Sandusky Register (Newspaper) - January 25, 1941, Sandusky, Ohio ASSOCIATED PRESS The Sandusky Register Sandusky's Oldest Business F 0 U N D E D 182 2-More Than A Century In Tour Service Witt VOL. 119. NO. 21 * * * JANUARY 25, 1941 e * PRICE i ROOSEVELT GOES TO MEET HALIFAX CONTRACTORS TO ESTABLISH JOBS OFFICE Step Will Be Taken For TNT Plant The job office for employment of construction workers for the E. B. Badger and Son's of general contractors for the TNT and DNT will open probably within two officials of the company announced last R. D. general construction said that at present it would seem that the employment office will open within the next two weeks in Sandusky No details of the number of men for various types of work are as yet Waterman The company's plans for construction have not progressed to the point where this Information is the superintendent Fees Setup Clarified Edward dorf of the land acquisition agency said only fees to be paid by the farmers after options on their property are taken up by the Federal Government will be those for revenue stamps and recorder The Ostendorf pays the complete title expense on the An official of the Badger firm said yesterday that waste water from the factory need cause no alarm for residents of this In regard to stream and lake as the water used by the plant does not come contact with acids but is used only as a cooling Major Edward Ostendorf of the land acquisition agency issued the following received a phone call from Washington In which officials of the War Department demanded more speed in tho accumulation of land for the TNT and DNT official said that delay In accumulation of the land was on 10, Col. 8) Ohio Solons Take Time To Act On Animal Welfare Jan. 24 of the Ohio while wrestling with the great problems of state government and municipal are not overlooking the welfare of dogs and At least four bills have been Introduced to broaden the statutory protection of these pets and repeal laws hounding Rep. C. A. Davenport of proposed to abolish a law which permits anyone to at any time or a dog which injuries or fowls or That which makes a dog owner absolutely liable for damage caused by his has caused the courts more trouble than a whole The law reports contain hundreds of words interpreting its Margaret A. Mahoney Babka of Cleveland have offered three bills to make dog's less they would extend protection to which have been neglected in past They propose a fine of to for anyone placing rat poison where It could be reached by dogs or Manufacturers of rat poi son would be required to label their product may cause serious Injury or death to cats and Another proposal would permit only dog wardens to put to death a cat or Other proposed legislation would classify licensed dogs as personal but would not permit the owners in case of injury or loss claim a value In excess of the fair market value Draft Objector Dies After Fight Hunt Vice-Premier Of RAF Hits Sicily WEATHER FORECAST IT. 8. Weather OHIO - Fair not quite so cold Saturday Sunday cloudy followed by snow in north and snow or rain in south colder Sunday afternoon and southern dis has moved northeastward to western Pennsylvania where it is and another center has developed over the middle Atlantic Pressure remains high from eastern Texas northeastward to Michigan and thence eastward to the New England Precipitation has occurred quite generally west of the Rocky Moun The weather has become colder in portions of the middle Atlantic and north Atlantic LOCAL temperature yesterday 29, on same date last year 88; lowest temperature yesterday on same date last year 17; temperature at 7-30 m. yesterday 84; precipitation yesterday 0-2$. on same date last year sunrises today 7 48. sun sets today 6:3*.___ Ernest 22-year-old youth who declined to register for draft because he objected to war's died In a hospital after he and his father chose to fight it out with guns and knives when a U. S. marshal and a deputy sheriff came to arrest The Martin was in critical condition at the NEW INDUSTRY GETS SHIPMENT Equipment Begins Arriving For Publications First shipment of properties of the Periodical Publishers Service New York has been shipped to the firm's new offices in the remodeled building at foot of In the west end of the it was learned late yesterday Two other vans loaded with filing cabinets and other properties left New York yesterday for The which occupies three floors of a large building in New will be located on one main floor at Its new A crew of plumbers and other skilled building craftsmen are busily engaged in remodeling the owned by the Hulse investment Co. A wood flooring is being installed and false ceiling The building will be completely including the exterior which will be according to Marco agent for the Hulse Investment Co. Approximately 175, mostly girls from Sandusky and will be hired as COMMITTEE FOR AGENCY Group Encouraged By Favors Jan. 24 a report highly critical of some current a special committee appointed two years ago at the direction of President Roosevelt recommended today that judicial and prosecutive functions of federal agencies be separated and proposed other far-reaching changes in their A majority of the committee any extension of judicial review of agency decisions as was proposed in the That measure was passed by Congress last session after prolonged controversy but was vetoed by the The committee's study of administrative practices embraced 33 agencies and among them the power trade commission and labor Its report made these overall List Five 1-Creation of an office of federal administrative procedure to review the procedures and practices of administrative This would be composed of a director appointed by the an associate Justice of the court of appeals for the District of Columbia and the director of the administrative office for the United States 2-Separation of judicial and prosecutive functions by creating a new corps of officers to be known as They would function much as trial with appeal from their decisions being to the They would operate as a unit entirely ers and for other office More than 200 executives and from New will be House Passes Ship Work Plan Jan. 24 The House approved a emergency merchant ship construction program today after stormy debate over a proposal to prevent agreements with workers employed on the The proposal was offered by Representative Smith as an amendment to the appropriating funds for the but it was defeated through substitution of a prohibition against employment of ship workers who advocate overthrow of the government by The Smith amendment had also Included such a As it was sent to the Senate the would appropriate to construct new shipbuilding facilities and 200 steel cargo In would be made available from other The ships would be in addition to the regular merchant fleet program of the maritime commission and there has been speculation that some may go to or prosecutive 3--Some standardization of the procedure for Issuance of rules and giving persons affected by them greater opportunity to participate in drafting the new rules would not be effective until 46 days after 4-Simplification of the procedure extending the use of conferences and other informal methods to settle The condemned and expensive 5-Tho committee found that on Page 10, Col. 4) Acreage Slash May See Sugar Run Unchanged Jan. 24-(Special)- Reduction of sugar beet acreage in the Fremont which effects the counties of Seneca and will not necessarily mean of the annual at the Fremont refinery of the Great Lakes Sugar A. C. area said The ordered by the Department of will pare 2,703 acres from the Fremont area allocation in which 11,928 acres were planted last growers will take of the latest In sugar beet culture and strive not only for fore beets per acre but more sugar per production should remain the Joost The new allocation is 9,233 acres for the Fremont the largest in Ohio approached only by the Findlay which has been given 9,038 Horia Sima Blamed In Revolt Of Iron By ROBERT ST. JOHN Jan. 24 - By Military troops were sent out tonight to hunt for Horia the powerful leader of the Iron and last involved with him in the bloody four-day A communique blaming Sima for the outbreak likewise announced that any Rumanian withholding knowledge of his hiding place and those of other and of the revolt would be treated as an accomplice and made to the full penalties of the Joining in the condemnation of Sima and other General George chieftain of Rumania's war dec clared that if the trouble had continued for another two or three days Rumania have been reduced to the fate of General Ion the chief of whose authoritarian regime now apparently has weathered the greatest crisis It yet has de scribed the rebels still holding out as Communist Tanks of the German and Ru maintain armies in Bucharest streets filled with glass and broken masonry and the rubble left by heavy German fighter planes occasionally swooped low over the Scores of Jews were reported slain In basement executions in their Iron took over the home of Magda the red-haired woman friend of the deposed King Carol who now is in exile him in 7 i ' ' Lindy Says Keep U.S. Planes Here British Spur Action In Mediterranean Jan. 24 bombers this afternoon heavily raided Italian bases in which German dive bombers also have been operating against the British Mediterranean The glare of fires apparently started by Incendiary bombs could easily be seen from which Is some 60 miles from Asserting that a now would be the best solution to Europe's Col. Charles A. Lindbergh appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee as an opposition witness on the lend-lease He said he believed it a mistake to export U. S. warplanes because only a hundred at now guard this Cabinet apprehension of Sima double since he is not heaa of all Iron but vice premier of Rumania as During the of the the home of the first secretary of the United States J. Webb Benton of Fort was twice and then by civilians who used It as a fortress from which they shot at the The Rumanian army later provided stationing a tank lu the All Benton and his reported The American legation was but Its former quarters were mounted with which for a time peppered the home of United States Consul Fred M. Franklin the American was en route to from his mountain villa when the revolt broke out and In the army barracks at making a telephone when fighting began He The public was warned to buy no Jewelry or furniture or on Page 10, Col. 6) LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Jan. 24 Lieutenant Commander James G. publisher of the Nashville was assigned to duty in the press relations section of the Navy who was president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association from 1937 until 1939, holds a commission in the naval and he applied to Secretary for active Army May Use City Managers City Manager Wagar last night was without word regarding plans disclosed in Associated Press dispatches to The Register for enlisting managers in cities of less than 50,000 to certain municipal services in army Under the plan as outlined by Col. C. O. Cincinnati following a trip to the managers would supervise organization and operation of certain services for six months or longer on leave of absence where local laws permitted Water supply sanitary storm temporary wood buildings and garbage and waste disposal fire prevention and light and gas service and refrigeration would be so Two Will Get Secondary Pilot Training Awards Two of the high ranking students of the Civil Aeronautics Authority flight training school completion will be eligible tor secondary flight training announced last Three of the 10 students have already passed CAA tests and the remainder plan to undergo flight for private licenses within a Much care will be taken In picking the two to receive the secondary Lauber Miss Florence theater cashier and 1* * student but will not be eligible for advanced he those who would bs able to the Army and Navy will receive consideration for scholar according to a bulletin the Winners of the scholarships will be selected by Lauber Charles ground school and Harry Griff Ing and William flight Before the students names are sent to the regional representatives those selected must have passed advanced flight and special eye ex ami nations given by a specially designated medical examiner Selection of applicants will be made on the basis of performance In the preliminary Only candidates Interested primarily aviation career and who have fly on Page 10, Col. 4> William R. Castle Says Measure Would Make Roosevelt A Jan. 24 R. who was President Hoover's undersecretary of told the House foreign affairs committee today that the pending lend-lease would make President Roosevelt a dictator over Britain as well as the United his control of the supplies flowing out from what he pleases to call this of he would become supreme in all military British as well as Castle he Mr. Roosevelt could dominate Britain as long as the war Congress would be Impotent and in rather than would bring the British government to the feet of the American Castle testified after the Demo crats and Republicans on the com had engaged in a dls pute about proposals to take mony from Army and Navy heads While Republicans charged the Democratic majority decided to hear the officers in private next Invites Officers The action was taken after Representative Fish had invited them to testify publicly ac he the nation could learn whether Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh correct when he said that we have only several hundred modern combat President Roosevelt asked at his press conference about reports that not object to placing limits on the life of the and its grant of declined to express an He said he to wait at least until he saw the measure as finally approved by the on Page 10, Col. 8) Long 111 Jan. U - Norman B. 51, World War veteran and for 10 years postmaster of died at his home today after a long Postmaster under the Coolidge and Hoover Mr. Ervin was active In Republican political circles and the American He was also connected with the Banking Co. for many The deceased was born In Sept. 9, 1889, a son of Mr. and N. B. and was married to Miss Corrine who Also surviving are two Sidney of and Dale of and % Mrs. R. T. Welker American will be at % Monday at the and Son Funeral Services will be conducted later by the Rev. at the Methodist Church with in STREET CREWS NIGHT Cinders Are Put At Street department crews were out last night salt and cinders on streets and at intersections made hazardous by the two and a half inch snowfall The fall was not deep enough to require use of the snow Zelher Employes at the Bay Bridge said there was little snow on the bridge and traffic was moving The strong wind and the snow out of the northeast was causing no According to Gerald span precautions had been taken against repetition of last year's which closed the by putting snow fences on the ice. The used over the state were placed on Ice to the west of the bridge by George Drake and a crew from the state highway department garage at The fence is mounted on steel posts and securely anchored to the ice. estimated to be about five Inches thick In that The State Highway Patrol at Bellevue said roads throughout the area were Truck crews were out last night putting cinders on the roads and snow plows In They worked all Dom operator of the stand at East Battery stated there was snow on the Ice in a few spots and many skaters were to Weatherman C. C the highest yesterday was 29 and the lowest 24- On the same date last year the high was 2$ and the low 17. The reading at 7:30 p. m. was 24. Precipitation yesterday was of an on Page 10, Col. William Knudsen In Cleveland Jan. 24 8. Knudsen visited Cleveland Clinic today for a checkup and was found be in seems to be taking his duties very said Dr. William E who examined the 61-year-old director of President's Roose office of production Knudsen stopped enroute to his Detroit home for the He has been visiting the clinic about twice a year for five or six Jan. 24 commander of Italy's army in was reported to have abandoned hip nt 50 miles west of apparently under heavy bombardment by British With two-thirds of his effectives and the considerably greater proportion of his equipment lost In tho campaign to Marshal quit Cirene for a spot more difficult for RAF bombers to the British was tho first Indication of the exact whereabouts of tho British began their African British motorized units and airmen have been ranging about and beyond 95 miles west of captured since the fall of the latter port two days With their strong aviation support the British land forces pushed steadily westward toward which Is now said to be almost an undefended It was heavily bombed yesterday as were the Italian of Apollonia and west of airmen also were active In the north Mediterranean where they heavily attacked Sicilian bases of German and Italian The glare of was to been from the British naval base of 60 miles from Meanwhile In east said reports reaching the British have pushed more than 80 miles Into the Italian colony of where they were said to have resumed pursuit of nearly two full Italian divisions routed from a week Military observers looked for this eastern offensive to continue while In the north the British were believed likely to cut across the hump of Libya directly toward 150 miles west of IN BRITAIN - New efforts were made to encourage the people to keep gas masks always at and the home armies were disclosed to be going through re in preparation for the attempted German Invasion expected in the Informed persons predicted that within three months Germany would loose the mightiest onslaught In in the hope on Page 10, Col. 6) Milk Meeting To Be Monday A conference will be held Monday at 8 p.m. in Room 9 of the Sandusky postoffice by representatives of Sandusky milk distributors and directors of tho Sandusky Cooperative Milk Producers Chester Route 2, secretary of the announced last Rader said directors of the association are to present demands for higher milk prices and a market for and five tenths percent milk instead of a four percent as asked by the The demands were arrived at last night at a meeting of the association members in the Margaretta High Kader said a representative group was present at the despite several inches of snow over Secretary Rader added that all present were in favor of a price raise and not in favor of a four percent market and would not sell locally if their demands were not met by the Parties Settle Damage Action Jan. 4-(Special)-A claim In the death of Courtney 55, in a tractor accident Oct. 5 at Republic was settled today In probate Curtis Oakleaf and Margaret L. owners of the property on which the accident and Leo owner of the tractor which caused Egbert's paid in settlement of the Payment was made to Egbert's Inez Alwilda as administratrix of his had recently filed suit for damages tor her husband's Egbert was engaged in removing a sidewalk at the Oakleaf property where a tractor was used for He was crushed to death under the PRECEDENT IS AID PLEA IS GIVEN President Yacht Returns With Jan. 24 - Appealing for American help to shatter Britain's Lord arrived in this capital tonight after a secret dash across the Atlantic in a brand new dreadnaught and a rendezvous with President Casting aside Mfc Roosevelt went to meet Lord and Lady Halifax aboard Battleship George V as it lay at anchor in Chesapeake Then all three motored to In a cold President dropped them at the British embassy at 9:15 p. good night to them on embassy closing one of most dramatic scenes of friendship in American The President had motored in the afternoon to and embarked on the yacht at 8 p.m. to go out to meet the British King George which brought Lord Halifax secre across the They met ly after about six miles low the United States naval academy ioard Yacht Lord and Lady Halifax and the ambassador's Immediate staff ferred to the Potomac in a rain and while that craft was reV turning to shore they had with the President in the Also at the tahle were Before coming 7:30 p. Lord Halifax received reporters On the Potomac's mam deck and excerpts from a formal statement which more quickly your generous help can be made the er shall we be able to break this Nazi power that Is trying to Europe and the Charles private secretary to the new British was the first to walk ashore from the -o Smiling despite the driving Peake had slung over his lett shoulder an old World War helmet and a more modern gas He said they belonged to Lord i Asked why they were needed Peake replied never knows when might have to Before the Potomac eral small boat brought snore from the King George V WtM of its officers and crew One of them told members of an American mission to Great Britain headed General John C. H. Lee and Beat Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley over on the ' * Carries Umbrella * Lord as he received porters on the was in a dark blue and white with black He carried ashore his bowler hat and ulster and the Inevitable English one agreed he needed the those who had been awaiting bis rival on the dock were shivering soaked to the Lady Halifax wore a black and high-topped have come here as a member the war cabinet serving as his to make to the government and people of United States from time in if they are they best give us the heln we 1 Early Says Defense To Halt Domination ST. Jan. secretary to Presi dent said tonight this nation is committed to a policy of all-out defense because it is convinced that there is a on the other side of the water which seriously contemplates the domination of the entire In an address prepared for delivery to the Minnesota Editorial Association and over the CBS said the defense policy for the for the near-by and for the long range it means defense by the most modern fighting It means ds fense by building the plant so that It can keep on producing the most modern equipment as long as may be - FLAN INSTALLATION Jan. 34 The 0- Kirsch will be installed as president of De Sales College here March 7. Recently Catholic High school he will succeed iho late j. Jan. U unity Italy will release on Jan. a new stamp bearing pictures of Mm and Adolf Hitler as well as of an and German A similar it Is understood is being issued in I on Page 10, CoL ft Call Ohio Political Leaders In Jan. 34 political leaders today summoned to testify next before a federal grand jury money was spent in the campaign last Those called by 8. assistant 8. district 4 J. Freer and M. chairman of of the tic state and ISd Schorr and Hugh publican chairman and tr Ohio was listed by the campaign one of nine key spent ot 8*0*4 used jfe Um Presidential U duty at not cannU 111 m
