Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - October 16, 1939, Zanesville, Ohio Vints the News THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL Tells the Truth LX No 170 ZANESVILLE O MONDAY EVENING OCT 16 1939 THREE CENTS MAZI PLANES RAID SCOTLAND edit Clause Be Dropped om FDR ields Point in Repeal The ad- leadership in the agreed today to amend the embargo repeal to all credit to warring s nator Pittman man of the senate foreign ions committee proposed the It would wipe out bill's provision of not more than 90 This provision had been by many senators on sides of the arms embargo who contended It would provide an entering e for longer credits that t drag this country into war icr senators predicted that leaders would a further change d by Senator Taft ome others that credit to firms in belligerent nations ell as to the belligerent ents themselves be is start of the third week of debate found forces confident of victory at chamber but expressing concern over prospects in louse e senator who has been work the administration which would repeal the arms irgo and set up a title and system of wartime sales confidence that It would the senate by the end of next As for the house he s pretty close over there as it now lator Clark the pending said that favorable administration of the house membership ed a majority of only 20 for il the other hand Senator ellenbach a re- advocate said his advices the house showed that Is all right for the ad- tration for the senate administration rs were becoming uneasy over of the debate Senator said that 20 senators still seeking floor time Asking to today were Senators Clark Capper lead and ne senators who want to re- the arms embargo indicated if the chamber votes for re- they would try to restrict sales to defensive weapons suggestion has been advanced ormer President Hoover and Charles A Lindbergh lator those working on such Senator Clark on the other hand said he could see no practical way between offensive weapons lator Byrd formally out for the administration n a statement last night hat although he had differed President Roosevelt on im- nt domestic policies I edly Rive him my support in of his present foreign cs ie to Mediate ysler Strike Circumstances labor altercation stalling Icr corporation's output of cars grew more complex vhile mediators hastened to avert the threatened In the organization A Rondley and Edward of the United States of labor State M Owen and Arthur of the state board worked together in tempt to reach a settlement ice conferences were to resume after a week-end meanwhile the CIO United Those Lowell Goldfish Looked Like Carrots Keen-Eyed Boys Who Saw Contest Report Special to The Ralph Ar- baugh the goldfish eating champion of Ohio Ralph a in the Lowell schools lay claim to the title today after winning a contest which proved a light of the Lowell Fall tival Saturday A storm of good-natured controversy has developed over his gastronomical achievement however inasmuch as a few small boys in the first row claim that the fish he ate bore a striking resemblance to the common garden vegetable known as carrots Albeit the spectacle was realistic to turn the stomachs of many witnesses Young Arbaugh and the only other contestant John Simons were called to the where the widely publicized contest was to take place There in a glass bowl on the rostrum were a dozen enough goldfish swimming about in full view of the tators Spencer Kile the master of ceremonies pulled one of the finny creatures from the bowl and tossed it into the crowd to Demonstrate that thing was open and above board He repeated the a couple of times by Continued on Page 14 Local Educator May Be U.S Conference Speaker Dr Pugh Invited to Tell of Course Here Dr Jesse J Pugh supervisor of civic education in the public schools today was invited to speak at the annual tional Conference on Government to be held Nov at polis The conference which will at- educators and municipal of- from all parts of the try will have as its theme ing for Self Government An on civic matters Dr Pugh prepared the course on civics which is being taught in the ninth grade at the three Zanesville junior high schools and in the senior class at Lash high school The unique course was originated by Clay public relations director of The Zanesville ing company and Kenneth C Ray superintendent of the schools Essentially the course is aimed to acquaint the pupils with all phases of local activities in order that they may compare them in- with those in other ies Through this means it is hoped that the knowledge thus gained will inspire them to seek a remedy for the shortcomings of their own community Dr Pugh has been a resident of Zanesville for several years He formerly served as civics instructor at Grover Cleveland Junior high school He holds three degrees in cation bachelor of arts master of arts and a Ph D from Ohio State university He also attended Ohio university for two years In tion to his work as a teacher Dr Pugh also has written many cles dealing with civics Man Fatally Injured Special to The CALDWELL Dade 70 retired farmer of Dexter City was fatally injured Sunday night when struck by an automobile while walking on State Route 21 one mile north of Caldwell The driver of the car George Sloan of Byesville was ated of blame by Noble county authorities and the state highway patrol following an investigation Moreland died from a skull ture internal injuries and a broken right leg a few minutes after being admitted to Thompson hospital here He was taken at once to the hospital in Sloan's car Three witnesses Paul of Cambridge and the Misses Betty Morris and Faye Ulry of Caldwell all testified that land had walked into the path of Sloan's machine state police said Sloan was traveling to Marietta accompanied by his wife and Miss Epler of Marietta Surviving Moreland is one son Clement of the residence The body was removed to the Hoadley funeral home at Dexter City DR J J PUGH Body is Found But Lost in Lake Again TOLEDO Deputy sheriffs left today with fishermen to Thc Finnish envoy Dr Juho for n body believed to be that Paasikivi returned to last by special train Turkey Hears Reds at Border Turkey made feverish military preparations today on the strength of reports that Soviet Russia was massing troops in the Caucasus on the ders of Turkey and Iran It was learned on good authority that Foreign Minister now engaged in diplomatic discussions in Moscow had refused three major Russian recognition of the partition of land formation of a neutral kan block under the aegis of sia and Germany and territorial expansion of Russia and Bulgaria at the expense of Rumania Saracoglu was said to have pointed out to the Soviet leaders that Turkey could mobilize nearly men and to have agreed to maintain Turkish neutrality only if Great Britain and France should fight Russia If Italy should join Germany against the allies Turkey would side with Britain and France Saracoglu was said to have told the Russians NORWAY ORDERS TROOPS TO FRONTIER re- here from Oslo said Norway had ordered troops to go today to her Finnish border At that point Norway is close to Soviet Russia whose demand for concessions from Finland is to be the subject of a conference of Scandinavian kings starting here The Norwegian port of Narvik an outlet for Swedish iron exports and a frequent port of call for man ships before Great Britain began her sea patrol is in the far northern area MAY COMPROMISE Soviet Russia's for her hand in eastern Europe struck a slower pace today with foreign circles anticipating merely com- promise agreements with Finland and Turkey and speculating on possible future Russian moves in the Balkans Driver Fined After Fatal Auto Crash Youth Held for Probe of Accident Near New Concord Charles Holmes 20 of near New Concord arrested last night after his automobile figured in a sion in which Warren B Baugh man well known New Concord business man was instantly killed and five others were injured pleaded guilty in municipal court today to operating the machine without a driver's license and was fined and costs The youth is being held at city jail pending further investigation of the crash According to state highway the accident occurred on the gravel road about a mile and a half north of New Concord on the New way Holmes told the investigating officers that Baughman's car skidded sideways through a vert and struck his car headon The Holmes car overturned in a ditch while Baughman was found beneath his automobile Baughman died of a fractured skull and a punctured heart cording to Muskingum County Coroner Ray McDaniel Others injured Mrs Baughman cuts and bruises her son Charles Betty Milner 18 of New Concord broken nose and bruises and Miss Ethel Rankin 18 also of New Con- cord possible fractured jaw and other injuries Holmes escaped with minor bruises Miss Milner and Miss Rankin passengers in the Holmes car were treated at St Francis pital Cambridge and later were removed to their homes Funeral services for Baughman will be held at 2 o'clock day afternoon at the New Concord Methodist church with Rev Eu- gene Mansfield officiating Burial will be at New Concord The body will remain at Mock funeral home New Concord until Wednesday afternoon The casket will not be opened at the church Mr Baughman was well known in New Concord and for the past 25 years had been manager of the New Concord Enterprise Continued on Page 14 one of the three fishermen missing on Lake Erie since Oct S WPS found yesterday and tied to a net buoy He expected back but possibly AFL Door Remains Open for Typos 79.000 members of the International Union one of the est affiliates of the American of Labor found themselves out of the AFL today but with the door held open for their return As a result of the long refusal to pay a per capita tax to fill a war chest against an drive by the rival the Congress of Industrial the union was officially suspended yesterday by the AFOL executive council The council however in ing President William Green to notify the state federations and city councils of the suspension did not require them not until after the meeting of ITU locals immediately kings and council announced that the Thc body found four miles nish p r e s i dent Wednesday in matter would be discussed further off Locust Point Sunday by Louis Stockholm and Chariot Unofficial reports said a meeting ir January in Miami sources close to the executive nobilo Workers went ahead 53 both of Port Clinton O They j refusing to be drawn into the predicted no more drastic strike authorization it to a net buoy and orbit as have Estonia Coos Way Toward Film Fame Meet Hollywood's After 77 other babies had been turned down Peter B Good landed job in Brother Rat and the Baby He has made such a hit in the studio that third Brother Rat story is being written for him Nationally Known Telegrapher Formerly of Zanesville Dies Frank H Betz 69 of Pittsburgh former Zanesville resident and one of the best known news ers in the United Slates died day in a Pittsburgh hospital lowing two weeks illness of monia He was a telegraph operator for more than a half century and had Search for Head Of Torso Victim NEW CASTLE booted state police and county de- sloshed through the der swamp at nearby West burgh today in search for the head of a man police said might have been slain by Cleveland's mad butcher of Kingsbury Run The victim's body decapitated and partially burned was first thought to be that of a woman when discovered Friday but an autopsy revealed it was a man in liis twenties A few pieces of clothing partly turned furnished the only clues to iis identification Motor Policeman Robert If we can find the head there is a chance we may identify the victim As it is now we have nothing to work on because we couldn't get fingerprints Wads of newspaper had been burned in the clenched fists of the man to obliterate his fingerprints Detective Peter of land said the killing resembled in some respects the 12 torso murders a colorful career in railroad nance and newspaper work Funeral services will be held at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening in the mortuary burgh after which the body be brought to this city where tional rites will be held at the grave in Greenwood cemetery The body is expected to arrive here about o'clock Wednesday and the services will be in charge of Rev S R Martin pastor of C o b u r n Methodist church Surviving are his widow erva Betz of the a ter Mrs Lamar Williams Allison Park Pa and a son Frank H Jr of Plainfield N J head of the New Jersey state banking ment Mr Betz was a son of the late Fred and Molly Betz and was born at Rix Mills in 1870 After ing elementary school there he learned telegraphy in the B and O offices at New Concord and wich and later became Morse op- on The Zanesville Times Re- corder Leaving Ohio in the early he went east where he worked for brokerage firms and newspapers in Washington and New York He served as chief operator on the New York Globe and later on the New York Times he received the now famous peace message of Lloyd George British premier er the armistice in the first World For the last 38 years he had been a telegraph operator on the Pittsburgh Lithuanian Troops March Into Vilna in the Ohio city during the past three vears New Castle is about KAUNAS Lithuanian various Chrysler locals with Sheriff James O'Reilly of Lithuania would concede er- ic Dodge plant local already county when they reached Baltic islands for Russian iru 11 c Latvia action would be such as withdrawing thc support of the entire AFOL membership from d on n walkout i as nt the Dodge plant where over assembly line bocan 6 and affected units In Chrysler until of new cars virtually 1 plant IA search was made all night bases but would balk at a the ITU label the body and buoy but neither military alliance or concessions on could be found i the strategic Jobless Soda Cleric Admits Mercy of Stepson UAW announced it had voted 11 to 1.324 to authorize the s executive board to call throughout the of a Mid is an T a inmal of a county predicted unemployed voda accused tal He said The AFL convention which closed Friday denied seats to the six ITU delegates who came to it although thc federation had re- turned the ITU check for regular dues Council sources ventured that thc ITU elections next May its altitude and pave thc way for re-turn to federation id A fm him he had influenced i Fliers Still Aloft Setting 100 miles from Cleveland But the only important arity we have to EO on so far is the fact that the head was cut off and concealed said David L les superintendent of the land police identification bureau How Long Did it Take Him to Reach police up to fur shop and 10 answering alarm piled out with they started to break in man from thr erine croud all richt he no burglar in I turned in the alarm to sec how lone it would the police to get here troops today commenced ing into Vilna ancient Lithuanian capital now restored to this try under its mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia At Least Two Bombers Are Brought Down and Others Driven Off By British Fire British Naval Objectives Believed To Be Target of Bombing Mission Nazis Claim Another Warship Damaged bombing planes brought Eur- war to Scotland for the first time since hostilities today sweeping over Edinburgh in an attempted attack on British naval bases and other coastal objectives and two or three of their number in the process One indicated that the immediate object the attack was the famous bridge across the Firth of where he reported that a number of bombs were dropped The railway bridge across the Firth one of the best known in the world was erected in 1890 at a cost of The bridge has two spans with a total length of feet An official announcement de- scribing one of the most dramatic chapters of the war to date merely said that Royal Air Force planes had inflicted casualties upon the attackers But told of Nazi planes over Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth with A F fliers and anti-aircraft guns finally re- pelling them after spirited combat The attack came hard on the sinking of four more merchant vessels by submarines and a claim in Berlin ignored in London that a U-boat had attacked and damaged the giant British battle cruiser Repulse One of the attacking planes was reported to have been brought down eight miles south of burgh The sound of anti-aircraft fire was clearly audible in the ancient Scottish city at 3 p m some pieces of fell in the streets but no civilian casualties were ed Strangely enough no air raid alarm was sounded in Edinburgh Kenneth Ross a agricultural student told a story of the attempted I was driving along the of the Firth of he said when I heard the sound of I stopped my automobile at the door of a roadside inn proprietor excitedly ran out t urged me to take shelter He too had heard the guns I took his advice and went side at first but later came again to see what was It was then that I noticed two grey monoplanes coming from direction of the West Forth bridge The planes swept across fg bridge dived and dropped bombs and then passed on Soon afterward they dropped more bombs then climbed and appeared at high speed No bombs struck the bridge however it was asserted One German plane flew low the district near burgh and apparently gunned ground objects One report said that in addition to the two Nazi craft brought down in Fifeshire a third plunged M into the Firth of Forth Germans Claim Repulse Giant British Warship Hit by Torpedo BERLIN CP The supreme army command said today that the same submarine which sank the British battleship Royal Oak also scored a torpedo hit on the cruiser Repulse The submarine was said to have reached the safety of German wa- ters and a report from her com- mander was expected soon The Repulse commissioned in 1916 was reconstructed in 1936 at a cost of about displaces tons and has a complement of to men Heavier than the Royal Oak which was sunk day the Repulse carries six inch guns 20 four-inch guns in- eight for eight torpedo tubes among lesser armaments She carries Jas craft with The German command ly was preparing to close its on the Polish Jts today announced with completion of occupation the German zone in it would cease east The war in the west it reported still was inactive with skirmishes and artillery fire The communique French had been forced by floods to don a small fortification along Rhine river British Report Flights Over Germany Ignore Nazi Claim of Damage to Warship Ifl officials reported today the Royal Air Force made a successful reconnaissance over Germany last nigHt but de- to comment on a German announcement a torpedo had aged the battle cruiser Repulse The air ministry said British planes had flown over northern and central Germany The an- did not say whether they had encountered any tance An admiralty In an- swer to a query regarding claims on the Repulse said would not go to the trouble of all these reports At the same time naval ers predicted the new German marine offensive which Royal Oak to the bottom and de- three Allied merchant v sels over the week-end would quickly brought under control Allies Search for After Sinking of 3 Passenger Vessels INS tion of the allied hunt for man submarines was anticipated today after a new wave of U-boat activity sent three passenger sels to the bottom with a loss of 15 lives Victims of the submarine at- tacks which were carried out with cs well as torpedoes were the French passenger vessels tagne a ship the ton and the British ship von Four hundred men women and Vilna once again will become j children survivors from the two the capital of Lithuania after the occupation is complete it was ex- French ships many of whom had been swimming in the ocean after shells the lifeboats were Lithuania lost Vilna when up by British warships and city was seized in 1921 by Poland j lo Later most of It was occupied by Soviet troops to London when the latter invaded Poland thc ships were following the German invasion Later when the agreement was arranged fired on after the commanders re- fused to supply the with In addition to the 15 killed on anian territory the guns Under the pact Lithuanian will The and retain Vilna whether or not the j Louisiane were sunk early with Russia is day in the same of the At- when It expires 15 years hence indicating all three attacks Bravery May Save Boy From Leg Amputation Six Ohio Electric Firms Seek Merger companies applied Jo the slate utilities com- today for authority toj KANSAS Leon merce into a new firm lo a courageous known as Ohio Electric and boy smiled way right out under the His ICE m the Chrysler locals would follow of the next few jn bathtub raised Iho his deed by readme Park local death here Joday for last of the chloroforming of a strike time within a year crippled Raymond 33 four per cent first Patrolman Walter Mirt by hus father Louis aim accomplished A in swi stepfather Lawrence 40 an elevator Daniels 25 of Muncie and cent preferred and nc and disheveled stepped was released yesterday in F Baxter 23 of Richmond in one dollar par common who in an effort lo sol a his badly to him in Union Square hail tee I coons who had rushed him to an ner President iAr i JQ nim in j Robert told him world's endurance record for all Thc application was filed by amputate now president of Switzerland killed my the of his of airplanes Ohio Midland Light and Leons will hl< home here Sunday He TOv because he was groaning and son They equaled at o'clock last company of Onal I afraid he was coins as an art of thc 343 hours 46 minutes Portsmouth company of Alfred Leon helps his father to Berlin like his mother HTIO which Huntor and Humphrey Portsmouth General on a farm near the World war I tied and feet with A similar was in Moody the licht plane and the Ohio 20 from here Saturday tube It look almost two hours for workmen blow torches and tools to free him ly he smiled lh tears Je winced from pain but was comforted by his mother's His left Ice was terribly and both were crushed After he finally was coons sped him to an operating room Then they noticed brave his determination to be a man for the operation may have been carried out by ttw same submarine A German U-boat also ly sent a fourth ship the ton French merchantman uet to thc bottom The Continued on Page 14 IN AIR PROGRAM WASHINGTON pation of Ohio Northern sity in the civilian pilot training program had the approval today of the civilian aeronautics ity The Ada O school was to be approved leaving about more to complete contemplated list Fair and Colder Fair and northwest portion and silently rr In extreme south portions tonight Tuesday City 32 Om 60 -2 Atlanta TO Boston Jl 49 Pt Goody -38 Cincinnati Denver Detroit sz El Kanus Oty 3 ffi Paul New Orleans York Portland Iss They room and him back to his N D 12 COLUMBUS Weather for 24 beam a XL Areas ol tral the middle Atlantic relatively bartender the Great Lakes Fair with but four on a attempt to from 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