Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - January 6, 1939, Zanesville, Ohio Prints the News VOL OX No 208 THE Tells the Truth THREE O FRIDAY EVENING JAN 6 CZECHS SHELL BORDER See Attempt To Steal Body Of Slain Man Murder Mystery Deepens as Sheriff Searches for Clues MARYSVILLE A possible attempt to steal the body of Clark S Hayes 28 slain on the eve of his wedding was reported today by Sheriff Homer Roosa The sheriff said that E S senior partner in an ing firm which has charge of the body frightened away about a m a man who attempted to pry open a window at the mortuary across the street from the county jail here Someone either was trying to steal the body or was looking for the wire and Roosa said The wire and can though are locked up safely in the court house Hayes body bound with copper 1 wire and tied to a rusty den milk can was found yesterday by a diver in an abandoned quarry near Summerville 12 miles north of here where Hayes worked as a clerk In the crossroads grocery store Faulkner sleeping in a room next to the body said he was awakened by the sound of one trying to force the window He was unable to furnish a tion of the intruder who escaped on foot Sheriff Homer Roosa expressed the opinion that local talent was responsible for the mysterious ing and indicated that several might be questioned soon but admitted that he had virtually no clues on which to work It's hard to say whether it was jealousy or Roosa added Col Lynn Black superintendent of the highway patrol and Sheriff Oscar George of Morrow county arrived here today and conferred with Sheriff Roosa They refused to discuss the case but there were reports that the several suspects had been narrowed down to one Coroner J M Foster returned a verdict of murder by drowning following an autopsy last night said the presence of in the victim's lungs indicated that he was alive probably unconscious when his assailant slipped his weighted victim through a hole in the ice covering water in the abandoned quarry The body to which a stone laden milk can had been attached with wire was recovered from 22 feet of water by a professional diver yesterday as a small crowd of tators watched Hayes disappearance became known Tuesday night The truck in which he delivered goods for Grocer Charles Nichols of nearby was found near the quarry Tracks in the country road indicated Roosa said that Hayes had been stopped by someone in a smaller machine A rock lay on the floor of the truck cab and there was a bruise on Hayes head Morrow 26 of York ter the and a clerk m the store with Hayes remained at the home of Hayes mother here last night too grief-stricken to see anyone Ault Pardoned by Governor Davey On TVA Board Former Senator James Pope above defeated for reelection from Idaho is President Roosevelt's choice for on the Tennessee ley Authority The president nominated Pope yesterday to fill the vacancy caused by last year's ouster of Dr Arthur E Morgan Lindy Describes Nazi Air Power Col Charles A Lindbergh has given ment officials a on Germany's air it was learned authoritatively today Army officers declined to con- firm receipt of the document but it was assumed here that bergh submitted it voluntarily The famous aviator still retains his commission in the United States army air corps reserve Letter Is Clue To Identity oi Torso Killer Cleveland Police Get Boastful Note From Los Angeles LOS letter mailed in Los Angeles and ed to Police Chief George J Matowitz of Cleveland O the sender as Ohio's torso spurred police today to search for a possible tim of the mad killer The message telling Cleveland police they can rest easy now as I have come out to southern fornia for the said the head of the writer's latest victim was buried in a gully beside a boulevard in south Los Angeles Heretofore as far as is known the mad butcher of Kingsbury Run has confined his activities to a shabby scrubby area crossed by railroad tracks and a straggling little stream at the backdoor of Cleveland's downtown district The victims in Ohio ber 12 seven males and five males and all had been skillfully dissected I felt bad operating on those people but science must read the letter a copy of which was sent by Chief Matowitz to Los Angeles police I shall astound the medical profession a man with only a D C What did their lives mean in comparison to hundreds of sick and diseased twisted Just oratory guinea pigs found on any public street No one missed them when I failed My last case was I know now the ing of Pasteur Thoreau and other pioneers Right now I have a who will prove my theories They call me mad and a butcher but the truth will out I feel it is my duty to dispose of the bodies as I do It is God's will not to let them The letter was signed X Chief Matowitz said the only theory Cleveland police had been able to develop was that a crazed killer with a flair for surgery is Turns Page For first time in history congress had a girl page when Gene Cox daughter of Congressman E E Cox of Georgia was honored by a one-day appointment WPA Asked To Show Need For Vast Sum 875 Million Dollar Request Surprise To New Congress WASHINGTON Surprised y the size of President Roosevelt's of emergency relief needs asked the WPA today to how why it wants to until July 1 An appropriations subcommittee ailed F C Harrington WPA ad- as the first witness in earings which members said be devoted to a close ex- amination of relief needs At the same time Senator said that if the ouse did not cut the proposed und there would be a d effort in the senate ions committee to do so The looks to me ike a higher rate of expenditure ban we have at present in the ace of many indications of im- proving business said Adams The president declared in a special message yesterday that the money would be required to keep on WPA rolls in ary and March with the number diminishing gradually to in June Present WPA funds he said will be exhausted at the end of this month Senator Byrnes and Rep Woodrum floor managers for relief bills said the figure was larger than they hac expected Woodrum explained he understood the request was to be for only Byrnes who has been working on a new formula for relief bution called his unemployment One Way To Catch a The C from memory by confessed he forced Grimison and his mother feS check and gave him the money theat o cash a of C Makes Plans to Observe Flood Prevention Week at large The bodies minus heads have found at various intervals during the past land police estimated they have spent in excess of in ning down possible clues Only a few of the victims have been In each case the bodies were nude although clothing was found near the torso Nazis May Try To Appease U.S informant in daily touch with highest man officials said today that Nazi hopes of bridging the gap between the United States and the reich center on next week's visit to lin of George Rublee the American director and other members of the intergovernmental committee on The Zanesville Chamber of Com- merce made preparations today to take an active part in the ob- servance of National Flood Pre- vention Week which will begin May 30 Plans for a state-wide program were outlined yesterday ing of the Ohio Chamber of Com- merce flood control committee at Columbus William A Maharry secretary of the local chamber Dies Report Brings Action and Bryce C Browning secretary of the Muskingum Watershed Con- district attended the sion Maharry announced tha he would appoint a committee ii he hear future to have charge o ie celebration here A tour of the Muskingum con district probably will b arranged as one of the highlights f the program Indications were oday that a motor caravan will be formed to tour the various dams which make up the flood network Engineers and officers familiar with the Hungarians 1 Engaged in 1 Pitched Grave Consequences Feared as Result Of Bitter Clash BUDAPEST The ian government reported today two artillery ments of the border city of Mun kacs in a pitched battle between x Czecho Slovak and Hungarian forces -j Reports of the battle cannon tanks and armored spread a wave of excitement through the nation is in i territory ceded to Hungary two months High officials of the met in continuous conference The foreign office that a strong protest had made to of Hungary's German and Italian legations Budapest had been informed Hungary waives all m Martin L Davey issued a full Pardon day for Ivan R Ault state way director convicted at Mount of violating civil service laws in soliciting employes for contributions to the Davey mary campaign fund Ault was fined and given a suspended jail term day by Judge P H Wieland of Ashland county who overruled motion for a new trial former division engineer a was indicted there bu a change of venue tc Knox county courts The two things to which I ob ject In this said the govor nor in a statement announcing th pardon are the of the prosecution and the sudden ness with which a law has been turned against goo of Ohio merely they happen to have been friend of Seventeen lieutenants in Davey unsuccessful renomination earn were indicted in Columbu on similar charges but have no been brought to trial Ault wa elevated to the highway shin several months ago Davey said the law pite his three-year residence in Eu- rope He accepted a five-year re- of the commission in the fall of 1937 Lindbergh has visited Germany well as other European various times to study aviation facilities He left Berlin Dec 22 to spend the winter in Paris with his family He had gone to the German capital in October when he ed from Field Marshal Goering the order of the German eagle one of the country's highest tions Earlier in the fall he had in- air fields and equipment Soviet Russia Eleven Russian rmen afterward accused him in a of minimizing Soviet air in order to give Prime linister Chamberlain of Great arguments for negotiating ic Munich pact The statement called Lindbergh a stupid liar a lackey and a erer of German Fascists The Foresee Revival of Reorganization court reorganization may be revived in senate hearings on Felix nomination to the supreme refugees court Although most senators ed hearty support of the liberal Harvard law professor several predicted today he would be asked for his views on the Roosevelt court rejected by the senate in In Nazi eyes the decision of the Berlin government to receive blee and his associates is a gesture of appeasement involving able German sacrifice Rublee Robert T Pell of the Washington state department and Joseph Cotton of New York are expected to make up the tion going from London to discuss plans for Jewish emigration from Germany with Field Marshal mann Wilhelm Goering head of the four-year plan and other committee together to consider possible recommendations He said iie was preparing data to support his contention that some regions had not received their fair share of WPA funds The senate and house recessed over the week-end after hearing the president's budget and relief message yesterday Legislators were busy however getting tled in their offices and making plans to push their favorite res A principal subject of the ate cloakroom conversation was Mr Roosevelt's nomination of Prof Felix Frankfurter to the supreme court It was generally agreed he would be confirmed as successor to the late Justice dozo but some senators forecast he would be asked for his views on the defeated court President Roosevelt said today the justice de- had undertaken an in- of alleged violations o the criminal statutes by Nazis Communists and certain other or in this The president told a press con ference Attorney General Murphy had informed him to this effec by letter The letter was not made pumi but Mr Roosevelt said the alleged violations were submitted to the department by the Dies committee investigating un-American workings of the dams will asked to conduct the tour Speaking programs are also being considered as features of the observance of National Flood Pre- vention Week It was announced during the committee meeting yesterday that the last congress designated the observance by resolution and President Roosevelt is expected to issue a on the sub- ity for what may happen cial statement Official advices said both had suffered casualties V In the first bombardment said a hotel a motion picture ater and r theater were struck by Slovak shells The Hungarian official n agency said a second barrage gan at p m a m Zanes ville It reported on buildings of the city which part of the award of miles of be ade to Hungary by -11 an mediation at Vienna ember 2 tion In the house controversy 1937 Frankfurter a White House ad- visor since the inception of the New Deal was appointed day by Mr Roosevelt to succeed the late Justice Cardozo He is not expected to join the court until the senate confirms his nomination Some western senators ed regret that a man from their section had not been chosen since ier's hosts on a subsequent west is not now represented on on visit denied he had reported n Russian air forces KILLED BY AUTO MEDINA IT Frank louse 78 was struck and killed by an automobile at nearby Lafayette ast night as he walked on a way State highway patrolmen exonerated Ivan Kyle of Ashland O driver of the car the court Senator Thomas said after a visit to the White House however he was sure a westerner would be ed ultimately There was speculation over whether some of the older justices soon might retire Talk centered around Justice Louis D 82 and Justice James C Warmer Saturday cloudiness nnd day rain and mild tci tion lay Max Atlanta v many years by both political parties and that it has hern a dead letter from its ment New York Taxicab Drivers End Strike YORK New drivers to work ending their three-day strike elections last Boston Cleveland Columbus Denver Del roll Duluth El Paso Kansas City Miami Medicine Hat Paul w Orleans 38 31 3B 38 man leaders Last week in London it was in- a plan for removing 000 younger Jews from Germany would be discussed German authorities hitherto have declined to receive of the Evian conference of last July which set up the in- committee to cope with Europe's tangled refugee problems Jewish and other Germany regarded Evian as a typical case of foreign with German affairs But as relations between many and the United States grew worse with each country recalling its ambassador to the other erates in the government ed on Goering to invite Rublee as a gesture showing Germany's de- sire not to let the two countries drift apart still further Nazi informants were emphatic predicting that Reichsfuehrer among Democratic members was developing over authorizing the Dies committee to renew its in- into un-American Both Republican and Democratic leaders expected the 169 licans to vote solidly for ation of the inquiry They were not certain however whether enough Democrats would join the minority in support of the ties The chief executive would not comment on reports that he op- posed a request by Chairman Dies of the committee for an additional to carry on its inquiry The committee has ex- hausted its original fund The president in response to other inquiries reported progress in formulating details of the gency defense program at a con- ference yesterday with a dozen of- from the state war and navy departments The justice department began its ject Committee members expressed the hope that Flood Prevention to quaint the public with flood con trol measures and promote a more widespread demand for additional flood prevention legislation Man Held in Fatal Tenement Blaze NEW held olds 76 but there was no public indication of their plans Several members of the senate sub-committee named to consider Frankfurter's nomination said they would not vote until hearings could be held They began a study of the appointee's past utterances in an effort to ascertain his toward the court Hitler as a further gesture of would refrain from at- tacking President Roosevelt by name in his speech to the reichstag Jan 30 sixth anniversary of his rise to power Mooney Will Fight To Free Billings San Quentin J Mooney apparently assured of a pardon tomorrow when he appears before Gov Culbert L Olson at Sacramento turned today to plans for his life outside prison walls I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life if necessary said ney to winning freedom for ren Billings too Mooney and Billings were con- of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade bombing in which 10 persons were killed and 40 injured The ants claimed they were accused investigation after Sumner Welles acting secretary of state ed to Attorney General Cummings a request from man Dies Dies asked a federal investigation to determine whether the Communist party the American Bund and other had violated federal laws by failing to register as agents of foreign principals Advised of the presidents dis- closure Dies said the justice de- investigation was a of the fact that they are now taking seriously what they previously had tried to laugh off Some administration leaders in- Mr Roosevelt have ex-convict on a charg of homicidal arson today as the pressed their investigation into torch fire which took four lives earl yesterday Although he denied the Joseph 27 was arrested Vague reports of what a number rawls in the were made to Prague Lack of ails was ascribed to poor but the Hungarian orts were considered called miles northeast of lies in a strategic region Hungarian borders come close gether two hundred miles to last lies the Soviet The frontier between V Slovakia and since the tion which was made amid tension between the two m which both were partly There has lence and charges of Hungarian radio me all other programs to give bulletins on the reported hostilities Civil telephone com- with broken and it was the city's civil would be replaced by r Hungarians said the battle v was in progress in the a and that four Hungarian cu type by Mayor LaGuardia as held as material witnesses They were Elizabeth Gelula 23 a third floor roomer who told lice a discarded Christmas tree had been used as a to set off the blaze and William Le Clair 55 whose wife perished in casualties One placed at five men Slovak armored car was re seized She Hung Up on Love The Budapest version said no were started Thursday regulars and ulars at by ian terrorists The Hungarians announces prompt liiS m m ill falsely because of their reputations as direct action labor unionists and that they were convicted on perjured testimony 22 M 48 SO 52 32 San Francisco Washington 18 Miami Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Partly Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Snow plan 52 Boston Bees Give Up Franchise in nl ERIE Erie in the Middle Atlantic j ball league was transferred today from the Boston Bees to Leo T 731 Miller president of the club of the American and the management of the Reds Miller a former Erie man who broke into baseball as owner of the S Frie franchise in the Central carrying Ducks Dangerous Unless You Duck DUNKIRK N Y feels there to be a alonK the lake shore here reading Ducks Risman found along West Lake roart with a cash in his left temple told Brooks Memorial hospital officials he had been felled in the darkness by a wild duck Political Agent Slain in India CUTTACK mob beat to death Governor Olson Democratic executive already has said he believes Mooney innocent and has declared he would an- his decision immediately after the pardon hearing No op- position to Mooney's application was expected Christmas Tree Kills 2 in Boston BOSTON tP A blaze which firemen attributed to a short cuit on a Christmas tree in a family house today resulted in the death of a mother and her step- daughter and serious injury to an- other young woman The dead were Mrs Elia 24 and Demetra Elia 15 Margaret Elia suffered a broken hip when she leaped from a activities of Dies committee Fire Truck Seat Too Hot for Fireman OKMULGEE iff Fireman O W who usually has the seat next to the driver was forced to stand on the back step on his last run An ember from a garage fire landed on scat It smoldered undiscovered until Mansel sat down for the re- turn trip to the engine house Daveys Out of Executive Mansion COLUMBUS The nor's mansion was just another vacant house today Gov Martin L Davey loaded up his personal belongings and sent them away yesterday John Bricker had not yet moved in authorities 51 II in 1029 announced the chase The Bees operated the Erie club a farm last year transferring Middle Atlantic league night pick a bargaining agent to meet with their employers John G Moore of bor board announced Workers union CIO bargaining agent for six companies Involved in t ing In other companies lated unions were TWU wiled day demanding wage a nine-hour day nnd vacations for pns Ichise here from O COLUMBUS Wenther to tinns for the hours ending at 8 a Forfeits Pay Town's Major Reginald Louis riow The fire damage was political agent of Orissa province j cd by officials at when he attempted to hall its march today on the palace of the County Rajah of An Indian officer was Injured seriously The trouble followed the arrest of several members of Prai Mandal banned political ion which demanded in- participation by the people Coroner Suicides NEW PHILADELPHIA county's coroner Albert L Balmer last midnight parked his automobile in front of an undertaker's home where his Three Captured in Narcotics Raid NEW YORK A blazing waterfront gun battle in which a policeman was wounded early day climaxed a months undercover investigation and resulted in the capture of three men and confiscation of narcotics valued at More than 50 shots were fired in an exchange between two dozen police and the trio who opened fire when they were surprised on a Brooklyn pier Patrolman James Bute of the wife was attending a card party and shot and killed himself Police harnOr squad was wounded in the Chief Emery H said today nand A radio net had been spread Justice of Peace John Polen could valleys and middle nnd soul i n os while It Is rit n P nt Plain ally warmer for more and reason for the suicide but believed the coroner been over 11 for the trio and auto- mobiles formed the trap spring when the narcotics were landed the Italian freighter Something was wrong Janet knew the moment she took down the receiver to answer her fiance What was wrong she scarcely even guessed then but before their conversation ended she had hung up on love Her story is told in a new serial that touches the heart No Time to Marry Tomorrow The region where the fighting iS occurred was formerly part of had been numerous border ties since the September crisis Hungarian military announced this afternoon that a tank a mine C pult and a heavy machine-gun been captured on Hungarian near The declared this was identified as belonging to unit of the regular army Nurse Beats Off Bedroom Intruder f negro er crept into the room of guerite Molton 29 while she lay asleep at the Parkway nurses home today and tempted to throttle her but beaten off Miss Moulton blonde nurse was found at the head of a second stairway Her flimsy was ripped at the shoulder The room gave evidence of a Investigators said Miss ton's purse and several dresses were missing from her room Vf After recovery from Miss Moulton told investigators her fight with the intruder She said she was born in Akron and was graduated from a i training school m Cleveland Richwood Man Is State Fire Marshal G GiH Richwood was named state marshal today by W Gill 56 will succeed Rockwell of Ravenna In the job which he held in 30 under Gov Myers Y Cooper A former special investigator the state utilities commission also has been an insurance matv oil man operated grain in Union and Marion counties is president of a pany m m m W m Stf k
