Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - June 19, 1939, Steubenville, Ohio I WEATHER LOCAL and slightly warmer Tuesday and warmer in northeast portion cooler at STEUBENVILLE The The The I JUNE 1939SIXTEEN THREE HAMMER MURDERESS IN DASH FOB I MOTHER FACES ELECTRIC CHAIR IN BABY CASE Prosecutor to File First Degree Murder Charge Against Fink CONFESSES CRIME Lie Tests Credited With Solving Kidnaping Case at Clyde Late News Bulletins STRATTON MAN COUNTYS NINTH TRAFFIC VICTIM Hy Thr DIVES FROM HOY a 62yearold Eric railroad en didnt today when he saw John going down for the third time in the Cuyahoga He leaped from his locomotive rah and dived eight feet from a railroad In rescue the who was in IS feet of and bronchi him to HAMMER SLAYER ESCAPES Hy Iv Associated Press Writer June Baker confessed slay er of her 10wecksold wept today as she received a jail visit from the pastor who officiated at her marriage in and at the funeral of Baby Haldon The Frank Evan Lutheran pastor who de at the funeral that God would avenge the babys left a testament for the young She thanked Sheriff Myers signed under today before Justice of the Peace an affidavit drawn up by Prosecutor charging Fink with first degree The sheriff said she would be arraigned Threw Into The 22yearold divorcee ad the sheriff that she took her son from her parents home in nearby last Tuesday four miles out of and threw the child from a bridge into Green Two deputy sheriffs found the the stream the next after Fink and her and Oren report ed the child Prosecutor Hyzer credited a lie detector with providing the break in the He said alter she told two was shown the reaction of the to her which reg pulse and respiration by a red line on a IN CRASH Oklahoma opera singer was cut over an eye in a midnight collis ion which critically injured his and a Mary OMNIBUS TOTAL BOOSTED senate commerce subcommittee today ap proved an omnibus rivers and harbors hill authorizing of or more than amount voted by the ANNE RECEIVES Anne Morrow receiving an honorary doctor of letters degree from the of Roches today heard President Alan Valentine pay tribute to her for conquering the the the but victory has been a victory of the PAIR CONDEMNED TO ELECTRIC CHAIR Robert Dunne today sentenced Edward and to die in the electric chair July 7 for the murder of Alexander an during a tavern holdup May SHOOTING IT OUT WITH KILLER posse tracking Ray killer of volunteer was reported shooting it out with in the heavily wooded Moose Lake the sheriffs office here said late lie detector ex told her when you get up every morning and in the you will he looking Ihe woman who killed your She agreed to tell the whole slory to Sheriff and later i knew they were going to use the lie detector on me and 1 would have had to tell some Ive sot it all off my chest Quarreled Myers her as saying she determined to gel rid of the baby alter she quarreled with mother over care of the Its what K sone she declared in explanation of her In the past year and a half I have lived ten H is Ihe life Turn to MOTHER on Page Sj HEARING WAIVED BY SNYDER Weekly Editor Held to Grand Jury on Charges by Nolan HEATED EXCHANGE Charles former city councilman and editor of a weekly waived prelim inary hearing in municipal court INQUIRY OPENED IN SUB DISASTER Hearing Thrown Open to Newspaper Men After Secret Session The June naval inquiry board today questioned the four officers res cued from the sunken submarine Squalus as a probe got underway into one of the nations worst sub marine The hearing was closed at its but a half hour after it be gan the doors of the hearing room were and an officer in newspapermen to At the same time the enlisted men who survived the sinking filed out of the room and returned to their quarters in a naval bar Lieutenant Oliver Xa commander of the and the three other surviving of remained in the With all the color dictated by naval regulations and the headed by Rear Ad miral William com mandant of the first naval district at marched Into Ihe hear ing room in full dress complete with glittering The principal witnesses in naval terminology the interested the 33 members of the Squalus crew who escaped the fate of their 26 and were hauled lo the in the most dramatic undersea rescue in naval today and was bound over to the grand jury on a libel charges filed against him by John Nolan Democratic who lives at 1828 Steel avenue and who was arrested i week ago Saturday on the politica leaders declined to to the affidavit when it was pie to him by Judge Willian Snyder was not represented b legal but Nolan was pros ent and was represented by Attor ney Samuel A large crowd gathered in the court cham apparently expecting some excitement but the session was short and the only unusual devel was a verbal exchange be tween Nolan and Affidavit Amended When Snyder was arraigned last the court had termed lans affidavit faulty in lhal it did not specify in exactly what way he had allegedly been libeled and before this mornings proceeding started an amended affidavit was filed by The amended affidavit charg ing cited a news slory in the June 8 issue of Snyders one sentence of the story linking No lan to conduct of municipal affairs and vice When the judge asked Snyder at todays arraignment how to plead to the Snyder an that he desired to waive preliminary hearing The court then set bom for the defendants release at pending grand jury investigation of the In Sharp Exchange At this sitting at the counsel arose and asked permission to make a state He launched into it imme asserting heatedly This man looking Snyder has adopted a cowardly He has an opportunity here in open court to prove his If he can substantiate any part of 1 will withdraw my If Nolan has any more statements to make for the news Snyder he has my permission to dp Taking recognition of Judge Downer pointed out that Snyder was within his rights to waive a preliminary hearing and lacking final jurisdiction in such the court was obliged to accept the waiver Immediately following the ses Snyder left city hall and to return later with a TORNADO HITS SEVEN TOWNS TAKES 9 LIVES Damage Estimated at in Minnesota Gale Sunday MORE THAN 60 HURT Temperature Today ill 1 M Ml minimum minimum nil fur tut fnr IM till Atlantic Clipper Lands at Marseilles II The Irwi June Atlantic Clipper landed at Steubenville time today at Airport on her passenger preview flight from the United Eighteen American journalists were transferred from the flying boat to an air France Ferry plane for a flight to In the capital a formal welcome for them had been arranged by officials of the France and Pan American Air j arrived at Marseille after calls of the and It left Port W IIy Thp 1rcHK June jumping 25 miles of countryside like a destructive killed 9 persons about oclock Sun day injured upwards of SO and caused property damage of possibly Sec lions Cor Francis and from 15 to HO miles west and of here were damaged with a town of some suffering ser There 10 to 50 buildings were demolished and five persons Family of Killed The dead included a family of four whose automobile ran head long into the wind near The dead 37 and all of Minne apolis about 50 all of and FRED The automobile in which her Ellen and Ihe her soninlaw and were riding was whirled several hundred feet and de Bodies of he occupants were scattered in a All tho others were killed in the collapse of homes except He was working In his garden when he tornado lifted him carried tiim several hundred feet and him to death against a a The Lutheran where services had ended only 45 a part of the a large a garage and more than 40 houses weie demolished In the Dies of Skull Fracture Suf in Crash TRUCK RAMMED CAR Ten Others Four Seriously in Sunday Auto Accidents A man died today in the Ohio Valley hospital of in juries suffered in an autotruck Jefferson county a toll of nine dead in 103 traffic Ten other persons suffered four of them of a serious in mishaps on the high ways over Two of the victims were Steubenville resi dents whose car was involved in an accident at The dead Dennis skull in crash at The injured Grace lMO Oregon fractured right leg and body admitted to Ohio Valley Bertha same severe facial admitted to Ohio Thomas aged same cut and bruised about face and treated at hospital and John 11G Standard broken collar bone and several fractured ad to Ohio Valley John 244 treated by physician for severe cuts on both Urban HOf Ridge fractured admitted to Urban same severe laceration on the treated Ravenna hospital and Crealls severe brush burns and injury to two Treated Jit Ohio Valley hospital and George brush treated at Ohio Valley James VELMA THREE OTHERS AKE ESCAPE above serving a life sentence for the hammer slaying of her florist husband in in was among lie four women who escaped from the Marysville reformatory for Britain Presses Effort To End Dispute With Japs Talks Being in Tokyo And London in Attempt to Clarify Sit in Tientsin Concession CONSIDER EVACUATING WOMEN Woman Says She Wants One Last Good In Note SEEN ON HIGHWAY Hy The June Velma who hammered her husband to death 32 years ago and then went to a escaped today from the Ohio Reformatory for Women Three oilier prisoners escaped with the 33year old slayer of Thomas Edward whose fully clothed bound hand and was found on a bed in their home near December West left a note in her room saying she knew her chances for being released were gone and that she wanted to have one last good The addressed to Superintendent Margaret expressed sorrow for the escape and said that if the incident hurt Reilley too the fugitive would The tenor of the the text of which the institution declined to disclose without the superintendents indicated West planned to Next to my life 1 love Reilley she She confessed she killed her HOUSE DEBATES BUSINESS TAX REVISION Little Real Opposition to Measure Expected in Lower Branch 11 The Vint fingers treated at Ohio Valley hospital und Injured At Mosser died at 5 today in the Ohio Valley He suf the fatal head injury at 5 Friday when attempting to turn off seven into his driveway at the southern limits of and collided almost headon with a tractor and semi Witnesses told state highway patrolmen who the crash that Harry of Chagrin operator of the swung to the right and off Turn to INJURIES on Page 7 Turn to TORNADO on Page 8 CENTRAL OHIO REGION FLOODED Torrential Rains Send Streams Out of Banks In Columbus Area Can you really blame Adams for clogging her very with Aunts Irish for selling a fake fire in her for kidnapping her in an ambulance You Tacks was up against a cold shoul Packy wasnt named North for nothing FOUR BLIND DATES Starts June In Steubenville By The June weekend rains sent central Ohio streams out of their banks forced several families to evacuate flooded highways and caused considerable property A near cloudburst at east of dumped inches of water on the region within a few and tho entire southern section of the city wan flooded as the North fork of the Licking river backed Newark firemen and policemen evacuated families from homes and reported a 35foot bridge at near washed Portions of Routes 37 arid 13 In the region were flooded and closed to Four inches of rain In 24 hours sent he river five above flood stage at north of flooding four streets and of the Ohio Wesleyan university The river slase at Delaware waa 14 feet at 8 and still although the muddy waters were expected lo subside soon unless the which ceased early sel in north of re ported inches of sending streams in the area surging over BUS KILLS 11 Br H K I L June German were killed and 21 injured when a Prime Minister Chamberlain announced today talks were held simultaneously in London and Tokyo in an effort to find a basis for settlement of the Tientsin Chamberlain told the house of commons that Foreign Secretary Lord had conferred with the Japanese Ambassador and that Sir Robert Leslie British Ambassador in was trying to clarify the situation with the Japanese His government cannot but believe that the Japanese government share their own desire 7iot to widen the area of disagree ment or lo render more acute an already difficult Chamber lain At the same time they are fully alive to the reaction to the present dispute on the position of Ihe British and set in Maintaining Close Touch In this connection Chamberlain said Britain was maintaining close touch with the French and American The tension at Tientsin developed with refusal of authorities of the British conces sion to hand over to Japanese of four alleged This was followed hy a blockade of the British and French concessions and increased demands by the Jap Chamberlain said the original demand for the alleged terrorists had been confused by the intro duction of larger issues of general policy but he added it still was hoped a local settlement would be The Tientsin incident is consid ered a challenge to British inter ests and prestige in the Far This challenge was described yes in a speech by admiral of VOTE BY NIGHTFALL POSSES HUNT MISSING BOYS Lone Trail of Little Foot prints Found After Absence By Tho Irem June to dispose of Important fl legislation before July 1 Ihe house today took up business lax revision while administration forces in the senate sought a Iwo extension of the Presidents monetary real opposition to the lax was in although Ite of the house ways and means committee con Hy The KLK 3 A lone trail of little prints five days from their June foot par the Sir Roger ELECTRIFY FENCE June Japanese military authorities to night erected a electric wire barricade around the ish and French concessions further strengthening their blockade of the foreign A Japanese engineer pulled a switch sending the current surg ing through high tension wires strung around the the aim being to prevent anyone trying to through the blockade under cover of darkness or pass fresh food across the behind the backs of Jap anese a declaration of war against the British with Germany fishing camp in ed southeastern said they were certain the tracks were made yesterday by Harold No truce was found of They are the sons of and Charles on of Blood hounds were put on Ihe trail Previous tracks indicated the older boy was walking on the sides of his worn probably be cause of and that the younger one had lost one Finding of Ihe single trail led to believe tho younger brother had leaving the other to wander alone through the dense The fresh tracks were six miles southeast of the camp from which the boys Volunteers joined in the directed by army officers arid ux Doubt had been expressed that the boys could stand the rigors of exposure and Kach wore only a light shirt and Whitney ReElected By Bail Brotherhood tended II doos go far enough In was expected by night A morn strenuous fight WHS in prospect over llm monetary legis which would continue I In Presidents authority lo Ihe dollar and extend Ihe Irca power lo maintain the stabilization fund and to buy silver at prices tho world The tax offered In response lo business mens demands for changes in corpora lion would wipe out the tax on undis corporate profits and stib a flat IS per cent levy on companies earning moro than a Tho present rates of 1 lo 1 i per cent on corp orations with under be Taxes Tho hill also would extend in excise or nuis ance taxes and would continue inn postage rate on loiters for Iwo Doth will June 30 unless reenacted In tho In an effort lo prevent that oc Chairman Harrison D of the senate finance coin nil and Senator D Ihe majority have husband of two years when he re fused to her to the She struck him with a ham mer four or five tied and bound washed her hands and Jumped Into her green roadster and drove to Cleveland for the There she sans blues played the piano and dealt cards far Into the Seen On Highway Sheriff Homer said a truck driver reported he saw throe other women near about 5 and the said ha believed they were ot the who were discovered missing at the 6 cell Oh my dont tell me that exclaimed Bert Van when told at Cleveland of the es What can I do It wint Sho told mo she would never do anything that would hurt Are you sum It was Velma Van Woort said she visit ed her daughter at last and that she seemed very She told me was very hard on her being in the he mother She thought was no hopo of ever getting but sho didnt seem to in escape on her because she told me she never would do that would hurt Other Women West was permitted plead to 11 degree murder charge and was sentenced to from five years to life The Ohio parole board refused year to give her free Tho other and the and Italy Inquiries Former Foreign Secretary An sightseeing bus toppled over a cliff on thf Grn mountain road 70 thony asked the prime min ister whether it had been made clear to all concerned that it is the intention of his govern ment to ensure that supplies of foodstuffs to British subjects in Tientsin would reach Chamberlain replied we are making inquiries into that point and shall take whatever steps may be necessary to ensure that food will reach Army authorities in Tokyo said that electrified fences be erected around the blockaded Brit Turn lo 1WITAIN oa 1ase Hr The Irm June Dele gates to the Brotherhood of Kail road second nial convention elected minor today and prepared for early They settled the most controversial issue facing them by President Alex ander Whitney and secretary treasurer George Anderson Each hud sought the others de feat in throughout the sessions beginning last May when reelection was an Anderson declined to again seek the urers but yielded to tho in of assistant lo tint president was chusen for another fouryear promised to expedite Ihe when it roaches the Although President has suggested that the Income tax base should be finance committee members said there would not ho to act on the proposal at this Senate consideration of the monetary legisla tion tho chamber Into three to pass the seeking lo buoy silver prices and print now and those desiring to wipe out the Presidents control tho L o a d e r Hark contending that tho administra tion has ample to beat down all told ro he hoped the senate would approve tho monetary by mid Then he will sook prompt ac tion on the relief already passed by the U would substitute a board for tho present WPA ad ministration and would place var ious restrictions on relief opera A senate appropriations subcommittee will start closed hearings IN GOLF 15VENT itr The trui June Thirty Ohio golf pros started play today over a soggy County Club course in the PGA Turn to VELMA Page S ENDS HEAT WAVE Downpour Drops Temper atures From 100 to 66 Over Sunday Drenching the district with only slight interruptions for more than 24 Junes heaviest rainfall put an end to a heat Sunday and caused a rise in Ohio Tho rain guage at the Citys plant registered a tation of inches for the last 24 hours at noon today and brought welcome relief to farmers whose crops had been threatened by siege of dry Thermometers dropped from torrid 100 degrees of Saturday to a cool GO at midnight Sunday and today at noon the mercury stood at a comfortable Joseph Green ported a slight rise in the river at a stage of but said the increased flow the heavy rain would be handled by lowering a bear trap and removing needles from the Tho unusually heavy storm sent rainfall records to per cent above tho normal for the year and por cent above the normal Ipp he City Chemist Sheldom Scott Traffic Toll postponed from County In lit Injured lu
