Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - March 27, 1933, Steubenville, Ohio STEUBENVILLE final Tuesday fair and somewhat colder STOCKS VOL. 86. NO. 306. The The International Service The Preu MARCH 27, 1933-EIGHTEEN TWO h. OHIO BEER PASSAGE ADVOCATED 4 Today Count Ilya Ivan's The Blind Story Burton and Fannie ARTHUR COUNT ILYA son of the great would interest He is with wide his eyes deep rarely Serious subjects occupy A flowing white and all his features suggest the noble face of his The history of with its centuries of suffering and earnest is written in that You get from him no common place answer even to commonplace What became of Voltaire's li brary that Catharine the Second bought and took to that you would probably find in the A more important question became of the library of Ivan the The Shah of Persia gave it to with all that remained of the great library three times knows what treasures wore in that what Greek manuscripts that we thought lost think it is hidden I away under the floor of the with a vast Ivan The Bolsheviks are probably looking for both * * * THE SON OF who preached against loathes believes that it is drawing to a close because the peasants will rise against it. He agrees that Ivan the Terrible made an Asiatic nation of Peter the Great changed Asiatic Russia to a European and now Stalin is trying over night to make an industrial nation of peasants that know and want only He calls all three He does not like men that interfere with others and impose their why call Ivan 'the when you have Bolshevism has killed five Ivan personally ordered perhaps fifty thousand He carried with him a little book in which were names of the five thousand important men that he put ' to Every night with his book he knelt in his chapel to saying I am here to pray for five thousand that I have their names Strange is belief that the souls of five thousand murdered would be helped by the prayers of the * * You ask who was sud denly forced upon the American consciousness by the three and this answer Rasputin was a able Like his father he was a horse thief and a he would sober go into the and become Then he would visit monasteries and become He exercised great was a re markable considering that he was a horse thief and a son of a horse thief and * * * ERSKINE GIVEN CONTROL IN CAUCUS HERE IN G. O. P. SHIFT Executive Chairman Now Heads County Central Group SUCCEEDS HUTSON McMaster Walks Party Leaders Demand Harmony Count Tolstoi knew Max Gorky and told this story which should encourage young people of talent not yet designed to be a famous and now a great operatic were both almost They entered a great Russian church and asked the priest to let sing in the He hired Gorky to sent Chaliapin telling him he had no voice * * * How did it happen that Count a member of the very with vast took so early an earnestly to the mother of my a Russian was always deeply interested in stories and told them constantly to my father from his As the twig is bent the tree is You are reminded Goethe's saying that from his father he got his height and earnest from his mother his On Page 10) Tempera tures By A caucus of executive commit gave E. DeWitt Erskine control of the Jefferson county Republican machine Saturday but warned him cally they expect party affairs to be conducted diplomatically and already presiding cer of the county executive was elected chairman of the party's central committee following receipt and acceptance of the resignation from that post of Thomas C. of Port Besides the elections of Er skine and two other central com the highlights of Saturday's meeting in the court house were brief speeches from Carl P. William D George Floto and Judge Randall and the of Mayor James C. Charges After leaving the convention because he procedure of the committee was the mayor branded Erskine's selection a roller He intimated his supporters will ask Secretary of State George S. Myers for a ruling on the legality of the 39 out of the 86 executive committeemen were present on roll This was enough to form a but not a Chairman Erskine ruled elec tion of central committee officers could be taken up without a ma of the committee being but he reversed his ruling when the subject of filling committee vacancies came A slight discussion arose on this point but the interpretation of the statutes prevailed and the meeting The chairman presented the resignation of whose communication was dated February 27, and asked that he be relieved of duties as central com as committeeman from Port Homer and as executive committee On a motion introduced by James seconded by W. D. and carried by unanimous the withdrawal of Hutson was Resolution Presented At this point Everett R. Case presented a resolution to proceed with election of a new leader as well as vice-chairman and the last two positions not having been filled when the central committee was reorganized in 1932. The resolution declared the necessity of filling the posts the good of the Republican party and included the assertion that Ed D. chairman of the state central and executive com had advised that such procedure was properly a power of the executive Put to vote on a motion pre sented by Downer and seconded by William J. the resolution was adopted by a 38 to one bal OHIO KIDNAP VICTIM GANG HUNTED Victim Apparently in Good Health After 8-Days Experience MOTHER JOYFUL Ransom Payment Not Confirmed by Price Believed KIDNAPERS RETURN BOY TO PARENTS E. DeWitt Erskine chairman of the Jefferson county Republican executive who by virtue of a vote of confidence in caucus also becomes chairman of the county central He succeeds Thomas C. Hutson who resigned to accept a position with the state auditor's -I COURT KLINE FROM ORDERS OUSTED OFFICE Mayor Escapes Term in Jail But Must Pay Fine of APPEAL IS DROPPED By The Associated Tress 0., March 27. - desperate band of rid of their 15-year-old was hunted today by federal authorities to whom the father told of a rendezvous with the abductors on a lonely road shrouded in Tiie Peter Myers appeared in good health as he related his experiences during the eight days he was held in a room following capture by three men armed with revolvers and a you listen to you'll be all he quoted his captors as you try to get we'll kill he he was well treated by the men who showed themselves only when their faces were hidden behind He believed six or seven were in the Mother Beams Joy His showing the strain of worry and sleepless accentuated by fear that her hus too had been abducted when he went on the long and mysteri ous trip that brought the boy's beamed her joy at his return She was starting in search of her husband when she met him return ing with her The older Myers was reported last night to have said he paid a hundred more than he had offered for the capture of the for his son's Myers would not confirm the Neither would larger sum was the father was reported as through a he said he was able to scale the price W. E. agent of the federal bureau of expressed the belief Myers was withholding some details of the Blindfolds apparently Were an important part of the stock in They hoodwinked the boy before they took him to the second floor of a house one of them said was near and insisted that he blindfold himself each time one of his captors entered his The father likewise was carefully blindfolded when he was driven for several hours to the AMENDMENTS OMITTED BY SENATE GROUP Action of Committee Means Vote Will Be Reached Tonight BRICKER RULES Attorney General Holds 90 Votes Needed on and Clause Mr. and Mrs. Peter Myers and their aged 12, are shown as they awaited word from the abductors of their son and Peter i who was kidnaped from the street in front of the Myers home in i March 18. The kidnaping victim is shown at the He ' was returned unharmed to his father early War Debt Discussion Gets Place In Parley Lumber Demand Boosted With Prospect of Beer Hy The Associated March 27. for beer barrels are boosting business in Three carloads of yellow lumber for bungs because it swells when have been shipped from Berwind to a Cincinnati bung S. G. manager of the Mountain Fork Lumber said another shipment is being loaded and business its FARM CREDIT BOARDS UNITED BY ROOSEVELT Hy The Associated Press March 27.- Judge Thomas H. today issued an order ousting from office Mayor Charles H. Kline of The order modifies the sentence imposed on the mayor as a result of his conviction on a charge of malfeasance in office in connection witli alleged illegal letting of city He was sentenced to six months in jail and lined The modified order eliminates the jail ousts him from office and allows the fine to MA YOU to Filtration Plant Today at 7:30 Today at 2:30 p. maximum Sunday minimum Sunday midnight 26 48 50 42 28 28 On Pago 10) ILLINOIS RELIEF Shooting Laid to Man's Activity in Charity Frauds City M Allan i u Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Denver IDS clear Detroit 34 snow HI Paso -IS clear Kansas Oily 40 clear Los 50 clear Miami tit clear New Orleans cloudy New York clear 11U cloudy clear St. Louis clear San Francisco 54 clear Tampa clear D C clear Miami cloudy El Paso 78 clear Phoenix 78 clear Low Winnipeg 0 Le - cloudy 5(i cloudy 40 S A. j deal pari part cloudy 32 clear 4 0 clear 46 3ti part cloudy 3l> 34 part cloudy 42 64 42 72 64 II (i 80 72 40 38 56 60 78 44 On Page 10) IN MURDER CASE Body of Columbus Wife Found Riddled by Bui lets in Automobile Congress Informed of Order Putting Agencies Under One Head ECONOMY OBJECT By The Associated 111., March 27-John member of the West Frankfort relief committee who has been active prosecuting 25 persons receiving public aid while they had bank wa- shot and killed at West Frankfort today by several men who fired at him from an automobile and drove Two men standing with Ward were Sheriff Browning said he would start an investigation of the shooting on the theory that it might have been a for Ward's activity in aiding in the prosecution of the charity Sheriff Robinson and hU deputies entered the of the Progressive Miners union at Zeigler today and confiscated six They made no The sheriff then went to where a meeting of the progressive faction was held and notified Mayor Murphy Smith that no meeting would be allowed in Franklin county until all possibility of violence had Council Succeeds Office at Selects March 27 Judge Thomas D. was expected to decide today whether Mayor Charles H. Kline will be permitted to resign his and therfore escape a jail District Attorney Andrew T. Park was In ready to give the judge reports of three physicians he to examine the its was learned declare Mayor Kline's condition is such that a jail stay would be dangerous to his health and They coincided previous findings three of the mayor's own If Judge Finletter rules the mayor's sentence ol six months in a fine and automatic ousting from office will be the mayor is expected to resign He also will drop his appeal In the state supreme court if he Is assured lie will not be required to go to Should the mayor Council President John S. will become acting mayor at once for a period of not more than 2 0 Then council must Mr. to serve until January 1. when Mayor Kline's term will have PRIEST CRASH By The 0, March 27.- The Rev. Patrick 40, assistant pastor of Catherine's Catholic was killed early today when his automobile collided with a street The Press March 27.- Their course darkened by a lack of Columbus police today investigated all possible motives for the murder of Mrs. Eunice pretty 25-year-old Her pierced by four bullets and b e a r i n g bruises and was found in her parked automobile Saturday 24 hours after she had visited a sick relative in a Coroner Edward E. Smith said the woman apparently was killed while resisting an attempt at criminal The crime was discovered by A. M. whose curiosity was aroused by the parked The woman's Dwight 2(i, a started a search for his wife when she failed to return from the hospital Friday The couple married five years ago and police said they had separated although Haggard told questioners lie and his wife had had no recent A four-year-old The child was at home with her father while Mrs. Haggard visited the New Follansbee Mill 75 Get Work Operations of the new automatic tin mill at the Follansbee plant of the Follansbee Brothers company was started this giving work to 75 additional it was announced today by William general The new mill has been under construction since last fall when operations were resumed at Next the company will begin operating the new 38-inch continuous cold strip steel work on which will be completed this When the strip mill goes into work will be provided for 50 more the manager By The March 27.- President Roosevelt informed congress today of an executive order establishing all federal agricultural agencies one In the same the President abolished stabilization operations by tbe farm The new agricultural financial organization is to be known as credit and will include the farm the farm loan bureau and various credit agencies in the department of agriculture and reconstruction finance better coordination of the agencies involved in our agricultural credit the President produce a more uniform program for agricultural credit and will result in substantial Would Save saving of more than is the immediate effect of this He emphasized the maintenance by federal government of Hie policy of aid to the of co-operative Henry Morgenthau chairman the farm who Is expected to head the new government was called into conference by I he Inter in the The Presidents the senate and house of to the provision Section 1, Article of the entitled act to maintain credit of the United Stales approved March I am transmitting I with an executive order rem tiie agricultural en agencies of the United executive order In one larm credit functions of all present federal which deal primarily with agricultural Hie federal farm the federal farm loan the of the secretary ol agriculture with regard to loans In aid ol and ol the Reconstruction Finance corporation pertaining to the On j Anglo-American Conference Resumed at Washington RECEIVE CLAUDEL lly The Press March 27.- Anglo - American discussions of world economic problems were re today at the state department with the likelihood that war debts would occupy considerable President Roosevelt set time aside to receive Ambassador Claudel of France and Jac ques member of the finance committee of the French chamber of It was not stated in advance whether debts would be but it was pointed out that the President and M. Claudel met New York shortly before March 4, when the subject was figuring largely in public State department officials Sir Ronald British would continue the conversations with Secretary Hull which were begun last Revision Broached At that time the matter of revision of the war debts was formally broached for the time in the Roosevelt The British have a payment of more than falling duo June 15, and have indicated that they would make no future payments under the old France defaulted on its December 15 but M. Stern was among those who voted In favor of paying when the subject was before the chamber of The Roosevelt administration has shown a willingness to discuss war debts with Great which lias mot all it payments to although on Secretary Hull said he could not nt that time state that the same opportunity would be accorded to France and the oilier nations in Secretary Hull in his conversations with Lindsay is emphasizing the importance of world cooperation toward lower tariffs and re moval of exchange restrictions in order to start world trade moving While officially preparation for the world economic conference by assuring cooperation of the great nations is separate from the matters of it lias been indicated that the attitude of the United States toward revision would be influenced by the willingness of the debtor nation to cooperate in pacing the way for success at the 1ERICA WON'T FILE PROTEST IN JEWISH CASE Secretary Says Situation in Germany Will Be Watched A Of act the gov 20 d i t Angry Bull Attacks Harrison Farm Hand HALT ATROCITIES By The Press March 27.- The American government will not protest the mistreatment of Jews in Germany inasmuch as official reports indicated this has Secretary Hull assured the American Jews who requested an official investigation that he would continue to watch the situation In a telegram addressed to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New and other leading members of American Hull said last night that the Berlin embassy and the consulates in various parts of Germany had reported that whereas there was for a short time considerable physical mistreatment of this phase may be considered virtually was also some picketing of Jewish merchandizing and instances of professional Hull manifestations were viewed with serious concern by the German The manifestations marked the rise of Adolf Hitler to the Numerous protest meetings were held throughout tbo United StatcH against the acts of violence attributed to filter's storm * * * CAMPAIGN Ity The March 2T.- Without the insertion of a single amendment the senate judiciary committee today recommended the beer for Action of the committee means vote will be reached on the measure in the upper house Passage is freely predicted by proponents of the Representative George Harter of Summit said that when the reached the house ho intended to offer an amendment providing for a control commission of three and not seven and to provide for deputy county commissioners who would be entrusted with the licensing of But while this good news was being Attorney General John W. Bricker handing down an opinion that any carrying an emergency clause must receive 90 votes in the house of representatives on the itself as well as on the emergency This ruling on the manner in which bills with emergency clauses must be handled cast some doubt on the possibility of passing the beer as an emergency measure in the house as of the principal arguments being used to obtain the necessary 90 votes for the emergency was that drys might vote yes on this feature but not on the An insurgency developed in the house against beer in arder to forco the senate action on the best giving relief to property owners facing mortgage The revolt is under the of Grant Ward of Franklin who claimed he had 10 wet votes against the beer and promised to have 25 by Tuesday noon which will be cast against the beer measure unless the senate acts on the best the house has passed the Best the senate judiciary committee consistently refuses to give the measure a said a result wet members of the house have resolved to force action on the foreclosure threatening to turn thumbs down on the beer Newark Fire Cause Loss liy The March 27-A terrific explosion that threw debris a hundred feet in the air and throughout the city wrecked a building in the business district here March 27. - Knocked down by an angry Science Hill farm hand was saved from death by goring Sunday night by two men who subdued the animal and removed the injured man to At the Martins Ferry hospital Naylor was recovering from a broken leg and bruises about the body sustained when the four-year-old Jersey bull turned on him as he was leading the animal to R. L. brother in-law of Ira by Naylor was employed and Charles a farm hand came to struggling with the bull and distracting the animal's attention from his intended Bank at Amsterdam Opens Unrestricted March 27.- Closed since the inauguration on March 6 of the national banking the Amsterdam Slate bank opened for unrestricted business this Normal business officials with the reception of a permit from the state banking Drive Will he Launched In land and America March 27. - Joseph chief of announced today that as a result of a conference with Chancellor Hitler yesterday his department will launch c u lit o r-a c t ivo against those for reports of atrocities German legal proceedings will undertaken against the Late News Bulletins lly The Praa LONG NAMED IN SUIT March 27.- Another libel suit for wok filed against Senator Long of Louisiana today by Samuel T. former adjutant general of the at a result of the charges the senator made against Ansell in recent speech In the senate and SUSPECTS HELD March 27. Four men were held In the county jail today for questioning about bank lew at Greene and Fort Clinton Officials said the men were O. A. Hal of Clifton and Allen A. W. E. Lovell all of HEKK LEGALIZED ST. March 27.-Manufacture and sale of 3.2 per cent beer In Minnesota legalized today as Gov. Woyd B. Olson signed which effective with the national legislation on April 7. On 10) Thieves Raid Dillon Smash Alarm Tearing down u burglar alarm system after they forced their way into the New Watson through a front window parly robbers ransacked tiie shop and escaped with merchandise and cash valued at The took from the cush a service 12-gauge double-barrel six watches and 25 cartons of Other stock in the store was knocked off shelves onto the Sheriff Charles investigated the lie had probably been perpetrated by a gang of Another store owned by the New Corporation firm in Dillonvale was burglarized u month NAMED March 27.- to deal with emergency relief and construe tlon and silver legislation were assigned today hy Chairman Fletcher of the senate banking DELAYED March 27, of the seven In the case from the Jefferson county Jalt to the jurisdiction of the Morgan county circuit court today delayed beginning of their new trials ordered by the United supreme CUT IK PER CENT March 27.- that a 115 per cent salary cut for federal employes would be by President effective April 1, were given today following presentation of a survey hy the labor department that the cost nt living had fallen 2ft per cent over the country since 1088. 96 03 06
