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OH TO if aug THE WEATHER Shower Sunday night and Monday; cooler on Monday FINAL EDITION Sunday, August 7, 1938. 108th Year. No. 95 On Guard for Over a Century Ten Cents as nger Mana ictcey uociiraiie Fired mm Jealous Husband Slain After Killing Briggs Orders Baker to Take Helm of Team Mickey Cochrane, manager Theft of Papers with Aid of Russian Secret Police Charged in U.A.W Trial Reds and Japs Match Forces in New Battle 24 Soviet Planes Cut Korean Railway by Big Bombing Raid Barkley Takes Growing Lead over Chandler Hot Primary Fight in Kentucky Going to Senate Leader Sensational Charges Climaxed by Voting Wife's Bodyguard Oland's Death Follows That of Serial Heroine Lovestone Home Looted, He Says What the C.I.O. Leaders Are Calling Each Other box score) (An incomplete The Homer Martin Faction Calls the Opposition: Communists Stalin stooges Moscow agents Murderers Kidnapers Burglars Forgers Gangsters Liars THEME SONG: Three Are Ousted by U.A.

W. Board Frankensteen, Mortimer and Hall Fired from Office and Union; Wells Suspended and vice president of the De troit Tigers, was discharged by Owner Walter O. Briggs Satur day night, and Del Baker, Tiger coach, was named man ager of the team for the rest of the season and for 1939. The announcement was made by Briggs following a conference with Cochrane after Saturday's game, in which Boston beat the Tigers, 14 to 8. Cochrane, who has piloted the Tigers for five years, will be paid his year's salary in full, Briggs announced.

(See Sports Section for complete details.) BULLETIN TOKIO, Aug. 7 (Sunday) (A.P.) The. Japanese Navy announced today that the missing Hawaiian Clipper had been found 850 miles south of Cape Stiimonosekl, Western Japan. The xteamer Canberra Maru radioed It had sighted the Clipper floating near Douglas Reef. The message did not say whether the passengers were alive.

Toll Is Blamed on Rare Germ Oriental Dysentery Is Traced in Owosso OWOSSO, Aug. 6 (A.P.) Dr. Don W. Gudakunst, State health commissioner, said Saturday that the disease which has caused the deaths of lour children of the Llewellyn Bennett family here is definitely classified now as Shiga dysentery, an Oriental or tropical disease. Describing the disease as the "most severe of all dysentery diseases," the commissioner stated that its spread was through germs from bowel discharges contaminating food or water.

It might be contracted from fresh, uncooked food or water that had not been boiled, he said. The diagnosis was the first ever made of this discare in Michigan as far as he knows, the commissioner said. He added that the germ might have been brought to this country by a carrier from the Orient and the infection found its way into this vicinity. The commisir'oner requested the city to expand its chemicalization of the sewage in Owosso as a precaution against the spread of the disease and again warned the residents here against eating uncooked food and drinking water that had not been boiled. Dr.

Gudakunst asserted that the examination completed by the Health Department applied only to the Bennei. family, although it was assumed that the two other deaths and the severe illness of eight others were caused by the same baccllar dysentery. Woman and Four Sons Die in Bed at Father's Hands NORTON, Aug. 6 fA. A mother and her four sons were slain in bed today, and Sheriff C.

W. Holland believed that the father, who also died of a rifle wound shortly after the tragedy was discovered, killed his family and himself. The victims were George Dob-bie, 39 years old, a laborer, his thlrty-four-year-old wife, and George, 17; Glen Donald, 15; Raymond, 12, and Floyd Gene, 11. LOUISVILLE, Aug. 6 (A.

Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley gradually was increasing his lead over Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler as returns piled up from today's hotly contested Democratic senatorial primary.

The latest tabulation gave Barkley 173,522 votes to 152, 559 for Chandler. The report was from 2.521 of Kentucky's 4.313 pre cincts, in all but four of the state's 120 counties. Fifty-four counties were complete. The first 36 IOuisville precincts to report gave Barkley 3,247 and Chandler 849. In the Republican senatorial primary John P.

Haswell, backed by the state G.O.P. organization, had 2,091 votes to 550 for the closest of four opponents. Tabulation of the vote. In Breathitt County, where a former sheriff was killed Thursday night and the present sheriff was wounded, was postponed until Monday. Three Are Unopposed Three of the eight Democratic congressmen were renominated without opposition.

These were Noble J. Gregory, of the First District; Beverly M. Vincent, of the Second, and Edward VV. Creal, of the Fourth. They will have Republican opposition in November.

John M. Rohsion, the lone Republican congressman, had two primary opponents. Barkley had the personal hacking in the race of President Roosevelt. Chandler claimed personal friendship with the President, but had criticized some New Deal policies. President Roosevelt, In Kentucky early in July, made three speeches favoring Barkley.

In one the President praised Barkley, but had a good word for Chandler, too. In the other speeches Mr. Roosevelt praised Barkley, but did not mention Chandler. Gov. Chandler came Into the nation's political spotlight in 1936 when carried the Roosevelt banner and won the governorship in a runoff.

Chandler, campaigning then chiefly on a repeal of the States sales tax, was credited with smashing an old-time political machine. Campaigns Contrast While the Barkley campaign meetings throughout the drive for votes have generally been serious, with the speaker dealing in facts and figures, there has been a jovial atmosphere at the Chandler gatherings. Pirate Turn lo Pinjc 3 Column 2 'Voice of Experience' Gets $18,000 Worth HARTSDALE. N. Aug.

6 fA. Rich in experience, radio's "Voice of Experience" was poorer today by $18,000 worth of art objects and silverware. When the voice, otherwise Dr. M. S.

Taylor, and his wife were away last month thieves got into their home and made off with the valuables. A caretaker discovered the loss a week ago, but Police Capt. Philip McQuillan was so distressed at the first report of a burglary in 11 years that he made no entry on the police blotter. The story leaked nut through New York City police who were searching pawn shops. German Claims Record for Altitude in a Glider WASSERKUPPE, Germany, Aug.

6 (A. Capt. Drcchsel, of Lufthansa, the German airline, today claimed a world altitude record for gliders. Starting from 3,084 feet, he reached a height of 23.196 feet. SANTA BARBARA, Aug.

6 On the very day that Pearl White, heroine of the "Perils of Pauline," was buried In Paris, the villain of her old film serial died today in his native Sweden. Warner Oland, known all over the world for his later role of WARNER OLAND Charlie Chan, succumbed to pneumonia this afternoon. Twenty years ago, movie fans sat breathless as Oland tried with diabolical cunning, week after week, to kill Miss White. In following years, Oland turned to the sympathetic part of the Chinese detective, and himself narrowly escaped many a deep-dyed death plot. Dies at Friend's Home The fifty-seven-year-old actor's career came to an end in a private Stockholm hospital.

He had been staying at the home of Eric Stocklasse, Scandinavian artist and his friend, in Tyreso, near Stockholm. The actor's death occurred while his estranged wife was preparing to go to his bedside. Her lawyers had announced at Santa Barbara that she would fly to New York and sail for Stockholm Monday. When the news of his death came, Mrs. Oland was prostrated with grief.

Her attorney announced I hat her trip had been canceled. He said that Oland would be buried in Sweden, according to his expressed wish. Vlrune Turn to Porjf 2 Column 8 Heat to Continue for One More Day Weather Causes 42 Deaths in Nation Detroiters may look forward to cooler weather Monday, the Weather Bureau promised Saturday night. The heat will continue through Sunday, but will be broken by showers and thunderstorms Sunday nipht and Monday, the bureau said. Saturday's temperatures remained in the 80s.

with a hiph of 85 recorded at 6 and 7 p. m. The. humidity, which reached 94 per cent at 7:,10 a. dropped to 60 at 12:30 p.

but had climbed back lo bU at f.M p. m. Three nersons prostrated by the heat were treated at Receiving Hospital and discharged. They were Roy Beacn, 54 years oia, ot 1726 Sheridan who collapsed at hi home: Elsie. Graul.

27. of 509 Napoleon who was stricken in a drugstore at liuu Woodward and Stephen Prus, 62, of 3908 Hastings who collapsed at Leland St. and Rivard Ave. Eleven-vear-old Zigmund Szac-hacz, of "3564 Roosevelt drowned in 25 feet of water at the toot of Twenty-fourth St. where he and a group of companions had sought, relief from the heat.

Police of the Harbormaster's Division recovered the body. Firemen attempted to revive the bov. Heat and humidity combined Saturday to bring distress to widespread areas. At least 42 deaths in the nation had been blamed on high temperatures, humidity and torrential rains in the last four days. -'VY Lj Lfi Street in Mason Is Scene of Duel Officer Loses Life in Effort to Assist a Terrified Wife Mortally Wounded, He Shoots Assailant A SON, Aug.

Mason's' night watchman, escorting a woman home at her request, and her Jealous husband shot each other to death at 2:..0 a. m. Saturday on the principal business comer of Mason. The slain men were Ray Hinkley. 52 years old, night watchman jince last November, and Richard Sandvvay, 58, a marble cutter.

Sandway's wife Blanche, a cook In Harvey's Restaurant here, said her husband was crazed by drink and jealousy. Tasses Couple on Street Mrs. Sand way and Norval who was standing across (he street at the time of the shooting, told Ingham County Sheriff Allan A. McDonald that Sandway passed Hinklcy and Mrs. Sandvvay in a car and got out at the rorncr ahead.

As they approached, Sandway opened fire with a shotgun, the shot striking Hinkley in the left side. "Don't shoot, Dick," Hinkley shouted as Sandvvay pointed the pun, but drew his pistol and fired twice when Sandvvay paid no at-tinn. He fired two more shots nfter he was struck and fell to the sidewalk. Two shots struck Sandway In the lungs. Both men were dead when deputies, summoned from the Ingham County Jail a block away, arrived.

Wife Fnred Husband Mrs. Sandway, who was unhurt, told the Sheriff that Sandway had come twice during the evening to the restaurant where she was employed and had sat glaring at her. He threatened her she said, and when Hinkley entered the restaurant shortly before closing time, and she asked him to escort her to her rooming house because she feared her husband would attempt to molest her If she went home alone. Hinkley, former State trooper, Is survived by his wife and a tiauchter, Mrs. May McCormick, of Ann Arbor.

Fords Head North for U. P. Vacation Heading for the cooler weather of the Lake Superior country, Mr. nd Mrs. Henry Ford left Saturday to spend a month at the Huron Mountain Club in the Upper Peninsula.

They are aboard one of the freighters of the Ford Motor Co. which ply the lakes between Superior and the River Rouge. The Fords have spent part of their summers in the Upper Ten-Insula for several years, often leaving here in July. This year their departure was delayed by the civic celebration of Mr. Ford's birthday on July 30.

Safe Under the Stove WILLIAMSPORT, Aug. 6 (A. Richard Sea if 8 years old, crawled from under the kitchen stove at dawn, yawned and was welcomed with open arms by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Scaiff.

Volunteers had been searching all right for him. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Edgar Guest 6 Good Morning 6 Voice of the People 6 Foreign News 5 Washington News 2 State News 8 Obituaries 5 Real Estate 12-13 Garden News 1 Around the Town 4 Resort and Travel 10-11 Wildlife Page 9 Auto News. 14 SPORT SECTION Ward to the Wise 1 The Second Guess 2 From Tee to Green 3 Financial News 6-7 Business and 8 SOCIETY SECTION The Chatterbox. 9 Who Goes Where 1 The Tower Kitchen 8 Home Decoration 6 Ruth Alden 6 Theater and Screen 10-11 Books 12 WANT AD SECTION Fiatfrnal News 6 Puzzle 6 Comic and Gmviiit. Pupp'e-rpr-ts.

Complete Novel. "To the 'r prrecri Wer'K'Y 20 Fliers in Dogfight over Disputed Hills TOKIO, Aug. 7 (Sunday) Russia and Japan battled on the Siberian frontier early today with tanks, airplanes and infantry in the severest fighting of the world's latest undeclared war. Peace negotiations at Moscow appeared to have reached an impasse. The Japanese said that Russian air fleets born bed the Japanese front lines, crossed the border into Korea and attacked frontier towns.

Heavy concentrations of Soviet tanks and infantry pressed the Japanese forces at two border points. The British Exchange Telegraph correspondent, quoting a Japanese War Office communique, said that 40 Soviet planes attacked Japanese positions and Korean villages and that one plane was shot down. Korean Line Is Bombed Reliable witnesses told an Associated Press correspondent at Kogi, Korea, that 24 Russian planes oombed the Tumen-Rashin Railroad 15 miles north of Yuki, inside Korea, Saturday. The Rashin railway is a vital line which parallels the Korean border and connects the seaport with Kirin and Hsinking, Manchoukuo. It was the first time that Soviet Russian planes had made so intensive a raid upon Korean territory, across the disputed finger of territory from Siberia which has been the source of repeated incidents since July 11.

Rail Service Disrupted Communication on the railway was interrupted. The situation was believed to have taken a grave turn, as the Japanese Northern Korea army communique declared that Japanese retaliation was only a question of time as a result of this afternoon's bombing. No Japanese planes rose to meet the Soviet attack on the railway, though the Associated Press corrcsponucnt saw 20 planes engaged in a dogfight in the direction of Changkufeng. At 5 p. m.

Saturday, Japanese reports said, 14 Soviet bombers crossed the. Tumen River and bombed various Korean villages. Japanese claimed to have shot down two of them but said they believed that their own losses were slight. Japanese army officers were highly indignant at "this unwar-rented manifestation of Russia's challenging attitude" and the bombing of "peaceful Korean villages." Fighting Is Hitter Although no casualties were announced, a Tokio War Office communique indicated that there was sharp fighting on Saturday. F'ifty Soviet tanks, supported by one battalion of infantry probably numbering 1,000 men, attacked on the Korean border.

The Soviet troops started their assault at dawn against a hill just opposite the southern end of Lake Hanzang, on the Korean frontier, the War Office said. The second fierce assault was made by infantry and 60 tanks north of Shatsaoping Hill along the Manchoukuo frontier. Japanese artillery turned back both offensives, the Japanese said. Please Turn to Pwje 8 Comedian Jack Oakie Is Sued for Divorce LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (A.P.) Jack Oakie.

the wisecracking, swashbuckling comedian, was sued for divorce today by Venita Var-den Oakie, former actress. She charged mental cruelty. "Jealous, quarrelsome and abusive," read part of the complaint. "He had a vioirnt temper," the former actress said. Jerry Geisler, attorney for Mrs.

Oakie, said that a property settlement had been signed. The Oakies separated about 10 days ago. Little Pat Gives Account of Brush with Choo Choo DES MOINES, Aug. 6 (A. Mrs.

Harry Oppenheim, 25 years old. tossed her son Patrick, 2, out of her automobile Just before the car was struck by a train here. The boy received only a few-scratches. Mrs. Oppenheim.

leaping out seconds later, escaped with a bruised back. Pat's comment on his escape was, "Choo choo break mamma's car all up." W.C.T.U. Says Prohibition Will Return in 10 Years SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 6 (A.

Leaders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union today gave repeal 10 years for survival. "Repeal will last 10 years at the most maybe only five yeais." Mrs. Ma B. Wise Smith, president. told he nptinnai ror.vrn'inn "Of I rift foolish il nv V.y when pre Statement Refers to Documents Used by Defendants Typical Says Sugar, Making Denial Documents submitted by four vice presidents of the United Automobile Workers in their trial were stolen from the home of Lovestone by agents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of America, under the direction of Russian G.P.U.

experts, Lovestone charged Saturday. The documents to which Lovestone referred were those offered in support of charges by the vice presidents that Homer Martin's actions as president of the U.A.W. were guided by Lovestone. Lovestone, secretary of the Independent Labor League of America and predecessor of Earl Brow-rier as general secretary of the Communist Party he was read out of the party as the American Trotsky by the Stalin Communists made the burglary charge In a statement issued in New York. Sugar Denies Knowledge Maurice Sugar, who as attorney for the four vice presidents submitted the documents in question, said he, had "no knowledge whatever of the theft he (Lovestone) describes," and attacked Lovestone along the usual lines of intra-Communist quarrels.

The four vice presidents and defendants in the trial were Richard T. Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Walter N. Wells and Ed Hall. The documents and letters which Lovestone alleges wer stolen were offered by the four defendants and George K. Addes, dismissed U.A.W.

secretary-treasurer, last Wednesday. The allegations of Lovestone domination followed a series ofv charges by Martin that the four defendants were tools of the Communist Party and that Frankensteen had conspired with Communist leaders to deliver the machinery of Labor's Nonpartisan League to the Communists. First lovestone Statement Although Iivestone's name has figured constantly in the four defendants' defense and countercharges, his first public declaration in the current U.A.W. ro- was the statement which follows; "Agents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States, under the direction of special experts of the Russian G.P.U., recently burglarized my home and stole a considerable amount of printed material, personal letters, documents, my passport and other personal property. "Among the personal property taken is a gold watch, the case number and movement number of which are now known to the.

police. Clothing, kerchiefs and hats were among the other personal items stolen, for the apparent purpose of creating the Impression that it was a simple case, of burglary. On that basis. I immediately notified the poiic. "I was then stunned to discover that property apparently lifted by an ordinary thief has found im way.

through the councils of the Communist Party, to Maurice Sucar, a practicing attorney in the City of Detroit, who is defending the five suspended officers on trial before the United Automobile Workers of Amerira Executive Board. Among the documents stolen is a considerable number of letters offered in evidence by Mr. SuRar. attorney for the defendants on trial before the U. A.

Executive Board. Not Insignificant' "I charge Mr. Sugar with being in collusion with B. K. Gebert, Detroit representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, in using material which he definitely knows to be stolen.

It is not insignificant, that the. Central Order of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, took ft one-day jump on the entire press of the country in the publication of some genuine documents many more outright forper.es. "The documents offered by Mr. Sugar in evidence, and given by him to the press, consist of genuine excerpts, items lifted out their texts, as well as fabrications of the typical G.P.U. brand and the crudest kind of foiceries.

I am I branding before the entire movement of this country the ciaklom of the Communist Party as puii'y rf hungry t.o! of V. nn The Opposition Calls the Martin Faction: Communists Trotsky tools LovrstonitM Poisonous political perverts Racketeers Gangsters Enemies of the Union Enemies of America Liars "SOLIDARITY Maurice Sugar, attorney for the officers under fire, failed to appear at Saturday's session. He had submitted documents earlier in the week charging that Martin and others employed in the International office were being dictated to by Jay Lovestone, former secretary of the Communist Tarty in America. The officers on trial were suspended June 13, after a meeting of the executive board which had been called to consider a group insurance plan. Addes Also Fired George.

Addes, former secretary-treasurer of the union, was suspended at the same time and was expelled later. The officers were charged with attempting to seize control of the union; talking to the press without authority; abusing other officers of the union; attempting to divert funds; jeopardizing union activities; engaging in factional activities after they been suspended, and open rebellion. Trial of the four vice presidents opened Monday. July 18. When Friday came and the first witness was on the stand under cross-examination, the executive committee adjourned after passing a resolution calling for the filing of documentary evidence.

Charges Hurled In 0en Reporters were not permitted in the trial room but the factional fight in the organization was carried into the press as the suspended officers and Martin hurled charge and counter-charge at each other. Martin, at the end of the trial Saturday, said that the balloting of the executive board had been secret and that no exact tabulation had been made of the vote. There were 18 members of the executive board in the trial room and it was known that Martin was favored by 12 of them. Resolution Released At the conclusion of the trial the following resolution was re leased by Martin; "This international executive board finds that Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer, Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter N.

Wells were properly suspended by Prestdent Homer Martin on June 13, 1938, and "Said Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer. Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter N. Wells have wilfully and persistently flouted, disregarded and defied the authority of the International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, since their suspension, and "Said Ed Hall, Wyndham Mortimer, Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter N.

Wells have refused to abide by the acts and decisions of the international union as described in the constitution of the international union, and firnse Turn lo P'i'jr A Column 1 Ailing Quintuplets Taken Off Exhibition for a Day CALLANDER, Aug. 6 i Canadian Press) The Dionne quintuplets were not feeling so well today. Dr. A. K.

DaKoe. their guardian, not p'rnut their customary a pre ranee before, tourists. K. MurrA. Hr.j"T.

a sff.n up- Three international vice presidents of the United Automobile Workers were expelled from the union Saturday on charges that they had attempted to turn the union over to the Communist Party. A fourth was suspended for three months without pay. The three ousted were Richard T. Frankensteen, who once held the title of assistant president; Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall. Walter N.

Wells was suspended for three months. The action was announced by Homer Martin, U.A.W. president, after a secret trial which had been marked by bitter press releases from the union president and the accused men. Kvpress Fear of Mobbing The four officials who were on trial failed to appear In the executive offices of the union in the Griswold Building Saturday. They said they feared that if they attended the trial they would be mobbed because of documents they had submitted.

Halls of the union headquarters were guarded throughout the day. Secrecy Veils Plan Important Passenger May Make Trip BREMEN, Germany, Aug. 6 fA. Germany's latest, fastest and largest all-metal landplane. a twenty-six-passenger, four-motored monoplane of the Condor type, stood in its Bremen airport hangar tonight poised for a nonstop flight to New York.

Its departure originally was set for Sunday morning, but was postponed, at least until Monday. Apparently delay arose in connection with the. crew or cargo. The delay gave rise to two unconfirmed rumors, one that some exceptionally distinguished German was considering flying as the only passenger, and the other that the plane would carry an important message. Preparations for the flight had been made in secrecy, and leaked out only after word had arrived from Washington that the flight was about to be undertaken and that a permit had been granted for the plane to land in Alaska and the United States.

The plans, popularly known as the Condor and technically as the FW 200 type, is Diesel-powered, a product of the Forke-Wulff Airplane Co. here. Although news of the proposed flight already is common knowledge in the United Statps, the German public has not the faintest idea that Germany is bidding for international recopnitinn as a factor in trans-Atlantic mail and possibly passenger service of the future. Fish Brings Prayer MIAMI, Aug. 6 (A.P.) L.

Russell told a tale today about a fish a prayer from its When he landed a twelve. grOUPe- hr A r.Jl Prver Vtr. i ci.t. cV. the hck.

Tragedy Darkens the Lives of Two Little Sisters Touth has its tragedies as well as age. No one knows that better than Tone and Eleanor, aged 9 and 10 years. Two years ago their mother was taken to a state asylum hopelessly A year eo their father deserted them and has never been heard from since. Their grandmothei ma'kes as good a horn. vr them as she can, on the $60 a month which she earns.

It is not her fault that the children have little in common with others their own age. There is no money for picnics, no money for fun of any kind. There is just barely enouph for the cheapest kind of food and not always enough for even that. Social workers who know the story of the two children are very anxious that they go to camp for 10 days. The case, they say, is exceptionally worthy and the children need the strengthening meals and the fresh air more than any other children they know.

But the camp quota has already been stretched to its limit. Only one possibility remains, and this is that some reader or readers will come forward with the 120 necessary to defray the expenses of lone and Eleanor. If the money could be in the hands of the Free Press Monday bo'h little girls will be in camp by Tuesday noon. Fatherhood Still a Trial GREENUP, Aug. 6 (A.P.) -Bunion Thaoker, seventy-four- year-old fanner, became a for the twenty-first time tooay and was so nttu to an election rlT 'n TK Gov.

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