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TODATS ISSUE PAGES, DUNKIRK EVENING OBSERVER ESTABLISHED 1802 FULL LEASCD WIRt SERVICE OF THE UNfTtO PftEtt Mondty'i I a i cloudinwn lowed by rain Wednesday. -NO. a DUNKIRK (N.T.) EVENING OBSERVER, TUESDAT, APRIL 1, 1940 Wwk River Inundates Homes, Land in Upstate New York i- 'Tr -Flood waters in upstate New York receded after threatening the worst overflow in five years. At Westover, near Binehamton. extent of inundation bv Susnnphanna rmm- in aimrin Coast Guard Uses Surf Boat for Susquehanna Rescues At South Plymouth, one of Pennsylvania cities threatened with complete evaluation by rising waters of -the Susquehanna, coast guard surf boat (arrow) was pressed into service to "aid flood victims.

Crowd in background watches rescue work from portion of city where river did not penetrate. SUSQUEHANNA BASIN BRIMMING WITH FLOOD WATERS FEARS MORE RAIN OR MELTING SNOWS TODAY Conditions Critical in WUkei-Barre, Sonbory, Kingston and Plymouth--Businesi; Suspended--Schools, Churches Harbor Refugees. (Br -Press) Pennsylvania Susquehanna river at Wilkes-Barre crested at 31J feet, feet below the all-time high mark of 1936, leaving at least 12. dead, live missing and 30,000 homeless. Conditions critical WiikeSrBarre.

Sunbury. Kingston and-Plymouth, having? a combined population cf 150,000. Sunbury- already one-third under; and awaited -there. New York--Menace of major. floods upstate passed with continued deaf, cold weather.

Most rivers and streams subsiding and residents starting rehabilitation. Four known-dead. Connecticut-- Connecticut river crested at 13.2 feet three feet below flood stage atjaartford. Highways previously impassable reopened. Ontario, Canada--Ontario rivers rising.

Traffic on some highways halted and re-routed. Wilkes-Barre. April flooded Susquehanna river reached a crest here early today, momentarily casing the disaster to a vast inundated area in which 11 persons were dead, five and 30.000 hoiueless. Engineers measured, ri at 313 feet two feet below the bifiii mark the "disastrous" 1836" flood, and expected if to remain stationary- Ihfouchoiit' "the" mominc. but any more rains.

-continued warm weather to melt the snows north of here woaJd release new torrents upon Jhe whole 200-mile Sasauehanna basin' throuzh which Jie flood extended, Sunbury. a -Ipwa of be- i lowifaerc at the 'conSuence' of the! west and north -branches of thei Susquebanna. awaited a crest already one-third under waJef, T5w' was wiihJn.a inches of i the loos She 3ast orotectins! tiiat to'sm. fa afldiSaoo to liie LcMsb. IXdaware.

na. SdauyiDcill and Juniate rivers were overflowing, as were nwaser- ous creeks 'thJat'feed liicm. More lhan 50 main -hiEhwavs of' called' to duty at Sunbury request, of Mayor Morris Michael, and the 1061h Field Artillery-had been called out here relieve colicemen in natrolinz lie The whole npmilation was ao post of She night barricadiria homes and stores, oumoing water from celiars and bclninc in rescue and relief work. 'State iroou- ers. CCC voulhs and workers all were on flood duty- Wilkcs-Bwrt, (UT-- April t-- Wfl- ANASTASIAIN Believe- Brooklyn Waterfront Gangster Is One of the 'Company's' Higher-ups.

New York, AprU 2--(UP)--Albert Anastasia. Brooklyn waterfront leader, former death house 'inmate and a suspect in at least live murders, was reported today-in circles dose to District Attorney William CTDwyer as suspected of being one of the top men of Murder, inc. The prosecutor would not comment, but it was learned that he has been told by other members of ihe gan- that Anastasia was the higher-up. Anastasia and his first lieutenant Joseph Florino, arc both fugitives. Anastasia vas a suspect in the murder of John Bazzanno, Pittsburgh gangster who was stabbed strangled and cut to pieces in 1932.

O'Dwyer admitted he is ried about Ihe safety of his while Anastasia, Florino and Viio Gurino arc at large. He has established guards -jrilh pump guns and rifles to protect them. Gurino already, according to police. tried lo get in touch with two He is considered one of lie best, shots in the Brooklyn underworld. I wattnt.

region closed and many 'communities were' flireaiened with' Jood sbortsujes. Vast lowland stretches around "Wakes-Barrc wtsre' Mh.fler water and two-ihirds of JJie from this vacinitT. Condi- Sons' were critical ra four lowrssl a coTntined ootjulalion ofi 150.0W: Wjltees-Barre. SanlrorT. Kajcston and Ptrawalih.

and for a tone last nkhl at had been feared Jat. ther Would have lo be evae- war wrfer the Htrer ItoHt OK tkc rial by UK IS- current wf the rircr. tanre4 fnm brilte Wfftw- Bxrrt eers TESTIMONY BEGINS IN BINGO TEST CASE HEATLT SCHOOL HOT AS RRE SWEEPS JT f. Y- April 3--(UP-Testimony began today jn a left ALLIES WARN NEUTRALS OF PUN TO STARVE NAZIS JOHN L. LEWIS TAKES COMMAND OF CIO FORCE IN THREATENED STRIKE OF SUBWAY WORKERS IN NEW YORK Union Closed Shop Contracts Honored When Two Lines Are Taken Over By City June New York, April 2--(UP) Jofcn L.

president of the CIO charged today that wage- hour contracts covering 27,000 New York city transit workers were "in jeopardy because animus of the board of transportation, towards the union." Lewis said, however, that he was ready to meet Mayor F. H. LeGuardia time in the 'hope ot reaching a final agreement in the situation which has produced the threat of strike that would tie up subway and elevated transportation in four of the city's five boroughs affect some 5,000,000 'persons. The CIO leader came to New York "earlier today from West Virginia to take charge of the strike situation and said that he saw "no for a walkout, The dispute between, the city and the transport workers union is over the union's demand that present closed-shop contracts with the Rapid Transit company and the Brooklyn Manhattan Transportation system DC taken -over in their entirety when the city assumes control of all transit companies next summer Lewis blamed John H. Delaney, president of the.

board of transportation, for disrupting a settlement to which he and Mayor La- Guardia had agreed last week. "On Wednesday of last week," Lewis said, "we made an agreement which was presumed to have settled, My amazement might be imagined I found' that -Delaney sufficiently powerful to reverse the mayor's decision and the mayor's judgment." All that tfie transport workers want, Lewis said, is that the city assume their contracts with'the IRT and the BMT "just the same as the city has assumed, with more than $300,000,000 of the.tax- payers money, shares, assets and other property of those' two companies. "Labor, as has frequently been the'case, has been made a matter of last consideration," Lewis said. He added that he had told Mayor LaGuardia that he was. "wUling again to try to be constructively I trust we: may be able this time," Lewis said, "to find-where responsibility by the city rests and If an.

agreement 5s again reached we can reasonably expect that agreement to be in force." Lewis came here from Mono- gah, W. to take command of union forces which threatened a strike to force the city to take over closed shop contracts in their entirety when a transit unification plan becomes effective next summer. Before proceeding to a conference with leaders of the transport workers union, CIO, Lewis said: "There is no necessity for a strike." New York, April 2--(UP)--John L. Lewis, head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, arrives today to take command of union forces in the threatened subway strike. City departments were placed under-a virtual police dictatorship effective until 8 a.

m- Wednesday when, it was believed, the transport workers union will have decided whether its 27.000 members will tie up the underground and affiliated elevated and bus lines over which Xew Yorkers travel to and from their jobs. The lines affected haul 5,300,000 persons a day across four of the five boroughs of New York.I Lewis arrives this morning by; train from Grafton, W. Va. He; fanned to confer at once with: TWU leaders and possibly wiJb Mayor F. H.

LaGardia, who in-! sisled tftrit there was no reason for i who. teke no action until case lo nJeteisnine ac states 011 Wednesday the tity board bingo under New York sSaSe gam- transportation holds a public hearing to pass on a compromise defendant was Old Vienna, pia to scttte tie issue, la which operates an Albany April York Democrats Garner Forces Make Last- minute Bid In 16th Congressional District. and Republicans, who will have a powerful voice in election of the next president, go to the primary polls today to select their delegations to the national nominating conventions. With only a few scattered clear- was one of the most colorless in many years despite widespread speculation over President Roosevelt's platis for the future. Chief interest in the primary, from a Democratic standpoint, centered in New- York city, where several candidates have announced their support for vicerprcsident John Garner, for the Democratic nomination for president.

Bloc.For Gannett In several 'Central New York districts, a bloc'of candidates for Republican delegation announced support for- Publisher Frank Gannett" ior GOP nomination iofpresldentr Although forces supporting District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican nomination did not-fight the "Gannett to feel that they would go to the Philadelphia-convention-with "the bulk of the huge New York delegation." The Gamer forces centered their last-minute bid- for support in the 16th congressional district, where Alfred E. Smith and State Senator John J. McNaboe, of New York city, have disclosed their, support for the vice-president tCcotinued oo Pw Eleven) INVALID FATALLY BURNED AS LIGHTER IGNITES BEDCLOTHES Toronto, Ont, April 2--(UP)-A 58-year-old invalid, Gerald Short was dead today after his cigarette lighter set his dressing- gown fire. Short died soon after he was admitted to' hospital last night.

He had suffered from a heart ailment. The blankets of the man's bed were set afire when' he dropped his lighter onto them after his dressing gown had caught. Members of the household succeeded in extinguishing the flames. POLAND'S HALLER VISITING BUFFALO Buffalo. N.

April 2-- (UP)-General Josef Haller, minister of staie in the Polish government set up in France, refutes German White Book claims that American diplomats aided in inciting his country to go to war. General Haller arrived in Buffalo 3ast night on a goodwill tour. He will remain here a week. The Polish pointed out in an interview lhat at the time of the alleged incidents he was not a member of the government, but added: "The most important point of the whole story is that Poland needed no incitement, so to speak, by any country for the simple! reason lhat Poland was not head-i ed for 9 war. Poland did not want the -war which has imposed; house leaturing bingo but also showing motion pictures.

The corporation, headed by former Mayor Francis X. Schwab, 3s ttn- jndicimenl charing operation jfjf a lottery, Schwab and his as- Isodaies n-cre refused The city js taking over the two subway lines involved, the Inter- borough Rapid Transit and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Systems, June 3. consolidating them witn the city-owned independent sys-j ton. The strike threat is Consolidated Oil based on demands thai. the dty waled AB business was sasocnded.

Schools and churches were tamed JnJo refuses csalcrs. The el 15o operate sirnilar enterprises 3n Jronw ais closed shop upstate atJcs. -snth those two companies and Green Island. Aura 2 Selection of an sll-raale jory! continue right of members was completed tet jjjgnt, and to strike, which wotfld be denied Stodents. rcceivEd an tm- vscaticm loday when fire damazed the Hieal3y school Fare Chief John Benihaninjsrj was ovcrcoms 3rv smoke.

War.t Ads daily, County Judge George H. Rowe ordered Ihe jurors under; guard JOT of ibe trial Greece rhipped to the much awre them when Shey were blanketed'' mto dvii servace as city ctnplcrytes. IHwovenr A beech Jorwrt-- the first beech trees found VT MSQ.M--is by Mcxiwm Stock Market MMJ 2 F. JR. Afleghcny-Ludlum 22-li A Anaconda Chrysler Latest News Flashes New York, April 2--(UP)--Supreme Court Justice John E.

McGeehan today refused to reopen the case of Bertrand Russell, British mathematician whose appointment to a chair of philosophy at City college he had rescinded on the grounds of. Russell's allegedly immoral writings, Princeton--Princeton will compete in the 1940 Poughkeepsie regatta for the first time in the 39- year history of the classic'rowing event, it was announced today by Kenneth Fairman, graduate manager of athletics. Madison, voters engage today in the nation's first test of the comparative strength of President Roosevelt, Vice-President: John: N. Garner, District Attorney Thomas E. Dcwey, and Senator Arthur H.

Vandenberg as candidates for the presidential; nominations of 'the Democratic and Republican parties. Washington The house today approved by voice vote a resolution to cite a second Pittsburgh Communist, George Powers, for contempt of the Dies committee. New. Orleans The fifth U. S.

circuit court of appeals today UD- held the constitutionality of the wage-hour law and refused to set aside an order of the waxe-hoar administrator setting a minimum wage of 32 1-2 cents an hour for employes of the textile industry. Philadelphia Representatives of the Dies congressional assisted by local oolice today raided Communist party headquarters here, truck-loads of confiscated documents two and terved summonses of six persons. -Washington The United ii maintaining ita moral shioment of-American airDlant aviation equipment to the cessation of Soviet-FintiMr- hostilities several aeo. Secretary Hull; said today. London German, airplanes attacked 'convoys in the North sea today and dropped bombs which failed" to cause damage, the admiralty The attacking planes were driven off.

Port Arthur, April 2-(UP)'--Six persons, including four children, died in a blazing frame residence on the outskirts of Port Arthur early today. The dead'were Mrs. Ali Metsa, 29, Oscar Blom, 54, her father, and her four children, Elsie, six. Raymond, four, Harold, three, and Allen, 11 months. The father was at work in a Fort William Bakery when the fire broke out Cause of the blaze was undetermined but an overheated stove was suspected.

The six bodies were found huddled together in a hallway only feet from the door. Firemen said they believed Mrs. Mclsa and Blom had attempted to rescue the children from their bedroom but were overcome by smoke and flames as they struggled with them lo the door and safety. MEXICO TO BE BASE FOR COMMUNISTIC PENETRATION OF U.S. German Propagandists Created Some New Words In Polish Language.

New York, April (UP)--The Daily News said today that translations of photostatie copies-of alleged Polish diplomatic documents published by Germany indicated "that the German propaganda ministry had slipped some new words into the Polish language." Further, it asserted, in one document the Germans had quoted William C. Bullitt, American ambassador to France, as asserting that the United States would "finish" a European conflict on the Allied side, but the photostat radioed to the United States showed that he said emphatically that the United States would take no part. The News engaged three translators, the article said, who provided independent translations' which agreed identically in meaning. Two of them, the Daily News said, "commented that the report was written in such Polish that no statesman could have been guilty of its authorship." Two words used in one document were not contained in the Polish language, the translators and "slbp- astwa." A third, the Daily News said, (Continued on Paste Two)! 500 MILLION NEEDED TO OPERATE GOTHAM SAYS MAYOR'S BUDGET New York, April "2--(UP)--An executive Submitted "by Mayor F. H.

LaGuardia to the board of estimate last night, provides to operate the city for the fiscal year 194041. It is $5,395,594.57 under last year's budget and takes care of $15,697,081.32 in mandatory item not on last year's budget. The mayor described it as something "conceived in despair, developed in agony and finally come to life completely normal." He set a precedent by charging up to the board of education such costs as salaries to doctors and nurses engaged hi school health work, water, light, power and heat for schools and teachers' retirement funds and school debt service, which heretofore had been charged against other departments. This raised the year's educational bill to $194,179,792.02 and enabled the taxpayers to see for the first time the sum they were spending for education, the mayor said. ROSS GRAVES, BUFFALO BUSINESSMAN IS DEAD APPLYBLOCKADE Hideous Fate' of Austria and Czechs Held Up As Lesson to Others.

London, April 2 --(UP)-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the house of commons today that the Allied powers were "determined to prosecute the economic war azainst Ger-' many to the utmost of their power" and warned neutral that any aid they Rive Germany. might eventually "render them liable to the hideous fate that has overtaken previous of German policy." Chamberlain announced that Britain would tio pos-. sible to halt shipments ot Scandinavian iron ore to Germany and said that the British navy "already has taken certain practical steps" presumably to German ships off the Norwegian coast. "We have not vet reached tht limit of our effective operations there," -the prime minister 'said. "Other measures are under consideration." Neutrals Warned Warning neutrals of that might be taken by the Allied powers to cut into German sources.

Chamberlain said: "Neutrals must realize not agree to make available them products from- empire sources unless they guarantee' to limit their future trade with Germany." The prime minister's warnutt indicated that the Allied powers had decided upon the sternest di- Dlomatin and. if hecessarr. naval measures to tighten the blockade of Germany regardless of on neutrals. i'Toe continue to intensify the blockadt in every possible way," he ed. "If we are to brine this war to a close the least possible (Continued on Page Two) FORMER STUDENT IN AMERICAN COLLEGES IN PUPPET CABINET Buffalo, N.

April 2-- (UB)-- Ross Graves, former Republican state and city official, died last night at his home here after an iilness of several weeks. He was 65. Graves was elected assemblyman from Ihe second district in 1915 and was re-elected the following year. He served in the state senate in 1917-J8. 3n recent years.

operated Ross Graves and company, an account- firm. Nanking, China, April Z--(UP) --Hu Tao-Wei, (T. W. Hu), graduate of Washington and Princeton, universities, former student at the University of Pennsylvania and former lecturer at McGill university, Canada, was named director of the American affairs bureau of the "foreign office" of Japanese-sponsored "government" here. Hu is well known.as an author.

At McGill he was lecturer.in department of Chinese studies'and librarian of the Gest Chinese research library. AUBURN DRIVER DIES FOLLOWING AUTO CRASH April 2 (UP)-Edward TVIcQueenoy. 24. of Auburn, was fatally injured lasl nisjht when his truck left a wooden bridge near Montezuma. nluiur- cd down a 20-foot culvert and landed in ihe Seneca river.

McQuceney. a salesman for on Auburn bakery, died three hours after the accident in Auburn City hospital. -He the sixth Cayu- killed in an au- sincc Jan. 1. General Etectric General Mctors Vi 53 ii Mexico City, April 2--(UP)-A statement issued by the workers' national anti-Communist bloc i charged that agents of the Communist international had chosen Mexico as ihe base ot operations for Communist penetration ol South American countries and the United States.

It was implied that Jhc alleged action had been taken because of the changed attitude of ihe ed States toward Russia. According to the slamcnt Com- raunsst leaders inclined toward a csmpaijEn to spread "their adeas under the gaise of national- isna and demands for cxpr-opna- tion of properties. As part their work, according lo Ihe statement, Communist agents intended to try to combat Ihe interests of the United States in Latin American countries. 3n Latin American countries the statement alleged, Communists intended to diKwan- analc aril- propaganda -indirectly, Nash Kdv Packard Soc-Vac Siudebakcr Steel 32 be- swi nraaairj staff very Jong. April Fool'ffiler" Would Make America a "German Protectorate" London, ApriS 2 (UP) A maritime nature." initnk Adolf Hitler told Germans "Hitler" 1 said that he never had who dared lo listen in to lie Brit- 3cn5 i to America was a great 1 pro- country and seera- last night that he was go- "But at is a fecf he continued, ing to show his for Aroerica nbut iia She Ur.itod State by proclaimings protiectorale wcrjarc jaaJJwnail.

jninoritaes it and making it garden." It was an April fool broadcast, i cago atere there arc i ronnctfted by race and tradition the German reich. In Chi- to Germany, of Ihe British Broadcasting company. Martin MiMbr, refugee Austrian a dor. vvas "Hitk'T," mimidcing his voice his vocal reminded the that the -discovery Czechs, and those Czechs fceep asking themselves "Why can't come tinder the 1 la New York there are 475,000 They have the right to be protected by Germany." The speech was interrupted Ire- attained the necessary ness for direct Communist views. The bloc asserted lhat Communist penetration in Latin America was deeper than had been suspected, particularly Argen- irf stiff--5njl "i'Ja.

BoBv-Ja. Breizil, Ch53e, America was possible only be-j tjuenOy by crjw ftf 1 which Columbus German- the oratorical salt and instruments, for pepper for Hhc fuehrer's pro- life" ended: most grateful for Mr. interest Sn European foci JRg except in Mexico and 3 thai Germany hed been cheat- ncnmecments CMe Ujc.Mibhc mind hsd its riehifwl part in "I am roos islent but HOW my pa- lience at an end," "HiUcT" said. hereby declare thai I have now my la. Bast beyond slide tJ a Germany lam proving ray by declaring a Geiman prolectcr- aic over the Uniied States.

New York, today an port, will 'became iccnlcr of wor3d 1 jihalQ make Arawica.