Circleville Herald (Newspaper) - August 25, 1937, Circleville, Ohio WEATHER Probable showers Wed partly cloudy warmer Thursday THE CIRCLEVILLE HERALD WORLD NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS BY UNITED YEAR NUMBER 202 CIRCLEVILLE OHIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25 1987 GRANTED FOR DISPOSAL PUNT 4 Japan Sends Mighty Force to China SOLDIERS MOVE INTO WAR SCENE ON THREE ROADS Sinking of Two Destroyers Denied By Tokyo Despite Defenders Claims Activities of Vandals Have Police in Dither Mrs Clara Renick Home Damaged by Varnish Thrown on Front of Residence AMERICANS IN DANGER Gauss Urges All to Prepare For Evacuation SHANGHAI Aug 25 UP Japanese troops opening a general offensive stormed in on Shanghai today along three roads north of the city and landed two new armies to the south All day there was fierce hand to hand fighting on five fronts in the of the city and all reports that the Chinese were re 4 sisting stoutly By midafternoon the horizon be yond the metropolitan area was ringed with flames from the vill ages where Japanese troops and Chinese troops were fighting s Reports Conflict Chinese army headquarters as that headquarters saw Chinese artillery sink two Japanese were shelling the Chinese lines in land from Woosung down the river Japanese denied the asser tion Neutral sources were unable to confirm it Foreign military and civil au reported that the Chinese had begun a general retreat from the section of the east end of Shanghai and danger of a rush on the barriers of the inter national settlement increased This did not mean a Chinese de feat but the position was a dan Continued on Page Two FARMERS POCKET IS ROBBED OF BY OUTLAW BAND Pickaway and Fairfield county authorities were on the lookout Wednesday for gypsies who staged a robbery Tuesday evening along the county line road Sheriff William Belhorn Fair field county reported George Fausnaugh residing north of Route 22 was robbed of His pocket was picked The eastern part of Pickaway county was covered by Sheriff Radcliff but no traces of the gypsy band was found Sheriff Radcliff has made num erous appeals to county residents to notify hia office at once if any gypsies are seen OUR WEATHERMAN High Tuesday Low Wednesday 64 Forecast Partly cloudy possibly showers in extreme southeast portion Wed Thursday partly cloudy and warmer followed by showers in west and north portion In after noon or at night Low 74 64 is fifi 62 64 72 f 60 78 RS High Abilene Tex 96 Boston Mass 68 Chicago 111 78 Cleveland Ohio 72 Denver Sf Den Iowa SS Duluth Minn Sfi Los Calif Ala New Orleans La New York N Y Phoenix Ariz Snn Antonio Tex Seattle Wash N Dak Sfi sr fil 100 OS Depredations of vandals believed by police to be several incor boys had Circleville law enforcement officers going around in circles Wednesday A series of minor thefts in recent weeks was climaxed with damage to a Watt street property early this week The latest law violation which has police headed by Chief William puzzled was reported Tuesday at the property of Mrs Clari Benick Watt street Varnish was thrown on the front of the and a causing damage estimated CIRCLEVILLE BAND GOES TO STATE FAIR FINALS The Little German band com prised of Circleville youths will s compete next in the state fairgrounds coliseum for a cash prize in an amateur contest The baud went through an elimination contest Tuesday evening to gain the right to compete Sunday Since the prije winners will be determined by the amount of applause received members of the band urge that all their Circleville followers attend the State Fair Sunday afternoon The hour for the competition yet been of the band are Gay lord Greenlee Glenn Welter Harry Hosier Robert Owens and Dale Ankrom CHURCH TRUSTEES ASK PERMISSION TO SELL BUILDING A petition to sell the Episcopal church property in Whisler was filed in common pleas court Wednesday by the trustees Mrs Louella Reichelderfer Wil liam Fox Edward Allen and John Warren The property included the church and fiftyone and three quarters square rods of land The petition explains the church is no longer used for services and has been abandoned It explains that at the Methodist church con ference In September 1936 authority was granted for the sale of the real estate The last services in the church were held 12 or 13 years ago it was reported while the Rev C L Thomas of East Ringgold was pastor It is a frame building Services in the village are held in the Presbyterian church 0 PINBALL MACHINE TO PROVIDE TEST IN COURT ACTION LANCASTER Aug 25 Seiz ure of a pinball machine by Police Chief Gail Sesler opened the way for a test case on the legality of the outfits Reports were circulated that the machine was planted so it would be seized to provide r test case The machine was the first taken since the pinball ban went into effect in the city last Sunday City and council officials estab the ban after Common Pleas Judge Frank M Acton held the machine involved in a Newark case to be a gambling WAS by the police chief at Just when the damage caused is not certain Mrs Renick has been in Fort Myers Fla for the last three weeks with her son inlaw and daughter Mr and Mrs Carson Horton of Columbus The damage was reported to police by Mrs Arthur Wiegand Watt street a sister of Mrs Renick Started on July 24 The thefts charged to the group started on July 29 officers said when the Stiffler store was en tered The burglar escaped No merchandise was reported stolen vOn Aug 3 police were told 100 pounds of sugar had been taken the Canning Co A week later Mrs Nellie Freese of New York visiting on Franklin reported a gear shift ball and a case containing papers were stolen from her car The home of Dr G W Heffner S Court street was entered the night of Aug 18 and articles valued at taken Greater Loss Prevented Timely arrival of Dr Heffner at his home prevented a greater loss Other household articles had been piled at the rear of the home to be taken in a later visit Police were notified Monday that a candy machine was missing from the plant The scale house at the Ladoga plant was en tered on the same date and scale hooks and weights were missing 0 U AW TO RAISE WAR CHEST FOR FIGHT WITH FORD MILWAUKEE Wis Aug cheering members of the United Automobile Workers Union roared their approval today of a proposal to pool the U A Ws resources for a finish fight with Henry Ford No matter how much money it takes Homer Martin U A W president told the organizations second annual convention I tell you we are going to organize Fords workers because they want to be organized they deserve to be organized and Henry Ford de serves a licking During the coming months we will call on automobile workers throughout the country to pool their resources and pool their strength to gospel of organization and drive out of this country that kind of policy which today predominates in the Ford Motor Co Martin said definite plans for raising a war chest to combat Ford will be laid before the con vention this week No details were given The resolutions committee now has under consideration a pro posed a month per mem ber special assessment in order that the U A W A will be able to sign an agreement with the Ford Motor Co by the first of the year FD TO CONTINUE HIS FIGHT FOR JUDICIARY The Scene Developments today in the war drive in on Shanghai in three columns from north of city and land two new armies to south Chinese claim sinking of two Japanese destroyers by artillery fire begin general offensive on all northern fronts advance south of Kalgan restating strongly In mountain pass prisoners freed from prison outside north gate join in Japanese recapture In battle south of Tientsin decrees death penalty for cowardice treachery and other war crimes President Signs Act to Reform Lower Courts But Hits Measure MOVE I N DIRECTION Compromise Becomes Law After Long Debate WASHINGTON Aug UP Roosevelt placed a re stamp of approval on the lower court reorganization to day but emphasized that it did not fulfill his ideas on judicial He indicated he would con to fight for his supreme court objective As a climax to six months of bit ter controversy over his original judiciary reorganization proposals Mr Roosevelt signed the lower court procedural reform last night and announced the action this morning Statement Issued The announcement was accom by a emphasizing that the chief execu tive felt that the measure which was dictated by opponents of the original plan did not satisfy the Judicial needs of a great and growing nation The president renewed his cism of the conservative element of the supreme court on which he based his original demands for the right to appoint six justices But he added the lower court moves in the general direction of reform and I am therefore giving it my approval Mr original judiciary reorganization program was based chiefly on a request for power to appoint to the high tribunal young and literal justices to supplant thobe over 70 who failed to x or retire News Flashes RAIL SHARES WEAK NEW YORK Aug in railroad shares unsettled the stock market to day after early firmness A de cline in earnings for the roads during July brought selling in moderate volume Lack of de mand resulted in sizeable de clines Atchison and Southern Pacific were down more than a point and other rails lost frac tions to a point Thousands Evacuating Santander WITH NATIONALIST ARMY OUTSIDE SANTANDER Aug 25 UP Thousands of terrified civilians and Loyalist soldiers at tempted to flee Santander today as 60000 men of the Nationalist northern army converged on the city from three sides hoping to take it within 24 hours Their escape from Santander last Loyalist port on the Bay of Biscay appeared to have been blocked because the city was sur rounded on all sides The only ave nue of escape was the sea where Nationalist craft including fishing boats equipped with machine guns were rushing to establish a com plete blockade Sailboats rowboats and even rafts were being utilized The Nationalist radio station at Bilbao reported that the city had offered to surrender and that the civil governor Jose Alvarez had resigned and fled Whether Santander will surren der or will attempt a desperate last stand will be known within a few hours The nearest of three main insur gent columns awaited orders to advance from the village of Bar reda 10 miles from first houses The column composed fed olives because they wear red berets and blue overalls had com occupation of Torrelavega and marched on to Barreda thus completely cutting roads from Santander province into province MATTERN UNABLE TO FIND MISSING SOVIET AVIATORS TRIAL COURSE CHANGED CINCINNATI Aug Prosecutor Simon Leis today presented a motion to withdraw his earlier request that Mrs Anna Marie Hahn 33 be tried first on an indictment charging the teutonic blonde with the murder of George Gsell man 67 0 ELECTRIFICATION CHIEF HITS HIGH RATE FOR LIGHTS WASHINGTON Aug electric rates being charged Rural coj operatives in Ohio by private er companies are threatening success of the REA program John M C a r m o d y administrator charged today If rural electrification in Ohio is to continue on a satisfactory basis wholesale rates for power must be modified or more econ power sources must be ob Carmody said Not a single rate offerer thus far by the Ohio Power companies would be comparable to the aver age rates at normal usage being charged or offered cooperatives by utilities In Illinois and Indiana he FAIRBANKS Alaska Aug Mattern paused here today after a flight from Point Barrow that brought no trace of the six Russian aviators missing 12 days on a flight from Moscow Mattern flew northeasterly from Point Barrow to the meri dian north to the parallel and several hundred miles over the Arctic ocean Bob Randall Canadian aviator and several Russian fliers at Point Barrow were grounded by weather when Mattern left The Soviet Ice breaker Krassin was sighted from Point Barrow yesterday as it sped to join the searching parties GOODYEAR VOTES TO USE C I 0 AS BARGAINING AID AKRON Aug United Rubber Workers of Amer ica won the right to be aole col bargaining agent of Good year Tire Rubber Co employes in a national labor relations board election Tuesday the ballot count showed today The official tabulation was For the Against the Of the total number of ballots cast in the election 31 were challenged and 14 ruled void The is affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organi and the election was regard ed one of the greatest tests of la bor union strength in the boards history A similar election will be held among 12000 B F Goodrich Co employes Thursday 0 NOT A CANDIDATE COLUMBUS Aug Gov Martin L Davey told report ers yesterday that he is not a candidate for president The gov ernor refused to elaborate on his remark The question was raised when the governor was asked for comment on the laudatory re marks made about him by U S Senator Rush Holt of West Vir ginia In a speech at Akron re Dictator Near Death P W A ANNOUNCES HUGE EXPENDITURE are expressed for the life of Admiral Nicholas de Horthy regent and dictator of Hungary who waa reported in a grave condition in Budapest following an attack of influenza aggravated by heart trouble Horthy was comman der of AustroHungarian fleet in the World war and made regent in 1920 NUMBER RACKET PRINCE KILLED AS PROBE NEARS WHEELING W Va Aug pistol slugs fired by a twogun assassin in the shadows of dawn today riddled Mike Rus sell Wheeling numbers racket prince who threatened to tell all next week in federal court As he stepped from an auto mobile in front of his apartment house Russell was knocked down and the shots pumped into his body His pretty young wife Elsa brought to the apart ment window by sound of the shots saw her welldressed hus band die in the gutter below Mrs Russell collapsed and was unable to tell police what she saw and heard A neighbor however told investigators that a short stocky man ran down the street after the killing Russell and three other men including George W Oldham chairman of the tax committee of West house of delegates were to have gone on trial Monday on charges of income tax evasion Oldham was involved because he allegedly prepared tax statements for the other three which the gov charged were inaccurate 0 PWA APPROVES PROJECT AT STATES INSTITUTION Federal Money to Be Added to Voted By Circleville RIVER SITE IS Marion Engineer Drawing Plans For Project Construction of Circle villes sewage disposal plant on the Scioto river was as sured Wednesday when the Public Works announced an allotment of as the governments share of the expense of the huge project Circleville vot ers have already approved a bond issue to fi nance the citys share of the cost At the same time the Cir cleville grant was disclosed P W A officials announced a expenditure of In government money for other proj ects Improvements costing nearly will be started as a result of the action The allotments provide tor Aug 25 Public Works administration grant of for an addition to the Ohio state feeble minded hos pital at Orient Pickaway county has been approved by President Roosevelt Sen Robert J Bulkley of Ohio was notified today of for construction of schools waterworks sewage sys tems and other projects estimated cost a total of The difference between the PWA al lotment and the total cost of con struction will be borne by local Notice Quoted The official notice of the Circle ville grant read for construction and improvements to the sewerage system consisting of sewers and sewage treatment plant including j the acquisition of necessary land therefore estimated to cost 363 The untreated sewage which is now discharged into the river causes pollution of the river and during periods of low water huge masses of matter pile up on bed and banks of the river creating a considerable stench Council has not yet obtained the site for the plant although prop erty of the Container Corporation of America in the rear of its plants has been agreed on The company has expressed its willingness to provide the necessary land Engineer Draws Plans Floyd G Browne of Marion en gaged by council as its disposal plant engineer is busy now draw ing up plans for the structure The city has been asked by the Con tainer Corporation to consider treating its waste and Brownes plans are expected to include the necessary details Council is faced with many problems before the disposal plant will be an actuality The system of charging for sewerage treat ment service necessary steps to pump refuse to the Sci oto river plant and many other angles must be decided before con struction is started However the governments grant places the problem directly on the shoulders of the citys gov erning body Island Officials Escape As Bahama Natives Riot MAYARI Oriente Province Cuba Aug least one person was killed 15 others were forced to flee and several including the commissioners residence and the radio station were destroyed by fire in a violent uprising on Great Inagua island In the Bahama It was revealed today The 15 refugees including five Americans and nine Negro British West Indians were detained here CHINESE CONVICTS IN FIGHT AGAINST Aug Thousands of main Peiping prison Jas side the northern soldiers In plain in an attack OB Ing was reported ow large area northwest aad of the sector by army authorities after they had been picked up at the small port of They had been forced to flee from Great Ingua island in a small motor launch on Aug 20 after rioting had broken out the day before They had drifted helplessly on the open sea since The steamer Priscilla which the Bahamas government sent to on tha Island after meager details of the uprising had been received was to arrive there today with police officials and other authorities Refugees Listed Americans among the refugees here were Phillip A Smith Portland Me a bookkeeper Char les E Kaddy 24 Fort Worth Tex construction engineer Allan Q Mowatt 24 Swampscott Maw on Faw Twol lite plain clothes men the prison from the outside night By agreement and at same time the prisoners ed inside Most of fee the prison escaped after arms from the prison There they Joined the clothes men in on Japanese troops lines of communication FILLING STATION OPERATOR SLATS INDIANA ROBBER RUSSELLS POINT O UP After being robbed H M Hord 40 a tion operator here shot to negro Identified as Joe of Fort Wayne Ind early Hord says he waa called to door of his at by a stranger fee next door and the up Mrs Hord appeared and tha gro threatened her with Hord escaped and obtained gun in the kitchen Hord leased after questioning by Police at near today questioned Cott white alias Robert J derson who told them he the negro from Fort Wayne la automobile yesterday Cott told officers he with Williams last night Huntsville which is four from the Hord home and put Wtt Hams out of hia car No charges were placed Cott JURORS ARGUING FATE OF KILLER OF THREE GIRLS LOS ANGELES Aug jury today argued the of Albert Dyer WPA worker who is charged with murdering three little girls and their bodies It was one of the most atrocious sex crimes In years and Superior Judge Thomas P White cautioned the jurors against being prejudiced by the enormity of the offense You must not suffer yourselves to be led to convict the defendant for fear that a crime may go un avenged or for the purpose of de terring others from the commis sion of a like offense so long as you have a reasonable doubt of his guilt the judge said After seven hours deliberation the jurors had not reached a diet and at p m they re tired A half hour earlier they asked a bailiff to bring them map of the scene of the A lonely gully in the hills was the only request they made Deliberation were resumed at a m today There were seven men and women on the Jury 0 SANDUSKY OPENS DRIVE AGAINST ALL GAMBLING COLUMBUS Aug 25 OTf Sheriff Jacob E Sandusky day ordered a drive gainst and vice and strict ment of laws governing beer in Franklin county of Off 0 To Return SAN ANTONIO Tsx UP body of 34 former Ohio ball player who was army crash will returned Is M
