Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - September 9, 1927, Zanesville, Ohio infantile Paralysis Situation Here Not Alarming Says Inspector From Health The Goal For Which We serve the People Record tlie Truth Uphold the Eight and Point the Way to Progress All the News All the Activities of the World and Events In Your Home Community At Door Each Morning I yOL XLIII NO 215 ZANESVILLE OHIO FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1927 today and Saturday warmer TROIT OVE Two Physicians Testify r That Accused Man Is Insane Murder Victim Widow And Son INFANT SCO ls For ORE INFECTION ANOTHER ATTEMPT FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC STATE TO INTRODUCE REBUTTAL Defense Rests At field Without er Taking Stand O Sept Roe on trial here for the murder of Dent Wehr is insane according to testimony of two physicians Dr D L Walker St and Dr H P Gillespie Woodsfield the last for the defense this afternoon At the conclusion of the mony of the two physicians the defense rested its case without Roe on the stand The doctors testified of having ined Itoe in the county jail and In the court room by observation and in their estimation they be- lieve the accused is insane Immediately after the defense had rested the attorneys for the t began examination of rebuttal witnesses Tho state still retains Dr F C Wagenhals of Columbus nerve specialist and may use his testimony Friday morning presumably to lish Roe is sane and fully responsible for the crime The state may conclude testimony in rebuttal Friday morning and with arguments of attorneys consuming the jury may be charged Predictions are freely made that the jury wil not take long to reach a verdict Roe Roe is taking no apparent interest in the trial sitting sullenly by his v as the trial progresses Roe wife of the defendant -.5 on the stand tills morning and testimony describing her nds queer actions following a 1 i accident in which he sustained -a lily bruised head causing at the nose long afterwards 6 declared Roe cried all one night that was pecking his window at midnight and that ther Wears were on the porch ill him Residents of this city and vicinity re still talking of the effect of i of Mrs Howard Roe mother of Uhe defendant at the Wednesday sion of the trial declaring it one of the saddest scenes yet enacted in the proceedings she testified as only a mother can for a wayward son Her mony was sincere and frank with malice toward none and for all concerned She was permitted while on the to extend her heartfelt sympathy to Mrs Wehr and son She told oC the great change that came over her son following the dent at the sawmill In 1925 when a belt broke and hit him on the head rendering him un- conscious She wept frequently during her testimony as did many of the Prosecuting X 9 W R Johnson of the Inspection from six to 10 years bureau of the state department of f smile paralysis far more seldom than health who has been making younger children mid those above in localities infected with j that age are less and less likely to paralysis was In the city have it until at the age of 20 the is rare indeed although Health Commissioner Dr James adults have been known to nine it O'Neal does not consider the local conditions at all alarming Dent Wehr for Clayton E is on trial at Woodsfield Wehr and their SDH Charles 9 and witnesses against Rce having been clubbed and the boy having witnessed the attack on his father and mother Opinions of Physicians Is Infantile paralysis In- What can be done to pre- vent contracting the Nearly a score of Zanesville's best none of whom wish to be Quoted however agreed almost ex- when asked these They believe it is more in- than contagious but that it far less communicable than whooping cough or any of ie more common contagious diseases Is Not Contagious Dr Conrade proprietor of Magnetic wrings Delaware who has had wide as a practicing physician tales unhesitatingly his positive be- ef that infantile paralysis is riot a disease Rarely do two cases of infantile paralysis appear In one family at nny one time although such in- have been recorded tors think that the disease is con- largely through the nose ana throat ami direct contact with persons afflicted hut cal science is not positive A eral condition ed tonsils sore throat and in- disorders are believed to he some of the chief causes of susceptibility to the disease SUSCEPTIBILITY Children between the ages of one nd five vests are most likely to be afflicted Those tinder one year are ED frequently afflicted although far ess than those over one year Death follows the disease when the paralysis settles in the cles controlling the lungs or throat and is comparatively rare Complete recovery from the paralyzed state curs in about 12 per cent of those afflicted Symptoms Vary The symptoms of Infantile sis vary so much as to be quite to detect Often the victim is not ill and has only a slight dis- of any kind and that often disappears before the paralysis curs Therein lies one of the in exercising absolute control the disease Physicians say that infantile is far less communicable than the ordinary contagious diseases Never they bay is it as general an epidemic as for instance smallpox Even when an epidemic is raging the total number of cases In a are not large when the epidemic is compared with the number of cases caused by other diseases Germs Not Discovered Medical science is as yet unable to control the peculiar disease as the germ which causes it has not yet been discovered Strict quarantine of those who suffer from it and careful sanitation and elimination of all riers insofar as possible are the best preventative measures known Although all physicians ed desired not to be quoted they were almost unanimous in the belief that present concern on the part of the public at large is scarcely ranted by the danger of spread of the disease Charles Evans Hughes of New York No Report From Carling And Crew Since Plane Passed From View At Harbor Grace N F Early day Some Disaster Has Befallen Globe Girdlers In Pride Of Detroit Bv the Associated Press 1 Tulley and Lieutenant The Pride of Detroit Is overdue James Medcalf took off from Harbor Is of the recent Grace N F at a m Eastern i 4 V tv Coming on the series of aviation disasters Instant prehension was raised last night passed beyond the time plane should have arrived at Bangkok Siam without a received W S Brock and Edward F Schlee Difficulty communication standard time yesterday and from the moment it faded from the sight of watchers on the field no eye be- held it At o'clock of the same morning Old Glory which previously had been reported proceeding swiftly over land and sea sent out its O S giving its position only as hours out of New Then it too disappeared as If that section und the suggestion prior to their take off yesterday morning from Rangoon that the days hop somi secret unknown to might be continued to Hanoi French were on Indo-China served to lessen what the anxiety With nearly half their world circle completed Brock and Schlee left Rangoon on the comparatively simple jump of 350 miles to the colorful cap- ital of Siam Four hours would have been a liberal allowance for the trip 1 in the absence of untoward presidential candidate and that will be Hanoi should not have more than th O Sent whose sudden arid tragic DELAWARE O Sept Methodism long a staunch er of prohibition itself to the temperance cause today of the powers of justices of the peace and mayors courts lost by the re- cent IT S supreme court decision de- them of a share in lines B Wheeler as the undefeated was paid today by hundreds of workers Amid floral offerings banked high around the altar of the Central Methodist church here funeral services were conducted by dignitaries of the church and officials of the League for which he was counsel up to the time of his death Dr W A Morgan pastor of the First Congregational church at cago was in charge of the ceremonies Dr Morgan was for seven years Mr Wheeler's pastor in Washington D C to Wayne B Wheeler the man and the warrior for the great cause to which he gave his life were paid by Bishop Joseph F Berry 01 Philadelphia Francis Scott McBride thought to responsible in for his sudder weelis ago Convening jointly in Grav chapel from liquor cases to the Ohio West Ohio and j The addresses were received delegates Northeast Ohio M E conferences adopted by a unanimous standin vote a resolution pledging moral and and the resolution was read to the conference by Dr E J Moore of the league It called upon the Methodists of financial support to the league and support of the Marshall Ohio to stand against any change In enforcement act which will be the subject of a referendum vote by the people of Ohio in the Prohibition strengthen them her Defended The morning meeting attended by a capacity audience of nearly 2.000 was addressed by State Senators L T Marshall author of the under and J S Edwards both laws urged except support is i presenting the state in a 01 wi urn case He is ably legis Prosecutor An assisted by former County T J Defense attorneys Moore Devaul Walker are keenly alert to sense every move to enter a strenuous ob- lection or in cross examination Sidelights of Trial who have filled the every day of the trial are quick to catch any pathetic or expressions which arise the testimony of witnesses yet and Sheriff Web are keeping the crowd orderly attentive A titter went around the room when J H Thomas a witness said when asked his occupation they call me a farmer and a lawyer Wiseacres are busy doping out the outcome of the case Opinions are at variance Judge Richner was forced to pend i few minutes today when a flivver in Court alley cut loose Richard Bunting another witness when asked by a defense attorney what time is milking time in f Vl milk candidates for public office who are in sympathy with liquor law asked moral and support of Methodist churches of Ohio for the urged Methodist churches throughout Ohio to rally to the support of the Marshall law and urged all the as the citizens to go to the polls at the it was possible election and vote to the recent general j prove the Marshall law death Mrs Wheeler was fatall burned at their summer homo in Michigan only two weeks before The shock along with Mr Wheeler's 11 health was too great for him to bear Taken to Battle Creek Mich las week for treatment Of a kidney ail ment Mr Wheeler was reported on the read to complete recovery H succumbed just a few hours late with a heart attack Activer were two sons Robert W Mr doubled the time ol the flight Their ship would be the ninth in the space of a few brief months to bo posted on the new navigation rosters first as over then as missing The North Atlantic still held as an agonizing secret the fate of four planes and 10 lives and somewhere lii the wide Pacific rests the answer to the complete disappear ance of three planes and seven sons O Sept Judge Benson W Hough announced u federal court here today that he woud issue a temporary injunction Saturday defining proper activities of union pickets at coal mines In the TEAK LOST NEW YORK Sept Canadian monoplane Sir John Carling was believed tonight to have ended its flight to London in that port of missing planes which has engulfed eight others during the summer The last of these eight was the American monoplane Old Glory which disappeared yesterday and of which Loyd Bertraud and J D Hill pilots ind Philip Payne managing of the New York Dally Mirror and flight for William Randolph Hearst Ships Comb Sea Three ships still were combing toe sea today for Old Glory but none where to look for the Carling Since no report had been had of her from the time she passed over the sea it was impossible even to timate the probable general position of its disaster if disaster there was Optimists saw some hope for the two planes in the amount of gasoline they carried Old Glory's gas could have kept her in the she did not plunge in the her S O S 8 o'clock tonight ling's supply might keep her up un- til 4 o'clock tomorrow morning Less hopeful persons argued that if either plane was still in the air it surely would have reached land Had Old Glory continued an its course after the S O S it should Ohio fields The mont came at the conclusion of a hearing on a preliminary injunction J ued some time ago plans to case his tion in issuing submitted attorneys representing both operators in an effort to secure an to both interests He Instructed Adjutant General Henderson of the Ohio National no trace had been found tonight Tho manned by Captain Guard prosecuting attorneys Donald H Major Roy A Haynes for- mer federal prohibition administrator James A White former Ohio Anti- Saloon League superintendent Albert Powell of Bellaire a brother-in-law and Richard Ackland of Columbus Telegrams and cablegrams from all general superintendent of the and sheriffs of the three counties con- cerned in the action to be present Saturday when the order is finally drafted He declared there had been some confusion regarding terms of the preliminary injunction which was drawn and that he intended he new order to be so specific that misunderstanding would be sible John L district officer of the United Mine Workers union was Howard H Russet league and Dr Morgan Burial In Mr was buried in lawn cemetery here beside his wife Wheeler Eulogized Mr McBride characterized Mr sembly The would restore some The response of the ministers to the call of Presiding Bishop Joseph F Berry for a vote was immediate and unanimous Wheeler Eulogized Tho last counsel Wayne B Wheeler was eulogized today in a resolution d bv the West Ohio conference declared itself ready to snatch up the torch which he has flung A delegation of ministers headed o RAPID 5 D With a farewell that is planned to by Bishop Berry attended Wheeler's t funeral lii Columbus today NEW YORK Sept bor rang with merriment today as six great liners steamed gaily off for France with 6.000 passengers who a decade ago silently put forth in somber troop ships 16 was the advance guard of the American Legion leaving to hold its annual convention this year in a Paris that has changed since the Cyrus M Higgins 69 a brother of Dr Charles H Higgins of this died Thursday at the Sheltering Arms hospital in Athens while undergoing an operation He had been in a very serious condition for several days and was operated on as a last re-sort Mr Higgins was a well known er of Athens county He was born and spent his entire life on the same farm which has been in the Higgins Wheeler as an indefatigable worker who hod rare ability and possessed noble Christian spirit Dr Ernest H Cherrington declared Mr Wheeler was a born optimist who constantly saw not the difficulty in every opportunity but the in every difficulty Dr Russell reviewed the tion of the league the enlistment of Mr Wheeler in the work while still a student at Oberlin college and his activities with the league in the rious positions which he held throughout his career He told of employing Mr Wheeler at Oberlin college at a salary of 81.000 for the first year He said Mr Wheeler ed the contract for only one year had occasion to change arraigned late today on a charge of knew it from an armed inciting miners to violation of to a city happy in peace previous federal court injunction His I Three more liners hearing was set by Judge Hough for Thursday when he will bo hoard along with Adolph Pacifico president of the Union No 5 William Brown and Elizabeth Union sympathizers charged with contempt of court for alleged sail row arid on Saturday the Leviathan the flagship of the legion will sail carrying an additional boys accompanied by Gold Star Mothers and war widows The old banners that were carried aboard the troop ships 10 years ago have crossed the Irish coast at B o'clock yesterday Ing should have got there early this morning Thirty great liners were on the North Atlantic flights were in progress and shipping men be- that had either plane crossed the sea it would been sighted surely once and probably many times They pointed out tnat Glory had progressed hardly miles over the water before Jt sighted by the steamer California Reward of search for Old Glory spurred If spur zeal of.''men- of the seak In by the offer of a reward to the crew saving the plane's occupants made by Hearst The futility that the searchers felt was expressed for all in a wireless sent to his offices by Cap- tain David W Bone of the vania Have searched area without re- sult the mesage read Feel little hope of survival in view of at time of casualty Am proceeding on Some time the Carmania which also had been to the search Regret search for raising plane Old Glory without result Weather cloudy Squally with rough sea Consider very small chance of which to the Black Hills the people j of Rapid City bid goodbye to r The this afternoon with the ad- f family since 1802 and upon was the first school house In Athens was which the Higgins but never his life work Reviewing his legislative activities Dr Russell said where he has un- to help a worthy candidate he has generally been successful and woo be to the candidate upon the wet side who experienced his skillful and strong opposition ending usually in the candidate's defeat violation of the previous are crossing the waters no er bright nnd new but bearing tales of sacrifice and heroism rather than promises Veterans of every color and class rom every corner of the United States crowded the liners A few wore the drab uniforms carefully preserved since the days of war in contrast many wore esque costumes In gay colors The old overseas caps were everywhere in evidence Despite the contagious carnival there was not so much con- fusion attending the embarking of the former doughboys as there is at the sailing of any regular tourist survival collapsible boat tinder ent conditions Am now proceeding i Great Circle course to Cape Race After these two had left three ships remained but there was little nope that they find anything For the John Carling not one turned from Its course was nothing to tell which way to turn or where to go Foundation of the Uni- on the and the state appreciation for bringing the summer to education bell lire oen White House here Whistles will blow and will school building where Mr The Reveren-1 Baker outlined a for the church among students nas his private offices Court Johnson her life in getting the evidence as given by witnesses who do not stores have been asked to close of an hour the s en the college years for comradeship and finally a some and beautiful of stenographer Miss Grace three quarters Is having the biggest job of can get in Mayor Jepsen will make a id the president is expected to to testify and the barrage of ns put by opposing counsel Sheriff Hissom is the busiest of- of the court handling his ties In courteous and efficient ner pond briefly 1000 gathered for the Mr received a meeting of the Presides Ohio Methodist here this and in family studied for lour generations Surviving are his widow and three Mrs Floyd Nye of cey Mrs John H Young of leston W Va E Wood Higgins who is a patient in Rocky Glenn at and the following brothers and J D N and Dr J M Higgins of Dr Charles Higgins Mrs J B Francis of Mrs Albert McKinney of Cleveland and ATS H B Francis of He married his first wife the mother of his children having died about 25 years ago SAN FRANCISCO Sept who have lived on Midway Islands amazement here today when told that Edward F Schlee and liam S Brock Intended to utilize those patches of coral sand in the as one of their stopping places n a flight around the world They described that part of the flight as and dangerous If the plane Pride of Detroit winging its way over 2.480 miles of Pacific ocean from Tokyo succeeded n locating the Islands whose highest point is but 42 feet above water must be made in rough coral SEATTLE Wash Sept Harry H Hill dapper son morrow Announcement wa made today that the degree of doctor of science would be conferred upon the dent Saturday at the South Dakota state where he will dedicate a Lincoln memorial library ST JOHNS N F Sept Phil Wood nnd Duke Schill navigator and pilot of the monoplane his twin sister Donna Mae looked on Donald Seckel son of Mr and Mrs L G over the foreign mission gram In her opening address she announced the society is now giving its million dollars to for- eign missions since Its inception years ago Nearly 500 Methodists attended the meeting of the Crosa association tnis Xavier college the at the position given in the too late S message sent out early as to authorities announced the flight of Clay W Judd Bryon for- me to England Imer valley guard with received Kansas Aggies as line coach for advising Musketeer football team this isou BATAVIA N Y Sept Two state troopers were shot dead today when they attempted to arrest W jeroy Wagner on a charge of petit The troopers found Wagner who Is 23 years old at dinner with his IGF for the oki spirit of a surgeon of 111 precision seemed instinctively govern them still The vessels leaving today were the the and of the Cunard line the De Grasse of the French line and the Caledonia of the Anchor line The will stop at Boston to take on New England veterans Tomorrow will sail the Celtic of the to ready tonight to go bacs to his home town to try to clear himself of Into which wheeled vehicles international Mercantile marine the sink to the huh If not disabled by the landing the plane it was said in United States liner President ing and the Savole of the French all probability would not be able to line Two Canadian vessels sailed take flight again because it's wheels and two other ships left this would in the sand There is no place on the islands firm for a runway The Midway islands are mere dots port yesterday so by Sunday the legion will be with a fleet of 14 ships All are scheduled to arrive before Sept 19 the date set charges that he killed his mother In contrast to hurried and lone flight In his automobile when he read in Streator's newspapers That his mother's body had been found In a shallow grave in the cellar of their on their farm near walers When they told Wagner he was under j arrest for defrauding a garage man the ocean They are distant for the opening of the convention 480 miles from Tokyo and miles j from Honolulu They consist of two heaps of coral sand nearly ed by a broken reef about miles in circumference but almost flat upon the ocean and washed by it's Seckel of Marion lifted a from the cistern at the Seckel and plunged to his death Royal Windsor which is at water when he became over- tln favorable weather 08 who has been missing from home of his son Everett Ferguson Warwick avenue since of he asked permission to go to his room to change his clothing A ew minutes later Trooper Roy re- in the the lull charge of a shot gun fired from an up stairs Trooper Rasmussen then darted up the stairs pistol in hand Before had gained the upper floor he fell with a charge of shot in the side Tonight 15 special deputy sheriffs every available state trooper in the region searched the thickly ed district around for THE WEATHER Mostly fair Friday and slightly portion O Sept Charles popp ally himself in hen to at a ing ire that disturbed The fin his hip pocket and the gun was ed morning Fears for his safety are being expressed by relatives friends and the police have been ed to aid in the quest for the missing an Mr Ferguson was last seen between 9 and 10 o'clock ner who fled from the farm after HONOR O Sept Com- the visit of General Headings By Drug 5 a m a m 10 a m 32 noon 2 p m 4 p m 6 p in 8 p m warmer Saturday in home the young prisoner was to be accompanied on the return trip by his father and three Illinois officers Announcement that Hill would re- turn to Streator without legal ance came after Hill through neys engaged by his father Dr H C Hill to defend him here had waived extradition Young Hill was as firm as ever his denials that he is guilty of the crime of which he is accused His father was equally positive in his ex- pression of confidence in Ills son's Innocence and offered an tion of the precipitous flight of the youth I want to say at this time that my son who was in Streator on that Tuesday night August 23 when he was accused by a coroner s jury of slaying his mother became stricken and the poor lad without knowing why ran Dr Hill said Common sense afterward came to his rescue and when he reached attle he realized how foolish he had been Here he sold his purchased a motor bus ticket lor San Francisco from which place he going to return to Streator He 1 composed of two operators and two had decided to come back of the Illinois triaL again Chief that j tomorrow Members of the evidence against the of thirty Interpreted the complete and his only possible hack of news from the sub-committee j defense was to plead insanity las indicating a compromise had Was SIGHT CHICAGO Sept for settlement of the coal miners wage dispute wag seen here tonight In the arrival of John L Lewis president of the United i French Colony Chapter of the Daugh when he left the home of his son
