Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - March 18, 1939, Steubenville, Ohio WEATHER FAIR and continued cold tonight Sunday fair and STEUBENVILLE EDITION the The International MARCH 1939FOURTEEN THREE HITLER SETS PRICE ON RUMANIAN SECURITY MORE FREEDOM FOR PRESIDENT URGED IN CRISIS Senate Supporters Quick to Follow Up Condem nation of Germany GOVERNOR ATTITUDE CLEAR First Reaction to Welles Statement is Seen in I Chamberlains Speech BULLETIN By The March The treasury department an today the imposition of countervailing duties on dutiable German March Administration supporters in the senate backed up the state depart ments condemnation of march into CzechoSlovakia today with proposals that the President be given greater freedom to deal with dictator They gave unqualified approval to the statement made yesterday by Sumner undersecretary of that wanton lawlessness and a force were threatening world peace and the very structure of modern civiliza Those senators how the Welles declaration was puzzling in that it merely re affirmed previous government pol Typical of these expressions was this comment by Senator George a member of the foreign relations committee The attitude of the government already had been made es regarding It is perplexing that the administration deemed it advisable to reiterate in general terms the position of the which must be well A known both here and Concert of Disapproval Hoped Administration men took a dif Senators Barkley contending no nation would fail to condemn Officials hoped this govern ments denunciation would lead to a concert of disapproval by the Democratic nations and possibly affect Hitlers future The first reaction to the Welles one was the speech delivered last night by Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great warning Hitler that the British would fight if he con to seek domination of Eu rope by Welles statement came shortly after Roosevelt had told a press conference that European de made it desirable to revise the neutrality act at this session of Later in the the treasury Turn to MORE FREEDOM on 12 COURT REFUSES WIDOWS P L E A Accused in Hit Run Death of Mate De nied Freedom on Bond By The March Judge Martin today denied Coletta charged with murdering her a hear ing on her application for free dom under Sitting silently in the tense the pretty 28yearold defendant heard the jurist declare she had been indicted by a grand jury of unusually fine person nel To grant such a he would be a menace to the secrecy factor of our investigating Also overruled was a motion by defense Attorney Thomas Murray of Sandusky for permission to ex amine publicly the 43 witnesses who testified before the grand Included would have been Harold 35yearold neighbor of the also charged with first degree murder in the death of her run down by an automobile January who wept openly during the has been in jail since the night of March the day of tne Under todays ruling she must remain until her set tentatively for the week following Temperature TOO at noun minimum midnight lor fur month 1H At the age of Luren Dickin son becomes governor of Michi the late Frank who died suddenly fol lowing an attack of Dickinson was lieutenant governor under FEDERAL GRANT JEOPARDIZED BY DELAY ON SEWER PWA Official Warns City May Lose Un less Job Speeded Up CONTRACT PENDING Supporting arguments raised that delays In carrying on West district sewer project may endan ger completion of the huge Ohio Public Works Administration executives have warned city that the 45 per cent federal grant amounting to is In The warning was made public today by Service Director Eugene who released a communi aUon received from regional WPA with head quarters in The giant sewer building job s been in operation five months but Is only 25 per cent Director in in municipal beads that the government expects progress to be greatly accelerated within the next few Principal obstacle In the path of the project now are problems in starting the section calling for covering of Wells run from Wells street along Lincoln avenue to Wilsons Contract Tentatively It Bids for this job were taken last February a contract was ten let February but the award was not submitted to Co lumbus PWA heads for approval until the last week because of a In obtaining Now PWA approval Is being further delayed because Caller Brothers Construction the firm given the ten has failed to file a No Collusion Director Boyd said to day he had notified Caller of this requirement earlier In the week and that It may now be on file in He said fur ther that all but one easement for the Lincoln avenue project has now been obtained and that be is hopeful of obtaining a release of the contract next week from the Also scheduled for next week is a special meeting of council to take up consideration of legisla tion for the construction of lateral sewers In Manhattan and Holly wood These jobs will be Boyd as quickly as legal requirements can be met and bids Director warning that Turn to FEDERAL on Page 11 Parks Board Rejects AH Concession Bids A dozen bids submitted to the municipal recreation board for operation of concession stands this summer at Belleview and Beatty parks were rejected yes afternoon a special meeting of the They or dered the call for bids to be re advertised and that aW future bidders be required to post certi fied checks covering the total amount of their Belleview park concession bids were submitted by Henry Fabian Carl Kotala Milton Manos Elizabeth Welch Loren Thompson John Duke DOrazio and Cocu melli Frank and Frank Janus Beatty park bids were Riggle Frank Janus and frank Harasuik VICE PENALTIES NET COUNTY Judge Weinman Imposes Fines on 37 Taken in Recent Cleanup RANGE TO Nineteen Men and Eigh teen Women Appear in Court for Sentence Thirtyseven men and women who appeared before Common Pleas Judge Carl Weinman this morning for sentence following their pleas of guilty earlier this week to gambling and vice charges were assessed fines totaling Of the total number 19 were fined for gambling opera Eighteen women who ad mitted charges of keeping houses of ill fame in no red light district were also assessed Without ex ceptions the fines and costs were Heaviest fines were assessed two of the gambling Domenic Lopresta of the Rex Ci gar 523 Market was fined and as was Patsy Brogan who pleaded guilty for himself and Edward Bertram as operators of a gambling place at 608 Market Echoes of the recent campaign to keep gambling away from the center of the city were observed in the courts attitude toward gambling Those who do not operate establishments on Market street between Fourth and Sixth streets and those who do not operate on Fourth street between Washington and Adams streets were dealt with less se Quizzed on Ownership Judge Weinman inquired of each one of the operators of house of ill fame the name of the owner amount of rental paid by Rents ranged from to a the operators The court indicated his intention of checking the records to deter mine of data George who operates the Square Deal at 100 Market raided last week by the sheriff who confiscated a large amount of gambling paraphernalia on each of two occasions only a few hours was His coun Fred presented a physicians Judge Wein man said Campfield will probably be sentenced next operator of the American Eagle at 200 Market was fined and costs as a gambling house Judge Weinman scanned Petrakis citizen ship papers he ordered him to bring to court Petrakis and Campfield last week were defendants in an action before Judge Weinman in which John New recovered a judgment of for gambling losses in their places and exemplary damages of The court cited this and added that he has ordered the sheriff to destroy gambling paraphernalia confiscated at their places of busi Gambling Penalties Frank who pleaded guilty to operation of slot machines was fined and Other fines for permitting gamb Turn to GAMBLING on Page 11 Winter in Last Fling With Snow and Cold Winter was taking what people hoped was a last fling today as swirling clouds of obscured the nky and the ther dropped to a cold 18 de grees on the filtration plant ther this Second light fall since the cold weather edged out spring day and lowered the mercury from a warm 64 to the fell intermittently through the leaving a light coat ing when the skies cleared and the sun appeared again Sharp winds keeping the temperature around 25 de grees this Fridays warmest mark wan Settlement Prepared In Coogan Court Row By March Things were looking better today for Jackie who won fame at the ragged Kid of silent Embroiled for in a court battle with his stepfather and the Arthur over his earnings as a juvenile and estranged for several weeks from his blond and beauteous Betty young Coogan was hope ful that his were Hii attorneys announced that a settlement of his accounting null was ready for but made pub lic no AS HUNGARY MOVED IN A Hungarian soldier here shaken hands with a mounted some of whose comrades look an Hungarians move through easternmost component formar This picture was made in and was radioed to the United States from Smashing re sistance at capital of the former Hun gary annexed STEEL OFFICIALS FINDING MARKET ENCOURAGING Youngstown Sheet and Tube Report Greater Price Stability FURNACE LIGHTED By The Irui March Chairman Dalton and Presi dent Frank of the Youngs town Sheet Tube said in a that the market is The executive said greater sta bility of prices prevails and there are indications that the companys volume for the first half of the year may exceed that of the cor responding 1938 The statement how that the price level will be below thut of the first half of 1938 without any compensating reduc tions of Although the present condition of the steel market is more en they uncer tainty will cloud the future of busi ness unless the government and the public realize fully the right and the necessity capital to earn a fair Evidence of Recognition There is evidence thut tion of such necessity is increasing so that confidence of investors and incentives for individual en will be largely We then can expect business im that will reduce unem ployment and permit reasonable return to Steel and tubes 1938 operations and were abou 59 per cent of of From Youngstown came word that steel production next week is expected to continue ut about per cent of Republic Steel started its third blast furnace in the Mahoning valley last bringing to 12 the number of active blast furnaces in the VON NEURATH PLACED OVER NEW SUBJECTS Nazi Officials Attach Primary Importance To Condemnation NEW AIR COMMAND BULLETIN Woodward Held for Grand Jury Under bonds totalling two men were bound over to the Jefferson county grand jury yes from municipal They were Frank of 142 North Sixth charged with grand larceny and Carl charged with a service station DiButch police having stolen a diamond handbag and camera worth from Percy after u drinking Wodward was ordered held for the jury on a charge of having staged a holdup which netted him lust November at an service Sought for four was returned here this week from STRONG TEMPTATION Edgar couldnt resist the temptation of his nieces savings He is serving a 90day petit lar ceny sentence assessed after testi mony that he took from the childs bank while veiling the farm home of his and and George March The German foreign office spokes man today declared Germany would meet with sharpest diation British and French notes denouncing the absorption of CzechoSlovakia as March Adolf Hitler put authority over her new protectorate in the skilled diplo matic hands of Baron von Neurath today while officials indicated they attached primary importance to United States and British official condemnation of Nazi seizure of Von president of the Nazi secret cabinet council and former wus named of the inhabitants of Bohemia Moravia before Hitler left Vienna for home after a tour of his new Nazi spokesmen in Berlin branded as arrant nonsense foreign reports that Hitler had put Hungary and Rumania next on his list for subjugation on his march to the Still In Bucharest They that Helmuth still was in Bucharest as head of a German economic A spokesman for the Ruman ian legation in London said Ru mania had received and rejected sweeping demands from Germany for complete economic domination as tho price for territorial secur was understood to have presented the Speaking of the condemnations of course by Acting Secretary of State Welles arid Minister an official spokesman In Berlin Halil that every syllable must he weighed before any official Ger man reply is comment issued later on Chamberlains Birming ham In the prime Turn to VON NEURATH on 11 Maid Freed in Murder Goes Back to Job By March Acquitted of a charge of Angelina took up again today the household Interrupted when a pistol in her hand shuttered her romance and killed farold Michael Rich here last February Tho 22yearoljl girl who nerved us housemaid lit the Rich collapsed last night in the arms ot a jail matron as the verdict was read and Im BO so The jury of seven men and five women deliberated nearly nine The darkeyed servant girl tes and the son of her woll todo employer in thin western village bad young Klch refuged to u promUe of said she shot him four after he and threatened NATION REJECTS NAZI DEMANDS COUNCIL WEIGH EFFECTS OF ULTIMATUM Urgent Consideration Given Dangerous Po sition by Rumania SWEEPING DEMANDS Territorial In dependence Guaranteed For Trade Hr The March confronted with Germany new eastward thrust and compre Nazi economic proposals is giving urgent consideration to her dangerous King meeting with th crown council mid general staf in a lengthy session during the discussed Rumanias relu lions with from botl trade and miltary is negotiating for more of trade but For eign Minister Grigore declared Nazi economic proposals did not constitute an In London a spokesman of the Rumanian legation said his gov had received and rejected sweeping demands by Germany for complete economic coopera tion as the price of guarantees of Rumanias territorial The demands were described as being virtually of ultimatum char German spokesmen in Berlin said Nazi still was in Bucha The crown council found that military and diplomatic measures taken HO far were satisfactory and advised their Government while de nying that any mobilization of specific classes had been acknowledged that border points had been strengthened and mili tary leaves cancelled eastward thrust has brought her closer to this coun trys rich oil resources and wealth of other products at by German Mission March spokes man of the Rumanian legation said today that his government had received and rejected sweep ing demands by Germany for com plete economic cooperation as Hie price of guarantees of territorial Diplomats here nl though no confirmation could be obtained In that demands Turn to CAROL on Page 12 Late News Bulletins Hr Thi Irnn ARMSTRONG RISKS TITLES NKW YORK Henry Arm strong put both world box ing championships Che line Through Hank signed he athletic to defend his welterweight crown against Chicago Day in Madison Square Garden on March and to Jangle with Lou Ambers in defense of the light weight tille on 9 In Yan kee will be at 15 FILKS SUIT NEW YORK A action wan filed In slate supreme court today by Gerald onetime of the Smith charged in his complaint naming M defendants thai a March of Time newsreel had slanderously associated him with Father Harlem Negro cult and with Hitler and BUG IN PRISON convicted of Che Toledo Guaranty will be taken to Ohio pen Monday by sheriffs James OReilly to serv ing long sentences for fraud and issuing Pros Thomas OConnor said Swastika Shadow Cast Further Over South eastern Europe FRANCE ACT II 1rnn German economic proposals to Rumania cast the shadow of the Swastika further over southeastern Europe today as the democracies bitterly condemned the Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia in the strongest stand they yet have made against Adolf Hitler since his rise to A Rumanian legation spokesman in London asserted his government had received Hitlers demands that it submit to complete economic subjugation by Germany in return for Nazi assurances of Rumanian territorial Rumania would be expected to cease building up her industries and to She would export exclusively to Germany her cattle and Confronted with this King Carol of Rumania presided during the night at a lengthy session of his crown council and general staff in The Rumanian for eign declared the German proposals did not constitute an Acting swiftly on the line of British Prime Ministers slashing attack on Germany for wiping from Europes the British government S e n t a note to Berlin to inform Germany that Britain regarded the invasion of Slovakia as a complete repudia tion of the Munich and without legal Called thn cabinet into extra ordinary session to give immediate consideration to the European situation Chamberlain has has shattered British conciliation The French sim lurly aroused Senat a note to paralleling British declar ing France did not recognize Ger man occupation of vakia legitimate Gave Premier dier a vote of confidence in tho of deputies on his de for secret and virtually dic powers aimed primarily at building up French military Recall Ambassador Authoritative quarters in said France would call home Robert French am to Britain yes instructions to her envoy to Sir In Field Marshal Her mann Goering announced formation of a new air force com mand for new eastern a move scribed as officially dc tremendous BRITAIN DEFIANT Wont Recognize Naz Changes in Conquest By Ircii March Brit ish acting in with directed its dor in Berlin to deliver a forma note to the German Haying tho invasion of Slovakia represented u complete repudiation of thu Munich agree The British foreign office un also that tho note which Ambassador Sir Neville Hender son was instructed to would that his government regard us without legal basis the changes effected by military action in Tho French government nn in Paris that a similar note would bo presented by the French ambassador in The British announcement out lining tho nature of tho notu to be presented said that recent events in central represent a complete repudiation of the Munich agreement and the undertakings of peaceful cooperation exchange that time by tho to Consult Other Meanwhile Foreign Secretary Viscount consulted the French and Soviet Rus sian Indicating the urgency with which Britain considered the situa Prime Minister Chamberlain alHo summoned the cabinet to an unusual night The cabinet was to give immed ute consideration to tho European the prime minister huv ng that his policy of European conciliation collapsed with occupation of The premier was swinging Brit sh foreign policy sharply around award tho course long demanded iy his united front with thor nations against further ex by Germany that might io construed us an attempt to all who had planned to spund thu weekend in Birming whore last night he bitterly tho government and Hitler for march ng into hurried ack to London to consult his min sters on his new policy aimed Tuni to BRITAIN on Page 12 strengthening of the German air At the sumo Baron Ron von president of the Nazi secret cabinet council and former foreign waa named German protector of Bo hemia and The exact status of which also has become a German still for Hitler to In the Czech cabinet prepared to reorganize rule of Bo under Nazi law while in the third region of the dissolved CzechoSlovakia Hungar ian conquerors had completed half of their Sandwiched between advancing columns of Hungarian troops hundreds of Jews moving ward on highways and trains ing desperately to get out of cen tral ENVOY RECALLED France Parallels Move By Great Britain Hr Piett March day summoned her ambassador to Berlin buck to Paris for consulta tion and dispatched a note to the Nazi government saying tho did not recognize the German occupa tion of CzechoSlovakia as legiti Both moves paralleled actions by Great The British gov yesterday am home from Berlin and today sent a note similar to Premier Daladier called an ur cabinet meeting for tomorrow to discuss the rapidly de central European It was understood the culled after had con ferred with British Ambassador Sir Eric was to consider particularly what kind of support France and Britain could give to These moves came as Premier won a vote of confi lenco in the chamber of deputies during debute on his demand for secret and almost dictatorial Robert French to was instructed present the French note at The announcement was made ust after Premier Daladier seek ng drastic decree powers had won u vote of confidence from the chamber of Voted Confidence demand for virtual powers was pri marily ut increasing the French military The vote was to Tho Balloting was on a motion of tha Deputy Henri Turn to ENVOY on U Traffic Toll IK M town f tar IkU year MNW U b Opening Chapters Of An Baffling New Mystery Novel 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