Sandusky Register (Newspaper) - January 19, 1939, Sandusky, Ohio it m The Sandusky Register oldest tomm 0 Vl ft 1 m tout smm N 0. 1ft Sta. tm ELECTRIC RATE MEASURE DISPUTE EN BORAH BACKS REQUEST FOR LARGER FUND Places Which Can Senator Jan. 18 Borah stepped into the sizzling controversy over the amount to be appropriated for work lief today with a vigorous statement against cutting the sum requested by President He took this stand while a Senate subcommittee heard a succession of witnesses give their views as to whether the appropriation should be asked by the Chief Executive and voted by the or some The appropriation is intended to finance work relief until June 30. * am for the Senator there are plenty of Places to cut federal expenditures without taxing It out of the hides ot poor helpless people on Many of them are living like hundreds or thousands of them know there is a lot of waste and mismanagement In but 1 aYn not going to have It on my conscience that I do not vote for what those in charge say is Of the advocates of a smaller he are proposing to drop 200,000 workers In the dead of winter and 200,000 more when the cold March winds are Uod knows what those people are going to do unless they More of Problem 'The poor people of this country are much more of a problem than are the armies and navies of foreign When the armaments appropriations come there will be no close The day brought additional evidences of sentiment in the Senate against following the leadership of the House and reducing the appropriation Senator Bone for testified before the subcommittee in favor of the larger and Senator announced that ho would support it. While conceding that a swell or opposition to reducing the appropriation had some Senate leaders were definitely of the opinion thus far at it was not strong enough to put the appropriation through he Senator McNary the Republican floor predicted that the House figure of be left in the face of efforts both to Increase and reduce it. He he would vote for any smaller Senator Nye a member of the said he had made up his mind to support the House can leave it at that he then If it should prove insufficient to the point of working a hardship on the we will be here make another Friends of Senator Glass chairman of the appropriations reported meanwhile that the Virginian Intended to offer an amendment himself to reduce the appropriation to Governor of New in a telegram urged Congress not to force a cut In WPA He said such a reduction would mean an for New York state and New York With today's the subcommittee concluded the testimony taking phase of the and planned to begin work on amendments to the SENATORS NAMED Jan. 18 tors Frank E. Whittmore and Harry A. Hughes were named by Lieutenant Governor Paul M. Herbert today as members of a committee to sent Ohio at the World's Fair in Now James Succeeds Earle As Pennsylvania Governor i Arthur H. speaking at his inauguration governor of Pennsylvania in ceremonies at his incoming Republican administration to seek major keep politics out of relief and aid labor and industry George H. the retiring and James are shown riding in a horse-drawn victoria from the mansion to state fair Thursday except www Hurries in east portion Thursday polder slowly rising at 0ONMTI0N��TbB central has moved northeastward to western where it Is Precipitation has almost generally oyer the eastern half of the United States the temperature has fop light saw Thursday to the tower lake end the extreme upper Ohio generally fair will prevail Thursday and The jure will be slightly lower in most sections Thursday and Thursday followed by slowly rising temperature yesterday on same date mi year lowest temperature yesterday w mm date tat jew precipitation m mm date last tm FRANCE AGREES NOT TO SUPPLY HELP TO SPAIN Spanish Insurgents Believed Near Britain To Continue Plan IBj While insurgents closed on the government capital of Barcelona yesterday France bowed to the British pressure and agreed definitely to withhold aid from the embattled government The French informed sources decided to keep ihe Spanish frontier closed to that would aid the government so rather thai risk British for her held steadfastly to the non intervention Prime Minister Chamberlain declined a request to parliament to discuss aid for government He said Britain would continue to assist unofficial organizations working for relief of Spanish The French decision was made despite a growing fear that an insurgent victory would give Italy a strong foothold in The acted at long meeting at which it the plea of a considerable section of French opinion that help should be to Shift 60,000 Soldiers The Barcelona was reported to have ordered 60.JOO soldiers shifted the Madrid front to reinforce the Advices to French border said 12,000 men already were on their reached Valencia northward by sea on a perilous trip through waters In are Insurgent Generalissimo Franco was concentrating his fleet off the coast of Catalonia and increasing his air patrol of coastal The sea route is the only one over which troops could be shitted from the government's sou liern territory to its northeastern where Barcelona is Insurgents control a wide to the sea between the two parts of government Berlin rumors that Pr Paul Joseph would be relieved of bis duties in a general of high The officials declined deny said Goebbels become a chief district and that Field Marshal Hermann would become vice chancellor and war minister Officials Confer On Housing Plans City Manager Solicitor Go Over Subject With State Board Further Information regarding the city securing a federal housing loan was obtained by City Manager Wagar and City solicitor C. E. Moyer during a conference in Cleveland yesterday with C. E. representative of the U. S. Housing Coffin is secretary of the Ohio board of the Housing Wagar said last night upon return from that it was imperative that the real property inventory be completed before seeking a He said Coffin wanted the JUVENILE CASES GET DISCUSSION Probate Judge Baxter Speaks Before Legion Probate and Juvenile Judge John Baxter addressed members of Com modore American last night on Juvenile delinquency during a meeting in the club Judge Baxter explained to members efforts being made to organize the Council of Social Agencies to combat Juvenile delinquency and provide for child welfare in Sandusky and The members voted to work with Judge Baxter in the Legionnaires were extended an Invitation by the Ohio and Home Employes Association to attend a motion picture to be shown at assembly hall 25 and 26. The pictures concerns the 37th Division and action pictures at St. Dom Cua and William Ferbach were nominated last night for thn newly created position of second vice The election will be held at the next 2, It was announced that dues have been reduced for the 72, Dies NEW Jan. 18 W - Carl E- the comic artist who caricatured his own grandfather as kindly and died in his sleep early today at the age of 19. The wealth he bad acquired through two decades as one of the nation's most popular newspaper comic strip artists before the ascendancy of crafty and heroic had long since and in recent years had worked for the There were months though Pf late when even that 195 a denied him as his on Page 10, 3) Attempts To Collect Pension Funds U. Ohio renewed today obtain more than It in federal for tu the state's cid age pensions rist Senators Taft and three members p{ the state senate Chairman Arthur J. of the board to mate tte grant for Taft said it Mm thai state should formal ir guest for the Wl Us meats on legaj last suspended later federal grants to ill make a retroactive tax tote bmm the 414 bave aa approved in that om m m tfa until its were but that after the had been the payment Should have been With Wt and at tha conference State Fred of the finance Grant P. el and Pen of state was temporarily cut off the Ust of those fraats the Governor Martin PavlA The hoard said tbe state aid to heard was uie m it m mom .it Mic 1S� re- CPA I erty survey so the government would know the number of people in need of Wagar said small houses would be constructed for low He added that Coffin displayed plays yesterday showing homes that are than the average cottage In The city will also have to furnish a plan along with results of the property survey before a loan will be granted Wagar The property survey will probably be completed He added that another meeting will be held with Coffin in about three Cancel Speech By Labor Head BEAVER Jan. 18 scheduled address by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to Geneva College students has been be cause of the situation in the Beaver President M. Pearce said The Women's Student association had Invited Miss Perkins for the annual women next The Amelia Earhart and Mrs. Martin the ex had appeared in the past Asserting the college tion had found the labor situation Pearce Miss Perkins not par Identified with a labor movement we would have been very glad to have had She is a very brilliant wgman and Identified with social work outside of her duties as labor 2 Boys Confess To Slaying Aged Man Jan. 18 Chief John C. Calhoun announced that two of three boys in custody had confessed late today participation the fatal shooting last day of Marshal William of New Miami when he surprised them in a The Calhoun named the third 18 years as the actual Simpson died yesterday of a bullet wound over the With Marshal Andrew came Upon five men attempting the burglary fell amid a burst of gunfire as the quintet The three youths were seized less than hours YOUTHS 3 8 youths who escaped Nov. 18 from the Industrial School here were sentenced Mansfield reformatory for 10 to 3$ years each alter pleading guilty today to They were Julius 16, James 17, Albert all of and vid of 18 of John It of a trustee of State University for a term ending May was announced day by Governor John W. Backer Williams is superintendent of sm n m - The Ohio State Medial 8<5&�'4 today selected U % ot as to succeed Pr. Floyd Meek of whose term expires March U Pr. SNOW HITS 7.5 INCHES FOR 6 DAYS Mascot At Travel Travel was precarious on city streets and sidewalks last despite dumping of tons of cinders and and on highways as other inch of snow between 8 a.m. and 7j30 p.m. brought the six day total to 7.o inches Three and four applications of salt and cinders had been made at busy Street Supt. August Zeiher with more be Fall Intermittent The intermittent snowfall which left an Inch of show on the froze over the salt and cinders so that they had practically no Supt. Zeiher More than two tons of salt and 20 truck loads of cinders were hauled by street department trucks yesterday and scattered at dangerous street Intersections in the downtown district and other parts of the city The Mascot will again attempt to break the ice at tho Bay wharf today to star a trip to the Islands and Harold of the J. P. Boat said last Leonard who has the boat at made an effort yesterday to free the Mascot from the Island but was Ice waa forming rapidly about the wharf last The half inch of tee around the boat Tuesday night had greatly Should the Mascot make the trip on Page 10, Col. 5) CUTS PROTEST C o Feels Work Reductions Are Register Bureau Jan. 18 A protest over dismissing from Works Progress Administration rolls persons eligible for old age pensions and dependent children aid with no prospect of immediate assistance was lodged today by Congressman Dudley A. White with President Roosevelt and WPA Administrator The current situation where persons over 65 and mothers with dependent children are being discharged as eligible for Social Congressman White Is attributed to an order issued by the executive branch and the In the case of the Thirteenth District and Ohio residents Congressman White feels the order sinco those dropped from WPA rolls face waits as long as six months or a year until Social Security aid is One reason for WPA money running Congressman White is found In the Jumping of expenditures in the state from eleven million dollars last April to 2? million dollars In October just before In November Ohio expenditures dropped back to seventeen and December figures may show a further Baumhart Measure Would Convey Land State Senator A. D. Vermilion yesterday introduced a into the state senate at Columbus authorising the governor to convey 217 acres of land adjacent to Buckeye Lake to the Federal Bureau of No action was taken on the before the senate voted to adjourn until Jan. 23, HEAP DIES WOOSTER 18 services will be held Friday at 2 p. for Charles Albert former of state hospital and sheriff here 1933-37. 57. died last BONDS TOTAL DOWN New General City Issues Are But 400 In The smallest amount of bonds in many was floated in the general debt bracket during 1938, figures released by City Treasurer C. F. Breining showed yesterday The grand total of outstanding city debts is according to Brackets in which debts belong are public 000; and special The worth of mortgage revenue bonds Issued during 1938 for construction ot the new waterworks comes under classification of public utility It will be paid from revenue received from operation of the waterworks and not from Nothing Added Nothing was added to the special assessment debt during 1938 The debt which accumulated during the past five years totals In 1938 the city floated bonds totaling for fire for improvements of docks and for city for and drains and for street More was spent for street Improvement but the city's portion was but much of tho remainder being Works Progress Administration The total spent by the city during 1938 through bond Issues was which Included the In waterworks revenue The remainder was through general Issues Outstanding debts in 1937 public and special total The city redeemed In bonds during 1938 reducing the grand total to This with the sum spent during 1938. gives the figure of In 1934 in bonds were issued for sewers and drains which will mature In 1939 as will worth of bonds spent on docks and In 1941 city garage bonds total lng will A total of In bonds spent for fire equipment during a course of years will mature In 1940. Waterfront improvement bonds totaling will be paid in full in 1950 unless there are further Is REPUBLICANS ACT TO HALT WAHL Jan. 18 - Despite the protests of large cities that they could not match state relief a house welfare subcommittee late tonight completed a redraft of tho temporary relief which retained the matching Receipts from the new waterworks will not be taken to pay off the revenue bonds until 1941. The bonds will be paid off with a rate of two and three-quarters percent The maturity date Is 1961. The new waterworks is ex to be put into operation In 1940. It Is now under Speed To Side Of Boat Which Lost Propeller 18 - Salvage tugs and a coast guard cutter plunged through heavy seas tonight to aid the freighter Black in a freshen lng storm 75 miles southeast of Sable Nova Art east by northeast wind kicked up the north and as the relief vessels rolled toward the there were forecasts of Coast guard headquarters re ported the tug Relief was heading northward out of New the Canadian salvage vessel tion was bearing down from Hall N. and the service cutter Cayuga was heading up the New England The Cayuga was expected at the Black side sometime to but the exact positions of the other vessels were not Her tail shaft broken and her propeller the Diamond line freighter was reported drifting in a south easterly Arson Cases Cleaned Up By Arrest Of Attica Man 18 w The sheriff's office tonight transferred reports on a arson ease from the files to the files of Prosecutor Robert Carpenter said Royal Attica farmer arrested for pig confessed setting fire ta a ham on the Jacob 15. 1915. a fire that Today the jury indicted geesy for arson ie that fixe and another at the Willis gtahl March 9* m building and other property at a ( h v returned against Beesy accused him ot a pig and on the turn at Attics Deputy Sheriff R. metz quoted Keesy saying a to get with neighboring farmers caused him to set fire to the two He said ho became angered at Sherman tenant farmer whose livestock was destroyed in the Smith because tried to buy a farm for whose purchase Keesy was and that he sought revenge when the latter tried to buy a geesy then said Investigation following arrest for pig stealing last November resulted covering evidence of his with the two Jan. 18 In the Ohio legislature acted late today to strip Director of Public Works Carl Q. Wahl of his authority over the statehouse and Its A hitting at the of the late Democratic administration was introduced in the The Republicans hoped to pass it Immediately but discovered because of absentees in their they did not have the needed Frank E. Republican leader hi the said he understood Wahl had been exercising arbitrary powers over the by laying off The public works director said the legislature's cut of In his budget compelled to give 40 employes in Columbus until Feb. 1. Progress on the relief was slowed up In the house as Governor John W. spoke critically of the action of the Works Progress Administration In dismissing action which city officials said was forcing hundreds of persons back upon municipal relief looks to mo more like an effort of the federal administration to duck its the governor He described the relief as serious problem that has been Intensified by the The In his afternoon press reiterated his criticism of the He said he considered it a unconscionable thing to kick the WPA workers off without an investigation to determine whether they were eligible for other of public other poor puts the burden hack on the the WPA workers get hungry just like the rest of He asserted he thought the WPA layoffs to be act of bureaucratic character out of on Page 10, Col. 6) UTILITY END PROTEST AT COLUMBUS No Referendum titions nance Starts Today rate dispute between the city and Ohio Public vice which has been tog for 10 appeared have been settled for five years last flight Wheit referendum petitions against the new schedule had not been filed up to the | The new rate lowtt than that now wag stated to become effective today appeal filed by the utility with tilt utilities commission will hold up the new rates going Into effect until it is ' No rates other than those now M effect be charged until public Utilities has tried the case OS the appeal dismissed the City Awaits Word City Solicitor C. B. Moyer said last night that he had received wl word from Columbus aa to when the case would be Commission President C. A. witH whom the petitions could up to midnight last said no one had approached him with C. B. vice president and manager of the reached by telephone at his home late last night said it was too late to go into the matter but added the possibility of dismissing the appeal would be discussed i He said the protest bond requested by the Public Utilities Commission has not been filed yet by tho Commissioners Lead Fight Municipal light plant advocates led the fight against rates charged by the George A pel and William H. tho leaders against the rate The hew rate ordinance la for five A ordinance with slight differences in commercial rates was approved by City Commission last fall but had a 10 year The ordinance was in a referendum vote in the last election in Texas Governor Asks Legislature To Pass Tax On Transactions Jan. 18 - Governor W. Lee asked the Texas legislature to approve a 1.6 percent transaction tax to the old folks the income he promised In his The solons and a packed ga received his request In stony Twenty-four hours after his the Fort Worth flour merchant stood before the session and proposed a levy munJi broader than the general sales previous Texas lawmakers had proposed he would apply not only to but to transactions in which money other valuable things change Exempt would be churches ami charitable wages and professional first sale by the producer of ell agricultural and livestock street car passenger fares up to ten and street sales of Simultaneously he asked for the abolition of the ad valorem He estimated his transaction tax would bring revenue of 000,000 but elimination the ad valorem tax would out the net increase to and other states an answer to troublesome had awaited The applause that the governor when he entered the chamber meltel Into silence as he went through bis message In a crisp Iran notion such as I he applied alike to every line of business jt does not plek out manufacturing and levy a that to the exclusion gf and does not exempt the ducing industries which are largely our natural resource It does noc centralize all of tbJ the retail as would be done by a retail sales is mv opinion that Uw interests of the state would be served of our our natural resource our our our retailing and m iv vice industries all hear a pan of this tax explained of the Wll jn this person years of otherwise who has no would 116 from the state lift from the Federal U from the Federal leveling the income at The new governor had during his a month pension for any and all of years of age over or Early reaction of legislators transaction tax proposal indicated a wide divergence of ion and a bitter battle in the At the conclusion of the on Page 10. Col. 4) * - Discharges By Nearing 2,00Q Jan. 18 shakeups in the liquor and way departments today brought nearly the number of state employes fired since the Repute Itcan administration began avowed last * liquor Director Jacob B. discharged Enforcement Chief Humphrey and more than 8Q forcement He further changes were v Director Robert & Weightier dismissed iso in division 10, with headquarters in and estimated total removals in bis department hajl reached 1,310, $ The liquor director said & fib assistant would act in place until a new chief was for the 000,a�year Three of five assistant ment chiefs will he he and the number of districts reduced from tft ft The enforcement and sions will be to checking glad to get fires off my wind after years of he had an of he would reports receive By halving the saved ba m m tmm 4 * Ada 1- * & * * * 4 a-
