News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 1

iBBBBfl MANSFIELD NEWS-JO Ohio Cloudy, with local thundershowers Bandar. tia chang in temperature. VOL. 49, NO. 95 I News Established 1S5 Combined (Journal Established 1830) 131 MANSFIELD, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933 II CTSt PER WEEK BY CARRIER PRICE THREE CENTS nnio) lo) Threl'Bf owned as Airplane Falls Into Lake URNAL AIR RACE LID'S OFF FOR LADYBIRDS Buys a Cradle WOMAN SAVED AFTER DRIFTING FOR 33 HOURS OFFICIALS ASK WOO MORE FOR NEXT YEAR Demands Mount to $548,000 Despite Expected Drop in Tax Income.

WARMS COUNTY INDUSTRIALISTS OF NEW PERIL Ohio Manufacturers' Officials Says Rackets Developing Under Recovery Act. URGES STUDY OF MEASURE Road Jobs to Take Lead in Recovery Act $400,000,000 Allocated to States by U. S. Works Board. WASHINGTON, June 24.

(ff) Road building on a huge scale will get under way early next month, to become the first big expenditure in President Roosevelt's campaign for re-employment and economic recovery. Allocation to states of the $400,000,000 highway fund has been completed by the public works board. Promulgated today were rules tor spending It: Thirty hours work a week with fixed minimum pay will govern all con I' VI A i (. -m 'a. I I 1 war i i K' tf 4 i-l 4 The national air races, scheduled for Los Angeles July 1-4 im-lusive offer women fliers greater opportunity than open In previous meets.

This year they can enter virtually every race on parity with men. Gladys O'Donnell (left), who won a 13,000 prize at last year's Cleveland races, and Mrs. Mae Haizllp (right), who in the same meet attained a speed of 255 miles an hour, likely will be among the contenders at Los Angeles. Women to Fly on Equal Terms With Men at Races Two of Them, at Least, Are Expected to Give Masculine Aviators Run for Their Money. LOS ANGELES, June 24.

(Woman's place In the aviation sun, cramped in other years, draws air races, which win be run here July 1-2-3-4. If there was reason in the past for a feminine complaint about lack of opportunity to win cash, glory and whatever else goes with triumphs in aerial speed, 1933 comes forward with a broad welcome to women. i Advises Executives to Guard Against Giving Labor. "Undue Powers." Warning to manufacturers to be on their guard against the invasion of rackets, under cover of the national industrial recovery act, was sounded at a meeting of more than 60 members of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce and the Manufacturers' club, at Westbrook Country Club last night. The warning was sounded by arren F.

Perry, executive secretary of the Ohio Manufacturers' association, Mr. Perry urged careful study of the recovery act by industrialists before they tv.ke any steps toward filing codes of operations. Mr. Ferry also advised indus trialists to be on their guard against entering into any agree ment that would give labor what he termed "undue powers." "Bight to A titrate." Regarding the act as "having in it the possibilities of destroying the economic system and plunging business into conditions approaching socialism," Perry advised industrialists to study tha measure. rAny coda or ag ement entered into must contain a clause lifted from the labor organization's laws, providing the 'right of employes to arbitrate," Perry said.

While the program does not Impair the right of the employe and employer to bargain together individually or collectively, the mandatory feature "may lead indus-(Continued oi "age 12, Col. 2) WINS BRITISH GOLF TOURNEY AT 55 Hon. Michael Scott Becomes 1933 Amateur Champ. HOYLAKE, June 24. The Hon.

Michael Scott. 55- year-old internationalist and mem ber of a prominent Scottish family, today captured the British Amateur goli chamnionshiD for the first time, defeating Thomas A. Bourn, 4 and 3, in the 36-hole anal match. Scott was the conqueror of the last American challenger, George T. Dunlap, of New York, In the semi-finals.

He hus been the winner of golf championships in Australia and France over a oe- riod of 30 years but the nearest he bad previously comu to capturing the national title was in 1923, whan he was a remi-finalist. Scott was never headed in the final after taking the first hole from Bourn, 30-year-olc Englishman. The uew champion was five up after the first 18 holes and this margin was sufifcient to weather a rally by Bourn in the afternoon. ASKS ACQUITTAL Buck Defense Winds Up, Says Offense Wasn't Serious. BARNSTABLE.

June 24. A Cape Cod Jury was asked to-da to free both Kenneth and Cyril Buck on the ground that neither brother was guilty of any serious wrong-doing in connection with the kidnaping of 10-year-old Peggy McMath. A courtroom crowd sat tense and attentive as defense attorneys presented their closing Sole Survivor of Tragedy Tells of Seeing Trio Go to Watery Graves. HUSBAND ONE OF VICTIMS 4 Marooned In Lake Michigan When Ship Crashes In Heavy Fog. FRANKFORT, June 24.

(UP) Rescued after she had drifted over the choppy waters of Lake Michigan for 33 hours, the sole survivor of an air tragedy which cost the lives of three companions, including her husband, arrived here today. Mrs. Margaret Heanie, 27 fa. after tier harrowing experience, returned to this port this morning on the ferry which rescued her at dusk last night. Sears Collapse.

Mrs. Rennle rode the tank all day Friday. At 8 o'clock last night Railroad Car Ferry No. 7 picked her up. She was hysterical and at the point of collapse.

Capt. Charles Fisher, of the Frankfort coast guard station, dispatched a boat last night to search for the victims. A second boat from the Malnstee station likewise was ordered out. Gillette, official pilot for the National Cherry Festival at Traverse City, was to have flown the 1933 queen. Mine Morella Oldham, 1o the Century of Progress fair at Chicago next week.

He was married last winter. Rennle was vice-president of the Rennle Oil company. Word of his death was withheld from his father, president of the compaay, who is seriously ill at Traverse City. Keller, who resided on a farm near here, is survived by his wife and two small children. In less than 48 hours time, Mrs.

Rennle had started on a trip by plane to Milwaukee, crashed in the ship, clambered aboard an improvised raft, and witnessed the drowning of her companions, one by one. as they sank exhausted after clinging (Continued on Page 3, Col. 0) Landlord Cancels $200,000 Owed by His800Tenants June '24. fM William P. Devou, wealthy eccen tric, has cancelled 1200,000 owed to him by occupants of 600 pieces of property he owns in Cincinnati's west end, it was learned today.

Notices of cancellation of all delinquent rents, as of June 1, are being received daily by many of the 800 families, more than 90 per cent of them negroes, from the Fifth Third Union Trust company, Devou's agents. Devou, 76, reputedly a million aire, gained wide publicity in former years for his battles with city officials over housing restriction. For years Devou's horse, on which he made his rounds, collecting rent, was almost as familiar a figure as his own. Several years ago. however, horse and rider fell and Devou was injured so seriously he had to give up riding.

LIGHTNING KILLS WOMAN, CADDY Six Others Feel Shock During Storm in Kentucky. WILLIAMSBURG, June 24. Mrs. Marie Haarper, Cleveland, was recovering today from a severe shock received from a lightning bolt yesterday that kill-her mother, Mrs. Cora B.

Stover, and Eugene Bird, 18, Williamsburg. They were struck when a thunderstorm broke suddenly while they were playing golf at the links two miles south of here yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Stover and Bird, a caddy, were killed instantly. Temperatures Mansfield daily temperature ran (re for 24 hours, ending; at noon today.

Hl(th 91 at noon. Low 5 at a. m. Temperature at noon It. Averaee tor this day over past cie-ht years 8.S.

Rainfall None. Hich Hi eh Other Citiei-. Today. Yes dr. Chicane Cloudy St Cleveland Cloudy 70 7 Cincinnati Clear .....73 9Z Columbus Cloudy 72 Detroit Cloudy 7 12 CHARITY NEEDS INCREASE Soldiers' Relief Requests Are Doubted; Economy Bill Advanced as Cause.

Although Richland county's tax income is expected to be considerably reduced for 1934, budget requests of the various departments of the county government are $16,000 more than the actual appropriations tor the current year. This was revealed today in a survey of the figures on file at the office of County Auditor Arthur S. Beck. Requests for 1934 of the various departments total Actual appropriations for the current year were Ne'ther figure Includes an allowance for bond retirement. Beck explaining that the amount to be set aside for this item has not yet been completely calculated.

Beck explained that a reduction In the county's Income from taxation Is anticipated because of the 20 per cent reduction in county real estate values recently. Charity Requests Larger. The Increase in next year's request la duo largely to applications for larger appropriations in county charities, and increases iu general expenses in some departments. i The request of the Soldiers' Relief commission for next year Is $6,700 higher than the commission was appropriated last year almost double the 1S33 figure. In an explanatory note accompanying the commission's request, trustees point out that federal legislation enacted to reduce compensation of war veterans will doubtless result in an increase on relief demands from local tax money.

The commission this year requests a sum of $13,550 compared to $6,850 which it received for 1933. Juvenile Court Asks More. The county juvenile court asks $3,000 more for 1934 than it received this year for the Mothers' pension fund. Increased demands in this department are responsible for the request, court officers said. The county Children's Home, overcrowded and non-fireproof, requests an additional appropriation of $5,000 with which to build" a sun porch for use as sleeping quarters for boys.

In the road department, the request of the surveyor's office is $7,850 greater than this year's appropriation, but the fund for (Continued on Page 12, Col. 8) Ainiee a Mama? Story Says So, But Hubby Says "No LOS ANGELES, June 24. IU.f5 A much perturbed husband, David L. (Iron Man) Hutton, paced the floor today as he sought the answer to a cable that indicated his wife, Aimee Semple McPher-son, internationally known evangelist, was the mother of a newly born son. "It is Incredible," said the rotund Hutton as he wiped his perspiring brow.

"I have reason believe it is Impossible. It must be a hoax." Then he resumed his pacing, clutching in his hand a cable from Paris, addressed to "Darling Boy" and reading: "Nine pound son, doing splendidly. Understand press Inquisitive, but keeping quiet." The cable was signed "wife." Hutton claimed the wire must have been sent as a practical joke by someone other than his evangelistic wife. Nevertheless his business manager. Harry C.

Brandon, cabled to Mrs. McPherson-Huttoa seeking a confirmation or POSTAGE STAMPS FOR SALE As a convenience, stamps In small quantities may be purchased at The News-Journal office when the stamp window at the postoffice is closed. This Is an accommodation iervice. The News-Journal office is open evenings until Saturday until 10. or Btng Crosby, radio crooner, and his pretty wife, Dixie Lee, above, stage and screen act-reess, have purchased a cradle for their home in Hollywood.

They're expecting a visit from the stork. STUDY TARIFF REDUCING PLAN American Delegates Consider Gradual Decrease Over 5-Year Period. LONDON, June 24 (U.R) Their hope for success brightened by to-sumption of American activity, world economic conference dele gates prepared at conferences In country homes and hotel suites to day to draft resolutions and agree ments at next week's meetings. In deference to British custom, the conference officially was ad journed until Monday. Cordell Hull, chief American delegate, is spending the week-end in the country.

American delegates are studying a plan for a five-year grad ual reduction of tariffs, and ruayj present it to ine comerence a chance for acceptance seems apparent. Possibility that international action to restrict wheat acreage may be the first result of the conference's work loomed today. Representatives of the United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina have been meeting for several weeks. Indications are for an agreement which, if approved, by helping to raise the price of the commodity would set a pace for the whole conference. The United States for the moment has won general support for its theory that price raising must precede stabilization of currencies.

The show-down on this Issue has been, postponed, not averted. 44 OVERCOME BY GAS RECOVERING Drctor Warns Full Results Poison Not Apparent Vet. or INDIANAPOLIS. June 24. Nearly 50 persons today were recovering from effects of inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from a de fective tank yesterday and overcame residents of a near east side neighborhood.

None was believed affected seriously, but Dr. Charles W. Myers, superintendent of City hospital, said full results of the poison would not be apparent for 48 hours. He said the irritation causes susceptibility to lung diseases. Forty-four persons.

Including 12 firemen, six policemen and a number of children, were treated at the hospital, but all returned to their homes. CLIMBS AGAIN Mercury Bounds Back Vp to 91 Saturday. Thermometert bounded up again today after a cool night and the mercury hovered about 1 degrees at noon. Thundershuwers are predicted late tomorrow. The temperature was as low as 56 degrees at 3 a.

m. this morning. Friday's high mark was recorded at 85 degrees by Enos Sprunger, Mansfield weather observer. HELD IN 75 CAR THEFTS IRONTON. June 24 Authorities here have directed the return Columbus of Robert Bretner, 28, and Inez Saultz.

30. to face rharges In connection with the theft of 75 automobiles in Ohio cities, including Marion. Circle- ville and Marysville. The pair! were arrested here Thursday. tracts, no convict labor will be permitted, machinery must give way to pick and shovel, the actual projects must be widely scattered.

Money Available July 1. The road money will be avail able on July 1, when President Roosevelt returns. He expects to be able to approve Immediately thereafter appointment of state public works administrators who wilt direct expenditure of more than 11,000,000,000 under the entire $3,300,000,000 public works program. Meanwhile, pressing close be hind the roads plan for an imme diate start, the army has drafted a $135,000,000 housing and construction plan, now being scrutinized by a works board committee for report next week. The navy department, pushing its extensive ship construction plans, -sought arrangements to have the 30-hour work week applied to all its shipyard contracts.

The requirement probably will be written into the call for bids on the half of the 32-vessei program which will go to private builders. Similar regulation will control the construction in navy yards. The 30-hour week provision 1 made flexible by imposing a gen eral 130-hour limit to the month (tour and one-third weeks average) so that time lost on account of bad weather one week may be made up the next. Also a 40-hour maximum is allowed on Jobs where camps are remote and hous ing facilities have to be provided. FIRE BREAKS OUT AGAIN IN DEBRIS Department Called Back to Voegele Warehouse.

Fire broke out again at 4:30 a. ni. today in the smoldering ruins of the Voegele Brothers warehouse, rear of North Adams street, which was razed by Are Thursday evening. Central station fire department, detailed one truck to extinguish the blaze. It constituted no threat to surrounding buildings, firemen said.

Fire loss on buildings and con tents consisting of building sup plies was still being computed by Insurance adjustors today. Frank A. Voegele, manager, said. The exact loss will not be known until Monday, he said. Insurance was carried on both building and contents but extent of coverage of the damage has not been determined pending estimate of the loss, according to Voegele.

The manager said that no plans have yet been considered for reconsruction of the warehouse. 3 IN PLANE DIE Ship Crashes as Trio Fly Home From Baseball Tourney. COUNCIL BLUFFS, June 24. JP) Death rode with three Council Bluffs men returning by airplane, Thursday night from Macedonia, where they had attended the Council Bluffs Junior American Legion baseball team in the county tourney. About nine miles east of the city, the plane suddenly caught fire, crashing on a farm.

The occupants. Dick Mason, 21, pilot; James Hitchcock, junior fire captain, and Charles Fries, mechanic, were killed instantly. The bodies were badly burned. A son of Fries played on the Legion team. SYNOD PICKS CLEVELAND TIFFIN.

June 24. Throwing precedent to the winds, the Ohio synod of the Reformed church, accustomed to hold its annual meeting at Heidelberg college, here, has decided to conduct its 1934 meeting at the Hungarian Reformed church, in Cleveland. THREE HURT IN RAILROAD CRASH Escape Death When Train Hits Automobile on Crossing in Greenwich. Three Greenwich residents were injured, one of them seriously, when a Big Four Railroad pas senger train struck and demolished their small coupe at the Knitter street grade crossing In Greenwich early Friday evening. Mrs.

Lottie DeWitt, wife of a Greenwich baker, is in Memorial hospital at Shelby with a mangled left toot which may have to be amputated. Her husband and their daughter, Eleanor, 15, escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Mrs. DeWitt was driving and was most seriously hurt. The railroad station at Greenwich obstructed their view of the crossing and occupants of the car were unable to hear the warning bell at the crossing, Mr.

DeWitt said in a statement after the ac cident. Witnesses said the victims were thrown out of the car and the wreckage was carried on the pilot engine for nearly a half mile. FOUND SLAIN AT SIDE OF ROAD New Vork Gangster "Taken for Ride" in Cleveland, Slain. AKRON, June 24. With two bullet holes in his skull.

Nathan Gerstein, 31, was dead today In the front seat of an automobile parked on the Macedonia road, a half-mile from Twlnsburg. Iden tification was made a passport photo in his pocket. He was, according to the theory of Sheriff Ray Potts, a New York racketeer who tried to muscle In on Cleveland gangsters, with fatal results. Gerstein, who was also known under the name of William R. M'ller.

apparently was shot about 11 o'clock last night. PLAN CAMPAIGN Committees To Be amel Today To Arrange for Drive. Committees to be in charge of plans for a summer membershln drive to secure additional funds of the boys' work department of tha A i rt. win ii tr i iix tne organization's office Monday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock to plan the campaign. on?" Captain T.

M. Bell, of the city police department, who relays this yarn, said the subject of the story had better luck with another "gyp" scheme with which he is credited. It is alleged that he obtained another set of license plates, using them when be ordered gasoline at stations and drove away without paying. The owner of the stolen plates was on various occasions detained for questioning by po'Ue, while the actual culprit wett free. a front row seat at the national MARION GUTS POWER RATES 18PER CENT Slash Will Result in Savings of $100,000 in 10 Years.

MARION, June 24 Reductions in electric rates that will result in annual savings to consumers of approximately for the next ten years were effected when city council last night adopted a new rate ordinance at the conclusion of several weeks of negotiations with the C. D. M. Electric company. Residential rates were cut ap proximately.

18 per cent, and other savings were made in com mercial and power rates. The C. D. voluntarily re. leased the city from a ten-year contract, now in Its third year, to open the way for negotiations for the new low rates.

The residential rate for the current begins at seven cents a kilowatt hour. The electric company is the first to grant a reduction since city council several months ago appealed to all four utility companies here to lower their rates. THREE FACE DEPORTATION Trio Placed in Custody of I mini-gration Officer. Three alien-born Mansfield residents were in custody of Immigration Inspector S. E.

Cope-land, Youngstown, today en route to Cleveland for deportation on conviction on charges of illegal entrance into the country. The three are Nicholas Dito-vich, Mihelie Vutichevich, Christ Karapotovlch, all of Macedonian nationality, according to the inspector. i 1 10 were en by Chief Inspector A. E. Weatherbee, Youngstown.

with shoes an obsolete custom, but thought again maybe it was an old-fashioned family. The man got shoes. As he was preparing to leave the clothing store, he cast a final glance around. He saw a straw hat to complete the outfit. "1 guess I'll take that straw hat there, too," he told the merchant.

"No you won't. You'll lake nothing." the proprietor told him. "Whoever heard of Lury-ing a man his straw bat The races this year will allow Miss Flier to enter, with one exception, every event on the four-day program. As race time draws near, two women stand out as the likely leaders of the dashes against time and men. Mae Haizlip, wife of the cross-country speed champion, Jimmle Haizlip, of St.

Louis, and Gladys O'Donnell, air school owner of Long Beach, graduated from the novi class so long ago that their ranking with the men has come to be accepted. Flew 853 Miles an Hour. Few followers of aviation will forget the dazzling speed which Mrs. Haizlip established at the races in Cleveland last September when she gave a tiny speed ship the gun and flew down a straightaway, course at 255 miles an hour. This year Mrs.

Haizlip will have even faster flying equipment. Jimmie Wedell, who grew almost overnight Into an outstanding designer and pilot, by sweeping all three places in the transcontinental dash with his planes, last year, has given her the "OW" In which her husband flew in 1932 to victory in the cross-country event. Gladys O'Donnell, winner of the women's classic last year, with a purse of $3,000, which she walked away with at a speed of 185.476 miles an hour, has kept her plans for 1933 to herself, but she will be present to worry the men fliers. TAXES PASS $100,000 MARK Tax assessments collected thus far on real estate accounts due for the last half of 1932 total Treasurer Arthur M. Lants reported today.

The tax office in the courthouse was busy throughout the morning hours today. On Saturdays, payments are accepted until 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. the man entered bis store at Willard a short time ago and told him his twin brother had just died, and he wanted to get a complete outfit for his burial. His father would collect insurance which would pay the bill, he stated. The alleged "twin" said he was the same size as his dead brother, and could be used for a model as to size of clothing.

He proceeded to try on and pick out a suit, shirt, tie, socks, and then asked to see shoes. The merchant thought burial Fails to Get New Outfit Because Clothier Never Heard of Corpse Going to Grave Wearing Straw Hat MEN may be buried with their boots on. but the well dressed corpse has never been known to go to the grave wearing a straw hat. Because custom has never ruled the straw for burial purposes, an Inmate of the county jail who awaits examination by the grand jury on a charge of breaking and entering the residence of Jacob Reinhardt here, narrowly lost possession of a complete new outfit of clothes recently. So says a Willard clothier who According to the merchant..