The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 13

ecLeral Oil Heavers Convicted In Slaying Manslaughter, Say Jurors 'I'' Al I Here Sought Ag am Dovlcsf own Man Ilesigiiod Craft Producers' Manager Is Sponsor Robert E. BcaVers, husky 36-year-old construction and rubber worker, faces a penitentiary sentence of 1 to 20 years for the fatal shooting of his common-law wife during a fit of anger last July 20. Brought to trial for first de-jrree murder, a Jury Friday night in Judge Stephen C. Colony's court returned a verdict of ffullty of manslaughter. The case, highlighted by Beavers' testimony that the shooting In Barberton was "accidental," went to the jury at 4:15 p.

m. the panel took an hour out for supper at 5:45 and reported its finding at 9:15. Judge Colopy will pronounce sentence Monday. Beavers, who lived at 118 Cross shot Mrs. Daisy Mae Jones In the home of Mrs.

Annie Dobson, her sister, who lives at 223 Canal Barber-ton. IN FINAL arguments, the Ask Handlers1 Reaction Soon Built Plane Years Ago, But Won't Go Close To Them Now By HELEN WATERHOLSE He worked two years from the time the Wright brothers flew first, designing and building his own plane. He spent months organizing a stock company to finance the Job. Most of Barberton, his birthplace, chipped in. But since that day in July, 1910, when Michael Paridon soared aloft in his "contraption" to 60 feet, and flew smoothly until it began to loop and smacked to earth, he has never stepped foot in an airplane.

"I wouldn't get Into a plane for a million dollars. I won't get into one even if the motor's dead," says the early-bird aviator who soon will celebrate tiis 80th birthday. half-mile bridges, biggest spans planned for the Turnpike, will clear the Summit County highway by 35 feet and the river by 135 feet. First ground for the new super high-, way was broken on the site last October. Concrete for a dozen huge piers to support the steelwork first was poured in January.

MOTORISTS who drive along Riverview rd. in Boston Twp. north of Peninsula ran see the Ohio Turnpike closing in on them. Like a scene from "The Perils of Pauline," a crane "teeters" at the edge of steelwork for the $6,000,000 twin bridges over the Cuyahoga River Valley. The completed From Oar Wuhlnfton Burraa WASHINGTON A new application for an Akron district federal milk order has been filed with the Department of Agriculture here.

The application was filed by Roger P. Buckley, manager of Akron Milk Producers, Inc. sets in motion a repeat performance of the 1949-1950 application defeated by referendum. The Department of Agriculture shortly will send out formal notice of the application to milk handlers inviting the handlers' comment on the advisability of holding a hearing. From there on the steps are thesp decide on a hearing; if so, invite all interested parties state asked that Beavers be sent to the electric chair.

The defense claimed the killing was "just an unfortunate mishap." Assistant Prosecuotrs Robert Azar and Bernard Rosen said Beavers bought a gun, went directly to the Canal st. home where Mrs. Jones was staying and shot her down In cold blood. The state said Beavers fired Seawright Denies Job In Capital Arthur D. Seawright.

the D.ZJ to testify; accept written briefs; recommend or reject an order; accept any objections; final de mayor's secretary for the last 10 years, denies he is taking a job in the Washington office of cision by Secretary Ezra Taf Benson; if Benson okays a milk order, hold an Akron district in anger, charging his common-law wife and tier relatives lied to convict him of assault and battery in Barberton Municipal Court. Defense Attys. Joseph D. Roulhac and Mary Cacioppo stressed that Beavers gave his right name when he bought the gun, and that he fired only once, although Mrs. Jones ran from the scene of the shooting.

"Those were not the acts of a man planning a deliberate killing," Roulhac said. BEAVERS, husky 250-pound construction worker, said on the stand that he never had been in trouble before and that his education had ended in the third grade. He said he went to the home of Mrs. Dobson to tell Mrs. Jones he was through with her because she had been out the preceding night without explaining her absence.

He said he was armed because he feareu a renewal of the scuffling that had got him MICHAEL PARIDON flight pilot front wheel and the wheels were old fashioned cycle type. News of the venture spread but officials at the match company took a dim view since the experiments took him away from his work so much. Then came the big day. "I CLIMBED into the machine, strapped my safety belt, gave the engine a kick and up we went. It flew fine for some minutes.

But at 60 referendum. IF ALL the steps are resolved in favor of the order, the procedure could take months. Likely it would result in an agreement for minimum prices and a "pool" for sharing proceeds of milk sales. The milk orders are regarded as non-controversial in the Department of Agriculture. Strife comes, if it does, at the local level where some milk retail organizations object vigorously.

Secretary Benson has approved several of the orders Charles E. Slusser. Seawright has been in the mayor's office since Slusser first took over as Akron's chief executive. He remained in the secretary's job when Slusser went to Washington as U. S.

Public Housing Commissioner and turned over the mayor's reins to Russell M. Bird. Seawright will lose his job come Jan. 1 when the Democratic administration of Leo Berg takes office. The present secretary has made no secret of the fact he would like to remain in the job, which is a purely political appointment.

It Is believed improbable, however; that Berg has considered him for the job. ifeKWliMiniiiii i Barden, vice president of the Goodwill board; L. L. Smith, chairman of special gifts, and M. J.

Morgenroth, merchants gifts chairman. OSCAR HUNSICRER JR. (right), chairman of the Goodwill Industries $400,000 building fund campaign, reports on progress of the current drive to (left to right) Carl Still Short Of Coal Already working in Slusser's I since his administration took over in January. The earlier Akron district referendum in September, 1950, fell short by a few percentage points of reaching the required Paridon, tall, erect, his face still unlined, his mind still vigorous, had just come in from a hike near his century-old home in Doylestown. He lives there alone.

A stocking cap was pulled low over the old inventor's ruddy face. Out in the shed, still intact, is one of the eight-foot laminated wood propellers, his only relic of that famous first last flight. PARIDON SOLD the heavy motor of Barberton's first airplane several years ago. A couple of Portage Lakes boys wanted to buy it to propel an ice boat. "I told 'em the boat would take off and fly," he chuckles.

But among the treasures inside the old house on Calla-boon Square rd. are two big framed pictures of his wonderful flying machine. Paridon was a young machinist at Diamond Match where he subsequently worked for 52 years, when his "brainstorm" came. The Wright brothers' flight was the talk of the day. Glenn E.

Curtiss, whom Paridon had met, was experimenting with plane models, too. Paridon, who learned the machinist's trade at Diamond, began to take more and more time off work there. He spent every spare minute he could out on a big windswept field, a part of the O. C. Barber estate near the Sun Rubber Co.

plant today. THERE, AFTER designing his plane and having the parts built by a company in Staten Island, N. he began to assemble it in a big tent erected for the purpose. First, however, he had licked the problem of backing for his great venture. "I formed a stock company.

A lot of my young friends kicked in. We went out and got subscriptions. "The town of Barberton finally made a project of it and $3,000 was donated by citizens in small sums," Paridon recalls. "One day I went up to O. C.

Barber, himself, in his office. I told him, 'Mr. Barber, I want to build an "He didn't hesitate a minute. 'See my the founder of Barberton told me. The secretary gave me $100.

"When I finally started to assemble it on Barber's property, he even came out and told me to move the tent up nearer to his house." convicted a short time earlier of assault and battery. Washington office is John D. Curry, former city finance director, and Ruth Leslie, longtime civil service secretary to Put Co-ed's Abductor In Asylum Keith Locke, 22, of Hagers The shot was fired he said, when he heard a 67.b7 per cent affirmative vote. The vote actually was 63.77 per Goodwill Extends Drive For $400,000 cent in favor of the milk order. scream and turned around to see its cause.

Mrs. Jones suffered a fatal bullet wound in the chest. the mayor. Quell School Fire Quickly Still about 52 per cent snort of its goal of $400,000 for a new headquarters, the Akron Goodwill Industries has been town, admitted abductor of an Earlham College co-ed from Silver Lake, must spend at least Alsco Ends forced to extend its current fund-raising drive through De cember. the next two years in a mental District Fire Chief Robert forts to find employment for Sales Campaign Chairman Oscar Ilunsirker Jr.

reports that Parley hospital. Circuit Judge G. H. Hoelsch er, of Richmond, ruled Fri the Nation's handicapped di 648 has been pledged to date, rectly help both them and the day that Locke now is sane but Corice blamed spontaneous combustion for a $150 fire in St. Bernard School at Center st.

and Broadway this morning. Funds raised will be used to Nation. "The very existence of your organization, with its noble ordered he be sent to a mental hospital after hearing medical testimony that recurrence of a mental disturbance is "highly Four engine and two truck purpose, is heartening to all who believe in the brotherhood possible." 1 of man. feet the slack in the foot control became too slack," Paridon recalls. I'm glad it was only 60 feet.

"I began to loop the loops and pancaked down. "The propeller and lower wings all were broken. "I remember lying there on the ground, feeling very much at peace with the world. When I came to, the crowd had gathered around. People were on their knees feeling for my heart "We had two children then, one a baby in arms.

My wife declared that she'd sue the Diamond Company for damages if they ever let me fly again. "I never did." Aside from his flying career, Paridon's history has another first. He is credited with inventing the first match-book packing machine, an automatic "endless chain" affair, still used in a modified form by the match company. PARIDON ALSO designed some 69 other machines that were patented by and for Diamond. Mrs.

Patricia Piche, his youngest daughter, an art teacher at Old Trail School, can recall her Dad's pacing the floor as he thought out one patent or another during the years. The inventor has two other daughters, Evelyn, and Mrs. Lucille Swires, now in Venezuela with her husband, a General Tire Rubber Co. employe. Way Cleared For Truck Terminal The first step has been tak-en to clear the way for construction of a new terminal by Renner Motor Lines, Inc.

The City Planning Commission has approved a change in zoning at the Southwest corner of Manchester rd. and W. Waterloo rd. where the trucking firm will build a new terminal. The area Involves five acres which cover both two-family and retail business districts.

The commission recommended a change to commercial use. The recommendation now goes to the Council planning committee. Renner Motor Lines is located at 86 Huston st. Judge Hoelscher said that, on the basis of medical testimony, it appeared Locke was insane Alsco, Inc. brought to a close today a three-day storm window and door technical conference in the Mayflower Hotel.

Thirty-three of the top product engineers and technical men for the company and its affiliates are here for the meeting, S. L. Wansky, vice president in charge of production, announced. The program included a tour of the company's new plant in Gnadenhutten as well as discussions on manufacturing methods, construction, design and installation of Alsco products. The firm has 30 distrib- companies responded to the call that- had busy morning traffic tied up for several minutes.

The fire was discovered by the church-school custodian, Joe Wolf. Corice said the fire started In a pile of rubbish and spread to the basement ceiling, when he kidnaped the 19-year-old daughter of an Akron physician in October. "The fact that Goodwill Is now 51 years old and the knowledge that it has brought its dedicated efforts into more than 100 cities should be a source of pride to all Americans. "You have my best wishes for continued success in helping others become independent and productive citizens," the Eisenhower letter concluded. Under the judge's ruling, Locke will be confined to the buy the Summit Wholesale Grocery Co.

building on S. College to provide larger work and storage quarters. The present Howard st. building is now crowded to capacity. It is estimated the new quarters will permit Goodwill to hire an additional 200 handicapped persons to work in the shops and stores.

THIS WEEK the national Goodwill Industries got a big pat on the back from President Eisenhower for its work with the handicapped. In a letter to James T. Buckley, chairman of the board of Goodwill Industries, Eisenhower said: "My best wishes go to you and all your colleagues cooperating in the work of Goodwill Industries of America. Your ef Beatty Memorial Hospital Fined $100 Westville for two years. Re then will he eligible for release and If not discharged, can apply John Bugh, 59.

of 629 Kling utinjj and -assembly plants for release every years was fined $100 and costs across the country. thereafter. and lost his driving rights for 30 days for drunken driving. Traffic Judge William H. Vic Locke was released from the Richmond State Hospital in 1952 after serving two years for Take $1,044 Burglars smashed through two doors of Michael's Grille, 663 E.

Exchange overnight and broke into a safe, getting away with $1,044, police report. tor suspended a 15-day jail sentence on condition Bugh's an attack on a 14-year-old girl Seek Relatives APPLE CREEK Tony Sou-reas, about 68, dud Friday in Apple Creek State Hospital. Hospital authorities have asked relatives to contact the He was held to be cured at that license is held and he obeys all laws in the future. time. 1 Car, Bus Collide, Officials Oisnpprovo As List lirows Man's Face Cut 1 A head-on collision of an auto Will Attend Club Celebration Mrs.

Elisabeth Buehl of Buehl Associates, 1 y-elected president of the Akron Advertising Club, will attend the 50th anniversary celebration of the Cincinnati Advertising Club Wednesday. Presidents of clubs in the Fifth District of Advertising Federation of America are to be special guests. Ed Sullivan of television's 'Toast of the Town" will be the principal and Akron Transportation Co. Two More Boys Now Claim Youngest Eagle Scout Title bus at Eastland and Arnold this morning sent Thomas Wil PARIDON RECALLS he paid $1,464 to have the plane built and another $864 to a motor company in Rochester, N. for the heavy engine it required.

It was a pusher-type plane with a wing span of 37 feet. Wings measured 6 feet, 3 inches from frpnt to back. The distance between the two wings of the biplane was six feet. There was a brake on the son, 52, of 1634 Nutwood driver of the car, to City Hos Fined $100, Loses Driver's License A $100 and costs fine and driver's license suspended for 90 days was the penalty given William Schwartz, 52, of 1540 Malasia for driving while under the influence of alcohol. pital for treatment of facial cuts.

Police said none of the 15 bus passengers required treatment. There was no arrest. speaker. I HEYISTOP Yi Cv IS come an Eagle Scout at tha age of 12. They also said they were dismayed to see an Issue of this kind get into the newspapers.

"Boys are entitled to speed up the process," one Scout official said, "but we feel they might miss too much of the spirit of Scouting if they go up the ladder too fast. That's why," he added, "we want nothing to do with a dispute of this type. We're adopting a strictly hands-off attitude." rUJM ISHECeVlNfi? I AelV ALL SNOOPY plD WAS W' 1 I It all started when Carl Williamson, of Lock Haven, claimed that at 13 he was the youngest boy in the nation to wear an Eagle Scout badge. As soon as that Item appeared Charles Thomas Bone-Steele, of Cuyahoga Falls, came forth with the claim he had received his Eagle award two days after his 13th birthday last April' This was recorded. Now two more applicants for the title "Youngest Eagle Scout" have appeared on the scene.

RICHARD BLOOMFIELD, 2917 Boston a member of Goodrich Troop 10, is reported to have received his Eagle badge Jan. 28, at the age of 12 years, nine months, and thiee days. In addition, he holds the God and Country Award, the Bronze Palm, and the John L. Collyer award, given for outstanding achievement among Goodrich Scouts. At the same time, Almon McKay, former Scoutmaster of the Main St.

Methodist Church Troop 30, says he pinned an Eagle Scout badge on Sells Apex Mangle Electrical appliances of all kinds are being sold every day through th want ad col-umns of the Beacon Journal. jfir Apex Mangle For Sale BL-3-8277 BUT NOW HE WANTS TO 60 JJC SNOOPVS FAC6! -C RICHARD BLOOMFIELD Scout Jack Humphrey on his 13th birthday. McKay also said the earliest a Scout can receive an Eagle award was on his 13th HOWEVER, local Scout officials say this is not so. Since the entrance age has been dropped from 12 to 11 years of age, a boy actually can be- Mrs. Ralph Clark reported lots of calls and the mangle sold the first night for cash.

It is always sale time in the want ad section and cash sales at that. It Is so easy to place a want ad, just call BL-3-1111 and ask for an Ad-Writer. MICHAEL PARIDON AT THE CONTROLS OF HIS FLYING MACHINE IN 1910..