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EATHER Cloudy, Warmer tonight and Friday. FHE EVENING INDEPENDENT H2JME VOL. LXXII, NO. 173 EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS DISPATCHES ESTABLISHED 1863 MASSILLON, OHIO. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1.

1938 (SIXTEN PAGES) THREECENTSA COPY-IS CENTS A WRRV Is It Romance? xuii j. a n. A WEEK BY CARRIER Says Depression Cost 132 Billions In National Income TRAIN CRASHES SCHOOL BUS IN UTAH; FEAR 20 KILLED BJ FEU Commissioner Of Labor Statistics First Witness Before Committee SEE LONG QUIZ Exhaustive Study Of Nation's Economic Machine Planned WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Isador Lubin, commissioner of labor statistics, opened the long-heralded monopoly inquiry today with testimony that the slowing down of the nation's economic machine during the depression had cost more than 5132,000,000,000 in national income to the present time.

Lubin appeared as the first witness before the legislative-executive com- mittee, members of which have spent many months in preparatory surveys of the national economy, how it 1 works, how it is constructed and why! it has broken down, as in the depres- 1 sion. i Explaining that the cumulative income loss had exceeded 000, the labor statistics expert said, "in other had our annual national income continued, unchanged since 1929 there would have been available, for the entire period, an average of 51,000 more in goods and services for each man, woman and child in the United States." He estimated the per capita national income for the current year at $472 compared with $540 in 1937. $320 in 1932, and 'an average of $606 for the decade ending in 1929. He said, however, that despite the drop from the last decade the national income per person in this country still-is higher than in England and is much greater than in Germany, Sweden and France. Recom'niendatioris eventually may be iria'de for extensive changes in the system to promote competition, increase of income and fjT control if not reverse the trend ID'S ward bigger and bigger business or- The committee is composed of six members of congress and six representatives of government agencies.

Lubin will be followed by Wiilard (See 8) PURGE AIDS KINGJCAROL Monarch Emerges As Strong Man Ruler As Drive To Rid Nation Of Terrorists Continues ELIGIBLE TO Hearing Will Decide Fate Mrs. Hahn FIVE DEAD IN WESTERN AIR CRASH Luxury Liner Wrecked On Pacific Coast Unemployment Attotncy Opens Fight To sation Commission Given Certified List Is 4,000 JOBS OPEN Save Convicted Woman From Chair TYRONE POWER Movie fans in Rio de Janeiro were sure a romance was budding between Tyrone Power and Annabella as the young a i lc French actress confined a sightseeing tour of Brazil mostly to looking at each other. Here they are folks, what do you think? 9.50 Boys Will Come Here Parts. Of State Successful Applicants For Other Positions To Be Released Soon COLUMBUS, Dec. 1.

lists for positions of office manager, the first prepared since the recent state-wide examination, were certified to the unemployment compensa- lion commission today by the state civil service commission. From them will be chosen three grades of managers, at salaries ranging from 51,800 to $3,600 a year. More than 800 applicants received the average grade of 70 necessary to pass the written, oral and experience portions of the examination. Payments Start About Feb. 1 The tests were conducted during the last week of October and the first week of November to provide ap- proximately 4,000 employes for the unemployment compensation commission, which will start payment of case benefits to jobless workers about Feb.

1, 1939. Later the scope widened to include employes of all state departments who have been serving under provisional appointments, and more than 38,000 persons the largest class in Ohio civil service The tests were financed by social security board grants which Civil Service Commissioner Ralph Emmoiis estimated might exceed $90,000 before all phases of the examinations are completed. Emmons said successful applicants for other key positions would be certified as soon as possible, and that more than 2,000 posts would be filled (See 800 8) BUCHAREST, Dec. 1. With King Carol emerging firmly as a strong man ruler, Rumania" ordered a purge of terrorists today to obliterate forever the Fascist-patterned Guard.

The country was calm but police acted lest there be any outbreak as the aftermath to the deaths of Corneliu Zelea Cordreanu. chief of the illegal guard, and 13 of his followers. They were shot, authorities said, when they tried to escape from a prison guard detail. Codreanu was serving a term for treason. Orders to police were to shoot ruthlessly anyone caught at crime or violence.

There had been reports the past several days that the guard's secret councils marked several prominent government leaders for death. OUR WEATHER MAN MASSILLON AND VICINITY Cloudy; slightly- -warmer in extreme portion tonight. Friday, cloudy and somewhat warmer; probably rain in west and north portions. The higli was 45 at 12 noon Wednesday. The low for trip 24-hour period was 32 at 8 a.

m. today. No precipitation. DAIUY TEMPERATURE CHART a. m.

Y'day't City Condition Today Max. Amarillo clear 40 70 Atlanta fin Roston partly 4S Buffalo r.il Chicago cloudy Cincinnati clear Cleveland dourly Columbus clear Denver Massillon Friday will be the mecca of 950 boys from all sections of Ohio who -will come here to attend the 35th annual Ohio Hi-Y conference which will continue through Saturday and Sunday. Local committees on arrangements! today were completing final arrange- NURSF ments for the conference which be one of the largest gatherings ever held in this city. Committee members 1 I-iIXlVI breathed a sigh of relief as the response of citizens assured ample housing for all delegates to the conference. Appreciation for this cooperation was expressed by the com- mittee members and Y.

M. C. A. of- I I arrive tomorrow noon and it Is expected that practically all of them will be present by 3:30. They will register and receive assignments to homes at the Y.

Boys who arrive in time will go to the homes to which they are established before the opening conference session. The others until will not report at the homes aher the evening session. First Session Friday The delegates will lose no time in plunging into the conference business as the first session is scheduled for tomorrow at 4 p. m. in the Washington high school auditorium where all Pro built general sessions will be held.

grams of all sessions will be around the conference theme, "Building a Christian Democracy." The initial session will open with a worship service in charge of members of Lakewood Hi-Y clubs assisted by Ohio Hi-Y delegates to a national conference held last June at Berea Ky. Melvin Milligan. chaplain of the Massillon Hi-Y, is in charge of arrangements for the worship sen-ice. C. H.

Kleppel, of Hamilton, pro- Convicted Of Concealing Birth Of Her Child While Working At U. S. Veterans' Facility BUFFALO, N. Dec 1 A weary federal court jury convicted an attractive young nurse early today of concealing the birth of her child while she was working in the U. S.

veterans' facility at Batavia, N. Y. The nurse, 23-year-old MaryKath- COLUMBUS, Dec. 1 for blonde Anna Marie Hahn, condemned to die for the poison slaying of Jacob Wagner, Cincinnati gardener, declared at a clemency hearing today that she "is innocent or is absolutely insane." Attorney Joseph Hoodin, lighting to the woman from Ohio penitentiary's electric chair, asked: ''Do you a person sane, in their right mind, who gave poison as the state contended, would have brought in doctors as Mrs. Hahn did? Doctors who could have discovered the poisoning? Innocent Or Insane "I'm convinced of one the woman is innocent or is absolutely insane.

No sane person would have done the things that she did. I can't believe and I won't believe it." Before the hearing started, Clifford Kilser of Cincinnati said that he had information which might save Mrs Hahn. "It must be brought out," Kilser told Daniel S. Earhart, executive secretary to Gov. Martin L.

Davey, who conducted the hearing alone. Earhart's recommendations will be made to Governor Davey, who will decide whether Mrs. Hahn shall be electrocuted next Wednesday night or spend the rest of her life in prison. Earhart said he was uncertain whether Kilser would be permitted to testify. Son Is Present Halm's 13-year-old appeared at the hearing room in the Ohio senate chamber before the proceedings started," but Attorney Hiram Bolsinger, said the boy would not testify unless he was needed.

Besides Bolsinger, Mrs. occupant of an Ohio penitentiary death row cell since a year today represented by Joseph H. Hoodin, Sidney Brant and H. C. Bolsinger, The Hamilton county prosecutor's office, which opposed a commutation of Mrs.

Harm's sentence to life imprisonment, was represented by Prosecutor Carl Rich and Assistant Prosecutors Loyal Martin, Simon Leis and Carson Hoy. "This case will go down as the greatest farce in history," Hoodin declared in opening his arguments He said it paralleled that of Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kidnaping mU derInE the son of Charles Lindbergh. "The case was conducted by a man (See 8) A rescuer peers at the wreckage of the luxury United Airlines Mainliner forced into the sea off pounding ryn Reed, burst into tears a the DR NEW PROGRAM jury of seven married women and: five men returned the verdict. The jury acquitted Miss Reed on an involuntary manslaughter count. The concealment charge, a misde-, meanor, carries a sentence of not more than a year in jail or a SoO'O fine or both.

Judge John Knight deferred sentence pending hearing of defense motions. Miss Reed stoutly maintained the child was born dead. The prosecution contended the child wa.s alive at birth and died of Daladier To Ask Parliament To Approve Economic Decrees French Premier Will Call Legislative Group Into Session Dec. Drafts Three-year 'Economic Mobilization' Program PARIS, Dec. Daladier, having broken labor's effort to wreck his government by a general strike, announced today that he intended to call parliament into session Dec.

8 and demand from it approval of his policies. In government circles it was believed the stocky premier would muster sufficient strength to override the opposition of the communists and socialists, who backed yesterday's abortive strike as a protest against his economic decree laws. BRICKER NAMES HIS SECRETARY Harry Iff. Miller, Gallipolis Attorney, Appointed 55,000 A Year Post By Governor-Elect KILLED IN CRASH COLUMBUS. Dec.

1. George C. Longhenry, 46. who had been passenger agent for the Pennsylvania rail- uaiiiiiiuii, pio- CJIBCI agent iur me feniisyivania rail- gram chairman of the conference, will road at nearby Westerrille for 25 preside. C.

O. Finefrock, president of years, killed early today when an (See 8) automobile he was driving crashed 1 headon with a truck. Would Admit Jews Into U. S. Henry Ford Believes Admission Of German Refugees Would Give 'New Impetus' To Business President Turns From Vacation Plan To Task Of Outlining New Legislative Plans WARM SPRINGS.

Dec. 1, Roosevelt turned from vacation ay today to start laying the foundation for his new congressional program. Speaker Bankhead was due here from his home in Alabama for a general discussion of party strategy and a legislative slate featuring defensive proposals expected to call for an outlay of well over $1,000,000.000. The new relief budget unofficially estimated to involve upwards of another $1,000,000.000 was scheduled for a second conference between the president and Harry L. Hopkins.

WPA administrator. While William C. Bullitt, American ambassador to France, was listed as another caller at the "Little White i House," the diplomat said in Miami, i en route iiere from a vacation in the Bahamas, there was "no story back of the trip." COLUMBUS. Dec. 1, M.

Miller, 35-year-old Gallipolis attorney, today was named as elect John W. Backer's executive secretary at an annual salary of $5,000. Bricker takes office Jan. 9. The only other principal administrative aid he has named is William S.

Evatt as finance director. Miller, three times prosecutor of Gallia county, is chairman of the county republican executive committee. He attended Ohio Wesleyan and Ohio State universities. The salary is $1,000 less than the amount being paid Daniel S. Earhart, Gov.

Martin L. Davey's executive secretary. Bricker said he would pay his personal secretary, yet unnamed, 85,000. Mrs. Myrna Smith.

Davey's personal secretary, receives $6,500. AIRPLANE FLIGHT WAS INEXPENSIVE NEW Johnny YORK, Dec. 1, Young Undisputed Master master of the a three-year state of "economic mobilization" for the nation to carry through his program. For parliamentary support he counted on a majority composed of hi-: own radical-socialist party and groups further to the right. He conferred with individual ministers on plans for parliamentary approval of his decree laws, which provoked the unsuccessful protest strike, and planned a cabinet meet- mg before the end of the -week to decide what punitive measures to take against labor, socialist and communist leaders.

Daladier's quick move to capitalize or, the suppression of the strike was spurred on by Italy's public avowal of territorial demands on France. Faces Fascist Campaign Italian deputies' yells of "tunisia! tunisia!" during a speech by Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, with Premier Mussolini and the French ambassador looking on, were taken by French officials to mean France was facing a determined Fascist campaign for control of the north African protectorate. i It wa.s known that some of Dala- dier's close advisers had counselled him to call Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet back to Paris for a "va- caiscn," a sign of protest. The premier's friends and the con- Jones, vaudeville dancer servative right jubilantly announced turned non-stop flier, estimated to- the general confederation of labor, day that his transcontinental air- which ordered the unsuccessful gen- plane flight was less expensive than strike, was losing thousands of a cross-country trip in a popular- its boasted membership of 5.000,000. priced automobile.

Conservative leaders called Dala- Gasoline and oil for his tiny clier's victory the end- of socialist, scooter a third as large as Doug. Corrigans ship and the lightest airplane only $24.75 or less than a cent a mile for (See 8) Speeding Freight Hits Vehicle South Of Salt Lake City MANY INJURED Sheriff Says Two-thirds Of 40 Occupants Of Bus Fatally Hurt SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1, Salt Lake Telegram reporter at the scene of a collision between a freight train and a school bus 10 miles south of here reported today that "about 20" students were killed in the crash. "I counted 15 bodies along the right-of-way and Sheriff S. Grant Young said he had accounted for five bodies," the reporter said.

12 In Hospital Twelve injured students have been taken to Salt Lake county hospital. Attaches said their condition "is serious." The crash occurred at a rural grade crossing. The students were en route to their classes at Jordan high school. Sheriff Young later said he believed 'at least two thirds of the 40 occupants of the bus were killed." The bodies were strewn along approximately one mile of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad right-of-way. The crash scene is two miles south of Midvale, a community south of Salt Lake City.

Doctors and nurses from, all surrounding towns were recruited hurriedly. The D. and R. G. freight, "The Flying Ute," was an hour behind schedule due to a snow storm when the crash occurred at 8:56 a.

(M.S.T.) Driver of the bus was Farvel cox. The students ages ranged from 14 to 18 years. Most of them are children of farmers. Vision Hampered By Sleet Silcox was believed to have been unable to see the approaching train because of the sleet. He was among FRONA CLAY LOST IN Clay, 24, stewardess, of Alameda, was one of five persons who lost their lives when a luxury airliner cracked up on the rocky coast off Point Keyes, after the pilot was forced to alight on the Pacific ocean.

GOP TO NAME HOUSE CHIEFS Republican House Members-Elect To Hold Caucus Columbus Today; Will Meet Bricker. COLUMBUS, Dec. 1. Republican house members-elect met here today to elect in caucus officers for the new General Assembly. Since the party will control the next legislature, today's selections will prevail.

The caucus was slated to start at 1 p. m. Capita! sources said that William M. McCulloch of Miami county probably would be named speaker and j. Harry McGregor of Ccfihocton county floor leader.

Following the nieer.ing. the elected leaders were expected to confer with John W. Bricker concerning a legislative program. Tine senate republicans-elect will caucus tomorrow. i the injured taken to the hospital.

1 Dr. J. S. Alley of Midvale, who brought victims to the hospital, said: "The freight train, about half a mile long, struck the bus broadside. It was traveling so fast the caboose was on the crossing by the time it stopped.

"The cab of the bus was tossed to one side, about 100 feet from tha crossing. Bodies -were strewn everywhere for a quarter of a mile down the track." The children were picked up by the bos at Bluffdale, Riverton, South Jordan, Crescent and Herriman, ail small communities south of Salt Lake City. Grief stricken parents, hysterical and weeping, rushed up and down the 35 car train, trying to find their children. Some the bodies were badly mangled. The train was manned by Engineer E.

L. Rehmer and Conductor J. P. Ryan, both of Salt Lake City, railroad officials said. The train was northbound; the bus eastbound.

a the flight, he said in radio interview iNBC) last night. At the end of the non-stop flight Says Sister Was Kidnaped 32 34 Peiroit cloudy cloudv TCI Paso Kansas I'ity eio.ir T.os Angeles partly Miami cl-ar Medicine Hat clear Mpls-Rt. Paul clonirly Xew Orleans partly Xew Vork clear Pp.rkersburE: oloar Phoenix Pittsburgh cloudy Portland, Ore. cloiitly 5-an Kraufisco clear clear 5S partly IS 2S Ve.Hfnlsy'F 7S. Today's: River.

2C zero. S4 S2 2S Jfl CS 42 fit 76 4fi 34 S4 7R 4R OHIO ROAD CONDITIONS ys throughout state in good condition. DETROIT. Dec. 1, Ford, who has been accused by some critics of being anti-semitic.

believes the admission under immigration quotas of Jews seeking a haven from Nazi persecution would give "a new impetus" to American business. The automobile manufacturer, who was decorated by the German government on his 75th birthday last July 30, made the assertion" in a statement last night after conferring in his Dearborn office with Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth El, Detroit. Referring to the Grand Cross of I the Order of the German Eagle which Chancellor Adolf Hitler conj ferred on him. Ford said: "My acceptance of a medal from the German people does not.

as some people seem to think, involve any sympathy on my part with Naziism. Those who have known me for many I years realize that anything that breeds hate is repulsive to me." Ford said ''it is my opinion that the German people, as a whole, are not in sympathy with their rulers in their anti-Jewish policies, which is I the work of a few war-makers at the U. S. Pays Billion A Year In Interest WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.

Treasury experts estimated today that new federal borrowing scheduled for Dec. 15 will increase the interest cost of the public debt to more than $1,000.000.000 a year. The anticipated billion dollar interest will support a debt of about 539,300,000,000. Three Children, Officer Injured CINCINNATI, Dec. 1.

school children and Patrolman Earl Stiers. 36, were injured today when the policeman's car mounted a curb and 'was wrecked against a utility Chief Eugene T. Weatbcrly, launching an investigation, sait' he received conflicting versions of the accident: one that Stiers was pur- suing a negro whose car collided with the police cruiser, and another that 1 a negro was pursuing Stiers after a new distance record for light planes, Jones said he still had gasoline i enough for four hours in the air. i WASHINGTON. The plane, powered with a four- ce cylinder.

50-horscpowcr engine, cruised at about 91 miles an hour. Washington And Maryland Police Searching For Two crA Vicllm8 vere taken to Men Who Abducted Girl III Truck S-iers suffered brain concussion and severe cuts. NEW UNIVERSITY HEAD BLOOMINGTON, Dec 1 Dec. nearby Alary- land conducted an intensive search today for 18-year-old Mary Brown, reported by her sister to have been abducted by two roughly dressed B. Wells, heavy-set 36-' young men.

year-old bachelor, was inaugurated The- sister. Lucy. 15. said was here today as president of Indiana seized late yesterday and thrown in- uni erfity to become the youngest; to the rear of a small delivery truck head of a state university in the brush by the roadside, crawled a fence and ran screamini snow-covered field to her "home. Capt.

Edward Johnson of the Maryland state police took charge of the search for the missing girj. a pretty brunette. young men. ririing in a truck See Bloomfield Furniture 217 Lincoln Way. Waldorf new pint ice cream, lOc.

-Ad. United States. on a lonely road near their home at suburban Oxon Hill. Md. Lucy said she herself broke away from the men, leaped into under- nowledged being in the vicinity of Oxon Hill at the time of the abduction, but denied having seen the girls.

MOONUGHT GARDEN TONIGHT Starting a new show. Come in and spend your evening. A good, clean place. Floor show LEE'S TAVERN Dance to old and modern music, Mountain NOTICE On account of the funeral of E. P.

Cormers our store will close at neon Fricay. Hcring Grocery AKER'S BAKERY Open every evening. Special prices on day old ba.ke Waldorf new pint ice cream, lOc. MASSILLON FISH-POULTRY MARKET Friday Specials Blue Pike I5c Ib. Perch Fillets 17c Ib.

RABBITS 33c EACH Potatoes 15c Wendell Flury, 28 Park Row. HOLZY'S WOOI1EN SHOE SPECIAL i CHRISTMAS SPECIALS Get Elizabeth Arden Toiletries only attraction Saturday, Los-Cheques 7 on fireplace furnishings. Gas BUT HTM A KOBE'. We've the largest selection of Beacon and flannel robes in town at S2.93 to S6.95—in beautiful gift boxes Berger's. Lincoln Way, W.

at Lincoln Cut Rate BUY HIM A ROBE: We've the largest selection of Beacon and flannel robes in at $2.93 to beautiful gift boxes Berger's, Lincoln Way, W. PC. Spanish Radio Jug Band and Iocs and radiant heaters. Peters Mantel and Tile, 345 1st MASSILLON CHINA STORE 334 Lincoln Way. w.

Shop here for your Christmas gifts. 32 pieca sets $2.00 and up. Odd and end dishes 35 cents STYLE SHOW Massillon Woman's Club. Friday nite, 8:15. Formal and informal wear.

Open to public. Krayer Hat Frock.