Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - August 8, 1939, Steubenville, Ohio STEUBENVILLE SCATTERED SHOWERS and thunder storms tonight and Wednesday night and in extreme southwest portion in afternoon 93 The The United AUGUST PROVIDING TEMPORARY AID SETUP ENACTED Council Creates City Re lief Division With Staff of Six LASTS TWO MONTHS A temporary relief f ing for administration of welfare assistance by the municipality for the next two months was enacted by city council in special session Monday As framed at a committee meet ing last the creates a city relief provides for appointment of six employes and fixes their rates of In accordance with the recent relief act of the state Safety Director Alfred Freeman t is named head of the relief bureau in the city relief act and holds the authority to fill the newly created positions and also fix the duties of the relief The six positions created include one for a supervisor who will be paid a month three for case investigators who will be paid a and two positions for clerks who are to be paid a Rent Office Space The also provides that the city is to rent relief office space from the county which occupies part of the at Third and Market The rental will cost the city about a The ordinance enacted by coun cil is only a stopgap in that it creates the positions and au the relief setup only for a period of 60 starting im Council members wrote in this provision because they have ex pressed some dissatisfaction over handling of relief before and also consider the citys relief situation as They are committed to making a study of relief during the next two months and then making desired changes when the new Only seven members of council were present for last nights spec ial In addition to the three remaining council Safety Director Freeman was also His absence was com upon by Councilman Wal ter Sterling who said No Comment Freeman Inasmuch as the director took such interest in this relief I am somewhat disappointed he is not here tonight to comment on the He cannot say the opportunity wasnt open to or we should know who is to be ap pointed and we can pass on their competency once we find out who they are When it comes time to take up the system again we ought to con sider a revision of the salaries named in this There is no need to pay more than is ab No doubt some members of council have been ap for I have been and there is no doubt we can get 41 competent persons to do this work at a reasonable Sterlings reference to the ident ity of the persons who are to get the six city relief concerned questions raised at previous meet ings by They asked be fore who would receive the ap but Director Freeman said he could not tell Freeman did that the administration expected to take on the five or six persons who are to be dropped from the county relief staff as soon as the city takes over its own relief ad effective August Freeman insisted he did not know the names of these Must Report to Council The temporary provides that Director Freeman must make re ports to council every two weeks on the relief There was some question about this pro vision on the council floor last t Councilman Paul wanted to know what was meant and was advised that a full ac counting was probably Councilman Alfred Schaefer declared on this point I think the report should be complete in every if it is on the up and The relief act limits adminis expenses generally to but under the state act the ad ministrative costs to the city must w not exceed 12 per cent of the total relief case if the municipal ity expects to get matching funds from the Financing of the whole city re lief system is still bat todays primary election returns were expected to provide the ans Electors today were to vote for or against a special one mill poor relief tax If the levy the city will have about for the rest of 9 this year and an equal amount for 1940 relief Should the levy officials have warned that a serious situation will Council members present last night included Scott James George Button and Robert Solicitor John Griesinger was the only other official in REPUBLICAN VOTERS OUTNUMBER DEMOCRATS IK LIGHT BALLOTING PAPERS REVIVE DANZIG DISPUTE Unanimity of Nazis At tack Hints of Official Inspiration BRITISH AIR GAMES President Claims Final Victory In Court Fight Roosevelt Unexpectedly Issues Statement on Departure For Hyde Park and Rest OCEAN CRUISE ARRANGED CROWD APPLAUDS GERTRUDE years to the day after Gertrude Ederle swam the English she was given a resounding ovation by persons at the New York Worlds The crowd that she had conquered years of paralysis and despair following an injury to her back in a fall six years Miss Ederle right is shown with Eleanor Holm as she stood to receive the PENSION BOARD FIRM IN REFUSAL Opposition to Payment To Ohio Reiterated MISSION WAITS WORD ON FATE OF AMERICANS By The Preis social security board reiterated today its opposition to payment of in old age security funds to Onto in the face of an assertion by Representative Jen kins that he again would ask congress to order the The money was withheld in following a dis agreement between the board and the administration of for mer Martin Chairman Arthur Altmeyer believes the money cannot be paid under provisions of the social se curity act and said at a press con ference yesterday he would con to oppose as a bad prece dent legislative efforts to obtain The house last week passed a by Jenkins ordering the trea sury to make the but the measure was caught in the senate adjournment Jenkins then announced he would press for final passage early in the next congressional Altmeyer pointed out the board once had suggested the matter be submitted to the attorney general and that the offer was Consequently it does not intend to ask an opinion now as to legal ity of the he Steubenville Trio Passes Bar Exams By The Associated ert Peters of Cincinnati made the highest grade among 265 suc applicants in state bar ex aminations announced Peters grade was per The 265 will be sworn in as law yers by Carl chief Justice of in Fri day in and in Cleveland next Successful applicants included Mell Underwood of Colum son of District Judge Mell and James F Bell son of Madison county Common Pleas Judge James Successful applicants Samuel boulevard Hyman 631 Lin coln and Paul Ward 203 North all of Steuben Katherine Amster dam among the success ful OBoyle Indictment By Jurist By The Frew first degree murder Indictment against John of Cleve one of five named in the gang slaying of Roy Happy Ma In was today by Judge Maiden on the tion of County Prosecutor William Four others named In the same Indictment are serving life sen in Ohio They are John Steubenville slot machine czar Herb Ross petty Cleveland racketeer Solly Cleveland and Thomas OBoyle never was CRASH KILLS py The 8 a farmer near North was killed last when automobile left the high way between Temperature iau as Hi HI P as M Kernel Courier Crosses Japanese Lines to Kaifeng By The Prm courier eft the Baptist Mission hospital at Chengchow today In an at Japanese lines to reach Kaifeng and learn the fate of Mission colony here under increasing Japanese Last word from the colony by courier when missionaries were reported preparing to the Kaifeng is about 40 in northern In Shansi province a like cam was reported to have driven wo American and Ralph Scoville of Los both of the China Inland from their post at 100 miles southwest of Tai the provincial The Chronicle reported that huge anti American demonstrations had been held at with large crowds gathering before American establishments to shout slogans and hear fiery Sim demonstrations were said to have taken place at wang In Hopeh but it was not known whether any Americans were Thirty In Colony The American consular list at Hankow indicated there were 30 American missionaries at including 15 nuns and four but some may have The Chinese press at reported an riot at on the railway in Shantung A mob was reported to have entered the Asiatic Petroleum company installation and seized a quantity of By The Prm and German newspapers exchanged bit ter words centering atten tion on Danzig while mili tary forces across most of Europe engaged in war maneuvers or pre pared for such The Berlin press attack on Poland was of a unanimity that hinted at official It followed the lead of the official German news which warned that challenges from Poland would result in acquaint with German Pretext for the attack was an editorial yesterday in the conser Warsaw newspaper Czas which said the cuns of the Polish army are facing Danzig should au of the free cities not abandon in time the dangerous road they are following on orders from DNB said Czas openly threat ens a malicious attack and brutal bombardment by which Danzig could be laid in But Polish loudmouths must be told that they cannot ruthlessly provoke Ger many in this Berlin Papers in Warning Following up headlines were spread across every Berlin front page this Hitlers Beobachter Czas and the men who stand behind it are impatient to hear the By The ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO HYDE fulfillment of all the objectives of hia 1037 court reorganization President Roosevelt began today three weeks of work and recreation far from Washingtons humid A few hours before he left the capital last night for a visit at Hyde Park and a cruise off the East Canadian the chief executive un expectedly issued a statement Attacks recently made on the Supreme court itself by members of the bnr indi ate how fully rour liberal ideas already The Presidents recall ng the bitter controversy over his Floods within 18 inches of continued the Hal to menace river rising the British and French Only one re maining dike prevented Inunda tion of the native The Peiping press printed a list of British products which shops were forbidden to sell and lists of similar Japanese or German goods which should be sold At the summer resort of the campaign de a new Chinese mer chants to charge British customers five times inai FIST FIGHT FATAL By The Portage county authorities said today John Erie railroad engin died of a broken neck after a fist fight at nearby Geauga and detained for questioning a 33 yearold man accused of engaging Bleckert in the They forget other cannon may too and that Poland is by no means in a position to challenge and make the unpleasant acquaintance of vastly forces of The Danzig Nazi Albert was reported to have landed at Salzburg last possibly to see Adolf whose mountain chalet is A Warsaw newspaper said Polish customs officials on the Danzig east Prussian frontier had been ordered to wear uniforms and carry Official confirmation was Britains antiaircraft defenses were manned against makebelieve enemy bombers which are to sweep in from the sea tonight for a test of the islands air Part of the 500 raiders will fly over France and return to attack while the remainder will fly in from the North A blackout covering half of Eng land Thursday will climax the air defense practice which precedes ex tensive army war games in York shire and joint maneuvers of the home and reserve which King George will review at Wey mouth The admiralty issued a call to day for former sailors and marines to man training ships for and certain ships of the reserve fleet and to work with the naval air The program of maneuvers be tween now and end of September calls for a parade of the full power of British armed Observers saw two have arma ments at the peak of efficiency against any emergency and to lend weight to British commitments such as the promise to back Poland against a Danzig Pike County Holds No Primary Election Br The Pint There wasnt any primary In Pike county Nut because Secretary of State Earl Griffith fired the entire elections board and clerk last week and John Bricker ordered a grand jury In of charges of illegal Because there wasnt any con test to be Dancer Quit Fair In Tiff Over Red Woolens Attire By NEW aboo brassieres and a scarcity of nudity drove Delia blond to quit her job at the New York worlds woo walked out of a Vienna night club last May when ordered to wear a little something while doing Uer row explained the distraining aspects of dressing as follows U was ridiculous for me to dance in a costume that was just short of old fashioned red woolen I simply couldnt perform a highly esthetic dance under such Dance portray all call for artis decent revelation of the And when they put trans parent brassieres on U only makes the dance woo danced at a cession In the amusement Is the second performer to Rosita the dove walked out last week complaining of too much BANK LICENSED By Tht The Federal Reserve Bank announced today that the Central Bank com pany of had been licensed by the secretary of the treasury as member of the Federal Re serve effective ELMER IS EARL By The Associated August To that Wheres Earl Zanyer of Co spoke up today and Until now Zaayer lias been satisfied just to stroll around at American Legion conven tions dressed In his hayseed But since Fred chairman of trophies for the 1939 convention at has begun a contest to establish Elmers Zaayer saw fit to break his People began calling me El mer for tio good reason at as my name is not he wrote to Continuing on this logical he reported he was tagged with the name when he appeared at the Louis ville convention In and that It kept growing at suc who Is dent of motor vehicle service at the Columbus post was the first to claim the Boissy HUNT IN LOUISIANA More Indictments Seen In Hot Oil Probe By Prm NEW government pushed an Thi for intense big violators today indictments hunt with more shortly as John assist ant attorney an the federal search fo political corruption in Louisiana was just picking up Less than 24 hours after for mer Governor Richard Lech and Seymour two of th late Huey Longs most political were charged wit hot oil Rogge said Were concentrating on the big violators taking the smalle ones in The federal invest gallons in this state are just un der Beginning today th grand jury will work overtime sitting in allday sessions an perhaps even on Leche and Weiss were yesterday on charges they profited by through trans actions in violation of the Con nally which is designed to ai states in maintaining oil conserve ton quotas by prohibiting inter state movement of illegally pro hot Freeman wealthy Dal oil and the Eas Texas Refining company also wer indicted in this Rogge said the government wa particularly probing reports o tampering with the jury which acquitted Abraham Shushan another Long field of in come tax evasion charges in 1935 Shirley Wimberly who formerly practiced law in th same suite with Ear K said in a radio address tha Frank Murphy wa making a tremendous mistake if he thinks he can step over th ruins of a crushed Louisiana int the Presidents Wallace Recommends Study of Cooperatives By 8 Secretary Wallace recommends a study o the stronger cooperatives or view of the possibilities of ol fashioned democracy applied to newfashioned In an address to American Institute of Cooperation last nigh he said it might be possible to build a stronger bridge between democracy and capitalism by roak log corporation wore democrat lc in The suggested tb problem of combining democracy and capitalism would be simple K bad the interplay or control and function among and manage that t b stronger cooperatives believe practical ways o adapting the corporate form mor closely to our needs in keeping with our democrat can be found It we really want to find be proposal to enlarge the court if justices over 70 lid not was occasioned by lis signing of a which created n administrative officer to see affairs of all federal Seventh Pact Accomplished That measure was one of seven parts of his original which split Democratic ranks in congress and created nationwide Six of the parts have een enacted into Roose velt and added that the sev been accompli she the Supreme court The country is naturally con cerned with the attainment of pro per objectives rather than any one of many possible methods propose for accomplishment of the the Presidents statemen I called attention two and i half years ago to the unwarrant ed attitude of the Supreme cour with reference to the exercise o its constitutional Meas of social and economic reform were being impeded or defeated by narrow interpretations of the con and by the assumption o the part of the Supreme court o legislative powers which proper belonged to the Objective Achieved It is that meth which I was no bur the as ever person in the United States know was The result are not even open to Since the senate killed his Su preme court just two year Roosevelt has appointe four justices to the an congress gradually has authorize administrative changes in the fee eral court system to speed up it As he issued the Mr Roosevelt concluded a busy da bills which congress ed during its closing He too about 200 more bills with him consider at Hyde Next weekend he will begin trip along the easter coast of Canada in the navy cruise A brief visit to Cam will be hi only stop ashore during the 10da Bricker Speaker At Beta By ties were pictured today by Gov ernor John Bricker as teach ing the art of getting along wit our the nation of the world have not learned to Speaking at the centenary cele bration of the Beta Theta Pi frat at the scene of its Miami Bricker to his audience educators on th whole have failed to teach us live together happily nations hav not learned thin lesson at Clarence Newton of Boston was redacted president c the Zog and Geraldine Arrive in Versatile Zog and Queen Geraldine of A dethroned since Italy April 7 conquest of their country arrived here today to take up ret idence in Chateau De La Maye formerly occupied by the Duk and Duchess of Their Prince Skander an three sisters were in th Late News Bulletins By SCHOONER AFIRE AT SEA lookout coast guard station re today an unidentified schooner was burn ing at sea approximately 16 miles east of the The patrol boat McLane and a motor lifeboat went to the CHRYSLER CRITICALLY ILL WHITE Walter automobile is critically 111 at hia Long Island home with a circulatory It was dis closed today In supreme court where Chrysler was named a de fendant In a suit lor alleged breach of REDS BUY CATCHER 23 yearold catcher for a western international league baseball has been sold to the Cincinnati Club Presi dent Jack Quill said Clif ford will report next DAUGHTER SLAIN a corsage of red and white a 17yearold ministers daughter was found slain today beside a muddy lovers lane eight blocks from her The Wal ter Dworecki of a Camden Polish Baptist identified the rain soaken body as that of his who left home last night to buy a pair of BALLOTING LIGHT IN PRIMARIES Voters Go To Polls In 65 Municipalities By Prm ers inan estimated 65 Ohio wrote their decision on local issues in todays With no general interest mani state officials forecast an unusually light About 135 cities cancelled their primaries under authority granted by new election saved the state an estimated George elections expert in the office of the secretary 01 estimated the savings and explained it was made possible because no longer would it be necessary to pay election workers for duties they dont Under the old Ohio each of 200 municipalities with a population of or more was required to open polling places each primary jay whether or not there was a local The code provides that in the event there are no local county election of may disregard the primary v Approximately 136 local govern ments took advantage of that law this Of the various bond issues and tax levies up for decision in scat tered communities Dayton was among the first to vote on a mills levy for poor relief under new legislation reducing from 66 per cent to bare majority the favorable vote required for ap Socialite Slashes Wrists in Quarrel By NEW Mary Kirk prominent in Now Yorks cafe society and once the close friend of Max the was in Wickersham hospi tal today with superficially slashed Police listed it as at tempted The wife of Robert Kelly night club she was ad mitted for treatment under the name of Dorothy Ke Detective John assigned to the case after word it be came reported Miss Brown cut herself after a quarrel with her interviewed two doctors and reported that Miss Brown slashed herself apparently in an attempt to gain her husbands PRECINCT POLL SHOWS HILLTOP AVERAGES BEST Observers Expect Around Total in City Contests LATE RUSH LIKELY A fairly heavy vote had been ast in up to the noon lour today in the municipal mary but a survey of more than half the precinct sta tions showed that an extra heavy afternoon rush would be necessary to bring the final vote totals up to the high mark predicted A heavy early morning rain cut down some of the ballot casting in the first two hours the polls were open alter and the mid day survey in 24 out of the citys 43 precincts showed that less than 20 per cent of the registered elec tors had exercised their right of At that the final vote to tals figured to hover around the whereas political ob servers optimistically had forecast as the campaign whirl came to a close that the returns would ap proach the vote As usual the two hilltop La Belle View and Pleasant reported good early re In the South made up of the First and Second was more while in the North or the Third and Baby With Heart Outside Body Puzzles Doctors By l pound baby born with ner heart completely her body but apparently normal alternately took nourishment and slept peace fully today while doc torn worried what to A cocktail glass protected the tiny exposed heart which rested on the in fants cheat over a open Through this opening the a large artery the heart with be cav where the heart normally i The flaw maintain body beat for the heart and against Physicians whether the child would live and 4eba ed feasibility of an to place tbe heart to position Inside the They said there was one i uch caie in recorded medical The born yester to a 24yearold mother tle maternity hospital in beart of the she J and The of f w FOR RETURNS An extra edition of The will be issued early tomorrow morning to provide readers with complete details of the Republican and Democratic primaries in Toronto and Results in eVery contest for various city offices and special issues in these be found in Order copy from your newsboy or phone Customary telephone and broadcasting service on the vote count will bo given at the Tuesday Fourth early balloting was around 20 per cent of the regist ered The survey of the 24 precincts at noon showed that Republicans had outvoted the Democratic sup porters by approximately to The polls will close at and first official returns are ex to reach the board of elec tions office about Prom then on the rush of tabulations will set in and it is expected that outcome of several contests may still be uncertain at Second Wwd Poll Returns from the first two wards were due to lack of telephone service in the polling stations and It was possible to contact only four out of the 14 precinct staffs at work in these In tbe four precincts however there are reg electors and of 835 had been to the polls before Of the 336 ballots 198 were Democratic and 136 were Tha First ward results obtained were C 5io 44 36 Republican F 600 41 42 Republican Tbe Second ward survey showed Precinct C 195 40 34 Republican Precinct F 286 71 24 Republican votes Ward Light In three Third wajd contacted out of the little more than of tbe voters their ballots this The tai vote was 986 including 184 Republicans and tl in the district from Market to Dock and from the riverfront to the Polish Tbe Third ward figures in were 460 00 80 total Precinct Bt 800 41 89 total 800 IB gg IV Fourth Ward Fourth ward votes to ilx of tbt nine precincts total 448 or 18 per cent of tbt Traffic
