The Daily Advocate from Greenville, Ohio • 1

NEWS OF THE WORLD Press Daily Full Leased Wire Report VOL. XLIII- -NO. 147 SMITH ATTACK WILL NOT EFFECT ROOSEVELT LEADERSHIP Congress Adjourns After Passing New Budget Tax And Relief Bills ALL'S GOOD CHEER IN DEMOCRATIC HIGH COMMAND If there's any worry in the Democratic camp about the outcome of the November election, it wasn't apparent when these three "powers" of the party conferred in Philadelphia on the eve of the national convention. Right to left, with a poster of F. D.

R. above them for inspiration, are Charles Michelson, publicity man for the party; James A. Farley, chairman of the national committee; and W. Forbes Morgan, secretary of the committee. DEMOCRATS FORMING NEW CAMPAIGN CLUB Members To Be Known As "Roosevelt Nominators" Organization of a Darke county branch of a new national Democratic Campaign Club, 1 members of which will be officially known as "Roosevelt Nominators," was started in Greenville today.

Grover' Menkle is chairman of the membership committee. Memberships cost but one dollar and all dues collected are to be donated to the Democratic party's national campaign fund. The slogan of the enew club is, "I Want Roosevelt Again." It is hoped to complete all organization work during the current week as club members are to be aslies" next Saturday evening, June sembled at numerous "victory ral- 27, when President Roosevelt is scheduled to deliver his address of acceptance of re-nomination at Philadelphia. The President's talk is to go on the air at ten p. m.

from Franklin Field, where a mammoth open air rally is to climax the Democratic convention which opens at Philadelphia tomorrow! Attendance at the rally is expected to exceed 000. The 15,000 official delegates to the convention are being formally registered today. Among them is Orval (McNutt, chairman of the Darke County Democratic Executive Committee. Mr. McNutt, who left Greenville Saturday night, is representing the Fourth Ohio Congressional District at the Philadelphia meeting.

KNOLL FUNERAL HELD AT HILLGROVE TODAY Widow Dies After Long Illness; Leaves Six Brothers and Sisters Funeral services for Mrs. Rosetta Knoll, 58 years old, who died, at her Hillgrove home Saturday evening after a lingering illness, were conducted from the late residence at 2:30 p. today. The Reverend Perry, of Salamonia, was the officiating minister. Burial was made in the Snell cemetery.

The deceased, a daughter of the late Isaac Scraggs, was a Darke county native. Most of her life was spent in the Hillgrove vicinity. She leaves three brothers and sisters. ENTERS SUMMER TERM Robert Maher, who has been the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. A. Maher, here for the past two weeks, today returned to St. Gregory Seminary in Cincinnati where he has enrolled for the summer school term. THE WEATHER Mostly cloudy and probably showers tonight and Tuesday.

PRICE TWO CENTS FILIBUSTER BLOCKS GUFFEY BILL; OTHER DECISIONS DELAYED Payment of Bonus Was One of Major Issues in Long Session SOIL ACT APPROVED Deficiency-Relief Act Pros vides Mony for Future WPA Work Washington, June 22--(UP)Congress quit Washington today for the political wars a four-months campaign in which major controversies of thhe 74th Congress expected to be principle issues. Republicans said they would base their attack on the New Deal upon many of the major acts passed during the second congress of President Roosevelt's administration. crats indicated willingness to cept the challenge. The second session of the 74th congress ended early Sunday after a week of hectic activity that saw passage of the new budget tax bill and the Deficiency- bill carrying, $1,425,000,000 to continue work relief. A filibuster, lead by youthful Sen.

Rush Holt, W. in the closing hours blocked passage of the substitute Guffey Coal Act, which had administration support and which was demanded by John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers of America president. The leadership, anxious to avoid a recess for the Democratic National Convention, threw overboard the Wagner Housing Bill and numerous others which were under consideration. Many of these are expected to be carried over into the 75th congress opening Jan.

5. Relief policies, the new system of taxing corporations and much of the New Deal "Reform' program adpeared certain to be attacked by Republicans between now and November in a vigorous campaign. The $8,000,000 tax bill completed its three-months journey through (Continued on Page Three) 55 RELATIVES MOURN MILLER DEATH HERE Lung Ailment Is Fatal To Resident of Church Home Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, 82-year-old widow, died at 7:45 a. m.today at the Brethren church home in Greenville following a short illness from a lung ailment.

She was a native of Painter Creek and had spent her entire life in Darke county. Her husband, the late John H. Miller, died in May, 1933, but 55 immediate relatives survive. They include three sons Willis, of near Abbottsville; Wesley, of Michigan, and, Simon of near Arcanum; one daughter, Daisy Miller, of Greenville; 18 grandchildren; 26 greatgrandchildren; one great-greatgrandchild; a sister, Mrs. Maria Hetter, Arcanum; three -sisters and two half-brothers.

Mrs. Miller had resided at the church home here since last December. She came there from the Arcanum vicinity. Short rites are planned there at nine a. m.

Wednesday followed by funeral services at ten o'clock at the Abbottsville church. The Rev. Roy Honeyman and the Rev. Newton Binkley are to officiate. 1 Burial will be made in the church cemetery.

URBANA FACTORY IS RAZED; $12,000 LOSS Urbana, June 22-(UP) A $12,000 fire destroyed the handle and ball bat factory of the Maple Lumber Company here early Sunday. The cause of the fire had not been Firemen, who worked for four hours, saved a san: mill, planing mill, storage building, office and stacks of lumber. The saw mill burned down six years ago with $5,000 loss, KENNETH HINSHAW IS NEW WPA SUPERVISOR Union City Man Is Chosen for County Position Kenneth C. Hinshaw, of, Union City, has been named as WPA: supervisor in Randolph County, succeeding Turpen Tritt, who left for Cleveland during the past week. Tritt, also a Union City resident, has accepted a position with the McCray Refrigerator Company.

Mr. Hinshaw, whose appointment was announced Saturday by Earl Wayland, director of the Indiana WPA organization, started his new duties this morning. CROP SAVING RAINS PROMISED TONIGHT; CONDITIONS ACUTE Summer Makes Official Debut Sunday in Ohio; Rain Shortage Grows The Miami Valley area is due to receive some badly needed shower's Monday night and I Tuesday and temperatures will remain at cub-normal levels, according to official Ohio weather forecasts. Drought conditions in state have already reached the crisis stage but it is the belief of federal observers that the promised rainfall during the next 36 hours will elnminate the fear of severe losses in the majority of rural sections. A mid-June.

heat wave, which during the past week brought near record breaking temperatures to all sections of Ohio, was ended Saturday night, and by a queer twist of fate yesterday, officially the first day of summer, brought unusually cool weather. A low reading of 53 degrees was noted in this locality. Summer's official debut here occurred at 9:22 a. m. The spring season just ended was characterized by a more than normal amount of sunshine, and a deficiency in precipitation, according to weather bureau figures, although the season balanced fairly well with the normal as to temperatures.

The opening of the summer season found Ohio a total of 6.34 inches deficient in precipitation for the year, while 3.59 inches of the deficiency in rainfall was stacked up during the spring months. From March 21 until June 21, the dates of the start and the end of the spring solstice, rainfall amounted to a total of but 7.35 inches as compared to a normal of 10.94 for the period. As well as being the first day of summer, Sunday was also the longest day, the sun having risen at 5:08 a. m. and set at 8:09 p.

m. after shining for a total of 15 hours and one minute. Sunshine Sunday amounted to about 85 per cent. Sunday being the longest day of the year lent it but slight prestige, however, according to the weatherman, who held that there will be less than one minute difference between the time the sun set Sunday and the time it will set Monday. The same was true of Saturday, he said.

MOTHER KILLS THREE CHILDREN, HERSELF Madison, June 22-Mrs. Annie E. Jones, 33 years old, took her three youngest children on a picnic today, blindfolded and bound them together, then shot and killed them and took her own -life. The babies were Robert and Edward, four years old, twins, and a two-year-old son. Police said the triple murder-suicide occurred in an open field less than a half mile behind the Jones homestead.

The bodies, lying four feet apart, were found by Mrs. Jones' eldest child, Shirley. LAW UPHOLDS JAYWALKERS TORONTO, Ont. (UP) -The right of pedestrians to cross the street whenever they please, without regard to traffic light signals, is upheld in the city's new traffic bylaw regulations. WPA AND CITY WILL EXPEND $19.000 ON STREET ALLEY WORK Major Part of Summer Project Here Will Being Started Next Month PLANS ARE OUTLINED May Award Contracts for Re-paving Work July 7, Plans for a combined street and alley repair program here during the summer months, estimated to cost approximately $19,000, were disclosed today by Service Director David Craig.

Preliminary work is already under way and full operations will start next month. Surface treatment of 864.000 square feet of city streets is one of the major items in the repair program. Both penetration and seal coat work is scheduled requiring 48,000 gallons of materials. Tar, or its equivalent, costing between $6,500 and $7,000, will be used. In recent weeks numerous curb and gutter repairs have been completed in all sections of the city by WPA workers, and in the sections where property owners signed up for all of the curb-gutter work adjudged necessary the streets are to be permanently improved.

Five blocks of Fair street and Central and Bucoba Avenues have already been graded and leveled and will be surface treated during July. Similar grading and leveling work on Markwith Avenue has also been started. As a part of the general surface treatment program, it was also revealed that penetration coats would be applied to both Park Avenue and Avenue on the west side of the park. The alley improvement work is being financed by the Works Progress Administration. A grant of $12,000 has been obtained and labor hire will be started soon.

New Date Assigned Service Director Craig also announced toay that the state highway department was planning to receive bids on contracts for the re-paving of South Broadway in Greenville's main business section on Tuesday, July 7. The work, which will cost approximately 000, is also being financed by the government. The date for the letting is still tentative but in view of the fact that complete specifications for the project have been in Washington for several days it is believed certain that they will be approved 1 in time to carry out the new plans. If bids are received on July 7 it is hoped to start work within ten days, with the project being finished before the week of the Darke county fair, August 24-28. The section of Broadway to be re-paved, extending from Martin street to the Public Square, embraces four full city blocks.

However, the work will be carried out in sections to eliminate traffic congestion. At no time will over two blocks be closed to motorists. CHRIST SHOW AGENT ARRIVED HERE TODAY Harry A. Rose, Buffalo, N. representative for the Christ United Shows, arrived in Greenville today to complete arrangements for the Christ organization to play Greenville for the Fourth of July celebration being sponsored by the Erk Cottrell Post of the American Legion.

The celebration will be held at the Darke County Fairgrounds and Mr. Rose stated today that the Christ shows would play Greenville for one week starting Monday, June 29th. Mr. Rose is the father of Mauri Rose, noted race car driver, who has made many friends in Greenville and vicinity having raced several times over the Greenville Motor Speedway. MAXINE REINER SIGNS 6-YEAR FILM CONTRACT Los Angeles, June 22- Maxine Reiner, 20-year-old actress, held a six-year contract today with Universal Pictures, Inc.

She tained judicial approval yesterday. FORMER NORTH STAR RESIDENT IS DEAD Hartzell Burial Rites Will Be Held At Lewisburg Tuesday Mrs. Phebe Jane Hartzell, aged 83 years, died at her home at Lewisburg, Ohio, Saturday, after a lingering illness, The deceased was the wife of James H. Hartzell and before movto Lewisburg lived -in the of North Star, Darke county, for many years. She was highly respected and had a legion of friends and relatives in Darke county who will be sorry to learn of her demise.

Funeral services Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the M. E. Church at Lewisourg. Interment will take place in the Abbottsville cemetery. HIGHWAY AND RIVER ACCIDENTS IN OHIO CLAIM 11 VICTIMS Four Drownings Listed on State Report; One Body Is Unidentified Accidents on Ohio highways and in rivers of the state over the weekend resulted in the deaths of at least 11 persons.

Fatalities wer'e heaviest at Columbus and Toledo, where seven persons were killed or drowned. Alexander J. Converse, 47, a retired veteran of the Canadian army and son of Col. George L. Converse, former commandant of the R.

OT. C. at Ohio State University, and Harry Puckett, 40, a farmer, were killed in automobile accidents at Columbus. Converse, pensioned because of wounds received during active duty in France and Belgium, had his chest crushed when his automobile ran off the highway. Puckett died of injuries received when his car tore a guard rail from a bridge.

The other two fatalities at Columbus were: George Crawford, 15, Ashland, Ky. who died of injuries suffered when he fell under a freight train, and Ernest Myers, 16, who was drowned in a gravel pit while on a picnic. A wrestling match with a companion atop a cabin cruiser 1n Maumee Bay at Toledo resulted in the drowning of Hector Britton, 40. Brtton and Joseph Contos both rolled off the top of the boat, but Contos was saved when he was thrown a life preserver by other occupants of the boat. William E.

Thomas, 42, was drowned when his automobile broke through a chain. guard and plunged into Maumee river. Frank Miller, 20 was Toledo's third victim. He died when an automobile his father had given him the previous day overturned and struck a utility pole. Michael Senyitko, 29, was killed at Cleveland when.

his car struck a safety zone. James Bingle, 70, was a traffic victim at Cincinnati. A 86-hour investigation failed to disclose the identity of a man whose body was found in the Licking river near Newark. Coroner John O. Thompson said his death was due to either accidental drowning or suicide.

Jane Lenni, 25, Cuyahoga Falls, was killed lat Akron when struck by an automobile as she stepped from behind a bus. RETURNS TO 0. S. U. FOR RESEARCH WORK Lowell C.

Shook has returned to Columbus for the summer where he has been retained by the Department of Dairy Technology at Ohio State University. Mr. Shook, a dent at Ohio State University, will carry on research work under Profesor L. H. Burgwald of the Dairying Department.

STANDARD OIL CO. DECLARES DIVIDEND The Standard Oil Co. of Friday declared a dividend of 25 cents a share on the common stock of the company, payable July 15th to stockholders of record June 30th. Preferred dividend of $1.25 a share, payable on the same date, has already been announced. CONVENTION TO HOLD FAST FOR NEW DEAL; DEFY LATEST 'BOLT' Farley Counters Attack With Vigorous Charge; Says Effort Futile CAUCUSES UNDER WAY New York Governor Will Turn Back on Smith As Result of Challenge BY UNITED PRESS Philadelphia Democratic convention delegates hold fast for Roosevelt and new deal, but party structure jarred by bolt threat of Alfred E.

Smith and four other former leaders; fight over platform planks beginning. New York--Text of challenge to Democratic convention signed by Alfred E. Smith, Bainbridge Colby, James A. Reed, Joseph B. Ely, and Daniel F.

Cohalan so forthright as to leave no doubt of their intention to bolt party. Washington-Lemke, third party head, to confer with Townsend pension plan and the share the wealth heads today; expected to consolldate supporters. Oshkosh, progressives steer clear of Lemke third party. Topeka Republican nominee, Alf M. Landon welcomes third party movement.

CLEVELAND CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT Cleveland, 0., June 22- (UP) Cleveland today made a bid for the James J. BraddockMax. Schmeling fight for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. The bid for the September was made to Mike -Jacobs of the Twentieth Century Club, New York, by Lincoln G. Dickey, general manager of the Great Lakes Exposition.

Dickey said the exposition was ready to underwrite the bout for $1,225,000. BUSINESS MEN WILL HEAR TRADE EXPERT Wayne G. Lee, Dayton, Will Address Local C. of C. Members of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce will be privileged to hear one of the state's foremost authorities on civic and business problems when they convene at 6:30 p.

m. tomorrow at the First Christian church for a regular monthly meeting. The speaker of the evening will be Wayne G. Lee, managing director of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. His topic will be of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce to Serve the Community as Viewed by an Outsider." In addition to his work with the Chamber of Commerce, Mr.

Lee also serves on Dayton's budget commission and is well qualified to discuss both general business and financial affairs. His talk here is expected to be of a highly conD structive nature. The meeting tomorrow night will be the local organization's final monthly get-together of the springsummer season. Its next official session is not scheduled until September 22. It has been customary to discontinue July and August meetings for several years.

C. H. BIGLER UNDERGOES OPERATION AT PIQUA C. H. Bigler, prominent.

Gettysburg man, underwent an emergency appendicitis operation at the Piqua hospital Saturday, June 20. Hospita! attaches today reported that his condition is improved. RECEIVES LICENSE Henry Borman, Greenville, and Miss Alfa Roesser, Richmond, were the recipients of a marriage license at Richmond, Saturday. Miss Roesser was formerly employed at the J. C.

Penney Store in Greenville. RELIGION COUNCIL PLANS CONVENTION Darke County Group Will Assemble on October 15 Officials of the Darke County Council of Religious Education, which has over 1 1,200 active members in 88 church Sunday schools, have completed plans for holding their 1936 convention at St. John's Lutheran church, near Greenville. The annual meeting is scheduled on Thursday, October 15. The program, which will feature addresses by numerous state and district church notables, will be climaxed with annual election of officers.

The council's, current staff is composed of Theodore Eley, Union City, president; Rev. M. B. Klepinger, New Madison, vice-president; Greenville, R. R.

Levi treasurer' Minnich, Mrs. Alvin Heiby, this city, secretary. The plans for the conference were laid Saturday when the council's officers met in regular monthly session at St. John's church. During the meeting a report on a recent state Sunday School convention at Van Wert was read by Mr.

Minnich. The 1935 meeting, held at Arcanum, attracted over 1,000 delegates. Increased attendance is anticipated this year. GETTYSBURG MASONS TO HOLD SERVICES Masonic Lodge Observes St. John's Day, June 28.

The Gettysburg Masonic lodge will hold special services at the Gettysburg Methodist Church on Sunday, June 28, in observance of St. John's Day. A sermon by Rev. J. L.

Landsittel will be the feature of the services. All masons are cordially invited to attend. BOLIVIAN TROOPS SEIZE Buenos Aires, June 22 The army assumed complete control of the Bolivian government yesterday after a plot was discovered, said advices today from La Paz. The subversive movement presumably was headed by former President Bautista Saavedra. ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Lehman are announcing the arrival of a seven and one-quarter pound son born at the Greenville Hospital at three p. m. yesterday. Both mother and son, named Thomas are reported as doing nicely.

Mr. Lehman is the proprietor of the Standard Oil Service Station on Public Square. Philadelphia, June Lehman of New York back upon his old political Alfred E. Smith today, and 1 ed President Roosevelt would curry New York by a substantial majority in November. The governor was still silent upon the movement to draft him for reelection.

He commented freely upon Smith's statement calling upon the national convention to cast aside Mr. Roosevelt and name a "genuine Democrat." "I have read the statement. I am confident that the views expressed by the five signers of the statement represent the feelings of only a handful of Democrats. "The great rank and file of the party as well as the majority of the independents of the country stand four-square behind the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt." New York, June Smith, having made a written ap(Continued on Page Eight) CRUZE FUNERAL TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Farmer's Wife Succumbs At Early Hour Today Mrs.

Myrtle L. Cruze, 48 years old wife of Fred Cruze, well known Darke county farmer, died at five a. m. today at her late home, four an one-half miles west of Greenville on the Winchester pike. Her death is attributed to a complication of diseases.

Besides the husband, she leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Roberson of Ithaca; two sons, Jack and Keith Netzley also of that village, and one grandchild. A brother, Jack Roberson, of Ithaca, also survives. Funeral services are to be conducted from the Ithaca B.

church at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday with the Rev. Byron Green officiating. Burial will be made in the village cemetery.

FOUR BURN TO DEATH AFTER AUTOS CRASH Mountainside, N. June 22 Four persons were burned to death yesterday when the car in which they were riding caught fire following a collision with another automobile, They were Mrs. Rosa Note, 68; Lena Nota, 24, Authony Ditiomo, 10; and Mrs. Rose Gambi, 45. The latter's husband, Joseph, was dragged from the flaming car, saying his life..