Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - July 7, 1945, Zanesville, Ohio I A THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL 56 ZANESVILLE O SATURDAY EVENING JULY FIVE CENTS PRINTS THE NEWS TELLS THE TRUTH Court as Judge Terms Rival Faction Usurpers Rodman's Election Is Held Weber May Appeal The Muskingum county Democratic executive tee headed by Fred L Bohn today was declared legally in power by Judge Clifford L Belt of Belmont county who labeled the members of the rival faction here as Belt who heard the dispute in the local common court on May 14 today made permanent a temporary injunction granted April 25 holding that the faction headed by Bernard G arid William L Weber has no local right to art The faction had railed a special meeting the executive committee at which E Rodman former sheriff was ed chairman to succeed Bohn Judge decision represented n victory for the faction of the party with which Clarence A ham veteran Democratic leader has been identified Some political observers the outcome of the case as a reverse for the political ambitions of Redman who has been rd frequently as a possible date for mayor of Zanesville this fall The court in a opinion Clerks of Courts Kenneth upheld the principle that Akron Strikers Return Access Road to New Airport Is Assured Hi 1 i Japan Is Ripe Invasion Says General Touch Off New Fires in Heavy Attack NBA Strikers return to work on the early year Tire an guards stand by plant in Akron by the Navy tial order to end long strike no position rson should be deprived of a provided for by law This means public or just cause i ho judge pointed out that no one should be removed without being with the charges against him and being given an iiy to explain and defend himself such charges Judge contended that t h f Weber faction's move on April 14 to dissolve the regular elected executive committee and the of a new committee was not a legal action Commenting or this the judge vud that if the law were wise an executive committee could hr removed at will and without notice and there could not be any semblance of organization Belt also said in his ion that the faction attempting to justify its action in naming a new committee evidence to the effect that a non- ballot the plaintiff 01 some members of the committee counseled member of the party to vote for a Republican was a judicial the opinion said which under the law is in all respects Further evidence was offered tending to show that a letter was mailed signed by Fred Bohn man of the executive committee advocating votes for one or more members of the Republican party who were candidates for office in a municipal election in on a ticket The faction con- these acts were On this score Judge Belt said Memorial Park At Seneca Lake Funds for the establishment of a recreation park on Seneca Lake 12 miles northeast of Caldwel were assured yesterday t h r o u g 11 appropriation of for the project by the Ohio legislature The will be located on a site on the southwest sids of the lake It will be known as the Ohio Soldiers Memorial Park facilities will be provided and work is expected to begin soon In addition to the state Noble county have earmarked foi adequate roads to the park and in the park proper The acreage was turned over to the state by the Muskingum Conservancy district two months ago through the efforts of Rep George McKee of Noble C Browning of New Philadelphia secretary of the con- HONOLULU The Japanese home islands are wide open for American Toys Fascinate Girl on First Trip to U.S invasion and district recently ced that postwar plans call for broad expansion of playground and recreation facilities out the district 5th Army to Be Broken Up Soon By SID CASERTA eran Fifth army which battled up the Italian boot from the Salerno shinbone to the Tyrolean kneecap is about to be broken up By next February five of its division and both its mental combat teams will have been sent back to America The division will lead the movement back home starting in August This division hich underwent 14 months com- at duty in Italy will be the first service division in the S army to be deactivated Fifth rmy headquarters announced Headquarters gave this lineup of he disposition of the division with more combat ime against the enemy than any ther outfit to be redeployed to he United States and placed in reserve for possible service division to be deactivated the United States can move in any time with no trouble at all in the opinion of the new commanding general of the marines in the Pacific Lt Gen Roy S Geiger back from the Okinawa wars where he led the Third amphibious corps asserted victory could be won only by the invasion that the cans would be met by men and women civilian fighters but all that won't be any worry to us It's only a question BOW of wading in and finishing this war He told a press ence here yesterday upon his arrival to take over as marine commander from Lt Gen land M Smith A different view was taken at Okinawa by Gen Joseph W well commander of the U S Tenth Family Froed From Japs Visits Horo Life in the Philippines was full of unusual experiences for year-old Eleanor Harvey but it was not until May when she ar- rived in the states that she saw snow and the first robin of spring familiar sights for every American child living in this tion of the nation Eleanor and her parents Rev and Mrs Benson Harvey are ting at the home of Mr and Mrs George R Nichols of 326 ine avenue while enroute east The parents were missionaries in the Philippines for 19 years Rev that the court knows nothing of the motives which inspired such art ion They may have been un- worthy motives or such action may have been a display of the highest type of citizenship but whatever the motive no member nf the committee was confronted with any charges before being re- moved or given an opportunity to defend Summing up his opinion Belt held that the of the central com- on April 14 and that HIP successors of ousted cers and committee members lire usurpers and have no right to serve in the tions to which they were ed Graham A Graham represented Bohn while William Weber Carl Funk and Ralph Marshall served as attorneys for the rival faction Weber said today that the case probably would be appealed Meanwhile today's court ruling is expected to result in the pointment soon of a successor to Mrs George Aitken as a member of the county board of elections Secretary of State Edward J Hummel had held up the ment pending the outcome of the court case Wayne Dudley former city cilman has been endorsed for the post by the Bohn faction while the rival Redman committee voted its support to G F Stockum of Ot- sego Troops to Get More Pullmans WASHINGTON Mounting complaints of redeploying troop iding dav coaches on long trans continental trips may lead to add drastic restrictions on CIMI ian rail travel An Office of Defense tation spokesman said furthe action mav be necessary if a new orde transferring 895 sleeping cars from civilian to military use proves insufficient The sleeping car transfer will result an ODT order last night withdrawing all sleeping car for civilians between cities Harvey was held by the Japanese in an internment camp for a year and a half while the child and her mother were prisoners for eight months Eleanor would not be over- whelmed at receiving lessons from a Viennese dancing instructor be- cause she has done that but it is a trip to an American toy shop that completely fascinates her She had never seen such Eleanor who army an IJ t Pointing out the terrain of Jap- is much like that of rugged Okinawa Stilwell It took us three months to cap- ture this island so I am making no predictions concerning the length of the war except to say it may be a long one after return home division now guarding German prisoners in Italy to be deactivated after return home division which entered com- bat here last July to be ed to the Pacific by way of the States division to be returned to First armored division veterans of African and Italian campaigns already moved to Germany as part of the occupation force Tenth mountain division serving as occupation force in Trieste area for time being regiment of Japanese Americans to he returned home and placed in tactical reserve By The Associated A British task force li mines out of the in- vasion seaway leading to the Malay peninsula and Singa- pore Tokyo radio reported day Tokyo said a tank force of 16 warships including two craft carriers yesterday be- gan clearing mines out of waters southeast of Car bar island 300 miles north of This is on the in- vasion route to the Malay peninsula Japanese are non essential civilians from the Singapore naval base at the tip of the peninsula in anticipation of an invasion fires touched off by about 600 blazed through five Jap- anese cities today adding major ul things until sne came Her vocabulary contains words hat would not only be unfamiliar o American children but to alike Her daily afternoon nap is a and the iving room is sala Rev who has visited relatives in this city many times since his childhood spent 19 years n the Philippines and was Canon missionary of the Christ at Manna lor years The Japanese will not give up until they are as badly beaten as the Germans and we will be if this war is over in a the missionary said Rev Harvey said that although we may disrupt the entire Japanese mainland it will be a huge task to get the enemy troops out of China Food was scarce in the Japanese prison tamps and they on cocoanut milk and for cooki The Harveys and will trav and New Yor make their h where Rev charge they will ret pines as soon mil Major to Stick Army Officer Embra At Rt union in Connt BRIDGEPORT Conn after he and Imogene I ried at Alliance Neb Parati 3d promised to stick by h superior court charges of m a young sailor on June 23 at The major and his wife were re united last night at the county jail where she is by Wife ig Sailor ccs Wift Prison Twenty months to the umas Funderburg were Major G Stevens is wife as he prepared to face in the slaying of Killing DETROIT arreste naw Mich mysterious ki ers Berridge Frank toda Pascarella a here year-old wa spurned his t She stood her Pascere ed to use many more of the local the island using to make butter ig purposes will leave July 17 in Pennsylvania k They expect to a parish However arn to the as conditions per State Begins Survey Here Next Week County to Pay of Cost To Bo Built in Fad A hard surfaced access road to the new municipal port east of Zanesville today following a conference at Columbus attended by zum county and Mayor William G son The slate highway department will begin surveys early next week in order to prepare before advertising for bids It is hoped to start work in tember and complete the project late this fall Thp county's share of the project is and the state is to heap he balance of the expense and oil re- regiment home and placed to be returned in tactical re- 450 miles or less apart The order J effective at noon July 15 Earlier ODT had reduced from 30 to 5 days the period m which civilians may make passenger train step ed to clear the rails as much as sible for the flood of troops ing from Europe Soldiers complained of being forced to make long journeys on dav coaches while German and Italian prisoners rode Pullmans The war department explained in one such incident German ers were all mental patients being transferred to a New pital All Italian prisoners getting an the army said are sick or disabled men in cess of being The and divisions and the regiment are scheduled to leave for the U.S in September The division will leave in October the in December and the regiment in February Evacuation Planes Stop Here Overnight Two new Piper four-place planes said to be the first off the assembly line at en Pa stopped overnight at Com- merce airport on the Frazeysburg road The planes known as are equipped by engines and are built to a pilot co-pilot observer and a litter for the wounded Two army men Lt Wilbur Price and Lt Jack Taylor piloted the planes They took off this ing for inery area to the 126 square miles of industrial Japan already As Jubilant airmen returning from today's predawn strike told of gigantic conflagrations that had lighted the 21st reconnaissance photo graphs showed five additional square miles burned out in recent strikes on five other cities They were Kure Himeji on Honshu island and Kochi on Shikoku This makes the 126 square mile total Additionally an engineering works was wrecked and an oil re- held in lieu of bond for the slaying of Albert Kovacs 39 of South Norwalk I intend to stick by my said Stevens at a short interview n the office of High Sheriff ward A Plate at the jail As he tight finery damaged Another major oil refinery hit today in perhaps the largest raid of war blazed through the like a terrific tropical of the clouds sunset The greatest blaze lighted by the Superiors tons of in- and high explosives was in Japan's largest aluminum ducing center spoke he held his wife in embrace Mrs Stevens faced reporters and photographers with apparent re- Her back was turned when the interview started but she turned and faced the ing her husband's arms around her Soon she was chatting and smiling with him It was 20 months ago today that we were married wasn't it She asked her husband That's right it was he re- plied Stevens who arrived at the jail unaccompanied refused to com- ment on the case or on plans for raising the necessary money to his wife's release from the jail Series of Jap Plots on Life Of Sen MacArthur Revealed 1 SHAEF to It Dissolved Soon ters Allied Expeditionary Force will be dissol ved anr the combined command of the Allied ary forces will end on or about 13 SHAEF announced today Gen Eisenhower will have re- from the United States by and the delay will give him chance to nay farewell to his and it was explained revealed today that a series of daring and carefully planned Japanese attempts to assassinate Gen Douglas Arthur have been foiled in re- cent months Specially trained Japanese civilians and soldiers were sent into Manila to seek out and kill the chief rtf U S army forces in the Pacific The Japs had hand ades concealed on their sons and all were caught and executed as spies The enemy spies were sent to the capital from the town of Montalban about 30 miles northeast of Manila ban was the place where they were given hasty training at an improvised spy school The school was conducted by a Jap intelligence officer from ila's notorious Fort Santiago This Jap officer fled from Manila after the American into the city and took with him civilians whom he later trained in espionage Although some of the spies succeeded in reaching Manila they were quickly fd and none came close to his mission troops killing Japanese at the ratio of 13 to 1 struck today for ern Borneo's richest oil fields after a whirlwind five-day invasion thrust that conquered Balikpapan its vital harbor and two ing air bases The invasion's first phase ended Thursday with a drive across the bay three miles northwest of Balikpapan w hich knocked out gun positions that might have free use of Balikpapan s ex- port With their backs to Borneo s jungles the Japanese falling back toward the big and mirinda oil fields northeast of Balikpapan had the prospect of meeting head-hunting Dyaks and venomous snakes whenever they desert the coast for the interior Tomorrow's will contain many outstanding tures and pictures 1 A story by Norris F Schneider about the historic Henry Mathews house on Woodlawn avenue the portico of which has been described as a example of Greek Doric architecture 2 An illustrated story of Ray F Fletcher business ager of The Portsmouth Times who describes plastic surgery miracles performed at the army's Wakeman General pital 3 An appraisal of the ed Nations Charter by Viscount Cecil one of the framers of the League of Nations nant 4 An aerial view of new municipal airport 5 Another story by Virginia Beall Woodward on gum county's food supply and distribution in wartime 6 A of the first week at Boy Scout Camp Zane today confessed the killing of Marie Assistant Schemanske an- admitted under she up and I killed was quoted as ig in the announced The body of Mrs Berridge from her husband since 942 was found June 29 under he bed in her boarding house oom by her landlady The killing ook place three days earlier Schemanske said Pascarella told ovv he met Mrs Berridge on a lind date two months ago and made plans with her to go to Fair and Moderate fair with erate temperature today and Sunday Sunny and pleasant today fair tonight Sunday in- creasing cloudiness probably lowed by rain in south portion It's a rollicking laugh feature in which the pet peeves of ou enlisted men are arid caricatured by a man who is on the ground Ma rine Sergeant The boys m th Pacific have been reading it fo many months in THE LEATH ERNECK magazine of the Ma rine Corps With them it's popular You too wi enjoy following BED CROSS HEADQUARTERS has been selected as the forwar headquarters for the American Re Cross in Europe government has not agreed to participate Plans call for the tion of a pavement for a distance of a little more than one mile from the airport to the National highway The proposed direct route which the city of Zanesville JOM obtained rights-of-way has been described as unsuitable because Of the excessive amount of grading required As a result it is planned to the road a short distance to east No part of the present winding and inadequate country road will be utilized The road will reach the airport in the administration center the necessity for biles to cross one of the airport runaways Several ambulance planes ng wounded en route to Fletcher have landed daily at this week Construction f a new access road to the tMa will shorten the ambulance rom the field to The present gravel road to airport is narrow and filled with curves The gum county engineer's office am kept busy so far this ner in an effort to the ace as smooth as possible Although the engineers credited with doing a good he road is considered unsatisfactory Gov Frank J Lausche recently expressed a personal interest MI the problem here and directed tht state highway department to leiw ts cooperation Yesterdays con- between local officials ana department men in was the result ona He said she stood me up on heir date Sunday.June 24 related and on the day of he killing he again suggested ng to Arizona Mrs answer wa Look I'm not going anywhen with the assistant said Then Pascarella told him h seized her and they she threatened to tut police She opened her mouth to and I grabbed her by the Schemanske said the youth declared We fell across the bed She was trying to break loose but I held on I was just trying to keep her from yelling She stopped struggling and her mouth started to bleed I put my handkerchief in her mouth to stop it Pascarella told of then tidying up the room pushing Mrs ridge's body under the bed and changing his clothes and fleeing to Flint He stayed there two days and went on to Saginaw Ambulance Plane Is Delayed Here By Wayfaring Patient It Starts Monday One of the ambulance airplanes which landed at the municipal airport yesterday was delayed here more than an hour while army officers up a wayfaring When the plane landed to discharge patients for Fletcher General hospital at Cambridge the soldier who was being en to a hospital in the ern states was granted mission to rest in an army bulance parked nearby Shortly after the soldier made himself comfortable driver hopped in and the bulance headed for Cambridge Reached later through the Red Cross Fletcher hospital was notified that the lance had an extra man aboard He was promptly returned to the airport but before the plane took off to complete iU flight the soldier remarked that the ride was enjoyable Thirty three here by the two planes were taken to the pital Meanwhile two navy landed at the local field this morning To Arrest Drivers Exceeding 35 MPH fl Col Mingle superintendent of the highway patrol warning that hio traffic accident rate is g too fast had ordered en to arrest speeders and report heir names to the OPA Mingle said there was a 10 ptr ent increase in accidents in May ver April Mingle reminded the public that he federal speed limit of 35 milw n hour still is in effect and headed for vacation and and park resorts are the violators y they do not seem to realize heir tires and in many brakes are not too good If ers won't worry about their necks then the police will have do it for them Churchill Soos Quick Liberation of All CUlM Churchill predicted today thti day s not far distant when nest will be driven from all nese territory r This message to Chiang Shek was made public Churchill departed for f France where his hopes to have a few fore attending the Churchill all with the to final victory in the message marked of the war and Japan
