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ON 10 WEATHER Fair tonight. and Rising temperatures tonight in east and south portions Tuesday. ashingtonC.H.Record-Herald FULL LEASED BERVIOE WIRF, OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESA AND UNITED PREflG 6ERVICE mtrxl Prm Awwlitfon Feature Entered Strand Claae Matter At FViatoffice At Washington C. Ohio MX. XO.

254. WASHINGTON C. OCTOBEK 31, 19.W RV CARRIER 1 COPY PER WEEK A OC SINGLE in -nn LATE NEWS FLASH! London, Ort. John Andervm. broad administrator who terror in Bengal between 1932 and 1937, to day wst appointed l.ord Privy Seal in cabinet shakeup he lieved to hr preparatory to a widespread organization of the nation for defense.

VLscmint Runuman wat named Lord President of the council I SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD REFUSES PLEA FOR PENSION FUND School Fight NearsClimax; Count Funds President Of Board Of Education Joins Members Who Dissented BOOKS ARE CHECKED Meanwhile, 34,000 Pupils Begin Dayton Oct. The controversy over closing Dayton city schools headed for a court showdown today as 34,000 pupils started the first day of an indefinite holiday which may end tomorrow or January 1 The President of the Board of Education joined his dissenting vice president. Richard L. Withrow, in a view that the board orders dismissing the pupils and 1.300 teachers and other es Friday because of lack of operating funds and a $61.000 dcfi cit, was insupportable. With a statement that he now understood that state financial aid was available.

President Frank Miller reversed himself on last decision and said. I had known then what I know now. I would not have supported the order He indicated he might ask the board to reconsider Withrow, who obtained a temporary injunction against the closing Saturday, announced that any attempt to have it vacated would be met with a request for an immediate ruling holding Superintendent Emerson Landis in conterfipt of court. Five other hoard members disclosed that they had requested City Attorney Herbert Beane to defend the board today in ignoring the injunction Beane indicated he would ask Judge N. M.

Hodapp to vacate it. although no date had been set for a hearing on Withrow's petition for a permanent injunction. However, with both men and women organizations and the Dayton Ministerial Association solidly lined up in support of the board's action, and with the court business to be disposed of, reopening of the schools today appeared impossible. The Dayton Classroom Association, the women's organization, told its 300 members in a bulletin delivered by special messenger, teachers receive instructions from Superintendent Landis they need not and should not report for The men's group, the Schoolmasters' club, and the Women's Educational Association, and the Ministerial Association all ed resolutions hacking the hoard Meanwhile members of the staff of the state auditor's office were expected today to go over the books in an effort to find any unused sums that might relieve the crisis. State Auditor Joseph Ferguson sent Miss Vivian Dowds, veteran school examiner of the State Bureau of Inspection, to Dayton to confer with officials on school finances.

E. Dietrich, state director of education, said at Columbus that he knew of no state funds now available for use by Dayton schools in their present crisis. Realistic Radio Program Brings Panic To Thousands Who Believed U. S. Invaded Bg Warriors From Mars A horrible fantasy of war waged on the United States by fearsome, space-conquering men from Mars brought near panic to that part of the radio audience which was not tuned in last night on Charlie McCarthy's rival radio program.

In the double quirk tempo of the news hroad rasters, the fiction of a Columbia progam became so realistic that hysteria prevailed among listeners throughout the United States and Canada. Demands for investigation and correction rame aparc today with the belated reports of almost fantastic panic. In some places in Washington C. H. where radios told the story it caused niild excitement.

However, there was nothing panicky about the listeners who heard all of the broadcast. Sen Clyde L. Herring, said he planned to introduce in Congress a hill "controlling just such abuses as was heard over the radio last night, xxx Radio has no more right to present programs like that than someone has in knocking on your door and he added. City Manager Paul Morton of Trenton, .1 near the locale of the fictional invasion, said he would demand an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission the view of preventing recurrence of hat happened Some apartment houses in New York were emptied hurriedly hv frantic listeners to the gram and hv second and thtid hand accounts that multiplied the impending peril. A woman in Pittsburgh tried suicide, saying rather die this wav than like At a high point in the program, the electric power failed at Concrete, a town of and the lights went out in most of homes.

Manv thought the invasion had reached the West Coast. Women fainted and men prepared to take their (Please turn to Page Ten) Setup Fails To Jibe, Officials Say Board Regrets Caused By Finding In System FUNDS WITHHELD 111,000 Persons In State Affected, It Is Said NEW ROAD ALONG PAINT CREEK County Obtains Easements For 2-Mile Highway fAh! Liberty! Bride, 15, a Happy Mother Extends From Rock Bridge Southward Along East Bank Of Stream MAY START WORK SOON Duties of motherhood keep Mrs. Geraldine Jordan Murphy, of Dorchester, very busy these days. fourteen when she eloped in March, 1937, with Joseph Murphy, the child bride is pictured with her baby son, Joseph. born October 5.

(Central Prest) CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE STARTS IN FAYETTE-CO. 2,700 Letters, Each Containing 100 Seals, Will Be Sent Out By Chairman This Year 8 Persons Killed In Ohio Accidents Traffic Toll Grows State During Week End Nearly 2,700 letters, each containing 100 Christmas Seals, will be mailed out to residents of Fayette County this year. W. Peterson. chairman of the Christmas Seal Committee here, said today This number, Peterson disclosed, represents an increase of 400 letters over the amount sent out last year.

The seals, it was learned, have already arrived and are. at the present time, remaining in the Board of Health office while workers are busy addressing envelopes in which the letters and seals will be sent. The thirty-second annual salt In of the tuberculosis seals, Peterson said, opens officially on Thanksgiving Day and will con------------ tinue until Christmas. By The Associated Press Protection of the home will be An airplane crash and traffic the general theme of the educa- accidents brought death to right campaign against tuber- Ohioans over the weekend culosis which will hr conducted Miss Mary F. Lackner, 43.

of throughout the United States Cincinnati, was killed when her tuberculosis Associations silver and black monoplane L200 smallei committees in crashed in flames on the Ken- connection with the 1938 Chnst tucky-West Virginia border near mas Sale, sponsored nation- Williamson Va National Tuberculos- She was widely known as sec Association and in the State of retary of the Ohio tlil Ohio Public Health National licensed organ Assoelation. ization and was flying hack home Members of the Fayette (nun- alone after attending a mcrtinR of Ohnstma Seal (. nmmittee, the club in Cleveland Saturday who arc 1,1 of what wlU Smmyside Work Not Yet Started Expect Contractor Here In Day Or Two Clarence Hooper. 39, died as a result of a head-on auto collision at Zanesville Mervyn McGinnis. 28.

of Ada was killed in an auto collision at Lima. be done with the money realized from the sale are Mrs. George Wakefield, secretary treasurer; Mrs. Hagerty, Mrs. Carrie Willis.

Mrs. Frank Jackson, Dr James F. Wilson. Reese, WPA Project Awaiting Approval In Columbus The Fayette County Commissioners and County Engineer George A Gregg have obtained easements through the lands of Leslie Sollars, S. G.

Hoppes and Mrs Nancy Hoppes, paralleling Paint creek on the east side, and plans are being made for the early building of a roadway 1 3-4 miles in length from Rock Bridge to the point where the present end of the open road extending north out of Rock Mills. This roadway will extend directly into the most scenic region of Fayette county and provide an outlet directly North out of Rock Mills that will cross Paint creek at the new bridge at Rock Bridge and extend northward to the Chillicothe road at the one mile bridge southeast of Washington H. MU The easement calls for a 40 foot right of way and without cost by the above named property owners. Years ago the open road extended along the east hank of Paint creek from Rock Mills to the old Sturgeon Mills ford and thence a short distance to Rock Bridge so that two fords were available along the road. Years of washing hy high waters have wiped out part of the old roadway from the Sturgeon ford to the Rock Bridge ford, so that it will be necessary to build the road on higher ground over part of the route.

If a WPA project just worked out and filed with the WPA at Columbus is approved, the work of building the road will start without delay and afford employment to a large number of men until the new roadway is completed The improvement will he one of the largest pieces of new road building in Fayette countv in recent years, and should benefit the region through which it passes by affording a more direct and better outlet to various farms Extension of the road over the old route is possible by reason of the new hridge. which affords a direct outlet to the north. WIDOW OF WEALTHY INDIAN DISARMED OF Angeles, Get of her and evicted from her colonial tepee, Anna Laura Barnett still shouted defiance from her jail rell today. Ftut the bars seemed to offer mid proof that the woman who had twice wed the late Jackson Barnett, reputed world's wealthiest Indian had made her last stand against federal officials in her fight to hold a share of his oil fortune. Marshal Boh Clark and a dozen deputies, two of them women, met her hatchet threats with a tear gas attack yesterday and led Mrs.

Barnett and her daughter. Maxine Sturges. from the Wilshire boulevard home come back to my house and take possession of it again the minute you turn me loose," Mrs. Barnett cried. Fannie Brice, comedienne, lets out a whoop of joy she wins her divorce, at Angeles.

from showman Rdly Rose. Charge was desertion, hut real reason is said to be Eleanor Holm Jarrett, to whom Rose announced hts engagement. Auto Hits Bike; Man Is RAILROAD WAGE DISPUTE IS STUDIED BY PRESIDENT Chief Executive Calls Management To Consider Plan To Aid Carriers Accident Occurs Night On CCC Highway Robert McFadden. of London, driving on the CCC highway three miles northwest of Wash ington C. Sunday night, struck a bicycle ridden by Ernest Cantwell, who apparently does not have a home.

The man was knocked from his bicycle and injured severaly. Washington Oct. 31 iTV -President Roosevelt took personal IH charge today of efforts to effect a settlement of the critical UII111 vU railroad wage dispute The Chief Executive called representatives of rail management and Sunday to the White House to consider some long-range program to aid the camera. Of immediate importance however, was the lft per cent wage reduction ordered by the roads for Dec 1. and the threat of almost 1,000,000 rail workers to strike If cut is carried out.

The Presidents emergency railroad invest igat mg board recommended Saturday that the railroads withdraw their notices of the reduction which would clip 1250 McFadden stopped and brought 000 from their payrolls the injured man to Dr McDon office where he was cared for and remained here until an X-ray picture could be made today to determine the full extent of his injuries. McFadden reported the accident to Sheriff Icenhower Before the White House conference there was no indication whether the roads would accept the recommendation A committee of the earners' executives was asked to meet during the day Its chairman A Enochs, said the wage (Please turn to Page Ten) Appeal For Guardsmen Made In Strike Zone Washington. Oct Social Security Board said today if was unable to find, in effect, that Ohio was complying with its regulations and therefore was still ineligible to receive federal funds for old age pensions. In a public statement which also was addressed to an unofficial committee of the Ohio Legislature, the Board said Board us unable to make a finding that there is no longer a failure to comply with the provisions of the Social Security Act which finding is necessary before the Board can rertify a grant to the Secretary- of Treasury." The Board had withheld an Oe- tober grant of federal funds for old age pensions for 111,000 persons in Ohio after finding there were administrative deficiencies in the states Division of Aid for the Aged Board officials said a communication had been received from an unofficial committee of the Ohio Legislature inquiring as to the prospect of renewal of grant to the state. In its reply, the Board said it deeply regrets the needless suffering caused by the failure of the Ohio Division of Aid for the I Aged to furnish the information necessary- for the Social Security Board to make a finding" The Boards statement follows: In September Immediately after Mr.

Wray Bevens was appointed chief nf the Division of Aid for the Aged, the Social Sei curity Board sent its representative. Robert C. Goodwin, to call upon him to offer cooperation and ascertain what his plans were to correct the 12 major administrative deficiencies which his predecessor had agreed to correct. "He refused to make any specific commitments on these points. On October 10 the Board wrote Governor Davey offering its cooperation but has received no reply except a copy of a newspaper release by the Governor, dated October 21.

On October 26, the Board again sent its representative to call upon Mr Bevens to offer cooperation and ascertain what had been done by Mr. Bevens to correct the 12 administra- Rritish Pnw Minister Cham- tive deficiencies. Mr. Bevens again berlain called a special cabinet rinsed to make any written Britain France Make Effort To Build Up Armies Both Nations To Be pared For Unsettled Future Of Europe The Press Britain and Prance made new today to build up their in the face of unsettled future The razing of old Sunnyside school building to make room for the modern structure that will be erected on the site, has not yet been started hut must he. under terms of the contract, within the next day or two and he finished within 20 days.

Meanwhile every- day has found a group of men looking for w-ork. assembling at the place ready to start work if employed on the job. Once started the work of tearing away the old building will move rapidly, and work on the new structure will be started as soon as the contract can be let and the contractor get everything in readiness" to proceed with the job, 4 Autos struck and killed James 1 ai kin. Mrs H.u- Shade. 44.

al Cleveland: Herbert Sprenger. Mrs Harry H.ser, Russell Greene. 18. at Columbus. Janes.

Mias Olive and Fred W.se, 21. al Pomeroy Nelson Hill. 35 and hit wife MaLy Rc', Lyda. 32. Of Ashtabula, were Wilson.

Hon. rank Orubbs. killed when their automobile 'I Roby and Rev. Fred Gardner Dr. FL Brady, president of the Ohm Public Health Association.

who appointed Peterson as (Please turn to Page Nine) collided with a tractor-trailor just west of Conneaut, Pontage On Honks Reduced Slightly Washington, Oct. President Roosevelt ordered the domestic postage on books reduced to one and one-half cents a pound today, asserting he hoped this would stimulate growth, education and development of the American At present books come under parcel post rates which range from seven cents a pound upward i depending upon the zone Radio ('enter Formally Opened Rome Oct 31 Premier Mussolini today inaugurated a new imperial radio center near Rome which he called most powerful in the II Duce broadcast greetings to all Italians in the colonies and in foreign lands "who everywhere are proud of being Italians." Dramatic Flea Made By Officials Of Middletown Tobacco Plant, Seek To Prevent Clash Columbus, Oct 31 Martin L. Davey, gubernatorial career has been punctuated with critical labor strife issues, weighed today a personal, dramatic appeal from Middle town officials for national guardsmen to protect reopening of the strike-bound P. Lonllard Company tobacco plant. Calling upon the governor at the executive mansion, the Mid dletown officials pleaded Sunday night for military aid to prevent a violent clash which, they said, i mpendrd between aroused citizens and pickets of the Pioneer Tobacco Workers.

CTO affiliate which called the strike Oct. 3. Citv Manager Walter Braun told the governor in a conference that lasted until midnight that several hundred Middletown citizens had volunteered for emergency police duty in reopening the plant which normally employs 1100 persons at a weekly pavroll of $30,000. The strikers represent only a fraction of the plant's workers, Braun said, charging the CIO planned to import hundreds and perhaps thousands of armed pickets to overcome the volunteer policemen. Sam Sponseller, a CIO union organizer, filed with the National (Please turn to Page Ten) parliament session that is expected to be a into his Munich peace gained that he was uig to meet demands of some of his mmlsters for certain a ministry of supplies with powers to enforce an armaments In France.

FTemier Edouard Dal- adier also summoned cabinet for the first of a series of meetings to draft deciee Ians to rehabilitate French finances, the nation's most pmring securliv need Deladier, given 40-day decree powtrs to effect sary reforms, was expected to have his edicts ready foi Albert Lebruns signature cw tve end of the week His txpires Novem- 1S Danger of conffict between Czechoslovakia ar.d Hungary over their dispute apparently had parsed Both nations arranged meet Wednesday in Vienna witu representatives of Germany ami Italy agreed on by them as artiffHtots to settle Commander of the Fifth Corps Hungarian siui in dispute. Area of the United States Army, Hungary to whom Czechoslovakia placed a w-reath from President already has offered cession of pre- Roosevelt on the tombs of Presi- dominantly Hungarian areas, ex- NEWSMAN DIFS Salem Oct body of Thomas Brush, 42, circulation director of the Rrush- Moorc newspapers, ho died last night at Tucson. will be brought here for burial, his father, Lewish Brush, president of the newspaper chain, announced today. Wreath Is Placed On Harding's Tomb Marion, Oct jor Gen. Daniel Van Voorhis.

dent and Mrs. Warren Harding Sunday in an annual ceremony at the Harding memorial. Action Of Heart Pierced By Bullets Is Recorded As Firing Squad Executes Confessed Murderer Salt Lake City, Oct. A firing squad executed John W. Decring at dawn today in state prison while an electro cardiograph recorded probably for the first time the action of the human heart pierced by bullets.

A Decring, who had sought in every way to speed his death and who participated willingly in the scientific experiment to determine how long his heart would beat after being struck, was calm to the end The five men firing squad was given the order to fire at 6:46 a. E. S. and at 6:48 Deenng was pronounced dead in expiation for the May holdup murder of Oliver R. Meredith, Salt Lake City bus inessman.

There were ominous clouds against the pale sky over the mountains as Deering was led quickly from his cell block and strapped in his chair against a prison wall. (Please turn to Page Ten) pected the -luthority for military occupation of Siovak tem- torv in Czechoslovakia within the week Demands for another territorial revision arose in Bulgaria which lost territory to Rumania. Yugaslavia and Greece after the world war. Rumania met in the Yugoslav city of Ni5 to the situation created by the Munich accord." Polish and German diplomats met Berlin to negotiate on a legal tangle which caused Germany suddenly to deport thousands of Polish mitment other oral or writing on these 12 poitTr? Bevens persists in this refusal although both the Ohio old age assistance law- and the Social Security Act require him to make such reports as the Social Security Board shall request. of this refusal by the chief of the Division of Aid for the Aged and because any instructions which may have been issued to the staff of the organization have all been by word of mouth only, it is impossible for the Social Security Board to determine what is the pres form of organization what are the functions of the various officials, what procedures are being followed.

what standards are being observed and whether there is any consistency in policies and practices the Social Security Board is unable to a finding that there is no longer a failure to comply with the provisions of the Social Security Act which finding is necessary before the Board can certify a grant to the Secretary' of Treasury Board deepiv regrets the needless suffering caused by the failure of the Ohio Division of Aged to furnish the information necessary for the Social Security Board to make a finding, and which information similar agencies in all other states have always furnished freely and as a matter of course Belgian Twins Down Appeal For Territory Brussels. Oct. 31 (fP) answered today with a flat to that she Jews. About 22.000 Poltsn Jews were might contribute in a general said fco be a Polish-German distribution of colonial territory (Please turn to Page Nine) ito meet Germany's.