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Evening star., 1938-11-04
u. 5. Farm Produds
Face Decline in
Market Abroad
Greater Competition and
Stiffer Restrictions
Seen in Next Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Agriculture Department econ
omists painted a drab picture today
of prospects for the sale Of Ameri-
can farm products abroad during
1899.
Surveys Of foreign markets, they
said, indicate greater competition
and stiffening trade restrictions.
Federal officials expressed the
opinion. however, that there would
be sufficient improvement in do
mestic markets to offset most for
eign losses, thereby making 1t un-
necessary to recommend greater
planting restrictions than were in
effect this year.
The economists outlined foreign
market prospects as follows:
Cotton.-A further decline Is ex.
pected in foreign consumption.
which totaled $500, 900 bales in the
1878 season, or about q per cent
less than the 10-year average. Since
August l shipments abroad have to-
tailed about 100000 bales, a de-
crease of about 10000 bales below
those of year ago.
Wheat-Because of heavy world
supplies, the economists said Amer
ican wheat export prospects are
definitely less favorable" They
explained, however, that low yields
in other countries might alter the
situation. 1t may be necessary, off,
cials said, for the Government to
continue subsidization of wheat ex-
ports.
Corn-Exports are unlikely to ap-
proach the 100000 900 bushels of the
last season, the largest since 1921.
Supplies in Argentina, a major
competitor, are larger.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Eight Persons Held
In $428,000 Ho|d-Up
OF Armored Car
Woman and Physician
Accused Of Aiding
Gong of Bondits
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Ending q
relentless four-year search, police
marked solved" today the $428, 900
Rubel Ice Plant armored-car hold
up in Brooklyn in 1884, with the
indictment of seven men and q
woman.
Six were charged with participa-
ton in the robbery; the woman with
harboring the gang in her Man.
haitian rooming house; the seventh
man, doctor, was accused of treat
ing one of the bandits for shotgun
wound received as he fed.
Arraigned on charges Of robbery
grand larceny and assault were
Stewart Wallace, Joe Kress and
Thomas Quinn.
DR.. Harry Gilbert and Mrs. Made
line Tully, the rooming house opera
tor, were arraigned as accessories
after the crime.
Also indicted were John Obey and
Percy Geary, now in Alcatraz, and
John Hughes, fugitive.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Kidnaper's S Attorneys
Win Race 10 ProIonu
Life Of Client :
Obtain Writ Of Error and
Drive Through Roinstorm
Keeping Warden Advised
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Nov. A.
Twenty-nine anxious minutes after a
confessed kidnaper was scheduled to
die in Missouri's lethal gas chamber,
three attorneys arrived at the State
prison early today after a six-hour
drive through a binding rainstorm
with papers which spared his life for
at least 10 months.
BY telephone, they had succeeded
in having the execution hour for Os-
car Ralph Ashworth, 81, delayed
from 1901 to l am, while they
threaded their slippery way by au-
tomobile the 225 miles from St. Jo-
seph, Mo, to the prison here.
At 1890 am, they arrived with
writ OF error, automatically stay
ing execution, after a tense battle
as Ashworth waited momentarily for
the walk to the death chamber. Un-
der ordinary weather conditions the
Six-hour drive could have been made
in less than four.
Going to Pray All Day.
II am going to pray all day." the
distraught Ashworth mumbled grate-
fully to Warden j. Frank Ramsey
when informed he would have to die
today for kidnapping a 7-year-old
st. Joseph girl and attempting to
assault her.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Refugee Economic Corp.
Files New Prospectus
81 the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-The Refugee
Economic Corp, organized three
years ago to finance the resettlement
of Jewish emigres chiefly from Ger
many and other European countries
to Central and South America, has
filed a new prospectus with the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion in Washington.
The corporation plans to raise
$5,000,000 through the sale of stock
at $25 share, but a spokesman said
today the stock is not yet ready for
sale and it is not likely it would be
offered to the general public.
The filing of the prospectus, cover
ing the registration of the shares,
was merely routine matter, the
offices here said.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
By the Associated Press,

SHANGHAI, Nov. 4.-Japanese
authorities warned neutral powers
today to send their gunboats up
the Yangtze River at least as far
as Shasi, 100 miles west of Hankow,
and designated the area between
Hankow and shasi zone Of hos
tilities.
The Japanese memorandum also
advised that foreign vessels in the
Slang River, which empties into the
Yangtze through Lake Tungting.
proceed upstream as far as Chang
sha, 180 miles south Of the japanese
Hankow base.
1t added that there was now mo
section of China over which jap
anese planes cannot operate" and
suggested that all neutral vessels,
regardless OF their location, inform
Japanese Of their whereabouts.
Chinese forces reported that they
had inflicted 1,500 Japanese cas,,ali-
ties in desperate battles in the Tung
Shan Mountains south of Hankow.
Severe fighting also was in prog
ress 1T the south end of the Canton
Railway near Samshui. In Canton
Japanese soldiers were forcing the
circulation Of military scrip" ad-
mitt6dly form of imitation, to re-
place native currency and to buy
supplies.
A dispatch from Hong Kong said
ii kwangsi Province divisions, to-
falling nearly 100000 fully equipped
troops. were reported by Chinese tc
be advancing toward Samshui, q
miles west of Canton, in a genera
counteroffensive along the West
River.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Commerce Department
Names Probe Board
B, the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department ap-
pointed board today to investigate
the mysterious explosion which sank
the German liner Vancouver in the
Oakland, Calf, estuary yesterday.
Secretary Roper named William
Fisher supervising inspector of the
Bureau of Marine Inspection and
Navigation, as chairman of the
board. Other members are Francis
w. Leahy and David T. Smith, chief
travelling inspectors of the bureau.
The Board, Secretary Roper said,
will meet at soon as possible and ar
range for hearings.
The Secretary also announced he
had invited representatives of the
: Justice Department, the Coast
Guard and the German consul gen.
eral at San Francisco to participate
in the hearings.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Coast Guard Abundons
al Building Units

Ey the Associated Press.
Coast Guard officials said today
radio improvements and faster and
more powerful mechanical equip
ment enabled them to eliminate Al
Coast Guard building units along
the Atlantic Coast and the Great
Lakes.
The Coast Guard yesterday Or
dered the properties sold, leased or
restored to grantors.
Lower maintenance costs and
greater all-around efficiency will
result from the new program, Coast
Guard officials predicted.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Japan May Denounce
Nine Power Treaty

TOXIC, Nov. 4 R.-The Japanese
TOXIC, Nov. 4.--The japanese
foreign office spokesman today an
nounced that Japan was considering
denunciation of the 1922 nine
power treaty by which the United
States. Japan and seven other
powers pledged respect for China's
independence and territorial in
tegrity and promised efforts to
Evening star., 1938-11-04
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
George Cardinal Mundelein is
an old friend of President Roose-
velt, 1Dhom he Disited at the
White House eight days ago and
accompanied to the Nary Yard
TOR the observance of Many Day.
The President called on the
Cardinal in Chicago in October,
1887, Just before he made his
speech asking the quarantine"
OF GggreSSor nations.
by the Associated Press.
ROME, Nov. 4.-Ambassador VIII
liam Phillips announced today that
the United States Government would
pay extraordinary honors to George
Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop Of
Chicago, when he arrives here to
report to Pope Plus on the New
Orleans Eucharistic Congress.
On instructions from President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Phillips will meet
Cardinal Mundelein at Naples to-
morrow, and the cardinal will be the
guest of the Ambassador and Rear
Admiral Henry E. Lackey. COM
mander Of the United States Medi-
terranean Fleet, until he reaches
Rome.
It will be the first time such honor
has been paid to an American
cardinal on a visit to the Vatican.
It was explained that the honors
were requested by the President be-
cause Of the high esteem in which
Cardinal Mundelein is held by both
Catholics and non-Catholics in
America, particularly in the Middle
West.
Cardinal Arrives Tomorrow.
Phillips will leave Rome tonight
for Naples. The Cardinal is to ar
rive on the Rex tomorrow.
The Vatican is sending Under
secretary of State Msgr. Giovanni
Montini and the Pope's private Sec
retary, Msgr. Diego Venini, to greet
the Chicago cardinal who served as
papal legate at New Orleans.
Mr.. Phillips is to be accompanied
by Edward L. Reed, counselor of the
embassy, and Capt. Thaddeus Thom-
son, jr., naval attache.
Immediately on leaving the Rex,
Cardinal Mundelein is to be taken
by Admiral Lackey's launch to the
cruiser Omaha, where a luncheon
will be given in the cardinals honor.
The luncheon will be attended by
Mr.. Phillips, representatives of the
North American College in Rome,
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Execution Is Delayed.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4.-The
prayers and pleas of fellow pris-
oners in the Allegheny County
Pittsburgh) Jail have won one
more month of life for 4O-year-old
William Mckinley Blackwell, con-
victed and condemned colored slayer.
Blackwell was scheduled to die
early next Sunday morning in the
electric chair at Rockview Peni-
tentiary at Bellefonte.
Five hundred prisoners in the Jail
here knelt at service Wednesday
night and prayed that Blackwell
would be saved, then 468 of them
signed a petition to Gov. George H.
Earle asking communication of the
death sentence.
Late yesterday Gov. Earle ordered
the execution delayed until Decem-
ber S to give the pardon board
time to review the case. The Alle-
gheny County district attorneys
office announced the record of
Blackwell's trial would be placed
before the pardon board this month
and that it would be up to the
board to decide whether Blackwell
lives or dies.
Evening star., 1938-11-04
Six Enquiries Pushed
InsShip Explosion;
Sabotage Hinted
Efforts Planned Today
To Ruise Nuzi Liner
In Oakland Estuary
b the Associated Press.


OAKLAND, Calf, Nov. 4.-Evi-
dence of possible sabotage arose to-
day as six separate investigations
were pushed into the sinking of the
German liner Vancouver yesterday
after a terrific explosion below the
waterline.
Efforts were to be made today to
raise the 477-foot vessel from mud
bank in Oakland estuary where she
settled stern-down after the blast.
Four members of the crew of 81
were injured by the blast. Eight
passengers on the ship were not
harmed, and called the experience
tremendously exciting"
An exhaustive investigation on the
vessel last night by District Attorney
Earl Warren, Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents and other officials
brought closely-guarded statement
from Mr. Warren that I'VE are of the
opinion the explosion was not in the
engine room or in the ship ITSELF"
Awaits Examination.
Because of international implica-
tons, the district attorney declined
to say the explosion was the work of
saboteurs until the vessel could be
raised and an examination of the
hole made.
But German officers and crew
members declared the blast was not
accidental.
Capt. E. w. Moessinger said the
explosion was damned suspicious" i"
and three crew members standing
at the control board in the engine
room, six yards forward from where
the blast took place, said the "det-
onation" must have happened out
side the ship, or they wouldn't have
been alive to tell their stories.
They were showered with steel
particles, suffered minor cuts and
bruises and barely managed TO es-
cape up an emergency hatch before
mud and water flooded the engine
room, they said.
The captain, chief engineer and
other crew members agreed that
water spouted as high as the mast
when the blast occurred.
Hole Five Feet Square.
A divers examination disclosed a
hole about five feet square had been
torn in the hull plates, and Chief
Engineer C. Diederich said they were
bent inward.
The Vancouver was en- route from
terminal in the narrow estuary
to San Francisco when the explo-
sion shook the ship. The vessel
nosed toward the bank and the cap
tain ordered both anchors lowered to
hold her in shallow water.
Had the blast occurred two min
u.es later the Vancouver would nave
/. cen in the deep water of the bay.
The vessel had called at Canadian
I'D Northwest ports, and was sched-
ed last night to have left for
.ntwerp with an additional 80 pas
lcngers waiting at San Francisco.
Earlier Explosion.
Adding to the mystery Of the blast
g, is the account of an earlier ex-
p.osion, described by Mrs. Dora
Russell, San Francisco, who was a
passenger on the vessel when it
sailed from Hamburg for the United
States.
She said two men were killed by
the blast the night after the ship
left Germany. Ships officers attrib-
uted the explosion to a bursting
steam pipe,
Evening star., 1938-11-04

The American Baptist Foreign
Missionary Society began its labors
in China in 1912.
Evening star., 1938-11-04

Frances navy is manned by con-
scription in part.
Evening star., 1938-11-04

Japan Warns Ships
OF NeufraIs 10 Go
Farther Up Yangtze
Honkow to Shosi Region
Designated a Zone
Of HostiIities
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
As result of numerous incf-
dents inUolvtn0 damage to
neutral shipping by japanese
attackers Japan has recently
tollo1red policy of 1oarntng neu-
trails to leaUe areas Uhere she
expects to launch attacks. Some
governments. particularly the
American. haze refused to heed
the Darntn0s and haze insisted
that armed japanese forces take
precautions not to damage Amer
lean interests.
Evening star., 1938-11-04

maintain equal commercial oppor-
tunities In China.
Japan, he says, considers the
agreement obsolete and Is exam
lining . tri-power pact among
Japan, Japanese-supported Man
chukuo and q new Chinese regime
envisioning displacement Of the
Chang Kai-shek government. ia
pan believes negotiations with indi-
vidual powers over interests in
China are possible, however.
Pact Deemed Obsolete.
Japan considers the nine-power
pact obsolete" the spokesman said.
whether we will denounce it or
withdraw has not yet been decided.
The government Is examining the
advantages Of the creation Of a tri-
power pact"
Such a treaty ostensibly would
guarantee Chinese territorial in
tegrity upon completion of the pres
ent Chinese-Japanese war.
American and British chambers
Of commerce In Shanghai last Sat-
urday discussed united front against
japanese efforts to monopolize
Chinese trade.
The British Chamber of Com
merce in Shanghai today urged
London to attempt to preserve the
British commercial stake in China.
In strongly-worded communi-
cation the body charged Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain's COM
placency" in Far Eastern matters
was entirely unjustif1ed by the
facts" and demanded a stronger
British policy "in which there
should be more action"
Evening star., 1938-11-04

Sweden has been a pioneer in the
field of telephone and telegraph ap-
paratus.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
A GREAT WRESTLING
CARD PLANNED FOR
Miners HALL MONDAY
Mixed Match Tentatively Lined
Up for Mondays Wrestling
Card.

What will probably draw the
largest wrestling crowd so far this
year, is a mixed match between Lee
Williams, a noted heavyweight fight
er who halls from San Diego, and
Wildcat Pete, Butte's famed wrest-
ling ace.
Williams will wear boxing gloves
and must knock his opponent out
during the regular ten three-minute
round contest, while the Wildcat
will have to gain two falls on his
opponent in order to win.
There has always been a ques-
ton whether or not a good fighter
can take a good wrestler.
The semi-final will pit three of
the big beef trust, Spendlove, Root
and Clayton, in a three man wrestle
royal.
AS Root is the heaviest and more
experienced of the trio, it is antici-
pated that he might be ganged up
upon and thus be eliminated early,
but the Great Falls heavyweight,
who is staging a great comeback
preparatory to his leaving for the
East, has been showing the Butte
fans of late that he still is plenty
agile and clever and might turn the
tables and dispose of both men, re-
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
EXTRACT FROM THE
MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
BY MARK TWAIN

A myriad of men are born; they
labor, sweat and struggle for bread;
they squabble and struggle and
fight; they scramble for little mean
advantages over one another; age
creeps upon them, infirmities fol-
low, and humiliations bring down
their prides and their vanitiesl Those
they love are taken from them, and
the Joy of life is turned to aching
grief. The burden of pain, care and
misery grows heavier year by year;
at length ambition is dead, pride is
dead; vanity is dead; longing for re-
lease comes in their place. 1t comes
at last the only Imprisoned gift
earth ever had for them and they
vanish from the world where they
were of no consequence; where they
achieved nothing; where they were
a mistake and a failure and a fool
|ishness; where they achieved moth
ing; where they were a mistake and
"a failure and a foolishness; where
they left no sign that they existed
Ia world which will lament them for
q day and forget them forever. Then
another myriad takes their place
and copies all they did, and get
along the same profitless road, and
vanishes as they vanished-to make
room for another and another, and
a million other myriads, to follow
the same profitless path through the
same desert and to accomplish what
the first myriad, and all the myriads
that came after it accomplished
nothing From Mark Twain's 'sThe
Mysterious Stranger" deleted from
late editions. The Saturday Review
Of Literature, October 26, 1885.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

CARELESS of the outcome, a three
man wrestle royal always creates
considerable amusement and plenty
of wrestling. The two remaining
after one man is pinned will wrestle
the regulation match.
The opening bout reads Of Earl
Malone, the wild Salt Lake Irish
man, and Abdul Khan, the widest
of all Turks, who is returning here
after two months on a successful
tour of the coast.
In the past Malone has been
called upon to wrestle much heavier
men than himself and in Khan he
is meeting one his equal in weight
and size and one who is just as mean.
Scothcy Graham, a lad of II years
of age, will put on his impression of
a one man wrestle royal. Wherever
Graham has appeared he has been
acclaimed a tremendous hit with his
flips, toeholds, and other wrestling
maneuvers upon himself.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

Cascade Assembly was informed that
this company puts out union-made
garments.
Paul F. Beich Candy Company Of
Bloomington, Illinois, puts out a
high class grade of union made
candy. Friends and members. of or
gained labor are urged to ask for
the products Of this company.
Mr. Erving Smith, superintendent
of public instruction of Cascade
County, has been invited to address
the Assembly in the near future,
The Resolutions Committee of the
Cascade Assembly asked that letters
be sent to the Works Progress Adj
ministration of Butte requesting that
additional persons be placed on the
quota of Lake County. There ap-
pears to be a great distress in this
area. 1t would be safe to say that
all the unions in Montana are look
ing with concern upon the misery
that is apparent in that district and
hope that the Works Progress Ad-
ministration will grant the request.
President Steinmetz reported that
the Farm-Labor Council program
was becoming statewide and repre-
sentatives from 20 counties had met
in Great Falls on March 6. This
meeting was attended by some 40
persons.
President Steinmetz also reported
that the National Unemployment
Service is now under state control.
Secretary Whitmore reported that
the Veterans of Foreign Wars were
sponsoring a campaign to secure
sufficient funds for the purchase of
an iron lung and two oxygen tents
for the use of the general public at
the cost of operations. On motion
the Legislative and Policy Commit
tee was instructed to devise ways
and means wherein labor could CO.
operate in this program.
= = q
The fact was brought out that in
asmuch as Great Western Sugar is
now fair, that labor generally should
purchase Great Western sugar and
continue the boycott against Holly
sugar which is on the unfair list.
=
Delegates from the Miners Union
recommended that no endorsements
of persons seeking public office be
made until first being considered by
the Farm-Labor Council.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

1887, and for more than one year last past
and Immediately preceding the commence
ment of this action the said defendant
wilfully and without cause or provoca-
ton deserted and abandoned the said
plaintiff, and ever since said time has
and still continues to wilfully desert and
abandon said plaintiff without cause or
~provocation, and to live separate and
apart from him without any sufficient
cause or any reason and against his will
and without his consent.
w.
That there are no children the issue of
said marriage.
WHEREFORE: Plaintiff prays that the
bonds of matrimony heretofore and now
existing betWeen plaintiff and defendant,
be forever dissolved, set aside and held
for naught and that plaintiff and defend
ant be restored to the status of single
persons.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said
Court this 18th day of March, A. D.. 1898.
ELMER SHEA, Clerk.
By J. D. -FREEBOURN, Deputy Clerk.
COURT SEAL)
j. p. ODONNELL,
635 w. Granite St, Butte, Montana.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication March II, 1938.-4T.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
No. 37274
At GVTNTNHnNE

ALIAS
In the District Court of the Second Ju-
dicial District Of the State of Montana,
In and for the County of Silver Bow.
ROY VAN DEVENTER, Plaintiff,
REvA VAN DEvENTER, Defendant.
The State of Montana Sends Greetings
to the Above Named Defendant:
You are hereby summoned to answer
the complaint in this action, which is filed
in the office of the Clerk Of this Court, a
copy of which is herewith served upon
you, and to file your answer and serve a
copy thereof upon the plaintiffs attorney
within twenty days after the service of
this summons, exclusive of the day of
service; and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the relief de-
handed in the complaint.
The complaint alleges:
/.
That the plaintiff and defendant were
married in the City of Dillon, State Of
Montana, on the 9Th day of November,
1881, and ever since have been and now
are husband and wife.
II.
That the plaintiff is now and has been
a bona-fide resident of the State of Mon
a for more than one year last past and
Immediately preceding the commencement
of this action.
That on or about the LIST day of March,