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THE DAILY NEWS The One Psper In Thousands ot Good Homes. A Favorite Paper For 51 Years. HAMILTON DAILY NEWS A TonJfht: FaJr, Colder. Wednesday: Cold Wave. Yesterday: High 37; Low EsUblished 1879 (FuU Anodatod Picw) HAMILTON, OHIO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930.

12 TODAY Price Two NIP PLOT TO ASSASSINATE MEXICAN PRESIDENT foes OJ Prohibition Barred From Ojjice In Ruling Oj Attorney-General TO BAN MANY WHO WANT JOBS liould Have Nothing To Do Wiili FiifoicemeiU, He Asserts JINUTOM, JKB. 2H-- (At'. and t'oooe defl- Mtty opposed io prohibition on are nisrdtp.blt. 1 the Hcovcr Adnilrjstratioa offices directly connectn'i the cf violators ol ihy statute addition pevsoiial views practices of for or reaunolntinent Stales Attorneys cinrt mav-' nre bciiiR thoroughly Investl- itcrl before appointments to the President. This was revealed by Attorns; floral Mitchell In a leKer sub- utted to the House -mmlttee, which is tin- Bill to consoii late enforcement mid agencies in thu Department of Justice.

The letter, written to a Iricn'J tile Attornty whose nanv; withheld, dealt only with Lovneys and marshals, although i is 'assumed that Mitchell will follow Ihe same policy in selecting m3ii (or the enforcement unit when agenoy is transferred tn his jurisdiction from the treasury "I have not made any harr! srirl fast rule on the subject." the Attorney General wrote, "and thcvi: are many matters respecting man's ability and persoiyi! qualifications that have to be tnusidered, but I believe-that no man wli'i makes a practice of drinking intoxicating liquor, cr who has definite or pronounced vlewr in opposition to prohibition, belongs. during this Administration, in any post having directly to do with prosecution of cases un'cler the national prohibition act. "It seems to me that cucli men had better seek positions in somt! other branch of the government iv private occupation." AVAL MIS A Few Remarks About Ghosts MICHIGAN CITY, Jan. 2B--(AP) Ichabod a i a what is alleged to be going on at the -Pullman plant. A headless ghost, no fooling.

John Lnudwich, a workman, saw it. The hour was midnight. The headless ghost was tapping or. the side of empty boxcars. Ltaiidwich grabber! a onck and let it fly.

If the ghost had had a head, the brick would have hit it; but it hadn't', so it didn't. Tiic ghost flung an overcoat in Iiauchvlch's face and disappeared. HOLDUP OF U.S.WARDS FRUSTRATED Detroit Police Sav Four I Plotted Robbery At Soldiers' Home They Talk of Peace and Battleships CONTROLS FAIL; SIN PLANE DIE Central Airlines Crafi Destroyed In Blast i.l Kansas Cilv lo Consider Proposals (tf Italian mid French Envoys LONDON, Jan. 28--(A i Jiit'd full session of tilt; ftvc- naval conference wus called 'oday to meet Thursday in the old drawing room of Queen Anne nt SI. Jamc's palace.

The call was issued today after mother meeting of the "bis five," heads of the national dclega- nons, at which further progress was made In nrrsuiginz th.i ajcnctn ftl the conference. The session Thursday, which will 'ic open to the press, will appoint committee to consider in the ovdcr named the French global lonnngo proposal, the h- tlalian Naval parity, and the British plan of limitation by categories. The delegation chiefs attending hi; "big five" meeting today ap- rnred satisfied as they' left that 'icy had already gone far toward snrlng away what Col. Henry imson, head of the American legation, calls "underbrush" In way of any real iprogress. KANSAS CITY, Jan.

28-CAP)--Burned and mutilated bodies of four men and one woman lay today in Kansas City morgues, victims of the crash of a Central Airlines plane, whicly dived and exploded 'into a mass of seething flames last night within a mile of its. destination, Fairfax, airport. Cause of the accident will remain a secret of the dead. Almost as soon as the ciiarrcd bodies of the four passengers and pilot were removed, employes of Universal Airlines, a subsidiary with Central Ai'rllnes -of Aviation Corporation, hacked to pieces the still smoking frame of the plane and dragged its parts to widely separated sections of a stubblea corn field. The dead are: Dyke Laudeman.

Kansas City, pilot; C. R. Mc- Klnnon. Chicago business man; Jas. E.

Eggert, Chicago, music publisher, Mifs Margaret Dice, St. Joseph, and William Plynn, Kansas City, former city alderman and theatre owner. All are believed "to have bsen killed by Impact of the plane, when it sideslipped and dived fioin an altitude of about 500 feet. The plane appeared over the airport almost 30 minutes late. Airport attendants said it circled the field with motor apparently droning normally.

The passengers, blackened and seared almost beyond recognition, I were pitched forward in a grim huddle against the niotoc. jammed through the splintered cabin. i Avjators said they believed the most plausible explanation was failure of the controls. Newspaper photographers were I threatened and told 'tluiy would gel I "badly hurt" i( they attempted to talte pictures. Despite the warnings.

photographs were obtained DETROIT, Jan. 28--(AP)--Three Ecorse men, believed to have a i plans for a $60,000 payroll robbery at. the. Ohio and Sailors'; home at Sandusky. were being held on robbery charges, by Hamtramck police today.

A fourth man is being sought, i The men held are: Curll Hansen.j a former convict, and former clerk in detective bureau, of 'the Detroit 'police department; William Morris and Thomas Me to; with them held for investigation is Junita Carleton, with Hansen and Morris. Hamtramck police said today that the men have been Identified by Stanley Bzwoch as members of the gang of five men who held him up in a meat market in Hamtramck, on January 6, and robbed him of $3,500. Discovery of letters in Hansen's room have convinced police that the Sandusky holdup was next. The letters contained a diagram of the building there and marks indicating where guards would be in the building on a certain date. Mcto was taken In an Ecorse saloon by Hemtramck detectives and Lieutenant Joseph H.

Sheridan and Eugene Lavigne of the state police. Hansen, and the girl were captured after a gun battle and an automobile' crash in River Rouge. YO-YO CONTEST ON SATURDAY Finals To Be Held and Priy.es Awarded Week Later JejmrlmciH Store Fag War al Art End YORK, Jan. 28. There been a cigarette war be- two department stores.

Each the price in steps from to cents a nation for four brands. llslod wholesale price, Is J1.28 and government Ui conta. Thousands persons Hed In line hours. The war has led. ArmyTM IVavy Leaders Die Same Day WASHINGTON, Jan.

2B. (AP; -Death last night claimed two high ranking officers of the American war military and naval forces, Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor, the chief of with the A. E.

F. and Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden, division and squadron com- munder of the Atlantic fleet during the war. Snowden was 73 years of age and had been in 111 health for some time. Taylor wu and succumbed after a week's Illness with pneumonia. The rust Yo-Yo contest will be held at one of the local halls or auditoriums tills coming Saturday.

It will start nt oclock in the morning, and run fill day. This contest A'ill be fl preliminary to the final contest, which will be held the following Saturday, when the King or Queen of Hamilton Yo Yoers, will be picked. To eligible for this contest you must be between the ages ol six and eighteen. Fill in'cntry blank which you will find in every edition of The Daily News. To give everyone an eqiia! chance, only genuine Yo-Yo may be.

used. There will be 20 winners picked from' the preliminary contest, and the 20 will compete against each other the following Saturday in the final contest. The winners of this preliminary, wiy each foe presented wilh a special painted genuine Yo- Yo. Contestants will be judged on the number of tricks they can perform, and their ability and gracefulness in performing them. The Yo-Yo experts, William B.

Vandergift and R. E. Oliver, who were brought here by The Daily News, will be the judges oj the contest. Wateh The Daily News for announcements telling where the contests will be held and what the prizes for the winners of the final contest will be. Modern Jonah Sent To Jail DENVER, Jan.

28 Raymond Crawford, 16, is a Jonah. Yes, sir; he came out of a whale OK, except he was sent to the hoosegow. He had an idea that he could get a free trip back to his home Jn Los Angeles by hiding in an embalmed leviathan which has been exhibited here. He went to sleep in the whale on a railroad car. When he woke up and emerged much to astonishment of spectators, he found the car had been moved merely to another part of Denver.

Secretary of State Stlmson (right) is shown, in this telephoto in close conference with Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain (left) just after the start at London of the naval conference. CHICAGO ADDS TO ITSCHAOS Further Delay In Tax Seen--Reappraisal Ordered It Was Bear Of Party BUT BRUNO WAS ONLY ONE TO ENJOY IT. WHO' SEEMED CHICAGO, Jan. 28--(AD Forebodings of continued financial chaos rambled through ihe local governments today as puollc officials prepared for a final showdown with the Citizens' Rescue Committee. Adding to the already muddled situation, the board of review 'further'delayed'collection ol 1928 and 1929 taxes by ortierin'; tually amounted to a new reassessment, of Loop property.

This action followed protest; from many sources--including the Board of Education--th3 Loco Drcr.erty was undervalued $300,000,000 in the 1028 reassessment ordered by Willinm H. Malone, chairman of the state tax commission. Malone, in approving the new survey, said the delay in collectte; back- taxes would be "worthwhile" if "impartial and honest." Meanwhile, officials were still divided over the acccptanof of financial aid offered by (5iln.i H. Strawn, chairman of the rescue committee. Mayor William Hale Thompson, liis forces In the cit.v council, and H.

Wallace Caldwell. president of the board of education, still frowned upon the Strawn offer--which was accompanied by an ultimatum that the public officials must pledge cooperation to reduce operating expenses a minimum and allow the Strawn committee to for what needs 'he $20,000,000 in pledges shall be t.punl. SAN JOSE, Jan. H. C.

Witty, was away' from home for a short time last night, so his 350-pound pet brown bear. Bruno, took advantage of the opportunity and went put to see what he could see. Bruno" called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. FVank Lema and unostentatiously presented himself at the kitchen door.

The family fled. The garage dopr yielded with a delicious crash and he lumbered nto the basement. Very soon there came three po- ice officers, who began maneuvering him Into a neutral corner. Bmno didn't mind that, thinking it was a game or something, and playfully ripped ohe neatly pressed leg off the trousers of Patrolman Jack Dundon. To reciprocate, Bruno allowed his playmates to tie him between two posts.

After that the policemen didn't seem to want to play any more. Bruno did, however, so he pulled up one of the posts. The; MORGAN ELECTED AS CITY MANAGER Tells Cleveland Council He Will Give System A Fair Trial Who Srfid Apartments Aren't Renting MunT families On places to lire. IT they ail i win be (ooWac for If among The Dmtly Ncwi "For Reni" tomorrow they will U. PHONE MM Any liiue between 1 t-M t.

m. Mother Of Bride, 17, Screen Star, Would Annul Wedding LOS ANGELES, Jin. 28--(AP) The script for the scenario or ftollywood's newest film colony romance wai being re-written today by the Bother of the bride she bellenes her daugh- too young fully to realize the responsibilities of married life. Mrs. George Belzer announced she would nie suit today for annulment of UK marrUie of Young, 17-year-old film to Ormnt Witherj, 21, screen player.

MlH Young tnd Witherj who me. ilx months climaxed their courtship Sunday with acrUl elopement and wedding hi Yuma, Ariz. Returning home for the parental blMiliuf, Uwy were met toitead br the disapproval of Belaer. Although the prtrlouUy had frowned upon the union became Wllbera prcTloualy bad been mar- lied. Bad divorced, tin.

Balatf state cllier chief objection was the extreme youth of her dauzhter. The annulment suit, legal authorities believe, will raise an Interesting point of law, ax ihe minimum age for marriage for women In Arizona 16 years. In California, It is 18. The marital affairs of Withers encountered another tangle wiUi the filing In superior court of a suit by Mrs. Inez Withers, flrat wife of the film actor, demanding an additional share of his Income for the tup- port of their mloni 1 child.

Mrs. withers' complaint staled that her marriage to the actor In 1923 was annulled in IMS, at which time Withers was ordered to par WO a month for the support of his Bobby who now la yean old. old. Mrs. Wlthen said her ion hal been 111.

She that the month Ijr allowance be kicrtawd to Mrs. Ruckley May Seek Stale Office COLUMBUS, Jan. Pauline Buckley, Columbus, wife nf Bert B. Buckley, former Treasun: 1 of State, has under consideration the proposition of seeking nor.i- Ination for Treasurer of State on the Republican ticket this year Ir opposition to H. Ross Ake, Canton, who was appointed to nil the placr: after the resignation of Buckley under threat of Impeachment.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 28-MAP)The political furore over Cleveland's city manager form of government, was at an end today, temporarily at least, with the installa tion of State Senator Daniel E. Morgan, as the chief executive. Morgan was chosen city manager by the council last night by a 19 to 6 majority, to succeed William Hcpkins, ousted two weeks ago by the Republican bloc. Morgan promised lie would sec a the city manager plan, adopted six years ago, receives a fair dial.

It believed that he will replace three of the seven members of the cabinet. Among those counted to remain Is law director, Harold H. Burton. easy and to chase or other post looked Bruno was all ready chased. Before Bruno could think of anything else, his master hurried up.

Witty promised to pay for the damage, gave Bruno a significant a and started homeward. Bruno trotted along at his heels. The party was over. LAKE ERIE RUM KING TO APPEAR Semis Word He Will Be In Cleveland Tomorrow --Foivfeils Bond CLEVELAND, Jan. 28.

(AP)-; James A. Courtney, reputed to have been associated with Dan P. Coughlin and Larry Davidson in a huge Lake Erie rum-running organization, will appear In Cleveland tomorrow, according to his attorney, Miles E. Evans. Courtney, however, will find his bond of $8,500 forfeited for falling to appear at two scheduled hearings before U.

S. Commissioner Martin J. Monahen. The alleged rum king, whose activities are said to have included a bribe which has resulted in the arrest of three coast guardsmen at, Buffalo, has been In Canada, Evans reported. Further ramifications of the rum the Toledo area were re- SON OF HAYES MISSPENT FUND Taxpayer's Suit Asks Accounting--Also Seeks $250,000 Damuges COLUMBUS, Jan.

28--(AP) -Colonel Webb C. son of former President Rutherford B. Hayes, today faced an injunction suit, charging he misspent a portion of state funds intended for use in converting the Hayes homestead in Sandusky County into a state mu- sium. The suit instituted by James Brach Cameron, Fremont tax payer, seeks exemplary dam- ases and asks that Hayes account for the funds. After the petition was filed in common pleas court here, Judge H.

O. Gore, of Putnam county, Issued an order temporarily enjoining the members of Uie state emergency board, State Treasurer H. Ross Ake and Stale Auditor Joseph T. Tracy, from, a pprop dating any more funds for the museum project. Since 1909, various sums have been appropriated by the legislature and the emergency board for carrying on the work of turning the old Hayes homestead Into a state park and museum and for Improvements.

Hayes, as a member of the which started the project, Is asked to account for all of these funds. The suit does not specify the total sum appropriated, nor does it estimate the aggregate amount alleged to have been spent illegally by Hayes. Unauthorized expenditures charged against Hayes, Include for construction of a tunneJ from the Hayes home to the $100,000 museum; (1,000 for redecoration of the home, and $600 for improvements to th Governor Myers Cooper, in his capacity as chairman of the emergency board, is among those enjoined by Judge Colonel Hayes at present Is Florida RUBIO, NEW MAGISTRATE ALSO MARKED Adherents of Former Candidate Held--Spectacular Break Planned MEXICO CITY, Jan. 24--(AF( Mexico City police claimed today to have frustrated a plot to assassinate President Emilio Fortes Gil. and the president-tied, Fascual Ortiz Riibfo, blow up several public buildings, and seize administration of the government.

Of 19 persons under arrest, Vs-, lente Quintana, chief of police, said 11 have confessed connection with the plot. Two women whi proved their Innocence were released. The others are in jail. lay Blame To Nominee Quintana said the plotters were adherents of Jose Vasconcelos, defeated candidate for the Mexican presidency, who charged after his loss at the polls last November, that the Ortiz-Rublstas had taken advantage of certain peculiarities of, the Mexican election laws to win from him. The plot, he said, was to massacre the guard at the government power plant here, capture plant, seize arms at a factory In the center of the city, and Eubee- quently to terrorize the populace by shooting rockets with a large dynamite content Into the air.

in the confusion the president and president-elect were to be shot and ttu. government seized. Some of th6 arrested were students. Quintana termeit ulot the product of "rfementeci persons." Roman Millan, lawyer, one of the prisoners, was charged as the ringleader. General Alvaro Obregon was assassinated in July, 1928, about a fortnight after his election to the presidenej'.

After defeat of at the polls, there were reports lis would head a revolution to suppor; his claim of election but the movement did not materialize. sealed at the hearing yesterday at which Courtney's bond was forfeited and Coughlin was bound over to the Toledo Federal grand jury. Hurley B.iss and Edward Zess, Port Clinton fishermen, testified that they had worked for Courtney. Boss said he brought from 12 to IS loads of liquor from Amherstburjf, to Cedar Point and Toledo at an average of $33 a load paid by Courtney. Zcss said he trucked the Illicit cargoes from Toledo on to Chicago, being paid by Courtney and often aided by Coughlin.

LATE FLASHES SEVEN LOSE LIVES IN FIRE FREDERICK, Jan. 28--(AP)-- Sven persons were burned to death when fire destroyed a two-room shack near the Slopeline mine. Mrs. Paul Martinez, her five children, ranging in age from 13 months to IS years, and a miner named Newlori, lost their SECRETARY OF I. O.

O. F. DEAD, COLUMBUS, Jan. 28--(AP)--Hershel D. Chaffin, grand secretary of the Odd Fellows lodge, died today at his home here.

Funeral services will held Thursday at Washington C. H. EAT PANCAKES; 1 DEAD, 2 ILL PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28--(AP)--George Groves, 44, of Akron, and James Johnton, 49, of Uniontown, today remained in a serious condition from ptomaine poisoning suffered after eating pancakes, which resulted in the death of their companion, Ralph Jones, 33, of Butler, Pa. IRENE SCHROEDER DENIES GUILT NEW CASTLE; Jan.

28--(AP) Pleas of not guilty to murder and robbery were made today by Irene Schroeder and W. Glenn Dague, recently returned from Phoenix, Arizona, when they were arraigned for the killing of Corporal Brady Paul, member of State Hirh- way Patrol. Employment Belter WASHINGTON, Jan. i A President Hoover said today that reports to the Department of Labor showed an Increase in employment for the week ending Jan. 14.

of 3.3 per cent over the preceding week. SAND1NO PLANS TO RENEW STRIFE Insurgent In Mexico City Will Fight "American Oppression" MEXICO CITY, Jan. 28--(AP) AuKUStlno Sandlno. former Nicaraguan Insurgent leader, dressed in natty civilian clothes and accompanied by r.ru'i c.i.cei.i, a i i In City today from Vera Cruz, where he arrived vesterday from Merida by airplane. told Mexican newspaper men that he planned to return to Nicaragua at an early date to carry on his campaign against "American oppression." Searcliers Dig In Snow, Ice For Bodies Of Lost Airmen LAUNCH GLIDER FROM DIRIGIBLE Experiment To Be Tried at Lakehurst When Weather Permits WASHINGTON, Jan.

28-(APj- A motorless glider will be launched for the first time from the Navy's dirigible. Los Angeles, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, as soon as weather permits. The experiment--to see whether gliders may not become an Integral part of the equipment, of the Navy's present and future dirigibles--is expected to take place this week. Lieutenant Ralph S. Barnaby will be tn the cockpit.

The glider, attached like a bomb in a rack, could be released at will and its pilot direct himself to a likely landing field where he could make a hasty survey and gather a force to aid tn landing a dirigible. The utility of the glider, which the Navy hopes to demonstrate In the launching, will be to its directive ability. An "advance messenger" sent down by parachute would have little choice in landing at a designated place. Plans call for two experimental lannchlngs over Lakehiirst and demonstration Washington. Later, Lieutenant Barnaby expects to study air currents under the various weather conditions.

TELLER, AlMka, Jan. 28--(AP) The far north today awaited reports from the marching party near North Cape, Siberia, which has boen digging Into the Ice and snow about wrcckag: of Carl EleUon's airplane to find the body of the noted Arctic aviator and hU companion. Earl Borland. Meanwhile other fliys who for weeks have been awaiting itn opportunity to Join In lh? hunt. Pat Reid and Ed Young, Canadian pilots--hopped off fcr the Siberian coast where the ElelJon-BorlanJ plane was found.

Alfred Lomen of the search, expressed the opinion thai the bodies of Elelson and Borland would be found there. The starching party composed of four men, wu Uken in the icenf Sunday by Joe CroMon and Harold Gillir.m, American fliers who located the wreck Saturday. Reid and Young were Instructed to remain at Ihe until "cvcry- thinj is cleared up." They also will transport valuable furs and possibly some ot the of the Nanuk to the Alaskan mainland and will make other trips to return gisolin; borrowed (rcm Russian rources by Amcilcan filers In order to continue Iheir march (or the lost aviators. Elr-lson and Borland were to the Nanuk, socn after the ship was frozen In tike furs and passcnscrs bicl: to whsn they disappeared November t. Fumei Fatal AKRON.

Jan. U--(AP)--OM lumti cauMd dtatii of Peter Lee, Trnpshooters Elect New Officers' DAYTON, Jan. 28--(AP)--The Central Ohio Trapshootera Association will hold Its annual one- day midwinter meet at Feb. 22. It was decided at a meeting yesterday.

The elected C. T. Henderson, apriiif- field. president, and Charles Stuntk, secretary. ft.

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