Sandusky Register (Newspaper) - February 25, 1937, Sandusky, Ohio COW ASSOCIATED & ft * p o ft t a The Sandusky Register 0 tl 18 2 2*-**** 4 m ADS QUICK VOL. 1 i 4. N 0. 48 FEBRUARY 25, 1937 PRICE f r i cj CENTS RETIREMENT BLOCKED IN SENATE Police Without Cleveland es Slaying All-Day Search Kalis To Produce Additional Paris Of Feb. 24 reached tonight same Impasse In Invent of Cleveland's torso slaying as In 0* the previous An all day of Lake east side produced no no parts ef the woman's me trunk ni which washed yesterday almost the same spot where the first torso was found on Sept. 5. 1934. Anting Safety Director Robert tonight ho at least two killers for the butchery In last a half Ho urged Police Chief J. to exhaust every possibility In the investigation raid Hip on the new torso were not as straight and as those found on the lour men and women slain in the Kingsbury Another difference in he was the severance of latest victim's head after In six previous on Page 12 Col. 4) The decapitated torso of a eighth headless bedy mystery in and a half shown being carried away by policemen from the shore of Lake Erie in the city's east it was found by a Police authorities concentrated their search for a surgically skilled maniac they believed for the 25,000 LABORERS IDLE IN STRIKES ORDER MEN OUT OF AIRPLANE FACTORY SANTA Feb. by notice ordered sit-down strikers out of Douglas Aircraft Corp. plant lale today and said force will be used to remove them if powers that Police Chief Charles Dice aud two detectives copies of the ultimatum upon the telling them they were ly are further notified to pel off this property the order over Dice's what would du it the milkers ignored the Dice will take it up with the powers that be and if they want me to use 1 will do lie did not identify the The ultimatum was served alter Douglas officials declined to participate in a peace conference with Director Towne Nylander ol ihe federal regional labor board attempted to ununge and had demanded that peace authorities Hie plant of President Douglas of the company rejected the conference Undetermined hundreds of the 50UU Douglas remained in the plant in defiance of a trespass from company executives asking them to The company estimated 20U strikers were in the Strike leaders saU C. It. chairman of the strike board of and An drew board member and for the United Automobile which has an aircraft division local at the plant said 1,000 employes had signed union ship cards since the sit down was called said the union has 3aU0 including many who dropped out of the Douglas In a new statement of objectives he and Anderson said the union is demanding reinstatement of throe discharged a fat increase of cents an hour for of the time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and Company officials have reported pay in the plant ranges from 4U cents to an but Schmolder the basic scale is 3U'/3 and the average top wage is 85 great number of the workers are getting as little as 35 lie the wage for a 40-hour week is T. Of the said some of the forcibly opened a temporary door to a portion of the plant where a government plane was under lie denied the reports they had torn down a settlement ion said has been nothing FORECAST - Partly cloudy and colder Friday Weather somewhat with occasional light - Light snows ure reported from the lake U be colder on Thursday in the lower lake region and the Ohio valley temperature 34; on same late Jast 54; lowest yesterday 22; on same date 43; ' yesterday on same date 0; 7:3.0 a. m. 43. noon 72, sun rises 7:U; sun sets MAJOR STRIKES IN STATE UNSETTLED IU Ohio's major strikes remained unsettled last as a brief In the Fisher llody plant at Cleveland came to light and another strike was called at from the General Retail clerks union closed the W. T. Grant department at Akron yesterday after union for higher and better working conditions In the same city steel union of the Committee for Industrial Organization met to determine a course In the sit-down at the Enterprise Manufacturing company's two employing 400 At Toledo opposing sides In the Conklin Pen company which began last remained United Automobile Workers of who began organizing the 11S workers a month demand five io 25 percent cent increases und other A half-hour sit-down in the Body plant at Cleveland Tuesday came to light as United Automobile Workers of America demanded that the company remove Ann 1-vans American Federation of Labor from the They charged Miss Moore with up women members for the A. P. of L. In violation of the agreement that ended the General Motos Bhe remained at work as company officials considered the Seven hundred are employed In the trim department where the sit-down * * * SIT-DOWN ENDED AT OHIO PLANT 0., 34 to recognize the Springfield Printing and I as sole bargaining agent for the 941 pressroom employes of the Crowell Publishing company ended late today a one-day sit-down Company officials said the men would return to work at 6 a. m. tomorrow and that publication of Crowell including Collier's Weekly and the American would not be Wage Increases and shorter working which the pressmen also are to be negotiated beginning they The settlement followed tabulation of a ballot which the company asked as proof of union contentions that they were percent The vols was announced as 941 for the two against and one About 800 who had occupied the plant since noon marched out as soon as the bargaining agreement was signed by Charles J. Crowell vice Paul local union and William M. vice president of the Printing and Plan Feb. 24 Ohio Chamber of in a statement sent to aU Ohio expressed opposition today to President Roosevelt's proposed reorganization of the federal as relates to the Supreme Court of the United * * * RENEW DEMANDS FOR INCREASED WAGES 7*e Demands for higher pay and union recognition sent hundreds of recruits Into the ranks of the nation's strikers yesterday Approximately 35,000 persons were idle in labor disputes at more than 40 industrial and business firms scattered from Xew to the Pacific - Production was curtailed or halted In textile and paper cigar and auto parts ship steel and iron and a huge airplane In a dozen centers the employes participated in Commenting on this Secretary of Commerce Roper sit down strike that undertakes to take over private property is a serious and fundamental and in my opinion not be long endured by the He spoke after Connecticut state police removed 107 of these squatters from the property of the Electric Boat builders of submarines for Jhe government at protesting the use of officers as and formed a picket Sheriff Kmery moved to emulate this first actual eviction of sedentary strikers at 111. He mobilized 25 deputies and policemen in an attempt to carry out a court order directing the evacuation of 35 from the Century Wallpaper mills Nine hundred persons were thrown out of work at the Illinois Watch Case company nt Elgin when members of the workers union recognition and a minimum pay The was patrolled by the strikers in a test of the of a legal picket Organizer Harry V. Gill of the American Federation of Labor is a The sit-down strike has by several Picketing orders went along the New England shoe strike front but the movement dwindled after more than a of manufacturers agreed to a demand for a 15 percent pay hike by the United Shoe and Leather Workers The Chrysler corporation at Detroit agreed tonight to confer on collective bargaining with the United Automobile Workers of as union conferees negotiating strike issues with General reached tentative agreements on three more of their on 12. Col. 5) GIVEN FOR FEBRUARY RELIEF WORK County Alloted Fund By State For Aid Of Indigents 0., Feb. 24 poor relief grants of for February eased temporarily a threatened crisis today while legislative leaders sought new means of financing a long-range The state relief which yesterday allotted to the 88 counties for made the additional distribution waiving its rule that each county must report on the previous month's expenditures before receiving new in where relief demands are cessation of scheduled for was postponed Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland and commissioner Reynolds declared emergency funds would be there by They called a meeting of city and county leaders for tomorrow to consider the Cleveland Funds Low Burton said city funds were low because of a 1296,300 for and they would suffer if the state insisted on local matching of grants in the He said a permanent state relief policy must be established Having mude air of a grant available immediately at the discretion of the relief state legislators considered probable revenue sources for needs throughout the The on Page 12, Col. 3) is predicted here Snow Blankets Ground Street Department A light followed by an immediate drop in blanketed Sandusky yesterday making traveling hazardous for and pedestrians Shortly after 6 o'clock four street department men went on night duty sprinkling salt at traffic lights and cross Salt was also put down at the 1�~fin-av subway and the and Four other men will go on duty at 4? a. m. today to get downtown streets in shape by Fair and colder for today was the forecast of Weatherman C. C. A minimum of 18 degrees was expected last At 8 p. m. the thermometer was down to 22. Yesterday's 34 was considerably below that of a year 54. The low was 22 degrees compared to 43 the same day in 1936. Yesterday's precipitation was inches compared to none the same day a year German Consulate Burned As Loyalists Flee City Fleeing before advancing Fascist insurgents who captured the important southern seaport of Malaga in a major victory in Spain's civil loyal government troops set fire to the German consulate Larios Here are the ruins of the two The German consulate undoubtedly was burned because of avowed Nazi sympathy of the insurgent Auto Tags For 1937 Received At Club Auto tags for 1937 three tons of Fred Volmer said he he had to lift the Auto offices No word has been received as to when distribution will Other d o p u t registrars also received shipments A meeting of deputy registrars held -in at a date to be announced to instructions tor 1937 Serial numbers for Sandusky tags are the as last YH and To finish the season last numbers YK and YL had to be supplied when the auto club ran out of A sample white with is in the auto club office The club received eases of the seek to assist radio company Lauber And Hill Working For Simplex City Manager Lauber and George C. president of the Chamber of are aiding in an attempted of expansion plans of the Simplex Radio which may Include and larger Both Hill and Lauber said another building is consideration but plana have r ot advanced far The Sandusky er of Commerce president is planning to call a meeting of men aa soon as plans hava progressed The it is may bo asked to participate in men are j the same old Has vexed its with other industry we seek to bring that of a suitable the of Commerce business and expanding it has become an increasingly serious Possibilities that the West Battery might be leased for an industrial enterprise of some kind were also seen by FIND 3 SKELETONS Feb. 24 - Workmen uncovered the skeletons of adult persons at the east limits of the city causing Coroner William Shapiro to search police records for old unsolved Martin J. owner of the said when ho bought it several years ago three men were making illicit liquor in a shack Noted British Thespian Dies Feb. 24 W Guy noted British film died suddenly today of a heart Sir one of the most popular members of the colony in Hollywood and admired for his kindly collapsed at a garage as he called for his A police ambulance was but he was pronounced dead when it reached receiving A garage attendant said he asked the are you feeling never felt Sir Guy replied but at that the attendant he fell to the Sir Guy was 63 years He was knighted by the lato King George V for his work as an officer in the British Navy during the World Take From Dog Bed Of River Feb. 24 a supplied by an insistent police dragged the river opposite the Ohio State stadium today In search for a possible drowning For several days the dog paced up and down the fiver sniffing expectantly and peering Imo the muddy Patrolman 13d reported finding one small footprint on the bank While children had been reported the dog's action led police to send grappling Irons and a boat to the spot on the quits post on county board Mrs. Hertlein Resigns Because Of 111 Efforts to form a board of public assistance in received another setback Wednesday when Mrs. Alice K. Hertlein tendered her resignation because of ill Mrs. Superintendent of Schools F. J. Prout and Mrs. Rose Wagner were appointed to the board Tuesday by H. J. chief of the state division of public Mrs. Hertlein announced her resignation at a meeting held in the board of public assistance office on the second floor of the city building called for the purpose of electing Miss Kathryn appointed to the board when it was first organized several months was named secretary pro Judge John W. Baxter will act as permanent Other officers will be named at a to be held Wednesday of next Aside from those named the meeting was attended by Miss Beatrice district Mrs. Marie Ham's head of the local and William chairman of the board of county Prout was unable to attend owing to business in Organize Here For Fight On Disease Twenty-five mostly executives of business and other took to organize as part of a national movement for control of syphilis a meeting at Hotel Rieger The campaign will be largely Health Commissioner V. M. local with H. local called the Further organization steps will bo taken during a meeting to be held at a date to be TUe session was addressed by Dr. James Angus Dow ell cf the Western Reserve Medico EMPLOYMENT OFFERED Feb. 24 - Ohio State university offered students whose parents suffered heavy flood losses part-time employment under the national youth administration program seeking action on application Bulkley And White Want Waterworks Funds U. S. Senator Robert J. Bulkley and Congressman Dudley A. White are pressing for attention to Sandusky's application for a PWA waterworks grants as a result of allocations for City Manager Lauber has received a letter from Congressman White giving the latest data on the situation and enclosing a copy of a letter received by Senator Bulkley from Horatio B. assistant In tho the cooperation with him on this waterworks it develops that allocations have been approved for Pennsylvania during the last few On the strength of this Senator Bulkley and some of the rest of us are pressing for attention to some of our Congressman White Hacket wrote Senator Bulkley in regard to a waterworks grant for Sandusky in part as the authority of this administration expires on June 30. 1937, it is Improbable that allotments will be recommended for any appreciable number of projects until there is some indication as to what attitude Congress may take toward the continuation of public works can make no comment now as to our future action in connection with the allotment of but you may bo sure that I will keep In mind your Interest in this application and that it will receive prompt attention should circumstances allow further Hacket also stated City Manager on Page 12, Col. 6) First Coal At Pennsy Docks Thirty-five harbingers of spring stood In the Pennsylvania railroad yards hero yesterday They were 35 cars of coal sent down from the mines for spring tho first of the Capacity of cars ranged from tiO to 90 Other shipments are expected to follow in Increasing numbers between now and the opening of Word on machinery is still underway at the docks preparing for an early Sandusky Citizens Pay Tribute To John Lay Expressions of regret over the death of John pioneer Great lAkes were many last almost without mentioned his Many instances of his quiet aid to the unfortunate were Typical expressions Police chief p. a. a man and 4 charitable He did many good deeds most people knew COMMISSION PRESIDENT R. C. sustained a greai by death ft nobility of his as to his Me tee 111 by all who knew Despite his busy career iu building a monumental he was deeply concerned iu serving and helping I had know him for 30 His quiet daily rounds of generous kindness and help to those in sickness and in need is a challenge to practical Christian jay dent Erie County was wonderful He visited the Home until carrying visiting individuals and giving of kindness and y CHARLES of Children's of 'the will miss We tc er items to the He derived a great deal of pleasure from giving these presents to Several children came to me asking that be ta purchase flowers for Mr. FIRE CHIEF JOWN of the liberal hearted men I ever I have often Iu this section of the Widows and orphans of men received visits from biui I have seec % poof family with help lb always very friend gf I hayo and his Ha Vm a mm lb a tta tbs you consider the many fine things he did in Sandusky of which few people we begin to realize our He had a heart as big as they F. E. 430 Lay was a wonderful All wW miss I have one with a more wonderful complete deputy of have done with ever I came to 35 years In my was this city's Christian ' His deeds were absolutely la a by themselves and let particularly the fact that they were Legion Seeks Lease On Former Quarters Commodore American during a special meetin last night began negotiations for a long term lease on its former head quarters in the old Commander Clifford N. said no definite decision lease was reached last Denig Post is trying to get a long term lease to justify sp money for Extensive improvements are planned ihe in case of a favorable The question will be brought forward at the next regular meeting Mar. 3. Hunt Fugitive Feb. 24 Police searched this vicinity tonight after the finding of a stolen automobile believed to have been used ib the flight of Benjamin alias last remaining fugitive of the 146,000 mail train robbery which the gang perpetrated ou Nov. 7, George town marshal at the Feb. U Sidney a. who Is also professor at Ohio led today lb dedicate of a m ctty hall built with PWA funds to replace the municipal building years ap Jjr the ' - SEEK OPINION OF PUBLIC TO STOP TACTICS Leaders Confident Of Eventual Action On Court Feb. in the Senate they were counting upon the force of public break any filibuster that might develop against the Roosevelt court reorganization Readily conceding that the position could muster enoughs strength to postpone a vote they nevertheless predicted thit such tactics would the to evoke a storm of condemnatory statements from the Their in the event of a will bo to let it proceed for a time and take pains to characterize every dilatory move i At the same they expect President Roosevelt to join battle to break a should one by taking the issue to tha public in a radio These disclosures came in tho course of a day that brought a radio speech attacking the court plan Senator Holt and some parliamentary jockeying the Summers which would peri mit members of tho Supreme Court to on full pay at 70. Protest Consideration Senator In charge of tho which is supplementary to tho Presidential proposal to name six new Supremo Court sought to obtain consideration by unanimous Senator the and Senator King Soon McCarran entered on Pago 12, Col. 7) School Alumni To Start Band With 50 Pieces Sandusky High school band alumni started organization of their own band last night during a the Sentor High r Thirty alumni were present and 20 more have been assured to start the band off with 50 school band instrumentation of those attending worked out very in fact almost as as If had been ' ' Donald graduate with the class of 1936, was elected temporary Rehearsals will be Monday beginning at 7:30 p. m. at tho Senior High meeting of tho group will be held Monday night in connection The will bo known for the present as the High school Alumni Other players Sandusky school alumni but about the as band alumni are Invited to become of the J Oak Harbor Dentist Aged 45, Found Dead OAK Feb. 24- Clifton 45. was found dead today in his office Coroner R. R. Semon of did not turn a verdict but he Frye's wrists were slashed and case appeared to be Dr. Frye had been living with his George and Sherman R. Another lives in Port Clinton and a Frank Ortn la Chagrin or Dr. Frye was an officer In Knights of Pythias Lodge and a We mi to u ewo 9� 9ft hut 4m it ru knout What of |
