Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - November 20, 1928, Zanesville, Ohio WTf Jj t Now Out of Banks and Flood Waters Spreading Death and Destruction in Five Midwest i i Always First TIM Always Fair V 4 XLIV NO 277 ZANESVILLE OHIO TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20 1928 snow flurries Wednesday fair fa S DREADNAUGHT STEAMS SOUTH WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT One Man May Die as Result of Gun at C BYD ATTACKS FR brose Harrington d and Shot With Own Gun Guy Starbuck VICTIM IS REMOVED TO COLUMBUS HOSPITAL Starbuck Also Shot in Leg By Harrington At Be- ginning of Fight Shot three times in the head with s own gun during a drunken fight Harrington 35 of Corning is lying at the point of in St hospital Columbus his assailant Guy Starbuck 25 of Corning is confined to the of a brother under guard of a sheriff for treatment of a bul wound in the right leg inflicted evening by Harrington ac to reports from Sheriff Harle of New Lexington Sheriff McNabb was called to Corn Ing to probe the shooting evening He said it was the resul of an Ight between the tw men roommates at the o the Sunday Creek Coal company a Corning with the principals being in a highly Intoxicated condition befor hostilities began Men Were Friends From the sheriff's investigation disclosed Harrington carried a 4 revolver and had made threat would shoot somebody best of friends Harrington wa ed to have started the row wit roommate and Starbuck he fight with a pipe tench after Harrington was alleged t shot him in the leg ithe gun from Harrington turned gun upon the an shot several times at him Harrington was really shot three time the head or one or of th was made by coul be learned last night by Sherif as Harrington was rushed 1 Columbus hospital after other employes of the compan ad parted the two men Starbuck was treated by a ir tha wound In the leg and the taken to the home of the brothi here Sheriff McNabb swore in De ar Forager as special deputy t lard the wounded man until he ble to be removed to the Perr inty jail at New Lexington Both Starbuck and Harrington cam Corning from West Virginia Sheri said last night and wei by the Sunday Creek Co as electricians at the min ear Corning They had been rooc g at the of the compan Harrington Is Gunman Harrington who was perhaps mo wounded by Starbuck figure i a shooting scrape with Thorn at the Valley Hotel In bout four years ago according Sheriff McNabb but the case was against Harrington at th Descendant of Columbus Weds DEATH PROPE OIL OF 17 Norwegian Wins Nobel Prize Cumberland River At Flood Stage Adds Three to Total Dead ESTIMATE DAMAGE AT MORE THAN Missouri River is ing Wide Area tion is Grave Mr and Mrs Robert Esnault snapped at New York lust after their wedding aboard a liner The ceremony was performed with all the ceremonials of the Catholic church Mrs who claims descent from Christopher Columbus was Carmen de de Is a pioneer m French aviation iT f NEW records YORK of two Nov commercial wireless telegraph companies produced in court today indicated that officers of the steamer Vestris made no report COLUMBUS O Nov H Bugg local city fireman is Ing the Ohio pheasant hunting laurels with two cock birds brought down In one shot near Kome morning In company with William G spead another fireman Bugg said he was returning from an unsuccessful hunt when they discovered the two cocks engaged In a death struggle KANSAS CITY Nov flowing streams were spreading death and destruction in five states tonight and the mighty Mississippi river itself was out of banks along the borders of Missouri and Illinois Rainfall of unprecedented tions for this time of year brought Kentucky and Illinois into the flood belt during the day and Increased th seriousness of the situation In souri while communities In eastern Kansas and a portion of Oklahoma were slowly recovering from the mos disastrous November flood on record Seventeen Known Dead Three deaths In Kentucky when the Cumberland river was on a ram page and two more reported in Kan sas brought the total known dead tc seventeen Property damage already was esti mated at more than Sev eral thousand families were with a cold wave and snow in som places adding to their misery Swollen by 36 hours of rain the Cumberland river invaded the district of and ed dwellings in the low parts of Harlan and More than 700 persons were forced to flee their homes in Harlan The Kentucky river its banks and flooded homes and business buildings At Quincy HI the Mississippi was pouring through thousands of acres of HOOVER EMBARKS ON HIS TOUR OF Next Chief Executive of Nation Leaves Soil of United States But Traveling On Battleship He is Technically on U S of Trip Not Yet Decided As to Detail THE XT S S MARYLAND AT SEA Nov every honor except that of the presidential ag Herbert Hoover today left United sell on a mission of friendship ncl understanding to the sister re- of the western hemisphere This battleship which la to be his until the trans-Andean from Chile steamed tonight through the calm Pacific Undset Norwegian author has been awarded the 1928 Nobel prize In literature She Is the third Norwegian author to be hus honored Mme Undset is the author of a trilogy Kristin and her latest work la The Axe OT No charges have yet been filed Harrington or starbuck Sher- McNabb said last night but action depend largely upon the outcome fat the Injuries to Harrington The physician reported to be in a critical condition very slight hopes for recovery FROM William Goelz of Orchard street employe of the Adams company in the erection ot the nurses home at Good Samaritan ital was painfully injured early afternoon in a fall from a He fell about 10 feet and alighted on his left side sustaining severe about the left side left leg foot Although he o be suffering much pain at the hospital last night his condition was not considered serious v Goelz was picked up by workmen and carried into the hospital for treatment to their superiors on land that were in trouble at sea until after sent out a general SOS which was hours after there were definite signs that they were in serious danger And on several Instances after the ship had begun to keel It was also shown they reported to communicate to a sister ship proaching them Officials of the Radio Marine Cor- and the Marconi Wireless company occupied the stand for the greater part of the fourth day's sion In the federal inquiry Into the sinking Of the Vestris off the ginia Capes a week ago foday with tha loss ot more than 100 lives United States Attorney Charles H Tuttle had subpoenaed the radio ords to determine the truth or falsity of rumors that during those long hours when the Vestris was keeling over Capt William Carey had asked or instructions from ashore and had seen told to make every effort to et along without a distress call The only other important witness of the day was Herbert G Welland third mate of the Vestris who had charge of launching the lifeboats His testimony was at striking variance with mony of passengers and members of the crew that inefficiency was shown In getting the boats into the water and that they were The federal attorney said he still had some radio records to be ed but he Intimated that he believed those already read were fairly con- evidence that Capt Carey withheld nls SOS solely on his own responsibility along the road side As the birds took flight but still ighting Bugg said he fired both ailing mortally wounded He says is the first time he ever saw two ock pheasants fighting and the Irst instance he ever heard of two killed at a single shot He In- ends to have them mounted Defends Conduct Of 1 Firemen On Vestris NEW YORK Nov tus a bosti fireman of the steamer In an Interview with reporters today expressed indignation over published stories which In his opinion reflected on the loyalty and courage of the blark gang as the stokers are familiarly known I want to he asserted that the firemen did everything they could to save the I've been a fireman for 17 years 1 know what I'm talking about There wouldn't have been a white man saved from If It had not been for the f work TO PORTLAND Ore Nov 19 James P Cooke president of St Cooke stock brokerage house which failed last January was sentenced day to seven in prison for by embezzlement Cooke was id In connection with the of funds derived from sale lids for a customer The resulted from charges that filed suffered losses aggregating A motion for a new LETS FIRE CON DELAWARE O Nov thu of Cleveland was shot by his own gun when he allowed a year-old boy to fire It today and as a result he may lose his right arm The recoil of the gun threw the firearm over the shoulder and as his finger was still on the trigger he fired the Run a second time dentally The shot struck Klingel in the arm CAMPAIGN EXPENSE ACCOUNTS STILL FILED COLUMBUS O Nov spite the fact that the official line was Friday night severa election campaign account were filed today In the office of of State Clarence J Brown Several accounts are said to be stil outstanding Blake C Cook Kent treasurer o the Home Town Davey for Club reported receipts nnd tures each totaling The women's division of the nation which backed Joe E Baird Re publican elected congressman In 13th district received 65 562 and has a balance of 65 will be turned over tq the Wood coun ty Republican women's organisation From receipts of 95 the state executive committee of the Ohio party scent SI 019 24 ing to of John H son Delaware treasurer L WILL SELECT SUCCESSOR TO Selection of a city councilman to ill the vacancy created through the of Virgil Connar will be Tiade fey the city solons at the next business session of the body Monday evening Dec 3 Such decision was reached by the city council at the regular meeting last night Tlie new councilman selected by he city solons will office im- mediately following his selection He hold office for the remainder of Mr Connor's term which expires next Mr resignation was re- by A L Basehart clerk of council last night The former councilman recently accepted a sition which necessitated his remove to Pittsburgh and had not attended he city council meetings for more than a month Two men have been prominently mentioned as a possible successor to Connar They are Paul Kern of he Dresden road and M M er of Van Home street filling the vacancy of council are desirous of someone who re- In the recently annexed tory farm land The flood from the Mississippi and its tributaries had taken a heavy tall In livestock and damage to farm lands in this area was estimated at Missouri Flood The Missouri river was reaching the flood stage across the whole of Missouri and threatened inundation of a large acreage of bottom land In the of St Louis The Grand river and other streams were on a rampage and many rail lines and highways were blocked At St Louis the Mississippi was rising rapidly Refugees in the flooded areas were Being cared for by local organizations but the cold wave made further aid necessary At Ottawa Augusta Ar- kansas City Neodesha and other places in Kansas by the the water was rapidly ing and relief work was getting In hand Churches schools and lodge halls were concentration places for refugees and the American Legion and Salvation Army were lending hand to malce them comfortable Football In Is Fatal To Youth Gives Em More Time To Solve Murder Case FLOOD IN KENTUCKY PINEVILLE Ky Nov wrath of the Cumberland and tucky rivers tonight had cost the lives men driven approximately persons from their homes ed the low-lying sections of five com- and caused untold property damage in eastern Kentucky Reports from the flooded areas tonight that the torrent had not ed Its crest and at the water still was rising at the rate of eight an hour The three victims were Lawrence Miles and C S Saylor They were standing on a bridge when a huge tree was whirled against the structure carrying It away They have not been found Chill winds from the west followed closely upon the steady rains of Monday brought to a realization that murky weather con- ditions of fall and winter were about to settle over the valley nnd many readily weather forecasters that snow flurries would occur Tuesday Tho rains of Monday which con- through the morning and early afternoon brought a drop in and the raw winds gurs of snow flurries Residents watched the sky last night for the first signs of a heavy snow and though conditions appeared ripe for a wintry blanket the snow failed to fall but the air remained chilly Predictions of snow flurries were made by weather forecasters for and valley Tuesday with fair weather on The cold rains following upon t heels of moderate autumn weather Monday morning led the populace to anticipate a cold wave with freezing temperatures and while this result failed to last night all were hopeful the fine weather would continue and an open winter would them this yeai The mercury stood at 39 degrees at midnight Monday with a of a drop to the freezing point before sunrise Tuesday Nov James Walker today gave the po department ft little more time t produce somo developments In Its er forts to solve the Arnold murder mystery Last week the mayor said that un less the police had uncovered some thing further by today he take action himself However at th conclusion of a conference with Jos eph A Warren police he mayor snid he was willing to wal or developments which the had told him were was shot In the Parl Central hotel two weeks ago last nigh nd died on election day CONGRESSMAN DICS WASHINGTON Nov William A of Ar- kansas Democratic whip in the house died today following an ation which was performed day The Arkansas representative who was 64 years of age suffered an at- tack of gall bladder trouble lost week and underwent an operation FOLLANSBEE W Va Nov poisoning resulting from an Injury he received in a football game caused the death today of Mark Carey 16 member of the high school team Carey suffered a blistered heel in a game and the wound became Infected and the youth died In n hospital Two brothers of the dead boy are football this season third is a coach and LEAPS FROM WINDOW TO ESCAPE ANGRY HUSBAND COLUMBUS O Nov Leaping from the window of her third story apartment to escape her husband who she alleged was ening her with an Ice pick Mrs othy 35 today suffered able fatal injuries The husband Paul Wynn was arrested The leap from the window the climax of a three-day domestic quarrel HIT HY AUTO COLUMBUS O Nov 19 Bentley 77 vice- president of the Dollar Building and Loan company tonight from n skull yesterday when he was struck by an automobile she would escape a term for passing bad checks was carried out today by Mrs Helen Sargent who disappeared through a on a train taking her from to the women's tory at Mrs Sargent was In the tody of Miss Lottie Mitchell town police matron escaped near Crestline according to information received by Sheriff Peter J Corll of county Tbe woman went into a lavatory as the train pulled into Crestline Junction A short time later Miss Mitchell discovered her prisoner gone and a window open Mrs Sargent passed a number of worthless checks here after gaining attention by posing as a social er and denouncing Jail conditions She admitted she had worked her scheme In many Ohio and eastern cities and had served a prison term In California The Weather Mostly cloudy and slightly colder probably snow flurries in northeast portion Tuesday day fair CONDITIONS The disturbance that developed over Alabama and Mississippi day afternoon has moved rapidly northeastward and increased greatly both In extent and intensity and it la centered tonight over the upper Saint Lawrence valley A trough ex- tends southward to the Georgia coast This disturbance lias spread precipitation in tl form of rain over the eastern other members of the party followed closely after The president-elect reached San dro at 9.40 o'clock this morning after an overnight journey from Palo Mr Hoover spent much of the time on the trip to the port of tion in replying to various urgent tera and telegrams He retired late bus was up at his usual The journey of the president-elect will end ha returns either to Miami or Key West to remain In ida until shortly before his tion on March 4 SAN PEDRO Cal Nov Herbert Hoover sailed today on the battleship Maryland to meet the ples of Latin America and extend o them an assurance of the y feeling of he United States for her neighboring republics on the southern continent on the west coast of was the first announced port of call as the lifted and moved majestically out of the Afterward the president-elect wag to follow a devious path which would lead him to Balboa for a briet inspection of the Panama canal down the west coast of South ca to Callao and to ly all the countries on the nent Itinerary Not Announced The definite itinerary for the trip was to be made public after a con- on board the Maryland with Ambassador Henry P Fletcher a special representative of the state department who Joined the Hoover party on the Maryland Embarking as a private citizen three and a half months before his ration as president Mr Hoover ed the Maryland while the guns of battleships in the harbor roared presidential salute of 21 guns The president-elect was met at his train by Admiral William V Pratt of the United States battle fleet who escorted him to the launch FOf a- momenta the party paused and stood at attention val band saluted Mr Hoover then they stepped Into tlie launch and slipped silently cut Into the bay Mrs Hoover their son Allan and various ME nil IN OMT M m HE oi mm Ashcraft 60 of seriously Injured and his son Watt Ashcraft sustained minor in- at o'clock Monday ning when their automobile collided with a parked automobile truck on the load several miles from this city The father and son were brought to hospital and given treatment The elder Ashcraft was suffering from fractures of eral ribs many cuts and bruises about the head and body and a blood blister on the leg The ton was badly bruised and X-rays will be token of an In- jury to his right foot at the pital Tuesday morning Witnesses of the accident said the Ashcrafts were to to attend Grotto ceremonial In theater and their bile struck the truck which was parked on the pavement on burg road without rear lights protect other motorists The Ashcraft automobile demolished in the clash The father was In a very serious tion at the hospital late last and It is feared he may have internal Injuries A passing motorist brought the Injured to the hospital DOUBLE ELECTROCUTION IT OHIO SET FOB I COLUMBUS O Nov electrocution will take place in the Ohio penitentiary Friday Nov 30 by order of the state supreme court Today the supreme court denied a rehearing of the case of John Rucker negro of Cincinnati convicted OI slaying John on July 4 1927 and set the electrocution for the same night as that of ley Hoppe Toledo child slayer On the day of the killing Rucker and friends went to Newport Ky where they held an alleged liquor party Rucker returned to nati obtained a and re- volver and on the street he caused a scene Police were called men Sherman and Franken answered the alarm As got out of the police car Rucker is to have shot him with the shotgun Rucker attempted to cape but fell breaking his shotgun as Franken who pursued leaped on his prostrate form During the fle Rucker shot the officer with a revolver he had concealed on his person Rucker pleaded he was Intoxicated and insane from drugs and liquor when he shot the officer Stanley Hoppe Is to die the same night for the of Dorothy 7 cousin of his wife BEFORE IS PRESENT MEN SITS 4 NEW ORLEANS NOV Green president af the American Federation of Labor gave notice here today that tne organization would 3 fight to the last ditch in combatting the displacement of workmen by Speaking before the forty-eighth annual convention of the federation j which opened here today he asserted that the American Federation of i bor will never permit a human scrap heap to be created in America Our philosophy and objective throughout the he said human betterment and It is our aim i always to protect humans before chinery j Wo convict labor child labor mass production the ment of men by machinery and attempt to destroy the labor ment by of injunctions Mr Green said that recently f National Association erf ers held a meeting In New City at which he was informed aa a acs to American institutions challenge to produce he exclaimed Green said the communists met In Madison Square Garden New York and decided to hang in effigy of- of the American Federation Labor because they were tne greatest foa of communism in States t When we have the an- of these two forces represent the two he de- clared I think you can say we are n pretty good Daniel J of Indianapolis who resigned recently as mended that the office of treasurer be combined with that of secretary The executive council ed efforts be made to double the membership In 1929 It reiterated support ot vlae five-day week j the United States Is ab- AGED INVENTOR WINS HIS PATENT CLAIMS SAN FRANCISCO Nov Settlement of claims of George bell Carson aged inventor against United Verde Copper company for patents on a smelting have been settled on terms tory to both it an- here today by Robert Hayes Smith associated with Carson In pressing the patent claims He hss twice won Judgments against the companies m the United States Supremo Court normally from Alaska over the British northwest to northern Hudson bay High sure prevails over Manitoba and western Ontario and In the vicinity ot Bermuda and trom the Pacific coast eastward to the Mississippi river The temperature has fallen east of the Mississippi river except in New land and along the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic coast and It is now above normal from the states eastward to the Appalachian mountains Except for rain or snow rls Tuesday near the northern border generally fair weather will prevail east of the Mississippi river during the next two days The temperature will be lower throughout the Washington forecast district Tuesday and will not change materially during Wednesday i Bj 5 a 4 p m 45 7 a m 45 6 p m 44 10 a m 47 43 12 neon 48 10 p m 41 2 p m 47 12 midnight 39 Sun 7 23 a m Seti p m Du Pont Company Pays Extra Dividend WILMINGTON Del Nov After declaring the regular quarterly dividend of 50 a share and an ex- tra dividend of 75 or a total of 9725 a share on the common stock the of E I DuPont-De Co Inc today decided to up the stock on a basis of IN OF KELLOGG PICT SSI SHERIFF Tl to 1 If the shareholders approve The dividend declarations on the common stock will mean a total dis- of Of the extra dividend of 75 it v announced that 55 represents the of General Motors recent extra dividend of 82 50 a share on the stock held by the DuPont com- pany OTTAWA O Nov 19 attorneys and residents are ed to have In circulation tomorrow petitions to Governor Donahey ing that Sheriff Clinton L Felkey be replaced by some other authority in the Investigating of the Mary murder mystery Ottawa received word today that tho governor would act after he re- the petitions The sheriff has been criticized for alleged failure to proceed properly with the Inquiry Into the death of young divorcee whose body with the neck broken was found in the river near here about two months ago Representatives of a Dayton detective agency which en- tered the case after a reward had been offered accused the sheriff of Ing their plans WASHINGTON Nov mors of delay in approval by the ate of the Kellogg treaty renouncing war are floating about the even before a word of opposition has been openly uttered against the pact Tho rumors have been traced to sources favoring the extra session of congress but no speak on the probability of holding up the treaty as a club for the extra session Coupled with this rumor there cropped up the question of recognition Russia signed the multi- lateral agreement sponsored by tary Kellogg Senator Borah of Idaho chairman of the foreign relations committee has previously expressed the view that Russian recognition Is Involved in the treaty But Senator Borah unlike the administration Is an advocate of Russian recognition as well as of the peace pact The Idaho senator has pending a resolution for recognition of forces are demanding an extra session for farm relief If this problem is not settled at the short session KENDALL MILLIONAIRE IS DEAD CLEVELAND Nov Kendall wealthy Cleveland coal operator and writer died from pneumonia today at the Rockefeller institute New York according to word received by relatives here Recently he declined to contribute to his Alma Miter Cornell sity of he termed its system and sexy characteristics HP offered to leave to Cornell providing were abolished and the 16 Diamond Smuggling Ring Is Broken Up NEW YORK Nov imm acted today to stop what he said a conspiracy to smuggle diamonds a million dollars Into the United States Tho chief steward of the Cunard liner a New York traffic officer and ft John street Jeweler and his daughter were held in ball for the federal grand Jury charged with conspiring to bring In the stones The arrests followed upon the reported discovery of diamonds in the of William Ballyn the steward The other defendants were John T the Morris dau eweler nnd Miss Frances 11 Co 1 iJ jus tn i Moon rises 1.50 p m Seta p were given a separate college All furnished 2 Women Hacked To Death at Neb OMAHA Neb Nov women were found hacked and ped to death in a house here this afternoon They were Mrs Waldo wife of a packing house em- arid her sister Creta Brown Resso who went to work at 4 o'clock this morning found the bodies when he returned home shortly ter noon Mrs two children aged 10 months and 3 years were still In bed unharmed Miss Brown had been her sister here lor three months Her home was at Weeping Water Neb Caustic Criticism Of Vestris Inquiry LONDON Nov of the conduct of the in- now being conducted In New York en the sinking of the Vestris appeared m editorial columns of the Evening and the Evening Standard today Tho Star contends the New York Inquiry Is being conducted not as an Inquiry but as a public prosecution and protests it Is Indecent to subject the reputation of a British and a British who dead and cannot defend to this manhandling
