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EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS UP) SERVICE SANDUSKY REGISTER Sandusky's Oldest Business Institution OUNDED 182 2 More Than A Century In Your Service. REGISTER WART ADSBRINO QUICK RESULTS VOL. 111. NO. 3 0 6.

SANDUSKY, DECEMBER 23, 1933 PRICE I THREE CENTS OATltT FIVE CENTS SUNDAY GOVERNOR TO SIGN LIQUOR BILL TODAY SILVER ACT PUTS PEP IN SECURITIES Stock Yoltime Heavyi; Margin Of Advance Is From $2 To $6. NEW YORK, Dec. 22 This was ''silver day" in the country's speculative markets. President Roosevelt's plan for rehabilitation of the white metal as part of his general price-lifting program was greeted by a strong upsurge in metal and most other shares on the New York Stock Exchange and by rising commodity markets. Many Ktocks closed with net, gains of $2 to one was more than 10.

Silver futures put in a strenuous day, although they closed under their opening advances of 2 to 3 cents an ounce. Chicago wheat up about 3 to nearly 4 cfents a blushel, corn around 2 cents anjl New York cotton 95 cents to $1.25 a bale. Big Orders The Presidential order for purchasing newly mined silver at a price about 50 per cent above recent market levels and for silver coinage naturally directed most attention to items which had the closest connection with that metal's fortunes. Traders, at the moment, seemed chiefly interested in speculative possibilities and hastily placed big buying orders for the silver shares. Comment, on probable economic results of the new program was generally withheld.

It was recognized that the plan represented on extension of the administration's monetary policy, which is aimed at rasi- lng domestic commodity prices and about which much controversy has arisen. It was pointed out that the currency expansion involved was not particularly large, but the step was viewed as an important development in monetary policy, possibly giving hint of others to come. Dollar Declines Dollar exchange, watehftd closely for foreign reactions, declined moder ntely. Sterling closed at up cents, and French francs, at 6.11 (Continued on Page 10. Col.

5) 'Miss Champagne' MARKETS AT A GLANCE NEW YORK strong; silver shares secondary Issues metals lead ral- Stocks bunt. Bonds firm; advance. Curb strong; ly- Foreign exchanges firm; dollar reacts moderately. Cotton higher; trade and commission house buying. Sugar higher: commission house buying.

Coffee firm; Brazilian buying. CHICAGO "Wheat strong; demonetization of silver. Corn higher; open interest increased. Cattle strong; choice kinds absent. Hogs, 5-15 higher, top $3-40.

Ford Hit In Report By Green The world's largest champagne A. F.L. Chief Presents bottle served as a throne for jorie Hamilton when she Review, Charging he referred backed currencies, NRA Violations. croioned "Miss Champagne" at the'y national wine and spirits show in New York. Ohio Brewer Is Blackmailed; Suspect Held CLEVELAND, Dec.

22 (fl 3 head of a private detective agency "was questioned by city police tonight as a possible suspect in a blackmail plot directed at Htnry F. Eilert, president of the Eilert Brewing Company. The questioners the detective agency proprietor was a former Federal prohibition agent and al the employer of Lester Trim We, 35, who has been arrested and charged with blackmail in the case Trimble was trapped in a down town office building Tuesday after he had been paid $25 in marked bills. He will be arraigned in police court tomorrow. reported Trimble claimed to have information that the brewer was involved with a woman not his Avite.

and that Trimble asked $100 to discontinue his investigations. Two other men held by po lice and a Woman was sought concerning a plot in which Edward Shanover, a checker for a milk concern, said blackmailers had extorted $3,800 from him in the lasf two years. Arson Murder Charge Nolled CLEVELAND, 22 charging Jack Hirsch. Paul Childs and Sam Neaman with first degree murder in connection with the Ellington Apartments fire here in June 1932, were nolled today in common pleas court. Twelve persons were killed in the fire, which is believed to have been started by arsonists.

Louis J. acquitted after being tried on one murder charge, remains in jail here facing murder charges in connection with the death of the remaining 11. Common Picas Judge Samuel H. Silbert refused to nolle the indictment against Kamons, and Federal Judge Samuel H. West also refused a writ of.

habeas corpus requested for the prisoner by Attorney Martin Blum. RAPS HOTEL CODE CINCINNATI, Dec. 22 (JP) Robert E. Hesketh, secretary- treasurer of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes and Beverage Dispensers International Alliance today predicted a nation-wide strike of hotel and restaurant employes if the NRA code to govern their industry goes into effect. He said the code is "rotten." AVKATlilSll I'OHBCAST Vulr in KOIIIII cloudy mill xomeivliiit collier In north iiori'ion SaMiritnyj rt cloudy, probably followed by rniii, The' weather continues mild for the season, east of the Rocky Mountains.

Generally fair weather will prevail Saturday and Sunday, except that light precipitation is probable Sunday in the upper Ohij valley the lower lake region. it will lie somewhat colder on Siiuiriliiy in 1 lie lower lake region, I.OCAl. liATA 'ture yesterday, 44; on same date last, year, lowest tempera ture yestodiiy, on same, lust year, precipitation on same date last year, tyumirt.ity: s. in. 85, noon CV; sun rises suti sets today, 5:07.

FEDERAL LIQUOR PLAN IS READY: TAX SETAT $2 Bill Designed To Bring In Half Billion A a liy; States Will Not Share, WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 UP) A tentative liquor tax measure designed to raise more than lialf- a-billion dollars annually in revenue was approved today by the House ways and means committee for presentation to Congress early in January. The rate of $2 a gallon was fixed on distilled spirits and the administration's proposal for sharing the revenue from this one source, estimated at $300,000,000 with the states was dropped. The administration's proposition for a double tariff schedule through which it might bargain for reciprocal trade agreements with foreign countries also was discarded. Present tariff rates, including $5 a gallon on spirits, were retained by the committee.

The $2 a gallon liquor rate, representing an increase of 90 cents above the existing was a compromise between the $2-60 tax suggested by the President's interdepartmental alcohol committee and the low levies sought by some members. The committee reduced to $5 a barrel the present rate on beer eointaining more than 3-2 per cent alcohol, making the levy on brews uniform. Wine rates a proved by the commute were: On wine of 14 per cent alcohol and less by volume, 10 cents a gallon; 14 to 21 per cent. 20 cents; 21 to 24 per cent, 40 cents; 24 per cent and above, $2 a gallon; sparkling wines, including champagnes and burgundies, SO cents a gallon: artificial! wines made with charged water, 40 cents a gallon. WASHINGTON.

Dec. 22 William Green, in a formal report laid before the recovery administrator, Hugh S. Johnson, today submitted evidence upon which lie declared: "I charge the Ford Motor Company with violation of Section 7A of the National Recovery Act -which provides for collective bargaining." "Neither before the strike, nor September 28, the date on which the strike took place," said Green in the brief accompanying his file of affidavits, "were the employes of the Ford Motor Company permitted to engage in collective bargaining for the settlement of grievances and disputes through representatives of their own choosing as provided for in the industrial recovery act." Cites Specific Case The entire case presented by the president of the Federation of Labor was built upon the events at the Edgewater, N. Ford assembly plant, one of the two in the east where labor troubles developed in the early fall. only has the management of the Ford Motor Company refused to bargain collectively with its employes 3t Edgewater.

Js. as required by thevlaw, but in addition it has stated that its employes who stopped work for the purpose of redressing griev- Uu." wrongs are no longer considered employes of the company and can only be reemployed through personal application and re-hiring individually. 'This attitude of the Ford Motor Company constitutes a challenge to government." Primary complaints at Edgewater were that all were limited to 200 orking days at $4 a day, or $S0O a year, aifl that the management refused to bargain with the men. SAY SILVER MOVE HITS INFLATION Radicals Forestalled; Gold Action Next, Is Indication. WASHINGTON, Dec.

22 (JP)- Convlnoed that the new Roosevelt silver stabilization move had virtually forestalled extreme inflation ary at the coming Congressional session, the Capital to- rtignt turned to studying a Presidential expression of hope that the action might soon be extended to other media of gold- President Roosevelt told newspa- permdft he was anxious that the nations of the world get together some day on other fundamental currency bases, as they had on silver. The immediate interpretation was that he referred to stabilization of gold- backed currencies, but he. gave no indication of how soon he thought such action might be feasible. Many Not Satisfied Meanwhile, the political implications of the silver move absorbed many students of the President's monetary program. Although pleased, many of the inflationists called the President's action only a step in the right direction which should be followed by outright re- monetization 'of the white metal.

However, the opinion was ex- All Japan Rejoices As First Son Is Born To Emperor Hirohito Royal Infant, Believed To Be Descendant Of Sun Goddess, Will Be 125th Mikado; An- ul Rites Planned. By GLENN BABB TOKYO, Dec. LVi baby boy who will, if he survives his father, one day become the 125th Mikado and carry on the suc- cessibn of the oldest dynasty in the world, was born today in the imperial palace here. He is the first son of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, and therefore the long-waited crown prince of the empire. Heartfelt, nationwide rejoicing greeted the Rapidly broadcast tidings of the arrival of the princelingat 6:39 a.

m. today. Europe half a century ago, cannot The.news was announced half a to the succeed to the takamikura, the "au- 5 "inhabItants "of the capital sust high seat." by shrilling sirens and transmitted pressed generally that they had bee stripped of much of their less ex treme following and that the had broken the combine which less than a year ago came within six votes of placing the senate's ap proval upon a proposal for free and unlimited coinage of silver at the politically historic ratio of 16 to Briefly, Mr. Roosevelt's unexpected proclamation of last night had the following effect: Beginning today all freshly mine silver can be sold at the mint for the number of dollars that can be coined from half of the amount the metal offered, the silver miners to receive 64 cents an ounce, as 1 (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) to the ends of the empire.

Celebration by the Japanese people of the birth of a future sovereign was all the more sincere because it was long deferred. times previously since the marriage of Hirohito and his consort nearly ten years ago the nation had anxiously awaited the announcement of a similar honorably auspicious each time the fervor of the celebration was dampened because the new arrival was a girl. Daughters Can 't Ascend And the emperor's daughters, according to the modern law of the imperial succession, borrowed from The boy born in the maternity ward in the inner precincts of the palace in the heart of Tokyo will, if he outlives his 32-year-old father, carry on "a line unbroken for ages (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) 'Sweetest Co-Ed' Mary Haskell of Boston was named the "sweetest freshman coed" in a contest at the University of Chicago. Northwest Floods Wreck Sections Of Three States; 3,000 Persons Flee Homes THE REGISTER SAYS LOCAL Commissioner elect Schmid said he is not committed for any changes among city hall workers.

State commander of American Legion accepts invitation to attend banquet here and speak. Erie-co first to adopt installment payment of taxes and effective next Tuesday. Three men held by sheriff after several guns found in wrecked auto. GENERAL Governor White will sign liquor control bill today; drug stores to handle spirits for sixty days- Securities rise as result of President's silver coinage order; observers believe plan has forestalled extreme inflationists. Japan rejoices after birth of son to Emperor Hirohito.

SPORTS Blue' Streak basketball squad to play Tiffin Junior Orders here tonight. Bellevue High on scoring spree to Bueyrus: Norwalk beats Shelby and Willard edges Monroeville. STATE GRADUATES HEAR RIGHTMIRE COLUMBUS, Dec. 22 President George W. Hightmirc of Ohio State University today told 200 graduates that they are going into the world with a large share of responsibility for the public welfare.

The men and women receiving dk plomas at today's convocation were admonished to plan "for the 'ends' of living." "From a life," said Dr. Rightmire, "in which we busy ourselves almost totally with the means' for a living, we have moved into llf 'iy which will busy us with the 'planning for the 'ends' of life." PROMINENT. ATTORNEY DIES AKRON, Dee. 22 (JP) T. Grant, 63, a leading member of the Akron bar, died today.

Reserve Board Meets Secretly WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (JP) A sudden meeting of reserve bank governors with the Federal Reserve board ended tonight in the same secrecy that sourrounded all eight hours of deliberators. Speculation on the subject matter ranged from dollar devaluation to new steps made necessary by President Roosevelt's silver proclamation. But all that could be learned was that some kind of a document was drafted with the assistance of legal counsel. What it dealt with was not disclosed.

Governor Eugene Black of the Reserve board told reporters: "I can't tell you a thing. I'd like to help you hut I can't." George Harrison, governor of the New York Reserve system, said the same. 1 Kidnap-Robbery Witnessed By Scores CHICAGO, (5C. 22 AVhile scores of passersby. looked on and screamed for police, two robbers forced David Hyghes, a photograph studio employe, into an automobile today on busy Michigan Boluevard a few blocks north of the loop.

They took $450 which he just had withdrawn from the banlv and shoved him out of the car about a mile away. The robbers waved pistols and threatened the witnesses who saw them abduct Hughes. Catholics Await Christmas Talk By Pope Pius VATICAN CITY, Dec. 22 to the strife-torn church in Germany and conditions in the Rhineland regarded as "unsatisfactory" will probably be alluded to by Pope "Pius tomorrow in his Christmas speech before the College, of Cardinals, officials said tonight. This speech, one of the most important issued from the Vatican sums up the year's event throughout the world.

Prelates said tonight the church was "disappointed in the German observance of the recent Vatican Reich concordat," while the Qsserva- tore Romano, official Vatican newspaper, recently published several dispatches concerning alleged discriminations being exercised against German Catholics. German Minister Buttman was In the Vatican City today attempting to clarify several points not specified in detail in the concordat. Among the disappointing events last year the Pope was expected to the trade situation in Mexico and Russia. It had not yet been decided tonight whether the Pope's address be broadcast from the Vatican City radio station, or if it was broadcast, what would be the hour. HOG PROCESSING TAX TO REMAIN AT $1 WASHINGTON.

Dec. 22 Secretary Wallace announced today the processing tax on hogs would remain at $1 per hundredweight until February 1, 1934, instead of going to $1.50 on December 31- The change made in a revision of the regulations under the farm adjustment act, also provides that the rate of $1-50' will extend only from February 1 to March 1 when the to $2 la per rate will be increased hundredweight- The secretary said in announcing the new regulations that they would "prevent the accumulation of surplus stocks and depression of the farm price of hogs," and added that the revision was made partly because of the continued large slaughter of hogs. SCHMID CLAIMS NO COMMITMENT ON ANY CHANGES Says Nothing Definite In City Hall Plans; Say Schade Building Political Machine Commissioner-elect Oscar' C. Schmid, pivot man in. the new City Commission set tip, said Friday afternoon he had not com mitted himself on any changes at the City Building for the coming year and did not expect to "cross the bridge" before he came to it "I have not committed myself on a I Commissioner elect Schmid said.

"Suggested changes have been gone into but nothing definite arrived at, I am not crossing the bridge until I come to it Jan. Commissioner-elect Schmid made the statement following the release, from an apparently reliable source of a list of changes scheduled for the City Building after Jan. 1. The list of changes, which involved the offices of mayor, vice mayor, city manager, street superintendent, city engineer and waterworks superinten dent, caused a flurry, according to Commissioner-elect Schmid. 'Jumped All Over" Him "I was walking down the street, not having seen the evening paper when a woman who was sweeping off the walk, jumped all over me with the news that Schade was going to be (Continued on Page 10, Cot.

4) SEATTLE, Dec. 22 (IP) of Washington, Idaho and Montana presented a picture of desolation from floods today as new storm warnings were posted, and rains inundated Pacific northwest cities for the sixth consecutive day. Rivers overflowed, Dikes broke. More rain was forecast for Oregon, AVashington, Idaho and British Columbia. More than 3,000 persons have been driven from their homes, and 100,000 acres are under water.

The number of lives lost remained at eight. AVomen and children were carried out of the flooded section-of Saltese, when families living, near thw Yellowstone Trail highway were forced to higher ground. The old town of St. Regis, Mont was flooded by three feet of water NEW REMEDY MAY LICK PERSISTENT HEAD COLDS MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 22 The persistent head cold, a common ailment which long has baffled physicians, may at last have met its match.

A new treatment, which has proved effective in from 74 to 78 per cent of the cases in 'which it was tried, was announced today by the Journal of the American Medical Association and Dr, Harold S. Dlehl of the University of Minnesota, its creator. Evolved in efforts to cut down loss of. time among students at versity of Minnesota who suffered from colds and used for a year in treatment of more than a thousand, the remedy, Dr- Dlehl -brought' letinile improvement" In more than three quarters of the cases. The drug is a combination of codeine and papaverine, two "practically harmless opium derivatives n-uc) has established a record, physicians said, matched by no other cold treatment.

"In rating the results in our experiment," the creator of the treatment said, 'definite improvement' means complete, relief or. distinct improvement: 'of symploniST within a day or two after beginning medication." seems quite definite," he con- tonued, "from the results of this study that opium and' the major alkaloids derived from it are of distinct value in treatment of acute coryza (the medical name for colds). The cljief result observed is a marked decrease or complete disappearance of nasal congestion- and discharge. "Tills effect occurs promptly and Is. usually prolonged or permanent, licst or.

sweating is not a factor, although It. is reasonable to suppose that secondary infections are less likely to develop if general hygenie measures Are followed." LIQUOR TRUCK CATCHES FIRE; OHIO AN BURNED NEW LEBANON, N. Dec. 22 (JP) An unidentified man was killed and Jacob W. Rosenstein of Cleveland, was seriously injured today when a truck loaded with liquor aught fire and plunged down a 50- foot embankment on Lebanon mountain.

At first it was believed the dead man was Sidney Elfman, 33, of Reere, Mass-, when papers bearing his name were found on the body. However, Revere police found Elfman safe at.home. He told police that a suit of his clothes had been stolen from his recently. Rosenstein was on the danger list St. Luke's Hospital in Pittsfioid, tonight.

The truck apparent- caught fire near the top of the steep grade and the driver evidently ost control. The big machine oared down the mountain constant- increasing speed, with fire pouring out from front and back, while the men in the cab could be heard screaming with fright. Finally the truck shot off the roa3, plunged over an cmhbankmont and crashed into a tree. CAN.PAY TAXES BY INSTALLMENT Will Start Tuesday And Erie- co Is First. Treasurer Jay Hennessy Friday received his records for collection of taxes by installments.

Collections by installments cannot be accepted by the office until the day after Christmas, Dec 26. Due to preparation of tax bills no part payments can be made before next Tuesday and then anyone may pay. Under this rule, adopted by the treasurer by consent of the count commission, Erie-co will be the first to set up instalment paying of taxes- Any amount of five dollars or over may be paid on current or future taxes by notifying the treasurer that such an account is to be opened. Then an open ledger will be started. Payments may be made at any time, but those made later than the last day of the tax period will bear the 10 per cent penalty.

Those who have not received tax bills may deposit money for payment of taxes, when billed, and will get a receipt. Penalties are not abated and the unpaid portion of any tax bill will pay penalty and tax collection periods will be shortened definitely. as, the St. Regis River went out of its banks. Areas Isolated The Coeur D'Alene mining region was cut off from all normal communication with the outside as the north Idaho panhandle suffered from floods and landslides.

George Richardson, district manger for the AVashington Water Power Company at AVallace, described the desolation in the city over the company's private line, which still was open at noon. Placer Creek, running through the city, spread out over the business section. All patients were removed from the Wallace general hospital to the Providence hospital, situated on higher ground. Woodland, was under water two to ten feet deep. Portland weather bureau predicted "one of the worst floods in many years" for the regions of the Wil- liametto.and lower Columbia rivers.

A Yakima tuberculosis sanitai-ium was evacuated when water lapped at its front steps. Jurist Scents Collusion In Insull Crash MEASURE IS PASSED AS EMERGENCY Both Houses Finally Con cur; Sawyer Holds Up Action. COLUMBUUS, Deo. 32 Ohio's legislature after more than two and a half weeks of wrangling tonight adopted liquor control legislation in which state monopoly tvas a salient feature and sales of hard liquor by the glass will be permitted within 15 Governor White names a commission. Governor White was ready to sign, the measure tonight, making It effective immediately under an emergency clause but the refusal of- Charles Sawyer to until the bill was in printed form: halted the bill's becoming effective until Saturday morning.

True governor will sign then. Under monopoly, the stale will sell packaged liquor through state-owned stores- Sale of hard liquor by the glass will be permitted in hotels, restaurants, clubs, dining cars and on water-craft, in areas of the state which voted for-repeal of the state prohibition amendment. Druggists Will Have For 60 days, until the state oan establish its monopoly stores, drugstores now holding Federal for the dispensing of medicinal liquor will be issued permits by the state to sell package liquor at retail. The senate and the house hung on, after disposing of the liquor control legislation, both houses, adopting a resolution to adjourn to Jan- 30. The senate killed a house-adopted measure to pay the legislators for.

services during the- extra- session. W- N. Ford, secretary of the Ohio Pharmaceutical said will begin issuing, licenses to drug stores for the packaged sale of liquor tomorrow. Will This Be Commissioned? Speculation on the makeup of the commission, two Republicans and two Democrats who will receive on Pago 10, Col. 2) BLAMES HIGH SPEED FOR WRECK OF TRAIN COLUMBUS, Dec.

22 5 Harry Evans, inspector for the state utilities commission, said today the recent wreck near Cillicothe of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad's crack flier "The Sportsman" resulted from excessive speed. The train. Evans said, was traveling 60 miles an hour on a curv-j where the speed limit was HO miles an hour. Harry Crcsham, the -engineer, was killed and three other trainmen were injured in the wreck. MOTHER BECOMES SLEUTH TO AID SON CLEVELAND, (JP) A mother's detective work may save Frank Mohan, 22, and Harold 25, from a term in the reformatory.

Mrs. Owen Mohan, Frank's mother, today told Judge Arthur H. Day how she worked day and night investigating the confectionery store robbery of which they were convicted. "I know my son and the Heinz boy are'innocent because they were at my home at the time of the robbery occurred," she said. "And-now .1 know who did commit the robbery." She gave the judge the names and addresses of the men she says are guilty, and he ordered 'police 'to arrest them.

She also furnishthe of a witness who, she says, is ready to swear that her son and Heinz were not the bandits. THOMPSON WILL -PROBATED COLUMBUS, Dec. 22 The estate of the late Dr. AV. O.

Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University was left to a son and three grandchildren. The will was filed for probate today. No value was placed on the estate. The widCw, Mrs- Estella Clark Thompson, will receive a year during her life. CHICAGO, Dec.

22 the observation that the Insull investment trusts operated in 1929 as "nothing but a glorified gambling institution," Federal Judge Evan A. Evans decided today that the $23S, 000,000 Insull Utility Investments, was' placed in receivership by collusion. The court absolved Calvin Fent- rSSs, former receiver and trustee in bankruptcy of the deflated investment balloon, of any part in the collusion and said there was no suclr intrigue in the appointment of the" receiver's attorneys. But Judge Evans refused both Fentress and two law firms any further fees for their'work, deciding they had been amply remunerated already, Samuel Insull, and the banks which gathered up most of the assets of the Investment company as security on vast loans obtained in the effort to stave off collapse, picked the two receivers for Insull Utility Investments, the court said. The court had severely critical words to say about the financial architecture of the Insull era, finJlng liyie justification for its pyramils and branding the Cyrus Eaton Interests pf Cleveland as "pirates." Japanese Vessel Sinks; Crew Saved DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Dec.

22 (JP) reporting tho-sinking of the Japanese ship Sfeiyct' Maru No. 12 and the rescue of her crew near Hakodate, Japan, were intercepted by the naval radio station here today. The messages said the American ship Iowa rammed the port side of the Helyci. about a. the Japanese vessel sank.

The Iowa reported it had rescued the Japanese crew and was proceeding to date. COLUMBUS, Dec. 22 (JP) going to be a right royal Christmas for 240,000 CWA workers in the state Major E. O. Braught said today that $3,500,000 in pay checks will be distributed to the workers Saturday.

LEGION LEADER TO SPEAK HERE Stjate Commander M'Caw Will Be Banquet Guest. A telegram from Tom McCaw, state commander of the American Legiop, accepting an invitation to. speak here the night of Jan. 9, received by Commodore Denig Post Friday night McCaw will speak before the annual joint banquet of Denlg' Post- and the Auixiliary- McCaw was elec- ed during the state convention held the past summer in Lima. An invi- i tation was sent him early.

Friday. Legion officials doubted whether he would be able to speak here because of a prorior engagement but he said he would cancel his engagement that night in order to be in Sandusky. Charles A- Carroll, chairman of the Legion committee on arrangements, said McCaw gives promise of being- one of the most energetic and popn -W ar department commanders Ohio has had to date. He expressed satisfaction at securing his presence here-' Gesides McCaw, Mrs. Agnes Mer- ritt, department commander of 'the Auxiliary, will speak, and Mrs.

Anna Mae Beckley, Fifth district Auxiliary commander, will attend. The committees on arrangements expect to announce their complete program within a few days- The committee for the Legion, besides Carroll, consists of Keith Hartzell, Moyer and Willtap Clifford Jewett is chairman of the Auxiliary committee. Other i members are Mrs. Clifton- Bickley and Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert.

ERMIL BALENASCU, 'LOVE IS GIVEN PARDON CRASH KILLS OHIOAN MANSFIELD, Dec. 22 (JP) One man was killed and another injured seriously today a (ruck automobile collided east of here. The dead man Is Albert of Ashland. His Ray Lamb, 33, ajso of Ashland, is In a hospital for treatment- COLUMBUS, Dec. 22 full pardon Ermll Balen- ascu, love slayer, demanded before he would leave prison, came to him as a Christmas present toduy.

At the Mansfield reformatory, Balenascu was a bit skeptical, pending official word of the pardon, but greeted newspapermen with the statement: "Now 1 can spent Christmas with my Cleveland." Freedom was offered him two years ago, but he refused to accept a parole. his innocence of causing th9 death of his sweetheart, Dorothy Kirk, he argued that to accept 'a parole might be an admission of guilt, was 21 when admitted to prison April 1, 1SI27. He had been a pre-niedieal student in AVestern Reserve University. Supporting himself by working In a drug when his romance with Dorothy 'came to a tragic end. Today, he said: "I'd like to be able to thank the governor personally, and 1 hope to do so, "When I get home I'd like to continue my medical studies at Western Reserve University if the family's finances will Balenascu's father, Charles, a sister, Georgette, 16, a brother, Theodore, 19, live in Cleveland.

A jury found him guilty of manslaughter, accepting the state's contention that poison in aphrodisiacs given the girl had killed her. The trial attracted nutlon-wide attention. Not -once did the youth waver in his contention that he; was not g.uIltY| before or after conviction, had a remarkable record as a model prisoner, becoming interested in tContiiuied on Page 10, Col. 3) U.S. TAX DRIVE IS MEETING SUCCESS AVASHINGTON, Dec.

22 (JP) Treasury officials disclosed today a vigorous campaign to- collect back taxes which they believe already- bearing fruit'' in cash dividends to the government. Names wore not mentioned the official statement which called attention to increased income tax.pay­ ments in November and said the re- suit was "gratifying to internal enue officials who regard as, a sign" of success in forcing payments'; of taxes the government thinks due- The statement, made in announcing November internal revenue i -eoJ-T lections of $135,706,922, was in Hiie with Acting Secretary Morgentbau's recent directions to the internaVrev enue bureau to press settlement cf pending tax cases- lit "if 4-YEAR RECORD BROKEN DOVER, Dec 23 VP) The largest volume any day since 3929 kept postofflce ployes here husv today Postmaster H. Scheu said the office handled 22.9S0 outgoing cards and 1 920 parcels..