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EVENING There's only one way to deal with some people, and that's to leave them alone. VOL. LII. NO. 198, MOUNT CARMEL ITEM EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS MOUNT CARMEL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1940.

FRENCH STILL WEIGHING PEACE TERMS HOLD FATE OF FRANCE IN THEIR HANDS forest of Complegne, where a beaten Germany men represent France and Germany today, with Germany: Gen. Wilhelm Keitel; Col. Gen. bottom, for France: Gen. Charles Huntziger; Gen.

Mother Sentenced As Bandit Leader June 22. (U.P.) -Ethel Brown, 25-year-old mother, was in Moyamensing prison today in default of $5,000 bond to keep the peace for five years after being acquitted on charges of leading 10 youthful bandits in a series of forays. The defendant denied charges that she led the broup of bandits in 13 highway robberies and three store holdups early in April. James Dorsey, 20, one of the bandits now serving a 10 to 20 years sentence in Eastern Penitentiary, recanted statement which he made to detectives, accusing the woman. All of the youths pleaded guilty and have been sentenced.

38 Admissions To Hospital During Month 37 Discharged From Danville State Hospital During the month of May, there were thirty-eight admissions, fifteen men and twenty-three women, at the Danville State Hospital for Mental Diseases, while in the same period thirty-seven men and eighteen women were discharged, nineteen men and eighteen women, according to the monthly report of Dr. L. R. Chamberlain, superintendent, submitted to the board of trustees at their monthly meeting yesterday. Dr.

Chamberlain's census report for May showed that there were 2,405 patients as of May 1. The total included 1,166 men and 1,239 women. Of those discharged during the month ten had recovered fifteen were improved two were unimproved, two were without psychosis and eight died. As of May 31, the institution's census was 2,406, including 1,162 men and 1,244 women. Of this total, 376 are on furlough, 150 men and 226 women, leaving in the hospital 1,012 men and 1 1,018 women.

Clinical visits during the month, according to Dr. Chamberlain's report, numbered 237. They included 33 new cases, 15 return cases and 189 on furlough, Clinical visits were divided among the various clinics as follows: Danville 31, Sunbury 27, Shamokin 51, Kingston 14, Williamsport 67, Bloomsburg 23, Lock Haven 11, and Mount Carmel 13. Trustees present were: Edward F. Price, president, and D.

J. Reese, secretary of Danville; Frank S. Strite, Williamsport; George W. Scott, Mount Carmel; Elmer R. Beers, Bloomsburg; I.

M. Witt, of Montoursville, and Frank M. Haas, of Sunbury. WEATHER Cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday PRICE THREE CENTS GEN. BUTLER, MARINE CORPS HERO IS DEAD 'Fighting Quaker', Most Distinguished Of Nation's Military Officers, Dies At 58 PHILADELPHIA, June 22.

(U.P.) -The Nation mourned today the death of one of the most distinguished and colorful military figures in modern American history-Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, 58. United States Marine Corps, retired. Butler, who recently had been one of the strongest opponents any course that might lead to American intervention in European afairs, died late yesterday in the Naval Hospital here of an abdominal complaint from which he had suffered for many years and which had become graver during the past month.

GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER Almost a living legend, the "Fighting Quaker" who despite his long years in the Marines in all parts of the world frequently lapsed into the familiar "thee" and "thou" of the society of friends, held virtually every medal and award bestowed by the nation. He twice was cited for the Congressional Medal--the highest honor in the United States -for bravery in action beyond the call of duty, and refused it the first time because he believed he had not merited it. General Butler entered the hospital May 27 for a checkup and rest after a speaking tour of several thousand miles in behalf of epace.

At his bedside were his wire, his daughter, Mrs. John Mehle, and two sons, Smedley, of Dewarth, N. and Thomas Richard of West Chester. He also leaves a brother, Samuel, an Eastland, oil company official. Denied admission to the National Guard when he was 16, Butler next year enlisted in the Marines over the opposition of his congressman father and saw service in the Spanish-American War as a first lieutenant.

From then on Butler's career paralleled closely American military history. He was in virtually every engagement where United States armed forces were involved. He helped quell the Philippine Insurrection, was wounded in the leg at Tientsin while rescuing a British soldier, he built the Marine base, Camp Elliott, at Panama, and participated brilliantly in the Nicaraguan battles of Granada, Leon and Coyotepe, and won his first citation for the Congressional Medal for distinguished service at Vera Cruz, Mex. Butler posed as an entomologist and a private detective and obtained valuable information regarding the strength of the Mexican armed forces. Had his identity been learned.

he would have been shot. The following year, Butler cipated in the pacification of Haiti, and won his second citation to achieve the distinction of being the only officer in the nation's armed forces ever to have won the coveted Congressional Medal twice. He had scaled with 23 Marines a 300-foot embankment and stormed the heavily occupied Fort Riviere, last stronghold of the bandits. Butler and two enlisted men crawled through a drain pipe and captured the citadel. During the World War, he commanded Camp Pontanezon, the great debarkation port for American troops at Brest, France.

After the (Continued on Page Eleven), Safety Award To Colonial Colliery Being Exhibited The Holmes Safety award, presented by the Holmes Safety Association to the Colonial colliery for its outstanding safety record during the year 1939, is today on exhibit in the window of H. Marshall Stecker's store on north Oak street. Donne award, beautifully framed, is a tribute to the Colonial officials and employes, who last year established one of the finest safety records in the nation. The public is urged to stop at Stecker's and see the award today. Republicans In Deadlock On Candidate Confronted With Making A Deal As Convention Nears By Lyle C.

Wilson (United Press Staff Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, June 22. (U.P.)Forty-eight hours before the convention meets, Republican leaders were confronted today with a choice between a deal or a deadlock among a handful of candidates seeking the party's presidential nomination. It seemed clear that none of the three leading candidates- -Thomas E. Dewey, New York District Attorney, Sen. Robert A.

Taft, and Wendell L. Willkie, President of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation would be able to command a majority of the convention votes on any of the early ballots. Talk of a deal was without substance if persistent, and there was no indication that any of the leading candidates would take second place on the ticket to assure a quick nomination. Republicans were gathering for the convention which convenes Monday under circumstances more promising to their future than at any time since the political tide shifted from them in 1930, but their immediate course was confused by three develepoments: 1. Dissension in a platform subcommittee over the phraseology and intent of the foreign relations plank of the party platform to be adopted next especially whether the party should pledge itself to give aid to the Allies, and, if so, how much.

2. The political astonishing growth of the Willkie-for-President boom. 3. The necessity for the party to adjust itself to the situation created by President Roosevelt's nomination of two veteran Republican statesmen to his cabinet. The word "isolationist" does not precisely fit, but there is a substantial group of the Foreign Relations Sub-Committeemen insisting that the party should not pledge any aid at all to the Allies.

Another group, apparently just as numerically strong, is demanding that the party pledge all aid, short-of-war. Alf M. Landon, 1936 presidential candidate and chairman of this sub-committee, has favored aid to the Allies. An effort apparently was being made to compromise the two sides on a "peace and preparedness" basis that would leave to the nominee the final interpretation of the extent to which the Allies might expect United States materials if the Republicans win in November. The Republicans were confident that the people do not want war, but they were uncertain whether and how much Mr.

Roosevelt ran ahead of popular feeling in his vigorous advocacy of the Anglo-French cause. The Foreign Relations Sub-Committee wanted to brand the Democratic party as the "war party," but its members were in doubt of how far they should lag behind Mr. Roosevelt to be just abreast of majority popular opinion. The three leading candidatesDewey, Taft, and Willkie arrived on the pre- convention scene today and will begin to delegates this afternoon. They entered a situation jumbled by the boom for Utilities Executive Willkie who contributed to the Roosevelt campaign in 1932 but voted for Landon in 1936.

The Willkie boom is making noise. It is developing under pressure in which business generally seems to be lining up for him while the more politically minded elements stand fast against him. Pennsylvania's big 72 vote delegation was reported to be splitting under the cross fire of influence. Former Senator Joseph F. Grundy, acting apparently for the political faction in the State Republican organization, is opposing Willkie.

But on view here was a letter from H. W. Prentis, President the National Association of Manufacturers, to a Pennsylvania delegate urging Willkie's nomination. Prentis is a Pennsylvanian. He wrote that he was speaking for himself rather than (Continued on Page Eleven).

HOLD Meeting in the historic tice terms in 1918, these reversed. Top, representing miral Ercih Raeder. At J. E. Wightman Again Elected By State S.

U. V. James N. Smith And Mrs. Gertrude Klinger Given Appointments Three department offices came to Mount Carmel as a result of the elections which brought to a close the 74th State Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and affiliated roganizations, held this week in Hazleton.

John E. Wightman, this city, was re-elected Department Treasurer of the Sons of Union Veterans for term of five years. Mrs. Gertrude Klinger, Mount Carmel Junction, was appointed Chief-of-staff by Mrs. Maude Shroyer, of Shamokin, who was elected Department President of the Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans.

James N. Smith, this city, a Past Department Commander of the was appointed Judge Advocate to the Ladies Auxiliary. The new department president of the auxiliary was a sister to Mrs. Tamie Holshue, who died suddenly Thursday at her home in Shamokin. Mrs.

Holshue, a past president of the same organization, last visited the local auxiliary in March on the occasion of an initiation. Mrs. Shroyer, who had served as secretary during her sister's state administration, had planned to reciprocate with a similar appointment. All members of the local auxiliary are asked to be at the Sons of Veterans club rooms at 8:00 o'clock, standard time, tomorrow night to accompany members of the camp in automobiles to Shamokin to pay respects to Mrs. Holshue.

Kulpmont Couple Announce Marriage Their marriage of eight months ago was announced last night by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mekulski, popularly known Kulpmont couple, at an informal dinner at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill, 830 Spruce street.

Attended by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kondrat, of Kulpmont, they were wedded by the Rev. Father Hoods in St. Patrick's Church, Pottsville, Octaober 21, 1939, it was revealed in the announcement.

The bride is the former Mildred O'Neill. The bridegroom is a son of Mrs. Magdalene Mekulski, 726 Scott street. Iron ore prospectors in Brazil are guided to deposits by the presence of orchids, which grow in soils associated with this type of ore. Starfishes have feet, consisting of small tubes that terminate in a sucker-like disc, on the ends of their arms.

By fastening these to a surface, the first contracts them and draws itself forward. HANDS signed "humiliating" armisthe positions of the last war Walther von Brauchitsch; AdHenry Bergerts; Leon Noel. Girl Hurt In Auto Mishap Passes Away Mary Lou Klinger Of Benton, R. D. 2 Dies In Hospital Injuries she suffered when she was struck by car on Tuesday night caused the death of Mary Lou Klinger, 11, of Benton, R.

D. 2, at Bloomsburg Hospital yesterday morning at 6:48 o'clock. An inquest will be held by Coroner Kenneth McHenry. The child had been returning from a skating party at Grassmere Park and was crossing the highway to her home from the car of Loren J. Hess, of Benton, R.

D. 4, when she collided with the front fender of the car of Herman G. Hess, 40, of Benton, R. D. 2.

Mary Lou's older sister, Eva, 14, had crossed the highway, as the Herman Hess car approached. He had applied his brakes as a precaution and says he was traveling at slow speed when Mary Lou darted out from between two parked cars to collide with a front fender. The car was stopped in less than 10 feet, according to the driver. Willard Fritz, of Benton, R. D.

2, had been following the Loren Hess car and had stopped a few feet to the rear of it when the girls descended. Mary Lou is said to have darted out from between the two parked cars. The seriously injured girl was tak-. en in the Loren Hess car to the office of Dr. W.

F. Confair, at Benton, and was taken from there to the hospital in the ambulance. X- rays revealed a fracture at the base of the skull, fractures of the right thigh and right ankle and internal injuries. Private Joseph Clark, of Bloomsburg barracks, is the investigating officer. Injuries In Fall Are Fatal To Woman Injuries suffered in a fall down stairs Monday morning caused the death of Mrs.

Mary C. Bordner, of 538 Reagan srteet, Sunbury, in the Mary M. Packer Hospital at 1:45 o'- clock yesterday morning. She was nearly 82 years of age. During the early morning hours Monday, Mrs.

Bordner went to the bathroom in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Klinger, with whom she had lived for the past two and a half months. While returning through the hall to her room, she stepped into the open staircase by mistake. Her skull was fractured and she suffered internal injuries in falling. During the last century, mumneers were standard table pieces.

They were an enlarged salt shaker, used to apply powdered sugar to cakes and fruits at the table. Beaten French Army Continues Fighting Germans Again Bomb Britain By Wallace Carroll (United Press Staff Correspondent) LONDON, June 22. (U.P) Coming in waves for the third time in four nights, German planes bombed town and countryside in southeastern, eastern and northeastern England today. A Are was started in an eastern county, it was admitted, and a man, his wife and their servant were killed in Suffolk county when a bomb struck their house while they sought refuge in the garden. Windows a three mile area were shattered by havy bombs which struck in a timber yard in an eastern area.

The British Broadcasting Company shut down for about 15 minutes starting at 10:45 o'clock last night. It was explained that the interruption was in the interests of national security. (Airplanes sometimes use broadcasting station beams as guides.) Soon afterward there was an air raid alarm in eastern England, and the alarm spread over a great area. There were heavy bomb explosions and anti-aircraft guns fired furiously. Emphasis on various reports that houses were shaken was taken to mean that the Germans were using unusually heavy bombs.

A preliminary Air Ministry communique said: "An air raid warning was sounded in a number of districts in eastern England when enemy aircraft crossed the coast during the night." The Germans again sent their planes across in waves. Planes crossed the coast singly or in small groups and then began dropping flares, to light their targets, and demolition and incendiary bombs. Bombs dropped in some localities for more than two to three hours. For the first time, the Germans used their terror tactics, dropping bombs equipped with wailing or sirening devices, causing a terrific din. Find Body Of Unidentified Man At Dewart The badly decomposed body of a man was found on a small island about 200 yards south of the Susquehanna river bridge at Dewart yesterday morning about 10:30 o'clock.

Four boys seeking timber for a boat they were building made the discovery. After viewing the body Deputy Coroner L. C. Townsend, of Milton, stated that it must have been lying on that spot for about three months and it is believed that the body was washed down the river in the spring flood. Deputy Coroner Townsend issued permission to remove the body to the Paul E.

Caonrath funeral home in Watsontown early yesterday afternoon, State Motor Police of the Milton barracks are investigating. Leo and Charles Harvey, Charles Miller and a boy named Steininger, all between ten and twelve years of age, were gathering timber to use in building a boat when they came upon the body, lying face down. The man was described as being elderly. about 60 years of age, with grey hair. He was clad in a checked overcoat, striped pants and a cheap pair of shoes.

It was the shoes that one of the boys saw first. The man was lying entirely out of water on a small sandbar at the edge of the island. The boys immediately spread the news of their discovery and police and the deputy coroner were notified. Bootleg Miner's Arm Fractured Joseph Nacidull, 46, of 118 east Third street, Shenandoah, was admitted to the Ashland State Hospital yesterday afternoon with a fracture of the left arm, sustained when hit by a fall of rock in a bootleg mine. Miss Hannah Morrison Ends Teaching Career The J.

W. Cooper High School faculty, Shenandoah, paid an inspiring tribute to Miss Hannah Morrison at a luncheon in Uritis' Grill, Shenandoah, after the closing of school yesterday. The occasion marked the retirement of Miss Morrison from the teaching profession. French Ministers Spend Sleepless Night While Considering Armistice Demands; Italian Terms Reported Harsh And Out Of Proportion To Part In War; Maginot Defenders Waging Bitter Battle a By Ralph Heinzen (United Press Staff Correspondent) BORDEAUX, France, June 22. (U.P.) -French leaders, facing a decision on which hinged their country's future and the lives of countless thousands of its people, met in a formal Council of Ministers at 8:30 a.m.

today (3:30 a.m., E.D.T.) after only a hour adjournment, to continue study of the German armistice terms. Fighty-four-year-old Marshal Philippe Petain, the Premier, and his cabinet colleagues, had met in formal council under President Albert Lebrun at 1 a.m. They studied the German terms until 4 a.m., with Gen, Maxime Weygand, the generalissimo of the armies, attending as War Minister. Many ministers had no sleep when they met again at 8:30 to resume their discussion, after experts had studied the specific demands in the long and detailed German communication. It was intimated that the government would continue its meetings throughout the day, so the prospect was that there could be no early decision, Nothing was known here of the German terms beyond the indication that they were complicated and long.

Each hour of delay meant the lives of more Frenchmen, fighting from the Channel coast to the eastern frontier, ever retreating, before the German drive. But the government had to make a decision that affected every living being in the country--the choice of a humiliating, crushing peace, or a merciless war of annihilation. I More French Ports Seized By Joseph G. Grigg, Jr. United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, June 22 (U.P)-Germans joyfully awaiting word that France had accepted Adolf Hitler's armistice terms suffered new British air raids last night but were told of new German military successes in France today.

A high command communique from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters said 1 German troops had captured the French ports of Saint Malo and L'Orient in Brittany and that during the past few days more than 200,000 prisoners had been taken in the Lorraine and Vosges sectors where isolated French groups were being further split up. Airplanes, presumably British. showered the outskirts of Berlin with explosive and incendiary bombs, reportedly injuring seven persons. The official German news agency reported from Cologne that six civilians were killed and 14 wounded when British planes dropped bombs into the center of the city on the night of June 18. Two others were killed and two injured in Cologne suburbs.

The agency said the British had dropped 31 explosive and 74 incendiary bombs in Cologne and environs. D. N. B. also reported that German sailors had taken posession of four French submarines in shipyards at Le Havre, French Channel port taken by the Germans last week.

Despite air raids on Germany and receipt of news from the fighting fronts, chief interest centered on the Armistice negotiations which began in a dramatic setting at Compiegne yesterday when Hitler personally handed his conditions to French plenipotentaries. Authorized German sources today said that the French delegates had spent the night in Paris and had returned by automobile to Compiegne this morning. Negotiations at the scene of the 1918 Armistice still were In progress. But there were indications that an announcement might be expected this afternoon. Germans reported that the French yesterday had four telephone conversations from Compiegne with their government at Bordeaux and that one of the calls continued for an hour.

On returning to Compiegne today, the Germans said, the French conferred alone and then went into conference with German negotiators. The talks still were going on after noon in the sun-bathed Compiegne forest. Since no humans existed to name them, dinosaurs were not "dinosaurs" until millions of years after they had vanished from the earth. The oldest mining charter in the United States was held by the copper mine at Simsbury, which was chartered in 1709. The long and detailed statement of terms which the Germans had handed to the French plenipotentiaries yesterday was telephoned in sections to Marshal Petain last night and it was understood that an authenticated copy of the offcial text was dispatched by courier through the German lines.

It had been reported that Italy's terms were included in the German ones. Today it was said that the Italian demands would come in a separate document, after the Italian response to France's request for an Armistice, and that separate plenipotentiaries to Italy would be appointed. It was added that Italy's demands were known unofficially already and that they were as hard as Germany's and, in the French view, entirely out of proportion to Italy's war effort. The assumption was that Italy as well as Germany would make terms calculated to prevent French interference with the war against Great Britain. As regards the German document, the main difficulty seemed to have been to get an exact trans- (Continued on Page Twelve) British Naval Base Destroyed By Reynolds Packard (United Press Staff Correspondent) ROME, June 22.

(U.P)Italian airplanes have destroyed the British naval base at Mersa Metruh, Egypt, on the Mediterranean, Italy's 11th war communique said today. There were reports here that the whole town of Mersa Matruh had been "razed to the ground." The communique said Italian planes also had bombed intensively the French port of Marseille and the French naval base of Bizerta in Tunisia "in successive waves;" that three Allied ships, two of them armed, had been sunk and an Allied cruiser damaged by airplane bombs east of the Balearic Islands. Another cruiser was bombed at Bizerte, along with arsenals and oil depots, the communique said. "Marseille was raided with equal success," it commented. It was said Port Sudan, in Africa, also had been raided.

"In East Africa, in a raid over Tobruk, the enemy hit a Royal Naval Hospital," the communique said, "There were some victims including doctors, nurses and patients. An enemy aircraft was shot down. We also brought down an enemy aircraft over the Mediterranean. The enemy made some raids during the night over Sicily and Northern Italy. Few bombs were dropped.

A certain number of bombs were dropped in Turn and Leghorn, in central part of the city. Private homes were damaged but no victims are to be deplored (Sic)." A round of suspected "Fifth Jews was going on in all parts of Italy. Some were charged with "spying in behalf of the enemy." In the Brescia region alone, 15 Foreign Jews were arrested; nine Germans, four Czechs, one Hungarian and one Rumanian. Other Jews were reported arrested in Rome, MiIan, Florence and Genoa..