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'A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Weather Sundny. Fair Monday: Cloudy, warmer FORTY-FOUR PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1938 PRICE TEN CENTS SWASTIKAS FLY SUDETENLAND German Labor Army Crosses Border Morgenthau Shakes up Staff of Controller lltalo-British Pact Seen Demands Resignation Of Top-Ranking Treasury Officials W«,«hinKton, Oct, 1, (UP) Serre- tnry of the Treasury Morgenthau, in a nudden shakeup of the comp¬ troller of currency's oflfice, forced Ihe resignation of twn top-ranking officials and appointed his special assistant to one of the vacancies, it became known today. Differences over hanking poli¬ cies, subject of bitter behind-the- scenes conflict in the treasury, were understood to be the cause of Morgenlhau's action. The secretary Friday afternoon demanded the resignation of Mar¬ shall R, Diggs, first deputy comp¬ troller who has been acting comp¬ troller since April, and G, J. Oppe- gard, deputy comptroller. He gave them 24 hours to quit. They pre¬ sented their resignations .vesterday. Today Morgenthau appointed, his special assistant, Cyril B, Uphani, as first deputy comptroller. TelU of Reqiie«t In announcing Upham's appoint¬ ment. Morgenthau emphasized hr was doing so only at the request of the Incoming comptroller, Pres¬ ton nelano. Delano recentl.v was named by President Roosevelt to fill the vacancy created by tho resignation last April of J. F, T O'Connor. Upham, an lowan, is a bsnkiiiK and credit authoritv. He has a wide circle of friends on Capitol Hill, where he served as Morgon- thau's liaison man with Congres.^--. Both DIjgs and Oppegard will continue In government service a.s membera of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's legal staff. Diggs intends to r«inain with the FDIC until the end nf the year and then return to private law prac¬ tice. Both were appointed to th? comptroller's offlce on recommen¬ dation of O'Connor. Although Diggs declined to di.*- cuss the shake-up, it was learned that he bitterly resented the man¬ ner in which his reRlgnatlon was demanded. Horse Swims Golden Gate (UP) - an un- San Francisco, Oct, 1. Blackie, a horse wMth common liking for water, swam across the Golden Gate channel today in 23 minutes ],' seconds, only two minutes slower than the human record. It was the first feat of Its kind since the early Spanish settlers "commuted" across .San Francisco Bay by using the tails of swimming horses for towlines, Blackie, trained to a fine edge, was lowered intn the channel at Lime Point on the marine side of the Golden Gate. Through the rough waters of the Golden Gate "Potato Patch," acro.ss the steamer lines of the world famed entrance to San Francisco Bay, Blackie struck out with strong strides and headed directly for Cris,sey Field on the San Francisco shore of the channel. He reached the goal without faltering and appeared scarcely winded from the twn and one- half mile grind. ^^ 1 V'i^ \^ W"^ miMr* fit<*-wnMF^ * ** MMHHi^'* 'f'*"'^ tBmwvvS Wm\ PEASANTS WELCOME WORKERS Repairing Roads, Undo Damage Caused Dynamiting Barriers OPEN RAILROAD ¦rr Henlein Named Commissioner Promise to Relieve Unemployment in Hill Districts Berlin, Oct. 1, (UP' Konrad Henlein has been appointed leich commissioner of Sudeten¬ land by Adolf Hitler, it wa.i officially announced tonight. Hrilein's position will be simi¬ lnr tn that of .Insef Buerckel. reich commissioner in Austria. I'he Sudeten leader will be re¬ sponsible to Hitler. It was slated tonight tlial Hitler would go to Eger, former frontier city, Monday to make a triumphant entrance into Sudetenland, similar to his entry into Austria after the anschluss. REFUGEES FROM SUOEIENLAND Barrage of Flowers Instead of Bullets Greets Marching Men Nazi Flaps Out and Welcomes Greet Returning Refugees: German Troops .Move in icith Timely Precision of Prussian Military Machine of Old Prime Minister Chamberlain, left, of Great Britain and Premie.- Mussolini of Italy never had met before the four-power parley at Munich. But this radio picture shows them together at the cmfer- ?nce. One of the results of their meeting is believed a strengthening of the Italo-British pact signed last Easter but as yet inoperaive. In A .•'ield, at German rehabili- SCRANION MAN lAFL ASKS MANY 3-YEARtOBOY HANGS HIMSELF JCHANGESFOR IN PENITENIIARY LABOR PROGRAM Township Tot Darts In Front of Car; Other Accidents Here Found Dangling by Crude Rope from Radiator Pipe Green Will Cite Flaws in Policies At Convention JAP TROOPS HEAD FOR SOUTH CHINA Shanghai. Oct. 1. lUPi Thirty .lapanese transports loaded with troops left Woosung tonight, pre¬ sumably to attack Snuth China. Thirty nther transports already were enroute south with troops from Tsingtao. There were in¬ creasing rumors in Canton that a Japanese attack was being plan¬ ned. WANTS PLEBISCITE TO END WAR IN SPAIN Barcelona, Oct, 1 (UP) - Premier .luan Negrin of Loyalist Spain favors a settlement hy plehiscil." of the Issues al stake in the .Span¬ ish civil war, it was disclosed to¬ da.v. In a speech hefore the Cortes. Negrin indirectly prnposed a plebis¬ cite in a series of rhetorical ques¬ tions. Addressing himself to Spaniards living in rebel territory, Nefiria said that on most important point.s Iheir ideals were the same as the Republican government's. daladier'arranges" program for peace Paris. Oct. 1 (UPi Premier Kd- ntiard Daladier conferred with Fnr¬ eign Minister Genrges Bonnet to¬ day over a roughly outlined sched¬ ule of diplomatic activity designed to promote more friendly relations .^with Italy and other European powers. Inspired by manifestations o( sood will at the four-power con¬ ference in Munich Frida.v, Dali- dier moved to adopt a tentative program for presentation to the full cabinet and the council of ministers on Tuesday. Peler Gillis jr., 7 Charles streel, Wilkes-Barrc township, was seri¬ ously injured last evening about 6 oclock when he darted acrosa North Empire street in front of the automobile of Albert Caster- line, 21 North Dickerson street. Laurel Run. Picked up by Casterline, he was hurried to the Homeopathic Hos¬ pital where his condition early this morning was reported as seri¬ ous. He IS suffering from a possi¬ ble fractured skull, a fractured femur nnd bru.sh burns. Casterline was taken before Aldreman Frank B. Brown ami charged with assault hy automo¬ bile. He was released on S.IOO hail. He declared the accident was un¬ avoidable hecause the child darted into the side of his car directly from the curb. Cara (>a«h Michacl D, Stak, ISR George street. Plains, and Sheldon Morgan, 126 (5illigan slreet, figured in a collision on South Main street yes¬ terday afternoon that resulted in seVious damages to the cars each was driving, Stak was travelling north on South Main street when he said Morgan, travelling south, sudenly pulled out of line and crashed into his car. Neither of the drivers was hurt. Both were released to appear in police court this morning. Falls Down Ste|>« Charles Connors, fifi, of 69 North VVashington street, wa.s treated at General Ho.spitln yesterday after police found him at the bottom of the steps leading to the Market street bridge. Houston, Tex., Using an improvised noose fash- j,^^,^;^ changes Ioned out of shoe strings, a belt and bed clothing, James Hoban, thirty, whose address on police records at the time of his arrest in 1933 was listed as 132fi Capouse avenue, Scranton, and who was serving a sentence of sixteen and one-half years in the Eastern Peni- tenitary for burglary, hanged him- Monda self in his cell in the penitentiary President yesterday morning. A guard discovered Hoban's body hanging from a radiator pipe. The victim apparently had climbed onto a ledge, attached one end of the crudely made rope to the pipe and the other end around his neck, and then jumped to his death. Sentenred in 1)«.1.3 Hoban, whose name figured In police records since 1922, was sen¬ tenced by Judge C. M. Culver ot Towanda, specially presiding here, on June 2, 1933, to serve ten to twenty years in the penitentiary on a charge of breaking into the Col. L, A. Watrcs Armory and stealing a number of guns and a large Oct. 1. (UP) - in virtually all of President Roosevelt's reforms touching the economic lives of wnrkingmen appeared certain to¬ night to be demanded by the American Federation of Labor ,'58th annual convention, which opens on William Green will cite the flaws his organization has found in New Deal I^bor policies in a keynote speech which will be broadcast over a nationwide hook¬ up (.N'BCl at 12:30 p.m. (ESTi. Remedial steps which the federa¬ tion will insist upon, however, were etched sharply during the past week in pre-convention meetings and secret huddles among union heads who dominate the organiza¬ tion's policies. They include: 1. - Amendments to the Wagner already Act to curb the power of the National Labor Relations Board. 2. A fight in the U.S. Senate to quantity of ammunition. Two other : prevent the reappointment FAMED ENGINEER REPORTED MISSING New York, Oct. 1 (UP) Police of New York and eight eastern stales searched today for Col, Wil¬ liam J. Wilgus, one of the nation's mo.^it distinguished engineers, who was reported mysleriousl.v missing frnm his home al Weathersfield, Vt. Colonel Wilgus, 72, was last seen yesterday morning near the rail¬ road station al Bellows Falls, Vt, Kidnapped Baby Chimpanzee Finally Returned to its Mother local young men, William Honjo and John Knapp, who were con- j victcd in connection with the same i job, were given similar sentences. Hoban was also sentenced to I serve the remainder of his parole I period, automatically boosting his | sentence to sixteen and one-half years. In August, 1934, Hoban was de¬ clared insane hy a sanity commis¬ sinn frnm Lackawanna county which visited him at the peniten- : tiary, and he was transferred tn the State Hnspilal fnr the Criminal Insane at Farview. Acting upon the recommendations nf the hos¬ pital authorities, the local court directed hia return to the peni¬ tentiary on July 2,'i, last. According to the loi'al police records, Hoban was first arrested on June l,^, 1922, on a charge ol I burglary. He won his freedom and was not arrested again unlil .Janu¬ ary 10, 192<i, when he was taken into custody on an attempted bur¬ glary charge. He pleaded guilty and sentence was suspended. On February 16, 1029, he was sentenced to serve four lo eight years in the penitentiary on a series of bui- glary charges and he was out on parole when arrested for the armory burglary, of the With German Army Tusset, Oct, 1. (UPl labor army for economic tation of the Sudetenland moved across the Czech frontier tonight in the wake of Nazi troops. The cheers of ragged natives for the "rescuing" military had hardly died oul before the Reich began "talking over" in an economic way. Another army came-the Labor Service Corps with field kitchens, supply trains and other equipment. Repair Damage Their firsl task was to level off a rocky road in lliis mountainous district and repair a jagged scar on the hillside where the Germans were forced to dynamite a Czech tank barrier formed of railroad ties embedded deeply in concrete. The German troops — probably about 30,000 strong- took over the first area on the BavariBn-Austrian border this afternoon. An official announcement said the second area, nn the nnrthern Czech bnrder, will be taken over starting at 1 p. m. Sunday. Rain and fog hung over the Sudelic Mountains as the occupa¬ tion began, but the peasants warm- I.V welcomed Germany's untried army, and they looked with hope at the Labor Service Corps which followed. First Train Arrive* Two hours after entry of the troops, the first German railroai train puffed along a litlle single track line which had seen almost no traflic in recent months. There was only one engine and one freight car but it caused great excitement in the village of Tusset, which is in the occupied territory. General Weissenberger, quarter¬ master of the mountain troops that occupied the district, said that he had discussed with oflfi¬ cials at Passau the pressing need for relieving unemployment in the hill districts. The first work, he said, probabl.v will be road build- L Prevent Outbreaks Despite Bitterness: Feel Nation Saved Donald Wakeman Smith to the ing. That will be folowed by other NLR'B. I measures for raising he living .1. Changes in the wages-hours standard "of these inhal tants who (Continued on Page A-ll) ! (Continued on Page A-lli Britain Now Fearful Of Political Revolt FRANCO PREDICTS VICTORY IS NEAR London, Oct, 1 (UP) Prime Min¬ ister Neville Chamberlain, hailed through the Empire and Europe as the savior of peace, tonight faced a political revolt at home as a result of the resignation of Al¬ fred Duff Cooper as first lord of the admiralty because he "pro¬ foundly distrusts" Chamberlain's foreign policy. The resignation of Duff Cooper from the cabinet brought intn the open once more a long-smoulder¬ ing conflict wilhin the dominant Conservative party in regard lo making peace with Fuehrer Hiller and Premier Mussolini. I Uppoae Sacrifice | The opposition, led by Duff Cooper and Anlhony Eden, whn re¬ signed as fnreign secjetary month.- ago, maintained that sentiment for peace among Germans would hav.: cost of peace has been fully ana¬ lyzed and the dangers of capilula-. lion if such il was In the dicta¬ tors are clearer, he mighl face a different situation, DistruKto Policy Duff-Cooper's letter of resigna¬ tion said: "It is exerlemely painful to me at the moment of your great tri¬ umph to be obliged to ."Strike a dis¬ cordant note. For reasons with which you are acquainted, and which I propose to explain in the House of Commons in due course, 1 profoundly distrust the foreign pol¬ icy whirh the present government is pursuing and seems likely to con¬ linue lo pursue. 1 "Feeling as 1 do, I consider that i honor and loyalty demand I should ' offer my resignation. I do so with profound regret berause I have Prague. Oct. 1 (UPi Trains ar¬ riving tonight from the German- ocrupicd Sudetenland were crowded with refugees who found their capital sullen in grief and anger over the government's acceptance of the Munich accord. The Czech refugee.s came, quietly and without disorder, into a city boiling with resentment over ces¬ sion of the .Sudeten territory to Germany, the loss of the Teschen- Silesia area lo Poland, and tljc de¬ mand of Hungary for possession of ii,s own mnioritiea. No Outbreak* While citizens milled through the streets, parading in small groups or gathering to talk in undertones of their country's plight, uniformed police stood vigilant againsi out¬ breaks of demonstrations. The arm.v under orders of Gen. Ludvig Krejci stood firm in support of the goverumenl's demand that there be no outbreaks of a threat¬ ening nature. Gen. Jan Syrovy, premier of Czechoslovakia, made a fervent plea for peace, and the populace appeared to be making a sirong effort to swallow resentment and pride in heeding his words. Saved the Nation "We had to choose between the dealh of our nation and the dimin¬ ution of our power," the one- eyed premier told the nation in the broadcast. "Wc will not be the smallest nation in the world there arc still smaller nations which are healthy and prosperous. "There is still enough territory left us tn develop and have pros¬ perity. I am living through Ihe mosl diflTuult moment of my life because I must carry out the task which is more tragic than death. But I must recognize the fact that a superior force has been raised against us." People Bitter ) The people, ea.sed inlo the grad¬ ual belief that they would lose the Sudden territory when the cabinet of Premier Milan. Hodza resigned last week, neverincless took the premieres words bitterly. By thousands they poured into the streets lo shout their defiance and haired nf Germany, Poland and Hungary, Tlicy swarmed round the statue of "Gond King Wences- laus," the 14tli century Emperor nf Germany and King of Bohemia who is their natinnal hero. Tonight, however, they seemed mnre quiet, more resigned to their fate, j normanThomas Ts GOVERNOR CANDIDATE , Hendaye, Fench-Spanish Fron¬ tier, Oct, 1—(UP) Generalissimo forced Hitler to abandon his plans been so proud to hold my present for attacking Czechoslovakia .f office, one I envied beyond all only Britain and France had slnml others in the state, and have been firm. They, with support of Labor so grateful lo you for having Francisco Franco celebrated the and Liberal partv elements, argued placed such confidence in me and New Orleans, Oct. 1, (UP) - A starving baby chimpanzee, kid¬ napped three days ago, was re¬ stored to its mother today. Officials of Audubon Zoo had pleaded for days with Luisettc, a female chimpanzee, to give up the baby Coco, her cellmate, Luisette merely chattered and screamed and attendants interpreted this as meaning shc considered the baby one she bore and lost two years ago. The baby chimp, unable lo nurse its mother, was st I ving to dealh. Attendants called in a baby spe second anniversary of his leader¬ ship nf Nationalist Spain tonight with a nation wide broadcast in which he predicted th« "Hour of was near. BRITISH POLICE KILL 12 IN JERUSALEM cialist who suggested that Luizette ! bahy in her arms. be given a nanotic. The Idea was discarded on the theory thai holli the bahy and her foster-mother might die. Advice from other zoos Victory" included a suggestion tliat hand¬ cuffs be employed and thai a lasso might be the thing. Both plans failed. Today the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty lo Animals ad-' Jerusalem, Oct, 1. (UP) Forty vised thai Luizette's hands might members of an armed band were be tied to the cage bars and lhj| killed In a clash wilh British police bahy rescued. So the chimp's j aided by airplanes at Ramallah hands were lied and an attendant j today, crawled in the cage and took the In another clash wilh British kidnaped baby. Coco shrieked « troops near Haifa, 12 members of jabbering thanks and cuddled the a band were killed Police con- that the governmeni paid too high a price for peace in sacrificing Cz'^choslovakia. The result may be a further cab¬ inet split, although reliable sources for having shown me such invari¬ able kindness and patience." Relax War Movea Chamberlain replied that he re- rived the resignation with "great New Ynrk, Oct, 1. (,UPi .Nor¬ man Thomas, veteran Sociali-*t leader and former presidential candidate, was nominated by dele¬ gates to Ihe stale convention of lhat party today as candidate fnr Governor. Socialist leaders said thnl Thnmas would campaign on the issue of keeping America out of war. HUNGARY'S PREMIER ISSUES HIS DEMANDS I By \VF,nR MIl.l.KR I (CopjTight, IBSS, by Inited Press) I With the German Army in the \ Field, Oct. 1, (UP) German troops marched across the frontier nf Czechnslovakia today in a barrage of flowers instead of bullets. j Peasants in wooden shoes cheer- 1 ed and tossed flowers at the steel- I helmeted soldiers. Nazi flags long hidden flapped over the village of Kuschwarda as troops goose-stepped smartly be¬ neath a crude and hastily erected j arch of triumph. i Army Leads Refugee* Bands played. Armored ears, artillery caissons, machine gun units and anti-tank guns rumbled ahead of lines of refugees on foot, on bicycles, in ox carts and in aulo- mnhiles as Sudeten Germans came home rejoicing. Ahead of me, as I accompaneid the column of 3,000 troops under the (General Hartmann, an old peas, ant woman rushed tearfully to kiss her returning refugee son. A man tore the Czech mobili¬ zation order from the customs house wall and gave it to me as a souvenir. Five gray-green columns of Nazi soldiers moved peacefully from the ' Bavarian forests into a part of Czechoslovakia jutting in from the frontier near the Austrian border the firsl Czech area to be occupied under the four-power agreement for partitioning the republic in the in- terest!? of peace, Czechs Hold Powerful Line Czech soldiers, grim-f.iced and downhearted, withdrew from the bnrder and back across the Moldau River - bul tonight they were still holding cement pill boxes in Iheir great new defense line. One captain told me: "We are withdrawing now under orders, but we would rather fight." When I left him, the Germans and Czechs were facing each other over a distance of about 100 yards, with Moldau River between. The firsl (jcrman troops entered , Czech territory exactly at the zero hour 2 p, m, -and wilh the pre- i cision of the Prussian miliiary ', machine of old. They poured into the Republic on a 20-mile frnnt in the first of a series of four ; major occupation maneuvers which eventually will extend the boundar- I ies nf Greater Germany to hiclude ' the homeland nf 3,000,000 Sudetens. ' Take 640 Square Mile» [ The rnlumn I arc ompanied was typical nf the five that tnday be- | gan taking over an area of about 640 square miles. They expected to complete the operation Sunday. i General Harlmann's column en- ' tered at the tiny frontier post northeast of Freyung. As il ap- i peared the long-hidden Nazi flag.i ¦ were brought oul by the populac?. The Geiiiirtn.-( were informed that the Czechs had blown up a bridge across the Moldau, but when I arrived lo invcsUgate the report I found the bridge intact. The Czech troops, who held me , unlil they learned 1 was an Amer- ' ican, permitted me lo visit their headquarters acro.ss the river. There I saw about 100 men in uni¬ forms similar to the American war¬ time uniform. They were dejected- 1 l.v loading furniiure and equipment into ox carts but they had not yet ! moved out of their fortified line. There was no ceremon.v as the Hartmann column entered the re¬ public. Czech troops had fallen back acro.ss the river during the night and only two Czech police- j men were at the frontier. The gen¬ eral stepped briskly up to them and discussed conditions for entry. They withdrew. The order to march was snapped down Ihe line. Three heavy, gray steel armored cars limibered across Ihe frontier ,^fallowed by six light armored cSi^ and a company of infantry. Every ' branch of the service waa repre¬ sented amnng the force* entering Czech territory. Naii Signs Appear ' The frontier there was merely • culvert with a red, white and blu« post. On one side waa the Ger» I man insignia and on the other a plaque with the Czech coat of i arms. It was quickly decorated j wilh Nazi flags. One hu:idred pea.sant women wearing wooden shoes and with colored cloths over their heads cheered the troops aa they crossed. Two German customs officiala in green uniforms crossed to the ston* customs hnuse on the Czech side. Refugees were returning more rapidly than the troops could move in. They were Sudetens who had fled to German soil when war seemed certain. Some were on fool, some on bicycles and some, more affluent, rode in automobiles from which they waved Nazi flags. Immediately after passing the Czech customs barrier, the Ger¬ mans removed the "drive left" ¦iigns along the road and pul up "drive righl" signs. Welcomed by Sudetens Grinning, cheering Sudetens lined the road.s to welcome the incoming troops as the Hartmann column moved to llic lown of Kuschwarda, where a welcoming arch had been erected during the nighl. It was just a rough i.ine frame lovered with pine braiulie.".. bul hundreds of persons lined the streets to shout a welcome as the head of the column came inlo view. Two heavy eight-wheeled armor¬ ed cars roused thr crowd to franli(3 cheers. Many of them gave tha Nazi salute. Flowers fell around the troops in such profusion that the armored car drivers were con¬ stantly dodging them. Many of the natives, I was told, had waited all night in the sti eels to welcome the Germans. General Hartmann entered on horseback behind a band and took a position in the main square. There he reviewed the soldiers who goose-stepped by in rinse for¬ mation for more than half an hour. No Censorship Then a proclamation tn fhe Sudetens hy General von Leeh was posted. It began: "The hour ot freedom has come," By the lime we gol there, ths people of Kuschwarda already had pasted paper over all Czech aigns on the slreets. One curious thing about ths occupation was that no airplanes were used. It was explained that the operation was so small In scope that no planes were needed. Within flve minutes after ths first troops had rros-'cd the fron¬ tier, the signal corps began string¬ ing wires inlo the Sudetenland, There has been no censorship on newspaper correspondents. This story, telephoned direct to London, has not been seen by any German official. PREDICTS NAZIS WILL WANT POLAND NEXT Moscow, Oct. 1. lUPi The Com¬ munist party organ Pravda pre¬ dicted today that (Germany's next move in central FIrope would bs the partitioning nf Poland. Poland'.s international policy, stimulated by pro-Hitler Polish landlords, the newspaper said, will strengthen Fascist "aggression" In central Erope, "thereby digging ths grave for Polish independence." "The time is nearing," Pravda said, "when Fascist Germany, drunk with unpunished bulldozing, will raise the question of partition¬ ing Poland." I fiscated a large quantity of rifles. expressed belief that could avoided. They pointed out that Chamberlain is the man credited wilh avoiding war and that, for the time being at least, he's backed to the limit by popular sentiment. .. Parliamentary circles speculated whether Chamberlain would move Admiralty granted week-end leaves to defeal this conservative party and the Air Ministry released per- ' rebellion by calling a general elec- .sonnel called up dring the week, lion aoon instead of waiting until All naval pensioners and reservists next autumn. A vote now probably who were called up but had not would give him an overwhelming left their homes wers told not to victory. Later, however, after ths report i ^^ personal regret" but that he knew Duff Coper waa sincere and that he agreed "il would not be proper for you to remain a member of the government." Meanwhile, Britain relaxed ^rom her preparations for war. The Budapest. Hungary, Oct. 1. 'VP' - Premier Bela Imredy outlined in a radio speech tonight Hungary's | demands regarding Czechoalovakia. [ Hungary demands the cession of territory occupied hy the Hungar¬ ian minority in Czechoslovakia. Imredy said the demands were based on the Munich agreement. He praised F'uchrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini, He snid that the Munich agree¬ ment was an acknowledgement of Hungary's national demands and that Hungary could nol be satis¬ fied until th* demands wers car- i ried out. | Worcester Evening Post Suspends; Property Will Be Liquidated Worcester, Mass., Oct. 1 (UPl — Publisher Winfield A, Schuster in today's final edition announced suspension of publication of his Worcester (Eveningi Poat, 47-year- old daily newspaper. Schuster became sole owner May 1, 1936 when he purchased it from the Worcester Post Corporation of which John H Kahcy, former ad¬ ministrator of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation was prinripal stockholder. At that time, Schuster said the paper was losing money, I hut his alatement today mads nS reference lo finances. He gave increased need of his personal supervision of Haywood I Textile Mills as reaaon for the I suspension. I The end of the Post leaves Wor¬ cester with one morning and one evening paper, the Telegram and the Gazette, both published by George F. Booth. Booth an- i nounced later that he had pur¬ chased announced later lhat he had purchased the Post's assets and I would liquidate ths property.
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Full Text | 'A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Weather Sundny. Fair Monday: Cloudy, warmer FORTY-FOUR PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1938 PRICE TEN CENTS SWASTIKAS FLY SUDETENLAND German Labor Army Crosses Border Morgenthau Shakes up Staff of Controller lltalo-British Pact Seen Demands Resignation Of Top-Ranking Treasury Officials W«,«hinKton, Oct, 1, (UP) Serre- tnry of the Treasury Morgenthau, in a nudden shakeup of the comp¬ troller of currency's oflfice, forced Ihe resignation of twn top-ranking officials and appointed his special assistant to one of the vacancies, it became known today. Differences over hanking poli¬ cies, subject of bitter behind-the- scenes conflict in the treasury, were understood to be the cause of Morgenlhau's action. The secretary Friday afternoon demanded the resignation of Mar¬ shall R, Diggs, first deputy comp¬ troller who has been acting comp¬ troller since April, and G, J. Oppe- gard, deputy comptroller. He gave them 24 hours to quit. They pre¬ sented their resignations .vesterday. Today Morgenthau appointed, his special assistant, Cyril B, Uphani, as first deputy comptroller. TelU of Reqiie«t In announcing Upham's appoint¬ ment. Morgenthau emphasized hr was doing so only at the request of the Incoming comptroller, Pres¬ ton nelano. Delano recentl.v was named by President Roosevelt to fill the vacancy created by tho resignation last April of J. F, T O'Connor. Upham, an lowan, is a bsnkiiiK and credit authoritv. He has a wide circle of friends on Capitol Hill, where he served as Morgon- thau's liaison man with Congres.^--. Both DIjgs and Oppegard will continue In government service a.s membera of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's legal staff. Diggs intends to r«inain with the FDIC until the end nf the year and then return to private law prac¬ tice. Both were appointed to th? comptroller's offlce on recommen¬ dation of O'Connor. Although Diggs declined to di.*- cuss the shake-up, it was learned that he bitterly resented the man¬ ner in which his reRlgnatlon was demanded. Horse Swims Golden Gate (UP) - an un- San Francisco, Oct, 1. Blackie, a horse wMth common liking for water, swam across the Golden Gate channel today in 23 minutes ],' seconds, only two minutes slower than the human record. It was the first feat of Its kind since the early Spanish settlers "commuted" across .San Francisco Bay by using the tails of swimming horses for towlines, Blackie, trained to a fine edge, was lowered intn the channel at Lime Point on the marine side of the Golden Gate. Through the rough waters of the Golden Gate "Potato Patch," acro.ss the steamer lines of the world famed entrance to San Francisco Bay, Blackie struck out with strong strides and headed directly for Cris,sey Field on the San Francisco shore of the channel. He reached the goal without faltering and appeared scarcely winded from the twn and one- half mile grind. ^^ 1 V'i^ \^ W"^ miMr* fit<*-wnMF^ * ** MMHHi^'* 'f'*"'^ tBmwvvS Wm\ PEASANTS WELCOME WORKERS Repairing Roads, Undo Damage Caused Dynamiting Barriers OPEN RAILROAD ¦rr Henlein Named Commissioner Promise to Relieve Unemployment in Hill Districts Berlin, Oct. 1, (UP' Konrad Henlein has been appointed leich commissioner of Sudeten¬ land by Adolf Hitler, it wa.i officially announced tonight. Hrilein's position will be simi¬ lnr tn that of .Insef Buerckel. reich commissioner in Austria. I'he Sudeten leader will be re¬ sponsible to Hitler. It was slated tonight tlial Hitler would go to Eger, former frontier city, Monday to make a triumphant entrance into Sudetenland, similar to his entry into Austria after the anschluss. REFUGEES FROM SUOEIENLAND Barrage of Flowers Instead of Bullets Greets Marching Men Nazi Flaps Out and Welcomes Greet Returning Refugees: German Troops .Move in icith Timely Precision of Prussian Military Machine of Old Prime Minister Chamberlain, left, of Great Britain and Premie.- Mussolini of Italy never had met before the four-power parley at Munich. But this radio picture shows them together at the cmfer- ?nce. One of the results of their meeting is believed a strengthening of the Italo-British pact signed last Easter but as yet inoperaive. In A .•'ield, at German rehabili- SCRANION MAN lAFL ASKS MANY 3-YEARtOBOY HANGS HIMSELF JCHANGESFOR IN PENITENIIARY LABOR PROGRAM Township Tot Darts In Front of Car; Other Accidents Here Found Dangling by Crude Rope from Radiator Pipe Green Will Cite Flaws in Policies At Convention JAP TROOPS HEAD FOR SOUTH CHINA Shanghai. Oct. 1. lUPi Thirty .lapanese transports loaded with troops left Woosung tonight, pre¬ sumably to attack Snuth China. Thirty nther transports already were enroute south with troops from Tsingtao. There were in¬ creasing rumors in Canton that a Japanese attack was being plan¬ ned. WANTS PLEBISCITE TO END WAR IN SPAIN Barcelona, Oct, 1 (UP) - Premier .luan Negrin of Loyalist Spain favors a settlement hy plehiscil." of the Issues al stake in the .Span¬ ish civil war, it was disclosed to¬ da.v. In a speech hefore the Cortes. Negrin indirectly prnposed a plebis¬ cite in a series of rhetorical ques¬ tions. Addressing himself to Spaniards living in rebel territory, Nefiria said that on most important point.s Iheir ideals were the same as the Republican government's. daladier'arranges" program for peace Paris. Oct. 1 (UPi Premier Kd- ntiard Daladier conferred with Fnr¬ eign Minister Genrges Bonnet to¬ day over a roughly outlined sched¬ ule of diplomatic activity designed to promote more friendly relations .^with Italy and other European powers. Inspired by manifestations o( sood will at the four-power con¬ ference in Munich Frida.v, Dali- dier moved to adopt a tentative program for presentation to the full cabinet and the council of ministers on Tuesday. Peler Gillis jr., 7 Charles streel, Wilkes-Barrc township, was seri¬ ously injured last evening about 6 oclock when he darted acrosa North Empire street in front of the automobile of Albert Caster- line, 21 North Dickerson street. Laurel Run. Picked up by Casterline, he was hurried to the Homeopathic Hos¬ pital where his condition early this morning was reported as seri¬ ous. He IS suffering from a possi¬ ble fractured skull, a fractured femur nnd bru.sh burns. Casterline was taken before Aldreman Frank B. Brown ami charged with assault hy automo¬ bile. He was released on S.IOO hail. He declared the accident was un¬ avoidable hecause the child darted into the side of his car directly from the curb. Cara (>a«h Michacl D, Stak, ISR George street. Plains, and Sheldon Morgan, 126 (5illigan slreet, figured in a collision on South Main street yes¬ terday afternoon that resulted in seVious damages to the cars each was driving, Stak was travelling north on South Main street when he said Morgan, travelling south, sudenly pulled out of line and crashed into his car. Neither of the drivers was hurt. Both were released to appear in police court this morning. Falls Down Ste|>« Charles Connors, fifi, of 69 North VVashington street, wa.s treated at General Ho.spitln yesterday after police found him at the bottom of the steps leading to the Market street bridge. Houston, Tex., Using an improvised noose fash- j,^^,^;^ changes Ioned out of shoe strings, a belt and bed clothing, James Hoban, thirty, whose address on police records at the time of his arrest in 1933 was listed as 132fi Capouse avenue, Scranton, and who was serving a sentence of sixteen and one-half years in the Eastern Peni- tenitary for burglary, hanged him- Monda self in his cell in the penitentiary President yesterday morning. A guard discovered Hoban's body hanging from a radiator pipe. The victim apparently had climbed onto a ledge, attached one end of the crudely made rope to the pipe and the other end around his neck, and then jumped to his death. Sentenred in 1)«.1.3 Hoban, whose name figured In police records since 1922, was sen¬ tenced by Judge C. M. Culver ot Towanda, specially presiding here, on June 2, 1933, to serve ten to twenty years in the penitentiary on a charge of breaking into the Col. L, A. Watrcs Armory and stealing a number of guns and a large Oct. 1. (UP) - in virtually all of President Roosevelt's reforms touching the economic lives of wnrkingmen appeared certain to¬ night to be demanded by the American Federation of Labor ,'58th annual convention, which opens on William Green will cite the flaws his organization has found in New Deal I^bor policies in a keynote speech which will be broadcast over a nationwide hook¬ up (.N'BCl at 12:30 p.m. (ESTi. Remedial steps which the federa¬ tion will insist upon, however, were etched sharply during the past week in pre-convention meetings and secret huddles among union heads who dominate the organiza¬ tion's policies. They include: 1. - Amendments to the Wagner already Act to curb the power of the National Labor Relations Board. 2. A fight in the U.S. Senate to quantity of ammunition. Two other : prevent the reappointment FAMED ENGINEER REPORTED MISSING New York, Oct. 1 (UP) Police of New York and eight eastern stales searched today for Col, Wil¬ liam J. Wilgus, one of the nation's mo.^it distinguished engineers, who was reported mysleriousl.v missing frnm his home al Weathersfield, Vt. Colonel Wilgus, 72, was last seen yesterday morning near the rail¬ road station al Bellows Falls, Vt, Kidnapped Baby Chimpanzee Finally Returned to its Mother local young men, William Honjo and John Knapp, who were con- j victcd in connection with the same i job, were given similar sentences. Hoban was also sentenced to I serve the remainder of his parole I period, automatically boosting his | sentence to sixteen and one-half years. In August, 1934, Hoban was de¬ clared insane hy a sanity commis¬ sinn frnm Lackawanna county which visited him at the peniten- : tiary, and he was transferred tn the State Hnspilal fnr the Criminal Insane at Farview. Acting upon the recommendations nf the hos¬ pital authorities, the local court directed hia return to the peni¬ tentiary on July 2,'i, last. According to the loi'al police records, Hoban was first arrested on June l,^, 1922, on a charge ol I burglary. He won his freedom and was not arrested again unlil .Janu¬ ary 10, 192 |
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