Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - December 26, 1929, Zanesville, Ohio by Kentucky Mob Shot Several Times and Hurled Over Murderer Found Alioe Hours Later THE TIMES RECORDER OL XLV NO 308 warmer Friday rain SOVIET SENDS ITS FLYING ACE TO SEEK LOST AMERICANS Personnel Weak k Charge by Senator Borah Holds Present Force Will Never Suppress Liquor Traffic pRAN AND MITCHELL ENY THIS ALLEGATION aim Is Made Prohibition Has Improved In Recent Months Girl's Abductor May Face Noose VASHINGTON Dec statements on prohibition er cement tonight heightened controversy over the situa n with two government depart nts rebuking the stand taken b lator Borah of Idaho and the sen ir replying that an heroic effort s evidently required Tor the department of justice At General Mitchell said that en congress sees fit to strengthen dry enforcement machinery those o administer the law will he able accomplish more for tho treasury department Commissioner Derail recent denunciation of the a Volstead personnel was late and bound to have a ng effect upon the morale of the vice Says Personnel Weak The Idaho senator yesterday ex- ssed the conviction that the would never be suppressed ith the present personnel from top Tonight he said Mitchell's that an effort Is Farmer Who Killed His Landlord Not Expected To Survive Lynching JACKSON Ky Dec er Fugate a tenant farmer held for he slaying of his landlord was taken rom the Breathitt county jail this morning shot half a dozen times and over a cliff where five hours ater his prayers and groans d help Fugate was brought to a hospital lere and when it was learned that he was not expected to live his signed it was five hours later when Warned he may be sentenced to be hanged if he enters a plea o innv an Of attacking beating Dorothy Van Camp improve the personnel o R c Arnold 56 former street car is be that its condition were CUv Uce after a confession According to meant that its v tn for in heroic 1 there had j mu In the last six I to buy Christmas presents then attacked her W and added there has room ho had built under his garage der the president's leadership been a officer noticeable change In public at- must have been 75 to 100 in the crowd The men did not harm the 25 er prisoners In the sought out Fugate's cell hustled him out into the snow and drove away The Jailer's son Louis Combs sleeping in an upstairs room heard the noise anc gave the alarm A deputy fired a few shots as the crowd drove off and then search was begun tor the kidnaped prisoner Sheriff S J Cockrell being aroused was taken He was said to Butler a farmer going out to shock j i fodder heard a man praying anc have stated that he recognized He summoned help anc ral of the mob but county officials was brought to the intimation of here It was not believed that he survive the wounds and expos declined to give any heir names pending arrests The mob that revenged the death of Slay lawyer and wealthy and owner worked quietly and under good leadership Five men about 2 a m slipped into the bedroom of Sollie Combs the jailer n his home adjoining the jail said that before he was fully awake his arms and feet had been round He woke to a warning to quiet if he valued his life I couldn't make any Comte said They had guns on me and had my hands and legs tied Then they took the keys and went and got Fugate That's all I know There were five In my room There body He had been shot in the head and limbs and had suffered Must Pay RUSSIA IS QUICK TO RESPOND TO APPEAL FOR MISSING FLIERS greatly from lying in the heavy at the bottom of the cliff He har been hurled some 20 feet from roadway also Fugate who Is 25 years old is no married but lived with his aged Here s John M castle Detroit rea ther and several brothers His operator who was recently rel With Watkins was said to j by a jury of eight women and occurred over his claim that the men to pay to Bertha ter failed to pay him for some 43 of Detroit as a result tne soviet union to lead the that Fugate had dug for the promise suit against cue expedition He will pilot an ft nn Pilot Shestakov Hero of Moscow to New York Flight Selected to Lead Soviet's Rescue Attempt Airmen and Planes Proceeding to Upper Alaska to Join Search for Eielson and Borland Lost in Siberia Since Early MOSCOW Dec Soviet flashed from the army radio station government today dispatched an plane to search for Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland off the Siberian coast and ordered two other Soviet planes to join in the mission It was believed the ice in the district to be covered was too strong to permit toe use of ice breakers The Moscow authorities took prompt action on the request of ator Borah of Idaho to acting foreign Commissar Litvinoff and the similar appeal of the United States ment of the interior Send Hero To Rescue Shestakov who has been a national hero since his recent return after making a successful flight from Moscow to New York was selected as the most able man at the command here The work of transferring tho planes to flat cars for to Fairbanks where they will bo assembled and flown to Teller Alaska began as soon as the vas docked From Teller the across Behring Strait on the flight to North Cape Siberia near where Eielson and Borland were be- to have been forced down Thei expected to take off tot Teller within 24 hours after they reach Fairbanks The Chelan left Seattle last and had been expected here either Christmas Kve or early this morning Watkins and met a week ago in a country store near here and the quarrel was renewed Fugate shot him to death Watkins who was 45 was married and had two children him It Is the largest amount ever awarded in a heart balm action Fireworks Fuel for Barbecue Blaze at Garat Park icr and is shown being were directed in answer to ha yesterday In which ho took i position that the dry law spoke itself in connection with demands southern dry senators for a re- -t of some sort on prohibition i law enforcement comm s- Wife and Nephew Murdered Seek Young Negro Term Dec v A i The Idahoan contended 0 or trie flaying of Dr to find the kind of officials who j enforce It was nil that was d Mrs Lane Jones Lane 13 to make the Volstead act effective Mitchell Results Charge said tho honor of the HU servants made It hror different officials that of her young nephew who had been employed in the hold for the past week Sam the sheriff said made his homo In the basement where Mrs A spectacular fire fed by fireworks caused damage at to the Hillside Barbecue stand and dance hall operated by Mr and Mrs Andrew Schaumleffel at the West pike city limits at 4 p m Wednesday Christmas Day Firemen were called by residents of the neighborhood who Were attracted in- the exploding firecrackers The flames had gained great headway and a line of hose was required to ate the giant crackers before the could be brought under con- trol Firemen figured the flames from a small gas heater in the bathroom of the I on the second floor The blaze ate its way into the loft over the dance floor where the surplus stock from the Fourth of July fireworks was stored Exploding giant crackers scattered the blaze to all parts of the dance floor and to the roof of the structure Jones stripped body was found with the rapidity of machine-gun da of public servants him the Borah against jg marshals a department of Justice killings since discovery of j also said the door of Mrs Jones this morning iroom had been broken open and her All had been beaten to death A Joed was in a state of extreme servants made It bodies this morning Iroom had 1 him to let pass without An had beer beaten to death was in wholesale charge jury this afternoon returned dcr United States verdict of murder by some is other officers person robbery as a the mos Two big chemical tanks were ex- hausted without great effect Water He added he i been working on measures tied to improve personnel in the courts ami to the enforcement agencies Defends Commissioner Doran said by Senator Borah of the ire prohibition personnel was un- and bound to have effect upon die c of Dr Jones who was one ost prominent physicians In was found on the floor of A axe and a also by discovered by Bert ss man and who was Christmas gifts to the j hold He first called on the J phone but no one answered On ar- riving at the home which is about three miles from the center of the city he found the house locked and I forced entry Exploring he found the bodies of Mrs Jones and the boy In tho basement and then went to the garage whore he found the body of Dr Jones Officials expressed belief that the around 9 or 10 from the three-inch hose Drought the flames under soon control After the blaze large quantities of unexploded firecrackers were ed out of the loft by firemen and angs of kiddies grabbed them Tho blaze damaged the roof over O Dec 25 three were killed own with all o'clock last night that r equipment w with the present per to t enforced at all be wa ni ued I ran ile we are as totally Dr and Mrs Jones had been fire of unknown origin about a year She was his third in progress He had been divorced from Wednesday previous wives both of whom are not Tho Joneses had no children affirm that on 5 o to find a loss of nns group 50000 on which there is insurance of but the Lane youth had been making serving under was heated by joneses moved to the home scene of the killings a months ago MEETING OF OHIO LEAPS TO DEATH CLEVELAND O Dec seph Blair 37 delirious from monia jumped to his death from the window of a second floor ward Charity hospital today Blair a tient at tho hospital had been fering Intensely said for two days at- floor of the bathroom and a tition to the ground floor where some other stock was damaged Schaumleffel said last night the Mace had been locked up for the while he and Mrs Schaumleffel visited the home of relatives for a Christmas dinner and the blaze ed whll the place was unoccupied The damage will probably be partly covered by Insurance plane of the same type as the Land of the Soviets in which he and three companions flew across Siberia and then over the northern of the pacific to Alaska a which them close to where the can explorer and aviator is believed to have been lost Two of the Soviet planes now ore at Providence Bay In the extreme northeast of Siberia on strait Shestakov was at North Cape planes will hop ISLES L BY GILES LONDON Dec olde Christmas day In England came in like a lamb and went out on a ins roaring gale that sent ships scooting for shelter all around the British Isles The storm area ed from the Orkney islands to Spain Spain reported the loss of the Norwegian steamer with all hands off Farallones early today The storm blew out of the west banishing the blue skies and summery weather of southern land Rain fell in torrents and hail rattled on the streets of London this morning while wild weather ruled the couth coast districts where Christmas visitors to resort towns watched great seas pound on the beaches and harbor TO GREET NEXT H WASHINGTON Dec same official greeting as would be corded to the active head of a nation tonight the arrival in ington tomorrow of President-elect Pascual Ortiz of Mexico At the Mexican embassy today at- taches turned from the of the holiday to prepare for the arrival of their next president from more tomorrow President-elect Ortiz has been undergoing treatment at Johns Hopkins hospital Arthur Lane chief of the Mexican division of the state department said that Secretary nnd Mrs would greet the president-elect at Union tion shortly before noon and after- ward would Join the procession to the Mexican embassy Soldiers sailors and marines will render military honors both at the station and the embassy and a ron of motorcycle policemen will com- prise an escort from the one to the other In the afternoon Senor and Ortiz Rubio will be received at the White House by President and Mrs Hoover who will break a precedent a little later when they Journey to the embassy to return the call In person All previous visiting have had their calls repaid by cards lift by a White House attache This custom prevailed in the recent visit CANADIANS TO AID Alaska Dec Carrying three planes and a complement of Canadian filers who aro to engage in the search for Pilot Carl Ben Eielson and Mechanic Earl Borland missing since early ber In Siberia the Coast Guard ter Chelan here today shortly before noon The Chelan entered Bay In a blinding snow storm and was guided to the Alaska railroad wharf by means of radio signals EXECUTIVE OFFICES OF SWEPT BK WALNUT COVE N C Dec suddenly insane Stokes farmer today slew his wife and six children and after Ing them out for burial went into a patch of woods near his home and killed with a shotgun The body of C D Lawson the year-old father and husband was found about half a mile from the home with a shotgun WOund In his chest At the home were the bodies of Mrs Marie James 7 mond 5 and Mary Lou 4 months The mother ond her oldest daughter had been shot In the chest ly with the same gun the father used to end his own life James Raymond and Mary Lou had been beaten to death with o blunt Instrument In a tobacco barn a quarter of a mile away neighbors found tie bodies of Carrie Lawson 14 and 10 They had been shot In the back Blood on snow outside the led to the discovery of the bodies in the outbuilding The father after he had cd his wife end children carefully prepared for burial He their eyes and folded their hands over their breasts The heads of the five victims found in the home were placed on pillows Old sacks were placed under the heads of the two WASHINGTON Dec executive offices of the White House girls whose bodies were found in the are practically in ruins following a fire that broke out shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday For hours the flames defied the efforts of the concentrated Washington fire de- broke out again and again Just as the apparatus was about to be withdrawn The fire evidently had Its origin Smokes Will Recover CITY N J Dec was school school Youth Falls to Death the Story YORK Dec to some other high body of Benson Boring for providing Old a junior at Harvard uni- ior Tie unido pupils until n ln the courtyard can be worked thp of his parents Prof and for students NEW jcr rebuilding fell Coast Guardsmen Kill Another 1 lered ablaze jm unconscious icon n hours In Airplane in which they to right mri ip and crashed to tne the Dunn city The dead Coats near Wo student flier A Moch leg from here and of lias in to t o government rto bridge tho re on US 21 at the county assume n that I as soon as I Mrs William A Boring today by a negro Police said he apparently had fallen from the window of his room on the floor His father is a at university i The boy had at his home sturdily to spend the Christmas mother and father He 1 in only child Christmas eve he out mid returned home at about Choked to Death On Christmas Candy O Dec invaded tho home of Mr and here today COLUMBUS O Dec annual mid-winter meeting of the Ohio Educational Association uled to open here tomorrow and con- through Friday and Saturday will attract some 10.000 teachers from every section of the state General Cessions will be held in Central high school auditorium with department meetings in various other places The leading speakers will be Bruno Vassar college and Edward Howard Griggs noted lecturer Thursday night the high school chorus will render selections under direction of G J Jones high Cleveland The high school symphony orchestra In which 56 schools ore represented will ender a program Friday night under he leadership of E Weigle Ohio state university professor of music Officers will be elected Friday Dr John J own superintendent of school is of the association Other speakers on the program in- cluded Dr J O Engleman president of Kent State Robert E son Western Reserve win D Soper president Ohio Robert Williams dent Ohio Northern walla at Folkestone and other ports Many ships sought sheltered Premier Ramsay MacDonald from Plymouth to Scotland where a gale swept toward the neys the malls were held up at wall and the North Orkneys were without Christmas letters all sea vices being suspended For the first time In 30 years no trawlers were in with fish at Aberdeen market today The harbor was not daughter Mrs Glen Smith near when their three-year-old to death o a piece of cindy The child was playing her tovs early this morning and the time One d in her throat and be IX LIVERPOOL O Dec R 65 a night v was found dead in bed at hero today Death is be- fcn due to a heart IN i nun Mr T an couple tiro of undetermined their home passable The Aberdeen district has beon stormbound for a week while southern Britain was enjoying warmth and sunshine Not a vessel has ed or left Aberdeen since last Monday Ireland experienced gales which at Two Toledo Men Die In Christmas Brawl TOLEDO O Doc 25 men paid with their lives in a rel this morning Edward Shofner 43 a widower and father of a son was killed and Paul Smith 34 left his widow a young son and daughter when he was fatally wounded In the altercation which took place in front of the Smith home times had the force of hurricanes last Patrolmen Leonard Mills and Joseph night and early today Trees who were summoned to the unrooted and minor damage done in scene were unable to learn the exact f 8 cause of the shooting other than that towns Lloyds reported numerous ships in difficulties with propellor or rudder trouble but the Norwegian craft was the only instance where loss of life was reported Despite the gale England was warm today This morning 32 stalwarts whose ages ranged from 72 to 17 years swam across Serpentine lake in Hyde park In competition for tho silver cup presented annually by Sir James Barrle Coal Picker Shot by Railway Detective Husband and Wife Killed at Crossing FINDLAY O Dec ton Keel 58 candy salesman of this city and his wife 53 were killed In- stantly this afternoon when their was struck by a Nickel Plate freight train The accident occurred at a crossing in the village of Comb about eight miles northwest of here The couple was returning to after visiting with relatives PLANS MUSEUM ANGORA Turkey Dec Charles Breasted Jr son of the di- rector of the Oriental Institute of cago university Is In Angora con- with the Turkish ment about plans for the creation of a museum in the Turkish capital RESCUED FROM ICE LONDON Dec telegraph dispatches from Wellington New Zealand today reported that the crews of two whaling expeditions sent out by the Byrd Antarctic expedition had been rescued after their boats had been crushed In the Ice The news was received by tho Byrd supply ship Eleanor Boiling by wireless CINCINNATI O Dec Samuel 43 was wanted to leave the house to visit relatives and Smith insisted that he stay When police arrived Shofner was lying dead on the sidewalk with a bullet wound in his head and was on the front porch He ened the officers Patrolman Mills ran onto the porch grabbing Smith who was ishing his revolver A struggle en- sued and Mills grabbed Smith's hand The gun discharged Smith being In the shot and wounded seriously today by Woodie Smith railroad detective was removed to general hospital where he was found to have suffered two wounds one in his arm and another n his leg Smith told police he caught and three other men ng up conl along the right of way and ordered them to leave He said drew a revolver turned and fired three shots none of which took effect Smith returned the fire he said and collapsed GIVES CLOTHES TO POOR DALLAS Texas Dec ing never forgotten kindnesses shown him when he come to the United States years ago to escape poverty and hunger in eastern Europe I Rude Dallas clothing merchant daw opened his store ond distributed gifts of wearing apparel to of this city's SOCIETY DAMAGE TO CABLE LINES PARIS Dec years may be required to repair fully the damage caused to the three French cable company lines broken by sub- marine earthquakes off Newfoundland Nov 18 The shocks were felt in the northeastern part of the United States HEADS CHEMICAL NEW YORK Dec American chemical society today an- the election of William Pherson dean of the graduate school of Ohio State university president for 1930 Ho take office on Jan 1 THE WEATHER Partly cloudy warme Thursday Friday rain Tho outlook is for mostly fai inder the roof of the building but rapidly to all parts of the All of President Hoover's private papers and many other valuable were saved Thirty fire nozzles were played on the flames and the Interior fitments of the building were drenched with water The cabinet rooms the dent's private office the offices of his hree secretaries the reception and rooms were reduced to chaos Defective wiring is thought to have the blaze Temporary quarters must be found for the executive staff and steps ready have been taken for the re- placement of the building It is likely that it will bo rebuilt as the lire has shown the folly of ng such valuable material as Is In- trusted to the chief executive of the nation in anything but a fireproof barn After he had done this Lawson be- to have become deranged from a blow he received on the head a year ago went into the woods and shot himself to death Arthur a son who was visiting an uncle near Germantown In stokes county a few miles from Walnut cove was the only member or the Immediate family the man's carnage He was prostrated when he returned home and learned of the tragedy building George S Watson chief of the Dis- of Columbia fire department the loss at lut said that It might run well above that figure Three Little Children Are Burned to Death PARIS Dec- negro children the oldest lour were burned to death here today as they slept tonight their mother being ab- sent on a trip to a grocery store The dead are Robert Harris month old infant Sargeant Harris two years JAY Okla Dec with murder Wirt Hastings nephew of Congressman W W Hastings of was in the Delaware county Jail here today awaiting for- arraignment Hastings was ar- ested last night 24 hours after Charles a neighbor had been shot to death as he sat in the three miles southeast of Bemice was said to have been summoned to the Hastings home by Mrs Hastings who said her husband was drunk and she was unable to do anything with him Hastings brothers Edgar and Owen who lived with him told F W Hampton ty attorney that Wirt had struck his wife and fought with them The brothers said that was shot is he sat in a chair unarmed Wirt they said fired a shotgun as he entered from another room the latter discovered the flames old and Willie May Harris a girl Neighbors weather Thursday and Friday in the Washington forecast district ed by rain on Friday in the lower Lake region the upper Ohio valley and the north portion of tho middle Atlantic states Temperatures will rise on Thursday in the Ohio valley and the lower Lake region and on Friday in the Atlantic states WEDNESDAY'S TEMPERATURE Headings hy Drug Store 5 a 4 p 7 a 6 p 10 a m 30 8 p 12 noon 32 10 p 2 p 12 midnight 28 Sun rises a m Sets p m Moon rises a m Sets p m about 8 o'clock and succeeded in cuing two older children but were unable to reach the other three Crashes in Blinding Snow Will Recover MICHIGAN CITY Ind Dec Hill BOO Mich mail pilot whose plane loaded with last minute messages of cheer crashed the Ing snow storm last night grinned from beneath a mountain of ages at St Anthony's hospital here today and observed that it was not such a bad Christmas after all He had Just assured that his injuries which physicians at first said might prove fatal were not serious Hill suffered fractures o both Jaws a crushed face and minor body injuries SUFFERS FRACTURE CANTON 111 Dec ry McVey a milk wagon driver who came here six weeks ago from New Vienna Ohio suffered a fractured skull here today when he slipped or an icy pavement in the path of an automobile driven by Donald borrow Little hope was held for Vey's recovery was no blamed was killed instantly the charge lodging in his heart Youth Trespassing Is Killed by Farmer Okla Dec Charles Williamson high school student was shot and killed today by a farmer named Simpson as the boy and an older brother Richard a student the University of Oklahoma were walking across the farmers peanut field The Williamson boys sons of Mrs W s Williamson were hunting Simpson was said to have fired twice with a 22 rifle one bullet en- tering the boy's heart His brother was not struck VICTIM OF ROBBERS EAST LIVERPOOL O Dec home with Christmas ents Fred Abrams of was held up and robbed of MO by armed men here early today VETERAN MERCHANT DIES DEFIANCE O Dec eral services will be held in Defiance tomorrow for William Heltman 85 He died ot Infirmities Heltman a merchant in Oklahoma new here for hair a century I INTO PORT PROVIDENCE R I Dec Norwegian freighter Karmoy With crew of 26 limped into today with one ot her after grounding and being off Monday night 1
