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THE WEATHER SHOWERS ATU EDITORIALS PAGE 4 This, Too, Will Pass Navy Will Help-Just a Philanthropist Only the Word Abolished HERALD i FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR 1Q pagcs Decatur, MORNING, August 29, 1938 THREE CENTS SAYS BERRY WOMAN FOUND IN LAKE HELD MATE SLAYER GREEN SAYS NLRB BROKE LABOR LAW IN HARLAN RULING HITLER COOL TO BRITISH WARNING Europe AAvaits Outcome of Sudeten Demand for Autonomy By Associated Press. LONDON Great Britain recalled her ambassador to Berlin for consultations Sunday after Germany was feared to have struck another blow at Europe's wobbly JAPANESE BOMB HOSPITAL Auto Deaths In U.S. Drop 22 Per Cent By Associated Press. CHICAGO The National Safety council reported Sunday that the nation was well on its way toward lower traffic death toll for 1938, with an estimated 4,520 lives saved uring the first seven months of the year. The decrease was 22 per cent compared with the same period of 1937, and the number of fatalities 16.030 was the lowest since 1933.

Highway Travel Increases This record was achieved, the council said, despite an increase of one per cent in highway travel during the first six months of 1938 over the same period last year. Mileage figures for July are not yet available. ine improvement was nation wide, thirty-nine states and 307 cities in every section bettered their traffic safety records for the seven months. Wyoming headed the coun- cus state "honor roll" with a 45 per cent reduction. Pennsylvania and Michigan followed with 39 per cent decreases.

Massachusetts' July figure of 41 deaths was the lowest in 20 years. 730 Lives Saved in July Reporting a 21 per cent drop in motor fatalities for July with its 'traditional bugaboo of an Inde pendence Day holiday," the council estimated that 730 lives had been saved during this month alonei compared with July of 1937 when 3,470 deaths were reported. The July record the coun cil asserted, "that for nine consecu tive months beginning last No vember there has been an unbrok en decrease in motor vehicle fatali ties for the country from the cor responding month of the previous year. MAY YOHE DIES AT 69 Stage Star Once Owner of Hope Diamond By Associated Press. bustujn The curtain which is never rung up again has fallen for May Yohe.

69, once the glamorous stage darling of two continents, who died early Sunday of a heart in a simple apartment the last haven for one of the last of the Edwardians. Once the mistress of the sinister Hope diamond, which she herself had termed "the blue stone that leaves its trail in red," May died in comparative poverty. Her last work had been as a WPA clerk. She died attended only by her husband, John A. Smuts, former British army captain, and by janitor.

May, even in times of stress dur ing the career that had seen her thrice married and twice divorced. always had a philosophic word. have done pretty nearly every thing in my life except theft and murder," she once said, "but thank tiod, whatever rve done, my heart's been in it." That statement covered stage career in America and in Europe, and less palmy days when she worked as a chambermaid, scrub woman and waitress. Traffic Engineer Cut By Negro in Argument By Associated Press. CHICAGO Robert Mandl, 50, a senior traffic engineer for the city park district, was wounded critically last night when a Negro slashed him with a knife.

Mandl became embroiled in an argument over a regulation at the parking lot he superintends at the 31st street beach. The Seventh Day Adventist hospital at Wuchang. China, as it appeared after being hit by bombs during a Japanese air raid. LIONS ROUT WORSHIPPERS IN AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM The minister and congregation fled in terror when one of two lions which' escaped from a circus entered the church during services. The lion ran through the central aisle and then bounded upon the altar as the congregation scrambled for the nearest exits.

No harm was done except that a few persons fainted. DEMOS SEER LOWER FARM EXPORT RATE Tariffs for Industry Far Below Charges for Ag Products By Associated Press. WASHINGTON Administration leaders have agreed to seek lower freight rates on farm products moving to the sea for export, Chairman Jones (D-Texas), of the House agriculture committee, said Sunday. He pointed out in an interview that Secretary Wallace had authority under the farm act to intervene in any freight rate case involving farm products, or to initiate proceedings designed to reduce rates. Rep.

Jones has been conferring recently with Wallace and other administration farm leaders. Seeks Greater Production "Naturally we want to produce every bushel of wheat and bale of cotton that domestic and foreign markets will absorb," hesaid. "This benefits everybody, from the grass roots on, along the line that handles it. has received reduced freight rates on exports for years, and there is no reason why the farmer should not get the same thing." The freight rate on a plow shipped from Moline, 111., to Galveston, Texas, for export is about half that for a plow shipped over the same route for sale at Galveston, Jones declared. Steel shipped from Pitts burgh to New York City moves for about one-third less than that shipped for use in this country, he continued.

Farmer Denied Advantages Jones said export advantages ac corded "iron, steel, cement and otn- er industrial products should be available to the farmer on his ex- Dorts." "The trouble in the past has been there was nobody to fight for lower exrjort freight rates for the farm er" thP Texan said. "He could not do it individually and farm organ izations did not have funds to em-nlov exnerts." His statement came shortly after the government had announced an export subsidy program for wheat, and Secretary Wallace had given notice that the administration was prepared to take "aggressive ac- norosMrv to Keeo share" of world trace in wnwi, cotton, hog products and otner ag ricultural commodities. Negro Claims Record For Delayed 'Chute Jump ted Press (-WTrAfiCJ WUlie ioujwuw Tnnps Neero paracnuie jumpci stenned out of a plane nign auuvc ivr-irhnm field Sunday plummeted earthward and landed with a claim for the world's record delayed nop was at 29.400 feet wnen he said, aian pun the ripcord until I was down to 3.000 feet and I figure I was going 140 miles an hour then, was muC i i A fnA -Fn THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS: Local showers Monday; Tuesday generally fair in Central and North, local showers extreme South portion; not much change in temperature. i nf AL WEATHER 7 a. Noon 7 p.

m. Highest Lowest K3 61 un- 65 69 72 61 PreciD. .12 trace 72 Sun 85 Rises 5:26 5:25 57 Sets 6:33 6:35 TEMPERATURES 7 p.m. High Low SOUGHT WPA CONTROL Hopkins Replies to Senator's Charge of Slush Fund By Associated Press WASHINGTON Harry L. Hop kins, denying charges of Senator Berry (D-Tenn) of illegal -political activity in Tennessee's works pro gress administration, told a Sen ate committee Sunday that Berry made the accusations after he had tried and failed to obtain control of the state's WPA personnel.

In a letter to Chairman Shep- pard (D-Texas) of the committee investigating senatorial campaign expenditures, the national WPA administrator said Berry began try ing to get appointees of his own choosing placed in charge of the re lief organization immediately after his appointment to the Senate. WPA Men Directed Campaign Last week the Senator wrote the campaign funds committee that two WPA officials in Tennessee were in fact, but not in name. the campaign directors" of the forces which defeated him for re-nomination in the state's Democratic primary. Berry did not name the officials but reported it bad "been said" that they raised a campaign fund of $125,000 by assessments and collections from WPA personnel and relief workers. Directing the committee's atten tion to what he called the background of the Berry charges, Hopkins wrote: 'Senator Berry, immediately af ter his appointment to the United States Senate, took the position that those then in charge of WPA in Tennessee should be dismissed and others of his choosing placed in their positions.

When we refused to do this, Senator Berry began his attack upon the WPA." As evidence of what he charac terized as Berry's "demand thai we turn over the Works Progress administration in Tennessee bag and baggage to him," Hopkins quoted a paragraph from a letter he said Berry wrote Senator Mc-Kellar (D-Tenn). He said the para graph was as follows: Asks Split in Appointments "In the matter of federal appoint ments which are regarded as the state-at-large appointments embodying such positions as the col lector of revenue, state manager WPA, state manager PWA, state manager hull, state manager FHA, state manager RFC, and the manager of the government soldiers' home at Johnston City, you as the Senior Senator to select the first, I to select the second, you to have the third and so on. until all appointments are completed, and those who are associated with these posts to likewise come within the purview of this arrangement I agree to support your nominees and you to support my nominees." McKellar "naturally" did not agree, the WPA chief added. Hopkins said Berry later re quested specifically that George Dempster be appointed assistant works progress administrator in Tennessee in place of Rhoton Clift. Woman Recovers Bonds Sold in Old Cabinet By Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS The next time Mrs. Sylvia Brownstein sells an old piece of furniture, she'll search it and her memory first. She recovered yesterday from a junk dealer $1,337.50 worth of bonds and cash certificates plus some jewelry, all of which had been stuffed in the drawers of an old kitchen cabinet she had sold to him. STORE CLERK JOHN work.

Classes will 'begin in Sep tember. John has emphasized to the store management that he did not expect and did not want any special privi leges because of his father's posi tion. The management assured him he would receive none. A.F.LHEAD CHARGES CONSPIRACY Terms Agreement 'Brazen Alliance'; Claims Rights Denied i By Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N.

J. President William Green of the A. F. of L. charged the National Labor Relations board yesterday with a part in a "conspiracy" to violate the Wagner act for its reported sanction of an agreement signed by the C.

I. United Mine Workers union and the Harlan County (Ky) Coal Operators Association. Denouncing the agreement as a "brazen and unlawful alliance" because, he said, it denied the rival Progressive Miners of America (A. F. of their Wagner act right to organize in "bloody Harlan Green said in a statement Claims Act Violated "This deal is with the approval of the National Labor Relations board He amplified the remark later by saying, "The board is a party to an action which violates the Wagner act." The agreement which came as a surprise to A.

F. of L. leaders here for the executive council sessions, provides that the labor board will "dismiss finally" U. M. W.

charges of unfair labor practises against the Harlan county coal operators. In his statement Green also hit at C. I. O. Chairman John L.

Lewis and asserted that Lewis was using government agencies to recruit members for his mine workers organization. -Conspiracy Claimed "A clearer case of conspiracy to violate the National Labor Relations act cannot be found. A more brazen and unlawful alliance to control workers without their knowledge and consent has yet to be disclosed. A more decisive in stance of John L. Lewis using government machinery in violation of law to recruit members and break down resistance to his will, has never been presented to the public." The signing of the United Mine Workers agreement with the Harlan operators, announced Saturday in Cincinnati, followed unsuccessful attempts by the justice department to prosecute a group of com-, panies and operators in Harlan county for allegedly conspiring to prevent unionization of coal field workers.

A federal court jury failed to reach an agreement on a verdict after an eleven weeks' trial. Bloody Harlan County' By Associated Press HARLAN. Ky. Union miners of all major Harlan coal companies save one were in contractual rela tions with their employers Sunday and predictions of peace in "Bloody Harlan County" were made by un ion and company spokesmen An agreement, signed at Cincin nati by attorneys for the United Mine Workers of America and the Harlan County Coal Operators' association, awaited only the ratifica tion of the district union membership to become effective Thursday. Specifications of the contract which is effective until next March 31 include: A basic wage of S5.60 a day; a seven hour day and five-day a of union dues.

Harlan Agreement Not a Closed Shop CINCINNATI Philip G. Phillips, regional director of the National Labor Relations board, said Sun day the agreement signed by Harlan County. coal operators with the "United Mine Workers cf America did not call for a closed shop. "For the first time in their Harlan county workers may join any union to which they would want to belong, whether American Federation of Labor or Committee for Industrial Organization," Phillips said. Auto Workers Drop C.

I. O. Member Dues MILWAUKEE The regional conference of officers of the United Automobile Workers' locals Sunday Body of Curtis Osborne Discovered at Elwin, Killed By Shotgun The body of a woman found Coating in Lake Decatur Saturday was identified yesterday as that of Mrs. Curtis Osborne, 46. whom Dr.

1. V. Grissom. county coroner, said committed suicide after slaying her husband last Thursday. Mr.

Osborne's body was discovered early Sunday in the couple's home southeast of Ehvin. The husband, a 42-year-old relief client, had been shot with a 12 gauge shotgun from a distance of three or four feet. Dr. Grissom said. He as believed to have been killed some time before 10 a.

m. Thursday. Inquest into the two deaths was delayed yesterday pending investigation of the death gun and other anicles found in the house for fingerprints. Shot From Three Feet "Insofar as I can tell, Mrs. Osborne shot her husband from a distance of three or four feet, washed her hands in the kitchen and then started for Decatur.

After arriving at the lake she evidently jumped in with suicidal the coroner said. I The charge from the single barreled gun struck Osborne at the diaphragm, breaking his breast bone and carrying away a portion of one lung, the coroner reported. Identification of Mrs. Osborne was made early Sunday by M. F.

Baker. 1479 North Twenty-second street, a friend of the couple, who arpeared at Morans funeral home in. response to a newspaper description yesterday. After making the identification. Baker went to the Osborne home, located on the Graff place near Elwin, to tell the husband, only to find him dead also.

Found Lying On Floor According to a sheriffs report Osborne was found lying face upward on the floor of the combina-( tion living room and bedroom of the small home. The gun with which he had been shot, with the forearm detached, was on a daybed a few feet away from the body. On a table in the kitchen were the remnants of a breakfast, evi-(Continued on Page 3) Three Injured When Plane Falls in Chicago By Associated Press. CHICAGO A pilot and two were injured, the latter critically, yesterday when a biplane crashed in a prairie near Ashton field airport on the southwest side. The plane was headed for the landing field after a short observation when, witnesses said, it went into a spin at about 2.000 feet, straightened out at about 500 feet and then nosed to the ground.

Believed near death at Holy Cross hospital were Joe Kolin and Bert Kuchis. both of Chicago. The pilot. Ray Chevedden also of Chicago, was unconscious but hospital attendants said they did not believe his condition critical. Army Seeks Air Base In Alaskan Territory By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON The Army high command' intends to ask President Roosevelt's active support for an appropriation by the next Congress to start work on an air base in Alaska. The project would supplement defensive measures already undertaken or proposed by the Navy 8'Mg the shortest route between America and the Orient. a request for an initial appropriation for a $10,000,000 Army base ws included in. last years war department estimates, but was 'liminated by the budget bureau fa favor of needs considered more P'essing. Cites Malt Firms For Price Fixing Tactics Sy Associated Press WASHINGTON The federal trade commission accused the united States Maltsters Associa tion of Chicago and its 19 member manufacturers Sunday of fixing Br-a maintaining uniform delivered Prices for malt in violation of the federal trade commission act.

The commission's complaint al- lesed tnat the practises of the respondents who produce more than Per cent of all malt made in United States, had prevented ce competition and set up Monopoly in the sale of malt. ine commission said that these manufacturers were "the only reg source of supply for many -cnasers." CRASH IVIT RIF.S FATAL CHAMPAIGN (AP) Earl Darn- la5rn. 16, died in a Champaign hos Pital Saturday night of injuries re ceived Saturday morning when his rcsdster struck a concrete bridge peace by her hostile reception of British warnings against force. The ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, already has arrived in Lon don. He was to see Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax, British foreign secretary.

today. Disclosure of Sir Nevile's return caused surprise in diplomatic quar ters here, coming on the heels of Britain warning to powerful re armed Germany that it would be difficult for her to stand aside in the event of war in Europe. Nazi intentions toward Czecho slovakia, sprawled across Europe's backyard with powerful friends pledged- to take up arms in her defense, was the enigma that dip lomats anxiously awaited to see answered on the eve of what they greed would be a "fateful Sep tember." Showdown Near Many feared the choice of roads toward war or peace depended on negotiations between the Little Republic and its autonomy-seeking Sudeten German minority which has Germany's self-styled "protec tion. Despite intensified efforts to break the deadlock between the Czechoslovak government and the Sudeten Germans, little progress has been made and a final show down seems inevitably to be ap proaching. Britain yesterday hung out a red light to Germany in a government appeal to "all quarters" to help lessen the European tension and the warning of Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, that war in Europe might get beyond control of those who started it, Speech Draws Criticism But in Berlin the reaction was cold.

Officials even charged tha air Jonn speech encouraged no torious, crisis-causing elements Czechoslovakia." High political cir cles interpreted his "hints" as spur to Czechoslovakia to be adam ant in the Sudeten German situa ion and provoke conflict. Next week Germany will have 1,000,000 men under arms in vast autumn maneuvers for which cur rent army war games have been prelude a fact deeply disturb ing to London and Paris. Await Hitler's Answer Although a crisis apparently was approaching, Europe may have to wait two weeks for any definite clue of Germany's intentions. Diplomatic circles expected Hit ler would answer Sir John and outline his foreign policy early in September when he would have the fanfare of the Nazi party's an nual Nurnberg conference, begin ning Sept. 6, as a background.

France Moves Troops to German Frontiers By Associated Press PARIS France moved tcoops in to position on her Eastern front iers facing Germany and Italy Sun day for maneuvers amid a situa tion widely feared as a grave threat to European peace. More than 20,000 men including an miantry division and cavairy, artillery, tank and air force units pitched camp at Baldahon, near Besancon, close to the junction of the French, German and Swiss borders for war games to begin Tuesday. Woman Shoots Self After Killing Mate By Associated Press KANKAKEE Policeman Don Bleau said Sunday that Miss Rena Beland, 28, shot herself in the head as she stood in a corridor ourside of the emergency room of a hos pital early Sunday morning after she admitted the fatal shooting of Clemon Coolcy, 31, in a fit of jeal ousy. Bleau said that Miss Behind took gun from her purse and shot herself in the temple before he could disarm her after he had questioned her about the shooting of Cooley, her common-law hus band. Bleau said the woman told him she rushed the wounded man to the hospital.

He died shortly after arrival. Hospital attendants said the woman would not recover. June Knight Marries Wealthy Texas Oil Man BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. June Knight, 25, stage and screen actress, and Arthur Arden Cameron, 38, wealthy Houston oil man, were married in a church ceremony here Saturday night. Both had been married once before.

KILLED VISITING MINE MARION (AP) Ruth Docekal, 12, was instantly killed Sunday when a huge' rock fell on her while she was visiting a mine near here. RELIEFER'S PHILOSOPHY Is Not Work the Way of Life? Italian Asks By Associated Press ALIQUIPPA, Pa. Sweeping the street thot runs. in front of his little home makes Mudian-na Esto "feel good inside," and causes the bread he buys with relief money to "taste sweet" The wizened 63-year-old Italian laborer, who applied for relief two months ago after being in this country seven years, didn't like to accept the $3.60 weekly relief check without earning it. The street, Elm Way, needed cleaning, he thought, so he began to sweep it.

He explained: "They give me money to live; I keep this town clean like table." Describing his when his first relief check arrived, he declared: "I look at it. I think, this is a wonderful country. I decide I will be an honest man with this land which Is good to me. So I start to sweep the street." "My bread, it tastes sweet and I feel like a man, because I work. "Is not work the way of life?" Man and Wife Found Dead at East St.

Louis By Associated Press. EAST ST. LOUIS The bodies of man and woman, identified by police as Mrs. Anna Mosinski, 19, and her husband, Casimer Mosin ski, 37, were found in a thickly wooded ravine a few miles east of here Sunday. Both had been shot to death.

Both Sheriff Siekmann and Dr. Leo Madden said they believed the deaths were "murder and suicide. but added they would investigate further. ALMOST "SOMETHING FOR NOTHING" Buying a "flat rate" ad is almost the same as getting something for nothing! A 7-. day ad for SI! Think of it! We honestly believe it's the biggest bargain in Central Illinois, and it's available to every reader of the Herald.

You'll find the rules on the Classified page. Decatur Herald Classified Dept. Dial 5151 ENGLAND PLANS TO REBUILD BIG OCEAN AIRLINER By Associated Press LONDON Aviation authorities insisted yesterday that the crash of the Albatross, Britain's fastest commercial airliner, would.in no way retard the development of Transatlantic service. The Albatross, built to span the ocean in regular commercial traffic, bounced in landing last night at Hatfield airdrome and, to the amazement of officials, broke in two. None of the four aboard was injured.

It was understood the four-mo tored, low-winged monoplane was to have made a test flight across the Atlantic Sept. 1. The plane was completing final tests with a heavy load when the crack-up occurred and fractured her fuselage, splitting it off just back of the wing. An "official of the De Havilland aircraft company said the "failure is thoroughly understood and is of a relatively simple character." JEWS FLOCK TO AMERICA Arrive From Germany at Rate of 100 Per Day Bv Associated Press WASHINGTON The flow of frprman political refugees to the United States under the Roosevslt-Hull policy, of aiding emigres has started at the rate of nearly 100 a day. Dispatches reaching here state that the American embassy in Ber lin is not accepting any more ap plications from German (including former Austrian) Jews, and has enough on hand to fill available immigration quotas for practically two years.

The first groups of refugees are now reaching American sumcs. They are arriving almost penniless but are being received by Jewish charitable organizations and Jewish families. The stipulation in the immigra tion law that immigrants cannot en ter America if they are likely to become pubHc charges is being met, officials said, by assurances that the Jewish associations and families will keep the refugees from being thrown upon the public. Recover Bodies From Plane Shot By Japanese HONGKONG The bodies of 14 Chinese victims of the Japanese machine-gunning of -a Chinese-American owned airliner in South China were reported recovered Sunday from the sunken week-age. This accounted for all 19 persons aboard the China National Aviation Corp.

plane Wednesday when it was riddled by bullets from a Japanese air squadron and sank in a swift stream near Canton. The- only American, H. L. Woods, pilot of the plane, and four other occupants were the only persons who escaped alive. John Roosevelt Launches Career Week By Associated Press.

BOSTON John A. Roosevelt, the President's youngest son, will begin his business career today as a stock clerk in a department store. His salary $18 a week. His carefree college days at Harvard and a honeymoon in Bermuda with his bride of two months just memories, lanky, smiling John will punch a time clock no later than 9:20 a. m.

after he enters the store through the employes' entrance. Throughout the day, he will push trucks of merchandise about the store to replenish stocks. And when tired sales girls close their sales books, powder their noses and dash for the subway, the President's son will have a half hour longer to go. Shelves must be ready for the next day's trade. There will be ah hour off' at lunch time, but that won't be long enough for him to travel to neighboring Brookline where he and his wife, the former Arme Lindsay Clark, have rented an apartment in a building where rents average $100 a month.

Two evenings a week will be spent at the store, too, attending classes in advertising which John has said he wanted to make his life 3 Boston New- York Jacksonville New Orleans Chicago Cincinnati Detroit T.Tfmrhis 62 68 88 90 77 74 72 86 72 80 96 96 83 84 80 .94 62 66 72 78 61 60 56 74 74 60 56 58 54 62 98 82 84 86 62 72 Oklahoma City 92 adopted a resolution asking the international executive board to discontinue per capita payments to the Committee on Industrial Organiza-ation. The U. A. W. has been voluntarily contributing five cent per member per month.

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