Sunday Times Signal from Zanesville, Ohio • 1

a Section One MAIN NEWS SECTION VOL LVI NO 39 SUNDAY TIMES SIGNAL ZANESVILLE OHIO SUNDAY APRIL 3 1938 THE WEATHER OHIO Partly cloudy and slightly warmer Sunday lol lowed by light rain over north portion at night si SIX CENTS PER COPY PROPOSES COMPROMISE ON BILL Victim Hurt Enroute To A Hospital Injured Man Is Thrown Through Windshield in Second Collision i Herbert 38 year old Columbus taxicab driver was seriously injured in a head on crash about a mile east of Zanesville early Sat urday evening and a few min utes "later while enroute to the hospital was badly hurt again in a collision at Green wood avenue and Cemetery drive According to Deputy Sher iff Harry Bealmear who in vestigated the accident O'Brien was driving west on the National road when he collided with a car driven by Roy King of West Pike whom the deputy said had apparently en drinking allowed his car to swerve across the highway and careen into the King machine police reports state O'Brien was thrown through the windshield of his au tomobile Three of the occupants of the King car also were injured in the crash Mrs Hazel King wife of the driver suffered severe facial liberations and bruises and her daughter Rita sus tained severe gash on her right leg and other minor cuts and bruises Both were removed to Bethesda hos pital for treatment Roy King later was admitted to the hospital for treatment of an injured hand His two sons Robert and Billy escaped uninjured O'Brien seriously injured in the first was placed in a car op 'A rated by Granger of West Pike Tand driven toward hospital At Greenwood avenue and Ceme Drive car collided with a truck owned by the Davis grocery company and driven by Herbert Davis 1009 avenue Hurled Info Windshield The injured cab driver who was being held on the lap of An and being hurled forward by the impact his head was Jammed through the windshield of the car Keck ambulance returning from the scene of the first wreck remov ed to the hospital examination revealed that he suffered a possible fracture of the skull a fractured nose broken left forearm and serious facial lac erations According to polios had been arrested In Mingo Junction sev eral days ago and had been released today to return to Columbus to se cure ball for a companion He was enroute to that city at the time of the first accident A second investigation of the in itial wreck was made by Sergeant McGuire of the State Highway Patrol who was seeking O'Brien Ths patrol had been informed earlier in the evening that the cab driver was intoxicated and driving erratically At the hospital he is reported to be resting fairly well while Mrs King and her daughter are in fair con dition SAYS MURDER SUSPECT HAS MADE CONESSION Mount Vernon April Prosecutor William Howell said late today that he would go trfore a grand jury Monday with a "con fession" from one of two suspects held In connection with the slaying of Mrs red Mosley 40 of nearby Centerburg Deputy Sheriff Joseph Shoults said he had obtained the confession In the presence of Snyder Cen terburg undertaker Shoults said the suspect refused to sign any statement until he had consulted an attorney No charges have been lodged against either suspect Mrs Mosley was found in her home Thursday night by one of her three sons The family had attended a movie but Mrs Mosely returned home afoot while the boys went for an automobile ride lth their father Howell said he was told Shot twice through the body and her skull fractured with a heavy In strument Mrs Mosely died about midnight Howell said a pistol had been found outside the Mosely farm home LEAKING TANK BLAMED OR BLAZE IN AIRPORT Miami la April 2 1TI Investi gators tonight blamed an airplane's leaking fuel tank for a hangar fire at the municipal airport which des troyed 14 ships valued by insurance adjusters at $700000 Among the planes destroyed were an experimental ship valued at $psoooO In which Major Alexander De Seversky set many speed rec ords: a $120000 Lockheed Electra owned by Bcnedum Pittsburgh oil magnate In which Jimmy Mat tern hunted the Russian filers lost In the Arctic and a $65000 ambhl ian owned by Oar Wood Detroit speedboat racer II ig JUL MTrir Pr i Li i i sa Proud indeed are the drhpis of the cars wen in the photo above because thev are among the first motor iMs ever to drive their ears over the Atlantic Ocean The roadway shown apparently disappearing over the horizon ts lorida's new overseas bridge connect mg Miami and Kev West Built over an abandoned railroad viadiut the new road connects many coral islands south of Miami its longest ovprw iter span helng seven miles Considered an outstanding engineering feat the bridge csi 740iooo and has a capacity of 30H) cars a day WOMEN HAVE BRAINS BUT HOW DIERENT Baltimore April (P A new cause of divorces was announced today before the ederated Bio logical societies Dr Richard Block of the New York State Psychiatric institute declared that the chemical make up of the male brain is greatly different from that of the female Thus it apears that the psy chology of women cannot be the same as that of men not because of environment or education but because chemical reactions inside their skulls are different he declared RADIO BROADCAST IS UNAUTHORIZED Vatican City April A Vati can news service statement latest of a series of events in the Catholic church's relations with Germany said today that last Vatican radio broadcast on the Austrian situation was made the knowledge of the (papah secretary ot state The German language broadcast which referred to pastors who sightedly join the victorious of the and who longer recog nize the wolf in sheep's was a private the news service said It said there was no connection between the talk and an editorial which appeared yesterday in the Vati can newspaper Ro mano saying the aVtlcan had no knowledge of the Catholic declaration read in Austrian churches March 27 coincidence between the talk and the note in Ro mano which established that the Holy See had nothing to do with the declaration of the Austrian bishops was purely the statement asserted Regular Transmission fact German language trans mission is made regularly every ri day at 8 and that Is the reason why it coincided with Romano's (The Austrian bishops' declaration signed by Theodore Cardinal Innitzer and five other prelates said it was their duty declare our loyalty as Germans to the German in the April 10 plebiscite on union with Germany Cardinal Innltaer reaffirm ed the position riday In a letter to Joseph Buerckel in charge of the plebiscite) Last broadcast took place shortly after Romano appeared stating that the declaration was made previous or subse quent appropriation of the Holy Andrea Marchese chief of the vati van radio station said the broadcast a regular one and so far as I know no special authorization was given for that particular The Vatican state secretariat said it had nothing to say officially about the broadcast Romano made no mention of it BAR ASSOCIATION WILL STUDY MARRIAGE LAWS Toledo April 2 A com mittee recommendation to raise the marriageable age in Ohio two years for both men and women was stud ied today at a regional meeting here of the Ohio Bar association The proposal submitted by the committee on Judicial administration and legal reform advocated Increas ing the age requirement for men from 18 to 20 years and from 10 to 18 years for women It also recom mended that a certificate of health from a physician be required The recommendations will be presented at the annual meet ing of the Ohio Bar association in Cleveland next July Another recommendation would outlaw common law marriages while grounds for divorce would include mental cruelty desertion for one year instead of three habitual drunkenness for one year and in curable insanity Howell Wright Cleveland attorney and vice chairman of the associa tion's committee on public utilities urged drastic changes in the utilities commission including legislative ac tion to double the commission's ap propriations at the coat of utility companies START CAMPAIGN IN OHIO AGAINST AKE SECURITIES Ohio Known as Happy Hunt ing Ground for raudulent Investment Sharks Columbus April 2 (Pi The state securities division it was learn ed today has launched a campaign to erase Ohio's reputation of being a hunting ground for secur ities Developments of the last few days Involving the names of two former officials of the division were de scribed by an official as the start of a cleanup drive based on months of investigation The investigation was supervised by Dan Moore head of the secur ities division and former foreign securities expert for the federal se curities exchange commission About a year ago Gov Martin Davey went to James Landis then chairman of the SEC and asked him to recommend some one to head the Ohio securities division Landis recommended Moore who had been with the SEC since 1934 and pre viously was associated wit the bank ing house of Roosevelt and Son in New York The governor hired Moore The 30 year old curly haired ex utive who says he finds his job more fun than work ploughed right in and things have been popping around his office for several months is the happy hunting ground for securities Moore said to day is known as the sucker state among securities men Many of the notorious rackets are started Middle Class Has Wealth The securities chief said this situa tion is perhaps due to the residents who have considerable excess capital Continued on Page Two ARNYT0TPUSHES MODERN PIONEERS Pittsburgh April GT) strains of chorused by 34 rolled out over the murky waters today as the voyagers resumed a cruise to Mar ietta their push ed by a army tug The youths shouted and stamped In celebration of their departure our of the weary from attempting to pole the galley off rocks and sandbars overslept and were left behind to catch up with their comrades on the Ohio river near Beaver Pa the college boys re enacting the trek of settlers into the Northwest Territory 150 years ago rode into Pittsburgh on a bus after their converted barge lodged on a sand bar in the Youthi ogheny river army engineers freed the craft and tow'ed it to a Pittsburgh wharf The voyagers have managed to keep on schedule in reenacting the early pioneers But nature been as kind with them The first settlers sailed down the Youghiogheny on a flood crest and made the trip from West Newton Pa to Pittsburgh in eight hours The stuck on rocks sandbars and nearly hit a bridge in covering 12 miles In two days The you rife will remain overnight In Beaver Sunday they expect to reach East Liverpool first stop in the they will reach Martins erry Monday and push off on the two day trip to Marietta hoping to reach there by Thursday OLD ENOUGH TO BUY A LICENSE Xenia April 2 John Lcfferty applied for an automo bile license today asked Mrs Dorothy Hook deputy registrar 102 and be back for another license next year Laffer ty answered He is a Civil war veteran lashes Moscow April 2 (ZP) ive Am have been sentenced to death at Leninakan in the So viet Socialist republic of Arme nia on charges of killing 11 Bolshevists in 1920 and among them Gukas Gukasyan hero of the revolution there Buenos Aires April 2 The anti ascist press in Buenos Aires today opened a attack on German Nazi influence in Argentina In connection with the plebiscite April 10 on union of Germany and Austria Mexico City April 2 iP) An appeal to the supreme court em bracing 22 charges of constitu tional violation was drawn up today by foreign oil company ex ecutives seeking to regain their M0 000000 properties expro priated by the government Camden April 2 (ZP) Ostend a big bay gelding car ried the silks of Mrs rank Gould of New York to victory today snatching the lead at the laet jump of the Carolina cup steeplechase and finishing four lengths ahead of the field Berlin April 2 A Catho lic co bishop and the German Lutheran church today endorsed the union of Germany and Aus tria while ministers of the Pro testant Confessional synod issued a prayer of thanksgiving as a prelude to the April 10 plebis cite chianTelected AS PARTY LEADER Hankow April 2 (ZP) simo Chiang Kai Shek today was elected leader of the dominant Kuo mintang or Nationalist party a po sition of great power not filled since the death fourteen years ago of Sun Yat founder of the party and of the Chinese republic The action was taken by the clos ing meeting of an emergency session of the party congress summoned in this provisional capital to place the political organization of the nation on a wartime basis Already commander in chief of the vast armies resisting the Japanese invasion Chiang was Invested for mally with sweeping political au thority In effect his position as supreme leader of the embattled na tion was ratified and the elaborate committee system which heretofore has prevented any indi vidual from wielding dictatorial powers was abandoned The position in China is similar to that of the Com munist party in Soviet Russia and the ascist party In Italy Although individual leaders have challenged its claims to supreme authority there are no rival parties Whole Attention to War Chiang until recently was premier or chairman of the government's ex ecutive committee but he relinquish ed that post to his brother in law Dr Kung to devote his whole energies to fighting the war The party made Chiang chairman both of its congress arxl its highest governing organ the central executive committee Emulating the political training systems of European totalitarian states the congress authorized or ganization of a Kuomintang youth movement to prepare young minds for party activity A congress manifesto declared that the nationalist principles of Sun Yat Sen which guided government policy during peace times shall continue to be the sole guide during the war crisis This was considered an an swer to Japanese and other charges that communists were gaining domi nant influence in the national gov ernment The manifesto declared against a compromise peace with Japan as serting that China must have with Justice which is possible only after Japan courageously forsakes her misguided plans and abandons a pol icy of Rebels Win Victory in East Spain Insurgents Cap Drive By Seizing Gandesa Near Mediterranean Hendayc rance (at the Spanish frontier) April 2 (ZP) Seizure of strategic Gandesa by the Spanish in surgents today capped the concentrated drive in eastern Spain which has added an estimated 2600 square miles to their conquests in a week The fall of Gandesa placed the on rushing insurgents within 21 miles of the Blue Mediterranean their objec tive in the offensive to split in two the territory control led by the government The official insurgent an nouncement of the fall said 2000 prisoners were taken and other government troops wqre surrendering Only six miles of mountains that make up the Sierra De Pandos south east of Gandesa separated its Navar rese captors from the wide valley of the Ebro river which forms a natural highway to Tortosa and the sea The advance was described by some military observers as one of the most important of the civil war now in its 21st month At the northern end of the Insur gent front Benabarre important Continued on Page Two POLICE SUSPECT GIRL MURDERED Cleveland April 2 (I) Police weighed tonight a report that the death of Miss Genevieve Wasniewska 23 was and a WPA story that she leaped from his motor car to receive her fatal Injuries Tlie young woman a factory work er who was the mother of a 2 year old girl was found dying in a Cuya hoga Heights street early today Her clothing was badly torn Coroner Samuel Gerber said he was convinced despite the story that the young woman was slain nature of the skull fracture is such that it could not have been made by her head striking the pave ment or Dr Germer said wound must have been made by a forceful blow from a blunt in strument The WPA worker 25 and married said he met Miss Wasniewska at a beer parlor last night and together they three other beer places decided to take her for a drive to sober her up a lUtle before taking her detectives quoted him as saying were at about the place where she was found when suddenly she opened the door and jumped out was going 20 to 25 miles an hour I go back I figured she'd get a ride A passerby who found her flagged a motor car which took her to a hospital SOVIETS CLAIM JAPS ENLIST RUSSIAN SPIES Moscow April 2 The Soviet Russian government today protested to Japan that the Japanese charge at Kabul Afghanistan at tempted to enlist the new Soviet minister to Afghanistan as a Jap anese spy A Mikhailoff recently replac ed Boris Skvlrsky as Soviet minister at Kabul Skvlrsky well known in the Unit ed States as one of the first Soviet diplomatic agents in Washington was not mentioned in the December 24 1937 announcement of Mikhail off's appointment to the post he for merly held At that time diplomatic circles speculated on his fate since his re moval was disclosed shortly after the arrest and execution of Vladimir Zukennann foreign office depart ment head who was among eight high Soviet officials to face the fir ing squad for treason Tass (Sonet news agency) accus ing the Japanese diplomat of cedented announced he called on Mikhailoff and asked him to a spy for the Japanese government Mikhailoff indignant ly rejected the request and the Jap anese charge left in a great Simultaneously Japanese sources said the Soviet government had re quested Japan to clote three of its remaining six consulates in Russia by the end of April EVli HE1TH CELL Columbus April 2 vP) John Cline today entered Ohio penitentiary where he is scheduled to be exe cuted July 15 for the holdup slay ing of Patrolman Aaron Laubach in Hamilton His arrival Increased the population of to 14 I i 4 Hk aft I Bmi I few As peaceful as Sunday morning In the business section is ibis scejie taken in Barcelona (hiring the height of the terrific bombardment by Rebel air raiders But the unscathed building and deserted streets lie under the shadow of the black war cloud seen rising after one of the gigantic missiles had exploded nearby HIS ELLOW WORKERS EXPRESS THEIR LOVE OR HARRY BASEHART Ry his friends he was known Those who worked with Harry Basehart beloved editor of The Times Signal whose passing last week shocked the citizens of Zanesville are best prepared to write his memorial Into the columns of his paper his fellow workers have poured their hearts Harn Basehart was a dominant personality He was the sole boss of The Times Signal dictating its contents and its policy lie listened courteously to suggestions but none of them found their way into practice unless they co incided with his own views Under his supervision The Times Signal was not only an independent newspaper but practically his own publication His kindly genial disposi tion endeared him to every one connected with the Zanes ville Publishing Company and he will be greatly missed by all of us 0 Littick It was my pleasure to be associated almost daily with Harry Basehart all during his newspaper career I was employed on the old Dally Courier when Harry started in the game and I worked on about all the papers that he did over quite a period of years He had an extra sunny and friendly disposition that endeared him to all with whom he came in contact and whether the came good or bad he could take it Before his health failed it was a common occurance for him to come to me with a smile and say wp are the only left on the Sunday paper who worked on it when it was taken over by the Zanesville Publishing life was a good example for any one to follow and his passing leaves a va cancy that will be hard to fill I will miss you Harry and hope some time we will meet again Allman Harry Basehart will be fondly remembered by his friends and asso ciates as a newspaper editor and man who stood four square Cher ishing the highest ideals of his pro fession and of good citizenship his newspaper work throughout his long career reflected the man He placed service above self and was happiest when contributing of his great en to the advancement of the com mon good The burders of many were lightened by the cheery help fulness of Harry Basehart in his all too brief journey along pathway To each of us who knew and loved him he leaves a memory that is an example and inspiration to worthy achievement Granger I was always most Impressed by his optimistic outlook on life and his great charity for others' fail ings Anna Cox was kind He had ideals He tried to live up to these ideals He wrote upward He encouraged others He was more than fair with his public and ius public loved him Burdened but few knew it Ill but never a whimper He worked and liked it He had a nose for news and could write it No assignment was too big for him or genera tions he'll be remembered by resi Con tinned on Page Two manWby HIT SKIP DRIVER William Homola of East ultonham sustained minor cuts and bruises when he was struck down by a hit skip driver in front of the Taft hotel on South ifth street early Saturday evening He was removed to a nearby doc office where the injuries were treated and Homola reported the in cident to police The pedestrian was attempting to cross South ifth street at the alley corner when he was hit by the car The driver apparently frightened by the mishap sped from the scene of the accident and disappeared in the early evening traffic Homola although dazed by the force of the blow remembered part of the license number of the auto mobile and reported it to police Authorities immediately launched ar Investigation of similar license plate holders in an effort to deter mine identity of the driver APRIL OOL PROIT Sioux alls 6 April John Walser bus driver har nessed the latent power of All day and turned it to a profit making enterprise Walser was credited today with having put a sign on his bus an nouncing tokens at 75 cents the dozen as an April ool The tokens regularly sell at four for tw enty five cents Nevertheless the driver report ed he sold about $25 worth of tokens as a result of the sign Would End Revolt By Late Shift i House Leaders Offer to 1 Give Congress a Ma jority Veto i Washington April 2 (ZP) Administration lieutenants reputedly with President consent proposed a compromise on the govern ment reorganization bill to day in an effort to save that bitterly fought measure from threatened house defeat The compromise would give congress the right to veto presidential reorganization orders by a simple majority ballot As the bill now stands a two third vote of both houses would be neces sary to block such orders The concession on this point and another which would keep the education bur eau in the interior depart ment followed a victory for opponents of the bill who had succeeded in stalling off any attempt to end debate urther strategy to meet the threatened revolt against the reor ganization measure may be discus sed at a White House conference to morrow The president arranged to confer with congressional leaders shortly after he returns to the capi tal from Warm Springs Ga where he has been vacationing The house adjourned for the week 1 end late this afternoon without con 1 eluding debate or taking any vote on the reorganization measure Before it quit work it' heard some of the most vitriolic debate of the session Administration supporters contended the real purpose of oppo sitlon to the reorganization bill was to while Repub 11 cans and some Democrats declared the compromise propoeal was but a sham which would be stripped from the bill by a congressional confer 4g ence committee after the house had acted upon it Terms of the compromise were an nounced to a packed and wildly $3 cheering house by Rep Warren (D NY) a member of the special re organization committee Reliable persons said his declaration was de elded upon after house leaders had conferred by telephone with Presl dent Roosevelt who has been vaca tlonlng at Warm Springs Ga te This is what the compromise oiii Mi congressional overruling of execu I tlve orders would do: Give congress the right within a 6O day period Is to accept or override a presldentla reorganization order by adopting resolution which would not require the signature to become effective Education Bureau In Interior The guarantee to keep the educa tion bureau in the interior depart ment thereby assuring that it would not be transferred to a proposed new department of welfare was an out growth of protests that the bill Continued on Page Two OPPONENTS OBJECT TO CONTROL EDUCATION Washington April 2 (JP A single paragraph ir the reorganization bill which some opponents contend might lead to strict government control of education is a subject of great coi troversy It says simply that a proposed new secretary of welfare shall promote among other things cause of and coordinate and pro mote health education and welfare Backers of the bill contend the words would make no change in ex isting law Nevertheless they agreed today to accept an amendment pro viding definitely that the present education bureau would be retained in the interior department TETANUS TOXIN OUND IN ANTI CANCER SERUM Orlando la April Medical officials announced today tetanus toxin had been found in two vials of a supply of serum used for injection treatment of ten cancer patients who died this week Dr Horace Day president of the Orange county medical society said the vials were selected at random from a consignment received by Dr A Neal Bolte retired vice president of the International Harvester com pany died early today Eight wom en and one man died previously our other patients were in hospitals Coroner Eugene Duckworth con ducting a separate Inquiry said Dr Dzy reperted to him tue known as and was manufac tured by the Bio Chemical Research oundation at Philadelphia will ask officials of the Bio Chemical Research oundation of Philadelphia manufacturers of rex under the Canadian ensol formula to come to Orlando to testify at the said Duckworth i' IT a fci OH i.