Morning Herald (Newspaper) - September 26, 1935, Hagerstown, Maryland Good Morning Today It the of it tha Hagerstown HERALD Weather Report Pair Friday cooler Friday afternoon and VOL. NO. 231. Pint MM SEPTEMBER 26, 1935. SINGLE 2 CENTS NEITHER SIDE Strike of Soft Coal Miners Continues in the Nation COAL COMMISSION HOLDS FIRST MEET Members Confer with Roosevelt After Taking Office Sept. 25 Arguments over wage today put a new schism between the operators and miners a contract to end the three-day old soft coal The disagreement over what wage increase Appalachian producers would give their miners the major gulf separating the contract Neither side had yielded ground up to the producers re- iterating that they had offered a seven and a half cent a ton In- crease for miners digging coal and the miners steadily repeating that they could and would accept ing less than a nine cent That was their stand when the coal strike was called in the early hours of Another clement in the coal ation took shape still so distantly removed from the im- mediate strike situation as to leave its ultimate influence un- The National Coal Com- product of the coal met for the first time at the White The named last hy President first met with Marvin H. a White House then ned to hold a later talk with the President The expressed theory of the coal is that it will exert a ing influence on the industry's price structure and thereby reflect ably on wage Talk was current today in the lobby of the hotel where the strike negotiating committee met that the producers would give way in the tonnage rate tight is they obtained satisfactory concessions from the miners on some working had no immediate official The wage differential discussion from a request by ern Appalachian producers of a 40 cent differential on day rates under the Virginia and Harlan a potential trouble CHILD IS DROWNED IN FREDERICK CO. Body of 3-Year-Old An- drew Stevens Found in Canal The body of three-year-old An- drew Lee Stevens was found late yesterday evening by a searching party in the Chesapeake and Ohio after the child had failed to return to his home near from a visit to his The body was in flve feet of water near a The boy needed to cross the bridge in ing over the canal from his own house to that of his Andrew left his Mrs. Lena about When he had been missing for several hours the searching party was The death was held accidental Magistrate W. H. of and no inquest deemed TRIBUTES PAID TO COLLEGE PRESIDENT 25 Dr. A. Norman late dent of Western Maryland was buried at Westminster tery today after impressive ices at Alumni Mors than persons gathered at the hall to hear high leaders ot Methodism pay inspired tributes to Ward's character and his work in education and Hundreds filed past the casket as the body lay in state before the services with a guard ot honor from the school's Reserve Training Corps Floral ings were hanked around the FATALLY INJURED Sept. 25 Lawrence thli died day it Memorial from In- juries received last night when be was thrown from tha motorcycle 'the wai In a collision with a parked truck re- a fractured broken right and the head and Death Penalty Asked By State Members of jury chosen to decide fate of Newell star being tried at for alleged murder of his ANNUAL CAMPAIGN OPENS ON TUESDAY Salvation Army Drive for Funds to Get under Way The annual drive for funds to maintain the good work of the vation Army will be held here from October 1st to October 7th, according to an announcement by Mitchell S. In announcing the drive the local board presented the gram for the coming year which include the dinners for the Christmas toys for the a new Sunday School in a neglected eggs at Scout programs for the hoys and 100 boys and girls to camp next summer and the ing of 50 weary and needy mothers to a holiday camp for ten days next Other officers for the drive will Edgar C. treasurer and Mrs. V. Plans are rapidly nearing with a fine crowd of enthusiastic workers to On Oct. 1st, at will be a extra- at the Colonial Theatre at which lime will appear some of Hagers town's most brilliant Full details of this will be an- The theater has been Great interest has been shown in the booth at the Hagerstown where in addition to the in- the young ple themselves have been ing their ability in basket leather tie spatter etc. This is all part of the regular program for the children and young Captain Andrews his advisory hoard are counting much on the generosity of the people of this community to assist them in this Campaign headquarters will be maintained on West Sin opposite the new office WOMAN REFUSES TO PERMIT OPERATION Perth N. Sept. 25 Mrs. Anna a locked and barricaded the doors to her home tonight and denied en- trance to surgeons who want to perform an operation on her 15-year-old Dr. William H. the family's reported to lice that the girl was in a critical condition with a ruptured appendix and that an emergency operation was Dr. McCormick said he was moned to the house hy the He found the girl writhing in and told Mrs. Kerston the operation would have to be performed at Then he went to summon an When he Dr. mick Mrs. Kerston had bolted the doors and thrown a barricade against TYPHOON IN JAPAN Sept. 26 counted a death toll of 80 today as the tail of a typhoon threshed causing 32 deaths in Yamanashi and northwest and north of Most of the 32 deaths were by the area receiving the heaviest down pour in WOMAN ENDS LIFE Sept. 25 Lillian M. 51, was found shot to death today In a tool house at her home near A Jury returned a that the woman came to death at her own Mrs. body wan found by her M. R. of She had been ihot once In the Three cartridges In the pistol had been One had failed to BARBERS TO FIGHT EXAMINATION LAW Hagerstown claiming the recently enacted examination is unfair and imposes too drastic plan to join Baltimore barbers in a fight on the A meeting for this purpose has been called for o'clock Friday evening at the Seibert Barber at which time definite plans will be The provisions of the a statement made by local barbers yesterday are unfair and will be OFFICERS RECOVER BODIES OF COUPLE Youth Confesses Plunging Automobile into the Water Los Sept. 25 bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steinhuer recovered from San Pedro harbor tonight few hours after their 19-year-old Leroy Detective Lieutenant Frank Con- daffer that he saw them die of placed their bodies in a motor car and allowed It to plunge off a Isn't it groaned young Drake as he viewed the bodies as they were brought aboard a fire The youth todl police he saw his aunt and each about 60 years from poison in their home here last Friday He denied he had tered the but offered no ex- planation of how they came their the officers Condaffer quoted the youth as saying he kept the bodies in the house for four hours before ing to take them to San Pedro and plunge their automobile into the He did this because he was he told the de- Condaffer said the youth would be held for suspicion of murder without declaring Drake con- fessed that he had forged his uncle's name to checks and that he was the beneficiary under his uncle's will and to life insurance Young an astronomical was taken in custody this afternoon for questioning after the mysterious disappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Steinhuer from their absence from his work was first reported to lice Saturday by his L. D. Drake said his Mr. and Leroy reside in D. C. Deny Umber to Is Slated For Post Sept. 25 papers a story from the Sunday London Referee today ing Prince heir to the Italian is opposed to Pre- mier Mussolini's conflict with report was branded utterly false in Rome and London by Italian There is a the story of General Halo nor of Libya and Italian air leading a revolt against II whose relations with the royal family are is also opposed to the story large number of Italian superior officers share his The was reprinted without comment from the Communist newspaper TOBACCO PAGEANT La Sept. 25 Eleanor J. of will reign at Queen HI at the third annual Charles county bacco pageant here The five Southern Maryland Prince arid Anno participate In the festival to the big crop of the JURY TO CONSIDER HILL CASE TODAY Special Session to Convene to Probe Slaying of Taximan Bel Sept. 25 Harford County grand jury will in special session at 10 m. tomorrow lo consider the der charge against Kendall Hill ill the death of Albert more taxi Sheriff Granville C. Boyle today all members of the jury had teen The witnesses will include State Police who ar- rested Hill and the man who found body near Havre de last To preclude any possible suicide guards at the county jail today removed Hill's necktie and shoe The prisoner in good He was nervous and shaken as he appeared before istrate Stanley S. Spencer to waive preliminary Circuit Judge Walter W. Preston had announced Earlier he had summoned the grand jury into The case against Hill will be presented to the jury by State's Attorney D. Paul Sheriff Boyle said that while Hill was not he could appear in court at any An early trial as Alwell disappeared early last His was found late Lieutenant An- drew of. the State announced late Saturday after Hi had undergone Intensive that he had confessed the He exonerated Harry who was arrested with him late Friday MAYOR TO CONFER ON DRAIN PROJECT City Officials to See Fed eral Officials in timore Mayor Irvin M. Wertz and City Engineer Samuel Greenawalt wil confer with officials in Baltimore and Washington today with regards to approval of the West End storm water drain as a PWA or WPA Several weeks ago the was approved in Baltimore and Secretary of the Interior Ickes but was rejected by Harry L. Hop Federal WPA administrator The officials hope to have a con ference with U. S. Senator George L. Radcliffe in his Baltimore office They later plan to Washing ton to confer with PWA ANNUAL INSPECTION Sept. 25 of Motor Vehicles Walter R Rudy announced today that the an inspection of all motor ve hides in Maryland will begin Octo her 1, and will continue a month Stations will be set up in various parts of the State for the CONFERENCE USELESS Sept. 25 of the Unemployment League 01 Maryland announced tonight All brcy Assistant Relief had them further conference Governor Nice and FKRA heads would be useless in securing added funds for direct An addi decrease of Federal funds available was In Wil linms was quoted PARTY HEADS DEFEAT FDR Republican Leaders Re- port Decided Turn of Sentiment PROGRAM TO RAISE MONEY DISCUSSED Routine Matters Taken up by National Com- men Sept. 25 National executive men of the Republican party jubilantly reported a turn of sentiment in our today to chairman Henry P. Fletcher reported that prospects Were for a substantial war chest for the presidential it isn't going to be While candidates and Issues bulked large in informal tions of the party's of Fletcher insisted they were not discussed in the committee Routine Matters he were devoted to routine matters of mapping national committee and discussing the question ol organizing yonng Fletcher also said that questions of the time arid place of the al convention were subjects for the entire national rather than the executive Other committeemen that there is a growing sentiment to delay next year's con- vention until after the Democrats In the the Republicans usually have been the first to con- Tilks to The national chairman talked to a large group of newsmen in one of the rooms of the hotel suite where the executive committee met. Reiterating his assertion tha did not discuss candidates or and Will Fletcher said he had not presented to the committee a telegram from Frank E. newspaper Gannett had urged the commit tee and all Republican leaders to on these two dues can the American economic system be made to within the to private business can put idle back to work? can the income of ture be by constitutional so that the wage of 000 Americans gainfully in farming shall be more than a including AAA as in The chairman said he had writ ten Mr. Gannett that are nol discussing policies at this The committee met behind clos ed Fletcher said it credentials eight new subject to tion by the full national committee and designated a group to prepare memorials to deceased committee France Is Ready To Support Nice Sept. 23 Joseph I. former United States said today he would support Governor Nice it he entered the Republican prefer primaries of all the States on a platform adhering to can If the Governor does not wisl to enter the Presidential primary Dr. France he was as sured of Nice's support if he car ried to the fight for principles to the primary contest between us for control of the Maryland dele gallon to the convention is incon he spiking tears in some quarters that such a con test might THOUSANDS AT MASS Sept. 25 enormous open-air tens of thousands of Catholic men pre- pared tonight with hymns and meditation for midnight Pon low their special aci of adoration of Christ In the Cleveland Stadium 01 the lakefront was packed with more than people aa the hour of midnight drew Stage Set For Big Day Of Great Fair Record Attendance Expected to Mark Third Day of of Draft Feature Wednesday ACTION IS CALLED BY WRITER Sept. 25 It. Baltimore named in a suit tor allege libel filed by Robert Lucas In charged today tlw action was a bluff solely designed to sectin newspaper former executive directo of the Republican national com alleged Charles D Republican national com from New am others he also named In his com plaint conspired to discredit him In an article written by Kent and pub In the Wall Street under the caption of area of N E W THREAT MADE TO QUIT LEAGUE MEET The stage Is set the of the Great Hagerstown Fair With the forecast of continued good Fair officials look or a record-breaking attendance o see one of the finest fairs ever staged From every the Fair this year compares with the finest held in this section of the There was a good attendance on grounds and grandstand but far below that merited by the Those who did away singing the praises of live the grand- stand the races and The horse exhibit is. without the finest ever brought here and the dog show it- self is worth the price of The attendance at the night shows has been fair but with such an attraction as presented hy trude and her Revue the stands should be packed Patrons of the night show have unanimous in acclaiming the production as one of the finest and cleanest ever to appear on the Fair Thursday is always Known as the of at the Fair and there is every indication that the attendance will reach high Nothing has been left undone to make the Fair bigger and better this year and officials are to be complimented on the splendid at- tractions in every The agricultural exhibits are of the the harness races fast and and the vaudeville lets the finest According lo Friday will he Children's Day at the The public schools of the county will closed all day and dren will lie admitted to the free of President Coffman said the tom of closing the schools one day to give the boys and girls an op- to see the sighls and get the benefit of the educational ad- vantages the Fair is by the association as an ex- ample of the co-operative spirit of the public school Parade of Horses Among the interesting features offered in front of the grandstand j at Hie fair yesterday afternoon Was the parade of over 100 line j draft horses and a ing thrill act by Jerry and vaudeville by the troups of Miss Gertrude Avery whose company is also presenting the night The parade of horses was poned yesterday until 4 As the horses and their attendants passed the Milo Downey gave the names of the horses and the Some of the finest draft horses in the try are being including several imported Belgian horses valued many hundreds of lars This parade proved to be one of the big features of the fair this Joseph M. Col- lege one of the on Page 18) ROOSEVELT TALKS ON FUTURE President Puts the tion up to Nation's Industry Sept. 25 future in the New Deal scheme was linked by President Roosevelt today to industry's ity to restrain its If business can police itself he told his press and thus maintain fair trade and employment ther action by the Government will not be It he the Government must in- Most Mr. Roosevelt are keeping close to the standards of the defunct while others are First of all the facts must be determined by a They will furnish the basis for a decision on whether or not new NRA legislation is These interlarded with assertions of optimism for the business were made at his last press conference before turning westward for a leisurely swing to the coast and a vacation voyage back through the Panama They some observers at least a partial change in Presidential viewpoint on Mr. Roosevelt held no hope that voluntary prove of A very small tion of he had could easily break them He said there is an increase In employment by private industry of boys from the Civilian tion Enrollments for the he added will be held to after Oct. 1. He proposed as a permanent level to be established by next July 1. The President asserted he ex- to have the works fund fully allotted or marked before leaving tomorrow night on his western Questioned about the size of the staff of the skeletonized old he said this was to he reduced to he in the near This he is now determining results of the nation of the codes by the preme court decision invalidating Most major he were shown by the surveys to be living up to the code he some tries were breaking them The attempt now is lo find out how far the chiseling He emphasized that results of the survey must he obtained before the future policy is It Industry can go along Ing fair trade agreements and viding adequate working conditions be no need for farther action by the he con- If the chiseling clement breaks down these he something will have to bo MEMORIAL ROAD PLAN IS PROPOSED Congressman Ron dolph Wants Route to Pass through Antietam Recommendation that the posed highway Washington to Gettysburg Battlefield be built through Antietam Battlefield was made yesterday in Washington by Congressman Jennings of W. Va. Congressman Randolph made this tion to Thomas H. Roads Bureau according to a At the dinner celebrating the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Antietam which was held at burg on Sept. 17, Congressman one of the principal mentioned how he would urge construction of the highway and to have a part of it pass through the Panhandle section of West Virginia and Antietam taking in Harpers Ferry and The proposal would be to have the highway cross the Potomac at Shepherdstown and on to The highway would pass near this A commission has been formed to study the proposed The highway would be a Federal It is said that several efforts have been made to have the way become an approved Maryland has drawn up a. route which is similar to that which has been studied hy the Works Progress The Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce has taken an active in- terest in the highway from the start and is keeping In touch with ail phases of tile The highway would start at the Lincoln Memorial in Notion Disdains Ethiopian Appeal for League Observers COUNCIL MAY ACT UNDER ARTICLE XV Pessimism Is Reported Deepened at Geneva Sessions Sept. 25 ians Geneva disdained night an Ethiopian appeal for the dispatch of League of tions observers to that bled kingdom and their man went so far as to is rapidly losing in- terest in what the League may or may not That was the retort when tha was asked what he thought of a telegraphic appeal he League from Emperor Haile stating that Ethiopian roops had been withdrawn 30 from the frontiers to avoid and reiterating a re- quest for impartial observers to the for any that might In all the spokesman Italy's chair at the League Council's horseshoe table will be vacant tomorrow when the Council begins to talk over the re- port of its report noting Italy's rejection of a plan for Tonight the Council virtually had decided to proceed in the Ethiopian tangle under Paragraph 4 of Article XV of the League the Associated Press was in- That which would not provide for immediate would require the Council to and a report of facts In the together with As expressed by the the Italian attitude tonight was that the League has failed utterly to realize Ethiopia is not a nation and has failed to understand that events have proved Ethiopia has no qualifications whatsoever to be a member of the League or to benefit under the is the spokesman we have not specifically requested expulsion of Ethiopia from the But all our speeches and documents have that is our In other great inter- est was manifest at Ethiopia's Observers Asked Sept. 25 seeking to remove causes for asked the League of Nations today to send observers here to In- Italian charges of Emperor Haile Selassie made request upon the suggestion of fessor Gaston Frenchman who represented this country on a league commission which gated the The ruler gave assurances he would collaborate fully with the investigators and would accept their Despite the threat of all Ethiopia was in a festive mood be- cause of the dawn of the festival of Beginning the festival is not only a harbinger of spring but also marks the end of the three rainy IMPROVED RELATIONS BETWEEN ITALY AND BRITAIN REPORTED Cancellation of the Sailing from Naples of Soldiers for Libya Statement Issued Sept. 25 re- lations between Great Britain and Italy resulted tonight in tion of the sailing from Naples morrow of soldiers for of the decline in tension between the fwu H was the reinforcements in which borders upon lire not The hotter feeling resulted from mutual between Pre- mier Mussolini and Sir Samuel British foreign It was that the departure of troops for Eusi Africa will continue The Italia sailed from Naples day with men and tomorrow the Colombo and Merano depart with approximately soldiers Italy will novey UKo the first stop In transforming the Ethiopian conflict into an Euro- pean said a government ment This was part of a communique which disclosed that Sir Samuel British foreign la a personal message to Premier Mussolini said Britain was desirous of eliminating every useless misunderstanding between the two The communique mentioned that was as an old friend of the com- not and doel not wish to have any with Other developments saw the Ing ot the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia to commerce by order ot the governor of Ing to a Agency a communique of the Catholic action ot Italy Indirectly supporting Iht government's African and a statement by ot Papal court that the probably would deliver a In course of Mi to
