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CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FINAL 86 Pages 8 Sections THE WEATpRMrdd-' Temperatures Yesterday: High, 80; Low, 60: Mean Humidity, 58. Weathrr Krporti, Pssra and XI. NEWS SECTION 34 PAGES. VOL. XCIII.

NO. 125 DAILY Entered fti ncond-clara matter. Post Office, ClnclnnaU, Onto. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1933 PRICE TEN CENTS stimafted Alt 30 From Riotio At Havana As Machado Gmlba ees Jr irom Death TITl J7 atJ all NAZI ORDER DECRIED. BOLD SHERIFF VIVA BALBO! BIG STRIDE Babe's Life In Peril; OUSTED RULER MISSING.

Took Off For Nassau SEARCH IS CALLED OFF For Boy, 9, Bitten By Mad Dog-Receives Medical Attention. Lincoln, August 12 (AP) Duane Anderson, 9 years old, for whom a city-wide search had been launched after it became known he had been bitten by a dog with rabies, was found today and received medical treatment. Duane's father last night read of the search being made for a boy who was bitten by the dog. The In Plane But Elsewhere Is Believed Down In Bahamas. Manuel De Cespedes Is Sworn As Provisional President.

Members Of Secret Soldiers And Rioters Who Sack Palace And Homes Of Officials Two Newspaper Offices Wrecked And One Is Burned. Armada Is Home After Hop To Fair And Rack. Hail Mussolini! Air Chief Tells Crowd In Response To Cheers For Notable Feat. "Magnificent!" Is Premier's Tribute American Ambassador In Throng Of 300,000 Admirers. (Copyright, 1933, by Universal Service, Inc.) Rome, August 12 Premier Mus solini and a million Italians tonight welcomed home their conquering air heroes and gave to them a re ception outrivaled only by America's greetings in Chicago and New York.

General Italo Balbo and his men of the Century of Progress Flight Armada arrived in Rome at 8:30 o'clock tonight (12:20 p. m. Eastern Standard Time) from Ostla, at the mouth of the Tiber, where they landed in view of 300,000 spectators an hour and a half earlier. They went by automobile to Colonna Square, which was seeth ing with exultant Romans. They were cheered deafeningly, sprinkled with flowers.

CRY "VIVA BALBO!" They heard the cry of "Viva Balbo" echo from the seven hills of Rome, and then were permitted to go to their homes while the populace celebrated far into the night with torchlight processions, feasts and dances. Bands played Fascist airs, particularly the Fascist hymn to youth. All buildings, the Coliseum included, were resplendent under flood lights. In the midst of the triumphal celebration, after the first deafening roars of applause had died down, General Balbo spoke to the throng, saying: "In the name of the Atlantic crews I thank you. You have granted us a magnificent welcome.

"However, I do not want you to lose sight of the reality that we are only humble soldiers of a great chief in whose name it is sweet and easy to achieve all victories. "Long live Mussolini!" LONG IS IN CROWD. In accordance with his new spartan code Premier Mussolini, who greeted the fliers at Ostla before riding with them In triumph into Rome, was clad simply in Fascist black shirt and wore no hat. Among those in the welcoming party United States Ambassador Breckinridge Long and other foreign diplomats were formally dressed in conventional top hats Continued On Page 5, Column 6. boy's identity was not known and newspaper advertisements were printed and a reward offered by the Humane Society in an effort to locate the lad and notify him of his danger.

After reading the newspaper article Anderson warned his children not to pick up any stray dogs. Duane then revealed he had picked up a dog last Saturday and was bitten by the animal. This morn ing the lad was placed under the care of a physician for treatment and the city-wide search was called off. FATE OF EIGHT Is Still Undetermined Silence Veils Safety Of Cincinnati Priest In Isolated Chinese City, Held By Rebels. Hankow, China, August 12 (AP) No further word has been received here as to the safety of the two priests and six nuns, Passionist missionaries at Yuanchow, which has been held by rebel Chinese since June 27.

Although Rev. Arthur Benson, procurator of the American Pas sionist Mission here, has been un able to communicate with the mis sionaries since the town was seized. he believes they are safe. Those trapped there are Rev. Edward McCarthy, Boston; Rev.

Francis Flaherty, 2621 Hemlock Street, Cincinnati, and Sisters Gene vieve Ryan, Christiana Werth, Magdaline Ivan, Rosarlo Goss, Salntanne Callahan and Mark Mul len, who were sent to China from Pittsburgh. It was learned today that United States Consular authorities have approached Ho Chine, Governor of Hunan, with a request that the Americans at Yuanchow be rescued. The belief prevailed here, how ever, that the representations will have little effect since the Gov ernor is considered virtually help less to interfere with the activities of General Li Chiao, the provincial military overlord and son-in-law of General Ho. Chinese politicians here say the Yuanchow siege is a result of the intense enmity between General Chen Yao, a rebel military chieftain who declines to recognize the authority of provincial officials, and General Li. According to the accepted story here, Chen, when on presumably frledly terms with Li, Invited the latter to visit him, but during a feast attempted to assassinate Li, who escaped declaring he would get revenge.

In the middle of June Chen and his followers established headquar ters at Yuanchow after expelling a small provincial force. Li immediately gathered an army and started a siege. Messengers from Shenchow, where efforts are going on to communi cate with the marooned Americans, Continued On Page Column 8. Steamship Company Forwards Protest To Cordell Hull. New York, August 12 (AP) The Roosevelt Steamship Company, op erators of the United States Lines and the Baltimore Lines, today for warded to Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, a protest against a recent Nazi order restricting the use of foreign ships by Germans.

"We earnestly and respectfully urge," the protest said, "that you request the American Ambassador to Germany to obtain Immediate assurances from the German authorities that there will be no dis crimination, directly or indirectly, against American flag ships in the German trade, compared with Ger man ships, and that the equalities and facilities extended to German ships, their officers and agencies in the United States be extended to American ships and American officers and agencies in Germany, "In view of the great importance of this matter to American flag liners we will greatly appreciate it if this matter can be dealt with with the greatest possible The State Department took up the matter with the Department of Commerce. SLAYERS Of Cashier Must Die In Electric Chair Governor White Refuses To Intervene For Murphy Brothers. Columbus, Ohio, August 12 (AP) Despite the self-sacrificing efforts of a white woman to save them, two Cincinnati Negro youths must die Monday night in the electric- chair at Ohio Penitentiary. They are James and Joseph Murphy, convicted of first degree murder In the slaying of Harry Frledhoff, Silverton bank cashier. A 30-day reprieve was granted the doomed pair July 14 after Mrs.

Mildred M. Bonnie, Cincinnati, had told the State Parole Board she was "positive" they were victims of "mistaken identity." But. today, after having weighed all the evidence In the case, Governor White refused to intervene. In a dramatic appearance before the Eoard on the eve of the scheduled Mrs. Bonnie asserted she had not come to their defense sooner because she was with a married man when she saw two Negroes run from the bank at Silverton the day of the holdup.

An affidavit submitted to the board named George Sweeney, New town, as her companion at Sil verton the day Friedhoff was slain. Mrs. Bonnie said they had stopped at Silverton to make a telephone call while on an automobile drive The Murphy brothers were ar rested in connection with tne snoot ing when Cincinnati police heard they had been "bragging" about the crime. A third brother, Ben, also is serv ing a life sentence for conviction in another robbery. You say that I chair looks kind a low i Ha! If it were any lower, the price would be sitting on nie iiour.

wnicn may sound strange, what with all you've been hearing about furniture prices riding a skyrocket during the past few months. That's true. But those are wholesale prices. The stores are being big-hearted about the furniture they bought last spring, when prices were down in the sub-cellar. You can buy that dinky English lounge chair right now for a song.

You can buy a dandy living room suite, dining room suite or bedroom outfit for a couple of songs. You can during these August furniture sales. After that? Weil, don't say we didn't warn you. Don't say we didn't tell you to tako a look at the time-weary overstuffed In your living room, at the battle-scarred veterans in the dining room. Don't say we didn't tell you that now's the time to retire it and get new furniture in it place, before prices rise up in wrath.

Or something. Say. and you could use a table over In that corner, couldn't you? And a new lamp or two? And a new rug? Better trot right to town In the morning and look up some of these furniture and furnishings bargains. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER QiiiiiiimimiHiiiiiiMiMiiiiiMimiiiiiiiitiMMiiiHiiiMiiQ it at of Roads Are Watched Albany, N. August 12 (AP) An automobile bearing Mrs, Grace Crudeau and her Infant child was somewhere between Hacken sack, N.

and Lake George tonight, its occupants unaware that State Police teletype wires were flashing warnings that medicine carried by the mother had been mixed too strongly and might prove fatal to the infant. Several hourB after a frantic husband at home had asked State Po lice to intercept the car, there were no reports of Its having been seen along the northward route. "Kindly head off New Jersey car, Chevrolet coach," the teletype warn ing read. "It contains a woman, Mrs. Grace Crudeau, of Hacken sack, N.

with a sick baby. Tell her not to give the baby any of the medicine she has. It is too strong. Tell her to call her hus band. In the car is a man, girl and two children.

The license number could not be ascertained, but before the number is the serial letter denoting Bergen County. It may mean death to the baby If another dose la administered." State, city and village police on the route the car supposedly is traveling, were ordered immediately to the highways. The party left Hackensack this morning to pass the week-end at Lake George. TOUHY GANG Indicted In St. Paul.

Chicngnan And Three Henchmen Are Charged With $100,000 Kidnaping Of Wealthy Brewer. St. Paul, August 12 (US) The Government scored another victory today In Its nation-wide war upon kidnapers by obtaining the indictment here of Roger Touhy, of Chicago, and three gang associates In the kidnaping of William Hamm wealthy St. Paul brewer. Hamm was kidnaped when on his way home from the brewery and held until a $100,000 ransom was paid.

When a minor traffic accident caused the arrest of Touhy and four companions at Elkhorn, $1,200 of the ransom money was found on Touhy. One of the gangsters walked away and escaped before the iden tity of the prisoners was established. Those indicted with Touhy are "Gloomy Gus" Schafer, a Pacific Coast police character; Eddie Mc-Fadden, a one-time Chicago labor slugger, and Willie Sharkey, re nuteri machine eunner. AH are held in Milwaukee. Under the Lindbergh Kidnaping Act, the indictment will permit their removal here without the ne cesslty of delay-making extradition proceedings.

The indictment contained two counts, one charging conspiracy to transport a kidnaped person across Btate boundaries and the other charging the actual transportation. stored in Government warehoused not more than 4,500,000 gallons could be used next year if It were aged for the required four years. After that 1,000,000 gallons a year will become marketable until a new supply has aged sufficiently. In informed circles it was said prospects were small for supplying any sizable demand for properly aged whisky for two years or longer except through importation of foreign liquors. It was added the duty on them might result In high prices.

Thus far 21 states have voted for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and on present indications 18 more will record their decision before the year end. Affirmative action by 36 is necessary to bring repeal. The next state to vote will be Missouri a week from today, followed by Texas August 28. Restrictions on the number of liquor prescriptions issued were removed by the Celler-Copeland bill, which passed Congress last March 30. Therefore, each patient was permitted only one prescription for one pint in 10 days.

Is Made By NR A. Five Major Industries Swept Within Fold, Affecting More Than 2,000,000 Toilers. All Possible Pressure Is Likely To Be Used ffo Force Employers To Support Blue Eagle Restriction On Federal Contracts Is Starter. Washington, August 12 (AP) A multitude of additional workers were swept today within the embrace of the NRA's Blue Eagle, but the problem of fastening codes of fair competition upon the nation's basic Industries still hung perplex- lngly over the national recovery program. For five Important Industries, Hugh S.

Johnson, Recovery Admin istrator, signed Into effectiveness modified presidential reemploy ment agreement fixing wages and hcurs which employers may adopt to obtain the Blue Eagle pending completion of permanent codes, These were designed to increase the nation's purchasing power by millions of dollars and put thou sands of workers back on jobs through their provisions for maximum hour regulation' and mini mum wages. UTILITIES ARE AFFECTED, They affected the electric light and power, gas utility Including natural and manufactured gas- telephone, canning and construction industries. Jn addition tempo) ry wage and hour agreements were promulgated for emDlovers In the paper and pulp, fruit and flavoring sirups, carter, suspender and belt and marking device industries. In all, more than 2,000,000 work ers were affected, NRA estimated, Carrying above the three-score and-ten mark the number of indus tries for which temporary wage and hour provisions have been approved. IiT addition to the six permanent codes the campaign still left untouched the steel, oil, lumber, automobile, coal and other basic indus tries, employing millions of men, except for temporary wage and hour provisions In effect for petro leum.

HOW MATTERS STAND. "Here is the status: The automobile industry has sub mitted a code and a hearing date has been set for August 18. Henry Ford has given no indication of his attitude. The steel code has been through hearings and the evidence now is being annotated. Time probably will be required before K.

M. Simpson, Deputy Administrator, is ready with his report for Johnson. An agreement then will be sought from the industry. Robert P. Lamont, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, has notified Johnson the industry can go no further In compromises.

The oil, industry, the third largest In the country, still is far from an internal agreement, with price reg ulation and production control the principal issues. TO PRESENT PROGRAM. A modified form of price regula tion for the Industry was under stood in authoritative circles today to be contemplated by the Adminis tration in a program to be presented to the industry Wednesday in a continuation of hearings. Mean time a wage and hour agreement is In effect. The lumber Industry code vir tually is ready for presentation to Johnson by the Deputy Administrator.

Officials expect President Roosevelt to receive it soon for signature. The bituminous coal hearings upon more than a score of rival codes presented by various segments of the industry ended today with an agreement apparently far away and the labor provisions revolving about the "collective bargaining" principle of the Recovery Act still unsettled. The question of just what the guarantee of collective bargaining Continued On Page 20, Column 8, In Takes On Killers. Slays Two And Catches Third Member Of Mob That Had Just Meted Underworld Death To Chicago Fugitive In Kansas City Streets. Operators Of Night Clubs, Henchmen Of Political Leader, Are Victims Of "Sanguinary Battle.

Kansas City, August 12 (AP) A Sheriff who carries his riot gun to lawn parties chanced upon a gang murder today in time to visit swift death on two of the executioners and capture a third member of their group. The victim of the underworld death sentence, slain as the sharp-shooting Sheriff, Thomas B. Bash, went into action with his weapon, was Ferris J. Anthon, a fugitive from a Chicago indictment naming him as a member of a liquor syndicate. The men who died in the assassins' automobile, from which burst the bullets that killed Anthon, were Sam Scola and Gus Fasone.

They had been Identified as operators of nigth clubs here and as henchmen of John Lazia, Northside political leader under indictment for Income tax evasion. HARD EGG WHIMPERS. A ballstics expert who examined the bullet that killed Anthon said It was fired from a automatic pistol. That also was the description of a gun dropped by Charles Gargotta, captured by Bash when the gunman pleaded for his life after emptying his weapon at the battling Sheriff. A companion of Gargotta escaped.

"No gangster from now on will walk the streets of this city or drive Its streets in high-powered cs without molestation from my men," Sheriff Bash said. The Sheriff added he had ob tained fingerprints to aid in the search for the fourth member of the killers' party. T. A. J.

Mastln, Prosecutor, said he probably would file a first de gree murder charge against Gar gotta in Anthon's death. SOON ON FIRING LINE. The staccato bark of firearms along Armour Boulevard, in the midtown apartment hotel district, and the screams of a terror- stricken woman arrested the atten tion of Sheriff Bash as he was re turning with Mrs. Bash, 14-year-old Melva Taylor, and a deputy, Law rence Hodges, from a lawn party. Stopping his automobile not far from that of the assassins, Ba3rt seized his riot gun and dismounted to investigate.

He was forced intol the fight almost Immediately by an attack upon him from the killers' car. To keep the killers from escaping the deputy swung the automobilo containing Mrs. Bash and the 14- Contlnued On Page 4, Column 8. Gang Theory letter from Sault Ste. Marie In which the Judge expressed his Intention of returning to Cincinnati Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the youth, who says he killed Baily in self-defense, was wishing in his cell for "something to take my mind" off the case. Since he was returned from Meridian, where he was caught with the automobile stolen from Bally, Henkel has been restless, worrying about his case and frequently asking visitors and attendants what the public thinks of him. Ralph Tooker, attorney, yesterday said that Juvenile Court probably will have to choose among three courses. It may surrender jurisdiction to the Common Pleas Court, as was done in the Murphy Continued On Page 6 Column 8. In Police Are Killed By streets sought out Machado supporters and shot them down.

They ransacked the presidential palace and destroyed newspaper offices and homes of Machado's prominent backers. Five of the secret political police, that dreaded branch of service which had been a mainstay of the Machado regime, were killed by the crowds. Estimates said tonight that 30 persons were slain or fatally injured and that more than 50 houses of men who stood close to Machado were sacked or burned. ''Dispatches from Santiago said three persons were killed and 25 wounded thsre In general disorders and that mobs sacked and burned homes of government officials and houses at army headquarters. Accompanying Machado on his flight were Octavio Averhoff, former Secretary of the Treasury; Jose Izqulerdo, former Chief of the Havana Central District; A.

G. Aln clart, former Chief of Police, an aid to the latter, and Captain Jorge Vila, President of the Cuban Avla tion Company. NEEDLESS CARS BANNED. An edict went out from the Gen eral Staff tonight that none but necessary cars should be on the streets tonight and those should stop at the first order. Otherwise they would be fired on.

An army source asserted that seven automobiles occupied by members of the former Machado strong-arm squad known as th "Porra" to Cubans and hated by all members of the opposition-were out armed with machine gune and bearing cards labeled ABC. the secret society that has foughi Machado most bitterly. There was so Indication as to the line-up of the De Cespedes Cabinet although political opinion here al ready has pointed to several men for possible Cabinet honors. Among these were Dr. Juan Gut ierrez Qulros, former President of the Cuban Supreme Court, who re signed to protest against Machado's interference with the Judiciary; Cosme de la Torriente, former Ambassador to Washington and one of Welles's aides in his mediation work; and Dr.

Horacio Ferrer, retired chief of the Army Sanitation Department and one of the leaders in yesterday's army movement. FOR LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Finally defeated when his com pact, well-disciplined little army rebelled against him en masse, Machado had given up the fight at 10 o'clock this morning and sent to Congress a request for leave of absence. Thus the main feature of the me diation plan sponsored by United States Ambassador Sumner Welles upon the authority of President Roosevelt and approved by Government and opposition political groups in the Island republic retirement of President Machado was accomplished. Machado accepted the resigna tions of all members of his Cabinet except Secretary of War Alberto Herrera, who as the only remaining member of the Government was expected to appoint Senor Cespedes Secretary of State and then quit his own office.

Cespedes then legally would become President of the republic. Senor Cespedes, former Minister to Washington and holder of other Miami, August 12 (AP) A message tonight from Nassau said a complete check of the Island rv vealed no trace of General Macha do, ousted Cuban President, who was reported fleeing to the Bnhu mas by airplane. It was explained that Machado might have stopped at Andros, a little Island in the group. There will be no wireless communication with Andros until tomorrow morning. (Copyright, 1933, by Aiioclated pr.ua) Havana, August 12 Gerardo Machado, abdicating today as Fresl dent of Cuba, fled for his life in an airplane bound for Nassau in the Bahamas, while angry mobs dealt death and destruction to his adher ents and their property.

At least 21 persons were slain and more than 200 Injured More bodies may have been left on side streets, forgotten. A violent electric slorm this eve nlng only temporarily halted the activities of the demonstrators. CESPEDES TAKES OFFICE. Carlos Manuel De Cespedes, 82-ycar-old former Secretary of Slate, diplomat of many posts and choice of all Cuba's political factions for the post of Provisional President, tonight officially took over that office. A statement issued by the new President read: "To the people: I have assumed the supreme offlco of the nation by the will of all those who desire justice, peace and good will for Cuba.

I take over this office because it is my duty to lend my most effective aid In these difficult moments to the work of saving the country, which Is endangered." Mobs running wild through the Thin Morning In THE ENQUIRER NEWS 8ECTION. Pages Editorials 8 Waste Basket 6 Foreign Affairs 17 Financial Markets 22 Garden News 24 Radio Programs 24 Men and Matters 25 News of the Courts 26 Sports Danny Dumm 27 SECTION TWO. Real Estate Building 1-2 House Design Deeds and SECTION THREE. Theaters Drama 1-2 Motion Pictures 8 Art Circles 5 Crossword Puzzle 8 SECTION FOUR. Automobile News 1-3 Aviation Lanes Ohio Valley Politics 4 All Sorts Chess 6 SECTION FIVE.

Society 1-4 Camping Notes 5 Fashion Page 6 For Woman's Eye 7 Resorts Travel 8 Artgravure 8 Pages Comic Section 8 Pages Sunday Magazine .8 Pages Country To Triple Supply Of Medicinal Liquor in '34 Priest Hears Slayer's Story; Washington, August 12 (AP) Seven million gallons of medicinal liquor may be made in the United States next year exactly three and one-half times the amount permitted In 1933. This increase was authorized to day by the Bureau of Internal Revenue with the explanation that was required because of heavier consumption since Congress relaxed the laws governing liquor prescrip tions. It was said unofficially that the total would have to be raised btill more if the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed, or if the demand for prescriptions should in crease further. Since 1929, 2,000,000 gallons have been authorized annually. The present supply of medicinal liquor was estimated by the bureau approximately 11,000,000 gallons aged btock.

Custodians of the Government's store of whisky have forecast a shortage in the event prohibition repeal should be voted at an eariy date. Father Raises John Henkel, '16 years old, con fessed slayer of Oliver S. Bally, prominent young society man and insurance salesman, took communion yesterday morning. Rev. Joseph Collins," of St.

Louis Church, visited the boy, who had passed a restless night. They sought the privacy of a small office in the jail, and there the priest heard Henkel's story of his mis deeds and gave communion. Later Alfred C. Crouse, Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court, interviewed the boy. Crouse said that nothing new was learned the interview.

Proceedings in the case are being held up pending the arrival of Judge Charles W. Hoffman, of Juvenile Court Crouse said that the Judge's family had received a Of the 11,000,000 gallons now. QitiiimtiiliMiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiQ Si.

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