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THE OJO.T ASSOCIATED NESS KEWBTArER IN SOOTH BOD SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1939. the oxt-T rxmo PRESS XEWirATUI IN SOUTH BEND PRICE THREE CENTS ft wvmrit d)) isastrous Arctic Retreat Beat oviets 1MB 44, TAPED; LEFT ON HIGHWAY Rivalry for Esteem of Woman Noted by Police. Quiz Divorcee and Friend in Strange Death C. O. School for Sabotage BaredinCourt By Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Dec. 22. Operation of a school where industrial sabotage was tatfght, with emphasis on stench bomb and acid burling, is charged against two officials of the C. I.

O. United Machinists of the Needle Industries by the office of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Fifteen members of the union were arraigned on charges of conspiracy to commit violence during the 12-week strike last year against the second-hand sewing machine industry. Eight pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Jan.

8. The seven others, including Rubin Worsager. aged 27, business agent, and Sol Friedman, 24, union delegate, supposed operators of the school, pleaded innocent. Trial was set for Jan. 8.

Gives Case to Jury. Assistant District Attorney Bernard Yarrow, who presented the INVADERS DIE BY THOUSANDS IN BITTER COLD 'Important Military Given by France. By Associated Prns. COPENHAGEN. Dec.

22. Reports from Norwegian border points today described a Russian retreat in arctic Finland as approaching the magnitude of a "catastrophe." Watchers on the frontiers said the southernmost Russian arctic forces now were in the vicinity of Salmijarvi. a point they were reported to have passed in their southward advance of the last week before the movement reversed. I The arctic highway at that point swings eastward and other reports said the main airecuon of the Russian retreat also was STEPHEN MELKEY. jf i 1 i 1 1 MISS BERTTE DEVOS AND I Jfastward toward the Kola, kus-rsia, instead of northward toward the Finnish port of Petsamo.

y. s.May Put Up Hospitals in Poor Areas By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Pres ident Roosevelt said today he was considering a plan whereby the federal government would build small hospitals in states and localities too poor to provide health facilities themselves.

The chUJ executive, discussing his national health program -at a press conference, said the bills of Senator Robert Wagner N. and Senator Pat Harrison Miss.) providing for federal matching of state funds in hospital and school construction would be too costly and would discriminate against poorer states. He added, however, that the plan he had in mind for small hospital construction was not a sub- jstitute for the Wagner measure, but a first step in the effort to improve the nation's health. He said he thought this would be a quicker way to get legislation at tire coming session. The federal government, Mr.

Roosevelt would pay the entire cost of the hospitals on condition that a committee of experts found the communities could maintain them both from health and a financial standpoint. The federal government would retain title, however. The president said he had been informed the hospitals could be built for about $150,000 each. SPLICES HIS OWN RIB WITH BLOCK OF MAHOGANY By Associated Press." OXFORD, Dec. 22.

Harry Couzzingo, claiming three-quarter Sioux Indian blood, spurned surgical aid for a broken rib, operated on himself and today a mahogany block screwed into the bone as proof of his own stoic effort to mend the injury. "It hurt little at first," admitted the taciturn 68-year-old stone worker as he returned to work. Last Friday Couzzingo, who was carrying a paving block, fell, the block breaking his rib. "It hard to breathe. Doctor want to tape it up," Couzingo re lated.

He refused aid. Returning to his home he pried the member apart, punched two holes in the bones with an icepick, and an chored the wooden block in place with two ordinary crews. Daily he removes 1 the screws to sterilize them. FAMOUS BRIDGE FALLS; TWO DIE By Associated PARIS, Dec. 22.

Two persons were known to have been killed and at least three injured seriously today when the St. Louis bridge behind the famous cathedral of Notre 'Dame collapsed after a heavy barge knocked out its central arch. The bridge connected two islands in the Seine river, the He St. Louis and the He de la Cite. Police said a gas main exploded after the barge struck the bridge, plunging the structure with pedestrians and vehicles into the stream.

The steel barge Tunisie, which caused the accident, was carried 500 yards downstream before her crew regained control. The captain was hurt seriously. DERRICK SAVES STEER IN WELL By Associated Press. BROOKLET, Dec. 22.

Rather than go into his stall, J. T. Creasy's big- steer made a high giving jump over the lot fence T' landed Ker-splash! Deep down in a well on the other side. Bellowing, the steer sat in the well, his nose just above the water line, until Creasy, a high school agricultural student, got a wrecker from a garage and hoisted him out. The steer, uninjured, trotted to his stall.

ALLAN F. POLOMSKEY Shown here are persons figuring in the investigation of the strange death early this morning of Stephen Melkey, aged 44, of 423 West Fairmont avenue, Mish-awaka, who died as the result of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile at Logan street and McKinley avenue (U. S. 20). Melkey was blindfolded and his mouth was sealed PATROLMAN Soviet transport ships, previously stationed at Petsamo when the arctic push began more than three weeks ago, were said now to have departed.

Tin Paris Premier dou'ard ttala-dier, in a speech punctuated by the ringing cheers of the chamber of deputies, announced 'today that givfakk mil- Uary aid to Finland "and will continue to do so in defense of a ro-ic people." said TOaldAtr, "that Poland aud I Finland icere equal in heroism but unequal in methods and ihilitary operations. Poland, despite the hercjsm of the entire people, was destroyed in a few weeks by a war of movment. The heroic Finns, facing a greater menace, had fortified themselves and, behind their barrage, resist Qvnd show what a people who prefer death to slavery can do. is not sufficient to acclaim this heroic country. It is necessary to furnish it real military Extreme Cold Continues.

The weather w'as'caim ahd clear but the extreme cold continued. Retreating troops observed from the frontier seemed to be trying to keep warm. Motorized troops rode in lorries for a shdr't' distance, then jumped of? and. ran for a while for warmth. It was considered- significant that no southward moving sup ran lose LIVES WHEN GERMAN TRAINS CRASH: 100 Injured; Toll at 193 Dead Since War Began.

By Associated Press. BERLIN, Dec. 22. Two pas senger trains crowded with Christ mas travelers collided in the sta- i tion at Genthin today, killing 70 persons and injuring 100, German authorities estimated. The wreck occurred when the Berlin-Neukirchen (Sair) express, traveling at top speed, struck the Berlin-Cologne train, which was making an unscheduled halt, about 1 a.

m. The locomotive and six cars of one train and four cars of the other were derailed. The wreck caused the greatest loss of life of any of a series of German rail disasters, of which it was the eighth since the war be gan. It raised the casualty toil to; 193 dead and more than 158 in jured. Six of the previous wrecks also were collisions.

The seventh was a derailment caused by a rock slide. X3enthin is about 50 miles south west of Berlin on the railway to Magdeburg. Other developments in Germany today included: 1. Two Germans lost their heads for high treason, increasing to 41 the number beheaded dur ing the year. They were Erich Scheer, postal official of Witten, charged with inciting the public against the nazi government, and Bruno Stanik, of Beuthen, accused of providing the Polish intelligence department with secret reports.

Reconnaissance flights over France and England and a fight in which a French plane was forced down by German Messer-schmitts were reported by the German high command. BOMBS INJURE 12. Irish Republican Army Blamed In Post Cffice Blasts. By International News Service. LONDON, Dec.

22. Twelve persons were under treatment for in juries today after 19 incendiary bombs believed to have been set by the illegal Irish reDublican armv burst in nost offices thromrh. out Britain, destroying- hundreds of letters. Late Thursdav evenine the blasts began when bombs ex ploded in four London nost offices. A little later there were similar explosions in Birmingham and oivernampton.

This mornine- four more hnmhs exploded in two other London post omces. tires broke out in two mail boxes at Crewe. Police issued a e-eneral warning. fearing that "delayed action" DomDs might be contained in Christmas mail alreadv sent out to post office depots. HEIR TO $1,000, A DOG, MISSING By Associated Press.

MILLINGTON, Dec. 22. The canine heir to $1,000 was missing today and the whole town wondered what happened to him His keeper, Dave Bunger, feared the little dog, known as "Baby," had been kidnaped, or maybe, had just gotten tired of easy living and walked off to lead the usual dog's life. When his mistress, Mrs. Mary T.

Fleming, died, she left $1,000 to keep "Baby" in comfort until his death. He had eaten out of fine gold-band china and slept on silken pillows. 1 Townspeople described T'Baby" as a "squat pooch with a tail that wagged his body. His breed, a sort of Irish terrier. chusetts Memorial hospital discovered the nickel in his gullet and this week Bobby parted company with it.

i Doctors could offer no explanation as to how the coin came to be overlooked all these years. "Just one of those things, one commented. They agreed he was remarkably healthy, considering the lack of solids in his diet. -But Bobby, who is going home todayK treats the whole matter as a joke. v.Tm going to get a bank for Christmas," he grinned, "and from now on that's where I'm going to keep my money, 1 Ail except Mr.

A. M. CAMPBELL PICKS UP South Bend and Mishawaka police joined hands in seeking a solution of the kidnaping and strange death early this morning of Stephen Melkey, 44-year-old widower, of 423 West Fairmont avenue, Mishawaka. Melkey, his eyes and mouth held shut with two-inch surgical adhesive tape, was apparently dumped out of a kidnaper's automobile about 140 feet south of McKinley avenue (U. S.

highway No. 20) on the east side of Logan street and left to roam in front of whatever vehicle or other peril might come his way. He was struck at the intersection of the two highways at about 3 o'clock by an automobile driven west on McKinley avenue by William Joyce, 29. of rural route No. 7, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Dies on Way to Hospital. Mr. Joyce stopped and then went on to the heart of South Bend where he found a telephone and called South Bend police. About the same time an east-bound truck driver had come along, observed the huddled form of Melkey and called Mishawaka police. Molkey, reached by the South Bend ambulance while he was still living, died on the way to St.

Joseph hospital. He suffered" a broken neck, a fracture of his right thigh and ankle, internal injuries and severe shock. Mishawaka police, learning of Melkey's identity, recalled that he had been in difficulties with several other men over the affections of Miss Bertte DeVos, 27-year-old divorcee, of 123 North Mill street, Mishawaka, a waitress in the Old Heidelberg cafe. 201 North Main street, Mishawaka, Two Held for Questioning. Together with South Bend police, they went to her home.

Upon questioning, she said that she had been out until 3:30 clock this morning with Allan F. Polomskey, 28, of 847 East Fifth street. Mish awaka. She said that she and Polomskey are to be married on New Year's day. She was taken to the county jail and held for in vestigation.

Next police arrested Polomskey when he reported for work at a South Bend coal yard. He said that he had left Miss DeVos about 3:30 o'clock. He was also held for further investigation. Police planned the apprehension of several other men for questioning in connection with a suspected kid nap and intimidation plot. Meanwhile back at the scene South Bend and Mishawaka police and Coroner Donald Grillo and his deputy.

Dr. Samuel E. Bechtold, went over the case. They found a set of tire tracks which they believe were left by the kidnap automobile. Prints of Tratks Taken.

Moulage prints of these were taken to be checked with automobiles of suspects. The trail left by these tracks entered the scene from the east on McKinley boule vard at Logan street. It was evident that the car had been driven into a byway southwest of the intersection and then by a circuitous route to Logan street about 140 feet south of McKinley avenue. There tracks in the snow indicate Melkey was dumped out in Continued oa Par Serea. Colams On.

THE WEATHER. FRIDAY, DEC. 22. 193. Indiana Fair, not so cold In east and, central portions tonight: Saturday increasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature followed by rain in aoutta and anew or rain in north portion Saturday niaht and Sunday, possibly begtnninc in eztrem west portion late Saturday afternoon.

Lower Michigan Fair tonight and Saturday: snow or rain Sunday, alichtly colder in extreme east portion tonight. Illinois Increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday followed by rani In south portion and snow or rain in north port ion Saturday afternoon or night somewhat warmer Saturday and except near Laka Michigan tonight. Shippers' forecast Lowest temperature expected during the next 36 hours within 200 miles of Indianapolis: North, east and southeast, 20 to 25 degrees west and south. 22 to 32 degrees. Saturday Sun rises.

7:11: seta. 4:18. Moon seta, 3:56 a. m. In Taurus.

SOUTH BEXD TEMPERATCKE. Official temperature as record ad by the O. S. weather bureau at Bendlx field, St. Joseph county airport, were as follows: I Temperature la downtowa South Bend are estimated by the bureau a vara a four to six degree higher.

Dec. 21. Dec. 22. 1:35 p.

m. ...2.4 12:35 a 2:35 p. m. ...29 1:35 a. .24.2 2:35 a.

..20.3 3:35 a. 4:35 a. 5:35 a. 6:35 a. 17.1 7:35 a.

..13.8 8:35 a. 9:35 a. m. 29 10:35 a. 11:35 a.

3:35 p. m. ...28.5 4:35 p. m. 5:35 p.

m. 6:35" p. m. 7:35 p. m.

8 :35 p. m. 9 p. ra. .29.4 .30.1 .31 .31.4 .30.9 .30.4 10:35 p.

m. .27.5 11:35 P- 12:35 p. Maximum. .35: minimum, 13.8. Precipitation for the last 24 noun ending at 6:35 a.

m. today .03 Inch. General weather statistic will be found tn "The Day's Record, auurwhara taTae Tribune. DETECTIVE LEVI N. NULF.

Melkey's by Tribune Staff Photographer. TRAIL. Polomskey and Melkey, police said, had had trouble over tiie girl. Police also planned to question other men reported friendly with the girl. The lower picture shows Patrolman Arthur M.

Campbell at place where Melkey jwas dumped out of the kidnap automobile on Logan street, about il40 feet from where he was i struck and fatally injured. PUPILS PLACE ITCH POWDER ON PRINCIPAL By Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. Dec. 22.

After 10 hearings during which witnesses told of indignities heaped on Supervising Principal Edwin Van Keuren, the Fleming-ton board of education has decided to drop its inquiry into complaints against him of incompetency, inefficiency and neglect of Vluty. The board said the hearings would have to be started anew next year or abandoned. The board reorganizes in February. F. Merton Williamson, the complainant, said another 30 hours of testimony would be required for his case.

Van Keuren's defense did not get underway. Former pupils testified how itching powder was dropped down Van Keuren's back, his coat and shoes confiscated, his face smeared with lipstick and pranks were played on him during a senior class bus trip to ply trucks had been observed in the last two days jior any other indication of food or munitions case to the grand jury, said the school was conducted in a base ment in the heart of the garment district. There. Yarrow added, members were taught th proper way to throw hydrofluoric acid, a chemical kept in paraffin containers be cause the acid eats glass. Just to insure their proficiency, students first were trained with bottles of water.

Later they were given the acid test. Those who failed to become proficient in acid throwing, Yarrow said, were taught how to toss stench bombs; how to stuff needles into door locks so that keys wouldn't work, and how to sabotage sewing machines. Trick Works Well. The keyhole- stuffing trick worked so well that, one morning, the whole industry was locked out because operators could not open the doors to their plants. The arrests came after a six-month investigation.

Yarrow said the strike disrupted the repairing and selling of second-hand sewing machines, particularly those used in the garment trade. At least a dozen instances of assault were involved in the charges against the 15 men, he said. Those who pleaded guilty were John Sabatano. 26; Joseph Schiff- man, 38; Anthony Serrano, 29; Irving Kramer, 29: Harold Kes-sler, 26; David -Sternhell, 28. and J.

Galino, 38, all of New York, and Peter Brice, 31, of Ridgefield Park, N. J. In addition to Worsager and Friedman, Max Dunn, 33; Max Kosakoff, 38; Harry Peskin, 30; Max Feinberg, 33, and Jack Kirschner, 36, pleaded innocent. DR. GEORGE GORE GETS NEW TRIAL By Associated Press.

BENTON, 111., Dec. 22. Cir cuit Judge Blaine Huffman, ofj Lawrenceville. today granted Dr. George W.

Gore, a new trial on a charge of murder in the death of Carl Choisser, Benton attorney and editor. The new trial motion was granted after defense counsel presented affidavits charging two jurors had said Dr. Gore should be given the death penalty before they were accepted as jurors. 19-POUND SET OF TWINS BORN By Associated Press. BOSTON.

Dec. 22. Mrs. Mary Kelly, aged 32, wife of Truck Driver Joseph Kelly, is resting comfortably today after giving birth to twins weighing al most is pounas. One of the boys weighs nine pounds, 13 ounces, the other eight pounds, 14 ounces.

Mrs. Kelly is the mother of three other children. HANES RESIGNS TREASURY POST By United Press. WASHINGTON. Dec.

22. Undersecretary of the Treasury John Hanes resigned today to return to private mismess. Santa Claus but he got a big kick out of toys he received. There were dolls and a toy train in addition to the "trench" hat and pistol but Kenneth liked them best. The baby's parents are hoping he will be able to toddle around by himself by next March when he will be two years old.

Kenneth's bigness has been attributed by physicians to glandular excesses but the child hasn't grown either in height or width as much during the last few months as he did during the first year and a half. He has a brother seven years old and a sister 10, both normal in weight and size, Cleveland Feeds Its Needy; Soup Kitchens Not Wanted arriving from the north. Inhabitants who were familiar with the bitter cold of this region said they believed that thousands of Russians had perished. Reports reaching here by way of Sweden said the Russians had attempted to bomb the Finnish munitions works at Tampere, north of Helsinki. Thursday.

The newspaper National Tidende said that three persons were killed and five wounded in two raids on the city. Other reports said two houses were set afire, five persons died and two Russian planes were shot down: The Finnish communique did not mention Tam- pere. Dispatches from the Salmijarvi nickel mining region said it was uncertain whether the red army's retreat was a tactical move or indicated a military triumph for the hard-fighting Finns. Some Frozen to Death. One Norwegian report said the abandonment of captured terri-tory by the Russians was Some.

army, sol-Wdisrs were reported to have frozen to death and others to be suffering in the bitter cold. with adhesive tape and his hands were bound behind him. Police believe he had been kidnaped. They questioned a woman, Miss Bertte DeVos, 27, a divorcee, 123 North Mill street, Mishawaka, with whom Melkey, a widower, had been friendly, and Allan Pol-omskey, 28, of 847 East Fifth street, Mishawaka, whom she said ehe is to marry 1. send in soup kitchens if necessary.

Bricker Blames Cities. Such a measure would be "purely for new deal political effect," Gov. John W. Bricker responded. Mayor Harold H.

Burton declared present arrangements "adequate." Several cities' officials have declared the state was failing to meet its share of relief costs; Bricker retorted the cities did not utilize all their resources. Cleveland removed 15,000 persons from its food rolls a month ago today and reduced rations to 50,000 others. It started restoring "full relief" Dec. 15 after issuing in notes. Since Nov.

22 the Federal Surplus Commodities corporation has sent in 186 carloads of food worth $217,000, Rowley said. A family of four now receives 82. cents a day for food, and in addition surplus commodities worth about 13 cents. Hamburger Suggested. Miss Frances Preston, city dietary consultant, suggested that relief families prepare "a small meat loaf or hamburger cakes" for Christmas "and that means one piece of meat a person not two." She said an average dinner might be: Salmon and potato cakes, raw cabbage, whole wheat bread, cookies and coffee.

Relief clients who have a larger Christmas meal must live on re duced rations the remainder of the two weeks covered by their food orders. Miss Preston reckoned "a real Christmas dinner," with stewed chicken, would cost $2.47, leaving $10.75 for the other 13 days, counting surplus food values. Some relief clients, will receive Christmas presents from funds raised by newspapers and churches, but little food, welfare workers said. Most gifts are toys and garments. By Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 22. Cleveland now is feeding all its needy, officials declared today. "Of course there will be nothing extra for Christ mas." said Sydney T. Rowley, one of the relief executives h.o has been trying to make ends meet to provide for 65,000 indigent persons here.

"It probably won't be the type of Christmas that everyone would like, but none will go hungry," he de JOHN OWENS. clared. "Relief clients are getting more federal surplus commodities this year than last time, not because it's Christmas, but because the government sent in more." Cleveland's mayor and Ohio's governor said there is no need for setting, up army soup kitchens. President Roosevelt Thursday told C. O.

Leader John Owens that the government was prepared to No Tribune On Christmas The Tribune will not Mbe issued Christmas day. All departments in The Tribune building except radio will be closed all day. Radio will be on the air from 8 a. m. to 11 p.

i The Russians' apparently had marched into a. bleak and uninhabitable area, desolated by the Finns who had left towns and villages in ashes. The invaders were understood to be in acute need of Moreover, the Finns were reported in close pursuit," surging out of their previously prepared Cm ma 4 mm fmcr IS. Clw Q4. Human Bank Loses Nickel, in Esophagus for 10 Years 80-Pound Baby JotYetT wo, Likes War Toys Best of All By Associated Press.

BOSTON, Dec. 22. Bobby Berry, aged 12, of Lan caster, N. who has been a hu man bank for a five-cent piece for the last 10 years, is getting ready to eat a real Christmas din ner, the first one he's ever had. Ten years ago he swallowed a nickel, which i lodged in his esophagus.

Unnoticed, the coin formed a partial block in the tube so that Bobby could eat nothing but grueL fruit juice; "and more gruel. Bobby adds with a grimace. j. Ten days surgeons at Massa ByXsaoclatcd Press. MORGANTOWN, Dec.

22. What sort of toys does Ken tucky's biggest baby go for at Christmas time? Yes, red toy trench hat and pistol. But you can't blame that on the war influence because Baby Ken neth Johnson, age 21 months and weighing nearly 80 pounds, lives with his family in a county that hasn't a paved road. Kenneth, who now stands about 40 inches tall and still has to have support to stand up, is oo yorMg to be greatly interested 1.