Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - February 25, 1937, Zanesville, Ohio MM IJ ints the News THE SIGNAL Tdb the Trail L- NO 255 Millionaire Is Saddled With Troubles FIL THURSDAY FEB THREE CENTS WRITER IS SHOT Townsend To Plead For New Trial SON-IN-LAW OF SELASSIE IS EXECUTED Last of Ethiopian tains Captured By Italians ly attired for morning canter in al Samuel Rosoff New York subway ho intended to resist New efforts to question him about threat against the life or slain labor th whom he was at odds Later hanged his agreed to submit Addis Feb 25 Desta son-in-law of Haile lassie and last of the Ethiopian tains to dispute Italian hrs been captured and an official communique announced day He was yesterday ly after an Italian scouting party seized him in the mountain region west of the lawes stretching south of Ababa The Fascist soldiers surprised the Has a few followers There was a quick exchange of then cap- ture His death was interpreted by in- formed circles as marking the re- moval of the final vestiges of resistance to Italy's tion of Haile Selassie's former main Colonial authorities believe Has Desta's the only able opposition to Italian rule Last Friday 3 000 of Ras Desta's followers battled four Italian columns 70 miles south of Addis Ababa at the moment hand grenades were ed at Marshal Rodolfo vice- roy of Ethiopia in the capital Practically all Has Desta's chiefs weie killed in the battle or executed after capture The number of Ethiopians executed in Addis Ababa as a result of the bomb throwing was unofficially placed In the hundreds There still no official figures on the number of natives dragged before firing squads still roamed southern com- by cadets from the Ethiopian academy at near Ad- Idls Ababa Air surveys of the reaches of the country showed j no important concentrations of tives Italian authorities claimed control of of Ethiopia and de- clared they were rapidly occupying the remaining tenth Ras Desta was captured yesterday by men of the race he once com- troops turned to the service of Italy Tills was Viceroy ic way of showing he had carried out II Duce's orders to meet all op- position with death Desta was turned over to the j firing squad He went to explain that effort had been to induce the chieftain's peaceful sub- f mission Dr P E shown as he was sworn in before a special investigating committee LOCAL TAX TO Solution of Poor Relief ation Is First For Assembly O Fieb state pressing for a solution of the poor relief asked the legislature today to clear the trades for local taxes Taxation committees of the house and senate were instructed to give consideration to proposals which would enable counties and to obtain money for relief In tho committees hands are eral bills which authorize local to duplicate numerous state taxes such as those on automobiles The local source of revenue is limited at present largely to the taxation of real estate paralleling numerous state the administration the ties and cities should up several million dollars to replenish poor re- lief funds now exhausted Gov Martin L Davey estimated that approximately for poor relief this Split In Federation of Flat Glass Workers O Feb ad- ministrative split in the Federation of Flat Workers widened day with an assertion by Glen W that than Ills suspension as rather prompted dent making a determined fight to gain said that a movement had been started among members of Clarksburg W locals to compel L P Jay of to resign as vice president or forfeit his membership to the union Jay acted as chairman of a three-man commission which suspended McCabe Pcb 15 whole thing Is the result of animosity on the part of a disgruntled members of the ex- McCabe said and and he has been ed as feeling the local governments should share half the cost Tills would necessitate the raising of by local taxation Tho governor signed last night an emergency making available im- mediately appropriated by tno legislature for relief until April 15 Previously the money was dis- to the counties at the rate of a month With of the the stato relief commission allocated to the counties Tuesday and an additional 920 yesterday The amounts cover January and February respectively Prompt distribution of the gap funds eased credit situations in some counties Fifteen counties have asked an ad- for relief until April but legislative leaders ex- pressed doubt that the money would fco PENSIONER IS FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT Liable to Fine and Year In Jail If peal Fails Feb 25 Dr Francis E predicting even tual helped his draft a plea today for a new trial in an effort to overturn his conviction of contempt of the house of repre The elderly California physician who heard the verdict yesterday with cut said an appeal would be taken to a higher court if the re quest was denied federal court Jury of 11 men and one woman deliberated 50 min utes It considered whether Pr Townsend had walked of a house committee hearing last May another charge of ing to appear before the committee having teen dismissed who claims millions of followers for his plan to give a month pensions to those over 60 years of said the conviction would not affect the work of his Old Age Pen Ltd will carry he work will go on and I expect to win this fight The verdict laid the old age pen sion man open to a possible jail sen tence for his sensational walkout las May on a house committee investi gating the Townsend movement The maximum penalty is fine and a year in jail verdict was not Townsend have some son to expect such a verdict here but expect to win eventually My work will go on This will make no Justice Peyton Gordon allowed the doctor three days in Turn to Page Fhe than anything I want to with Mr Mrs R widow of the slain r of the tunnel union outlining to visit f who was ted to have her husbands life her On Trial For Chaining Girl to Bed Feb a at times by was defended at a In a men's gymnasium trge that he chained his daughter to a a dog collar and beat k trial was moved to the m yesterday by Judge Bay lish to accommodate the crowd ic today to exclude if It continues hissing girl Myrtle k hit me with n belt on last Jan and with his hand she a knife nt me at the dinner Khc IK r father cd her to the for vl until a ntMghboi dis- sd father contended ho to his daughter of Probe Mine Death of Three Men Feb oner Ray F Slee ordered today an into a nearby coal strip mine blast in which three men were Seven Army Officers Killed By Explosion Feb Seven army officers were killed and 111 injured today when 40 pounds of exploded at a military killed Hotert G 33 Annapolis blasting contractor Henry 28 and Lawrence of were killed late yesterday uhen four blasting exploded prematurely and Johnson were hurled approximately 150 feet over a embankment Trushell was blown about 100 feet into a field The property is operated by the Jefferson strip mining con- cern with interests located Bloomingdale and Tho officers were receiving tion in tho demolition of bridges and roads when tho fatal charge exploded belatedly The injured were ed to a tary hospital at nearby where they were visited by King pold COURT CHANGE AS AMENDMENT CLUB Feb well-informed persons President Roosevelt was considering the use of hU supreme court proposal as a weapon to force action on a amendment The chief executive reported reliably to have discussed with con- gressional leaders the possibility of enacting his court with a clause making its opei ation conditional on failure to amend the constitution within a given time Senators who have talked with the president recently said he had no specific constitutional amendment in mind He was described as ring one to limit the court's tion rather than one to extend eral power over Industry and ture donate leaders were understood to have advised Roosevelt it was doubtful whether they could get votes to approve any of the constitutional amendments so far proposed Word that the chief executive had discussed the alternate proposal was tho first intimation he might agree to any change in his to increase the supreme court unless older justices retire Under the alternate proposal he still would have assurance of a court reorganization unless a tional amendment was adopted Turn to Ten An Waited Too Long For Husband Got Job Colo Feb The Boulder county welfare de- disclosed this unique letter from A woman mate application for re- lief but we waited so long that my husband had to go out and look for a Job He found Record Snow in Two States Former Columbus Advertising Man Dead In Cottage Hysterical Wife in Same Bed Un- able to Tell Coherent Weapon Found Snow banks towered high above automobiles on Iowa and Minnesota set new and left many scenes like the one near Fergus Minn Notice how the piled up snow dwarfs the figure of the man Ordinary snow were notaries gradually opened up the highways TORSO MURDER IS DRIVE Blood Thought Caused By Dog In An Accident Feb was though to be a promising clue in eighth torso investigation trail of dissipated day when police announced that the blood stains were left by an injured dog The nude torso of a woman was found near Lake Erie the eighth in the past several years Police Sergt Percy Ball said he re- a report Tuesday that a clog had been injured on the street where the blood stains were found were unable to find the dog Another development was the dis- covery of a suit in aj dry cleaning establishment far from the point where the torso found David L police ballistics was to examine the stains Discovery of the by Detectives Peter Merylo and Martin spurred on Intensive police hunt for remaining portions of Cleveland's eighth mysterious capitation slaying victim since Sept 1934 The first torso was washed ashore at almost the same spot The clue started a new search of the shoreline for the woman's head and sought to establish her identity Before the trail was found detectives said they without a single lead in the hunt for the sex- surgically skilled maniac believed responsible Mrs Anna walked into police station And ended concern for ler safety Police said the only er person they had Miss missing after com- ing here on from undoubtedly was safe Merylo and Zalewski said they first noticed blood stains near the curb on Lake Shore which led them to believe that the torso and possibly other missing portions had been brought here in an automobile The trail extended for two and a half blocks on the then GOVERNMENT IN Shatter Insurgent Oviedo Is Mass of Wreckage Ish Feb Basque of Oviedo reported today they had stormed the heights dominating gent redoubt on the outer rim of the devastated city The strangling Circle was closed around the insurgent garrison ing a night of the most murderous of the civil the ment forces cutting off the city's defenders from all hope of re- lief The onco proud city was being methodically battered to a mass of Jumbled ruins by Spanish government besiegers as they slowly decimated an insurgent garrison tually stripped of all hope of succor The Meabe quarter of the historic city of northwest Spain was reported In names after resistance was there In hand to hand fighting A an orphanage arid a were said to have been wrecked by dynamite and hand ades and insurgent defenders driven from their fortified refuge in them A large segment of s bloody but unbowed garrison was reported waging a fight to the death from the Vega arms factory on the sixth day of battle Basque dispatches said the or insurgents were bered about to one Tho insurgent high command at Salamanca headquarters previously had declared the attacking force was routed and of them kilted in most crushing defeat of the civil Much of Oviedo's civil population fled during the three months of siege that preceded the government's move to annihilate the insurgent force Palm Feb Humphrey prominent film was found shot to death in his ted at his desert cottage at midnight here at this wealthy resort Deputy Sheriff W W Walrath said Pearson's Beeping and in the same bed when the tragedy was discovered Stie was un- able to give a coherent story of what occurred Pearson was shot twice through the the deputy and had been dead more than an hour before a butler summoned him to the Pearson home The butler reported his tion had been attracted by Mrs son's sobs Police Chief Lloyd Boiler ed later the death pistol had been taut declined to disclose its cation It had been discharged twice Pearson and his wife apparently had been Boiler and his body fell across the bed pinning Mrs Pearson beneath butler was quoted as saying the were strongly devoted to each and not given to ing Pearson had been in ill health in recent associates and spent most of his time at this desert resort He was about A former advertising he for both the radio and films He did dialogue for and collaborated on Price His adaptations include and Great Flirtation Police Chief Boiler of Palm Springs took charge of the tion and was Joined by Coroner Ben F White of Riverside county Pearson at one time conducted an advertising agency in O before going to New York There he wrote R play With the which was purchased by a Hollywood went down two dead-end eading to the lake streets Veteran Actor and Playwright Succumbs Feb Ir- veteran died here today He was 70 years old one of the well known ures of tho English was author of the play which gave Ethel Barrymore her famous curtain all there there isn't any National Poll Still Runs Against F D R Plan RESULTS TO For Supreme Court Reform 426 Against Supreme Court Reform Letter Demands Pastor Carry On Person Feb Eev Dr Joseph pastor of the Hungarian Reformed turned over to police today a letter demanding that he carry on his person at all times Dr Herczegh said It threatened him with the seme as unless ho carried the and was ready for an at any time He could gUe no reason for the de- mand For Amendment Kaa Feb 25 home adopted the child labor amendment to the federal tlon bringing to 28 the ber of to approve The vole 64 to 53 With 41 states now represented tn the nationwide NEA Publishing Co supreme court the total votes tabulated soured above a third of a but main- their constant trend of almost two to one the president's proposals The Tor tte gainst a total of 333.417 votes The list of cities and the total vote continued to grow hourly Of the 213 cities 58 were showing majorities for the plan and 155 continued to roll up majorities against It The scorned stronger in the smaller communities than in the larger ones A special tabulation of 27 cities tion Is more than d 55 per cent 71 as compared to 66 to the cent over entire country The 186 smaller cities participating registered 76 per cent opposed to the or a higher ratio than the general one for the whole country Such a division can not be entirely depended of for many papers in comparatively large towns have rural and town and in fact many imported strong returns by mall from outlying sections there some ground for a conclusion that the smaller the the stronger the runs Against proposed plan Only 12 states today registered j majorities for the plan aa compared with 16 in yesterday's but the total hung to the 34 per cent for and cent that teen clear the start Supreme Court Reform Ballot Are you Fok or AGAINST the Supreme Court reform as posed by President Franklin D The Zanesville is conducting ft poll to determine sentiment in this district Cast the ballot below and mail it to the Supreme Court Poll Editor of The Zanesville Publishing Co I am FOR Supreme Court Reform Name Address If you want to participate in poll get your ballot In now to the Supreme Court Poll of PEACE JUSTICES ARE UNDER FIRE O Feb bers of the Ohio legislature gathered around tho ringside today to watch Senator Maurice W Lipscher take on the J P's Up for a vote was the youthful Youngstown legislator's to he halter on the roving con- stables of Justices of the It would limit the magistrates tion in criminal cases to their own township At present the entire ty is field Lipscher who contends many of tho country squires make a of their was set to tangle first with Senator William J Zoul of who served 23 years as a specializing in marriages Zoul admits he has more brides than any man in repulsed a move by Zoul to send his back to the judiciary which recommended its passage shouting think I know more about J P law than will ever warned him that like this got only 16 votes irr the house two years The house than had 135 members was inclined to believe the senate would approve his but while disclaiming personal interest in this offered to bet to that house will put a stop to this by the measure The senator had his gun loaded with three more Turn to Page Eight film company He and his ttn former Rive King left lumbus 10 years ago He was graduated from Ohio where he was prominent in campus circles One of his last scripts was prepared for starring Barbara Stanwyck He took a hand In shaping of Red for ita second Hollywood production with Laughton IDLE Labor Disputes Prevail In At Least 50 of Nation's Plants Bv The Associated Press An epidemic of strikes that spread to all sections of the nation held e check on production In scores of in- and business establishments today Mare made than workers were by labor disputes In bills The Publishing To ain on ilw straw poll now so huny If corning in thick ard but K wont time drawing near when the want to vote Report Arline Judge To Divorce Wesley Ruggles Feb the was today to divorce tor Wesley Ruggles believe then will marry Daniel Reed millionaire who last week figured in an exchange of blows at a Hollywood night club The brunette Miss recently adjudged by beauty expert to have the most perfectly developed figure In the took a train last night for Reno her at- she prefers to ate her marriage to Buggies in six residential re- A Reno effective In California it Is necessary to wait year for the legal right to remarry least 50 firms New strikes broke out or old were settled almost hourly Women well as men both the walkout and picket method and the new sit-down technique The strikes involved firms such diversified products ac rubber auto clothing and elry dozen strikes tn the Detroit area made that city the of the nation but the number of workers made idle by the was smaller than in some six strikes were settled Chrysler Automobile employing 77.000 agreed to confer with officials of the United Workers union next week to consider the in- union recognition U A W A and General Motors Corporation conferees achieved tentative ments on seniority speed of production and methods Of pay Strikers at the Electric Boat com- pany submarine shipyards in formed picket lines after their eviction aa first to be forcibly State and city police watched as night shift era left the plant and walked through the lines early today Neither strike leaders nor company officials would start peace Across tho continent at sit-down strikers de- fled for the third day police to evacuate the Douglas Aircraft com- pany plant Union leaders said union seniority rights and Increases were among issues The strike made S 600 Jobless and stopped the company's production program Sit-down strikers continued to hold tho Metallurgical company plants lu North but at 111 47 to Page Nine Seven Sentenced Ip Vote Fraud Conspiracy Kansas Cl Feb ranging from six-month Jail terms to three years in prison were passed today by Judge rill K Otto on seven election workers convicted of vote fraud conspiracy in last November's general election Four women defendants who ed no defense wers each placed on probation Guard Mines to Prevent Spread of Hunger Strike Pecs Feb tary control was declared over the en- tire Pecs mine region today to halt the spread of a of 207 local isolated in their Ings far below the surface After the toll of dead in day's rioting at the pit shafta rose to with six others army authorities closed the university to prevent student sympathy The reported dominated by a militant restored com- with the surface to ask that a trade union committee be sent down to hear their terms refused to permit the committee to go below Crop Insurance To Check Fluctuations In Wheat tary Wallace advised congress today that a federal crop insurance program would help check wide in wheat thus benefiting con- sumer as well as producer The price he are canted by alternate shortages and surpluses Ha explained the insurance plan would withhold large quantities of wheat from the market In good and release them from storage in Dad years Tho in behalf of which lace appeared before a senate culture would apply to in its first effective crop 1938 tt would be extended to dther as producers required It Fair continued cold in Friday fair ARCHIVE
