San Bernardino Sun, Volume 45, 8 July 1939 — Page 1

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Threat of Filibuster Seen as Death Knell In Neutrality Fight Organized Group of 34 Senators Declared Ready to Block Revision to Bitter End (By Associfltsd Press) WASHINGTON, July 7. The administration campaign to revise the neutrality act at this session of Congress suffered a stunning, if not fatal, blow today with a statement from the opposition that an organized group of 34 Senators stood ready to fight such legislation to the bit

ter end. In the opinion of many persons at the Capitol, the development amounted to a death knell. It was Immediately assumed that the group would filibuster if necessary. And it was pointed out that 34 Senators, or half that number, could keep a filibuster going for months, if not indefinitely. Administration leaders, while disposed to consider the 34 an overestimate of the strength of the opposition, nevertheless could not conceal their gloom. Close Vote Seen If Showdown Permitted "I'm going right on, of course," Chairman Pittman, Nevada Democrat, of the foreign relations committee, said in the course of an interview. "I don't know whether they have 34 or not. People sometimes guess in , making their polls, I've clone it myself." Although earlier in the week he was talking optimistically of holding the Senate in session for weeks to pass the bill, he would make no forecasts today. He hoped, he said, to obtain action by his committee on Tuesday, but would not predict what it would be. He said he had no idea of how the committee was divided. In other quarters, the opinion was expressed that if the opposition permitted a vote at Tuesday's meeting, it would be exceedingly close, with victory or defeat for the administration turning on the posi tions of one or two Senators. Repeal of Embargo " Asked by President The administration wants to re peal the embargo which the present neutrality law imposes upon sales of certain war materials to belligerent nations. In its place it pro poses to impose a system under which American markets would be open to nations at war, provided the purchasers took title to the goods before they were shipped. In addition, it desires authority for the President to fix war zones into which American ships and citizens would venture only at their own risk. Poland Buys H elium From Government

(By Associated Press) AMARILLO, Texas, July 7. The United States helium plant here has shipped 200,000 cubic feet of the non-inflammable gas to Poland for a stratosphere flight. Dr. C. W. Seibel, in charge of the plant, said the . purchase was arranged in Washington by the Polish consulate at New York. Scientist Dies Of Ailment He Sought to Cure (By United Press) KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 7. Dr. Charles E. Salsbery, 57, an outstanding veterinary biologist, succumbed today to deadly equine encephalitis he sought to eradicate, But, as with others who have given their lives to science, his death brought hope of victory over the disease. A new anti-toxin may be commercially available within a year. His laboratory associates In a desperate, untried attempt to save him prepared a new serum, And amazingly, with it he rallied from a 36-hour coma, spoke with physicians, and took food. But tho selga had been too damaging on his heart, and that failed him finally. The new serum, technically, might have been a crude remedy, and certainly medical men would not have prescribed It in Its untried state. There was nothing else to do, however. An attending physi"1"" ho knew Salsbory said he v y the new sorum "If he indlng here." And thus it ,: 'en. ' ! !t opened a now approach ago . l disease. J

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rn -- German Edict Seen as Ban Upon Religion (By Associated Press) BERLIN, July 7. Three of Germany's 16 Protestant theological schools today were ordered to close by Oct. 1 in a move which churchmen said was part of a Nazi campaign to push the church to the wall. Bernhard Rust, minister of education, issued the order. No official explanation was issued, but the order, coincided with an article In the Nazi magazine "Nordland" which declared that the study of theology was "without value and unnecessary." The three schools are those of ancient Heidelberg university and the universities of Leipzig and Rostock. "Nordland" said 973 theology stu dents matriculated at German uni versities this year and expressed the opinion that many chose theology "against their will and in clination, thus "choosing a voca tion which for them and the com munity can be regarded as without value and unnecessary." Protestant church circles said ef forts were being made to have the order rescinded. i (By United Press) WARSAW, July 7. The Polish foreign office tonight said Danzig must "remain outside the frontier of the reich" and that Poland cannot permit the Nazis to militarize the free city in violation of the League of Nations statute fixing its status. The foreign office's spokesman, addressing newspaper correspondents, gave the most precise definition of Poland's attitude heard since the occasion of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's April 28 demand for restoration of Danzig to the reich. The spokesman said that: 1 Danzig must remain outside the frontier of the reich. 2 Danzig must remain within the Polish customs system as provided for under international agreement and the league statute. 3 Polish rights in Danzig must not be subjected to either theoretical or practical control. 4 The militarization of Danzig would be regarded as control in violation of Polish rights and interests. The statement, undoubtedly rep(Continued on Page Two)

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Auto Strike Gains, Sixth Plant Closed

(By United Press) DETROIT, July 7. A strike of skilled workers at another General Motors plant today increased to six the number of the corporation's factories closed by a walkout of United Automobile Workers union (C.I.O.) members, The plant closed today was Fisher body No. 37, a stamping plant employing 600 workers. The striko today raised the total number of workers affected to more than 4,000. Meanwhile, James F. Dewey, U. S. department of labor conciliator, , he was striving to arrange a fcrenco between General Motors union officials to settle the to. His first efforts to bring the groups together were unsucful. jwey, who returned to Detroit

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Jim PLAN 10 POOL EF British, French and Polish to Exchange War Aircraft for Purposes of Training DIRECTED AT AGGRESSORS English Aviation Squadrons to Visit Small Nations in Europe Peace Front By WALLACE CARROLL (United Press Correspondent) LONDON, July 7.-Military and air attaches tonight reported a farreaching plan for the virtual "pooling" of the British, French and Polish air forces by the exchange of planes among the three nations for training purposes, Under the scheme, as yet unconfirmed officially, Polish air squadrons would train with the British and French air forces while British and French military pilots would be sent to Poland for training. May Stage Flight To Small Nations It was believed' that the scheme might be one of the next moves in the new determination of Britain and France to back up their antiaggression stand with demonstra tions of the strength and efficiency of their rapidly-expanding fighting forces. After the exchange of units among the three powers, it was said, British royal air force squadrons may stage "courtesy" flights to Poland, Turkey, Greece, Rumania and other small nations allied with Britain and France in the European "peace front." Fleet Will Fly to Paris on Monday The tri-power training "pool" was described by air experts as a practical arrangement for cooperation which would be difficult to make if the nations waited until after the outbreak of war. The reported "pooling" plan, obviously aimed to impress Germany with the fact that Anglo-French air units would play a major role in resisting any Nazi aggression against the Poles, followed disclosure that Britain and France are (Continued on Page Two) : Ertvin Werner To Seek Decree (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, July 7. Erwin P. Werner, former city attorney, said today he would file suit Mon day for divorce from the former "Queen Helen" Werner of Los Angeles politics. They were convicted three months ago of attempted grand theft, charged with trying to obtain money from William McNeil on the representation they could "fix" a mining fraud case against him. Mrs. Werner is serving her year term in jail, but Werner decided to appeal and is out on bond. They have been married 19 years. Once their community property was estimated at hundreds of thou sands of dollars. They paid income tax on $25,000 in 1936. Now they are broke. yesterday in an attempt to mediate the strike, said that after preliminary conferences ho had been unable to bring the corporation and union officers together In a peace meeting. He said that by meeting separately with both sides he might be able to reach a basis for a joint conference. Skilled workers belonging to the U.A.W.-C.I.O, walked out In an effort to force their demands for a supplementary agreement covering wages and hours. Union officers said as many as 8,000 workers might be called out of General Motors factories if necessary. The strike affected only tool and die, engineering, and maintenance workers engaged in preparations for production of 1210 automobiles.

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AND TUB DA1IT Death Takes Seawell, 77, Noted Jurist JUSTICE EMMETT SEAWELL (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, July 7. Associate Justice Emmet Seawell of the California supreme court, 77, was stricken with a heart attack while sitting with the court en banc today and died half an hour later in his chambers. The justice excused himself quietly from the bench, while arguments in the Pacific Stales case were in progress and walked to hi3 cham bers. There was no halt in proceedings, until a note from the judge's secretary was sent to the courtroom and a recess was quickly called. Physicians and a firemen's inhalator squad were hurried to the scene, and the aged justice rallied twice under their ministrations before he died. Then Chief Justice William H. Waste, who has himself been in ill health for some months; (Continued on Page Two) OPPOSE FH (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 7. Paul V. McNutt, high commissioner to the Philippines, said today that if President Roosevelt decided to run for a third term he himself would not contest the nomination. He made the statement' to reporters following a talk with Secretary Hull on Philippine and Far Eastern matters. Asked if he would be in the 1940 race, McNutt said: "All my plans have been laid with the provision that Mr. Roosevelt would not seek a third term. "If on the contrary he does want a third term my loyalty to the chjef dictates what action I should take." Asked whether in words of one syllable this meant that if ' Mr. Roosevelt chose to run in 1940 Mc Nutt himself would not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination, he replied "that's it." 75 Overcome by Chlorine Gas at Swimming Pool (Bv Associated Press) UTICA, N. Y July 7. Seventyfive persons, including 50 children, were overcome by chlorine gas which a change of wind swept across the new Addison C. Miller municipal swimming pool late today. Officials at Faxton hospital where the victims were treated, said William Rubin, 60, New York City; Leonard Nunno, 42, and Clarence Mosher, 17, both of Utica, were in serious condition. Fourteen others were kept in the hospital overnight, the remainder were released after receiving inhalator treatment. The victims, many of whom were in the water, became affected when a gust of wind swept them with the fumes from a nearby storage tank which attendants had opened preparatory to connecting it with the pool chlorinating system, a method to purify water. Several persons sitting and standing on the pool promenade were caught in the path of the chlorineladen wind. Some called out warnings to nearby swimmers, and a wild dash for the bathhouse began,

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OIUNOB BEIVT NEWS E3 MOST OF U. S, AS 26 P Forecasters Predict Showers, Moving East, Will Relieve Seaboard Temperatures HUNDREDS SLEEP IN OPEN New England States Swelter in Fourth Consecutive Day as Respite Expected Soon (By Associated Press) Collar-wilting heat plagued most of the nation yesterday. Thermometer watchers in scores of communities in New England, the East, the South and the Middle and South West saw the mercury columns begin an early ascent and rise into the high 80's or 90's by lunch time. Twenty-six deaths were attributed to the abnormal warmth but forecasters predicted thunder showers moving eastward across the prairie states and shifts in the wind would bring relief to the Midwest overnight and today and to states farther east during the week-end. Midwest Sections Refreshed by Rain Most of New England sweltered for the fourth successive day. No break in the hot spell was expected there until Sunday. Augusta, Maine, reported a reading of 85 at noon. That was only slightly higher than temperatures recorded in other cities in Massachusetts, Vermont and New York state. Rain refreshed sections of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas. It was somewhat cooler in that region in the wake of conditions so oppressive that 17 steers dropped dead in a feed yard at Pappillion, Neb. Topeka, Kan., reported 109 before rain checked the mercury's ascent. The breeze veered from south to southeast and the temperature dropped from 88 to 82 in one hour at the University of Chicago observatory but, farther west at the municipal airport, it rose to 92. It was estimated approximately 300,000 Chicagoans took refuge along the lake shore. The early arrivals replaced a "night shift" of hundreds who had slept in the open. Downpour Drenches St. Petersburg, Fla. Readings around the 90-degree level were numerous in the South although showers afforded a respite to some districts. Sarasota, Fla., reported a 24-hour rainfall of 6.46 inches. St. Petersburg, Fla., was drenched by a 3.58 inch downpour. Youngsters enjoyed swimming and boating in some streets. Deaths by states included: Iowa 5, Ohio 5, Wisconsin 3, Illinois 4, Minnesota 2, Michigan 3, Massachusetts 1, Indiana 1, Kansas 1, Missouri 1. The 101 at Springfield, 111., was the hottest since Aug. 26, 1936. The 92 at Champaign, 111., was the sea son's peak. Louisville's 91.5 was only a degree and a half short of the current summer's record. Laguna Beach Bans Drinking in Public LAGUNA BEACH. Julv 7. A cltv ordinance banning public drinking on streets, beaches and in automobiles was before the council for final reading today.

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Cult Priest Fails in Novel Plot For Deportation Trip to Ethiopia

(By United Press) LOS ANGELES, July 7. The Rev. Hefle Tashara, secretary of the grand council of the mystery 10 in Israel's name, from the temple of honor, faith and justice, was in jail today accused of trying to hornswoggle the Government into deporting him "back to Abyssinia." Jailed with the self-styled Negro prophet were his three hand-maidens, Keturah Zion, Rubonia Zion, and Hamela Tashara. All four, who speak Hebrew with a southern accent, were indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of attempt to defraud the United States Government, Immigration Inspectors told an

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Secretary of Navy Dies After Prolonged Illness

Claude Swanson, 77, Member of Roosevelt's Cabinet Since 1933, Former Senator (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 7. Secretary Claude A. Swanson, 77-year-old secretary of the expanding navy, died today, leaving a gap both in President Roosevelt's cabinet and in Democratic party councils. The Senate quickly recessed after voting to hold a state funeral at the Capitol Monday at 1 p.m. for the long-time legislator who entered the cabinet at the beginning of the first Roosevelt administration in 1933. Death came at 8:06 a.m. at the Blue Ridge mountain camp at Rapidan,' Va., where he was spending the summer. For three years he had been in ill health, forced to turn over to Sides direction of many phases of the navy's greatest peacetime expansion. Nevertheless he was credited with helping maintain the navy in such good standing with Congress that letrislation and appropriations of record proportions met with little opposition. Forty-four year3 of public life, including a term as governor of his native state, and 23 years in the Senate, made the handsome, erect (By United Press) WASHINGTON, July 6. Practices in restraint of trade have become "Intolerable", in the housing field, and the industry is incapable of curing itself, Assistant At torney General Thurman W. Arnold told the monopoly investigating committee today. He charged that a building boom in 1936 and 1937 was choked off by practices which shot construction costs up as much as 25 per cent in some cities. He blamed union labor as well as manufacturers for these conditions. By the use of basing point systems and zone price systems, he said, various building material industries have established by formula a rigid structure of uniform prices throughout the country. In some instances, these formulae have (Continued on Page Two) Patterson Raps Private Banking (By Associated Press) SAN. DIEGO, July 7. Flatly declaring that he was "100 per cent opposed to continuation of the pri vate banking system in the United States," and challenging his listeners to "call that any ism you like," Lieut.-Gov. Ellis Patterson tonight addressed members of the Citizens union here. His statement came at the close of an address in which he an nounced that he "wasn't going to pull any punches," and launched into a bitter attack against "cor porate interests," anti-Olson legislators whom he termed "fakers and phonics, that's what we call them in the labor movement," and the California press. "Private banking in the United States has failed," he charged. "The monetary system never should have fallen into hands of private interests, but should be centered in Congress." extraordinary story. They said the Rev. Tashara marched into tho office last month with the three Negresses, announced that all were alien Abyssinians, and demanded to be "deported back to Berber, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where we came from." The Rev. Tashara, the Inspectors said, claimed to have sneaked across the border from Canada, and said the three women rowed across the St. Lawrence river, after stowing away In a steamship from Egypt. , They claimed Hebrew as their

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WITH 165,700 POPULATION 13 FIFTH IN CALIFORNIA AND WITH 20,157 SQUARE MILE3 13 LARGEST IN AREA IN AMERICA.

SATURDAY ML CLAUDE A. SWANSON Virginian an elder statesman, to party associates. Assistant Secretary Charles Ed ison, himself ill for two months this SDrinsr. automatically became acting secretary, and decreed for all ships and navy yards a period (Continued on Page Two) (Bv Associated Press) BERLIN, July 7. Britain was aa cused tonight by Deutsche Dienst, the official German news agency commentary, of attempting to spin as perfect an'espionage net as possible over all Germany." The comment was made in con nection with the recall of Donald St. Clair Gainer, British consul-gen eral in Vienna, which Germany re quested June 21 after the German consul general in Liverpool, Walter Reinhardt, was recalled at Britain's request. German officials said Gainer was involved in espionage affairs and the commentary declared England is "not particular' about her methods. "Especially suitably schooled men of the great English news organization, of the secret service and in telligence service have been com mandeered for the personnel of of ficial English representations in consulates and consulates-general and, above all, passport offices. "This infiltration of the consular service with professional spies and secret agents in the long run will be intolerable," said the commentary, "The English government for some time has resorted to turning out respectable and innocent German men from England because of its mental state of morbid distrust and excessive fright, but above all with the view to proving alleged aggressive intentions by Germany and thereby to poison further the international atmosphere." , Olivia de Havilland Seeks Citizenship (Bv Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, July 7. Olivia de Havilland, who was born 23 years ago in Tokyo of British parents, today applied for her first citizenship papers. The movie actress has lived in this country since she was two-and-a-half years old. Her father, W. A. de Havilland, a patent attorney, still resides in Japan. native tongue and even passed the test of conversing with a rabbi put on the telephone by the immigration men. Subsequent investigation, said the immigration officials, showed that the Negroes learned the tongue in a Negro Hebrew church at Jamaica, Long Island, and that the Rev. Tashara wanted a trip to Abyssinia for the prestige it would give him in a Negro cult he formed here. The immigration men charged that the Rev. Tashara is plain Bill Jackson, 31, and his handmaidens are Ola Bell Ollphant, 19, Elizabeth Johnson, 30, and Sylvia Ricks, 25, all of Savannah, Ga,

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Administration Employes h f. Jobs in Protest Agaim Lengthening of Hours LEGALITY OF ACTS PR0I Officials Minimize Walko J Admit 'Stoppage Spreadin; , Although 'Not Rapidly' !By Associated Press) is projects admit ti tration employes in. unnumbered thousands left thmjobs throughout the coun' vy yesterday m protest agar -.si lengthened hours, while fie New York WPA administ; ?.- tor asked the U. S. attorr. : y to determine whether lav violations were involved. Estimates of those idle ranged beyond 100,000, but WPA officials generally disagreed with Amerl( " Federation of Labor and Work Alliance reports on the extent of c. : strike, which grew , from the -i - Federal "relief act fixing flat ws for a 130-hour month hrespec . of union scales. , - 'i In Washington, Col. F.' C. I . rington, head of the WPA, said work stoppage was "growing,, - not very rapidly." He and pt) of the WPA declined to refer to , situation as a "strike." , Union Wage Seal ': Will Be Demanded The A.F.L. building trades unions ' declared at a meet'ine in Washimr-, ton they would use their "political power and economic strength" to force payment of union wages, - The rival Congress of Industrial. Organizations joined in demanding , amendments to the relief act. Among some members of Con, gress, revision of the act was considered. Senator Murray, Montana Democrat, said he would propose, elimination of 30-day dismissals for , those employed by the WPA, for 18. months and restoration of the prevailing wage system. . Col. Brehon Somervell, adminis trator for New York, where the. largest number of relief workers is employed, disputed the statement ' by Thomas A. Murray, president of the A.F.L. building and construction trades council, that 60,000 of the 75,000 on construction projects were idle. New York Official Sets 12,000 Figure "That is absolutely, utterly and completely ridiculous," asserted Colonel Somervell, fixing the number at about 12,000. 'A great many men are working today that were not working yes-, terday," he added, and similar reports were made from other points ' in the country. Critical of material vendors and contractors whose men he said had quit even though they were nonWPA, Colonel Somervell said he had asked U. S. District-Attorney John T. Cahill to determine if this and picketing were law violations. He said vendors who refused to deliver materials to WPA projects might be guilty of actionable boy. cott. Walkout Declared Incomprehensible' Asked what he would call the WPA situation if it were not a strike, he replied, "I'd call it incomprehensible. You can't strike against relief. It's fantastic." Colonel Somervell said several small projects were shut down in New York, where members of some trades worked as little as '39 hours a month under the old law. ; The building trades council and the Workers Alliance called out

more than 2,000 workers In San Francisco and Alameda county, r California.

In Philadelphia, A.F.L. construc tion workers voted to strike July 20 unless the 130-hour work month or der was modified. The strike vote, which included a recommendation that other units in Pennsylvania be urged to join the walkout, was adopted at a meeting of tht Phlla. dclphla building trades council, rep- 1 resenting 42 unions and 70,000 memo bers. In Chicago 2,500 mechanics joined the protest and their action afocUd (Contlnusd. on Paga Two