Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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33RD YEAR, NO. 25—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1939
PRICE TEN CENTS
TORSO MURDERS SOLUTION NEARING
Plan to Arrest WPA Strike Pickets
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SAYS MEN HAVE RIGHT TO QUIT JOB
Mussolini Now Harnessing Power from Volcanoes
Science Invades Valley of Hell' To Use Live Steam of Hundreds Of Natural and Man-Made Wells
New York Head's Reference Was To Contractors
GREEN CALLS AIDf
Harrington Reports Only 3% of Force Involved in Protest
A summary of Wyoming Valley rievplopnienta in the WPA sltu- atinn will he found on Page A-II.
New York, July 8. (UP)—Leader.? of American Feileration of Labor -and Congress of Industrial Organ¬ izations unions here were united tonight in prote.st against ihe new WPA law which requires .skU'ed workmen to accept less than the prevailing wage scale.
Thomas A. Murray, prcii.lent of the Building Trades Council, bit¬ terly attacked Lieut. Col. Brehon B. Somervell, local WPA admin¬ istrator, for wnat he considered a ihrcat to arrest WPA strikers wH^ picketed projects here. Attacked by I'nion Head
Murray said Somervell's action in asking the U. S. attorney's office for   a   ruling   on   law   concerning
'erfercncc  with WPA work was
. -flie   most   unspeakable,   shameful
»nd vicious attack  ever made  on
American   workers   in   tho   entire
history  of  the  country."
Somervell replied that he did r.ft havs WPA workers In mind but w,is considering action, if the Iaw_ permits, against private contrac¬ tors who might boycott WPA pro.1- ects. He said he did not conf^m- platc action against WPA striken and added that "any worker who wishes to quit can exercise hir, right at any time."
Somervell estimated that only m.OOO men had quit WPA projects here. Unionleaders placed the figure   at   30,000.
Rome, ,Iuly 8. (UP)-The mighty | strength of volcanoes in Italy's j "Valley of Hell' soon may be har- i ness:d and controlled by the order ¦ of Benito Mussolini. ;
With the nation strained towards ' economic   self-sufficiency,   II   Duce is     attempting     an     achievement which   would   have   been  called   a dream a few years ago.
The experiment ia being carried out with success in the so-called Valley ot Hell at Larderello in Tuscany, where the live steam ol nearly 300 natural and man-made wells is fast becoming Italy's great¬ est source of electric power. Power Operat«i Railroad
Although the existence of the powerful geysers which cover a 20-mile area has been known for years, it is only recently that Italian engineers have turned 288 of these once uncontrollable wells into more than 1,200,000 kilowatt hours of energy daily. It is from this source that electricity is fur¬ nished for operating the newly electrified railroad between Pisa and  Rome.
A total of eight huge turbine plants are now turning out 32,800,- 000 kilowatt nours nf electricity monthly,   saving   500   tons   of   coal
which would have  to be  imported from abroad to  p oduce a sinilar amount of energy. Drill Walls for Steam
Two thousand men are employed in this project, living in the danger¬ ous land where live steani roars skyward.
New steam wells are being drilled. It requires nearly 12 months to drill some of the wells, which are 1.000 feet deep. Just be¬ fore the workers strike steam, the crew dashes for safety. The escap¬ ing steam wrecks all drilling ma¬ chinery not carried to safety.
Rocks and volcanic lava gu.sh out 1,000 feet with an explosion which can be heard 12 miles away. Then for two week.s the well is al¬ lowed to clean itself out, following which il is capped and controlled, the steam being channelled into condensing tanks and converted in¬ to electrical energy. .Many Chemicals  Produced
Steam   power   for   electricity
2 VALLEY FIRMS ARE OPERATING 3SHIFISA0AY
Okonite and Parsons Presses 1    Rushed by Orders
Woman Mariner Ends Three-Year Cruise
Economic pressure proved too much for baseball in Wyoming Valley yesterday afternoon and the lndu.strial League's schedule was wrecked because of the inability of players t^ leave their posts at two ] industrial plants.
Okonite Company, manufacturers i of insulated rope, was forced to call its scheduled contest with Atwater Silk   Company   since   all   but   one [ player  was   working.  International Color  Press, which   prints  most  of the    comic   sections    used    in    the ncw.spapers  of the  nation, likewise : was unable to find enough players to face Duplan Silk. Three Shifts n Day |
R. M. Eaton, executive in charge of the Okonite plant, said the com¬ pany has been working three eight- hour shifts daily, seven days a week for the last three weeks and
expects to continue on this schedule not  the  only output  of the  Valley   for the next six weeks, of  Hell.    More  than  8,000,000  tons       The   rush   of  work   is   due   to   a of  chemical   products,  borax,  car- , large order placed by Consolidated bonic   acid,   ammonia,   and   boric acid, are produced yearly.    Nearly half of these chemical products are exported annually, but the remain¬ ing 4,000,fK)0 tons are u.scd in Italy.
CONFESSION OF ONE APPEARS TO INVOLVE OTHERS
Psychiatrists Confident Former Slaughterhouse Employee Is Guilty; Dolezal Admits Throwing Parts of Body Where Others Have Been Discovered; Cunning, Lustful When Drunk
uns
Men Who Beat Purge Hold Neutrality BilVs Fate
I'nions .Marshal Strength
Washington, July 8. (UP)—Presi¬ dent William Green of the Ameri¬ can Federation of Labor tonight summoned heads of all afniiated national and international unions for a conference Wednesday lo mobilize all their "political and economic" strength to force Con¬ gress to restore the prevailing wage scale on federal relief project.s.
Green issued hi.s call as WPA ofliclals stood firm int rigid en¬ forcement of the new 130-hour work month requirement for all federal relief workers at a security wage. Nation-wide protest .strikes affecting a minimum of 200,000 WPA workers have been called. Only S% Leave Jobs
WPA Commissioner F. C. Har¬ rington reported after a telegraphic survey that report."! from 36 states showed only 75.000 WPA workers had actually left their jobs.
"Apparently the.se protests have involved only three per cent of all WPA workers," Harrington .said, "Ihc total WPA employment Is now about 2,500,000."
P"rea H. Rauch. assistant WPA commissioner, reported no disturb¬ ances as a result of the stoppages. He said interference with opera¬ tions "has been very minor except in four areas—Wisconsin. Ohio. Minnesota and New York City." Returning to Work
"It Is obvious that the develop¬ ments of the last few days have constituted more of a jrotest than nn actual walk-out," he said, "and numerous reports Indicate that the (Continued   on  Page   A-7)
New York Subway System Stalls
New York. July 8. (UP)—The entire signal system of the Inter- borough Rapid Transit system failed tonight, stalling trains carrying thousands of pa.ssen- gers through the city's tunnels and   over  elevated   tracks.
IRT officials said the failure occurred in a power house. All train lights remained on, since the failure was confined to the signal system which controls the movement of the speeding trains.
George, Gillette, Roosevelt Targets, Balance of Power
Edison   of   New   York   City.   Con solidated  Edison  is  a  regular cus¬ tomer of the local concern, but this Is  th    largest  order  it  has  given Okonite in several years.
International Color also has been operating three shifts daily and yesterday was forced to keep men working and thereby found it necessary to cancel its game.
Jermyn-Green Coal Company and German Bakery were able to play their game as per schedule.
OREGON COURT UPHOLDS ANTI-PICKET LAW
Portland, Ore., July 8 (UP)- Or¬ ganized labor, .suffered another de¬ feat   in   Oregon   tonight   when   the , state's anti-picket law, was declared constitutional in its entirety. j
In a 25,000-word decision three state circuit judges sitting en banc unanimously upheld the law, one of the most stringent and controversial labor statutes in the United States.
Attorneys  for the  AFL,  the CIO and the "big four" railway brother- i hoods—presenting   a   united   labor front  in  Oregon  for  the  first  time \ —said   they   would   appeal   to   the i
Wa.shington, July 8. (UPi Presi¬ dent Roosevelt's unsuccessful 1038 primary election purge dire ted against conservative senators who had been unfaithful to the New Deal threatened tonight to back¬ fire on the administration in the battle over neutrality legiiJation.
Two senators who overcame ad¬ ministration opposition ^o obtain renominalion last year may de¬ termine the issue for this session Tuesday, when the Senate foreign relations committee  meets.
The committee of 23 is said to be divided 11 to 11 for nnd against- the administration with Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga., generally listed as against and Sen. Guy M. Gil¬ lette, D., Ia., holding the balance- of-power vote. Gillette is not com¬ mitted either way and tremendous efforts are being made to win his support. I
Special Session Possible
If they join the Senate coalition developing against the ac.ministra- , tion neutrality bill, it probably could be stopped in committee. That would open the way toward ; quick adjournment If leaders were so minded. But Mr. Roosevelt in¬ tends to fight. A special session next autumn might follow sum¬ mertime congressional refusal to give the President a neutrp.lity bill he likes.
The    coalition
NAVY BLil> IS SAFE
Reports early this morning ended fears for the safety of the naval blimp K-1, reported last night in distress by the lighthouse keeper at West (5hop, Mass.
It was announced officiall that flares from the blimp had been mistaken for distress signals, with the result that Coast Guard boats were ri^shed to the site.
Earlier in the day the K-1, bound for Lakehurst, N. J., had made an emergency landing at Hyannis air¬ port in Massachusetts, after which it proceeded on its way.
The blimp, with a crew of eight, was in command of Lieut, G. D. Zurmuehlen.
With 30,000 miles of navigation behind her, Mrs. Marion Rice Hail, inset, sculptor and Columbia and M. 1. T. graduate, brought her 73-foct ketch   Vanora  into  New  York  Harbor.    She's  globe-sailed   since   193C.
England's 'BlackouV Greatest of War Shows
Third of Country in Darkness for
Mock Air Raids; Chamberlain Warns Again,
Calling Air Force Finest in World
Cleveland,  Ohio,  July  8.    (UP)—j Psychiatry    "put    the    finger"    on | Frank  Dolezal  today as the  "Mad Butcher   of   Kingsbury   Run,"   who in   the   past   five   years   killed   13 persons    and    discarded    parts    of their   dismembered   bodies   in   the ugly industrial valley which dlvlde.i, the   city. j
Dolezal, a 52-year-old bricklayer I who formerly worked in a slaugh¬ ter house, has confessed to one of j the so-called torso murders—that' of Mr.i. Florence Sawdey Pollllo, a | prostitute—and has admitted that i he as.socialed with some of the ' other victims. |
Lawrence J. Lyons, specialist In j the sheriff's office, described thp i former butcher as a degenerate j possessing a Jckyll-Hydc person- | ality--mepk nnd inoffensive when .sober, cunning and dangerous when j drunk. i
"Though he is not a very big | man." Lyons said of the 140-pound , Dolezal. "when he is drinking he : has the strength of two ordinary i men." Cunning and Lust
In the years since the finding o( the   "Ma(i   Butcher's"   first   victim
a middle-aged woman never identified - psychiatrists have had ample opportunity to examine his methods and draw conclusions con¬ cerning his nature
satisfied that the "Mad Butcher*!" career was finished. Victims Unidentified
Still hampering the investigation, however, was the fact that all of the victims were so obscure that only two were positively identified, Mrs. Polillo and Edward Andrassy, a degenerate. Another obstacle to Identification was the fact that tha heads of six victims never were found.
Dolezal was known to have asso¬ ciated with Andrassy and a "tat¬ tooed sailor," another of the vic¬ tims. He admited having fought with Andrassy, who slashed him with a knife, he said, but denied killing him.
Dolezal   also  admitted  he   knew Mrs. Rose Wallace, believed to hava been   the   "Mad   Butcher's"   ninth victim. Chnnges Story Contlniiafly
As officers continued questioning Dolezal in relays, ho repeatedly changed his story of the disposal of Mrs. Polillo's head. Finally, he said he "burned the head In the Kingsbury Run," thus linking him¬ self for the first time with the dreary region In which most of the dismembered bodies were found.
While pathologists tested rust¬ like powder found in the disman¬ tled bathroom to determine whether It contained blood, Dolezal became
At    first    officers   believed    the i hysterical    and    sobbed    violently.
8    (UP)—Despite , commodore of No. 915 Squadron of
Irish    Republican   the   R.A.F.,   to   v hich   he   has   just
been appointed by King George VI.
Previously, W, L. Wright.son, chairman of the river committee for the Port of London Authority, had described the port as "indc- structablc."
Earl de la Warr, secretary of education, had declared at Derby that Britain realizes "Danzig is the key to Polish independence" and that Britain would stand firm in keeping her pledges in Europe.
Air Vice-Marshal T. L. Lcigh- Mallory   in   a   speech   at   Birming
State Supreme Court
The law confines picketing to The coalition opposition is a bona fide labor disputes between i notable development of this Con an employer and a majority of his
THREE GRIL.S ESCAPE FTtO.M  REFOR.MArORY
Clinton, N. J., July 8. (UP>- Three girls escaped today from the New Jersey reformatory tor women  here.
Police   were   advised   to   sea.-ch coal  trucks  on  the  highway  near the   reformatory   because   inmatos , previously   had   escaped   by   hiding > dodging traffic in  them. -.    .    .      ~   .
London,    July the    threat    of
Army bombings, one-third of Eng¬ land, covering approximately 16,000 square miles, underwent an un¬ precedented blackout for four hours tonight as a drill in air raid protection in the event of war.
Tho I.R.A. earUer in the evening had secretly circulated pamphlets threatening further bombings. Bridges and rail stations in tlie blackout area were closely watched by police.
A heavy rain increased the dark¬ ness of the channel cities but did not dampen the spirit of the holi¬ day crowds, who entered into the blackout with good natured en¬ thusiasm. At Brighton, 3,000 A.R. P, workers were on duty to drill ] the resort crowds in the proper i procedure in taking shelter from an air raid. Policemen made ghostly figures througii the rain, for they wore special phosphore¬ scent helmets and cloaks, leaving their face and legs in complete darkness. They were invisible from above.
A ray focused on them through special filters made them visible to trafllc.
At Hastings the "ghost" police¬ men had several narrow escapes from being run down when the special ultra violet filter rays failed to work. Large crowds gathered to see what a policeman looks like
killer was an insane surgeon, so neatly were the bodies dismember¬ ed. The heads always were sever¬ ed between the third and fourth | guspect Weakening vertebrae. It became apparent, however, that any butcher would have possessed the requisite skill.
Experts in abnormal  psychology ..    , ,,, j ^u n „
concluded that whoever the  killer! '^ O"*' "« «'"ea "em all. was, he possessed manual dexterity!    O'Donnell said Dolezal's new stor
Precautions   were   taken   to   keep
him from carrying out a threat to
kill   myself.'
Coroner Gerber, after recheckint. his records of the 13 torso mur¬ ders, asserted that "if Dolezal kill-
great  cunning  and  an  overpower
ing lust.
Sa.vs Victim Threatened Him
Dolezal denied any of these at¬ tributes fitted him. He said he killed Mrs. Polillo because she threatened him with a butcher knife, and then dismembered her body only to get rid of it.
The Polillo killing led to Dolezal'a arrest. Sheriff's officers knew he was an habitue of Cleveland's vice district, an associate of prostitutes and degenerates. He had been seen with Mrs. Polillo, and a search of   the   house   where   he
indicated he was "weakening h'l by bit under the constant quc-- tlonlng."
'Tm confident," he said "V- ' eventually we will clear up ••'••¦ mystery of the  other 12  killins''-"
FAINTS ON SQUARE, CONDITION SERIOUS
¦ he   refused,   he   said,   she   "rushed me   with   a   butcher   knife."    He
employees. It prohibits boycotts, outlaws minority strikes and rigidly restricts jurisdictional disputes. It was passed by a solid majority in the 1938 election.
HOBO SHACK BlTtN'S DOWN
Wilkes-Barre Fire Company No. 5 answered a still alarm at the corner of Harry street and North Penn.sylvania avenue at 9:,58 last night to extinguish a blazing hobo shack. Only charred embers now mark the spot.
grcss- after   sturdy   beginnings   in -.,___
1937.  when   the  Senate  junked   the   RATE   DIFFERENTIALS
Coalition  votes altered Ihe admin-   IN  RAILS UP IN  HOUSE
istration   neutrality   bill   last   week i —	
in the House.    A similar alignment ^    Wa.shington,    July    8     (UP) shaped   tax   and    relief   measures  congressional     sub-committee
A
to-
away frt,m the Roosevelt pattern. : ^ght moved toward elimination of although Mr. Roo.sevelt says, now railroad rate differentials which the that the battle is over, that both of. ,„mh and west contend place them those bills are satisfactory to him. „t the economic mercy of the in- Attack Lending Bill dustrial  east.
A Repuhiioan-Dcmocratic combi- The House interstate commerce nation hopes, also, to spike the for- .sub-committee gave to the full eign  loans and toll bridge and  toll   committee a substitute railroad bill
Amnesia Victim Held at Retreat With No Clue as to His Indentity
for the Wheeler Measure passed by the Senate several weeks ago. The full committee will meet Wed¬ nesday to discuss the bill. Chair¬ man   Clarence   F.   Lea,   D.,   Cal.,
A middle-aged man was being held at Retreat Mental Hospital last night, as State Motor Police sent a teletype message to all police departments in an effort to establish his identity. He is suf¬ fering from amnesia, probably brought on by yesterday's excessive heat.
The victim was picked up near the poor farm on Route 11, state highway, by the operator of the Susquehanna river ferry.   The lat-
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Politics    C~I8
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ter reported that the man, who is believed tn be about 3H years of age, stumbled down the brick road¬ way about 11 oclock in the morn¬ ing.
Questioned as tn where he .va.s going, the victim was unable to say and neither could he reveal wh>ro he had come from. He told the operator that he was walking alniig the highway when something snapped in his brain. From hi.s appearance it was indicated that he had walked a considerable distance.
The description as sent ')Mt by the Motor Police states that the man Is five feet, nine inches in height, 140 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes. He was wearing a giey work shirt and grey trousers. At¬ taches at Retreat said that he talks as though ho might be a farmer but his hands are .smooth, in li- cating that they have not been accustomed to rough work recently.
road   features   of   the   administra
lion's   $3,860,000,000   lending   bill,   a
1939 version of the shot-in-the-nrm
for business policy. The    administration    apparently
has blocked amendment of the Na-   hopes to bring it up for action be
tlonal    Labor    Relations   Act,    hut   f^rc  Congress adjourns i some  House  Democrats,  supported
by   Republicans,   hope   lo   ret.nliate
bv   voting  an   investigation   of  the
National Labor Relations Board.
The most extraordinary combina¬ tion of the session was last week's
between    so-called    'hard    mone.v"
conservatives and the Senate silver
bloc  in an effort  to hike  the sub¬ sidy on domestic siver and abolish
Mr. Roosevelt's dollar devaluation j authority. That coalition was out- ! smarted by the administration and * fell  apart  after  the silvermen   had
been   bought   off  with   a  moderate
incrcR.se   in   their   treasury   bounty.
Ready for Flllbuxter ;     But the neutrality coalition is of
stronger stuff. It is headed straight
for filibuster. Senate isolationists in.^.st Ihat the
way for us to keep out of war is
to avoid arming the battlers.  Some
legislators would forbid practicaily
all   traffic   with   warring   nations.
They   argue   that   wc   got   into   the (Continued on Page A-10)
A  new serial:
VOWS FOR(;OTTEN
By BONNIE WORLINE
Susan Marshall knew that six years of marriage had not brought her husband the happi¬ ness he .sought. She knew that his thoughtfulness, his extrcmt courtesy, his dutiful caresses were but a camouflage for some deep-rooted discontent. It was iieartbrcaking, trying so hard to win his love yet knowing all the while that it belonged to some¬ body else.
You will hate Susan's husband; you will admire and love his wife: you will be glad to have read "Vows Forgotten," begin¬ ning today on Page B-12.
Explosion Tests Girls
In Rochester, Kent, girl workers in an A.R.P. control center, were given a surprise test of nerves to ascertain their reactions under conditions simulating a j;eal raid. An explosion was set o£f outside tlieir window without warning. They were momentarily startled but recovered quickly. To Find Weak Spots
As the blackout in southwestern England started, military officials said that one of the main objectives was to find weak spots in air raid defenses.
Thousands of volunteers manned listening posts and signalled the approach of "raiding" iilanes to the anti-aircraft batteries of the air raid  precautions  units.
Territorials (national guardsmen) manned searchlights which shot brilliant beams of light into the sky. In the towns and villages affected air raid wardens in steel helmets directed pa.ssersby to the entrances of air raid shelters as sirens screeched their warnings.
At Brighton, crowds gathered outside a sea front hotel when an elderly man appeared at an eight- .story window and screamed. Police pulled him in before he could jump.
Coincident with the drill, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain de¬ clared that one of the finest air forces in the world is now ready to combat the bombers of any future enemy.
"But I warn you that Sir Kings- ley Wood (the air miniateri does not tell you all of his secrets and you may be quite sure that, what¬ ever he tells us. there is a great deal more behind it." (¦ernmns Warned Again
Echoing similar declarations and warnings to Germany that Britain now   is   fully   armed   In   the   air.
ham had asserted "the enemy pilots   ijved disclo.sed  blood  stains in the attacking this country will have the 1 bathtub.
most difficult time." tn ,      ,       j u j  .i _
I     Dolezal said he and the woman Preparing Public     ^ j had been drinking in his home and
The black out—turning out all | that she demanded money. When lights and putting into operation ' other emergency war-time precau¬ tions against air raids - was from hurled her back, Dolezal said, and 11 p. m. until 4 a. m. on Sunday, | she fell into the tub, striking her including the extingui.shing foi' tho   head.
fli'st time the World War of lights       The blow  killed  her,  the suspect (Continued on Page A-10) said,, and  he  cut  up  her  body  in
the tub. Think He Confused Murders
Dolezal's written confession, how¬ ever, did not jibe with his oral description of what happened. He had told officers that he threw the woman's head, which is still miss¬ ing, into Lake Erie.
In the written confession, ho\»- ever, he said he dumped other parts into the lake also, although police found them within the city.
Investigators, convinced they had at last solvcil the gruesome mys¬ tery which has kept them stale¬ mated so long, believed the brick¬ layer might Inadvertently have con¬ fused his actions on more than one occasion. They hoped to find evi¬ dence of other killings in the bloodstained bathroom and ordered the flooring ripped up and the walls searched.
Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell and Coroner   Samuel   R.   Gerber   were
After fainting on Public Square
last night, Mrs. Mary Price, 61, of
63 Coal street, was removed to her
formerly { home by Officer.? Oliver and Fisher
of the city police  department.
Dr. Thomas J. Millington waa summoned for treatment and re¬ ported last night that her condi¬ tion was serious. He stated that she was suffering from a cardiac ailment brought about by the heat.
ITALY EXPECTS SPAIN TO JOIN AXIS LINEUP
OFFICE ANNOUNCES .12 APPOINMNTS
Created by Recent Legislature: Pay $4,950 a Year
Two appointments to .114,500 posi¬ tions on the staff of County Super¬ intendent (if Schools A. P. Cope were announced yesterday.
Dr. Inez Husted, Kingston Town¬ ship, will be supervisor of^ special studies in tho tlistricts under Mr. (^"ope's  supervision.
Miss Katherine Wheeler. Union Township, who formerly taught at Nicholson, Lackawanna county, will supervise home economics program in  the schools.
Besides the $4,.500 salary, the new appointees will receive $4.'J0 a year for expenses. Their salaries and expenses are paid by Ihc Dep.irt- ment of Public Instruction. The appointments were effective July 1. Creat*"!! by New Law
The new po.sitlons were created by recent enactment of a bill intro¬ duced by Rep. Raymond C. Web¬ ster, ('hester county. The act. sign¬ ed by Governor Arthur H. James Juno 24, amonds the Vocational Education Law by providing for election of county supervisors of agriculture and homemaking, and of principals, instructors and lec¬ turers for the Public Service Instl-
Rome, July 8 (UP)—With For¬ eign Minister Count Galeaizo Ciano scheduled to sail from Gaeta tomorrow for Spain, Fascists were optimistic tonight that he would la.v the groundwork for Inclusion of that country in the Rome-Ber¬ lin Axis lineup, even though he might not persuade Gen. Francisco Franco to join a German-Italian military alliance immediately.
Although they do not expect him to return with a treaty, they were confident that Gen. Franco's visit to Rome in September may be made the occasion for announcing his adherence to the antl-Comln- tern pact and a military pledge to the axis powers.
Foreign diplomats today avidly read the first open declaration In the Italian press that Italy is ready to fight with Germany over Dan¬ zig if the free city becomes a cause   for war.
Japanese Continue New Attack On Russians in Mongolia
Hailar. on the Mongolian Fron¬ tier, July 9 (Sunday)- (UP)- Japa¬ nese and Manchukuoan troops con¬ tinuing a surpri.se attack that started under cover of a thunder¬ storm Friday night, were engaged today in an offensive expected to dislodge all Outer Mongolian in¬ vaders from Manchukuoan soil by nightfall.
troops slipped back towards tht river while between 70 and 80 tanks tried vainly to halt the Japanese advance which bad pushed the in¬ vaders from Noro Height, just above the Holstcin River at a point roughly five kilometers from it* confluence with the Harhki Russian Peasants !    With  the aid of Japanes* srtiW
Chamberlain spoke as an honorary , office   la  located.
The surprise attack, according to lery, the combined Jap-Manchuku- lapanesc sources, proved the final oan troops were confident they lever that pried the Outer Mon- would drive the last of the in- Kolian Soviets loose from strongly vaders over the river today. I saw entrenched elevated positions about I two of their twenty prisoners and three miles from the Harha River spoke to them but they were pea*- and started them retreating down- ant Russians and had no knowledgs hill towards the river. of the real situation.
Try to Cut Oil Retreat !    During Saturday's offensive some
With this advantage won, the ^ 40 or 50 Soviet planes—according tuto, by the State Board for Voca- Japanese - Manrhukuoans pressed i to the Japanese—were Intercepted tlonal Education. their advantage and In bitter fight- : by  16  Japanese  pursuit  ships  ap-
The new appointees will work Ing Saturday tried to cut off the 1 parently while on a bombing mi»- iinder direction of Supcrintciulent retreat of the invaders but sue- sion and in the ensuing battle 18 Cope and have their headquarters ceeded in destroying only two of of the Soviet planes were believed on the seventh floor of tho Wilkes- the four bridges accessible for the to have been downed. Some Japa- Barre   Deposit  and  Savings   Bank   retreat. | "•»« reports said 24 of the Russian
building, where the superintendent'*      Fighting a rearguard action every i planes   had   fallen      Two   of   tlM
I tuch   of   the   way,   the   Mongolian JaoaAMa abifis wers missing
d