Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - July 27, 1928, Zanesville, Ohio to and Operators Hold Four Hour Conference Without Even Reaching Agreement to Meet Again Always First Always Fair VOL XLIV NO 179 ZANESVILLE OHIO FRIDAY JULY 27 1928 today cooler Saturday fair Reinstatement of Daugherty i A IM Say Their Investigation Shows George Briggs Was Shot Down in Cold Blood V Worley and William Wade said they had not had time to miners from the Hocking dis- eulate the throughout the before the executive Put by Hall ATTEMPT MAD J S I S nm lag district The petition which was signed 1 of Buchtel was PHILO DOCTOR GIVES THEORY OF DISTANCE Denies Barton's Purported Statement That Briggs Was Intoxicated H H r i mm gain lai resident POLITICS AND TOE IN FIT Clarence Barton 61 who brutally murdered George Briggs 33 in a den patch at the Barton home in Philo early Wednesday evening to es Hocking district hope of amelioration of conditions I there It points out that Daugherty advocated a change in union policy I that would permit the Ohio district to negotiate a separate wage scale a I policy which the International union i now has adopted President Lee Hall declined to give ers a hearing on the ming he was too busy with the meeting with operators to con- sider It now He advised them to file the petition with Secretary George W Savage where it would be acted U by the executive board later Worley and Wade have wired Retains His Title UNIVERSITY side of Herbert Daugherty asking whether they shall revealed tonight as Gene the petition as suggested by President Hall h a of im tne heavyweight cha hte at to countt of the world 3.000 miles but county authorities who completed their investigation of the case day night said the man was slain in blood 30 feet from the murderer and while he was endeavoring to make his escape We have made a thorough gation into the shooting and have not uncovered the slightest scintilla of evidence to Barton Killed Briggs in any self defense was the statement made by Prosecuting At- torney C J Crossland and Assistant Prosecutor W D Holliday Complained of Autos Four saw the ing and none retracted a previous statement each that Barton thot Briggs while the latter was ing away from him The one big in- which led to the shooting was the complaint Barton had registered with Mrs Briggs about automobiles parking in front of the Barton home where the Briggs occupied the ond floor made an out-and-out statement In bis cell yesterday that he shot Briggs in self defense of the heavyweight champion across the continent Slipping the cares of a political campaign from his shoulders the Republican presidential nominee tuned in on the fight surrounded by members of his family and some friends who were dinner guests at the home on San Juan hill A brand new radio set installed on- ly yesterday was used In receiving the blow by blow account as cast over the country Mr Hoover followed the progress of the match with keen interest as he has that of all of the heavyweight bouts of recent years Before relaxing for the evening the candidate had a day of rather grinding work speeding up on his acceptance speech and conferring with several political leaders including Charles L Neumiller California Republican state chairman who gave an encouraging report of the outlook for the can ticket in this state Assistant U S Attorney-General William J spent some time with the nominee advising him on To Call Joint Session Mine Situation in Ohio Is Thoroughly Discussed at I Joint Conference I LEE HALL ANNOUNCES ANOTHER MEETING SOON Operators Not as Well fied With Conference As Is Hall COLUMBUS O July 26 Alter four hours of discussion behind closed doors here today executives of the United Mine Workers In Ohio and A second call for a Joint nine state coal operators ended their of the operators and officials of the union in an effort to reach a factory wage agreement was decided upon at the meeting Lee Hall president of District No 6 and George W Savage secretary of the same organization were selected president and secretary re- of a committee to call the Joint session agreed upon Joint conference without agreeing upon the date or feasibility of an- other joint meeting Lee Hall president of the United Mine Workers in Ohio announced the mine union would call another joint conference at a date to be decided by the union executive board A date was not within a day or two Hall expressed satisfaction with self and his home Tile county his August 11 address callers said last night Barton's srift included H S Pritchard head of defense plea was a drummed up one the Carnegie foundation Howard and that they had sufficient evidence nines of Pittsburgh Frank Flint of to prove their contentions the Los Angeles former United Ing was a clear-cut murder j senator from California and States J O M E CHURCH CONTINUE ITS TO SMITH RICHMOND Va July Four southern Methodist bishops in a Joint statement made public here tonight served notice upon opponents of prohibition that the supporters of j the law will not be driven from 7 the results of today's conference and said he felt the next joint meeting would find most of the tial coal operators of the state resented We discussed the entire mine in Ohio very thoroughly and were able to get a better ing of each other's Mr Hall said in reporting the happenings of the conference I was elected chairman of the conference and George Savage secretary of the Ohio mine union was chosen tary It now for our tive committee to set the exact date field by the cry that they are ing the church into by op- posing an outstanding enemy of tional prohibition for the presidency The statement signed by Bishops James Cannon Jr of Richmond When Barton told Mrs Briggs he doubted the of two Hayes editor of the San Jose No Scale Discussion The Ohio mine union president said that there was no discussion of any basis for a wage scale at the meeting and that the subject would be the distinct purpose of the next joint conference Today's meeting was called merely doubted the of two zon Charlotte and Horace M Today's meeting was called merely automobiles parking in front of the m thp boso Nashville called upon arrange for another conference and residence Tuesday night Mrs FrancSco and lalty of tne Methodist to set a date for the Mr informed Barton that one of thei between church south to continue Hall ana trie peninsula Between motorists was a iriend of the family and that she did not know the names of the other persons When Briggs was told of the criticisms hurled at Mrs Briggs by the murderer Briggs went to the garden where Barton was hoeing corn and talked to him about it During the course of the con- that city and Palo Alto tomorrow were completed it was disclosed that the Republican candidate will make an extended address at the city hall Bishop Coll in reply to the welcome by Mayor anA James Rolph Jr against the liquor traffic and would-be nullifiers of the law In view of statements recently made by Bishop A Candler of Collins Denny of placed upon them by the wets the Joint Briggs told Barton he would but rather with those days long zive up the rooms and leave when Hoover first came to the give up the Barton home The to the shooting Mrs BriggE Mrs Barton Mrs J H Homan and Davis all said that Briggs had ed to Barton when the latter j opened fire I Doctor Explains Distance j Dr C F Sisk of Philo who the first to reach the scene of the shooting gave the county authorities the following statement On July 25 1928 George was with me to Zanesville to have an X-ray of hand from the hours of until p m and he was in a sober condition At o'clock on the same day I was called on the telephone someone saying that Briggs had been shot on arriving at Briggs home I met Clarence Barton and asked him what the trouble was and he 1 shot It will have nothing to pol-i statement declared It becomes ab- necessary that the attitude of the Methodist Episcopal church south on the question of prohibition western empire and when he left it to follow his profession of mining en- gineer the I said with what and With a 38 revolver He said is going to tell me what to do Mr Barton showed me the tracks I where Briggs walked down where he in t IT K P I I I r M M M LJ U I i f ULU i !_ii t i BT n RH S g fli ra n M fl H fl 13 j It fl should be plainly set forth Wo notify the defenders and the advocates of the liquor traffic that the moral forces of the country will not be driven from the field by the cry that they are bringing the church into polities because they are opposing the election to the j presidency of a man whose personal I and official record both brand him as the outstanding enemy of national great have ourselves not only ns zens taut also as Christian ministers OMAHA Neb July for years 1928 platform of the National Bull Moose party has been drawn up and adopted by a standing vote of the convention audience of 13 Dr Henry Omaha er of the rejuvenated party rioter of the convention of three delegates his ever written in the United States Fifteen persons including two re- The operators left the meeting un- willing tc comment upon anything that happened behind the closed doors of the hotel room and Ing to Mr Hall as the spokesman for the conference Several of them indicated however that they were not as well satisfied with proceedings as Mr Hall had pictured to the newspapermen One operator who refused to be ed said that absolutely nothing was accomplished at the meeting William Haskins member of the ex- board of the Ohio Coal Op- association and stockholder In several northeastern Ohio said that the operators are nothing to do with the calling of an- other Joint meeting we're out of the picture It's the union that's ning another conference not us Mr Haskins refused to comment further on meeting pointing to Mr HaJl as spokesman Tunney Again Impressively Demonstrates His Right to Title of Heavyweight Champion of the Absolute Master of Situation at all Showed Nothing But Fine Courage and Remarkable Who Said Tunney Could Not Hit Are Still uring on Their Dope YANKEE STADIUM New York July and ins his face a bloody smear Tom Heeney the hard rock from down under collapsed and fell a victim to a technical knockout in the eleventh round of his world's heavyweight championship battle with Gene ney here tonight Tunney born and bred In New York and defending his title at home for the first time cut the sturdy courageous New Zealander to pieces subjecting him to one of the worst beatings a challenger ever received Upwards ol spectators saw Heeney wade into unbroken slaughter through round after round as ney the master boxer lashed face with and pounded his heart with vicious solid rights Tunney Landed at Will Heeney came charging In like a bull but the elusive Tunney cool and collected evaded his wild rights to the jaw and stabbed him with lefts to the face until the thud of gloves against cut and bruised face almost became monotonous The Associated Press score card Boy Killed When He Lassoes Horse MARION o July W Butler 14 son of Mr end Mrs C D Butler of was killed near Union ty today when he attempted to lasso a horse on the Tracy Green farm As the boy the horse his legs became entangled in the rope and he was dragged and thrown against a tree stump ing instantly The boy had been on the Green since dismissal of school in Juse in an endeavor to regain his health SEira i HUE SHIP TD and author of the f JJ j I 11 platform was the best one i i I was hoeing in the garden which were porters heard Dr Hoffman Omaha three fret away from where Barton was standing He also showed me away store proprietor attack Wall Street and the international bankers night in his keynote speech On the bankers shoulders he put the blame Briggs tracks where he ran from him and those were the tracks leading to Briggs body at jor tile civil war and the time I ship of Uncle Tom's Cabin The distance from where Bartoni Not a soul stood up when GANGSTER SLAIN CHICAGO July bushed as he drove his automobile into his garage Salvatore Canale 24 reputed henchman ol gang was shot and killed today Police endeavored to connect his slaying with the rivalry between the Aeillo faction and Al Capone's gang over beer and vice control Six bullets entered head and chest OSLO Norway July seaman with fixed bayonet was placed on guard at the gangplank of the Dl today when the vessel I il lip f was standing and where Briggs fell Hoffman called for a rising vote comparatively few peot approximately 30 feet approval to adopt his platform But woro on hand although many Scout Barton's I he said It makes no difference waited for it until late last night ed with the survivors of the Italia dis- aster Onlookers at the docks re- this move with astonishment rjr When the ship arrived early this ad Barton's purported in his and declared It adopted cell yesterday that Briggs wa's under Two registered delegates remained the influence of liquor also was shunned yesterday by the tors Dr Sisk who attended Briggs Tor an injured left hand just before the shooting said the man was in Omaha and a man Identified sober condition Mrs Briggs as Smith remained her former statement that Sessions were held In the rear of When the mooring rope was thrown ashore no assistance was forthcoming w for lu fastening the rope and one of the third J H Crumb of the Old soldiers the Italian ship had to home at Kas to do gone home Mrs L B Beverly oil No Norwegian authorities were present on the quay A tive of the Italian legation at Briggs had not been drinking on Dr Hoffman's store and Mrs Beverly afternoon and evening ot the fatal although with washing shooting j found time to attend After shooting Briggs down Barton j fired at his wife but the J let missed her and lodged in a barn holm greeted the survivors and three Swedes who had taken part In the sledge expedition to search for Roald Amundsen's missing party None of the rescued men appeared on the deck Many American motion picture photographers and foreign EIRL UNO LORAIN O July Helen 17 his sweetheart since childhood was being buried day Steven BrodskI 21 was also lying ricari as a result of a The girl was killed by an bile Monday The boy who was to have been a pallbearer at her al fell from a truck yesterday and was thrown under a car They had planned to announce their engagement soon The Weather placed him under arrest I yesterday bringing his murder trial The two prosecutors obtained to an end abruptly and Common SENATOR ROBINSON TO merits from all principal witnesses yesterday and Barton also was He started to tell his version of the shooting when lie halted self and the authorities he would talk no more until he had consulted his lawyers Barton has engaged the law firm George At- tornev B E consulted Pleas Judge then relate BE NOTIFIED AUGUST 30 alty to be exacted Testimony was offered today by Probate Judge who had previously freed Valentine from a lunacy charge before the occurred Into has moved southeastward to Michigan and Wisconsin the murderer in his yesterday was the most in FOUND SANE SEEKS PAY history or county They said rrrip r ton oil opportunity r OK VV ORK IN HOSPITAL thi fact MILWAUKEE July r-d started to with by a jury and discharged alter after he the IB years at a county At for mental Alien To Not Guilty j Icr Milwaukee today was ire low from British Columbia southward to the Gulf of HOT SPRINGS Ark July Is high over otor Joseph T Robinson of it relatively high will be notified formally of his nation for the vice presidency of Tho disturbance now over the United States by the Democratic party Central will move led Tne hearmg was halted n Bowers ot attended by who York chairman of the of the committee the evening of Aug river within the next 24 The be at 7 p m hours Tho will clear Friday however In tho lower lake BIG DU PONT EARNINGS tho Ohio valley and WILMINGTON Del July Barter was removed from ty jail to prison yesterday a a the authorities to Isolate the oner strained feelings over Barton will an trr no guilty 4 trial s bp Hate last night E Du Pont Do Nemours A Co turned n share on the com- mon in the first half of In comparison with a share r T the first half of 3027 Profit rose toj Saturday morning in middle states The will hfl slightly lower or In the ko the Ohio valley tho Interior of the middle to 58032 from tho county from Saturday s for work he performed while from operations was confined a year ago Woller rommltted to the In 1311 A skilled painter I BURNS FATAL TO GIRL j his trade n thr O July re- for IB vpnr.v j hero laf Thn oppose suit the hero TEMPERATURE by Shurtz Pharmacy a m- n m n ri 4 p m fi p m fi p m 10 p m IS is rvf 3 Sun Sets 90 83 85 82 80 52 p m TIES Approximately enthusiastic wildly acclaimed the technical verdict awarded Geno ney In his defense of the weight title with Tom Heeney at The Times Recorder fight party Thursday evening The throng that assembled In front of the ng Co building was one of the est to ever gather for such nn event in this city Although the greater portion of the fans were lor Tunney the husky challenger was not without his ardent supporters During the early rounds of the fight while Heeney was surprising even his own followers with a vicious attack upon the pion this group ol fans lustily cheered its fighter The fight crowd began to assemble early many of the followers of pugilism making their appearance long before time for the main bout With the arrival ot additional the enthusiasm of the crowd con- to grow which was climaxed only by word of the technical out Jack Rafferty again capably led the megaphone In his own in- manner Wait for the next THUS YANKEE STADIUM NEW YORK July Heeney ed challenger blamed thai blimy thumb for his sudden collapse In his first quest of Gene Tunney's heavyweight crown Gene's thumb stuck in my eye as wo squared for the eighth round and I never could see anything out of that eyo from then declared Torn in hlu dressing room after the fight Five minutes after ho had reached his quarters Tom stripped to the hide was a far different picture from the pitiful figure that had ball irom the ring His Ince bathed and the flow of blood from hla numerous wounds staunched Tom walked about the room eating anges and to ward oil tne Flight To sympathetic advices of his three Harvey and John and Bernard Mortimer That I know 1 was Heeney more in the tone of a confident boxer starting a fight than one who had just been rucked Into 1 couldn't see a thing for a minute My right eye was affected by the thumbing and before I could get straightened out Gene had me a sight The punch with his thumb curled my upper eyelid down and under and blinking couldn't it It didn't uncurl until Gene had cracked mu with that bloomin right The conquered challenger about tho room munching hall to his cut bruised lips There no sign of blood then and his slashed left eye had been deftly taped so that Right from tered optic halt normal Tom fought a wonderful fight find i know hu would have won had not thumb poked him in the eve moaned Charley Harvey American representative He was away ahead we figured and wo had It all for him to con- Keeping on top of Tunney and making him back up Tom was showed Tunney winning at least nine of the eleven rounds with winning the first and dividing honors with the in the second major offensive won the first round After that he was badly pounded target who although boring in with tireless energy never could escape Tunney's masterful attack Small Crowd Tho crowd estimated In excess of with gate receipts ing was the smallest to ness a world's heavyweight champion battle since the fiasco of Shelby five years ago when Jack Dempse ruined the ol that boom towr by defeating Tommy Gibbons If the estimated gate receipts ar correct Promoter Tex and hi six hundred millionaires suffered i loss In the neighborhood of Tunney was guaranteed of with ng to Heeney Tho battle was a struggle between a boxer who has proved himself fection In his art and a strong able fighter whose chief asset is bis natural strength Tunney a master of defensive boxing allowed Heeney to set the early pace and then utter slowing him up with savage blows under his heart proceeded to batter him into a state of collapse Unconscious It took no expert after the ly fought loth round to tell that the plodder had met his master and that his finish was ing As this round ended Heeney was lying flat on bis back his rolled to the edge of the ring com- knocked out His seconds actions a trick to en- rap him refusing to go in and sh him Heeney In this session was plainly n and seriously Tunney as a result of his victim's hit the rock-ribbed New Zealander at will making his most repressive showing up to this stage f the battle His blows however did lot carry the dynamite needed to et him Tunney entered the ring facing a disadvantage of eleven and a pounds but overshadowed liis in heighth and ney scaled 102 pounds when they In at 2 o'clock this Heeney scaling 203 the est he weighed for any ot his can battles It also was the heaviest Tunney has been since he woo the title from Jack Dempsey two years ago The champion was a 3 to 1 te in the betting Dempsey There Although the battla lacked the magnetic appeal from a box office standpoint the crowd was representative of weight encounters Persons inent in the industrial social ness and professional of nation were crowded around the ringside Jack Dempsey the old Manassa mauler himself twice defeated by the man who conquered Heeney night was in a front row press seat When Dempsey faultlessly attired in a light green suit climbed the ring to bo introduced the fight started he one bl the round opened and Ends In Corn Field j kept telling us he never better In Tho only time Tunney's prowess was the plane was forced down in Q A GOO rl nv Tn on the opposite sido of the U O JL U from the toward tonight your showing was no circled around and headed grace Twenty-six minutes later at a m cornfield on the opposite Rock river from the air field rp Pilot Cramer said the plane refused I 1 Ul KCy U to rise high enough to clear the While crossing the Rock river he saldi CONSTANTINOPLE July the air loggy and although r they tried to force the big greatest tributes accorded a- ring hero ovation exceeded cheers and given Tunney raw purs YANKEE STADIUM NEW YORK July defending his heavyweight title like a true pion here tonight Gene Tunney first paid a glowing tribute to the ged ot Torn Heeney opponent over he scored R technical knockout in the round of their bout and then he broadcast the following message to the I intend to remain in the fight business I am very gratified to have won Tunney exclaimed when he had ed hlr dressing room only after a large detail of police fought a way for imo the ring as the bell through a cheering crowd which cd and the fallen New atar was dragged to his corner where restoratives were applied His seconds worked frantically over him shaking his head to sweep the cobwebs out of his brain and ing the smelling salts to his ing nose with marvelous recuperative power charging out of his corner as the round opened only to fall an easy victim to another barrage of well-timed punches that knocked him groggy and reeling Stopped By Referee As he stood there with his back to the ropes his arms hanging heavily at his sides a certain victim to a finishing knockout blow Eddie Forbes the referee humanely waved Tunney to his corner Heeney had his chance and lost but only ter fighting a game uphill battle Heeney Pathetic With the exception of the and desperate charge In the first the 10th round the most dramatic of the battle It was so one-sided that Heeney bleeding Torn a wicked cut over his left eye was pathetic Tunney opened up with one of those terrific rights Just under the heart and then shot a left to the face By that blood was streaming Into eye blinding him He ed out with a left to the body ney retaliated with a left and right to the stomach They traded lefts to the body and then Tunney threw right and left to the head Heeney tried for a left to the head and ed with Tunney driving both fists to tho body ns his weakening foe came charging in Kc repeated and then hooked two hard lefts to the head Heeney slid Into the ropes and was on the vergo of falling to the floor in Tunney's own corner lunged forward and fell Instead flat on Tunney was greatly concerned over face rolling over to the of the ring and into the laps of ers in the press row Heeney Courageous After the first and second rounds i from n ferry Into the one round was much like the other monoplane higher the load proved the last until the Heeney would wade w If i too heavy for It Neither pilot was injured in the forced landing but the plane believed badly damaged Cramer said he cracked thought one wing was rescued mi aged veiled Turkish i who had thrown herself the efforts of the to her she died later COURTNEY IS UNABLE TO GET PLANE IN AIR HORTA OF FAYAL ores July Frank T Courtney British airman made a tllo attempt this morning to take off the second time that Grew has played a hero's Turkey and the streets and in with a heart of a lion and a Jaw of corrugated steel almost contemptuous of Tunney's blows Tunney would beat him off with n left Jab to the face and then throw a pile driving right to the heart region Heeney though certainly growing weaker un- der this terrific never charging in Tunney press are ringing with danced out of range either praises In tho previous Instance stepping of wild round two Turkish rights or backing away from them in a automobile on a Two or three times the crowd De- country road prompt rescue Irritated at Tunney's retreats condition and though he was happy over his victory his Joy when word came from the quarters that the New was not In serious shape I made Heeney fight my fight for me Tunney snid he was asked about the most Important factor In his victory I almost knocked Heeney down In the first round he continued and when I saw what n tough fellow he was I decided to center my attack on his body He was too courageous to be knocked out with one punch It took a good ninny rights to his body before he weakened His habit of coming at me was alto of great assistance to me His rushing Just added so much more force to my blows and he was ened by every one of them I thought the referee should have stopped the contest in the eighth round when 1 paralyzed op- tic nerve with a hard hand punch which landed Just above the eye I had cut that organ with a similar punch in the bout Tunney Indignantly denied the charges made by handlers at the end of this round that he had poked his thumb in the eye It was a hard clean right hook to head that started bis Tunney said Tunney then went on to explain that ho fought his battle according to tho plan he outlined early In May when he went to Speculator and started training You saw me fight con- test a score of times at he told the Associated Press Every move I made against Heeney was ex- the same ones I made against the punching bags and the sparring partners There was no other way to Tunney went on Just wear Heeney down until I had sapped bis strength and slowed him down Heeney was no Jack Dempsey in there tonight I was never In danger and none of his punches distressed me in the least Ho had nothing I was afraid of and I was confident from tho first round on that he would never go the full distance with me ping away at his head with ray left and pounding at his body with my right only scars of battle were a bruise on his chest and several scratches on his back the latter In- that they were made when In his airplane for America I tho transportation of them to a and yelled for him to get ofr his For an hour and a half ho un- was greatly praised at the bicycle to get his plane to rise from the water even though he threw over- board some of his fuel supply to lighten weight TOO COLD PORT PATRICK Scotland July 26 bv the coldness of the kind to be Instituted In any state of Mr and Mrs A P Prince Moon 4.06 p m Sew 1 04 a m turc Captain Courtney said rhc writer London typist was due either to seaweed on today forced to abandon her tom of the or to to swim Irish Protests Heeney complained that Tunney his Into his right eye ho brushed against the ropes The champion had two of these ropo marks when he entered tho ring His face was unmarked but his right car which he injured early in his training had been aggravated by several hard Heeney blows Lou Fink in the eighth round blinding him hut j Tunney's trainer promptly bathed paid no attention to i inflamed organ to reduce the thf protest The Rock i and eliminate danger a ort continually and backed into a ring scar which the ropes with apparently is to r
