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COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE THE SANDUSKY REGISTER Sandusky Oldest Business Institution OUNDED 182 2 More Than A Century-In Your Service fMW REGISTER WANT ADS BTINO QUICK RESULTS VOL. 113. NO. 202. SANDUSKY, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935 PRICE CBNT8 DAILY CONGRESS RUSHES TO ADJOURN TODAY British Order Defense For Suez Canal STRICT ACTION IS TAKEN BY CABINET COMMITTEE Directs Guard Of Gateway By Elaborate Military, Naval And Air Force.

ONDON, Aug. 23 The defense committee of the British cabinet ordered the imperial defense machine today to swing into position to maintain the empire's dominance of the Mediterranean, protect her colonies in Africa and 4 keep open her lines of communication. It directed provision of elaborate naval, military and air defenses for the Suez Canal, an informant said. On protection and control of that gateway depends the very life of '-tine empire, it was asserted. In the of war in East Africa, the AMERICAN SHIP IS DETAINED BY JAPS FOR SPIES Naval Planes Join Search For U.

S. Vessel; Find Suspects Are Missing. TOKYO, Aug. 23 MP) authorities, alert for espionage, detained an American freighter tonight and sought two American youths said by police to have taken photographs of a fortified zone from the ship. After naval planes joined in a wide hunt for a "mysterious foreign vessel," It was detained by gendarmes at Port Tokyuama, in Yamagucbl prefecture, said Rengo (Japanese) news agency dispatches.

The ship was the S. S. Golden Mountain, out of San Francisco. Its officers and crew were said to be undergoing a rigid examination by military authorities- In Forbidden Zone Police attempted to trace two young Americans they suspected of having taken photographs of the fortified zone from the freighter and then having left the ship at Tok- yama and started for Kobe by train. Their names, which possibly were cabled in dispatches from Port Tok- yama, were given as Phillip Maas, a graduate of Stanford University, and William Felix.

The Rengo report sal dthe vessel was seen late yesterday in a forbidden fortified zone. canal would become a key point. Its closing to warships and transports of combatants is already being discussed. Such a move, one observer said, would be a mortal blow to Mussolini's East African ambitions. Concerned Over Seizure During the meeting of the Imperial defense committee the problem of Suez Canal defense was discussed at length One report had it that rave concern was expressed over the possibility the Italians might attempt to seize the canal in case of ar.

opinion was expressed in both naval and military circles that the fleet alone is incapable of holding the canal and that the army and air force have already received instructions for use in case of trouble. One of the chief worries of the British is possibility of attack by submarines and aircraft. The admiralty, officials of which have long and publicly lamented the size and condition of the British fleet, was told, an Informant said, to hasten the massing in Mediterranean waters of the strongest British naval forces ever assembled there, to establish headquarters at Malta and to be ready for any eventuality. Fleet To Convene Soon An enlarged Mediterranean fleet, already provided for before the July naval review, will be assembled Malta soon, naval observers said. There will be five last battleships of the Queen Elizabeth type and three (Continuedo Pago 10, Col.

4) WINANT HEAD OF SECURITY BOARD Republican Named By Roosevelt To Launch Program. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 John G. Winant, Republican, was chosen by President Roosevelt to day to put his huge social security program into operation. 1 To work under his chairmanship on the three-membered social insur board two Democrats were named: Arthur J.

Altmeyer of Wisconsin, second assistant secretary of labor, and Vincent Morgan Miles of Arkansas, a former Democratic tional committeeman. All three nominations went to the Senate today. But immediately the likelihood arose that little but pre liminary work will be done before mid-September. Wlnant, former New Hampshire governor, is in Europe and will re turn Sept. 11.

In his absence, the board as not expected to do more than make a study of state laws to determine which states are eligible for benefits under the act. A vast amount of preliminary work remains to be done before the board swings into active operation The Senate tonight confirmed the entire board without debate. 2 ESCAPE FROM LONDON 'FARM LONDON, Aug. 23 (JP) prisoner, wielding an iron bar, knocked a guard and trusty uncon scious, stole the officer's revolve nd fled today with another convict om the London Prison Farm. Law enforcement officers searched a wide area tonight for the con vlcts who escaped in a stolen state automobile.

The fugitives are Wal ter Mitchell, 27, and Carl Covey, 31 sentenced from Cuyahoga-co. Another First Picture: Vast Throng Gathers To Hear Rogers Eulogized GUFFEY BILL PASSED, NIGHT SESSIONS HELD Frazier-Lemke Measure To Aid Farmers Is Also Approved In Last-Minute Jam. ASHINGTON, Aug. 23 UP) tired Congress saw bitter deadlocks broken tonight as the bulk of President Roosevelt's "must" legislation moved swiftly toward enactment before tomorrow's apparently certain adjournment. As conference committees suddenly revived gold clause and alcohol control bills by "give-and-take" compromises, other major measures were whipped in a steady stream toward the White House.

Lights burned late on Capitol Hill. Rollcalls were dropped in tht rush to get through. Nerves but there also was good OLLYWOOD BOWL was massed with the thousands of persons shown above Thursday afternoon to hear Will Rogers, whose homespun humor made them laugh, eulogized by Rupert Hughes, writer, in a public service held at the same time private rites were read before 100 people in Glendale, Cal. Conrad Nagel spoke the goodbyes for the film colony. (Associated Press Photo).

Nab Girl For Sales To 'Trusties' Yachtsmen At Port Clinton PORT CLINTON, Aug. local harbor has been converted into a haven of Balling boats, cruisers and speed boats, which are arriving for the big races to be held here Sunday, under the auspices of the Port Clinton Yacht Club and the Associated Yacht Clubs, the largest water program to be hold here. It is expected that there will be several thousand visitors on the shores of Lake Erie and the Portage river to watch the races which will start from the local yacht club. The boats which are coming here have been at the regatta at Put-in Bay for the week, and are paying their annual visit to the local club before returning to their homes at Toledo, Sandusky, Monroe, ueiroit and other ports. A frolic will be held at the yacht club Saturday evening, following the registration of visitors.

MOTHER DROWNS THREE AND SELF Four Bodies In Bottom Of Monroe, Well. MONROE, Aug. 23 The bodies of Mrs. Gulma Vereecke, 45, and her three children ranging in age from five to 14, were found dead in 12 feet of water at the bottom of a 50-foot well on the Vereecke farrrj tonight. Coroner Ernest Deurell said the mother had drowned the children and herself.

The children were Donald, 14, Ralph, 6, and Patricia, 5. Coroner Durrell said he learned through questioning Henry reecke, th woman's husband that she had been ill and the family had feared she was developing an unsound mental condition. Vereeck told the coroner and sheriff Joseph Bairley that he had spent the day helping a neighbor thresh grain and discovered that the top had been removed from the well when he took his horses out to water tonight. STATE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ATTACKED Government Survey Group Strikes At Politics. COLUMBUS, Aug.

23 The Ohio Government survey struck today at what it termed "perversive political influences," vague theories," and "Prills and furbelows" In the state educational system. E. L. Bowsher, director of the department, immediately countered that the survey report would have been more valuable "had the committee foregone the opportunity ot advancing Its own philosophy of education and given a more detailed recommendation of means of better The survey commitec's report recommended a rational program of education and unit state-wide contiol and questioned the policy of state- Federal aid of school districts and the principle of home rule In ths face of this assistance. "An undue lack of proficiency in the" ordinary branches of learning' was charged.

WEATIIKR FORECAST Saturday; Sun day fair, slowly rising temper ature. outlook Is for generally fair weather Saturday Sunday. Temperature will rise slowly on Sunday in the western lower lake region. LOCAL temperature yesterday, 76; on same date last year, 77; lowest temperature yesterday, 64; on same date last year, 59; precipitation yesterday, on same date last year, humidity: 8 m. 72, noon 47; sun rises today, sun sets today, 7:17.

John N. Willys Is Seriously 111 NEW YORK, Aug. 23 John N. Willys of Toledo, automobile manufacturer and former ambassador to Poland, is critically ill at Riverdale, members of ine family said tonight. He is 61.

Although semi-paralyzed, it was said that Willys Is fully conscious. Willys was stricken early in May and.had been recuperating until recently when he suffered a relapse. TWO DIE IN CRASH CAMBRIDGE, Aug- 23 Two autos crashed head-on at the top of a hill tonight, killing two men and injuring six persons, three seriously. Trapped By Agents Garbed As Convicts Soldiers' Home Intoxication Cases Said Cleared By Arrest Of Elizabeth Ohl, 21. Pretty, 21 year-old Elizabeth Ohl made a discovery at the Soldiers' Home honor camp yesterday afternoon.

She discovered the men in convict clothing patiently swinging- scythes and hoeing corn were State liquor agents. As a consequence she was in the county jail last night charged with selling liquor to Mansfield Reformatory trusties and trespassing on state- property. Sheriff V. J. Moore, who worked with the liquor agents, said more than a dozen trusties had been sent back to the Reformatory in the past month for intoxication.

The source of the liquor was a mystery. Yesterday morning three of State Agent Dick Henning's ace raiders Son Of Official Slays Himself HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23 by failing health, Robert V. H. Work, son of former Secretary of the interior Dr- Hubert Work, committed suicide today, officers said, by firing a pistol bullet into his head.

The note addressed to hs wife. Lucie, whom he married last November, said "I cannot drag you through any mire of unhappiness." The-body was found by a maid in the hotel where he registered last night. MEAT STRIKERS ARE RESTRAINED DETROIT, AMg. 23 Judge Thomas J. Murphy signed an order today restraining Mrs.

Mary Zuk and other housewives conducting a meat buyers' strike from molesting or threatening customers at two meat markets here. The injunction does not restrain peaceful picketing, but prohibits obstructing doorways or sidewalks. donned convict garb, seized hoes and scythes and proceeded to patiently hoe corn and cut weeds at the Osborn farm. yesterday morning a girl in boy's clothing hopped the fence and offered to sell them a drink of home brew, Henning said. The offer was accepted.

Yesterday afternoon. Henning re ported to Moore, she came back again, this time with some "real She noticed one of the men hadn't cut many weeds and remarked on it The man said his "scythe was Late yesterday afternoon Sheriff Moore, Deputy Sheriff Henry Bates and Henning went to the house on the Lowor Huron-rd where she has been staying and arrested her. "I wish I could put a slug in you or feed you arsenic," Moore said she (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) RECALLED FROM ETHIOPIA LONDON, Aug. 23 An ex change telegraph agency dispatch from Djibouti, French Somallland, said tonight Swedish and Belgian officers who have been acting as in structors in the Ethiopian army received orders from their govern monts to resign and return home.

BRIDGE PLAYERS AT CEDAR POINT Mid-Western Tourney Continues Through Sunday. Local bridge players are expected to attend the sessions today and Sunday at Cedar Point of the fourth annual Mid-Western Contract Bridge Tournament which opened last night at Hotel Breakers and continues through to Sunday night. Many prominent bridge experts are at the resort for the games, including Al Morehead of Now York, who was formerly on Eli Culbertson's staff and went to Eng land in the interest of the game. Others already on hand are R. It, Richards of Detroit, founder of the American Bridge League and first president the organization; L.

C. Urquart, Ithaca, N. a protege of Al Sims, and a member of the faculty of Cornell University; Charlon Wallace, bridge editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star, and R. E. Needham, of Greenville, sec retary of the American Bridge League.

Defendin.tr champions for play at the resort are Maurice Maschke and G. W. Parratt, both of Cleveland. There will be two championship (Continued on Pago 10, Col. 6) humor, The Senate sidetracked the House-approved $500,000,000 flood control bill at midnight after a filibuster against it by Senator Tydings (D-Md).

Thus one possible threat to adjournment plans was removed. Even before nightfall Congressional iction was completed on three measures and they were sent to the President: The Guffey coal stabilization bill; the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium; the rail pension tax measure to provide funds for a previously enacted pension system. Agree On Utility Bill Utility bill conferees late tonight finally agreed on the final draft of that hotly-contested action forecast by House acceptance yesterday of a compromise for the mandatory holding company dissolution clause. It goes to both houses tomorrow. The gold clause compromise would provide that suits resulting from dol lar devaluation could be brought only up to Jan.

1, ia36, a four-month period instead of the six months sought by tht House. Alcohol control bill differences would be settled by House agree ment to continuation of the ban against bulk sales of liquor, with the Senate agreeing that the new FACA would be under the Treasury Department instead of an independent agency. Both compromises now must be (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) Bank Measure Signed By FDR WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (IP) powerful centralized control over the life-blood of business-banking credit made law by President Roosevelt.

His signature put the "banking act of 1935" on the statute books after months of Congressional wrangling over its sweeping changes in the Federal Reserve system. They put vast unprecedented authority over the ebb and flow of credit In a revamped Federal Reserve Board and open market committee. To the President, the bulky financial measure contained more "ten dollar words" than any bill he had ever signed. HEARS HOLLAND HAS RECORD OF MANY ARRESTS Moore Gets Information On Man Held At Jail In Default Of Fine. Jack Holland, being held here in default of a fine of $1,000 and costs for transporting passengers without a utilities commission license, has a record of arrests and convictions going back to 1918, Sheriff V.

J. Moore revealed last night- Holland, arrestea lollowing an accident in which Fred Brown, Hayes- avv, was fatally injured, was first arrested for auto theft In Joplin, in 1918, a transcript of his record received from the Department of Justice shows. Subsequently he was arrested in Rawlins, Wyoming, and sentenced from 12 to 18 months for a fraudulent chock. He has also been arrested in Salt Lake City for fictitious checks. Ogden, Utah, for grand larceny, Salt Lake City for auto theft.

Salt Lake City for obtaining property under false pretense, Farmlnghton, Utah, for issuing checks with Insufficient funds, Salt Lake City for issuing fraudulent checks. Provo, Utah, for obtaining property by false pretense, and Twin Falls, Idaho, for embezzlement. In addition to the sentence against him here, he may be subject to manslaughter charges growing out: 'Of tho fatal accident near Huron. Holland is still attempting to raise the fine and costs assessed against him here. WEATHER WILL CONTINUE COOL Continued cool weather until at least Sunday was tho expectation last night of Weatherman C.

C. Cooper. Cooper, looking over his official figures which showed the highest temperature yesterday was 76 and the lowest in the 24 hours ending at 8 p. m. 64, there was no prediction of any rain and that the current preview of current fall weather might not end even Sunday.

DAVEY TO SUMMON LAWMAKERS TWICE -Slants On Oddities- DETECTIVES SNIFF TO CATCH A WHIFF OF THE LACONIC WHO STOLE THE TONIC -Detectives were sniffing at $25 A MONTH TO ADULTS VOTED CALGARY, Aug. 23 (JP) benevolent government that promises "credit dividends" of at least $25 a month to all adult citizens of Alberta province emerged tonight from an avalanche of votes in legislative elections. Late returns from yesterday's balloting showed 59 candidates of the Social Credit League, advocating the elected or leading in the race for 63 seats, rne four other seats appafently distributed among the liberals, conservatives and united farmers of Alberta. ANSAS CITY, Aug. 23 UP)heads today.

Phil Cardarella, a barber, reported that a burglar entered his shop last night, stealing the cash register and $85 worth of hair tonic. I vierchant here and at Mound City, He ivas not related to the martyred President. Saddles A Suit ANSAS CITY, Aug. 23 In the collision of horse and motor car, tho motorist, Mrs. Blanche Mossie of Sugar Creek, said she got the worst of It.

Today she filed suit in circuit court against the horse's owner, E. A. Creek, seeking $10,150. The horse, she said, was on the wrong side of the road. How About Schade? LANCASTER, Aug.

23 to run for mayor? The Independent Taxpayers Don't Razor ALLAS, Aug. 23 The Dallas Negro chamber of commerce backed an "anti-razors" campaign today. President A. Macee Smith conferred with tho mayor, district attorney and police chief and announced they promised to deal more severely with Negroes carrying and wielding razors and knives. Numerous recent alteractions, some ending fatally, prompted the drive.

April Fool PLEASANTON, Aug. 23 Lincoln died today. Seventy-jeveri years old, he was for SO years well known League, seeking a candidate to carry its colors, advertised in the Daily Eagle. Its secretary, A. E.

CM, wouldn't say today whether there had been any takers. HICAGO. Aug. refreshment stand situated near the polar bear pens in the zoological gardens of suburban Brooki'ield does not supply ice It does have popcorn. And it does a rushing business.

The reason is simple. The polar bears have perfected their begging to a high degree. They do not care for Ice cream but they go for popcorn in a big way. Yessiree! Marie! With the appearance of diverse campaign posters In strategical downtown store windows yesterday Jor the cause of Marie, the tiniest quintuplet, Jack Doyle's betting odds on her rose to 2-1. The other candidates were quoted down as far as 100 to 1, which was Annette.

a(cr afc He Won't Drink ADIZ, Aug. 23 Protesting against imprisonment on a liquor ohurge, John Cintak, 6S, completed his ISth day of hunger strike tonight. Cintak Iris had only water, a pint and a halt of sweet milk and a quart of buttermilk since he began his fast Aug. 6. He says he will not eat until released.

Cintak, a resident of Belmontco, drank the sweet milk on the seventh day of his fast, Deputy sheriffs said, when the jail physician threatened to feed him through a tube. Last Wednesday he called for buttermilk. Announces Sessions In September And In November. COLUMBUS, Aug. 23 (JP) special session of the legislature will be held in September and in November, Gov.

Davey announced today. The first will be called to work out a plan whereby the state can get $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 from the Federal government to construct new buildings and make necessary repairs at state welfare institutions. Other problems include revision of the general budget to shift funds to cover items vetoed by the executive and to consider means of financing old age pensions. The second session, probably immediately after the November election, will deal with the problem of raising additional revenues to finance the old ago pensions system permanently and the school foundation program. It has been variously estimated that the assembly will bo called on to raise between and $50,000,000.

SUNDAY IS A GOOD WANT AD DAY Sunday's Want Ad section of Sandusky Newspapers Inc. always carries nn nxcenlimiui ly large irray of offers and consequently commands an exceptionally large and interested audience. Try a Want Ad Sunday in Brie County's only Sunday paper. MCNALL IS NOW FIELD ENGINEER Kelly Outlines Part FERA And WPA Will Have. C.

A. McNall, formerl works manager for the Federal Emergency Relief Is now field, engineer and In charge of Works Progress Administration work in Erie-co and William Heim is assisting him, Relief Director J. L. Kelly revealed yesterday Kelly, in a letter to officials of all political subdivisions yesterday, afternoon, outlined ihe parts tha FERA and WPA will play In tha new relief program. "The closest cooperation between FERA and WPA is necessary to both departments and so far as tha Erie-co FERA office is concerned, this cooperation will be contsant and complete," Kelly said.

Kelly said both the WPA and FERA feel local community interests in the WPA should be ac- tlveley demonstrated In the securing of worthwhile projects and in the efficient prosecution of the work after the project is started." While the FERA office has no direct connection with the works program, it will be glad to be of as much assistance as possible, to city and county officials, Kelly stated. Sheriff Seeks Driver Of Auto A motorist whom Mlsa Alice Cannett, of Cleveland, said collided wtih her auto near Ohlemacher 's curve east of Hye Beach, was being sought by Sheriff V. J. Moore last night. Miss fannetl said that as she was driving just east of the curve another car ran into her car and badly damaged the machine.

Tha other car pulled up, stopped and then went on before could learn his name, Miss Cannett reported. None was Injured, Deputy Sheriff George Selbel reported. EX-OFFICIAL DIES CLEVELAND, Aug. 23 Ham A- Greenlund, 62, former lieutenant governor and state ator, died last midnight an illness of several.