Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - March 29, 1931, Zanesville, Ohio Section One MAIN NEWS SECTION w 1 i SUNDAY THE WEATHER Cloudy Ja north VOL No 38 MARCH 1931 SIX CENTS PER AGED CONSTABLE Youths Held in Roseville Jail for Crime Sheriff Curtis and Deputies Hurry to Scene When Report of Clubbing Reaches Witness In- sists Roscoe Evans Family Attempted to Kill Parents Escape Posse The victim of an angry family in- upon resisting the John Roseville attacked Saturday afternoon and savagely clubbed until he was forced to run for his life He would have been beaten to nad it not been for a John who helped him to out of the hands of a man and woman and their two it WAS 1 The young Bernard and his are in Roseville charged with resisting an officer Their parents Mr and Mrs fled and could not be found last night by a posse of men from the sheriff's office face a similar charge They may a belonging to Clyde wandered loose on tne streets and found by whose home is near tried unsuccessfully to secure its re- and offered to pay a certain it was brat was ful when the elder Evans held out for Tiring of attempts to canoe to filed a writ of replevin Saturday In the of Justice Everett The aged Peart was sent to the Kvans home to present the writ was said by that no had Peart pre- sented the document than elder him with a ir he didn't leave the place the officer his wife and two sons leaped at the old beating him mercilessly with clubs and their bare fists Peart was stunned as he sank to the ground under the battering Smith tried to intercede without and it appeared elderly of- ficer would be to death his feet and lit company with while of Jals GEORGE H MAXWELL The adoption by the Ohio house of representatives Friday of senate Joint resolution 19 opens the way to a complete and comprehensive state Iti full cooperation with federal putting ation the plan the Times Signal has been long urging That as advocated by the Times wUI every source the older element of the Evans household had pounded upon several children had by and encouraged them by of itl Give it to pop Go ahead the old guy Several stitches were required at the office of a Roseville physician to close deep wounds in the man's skull A fracture at first feared but ex- amination showed the injury not likely prove serious although the aged officer suffered intensely from shock For a it appeared the man would drop unconscious from loss of blood sheriff's office was notified and Sheriff with Deputies Ar- Neff and Clark made a hurried US TA TOTH NTO HOSPITAL Children Rescued From zard Bound Bus in Serious Driver Dies Colo Mar battled tonight to the lives of fifteen children fering from la or severe frost bite which already has exacted a toll of six a bus Iced of school children marooned for 36 hours In blizzard Carl driver of the one of the six lost his life in a vain effort to obtain help for his charges His body found tonight less than three miles from the he abandoned alter in- the children regarding pre- tions to prevent death from Two airplanes were pressed into eel vice late to rush five of the victims to a hospital The ships were piloted by Jack cf Lamar and Eddie of ver Night fall prevented removal of of the sufferers to hospital Recovery of the children now being treated at and of ten being cared for in their homes or in a Col problematical Doctors and nurses refused to commit The children were found last night Andrew a who wrs seeking lost cattle Efforts of parents of the boys and ing from 8 to 14 years to find the bus had proved Two aided by crews of later battled their way snow drifts to the Isolated lanch house from Holly and Kns doctors gave first aid and other relief soon was forthcoming Maude the teacher of the for a time believed lost In the wan d safe late In n farm home near the school LEGION COMMANDER IS KILLED BY AUTO Pert Mar commander of the Port Clinton post of the American waft killed tonight when struck by nn automobile In front of the home of his parents near here His father is state tive from Ottawa county An auto- driven by Sebastian 21 rf struck surrendered to thr m the tend rtM on a of ia i- trip to the scene of the cubbing They were accompanied by a Roseville of- ficer Only the children were at home Bernard and Richard fied by as those who took part in the upon were placed under but not until they nad threatened to resist cap- ture the young men surrendered and were taken to ville pending hearing on the charge of interfering with an officer in the fulfillment of duty They said their parents at officers believe they escaped when the party of authorities approached The Evans family lives in a coal mining and evidently wanted the pony for use in a officers said AS Developments Are Expected Within Few Weeks But no Announcement as Yet Mar change in the leadership of the national committee was under dis- cussion by party today but spokesmen insisted no plans had been agreed upon Despite continued silence by man Fess and the absence of dent Hoover from one high Republican spokesman ed developments within the next few President Hoover will return has given no indication of an intention to retire in the near future though it has been generally under- stood for months he would like to be relieved of the chairmanship Senator Watson of the publican said Fess had not informed him of any plan to vacate the position Party spokesmen agreed that one of the perplexing problems involved the result of the controversy which haa surrounded Robert H ex- director of the committee Envelopments before the senate campaign expenditures committee showing Lucas sought to prevent the re-election of Senator stirred up opposition to him among independent STATE JOINS WITH FEDERAL MOVEMENT FOR WATER CONTROL State System Water vation Possible With sage of by Senate same flow of water the year round The surplus waters will be stored un- using mother earth as a vast storage so that the plus flood waters of the wet years can be drawn from this un- storage and used to re- plenish the water shortage of the dry years The fundamental purpose of this plan is to bring the state and federal agencies for water conservation and utilization into perfect working harmony stimulate both to get busy and do their level best to carry out one great complete and prehensive plan for a state vand eral system to save and use every drop of water that falls from the heavens as rain or snow In the state of Ohio Under this system not a drop of precious Nation's Greatest as it was so often de- clared to be by Senator would ever be wasted Not only would none of the water itself be but the devastation now caused by the too rapid run off across the fields and valleys of would be forever stopped No longer would be behest soil of Ohio be slowly washed into tho channels to be ultimately shifted down stream to the lower Mississippi valley That has been going on for a hundred since white settlers in Ohio first began the distribution of A 0 TEL Detectives Doubt Story Told by Man Under Arrest in West Virginia Charleston W Va March 28 man who was docketed as liam of Pa was held In jail here tonight for In connection with a train at last January a passenger fatally wounded Pittman was ar- rested by New York Central railroad who said he offered them in- formation concerning the robbery J Cincinnati detective for the Big questioned and said he would take him to Ohio for further though he said he did not believe there wac much to story BOBBY JONES STARTS HIS PICTURE SERIES Maxell 28 Jones will be given his first public chance to practice what his motion picture series will preach when he teams with Leo morrow In an 18 hole match with George Von Los Angeles and Long Col for charity It will be the meeting of Von Elm and Jones since they left the ranks of the amateurs One fourth of the money will go to one fourth to San Diego and the re- mainder to Mexican charity In juana and both m Lower ROXY SAYS GOODBYE TO BROADWAY THEATER New York March is saying goodbye to the theater that bears his name His contract the forest and protective watershed cover formed by the The plan contemplated under this senate joint resolution No 19 goes be- yond restoring or providing a tute for the original forest watershed cover and protection It proposes to begin at the very of the water shed again from Senator up the so that all the water that can be so utilised will be fed into not only for wood and timber but also orchard fruit trees cf all kinds and nut all adapted to any as is so fully described in the book by RusseU P entitled crops Agriculture plan contemplates that all growing crops of plants or vegetation of any kind shall absorb all the water they need always enough and never too much water to be available lor plant in accordance with the agricultural methods proved to so beneficial and profitable by Dr on Page PRIZES AWARDED FINAL S AUTO Chris Blue Awarded Ford There A throng of five thousand people packed the Zanesville Auto show off South Fifth street Saturday night of the week Mrs Chris Nielson of 1221 Blue was awarded the Ford de luxe roadster at 9 50 p m She claimed the keys to the car and an order for a of gasoline free amidst the cheers of the throng Just previous to the Ford award Martin was awarded a year's membership in the Muskingum Motor Caal Roberts of the Baker Bread Co was ed with a tire for his by Roy Hone Miller Charles Price or the Mosaic Tile Co was presented H Goodyear tire by Talley race Point distributors In order to make room for the added throngs early in the evening dealers sponsoring the exhibit re- moved their cars Without it have been impossible to have accommodated the augmented bers Many of the cars on exhibit wero removed earlier in the ing been sold and new owners ing them as their own ORGANIZE CLUB TO FORCE Dramatic Moment of Campaign Comes When Story of Prize Chest Is Goal of Looms Workers Have Less Than 48 Hours To Finish Monday The eyes of all were turned Saturday to the work of the Community Chest which lacks a little more than 24 hours before closing The final event of the campaign will be the at the Y M C A Monday evening when the last reports will be turned in and if the workers have their will more than go over the top in the goal of Clay chain nan of the campaign gave his last appeal to the at the luncheon meeting ing them that with the sight of so to exert every effort In the few remaining hours to make the campaign a com- plete success Harry campaign to the workers to heed the message will be given in all the churches today to make the drive a success in to keep the unfailing hand of charity alive in He said Zanesville is a Christian city and should show its Christianity in this crisis by giving in the sweet name of charity The luncheon was one of the most of the drive and brought the news of several substantial tions to the drive Among were the gifts of from Mr and Mrs Charles W Gibson who are at from Mr and Mrs M D also at Fla from the Southern Ohio Public vice and an additional gift of from Charles who already given at the opening of the from Mrs S A additional from Mrs Robert Parsons in memory of her late husband Mrs O N who TiaR been a faithful in the present was upon for an ad- No Signs But Where Craft May Have Gone Down New March age floating or an oily patch in the Atlantic ocean 15 miles off Atlantic City late today led government of- to hope for definite tion about mysterious SOS messages they earlier thought to be a runner's f Just as coast guards had decided that their mission of was due to be a blind so that a cargo of liquor could be the coast gruard patrol boat radioed having found the wreckage and the oily area There was a heavy layer of such as a foundering ship might leave on the and many bits of debris in at might have been cargo The spot was In the general tion given in the rather vague dis- tress signals dawn included more than and Co painted on their sides There were several barrels labeled C several boxes of paper drinking cups and quantities of spars and wreckage All these articles were found ing about in the oily area and the fact they were still so close together indicated they had not been there ICO with red glass green bases and with A dress She had with her a walnut chest she placed before Mr and made a glowing presentation speach She explained that when she was a little girl she always received a great thrill in reading a beautiful poem in her reader about a girl named who had one day hid in a chest and was never but the legend ran that whoever opened the chest would find her bones Mrs Townsend then held up the hand-wrought cheat before the on Body Was Found Quarter of Mile From Blood Stained Car Riddled With Bullets March 28 of a man's body on a lonely detour of the Clinton road live miles north of Oak Harbor early confronted of two states with a murder mystery which an all day tion served only to deepen A network of clues which the opening of case unraveled into nothing during the inquiry Jate tonight authorities did not even know the Identity of the a nattily dressed young man about years old with a sandy and a blond mustache His body was found at the side of the Harbor Road in a desolate stretch of country A passing Maurice a salesman of made the He found the young man with his neck open by three bullet aoles A quarter of a mile which the victim is believed to been slain The a small riolet was in a water ditch at the side of the road It was riddled with bullets and blood stained Welch returned to Oak Harbor where he notified Dr J C coroner of Ottawa who opened the investigation As the inquiry developed the name of G J 12937 Woodward gained significance in the case The name was found in a pocket of the death car scribbled on an Invoice of a repair issued to Landry by the Knox Kay com- pany of Detroit Authorities believe Landry be the murder victim In Detroit it was found he had been living in an apartment at the Wooduard avenue address but that he had not been home today Names of a Detroit woman on a till of sale issued for the car and the name of a policeman found on a card beside the victim's body and other date offered great at the start of the case but before the day was over these clues cither proved misleading or were too remote to be run down The victim also was thought to er the description of Elmer a Detroit sought as the slayer of Chester De- troit but Detroit police er viewing the body said the man was unknown to them main mark of identification was a missing finger on his left the officers said The victim did not have this infirmity Successful from point of suspicions long This was the first time ners here have operated under the protection of the sea tion that all other considerations be forgotten when a ship calls for help The messages started at a m and ceased at 2 06 a m last word from the air being an ironic Leaving Messages from tho said there were passengers that water was rising in the radio that life boats were about to be launched But the operator failed to tell the name of his ship and the fact the operator seemed un familiar with the business of TOLEDO FINDS MONEY the Zanesville dealers voice their de- sire of making the Auto show an an- affair No one connected with any of the car with the Moore Ross who generously donated the use of their building annex for the nor The Zanesville Publishing Co nor any member of their families were ered in the final awards D W assistant master and secretary or the t gum Motor presided as of ceremonies and his services as well as those of C Alfred excited commendation BOY'S EYE PIERCED BY PIECE OF STEEL son of Mr and Mrs Dewey Welle was admitted to Good Samaritan pital late Saturday night to undergo an operation for the removal of a piece of steel from his right eye The boy's eye was pierced by a steel sliver Saturday evening while playing with a hatchet at his home It is not known if he will lose the sight of the affected eye LIMA WOMAN DROWNS AT FLORIDA RESORT March 28 was re- here today of the death In a accident at Daytona of known to Ta of Gertrude of cut the goes with A Mrs A but the of and the GOVERNOR COX RESTING WELL AFTER OPERATION Miami Mar 28 condition of former Governor James M of who underwent an emergency operation here today for acute was pronounced by hospital authorities to be as well ns could be expected tonight Tho owner of the News embracing newspapers In Miami and and was stricken early today and operated on shortly afterward rpn PA AU 1 A Mar pay loss for Toledo school teachers in and with possible ment of school operations and pay vanished today when it ed that tho county auditor forwarded to the school late yesterday an additional from tax tions At the same time the auditor sent COO to the city FORTY AND EIGHT MEET March 28 Three dred members of the Forty and Eight society of Ohio held their annual rally dinner here tonight Speakers were Charles W national secretary of the American Legion and Col Ralph The quarterly meeting of of- is to be tomorrow ESTELLE DIDN'T APPEAR Los Mar 28 A rant roi the arrest of Estelle film and wife of Jack was issued today in municipal court when Miss Taylor failed to pear to answer charge of forcing another automobile off the highway built our years will of la i- our ao a completion of and he is to help out A of tho e were j plunged through j LAST MINUTE CHEST THOUGHT E is in sight and I am confident of victory when the teams bring in their final report Monday declared Clay chairman of the Com- munity Crest drive last night workers have pledged Victory for the Monday evening and I feel certain that they will fulfill their pledge each worker reports Monday evening we will succeed Three hundred workers with apiece will put us over the top Workers must do this to redeem their pledge of victory of the six daily reports during the past week were in excess of the amount now needed to put the drive over All we need do is keep up our daily average very reasonable quota of per worker Victory will be MAY U WA ON Gl KERIS STEN HAT Offers Reward and No tions For Return of Western Headgear March jimmy Walker has been ten gallon bat give two for the return of no questions said the sun tanned of New York today The hat a wild ern greeting present to him upon his arrival here mayor took a sight seeking hike up floors to the tower top of Palm springs highest building and did his sight-seeing a pair of field glasses Photographers were there change the expression I don't said one of the cameramen haven't liked it myself for rejoined Jimmy as he trained the glasses on Palm canyon miles and squinted AKRON MAN MURDERED Gaeta was found shot to death tonight in a poolroom of which was said to have been part owner Police said they believe him a victim of gang warfare Neighbors said after they heard shots they saw two men run out of the pool room Tells of Axe Slaying of Six 19 Years Ago l Former Bucyrus Man Tells of Wiping Out in Police There Confirm Story of Questioning of Detectives Brings Full Confession of Crime March written confession or a axe der of six persons in by Leroy alias George 48 WM made public tonight by detectives the homicide squad The detectives said they obtained the after several days of questioning In the county is awaiting sentence on a burglary conviction Tbe questioning was instigated by an anonymous the detectives and the confession was ed only after Sheriff John of Bed had furnished local authorities with information ing the killing on June 9 1912 of Mr aad Joe their four children and two daughters of Police tonight said that the MILLIONAIRE AND HIS SECRETARY NOT GUILTY OF MURDER Hang Them or Set Them Demand of Tried Wife Murder March 38 Nelson Cf Portland and Irma mer were acquitted clay hy a jury murder Bowies Mrs Leone prominent matron Jury was out but one hour And utes diet when returned ing to their seats The court first read the verdict to and then there- must be no stration verdict acquitted began and the court again warned against further The verdict acquitting Loucks was then by the court Bowles rushed to the side of his embraced her mother hurried to her side sobbing hysterically The defendants took no notice of each other The Jury retired with the words of defense counsel ringing In their ears them or act them Iree there can be no Tha throughout the long no for the death penalty The capitalist and his former went on trial March charged with first degree murder Mrs TH B EE OF KASS Employers Accuse Them of Being in Sympathy With Plot Against Zeppelin Akron Mar 28 em- ployers have discharged three of the 22 bond signers for Paul P Kassay who Is accused of criminal in an alleged plot to wreck the lin Andrew secretary of the Trade Union unity said here tonight Tlie three Parka were called to the office of a big Akron factory today and were asked If they had signed bond they admitted they had they were told that this fact indicated that they aro radicals and that their services were needed no Parks said IN TO TAKE WITNESS STAND Lawyers Decide to Have Tell His Story in Murder Case March attorneys tonight Martin will the witness stand to defend himself against the charge of first degree murder in the slaying of former Councilman Wm E Potter Elmer associated with Wm E Minshull and Samuel S Bo- senberg in Martin's Martin will take the but the time will depend on the of pre- of his case which will be decided over the week-end NO VIKING SURVIVORS ARE BY FLYERS John N Man turning from an unsuccessful search by airplane of the ice off Island for and other of the Viking arrived at the airport tonight from Coroner Brook N F He planned to here over night end take off for the point of his O Bowles died in Miss ment with it knife in her heart She stabbed herself the defendants after visiting the ment in search of her and after learning of sociation with Miss The state contended the pair dered she stood In the of their continued associations J jury ten forms verdict MJ first degree carrying the death first murder for Ule second degree slaughter and acquittal E PIKERS OUT Ohio Senator Charges Hoover With Playing With For Roosevelt March Robert J Bulkley of tonight declared President Hoover been into the hands of leggers and by failing to take a decisive stand on prohibition The statement was made in an ad- dress before the City club his first formal talk since his election last do not say that Is the dent's but In that is Just what he Is Bulkley said He described the president's message transmitting the sham report to congress as and tions for I say playing into the hands of bootleggers I mean that the administration Is doing Just what they want most They wouldn't want repeal because that would putt leggers out of business and they would oppose too rigid enforcement of the law because that might put them in Jail they want is Just enough enforcement eo that the pikers will be driven the big fellows vive effect la to feed and build up a whole underworld system which Is corrupting to au unheard of de- gree our entire of state and city Governor Franklin D Roosevelt of New he is the est candidate the can present for campaign of 1032 Bulkley said the party probably will renominate President but that Hoover will lose if Roosevelt la the Democrats Although naming Roosevelt as a presidential Bulkley told his headers he would be if Newton D Baker should be his choice Declaring that congress 15 suffering from a lack of Bulkley listed a number of problems which he was were unsolved for that Railroad bank failures of the past 10 Muscle un- the world court and prohibition were Included In the category Although the Ohio senator was elected on an tion he said honest people should Join in an effort to give it a fair trial by honest He said that Republican the prohibition problem leaves bootleggers and professional dry politicians happy and contented Bulkley said that at the next the Republican party will more endeavor to keep the In the fold by promising to do nothing un- til tho noble experiment has had a further and at the same time will extend hope to the repeal ad- that the Republican party may yet go Democratic party the presidential POSTMASTER DIES Mor automobile collision died today record will he checked so far aa possible to determine if could have been in was revealed tonight that sion has been statement that six persons f Karl Anderson and Max offered no explanation of the discrepancy in the number ot- killed The written killing of the Moore and said nothing the girls The self held but represented as saying that he knew the killing of the f quoted Robinson as C that devil seemed after he had killed his wife in their bed The motive given la was a promise of which only received The money was the byia man to whom In Kansas City by an known to him ac Robinson and said that he been in Jail most wife left Louis after he had told of J crime -1 The anonymous letter reached 1 detectives shortly after Meyers convicted on Feb 18 of you will go to the county Jail and named Meyers you will learn thing about a murder in 19 t The after Meyen them oft in bantering using of Mr and Mrs Joseph their children daughters an axe murder on the night June 1912 This mf the detectives girls The as by the a weird was quoted as saying in m In he gotten out of A- v approached told Aim that he would pay to anybody kill In f provided there waa no r shooting make too much Meyers said ho had served a term in Ohio lor beginnings In 1919 and ending last tte also said be formerly was In Michigan r state i SUE FAN ONI mm Third Tragic Death in Family in Ten Years When Mother T is Killed March IB the form of today continued to pursue the family of the late Squire Cyrus well known con- stable of Lancaster During the past ten three members of the ily have met violent ends The latest victim was Mrs 73 was killed and one of ner A B was injured critically when two sirtos collided headon ing a rain storm near here today Steve driver of the other suffered a crushed chest and died later The McCoys were enroute to cago to bring home the widow of a son who had been by a street car Ten years ago another sou wms stabbed to death during a at Columbus Mrs McCoy's bade Her son suffered fractured Survivors include a Amanda Cleveland US Si INKLE N GRAVES Man Charged With Liquor Violation Tells Court of Old Serbian Custom Marcb 38 W Eli Bast charged 70 gallons of ex- It this see I take It Sunday to the cemetery and put little on the graves of my old ple ao they will nave something to Judge they do wX won't He get to they just that's Ell explain It was Just an old The Judge continued ewe CANTON WOMAN VICTIM Mar in an Miss r as in Ki
