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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Weather Sunday: Fair and warmer. Monday: Wanner, eloudy. 33RD YEAR, NO. 17—55 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1939 PRICE TEN CENTS POLES GIVE NAZIS NEW WARNING SOFT COAL MINERS ORDERED TO WORK BY UNION LEADERS *• \ Chandler Defies Lewis with Troops As Six Groups Fail to Sign New Ynrk, May i^ (UP)—Go-to- orders, effective Monday, ^t oul today to most of the na¬ tion's sofl coal miners, ending n stoppage which hnd threatened to create an acute fuel emergency. ' The United Mine Workers of America instructed the greal ma¬ jority of Ils 340,(Xin eastern mem- I hers to join I2B,000 western miners in a nation-wide resumption of soft coal production nexl week. The orders followed the ratifi¬ cation, hy the joint Appalachian wage-hour conference, of a union shop contract with the UMWA and IS of the 21 operator.s' associations ¦ of the eight-state region. | >lnny Othein Already Signed A majority of operators outside Ihe Appnlnchinn aren. who in past yenrs hnd awaited the action of Iheir enstern colleagues, ijr^ndy hnd signed ngreements with the union, ending n sympath.v walkout whirh started May 4 and 5. Uninn officinls snid thnt most of the operators represented by the six Appnlachinn nssociationn wHo refused to ratify the contracl were expecled to sign up individually next week. Mnny, they said, have tinloii district leader, for Monday. |. Today's action by the Appnln- ; chlnn conference climaxed nine weeks of tedious and c'ten bitter , negotiations which started Mnrch i 14. The new contract renews the wage-hour provisions of the 1M7-3!) agreement, which expired Mnrrh ,11 nnd contnins in addition two sen¬ tences giving the I'MWA n com¬ plete union shop making member¬ ship in the organization a condi¬ tion of employment. The wage-hour provisions re-establish the .l.'^-hour week nnd the old dailv basic wnge of Jfi in the north and $.'5.B0 in thc south Six Withdraw The nix associations which with Every Story Has an Ending Boston, May 13. (UP)—Tues¬ day, Messenger Benjamin Laven. ger, bH, of (1123 Avenue K) Brooklyn, N. Y., thought him¬ self "lucky" when he success¬ fully vanished with $2,000 own¬ ed by Wall Streel Banker. Hen¬ derson & Company. Yesterday, his "luck" contin¬ ued nnd he won the daily douhle which pnid .'J139.70 at Narragan- sett. Todny, while mailing a letter here, he wns arrested for New York authorities. He had $780 in his pocket. "I knew I was on the skids," he said. "Thnt was the only lime I won at 'Ganselt." Tells of His 150-Mile Trip In Dory From Sunken Ship Fishermen Rowed Two Da.vs Through Dense Fos: to Safety After Collision; Held to Course Without Even Compass Poison Syndicate Suspects -^ T Soft Coal Peace^ Encouraging; Meet on Monday Boston, May 13 (UP)—A .un- .corched fisherman, one of 47 sur¬ vivors of Wednesdny's collision In I which two fishing schooners snnk, : snt with his wife and five children I tonight nnd gravely lold how he j fell ns with two compnnlons he rowed 1150 miles to safety in 4.'SH ! hours. "We were all asleep oul there ; when It hnppened," snid Andrew ! Decker, who with Cornelius Murphy of Cambridge and Mnrk Cotrenu of Boston rowed to the Moose 'Penk Light const guard sta¬ tion on the easternmost tip of Mnine. The remnining survivors of the crash between the Isabeile Parker and the Edith C. Rose, dressed in nondescript clothes and needing a shave, were brought here today from Yarmouth, N. S., by the coast guard. Only one man died In the accident, apparently of heart dis¬ ease, Hnving doffed his dishevelled clothing nnd finished a huge din¬ ner in his Rockporl cottnge. Decker wa. ready to tell hi. family of the eient. Kept Course In Fog "The Ihree of us put a dory overside nnd jumped in," he snid In telling of the mad scramble from the bunks to the deck. "We hung nroiint a minute, hut It wnn no foggy we couldn't nee nnd nil we MH..I.a U«M— ¦**<^& 9 1**^. !\' j.'^'^P -l.'-.-'t "We pushed off from the Parker when she began to go down and wnited for somebody to come along, but the fog wns so hnd you couldn't see nnylhing. I took Ihe onrs and Connie and Mark tried to get som. sleep, but ll was pretty nenr Im¬ possible becnuse ll wns «o cold." "Well we took turns at the oar. and just kept rowing. You could tell the difference helween day and night, bul in thnt fog thnt was nbout all you could tell. "It was Just breaking light on the second dny when Connie spot¬ ted a light. In a Iltlle while we got ashore and I figured we had kept almost due northwest without a compnss or nnything else." Alnn Saved Hin Dog Cotreaii wnn spending the eve¬ ning with his 73-yenr-old mother whose fisherman husband wta. drowned 3."i years ago. Murphy-, i however, wns spending the eve- j ning playing wllh bin Newfound- Innd dng Teddie, who hnd been tnken off the ship by men In one of the other dories. j Theirs had been a vigorous meet¬ ing on the dock thin morning. Murphy had crushed the dog in his nrms fnr n minute, then held I It oul by one hand nnd said: "You stny with me after thin. Why If you'd been nlong with u. we could have enten you." | 'i-ioVeA &'«.«trc4-ti"i . 1,V<^ Slow Suicide In Hospital San Jose, Cal., May 18. (UP)— George Mathews, 39, .aleeman, .lowly committeed aulcld. over a three week, period at county hospital while unsuspecting doc¬ tors and nurses hovered around him. Mathews wan taken toth. ho.- pltnl three week, ago and given treatment for alcoholism. Unknown to the doctor., Mathewn began eating deadly, .low-acting poison tablets while he law on his hospital cot. Todny h. explained what he had done. Then he died. David Brandt, Uft, and Morris Bolber, right, at a court hearing in I'hlla¬ delphia. They are accused n. leaders of the murder-for-lnsurance ring NCREASEDINCOilG AND QUEEN shouting. ' barked. New York. May 13 (UP) Wage- hour contract negotiators for the United Mine Workers of America and I'ennsylvania anthracite oper- j ators were recessed today until i Monday afler agreeing to a third ; week's extension of the preaent contract which expired April 30. The extension, approved lnte yes¬ terday, slaved off n possibh shut-1 down of mines employing 100,000 Six Are Badly Hurt in Four-Car Crash Here Family of Five Sent to Hospital; Car Demolished workers. II wns Indicated that thc drew' fro"m" the conference" in pro- | ^,'"K'''''',t^;" pm^ably^ wmijd settle test agninst the union shop which John L. Lewln, UMWA presidenl. had remanded ns a jurisdictional protection were: Southern Appnlachinn of eastern Tennessee and eastern Kentucky. Virginia. Harlnn county, Ky.: Big Sandv-Elkhorn of eastern Ken- j ally clauses tucky and Kanawha of southern West Virginia. All belonged to the so-called southern high volatile field which in past contract yeara ha.>t produc¬ ed the most uncompromising re¬ sistance to union demands. The Koppcrs Coal Company, said to be the aecond largest in the nation, and thc Ralcigh-WyomiiiE Mining Company, both of whom have properties in the southern high volatile field aa well as else¬ where, nccepted Lewis's offer, and there were indiiations other opera¬ tors, individually or by groups, would fnllnw «iiit Lewis Warn, ninsentern I^wis warned the six dissenting associations nol to attempt to operate non-union or to employ violence against mine workers. Referring to the statement of Gov. A. B. Chandler of Kentucky that he would send state troops to Harlan county to guard non-union mines. Lewis said: ".Soldiers can'l operate mines or mine coal. The time has come in America when coal miners cannot be shot back inlo thc mines . . . anyone who thinks that mine work¬ ers arc going lo be starved bnck Into the minea under non-union conditions is a fool." LtwI. said there "must not bc any eviction of mine workers from their homes, there must not be any .hooting of mine workers by oper¬ ators or any use of lethal weapons against them." He said his remarks were In- A.nded especially for Harlan coiin- My, Ky., where bloody violence has marked past Inbor disputes. The six associations which with¬ drew from the conference represent about 70,000,000 of thc area's annuni tonnage of 311,000.000 and employ about 70,000 miners. Pledge. Inlon Aid Last night, however, Lewis gnve (Continued on Page A-10) ' n ew of the their differences and sign contrart before expiration extension. Main points whirh held up Ihc conference were thc miners' de¬ mand for a closi'l shop and the operator.s' demand for strike pen- With the signing today of a soft coal contract, it was said, however, that prospects of signing n new two-year anthracite contract ap¬ peared better. Oppone Strike Penaltle. Minora were stronglv opposed to strike penalty rlauscs under which miners may be fined for unauthor¬ ized strikes and operators may be penalized monetarily for lockouts. Operators, al thc same time, were opposed to thc closed shop. Thc operators proposed strike penalty clauses because, they con¬ tend, they have lost hundreds of thousands of man-hours of work under the present contract Ihrough illegal strikes. UMWA officinls re¬ plied thnt the loss nmounled only to 2.,5 per cenl of the mnn-days In¬ volved. Under the present agreement, the union disciplines locals which cnll illegnl strikes by withdrnwing their chnrters and superseding local officers. The U.MWA hns ngreed to continue similar provision in the new cotracl. Let Alibi Out of the Bag Boston, May 1,'i. (UP) De¬ jectedly, James Hornc, 22, of Philndelphin, stood in munici¬ pal court today and mnde no reply when asked if he were guilty of panhandling. By sign language and in writ¬ ing, he insisted he was a "deaf mule." Suddenly Alienist Edouard Sandor. crept behind Home and smashed a paper hng. Home jumped—then admitled lying. He wna given a two-month jail sentence. / Refusal to Quit Political Jobs Causes WPA to Fire 84 Workers Six persons, including an Old Forge mother, father and three small rhildren, were injured In n four-car collision on Ihe Daleville highway la-st night nt a oclock. ; All are patients In the Hahnemann Hospital, Scranton, where they were taken by State Motor Police. Their condition at midnight was given as "fair." I The victims were Stanley Rogou- i ski, 141 Sussex street. Old Fore. I who sustained back injuries and body bruises; his wife, Mary, suf¬ fering from a fractured pelvis and : body bruises: Stanley jr., age 7, I lacerations of the scalp and body i bruises; Edward, 13, possible in¬ ternal injuries, and Joseph, 11, shock and bruises, all passengers in the family car of which the father was the operator; and Benny Schiowitz, 426 Soulh Wash¬ ington street, Scranton, alone in his aulo. Knocked llnconncloun Schiowitz was knocked uncon¬ scious, according to Private Mun¬ son of State Motor Police, who In¬ vestigated. He was revived en¬ route to the hoapital, where il was found that he was suffering from leg and head lacerations. It Is feared he Is injured internally. The four cars involved were operated by Rogouski, Schiowitz, Miss Ivy Doris Harrison of 4317 48th street, Southside, N. Y., and Harry L. Frezert, 43,5 East Mount Airy avenue. Mount Airy, Phila. Private Munson, in reconstructing the accident, said that the Rogou¬ ski car was traveling east on the highway and the three others in a westerly direction. Pulled Out of Line Rogouski was traveling in a line of six or seven cars and, as he was going over a knoll on the highway, reportedly pulled lo the left, struck the Harrison vehicle's front wheel, swung around and struck the car operated by Schiowitz and then crashed head-on into the automo¬ bile whirh Frezert was operating. Traffic was snarled al the scene of the wreck for some time, as passing motorists stopped to ex¬ tricate the victims. The Rogouski vehicle was badly smashed, caved in like an accordion. The car oper¬ ated hy Frezert also was badly damaged. All Ihe accident victims were taken in passing cars to the Hahne¬ mann Hospital. X-rays of their in¬ juries were to be laken early this morning. i Who Said It Was Chilly? Boston, May 13. (UP)—Th? season's first sunburn case wns reported al city hospital today. The victim, John Gavin, 44, hnd fallen asleep on the beach. CUT U. MI Improved Business ^pq.'!, U^sxpeoted ¦ A+d to Treasury- -• - -¦ HALTED BY BERGS Washington, May IS. (UP)— Tighter control over spending and an unexcepted increase in revenue. Treasury statistics indicated today, m.iy reduce the budgeted deficit for the 1939 fiscal year by more than $500,000,000. If the Current trend of Income and spending is maintained during the remainder of the fiscal year which ends June 30, indications are the budget situation may shape up in this fashion. Reverses to .^voiri Collisiow Sailor-Stricken BY Claim Gendarmes Shot Down 22, Attacked Wives Rtetlpti Eiiiiandlturtt . Dflflfilt (nat) . RsvlMif Eitlmita . IS.HIM.IMO.Me . ti.iiM.iinii.Mn i.ioo.nM.nni) Builo«t Eltlmatii .9,9211.070.11011 9.492.129.000 .).972.259.000 T Local Industry Begins to Feel Effects Portland. Ore.. Mny 13. (UP) All Pacifir Conal waterfronts might be¬ come involved in Portland's harbor dispute il appeared tonight when the International Longshoreman's and Warehousemen's Union here designated as "hot cargo" all ship¬ ments diverted from thi. closed port. The union asked its district head¬ quarters in San Frnncisco to ex¬ tend the hot cargo order to all ports. Such action would aid the local in Its fight with the Portland Waterfront Employers' As.sociation. The dispute dates back several months to the refusal of thc Luek¬ enbach Steamship line to observe an NLRB order to reinstate three men belonging to thc Maritime Office Employees' Union, Arbitrator. Present The union's latest move cnme while three federal mediators were laboring to speed compromi.se of the controversy, gravest on the Portland watrfront in two ye.Ti.s. Employers closed the port three days ago after longshormen .^up- porting the office unionists pro¬ test, refused to pass an imaginary picket line around the freighter William Luekenbach. Already locnl industry was be¬ ginning to feel effects of the clo¬ sure. .Sawmills retarded schedules and prepared to shut down if the deadlock is nol broken in thc im¬ mediate future. Budget officials admitted when the 1939 fiacal year estimates were prepared that they based their computations on the comparatively low stale of business activity last year. Business since has improved and so has miscellaneous internal revenue. In addition, corporations did better in the final quarter of 19.'!8 than was anticipated. As a re¬ sult. Income tax receipts increased above expectations In the first quarter this year. Saving Reaerve Fund Another factor bearing on pros¬ pects for a lower deficit is the stronger control exercised by the budget bureau over spending. At the start of the fiscal year, the budget bureau, after hearing from departments and agencies how they Intended to apportion con¬ gressional appropriations, ordered $310,525,236 "impounded" in a re¬ serve fund. This was the amount budget experts decided the depart¬ ment and agencies might save without serious impairment of their operations. In several cases, the budget bureau has been asked to release some of these reserve.. Whereas, In past years, virtually all of the reserve funds have been released by this time of the year, the budget bureau permitted withdrawal of only $12,'),4,')0,227 through April ,30, leaving $185,000,000 remnining. Up lo March 31, $114,000,000 was re¬ leased. Only $11,000,000 was re¬ leased in April and budget offirials indicated they would be increasing¬ ly "hard-boiled" between now and the end of June, Story of reception plans on Page A-10 Aboard S, S. Empress of Aus¬ tralia, May 13. (UP) — Extraordi¬ nary precautions were taken aboard the Empress of Australia tonight after the big liner bearing King George and Queen Elizabeth lo America reversed her engines to escape collision with an iceberg. They will reach Quebec on Tues¬ day, a day lale. Three lookouts, two In the fore¬ castle and one in the crows nest, were posted with relief ordered every two hours as the liner—a dny behind schedule - crawled through a field of icebergs toward Quebec. Ship Reverse. The lookoul men, peering through a grey curtain of fog, suddenly sighted an iceberg dead ahead. The ship', whistle sounded three warn¬ ing blasts and the engines were reversed suddenly. The ship waa brought to a dead halt and, after the two cruisers convoying the liner had maneuvered out of the way, the big liner reversed unlil it was able lo clear the iceberg. The King and Queen were on the promenade deck nt the time and watched the maneuver with great interest. A few minutes later the engines were ngain reversed and, as the fog brnke away, they could see a whole fleld of ice on the starboard. Their majestle., with deck blankets around their shoulders because of the sudden drop In lemperattire, watched from the rail and questioned officers about the Ice fleld. Conditions Improved slightly within the next hour and Iho liner waa proceeding this after¬ noon at four or five knots, but was still more than 200 miles from (^ape Race. The ship made only .ibout 35 miles between daybreak and noon. One cf the members of the crew most Interested in the icebergs was William Lucas, a steward, who waa one of the nurvivors of the Tilnnir, wrecked by an iceberg in mld- Sofla, Bulgaria, May 13. (UP) — rhe government's press department asserted tonight that Rumanian gendarmes attacked and killed 22 Bulgarian. In a frontier Incident al Belicza, near Dobrudja, on Tues¬ day. "On May 9, 22 Bulgarian, ware massacred at Belicza," the depart- i-,-.?rr. -!•>•<' ¦Tr'rf.-.fiiaw .»•¦¦¦: .ii-i:' .i'^V'hnrest bv vnrioua ngenri»«_ at-, templed to describe the victim, aa comiladjis coming from Bulgaria to spy or attack notables and their properties in Dobrudja. The true atory is altogether different. Denerted and Fled i "During the recent Rumanian mobilization 60 Bulgarians from Belicza deserted and sought refuge on Bulgarian territory." The statement continued by charging that Rumanian troops and I gendarme, raped the wives and daughler. of the Bulgarians, som. I ot whom later were finally kill.d ! in a woods by machine gunners. t "Only three succeeded in escap¬ ing, hiding in a.Ietj^^,<i»BA.^^er two terrible nights, woundeo and exhausted, they crossed the frontier to Bulgaria," the statement said. "Th*ir atory of the massacre filled the frontier population with horror and Bulgarian puhlic opinion is running highesl as a result of these attacks and brutality." The press department denied re- i ports of alleged Bulgarian-Greek i frontier incidents. Greece Call. Two Clanne. i London, May 13. (UP) OUBcers and technicians in two classes— 1928 and 1934- have been called lo active Greek army aervire today, it wna learned eliably here tonight. I In addition three claaaea of soldiers from fl 'f dlatricta were ' cnlled up. No further details were immediately availnble due to Greek censorship regulations. Awaiting Demonstration By Germans 1,300,000 ARMED Backed by England And France EXPECT MUSSOLINI TO RENEW DEMANDS IN SPEAKING TOUR Atlantic voyage. In 1912 on her maiden ARRESTED IN CTTV STORE Frank Johnson, ,')2, of Philadel¬ phin, wns arrested in a centrni city More by Detectives Koval nnd Wil¬ liams yesterday afternoon nnd locked in jail. He is charged wilh :obbery. Rome, May 13 (UP) -Premier Benito Mussolini Is expected to open a new oratorical barrage for fulfillment of Italy's natural aspir¬ ations in the Mediterrnnenn tomor¬ row on a long-awaited tour of northern Italy and Fascist fortifi¬ cations on the French frontier. The Faarist premier, departing tonight for Turin, will make the first of several speeches tomorrow morning, probably discussing both foreign and domestic problems. Fascists snid thnt the premier wns expected to revive Italy's claims against France, which have been pushed into the background recently by Germany's seizure of Czechoslovakia nnd Italy's thrust into Albania. Sailor Stricken Sev!ral ships were fog-bound near the Empress of Austrnlin, one of them wirelessing Ihnl ahe hnd | PQMWCIV|T|0|\| OPENED been lied up for four dnys nnd wns ' ^^ "- : I THEATRE PRO.IE< TlONISrS AITOMOBILE ROBREI) A car owned by George Hayden, projectionist nl the Orpheum Thea¬ tre, waa robbed of a set of new fng lights, a pair of gloves and owner's cnr yesterdny. Hnyden hnd pnrked his machine in Ihe rear of the theatre yeaterday before noon. He diacovered the nrtirles misaing when he returned to il Insl night al 11 oclock. Washington, May 13. (UP)—The Works Progress Aiiinlnistration re¬ vealed tonight that It h.is dis- chnrged 84 workers throughout the '¦ountry for failure to comply with restrictions prohibiting politlcnl nctlvity nnd Is investigating 11 cnses of nlleged political coercion for poaaible proaecutlon. fn Today's Issue Claulfled B—U Editorial C—2 ¦Mnvie. A—IB PollUes C—J Social A—13 Sporta B—l Story B—10 Radio B—11 Deputy Admlnisirator Howard O. Hunter announred the dismissala. ordered under a resolution passed at this session of Congress pro¬ hibiting any WPA supervisory em¬ ployee from holding n position of polilical influence and making il a felony for such persons to promise employment, threaten lo deprive a person of employment or to solicit funds from relief work- era for politiral purpose?. One hundred persons hnve quit their WPA jobs, preferring to keep their polilical positions, ns a result of the ineasure, he said. He de¬ clined to mention specific cases. The 11 canes under Invesligalion will be turned over to the justiie department when the inquiry Is completed, he aaid. ' JERSEY POLICE HOLD TWO LOCAL RUNAWAYS New Jersey Slate Police picked up two Hanover youths last night and held them at the Turkcrton Slation, Hammton, N. J., until par¬ ents were contacted. Both are held as runaways. The boys, Ambrose KoprcakI, IB, of 51 Lynwood avenue, and Stanley Rcmrhak, 17, of 105 (Goeringer ave¬ nue, left home several dny.-. aso. Parents of Ko'TcsUi nified authorities that the boy might he released. Ince they are fnrmerly from Tuckerton and intend lo re¬ turn to reside there tomorrow. Remrhak'a mother reported thai her husbnnd ia somewhere in New York and she lacks money to transport him. I JFree Street Cars, BusscSf Monday Store's Spring Value Festival WilKes-Barre's retail merchanis will conduit a Spring Value Festival tomorrow, the first of its kind ever nttempted. Through the co-operation nf BENESCH'S, THE BOSTON SrORP:, LAZARUS, PEOPLES OUTFITTING CO. and POME¬ ROV'S with thi.s newspaper, free street car nnd bus servire to renlral city Wilkes-Barre will be available from 9:30 until 10;.'?0 in Ihe morning and from 1:30 until 2:.30 in the afternoon. Stotc hours will be from 9:.'I0 until 5:30 oclock. Readers of the SUNDAV I.N'DEPE.N'DE.NT will find a special aection containing news from the .sponsoring stores with today's issue. All other ret.nll .^torc^ nf th- central city are also joining in supcial merrhnndi: e offr;-. for the occasinn nnd their store news will he found in the i»3ular columns of today'.'* issue. unable to observe her position j which the Empress gave her. I The Royal party learned with I concern this afternoon that a member of the crew of the cruis¬ er Glasgow, one of thc warship.; convoying the P^mpress of Aus- i tralia, had been stricken with acute hppcndirities. A life boat from the cruiser , manned by bluejackets wearins lifebelta came alongside the Em- j press and the King's surgeons, i C^apt. White nnd .loaeph Maxwell, ' climbed down Ihe rope ladder into thc boat. The Glasgow came out of the fog and moved as close to the liner as pnssible to pick up the nur- geonn. I Slow I'rngrens ! The liner continued to make ', very slow progress this afternoon. , Members of the Royal parly ¦ pressed regret thai the delay was '¦ tlisrupting arrangcment.s In Cana- : da but nothing can be done exrept I tnke ever.v precaution to avoid the ! dnngers of fog nnd Icebergs. Later the surgeons returned from the Glasgow slating the operation hnd been successful. The Queen sent the patient a basket of fruit. I At 6:30 p, m. the fog wa. so ! dense thnt passengers could hardly see Ihe length of the ship. The ' vessel was 230 mile, .ast of Cape Race. BYK. OFC. IN SCRANTON War.aw, Poland, May 18 (UPi • Poland officially warned German* tonight that her army of 1.300,000 men .tood r.ady for war If anjl attempt were made to .el.« tht Fre. City of Danzig by fore*. It was understood that the gOT« ernment wa. awaiting a .cheduUd Nazi demonstration in the free city on Monday a. an Indicator of th. German attitude. With the heavily-armed powers of Europe aligned more firmly than ever in opposing bloc, th. declaration of the Polish govern* ment empha-alzed the grave danger j —If not the certainty—that any explosion at Danzig would touch I "linmediaut Action' I *Any attempt tO"fiiter the pr..- ent .tate of affairs in Danzig will I hnve a. an Immediate effect Imme¬ dinte action by the Polish military forces which at present are in a slate of readiness for war," th. sinlement said. The government's declaration waa understood to have been made because official sources felt it necessary in view of reports from Dnnzig in the lasl two days. These reporta gave the imprei- sion, according to Polish clrcl*. i that the Nazi party In Danzig wM hopeful thnt Poland would main- I lain an Inactive atlilude In event ! a plebiscite were held in the frea eity to decide whether it should he returned lo the Reich, as de¬ manded by Adolf Hitler or even in event of a Nazi putsch to sell, the clly by force. Want Nn .MInunder.tanding To make certain that there wai no misunderstanding in Berlin, tha Polish statement was issued in firm terms and as a supplement to the warning given on Thursday by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. The prime minister emphasized the importance of th. Danzig issue by saying that, Britain would fight if Danzig wer. attacked and if Polish indepen¬ dence were threatened. France alao joined in the warn¬ ing, declaring the determination ot the Britiah-led anti-aggression front to oppose almosl any future totalilariau expansion by force of nrms—regardless of the actual Im¬ portance of the Danzig issue. Nasi Demonstration .Monday The fact that .Nazi groups ar« planning a large demonostralion In Danzig on Monday night apparent¬ ly prompted the warnings at thli time, ns there had been fear, thit th. meeting, might be made th. occaaion for a German mov. t« achieve complet. control In thi free city. Polish circles also were blttit because of the prohibition of a meeting of Danzig Poles on Friday to observe the fourlh anniversary of the death of the Polish hero. Marshal Josef Pilsudskl. The Dan¬ zig Senate barred the meeiing, al¬ though many Poles met anyway. "The meeting could have been held indoors," one official .aid. "The Senaie regrets having had to make this decision bul feels It wii in the enterests of the community. In any event, the application to hold the meeting was received too late." Delegations from all sections of Pennsylvania nrrived in Scranton yeaterday and last nighl lo attend thc annual state convention of the Knights of Columbus which opens today nnd ends Tuesdny night. T! ^ delegates, along wilh repre¬ sentatives of the Columbian Squires, a Catholic youth sociely, will nttend mnss this morning In SI. Peter's Cnlhedrnl. State officern held neverni con¬ ferences laat nighl with leaders of ! the Srranton Council. FALSE ALAR>I Wilkea-Barre Fire Company No. 5 answered a false alarm at thi corner of North Main and Beau¬ mont .treet. at 11:10 last night. It was sent In from Box IS. GOLDWYN Bl VS SHARES IN I NITED ARTISTS Hollywood, May 13 (UP)—Samuil Goldwyn, veteran film producer, to¬ day purchased from Mary Pick¬ ford, Douglas Fairbanks mni Charlie Chaplin their inler..t In United Artists Studios, It wi4 learned tonight. Official announei- b* Open house will be observed to- j ment of the transaction will night. I mnde Monday In New York, Postmaster and Assistant Killed In Federal Building Shooting Corpus Christl, Tex., May 13 (UP) -Gilbert McGloln. Corpu. Chriati postmaster, and A. E. Dit- ner. hia assistant, were killed today in a mysterious .hootinf In the federal building. The shooting occurred In Mc- Gloln'n office. When other employees v.ho heard the shots ran Into the room, they found DItner dead and Mc- Gloin fatally wounded. pl.tol was found In Hit took eharfO On. room. Federal authorltle. of Ihe investigation. Both victim, wera veteran, ol the po.tal Mrvtc. McGloin wt« serving his third term as poat¬ master and Ditner had been ii- i sistant postmaster for .everil years. McGloin Wis ¦ family prominent TiXii. memb.r of • in thU part itf ¦^¦Sa^-Mta^si^siV.^'i, ¦ jmsaa ^..^^
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 17 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
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Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1939-05-14 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
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Month | 05 |
Day | 14 |
Year | 1939 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 17 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1939-05-14 |
Date Digital | 2009-08-25 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
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Language | English |
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Full Text | A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Weather Sunday: Fair and warmer. Monday: Wanner, eloudy. 33RD YEAR, NO. 17—55 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1939 PRICE TEN CENTS POLES GIVE NAZIS NEW WARNING SOFT COAL MINERS ORDERED TO WORK BY UNION LEADERS *• \ Chandler Defies Lewis with Troops As Six Groups Fail to Sign New Ynrk, May i^ (UP)—Go-to- orders, effective Monday, ^t oul today to most of the na¬ tion's sofl coal miners, ending n stoppage which hnd threatened to create an acute fuel emergency. ' The United Mine Workers of America instructed the greal ma¬ jority of Ils 340,(Xin eastern mem- I hers to join I2B,000 western miners in a nation-wide resumption of soft coal production nexl week. The orders followed the ratifi¬ cation, hy the joint Appalachian wage-hour conference, of a union shop contract with the UMWA and IS of the 21 operator.s' associations ¦ of the eight-state region. | >lnny Othein Already Signed A majority of operators outside Ihe Appnlnchinn aren. who in past yenrs hnd awaited the action of Iheir enstern colleagues, ijr^ndy hnd signed ngreements with the union, ending n sympath.v walkout whirh started May 4 and 5. Uninn officinls snid thnt most of the operators represented by the six Appnlachinn nssociationn wHo refused to ratify the contracl were expecled to sign up individually next week. Mnny, they said, have tinloii district leader, for Monday. |. Today's action by the Appnln- ; chlnn conference climaxed nine weeks of tedious and c'ten bitter , negotiations which started Mnrch i 14. The new contract renews the wage-hour provisions of the 1M7-3!) agreement, which expired Mnrrh ,11 nnd contnins in addition two sen¬ tences giving the I'MWA n com¬ plete union shop making member¬ ship in the organization a condi¬ tion of employment. The wage-hour provisions re-establish the .l.'^-hour week nnd the old dailv basic wnge of Jfi in the north and $.'5.B0 in thc south Six Withdraw The nix associations which with Every Story Has an Ending Boston, May 13. (UP)—Tues¬ day, Messenger Benjamin Laven. ger, bH, of (1123 Avenue K) Brooklyn, N. Y., thought him¬ self "lucky" when he success¬ fully vanished with $2,000 own¬ ed by Wall Streel Banker. Hen¬ derson & Company. Yesterday, his "luck" contin¬ ued nnd he won the daily douhle which pnid .'J139.70 at Narragan- sett. Todny, while mailing a letter here, he wns arrested for New York authorities. He had $780 in his pocket. "I knew I was on the skids," he said. "Thnt was the only lime I won at 'Ganselt." Tells of His 150-Mile Trip In Dory From Sunken Ship Fishermen Rowed Two Da.vs Through Dense Fos: to Safety After Collision; Held to Course Without Even Compass Poison Syndicate Suspects -^ T Soft Coal Peace^ Encouraging; Meet on Monday Boston, May 13 (UP)—A .un- .corched fisherman, one of 47 sur¬ vivors of Wednesdny's collision In I which two fishing schooners snnk, : snt with his wife and five children I tonight nnd gravely lold how he j fell ns with two compnnlons he rowed 1150 miles to safety in 4.'SH ! hours. "We were all asleep oul there ; when It hnppened," snid Andrew ! Decker, who with Cornelius Murphy of Cambridge and Mnrk Cotrenu of Boston rowed to the Moose 'Penk Light const guard sta¬ tion on the easternmost tip of Mnine. The remnining survivors of the crash between the Isabeile Parker and the Edith C. Rose, dressed in nondescript clothes and needing a shave, were brought here today from Yarmouth, N. S., by the coast guard. Only one man died In the accident, apparently of heart dis¬ ease, Hnving doffed his dishevelled clothing nnd finished a huge din¬ ner in his Rockporl cottnge. Decker wa. ready to tell hi. family of the eient. Kept Course In Fog "The Ihree of us put a dory overside nnd jumped in," he snid In telling of the mad scramble from the bunks to the deck. "We hung nroiint a minute, hut It wnn no foggy we couldn't nee nnd nil we MH..I.a U«M— ¦**<^& 9 1**^. !\' j.'^'^P -l.'-.-'t "We pushed off from the Parker when she began to go down and wnited for somebody to come along, but the fog wns so hnd you couldn't see nnylhing. I took Ihe onrs and Connie and Mark tried to get som. sleep, but ll was pretty nenr Im¬ possible becnuse ll wns «o cold." "Well we took turns at the oar. and just kept rowing. You could tell the difference helween day and night, bul in thnt fog thnt was nbout all you could tell. "It was Just breaking light on the second dny when Connie spot¬ ted a light. In a Iltlle while we got ashore and I figured we had kept almost due northwest without a compnss or nnything else." Alnn Saved Hin Dog Cotreaii wnn spending the eve¬ ning with his 73-yenr-old mother whose fisherman husband wta. drowned 3."i years ago. Murphy-, i however, wns spending the eve- j ning playing wllh bin Newfound- Innd dng Teddie, who hnd been tnken off the ship by men In one of the other dories. j Theirs had been a vigorous meet¬ ing on the dock thin morning. Murphy had crushed the dog in his nrms fnr n minute, then held I It oul by one hand nnd said: "You stny with me after thin. Why If you'd been nlong with u. we could have enten you." | 'i-ioVeA &'«.«trc4-ti"i . 1,V<^ Slow Suicide In Hospital San Jose, Cal., May 18. (UP)— George Mathews, 39, .aleeman, .lowly committeed aulcld. over a three week, period at county hospital while unsuspecting doc¬ tors and nurses hovered around him. Mathews wan taken toth. ho.- pltnl three week, ago and given treatment for alcoholism. Unknown to the doctor., Mathewn began eating deadly, .low-acting poison tablets while he law on his hospital cot. Todny h. explained what he had done. Then he died. David Brandt, Uft, and Morris Bolber, right, at a court hearing in I'hlla¬ delphia. They are accused n. leaders of the murder-for-lnsurance ring NCREASEDINCOilG AND QUEEN shouting. ' barked. New York. May 13 (UP) Wage- hour contract negotiators for the United Mine Workers of America and I'ennsylvania anthracite oper- j ators were recessed today until i Monday afler agreeing to a third ; week's extension of the preaent contract which expired April 30. The extension, approved lnte yes¬ terday, slaved off n possibh shut-1 down of mines employing 100,000 Six Are Badly Hurt in Four-Car Crash Here Family of Five Sent to Hospital; Car Demolished workers. II wns Indicated that thc drew' fro"m" the conference" in pro- | ^,'"K'''''',t^;" pm^ably^ wmijd settle test agninst the union shop which John L. Lewln, UMWA presidenl. had remanded ns a jurisdictional protection were: Southern Appnlachinn of eastern Tennessee and eastern Kentucky. Virginia. Harlnn county, Ky.: Big Sandv-Elkhorn of eastern Ken- j ally clauses tucky and Kanawha of southern West Virginia. All belonged to the so-called southern high volatile field which in past contract yeara ha.>t produc¬ ed the most uncompromising re¬ sistance to union demands. The Koppcrs Coal Company, said to be the aecond largest in the nation, and thc Ralcigh-WyomiiiE Mining Company, both of whom have properties in the southern high volatile field aa well as else¬ where, nccepted Lewis's offer, and there were indiiations other opera¬ tors, individually or by groups, would fnllnw «iiit Lewis Warn, ninsentern I^wis warned the six dissenting associations nol to attempt to operate non-union or to employ violence against mine workers. Referring to the statement of Gov. A. B. Chandler of Kentucky that he would send state troops to Harlan county to guard non-union mines. Lewis said: ".Soldiers can'l operate mines or mine coal. The time has come in America when coal miners cannot be shot back inlo thc mines . . . anyone who thinks that mine work¬ ers arc going lo be starved bnck Into the minea under non-union conditions is a fool." LtwI. said there "must not bc any eviction of mine workers from their homes, there must not be any .hooting of mine workers by oper¬ ators or any use of lethal weapons against them." He said his remarks were In- A.nded especially for Harlan coiin- My, Ky., where bloody violence has marked past Inbor disputes. The six associations which with¬ drew from the conference represent about 70,000,000 of thc area's annuni tonnage of 311,000.000 and employ about 70,000 miners. Pledge. Inlon Aid Last night, however, Lewis gnve (Continued on Page A-10) ' n ew of the their differences and sign contrart before expiration extension. Main points whirh held up Ihc conference were thc miners' de¬ mand for a closi'l shop and the operator.s' demand for strike pen- With the signing today of a soft coal contract, it was said, however, that prospects of signing n new two-year anthracite contract ap¬ peared better. Oppone Strike Penaltle. Minora were stronglv opposed to strike penalty rlauscs under which miners may be fined for unauthor¬ ized strikes and operators may be penalized monetarily for lockouts. Operators, al thc same time, were opposed to thc closed shop. Thc operators proposed strike penalty clauses because, they con¬ tend, they have lost hundreds of thousands of man-hours of work under the present contract Ihrough illegal strikes. UMWA officinls re¬ plied thnt the loss nmounled only to 2.,5 per cenl of the mnn-days In¬ volved. Under the present agreement, the union disciplines locals which cnll illegnl strikes by withdrnwing their chnrters and superseding local officers. The U.MWA hns ngreed to continue similar provision in the new cotracl. Let Alibi Out of the Bag Boston, May 1,'i. (UP) De¬ jectedly, James Hornc, 22, of Philndelphin, stood in munici¬ pal court today and mnde no reply when asked if he were guilty of panhandling. By sign language and in writ¬ ing, he insisted he was a "deaf mule." Suddenly Alienist Edouard Sandor. crept behind Home and smashed a paper hng. Home jumped—then admitled lying. He wna given a two-month jail sentence. / Refusal to Quit Political Jobs Causes WPA to Fire 84 Workers Six persons, including an Old Forge mother, father and three small rhildren, were injured In n four-car collision on Ihe Daleville highway la-st night nt a oclock. ; All are patients In the Hahnemann Hospital, Scranton, where they were taken by State Motor Police. Their condition at midnight was given as "fair." I The victims were Stanley Rogou- i ski, 141 Sussex street. Old Fore. I who sustained back injuries and body bruises; his wife, Mary, suf¬ fering from a fractured pelvis and : body bruises: Stanley jr., age 7, I lacerations of the scalp and body i bruises; Edward, 13, possible in¬ ternal injuries, and Joseph, 11, shock and bruises, all passengers in the family car of which the father was the operator; and Benny Schiowitz, 426 Soulh Wash¬ ington street, Scranton, alone in his aulo. Knocked llnconncloun Schiowitz was knocked uncon¬ scious, according to Private Mun¬ son of State Motor Police, who In¬ vestigated. He was revived en¬ route to the hoapital, where il was found that he was suffering from leg and head lacerations. It Is feared he Is injured internally. The four cars involved were operated by Rogouski, Schiowitz, Miss Ivy Doris Harrison of 4317 48th street, Southside, N. Y., and Harry L. Frezert, 43,5 East Mount Airy avenue. Mount Airy, Phila. Private Munson, in reconstructing the accident, said that the Rogou¬ ski car was traveling east on the highway and the three others in a westerly direction. Pulled Out of Line Rogouski was traveling in a line of six or seven cars and, as he was going over a knoll on the highway, reportedly pulled lo the left, struck the Harrison vehicle's front wheel, swung around and struck the car operated by Schiowitz and then crashed head-on into the automo¬ bile whirh Frezert was operating. Traffic was snarled al the scene of the wreck for some time, as passing motorists stopped to ex¬ tricate the victims. The Rogouski vehicle was badly smashed, caved in like an accordion. The car oper¬ ated hy Frezert also was badly damaged. All Ihe accident victims were taken in passing cars to the Hahne¬ mann Hospital. X-rays of their in¬ juries were to be laken early this morning. i Who Said It Was Chilly? Boston, May 13. (UP)—Th? season's first sunburn case wns reported al city hospital today. The victim, John Gavin, 44, hnd fallen asleep on the beach. CUT U. MI Improved Business ^pq.'!, U^sxpeoted ¦ A+d to Treasury- -• - -¦ HALTED BY BERGS Washington, May IS. (UP)— Tighter control over spending and an unexcepted increase in revenue. Treasury statistics indicated today, m.iy reduce the budgeted deficit for the 1939 fiscal year by more than $500,000,000. If the Current trend of Income and spending is maintained during the remainder of the fiscal year which ends June 30, indications are the budget situation may shape up in this fashion. Reverses to .^voiri Collisiow Sailor-Stricken BY Claim Gendarmes Shot Down 22, Attacked Wives Rtetlpti Eiiiiandlturtt . Dflflfilt (nat) . RsvlMif Eitlmita . IS.HIM.IMO.Me . ti.iiM.iinii.Mn i.ioo.nM.nni) Builo«t Eltlmatii .9,9211.070.11011 9.492.129.000 .).972.259.000 T Local Industry Begins to Feel Effects Portland. Ore.. Mny 13. (UP) All Pacifir Conal waterfronts might be¬ come involved in Portland's harbor dispute il appeared tonight when the International Longshoreman's and Warehousemen's Union here designated as "hot cargo" all ship¬ ments diverted from thi. closed port. The union asked its district head¬ quarters in San Frnncisco to ex¬ tend the hot cargo order to all ports. Such action would aid the local in Its fight with the Portland Waterfront Employers' As.sociation. The dispute dates back several months to the refusal of thc Luek¬ enbach Steamship line to observe an NLRB order to reinstate three men belonging to thc Maritime Office Employees' Union, Arbitrator. Present The union's latest move cnme while three federal mediators were laboring to speed compromi.se of the controversy, gravest on the Portland watrfront in two ye.Ti.s. Employers closed the port three days ago after longshormen .^up- porting the office unionists pro¬ test, refused to pass an imaginary picket line around the freighter William Luekenbach. Already locnl industry was be¬ ginning to feel effects of the clo¬ sure. .Sawmills retarded schedules and prepared to shut down if the deadlock is nol broken in thc im¬ mediate future. Budget officials admitted when the 1939 fiacal year estimates were prepared that they based their computations on the comparatively low stale of business activity last year. Business since has improved and so has miscellaneous internal revenue. In addition, corporations did better in the final quarter of 19.'!8 than was anticipated. As a re¬ sult. Income tax receipts increased above expectations In the first quarter this year. Saving Reaerve Fund Another factor bearing on pros¬ pects for a lower deficit is the stronger control exercised by the budget bureau over spending. At the start of the fiscal year, the budget bureau, after hearing from departments and agencies how they Intended to apportion con¬ gressional appropriations, ordered $310,525,236 "impounded" in a re¬ serve fund. This was the amount budget experts decided the depart¬ ment and agencies might save without serious impairment of their operations. In several cases, the budget bureau has been asked to release some of these reserve.. Whereas, In past years, virtually all of the reserve funds have been released by this time of the year, the budget bureau permitted withdrawal of only $12,'),4,')0,227 through April ,30, leaving $185,000,000 remnining. Up lo March 31, $114,000,000 was re¬ leased. Only $11,000,000 was re¬ leased in April and budget offirials indicated they would be increasing¬ ly "hard-boiled" between now and the end of June, Story of reception plans on Page A-10 Aboard S, S. Empress of Aus¬ tralia, May 13. (UP) — Extraordi¬ nary precautions were taken aboard the Empress of Australia tonight after the big liner bearing King George and Queen Elizabeth lo America reversed her engines to escape collision with an iceberg. They will reach Quebec on Tues¬ day, a day lale. Three lookouts, two In the fore¬ castle and one in the crows nest, were posted with relief ordered every two hours as the liner—a dny behind schedule - crawled through a field of icebergs toward Quebec. Ship Reverse. The lookoul men, peering through a grey curtain of fog, suddenly sighted an iceberg dead ahead. The ship', whistle sounded three warn¬ ing blasts and the engines were reversed suddenly. The ship waa brought to a dead halt and, after the two cruisers convoying the liner had maneuvered out of the way, the big liner reversed unlil it was able lo clear the iceberg. The King and Queen were on the promenade deck nt the time and watched the maneuver with great interest. A few minutes later the engines were ngain reversed and, as the fog brnke away, they could see a whole fleld of ice on the starboard. Their majestle., with deck blankets around their shoulders because of the sudden drop In lemperattire, watched from the rail and questioned officers about the Ice fleld. Conditions Improved slightly within the next hour and Iho liner waa proceeding this after¬ noon at four or five knots, but was still more than 200 miles from (^ape Race. The ship made only .ibout 35 miles between daybreak and noon. One cf the members of the crew most Interested in the icebergs was William Lucas, a steward, who waa one of the nurvivors of the Tilnnir, wrecked by an iceberg in mld- Sofla, Bulgaria, May 13. (UP) — rhe government's press department asserted tonight that Rumanian gendarmes attacked and killed 22 Bulgarian. In a frontier Incident al Belicza, near Dobrudja, on Tues¬ day. "On May 9, 22 Bulgarian, ware massacred at Belicza," the depart- i-,-.?rr. -!•>•<' ¦Tr'rf.-.fiiaw .»•¦¦¦: .ii-i:' .i'^V'hnrest bv vnrioua ngenri»«_ at-, templed to describe the victim, aa comiladjis coming from Bulgaria to spy or attack notables and their properties in Dobrudja. The true atory is altogether different. Denerted and Fled i "During the recent Rumanian mobilization 60 Bulgarians from Belicza deserted and sought refuge on Bulgarian territory." The statement continued by charging that Rumanian troops and I gendarme, raped the wives and daughler. of the Bulgarians, som. I ot whom later were finally kill.d ! in a woods by machine gunners. t "Only three succeeded in escap¬ ing, hiding in a.Ietj^^,I Wilkea-Barre Fire Company No. 5 answered a false alarm at thi corner of North Main and Beau¬ mont .treet. at 11:10 last night. It was sent In from Box IS. GOLDWYN Bl VS SHARES IN I NITED ARTISTS Hollywood, May 13 (UP)—Samuil Goldwyn, veteran film producer, to¬ day purchased from Mary Pick¬ ford, Douglas Fairbanks mni Charlie Chaplin their inler..t In United Artists Studios, It wi4 learned tonight. Official announei- b* Open house will be observed to- j ment of the transaction will night. I mnde Monday In New York, Postmaster and Assistant Killed In Federal Building Shooting Corpus Christl, Tex., May 13 (UP) -Gilbert McGloln. Corpu. Chriati postmaster, and A. E. Dit- ner. hia assistant, were killed today in a mysterious .hootinf In the federal building. The shooting occurred In Mc- Gloln'n office. When other employees v.ho heard the shots ran Into the room, they found DItner dead and Mc- Gloin fatally wounded. pl.tol was found In Hit took eharfO On. room. Federal authorltle. of Ihe investigation. Both victim, wera veteran, ol the po.tal Mrvtc. McGloin wt« serving his third term as poat¬ master and Ditner had been ii- i sistant postmaster for .everil years. McGloin Wis ¦ family prominent TiXii. memb.r of • in thU part itf ¦^¦Sa^-Mta^si^siV.^'i, ¦ jmsaa ^..^^ |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19390514_001.tif |
Month | 05 |
Day | 14 |
Year | 1939 |
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