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THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW YEAR-NO. 4. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1938. 16 PAGES PRICE THREE Ousted Quartet Taken Back By Auto Workers Murray Reads Decision Apparently Ending Intra-Union Strife Associated Press WASHINGTON- The executive board of the United Auto Workwhich had expelled four of ETs the union's international officers. velcomed them back today under settlement arranged by the C.

I 0. The bitter intra-union fight which had led to their discharge appeared to be ended, as the four joined their associates on the board and listened to a speech by C. I. 0. Chairman John L.

Lewis. Agreed In Advance Lewis went before the full board shortly after the C. I. O. arbiters, Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray, handed down their decision that the be reinstated.

Both factions agreed in advance to mend accept the findings. Murray and Hillman made these two recommendations: 1. Immediate reinstatement of Vice Presidents Richard T. Frankensteen, Ed Hall and Wyndham Mortmer, and Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes.

2 Immediate recognition in the organization of "administrative responsibility and authority." Growth Raises Problem Murray and Hillman said in a decision which Murray read to the board that rapid growth of the U. A. W. A. had brought serious administrative problems.

"The failure to solve these probJems has resulted in conflict and they said "The absence of recognized authority has led in some cases to unjustified stoppages of production in violation of outstanding collective bargaining agreements." Roosevelt Asks A. F.of L. For Peace with C.I.O. By Associated Press HOUSTON. Texas -President Roosevelt made an appeal for peace between the A.

F. of L. and the C. I. O.

today in a message to the 58th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. "Because for more than a quarter of a century I have had SO many associations and friendships with officers of the American Federation of Labor and of the international unions which it Mr. Roosevelt said in his letter to the delegates. "I venture to express the hope that the convention will leave open every possible door of access to peace and progress in the affairs of organized labor in the United States. "If leaders of organized labor can make and keep peace between various opinions and factions within the labor group itself.

it will vastly increase the prestige of labor with the country and prevent the reaction which otherwise is bound to injure the workers themselves. Report Agreement in Nash-Kelvinator Strike Br Associated Press RACINE. Agreement to terms of a proposed settlement of the Nash-Kelvinator Corp. labor dispute was announced last night by Msgr. Francis J.

Haas, labor mediator called here from Washington, after a conference of union and company officials. Members of the Racine and Kenosha U. A. V. A.

unions are to vote within two days on the agreement. The company down its Racine plant Aug. 22, planning consolidated operations at Kenosha. The Racine U. A.

W. A. local began picketing to prevent transfer of equipment. Report Rescuers Reach Lost Russ Woman Fliers By Associated Press MOSCOW- Two parachute jumpers were reported landed today to aid three women fliers, located yesterday in marshy land the Siberian- Manchoukuo border after having been missing since Saturday on an attempted nonstop flight from Moscow to the Far East. Radio reports to Moscow said that two of the womenGrizodubova and Capt.

Paulina Osipenko, were near their grounded plane but Lieut. Marina Raskova, the third, was some distance away. Food was dropped to her by parachute. Report Hearst Involved In Mexican Land Project By Associated Press MEXICO CITY- -The official gazette announced today the distribution to 123 peasant families of 17,980 acres owned by the Babicora Development in which William Randolph Hearst, United States publisher, is understood to have a large interest. The land is in Chalchinuites district, Chihuahua state, Northern Mexico.

The gazette said PresiCardenas signed on March dent 10. 1937, a decree providing for the 8g part expropriation and distribution of Mexico's agrarian reform program. YOUNG ARABS STIR UP FEELING AGAINST JEWS Arab youths, their leader wearing a sulted in new outbreaks of violence. Dehelmet, run yelling through the narrow spite increased vigilance of streets of Bethlehem, stirring up feeling British troops, 20 Jews were killed yesagainst Jews in Palestine which has re- terday. Jews Ask Help In Palestine Seek British Aid After Arab Raid By Associated Press TIBERIAS.

Palestine Jewish residents of Tiberias, urged authorities today to grant additional protection against Arab bands like the one which killed 20 Jews yesterday. British troops searched the hills for members of the band. six of whom were killed during the raid. Two of the Jewish vietims were American citizens. Emanuel and Dora Kapin, brother and sister.

Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish agency political department, voiced Jewish demands for additional arms. Herzog, chief rabbi of Palestine, cabled British Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald expressing the Jews' "great shock and at the raid. Swiss Tell Jews To 'Keep Moving'. By Associated Press BERNE, Switzerland The Swiss federal council ruled today that Jewish refugees entering Switzerland from Germany hereafter must have Swiss visas on their passports. The step was taken to tighten the influx of refugees into up on the confederation.

The council warned that "beof the great number of emialready in Switzerland it cause grants is recalled that Switzerland can only be a transit country for them and that all lucrative activity is forbidden them during their temporary stay in our country." The council further ruled that the acquisition of buildings or participation in Swiss commercial enterprises does not confer remain in Switzerright land." German citizens hitherto had to have visas. not been required The new measure applies to "holders of German passports who are not Aryans according to German law." Rabbit's Eye Lets Man See Substitute May Not Be Good for Long By Associated Press HAGERSTOWN. L. laborer blind since Hoffman, 61, a last spring, can see dimly today whether his improvement is -but depends on whether permanent his body can keep alive the comea of the eye of a rabbit which was transplanted to his eye socket. Dr.

Paul N. Fleming, who performed the delicate surgery last week. said Hoffman could distinlight and dark albetween ready. But a Johns Hopkins spepreferred not to be cialist who named said that similar tions had been done in the past of the rabbit "inand the cornea became opaque in a variably" few weeks or months. Hoffman was blinded by corrosive chemicals he was spraying in a stable last spring.

"He hadn't anything to lose," Dr. Fleming said of the operation. "We won't be able to tell definitely if the operation is successful for two or three weeks. In the past few days he has been able to see light. Calls Special Jury to Probe 'Medical Trust' Investigation of Group Health, Charge to Start Oct.

17 By Associated Press WASHINGTON- Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the Federal district court here ordered today a special federal grand jury investigation of anti-trust charges against the American Medical association and the District of Columbia Medical society. Justice Wheat, granting a request of government attorneys, called the special jury to meet Oct. 17. Charges Interference The Justice.

department, represented S. Attorney David A. Pine, and Allen Hart, special assistant to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, announced July 31 it would charge the medical association and its local affiliate with illegally interfering with activities of Group Health Association, Inc. Group Health is a cooperative providing medical aid to low-income government employes.

At a recent press conference, Attorney General Cummings emphasized that his department did not charge the American Medical association with monopolizing practice of medicine but that the associaton may have conspired to restrain "trade" in violation of one section of the Sherman Antitrust act. Oppose Expulsion The department charges the local medical society with threatening expulsion of any members who accept employment on the Group Health association's staff and even of doctors who consult with physicians employed by the association. It further charges that the local society required hospitals here to exclude Group Health staff doctors. Poland Won't Use Sanctions Completes 'Trade' for Jap Support By Associated Press TOKYO- Do mei, Japanese news agency, reported tonight that Poland had assured Japan she would not enforce sanctions against her in pursuance of the recent action of the League of Nations council. The council at Geneva voted that article 16 of the covenantthe sanctions article--was applicable to Japan because of her war on China, but left each member free to decide whether it would apply punitive measures.

(Recent Warsaw dispatches reported Japan had assured Poland she supported her demands for cession of Czechoslovakia's Teschen district to their full extent. Observers interpreted this as an indirect warning to Soviet Russia not to interfere in the PolishCzechoslovak dispute). Chicago U. Gets First Rockefeller Student By Associated Press CHICAGO- The student register at the University of Chicago today bore the name of David Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller.

Jr. Though it had received many millions from the Rockefeller riches, the school never before had a member of the famous family on its student rolls. David registered to work for his master's degree in economics. "Heavens no, he exclaimed when asked if he would employ a chauffeur to drive his car. Envoy Opens Search For Humorist's Son By Associated Press ST.

JEAN-DE-LUZ. France United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers opened an investigation today into the whereabouts of James P. Lardner, son of the late Ring Lardner, who disappeared Sept. 22 while fighting with Spanish government forces in Eastern Spain.

The ambassador said Lardner was not listed among American prisoners held by the Insurgents at Burgos. Wants Pupils to Hear History in Making By Associated Press WASHINGTON-John W. baker, commissioner of education, suggested today that school children close their books and listen when the radio carries such imspeeches as the recent portant, Hitler and Neville Chamberlain. Studebaker, arguing against inflexible school schedules, said: "What is happening today is grist for the mill of teachers of psychology, sociology, civics and history. There is nothing in the textbooks to compare with it" New British, Italian Pact Sought; French Claim German Goodwill Daladier Asks Power to Meet Finance Crisis Stakes Government on Vote; Plans Envoy to Rome By Associated Press PARIS- Premier Daladier told the Chamber of Deputies today that his meeting, with Reichsfuehrer Hitler Munich last week marked the beginning of an era of friendly relations between France and Germany.

The premier, reading. his ministerial declaration on the fourpower agreement over Czechoslovakia, declared France had decided to send an ambassador to Rome to resume cordial relations with Italy. France has not had an ambassador in Rome since 1936, due to her refusal to recognize the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. Showdown Tonight While Daladier started reading the declaration to a jammed Chamber of Deputies, his finance minister. Paul Marchandeau.

said in the corridor that the government. insists that Parliament vote it full financial and economic decree powers tonight. He said the powers. which would amount to a virtual temporary dictatorship, would be requested until Dec. 13, and that Daladier would stake the life of his government on the issue.

Daladier, in the name of the entire government, paid homage to the "courage of the Czechoslovak nation and its He declared that Czechoslovakia's present trials enable it to "reforge its political He also paid tribute to British collaboration with France "during these dfficult weeks." Credits Publicity The ministerial declaration, which also was read in the Senate by former Premier Camille Chautemps, said: "Perhaps, for the first time in the history of the world. everything was undertaken publicly and discussed openly before the peoples. peace has beeen maintained and preserved it is because we have not had recourse to plots of secret diplomacy." Face Mobilization Cost The cabinet earlier today unanimously approved Daladier's plan for decree powers to "rebuild France's economy and finances." The most pressing problem facing the country was financial troubles caused by the tremendous expenses of mobilization and the precipitous flight of frightened capital from France. The cost of mobilization and the hasty re-stocking war supplies has been estimated ed at 10 to 15 billion francs (about 269 to 404 million dollars). That drain more than exhausted the government's legal borrowing limits from the Bank of France.

French Army Stages Show on German Border By Associated Press STRASBOURG- France paraded her military might on the German border today shortly before Premier Edouard Daladier, addressing the Chamber of Deputies in Paris, predicted an era of good relations with Nazi Germany. General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, chief of the general staff, reviewed 35.000 men here on an inspection tour of the border, including Maginot fortification troops, reservists mustered during the recent crisis and special detachments of Moroccan cavalry. Armored cars. tanks and heavy guns rumbled over Strasbourg streets to the cheers of a populace which a few days ago was living in dread of an outbreak of hostilities. The parade lasted nearly two hours.

Report Russian Capture Of Manchoukuo Boatmen By Associated Press TOKYO-A Harbin dispatch to Domei, the Japanese news agency, said today that a Soviet Russian border patrol had taken prisoner 13 Manchoukuo boatmen on one of the river frontiers between Manchoukuo and Siberia. Manchoukuo protested promptly and demanded release of the boatmen. Thieves Receive Bad Fright When Stolen Car Talks By Associated Press PITTSBURGH-Two thieves spotted a plain black sedan, the key in the ignition switch. They drove it away, thinking how easy it was. Then the radio blared out: "All cars.

be on the lookout for a plain black car. This is police car." The police found it two blocks from the spot where it had been parked by Deteclives William Harris and Joseph Jackson. They were investigating a robbery. Czech Slovaks Seek Autonomy Expect Territory Will Remain in Republic BULLETIN LONDON (AP) A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Prague reported tonight that the Czechoslovak government under Gen. Jan Syrovy had resigned.

By Associated Press PRAGUE- The Czechoslovak government negotiated today with representatives of the Slovak minority on the question of complete autonomy for Slovakia. Minster without Portfolio Cermak raised the question in the name of the Slovak people's party. The official view was that there was no obstacle in the way of granting autonomy for the 49.000- square-mile Slovak section of Eastern Czechoslovakia provided Slovakia remained a part of the republic. An agreement was expected in the near future. The relation between Czechs and Slovaks in the new state was first defined by the Pittsburgh pact of 1918.

This agreement between Czech and Slovak societies in the United States provided that Czechoslovakia, whose independence then had not been proclaimed, should grant "cultural self to the. three million Slovaks. Chilo, Chimpanzee, Passes on to Reward By Associated Press CHICAGO- a chimpanzee that captivated zoo audiences in Milwaukee and Chicago before the panda era, died yesterday at the ripe old age of 25 years. Purchased from the Milwaukee 200 in 1927, Chillo was regarded by officials of the Lincoln park zoo here as a "master showman." Floyd Young, ZOO director, said Chillo's age was "remarkable" and the a primate's body would be turned over to the University of Illinois medical school for study Young also announced the birth of three lion cubs to Queen, a sixyear-old lioness, received Sept. 16 from the Henry Vilas zoo in Madison, in a One of the male cubs was named "Gabby" for Leo (Gabby) Hartnett, manager of the Chicago team which won the national! baseball league pennant.

New England Granted Flood Control Millions By Associated Press WASHINGTON President Roosevelt allocated 11 million dollars today for flood control work in New England where floods and hurricanes took more than 500 lives and caused millions of dollars damage two weeks ago. Cooler Decatur and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; cooler Wednesday. DECATUR WEATHER Compiled by The Review High Mon. 81 Tues. 58 7 p.

m. Mon. 68 Tues. 82 Low Tues. Precip.

0 Sun rose 5:57: sets 5:38 p. m. Degree days Tues. 0: since Sept. 16 63: same period year ago 130.

Mon. dambelow dam. Lake level at ft. below dam. Barometer Mon.

noon 29.73 Today 29.62 (Additional Weather on Page 13) Perth, Ciano In Conference On Old Treaty Meeting Indicates Some Settlement of Spanish Question Convict Doctor Gets Prison Job After Term Ends By Associated Press MCALESTER, -Three days ago Dr. W. R. Armstrong completed his five year auto theft term at the state penitentiary. Today he was back at the prison-as a staff member receiving $175 monthly.

His work as an inmate instructor at the Stringtown subprison school brought favorable attention. So prison officials named him director of academic courses at the prison school and resident physician. Taylorville Girl Fatally Burned Carol Jean Mills, 3, Dies in Hospital By Staff Correspondent TAYLORVILLE-Seriously Seriously burned when her clothing caught fire while she was playing on a porch of her parents' home at 11 a. m. Monday, Carol Jean Mills.

threeyear -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mills of the City Park addition, died in St. Vincent's hospital at 3:30 a. m.

Tuesday. In an inquest conducted at 11 a. m. today, Carol's mother said she had learned from the child's sister, Shirley, aged four. that Carol Jean climbed upon a kitchen cabinet.

got a match, went out on the back porch and lighted it. Hearing the child screaming, the mother went to the porch and found the girl's clothing in flames. The body was taken to the Chestnut Pearce funeral home. Funeral services will be conducted in the Free Methodist church at 2:30 p. m.

Wednesday by Rev. F. D. Boling. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.

The child, who was born in Taylorville Jan. 21, 1935, leaves her parents; three sisters, Shirley, Norma and Mary Lou, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Mills of Taylorville and Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Tolliver of Clarksdale. Wilkes-Barre Papers Close After Strike Printers Seek Settlement; Miners Join Pickets By Associated Press WILKES-BARRE, Re sidents of this anthracite city of 86.000 read their news in out-oftown papers today, or did without, as a strike of editorial employes on Wilkes-Barre's four newspapers three dailies and one Sunday-entered its fourth day. The publishers announced late yesterday they were suspending operations in all departments after the workers, members of the American Newspaper guild, walked out Friday at midnight. Meanwhile, Frank McDonough, of the Wilkes-Barre lopresident cal, International Typographical union, said printers on the four papers would attempt to bring publishers and guild officials toin an effort to reach a settlement. Kupstas, president of Stanley the A.

N. G. local, said members the United Mine Workers of of America joined newsmen on picket lines at the four newspaper plants yesterday. LANDON ON PROGRAM VIENNA. Ill.

(AP) Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential will address a 24th and nominee, 25th congressional district Republican rally here Oct. 16. Ballot Battle Ends in Draw Clerks Receive Two 'Official' Copies By Associated Press SPRINGFIELD-A dispute between Democratic state officials over certifying Nov. 8 election ballots resulted today in Illinois county clerks receiving not one "official" ballot, but two.

Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes and Auditor Edward J. Barrett jointly mailed out one to each clerk. Governor Horner mailed out another set. Hughes claimed the one he and Barrett dispatched is official, because it bears the great seal of Illinois.

Hughes is the keeper of the seal. Both ballots actually are alike. Governor Horner balked at signing the Hughes-Barrett certification because he said he wasn't required by law. to approve the banking amendment referendum which goes on the regular ballot. The Governor did not contend, however, that the banking referendum shouldn't appear there.

The three officers are members of the state certifying board. Fishing Trips, Not New Bills, Help Roosevelt Gallup Says Third Term 'Almost Impossible'. By Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. -President Roosevelt's popularity, says Dr. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, goes up when he goes fishing and down when he attempts to put through a new bill.

Dr. Gallup also expressed the opinion at last night's concluding session of the New Jersey Newspaper institute at Rutgers university that re-election of President Roosevelt for a third term was "almost impossible." He based his forecast on nationwide polls he has conducted and said these polls indicated that the majority of the people in the "upper half of society" was against a third term and also against the President. If the Republican party is to win the next election. Dr. Gallup continued, it must get the votes of the "key people in the coming election-the majority of the middle class and the young voters." Russ Silent on Report Of Bluecher's Removal By Associated Press LONDON-A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Moscow said today that official Soviet circles declined to comment on reports that Marshal Vassily K.

Bluecher had been deprived of his command of the Far Eastern Red army. The marshal's name, however, has not been mentioned in the Soviet Press in recent weeks. the dispatch said. His name was omitted from reports of a conference of political commissars of the Far Eastern army a week ago attended by Defense Commissar Klementi Voroshiloff and Lev Mekhlis, "vice commissar of defense and chief of the army's political bureau. Take Bids Oct.

13 on New U. of I. Building By Associated Press Bids on excavating and foundation work for the new $545.000 Natural Resources building at the University of Illinois will be received Oct. 13 by the state division of architecture. The building will house the Geological, Natural History and other scientific surveys.

By Associated. Press ROME- Diplomatic sources disclosed today that overtures for the settling of differences between Britain and Italy had begun in a meeting between the Earl of Perth. Britain's ambassador. and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. -Diplomats said the British ambassador had called on Ciano to discuss the possibilities in the of rela- furtions countries.

The appeasement" outcome of the talk. however. was not known immediately. Diplomatic quarters believed that the prospects of bringing the Anglo-Italian treaty of April 16 into effect were discussed. That pact has been inoperative because the conditions of a "settlement" of the Spanish civil war involving withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain has not been met.

Diplomats had expected some move toward effectuating the April 1 pact since the four-power agreement on Czechoslovakia and the new understanding between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Reichsfuehrer Hitler for handling issues between Britain and Germany. The announcement of the PerthCiano conference, however, came earlier than diplomats expected, particularly since Fascist authorities had indicated that an AngloItalian understanding still depended on a "settlement" in Spain. Hitler Visits Karlsbad On Sudetenland Tour By Associated Press KARLSBAD (Karlovy Var y), Sudetenland- Chancellor Adolf Hitler, making a triumphal tour of his newly-annexed Sudeten territory, told an electrified Sudeten German audience today "I didn't know how I would sometime get here, but I did know that I would come." Hitler was given a tremendous ovation when he arrived at this world-famed spa. The streets before the theater where he spoke briefly were jammed with enthusiastic Sudeten Germans. gathered to welcome their Fuehrer.

Earl Baldwin Endorses Chamberlain's Work By Associated Press LONDON- Earl Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain's predecessor as prime minister, today endorsed Chamberlain's Munich accord while the angry opposition renewed its assault on that pact for the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Baldwin, in his maiden speech in the House of Lords, declared that "when the prime minister took that decision to go to Berchtesgaden there was nothing else on earth he could have done and thank God that he was able to do it." While Baldwin spoke, the Labor opposition in the House of Commons bitterly assailed Chamberlain for the four -power Munich agreement. It was the second day of debate on the prime minister's policies. Plans Regional Offices For Wage-Hour Control Administrator Expects Several Open When Law Takes Effect By Associated Press WASHINGTON-Elmer F. Andrews.

wage-hour administrator, announced today the establishment of 12. regional offices. He said he hoped that some would be in operation by Oct. 24. the date the wage-hour law becomes effective.

Regional administrators will be appointed as soon as possible, Andrews added. Tentative headquarters will be located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cleveland, Chicago, Birmingham or Atlanta, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Houston, Denver, and San Francisco. CARDINAL HAYES RITES ROME (AP) A solemn funeral mass for the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York was celebrated today in his titular church, Santa Maria in Via..