The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 1

DAY BY DAY Out in the sticks you find people who are polite when they are not trying to sell you anything. WEATHER Fair tonight and tomorrow; rising temperature. VOL. CIX. No.

244. Published daily (except Sunday) by Mai! Publishing Co. Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice HAGERSTOWN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1937. YESTERDAY'S PRESS RUN" SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT CONFESSES MURDERS JAPANESE CHARGE CHINESE USE POISON GAS IS BEING USED SHELLS SHOW Dramatic Demonstration IT 1 Maged Or Uorre- Spondents. Financial Expert Is Gloomy Over Japan's Foreign Money Problems American Firms Discontinue Credit Selling And Demand Cash; Japan Finds Financing Trade Getting More Difficult.

A I I TOKYO, Oct. 16, (jp). Kohei Goshi expert of the news paper Yomiuri Shimbun. painted a dismal picture today of Japan's foreign money problems. "If both American and British mone 3" markets refused financing to Goshi declared, "it would Chinese Deny Charge; Chinese Claim New Victories.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 16 Japanese authorities staged a dramatic demonstration today of alleged Chinese use of poison gas. Fifty foreign correspondents were assembled in the office of the Japanese consulate general to receive an announcement which they Had been told would be so momentous it had to be made on Japanese territory. They were shown a shell -which emitted evil smelling fumes which the Japanese asserted was phosgene smoke. Lieut.

Col. Hajime Tani, of the Japanese chemical corps, declared the shell contained sufficient poisonous gas to kill the entire roomful. Chinese reiterated their denial that they were using poison gas. They declared a demonstration such as the Japanese gave would be possihle in any high school chemical laboratory. (The Japanese foreign office.

In Tokyo earlier had declared it had "indisputable proof" that the Chinese were using phosgene gas.) Seized In Surprise Attack An official spokesman declared that six shells with unusual red markings were seized Octoher 14 when a Japanese patrol surprised ness of Japan's economy," he said. "As American banks are hesitant, exports to Japan are weakening and turning gradually from credit selling toward cash selling." Discussing a delegation of Japanese "people's envoys" that has started for the United States, the be a more serious situation than commentator said they are "under- here political or economic sane-1 taking to rectify political miscon- tions." ceptions. A recent survey by the Associat-1 "Of he added, "such deed Press disclosed that numerous bunking is necessary but the real representatives of American firms problem is not what President here have been ordered to discontinue credit selling and to make cash sales only. Gohi declared that Roosevelt says or what the nine power conference does. "When the pressure comes in Japan has found financing of her dollars and cents the blow is im- trade increasingly difficult in New York and London.

"The sharp decline in Japan's public bonds on foreign markets clearly shows the extent to which foreign nations doubt the sound- mediate and painful. Diligent effort should be made to create a CI.O. OFFER IS ACCEPTED BYA.F.OFL, Union Accepts Offer To Attend Peace Conference. DENVER, Oct. 16, Harrison, chairman of the American Federation of Labor peace committee, said today "we'll be there," when told of the latest C.

0. peace proposal. CO-EDS ESCAPE AS HALL BURNS I SLIPPERY ROCK, Oct. i hundred and sixty-seven coeds escaped safely in scanty at- tire early today from fire which swept the historic North Hall on i the campus of Slippery Rock Col- I lege. i Nobody was injured.

The office of President Charles Miller esti- mated the damage at approximate-; ly $400,000. The fire originated in the kitch- en where preparations were under i way for an ox roast on the occasion of Homecoming Day. and i the annual football game with! Westminster College. BODIES OF 29 Listenen In ATLANTIC CITY, N. Oct.

16! committee for industrial organization embarked today on ai militant program of expansion and! lesponsibility and peace with the' American Federation of Labor. John L. Lewis, C. I- O. chairman, favorable atmosphere regarding ex- ended five days of strategy confer- change discounts and to establish! ei-ces with leaders of his unions AFTERBLAST Fear Others Met Death In Alabama Coal Mine Explosion.

BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 16. least 29 men died early today in an explosion deep in a coal mine ten miles west of here. There was only one known survivor and conflicting reports of the number of men at work in the blast-torn shaft ran as high as 40. R.

H. president of the Woodward Iron Company, mine owners, said 29 bodies had been found four miles from the mine en- i trance, and he feared the death A- i ir-ii r- Ust would reach 32 Man Killed In Crossing! News of tlxe blast spread quick TRUCK DRIVER FATALLY HURT AGED DOCTOR. WE MIS; FIND BODIES Had Stuffed Bodies In Trunk And Under Rear Seat Of Car. credits for buying cotton from the United States." Duce's Paper Charges U. S.

Arms Reaching Spain Through Russia Was Referring To Roosevelt's Arraignment Of Ag- yesterday by exhorting them to renew their campaign for improvement of working conditions fcr Crash; Local Trainmen Injured ly and roads leading to the mine, one of the largest in the Birming- with During the taking of a deposition in Los Angeles in his $2.900 accounting suit against Mrs. Pearl Antibus, private detective Thomas Warner, son of an auto accessory manufacturer, told how he used a listening device on his ex- WAS PATIENT Says He Killed Doctor When He Made Crack About His Girl. NORTH ARLINGTON, N. Oct. 16 bodies ol an elderly physician and his wife, beaten to death with a hammer in and then Maine days age driven leisureb ham district, were clogged pedestrians and autos.

One man was Killed and four in-j state highway patrolmen were American labor ouilt around C. I. jured, two seriously, when a Orce( to shoulder a path through O. principles Oi. industrial union- boose being pushed by a Western the throng for 12 ambulances.

ism. Maryland Railway Company engine A cold wind swept the tipple and They reported this week almost into a coal truck at Brushing crow( huddled together, stolid- nome 1000,000 members, total expendi- Run, on the Lincoln Highway, ly awaiting every ragme nt of news 1 J.J.fcJl.V^iiA."^ VJ-L i -V 1 fiancee, Jean MacDonald to learn through the ftew England whether she loved him or his money- Mrs. Antibus is suing Warner, for $1,260,000 damages. She alleges that the elder Warner led a raid on her home in a hunt for his son, who, it was charged, was being held a "love captive" in the Antibus tures of $1.758,000 in 16 months between Gettysburg and New Ox-j from the smoki shaft. claimed were ford, at 1:30 o'clock yesterday at- gressive Nations In Chicago Speech.

MILAN. Oct. 16 munitions to red Spain. Mussolini's newspaper II Popolo "II Signer Roosevelt D'ltalia. referring to President Roosevelt's arraignment of aggres- their unions werejiora, at J--ou yesterday ne victim, van ox thriving despite encounters with! ternoon.

brought to the surface still alive industry and occasional organiza- The dead man was Orville Hale, but su ff ering or DU rns I tional difficulties. 28- of York. Pa, driver of the) Dr J. Rascoe, Woodward pbv- The conference unanimously ap -i truck. Uician, said "apparently Fox is the.

i proved a resolution pledging thej The injured are Hales com a11 'j only i evidently C. O. to co-cperate with compa-jion, Michael Walko, of Wall The lo came sh was mistaken in his figures. At niss which signed collective bar-j a hitch-hiker; Ezra Boyer, orake- ifQre 2 affected Qne least his 10 per cent must have in- fining agreements with it. criti-l man of 'the train; Clifton Carr, flag- ofth ne normall sor nations as his "Chicago sermo- eluded American arms and muni- c'zed some actions of the adminis-lman, and Thomas Markell, conduc emp i oys approximately 500 miners i rinnc tration, coiicrftss and twn govern- 1 tor.

Walko and Carr are confinedj nette," pointed today to United tions manufacturers." States arms shipments which itj The article began: tration, congress and two govern-! tor- Walko and Carr are ment departments and condemned! to Hanover hospital in morej (Continued on Page 10) said reached Spain through Russia. The paper reproduced the Presi- impartiality dent's more striking condemnatory remarks, then referred to his assertion that the peace, liberty and security of 90 percent of the world population was menaced by the other 10 per cent. This was followed by the comment: Half Bought By Soviets the crew of a trench mortar north of Shanghai. Chemical and medical tests, the United States exported arms and "In the month of September the In order not to spoil the Puritan Japan for its undeclared war with or less serious of a great speech! China. The three trainmen, who munitions totalling upward of $20,000,000 of which nearly $10,000,000 was bought by the Soviet Union, which has been sent to ail the chancelleries of the nations like a booklet of Democratic orations we overlook the ingenious allusion to nations which 'take part in civil war against people which have done them no wrong' and we sail over the statistical exactness of the pacifist and warlike percentage but we guarantee on the other hand the exactness of the following data which was overlooked in the Chi- ciago Then followed the reference to were! I But.

in all the discussions there in caboose, are all well known vas prime interest in Hagerstown, being former res-, with the A. F. of L. for a reconcil- i idents. i (Continued On Page GOING AFTER THISELERS' which in.

turn sent the arms and i United States arms exports. NON-ALCOHOLIC CLUB IS OPENED Japanese declared, definitely proved that the shells contained sufficient poison gas to cause asphyxiation under favorable condill-ns. The curl of fumes arising from the quantity left in the exhibit, however, was enough to cause only a light headache. Questoned whether neutral experts participated in the tests of the alleged shell, he replied that he considered the Japanese charge fi tieut Col. Tani lectured profes- Automobile sor-like, drawing chemical characters on a blackboard to illustrate Us explanations.

He concluded that it was definitely shown that the shell contained a dark semi- liquid composed of phosgene and titanium tetrachloride. Chinese spokesman A i To-npnpse I ision of a passenger automobile renewed attempts bj the Japanese, truck ormv fodav to Chinese lines a truck. army today to dead identified! (Continued on Page iu) trom papers in their pockets as, Edward A. Beckett of Camp Point; Crime (Association) county). 111., and John H.j also of Camp Point.

Twoj PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16 wom en, believed to be the wives The robbers who jimmied open a ()f tfte men? and a sma boy also Rev. Maxwell Gantner, Ports- window of a building and escaped ore mouth, N. pastor who was with $300 certainly didn't believe Egtel otnson Indianapolis. I beaten, bound and gagged and robin signs.

driver of the truck, suffered a frac-j bed by a hitch hiker he befriend The money was to have been tured ghull and physicians said he ed, was reported today in a "corn- used for the salaries of employes i paratively satisfactory'' condition, of an association that tenanted thej An five of the dead were i i Rev. Mr. Gantner was brought The engineer of the train was; E. G. Hetrick, this city.

Walko told investigating officers! that neither he nor Hale noticed the csboose and engine until a split! second before the crash. The truck was demolished and I fully ninety percent of the coal contained was thrown in some man-, rer or other into the caboose! was knocked from the track: WPA Check And Watch Stolen Two Bold Thefts Reported To Police This Morning. SEE DECREASE IN MALADIES Health Department Reports Proprietors Cooperating By Sterilizing Glasses A reasonable decrease in the prevalence of septic sore throat, trench mouth and kindred diseases spread through unsterilized drinking glasses can be expected this states to New Jersey by young high school boy, were found today in a parked automobile. The high school boy, Paul Dwyer, IS, of South Paris, "whc had stopped his machine with its gruesome cargo to get some sleep. confessed the double slaying, Ber gen county Prosecutor John J.

Breslin announced. "Double he termed the case. The victims were identified by police as Dr. John G. Litdefield, 65, and his "wife, Lydia, 64, both of South Paris.

Me. The physician's body was stuffed into a trunk cm the back of the car. His frail wife was crammed under the rear seat. It was only by chance that police stumbled upon the slayings. The youth, travel weary, asleep at the wheel of the car, which he had parked in a vacant lot.

Two patrolmen noticed him, becoming suspicious, they awakened him and took him to headquarters for routine questioning about winter, the Health Department an-1 a sum of money in his possession. FIVE KILLED IN COLLISION In Headon Collision With A Heavy Truck. RUSHVILLE, Ind-, Oct. 16 Five persons were killed and an-i when Walko other injured critically near here WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 Three hundred patrons made a s-uccess of the formal opening of the non-alcoholic night club at George Washington University- Nothing stronger than ginger ale was served.

The club, planned and managed by students, is similar to several established recently in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast. Ramspeck Would Direct Wage-Hour Legislation At This Group. WASHINGTON, Oct 16 1-icked him up Representative Ramspeck of Geor-i three trainmen were rushed to gia, ranking Democrat on the! Hanover hospital. Walko has House labor committee, proposed! eral fractured ribs and other mjur-; todav to shunt some of the oppo-jies as has Carr, the flagman. Boy-: sition from the path, of wage-hour er and Markett were dismissed from 'the hospital after their rescuers and the: sev A WPA pay check for $21 and a Hamilton watch were some time yesterday from city homes- according to police reports.

The check, the property of Cal- nounced today following reports from its sanitary inspection department of fine cooperation by proprietors of soda fountains, restaurants and bars in the sterilization campaign recently inaugurated here. The sanitary department has i completed inspection of approximately 50 per cent of these estab- vin L. Holbert. 400 block of West lishment and found that virtually Franklin street, was stolen from I a11 of them had already Adopted The watchj the ty of Leo 0Q sfr block Qf legislation by confining it to "chis-j Ramspeck, active in framing the i House bill, said he was preparing; amendments to accomplish that ob-j cre dressed. bers of the Minister Beaten WORLDLY WISE IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Oct.

16 "If that were done," he said, "itj Although in the Navy he saw clear away the objections in! 32 countries, Herman Perkins, 32- i.he south." year-old railroad mechanic, has Southern Democrats directed the most severe criticism at the bill PUPILS TOTAL 13,400 HERE the new regulations as provided in the recently enacted sanitary code wfeich requires rinsing in. a solution of chlorine and water of all glasses and eating utensils. Most of the places which are sterilizing glasses have on display placards so stating and the public is asked to demand that proprietors observe these regulations as a safeguard to their health. In recent years there have been numerous cases of trench mouth and septic sore throat here which year-oiu. imo, I 1 TTU.IV.U.

joined his daughters, aged 5 and 7, UDllC OChOOl ropulation the Health Department is satisfied in school. Says Perkins, a High largely responsible for smothering! School junior: in the last session. They were! "Travel may broaden you but it Has Increase Of 400 This Year. were caused by unsanitary glasses, Another officer meanwhile started examining the car and the slayings were discovered- Talks Readily Chief of Police George Shippee said young Dwyer, a junior in the South Paris high school, talked readily. When the finding of Mrs.

Littlefield's body was reported to headquarters, Shippee said, the youth directed them to look in the trunk where the physician's body was discovered. The place the car was parked is not far from Newark and only several miles from Jersey City and New York. Chief Shippee quoted Dwyer as saying he called the physician to his home to examine him for a social disease. When the old man made a "crack about my girl friend," Shippee quoted the youth. ihe knocked the physician against a radiator.

"I thought I killed him so I choked and beat him with a hammer," the police chief said the youth told him. which were not thoroughly washed Shippee said the morbid conies- alter having been used by persons ANNAPOLIS, the passenger building. In large letters the name of the instant i association is painted on the side of i one arnied maiu the crime tion association building. ByAHitch-Hikerjp International Highway To Ort Ifi Pass Through City; Surveyors Here Three Brazilians, Who Have Been Laying Out Route From Rio de Janeiro To New York, Guests Of City Officials. automobile and i to a hospital here last night by Hoke was a William Fishpaw who found him crash jam-1 semi-conscious on the Baltimore iov.i«jo*v*i« i 4 (Continued on Page 10) doesn't give you an education." Washington county's public navm either malady.

If violation i school population as of September of tne new sani tary code is known 30, 1037. totals 13,440, an increase the Health Department or the proof approximately 400 over the total rietors st es should be notified September enrollment of last by atrons according to figures compiled and made public today by Wilbur Phillips, attendance officer. Of the total 2470 are in high schools, 8,895 in graded schools, SSO in one-room and 747 in two- room schools. There are a total of 301 colored children attending the niove to put the Protestant Episco- public schools in the city and coun-! Pal church in the campaign sion continued as follows: Dvyer placed the doctor's body in the trunk, put it in the car, drove (Continued on Page 10) P. E.

Church May Fight Syphilis CINCINNATI, Oct. 16 Hagerstown is on the proposed preven med the steering wheel of the truck boulevard some miles from here, i International Highway from Rio de against Johnson and he was pinned He was beaten about the face, nose in the cab of his car. WEATHER Forecast V. S. Wentfcer Bureau Maryland: Fair tonight and Sunday rising temperature Sunday in west and central portions tonight.

a bulldog who he Chesapeake Bay: Clear to partly cloudy and rising temperature tonight and Sunday; moderate to fresh north and northeast winds. WEEKLY WEATHER Weather outlook for the period October 18 to 23 inclusive. North and Middle Atlantic States: Rains beginning late Monday or Tuesday and again about Thursday. Warmer early part; slightly colder about Wednesday; warmer Thursday; colder at end of week. DOG KILLS BEAR MISSOULA.

Oct. 16 (ff should be as tough as he looks, can feast on bear soon as he recovers. His master, Bryl Roark, missed i Spud while duck hunting. He found him crouched beside a bear carcass, licking his wounds. and head.

Physicians said he may be able to leave the hospital today. State police launched a statewide search for the short white man who attacked the minister. Mr. Gantner was robbed of $35 and his new automobile. aud Mechanic Mario Fava.

and their interpreter and counsel, S. W. former Texas newspaper 147 are taking special against venereal diseases itiated today. CARTOONIST DIES. HOLLYWOOD, Oct.

16 E. Chapiu, 80, cartoonist and writer known for his sketches of the Mill Creek dam disaster in Massachusetts, the Haymarket bombing in Chicago and also' hia free silver cartoons, died last night OLD INJURIES FATAL AURORA, 111., Oct. 16, coroner's jury yesterday found the death of Charles Arthur 24, former High school football star, was due to injuries suffered Sept. 29, 1934 while playing on the gridiron team at St. Olaf College, Northfleld, Minn.

Nadelhoffer died Thursday night after an attack of heart disease caused by an embolism while practicing handball. Brazil to New York City, WTiite, connect the North men. and South American continents, The three Brazilians have trav- Three intrepid Brazilians arrived eled every mile of the proposed in Hagerstown yesterday afternoon in the same two automobiles in which they left their homeland ty and courses. The total is about evenly divided between city and county schools. was in- April 16, 1928.

They were the guests of Mayor W. Lee Elgin and spent the afternoon inspecting the Pangborn Corp. and Moller Organ plants, both of which are well known in Brazil, where their products are shipped. They remained overnight here, leaving this morning for Washington, where they will present an appeal for the cooperation of this government in making the highway possible. They expect to have an audience with President Roosevelt In the party are Commander Leonidas Borges de Alweira, Ob- icrver Francisco Lopez de la Cruz TAVERN HOLDUP BALTIMORE, Oct.

16, While the Triennial General Convention awaited the balloting on presiding Bishop, the House of through jungles which an automobile never before traversed. They explained through their interpreter and with the aid of maps which were prepared from surveys they personally made, that portions of the proposed highway linking the two continents have been completed in many of the countries. There are 9,935 miles of the highway in excellent condition, 518 miles under construction and 3,450 miles which are passable and which have been used as ox cart trails. The United States is the only country that has improved highways the entire distance. The route of the proposed high- (Contlnued on 10) bandits held up Mrs.

Car- mclia Palatucci, tavern operator, early today and escaped with $700 in cash. Mrs. Palatucci was'preparing to close the tavern when the men, who had been in the place several minutes drinking beer, drew guns and told her "this is a stick-up." FIVE DIE IN CRASH THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct 16, persons were killed today in the second serious crash of Dutch naval planes in the East Indies within three days. The accident happened near the island of Ban da, it was but no further details were available here. leputies approved and sent to the House of Bishops lor concurrence! ATLANTA, Oct 16, E.

Raymond Johnson's worth of concert tickets landed in the garbage by mistake and soon were out at the county farm hog pen but her chauffeur was equal to the emergency. He hurried to the farm, climbed into the pen, chased the pigs away and finally found the tickets, hall rooted into the ground by the porkers. philis and urging church members to cooperate in the dissemination, of Informaton for combating it, and Requiring couples to submit a physician's certificate tfcey were free of venereal disease before they could be married by am Episcopalian minister. Both actions will be concurred in by the the Bishops, informed churchmen said. The relating to a physician's certificate would become a part of the church's canons, out would not apply in states such certificates are required by civil law.

Rev Saint George Tucker, of Richmond, Bishop oJ Virginia, was elected presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church today. NUMBER TWO. The mercury went to 27 degree! last night, thin ice formed, but the frost not quite neary as previous night, but according to D. Paul Oswald, Tille weather obaerrer today. The temperatyre itood at sreea at 11 o'clock today..