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0 1, ITU i Today's News Today Tonight Warmer 1 Tomorrow -Cloady Ton Report rj 1, Second Section Ra4i Praframt Pag il i i it 4 (XT) 'fit Evening iildCii Berkshire' 1 1 M. QuotitioneX 1 Pace Price Three Cent Pittdlcld, Massachusetts. Monday, November 21, 1938. Volume 45- IS'o. 142 Warn Jeirs Queen Vies Brittmi To Lease Pittsfield Joins Nations In Prayers for the Jews and in Guiana Fighting on CzcqIi Himgariaii Border New Spark to War Poland and, Hungary Said.

Ready To March Into Ruthenia In Opposition to Hitler LfF or Refugee Jews i 1 Some Clergymen Also Mention -Catholic Persecutions Treatment" Deplored Local ministers, priests and rabbiea alike joined the of clergymen throughout the country yesterday in praying for the persecuted Jews and Catholics in European if- countries. Chamberlain Say 10,000 Square Miles Will Be Made Available-African Colony AIo Planned LONDON, Nov. 21 tP). Prime Minister Chamberlain: today told the House of Commons of plans to lease at least' 10,000 square miles in British Guiana to provide homes for German Jews seeking refuge abroad from the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish camDaign. The Prime Minister also disclosed i' Germany Mentioned I Germany was mentioned especial- ly in most of the local churches, Dies tliarges VIENNA, Nov.

21 danger, of armed conflict over Czechoslovakia's eastern frontier, involving Hungary and Poland and possibly Germany and Italy, increased today as new incidents occurred. Jit was officially announced in Prague, that Czech frontier guards had repulsed a band of Polish irregulars who crossed the frontier into the Czech province of Ruthenia. One Pole was killed, i 11 1 Frontiers Reinforced and prayers were said especially for the afflicted Jewish people. In some churches Catholic persecu tions abroad were" also mentioned. Prayers in eight leading Prot-estantchurches were part of the and Hungary were nation-wide program of prayers fork that negotiations had made favorable progress for te settlement of Jewish refugees in Tanganyika, formerly; Ger Class Hatred In Government Says Publications Queen Maud reported to be prepared to march into Ruthenia and Eastern Slovakia at moment's notice.

Both LONDON, Nov. 21 (UP). Great man East Africa, and other territories in Africa. Also to Africa 1 1 Germany Proposes Britain and Norway joined today tne persecuiea minorities oi Europe sponsored yesterday by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, In accptdance with a request from, thisnatipnal Protestant council, of the ministers prayed specifically for a nations have! been 1 reinforcing frontier troops. It was that in mourning Norway Queen ish under league mandate and orF--Chamberlain last week cll they were, ready to take advantage.

Maud, who died of a heart attack yesterday in a private clinic here. Father Coughlin of any serious frontier incident for the JL1 1 1 loll She, was the "Little Queen," last fcessation of considering its return to Germany police action tp preserve peace. Both had been disappointed by Arms! Against Jews Iheir failure to. obtain from the surviving child of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of Her husband, King Haakon VII, Vienna conference which settled Written To StirTrouble 4 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 VP) Chairman Dies of the House committee investigating un-American activities asserted today that testimony received secretly from government employees Saturday had disclosed a "deliberate, long-time use of government pub Czech-Hungarian territorial dis-fhad been almost constantly at her Slackening Rev.

Russel Prewitt in the morning servicein the First Methodist Episcdpal Church deplored the. "barbaric treatment of the Jews and other minority groups under loftier." Both Rev. Paul L. Sturgei of the First Baptist Church andRev. John Gratton of the First Congregational Church, prayed in putes, enough' Czech territory to give them a common border.

Ob servers believed that if the situa tion grew dangerous, Adolf Hit to satisfy Chancellor Hitler's colonial demands. Chamberlain's disclosures were made prior to the opening of a scheduled general debate on. the question of minorities in Europe, 1 The Prime Minister said the government, would invite -volunteer refugee organizations to send their own representatives to British Guiana, colony with an area of square miles on the northeastern coast of JSouth. America, to make surveys. 19,000 Square Miles "Provided the results of these ler and Benito Mussolini would Coughlin Warns Jews Of America Hadio Station Denies Statements Hy Priest take a strong hand.

Italy and' lications to spread class hatred Germany were the Vienna arbiters HM Europe throughout the United States. and rejected Hungary's full claim. Italy Involved Occupation of, Eastern Czecho beside sincei she underwent an abdominal operation Wednesday. Stockyards Tied Up by Strike CIO Quit AFL May Carry On slovakia by Hungary pr Poland or both would constitute a loss of prestige to Italy. For Germany it In Other Churches Several Catholic churches also joined in the prayers asking an alleviation of suffering for the Jews and other European minorities.

Rev. Leo Laviolette mentioned the persecutions in prayers at Notre Dame Church; and Charles Zanottl also praying for the persecuted, invited his congregations surveys are satisfactory, tne gov would be a loss of and ernment contemplate the lease or said "communist phraseology was used on some occasions in the and that the testimony "revealed a very alarming" situation." The chairman read Into, committee records an article in which he said David J. National Labor Relations Board economist, had urged workers ytb establish socialism by force fif political action failed. The article appeared in "Labor Age" in Dies said attempts-'had been made to make large areas of land on generous DETROIT, Nov. 21 (UP) Persecution of Jews in Germany may traced back to the early days of terms under conditions to be set would also threaten! to, close! the road to the Black Sea.

At the. same time it would interfere with iGer-many's economic program iin Slovakia and Ruthenia, as well, as in kled hereafter," he announced. "Tt Is nnt nswcihla at tVlia CtlWtlV the Hitler regime when the Nazis. Bohemia and Moravia, the other Czechoslovakian provinces: Prayers for Jews Continued on Second Page President To giveexact figures of the total area which could be made available, butOt would certainly not be less than iD.OOO square miles and possibly more." ChamberlainNtold the House, that it appear the statements were not Hitler's newspaper, the Vienna Voelkischer Beobachter; reflected CHICAGO. Nov.

21. UP). The Livestock Handlers' Union of the Packing House Workers' Organizing Committee. A Congress of In- the views of Saposs. Publications John committee in the acuteness of the situation in an editorial which warned that any the Governor ofxTanganyika had Export Traders May Be Allowed To Help Business BERLIN, Nov.

21 (IP), The first dim signs of a slackening In the anti-Jewish drive appeared today, after 11 days In which even the home of foreigners were reported searched for Jews. The let down did not lessen gen eral despair or what was for many Jews an acute problem how to live from day to day. They were unable to draw upon bank reserves to replenish ready cash funds because the head of: the house, who made the deposits, was under Nevertheless, was at least a momentary end to the wholesale arrests which Jews estimate. sent 60,000 of their men to jail and concentration; camps. Export Business A usually good authority said: some Jews would be.

permitted to continue their export businesses, because their contacts abroad were top valuable to abandon in the1 face, of decreasing foreign orders for German goods. Propaganda Minister Goebbeis announcedsNov. 12 that Jewish or-ganizationswould be permitted to' resume activity. The first result Is to be a presentation tomorrow by Fritz Wis-ten, leading Jewish theatrical pro ducer. He was released last Thursday from concentration camp and ordered to present! comedy, "Rain and taken from Shake- opposition to the Vienna verdict been, asked to saywhether land 1 aIIUiatevestigator.

took the witness stand struck today, paralyzing the world's to present documents which Dies Aks France and Britain To Agree To Reduction BERLIN, Nov. ,21, (UP). Ger-Tnany has sent fey London specific proposal for limitation of the air forces of Britain, Trance and Germany, 'and for the limitation of the use of heavy artillery and poison gas, welf-informed source said today. The proposals were entrusted ty Hermann Wiihelm Goering to Bodenschatz, one of hit chief aides in the air force, who flew to London. It was understood Bodenschatz planned to discuss with British leaders the possibility tof German-French-British discussions on the questions.

Bodenschatz trip was time? just before the visit of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to Paris. Proposals for a European arms Rgreement, particularly in regard to aerial armaments, have been current since the Four-Power Peace Conference when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Fuehrer Adolf Hitler signed an accord symbolising the desire of their nations never to go to war with each other again. Germany recently was 'tinder-stood to have suggested that air forces be limited on approximately their present strengths, which would give the Nazis a great; advantage over Britain and: France. plan, however, appeared unlikely to materialize because fear of aerial attack and lack of counter-attack preparations were the dominant factors in forcing Britain and France to agree to Hitler's terms at Munich. "cai become an attack on peace.

could be made available for leas largest livestock imarket said linked numerous organizations A campaign "for frontier clarifica ing on generous term the tion has been conducted by Hun Oppose Big Age Pensions At 6 A. when the market was scheduled to open, the CIO workers stopped handling livestock and Refugee Jews Continued 011 Second Tags garian newspapers and organs urging Union of Ruthenia with Hunt gary on historical, geographical and economic grounds, the1 newspaper in this country with anti-religious and anti-racial activities. Dies read what (he said were extracts from some 'of the documents assailing Jews, government officials and the Masonic. Lodge. Among the organizations named gathered in groups in the yards which extend across a wide area of said.

Government Chicago's South Four hours later the U. S. Department of Agriculture, reported, that transactions had taken place. It described the campaign as "re markable" because Hungary as well were: Black Shirts, Union City, N. Christian American Crusade, Lqs Angeles; American Defenders, Will Join Conservatives, It Is Believed WASHINGTON, Nov.

21, as Czechoslovakia "accepted in ad May Reopen vance and without reservation the waged war on Communism, the Rev. Charles Coughlin declared in. his Sunday radio sermon yesterday. "It is the belief of the present German government that Jews not as religionists but as nationals only were responsible for the economic and social ills suffered by the Fatherland since the signing of the Versailles treaty," he said. Identified as Jews 'Imbued with this idea, a group of rehel Germans under Adolf Hitler organized for two purposes.

First, to overthrow the existing German government under- whose jurisdiction Communism was waxing strong, and second, to-rid the Fatherland of -Communists whose leaders, unfqrtunately, they identified with the Jewish race. "Thus, Nazism was conceived as a political defense mechanism against Communism and was ushered into existence as a result of Communism. And, Communism itself was regarded by the rising generations as a product not of Russia, but of a group of. Jews who dominated the destines of Russia." Feeling Increases Tracing growth of German feeling against Jews, the priest said it "increased greatly in 1935 when the official disclosure made manifest that the Central Committee of the Communist party operating in Russia, consisted of 59 members, Shortly 10, M.t police: Coral Gables', Knights of the ordered tne strikers oil-the- yards White Camelia, St. Albans, W.

and some officials believed the American Vigilante Intelligence When it comes to the question of Spark of 'War Continued on Second Page market hight reopen under police protection with. American Federation of Labor handlers on the job. Capt. John Pendergast, chief of Of States Costing More Census Bureau Note Trend of Commonwealths Democrats bigger pensions for younger persons. President Roosevelt and the Conservatives are likely to speak the same language In the next Congress at least far enough to say a common i Nevertheless, numerous chanees Association; Christian Democratic Corporation Dallas, Texas; Association of American Gentiles, the Association of Leagues, Cleveland; the Christian Party Dies Continued on Second Page all Chicago's uniformed forces, Stockyards Continued on Second Page Discussing tne present Social Security Act will be presented to the new Congress on behalf of the Administra WASHINGTON, Nov.

21 (UP) tion. They will not be broad enough to i still the rising clamor for larger pensions, but supporters Former Local Prisoner Behind Jail Bars Again 01 tne President believe they are GOP Gains Bigwigs Meet With Farley At New York Munich, poth nations have undertaken huge aerial re-arma mucn more likely to be enacted than any of the higher powered pension schemes. ment programs in an effort to Snake up for the Nazi superiority and 'British Air Secretary Sir The census Bureau reported a sharp rise in the costs of state governments today despite the Federal Government's work relief program. While financial statistics for every state have not yet been the Census Bureau had analyzed a cross-section of 15 states which, officials said, gave a good Indication of the trend of state government fiscal policies. Could Be Worse Officials contended that if there Milder Bill i Austin Robie, 25, Apprehended Following Escape With' Five Other Convicts at Cranstonv JR.

I. Evidence is accumulating, on the other -hand, that the California Kingsley Wood recently Informed the House of Commons that nk would spend $1,000,000,000, an Nd Prlve Continued on Second Page Dayton Schools Are Rcpoenctl DAYTON. Ohio, Nov. 21 The doors of the city's school buildings swung open today to receive 34,000 pupils who were forced to quit their studies three weeks ago when funds for their classes ran out. Members of the Board of Education, who voted with the exception of one dissenter to close the schools when they faced a deficit of $61,000 and no operating funds, embarked on a "pay as you go basis' with approximately $430,228 available'.

There were no predictions whether classes could be continued for the full-year. NEW YORK, Nov. 21 UP). Half a hundred top Democratic leaders, representing' the area the Mississinni to the Atlantic Pensions Continued on Second Page Austin Robie. 25.

formerlv of Coughlin Continued on Second Page Seek Lift to Arms Embargo Increase or 75 per cent, lor aerial arms. this city, an escaped convict from had been no Federal works relief met today with Postmaster Gen-Cauuht A 1 the Berkshire House of Correction program, expenditures would have been considerably greater because of the larger share of the relief was back behind prison bars at the Rhode Island State Prison, Cranston, R. this noon following escape with five other prisons Saturday WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 m. burden the states would have had A conference of 200 attorneys and jurists decided today to ask Presi to bear.

The analysis showed that in 1937 morning. With the capture of Robie and the, cost of operating 15 state gov- dent Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to lift the arms embargo against the Spanish, Government "The companion, Armando of Providence, all six men were back behind bars. Three were ar Pirate Flag Ftotvn' From "Nazi Consulate BOSTON, Nov. 21 iP) A black; flag bearing a skull and ero bone and the wordT "Hitlerism1 was discovered today fluttering from, ihe flaaMafT alop the Board of Trade Building, houses the German consulate. A policeman removed the flag.

Attache of the consulate declined com. menu State Costs Continued on Second Page Lawyers Committee on American rested, a few minutes after the vate stock of the post election situation, and to discuss future Democratic policies with 1940 In mind. They had been called here without- public janriouncemerit by- Farley, w.ho Is the party's national chairman, and Democratic national committee headquarters was extraordinarily reticent about the conference, GOP Gains Discussed The meeting, which was closed, had bees described officially' as designed to make plans fr the customary Jackson' Day dinner of 1 I Democrats Continued on Second Page Dies With Hand On 'Phone After Saving Train MT. POCONO, Pa NdV. 21 Richard De Santo, 43-year-old.

Lackawanna Railroad watch-, man, saw 200 ton of rock crash down on track at a tunnel entrance yesterday. He sprinted Keveral hundred yards to a telephone, warned a diapatched, then died of a heart attack. Foreman Thomas Grady found hit body with one hand gripped-Hightly on the receiver. escape and the fourth was nabbed by state police after a car in which Relations with Spain declared by prevention of a Franco victory in the Spanish civil war could the United States be assured that Nazi Leopold Godowsky, Great he was riding was run from the road by the officers. and Fascist infiltration into South Second Escape America would be stopped.

It con This was the" second escape Pianist, Dies at 68 Years Robie, labeled the leader of the tended that President Roosevelt has authority to lift the arms embargo without consulting Congress. group by Warden William Mc- Call, had staged since he was sen tenced to the Cranston prison dur I 1 i ing the summer of SSlfexas Planning Two Bold in a warden said a crudely Lsv that hppn hidden tdden Aviators May Be More Numerous Than Soldiers cake of soap was used to open the door leading from the pctsoners' rid Games on Big Scale NEW YORK, Nov. 21 VP). Leopold Godowsky, one of the great pianists of his generation, died today at Lenox Hill where he had undergone an operation last Wednesday. He was 68 years old.

Godowsky was one child prodigy whose reputation increased with his years. He was horn in Vilna, Russia, and was touring as a pianist at the age of nine. But he continued study at the Berlin and later under Camllle the great French pianist and composer. In his maturity, Godowsky wae considered one of the greatest technicians piano history; he also was a composer of note, a wit, and the friend of nearlv all the important musicians of the world. His New York apartment was a center around which much of the city's music life turned.

His wife, Frieda Saxe Godowky, died In 1933. Three children. Dag-mar, Leopold and Mrs. David Saperton, survive. rmnishment block where the Pitts- Nov.

will be nut into motion' im. field convict and other prisoners FORT WORTH, The men sawed tUF. Texas announced today ajmediately. Invitations will be sent were locked up. large scale bid for first place In the! to President Roosevelt.

annual football "Bowl" of all southern states and the long held by the Rose Bowl at; four outstanding football elevens. Pasadena. Two-of the teams will be TCU tary of War, call' for an air force of upwards of 100,000. Johnson, a key figure in the Administration's reserve of defense hinted that Mr. Roosevelt might ask Congress to authorize an army! air force of 9280 first line planes.

By official estimates; these would require: or more pilots and mechanics. i and Texas Tech. The others, will be selected from among Tennessee, Oklahoma. Duke. Pittsburgh.

Notre This bid headed by Elliott Roosevelt, Fort Worth radio executive and son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and J. Curtis Sanford, capitalist-promoter of the Dallas Dame, Carnegie Tech and others. TCU now ranks second to Notre WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 VP Government military experts said today the Administration's prospective armament program promises to upset the established rjla-tionship of air forces to the army and navyv At present, air forces are ranked officially as auxiliaries to both ground troops and the fleet's battleships and cruisers.

Officers and men of the Army Air Corps compose -only rbout 21.000 -f the army's aggregate of IT7.000 for all unMs. Quadrupling the corps, officially suggest- Friday as a possibility by ouls Johnson, Assistant Secre through a barred window and scaled a wall. Arrested Without Struggle -The arrest of Robie and his companions was made West Warwick after Police Chief Louis J. Peltier received a tip that two suspicious looking men were walking along the railroad tracks near Riverpoint. Both i were wearing clothing which Chief Peltier said they admitted stealing In a gasoline statiolh break earlier.

Robie his pal were haggard and near exhaustion and they were arrested without struggle. The scene of the arrest is about Austin Robie Cargo Booms Crash to Dech As German Ship Is Loaded Cotton Bowl, was revealed by Dame hi the national ratings. Texas Roosevelt and confirmed by San-iTeach, also "undefeated, will play tora toaay ana involves a series oijthe first of the two games on Sat urday preceding New Year's Day Hamilton Fish Fears British King Will Bring Propaganda events that Includes two bowl football games within a period of three days between four outstanding American elevens and other features that would drive Cecil B. De while TCU will be invited to play Monday following. Both games will be played in the Dallas Cotton Bowl, which will be elarged to seat off between 60,000 and 70.000 fans.

Mille or -Billy Into fits WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPVlmany for the benefit of Soviet Rus- fpur miles from the prison. Other Arrests Three of the prisoners, Pasquale State Bureau of Industrial 'Accidents, Immediate concern over the Weser incidents followed" official conclusion that a time bomb had been fixed outside the Vancouver hull before It left here on a voyage to Bremen. The Vancouver was beached In the estuary, later refloated and returned to dry dock. Peiper and other officials were taking pictures of the snip in an effort to obtain a clue.

na. Britisn propaganaa, always skillful and effective, claims that we must send.our youth and pend Elaborate Program To focus the eyes of the sports world even more on Texas, chartered airliners, starting from Bos- Timpani. Joseph Fitzsimmons and jealousy. The program, of course, hinges on the result of the final game of undefeated Texas Christian University's schedule. If the great Horned Frog team emerges still undefeated, which appears likely, ma- Thomas Carmelld were recaptured treasure to preserve Hong Kong, In a telegram to the United Press today Rep.

Hamilton' Fish urged that the visit to the United States next. year of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth be kept free of war- propaganda, war commitments or secret treaties. Columbia Has $158,868,638 NEW YORK, Nov. '21 The re India and Egypt for the British Texas Planning Continued on Second Page Former Local Continued on Second Page sources of Columbia University. andM OAKLAND, Cal Nov.

21, (UP). The secohd accident aboard a German vessel here this month claimed today one life and started a second investigation. Two cargo booms crashed upon the deck of the North German Lloyd motor-ship Weser when their steel cables broke. They fell 45 minutes apart. The first killed Nick Pesha, a Federal and State investigators rushed aboard from the German steamer Vancouver, drydocked nearby, which was torn open by an explosion Nov.

4. They questioned Capt. Franz Volght and other officers of the Weser wh'le some 60 longshoremen withdrew, After a few moments the investigators, led by Nat Peiper, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief San Francisco, and Assistant District Attorney Frank Coakley of Alameda County, concluded that no sabotage was involved. They left, the Weser, the longshoremen returned and the winches again were started to move the cargo. There was a sudden cry of warning and three longshoremen Storm Reprieves Convicts Bound in "The visit had better be cancelled," his telegram: said, "if it is to be used as a smoke screen for establishing a military understanding or naval alliance', or for the purpose of entering into agreements No Sheets To the Wind In the want ads find Prison Sliip for France9 Devil's Island ou will Empire." Fish's telegram said he saw no reason why the American people should not welcome the visit of King George as an act of friendship and good will.

"Since he is the kjng of a friendly nation, we should extend the utmost hospitality," Fish said, "but we should m.ake known in advance during these day of war hysteria and war propaganda that we intend to keep out of all internal wars of Europe and Asia and that under no circumstances will we be roped in to fight other people's battles outside of the American continent. "In according a sircere and its affiliated Institutions were estl-j mated yesterday at $158,868,638, an increase of less than 3 per cent over last year's figures. The budget for the last fiscal year, is was announced, was $15,756,444, higher by more than 4 per cent than that of the.previous period. These totals, include Barnard College, Teachers College, the Col for concerted or parallel action to police and quarantine the world." ST. MARTIN-DE-RE, A bed spread, hand The ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committer declared- that this country's policy "should be to mind our own business, and nof to twist the Brit And that the spread will lege of Pharmacy, the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and cages and sleep In canvas hammocks, with few breaths of fresh air.

The prison ship's unwilling passengers have been arriving at this island concentration camp. In the Bay of Biscay, for the past two weeks, transported to mainland ports in trucks fitted with iron bars like those of circus wagons. The Daladier Government indicated the nation was too poor to keep them In continental France. It probably will be years before any, if them will set foot again in ish lions tail on one side or attempt to pull British chestnuts out galese troops, who quelled rioting among the convicts last night and during the previous week, the prisoners filed back to their cells In lie De Re Prison to await new orders for departure, probably tomorrow. They are the first shipment the Guiana prisons which Include Daladier Government reversed the Daladier Government reversd the decision of the former Premier, Socialist Leon Blum, to abandon the South American Island prisons.

For fourteen days these men will sit on wqoden benqhes In iron Nov. 21 VP). A violent tempest today gave a short reprieve to 738 prisoners due to sail aboard the prison ship La Martiniere for fearsome Devil's Island and the other French Guiana penal colonies. High ses and a strong wind dashed the small motor launches used for loading the convict cargo against the prison ship's sides so that authorities postponed the sailing." Under the fixed bayonets ofSen- of the fire on the other." ill be the kind You want, be not af reted. To wit: hand cnocH pr4 tor full iiio bed.

Htm detigo. Dll J-S740. You'll find It in the Want Ads. He warned that the United States jumped to safety as the second! wholehearted welcome to the British King and Queen, It must be absolutely free of war propaganda, war commitments, or secret trea- Bard College at which are under separate nan-cial control but are part of Columbia's educational system. Capital endowment was put at 86.980,474 and the value of lands, hundiass and equipment at boom smashed upon the deck.

Captain Voight said he was convinced the booms fell accidentally. Police held the same opinion. Investigation waa referred to the "has more to fear enemies from within than front unfriendly armed forces frgm without." "The Communists from within," he wired, "want us to fight Japan and Ger- ties.that might entangle us in the constant boundary disputes and wars of the old world." France, If ever..