Lancaster Gazette, The (Newspaper) - February 4, 1936, Lancaster, Ohio WEATHER i Partly cloudy and much colder tonight Wednesday fair colder OHIO FULL LEASED PRESS AND N E A FEATURE SERVICE Lancaster Comet First The Gazette Is Owned By Lancaster People ESTABLISHED 1826 NO 257 LANCASTER OHIO TUESDAY FEB PRICE TWO CENTS Virtual Secession Seen In Vote Of Miners Delegates REBEL Impassioned Appeal For Unity Wins Only Three Votes Highway Patrol Inspects 800 Cars In Checking Traffic On Route 31 3 a Ten Arrested In Check Of 500 Autos In City Continued cases Congrove shooting to Kill to Jan 1937 Lancaster Man Topt List In Bar Examination F CONTINUE PAROLE CASE OF CONGROVE WASHINGTON Feb 4 bitter controversy COLUMBUS o Feb 4 over autonomy broke out in parole board today granted the United Mine Workers paroles to 57 Inmates of the London Convention today prison farm ing to lead to fist fights un- til aggressive President John L Lewis swung the delegates into line The delegates who yesterday shouted their provaL of Lewis campaign for industrial type unions even at the price of a split in American Federation of bor ranks returned this morning hotly contested issues caused controversy in their own ranks The bitterest fight centers around whether tain union districts shall bi i granted autonomy i Ranks SpUt The ranks of organized America J Labor split today to follow two i leaders on separate course toward unionization of workers In mass production industries i In a effort to stamp out a threatened rebellion of United Mine workers was decisively defeated He retired from the field leaving Lewis in t complete command of the Mine Union Convention that J Green made one of the most for unity In his j long labor career After almost two hours he collapsed in his chair f his efforts obviously in vain Only Three Far Green Only three of the delegates rose to signify their support of Green They were hissed amid cries of sit Lewis his Jaws firmly set and his piercing eyes surveying crowded Constitution Hall then called for a vote of confidence in his industrial unionism policies CHARGES FILED IN TAVERN An affray afc the Pine Tavern B I S Road last evening today re- in the arrest of Clarence Piper 25 and Mrs Icie Piper 18 of 225 W Main St by Deputy Sher- iff Dudley Crider and charges be- ing preferred in Justice John er's court against two youths in the local CCC camp according to Sher- iff Win J Belhorn Intoxication charges were red against the local couple and so an assault and battery charge against Mr Piper by Perry Ruble employee of the Tavern who ed he had been struck on the head with a blackjack according to the officers The CCC youths were not brought to Jail today because of the scarlet fever quarantine at the camp COLUMBUS Ov son Peabody Rose Cleveland a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Universities today led the list of those who passed the recent state bar examinations His grade was 92.9 per cent Nelson Rose is the son of Mr and Mrs Henry Nelson Rose of 219 Mulberry Hill Lancaster and the brother of Atty Horace Chapman Rose who was tied for second est grade in the state bar tions of three years ago The second highest grade was received by John Stark Bellamy Cleveland who received 89.1 per cent Bellamy is the son of a Cleveland editor Of the 161 who took the examinations but 84 were 47.5 per cent having failed to obtain the necessary 75 per cent The successful applicants will be sworn in by Carl V Weygandt chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court at Columbus on Feb 7 at Cleveland Feb 8 and at Cincinnati Feb 10 Among those passing the ation was Mrs Metcalf rietta wife of State Senator V E Metcalf who also is an attorney Eight officers of the State Highway patrol in charge of Sgt D D Stark Columbus completed an extensive fic check on state route No 31 south of the Hocking er bridge in Lancaster last evening The patrolmen worked from 4 until 11 p m stopping and checking every vehicle that passed a total of approximately eight dred cars both passenger and commercial Three dred of the cars were of the latter type Ten arrests were made Col Lynn Black head of the state patrol and his assistant itz were also on the scene of day night's check up which ing to Col Black was staged in re- sponse to numerous complaints from this vicinity of the growing menace on Route No 31 Check We checked them for said Sgt Stark per faulty all tracks lor the er's and to see whether or not they were in proper operating condition and safety was in order Drivers arrested were ordered to report to the court of Mayor Chas E Moyer or the local Justice of the Mace today Working with the Lancaster lice department the patrolmen quick ly checked license plates for trans- fers and other data by broadcast- tag for necessary Information from SEES GRANGE GROWTH S Census Showed At Of July WASHINGTON Feb 4 Bureau of Census today estimated the population of the United States as of July 1 1935 at A gain of or nearly 4 per cent over that shown by the 1930 census The bureau reported sharp slump in the growth of the tion between April l 1930 and July 1 with the annual average Increase falling to or little more than half the age annual gain in the dec- ade The bureau estimated that If the Increase over the past years were continued to 1940 the census at that time would snow population of With the selection of Columbus for the Ohio convention city by the National Grange deputy master A B Smith for the Ohio State Grange in County anticipates that this meeting will do much toward solidifying gains already made in Orange membership BOY'S LEG BROKEN the Lancaster police radio station to the patrol station in Columbus Sixteen or more broadcasts were the evening each con- a list of license numbers for checking While checking one truck the of- recovered soine lanterns which had allegedly been stolen from the state highway department In some other part of the state Correction of faulty lights the officers totaled one fifty in addition to a total of one hundred other corrections such as defective brakes horns and dirty license plates Charges on which the ten ists were arrested included use of fictitious license plates taking terns from the highway department misuse of dealers license plates and faulty lights The offenders were about equally divided as operators of commercial and passenger cars Improvement Shown Col Black stated that the check indicated the present conditions on Route No 31 were showing erable improvement over the tion of two months ago and that the expected to con its check on this route until satisfactory results had been HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS Banner Friend WM admitted to Lancaster Hospital for an operation today rear M s Broad st admitted Monday for an Mrs DOta for treatment FWd Wilton E Birth ad- for treatment and W Bit men R F were today for Ford Wilson 728 E Sixth Ave student at the North school is in the city hospital being treated for a broken right leg suffered while play ing basketball yesterday His let is broken at the ankle TWIN INJURIES IN FAMILY FREMONT O 4 weeks after her daughter fell on ice and injured her right leg just be- low the hip Mrs Sarah Lindsay 80 was injured in a similar fall And her injuries were the right lev just below the hip WORKER SETS EXAMPLE SALEM Ore Feb 4 Jones of Independence Ore who with a family of 13 and ed refuses to seek relief walked 15 to a market in Salem toe 100 pounds of camu on his ON ROADS Feb 4 of tht TOUR DVB la me according to Iowa safety are the the drunken driver the speedster and Urn fellow without CANARIES IN SLAIN RICHARD CELL PROVE THAT STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON NOR IRON BARS A CAGE Potato Tobacco And Cotton Control Acts Repealed In Senate A prison prince whose wealth made mockery of the penitentiary rules that is of Richard Loeb thrill murderer of Bobby Franks painted in the investigation of his death at the hands of James Day a fellow prisoner in the Statesville Penitentiary in Illinois The two cages of canaries so conspicuous in the above picture add a cosiness to the cell occupied A desk and small library also catered to hie comfort Carroll High Radio Station Pupils Built And Operate On Air Soon f t Granted Short Wave License Await Letters With the completion of a casting studio made solely by the students of Carroll School's Physical Science Club under the supervision of H A Johnson or of science a new field of ing is now reaching the departments of English public speaking ics and music Each day from to o'clock students gain practical ex- behind the microphone while another group is gaining experience in the control room Supt Young reports that in- terest competition and efficiency has increased surprisingly among the students of Carroll Schools since this training has been in the Ing Granted License Before a student gets on the air his work is closely censored and many times is asked to prepare and practice until -a high standard of ef is reached So far the broadcasting is in scope to the amplifying tem within the schoolhouse but plication for to broadcast short already been made and approved The school is now waiting to receive its call letters Supt Young expects that all will have been completed within month and regular short wave broadcasts by the pupils will then be a daily event Quick Action Is Result Of President's Plea For Repealer ACTS NULLED ROCKBRIDGE SCHOOLS TO STAY CLOSED Five cases of scarlet fever in Rock bridge have caused an order from Dh W B Lacock Hocking county health commissioner to discontinue school operation there for at least another week Latest sufferers from the disease are Jack and Phyllis Kraft children of Mr and Mrs John Craft State Department Steps In Ends Washington C H Students Strike DAUGHTER OF SLAIN EDITOR PUT ON STAND Girl Tells Of Witnessing The der Of Her Father Director Of Education Takes Personal PUPILS RETURN Superintendent Is Asked To Stay Away Till Solution Found C: H 0 Feb 4 de- of education took control of Washington High School today ending a one- day walkout of most of the 500 students The strikers had de- manded that Superintendent A D St Clair resign or dis- prove certain allegations concerning himself A ing of the board of tion failed to iron out the matter An appeal was taken to Dr E L Bowsher state education director and he took personal charge here L W Reese state jor of public high schools him here and assumed tive administration of the school GRATE JOKE Feb 4 Shop Is Closed Stock Sold Taylor Buys Out Stock As Clothing Store Quits Business Men's Shop for teen years In the same location at 154 W Main street today closed its doors quitting business Chester M owner of the store sold the entire stock to O L Taylor cal merchandise broker For a number of years Albert Mills present deputy state fire shall in this district was associated with Mr in the tion of this business during this time the store was known as the and Mills Men's The store sponsored one of most outstanding professional basketball teams white It was ated by Mr and Mr Mr today to his plans for tlw The stock of tin store Is now mt motet to Mr Taylor's Mart at the earner and wm be sola Asked To Stay Away The entire board of education Dr Bowsher Reese ani other officials were on the chapel platform today when school opened An announcement that Dr Bowsher and Reese were in charge and that St Clair had been asked to stay away It was ted that the board would hold a- nother meeting today in an effort to work out solution of authorities was an emergency measure The determined students meeting last night and decided to continue their by picket lines should anyone attempt to at- tend school they had achieved removal of St Clair Quickly Retain All of the 900 were not present when school opened today But word quickly spread of the new developments and within an hour and a half most of the students were back in classes Wortey Shopshear spokesman for the students and captain of the high school football team last fall de- nied that reports that Principal D B Ireland had been forced to re- sign had to do with the walkout Mr Ireland IK entirely out of this said We want Mr St to resign or of- fer proof that rumors about are false Grave Digger John Vogelsang a standard joke While working on one grave he liked to say Well think Til the next one for myself said Vogelsang to a friend watching him dig I think the next myself Suddenly he toppled over J in the partly dug grave A heart attack had killed him been friction between himself and Ireland who had been absent from school for several days because of illness Ireland also said that his illness had been his only reason for staying away from school and ed students to return to classes Striking students declined to re- veal the nature of the rumors con- Superintendent St Clair County Receives Tax Fund Local Government To Get 025 And Relief St saM rumors him fere ridiculous and absolutely untrue He Mid the school board hal and found also then COLUMBUS O- Feb 4 State Auditor Joseph T Tracy day distributed to ties of the state as their share in tax revenues during January The distribution included for poor relief operations and for local government funds distributions for poor relief governments respectively Fairfield Hocking Ross FIRST GRADERS CAN ENROLL AT CARROLL AT EITHER SEMESTER Carroll school enters first grade students each semester Beginning with the second ter last Monday morning January 24 a new class of first trade dents started at Carroll on their school career These students ing were those who were not old enough to start September 9 but i Another Cold Wave Expected Tonight Temperature Here Drops Twenty Degrees In Five Hours Lancaster after enjoying above freezing temperatures yesterday and early this morning today prepared for another cold wave that ised to send the mercury down to around zero by The prediction for tonight much colder and Wednesday fair and colder It is anticipated the mere will fall to between five and ten degrees below zero night The temperature fell approximate ly twenty degrees between seven o'clock this and noon in Lancaster Suffer Sleet Storms Swirling snow storms swept across mid-America today paralyzing traffic in some states Arctic blasts from the northwest MINNEAPOLIS Feb 4 The state rested caw today Kid Cum the man ter identified w the grinning assassin who killed Her husband with a machine gun Wast Attorney General Fred Pike announced at noon that the state had completed its case after testimony of 13 Had Been Made Impotent By Supreme Court AAA Decision WASHINGTON Feb 4 UP The Senate acting on a recommendation by President Roosevelt today voted to repeal the head Cotton Control Act the Tobacco Act and the Potato Act all of which had been rendered virtually impotent by the Supreme Court AAA decision The repeal resolution now must be acted upon by the House If approved the resolution will be signed by Speaker Joseph Byrns and Vice President John H ner It then must go to President for hia signature 7 The Senate Agriculture Committee decided to ask the Senate to delay debate on the administration's sub- farm providing for soil conservation and crop control the companion measure brought out by the House ture Committee can be studied It was this would be in time for Senate de- bate to begin tomorrow The House differed from Senate version in several aspects The committee decided to meet again tomorrow to discuss the lor sale in open market of surplus cotton held by the Still Constitutionality of the Bankhead control already MINNEAPOLIS Feb 4 tle Marda Liggett went on the ness stand in the Isadore trial today to picture for a district court Jury a scene forever engraved upon her mind the machine gun of her father The daughter of ter Liggett walked into the room with her eyes wide in OLSON CHALLENGES ROCHESTER Minn Feb 4 From his bed in St Mary's pital here Gov Floyd B Olson today challenged Mrs Edith Liggett's attempt to link him with the assassination of Walter Liggett He branded as pure bunk Mrs Liggett's allegations that her husband was the victim of a political plot ment She is small has dark eyes and long curls which trail down her by the Supreme Court and repudiated by President Roosevelt will be argued today before the high tribunal argument of a motion by the government to dismiss a suife challenging law's validity brought by Gov Eugene Talmadge of Georgia will begin after ment on a plea by the Sugar In- Inc for a liberal tion of the anti- trust laws The position of the Justice De- in defending the law was difficult by the fact that the court when it decided AAA was in- valid held also that the Bankhead act was a coercive control of culture The court itself fixed the date for argument and would be unlikely to consider a motion to postpone ment rolled behind the storm threatening a new sub-zero wave back She wore a multicolored Camp Fairfield Is Under Quarantine Patient 111 With The let Fever Sent To from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast Highways in the Dakotas sota and in parts of Wisconsin Iowa Kansas and Nebraska were with snow Sleet and freezing rain coated roads in seven states just south of the snow area Zero temperatures already ex- tended into Wyoming and eastern Colorado Denver accustomed to mild winters reported three de- grees above zero Nation Just The storms struck just as most of the nation was recovering from the most bitter cold wave of the tieth century Temperatures still below seasonal averages will be far below normal by Wednesday ing forecasters said Heavy winds which accompanied sharp drops in temperature in ern Texas threatened damage to some of the hundreds of oil derricks at Gladewater Tex Many of the derricks are only a few feat from houses and business buildings and heavy property damage was feared In the Texas Panhandle the cury plummeted from the to the In Iowa where an acute coal shortage has threatened hundreds of shivering families for a week whose ate tad changed before mow Mid vero temperatures meant uary M Carroll to the only in the county operating under this type of j plan permits to gain half year tn their life over those who must wait a full year for further suffering Side roads to many of the BOO soft coal mines In the state were rapidly drifting with snow Five to ten Wilton clears are smoked m the United sweater The little girl climbed up to the witness stand and sat back into the big chair She seemed to hend the proceedings but was ed by it all Saw Two Men The daughter of the slain editor of the Midwest American a newspaper was on the stend for only a few minutes Under question ing of Assistant Attorney General Fred Pike she testified that she was with her father and mother the night of Dec 9 when her father was Fort Camp Fairfield the local CCC soil erosion camp of the city was today placed under a working antine by Lt L B Huntley com- mander when one of the young men was taken ill with scarlet fever removed to the Fort Hayes Hospital in Columbus The patient is said to have only a light case of the fever The quarantine will not effect the work of the camp according to Lt Huntley who stated today that his men will continue their work as ual but will not be permitted to FRIEND IS NEW DOG WARDEN The child's mother has identified leave the except for the worte Blumenfeld as the actual slayer Yesterday she accused Gov Floyd j B Olson of responsibility for the j Liggett repeatedly had at- tacked the governor demanding his impeachment in his newspaper Did you see any men in the Pike asked the child she answered firmly I think there were two men in the front seat Marda was seated in the rear of Mr Ferd Friend 716 Forest Rose Avenue has been appointed Fairfield county Dog Warden succeeding N C McDonald 521 N Broad St by the of County Commissioners for a term of one year and has thc car from which her father had ready the duties of the alighted a moment before he Mr McDonald has served the coun ty iti this capacity for the past five years No action has yet been slain Her mother Mrs Edith gett was descending from the car Net She said she saw the assassins en by the State Civil Service car as it drew alongside and fired mission in conducting an the fatal blast for the job Defense Attorney Thomas waived cross-examination State and defense finally agreed that the slaying occurred at p m the of last Dec REMOVED FROM HOSPITAL Mrs Isaac Brandt who recently underwent an operation at Grant Hospital Columbus Agreement on this point Sunday to her home on ttw ly brought the state's case to a and Is closa
