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THE WEATBEB PoseeMt e< C. B. Weather AVEItitOC DAILT CBRCmATIOM Hertford for Dm Meath at Jaly, IMS Fhlr today end probably Sondey. Not mneh ehange In temperature. 6.039 'Member of the, AadH Bareaa ot CIreiihitlaae MANCHESTER — A aTY OF VILLAGE. CHARM (TWELVE PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTH - 7 MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. 1938 V0L.LVIL,N0.274 (Clamtned AdvertWag ea Eaga 18) tford, Pastor Hustled to Life Term CANADIANTALK HUGHES TESTS NEW REBELS CLAIM 5,000 MAY ALTER A a TYPE OXYGEN MASK ON NEUTRALTIY LOYALISTS ^ FOR HIGH ALTITUDE BeUeved (%ange Will Be 9 IN CONCERTED ht CONSCIENCE nN A lX V Sought To Give Dominion ^ ~rr Lightweight Apparatns Worn HKINOS KING RETURNi "OOME GET YOUR TEETH,” Same Exemption As Latin- RESTAL'RATECR CRIES Additional Thonsands Shin Texas, Ky„ Aug. 20— (A P )^ I ■ --r . By Pilot And 3 Compan- A thief with a slow working con- CHINESE STOP Mercer, Pa.. Aug. 20—(AP)— science has returned, Mrs. R. T. American Republics Have Memo to an absent-minded tour- As Franco Opens Appar- Begley’s gold ring.' ions On Transcontinen- Thirty-three ■ years ago the ist, who may tire of a liquid diet: JAP ADVANCE YOur teeth, both upper and lower ring was stolen from her bed- ,, ently Carefully Phnned room. This week lihe found it on Washlngton, Aug. 20.-;,-(AP)— sets: are safe here. tal Suh-Stratosphefe Hop. President Roosevelt’s declaration The proprietor of that restau- a-rock atop near her home. Mrs. that the people of the United IN ALL AREAS rant you ata In found them. • General Offensive; Got* Begley beUeved the ring, show- New York, Aug. 20.—(AP) — | ing signs of long wear, bad been' States would not stand idly by if 41- placed there the night before. Canada wete attacked by a foreign eminent S ou ris Claimt pward Hughes landed at Floyd •k- -4-’ r|j»«hnett Airport at 7:86 a. m. (EST) power may result in{ a rewording of Invaders Say New Large - today after a high-altitude flight the neutrality act. Informed ob- GERMANY ARMS Lines Held Against Pnshr of servers predicted that an attempt from Los Angeles undertaken to test Scale Drive Against Guer- would be made in the next Congress a new type oxygen mask. MRS. KRUEIXR, to insert Canada among the nations CZECH BORDER Hendaye, France (At the Spaidsh His elapsed time for the trip, on excepted from the act’s application. rillas Has Scattered Ir- which he dl4 not attempt to set a Section four of the act excepta Frontier), Aug. 20—(AP)—SpenlMt speed mark was 10 hours and 34 WIFE OF NOTED the American republics. It Ba3rs; regulars Near Capital. Insurgent dispatches said today minutes. He set a trans-continental .“This act shall not apply to an IN MOUNTAINS that 5,000 government mlUtiamOR record of 7 hours, 28 minutes and American republic or republics en- After a special midnight court session to avoid trouble •with aroused were capfured and additional thoua* 25 secohds In January, 1937. gaged in wzir against a non-Ameri- citizens, the Rev. Helo Janssen, 61, (right) KreiM, N. D., pastor who anda killed as Oeneralisainio Fraa- LEADER, SHOT can state or states, prbvided the Shanghai, Aug. 20.—(AP)—Chi- AU Wear Masks admitted poisoning a housemaid and burning the ' parsonage containing cisco Franco opened what apparent* Glenn Odekirk, Hughes’ airplane American republic is not co-operat- her body, was sentenced to a life term in prison. The pwtor la nese declared today their forces had Former Vacation Spot Now company superintendent, Harry ing with a non-American state or ly was a carefully planned general states in such war.” shown here in custody of Sheriff F. W. -Vreeland. stopped the Japanese on all fronts. Connor, ctoef navigator on Hughes’ Kinswoman Of McCormick l^e Japanese said a new large PracticaDy Closed To offensive. round-the-world, flight, and Chariea Canada Not Included Officials say Canada is not In- scale '"drive against CJhlnese guer- The Insurgents attacked in Perrlne, radio expert, were with the on the Ebro river front, south Reaper Family Womided cluded in the term Am^ican repub-, rillas In Shantung Province already Tourist Traffic, Trips Are Gandesa, where they reported taia^ wealthy filer-sportsman and former lies. Hence observers believe that, as film producer. AU wore two-ounce had scattered 10,000 Irregulars near first Una of government tranebea IB a logical consequence of President BRITISH OFFICIAL HELD the Pandols mountains had been <MK gum and rubber masks. By Husband Of Maid Roosevelt’s declaration with regard Tsinan, Shantung provincial capital. Hughes flew the same ship in . But the Chinese Insisted the Shifted To Other Sections. cupied and the second line wza ba> to the Dominion, it may have to be ing attacked today. which he made bis record-breaking specifically mentioned. 42.000 flght-and-run warriors in Com- globe-girdling flight last month. Who Charges Afienation. -Shantung still were active and that Bulletins from Barcelana Hearings before the Senate and BECAUSE OF ESPIONAGE Berlin. Aug. 20.—(A P)—Ger- however, the government llnea Hughes has been working for sonae House Foreign Affairs committees campaigns In other areas were "con- time oq a lightweight oxygen mask tinuing to be successful.” Guerrillas many not only is fortifying her held against the assault and while the present neutrality law were said to have driven within 25 not lost an Inch. rtmilar to that developed by Dr. Hollywood, Aug. 20.— (AP) — A was In preparation disclosed a con- Rhineland frontier. It became known Observers believed Franco Richard Lovelace, Mayo foundation miles of Nanking. young’elertriclan’s belief that an- siderable opinion in favor of giving Kendrick Ordered Out Of W.est of Kiukiang, the -Yangtze today, but also Is carrying on ex- given orders to bis field Burgeon. other woman’s domination- of his special consideration to Canada with TO SHOW REDS era to wipe out the govi ’The crews’ masks were fed river port used as a base tor the tensive defense construction along wife was responsible for his broken regard to our neutrality policy. campaign against Hankow, 135 the Czechoslovak border in the Erz Ebro salient this week-end so. through rubber tubes leading from Some witnesses objected- to - the Germany At Earliest Pos- home was blamed by police today in' milira upstream, the Chinese claimed roount&lns. combined campaign agalnsb a single cylinder and the oxygen neutrality law on the grounds that VERY ACnVE to have won a smashing victory This part of <3enmmy, formerly celona and Valencia could was thrice purified before they the spectacular Hollywood boule- it might cut off our trade with Can- when a detachment Of Japanese, visited by large numbers of German from consolidated podtiona. breathed it. vard shooting of Mrs.' Emita ada if Great Britain were Involved sible Moment; ^ew s Coin- being landed from warships, was vacatlonlats, now Is practically ActioB Forecaate Big Driv*:;!: Krueger, wife of Karl Krueger, in .war. routed after leaving the protection closed to tourist traffic. First indications that HOPPED LAST NIGHT ssrmohony conductor. Secretary of SUte Hull is refus- IN COUEGES of the Invaders’ naval guns. offensive was near came yeste: While Mrs. Krueger lay in Good cides With His Release. Even Germany’s "strength through Glendale. Calif., Aug. 20.—(AP) ing to be drawn Into a discussion aa Confused By Onslaughts Joy” vacation trips, formerly sched- when insurgent authorities ean- —Howard Hughes, fresh from his Samaritan hospital, her condf^on to whether Prerident Roosevelt’s In southern Shansi ' Province, uled tor this part of the country, ceUed paasea for exit to Franco SM record smashing world trip, gave a described as critical, police ques- declaration was an extension of the where the Japamese h ^ e been at- they had done frequently in the ' 20 Games 25c. tioned Charles E. McDonald, 39, London, Aug. 20.—(AP) —Cap- Dies Says Three Teachers, have been shifted to other sections newly developed, light oxygen mask Monroe Doctrine to Canada. The tempting a new campaign to carry as have the trips scheduled tor the before big drivea. a sub-stratosphere test in a trans- husband of Frances McDonald, Mrs. Prorident said at a press conference tain Thomas Kendrick, veteran Brit- them across the Yellow river, Chi- Insurgent, military leaden Krueger’s maid. nese maintained the Invaders ware Rhineland. continental flight today. he did not have that idea m mind ish -paaaport officer m^teriously Prospective Witnesses, firmed later that FYanco hi ^Detective Lieut. George Whaley when he made his speech. becoming ’’Increasingly confused” Skilled Labor Shortage would lead a new offensivs. 'Hie wealthy flier -and former film annoupced that McDonald confessed seised four days ago by German Mobilization tor the autumn ma- producer and three aids were wear- "Analagoas” To Dootrine secret police, was ordered out of before -the combined onslaughts of generalissimo named (TenermI J he fired the two. shots which struck Win Show Evidence Of Un- Chinese troops and Irregulars. neuvers and the large-scale tortifl' Vlgon, farmer chief of staff of ing two-ounce gum and rubber the former Chicago society girl as Some observers said that the ef- Germany today because of what cation construction along the fron- maalu as they hopped off from here fect would be the same. An interna- an official German statement called . The defenders declared also they northern insurgent army, m she ton for safety to a dancing "proof” of his . conducting espion- had destroyed again all the railway tiers have created a severe shortage of his persona] staff. a t 6:22 (PST) last night for New studio where her eight-year-old tional legtU expert close .
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