Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 1

Beaches Five Of Every Six Homes In Greene Cotaity THE EVENING GAZETTE FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Fair and somewhat- wanner tonight and Frfday. VOL LIII NO. 273 PRICE THREE CENTS XENIA, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1934 TWELVE PAGES YEGGS FOILED AFTER BANK WRECKED Recovery Placed Above Reform XENIAN NEAR DEATH; HITS PHILIPPINES Four Browned, Seven Others Missing In Sama Province As Mounts; Manila -Escapes Nov. persons were drowned and seven others were reported missing today in Gatbalogan, Sama province, in the wake; of a typhoon which roared through the southern area of the island of Luzon. Estimates of damage mounted $2,000,000, principally- -to native rapidly as the prbyinces in the path of the storm reported to 'territorial, officials here.

In Camarines Sur. province, 20,000 persons lost: their homes. In Albay province at least 3,000 families were homeless. scores of -fishing craft missing, and hundreds of inundated, a larger death toll than already reported is anticipated. Authorities said the storm was: as severe as the twb which swept lal- most the same area in October.

Damage already reported totalled homes and the rice ctown of Kaga in Camarines Sur was cut off from communication. It was feared there was some loss of life from high" waters there and elsewhere throughout the affected Manila was drenched with rain as the storm moved toward the Philippine The typhoon, however, is expected pass north- beyond the city where the wind reached a maximum velocity of fortyteight miles an hour. HOUSES; 2 DIE CINCINNATI, 0., Nov. At least two Negroes were burned to death and four or five injured critically early today when swept a group of dwellings in Walnut Hills, a suburb. It was believed the fire start, ed from an overheated furnace.

Is There Room MAN ENDS LIFE BY ROPE NOOSE SOCIAL PROGRAM OF PRESIDENT SEEN AS MOVEMENT TO RIGHT SHOT WHEN HUNTING (BULLETIN) Otha Inlow, 19, W. Second was near death early Thursday afternoon in McClellan Hospital, victim of a hunt- i ing accident. TT -pi j. Surgeons, offering slight liop'e miuw escapea Urges Jrian WltnOUt lax- for his recovery, safd lie had'suf-jday night when pital at 1:45 p. by Will who left without giving details of the accrdent.

i The youth supposedly was hunt-! ing in the Union Neighborhood, i south of Xenia. BANDITS FIRE AT VILLAGERS AND THEN FLEE Daring Cashier Gets Word To Sheriff; Vault Defies Blast es; Hits Labors Insurance Plan Wealthy His Wife, Two Servants, Trapped By Blaze Left Progressives Dominant Are Now Element In Republicans Central Press Washington Bureau :1900 Street By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. It ig all very well to predict the organization of a new national party, in opposition to the Democrats, or-the reorganization of the G. 0.

to figure as a formidable anti- administration factor. But the question is Which side is the new party to be on? or the reorganized old LEFTIST If the G. 0. P. is to be reorganized, it generally is agreed that it will have to be reorganized, into a leftist outfit.

Senator Borah expresses- this view most emphatically. Senator Nye began urging seizure of the Republican machinery by the progressives even ahead of Senator Borah. Senator La Follette, while committed to a new, independent progressive setup, also aims at absorbing progressive Republicanism into it, and thus making the new alignment virtually present-day Republicanism's. successor. In short, the progressives now are the dominant element in what left of- the G.

0. P. Seemingly the time hag come for them to assume formal control of the technical details of its management, gather in such other progressives as Democrats of the type of 'Senator Burton K. Wheeler, also the Fanner-Laborites, and maybe the Epics bring a sure-enough leftist party into being. DUPLICATION Yet what sense would there be in creating a NEW leftist party, if Rooseveltian- New Deal AL- IREADY is leftist? i It appears to be so considered.

The Nov. 6 election result assur- edly is interpreted by most competent political authorities as hav- YORK, Nov. Henry Russell Drowiie, wealthy woolen merchant, his wife, and two servants were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the Drowne mansion today. The fire was discovered at 5 a. after it was burning fiercely on all five floors of the mansion in the exclusive West 7Q's.

A woman appeared at a top floor window, silhouetted by roaring Harry UnderWOOd's Body I flames behind, screaming. She tJ aroused neighbors who eummoned Hanging At i the fire department. Fire trucks found the building' a furnace. Dozens of fire hose poured water through the windows for a half hour before fireinen could enter. Browne's body was found on the third floor.

The body of a woman was found on the top floor- Where the other two bodies were found was not learned. The fire for a while threatened spread neighboring Jmildinge and police forced hundreds of residents to flee- They huddled in the street in below freezing temperatures until firemen got the flames under control. Then they were permitted to return to their homes. The fire apparently started under the first floor beams, swept up the stairway and mushroomed out on every floor, trapping all the occupants before it was discovered. FEW CLEWS TO CHILD MURDER Federal Agents En Distelhurst Case WASHINGTON, Nov.

President Roosevelt's declaration placing recovery ahead of i reform cleared the way today for formulating of an economic security program which will not saddle the American people with increased taxes. His stand was taken before 200 representatives of all branches of American economic life. It was interpreted by many -as a distinct move to the right in the face of a new congress looming up with dy- i nainic left wing strength. WORK PROGRAM 4. At the same time another smash- C'l fered abdominal shotgun wounds.

An immediate blood transfusion was planned. Inlow was brought to the hos- Inlow escaped injury last Satur- an auto he was i driving struck the locomotive of a west-bound Pennsylvania passen ger train at Detroit and Third Sts. A girl companion was hurt. Frederick Landi Dead; Was No Is I 1 1 ll BOWLING GREEN, 0., NNov. down on the town of Cygnet, near here early today, a band of robbers isolated the vilUjge by cutting telephone wires and then, after taking shots at a few early-rising citizens, blasted open the vault of the Only Republican To Be Elected In Indiana Last Week LOGAN'SPORT, Nov.

15 Frederick Landis, 62, author, editor and congressman-elect from the Indiana second distrfct died Harry Underwood, about 48, Bellbrook, unmarried, was found hanging early Thursday morning on the farm of C. M. Austin, president of the Greene County Fair Board, on thex Waynesville Pike, one and one-fourth miles south of Bellbropk. Thebody, hanging- rafter in a wood ahed in a sugar camp, in the woods half a mile from the Austin farm house, was discovered at 8:30 o'clock by William Sidenstricker, an employee of Mr. Austin, who had gone to the camp to cut wood.

No motive for the act could be immediately assigned. Underwood had apparently enjoyed good health. Coroner R. L. Haines, Jamestown, was expected to view the body sometime Thursday at the funeral parlors of James Growl, Crowl said a physician expressed the opinion the man had been dead about forty hours.

The rope used by Underwood in fashioning a noose was believed to have been brought by him to the woodshed. Sidenstricker was quoted as saying that no rope was available in the shed. Underwood, virtually a life-long resident of the Bellbrook community, had no principal occupation, but in former years was employed regularly as a farm hand. In the past he had worked frequently for Mr. Austin, cutting wood at the sugar camp, but.

had not lately been employed by him in that capacity. Surviving are two brothers, Charles of Bellbrook, and Irvin of Dayton; an employee of the Dayton- Xenia Railway and a sister, Mrs. Paul Moore, near Bellbrook. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. HUNTER FOUND DEAD ON FARM H.

Johnton, 57, colored, 727 Yellow Springs Springfield, found dead on the farm of Joseph Sutton, Road, six miles north of Xenia, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He is said to have been with party of hunters from Springfield. The sheriff's office is investigating to determine if the man injured in a hunting accident or if he died from natural causes. JUDGE TO CLARIFY DECISION ing assault on unemployment from the public works angle was by Secretary of the Interior today ot pneumonia. Harold L.

Ickes. As possibilities he The strain of directing a suggested huge rural electrifica-; ous political campaign from his tfon and grade-crossing elimination sickbed probably was a contribut- projects, transcontinental super- ing cause of Landis' death. He fell highway, drought, soil and flood ill late in October, but carried on a control. drive for election which made him The economic security advisory the only successful Republican can- council of twenty industrial, labor i didate fn Indiana for a cougression- and social leaders met with a seat. cfal cabinet committee today to His death will necessitate a whip the social program into ten- i cial election to name a successor.

tative shape. The group however. A Kenesaw Mountain was under an apparent mandate Landig, commissioner of prof es-1 from the President to limit its sional baseball, was at his side scope. i when he died. He was on record as opposed to Landis' novels were "The Angel new general taxes to cover the cost of Lonesome Hill" and "The i of unemployment insurance.

He Glory of His Country." He was co- was disinclfned to include old age author of "The Copperhead," a play pension and insurances in i based on his second novel, and of the initial program. Both, would several other successful plays, mean sharply increased govern-1 Besides his brother, Kenesaw, ment expenditures even on a share-j Landis is survived by hfs widow, with-states" The estimate'd annual expenditures under a federal old age pen-J sion act range from $100,000,000 to; $200,000,000. The significance of Mr. Roose-i Frederick Landis three sons. Kenesaw Mountain II.

Frederick. and Lincoln, and two daughters. Elizabeth Ann and 1 Frances, NEW YORK, Nov. John F. Carew today will clarify NASHVILLE, Tenn-, Nov.

Department of justice agents today dedicated themselves to run- his decision in the dispute over the ning down the kidnaper and mur- custody of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress to a fortune. Attorneys for both Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, the child's motherland for Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, her aunt, went to the courtroom confident they had won. Not until Justice Carew explains will either be certain, but lawyers and other interested parties studying Carew's cryptic one sentence, believed Mrs.

Vanderbilt was the victor. When Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. derer of Dorothy Ann Distelhurst, 6, whose body was found in a two, months old grave Tuesday. Local police said there were few cluee.

A. E- Distelhurst, the father, was in such a state of grief as to be unavailable to officers. He arrived yesterday by plane from New York where he was attempting to establish contact with suppoeed kidnapers who demanded $5,000 in ransom. The mother also was grief stricken. In all the ki'dnape sent the father six communications, insisting the Whitney completed their cases yes-i? Mld wa alive an well.

Theee SHOOTS TWO, SELF WILMINGTON, 0., Nov. 15. terday, Carew dictated in the ence of attorneys to the court stenographer: "Mr. Justice Carew decided that the child, Gloria Variderbilt, is not to have for the future. the life it had from the death of its father until June, 1932." ROOSEVELT OFF FOR TENNESSEE VALLEY WASHINGTON, Nov.

Roosevelt heads for the Tennessee Valley today to inspect his favorite economic-social project of the New Deal is a move expected to mobilize sentiment behind similar developments in other regions of the nation. Interest in the trip was heightened by knowledge that the TVA is the prototype of developments to in- perts for fingerprints and other clues. Dorothy Ann was Distelhurst's daughter by his second wife. A. E- Distelhurst, 18, son by his first also was at home.

He ran away in the summer and after Dorothy Ann disappeared Sept. 19, was found in Florida. Distelhurst is sales manager of the Methodist Publishing House, a subsidiary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south- inspection trip: which the President hopss itiate in other great river such as the St. Lawrence. an overwhelming leftist Homer hfs shot and killed himself yesterday.

There doubtless are many old-! The son, Edward, 15, was school Democrats who are far from perhaps fatally when he tried to heartily in sympathy with Roose-i protect his mother. Mrs. Lillie veltian New Deal policies, but their Hayslip, 55, was shot in the neck lack of sympathy is due to the i but was not serious. fact that they rate these policies! as too radical. They may balk at compliance with the Democratic management's dictates, but if they ST.

PAUL BALL CLUB IS SOLD ST. PAUL. Nov. Sale of the St. Paul American Association baseball club to a group of local business men was announced today.

R. J. Connery, former owner, will continue as a stockholder and will hold an advisory position. (Continued on Page Two) THREE KILLED IN AUTO Plan Telephone Utilities Probe T. And T.

And Bell Associate Companies Under Fire Driest Is Included Among Victims CLEVELAND, Nov. Three persons, including a priest, were killed and three others critically injured here today when their automobile crashed head-on into a concrete traffic stanchion. The dead are: Rev. Fr. Philip tlme after Jan O'Brien, assistant pastor of mission said.

Agnes Church here, Mrs. Mary Comeskie, 79, and Miss Mary Moorhead, 24. The injured were Miss Mary Casey, 31, Vincent Casey, 33, her brother, and Mrs. Agnes De Largey, 41. WASHINGTON, Nov.

investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph together with Aaiociated Bell Companies and all subsidiaries, ordered today by the federal communications commission. Public hearings will begin "some 1935," the com- Police said the motorists were returning from a ptrty when the I accident occurred. All the cupants were thrown into street except Rev. O'Brien. The investigation will go into the entire corporate history financial structure of the A.

T. and T. Co. Examination also will include equipment manufacturing subsi- diariee and all related companies affecting the communications in- idustry FIRST VICTIM first hunting'victim of opening day was received at General Hospital here shortly before 9 a. m.

He was James E. Bullock, 54, Lockland, 0., wounded seriously while hunting between Sharonville and West Chester. The accident occurred when another hunter, Clifford Clifton, 25, tripped on a railroad track, his gun being discharged. i Despite seven blasts that 'virtually wrecked the bank's interior, the robbers were frustrated by the daring of Carl Schwyn, cashier, who i lives across from the bank. Schwyn, finding that the robbers i had put his phone out of commis- jsion, swung to the roof ot his homt i and crawled cautiously towards itbe telephone exchange nearby.

He i had just reached the root' of the I exchange when he was discovered I in the dark by one of the robber outlooks who opened fire. Schwyn i dropped off the roof into the'ex- change unhurt There, he and the operator, er some difficulty, discovered the" robbers had overlooked one line' I which ran to Bowling Green. They called Sheriff Bruce Pratt: While awaiting Sheriff Pratt and" 'a carload of deputies who arrived within, a half hour, at Schwyn heard six blasts set off in Ithe bank in addition to the first i that, aroused him from his sleep. The robbers had just prepared to set off an eighth blast to open a money box in the vault when one i of the lookouts sounded the alarm that the officers were approaching. All the robbers, at least eight, fled, i leaving tools and a sawed-off shot gun behind, but taking two ing shotguns of the bank.

They were without loot. Miss Julia Faveo, an employe in the home of Schwyn. was fired up; on by the robbers when a curtain i flew up as she peered out, but she was unhurt. Dean Snyder, another resident, was unable to get any response on his phone when his father-in-law i died at 3 a. and started in his! car for an undertaker when three shots were fired at him near the i bank.

Sheriff Pratt found ttie interioi i of the bank a complete wreck and i only the shotgun tools as pos- I sible' clews to the identity of the robbers. 400,000 OHIO HUNTERS OUT FIRST "LAME DUCK" ASSEMBLY TO MEET xCOLUMBUS, Nov. Ohio do, they -will do it as The management itself (at least; according to most observers' reck-j is distinctly to the left of! TEMPERATURES I YESTERDAY (Up 6 p. Low High Boston 32 36 34 38 Cleveland 30 34 i Denver 1 40 70 LIBERTY LEAGUE 8 MoineiB 26 44 Then why launch a leftist Los Angeles 54 68 oppose a leftist party' Miami. Fla 60 72 on the job at present, 'New Orleans 56 74 True, there are a few extremists, New York four) Xenia 26 45 STRIKE TALK AGAIN CIVIL WAR VET DIES LIMA, 0..

Nov. W. Stroud, 86, Civil War veteran, died here yesterday. will have its first real experience with a "lame duck" le.gislature when the general assembly reconvenes next week in special session to consider taxation, school and banking legislation. Whether anything fs done toi solve the serious problem confronting the political subdivisions and the.

schools throughout the state. may depend largely on this condition. In advance of the sessfon. lead- "The examination will include the arrangements between oc- 1 the American Telephone and Tele- the graph Company and its subsi- diaries, and the agreements, fi- nancial and otherwise, of the var- ious subsidiaries with each other," the commission's order said. Workers License and service contracts between the parent American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the various Associated Bell Companies also will be the subject of a general inquiry, as will contracts between the parent company and SUMMON CHEST STAFF TO MEET FRIDAY NIGHT Million Rabbits Doom To Meet the Western Electric Co.

The commission said the initial Investigation will include only the American Telephone and Telegraph Co- and its associated or related i companies or organizations. To Receive Instructions From Drive Chairman An important meeting of Com- By UNITED PRESS Three hundred game wardens in Ohio will be the safeguard of the i 400,000 odd hunters who this morn- ing poured out over the Ohio land- scape armed with shotgun and shells to hag the limit fn rabbits, i pheasants and partridges. I The Ohio conservation dcpart- ment cautioned hunters that the rabbit limft was five, pheasant cocks two and partridges four. The i department also estimated that I when the smoke cleared away that 100,000 pheasants. 1.000.000 rabbits i and a large number of partridges munity Chest workers has been will have been bagged.

called for 7 o'clock Friday night in Warnings were reissued by the the Rotary Club room on S. Detroit state department against handling rabbits with bare hands to avoid tularemia or rabbit feveri COURT CONCLUDES MONTH-OLD STRIKE CLEVELAND, Nov. ers of both the senate and house tu tton of conciliation for a court are openly pessimistic over the injunction was successful in end- possibilities that the law-makers i a month-old strike here, will be able to enact any program dispute between D. O- designed to meet the state's imme-i Summers and the Dry Cleaning and diate needs. 'Dye House Drivers' Union.

i The settlement was the result of CITIZEN DIES a first attempt of the common TROY, 0-, Nov. E. pleas court to use conciliation Youtsey, $6, believed to be Troy's agencies instead of injunction or- oldest citizen, died yesterday. ders. St.

by Ernest D. Beatty, chairman of the seventh annual fund campaign, which opens Monday. Chairman Beatty issued an appeal for a full attendance at the rally by volunteer solicitors and all others interested, explaining jthat final instructions will be Issued and pledge cards djptribut- ed. The number of civic-minded Xenia men and women who are vol- untarily offering their connection with next week's tation drive is growing daily, chest BUSINESS ANXIOUS AS CONGRESS NEARS in. nunm TT fl 1 DISTURBS COAST eavenly olhes Ready Nov.

fs looking anxiously toward activities of the coming new con. gress. Col. Leonard P. Ayres.

eco- leaders report. All persons desiring nomic statistician; said today in to co-operate this worthy com- ni monthly report munity project are invited to com- Business "does not fear so much municate immediately with chest that legislators will enact radical headQuarters at 39 Green St. The legislation as it does that congress telephone number is 182. win "devote its energies to the In addition to the community ap- passing of huge appropriations de- peal, involving a city-wide house- signed to benefit constituencies but on men over ended the the agreement costlv maritime 7" ASKING-TON, Nov. fiery trails of falling meteors and lights of the city offer little corn- annual "heavenly follies" op-' to record the number witnessed petition with bright lights the I en two-night stand tonight.

each hour- Astronomers at the nav. universe then. The leonide will give the best 1 observatory here eaid the best The leonids move in a huge elli-pt- A x-oar tn. wa to view the exhibition was tojical orbit which takes thirty-three metor display OT jear tl ot hfm MT fl irt SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. i San Francisco waterfront seethed I with strike talk today as disputes I between employers and longshore- i watch the northern sky and then years to travel- Traffic jams of strike i night and tomorrow night as the snift ghtly to the eastward of meteors every thirty-three years plained.

DEMOCRATS KEEP SPEAKERS BUREAU I WALDVOGEL WINS i last summer approached a break- Ing point. i Many authorities believed that i (he crisis in the current dissension will come Monday. Federal con- of th sky. Attempting i Professional the amateurs will earth's orbit cuts through their ithe north star. path.

Only once a year does the Technically the location is world encounter these sparklers tween nor-nor-eastward and north- gave astronomers th clue to the orfcits'ft length. But the brilliant display due in 1932 seems to have gone astray. Astronomers are COLUMBUS, -Nov. of a permanent speakers' bur-j CINCINNATI, Nov. of the official count here gather to see and the east-by-north.

anxious this year to see 'f Midnight to dawn is the best I new light lw shed on the mys- Iy In time for meteor fftitog. Hrtjtit i cities and of the the was.