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WEATHER Cloudy and colder; probably rain in east, and south portions tonight and Wednesdav EAST LIVERPOOL REVIEW Complete News Coverage of WellsviUe, Midland, Chester and Neweli HOME EDITION VOL NO. 25. The Amiocinted Preaa Internntional Service The Inlted EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, nKCEMHER 5. 1033. TWELVE PAGES TWO CENTS NATIONAL DRY LAW OHIO USE URGED TO WISDOM IN LIQUOR LAW Governor White Opens State Repeal Convention.

52 DELEGATES Buckeye State Moves To Ratify 21 St Amendment. REPEAL SHIFTS SCENES AS CURTAIN FALLS ON 13-YEAR EXPERIMENT B.r The 0., Dec. national prohibition repeal convention today, Gov. George VV hite told the 52 delegates the of the liquor problem still remains to be and declared the wisdom or unwisdom with wliicli the problem Is met will en- Ackerinan Hesigns as Ohio Repeal Delegate By The AMoriated Press. COLCMnUS.

Dec. 5 State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman, (R) of Cleveland, author of the Ohio 3.2 beer law, today formally resigned as a member of the Ohio convention to ratU fy repeal of the 18th amendment. He said illness prevented his attendance and he wished to resign to make way for election of a successor. resignation increases to three the number of vacancies in the list of 52 delegates elected at the Nov.

7 election. 'R-OW I fSi Dr. F. Scott McBride While most of the United States is celebrating repeal of the prohibition amendment. Dr.

F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon league superintendent. who was born at Scroggsfield, near Salineville, Is leading drys in new battle for national prohibition. PENNSYLVANIA ACTS; OHIO AND UTAH RE AU Salt Lake City to Defer Ratification Until 9:30. DRY ZONES SAFE North, South Carolina Only States To Reject.

Prohibition ends, and Americans a backward glance at the to the new era. Their hope Is that removal of the constitutional ban on liquor will promote temperance, decrease lessness and add new revenues. In brief, that was the argument of the repealists, as they pointed to the bootlegger, the epcakcasy, the tax- evading liquor gangster and the a part of the dry picture. William T. Phillipa Jr.

Making formal proclamation of repeal of 18th amendmeut by Under-secretary William T. Phillips of state department, who Is acting eecretary of state due to absence of Secretary Hull, marks end of 13 years, 10 months and 19 days of prohthitiou. Bv AMoelaUd HARRISBURG, Doc. once famed for the liquors it made, quietly ratified repeal of prohibition at 12:50 p. m.

today. Fifteen delegates, three of them women, elected November 7, stood In the brilliant hall SALE BY GLASS PRICE OF GOLD STILL AT County Legislator Off to Assembly Session. tail far-reaching consequences upon the of the state. In seudiag you as delegates to this the governor said, people of Ohio have con- iened upon you a signal honor. To few among the millions ot American citizens has it been given to frame or to alter the fundamental document of our federal government.

Enshrined Like Ark of Covenant document is enshrined, like the aik of the covenant, In the hearts of our people, and none with impunity may stretch forth an impious hand to touch it. Like the chosen ministers of old, you may take it into your hands. Like them, you will do it with a full sense of your -qsponsi- The governor explained that the delegates were chosen by the people to voice their will only upon the issue of the 18th amendment. The problem ot solving the liquor problem, he said, will be returned to the states. Solution Remains to Effected.

that solution niay be in Ohio concerns you, officially, not at all You are concerned only with the question whether the method ot control, embodied in the 18th amend.nent, shall be continued or abolished. if and when, that method shall be abolished, and you as citizens, shall take your places once again in the ranks of your communities, the effect of the state to cope with his important responsibility should elicit your earnest conslderr wisdom or unwisdom with which the problem is met wrlll entail far-reaching consequences upon the people of this commonwealth. The solution of the liquor problem still remains to be effect- Meets Wednesdey Immediately after the governor's address, Ohio, through the ratification convention, prepared to join and Utah under a mandate of the ratify the 21st amendment repealing the 18tii These three states were the last of the 36th needed to erase prohibition as the baste law of the land. Tomorrow the legislature convenes in special session to pass control laws. convention was scheduled to meet at noon, an hour ahead of the Ohio session.

Thus, barring unexpected complications Ohio would be the 35th state tc pass formally on the proposal to revive the legal sale of But repeal of the I8th amendment will not mean the end of hibiticn in the Buckeye While the 18th amendment will be dead, the prohibition amendment will remain in force until next Thursday. Even hard liquor will be The sale of liquor by the glass in hotels, restaurants and clubs, recommended by Governor George advisory committee. Is favored by State Representative Mrs. Ila Marshall Cronin of EaM who today lor Columbus to attend the special session of the legislature which will open Wednesday to enact a liquor control law. feel that it w'ould be a better plan to permit a man to purchase a glass of whisky rather than to force him to buy a and drink it on the said Mrs.

Cronin. As to state monopoly of liquor, Mrs. Cronin said she was undecided. She declined to express an opinion on the plan until she heard arguments pro and con on the floor of the house. The Columbiana county woman legislator will on the repeal convention which will open in Columbus this afternoon.

RFC Quotations for Newly-mined Product Remains Unchanged For Fourth Successivs Day. PROBE OF FOX OEATH ASKED Sait to Block Repeal Rroclamation Fails By The Aieociated PrMS. WAiSHINGTOX, Dec. the fourth successive day government kept its gold price at 134.01 an ounce. This quotation for the newly mined domestic metal was set last Friday and represented a new high.

Just previously the RFC price had been lifted 25 cents. The London price on the basis of sterling opening at to the pound was an ounce for bar gold. 500 BIRDS IN POULTRY SHOW Chicken Exhibit Opens in Standard Pottery MILITARY RITES FOR PHYSICIAN American Legion Will Assist In Fu neral For Dr. Frank Harriaon Wednesday Morning. A military funeral will be given the late Dr.

Frank R. Harrison, physician and surgeon here for 32 years, who died at his home in West Fifth street, Sunday, by East Liverpool Post No. 4, The American Legion, of which he was member. Services will be held in the St. Aloysius Catholic church Wedues day at 9 a.

m. in charge of Rev. Father Thomas E. Walsh. Burial will be made in St.

Aloysius cemetery. A firing squad will fire three volleys over Dr. grave. Ritualistic ceremonies were con ducted by the veterans at the Har rison home Monday night. Services will be held by members ot East Liverpool lodge No.

258, B. P. 0. Elks tonight at 8 and by Carroll Council No. 509, Knights of Colum bus at 9.

OIL PAINTINGS Hancock Zone Coroner Urges Grand Jury Inquiry. WASHINGTON, Dec. effort to prevent Issuance of the proclamation announcing ratification of the prohibition repeal amendment was rejected today by Justice F. Dickinson Letts of the District of Columbia supreme court. Approximately 500 birds have been entered in the 11th annual five-day show, sponsored by the Tri-State Poultry association, which opened today in the former Standard Pottery building In Broadway.

In conjunction with the exhibit is the winter meet of the Ohio valley Bantam club and the state meeting of the Buff Plymouth Rock club. The Judging of all fowls will be started Wednesday morning and completed Thursday afternoon, by E. S. Porter of Atwarter, secretary of the National Buff Rock club, and J. J.

Bedel of Mlllvale, a licensed American Poultry association judge and secretary of the National Buff Leghorn club. In addition to the Tri-State association, many prizes will be awarded winners by East Liverpool merchants and business men, to whom the organization extended appreciation for making the exhibit possible. A feature of thi.s program will be a banquet In the Mary Patterson memorial in East Fourth street, Thursday at 7 p. when a general discussion and addresses on poultry will be given. The exhibit In the Broadway building will be open each day from 10 a.

m. to 10 p. closing Saturday night. Admission is free, officials announced. Investigation by grand jury Into the death of Edwin Fox, 80, who! disappeared from his home on the Allen (Fat) farm in the Carson oil field last Feb.

4, was recommended and the Identity of the skeleton, found 1 a aaax: the home last Saturday wae definitely established by a coroner's jury In the Inquest at New Cumberland Monday afternoon. The verdict, announced by Coroner Dr. T. E. Cato, was "cause of death Is unknown to this jury, but investigation by grand Jury into circumstances surrounding the death is The grand jury meets at New Cumberland Jan.

8, 1934. Sheriff J. Alfred Tope today said he would ask Columbiana county authorities to hold Allen (Fat) McDonald at Lisbon when he com pletes a term he Is serving in the county jail there on a bootlegging charge. Definite identification of the body was made through bits of clothing by Chief of Police Floyd Lyons, Mrs. Lela Kinsey and Mrs.

Eunice Kirkwood, all of Chester. The skeleton was found by John Wasson of Welrton, a rabbit hunter, who also testified at the inquest. Dr. Cato said an examination of the skeleton revealed no sign of a skull fracture or other evidence of violence. The body will be held at the Bradley Funeral home In New Cumberland until the arrival of nephew', Fred L.

Fox of Wal lace, Idaho. ZONE MASONS WILL INSTALL DAMAGE AWARDS HELD EXCESSIVE Lones Threatens News Trials In Two Actions Against Pennsylvania Railroad. ON EXHIBITION G. O. P.

PAMPHLET HITS DEMOCRATS Mrs. Florence Mountford Simpson, Pupils Arrange C. of C. Display At Carnegie Library. POTTERS OPEN WAGE PARLEY Conferees Meet in lenden Hotel In Cleveland.

Six Groups to Participate in Dec. 3 Ceremonial. (Continued On Page 5) Temperatures East Liverpool Weather Report. Monday, noon Monday, 6 p. m.

Midnight Today. 6 a. m. Tmiay, noon Maximum Minimum -------Precipitation 49 49 An exhibit of oil and color paintings will be opened to the public on the second floor of the Carnegie library, East Fourth street and Broadway, tonight by Mrs. Florence Mountford Simpson, local art teacher, and her pupils, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce.

The exhibit will be continued throughout December. One hundred and slxty-flve paintings are Included in the group. On display will be many original views of the Ohio river, Fredeiicktown, Cooks Ferry and Midland, as well as paintings of Thousand Islands, Canada, etill life and pen and ink block Republican Pamphlet Roosevelt Administration With Trying to Create Dictatorship. W'ASHINGTON, Dec. 6 Con tending the Roosevelt administration is attempting to create a in time of peace," the Republican national committee In its second pamphlet in a month today said the President and his cohorts are replying to crit Ics within their own party with nothing but is the of 1932 Rooseveltian oratory who com plains that he still is in that sate said.

Six Rum-runners Off New England Coast NOTICE ELKS Mt-et at club at 7:30 toniirht to attend funeral for Bro. Frank li. Harrison. By order of Exalted The AaMciated PrcM. Dec.

rum-runners anxious to make a landing before repeal became official were sighted on off the south ern New England coast during the early morning. guardsmen reported that the evidently were seeking BMoe to get rkl of their illicit before thie ef- ternooB. DRIVER FREED IN AUTO DEATH LISBON, Dec. 5. Verdicts awarded administrators of the estates of Cecil Wines and George A.

Farley, ot East Liverpool, killed when their automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train In 1928, were declared by Judge W. F. Lones in hearing the appeals of the railroad company for now trials. both plaintiffs will agree to a reformation of the verdicts to each, a motion for a new trial will be granted in both Judge Lones ruled. George Wines, administrator of the Cecil Wines estate, filed suit for $25,600 damages and the jury at the first trial on April 28, 1929, disagreed.

At the second trial on June 9, last, Wines wae awarded a verdict of $11,835. A verdict for the railroad resulted In the first trial of Nelson Hayes Farley, administrator for George A. Farley, on March 25. 1929. Farley sued for $25,000 damages.

A new trial was granted Farley on error, and on Oct. 20, 1932, a jurj' awarded him $7,500 damages. Officers for 1934 will be installed by six Masonic loiiges of the local district by G-rand Master S. H. Squire of Elyria at a joint ceremonial in the Masonic temple in Broadway on Wednesday, Deo.

13, at 30 p. ni. The lodges participating in the affair Include Riddle No. 315 and East Liverpool No. 681 of East Liverpool; New Lisbon No.

65 of Lisbon; Wellsville No. 180 of viUe; Salineville No. 348 of Sallne- vllle; Jenkins No. 471 of Irondale and Negley No. 565 of Negley, John Golden of East Liverpool is chairman and Fred Eckfleld of Wellsville hi secretary of the in stallation committee.

The installation will be preceded by a dinner to be served in the banquet hall of the temple by mem bers of the Beauceant, auxiliary of the Knights Templar. About 300 members are expected to attend the dinner for which reservations must he made not later than Saturday night. A capacity crowd is expect ed at the initiation. Grand Master Squire will be sisted by District Lecturer Guy Jacobs of Steubenville. Other prominent members of the lodge who will attend include Past Grand Master Frank B.

Thomas and Past District Lecturer Frank Justice of Youngstown and Past Emmlnent Commander of the Commandery Frank Murphy of Steubenville. John W. Golden, retiring wor shipful master of Riddle lodge, will preside at the ceremonies at the opening of the lodge. Other retiring masters will occupy the senior and Junior warden and other lodge offices. DEATH MAY BE PROBED! Government Man Lfift Medieinat Liquor Ban Br TI AuMcialMl WASHINGTON, Dec.

5. County Coroner Recommendt Grand Jury Investigation into East Rochester Tragedy. TThe government is considering al The Joint wage conference between representatives of the United States association and the National Brotlierbood of Operative Potters to consider a 25 per cent increase in wages, asked by the latter organization, opened today at 2 p. m. in the Hollenden hotel at Cleveland.

The manufacturers were represented by the labor of which Joseph M. Wells, of the Homer Laughlln China company, is ciiairman, while the executive board, headed by President J. M. Duffy, and conferees elected by the subordinate unions, appeared for the operatives. A pre-conference session of the brotherhood delegation was held at 9 a.

m. today. The labor committee outlined its position at a meeting in the club last week. The operatives. In asking for a re-opening of the scale, strisrsed Increased living costs and reduction In wages because of the 40-hour work week provided in the chinaware and porcelain code which becomes effective in all general ware plants on Thursday.

luvestigatiou by the grand Jury into the death of Mrs. Margaret Sanor, 78, who was found dead in yard of her home at West township, near East Rochester, last Tuesday by her husband, was recommended today by County Coroner R. Sturgis of Wellsville. Sturgis announced a verdict of by a blow on the head," In connection with Mrs. death.

The coroner was assisted In his Investigation by County Prosecutor George Lafferty and Sheriff Frank Balia utiae. A plan to release all medicinal liquor stocks for beverage purposes Immediately after proclamation of repeal tonight. W'hlle President Roosevelt and acting Secretary PhlUlpa at the state department await- ted the repeal convention In Utah to proclaim the passing out of the 18th amendment, serious consideration wae given to assuring an adequate supply for the 20 or so states that either will allow liquor Immediately or eoon. MRS. COPELAND, MILLPORT, DIES Mother of United States Weather Observer Today- Funeral Thursday Morning.

THREE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Clifford McQahan of Hollidays Cove Acquitted of Manslaughter In Wellsburg Court. Clifford McGahan of Hollidays Cove was acquitted of a manslaughter charge in the circuit court at W'elsburg, W'. W'edneeday afternoon in the death of William McCormick in an automobile accident last 9. He was represented by S. R.

Minalch, yonng attorney appointed by tbs ooart. PERU OPPOSES gold standard Government Reeolution Urgee Formation of Inter-American Bank to Stabilize Bueineee. MONTEVIDEO. URUGUAY, Dec. prepared resolutions today proposing to the Pan- American congress the formation crying the factor of perturbatitm.

Weirton Party Figures In Accident Near Wellevllle When Driver Falls Asleep. Three peiHons were injured, none seriously, In an automobile crash on the Lisbon hill, near today at 2 a. m. Mrs. Helen Clark, 88, is in the City hospital suffering from cuts and bruises to her body and shock, while Harry Clark, her husband, received facial lacerations but refused medical aid.

Roy Martin, 34, driver of the car, was also cut and bruised. The accident occurred when Martin fell asleep and the automobile crashed into a telephone pole, he told police. Mrs. Clark was treated by Dr, C. J.

Maxwell In Wellsville, and then removed to the hospital. Mrs. Tamar G. Copeland, 85, widow of George E. Copeland and mother of United States W'eather Observer L.

H. Copeland, died today at her home in Millport. Mrs. Copeland was born on Jan 1, 1848, In township, a daughter of Samuel and Sara McCurdy, pioneer Columbiana county resldent.s. She was the last survivor of a family of 10 children.

Since her marriage to George Copeland on Nov. 13, 1873, she had resided in Millport. Her husband died on Jan, 30, 1930. Mrs. Copeland was the last sur vlvlng charter member of Pleasant Valley grange and was a member of the Bethesda Presbyterian church.

She leaves one son, L. Copeland of Millport: and two grandchildren. Eileen Copeland, a student at Lisbon high echool, and Edwin Copeland. services will be held Thursday at 11 a. m.

In the Bethesda church in charge of the pastor. Rev. O. S. Whitacre, Burial will be made In Bethesda cemetery.

NOP TONIGHT Flight To South America at 7 P. M. Bf AsMciaUd Praw. BATHURST. Gambia, Colonel and Mrs, Charles A.

Lindbergh planned to take off at mld- nlght (7 p. m. in East Llvorpool) on a projected flight to South America, 1,900 miles away. Col. Lindbergh chose that time for his departure because at that hour the winds are most favorable for a getaway.

A freshening breeze sprang up during the morning, giving promise that the flight, which has been delayed by a calm since Thursday, might proceed. J. H. WIREBAUGH IS MILL VICTIM Former Salineville Man Succumbs To injurias Sustained In Accident at McKeesport, Pa. JACOB HYATT DIES IN CRASH Admiral Flagship Reaches New Zealand By N.

Dec. Rear Admiral Richard E. Antarctic flagship arrived In the harbor late tonight. Members of tbs Columbiana Coun- Club ihaet ionlgbt at 7:30, In tbe club's headouarters, to Brother of Mrs. J.

8. Blackburn of Buckeye Avenue, Wellsville, Killed at Muncis, Ind. Funeral services will he held Wednesday at 2 p. m. In the Wei ling funeral home In Ninth street, McKeesport, for James H.

Wirebaugh, 32, former Salineville real dent, who was fatally injured in an accident Saturday while working at McKeesport Tin Plate com pany. Burial will be made in the McKeesport cemetery. Wlrebaugh lived only a few minutes after his lungs were punctured. Wirebaugh removed from Salineville about 10 years ago. His father, Nicholas Wirebaugh, died In Salineville four years ago, after spending most of his life there.

Wirebaugh leaves his widow, Mrs. Ruth Wirebaugh: two step- stons, Harry and Robert Wirebaugh, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Stout of Salineville, Miss Eva Wirebaugh of McKeesport and Mrs. Nellie Kennedy of Horning N. one brother, Delmar Wire baugh of McKeesport.

Mrs. J. 8. Blackburn of 1002 Buckeye avenue, Wellsville, was advised today of the death of her brother, Jacob H. Hyatt of Mun- cle, who was killed Monday in an automobile accident.

No details were contained in the message. The body will bt brought to WellsviUe for burial. County Gels Orders For 805 More CU .4 Workers elect lour CcHintf Relief Director E. Lowry announced today had been Instructed by Major E. BraughL state relief chief, to put .805 more men to work on CWA projects in Columbiana county, by Thursday mwning.

of the senate and cast the offb clal which made lylvania the 34th state to ot the lath amendiitent. -r- By IDWARO J. DUPPV, Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, Dec. almost 14 years and adjudged wanting, constitutional prohibition ends tonight and tha American people face a new period of experimentation on how to handle liquor.

Ouly formal ratifications by conventions in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Utah are necessary to do away with the 18th amendment. Aa it stands, Salt Lake City as the fleth be over about 7:30 p. m. mountain time, or 9:30 p. m.

in East Liverpool. Automatically the 21st amendment takes effect, terminating federal prohibition policing save to protect dry states from liquor importations, and leaving the states to deal as they see fit with strong drink and attendant difflcuUiea. 17 States Voted Repeal This reverse in national policy was dictated by a majority approaching ten million of more than twenty million votes cast since congress submitted the question last February. Thirty-nine states housing 88 per cent of the population have voted. Only by the amendment about which such dispute has swirled in later years, despite the high hopes held when all the states except Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut ratified It in Infancy.

But that today was history, something for the along with the many fabulous features ot the dry years since the war. Immediate Interest centered in those three routine albeit ceremonious convention meetings which hold promise of legal liquor this evening, if the event take place as planned; in the President's clamation that means tax relief (Continued On 6) Man and Wife Found With Throats Slashed Br AMMciaUS ADRIAN. Dec. Charles B. Sneyd 45, and his wife, Laura, 38, were found dead in their home shortly before noon today.

Their throats had been slashed with razor. Police believed Sneyd kUled his wife and then himself. The fazor was found in a washbowl In the bathroom. BTRIKE CALLED IN SPAIN. MADRID, Dec.

revolution ary general strike was declared in the city of Coria, Province of Ca lOd miles west 'of Madrid, today. The city, only 10 miles from the Portuguese froatien to in an isolated monntainoua ragion. 00119 to (Qmtmoe Come to East Liverpool To Shop Fares Refunded Every Day In December any way you railroad, street car, bus or your own fare will be refunded every shopping day In SHOP IN EAST LIVERPOOIi and SAVB5,.