Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 1

leGazette Lancaster Weather Occasional light snoic tonight and Friday; colder Friday. Honor Guest Gutst of honor one of tha President Franklin D. Roosevelt birthday ball in New York, Jam Rwm-y1i, the president's mother, cut a hur cake for her friends. Hollywood tr ttrs(l- FULL LEASED ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE AND UNITED TRESS SERVICE A'. E.

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OOiTlt bull. MINER PLAYS DOCTOR, DELIVERS OWN DAUGHTER TQT M.lif niv A clr Fnr Now WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ADVICE il ill 1 in if 1 Seven-Year Arms Program To Guard Against Russia it i wMxJiW WAV. rv a ML TOKYO (AP) Japan's army and navy today asked parliament to approve a new seven-year arms program costing about $671,000,000, after the war minister -had declared the army "is not relaxing its watch" along Soviet Russia's borders. The appropriation asked today, for the "replenishment and rehabiliation" of arms, would be in addition to a total of $1,862,017,680 which already has been approved for this purpose. The seven-year period would begin with the The appropriation also would CENTENARIAN be in addition to the China "war Hi Sift Jcym Temperature IS Below Normal Here In January January's mean temperature (and we do mean was 13 degrees below normal and th; coldest on record since 1918, weather observer George R.

Hockey said today in his monthly meteorological report. The average temperature for the 31 days was 17.1 degrees the lowest since 1918 when the average was 14.9 degrees. Almost a foot of snow fell in the month, the official total being 11.3(3 inches. Total precipitation was 1.55 inches. The maximum temperature was 51 degrees (Jan.

14) and the minimum was 13 degrees below zero (Jan. 19). Hail was noted on one day, the 14th. There were 13 clear days. 11 partly cloudy and seven cloudy.

The prevailing wind was south ftrri rfinf ifi mmmmx Joseph iWastarclla, 28, holds good advice too cheaply, lie is one of two youths who called housemaid Lucille Roberts, 17, a fool when she advised them to go straight instead of burglarizing her employ ers' Brooklyn home. They tied her up, stole $1000 in jewels and furs. jVIascarella is pictured grinning at the maid as she Identifies him for police, who held him for assault and robbery. Snowbound in a tiny mountain cabin five miles from Central Citv. MMimm Nine 1 doctor to aid his wife in delivery 11 .1 1.x a- cauea iaier itiuna motner, Daby COPENHAGEN Fifteen of the WAR BULLETINS the Danish steamer Vidar, 1,353 tons, struck a mine in the North Sea according to an announcement here today.

It did not say whether the vidar sank Family Of Seven, Trapped In Home, Burned To Death FREEPORT, Pa. MP) A family of seven, trapped on the second floor, burned to death early today as fire swept their six-room frame home in this Allegheny river town, 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The victims were Omar Brown, 38, an elcctiMan; his LONDON Prime Minister Chamberlain in the House of today rejected an opposition demand that he include an "dictator" in his war cabinet. HELSINKI President Kyosti Kallio in an impassioned speech in a solemn final session of the War Diet repeated today Finland's offer to negotiate "an honorable peace" with Russia, but said that Finland would not bend before "Imperialistic aims." LONDON Sinking of the British steamer Bancrest, and the Swedish freighter Sylvia, was disclosed today. The Sylvia was bombed January 27 and the Bancrest was torpedoed.

One member of the Bancrest crew was lost and 33 were saved. HELSINKI Renewed Russian attacks in far northern Finland, both in the Salla and Petsamo districts, were thrown back by the Finvic illA Fitinicli kSo-h Mimmatid ronnrf aA inriav Th. RiiKciane wifei' Mrs. Marion Brown, 35 fcortJ1uir'J It," Joe Lee, ape 8 and Charles Thomas, 10; an 2liwo Betty Lou, 15, and Helen Fay, 13. KJi A aiso were repUlsed with heavy losses after making several attacks on an island held by the Finns days off from the mine" and played A.

1 4. wiuiuui mcimai carr. wno Police Look For Night Clerk, Has Day 1 9 1 ilPrli I iv vjvtti A nigjt clerk at the Martens Robert Claypool, 28, was "being sought today by authorities for the alleged theft of an overcoat belonging to the hotel's day clerk, George Bond. Claypool, police said, Was miss-'" from the register desk early today, heti4 patron, aroused by the continual ringing of the dock buzzer, came down tq investigate. Shortly, Bond to po lice his overcoat was missing find fpolice said they were told $109.20 naa Deen xaKen irom rne noiei cash register.

Bond filed petit larceny charges against Claypool in Mayor W. Huddle's court for the garment theft Police said the hotel management probably would file charges in the money theft. Authorities went to Columbus this morning went to coiunmus inis morning to look for Claypool, but failed to una mm. was reponea ine tfclerk had a taxicab take him to, the capital city at 2 a. m.

today. Claypool, whose home is in Charleston, W. was described as being 5 ft 8 inches tall, had black hair and brown eyes was stoop shouldered. and Cloud, Stalter Enter Contest For Recorder Two more persons had petitions in circulation today for Fairfield- co offices, elections board officials revealed. Harry Stalter, Mt.

Ida-av, is the Ladoga, the communique reported. Not One Traffic Snow Friday May 1 All of the bodies. yond recognition, wf ovVL. Two, believed to be irfkwert found in a bed. Two ap-' parently the motherland one of the smaller children, had readied the head of the stairs "before they collapsed.

The father and two other children were found near a window in the front bedroom, where their escape was cut off by the flaming porch roof. A neighbor of the Browns sounded the alarm at 1:30 a. m. but fire chief William Shields said the house by that time was "a solid mass of flames." "Even the porches and roofs were on fire. There was no way we could get in," the chief said, adding that at first firemen did not know whether anyone was still in the building.

Firemen said the cause of the fire had not been determined and probably never would be known. Young Brothers Confess Theft At Riddle Home Two East Side brothers, both juveniles, today had confessed stealing a ring and three watches last Saturday afternoon from the home of J. C. Riddle. 524 East" Mulberry-st, police said.

The boys, one 13 years old and the brother 15, were questioned by Patrolman Harley Highley and the officer recovered all the stolen jewelry', having a total value of approximately $100. Highley said the youths told him they broke into the Riddle home through a rear door, stole some newsboy money and then decided "to look The ring and three watches, Highley said, were taken from a jewel box in the upstairs bathroom. The money was also returned. Riddle discovered the theft When the family returned home and notified police who started investigating. The brothers were turned over to county juvenile authorities, Highley reported.

It was their lirs offense before the court. See In Today's EAGLE-GAZETTE CLASSIFIEDS Sale, Felt base rugs. Sale, demonstrator and repossessed washers. Trade, grocery and meat market for property. Large selection of Used Cars.

3 single houses on adjoining lots. Discount Allowed When Cash Accom- panies Adv. and domestic military budget" for 1940-41 which total $1,583,478,000. The request for the seven-year fund was made after War Minister General Shunroku Hata had declared that Russia had committed "scores of illegal acts" after" conclusion of ruce on the Man choukuo-outer Mongolia border. (Full account of his declaration on Page 1, Section 2.) Japan's army, said Gen.

Hata, "therefore is not relaxing its watch." Gen. Hata and the navy minis-; ter, Admiral Zengo Yoshida, said the new funds were necessary to pUsh the "China incident and because "of the change in the international situation." Adda Turns Cab Driver, Experience Lands Her In Jail NEW YORK (-W-rAdela Rogers St. Johns, the writer, turned taxicab driver for a few minutes in the wee hours today, but the experience landed her in the clink. Patrolman Harper Kitching, who arrested her, said this is what happened: She, got into a cab jr fan driver Rosehfeld, she wanted to go "ont to Long Island." They started out, but when Rosenfeld asked her where precisely she wanted to go she refused to give him a definite answer, so he pulled up to a curb in Long Island City and went into a store to telephone. Adela got out of the cab, jumped behind the wheel of another, the motor of which was running, and drove off just as the cab's driver, Francis D'Aiello, ran up.

The two drivers jumped into Rosenfeld's machine and away they sped in hot pursuit. Before they could catch her, however, Patrolman Kitching had ordered her to pull up to the curb and took her to a nearby police station. She was booked on charges of driving while intoxicated, driving witnout an operators license and passing a red light. Summon Bullitt Back From Post rp rlttw 10 LOIlSUliatlOn WASHINGTON Sec- retary Hull announced today that American Ambassador William C. Bullitt had been summoned back from his post in Paris for consultation.

Bullitt will leave Saturday and remain fiere briefly Hull said there was no special significance in the summons, and he did not know whether BulliH would fly over. In reply to a question. Hull refused to connect the summons with possible hopes for peace in Europe. Bullitt, he said, is not coming back on any special mission. Hull also reported that Ambas uurun lcimr-u liuw 111 T'd his nnst in Lnnrtnn Krmoimo thio sador josepn Ktnnedy, now in his post in London sometime this month.

STUDY BLASTS tlfic study of newspaper reader habits blasted "a lot of old fetishes" about public interests, position and display, Frederick Dickinson of Chicago told Ohio publishers today, "For years there was prevalent the idea that a right-hand page was read more intensively than a ieft hand page said- Dickin- Sfm whn is uudam manQoor Advertising. Favor Left Page "Our studies have shown that if there is any difference between the two, the favor is slightly on the side of the left hand page. "The really surprising fact is Celebrating her 100th birthday, Cowden, Columbus Grove, read her daily Bible passage and again looked over the many hundreds of Christmas greeting cards which she has received during her life and which she has kept. Great Britain's Economic Front Put Under Fire Great Britain's economic front came under heavy fire in her own House of Commons today with a formal Labor party demand for appointment of an economic minister to the war cabinet. In probablv the most important test of strength between support ers of the Chamberlain govern- ment and its opposition since the outbreak of the war with Germany, Laborites contended that organization of the vital economic phase of the struggle had lagged behind the rest of the country's war effort.

Support for the cabinet change cut across all party lines with the even strongly pro-government London Times joining in the chorus calling for correction of what it called "inadequate representation" of the economic side in the war cabinet. Full dress parliamentary debate on what has grown into a bitter nationwide controversy drew leading speakers of the main parties, including Prime Minister Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Clement R. Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair, representing, respectively, the conservative, liberal national, labor and liberal parties. 'ANDY IS FATHER 1 HOLLYWOOD MP) A dau- ghter, Dorothy Alyce, was born today to Mrs. Charles Correll, wife of "Andy" of the Amos and Andy radio team.

Rov Custer. 35. "took a few of her fifth child, her third born 7 girl ana lamer, pictured aoove, crew of 23 lost their lives when on the northeastern shore of Lake SgSTSZ Stroking a icicles from few his remaining whiskers, the weatherman squinted his good eye at the sky today and ventured a halfway prediction that the groundhog wouldn't see his shadow tomorrow. The prognosticator (that's still the weatherman) forecast light snow for Friday, February 2 (Groundhog Day) and since no one ever saw the sun shine while snow fell (well, we never did) it stood to reason that the timid hibrate (that's the groundhog, again) wouldnt see his shadow, would stav outsjde. and there wont be any more winter.

0f course, if he DOES see his shaH- ihat iv mro weeks of winter. Chorus: "Oh, for a blackout!" In the meantime, temperatures YVftrkniflH On Rio ullYila11 Ulh KPIir SlOrA Hurt av, wa OCattOlU rail amj rA workman aiding remod- ehng Godman shoe factory build- i 1 1 wras injured late yesterday afternoon when he fell off a six-foot scaffold. Th0ijrKlraa.E.D.jekis, 57, Pomeroy, was plastering the intorinr and! i rnnnrtprl in lrntfo mu- scaffolding. The scaffold was- 6 ft. 6 inches high.

Fellow workmen assisted Jen kins in reaching a nearby phy sician's office where he was given first aid and then taken to Lancaster hospital for further treatment and X-ray. The at- tending physician said he believ- ea jenKins naa no Drotten Dones. westerly. Convention 'Delegates CO. P.

Fairfield Quota Fairfield-co is entitled to send nine party delegates to the Republican state convention, according to Associated Press dispatches from Columbus. The state central committee yesterday set the number each county will have. There will oe 1,260 delegates. L. L.

Wagner, chairman of the county G. O. P. executive committee, said the delegates would be selected here later. Republicans met last night to discuss plans for the Lincoln banquet which is expected to be held after Easter.

Committees will be announced later this month. COLUMBUS, O. iff' Ohio Republicans lined up today for their campaign to make U. S. Sen.

Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati president. The state central committee approved a slate of eight delegates-at-large to the party's national convention and announced that two delegates would be elected from the state's 22 congressional districts to make up the 52 convention votes to which Ohio is entitled. On the -approved slate of dele-gate-at-large candidates were Gov. John W.

Bricker, former Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Ed Schorr, chairman of the state central and executive committees; David S. Ingalls of Cleveland, Taft's campaign manager; Grove Patterson, Toledo editor; John Galvin, Lima industrialist, and Lawrence Payne, Cleveland Negro party leader.

All will be pledged to Taft as "First Choice" and Charles V. Montgomery of Newark as "Second Choice." Changes Plea, Fights Kidnaping Charge PAULDING, O. iff) Sylvester Wisda, 21, of Sherwood, has decided to change his plea to innocent in the kidnaping of Richard Ball, 19. Louis Strake, 33, his alleged accomplice, was shot to death by Ball's father, Oscar, as Strake threatened to kill the son in front of the Ball home. Wisda pleaded guilty Tuesday in the alleged conspiracy to ex- tort money from the father, but friends retained an attorney for him and he said he would enter the new plea.

Findlay Republican Courier; honorable mention, Portsmouth Times and Athens Messenger. Cities 5,000 to 10,000 Coshocton Tribune; honorable mention, Ironton Tribune and New Philadelphia Times. Cities under 5,000 Conneaut News-Herald; honorable mention, Circleville Herald and Troy News. Commend Special Issue The Mt Vernon News' Centennial edition was commended as outstanding by the judges although there was no award for this classification. (R.

Kenneth Kerr, Eagle-Gazette publisher, and Ralph Sieber, advertising manager, attended from Lancaster), second Democrat, to take out emoer ana January, in taaa, the nere continued tneir gradual as-papers for nomination as county first traffic victim, Thomas Dean, cent. Yesterday's official high ecorder at the May 12 primary. 78, a Pedestrian, died Feb. 17 mark was 36; last night's low 11 Last month William Hoffer after bein struck earlier in the above. Colder weather, however, Pleasantville Route 1, entered the month at Lithopolis.

is in the cards for tomorrow was recorder's contest. There have been numerous the warning of the prophesier Incumbent Recorder Clifton traffic accidents in which vehicles (thats the weatherman, again). Pastors Vow No Su) )ort To War, Declare It Sin COLUMBUS, O. Ohio pastors vowed today that "should our nation become involved in any war, the government need expect no encouragement or support of us pastors in waging war." This was resolved at the concluding session of the Ohio Pastors' Convention, which elected Dr. Fred L.

Dennis of Dayton's First United Brethren church as chairman of next year's convention. "We not only declare that war is sin and that the United States must keep out of this war," but we pledge our support to the U. S. government in its present effort to keep us out of war," the resolution added. Another adopted resolution by the Rev.

Anderson Brown of Delaware objected to President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron Taylor as his personal representative to the Vatican. The pastors pledged cooperation with law enforcement agencies in cleaning up all forms of gambling, including bingo games and in other resolutions urged: Consideration be given to objectors of military training; that heavy military' expenditures be curtailed; exploitation of war for private gain be prevented; and that the reciprocal trade policies be continued. Spec Escort With British Prisoners Eludes Blockade BUENOS AIRES UB German sources said today that they had learned the German escort ship Altmark, which accompanied the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, had penetrateu the British blockade and reach Germany with 300 British seamen. The Altmark reached the German port of Bremerhaven on Jan. 25, these sources said.

The British seamen were crew members of ships sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee before she was driven into Montevideo harbor Dec. 13, in a running battle with three British cruisers. The Altmarx, which had been accompanying the Graf Spee on the battleship's raiding expedition, was not engaged in that Her. rp mm i (JVCl 1W0 MOntllS Probably you won't believe it, but Lancaster and Fairfield-co hasn't had a trafnc death for irtore than two months. That's a pretty good safety record for this territory which last year recorded 18 fatalities, the highest in history.

The record shows that William G. Tabler, 68, Lancaster, was the last victim. He died in city hos- pital Nov. 20 from injuries re- ceived the night before when an automobile overturned on Rt. 188 near Pleasantville.

No persons were killed on city streets or state and county roads here during the months of Dec- were damaged, occupants cut, bruised ar sustained fractures in the two months deathless neriod. Several pedestrians have been seriouslv ininrprf rw Young, local constable, isrecov- culs 111 ic xie suiier- ed a broken pelvis and several fractured ribs. Texas Quads Have take, bniffleS On WSt DirtfldaiJ GALVESTON, TEXAS. IV) Texas' youngest quadruplets had a sniffling good time on their first birthday today. A siege of colds prevented the Badgett quads Joan.

Jeraldine Jeanette and Joyce from having a party but no one hardly noticed it. They were "at home' 'to the public as usual during the regu- lar visiting hours and each got a birthday cake. Each had her name lengthened, received a scholarship to Baylor university and the fund being raised here to build them a spec- lal home came within $100 of the amount needed. The four little girls, with a combined birth weight of less than 16 pounds are normal and healthy in every respect. OLD IDEAS ON READERS' HABITS Parish, a Democrat, has not def initely stated whether he will be a candidate for re-election this year.

The other candidate for county recorder is C. C. Cloud. 112 North rcari-av oaroer, ana iormer city Safety director. Cloud will seek the Republican nomination and mL 4n naa papula ill Wlltuidliuil liUVV.

cioud T.iPiit. Clinton I'lmirt tvhn is West Point graduate. Mr. Cloud party affairs and foreign war vet- erans organization. $900 A LESSON HAMILTON, Poker at $900 a lesson is just a little too much, Harry A.

Balon, 69, decided, in signing a warrant today charging grand larceny against Lee Katsikas, 34. Balon told police that 10 days ago he had a "yen" to learn the game, and accepted Katsikas offer to "show me all about it." The two retired to Balon's room and he lost consistently, he said, until tlge figure reached that named in the warrant, Katsikas was taken into custody, at his Middletown home. that our continuing of newspaper reading has shown that no matter where it appears or how deeply it is 'buried' a news item or advertisement of real interest will be read by a high percentage of the newspa- per subscribers." Publishers Visit Dickinson spoke at a luncheon of the Ohio Select List for visiting publishers. Their meetings, which continue through Friday, include sessions of the Ohio Newspaper Association, Associated Ohio Dailies and Buckeye Press (weeklies). The Select List awarded cups to newspapers for outstanding advertising and promotion work in the last year.

Winners were: Cities over 10,000 population Jenkins' face was bruised, his the American Newspaper Pub-scalp lacerated and the workman lishers Association Bureau of also sustained left shoulder and thigh contusions, TREASURY BALANCE WASHINGTON The position of the treasury Jan. 30: Net balance, $2,332,403,237.58..