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For Fifty Years A Daily Newspaper THE EVENING GAZETTE FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE WEATHER Partly cloudy Wednesday night Thursday; slowly rising temperature. EIGHT PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. LV NO. 308 XENIA, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1936 EX SENATOR Osborn Man Crash Victim SUDDENLY DAYTON KILLS MOTORCYCLIST Karl Mayenschein, 23, Struck By Electric Car Wednesday Karl Mayenschein, 23, Xenia Drive, Osborn, was ikilled instantly when his motorcycle collided with a Cincinnati and Lake Erie traction freight at 8:30 o'clock morning on Springfield in Dayton. Mayenschein, enroute home from the Frigidaire Corp.

plant, where he was employed on the night shift, was riding east on the Dayton street in tandem with Paul Medford, 28 Wroe Dayton, when the two reportedly decided to stage an impromptu race. i "Young Medford swung out toj pass a truck and Mayenschein was forced, into path of the traction freight, from Springfield. He was nearly decapitated by the coJblision and. (his body wasj carried ninety feet before' the trac-', tion could be stopped. The body was removed to Miami Valley Hospital and then taken to Morris Funeral Home at Os-j "born.

The crew of the traction carj composed of Lee Snively, Medway, motorman; Harry Bernes, Springfield, conductor; and Charles Couders, Dayton, brafceman. Mayenschein had been, a. resident of O'S'born for ten years, formerly attending Bath High School there. His Henry Mayenschein, is superintendent of the Wabas'h Portland Cement at Os- Last Interview Recalled 'LITTLE GIANT OF TAL KED TO REPORTER 12 DAYS AGO By PHIL FRAME A quiet-spoken little giant whose voice was among the first raised in protest against what he termed the unconstitutional experiments of the Roosevelt administration, and who served a long useful career in public life, is dead. He is former United States Senator Simon D.

Fess, whom the writer had the pleasure of interviewing on the eve of his last two birthday anniversaries at his Yellow like a bear and have 'never felt called to me in his most recent twelve days' ago he had reached the age of 75. At that time he told me "I work every day, sleep like a baby, eat better in my life." He said he en- perfect health and attributed his physical''fitness to outdoor exercise. His hobby was gardening and Bother forms of strenuous endeavor that belied his. age. He spent his birthday quietly, sawing wood and trimming trees.

On the eve of his birth anniversary a year ago. Dr. Fess 'had expressed a willingness to tackle any colleagues twenty-five years his junior, at "pitching hay, chopping wood, playing golf, or even intellectual work," although pointing out that "nowadays my golf stick is a hoe." This joking challenge, he re-, birthday interview, resulted in deluge of "acceptances" by admirers of advanced age from, all walks of life. While he did not renew the challenge, Dr. Fess added slyly that he thought he could "outdo" his sons at chopping wood, Since his retirement from the political arena two years ago, Dr.

Fess had lived quietly, dividing his- time between the study and garden, at his home, and at Washington D. where he spent the winter seasons. He was able to "catch up on his reading," follow his gardening hobby, write political history FORMER SENATOR FESS IS DEAD (Continued on Page Five) REVIVE HOPE MISSING PLANE VICTIMS ALIVE born. Survviinig besides his Receive New Reports Of Radio Signals From Crash Scene LOS ANGELES, Dec, 23. Reports of radio possibly sent by someone who survived the crash of the Western Air Express liner a week ago yesterday, received support today when M.

D. Talley said he saw a liner in difficulty near St. George, Utah, th morning the WAE transport disappeared. Tii-e radio signals; heard both in the west and as far east as O'hio, mentioned St. George, a town in the southwest corner of Utah.

I Listeners wer-e uncertain whether the radio operator was calling St. George or trying to tell, that he was down in that vicinity; a Los Angeles '-'turkey buyer; told air line officials he had been in the mountains and had jot seen newspaip-ar accounts of the lost liner. He was driving with friends th morning of Dec. 15 (when he saw the liner. I "I first noticed the plane when 'it out of the clouds and skimmed low over the hills," Talley said.

"I figured he had jcom down to'get his bearings was about 1,500 feet tout when he gunned 'the motors they sputtered. One quit dead." The- pilot headed toward Cotton- just MAY SUCCEED are a brother, Charles, at home, Gazette carrier in Osborn, and three sisters, Anabeth, Alice and Betty, all at home. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Wednesday afternoon. SENATEBACKS TUX PROGRAM All Features Approved By Big Vote it over was assured today of $68,000,000 a thg ther motor ap arentl Col. Fredericb Bru for government operation in 1937 after the 'Hame duck" senate, in a driving finish, passed the administration's entire tax program.

died. Talley said Cottomvood Creek ROOSEVELT JR. MUST REMAIN IN HOSPITAL Will Be Unable To Spend Christmas 3Vith Family BOSTON, Dec. D. Roosevelt, 24, who is confined to Phillips House of Massachusetts General Hospital with a sinus infection, will be unable to spend Christmas at the WMte House with his family and fiancee, Ws doctor announced" today.

Plans had made for young Roosevelt's departure tomorrow. Dr. George Loiinig Tobey, who performed a sinus operation on the President's son Friday, said it had been decided 1 that the patient should spend Christmas in. the hospital. "Young -Mr.

Roosevelt continues to sihow improvement," Dr. Tobey told "but -we feel tiliaC this Tirould be too long trip for. him to make at tills time." Dr. Tctbey- did not know when his patient 'be released' from the hospital, to which he has been confined since Nov. 25.

Dr. Ross Midntire, White House physician, had been expected here to accompany tihe Harvard senior to where Franklin and his fiancee; Miss Ethel Du were to have celebrated Christmas with the President's family. Whether, as result of today's development. Miss Du Pont, will corae here from her Delaware home to be with Franklin on the holiday, could 1 not be learned immediately. is about twelve miles north of St.

George. It is all rough country. The program included the hotly- Weste rn Air officials said a debated $50,000.000 sales tax bill, bitterly fought by school officials Ianeg wou made and a "bloc" led by Senator James GeorK sec tion today. Metzenbaum.D., Cuyahoga. Shortly after the senate convened yesterday, however, the opposition collapsed.

When the vote Vas taken, only six senators op- search by ground crews and in the St. The town on the Los George is. approximately AngeVes-Salt Lake City route of the i PRESIDENT OF CUBA DEFENDS I POWERS GETS POST; HIS ACTIONS air line, but south of Mil-ford, from TV where Pilot S. J. Samson made his Gomez MaKeS Bitter JtJat- last report before the plane posed the measure while eighteen cras d.

It was thought Samson cast Jt'avorable ballots. Voting "no" were senators Metz- enbaum. Wi H. Herner, Norwalk, John Hunter, Toledo, J. McCluskey, Cleveland, (f Bart T.

Mclntyre, Cleveland, and Edward H. Waldvogel, Cincinnati. Other measures in the program were adopted in short order after the sales tax bill was disposed of. These were the use" tax, designed to raise $500,000, passed 23 to might doubled back on his route in an effort to reach open country. tie On Charges By Enemies HAVANA, Dec.

23. president Dayton Vacances Are Filled By Davey COLUMBUS, 0., Dec W. Powers, Youngstown, former head of the state securities divis- PEACE LIKELY DETROIT, of strikes in Dec. Miguel Mariano Gomez, impeached ion, today was appointed a judge the house on charges 'of mal-j the municipal court of Youngs- aaministration, personally defends town, to succeed Judge Henry P. himself today at the bar of the Beckinbach, who was elected to Simton Fets (AN EDITORIAL) There wasn't any doubt about where former Senator Simeon D.

Fess stood on a political issue of public import. that's fulsome praise for a leader in a profession that apparently thrives on subterfuge under the guise of political sti'ategy. Dr. Fess not only had convictions, as witness, his of after it became a lost but the courage to speak out VETERAN STATESMAN SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK AT CAPITAL Died In Hotel Room Wednesday Morning Soon After Arrival From Yellow Springs; Funeral Arranged For Saturday WASHINGTON, Dec. D.

Fess, stalwart defender of conservative Republican party principles and long a G. 0. P. bulwark in Ohio, died of a suddent heart attack here today. Fess, just twelve days past his 75th birthday anniversary, suffered the attack less than an hour after arriving in Washing-ton from his home in Yellow Springs: He collapsed in his room at Washington's smart Carleton Hotel and was dead before a physician could arrive to treat him.

The death of Fess removed from Republican party councils one of its most vigorous and pungent Less than a fortnight ago on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of his birth, he declared in an interview his continued faith in the traditional policies of his party and viewed with concern the support given the New Deal in "the November 'election. Fe-ss served two terms in the senate from Jus native state of IplfP" lllilP DcLIEVt MINE DEATH TOLL TO SOAR TO FORTY Ohio. He was retired in the Democratic sweep- of 1934 when beaten by Vic Donahey, colorful Democratic I 'Campaigner. He had reached his peak of influence in national af- fairs during the administration of I President Herbert Hoover when he served for two years as national i Republican chairman. He was keynoter of the 1928 convention at which.

Hoover was service which led to his elevation to the party chairmanship. Since his defeat in 1934 he had devoted most of his time and interest to a comprehensive history boldly in support of his convictions, as evidenced by his outspoken de- Ohio, centering principal atten- nunciation of the New Deal in the lace of overwhelming opposition. tion' upon' political affairs, among his confreres and at a time when his voice was the first lifted Much of his- time was spent in Washington, pouring over records against policies, of, the new administration. Aside from his public-work, newspapermen liked Senator Fess. He was Jieritages of his trainimg and scholas- was familiar figure as he in the Congressional Library where tic contrast to the hard school in which most politicians are reared.

As a result he. was easily approachable, always "ready to cooperate with reporters the matter of interviews. Unexplained Blast Injures 35, Some Of Whom May Die NUEVA ROSITA, Coahuila, Mexico, Dec. death toll of in the gas explosion and fire in the Rosita coal mine was feared today. Thirty-four bodies had been removed, but -feared scanned old "documents, day after amon ttte thirty-five survivors day, taking copious notes.

Four volumes of his history were. Congress To Shape History Of Country Will Wrestle; With Important Issues- After January By RODNEY DUTCHER This is the first of a series of six stories, in which Rodney Dutchcr; NEA Service and Gazette Washington, correspondent, discusses the problems facing th next congress. As Yellow first citizen he was also first citizen of Greene understood to have been complet- County despite termination of his political known of 1 1 1 wna Wnn this county's sons in. the world at large. As a neighbor and a personal friend, aside from his political triumphs.

Greene County-will miss Dr. Fess. ed and he was ly to complete the work. His.S'Chol- OAKWOOD PROTESTS PERMIT FOR LIQUOR SALOON IN VILLAGE Asks State Board To Refused License To Citizen There COLUMBUS, Dec. to call a special election and place the local option question before its residents it' the of liquor control, grants a permit for the sale of liquor by the glass had been voiced here to- "today by city officials of ftt fl a went mmediate a Dayton suburb.

ly to the Carleton. Hotel, his cus- NEIGHBORS GRIEVE C. C. STEPHENSON, iA of Yellow Springs, expressing shock over the passing of Dr. Simeon D.

Fess, said Wednesday, that in all probability a fitting community observance would be arranged in commemoration of the village's leading citizen. The mayor said re planned to contact leaders of the community to plan an appropriate tribute. Dr. Fess' son. Lowell, makes his home in Yellow Springs.

some critically burned. Five men were for, ut it was. believed they i escaped. The mine shaft was thoroughly explored and all bodies were believed to have removed. "On one level we found twelve mules unharmed-in an jbfficer said.

"We believe this in- i dicates that tine explosion was felt in all 'parts oi! Uie mine and I that in many of the ihere jwas no gas. Many of the men. panic stricken, apparently ran for jwhat they thought was. lu- stead they ran directly into the. igas-filled where they died I or were overcome." i The miners were working-in the i coal division of the Rosita mines, which employs 5,000 men.

Zinc the principal product The erty is a subsidiaiy of the American and Refining Company. i Miners in other divisions were not arly occupation was in accord with affected and aided in rescue work, his earlier days of service as an educator which culminated in his presidency of experimental Antioch. College at Yellow Springs, 0. The course Oakwood proposes to senate, sitting as a high court of impeachnron't. Dr.

Gomez sat up most of the glass and "feeder" night probably his last common pleas court of Mahoning County. Governor Davey also announced the appointment of Merritt E. the liquid fuel tax. $10,000,000, affected 24 to the cigaret tax, a ec eu 23 to 0, and the admissions tax, $1,500,000, 21 to 0. plants that have crippled the auto- (presidential palac preparing "a Scn afm an as chief justice of the mobile industry and have directly vigorous defense." 'municipal court of Dayton, and work He was surrounded by a small Wm Wo a judge of the same of staunch supporters, some cour t.

They were named to fill va- more than 27,000 ers appeard ers appeared i anne to go abroad im- ancies caused by the elect ion of mediately after the inrpeachment Judges Null Hodapp and Lee REPORT 134,519 WORK jsession "to carry on the fight in Millg to the court of common pleas y-v ort i 111 Gt llo a.7*TTl t3L. Montgomery County. In making the Dayton appoint- COLUMBUS, Dec. safety" against the army Junta, were 134,519 persons assigned to controlled by Cuba's strong man, J2.S43 Ohio WPA projects on Dec. Fulgencio Batista which ments Governor Davey saidhe had 16.

the federal administration re-j engineering the presidents re been petitioned by many citizens 'ported here today, in comparison moval i Qt to fm the vacanc i es on the OSLO, Norway, Dec Trotzky, exiled Russian leader, was at sea'on his way to Mexico where he once lived. i Aboard the steamship Ruth of Oslo, armed against a possible attack. Trotzky awaited a wireless message from the Mexican government telling him at which point to land on the east coast. PNEUMONIA FATAL PORTSMOUTH, Dec. Mrs.

Hannah Pattern, 72, Columbus, died here yesterday of pneumonia which developed following expos, ure after an automobile accident here: with the 138,557 assigned to 2,903 projects on Dec. 9. TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY (Up to 6 p. Cftiet Low Boston 26 Chicago 24 Cleveland 26 Des Moines Denver Duluth 6 Los Angeles 56 Miami 72 Xew Orleans 44 New York SO Seattle 50 Xenia 20 High 2S 52 3S 2S "8 78 66 32 52 40 problems affecting the lives and welfare of every man, woman and child in the United States will demand solution in the session of congress co'nvening Jan. 5.

To give you a clear understanding of these problems before the shouting and the tumult begin, Rodney Dutcher. Washington correspondent for NEA service and The Gazette, has written six enlightening articles telling: 1. General outline and discussion of the makeup and leadership of the new congress. 2. Regulation of industry, labor legislation, the constitution and the U.

S- supreme court. 3. Relief and the budget. 4. Neutrality and other legislation.

5. Agriculture, farm tenancy. 6. Government reorganization. Starting Today on This Page.

nations with the exception of Rafael Montalvo, secretary of national defense and friend of Col. Batista. Three members of the house acting as a board of managers, will prosecute Gomez at today's trial. Tlvoy are: Carlos Palma. veteran Republican leader; Eduardo Martinez Fraga, nationalist and Felipe Jay, democrat.

made it his duty to make the appointments, and if Dayton lias more judges than it needs, it is a matter for correction by the legislature. Gazette Washington Correspondent, was outlined yesterday when the city's executives appeared to WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The 75th Congress, wihich meets Jan. 5, and President Roosevelt, who will be inaugurated Jan.

20, will take office under th impetus of a "mandate" back-ed by a plurality of 11,000,000 So It will be difficult for 'this congress to avoid making history even if it tries. For one thing, this will be the first time a President and a new congress ever have into office within three months of election'time. The Norris "lame duck" amendment to the constitution is now fully operative, and now may be protest against the issuance of a D-3 permit to Everett Edward Hirsch. ternary stopping place. He was met by his secretary and -appeared to be in fine spirits and his customary health.

A few moments later, collapsed. Before house physician Dr. S. TT. Becker could reach Dr.

E. B. Tizzard, chairman of former senator was the city council; L. M. Dissinger, dead EDWARD SENDS OLD CHAUFFEUR HOME city manager; Allen Parker, clerk and treasurer of t.he board of education, and William Mills Matthews, city solicitor; presented the muni cipality's case.

Hirsch in his own Other parts of his case were presented by his counsel, Thomas M. Gavin oi: Dayton. Tizzard told members of the board it was the unanimous that the sale of hard liquor by the glass (Continued on Page Four) should not be permitted in Oakwood. "We sec absolutely no necessity for the establishment of this type tested the theory that popular go-v- i opinion of thc city council har liuor EXZESFELD, Austria, Dec. George Ladbrook.

for is years the Duke of Windsor's private chauffeur, left for London today, 'hoping to retain his job with the new King George AT. Ladbrook drove. Mrs. Wallis At. Fess went to a telephone Simpson, to Cannes when she left and asked for the number of Missi Condon, and then came on to En- Mnrjorie Savage who had been! zes feid.

working with him on his books. He WILL ADD FURNACE PROMOTE RAILROADER CLEVELAND, 0.. Dec. Brooke was elected executive vice, president of the Chesapeake HAMILTON, 0-, Dec. new blast furnace costing approximately $1,000,000 will be constructed at the Hamilton Coke and Iron Co.

plant here, Charles E. Hook, president ol' thc American Rolling Mill announced today. The addition against businesses and the only stores there are grocery or drug stores which handle commodities that are needed." "When the prohibition question According to tentative arrangements, the body is to be sent from Washington to Yellow Springs late Wednesday. Funeral services will be conducted at the Yellow Springs M. E.

Church Saturday afternoon, the hour to be announced later. Burial will be in Glen Forest Cemetery, Yellow Springs. Edward told the chauffeur to "go home and have Christmas with your wife and children." By Clement Clarke Moore Gomez is charged in the bill of Ohio, Pere Marqueuc and Nickel I of the unit will increase the capac- see a return to those days, but stated. do not impeachment, the first ever voted Plate Railroads by directors of the ity of the plant by 500 tons of pig- in the thirty-six years of the Cuban i three railroads here yesterday. iron daily.

(Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) PEACE CONFERENCE SESSIONS AT END BUENOS AIRES, Dec. inter-American peace one of the most important ever held in the western will end today. A solemn ceremony in the national congress will mark the occasion, in the same room where President Roosevelt, who inspired Friends Express Gi Over Passing Of Former Senator pany him on a Christina" shopping tour to buy gifts for his five grandchildren. Before the connection was completed, he slumped from a sitting position on the bed of his hotel his hund. Robert Dove, hotel manager, who was summoned, said Fess' heart! had stopped beatng when ho ar-j rived.

Dr. Becker arrived a few 1 minutes later. Throughout his political career, i Fess was known as a "regular" and i a conservative. He was an earnest 1 supporter of national prohibition, (ERSON, of Antioch College, Because of his long and dis-j a stand which was believed to have which institution Dr. Fess was for- tinguished public career, corrtributed to his defeat in 1934.

president: "I am an authority on party govern-, often clashed heatedly with grieved, as I am sure all Antioch ment. His death interrupts his! progressive Republicans in the faculty, alumni and students are. i writing of a history of the two-: sen ate. and once described such in- jto learn of Dr. Fess' passing.

party system of government, a i "dependents as S-e-n. William E. Bor- iFess served the college as presi-j work "which he was imminently fit-i a Idaho, Sen. Hiram Johnson Regret Death Of Fess Expressions of profound regret) dent for many years and was ajted to produce. His loss will he feH; of California', and Sen.

George Nor- came Wedn-esday from personal distinguished leader in educational keenly by scholars a.nd educators, 1 ris -Mebraska, as "pseudo-Repub- friends and former associates of circles. He was universally indeed it will by all classes of; Dr. "Simeon Fess, Yellow and respected by all of his students! people whom served so faith- the peace gathering in letters to i mer United States heads of all American republics a den death at Washington. year ago. formally began its included- ceedings three weeks ago.

i PRESIDENT AJUGO B. Springs, upon learning of the for-land associates. Though retired, he- senator's sud-! maintained, an active interest in D. C-itho college and as recently as during tbis fall term, spoke at the on three different occas-i fully and well." L. T.

News of Fess' death brought ex- jpressions of sorrow and tributes MAR-'from his former associates xxvn But hear him exclaim, crc he Jrovc out of sigM- Christmas to all, and to all a SHALL, (R), Xenia, (Continued on Page Five) U. S. Senator Vic Dofthey, i a (Continued on Pag Five) DAY.