Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - May 24, 1938, Zanesville, Ohio V 1 Always First The Times Recorder Always Fair Vol LIV No 123 Ohio May 24 1938 fair today and Kennedy Cites Gross Abuses In Elections COLUMBUS O May Secretary of State William J bluntly pointed out today abuses and extravagances in Ohio's election system and told the state's election officials It is time to strive to put our house in order While remarking that Ohio could be proud because there had been few election vote scandals in the last 25 years Kennedy asserted the cost of operating the election machinery could be reduced con- He estimated could have been trimmed from the expended in the 1936 Clinic The state's chief election office spoke before approximately election board members and clerk In the first Ohio election clinic hel In about eight years The purpose of the two-day set sion he asserted is to bring abbu greater economy and strict honesty in the conduct of our elections The secretary of state declared there had been inexcusable abuse of the absentee and disabled vot srs ballots He cited a few outrageous in stances in which reput able physicians certified to phy sical disabilities which did not ex and in which some even at to enable insane to vote person Disabled voters ballots may be obtained by persons who because of illness can not go to the polls personally Absentee ballots given to persons in o elections if they are to be out o the state on election day Variation in Costs Kennedy asserted it was for his office to understand wide variation in ejection costs from county to county arid to election The variation of expenses in Registration 50 cents Up per precinct 45 cents per vote to Poll Expense of assistant part-time employes in eight large per votes cast to per thousand Twenty-eight counties for deputy clerk hire in 1937 when Turn to Last Page Please Guard Hurt Two Convicts Shot in Alcatraz Break SAN FRANCISCO May A guard was seriously injured and two long term convicts wounded by rifle fire today in a desperate at- tempt by three prisoners from Alcatraz island penitentiary the federal government's prison for incorrigibles in San Francisco Bay Warden James A Johnston who reported the attempted break said It occurred shortly after noon in the factory building on the ding rock Those injured In the disturbance R G dine senior custodial of- ficer who was slugged and Jously hurt Thomas R Limerick id Franklin both shot by a guard The extent of their wounds was not immediately revealed The Lucas third convict James C whom Warden Johnston said once stabbed Al Capone for- mer Chicago gangster was over- powered The warden did not re- veal what action was taken against the prisoner The attempted escape was the first since last December when two other long term convicts from the island during a blinding fog and never were again Brazil Friendly Trade Gesture to U S WASHINGTON May Brazil made a strong gesture of friendship toward the United States today by removing restrictions on foreign exchange used to pay for goods shipped to Brazil from this country Instead of requiring American exporters to accept ex- change contracts in payment lor their merchandise the Bank ot Brazil declared that as of today it grant spot exchange Brazil's order today means that States exports gate around a week will paid for on delivery and can merchants win not have to wait 35 days filling out of ex- change applications generally Mrs Moog Busch a nurse was questioned by the cial grand jury in New York City investigating activities of spy ring With Mrs Busch was Ignatz Griebl wife of Dr Ignatz Griebl held by Nazi police Court Decision Paves Way to Tax Pay of Of f WASHINGTON May Income tax exemptions enjoyed by an army of public officeholders can now be abolished swiftly officials said tonight after the supreme court upheld the treasury in two major cases The high tribunal decided that the federal government's taxing power extends into the pockets of those who work for the New York port authority and those pay to see athletic events at state uni- Though the latter case ed tHe legality of some hi admissions taxes collected ly the port authority was considered the more far-reaching The authority was set up by New York and New Jersey to op- erate bridges and tunnels between the two states and the states had urged that taxation of the in- come of its employes would be an unconstitutional burden on the in- of a state The supreme court by ting such taxation prompted well under secretary of the treasury to issue a jubilant comment He said the decision would strengthen President recommendation that all salaries of state and federal em- ployes be subject to both state and federal taxation At present federal salaries are exempt state tax and vice versa Some experts have an would be necessary to change this situation but Magill expressed be- lief that a simple law by congress would accomplish He ed the port authority decision as probably one of the great deci- sions of the past decade Jury Will Probe Graft and Perjury COLUMBUS O May County Prosecutor Ralph J ett subpoenaed 22 persons today including several state officials and employes to appear before the grand jury Thursday as it opens a probe of information that two for- mer securities division officials profited from Ohio Mines Inc stock sales Among those summoned were rs Myrna Smith secretary to Gov Dan T Moore chief of the Ohio Securities State Auditor Ferguson and A A Benesch state director if commerce The grand jury will investigate stock profit reports against Edwin udy former attorney examiner or the securities division and vard T Carney former division Information that Earl W ner salesman for- the firm of c Vossler perjured himself in statements against Tudy will be investigated also Judy filed a perjury charge against but later withdrew r pending the grand inquiry also filed a damage nil in common pleas court ay accusing Moore James Gruner assistant and Mr and Mrs fitzer of libeling him in tion with a securities division which resulted in the grand ury probe U.S Hearings On Coal Code Begin Today The National Bituminous Coal Commission will open hearings on 22 applications for exemption from the bituminous coal act of 1937 this morning at 10 o'clock the Rogge hotel here Coal operators from eastern and southeastern Ohio will attend the hearings before Examiner Charles O Fowler who will be assisted by a corps of attorneys special agents and court attaches Two in County Only two mine owners in kingum county seek exemption from the act while four of the 22 objectors are from Cambridge it was learned The hearings will continue through Thursday com- mission attaches said Exemption is sought on two general provisions They 1 Coal consumed by the ducer or coal transported by the producer to himself for tion by him 2 Transportation of coal in in- commerce which does not affect interstate commerce in coaL Those Seeking exemption In the first case operators con- tend their coal is mined and con- by themselves and therefore is not subject to federal tion In the second case several of the producers claim their coal is shipped in intrastate commerce but does not in any manner fect interstate commerce fore is not subject to regulation Coal mine com- panies seeking exemption from the bituminous coal measure Cowgill mine Cambridge Blue Diamond Coal company Pomerov James Kennard New Plymouth j H Wisecarver Dark low Coal company Middleport H S Gander company Cambridge Plainview Coal company bridge The Sharratt Coal com- pany Cambridge Hamilton ner Coal company Cambridge Joe Bellaire Robinson Clay Product company Akron General Clay Products company bus Hickory Clay Products com- pany Mineral City Joseph F Hosenfeld Martins Ferry Ross Mattern Cadiz M R McConnell Mt Ephraim Big Lump Coal company T E Turn to Last Page Please Davey Proud of Highway Record Including Hot Mix OT May Governor Davey tonight devoted his weekly radio address to a re- view of what he called a job done by the state highway department The big thing I want to said the executive Is the fact that in the last three years we have built more miles of state highways at lower average-cost than ever in of Ohio and we have maintained vast system better than it was ever done Davey asserted that despite er revenue the highway ment had met increased problems with the greatest efficiency of the state's history Think of heavy new dens thrown on the highway de- he summarized floods and flood damage drouths ally heavy snow storms dented damage from freezing and thawing handling the relocation of all the roads in the Muskingum Valley Conservancy district taking care of five thousand additional miles of county highways The governor said the hot mix program criticized by the senate committee as wasting millions of dollars is the greatest in the history of this state Guarded Pictured above P Damage High As Hail Rain Hit Vicinity Hull rain and flood waters caused heavy damage In Kum county and vicinity Monday afternoon and night At Monday afternoon an unusually heavy hail storm hit considerable damage to automobile tops dows tree branches farms and truck gardens One automobile Is reported to have had 33 punctures In the top due to the hail The storm extended to within three of Flood waters heavy rains of the past few days were causing heavy damage at Roseville and Crooksville At 1 o'clock this morning the water was receding at Crooksville Large Hall Stones gent Jr son of Mrs William A Werner of wealthy the i Downard road was at her delphia league Baseball guards were placed over the boy in his Philadelphia home after extortion notes were received threatening the boy's life Severe Sto r m Damage In Upper Ohio Watershed WHEELING W Va May heavy rain storm by wind and in some places heavy hail fell tonight over the upper Ohio river watershed ing thousands of dollars damage In Wheeling where inches fell within a few hours running in the streets arid Ing out gardens and truck farms one woman died Mrs Agnes Con- kle 60 hurrying to visit a bor and died of heart disease Hail as large as eggs fell across the river hi O Sheriff Howard Duffy of Belmont county said Across the state line in sylvania W B Beerbower mine superintendent at Smock near Uniontown said windows had been broken in about 200 schools and homes He estimated the damage in his vicinity at more than 000 Beerbower salii a dozen men were bruised while protecting dren with their bodies as they were hurrying from playground to a nearby schoolhouse Pittsburgh reported an inch of rainfall Jn Marshall county West Cameron i the tops of automobiles and left a trail of shattered glass and debris were slow coming from this area where telephone lines were down i Although fallen daily for the past fortnight have not been flooded along the Muskingum river near during the storm nnd re- ported heavy hail and rain After the storm Mrs Werner gathered n of hailstones ing them to Zanesville A majority were larger than hen eggs One which Mrs Werner gnve awny measured three and one-half es in length and two and one-half inches in thickness More than one inch of Is Bluff Works otn Hitler and Czechs toWar LONDON May Britain has won ances from both Germany and Czechoslovakia that they pre- fer peace talks to war Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced this I day to a silent house of commons after a week-end of I sion and fears of an explosion over the Sudeten I Germans in Czechoslovakia j The government gained the peace pledges In its efforts Miliard w Rice spokesman for France to avert a war which might drench Europe with ft MB the Veterans of Foreign Wars Is shown In Washington he made his successful plea for tion of pensions for disabled former service men The Senate Finance sub-committee approved measure Increasing the minimum monthly pension from to State Director Of Poor Is Recommended COLUMBUS O May The house committee re- commended for passage tonight n vesting of poor reported to have fallen at in a state director first port with one and one-half Inches measure to receive committee at Philo Up to Monday midnight an inch had fallen in Zanesville Jonathan Creek j At Roseville and In the special legislative session begun a week ago blood Chamberlain told how Britain in the urgent rolt of an honest umpire 1 To need for taking every caution for avoidance of incidents and of making every sible effort to reach a comprehensive and lasting settlement by negotiation with representatives Hitter could not another Spain of bU eastern neighbor by of Sudeten 2 To urgent Importance reaching R arms to Czechoslovakia ment it European pence Is to They two democracies wern spurred to this action At the he declared ports of Nazi arms Inside UMI the situation to have somewhat eased Shortly he disclosed lender Sudeten German party and mler Milan of would confer on the dispute the two held a The provides for lengthy conference In Praha ment of a state relief director nt waters from the swollen Jonathan monthly and gives him broad creek had covered parts of two towns business districts by 10 o'clock last night At that hour lower Main street over purse strings of state grants for the needy Salient features of the hill In- in Roseville was flooded with of the entire street being under water within a few hours Merchants were moving their goods etc to higher ground Franklin avenue was under as well as lower Washington street Over Main Street At Crooksville water covered the business district of lower Main street to a depth of two to three feet In the lower part town many homes were surrounded by the flood waters with occupants moving out or to upstairs rooms A major of Chandler street was also under water Bus and auto traffic into the city was cut off early in the evening by rising waters on the south and north at Rose Farm was re- ported the highest in history it their money Setting Ohio Hot-Mix Plants Not dosing Says COLUMBUS O- May Harry A Sparks formerly an the state Fleas s Henry L Scarlett's court today that no Ohio hot mix plants gone oat of business He appeared as a witness during a hearing on Mrs Agnes B motion for an order re- the state from Workers Want to Fight Fascist Rebellion MEXICO CITY May Leaders of Mexican ers tonight considered asking arm they Cardenas to them to help fight what termed the Fascist rebellion in the state of Sail Luis The committee ol the Mexican called a meeting to discuss the many asking the government to arm labor Tor tual Generally fair and er preceded by showers in east portion Tuesday morning Leader Flees to Dodge Spy Plot Inquiry NEW YORK May eral officials today disclosed facts indicating that Dr Ignatz T Griebl former American Nazi der now in Germany deliberately to dodge questioning as an ace witness in the government's international spy inquiry When Dr Griebl an army cal reserve officer and naturalized citizen boarded the German liner Bremen May 10 said U S ney Lamar Hardy he had been served with a subpoena to appear before a special federal grand jury which convened May 16 The penalty for disregarding the subpoena Is a fine but the of- fense is not one for which the ness now beyond the reach of eral authority could be extradited Youths In Holdup Sent To Reformatory WOOSTER O May terms in Mansfield re- were imposed today by Judge Walter J on old IS Woosler and Tattle 26 Orrville two of three youths were captured early Sunday 12 hours after their escape from Wayne JaH The youths both trusties were serving short chicken theft terms Generally fair weather the Hot of Ohio Inc Wednesday generally fair and in place of suspended reformatory I sentences when they made 1 escape with Frank New York WiHard Is held hond pending grand an robbery of Reinstatement of Strikers Ordered May The supreme court refused today to Interfere with orders of the tional Labor Relations Board di- recting industrial concerns to reinstate striking employes The effect of the refusal was to make enforceable the ers against Remington Rand Inc The Carlisle Lumber Co of laska Wash and the Black hours later last night at 9 o'clock that If the Turn to Page 11 Blast at Chemical Plant Kills Three MIDLAND May The toll of lives from the sion of a molten container in the Dow Co reached three tonight when Fred Reynolds chemist succumbed to burns blast within a vessel of molten metal fatally burhed John E Hoy 51 an experimental en- gineer and Paul Parsons 25 re- search aide The two men died within 45 minutes of each other tonight Fred Reynolds died a Barring aid for who en- tered Requiring clients to provide sworn statements of their financial condition every three months Demanding they call personally for relief warrants Requiring residence of one year in county nnd three years in the state as prerequisite for ob- relief Striking from relief rolls any person who refuses employment under reasonable conditions ex- cept in labor disputes Local communities tive expense was set at a maximum of 12 per cent of relief costs the committee striking out a clause permitting the itale director to authorize greater percentage ex- when he deemed them nee essary Frank Bubna ant- that ses in that city were 11.7 per cent but that requirements m the for detailed and other clerical functions might boost the total per cent- Efforts of Rep L H R Allen to insert a provision ing relief to all aliens failed when the committee voted five to five on his amendment The Lima preservative said he would renew the fight on the house door Czechoslovak borders German reports that a slovakian airplane had violated the border find then crashed tn flames on Its own territory kept enmity alive Czechoslovakia drow a deep breath ot exultant relief and was a growing confidence in tho But still on rigorous moves for pence by borders and France mond Steamship Company of New York The board issued its decision in the case on March 13 1937 ordering mately employes returned to work The order affected es in plants at Tonawanda North Tonawanda Hion and Syracuse N Middletown Conn and Mari- etta and Norwood O The decision in the lisle Lumber Co case issued Sept 26 1936 required the company to pay back wages to workers de- clared to have been discharged lowing company refusal to nize the union and to offer re- instatement to employes who struck in May 1935 The Black Diamond Steamship decision issued July 21 3337 dered the company to cease efforts to interfere with self tion of workers and to offer Report Germans Quit China's Aid SHANGHAI May 23 China's legions strove today to re- form their shattered on the central war front while their cause received a major setback in the reported withdrawal of German brains and munitions from the fight against Japan Hankow advices that Chinese forces had escaped from a Japanese circle around fallen Suchow were dimmed by an official communique which said Germany had ordered home General Elexander von Fal- and his staff of advisers to Generalissimo Chiang In Berlin the foreign office and other government departments Senate Still Debates PWA knowledge the order Two 40 research Phil 27 a re- ported in a critical condition at the company hospital Sheriff Ira M Smith said he had been Claire research worker Jy hurt less Loans to Utilities WASHINGTON May Senate leaders undertook today to alter a drastic restriction on PWA financing of public utilities which was placed in the administration's by the senate appropriations com- The provision Is that public works administration shall make no loans for public the Central Chinese ment at Hankow said It had re- statement and back par wouW strikers private plants whose rates are Hurt In Kentucky Riot era he intended to offer a com- T T- v Promise which would permit PWA Xy May loans if the interested private 28 madhouse Hy rejected fair a was shot fatally and municipality or for seven other persons wounded in a purchase of its at a On the senate In j ministering relief and one shot penetrating his lower domen j Lincoln C Moore 47 wounded in i Use Deputy Sheriff has himself of Slayer Victim Seek Hit Acquittal NEW YORK May the mother of slain Charlotte Matthiesen and other the mother of the boy who wal undetermined killed together friends prisoners were killed in criminal court today as evidence of were although several hundred were government officers captured In action Informed sources In Paris snld Britain and France had warned Before House Is Expected to Pass WASHINGTON Mny The patched and battered but obviously supported more strongly than come be- fore the house again today and even moat determined southern opponents conceded ruefully that this time It would puss The proponents their with a vote of 322 to 73 to the measure from the hostile rules committee and proceed to Its con- sideration Gleefully they noted that members who had voted against them on that Issue last De- cember ware with them today Her put their t money back In the banks Both m the of and In the of lords Foreign Viscount fax repeated Chamberlain's ment the government succeeded Jn keeping anxious critics by advance conference with tlon to upon them I the of restraint If the breathing that vived the first set of municipal election contorts in Czechoslovakia yesterday can be maintained Chamberlain was Understood i to press with every of effort for a lasting settlement of differences between Hitler and his neighbors 4 since December the removal of tial under which minimum would have been lower in the south than In north Eastern and New England Republicans frankly foreseeing competitive ad- vantages for their Industries in identical for north and south flocked to the bill's support in Eight opposed taking up the In December ed for that despite the removal of the The would require uniform minimum wage in all Interstate starting at 25 cents an lour and increasing to 40 after three years It would limit working hours in the same tries to 44 a week at first and 40 a week In two yean Julius Hemmer 77 Seriously Injured hi Auto Accident street residence s condition in today last night j into the path i automobile driven by MM i Barry 1306 avenue According to police the accident occurred on Haiti at wood as Hommer from curb as the automobile turned the conler Officers Maurice Fairell and I Joe Powell Investigated the dent but did not I Mr ed lung fractured right arm cuts 1 on the head several fractured and a possible shoulder Injury Spanish Insurgents Hunt Escaped Prisoners ST France May 23 A great lunt was under way tonight be- the lines of Insurgent Spain for SOO of prisoners who caped from the Insurgent San obal prison at Pamplona in a uprising The prisoners made a mass break Sunday frontier sources said ng one prison guard and kidnaping another By Sunday night ng of guards were re- ported to have rounded up 600 of he fugitives Earlier reports from the gent command at Irun slated that the attempt to escape was futile and that the uprising was quelled after a fierce battle In which to the Jury that both wanted him acquitted Donald Carroll Jr 16 on trial for murder and it wan one of the strangest prosecutions this city had seen For as assistant District ney Joseph Loscalzo wearily put Two Brothers Found Dead In Gas-Filled Apartment Turn For Worse Iti Peace Outlook PARIS May tral European crisis was considered by French have taken an unexpected turn for the worse as a result of talks between Czechoslovakia's Premier Milan Hodza and Dispatches from Praha said the militant had demanded that Hodza Immediately demobilize the thousands of army called out when pre-election orders broke out there Saturday Henlein was said to have demobilization his condition for entering Into any negotiations con- his German minority's Informed French circlet Mid re- leasing of military guards might lead to repetition of the election disturbances and renew the strain of relations Should negotiations fall through as a result of stand the way might open tary intervention Earlier French had bten optimistic that mid-European sion was easing SLAYER TO HILLSBORO O May 32 convicted last week of manslaughter in the NEW YORK May Stem 60 a lawyer j fatal beating of his This is the first case I ever saw with offices on the same floor with Jin trader home waa where Via parents of the deceased Murray father of kidnaped to serve one to were net the of Jhe nd Edwin stenu gS penitentiary today hy brothers were found dead of mon Pleas Judge George i Allen 48 the hip and ratally Bumed In Freak his own We John Mays 45 were he dhen most wounded The claim of the outline not disputed as yet by the that Donald and had an adolescent affair that the girl ex- motherhood they resolved to die together that the boy idiot and then failed to talte robing of WAS BODYGUARD May 64 Spanish jer region American veteran later served as bodyguard for The temperature be lower action on most generally the charge hours Slightly warmer }s indicated Wednesday in the BROTHERS BREAK Marijuana The sale possession and use cigarets tn among school MIGHT May j COLUMBUS O May Bams suffered in a freak airplane Ohio Slate news fire caused the death today of Miss today sawl a biography it Beatrice 23 pretty released of J L ie Calif flaer vice president had no The girl was a piloted connection with rumors Robert Lein Morrill would Ohio and the western MANSFIELD May Haymond snd Rodney Stanley brothers IS and 20 is being investigated by federal inspector at on of according to reports j they prepared take off the George W current Monday evening j tor backfired setting the dry 3 Four federal men are said Jo aflame Miss was trapped s TH Pershing daring Jhe Philippine in- today fa the ctty Sn an effort to j M the plane fire sufficient evidence tor prosecution of the offenders DIES OF 7 6 a S were Ohio In a session of federal court in BOWLING May 23 Q T iy following escape two weeks ago broken neck suffered.fn a JOT his s lor They persons on fall from a today resulted possession arid fcr 47 XEW PATROL COLUMBUS O May CoL Lynn slate troS announced gas in Edwin's almost sealed Republican Chat they open- j About lags in the j YORK c rr connected a from a jet to his mouth Stter i to Mrs Sydney Stem in- the men had been ing about ill health 1 was listed as a j party today but law a Battlefronts in Spain Again Active description of the ing the It biform and not ned in advance HENDAYE France They ne said pay Spanish May their respects to Mr Battlefronts in widespread nothing more than that of Spain sprang to life today after j a period of Inaction imposed by bad j EXECUTION weather Insurgents attacked central COLUMBUS May The scheduled execution June 17 plans today for of and zones whUe the j of Robert Snow Akron vms struck in S of i today when lie snd ML son Jed slight indefinitely
