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News Today ooler Much Cooler Fall Report I. Second Section p- on Volume 4 I No. The Berkshire Evening Eagle City Edition 1.10 P. M. Quotations Pittsfield, Thursday, April 28, 19,38.

28 PRIG HRH CENTS DEL IV ISO WEEK Bishops I rjre Unification Happiest Boy in Pittsfield Baria! I -Ah I Church, of was "com- Methodist South, rn a hussy. f'om the Co I Question BIRMINGHAM. AA 28 MT I on th Northern Methodists, opponents urrh mr dc i a tory-m ak nr a of sh Of1 by shop Hoyt M. Dobbs Sr ort Episcopal a dd embodied ons of ops to the conference, and unification I an to be formally presented tomorrow as worthy of com deration and such lion as is most important before the church sis organ zation followed the apili in slavery. Two Disagree Two retired bishops, Denny of Hic mend, and Warren A Cand of Atlanta, rf I not agree an of Union, and no? sign Episcopal In a supplementary statement they termed the unification an a mid lenged legal light of the confrrence to act on a1 question was rf objections raised by rt tits.

Senator Carter of Virg ma said simply proposal bi ng the gro into our iouthern Unification advocate included Bishop M. Moore, presiding ri, who sa The racial question J- not of the individual conferences were ad, showing 7650 ayes and 1217 no, and the address pointed out the affirmative vote was About 86 cent total Vote east. Bishops Dmny and Candler, in their dissenting opinion, outlined their contention that action of the North Mississippi Conference in a majoiity against unification made if Impossible for this (conference to act, legally, on the juan of union submitted. Alcohol Discussed Alcoholic beverages were discussed af length in a of Episcopal address on is now a little more than four years since the repeal of national prohibition of the beverage liquor the address said, results are apparent on every hand, xxx Administration that hi a the temperance of a century is doing nothing to curb the beast that it let loose land. nation will not forget Solemn pledge of the President of United States in proposing repeal that no possibility at any 4 r- Small Boy Prays for Baby, Writes for One, Gets One' Jimmy Faith in God Is Has Baby Brother And New Coaster Wagon You tell Jimmy Dwyer.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Dwyer of I Maloney Street, much about God nor the power of prayer. has proof.

Two years ago when Jimmy, bright as a dollar, was four, a baby bi other was born into family, but lived only a few hours, then was laid away in St. Cemetery, just back of his in the northern part of city. No one of his family ever saw the infant, but all the same Jimmy felt a deep loss over his little brother whom his mother told him born an The youngster carried flovv- rs to the family lot most every day in summer to put on the tiny ones grave, he prayed every night a boy Continued on Second Page ll it ski vs To Hide Hike Are Sought PYNN, April 28 Seven during policemen willing lo ri-k their today re-ponded to a rail for rid a bicycle a preliminary to a polite revue. Police Captain kern the luke v. ponderous thai could not set av from a standing -tart and that it would he to an automobile tow ii at 3b an Hoar before line was cut and on their own.

The cst problem, the captain explained. would be how to Mop the once it was in flight. The icycle built bv former automobile manufacturer, Murkian was one of the large-! in the world. The lie -aid, wa- a J(l--eater owned by Henry ford and he find no record of any IO men who could nile it. they Brother or Sister But Heaven was too slow' for Jimmy.

He was setting cid- and State. It was deigned to was going to the fast grade in St. his announced determination to School with plenty of play- prevent entrance of Fascism or in class but none at home. Communism into Brazil. Ile still loved the infant Expulsion would become effective but he craved a immediately after the completion real brother or sister, he didn't of regular penalties, such as a jail much care hich.

It was then he sentence, for the follow ing offenses: spied just what he anted rn a mail I. Endangering public order, na- order catalogue. If Heaven tional security or the structure af perhaps Montgomery Ward would! national institutions. lie wrote them a letter, carefully printed in tottery letters. His mother remembers he mistook the dress number, a communion outfit, for number and promised if they would mail him he would be as good a boy possible.

ended with a post-script, cautiously suggesting, nd me a white one I don't want a colored family car. fully placed the addressed missive on the radio so father i -iuId They forgot to remove it quietly, permanently. A fan lays later Jimmy mailed it him- -eif, using an old cancelled stamp for postage! was worried, though, he had forgotten to put the money. Company Replies The day before mother went to the maternity rooms at St. Luke's Hospital, ame a reply mailed to Master James Dwyer by J.

L. Wood, Chicago executive of a Continued on Second Page LaFollette Expected Launch His Third Party Tonight MADISON. Af ii 28 -P Philip F. program for a political realignment of liberals awa ted revelation tonight at a mass meeting which be precursor to a national thud party Aides to the Governor esti- pieting an overflow crowd of possibly 10,000 in response to hs radio pica tor a depression-rout ng public act.on. set up flood lights and a loudspeaking rn on the grounds outside the meeting Ute.

The conference was reproved yesterday from a smaller building to the University of Wisconsin stock pavilion, which seats 1500. Wh Ie LaFollette has declined to comment on address, close friends expected he would disclose the third party plan and discuss party Some expressed the possibility he may modify his criticism of Roosevelt administration recovery ll ides, which he described as nding to restiict rather than increase production and as and in a series of rad rn addresses last week. At Washington mutual friends of President Roosevelt end of the vernor and his brother, Senafor Robert LaFollette were said lo be seeking to prevent a re carr of further attacks. The decision to call for new political action and new governmental approach to the economic situation was reached wee KS ago in what he called and conferences. He has several thousand liberals, mostly from the midwest, to fred his meeting.

2. Acting against the national economic life, the national dignity and the free exercise of public powers. 3. Subversive acts. 4.

Holding illegal meetings. 5. Sabotage. 6. Forging money or bonds.

7. Smuggling. 8. Traffic in drugs or women or corrupting minors. Under the decree foreigners would be expelled as re beggars who become a public sponsibility, as would escaped criminals from other countries and Continued on Second Page Tax In Treasury HARRISBURG.

Pa April 28. uh State Treasury bulged today with $8,000,000 paid into it as inheritance taxes by the estate of the late Andrew W. Mellon. John Byerly, chief of the Bureau af Securities and Bank Accounting, said the State might receive 'wo oi three million dollars more from the estate. Mellon, Pittsburgh banker and former Secretary of the Treasury.

who died last year more than 530.0ft0.000, administrators have estimated. The $8,000,000 already paid State officials said, was turned into the State Treasury to take advantage of a five per cent discount allowed upon payments within ninety davs of the death. Max Have Earned Millions Bat Hasn't Got Them Now LOS ANGELES, April 28 Jackie Coogan dropped out of the millionaire class today. Of the 54.000.000 claims to have earned as a film star, only $545,924 now remains. And 5171.96 of that represents sums advanced for his clothing and expenses by the Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc.

It was a blow to 23-year-old this deflationary inventory filed by a court-appointed receiver in his multi-million dollar accounting suit against his mother and stepfather, Lillian and Arthur L. Bernstein. mother must not be blamed for this condition of said the youth. have not yet had an opportunity to examine the report fully, but it shows that virtually all of my earnings excepting those invested in real estate have been Receiver John Biby listed gross assets of the Coogan Corporation at $696,304, including $498,151 in real estate. Against this are liabilities of $150,380, including $21,729 due Mrs.

Bernstein as a company officer. President Trying To Do His Best, Henry Ford Savs Ford Leaves White House France and Navy Program Is President's Senator Savs LaFollette (diaries Navy Dill Not Seek Jimmy Dwyer poses with his new coaster wagon uhile his hahy brother in his carriage on the porch of Dwyer home. Brazil Expels Aliens Who Fight State President Strengthens Bars Against Fascism RIO DE JANEIRO. April 28 JE prayer that Heaven would send him (UPL-President Getulio Vargas another brother sister; one that sued a decree today prescribing expulsion for foreigners convicted of crimes against the integrity of the Motor Magnate. After Talk ith Roosevelt, Says Things Are About To Change for the Better NEW VORK, April 28 Ford, fresh from his White House conference with President Roosevelt, told interviewers today the President trying to do the best he can like everybody 1 In Genial Mood remark was prompted commented that Ford Iud never appeared to be in such a genial mood.

Was it because amit away from the White House with optimism? you never heard me say anything about President, did the automobile manufacturer smiled. the use? ing to do the best he can like everybody But of the conference itself Ford would say nothing. Conditions gen- orally are going to ho said. and change for the better. And, he said.

he doubts if there will be war in Europe in spite of gloomy dispatches from abroad. Fords son. Edsel. and W. J.

Cameron, Fol Motor Company executive, sat with Ford during interview in a small private dining loom of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, eeding England I said nothing, save when his father asked him the precise location of their big cooperative farm in England where the Fords England she feed is the farm, Henry asked. in Essex County at Gorham. Ford thought it was two or three thousand acres in size. Edsel said 4000 would be closer to fact. Henry Ford is going over for a isit to farm this summer.

It run. he said, chiefly by teamsters, drivers and other workers. Ford was asked about a report he favored President John Nance Garner for the 1940 Democratic nomination. He declined to comment. He said a printed report to that effect was untrue, grunted another denial.

hat was that vou said, Mr. asked. Ford craned his neck, WASHINGTON, 25 Senator LaFollette Prog. Wis.) expressed belief today that the 156.546.000 naval expans program originated th Presi fin! Roosevelt and no? Navy Department. Denouncing program, LaFollette to' I Senate: i am convinced that in finding the final responsibility for promulgation of this program, must look to the President of the United Not Navy Request Wisconsin Senator said naval officers had not asked for the expansion during frequent appearances before congressional committees in recent years.

That. he asserted, was th program was not conceived by the Navy Department. LaFollette said he did not believe there had been any development that would justify expanding the navy. am forced to the conclusion that these new scares, these new hobgoblins that being shaken in the faces of the people being used primarily to force this program through Congress, and there is no he declared. is a among ontinued on Second Page England in Agreement Opening Talk On Military Alliance Held LONDON foreign off that Prime anet Pre rn 29 ce ar Mr, nt a' i rn a i for the 1 thr did ti in gv ard' a.

pean and I two-day hich much closer all fight ng services powers is expected result, ill be resun' Premier Dili idler eign minister, George for Windsor to be (Iii cd to Bm: ng George and Viscount Ho eign Von sit ser. of the to Sp i Nazi of Cee coronary, part ic. pat trouble I and CX f-, mn x. Bn a i el dip; Eli A I Henry Ford, the motor mismate, noneonmiitt.il to except to say he had a pleasant visit as he left the White House following a luneheon conference with President With Ford, fare is partly hidden by his hat, is ll. M.

Cunningham, local Ford official. realm loc ai agree men rn of Fresh Fires Attack ('ape Cod's Seared Forest Lands One Dies After Being Trapped hy Flames liirli Swept Across 12 Mile Area Continued on Second Page Senate Committee Slices Five Millions Off Budget BOSTON. April 28, Recommendations that Senate slice $4,959,260 from the State bringing the total appropriation down to todav were returned to Legislature1' branch by its powerful Ways and Means The committee cut from the budget a House-inserted applopriation for highway welfare work, but at the time boosted for an I en. highway construction works as a compromise offer. The total increases in various appropriations amounted to approximately $4,975,000.

Diversion Possible This would leave appt vimatelv $4,000,000 in the highway fund which would be for diversion to the general fund and if approved by Senate and signed bv Governor Charles F. Hurlev would boost State tax ta M2 Senator George G. Mot se Waltham), ch iii man and Means said committee in eliminating 009,000 appropriation believed that I in its present form it could not be employed to any practical advantage and accordingly recommend item be stricken out and substituted by increased work or roads under State Broke Record The budget, as pissed by House, called for a record breaking total appropriation of 5S1.02I.S56. which would have meant a Iota' State tax of $36,000,000, and would have prevented Governor Hurley from diverting money from highway fund into the general fund. The $10,000,000 appropriation had attacked by the Massachusetts Federation of Associations committee recommended an increase of 51.959,000 in the appro- at ion for highway work jotnth financed by State, counties an towns a boost of $1,750,000 in the appropt at on for the Department of Pubhc Works to enable to match federal funds in instruction of State highways, and another Continued on Second Page Rigid Ri ggers License Explained for Benefit Of Local Home Owners The new license law does not apply to the painting of property, occupied as a residence by the owner, provided that no person, other than the proprietor, is engaged in the painting operation.

This fact was brought out this morning at the 1cm ai office of the Industries Department in the Farrell-Svveeney Building. North Street. Considerable interest has been aroused among homeowners. who are accustomed to do their own painting in the However, according to the law, immediate members of the Jamily or relatives may not is, in painting a house aboard a ladder or any other rigging. Will Answer State Inspector Gerald Dahill of Springfield will be at the local office to receive applications and to answer any questions on the new law.

It was indicated today many painters would take the riggers' test in Springfield Saturday, May 7. Examinations for painters also will be held May 6. 11 and 21. The license comes under the revised rules, regulations and recommendations pertaining to structural painting, which went into effect last September. First certificate cost five dollars, payable in advance, and renewals.

one dollar. According to the law, rigging includes: ropes, blocks, ladders, scaffolds, planks, boards, rails, hangers, spreaders, hooks, jacks, brackets, chairs, belts and all forms of support. Decree Against Jews Studied Bv Embassies German Gmt. To Take All Property BERUN. April 28 mats indicated today embassies and legations of foreign powers.

such as United States Embassy, were studying the decree published yesterday requiring registration of Jewish fortune and properties in Germany. A high authority disclosed last night that German Government to take over all Jewish property due cours of and encourage Jews to emigrate from Germany. Decree Explained This was in explanation of decree issued by Field Marshal Hermann W.Ihelm Goering. as director of the four-year economic st If sufficiency plan. requiring approximately 730,909 Jews cf greater Germany to register their fortunes if these marks Jev in Germany must also g- ister their foreign properties.

Foreign Jews must list their holdings in Germany. This must be done by June TO. characterized as but doubted there was any basis for diplomatic action. How the Jews will be compensated vv hen Goermg oils for their money is still a puzzle to I financial experts In Vienna the conservativ paper Reichspost published figures showing the domination in Austria's economic It said the Austrian munitions industry was ICO per cent in the hands of shoe production and 80 footed The where SANDWICH, April 28 woodlands, already seared by a sweep of incendiary which took life, were again today by -h flames, While authorities searched for a ton amar believed responsible for six separate forest fires yester day. woods Falmouth burst into flame.

Fire Chief Roy David Wells soun .4 general alarm and called for all available volunteers to I tv whi' spread through the dry wood land under a sun. A small elivery truck was observed stopping along the road in vicinity of ig Meanwhile, to guard against further fires, Governor Chai lev F. requesting no be permitted to start a brush permission of a fire warden. Thomas E. Adams, of four men trapped jester day while battling the principal fire in the State Forest, succumbed to burns in Cape Cod Hospital, Hymnals, today.

Three companions Gordon King, 34, Clarence Gibbs 45. and Irving Draper, 32. remained in a serious condition. Road blaze jumped several times across the Mashpee-Sandvvich highway and forced closing of Continued on Second Germ as a an urg the qt unitary rn. Bird life A small crowd watched Frail iou a rd Daladrer ani Fore Minister George' Bonnet, from Pans yesterday, cr.

Prime residence gy Down mg St arrived Prime Mi i followed his usual walking in St. James's I observing bird life. Soon after Fremd Foreign Seer Visrm fax from ti Office, followed by Sir Ro sittart, his chief piomati Informed sources belk would take long Befo rn a orc I git flew er the tx they i r. entered Halt- Foreign Van- 2 adviser, wed range dell with lid cisions in an effort to German expansion. New for both powers with Italy vv bulwark such It was expected they also won id work directly with the leaders of Cz hoslovakta in an effort to get them to satisfy Germany.

Other possibilities for re propping up countries like Yugoslavia and Hungary economically enable them to resist Nazi hegemony. version of the scan ita tv as that if ould kni I Continued on Second Refugee Ordered Out BRATISLAVA. Cl 'ekes! wakia April 28 Fr tugboat Querns, a floating refuge for 55 Jews from Austrian Get many, vs notified by Hungarian authorities today to cfi ar out of Hungary Danube waters Since neither Czechoslovak or French authorities have given permission for the refugees to enter their countries, the tug will be forced to anchor rn 1st ream Danube belongs to no one nation. ablock Expedition. (hit of Jungle, Reports Bed fern Dead GEORGETOWN.

Brit rn April 28 pedition has established definitely that Paul American av tor missing for more th rn Id years, perished in Venezuelan bingies, members of the expedition said today. The expedition as composed of Theodore AV ai deck, New York explorer; his w.fe: William Ador Chattier of New York, and Dr. Frederick J- Fox of Baston The Waldecks said today they had cangle they i suffered a1 hr is hi ps while waters on in iccessi Hole Island, City un I River. Dr. Foi island.

inn I The ih a tree while boat to reach seriously in air hollow mg out ton' ii I Pl I a far flied up on boa' a relief the is tan I. cd his nand vv hi ie the log and the trade. TS per cent; trade. 64 per cent; the textile industry and trade. 53 per cent.

bread production, 60 per cent, with the wholesale trade in almost a Jewish monopoly. The Reichspost said all big foreign dealings were in Jewish bands and that of monetary tutions in Austria over 76 per cen? were Jew ish. Work on Airport WESTFIELD. April 25 Twenty-nine enlisted men command of Major O. K.

Robbins, of the 7th Bombardment Group. Hamilton Field. today dug in at Barnes Airport to make preliminary arrangements for Army Air Corps maneuvers in New England next month. plane crashed on the border of Venezuela and British Guian i while on a flight from Brunswick. Ga, to Buenos They did not give details or say whether they have found tract of his remains, explaining that bound by agreement to give first details to Redfern family surv ivors of Waldeck expedition reached Georgetown atter wound took two weeks to heal.

Mrs. Waldeck as til for three weeks, poisoned by tinned vegetables. When the expedition was a de to push forward, it was aided by Arawak Indians, who hid never seen white people before. Mrs. Waldeck was accepted into the sisterhood of the in a ceremony during which ner left hand was cut by glass and a sacred substance injected.

The ceremony involved a long stand bareheaded rn sun. and at it- end, she was declared acceptable to Indians, Local Officials Max Hare se Portrait Painted orth Two-Stroke Airplane Engine Aid in Promoting Private May Flying CAMBRIDGE. cheaper engine April 28. vestigation. cheaper to manufacture, for the private Professor E.

S. Taylor of the (Chief difference between the flyer was reported today as one of the possibilities stemming from research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working on a stroke gasoline engine, the engineers alt cady have pi educed a job developing 60 per cent more power than conventional two-stroke partment of Aeronautical Engi- two types of engines is that the necring reported it had been found possible to produce an engine which, matched with the conventional small four-stroke aviation product, was lighten for the same power, simpler in operation, ran slower, thus improving propeller design with which they began in- efficiency, and would be orients. two-stroke fires once every revolu tion, the four-stroke once every two revolutions). Perfection of the engine.

Taylor said, would open the door to its use in stationary and marine Diesel engineering and also certain of fat ming miple I WASHINGTON, April 28, (UP) Works Progress Administration offered immortality on canvas today to all public officials hom it deems of the attention of posterity. Any public official can have his portrait painted by the WHA Federal Art project if he can prove worthiness. The WPA will send an artist around to paint him. More than 200 politicians already have had their wish to see their portraits displayed on walls of public buildings gratified by the WPA. Several hundred others have applied.

The WPA furnishes the artist without cost and also sees that the portrait is hung in an appropriate public place. The WPA now has only eight painters rfi'ung that kind of wark. Others probably will be added under the expanded relief program. Tile WPA has enough ap- piications to keep IOO painters busy for more than a year. There is no discrimination as to rank or party affiliation, officials said.

All paintings remain the property of the Federal Government. They are loaned to city. State and Federal governments for which they are executed. The WPA declined to reveal the names of prominent persona whose portraits have been painted. Officials said.

however, that the list included army af flee rn ambassadors, city councilmen, mayors and school principals..