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1939December 29

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• KUHN AIDE IS SEIZED ON PERJURY CHARGE; Wheeler-Hill, Bund Secretary, Accused by Jury in Three Second-Degree Counts
• Incidents in European Conflict; British Deny Parole Violation
• National Guard Orders
• CHICAGO LAD WINS EXTRA-SET MATCH; Evert Overcomes McDonald of Kenyon by 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in National Junior Tennis UMSTAEDTER ALSO GAINS Beats Napolitano on Seventh Regiment Court--Dorfman Victor in Boys' Play Loses Only One Game Play Thrills Gallery THE SUMMARIES
• Liverpool's Cotton Week
• POPE VISITS KING, SOLIDIFYING TIES; WILL RECEIVE DUCE; Throngs Cheer the Pontiff in Auto Procession Along Beflagged Rome Streets PIUS PRAISES GOVERNMENT Asks Divine Protection for Leader Who Has Made Italy 'Strong and Respected'
• ERICKSON GUILTY IN PERJURY CASE; Bookmaker, Assailed by Mayor as Undesirable,' Convicted on 2d Degree Charge FACES TERM OF ONE YEAR Queens, Court Finds He Gave False Statement in Asking for a Pistol Permit Long Adjournment Taken No Claim to Sympathy
• MAYOR CERTIFIES $109,018,335 BUDGET; Makes No Objection to Cuts of $3,267,800 by Council in 1940 Capital Outlays AIRPORT FUNDS REDUCED $2,685,000 Improvements Had Been Struck Out-Total Is $24,779,371 Under 1939
• Obituary 6 -- No Title
• TRADE COMMISSION CASES; Webbing Concern to Stop Saying It Is a Manufacturer
• Wool Market Quiet
• Boy Hurt in Fall From Cliff
• Whalen Discusses Fair With Hull
• ADMIRAL DE OTTE OF COAST GUARD; Retired Officer, Veteran of 2 Wars, Had Served 43 Years --Succumbs Here at 72 ANSWERED 41 SOS CALLS Record for One Winter Still Stands--Supervised Port of Brest During War
• CHILE HAS $9,456,203 FOR ITS DEBT SERVICE; Amortization Institute to Use Half for Interest Payment
• TWO BRITISH SHIPS GIVEN UP AS LOST; Navy Trawler and Steamer Long Overdue--Danish Vessel Sunk by Mine CARGO CONTROL SPEEDED Only 48 Vessels Held at Bases in United Kingdom Last Tuesday, It Is Stated Four Ships in Collisions Survivors Reach Cape Town Soviet Protest Rejected Reich Figures on Sea Losses U-Boat Losses Put at Forty German Crew Lands in Spain
• MERIT, NOT RACE
• BROKERS CUT CHARGE ON THEATRE TICKETS; 23 Whom Producers Barred From Lists Fix 50-Cent Premium
• WILLIAM L. BRUNYATE; Lawyer in Newark for the Last 28 Years a Harvard Graduate
• Bonneville Agency to Buy Power Transmission Line
• SOVIETS SILENCE ON WAR DEEPENS; No Effort Is Made to Deny the Foreign Reports of Defeats Inflicted by the Finns BUT 'ARMY' IS HEARD FROM 'Flaming Battle Greetings to Dear Comrade Stalin' Are Sent by 'People's' Force
• ARRIVAL OF BUYERS
• Italy Arrests 33 as Smugglers
• OATH TO JUDGE LEHMAN; He Will Be Sworn In as Chief Appeals Court Judge Tomorrow
• GISH AND WARAM TO JOIN ROAD SHOW; Will Have the Leading Roles in 'Life With Father' in the New Company KINGSLEY WILL RUN DRAMA To Take Over Management of 'World We Make'--Standees at Yesterday's Matinees Skylark" to Change Schedule Daly's May Open Next Week Lincoln Show in Rochester
• Merger Plan Is Approved
• RETAIL AUTO SALES UP 9%; November Rise Lifts Index to 107.7 From 99.1 a Year Ago
• LONG SAYS MANKIND, NOT WILSON, FAILED; Aide in World War Praises Him on 83d Anniversary
• SHIP ENDS LAST VOYAGE; Rotterdam to Leave Service After 32 Years on Seas
• MISS SCHUR BETROTHED; Scarsdale Girl Will be the Bride of Joseph M. Sheehan Jr.
• BRADLEY HALTS CORNELL; Wins at Basketball, 35-31, With Drive in Last 3 Minutes
• EAST SIDE FLATS DRAW INVESTORS; House at 81st St. Near 2d Ave. Is Included Among Properties Traded
• SWISS TO ORGANIZE FOURTH ARMY CORPS; Unit of 80,000 to 100,000 Men Will Be Ready by Spring
• TROTH MADE KNOWN OF MARILYNN ENGLIS; Garden City Girl Is Affianced to J.J. Reilly Jr. of Hempstead
• Sports of the Times; Preambling on the Bowl Trail Trojans' Shields Unscarred Battle of New Orleans
• 5 DAYS' CLEARINGS EXCEED LAST YEAR; Increase of 15.6 Per Cent for Week Halts Declines in Annual Comparisons RISE IN CITY $429,371,000 Check Transactions in the 21 Centers Outside New York Gain 17.6 Per Cent
• Salt Concern Buys Tracts
• ANN WATSON HAS BRIDAL; Married in Edgartown, Mass., to Courtenay Barber Jr.
• WOOD, FIELD AND STREAM; Salmon Catching Shown Plans for Miami Tourney
• NEWS OF MARKETS IN EUROPEAN CITIES; Gilt-Edge Securities, Led by War Loan Issue, Continue to Advance in London LITTLE TRADING IN PARIS Amsterdam Stocks, Influenced by Unfavorable New York Advices, Again Recede Little Trading in Paris Amsterdam Prices Lower Berlin Boerse Generally Firm
• PLEDGES JAPAN'S AMITY; New Ambassador to France Is Received by Lebrun
• Mrs. Potter Gets Gimbel Award
• MIZE AGAIN TOPS LEAGUE SLUGGERS; Cards' Star Averaged .626 for Total Bases on Hits to Repeat 1938 Feat M'CORMICK MOST TIMELY Drove in 128 Runs for Reds-- Camilli, With 110, Received Most Walks for 2d Year
• REFINANCING PROPOSED; West Virginia Pulp and Paper to Put Plan Before Stockholders
• Job Rolls in November 918,000 Over '38 Total
• KUHN WANTS PROTECTION; Declines Transfer From Sing Sing Segregation Building
• Coast Guard Orders
• RIGGS HALTS M'LANEY; Hare and McNeill Also Advance in Sugar Bowl Tennis
• SCIENCE CONGRESS ENDED BY INSTITUTE; Sessions Attended by 2,000-- Prizes Are Awarded
• Obituary 7 -- No Title
• EXPANDS IMPORT CURBS; Britain Adds to Wood Products Subject to Licensing
• STATE FARMING REPORT; 'More Satisfactory' Conditions Than in 1938 Found
• FLEXBLE POLICIES URGED BY WALLACE; Changing Conditions Must Be Met by New Government Efforts, He Declares Would Change Creditor Position
• Puerto Rico Bid to Stokowski
• HENRY G. PEARSON, 69, A RETIRED PROFESSOR; Ex-Head of History and English Department at M.I.T. Dies
• STEEL SITUATION HELD ENCOURAGING; Stettinius Points to Advance in Last Four Months as Indication for 1940 DIFFICULTIES STILL FACED Business Future Is Measured in the Uncertainty of War's Duration
• WOULD AID ALTON ROAD; Plan to Cut Interest Charges Under Consideration
• MORALE AT FRONT KEPT UP BY FRENCH; Work of Junior Officers Is Observed Among Troops in 'Winter Quarters' Status Hand-to-Hand Fights Reported German Report From Front
• BLOOD BROTHERS
• SCREEN PROGRAMS FOR CITY'S YOUTHS; Teachers and Parents Group Lists Many Presentations
• $300,000,000 Saving on Rates in Decade Reported by Public Service Commission
• Clothing Designers Elect
• SHOOTS WIFE, CHILD AND KILLS HIMSELF; Cantor, Estranged From His Family, Becomes Violent Following Quarrel ONE DAUGHTER ESCAPES Father Fired at Her Twice-- Miriam Solovieff Well Known as Concert Violinist
• To Make 25,000,000th Auto
• MEXICAN SCHOOL BILL GOES BEFORE SENATE; Committee Named for Study-- Text Is Somewhat Modified
• WHITNEY PROPERTY SOLD; Auction of Items of Ex-Head of Exchange Bring $753
• MUSIC NOTES
• FINANCIAL NOTES
• November Ad Gain Reduced
• WILSON DOCTRINES HELD STILL ALIVE; Czech and Polish Envoys, at Birthday Service, Say War Has Not Nullified Work NEW FREEDOM PREDICTED Hurban and Potocki Join in Tributes to Late President as Inspiration to Nations
• AUGUST HEAT WAVE CHIEF FREAK OF '39; Year's Weather Survey in City Finds It Broke 68-Year Mark for the Month
• Brooklyn Central Triumphs
• 2 LARGE APARTMENTS SOLD IN FORECLOSURE; Severn and Van Dyck Buildings Bid In for $700,000
• BAPTISTS PROTEST LINK TO VATICAN; Leaders of 10,250,000 Members Approve Letter to BeSent to President TodayUNITED FOR PEACE PLAN But 3 Conventions Have Voted Against Diplomatic Ties With Any Ecclesiastical Body' Backing for Peace Effort Signers of the Letter
• Leale--Sharp
• SKIING INFORMATION; Weather Forecast
• Curb's Request Granted
• AUCTIONS IN THE BRONX
• Harvey--Barney
• Sprint Feature at Tropical Park Is Captured by Mar Le; MAR LE REGISTERS 3-LENGTH TRIUMPH Favorite Takes Naples Purse, Enabling Jockey Durando to Complete a Double SUN MICA WINS AT $45.90 Victor in Photo Finish With Conrad Mann--Modern Age First in a Gallop Mar Le Goes to the Front Rosen Completes Double
• CHINA LAYS DEFICIT IN TRADE TO JAPAN; Favorable Balance in Sections Outside Invader's Control
• Ocean Travelers
• Harder Signs With Indians
• FOREIGN EXCHANGE FIRM IN DULL TRADING; Pound and Guilder Up, Belga Off --$4,200,000 Gold Here
• WESTCHESTER WARS ON RELIEF FLOATERS; County Opens Drive With Court Action Against Ohio Family Which Will Not Leave Removal to Ohio Sought $7,000,000 Spent Annually
• MANY U.S. ENGINEERS LEAVING SOVIET UNION; But Embassy Denies Requiring Americans to Get Out
• J.C. TOWNSEND, 58, REAR ADMIRAL, DIES; Commandant of Philadelphia Navy Yard Directed Air Base in Ireland in War HE LED CRUISER DIVISION Received Medals for Service at Occupation of Veracruz and in Nicaraguan Waters Once Commanded Gunboat Received Medal of Honor
• EXCHANGE WOULD BAR MEXICAN RAIL BONDS; SEC Hearing to Be Held Here on National Railways Issues
• Geoghan Drops Parker Action
• Obituary 8 -- No Title
• RUSSIA REIMPOSES NEWS CENSORSHIP; Foreign Correspondents Must Submit Their Dispatches as They Did Before Last May THE STEP WAS EXPECTED Soviet Dissatisfaction Over Reports Transmitted Abroad Is Seen in Action Censorship Lifted in May
• Greek Ruins Identified as Nestor's Palace; Scientists Say 600 Tablets Upset Old Ideas
• Named Princeton Librarian
• MRS. H.H. FLAGLER IS DEAD UP-STATE; Wife of Patron of Music Was Active in Charities Here and in Dutchess County AIDED THE PHILHARMONIC Member of Daughters of the Cincinnati Is Victim of Heart Ailment at Millbrook Home
• SALES OF SECURITIES BY ENGLAND DISCLOSED; Treasury Gives Data for First Month of War
• STOCK EXCHANGE NOTES
• Merchant Ships Sunk in War
• A DIME NOVELIST
• ASCAP WINS RULING ON NEBRASKA LAW; Three-Judge Federal Court Sets Aside Statute Barring Music Fees for Radio and Dance PROPERTY RIGHT VIOLATED Opinion Asserts Protection Under Copyright Act Was Abridged by 1937 Legislation
• VISCOUNTESS BRYCE; Widow of British Ambassador to United States Dies at 85
• CUT IN EXPANSION SEEN BY WILLKIE; Curtailment of Construction is Indicated After SEC Ruling on Consumers Power Sale Probably to Proceed Minority Interest a Factor
• PITTSBURGH INDEX HOLDS; Industrial Production and Trade Ease, but Shipments Gain
• PRODS CANADA'S CABINET; Paper Says Bennett Should Be Asked to Re-enter Commons
• JOB AGENCIES FIGHT PLAN; Denounce Unions for Demanding Regulation by State
• MONTH'S AUTO SALES NEAR 1936 RECORD; Total Put 10% Over November and 12% Over 1938
• Jailed in Cigarette Tax Case
• CLIPPER BASE CLOSED AT PORT WASHINGTON; Flying Boats to Land and Depart at Baltimore for Winter
• Cross & Dunn at Loew's State
• Arline Judge Sues Topping
• Power Output Rises More Than Seasonally; Four Areas Shorten Gains Over a Year Ago
• FORMER TEACHER MISSING; Rockville Center Woman, Who Taught Here, Has Been III
• CITED ON LIGGETT AWARD; Officer of Former Daily Worker Publishers Called by Court
• Social Activities in New York and Elsewhere; NEW YORK
• Coaches Urge Four Rule Changes; More Field Goal Kicking Sought; Wider Goal Posts and Lower Bar Proposed to Main Football Committee--Drop of 63% in Gridiron Deaths Since 1931 Other Proposals by Coaches Warner Favors Change 25 Per Cent Drop in Year WOLF REJECTS RICE JOB Will Remain as North Carolina Coach--Thornhill Has Offers
• MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
• BUDGET IS PASSED BY FRENCH SENATE; Action Is Unanimous on Outlay of 80,000,000,000 Francs for the Civil Government BORROWING ONLY FOR WAR Routine Expenses Will Be Met by Taxes--Finance Minister Says Budget Is Balanced Budget Is a Policy Budget Is Balanced
• REGINA ROTHWELL INTRODUCED HERE; Parents and Aunt Assist the Debutante at Dinner Dance in Receiving Guests SHE HAS GOWN OF CHIFFON Mother Attired in Dark Rose Satin--Tables Decorated With Spring Flowers
• TULANE AWAITS REGULARS; Wenzel and White Will Resume Drills for Sugar Bowl Fray
• Excess Reserves Increase $150,000,000; Member Bank Balances Rise $115,000,000
• HOLC PROPERTIES SOLD IN BROOKLYN; One Broker Reports Deeding of Six Dwellings, Each Housing Four Families 709 PUTNAM AVE. BOUGHT Brownstone Residence Taken as an Investment--Other Deals in the Borough
• Van Antwerp--Northey
• Bees' Head Inspects Parks
• BANK OF THE NETHERLANDS; Increase in Circulation Shown in Weekly Statement
• Naval Orders
• LEFT $50,000 TO LANDIS; Will of Orson C. Wells Is Filed in Florida
• DARTMOUTH SIX WINS, 7-4; Remains Unbeaten by Subduing Colgate--Maloon Stars
• TREASURY STATEMENT
• DEMOCRATIC HEADS TO ASK ROOSEVELT FOR NLRA REVISION; They Will Offer Amendments in the Hope of Shelving the Wagner Act as '40 Issue WHITE HOUSE TALKS DUE Plan to Make Law Similar to the Railway Act and to Curb Board Powers Weighed Smith Proposal a Big Factor Several Issues Come to the Fore DEMOCRATIC HEADS SEEK NLRA CHANGE Court Upsets NLRB Ruling
• ICKES HITS MISUSE OF OUR RESOURCES; Report of Interior Department Warns of 'Heedless Attempts' to Make Quick War Profits HAILS POTASH DISCOVERIES Secretary Deplores Exhaustion of Reclamation Fund; Urges New Money for Projects
• TAX-CUT CALL HINTS LONG ALBANY FIGHT; Sales Levy and Relief Issues Also Endanger Hopes for a Brief Legislative Session CIGARETTE TAX ATTACKED Desmond Says State Charge Is Not Needed--Budget Talks Off Until Tuesday
• BOOKS OF THE TIMES; G--W--the W--" The South at the Bar of History Fifteen Candid Critics A Guntherization of America
• Argentine Wheat Exports Up
• YALE FORMS 'BANK' OF HUMAN CULTURE; Murdock Tells Chicago Session of Anthropologists of 'Pool' From 400 Civilizations FIRST INCLUSIVE LIBRARY Malinowski Applies Method of 'Functionalism' to Predict Fall of Nazi Germany
• Marriage Announcement 1 -- No Title
• LOCALLY DRESSED MEATS
• CUBANS SEEK A FORMULA; Group to Set Election Date and Rule on Assembly's Status
• Immigration Bar for Goulding
• LIBBY, M'NEILL & LIBBY FILE FINANCING DATA; Statement Covering $11,000,000 of Bonds Received by SEC
• Article 1 -- No Title
• HIGH TARIFFS ARE "PLANNING"
• WOOL GOODS INQUIRY UP; But Placing of Business Waits on Fall Openings
• FTC EXPANDED AID TO CONSUMER IN '39; Annual Report Shows Its Work Afforded Public Greater Protection in Year WON 27 OUT OF 30 CASES Wheeler-Lea Act Is Called One of Best Weapons in Drive on Unfair Practices
• ROOSEVELT SANCTIONS 203 NAVY PROMOTIONS; Rank of Commander Is Given on Selection Board Report
• PHILOSOPHERS TILT AT FETE FOR DEWEY; Two Eminent Colleagues Put His Teachings to Critical Test at Columbia HE LISTENS, THEN REPLIES Tells Hocking of Harvard and Cohen of City College They Revealed Only Themselves Professor Cohen Speaks Dewey Offers a Paper
• MISS SHACKFORD BOWS TO SOCIETY; Former Student at Brearley Presented at Supper Dance in Christmas Setting RECEIVES WITH MOTHER Debutante Holds Provisional Membership in the New York Junior League
• REPUBLICAN SANTA HOLDS BELATED PARTY; Children Get Gifts at Club From Baldwin, in Whiskers
• Advertising News
• MEXICO PATROLS WATERS; British Warships Are Reported Lying in Wait for German Craft
• Mayor Helps Son Mark Birthday
• DEBUT PARTY IS GIVEN FOR MARGARET EARLE; Parents Entertain With Dinner to Introduce Music Student
• U.S.C. ADVANTAGE SEEN IN RESERVES; Lansdell, Nave and Schindler, All Fine Quarterbacks, in Shape to Face Tennessee VOLUNTEERS' LINE STRONG Capable Replacements Ready for Rose Bowl Encounter-- Secret Practice Held
• BANK CREDIT HERE OFF $316,000,000; Loans Down $145,000,000 in Week, Drop Led by One of $115,000,000 for Brokers SECURITY HOLDINGS CUT Treasury Bills Reduced $133,000,000, Notes $121,000,000,Federal Reserve Reports
• SUITES IN BRONX TRADED; Building at 2,016 Davidson Ave. Passes to New Control
• Article 3 -- No Title
• O'Donoghue--Cullen
• Article 4 -- No Title
• RESERVE BANK POSITION
• HEADS REALTY CHAPTER; R.H. Armstrong Again Named by Manhattan Group
• Van den Hoek--Barnes
• BOSTON COLLEGE GETS A ROUSING RECEPTION; Eagles Reach Dallas for Battle With Clemson on Gridiron
• Farewell Party for Landman
• Japan Lists War Casualties
• ABOUT NEW YORK
• HONORS TO BLUE PETER; Led English Stake Winners in Earnings During 1939
• PROFIT OF UTILITY RISES; Northern States Power Shows $7,444,021 for Year
• FINNS TO EXPAND MOSQUITO FLEET; Seek Motors Here to Help Meet Soviet Navy's Threat to Vital Ship Lanes Needed to Guard Food Supply FINNS TO EXPAND MOSQUITO FLEET
• BELFAST REGIME BANS 5 IRISH NEWSPAPERS; Dublin Offers Reward for Arms Stolen by Republicans
• Roosevelt Begins Writing His Message to Congress
• JEFFERSON D. BURKE; Former Night City Editor of The Daily News Is Dead
• Pirate Pitcher Not Badly Hurt
• Professors Censure 5 Higher Institutions For Dismissals Among Faculty Members
• Obituary 9 -- No Title
• COTTON RECOVERS TO FINISH HIGHER; Limited Floating Supply of Contracts Taken by Mills on Each Recession EXPORTS ABOVE YEAR AGO Increase Is Put at 1,037,000 Bales--Difference With Liverpool Is Narrowed
• FINNISH AIR GUARD CUTS BOMBING LOSS; Civilian Organization Active-- Raids Have Hit 100 Cities
• SEC AIDES DIFFER ON "TRUST-BUSTING'; Frank Calls Anti-Trust Fight Futile, Henderson Defends It at Economists' Session MONOPOLY IS ATTACKED Edwards of Justice Department Denies at Philadelphia It Is Inevitable' Growth Public Support Is Considered Tempered Attitudes" Noted
• LEHMANN AT MUSICALE; Melchior and Rubinstein Also in 417th Bagby Concert
• Pays Extra Dividend and Bonus
• DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
• Article 2 -- No Title
• Topics of The Times
• Southern Kraft Expands Plant
• EARLY DEATH CUT PENSION; Judge J.F. O'Brien's Widow Gets $44,735 Instead of $128,000
• BRITISH TO RATION MEATS AND SUGAR; New Restrictions Decreed as Nazi 'Guns Before Butter' Theory Is Followed FOOD SHORTAGE IS DENIED Control to Be Set Up Early in Year to Save Exchange and Ships for War Supplies Up to Requirements for Meat Sugar Cut to Quarter of Normal United States Farmers Hardest Hit
• SEIZE PERKINS TRUCKS FOR SECURITY TAXES; Federal Aides Act Against York Battery Maker
• MARGARET M. GILMER WILL BECOME A BRIDE; Graduate of Trinity College Is Engaged to George Keller 3d
• N.C. PARKE KILLED IN 9-STORY PLUNGE; Veteran Newspaper Man, 51, Leaves a Note in His Room in a Washington Hotel WAS WAR CORRESPONDENT Career of 25 Years Covered News Services and Several Leading Newspapers Praised by His Associates In France Throughout the War
• Kimberly-Clark Names Agency
• New Year's Eve in Berlin Will Be Sober and Dark
• SAYS METEOR CAME FROM FAR HEAVENS; Dr. P.M. Millman Holds Curve of Fall July 11 in Canada Indicates Remote Source
• DOROTHY EATON MARRIED; New York Girl Becomes Bride in Florida of Richard Sample
• BANK SUPERVISORS PICKED; National Association Selects Chairmen for Five Districts
• SELLS PLOT FACING SOUND; T.R. Pell Conveys Sands Point Building Site of Two Acres
• DINNER DANCE GIVEN FOR NANCY SAUNDERS; Debutante Feted by the Elisha Walkers of Their Home
• FEDERAL RESERVE BANK STATEMENT
• Greenwich Estate Deeded
• JAPANESE JUSTIFIES POLICY IN ORIENT; Sees Parallel in United States Moves in South America
• Elizabeth Dittman to Wed
• RITCHIE CAPTURES BADMINTON HONORS; Tops Cornell, 15-11, 15-12, to Gain Junior Championship-- Miss Marignan Victor
• RECEIPT OF REBATES FOR MAGAZINE DENIED; Woolworth Employes Say Money Was for Unsold Copies
• Suffolk Downs Dates Set
• Railway Loan Authorized
• BAR TO NERVE ILLS FOUND IN THE BODY; Unsuspected Barrier in Adult May Throw Light on Paralysis --Mayo Curbs Flier 'Bends' Held Subject to Manipulation BAR TO NERVE ILLS FOUND IN THE BODY Discovered in Tests on Animals Airplane Bends" Prevented Nervousness Measured Growth of Baby Recorded
• SPY WITNESS, BACK, HARASSED BY NAZIS; She Tells of 'Harrowing Ordeal' of Hands of Gestapo
• Seeks Delaware Governorship
• Obituary 1 -- No Title
• PEARSON ADVANCES BY HALTING HARDING; Wins, 16-14, 15-8, 15-13, and Gains Final in University Club Squash Racquets KANAVARRO ALSO VICTOR Tops Stillman in Hard Match --Yale Team Turns Back Purdue by 4-1 Count
• PETRILLO ARRIVES TO SPUR RADIO PACT; Head of Chicago Federation of Musicians Talks to Weber About Union Contract
• F.A. BURLINGAME, LAWYER 39 YEARS; Specialist in Corporation and Copyright Practice Is Dead Here at the Age of 66 AIDED EPISCOPAL DIOCESE Grandson of Noted Envoy to China Had Served on Bar Association Committee
• PRICE INDEX UP IN WEEK; Sharp Advances in Foods and Textiles Recorded
• ARMY IS 25% READY, MARSHALL DECLARES; Better School Histories Needed to Guide Opinion, He Says
• CAPACITY AUDIENCE AT 'DIE WALKUERE'; Helen Traubel Makes Her First Appearance of This Season in Role of Sieglinde SHE RECEIVES AN OVATION Lauritz Melchior Plays Part of Siegmund in Wagner Opera at Metropolitan
• PAUL F. WARBURG TO JOIN J.S. BACHE; Son of Felix M. and Nephew of Paul M. to Be General Partner in Brokerage
• HOLIDAY GAIN 5.5% IN FINAL 3 WEEKS; Department Store Sales Here Rose 2.5% for Year, Reserve Bank Estimates NOVEMBER TRADE UP 8.7% Rise Was 2-Year High--Stocks 0.9% Ahead in Month, First Increase Since 1937
• Navy Enlists 886 in Week
• In The Nation; Budget, as Well as Its Balance, Non-Existent Gesture or Crusade? Toward a Real Budget
• CONSUMERS POWER GETS SEC'S RULING; Authorized to Sell $18,594,000 of Bonds Instead of $28,594,000 Originally Applied ForPARENT TO TAKE STOCKCommission Split Several Wayson Its Order but Fails to Acton Competitive Bidding Frank Shifted His Voting Hold Stock Sale Exempt Competitive Bidding Discussed CONSUMERS POWER GETS SEC'S RULING
• Exide Promotes Kalas
• Train Crew Saves Aged Pair
• Reports Nazi Officers With Reds
• Football Player Saves Two
• SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD; Sol Lesser Negotiating With Serlin for the Film Rights to 'Life With Father" 'SWANEE RIVER' AT ROXY Stephen Foster Biography to Open Today With Ameche in Role of Composer
• Named by Lenox Hill Hospital
• Wheat in Store in Canada
• GOERING EXPANDS HIS ECONOMIC RULE; Initiative Taken Out of Hands of Various Ministries in the New Reorganization
• 'INSANE' ATHLETICS IN COLLEGE DECRIED; Prof. L.C. Boles of College of Wooster Pleads for Higher Mental Requirements STUDENT MORALS PRAISED Dr. R.J. Legge Finds Women in Particular Adhere to 'Very High' Standards Defends Students' Morals Sees Value in Athletics
• Child to J. Upshur Moorheads
• Elected by Dow, Jones & Co., Ltd.
• FULL FLOOR TAKEN BY CELLULOID FIRM; Manufacturers Contract for Quarters in the Building at 180 Madison Ave. MILLINERS LEASE SPACE Northridge, Inc., Enlarges Its Place in 16 East 53d St.-- Other Trade Rentals
• MISS ANN B. JONES BECOMES ENGAGED; BETROTHAL ANNOUNCED
• C.C.N.Y. Evening Wins
• ADVANCES TO STATE UP AT FRENCH BANK; Total Increases 1,800,000,000 Francs in Week--Expansion of Note Issue Is Slight BALANCES ABROAD EASE Negotiable Bills Purchased at Home Decrease--Reserve of Gold Unchanged
• Suit Against Ship Dismissed
• RUSSIA SEEKS COPPER; 4,000 to 5,000 Tons for January Reported Needed
• HATS WILL BLEND WITH HAIR STYLES; HATS DESIGNED TO HARMONIZE WITH THE COIFFURE
• GAIN ON SOVIET SOIL REPORTED BY FINNS; NEW RED DRIVE ON; Helsinki Tells of Advances in Two Sectors Across Border, Bombing Planes Aiding RUSSIANS POUND AT SALLA But Their Attacks in Karelia Are Again Said to Fail-- Finnish Cities Raided Other Centers Bombed Lake Suvanto Crossed GAIN ON SOVIET SOIL REPORTED BY FINNS Soviet Gun Said to Be Silenced New Russian Drive Reported Expects Russians to Dig In
• APPEALS COURT BACKS STATE MORTGAGE TAX; Ruling Denies That the Law Is a Levy on Impersonal Property
• Obituary 2 -- No Title
• U.S. FENCERS WIN AGAIN; Beat Cubans With Epee to In sure Three-Weapon Laurels
• GOVERNMENT RESTS TITLE COMPANY CASE; Last Witness Tells of Inability to Cash $60,000 Certificates
• LEADERS TO SERVE AT DOHERTY RITES; Business, Industrial, Political Life Will Be Represented by Honorary Pallbearers
• BUSINESS RECORDS
• NAVAL STORES
• LABOR CALLS TRUCE TO HELP THE FINNS; A.F.L. and C.I.O. Join Hands as Hoover Sends $100,000 More to Aid Victims RYTI VOICES HIS THANKS Premier Says Our 'Ample Help and Sympathy Are Great Consolation' in Crisis
• AIRPORT HOTEL PLANNED; McKenzie Announces Project for La Guardia Field
• WILLIAM LORD STRONG; Founder and Retired Head of the Oldbridge Enameled Brick Co.
• PAY OF LOFT CHAIRMAN; J.W. Carkner to Get $26,500 a Year for Decade
• BUSINESS NOTES
• Letters to The Times; Horses Needed by Army Both Mounted and Mechanized Cavalry Have Place in service
• PHELPS, FENN & CO. WIN UP-STATE ISSUE; Albany County Sells $1,314,000 Bonds on 100.35 Bid--Other Bankers in SyndicateBAYONNE, N.J., AWARDS LIENB.J. Van Ingen & Co. Receive$4,565,000 of Securities--Vermont in Market
• 1939 WATER USE HERE IS ABOVE 'SAFE YIELD'; Daily Consumption Put at 40 Million Gallons Over Minimum
• Matteson--Love
• CALIFORNIA'S RALLY DEFEATS COLUMBIA; Bears Win in Philadelphia by 43-36--Stanford's Quintet Crushes Dartmouth, 55-29
• Sale of Former Leeds Home on Fifth Ave. May Presage Erection of New Apartments
• FRENCH LINER HERE WITH 9 PASSENGERS; The Oregon Comes From Havre --Convoyed Part of Way
• PRICE OF CREAM TO RISE; One-Cent Increase on Half-Pint in Effect Monday
• ANN BATTLE HONORED BY HER GRANDMOTHER; Debutante Is Guest at a Dance Given by Mrs. W.W. Battie
• Tax-Exempt Securities Show Increase in Year
• MANHATTAN MORTGAGES
• AKSEL WICHFELDS PALM BEACH HOSTS; They Entertain With a Dinner for Mrs. Lewis B. Whelen-- W.R. Reynolds Has Guests T.W. STEMMLERS FETED Luncheons Are Given by the Kiliaen Van Rensselaers and the R. Jay Flicks
• PANZER STOPS MARSHALL; Triumphs on Court, 58-54, Before Seton Hall Beats Florida
• MONEY AND CREDIT
• SHIP MEN OBJECT TO CURBS ON TRADE; Insist on 'Free Privilege' of Maintaining Commerce With Best Foreign Customers TONNAGE SHIFTS PLANNED Taylor Sees Grave Results if Exports Are Sacrificed Under Neutrality Act
• JAPANESE CABINET REFUSES TO RESIGN; LEADS SOVIET ARMY
• NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OUT; First Volume of Jewish Series Will Appear Today
• CIRCULATION HIGHER AT BANK OF ENGLAND; Year-End Increase 2,276,000 --Government Loans Up
• The International Situation
• Accepts St. Bartholomew's Call
• Frank T. Kalas Promoted
• Quake Casualties 110,000, Turk Investigators Say; Officials Find 70 Per Cent in One Province Perished--92 Towns in Ruins or Afire-- New Shocks Felt--Relief Is Speeded EARTHQUAKE TOLL PUT ABOVE 110,000 Blizzard Adds to Casualties Red Cross Offers Aid New Quake in California Africa Feels Tremors Four Tremors in Italy
• 3 WOUNDED ON EXETER DIE; British Cruiser's Toll at 64-- Five Officers Promoted
• 5 BOROUGH CHAIRMEN AID PARALYSIS DRIVE; Leaders of Special Units for Birthday Balls Announced
• Obituary 3 -- No Title
• LEAFS TOP CANADIENS, BREAK TIE FOR SECOND; Win by 6-4, Referee Disallowing Two Montreal Goals
• WHEAT ENDS MIXED IN ERRATIC MARKET; Near-By Futures Rise c, but Later Deliveries Are 1/8 to c a Bushel Lower CORN LOSES MOST OF GAIN Buying Operations Early Are Aided by the Removal of Hedges on Export Sales Expect Better Foreign Demand Corn Fails to Hold Gains
• ASTRONOMER IS HONORED; Dr. Fisher, Planetarium Head, Invited to Photograph Eclipse
• DAVID V. PERRINE, 86, A JERSEY MERCHANT; Owned State's Largest General Store--Princeton Graduate, '76
• 3 GROUPS SET UP NEW PLAN FOR ERIE; Bondholders, the C.& O. and Road Itself Are in Agreement on Compromise Proposals SHARP CUT IN CONTROL C.& O.'s Holdings Would Be Reduced to 8%--Treatment of Stock Follows I.C.C. Idea Plan for Holders of Stock Some of the Recommendations Note Maturity Lengthened
• ADDS 52 SQUADRONS TO ARMY AIR CORPS; Woodring Orders Reinforcement for Bases on Continentand at Four OutpostsALL TYPES REPRESENTEDBombers, Interceptors andPlanes for Observation Are Among Units in Program Groups Assigned to Florida Johnson Asks Rotary Craft Bids
• OLD-AGE INSURANCE
• THE DANCE; The Holiday Festival
• ARNOLD RIPPE; Director of Weehawken Bank Was Insurance Man 36 Years
• UNIVERSITY NAMES BROKER; Controller at North Carolina to Be W.D. Carmichael Jr.
• ALL-YEAR CAMPAIGN FOR GAS IS PLANNED; Replacement of Refrigerators Will Be First Effort
• MURRAY CORP. HAS PROFIT IN QUARTER; $203,069 in Period to Nov. 30 Contrasts With Loss in 3 Months to Dec. 31, 1938 EQUAL TO 21c A SHARE Reports of Results of Operations of Other Companies,With Comparisons OTHER CORPORATE REPORTS Dry Goods Companies Report
• BAN ON PRODUCTION BY RETAILER URGED; Independent Grocers to Push Fight on Plant-Ownership by Distributors FEAR TRADE DOMINATION Federal Act May Be Sought to Stop Trend--Group Plans Big Sales Promotions
• Nazis and Allies to Trade Interned Civilians; Plan Bars Those of Military Age; U.S. Aiding
• Food News of the Week; Manufacturers Complying With New Law About Labels--Meat Prices Still Low Meat Still Reasonable Prices of Fowl Down Fish Supply Falls Off Drought Affects Vegetables
• Fail to Act on Dissolution
• H.J. Heinz Company Is 70
• Hearing on Detective Closes
• PIERRE DU PONTS GIVE DANCE IN WILMINGTON; Honor Ruth Ellen du Pont and Georgina Tallman Miller
• 14,282 See N.Y.U. and Oklahoma Win in Garden Basketball Double-Header; VIOLET OVERCOMES MISSOURI, 68 TO 47 Undefeated N.Y.U. Displays Smoothness in Scoring 34 Points in Each Half FORDHAM BOWS, 55 TO 48 Stages Game Drive in Final Half, but Fails to Catch Oklahoma Quintet Nightcap Lacks Thrills Rams Gamble on New Men Rizzo New Fordham Ace
• CITY-WIDE RENTING LISTED BY AGENTS; Alfred Ely, Lawyer, Signs for a Furnished Apartment in 821 Madison Ave. P.G. BARTLETT A LESSEE Architect Takes Large Suite in 1,225 Park Ave.--Duplex for Mrs. Victor Schoepperle
• GUANO ISLANDS SURVEYED; Aerial Pictures Expected to Give Data on Bird Life
• JULIA R. HUBBARD MAKES HER DEBUT; Pine Manor Junior College Student Presented by Her Father at Tea Dance
• RAILWAY EARNINGS
• NEWARK SITE BOUGHT FOR BIG FOOD MARKET; $50,000 Building Planned at 474-6 Springfield Ave.
• MRS. HOPE T. BEALE ENGAGED TO MARRY; Haverford Resident to Become the Bride of John Bromley
• Zannelli Outpoints Devlin
• BOND GROUP APPROVED; Broker to Head Committee for Jersey Central Issue
• Marine Corps Orders
• TOKYO FLIERS BOMB LANCHOW 3D DAY; Renew Attack Upon Western Chinese City on Russian Supply Route OTHER ROADS TARGETS Japanese Claim Offensives of Foes Broken--None Ever Launched, Is Reply Hengyang Held Objective Ridicules Japanese Claims Mission Reported Bombed
• ACCUSES SOCIETY OF BALKING GENIUS; Dr. Faris Tells Sociologists 'Advanced Learning Outside Its Frameworks' Is Discouraged BAND LEADERS ANALYZED Stanford Men, Discussing Them as Marital and Economic Risks, Say 'True Love Is Jazz'
• CHRISTMAN HAS A RIVAL; Georgia Tech Hopes Bosch Will Match Missourian's Passes
• NBC Bans La Guardia Then Reverses Itself In Hectic Day Over Film Critics' Program; NBC CHANGES MIND ON BANNING MAYOR
• Fight for Baby's Life Fails
• Fire Department
• Books--Authors
• CHEMICAL CONCERNS UNITE; General Aniline & Film Absorbs Agfa Ansco, Subsidiary
• Ickes Warns Democrats Not to Pick Conservative
• Obituary 4 -- No Title
• MISS MADDEN GAINS FINAL; Defeats Miss Bayer, 6-0, 6-0, in Girls' National Tennis
• COMMODITY CASH PRICES
• Two Women Guilty in Gem Case
• Doris Duke Trust Tax Voided
• HOWARD MACKAY, 51, BERGEN COUNTY JUDGE; Member of Common Pleas Court, Ex-Republican Chairman, Dies
• FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Recover Previous Day's Losses and Close Moderately Higher--Volume Holds Up
• SIX TO RETIRE FROM BANK; Served the United States Trust More Than 25 Years
• BRITISH DOUBT SOVIET PLANS EASTERN DRIVE; Story of Troops Along Afghan Border Laid to Germans
• THE ANGLO-SWEDISH PACT
• MENUHIN SOLOIST AT CARNEGIE HALL; An All-Beethoven Program Is Given by the Philharmonic Under John Barbirolli VIOLINIST PLAYS CONCERTO The 'Eroica' Symphony and Overture to 'Egmont' Also Presented by Orchestra
• EDWARD E. BOYNTON; Sales Representative Served the R.E. Dietz Co. 52 Years
• L.& N. BOND ISSUES ON MARKET TODAY; Morgan Stanley Heads Group of 77 Bankers Offering $60,000,000 Securities SUBJECT TO I.C.C. APPROVAL $30,000,000 of 3 s Priced at 101 and $30,000,000 4s Will Be Sold at 100 To Be Deposited With Trustee Other Underwriters Listed
• Lumber Output Off More Than Seasonally; Orders Also Decline but Shipments Advance
• Gets Orders for 35 Omnibuses
• British Lift Ban on Codes For Commercial Cables
• ARMY AID TO FINNS BARRED BY NORWAY; Foreign Minister Says Only Moral and Material Help Will Be Extended NORDIC DIVISION FORMING Restricted to Ski Experts-- 2,000 Italian Volunteers Reported in Finland Volunteers to Be Registered Italians Reported Arriving Swedes Plan Soldiers' School
• GIFTS TO NEEDIEST CUT DOWN DEFICIT; 268 Join Ranks of Donors in 28th Annual Appeal for Aid --$5,661 Is Added FUND STILL BEHIND 1938 $23,837 More Was Available at This Time Last Year to Relieve City's Deserving Charity Commends Work From Other Letters
• Settlement on Bonds Of Colombia Expected
• CURB ON INDUSTRY HELD UNNECESSARY; Big Concerns Do Not Restrain Competition, R.S. Tucker Asserts at Philadelphia TOP CONCERNS SHIFTING He Tells Marketers 60 of 100 Giants of 1909 No Longer Were Big in 1935
• Text of the Pope's Address
• DAFOE TO GIVE UP POST OF GUARDIAN; But Will Continue as Doctor for Dionne Quintuplets-- Sees Premier Today UNITED FAMILY IN VIEW Agreement Signed by Father and Physician Said to Aim at a 'Common Dwelling' Wipes Out Legal Actions
• RECEPTION IS GIVEN FOR PATRICIA GREEN; Nightingale-Bamford Alumna Introduced by Her Aunt, Mrs. Edward Stout
• Amateurs to Box Tonight
• BUILDING PLANS FILED
• SHIP BAN KEPT ON IRELAND; Washington Denies Waiver of Neutrality Act Regulation
• More Parkway Bids Opened
• MARTHA CONN BETROTHED; She Will Be Wed to Edward C. Schroeder, Yale Graduate
• ENGINEERING AWARDS OFF 25% IN THE WEEK; Private Building, However, Shows 24% Gain in Period
• JANE GRAY MARRIED TO LIEUT. J.A. COLLETT; Becomes Bride of Navy Officer in Honolulu Cathedral
• SKIING AVAILABLE IN DISTANT POINTS; Adirondack, Green and White Mountains and Laurentians Offer Good Running NEAR-BY CONDITIONS POOR Departure for Resorts Will Start Today--Thousands to Leave From New York Icy Bases at Most Points A New Ski Center Maine Expects Snow
• BULLION
• UNION CLAIMS VICTORY; Resents Statement It Lost in Ship Working Agreement
• BRITISH IN CANTON IRKED; Business Men Say the Japanese Navy Intrudes on Trade
• PUBLISHERS' WIVES FETED; Mrs. Boettiger Among Guests of New York Newspaper Women
• Pimpinella and Massey Draw
• BANK OF CANADA REPORTS; Weekly Statement Shows Increase in Reserve Ratio
• SHIPPING AND MAILS
• POLICY SHIFT PUTS IMMIGRATION BAN ON BATA SHOE MEN; Only 10 of the 100 Instructors Permitted to Enter Will Be Allowed to Take Jobs CHARGES MADE BY UNIONS Company Employe System Was Under Fire--Senator Tydings an Advocate of Entry
• DIES AIDES REVEAL RED DRIVE ON COAST; Confidential Report Shows $25,000 Fund Was Urged to Defeat Republicans 4,000 NEW MEMBERS ASKED Communists Sought to Add to Rolls in Basic Industries in California
• Police Department
• CAREER ON BENCH ENDS FOR COLLINS; At Age Limit of 70, Jurist Presides at Last Trial Before Retirement GIVES SLAYER 20 YEARS Attaches of General Sessions Present Stick and Umbrella to Him and to Nott
• BROOKLYN COLLEGE RETAINS CHESS LEAD; Defeats Yeshiva and N.Y.U.-- Deciding Match Today
• Bank Adopts Group Program
• Obituary 5 -- No Title
• TODAY ON THE RADIO; OUTSTANDING EVENTS ON ALL STATIONS
• FUTURE CONTRACTS
• RELIEF HEAD SLUGGED IN CLEVELAND SUBURB; Missing Commissioner Returns --Two Men and Woman Held
• REV. JAMES J. M'CANN, A PRIEST 20 YEARS, 47; Pastor of Dalton, N.Y., Church, Ex-Athlete, Dies in Utica
• TOPICS IN WALL STREET; Federal Reserve Statement
• DIVIDENDS VOTED BY CORPORATIONS; Cooper Bessemer Declares 75c a Share on Prior-Preference Stock on Accruals RESUMPTION BY RICE-STIX Dry Goods Company to Pay 50c--Abraham & Straus Lifts Year's Total to $3 Abraham & Straus
• Finns Cut Russian Patrol to Bits In Fierce Battle Amid Arctic Snow; Line in North Is No Man's Land of Forests Where Daylight Lasts 2 Hours and Even the Slightly Wounded Freeze to Death
• THE EARTHQUAKES
• Only 5 on WPA in City Placed by State in Month
• BROTHER AUSTIN JULIAN; A Teacher and Director Many Years in Catholic Schools
• Moratorium for Dutch Concern
• Business World
• EXPORTERS CRITICIZE UNDERWRITERS' STAND; They Ask War-Risk Insurance on Outbound Goods, Too
• SOVIET-JAPAN TALK FAILS; Manchukuo's Debt Believed Bar to New Fishery Treaty
• Day's Gifts to the Neediest
• BONDS GO UPWARD OVER BROAD FRONT; Rally Ensues After Sales for Tax Purposes in the Early Trading on Exchange
• TO STABILIZE ANTHRACITE; Program to Allocate Tonnage Is Set Up, Paper Reports
• Mexican Newspaper Hoax Has German Liner Sunk
• PHONE COMPANY TRIES 'LEAVE WORD SERVICE'; For Stated Fees, Operators Will Intercept Incoming Messages
• HELEN TRAUBEL HONORED; William Matheus Sullivan Gives Reception for Opera Singer
• TRANSFERS IN THE BRONX
• To Aid Student Warriors
• Mary Lee Bows at Reception
• Princeton Overcomes Harward in Hockey Featuare at Lake Placid; TIGER SEXTET WINS ON EARLY DRIVE, 6-3 Stuckey and Wyer Score Two Goals Each as Princeton Turns Back Harvard NORTHWOOD SCHOOL WINS Gilman, Exeter and Nichols Also Triumph at Hockey-- Young Skiers Compete
• CANADIAN SAVINGS RISE; $1,734,837,368 in Chartered Banks at End of November
• GRANGE BUYS IN CARMEL; Group Will Alter Building for Meetings and Recreation
• Mary Maynard Bride-Elect
• Cargo-Passenger Ship Launched
• AMERICAN WOMAN HIT BY JAPANESE SENTRY; U.S. Consul Demands Inquiry Into Shanghai Incident
• Events Today
• BANKING OPTIMISTS DROP; Fewer Report Better Business in December Than November
• Russia Puts Gen. Stern in Charge of Invasion; Reinforced Army to Aid Him Against Finns
• DUTCH EXONERATE BRITISH; Find No Evidence London Plans Espionage From The Hague
• Army Orders and Assignments
• Books Published Today
• RANGERS WILL FACE BRAIN SIX TONIGHT; Undefeated Hockey Strings at Stake in League Game at the Garden
• ARNOLD GIVES VIEW ON RUBBER MERGER; Federal Official Says Plan of U.S. Rubber to Buy Fisk 'May Violate Anti-Trust Laws' STATUS OF DEALERS CITED Stockholders and Labor Also to Be Considered, Letter to Buyer Declares Discontinuance of Factories For Dealer Protection