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Fair And Unbiased Local And World News THE EVENING GAZETTE FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE WEATHER Local showers Thursday; cooler Friday. TEN PAGES FINAL EDITION XENIA, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932 VOL. LI NO. 1S1 PRICE THREE CENTS WORLD FLYERS OVERDUE AT MOSCOW NATIONS BEACH "WAR GUILT" AGREEMENT RETURNS HOME CONFERENCE SAVED FROM FAILURE WHEN CLAUSE ABANDONED Ends Dispute Between France And Germany At Lausanne LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July: 7. The international debt arid reparations conference was saved from failure today.

and a tentative agreement was reached. The United Press was informed on high authority that the French and German deadlock over removal of the "war guilt" clause of the Versailles peace treaty was broken and an agreement achieved. Drafting of the agreement will be rushed through tomorrow and a final plenary session held Friday night or Saturday night. The Germans were understood I to have offered 3,000,000,000 marks payment to a European restoration fund if the French would consent to. revise the Versailles treaty and grant Germany equality in disarmament.

Herriot reportedly replied that'France could accept nothing under 4,000,000,000 marks, without political conditions. INMATES OF WOMEN'S PRISONS GUARDED AS DISTURBANCES RAGE HEIR ENDS LIFE LONDON, July Britain cordially welcomes the Hoover dis- arjnament plan, Stanley Baldwin, acting prime minister, announced in' the House of Commons today. However, he indicated, Britain is unable to accept th'e plan unconditionally. She agrees the interconnection of the problems of mill tary, naval and air disarmament, he The United Kingdom proposes a reduction of capital ship tonnage by 195,000 tons as opposed to the 175,000 tons proposed by President Hoover, Baltlvrin 'announced. shoulfi be entirely abolished and aerial bombing completely' prohibited, Baldwin said.

Baldwin proposed that capital ships be limited to 22,000 tons and to carry guns of a maximum of eleven inches. He proposed that crutsnrs be reduced to maximum of 7,000 tons with a maximum- caliber of 6.1 Inches. Aircraft carriers would be limited to 22,000 tons with a maximum caliber of 6-L Inches. GOLFERS BELIEVED TO HAVE PREVENTED 1 KIDNAPING MURDER Victim Screams For Help And Players Chase Abductors CLEVELAND, July hundred golfers were believed today to have saved, Joseph Myda, 45, from death at the hands of kid- He was abducted from his home Llb'by Holman, stage star. Gas Guns Used When Revqlt Spreads At Both Institutions COLUMBUS, July Officials of the Girls' Industrial School, Delaware, and the Reformatory for Marysville, today kept! aj watchful eye on inmates fol- lowing disturbances and near- riotinp; at both institutions.

Tear gas, clubs and fists were usedj in quelling- dis-j turbances which accorripan-i ied the escape of thirty Ne-i gro inmates of the industrial Tuesday morning. Dis-l orders have continued inter-! mittently since their capture. Tear gas guns were rushed to the Marysville Reformatory Wed-1 nesday afternoon when Mrs." Louise MlttendorT, matron, reported a near-riot slarted by inmates transferred there from the Delaware Institution late last year following a riot. Several windows were broken. One rioter was cut about Ihe imnrtsT One was rushed to' the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima.

The spirit of revolt spread. In-! mates became restless but did join the sheriff 'of Onion County and his deputies stood by. Trouble started at the Delaware institution about 7 p. m. Monday! following a Fourth of July celebration which included athletic i events, special privileges and a' lawn picnic.

It not unexpect-f ed, according to the matron, Mrs. I Hose Beatty, Bowling Oreen. who! Is experiencing only her fourth month of institutions! work. Negro inmates kicked out (low screens, broke windows and I smashed a door in their cottage. (BULLETIN) CHERBOURG, Prance, July 7 The new French submarine Cromethec, sank off this pnrt today with sixty-eight persons aboard of whom only seven were rescued.

A fishing boat saved seven members of tho crew but the remaining- sixty-one were missing. The sixty- eight aboard included the crew, engineers nnd arsenal workers from the naval base hero. The submarine is one of the fleet of large cruiser-types being built by France and was completed only recently. It is an armored speed craft, 302 feet long imd is capable of nineteen knots. WHIPPING POST RETURNS TO OHIO DEMOCRATS HOPE TO PLACE RELIEF BILL BEFOREPRESIDENT Rally To Pass Bill Despite Promise Of Hoover Veto WASHINGTON.

July Democrats rallied tbolr forces today to pass tho 52,122,000,000 Wagnor-Garnor rcltor program In tho face of President. Hoover's vchom- cut opposition nnd put it squarely I up lo htm for tho veto he has prom- I The measure was to bn laid be- Jfore. (he honso at noon, with pass- la g(- expected by Congres I atonal contsrees ngain revised Iho I bill. They mot some of Mr. Hoo- vor's objections, but steadfastly supported Sneaker Garnor In his demand that I ho reconstruction finance corporation bn authorized to give financial aid (o individuals and small business men.

The Issue was drawn sharply by Ibese two Republican President standing for re.election nnd the Democratic nominee for vlce-prentcVency. The controversy boils (town to this: The relief bill expands I be borrowing and lending iiownr of the. reconstruction corporation by Garner demands Ihese funds bo made available on security to "all the particularly to small liusinc.SHps which cull no aid from tho corporation. Hell Holm, 20, handsorno scion of YOUTH IS RELEASED BY KIDNAPERS WHO HELD HIMJIX DAYS Haskell Bohn Safe' At Home; Ransom Was Reported Paid I'AlTlj, July 7. Han.

Mr. Hoover insists the money ho! only -for const.ruotloti 1 10 wealthy refrigerator manufac- family, was back homo to- and u-oi-lt-ereat- 'toy Uttlo the worse after Ing projects by' slates, clllcs 111 Blx ll(0 hands of kid- corporatlons. Ho declines earner's nftiiorn. plan would convert tho corporation i The youth who was captured by into a gigantic "navvnbrnlilnfi bnsi-j Uiroe men a weelt afro today was niss 1 nnd squander public funds, released just before midnight last On other points Iho coiifir-osalon- nlffht, Ho was thrust from an il lonfnroes reached a cmnmomlso I automobile a few miles west of Mill the President long! Minneapolis not far from thn Lake White House conferences Tuoftday i Minnotonka report district whore I nlghl and Wednesday. They ac-i bnliove Iho kidnap hide- lo Mr.

Jlonver's deiiiniul llml awny wan looalod. the 1300,000,000 fund for direct i Immediately after tho youth's rc- rollof loans lo stales and clllna officers conferred with him llorl 1 Scevons of Holmef. g. (Eighteen of them fled smith along the.Scloto River County Is shown above, wlr-ldlng a Attendants of Ihe Institution William Wynii as llm l.it- rounded them up and persuaded tfir sloml handcuffed to Inn cell them to return. Quiet was re.i'' ai llnt J' 11 nl MlHoralmrg.

Tw01 5 sl 8 wnro hia I'l-olher, who chose this punishment Instead of twunl.y were surrounded some distance from the institution and subdued with lear gas. Sniilh Reynolds, above, heir to They were laken to the Delaware the R. J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, Wednesday at his palatial nome at Winston-Salem, X- from a self-inflicted bullet wounl. Below is his bride, the former stored when Sheriff Veley Main of Delaware County was called.

The next morning a dozen mates of the same cottage fled and a vs on water diet In were rounded up. Later about rhlr-j tllB workhoime after plrjadinc ty escaped and, armed with on: to Iheft of an oloc-lrio refriB- pipe, clubs and other Sheriff Stnvoiw In shown below with view of the (Continued on'Page last night by three men who drove! him to the outskirts of the city and then turned down a lonely Myda said they were tak-ing him for a. "ride." But their plans were thwarted when they' came to the eni 1 of the lane and found themselves on Ihej edge of Cherry Ridge golf course. Myda screamed for help and began fighting his captors. Some 200 goiters, hurling clubs, balls and stones, pursued the car as it ploughed over the greens and fairways as the trio attempted escape.

i Finally, one of Ihe kidnapers WINSTON struck Myda on the head with HI revolver butt and pushed him from i ar g' er i PREDICT INCREASE WIDOW OF REYNOLDS IN FARM COMMODITY MAY BE QUESTIONED iN PROBEI3F DEATH Coroner Emphatic I Suicide Verdict; Star Prostrate PRICES; HOGS GAIN 1 General Advance Is Seen; Prices Are Already Better CHICAGO, July general ad- Holmes County Court HOUHO, DEMOCRATS JOYFUL OVER SMITH PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TICKET Express Confidence As 1928 Leader Aids Roosevelt July Alfred E. Smith's pledge of support to Ilin, i Roosevelt-Garner ticket sent. Ihe campaign off to a. singing start today, it. removed a dark, overhanging cloud that was vance in farm commodity prices was predicted today on the basts j'" SALEM, X.

July of a month-long rise in hog 'anrt'j Iman Rpvnolds, popu- rattle Quotations accompanied by songs, may belter values for grains and ratic leaders conaid- the car as the trio fled through the; )e questioned concerning the sui- Experts in close touch with the ai circle of rescuers. cide her youthful husband, farm commodity situation forecast Myda's rescuers noted the H-: smith Reynolds, whose rieaih prob-lthe steady advances would go far', cense number of the auto which ably ad(J $7,090,000 lo her own toward refilling depression emptied It, was traced to Cleveland. Police smaM fortune. pursea in many of Amer there lound the man to whom the: don know yet jf UC Btion est farming communities, license was issued had moved from i her not Transou Scott, In a month swine his former address. They told the ij nile rc early today.

increased 57 per tempting to trace him today. points to suicide, men who posed as £ay lt wa5 mura ri The popular potent is thn Influence was demon joy among Democrat I when Smith drar he hatchet that can'U- cbk-f- latlr-al- ic. former fr end. Governor Frank-1 pursea in many of America's rich-! lln D. Roosevelt.

have' 57 per cenf. alloted on the basis of need. The bllllon-dallnr works of the original fiarnor bill they scaled down lo Continued on page Ihreo. BROODING IN JAIL and Gebhard C. Holm, his million afre fallier, In fiopo of obtaining In- formalion that'will lead to capture of Ihe abduolton ring.

It was not. known dfiflnlloly i-rmsom rnftudoil in tlio first kidnap note wan paid but reports wero that ap- I proxliniitnly $5,000 was bartered i for tbe youth's freedom, The elder Bohn had announced hlnmnlf wlllliiR lo pay for the re- I (urn of Ills (inn PAIR MISSING SINCE SEEN BY BORDEi POSTS Storms Reported On Route; Plane May Be Forced Down By UNITED PRESS Jamesj Mattern and Bennett Griffin, who sped away into the night from Berlin 'yesterday in their effort to establish a new around the world record, were imreport- ed today. They had expected to slash records between Berlin and Moscow. They hoped to make the approximately 1,000 miles in about eight hours. But as morning wore on there was no report of them from the Russian capi-.

tal and only one' report concerning' the it was believed to have passed near the Polish border. Storms beat on their path. was tho possibility they had fjovm to tho south oC Moscow, that-they may have landed on some Industrial city the other side- of Moscow, or that they their fuel supply contiau- Ing on. into eastern Husala or Siberia. Whllo Soviet aviation officials waited at tho Moscow airdrome throughout the night and well Into tho afternoon today, the fliers remained except for the reports of Lithuanian aeronautical observation posla near the polish frontier that a plane believed to bo the "Century of Progress" had been sighted late Wednesday night Other stistetn European capitals hurt no word of tlie fliers.

Prom Wanrnwcamo the opinion that Die men might have forced oft their route by rain BtormB -Wednesday night, Tho fliers were seven hours over- r- duo Moscow at noon Moscow' tlmo (6 ft. m. BST) on the of their estimate that they, mnko the Berlin-Moscow flight in olgbt hours. They Berlin at fl p. i The possibility was hot: discounted at Moscow that Griffin and Mattorn might have continued eastward to one of the Soviet In- duetral centers beyond the capital, or thai they might hays gone on Into Siberia.

On the basis of the record-breaking flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Her- they wero credited wltb the 1 Young Holm raid 1m wns well lability to ponetrato far Into east- MATAV1A, July Ken- (mated by bin captors though ucky brooded In Jallioyon were bandaged morst of me tho gnrnge at our home," Ilnhn snlrl. "they plnced a luiudnge over my eyes. We drovo In the autonm- bile for long time nnd I WHH nn- loclny and his sweellie.it! roliiriK-il tlms ho wns in tliolr hands. In her task of sorvlug fond In "nirnclly after thn three men Cincinnati rimlniininl. II nri gi-abhed me litnl.

Thursday henldo anticlimax to a bnlil The rnnti, Hou'man, 25 miner of Harlnnd County, Ken- Inc.ky, and Ihe girl, Untie Unnnel. 17, originally- from lit tell whnl. illrncdnn was In- fian, were found by a i ken. biding In a deep ras'lnr' a half mlloj "Finally arrived at a bonfio from ihe home of Gcorfin Moore, nnd I wan phicetl In a room by my- vlsllifig, and demanded Ibnt nht; nrding Ihe Irnalment. many him in.

once-. Moore pro-1 "i.nnt nlghl put mo Into Iho leflled. car ngiiln. U'e drove a ROOU. nmnyi' 0 The Kentuoklan ordered the jjlrl miles, Dim of llm mon thrnst a to come wlih him and Ihey set mil my hands.

aJ20 bill din- Honduras, on fool, Biiiipo.Hfdly for Hatnvln Hi) covered Inter. Thon they put me oblnln a licftnHc. Tile nurmiliiK! nut nt the I wont to farm- IIUHKI- found Ilif cnuplv hiding In houni and fnlrijilionntl tho Minne- ravine. 1 Continued On Page Three AVIATOR REPORTED MISSING IN MEXICO Last trace of the flier was In Mexico. Another plane which left at tho same time, arrived safely at GOVERNOR'S SON IS "GREASE MONKEY" OOMJAmtJS.

July 7, rioh- Oovnrnor Whiten yonnffiHl wnn, IH a "crorifin GYPSY CEREMONY UNITES COUPLE MoElroy was Known as-an ex- Pert, aviator. It is believed he was i down in a. remote section nt Mexico. Authorltiee of the Mexican government are making an extended search for him. A July and continued Into WOMAN IS FREED Tnrce tives went to cent- i Bteatly or' JNDEAXAr'OMK, July of victory MrR nu Bo11 Campbfill, of rrj ril Kh! Inntrurllon.

ierally. ft "wo whosn p-'ir- cal the country," sairl Snnatoi a1 fl 'lJ Maying of a A nionkoy JH tin nlrftlfintt Tho fion nf OhJo'H Rnvt-rnor workw Olnvr.lfirul airpnrl o( tho 112th nf Ifi'; Ohio N'FillonFil CliiiirrI, of hftro nnrly tnrlay following IfR in lofirninpc nolorful cornmony. flu; jmrchanlcnl onrf of flylnf; lf; hrlflo was RoHa Miller, 22- froni ChicaKO. and tlio honift of morning Krin.Kiron nf lb': a gyp.iy camp five miles WILL ATTEMPT TO BAR BEERMEASURE Ihn H'luntlrnn latnr InLonrlK to ,1 flying Hchnol th cbleflaln Cohen Raid his "Inw i O-, WSK by municipal anihnri- FREED OF ARSON -lifly 7. Asfiton, tie ri 17 i "v.un.n have hfeld Bteatiy or; Myda's home late The popu(ar Broadway advanced in sympathy, increased C8t estlraat thal yesterday and told him they wished as bei proatrale since the; feeding of corn and wheat to live-1 to to Ixirain for ques- eattl the 20-year-old Reynolds, stock was expected to balance to), tlpnlng in connection with her nllsband fev mon ths, a'a large degree the rush of grain EO lr papers.

death caused hy wuru nnAt and turned Into a iane leading. to! Wlth6ut the forma of hc usual Ma.t year ff SVlLLtU fflltll UUAL uralization papers. death caused hy a self-inflicted: from Nfyda accompanied them. wound, according to Ihe ver-; Ri police said they believed the trio. ct of ct)roner N.

Dalton. Intended to lake him "for a Dr 0n announced the verdict! froir an.l wltb of bangles around hei neck. nate is mat rarry Hi nu, nun. IJIAIA, -liny AHlilon, hriilp violently as (be tcs." Smith's 102S running after h(-in arrc-slftd on a va- stood ncn.tiil.tMl loilay of a i wr danro started Her mother al Henl to tne senate judici. mate Minority T.radc.

Rob- Srancy rtarRp. Officers si 111 nouirht! charge of arson In connection with) com foricu her and cnrricd committee, there to gather dust. ild "bin support will he a Campbell for In con- Ihe hiirnlnK of tho home of thrmit-li l.or mri IP tho rlanro ruhr.r iriectlon thr. ohin klninL- isnart. lact nm Her part in me The youthful groom, attired WASHINGTON, July Democratic Leader Robinson, was allotted half an hour of the senate's timo today in which to kill the BIngham bill to legalize 3.2 per cent beer.

Sflnato leaders expected to reach nf a rvnav beer proposal in the early aft- from Columbus Roll ernoon. Senator Bingham, lit or gold melal cloth (Conn has asked for half an hour jaftknl of Muriel and purple, 0" tu sfa Om opposition has selected Robinson to move that the Bingham proposal be sent to the senate judiciary tfroom, Jflst November. wtinouL i the golf course apparently believ-i coroner inquest ing it was an Isolated road where i an i Ues unnecessary. He held such) Packers, traders and The' tors held the advances to be of several times, according to inti- id from he ing was IL au an inquest unnecessary. me'tors neia me aavances to De 01 they could dispose of their captive.

young victim had been moody, significance because they re- YOUTH KILLED AS BUS is OVERTURNED! I pledge Is looked upon, prac real aid the Rooscvr-li dldacy In the industrial Several llnlea, aCCUJUlug Hi Hill- i ouitcu mates, had threatened to Vill him-! that out Btrippcd production. Meat prices are expected to hold steady Reynolds' I Holman began, o. juij- tnreat to youth was Wiled when a trucl, car- i dow jf 3he rying fans from West Chester But- divorced from his ler County, to a baseball game at Reading overturned near Readfngj non on wilom he 8ett 6d a (1 n(M)j last nigtil. 000 The victim was Stanley Pate, Thf 8 ort llved romance o( hc romance with or continue the advance at least In fact, with a until late fail when the new hog out of a note i i cattle crop reaches the mar- oot h(m k6t Charles E. Snyder, editor of the corn bell farm dailies, and one of the first to foresee an upward trend in commodity levels in the offing, said: The "short-1 ved romance of the of West Chester.

Daisy Bron-i. revup5 8tar and young mtmonitfR and Mias Lucille Williams suf- sportBman entitled Llbby Holmaii i ierei painful Others In to a thjr( of her husband e8 tate addB thousands of d. the truck were cut and bruised. under Xorth Carolina law. ibuylns power of the It will help eapec.lally In Now Vork, Massachmette, New Connecticut and Rhode Smith following everywhere.

Smith did He did not That, per not praiae nention him 'by nar too rnticb to The truck driver swerved to avoid another car and his vehicle overturned. of dollars to the farmer and According to a lawyer who an-. lll be ft 1 not'only In ajrrleultur- al communities but in part of (Continued on Pace Two) I the land." pect. Democratic leaders would like to have had a laudatory word. or in an open bolt, have been a disturbing prospect.

Smith openly carrying the banner for his former friend l.i what on Page Two) groom, white flannels and a white sweater, jkept out of night during the dance, In keeping with gypfty customs, Afterward, the ceremony of the veil was performed in one of the seven tents of Rosa's tribe. WHITE ATTACKED BY MINE WORKERS GREBNSBURG, July men were killed, CORNING, injured, one probably fatally and at least ten entombed or thc United Mine Workers ot Jin the ErJna N'o. 1, mine of the John Can- Coal near! near here today, accordirrg to a report to pursued in the state-wide bltumin- SLIDE ENTOMBS MINERS 'ous mlno strike. Leo Kail, president of district six of the union, and other strike leaders, speaking before about Coroner Albert MeMurray. A fall of roof coal caught the men according to the report.

First reports said that the men lost their lives in a cave- VU miners or HOCKU fn but details of the accident were lacking. There was no ex- (Perry and Muohingun- plosion, it was said. ho TA i .1 i the state had sent It wag Relieved some of those stul in the mine might be I buiieio instead o' dead or injured. workers. ooo miners of Hocking, Athens, Muohliigum ay, charged soldiers and of wheat" to the ACCUSED OF MURDER CLEVELAND, July charges of murder were prepared ay agaiost Peter Christ OR, 50, accused of slaying Miss Margaret Ruraka, 21, of McKeesport, who was found shot to death yesterday In his apartment.

TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY Cities Low Atlanta 72 Boston 60 Chicago High S6 Denver Los Angeles Miami, Fla. New -Vork Seattle Tampa Si so S2 66 60 rti Washington, H. C. 6S Xenla 6D 76 ss 70 6S 96 72.

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