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leather Wednesday slightly colder Thursday. The Cumberland News Good Morning Head The Cumberland Nfwi Day. 14 PAGES CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1938 Prrsi PRICE THREE CKN'fS urn rich Te I I Leading Part in bOUtCerman Lehman's Campaig py Plot Here It's Iheir Fourth Set of iwins Wtl idares German licial Wanted iformation On lerican Plants President and Governor of New York State Hold Marlced for Murder by Cofcce Nazis, Prosecutor Says Discussed Campaign in All Its Phases, Statement Says ilessed Informant for I Hitler's Third Rei(h Is Principal Witness I Heard in New York Trial icrlbes Meetings with Mysterious "Mr. Wiegand" and Other Higher-Up in Hew York Germany Willing To Return Parts Of Seized Lands Ready To Give Up Some of Czech-Populated Sections 3 5,000 To Get Jobs In Motor Announces Jobs for German Troops Said to 35,000 in Motor Plants Have Evacuated Some Sections Hyde Park, Oct. 18 President Rosevelt and Governor Herbert H.

Lehman decided on a vigorous campaign today In an ef- fort to keep New state Democratic in the November 8 election, but left undisclosed the issues to be raised. After a two-hour luncheon conference at the Roosevelt home, Leh- man said they discussed the campaign "in all of its and that many decisions were reached. He would not say what these Cal- proudly their latest set of twins, fourth for the: would develop the campaign. Oliver Bates, high school custodian, and wife, Katherine, of Los Prague Oct. 18 Reliable German sources said tonight th.it Germany had indicated her willing- ness to return parts of the occupied Sudetenland to CaechoRlovakia.

The regions to be returned would include a number of predominantly; j' Czech-populated sections, especially where they cut across rail connec- tions from one part of Cssechoslo- vakia to another, these said, i Itie amount of territory likely to be returned was still undetermined. About 860,000 Czechs are in German-occupied territory. Lehman Confident Lehman said he told the president he was confident of to a fourth term and was as to other candidates on the ticket with him. Col. Henry W.

T. Eglln, conunan-1 His call follewed that of Gover- dant of Port Totten. N. is pic-i nor Henry Homer of Illinois, who tured above. United States District afterward he told the president the Democrats in his state British Proclaim Virtual Martial Law to Crush oly Land Uprising By ROliKR 1).

York. Oct. 18 (m Guentiier the Rumrlch, 32, confessed currently, "mail spy for Hitler SI Reich, testified in federal Uionel marked for murder. Three entrance to the Panama Canal been sent to federal officials New York. There was no indi- ion as to whether the Panama Kts mere related to the present leanwhile, continuing his story, wich said who f.Ufied himself as having worked )t for (the; ge4 rt today that late In 1937 a man espionage higher-up order- to steal secrets of American In Industrial plants, star spy case; a gloomy-eyed man with! jiging forehead, who has been r.bed by defense attorneys as mancing the order came from a myster- said that he and Wie- a scar-faced, revolver-toting plotted their activities seideis of beer in a Yorkville and that Wlegand told him fisany was more interested in ining industrial Information military secrets, the trial completed Its seoond dispatches from Balboa, PStUa-j Canal Zone, said that Informa- four Germans dt- would win next month and "by a big At a press conference, the president said his re-study of rearma- of eighteen defendants are on trial for espionage In New York Federal nient needs was proceeding very Control of the Entire Country Placed in Hands of Army court.

France May Settle War Debt to Make Credit Good fiere well, but, since It was still very much in the preliminary stage It By JAMES A. MILLS Jerusalem, Oct. 18 form oij was pure guesswork to say how law to help 20,000 British tensive the new program would be. soldiers crush the uprising of an He placed in the category of estimated 10,000 Arabs was pro- speculatlon stories that the army would double Its number of plants. claimed throughout the Holy Land tonight by Sir Harold MacMichael, Solution of Problem Said To Have Been Studied In Paris He said it was too early to talk commander-ln-chief for Palestine, about Secretary new farm! Control of the entire country was surplus program.

placed In the hands of an army He added he had not seen any-1 backed up by planes, tanks and thing bn the old age pension con- artillery while rebels clung to the troversy between the state of Ohio I Moslem section of old and the social security board for! city after four days of siege, ten days, but he thought this would The Palestine poltee force was Se M.r Great Britain Also May Announce Plan to il, Mr. Wiegand Pay United States Paris, Oct, 18 ouard Daladler and his ministers, seeking to settle Prance's heavy financial, economic and diplomatic problems, are reported to have in- lie), showed his. Importance by i vestigated the possibility of finding some solution to the French war debt to the United States. The financial newspaper agence Economique close to the ministry of finance, predicted today the British and French war be worked out satisfactorily. Mr.

Roosevelt had no comment on Secretary proposal for a 13 to mediate the dO-AMi union wir, or on Winston Churchill's radio appeal for American cooperation in combatting "moral and military by European Last caller of the day was Secretary Morganthau, who remained for dinner after an hour's talk on the federal budget. ed a photograph allegedly of himself at the German In Washington, D. with ibassador Hans Dieckhoff and Pt Frita Wiedemann, adjutant Chancellor Adolf Hitler. expressed surprise that diplo- its should be on such terms with 'Ple in this Rumrlch said, i told me diplomats are different days. itie witness, who realized his am- to become a spy by writing German newspaper, the Volkls- Beoimchter, In Munich, offer- his services after he had twice Joli the U.

S. army, said roia ither higher-up, Prlta Schmidt, tr explained the shift In German (Continued on Two) 3n Sentenced in untington Court Judge Watkins Officer Captures Four Escaped Men Woodstock, Oct. 18 Virginia State Officer C. L. Puller, working alone, latos today captured four men who he said escaped from debts would be settled after West Virginia state prison placed under the British command by the order for martial law.

Sir Harold authorized appointment of military commandeni to take over the offices of district commissioners. Military Governor Major General O'Connor was appointed governor of Jerusalem. The sweeping meaaurM were taken to quell an already widespread guerrilla war which threatened the peace of all Near East. These were the Immediate British objectives; 1. Repair, occupation and control of widely sabotaged railways.

2. Restoration and maintenance of telegraph and telephone communications. 3. Reestablishment of security on all highways. "Cutest Little Nudist" Asks $15,000 Damages For Theft of Slogan Los Angeles, Oct.

18 court may not have to decide whether Flo Ash or Crystal Ames is the "Cutest Little Nad- but It may have to determine who Is entitled to use that aloga.n. Ash brought suit today for 115,000 against Ames because the latter, also an exponent of the birthday suit dance, lately has been appropriating the catch line. a nude artistic explained Miss Ash. well, Just a strip Troops Leaving Slovakia It was that German! troops already had evacuated some! fCzpch communities occupied since- October 10. Thousands of person.s streamed from Prague tonight while the gov-' ernment imposed more stringent regulations on the populace under i a state of emergency throughout fhe country.

The fear of uncertainty as to what might happen next with Himgarlan demands treading on the heels of those by Germany and Poland apparently caused the exodus. Another 30,000 to Have Salary Cuts Restored, General Motors Head Says Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Reveals Plan to Revise Produdion Stheduies Made last Summer P. Japanese Advance Upon Canton From Three Job Expansion and Salary Increases Will Boost Weekly Payrolls Around $2,000,000 By BERNARD O'HARA New Oct.

18 4'i Autiimn industrial revival in the United States was barked todav bv a eral Motors Corporation announcement of plaas for re-employing factory worker- wlthfn the next two weeks and restoring italary for about 30,000 white collar I A general censorship of fwelgn qqoj M0V6 UndSf of re-employment In i rvlanfft of Unusually Intense Air Attack Drop Bombs Among Chinese Defenders motor plants will the 'back-to-work march in steel, textile other induiitries since a busi- jne.ss recovery took hold last Summer. Alfred P. Sloan, chairman, in announcing Uie additional employment. said General Motors felt justified in raising production schedules revising upward plans last summer." $2.000.000 Weekly It estimated the Job Bv ELMER PETERSON plans would Hongkong. Oct.

18 The jap- 1 boost General Motors pa Invasion of South China weekly in developing tonight Into three assemblr tinct operations under cover of parts operate, of the mo.st intensive aerial cam-i With the it waa in the history of modern and warfare approximate 300,000 All drives were directed at compared with a aver- defenses of Canton. One 262,000. apparently was toward the' Greneral ranks with U. provincial communications American Telephone and on the North, another in a flanking Pennsylvania toward the river Itiflcatloas on the country. I the third following the Canton-1 new Kowloon railway directly toward accepted." the cltv.

I Prediota Gain in Scores of bombing planes ranged! belief," over Kwangtung province, consumer Balumore, Oct. 18 W-iJeaatorj Baitimore, Oct. 18 (JP) Tliejout troop concentrations for Millard E. Tydlngs denied today he Maryland Taxpayers Association attacks in had violated corrupt i went record as a graduated Tydings Denies Campaign Charge news aliso was tightened. A more cheerful note, the 'increased mobility of the was struck, however, by finance minister Kalsus in announcing that depositors In banks, building and loan associations and anoc ance companies could request the withdrawal of 5 percent of their funds.

Loan Negotiations Progreuaing Kalsus said, too, that for a London loan were proceedlns and that further conferences for additional funds above the first 10,000,000 pounds sterling ($50,000,000 would be held in the future. Banklxtg liere said they had reached an agreement with German bankers In Sudetenland for the consolidation of Czech branch banks with the Deutsche bank in Berlin and the Dresdener bank In Dresden. Senator Asserts He and Graduated State Tax is Opposed practices act in the recent primary increased ex-j estimated that 3.0(K) square American elections next month. The government gave no official confirmation or denial to reports It was examining the question. The government has been running into debt at about one billion francs ($26.458,000) a week.

By the end of the year, It has been asserted In parliament, the budget deficit will be about 50 billion francs To end this situation. Prance needs credit. The credits with the public long have been running In shallow waters. It was In conslderatlng this problem that the Agence Economique et indicated the government was seeking "some of the United States debt In order for Prance to get new credit In America. camp two weeks ago.

They were lodged In the Shenandoah county jail pending the arrival of West Virginia officers. Fuller listed the men and their sentences as follows: Deby of Princeton, W. serving a ten year term for arson; BUI Barber, of Princeton, serving ten years for burglary; Bob Barber, his brother, ten years sentence for the same offense, and Bimyan Golther, serving a five year term for burglary. Officers said the had hidden in the Alleghany mountains for several days, and had come through Harrisonburg. Fuller found them In and held them as suspicious characters.

The fugitives said the only food they had had were apples picked up in orchards along their route. rebel centers and further punitive measures against Arab villages. In Jerusalem, authorities extended the 24-hour curfew regulation to Include potential danger zones (Continued on Page Two) Maynard Sent to Jail for 18 Years? forces $88,814. ments, Tydings. victor in a flgiit against the New Deal of coruserva- tlve Democratic senators, filed a'Uie stand that we will battle volume will be found to be substan- tlally Improved over that existing during the past few months." The announcement started a last- been conquered In the week-old stock invaiiion of South China.

The JaP-' numerous shares to the nve are satisfied that the strength now is estimated prices recorded in more ent taxes are too high and we General Motors ran 4. Occupation of the more active election which cost the for state or city Kwangtung pmvmce bpl Rftntffrs Rnd further niinit.lve a i i been cnnoiiereri in thp week-old vanced expeditionary force has gone demurrer to proceedings against said President; against him by 10 petitioners, and asserted he and his wife contributed only $2,600 of the total spent in hLs behalf. E. T. Newell.

"Let us try to peg tax rates at their present An association statement said: A powerful motorized column was up $2.50 to a new 1938 high at $51.75 and Chry.sler crossed $83 for a gain of more than $3. Under the corrupt practices act, candidates are limited in their ation is in and through their fed-j Found Guilty of Murder of Garfield Moore Last Month xpendltures to approximately $4,250. Last week, dismissing a similar reported pre.ssing steadily toward advance. about 50 miles east and of additional only protection the of Canton to sever pie have from destructive tax-Canton-Hankow railway of the mechanized rolling mills pro' One hundred thousand Chinese I been building the few years. Explaining the salary adjustments, (Continued on i Stomachs Created Easily by 2 W.

Oct, 18 (iefendants were sentenced by Judge Harry E. Watkins to- as federal court opened for the cbcr term. others were placed on pro- Ion and one case was continued, had pleaded guilty, mostly to lor law violations at the May R. Via, newly aOTX)lnted U. S.

''ict attorney, was sworn in by Watkins. Via, recently ex- for the bituminous coal succeeded George I. tW Rl, who resigned. Nsw'KlRe Watkins, charging the Jury, said that federal law agencies been priceless asset In the against judge commended the work We federal bureau of Investiga- the alcohol tax unit, the service, the narcotics bureau other federal agencies in the on crime. sdded that "the organization a dozen federal agencies Power to act anywhere in the States, regardless of atafe has eliminated the han- of state licS itti Surgery, Vienna Specialist Says BY HOWARD W.

BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor New York, Oct. stomachs created by surgery were described to the American College of Surg- today. as a cause of still more dangerous ulcers. This operation makes an opening In Oie bottom of the stomach, to detour around an ulcer situated at the exit of the stomach. Instead of Ohils, Dr.

Finlster said They are made with the aid discoveries, reported at this 0 side, he has ing. that if even a little bit of of curejs, a figure much better than the more eral and state constitutions. We sought to bar the way must not It. against this formidably equipped "However, it will be lost by the Japanese force. Against a foe equip- action brought against Attorney people If we vote next November virtually every modem Herbert R.

sue- to put into the Maryland consti-1instrument of warfare, the Chinese cessful DemcK-ratic gubernatorial tution an unrestricted, graduated fought mostly with machine guas nominee, Judge Eugene and progressive income tax amend-j and rifles. The were re- ruled the law could not be Inter- ment such as will appear on your; ported within a few miles of Tsing- ballot." i shin tonight. The association demanded thatj a second Japanese force, having if state or city departments found sliced through the lifeline rail- it necessary to Increase between Canton and Hongkong tures, the increa.se should be the Canton-Kowloon SdOW 00(1 Colcjcr nled unless the department "pro- pushing Souihwestward over some vldes an equal decrease In some 15 of Pearl River delta ooun preted as banning campaign expenditures of donations made by a supporters. Judge also has the Tydings case imder consideratioii. Williamson, W.

Oct. 18 Eighteen months of courtship, five days of honeymooning, 18 years of today was the story of stocky Noah Maynard, who married a girl eight years his senior and then killed her former lover in a fight, A jury deliberated only 22 minutes before returning a verdict of second degree murder against the 19-year-old mountain youth for the fatal stabbing of Garfield Young.stown, Oct. 18 Moore, 45, near Nolan September jienry Fitch. 31, only son of a W. Ferguson Im-1 Valley family, posed the maximum sentence of shot to death tonight In front 18 years In the state penitentiary.

Predict End of Heat Wave other line to offset It." try toward the Bocca Tigris forts. Young Man Shot To Death in Car Edith Snyder Weeps as Police Stage Reenactment of Shooting Predicted for Several States stomach can be left intact, it can be spliced to an Intestinal organ that will grow like a new conservative operation. To complete the one-third stom- room added to a house, replace Uy. alongside it one of the canals of the upper intestine, the Jejumum. He some of the lost area.

"About a worth of stomach is all that may be was the description. It Is so little that at first the patient may be unable to hold even a small meal at ordinary eating pace. Dr. Hans Finsterer, of Vienna, one of the three or four foremost ulcer surgeons In the world, reported It Is sometimes better to fastens It to the stomach with a long silt opening between them. After a few months, he said, the part of jejumum along side the she had taken frmn their been in ill health.

Hollywood. Oct. 18 Twenty- year-oid Edith Snyder, wlio shot at of the police station of suburban-her father, Martin (Col. Gimp) Struthers Snyder In defen.se of torch singer Clarence Ingram, a pedestrian, dashed into the police station and reported that he Fitch drive up in an auto. He heard a scream and saw a man leap out of the right side of the car and nin away.

Police took Fitch to the morgue where he was foimd to have been shot imder the right arm. Maynard, who lived at Mt. Sterling. not far from the Tug river, married Dixie Muncey September 6. During the trial he said he had courted her for 18 months before the wedding.

The 27-year-old bride had been the common law wife of Moore for more than 10 years. Prosecutor Lafe Chafin said. Five days after the ceremony Moore met his former sweetheart Fitch operated a furnaoe and demanded return of lived with his mother who has iRuth Etting, wept bitterly today as police staged a reenactment of the melee last Saturday night ini fired to save Miss Ettlng, sobbed (By llie Associated Showers and shifting pre! saged the 'nd of the warm wave In the eastern half the nation yesterday (I'uesday). Several new heat records tablished, however, before ed murder, kidnaping and carrying freak encore was finished. Chl- a gun from which tiie numijers had 81-degree top and Detroit'! been filed.

Snyder declares he 3 peajt the highest ever rein scif-deieme, corded at those on October His daughter, silent since Ohio, with a maxi- officers after the shooting that she mum of 83 experienced the hottest Miss music room. Because, as a police investigation explained it, various versions weather for the date in 15 years Louisville and Indianapolis hadi temperatures of 82 and 83 respec- balloons out. It and the little home. stomach are then like two rooms made virtually into one by a big arch. Another surgeon told of a man who was eating as much as his throw away most of the stomach new lltUe stomach would hold the rather than try to save all but a I day after about five-sixths of it smaU portion.

been removed. This man re- He criticised a standard stomach, covered as quickly from this as ulcer operation, gastroenteracopy. from an appendix operation. wife, who testified In his behalf, said Moore knocked her The auto was driven up In front of the Struthirs police station four east of about down and then began throwing 1 7:30 p. m.

Police said they learned rocks at Maynard. She said her Pitch had driven to New Wil- husband began retreating after a mington, Just over the Ohio fist fight started. ijorder today to see a doctor. State witnejsses testified, however, Pitch wa.s a bachelor. He lived that Moore was the one who fled In Struthers until recently when he and that young Maynard followed moved to Poland, a residential and stabbed him in the back.

urb of Youngstown. out: "I yet know whether I am sorry I mis.sed my dad or whether' tively but those cities, in common of the shooting now in our am glad. I like to talk mont of the others in the mid- do not coincide in many vital de- it. 1 warit to get detached from it west, expected rmln and much Miss Ettlng and her secre- all and be able to live my own I pooler conditions, tary. Snyder, were asked to i snom- flurries wem indicated In show officers exactly what happen- Alderman, meanwhile, continued Northern Minnesota and ed.

I to Improve A uniformed policeman I North Dakota. Freezinf The other two principals, Myrlj stood outside the door of his room weather was forecast for parts of Alderman, who says he and the request Others those states and of South torch singer were married in Tl-iguarded Miss Ettlng. named yester- Dakota. Neteaska and Kansas. Juana last July, and Snyder, Miss day as defendant In a $150.000 divorced husband and of affections suit by Al- Iness manager for 17 years were former wife, Alma, whom not present.

ihe divorced Itisi December. Alderman Is in a hospital, recov-j Mrs. Alderman said her divorce ering from a wound in his abdomi- i from the musical arranger for nal which he asserts Snyder in-! whose love she was willing to fiicted. "Col. Gimp" Ls at on fer.

slave and go through torture" $10,000 ball on charges of attempt- would not be final until December A woman died in the first snow storm of the season in Montana and two hunters were lost. Wyoming, another snow swept state, faced the first killing frost of the year. Tractors bucked heavy sncw drifts in an attempt to reach 1ft C. C. enrol lees on Mount WiUar4 in Northern Utah..

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