Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

I I I WEATHER Cloudy, followed rain or snow tonight or Wednesday. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1938 PRICE THREE CENTS HUNDREDTH YEAR, NO. 104 WILMINGTON, OHIO, CROP CONTROL BILL READY FOR FDR'S Change In Gold Program Viewed As Business Aid MCINTYRE RITES WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY Funeral To Be Conducted At Boyhood Home In Gallipolis, Ohio NEW YORK, Feb. 15-(AP) companied by his widow, his faithful Boston bulldog, Nimble, and a few close friends, the body of O. 0.

McIntyre will leave tonight for his boyhood home of Gallipolis, 0. The columnist, who died of a heart attack early yesterday in his Park Avenue apartment, lay today In a Broadway funeral chapel, surrounded by floral tributes. No funeral services will be held in New York, the city about which he wrote for years, always with the fresh enthusiasm of a country youth. instead, the services will take place Thursday afternoon at his boyhood home. Messages of condolence and floral pieces arrived from friends and admirers in all parts of the country.

GALLIPOLIS, Feb. 15- (P) -The old cronies and adopted home town folk of Gallipolis Number citizen sadly made preparations today for the oft-promised, oftwritten of but long deferred coming of 0. 0. McIntyre to Gate wood, the "Dream Home" he never saw. The famed columnist who was once known locally as "the best trick bicyclist in Gallia County" but who went to New York to achieve fame in another field, wrote often of Gatewood in connection with his retirement but did not know that death had other plans.

Said he: "Right there is where our home comes into the picture for it is to Gatewood we shall go, and perhaps with not so many regrets as one might expect of people SO long geared to the city." Old Reliable DOLLAR-VALUE Event Next Three days of bargain festival will mark the second half of "Dollar- Value beginning Thursday start of the semi-annual Dollar Days event in Wilmington. Retail. merchants have been preparing for several weeks for the regular event, annually one of the biggest cooperative merchandising plans held here. Dollar Days bring most attractive clearance prices to the buying public, coming as they do at the end of the winter season. Now is the time to buy needs for the remainder of the winter, and next, too.

Department and ready wear advertising, devoted to Dollar Day specials will appear in the News through. out the remainder of the week. (Wilmington merchants will prove that prices are on the bottom, comparatively, right now, and that your dollar will go farther than it has in many months. Read all the ads and figure for yourself how much money you can save during this "Dollar-Value Week" event. MICHIGAN FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDING DETROIT, 15- (P) -Michigau flood waters subsided at most points today and the work of rehabilitation -started.

Mayor Don R. Westendorf, of Mt. Clemens, where 300 dwellings were surrounded by water and 100 families were driven from their homes, said the city's loss would. eceed $100.000. The Clinton river was receding there.

PHONE 2574 Before: P. M. If you and will be sent miss your, News Journal to you by special mes senger. ONE NEWS BEHIND By PAUL MALLON, (World copyright 1937 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. rights reserved.

Reproduction in full or In part strictly probibited). Not Very Subtle Stalling For Time Another Fleet Sounds Tricky WASHINGTON, Feb. 15- The not-very-subtle: disarmament proposal in the Japanese note shows the inside and outside of the world situation. The Japanese proposed abolition of capital ships in words wringing wet with tears because the same suggestion had been turned down by the United States and Britain at the London disarmament conference. The real depth of earnestness in the suggestion is evidenced by the comparative naval figures which show: Capital ships--U.

S. 15, Japan 10. Cruisers- -U. S. 27, Japan 26.

Destroyers -U. S. 35, Japan 76. Submarines--U. S.

22, Japan 41. In other words, Japan earnestly proposes disarmament--for the United States. Her plan simply Is to establish Japanese superiority by having the S. and Britain abolish expensive large ships in which they are superior. "Unfortunately," as the Japanese say, other secondary nations are similarly earnest for the same kind of disarmament for the other tellow.

1 The statesmanship of the world is incapable of working out any solution except maximum self-defense. This need not mean war but certainly means financial collapse for those least able to afford the expensive game. OUTLOOK The general idea that the administration is stalling for time hoping for an early summer business revival seems to be just a logical assumption, but not a policy. That is, those officials who are closest to the executive chair have never heard such a suggestion made, but believe things may naturally work out that way. Real reason so little is being done by the government is that most of the publicly discussed plans are not favored on high in their present form.

A very minor rabbit is due to emerge from the treasury chapeau shortly. Also the rail decision will be out before March 1. Something will be done about easing loans for small business, but there is much quarreling on the inside about the method of doing It. Nothing has developed in the housing program to warrant any great expectations for it. General inside outlook here favors a good early summer pickup, a fall dependant largely on crops, and then what the experts are beginning to call an "average" year, meaning neither good or bad.

WRONG NAME This Vinson proposal for a congressional dec-11 Jaration of naval protection policy bears the wrong name. As House Naval Chairman Vinson called at the White House few days before making his pro- (Continued on page five) UNCLE ABNER SAYS: mile. mire Ell Potts has found that th' hand that rocks th' cradle can jest as easy cradle a rolling pin. A politician is only as strong his weakest think. PAVING COST IS LESS TO CITIES, PROBERS CLAIM Industry Gets State Business Without Competitive Bidding Is Charge 10 CENTS A TON LEVY Metzenbaum Says Setup Is Clearcut Violation Of AntiTrust Laws COLUMBUS, Feb.

15- (P) Questioning Clifford W. Simpson, executive secretary of the Hot Mixed Bituntinous Paving Industry of Ohio, Attorney James Metzenbaum of the Senate InvestigatCommittee declared today, "I ing think this is an iniquitious institu: tion and a combination in restraint of trade, to mulct the people of Ohio out of millions of dollars." Inquiring into the corporate setup and purposes of the organization, Metzenbaum obtained from Simpson a statement that there was practically no competition among members for state business. The attorney brought out that the group's trustees established a system for computing cost of road projects and he contended that they levied a 10 cent a ton assessment on "hot mix" sold to the State Highway Department. Such an assessment was not laid on terial supplied to municipalities, Metzenbaum charged. can't say that's exactly right," answered Simpson, who also asserted that the Industry's methods were patterned on the old National Recovery Administration code.

He said the organization's membera sold the state 343,471 tons of "bot mix" last year. "I would say not," he responded to Metzenbaum's inquiry if the group did not constitute a "clearcut violation" of anti-trust statutes. Metzenbaum read from a bulletin to members which stated that they got state jobs at a very small cut below the highway department's estimates. FUND WOULD MEAN 50,000 MORE JOBS Ohio WPA Rolls Show Large Increase COLUMBUS, Feb. 15- (P) Dr.

Carl. Watson: Ohio, Works Progress Administrator, told heads of the state's six WPA administrative districts in a conference today that passage of an additional $250,000,000 appropriation by Congress would mean 50,000 additional jobs in Ohio. The WPA carried 129.413 persons on its rolls for 739 projects on February 9, Dr. Watson said, an increase of 7,697 workers and projects over the preceding week. CLEVELAND MEETING OF BUND TO BE CLOSED CLEVELAND, Feb.

15-(P) -G. Wilhelm Kunze, representative of the German American Bund, whose speech in Buffalo Sunday WAS marked by free-for-all battle between sympathizers, opponents and police, will address a closed meeting of the Cleveland branch of the organization tonight. The Cleveland meeting will be closed to all except members "to avoid the kind of trouble that oc-1 curred in Buffalo." NATIONAL WILD LIFE WEEK, MARCH 20-27 WASHINGTON, Feb. 15- (P)- President Roosevelt, proclaming March 20-27 as National Wild Lite Week, appealed today to all citizens to unite in working for "proper protection and preservation" of all wild life. DARLINGTON REELECTED, XENIA, Feb.

15- (A) -Charles L. Darlington, president of the Hooven and Allison Company, Xenia cordage was reelected today as the concern's annual meeting. Writer Mourned 0. 0. McIntyre mourned by city he portrayed Writing world mourns the passng of the first of the Broadway columnists, 0.

0. McIntyre He lied of a heart attack in New York. He would have been 54 Feb. 18. Central Press $250,000,000 BILL APPROVED Appropriation Committee Asks House For Huge Sum For Relief WASHINGTON, Feb.

15- P) The House Appropriations Committee asked the House today to approve. immediately a $250,000,000 emergency relief appropriation for the next four months. It suggested quick action because of the "drastic change which has taken place in private employ. ment" since last September and indications that the situation will improve immediately. The appropriation, if approved, would be used to keep as least 000,000 persons on relief rolls the next few months.

Without it. Works Progress Administration officials said, about 500,000 persons would have to be denied help and 200.000 now on the rolls would be laid off. The entire $250.000,000 would be earmarked for WPA. ADMIRAL GRAYSON CLAIMED BY DEATH Head Of Red Cross Had Been In Poor Health WASHINGTON, Feb. 15- -(P Rear Admiral Cary T.

Grayson, renowned as head of the American Red Cross and as physician-confident of three presidents, died early today, He was 59 years old. The retired naval officer had been in poor health almost from the time his close friend, President Roosevelt, persuaded him to accept one of the world's foremost humanitarian jobs in 1935. He contracted a cold during southern visit last month and developed a bronchial infection after he returned here. CABINETS OF INDIAN PROVINCES WALK OUT PATNA, India, Feb. 15 (P) Because governors vetoed their orders for the release of all political prisoners, the India congress (Nationalist) party cabinets 'of two Indian provinces resigned today, creating a fresh political crisis for India.

Bihar and the United Provinces were the two units in which the cabinets, quit, acting on instructions of congress party leaders assembled at Haripur, in Bihar. HELEN HICKS WEDS ARKANSAS AUTO, DEALER NEW YORK, Feb. 15- (P)-Society and golfing circles turned out today for the Long Island wedding of Helen Hicks, 27-year-old national golf star, and Whitney Harb, Little Rock, auto dealer. Miss Hicks won the women's Dational championship in 1931 at age of 20, and at present holds the western women's open title Here's The Prince Prince Vittorio Emmanuel heir presumptive to throne A new portrait of the infant Prince Vittorio Emmanuel, Prince of Naples and heir presumptive to the throne of Italy. The boy is the son of Crown Prince Humberto and Crown Princess Maria.

He was named after his grandfather, King Victor Emmanuel -Central Press MARINES STOP JAP INVASION Patrols Attempt To Enter U. S. Zone Of International Settlement SHANGHAI, Feb. 15-(P)-Twice today United States Marines turned back armed Japanese patrols attempting to enter the American defense zone of Shanghai's International Settlement along Bubbling Well Road. The marines also turned back A Japanese patrol yesterday at the same place, in the 'heart Settlement's residential district.

The Japanese were said to be searching Chinese civilians. In today's second incident the Japanese, eight men under. command of a noncommissioner officer, brought along a newsreel photographer, to record the scene. This caused, speculation concerning the Japanese objective in repeated efforts to send patrols into the American zone. FISH SAYS BRITISH NEED BIGGER NAVY Solon Says Possessions Justify Many Warships WASHINGTON, Feb.

15 (Pr Representative Fish (R-NY) told Congress today Great Britain "in all fairness" needs a bigger fleet than the United States. Testifying before the House Naval Committee in opposition to the proposed $800,000.000 naval expansion, the New Yorker reiterated that he would willing to see this country accord Japan naval parity. He declared Britain's far-flung possessions and dependencies, conpled with the need for keeping trade routes to them open, justifled maintenance of a huge British navy. PLANE, 10 PASSENGERS ARE BELIEVED LOST GAGLIASA, Italy, Feb. 15- (P)- Ten passengers and four members of the crew of an Italian airliner were given up for lost today after the plane had missing more than 36 hours in a Mediterranean storm.

Search by ship and plane had failed to find any trace of the transport, the Ignoro. It had, flashed a distress call Sunday. WOMAN SCORES GRAND SLAM, THEN SUCCUMBS SPOKANE, Feb. 15--(P)- A 50-year-old teacher scored grand slam in contract bridge at a Women's Club last night, then slumped dead in her seat. She was Miss Clara Brown, Spokane grade teacher for 17 years.

COLLECTIONS INCREASE COLUMBUS, Feb. 15- (P) -Atty. Gen. Herbert S. Duffy reported today that during 1937 his office collected $1,295,450 for the state, as increase of $162.231 over collections In 1936.

LEADERS SPLIT ON MERITS OF NEW MEASURE Sterilization Plan To Increase Total Bank Deposits In Country CHECK FEDERAL DEBT Metal a Will Be Used As Base For Gold Certificate Currency WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-(P) Partial abandoment of the Treasury's gold sterilization program, 1 officials said today, in effect will Increase total bank deposits and thus increase the amount of money which banks can lend to businessmen and others, Whether this helps business will depend on whether the money is lent, which is a private affair. The lendable excess reserves of the nation's banks are $1.400,000,000, compared with the $500,000,000 which the Federal Reserve Board thought a year ago was ample for business needs. Of more direct concern to the Treasury, officials explained; new policy will check the growth of the federal debt- now at the unprecedented total of 000-and reduce the Government's interest costs. Under the sterilization policy inaugurated December 24, 1936, the Treasury borrowed money to buy gold.

This was designed to keep the credit supply stable. Secretary Morgenthau nounced late yesterday that hereafter the first. $100,000,000 of gold which the Treasury acquires each three months will not be sterilized. Instead, the metal will be used 88 a base for gold certificate cur rency which the treasury will send through the Federal Reserve system. Officials linked the new policy directly on the business recession.

JAP VANGUARD NEARS RAILROAD Invaders Seek To Bottle Up China's Armies SHANGHAI, Feb. 15-(P)-The Vanguard of a Japanese army fighting its way into Central China was reported today to be only ten miles north of China's lite-line railway, the Lunghai. The advance patrol was said to be on the North bank of the Yellow river, opposite Kafeng, Lunghai railway point nearly 300 miles inland from China's Eastern coast. Japanese columns from North and Sounth have been fighting to cut the Lunghai and bottle up a Chinese army of 400,000 deployed along the Lunghai corridor which separates Japanese-conquered portions of North China and the Yangtze river valley, MOTOR COACH LINES FIGHT FOR SERVICE COLUMBUS, Feb. 15- (P) -A legal battle to determine who shall have the right to "pick the bones" of the defunct Lake Shore Electric Railrway Company, operating between Toledo and Sandusky, will occupy the State Supreme Court tomorrow.

Because a similar issue is involved, the court will consider at the same time the fight between the Lorain Motor Coach Company, and the Lorain Transit Lines, for. the right to furnish bus service between Lorain and Elyria. SCHMELING TO FIGHT IN HAMBURG, APRIL 19 BERLIN, Feb. 15 (AP) Max Schmeling's. third warm-up bout before meeting Heavyweight Champion Joe Louts for the title it the United States this summer will be with Steve Dudas at Hamburg April 19, Max Machon, Schmeling's trainer, told the Associated Press today.

FOUR FLYERS KILLED PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 15 -(P)-Four fliers were killed todaywhen' two Czechoslovakian army, planes collided and crashed during maneuvers near Milovice. RUSSIANS TO BUILD LARGEST NAVY IN WORLD Soviets Plan To Equip Shipyards For Building 000-Ton Vessels of the Associated Press) -Soviet Rus: sia has set herself the ambitious task of outstripping all other na tions in the naval armaments race. Premier Vyacheslaff Molotoff has announced a program of bigger ships for a bigger navy. Peter A.

Smirnoff, naval commissar, went even farther, saying Russia would build not only the best, but the biggest navy, Molotoff's announcement that bigger ships would be built as 8001 88 shipyards were equipped to turn them out tended to confirm reports abroad that Russia had been balked in efforts to order battleships abroad, including the United States, and was buying chinery to build her own battleships. These reports spoke of possible craft. Foreign experts agree that Soviet Russia still has far to go to match the navies of the great pow av8. Molotot! indicated the U. S.

R. was trying first to outstrip her potential enemies among the naval powers -Japan, Germany and Italy, allies in a pact against international Communism. Russia's present naval strength, like her planned strength, is A closely guarded secret. About all that has been said by Soviet authorities 1 is the statement in "Red Star," the army newspaper, that the Soviet Union has an "excellent navy, armed with most modern guns and fighting apparatus." RECOGNITION OF UNION IS DENIED "Little Steel" Repudiates Alleged Agreement PITTSBURGH, Feb. 15-- (P) Philip Murray, chairman of the SWOC, announced today shop committees of his CIO union had been "recognized" by two "little steel" Bethlehem and Great concernsLakes, a of the National Steel Corporation, A quick denial came from Ernest T.

Weir, chairman of National Steel, that any of its subsidiarles had reached "any agreement, verbal or otherwise" with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. A Bethlehem spokesman said his company "for years" had dealt with committees representing employes and the company made no exception of those belonging to unions. ESTRANGED WIFE IS SLAIN; MATE SUICIDES PATERSON, N. Feb. 15.

(AP) -A pretty young sales girl and her estranged husband were dead today from what the police described as murder and suicide. A bullet through the head, the body of Richard Furnival, 26, was found at dawn in a vacant lot near the spot where his 23-year-old wife Jeanette was slain from ambush at dusk last night, The slayer shot the young woman as she left a bus, and fired two more bullets into her as she ran wounded and screaming toward her home 150 feet away. HOLDUP MAN IS SLAIN BY STATION OPERATOR SALEM, Feb. 15 (P) 'Glenn F. Zimmerman, 24, of Salem, was killed last night, Deputy Sheriff M.

K. Duty said, in an attempt to hold 11p 8. filling station three miles West of here. Zimmerman was shot down in the station by Warren Evans, 64, the owner and operator and times a holdup victini, Senators Bulkley And Donahey, Of Ohio, Vote Against Proposition "MAKES FARMER VASSAL" Agricultural Secretary May Prescribe Limitations On All Crops WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (P) Agriculture department officials, jubilant over congressional proval of the crop control bill, arranged today to begin the new half -billion-dollar program the minute President Roosevelt signs it.

More than 15,000 persons, they said, will have a part in carrying out provisions of the measure, which the Senate passed late terday and sent to the White House. These persons include more than 3,000 employes of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the members of some 2,950 state and county committees. Two Republican senators Capof Kansas, and Frazier, of per, North Dakota, -Joined with 53 Democrats and Senator Norris (Ind-Neb) in approving the mea sure. The 31 votes cast against it came from 17 Democrats. 11 Republicans, two Farmer a and Senator La Follette Wis.

Senators Bulkley and Donahey, Ohio Democrats, voted against it. "This is the best farm bill that has ever been enacted by the Congress to deal with a great problem of American life," said Democratic Leader Barkley, of Kentucky. Republican Leader McNary, of Oregon, on the other hand, commented: "This bill does only one new thing for farmers. It puts new restrictions upon them and blankets them with compulsion. It will make every farmer a vassal of the Secretary of Agriculture." The measure, written by a Senate-House Committee from separate bills passed in December by the two chambers, establishes a system under which the agriculture retary, working with farmer committeemen, may prescribe tions on the quantity of wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco grown or marketed.

In general, It involves ment of production according to estimates of supply and demand. When supplies are deemed too high, two-thirds of the farmers voting in a referendum can impose marketing restrictions on all farmers. Penalties are provided for non-observance. NEW "DEATH ROW" CELLS. COMPLETED Quarters Now On.

Second Floor Of Chapel COLUMBUS, Feb 15 (P) Ohio Penitentiary's new "death row" of cells for condemned prisoners was completed today and Warden J. C. Woodard prepared to move into the new quarters four inmates, including blonde Anna Marie Hahn, convicted of Cincinnati poison-murder. The new quarters are located on the second floor of the fire'safe Protestant chapel. Mrs.

Hauhn's cell will be rated from those of the male oners. Markets At A Glance NEW YORK Stocks Easy; inflation stocks lose early gains. BONDS Higher; secondary rails improve. CHICAGO WHEAT--Weak; rainfall. break drouth.

CORN- -Lower; sympathy with wheat. CATTLE- Steady. HOGS-10-20 lower..