Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - May 15, 1928, Zanesville, Ohio ocal Committee Has Secured Money to Make Survey for Municipal Landing Field Here The Goal For Which We serte I be lie cord tUe 1 r a t tt U p to o I u be Point the Way to Progress THE TIMES RECORDER All the News All the A ctl of Iht and tit toil IB your U o at e At your Bleb Morning VOL XLIV NO 116 ZANESVILLE OHIO TUESDAY MAY warmer Wednesday showers LOWDEN PLACES CAMPAIGN EXPENSES AT LESS THAN Community Fund Campaign Closes for Charities Annual Drive For ill Organizations Is Short MAY BE SUBSCRIBED Days Of Drive Proved To Be est For Workers CITY WILL ESTABLISH MODERN AIRPORT Marking the final day ol active a total of was second annual Fund drive according to given at the meeting of workers held last night at Central Presbyterian church Including yesterday's report that ot the preceding of the campaign a total sum of was secured The goal designated by Fund officials to be distributed among 11 welfare incudes was though somewhat disappointed Tailing to reach the designated L P Shaw ot tlie that he was well leased with the work of the allon No stone was left unturned In aii effort to secure subscriptions ilr Shaw said after complimenting of the drive that they w group he ever associated with during a campaign May Reach Officials of the drive have tions that the campaign will still ach a total of Although no her personal will be permission has been granted i workers wish to call telephone those prospective givers If ho were not solicited the Pledges will also bo at the Community Fund of- fice Irom persons who call 3552 More than a dozen stores and tories were reported to bo 100 per tent subscribers to the Fund by last night Included In the list waa the Boy Scout organization troop ot the city boasting a record The closing day's activities opened a breakfast at the Hotel Rogge waa attended by more than 50 workers During this approximately 500 cards bearing he name ot prospective givers were Last night's report that less than 50 of this group We not solicited by the workers The total reported for day's grouped by di- visions Putnam Major Piper downtown Major Terrace Major Brighton jor Wilkins and schools Mrs Clarence 1 Cropland The report of each clay's lions la as Tuesday Bo Wednesday Ly Friday turday and Monday A MUNICIPAL airport for goal of the aviation com- of the Chamber of probably will be realized before many more months Frederic J Grant chairman of the committee said Tuesday the fund of 3600 which is necessary for the ing of a thorough survey has almost been subscribed and several meetings will be held In the near future to formulate specific plans lor this pre- liminary work The Times Recorder lias been furnished with three sketches shown with this article by the Cement Association the Interest here in the municipal airport project the three photos are reproduced for the committee which Is actively In promoting the prise Russell Shaw an expert on ing field matters will make a survey in this district that will result in the accumulation of ant data relative to working out plans for the construction of the airport To Select Site I Endorsement has already been corded the project by local civic luncheon clubs and the next big step is the selection a site suitable for the Held A few sites are under consideration The flying field on road is being utilized at present and has favorably Impressed visiting Interest in aviation runs high here and the Chamber of Commerce com- has not met with any obstacles it was said The committee has been progress with Its plans despite the number of months that have elapsed the project was first suggested Careful and systematic planning has brought the committee down to the first real of having a survey made and of selecting the site A move Is now under way to cure a prominent aviator for a local speaking engagement with the object In view of having him instill further Interest In zens of this locality The Times Fear 10 of Fishing Party Lost When Motor Boat Sank ROCKWOOD Maine May Ten men members of a fishing party of 11 were believed to have drowned afternoon when their motor boat filled and sank in 60 feet of wa- er In Lake Police Cap- aln James E Lays of Brockton Mass bought to bo the only survivor warn ashore and after passing the night in a camp reached West Outlet today in ah exhausted others including prominent AYLOR IS GIVEN Contracts for the remodeling of the and second floors of the block Main street for 3 C Penney Co were awarded day to C W Taylor general con- actor according to word from the hew York office to R M manager of the local store contract means an expenditure according to and the plans for the re- of the building call for a front of standard design of glass opper and with tile wainscoting and fie vestibules An innovation will be lie construction of a balcony 30 bj feet between the first and second Joors to be used as additional dis- llay space The first and will be remodeled and new constructed A feature of contract calls for e tearing out of the wall between two store rooms and the ing of steel posts as supports where lie walls stand There will be two to the store and the con- pact calls for completion about Aug when the Penney company is to leave the present quarters Because of limited quarters of the Mai store at- 328 Main street the has never been able to in- Ml a line of shoes millinery and oys The new store when rt will have a full line for the patrons and Southeastern Ohio Mr Luther manager of the com Is now In Chicago 111 to nice lrs Luther who has been spending I vacation in Iowa and the of the contract was secured from Pew York by Mr to Mr Luther CONTRIBUTIONS HOUSTON Tex May ij ing to a demand from of Alabama that he be called in the senate's campaign inquiry Jesse H Jones chairman of the of the Democratic issued a statement here that he had made to the Ion expenses of any presidential can DENIES AGREEMENT TO THROW STRENGTH TO GENERAL DAWES Former Governor of Illinois Tells Campaign Fund Probers He is Seeking Republican Presidential Nomination as Champion of Cause of Agriculture Watson Tells of His Modest Municipal airport Buffalo New York Sketch of airport for New York designed anil constructed by Wm E Arthur Company Inc learned yesterday The chairman of the C of C committee will call n meeting in the near future at which time the airport project is to be given con- momentum HERRON SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR LIFE NEW PHILADELPHIA O May 14 William D Herron found guilty of second degree murder in connection with the choking to death of his Miss Viola May night of February 7 was to life imprisonment today and will be taken to the Ohio at Columbus Wednesday Judge E E Lindsay ruled Herron should be placed In solitary ment each year 7 and 8 When sentenced Herron took little Interest In the proceedings ing In a daze WASHINGTON May the old alliance between Ing expenditures on Its behalf at loss agriculture of How obstructions affect the size of n field sketches from U S Department of Commerce thun Frank O Illinois candidate for the Republican presidential nomination ly declared today before the senate campaign Investigators that there was no basts for the wide spread opinion that ho would throw his port to Vice President Dawes In the event he could not be nominated nt Kansas City After questioning Lowden for hour during the morning the special committee concluded the hearing of the presidential candidates by ing from Senator James E Watson of Indiana the statement that his own personal expenses In the In hla si to which culminated In his of Herbert Hoover In the preferential primary had been 080.90 Like former Governor son could not details of financing referred tho Inquisitors to F Buck former Illinois senator who Is the directing head of his national while Watson said the treasurer his organization Archie Bobblit of could give details or receipts and expenditures Both of men will be called later Of Dawes who on the stand for exactly an hour and who Ion The professional and business men of Brockton Fire Chief William F Daley Dr Arthur F Peterson former city physician Sheriff Earl P Blake of Mass j Dr David j John Sandberg manufacturer Fred highway Dr Frank Harry Howard former mayor Sam Budding Greenville Me man NEWARK Brown driver for Lawrence proprietor of a gasoline station here was painfully burned in a gasoline explosion which resulted as he was filling a gasoline truck at the Stellar Oil company refinery five miles east of this city at o'clock this afternoon names from the exploding gas ig- the gas In the truck also about gallons of gasoline in a gallon gasoline tank wl th a loss placed approximately which was partly covered by Insurance The origin of the blaze was not learned but the supposition existed that It resulted cither from static electricity or from a spark from the exhaust of the engine in the gasoline truck Brown was scorched He was ed by a physician and later was re- moved to his home His Injuries are not considered serious A series of small explosions in the big tank caused It to burst and the entire content of the tank was de- by lire The party left Greenville Sunday in boat operated by Budding lor hegun camps Crossing the lake the engine stopped and the leaking cralt filled They were about of a mile off shore cording to the story told by Lays said he and Dr Peterson put on ifo preservers and Jumped over the side The doctor Lays said swam along behind him evidently holding up well in the choppy cold water jays reached shore about dark but was unable to find a trace of Dr terson or other members of the party He forced his way into the pied camp of E L Maione of New York and passed a fitful night At daybreak ho tramped miles to West Outlet camps where he told of the tragedy He was taken to ville and placed under a physician's MINERS RESUME ATHENS O May Manhattan Coal company's mine No 36 at Buchtel Athens county today started loading as did No 256 of the Ohio Collieries company near The Sunday Creek Coal company today announced their decision not to reopen mine No 8 at Coming President E W Titus saying an offer of a per day scale had been refused by the United Mine Workers local NAVAL FLIER KILLED IN SEAPLANE CRASH WASHINGTON May tenant F K Busc of the naval air corps was killed here today while making a practice flight In tion for the coming Schneider cup races His home was at Ridley Park Pennsylvania For a reason that has not been de- termined the filer's seaplane crashed Into tho Potomac about a mile be- low the naval air station No nearby witnesses could be found but several who saw the accident from a distance estimated that the plane fell from an altitude of 50 to 150 feet Although the wreckage of the plane was quickly located It ww not until several hours later that the body was recovered It had apparently been thrown clear of the plane and was discovered by dragging a able distance below the point where the plane crashed into the river Knute boat operator of tho Searchers tonight were covering the lake surface around Sandbar Island a mile from Klneo where sections of the motor boat nnd life preservers wero found Other searching parties were securing the and shore line In hopes of finding other bers of the party who might have battled their way to shore PAROLE VIOLATORS MUST SERVE BOTH OLD AND NEW SENTENCES COLUMBUS O May state board of clemency Is without authority to terminate the sentence of a prisoner In Ohio penitentiary who has been paroled and of another While on parole so the prisoner might begin serving the second sentence before the first been served Attorney General Edward C Turner ruled today Tho ruling was in connection with the case of Harry L White who while serving a suspended the reformatory was sentenced to from one to 15 years In the penitentiary on May 11 1821 for automobile stealing Paroled Dec 15 1922 and while or the parole White was convicted of a similar crime In Allen county and re- turned to the penitentiary for a terra of two to seven years Ono woman Mrs Van Meter 3D of Little Hocking county was fatally injured her companion Richard Graham also of Little Hocking and Frem of 334 North Fifth street sustained minor injuries Monday when the automobile truck driven by From overturned on the National highway near Friendly motorists rushed to the assistance of tho trio The woman waa removed from the wreckage and tho were placed In a passing to be taken to Grant but she died to the hospital The body was taken to n Columbus morgue Graham and Frem returned to after being Columbus police Both suffered from shock nnd minor injuries ham reported the accident to ant of Police Herb here and then left to spend the night with two brothers who live in Philo According Graham's story to cal police he and Mrs Van Meter were hiking from Little Hocking to Detroit Mich and accepted a ride from Frem who Is a fruit dealer At Graham said the Frem car upset in a ditch along the way and Mrs Van Meter was pinned under tho car Graham appeared badly dazed from his experience He said he and his companion the woman were ant to ride with Frem but as they were hiking to Detroit they accepted the invitation The body of Mrs Van Meter was taken to the Denton Donaldson morgue in Columbus to await word from relatives as to disposition of the remains Frem returned to his home on North Fifth street last night it was ed here RAIL ENGINEERS SCALE CLEVELAND O May vanly Johnston grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- announced today that of the brotherhood would meet a managers committee of ern railroads In Chicago Wednesday to discuss a proposed wage Increase CONVICTION STANDS WASHINGTON May J Dugan failed In the United States supreme court today to have his con- viction before a mayor's court ai Xenia Ohio aside on tho ground the city manager wan not qualified to a Judge in a prohibition caso DEATH tiNDEK WHEELS TORONTO O May Edward Stewart 65 wife of a former mayor of Toronto O threw herself Into the path of an car in front of Lome at Toronto today and sustained Injuries which caused her death Mrs Steward had been in ill health for several years Attacked by Maniac Pilot of Plane Barely Averts Death PONTIAC Mich May ho will be removed to Jail for a displayed hearty humor 2.000 feet in the air by an maniac with a hammer Harry Anderson a commercial pilot after losing consciousness HOBO diving to within a hundred font of the ground recovered In time to ly right his airplane and avert de- struction hero tonight Frechette 28 of Detroit whom police to be deranged Is charged with attacking the pilot after employing him to fly from Mich to men were taken to a local hospital because of Injuries sustained In the forced landing near here Neither was seriously hurt nnd as soon as Frechette recovers sufficiently AGED VETERAN DIES O May tain William Stewart 60 last of the 200 county men Search for the four prisoners who escaped from the Perry county Jail at New Lexington early Monday ing by digging through a wall ed in the vicinity of park Monday night sheriff Hurley McNabb deputies were Informed the men were seen Officials of other counties In Ohio and authorities In West Virginia and Kentucky have been asked to Join In the search The grand Jury went Into session day Using a flat piece of metal removed from a cell cot as an instrument with which they worked the four prisoners Charles Frank of George Ramsey and ry Harbaugh of Hemlock and Clifford Miller of near McLuney dug their wav to freedom through the east wall of the county Jail They removed a foot of brick to make a hole nearly a foot and a hall square The escape was made In the front cell block on the second floor 15 feet from the ground In a chimney opening used for a grate It was through this hole the four inmates lowered themselves to the ground with the aid of a ket rope Even five In number who also had access to said they had no knowledge of a break nor were they apprised before hand Sheriff believes some of the prisoners are shielding the others Prisoners at that time who were still who served in the second West in their bunks appeared to be cavalry during the Civil war died at near here last night THE WEATHER and slightly warmer Tuesday Wednesday showers with showers in portion Wednesday showers and thunderstorms little change In temperature MONDAY'S TEMPERATURE Readings Ity Shurtz Pharmacy 5 a in 42 7 ii 10 a m 67 12 noon 70 2 p m 73 4 p m 72 8 p m 10 8 p m OS 10 p m 63 la midnight 64 Rises today n m THE SUN MOON Sets today p Rises today a Seta today p Ity test officials Anderson told police that aa they approached Frechette ob- a hammer and began to be- labor him I must have been unconscious for como more than a minute Anderson said for 1 como to wo were headed In a nose dive I Jerked tho and tried to right the plane and managed to slow its pace Just as I was ing out of the dive I felt the wheels of the touch the ground for some distance and then the ship wont over the nose The plane was demolished but the occupants miraculously escaped Injury Anderson was more crely hurt by the hammer attack than In tho wreck One blow had knocked out most of his teeth and because of the difficulty with which able to talk hospital officials refused to permit his being questioned at length Insane Messages Frechette refused to police when queried regarding the attack A letter addressed to a Miss gia Pardee of found In his clothing Death is my message sweetheart The letter besides contained terms of endearment to tho addressee and said tho writer feared the approach of death Other letters one to hla mother In Detroit Indicated he had been em- ployed by the Pacific Coast Aero cus aa an exhibition pilot The wreck occurred at the grounds of tho hospital for Insane here The plane flying leisurely as If In search for a landing field was seen to approach at an altitude of about Then it began to spiral crazily bait maintained Its altitude for a moment There was a lurch indicating the said that the ship was out of control and then it made a drop of hundreds of feet toward the ground When at an estimated tude of about 200 feet the ship to right Itself and most of those present thought the fliers had been performing particularly daring stunts an Instant later however they said the ship struck the and In underpinning led turning the plane over several times There was a rush to extricate the fliers In one hand Frechett badly sat still clutching the handle of the hammer which had been ken in half reminded hla ors with respect to Hint every ono knew that they were old time friends At another point he wild hups tho fact that lie and entertained similar views on public questions havo much to tl with the Uilk that ho would hio support to tho vice president Asserting he had no agreement tiny of the other candidates for dele support from them and siting hi's statement that ho lind no Explaining that Buck had told him uly last Friday that total collections 11 his campaign had been said he believed this would e sufficient to finish out the pre- campaign He thought hat most of the expended ad been spent from national but added there was a small organization working for urn in New York Expenses Detailing his personal expenditure Senator Wateon testified he had sent to M Bert manager if his campaign had expended 1882.80 for printing nnd or traveling expenses during and agreed to pay 500 to Villiam Stahl former editor of tho Farmer for a special 011 farm relief legislation sent in the rural communities n Indiana Liko all the candidates ion said he had made no with any of hla opponents ho would throw his delegate support o them or receive delegate support rom any of them Testifying that ho had out of the favorite son states said ho had done so 10 thought bitter factional would militate against tho Republic candidate in November My policy was not to set up in any he said the Republicans In that were aggressive for me M- Unit they would go ahead and con- duct the campaign 1 have felt the will have a real fight this fall Anil tho mutter of supporting even the forme governor I've gotten Into thli picture not because I WHS keen fo it I have conic t represent i cause I that the problem for the country Is ture is doomed It be restored to its proper pur I sec n future for the American republic If la permitted to decay So long a that cauw exists of course 1 wll stand for it I hove no right to barter o deal with reference to delegates whr look on me as representing tha cause I believe the of the lican party depends upon maintain prised when informed of the matter Frank was Incarcerated in connection the ware store robbery at sey and were awaiting grand Jury action on charges growing out of the Hemlock depot robbery eral weeks Miller the other tive was committed to Jail on a charge of attempting to derail a train near WYOMING FOR SMITH CASPER Wyo May ernor Alfred E Smith of New York was endorsed for the presidency and Wyoming's delegation waa instructed to cast its six votes for him at the national convention In Houston by tho Wyoming state Democratic con- vention today ON PROBATION CHICAGO May OToole Juror In a murder case who last week was found guilty of con- tempt of court was sentenced today to serve 30 days In Jail tho sentence being vacated later and nn tion granted for ilx months ATTEMPT TO CONVERT PASTOR TO ATHEISM PROVES BOOMERANG NEW YORK May 11 -An effort to convert the Rev Dr John to resulted today Ii tho conviction of Charles Lcc Smith president of the Association for th Advancement of Atheism for annoying letters and literature to th pastor of Calvar Baptist church Smith will be ten Muy 21 After Dr Straton and A II Utley father of girl had testified Smith who acted as hi own counsel told three Justices In special sessions he had hoped only to convert the pastor to atheism and sex sanity Smith said tho that way 1 made up my that 1 would uot do anything would militate against my election In the event of my nomination cut of his remarks against The Justices however ordered Smith continued in 8500 bail Ing sentence while his career KJ In- by probationary officers The maximum sentence Smith may receive Is three years in state prison CONFESSED SLAYER PRONOUNCED SANE QUARREL FIND BODY OF WOMAN IN RIVER WHEELING W Va May An investigation Into the death of Mrs Minnie Rosa 45 of Martins Ferry O was under way tonight following the discovery of her body in the Ohio river Police said a man living In a house boat near where the body was found told them the heard Mrs Ross and a man reling last night Then she heard a splash In the water she said A man who admitted he had been with Mrs Ross last night waa ed but later was released when lice found they had no evidence to hold him LOS James ANGELES May William Huff alias James DO YOU That the American Legion was the first organization In ica to adopt tho poppy aa Its Flower having taken tion at the National convention held In Cleveland September Hooven in Jail here for petty theft who confessed Saturday to two Ings so that he could get a little was pronounced today saner than most following a lengthy examination by Dr Benjamin Blank county Jail physician Huff In his confession involved his wife and mother of his two young children In the poisoning of her year-old brother Leo Carroll three years ago Mrs Huff was by police but released when she declared her husband to be fering from shell shock and that his confessions were mere delusions The other killing to which Huff confessed was that of his wife's ter Ruth Little 17 of Ind Authorities there arc checking his story ON POLAR William C meteorologists with the U S weather bureau at Washington D C and who will Commander Richard E Byrd on his expedition to the South Pole this fall Monday in with friends and then returned to where he has been visiting Ilk parents Mr and Mm Joseph D Mr will return to Washington today and plans to make ono visit at the family horns In Morgan county before em- barking on the southern trip Former Deputy Probate Judge J S and Mr were hood friends In Morgan county and the prominent weather bureau cial paid him a visit here yesterday After graduating from normal school Mr Haines went to Houston Texas and became fied with the U S weather bureau Ho hold similar In ton Jacksonville and San Juan to Rico and also saw during the World war Since 1921 Mr Haines has been in the central office at Washington D- C Commander Byrd called lor when plans were- made tor the North Pole expedition In and Mr Haines was chosen The small band of explorers went to Kings Bay Spitsbergen by boat and Irom that base Commander and the lato Floyd Bennett flew over North Pole and back to the station This was the first trip by air over the Pole and Commander Byrd verified Perry's theory that ho land bo seen in the North Pole The South Pole expedition Mr will make with Byrd and party will leave New York by boat on Sept 1 and will pass through tbe Panama Canal to New Zealand an Island south of Australia Amundsen and Scott reached the South Pole and reported seeing land Byrd will establish a base about 800 tailes from the South Pole whereas his base on tho northern expedition was 700 miles from the top or the world Tho polar expedition will call for an expenditure of about and tho explorers will either be gone eight or 18 months Byrd Is anxious to complete his scientific explorations before the winter season sets In tho South Pole or he must wait many long months and thus complete the work in 18 Mr pointed out yesterday Two large boats will the explorers from New York the base and three airplanes are to used for the polar flights Mr Haines has had unusual ex- in his work as meteorologist and this post Is one of the most Im- portant ono In an expedition He will assist in the collecting of data that will be brought back to United States as scientific tion INCOME NEW YORK May in- come of the Electric and Manufacturing Co for 1927 made public today In the annual re- port was equivalent to per share of common stock as compared with or per for 1938 Tho company's total rales reached AUTHORIZED WASHINGTON May for the company to construct and operate across the Ohio Or near Ohio sought authorized Introduced Senator Fens of Ohio compared with Ifl 1936 wife NEWARK O Miy O 78 pioneer this city died suddenly iKC from a heart
