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of the merely tar a af Probably rain in east portion Ohio- and colder. WEATHER I MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL FINAL VOL. NO. 195 (News Established 1885) Combined MANSFIELD, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1935 CARRIER 15 CTS. PER WEEK PRICE THREE CENTS 51, (Journal Established 1930) 1932 HUMAN TORCH' SLAYING BARED Storm Lasher Area, Lightning Kills Farmer Ret ince for 01 for the tall said.

pale which ('ity to Douse aro Ohio work Wreck of Plane In Which Aviatrix Was Hurt Wreckage of plane Ruth Nichols Capt. Harry Hublitch of New striking a tree during the take- York, and William Holt, AtYork was dead and Ruth Nich- off. Four others of the crew lanta, married Nena, Gladys' ols, inset, noted aviatrix, in aboard the ship were injured, sister. The two girls were stewcondition in a hospital but not too badly to stage a ardesses aboard the ship. They serious N.

after the crash double wedding. Raymond had planned to be married in at Troy, of their giant 20 passenger Hanes, Xenia, 0., married the air, but the accident spoiled plane which fell in flames after COURT UPHOLDS OHIO SALES TAX Law as Applied to Vendors of Merchandise Termed Constitutional. -The ninth district, the court of state appeals sales tax today law, ruled as applied to vendors of merchaidise, is constitutional and enforceable. In effect, the decision, rendered in the case of the Summit Growers Market, a farmers marketing organization, overrules the recent decision by Municipal Judge Virgil Rogers. A second test case, designed to try the legality of the sales tax law in its relation to the collection of the tax by private firms from the consumer, is now pending before Pleas Judge Walter B.

Wanamaker, In the ruling by the appellate court today, written by Judge C. G. Washburn end in by Judges Ross W. Funk Perry Stevens, the tained that the prejudice the tiff to sell property. The law selling and decided, 01 80 A13 not interfere Goes with the rights of the vendor 8.8 such STEEL INDUSTRY GAINS FORECAST Prediction of More Jobs Made After 5-Year Peak's Hit.

NEW YORK Authorities in the steel industry point to the five-year high in the operations rate this week as an indication that employment and payrolls may extend recent gains. Steelmakers this week operated their plants at 51:8 per cent of capacity, as estimated by the American Iron and Steel Institute, the highest October level since 1930. On that basis September and October payrolls and employment are expected by some to surpass August figures. MILK TRUCK WRECK FATAL LIMA-Mrs. Judson Fidler.

61, Lakeview, injured in the collision of an automobile driven by her son with a milk truck, died here yesterday. The son, James, was unhurt. Comp Simpson. Museum OPENS UP JOBS FOR 2,000 IN 10 COUNTIES 200 Projects in District Get Approval, Work to Start Immediately. DOUBLE EMPLOYMENT NOW Total Cost to Exceed Million Dollars; 250 to Go Back on Jobs in County Friday.

Jobs for approximately 2,000 men in the 10 counties comprising this PWA district will be opened up, beginning next Monday, under approval for immediate construetion of some 200 projects, according to F. B. Nicklas, district engineer of the WPA. The total cost of this program has not been estimated in the district yet, but it will exceed $1,000,000, of which $135,000 will be spent on 11 Richland county projects approved yesterday. 525 To Be Hired In County.

About 250 men will go back to work 011 WPA jobs in Richland county Friday. Others will be added next week until the work figfor the WIN-M'FARLANDE county. About a maximum of about are employed on works projects at present. It will mean that the employment will be more than doubled in comparison with present employment figures for the district, which show about 875 now at work on projects nearing completion, Nicklas explained. He said that the 200 projects, approved for immediate construction in the county, do not include several hundred street repair jobs in cities and villages throughout the district.

This work will include resurfacing, reconstruction, repaving, setting of curbs, and sim- llar street improvements, Includes Street Jobs. Mansfield street improvement projects are included in this program, Nicklas said, although does not include all of the street repairs proposed to date under the WPA by the city. "The program just approved will be in full swing within the next 30 days," the engineer stated. Among the larger single projects in the district are: sanitary sewer system at Bucyrus, to cost sanitary project at Shelby, sewer, drainage work in Richland county, 000; and completion of sanitary sewer construction in Crestline, $20,000. TURNED DOWN Application to Open Radio Station Here Denied.

The application of the WMAN Broadcasting company, headed by John F. Weimer, former operator of WJW here, to establish a new station in Mansfield was finally denied by the communications commission at Washington today. Wein. er's company had sought permission to construct a station here for commercial purposes, and WAS turned down on its application after a hearing before the commission. Denial was recommended more than a week ago by all examiner for the commission, on the grounds that the company had not proved its financial ability to finance construction of the proposed new station.

The company was comprised of Weimer and three or four others, said to be Akron residents. Weimer moved the former Mansfield station, WJW, to Akron about three years ago. Gladys Berkenheiser, New Wants It Secret WOODSFIELD, 0. Sevenyear-old Ralph McCurdy climbed into his father's parked car tried everything moveable touched the starter. When the car finally stopped in a neighboring vacant lot, behind it lay four broken posts, two torn wire fences and a crumpled grape arbor.

Shouted Ralph to a startled neighbor: "Don't you tell anyone!" AID CONTINUES Willard Family Gets Donations From All Parts of Country. Cash contributions continued to flow into the John Trushal home at Willard today, just a week Eugene Trushal, 12, hanged after offering his pet rabsupply food for his desti- all parts of the gifts of cash have at the Trushal New York City, and North sented in 10 be and the ent for enough in the family of months, yescutting machine employed Railda hi: SLAVER SUSPECT TAKES OWN LIFE Body of Man Accused In Woman's Death Found Hanging In Jail, NEWARK- B. Robertson, 61, charged with clubbing to death his sweetheart of 35 years, hanged himself in his county jail cell early today. Sheriff's Deputy John Widrid said he found Robertson's neck noosed in a blanket, which been suspended from a bar on his cell. Robertson, held on a first degree murder charge, was accused of slaying Della Crottinger, 60, last Friday.

They were neighbors on farms in northwest Licking county. WPA Workers Turn Corn Huskers But Find They're Victims of 'Promoter' 20 Finish Job In Hurry Only to Learn There's No Money Left. TWENTY-ONE jobs WPA workers, as cornhuskers as a means of replenishing family resources, today found themselves victims of a "promoter" whose plans for an easy and quick profit went awry. They went out on the job and after working, learned their efforts were in vain. They were to be paid at the rate of 6 cents a corn shock, 98 DOMINION EMPLOYES OUT Claim Piece Work Rate Cut; Confer Today With Plant Production Manager.

A committee of seven employes of the Dominion Electric Manufacturing company was conferring with W. H. McClelland, works manager, today on wages and hours, after employes of one department had walked out last night and this morning. Meeting at Trades Council hall this morning, 98 employes signed an application for membership in the Metal Polishers' International union, with headquarters in Pittsburgh. They also elected a committee of seven to seek a settlement of their complaints.

Workers said the walkout was occasioned by a reduction in piece work rates which went into effect yesterday. About 40 employed in the polishing and buffing department on the night turn left their work, and were joined by 59 more this morning, they said. Not all workers in the department left, however. McClelland said shortly before the committee of seven arrived at his office that he hoped to be able to reach a settlement with the workers at the meeting. Workers said they would ask for a nine-hour day, a five-day week and a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour.

McClelland said work at plant had not been halted by the action of the polishers and buffers. TROPICAL GALE ROARS OVER SEA Cuba, Jamaica Count Hurricane Toll After Storm Passes. HAVANA, Cuba--A hurricane that swept Cuba's eastern tip and the island of Jamaica blew out to sea today through the old Bahamas channel after wreaking damage estimated at $500,000 in Santiago, Guatanamo and other eastern cities. Communication with Santiago, a city of 143,000, was suspended and the community spent the night in darkness. Many streets were flooded.

The city engineer reported approximately 100 houses were destroyed. Two men were killed. Three persons drowned in the Guantanamos area and seven buildings were flattened by the wind. Santiago hospitals had treated 29 persons for injuries before communication lines fell. Hop From London to Australia.

LONDON-Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, hard-bitten flier "from down under" who has conquered both the 'Atlantic and Pacific, took off airdrome today for a quick threeday flight to Australia. "Smith," still weak after a "nasty sh from a weekend chill, did not aim to break any records, but hoped to demonstrate the feasibility of fast air mail service between England and Australia. HURRIES HOME Kingsford-Smith Starts 3-Day LONDON WELCOMES RULERS LONDON King George and Queen Mary returned to London today from their Sandringham home. Peace Hopes Gain as War Drive Lags Rome, Paris and Optimistic--All Quiet on African Front. Crisis at Glance LONDON Sir Samuel Hoare's pacific speech in the house of commons spread the talk of peace over Europe.

ROME Officials felt Sir Samuel's statement of the British position banished from Italy the dread of an European war. PARIS--Premier Pierre Laval sought Mussolini's minimum for ending his invasion terms, Ethiopia. GENEVA--Any peace in East Africa would have to be satisfactory to both the League and Emperor Selassie. ADDIS ABABA- The emporor is highly pleased with the British statement and with reaction to it. ON THE FRONTS--The Italian armies were quiet.

Haile Selassie took advantage of the Italian delay to move 20,000 troops to the northern front. BULLETIN PARIS Premier Benito Mussolini will withdraw one of the three divisions of troops which he has sent to Libya, Premier Pierre Laval announced today. Fears of an European conflict, precipitated by Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, were allayed generally today. On every hand, there was talk of peace. The "behind the scenes" conversations between Paris, LonRome--geeking a satisfactory solution to end the East African -were progressing.

The pacific efforts were given new life by Sir Samuel Hoare's house of commons address, in which the British government left the way open for an hostilities without imposing military sanctions against Italy. Laval Predicts Success. Premier Pierre Laval of France, predicted success for his personal peace efforts. Laval sought Mussolini's minimum terms for ending his invasion of Haile Selassie's empire. One highly important thing was still emphasized by the British, even with all the peace talk; any peace must be acceptable both to (Continued on Page 8, Col.

5) 2 MORE KILLED Longshoremen's Strike Truce Called After Violence. LAKE CHARLES, truce was called today in the international longshoremen's strike following a pitched battle in which two men were killed and eight wounded. Governor 0. K. Allen ordered the port closed for three days while attempts are made to reach an agreement.

W. R. Mayo, president of the I. L. A.

local, said pickets and guards would be withdrawn from docks while the negotiations are in progress. The bloodshed yesterday resulted from a clash between pickets and special officers guarding the waterfront. The strike was first called at New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile and Pensacola on Oct. 1. It was extended later to Texas ports and Lake Charles.

The deaths here brought the strike toll to four. POWDER LETS GO Magazine Blast Rocks Chinese City; Hundreds Feared Dear. SHANGHAI Hundreds of persons were believed killed and many homes destroyed a huge store of explosives and ammunition stored Lanchow, Kanprovince, for the anti-communist campaign blew up, it was reported here today. The blast, accompanied by a deafening roar, rocked the city like a severe earthquake and showered the streets with broken glass, plaster and masonry, OHIO AGED GET MILLION COLUMBUS The division of aid for the aged wrote checks for $1,275,986 in September and sent them to $4,344 clients. H.

M. Shumway, director of accounts for the aid for the aged bureau in the state auditor's office, said today the average award was $15.12, a a a a a a a a a a a a a tonight. Thursday fair, WAR VET DIES IN HIS BARN NEAR BUCYRUS Struck by Bolt While Standing in Doorway With Milk Pail on His Arm. DOWNPOUR FLOODS CITY End of 'Indian Summer' Seen; Fair but Much Colder Weather Forecast. A heavy rain storm lashed Mansfield and vicinity last night, while lightning which accompanied the near-cloud-' burst, took the life of a Crawford county man.

Stanley Bauer, 41, an employe of the Crawford county highway department and a World war veteran, was struck and instantly killed by lightning at his farm home five miles southwest of Bucyrus about 5:30 p. m. yesterday. Bolt Takes Door Off Barn. Bauer, standing in the doorway of a barn on his property with a milk pail on his arm, received the full charge of the bolt and was dead when his son, Gene, who was standing nearby and who also was shocked, recovered.

The bolt burned Bauer's left foot and took a door off the barn. Bauer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bernice Bauer; three children, Gene, William and Gloria, all at home. While Bauer's death was attributed to the storm, Mansfield and other cities in this vicinity suffered from the heavy downpour. Streets in the city were filled with water as leaves piled as high as one foot clogged gutters and drains.

The northern section of city was for the second time in the past week. Loudonville, storm water' rushing down a small hill, washed out the foundation of St. Peter's Catholic church, causing the building to settle and doing unestimated damage. Three large stained windows in the building were broken when the structure sagged. The basement of the church was being dug out to install heating equipment.

Highway Under Water. To the east of Loudonville, the 3C highway was reported under water, although traffic was resumed later in the evening. A sharp drop in temperature followed the storm. Records of (Continued on Page 16, Col. 6) FIRE RUNS WILD Fanned by Gale, Blaze Levels Homes, Sanitarium.

PASADENA, Cal. (U.P.) A mountain brush fire whipped by a 45-mile-an-hour gale roared into suburban Altadena early today, destroying two blocks of homes before it was checked by hoses of half a dozen fire companies. Still out of control on other fronts, it destroyed La Vina sanitarium, from which 35 patients were evacuated in a rain of embers, and threatened Mt. Lowe tavern. Telephone wires to the tavern, high up on Mt.

Lowe, were burned out, but the Pacific Electric railway, owners, said it was still unburned. Flames were rushing up Mt. Lowe in the direction of the tavern at daybreak. CANADA CHOSEN Replaces Germany In International Labor Organization. GENEVA-Canada was designated today as a permanent member of the goyerning body for the international labor organization.

Canada takes the place hitherto held by Germany which resigned from the labor organization as it did the league of nations. The permanent members of the governing body, which corresponds to the council of the league of nations, are chosen automatically from the eight most important industrial countries in the world. 2 PILOTS KILLED Navy, Marine Fliers Die as Ships Collide, Crash. PENSACOLA, Fla. Lieutenants R.

F. Coates of the Navy, and N. J. Pusel of the Marine corps, were killed today when a plane piloted by Coates crashed into another flying in the same formation. Weds Soon Engagement of Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, above, daughter of Senator and Mrs.

Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, to Edwin Colman of Rockford, has been announced in Washington. The wedding is expected to take place in the near future. CONFIDENT I'LL WIN 'We'll Do Best We Mayor Candidate Says at Steel Workers' Meeting. A quiet feeling of confidence, one threat at the Democratic claim that federal projects be made available more readily under a Democratic regime, marked the Republican meeting for steel workers at headquarters last night.

The confidence note was sounded by the G. O. P. mayoralty candidate, Earl A. McFarland, who asserted, "I think I'll be elected." "We'll handle the offices to the best of our ability, and that's all anyone can do.

If we say today what we're likely to do six months from now, we might appear ridiculous," he said, in addressing the meeting after presiding as chairman during the introduction of other candidates. The challenge on works projects was flung by Harry Berlo, candidate for council president, and it was aimed at his Democratic opponent, Claude M. Hunter in reply to the latter's assertion that unless Democrats were retained, the city might lose favors in state and federal money for works projects. "I don't think it's likely that the projects just approved will be withdrawn," Berlo said. "And I I I Hunter will have to show me why federal grants won't be to any but a Democratic available istration." Atty.

Herbert H. Schettler, (Continued on Page 16, Col. 5) DAVEY TO KEEP 'LOANED' AUTO Second 12-Cylinder Lincoln Wins Over Governor's Chauffeur, COLUMBUS--Governor Davey has two 12-cylinder Lincolns, one on a "loan." He bought one for $5,000 at the start of his term from a Cleveland agency. He got another five weeks ago, when the first was laid up for repairs, but he may keep it, "The governor obtained the automobile as a loan when his car was sent to the factory to be fixed," said Francis Poulson, state Democratic chairman. "The governor's chauffeur likes the automobile so well that I think the governor will buy it." CYCLIST KILLED Skid Crashes Machine Into Auto, Passenger Dies, HAMILTON-A skidding motorcycle hurled Charles Ogden, Oxford, to death here.

He was riding behind Wisecup, Oxford, on the machine when it skidded on wet car tracks last night and crashed into the rear of an automobile. He died of his injuries today, the 36th automobile fatality of the year in Butler county. 2 SURVIVE PLANE CRASH BOWLING Detroit men escaped death near Cygnet, seven miles south of here, when their private airplane crashed in a cornfield last night. The men were Hal Ellington, pilot, and Guy Critzer, a passenger. Ellington's shoulder was dislocated, GOTHAM GANG 'WAR' CLAIMS 7TH VICTIM Enemies Pour Gasoline Over Body of Racket Leader, Set It Afire in Car.

DEATH CHEATS POLICE Brother of Victim of Garage Murder Found Dead Near Navy Yard. NEW -Underworld enemies poured oline over the nude, hooded body of Louis Amberg early today and left him in a blazing automobile. He was at least the seventh to die in a war for alleged control of the east New York slot machine and shakedown rackets. Detectives identified the body after firemen extinguished the flames and an assistant medical examiner removed the burlap bag tied tightly around the dead man's head. Gangland Cheats Police.

The skull had been battered with an ax, police said. They said they had been hunting Ambers, for another killing, but gangland had found him first. The automobile, apparently stolen and bearing stolen license plates, was discovered afire on North Elliott place, near the navy yard in Brooklyn. Police said, however, that Amberg probably had been slain in Manhattan and his body carried across the Manhattan bridge. "Stool pigeons," they said, reported where he was hiding.

Brother Slain In Garage. Louis' brother, Joseph, and the latter's chauffeur, Morris Kessler, were stood against a wall and shot to death in a garage in Brooklyn's Brownsville section on Sept. 30. Joseph was the leader of the gang which police said ranged through east New York and Brownsville, both Brooklyn neighborhoods, running the slot chine and laundry rackets, operating a "general shakedown" of merchants and lending money at high rates of 1 interest. Ten days ago Frank Teitelbaum's battered body, was dumped in a trunk from speeding automobile near the Brooklyn bridge.

Police identified him as a former lieutenant of Joseph Amberg and said his killing undoubtedly Wag a reprisal for the slaying of the gang leader and his chauffeur. Stage Girls Let Nature Take Its Course, Gain Lure NEW YORK (AP) Young women, in the opinion of Harry S. Kaufman, selector of chorines, have ceased trying to thwart nature--and consequently are becoming more beautiful. "Not only are they putting on flesh where it belongs," he said today as he reviewed a parade of pulchritude vieing for the next edition of the Ziegfeld follies, "but they are letting their hair grow naturally in both color and length." Kaufman believes the girls in the forthcoming show will be as lovely as those personally nominated by the late Flo Ziegfeld. He told about the 1936 edition of the "Ziegfeld Girl." "Five feet five inches in height, 118 to 124 pounds, 17 to 23 years of age they average." "The girls will be predominant ly curvilineal.

Boyish figures are definitely out." Bearing out Kaufman's observation, the first two rows of the chorus will feature brunets. MAP BRUNO PLEA Hauptmann Counsel Prepares for Supreme Court Appeal, The story they tell goes like this: A certain Mansfielder bought up a field of corn at a farm auction. He was to pay later. Through hasty moves he brought into action a plan to get the corn husked and marketed, the proceeds to be used to pay for the corn and his help. He figured he would take the profit, all without much effort on his part.

WPA headquarters were contacted, workmen went out on the job. They were told there would be from three to four days work, but the job was finished up in slightly less than a day, Part of the corn was marketed but the original owner, still unpaid for the corn, claimed his sale price from the proceeds. The check was made out to him and the other corn was repossessed. A truckdriver was able to get part of his money but there was none left for the other 20. The men took their problem to municipal court yesterday.

They can sue, they were told, but the law requires each individual to file suit separately. Each has about $1.50 due him, and seeing the uselessness of filing separate actions, they left wiser but still without their pay, -Egbert Rosecrans, associate counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, today conferred with attaches of the supreme court on necessary technical details preliminary to appealing the German carpenter's conviction on charges of killing the Lindbergh baby. OHIO VIOLETS DEFY COLD PAINESVILLE Colder weather settled on northern Ohio, but Mrs. Mae Kintner exhibited a large bouquet of violets, picked yesterday. She found the harbingers of spring in the Grand river valley, A3.