The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 2

TWO SALMAGUNDI Mrs. Robert Angel of this city recently underwent an operation at Union hospital, Dover. Kenneth Fowler of this city has been dismissed from Twin city hospital, Uhrichsville. Mrs. Victor Krier and infant of Beach City were dismissed recently from Union hospital, Dover.

Mrs. Gloria Haul and infant of Navarre were recently dismissed from Union hospital, 'Dover. Born, Friday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Zeigler of Main st Orrville, at Beeson hospital, Wooster, a daughter.

Born, Friday, to Mr. and Mrs. Rudy M. Latikas of 217 9th st NE at the Massillon city hospital, a son. Born, this morning, to Mr.

and Mrs. Jesse Heflin of 310 llth st SW at the Massillon city hospital, a son. Born, Tuesday, to Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Fleming of Orrville at Beeson hospital, Wooster, a daughter.

Born, July 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wertz of Copley, formerly oMIassillon, a son, who has been named Clark Edward. Miss Augusta M. Siiyder, who has been confined to the Massillon city hospital for the past three weeks, will be taken this afternoon to her residence, 325 1st st SE.

Sam H. Watson returned Friday evening to his residence in Mayfield, after visiting his daughter. Mrs. Paul Maxson of 358 26th st SE, who is confined to the Massillon city hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. A. H. Criswell, Mr. and Mrs.

H. J. Starkey, and Miss Mary Ann Spicer of this city and Mrs. Helen Griffith of Zanesville have returned from a 10-day trip to Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and Canada. Born, Friday evening, to Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Wetzel of 1633 Overlook ave SW, at Mercy hospital, Canton, a son, who has been named Danny Lee. Mrs. Wetzel, before her marriage, was Miss Dorothy Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Price of Bebb ave SW. Mrs. George Gilbert of 462 9th st SW has been confined to the Massillon city hospital since Aug. 4. She underwent a major operation Aug.

5 and her condition is reported as good. Mrs. Gilbert expects to be taken to her residence Sunday. Born, this morning, to B-M 2 and Mrs. Paul A.

Keller at the Massillon city hospital, a daughter. Mr. Keller, a member of the United States Navy, is stationed at San Diego, Cal. Mrs. Keller is residing with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Lee G. Mason of 1911 Amherst rd NE. Miss Rosella Schwartz and Clifford Fontaine of Jackson, are weekend guests of the former's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Schwartz of 520 8th st SW. Mr. Schwartz's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Schwartz of Jackson, is expected to arrive tomorrow for a two week visit. The Misses Elizabeth and Cordilia Walter of 15th st NW and Miss Emma McLaughlin of Canal Fulton have returned from Toledo where they attended the funeral of Miss Minnie Glasgow, a retired Canton school teacher.

While in Toledo, they were guests of Dr. and Mrs. B. E. Walter.

Mrs. Betty Adelman of 743 17th st SW is attending the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters convention at a Chicago, hotel. Mrs. Adelman is state supervisor of the association. She recently returned from Washing ton, D.

where she attended a conference of the Dancing Master of America. -AKRON-CANTON-. 4 Lines Use New Airport All four of the major air lines in the United States will be using the new Akron-Canton airport Monday, it was revealed today. Eastern air Hues made its first flight from the field this morning and Capita), was expected to move from the Akron port Monday. American and United have been operating there since the opening of the field July 1.

PRINCIPAL POINTS on the north-south flights made by Eastern are Detroit, Cleveland, Charlotte, N. Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans and Houston, with feeder service to South America. Eastern's flight this morniiig was the first of eight passenger and two cargo flights scheduled daily from the port. Big gains were registered by United Air Lines in its first month at the Akron-Canton field, L. G.

Wood, district traffic and sales manager, announced. Wood said air mail service has more than doubled, 30 per cent more passengers have been car- and air cargo tonnage has in- 95 per cent over figures last July at the Akron airport. He said: "AIR MAIL service has more than doubled and may necessitate addition of more flights. Outgoing mail totaled 9,263 pounds, an increase of 84 per cent over last year. Incoming air msil jumped 141 per cent over last year's figures and 46 per cent over June, 1948.

"Thirty per cent more passengers and 95 per cent more cargo "was landled at the new port during Juiy. Passenger service increased from 1,303 to 1 G72 and was 67 per cent grealher than in June this fear. "The number of incoming pas- also increased jumping 1,176 a year ago to 1,547 this July. The number in June totaled .,511. "Freight shipments originating rom the port increased 111 per while incoming shipments vere up 62 per cent.

Freight handled totaled 99,241 pounds a 'ear ago. Air express shipments otaled 40,353 pounds, an increase if 93 per cent." Finding Here Affirmed The finding of Judge Robert G. Hoffman of the local municipal court in a civil suit of the Progressive Chevrolet Co. against Morris Bluestone, who built a number of louses in this city, has been affirmed by Judge Paul G. Weber of the Stark county court of common pleas.

local" court officials earned today upon receipt of a copy of Judge Weber's decision. The Progressive Chevrolet Co. iled suit in the local court on Feb. 1, 1947, against Bluestone for 1327.71, the purchase price of a cement mixer which it charged Bluestone used and then returned. Following a hearing last Oct.

28, Judge Hoffman made a finding in 'avor of the Progressive Co. He ater overruled a motion for a new learing. Sometime later the case was car- "ied to the common pleas court by Bluestone's attorney and recently Judge Weber affirmed the finding of the local court. Judge Hoffman, it was announced has made an additional find- ng in the amount of S152 on the basis of a monthly storage charge of S8, boosting the total finding to 1479.71. EVENING INDEPENDENT.

MASSILLON, OHIO College Student SELECTION AS PRESIDENT of the University of Pennsylvania does not mean that Harold Stassen, unsuccessful candidate for the Kepublican presidential nomination, has stopped being a student himself. Pursuing his unending study of world affairs, here he reads the latest news straight from the teletype machine. (International) CUS SATURDAY, AUG. 14. 1948 Appeals To Taf Youth Fights Return To Florida's Chain Gang CLEVELAND.

(AP)-Guss Hall, chairman of the Communist party of Ohio and one of 12 persons indicted on a charge of seeking forcible overthrow of the government, today asked Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) to oppose senate confirmation of the appointment of Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman of New York. HALL SAID that the other 11 Communist leaders indicted by a New York federal grand jury were released on bond without any injunction against traveling, but that Judge Kaufman ordered Hall to remain in Ohio.

"Kaufman prejudged my case," the Ohio Communist leader said, "with the statement that to permit me to travel about 'Js to license the activities of this defendant so that he may engage in the very activities the government complains about'." "He has violated the presump- ion of innocence," Hall continued his telegram to Taft, and "obviously is catering to his political lenchman Harry Truman." YMCA Plans Fall Program iving death." Speaking for Fred Fox, captured here almost two months after his escape from a road gang near Live 3ak, the attorneys wired the Ohio governor, asking for a hear- ng. They said: "Prevent, if possible, the return if the young man, to the atrocious ind unbelievably inhuman chain methods of correction used in he state of Florida. "This boy, who has the Purple leart for being wounded twice, and having gone through five major battles, should not be compelled to return to a place of living death." THE TELEGRAM was signed by Attorneys Morris Morgenstern and Bernard B. Direnfeld. Fox, who had been serving a 10-year term on a S150 armed robbery charge, had this to add: "they (Florida prison guards) treat their bloodhounds better than their prisoners." For at least the past 10 years, Three Attack And Rob Man Attacked by three young Ne goes as he was walking in Cleve land ave SW alongside the Repub lie Steel office building early this morning, John Morris of Oberlin ave SW was robbed of $97 in cash, a pocket watch and several keys, he told police.

Morris said the assailants hi him on the head and body, took his money, watch and keys and ran. He notified Republic Stee police of the attack and the; called local police. Patrolmen Joseph Slinger and Carl Brown made a search of the area in which the attack took place and found a broken set of false teeth and some change in the street. They took Morris to his residence. They were unable to find any trace of his attackers.

Boy Is Bruised When Hit By Car Bruises about the head were sustained by J. Nicholas Weise, 7, of! RD 1, North Lawrence, when he was struck aad knocked down by an auto in East Greenville Friday evening. The boy, state highway patrolmen were told, was hit by an auto driven by Miss Viva G. Cochran, SI, of Newark, when he ran into highway after a ball. Ho, was taker, to a doctor's office for treatment.

AND HERE we have Chicago's entrant in "Miss America" competition, Lois June Ncttleton, 20 stage-radio-television actress, former Northwestern coed. She will compete in Atlantic City in September. (International) SENT TO The physical education -committee of the YMCA met Friday evening for the purpose of planning a new progressive physical education program to become effective'this fall. Those present pledged their cooperation to support such sttb-com- as basketball, weight-lift- CLEVELAND, Attorneys for a 21-year-old fugitive from a boxing, and volleyball with r'lorida prison road gang asked Gov. Thomas Herbert today to keep the of having teams ready to urn in and prevent his return to what they called a "place of lav in Ohio-West Virginia IVlttP flP3 I m-rto Vi Irxn OnTu Death Total Increases This Year area championships in Columbus in March.

In charge of the various sub-committees will be the following: Jack Yaeger, boxing; Fred Wolfe, wrestling; Wayne Fox, church basketball; Steve Shulok, YMCA basketball; and William 0. Smith and Hal Prunty, weight-lifting. This fall the members of the physical education committee an- nf '4i t- Physical education committee an- The surnaiy of vital statistics, tidpate stimu i a ting YM CA mem- Jan. 1 Aug. 1, 1948, bersnip by operating a definite compiled by Jack Welch, registrar seasonal program preceded by an vealed one good and two bad features in the comparison of births, deaths, and stillbirths from Jan.

the Carious classes offered. The progressive physical education program which is thus being 1, 1948 to Aug. 1 1948 with a tio ram wh ch thus being corresponding period in 1947 i formulated will be similar to the A total of 742 wa hnm' pr og ajready effective in swim- A total of 742 babies was born from Jan. 1, to Aug. 1, 10 more than were recorded in the first seven months of 1947.

The 1948 figures thus show slightly better than a one per cent increase in the number of births. One hundred and fourteen births me- juj cui vj.iu. aim JLUUi Lutll ULLLilS other escaped prisoners from Flor- were recorded in July, whereas the Mystery Solved? A BODY FOUND floating in Liltle Squam lake at Holderness, N. by two boys is believed by autnoriues to be that of Anne Straw, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ellis Straw, prominent Manchester, N. family. The heiress disappeared after apparently taking a lone midnight swim July 21, 1947, at the family's rented summer cottage on the shore -of Little Squam lake. (Internatioi. il).

OBITUARY Mrs. Hattie Deetz Mrs. Hattie May Deetz, 76, of two miles north of Brewster, died at her residence this morning after an illness of six months. Mrs. Deetz was the widow of the late Calvin Deetz.

She was born in Shreve but lived most of her life in Stark county. Surviving are two sons, Chester of Moffitt Heights and Victor at home; a daughter, Miss Virgie Deetz at home; a brother, Mahlon Drushel of Coshocton; a sister, Mrs. Leonard Rottman of Millersburg; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The funeral will be held Monday at 2 p. m.

at the Desvoignes funeral home in Mt. Eaton. The Rev. C. Wayne Balyeat, pastor of the Justus United Brethren church, will officiate.

Interment will be made in Green Lawn cemetery at Wilmot. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p. m. and Sunday after 4 p. m.

On the red side of the is tuni ty of showin what the i i i 7 rt the fact that death has claimed three per cent more people from than was the' case from Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, 1947. Altogether, 410 deaths were recorded in the learned. A meeting of the board of managers for the YMCA church league will be held Monday at 7:15 p.

m. in the YMCA. Wayne Fox, chair-i" ucauis were lecoraeo. in tne first seven months of 1948, 12 wil1 re side more than in the corresponding! period in 1947. Forty-six deaths! in July exceeded the total in July 1947, by seven.

Stillbirths recorded in the first seven months of 1948 show better than a 15 per cent increase over the 1947 seven months tabulation. ming in which the youngster gradually advances until he qualifies for a Red Cross swimming course. The program will continue from about the second week in September until December when the YMCA physical education 'commit- uner escaped prisoners from Flor- were recorded in July, whereas the tee wil1 nsor a parents' night da have made similar brought 115 babies in July so tnat tne boys enrolled in the but officials of that state have re- of 1947. I YMC A classes will have the oppor- teatedly insisted that prisoners are not chained. Only rarely, they say, is a man shackled to keep him 'rom escaping.

FBI agents and police who cap- ured Fox say he told this story: Convicted of the holdup of a St. Augustine, tourist vas assigned to a road gang and away June 20 in a hail of shot shells fired by prison guards. Eluding their bloodhounds, he lid four days in a swamp, hitch- liked to his home in North Caro- ina, then came to Cleveland where a brother and sister live. Municipal Judge John Swee- 111 ja j-i ney plans to hear Fox's case today I 0 1 J' i 848 two occurr ed in Proses were issued by Roy C. ua I July.

From Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, 1947 Waisner, city building inspector. only 16 stillbirths were liste'd, and I Pie tro Flavian! of 959 Overlook of these only one occurred in sw wa granted the only dwelling July. permit, the cost being estimated at $4,000.

Six permits, estimated at $3,125, were issued for construction of garages. Four permits for altera- Anthony J. Gentile Anthony J. Gentile) 21, of Brewster, died Friday morning in the Veterans' Administrational hospital in Cleveland after an illness of a month. Surviving are his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Mariano Gentile of Brewster and two sisters, Miss Gina Gentile and Mrs. Anthony Muzi of Akron. The funeral will be held Monday at 9:30 (est) at St. Therese's Catholic church in Brewster, with the Rev.

Paul Buchholz officiating. Interment will be made in St. Clement's cemetery, Navarre. The body will be removed from the Hug Funeral home to the residence this afternoon where friends may call. Permits Issued City building department records from Aug.

9 to Aug. 14 reveal that 30 permits for con- the 19 stillbirths from Jan. 1 struction or building alternation Seek Zoning Leislation Mrs. Laura Yost Funeral The funeral of Mrs. Laura Mc- Clynionds Yost, 89, of 2030 13th st, Cuyahoga Falls, who died Friday at the Akron city hospital, will be held Monday at 2 p.

m. at the Gor- don-Shaidnagle Hollinger funeral home. Miss Helen Smith, a Christian Science reader, will officiate. Interment will be made in the Massillon cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.

m. and Lakeview precinct 1 Canton township was requested of Stark county commissioners in a petition submitted to the commissioners Friday by the Whipple Suburban Civic association. The petition was signed by approximately 225 residents of the two precincts. That total, considerably in excess of 65 signatures necessary to make the petition effective, indicates, according to K. F.

Schmitt, secretary of the association, the attitude of residents of the two precincts toward the question of zoning. Legislation which would restrict the number and location of new business and industrial enterprises in the two precincts was requested in the petition. County commissioners, it was said today, as yet have taken no action under new stale legislation which makes possible zoning regulations in areas outside of cities. SHOWED WASHOUT Several washouts in Lake ave NE between 1st st and Amherst rd apparently the result of recent heavy storms, were pointed out to Patrolmen Herbert Shine and Ernest Smith by a resident of the street Friday night and the officers turn passed the information along to city officials. Some of the washouts, the officers reported were more than a foot deep.

FOLDER STOLEN 7 Theft of a folder containing his' operator's license and other per-! Honai papers from the glove com-i partment of his auto sometime dur-i mg the past few days was reported fo police by Ross Lcchner of 134! Charles ave SE. I Checks Mailed COLUMBUS. bonus commission mailed veterans The state out thr Ugh that date tions to dwellings to cost $1,400 were approved. Nineteen heating permits were also issued. The total cost of building permits was estimated at $8,525.

AN AROUND-THE-WORLD honeymoon in a 17-foot converted "duck" Is the project of Benjamin Carlin, 35, and wife Elcj-nor, 29, who sit on their craft prior to embarking-. The project was spotlighted publicly when a destroyer offered to "rescue" them 120 miles Europe- ward from Atlantic City. They expect to travel more than 25000 in. the landgoing, seagoing cnUt. (Iatefnstioaa.lSouodphoto^j Funeral Monday The funeral of Tony Mitchell, 37, who died Thursday in Molly Stark sanitorium will be held Monday at 1 p.

m. at the Brooks funeral home with the Rev. Norman Chamlin officiating. Interment will be made in the Massillon cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening from 7 to 9 p.

m. and Sunday from 1 to 3 p. and from 7 to 9 p. m. Service Schedule Mrs.

Hattie 2 p. Desvoignes funeral home, Mt. Eaton. Interment, Green Lawn cemetery, Wilmot. Mrs.

Laura 2 p. Gordon-Shaidnagle Hollinger funeral home. Interment, Massillon cemetery. Smith Cunningham, 2 p. Hug funeral home, Navarre.

Interment, Union Lawn cemetery, Navarre. Mrs. Cordellia 3 p. Desvoignes funeral home Mt. Eaton.

Interment, Dalton cemetery. Frederick Haube, and Frederick Haube, 2 p. Myers funeral home, Greentown. Interment, East Liberty cemetery. Wedding For Blackwell COVINGTON, Ky.

(AP) Ewell Blackwell, the Cincinnati Reds' ace hurler, and Miss Dorothy Davenport, 23, of Glendale, obtained a marriage license here today from Kenton county Clerk Sam Eurste. Blackwell, who gave his age as 25 and said he had been divorced, told newsmen the wedding would occur tonight but would not divulge the place. Blackwell's home is at San Dimas, Cal. It will be the first marriage for Miss Davenport. War Waged On Germs Dr.

William B. Wild, board of health, commissioner, issued a medical report today showing the results of venereal disease control service during the first six months of 1948. Of 58 persons admitted to medical service for treatment, 46, were treated by private physicians, nine were checked by clinics in Canton or at the Massillon state hospital, and three were treated 'at the rapid treatment center, he reported. This is a vast improvement over the same six months period in 1947 when only 17 cases received medical treatment, he said. THIRTY-SIX patient interviews were held at the health department, and nine visits were made to the homes of patients.

Eight individuals were admitted to nursing service. Eighteen people were reported to the health department as having had contact with venereal disease cases. Four were found infected and placed under treatment, four were found not to be infected, one is still under treatment, four have not been found as yet, and five of the investigations are incomplete, the report said. Examinations given, to food- handlers disclosed that 13 were infected with venereal disease of some form. "This is certainly noth- ng for Massillon to be proud of," Dr.

Wild said. "Many of them knew 3f the presence of this disease and lad neither reported the situation to the proper health authorities nor had done anything to remedy OVER 670 throat cultures were checked for diphtheria, Dr. Wild disclosed in his laboratory service report for the first six months of 1948. Trench mouth tests were also made on 51 of the throat cultures. The state laboratory in Columbus examined 34 sputum specimens for tuberculosis.

Blood specimens examined for typhoid and undulant fever were 597, and 656 blood specimens were checked syphilitic germs. Two hundred and sixty-four mic- 'examinations of urine samples were largest single microscopic test made. Sixty-four examinations were made tor typhoid fever, parathyphoid and parathyphoid fever 'B." Sixty-two tests were made for Dacillary dysentery and only nine tor amebic dysentery. Gonorrhea tests of 12 samples and examinations of eight intestinal parasite samples were made. MILK ANALYSES made during the first six months of 1948 totaled 1661.

Fifty-six samples of water were also analyzed. Six hundred and thirty-two direct microscopic examinations of raw milk were inspected in the period from Jan. 1,1948 to Aug. 1, 1948 to determine the amount of germs in the raw milk samples. John Price, milk sanitarian employed by the department, also conducted 189 tests of the souring time of raw milk before pasteurization.

Pasteurized milk received three distinct tests. The "butter fat test was made in connection with all 414 bottles of pasteurized milk examined. The standard plate count pasteurization test was given to 228 bottles, and 198 bottles received the phosphotase examination. Coxey Renamed By Knights Of Road "General" Jacob S. Coxey has been re-elected a vice president of the Knights of the Road, national organization of hoboes.

He was re-elected at the annual convention of the organization. He has been an honorary member for several years. Jack Dempsey also is a vice president. Jeff Davis is king emperor. -MUNY Draws Jail Term Pleas of guilty to two charges filed against him by deputy sheriffs Friday brought Glenn A.

Smith of Brewster a jail sentence of five days and fines totalling $50 and costs in municipal court this morning. He was sentenced to serve five days in the county jail and to I pay a fine of $25 and costs on a pica of guilty to a charge of resisting an officer and was fined $25 and costs on a charge of intoxication. HE WAS arrested in a grill in Brewster where, according to the deputies, he had broken a peanut machine. Smith, the arresting officers said, became abusive and they had to use force to keep him under control. A second man who was fined on two charges during this morning's court session was Erby Blankenship, 35, of Gadsden, who pleaded guilty to charges of operating a motor vehicles with insufficient, lights and without driver's license.

He was taken into custody by state highway patrolmen on route 30 a short distance west of here. The patrolmen stopped a tractor- trailer he was driving because it had only one headlight and rear lights could not be seen from a distance of 100 feet and then found he had no operator's license SAUL I. Morrison, 34, of Angeles, pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding on route 3Q west of here Friday afternoon and was fined $25 and costs. Three of four other men arraigned on charges of intoxication were residents of the Baltimore Ohio car camp. 'All were apprehended at different times and places Friday and early today.

All three, Steve Leo, 60, Homer Gilniore, 50, and Joe Slee, 45, pleaded guilty and were fined $25 and costs each. It was Gilmore's second appearance in court in two days. Clarence P. O'Connors, 63 of Charleston, W. also pleaded guilty to an intoxication charge but sentence was withheld because, according to the court docket entry, he appeared to still be intoxicated William J.

Pappas, 23, of 26 Pearl ave SE, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of violating the traffic signal at Erie st and Oak ave Friday evening and was fined $5 and costs. Two Killed PORTSMOUTH. (Ap). Glen Snyder, 22, and Calvin Henson, 22, both of Piketon, were killed early today when their automobile ran under the back end of a truck. The men were thrown through their windshield.

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