The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 1

THE ESCALABA DAILY PRESS VOL. XXXI NO. 126 (A ssociated ress eased ire ews ervice ESCANABA, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1939 Upper Peninsula's Leading NewspapbrJ (12 PAGES) SINGLE COPY 5 TRAIN WRECK KILLER OF 23 HUNTED NEW EMBARGO ASKED ON JAP WAR SUPPUES BAN CERTAIN TO BE EFFECTIVE, CAPITAL THINKS BY A YD KIT-: BE IU)I Yi; Washington, Aug. 14 state department is giving serious consideration to invoking a to prevent the shipment to Japan of raw materials capable of war use. Such a course was suggested by Senator Schwellenbach (Li- Wash) in a letter last week to Secretary of State Hull.

He proposed extending to raw materials generally the Hull imposed last year on the shipment of airplanes to Japan. While there has been no comment. from Hull, Acting Secretary Sumner Welles gave a cordial reception to proposal by saying the state department always studied with the greatest interest the public statements. He said also 'hat many state department officials had read the senator's recent speech in which he advanced the same idea. Ignored By One Finn It is known that several officials of the state department favor such action.

They believe that a on the shipment of raw materials generally to Japan could he made as effective as it has been with regard to complete. The state department feeling toward the was made clear in the last monthly report of arms exports. That report pointed out that the on airplanes had just been ignored by one company, which it mentioned by name. The case concerned one an autogiro. whose cost was $112,000.

The statement recalled what Secretary Hull bad said on June 11, 1038, against the bombing of civilian populations and reminded the public of the circular addressed by the department July 1 of last year to ail manufacturers and exporters of airplanes, stating that the department would issue only great licenses authorizing the export of airplanes to a country engaging in the bombing of civilians. Action Not Illegal The importance of the report's reference to the matter was that it was made solely because of the sale to Japan of just one airplane. And that airplane was not powerful bomber or a flashing mrsuit plane. The inference is that the state department is determined that he shall be 100 per cent effective. Now the is extra-legal.

Secretary Hull had no authority for making the appeal he did to American airplane manufacturers. Nor does he have the right to refuse anyone a license to export airplanes to Japan. In ordinary cases, when a manufacturer of war materials Look for These Boys on a Dark Night Chapman Here are the five toughest men in the Ignited States, head a list of 10 most-wanted made public by P. E. Foxworth, FBI agent at New York City.

They are: Charlie Chapman, Texas hank robber who escaped from Texas penitentiary in July, 1937; Theodore Cole of Guthrie, who escaped from Alcatraz where he was serving on a kidnaping charge; Ralph Roe of Tulsa, another Alcatraz fugitive and hank bandit; Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, ex-New York industrial racketeer sought by District Attorney Tom Dewey; and Joseph Paul Cretzer, Pacific coast bandit with a 12-year record. ANNUAL TURKEY DAY MOVED UP Roosevelt Will Change Date From Nov. 30 to Nov. 23 Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Aug. 14 Roosevelt is going to move Thanksgiving day up a week this year he said at a press conference today at his summer home.

For the last six years, he explained, a great many people have been complaining that there is too long an interval between the Labor day holiday early in September and Thanksgiving day toward the end of November, and that the time is too short between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This sounds silly, he said. But he added that stores, workins: people and retailers had th. Tkauk. giving he changed from the usual last Thursday in November.

This year Thanksgiving would normally fall on November 30, and Mr. Roosevelt has decided to issue a proclamation setting aside November 23 as Thanksgiving Day. He recalled that in the early dys of the republic a day in October was marked down Thanksgiving and that it. was until after tin last Thursday selected for observance. American Woman Slapped By Japs Tientsin, China, Aug.

15 (Tuesday) 60-year-old American woman, Mrs. F. M. Richard, was reported today to have been slapped and detained by Japanese sentries at barriers to blockaded British concession. The incident was said by reliable sources to have occurred late Monday as Mrs.

Diehard attempted to bring vegetables and fruit into the concession for the canning business she operates and in which she does the work herself. One report said a sentry held the woman while a Japanese officer slapped her. HERBERT P. ORR DIES IN CRASH Killing of Former Caro Senator and Wife Investigated for not the was (Continued on Page Two) Weather LOWER LAKES: Gentle to moderate winds, mostly west to southwest; partly cloudy Tuesday. UPPER LAKES: Gentle to moderate west to northwest winds, except southwest on southern Michigan; partly cloudy Tuesday, possibly scattered showers on northern Huron.

LOWER MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy, showers and cooler in extreme northeast portion Tuesday; Wednesday fair. UPPER MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy, cooler in north-central and east portions Tuesday; Wednesday fair, warmer in eentral and east portions. At High Last 7:80 P. M. 24 Hours ESC AX AB A 74 81 Yesterday Los Angeles.

83 Marquette 86 Memphis 93 Miami 91 Milwaukee 79 P. 8 7 Montreal 78 New Orleans 9 2 New York 90 Oklahoma 97 Omaha 88 Parry Sound 78 Phoenix 101 Pittsburgh 82 86 St. Louis 8 7 Salt Lake no Friso 75 Soo, Mich. Seattle ------Washington Wi an i pf Yellowstone. Body Of Baby With Exposed Heart To Be Kept By Doctor Manila, Aug 14 body of Mary Heart Rafael, who lived a week with her heart completely exposed, will be preserved in a glass case for scientific research.

Several hours after the death early today the parents decided to place the body in the custody of Dr. Guillermo del Castiilo, who delivered the child with the rare malformation. He will keep the body at his small maternity hospital. Except for her exposed heart, the child was pronounced normal in other respects and medical men were hopeful she would live indefinitely. Then bronchial pnemonia in and the tiny thread of life severed.

set was Vassar, Aug. 14 collision at a county road-trunk line highway intersection killed former State Senator Herbert P. Orr of Caro and his wife Helen today, and Prosecutor Timothy C. Quinn said tonight no inquest would be held unless family members request one. The accident occurred when Orr, driving to Detroit to attend a convention of the National Fraternal Congress, drove from a county road onto Highway M-4 6.

His automobile and a loaded gravel truck driven by Theodore Rugenstein, of Linwood, collided. Mr. and Mrs. Orr were dead when taken from the wreckage. Orr was horn in Caro September 16, 1882.

He was graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1905 and practiced at Caro until 1909, when he became an actuary for the state insurance department. He lived in Detroit from 1916 to 19 19 and worked as attorney for the Gleaner Lite Insurance society, which he headed at the time of his death. He returned to Caro in 1920, but went to Lansing six years later to serve as deputy state insurance commissioner. He was elected state senator from the Twentieth distinct, in 1930 and reelected in 1932. Later he served two terms by appointment on the state crime commission.

CLIPPER PLANE IS TOMB OF Brazilian Air Tragedy Takes Lives of Six Americans Alpena 81 Atlanta------- 81 Bismarck 94 8 Buffalo 80 Calgary-------88 Chicago----- 85 Cincinnati Cleveland 86 Denver -------88 Detroit------- 83 SG Edmonton 88 Evansville 92 Frankfort 72 Galveston 93 Gr. Rapids 8 6 Green Bay 86 Jacksonville 95 Kamloops 89 Kansas 8 9 80 Two Ionia Trusties Walk Away At Barn Ionia, Aug. 14 trusties who walked away from a dairy barn late this afternoon were sought tonight by guards at the Michigan reformatory at Ionia. The hunted men are Theodore Szymanowicz, 19, and Casimir Margulski, 22. Szymanowicz was sentenced from Bay City in April, 1938, to a term of from one-and-one-half to 15 years for breaking and entering.

He was due for parole in 1940. Margulski was sentenced in July, 1938, from Detroit to a three to live year term for breaking and entering and would have become eligible for parole one year from today. 8 4 HUDSON CI TS PRICES Detroit, Aug. 14 Hudson Motorcar company announced price reductions today on its 19 4u models. It said the Hudson six coupe would be listed at $25 lower than last similar model and the four-door Hudson six sedan at a reduction of $4 3.

A $3 8 cut on the super-six four- door sedan also was announced. ENGINEER DROPS DEAD Windsor, Aug. 14 S. Moe, 4 7, veteran Mich- 73 itran Central engineer, was found 88 dead of a heart attaek heside his so locomotive in the round house So here today. Student A viators Collide Over Ohio River; One Killed Parkersburg, W.

Aug. 14 officials a It 1,500 feet below, two planes piloted by students collided today over the Ohio river. Merne Bowers, 23, die and tool concern worker, fell to his death in the stream while Robert Kraft, of Wheeling, pulled his ship ouv of a spin and landed near Belpre, hurting his shoulder. E. A.

Golf, Pittsburgh, civil aeronautics inspector, and Clarence McElroy, chief pilot at the airport, watt lied the collision. K. OF C. LEADER DIES Marquette, Aug. 14 (TP) Funeral services will he held at 15 a.

in. Wednesday for Horrigan, president of the Hoiri- gan Oil who died Sunday in St. Paul, where he wan taken ten days ago with a ruptured appendix. He was president of the Upper Peninsula Association of Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and a director of the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau. Rio do Janeiro, Aug.

14 (TP) Salvagers today lifted from Guanabara Bay the shattered cabin of a Pan American which yesterday became the tomb of 14 persons, including six Americans, in one of worst air ragedies. The crumpled wreckage of the airliner was towed to the Rio do Janeiro airport where Brazilian and Pan American officials joined in a search for a clue to the cause of the accident. Bodies of 11 of the victims, including that of Dr. James Harvey Rogers of Yale university, eminent. economist ami one-time adviser of President Roosevelt, lay in a morgue while divers sought to recover the bodies of the three other victims.

The plane, coming down yesterday afternoon preparatory to landing at the end of a flight from Miami, slanted sharply, struck a crane on a drydock in the harbor and crashed. Two persons aboard the Clipper survived. Besides Dr. Rogers, the American victims included Henrie May Eddy, Gainesville, acting libarian at the University of Florida; Robert. Lmdman of Newr York and the three crewmen, Capt.

A. G. Person of Miami, Capt. George King, Miami, copilot; Russell Jenkins, radio operator; and Julio Trujillo, steward. The survivors were Oswaldo Hirth, German engineer, whose leg was broken; and Mario Lyra, a Brazilian, who escaped with cuts and bruises and a broken rib.

PRISON CLERK DIES Jackson, Aug. 14 (TP) James Nypjes, employed at the record office of the state prison of Southern Michigan for the past nine years, died today at the age of 6 3 He was a former policeman and street railway employe in Battle Creek and a Wqrid War veteran Girl, 12, Is Trapped In Flaming Wreck Flint, Aug. 14. Wilma May Anderson died in the flames of an automobile wreck today when she was trapped in the rear seat. Police said a car driven by Anthony Pump of Detroit struck the rear of a machine carrying Wilma May and several companions and the gasoline lank exploded.

Other occupants, including three children, leaped to safety or were carried out. Mrs. Vera Clemens, 20, suffered critical burns. Others also were burned, and Pumps left hand was mangled. LEAGUE ENVOY MAY MEDIATE DANZIG PEACE NAZIS HOPE TO GET CITY WITHOUT BLOODSHED BY LOLIS Berlin, Aug.

14 Curl J. Bruckhardt, League of Nations commissioner for Danzig, tonight as a possible mediator of the German-Polish dispute over the Baltic Free City. Burkhardt, a Swiss professor, who has returned to Danzig after a conference with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, was unofficially reported in Berlin to be preparing to go to Ixtndon to discuss with Lord Halifax, British foreign secretary, a plan for a peaceful settlement. (The British foreign office said it had no information concerning plans. Italy Agreeable (in Rome Italians outside the government reported that Italy and Germany were agreeable to holding a conference with France and Britain for settlement of the German claim to Danzig.) German hopes tended in the direction that conversations with German, British and Polish officials would result in a solution by which Germany could take over the Free City without bloodshed and gain a strip of land through the Polish Corridor to East Prussia.

Informed political circles here expressed the belief that Hitler, Foreign Minister Joseph Beck of Poland and Albert Forster, Nazi leader in Danzig, had accepted such a plan as a basiH for discussion. Following his visit to Hitler, Burckhardt conferred in Danzig with Forster and the Polish diplomatic representative, Marian Chodacki. Hitler Wants No War Official Germany declined to affirm or deny that Burckhardt had been charged with a highly important mission to London. In press and party circles, however, one heard that Hitler's next step "will depend upon what Burckhardt brings back with him in the next few days from his talks with Informed German circles professed to discern the following: 1. The fuehrer does not want a war over Danzig and will accept a solution that will satisfy German honor.

2. Polish Foreign Minister Beck realizes Poland's precarious position in the event of war and is therefore ready for a compromise. 3. England, which has guaranteed independence, even now is not ready to fight, and will therefore support a peaceful tion. 4.

The possibility of an honorable compromise is admitted if Hitler unconditionally gets Danzig, a German-speaking city, and a strip of Pomorze large enough to insure direct communication between East Prussia and Germany proper. Professor Well Qualified Burckhardt was said in diplomatic quarters to enjoy the conii- dence of both the German and Polish governments and to be particularly well qualified as a mediator. At the same time all German comment indicated that il media tion should fail, Germany was (Continued on Page Two) Key Figure mm '2 Claimed by the defense to be the of the movement to deport Harry Bridges, Stanley Morton Doyle, above, of Minnesota, he found by U. S. marshals seeking to summon him to testify in deportation case.

Counsel for Bridges may seek aid of Attorney General Frank Murphy in bringing him to San Francisco. Minneapolis marshals said they loctite Doyle, hut newspapermen found him at American Legion convention there and sent pictures to prove it. BRAMPTON MAN KILLED BY BULL Francis Leveque Gored Fatally While Alone In His Barnyard Francis Leveque, 59, was gored to death by a bull at his Brampton farm about 6:30 Sunday morning. There were no witnesses to the tragedy. Leveque left the home to let some cows go into the pasture.

When he failed to return in due time, his sister, Delia, went out to investigate, and discovered his badly mangled body in the barnyard. Mr. Leveque was born in Egg Harbor, March 18, 18 80, hut had resided at Brampton for about forty years. He is survived by a brother, George, Brampton; and two sisters, Delia Leveque, Brampton, and Mrs. Chester Bennett.

Rapid River. Coroner O. S. Hult was called to investigate the accident. The body was taken to the Boyce Undertaking Parlors to be prepared for burial, and will he taken to the George Leveque home 10:30 this morning.

Funeral services will he held Wednesday, with burial in the Perkins cemetery. STATE WELFARE STAFFREDUCED Chairman Gries Says Cutting Will Sa1 $4,900 Monthly Two Lapeer Men Who Swapped Wives And Livestock Held On Morals Charge Lapeer, Aug. 14 (TP) The domestic lives of George Davis and Clarence June, who traded wives and divided their children, rolled on today apparently unruffled by a court appearance to answer charges of lewd and lascivious cohabitation. The four returned to their homes in the sand hills of western Lapeer county and resumed life as they had for months prior to appeared in court Edith June with George Davis and Mrs. Mildred Davis with Clarence June.

happy this drawled June. All stood mute when arraigned before Justice of the Peace Albert Perkins on the blanket charge of lewd and lascivious cohabitation. Their counsel. Kenneth Smth. demanded an examination and the four were released for appearance Aug.

23 The trail that led them into court began two months ago when Davis and June disclosed that they had entered into an agreement under which June traded his wife, seven children, and one of his 12 cows for Mrs. Davis and her four small daughters. Mrs. June, who is 39 years old and the same age as her husband, moved with hei seven children and the to home, a rented farmhouse perched atop one of the Klam Road hills. The Mrs.

Davis and her four daughters went to live, in nearby home, and as June had kept three of his older sons, the division of progeny was even June, a swamp farmer, and Davis, 34-year-old Flint, Mich automobile worker maintained they were innocent of any wrong-doing, hut civic and religious groups demanded an investigation and tHe charge against them was returned by a grand jury. Their attorney said he believed the case would thrown out of admit that there have been no divorce proceedings filed, he said, we will be able to prove that there is nothing illegal about this wife trading The women have been acting as housekeepers and there has beeii no Lansing, Aug. 14 social welfare commission took first step toward in cutting administrative costs today by lopping 15 employes from the state payroll. Walter F. Gries, of Ishpeming, commission chairman, said the reduction in personnel would mean a savings of $4,900 monthly in salaries and expenses.

The hoard, meeting in closed session, deferred discussion of all other problems, including reorganization, to take up the question of personnel. Gries said the hoard had re- wed 4 1 positions and still had some 500 more to study, a task which may take several days. He said some who were dismissed, however, be transferred. It was understood a personnel report prepared by Mrs, Genevieve Patten of the budget office served as a guide for the board in the dismissals. The report, aside from recoin mending a reduction in personnel, is said to favor creation of a single unit system of administration.

The Michigan Association of County Supervisors are opposed to an integrated plan and favor the distribution of state and federal funds by separate agencies. Delegations from Wayne and Jackson counties are to appear before commission tomorrow to mskfi requests for additional re lief funds. Sunken Submarine Squalus Is Towed To Shallow Water Portsmouth, N. Aug. 14 (TP) Navy men took every advantage today of the comparatively few good diving hours offered by an unruly ocean to press preparations for lifting the sunken submarine Squalus on Wednesday or Thursday from a hitherto uncharted mudbank to shallower second operation in a carefully laid out salvage plan.

The vessel was raised 80 feet Irom its muddy berth on the ocean floor last Saturday and towed slowly shoreward to within 400 yards of the goal set for the first lift before it grounded. As the prelimaries to the second lift were hurried 14 miles off this port, workers at Portsmouth navy yard prepared for launching of the submersible Sea- wolf, similar in design and size to the unlucky Squalus. OereinoTiles Quiet The usual gay launching ceremonies were abandoned because of the Squalus disaster. Officers said only naval officials and a few invited friends would see Mrs. Edward C.

Kalhfus, wife of the president, of the Naval War Academy, send the newest of the undersea boats down the ways at 11:45 a. m. (EST). At the salvage scene divers worked today on resinking the bow pontoons. The next steps were the sinking of the three stern drums, then an inspection of the work and again the order to and The first diver down today, Lieut.

J. K. Morrison, found the how 15 feet lower than her stern and resting in eight feet of mud. The submarine was listed about eight, degrees to port but Lieut. Morrison said she was in good condition for salvage work.

The Squalus sank into 2 40 feet of water on May 23 and in the ensuing 40 hours 33 of her crew of 59 were rescued. It was hoped the second lift would raise her another 80 feet and move her four or five miles into shallower water, preparatory to a third lift, which navy men hoped would surface the craft and her cargo of 26 dead. MISSING NAHMA MANNOTFOUND Menominee Bloodhounds Aid In Hunt, Trail Lost Again MASS MURDER IS BLAMED TO SHIFTED RAIL STREAMLINER PI LES UP IN NEVADA, 96 INJURED A three day search conducted under the direction of the Delta county department up until last night had failed to reveal the whereabouts of John Sum- mers, 74 year old Nahrna man,) who left his home at 8 on Friday morning and has not been heard of since. Three bloodhounds were used in the search Sunday in which the Delta county officers were aided by members of the Menominee county department and 50 G. C.

Although the dogs picked up the scent of the missing man several times during the day they were unable to keep it. Yesterday Sheriff William Miron was assisted by 100 C. G. hut an all day search failed to reveal any trace of the missing man. It is planned to redouble the searching force and renew the hunt early this morning the sheriff said last night.

Summers was traced two or three miles out on the old road to Isabella from Nahma, and it is believed he may have been picked up by a motorist. Anyone who has seen the missing man is asked to get in touch with the de-j part men t. Mr. Summers is short, of chunky build, and was wearing a blue overall jacket, dark pants, and white hat with a black band when last seen. Ionia Free Fair Expects 300,000 Ionia, Aug.

I 4, (TP) A prediction that 300,000 persons would attend the twenty -fifth annual Ionia Free Fair which opened a one week stand today was voiceil by Howard Lawrence, president of the fair association. The advance sale ot grandstand seats is 4 0 per cent above the total for 1938. Lawrence said, The fair will he highlighted by Day Wednesday lieu Senator Arthur H. Yandenberg and Governor Lureu Dickinson will speak. Reno, Aug.

14. mounted to 23 today In the wreck of the crack streamline train of San as police pushed a general roundup of suspicious railroad yard characters in quest of the mass murderer blamed for last tragedy. Two men were questioned in jails of two states as rescue crews found the bodies of two women and a man in the twisted wreckage. Injured Total Albert Johnson, Chicago, at first reported by the Southern Pacific company to have perished in the wreck, was found tonight to be alive, though seriously injured, in an Elko, hospital. One other man died in Elko hospital of injuries.

He was Sam Wall, of the crew, from Alameda, Calif. Latest victims recovered from the wreckage were Mrs. Henry P. Vaux of Port Ledge, Rosemont, and her daughter, Miss Susan M. Vaux.

Their bodies were found late today. Earlier in the day the body of Harry Specht, second cook from Oakland, was recovered from the wreckage. Southern Pacific company, which operates the of San jointly with the Union Pacific and the Chicago Northwestern railroads, reduced the list of injured to 96 after interviewing many of the 149 persons who were aboard the $2,000,000 train when it was hurtled into a rocky Nevada canyon by a rail which authorities said was deliberately misplaced. Suspect Has Alibi Chief of Police Andy M. Wel- Iiver asserted he probably would release Bob La Ducur Federal, local and railroad police spend all day questioning him.

Welliver said the man was arrested because he answered the description of an whose strange action made him one of the main objectives of the search. The police chief reported T. J. McLaughlin, federal bureau ot investigation agent, had established that La Duceur was at Pyramid Lake, Saturday night and Sunday morning and could not have participated in the wreck. He said the man apparently was riding a freight train from Portland, to Fernley, but was left behind at Pyramid Lake when the freight pulled out while he was getting a drink of water.

had breakfast with members of the Southern Pacific section crew there Sunday morning according to members of the Welliver said. Five men were taken from an eastbound freight train at Salt Lake City. Four were released, but one was held for further questioning. From Ogden, Utah, to Oakland, police watched railway yards for the and for a railroad man who raved against the company the day before the wreck. Chief Welliver said the earless mail had beeu reported suspiciously at Fernley, and had inquired yesterday morning at a Fernley garage, anything Under one of the cars, company officials said, wreck crews found the twentieth victim.

Of the known dead nine were passengers, four women. Seven of the railway employes killed were negroes. The victims were hurled screaming to their death after the swaying dining car caught in the superstructure of a 6 0-foot steel bridge over Humboldt river and pulled the train and the bridge into the ravine. The whole train was set to roek- (Contiuued on Page Two) OLD RESIDENT DIES Michigamme, Aug. 14.

Jane Larmour, 97. one of the oldest residents of the Upper Peninsula, died in her home here today She leaves seven daughters, three sons, 74 grandchildren. 158 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchil dreri. She was the widow of Thom as Larinour. Civil War veteran.

Hillsdale, Aug. 14. (TP)Thurlow M. Rogers, 18. of Camden.

died today, the third victim of an automobile crash near Heading May 31. Darrell Qulmby of Quincy was killed instantly and Harold Terpeuuing of Reading died a few hours after the crash. Detroit, Aug. 14. An automobile struck and killed four- year-old Viola Buad near her home tonight.

Hillsdale, Aug. 14. (TP; Pinned in a burning truck cab. Frank Gannon 25. of Hillsdale, burned to death today after a collusion near Litchfield The driver I of Gie other car, Ernest Brown, of Jonesville was taken Hiiisdole hospital Gannon ja bottling works truck,.