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Fair tonight, Wed. cloudy. Slightly warmer in THE SALEM NEWS Complete News Coverage of Salem and Vicinity NEWS VOU'ME 96 The Associated International Hews Service United Press SALEM, OHIO, TUESDAY, APRII, 23, 1935 EIGHT PALESTHREE CENTS THREE PLEAD GUILTY AS 29 FACE COURT TODAY leetonia host 10 KIWAMANS! EROM 20OTIES fenth Division Meeting To He Held Tonight In Church aking music to FOLLOW DINNER jen A. Arneson, Ohio Kiwanis Governor, To Attend Approximately 200 Kiwanians from score or more of cities and towns the district are expected to ari the Tenth division meeting ych will be held tonight in St. Lutheran church in Leetonia.

The conference will get under iy with a supper at 6:30 p. m. th Orville C. Bates, president of Leetonia club, presiding. Clark S.

Marshall of Leetonia, at lieutenant governor of the division, will be the toast- aster. Ohio Chief to Speak program of talks, music and er entertainment, with the princi- address by Ben A. Arneson of ware, governor of Ohio Kills, will be presented, ev. C. Brillhart, D.

pastor Lutheran church, will the invocation and the address felcome will be delivered by Mr. reelings will be offered by Cecil Scott of Salem, lieutenant gover- of the Tenth division, lusical selections will be given Mrs. Esther Odoran. vocalist Mrs. Ellis Satterthwaite, vio- st, both of Salem, while Miss heme Carev will offer a read- number of vocal selections are eduled the Oleanders.

Cleved radio broadcasters. Officers Expected the visiting Kiwanis of- tais will be Pete Land of Akron, lio Kfwanis secretary; Paul W. va. iitfuienant renter of the ghth division; tin Woodruff, utenant gover- rcf the Seventh Casper Clark, lieuten- it governor of divLsion, Dd the following chairmen: Albert R. Cox, and girls; O.

Metzler, busi- L. Bo Ion edu- ion for new leisure; past Gover- A. Williams, R. C. eddies- and Dr B.

Wilkinson; inter- on. .1 committee on attendance, iiam C. Landphair. Scouts of troops No. 13 and fill have charge of traffic and Public School Stocking Rebels NABCANTONIANS Scenes Where Earthquake Hit AS PASSERS OF SPURIOUS U.S.

Agents Arrest Two Men As Counterfeiters MONEY CIRCULATED IN THIS REGION Two New York public school girls pull black cotton stockings over their silken hose as they reach school because board of education is against wearing the silk ones. More than 2,000 girls have threatened to revolt and wear silks in class regardless of regulation they tarm as Licenses For Greater This Year Dog licences issued in county so far this year are fur.i higher than the corresponding figure of a year ago, County Auditor John Irwin announced oday. Last year 5.611 licenses were Nued the county, and at the of business Monday the last rense was 5,620. issued to the net of a dog in Salem. EKective May 25, County Dog Edward Sullivan will begin investigation of 500 dog owners egistered last year who have failed procure a license for the current temperatures SALEM WEATHER REPORT yesterday noon 46 6 p.

47 whsight 40 6 39 noon 53 'Saxnnum 53 -lioimum 31 Year Ago Today i mum Commissioners Okay Canal Resolution UrffinRr FERA Help LISBON, April County commissioners at a meeting Monday approved a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Northeastern Ohio County Commissioners association, which urges FERA aid in the completion of the Beaver-Maho'iing Valley canai project and the Geauga county reservoir projects. The Beaver-Mahoning county canal project will begin at Rochester. on the Ohio river and terminate at Struthers. O. At the April meeting of the association, it a brought to the Youngstown district, so far as transportation rates are concerned, the steel industry may eventually leave the Mahoning district, eventually affecting counties represented by the association, either directly or indirectly Copies of the resolution adopted by county commissioners here are to be forwarded proper authorities at Washington and Columbus.

Pupils On Program For Grange Meeting Students of four schools will present the program at the meeting of Butler grange Thursday evening. those scheduled to participate being members of Winona lower grades. Winona upper grades. school and McCann school. The program follows: Song.

Glenn and Lee Bennett (Winona upper play, the Hazel Mercer. Wilford Mercer. Mary Pilmer. Kathryn Mountz and Forrest Albright; poems (written by Betty Lutz and given by the Winona lower music (Winona upper grades); play. The Sewing; school), Lillian Mercer.

Isabelle Mercer. Mildred Berger. Twila Ward. Maggie Wolford. LaVeme Oesch and Eugene London; movie.

and the (Winona lower grades), story-teller. Loretta Flitcraft. Richard Stamp, member of the school board, will make a short address. region showed the flimsy vil- MEMORIAL DAY AIDS APPOINTED Committees Are Selected By Allied Patriotic Orders Men Believed Connected With Huge Ring In New York City CANTON, April 23 William Unitas and William Harper, U. S.

secret service agents, said today i they had arrested two alleged passers of counterfeit money whose, source of supply of bogus money! was New York city. The agents said the men con- fessed and gave their names as Onofre Berta Lesaera, 39, and Antonio Costello, 40, both of Can -1 ton. Hint Nation-Wide Ring Unitas and Harper said they be-, lieved the two arrests were the break needed to clean up a nationwide counterfeit ring. They quoted the men as admitting they had regular contact with a counterfeit ring headquarters in New York city where they could purchase $500 in bogus money for $200 The agents said Lessera and Costello confessed making several purchases and distributing the money in this territory, as well as in Alliance, Weirton, W. Va and Pittsburgh, Pa.

Money Is Found Costello was arrested here late yesterday, where, the agents said, in a room he shared with Lessera, they found $410 in counterfeit $10 and $5 bills secreted in a partition. The men confessed after the discovery of the bills, the agents said. They were taken to Cleveland for appearance in federal court today. Initial steps in the preparation i of the program for the annual Mei morial day observance here were taken at a meeting of allied patri- otic orders last, night in the G. A.

hall. Among the organizations represented were the G. A the Relief Corps, the Sons oj Veterans, and their auxiliary, the Daughters of Union Veterans, the American Legion and its auxiliary, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Lheir auxiliary. F. L.

Probert was named general chairmen and Miss Charlotte Probert, secretary. Other committees were appointed as follows: Speaker Philip Rhodes and J. A Nicklason. Peppel and Harold Wyckoff. Chaplain of the Bert Lesch and Mrs Ernest Monks.

Entertainment of children- Mrs. Arthur Hutson and Mrs. Henry Lundberg. Evergreen I C. Hoopes.

The next meeting of the committees will be held Tuesday night, May 7. at the hall, when the first reports of the committees will be submitted. animum NATION-WIDE report (By Associated Press) 8 a. m. Today 54 cloudy 44 cloudy 38 cloudy 42 partly 50 clear 46 cloudy 50 clear 46 cloudy 44 clear ........58 partly 60 cloudy 58 cloudy 78 partly 68 48 clear 46 cloudy 42 cloudy 50 clear ay Atlanta 6 UM: hteago Ninnati velan Rumbus jtroit Pasa Sausas City Angeles leans York tland Waxhi.

ngton 60 42 Yesl. Max. 72 52 44 48 6 70 58 64 52 80 80 688 76 60 50 50 66 1 High cloudy 86 Low Hiver, cloudy 24 Wellsville Stadium Project Suspended LISBON. April the exhaustion of funds. County Works Director Arthur Dickson today had ordered work on the Wellsville stadium project suspended temporarily, or until such time as additional money was available to continue activity.

Suspension of work has placed 65 workers on the retirement list, in addition to two foremen. may follow that one or two other works projects will have to be closed soon because of fund Dickson said Sufficient money is available to continue work on existing schedules on the court house and municipal building at East Liverpool, it was reported. Moderator Named BUCYRUS, April 23 Carl Longbrake of Kilboume, Delaware county, is the new moderator of the Marion of the Presbyterian church today. He was at the quarterly conference here last night, succeeding the Rev. John Stuart of Marysville.

Late Bulletins BONUS TO BRING TAXES WASHINGTON, April 23- Congress was warned frankly today that if a bonus bill is passed, the treasury will recommend a new federal inheritance tax to raise from 200 ,000,000 to $600.000,000 a year. This notice came from Secretary Morgenthau, who appeared before the senate finace committee and said that any pending bonus proposals would call for additional taxes. AS Railway station and thorofare in Taikoku, capital of the Japanese Island of Formosa where more than 3,000 were killed by an earthquake. HOMER VEOH DENIES GRAND JUKI CHARGE; RELEASED ON RDRD Suspended Salem Patrolman, Accused In New Philadelphia Case, Also Faces Charges In Columbiana County PROVIDES BOND OF $1,500 East Liverpool, Wellsville and Columbiana Men Plead Guilty; Summitville Prisoner Held Under Record Bond of $9,000 Three pleas of guilty were heard today in common pleas court as 29 persons faced Judge F. Lanes on indictments returned by the April grand Jury Friday night.

Among the indictments were six secret bills, one of which charges Homer Veon, suspended Salem patrolman, with concealing stolen property. Veon appeared in court today, pleaded not guilty and was released under bond of $1.500. Veon also is awaiting trial in common pleas court of Tuscarawas county, at New Philadelphia, on a charge ot grand larceny in connection with the theft of cheese in 1931 from a dairy near New Philadelphia. He was jointly Indicted by the Train Rider Nabbed After Police Chase Elijah Green. Negro, of Massillon.

although fleet of foot, was a bit weary. That's why he hopped a passenger train from Pittsburgh on his way back home today. Some Pennsylvania railroad employe noticed Green the rods" and notified station officials here in time for Patrolman Ed Piller and Tom Hagan, patrol wagon driver, to meet the train. Green put lightning under his feet, which he had rested for a good many miles, when he saw Piller and Hagan, and disappeared Police Chief Ralph N. Stoffer later caught Green at a Ailing station on West State st around 10:30 a.

m. Green will be arraigned before Mayor Norman Phillips probably this afternoon on a charge of illegal train riding. Farewell Planned Leigh Nichols A farewell dinnei foi Leigh Nichols, president of the Business bureau, will be held at 6 p. m. Monday at the Mansion teahouse.

South Lincoln ave. Arrangements for this were at a meeting of the executive committee Tuesday morning. Nichols, commercial manager of the Bell Telephone Co in Salem for the last three years, has been transferred to the Akron division headquarters. Father of Radio Announcer Is Dead COLUMBUS. April McNamee, 77.

father of Graham McNamee. radio announcer, died last night of pneumonia He was a retired corporation attorney for the Northern Pacific railroad. CHINA ORDERS BOYS TRAINED Compulsory i I i ta Drills To Build For Future (Copyright, 193s. By The Associated Press) NANKING, china, April 23 China fell in line with world-wide' armament activities today by or- dering that all her male high school and college students under- go at least one-year oi intensive military training. The move, designed as part of a program to construct a modern and efficient military machine, was ordered bv General Chiang Kai-Shek, generalissimo of the Chinese nationalist government armies.

A World 1 At the end of ten years General Chiang expects his program to make China a military power of the first magnitude, capable of to the other powers of the world if she should feel so in! clined. He expects that once the move; ment Is in full operation it will produce 100.000 thoroughly trained reservists for army every year In 20 per cent of the country's colleges and high schools compulsory military training is in effect. Tiie new order will extend the system to all of China's 1,440 institutions of learning of these cate- gories. In addition to the provisions made for secondary schools and collegia, the order I requires that boys in elementary schools be given the equivalent of boy scout training order to in! still military Eventually the program envisages instruction in war methods for the entire civilian population. This phase has not yet been inaugurated.

however because of lack of funds Genera! Chiang explained the objective he hopes to sec attained in a vast reserve force ol trained and educated men for national de- 1 fense. CHACO BATTLfc RAGING (By BUENOS AIRES. April Communiques from the capitals of Paraguay Bolivia indicated today that one of the most intense battles in five years of the war between Paraguay and Bolivia was raging as a result of a Bolivian general offensive along the 120-mile front of the Chaco Boreal. The For Uniform Fund Goal Of School Band Attractive Program Is Arranged for Annual Concert Wednesday Night at High School QUINTUPLETS O. K.

CALLANDER. April 23 Alan Brown, internationally known child specialist, examined the Dionne quintuplets at 3 a. today and found them recovering from head colds He said their physical condition was His visit followed the request of Oliva Dionne, father of the children, that a consultant be called in. Get $3,258 Payroll CLEVELAND, April 23. Four robbers held up two officials of the Bartunek clothing factory, today and escaped with $3,258 payroll.

Hoping to raise enough money to! put their uniform fund members of the High school band will appear in their annual concert at 8 p. Wednesday in the high school auditorium, under tfK- direction of Brautigam All during the present term, th i band and students in general been campaigning for money to purchase new uniforms If the concert Wednesday night is a sell- the band members may count on turning in their measurements for the new apparel. An attractive program of musical selections, with enough variety to please divergent tastes, has been arranged by Director Brautigam. as follow's: March, (King); (Hudson, and Mills) and Days Are Here fox trots; Threads Among the Smith and Holmes) theme and variations with trumpet-trombone duet played by Jack Harroff and Harold McConnet Robin Hood selection from Tt comic opera: march. Intermission.

March, and overture, Golden featured with baritone solos played by Charles Freed; fox trot favorites, in Bloom 'Robin and and Call Rag" (Pettis, Mills and Schoebel); selection from comic opera, 'Victor overture, of march, (Sousa), Guy Ever Led Me to Says Surprised Mae (By Aaaoclatad Press) HOLLYWOOD, April 23 Let my whal they want, and dig up all the musty old papers they please, but Mae West has her story and she's sticking to it. There are no missing husbands in her life, she because "No guy ever led me to the And that, said the buxom Mae decisively, goes for the startling hf discovery of a marriage license issued to a Mae f. West and a Frank Wallace in Milwaukee on April 11, 1911. "Me a Milwaukee said Mae must have been fwo other people. The fact Is, I never had been in Milwaukee until Mae West four years ago.

But tell you this: Since last January by actual count eight guys have called me up and insisted they were married to ine some place or other. But I never was married to them or Frank Wallace or anyone else ought to know If I ever married or not, The done him wrong gal arid her studio workers today prepared to meet- and deny a genei al uprising of Frank Wallaces throughout the country Already several have turned up One Frank Wallace, said to have known Mae either professionally or even more closely, was rejiorted dead Exchange of Bonds Announced by U. S. The Treasury department announced yesterday that there would be an additional issue of 2 7, per cent Treasury bonds of 1955-60 and per Treasury notes of Series A 1940 Both issues are offered only in exchange for First Liberty Loan bonds which have been called for payment June 15, 1935 The exchange is on a for par basis but the right is reserved by the secretary of the treasury to increase the issue price of either the bonds or the notes, or both, by public announcement effective as to pubscnprions tendered after the time fixed by the secretary, which will not be earlier than April 29, 1935. Interest will be adjusted as Of June 15, 1935.

In commenting cm the above exchange. of local banks have called attention to the necessity tor depositing bonds immediately because after April 29 the price of the new bonds may be increased If has been stated by the secretary ot the treasury that there will be no further exchange offering made to holders of the called First Liberty Loan bonds and im- mcdiate attention should therefore be given by thoee who hold the bonds Columbiana county gmnd jury with Kenneth Uinstead and Clifford Boswell Unistead and Boswell, how- ner. were sentenced recently by Tuscarawas county common pleas court on grand larceny charges in cheese theft case involving SHEET ANDTUBE DIRECTORS QUIT Construction Developments Revealed At Meeting Today (Uy ciai YOUNOSTOW. April directors of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co mentioned in a federal suit against Republic Steel corporation and Corrigan, McKinney gave up their places on the sheet and Tube board of directors at a meeting today. The retiring members are Livingston Mather and George 111 both of Cleveland.

The suit, seeking to prevent union of Republic and Corrigan, McKinney, mentioned Mather and Bishop as holding directorates in various steel companies. Vacancies Filled Walter FJ Meub, Sheet and Tube vice president in charge of sales, and Argetsinger, the general counsel, were elected ti fill the two places. Other developments in connection with the meeting were that Sheet and Tube is building a new cold sheet mill which will roll sheets 80 inches wide as contrasted with the present 72-tnch maximum; that the company lias developed a new alloy 1 corrosion resistant and of great strength in proportion to weight to be known as yoloy; construction of an electric welding mechanical pipe and conduit mill at the Struthers plant, the con tract for which has been awarded to the Yoder Cleveland. The company operated at 49 3 per cent capacity during the first quarter, Dalton told the ers, as compared with 41.7 per cent for the first quarter of 1934 Current opt'rations were given as 48.6 per cent Report on Cash Cash April 1 was reported as $10,575.000 after expenditure of $2,441000 for capital Improvements in the first quarter (Continued on Page 8) of Wounded Critically In Gun Accident Veon. Uinstead and Boswell pleaded Victor ljake Named Victor Lake, also in the New Philadelphia case, wits named by the Columbiana county jury in five counts, its follows: Burglary and larceny (Salem lunch robbery); burglary and larceny (Golden Eagle store robbery); concealing stolen property 100 drills from the Mullina concealing stolen property (propellors from Mullins concealing stolen property horns and propellors from John Featherolf of Salem waa named In three indictments, and Marion one, a joint indictment with John, on a charge of grand larceny.

He pleaded not guilty and bond of 2.000 was set. bond In this was 200 John Featherolf pleaded not i guilty to charges of non-support and concealing stolen property (drills, horns and propellors from Mullins Corp and bonds of $1.000 and $500, respectively, were set. Sets New Bund Record A new high record in bond was set by Theodore Warner of Summitville Warner was named in six counts, of each, or a total bond of $9,000. The previous was $7,500. He was accused of grand larceny, burglary and larceny, (two counts); auto theft and driving without owners consent (three cases).

The three prisoners who pleaded guilty are Peter Neil of East Liver- accused of petit larceny; Ben As berry, Wellsville, petit larceny; and Elwood Harrold, Columbiana, named in two counts. Harrold pleaded not guilty first, then Changed his plea, and was fined $100 on each charge, possessing liquor for sale without a permit, and keeping a place where intoxl- (Oontlnued on Page 8 Boy Evangelist Opens Meetings The boy evangelist, Melvin Barkley who is holding at the Nazarene church, spoke last night from the text, Ye Away the He spoke of hindrances to revivals and how they must be removed. The Barkley brothers sang two selections, They Are Nailed To the Cross and Gospel Train Arthur Barkley, chalk artist drew a picture illustrating, Old Rugged Among those present were (Rev and Mrs C. B. Wood from Lisbon.

Rev Wood led in prayer The meetings, open to the public, will continue nightly at 7:30 for the next two weeks. Bad Brakes Fatal BELL AIRE, April brakes on a truck failed to hold last night and the machine ran down crashed into a concrete wall and killed Charles Drew, 73, of Covington Ky Three persons were injured. (By Aaaoclnteil Praaa) PUNXKUTAWNEY. Pa April 23 I in the abdomen while clean- ing a rifle, former Representative Clyde Kelly, 51. Republican, known! as the of the is in a critical condition toduy, and doc; tors leared for Ills life.

Dr George Mus.ser left the I Adrian hospital early tins morning without deciding when lie will form an operation which he said was needed. Kelly, a Braddock newspaperman wno seivtu In for 20 years without a break, was spending the weekend at the home of Hugh I Emeaton in nearby Marchand. Yesterday afternoon lie took a small ilibre rifle and weht out hunting frogs. Upon returning he began cleaning the gun. Colonel L.

C. Trimble, head of the hospital, reported the rifle suddenly was discharged and bullet entered Kelly's abdomen, passing through his lung and out of his back. Kelly, a native of Bloomfield. came to Pittsburgh district in 1901. How We Learn BEVERLY HILLS, April 23 I bet any Sunday could be made as popular as Easter is, if you made fashion shows, too.

The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher might just as well recite Gunga Din We will do anything, if you Just in some way turn it into a show. They say children in kindergarten mast play in order to get to learn What do you mean, children? Cross word puzzles learned grown folks more words than school teachers. And what arithmetic the women folks know they got at a bridge table Our splendid English cornea from attending the movies. My geography comes from an airplane window. Yes.

sir, there is 120,000,000 in the American kindergarten. Yours, Will Rogers (Copyright, MeWMffet Inc.).