Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 9

Reaches Five Of Every Six Homes In -Greene County FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE partly cloudy, slightly cooler tonight, preceded by thundershowers; Tuesday fair, slightly cooler. VOL.LIV NO. 191 PRICE THREE GENTS XENIA, OHIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935. EIGHT PAGES JAP ARMY OFFICER ASSASSINATED JAIL GUARDED IN MISSISSIPPI RUNOFF MOB VIOLENCE Will Transfer Trio To, Penitentiary To i Avoid Lynching i SACRAMENTO, Cah, 12. Special police details guarded the Sacramento, County Jail, where three men were held as in the' slaying of Chief of Police El-j ton G.

Fish of North Sacramento, the fourth police chief slain itf the line of duty on i th'e Pacific Coast within thir- ty days. Authorities asserted that no possibility of mob However, they were taking no chances of a repetition of the lynching nine days ago which! Clyde Johnson, slayer of Chief of Policy Frank Daw of Dunsmuir fn Hoover Demands That President Disclose Plans Challenges Successor In Statement Seen As Bid For Eastern Support; Washington Thinks Ex-President Will Be Candidate (Continued" on Page Three) Hugh L. White Hugh White, left; wealthy in" Paul Johnson runoff contest August 27. congressman, circled around the jail after the or tn governorship of Mississippi of Senator Long of Louisiana. capture of the Fish.suspects but, thej-e were, no threatening ges-' It was indicated that the prison- ers would be.

transferred outside the county, probably to the Folsom I State where California houses its most hardened criminal The men under arrest in the Fish slaying'were petty crooks, sought for; questioning originally in a grocery store burglary and attempts to.enter North Sacramento homes. They were Alfred Paine, 26, Hugh Smith. 25, and George Wallace, 27, 'all: -Irish's death was' preceded by those, of Chief- of Police Daw at oft Pjolice- Charges O'Neal Santa. and Frank chief of police-at Fuyal- lup, BORAH FAVORED FOR PRESIDENT IN 1936 Can New Get Times Gain? Discover Dresses CHICAGO, Aug. Herbert; has been raised since the Civif War.

Hoover, charging th'e New Deial' Common frankness requires thai with "poisoning" American liber- the administration come forward ties, sought the support of-Eastern to the people and declare precisely "Republican leaders today demand that Presdent "Roosevelt the people openly what constitutional changes he seeks. The former en route, from his home fn Palo to New York, challenged, Ms Democratic successor in, a sharply- phrased statement to "come forward to the people and his full purposes." "It would be better for liberty to; commit suicide in the open than to be poisoned by indirection," Jae de- a usurpation of dictatorial dimen- i sions. He refused, smiling broadly, to I engage in a discussion of his "per-; sonal political plans or talk of, presidential candidacies. Nor would he talk about the New Deal setback in Rhode Island. "The nation has a right to he said, in preface to his direct at- tackr upon Mr.

Roosevelt, "before i this aesjsion of congress what! changes the administration pro- poses in the constitution, "For two years the primary. have been tram- Retail Sales Aim SUBORDINATE TowardNewPeak Gains Surpass Trade Expectations; Rural Demand High NEW YORK, Aug. sales for 1935 probably will exceed £30,000,000,000 a new high, the National Retail Dry Goods Association estimated today. Dun and Bradstreet reported last week's retail trade from 12 to 40 per cent above the corresponding period of 1934 and predicted extension of gains. The department of commerce reported rural trade for the first half of the year per cent above 1934.

Retail gains have trade anticipations. Some SEIZED AFTER SWORD ATTACK report the best gains in July for any July since 1920. Even sharper gains are anticipated this fall. Heavy rural demand was apparent and mail order houses reported the best business since 1930. It was estimated retail sales -this fall.would be 10 to 15 per cent above 1934.

In estimating 1935 would show a 10 per cent further increase, the association considered the record number of Billed today by a -lieutenant- mS ISS-aMT £2 I Colonel who attacked him with- shows and merchants' conven- ti'ons, the maintenance of retail Sonie mystery attached to trade at a- high level despite assassination. Nagata re- Ill-Feeling Due To Recent Changes In Staff Blamed TOKYO, Aug. I Gen. Tetsuzan Nag-ata, chief the' -bureau 'of 'military if-, fairs of th'e war office, was the usual downward seasonal trend, the increased farm income, and the generally more "favorable outlook for industry. SIX KILLED.

MANY HURT IN TRACTION CRASH A tles the en. i i Stolen The last two yeans, he said, I "erfr intend f. mental changes fn the balance of Fourteen dresses valued at $60 fovemmental powe rB "as disin- and in cash comprised ghed ffom normal develop- obtained by thieves who entered ment of the congt itution'to meet Survey Shows Idaho Man Is Leader WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. E.

Borah, Idaho, was fav- How Will Vote Go Improvement Seen Is Query Central Press Washington Bureau Street By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Staff Writer WASH I.N 0 Aug. south of Xenia, while the house to a surrender by unoccupied, Friday afternoon the Pre6 ident of "pow- i A report of the robbery was not JS received by the sheriff's office til 'Saturday afternoon. The dresse.s and money were not missed noon Saturday. Evans was out or ing weeds and his were away Friday 'ers reaching dictatorial dimen- rights, Roosevelt's criticism of the supreme court and his references to days.

"These things," Mr. Hoover said, pi. i "can have no other meaning than a seived the lieutenant colonel 1 in his office. There was an an- i gry argument and lieuten- j- ant, colonel attacked with his sword: The war office sought to close all avenues of but it was learned that lie died almost at once of his Avounds. He was not taken from his office, but his body was.

left there 'while the army took the I customary step in the case of- 1 high officer who dies in pursuance, of his duty to promote him. I Several hours after the the cabinet announced that Maj. i G-en. Nagata had been promoted to lieutenant general, and then the announcement of his death was. 'made.

'i No information was given of -his assailanty. or of the motive for the i attack. Gen. Senjuro Hayashi, war mini ister, cancelled a scheduled visit -to northeastern Japan because of I Nagata's death, which he will re- port to the throne tomorrow. Then he may make the slayer's motives i public.

I Hayashi is not expected to offer I to resign, at least not until a martial reports its verdict. I The assassin was said to be 'i Lieut. Col. Aizawa and. the attack is said to have resulted from re- cent, ot Nagata, 52, was made virtual -ad- I ministrative head of the-' army.

Aizawa was promptly arrested. MARIAJERZJlAND FILM CHIEF TO WED Singer To Be Bride Of Winnie Sheehan inuou8 lntettt to cfi turning home at; directly so as to farmer noticed the yard gate ri such acts and such conc en- or to accomplish SANTA BARBARA, Aug. Jeritza, beautiful diVa ored as the 1936 Republican presi-1 wouldn't go so far as to say that! house was locked and there was dential nominee today in a strategists actually do not publican leaders. The poll was taken by Robert H. Lucas, former Executive director of the Republican national committee.

He sent letters to 2,400 Rebubli- can county chairmen, 300 city leaders and 500 "young Republicans." Borah, a liberal Republican who has supported some New Deal measures, was named as the first choice by 247 and as second by 121. Col Frank Knox, Chicago publish er, was ranked second and Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, third. Former President Herbert Hoover was sixth. election, day.

1 no evidence it had been ransacked. It was not until one of his daughters began looking for her dresses Lthem indirectly. "No more momentous question Nevertheless the improvement al- 1 at noon the next day that the rob- ready, which they can't shut their was discovered. The money cinnati and Lake Erie' Traction i around the countryside bringing work car. Company crashed head-on with a i thousands of persons to scene of eyes to, worries them.

If it con- i gone from two places of continues, they have to recognize that i cealment, a chest of drawers and the New Deal will get the credit a book case. The dresses had been for it. Supposing that it does con- removed from a wardrobe. tinue, their version will be that the Chief Deputy Sheriff Walton 0 a strange sea mystery was found country is recovering despite thejgpahr, who investigated, expressed today in the mind of a New Deal, not because of it. In- his belief the intruder entered the fisherman.

fact, they will insist that recovery house with a key and locked the -waiter Brouillard, member of door behind him when he de the crew of the fishing schooner Seaman Halted In Swim To Europe On Mythical Put In Hospital BOSTON, Aug. answer his-eyes. From horizon to Roosevelt and Hoover that he was PLAN DOUBLE RITES FOR CHARLES TRUAX BU1CYRTJS, 0., Aug. body of Congressman Charles V. who died in Washington last Friday, rested today at the family home in Sycamore, 0., in the heart of his beloved farming country.

Two funeral services will be held at Sycamore Tuesday for the Ohio congressman-at-large. Private services-will be held at the home at 10:30 a. m. The body then will lie in state in the Methodist Episcopal Church for three hours. Services will be held at the church at 2 p.

m. Burial-will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery. Congressman Truax's body arrived from Washington Sunday, accompanied by- William Weber, assistant sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives. CRASH KILLS FIVE would have set in sooner but for New Deal policies. All the same, they have no notion but that most of the public will thank the Roosevelt administration for any decided trend backward toward prosperity.

And certainly there is an improvement now. But will it last? There have been several semi-revivals before, since the 1929 crash a fresh slump, has followed each of them, in succession. PICKUP SEEMS GENUINE Yet this pickup has a strong flavor'of reality! reports-speak of much better conditions in many lines. Maybe these governmental parted. SENATE TAX BATTLE ANTICIPATED OVER Notre Dame, stared over the rail Into the sea 160 miles off Cod.

He saw President Roosevelt and G. Edgar Hoover, head of the department of justfce agents. They dared him to jump in. Without hes- jitation, Brouillard jumped. No one on the Notre Dame saw him and ft proceeded on its way, i soon disappearing over the hori- zon.

A half hour later the master of TT trawler Ripple saw from his Partisan Ranks -Will Be i bridge what appeared to be a man Broken During Revenue Fight (Continued on Page Four) G. M. PLANS HUGE PROGRAM Will Spend $50,000.000 On re WASHINGTON, Aug. posed invasion of lower income for added revenue today threw Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and into complete disarray for the senate floor battle over taxation this week. Partisan ranks were broken' in a score of places for the battle inevitable when the finance committee reports its revised bill, probably today or tomorrow.

Usual liberal and conservative line-ups were shat- swfmming. He could hardly be- horizon, not a strip wa-s in sight. of nothing. Still in the grip glance at his chart verified his po-; of illusion, he resented the sailors off Cape Cod. The i who had pulled him out and the Ripple drew nearer the.

swimmer, doctors ministering to him He will hailed him. The man plodded on, be taken to Boston Psychopathic arm over arm, heading in the gen- Hospital today. eral direction of Europe by way Brouillard, doctors said, was a of the Great Circle route. beautiful physical speciman. Thir- SIX KILLED IN COLLISION ON TROLLEY LINE ecutnv, were to be married aere to! day.

The ceremony was to be per; formed at the historic Santa bara Mission with a few close friends attending. Edmund playright r.iction p.cai.- I will be best man with Minna Gombell, actress, as brides- i mad. 1 The diva came to the motion picture colony several months ago to make scree 4 tests. With the disclosure that she and Passenger Car Hits Work Sheehan were to be married. Miss Car During Storm Saturday Jeritza also revealed that she was divorced six we 4 eks ago in Vienna from Baron Leopold von Popper, i She and her titled husband had The Ripple lowered a boat which ty-two years old, he is five SPRINGFIELD, 0., Aug.

been' estranged IOL several drew alongside. But the swimmer 9 inches tall and weighs 17o inquest was to be conducted today i but the divorce was kept secret, did not wish to be taken from the'pounds, big-chested and well mus- Coroner Austin Richards into water. Th Ripple's radio sum- cied. He was fully clothed and the ea d-on collision of a Cincin- moned a coast guard amphibian i heavily booted when he jumped nat an( a Erie Traction Co. which took the swimmer to the from the Notre Dame and he di- i passenger car and a work car, ins Wncrvitol i vested himself of nO part Of this civ ti'oria L-illoH 1 KING BROS, WOULD Chelsea Marine Hospital.

There, in flickering moments of he. told his story. He had jumped into the ocean, which he pointed out was "shark-infested," to prove to President weight while in the water. He had which six persons were killed three miles north of here late Sat-1 been swimming at least a half hour ur( and seemed strong enough for that Mis Mildred Br i ht. 28, A-M wi-ntMo Hjna I much more when the Ripple boat crew pulled him out.

dfed Sunday from injuries received COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. cation of the King Bros. to extend bus service from Xenia to Expansion revised by the flnance committee to raise $500,000,000 an; nually in new revenue, faced a cer- NEW YORK, Aug. tain head-on collision between ad- Aug. num- Motors, Corporation announced to- vocates of increased taxation on all her of dead in a collision of two 1 day in conjunction with a financial incomes and those who believe it automobiles on Route 6, near report indicating world wide should be returned to its original Saturday was increased to five gress toward economic 1 recovery it purpose of tapping only the higher today when Joseph has begun -a $50,000,000 program brackets.

38 of Detroit, died in a hospital. Plant modernization in the United President Roosevelt, returning States, England and Germany. from a week-end cruise on the Po- Pres. -Alfred Sloan said the tomac, remained silent on the reprogram was the result of a "more vision. His request for increased i assured outlook for profitable de- taxation of wealth had gone entire- velopment." Most of the 'expendi- ly out of hand with the measure High ture will be for machinery in plants now involved in an insurgent at- in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois tempt to write a comprehensive, 92 and Tennessee.

revenue-producing bill. S6 Sloan predicted, in a-statement I SS accompanying the financial report'; WOULD SELL PLANT 96 for the first six months of 1935,: TOLEDO, 0., Aug. new ap- gg that of motor cars and plication was on file here in fed- S8 in the United this eral court today asking permift- 90 year would be 70 per of con- sion to dispose of the Willys-Mor- ss tumptloa In 9 tijrVrow Company of Elmira, at SS i record ytar, public aucUor TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY (Up to 6 p. CitiM Low Boston 62 Chicago 74 Cleveland 66 70 74 72 Miami, Fla. 82 80 62 BOY RESCUED FROM STREAM AFTER STORM HITLER TAKES LEAD IN DRIVE TO CRUSH ALL WHO DEFY NAZI RULE in the wreck.

The other victims, all of whom awaiting the legal senger car; Ruth I. Gibson, 24, Westerville; Helen Wingfield, Beliefontafne; Charles Murray, 35, Urbana, and Mrs. Evelyn Sullivan Kemp, 2S, Russells Point. BERLIN, Aug. Hitler; Nazi drive against Roman Catho- too.

today in the A minor cloudburst which broke over Xenia. Saturday afternoon, was marked by a from the swollen waters of Shawnee Creek. Attracted by juvenile screams for help, passersby rushed to the Washington St. bridge where they discovered a boy, about .11 years old, clinging desperately to a rope attached to a slender tree limb on which he had swung out over the swirling waters. Under the lad's weight, the limb bent until he was caught helplessly in the swift torrent.

In danger of drowning if he released his hold and apparently unable to swim, the boy's plight was serious until an unidentified mun came to his rescue. The man extended a tree branch to the frightened youth who, his clothes thoroughly soaked, was dragged to safety, Bystanders said the bor Wisecup, Owens Ave. disappeared be- )U reported in critfcal condition at drive toward "totality," claiming! Citv Hospital They were Or-i tnr- xTo-ricnt onH i pha Ryan, Springfield; Josephine; uivine Blessings tor Aazism i continue on otticial oasis, 11 mi'ssion said today. The bus company, "which operates from Cincinnati to Xenia, has made application to extend its route to Cleveland. Formal action of the commission on the request was not expected for at least a month, it was said announcing his men would crush Hitler spoke to his Nazis through IeeSj Bellefontaine.

all who defied them. jthe "Old who were Th state public utilities com- The Reichsfueherer. emerging jwith him in the days when he was derided as a after long silence from his tain retreat in Bavaria, exhorted Along with his speech here re- REGENCY HEAD DIES mission was to conduct an investigation of its own. Truman Cur-; LO NDON A.ug Anu- tis. Dayton, general superintendent vatana of Siam," chairman of the of the traction company, stated the re which for boy his followers to fight for thesr ports which showed an important acc ident was caused by failure of Ki of Siam.

died today, causes. He left no doubt that the broadening of the attack against Zimmerman, who had been em- Exchange Telegraph Bangkok i "political enemies" in the Catholic ployed by the company fourteen i correspondent reported. Church. years, to follow a dispatcher's in- For the second successive night, tmctions. two truck loads of uniformod storm SPECIAL ELECTION FOUND TOD COSTLY According to Curtis, 1 fci-oopers ranged back and forth aru i A jj.

Allen of Springfield, mo- i From along Berlin's Brc-adway the Ker- torman of the work car, had been fuerstendam, waving swastika ordered to mee.t at a sMing, three. flag and shouting at frightened a na miles north of Spring-' guests in the crowded cafes and; fi i Zimmerman piloted tho car COLUMBUS 0 AU2 19 A restaurants: "Thee will be no peace pas the, siding. in the world till the last Jew is; killed." 1 POSTPONE MEETING Je-ws were more and more ner- CLEVELAND, Aug. i close to Governor Davey today quoted Mm AS sa.ying he had; no Jntantton of calling a special vous, fssring a serious outbreak of stockholders of the Republfc election to select a successor to when Julius Streicher, No. 1 Jew steel set for Thursday act i the latfti Charles V.

Tniax of Bu- baiter of the Nazi party, invades on thts merger with Co'rrigan, Me- cyrus as Berlin Thursday for a series of his Gkrv. Davey was understood to slashing of Jews merger Co. Co'rrigan, will be post- i hart "the cost of auch an hitherto confined wottld be. proMMtiTV i Girdler, president of largely to the said in a letter to today. REFORM SCHOOL TO -For Life Petty theft sent Tom Gerak to the reform school at the of IS.

When he left, he WM hardened He before long, and then, irmg tenced to Ohio State tiary for a story to tell, in his in a series of article on.