Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - July 9, 1937, Zanesville, Ohio THE SIGNAL VOL NO 58 FRIDAY JULY 1987 THREE CENTS NEW STEEL STRIKE FIZZLES Squalls Threaten To Interrupt Search For Earhart BAD WEATHER MAY INCREASE DIFFICULTIES As Hunt Widens Fear Grows Fliers May Never Be Found July rain threatened to interrupt the for Amelia Earhart which navy airmen considered ing its most crucial phase today Despite a forecast of rain and poor officers aboard the ship Colorado planned to catapult her three planes aloft again in ex- of completing an aerial search of the Phoenix islands morrow Today and they said they waa the moat critical period sines the coast guard cutter started the March just a week ago Airmen felt in nights yesterday and Wednesday they definitely possibility she was In the area around reef By Ma and air search for the missing aviatrix and her J Noon has ed approximately square miles without even sighting some of the shoals ari sand spits supposed to exist in the vast The vanished a week ago day In an attempt to fly the from tae New to land a dot of land but two feet above the sea Colorado's awaiting aid over the week-end from aircraft carrier plane day planned to swing southward once again but come back on a course west of the Phoenix and Howland Islands This expedition would cover area previously unexplored by the coast guard cutter which carried on search alone TOT days near land islands before the Colorado sped from more than miles away Planes from the Colorado were ex- to complete search of Phoenix group before arrival of the being refueled at near Honolulu The aircraft which sped from San Diego to was expected to get away for the daah to the search area today and spread her brood of planes probably next Monday Last reported in the vicinity of Baker 40 miles south of the Itasca planned to continue search southward to the Phoenix aided by the mine sweeper droa Should today's search prove less for the the naval fliers planned to spend Saturday combing the northeast portions of the Phoenix including Canton est of the chain Radio amateurs in Hawaii and on the mainland continued to report in- of messages they ed being from the but coast guard and naval operators said they had not heard and in most Instances pointed out the re- ported calls were on frequencies not used by the aviatrix As the extent of the hunt the belief has steadily grown that Misa Earhart and Noonan never would be found Gossip Blamed 56 Deaths Attributed To Stifling Heat Wave July death toll from the season's longest heat wave mounted steadily today the sun-baked northern tier of states ed in vain for relict At least 56 persons succumbed to the merciless temperature that ex- tended from the Atlantic coast to eastern Washington There were of prostrations Death by drowning claimed scores of persons among the tens of sands who sought relief at The stifling hitherto confined to the region east of the pushed toward the Pacific coast la sweltered in 96 de- cree weather yesterday and recorded 04 and with readings of were the hottest spots east of the Rockies Little change m temperature was ib sight outside of New York and New England where slightly cooler weather was forecast Meteorologists predicted cloudless skies through morrow except in of thf mid- dle Atlantic states the lower lake region Denies Diplomatic Post Offer to Myron Taylor July Roosevelt told he had not offered a diplomatic post to ron C chairman of the Published have said that Taylor was for appointment M ambassador to London in the event Robert Rather MiW Soviet North Pole Radio to July log formed a ceiling at about feet today and limited visibility to be- tween half 4 and a mite The temperature wu Gossip was blamed by authorities for the rel between May Elvin and her one-time best Jessie in which Allen was fatally shot Testifying at a Miss Pepper claimed First Lady Called Tax Dodger Because Of Charity Awards Rep Fish of Opinion She Should Pay Tax On ey She Gave Philadelphia Agency July 9 told to a TURNKEY FOILS DARING ESCAPE Morpeth Captures Youth ing to Flee From Parole Officer William aged turn-key at county whose In- in a jail delivery in nearly coat his ured prominently in tne frustration of another escape Thursday after- noon at the Jail when he succeeded in capturing Uc of who liberated from the prison preparatory to being taken to lator hu caused local police and county much trouble during the several turned over to Parole Officer K a Brown of but while making their out ot the jail Martin made a break for freedom ing near the quickly pursued the youth and succeeded In catching him before be had gone far Deputy Sheriff Jim Ryan and Officer Brown went to aid and took tin into custody More than a year ago Morpeth en- to prevent Ray Fisher from making a from the but the producing a revolver which had been smuggled into the prison by Fisher's shot and seriously wounded the tive turn-key Since that time Planer been confined to Ohio tiary who was placed on a farm near Mt Vernon by industrial school authorities some time disliked working from dawn until caped and returned home last week only to be picked up by local officers A special permit secured from the office of the prosecuting attorney to police to place him In the county jail The youth from the detention home on south street on two occasions and last March dug way out ot the city all by removing a large quantity of plaster from under a He then fashioned a rope from blankets on his bunk and lowered to sidewalk below He at large ror several after which he was apprehended and returned to tbe in- school at Lancaster After being returned to Martin paroled for good behavior His freedom when he waa again arrwted on a harge of theft and sent back to the from where he aent the Mt Vernon farm Henry Cotton Wins British Open Title July Tall Henry famed British won the British open golf championship today for second time in three posting for the tournament after a heavy rainstorm threatened for a time to force replay of the final round holder of the title in 1934 and acknowledged king ot British for had the title in the bag for hours before a ruling by the tournament committee of the Foyal sod Ancient clubs of fit Andrews made it After lengthy conference the ls decided that the fourth ana round would stand as 13 Injured by Explosion of Ammunition Stores July Ammunition stores exploded here today with a terrifying roar which shook the whole city Th persons ware three but there no The blast in Just Helsingfors wis by fin that shot hundreds of feet into UM burned for Fish congressional investigating committee today that Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt had availed herself of a tax loophole He was told in return your testimony is pure and unadulterated hearsay Representative Vinson made that answer to who represents President Roosevelt's home after subjecting the New Yorker to biting questioning are you doing by asked The New Yorker read what he said was a photostatic copy of a contract which Mrs Roosevelt signed In 1935 for radio broadcasts It he that after each of ten programs the Shelby Arch Pre- server company was to to the American Friends Philadelphia i she can avail herself of a anybody else i in America can do the same Fish said also he believed the com- should call for the income tax of James eldest son of the Mrs Anna velt the president's Secretary Morgenthau of the and his Henry Harry Works Progress and John L chairman of the Committee or Industrial Organization The as read by vided that Mrs Roosevelt was to re- a consideration of only for talks on At a recent press Mts Roosevelt denied she had dodged any every penny of income which I she have paid my tax F who also signed the Fish was to receive commission on each broad cast and was to go to Mrs Nancy CooX He did not identify the ter Fish asserted the contract I to you lor by the wife of the dent was money she earned as much as money was earned by anybody directed where it would go and controlled that He said the for each cast was for charitable distribution aa directed by Roosevelt Revenue law deductions from income for charitable up to 15 per cent of Income Fish led up to his remarks about Roosevelt by asserting that he had not the degree of ill will personally against the or secretary of the treasury But the he issued a statement to congress m the last month m which he said tax loopholes are recent date and went on to indict all who use loopholes as immoral and indecent The he joined In by the secretary of the The New York congressman he had no Intention of making any Heat Causes Abandoning of N July Nearly weary followers of Father Major J Devine bade goodbye today to the bald-pated negro cult leader's their two-day wilted by the heat Their scheduled twice postponed because ot the the faithful left between 300 and 300 pilgrims be- hind them to populate the land of and and made ready to steam down the aon Attempts to learn the exact number remaining ifc the acre park brought ling replies from Father Divine's Ulster county following Their only answer intelligence Isn't on our The party left with a you and the divine it's wonderful against the or of asking lot his tax returns July The American mentioned today In the congressional Investigation of tax is the social service organization of the ciety of in the United States It carries on various forms of re- lief and rehabilitation work in Eu- rope and In the United States with special Interest in some of the social in the bituminous coat fields At present the committee is doing some relief work In Spain un- der the supervision of American TROOPS LEAVE TROUBLED ZONE Chinese Evacuate But tical of Jap Promises to More of a clash between Chinese armies Sporadic fighting July cial spokesmen an- today troops lad completed evacuation of the trouble tone of scene Japanese and preceded and lowed the evacuation Both the Japanese and the Chinese suspected the other would fall to fulfil the of the mutual reached at 4 o'clock this morning The twenty-ninth army of China one source taken the Japanese show no dence they are evacuating according then neither will Fighting broke out this morning and again early this afternoon in the western suburban area of this old dragon cap ital Japanese nowa advices received in Shanghai had indicated both Chinese and anese troops had withdrawn from their battle Chinese adverted the Japanese launched an attack on 300 gendarmes who were en route to a suburb of to take over the duties of the rison from the 20th Chinese army One gendarme was known to have been killed and four wounded in the last clash Chinese trench immediately Joined battle with the Japanese light artillery The sky was rilled with a as the sound of machine and rifles indicated the battle was once again becoming general Peasants were fleeing the embattled countryside in a downpour of rain that failed to stop military operations Japanese were reported to have opened fire also orv the troops cf Sung army they were withdrawing westward the river The anese declared they were forced to open fire to cover the retreat to their at the strategic railway center 13 miles west of ing Observers who persuaded military authorities to open gates oC so they could visit the found no indication the Japanese were actually ing u Man Slain In Attempt To Steal Slot Machine July Captain W E Covert said Dayton police questioned one man and sought another today in connection an attempted robbery of an Cast Side beer garden in which their companion waft shot to death Covert said the dead Oscar B was shot by Edward owner of the establishment who frustrated an effort to steal a slot machine When Brock's attention WAA called to the men attempting to carry a slot machine Covert the men fled and Brock pursued warning him to or I'll Smith was shot below the left shoulder and died before he be taken to a A registered as Boss Gay 32 was arrested and booked by vert on open charges One man died n an automobile Covert said and ROM had police Russia Warns Japan to Keep Out of Siberia July Soviet government warned today to keep out of Siberia and declared Bla would use to prevent invasion of We territory by forces The newest development m the dis- pute over the ownership ot the ru and islands la the Amur rUet along the an boundary in the Far came after the Japanese ambassador had told Russia that border clashes were too j Soviet Foreign Commissar Mailm promptly rejected test as AC official Russian communique accused Japan of ure to evacuate troops from the ren in the river Litvinoff told the Japanese Mamoru that the islands belonged to Russia A clash at the islands on June 90 between Soviets and troops brought an ment between Japan and for mutual withdrawal of forcee UNDERWOOD TO SIT ALONE IN CIO TEST CASE Three Judges Decide One- Judge Court Is Sufficient July federal Judges decided today that a court would hear the Com- for Industrial Organization's suit to enjoin the use or National Guardsmen in the valley steel strike zone Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Xenophon read the opinion ter the three heard legal ar- for a half Legal of Attorney General bert S opposing the tion cult Iri behalf of Gov Martin L Davey and Adjutant General Emll F had requested a court Before the Edward CIO announced that ernor Davey and MaJ Gen who been in charge of National Guardsmen In the would be called u General Light was in the court room constitutionality of no state or federal statute was a court has Judge said He added that Judge Underwood would bear the case Judge announcing the ion In a firm quoted ex- from legal opinions to port the decision of the three court recessed until 3 p immediately after Judge Hicks ion was read State attorneys Indicated that when the hearing they would challenging the Jurisdiction of this In the southern Ohio over the strike which is In the northern Ohio district They also planned to reiterate dismissal of the contend the CIO has failed to show a cause for Action General during the noon re- said of the 4.500 guardsmen dered to June only WO remained in the and Warren area He said were at 300 at Akron and an undetermined number In Cleveland Federal Judge Mell G Underwood had District Judge ert Nevin of Dayton and judge Hicks of to sit with him when the state questioned the right of Judge Underwood to hear the case The CIO asked an injunction to Heads Pottery prevent National guardsmen from now at contending the National Labor Act forbade the use of troops The Clo also asked a temporary re- which the state declared would have the effect of a permanent injunction The state had asked dismissal of the auit aad postponement of ings to a while the do declared an emergency and immediate hearings Gov Martin L Davey sent men to the strike area June 21 at the request of John L CIO and ordered them to maintain the m the strike The OlO filed suit after the governor told the guardsmen to guarantee safety to desiring to work Wound Suspect Wanted For Tire Hijacking July ward of wanted as a suspect la a was today noun after taid to hive shot by Akron police A car with a bullet lute in was found abandoned found a straw hat witli et in it Nearby WM fait with a bullet crease UM center of nu bald Reign of Terror When Desperate Convicts Flee July Four desperate who escaped with five others from Eastham prison farm led scores of baffled officers in a race across northeast Texas today Latest of the fleeing raa to overpower three state way patrolmen near Alto and a the officers Since nine escaped yesterday one convict has been a guard a civilian robbed of his automobile Four of the have been captured and the kidnaped man released Highway patrol officers at reported three patrolmen halted to a parked automobile near Alto Suddenly rout men ran from he brush with took the by surprise and sped away to north A few c was unharmed by the convicts near waa kidnaped at hU three miles from the prison County Police Force To Patrol Strike Zone July county police force of nearly 250 men took up strike tone petrols today in the vicinity of Canton and of the Republic relieving national guard Joseph NUt said some had been withdrawn from the scene but that several hundred guardsmen were being held in re- serve at the armory here in case of an emergency The county police force by deputizing police of Workers Ignore Call For Walkout And Not One Man Leaves Republic Plant Crowd oi Sympathizers Gathers to Watch Walkout But 1 pointed By Action M NEW PRESIDENT S A WELLER CO Wallet M Hughes Steps Up Prom Vice Presidency of Organization Announcement of the appointment of Walter M 634 Putnam acting president and urer of the a A Weller Pottery for the balance of the current aew made today by bers of the board of di- rectors He succeeds H 1245 Blue avenue Mr Hughes has been Identified with the firm for the last four years and been its ftrat vice president He waft educated in the public mentary and high schools of this city and received degree of Bachelor in Ceramic Engineering at Ohio state university in 1934 Several weeka ago he signally honored when the Professional ceramic de- gree bestowed him by his o July call for a new strike at Republic Steel plants by the Steel Workers committee apparently was Ignored by workers today as the line of 11.30 a m jard passed with no leaving the mills Republic officials a single man left the Republic officials said a few auto- mobiles went in and out of the gate but theae were The night relief of whom Chief Carl Olson had held In was dismissed at noon Half an hour before the time set for the a crowd of strike and estimated by Chief Olson at gathered near the gates but national special police and deputy sheriffs kept ths moving George vice president of the gteel Workers Organising Com- unit at the Republic hed announced the new strategy at a meeting last night Tom president of the confirmed the call canton permitting to be in part ot county Special have been by Hist and extra policemen employed in CanUm and tht situation mater The Welter Pottery now pre- paring new fall line for display at Home Furnishing show to be held next week at the Hotel New York City The new ware is highly decorated and IB featured by new shape and colorings Delicate in brown and green predominate in the line The new pottery has already been viewed by company experts and declared to be aome of the finest ever produced by the famous local com- pany In his position as acting Mt Hughes will continue to hold hts position M vice of the board said today LIGHTNING BOLT STUNS 2 WOMEN A bolt of lightning during day violent storm ned an aged invalid woman and her housekeeper on Cray and today both were recovering from severe shock Mrs Rose was thrown momentarily prostrate on the bed where she had been and in an adjoining her Mtt was hurled across a table by the force of the lightning bolt An elm tree about 20 feet from the Shoemaker at Gray street struck Almost half the bark was torn from the who been an invalid for some was looking through a window she a blinding flash of lightning rendering her temporarily Beinike suffered a similar experience in the next room The torrential rainstorm which came Thursday afternoon caused throughout the city to overflow but it failed to bring more than relief from the intense which unabated today with the temperature above for the third day in succession day's high mark of W a record for the year far Honor Student Attacking Young Girl July lean Wgh school honor and attr confessed Eugene McNaily that he beat and attacked a girl in the of an building on the side McHally said the youth admitted luring the gin to the of the building for which his father u and striking her with an iron stabbed with an lee pick and with a garden tool Her condition waa verlous When police arrived at the ment who won in and on the ently unconscious He was to a but found to bs Later police said he had been to lead of- to tie had been beaten toy Mother statement followed by a few hours the assertion in ton by William president of the American Federation of that steel strikes are Green has been at with John L ex officio leader of the as chairman of the Committee for Industrial parent body of the Lewis led a re- bellion In the ranks of the APL in his fight for vertical unionization Green his assertion on claims that the had enrolled only a minority when It called the strikes and that It lacked public port of violent policies pursued by the Simcox the strike call sued only to Republic employes and that similar action m the plants of Youngstown Sheet Tube Co Would be taken later Republic reported yesterday that men out of a normat force of here were on duty Sheet Tube claimed it had men at work in two Youngstown plants which have an average dally total of at work Ohio national guardsmen ued on duty at plants as well In other Ohio strike centers Re- public reopened the last of Ohio mills In Cleveland yesterday The deadlock keeping Sheet Tube employes idle In Indiana's district continued Gov M Cifford Townsend urged petitioners for reopening of the two mills to help convince the Youngstown com- pany to pursue a fair The police detail at Republic's South Chicago plant cut in half to 72 men for each eight-hour shift The plant the scene of the day battle which cost 10 lives and left wounded A drive to the right of local self announced at by Francis C Martin chairman of the citizen's committee formed as a result of the four weeki old strike in Bethlehem Steel Cambria which employs The company men had resumed work m the mill Martin said a meeting would ba held July 15 to expend the movement FDR Not to Sponsor ment Demanding tices Retire Not Forgetting Frozen Town New July 9 you're today in a frazzling way how the weather ift going in places like Hot or or W or here's some information on the At yesterday the at the village store read 08 and over at Hot Coal the coal thermometer showed ft slightly cooler today in both places To get temperature at a telephone call had to be made through it pretty to learn the mercury had risen to the 88 mark Satan's un- officially reported 106 in the shade and 04 at noon today At Hot It and at the h igh for the past twenty-four was There- was no official ture reading in H but the town druggist it at 90 high for the 34 Four Killed Working On Power Plant Dam Old July of the Chemical working on a pany dam and power plant on the were kitted today when a derrick boom came in contact with a high tension The men killed were Edwin and and all of and fittest ot Old Town Plant employes the line with which the derrick came in carried ft of July opponents administration court sent lanky Senator Wheeler to the firing line today to be- gin their attack The Montanan been the generau of the Democrats fighting the measure HU group decided to take about two days for speeches and then turn the floor back to administration men early next week The foes in- tend to resume later Friends of the were making definite efforts to curtail own Leader Robinson emphasized his de- termination tp force a vote as soon as possible by announcing the tomary Saturday would be abandoned President told a conference today he not considering sponsorship of a amendment for compulsory retirement ot supreme court at the age of He also gave a negative answer to a question aa to whether he WM considering a plan to limit the of such justices In the senate fight over the court both sides were aiming their ar- at the nation and at 18 senators still publicly mittal Rarely in recent history has senate line-up been so close on any important Each side could count 39 avowed supporters and eral more who have given private as- turance Administration claiming slight margin over a majority ed concern over the announcement that be for the balance of slon because of ill health had been counting on his vote The court hailed as one Ot the greatest debates of the was attracting huge crowds to senate galleries for the first time Huey died CIO Sympathizers and Police In Disturbance July ance between CXO most of them and police the of the Industrial on plant today None waa in- jured Closed by a strike eince May plant was the fifth large trial concern to resume here within a week Approximately 300 of the workers returned to prepare the plant for production J ginning next Four Republic Steel corporation plants opened earlier under the protection of tional guardsmen and police Mounted police charged into the crowd as it surged into the street in an attempt to block entrance ot the returning workers cars into the main gate Eight women were knocked down Fair Generally fair and tonight and ured Saturday noon City Atlanta Boiton Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Paso Kansas City Miami At Paul ftw law York Ore T cite May's Calif Tatar's was t a tin Clear 78 Clear Clear cloudy 58 Cloudy Clear y f c t
