Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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34TH YEAR, NO. 2—48 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1939
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ANOTHER DUTCH BORDER INCIDENT; NAZI GESTAPO BLAMED FOR FIRST
U.S. Seeks 'New and Better Peace', Roosevelt tsmWRS
World War Goal Yet ¦To BeFound
President Says Desire of Ali is 'Peace under Liberty'
DEFENDS ARIVIiNG
Sees No Freedom Based on Weai<ness; Stari< aiso Speal(S
Washington, Nov. IL (UP) — President Roosevelt declared to¬ day that he still is seeking the road to a permanent peare and a truce on hativd—the goal for which 4,000,001) Americans took up arms in thc World War. i While rOuropean powers renewed the war which was interrupted 21 years ago today, Mr. Roosevelt placed a wreath of chrysanthe¬ mums on thc tomb of America's Unknown Soldier. In an address half an hour later, the President restated his hope and that of his country for a peace new and bel¬ ter than that established by the ; armistice on November 11, 1918. j Like millions of other Americans, i Mr. Roosevelt stood In reverent Sil¬ ence at 11 a. m., in commemora- • lion of the 60,B72 Americans who died in 1917-1!)18 during the "war , lo end wars".
.Surrounded by the high com- ' manders of the nation's armed services in the wind-swept Arling¬ ton Ometery amphitheater, MP. Roosevelt participated In sllenoe In •services at the tomb of the Un¬ known Soldier. "Quiet I'eaee  under Liberty"
"I have sought—I still seek—in all simplicity, to try to find the road toward this peace," Mr. Roose¬ velt said. "It must he the goal not only of men trained to arms, but of all of us everywhere, whose dearest desire Is a quiet peace under liberty.
"The only object of arms Is to bring about a condition in which luiet peace under liberty can en- ' dure. It Is fitting to remember this today. In this season we have been used to celebrating the an¬ niversary of the armistice of the World War. Now we need a ne\y i nnd better peare, a peace which shall cause men at length to lay down weapons of hatred which have been used to divide them; and to forego purposeless ambi¬ tions whieh have created fear- ambitions which In the long run serve  no  useful  end.
"We  seek  a  language  In  which neighbor ean talk  to neighbor;  In which men can  talk  to men;  and by which the common and homely and    human    Instincts    which    are ', found   everywhere  may   reach   ex- I pres.sion   through   thc   elimination ' of   fear."
Defetids Treparedness
Mr. Roosevelt defended the policy of his administration of bulwark¬ ing American peace with a poiiey of preparedness.
"We have never had the illusion that peace and freedom could be based on weakness," he said. ". . , snd like our ancestors, we work for peace, we pray for peace and We arm for peace."
A howitzer battery from Fort (Continued on  Page A-lO)
British Dead to Stay in France
With the British Army In France, Nov. 11. (UP)—British soldiers today observed the end of the last great war by laying flowers on the graves of com¬ rades slain  in  the new one.
The first to die in the first war following tlje conflict which was lo have ended war, they were placed In simple graves beside the resting places In the British cemetery of soldiers who died a generation ago.
Today ceremonies commemo¬ rated jointly the sacrlfies of 19U- 1918 and 1939. Special leave was granted to officers and men who wished to place flowers on the graves of fathers, brothers or friends.
As in the last war, it has been decided that the dead of the British E.xpedltionary Force shall remain In France forever.
\ Parade in City Features Valley's Armistice Day
mw ININGITIS TICOKE
AFTER 20DEATHS
Glri in Nearby Home Strici<en as Funerai For Victim Is Held
! Another case of cerebro-spinal meningitis, the 98lh In Luzerne county this year, was reported in the Hanover section of Nanticoke yesterday just as arrangements i were being made to conduct private ( funeral services for a 21-year-old resident of that city who died less than 24 hours previously.
Lorraine Kryniak. 10, daughter of Mrs. Eva Kryniak, 227 Mosier street, is the latest person to be afflicted with  the malady.
The youngster, who was being treated by Dr. J. J. Korn of that city, lives within a block of two persons who were previously stricken. One, a 31-year-old Pine street man, died, while the other, a six-year-old boy, recovered. Delayed by Lark of Funds
Authorities delayed several hours In removing the girl to Wilkes- Barre Contagious Hospital after the rase was diagnosed as cerebro¬ spinal meningitis at 11 oclock. Money to provide for her care had to be guaranteed tbe institution, since Nanticoke owes a consider¬ able sum for previous cases. This caused the delay.
Mayor    Stanley    Ostrowski    and Councilman    Anthony    Zabiegalski signed  an  order  binding  the  elty, but   it   was   not   until   a   special voucher was signed  by City Con¬ troller Stanley Baker and delivered I to the hospital by Officer Leonard i Prusakowski that the case was ac- : cepted. j
.Toseph    Fiut,    21,    of   S6S    East ' Washington street, Nanticoke, died Friday aflernoon at 1:11^ about 1,1 hours afler il was ascertained that I he  was stricken  wilh  the disease. | His case was diagnosed as menin¬ gitis Thursday night,  but the end came   before   the   city  made   prep¬ arations   for   his   removal   to  Con- ^ tagious Hospital.   His was the 20th | meningitis death in the county this year.
Rev. John M. Puskar of St. .Joseph's Church. Nanticoke. con- dueled private services al the home. Pallbearers were Andrew Svetz, Frank Pelroski. Alex Mitkowski. Joseph Bobola. Frank Grirman and (Continued on  Page A-10)
Suspect in Hitler Plot
Assassination Attempt Blamed On 'Workman'
PLANNED WIGNTHS AGO
Hess Says Attack Has 'Taught German People to Hate'
Munich, Germany, Nov. 11 <UP> —Helnrlch Himmler, chief of the secret police, announced tonight that a workman was under grave suspicion as the person responsible for the Buergebraeukeller bombing attempt to assassinate Adolf Hiller.
The announcement was made shortly after Hitler had saluted the seven victims of the bomb and heard bis deputy, Rudolph Hess, declare In a funeral oration that the assassination attempt had 'taught Germans to hate."
Himmler said that a person who repeatedly made repairs in the gal¬ lery of the beer cellar—scene of the futile 1923 Nazi putsch—was under ' suspicion. Started In August
It Is now certain that the prepa¬ rations for the crime were started near the end of August, the Gestapo chief said,
I    Himmler appealed  to  the  public to watch for and report to Munich Gestapo   headquarters   if   a   work- I (Continued on Page A-10)
German Troops Enter Holland to Empty A Customs House
Adds to Growing Fear of Invasion; ^' Thursday's Kidnapping and Killing Believed Move of Secret Police to Prevent Holland's Intelligence Men From Meeting German 'Visitors'; Slain Man Was Dutch Investigator
By GRATTAN P. .AlrGROARTY
Venlo, Holland, Nov. 11. (UP)—German Gestapo (seci'et police) agent.i were rcssponsible for the border in¬ cident of Thur.«ilay—."thootingr a Dutch "intelligence officer" and forcibly carryinp: five other per.son.s into the Reich- witnesses said tonight afte*" another frontier incident occurred.
at Bakhau.'? Inn, on the out- United  Press correspondent
I        The .second incident was .skirts  of Venlo,  where  the witnessed   the   entry   of   Germani [ soldiers  into a strip  of "no man's ' land"   whirh   the  (Jermans   report- \ edly  consider a  part  of  the  Reich ' hut   whicii   the   Dutch   regard   as part   of   Holland. !
Without     causing     more     than ! passing  excitement,   about  20  Ger- I man     soldiers     and     one     ofllcer marched through the frontier gale I into   the   reportedly   disputed   area which extends about  100 feet from ' the   gale.    They   loaded   furniture I from    that    half    of    the    German I customs   liouse,   which   technically , stands   on   the   Dutch   aide   of   the I frontier, inlo a molor truck.   Some I of them then returned through the I gale,   while  others  remained  wilh- i out  interference   by   the   Dutch. "Here Tliey Come"
The German customs house Is a
'Irreconcilable A ttitude' Of Finns Angers Soviet
—HogirtI)   Pholo
With Europe in the midst of still, Tha above picture, facing south In center Is Ueut.-Col. Thomas another war, unusual enthusiasm as the parade came up South Main H, Atherton, leading the valley marked W>_oming ^^"^^^^",^"'''p^*' street at the Northampton street regiment, directly followed by his the" feature In Wilkes-Barre being intersection, shows the Red Cross staff, then hy the band and then one of the biggest and best parades float In the foreground, followed ! by the batteries of his command, the day yet ha* produced here, i by the 109th Field Artillery, I. . . Story nf parade on Page A-II.
Angry as Demands Stay Deadlocked, Defenses Increase
Germans Fortifying Pass into Italy
Air Forces Active; Attack French Ship As British Planes Fly over Germany
lERICAMED   TURKS REPORT BYPOPETOSOLVE INOFACCORO
River Ferryboat Make Safe Trip From Norfolk to Rio de Janeiro    \
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Rlo de Janeiro, Nov. 11. (UP)— The longest sea voyage ever at¬ tempted by a river ferryboat under its own power was compleled suc¬ cessfully when the ferry Cubango arrived here today from .Norflok, Va.
Waller Tingey, skipper of the vessel, described the Cubango as being "seaworthy as Noall's Ark."
The Cubango formerly plied the Vork River in Virginia and was purchased for use between Rio de Janeiro and Niecteroy, a city of 300,000 across the bay.
It left Norfolk September 9 and
In Today's Issue
I'Mllorial  G—Z
• lassified   B—11
^lovies  A—19
'Nilltics   0-3
i^tory   C—10
Sporta   B—1
Soetal A—15
¦•dIo  B—11
made several stops en route. There wa^ no radio aboard.
British sailors, who were brought to the United States to man the ferryboat when American sailors refused lo make the voyage, had high praise for the performance of the vessel. Not So Sure at First
This was in sharp contrast to their feelings before the vessel left Norfolk.
At that time the first male, Wil¬ liam O'Donnell, said he had joined the Merchant Marine "evidently to see the next world."
Tom Nesbil, thc cook, was re¬ ported to have spent his early days at sea sleeping in the galley wilh a hat and life belt on and his suit¬ case parked.
Captain Tingey has had wide ex¬ perience in hazardous water jour¬ neys. Last year hc took Ihc Brit¬ ish river gunboat Scorpion from Southampton. England, to Hong ^ Kong in 63 days.
By M. S. HANDLER
Paris, Nov. 11. (UP) Allied ami German aerial forces Intensified operations from the Norlh Sea to the  Swiss  frontier  loday.
The Armistice Day developments Included;
1.—A German plane attacked a French steamer siiortly afler it left France to cross the English Chan¬ nel with 90 passengers, but was driven olT by three pursuit ships after dropping two bombs In the sea.
2. German reconnaissance planes carried   out   intensive   flights  over French territory from the Channel lo Switzerland. British My Over Germany
3. -The British Wr Ministry an¬ nounced that Royal Air Force planes had made "successful recon¬ naissance flights over .southwest Germany, flying over Stuttgart, Mannheim and Nuremberg and ap¬ parently losing one craft. French planes flew over tho Rhlneland front.
4. Dispatches from Zurich quoted reliable sources as saying German troops were moving from the western front toward Austria and that thc Nazis were fortify¬ ing the Brenner Pass. (The Bren¬ ner Pass is the gateway between Germany and Italy. In Allied sources there have been frequent but unsubstantiated reports that Italy -fearful of Soviet infrinje- ment on the Fascist sphere in the Balkans was splitting away from Germany.) Alarms in Paris, Berlin
The Nazi aerial operations caused an air raid alarm for nn hour and ten minutes in Pari', and a stale of alert in many other cities   and   towns.
(In Berlin, a false air raid .ilarm (Continued on Page A-10)
Deplores Lack of Religion in Schools, Spread of Divorce
By REYNOLDS  PACKARD
Vatican City, Nov. 11 (UP) — Pope Pius XII today called upon the American people to solve the problems of capital and labor and "thus lay the basis for a happier age."
In an encyclical epistle which dejilored lack of religious teaching in American schools and the spread of divorce and birth control, the Pope addressed the American Epis¬ copates on the ],50lh anniversary of the establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States. Prays for Wisdom
He commended "the good ascom- plished" by "your press ... a sturdy champion of Catholic principles" and "your radio . . . frequently and I advantageously used . . . for the widest possible propagation of all that concerns the church."
"Salaries  of workers,"  he  wrote,
"as   is   just,   are   to  be   such   that
they    are    sufficient    to    maintain
I them  and  their  families.    May  the
1 wisdom   of   the   governing  powers,
a far seeing generosity on the part:
of employers  together with  speedy
re-establishment of more favorable
conditions effect realization of theae
reasonable  hopes lo the  advantage
I of all.
I    "Oh,   if  only   your  country  had (Continued on Fage A-10)
Great Britain to Give Approval of Any Agreement
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. II (UP> ¦ The Turkish press today reported the possibility of an agreement be¬ tween Turkey and Italy.
Official sources at Ankara de¬ nied that any direct negotiations wilh Italy had been undertaken as yel, but it was understood that an agreement similar lo the recent Italian accord with Greece was pos¬ sible.
Talks between Turkish and Italian representatives may start within a few days, it was said in usually reliable sources.
Any agreement reached would be (Continued on Page A-10)
Moscow, Nov. 11. (UP) Soviet Russia charged Finland tonight wilh adopting an increasingly "ir¬ reconcilable attitude" toward Rus¬ sian proposals for Gulf of Finland bases and with doubling or tripling F'innish armed forces facing Lenin¬ grad.
Indicating a grave turn in the deadlocked negotiations, the Soviet altitude as outlined by the official news agency hinted impatience at the repeated delays in reaching a settlement on the Russian pro¬ posals for a base at Hangoe and for territorial exchanges which Moscow considered essential lo de¬ fense  of Leningrad.
(A German report from Helsing¬ fors said thai Russia was expected soon to make public the Soviet viewpoint toward the negotiations and to issue a demand not an ultimatum that a settlement be reached at nnce.) Find  Finn   Hefense  Increased
"According to information avail¬ able lo TiLss (the official newS agency! the Finns nol only do not meet the minimum proposaLs of the Soviet union bul on the contrary Intensify their irreconcilable atti¬ tude," the news agency said in a statement denying foreign reports that Josef Stalin had rejected con- ces.^ions offered by the Finns.
"Until recently, the Finns had on the Karelian Isthmus only two or three army divisions on the front against Leningrad, while now they have increased the nuniber of di¬ visions hanging over Leningrad to seven, thu.s demonstrating their un¬ compromising  atliliide."
The    news    agency's    refenic    lo (Continued  on  Page  A-lOi
Belgium lo Permit Allies to Aid Dutch
Brussels, Nov. 11. (UP)—Usually well-informed sources reported to¬ night th.it there was reason to believe that Belgium would per¬ mit Allied troops to cross Bel¬ gian territory to aid Holland if the Dutch were attacked hy Ger¬ many.
The actinn would he based on the   following   points:
1. Invasion of Holland would he regarded as a threat to Bel¬ gium,
2.—A breach of the German promise to respect Holland's neu¬ trality might foreshadow a simi¬ lar breach of promise to Bel¬ gium, especially If Germany estab¬ lished land bases in the Nether¬ lands.
3.—Britain and France already have given Belgium guarantees to respect her independence.
Even if the Allied troops were permitted to cross Belgium, It was believed this government would attempt to restrict Its activities tn defending its nwn territory rather than rushing to aid  Holland.
two-story red brick building with the German swastika flapping In Iho wind and stands adjacent to tho spot where the shooting and alleged abduction occurred last Thursday.
Ralph Izzard. correspondent for the London Daily Mall, and I had just arrived at Bakhaus Inn when the woman tavern keeper exclaim« cd:
"Here they cornel" W'e ran to the window and saw the hig German truck passing Ihrough the barrier, followed hy soldiers in full equipment—a scene that was enough lo excite the Dutch in view of recent tension and rumors ot invasion threats. But the soldiers did nothing more than load the truck. Kidnap Victims Spoke English
According to eye-witness stories of the first incident, which the Dutch government asked the Ger¬ man government to Investigate, It was not definite that the "kid¬ napped" persons spoke English na well as French, hut some persons standing nearby when the Germans crossed the frontier said that this I was true.
j     "There   were   several   persons  In the   cafe   at   the   time,"   one   eye¬ witness said. "First of all, two men I came In. I am sure they spoke Ger- ' man. They had a couple of glassM
of beer and talked quietly. I "Later, a Dutch automobile drov» up to the cafe wilh three passen¬ gers In addition to the chauffeur. Before an.\ of Ihem had a chanc* to get out, another automobile sped over the frontier frnm Germany with six men members nf tht Gestapo, according to what I over¬ heard one of them say. One .'Man Shot DowTi
"The people  In  the German  ear
jumped    out,    carrying    automatia
rifles and fired several shots In th»
! direction  nf the  Dutch  automnbll*.
I They  then  surrounded   it  and   or-
i dered    the    occupants    out.     On*
Dutchman Immediately jumped out
and   started   to   run    toward   tht
Dutch   frontier   guard,   about   800
.vards   away.   He   had   not   moved
more than a few feet when he wat
shot dead  In  frnnt of the cafe.
"He  fell  on  the ground an wal¬ lowed in a pool of blood.
"At thla  point,  two  of the Gr«r« mans went a short distance dow« (Continued on Page A-10)
Mark End of War to End Wars Thwugh World with Varying Themes
GERMANY WILL STUDY MEDIATION OFFER
The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 11. , (UP)-Germany tonight informed the Netherlands government throu.'jh diplomatic channels that the message of Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold of the Belgians would   be   carefully   examined.
The message was an appeal for I restoration of peace in the Euro- I pcan war and an offer of their ^ good  offices  for mediation, i
Both the Orman and Allied gov¬ ernments indicated that an agree- ^ ment on the offer was unlikely.       |
A new serial begins:
HKR    r.\TH    l.N THK   SKY
By Anne Tedlock Brnnks
A new life opened wide before Brenda Alwyn when she made her flrst flight as stew¬ ardess for the Burge.ss Air Line. And the thrill of her work didn't fade out afler a few weeks: it persisted, even grew in strength, as the lime went on. Then she mel Kim Collingsford and her work be¬ came at last a secondary Interest. But its significance always remained clear: the path of Brenda'.t life was a striking parallel lo the course of a transport plane.
The  first  chapter  of
"Her  Path  In the Sk.>"
appears today on Page B—10.
By   I NITED  rRES.S
The world ob.served on Saturday I the 21st anniversary of the end of the v.ar to end wars.   In America the    Armistice    Day    theme    was ' peace.   Abroad  half of the  world's people were at war. i
At Arlington National Cemetery, i President Roosevelt placed a^ wreath at the tomb of the un- 1 known soldier and declared In a i speech later that the United .States j is  workins;  for  peace.
In  London  and  Paris the armis- ' tice   hour   of   11   a.   m.   came   and went  without  the  signals  for  two minutes   of   silence    for    fear   the signals miq:ht  be  mistaken for an ' air  raid  alarm.
Wreaths of poppies and French cornflowers presented by King George and Queen Elizabeth were laid at the cenotaph In London, i In a radio address, Queen Eliza- belli spoke to the women of the empire.
In Paris, delegations from the Chamber and Senate laid wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe, a few hours after air raid alarms had drowned the notes of church bells proclaiming  the   day.
Al Oxford. Eng., early arrivals for an Armistice Day service al St. Giles Church found big. black letters  on  the  war memorial,  "If i
A
you fight now, these hava died ia vainl"
At Brussels. King Leopold plae«4 a wreath at the tomb of Belglum't unknown   soldier.
On the battlefields of Franet, British and French youths partici¬ pated as soldiers In brief cere¬ monies commemorating th« dead of another war.
.Iust Nov.  11 for Germany
Berlin, Nov. 11. (UP)—For <7er« many, today was just Novembet 11.
The National Zeitung of Baten, however, alluded to the occasion in a second page story reeallinf November 11, 1918, when. In tha railway coach Marshal Foch of France used aa an office, Matthia* Krzberger signed the document for Germany which opened the way to the Treaty of Versailles.
The newspaper warned that tha modern Germany, unlike the Reich of 1918, is strong and determined that the Treaty of Versaillei shall remain  dead.
Dispatches from Euro¬ pean countries are note subject   to   censorship.
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