Mansfield News Journal (Newspaper) - January 26, 1947, Mansfield, Ohio WEATHER Partly colder day MANSFIELD 5C BEST COMICS VOL 62, NO. 325 TELEPHONE 4251-6 JANUARY 26, Vote Bribery Probe Asked In Georgia Talmadge Foes Demand Inquiry As Bank Files Suit To Determine Who Is State's Legal full Associated Pnm PRICE FIVE CENTS ATLANTA Georgia's mixed-up governorship headed for clarification last night amid demands that a grand jury investigate sensational but thus far tiated allegations that Georgia legislators were offered bribes to influence their votes on the night the General Assembly elected Herman Talmadge as The Fulton National bank of Atlanta filed suit in Henry county superior court to determine who is legal governor of Georgia Superior Judge Bond Almand immediately signed a temporary restraining order preventing either Herman Talmadge or gubernatorial Lieut. Gov. M. E. from drawing on which was left in the state executive department fund by re- tiring Gov. Ellis Both Thompson and Talmadge were summoned to appear at Feb. same day Talmadge must answer a parallel challenge by Thompson CAPONE DIES was Heart Failure Kills Former Public Enemy No. 1 Who Once Ruled MIAMI gangster and prohibition era died in his villa last came very said Dr. Kenneth S. the family was His collapsed and is in very serious Dr. Phillips said death caused by heart After Capone's death was an- dozens of none of them were admitted to the More callers than the luxurious villa has ever had before were A long line of black limousines were parked As word spread that one of the world's most despised men had at last gone to face eternal tourists arid the curious also flocked to the promenade of rubbernecker strolled by or stood chat some Last Rites Capone died as he had hard and An stroke hit him at 4 a. m. las Tuesday and swept him so clos to death that the Rt. Rev. Msgr William Barry administered th last rites of the Catholic More than 16 hours later the one-time gang overlord rallied un He was out of danger for a then pneumonia de and with this complica tion his heart Besides his wife and those who gathered to await the enc included his aged his a sister Mrs. Mafalda and two Ralph and in the same Injunction The earlier originally brought by Arnall and later amended in the name of seeks to enjoin Talmadge from exercising authority of Both cases are aimed at speedy review by Georgia's supreme Devereaux F. sel for the said Thompson and six members of his executive staff had presented checks ling more than None was The bank's tion cited was bona fide controversy as to the sons entitled to and pleaded it could only at its the claims of the rival The petition ends of justice require that the rights and legal relations of the defendants to the be declared by the DIDN'T GIVE ior high school girls are going to graduate with their class next June despite the fact that both have been ill at home for Both have been gedly keeping abreast of their school work at Mrs. John F. Strawn left in top tutors Joan 100 Dawson Miss Senert has been unable to attend es since 1945. Ready to return to classes Monday is Carol 244 Wood She has been confined to her home since June of last A classmate has aided Miss Reining to keep up with her Public Enemy No. 1. It was a federal prison rather than death ended Capone's career as Public Enemy No. 1 When released he came to his villa on Palm Island and since except for brief has lived under the Florida sun. His villa is a 25-room structure on a lot 100 feet wide and 300 feet A separate gate house swimming pool and boat dock dec- orate all surrounded by a high wall through which the only en- trance is a barred wooden on Page 2) TWO INJURED AT LEXINGTON Two Morrow county men were injured last night at Lexington when a truck careened off a parked car and collided head-on with the auto in which they were sheriff's deputies Injured were Milo V. 37, of R. D. 2, cut on and Harley 33, of Mt. cut on and Both were treated by a Lexington Deputies said the driver of the Ward 29, of R. D. 2, was being held ing filing of charges of driving while intoxicated or being in ical of a while under the influence of driver of the and Hanna were cut by flying shield deputies The front end of their 1937 model car was heavily Officers said that the one and one-half 1946 model truck Rogers was driving struck model car owned by J. W. of Fairfax The accident occurred around p. m. on U. S. Route 42 near the southern limits of MARSHALL TO VISIT SWEDEN STOCKHOLM An in- formed Swedish source said Gen. George C. United States secretary of was expected to visit Stockholm on his way to Moscow for the March session of the four-power council of foreign Mayor Harvey Kennedy of leader of the Aroused Citizens of a group formed to protest madge's said a statewide meeting here Monday would make formal demands for investigation by the Fulton county grand Kennedy said he would cite on Page 2) Liquor Licenses Object of Inquiry CLEVELAND A ial detail of state highway men under the personal direction of State Liquor Director Stanley B. Cofall arrived here late to make a week-end of some 25 private clubs which were granted liquor mits during the last days of ad- er Gov. Frank J. Gov. Thomas J. Herbert told re- porters he had ordered the up but said details of the in- SWANGER GETS HIGHWAY POST r Glenn three-term mayor of has been pointed superintendent of the Richland county maintenance tion state highway C. Homer chief ginner of division an- Bricker selection of Swanger along with the naming of three other ents in the division Also named as superintendents were for Medina Lorain and George Drake for Erie Each appointee is a former superintendent or employe in the Bricker who is a painting and decorating contractor in served in the road ing operations in the highway division for four He is to report to Ashland headquarters Monday but is not ex- to assume full charge of Richland county operations a later Bricker A veteran civic ger has served on Shiloh's board of public affairs and village cil for 12 As a veteran of World War I he founded the American of which he is a past Swanger replaces Clarence G. Tugend who held the tendency during the tion of Gov. Frank J. recently named as di- vision engineer by Murray D. Ohio's new highways di- said appointments for other county m n were left to would be announced SENIOR GIRLS BATTLE ILLNESS FOR DIPLOMAS By JOANNE FAY Senior High School This is a story of how courage and resourcefulness will enable two Senior high school girls with their class this June in spite of prolonged Joan 100 Dawson been unable to attend school Carol 244 Wood has Seen confined to her since 1946. Both had been popular bers of the class which will next who had completed only three weeks of the eleventh grade before illness took her from ranked high scholastically and had been active having participated in G A and the Pep A student in the com- she copped est honors in typing in the ninth at Johnny Appleseed Junior high school with an ng 56 rate in the first-year PERMITTED TO RESUME at home last Joan las been tutored by Mrs. John F. a Senior high school whose under- tanding and thorough quote is from Joan and her has enabled the or girl to maintain a rate of which assures graduation vith her A considerate classmate and Nancy has who is an avid football fan abreast of school activities through regular and frequent Joan's appreciation of the thoughtfulness and kindness of her host of other friends is fied by a hobby of mounting in her scrapbook the more than 500 cards to letters and she had received during her Though she will not return to Joan is eagerly ting the graduation and Class Day exercises which she plans to After her is to become a receptionist or CAROL REEVING also had been an and in cular a member of Leader's club and G A she had Deen active on the bowling before illness interrupted her school The devotion of a chum and on Page 2) Big Steel and Union Agree on 30 Million To Settle Back Pay Agreement Also Grants Hike In Wages For About Strike Danger hourly wage standardization agreement which will net workers in far-flung U. S Steel plants more than in back pay was announced Saturday by the corporation and the Steel The union set the bade pay figure at f and said the agreement additionally nil mean wage raises totalling for many of about in the corporation's five principal steel producing subsidiaries The corporation said the back pay would be in excess of but fixed no figure for raise fits to workers in the standardized UNIONS STUDY WAGE REQUEST Bid for Higher Pay for To Be Outlined Today At Meeting in Officers and of Mansfield's three unions today will map plans for a general waje In- crease request to be to seven Mansfield industries within the next three The wage negotiations uill in volve well over union mem bers employed in several of the city's largest The wage program will le out lined at a meeting at p. m. today at the CIO said liam executive member of District 7 of the ed Electrical v Unions represented will in- clude Locals 759 and 711 the salaried and production at and Local 758 of production employs at Ohio Hughes Martin Steel land Grain the Ideal Electric Manufacturing Kozma said a sis and outline for a campaign based on the Nathan report to the rould Nathan recently made public his findings on wage and price He was by CIO to make the Kozma said that no wajt In- crease figure had yet been set the cost of living may before negotiations are County Rates 10th In Bond Purchases Richland county ranked 10th among Ohio's 88 counties in war ond purchases during 194t, an Press survey staved Richland ought worth of The county ranked in the tate in bond sales which aled and 13th it the tate in bond receipts ng Employes of the American Steel and Wire Steel Columbia Steel National Tube company and Tennessee Iron Railroad whose rates have been lower than the new will U. S. Steel The agreement also plies to the plant of the Geneva Steel Effective In The new scale will be effective the first pay day in Corporation sources said it was equivalent to a 1% cents hourly increase to a large percentage of The union estimated the hourly wage benefits at from one cent an hour to around 29 cents an hour and said some workers may receive as much as in back The agreement was reached after two years of work by a joint union management com- following a directive by the National War Labor board to negotiate wage alleged wage rate inequities with ments to be retroactive to Jan. The corporation said that by agreement with the union costs of adjustments would be limited to 3% cents per employe on Page 2) Van Johnson Weds Evie In El Paso EL popular film was ried yesterday afternoon to Evie in a Juarez nony performed by civil Judge Paul John's bride was di- a few hours earlier in from Actor Keenan The couple left El Paso by plane their honeymoon immediately the slipping out the city By the terms of the divorce drs. Johnson was awarded the of her two and Both parties arrived in El Paso nder assumed Mrs. Wynn lying in Friday while Johnson Saturday Navy Planes Roar Overhead Today to Open Recruiting Drive With the slogan the victors belong the responsibility of maintaining the the field naval recruiting station embarks Monday on a week-long Navy recruiting As a preliminary to the launching of the drive 24 to 30 Navy and scheduled to over the city today at p. m. Led by Lt. Cmdr. E. G. Colgan of the formation will spell out the word and the letters for and for The week has been designated officially as Naval Reserve in a proclamation by Mayor Roy W. Lt. Cmdr. A. E. in charge of the local drive and Chief J. T. chief recruiter of the Mansfield station have arranged an extensive gram. It will stress the Navy's or inactive reserve program in order to help achieve an adequate national defense goal of men in peace Cmdr. Heiser The program permits enlistment at old requires no drills or although a 14-day cruise is continues and assures the individual a civilian status as long as an emergency is not qualified to apply for enlistment are veterans of World War between the ages of 17 and 64, and men without previous military who are between 17 and 18 V2 years and oO and 39 years of Enlistment does not exempt the latter group from any draft A similar program is in effect for the enlistment of A Navy on will be located in Central park on Monday and Tuesday Lt Cmdr. W. E. in charge of naval and in charge recruiting Capt. F. F. Indianapolis Brigade and Cmdr. W. G. Field service officers for the 9th district will address the Optimist and Kiwanis at their meetings during the The Mansfield navy organized and volunteer reserve programs are already moving forward Heiser pointed Division 195 of the Division 195, of the organized has 13 officers and 200 enlisted and the volunteer reserve Electronic Warfare company 97, has five officers and 40 GOP PROPOSES RENT CONTROL CONTINUATION CIO Assails Plan to Boost Ceilings 15 Per Cent For Rest of 1947. Four Republican senators proposed legislation last night to continue rent controls for the rest of 1947 with a 15 percent boost in Senator Hawkes of New Jersey said the probably will be in- Monday and predicted it will become the vehicle by which congress will act to continue the present rent controls now due to expire June 30. Joining him in sponsoring the measure are ators McCarthy of Cain of Washington and Malone of The dlO immediately assailed the proposal and called upon all Its unions to fight it. Hawkes said he favors a vision by which landlords could raise rents up to 15 percent be- yond present levels if they offer tenants a year's But he told a reporter he and the other tors have not decided whether link the lease requirement with the authorization for increases Lifts Some McCarthy announced the will remove ings on new construction or had rented m the yearT believe that with a provision of this kind we can a lot of people to make available living quarters they may have in their homes but have hesitated to rent because they didn't want to er with the red tape of ment controls and having some 22-year-old clerk they would have to reduce their he told an He added he has little doubt the removal of ceilings from new houses and apartments would boost construction materially and eventually tend to level off rents when more space became Favors Hawkes and McCarthy said the proposed date for ending all rent controls had not been determined finally but probably would be Dec. Chairman Taft said the Republican policy committee has marked the rent control question for an early priority but has not reached any decision on a party Taft commented he favors a continuation of controls with a increase in He said he would like to see some system worked out un- der which increases could be made on a basis of individual merit though government agencies have sTble 6d thlS 1S 3lmOSt President Truman has urged that rent control be continued and expressed hope that the line would be But he told a news conference Thursday that he is leaving the details entirely up to U. TO TIGHTEN ATOMIC SECRECY the a view to ALL HANDS ON naval armory will be launched here In March and is scheduled to take aboard its first crew in The with its worth of training fa to be located on Ashland north of the present National Guard It II be used to keep a 300-msn reserve in trim for naval duty in case of The armory is to consist of three huge quonset It is to measure 154 feet by 125 feet and will be one of seven tog flight reserve training centers in the The architect's drawing of the proposed Mansfield naval armory was released for cation The armory Is to set some 75 feet back from Ashland The front grounds will be The armory's training devices will include and underwater sounding boiler room and switchboard equipment md damage control In be metal and marine repair shops and i drill recreation and facilities also are to be WASHINGTON The Atomic Commission an- plans last night to tighten the secrecy around atomic data and named Frank J. for- mer chief of the secret service as a consultant on The civilian control has continued the army's security measures since it took over from he Manhattan district on Jan us announcement said that be with Wilson with strengthening a security y famed for roles in the investigation of Al Capone and the Lindbergh retired Dec. 31 after ten years as head of the secret Accepting the he said he could not disclose his plans but told a will be more and more reason for more and more security in protecting our atomic He would not Wilson said he did not know whether any salary is attached to his new but declared he would glad to do it on a if necessary He is an uncle of Carroll L. general manager of the atomic energy
