The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 1

WEATHER a VOL. CVI. No. 175. Published daily Sunday) by the Mail Co.

Entered yeeond-cJawi matter at tht Hagergtown HAGERSTOWN, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934. RUN SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS FASCISTS SEIZE REINS IN AUSTRIA Assassinated Kngelbert Dollfuss, fighting little V.lmncellor of Austria, who was slain by Nazi yesterday. Great Tidal Wave Sweeps Texas Coast; 30 Dea WAVE PUSHES WATER BACK INTO TOWNS Residents Flee From Coast, Taking Refuge Far Inland During Hurricane HOUSTON, July 26 Thirty persons were missing today in the wake of a tropical storm which lashed a 100-mile, stretch along the Texas Gulf coast, causing untold crop and property damage. Pitching a mighty tidal wave six miles 80-mile gale trapped residents of the area, disrupted communication lines, smashed fishing craft and battered buildings. Early estimates placed damage to the cotton crop alone at several millions of dollars.

The tidal wage. 15 miles in length was reported by old residents to be the worst since the great wave of the disaster of 1875. It flooded Sargent and at Freeport rose feet. Outlying sections of the city were flooded when the levee broke in. five places.

At great waves sprayed over the seawall and levelled flimsy beach homes. Only minor damage wa.s reported in the city. Oil workers waded waist deep in water tn save derricks at High Island. governmental drawbridge over the intercoastal canai (Continued On Page 14) Less Than Five Feet Tall, "JJtUe Chancellor' Rules Since Engelbert Dollfuss became Austria's "little was only four feet eleven inches May 21, 3033. Unstable parliamentary governments-had preceded him and his position was insecure from the start.

Nazis and socialists opposed him, and both parties Avere strong. i But Dollfuss himself to be fighter. He was determined to preserve Austria's independence. Eventually he became Civil war, terrorism, hangings followed. The little chancellor still held command, supported by fascists and national socialists, 'A devout man, he proposed a sort jof divine rule.

The power to rule, he said, should come from God instead of from the people. Parliament granted his wishes, gave more power and voted itself out of existence. Then came more violence against the government. were, and an attempt on Dollfuss' life. were blamed.

Early this week the government arrested some 1.500 socialists, com- 'munists and nazis. One young socialist was hanged Tuesday night for a bonding and the shooting of a policeman. Dollfuss immediately began plans for sterner measures to prevent demonstrations. Rut. who -wanted Austria joined with Germany In a political union, stopped these They killed Doll fuss.

Billy Sunday's Grandson Dead LOS ANGELAS, 26, M. Sunday, gr-andson'of Billy Sunday, noted evangelist, died early to'day at the Seaside Hospital in Long Beach, police reported from injuries suffered last night in a trat- flc accident at Wilmington. Sunday, IS years old and the son or Harriet Mason Sunday, Los Angeles, was in an automobile with Miss Patsy Carman, Glendale, police said, when the machine collided with an automobile driven by Irene Bray Long Beach. All but Sunday escaped injury. WASHINGTON IS SILENT WASHINGTON, July 26, Officialdom, tense and tight-lipped, watched the Austrian cauldron boiling today tried to guess what it means for the future of European peace.

Thatt.be killing of Engelbert Dollfuss, "vest pocket" chancellor, was fraught with danger of serious international repercussions TIO one doubtpd from the moment the news first was received. Secretary Hull and all other officials of t.he Stato, Department pre- sen ed silence. CHANGE IN CASHIERS Directors Of Bank, Williaimport, Make Announcement. ENDURANCE FLIERS REMAIN ALOFT MERIDIAN, July 26, Still soaring high above the city to avoid the heat, Fred and Al Key continued their attempt today to set a new world's endurance flying record. They were in their sixth day aloft.

The. brothers io break I he reeovr? nf 647 hours. 2SU by Dale Jackson Forest O'Brine four years aso in Si. Louis. ANOTHER STRIKE.

OMAHA, July 26 400 union employes of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company valked out on strike At 4 a. tn. (Central Standard Time.) today and the second time in four month-; the workers tn xrorV or thumbed rides with mo-1 1 Roosevelt Is Keeping Finger On Dangerous Situation In Europe Minute Being Relayed President Aboard At Hawaii. ABOARD CRUISER NEW ORLEANS with President Roosevelt, July 26, Roosevelt watches in silence the European situation revolving about the assassination of Chancellor Englebert Dollftiss of Austria. Last minute developments are constantly relayed to him by wireless as the Cruiser Houston carries him on his unprecedented Presidential journey to America's far-flung- insular outposts.

Likewise he is kept in intimate touch with Washington. He completed the new railroad retirement board today with the appointment of John T. Williamson, of Chicago and Lee M. Eddy of St. Louis.

The three-man board which will administer the new person act is headed by Murray Latimer, of Washington, D. who was named last week. Williamson was selected on the recommendation of the Association of Railway Executives, antf Eddy was proposed by railroad labor leaders. As the Houston and New "Orleans cruised leisurely toward Oahu Island, the President's program had him up early for a busy two and a half days in Honolulu. He boarded the Houston last night at Hilo with three leis about his neck, a happy smile testifying to bis appreciation of the reception given him by the folks in the islands-of smiles and sunshine.

Careless With Their Pennies The people who lived in the Snyder Landing century or more ago must have been careless with their pennies. The other day Charles Ruthrauff, of thii city, found one while swimming there dated 1829. Now Home, Pope avenue and Third ports having found a penny dated 1817 In the tame vicinity latt summer. He found it in the mud along the river bank. OLD HOME IS BURNED; HIT BY LIGHTNING 'Mulberry Grove" Destroyed; Family Not At LA PLATA, July 26 "Mulberry Grove'' the old home of John Hanson, president of the first Continental Congress, was struck by lightning last night and totally destroyed.

Mr. and Mrs. Dana Stevens, present owners of the place, were not at home at the time of the flre. Damage Tyas estimated at between $40,000 and 150.000. Firemen had been called to the farm of J.

Reed Bailey, at Wicomico, to fight a strawstack flre, also iy.nited by lightning, and were unable to reach the Hanson place, at Port Tobacco, in time to save it. Stevens, a retired Ohio business man, bought "Mulberry Grove" about. 20 years ago and renovated it. It was one of the landmarks of this section. RUDY HEADS STATE BOARD The directors of the Savings Bank of William sport, announce the resignation of Elmer J.

Kshleman as cashier and t.he appointment of Charles S. Karper. of Greencastle, as his successor. change will become effective about August T. Mr.

Kshleman has accepted the position of treasurer of the Western Maryland Trust Company just organized at Frederick. Mr. Karper has had about IS years successful banking experience and has been highly recommended by the best banking interests of Franklin county. In announcing the change, the dt- rectors of the Savings Bank express- i deep regret over the resignation i of Mr. "Eshleman, whose services have been entirely satisfactory and efficient, and at the same time said they were pleased to obtain a competent and experienced man as his successor.

Mr. Eshleman has made many friends in Willismsport who will re-1 Km his departnre. i Harry Rudy was elected president of the, Maryland Board of Pharmacy at a meeting held on July O. Mr. Rudy bas been a.

member of the Board for several years. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, a former president of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association, and one of the best known pharmacists in this section of the country. He has long been a dominant factor in the civic and professional life of Hagerstown, having served on the School Board and Park Board for several terms. Mr. Rudy conducts the examination in practical pharmacy.

HEAT RECORD IS PROSPECT AGAIN TODAY Mercury Near 100-Mark At I P. M. With No Relief In Sight With the mercury registering 99 strong at 1 o'clock, indications pointed to the shattering of heat records for the summer by mid-afternoon or early evening unless thunder showers intervene, J. A. Miller, Keedysville observer, reported.

The mercury at the same hour yesterday registered a scant 99 but climbed to 105 by mid-afternoon. Mr. Miller reported today that a reading of 106 was possible unless skies became overcast. The barometer' at 1 o'clock was Tailing- slightly, an indication of possible showers by nightfall. The mercury at the Kreider-Reisner plant registered 07 strong at 11 o'clock this morning and by noon was just tipping the 100-degree mark.

The humidity is not as high today as it was yesterday. (By The Heat deaths numbered 1212 today. A moderation of temperatures brought relief to some sections. Unofficial tabulations showed (Continued On Page 14) AMBASSADOR OVERCOME WASHINGTON, July 26, Paul May, Belgian ambassador to Washington, was confined in Emergency Hospital today suffering from heat prostration. He was reported by hospital authorities as "improved." The Ambassador's condition is not serious, it was said, and it is still his intention to go to Newport to spend the month of GRANTED STAY LITTLE ROCK, July 26, Associated Justice T.

H. Humphreys of the Arkansas Supreme Court today granted a stay of execution for Mark H. Shank, Akron, Ohio, Attorney, who was scheduled to die at dawn tomorrow for the poison murder of four persons. PLANE FORCED DOWN During the heigluh of yesterday's storm, a cabin plane operated by Pilot Music, with four passengers and a quantity of mail was forced to make an emergency landing at the Frederick airport. The plane had passed over the local airport a short time- before enroute from Pittsburgh to Washington when it ran into the storm beyond Roons- horo.

JAKE FACTOR MAY GO FREE LONDON, July 26 Gilmour, home secretary, hinted today that the British government will not exert 'further strenuous efforts to bring back John "Jake the Barhor" Factor from the Vnit- 1 Statrs atthoii.ffh he is wanted here to fare trial on fraud charres. TWO CANDIDATES Joseph Wiimsr. Reaver Creek, who was recently appointed to the Orphans' Court bench, announced today that be will shortly Tile a certificate of candkiacy for the Democratic nomination to succeed himself, C. Arnsparger yesterday filed his cenifioat.e of candidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff. SUSPECT IN DILLINGER'S CASESUICIDE Man Where Outlaw Said To Have Had His Face Lifted Leaps From Window July 26 to the office of tljg Federal Bureau of Investigation for questioning in connection with" the Dillinger case, James Probasco, 67, a West Side resident, committed suicide today by jumpin-g from a.

19th floor window to the alley below. S. P. Conley, in "charge, of the Bureau in the absence of Melvin H. Purvis, said the government had been informed that it was in Probasco's home at 250.0 North Crawford avenue that Dillinger had his face' lifting operation performed.

No one could be found who witnessed the leap, but tbe body landed in an alley near Adams street. It narrowly missed a pedestrian, and was badly mangled. Deputy Coroner A. L. Brody ordered police to remove the body to an undertaking establishment Agents had gone to Probasco's home this morning and he accompanied them without objections, Cowley said.

He was left alone in the room facing the alley for a few minutes before tbe questioning was to begin. The next thing the agents knew was a report that a man had leaped to his death, the body striking the court of tbe Rookery, historic Chicago office building. Cowley said Homer Van Meter, ace machine gunner for the Dillinger gang also had a face lifting operation performed at the Probasco home. He said the physician who performed the operations had not yet been taken, but that the government agents were after him. The sensationl leap resulted in the seventeenth dead attributed to John Dillinger and his bloody gang.

Dillinger himself, shot down by, Federal agents and police Sunday night, was number sixteen in the grisly chain that has lengthened steadily since Dangerous John was liberated from the Lima. Ohio, jail in October, 1933, over the body of the slain Sheriff Jess Barber. Government operatives also believed that both Dillinger and Van Meter had submitted to attempts at the Probasco place to obliterate their finger prints with acid. When Dillinger's body was placed on a slab in the Cook county morgue Sunday midnight, it was ascertained that hallmark scars on his face (Continued On Page 14) Dillinger's "Girl In Red" FAMOUS GEM IS RETURNED NEW YORK, July 26 famous 'flawless emerald" which was the possession of the late Lillian Russell, was returned today to her daughter, Dorothy Russell. The stage beauty paid $75.000 for the gem 30 years ago.

For years the stone had in (he possession of Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Holder, widow of Enrico Caruso. ISAPPOINTED CHANCELLOR Jivil War Flares Up In Different Parts Of Country; Italian Army Ready Mrs. Anna Sage (above), has admitted that she was the mysterious "woman in red" who left a Chicago theater with John Dillinger just before agents shot him. She told police she knew him as "Jim and that another Roy Keele, 1 ivas with him at the time of the shooting.

Federal-agents did not disclose whether one of the women, would claim the reward for Dillinger's capture. (Associated Press Photo) Want Licenses Denied Places Near Schools Board Of Education To Request Liquor Board To Adopt Policy. The Board'of Education meeting Tuesday discussed plans for the early adoption of a resolution requesting the Board of Liquor License Commissioners of Washington County to refuse beer and hard liquor licenses to applicants whose proposed establishments vould be in the immediate vicinity of city and county school properties. The Board discussed the proposed resolution and decided to prepare one for submission at the next meeting. Bids for coal contracts for the coming winter were also opened and contracts for schools outside the city awarded.

The city business will be distributed among legitimate dealers within -the city at an early gathering. NEED MORE FOURTHS EMPORTA. July 26 Dr. L. C.

Wooster bas decided drought-suffering Kansas needs more Fourths of July. Checking weather records for the past ten years, he found that in nine years heavy rains fell on the holiday or the day afterward. 'Baby Face' Nelson, Dillinger Aide, Public Enemy No. 1 Now Federal Operatives Directed To Get Him Dead Or Alive. CHICAGO, July 26 George (Baby Fa.ce) Nelson, the new No.

1 public enemy! This was the order Federal operatives were under today, they concentrated all their powers in this new man-hunt, now that John Dill- ioger's hody htiried in the Crown Hill cemetery Indianapolis, mute evidence that the government "always gets its man." Nelson, also Known as Lester M. Gillis, is a product of Chicago's West Side, where at a tender age be became notorious as a "tough guy." Although he was one of the latest recruits to the Dillinger rans he soon became known as the chief sunner of t.hr crew. He is by the government of be- ing the, man who shot down Federal Agent Baum when Dillinger mobsters blasted their way to freedom from the vicinity of the Little Bohemia. resort last April. But Nelson, called the "Babe Face" because of his innocent appearance, will' he captured dead or alive before many months have passed.

Federal officials predict, Days Are Numbered "His days are numbered," said J. Kdgar Hoover, chief of the investigating head of the Department of Justice at Washington. "There will never be any let -up until Nelson, John Hamilton and Homer Van Meter, other members of the gang, are captured." Nelson, is "kill crazy," Hoover said, adding That be will shoot without provocation, whereas his late chief held bis cnnfire uni.il he (Continued on 14) SLAYER OF 4 IS Suspect In Slayings Taken On Ride; Body Found In cago Street PHILADELPHIA, July 26, Salvatore Serpa. against whom po lice of Philadelphia and Camden N. have charged at least four killings, has been taken for his last ride.

In a Chicago street last night his body was found, tossed apparently from an automobile. An inch-long gash, inflicted with a sharp instrument, appeared in his right temple. His victims the police were two girls, a policeman, at least one rival gangster. Edward Wallace and John Zukor sy were taken for a ride from a Camden hotel last November "1 Wallace's bullet-riddled body was found in a. strip of woods near Bellmawr.

N. J. Zurosy was wounded but recovered. Later Ethel Marshall, also known as Ethel Greentree. and Florence Miller, both of Camden, were slain.

Their bodies were found in a crude grave in a cornfield ten miles north of Coatesville. Pa. A bullet taken from the Miller girl's body bad markings identical to those of bullets found in Wallace, officers said. Police at the time said it was obvious the women were killed be- oarse knew too much of the Wallace killing "for Serpa's comfort." Serpa was identified through pictures found in Minneapolis and Du- huque. as one of the four men who shot and killed Patrolman Charles Stockbunrer in a $6,7:20 Philadelphia holdup last July.

Chancellor's Wife Returns WALSH WOULD BE CHAIRMAN BALTIMORE. July 2K, Evening. Sun said today that William C. Walsh. State Insurance Commissioner and Allecany County Democratic leader, had formally announced a desire for the chairmanship of the Democratic State Central Committee.

At the same time, the Evening Sun said that a group of Republicans were seeking to have U. S. Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough abandon bis candidacy for the Re- nnWican gubernatorial nomination and seek re-nomination to the Sen- DAVIS SEES NO NEW WAR Europe Lm't Physically Or Emotionally Prepared. NEW YORK, July 26, as ever regarding world peace. Xorman Davis.

American ambassador at large, returned from Kurope today -with the prediction. that the Austrian crisis would not involve other nations in war. Arriving on the liner Washinf- ton, Pacific hopes remained unchanged despite the Nazi putsch in Austria, and the assassination ot Dollfuss, He said the possibility of European conflict was remote, that there was less likelihood of war now, regardless of the Austrian situation, ihat there bas been for several years. Europeans are neither physically nor emotionally prepared for van Davis said, adding that there might be further political, upheavals. He saw no possibility of ths United States becoming in tit event, of an European war.

WALDO, Jnly A 50-foot well on the farm of Balm went almost dry ft iwofltfc hrf of drmiifct. This week water fs now niflniHf ottf tfct rent Imtally. ami jnwahfe to '-5-ji vr VIENNA. July power ot tbe Austrian allied in ideals and friendships to the Fascists of Italy, mounted to the rttlt of Austria today. Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg, tall nobleman, and leader of Fascist Heimwehr.

was announced as the new chancellor, succeeding the Little" Commoner, Engelbert Dollfuss, who was assassinated yesterday by the Fascists' bitterest foes, the Nazis. President Wilhelm Miklas was expected to make formal appointment of Von Star-, hemberg today. But even as ths Fascist star ascended, civil -w-ar blazed forth ill the province of Styria where Xasdi battled government forces for con- of villages. Early reports did not tell how many men were beinjf killed although an official announcement at Graz, capital of the pror- ince. said 14 government 'soldiers were slain.

Styria has for months past "been the scene of terrorist hombings-ifK spired, Dollfuss has claimed, by tht Nazis whom he fought In his forts to create a "united Fatherland." Everywhere were expressed rumors and fears for the peace of Europe a result ot the stirring of yesterday, mud today." men were everywhere in strenuous effort to maintain order. As his first statement as chief of the cabinet Prince Von 5tmv (Continued On 14) VIENNA. July Dollfuss, recalled from her tion in Italy by the asaasf of her husband, arrived here by pla'ne today. She went immediately to a private apartment la Inner ci'ty near the chancellory and then rialt- ed the room In whert her husband's body, guarded by four soldiers, lay 'in state. President Wilhelm Miklas there to express to the -widow sympathy of the Austrian govera- ment.

Outwardly calm. Fran Dollfuai; thanked Miklas, and then asked to be left alone with the body of slain chancellor. Utterly unaccompanied, she stood for some time beside the bier. Rumors tnat she had suffered an apopletic stroke Tvere denied..