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CIRCULATION A TfcTVT TTDTTT" A MTVTVr TTrKXTTni A IT -i-TT More Than. UUjUUV EttlmiM 4iMdM P. EDITION Exclusive Associated Press, International News, Consolidated Press Dispatches FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR NO. 19G 'AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1927 (TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES) PRICE TWO CENTS DEATH TAKES RUMANIAN MONARCH 1 DAYTON EAGERLY I Rumanians mourn death of king KING FERDINAND Officials Combine In Drive On Roadhouses DIES OF CANCER AWAITS PLIERS jr-i pis pacific mmk QUEEN WITH MM I tM "TEW Air Of Mystery Surrounds Great Heavyweight "Go" WILL Jack Dempsey, former king of the heavies, climb over the prostate form of Jack Sharkey to engage Gene Tunney once again for the title? Will Jack Sharkey, the bold young man from Boston, 10 years Demp-sey's Junior, smack him down and out of the heavvwei'jht picture when they meet'1 in New York Thursday night? The Beacon Journal "GRKF.N" extra on the streets immediately after the final blow is struck, will tell the story in all its gripping details. FANS AT ARMORY TO GET RESULTS Associated Press wires direct from the ringside to the Beacon Journal will carry a blow by bloy account of this set-to.

During the show at the armory, fans will be kept informed of the big event round-by-round accounts supplied by the Beacon Journal. You'll get every detail in THE BEACON JOURNAL "GREEN." Llw1 iSt rfffSftf -W ffif 1 40A0 SO CAROL XlCHAL i CAfiOL, 9 i Army nants To Be Wel- com'wl Thousands When t. flhin Town (PLAN Escort Of Planes To Meet Maitland, Hegenbcrger From Chicago, Milwaukee Fetes By tin Assortated Tress DAYTON, July 20. Dayton today greet Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert J.

Hegenbcrger. United States army fliers who made the first successful flight from America to Hawaii The airmen, fresh from triumphs at Milwaukee and Chicago, are scheduled to land at McCook field at 2 o'clock, there to be greeted by their wives, General William E. Gillmore, Mavnr Allen fl MpDnnalH flnlwrpw. Bov and host, of Daytonians. To Present Gifts They will be escorted by planes from Dayton field and will be presented gifts from admiring friends.

Plans have been completed for the handling of the crowds expected to begin arriving at the landing field shortly after noon. A musical pro-; gram has been arranged for beginning" at 1 o'clock. Factory whistles, automobile sirens and fire gongs will cry a shrill welcome to the fliers when they are lirst sight ed, and aerial bombs will add their de tonations to the din of the greeting. LIEUTENANTS WEEP AT MILWAUKEE FETE MILWAUKEE, July 20. (API-Eyes that peered into the darkness that night when an airplane winged its way from the American coast to Hawaii were dimmed with tears last night.at the dinner jetton by Mil-.

waukee to its native sua: Lieut. Lester J- Mainanci, and Lieut. Albert Hegen- berger, Overcome with emotion, Maitland smiled, wept and shook his head, unable to speak as the throng at the close of the day's festivities continued the cheering that had resounded in his ears all afternoon. PRISONERS CONTINUE TO REFUSE ALL FOOD Sacco, Vanzetti Enter Fourth Day Of Hunger Strike In Penitentiary BOSTON, July 20. (API As Nicola Sacco and Burtolomeo Vanzetti entered the fourth day of their hunger strike at Charlestown state prison where they are awaiting execution next month, indications were that Gov.

Alvan T. Fuller's advisory committee, which has been reviewing the seven-year fight of the men to escape electrocution for a double murder in South Braintree, had nearly concluded its labors. Hpar More Witnesses Only a few more witnesses are to be heard, it was reported, and then the committee will listen to summations by counsel. When breakfast was 'taken to the cells of the two prisoners today both refused it. Vanzetti, who has taken coffee at breakfast time on previous days, declined it this morning.

The Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit- tee announces that Vanzetti attributes the fast to dissatisfaction with the secret methods employed by Governor Fuller in his investigation. Three Men Confess IS KILLED BY BOLT WHILE FISHING i Frank B. Staub, World Wan Veteran, Crumpled Up In Boat As Lightning Strikes EFFORTS TO REVIVE FAIL Wife Wanted To Accompany; Him On Lake But Was Refused Fishing in the middle of Long lake near Cormany's landing, Frank Staub, 34, of 1149 Lexington met death Tuesday night when a bolt Df lightning struck his rowboat. Staub, who was a World war veteran and one of the proprietors of the. North Hill Used Car was alone in the boat.

Other fishermen some distance away saw Staub li. Staub riump over the edge as" the bolt struck. They hurried over and took him to shore. No Funeral Arrangements He was rushed to Citizens hospital, Barberton, where Ira Lockhart, a Barbertop fireman, worked for an hour to revive him. He was pronounced dead by Dr.

George R. Well-wood at 7: IS o'clock. -r The body was removed to Camp field-Hickmnn's at Kenmore. No fu- neral arrangements have been made. Staub leaves his widow, Mrs.

Mildred Staub, and two sisters, Mrs. Hank Ledoux of Long lake and Mrs. Emma Moore, Thornton St. At Sister's Cottage Staub had been wanting to go fishing for several weeks, according to his wife. Tuesday noon he told his partner, L.

E. Klein, that he was going to take the afternoon off and go fishing. His wife wanted- to accompany him, she said, but he refused, saying he wanted to be alone. He went to Ledoux's' cottage at Long lake, borrowed their boat, and rowed to the center of the lake where he commenced to fish. He had been fishing several hours when the fatal flash struck tile boat.

He was a Mason and a member of the Giotto. JUDGE JONES RULES AGAINST AKRON ITE Attorney Stanley Denlinger As Trustee In Bankruptcy Held Responsible For Taxes A trustee in bankruptcy is' personally responsible for delinquent taxes which are not paid, Federal. Judge faul Jones of Cleveland rilled in the case of Summit county against Attor- ney Stanley Denlinger as trustee ior the L. D. Schroy according to word received Wednesday by Prose cutor Oscar Hunsicker.

Denlinger was appointed trustee in bankruptcy for the Schroy in October, 1924. At that time taxes for 1922 and 1923 were listed although (Those for 1924 were not yet listed for payment, Hunsicker said. The trustee paid out all the funds to creditors, but only after he had been up to the treasurer's office and asked for tax bills, he said. Taxes for 1922 then were paid, leaving those for 1923 and 1924 still unpaid, amounting' to $1,143.50. Taxes, under the bankruptcy law, are not debts but have priority over creditors, Hunsicker stated.

Three Fatalities In Chicago Blaze CHICAGO, Julv 30. (API Three sons bUJ.nf,d t0 death and ptherSt one of wUom ls not ex. were infllred -in a flre in the Svea hotel here today. IUTU DEALER rf i ji tl earn i i I i i i a I Long Struggle With Complica tion Of Maladies Ends In Peaceful Surrender I REGENCY IS ESTABLISHED Partisans Of Kindly Ruler To Hold Throne For Son Of' Former Crown Prince Br the Associated Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 20. (API King P'crdinand of Rumania sighing "I feel very tired," as he lay in the arms of his wife, Queen Mane, died peacefully at the Chateau De Pelishor at Sinala at 2:15 o'clock this morning.

He left the throne to young Prince Michael who becomes king in a proclamation ceremony at 4 o'clock thi afternoon. The little prince, not yet 6, is the son of former Crown Prince Carol who renounced his rights in 1925 and has been notified by the government that it intends to abide by the decree of last year accepting his -e-nunclation. The royal power will be wielded by a regency until the littls prince is of age. Dead Kin; Landed The government, soon after the king's death, issued a proclamation lauding Ferdinand as the "first kln: of greater Rumania," and calling upon the nation to gather with love and confidence in the country's young King Michael. The Immediate cause of the death was given as congestion of th lungs developing from a cold of several days' standing, but his body hud been wasted and his resistance weakened by a long and stubborn struggle with that dread malady cancer.

With him as he died, In addition to the pueen, were his daughter, Quee i Marie of Jugo-Slavla, and the former rulers of Greece, Prince Nlcola.i anJ the Princess Ileana. Former Crown Prince Carol, exiled in Paris, was the only child missing. A national assembly was called for this afternoon to take the oath of Queen Marie, the queen mother, Princess Elizabeth, and the regency councils, which consist? of tho patriarch, Miron Cristea, Prince Nicolas and Supreme, Court Justice G. V. Bus-dugan.

The king's funeral probably will be held Saturday with burial at Curtea De Arges, about 40 miles east of Sinala, where the bodies of Rumania's kings are entombed. Death Long Expected Ferdinand's death had long been expected, and even the country iolk. who looked on him more as a kindly father than as a king, knew that th disease would be fatal, "Ferdinand the was whar the allies called him during the war, and "Ferdinand the Loyal" was what he remained to his own people who, undisturbed by the dynastic storm that troubled the upper strata of Rumanian society, looked to the ageing king to lead them the unhappy post-war years to contentment and plenty. Last year, lust after Queen Maries hurried return from the United States, his physicians gave him up. But Mm king was firm in the hope that lie might help to place his country on i a stable political basti desDlte fac tional disputes among powerful interests.

Longed To See Son He hoped to see once more his wayward son Carol, "the madcap of the (Oontlnuad On Page Mint) AMBASSADOR HERRICK AGAIN FACES KNIFE Son Indicates Another Operation Of Serious Nature May Be Necessary CLEVELAND, July 20. (AP) Myron T. Herrlck, 73-year-old U. S. ambassador to France who underwent a minor operation here Sunday, may he forced to submit to a second operation soon, it was- indicated today by hla son, Pormley Herrick.

The ambassador was stricken Sunday at his estate at Chagrin Falls near ous year and it may take some time for him to recuperate." Official reports from the were that the ambassador had spent a "fairly good night and was resting comfortably today." Picture Combination Buys Christie Studio HOLLYWTOD7caJ.rJuly 20. (AP) Purchase of the Interests of Al and ARREST 121 Working In Harmony For First Officials Promise Active Campaign UNDERCOVER IVIEN AT WORK Smash Ceiling To Find Hidden Liquor At Lakeview Inn Uniting forces for the biggest cleanup drive of the year, Sheriff Jacob Bollinger, Prosecutor Oscar Hunsicker and state enforcement officers swept over the county in a 12-hour drive Tuesday afternoon and night, arresting 12 persons on charges of violating the liquor law. Those arrested were: CHRIST ALEXANDER, 33, at the Kennel club. MIKE AYOUB, 40, at Hillview Inn. CARL NESTEK, 20, Kennel club.

TOM BRUNO, 35, Kennel club. CHARLES DAVIS, 23, Arlington St. ext. roadhouse. CHARLES TRUTT, Canal Fulton.

CLARK EVANS, 44, Clinton hotel manager, Clinton, O. MAE BROWN, 37, Mickie Bertsch's Inn. GENE BELMONT, 29, Lakeview Inn. JOE MARTELLO, 51, Lakeview Inn. CLYDE ATKINS, 24, Hamlin's hotel.

JACK HARMON, 42, Arlington St. ext. troadhouse. All are charged with violating the Crabbe act, Shrouded In Secrecy The greatest of secrecy surrounded preparations for the drive. At 3 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Jacob Bollinger, Prosecutor Hunsicker, County Detective Wilson B.

Smith, Deputies Jack Sellars and William (Contlntwd On Page Nine) MOTOfiMAN CAPTURES SLAYER OF OFFICER Pells Murderer By Blow On Head With Switch Stick After Shooting LOWELL. July 20. (AP A I 135-pound street car motorman, John J. Powers, stood out today the hero i i i. jnfh trt or a tragedy wiucu uiuusui urawn Constable Donald F.

Adams, of Chelms- ford, and resulted In the capture of Alisa G. Saab, slayer. Acting with presence of mind, Powers halted his car on which Saab had Just shot down Adams, who had attempted to arrest him for alleged attempted extortion of money from A. Q. Pollard, wealthy department store owner.

He felled the gunman with a blow from his switch stick, and securing him with handcuffs from the pockets of the dying officer, raced the car to the police station where he delivered the prisoner. Adams leaves a widow and two children. OHIO WEATHKR WASHINGTON, July 20. Fair tonight; Thursday cloudy, probably showers in West portion, little change In temperature. The temperature at 2 o'clock wa 81.

Temperature In Akron at 8 a. m. was 67. Maximum recorded Wednesday was 83, minimum was 59. Precipitation for 24-hour period endlnl at 8 a.

m. was .00 of an Inch. Temperatures In other cltlea at 8 a. m. and Wednesday's high 8 a.

m. Y'day's Toddy Max. Atlanta pt. cloudy. 73 84 Boston 66 80 Buffalo clear 62 74 Chicago cloudy 62 68 Cincinnati clear 68 88 Cleveland pt.

cloudy. 6 74 Columbus clear 64 88 Denver clear 63 92 Detroit 60 74 Kansas City rain. 70 83 Los Angeles pt. cloudy. 70 86 Miami pt.

cloudy. 84 88 New Orleans pt. cloudy. 82 88 New York. cloudy 70 74 Pittsburg clear 66 80 Portland.

Ore. cloudy 68 76 Bt. Louis Pt. cloudy. 72 90 Washington cloudy 68 80 Today' Low and Testerday's High Fresno, clear.

104: Phoentx. rlear. 102: Yuma, cloudy. White Diver, clear. 36: Saulte Ste.

Marie, Mich clear, 44; Yellowstone, clear, 48. LIQUOR COUNTS FIREMEN ANSWER ALARM EVERY HOUR Eight Blazes Extinguished By Department Vith Little Or No Loss The lire department's b-uiinct went away above average Tuesday afternoon and evening when! eight alarms Were soundad in less than eight hours. One fire in an unoccupied house at 1208'a First required another alann after it had been left on the first run as extinguished. The fire started from burning papers In a furnace, the chimney of which was defective. The house belongs to C.

Pessler. Careless Sirmkers Two calls from different locations were for blazies started by carelessness with matches. One was at 894 Peck-ham in a house occupied by the families of C. D. Bucher and R.

Brown, the other was at 359 W. Cedar, in an unoccupied dwelling owned by George Rash. The department was called twice to put out dump fires. A blaze that started in the East Ohio Gas Co. building on North st about 5 o'clock is said to have been caused by a smoker's negligence.

TWO NEWSPAPERMEN SUCCUMB AT BOSTON I Albert Mitchell And Irving Fox Are Stricken And Die Before Help Arrives BOSTON, July 20. (API Two Boston newspapermen were stricken suddenly here yesterday and died within a few minutes. Albert H. C. Mitchell, 60.

editor and 'and formpr )s pdltor of t)lfi Bos. ton American died while being taken to a hospital after in a downtown district. Irving Plerson Fox, 87, president and treasurer of the Spatula Publishing Episcopal diocese died in his office reach of Massachusetts before help could Girl Cuts Foot Swimming In Creek Top picture shows King Ferdinand, his beautiful queen, Marie, recently a visitor in the United States, and other members of the royal household of the iittle Balkan state which is now bereft of its gentle, courteous ruler, after his gallant battle with cancer. Though a zollern himself, Ferdinand repudiated the German kaiser, and his own family, by siding with the allies in the World war. Below is the latest photo of King Ferdinand, In civilian clothes.

Doctor Gives Blood For Woman Patient 10 ORDERED BUST OF GEORGIA PEACH Sculptor Delivers Likeness Of Tyrus Cobb But Cannot Collect Payment EVERYONE SHIFTS BLAME B' the Associated Press DETROIT, July 20. Who ordered a statue of Tyrus Raymond Cobb allegedly for erection on Belle Isle, the city's center? The question was proving a matter of concern to certain Deiroiteis today. Not the least of them was Mayor John W. Smith; his secretary, Edward Speyer; and a Russian sculptor, Nison Tregor, who has completed a life size head of clay which he cays respresents "the spirit of baseball" and Cobb's features. Tregor contends he began work on the bust after the mayor brought Cobb to his studio while the Philadelphia Athletics were playing their first series here.

The Peach" posed for him three mornings following that time and then the sculptor followed him to Chicago to continue the work, Tregor added. ninn aaa i nwr i Now that the bust has been com. pleted, Tregor wants to know who will furnish the $20,000 necessary to turn out a full length statue, if that Is what is wanted. Mayor Smith says he doesn't know and Speyer; to whom has been detailed the task of finding out, says "Search me." It all came about at a luncheon given the former Tieer nmnaffer whn ho appeared here' this spring for the first time with the Athletics. Soniebody I nobody seems to know who suggested the erection of the statue.

The introduction of Tregor and Cobb followed. MOTHER OF MURDERED INFANT UNDER GUARD Authorities Lodge Charges After She Exonerates Father Of Responsibility LISBON, July 20. (AP Mrs. Edna Waltenbaugh, 30, today was charged with killing of her infant daughter whose Body was found on highway near Salem with a towel stuffed in its mouth. The coroner returned a verdict of death by suffocation.

A guard has been placed over the mother in the Salem hospital. Mrs. Waltenbaugh told authorities the baby was born dead and exoner- a ted her husband, Lloyd, of any con- i nection with the death. Dies In New York NEW YORK, July 20. (AP) Arthur! Arton Hamerschlag 58.

president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburg between 1903 and 1922, died of intestinal trouble at the Roosevelt hospital Since 1923 Mr. Hamerschlag had been director of industrial research in I the office of General- George Wj Goethals. GERM AN-JAPANESE TREATY TOKIO. July 20. (AP) A commer- cial treaty between Japan and Germany, based on one in operation beore i Ithe World war, was signed here today.

A quart of blood needed for a patient who underwent a serious operation in People's hospital. Tuesday, was given by Dr. Harry S. Davidson, member of Ohio state legislature. The patient, a woman, was in too weak a condition to stand the operation and a blood transfusion was ordered.

Dr. Davidson learned that a quart of blood was necessary and volunteered his services. Tests revealed the doctor's blood was suitable for the patient and a pint was taken from each of his arms. After resting half an hour, Dr. Davidson returned to his office, refusing to spend the day in bed.

Consul's Assailant Is Still At Large MEXICO CITY, July 20. (API Authorities at Puerto Mexico are making ever effort to find the man who attacked William E. United Rar'i. t-U Cl 1 Co. and publisher of the Church Mili-1 Dealing I OUin, Vjlrlltan officiai organ of tne Protestant 1 BOMB BLAST THEORY CHANGEDJY POLICE Believe Explosion Was Eesult Of Jealousy In Russian Colony At Nice NICE, France, July 20.

(AP) Officials investigating the explosion of a bomb near the American consulate building yesterday believe it was not directed against the consulate. Part of the ground floor is occupied by the Russian Prince Lubomirsky, who recently francs. It is Inherited 20,000,000 believed a jealous mem ber of the Russian colony placed the bomb. Consular officials yesterday said the bombing was a demonstration in behalf of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The consulate was not damaged except for broken windows.

readers that is being shown now that she is ill. From the time the first word of her illness was given to her friends Tuesday morning the calls at the Peoples hospital began. They continued through the dav and till late last night. Her closet' friends, anxious for more than could bp learned at the hospital call members of the Beacon Journal staff for word of her Illness, RAVENNA, July 20 Hilda Llewellyn, jParlr Rarpr Patron 13, of Kent R. F.

D. suffered a severe- rarK5. al.rn. ly lacerated foot Tuesday K.llled In Accident while swimming in a creek, near her home. NEW CASTLE, July 20.

APlr According to Portage county hospi- Mrs. Anna Berger, aged 51, of Mew En-tal officials, where she taken, terprise, was hurled from a car she slipped on a sharp rock. She was la the "Gorge Ride" at Cascade park released from the hospital, after the here last night dragged under the wound had been dressed. wheels, and almost instantly killed. States consul, in his home several days here, and taken to a Cleveland hospital ago.

where the operation for a bladder all- Reports reaching Vera Cruz attribute ment was performed. The operation the attack to an anarchist, it being declared minor in nature, but it pointed out that no attempt was made Was indicated that If a second is nec-to carry off anything of value. essary it will be more serious. Nearly three weeks ago, it was learn- "My father's principal need now ls ed. Mr.

Chapman asked for police pro-! rest," Herrick said. "He came back tection because of the Sacco-Vanzetti from abroad very tired after a'strenu- CARLISLE, July 20. (API-Three men arrested for attacking George Ewing of Smith- Grove, R. O. T.

student at Carlisle, and Miss Mildred Laird at Cavehill, July 13, have confessed police said today; The trio are members of the permanent staff of the Carlisle medical field service. Joseph Smith, 28. of Philadelphia, was arrested yesterday and' Matthew Adams, 19, Cumberland, and Joseph Mazeika, 19, Wilkes-Barre, have been in custody several days. The young couple were returning fro't row on the creek. Friends ran to the scene when Miss Laird screumsu and the masked assailants Many of those who called undoubtedly knew her only through her column, "Demi Tasse and Mrs! Grundy," and her feature writings.

Besides the telephone calls to the hospital, many were made at the Beacon Journal office, and at the homes of members of the staff last night and this morning. Miss Van De Grift, who in private life is Mrs. William H. Rigby, Hundreds Of Telephone Calls From Friends Deluge Hospital Where Josephine Van De Grift, Writer, Is In Serious Condition agitation. Foul Play Hinted In Drowning Case IRONTON, July 20.

(INS Suspicion of foul play was being probed today while funeral arrangements were made for Arthur Stiff, 18, son of T. Stiff oT Huntingdon. W. Va. The body was taken by a fisherman from the Ohio river at Burlington -Tuesday eve was taken to Peoples hospital Mon- day and underwent a major operation Monday night.

Her condition is" still serious and has not changed since Tuesday, hospital attendants reported today. The homely little happenings of life that Miss Van De Grift wrote about, and her interest in Akron-ites and their work, forged a bond of sympathy between her and her CONTACT between Josephine Van De Grift, Beacon Jour nal, feature writer and columnist, and her hundreds of readers and admirers has not ceased while she is in Peoples hospital. More than 500 telephone calls to the hospital were made Tuesday by anxious friends inquiring about her. ning and identified today by the father Christie in Metropolitan plc-who reported to police Saturday that tures by the Pathe-De Mille-Keith-Al-hls son had disappeared. bee combination has been elosed here..