Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - June 10, 1938, Zanesville, Ohio Prints the News TH SIGNA VOL UX No 32 ZANESVILLE P EVENING JUNE 10 1938 Tells the Truth THREE CENTS CRASH KILLS 8 ARMY AIRMEN McCall to Face Kidnap and Murder Charges Florida Jury Gets Evidence Next Week G-Men to Continue Investigation of Child's Slaying MIAMI FLA iff Franklin Pierce McCall may be charged with the murder and kidnaping of year-old James Bailey Cash Jr authorities indicated today State Attorney George A ley said he would present dence to a special grand jury Monday on which it might indict the truck driver for both offenses Both carry the death penalty in this state and McCall probably would be tried for only one Worley said would be held as speedily as possible ably within three or lour weeks McCall has denied responsibility for the kidnaping and killing but J Edgar Hoover director of the federal bureau of investigation said he confessed collecting the ransom after writing the three notes demanding it McCall's father-in-law Joseph Hilliard said Mrs McCall was prostrated and that McCall had acknowledged to her his part in the case yesterday when she and other members of the Halliard ily were questioned at the FBI office and released She never expects to see him Hilliard said She wishes nothing more to do with him The boy has ruined two ilies his and mine and we want to see justice done He added McCall had sent his wife to north Florida just befon the kidnaping and expressed thi opinion he was planning it then At Princeton J Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau o said the had admitted writing the three ransom notes and the paid by the boy's fath er but was silent about the ac tual abduction At Princeton the parents pre pared to bury their child whose body was found early yesterday twelve days after he was Candidates in Belated Rush to File Petitions stolen from the Cash home Recovery of all but of th LOS rett the orchestra leader day had divorced Eleanor Holm swimming star pictured above leaving her free to marry Billy Rose famous showman Kidnap Suspect and Spot Where Boy's Skeleton Found County Committee Fight Holds Interest For Both Parties the to file this afternoon for the lon now held by Judge P H ehill who has already filed for Candidates for office at primary made a te rush to the board of elections ransom money from on place and from another pre- sented a puzzling angle which Hoover did not explain He said McCall directed agents to both hiding places The jor portion of the money was found cached in an orchard early Wednesday but where officers discovered the late yesterday was Hoover's secret Other than to remark the In- will actively Hoover withheld comment on the the probe was taking There were unconfirmed reports at least two persons in addition to McCall were held at FBI quarters The Miami Herald said McCall's pretty wife Claudine Evelyn Call and her mother Mrs Joseph Billiard spent six hours at the headquarters yesterday and left in company of agents Dr Thomas Otto of Miami who was with agents when they found the body said it was in such an ad- state of decomposition there was little evidence for a post-mortem He expressed the opinion the kidnaper killed the Harlan Case Witness Slain LONDON shade of the slaying of a prospective ness and the sensation of a ed attempt to kidnap a miner who already has testified hung over the proceedings of the Harlan labor trial here today Both the slam man and the ported kidnap victim were under government subpoenas for the duration of the trial and ly under the protection of the eral district court Both were active m Harlan county union fairs Chief Deputy Sheriff C N No- lan of Harlan county said Lester Smithers 30 was shot to death at Gulston Ky and two brothers Verlin Fee 29 and Clyde Fee 27 were held at Harlan in connection with the slaying Nolan said Verlin Fee told him the shooting an argument about the union Smithers was a former president of the Ky local of the United Mine Workers of America George Titler a field of the reported to agents of the federal bureau of investigation last night that three men forced John Isom a union to drive in their bile from Cumberland Harlan county Ky to a nearby mining camp Titler said he supplied the agents this afternoon as the ly e fdr filing their petitions roached The office will remain open un- jl o'clock this evening to those who have delayed ding until the last The county central committee ace appears the most interesting or both parties at the coming mary As usual tne rival Republican actions stalled off their petition iling until just before the ine both keeping secret their lists as long as the law permits Their tactics left the board oi elections in Its customary jam at the finish with each faction to unload a long list of candidates late this afternoon The Democrats with rival presenting slates of candidates this year were less secretive about their plans Many of the candidates have al ready filed and lists of other can were made known this af For U S representative from the fifteenth congressional dis the board of elections hac names of one Democrat anc four Republicans on file today P W Griffiths Marietta Re publican became the fourth mem jer of his party to file for th nomination today Other candi dates are Ernest Work New Concord William S Shuster White Cottage and Joe I Clarke this city Congressman Robert T Secres has no opposition on the Demo cratic ticket In the race for Democratic state central committeeman from the fifteenth district Vernon Archer Byesville filed Thursday to oppose the candidacy of Clarence A ham local incumbent A third candidate is Harry Watson of berland For state senate James T he Republican nomination There was of te opposition within the an party to the candidacy of Earl C Dunn who is seeking ation as county auditor His ratic opponent Henry F Stemm was prepared to file late today South Claims Wage Victory WASHINGTON Southern senators claimed victory today in year-long battle to give Dixie ower minimum wages than the in- North They expressed certainty a committee would prove broad exemptions from a wage scale which the pending legislation would lish after seven years The committee had voted earlier this week to except only tries in which such a minimum would result in unemployment The Southerners after ening a senate filibuster forced the committee yesterday to reopen the question They want living costs prevailing wages and com- freight rates added to the causes for exemptions Although the Southern Pepper and Ellender predicted a quick agreement some members voiced a doubt that the group ever draft a satisfactory After a week of lengthy sessions in which one compromise proposal after another was rejected the conference committee had little to show for its efforts Above at left Is Franklin Pierce McCall minister's son who Is held for the der of five year-old James Bailey Cash Jr McCall led G-men to the spot at right above where the boy's skeleton had been secreted W H Baldwin of Princeton is shown pointing to the place from which the skeleton had been removed Europe In New Turmoil Over Attacks On British Shipping Elroy Democratic incumbent from Newark and O W Whitney Sunbury Republican have filed Edwin Stottsberry local crat is expected to file this after- noon for state representative Ralph Marshall Republican in- cumbent has already filed for Is office For county commissioner W R Democrat has ady filed and Fred Herron Re- incumbent was ready to ie There was also the report Black factional opposition to nomination Former Common Pleas Tudge harles F Ribble a Democrat was child before tossing him face up into a thicket Circuit Judge Arthur Gomez a special grand jury session Monday morning to consider any charges State Attorney George A Worley may bring against McCall Hoover said no federal law was in- in the case Florida vides a death penalty for ing for ransom however A jury has the prerogative of ing mercy in which case a tence of life imprisonment Is The former Jasper high school athlete was held without charge while at the FBI office A jury examined the body and the spot where it was found but adjourned until row afternoon without returning a verdict G-Men Direct Search For Missing Teacher ADRIAN eral Bureau of investigation and Michigan state police directed day search for Miss Lucille Wilson 22 pretty rural school teacher who left her farm home Tuesday ning with a man who had for n young woman to look after a four-year-old child on trip o California State trooper Robert Riddering said 02 responses were made to the advertisement and that one young woman had complained of advances mndo by the man when he interviewed her Miss Wilson's mother said her laughter promised to write In Uvo or three days but no word had received Miss Wilson was described fig nn ew York Ohio police were to assist In with descriptions of the men Isom said abducted him Titier reported the men took Isom from a restaurant and shoved him into their car after calling a damn union man Isom denied his identity and caped when the automobile ped at a home in the camp where the men sought to identify him Titler recounted Deputy Nolan said the Harlan sheriff's office received no report of the incident Isom testified several days ago that he lost his job with the lan Central company after he called before the federal granc jury which returned the against the 66 Harlan county coa corporations coal operators anc present oi former peace officer low on trial here The government accuses the de fendants of conspiracy to miners of the right to organize a provided by the Wagner act Violence Results From Labor Strike Wl Two me were beaten a truck fired and nm Refund by Senate Property o i ners in the um valley were heartened today y announcement from on Thursday which said the te approved legislation to urse residents of the Conservancy for assessments on raised flood control benefits amounting to Congressman Robert T Secres the opinion today that ie house would give the amend ment its final approval in the flood control th WASHINGTON House members expressed dissatisfaction with senate amendments to he flood control which would local contributions to the ost of property rights for They said the measure passed by he senate yesterday probably would be turned over to a nce committee as soon as the louse receives it The zes projects to cost luring the next five years but not appropriate the funds It had settled only one issue the bedrock mini- mum wage shall be 25 cents an hour No exemptions would be from that figure The southerners said they would cept a clause which would increase iie minimum to 30 cents the ond year After that boards would be ated in each industry to advance basic wage to 40 cents an hour and lower the hour maximum to 40 a week as rapidly as possible These boards could grant ex- the extent of which vided the biggest problem still be- fore the committee The southerners admitted that their list of exceptions would emasculate the seven-year clause in the wage provision They also that the boards be permitted to make tions within an industry as to the minimum wage paid by plants in one section of the country and those in another Greater progress was being made on the other 000 relief and public works A joint committee yesterday ed a senate amendment increasing the WPA allotment from to President Roosevelt had ed the increase because he said there has been no recent ment in employment The larger fund will be expected to last until next March 1 By The Associated Press Repeated attacks on Brit- ish shipping and British property along the eastern Spanish coast dovetailed today into European dis- cord which promised another week end An insurgent plane again bombed Alicante Denia and the port of Gandia dropping out of the night sky to take up unfinished business The British freighter hall bomber three days ago at cante was struck again and settled by the stern Gandia recovering from an attack two days ago was bombed once more with tion of a large warehouse and small coastal schooner Returning to the French er Brisbane at Denia still ing from a bombardment in which seven persons were killed the phantom raider dropped two more bombs The Brisbane settled to the bottom in shallow water Czechoslovakia prepared antly for her third and last series of communal elections on Sunday which already have de- the solidarity of auto- Nazis among her Sudeten German minority Reliable quarters in Paris re- ported the Czechoslovak minister to France had returned to Praha leaving word with the French that the central Euro- pean situation was delicate However despite these renewed causes for anxiety and British ex- Viscount Halifax was said to have resumed his Whitsuntide vacation n Yorkshire Although 60 British ships have been attacked and 28 seamen ed since the Spanish war started July 18 1936 and despite willingness to cooperate in ex- treme there were hints Britain would take no drastic course lest Premier Mussolini friend of the Spanish Insurgents be offended Spanish insurgent land forces were reported threatening tion of government defenses be- tween Albocacer and the ranean North of Castellon de la Plana and Valencia Canton the most bombed city in the world had a respite after 13 successive days of Japanese aerial attacks in that South China ity Far to the north Japanese land forces cut the kow railway and launched what may be the final attack on chow U.S Funds For Relief Unlikely Ohio faced today the necessity Giant Plane Falls During Heavy Storm Lightning Blamed As Ship Falls On Illinois Farm Delavan HI Eight army air corps men were killed today in the crash of a huge army bomber on the Youle farm north of here ing a brief but violent storm Miss Laura Youle said she believed the craft was struck by lightning There was an explosion debris flew in the air and the ship came down about a half mile from our she said it fell on muddy ground Wings and lage were badly torn At least seven bodies were strewn around some wearing unopened para- chutes and one was still in the plane An army bomber carrying three officers and five enlisted men was missing on a flight from Chanute field Rantoul HI to Denver Colo Air corps authorities at Rantoul would not say definitely the ed plane was the missing bomber but admitted they had been out of communication with the ship for hours Henry Houghton Delavan un- said all were in of shaving enough money from uniform The bodies were asperation over recent attacks on British shipping Foreign Secretary men jailed today in the strike of interstate motor drivers shortly after a agreement had been reached Nine men whom Chief of Police John Vechter of Wilkins township said were pickets from the AFL teamsters union were held on charges of halting an automobile and attacking two occupants A truck bound from San An- tonio Tex to Pittsburgh was set afire Union ex- pressed satisfaction with the agreement nnd the full membership of thp Western sylvania Motor Carriers tion representing the operators amendment would limit to 70 per cent of the assessment instead of 100 per cent as originally proposed The total assessment for flood control benefits as appraised in the program is mately It was said Congressman Secrest declared the amendment as passed by the senate was in line with another section of the reducing ed local contributions for flood control reservoirs from 100 to 30 per cent for property rights The appraisal roll of benefits for Zanesvillp totaled and Turn to Right summoned to voto on It late today Helen Moody Wins Cup Matches Tied WIMBLEDON KNG j Wills Moody flashing streaks of failed he said her old-time form defeated Margaret of Britain to square the Britain standing at Cop's Watch Slow So Tags Fixed PORTLAND motorists confronted man George Johnson after he had left new traffic tags for overtime They insisted they just have been Johnson he ed at his watch It was an hour slow The tags were fixed Woman Witness in Marino Case Missing YOUNGSTOWN W Jaynes of East Cleveland a state witness and one of the last persons to dep Roy Happy Marino alive has been missing for months County Detective John Callan today at the first degree murder trial of Herbert Ross of Cleveland Ross is the second of five in- men to go on trial for the Marino slaying Callan said Miss Jaynes was questioned by county officials ter Marino's body was found near East Liverpool She was released to go home on the promise she would return to testify he said Efforts to locate her since have Playgrounds Open In City Next Week Playgrounds will be opened at six city schools next Thursday cording to announcement made day by the Zanesville Playground and Recreation committee M M Shamp physical education director at Lash high school has again been placed m charge of the playground program The grounds to be operated include Mclntire park Westview Monroe Sheridan Srant and Madison Supervisors foi the various grounds selected by the city committee are Wanda Myers Betty Paisley Rita well Janet Culbertson Dorothy Leonard and Marian Nant John Brammer and Rolland Buxton will serve as assistants to Shamp in directing the work at the Carious grounds Actual assignment of the supervisors has not yet been equipment will be installed early next week and 15 workers will be furnished by WPA to assist the regular personne while the program is In operation The playgrounds wir close Aug 15 Dr E O Dennis is president o the recreation committee Other members are A S Herzer Leupold Vernon Wood and Dr W C Bateman wo Youths Hurt As Autos In a head-on automobile crash arly today on State route 75 bout two miles north of Roseville wo New Lexington youths were everely injured while a Roseville man escaped unhurt Charles Householder 20 New Lexington driver of a small coupe a crushed chest and to his body and his com- Harry Ferguson 20 ered a fractured right knee and uts to his head and body in the accident Rolland made Playground all Uily Alice Marble hari lost o England's Kay mers The woman told officials Callan said that shp met Marino at a downtown hotel and they drove to an East End cafe where he said a couple of men want to see me here She waited several hours then went bark to her hotel she said Candidates Tie With One Vote Each KNGSTON N of the election for the Republican nomination as county H C Phillips 1 Louis Cameron 1 A run-off primary probably will necessary That will entail employment of 48 poll judges And Election Board Chairman Reynold Allen WP probably wouldn't have to count more than two present revenue sources or levying new taxes to finance relief ing the remainder of the year Since this Is an election year it almost a foregone conclusion that there would be no new taxes Hopes that the federal ment would step in with direct re- lief funds and relieve them of the problem of raising from 000 to to finance care of the needy were dashed for the legislators U S Sen Robert J Bulkley and Rep Byron Hartzn said that even should congress appropriate for direct relief it was ex- tremely unlikely that Ohio would benefit under present conditions The money they said would be used to cope with emergencies caused by floods drouth and lar causes Speaker Frank Uible of the house said he believed his mal committee of twelve would have a relief gram practically completed when the legislature convened next Tuesday in the fifth week of its special session President Keith Longstreth 39 whose sedan collided with the erry county machine escaped un- lurt Sheriff Ed Redman who con- an investigation of the crash said the cars met in the middle of the highway on a slight curve The were removed o Bethesda hospital in Cannon and Cannon ambulance Roseville Hospital attendants today said he New Lexington youths were responding to treatment Both were badly damaged loot Overturns and Three Girls Drown PORTSMOUTH W Surviving brothers and sisters sorrowfully related today how the ed boat m which they were re- turning from a carefree swimming party late yesterday upset in the river and brought death to three schoolgirls Raymond 18 and Oliver Frye 15 brothers and Emma Webb 13 among the five from the overturned craft by Emma's er Charles 21 m a commandeered boat after they had floated more than a mile downstream told how jounger members of the party be- came panicky when the backwash from a motorboat struck their overloaded boat in midstream setting It Those drowned were Vernic Evelyn Frye 13 sister of the Frye boys Gladys Mane Rudd 9 a com- and Plna Mae Webb 10 who has 10 other brothers and ters besides Charles and Emma Richard Vassar 14 and Walter Hollen 14 also were rescued by Charles Webb Lawrence of the senate said a joint caucus of Democratic and lican senators would be held day or Wednesday to sketch the draft of a program if the senate committee did not bring out one before then committee after ing the entire relief situation agreed that local governments should match dollar for dollar any grants made by the state for the indigent It will meet again Monday to consider other details Meanwhile the counties whose plight is the most serious were sured funds to deal with immediate emergencies Gov Martin L Davey signed in- to law a authorizing the counties to issue relief bonds ing in anticipation of 1939 sales tax collections The state control board will locate the counties shares of the The money will be used primarily to pay relief debts to merchants and provide backing for additional cradit The governor also signed an- other authorizing cities to use surplus inheritance taxes for re- lief but the measure is expected to produce but little money for the needy The senate joined the house in demonstrating its opposition to re- ducing the 65 per cent favorable vote required for voting of local relief levies and works bonds It refused to approve the emergency clauses on two bills to cut the vote requirement Another attempt however will be made to pass the measures badly mangled he said that he was unable to determine ately if there were eight or nine The missing bomber left Rantoul at ajn CST on what cers said was a routine flight to Denver The three officers aboard were identified as Capt Richard Reeves Lieut Norman H Ives and a man listed only as Langhen Lieut O E Henderson at toul said the bomber came here yesterday from Denver where the officers and crew were stationed in a Douglas Lieutenant Henderson said a de- tail had been dispatched to De- lavan to check the Identities of the wrecked ship and its crew Plan Safety Course In County Schools A regular course In safety win be taught in the public schools of Muskingum county next fall cording to announcement made day by County Superintendent F D Ring This county will be among the first in the state to adopt a ite safety course Plans for the course are being for- by a committee composed of county high school dents G E Redman Dresden E R Gregg Chandlersville and M H Bartels Adamsville The course will include school safety street safety first aid home safety and vacation and after school safety The course with variations will be taught in all 12 grades in the county system The schools will also cooperate with the highway safety campaign now under way The primary aim of the course will be to make safety an involuntary habit with children Roosevelt Plans No Special Messages Roosevelt said today he did not contemplate any special message to the current congress urging the enactment of railroad legislation Talking to reporters at his press conference he left the impression that the question of such tion was entirely up to congress Showers showers tonight and probably Saturday morning Slightly warmer In central and west portions tonight and In east and south portions Saturday CONFISCATED state police today announced confiscation of the property of Austrian Catholic Student organizations which estimates valued at 000 Relief for Mining Towns Is Urged Imhoff ed today he was taking up with Ohio Works Progress tion officials the problem of viding adequate relief for eastern Ohio mining communities where suspended operations have left many families destitute These families need WPA work and also need garden seeds to re- place those lost last spring be- cause of rains and because of later Imhoff declared Cadiz Smithfield Florence and Bradley are among communities affected Imhoff also announced ance of an invitation to postmasters of the 18th Ohio con- gressional district and their wives at a convention Cadiz 23 City Zanesville Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Denver Detroit El Paso Kansas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Today 8 A M 66 70 66 70 66 66 56 W 70 70 58 80 64 tlon max Cloudy 83 Cloudy 88 Clear SO Cloudy 68 Cloudy 78 Cloudy 78 Rain Rain 80 Cloudy 82 TUln 76 Cloudy 76 Cloudy 66 Cloudy 86 Rain SO New Orleans 90 New York 76 Pittsburgh 78 Portland 66 Washington 82 100 Phoenix Ariz Battleford COLUMBUS Weather tions for 24-hour period ending at Atmospheric pressure U low over plains states of over Lake of the Woodi and Panhandle High the Atlantic states and the northwest Showers and thunderstorms been general in the Gulf region Central Valleys and Temperature relatively and unimportant
