Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday, colder tonight. MARCH 80, 1939 TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE ONE HUNDRED FIRST YEAR, NO. 142 WILMINGTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MERCHANTS WILL NEWS BEHIND THE NEWSA By PAUL MALLON, (World copyright 1939 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproductions in full or in part strictly prohibited).

FDR's Guessers Say Business Upturn To Start Now WASHINGTON, March 30-The three months business decline has come virtually to a standstill. Industrial production will fall only one point this month. It declined three points in February, three in January. All government economists (and this means a dozen of Mr. Roosevelts best guessers privately polled) are betting the upturn will begin now.

Their figures show a pick in several industries already (chemicals, furniture, machine tools, building materials). The machine tool pick-up is considered most important. This is the industry which furnishes the tools for 1 industry. Its acceleration means industry is getting ready for bigger production. As the machine tool output was higher in March than in 18 previous months, the realists among the economists are confident substantial expansion of business production is at hand.

DEFICITS -The spending economists think so, too, for another reason. Their unpublished figures (which reach Mr. Roosevelt but not the newspapers) Indicate Mr. Morgenthau is going deeper in the red. This means accelerated business according to their reckoning.

They figure red ink greases the business machine What the treasury spends above what it takes in is the inflationary shot in the crankcase. $280,000,000 of this red ink grease was being put out at Mr. Morgenthau's filling station last October. The monthly deficit has increased until it is nearly $300,000,000 for March. In June or July, it will.

get up to: $350,000.000 or $400,000,000, they expect. That is, the government will then be putting back $350,000.000 to 000,000 more in business than it is taking out in taxes. The increases are certain because they have been pledged, mostly under the PWA contracts allotted last winter, and 110 just getting started with warm weather. The spending theorists, there(Continued on page eleven) AUTOS PLUNGE INTO CREEK: FOUR KILLED Bridge Approach Washed Out In Darkness VICKSBURG, March 30- (AP) -Plunging of a line of motor cars into Clear Creek bayou at a bridge washout. last night killed four persons, injured eight and left five missing today.

Six or more mechanics dropped 50 feet into the bayou after floodwaters undermined the bridge approach in the darkness. Divers today were searching for more cars and bodies in the swollen, 20-foot deep stream. The dead were: S. M. Wilson, Jackson, Marknown, cus Meeks, of Canton, M.

W. Beaver, of Jackson; Mrs. Mary Schrack Murray, Mansfield, 0. YANKEE CLIPPER SAFE AT LISBON, SPAIN LISBON, March 30-(P) -The 42- ton Yankee Clipper alighted here at. 11:12 A.

today, completing the second leg of her initial Transatlantic journey. The big Pan-American Airways boat covered the 1,318 miles from Horta, The ores, in six hours, 58 minutes. 13 HURT AS BUS SNAPS TOLEDO TELEPHONE POLE TOLEDO, March 30- (P) -Thir teen persons were injured, three severely, today when a bus of the Community Traction Company, skidded on wet pavement and broke a telephone pole after spinning in the street. PHONE 2574 Before 7 P. M.

if you miss your News-Journal and copy will be sent te you by special senger. CENTS SEND SENATE GROUP APPROVES BILL OUSTING MARX Military Affairs Committee Recommend Bricker Name Own Officer "RED" QUESTION AGAIN Senate Rejects Proposal Education Boards Follow Orders On Hiring BULLETIN COLUMBUS, March 30 (P) -The House of Representatives today passed, 112 to 14, a bill to outlaw nudism in Ohio.9 COLUMBUS, March 30-(P) The House adopted bill abolishing the so-called life tenure of adjutant General Emil Marx of the Ohio National Guard and his two chief aids was approved by a Senate committee today as red hunt and nudism measures held the legislative spotlight. The Military Affairs Committee recommended unanimously a bill which would permit Governor John W. Bricker to elect his own adjutant general. The Senate, having rescinded its order for an investigation of alleged subversive teachings in state universities and public schools, was ready for another battle on the question.

bill to outlaw the practice of nudism was up for a vote in the House. Although resolution proposing the schools investigation was up for vote in the Senate for second time, Majority Leader Frank E. Whittemore said it likely would be sent back to a committee. Senator Robert A. Pollock (R- Stark) author of the measure, demanded a "showdown by members of the Senate," however, and opposed returning it to committee.

The Senate rejected yesterday proposal that county and exempted village boards of education be required to hire teachers nominated by the superintendent of schools. One exception would have permitted the boards, upon a threefourths vote, to make their own nominations. The provision was stricken from a bill of Senator Charles W. Maston (R-Coshocton) and then the Senate proceeded to pass the measure. It recodifies numerous school laws and permits county boards to buy supplies for local school boards.

FORMER CONVICT BARES RUM TRAFFIC Ex-Prisoner Says Prison Warehouse Used CLEVELAND. March 30 (P). The Plain Dealer quotes "a -re cently released" Ohio State Penitentiary inmate as saying a prison warehouse was used by prisoners as a clearing 1 house for illicit traftic in liquor and narcotics. "One company was assigned to handle consignments coming into the warehouse." the newspaper quotes him. "The men among them who handled the liquor and drugs could turn them over to runners because the company guard was the mail censor and was not with them except for a short while." Last Minute News Flashes URGE U.

S. EMBARGOES CLEVELAND, March 30- (P, -The CIO United mobile Workers, in convention today, urged the United States to declare "complete embargoes against, treaty-breaking Fascist nations" and demanded a boycott of Japanese, Italian and German goods. TOURNEY POSTPONED AUGUSTA, March 30- (P)- -A steady downpour of rain forced postponement today of the start of the sixth annual Augusta National Tournament, bringing together all-star show the "masters" of the fairways and Bobby Jones, the retired "grand slam" champion. 30 TO Attack Victim DELIA BOGARD 000 CONTINUE HUNT FOR ASSAILANT Police Department Criticized; Victim Remains In Critical Condition LOS ANGELES, March 30-(P) -Search continued today for the Hollywood slugger who brutally struck down a 17-year-old actress, as the Los Angeles City Council, in a resolution, sharply criticized the Police Department and asked for a legal ruling on the possibility of posting a reward for the man's capture. Police Captain D.

R. Patton, heading the homicide detail, said he was convinced the assailant of pretty Delia Bogard, once the pigtailed "Tomboy Taylor" of the "Mickey McGuire" film series was same man who budgeoned to death Anya Sosoyeva, Russian dancer, on the Los Angeles City College campus February 25. Miss Bogard remained in a critical condition from a head injury. Hospital attendants said her skull might be fractured. Joseph D.

Bushane, 43, an actor, was booked at city jail on suspicion or murder, after his arrest on what police described as an anonymous tip. Officers said he would be questioned later. RECONSTRUCTION OF SPAIN FACES FRANCO Populace of Capital Waiting For Food MADRID, March 30-(P)--Spanish Nationalists, with all 52 provinces of Spain under their guns today, faced a long struggle to reconstruct the country torn by 32 months of savage civil war. Generalissimo Franco's military police rounded up thousands of Republicans for classification and perhaps trial as a predude to the great social task. The war numbed populace continued peace demonstrations in the streets of Madrid, fallen Republican capital, while waiting for food from the stream of supply trucks that followed Franco's legions into the city on Tuesday.

RETAIL STORE SALES IN OHIO ARE HIGHER WASHINGTON, March 30-(P) The Census Bureau reported today that dollar sales of 1,218 independent retail stores in Ohio were 6.6 per cent. higher in February than during the same month a year ago. They declined four per cent. from January, which had more business days. February sales totaled 592,058.

WORLD'S FAIR Fall On "Sucker" Stick Fatal To East End Pupil BOLD STAND OF PREMIER GETS FRENCH PRAISE Daladier's Declaration France Will Cede No Territory Is Acclaimed PARIS, March 30- (AP) -Premier Daladier's atrong' declaration that France would "not a foot of our land nor one of our rights" to Italy seemed today to have won both popular and political acclaim. Even- the premier's bitter political enemies endorsed his standthat France would yield no territory, that she would negotiate coIonial and other differences with Italy if Italy took the initial step, and that France WAS strong enough to defend herselt. The Paris press WAS unanimous with praise. The Socialist Leon Blum, who frequently has opposed Daladier, declared that "we approve of this language." (Blum spoke for his party.) The Communist party newspaper, consistently a critic of Daladier and increasingly so since the Munich Czecho-Slovak partition number one, added Its endorsement- even though the speech appeared to have advanced the dispute with Italy, over Italian agitation for French African colonies, no further toward settlement. The general comment was "now it is up to the axis" of Italy and Germany, Daladier, in his address which was broadcast last night, struck also at Germany, whose break-up of Czecho-Slovakia two weeks ago, he said, was a "heavy blow" to efforts for peace.

At Grenoble and several other cities near the Italian frontier, hundred of Italian expatriates who profess anti-Fascism paraded through the streets crying "Viva Daladier. Down with the Duce." Daladier's speech answered that of Premier Mussolini last Sunday, in which the Italian leader contended that Italian claims in Tunisia, Djibouti and the Suez Canal were presented by diplomatic note last December 17. Daladier held France could not accept the essential argument of the note, that "the conquest of Italian empire created new rights Ethiopia la and constitution of the for surpassing those of A colonial accord of 1935. CALIFORNIA CLIPPER LANDS IN HONOLULU SAN FRANCISCO, March 30- (P) -The 74- passenger California clipper arrived at Honolulu at 8:24 A. M.

today, completing the first leg of its San Francisco-Honkong flight with the largest passenger load ever to fly the Pacific. The Clipper, with 36 persons aboard, made the flight to Honolulu in 15 hours and four minutes. Janet Pearl Greene Dies. Of Skull Fracture After Mishap Tuesday EN ROUTE TO HOSPITAL Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Saturday At Church Near Peebles Falling to the floor at East End School with a candy sucker in her mouth, Tuesday, proved fatal to Janet Pearl Greene, 7, a pupil in the first grade, early Thursday. Janet, daughter of Samuel E.

and Lavena Ivers Greene, arrived at the school building with an "all-day sucker" and in some manner fell to the floor, the candy stick penetrating the roof of her mouth, causing skull fracture. Miss Carol Johnson, teacher of the first grade, administered first aid and Dr. E. Dalton Peelle, who was summoned, ordered the girl taken to her home, 176 Ludovic street. Death occurred at Pleasant Ridge as she was being taken to Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Thursday at 12:30 A.

M. She was born at Greenfield, January 8. 1932. In addition to the parents, she is survived by a brother, James Greene, and two half sisters, Ruth Marie Fawcett and Kathleen Fawcett. Short funeral services will be conducted by Rev.

W. J. Schlatter at the Lukens Funeral Home Saturday noon and funeral services at the Evergreen Baptist Church, near Peebles, at 2:30 P. M. Interment will be in the Evergreen cemetery.

The body will be at the residence rom Thursday at 7 P. M. until Saturday noon when it will be returned to the funeral home. DINGLEDINE PLEA DENIED BY COURT Slayers To Die In Chair On April 19 COLUMBUS, March 30-(P) Without money or hope, Harry and Henry Dingledine and Harry Chapman virtually gave up today their fight to escape death in the electric chair for the slaying of two Springfield peace officers. The Ohio Supreme Court refused their pleas for appeal late yesterday and set April 19 as the date of execution.

The Dingledines- -father and son- of Springfield, and Chapman, once of Chicago, were convicted of slaying Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Edward Furry and Springfield Patrolman Martin Randolph during a raid of officers on a resort cottage at. Crystal Lake September 3, 1937, shortly after a cafe operator was robbed of a payroll. Clark and Carole Are Wed in Small Village HOLLYWOOD, March 30- (P) Fun-loving Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who wrote the long-anticipated happy ending to the story of their courtship in a little Arizona town late yesterday, returned early today to the bride's Bel-Air home. Exhausted by their 750-mile trip, they retired, to wait until later to move into the home on his one-mile San Fernando valley ranch which Gable redecorated in preparation for the wedding. Friends were not surprised when news of the ceremony reached here last night.

The marriage had been expected daily since the screen's' number 1 masculine star was given his freedom earlier this month by his second wife, Maria. Gable, 28, and his blonde bride, (31, top-ranking comedienne, BRITISH WILL INCREASE NAVY AND AIR FORCE Prime Minister Chamberlain Denies Conscription Has Been Ruled Out EXPANSION IS GREATEST Cabinet Meets In Emergency Session To Plan Training 210,000 Recruits LONDON, March 30-(P)-Prime Minister Chamberlain intimated to the House of Commons today that Britain's Navy and Air Force would be expanded. Only yesterday the prime minister announced a doubling of the territorial army- -corresponding to the United States' National Guard -to 340,000 men. Today he was asked by Lieutenant Commander R. T.

H. Fletcher, member of the labor opposition, if there also would be an expansion of the Navy and Airforce. Chamberlain replied that the question was under review and added: "A statement will be made from time to time as conclusions are reached." Chamberlain spoke after presiding at an emergency cabinet meeting which gave urgent consideration to steps Britain might take in the event of a new European and to plans for trainemergency ing and equipping 210,000 recruits for the unprecedented peacetime expansion on of her army. Asked if he had "finally" ruled out conscription, Chamberlain swered amid laughter: "Nothing is final in this world." Asked by Geoffrey L. Mander, opposition liberal, if he would prothat the British empire and pose friendly states "withhold from Germany materials esseutial to rearmament." the prime minister merely replied, "no." Conservative Herbert Williams interposed that such action "would involve us in war at once.

MURDER CONFESSION DENIED BY HOWLAND Girl Companion Ward of Juvenile Court DOVER, N. March 30- (A) Denying that he ever admitted slaying Miss Maude Horne, 61- year-old Milton spinster, John Henry' Howland, 25, was called before Superior Court Judge E. J. Conner today to enter a plea to indictment charging him with an murder. Howland's 15-year-old, cousin, Aida Butler, who was arrested with him at Corpus Christi, Texas, March 17, became a ward of the Juvenile Court at Rochester.

She was brought before Judge Gardner S. Hall in his office last night and the proceedings were private. LILY PONS ILL NORWALK, March 30- -Lily Pons, opera star, ill with bronchitis and ordered to bed by her physicians, said today she had cancelled an engagement to sing in Cleveland, Saturday. All High School Seniors Entered Enterprise Club To Give Votes, In Cooperation With Daily NewsJournal, For Favorite Senior Thirty high school seniors -15 boys and 15 girls to be chosen by popular vote will enjoy a week's All-Expense Tour to the New York World's Fair this summer as guests of the Wilmington Enterprise Club, in cooperation with the Daily News-Journal. The project is to be known as the "Senior Tour Contest." One boy and one girl will be selected from the senior class of 15 high schools, including all Clinton County high schools -Adams, Blanchester, Clarksville, Jefferson, Kingman, Martinsville, New Vienna, Port William, Reesville, Sabina, Wayne and Wilmington -and three others in the trading area whose high school districts include, in some instances, Clinton County pupils -Fairfield Town- ship, Leesburg-Highland and Lynchburg, in Highland county, and Massie Township, Harveysburg, in Warren county.

The week's tour, which is estimated to have a value of $200, will LIST OF SENIORS A complete list of the Senlors of the 15 high schools participating in the Enterprise Club-News-Journal New York World's Fair Senior Tour Contest will be found on Page eight of this issue. include a daylight boat trip from Albany, N. Y. to New York City, three full days at the World's Fair and five hours at Niagara Falls on the way home. Of the many trips MARCH INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS UP More Than $500,000,000 In U.

S. Coffers WASHINGTON, March 30-(P) March income tax collections have run over $500,000,000, exceeding by more than $75,000,000 the sum figured on by President Roosevelt in his budget estimates. Today's Treasury statement disclosed that on March 28, three days before the month's end, 068,010 had been checked into the government's till. Although above budget estimates, the collections lagged behind March, 1938, returns when $723,000,000 was received in income taxes. The deficit for the fiscal year which began last July 1 amounts to $2,321,905,448.

$2,524,492 IS PAID TO PENSIONERS IN MARCH COLUMBUS, March 30-(P) Old-age pensions totaling 492 were paid in March to 111,985 Ohioans, Tom McCaw, chief of the State Division of Aid for the Aged, reported today. Grants, averaging $22.54, were about four cents lower than in February, but the total was 000 greater, due to additional pensioners. "Desirable" Objectives For Congress Listed WASHINGTON, March 30-(P) -Listing 10 "desirable" objectives headed by a neutrality law revision, Senate Leader Barkley (D- Ky) outlined a legislative program today that he said would keep Congress in session until late in June. Conspicuous by their absence from Barkley's list were amendments proposed by businessmen and the AFL to the labor relations act, as well as suggested consolidation of corporation taxes into one general levy. Barkley, who conferred yesterday with President Roosevelt on the legislative program, enumerated three tax objectives- -tempor ary "freezing" of social security I payroll taxes at present levels, considered, the one selected is the most comprehensive and assures 30 seniors of a week of pleasure they will never forget.

The contest will open Saturday, April 1, and continue until July 1. Wilmington merchants, who are members of the Enterprise Club, will begin giving out votes Saturday at the rate of five votes for each 25 cent cash purchase for payment on account. Voting for your Favorite Senior is a simple matter. You may deposit your votes at the Daily NewsJournal office, or give them to your Favorite Senior. When voting is done at the newspaper of- Tour in Brief Details of the Enterprise Club's "Senior Tour Contest" in tabulated form, are as follows: CONTESTANTS-363 Seniors in 15 high schools in the Wilmington trading area: Adams, Blanchester, Clarksville, Fairfield Township (Leesburg Highland), Harveysburg, Jefferson, Kingman, Lynchburg, Martinsville, New Vienna, Port William, Reesville, Sabina, Wayne and Wilmington.

PRIZES- -All-Expense Tour to the New York City World's Fair, including a daylight boat ride down the Hudson River from Albany, N. to New York City and five hours at Niagara Falls, awarded to the Favorite Senior boy and Favorite Senior girl in each of these high schools. VOTES Five votes will be given with each 25 cents spent for new business or payment on account. The votes are to be deposited at the Daily News- Journal. DURATION--The contest opens Saturday, April 1, and closes July 1.

fice, your votes will be placed in envelopes and your Favorite Sentors' name written on, after which merely drop them into the box of your contestant's school. All of the votes are to be deposited at the Daily News- Journal office in the ballot boxes, one being provided for each school, in order to simplify sorting and counting. The News- Journal will be open from 8 A. M. till 7 P.

M. five days a week and each Saturday from 8 A. M. until 10 P. M.

Envelopes will be provided for the votes there. A list of seniors in each of the 15 high schools will be placed in each of the stores where votes are given, and also at the Daily NewsJournal to aid in the casting of ballots. Each store affiliated with the Enterprise Club in sponsoring scorned the time-tried Hollywood elopement plot. They chose Kingman, a desert railroad community for the rites in preerence to filmdom's more avored Gretna Greens, Yuma, and Las Vegas, Nev. They traveled by automobile instead of by plane, as have most other elopers.

They confided to Howard Gate, Kingman high schoo! principal and a witness when the "knot was tied" by Rev. Kenneth M. Engle of the First M. E. Church, that they intended to go to Las Vegas or Boulder City, spending today at Pouler Dam.

But a few hours later, they were eating dinner in Needles. and were reported seen at other small communities on the highway across the Mojave desert, en route home. continuance of so-called nuisance taxes, and approval of reciprocal state and federal salary levies. Taxes on income from future issues of government securities also may be considered. Besides these tax objectives and neutrality, Barkley said Congress should enact: Railroad relief legislation.

A cotton export plan as suggested by President Roosevelt. An emergency appropriation for the WPA as well as relief funds for the next fiscal year. Legislation to expand and continue housing activities. The remaining portions of the national defense program. The annual departmental propriations bills.

(Continued on page two) Markets At A Glance NEW YORK STOCKS--Heavy; late selling dents list. BONDS -Mixed; U. S. governments at new peaks. CURB--Lower; industrials lead retreat.

CHICAGO WHEAT--Higher; mill buying. CORN- Firm. CATTLE -Mixed, strong to low er. HOGS- -Steady to 15c down..