Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - June 11, 1935, Titusville, Pennsylvania Weather DO OUR on Classified Page Established June 14 Daily Paper in the Oil Region Published in Titusville Birthplace of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Vol 70 No 309 PA TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 11 Means Associated Press Three Cents Republicans Offer Bills To Balance State Budget Declare They Will Necessity of 220000 in Additional Taxes Another Would Pay State Salaries Sowers Measure Would In Liquor Boards May Pass Today crease Powers BULLETIN Tune An raider de signed to limit political candidates to one partys nomination it pri mary elections passed the House finally ami was sent the governor The vole was 151 lo BULLETIN rune The House tonight passed and sent to Senate a hill to and bel li iik Pennsylvania The vote was 128 to fil llil The HARRISBURG June 10 As The Great Game of Politics Uy 1MvANK I KENT 1935 by The Baltimore The Dauntless Tugwell WASHINGTON June 10 ONE significant result of Lhe more or less momentous developments of the last two weeks is the clarity with which it was shown that as between Mr Roosevelt and the New Deal on one side and the Supreme Court with the Constitution on the other the country ns a whole strongly with the o er neared enactment to night Senate Republicans introduced a series of bills which their leaders say obviate the necessity of worth of additional taxes to bal ance budget Senator John W Lack awanna announced a conference com has agreed on technical details of a proposed levy against each ten cigarettes The House and Senate disagreed on the manner of collecting the tax The is one of ten agreed upon between Governor Earle and the Republican leadership to pro vide for relief in the first year of the fiscal period which started June 1 Six have been enacted The cigarette tax is the first of a group of controversial issues sent to joint conference committees upon which an agreement has been reached Eleven bills sponsored by Senate Republicans to provide the states fi nances for period were introduced by John J McClure Dela ware chairman of the Senates Finance Committee and a Republican spokes A Middles Reward man Would Extend Time Last week McClure said the Senate majority had definitely rejected Gov ernor Earles demands for new taxes to provide for liabilities from the Pin chot administration ation deficits assistance to the aged and blind debt service and to permit repayment of previously transferred from special funds Most of the 11 measures would ex tend the time for return of the bor rowed money originally required by the end of this year In addition Warren R Roberts Northampton introduced an adminis tration to appropriate for salaries of state officials and employes until the general appropriations deadlocked in a Senate committee is enacted The next state payday is Saturday McClures bills relating to the fluid transfers would delay repayment until May 31 1937 The funds were bor rowed in the 1934 special session and the present session to finance relief and meet other expenses Would Authorize Transfers Another of McClures bills would au the state treasurer to make emergency transfers from the motor license fund to the general fund up to as may be required for these purposes To pay deficiency appropriations to hospitals and homes To provide assistance for the blind and aged during the year beginning June 1 1935 To meet interest and sinking fund charges on present This plan takes into consideration Continued on 3 RECOGNITION of this came swiftly to Mr Roosevelt and the While House strategists It look an exceedingly quick retreat accompanied by some more than usually saccharine journalistic explaining lo the President away from the danger of that position and avoid an issue the hot end of which he had too impulsively clutched Not more than two days reaction was need ed to it plain that Iho NRA de cision a popular decision the bellicose bellowing of labor leaders about wages and hours nor the plaintive bloating of politicians and publicity directors abou the effect on recovery was to conceal that relief rather than re the dominant public emotion DISCOVERY of these facts was a con shock to the more sparkling members of the Brain Trust includ ing many of the young bumble New Deal lawyers who had such a merry time drawing the New Deal bills and to whom the idea that they were all wrong from the start never occurred Had not Dr Frankfurter himself ad vised that there was no danger of any upset if the court decisions could be held off for two years Had not Hugh S Johnson in person frequently con with Justice Brandeis about the NRA Was not Mr Roosevelt the clev erest politician and most charming man who ever sat in the White House Firmly convinced of all these things the blow came it jarred them badly It seemed they could not take it Despondency prevails now where once confidence bubbled Faced with the unshakable reality that national planning as conceived and undertaken by the New Dealers cannot be carried out under our Constitution whole shoals of these intellectual academic amateurs who for two years have been running this country have lost heart They arc at the moment a groggy lot HOWEVER it is pleasant to record that with his governmental soulmates whimpering in corners and gulping political aspirin there is one of this noble band of the most scintillating of them all author of that but motheaten phrase the More Abundant Life in ventor of the Third is one of them not only undismayed but out 011 the track all ready Lo start running in a new direction This of course is none other than Dr Rexford Guy Tugwell the speedy young Under Secretary of Agriculture who has now been intrusted by the President with Eome it may be which he is about to em bark upona great new experiment to wipe out poverty and overcome depres Bids for Democratic Support Made ul Hoots Vm vo nt ion 7000 Republicans At Springfield Meeting Defense of Fundamental Law Supreme flour Declares Lowdon After receiving his diploma and commission from U S Senator Park of Florida at the annual commencement of the An Naval academy Middle Gown of Athens Ga is re warded in the romantic manner by Miss Kay of Baltimore Dr nn BY 1 I rial Is Opened At Lancaster Feared Kidnaped sVvw Hours After In on Charge of Il legal Operations The Associated Press LANCASTER June H C Zimmerly 67yearold village surgeon was rushed to trial late today a few hours after IT was indicted on charges of performing illegal operations at his rural house of horrors The case revolves chiefly around the Gladys Lawson one of his patients who police believe after an oper ation March 10 Bones and clothing found in the cellar and ash heaps at the eerie farm at Mechanics Grove have been iden as those of a woman of Mrs Lawsons description Another charge is that he per formed a similar operation on Miss Elsie Miller of Rising Sun Md who was found delirious with pain in the makeshift hospital the day Zimmer ly was arrested She recovered in a hospital The state also accuses Zimmerly of using and trafficking in narcotics Seven jurors one a woman were chosen today from among 24 talesman Most of the challenges were for fixed opinions but statements of several prospective jurors led Judge Benjamin C to explain murder is not in volved in the charges against Zim If convicted Zimmerly faces a max mum jail sentence of ten years on the Hegal operation charges and a total of 20 years on four counts of violating the laws Pennsylvania statute stipulates seven years as the maximum sentence for an illegal operation re in death and three years il the operation is not fatal Uu Tito SPRINGFIELD 111 June thousand from the states in the opening ses sion of roots today cheered bids for Democratic sup port for 1936 campaign based 011 de fense of the constitution The coliseum at the state fair grounds rang with applause when rally orators turned aside suggestions for formation of a new party and in stead invited all Deal ele as well as licans to join forces under the G standard Frank o Lowden elder statesman of Republicanism came out of retirement a battle cry preservation of the constitu is the issues of the hour Delegates came to their feet in a rousing demonstration as tho former Illinois governor predicted Hundreds of thousands of patriotic men and women of the Democratic party will rally banner in the gravest crisis since the Civil war Hits Idea Harrison E of Iowa tem chairman andA keynoter asserted that any new conservative party would only divide the electorate He added We call upon all Americans to join us in at effort to defend and lish American social economic and po institutions Immediately following the opening of the first major political convocation since invalidation of the NRA struck a blow to the New Deal the first move for Democratic aid was made Roy L Brecke of Wisconsin demanded that the resolutions committee map plans for a fusion of Democrats licans opposed to President Roosevelt The keynote address made the Presi dent is special target Booes and cat calls chorused as enumerated the broken of President Roosevelt A booming Voice from the arena called out Hit im again Cheers greeted declara tion The issue of today is the of Lincoln against those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt There was applause when as There is no room on American soi for the dictatorship of either the Fas cist or proletariat type of government and again as he promised Any attempt to rob America of it liberties would revive the spirit of 76 More Confederates Sought by In Kidnaping Case Roy Victim Is Hero To Young Classmates John Kaul Pear that a childless woman had stolen her son John was expressed by Mrs John P Kaul of New York City after po lice had dragged the East river in search of his body The boy son of a World war veteran disap while at play in the fash Button Place district Confesses Part In Insurance Murder Plot TACOMA Wash June George Weyerhaeuser is a hero to the chums out of whose midst kidnapers snatched but he isnt being permitted to give them a chance to show their feelings toward him The heir has not gone back to school since abduc tors released him on June 1 His parents Mr and Mrs J P Weyerhaeuser want him to return to a normal life and be shielded from his schoolmates curiosity and hero worship Full Solution Of Kidnap Case Goal China Accepts Demands Showdown Due sion WASHINGTON June of the administration to abolish public utility holding compa today beat off immediate action in the Senate oil the measure by agree ing to a showdown vole tomorrow aft The action was taken on request of Senator Dieterich author of a dozen amendments aimed at scooping out of the measure its authority to abolish holding companies and leave the with little power other than to regulate interstate transmission of power The agreement snagged the as it swept on toward what Senator Wheeler coauthor of the measure considered certain passage with its drastic provisions virtually unchanged from the form in which they were written by administration attorneys Protesting that many senators were absent and that the short time re maining would deny adequate consid amendments Dieterich demanded the measure go over until tomorrow SO PAR from being downhearted the professor is reported by veracious chroniclers as at the very top of his form ready for the race of his life The friendly Mr Ray Clapper an in the Washington Post that Dr Tugwell has taken on a press agent Up to now the doctor has been his own press agent and if one counts up the number of magazine articles he has landed and the publicity he has achieved for his books quite an effective one That he feels unable lo adequately Continued on Pace 7 Search mue is sins CORAOPOLIS June was continued today through the rcd brick and twisted steel ruins of the Oil companys refinery for two workmen believed to have been buried in the wreckage after an ex plosion The missing men arc Anthony Mar tina 42 father of six children and Charles W Hyatt 12 whose wife died two weeks ago leaving two daughters and two sons Five persons were injured none ser iously in the blast which tore out the walls of the filler plant and ripped the roof off the shipping room Merle 28 was hurled from an office in tho cooperate shop over his parked automobile into the street but he required only first aid treatment Officials of the company estimate the damage at and said the plant will be rebuilt ring Husband Is Slain in Church GRADUATION THURSDAY ERIE June John Mark Gannon of the Erie Catholic diocese will present the diplomas at the annual commencement exercises at seminary Thursday even ing Mildred of Buffalo N Y class will speak Jiy Tho ALICE June weeping widow awaited tonight an examining trial on a charge of fatally shooting her estranged husband H L Morris sey 40 in a Catholic church as they awaited the arrival of a fessor who was seeking to adjust their marital troubles I she would permit her husband to ob tain a divorce They had lived apar also about four years ago Mrs Mor rissey residing in San Antonio Father Stocker said he advised the couple to go to the church and pray The pastor told them to go into the church he said and ho offered to g with them but Mrs Morrissey insist The priest Rev Father Raymond cd that they go alone Father Stocke Stocker said Mrs Morrissey cold him after he had wrested a revolver from her that she had intended to kill yesterday after shooting her husband The priest seid the couple came to him yesterday and confided their dif After he attempted to recon cile them he said Mrs Morrissey said said and promised to coin into the church later and hear confessions The pastor said the couple had no been in the chinch more than fiv minutes when he heard shots fired Father said he rushed into the edifice and found the reserve army Continued on Pace 8 and Japanese Confide nt of Peace ful Outcome lo Trouble One and Trial of Intended Vic tims Wife Delayed By The Associated ROCKVILLE Md June plea of guilty was entered by one of the four men the state contends were hired 011 the installment plan by Mrs Anne to kill her husband and the wife of a Rockville garage man Mrs trial set for today was delayed until Wednesday In court however the state asserted in the trial of one of the alleged conspir ators that she had demanded a re fund of the down payment she had made on her husbands assassination unless the killers carried out the job The woman a blonde and willowy bonk secretary of 31 was indicted on a charge of conspiracy to murder her husband Francis Slim Lyddane and Mrs Josephine Beall the garage mans wife The delay of Mrs trial came after John Googy Carnell one of the men indicted with her pleaded guilty and another John M waived jury trial The three circuit court judges sitting in the case permitted a severance of trials and that of Boland was started with Cornell who has turned states evidence as the principal witness Talking from the side of his mouth in clipped sentences Carnell admitted a housebreaking conviction and a so journ in jail and then began a bizarre account of the alleged murder nego Mrs Lyddane approached him last October he said with a proposition that he engage a killer for her to ter minate the lives of her husband anc of Mrs Beall who named her as co respondent two years ago in a divorce action which later was withdrawn J Edgar Hoover Says Addi tional Details May Come at Any Moment Hij The Associated Press WASHINGTON June of the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping the probability of new ar the goal tonight of relent ess combing the Northwest or William Mahan and possible con J Edgar Hoover director of Justice Department agents kept in almost continuous contact with the hunt by from here During the day lie summoned newsmen to his office to an lounce the location of the hideout louse at Spokane Weyer haeuser was Visibly excited the director said this was highly important to the investi ation and promptly ordered that a police guard be thrown about the louse Then as his office Hoover added there might be addi tional details at any moment He disclosed simultaneously that con grilling at Salt Lake City of Harmon M Waley 24yearold former convict and his wife Margaret ar rested Saturday in the Weyerhaeuser case and said to have confessed had resulted in location of the Spokane house where little George was con The director said Waley and his wife would be removed to Tacoma scene of the crime in due time Hoover emphatically warned that anyone aiding by agents with the abduction before he fled from Butte Mont face the full force of the Federal law He said Any person who lends any assist ance to Mahan or harbors him in any way will be prosecuted vigorously under the Federal harboring statutes The minimum sentence upon a con viction of harboring was said to be two years and a fine PEIPING June UP authorities announced tonight had accepted all of demands concerning North China laving the way for establishment of a new regime to confirm the Japanese the Chinese National government nt Nanking issued a man date forbidding provocative speeches ind actions detrimental to the main cnance of friendly relations between Dhina and through is also banned the Nanking stated warning stern punish would be given violators societies in North one of the major demands Chinese and Japanese officials joined n expressing optimism that the crisis would be settled peacefully Renewed uneasiness however was felt in Tientsin when Japanese troops and an armored car were sent to 35 miles to the northwest after reports Japanese military tel poles had been burned Do R Orders Parole Study HYDE PARK N Y June President Roosevelt today ordered a special study of abuses of parole af ter reading newspaper accounts of the story of the suspects in the Weyer haeuser boy kidnaping on the Pacific coast Prom his Hyde Park home the Pres ident sent the following message to Attorney General Curnmings scanning the afternoon paper reports Newspapers report long crimina record in case of two men suspected of Weyerhaeuser kidnaping including not only arrests and convic tions but also paroles Every citizen is interested in human parol systems which seek rehabilitation of of fenders but at same time we shouk seek to prevent abuses of parole es in cases of habitual criminals therefore I am that you are hav ing a special study made of those tw cases investigating all facts to previous records in every juris diction where they have been or paroled 4ccord Reached On NRA Plan Warrants Issued for Vari ous and Sundry Persons as Well as Against Waleys and Mahan Search fs Continued For Fleeing House in Which Weyer haeuser Boy Was Held Lo in Spokane Copyright 1D35 The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY June Federal government nemesis of kid stamped its upon three known suspects in the abduction of little George of them under a grim chase for four accused confederates on throughout the West Charges of mail fraud were filed in Tacoma home of the and scene of the abduction against Harmon M Waley strapping 24yearold and his blond 19yearold wife Margaret held here and William Mahan also an vict 32 sought in Montana Evidence that four other persons also were the quarry of a concentra tion of Federal state and city officers was seen in the issuance of complaints in connection with the case In ad dition to those against the Waleys and Mahan warrants were issued for one John Doe and three various sundry persons There still was no indication when a move would be made to take the Waleys to Tacoma where local au have announced plans to de mand death on for the kidnapers on charges presumably sup the Federal governments complaints State Courts Recommended v Comparative mildness of the charges strengthened the belief of Tacoma authorities that they were filed merely to asure the return of the accused to of Washington J Charles district attorney for Washington said at San Francisco he would strongly recom mend trial in state courts so they might receive the severest penalty possible Mahan who escaped from Butle Mont policemen his car and in ransom notes was charged also with depositing a letter to extort Two postal clerks who conversed with the man who mailed the ransom note with its urgent notation said they would be able to recognize him but refused to say whether they had Lyndora Car Driver Gets License Back WASHINGTON June opposition lo the extension of a skel NRA virtually evaporated to lay when administration leaders oil a plan to restore the anti rust to full vigor but permit business to make voluntary agreements governing labor relations and trade practices The agreement was reached at a called meeting of the Senate Finance Committee attended by Don R Richberg retiring chairman of the Recovery Board and Senator Borah leading foe of NRA Under the new plan the antitrust lews would be suspended only to per mit voluntary agreements between business men covering collective bar gaining minimum wages maximum hours child labor and 4radc practices already held unfair by law Rising Senate opposition to the administration plan for extending all present antitrust law exemptions forced the compromise Administration leaders predicted thai the new plan would get quick approval in the Senate tomorrow BUTLER June Bet tres of Lyndora who was deprived of his automobile license tiy police be cause he couldnt read got it back again today The motorist appealed and at a hear ing before Judge Nelson H Wilson he showed he could read stop and other The officers contended that Bettres couldnt read caution and inter section The judge ruled that the mo was competent that intersec tion was a poor sign that it should read cross roads Oklahoma Woman Heads Womens Clubs DETROIT June 10 Mrs Rob ert Campbell Lawson of Tulsa Okla was elected president of the National Federation of Womens Clubs at the triennial convention tonight defeating Dr Josephine L Pierce of Lima O The vote was 846 to 538 Mrs Lawson succeeds Mrs Morrison Poole Grace INDIANS VOTE NEGATIVE SALAMANCA N Y June By a vote of 294 to 42 Seneca Indians today declined to place themselves un der the act which provides for Indian organization land purchase and Federal loans to aid in and groups Urschel Kidnapers Lawyer Charges Plot To Convict Me 7Jy Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY June pling with rage Ben B Laska Denver shouted a denial to a Federal court jury today that he directed dis posal of the his kidnaper client received when the Charles F Urschel ransom was divided The denial delivered in bitter vein climaxed the crowded first day of the governments trial of Laska and James C Mathers Oklahoma City attorneys for two of kidnapers They arc charged with accepting ns counsel fees money from the ransom paid for release of the oil millionaire Previously Frank Dudley assistant U S district attorney had charged that Laska working behind the scenes told Edward Feldman stepson of Albert Bates kidnaper client how to safely dispose of the hot ransom cash Laskas opening statement cleared the for the taking of testimony to morrow Attorneys for Mathers reserved their opening argument Mathers kidnaper client was Harvey Bailey Both Bailey and Bates were convicted Laska once accused by the Denver bar of hypnotizing juries railed against a plot to convict me a testcase he told the jury identified Mahan Identification of pictures of Waley and Mahan as those of two men who with their wives were seen near the house in which the boy was held prisoner was made today by Mrs L Locket operator ofa grocery store a few blocks from house at 1509 West avenue Hideout House Is Found Coming spectacularly on top of the arrests and flushing of Mahan the hideout house where George was held was found today at the state from the little lumber heirs home at J Edgar Hoover director of the De of Justice announced at Washington that trie been found He said it contained a cup in which George was kept pris oner The house had two as the lad had said guard of government men was thrown about the house immediately No visitors were allowed Then as plans here to speed the Waleys Tacoma per haps by airplane further develop ments continued to link them in the minds of authorities with the North wests most sensational job Only about two ago persons living near the Spokane hideout house said a young and woman with two men and a Mittle girl had been there They said of the men an swered the description of and a third man could have been Mahan To Be Hoover said the Waleys would be removed to Tacoma in due time but declined to say would face a Federal or a state charge The Washington state law prescribes death for kidnaping unless n jury mends life imprisonment The feder al law exacts the same penalty lence is employed Government men here continued Un communicative but it was said that as soon as the warrant arrives from Washington a complaint would tie filed arraignment held before a United States commissioner prisoners whisked away to the Pacific Northwest With speculation heightened by the refusal of government men and police here to discuss the ease unconfirmed rumors and reports were widely cur rent Tolls Story of Suitcase An automobile a photograph of William Mahan as tha man to whom he sold ft Ford car last March 30 after he had been offered green Buick sedan in exchange A green Buick sedan and a Ford definitely tied into the kid nap hunt In thb Pacific Northwest was regarded ns further light Im not alone in it There nre 150000 upon the movement of the kidnap lawyers interested in its outcome Continued
