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S. LEADERS MAKE CONSTITUTION WORKABLE, F. D. R. SAYS IN BROADCAST Anniversary Speech Given at White House; Roosevelt Cancels Trip Because of Conditions in Europe WASHINGTONday that America's have sought to the face of new the time of its President Roosevelt declared togreatest leaders have been those who make the U.

S. constitution workable in problems and changing conditions from adoption to the present day. Mr. Roosevelt's statement was made in an address delivered on the occasion of a celebration at Poughkeepsie, N. commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first state constitutional convention in the United States.

The president had planned to deliver his message in person to the celebration at Poughkeepsie. Because of the critical situation abroad he remained in Washington and broadcast his address, speaking from the oval room of the White House. His speech was confined to discussion of constitutional problems and his only reference to troubled 0. R. Crawford Dies at Keene Oliver Ramsey Crawford, clerk of Keene township for a number of years, died late yesterday at his home in Keene after a twoweek illness of influenza.

He was 69. Mr. Crawford was a well-known resident of the Keene community, having served on the township school board for a nine-year period. He was township clerk at the time of his death, a position he had held many years. He was also active in church affairs, being an elder of the Keene Presbyterian church since 1893.

Born in Pittsburgh on Oct. 15, 1868, Mr. Crawford had spent most of his life in Coshocton county as a farmer. He was a graduate of Wooster university, having received his degree from that institution in 1892. On Sept.

9, 1896, he was united in marriage with Grace Elliott, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Charles Edwin and Robert J. Crawford, both of Cleveland; two daughters, Mrs. William D. Hall of Evanston, and Mrs.

George A. Martin of Salem, and one brother, Robert, of Newark. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p. m. in Keene Presbyterian church.

The Rev. Malcolm Koehler will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. CHICKENS STOLEN C. M.

Hamilton, who lives two miles north of Keene on Route 76, reported to Sheriff Jay Abbott this morning that about 40 chickens were stolen from his henhouse during the night. Sheriff Abbott was investigating the theft today. conditions abroad was a statement that: "It is with deep, personal disappointment that find the affairs of the world such that I cannot be with my nighbors in Poughkeepsie today." Mr. Roosevelt drew a parallel between conditions at the time of adoption of the constitution and conditions today. "It is well for us to remember," the president said, "that a very large minority of the inhabitants of the original 13 states were opposed to the adoption of the constitution.

"They were opposed to a real union because they believed those leaders who viewed with alarm any effort to think and act in national terms instead of state and local terms. "And, believe me, the viewers with alarm, the patrons of ghosts and hobygoblins in those days had little to learn from the professional mongers of 1938." Mr. Roosevelt noted that supporters of the constitutionWashington, Adams, Hamilton and Clinton--were "labeled traitors and dictators." "Then, as now," he said, 'there were men and women afraid of the future- distrustful of their (Continued on Page Three) Speakers Engaged For Conservation Council's Meeting P. K. Troutman, divisional engineer of the state highway department, with headquarters at Newark, and Bernard B.

Moore, NYA official of New Philadelphia, will be principal speakers here Monday evening when the county conservation council meets in the public library. The meeting will be devoted to that phase of conservation that is cooperative with the state highway department and the NYA in such projects as roadside beautification with parks similar to that at Mohawk dam, Ross K. Lawrence, official of the council, announced. At the same time Mr. Lawrence said that a committee will be named at the meeting to meet with the state conservation council at Columbus, Sept.

27, urging conservation and sportsmen's groups which have a problem to place before the state body to bring it to attention of the committee before that date. European Cannon Fodder? Youthful soldiers of Europe's armed camps, to whom the 1914- 1918 "war to end wars" is a blurred childhood memory or a classroom history lesson, are drilled daily in the arts of war as Europe teeters on the brink of another catastrophe. Typical of these lighthearted, youthful recruits are pictured here. Top, left to right, soldiers of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Russia; lower, France, Britain and Italy. THE WEATHER OHIO probably showers late tonight and Sunday.

Slightly warmer in north portion tonight. Cooler Sunday afternoon and night, Chinese Name New Ambassador to U.S. CHUNGKING, foreign office today announced appointment of Dr. Hu Shih, internationally known educator, to be Chinese ambassador to Washington, succeeding Dr. C.

T. Wang, who has resigned. The foreign office spokesman said that Dr. Hu now is in Geneva attending the assembly of the League of Nations. Four Men Answer to Indictments Court Puts Two on Probation; One Sent to Lima Four more men were arraigned in common pleas court late yesterday afternoon on indictments from the grand jury one for concealing stolen property, one for non-support, one for assault and battery and the fourth for petit larceny.

Sam Welch, Coshocton, was indicted and arraigned on a charge of concealing stolen property and entered a plea of guilty. Common Pleas Judge J. C. Daugherty suspended imposition of sentence and placed Welch on probation for five years. The charge grew out of the theft of a dog in Pennsylvania several weeks ago.

Welch had been promised immunity from further prosecution on the charge after he aided state conservation officials in their work of breaking up a ring of dog thieves but was later arrested on a secret indictment from the grand jury. Prosecutor C. M. Patterson told the court that he had been misinformed of the circumstances in the case by the state conservation department and stated that he had no objection to probation being extended. E.

S. (Bill) Williams, auto body shop proprietor and Welch's employer, also interceded for who paid costs of prosecution and was dismissed. Joe Doyle, Pleasant Valley, was arraigned on a charge of petit larceny involving the theft of iron from the Clow Co. last summer and pleaded guilty. Sheriff Jay Abbott and County Recorder Harold Wilcoxon interceded for Doyle and Judge Daugherty ordered him to pay Weisblat Brothers $3.12, the price paid for the scrap, and to pay the costs of prosecution within 60 days and placed him on probation for two years.

Charles Elliott, Bethlehem township, was arraigned on an assault and battery indictment, the charge being filed by his wife, and his case was continued after he entered a guilty plea. Beryl Clark, Elm pleaded guilty to a charge of non-support. Judge Daugherty continued this case also, but this morning committed Clark to Lima state hospital for 30 days' observation. Two Injured When Auto Strikes Pole Robert Carton, local attorney, and a man said by police to be Charles E. Cayton, 1009 Main sustained face lacerations when an automobile ran into a utility pole near the Carnation milk plant on South Sixth st.

at 11:30 Friday night. Tecording to Sheriff Jay Abbott, who investigated the accident, the car, driven by Mr. Carton, first sideswiped an automobile driven by Howard Erman, Route 2, and then glanced off against the pole. Mr. Erman was going south and Mr.

Carton coming north, toward Coshocton. The car could not be moved for some time, because an energized line was dangerously close to it and the wrecker crew was unable to couple to the machine until the line was cleared. Four-Day Strike of Students Concluded CINCINNATI, four-day strike of more than 500 students of suburban St. Bernard public schools ended today, with a onemonth "truce" in effect. The agreement was negotiated by a group of parents of pupils, headed by Mrs.

Sherman Heminger, president of the ParentTeacher Association. Mrs. Heminger said the truce "will give the state department of education an opportunity to reorganize our schools." The student walkout began because of the demotion of two athletic coaches to other faculty positions, but sympathetic parents had demanded removal of William E. Melvin as superintendent. He is under contract.

The board of education agreed to reinstate the coaches and to return to the junior high school plan. HITLER'S DEMANDS UNCHANGED BY MEETING WITH CHAMBERLAIN Henlein With His German Protectors Fuehrer Insists on Cession of Sudeten Region to Germany Czechs' Action Dissolving Sudeten Party Brings Crisis Nearer To Breaking Point By WEBB MILLER (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Symbolic of the protection he finds among German friends is this picture of Konrad Henlein, leader of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten Germans. Henlein fled to Germany when the Czech government ordered his arrest on charges of treason. In the picture, taken at the recent Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, left to right, are Governor Wagner of Munich, Henlein, Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader, and Julius Streicher, governor of Franconia. Washington War Concern Written on Their Faces The grave countenances of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, pictured as they met in Washington on the President's return from Rochester, indicate the seriousness with which they view the European war crisis.

Hull is shown greeting his chief on rear platform of the presidential train. Mounting fears of war in Europe caused the President to hurry 1 to Washington from the bedside of his son James in Rochester, Tompson Swigert, Former Art Works Employe, Stricken Tompson Swigert, former employe of the American Art Works, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ernest Rager, from a stroke following an illness of four weeks. He was 79 years old. Mr.

Swigert was born Nov. 3, 1858, at Fresno. He married Anna Roberts on March 13, 1884, and for the greater part of his life lived in Roscoe and Tyndal. He had worked at the Art Works for a 15-year period, having terminated his employment there three years ago. He is survived by his wife, the daughter, Mrs.

Rager; a son, Verne Swigert; two sisters, Mrs. Ida Rose, Orchard and Mrs. Angie Mayer of Columbus, 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Two brothers, George and Lee Swigert, and a sister, Mrs. Cassie Phillips, preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the daughter's home, 815 South Seventh st. The Rev. J. O.

White will officiate. Burial will be in South Lawn cemetery. SEEKS TO SELL LAND Permission to sell 100 acres of land in Bethlehem township is asked in a petition filed in probate court today by W. R. Willis, executor of the will of Samuel Stairheim, against Lillie M.

Stairheim and six other defendants. Those named defendants are all heirs-at-law of Mr. Stairheim. The land is part of the Stairheim estate, and is to be sold pursuant to terms of the will. BERLIN-Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden Thursday presented Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain with an uncompromising demand for cession of the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia to Germany in terms almost tantamount to an ultimatum.

He did not set a time limit. But he insisted with the greatest determination that Germany could not tolerate much longer the "continuous Czech attacks on Sudeten Germans." This, I learned today, was the unexpected development which sent Chamberlain scurrying back to London after only a little more than one hour of effective talk, altho he had planned to remain longer. Hitler in effect put it up to Great Britain and France to force the Czechoslovak government to agree to what would amount to dismemberment. In other words, Hitler placed Britain and France in a position where they either would have to "sell the Czechs down the river" or face the imminent possibility that Germany would take military action with its connotations of the danger of war. When Chamberlain asked Hitler to define the "self determination" which he had mentioned, the fuehrer left no doubt that he meant cession of Sudetenland to his Nazi reich.

BIG ALLOCATION FOR WPA SEWING ROOMS APPROVED, IS WORD A telegram from Congressman William A. Ashbrook to The Tribune this morning stated that he had been informed by WPA that the president has approved an allocation of $50,745 for the continuance of the sewing project in Coshocton county. About 67 women are employed on the project at the present time. Marie Rose, in charge of the work here, said this morning that she had not been notified of the allocation and was not allowed to make any statement for, publication as to the use of the money. Four Suspects Held In Loan Firm Holdup MT VERNON, Four persons -two men and two womenwere held today by police as suspects in connection with the robbery of the Economy Loan Co.

here Friday, in which $620 was taken. Police Chief Lorell McDonald, acting on a tip, raided an apartment here and took into custody two Hamilton, O. women and Hamilton man. Another man was captured by Columbus police and returned here. No charges have been filed against the four.

Edward A. Derbaum, assistant manager of the loan firm, was held up by an armed man. SICK LIST SICK LIST J. I. Schumaker is seriously ill, suffering from pneumonia his home on West Lafayette Route 1.

Flashes on War Threat LONDON- -The Times, regarded as the leading voice of the more conservative element in the government, hinted cautiously today that the best thing to do in the Czechoslovak crisis was to accept Germany's terms. PARIS- -France moved directly: into the British negotiations over the Czech crisis today when Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet decided to fly to London to confer with the British cabinet chiefs. Elinor F. Porteus Dies at Age of 18 From Peritonitis An illness from peritonitis following an operation at Coshocton City hospital Thursday caused the death of Elinor Farra Porteus, 18, West Lafayette Route 1, at 11 p. m.

Friday. Miss Porteus was the daughter of Walter and Beulah Porteus and was born at the West Lafayette Route 1 home July 6, 1920. She was an honor student in the West Lafayette high school graduating class of 1938 and last year won first place in county-wide competition in second-year French. She was a member of the high school scholarship team and had taken a college preparatory course for a major in home economics. Besides her parents she is survived by four brothers, Robert W.

Porteus of Maryland, and Wayne, Henry and Walter all of the home, and three sisters, Neva, Beulah and Glenna, also of the home. Funeral services will be held at the West Lafayette M. P. church, of which she was a member, at 2 p. m.

Monday, in charge of Rev. Olyn F. Hull. Burial will be in Fairfield cemetery. MARRIAGE LICENSES Raymond R.

Johnson, 24, Coshocton laborer, and Dorothy L. Dunn, 21, Coshocton. NAMED EXECUTOR T. H. Wheeler, Coshocton, was appointed executor of the estate of the late Sarah E.

Chamberlain by Probate Judge Clyde Burklew today. LONDON- -British leaders are trying urgently to draft a compromise plan in the Czechoslovak crisis in hope that Adolf Hitler may accept it in a second conference with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it was understood today as the cabinet met. BERLIN Great Britain must not only accept Adolf Hitler's terms in the Czechoslovak minority crisis but must accept them soon, it was reported today in political quarters. Well informed sources said that the center of gravity, diplomatically, had shifted to London and that Hitler planned no move before he heard from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. LONDON Czechoslovakia would fight rather than accept a plebiscite, Viscount Runciman was understood to have told the cabinet today.

WASHINGTON President Roosevelt today cancelled plans for a trip to Chattanooga, Sept. 20 where he was scheduled to deliver an address in connection with the Battle of Lookout Mountain anniversary celebration. The tense foreign situation was given as the reason for the cancellation. Bedford Tp. Native Killed in California Word was received here today of the tragic death of Richard J.

Farquhar California fruit grower and a native of Bedford township, which occurred near his home in Crafton, Aug. 30. Mr. Farquhar was fatally injured when a traction car crashed into his automobile at a crossing near his citrus fruit grove, according to word received by friends in Warsaw. Mr.

Farquhar was 73 years old. He had engaged in fruit farming in the far west for the past 50 years. Hitler emphasized his desire for a peaceful solution but did not conceal that Germany might feel impelled to act unless there was a solution shortly. Chamberlain's arrangement to meet Hitler probably Tuesday at Godesberg, near Bonn o11 the Rhine, froze the crisis for a few days. But actually it was even more acute than before the Berchtesgaden meeting.

The Czechoslovak government's order for dissolution of the Sudeten German party certainly brot the crisis nearer the breaking point so far as Hitler was concerned. A German writer, reputed to be one of the best informed in Berlin, told me today: "Even without waiting for the next meeting between Hitler and Chamberlain we might be forced to take strong action, if, for instance 100 Sudetens were killed today or tomorrow." The question of eventual peace seemed to hinge on whether France, in order to remove danger of a war in which she might be involved, would feel herself impelled to make a supreme effort to force the Czechs to meet Hitler's demands and even more important whether she could browbeat the Czechs into further concessions which would mean the virtual dismemberment of the Czech nation. So far there was every indication that the Czechs would fight before they agreed to cede Sudetenland. There seemed just a bare possibility that France, if insistently pressed by Chamberlain to go to extreme limits to avoid the catastrophe of a general war, might indicate to the Czechs that they would have to yield. The situation today looked darker than at any time since Hitler made his speech at Nuremberg Monday.

Certainly the atmosphere is more ominous than at any time during the present crisis. Embassy staffs remain on duty late and return early. On the roads one can see Sudetens, who have fled from Czechoslovakia, with their cars loaded with possessions. Units of the army march along the great new highway to the border. Tank trucks in convoys carry airplane gasoline.

LICENSES ON SALE Drivers' and chauffeurs' licenses for 1939, nearly a week late, arrived in Coshocton county today and are on sale at the offices of the various deputy registrars. The licenses were supposed to have arrived here Thursday but were delayed. All drivers must (have licenses by Oct. 1..