Sunday Times Signal (Newspaper) - August 21, 1938, Zanesville, Ohio Section One MAIN NEWS SECTION SUNDAY THE WEATHER cloudy ably local showers Sunday and Monday slightly cooler in north portion Sunday L LVn No 7 ZANESVILLE OHIO SUNDAY AUGUST 21 1938 PRICE 6 CENTS EVERYWHERE FOR COMMUNIST PROBE WITNESS Board its Date For Probe sral Benefits for Ohio Pensions May Be Discontinued ashington Aug s v e r e 1 y criticizing the i old-age pension system federal social security d today fixed Aug 29 for earing to determine to discontinue 50 per cent of the benefits ore than persons s Ohio organization already is pressed by declining taxes and revenues from i it pays its half of the It has borrowed more than from the state's general me fund to make July and st payments and some have predicted that reduced ons will be necessary if federal action here also said the Aug aring would cover the part J chief of the division of aid for the aged ov Martin L Davey's un- bid for 9 It also will concern itself general administration of the i letter to Berrodin outlining for the projected hearing ir J Altmeyer chairman of oard large part of the staff ig the Ohio plan has been lyed either in violation or of the civil service of the state of Ohio and the of the for old of the staff of the di- of aid for the aged have pted to influence the votes of ents of assistance and have ed in other political activities sited by the Ohio civil service anket increases in grants been made without due con- ition of the needs of there has been dis- lation in the treatment of its equally in need in that -ence has been given certain duals dissatisfied applicants not been informed of their to a fair hearing Infant lurt in Auto Crash Parkersburg a infant sustained critical es and her parents were less isly hurt Saturday afternoon their car plunged down a embankment along the highway one mile west of ille baby Julia a probable skull fracture a n jaw and fractures of both r S 28 driver of ar sustained severe cuts and about the body Mrs 29 suffered a est and minor cuts injured were removed to Samaritan hospital where condition was s critical by attendants this defective steering gear was for the accident which d shortly after 4 o'clock It laid the were en- from Columbus to their at 708 Woodward avenue to his car out of control on a sharp in the highway He said the nobile careened from one side i road to the other for a dis- of several hundreds feet be- lt finally left the pavement Parkersburg machine over- d as it plunged down the in- causing its passengers to be -n clear of the wreckage motorist who said his was in Indiana took the to the hospital here e Local Youths Hurt in Auto Crash -ee Zanesville youths caped serious injury at k Saturday night when their the Newark road and over- d about one mile north of youths Robert Durkin es Flynn and Russ treatment at Good an hospital Ankrom who at 1548 Central avenue 3 a dislocated left collar bone suffered cuts and es hes Rests After Record Flight Across Continent M York Aug his speedy transcontinental t to test a new type of oxygen Howard Hughes breaker oi predicted tonight that port flying was about to en- new area e lanky flier expressed belief all commercial flying will be in the substratosphere height 1000 feet as soon as proper masks and other are manufactured ehes averaged 238 miles an in making the flight from Calif In 10 hours 34 tes Strives for Peace in War's Shadow hile Viscount Runciman pictured above in Prague with Lady Runciman was gling to settle amicably dis- putes between the Czech and its insurgent minorities a portentous and unexpected concentration of German troops near the Czech border cast the shadow of sible war over the tions World Watches British Effort To Calm Little Czechoslovakia London Aug is flexing her military muscles and wooing aggrieved Hungary while the world hopefully watches British efforts to wet down Europe's tinderbox Czechoslovakia New and old v problems for Britain and France were popping up at both ends of the m axes but there were no day recurrent n London or Pans today Not the least of the French problems the offers promises or even demands fuehrer Hitler may make to garian Regent Horthy on his state visit to Germany starting 3W With Germany all but mobilized for vast war maneuvers Hitler ordered a splendid welcome for the head of that could be another stepping stone for the Fuehrer's political-economic hopes of a march to the east The great democracies looked Defends President's At tack On Senator Atlanta Aug Roosevelt's candidate for the ate Lawrence Camp defended the chief executive's intervention in tho Georgia primary campaign serting today it was for the state's own good The new dealer indorsed by the president for the seat now held by Sen Walter F George a foe of some key administration measures seized on the senator's accusation that Mr Roosevelt was making a second march through Georgia President Roosevelt said Camp in a radio address at nearby ietta has marched in Georgia but he has marched for Georgia The Atlanta federal district at- torney said Mr Roosevelt's inter- vention was necessary because the forces of entrenched greed with the aid of the subsidized daily press were concealing the tor's record from the voters George in a radio address night asserted he sought cation at the hands of Georgians in an unequal and uneven fight We have ghen our president a great deal of the senior Georgia senator declared but we haven't given the president power to prescribe democracy and read me out of the party which I have served all my life earnestly to Viscount Runciman Britain's unofficial mediator in Czechoslovakia to find a new key io the deadlock between the backed Sudeten German minority and the proud young vak state There was real hope in London that next week might bring success in meeting an issue vital to the peace of of the autonomy demands of the Sudeten Germans without causing the government to lose face The arrest and expulsion while of a British passport officer assigned to Vienna on what man authorities termed proof of espionage threw a shadow across Anglo-German relations Generalissimo Franco's reply to a British plan to get foreign diers out of yet reported so hedged by reservations as certain to force an indefinite delay in the long overdue scheme to give the Spanish back to thp Spaniards exclusively Despite undercurrents of ism the man on the street in don knocked off work for the week end with practically no worry over the fate of Europe President Roosevelt's Kingston Ont speech figuratively putting the sheltering arm of the United States around Canada was seized upon by the ordinary Englishman as a warning to authoritarian Police Are Puzzled By Evident Suicide Ralleigh N C Aug Police debated tonight whether it was physically possible for a man to kill him self by driving a chisel into his head The problem arose when the body of W C O'Connell 61 ployed carpenter was found in a small woodshed near his home at Gary Driven three and one-half inches into the top of his head was a chisel Nearby lay a small et which Sheriff Huma F er said apparently had been used to drive the chisel It looks like suicide but I don't commented Acting ner Roy M Banks I just can't understand it It looks like he did do it by himself but on the other hand I don't see how he could World's Youngest Back Seat Driver St Louis Aug boy who arrived in the world in the back seat of an auto ax It was racing to hospital has been named after his birthplace He was ed Ford Report Attempts to Pass Spurious Coin Two unsuccessful attempts by the same man to pass a spurious half-dollar at lower Main street business establishments late day led police to issue a warning to merchants Employes at the Eckerd Drug store 302 Mam street told police a swarthy man about 38 years old made a small purchase there shortly after 4 o'clock The clerk I became suspicious at the sound of the coin when it was placed on the glass show case revealed that It was a lead half dollar When questioned by the the man who was u earing dark trousers and a gray shirt that he secured the coin in change received at Kresge's Five and Ten Cents store 501 Main street Shortly thereafter a man of similar appearance tried to chace a sandwich with a lead half dollar at the Red Moon Cafe 228 Main street Manager Edward seph detected the fraudulent money however before the trans- action was completed Detective Ivan Penn who con- ducted an investigation said the man weighed about 200 pounds According to Joseph the suspect declared he was given the com at Drug store It is believed he is a stranger in this city Armco Hearing to Be Resumed on Thursday Catlettsburg Ky Aug George Bokat examiner for the National Labor Relations board night postponed until Thursday August 25 resumption of the ing of Wagner act charges against the American Rolling Mills com- pany The hearing was scheduled to re- sume Monday Bokat offered no reason for the continuance Ohio's Capital Is Invaded By Throng of Vets Theme of V F W National to Be Americanism Columbus O Aug capital was draped in her brightest colors today to greet thousands of delegates to the first national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States to be held in Columbus since the organization was founded here 39 years ago The 1938 reunion opens row with brief memorial services and continues through Friday when a successor to in-Chief Scott P of homa city will be elected Already in the city were tional officers and the vanguard of delegates representing mately posts out the nation Hotel tions have been sold out for weeks Extra lodging was being provided in schools public buildings and private homes Col William H Duffy general chairman estimated that persons including veterans iary units and 100 bands and drum corps would participate in the an- parade Tuesday afternoon Two dominating themes on the convention program were a drive for passage by congress of the V F W proposed war profits tion and an attack on ences of Naziism Communism and Fascism by outlining the tages of American democracy Sen Josh Lee long an advocate of legislation to war profits will speak day at the encampment's first eral session on the proposal to turn over the government in time of war up to 83 per cent of excess profits On Wednesday night the musical units which survive preliminary competition will strive for in cash prizes under floodlights at the spacious Ohio State university stadium Held in conjunction with tire encampment will be the tional convention of the Women's Auxiliary and the 17th annual supreme scratch of the military Order of the Cootie fun degree of the organization which represents America's overseas veterans Sen Key Pittman will speak at a dinner and reception Monday night for officers ol the V F W its auxiliary and distinguished guests Frazeysburg Man Robbed On Street Leo Starner 50 of Frazeysburg was seized and robbed by two col- ored men late Saturday night as he walked on North Third street according to police The Pennsylvania railroad em- ploye said his assailants took a wallet which contained several small bills and a railroad pass Starner said he was seized from behind by one of the men who held him while the other went through his pockets After securing his money the thugs released Starner and ran down a nearby alley He was un- injured A police radio cruiser was dis- patched to the scene but no trace of the robbers was found ner told officers both men were short and stocky and weighed about 150 pounds One wore a white shirt and the other a dark shirt Both were hatless he said Zanesville's Heat Puzzles Canuck Cop Columbus O Aug The use of the ex- heat is to describe a police campaign against undesirables puzzled Ed Lorrain superintendent of police in Quebec today The Canadian delegate to the annual convention of the Inter- national Association For attended a show up in police headquarters In the lineup was a young woman whom police asked were you chased out of she replied The heat isn't on over there I can't understand why she should leave Zanesville and come to Columbus just because the heat isn't on in her home town when it has been so hot recently FLASHES Chicago Aug sands of Chicagoans dropped whatever they were doing day and paused to honor las Corngan the diminutive flier whose surprise flight to Ireland stirred the tion of millions of Americans Washington Aug The bureau of agricultural ec- estimated today that farmers cash income this year would be or 12.7 per cent less than last j and the smallest amount since Boise Idaho Aug M L executive tary of the Idaho Progressive Association said today his was sounding out sentiment on a proposal to offer a place on its ticket to Sen James P Pope Pope a New Deal was defeated in the Idaho mary for the Democratic re- nomination by Congressman D Worth Clark self-styled conservative Ickes and Butler Speak On Perry Victory Program Sandusky O Aug of the Interior Harold Ickes and Major Gen Smedley Butler retired of the U S Marine corps were among speakers announced today for the anniversary celebration of Commodore Perry's Lake Erie victory over the Brit- ish fleet to be held Sept at Sawyer Assures President Ohio Wounds Healed Columbus O Aug Charles Sawyer told President Roosevelt today that the wounds caused by the Democratic primary fight in Ohio are practically healed The statement of the Demo cratic nominee for governor made after he visited Mr Roosevelt in Hyde Park N Y indicated some fast and expert political doctoring by the party leaders The contest between Sawyer and Gov Martin L Davey was so bit ter that some party members fear ed it would produce ruptures jeop the party's chances of victory over the Republicans in the November election However many campaign sup porters of Governor Davey have been barking their shins right and left since Aug 9 climbing upon the Sawyer bandwagon Former Common Pleas Judge George D Nye Democratic boss in Pike county who was one of Davey's closest lieutenants put it this No bandwagon is too high for me to climb upon Sawyer also told President Roosevelt that November prospects for the Democratic nominees in this state were very encouraging and predicted that U S Sen ert J Bulkley would be reflected over Robert A Taft of Cincinnati the Republican candidate As the erstwhile Davey porters flocked to the Sawyer standard the nominee had yet to indicate to what extent he would take over the political machine built up by the governor during the last four years Sawyer's choice of additional lieutenants is being watched ly by the Republ tans and their nominee for governor John W Bricker who has declared that the Democratic nominee must strate how he expects to be ed without the support of ers of government who played along with Davey Business Methods In Tammany Trial New York Aug business methods of criminals and big business methods of fighting them were in a struggle for tonight in the conspiracy trial of James J Jimmy Hines of Tammany hall The embattled forces were out- lined clearly in the first week of testimony accusing Hmes of being a political fixer of police and magistrates courts On one hand was the intricate and powerful numbers combine organized by the iate Dutch Schultz the gangster On the other was he like crime fighting machine by District Attorney as E Dewey of Manhattan Hines future depended on how well Dewey had untangled the Schultz how right or wrong he was in naming the Democratic district leader as a paid protector of the numbers business and how thoroughly he could support that charge The efficiency of the Dewey was evidenced even as the trial recessed for the end It reached across the country to Los Angeles to find a possible witness in San Quentin prison Max Silverman a man who the police say knows all about Schultz's method of ing political protection for his underworld operations Northern Air Express Inaugurated Saturday Seattle Aug 20 Weekly air express service between tle and Alaska was inaugurated today when the Pan-American ways Baby Clipper hopped off on a flight to Juneau Aboard was the first air express shipment ever sent from the ed States to Alaska No passengers or mail will be carried for the present NEW SUBMARINE LAUNCHED Groton Conn Aug Number 11 in a series of ines being built for the United States navy the Saury slid smoothly down the Electric Boat company's ways late today for her maiden dip in New London harbor Educator Charges Reds Exploit Prominent Americans in Such Activities as World Youth Congress Now Meeting at Vassar University May Propose Amendment Campaigning for facts about expenditure funds in state primaries Sen Morris Sheppard chairman of senate campaign ing committee checks tails with Sen William White at right The com- may propose an ment to the States con- federal jurisdiction over state elections Constitutional Barriers Block Senatorial Nomination Probers Washington Aug He holds it would take a const i- for a drastic congressional of senatorial methods are dimmed by constitutional barriers and virtual certainty that state party would mobilize against an amendment designed to eliminate those barriers The constitutional hurdle is pointed out by Sea Morns pard foreman of the senate's 1933 political grand jury the special committee to investigate senate nomination and election campaigns President Ready to Change Wagner Act Hyde Park N Y Aug President Roosevelt is ready to seok changes in the Wagner Labor Act William Green reported day The president of the American Federation of Labor after a long talk with Mr Roosevelt here told reporters We discussed possible changes in thp labor relations law We are in accord on the necessity of making some changes in the law to overcome the tions the A F of L has offered regarding the tion Green referred to the national labor relations board He said its members should be more judicial minded and asserted he had the president numerous specific complaints against its activities amendment to put the hand of federal authority on processes within the for submission and tion of any such amendment in- vading states rights at their most sensitive and jealously guarded political frontier were just about none at all The Sheppard committee is still wading knee-deep in of political of all sorts in senate nomination campaigns It may propose drastic remedies even a constitutional amendment when it reports to the senate in January but at this distance that seems unlikely By that time it will be the elections not the party primary that are en- gaging its attention Charges of political coercion on relief employes fund methods and all the rest will ring even mote loudly just before and after election day Claims Mrs Roosevelt Used By United Washington Aug house committee on un-American activities signed a bodyguard to pany Dr J B Matthews writer and educator when he left the committee room day after telling how Com- exploited the names of Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and other inent Americans The plainclothes guard was signed after Matthews had report ed receiving threats by telephone of bodily harm if he persisted in his testimony regarding the ported inner workings of the Com- munist party He is scheduled to return to the witness stand Monday with testimony which committee bers said would be even more startling than that he unfolded day Dr Matthews told the tee he was associated prominently from 1932 to 1935 with the Com- munist party's innocents clubs in this country but severed his con- when he realized the ty's real purpose and grew to doubt Soviet claims of social and other advances in Russia He charged that the World Youth congress now meeting at Vassar which was addressed by Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt this week was nothing more nor less than one of the united front dedicated to forwarding the aim of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union Prior to his testimony a comely actress Miss Sally Saunders of New York charged that she was rebuked by a WPA federal theater projects director in New York last year when she complained to him against ad- vances of a negro dancer in the cast of the federal theater project musical comedy Sing For Your now in rehearsal in New York She said the negro still was in the cast where there was much intermingling of whites and negroes under the stimulus of Communists who constantly the groes with their ideas of racial equality Vassar President Denies Speakers Are Exploited Poughkeepsie N Y Aug Henry N MacCracken ident of Vassar college today de- fended the World Youth Congress and denied he was being ed by Communists Commenting on testimony given by Dr J B Matthews writer and educator before the house com- on American activities at Washington that Dr MacCracken Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and in November than they prominent Americans were sounded during the election pre- But the of a very rigorous effort to make over the senatorial nominating system by statute or al amendment appear slim Smash Movie Racket Scheme in Hollywood dipped into the widespread gation of the National Talent tures corporation today as police Green did not specify discussed bunco squad officers claimed they changes in the labor act but he had smashed one of biggest said the possibilities included re- ducing the authority or a clarification of the law to define exactly the duties In Milwaukee this week Joseph A A F of L counsel an- he had drafted a set of proposed amendments to the tier Act at Green's suggestion These proposals would reduce the authority of the board and de- prive it of judicial powers President May Authorize Work on Navy's Dirigible movie racket schemes ever to op- erate in the world's film capital Officers of the company headed by Ira C 55 wer re- leased from custody today on bonds of each Arraignment on new charges of netty theft and issuance of false and misleading advertising was postponed until the defendants could engage legal counsel Swan said agents of the com- pany contacted dance schools throughout the country and sold being exploited by the ist party of America the Vassar president I think I have sufficient in- to know when I am be- ing exploited I am a Mayflower descendant Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt is a Roosevelt and I am an American of the Americans I think it is too bad when you have 500 people so deeply Interested in the affairs of the world that the American public should be treated to a set of agitated exclamations about an unimportant part of the whole gathering possibly the least important Would Consolidate Gift and Estate Tax Washington Aug treasury is studying a proposal to consolidate the federal gift and tate taxes and thus raise a more positive barrier to avoidance of the higher tax brackets he Proposal to combine th tax the two federal estate taxes into a angle transfer franchises at apiece The I whether made studios in turn were then the donors lifetime or passed Washington Aug CP In- milled to send one star formed naval sources said today President Roosevelt might soon preliminary work on the navy's dirigible Details of three alternate types have been provided the president these sources said for the study he said recently he would com- plete before a decision was made One type was said to be of a metal clad of the same general construction as a blimp now in use at the Lakehurst N J naval air station The other two are fabric construction like the de- commissioned Los Angeles also at Lakehurst which will replace the new craft Increase Employment Replacements Reported Washington Aug of Labor Perkins reported today that for the first time since 1935 public employment offices placed more persons in private jobs in July than during June The increase was 1.7 per cent she said and placement of persons in public employment decreased 1.5 per cent in the same period though several sent more than one Hollywood where they were supposed to receive instruction from ace Hollywood dance ors The lieutenant displayed one ter or circular which listed as the guest faculty four dance tors of three major studios He so displayed affidavits taken this morning from these directors serting they had no connection whatsoever with the school Swan said about 200 franchises were sold and scores of hopeful youngsters most of them below the teens and accompanied by ents journeyed to Hollywood Once here Swan continued the pupils or parents were assessed fees costume costs special in- struction amounts and other charges OPERATE ON MOVIE STAB Hollywood Aug Holland motion picture and character actor was operated upon for what his physicians as a ruptured appendix day His condition was described as serious t on as estates would be taxed the same Successive gifts whether tive before death or afterward would be lumped together to de- termine the tax bracket applicable to them and thus they would come under a higher bracket than if they were taxed separately part as gifts and part as estates The system of taxing a series of gifts the same as a lump gift of the same aggregate amount ready is imposed by the gift tax and the attempts by litigation to prevent reduction of estates for tax purposes by gifts made in anticipation of death As to the proposal for reducing personal income tax from to for single sons and from to for heads of son chairman of the ate finance committee recently joined treasury officials in ing this was one of the revenue sources which might be tapped in an effort to bring the federal budget back Into balance He said congress might be forced to such a step unless business ed Mt
