The Logan Daily News from Logan, Ohio • Page 1

WEATHER Showers and scattered thunder storms late tonight and Saturday. Milder tonight. he ogan aily ews Full Leased Wire Service of The Associated Press EVERYBODY'S MARKET PLACE the Doily Nows Clossifiod Ads ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH YEAR, NO. 118 LOGAN, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS GAS UNE EXPLODES NEAR SOMERSET Citywide Clean-Up Week Will Start Monday Logan Citizens Asked to Assist In Jaycee Drive Officials Announce City Trucks to Load Trash from Alleys Members of the Logan Junior Chamber of Commerce and city officials today reminded local citizens of the city-wide Up, Paint-Up and Fix-Up to be observed starting Monday. As a part of the clean-up drive, city officials have asked property owners to gather trash and other unsightly objects from their property and place it at the edge of the alleys.

City workers will come around in trucks to pick up the trash. Officials said that by trash they do not mean garbage or ashes. Jaycees have made arrangements to clean the trash disposal containers which the group recently donated to the city. They will pick up the containers early next week, wash them out and paint the interiors. A Javcec spokesman said the group will encourage property owners to clean up unsightly lots and buildings, especially where conditions might be harmful to health in the community.

Mayor Roger Friend has designated May 22 to 29 as the official clean-up period. City workers have already begun their annual sp.mg clean-up drive. Officials stressed a hope that the city will look nice as by Memorial Day, May 30. JACK HARTMAN. IK.

of Bryan, arrested yesterday in Parkersburg. W. was returned to Bryan today to face charges of murdering his aged grandparents on May 3. Axis Sally Loses In Appeals Court Convicted Woman Must Serve Term WASHINGTON, May 19 The U. S.

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Mildred E. (Axis Sally) Gillars must serve 10 to 30 years in prison for broadcasting Nazi propaganda during World War II. Tiie white-haired 49-year-old Airmen Indicate Spy 'Confession' Got Them Freed Ohioan, Navy Chief Say Treatment Was Better Than Expected PEARL HARBOR. Mny U. S.

airmen indicated yesterday they had admitted a Red charge of spying in order to escape from 18 months of captivity in communist north China. Marine Sgt. Elmer C. Bender, 27, Cincinnati, and Navy Chief Mate William C. Smith, 32, Long Beach, said they were treated better we could possibly have But they Bay yes or no at a press conference when asked if they had signed confessions that they were American spies.

The communists in announcing their release May 3 said they confessed. "As far as statements we made while we were up said Bender, were cut off entirely, and the best way to get out was I through our own Asked what was meant by that, Smith said it was a long story and will explain it all When I a reporter asked them, however, what means were used to get1 Bender replied: were no means, so-call- 1 SAVAGELY BEATEN by two men in the Riviera Night club at Fort Lee, N. Lee Mortimer, Broadway columnist and crime expert for the New York Daily Mirror, nurses his cuts and bruises in his New York City apartment. He said he believed his attackers be who followed him to the club. (International Soundphoto) NLRB Presses Canton, Case Officials Quiz Circleville Youth About Circus Fire Say He's Suspect in Ohio Blazes; Friend Is Admitted Arsonist COLUMBUS, May 21-year-old Circleville youth is being questioned about the Ringling Barnum Bailey Circus fire at Hartford, in 1944, a deputy said today.

Deputy Carl Radcliff of Pickaway County identified the youth as Robert Segee. He said he worked for Ringling Bros, at the time of the fire that killed 107 and injured 412 people. Prosecutor Guy Cline also said Segee was being questioned about the circus fire. He said, however, the youth only wras reported to be a former Ringling Bros, ploye and that this story was being checked. State Fire Marshal Harry J.

Caiian would admit only that Segee was being questioned about some fires Ohio and other MRS. HELEN KNAUFF, war bride ordered deported for talks excitedly with newsmen at New York ldlewild airport after learning a Supreme Court order had delayed her ouster just 20 minutes before she was to have been flown back to her native Germany. On the ground that it is confidential information. the Justice Department has refused to tell either Mrs. Knauff, the Supreme Court or a congressional committee the reason she was held at Ellis Island for many months and denied admittance to this country.

former actress was convicted more ed. But it was that they gave us the idea that we were to be there from nowr on. We were shut off from home. We had no news from home. The longer we stayed, the longer it looked as if we were going to Taft Charge Brings No Truman Comment WASHINGTON, May President refusal to dis- russ Republican charges of in his administration was taken by Senator Taft today as showing that the charges stand undisputed.

Taft, Ohio Republican who raised the accusation, referred to the no-comment stand taken by Mr. Truman at a White House news conference yesterday. The President, meeting the press for the first time since his country speaking trip, said he had not listened to Taft on a nationwide radio hookup Tuesday night nor read speech. The speech was billed widely as the Republican reply to Mr. Truman.

The President said he hail been too tired from his long trip and too busy to hear or read it. than a year ago in U. S. District Court here. The verdict as handed down by a jury which deliberated 17 hours and 20 minutes.

In addition to the sentence of from 10 to 30 years, she also was fined $10,000. She would be eligible for parole alter serving 10 years in prison. a development marked another scene in one of the post- vv a longest treason dramas. Miss Gillars first was arrested nearly five years ago when American troops entered Berlin. Before the downfall of the Nazis, her smooth-voiced radio shows became known to millions of GIs.

She was the supposedly Radcliff said Segee arrested in East St. Louis. 111., Wednesday and is held without charge. He waived extradition. Segee was brought to Colum- CHICAGO, May government has decided to press I Circleville, ho Is to be exam- Charges UMW, Firm Unfair to Coal Miner The two were captured October 19, 1948, when their light plane was forced down by engine trouble near the north China port of Tsingtao.

The city then was a U. S. Navy anchorage and they were on a training flight. They left Tsingtao May 3 on the British steamer Hunan, reached Hong Kong Monday, and were flown to Pearl Harbor, arriving unfair labor practices charges against John L. United; Mine Workers and an Illinois coal company in the case of a Canton 111., miner.

The miner, Lloyd Sidener, 45, i filed the charges under the Taft- Hartley Labor Law. He ousted March 7 as UMW local presi- dent at Canton. The union fined him $50,000 and $25 for every day he might work in the future. Sidener said the union fired glamorous radio siren who taught! Tuesday night. They are due at Los Alamitos near Los Angeles at 9:30 A.

M. PDT (1:30 TEST). They left last night in a special Marine plane. Reporters wanted to know if them the haunting strains of which became the world war marching-fighting song of the American Infantry. Since Federal Judge Edward M.

Curran pronounced sentence on March 25, 1949, Miss Gillars had been held in the District of Columbia jail. There was no immediate statement concerning whether she wouid appeal decision to the United States Supreme Court. (Continued on Page 3) Ohio-Wisconsin Cheese Contest Is Non-Title Bout Dayton Pastor Chosen CINCINNATI, May 63-year-old Dayton, minister took over his duties today as moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. Dr. Hugh Ivan Evans, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church for the past 26 years, was elected moderator yesterday.

Cooler Weather Likely for Sunday five-dayExtended weather forecast: Temperatures will average 3-5 degrees below normal. Normal maximum 65. Normal minimum 45. Cooler Sunday. Warmer Tuesday or Wednesday.

Precipitation will average hi to inch occurring as showers Saturday and again Wednesday. WASHINGTON, May Ohio squares off against Wisconsin today in the big congressional battle of the with- Ohio out public weighing-in ceremonies which had been planned on the Capitol steps. House Speaker Rayburn of Texas turned thumbs down on the curtain raiser which Reps. (D-Ohio) and Lawrence H. Smith (R-Wis) had proposed.

The two congressmen, whose him for trying to obey a federal back-to-woik order. The state officers said he was ousted for trying to set up a or rival union. Ross M. Madden, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago, issued a complaint against the union and the United Electrical Coal Companies. office said it acted after efforts to settle the dispute had failed.

It set June 20 for a hearing at Canton. The NLRB complaint says the Canton UMW local lined Sidener, a shovel engineer at the coal Buckheait mine near Canton, when he tried to resume work during the coal strike last February. It states that the union later caused the company to fire Sidener March 13 by threatening to call a strike at the mine. ined at Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane after pleading guilty to trying to set a fire at a Williamsport grain elevator. Officials said Graham also admitted starting a fire which destroyed a hay barn at the winter quarters of the Mills Bros.

Circus at Circleville March 18. Radcliff said Segee and Graham are acquaintances. have so much to talk said Callan. going to be quite a story if it works out the way think it will. got a lot of work before we can really get right down to Caiian said investigators questioned Segee until 2 A.

M. today. The youth is being held now in Franklin County jail in Columbus. $7,000, Holdup Man Clerk Takes Loses It to CINCINNATI, May 39-year-old Wuverly bank ploye who said he took $7,000 from his bank and then had it stolen from him less than 24 hours later, was expected to be returned to Pike County today. Paul N.

Smithson, assistant cashier of the Waverly State Bank, walked into police headquarters here yesterday and surrendered. He w'as broke and hungry. He said he had taken the bank funds and left Waverly because he was I The money, however, was gone and Smithson told Acting Police) Chief William C. Adam he had Housing Project Set COLUMBUS, May will begin soon on the largest housing project ever undertaken in apartment development that will Ohio Bank Robber Kills Self, Companion Arrested by Police STEUBENVILLE, May R. D.

George, president of the bandit was dead by his bank, said the two like own hand and another was in sprawl over 86 acres and cost dispute over the relative merits ncarly $9,000,000. Move to End Debate On FEPC Bill Fails WASHINGTON, May The Senate virtually killed the Fair Employment a ct i (FEPC) Bill for the session today by refusing to block filibustering by Southern opponents. The test came on an attempt to choke off debate on a motion to bring before the Senate for consideration this key measure of President civil rights program. A cloture (debate limiting) petition fell short by 12 votes of getting the required 64 for adoption. A roll call showed 52 and 32 votes.

lost some of it in a card game and had been robbed of the rest in an alley early yesterday. At Waverly, Sheriff Jess H. Foster said the money was taken from a strongbox inside a vault and that about $13,000 in cash in the same place was not touched. Smithson disappeared after borrowing an automobile from Marion Dixon, a bank clerk, saying he had to go to Chillicothe on business. The car was abandoned in Portsmouth.

Cincinnati police said Smithson told them he was up" because of financial worries. He related that he came here by bus from Portsmouth and registered at a downtown hotel. went from bar to bar, getting drunker at each he was quoted us saying. He said he eventually joined a man who asked him if he wanted a cab. He said he went to several spots in Newport, and then came back to Cincinnati.

still had the money with me when I got out of the lie said. next thing I remember was being choked in an alley. When I woke up every thing was gone. That was about 3 A. M.

I went back to the hotel to Smithson went to Waverly in 1948 from Chillicothe. jail today after their $1,000 holdup of the Bergholz State Bank backfired. Frank Hilldore, 25, formerly of Steubenville, killed himself with a .45 calibre pistol yesterday when their getaway car was halted at a police roadblock. Taken prisoner was Nick Mavromatis, 22, of Steubenville. Police caught up with the pair just 45 minutes after the holdup in the northwest Jefferson County village.

The roadblock was 18 miles from Bergholz. of the cheese made in their home states developed into contest, had planned to display the contestants on the Capitol Plaza, along with a bevy of yodelers to provide the right touch Swiss cheese.) Rayburn said no. we relaxed on he told a reporter, when they walked in at; next thing you know the time when there were no cus- bulter and jelly people i would want to use the steps, too." The two 200-pound slabs of The $1,000 taken was in a cash. cheese were to be delivered to the drawer. House and Senate restaurants and Mavromatis, identified as the served to the lawmakers.

They brother of a Steubenville police-; wm be asked to keep their opin- man, was held without bond in the ions to themselves. Ex-Methodist Supply Pastor Sues District Superintendent Convention in Columbus WASHINGTON, May The Boys Clubs of America voted yesterday at their annual convention here to hold their 1952 meeting in Columbus, Ohio. New York will be host to the 1951 convention. 2 Killed, 2 Hurt I Ail JB I Lancaster Men Die In Route 33 Crash LANCASTER, May Lancaster men were killed and a third was injured critically today in a two-car collision on U.S. Route 33 just north of the Lancaster city limits.

The dead: Richard E. Sehmelzer, 25, a carpenter, and William Johns, 18, a glass worker. Joseph B. Sehmelzer, 33-year- old Lancaster contractor, was hurt critically. A fourth man, George W.

Wheeling, 25, Lancaster Route 4, was reported at Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital to tie in fair condition. The two Schmelzers and Wheeling were riding in one car, Johns in a second machine. Asks Postal Cut Probe WASHINGTON, May Rep. McSweeney (It-Ohio) said yesterday he believes Congress should investigate the mail delivery curtailment order and its effect on veteran postal employes. McSweeney told reporters he promised the National Letter Conference to oppose service curtailment that will Little Inch' Pipeline Blast Creates Hazard Highway Patrolmen Route Traffic Away; Repairs Are Rushed SOMERSET, May A section of the "Little Big Inch" pipeline blew up today with a deafening roar.

No one was injured in the blast, a mile south of this Perry County town, but escaping natural gas later caused a serious fire hazard. The Ohio Highway Patrol rerouted traffic away from the scene while employes of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation tried to shut values and stop the flow of gas in the 20-inch line. A 40-foot stretch of the pipe was wrecked and a crater 25 feet deep was created. Dirt and sand were blown over an area 200 yards in diameter. No fire followed the explosion, which occurred about 7:10 A.

M. The blast occurred on the property of the St. Joseph Priory, a training school for young priests of the Dominican Order. The Rev. James McLarney said there was a There was no human being within a half-mile, but a herd of cows in a nearby field stampeded.

Many residents of this community of 1,300 population sought to rush to the scene, but were held back by highway patrolmen. The Big runs from Houston, Texas, to Linden, N. J. It is paralled by the 24-inch line along most of the rcute. Ordinarily, Texas Eastern in cases of explosion is able to bypass the rupture with other lines without a serious interruption of service.

A pipeline official said repairmen could not begin work for three or four hours. He said they needed that much time to allow the gas "to blow The repair job, he said, will be easy once the break has been isolated. Coal Industry Tax Slash Is Approved WASHINGTON, May The House ways and means committee voted today to cut the taxes on the coal industry by $5,000,009 to $10,000,000 a year. It was a further move away from the recommendations of President Truman, who has urged that business taxes be increased, if changed at all, to make up for prospective losses in government revenue from cuts in excise taxes on such things as telephone and telegraph bills and travel tickets. county jail today.

He told police that Hilldore recently ro-enlisted in the Army and was to have reported back yesterday. The two stole the holdup car in East Liver- pool Tuesday, Mavromatis added. Cheesemakers in Ohio and Wisconsin decided to make this a non-title affair, fearing, they said, that politics might enter into the decision if the outcome of the contest rested on congressional balloting. LANCASTER, May former Methodist supply pastor brought suit lor $30,000 damages yesterday against Dr. George M.

Wilson, superintendent of the Chillicothe District of the Methodist Church. The Rev. Robert L. Phillips of Wellston alleged that Dr. Wilson in statements and letters willfully and maliciously intend to injure the plaintiff (Mr.

Phillips) in his good name and standing as a member of the ministerial Mr. Phillips, who said he formerly was a temporary or supply pastor at Methodist churches in Sedalia and Albany, both in the Chillicothe District, asked $25,000 damages for statements allegedly made by Dr. Wilson. Mr. Phillips said he has been unable to make a living since the statements were made.

He asked an additional $5,000 for damages allegedly resulting from a letter which he said Dr. Wilson had sent to probate judges at Athens and Madison counties in September, 1949. Ohio Sailor Killed AG AN Guam, May Seaman Apprentice Way Ion M. Harper, 19, USN, was killed today by an electrical charge while installing a radio microphone in the Naval Air Station barracks in Agana. Harper was from South Solon, Ohio.

Robbed of $1,346 CLEVELAND. May With a single punch on the base any of the skull, a thug knocked out re- tavern operator John Pisano. 44, suit in the laying-off ot many mail near a busy intersection today and carriers with years of service robbed him of $1,346.64. Mayor Says Bingo Is Illegal, Orders Police to Raid Game No Treaty in Sight LONDON, May Big Three announced today there is no hope in the immediate future for Russian agreement to Both Dr. Wilson and the office an Austrian independence treaty, of the Ohio Methodist Bishop in They set in motion plans to lift Columbus declined to comment on 1 most occupation controls in the the suit.

western zones of Austria. URBAN May The main topic of conversation at the nearby village ot Mechanicsburg today is: "Will the big Eagles bingo game come off Mayor Joseph Chaney of Mechanicsburg says flatly that it will not, because it would be unlawful. Spokesmen for the Fraternal Order of Eagles are just as emphatic in saying that it will. Only nightfall will bring the answer. J.

W. Fornoff, a member of the Mechanicsburg Eagles lodge, said the hall has been rented to the Delaware Eagles Lodge (Delaware County) for a bingo game. Circulars advertising the game were circulated. Then Mayor Chaney said he would raid the game if it is held. an ordinance against he said, ordered Police Chief Ira Holley to stop the game if it is going to play Fornoff told newsmen.

Ohio Supreme Court says bingo is all tight if the receipts are for a charitable purpose. take the ease clear baek there if we have 03134462.