The Daily Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • Page 1

THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED 1846 NOW IN ITS 95th YEAR The Weather Partly cloudy and warmer tonight Scattered showers in east and north portions tonight. he Daily Republican MONONGAHELA VALLEY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER MONONGAHELA, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941 THREE tafiiDi ml Drib Asks HESS SISTER-IN-LAW OUT Mrs. E. L. Upchurch Mrs.

E. L. Upchurch, of Bristol, shown above, is a former sister-in-law of Rudolf Hess, deputy fuehrer who fled from Germany in a plane and is a prisoner in the British Isles. Mrs. Upchurch was married to Gustav Adolf Hess, brother of the deputy fuehrer Gustav died in 1920.

Mrs. Upchurch's son by Gustav, Gustav Adolf Hess, is with the 77th battery aircraft at Fort Randolph in the Panama Canal Zone. VOLUME 95 NO. 291 ALONG MAIN STREET This That- Today's Horoscope Today's birthday children may jxpect advancement, financial success and substantial help from relatives and friends during the next year. They will also make oenefi'cial changes.

They should make hay while the sun shines. The child born today will be decidedly lucky the more so if obstinacy and self-will are not al-iowed to incur the displeasure of iuperiors. CONGRATULATIONS Birthdays MAY 15, 1941 Bobby Melvin Myers, 10. Mrs. Mary Dochinez.

MAY 18, 1941 George Sanders. Patsy Revetta. Patricia Ann Staffen. Dorothy Fynes. J.

K. Cochrane. Evelyn Bohucky. E. L.

Risley (Elrama). Esther Foster. Louis C. Hixenbaugh. Charles Thomas Robb, 1.

vVed-din Anniversaries MAY 1G, 1941 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. All-idge, 61 years. DEATH CLAIMS COACH DRESHA Sew Beaver Falls Mentor Suffers Relapse After Operation, Dies.

Tarentum, Pa. May 16 (UP) Tohn E. Dreshar, who coached the farentum High School football to its first WPTAL Class A rhampionship last year, died today Allegheny Valley hospital fol-owing an operation. Dreshar underwent a major operation last May 1, and apparently recovering when he suffered i sudden relapse which resulted in lis death. A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Dreshar resigned his Tarentmm rligh coaching position at the end last season, to accept a similar ost at Beaver Falls High.

Ernie Hefferle, coach at South Huntingdon Twp. High school the four years, has been named to succeed Dreshar at Tarentum. Dreshar was born in Herminie, county. He attended ligh school at Irwin for a year and hen prepped at Bellefonte Acad-jmy before going to Carnegie Tech. Two Dogs Run Amok On Uniontown Street Uniontown, Pa.

May 15 (UP) Two dogs ran amok in Uniontown itreets yesterday and at least 15 yersons were reported bitten before he dogs were killed by police. The ictims were treated at Uniontown lospital and the dogs will be ex-mined for evidence of rabies. later Aluminum To Replace Traditional Red of Fire Boxes, Hydrants The traditional red coloring of fire alarm boxes and fire hydrants is on its way out here. City Councilman T. A.

Wilson last night asked council's agreement to a plan to repaint the fire boxes and plugs aluminum and the city fathers agreed. Wilson said he believed the aluminum color would be more readily visible at night. He informed council, at the same time, that the repaired fire siren atop the city hall was "holding up" and that he had abandoned plans to buy another siren at the present time. He expressed hope that it would be possible to get an air whistle later in the year, thus permitting the codification of fire calls. While the air whistle is more costly than a siren, running around $1,100 its purchase has been recommended by fire de-( partment officials who claimed firemen had difficulty in hearing the present siren.

Mayor C. B. Lamp also said an air whistle might prove a valuable asset to the community in the event of a defense emergency. Local Man Inducted As Draft Replacement Eugene R. McKinney, of Monongahela, was inducted into the United States Army yesterday as an alternate for a draftee rejected in an earlier call.

Twelve more selectees, already named by the local draft board, will leave for the Pittsburgh induction station Saturday. City's Annual Spring Street Oiling Program To Start Next Week While municipal trucks are hauling away debris and other rubbish during the city's yearly Cleanup drive next week, the Street Department will devote its efforts to another annual Spring program the oiling of dirt streets of the community. City Engineer Mark G. Borland made this announcement in behalf of the absent Director of Streets W. H.

Isaac, after Council had awarded a contract for 8,000 gallons of road oil, more or less, to the Burrell Construction company, of Donora. The Burrell company, the lowest ef three bidders, submitted a tender of .0715 cents per gallons, furnished and applied. Other bidders were the Allied Asphalt company, of Carnegie, .0724 cents per gallons and the Carnegie Tar and Asphalt .0755 cents. Borland reported that since the cost probably would fall under the amount for which a paid advertisement is required by law, he had solicited bids on oil from eight companies but only three had submitted tenders. The oil effective in combating dust will be put down as rapidly as possible in the hope the entire city may be covered before Memorial Day, week after next.

CENTS A COPY; 15c A WEEK arauDo City-Wide WPA Program Now Totals May Run Two Years. Monongahela's proposed new city-wide WPA project, now awaiting final approval, is double the size of the program originally visualized when the municipal budget was drawn up last December City Engineer Mark G. Borland informed City Council last night. The project, Borland said, now totals $124,495 to which the city must contribute $31,475 as its share. When the program was first considered, it was believed that it might not exceed $60,000.

Its growth, Borland explained, was made possible through credits to be allowed the municipality for use of its equipment. For example, he stated, $2,211 would be allowed for use of the municipal grader; $2,540 for the compressor; $2,028 for the roller; $3,546 for municipal trucks; $700 for miscellaneous tools; $4,800 for off-project expenditures and $2,100 for inspection services performed by the city engineer. These figures total $17,948, reducing the municipality's cash contribution to $13,527. Of this latter amount $10,000 has been set up in the 1941 budget for the project. Additional monies, he declared, can be obtained from funds remaining in the 1922 street and seweKbond issues and the 1939 street fund.

He listed these funds as follows: 1922 street bond issue, 1922 sewer bond issue, and 1939 street bond issue, $1,134.11. Must Pay In Advance Building up the municipality's credit, too. will be the payments made by property owners for sidewalk and curb work under the project. In this connection, the city council went on record as requiring payment in advance for sidewalk and curb work at the rate of fifty cents a lineal foot for curb and fifteen cents a square foot for sidewalks. Engineer Borland emphasized that these figures represented about only half of what the work would cost under private contract.

Decision to require payment in (Continued on Page 8) fColumn 3) Clean-Up Week Here Starts Monday; No Ashes To Be Hauled If you've been stocking up your winter ashes to have them hauled away free during the city's annual Clean-Up Week, you're just out of luck. For ashes aren't included on the "free list" for this Spring's clean-up drive, plans for which were announced in City Council last night by Councilman T. A. Wilson. Wilson said the local Board of Health, at a recent meeting, had set the week beginning; Monday, May 19 as Clean-Up Week and, as usual, wouiii haul away, free of charge, rubbish and other debris placed in containers at the curb.

The board decided, however, not to remove ashes except at the regular fees. Council again granted use of municipal trucks for the program. They will operate in the First Ward next Monday and Tuesday, in the Second Ward Wednesday and Thursday, and in the Third Ward on Friday and Saturday. public interest in gardening is increasing, and that "the war is affecting everyone; we can't get it off our minds." 'T wouldn't say that," she replied, when asked whether people were turning to gardening as an escape from worry over world conditions. The wife of the automobile manufacturer said she currently is interested in the development of a new variety of snapdragon, a large rose-colored one, as yet unnamed.

She said her husband is interested in gardening, but can't find time to do any digging himself. Ford sat with his wife at the speakers' table at the convention dinner last night. AN AMERICAN SENATE DELAYS CONVOY ISSUE Wheeler Calls On F. D. R.

To Use Hess Case For Peace Feeler. Washington. May 15 (UP) A Senate showdown on convoys was definitely postponed todav, while Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, called on President Roosevelt to seize the occasion of Rudolf Hess' flight to Scotland to propose a negotiated peace.

Sen. Charles W. Tobey, N. announced that he would not introduce his anti-convov resolution an ari-pndment to the pending Foreign Ship Requisitioning bill, which was expected to come to a vote today. He indicated, instead, that he probably would await Mr.

Roosevelt's address to the nation on May 27 before taking any action. Tcbey disclosed his intentions following the urging of several non-interventionist leaders that he follow such a course. "If the President comes out for convoys in his talk two weeks hence, or in the interim makes any move in favor of convoys, I shall forthwith introduce my anti-convoy resolution under a procedure which will afford full debate and roll call vote on the sole issue of convoys no convoys, icbey said. "The sentiment has already demonstrated its strength. It is ever increasing and by the time the President makes his post-oned speech, it will have reached a peak of overwhelming opposition." Tobey added that if Mr.

Roose- (Continued on Page 5) (Column 6) Local Business Men To Hear Talk By Arson Specialist One of the state's leading specialists in arson, Private Fred Mc-Calister of Greensburg, will speak tonight at a meeting of the Business Men's Association. McCalister is the chief of the State arson squad and is a Pennsylvania fire marshal. His talk will also be heard tonight by members of the local fire department, invited to the meeting by the business men. The business meeting will follow a dinner at 6:30 o'clock in the Monongahela Valley Country club, and McCalister will begin speaking at 8 o'clock. Dr.

Lanfear Succeeds Dr. Tippetts At Pitt Pittsburgh, May 15 (UP) Dr. Vincent W. Lanfear, dean of men at the University of Pittsburgh, to-c'ry 'as nai icd dean of the school of business administration. who has been at Pitt since OWDOWN du Final Action On Defense Council Bill Planned Next Wednesday.

Creation of a local Council for Defense, to correlate defense activities here in cooperation with State and National Defense Councils, was reemmended by Mayor C. B. Lamp at the May meeting of City Council -last night. Representatives of industry, business and other groups would be included on the council under the terms of an ordinance which he presented for first reading. The city executive, who said he had attended a meeting called on civil defense by Governor Arthur H.

James in Harrisburg last Wednesday, said that the Council for Defense would be recognized as the official local defense agency and that other organizations would be expected to work through it. The mayor would be the honorary chairman, but a vice-chairman would care for the correlation of local, state and national defense efforts, would handle the correspondence, and, in the absence of the chairman, would preside over all meetings. Members of the council would be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of City Council. Custom was departed from last night in introducing the defense council ordinance. Instead of a copy of the proposed bill lying on the desk of each member, as usual, Mayor Lamp had City Clerk Mark G.

Borland read the title from a suggested model ordinance published in the March issue of the League of Cities, a magazine published by the League of Third Class Cities. All members of City Council, except Dr. G. H. Murphy, said they had a copy of the magazine at, home and could study it before final action was taken.

Arrange ments were made to provide Dr. Murphy with a copy. I The city executive expressed a desire to have the ordinance enacted into law as quickly as possible, and suggested an adjourned meeting for next Monday night at the close of the required three day waiting period. When both Councilmn W. J.

Blythe and T. A. Wilson announced they would be unable to attend on Monday, the adjourned meeting was set for next Wednesday night. Rubbish Burning Hit Declaring that city police had trouble controlling the burning of paper, leaves and rubbish in the city because there apparently was no municipal law to regulate it, the city executive recommended the drawing up of an ordinance to I cover a situation he described as "a fire hazard." The mayor's attention was called to the health ordinance which prohibited burning of rubbish within the city and he said he believed it (Continued on Page 5 (Column 3) LIENS DECLINE; CITY COUNCIL HAILS REPORT 1940 City Tax Liens Total $5,514.17, Lowest Figure In Ten Years. City councilmen last night hailed as "a wonderful report" a statement by City Treasurer Rachel E.

Gibbons which disclosed that 1940 municipal property tax liens filed on May 1 this year totalled only $5,514.70, the smallest figure ten years. Representing the amount of the tax duplicate uncollected and un-exoncrated, the liens are filed with the County Treasurer for collection to preserve the municipality's equity in them. The report of Miss Gibbons-city and school district tax collector by virtue of her elective office also revealed improved per capita tax collections during 1940. Sh asked exoneration for only in uncollected 1940 per capita taxes as compared with a total of $3,015.27 in 1939. The report was accepted and the requested exonerations granted on (Continued on Page 8) (Column 2) mp WPA See Effort To Keep Nazis In Dark; German 'Plot' Suspicion Grows.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Eritish opinion toward Rudolf Hess was shifting today toward the view that the No. 3 Nazi's arrival in Scotland may have been a part of a deliberate German plot, possibly to touch off a world-wide "peace offensive" or for some other motive not yet revealed. The London Press possibly inspired warned sharply against efforts to lionize Britain's strange visitor and it appeared that no extensive official statement on the Hess affair will be forthcoming at the moment. It had been expected that Prime Minister Winston Churchill would offer to Parliament, possibly today, an extended outline of the mysterious case. After a midnight conference with his closest advisors, how-' ever, it was reported that Church ill decided to postpone any statement in the interests of keeping the Germans in the dark as long as possible concerning Hess.

Nothing more than a brief statement on Hess was expected from Churchill at this time. It was denied officially that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had talked with Hess and it was said no conversation between Churchill and Hess was likely. Hess' initial objective in coming to Britain, it became clear today, was to meet and talk with the Duke of Hamilton, premier peer of Scotland. Three months ago, it was revealed, Hess wrote Hamilton a letter, thought to deal with the "insanity" of war between Britain and Germany and urging efforts for peace. Hamilton, the British censorship revealed belatedly, even after the outbreak of war between Britain and Germany in October, 1939 expressed the view in a letter to the London Times that, "I look forward tp the day when a trusted Germany comes into her own.

We will not grudge Germany Lcben-swaum. Thus, the British admitted, Hamilton is a figure of importance in the Hess affair, second only to the Nazi leader himself. According to the British version, the letter Hess wrote to Hamilton three months ago was turned over to the government and Hamilton did not reply. Those revelations appeared to in dicate that Hess' mission may have been a well-laid plan, calculated to contact elements in Britain friendly to Germany and favorable to peace, either with a view to softening up the British war effort or actually confronting Britain with "a last chance" peace proposal before the launching of an all-out attack, backed by an organized Europe and, possibly, Soviet Russia. Hew far the Hess plan has backfired is not yet evident.

It was not yet certain, for example, that the Nazi propaganda machine will not be able to make use of the Hess visit, either for the purpose of alleging to the British public that the Churchill government is rebuffing reasonable peace efforts or for other more sweeping purposes in connection with the active Nazi diplomatic efforts (Continued on Page 8) (Column 6) TWO CARS COLLIDE AT SCENE OF LAST WEEK'S DEATH CRASH At the identical spot where one motorist was killed last week, two cars collided last nifrht on rutted East MonongaTiela-Webster road, causing some damage and minor injuries. Frank Dolinar of Braddock, driving a Chevrolet coupe, was traveling north about one mile this side of Webster when the car in front of him slowed down for a rough stretch of paving. Dolinar, attempting to stop, turned into the south-bound traffic lane and crashed head-on with the Pon-tiac sedan of Joseph Peters, Scott-dale. Damage to each car was estimated at $150. Neither the operators nor their passengers one in each car were seriously injured, however.

The accident occurred at 7:45 o'clock. ELETINS London, May 15 Further strong British navy, army and air force reinforcements arrived in Singapore last night, the Exchange Telegraph said today. Berlin, May 15 (UP) Authorized Nazis said today that German military and diplomatic "surprises" would soon overshadow the case of Rudolf Hess throughout the world just as it now is being ignored by the German press and radio. The German treatment of the' flight of Hess was increasingly to ignore it and the information made available to the foreign correspondents in Berlin was sharply curtailed compared with that of the past two days. The case has not been mentioned by the German press since day before yesterday.

Ankara, May 15 (UP) Adolf Hitler's letter to Turkish President Gen. Ismet Inonu, delivered yesterday by German Ambassador Franz von Papen, repeated friendly assurances to Turkey but implied that the time has come for Turkey to abandon her alliance with Britain and line up with the Axis "new order in Europe," it was learned today. London, May 15 (UP) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden today told the House of Commons that the French are permitting the Germans to use Syrian air bases en route to Iraq. The British government, Eden said, has authorized "full action" against German planes on Syrian airdromes. "The French government cannot escape responsibility for this situation which is a clear breach of the armistice terms," Eden said, "and inconsistent with the undertaking given by the French government." London, May 15 (UP) Great Britain officially expresssd belief today that Adolf Hitler knew of the incredible, flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland and rejected any attempt to start a move for peace on Axis terms.

Attempting to keep the Nazis guessing as to what Hess has said in Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill postponed a formal report on the No. 3 Nazi but he permitted Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin to issue a statement describing Hess as a "murderer" who came with Hitler's knowledge and declaring that he would not negotiate with the Nazis. A. S. W.

CO. REBUILDS TWO DULUTH FURNACES Pittsburgh, May 15 (UP) American Steel Wire a subsidiary of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. today announced it was increasing its annual ingot capacity by tons annually by rebuilding two open hearth furnaces at Duluth, Minn. The furnaces, which have not. been in production for several years, will resume production in late June and, July.

Addition of the two furnaces brings to seven the number the company will have in operation in the Duluth area. ances a matinee at 2 and an evening show at 8 o'clock. Under the traditional canopy of canvas, the daring young man on the flying trapeze will make another of his rare appearances here. The circus is being sponsored for its local performance by the Firemen-Legion Drum and Bugle Corps. School children showing circus tickets were released from class at 2 o'clock today for the matinee.

The rest of the children, too few to permit normal study, were let out a (Continued on Page 8) (Column 4) PETAIN ASKS COLLABORATION WITH GERMANY Understanding 'Necessary' For France, Marshal Tells Public. Vichy, May 15 (UP) Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain told France in a radio address tonight that France must collaborate with Germany in Europe and Africa. The aged marshal declared that France "by necessity" must seek an understanding with Germany and that therefore she must collaborate with Adolf Hitler's plans for Europe and Africa. These plans have been officially described as calling for full collaboration of France' in Germany's "new order" in Europe and the establishment of Africa as a great colonial pool to feed Europe with raw materials. "I approved in principle," said Petain, "the meeting of vice-premier Admiral Jean Francois Dar-lan with Hitler in Germany.

"We will continue negotiations," said Petain, "until we reach an agreement. "I call on all Frenchmen to follow me in the path of honor and national interest so that France can overcome her defeat and save her rank as a Eurouean and colon- ial power." Petain told France that you have learned that Admiral Darlan recently talked in Germany with Chancellor Hitler. "I had approved in principle that meeting. That new meeting enables us to light the road before us and continue the conversation engaged with the German government. "It is no longer a question today for public opinion, which is often anxious because it is badly informed, to weigh our chances, measure our risk and judge our gestures." GUN CREW ESCAPES AS TRENCH MORTAR EXPLODES AT GAP Indiantown Gap, May 15 (UP) Ordnance officers today were investigating an explosion that shattered an 81-millimeter trench mortar barrel and endangered lives of a gun crew from Latrobe that was firing the weapon on a practice range near Bordnersville on this huge military reservation.

Premature explosion of the projectile, loaded with a comparatively "weak" training charge, ripped the blunt barrel into shreds of metal which held together instead of flying into space. All members of the firing crew members of Company 110th Infantry escaped injury. The damaged weapon, which has a 3.2-inch bore, was turned over to ordnance officers for investigation. It was the first mishap of its kind since the training camp opened in January. Brig.

Gen. John Aiken, Washington, 55th Field Artillery Brigade Ford Visits Foster's Grave; Wife Attends Garden Meeting Big Top Here Today; 1500 School Children Buy Tickets Pittsburgh, May 15 (UP) While his wife busied himself at sessions of the Farm Garden Association, Henry Ford visited the grave of Stephen Collins Foster, the immortal composer, and firmly declined to comment on world affairs. Ford spent 15 minutes at the Foster shrine in Allegheny cemetery yesterday. His comments were confined to the setting of the grave. Fred Hoppen, assistant superintendent at the cemetery, served as a guide for the motor magnate, who was accompanied by his secretary, Frank C.

Campbell. Ford has transferred one of Foster's Pittsburgh homes to his historical community at Dearborn, Mich. Mrs. Ford said she believed- that The "Big Top" went up at the Speedway today as the famed Mills Brothers Circus prepared to wel-iome thousands of Monongahclans their giant three-ringed performance. More than 1,550 tickets had reen sold to school children by noon today, and countless others had been snatched eagerly by cider children, ranging up to 80 years of ige.

The circus, an institution that is fast vanishing from the American comes back to Monongahela all its glory for two perform commander, and Col. Albert O. iv.27, oucoerds Dr. Charles S. Tip-King, Altoona, 'commander of the potts, who resigned to assume the 110th Infantry, were nearby when headmaster's post at Mercersburg the explosion occurred.

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