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r-5- i Hub T-TT- FORTY-NINTH YEAR KEARNEY NEBRASKA THURSDAY OCTOBER 13 1938 NUMBER 297 HOPE TO SETTLE STRIKE TROPICAL STORM COMING THE POLISH SOLDIERS HORSE-DRAWN OCCUPY TESCHEN COCHRAN WILL ADDRESS CITY FATHERS HERE BRITISH GUNBOATS MAY BE ENDANGERED EXPENDITURES MUST BE HELD TO A MINIMUM Polish soldiers are greeted by inhabitants is their military takes possession of the of Tesehen acquired from Czechoslovakia after German troopa started occupation of Sudeten areas The Poles are short on motorised equipment long on cavalry made an unimpressive entrance entrance into the town MRS LOZIER FREED ALSO THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION i Murder Charges Against Couple Are Dismissed NORTH PLATTE Oct Edmund Tipton Lozier was freed late Wednesday on first degree murder charges by the district court The order to dismiss the charges was granted on a motion by County Attorney Diedrichs eight houn after a jury had acquitted her husband Harold Lozier on charges of murdering John Hunter one time bootlegger Meanwhile in district court ihe federal government filed suit for $55000 against the Hunter estate charging unpaid revenue taxes the sale and manufacture of U-quqr by Hunter during the period prior to his disappearance The Hunter estate is scheduled for final settlement in county court sometime this week and has been appraised at about $24000 It was to have been shared equally by his wife Caroline and his par-: ents Edward and Aribelle Hunt- er The estate included about $19000" cash glut 1600 acres of land NEGROES CONFESS TO HIT-RUN DEATH Columbus Man Who Had Been Held Is Released TUCUMCARl Oct New Mexico state police last night announced that two negro motorist! arrested in Amarillo Tex had confessed to the hit-and-run death of Florence Marie Belle 20-year-old Springfield Mo girl hitchhiker near here yesterday Officers said they had been informed by Texai authorities that Virginia Green and Taft Spigner Roosevelt Instructs Adminis-trator to Keep Them Low Until March 1 BALANCE IS $700000000 Williams Says Hs Has Hopes of Stretching Money Out As Desired WASHINGTON Oct (UP) President Roosevelt today instructed Aubrey Williams deputy progress administrator to hold expenditures within the $700000' 000 balance of emergency funds until next March 1 Mr Roosevelt issed the instructions during a White House conference with Williams During the conference Williams presented a breakdown of the relief expenditures since July 1 when congress made available $1435000000 for its uses The breakdown showed the following outlays by months: July $201000000 August September have hopes of stretching the money out as desired by the president Williams said is Increasing everywhere and the outlook is brighter than at any time in a year I look for a steady increase in employment aU over the United Staies and "in" airlines' He said WPA rolls now total 9130000 The last congress in providing relief funds for the current fiscal year made provisions for only the first eight months a period ending March 1 President plan was to make a survey of the situation at that time and present a recommendation for a supplemental appropriation to finance the relief organization until the end of the fiscal year $201000000 SUPPLY OF WATER NOW NORMAL Ground Water Increased By Rains LINCOLN Nath Oct Nebraska's ground water supply is back to normal again as the result of above average rainfall during the summer Dr George Condra dean and director of the University of Nebraska conservation and survey division announced today The geologist said no adjoining state possesses as dependable a supply of ground water of such good quality and so easily accessible as Nebraska it didn't rain for years and he said would still be a supply of ground water in a good many parts of Nebraska In the sandhills area the state's great sponge 100 years without rainfall could be experienced and yet there -would- be-wells-that would produce good Dr Condra pointed out that more than 1000 times aa much water ia available for use under ground as on the surface Including lakes reservoirs and riven He Observed however" that precipitation does play an important rola in increasing the ground water supply YOUTH DIES TODAY FROM HEAD-INJURY a Aldon Hammer722 Hastings Dies In Hospital Here Will Strike Northeastern Gulf Region Today NEW ORLEANS A strong tropical was expected to strike' gulf region The New Or'ff feather bureau in an rHjV jrtsaued at lias a ri'Of-aid indications were tOfv'vrnter would pass Inland Mobile Aik- and IVnsaevYa NortMuit sjorm warnings between Morgan City La and Port Arthur Tex were ordered down but small craft from Morgan City to Tarpon Springs Fla were advised to Temain in port CITIES SERVICE FIRE IS PUT OUT Eighteen-Hour Blaze Causes More Than Half Million Dollars Damage LINDEN Oct (UP) that raged more than 18 hours through the 12-acre Cities Service company plant fed by almost 10000000 gallons of gasoline naptha kerosene end oil from exploding storage tanka was extinguished today after it had caused more than $500000 damage Fire fighters who had waged a losing battle most of the night gained their first advantage early today when with four feet of foamite they extinguished a blazing 40-foot tank that had threatened to explode and spray the whole area with 2000000 gallons of flaming crude oil Numerous pools of oil boiled over from unexploded tanks were still burning amid a mass of steel wreckage from the 20 tanks that had blown up or split their seams and spilled" out their contents in the terrific heat Some of the thundering explosions had broken windows in houses three miles away At its height the fire spurted 300 feet into the air and was visible ten miles away The pall of smoke spread as far as New York City Five hundred fire-fight ere struggled to keep the flames away from the near by Sinclair Oil company plant which has 30 storage tanks and the Standard Oil company plant largest refinery in the world with $00 tanks Twenty Cities Service tanks containing 480000 to 2100000 gallons of gasoline and oil each had been destroyed Some had gone up in thundering explosions some hid collapsed when heat melted their seams There were 175 tanks on the Cities Service property Several of those still standing were boiling over in the terrific heat and more explosions were imminent Fire companies from five cities had been waging a losing battle since one yesterday when the fire started with the violent explosion of a 1660000-gallon storage tank A three-ton mass of molten iron dislodged by that blast was hurled 150 yards onto tracks of the Central railroad of New Jersey William Cordell official of Cities Service estimated today that the loss already had been more "than $500500" XU workmen uniie 1 piaiirTsajssaTiBtnKvien fire-fighters had been burned or injured (Linden is fifteen miles from central New York City three miles from its borough of Richmond Staten Island) TRUCK RATES HIGH LINCOLN Neb Oct The Nebraska Union complained to the state railway commission today that truck rates fixed by the commission for hauling of building and fencing material arc "excessive and considerably higher than trucRero want to charge" Keeney and Shoemaker president and secretary of the organization said they acted on behalf of 16000 members The matter will be set down for hearing NO PREMIUM ON HAY HOLLYWOOD Oct Robert press agents were pretty certain today that the women didn't know that he was selling his alfalfa or they would have bid It muck higher than the $8 a ton it brought Of course the agents aid the ii (crested In realizing a large profit qn his hay Me sold it on the -q market and It brought no than the next fellow's But agents toyed with the Idea and 1 if his feminine admirers had known about it It was a safe bet the hay would have gone into sentimental bouquets at a much higher price than into a loft for horse feed JOMART mint NEW YORK Oct Fourteen year old Samuel Cohen of the Bronx is a right smart- farmer even though he never has set foot outside New York City and never has seen a cow He has a medal to prove it The medal attested that Sammy wax the best farmer entered The farmed each rad- Swift Officials and Workers Negotiating SIOUX CITY Ia Oct 13-Officials of the Swift' Packing company and the local I packing house workers union will resume negotiations today in an effort to settle a strike at the local plant The meetings were recessed from Tuesday while John Connolly Jr union attorney went To Des Moines Meanwhile two strikers were held in jail Arthol Shelton negro president of the union was arrested late yesterday when he joined pickets in violation of an injunction William Blankenship also was arrested and officers aid he was handed a gun by Shelton when they approached the two MARTIAL LAW DECLARED TO STOP PLUNDER Czechoslovak-Hungarian Territorial Conference Breaks Down PRAGUE Oct The center of Ruthenian province was thrown under martial law today to cope with an outbreak of Hungarian disorders which began simultaneously with an apparent breakdown in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian territorial conference The governor of Ruthcnia which has full autonomy in the new Czechoslovak government declared that manslaughter robbery and crimes endangering the were rampant in the vicinity of Mukaccvo a city of 26000 one of the largest in the province which is mostly a mountain wilderness The governor said bands of Magyar terrorists were pillaging the countryside The Magyars arc the racial brethren of the Hungarians and Hungary's demand for a slice of Czechoslovakia is based on its racial majority in areas along the border The outbreaks almost coincided with reports from Komarom frontier town where delegations from the two countries are in session that the Czechoslovaks had suddenly stiffened their attitude against ceding lands to Hungary Whereas Germany and Poland had massed troops on the border and threatened to take their minority-populated areas by force Hungary had undertaken its territorial claims peacefully The Czechs had appeared eager to cooperate at first and had agreed to cede Hungary all parts of Czechoslovakia where Hungarians predominated The negotiations had reached the point where the only dispute was whether a 1910 or a 1930 census should be used as the basis for cessions Then suddenly the Czechs became adamant It was reported today that the Czechs had suggested that it might cede no territory at all to Hungary but would permit Hungarians to have autonomy within Czechoslovakia (Continued on page 10) WASHINGTON Oct IST President Roosevelt today approved an $18000000 Public Works Administration grant to Chicago for construction of a loop subway to cost approximately $40 oooooa ARAB LAWYER FUUND MURDERER IN FIELD Both Jews and Arabs Shocked By the Crime JERUSALEM Oct A leading Arab lawyer and nationalist spokesman Hassan Sidky Dajany 4a abducted from the city yesterday was found shot to death In a field today He was the first high ranking Arab leader slain during the current rebellion Jews and Arabs alike were shocked by the crime He had been councillor of the I rii rrrmthyn Uw of toTtoS Abdultahf Trans-Jordan Before the British conquest during the world war Turkish army and was -a-member of a noted Arab family identified with the Husseini faction whose bitter political and religious feud with the Nashashibi faction prevented Arab aoldarity in Palestine until their compromise in 1936 for Everywhere throughout Palestine riots and murders continued despite the daily arrivals of British reinforcements Murders of Arabs and sacking of government officea were reported from Haifa Samaria and Jaffa The government had resorted to a system of identification cards for Arabs to Offset rebel strategy in ordering all Arabs to wear the Bedouin headdress In their identical headdress troops could not distinguish rebels from peaceful Arabs PRUMPT END TO TROUBLE URGED Wage-Hour Head Insists On Settlement of Civil War HOUSTON Tex Oct Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews joined President Roosevelt today an appeal to the American Federation of Labor convention for prompt settlement of organized labor's civil war at the gains organized labor has made in this country in the last few years and think what it could do for itself and the nation if it were again one great united Andrews declared He touched upon a point troubling both him and the national labor relations board that the split in labor's ranks complicates their work and brings charges from both sides that they are partial to the other have good friends on both sides of these he said I want to be able to ask the advice of both of them without each fellow thinking going to get the wrong idea I am fully aware that men of principle even when they are friends often find it herd to reconcile their He praised the A of L's accomplishments and described the fair labor standards act which he administers defending it against federation criticism He quoted Federation President William Green as saying that law contains -every major feature and principle originally sponsored by the American Federation of and specifically answered charges of levelled by John Frey head of the federation's metal trades department CLARIFICATION OF SITUATjON NEEDED Warner Enters Controversy Over Taxes LINCOLN Neb Oct Charles Warner republican nominee for governor today entered the controversy over taxes being waged by two Gov Cochran and Charles Bryan oiqnt to be a clarification of the state tax situation to the minds of the voters" Warner said "A few days he continued "one candidate tor governor (Cochran) compared- the total amount of property taxes collected in the state for the first three years of a former governor's administration with the same period of his own administration conclusions were to his own- advantage but it appear! to me he was making a long detour to get an argument The governor has nothing to do with making levies on property outside of the state levy wondered whep I later read this statement why he did not discuss the general fund levy He has a great deal to do with this for he ia chairman of the state board of equalization and assessment Then it occurred to me that the state now has a deficit of Four of Them Likely to Be Trapped In River Dur- Tng Drive CANTON REFUGEES ARRIVE Japanese War Planet Bombing Railroads From Hong Kong to Canton HONG KONG Oct (UP) The American gunboat Mindanao and three British gunboats may be trapped in the Pearl river at Canton during the Japanese South China drive it was feared today British naval authorities received information that the Chinese intended to throw an obstructive boom across the river today to keep out Japanese warships Above the place where the boom would be constructed are the Mindanao and the British gunboats Cicala Moth and Taran tula Four boatloads of refugees arrived from Canton today including thirty -foreign women and children of whom twelve were Americans Sixty Japanese war planes of Japan's new South China army bombed railroads end highways between Hong Kong and Canton today while the Cantonese -army- moved toward the coast to challenge the invaders British authorities here mobilized the special constabulary reserve to take care of the heavy flow of refugees into the colony Japanese troops moved inland on a path paralleling British leased territory on the mainland but about forty miles away Japanese navy sources asserted that already the Japanese had severed the Canton-Hong Kong (Continued on page 10) A FOUR-POINT PLAN OFFERED BY ROOSEVELT Program Designed to Rehabilitate $26000000 Railroad Industry WASHINGTON Oct (UP) George Harrison president of the Association of American Railway Labor Executives today presented to President Roosevelt's fact finding board a four-point program for rehabilitation of the $26000000000 railroad industry Harrison's program called for: 1 A genuine attack on the problem of competition 2 A rate policy taking into consideration both good and bad times 3 Financial reorganization 4rCohs61TdatIoiSa7 Harrison wno member of President Roosevelt's management-labor advisory board on the railroad problem said the president has promised to assist in obtaining congressional approval of a broad scale rehabilitation pro- gram The Initial meeting of the spe- cial advisory board comprised of equal representation of management and labor ended in an impasse when both sides agreed no substantial program could be evolved until the railroad wage controversy is settled The carriers are demanding flat 15 per cent reduction in wage rates a cut which would represent approximately $250000000 annually Harrison said my judgment should withdraw this request for a 15 per cent wage cut and ought to brain an attack on the fundamental situation since we now have a promise from President Roosevelt himself that he will sympathetically assist in getting broad-scale prograiq for rehabilitation of the railroads" Harrison said that hia program had the approval of the 18 or-: ganizations in the railroad labor association Discussing (he question of competition ha said all forms of transportation land water and be subjected to substantially the same character of federal regulation with favors for none and handicap! for TRUSTY ESCAPES LINCOLN Neb Oct Peace officers were on eTook-out today for George Thorpe 37 outside trusty at the state penitentiary who walked away from the dairy bam at the state penitentiary last night Deputy Warden Neil Olson said Thorpe's absence waa discovered when the regular 10 check was made yt the prison dairy farm- He would have been released next May-leas time for good behavior on a one-year sentence for grand larceny from Perkins county Governor to Speak at General Session Today Discussion of Projects Slatedr SECTIONS MEETING TODAY Final General Assembly and Bueineee Meeting to Be Held On Friday Registration at the thirtieth annual convention of the League of Nebraska Municipalities here early today topped three hundred with lute arrivals continuing to register throughout the forenoon Representatives from 101 towns are present Governor Cochran expected to arrive early this afternoon is scheduled to address the general session at the court houe-on of State and Municipal Government" Tyson of the aeronautic commission office in Lincoln will also speak discussing airport planning and development He replaces Secretary I Packard of the commission who will be unable to appear Arousing intense interest Is the scheduled discussion as this afternoon's general assembly opens of hydro-electric district problems and how they will affect municipalities Secretary Beals and President Fisher saidno fixed program- has been arranged -for -tliis and no speakers have been secured will be just a general discussion of the situation" Secretary Beals said At the annual convention banquet tonight Worlock Kearney attorney will be principal speaker City Attorney Tyewill be toastmaster and Mayor Wort will welcome the delegates and visitors Kearney city officials and chamber if commerce officers will provide a varied entertainment program for the evening The final general business session is scheduled at the epurt house tomorrow morning when resolutions will be discussed and acted upon reports presented from secfional' meetings and from League officers and officers for next year willbe chosen The 1939 convention site will alio be decided Separate sectional meetings were held this morning for cities of first class: cities of second class villages legal section utility section clerks and treasurers and fire chiefs The fire department program continues this afternoon with demonstrations qt fire fighting equipment Demonstration of an iron lung respirator is scheduled (Continued on page 10) POWER DEVELOPING IS SUML FOLLY Compared to Frank- cngtgfnBrBeebee: ATLANTIC CITY Oct 13 Hydro-electric power is a A Bee bee general superintendent of the Rochester Gas and Electric-corporation told the American Gas association Wednesday afternoon Without naming Muscle Shoals Boulder dam and other great federal projects Beebee said that de- veloping of hydro-electric power in a country with adequate coal reserves is policies are all right for nations like Canada and Sweden where the- use of hydro-electric power would prevent a constant drain on their natural wealth" BeebSe said "But in our country where unemployment is our greatest problem and the spreading of purchasing power our greatest need such a development is a modern Frankenstein is our worst employer might be Justification for such policies in this country enery developed more cheapty from water power than fr0m coa1' But where is true the only explanation ia a misunderstanding of the facta "If hydro energy using a minimum jit labor in production and transportation can be brought to market cheaper than energy from coal society would benefit In the long run even there be heartbreaking readjustment in the meantime But the other way around quicker- -we -develop the uses of coal the better The more we develop water power the more we will delay those factors which are going to bring about the more abundant life" MAY STRENGTHEN FLEET LONDON Oct 13 The Daily Express predicted today that the cabinet might decide tostrength-en the British fleet it Hong Kong because -off the newvjapaneae drive 1 in soqtjim China i Members of Train Crew Succumb as Boiler of Engine Explodes ELGIN 111 Oct Three crew members of a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific freight train of 100 empty cars were killed today when the boiler of the engine exploded half a mile west of Almora 111 The explosion blew out a section of the right "of" wayhuriad bits of the engine 600 feet and splintered two cars behind the tender The dead: George Nelson 60 Chicago the engineer James Mangan Chicago the fireman George Hachtel 47 Elgin head brakeman Ambrose Grady Chicago conductor and Walter Darr Chicago rear brakeman were injured They were riding on the last car approximately a mile from the explosion They suffered head and leg injuries when they were thrown by the impact Sheriff George Peterson of Kane county was the first official to reach the scene of the accident "I found and Mangan'r bodies about 30 feet from the he said were hurled through weeds and mud body was on top of the The train wai enroute from Chicago to the Milwaukee -road's Savanna 111 yards The accident occurred in an isolated section approximately five miles west of Elgin Almora is a small farming community without service and Through Lines OMAHA Oct 13 Answering the threat of 15 outstate towns to boycott Omaha because of the truck tieup officers of the general truck drivers' union today charged that shippers in these places were boycotting union-operated trucks Nearly 50 small line operators have signed the union agreement it was stated but they had found tf return shipments from outstate merchants The union denied there had been widespread violence and laid the boycott threat at the door of the Nebraska Commercial Truckers association which has refused to sign the 11-state agreement Sheriff John Hopkins told the chamber of commerce which considered the boycott throat that his deputies had-been convoying non-union trucks through picket lines since inception of the tieup Union officers pointed out no actual strike had been called that the truck lines had taken the initiative in tielng up their equip- ment thus forcing the men (Jut of employment Hopkins promised safe passage to any trucker who aski aid from hie office believe we are following the only sensible said the could easily disperse the picketing group but where would they go then Undoubtedly they would roam the highways In automobiles and it would take a far greater number of men than I have at my disposal to keep up with them were being held in Amarillo after New Mexico police had broad- word the accident reached la-cast a pickup order for their car gn Hoefelman of Columbus Peterson said all cars on the Neb who was being held for train except the two behind the questioning regarding the girl's death was released Hoefelman told authorities he had invited Miss Belle to ride with him at Amarillo last Monday They drove into New Mexico where his car ran out bfgas near SanteROsa H8gfgiHirgttRr'DV' iremptmrtfft stop a passing motorist the girl was struck by the car and killed Police held the man for Investigation when it was discovered that he and the girl had been i Non-Union Trucks Convoyed ejected from a Tucumcari tavern it was nearly two hours before tender remained on the track must have been a terrible he said "We had a hard time finding the bodies BOJfCOIHHREAIIS- Monday night A note found on the girl's body explained she was traveling to Los Angeles Texas authorities arrested the two negroes when the pair topped to have a broken windshield repaired MRS COCHRAN TO SPEAK Nebraska's First Lady Meets With State A REMONT Neb Oct Ap- pear! nee of Nebraska's first lady Mrs Roy Cochran featured today's meeting of the Nebraska Congress of Parent1! and Teachers here Mrs Cochran led the discussion in the discussions of (he final phase of this year's theme Patterns for Group Today's subject wa for Miss Ruth Pyrtle state chairman of legislation presided at the discussion A Burnham executive secretary of the Nebraska State Teachers association was principal speaker at the general session this aftemoon His subject was Education of the Child in a Day of Social Change Mias Clare Slade psychologist in Lincoln public schools spoke on the Personality Development of the Child" GIRL KILLED BY TRUCK WAHOO Neb Oct Mag-deline Bartek 11 daughter of Frank Bartek Wahoo fanner was killed instantly Wednesday night when aha fell from the truck her father was driying and rolled beneath: the wheels The girl was riding in the roar of the truck with her brother Frank Jr when she slipped and foil to the road Bartek stopped the truck at once doctors said the girl's chest was crushed Aldon Hammer 22 Hastings who sustained head injuries when the car he was driving crashed into a telephone pole on South Central avenue early Sunday morning died at a local hospital today noon He had never regained con-ciousness after die accident el- though hospital attendants until today had hoped for his eventual' recovery Hammer with two companions who were not seriously hurt were starting to pass a gravel truck driven by RyaQ JRowker police said when the truck began a left turn The driver of the truck seeing -the car approaching rapidly from behind swung bads to the right-hand aide of the pavement agate to permit it to paw but the ear swerved far to the left striking the telephone pole FIGHT YORK Neb Oct York county farmers are still fighting grasshoppers though reports from over the county indicate the pests are on the wane Mixing of grasshopper bait 'will be discontinued this week it was announced at the farm bureau office Numerous calls were received for bait the last few weeks from fanners anxious to protect the neWlv anwh tanm-r'ftis Daily Weather Forecast Nebraska: Fair tonight and Friday somewhat warmer in east cooler in northwest portion late tonightcooler in west and north Friday" The temperature was 56 degrees above zero at eight this morning and 77 degrees above at noon" Iowa: Fair tonight and Friday somewhat wanner tonight end in south central and extreme east Friday cooler in northwest Friday afternoon Kansas: Fair tonight and Friday somewhat warmer in northwest and iq extreme northeast portions tonight-ami in extreme -r smr HIT BY BOMB BARCELONA Oct The British steamship Stancroft 1407 tons was damaged by a nationalist air bomb today during an air-glaqcjaid ML the port one Lishcs lettuceyDd-tofilike among 200 children who a park department contest young city agriculturists plots of forty square feet raising carrots beets leeks ri- i v- p- i I I''-' 7.