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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938 NOTABLES File Into Court To Explain Possession Of Smuggled Goods. Many Purchased Articles Unwittingly, Government Attorney Asserts. New York. December 7-(AP)That queue of movie stars and other entertainers marching through the Federal building was explained tonight by Joseph Delaney, Assistant United States Attorney. Most of them, he said, are in possession smuggled property and are liable Federal prosecution Lie regardless of how unwittingly they acquired the goods.

Such prosecution was either improbable or remotely possible, said Delaney, who is hearing their stories in connection with smuggling indictments voted against Mrs. Elma N. Lauer, wife of 8 New York State Supreme Court Justice, and Albert N. Chaperau. NAMES FILM NOTABLES.

Among those questioned were Katharine Hepburn, Jack Benny, Jack Pearl, Wallace Ford, George Burns, Joseph Moskowitz, movie executive, and Ralph Hitz, hotel magnate. Delaney tried to shield the headliners from publicity, but his efforts failed when Chaperau's lawyer filed an affidavit in court which mentioned the names and told of testimony before the grand jury, he said. The affidavit was withdrawn later. "I want to give them a chance to explain how they got possession of smuggled articles," Delaney said. "They can be prosecuted under the law, but we do not wish to do that if proper explanations are given." UNAWARE OF SMUGGLING.

He said he felt none of the stars knew the articles were smuggled. Hitz, President of the National Hotel Management Company, issued a statement explaining his connection with the case. He said a Parisian merchant, Hilliard J. Rosencrantz, had written him he was sending him a novelty key watch as a present. The watch, he said, was delivered by Chapereau, and he had no idea it might have been smuggled into this country.

Delaney said he was "perfectly satisfied" with the explanation given by Hitz. He said also Rosencrantz was not under suspicion as a smuggler. "We are concentrating on this man Chaperau or Shapiro," Delaney said. CITY BRIEFS Warrant Alleges Forgery- Jack Howe, 31 years old, salesman, 221 Southern Avenue, Cincinnati, was arrested yesterday by Norwood Police on a warrant charging forgery, signed by Eugene Milchan, 2139 Norwood Avenue, Norwood. The warrant charges that Howe signed another person's name to A $4 check he gave Milchan December 1 as an installment on a vacuum cleaner.

Feeder Damage feeder on a voltage regulator in a substation of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company at 208 West Mitchell Avenue, burned out yesterday, causing $3,000 damage. Firemen under Captain Charles Eggers extinguished the blaze. Stove Pipe Injures Woman- -Miss Mary Railey, 75 years old, 1413 Elm Street, was cut over her left eye yesterday when a stove pipe she was adjusting in her apartment slipped and struck her. She was treated at General Hospital, Missing Jewelry Found Miss Mary Brennan, 3602 Evanston Avenue, yesterday found two diamond rings and a bracelet which she had police a burglar took from her home Tuesday night. They were in vase her home, Detectives Harry Helming and Louis Backmeier reported.

She valued the jewelry at $1,200. Miss Brennan told the detectives she had misplaced the jewelry. Burglary Hearing Passed -Hearing of a burglary charge against Patrick Shanley, 29 years old, was continued until Saturday by Judge George E. Tebbs in Police Court yesterday. Shanley is charged with having smashed a window of the Henry Strauss Company cigar store, Sixth and Walnut Streets, Tuesday, and taking tobacco, pipes, lighters.

Shanley gave his address as the Fenwick Club, but officials said he was asked to leave the club three months ago. Falls Two Floors John Cunningham, 18 years old, 119 East Court Street, suffered possible fractures of the right arm and leg yesterday when he fell from a fourth-story window at his home to the roof of a two-story building in the rear. Police said Cunninghan: tell when cleaning a window. He was taken to General Hospital. Airport Fence Torn Down -Sixty feet of fence and a concrete post, valued at $200, were torn down yesterday at Lunken Airport, police were told.

It was believed that an automobile caused the damage. LUNCH STAND OUT. Sarasota, December 7 -(INS) -The young Potter Palmers are not going to buy the roadside lunchstand where, until their marriage a week ago, Mrs. Palmer was a waitress. Through his "spokesman," James L.

Gardner, Palmer tonight put the kobosh on romantic stories to the effect he planned to buy the "Greyhound Inn." where, as Miss Pluma Abatielle, Mrs. Palmer No. 4 was employed. HOLY DAY FOR CATHOLICS. The feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be observed today by Catholics as a holy day of obligation on which they must hear mass.

At St. Andrew Church, Avondale, the masses will be at 6, 7, 8, and 9 o'clock. The children's choir will sing At the 9 o'clock mess, which will be followed by benediction. Military Ball Tomorrow; Sponsored By R. O.

T. C. LT. COL. W.

J. REILLY. Cadet Lieutenant Colonel William J. Reilly, battalion commander of Xavier University's R. O.

T. C. Field Artillery Unit, is General Chairman of the annual Military Ball to be held tomorrow night at the Hotel Netherland Plaza. Others on the committee are Cadet Captains Robert J. Antonelli, Richard T.

Schmidt, and Richard L. Dooley; Cadet Corporals Robert G. Kissel, Robert M. Weigand, John E. Smith and William J.

F. Roll, and Cadets Neal R. Faessler, William J. Everett, Walter P. Overbeck.

Robert E. Kaske, Howard J. Nieman, Harry E. Uehlein, James W. Cheap, and J.

Richard Comstock. More than 350 cadets will attend the dance. in addition to ranking military personages from the Cincinnati military area. WINDUP Of Green Line Seen Within Three Years If Deficits Continue--Manager Before Newport Officials. Probability that the Cincinnati, Newport, and Covington Railway will cease to operate within the rext three years if the income of the company is not increased, was admitted yesterday by P.

G. Vondersmith, General Manager. Vondersmith said the company would assume a deficit of approximately $100,000 this year and that it had been operating at a loss for several years. It the company is forced to withdraw, as it probably will be if this deficit is continued for another three years, other companies coming into Northern Kentucky would demand increased fares. This would mean a fare of not less than 10 cents, he predicted.

Vondersmith's prediction of the withdrawal of the company was made late Tuesday at a conference with City Manager J. Bailie Morlidge, Newport, and Newport City Commissioners regarding the proposed establishment of a temporary beltline and crosstown bus route between Newport and Covington. No conclusion was reached on the proposal. CENTER IS TO FETE 1,000 AT PARTY FOR CHILDREN A thousand children of Greater Cincinnati will be guests at the second annual "Christmas tree party" sponsored by the Edgewood Catholic Action Center, to be held Sunday, December 18, on the grounds of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Clifton. The board of directors of the center and the Party Committee will meet Tuesday night to complete arrangements.

Participating on the Sponsoring Committee will be the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, the Newman Club of the University Cincinnati, groups from Our Lady of Cincinnati College and Mount St. Joseph College, and the Barat Association. Former Judge John C. Dempsey, President of the board, announced the following committee leaders: Chairman, Charles M. Williams; House Reception Committee, Mrs.

Howard Ferrie: grounds, Robert F. Sherry and Judge Dempsey; refreshments, Mrs. William Riely; Guest Committee, Mons. Sherry, Albert D. Cash, Judge Clarence Spraul, and Mrs.

Frederick W. Hinkle; transportation, Thomas M. Geoghegan and D. G. O' Conor; solicitation.

Miss Mary Walsh and Miss Nellie Runnells; stockings, Miss Lucille Bresnen; contests of stockings, James A. Reilly and Miss Mary Unnewehr; children, Miss Eileen McBreen and Miss Dorothy Lane: souvenirs, Mrs. J. A. Ruthemeyer; Christmas tree and trimmings, Mrs.

Charles F. Williams; children's refreshments, Miss Theresa, Dirr, Mrs. J. Finn, and Mrs. J.

C. Buschmiller; parking, Stanley Andrews; program. Miss Virginia DuBrul and Miss Mary Jane Dunphy, and publicity, Mrs. Frances W. Faulkner and Rudolph Benson.

SURRENDERS TO POLICE. A Negro who said his name was Frank Williams, 23 years old, Atlanta, walked into detective headquarters late last night and told Detective Sergeant George Ebbers he was wanted in Detroit, for forging a Works Progress Administration pay check. He said he took a check for $38.40 from the pocket of Ernest Yeager, Detroit, and cashed it at a Detroit store. BOYS' CLOTHING NEEDED. Odis B.

Hinnant, Secretary of Central Parkway Y. M. C. boys' department, yesterday made an apfor sweaters and pants for 13 needy high school boys of the city's basin area. Anyone having clothes for these boys whose ages range from 14 to 16 is asked to get in touch with Hinnant at the downtown CENTER DANCE TOMORROW.

A social dance for Mount Washington residents will be given by the Mount Washington Community Center at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at Mount Washington School. Muo will be furnished by An orches. tra under the Federal Music project. Meeting To Begin Thursday Of Dixie Highway Delegates Lexington, December 7-- (AP) A two-day meeting of the U.S. Super Dixie Highway Association will open here Thursday with in attendance from nine states through which the proposed four-lane route will pass on the way from the Canadian border to terminal points on the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico.

Immediately after registration, visitors will be conducted on a tour of Bluegrass farms. The business session of the meeting will be conducted in connection with a combination breakfast and luncheon Friday morning. Representative Jackson May of Prestonsburg, Chairman of Military Affairs Committee of National House of Representatives, will be principal speaker, and J. Stacy Hill of Cincinnati, honorary Chairman of the association, will be presiding officer. Friday afternoon will be devoted to individual meetings of various state contingents and of the Executive Committee of the association.

Friday night Senator Alben w. Barkley of Kentucky is scheduled to deliver the principal address at a dinner. H. Lee Barrett of De- MEN MATTERS Predicts Thrifty Pupils--Karl T. Finn, manager of the Better Business Bureau, predicted yesterday before the Lions Club at Hotel Metropole that within the next five years pupils of the country's public schools would be taught best methods of spending money, including making sound investments.

He said that lately there has been a definite tendency toward teaching students how to use the budget and to save money. Potentate To Give Report liam C. Winans, Potentate of Syrian Temple of the Shrine, will report on ceremonials visited last month at the final business meeting of the year starting at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night. The Hamilton, Ohio. Shrine Club will be guests at the meeting.

Edward Bartels, President, and Holle H. Schneider, Secretary-Treasurer, will be in the delegation. The Christmas Cheer Committee of the Temple will plan for visiting sick Shriners on Christmas Day. Attorney Is Recovering Condition of Gregor B. Moorman was reported as "fair" last night by the Good Samaritan Hospital after the local attorney had undergone an emergency appendectomy Tuesday Moorman is with the law firm of Maxwell and Ramsey, Union Trust Building.

Bridge Expert To Speak-Charlton Wallace, bridge expert, will speak on "The Social Game of Bridge" at the meeting December 15 of the Cooperative Club at the Hotel Netherland Plaza. Plans for the annual Christmas celebration for Junior Scouts of the Children's Home will be discussed. Club To Plan Party Plans will be made by the Civitan Club at its luncheon today at the Hotel Netherland Plaza for a Christmas party at the Branch Hospital near Price Hill. R. H.

Dickson will preside. Panama Canal Topic-M a jor Lawrence Mickel, United States Army, will speak today on "The Panama Canal" at the Exchange Club luncheon at Hotel Gibson. Major Mickel will tell of the importance of the canal to the armed forces in time of war and its commercial advantages in time of peace. Rotarians To Hear PresidentGeorge C. Hagar, Chicago, President of Rotary International, will visit Cincinnati Rotarians next Wednesday, according to Elmer T.

Cummins, Secretary of the local club. Invitations have been issued to Rotary clubs of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio to be guests at a dinner at the Hotel Gibson Decemher 14. O. Slack Barrett, President, will preside. The attraction at a Rotary Club luncheon today at the Hotel Gibson will be John Ratto, Chicago, impersonator.

To Take Office January 1-Jack Ruthemeyer, newly elected President of the Greater Cincinnati Stoker Association, will take office January 1. Others who will be inducted with him are Vice President, Frank Hahn; Secretary, B. Walters, and Treasurer, Julius H. Doeker. troit, Secretary of the association, will be toastmaster.

Among guests who have said they would attend the meeting are Gar Wood, Detroit, designer and pilot of motorboats; Lieutenant Jesse Auton, Washington; Senator Prentiss M. Brown, St. Ignace, Colonel Sidney Waldon and William A. Brush, both of Detroit; Dr. W.

R. Veazy, Midland, Frank Picard, Saginaw, Representative Charles H. Elston and William E. Hess, both of Cincinnati; Representative Robert F. Jones and Wallace King, both of Lima, Ohio; Royce G.

Martin, Toledo; H. E. Bennett, Sidney, Ohio; Wilson Wood III, Piqua, Ohio; Johnson West, Troy, Ohio; John Ahlers, Dayton, Ohio; Bennett Chapple, Middletown, Ohio, and Alexander Thompson, Hamilton, Ohio. The Kentucky contingent will be headed by Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson and will include Representative Brent Spence, Fort Thomas; Brigadier General Adna R. Chaffee, Fort Knox; Colonel William E.

Smith, Louisville; Commissioners Mack Galbraith and Drake Naive, both of Frankfort; H. D. Palmore and W. D. Snyder, both of Frankfort; 0.

M. Rogers, Covington; John Juett, Williamstown; C. H. Wood, Frankfort; C. W.

Healy, Louisville, and Representative J. M. Robison, Barbourville. SIX MONTHS Given Brother, Sister On Juvenile Delinquency Charge -Youth Had Been Used In Robberies, Is Plea. Myrtle Stevens, wife of Walter Stevens who was sentenced last week to a year in jail by Judge Charles W.

Hoffman Juvenile Court on a charge of contributing to juvenile delinquency, and her brother, Shilo were sentenced to six months in jail on a similar charge by Judge Hoffman yesterday. Stevens, declared by police to be a "modern Fagin," was convicted of having caused the fourteen-year-old son of Wayne Stockton, Monticello, to break into and rob "more than 100 homes" in Cincinnati, then turn the loot over to him. He was taken into custody after the home of Mrs. Mary E. Leahy, 2950 Observatory Road, was broken into.

It was alleged that a relative of Stevens's wife returned a $1,200 diamont bracelet for a $100 r'eward. Convicted on the boy's testimony last week, Stevens drew the sentence of one year. The cases against his wife and her brother were continued until yesterday. Testimony was presented showing that Dozier and the Stockton boy broke into a freight car and stole catsup, some of which was found in the Stevens home. Mrs.

Stevens insisted she knew nothing of the robberies, saying she knew only of the turning over of certain articles to her uncle on instructions from her husband, Judge Hoffman, however, said the evidence was clear against both Mrs. Stevens and her brother. In commending and Juvenile Court probation officers, Judge Hiffman said: "With all this talk of a crime wave among juveniles, it is clear that we must comprehend the part adults play in it. This boy was used in nearly all the robberies, and these defendants are guilty of contributing to his delinquency, and beyond a reasonable doubt. I cannot commend the police and probation officers too highly for their work in this case." Gifts Are Received Before Plea Is Made Commenting on interest in the 1939 Children's Hospital Roll Call.

A. E. Anderson, President of the hospital's Board of Trustees and Chairman of the roll-call campaign, announced yesterday that 60 contributions were received before the letter of appeal reached the givers. letter, 4,000 copies of which have been sent out, asks for $100.000 SO that free service to children of poor families can be continued. The letter discloses that for the year ending October 31, 4,083 children were taken to the hospital for 48.971 days of hospital care, of which 26,971 were given free and 6,524 days children whose days, parents could pay but very littlesometimes only 25 cents a day.

The Children's Hospital service is open to children of all classes, regardless of race or creed. New Unity Is Asked Of Christian Church By Presiding Bishop Buffalo, N. December 7-(AP) The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church called tonight for a new unity of the Christian church at an open meeting of the Federal Council of Churches. "When we see how firmly evil is entrenched in individual human nature, in social customs, in political and industrial institutions, the need for a united Christian front is apparent," Right Rev. Henry St.

George Tucker said. "What hope is there that a divided church will ever succeed in converting the non-Christian peoples?" he asked. Bishop Tucker asserted that individual differences were transcended when men were brought together in a common cause and under A common leader. The meeting on Christian unity concluded the second day's session of the council's four-day biennial meeting. SURVEY To Cover 248 Miles Of Ohio River In First Year Of Pollution Study-Two Laboratories To Be Used.

Approximately one-third of the Ohio River will be covered the first year of the pollution survey to be started soon by United States Engineers and the Public Health Service, it was announced yesterday. This will cover approximately 248 miles from the mouth of the Kanawha River, near Huntington, W. to the mouth of the Kentucky River at Carrollton, separated into two zones with Maysville, as the dividing line. The zone from Maysville to the mouth of the Kentucky will be in charge of H. W.

Streeter, who will have headquarters at the United States Marine Hospital Third and Kilgour Streets. This unit will examine samples of river water, sewage, and industrial waste in its laboratory. The laboratory work in the zone from Maysville to the mouth of the Kanawha will be done on the steamer Kiski, a quarter boat of the Engineer Corps assigned for this service. It is being equipped as a floating laboratory and will have a crew of about 10 men, A field survey of the sources of pollution in the Ohio River and its tributaries will be conducted by H. W.

Crohurst, Senior Sanitary Officer of the Health Service, and E. S. Tisdale, Chief Sanitary Engineer of the West Virginia Board of Health. CHRISTMAS BULLETIN OUT FROM RECREATION BOARD A Christmas bulletin, giving suggestions for party games for children and adults, has been prepared by the Recreation Commission. The bulletin may be obtained by send10 cents in stamps or coin to the office of the Public Recreation Commission, 114 City Hall.

The commission is conducting also a "Learn a New Carol" campaign, to induce citizens to learn appropriate songs for Christmas. Mimeographed words and music of four carols which are not familiar to most persons have been made in an effort to popularize the songs. The commission will send a copy of each carol upon receipt of a stamped, self-addressed envelope. OPERA HOUSE To Be Replaced With Two-Story Building. Is Report -Plans To Include Theater.

Plans are under way to raze the Grand Opera House and replace it with a two-story building containing two stores and a theater, it was learned yesterday. The stores would face on Vine Street. The theater, according to tentative plans, would suitable for both motion pictures and stage plays. A representative of the Taft Estate, the owners, said a a a yesterday that no contracts have been awarded and no announcement is ready. It was decided more than a year ago that the site should be improved.

The lot runs 83 feet on Vine Street, 225 feet on Opera Place. The present theater building has housed the presentations of scores of great plays by great actors. In recent years it has been a motion picture theater. THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME -BY JIMMY HATLO THESE YOU COULDN'T PAY A FOOTBALL WELL- SO FAR JUNKMAN TO TAKE PROGRAMS ARE STOP! DON'T THROW HE'S LET HER TOSS AWAY ALL THAT FIVE OR SIX YEARS OUT ONE OLD BOTTLE OLD. YOU DON'T THOSE AWAY! OF AND A CAN.

A DIME HE WANTS TO. STUFF COURSE, I WANT SANS THEY TO HANG ON WANT THEM, T00 PUT WIND DO YOU THEM. THEM UP WITH MORE OVER HERE WITH JUNK IN THERE THE REST OF THE THAN THE THINGS I WANT STARTED OUT TO KEEP. WITH. PUZZLE PICTURE WHO' DO YOU THINI4 SUGGESTED THAT THE GARAGE OUGHT TO BE CLEANED OUT 7 Copt 1938, King Features Syndicate, World nights reserved THANX 11:8 TO BOB MOONEY PRICES FIRM On Lexington Floors.

Tobacco Average Gains 19 Cents Over Tuesday. Sales Of 1.457.976 Pounds Are Shown -AAA Field Agent Issues Warning. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Lexington, December 7 -The Lexington tobacco market was firm today at approximately the same level, grade for grade, as yesterday's quotations. The average was $23.86 a hundred, an advance of 19 cents over the previous day.

Ben Bosworth, supervisor of sales, closed his books for the day with one house unreported. The official figures showed 1,457,976 pounds selling for $347,857.13. The unreported house sold approximately 400,000 pounds, so Bosworth said, but its inclusion probably would not have changed the average appreciably. Flyings were in least demand, contrast to previous seasons, when grade was sought eagerly by buyers. of L.

H. Bowling, field agent for the Agricultural Adiustment, tration, tonight warning transfers of allotment cards must be made in the presence of rant officers who are stationed on all sales floors, or at the county farm agent's office or the AAA field office. Transfers made in any other manner will not be recognized, he said. Deliveries were heavy today. Sales will open tomorrow at the Old Burley, Tattersalls, Clay No.

1, New Independent No. 1, and GearyWright warehouses. Burley tobacco sales in the Covington markets yesterday totaled 36,052 pounds, bringing a total of $8,677.55, an average of $24.06. The high basket went for $33 and the low basket for $6. SPECTAT.

DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Ripley, Ohio, December 7-Sales conducted today at three of Ripley's four tobacco warehouses totaled 109,114 pounds, for a total of $21,881.48, an average of $20.05 a hundred pounds. Sales yesterday, the opening day, totaled 86,786 pounds, for an average of $20.96. The Farmers' Warehouse, where sales were incomplete yesterday, reported a total sale of 45,790 pounds for $8,742.84, an average of $19.09. The O.

K. Warehouse, after its opening sale today, reported a total of 49,246 pounds for $10,191.48, an average of $20.70. There was only rejection, officials said. The Union Warehouse sold 14,000 pounds, one-third of the tobacco on the floor, for an average of $20.98. J.

Officials described sales as highly satisfactory and said more deliveries were coming in rapidly. SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Bethel, Ohio, December 7 A county-wide meeting of the 1938 burley tobacco growers will be conducted at the Grant Memorial Building here Friday night, according to E. C. Saxton, Chairman of the Clermont County Agricultural Conservation Committee.

A state speaker will outline the present burley tobacco situation and the necessities for the burley marketing quota referendum December 17. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. a sales were 7 cents a hundred higher than Cynthiana, December 7 Today's on the opening day yesterday. The Wiglesworth and the Cynthiana Livestock and Tobacco Sales Company sold 310,473 pounds for $73,215.16, an average of $23.58. High were covered floor managers said.

basket brought $41. Some of the crops Harrodsburg, December 7-(AP)Burley tobacco sales today; Pounds, 636; receipts, average, $23.67. Mt. Sterling, December 7-(AP) -Burley tobacco sales today: Pounds, receipts, average, $19.70. Springfield, December 7- (AP) Burley tobacco sales today: Pounds, 202; receipts, average, $22.09.

Louisville, December 7-(AP)-Burley tobacco sales today (two of three warehouses) Pounds, receipts, 579.87; average, $19.51, SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRNE 159,398 pounds of tobacco sold at four Maysville, December total of houses $20.81. today for $33,163.67, an average SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Paris, December 7. Selling for an average of $25.46 a hundred pounds, 426 pounds of burley tobacco were sold here today for $85,664.60. A much better grade of leaf appeared on the floors than on the first day's sales.

The high crop averaged $29.24 and the high basket sold for an average of $32. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Madison, December -Burley sales at Madison totaled 141,258 pounds which brought $28,152.25, an average of $19.94, High basket $31. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Richmond, December 7 Prices strengthened on the Richmond burley market and 203,582 pounds sold for $43,174.29, an average of $21.35 a hundred pounds, up 65 cents a hundred from the opening day's average.

High basket today was $32, up $1 from Tuesday. Bowling Green, December 7-(AP) Burley sales today: Total pounds, receipts, average, $20.42. Hopkinsville, December 7-(AP)Sale of approximately 125,000 pounds of burley tobacco at an estimated average of $18 was recorded at the Hopkinsville market today. In addition, sale of burley on the farmers' loose floor, halted yesterday by darkness, was completed today, with total movement at that floor of 222,060 pounds for an average of $18.99. Total receipts amounted to $42,159.01.

The total made it the second best start in eight years here, Owensboro, December 7---(AP)Bids for burley tobacco were off more than a dollar a hundred pounds on today's sale, as compared with the opening prices yesterday. There was little change in the dark market. An average of $19.11 was paid today on a sale of 219,876 pounds of burley, which brought $42,017.96. The dark tobacco sale was 134,164 pounds for 853.60, an average of $11.87. Glasgow, December 7-(AP)- -Burley sales today: Total pounds, receipts, average, $20.70.

Huntington, W. December 7--(AP) market -Huntington's burley tobacco opened today with sales of approximately 160,000 pounds of leaf at an average price of about 23 cents. A. L. Lancaster, market manager, said accurate statistics for the day were not available.

Lancaster said more than 1,000,000 pounds bad received from growers of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia and estimated about 5,000,000 pounds would be sold before the market closes. Shelbyville, December 7 Burley tobacco sales today: Pounds, 273, 386; receipts, average, $21.97. Prices Nashville, ranged from 67 December for low grade to $30 for top leaf as tobacco sales opened in burley growing areas of Tennessee. The total amounts sold, average prices per hundred pounds and total receipts at various markets included: Gallatin, 171,976, $20.25, Hartsville, 104,048, $21.69, Clarksville (unreported). New Tazewell, 221,966, $22.41, 224.58; Morristown, 207,076.

$22.60, 909.16; Johnson City, 186,408, $21.92, Greenville and Knoxville (unreported). Norman Thomas To Speak At Peace League Meeting NORMAN THOMAS. "Must We Accept War as an Inescapable Fact?" will be the topic of a talk by Norman Thomas, Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, and three candidate for President the Socialist ticket, Saturday ncon before the Cincinnati Peace League at Hotel Gibson. The December luncheon of the league will precede the address. ARBITER ASKED In Power Dispute.

TVA Forces Utility Sellout, Killing Plant Building Boom, Company Head Says. Washington, December 7-(AP)Wendell Willkie, utility leader, accused Tennessee Valley Authority tonight of raising "legalistic" objections to his proposal for arbitration of a fierce power dispute. Willkie had suggested that the Securities Commission be called in as arbiter to break a deadlock in negotiations between himself and TVA for sale of Tennessee Electric Power Company to TVA and local public power agencies. (Tennessee Electric Power is a subsidiary of Commonwealth and Southern' Corporation, of which Willkie is President.) A flat rejection of the arbitration offer was announced today by J. A.

Krug, youthful power planning engineer of TVA, when he appeared before a congressional committee investigating the authority's affairs. Krug said arbitration would lead to years of litigation, and no decision could be reached "in time to meet the requirements of local public agencies." Willkie said the objections were "without merit." said government efforts to force utilities to sell their properties below true value are preventing a utilities building boom "running into billions of dollars." committee also heard Krug testify that annual power revenues of $20,000,000 would be garnered from the ten dams of TVA, on the basis of existing rates. After subtracting direct and allocated power costs, he said, a $3,000,000 balance would be available toward offsetting navigation and flood control costs. WATER TRAIL LEADS To Motorist Whose Auto Damaged Light Pole, Police Say. Safety Patrolmen William Leinhardt and Arthur MacKenna, used "Sherlock Holmes" in tracking down a motorist whom they charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident early yesterday.

Dispatched to investigate an accident in front of the home of Gordon R. Lunt, 2340 Victory Parkway, the officers found a machine had struck Lunt's parked car, knocking it upon the sidewalk and damaging a street light pole. But they could not find the car. However, the officers found a trail of water which the machine of the "hit-and-run" driver had left on the streets from a damaged radiator. The trail led to the garage of Bernard H.

Krekeler, 1620 Clarewood Avenue. Krekeler's nose was bleeding when he answered the door. He told them he had hurried home to receive medical attention. They took him General Hospital, then placed the charges against him. Given Scare By Trap Door's Slam Herman Bressler had just started through a trap door behind the prescription counter to the baseof his drugstore at Chase Street and a Kirby Avenue last night.

James Novotny, 4416 Innis Avenue, an old customer whom Bressler didn't recognize, walked in. "Stay there," said Novotny. But Bressler dived into the cellar so fast the trap door slammed. He stuck his head through a cellar window to shout: "Help! Police! Holdup!" Two cruisers arrived. Novotny met the officers.

"I just wanted to ask Bressler if I could make the trip to the cellar for him," he told Sergeant Edward Von Dohre. SHOOTING VICTIM DIES. Aaron Dolman, 73 years old, Negro, 908 Barr Street, died last night in Geperal Hospital from the effects of a bullet wound in the neck which he received September 16, Coroner Frank M. Coppock, reported. Police have been holding Dewey Pierson, 28, Negro, 824 Kenyon Avenue, on a charge of shootto kill.

Police charge that PierIson shot Dolman in a dispute over a dice game. HAIRDRESSER Is Held Responsible In Giving Permanent Wave To Child, Judge Rules. Negligence Of Girl, 5, Parent Argued In Damage Suit-Opinion Sets Forth Reasons. While the law is explicit that a child cannot be guilty of contributory negligence in an accident in which it is involved, the alleged imputed negligence of a parent likewise may not be imputed to the child, Judge Dudley M. Outcalt set forth in an opinion handed down yesterday in Common Pleas Court.

The decision was in the suit of Nancy Ruth Paul, five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Edna Paul, 2935 Lehman Road, who demanded $10,000 damages from Mar-Dell's, 630 Walnut Street, for an injury alleged to have resulted July 27 when the child was receiving a permanent wave. The petition charged that the operator was negligent in permitting a heating element to slip and burn the child's neck. The defense insisted that the injury was caused by the restlessness of the child and inability of her mother to manage her. Therefore, it was claimed the child and her mother both were also negligent.

The plaintiff's move to strike this defense was granted, Judge Outcalt saying that it is established that a child of five years cannot be guilty of contributory negligence, and since the mother was suing on behalf of the child alone, and not for her own benefit, to refuse the child relief "on the ground of her parent's indifference or negligence would be to deny her that right altogether; to impute to her the negligence of others is harsh and extreme, even though said negligence so imputed was that of her parent. The defense pleaded also that there are two methods of giving A permanent wave, with or without the use of a machine. The mother preferred the machine method as it was the cheaper, though the operator advised the other. Judge Outcalt says he was not called upon to pass the propriety of giving a permanent wave to a child of 5 years, but when a hairdresser does so she must bear in mind the child's age, and cannot rely upon the insistence of a parent. If she agrees to give such treatment she must remember that she will be held responsible "and cannot reply upon negligence of the child nor negligence or indifference of the parent who insisted that such treatment be given." COVINGTON MAN HURT In Cincinnati Auto Mishap Treated At Hospital.

Walter W. Stein, 28 years old, 319 West Eighteenth Street, Covington, received a cut on his head yesterwhen his automobile collided with a streetcar Street and the Eden Park entrance. He was treated The at streetcar Bethesda was Hospitaled by John Henry, 110 West Elder Street. Mrs. Lillian Schoell, 70, 1557 Linn Street, suffered a dislocated right shoulder when she fell against an automobile which was stopped for traffic at Sixth and Elm Streets.

She was treated by a physician. The automobile was operated by Luther Kitchen, 1087 Flint Street. Marvin Day, 42, Negro, 825 Hathaway Street, suffered a possible skull fracture and cuts on the face last night when a truck he was driving crashed into a parked car in front of 810 West Fifth Street. The car was owned by Edward Mundell of the Fifth Street, Negro, address. 517 Thomas Carlisle Richard- Avenue, riding with Day, was cut on the face.

Both were taken to St. Marys Hospital hour treatment. NORWOOD MAYOR UNMOVED By Painters' Union ComplaintCity Hall Picketed. Commenting on a banner reading "This place is unfair to Painters' District Council No. 12," carried yesterday by a picket in front of Norwood City Hall, Mayor Amos L.

Eyler reiterated his statement made at Council meeting Monday night that he had nothing to do with the hiring of Works Progress Administration laborers. The union contends union painters should be hired on the project instead of unskilled laborers. Mayor Eyler said there was no painting work to be done on the project, just general cleaning. He added that when the interior of the building was painted a year ago, union painters were employed, VAN GORDER RITES TODAY. The body of Harry Van Gorder, 81 years old, former road master of the Big Four Railroad at Cleves, Ohio, was returned to his native town yesterday by that road for burial today in Maple Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Van Gorder, who left Cleves almost 40 years ago, and served with railroads all through the West until his retirement 10 years ago, died Tuesday at Antigo, Wis. He leaves three sons, Frank, Befsmer, Clyde, Lomard, and Edgar, Pekein, and a daughter, Mrs. Nellie Blackford, St. Louis, all of whom arrived at Cleves to attend the funeral.

INJURED FIGHTING FIRE. truck of Roy Huff, Washington Avenue, North Bend, Ohio, caught fire last night on Sunset Avenue. Walter Redmond, 24 years old, Box 27, Sunset Avenue, received second degree burns on his left hand and neck as he attempted to fight the flames, acting as a volunteer fireman, according to police reports. Redmond WAS taken to General Hospital. Cincinnati firemen who finally put out the blaze estimated damage to the truck at $50.

The fire WAS attributed to short circuit..