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OHIO STATE TRAMP CHICAGO 0 PLUNGES FOR SECOND TOUCHDOWN 377 CHINESE ESCAPE AS ABANDONS WAREHOUSE BUCKEYES WIN THIRD STRAIGHT VICTORY IN BIG TEN TITLE RACE Soldiers Flee Down 20-Yard Opening To Safety In Foreign Settlement 26 WOUNDED GRAVELY BY FIRE OF JAPANESE VOTE IN OHIO EXPECTED TO BE WIRETHOTO CHICAGO Oct 30 With both feet in the air Jimmy Miller Ohio State left halfback No 1Z tucked the ball under his arm and went over the goal for the second touchdown in today's 3941 triumph over Chicago Maroon Hsmlty 37 and teammates could not stop the smashing Ohlotans in their march toward a Big Ten title INTEREST GROWS IN TALK OPENING CONGRESS Jurors Find Groucho And Chico Guilty Secretary Of State Kennedy Predicts Typical Off-Year Election Tuesday NUMBER OF BALLOTS MAY HIT 2200000 Hsated Campaigns On Over Local Issues In Several Of Larger Cities (By United Press) COLUMBUS OcL Lacking a state-wide Issue the 1937 election campaigns moved to their close tonighL The finish will be Tuesday when the electorate ol the state goes to the polls Secretory of State William Kennedy today predicted the vote would bo and typical of off-year elections The department today completed Its last minute Instructions to boards of election and left In their hands the matter of overseeing the election's proper eonducL The vote according to department estimates will approximate 2200000 heightened noticeably by heated campaigns over local issues In larger cities The vote estimate on off-year elections was placed st 2000000 but the added local Issues should increase It by 200000 This vote should It materialize would approach the Z38Z401 ballots cast In 1933 when repeal of the prohibition amendment was voted upon l'ho 1935 vote waa 2004873 In last presidential and gubernatorial elections 3043116 votes were cast The only cognizance the state will take of the elections will ba to dispatch observers to Iron ton to oversee balloting in Lawrence County scene of recent state investigations because of alleged election irregularities Millions of dollars in tax levies and bond Issues will be submitted for consideration in the state with 350 such tax levies or issues to bo voted upon according to department of state estimates The levies In metropolitan areas are for relief financing and local governmental operations building programs and school operations Estimates placs the number of candidates to be elected st 23000 from a field of 60000 Municipal offices county and city boards of (duration township trustees township clerks constables and Justices of the peace will be affected by the balloting State Interest will center on the results of elections in political subdivisions of 37 counties In which local option and elections to' ban sals of beer are being held currently with the filling of offices by bsIloL While not as extenstvo In number ss In other years since the demise of prohibition the areas balloting on such questions are those which are not leaders Tha strictly dry areas began voting out liquor and beer as early as 1934 McNsughL superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League believes the drys will win a smaller percentage of the 90 elections Tuesday since the "strongest dry areas already hsvs voted out tho 'Loral option elections are being held in many places where preparation haa not been sufficient to assure us of ho said NEW YORK OcL In 15 slates scattering off-year election campaigns drew toward a close today with the usual widespread claims from both sides of victory on Nov From a national standpoint tho chief Interest toy In ths signs that might be raised to show which way the political winds are blowing some hint of that may be expected (Centinued ea Page Column 1) Feature Index HAHN DEFENSE SCHEDULED TO OPENMONDAY Judga Bell Indicates He Will Overrule Motion For Directed Acquittal WOMAN'S LAWYER WARNED TO BE READY WITH CASE Defendant Scheduled To Be Among First Three To Take Stand (Hr AincIiM Frew) CINCINNATI Oct Judge Charles Bell took under advisement today a motion (or a directed acquittal of Anna Marie Hahn as the accused poison slsyer of 78-year-old Jacob Wagner Attorney Joseph Iloodin took up two-hour session attacking the case asserting Prosecutor Dudley Outcalt had failed to prove a prims fade rasa in the death of Wagner The promise to prove a prlma fade case was the basis upon which the court permitted evidence of the poison deaths of three other elderly acquaintances of Mrs Hahn Judge Bell said he would rule on the separate motions Monday but he warned Hoodln to be prepared to present defense witnesses Indicating that he would rule adversely on a directed verdict Mrs Hahn was scheduled to be among the first three to take the stand There was a possibility counsel Indicated that her 13-year-old son Oscar also might be summoned In an attempt to save his mother from the death Jjen-alty demanded by the state The boy attended the first day of the trial Oct 11 but a court order barred all children after that time state has made out a case of forgery of a will but that does not answer the question of how Jacob Wagner met his Hoodln told the court At me point he shouted that Frank Broeman court appointed chemist to analyse the body of Wagner and City Chemist Otto Behrer no mare unified to tell the amount of poison that makes a lethal dose than would be if were called to the stand1 Judge Bell Interrupted: that idea the court entirely disagrees OF ARSON CHARGES Jury Acquits Man Of Attempt To Bum Children MEDIA Pa Oct A Jury tonight (bund Albert Knight guilty on three charges or arson but acquitted him of a rharge he attempted to burn to death his four children to collect 3120000 insurance Knight and his four children heard the verdict without any show of emotion About 25 of Knight's friends from his home town of Lansdowne also were present when the Jury reported to Delaware County Judge John Broomall at 9:45 The three charges on which Knight was convicted carry with them a total of from four to 29 yean In prison The Jury found him guilty of: 1 Attempt to set fire to a dwelling and chattels penalty one to two years firing a dwelling penalty two to 20 years 3 Firing chattels to defraud the Insurer penalty one to seven years Knight's attorney announced he would ask for a new trial and requested Judge Broomall to set bail for Knight's release Broom-all however refused on the grounds that Knight had been convicted of a felony and could not be admitted to ball He ordered him Jailed Knight -had been free pn $10-000 during his trial The former oil promoter kissed each of his children good night and then conferred In a whisper with Ruth one of the daughters The children began to cry as they left the court room Judge Broomall set November 15 as the date for hearing arguments on a new trial The Jury deliberated almost 24 before its decision was announced by Mrs Florence Hickey housewife of Marcus Hook who was foreman Knight was charged with setting fire to his home last May to murder his children and collect the insurance on their -lives FATHER AND BOY KILLED AMHERST Oct George 40 a quarry worker at nearby South Amherst and his five-year-old son Thomas were killed today when struck by an automobile as they were walking on a country road three miles south of hers Came Maroon Football Team Tries Vainly To Savo Itself From Shutout SCARLET SCORES IN ALL EXCEPT FIRST QUARTER Nick Wasylik Backfield Mali la Running Star Of Day For 0 (By Associated Pma) CHICAGO Oct Ohio State's high-powered gridiron machine coughed and sputtered for one period today but found the proper carburetor adjustment and rolled a 39 to 0 triumph over Chicago's game little band of Maroons It was the Bucks third straight victory on the road to the Big Ten title or at least a share of the honors The Maroons without a victory for the season tried desperately first to connect with an upset triumph then after the Ohio State Juggernaut had rolled them almost fist to save themselves from shutout But most of their efforts merely helped the fleeL alert Buckeyes to scoring opportunities Chicago's game backs tossed passes until they were arm-weary and they flipped the ball in lateral plays only to find the Bucks a step or two ahead of them on most occasions Ohio Slate had two (coring chances in the first period but the first one was pulled apart when Louis Letts intercepted pass from Mike Ksbeslo and the second one was halted by plain old-fashioned defensive football A pair of fumbles by Johnny Rabb deep In Chicago territory early in I he second period delayed the inevitable a while longer but once under way the Bucks strong-armed through for two touchdowns In each of the last three periods Nick Wssyllk the running star of the day hauled down an serial from Sollle Sherman In the second period and a few moments later Mike Ksbeslo blasted through the line for the first score Big Warren Chrisstnger Spring-field snstehed one of I-ew Ham-(Continued ea Page I Cslumn I) PASSAGE OF CROP MEASURE IS SEEN Senator Pope Says Majority Of Farmera Want Program COLUMBUS OcL av-Senator James Pope Democrat Idaho a member of the Senate sub-committee conducting hearings on proposed federal crop legislation today predicted passage of a crop control measure st the special session of Congress majority of farmers are ovsrwhelmlngly In favor of such a program which Includes control of production and marketing1 Senator Pops said The Senators George McGill Democrat Kansas and at a two-day hearing here heard farmers ask for continuance of the federal soil conservation program voluntary production control and establish' ment of an ever-normal granary plan and crop Insurance Senators-McGill and Pope coauthors of the ever-normal granary bill agreed that farmers should have a voice in administering Its provisions Senator Pope said that If farmers could control production it would not be necessary for the government to enact legislation but added tack organization" Agricultural leaders of Ohio Michigan and Indians gave suggestions to the committee which concluded hearings today A final hearing is planned for New York stole Senator Pope said SLAYING AT MIDDLETOWN IS REPORTED CONFESSED Drinking Party Culminates la Shooting MIDDLETOWN OcL (R Police SegL Harvey Kurth said tonight Andy Alex 5Z had admitted slaying Pasquato Scortl 43 father of eight children following an all-night drinking party Kurth said ho went to the Alex home In response to an anonymous teleplume call and found Alex with a shot gun standing near Scortl's body in the living room Coroner Harry Deubel said formal charges would not be filed until after an inquest planned for next week CIO LEADER BEATEN Msa Attacked On Perch Of Flint Mich Heme FLINT Mich OcL Ronald Woodward Committee for Industrial Organisation representative waa beaten severely early today when he stepped onto his porch as ho returned home Two stitches were taken by physicians to dose up a gash cut by a blackjack blow Three men were said to have attacked Woodward Ho waa removed to the CIO clinic In Detroit Michael Taylor organizational director of the CIO demanded a state investigation 200 Dead Fulfill Pledga To Defend Until Death By LLOYD LEIIRBAS SHANGHAI Oct (Sunday) CJPi China's battalion escaped Its besieged warehouse-citadel early today runing hissing machine gun gauntlet to sanctuary in Shanghai's International Settlement At the height of a furious battle that sprayed shells over foreign-owned areas of central Shanghai citadel early today running a lax-yard opening to safety They were disarmed immediately by British troops and interned for duration of the conflict Twenty-six were wounded gravely Chinese said they had left behind 200 dead who fulfilled their pledge to defend the warehouse until death in the face of Japanese or die ultimatum Ten minutes after the but survivor fled the crumbling warehouse Japanese hoisted the Rising Sun flag over the site of one of the most dramatic episodes In this conflict Col Hsieh Chin-Yuan commander of the battalion part of Generalissimo Chlang Kai-Shek's own 88th division was the but to reach safety of foreign protection He said the capitulation was on direct orders to evacuate cause the battalion was valuable to I waa an eye-witness to the thrilling deadly drama from beginning to end watching from a United States Marine sandbag redoubt 50 yards directly across Soo-chow Creek from the doomed fortress Terrific roars of Japanese big guns rocked the sandbags os shells hurtled through the entire structure landing at many points In (Continued oa Fags Columu SI PEN ESCAPE PLOT IS INVESTIGATED Meanwhile Convict Continues Water-Tower Sit-Down COLUMBUS a Oct m-Occupled with thwarted escape plot in the early morning hours Ohio Penitentiary guards were only slightly amused and less concerned today by James Mason 30 chanting his want out of here" from a perch on the 150-foot high prison water tower Mason from a inarching Una of convicts at breakfast time and climbed to the tower's catwalk where four weeks ago he paced back and forth demanding futllely release (torn prism go said Warden Woodard Indicating prism officials would make no attempt to bring down the protesting Lucas County (Toledo) convict sentenced in 1930 for one to 20 years for operating an automobile without the consent Cold and hunger ended Mason's previous water-tower marching Woodard turned Instead to investigating the attempted break of three Cleveland robbers who surrendered when a waU guard fired two shots at them In the early morning gloom The warden ordered solitary confinement in disciplinary cells for the Frank Fens Paul and Bernard Tvasko serving 10 to 15 years Guard James Richard opened fire when he saw shadowy figures slink' tag across the prism yard Bernard Tvasko suffered scratch wound in one ear The prison investigation sought to trace two saws two hammers a pair of shears and two long knives found on the prisoners and an explanation for their being absent from the bakery Jobs several hours without detection PEACE IN AMERICAS CITED BY ROOSEVELT President Makes Deelaratira Before Group HYDE PARK OcL President Roocevelt today cited the development of peaceful relations the American continents through trestles and arbitration ss an example of means by which the rest of the world might abolish war People In foreign countries he said era beginning to point to North and South America as whole continents that have abolished war and established machinery so that any question between nations may bo settled without resort to arms The President's deelaratira today waa made before women rep resenting the people's mandate for peace headed by Dr Mary Woolley president emeritus of Mount Holyoke College FALL KILLS PAINTER MARION Oct CSV-William A Plank 70-yesr-old painter was Injured fatally here today when he fell 14 feet from a ladder to a concrete driveway Message To Be Given Nov 15 Compared To Inaugural Addrasa Of 1933 WASHINGTON OcL CSV-Events are shaping to focus public attention on President message opening the coming special session of Congress more sharply than on any similar utterance since his first Inaugural address In 1933 No suggestion has yet come from the President himself of any purpose to expand that address beyond the outline of a legislative five-point program such as he sketched In his recent fireside chaL Yet evidence of cumulative pressure upon and upon assembling members of Congress for action promptly to stem downward business trends and reverse the prolonged down awing of the stock market increases day by day Some advisers dose to the President are urging him to Include in the special semion program action toward tax revision or other steps to relieve bustaem uncertainty Market reaction to the margin relaxation announcement was described ss satisfactory by reserve board officials The reaction In market and financial circles In New York was more significant While the technical aid toward stabilisation of day to day market operations waa welcomed the Intervention from Washington was read as forecasting further government moves to encourage private enterprise President Roosevelt declined in his press conference Friday at (Continued ea Page 8 Column 8) 800 OHIO EXECUTIVES WILL MEET AT DAYTON Current Conditions Te Be Dta- DAYTON 0 Oct V-Faced by zigzagging securities markets and drooping business activity 800 Ohio industrial and commercial executives Join for a symposium and Clinic on current conditions next week at the state Chamber of Commerce's 44th annual meeting Sessions open Wednesday for two days Dr Glenn Frank former Wisconsin University president and Gov Martin Davey share the Wednesday evening platform MERRY-MAKING LIMITED COLUMBUS Oh OcL CV-Harrassed by a wave of pre-Hallowe'en pranks and petty thievery tow enforcement leaders tonight damped down on rowdyism and property destruction A section of downtown street eras ordered roped off for merry-making In an attempt to centralise the celebration BIRD BLAMES WIFE FOR HIS CAPTURE Was Homesick' Says Notorious Gangster CLEVELAND OcL Frank Bird desperado-killer was bock in tail and the reason he said was that his wife "cried and cried for her mother" Bird 30 and his wife Sylvia 2L were arrested at her home last nlgh't without a shot being and with the aid of her father Joseph Sieber "Sylvia was homesick" Theodore Stapleton chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here quoted Bird ss saying cried and cried for her mother been crying for three days steady before wo left New York for Cleveland" Bird and his brother Charles escaped with James Wldmer from county Jail in a bullet-punctuated chase tost month Wldmer was retaken In Philadelphia OcL 15 Federal authorities hunted In the east tonight for Charles Bird In a drive to apprehend the last fugitive member of the Bird gang Charles chestnut-haired 26-yes r-old desperado is believed with his wife Barbara The wives are slaters The hunt centered In New York and Baltimore agents said Frank and Sylvia Bird arrived from New York by bus last nlghL Two hours later they were in the month-old trap of persistent watchers Sylvia first went to the bungalow of her parents Frank revolver in hand waited outside In a nearby woods A knock sounded on the door father answered Sieber pulled his daughter inside and a sheriff! deputy Immediately cov-ered her Learning from his daughter that Frank Bird was outside Sieber celled to the desperado: Frank come on In" The outlaw stepped from the shadows Half a dozen officers collared him "Thera was a guy within three feet of me that I could have plugged but the he told his captors PEN HOSPITAL HAS FIRE COLUMBUS OcL 30U-CR-Warden Woodard said smoke from a burning bed forced Ohio Penitentiary Hospital attendants to move about 20 patients from a second-flow ward to an adjoining room tonighL The blase was extinguished with Slight damage the warden said before the city fire department arrived In answer to an storm No one was injured he said A lighted rigs ret was advanced ss the probable cause of the fire HOLLYWOOD OcL IKE) A federal court Jury today found that a radio srript which Groucho and Chico Marx had used was not their property and convicted the screen comedians on a charge of criminal copyright Infringement The jury of elderly men de- 1 liberated on the case but 45 minutes Judge George Coagrave set Monday for sentence The maximum sentence under the verdict la one year in Jail and a $1000 fine Defense attorneys announced that they would ask a new trial Monday The comedians were accused by the government of using a radio skit prepared by Carroll and Garrett Graham brothers without permission of the authors The skit was entitled The Hollywood Adventures of Mr Dibble and Mrs Government prosecutors alleged that the broadcast of this script occurred In January 1936 Groucho and Chico were stunned by the verdict They had toughed and wisecracked throughout the trial One time Groucho the black mus-tached cigar smoking expert In film slapstick drew a rebuke (ran the bench when he prefaced his testimony with the remark that pay and pay and pay and never stole anything In our The brothers remained at liberty under $1000 bail to-nlghL Groucho testified he had read the Graham script In 1935 but had not used It 1938 we got a spot on the radio and a ha said contracted with A1 -Boasberg radio writer to write a script for us He wrote one and we accepted iL It apparently have any similarity with the skit submitted by the COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN KANSAS BRING PROBE Special Committee Appelated At I'aivarsity MANHATTAN Kan OcL Alleged activities of Communists on the University of Kansas campus will be Investigated by a special commutes of the board of regents It was announced today The inquiry was demanded by Ed Henry of Dodge City whose son Don Henry a Kansas student was killed fighting with the Loyalists in Spain Henry a member of the liberal student group at the university at Lawrence was a leader In the student "peace activities In which war was protested Early this year he left the campus told his parents he was going eaaL Ha was secretive about his movements his father sold later when word was received that he had been killed The father who went to Lawrence and demanded school authorities to Investigate charged his passage to New York- and Francs waa financed by Communists who operated on the campus from a headquarter in Kansas aty Mooney Denied Freedom Will Again Appeal BAN FRANCISCO Oct 30 The supreme court of California today again refused Thomas Mooney freedom from San Quentin Penitentiary George Davis attorney for the tabor leader who was convicted in San Francisco's Preparedness Day bombing in 1918 announced tonight that this act opened the way for another appeal to the United States Supreme Court in the long battle to gain liberty for his client Such an appeal would bo last hope for freedom California's high tribunal denied Mooney's petition for a writ of habeas corpus The court held he had hem given a fair trial and was fairly convicted as a perpetrator of the bombing In which 10 persons were killed and 40 maimed He Is serving a life sentence having been saved from the gallows by 1 Intervention of President Woodrow Wilson who commuted the sentence to life imprisonment Davis said that he had arranged to have exhibits transcripts and other evidence In the case forwarded to Washington Ones before the United States Supreme Court was asked to rule a writ of habeas corpus for Mooney but refused to do so holding that Mooney had not exhausted his resources in the state courts The California State Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus a 6 to 1 division Mooney received the news In his cell at San Quentin Prism without show of emotion He shrugged his shoulders have hem anticipating this for a long he said to just me more obstacle out of the way I have every expectation that now the federal high court will give me my freedom My attorneys will go to work at FRENCH BLOCK ROADS TO HALT ARAB RIOTS Troops Push Roundup Of Natien-alist Leaders CASABLANCA French Morocco OcL Heavy patrols of French troops were stationed on the frontier between Algeria and Morocco tonight virtually dosing the bonier to all but foreigners to prevent the spread of Arab Nationalist agitation Police and troops pushed their roundup of Nationalist leaden arresting Mohammed Hassra el Ousx-sani chief of the action committee" which officials said worked closely with Arabs in Syria and Palestine Gen Amcdee Blanc commander of French troops at Fez when Hsssan was arrested told a gathering of Arab leaden that Franca "clearly recognises the hand of a foreign power" in the attempts to overthrow the French protectorate and set up a native Arab kingdom WAGE ACCORD REACHED Long Negotiations End At Indiana Mines TERRE HAUTE Ind OcL After eight months of negotiating sub-committees of the United Mine Workers and the Indiana Coal Operators Association tonight reached an agreement the new wage scale for the Indians mines The exact scale was not revealed lending its acceptance tomorrow ly the full scale committees of both organizations Tige Book Review I Brady Dr William 7 Builder Page 11 Croaaword Puzzle 1 Editorial! 4 raahlon Pattern 7 Fraternal New 4 Industrial New McIntyre Ol 4 Muale Note ft New Serial Story It Oboerver The 4 People1 Forum 4 Post Emily ft P4T A Activities ft Radio Program ft Sidelight on New 1 Society Nw 1-2-S-4 Sport 1-3-3-4 Stamp Suburban New ft Sullivan Mark 4 Sun aerial Story I Theater Note 6 WIREPHOTO Page 12 Magazine Section Short fiction story special article Believe It Or Not Helen and Warren 1 Kathleen Norris Horoscope Highlight of History Children's Pago and Faahlon Page lisle Berlin 1 Sixteen pages of the world's best comics Associated Press Wlrephote Paper Ohio State 39 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 7 Minnesota 6 Dayton IB Western Reserve California 27 A 14 Southern California 0 Washington State 0 (tie) Dartmouth 9 Yale 9 (tie) Pitteburgh 25 Carnegie Tech 14 Penn 14 Navy 7 Northwestern 14 Wisconsin 6 Nebraska 7 Indiana 0 Georgia Tech 14 Vanderbilt 0 Michigan State 7 Illinois 6 Oberlin 13 Wittenberg 0 Col Academy 32 Catholic Central 0 (Additional Scores la Sports Section) PHONE HEAD COLLAPSES NEW HAVEN Conn OcL SOUR Floyd 0 Hale 54 president of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co collapsed' during the exciting closing minutes of the Ysle-Dartmouth game today and waa rushed by the field ambulance to the New Haven hospital 0 i 4 i a i.