The Hanford Sentinel from Hanford, California • 1

TODAY'S NEWS TODAY makes the Sentinel the most read newspaper and brings best results to advertisers world's latest Views is given Sentinel readers by Full Leased Wire Service of Vhe United Press Association 'S VOL. 120 FIFTY-THIRD YEAR. HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY. CALIFORNIA FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939. No.

48. Ml TEED; ME GERMAN DAY AT S. F. FAIR NOW CANCELLED fan Francisco, Sept. 8 (LP) The Golden Gate Interna- tional Exposition today an- nounced that German day, 120,000 Defends Capita REDS CONTROL OF GROUPS IN! U.

SAYS Against German Troops Within 12 Miles of City San Francisco, Sept. 6 (IP) Members of the Pacific coast European conference, composed of 23 major steamship firms, were under-i stood today to be considering a sizeable tncretise in shipping rates for Eu.ope-bound cargoes as a re- Former President of Calif. j8111 the war aJroad- 1 1 Conference members were closeted University testifies At. in their headquarters here for the Bridges Triol. second straight day considering the their business BELLIGERENT RIGHTS ARE INVOKED BY BRITAIN Neutral Ships To Be Halted and Searched For War Contrabands.

SPEED WAR TEMPO Blockade of Germany Aim of British On Sea as Conflict Moves On. By WEBB MILLER (U. P. Staff Correspondent) London, Sept. 8 (UP) -Great Britain will use belligerent-, rights to die full to prevent war materials reaching Germany, the ministry of information announced tonight in an official state- ment- QUITE AMUSING London, Sept.

8. (UP) The Polish Embassy denied tonight that Warsaw has fallen to the Germans, the ministry of information announced. The Polish Embassy, according to the ministry, was in contact with Warsaw at 8:35 p. m. (3:35 p.

m. EDT.) at which time a German air raid was in Student Communist cancelling all present tariff schcd pOSeS Wflr, Fascism ules and operating on a day-to-HOTC Says Witness. day basis. Under the latter course charter rates would be set at the shipping rates to effect of the war on From unofficial sources came reports that the steamship operators were considering Increased cargo limit the market would bear for individual ship. to disband for the duration of the war, and that neutral nations had proposed open bids for all types of cargoes DINNER FOR TEACHERS SEPT.

15 Chamber and Y's Men's Club Hosts For School st San Francisco, Sepri 8 (UP) Major General David P. Bar- scheduled for Oct. 1. had been cancelled as a result of a vote taken among 85 German socle- ties of California sponsoring the event. The Steuben day celebration, set for Sept.

16 to honor a revolutionarv war hero, will be retained, the exposition said. VallevNews RITES OF BOY THAT DIED OF BURNS pouring gasoline into the carburet- Paris, Sept. 8. (UP) A Polish radio station identifying itself as at Warsaw reported at 8:30 (3:30 p. EDT) tonight that conditions were comparatively normal after two Nazi air raids.

The radio station, broadcasting in French, said at 9:10 p. m. (4:10 p. m. EDT) that 120,000 persons were feverishly preparing to defend Warsaw against a siege by German forces.

All preparations are complete, the radio said, but shops a-e A spokesman for the conference rows, former president of the! denied published reports that Ham-University of California, testified burg-American and North German Uoyd lines had withdrawn or were today that campus Communists considering withdrawing, that neu-had gained control of several tral lines had urged the conference still open and street cars running. claimed to have shot down nine The broadcast said the Poles Passes After Month Spent PariS, sept. 8 opi The If there is any suspicion that ln Hospital Suffering pper Petit Parisien estimated to-contraband is being carried, the; From Accident. ministry of economic warfare will authorize unloading of the cargo, Tulare- 8-(VNS)-Funeral the statement said. services for eight-year-old Daniel of the Kingsburg-Dinuba night that French troops have advanced between three and four miles into German territory along an 18-mile line on the western front.

German airplanes during two heavy Nazi raids today. The radio broadcast said that trenches had been dug and that street cars, bricks and furniture had been used to build barricades. Mines and traps were reported prepared for the Germans, the broadcaster said. Vallejo, Vessels will not be allowed to district, who died in a local hospi-proceed with contraband cargo hav- tal here Thursday, will be coning any enemv destination. the ducted Saturday morning.

ministry of infoimation stated. Young Vallejo was burned a month After examination, cargoes either! ago at his home when he was will be released, detained for further drenched with burning gasoline. The war rep0rted active aerial and naval inquiry or seized. If they are seized boy was looking on as two men at-1 acti0n in co-operation with the the case will be taken before a prize; tempted to start a truck. One was British fleet, aimed especially at A French war communique to- night reported continued progress by French forces on the western front, despite placing of mines and destruction of bridges by the enemy.

The communique, No. 10 of the WAR BULLETINS baWeinrogiSVrof BRITAIN NABS 6,000 SPY SUSPECTS Scotland Yard Rounds Up Men and Won Enemy Status. Men and Women With London, Sept. 8 (LP) Secret i agents of Scotland Yard and the! naval and military intelligence de- partments have arrested more than 6000 men and women as suspected enemy agents in the biggest spy hunt ever held, it was disclosed to- day- Lists of suspects were fully com piled months before the war with; Germany started, it was understood, I i Warsaw, dispatches to Polish sources through Polish defenses and en-said tonight. tered Warsaw after brief fight- I ing.

Newcastle, England, Sept. 8 OP) i nrr Reports received tonight said that! The entry of German advance FRENCH PUSH FURTHER IN ON NAZI FRONT Continued Progress Along 18-Mile Line Despite Resistance. ENEMY RETREATS Destroying Bridges, Also Placing Mines To Halt Invaders. Paris, Sept. 8 (UP) The newspaper Petit Parisien estimated tonight that French troops have advanced between three and four miles into German territory along an 18-mile line on the western front.

I I protecting sea lanes. (TJ Correspondent) Paris. Sept. 8 (IP) A series of local operations on the Saar front widened today into the first big (Continued cm "age Six) SCHOOLS WILL OPEN ON MONDAY Freshmen UnOCCOUnt- ed For in Registration at High School. With one hundred and eleven unaccounted for, registration of freshman students at Hanford High school has been underway for three days preparatory to the opening of school Monday, Sept.

11. One hun-died and ninety-one freshmen have registered so far and it is thought the remainder will report by Monday. Principal J. L. Neighbor today met with upper classmen for ad- visement In planning their school courses, and also with upper class- men who are entering Hanford High for the first time.

Saturday mom for the first time. ing at 9:30 o'clock in -room 8 the foAiilfir fl11 Ann for w4tV iligh sci100i faculty will confer with; ni I 1 II Principal Neighbor, and at 11 o'clock in the same room a meeting of the bus drivers will be held. Buses will (Continued On Page Six) Major League Results I I Sept (up) -The vjerman high command issued a bulletin tonight saying that Nazi mcchanized forces had brokcn trooPs, nto the Polish capital after a week of war was triumphantly announced by radio to the Ger- man people. A later official announcement said the Capture of the city of Sandomir (Candomierz) 55 miles southwest of Brltain's war tempo increased on i I Hand as well as on sea today. Of- TOIK in V.IYIC MUairor- ficials prepared for the rationing of.

ium. food in a few weeks. Secret in an unprecedented spy round-' Hanford Chamber of Commerce' up, arrested 6.000 men and women and the Ys Mens club are, -com-! as enemy agents. or of the machine. When the other communique reported con- stepped on the starter of the truck, I tinued action in localized advances.

the motor backfired, setting they are retreating, the bucket of gasoline on fire. enemy are destroying works and we man threw- the bucket from are encountering fields of mines, him and it landed on young Valle- tPe announcement said. court. Although the name blockade of-j ten is used to describe economic warfare based on the exercise of belligerent rights at sea. the min- istry of information said, There is no blockade of Germany in the formal sense of the germ.

Avert Neutral Ships The ministry said the government would do all in its power to facili-; tate the movement of ships engaged British would enable them to halt billing as hosts in a dinner complimenting the teachers of Han- ford Union High school and Han- ford elementary schools to be held Friday, September 15, at the civic auditorium at 7 p. m. Charles Chambers is chairman of the committee having charge of prenarations for the event. The plans call for an entertain-ling program. Berlin.

Sept. 8 (LP) DNB, offi-and arrests were started as soon as c'a news a8ency. said today that Invitations are now being mailed. in bona fide neutral trade. from the office of the chamber of I There was no direct reference to Commerce to all teachers, who are I stopping neutral ships with cargoes asked to make reservations forldestined for German ports, but it themselves and escorts.

assumed that was what the A similar cvnt hed last year was ministry of information meant. Ex- complete success anj a source of ercLse of belligerent rights by the I the temporary Polish capital of- Lublin, also was announced by Nazitmill-tary circles, which said German advances through the south of Poland threatened to cut off the normal line of Polish retreat toward Rumania. Armament Center Sandomir was described as the center of Polish armament industries. The German advance, haltedAiorth of Warsaw for two days, had 'been moving up from the south, to close the vise on the Polish capital. Prior to the announcement of the fall of Warsaw, the German high command had said that Nazi troops were in Nadarzyn, 14 miles southeast of the caPital- Brief but apparently hopeless resistance by the Poles in the south- jany neutral vessel carrying muni-Jeous tions, or other necessities of war.

1 dairy R0ME REVIVES ITS RE ATE ATTEMDTi KlAWL A I I Lrlr I the government announced that a state of war existed. The special branch of Scotland whose picked men deal with espionage, and the intelligence meni of the navy and army, cooperated in raids which have now extended to all parts of the country, it was re- p0rted Suspects were listed under three headings: 1 Active enemy agents; 2 Persons suspected cf acting as enemy agents; and 3 Sympathizers likely to assist enemy agents. So effective were advance arrangements, it was said, that every sus person on the secret igents' lists had now been detained and will be held during the war. Those of them who are British citizens, however, are permitted to appeal to the home secretary within 10 days for a hearing before a special tribunal. HANGED AT QUENTIN Quentin Prison Sept 8 (IP) -William G.

Smith, 24-year-old Las, Anaaloe ifAitlVi eof nuf trv Kfl i Angeles youth who set out to be am actor, was hanged on San Quentin prison gallows today for a slaying which climaxed the life of crime to which he turned when acting failed to pay fast dividends. 1 1 1 I groups at the state university and "have caught quite a few students, including sons and daughters of the well-to-do. Barrows, professor of political science at the university, made the charge in testifying as a government witness at the deportation hearing through which the government seeks to return Harry Bridges west coast CIO leader, to Australia as a member of the Communist party and an advocate of overthrow of the government by violence. Barrows said the activities of! Communists among the university's! 1 5.000 students were "quite amus-j ing." Student Groups There is a small group of Com-; munists among the students and their tactics have been very interesting, he said. They first organized groups against war and Fascism, which had a wide appeal.

Then they sent their members in to other university organizations where they became officers and in time controlled these organziations. All peace movements on the campus have been dominated by these groups. They also fight compulsory military training and have attacked the reserve officers training corps. i oellcvc the R. O.

T. C. should against VAMIUIIUIHMII anu oiuumi i things. (hanged Called for ques toning on the government contention Communism advocates violence. Barrows said that the original theories of Marx and Engels did not expound violence in class warfare but that the policy had been changed at a Brussels convention in 1904 when Lenin first) advocated his theory of bringing! about revolution by force.

When Lenin spoke of revolution he meant leal violence and war, Barrows testified. And Stalinism violence is all that actual war would embrace. He described Communism as a malady of a defeated people and said it usually took seed among peoples defeated in war or harassed by a depression such as that of recent years. Moscow' Controls The retired general, who forme; ly headed A. E.

F. forces in Siberia declared that the Communist party in the United States is controlled by Moscow and that It unquestion- ably advocates overthrow of the I government by force and violence. 1 Barrows was called as one of the I final government witnesses in the ntne-week-old hearing expected to end within three or four days. His testimony differed in part with the theories of Professors Walter Thompson and Harold Brown of Stanford. Appearing as defense witnesses, Thompson and Brown said the doctrines of Marx, on which Communism is based, teaches revolution by the ballot instead of the bullet.

MEXICO SEEKS OIL MARKETS IN ALLIES Mexico City, Sept. 8. (LP) R. Davis, w'ho had attempted to conduct a German-Mexican barter business, returned to New York today, his business collapsed. Mexico now is seeking the British-French-Polish oil market and at the same time is attempting to intensify its Latin-American trade.

Narciso Bassols, Mexican minis- ter to Paris, flew by clipper to France after a few days of conference here, and it was believed he was attempting to negotiate sales. It was reported that the French might build a refinery on their West Indian island of Martinique to handle Mexico crude oil. Rome, Sept. 8. (LP) Reports in- today, creased today that another Italian; peace attempt will be made soon.

ADE AjKIllll pleasure to all concerned. F. E. VER5ER, 57, IS (AILED BY DEATH Francis Edtvard Verser. 57 early this morning at hLs home at 620 East Tenth street.

A native of San Jose. Mr. Verser had lived hi Hanford for the past two years and was employed by Driskell's store. The deceased is survived by his died 1 widow, Mrs. Iris Verser of Hanford; two sons, Burnett Verser, and Melvin L.

Tindall, both of Coalinga; one brother. Edgar Verser of San Jose; three sisters. Mrs. Ollie Pyle. Santa Clara.

Mrs. Lizzie Wardlaw and Mrs. Pearl Bishop, both of San Jose; and one grandchild. Mr. Verser was a member of F.

O. E. Lodge No. 1872. of Funeral services will be conduct-; ed Monday morning at 10:30 in Ponnirc TTnrWtakw Parlors Peoples Undertaking Parlors with burial in Grangeville cemetery.

O11, DERRICK ERECTED Pixley, Sept. 8 (VNfa) a uu-. foot oil derrick has erected southeast of her Oil of Los Aneles which will start drilling on September 18, it was announced today. EDUCATOR RE-ELECTED Visalia. -Sept.

(VNS)harles Bigham, Porterville, was te -elected chairman of the Tulare county -f hciH board of education at a meeting neiu Thursday. HAYSTACK BURXS Val SeptVNSl-DLstch- er C. Ellsworth of the division oi forestry, said today that spontan- combustion a8ed rir 70-ton haystack atthe Hyde Ranch near here Thursday. A forestry crew saved approximately one-third of the stack. OIL TESTS PLANNED Alpaugh, sept.

8- VNS -Deep Oil-well tests by three major com- i panies will be made here within the next few weeks, it was announced NATIONAL GUARD COMMISSIONS HOW Sacramento, Sept. 3- (LP)-Cali- fornia National Guard officials are nAr nrrlirtoti AH f1V receiving many new applications fo: commisslons but no lmmedlate in crease in personnel is contemplated, it was announced today by Adjutant General Patrick J. H. Farrell. Farrell said the present force of! 8500 commissioned officers and enrj listed men was adequate but that applications are being filed for us: when necessary.

first of any increase would be for enlisted men and emphasized that all new commissions require complete physical and Intelligence tests, Including non-combatants, Stemlt TtSe orgsniaed to Ssg'e the an- nual event. It was decided to hold the danc- ing party at which an Armistice Day queen Is to be selected, at the civic; auditorium ln this city on Satur- day, November 4. the Saturday nigr.t preceding Armistice Day. All towns? I I I I Farrell said Biisirs'teamVkkXhad been sunk by a submarine in the Atlantic. i Westerschelling.

Holland, Sept, 81 -(LP) Twenty-nine men were re- Ported killed today when a Dutch; sass were saved by tugs and seaplanes, the German steamer Franken was attacked by British planes in Dutch waters off Sumatra. It was stated lilat Die Franken made port at without being Sumatra damaged. New York. Sept. 8 (LP) The Holland-American line said today its line1- Statendam had radioed that it had picked up the 37 members of the crew- of the British steam- ship winkleigh.

There was no in- dication in the message what had happened to the Winkleigh. The Statendam was two days out of Southampton when she made the rescue. New York, Sept. 8 (LP) SSe? M- manne had torpedoed and sunk the British steamer Regent Tiger. Radiomarine said it had received the following message: The steamer Jean Jabot advises that it has saved the crew of 44 men of the S.

S. Regent Tiger. British, torpedoed by a submarine. London, Sept. 8 (LP) The War- saw radio reported tonight that all of the Polish defenders of the West- platt VtVess near Danzig died at their p0tits after six davs of b0m bardment and attack by German land, sea and air forces, rad denied a Berlin an- nouncement that the Polish garri- son of bcUvcen 77 and 200 men had of Housewives drive to end what Secretary of In- terior Harold L.

Ickes describes as a rape of our natural resources by war profiteers, Sujar Vp Points World gugar rose the 23 polnt for the fourth consecuUve ses- around $2.50 a bale. Wheat at Chi- cago closed 154 higher to 374 lower. All major cities reported Increased prices for butter, beans, lard, flour (Continued on 9m Three) The AMERICAN LEAGUE Clubs R- H. E. Boston 000 000 1 1 6 li t-he'New York 200 110 4 7 0 Regulatory Measures Against Profiteering President Proclaims Limited U.

S. Emergency For Neutrality Defense They apparently were based on: 1. Press dispatches indicating) nex ew nays. 2 Belief in usually well informed! circles that if an effort toward peace were made, it would come irn- saw mediately following the fall of War- 3. Persistent reports during the ast few days that Premier Benito orl Mussolini may make an important speech theis weekend.

creases in navy strength within peace time authorizations. lo.nb.rpp.g.od. Tubservte io Iorm govemment end prevent episodes such as occurred jn 1914 and 1915 before America a Mr- Roosevelt today extended the proclamation of neutrality to inciUde the Union of South Africa, I 1 east ot Warsaw was reported in the Nazi dispatches said that II1! the use of tanks, armored cars and airplanes which raked Polish columns with machine gun fire. Enciicling City The German troops had pushed eastward of Warsaw on the north and were rapidlv encircling the city on the south before the entry of Na2ls into the capital wa announc ed'. thus raakm the I)Ositi0n cf "Pol vsh fnrrps iintenabla.

Polish forces untenable The announcement that Warsaw had fallen also closed a great loop around the rich Posen area of weste.n Poland, where the German forces had been slowly occupying territory that was encircled by their twin thrusts toward the capital. Foe in 25 Miles of Capital Berlin, Sept. 8 (LP) An an nouncement bv the German high command today said Nazi troops stnkmg up from the southwest had iContmuod On Page Weather modera'e westerly wind. Northern California 1 Fair tonight and Saturday it fog on coast; little change lii temperature; moderate northwest' wind. Southern California Fair tonight, becoming cloud Saturday and unsettled in east; llt- tie change in temperature; gentle northwest wind, River Stae uid flow Kings river stage, 1.08; discharge, 131 fecund fret.

Demand Washington, Sept. 8. (LP) Presi- dent Roosevelt today proclaimed a state of limited national HANFORD LEGIONMEN AT AVENAL AIDING IN ARMISTICE CELEBRATION United States neutrality in the Eu-1 corps personnel within peace time Mjron Rummelsburg, R. rSd-ropean war and to bolster national authorizations. MLf severel daysrto assist the defenses within the limits oi peace 4 provide government investiga- Avenal Legion Post in the prelim-j lime authorizations.

tive agencies with broader powers inaries for celebrating Armistice Increase of Marines Washington, Sept. 8 (LP) At- ing-iioarding splurge that depleted torney General Frank Murphy to- grocers' stocks and caused an arti-day said after a conference with ficial shortage of sugar and flour President Roosevelt that he felt that in some cities. The country ha' San Ja(luin Valley the present anti-profiteering laws vast surpluses of both. Fair tonight and Saturday; nor- were inadequate to do a leal job. Administration officials at Wash- mal temperature; variable wind.

Murphy refused to say whether the in; ton. warned against profiteering. San Francisco Bay District justice department, which is study- President Roosevelt conferred with Fair and normal tempcri-ing anti-profiteering laws, contem- his advisers about commodity price ture tonight and Saturday; Sunday plated asking the special session of increases, indicating a determined fair! overcast night and morning; Called rain. Galehouse, Dickman and Fcacock; Ruffing and Dickey. Cluhs R.

H. E. Washington ....100 030 009 4 13 1 Philadelphia 032 000 OOx 5 8 31 Krakauskas, Carrasquel, Truman and Ferrell, Giuliani; Pippen and Hayes. NATIONAL LEAGUE Clubs: R. H.

E. Philadelphia 009 10 1 8 0 Brooklyn 201 09 3 3 0 Mulcahy and Millies; Tamulis and "I Clubs: R. H. E- St. Louis 100 239 40910 12 0 Chicago 000 620 010 3 10 5 McGee.

Shoun and Owen; Passeau, Whitehlll. Lillard, J. Russell, Olsen and' Mancuso, Garbark. Clubs R. H.

E. Cincinnati 000 010 112 5 11 0 Pittsburgh 009 002 000 2 5 2 Mr. Roosevelt deCred that 1 n. acUns under his emergency powers which repose in a number of statutes. He did not specify the exact laws un- The president will follow tne pro- clamatlon within the next few hours congress for more protection agains soaring prices.

Thousands of housewives, civic groups and war veterans demanded regulatory measures against food; profiteering today as retail prices of sugar, flour, meat and lard climb- ed steadily higher hi reaction to yestrday and cotton swept up by executive Orders by virtue of au- He explained that since he issued of the county are expected to spon-thority granted ih the proclamation. (be original neutrality proclamations s0!" a QUgcn candidate. These 'this government has been Informed PESO UP 20 GENTS 1 Make increases in army tnan that South Africa has declared ft Nosales. Sonora, Sept. 8( Mexicans also foresaw an end of power withlh the authorized peace 8tate of war with Germany (IP)' The value of the Mexican thelrItalian trade if the British strength by recruiting and calling; Extension of the neutrality pro.

today. iTclnlZ Tdd halted shipments of oil at Gibraltar back first line reserves, clamatlon to cover Canada has been Monday apparently as result of the New York at Boston, postponed, as contraband, I 2-Mako s'milar man power In-' (Continued On rage Three) T5uropew wer, rabv Walters and Lombardi; and Susce. First game: R. H. F.

Philadelphia 020 000 009 2 7 3 Brooklyn Oil 022 50x ll 14 0 Hlgbe. Harrell and Davis; Crouch European war, The housewives, fearing a repeti- tlon of the last war's skyrocketing prices and scarcities, aggravated the situation by tut iklraurfUnary buy-.