Portsmouth Times (Newspaper) - July 10, 1930, Portsmouth, Ohio Ohio and tonight followed by local ami thunderstorms Friday but warmer tonight nnd EDITION 1852 VOL 37 KO 92 PAGES PORTSMOUTH 01110 THURSDAY JULY 10 1930 The THREE CENTS 44 EUROPEANS DIE IN MINE DISASTER Huston To Fight To Last Ditch Against His Ouster To A Bif Birthday Doyle Knows Now The Queen Smokes Noise Brain Pressure AUTHOR BRISBANE Copyright 1030 Bynd JOHN D has lik ninety-second year Mr every reason Lord for lie is indeed wonderfully old men have attributed their to worrying Few lived to Mr age he hard work and strains lias borne in building his industries in face of competition enduring savage SHOULD WISH him years to enjoy the nr retrospection iIP Ins done the people did know to do for themselves j the natural wealth ot tne t h inc sums of mousy the money to fight l at the same 115 scientific production REPUBLICANS IN THROES OF HOT FACTIONAL TILT Showdown Certain In Com- Between Chairman And Parly Leaders FESS MAY BE NAMED III il i the cost of necessities Ik away to science and n more than five hundred dollars ami his son continues or hi son to whom he is in have turned over his is said to be the world's uv w compound lie might easily be richer thin In is by a billion dollars if lie kepi his in I- TWO and retold by his brother ill take Mr Rockefeller s badt ciuhty-fivc years UK EOT i Indian business by announcing he would auction off this bright The crowd ION 11 five Resignation Of Huston De- manded But Pie Refuses To Hand Over Reins BY FRANCIS M Associated Tress Staff Writer WASHINGTON July of fight Chairman Claudius Huston of the national committee day faced the officers of his tee who nre calling for his ate retirement In advance of today's meeting ton served notice lie would fight il out for his position against the at- tacks of party leaders in and of his own committee It Is one of tile most bitter rels in the organization In many years and intimates oE President Hoover were looking for a settlement which would Fights Foes YOUTH FATALLY SHOT HANDLING NEW REVOLVER Harry Miller 14 Of Stout Adams County Dies In Mercy Hospital WOUNDED IN ABDOMEN LINDBERGH JUNIOR on not bid until young lohn rail seven said I id said the live us your nickel sonny ami I I lie il out oE the said Rockefeller as cautious as and give me ninety-five was sure to get Sill roXAN who died week Sherlock Holmes a name Hint has become part of the and died a believer if anything does he think of r In some earth medium whom he may tell friends hi is very happy? remember this earth or it or is all Hint ns Client on before will lint not from Doyle H O O V KK SAYS I he be hy of il is folly to we j'ir-1'iiiM other nations Tii best of slie no difficulty in ont- nil linve lie money now we do I- miy in dors avoid n wide open break In the party's fold Showdown Contest oE the officers of I ho national committee was called by Huston several days ago for the pose mapping out plans for The fall campaign It has developed into a showdown contest between Huston and he party leaders who are de- manding Ills retirement After rounds of conferences White House and at the the lenders were determined to ask today for with However he returned to the city late hist night and stated em- be had no Intention of re- signing Two courses were under tion for today by the party leaders They nru prepared to ask Huston to call a special meeting of the tive committee This committee alosio has the power to remove nnd replace national party officers If Huston declines to do ibis they are prepared to circulate n petition ing a majority oC the members to favor the meeting Up To Hoover Others contend the whole issue over Huston is up to ver Hoover conferred with ton on Sunday night and told him of the to him but he did not ask for the resignation Then It became known i hat had no intention of resigning upon his foes who had been dently expecting his retirement soon as congress adjourned got busy They determined to have it out with him today Senator Moses of New Hampshire chairman Republican senatorial campaign committee alone of those called today's conference was ed to be standing with Huston The others here for the meeting were Daniel V of New Jersey a vice chairman Joseph It Null of Ohio treasurer James Francis of Pennsylvania counsel representative Wood Ind- iana chairman of tlic con- committee nnd Matt tou of Kentucky who has the proxy Mrs Alvin T Hert of that state Certain Republican leaders are after the scalp of Claudius Huston chairman of the national committee They demand that he resign ton has refused to do so Hoover BO far has refused to take n hand in the row Administration leaders fear a wide open break In party If the con- is not amicably settled MAN H M Griffith Dies After Helping Son Put Car In Garage A heart attack by ex- resulted in the death of H II Griffith 00 2333 Eighth street about p m Wednesday Mr Griffith nnd son Clyde 10 were r to push cnr in the Victim Just Recently Traded Rifle For Death Dealing Weapon When n 32 pistol ho was loading was discharged Harry Miller 14 of Stout Ohio was wounded so seriously In the abdomen that he died in Mercy hospital at 7 a in Thursday The fatal gunplay red In the kitchen of the hoy's home about one o'clock Wednesday after- noon Trades For Gun About two weeks ago while ing a stock sale in Kentucky ler traded a 22 rifle for the new pistol Ho hal been target ing and was loading In the presence of his sister Viola Miller IS As Jic was a shell into the the weapon discharged and the ball struck him In the abdomen plowing clear through his body Although fatally wounded the youth walked to a door in his and threw the gun away Coroner Virgil Kowler gave a dict of suicide Fowler says his in- disclosed the boy secured he gun after n quarrel with his step-father nnd mother about ing in the tobacco field Summoned Littleton of Koine DEMANDS FOR SECRET PAPERS WILL BE PASSED Three Amendments Before Senate Demanding Notes Of President GERMANY SCENE OF HOLOCAUST 49 ARE RESCUED 81 Recovered From Underground Tomb ers Trapped GAS IS RESPONSIBLE EXPECT VOTE TODAY Dr Adams Till HADN'T ont- ill oilier in battleships c before the wouldn't be in Holland King Georce wouldn't he in ships -i und incidentally bossed YOU SUDDENLY Hut to wall On Page Temperatures 11 n m High vice chairman Fess Probable Successor Senator Fess of Ohio has been slated to succeed Huston if when he retires Lucas of Kentucky the commissioner of internal revenue is favored to lie named as executive chairman in charge of organization work A conference at Republican quarters followed Huston's arrival last night It was learned the party chairman reiterated his refusal to re- his post Those who eil the meeting included mil Karle S Kinsley national man for Vermont age renr of the home Mr Griffith suffered a severe in his chest near the heart He returned to bis home became violently ill Dr A P Hunt was summoned but Mr Griffith few minutes after his arrival TIe is survived by the widow Mrs Rosio J Griffith one son Clyde one daughter Mrs Dollic Scott of W Va and bis mother Mrs Elizabeth Griffith of Wurtland Ky He also three brothers Hubert of Ky Jolin of Ky Jesse of South Portsmouth two sisters Mrs Alifair Sorrell of Ky nnd Mrs Lulu Walker of Funeral services will hi held in Hie home nt 10 a m Saturday Interment will be made in tlie cemetery in Ky PRISONER FACES LIFE TERM BUT MARRIES SWEETHEART W Va July Fleming 25 of Beckley convicted slayer Is a bridegroom but plans for a honeymoon are indefinite Fleming yesterday married Miss Jene Louise Brown of Ind in the Kaleigh county court bouse but shortly afterwards was re- turned to he county to await a hearing on a motion to set aside the verdict of life Imprisonment in tlie slaying of Benjamin Moss The here shortly after Fleming hnd been arrested at the Home of sister Vn for the slaying of Moss She was at His side during his trial a few weeks ago The couple had been engaged for some time Mrs Fleming said after ho ceremony that she wus confident that tier husband was innocent and I hat she very hopeful a new trial would be granted at the ing Friday She lias made ments to enter a hospital here 10 complete a nursing course ed when she left nnd plans to begin her duties following county and tered first aid and ordered the tim removed to the hospital Carl Taylor n neighbor the Imy to the Dr O thwait removed the bullet Miller is of Mrs Charles Peed of the dining room Here is the first photograph the world's best known Augustus Lindbergh Junior The picture was taken at the home of the baby's Ambassador and Mrs D wight Morrow at wood N Wednesday Associated Press Copyright The Associated Press accident occurred Besides the mother he is survived by one brother and two sisters Viola at home Mandy Campbell nnd Delia Windsor ot Herring and Miller of Salt Ky Ills father James Miller died several years ago WOMAN KICKED BY BOVINE DIES Mrs Sallie Downard Of Near Wakefield Suffered Leg In- jury Three Weeks Ago WAKEFIELD 0 July Emmaline Downard wife J 0 Downard Salt Creek and sister of Mrs Gertrude Thomas of Is dead as the result of being kicked on the leg by a cow three weeks jigo -A blood clot from the Injury and this brought death several days ago at the home on Salt creek Funeral services were held from the Salt Creek church with Itcv John Kemper of in charge Burial was In Salt Creek cemetery Surviving arc the husband five sous James Okey of Detroit Harold Hoy Clarence und Ernest nl home four daughters Nellie Delia Mary and Irma at home four dren four brothers J A Ward of O J E Ward of Post Office 0 William nnd Hoy Ward addresses unknown nnd two sisters Mis Gertrude Thomas of Portsmouth and Mrs Delia Pettit of Salt Creek WOMAN INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Mrs Marie Of South Point Serious Condition Here Four people giving ho names of Smith CO G II Elkins und son William Elkins and South TO PURCHASE TRUCK LINE V Wire the hearing Maximum yesterday's 81 fll S A M Ml fill M Clour 74 Clear Pt rs Cloudy us CIrar TO Cloudy 01 Clear m Clear so Cirar I Si us 00 Ml sn loo W I Vi 1 1 C TJ fll mj Unln 2 ft 5 ALIMONY GIVEN TO MRS MOSBY BY COURT CINCINNATI O July Mrs Roberta Mosby 20 who sought a divorce ami alimony from Gilbert II Mcsby president of the Mosby Medicine company today was granted the divorce and hy Judge C W Hoffman She charged gross neglect Mosby previously ashed for divorce ami countered with a cross ion OLDEST POLK COUNTY BANK IN FLORIDA CLOSES DOORS ria July State bank of Unities City oldest Institution in county failed o open for business today L W Smith president announced that withdrawals in Hie past sixty days caused directors to close for reorganization The liank was organized In 1013 AMERICAN LEGION RELIEF PROGRAM IS ACCOMPLISHED WASHINGTON July slute of the American Legion tually wiped clean hy the re- cently enacted laws liave upon the nation's hooks O L national der of organization speaking over a of lie Columbia Broadcasting CV said practically every important nnd outstanding of tlie American Legion has been enacted into gratitude to congress and President Miniver for their tion nnd attitude lie said the President has not ns liberal a some hnd hoped but lins shown n sympathetic attitude with reference to Ms tion FOREST FIRES SWEEPING TIMBER IN WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON W Vu July Forest fires were sweeping wooded sections In practically every section of West Virginia today fire wardens and forestry department chiefs urged extraordinary caution Spencer 15 months all of Point Lawrence county were In- jured Mrs Smith seriously when a car In which they were riding crashed into a telephone Wednesday night The accident occurred on trail about 10 miles north of tiie city Mrs Smith Is In Portsmouth eral suffering with a skull fracture and Internal Injuries Her nose almost severed and her left eye endangered by serious around the socket The others escaped with minor Injuries Mrs Smith has been keeping the Spencer baby for several months and was en route to Wakefield to turn to the child over to Edward Lowe Elkins a neighbor agreed to take flic woman and child to Wakefield nnd driving a sedan The cnr skidded and crashed Into a telephone pole with sufficient force to break the pole off near the ground deputy sheriffs said Edna Cooper of Columbus happened on the scene nnd removed the woman to the hospital Dr A P IB the attending physician Deputy Sheriffs Frank ett nidge and W L Smith gated SENTENCE OF PRISONER 0 July Kin -17 Newport News Va today to from two to 20 in Ohio after he pleaded ty to manslaughter in connection with the of Ernest Jolmson 28 i COLUMBUS Ity of the state public utilises com- mission to transfer a freight route equipment is sought -In an plication street Portsmouth has a transfer route from Portsmouth to Cincinnati and wishes to sell his line to B N operating as the Transfer company of 1120 iane mouth Purchase price Is given ns Removed To Lawrence Co Road And Opened Loot July Stanley gasoline filling station nt Third and Lorain streets was entered nnd the safe stolen and die establishment put on the records ns the sixteenth victim of the gangs that have operated in the over tlie last six months Loot in the Stanley robbery will amount to approximately police were informed today Thieves stele safe nnd all after they entered the station and the looted safe was Inter discovered over n hank on Ice Creek near the cement plant One door had been battered open and cash secured The safe was left within sight of the highway but no clues were left behind All Factions In Fight Over Ratification Agree On Passage WASHINGTON July tion with some modification of the McKellar resolution calling upon President Hoover for documents Ing on the London naval treaty which he has refused to produce was ex- today In the senate All factions In the over of the arms limitation pact were agreed the resolution ed sufficient votes for approval but there was some uncertainty as to what form the modification would take Three amendments were pending The first proposed by Senator Robinson ot Arkansas the leader who was a delegate to the London conference would have the resolution ask the President LO give tlie senate the papers in question If he considers such n course com- patible with the public interest The second delivers them in closed This amendment was offered by Senator Thomas Democrat Oklahoma Tho third proposed modification would permit Mr Hoover In trans- muting the documents to make as to how they should he considered by the senate Senator Democrat Georgia was the sponsor of tills amendment tif the treaty were con- of a'vote on the resolution be- fore adjournment tonight Today was the third day of debate on the ure nnd friends of the pact were to dispose of It nnd return to consideration of the treaty Itself As soon ns a vote Chairman Hale he naval com- was ready to bring n lengthy address opening the case of those op- to ratification Administration lenders were given Increased worries today over the problem of keeping a quorum of the Yesterday's roll call showed just the necessary senators to be present FOUND Engravings For 810 Notes Pocket Drilled And sion Follows Fumes Quickly Take Toll Hy The Germany July At least persons lost their lives yesterday in nn explosion nt the mine Eighty-one bodies have been recovered most of them burned badly hope is held for those remaining in the shaft The explosion in the mine curred when a large gas pocket was suddenly tapped during blasting Into yesterday The fumes spread through the shafts so quickly that there was little chance for anyone to escape work proved increasingly hazardous and finally was ut about midnight after a number of the crew fitted with gns masks bad been overcome or It was possible to save only 40 persons of lie 103 In the mine before breaking off the rescue work All of these although badly burned are expected to recover Tho disaster took both men officials completely off their guard in view of the periodical gaa survey having been completed only Sunday It by far the greatest mine disaster Germany has known In years In 1912 117 died in the mine disaster nnd in the death loll In the Dortmund mine reached 135 BROKERS BARRED FROM EXCHANGE to prevent fires The appeal made to berry pickers and campers I By Moonlight tty The KANSAS CITY July able to work in the blazing aun crews linve begun to harvest wheat by moonlight in parts of Kansas Ole Olson 45 a liean Mo farm hand died from the hent while plowing corn Akron killed what police said was a drunken pagan entered his guilty plea us soon ns testimony finished in his The case was not given to the jury by Charles While who sentence Johnson was five limes in the on 8 nt ville here onil died five Inter from wounds FORMER MAYOR DIES VAN WERT O July heart attack today the life of Dr F P Kreider former major of this city and a World veteran PARK SITE SPUING FIELD 0 July tion filed in probate court here has linked condemnation of 201 acres of In Clark county sunlit by the state for tlie establishment of on Ohio revolutionary memorial on the site of the HORITS Clark ment lins been brought in the name of A T superintendent of public owners of the land JUDGE DIES O Inly W Stanley nl bis home here a A native of Indiana Stanley National university here practiced Inw in later might in the university and pointed common judge in by Found In Farm House In Carroll County The CANTON July mouths of patient undercover work federal secret service agents by Canton detectives nnd of Carroll county today con- one of the most elaborate counterfeiting ever uncovered in this section of tlie country Ten for making notes were taken ns evidence and the remainder of the counterfeiting nnd machinery In the plant destroyed C B Walton 38 n telephone man in the between nnd Delroy where tlie was placed tinder ar- rest and brought to Canton nnd for federal authorities information three ago tlic under tion detectives kept the farm nnd ton under constant It not until Tuesday lint it discovered that Walton had in having 10 made After finding the counterfeiting tbe parly of and ice went to where ton employed ns a telephone man 11 I in: I II I New York Concern Under Suspension For able Transactions NEW YORK July The New York Slock today an- the suspension of Sulro and company OH Xew York nnd Snn cisco for three years v governing committee ex- that the substance of the charges the member that through the manner In which the street New York branch of- flee of Sutro and company con- ducted transactions to buy and sell the same security were at the same time nnd nt the same price and in the opinion of the governing commit lee did not involve n change of ownership James H floor manager of the firm was suspended under the rules of the exchange which dealt with the suspension of bers for conduct inconsistent just and principles of trade und forbid firms to purchase or sell securities for customers find make a practice Inking the side of the market opposite lie side laken by customers WIDOW DEAD MILAN July widow of the famous composer died Innt night of n nt lie nge of 70 States Wilt Under Merciless Sun Uy The Preti CHICAGO July Middle America wills under n merciless sun Twenty have died The grain for Two of the bent occurred In the fields An Iowa farmer prof rated by n temperature high In be nineties fell dead nt his plow A Nebraska farmer died tlie sanic way There were temperatures of 100 degrees or holler ns far north as nnd North Dakota and south to Louisiana nnd The hottest spot Miles City Mont with 108 Huron B D rending of 103 while the heat went to three figures in Kansas City Sioux City In St Mo Intl vilte Tenn Ln Kns and Ala to name a few widely separated places There were readings of 108 degrees In Mitchell 8 U nnd Sioux Falls Chicago surrounded by bent by its lake Michigan location H northeast brecie fanning thankful Milwaukee and other lake shore cities also enjoyed comparative from the bent blanket The twenty odd Chicago beaches a ot colored beach pajamas robes parasols and suits two drownings Forecasters offered little relief They did venture that it would not quite so warm In west tomorrow but Illinois nnd some other middle sections were warned to for even wanner weather Too Many Firsts Will Rogers MILLS Calif July genial competitor for the nation's car Mr Calvin In one of his ad- people o spend more Now wo Mr cess has been bused on personally following that theory but my ad- vice Is toe exact opposite If there ever a time to It Is now When n dog gets a bone go out nnd make the first payment on a nigger bone It Ife buries he one he's gol Don't first payment on anything payments Is what made us were prosperous and the other 10 Is what showed us we were broke Yours Will Rogers IN OHIO FINAL Miss Mary Hauck Of Toledo To Oppose Defending Champion Tomorrow COLUMBUS 0 July Mrs the champion and Miss Mary of the club Toledo will meet on tlic couree in the final for the women's golf championship of Ohio Mrs Soldi playing her home course today de- Miss Kdith Canterbury club Cleveland 3 ami 1 Hiss eliminated Miss champion Cincinnati Country club one-up in the semi-final round DOYLE'S SPIRIT WANDERING AROUND IN HIS OLD HOME W Vn July Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spirit Is wondering around his home lii land to the Ilev Thomas II pastor of Christian Spiritualist church who reported dny that he hnd been In tion with the dead author by means ot n v Sir Arthur's spirit Informed the guide that be- would communicate di- with Adrian Doyle his son first said lie was told spirit will to tlie author's by knocks hy voice or by Impression the ther he to have n full account of the visitation Friday knew Sir Arthur he said him ami sat la his circle he The -111 with Sir Arthur in mon on lie oil the spirit's
