications on her French and Polish frontiers. These things led to fear that the Nazis were greasing their war machine for use in case they failed to receive quick satisfaction from Czechoslovakia in the dispute over the future status of 3.500,000 Sudeten German minority. Bueh ostentatious military preparations were in contrast with the Nazi precedent of swift and secret action a fact which paradoxically tended to ease French fears. Foreign office circles and most diplomats voiced a belief the preparations were designed to Czechoslovakia France and Britain, but watched carefully the advices from French diplomatic and secret agents in Germany, The French minister of interior, Albert Sarraut, made known he had taken measures to reinforce the French counterespionage service to deal with an increasing number of especially in the German frontier region where maginot line of fortifications lies. At Metz, in the frontier zone, German workmen who in the past have crossed into France to work in coal mines said German author had forbidden the practice.

This terminated daily contacts between French and German workmen at a time when Germany was speeding fortification of her side oi the ooundary, An authorized French source said the Foreign office possessed information that maneuvers will be held in the but added it seemed to call the German move a Emergency Group Report Says South Is Ill-Housed, Fed WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 The National council reported to President Roosevelt today that the South, more than any other section of the country, was ill-housed, ill-fed and ill-clad. Summarizing the economic conditions at the request, for the information of Congress and the country, the council said the population problems were the most pressing of any America must face. Declaring these problems were national, it concluded South is the greatest untapped market and the market in which American can expand most easily. Northern producers and distributors are losing profits and northern workers are losing work because the South cannot afford to buy their The report was made public only a few days after President Roosevelt, campaigning in the Sout- New Deal Congress, hac n'terated his desire to increase southern purchasing power.

One gt the findings was that at least 4.000,000 families, one- half oi all t.he families in the South, needed new homes. Agriculture, industry, banking, labor, women and children all were described by the eoun- til as burdened by the economic Ills peculiar to the area studied: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, Oklahoma and No remedial measures were suggested, but Lowell Mellott, director of the council, in his letter of transmittal said the realistic attitude of southern leaders who helped prepare the treatise indicated that will be done about He added the solution must be part political, with participation by industry, business, schools and private citizens. BOTH CLAIM SAME TOWN HENDAYE. France (At the Spanish Aug.

13 (JP) Both Spanish Government and Insurgent commands claimed pos.ses-sion iodny of Cabeza Dei Buey key to the Government's wealthy Almaden Mercury mines. Dispatches from Barcelona de- rUred Government militiamen were holding Insurgents in the outskirts of the town. An Insurgent communique said the village had br-n taken and the who it our advance have been After a Presidential Slap-a Handshake Press Photc A few minutes after he administered a verbal slap at Senator Walter F. George, at Barnesville, by saying that senior senator from Georgia cannot be classified as a President Roosevelt shook hands with Senior Senator George. Roosevelt is at the left, his aid, Col.

Edwin Watson, at center, and Senator George at right. President Dives Into Work On Return to Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 President Roosevelt returned to his office today, laying aside the roles of political leadei and carefree vacationer that had occupied him for more than a month The Chief Executive went to his oesk soon teaching Washington in mid-morning. Catching up on important domestic and foreign developments since he left July 7 the President r.eard reports from Cabinet members at a meeting in the afternoon ana talked with some individually duiing the day. Secretaries Hull, Woodring, Perkins and Roper greeted the PfesT- dent when his special train arrived from the South.

One of the first White House callers was Secretary Wallace. In Georgia last night the President had authorized a statement saying that, as soon as he returned to Washington, he would set Wallace about on complaints concerning the new farm program. The secretary of agriculture told reporters he reported to the President steps which his department would take to eliminate in Georgia tobacco quotas. Members said the discussion at the Cabinet meeting Included a general survey of economic conditions since the President left, including a decrease in farm prices From Secretary of Commerce Roper the President heard that the business situation was "encouraging and in fact Secretary Hull was a luncheon guest at the White House, and during the day under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles also saw the President, The meeting with Hull afforded opportunity for discussion of the European situation. Russo-Jap Tension Increases As New Incident Is Reported Aged Inmate firings Deaths in Home of Dysentery to 9 TOKYO, Aug.

13 (Saturday) (JPy- Tension between Soviet and Japan increased today with a new border incident born within 48 hours after settlement of the dangerous Changkufeng affair. The new trouble broke out on sparsely-populated Sakhalin island, north of Japan, where Mascow and Tokyo divide control. At an isolated corner of the Russo-Japanese dary, Domei (Japanese news agency) reported, infantrymen of the NKVD, Soviet secret police, shot and wounded two Japanese policemen. Adding to the gravity of the incident, the policemen, one of whom was hurt seriously, were escorting Ryukichl Tashirogi, a member of Parliament, and an near the border, Oomei said. The agency reported the Soviets opened fire without warning.

Authorities at Shikika, Japanese city on Sakhalin, reported a corps of police, rushed to the border to the incident, now were confrotning the Russians. The reported fired upon included the son of the legislator, Ta.shirogi, who communi cated with his mother in Tokyo saying he was not hurt. Meanwhile the incident at kufeng, on the mainland near the juncture of the borders of Siberia, Konea and Manchoukuo, was considered closed. Fighting which marked the later stages of the month-old incident ended promptly at noon Thursday, said reports from the sector of dispute. The truce followed upon an agreement reached in Moscow between Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff and the Japanese ambassador, Mamoru Shigemitsu, WITNESS SAYS BUND HAS PHILADELPHIA, Aug.

12 (JP)Dysentery today took the life of an aged almshouse inmate, the ninth to die in an outbreak of the disease at the Holmesburg Home for the Indigent. Although the week-old epidemic was believed on the wane, health authorities checked every possible source of the malady. Dr. William O. Turnbull, superintendent of the municipal hospital, said the water and food supplies provided no clue to the cause.

Some theorized that the epidemic may have been started by a human who would be immune. Despite four deaths yesterday and one today, George Hartman, chief of the bureau of charities and correction, said the disease appeared to be abating. He reported one- third of approximately 60 afflicted persons had been released from the almshouse infirmary as cured At least one was the danger list. A similar epidemic took 33 lives at the home the past year. HURRICANE HITS CUBA JACKSONVILLE, Aug.

12 small but hurricane roared through the Caribbean sea off the western tip of Cuba tonight. Legion Choice World News In a Paragraph 100 PLANES BOMB 3 CITIES HANKOW, China, Aug. 12 (JP One hundred Japanese war planes virtually poured bombs Into Hankow and the neighboring cities of chang and Hanyang today in onfc of the Chinese-Japanese mast disastrous and most spectacular air raids. The bombs and the flames that spread in their wake killed or wounded 400 civilians of the city area, which lies 600 miles up the Yangtze river in the heart of China. Two American mission properties were hit directly.

More than 300 residences, most of them humbler were destroyed, and tens of thousands of dollars worth of railway equipment, crude oil, and kerosene were blown up. HE PLAYED NEW GAME! ARKANSAS CITY, Aug. 12 Three-year-old Don Earl Delisle thought 75 searchers were playing a game with him. he explained today, so he remained hidden in brush. He was found six hours after he wandered away from his home.

He lost, he said, because he saw He vera I searchers pass his hiding place. IT MUST BE LOVE! PAINESVILLE. Ohio, Aug. 12 (JP) Fretty, blonde Margaret Neidert, her right leg amputated and near death from an automobile mishap, was married In a flower-banked hospital room today to John Hilgert, 25. The Akron couple, engaged for two years, collided with another automobile in a driving rain Saturday.

Miss Neidert may lose her right arm also, hospital attaches said She has had three blood transfusions. Hilgert. released Wednesday from the hospital, returned with the Rev. David Hagalskamp of the First Reformed church of Akron today for the wedding. WHOLESALE OPERATIONS! ABINGTQN, Aug.

12 Sites of had their tonsils out today. Mrs. Marie Sites, brought the children the Abington hospital where Dr. Walter Henson operated in one- two-three order. The youngest six; the oldest doing quite well.

HE HAD GUM GAS GAUGE, TOO NEW YORK, Aug. 12 crate, which was equipped with a Boy Scout compass, a pine board seat and a baling wire latch for its door, also had a chewing-gum gas gauge. When Corrigan brought the plane down today after its first test since his ocean hop, he brushed four wads of gum from a window. someone asked. he said, that flight, whenever a tank ran dry I had to switch to another in a hurry.

I had to know, too, how many Flier to Wed Screen Actress Photo Frequently linked In romance, Toby Wing, screen actress, and Dick Merrill, transatlantic flier, soon will marry, they have informed their friends. Miss Wing and Merrill now are in Hollywood. 7-YEAR-OLD WPA IS 'BURNED UP' Looks Like Someone Slipped Up in He Declares Reich Fliers Plan 21-Hour Flight to Berlin Today NEW YORK, Aug. 12 long-distance hung not signs on their bedroom doors tonight in preparation for a 21-hour return flight to Berlin tomorrow. Their four-englned monoplane serviced by German ground crew awaited them at Floyd Bennet field where they arrived yesterday after a flight of 24 hours, 56 minutes non-stop from the German capital.

Capt. Alfred Henke, commander of the plane, indicated he intended to reach Berlin Sunday afternoon. He said repairs had been completed tm the- hydratrtio brake of inboard engine and that the same broken cowling had been leplaced. The cowling cracked two hours before the ship landed and the brake gave way Just as the reached the field. The repairs were minor.

Commenting on congratulations irom aviation authorities on the Berlin-to-New York flight, the flrst in history, Captain Henke asserted the general progress of aviation throughout the world was the main factor in the success. In he said, not a question of progress in Germany, America, England or any ether country, but is the progress achieved by all working The present flight came is a surprise just a few weeks before the English were to fly a four-englned British built plane across. To Wed Actor Undercover Agent Also Tells of WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 undercover agent told the House committee on today that the Nazi movement in the United States aims to set up a spy and sabotage for use in case of war.

These charges came from John C. Metcalfe, committee investigator and former Chicago newspaperman whose short stature, small black moustache and crisp tone reminded spectators of Adolf Hitler. Metcalfe, a native of Germany who came to this country In 1914 told of joining the German-Ameri- ean Bund under a German name and becoming a trusted lieutenant of Fritz Kuhn, national Bund leadei He quoted Kuhn as saying he had Dr. Hans Luther, long-time German ambassador to the United States, removed from his post for failure to co-operate completely with secret German- American Bund activities. have secret relations with Germany whereby I ean get anything I Kuhn said, according to Metcalfe.

Under questioning of Chairman Dies Texas) Metcalfe estimated that "at least half a million persons in this country" are members, suppoi ters, or sympathizers with the Nazi movement. Metcalfe charged that when the House committee was appointed Kuhn ordered Bunds in this country to destroy all correspondence that might appear I suspicious. This was corroborated by Petei Gissibl, head of the Chicago Bund, who testified he had resigned after sharp differences with Kuhn over certain policies. The former Chicago Bund leader said he opposed Kuhn on hatred of Jews, uniforms for children similar to those of the Hitler youth movement, and a close tie between the Bund in this country and Nazi Germany. Press Photo Sylv Sidney, above, sceen actress, and Luther Adler, Broadway actor, filed notice of intention to marry in London yesterday, Tire former was divorced from Bennett Cerf, wealthy New York publisher, after six months of marriage.

Adler is known particularly for his performance in Awake and FINED $10 PITTSBURGH Aug. 12 (JP) Police orders closed up a Northside carnival today after seven women sideshow dancers were fined $10 apiece in morals court. Police Inspector Ward Sanders charged the women were clad in than a flimsy bit of in a men show after the regular performance. Press Photo Elaine Russell, Jackson, twice granted the honor of leading the great parade of the America Legion national convention, is pictured above. She holds a dove, symbolic of her title, of married today at the office of Justice of the Peace J.

Fred Collins. Meilziner, also known in the theatrical world as Kenneth MacKenna, Is film editor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in New York City. AIRLINER IS HOURS OVERDUE MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12 (JP Pan American Airways liner carrying eight passengers and a crew of three was hours overdue tonight and apparently had run into bad weather. The plane was on its way here tanks I had left.

So every time from Villahermosa, Tabasco state a tank ran out, stick a wad about 420 miles to the southeast, of gum there. You see, I have and was due in Mexico City at 2:10 a gas gauge on this NOT LOVED, WINS DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 Dennis O'Keefe, a cinema leading man, and Louise Stanley were divorced today after she testified he told her he love her. Lawyers said a properly settlement was made out of court. HE HAD TOUGH LUCK! LOUISVILLE, Aug.

12 (JP)If you think you have troubles, consider what happened to Elmer; He cut his feet while swimming His clothes were stolen as he swam. Federal agents waited for him at home, No clothes, he appeared at a preliminary hearing in bathing suit and bathrobe, feet bandaged, He pleaded guilty to an auto theft charge. He was held under $1000 bond to a higher court. Elmer is 16 years old. KAY EX WEDS GREENWICH, Aug.

12 Phillips Bogart, whose divorce from Screen Actor Humphrey Bogart became final two days ago, and Leo Meilziner, former husband of Kay Francis, also a film prominent, were p. m. 4:10 p. Pottstown time. It was last heard from at 12:18 p.

m. when it radioed that all was well. HE WAS OFF DUTY THEN! TRENTON. N. Aug.

12 (JP) W. Mannifield 21, has a job. He paints the white on highways to warn drivers to keep on the right side of the road. Mannifield was fined $3 in City Police court today. The charge? Driving on the wrong side of the road.

BOY, 14, LOST 3 DAYS GREENSBURG, Aug. 12 State Motor police and Boy Scouts searched tonight for a 14-year-old boy who disappeared Tuesday while picking blackberries near his home about five miles east of Greensburg. Informed of the disappearance today for the first time, Motor Police Privates Morrison and Harrison and DANGER At the First Sign of Eye Strain TAKE YOUR EYES TO MEYERS 7 N. HANOVER ST. Optometrist 30 YEARS IN POTTSTOWN SINCERITY Many years of experience in our calling have not detracted from the repeated sincerity which characterizes each detail of our service to the people of Potts- i town and vicinity.

0 KEPNER ROMICH MORTICIANS Phone 877-J 139 High St. III II ll.li 30 scouts under G. C. Kirk searched for hours without result. HE DIED MEDIA, Aug.

12 Morris Geno. 20, was killed today by a rifle bullet whieh a companion said was fired when Geno slipped and fell while at target practice. MURDER CHARGE REDUCED ALLENTOWN, Aug, 12 Joseph Domitrovich, bartender, held in the slaying of Charles Barnes, was leleased In $5000 bond today. Judge Richard W. Iobst presided at habeas corpus proceedings and fixed ball after Assistant District Attorney Edward K.

Kline asked that the charge against Domitrovich be reduced from murder to manslaughter, Kline told the court an autopay performed at the direction of Dr. M. Peters, Lehigh county coroner, disclosed that Barnes died from a heart ailment, Barnes died during a scuffle In a taproom the past week as Domitrovich was escorting him to the door. PAULETTE FOR RENO HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12 (JP) Paulette Goddard film actress protege of Charles Chaplin, left by airplane today with her mother and her architect, Wallace Neff for Reno Nev.

Miss Goddard plana to establish an exclusive Winter skiing resort near there. SMITHFIELD, Aug. 12 Malone, father of a seven- year-old boy hired and fired oy WPA, today was "burned by what he termed a listing his son, Richard, as a relief worker. Malone, whose son drew $6.54 for 13 hours work, declared: looks like someone slipped up Lyelr L. Btrterrrfore, WPA director In Fayette, Washington and Greene counties, said the boy had been assigned to a job through "clerical and State WPA headquarters in Harrisburg declared two timekeepers had been suspended after Investigation up information that pointed to The office of J.

Banks Hudson, State administrator, announced Max Whoolery, one of those suspended, was to Richard's mother. The other suspended! timekeeper was Gllberty Colley. Albert Malone, her 20-year- old son, however, said he believed Whoolery might be a "fourth cousin through Albert is wortdng on WPA. Arthur Malone, discussing the said he went WPA offices as soon as Richard and his brother, David, 14, cashed the check. came home laughing at the Idea of Richard drawing pay for WPA.

Why that boy can hardly lift a shovel. "I took the money back and retrieved the check and took it at once to the WPA. There, some office girl told me it was the fault of the relief officials and would be taken care of In the routine way. "That routine takes 21 days and I insisted that something be done at once. So she sent me to the relief people.

And now off Malone said Buttermore and Whoolery came to his home in this Fayette county town near Uniontown, and showed him an assignment slip for Richard, "I went into the house and brought out our assignment slip that had never been used. Did their eyes bulge out! neither Whoolery nor Colley could identify either Albert, David or myself as having worked on the He charged that the slip shown him had been signed with an end that either Whoolery or Colley had written the name under it. BABS PASSES UP AUCTION VENICE. Aug. 12 Countess Barbara Hutton Haughwitz Revent- low went swimming on the Lido today without attending an auction of the personal effects of her flrst husband, the late Prince Alexia Mdivani.

session of the sale brought the total thus far realised to 350,000 lire For Sale 15 SHARES National Bank of Pottstown At $127 Advise Promptly H. N. NASH CO. 1421 Chestnut St. Fhlla 1 4S0 HIGH IT.

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