The Lima Morning Star and Republican-Gazette from Lima, Ohio • 1

The Lima Morning Star And REPUBLICAN-GAZETTE PRICE THREE CENTS LIMA OHIO WEDNESDAY MAY 28 1930 Phone Main 4014 76TH YEAR $275000 ROAD BIDS OPENED AS SPARKS FROM HORSE'S SHOES SET RIPON AFLAME TURNER SETS NEW BRAZILIAN PAPER ACCUSES ECKNER OF BAD MANNERS PICKETT GIVES CHURCH CREDIT FIVE DEAD SIX MISSING AFTER AIR Lindbergh Nation Flight SEVEN BRIDGES TO BE BUILT IN VAN WERT AREA Churchill Of Lima Low On Resurfacing Of Dixie Stretch $300000 FIRE jig HfljjjjjB lliiiliL tp sHBaRaaSaY laVe laaWlaWSaT WM Baaaa aaWri-' NISalaBaVir 'Ba Record Stands But Hawks' Time Lowered Victims Are Trapped As GLENDALE Cal May FOR HOOVER Senate Lobby Board Told Election Not Due To Republican Party WITNESS REVIEWS SMITH CANDIDACY Roscoe Turner after failing to equal Walls Of Western Coliseum Fall the trans-continental West-to-East flight record landed here on his return trip at 7:45:34 o'clock tonight bettered by nearly half an hour the CONTRACTS TO BE LET IN TEN DAYS East-to-West record held by Frank DEBRIS SEARCHED FOR ADDED VICTIMS RIO JANEIRO May -APr-A bitter personal attack on Dr Hugo Eckener was published this afternoon by the influential newspaper "Anoite" The paper though paying tribute to the science and skill of the Graf Zeppelin's commander asserts that his "bad manners" led to disagreeable Incidents during the Zeppelin's brief visit to Rio Janeiro Sunday "Commander Eckener by his bad manners everywhere causes disagreeable Incidents with other peoples and his own countrymen who live in foreign countries" It says "When the time came for the triumph of the flight to Braxil he failed to live up to the code of vlclllty and good manners not understanding the high destinies of his mission but acting as director of a commerclalhed Toyage which could have rested on a high plane above the little Interests to which it degenerated "He tofcolely responsible for the restrictions imposed on newspapers and the disgust of the Brazilian authorities and of the members of the German colony" Brazilians complain that the Graf ZoppeHn remained stationary at Campo Dos Affonsos only an hour and a quarter and that Dr Eckener did not even get out of the gondola Hawks Turner was 18 hours 42 minutes 54 seconds enroute from New York It- Ijf Flames Sweep Auditorium to Glendale 31 minutes of which he spent at the Wichita Kans airport in refueling Hawks who made his Dry League and WCTU Cited As Factor In 0 Victory Straightening Of Devil's Backbone Will Cost $1294156 Tn Oklflhnmji Citv record in non-stop flight took IS Stock Yard Area hours 10 minutes 32 seconds to reach the Pacific coast Turner lqp-ped off 27 minutes 38 seconds from HawkB time A runaway horse Is now to Rlpon Wis what Mrs O'Leary's cow is to Chicago A horse in his mad dash broke a pipe line and sparks from his shoes set the escaping oil on fire Parts of Rlpon's business and residential section were destroyed and for a time it was feared the entire town would be burned Six men were burned battling the flames one probably fatally and the damage was estimated at Photo shows firemen and volunteers trying to subdue the fire OKLAHOMA CITY Okfla May Trapped by falling walls of the Coliseum huge auditorium in Contracts for the resurfacing of 10 miles of highway and the construction of seven bridges in Allen Auglaize and Van Wert counties which will cost approximately $275000 will be awarded by Robert Waid state director of highways within the next 10 days it was announced yes the stock yards district here at least five men lost their lives today in a WASHINGTON May The opinion that the election of President Hoover in 192S was attributable to the activities of churches and temperance organizations and not to the Republican party was expressed before the senate lobby committee today by Deets Pickett research secretary of the Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals of the REFUGEE CAMPS DOT LOUISIANA FLOOD DISTRICT TARIFF WENDS fire that destroyed the building with an estimated loss of $300000 Three firemen were Injured OOBARR JOINS RACE FOR SEAT AS OHIO SOLON ZEPPEUN SAILS terday The bids for the work were opened yesterday In the state highway department office at Columbus Five bodies had been recovered early tonight and firemen and 50 Methodist Episcopal church INDIAN CITIES FACE TUMULT Rioting Kills 82 Injures 863 Hundreds Are Held By British Appearing to deny charges of Representative Tlnkham Republi TODAY ON TOUR OVER CARIBBEAN Churchill Construction Co of city prisoners were digging in the still smoking debris for bodies of can Massachusetts that the board TO CONFERENCE Bill Driven Back By Surprise Ruling Of Vice President other persons who were reported Lima placed the low bid for concrete and brick surfacing of three had violated the principle of separation of church and state by politi trapped by falling walls as they miles of the Dixie highway North sought to save new automobiles cal activities Pickett asserted It had done nothing not guaranteed by the east of Lima The concern's figure bill of rights of the constitution for brick construction is $6995476 Pickett appeared in place of Dr stored in the coliseum annex The Dead A Mason 23 city fireman Ortha Barr 210 North Union street owner and manager of the Barr and Waldo hotels last night declared that he is a candidate for the nomination of the Democratic party for Allen county representative in the state legislature Petitions are being circulated by his friends Barr is expected to be unopposed in the primaries Lester Shepherd Lima Republican incumbent also is unopposed for nomination -it with an addition of $4119670 for Clarence True Wilson general secre PERNAMBUCO Brazil May 27 The Graf Zeppelin with nearly half of her 18000-mile flight over four continents and two oceans completed will leave her stubby mooring mast here tomorrow for New York and Lakehurst Her first cruise over the Caribbean sea and the West Indies will take her to Havana Cuba by Friday depending on the as yet un tary of the board who is in De Dave Meiser 31 packing plant the cost of the brick Bid for concrete surfacing was $6826846 Vish Carey of Ada filed a bid of troit to debate Clarence Darrow on prohibition He told the committee NEW ORLEANS May 27 (AP) Refugee camps dotted the hills of Red River and Natchitoches parishes tonigTit as flood waters from the Red river and its tributaries forced more families from their homes Thousands of homes were partly or completely covered by water that was still rising today Men women and children crowded together in tha refugee camps Officials reported 105000 acres under water in these two parishes with another hundred thousand emerging from water in Caddo Bossier and DeSoto Estimates of the homeless inhabitants have passed 6000 Planters and merchants! were cooperating with local chapters of the Red Cross in caring for the refugees The national Red Cross ordered field agents to investigate conditions in Natchitoches parish with the view of offering aid Up to tonight no loss of human life and only negligible loss of livestock had been reported none of the organizations funds had WASHINGTON May 27 (AP) The tariff bill went its weary way back to conference tonight driven there by a ruling of Vice President BOMBAY India May AP-Riot and tumult or their aftermath of chaos and uncertainty reigned today in four great cities of Britain's Indian possessions' employe Gordon Smith 24 used car sales man Thomas Smith 20 An unidentified Negro been used in "lobbying" Smith Candidacy Most of the testimony resolved Curtis against the compromise flex $6693106 for Kentucky rock surfacing of the three-mile strip Ralph Heffner of Celina placed the low bid for hard surfacing six miles of road connecting New Hamp fixed hour for the start tomorrow A brief stop will be made at Ha ible provision In the final draft of Shortly after recovery of the fifth vana and then Dr Hilgo Eckener the Hawley-Smoot measure will press on to Lakehurst where around the presidential candidacy of Alfred Smith Pickett testified the board had distributed copies of Smith's record on prohibition for the information of the public He insisted prohibition was a "moral" victim' body tonight search of the ruins for additional bodies was halted temporarily because of the ho hopes to arrive by Sunday Surprised by the ruling on a Democratic point of order against shire and Waynesfield extending to the Allen county line His figure was $15220084 for concrete and $922430 the August primaries Barr was prosecuting attorney of Allen county from 1915 to 1917 He retired from law practice 11 years ago and since that time has been engaged in operating hotels He is grand prelate of the Knights of Pythias in Ohio this section Republican chieftains the walls which still were standing issue and not political Tons of debris stood between work for a bridge to be erected His opinion on the 1928 election men and partly fallen walls where Low figure for the construction of A rough computation of official figures showed that in Rangoon Lucknow Dacca and Bombay 82 persons had been killed 863 injured and hundreds upon hundreds arrested Over the week end the riots have broken out of the bounds of the civil disobedience campaign They overshadowed the salt raids of Mahatma Gandhi's volunteers and made of "non-violence" a merely academic term additional bodies may be found seven bridges in Van Wert county was expressed after Senator Blaine Republican Wisconsin had read an article written by him which appeared In "The Voice" one of the Six or seven men were reported by witnesses to have been trapped was filed by Putman of Columbus He asks $2972988 for the Job board's publications in November 1928 in the annex while attempting to push automobiles out when the stage wall fell back into the annex CAPONE'S PLAN OF RETALIATION MEETS BARRIERS Vish Carey had the low figure The article said in part: "The bald truth Is that the inef BAN ON GAMBLING STIRS PARADE OF 20000 AND RIOT Three firemen suffered burns and injuries but it was believed they for a mile of State route 117 over the Devil's Backbone formation ficiency of the Republican organization in this campaign was startling would recover Rangoon the Burmese capital to Firemen were hampered by crowds Except for the counsel of Senator Southeast of Lima The concern asks The departure will probably take place late tomorrow afternoon although Dr Eckener has been careful not to make statements to newspapers At Campo Qlquia airfield all was activity as the cooler hours of the evening set In Fuel lifting gas ballast and provisions were put aboard together With a ton of mall Most of the Inflating of the big gas bag Is done at night because of the fierce heat of the equatorial sun and it has been slow work The course of the Graf over her 5500-mile trip up into the Northern Hemisphere has not been divulged William Leeds American millionaire and two other new passengers who made the trip by airplane from Rio Janlero to Pernam-buco will make the American flight aboard the Graf The others are Donnell of the National City Bank of New York and Valentine Boucas Brazilian business man In sailing Northward the Zeppelin will cross the equator for the second time on her present flight within a few hours after leaving her mooring mast Curtis (now vice president) the $1294156 for grading and paving with waterbound macadam accord Republican management was lack night was a beleaguered city Soldiers and police were striving desperately to maintain a hold already precarious over fighting coolies and ing in the advice of astute and ex ing to Kohll resident highway perienced political leaders "The fight was won not by the lawless bands were laying plans to redraft the provision and get the measure again before the senate It appeared unlikely that the bill will return to the tariff-tired senate before next week however and even then it faces new points of order from the Democratic side In the face of today's reversal Senator Smoot Republican Utah told the senate "we will get this bill out of conference and we will pass it" The vice president held the conferees had exceeded their authority in writing into the bill new language providing that a tariff commission rate change should take effect if the President neither approved nor disapproved it within 60 days of its recommendation Confusion prevailed among Republicans when Curtis handed down his decision Senator Shortridge Republican California one of the conferees demanded a roll call vote on an appeal but withdrew it after talking for several minutes Senator Watson of Indiana the engineer for Allen and Van Wert counties who was present when the bids were opened Republican party but by the of curious who collected about the building and blocked the one direct thoroughfare that connects Oklahoma City proper with packing town avenue Fire trucks were delayed by the congested traffic and the blaze had gained uncontrollable headway when the fire fighting got under way Approximately 150 new automobiles were stored in the annex of the building and volunteers rushed Fifty-four bodies lay in the city churches the the Anti- mortuary and many others are be Saloon League and other temper ance organizations" lieved to have been carried away by friends and kinsmen The official Firm In Claim After he had finished reading LINDBERGHS OBSERVE FIRST ANNIVERSARY Blaine asked: MIAMI Fla May Al Capone's scheme to retaliate for a municipally engineered plan to drive him from the community as an undesirable met difficulties here today Justice of the Peace Warren Newcomb dismissed charges of conspiracy against Mayor Reeder City Commissioner John Knight and Director of Public Safety Mc-Creary Warrants charging the three officials with conspiracy falsely to accuse Capone of violating a city ordinance were sworn out Saturday by Vincent Giblin Capone's attorney They were withdrawn today in favor of others which were similar to the first group but which mentioned May 13 as the date on SAN SEBASTIAN Spain May 27 (AP) A parade by 20000 citizens of this royal resort city seeking the reopening of gambling facilities at the casinos this afternoon turned into a political demonstration against the Berenguer government and rioting broke out Police fired into the crowds in attempting to quell the demonstrators injuring 30 persons Four civilians including a woman and a child were reported to be badly wounded by the bullets The parade had been organized in protest against continuance of Primo De Rivera's order suppressing gambling in the casinos The citizens said they had lost much tourist trade through the suppression and they became disorderly death list stands at 60 and the injured list at 740 but these figures are considered much below the unobtainable totals I in to get them out It was believed And you take credit that is your organization among other or No less serious were conditions in ganizations for the election of Mr NEW YORK May 27 (AP) Hooover Instead of that credit going Col Charles A Lindbergh and the famous Lucknow the great British stronghold of the Indian mutiny of the danger was not great as the fire at that time was confined to the main auditorium Several workers who escaped reported that two groups of men pushing cars were caught when the stage fell to the Republican organization?" former Anne Spencer Morrow quietly observed the first anniversary of their marriage 1857-58 A roll of four dead and 30 Injured there represents a casualty list that seems likely to be considerably increased on the receipt of further news BRITAIN WORRIED BY SICKNESS OF KING In the year since their marriage Mrs Lindbergh has devoted almost "What you have read" Pickett replied "Is my opinion" Blaine asked the witness if he contended that the activities of the board "were not Intended for the purpose of influencing votes in behalf of Mr Hoover" as much time to aviation as her More serious trouble is feared at Tienublican leader denied the sug- WOMAN SEEKS HOUSE SEAT ON WET PLANK when mounted police attempted to break up their demonstrations ootinn nf Senator Robinson of any moment "They were Intended Pickett At Dacca rioting and fighting be This rioting was stopped by a which the alleged conspiracy occurred Former Governor James Cox of Ohio owner of the Miami Dally News was named in the first con said "to make clear Mr Smith's tween Hindus and Moslems left the Arkansas the Democratic leader that "the friends of the legislation are trying to kill it" LONDON May (AP) For the first time in a 12-month British people tonight were scanning the press for reports of the illness of their sovereign Confined to his quarters in Buck charge of mounted policemen with drawn sabers who cut or bruised 17 civilians The crowds then dis streets deserted and peaceful inhab Watson immediately conferred itants within doors Business was at a standstill spiracy warrants but was not with President Hoover The administration leaders were silent tonight persed but later began gathering around the civil government husband She has accompanied him on many flights has been twice to the coast and back with him by air and has flown down the coast of South America to Partmaribo She also accompanied him on an exploration flight over the Maya cities in Yucatan On Easter Sunday Mrs Lindbergh was the navigator for her husband on a flight from Los Angeles to Roosevelt field which Bet a new transcontinental speed record named in those drawn today He is Looting and stabbing continued ingham palace with a painful attack at his Dayton Ohio home on just what steps would be taken of inflammatory rheumatism center- The hearing was enlivened by a Many sections of the central part attitude on prohibition let the effect be what It may "We hew to the line let the chips fall where they will If it did have a bad effect on Mr Smith he was responsible for it himself by dragging in a non-political Issue into a campaign" The article also quoted Hoover as saying in a conversation before his election that he did not expect to carry any southern states today as sequels to the communal riots which began Thursday They have so far caused the deaths of 14 persons and the Injury of 40 de to rectify the wording of the ilex ible provision sharp tilt between Capone the only lng In his right hip King George was obliged to forego the third court of the season this evening his place witness to take up the stand today and Mitchell Price assisting City tained in hospitals as well as prob NATIONAL SPELLING NEWPORT Ky May 27 (AP) Repeal of the Eighteenth amendment which she declared was a failure as well as a thing of iniquity and sin was advocated in the political platform of Mrs Marie Haller Ft Thomas candidate for Republican congressional nomination frbm the sixth Kentucky district Mrs Haller said she favored temperance and wanted the dry law erased from the national constitution because prohibition has failed In its ideals Two other Kentucky women have announced candidacies for Republican congressional nominations but unlike Mrs Haller both being occupied by the Prince of of the city where is located King Alfonso's summer palace were deserted tonight but elsewhere threatening crowds milled about the streets Police reserves were held in readiness Attorney Watson This resulted in ably many more outside them Wales BEE WON BY GIRL 13 a warning by the justice that he Bombay was quiet tonight but Otherwise according to official an still tense nouncement the king was maintain DANIEL MINER LORD DIES NEW YORK May 27 (AP) would cite Capone for contempt unless he answered questions propounded by Price WASHINGTON May (AP) -Because she spelled the word "albu lng his usual schedules George LAST OF FIVE NUNS HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Daniel Miner Lord 85 retired advertising man known for many years as the "dean of American ad Is 04 years old He has had two severe illnesses in the last two years the present Illness however MILLION IN JEWELS RECOVERED BY POLICE men" correctly Helen Jensen 33 of Council Bluffs la today won $1000 in the first prize of the sixth annual national spelling bee held AILMENTS OF WAR MOTHERS FADING vertising" died today was only indirectly related to these LEAVE OHIO PRISON due to his somewhat depleted vigor SPRINGFIELD May Five Catholic nuns from St Francis hospital Columbus were Injured in here Lord Dawson of Penn the mon are avowed drys They are Congress-women Katherlne Langley up far renomtnation in the Tenth distrlot and Mrs John David Allen who is opposing Congressman Itohert Blnck- PARIS May The two Gold Star mothers who have arch's personal physician after an automobile accident on the na NEW YORK May 27 (AP) A police drive against an alleged band of international jewelry thieves con been dangerously ill appeared on the tional highway West of here tonlcht Ruth Des Jardlns 13 of Detroit Mleh was awarded the $600 second prize having failed to spell correctly "asceticism" Third prize of $250 went to Mildred Fronlng 12 of South Bend Ind declared out They were taken to City hospital tinued today with the seizure of burn for nomination In the Seventh diftrlt-t road to recovery tonight although because of their advanced age physicians were cautious In making nearly $1000000 worth of stolen gems described as the largest Jewel recovery in Now York's history At the same time the city's now police commissioner Edward when she misspelled "conflngra lion" Mrs Mary Reynolds of Damas where it was said their Injuries were not critical The sisters were returning to Columbus from Dayton where they visited St Bliiabeth hospital Their oar skidded and overturned In a ditch visiting the palace said his majesty was in no condition to undertake the tedious ceremonies of the court tonight giving the first intimation of his 'attack Prolonged damp weather waa blamed for tho king's rheumatism The public tonight awaited hopefully the confirmation of these reports The king was 111 in the winters of 1928 and 1929 with a series of pulmonary troubles Markets At Glance MAT IT 1H Br the Associated Press cus Ohio who is ill with periton The bee was sponsored by 24 newspapers and given In co-opera THE WEATHER MAY 28 1930 Lima mi vlrinily cloudy ind cooler today fair Thnmday OHIO Moat cloudy with ahowtra in But and Central portion and cooler in Northwest portion Wednesday Thursday generally fair CONDITIONS The Illinois disturbance will mova Eastward and It will bo attended by showers mostly llffht in the lower lake region tha extreme upper Ohio valley the Northern Appalachian region and the Middle Atlantic states Wednesday or Wednesday night and IB tha North Atlantic Wednesday or Thursday Otherwise senerally fair wcs'her will prevail Wednesday and Thursday East of tha Mississippi river 'IVmp-ratures changes will be unimportant MM A TEMPERATURES TUESDAY Mulrooney announced a sixth ar ids at the American hospital here was said by her doctors tonight to be definitely "out of danger for the tion with the National Broudcastlng N1W YORK COLUMBUS May 27 (AP) Tonight for the first time since the Easter Monday holocaust which snuffed out the lives of 320 convicts blue coated prison guards were the sole malntalners of discipline at Ohio penitentiary This afternoon the last of the Ohio national guardsmen who were rushed to the scene of tho disaster and held to quell the threat of rebellion that followod the fire wore withdrawn at the order of Adjutant General A Reynolds Only 125 of them remained and these told to go home boarded trucks and rumbled to headquarters to bo demobilized General Reynolds said that Colonel Robert Haubrloh who has been in command of the troops since the illHHHler will establish iK'nilquar-lors at Ihe ldtith Infanlrv armory Co MIsu Junsen was entered by I he Des Moines Register of Des rest In the roundup which yesterday The Jewels recovered to-way were In addition to those seized yesterday which -vere valued nt 53OO000 moment" Mrs Florence Williams of Ports CHEERS AND JEERS GREET SALT MAKER Moines la Miss Des Jardlns by the Detroit News and MIbs Fronlng by the South Bend News-Times The latest arrest was that of mouth Ohio who Is suffering from pneumonia at Verdun also wui much improved although her condition still was described as serious STATE OPENS BIG NEW lOHK May 27 (AP) Mnynard Palmer West Salem Rohert Nelson 53 a broker who was taken Into custody nt his home finished 19th He wus "stumped" HIGHWAY BIDS on tlio word "saxophone" at Shocpliead Boy The jewelry Stacks i lrrtfUr I Cat slumps on baar raids iinnds: steady: st- Paul railroad Ihdm derlln sharply lurk: Irrsfuler Deere Weill 18 point eirhanaes: Irregular Npan-laa mmIi up IH points Cotter) I higher! local covering Sugar I easy Cuban selling Coffee: lower lultr spot market CHICAGO Whl: low" favorable weather end crop news-CMBI Ml bearish crop reports Cstllei steady nf steady uma noon Amid cheers nnl Jnth ol lUK noonday crowd Raymond Duncan brother of the late Isadora Duncan tht dancer dipped up a bucket of aea water at the battery today to CALIFORNIA REDS DRAW JAIL TERMS was in safe deposit boxes liken out in his namo and that of his wife but he Insisted he had bought It at race tracks and did not know It was stolen mirko milt for Mnhntmii Cnmihi uuncmn wno win tiiko the salt to with enough man available ahould an emergency arise to handle the 10 T2 70 a 61 St 68 7 57 1 a 50 1 a Bl 10 1 a si 4 a 4 4 a 4a 6 fijl it 7 a 0 7 I a ss a a tt 10 la 10 11 nt 11 Noon I tS SAN FRANCISCO May 27-AP) (amllii when Iio sails for Purls next Mnlroonev however declared COLUMBUS May Bids were received by the state highway department today on road Improvement projects totalling approximately $5000000 Included In the letting wero Severn! big road Jobs numerous bridge projects and many miles of sui faco treating work Contracts will be awarded within a few days by State Highway Director Robert Wald TRAFFIC 1 11 II I' A traffic light will be Installed at Elizabeth and Wayne streets one of the moat dangerous intersections in the city within the next two weeks Police Chief Willis Kipker announced yesterday A survey conducted by the police department has revealed that traffic at the Intersection la unusually heavy Vision of motorists la obstructed on both streets by building Five allege! rnnunlflH par situation During Ihe IhkI week the guards sum nis net was graturo or lova t6 the Indian leader from h'ls I here was no ilouM as to Kelson's connection with George Cole Wil tlclpants in an antl deportation dcm: flier liam 1 O'l'nnnnr I'ielc liosen Delsol Wemmr (llbert JIHII 11A men have been patrolling only the liiKide of the prison while regular mislratlon her- April 111 lodiiy were sentenced In police court to Jail The Solar Refining American sympathizers "We send htm our lova and sympathy and remind him that wa once haad tea party at Boston" ha said Ohio Oil of appeal guards have been on duty biitalde 1 nnies Watson who were arrested yesterday The other suspect In a woman HIM Carter ilrmonslnilorH (nve and were released on patrolling the walls.