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16 PAGES SPOKANE, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1939. PHONE MAIN 1121. vuirv fot rKv I IVIV.L. mu; tr.M rn jvJ COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS NEWS AND PHOTO COVERAGE Ernst Says County Commissioners Skjp Legal Repuirements Upon Pensions ence Services Think Salonika II Duces Goal. Crowd of 75,000 Hears Marian Anderson, Negro Contralto, Sing in Her Outdoor Freedom Concert the White House, when two auditoriums were closed to Miss Anderson.

She and her accompanist are seen in the left foreground. Among those on the stand were Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. The Washington monument shows in the background. (AP wirephoto.) This photograph, taken from the steps of the Abraham Lincoln memorial in Washington, D. Sunday, shows part of the crowd of 75,000 persons who heard Marian Anderson, Negro contralto, in her outdoor "freedom concert.

The concert was arranged following a hot controversy, which reached as far as Bergdoll Will Return and Face the Music Sit-Down Scheme Winds Up in Pokey LONDON, April III. The British ami french intelligence services were understood tonight to have reported that Italy envisages a thrust through Greece to Salonika. LONDON, April 10. OPi- The Btittsh cabinet in emergency session was reported reliably today to have decided to offer to gnat antis- the independence of Gieeee and Turkey. E.i i I no Il inn- Chain-1 l.tiii wo- -ad to have told Italy Ibat any a 1 1 1 1 1 -1 in seize the strategic eek-'i m-d island of Corfu would to- ml ei et by Britain as invitation to a i The 1 1 -'-in i a ii -e--inn coin-( ideil wild emetpi-ncy movements of Bitisii tups in the Medi-t ei i an.

Cabinet to Meet. At Itic same tune the cabinet decided to bleak on pailiaments easier vacation and convene both houses into extraordinary session Thm -day The obiect was to register the Hiit i -h govei nment's disapproval of the Italian invasion of Albania and to discuss ways of protecting 'other nations eonsnleted as threatened. The announcement of Britain's intention of guaianteeing the independence of Gieeee and Tut key may be made by Chamberlain to Mile house of commons Thursday. Vital to Safety. i It was explained in informed quarters that Britain's willingness to guatantee the independence of Gieeee and Turkey was based on a unanimous belief of the committee for impel ial defense that these countiies aie vital to the safety of British and French imperial routes in the Mediterranean.

Among callers at the foreign office were the Greek and Rumanian ministers and the Italian charge d'affaires, who was told that Britain was not satisfied with Italian reasons for the invasion of Albania. Integrity Assured. ATHENS, Greece, April 10. (UP) Premier John Metaxas announced today that the independence and integrity of Greece had been "absolutely assured." The announcement indicated that Great Britain had given Greece a guarantee of her independence against aggression, but British diplomatic sources said that negotiations on that subject had not yet been completed. France Joins.

PARIS, April 10. (UP) France and Biitain were understood tonight to have agreed fully to halt Piemier Benito Mussolini hy force of arms if he tries to spread his hold in llie Mediterranean. Many Under Arms. ROME, April 10. (zP) Authorities tepoited today that the Italian army had been reenforced with reservists to a total strength of appt oximately 930,000.

Return to Ships. TANGIER, Morocco. April 10. (ZP) All Bntish naval officers on holiday in Tangier were ordered by telegraph today to return to their ships immediately. Loyalty to II Diiop.

TIRANA, April 10. izP) The provisional Albanian government today pledged the loyalty of the Albanian people to Premier Mussolini and formally accepted Italian rule on their behalf. Hint New Campaign. ROME. April 10.

(UP) A new Italian campaign against France was considered possible by diplomatic circles tonight with receipt of inspired fascist messages from Tunis charging mistreatment of Italian residents. CAB DRIVER MAY LOSE HIS LICENSE Police Commissioner A. B. Colburn today recommended to the city council that the license of George Pieslon, cab driver, be revoked. Preston, who lives at W2311 Broadway, was convicted last week of state vagrancy, in connection with a theft fiom a showcase of a Riverside avenue shoe store.

The cab driver, it was charged, drove Ihe alleged thief to the scene. Heating on the case, usual procedure in cases of this nature, is scheduled for April 17 before the city council. Preston was convicted in police court last week. GRAND JURORS GET JURY CALL Thitty giand jurors were ordered today by Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster to repot for duty in fed-eial district couit here at 10 a.

m. April 26. It was the regular grand jury call. The venire includes resi-! dents of Spokane, Adams and Whitman counties, TODAY'S INDEXjj I The murderer nf Mrs. Maude Jansen and Dan Patchett is believed known and is being watched night and day by deputy sheriffs.

This information was evcnled today hy Sheriff Ralph Buckley as officers narrowed Ihoir search for Ihe perpetrator of the double murder at Dishman, March 20. Deputy Sheriffs Pat Griffin and Kmil Vecchio left today for art undisclosed destination in Montana to question a person Buckley said knows plenty" about the case. Vecchio, with Deputy Bill Dieter, returned Saturday from a weeks trip to Utah investigating clews in the case. Royalty May Hear Marian Anderson WASHINGTON, April 10. (UP)1 Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt indi-! rated today that Marian Anderson, I the great Negro contralto whom Ihe Daughters of the American! Revolution barred from Conslitu-j tion hall, probably will sing at the White House before King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. BOOST ESTIMATE FOR WHEAT CROP, WASHINGTON. April 10. (UP) The department of agriculture today estimated the 1939 wheat crop at 549,219,000 bushels.

The estimate was an increase of 64,200,000 bushels over a month go. The Washington Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson and Robert Allen. ST. LOUIS, April 10. Out here In Missouri there is shaping up a Democratic Tom Dewey whom some folks think wdll be the man to whom both the Roosevelt and the Garner Democrats can turn in 1940.

He is Lloyd C. Stark, governor of Missouri, but if you are familiar with the Stark Delicious apple which his father developed, you may have heard more of him as a nurseryman than as a politician. On the political side, however, Lloyd Stark is now one of the foremost governors in the middle west, and it is significant that he got that way by a campaign closely paralleling Deweys. Where Dewey stormed the walls of Tammany, Democratic stronghold of New York, Governor Stark took on the famous Pender-gast machine in. Kansas City.

FRANTIC PENDERGAST. A lot of national significance surrounds the moves of Governor Stark and his foes, one of the most important being the visit hich Jim Pendergast, nephew of venerable Boss Tom Pendergast, paid to Washington at the end of last month. Not many people knew it, but Jim Pendergast was ready to deliver Missouri's delegates at the 1940 Democratic convention to a New Deal candidate, if Roosevelt, in turn, would call off the dogs the dogs being the horde of G-men and income tax sleuths that has converged upon Kansas City, all sicked on the Pendergast machine by Governor Stark of Missouri. It so happens that Roosevelt Is more anxious to win control of the Democratic convention in 1940 than to get almost any other thing in life not for himself, but to nominate a New Dealer. So he is not throwing away delegates.

COLD SHOULDER. However, Jim Pendergast and Otto (Oney) Higgins, Kansas City police chief who also went to Washington, traveled up and down Pennsylvania avenue ringing doorbells, and the nearest they ever got to the great white throne was Jim Farley. Moreover, no one around the throne would see them. Attorney General Murphy, who had sent the G-men to Kansas City, remained cold and aloof. Henry Morgenthau, in charge of the income tax sleuths, was equal.

so. The Kansas City boys got absolutely nowhere. Moral of this incident is twofold: 1. The Roosevelt administration Is friendly to Stark, already is aware of his potentialities as a dark horse compromise between the two hranches of the Democratic party. 2.

Roosevelt is cutting loose from powerful local machines such as Tammany in New York, Pendergast In Kansas City and Curley in Boston. This is an important departure. For Roosevelt's victories in 1932 and 1936 were built in part upon the Farley technique of gelling the support of, say. Boss Hague in Jersey City at election time, then staring righteously away from Jersey City between elections. (Copyright.) I Declares Assistance Payment Based on Investigation.

By ELLSWORTH C. FRENCH. Spokane county commissioners are giving the old-age pensioners a political kidding. But the commissioners, it appears, from Charles Ernst, stale director of social security, are kidding only themselves. For each of the 3600 or more old-age assistance cases in this county, the commissioners have asked the legal maximum of $30 a month from the slate department of social security, without regard for the legal requirement that all (dd-age assistance payments be based on "need as established by individual investigations by county welfare investigators.

Held Not Customary. "Such a practice is not customary among counties of the state, and is not correct, Ernst told the Chronicle from Olympia by telephone today. We depend on county welfare administrations to advise us correctly as to exact needs of all old-age assistance applicants. Spokane county sent us a budget estimate based on a flat $30 per month for all cases. "Bui we can't pay any attention to that request.

We make payments on case recordings of county investigators. Their Viewpoint. Asked what he thought the commissioners hoped to gain, Mr. Ernst replied: Well, it gives them their viewpoint. By that, I mean to say it puts the commissioners in a position where they can tell old-age pensioners: 'We did our part, but the state did the cutting.

That is probably true, but our action is backed up by the individual rase record of the county investigators. When the rounty submitted its quarterly budget estimate about March 18, it showed a increase over former months for old-age assistance. Responding to a question, Robert McCann, county administrator, said: Told to Boost Ante. The commissioners told me 1o raise the old-age assistance from the average payment of $22.50 per month for each case to $30 per nionlh for each case. After the budget had been submitted Pat Rooney, chairman of the board of county commissioners, said: "That is all we can do, but I dont think they (meaning Ernst) will allow it.

They have turned, us down in the past and made us pay pensions in accordance with money available to the county for that purpose. None of the commissioners could be reached today for comment on Mr. Ernst's statement. Fair Receptionist Is Visitor Here Comely Martha Brockman of Colfax, chosen by the state progress commission as receptionist in the Washington building at the New York world's fair, as guest of Spokane today. Miss Brockman, a Washington Slate college graduate, was chosen from a large group of candidates to represent eastern Washington at the state's exhibit.

To obtain latest information on Grand Coulee dam, she visited the project today with Mrs. Grace Kirkpatrick of the Chamber of Commerce. She will leaye Tuesday morning fof New York. MRS. ROOSEVELT TO KEEP PROMISE WASHINGTON, April 10.

(ZP) A promise to her grandson, Buzzie Dali, will start Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt back to Seattle again on Saturday for his ninth birthday, April 19. Although Mrs. Roosevelt returned only this vveek from Seattle, where her daughter, Mrs.

John (Anna Roosevelt) Boettiger, is recuperating after the birth of a new presidential grandson. The first lady said she had always gone on the theory that adults should not break promises to children. BRIEF IS FILED IN BERRY APPEAL OLYMPIA, April 10, (zP) First brief in the appeals of four men convicted of kidnaping and assault was filed In supreme court today. The brief was that of Robert Smith, Brady dairyman, who contends he went with Dr. Kent W.

Berry, Olympia physician, in the belief he was to view a bird dog Berry was thinking of buying. Instead, Irving Baker, retired roast guard lieutenant, was taken from his home here last August 19 and beaten, threatened with emasculation. ANOTHER ANGLE ON UNLOADED GUN The gun wasnt loaded hut Mrs. iE. Kromer, 63, E2418 Everett, got hurt, anyway.

The gun, left in the family car 'since Sunday when she had been shooting squirrels, fell and caused! 'a wound on her forehead. She was! treated at emergency hopsital. WASHINGTON, April 10. (UP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, en route home from Europe, has hpen invited to testify before a house committee and probably will be asked to discuss vital issues affecting foreign policy with a senate commit tee.

STALLED MOTOR CAUSES TROUBLE When II. Hughes attempted to plead guilty in police com I today! to a barge of backing his car into! the curb at W906 Riverside. Judge, Frank Yuse refused to accept the! plea and found him not guilty. Hughes told the court he did push, his car into the curb only after the1 motor stalled and he couldn't start i it. I Cecil Coleman.

18, was fined $10 1 and cost on a charge of speeding 53 miles an hour on East Sprague. GASOLINE STEALER GETS SIX GALLONS Sheldon Anderson, E704 didn't get an eye for an eye, but i he "got" a window for six gallons of gas siphoned from his car Sunday night. Mr. Anderson heard prowlers ahout his car near midnight. He ran out of his house just in timei to see the thieves drive away on gas stolen from his tank, indignant, he picked lip a rock, hurled it at the fleeing car and had the of hearing the shatter of gla-s in the front tight window of the auto.

NEW YORK, April 10. (zT) Mrs. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wife of the notorious World war draft dodger, announced on her arrival from Europe today that her husband would sail next week from Germany to surrender himself to military authorities and serve the remainder of the five-year sentence imposed upon him before his escape in 1919. Bergdoll fled trom military guards after he had been sentenced to five years in prison for evasion of the World war draft. A warrant for his at rest is still held by the United States marshal in New York.

CANNON PURCHASES FOUR GUERNSEYS James Cannon, chief deputy sheriff, has purchased four registered Guernsey cows as foundation stork for a purebred dairy herd, the American Guernsey Cattle club announced today. The four registered rows vvpre purchased from J. A. Hergersheim-er of Cedonia, Wash. Cannon operates a farm on Greenhluff.

BANK CLEARINGS. Transactions. Spokane $2,422,317 Tacoma 1,898,000 Clearings. Balances. Seattle $2,839,633 Portland 4,246,236 1,514,164 CITY PREPARES TO BATTLE DUST The city's annual assault on dust i with water sprinklers probably will get under way the first part of next vveek, Commissioner Hugh English said today.

1 Changing of equipment for summer use is being done rapidly, Mr. English said, and the water wagonsi may be leady for work within the I vv eek. I Meanwhile, as fast as the supply of solution from the paper mill is-available, the public works department is dust-proofing city streets. I i NAME SELECTED Columbia Cavalcade. The mighly river which has seen the Inland Empire develop from a wilderness today lent its name to the spectacle planned hy Spokane for Washington's golden jubilee year.

The spectacle board, by unanimous vote, adopted "Columbia Cavalcade as a fitting title for the hig show August 1-5 at the fairgrounds. The title will be used in all publicity for the event and will appear on letterheads, posters, billboards and stickers. Art Furnish and Ed Beck, leaders of the Workers' Alliance, and ahout 25 others connected with the organization were jailed this afternoon, charged with disorderly conduct, following an attempted sit-down at the county welfare in the Realty building shortly after noon. At 12:13 about lull members of the Alliance moved into the second floor of the Realty building and announced to Robert McCann, welfare administrator, they would "sit-down there until they vveie fed. i McCann informed Ihe group he had no authoiity to issue turlhei grocery oiders, and that if they wished to discuss Ihe matter with him a committee should be appointed.

The "sit -downers" refused to appoint a committee or to deal except in mass and McCann called the- police. I iContimiM on to.) DETAILS RUSHED' ON BABY PICTURES Pictures- entered in the Baby Spokane contest are not yet ready for return to paienls. While they: were removed Saturday from the windows where they were on display, it will be several days before they are sorted, cheeked over and prepared for delivery. Notice will be given in the Chronicle when they aie available, piobably the latter part of lie eek. Cat Figures in Real Estate Deal, Dog Falls Into River and Swims the Rapids HUGE FARM C0S1 WASHINGTON.

Apiil 10. (zP) -If war comes -and whether America keeps out of it or not- Secretary Wallace said today, it will cost this nation huge sums to keep its fa i ms going. "If an isolation policy is our main objective," he told a senate appropriations subcommittee, "we must prepare to use vast sums of money to subsidize domestic consumption, to store surplus and to maintain farm income. Even peaceful nations are sharply afferted if others fight, he said. Ilis statement was given in a closed meeting of the committee.

It was made public by the agriculture department. Only One of Seven Passengers Unhurt LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 10. fzP) A Bolivian airliner which crashed a week ago in a deep ravine in eastern Bolivia was reached today by a rescue plane which found four dea'i and two injured among the sev en pet. sons who were a boat d. Cailos Zulzer, a small boy, was the onlv one unharmed.

RAIN IS NEEDED, WEATHERMAN SAYS Where me those Apnl showers that tiling May flowers? I Alter moie than three weeks ot i rainless weather, Spokanes stieot.s are as dusty as in summer: lawns have yellow patches; young shoots have slopped shooting upvvatd. Spokane needs some good, waim rains. Although the month nor-, mallv would have had neatly half an inch of piecipitation hy this date, so far lift has not been enough moistute to measute. The weather huteau repotted two sprinkles Easter Sunday, one just after noon and the other shoitly after 2 o'clock -but neither was to wet the pavement. Tuesday forecast docs not call for lain, but the weatherman sees moisture possibilities in a big low pressure area in the mid-Pacific that is moving this wav.

JUST DOZING! A iv-ws story tells ot a man In I.ogansport, who slept right through the collapse of the building in which be lav, and emerged unharmed. Although Ihe dispatch didn't give his occupation, we'll bet he wot ks in a boiler factory. -Such sound sleepers aie taro, however, and aiound hr-dlime most of us would prefer a safe, quiet place such as this apartment, rented thiough a Want Ad JIB -NICE THRFE-FIOOM C.ROUNO Moor bmh. nuns. rand.

gaiaaf. Knit Man-fle. "I rented the apartment as a le.sult of my Chronicle Want Ad." Mrs. John Kehoc, W1927 Boone. Animals in Spokane make the news.

A cat Saturday figured in a real estate deal, and on Sunday a Boston bull terrier that fell from a coping at the Upriver dam into the swift-flowing river, was tossed about through the rapids below and swam out alive a half mile below. At the left is Timmy, black cat owned by the Clark Miller family, W2911 Sharp. The Millers sold their home Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thiry, only after the bill of -sale for the cat went along with the purchase contract.

The new owners would buy only if the cat, of which they immediately became very fond, were allowed to go with the place. On the right is Mrs. T. F. Shea, Euclid, holding her 3-year-old Boston bulldog, Muggsv," none the worse for his involuntary cold bath and swim in the river.

Mrs. Shea stated she believed the ordeal of watching her jiet go through the rapids was worse on her than on ihe dog. The animal lost Us balance when it jumped on a stone coping. a. il i A i 1 1 Lif I fi 1 IWW.