Piqua Daily Call, The (Newspaper) - July 10, 1934, Piqua, Ohio 1 LEATHER FORECAST Cloudy tonight Wednesday i able showers THE PIQUA DAILY CALL YEAR No 223 PIQUA OHIO TUESDAY JULY 10 1934 PRICE THREE CENTS NAZI STRIKE SITUATIONS GROWING MORE SERIOUS DAILY STATE LABOR FED FORMAL APPROVAL TO HITLER SUPPRESSION MOVE IS EXPECTED Berlin July 10 Nazi Reichstag was summoned day to meet at 8 p m Friday to give its formal blessing to the acts of Adolf Hitler's government in suppressing the Roehm revolt Ten minutes after announcement of the summons German pers were ordered to make no tion of it It was explained that the RELIEF DIRECTOR IS OUSTED TODAY Columbus O July 10 J Ahner has been temporarily ed as relief director for Sandusky county pending a hearing before the state relief to ges of negligence Major E O Braught director told the United today Ahner was reported to have absent frequently from his official duties and one week did net report irom Tuesday until Friday He was not in his office when a field from state ters called on official Braught said ASK PRESIDENT TO ATD CRIPPLE St Louis July 10 cratic leaders of St Louis County appealed to President Roosevelt for his aid in placing William Jr infantile victim in the Warm Springs Foundation Sanitarium at Warm Springs Oa The boy has been in a plaster cast for a year completely helpless He is the son of an ployed laborer WILL ROGERS P Santa Monica Calif July 9 Every day we get new prises from Europe Sunday some fellow from Germany named Hess who said be was speaking for told France there wasn't any use of them fighting and that they like to make up It all sounded so friendly that you started peeping under the bottom to see what was hid Mr Roosevelt visited our Virgin Islands He seems to have got away pretty good Two or three years ago I Jlew into those islands just a couple of weeks after Mr Hoover had been there and those Virgins were sure sore Bnt Mr Roosevelt promised em a distillery Yours meeting had teen summoned as announced but that the time might be altered before Friday The chancellor himself is ed to address the gathering of the Nazi legislature and review the suppression of the storm troop re- bellion It certain that whatever the chancellor had to say would be approved by cheers and if desired by vote There is no opposition representation Indications were that the cabinet spokesman would confine to terms Such grave problems as of the storm troop tion into a compact blindly loyal force of picked men were in discussion stage today and seemed likely to remain there until Hitler and his aides had made a ough study WOMEN PICKETING IN ONION STRIKE Take Places of Men Ar- rested for Picketing Onion Marshlands Defy Arrest McGuffey O July 10 Kentucky mountain women became standard bearers for their in picket lines of the world's largest onion patch today Grimly they patrolled entrances to the black while a score of striking weeders arrested in clashes with deputies yesterday awaited hearings They can't arrest a woman out warrant and while they are getting warrants we can raise plenty of declared Mrs Cynthia hart wife of one of the jailed men She organized 21 women pickets to guard entrances to the rich muck where are attempting to save the lar crop from rampant weeds Holding a year-old child in her arms Mrs Lenhart pushed back her stringy hair A woman's place is right beside her man Jn a and we're going to show em while our men are in she asserted SOUTH AMERICA FORCES BATTLE Bolivian and Paraguayan Armies in Bloody tle at Ft Ballivian Buenos Aires July livian and Paraguayan forces were locked today in a major battle which gave indication of ing the victor in the bloody Gran Chaco war Forty thousand Paraguayan troops were attacking Fort vian stronghold of the Bolivian forces near the Pilcomayo and key position to the whoie Chaco region The Bolivian defenders were picked men of the army and had orders to defend their position to the last man Fighting fierce and bloody The Paraguayans advanced eighths of a mile through the thick line of advance trenches before the Sort This made it possible for ar- tillery to advance within range of the fort according to Paraguayan official reports General Jose French trained graduate of the famous St Cyr Academy pursued his favorite tactics by attacking from move than one front main force beleaguered Ballivian others were detailed to make secondary Concluded on Page Five A ot of fne natural bowl in the Dlack Hills of South Dakota for ivas proved when Maj W E Kepner and Capt Orville Anderson ascended In the foot army halloon shown here to test air currents The flight was a success The ground crew Is shown at I lie ropes as the gas baj was inflated for the irial 1034 Syndicate Tot SEEK DISMISSAL OF APPEAL MADE BY BANDIT PAIR Columbus O July 10 an effort to speed hearings on the appeals in the Ohio supreme court of Harry and Charles Makley convicted men Prosecutor Ernest M Botkin of Lima late yesterday filed a tion asking the court to dismiss the petition In error of the con- men NEGRO LYNCHED BY LOUISIANA MOB AFTER ATTEMPTED ATTACK Bastrop La July 10 body of a lynched negro was cut down from an oak tree In the lic square today Sheriff J F penter said he recognized no ber of the mob which stormed parish prison last night District Attorney P W Hawthorne who told ths mob he sympathized with its attitude would not say what action he planned The negro Andrew McCloud 26 was suspected of an attempt to at- tack a white girl The mob began forming at nightfall and within a few hours numbered It tore down a telephone pole and used It to batter locks from four doors Limp from a beating and blood gushing from a knife wound in his neck WM dragged out with a noose already wound his neck Be was lifted to the top oi an automobile the free end of the rope tied to a limb and the car driven from under him The jail was not guarded as the parish does not maintain a night attendant Three other negroes im- prisoned with McCloud were so badly frightened that one Batter down the side of the building and we'll throw him out to you McCloud was arrested Sunday The white girl and her escort were returning to Bastrop from a dance when their car ran into a ditch She started afoot to a filling tion A negro stepped out of the night and started to drag her Into a woods Before he could get her off the road a car approached frightening him away McCloud was said by authorities o have confessed STATE MAY SPEND PART OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ROADS Bids Not Necessary is Ruling of Government on Portion of Officials Columbus 0 July 10 W Merrell state highway director was informed today by Thomas H Donald chief of the bureau of lic roads in Washington that Ohio may spend 25 per cent of the federal highway funds it to get for the year beginning this month on secondary roads out asking for bids MacDonald's telegram was In an- swer to a query from on whether Ohio had been denied the right to do secondary read work by force account as it did last year with federal funds With the force account plan in use men can be put at work on road projects at once cording to Merrell Should the Insist on awarding of con- tracts much delay would have been experienced Workers will be obtained from the rolls of the national re-employment service in the communities in which the projects are located according to Merrell PRESIDENT'S SHIP IN HEAVY SEAS Cruiser Houston Along Colombian Coast En- route to Cartagena Aboard U S S Gilmer July 10 cruiser Houston through heavy seas the Col- coast today taking ident Roosevelt to his visit of j tesy and good will at the old of Cartagena where President En- rique of Colombia awaited him The Houston was due at gena in the early Plans called for an exchange of salutes between the ships and the land batteries 546 BILLION FEET OF LUMBER Salem Ore July 10 timber In Oregon and Washington totals more than 548 billion board feet A survey made by the state forestry department ed Oregon forests contained board feet Washington Douglas fir led all other species with feet in Oregon and approximately 99 billion In Washington VIOLENCE AGELESS London July 10 Amfc Amet Mustafa Roumania's oldest woman died of shock when she learned of the death of Zaro Agha the ancient Turk who was her girlhood sweetheart the ex- change telegraph Bucharest cor- respondent telegraphed today ivas 120 When she was 20 she asserted she was be- trothed to then a young blade of 04 But her family she said objected and forced her to enter the harem of a rich ish merchant who brought her to Roumania He died 80 years ago In recent years tried to correspond with Zaro and wept when the ancient Turk always fickle refused to answer her ters the correspondent said MAN IS VICTIM IN GUN BATTLE Newport Ky July 10 man was slain and another ly escaped injury late last night In a running gwi battle on a town street The dead man was Ben Martin 35 Newport Jeff Purtee 29 Newport was ar- rested at the home of his attorney where he went following the shooting Washington July 10 Strikes in various parts of the country were regarded so seriously here today that President Roosevelt was wirelessed reports on the The newly tional Labor Board plunged Im- mediately into the task oi ing spread of violence and shed from the Pacific Coast and N J scenes of serious rioting The headed by Lloyd rison grandson of the famous abolitionist hoped to be able to avert additional violence at least until President Roosevelt re- turns from his holiday on the ser Houston Major labor conflicts were re- ported from New Jersey to San Francisco and from Minneapolis to Fort Worth In almost every case federal mediators were busy trying to end armed forays and an almost daily toll of dead injured New to its task the first objective was to familiarize itself with reports of about 100 disputes which were turned over to 1C by the National Labor Board headed by Sen Robert F Wagner D N which it replaces Secretary of Labor Frances kins and her staff offered the full resources of the Labor department to aid the mediators in speedily coming to grips with the problems with which it is faced For the present the board is re- the facilities of the DRYS CAMPAIGNING STATE FOR LOCAL League to Hold First Meeting at Cadiz SESSION IMPORTANT OF FOR CONSIDERATION Columbus O July 10 Ohio Federation of Labor prepared to get into the real work of the an- convention today to be ex- pressed In the form of resolutions which will probably not be made i known until the closing day j four-day meeting Immediately following the of the powerful HAYS WORKS ON FILM CLEANING Concluded on Page Two LAST MINUTE NEWS FLASHES WOMAN MURDERESS GRANTED REPRIEVE Albany ff Y July Lehman today granted a new reprieve to Mrs Anna Albany mother of three dren who was scheduled lo be executed In the electric chair day night for the insurance slaying of her husband SEEK TO REVISE LIGHT RATES Columbus O July Dayton Power and Light com- pany today asked the Ohio Utilities Commission tor authority to revise electric rate schedules for services at St Paris Casstown and Fletcher GANGSTER VICTIM NEAR DEATH Kansas City Mo July Side political leader was reported dying today after a third blood transfusion lie was shot down in front of his hotel home by gangsters MEDALIST AND CHAMPION ARE VICTORS Inverness Club Toledo O July Edith land medalist of the 15th annual women's golf championship and Mrs Thornton Emmons Columbus defending champion won ing round matches today eliminating respectively Mrs Falli of Toledo and Mrs Rudolph Homans Cincinnati FOUR BURNED TO DEATH IN WRECK N C July unidentified Negroes and a white burned to death as 19 cars of westbound Southern railway freight train left the tracks and caught lire here today Four were loaded with gasoline Columbus O July 10 campaign for local option will be today by the Ohio league It wos ced by Superintendent S P Kaught who is beginning a survey of the wet dry sentiment in the several counties of the state The first day meeting will at Cadiz today with a session with the Ministerial Alliance by a street meeting tonight One of the principle of the present Investigation Is to tain data upon which to make a local option campaign according to Me Naught Attention will be given to suitable congressional and legislative candidates It was I Where sentiment for Is apparent McNaught said will tc opened demanding that the legislature restore county local option which was repealed by a referendum election in 1914 TO INTRODUCE OLD AGE PENSION RILL BEFORE CONGRESS Lima O July 0 age pensions sponsored by the federal government will be sought in a to be introduced at the next of Congress by C Traux Bucyrus Ohio large Provision for the pensions be through a special tax on public utilities large inheritances large incomes said In an ad- draw here He said the would provide for pensions ranging from to 560 per month for all sons over 60 years old ANGLER CAN HIS FISH STORIES Twin Polls Ida July 10 Fish stories are fish stories but Stahlman can prove his He recently returned from an ang- ling expedition on the Salmon River with an Varden trout It was 27 and one- quarter inches long six inches around the belly and had a tail span of IVi Czar of Movies in ence with Executives Planning New Move Hollywood July 10 H Hays czar of the films by virtue I of his position as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Association today was closeted with executives of the in- dustry in an obvious clinic over demand for cleaner films While demands from some tions of the country were growing lor Hays resignation his own porters here replied with the ation that his position was stronger than ever This situation is one re- presentative was quoted as saying It means the bread and butter nf a lot of people We've got to hurry and straighten out this mess Direct answer to the campaign for cleaner pictures came from Harry Cohn president of one of the dios who declared company would never again turn out a smutty picture He added by way of de- fense that he knew of only one such production in the history of the company Other producers remained silent preferring to let a prepared statement the Hays office dle the situation This attributed to Hays himself but nevertheless unsigned declared that the present controversy would doubtlessly be of great value to the film industry There a very definite value to producers certain phases of the current the statement read Some of It may be entirely Justified some may be entirely unwarranted all of which is under- stood none of it is LIGHT GLOBE BLAST SHOCK IS FATAL Salt Lake City Utah July 10 caused by the explosion ot an electric light globe brought death to John Lawrence 81 rence engineer of the Mormon temple a test globe In an effort to locate elevator trouble The globe exploded burning his hands He collapsed while walking after his hat and coat preparatory to going to an emergency hospital tions committee today the ation is expected to hear from the floor numerous strongly backed suggestions most of which will labor delegates hope Influence the attitude of Ohio as a political unit in new recovery steps to be under- taken by the federal government Unofficially these plans 1 An endorsement of a specific state ticket regardless of party which will pledge itself to the social justice measures the federation espouses 2 A strong effort to bring Im- mediately into effect a workmen's job Insurance act in the state and to put the state squarely behind whatever program the federal adopts to this end 3 The organization ot units to force into action the provisions of the new Federal Housing not waiting for any chamber of com- merce committee to organize and Concluded on Page Five AFTER RESIGNATION OF WILL H HAYS Religious Leaders in Cleaner Movie Drive Say He Has Failed New York July 10 new demand for the resignation of Will Hays who was taken from a dent's cabinet to make the movies moral 12 years ago was made today while the religious drive for cy in films gained ground in all parts of the country The Rev Joseph A McCaffrey Catholic representative in a non- sectarian group formed here to war on dirt In the movies in dance halls and on the stage said Hays had failed to keep the movies clean TWO STATE POLICE RADIO OPERATORS ARE TRANSFERRED Columbus O July 10 fer of two members of the radio di- vision of the state highway patrol was announced today by Col Lynn Black patrol superintendent I D Defenbaugh was transferred from the patrol radio station at to radio station at Findlay as radio operator P C Everett was transferred from radio station at Findlay to radio station at Columbus as a radio operator Patrolman E K Hayes was re- moved from district headquarters at Wilmington to the patrol sub- station at Troy KANSAS CITr POLITICIAN IS SHOT DOWN BY GANG MACHINE GUNNERS City Mo July 10 John Lazia 37 a north side cal chieftain and power in the un- was shot down by sters early today as he stepped from an automobile in front of the Park Central hotel Seriously wounded by eight chine gun and shotgun slugs Lazla was taken to St Joseph hospital After two blood transfusions had been made physicians said chances for recovery were better than He was given oxygen while physicians probed for a let believed lodged in his spine Lazia under federal conviction for falling to file income tax re- turns and his wife and two friends Mr and Mrs Charles Carolla had stopped their car In front of the hotel Two gangsters arose from be- hind an ambush of shrubbery lawn chairs and a retaining wall As the Democratic leader reputed lieutenant o Tom Pendergast souri political boss stepped to the driveway a blast of gunfire roared Two score shots followed the tat-tat of the machine gun being punctuated by the deep boom of the shotgun Lazia sank to the pavement Carolla who was driving the chine pushed Mrs Lazia who was in the rear seat and Mrs Carolla who was in the front seat to the floor Then he shot the car out ot the driveway and cut back eastward on Armour boulevard He returned a few minutes later Help Lazia cried Help mel Oh my God help Dr Charles F Lowry a resident of the hotel living on the second floor was awakened by the first blast of the machine gun He ned a bathrobe and rushed to ia's side Meanwhile W R sen the night clerk had reached side When the first shot came Peterson thinking that men were firing at him dived to the floor breaking his wrist watch and cutting his arm Several hours after the police detained im and Joe Lusco North Side underworld for Questioning
