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A Newspaper For The Whole Family THE EVENING GAZETTE FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE WEATHER Occasional rain tonight, warmer in west-and south tonight; colder Thursday, VOL. LIV NO. 68 PRICE THREE CENTS XENIA, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20,1935 EIGHT PAGES THREE RELIEF WORKERS SUSPENDED Report Hitler Envoy In POLICE GUARD HARLEM AFTER RAGE RIOTING One Dead, Forty Hurt After Cops Battle Mobs All-Night NEW YORK, March "policeman to every twenty-five feet, of an eight-square block area in Harlem maintained; order today as officials feared possible renewal of Night-long fighting 'between police and; mobs resulted in one death and injuries to at least forty persons; property damage was estimated in the thousands of dollars. Communists were circulating inflammatory handbills among Negro residents. -Racial feeling, fanned by rumor and propaganda, White to- the' all Negro district were Jeered and several, including reporters and photographers, were attacked.

Two hundred to 300 police battled mobs ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 during a hectic night. Stores of shop were smashed by stones.7 police night sticks accounted for almost as many minor injuries as the showers of stones thrown from roof-tops, Francis windows, and hallways by rioters, shown All lower Harlem was under close police guard, and the eight- block area, surrounding a five and I). S. PROBES ALLEGED GRAFT IN OHIO RELIEF SIR JOHN AND HITLER TO CONFER SECRET ARRIVAL TO NEGOTIATE CRISIS IS SURPRISE VISIT May Be Embarrassing; France Will Send "Note Of Protest March sources reported that Joachim von Ribben- trop, Adolf Hitler's official had arrived secretly London to negotiate on the crisis -caused by the reich's conscript- army plan. vv The British cabinet meanwhile was understood to have approved 'an Italian suggestion for an emer-" gency French-Brltishrltaliaii ence to.

be held at Stresa, Italy, before Sir foreign secretary, arrives in Berlin" to see There was mystery regarding Ribbentrop. His office: in Berlin said he had not come to The German embassy here said it knew nothing of him. British gov- tfnited States Canny, District Attorney seated right, is conferring with Attorney General John W. Bricker of Ohio seated left, on the affidavits filed ed, was as thoroughly guarded as any area under martial The dead man was Lyman Quar- tenman, 34, a shot in' the etomacK Whether he had been shot by police or other rioters could not be determined. Police held the indirect cauae of the rioting in Lino Rivera, 16, Negro.

He was alleged to have tried to take a knife from a counter-in a ten-cent store. Reports Vffftwtfthat" be bad been brutally beaten and had died of injuries. blocks -around 7 of shop smashed. The JEirsi fighting was in the store. By 6 o'clock a crowd of was in 125th Street where on soap boxes harangued and men paraded inflammatory" placards.

Stones began Police night sticks swung. An hour later a hearse in front ot a house two blocks away. A report circulated that'll was "after the boy's body. A new mob assembled, tills time in 124th Street, and fighting continued until long after midnight. start- by Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins in regard to alleged charges of "political corruption" in chaxges, but Attorney General Ohio relief.

Canny is making the investigation in. an attempt to determine against the federal government" has been committed. Five Ohio senators and five representatives also are conducting an investigation into the Bricker, a Republican, has been denied authority to participate in that probe. Looking on in. the conference are Dale Dunibon, standing left, assistant attorney general, standing right, assistant TJ.

S. district attorney. CONDITION OF HOWE GROWING CRITICAL Xenia i i ManSwindledBijf Bogus Officers SPORTSMEN ATTEND PROGRAM TUESDAY; HEAR DAVE ROBERTS Speaker Discusses Fly Casting; Movie Reels Shown The Greene County Fish and Game Association's diversified program of activities, particularly the i sportsmen, was praised by Dave Oecretctl 0 erts? Batavia, 0.. newspaper Losing Strength WASHINGTON, March condition of Louis McHenry Howe, 64, chief secretary to President Roosevelt, was described today as "extremely serious." He is ill of bronchial disorders. Physicians attending at the White House said he was "gradually failing in strength." The slight secretary to Mr.

Roosevelt for twenty-five years, had been failing in health for several weeks. His illness became serious after he accompanied the President on a trip to Boston late in February. He improved last week, but early this week suffered a relapse. COLUMBUS, 0., March on Ills economy program for the Ohio relief administration, C. C.

Stillman today announced he would reduce the administrative payroll $10,000 within two weeks. "By the end of this he announced, "we will have cut the payroll $5,000 by eliminating about thirty-seven positions. Within a week we wiir cut another $5,000, bringing the "total saving to $10,000." The payroll now is about $90,000 a month. SEVENTEEN GET KEYS DELAWARE, March Seventeen Ohio Wesleyah University seniors will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, next Tuesday night, TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY (Up to 6 p. Cltltt Low High Boston 30 42 Chicago 40 Cleveland 40 54 Denver 34 60 Des Molnes 42 56 Angoles 4S 58 Now Orleans 66 80 New York 32 42 40 42 55 publisher, who addressed the association at a program Tuesday night at the Opera House.

Considering the inclemency of the weather, the affair was well attended by sportsmen from all sections of the county; including more than fifty boys, who were guests of the group. More than 175 tickets for the entertainment were sold. Lawrence Wooddell, Ravenna. 0., newly appointed state conservation commissioner, and T. D.

Peffley, Dayton, recently appointed assistant director of the conservation department, a newly created position, were unable to accept association invitations to appear on the program. Mr. Roberts, who is prominent in Ohio hunting and fishing circles and is considered an authority on conservation subjects, devoted his talk to a presentation of' the views of a "fellow angler on telling tackle and The speaker described this locality as a good section for bass fishing and declared that if G-reene County anglers exercise patience they can have excellent sport at fly fishing in local streams. Giving pointers oh what types of ram WOMAN FUTALLY HURT IN AUTO CRASH! GRAND JURY TO HEAR STORY OF COLLECTIONS Chairman And Campaign "Workers Are Summoned Reichsfuehrer Hitler British foreign secretary, left, made preparations to go to Berlin to confer with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. The conference' is a momentous Sir John Simon With assurances from German eminent spokesmen, however, said Foreign Minister' Konstan- that they had heard he was already jtin von Neurath that Nazi gov- here.

i ernment's entire military program France was understood to at peace, Sir John Simon, agreed to the projected Bntish-Frencn-Jtalian (conference. Ribbentrop's arrival was a complete surprise to the foreign office, and the German embassy not advised of it. It was learned that the Maiquess of Lothian, who recently conferred! -with Hitler in the capacity of official middleman for the govern- anent; Tuirrledly tried to arrange for Ritobentrop an appointment to Woman KillsHusband, Shoots Self, After Bickering Comic Valentine Is Blamed For Tragedy COLU1MBUS, 0., March 20. C. Stillman, federal relief administrator for Ohio, today suspended three employes at state relief headquarters pending investigation of charges that they had collected funds for the -Democratic campaign committee from firms doing business with the state relief Those suspended William McNamara, direc-, tor, surplus commodities division; Tom E.

Jones, his as- isis-tant, and John Lee, em- ploye of the division. McNamara and had detailing collection of the i On the basis of the affidavits by McNamara and Jones, the Franklin County grand jury was to hear morrow the story of the "collection" of some from the business, fi'rms, allegedly at the direction of high officers of the Demo--" cratic state headquarters. Francis Poiilson, chairman of the Democratic state committee, John McCombe, of the campaign committee and Jack North, an attache of have been subpoenaed. Simon. runxrrn that Simon might Hsuddenly become victim to the equivalent of the cold'which Adolf Hitler suffered after the British white, paper that precipi- Over Valentine Note AKRON, March The barbed words of a comic valen- Mrs.

SamueT E. Judy hen Auto On Pike first 1935 auto- recorded when Judy, 52, of Httffman Dayton, died almoit Itutantly of injuries received which she was riding with her husband, Samuel the Pike, seven, east of Xenia, at 5:30 p. nt Tuea- Her huftband, who was driving, Clarence Hairnef Pays $200-Tbr Suspect Is Suspected by police of being, associated with two reputed "con" men who swindled a Xenia man out of $200 recently in Dayton, a man who identified himself as Ralph Edwards, 58, alias Earl B. Edwards, was arraigned Wednesday morning in Municipal Court on a charge of practicing a fraud. The affidavit was sworn out by Clarence Harner, E.

Main victim of the extortion. Pleading not guilty, the suspe'ct was held under $300 a nrAlirmTiarv hear- atter visiting cousin, bond tor a preliminary near Mrs Andrew Bryan east of James- ing at 9:30 a. m. Friday. Kdwards, wno described himself as a salesman and a native of St.

Louis, was charged in the affidavit with being a suspicious character who refused to give a reasonable account of himself. The suspect was arrested early nto a crisis. Lord a former chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the British ministry, is the former Philip Ker, secretary to David Lloyd George, war time prime minister. Ribbenthrop was named adviser on disarmament to the late President Paul Yon Hindenburj of Germany, April 24, 1934, and came Hitler's adviser upon Hindetx-r iburg's death. His appearance would for the government-Itt view of French and Italy diwatiu-'" faction 'over the British Insistence on'dealing directly with Germany.

in its note of Monday. It was understood the govern- to the hoine of an. -Akron labor leader. Henry J. Koop, an organizer for the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental ironworkers of America, lay dead, a bullet in his heart vMrs.

Koop, hie wife, lay and near death at City -Hbftpital. She turned the gun escaped-Injury, although the car ent, in'an skidded from the highway, struck and Italy, accepted an invitation by an rebounded onto the road and turned completely over. Mrs. Judy was thrown through a rear window. Coroner H.

C. Schick, who investigated, the woman apparently died of a akull fracture and hemorrhage. Her Injuries were confined to the. face and head. The couple was returning home after visiting Judy's cousin, Beniito Mussolini to an emergency conference to be held-Saturday.

PAKIS, March 20-r-Erance made town. The slippery condition of the highway was blamed for the accident by the driver. Judy told Sheriff John Baughn and Road Patrolman A. Davis, he was driving about forty miles an hour when his car went Monday afternoon, but the was not disclosed until after the failure of a trap set by Xenia and Dayton police to -apprehend his alleged accomplices in the scheme whereby the Xenia man was defrauded. He said" he applied the brakes, (causing the machine to swerve off the highway.

Mrs. Judy was dead when the sheriff and deputy arrived soon after the mishap. The body was removed in a Neeld ambulance to the Neeld Funeral Home, where the (Continued On Page Three) CASEWORKERS FORCED SURGERY COLUMBUS, March Martin Davey today made public an affidavit sworn to a Columbus woman who charged that. two women case workers for the Franklin Co. (Columbus) relief organization caused her to submit The swindle scheme, police were! remains were viewed by Coroner informed, originated last schick.

The coroner returned a ver- day night in a Dayton hotel when Harner was contacted by two strange men, who posed as- plain clothes- policemen, displayed badges and told him he answered the description of a man wanted by police. Threatened with immediate arrest, Harner revealed his identity but proclaimed his He said the admitted they might have been, mistaken and agreed not to-force him to accom- The following day they came to to an tion. illegal birth control opera- BURNS PROVE FATAL ZANESVULE, Burns received March in a fire at the Rendville Jail caused the death of Wyman Jackson, 52, of Rendville, Perry County, yesterday. Jackson was the only occupant of the jail at the time of the fire. Periy County the cause of the flre.

(Continued on Page Three) FUGITIVE SWIMS RIVER BUT CAUGHT DAYTON, March Negro fugitive sought in connection with the fatal stabbing, of a diet of accidental death. Mrs. Judy was born in Jamestown, December 28, the daughter of the late Charles and S'heeley. She resided in Jamestown until her marriage December 28, 1910. Since then.she had lived in Dayton, where she was a member of the United Brethren Church.

Besides her-husband, Mrs. Judy leaves no near relatives. She owned a farm near Jamestown in partnership with-her cousin, Mrs- Bryan. -Th body be removed to Dayton late Wednesday and funeral services will be held ai. 2 P- m.

Friday the home on Huffman Burial will.be made in Jamestown Cemetery. the FLEMING AND fellow resident of Transient Service the Federal Bureau at- tempte'd to elude police by swimming the Miami River four times late yesterday. He was captured under a bridge several blocks below the point at police fired two shots in the ANDERSON ELECTED LEXINGTON, March 20. Andy was. cap- (Continued On Page Five) SENATE CONSIDERS BlIRH APPOINTMENT COLHMBUS, March senate today will again 'consider confirmation of the appointment of Clarence Burk, of New London, as state liquor director.

Action was postponed in the senate yesterday on motion of Sen. William E. Herner (D), of Huron County and the confirmation made a special order of business for this afternoon. Senators asked for more time to consider action on Burk's case, inasmuch as he is believed to be ineligible for the job as liquor direc- as; a member which enacted set-up. of the legislature the liquor control BUCYRUS TO FIGHT GAS RATE INCREASE BUCYRUS, March City councii yesterday voted to oppose the Ohio Fuel Gas Company's request for higher rates in Bucyrus.

The city also dropped its ten-yeac- old fight over present rates charged by the company. Solicitor John C. Carroll told the council that other cities in which rate increases were souguht would join Bucyrus in a united fight against higher rates. A formal pro- QUIET REIGNS AT RIOT SCENE Policeman Finds Bomb And Saves Factory From Destruction ELYRIA, March 20-r-Quiet reigned today at the plant: of the Superior Sheet and -Tubes here after the destruction of the factory had been averted last night. A strike 150 workers had been in progress several days.

Prompt action.by Patrolman Myron Gibson, who picked a smoking bomb off a window ledge and hurled it into a ditch, saved wrecking of the plant. Gibson managed to run fifty feet bomb let go with a detonation which broke practically every window in the factory building. JS one was injured. A crowd of more than 1500 immediately gathered around the plant and began throwing stones to break the few windows that -had not been shattered the explosion. A score of deputy sheriffs and Elyria police succeeded in driving COLUMBUS, Mar.

sensational affidfttats charging a' systematic "shakedown" at the direction of men in the inner circles of the Democratic party in Ohio, today brought denials of any wrong doing from several of the principals. I Francis W. Ppulson, chairman ot the Democratic state executive committee, disclosed that about "been faised'by since the November election but he declared, that he had never made any promises or representa-; tions of business favors in connection wjth the solicitation of contributions. Poulson and two McCombe, Ravenna, and Jack North, were summoned to appear before the Franklin County grand jury tomorrow in connection with the affidavits. Those who made the affidavits, William McNamara, Tom Jones, relief commission employes, and Ken-.

neth Aller, a trucking contractor, were summoned, as was Probate Judge George Nye, Pike County, member of the executive committee. Judge Nye, charged in McNamara's affidavit with being present when a "payoff" was made, said he had never seen McNamara hand- any thing to McCombe. The McNamara affidavit alleged that 1 Judge Nye was present when McNamara handed over a package containing $5,150. The three affidavits were Iceived here yesterday by Franklin I to i County Prosecutor Donald Hoskins, M. 14" if JL CrO Prosecutor Reams in To! ledo and State Attorney General ijohn W.

Bricker. Republican legislators sought in Iboth houses of the assembly to 'pass resolutions empowering er to investigate the alleged shake- And idown. Democrats defeated the reso- ilutions and enacted one. to create la joint committee of ten members investigate charges made by Governor Martin L. Davey that re- on herself after shooting her said.

At Koop home culminated a month of domestic strife that followed receipt of the valentine by Mrs. Koop, authorities Tne valentine pictured a homely housewife drudge. A printed below, read: "Say, don't you ever get a break? Step out some night for heaven's sake! Take in a show or go some place. And lose that awful housewife face. Below the verse was the penciled notation: "I can tell you who your man steps out with will." Since Mrs.

Koop received the valentine and its postscript, domestic strife held sway at the to Miss Edith Kerr, who had roomed at the Koop home for five years. State Relief Precedent Aligns President Ohio Governor On Sides Central Press Washington Bureau 1900 Street By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March not Washington, undoubtedly is the proper place for conclusions to be the greater part of the crowd away drawn as to the. merits of the row from' the building. between Federal Relief Administra- Sheriff Clarence W.

Dick indicat-jtor Harry Hopkins and Covered he might call upon Governor nor Martin L. Davey of Buck- Martin L. Davey for National eye commonwealth'over state ad- Guard assistance in there is a re-(ministration of relief in Buckeye- newal of violence today. idom. 1 Hopkins' side of the case is as clear, to be sure, as strong lan- iguage can make it.

He charges 'that Ohio's relief machinery has i been, so utilised as to raise funds to help Davey's last year's gub- iernatorial campaign expenses and I the expenses of the latter's sub- seek to I sequent inauguration ceremonies at Honduras, Mar. i Columbus, th state capital. British schooner test will be filed after an investigation is completed. Laura But then, Davey's answer to was reported destroyed today, Hopkins' accusations is as un- aground north of Utila, after its equivocal as' are the accusations. He simply says they are untrue, saved.

passengers and crew were tain of the ot Kentucky TROY, 0-, March Fleming, Belle Center, publisher of the Fleming Examiner; his son, Robert, of iroe sso ciates were free unm-r nonci each today after pleadins not guilty to criminal libel chart's. indictments were upon a story in the Examiner on Feb 16, about Maurice Wolf. Puiua president of the Meteor tfotor Car Co his wife. Irene, and E. Hes- Relle Center, Piqua, ADMINISTRATION LEADERS ARE PUSHING WORK-RELIEF BILL WASHINGTON, March the bill.

ministration leaders, encouraged by three victories on as many roll is sponsoring the public works drive while Sen. Elmer SSO.OOO.OOO work-relief bill today, Thomas, seeks to add an confident that all further efforts inflation amendment. calls, pushed ahead with the Sen. Robert M. Lafolleue, and invites Hopkins to come out to Ohio and be prosecuted for criminal libel, for making thes.

Until evidence is available, pro and con, it naturally behooves the Washington commentator to consider Davey's word as good as Hopkins'. ROW" It is perfectly fair'to speak of the Hopkins-Davey row as a remarkable row, however. Hopkins, personally, has (Continued on page four) (Continued On Page Five) EXPANDED RELIEF PROMISED IN OHIO WASHINGTON, March An expanded work relief program in Ohio, under the direction, of Chas. C. Stillman, acting state administrator for the FERA was forecast today.

The program, expected to extend into each of the state's eighty-eight counties, will be in anticipation of President Roosevelt's four billion dollar re-employment plan and will' ctt OH 6 jJGi SOU family classified as "employable." Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins believes that the bulk of federal funds alloted to the state each month should go for work re- from ach lief, permitting the use of state and local relief monies for the care of those who cannot accept employment. STATE EVIDENCE IN MERGER NEAR CLOSE to alter it would be suppressed. "My proposal would expand the CLEVELAND, 0-, March brought by the government to show that a merger of Republic Steel Corporation and the Corrigwi- McKinney Steel Co. will violate the Clayton anti-trust act was to concluded in federal court here today. Evidence that it is not.

a stock printer; Mr- and Thomas B. llw'Pe, Troy. program and to give it an ln- twist remained to be acted upon before final senate vote Thomas said. HAS, HEART IN THROAT SANDUSKY, 0-, March acquisition scheme but an outright taxpayers to i week-old calf, with its heart in its purchase of Corrigan assets by Rebe neces- was gaining strength today, public will then be offered by tha Attempts to broaden the meas- currency so that it would become into a $10,000,000,000 public easier for American the which win oe neces- rf twist remained to be acted iaary to meet this staggering debt jThe calf is owned by E. 0.

Trinter, i steel interests to prove the merger cattle dealer. legal..