The Grand Island Independent from Grand Island, Nebraska • 1

o' 'J- I Jtelmtir Paiinkpnknt The Weather n4r tonight and Infer) northwest portion tonight ini ostein pore teres west portion Benfejr afternoon DEDICATION SEPTEMBER 2829 Leading Newspaper of Central Associated Press and Other Services VOL 54 NO 217 GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11 1937 TWELVE PAGES-PLUS COLORED COMICS Farmer Kicks A bout Drilling on Farm Anglo-French Plan Patrol on Coast Radio Beacon Station Is To Be Installed British Ship Is Bombed by Rebel Forces Steamer Evacuating 1000 Refugees from North Spanish Port TANKER IS CAPTURED Chinese Drive Japs Back in Bitter Battle Hand to Hand Fight Locks Troops of Two Nations Near Woosunjg VAS MAJOR OFFENSIVE figure what the treasury would demand Oscar get excited about wells He watched drillers swab in No 7 blow out in the pit and later be turned into tanks all there is to it" he snorted in disgust Outward signs of prosperity are negligible The Poppe farm house has a new coat of but then Oscar planned that before there was any oil going to keep right on farming for farmed this 160 acres for 52 he declared going to stick with A OF WINS OVER GROUP Pittsburgh Sept 11 A margin of 105 votes gave the A of victory over the I today In the collective bargaining election at the National Electric Products company bat 155 challenged ballots may alter the results Protested by both the I and A of observers at the polls the challenged ballots will be sent to the National Labor Relations board in Washington for a final decision Charles Douds regional director of the board said the votes were cast by maintenance workers and clerks at the suburban Am-bridge plant Observers declared they were ineligible to vote in the election to settle a complicated dispute between the unions Typhoon Hits Japan Causing Heavy Damage Scores Killed and Damage to Shipping Extensive NEWSPAPER GUILD JOINS WITH New York Sept 1L UP) By a two to one vote of its membership the American Newspaper Guild was committed today to affiliation with the I Guild headquarters announced members In a national referendum also voted to admit non-editorial newspaper employes into the guild but rejected by a close vote action of the St Louis national convention in condemning the Spanish cause The referendum was Ordered at the request of 17 guild units throughout the country which objected to 10 resolutions adopted at the convention All resolutions except the one characterizing the Spanish insurgents as of world were ratified in the referendum 4 New Program Now Outlined By the A 11 Stresses Emphasis on Cooperative Effort by Home and School II II II Olney HI Sept 11 Oscar Poppe opined today oil wells are all right hut they interfere with his plowing rather they drill so many wells on my farm and drilled on somebody he grumbled as he stamped through the barnlot to avoid three drill rigs putting down new wells He calculated his income at $800 a day then groaned about income taxes get too much whatever it ihe 73-year-old farmer commented and refused to Chicago Will Start School Over the Air Six Radio Stations Will Broadcast Lessons Each Day TWELVE HOUR PERIOD Radio Classes Inaugurated Because Chicago Schools May Remain Closed Until Oct 1 as Result of Infantile Paralysis Epidemic Chicago Sept 11 More than 300000 elementary school pupils barred from classrooms by an outbreak of infantile paralysis will get their schooling by radio and newspaper starting next Monday Radio classes will begin at 7:15 a with setting up exercises first on the list Throughout the day until 7 six radio stations will take turns broadcasting instruction 15-Minute Periods The novel education experiment was planned by Dr William Johnson superintendent of schools when it became likely schools might not be reopened until Oct 1 because of the increase in paralysis cases They Were originally scheduled to open Sept 7 Each day newspapers will publish material to guide students in thfr classes by radio A staff of school teachers will outline the in half hour and 15-minute periods over the air five days each week Science mathematics English geography and history were included in the radio curriculum Music and art may be added Miss Lillian Tobin in charge of radio curriculum said the work in general will be a recapitulation of studies undertaken in the final period of last term The course will be a so that students will more easily grasp their work when schools reopen Instruction will be primarily for seventh and eighth grade pupils Those in grades one and two and high school students will not be included Students in the radio school were warned the experiment is not an empty gesture There will be examinations on the material covered when schools reopen Quarantine Hospital Philadelphia Sept 11 wards in three Philadelphia hospitals were under quarantine today as city health officers moved to check the housing of infantile paralysis cases in hospitals other than that for contagious diseases The quarantine ordered last night by Director of Public health William Hunsicker followed the discovery of the tenth case of infantile paralysis in Philadelphia this week The total of cases this year increased to 41 SLAIN CHILD FOUND IN ROAD Gilford Sept 11 The skull crushed body of 10-year-old Neville Jensen of Laconia was found today on a rain soaked road six miles from his home Medical Referee I Brown said the boy had been murdered The child had been missing since last night when his mother Mrs Harry Jensen sent him to mail a letter Another boy Dickie Brooks 6 told police he had seen Neville talking to a man last evening in Laconia THREE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Basle Switzerland Sept 11 A pilot and an English couple were found dead today in the wreckage of a Berne -Basle passenger plane which struck a fog-blanketed mountain near here yesterday SUICIDE VICTIM Chicago Sept 11 UP Bertram Braucher 27-year-old honor student with a technical knowledge of dec-tricity used a homemade electric chair to end his life His body was found in his room last night with a strand of copper wire attached to a wrist and another mapped around toe right aakla- Reported Invited Tyrrh Will Be frtrol TAKING NO Grim Force of Naval Be Empowered to Sink Bent Submarine That Periscope Above Water By JOSEPH SHARKEY Geneva Sept 11 UP The nine power conference on piracy tonight placed upon Britain and France the prime responsibility for ridding Mediterranean sea lanes of attacking submarines latest threat to world peace to spring from the Spanish civil war The agreement reached in the sleepy country town of Nyon after a little more than 24 hours was without the adherence of Germany and Italy both of whom stayed away because of Russian charges that Italy was responsible for the piracy attacks that have menaced shipping the past several months Italy will be invited to share in the patrol but her participation will not be regarded as an essential part of the plan Germany will not be asked for aid under the agreement Russian Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff announced agreement among the conferees after the conference broke up tonight have reached an accord as to how we are going to fight piracy in the Litvinoff said conclusions will be referred to our respective governments and we will meet again in a few Two essential points are that Russia may when she wishes send warships from the Black Sea freely into the Mediterranean in defense of her national interests or to convoy her merchant fleet and submarines are liable to being sunk at once if they do not show the flag of their country The agreement provides that Britain and France will maintain supervision over sea lanes throughout the entire Mediterranean Submarines operating in those lanes will be regarded as pirates if they operate in violation of the submarine protocol of 1936 to which most of the Mediterranen powers are signatories There was no immediate indication of Italian and German reaction but possible dissent was seen because such a patrol would involve British and French ships in operation off own coast The 1936 protocol for humanization of warfare requires that submarines of a country engaged in war halt vessels before torpedoing them and save the crew or permit their escape in lifeboats Italy will be invited to participate in the anti-piracy fight in other words to support the general control scheme but nothing was contained in the protocol concerning participation by Germany All the signatory countries Russia France Britain Greece Turkey Yugoslavia Egypt Rumania and Bulgaria will be responsible for policing their territorial waters Russia under the arrangement will have special control of the Black Sea It also is understood that individual Rations will have certain liberty in taking what action they may deem to be desirable to protect their own merchant fleets Whether Italy participates or not it was made clear Britain and France will go ahead with their efforts to safeguard shipping lanes In the Mediterranean Rome Sept 11 UP Italian sources said today Italy will not accept the Franco-British plan for an patrol of the Mediterranean unless participating powers grant belligerent rights to the Spanish insurgent cause The sources said Italy could accept the patrol plan but would require fundamental such as recognition of Insurgent Generalisismo Francisco Franco as a belligerent Geneva Sept 11 (IP The threat of an Anglo-French warship patrol off western coast emerged ominously today from the conference at Nyon Informed persons at the Nyon parley where nine European powers Italy and Germany self-excluded were trying to uproot the potential sprouts of a second World war said Premier Mussolini would be invited to patrol the Tyrrhenian sea against pirate submarines But if Italy declines to take part in the impending anti-piracy proc-tocol it was said British and French warcraft would be dispatched to the Tyrrhenian Want Help This grim force of naval police would be empowered to sink any piracy-bent submarine that pokes its periscope above water entire western coast front on the Tyrrhenian (Twa rift Tv Mm fear) Request to City Light Commissioner for Power Line to the Site TO NORTH OF FIELD Some Three Or Four Men Will Be Brought to City to Handle Operations and Bureau of Air Commerce Project The United States Bureau of Air Commerce is completing arrangements to install a radio beacon station one and three-fourths miles north of the new Arrasmlth Field city officials today learned The information came through a request to Burdick city light commissioner to have a power line available at that site not later than Sept 20th The request for this service was made by Lange district manager for the bureau at Salt Lake City Officials are elated to receive this information as it was felt that a radio beacon station was essential to make the airport modern and complete in every respect The radio beacon is just what its name implies It enables a pilot to fly his course regardless of whether or not he can see the ground or establish any ground contact It takes the guesswork out of so-called Will Require Staff The station sends out a series of electrical impulses similar to toe dots and dashes of a telegragh or wireless set The plane pilot simply tunes these into his receiving set and by the sound and the frequency of the impulses knows whether or not he is on his course or is wandering off These stations are located at intervals along the air routes and give the pilot a broad along which to fly his ship The station of course must be operated by specialists which means that some three or four men and their families will be moved to this city to make permanent residence The reques tor power received by Mr Burdick deals only with toe type of power and line required and does not go into any detoil as to the station setup itself Delinquent Tax Law Is Attacked In High Court County Attorney Claims It is and Lincoln Sept 11: UP James English Douglas county attorney attacked Nebraska delinquent tax law in the state Supreme Court today as ambiguous indefinite uncertain and Impossible of His denunciation was part of an-answer to the request for a declaratory judgment filed by Harry A Tukey Omaha real estate dealer who sought a Supreme Court ruling to clarify the status of land Involved in transfers Tukey said he thought the present law valid but Douglas County Treasurer Otto Bauman is operating as if he believed the act unconstitutional Bauman also seeks an early court ruling because bonding companies have told him he might be personally liable if the law is voided In his request for a judgment Tukey said Bauman is accepting tax payments under toe act only when receipts are stamped as accepted under the terms of 1 Baum ati believes he said that the law favors delinquent taxpayers lacks uniformity and is class legislation Two previous delinquent tax laws were held unconstitutional by toe high tribunal The present law waiues Interest payments and substitutes instead a seven percent charge during the term of toe act TWO MEMBERS OF DESTROYER MISSING Washington Sept 11 UP The Navy announced today toe disappearance of two members of toe crew of the destroyer Dahlgren now engaged in trials off Rockland Maine circumstances strongly indicating The men are: James Robertson boatswain's mate first class of Martinsville Va and Charles Norris seaman first class of Cowles Neb The commanding officer advised toe navy department that a search was being made of toe' shoreline in toe vicinity at Rockland for toe bodies at the men but so far no trace of them had been found A board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate toe nfitter' General Franco Reports Rebels Captured Mountain Peak Dominating Coastal Road to Loyalists Last Biscayan Seaport London Sept 11 (ip Owners of the British steamer Stanbridge reported today the ship was yesterday while evacuating 1000 refugees from the north Spanish port of Gijon The ship was proceeding toward La Pallicegn France with' a destroyer escort First reports said the ship was in bad condition but later the captain said British dispatches from Palma Mallorca said the insurgent cruiser Canarias captured the British tanker Romford carrying a cargo of oil to a Spanish government port Driven Out Hendaye Franco-Spanish Frontier Sept 11 (IP) Generalissimo Francisco Navarrese column battling the Asturian defenders of Gijon in a mountain snowstorm were reported to have captured Mazucha Peak dominating the coastal road to the Spanish last important Biscayan seaport The battle lasted 14 hours reports reaching the French frontier said Foot by foot the hardy government troops recruited from the Asturian mine lands were driven from their positions in the western ridge of the Cuera mountains along the coastal road between Rivadesella and Villaviciosa Villa viciosa in the line of the westward march from Santander is only about 13 air miles east of Gijon Internal troubles in Gijon insurgent dispatches said were hastening the fall of the city just as they did at Santander last month MAYOR WANTS TO MEET FOE IN RING Bremerton Wash Sept 11 (IP Mayor Jesse Knabb flexed his 55-year-old muscles today and allowed that even though 30 years since been in the ring still equal to that young whipper-snapper Ralph Purves the first said his honor will use Jim one-two punch In the second round show Bob shift and his left to the solar plexus the third demonstrate Battling Nelson and in the fourth demonstrate Gunboat famous the clubbing punch he used to start from his Knabb and Purves Kitsap county prosecutor have been engaged in a personal and political feud that came to a climax this week when Purves sought to bar the mayor from a police conference on the mysterious death of Mrs Jeanette Dunbar Knabb challenged Purves to a four-round boxing match as part of next Tuesday professional fight card Purves has not replied formally HITLER HINTS JOB PERMANENT Numberg Germany Sept 11 UP Adolf Hitler today mentioned his successor as reichsfuehrer of all but he named no one The public allusion a rare occasion for the nazi leader who believes his national socialism is eternal came in a speech to his youngest cohorts members of the Hitler youth movement upon whom someday will rest the burden of continuing nazi-ism will be as faithful to the future German fuehrer as to the present Hitler told the youths massed 42000 strong in Nurnberg stadium as part of the annual party congress PEACE IF POSSIBLE ROOSEVELT SAYS Hyde Park Seput 11 (JP President Roosevelt asserted today are going to do everything to keep toe United States out of war The President made toe pledge at an informal gathering of toe Roosevelt Home club near toe summer White House He said world conditions were adding: are going to do everything we can in toe United States not only toe people but toe government of toe United States to keep us out of The statement followed shortly after Mr press conference declaration that all countries with democratic form of government were jittery over toe foreign situation both in the far east Japanese Made Gains Until Close Fighting Started Then They Were Forced to Retreat Casualties Are Heavy Shanghai Sept 11 (By James A Mills) saw a lone Chinese aviator defy the spurting fire of naval anti-aircraft tonight In a daring raid across the city just after dusk An unknown number of non-combatants was killed and the foreign areas of this teeming international city of 3500 were again endangered by a shower of bursting shrapnel A day of bitter fighting ended with the Japanese drive inland stalled by the might of Chinese infantry when the lone attacker sped across the city Above the Japanese airfield he dropped his first load of bombs Then he turned dipped and roared over the Japanese flagship Idzumo Two bombs dropped nearby the cruiser in the Whangpoo a Chinese target almost daily since the Shanghai war began From my long-established sky lookout atop a building close by the Bund I could see the flash of the Chinese bombs and the answering flame from the guns The projectiles burst into the heavens and dropping to earth I could make out the still red-hot fragments of shrapnel The international zones were splattered by the fire The Chinese "devil his damage done sped into the safety of darkness One could only guess at the damage but there was no doubt that many more innocent citizens had died and that toward the Japanese airport at least the bombs may have found their mark The ultimate fate of the Japanese drive Inland hung in the balance at the end but the Japanese had fallen back slowly before vicious Chinese counter-attacks Chinese said the Japanese had reached only to the outskirts of Yangchang For 24 hours the Japanese steadily hammered the Chinese back until Japan possessed one-third of Yang-hong but later they were forced to give up the section under terrific Chinese attack An aerial and artillery bombardment projected the Japanese movement slowly and inexorably forward When the attackers reached the city however they were forced to retire after hand-to-hand fighting In which the Chinese seemed to have superiority A Chinese spokesman termed the battle a major engagement Have Advantage At the end of 24 hours of relentless fighting the Japanese claimed an advance of two miles from previous positions Describing the drive as a major Japanese offensive a Chinese military spokesman explained the attack was designed to converge on Yang-hong from Woosung Lotien and Liuhu in order to drive a wedge into the heart of Chinese defenses running from Liuho to Shanghai In their advance of two miles the Japanese had the tremendous advantage of protective barrages from their warships airplanes and heavy artillery In Yanghong itself Chinese defenders fought Japanese to a standstill with knives swords and bayonets finally driving the invaders to the village outskirts Once the push was halted Chinese summoned heavy reinforcements in an effort to regain their lost positions Casualties in the battle were heaviest of any since Shanghai hostilities broke out Tokyo Sept 11 Japan planned today to dispatch special envoys to three great powers the United States France and Great to explain her version of the Far Eastern war Japan believes will continue at least into 1938 Their mission presumably would be to lay before the United States and other powers position in the Sino-Japanese conflict with an explanation of its causes and an outline of events in the undeclared war now devastating large sections of North China Washington Sept 11 The United States government instructed its diplomatic representative in (Taro to Paco Two Column 8ix) GRAND TEMPERATURE Covering 24 hoars up to 2:30 today (Reported from Airport Weather Station) 3:30 4:80 5:30 6:30 7:30 8:30 9:30 10:30 11:30 12:30 a 1:80 a 2:30 a 59 2:30 Maximum today 80 year ago 84 today 58: roar an 14 WEATHER OUTLLOK FOR THE COMING WEEK Chicago Sept 11 (ip Weather outlook for the period Sept 13 to 18: For the Missouri Valley: Generally fair except showers north portion abont Monday night or Tuesday wanner Monday and Tuesday cooler about Thursday or Friday For the northern and central great plains: Little if any rain indicated temperatures mostly near or above normal Declares War On Rustlers In Colorado and System la Now Put Into Effect Denver Sept 11 (IP Colorado officers called science and the new law to their aid today as cattle rustlers opened their autumn forays Rustling has changed The old time bravo who drove off whole herds has disappeared In his place is the and rustler who mows down calves with high powered rifle skins his pVey on toe spot and sells the carcalsee at cut rates to butchers who know or care they artol8 The ngwlaws require butchers to keep the hide and horns of each carcass they buy 30 days for inspection and to list the brands of animals they purchase Warning rustlers had gone to work came yesterday when the heads and hides of two calves were found near Conifer northwest of Denver A bullet found in one of toe heads was turned over to ballistic experts Convalescent Serum Will Be Distributed Medical Association Takes Steps to Aid Paralysis Victims Curtis Neb Sept 11 (ip The Nebraska State Medical association through its executive secretary Dr Smith of Curtis announced today the completion of arrange ments for the distribution of convalescent serum for combating infantile paralysis in Nebraska The serum which the association said is recommended for use before the onset of paralysis has been made available at supply depots at Gering Lincoln Norfolk Grand Island and North Platte while a larger supply is being maintained at a base at Omaha Dr Floyd Clarke of Omaha is chairman of the committee which arranged toe serum supply If used promptly the association said the serum will protect patients against paralysis in a large percentage of cases but the medical profession still doubts its efficacy after toe onset of paralysis Nebraska is one of toe first states to have toe serum generally available the announcement said only other sources in toe world being at Chicago Los Angeles London and in Holland and Germany The serum is obtained from convalescent patients who have been victims of the disease Doctors throughout the state are being notified where the serum may be obtained HOLD MAN FOR EXTORTION PLOT Richmond Va Sept 11 UP A man booked as Frederick Wood was held in Henrico county jail today in default of $5000 bond on a federal charge of attempting to extort $2000" from Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios Federal officers said toe man was arrested in connection with a threat to Madge Evans movie star to whom Wood told Commissioner Melvin Flegenheimer he had lotted money during a visit to Hollywood Tokyo Sept 12 (Sunday) (IP) Japan counted 60 dead 100 injured scores missing and extensive property damage today from a typhoon which crossed the heart of western Japan starting at dawn Saturday The 75 mile an hour storm sent high waves lashing along the coast It struck Shikow Island early yesterday and swept on to Kobe Osaka and other ports of Honshu the main island of Japan Shipping was dis-! rupted i Kagawa prefecture of Shikoku Island was hardest it In that area a thousand homes were inundated and-two-hundred fishing boats were overturned Inland property damage and dam- age to toe Island shipping was extensive In some sections the storm swept away crops which had been counted on to feed soldiers in China The storm and tidal wave struck ferociously along the southern coast of main islands Near Nikko 80 miles southwest of Tokyo 15 men were buried alive by a landslide At least a score more were known to have been killed in other storm sections Okayama police reported three killed 12 injured and 52 ships shattered Army reserves who had been awaiting a possible call to action on the Chinese war front were called out to deal with the catastrophe At Kochi an Shikoku Island two schools collapsed killing three boys and injuring three others The Kochi reservoir walls caved in Flood waters mounted Homes were demolished Railway lines and bridges were washed out Tidal wave waters raised toe flood to a height of 25 feet in some sections At least 100 houses were submerged Jacksonville Fla Sept 11 UP A tropical hurricane carrying for shipping whirled over the Atlantic ocean today its northeasterly course carrying it away from land Gage Electric Company Faces Suit in Court Starts Foreclosure Proceedings Against Power Distributors Beatrice Neb Sept 11 The Gage County Electric company wholesale distributors to the Beatrice and Wymore municipal electric departments was named defendant in a foreclosure suit filed in district court here yesterday by the First Trust company of Lincoln The Lincoln petition said it is the holder of a $163500 mortgage against toe electric company The petition also alleges no part of the negotiable bonds dated April 1 1926 and maturing to 10 years later have been paid except interest to April 1 this year and that no taxes on the property have been paid for two years The company was organized in 1926 Carl Shaffer is president POLICE SEIZE KIDNAP SUSPECT Rome Sept 11 Clyde Derrick 29 wanted for the kidnaping of two Johnson City policemen was captured in a vacant house here today without a battle although he was heavily armed Chief of Police Joseph Owens said Owenagaid Derrick had three guns including two stolen from toe policemen when he commandeered their prowl car last Saturday night A posse of Rome policemen surrounded the house caught him napping and he out meek as a lamb" Owens said Washington Sept 11 (IP) Selecting a name for the troubled Mrs Pettengill of Detroit new president of the National Congress of Parents and Teacheft at headquarters today Returning from a world educational meeting in Tokyo Mrs Pettengill said she had formulated a new theme for parent-teacher association activities "Now trying to select the she explained The program which she wants to reduce to a few words for 2000000 A members is this: on cooperative effort by home and school to build community life to the high level children are being taught to Mrs Pettengill said the school may teach a pupil to appreciate better things in recreation for instance and parents may encourage higher standards "But if attractive distractions continue to predominate in the community much of the training is she observed Elections Are Speeded To End Strike Threat National Labor Relations Board Acts Quickly on Seaboards Washington Sept 11 Of) The National Labor Relations board moving swiftly to avert a threatened maritime strike at Atlantic and gulf ports refused today to delay until October collective bargaining elections among employes of 56 steamship lines Postponement of the elections was asked by the International union an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor pending organization of the union it was opposed by the national Maritime union a Commitee for Industrial Organization affiliate which said 40000 would strike if the postponement were granted The board however granted the International union a week In which to publish the new name of its reorganized union in order that the A of Maritime group might be properly identified on ballots to be distributed to all seamen covered by the election order Norfolk City Council Marks Time in Case Wait Until Hearing Is Held Regarding Suspension of Chief of Police Norfolk Neb Sept 11 (IP) The Norfolk city council awaited a special investigating report today on the suspension of Police Chief Blatt relieved of his duties for what Mayor Carter said were best interests of the Blatt was suspended after Councilman Hansen charged at a council meeting that Blatt failed to report an automobile accident in which the police car was involved near Hoskins on Sept 2 Councilmen Powers Charles Everling and Hansen was named a special committee to hold a public hearing on the matter Mil'll jww.