Belleville Daily Advocate from Belleville, Illinois • 2

BELLEVILLE DAILY ADVOCATE THURSDAY JANUARY 11 1940 JAPS CRITICISE NAVAL PLANS OF UNITED STATES Awarded Fortune WALLACE GIVES HIS APPROVAL TO MARKETING PLAN House Passes Anti-Lynching Bill NEW STRATEGY IN AIR WARFARE IS BELIEVED PLANNED BIDS ARE ASKED TUESDAY ON NEW ROAD PROJECTS STELLEr HORNER HAVE SCHEDULED PERSONAL MEET Newspaper Declares Program To Be Menace To Japan Regulales Handling Of Milk In lllinois-lowa Quad (ilies Area Madison County Jobs Are Among Those To Be Idea Seen In Britain's Swill Retaliation On German Air Raid Ouesfion Of Harmony Primary In April Is Raised Again Bid On Page Two Left to right Representatives Raymond McKcongfc (D) ana Arthur llitchcQ (D) both of Illinois and Joseph A (p) Nw York author of bin after housa passed eati-Imchiac bill 251-133 end teat It to senate Acme TUephotoJ WIDOW IS HEIR TO FORTUNE LEFT BY DOHERTY SPRINGFIELD HI Jan 11 CAP) In the first project letting of 1940 the state highway division will receive bids next Tuesday Jan 16 on a total of sixteen miles of paving seven bridges and three grade separations Projects on which the division said bids would be taken Included: DuPage 042 mile paved approaches to railroad subway on St Charles road in Lombard and structural steel for same subway Jersey and 456 miles concrete pavement on federal aid route 4 from near Delhi south to existing pavement near Godfrey Approaches substructure and erection of superstructure for Lake Fork Creek bridge on State Aid Route 1 south of Mt Pulaski 146 miles 40-foot and variable concrete pavement on relocation of Highway 67 from Alton southeast to East Alton Bridge over Poplar Creek on State Aid Route 16 east of Spurgeon Culvert and two bridges on State Aid Route 11 south of Anchor: on same route S73 miles grading from route 165 spur at Anchor south to route 9 and mile grading on Bloomington east belt line from east of highway $6 to Illinois Central railroad miles gravel or crushed stone on Btate Aid Route 3 from McHenry southwest toward Crystal Lake Tazewell and 151 miles grading 09 federal aid route 168 from route 116 to north of the Woodford county line Tazewell Reinforced concrete slad bridge and paved approaches on Highway 34 at Dolan creek near East Peoria WASHINGTON Jan Secretary Wallace approved today a new federal marketing agreement and order regulating the handling of milk in the quad dties marketing area of Iowa and IUinota effective February The new program wtt replace a similar one eonduoted tmder a federal license since 1934- It establishes minimum prices which distributors must pay producers for milk marketed in the area The quad cities area Includes the Davenport and Bettendorf Iowa Rock Island Moline East Moline and Silvis IN and townships adjacent to these cities The program seta lgp the follow-tag minimum producer prices: Otaas one fluid milk and ml1lt not accounted for In other classes 9210 per hundredweight and $161 for milk which may be disposed of under any program which might be approved by the agriculture department for low income families The regular class one price of $3-10 has been in effect by agreement among bandlen and pnodurora since June 1938 Class 3-Milk used for cream chocolate milk or any flavored milk drink $159 per hundredweight The present class two price is on a formula basis Class Milk used for evaporated milk condensed milk Ice cream or any product other than those specified In classes two and four a pries based on the federal marketing agreement for evaporated milk or in the event this agreement should be suspended a price based on the butter market Class Milk used for butter and cheese a price based on the butter market The department said tha program wss approved by producers In a referendum in December 914 for and 31 against The program was ordered into effect with approval of President Roosevelt since the required percentage of distributors failed to approve It aa provided under the 1937 agricultural marketing agreement act The program also specifies that milk which complies with the grade of milk quality requirements of a Davenport milk ordinance or an Illinois statute be paid a premium of 39 eenta per hundredweight 8PRINGF1ELD HL Jan MV-A conference next weekend between Governor Homer and Lieut Governor John Stelle was arranged today raising the possibility of early settlement of the question whether there will be a Democratic "har- ticket in the field for the April 9 primary Stelle said he asked for the conference to discuss "politics generally affecting the Democratic Arthur the governor's secretary said the Homer-Stelle meeting would take place Saturday probably at the executive mansion The conference would be the first face to face meeting between the governor and Lieutenant Governor since last June before Mr Homer went to Highland Park for rest and recuperation from Illness Whether Governor Homer would support Stelle for renomination has been one of the big questions of the pre-primary campaign The governor has made no commitment on this point while Stelle some time ago made known Informally his wish to seek another term Authorized spokesmen for Stelle later issued a statement that he would contest any attempt to him There has been unofficial talk too that Stelle might make a primary race for the governorship nomination If a harmony ticket isn't arranged Governor Horner has announced he favors Senator Mattery and Attorney General John Cas-zldy for re no ml nation and that he would like to see Treasurer Louie Lewis have a place on the state ticket With Secretary of State FSdward Hughes definitely slated as a candidate to succeed himself the places on the Ticket" still in doubt are Lieutenant Governor auditor treasurer and two congressmen at large Treasurer Lewis prevented by constitutional ban from succeeding himself has been mentioned both as a possible candidate for lieutenant governor and congressman at large Stelle also said he hoped to learn from the governor the approximate date for a forthcoming special session of the legislature because he had had requests" from senators for the information The lieutenant governor declined to say whether he planned to dis- cues with MT Horner the governor's oil regulatory MU scheduled to be one of the main special session topics By Tha Aaaciittd Prw Tba Uni tad States program for extensive naval construction In tha face of troubled world conditions with wars current in Finland China and on the Western Front today drew bitter criticism from Japan One Japanese newspaper in a tone adapted by other papers and spokesmen spoke of "The American Menace" in discussing the 31-300000000 naval building program now under consideration by congress Ignoring the fact that denunciation of the Washington naval treaty in 1936 opened the way for a building race a Japanese naval spokesman asserted that the new program would spur Japan to a naval construction contest with the United States "The United States has merely Indicated in undisguised terms Its glaring hostility toward Japan's said the newspaper Nichi Nlchi The navy's request for $4000000 to develop Guam Harbor drew particular Japanese lire Admiral Harold Stark chief of naval operations told the house naval committee yesterday that the United States would continue to use Guam whether the Improvements are made or not but urged that the funds be provided European warfare was marked by continued Finnish success against the Russian invaders and by conflicting British and German claims over air engagements fought yesterday Germany declared that three of nine attacking British planes had been downed when forays against the North German coast were beaten off without Nad losses Britain said one British and one German plane were downed Reports from Denmark and other sources indicated the German and British aircraft clashed at least four tunes yesterday three times over the German island of Bylt and once at sea over Helgoland Bight British fighting planes and aircraft batteries today offered determined resistance to Nasi planes seen over the British coast from southeastern Scotland to the Thames Estuary but no bombs were dropped and no air raid alarms sounded On the Western Front better Ity The Allies and Germany each weather gave a spurt to aerial activ-aanotmeed that two of the other's planes had been downed Adviees from Finland laid that Finnish troops following up a series of dramatic gains were heavily attacking a Red army division which was surrounded south of Lake Xianta Two other Soviet divisions already have been routed on the same east central front where the present fighting is under way Embattled Finland's neighbor Sweden set up a 1200000000 war budget while King Gustaf In parliament expressed the sympathy for Finland Already severely affected by Involvement of her best customer Germany in war and the Finnish-Russian conflict Sweden win have a deficit for the first time in many years because of the military budget LONDON Jan A strategy of btow-for-biow aerial war-fore was seen today in Groat swift retaliation for German air attacks on her shipping Acoounis of the large scale' royal air fane raid on the German Island of Syit yesterday atiM wen incomplete but observers regarded them aa a sign of Brkainls readiness to trike back hard against Nasi bombings fomdon newspapers said up to 50 Brttirii and German warplanes engaged In a day-long fight over the fringe of islands on the northwest German coast yesterday but official sources said these reports needed the facta Observers noted however that the big sea-air battle over Helgo-land Mat December is was not recognised ee "the greatest air battle In history until some time later alien the air ministry disclosed $0 to 100 planet were involved The ministry confined its account of yesterday's serial operations to a term communique reporting another North Sea battle with one British and one German plane shot down and another German place forced to land In Denmark These British operations wen acknowledged generally as a direct reply to the German air attack on ships along the IngUsh east coast Tuesday Amplifying the sketchy eotnmu-nique an informed source said the British were on reconnaissance flight over the North Sea about 209 miles from home when German fighters dived In an attack with the sun at their backs "Even the heaviest dose-range attacks were successfully beaten off by our aircraft keeping khoulder-to -shoulder in tight formation" according to this version After about a half-hour of fight-in it was said the British fliers Pnned on 139 miles exactly the distance to Sylt It wss disclosed that the Royal Air Force bombers struck at the eylt seaplane base first about 1 a ra Wednesday after a lapse of time hardly more than needed to fly there after the full extent of the German sir attacks on shipping became known The seme thing happened in the Dec IS fight when a mass air raid on Helgoland was the prompt British answer to German air attacks on North Sea trawlers Apparently British and German fliers met four times at least three times between dawn end dusk over Sylt and once at sea above Helgoland Bight The air ministry said one British plane was lost In a 39-minute running fight "for out over the North Sea" when an A formation drove off a number of German long-range fighters and continued to "the easterly limit of Its reconnaissance" and back The Germans said three out of nine British planes Bristol "Blenheim" bombers had been shot down The air ministry said it could not confirm reports from southwest Denmark that a bomb had struck the scven-mile-long Hlndenburg dam causeway connecting Sylt with the mainland An air force official however said was "quite possible" Bodies Of Two Miners Recovered In Utah BINGHAM UTAH Jan il-MV-The crushed bodies of two miners were recovered today from under Urns of ora loosened by an unexplained explosion in the world's largest open cut copper mine The third victim's body was found last night The dead Ttofllo Martinet 37 Cupperfleld Ghiseppi De Marchl 38 Highland Boy Nikola Tomas 24 Highland Boy Mines Superintendent Bugh-man believes dynamite exploded prematurely The mine a huge pH with steamshovels working on the numerous that hare been carved into steep canyon aides is only a short distance from this "one street" mining center 5 'i i lie 'jf i '4 it Annie Lamina Dodge (above) 21-year-old widow of Danny Dodge end former telephene operator at Gore Bay Ont has been awarded IlytSSSOt tram the estate of her husband wider terms of a probate decision In Detroit Sho is indent nt Alma College at St Themasb Ont Analyzed Evidence In floppy red hat and a black dreee Mrs Margaret Bennett Farter (above) nn attorney whoso doty ft was to enalyso evidence for the National Labor Relations board appeared before tha House committee Investigating the board Evidence was introduced to show sho listened to off-the-record information about a case while drafting a decision on It Edison Confirmed As Navy Secretary In Senate Action WASHINGTON Jan 11 The senate speedily approved today the nomination of Charles Edison as secretary of the nary after Senator Borah fR-Idaho) had protested against legislation recommended by Edison to give President Roosevelt certain broad peacetime emergency powers Edison already holding the position of secretary under a recess appointment recently advocated that congress enact a law giving the president power in an emergency to confiscate naval factories and supplies After his recommendation created a furor at the capital he declared it to be merely a preparedness measure and denied any intention to bring about unwarranted Increases in the presidential authority "If you can do what la provided in this US in a so-called emergency unless there la the emergency that requires die use of wartime powers" Borah declared "you also could provide in an emergency for the suspension of the bill of rights and the prohibition of free speech" The Edison appointment along with a long list of other nominations was approved after Borah said 1 had no personal objection to Edison but merely wss protesting against the proposed legislation The senate also confirmed the nomination of James Cromwell husband of the wealthy Doris Duke to be Minister to Canada Cromwell economist world travel er and author will succeed Daniel Roper formerly of com' merce as Minister to Canada Horner Will Sign Bioff Extradition 5PKINGFIEXD ILL Jan Gov Henry Horner announced totipy he woiUd sign a requisition for tf-e extradition from California of Williom Bieff west coast motion picture labor leader The requisition wlrirti Governor Horner said he would sign later today would be a formal request that Gov Cu'bert Ovm of California issue an extradition warrant fof Bioffs return to Chicago to serve a six montlis Jail terra for pondering Imposed in 1322-Goverxwr Homer chaacieriasd MOVE TO STAY IN BUDGET ESTIMATE OF PRES GROWS Congress Apparently Sly-mid On Anli-lynch and Budget Survey Bills WASHINGTON Jan Congress apparently had stymied itself on the antt-lynching bill and an Independent budgetary survey today as a House move gained momentum to keep 1941 expenditures within Resident Roosevelt's estimate Of 38424000000 House passage yesterday by 352 to 131 of the Garsgan bill making lynching a federal crime had been anticipated but southern Democrats In tha Bensts announced that they were determined to fllibuater the measure to death Although no revenge wae involved House Democratic chieftains simultaneously hung up a rad light against the Harrison resolution to create a Joint congressional committee to comb all budget recommendations Including those for defense before any appropriation or tax measures are passed The Senate adopted this proposal yesterday without a roll caff Administration leaden in the House took the view that the survey might be eH right for future Oon-grames but the House has several wgpply bills ready and they do not Intend to hold them up for a Joint inquiry The tint of these the $287000000 deficiency bill containing funds far emergency neutrality and defense needs was called up tat the hmiw today Meanwhile the' house appropriations committee was reported to have voted secretly against letting eny of its subcommittees exceed the spending recommendations Many congressmen saw In this move an attempt to show that the separate budget Inquiry proposed by Senator Harrison (D-Mlss) would be unnecessary The action followed a trip to the White House by the house Democratic steering committee whose members reported Mr Roosevelt told them to stay within his budget so that the national debt limit of $45009009-009 would not have to be raised If this is to be avoided congress also will have to levy 9460000000 of new aa recommended by the to pay for emergency defense costs Major sentiment now appears to be against doing this In an election year Moreover several senators Including Adams (D-Colo) feel that the extra defense budget should be diverted to restore presidential cuts in farm relief flood control and other Items Farm Bureau Officials Tell FDR Whaf They Want WASHINGTON Jan 11 fPV-Officials iff the American Farm Bureau Federation told President Roosevelt today they would demand a $607000000 appropriation for "parity" payment! on cotton corn wheat tobacco and rice and $200-000000 for dairy and other products Edward A O'Neal federation president and the organisation's executive committee called at the White House to outline their demands which run counter to President budget recommendations to congress O'Neal said tha money requested would provide for 109 percent parity payments to formers based on prices computed as of last Dec 15 The federation informed the president it was willing to have additional taxes imposed if necessary to finance the payments Mr Roosevelt excluded estimates for appropriations for parity payments from the budget for tbe fiscal year starring next July 1 Congress appropriated $225 000 000 for the current year Under the parity idea former would be assured of enough Income from his products to buy what he needs on the preworld war basis Securities and Florida Real Estate Make Up Bulk 01 Estate NEW YORK Jan U-MV-Henry great fortune composed mostly of Cities Service securities and Florida real estate has been bequeathed In its entirety to his widow who before their marriage eleven years ago had nursed him through a critical illness The will of the 60-year-old utilities magnate who died Dec 26 In Philadelphia wss filed for probate today It was brief and the only beneficiary listed was Mrs Grace Doherty the widow There was no value placed upon the estate other than the usual formal declaration that it was "snore than $10000" An appraisal for tax transfer purpose will be made later Doherty was described a resident of New York His entire fortune la In securities of Henry Doherty and Company Inc of which he owned all the stock This firm wss set up in While no official estimate of his Cities Service holdings was given In the will it can be said authoritatively that he was the largest stock' holder in the company and that he personally controlled or owned about five per cent of the total Issues Prior to ths depression of 1929 when Cities Service stock was quot' ed above $59 a share his personal fortune purportedly had a paper value of more than $109X109009 It was drastically lowered in the post-depression years but It still was In the millions Doherty who started his working life as a $2-a-week office boy was a bachelor until Dee 31 1923 when he married the widow of Percy Rank Eames an official of the International Harvester Company She was 40 at the time and the mother of Helen Lee Eames who took her stepfather's name The ceremony took place at Toronto Ont but was not announced until later In New York The widow Is now In New York She wss at his bedside at the Temple University hospital In Philadelphia tha night he died He had been a patient there intermittently since 1931 New England Mayor Mrs Alice Driscoll Burke mayor of Wes field Mess first woman mayor ia New history Ucx TMephoSoJ CHOCOLATE-COVERED COOKIES More than a ton of high quality Cookies to go on sale Friday and Saturday A Super-Value at (he Bioff case as "unique and unusual" and said In a statement "I am of the opinion that the unexplained and apparently Inexcusable delay er negligence of the law enforcing officials should not exempt the de fendant from paying the penalty af the law for hie crime the requisition I ahsfi Issue today to the governor of California Is honored" Mr Horner's statement continued "I auggeot that he be given an opportunity to relate before a grand Jury bow he has been able to evade for IT yean the serving of his sentence" Bioff 41 now Hollywood representative of the International Alii ance of TTieatrioat State Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators was Indicted by a federal grand Jury yesterday on income tax evasion chargee at Lee Angeles Reveals New Plan to Fortify Guam New plan to spend 34000009 to fortify and improve harbor at Guam was revealed in testimony ef Admiral Harold Stark Chief of Naval Operations before House Naval Affairs Committee Proposed bill for similar project was defeated in Congress iaat hu S'h-Commilfee Favors Murphy Confirmation WASHINGTON Jan 11 OP) A senate Judiciary subcommittee today recommended confirmation of Attorney General Frank Murphy as an associate Justice of the supreme court after Murphy had voluntarily appeared before the group The unanimous action came after Murphy had assured senators that! he opposed use of force "by either aide" in labor disputes and that be I believed the supreme court has the power and duty to Invalidate acts of congress when they contravene the federal constitution Senators Burks (D-NebJ chairman of the subcommittee Austin (R-Vt) Connsliy (D-Tex) and King D-Utah all fired questions at Murphy about his views of the constitution and duties of a supreme court Justice Hie nomination now must be considered by the full Judiciary committee probably Monday and then sent to the senate for expected confirmation Murphy's appoin ment as attorney general a year ago was confirmed 73 to 7 Former Czar Of Movie Operators Is Freed VANILLA WAFERS CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA SANDWICH COOKIES The Island of Trinidad contains a pitch lake over 100 acres broad In So years the lake has yielded more than 10004)00 tons of asphalt lb 0) TOWEL ENDS FAMOUS CANNON QUALITY Stock un now! Far Os SWEATERS rfoid Front In ths 77 Values Each 1 tors Spaghetti 25 OR 29 MARKET SQUARE Fight Over Dodge Fortune Heads To Another Dourl Test DETROIT Jan 11 The fight over the 911XXM009 estate of Daniel Dodge with the ink hardly dry on one court's verdict headed toward another tribunal today and a new chapter in the family dispute over Its automobile fortune Counsel for two of Daniel's Mrs Isabel sioane end Mrs Winifred prepared to appeal to circuit court the verdict of Probate Judge Thomas Murphy under which Daniel's widow Ann Is La urine receives $1250000 Charles Wright Jr attorney for the two sisters announced he would appeal within 20 days Renville Wheat attorney for a third sister Mrs Frances Johnson wss undecided whether to appeal A new suit thus will Involve mother daughter-in -law and two daughters ki the oontinuing aeries of court fights over the $40009000 Wt by the tote John Dodge pioneer motorcar manufacturer In tils verdict yesterday judge Murphy while making no mention of sums for each beneficiary ruled flint the $11000000 belonged to Dodge's estate and should be distributed In accordance with his will- The verdict in effect gives Annie Laurine Dodge 21 whose former switchboard Job paid her a week the sum of $1250000 and Daniel's mother Mia Mathilda Wilson approximately $35004)00 Thq state and federal governments receive $6000000 in taxes Based on production levels during the first nine months of 1939 Canadian officials estimated their country's gold output would be worth luoxxwxno OIL CLOTH Oood oualltv In niain colors and fanev nt-terns Slight seconds Yard BUTTON AND ZIFFER FBONT Knit Sleeves and Sark with Latest Styles Regular $lJg Eat Regularly at Our Fountain! SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY FRIED HADDOCK ST LOUIS Jan 11 John Nick former esar of the movie union here was acquitted in circuit court today on a charge of extorting $10000 from theater owners In 1930 when he signed a wage agreement which provided no oay Increases for the operators Judge Thomas Rowe Jr directed the acquittal in sustaining a defense demurrer attacking the sufficiency of the state's evidence Three previous attempts to try Kirk ended la mistrials He stiU faces another charge of extorting $4300 from movie exhibitors in JJ7 to forestall demanded salary laati 4 Complete with Ax Gratis Pots Bread and Butter Choice of Drink 17-19 EAST MAIN STREET I.