News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 1

MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL Ohio: Cloudy wil-lt flurries. Tuesday fair willi lowly rising temperature. PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 49, NO. 301 IS CTS.

PER WEEK BY CAKRIER (New Established 1885) Combined (Journal Established 1930) 1J32 MANSFIELD, OHIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931 1 Eoi STOltwi MILL In ai LJi L-i LJ Li mms VJ Li LJ Vy L-J Li Li Li Li VJ LJ -i n.i LJLy City Battles Similar Conditions in Heaviest Snowfall Find 8 Dead In Wreckage Of Airliner CANVASS FOR NEW PLANT TO OPEN MARCH 5 Special C. of C. Committee to Seek to Raise $25,000 to Bring Industry Here. Victims of Crash Never Knew What Happened, Probers Report. SALT LAKE CITY (P) The wrecking of a giant United Airline transport last Friday was so swift and sudden, line officials said today, that the eight persons who 1 1 I .1 i MEANS JOBS FOR 300 FIRES, CRASHES ON GRADES, COLD TAKE HUGE TOLL OF LIVES Eight Found Dead In Missing Plane In West; Three Killed On Ohio Crossing; Tornadoes In South Fatal to 23.

The nation counted at least 61 dead today in a series of tornadoes in the south, an Atlantic coast blizzard, fires, bus-and train accidents and the crash of an ill-fated airliner in the west. Mansfield meanwhile was fighting its way out of the heaviest snow in years. A record fall of 5.5 inches covered the city today after a week-end during which snow fell almost constantly. Attendance at Mansfield schools dropped to the lowest mark for the year as a result of the blizzard. The temperature at noon today stood at seven degrees above zero, within one point of the lowest temperature for the past 2 4 hours.

Traffic on highways and city streets was virtually tied up. The entire middle west was in the grip of the "old-fashioned snow blizzard." The forecast for tonight was for Electrical Appliance Makers to died never knew what happened. The plane fell vertically, like great ball of steel and" struck the ground with such force that the engine was Imbedded in the ground up to the cabin. "All the bodies were pushed forward," said Leon Cuddehack, assistant to Chief Pilot H. T.

Lewis, of United Air Lines. "The ship did not move after it struck the ground. There was no evidence of fire. Death must have been instantaneous to all." The dead: Miss Mary Carter, stewardess, formerly of Omaha and Chattanooga. Lloyd Anderson, Cheyenne, rllot; Eric G.

Danlelson. Cheyenne, co-pilot: J. J. Sterling, mayor of Benton Harbor, Marcellus Zins-master, Des Moines, Evald W. Berglund, Boone, Bert McLaughlin, Perry Springs, Wyo.

Plane Sights Wreckage. Move to Mansfield From Minneapolis. A campaign to raise a $25,000 iiuota with which to assist in do-fraying expenses for moving the Dominion Electrical rompauy to Mansfield from Minneapolis, will open here a week from today. The drive will be sponsored by the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce with John II. Fiuefrock, heading 'a committee which is to make a canvas for subscriptions from retail merchants, businesses of various kinds and industries.

Duo to Move in March. The electrical concern is to move its equipment for manufacturing electrical appliances, late next month. The plant will be lo-lated in buildings formerly occupied by the New? Method Stove company on Elm street. Here are shown the conditions with which Mansfield was confronted today as a blizzard of fine snow, starting yesterday, continued through last night Into this morning, blanketing this city with a five-inch snowfall and threatening to tie up traffic on highways and city streets. Mansfielders dug their way out of their houses in some Instances, and their cars out of deep ruts, as they experienced the heaviest snowfall in years.

Conditions in rural sections reduced school attendance and brought transportation to a standstill. The above scenes show how New Yorkers dug their way out of a record snowfall several days ago. still more cold, but no more snow.1 In the south, authorities rush DEATH CLAIMS 0. B. OFFICIAL Missing since last Friday, shortly after it had taken off here for Cheyenne with five passengers ed food, clothing and medical aid to communities in three states where tornadoes wrought havoc.

Thirteen were known dead In Alabama, eight in Mississippi, and two in Georgia. Sc-es of others were Injured and their homes were wrecked. Five passengers and a crew of three were found dead, as feared, when the passenger air liner, sought for two days, was located Fredericktown Flier, With Byrd, Falls in Ice Crack Ralph Smith Injured at South Pole Explorer Confers With New York Physicians by Radio. Ralph Smith, 28, Fredericktown aviator with Commander Richard Byrd in Little America, was the subject ot a medical consultation 10,000 miles long Saturday night. Smith, according to who broadcast the story of -the Knox county man from his ice-bound ship Saturday night, tell Into an ice crevice, bringing on a recurrence of an old spinal and a crew of three, the transport Operations are to start inline' diately after the equipment is installed.

The company employing mora than 300 persons, exclusive Edward F. Wickwire, Vice President of Mansfield Dies in Cleveland. (Picture on Page two) Edward Wickwire, 58, vice was found wrecked in a snow-covered pass 20 miles east of here. The wreckage was sighted at dusk yesterday by a searching plane. A rescue party of company officials which reached the scene through deep snow two hours later found the mangled bodies of the two pilots and the five passengers thrust into the forward of office and sales workers, expects to bring only a nucleus organization of 12 to IS people last night near a snowbound, can- from its present location in Min president ot ine uiuo Hrass company, died Saturday at his home In Cleveland.

Mr. Wickwire, a resident of COAL CODE IN EFFECTTODAY Mansfield Dealers, Others in Ohio Move to Comply With Provisions. Coal dealers in Mansfield and nearby towns today moved, comply with the recently signed NRA code governing their business affecting some 2,000 Ohio retail dealers. The code becomes effective today. Beginning today, dealers are required by the code to display in their places of business statements of the price and quality of their coal, Fred Sloan, secretary of the Mansfield Coal Dealers Credit Rating Exchange, said.

Asked whether an iuerease in th eprice of coal predicted by the Ohio Coal conference would be put in effect here, Sloan said he did not know. He said a meeting of Mansfield coal dealers will be held sometime this week for ailment. IHIliTrn iiiiii map I Smith's mother. Mrs. Kingston, Lang's vision probably was Impaired by the snow.

The locomotive turned over and La man and Palmer were buried beneath the wreckage for more than three hours. Nine other persons were killed In Ohio, in addition to those who died in the Delphos crash. At Canton, one man was killed when his car skidded into a pole, and another was overcome by smoke in a shack near the city dump. Tly-ee colored persons were killed whn their car was hit by a train lieftr Toledo. Near Lorain, a restaurant proprietor was overcome by fumes from a water heater and died.

An aged man was frozen to death near Flndlay. The body of an unidentified victim of a hit-skip driver was found in a Cleveland street. Peter Itozek was killed at Steubenville when he was hit by an automobile. Six Die in Hotel lllaze. Six persons were burned to death today in a fire of unknown origin in a hotel in Utica, N.

Only two of the six bodies were (Continued on Page 13, Col. 5)' i IlimAlto WILL rAlit CHARGES OF MURDER who resides on a farm four miles south of Fredericktown, heard the radio account of her son's accident. She expressed concern over his condition in a telephone conversation today and said she end of the plane and Imprisoned by wreckage. Only the body of the stewardess. Miss Carter, was intact.

It lay on 'op of those of the other. Identification was possible only by jewelry and clothing. Except for he wings, which were cracked, virtually every part of the craft was smashed. The tail hung drunkenly like a broken kite. jiui mr iriini nail) city.

The plane crashed In' a blinding blizzard Friday. .1 Me, 4 Hin In Crash. Three persons were killed and four injured, one seriously, early today when a Pennsylvania flyer, crashed into a truck at a crossing in Delphos, early today. The locomotive was overturned and seven cars derailed. The dead are: George Luman, Fort Wayne, engineer; Andrew Pulmer, Fort Wayne, fireman and Philip Lang, Chicago, truck driver.

The accident occurred during a snow storm and officials said White Approves Transfer Of expects to receive an official re- neapolis. Explains for I'll nil. In commenting on the campaign, A. D. Caddell, secretary of the Mansfield Chamber ot Commerce today, said: "It is customary," for a town to assume a part of moving expenses for an in-coming Industry, particularly when in competition with other titles." In this particular case, several other cities agreed to raise an equal sum if the industry would agree to move there.

Mansfield happened to be fortunate in having a building available whjch could be adapted to their business at reasonable cost." Pair to Cleveland. Mansfield until two years ago, was one of the founders of thj Richland County Automobile cpjb and was active in the Elks lodge, and Westhrook Country club here. His death followed an Illness of several weeks. He had been associated with the Ohio Brass company here since 1903, serving first he a salesman, sales manager and in recent years as vice president and a member ot the board of directors. Born In N.

he later resided in New York City, where he served ar secretary to the president of the New Yorlt, On Leonard Joseph, 22, and James Letizia, 23, Mansfield reformatory inmates, will go on trial in Cleveland soon on charges of first degree murder of Oscar Brillhardt, jiui una There is no doctor in Antarctica since Dr. Guy O. Shirley was forced by pneumonia to return to New Zealand and civilization with the Byrd supply ship. Another Physician on Way, Another physician is en route to Little America and is expected to arrive there sometime today, Byrd broadcast. In the meantime Smith is being cared for by James M.

Sterrett, a medical student with the expedi WHITE NAMES HEAD OF PENSION SYSTEM Gas From Furnace Kills 9 Two reasons for moving to Mansfield were advanced by the the purpose ot discussing prices (Continued on Pngo 2, Col. 7) secretary today. First the com Cleveland, on Feb. 21, 1933, during a robbery. Transfer of the two inmates to Cleveland was approved today by Governor George White, according to dispatches to The News-Journal.

Reformatory officials said they have received no notice of the governor's approval of the transfer but expected it today or tomorrow. Joseph will he released PRESIDENT TO SEND tion, and Commander Byrd said Saturday night that his pain had been eased with hot applications tario and Western railroad and in the circulation department of the New York Evening Journal before coming to Mansfield. He was a Spanish-American war veteran. Mr. Wickwire had served on the executive committee of the American Electric Railway association and was nationally prominent in the electric to the spine.

Students in fraternity House HANOVER, N. II. (AP) A furnace tended by an unskilled hand was blamed today for the death of nine Dartmouth college students. They were killed by carbon monoxide gas as thev slept early yesterday in the Thela Chi fraternity house. An explosion apparently had disconnected a chimney pipe and the deadly fumes crept News of the accident was transmitted to New York and the in to Cleveland detectives to be taken to Cleveland sometime this week, formation passed to a committee O.

S. R. officials said. of doctors. CONGRESS MESSAGE Reports Indicate It Will Deal With Communications.

WASHINGTON resident Roosevelt plans to send a message to congress late today, but the subject matter was withheld at the White House. Dr. H. E. Miller, medical ref Secretary of Ohio Eagles to Direct Old Age Relief.

COLUMBUS (Jp) Matthew L. Brown, of Springfield, today was named director of the newly established old age pension system by Governor George The new director said he expected to receive 100.000 applications for pensions and that perhaps 30,000 of these would be found to be eligible for the payment of a maximum of $25 a month. He expects, be said, that the average pension will be around $18 a month. Brown called attention to the 1930 census which showed Ohioans In 'he age classification that would make them eligible. Brown Is state secretary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles which sponsored old age pensions.

His salary will be $4,200 a vear. Letizia is already in Cleveland where he is appearing as witness in a criminal case. Both were sentenced to the reformatory on robbery charges from Cuyahoga county. THREE DAYS REMAIN FOR TAXPAYHENTS railway field. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Metelene Wickwire. A large delegation of officials of Ohio Brass company is planning to attend funeral services at the Wickwire home, 3397 Dale-ford road. Shaker Heights, Cleveland at 2 p. m. Tuesday.

Burial will be at Cleveland. pany has outgrown its present quarters in Minneapolis, and secondly Mansfield is a better manufacturing center since the company's chief markets are located in the east, south and central sections. Freight rates on both raw materials to Minneapolis and on the completed products from Minneapolis are higher than from here. The company has been in business since March 26, 1921, Net sales in 1932 amounted to a decrease of only over 1931. Complete sales figures for 1933 have not been received here but they were estimated to run about $750,000.

A sales increase of 30 per cent is anticipated after the plant comes to Mansfield. Some products from other Mansfield industries will be pur-cltased for raw materials used by the plant. It was estimated the Dominion company uses 50 car loads of steel a year. Unconfirmed reports at the capitol said it would have to do EXPLORER TO ADDRESS CLUB with conimunicHtions. It is 1 nown that the admini Total Collection $623,000, I County Treasurer Reports.

With three days remaining for the collection of current taxes on I real estate, "ounty Treasurer A. SEND PETITION stration has for some time had C. Lofgreii, With R.vrd at Pole, Hooked Thursdny. under consideration a plan for to Group Appeals to President consolidating control of communi Charles E. Lofgren.

who was The students died as they slept. All were marked by the pink discoloration characteristic of carbon monoxide poisoning. The coal gas explosion apparently blew open the furnace doors and disconnected a chimney pipe. Fraternity brothers who lived outside the house dropped in Saturday evening for a game of bridge. They played until about midnight, then left for their own quarters.

The nine others went to bed. Sunday morning, Janitor Mer-ton Little fixed the fires. He smelletl coal gas and adjusted the disconnected pipe. Then, he went to the room of the students and saw them apparently sleep ing. They all were dead then, but it was not until afternoon that the deaths was discovered.

cations, which are now under the eree, saic': "The position of the shaker arm and of the check draught lever indicated that the furnace had been fixed the night before by some one who was not entirely familiar with the furnace." The dead were: William S. Fullerton, 20. Cleveland Heights; Edward F. and Alfred II. Moldenke.

brothers. New York City; William M. Smith, 21, Manhasset. N. Y.

Edward Wentworth, 21, Mt. Dora Americo a. De Masi, 21. Little Neck, N. Harold B.

Watson, 21, Wilton, Wil-mot H. Schooley, 21. Middletown, N. John J. Griffin, 19, Wal-lingford.

Conn. The fact that it was a weekend probably saved the lives of eight fraternity brothers who ordinary occuy the house. Outlaw Company I'nioiiN. WASHINGTON Outlawing of company unions under the NRA Rupurate jurisdictions of the interstate commerce commission and the federal radio commission. secend in command of the first Byrd expedition to the south pole, will be speaker at this week's Ki-wanis club luncheon at the Mans-field-Leland hotel Thursday noon.

no plan lias ueen under con sideration also in senate and bouse committees. Lofgren will be brought here M. Lautz today reportJii that receipts so far total approximately Thursday marks the end of the extension order granted by the state tax commission. There will be no further extensions authorized, officials said. Tax office attaches today said they did not anticipate any pronounced rush during the closing days of the collection.

The majority of accounts, outside of the delinquent lists, have already been paid, they said. SEES HER HUSBAND SLAIN DOVER, O. Officers today were seeking George Alexlano. 48. for the slaying of Leo F.

Byers, who was shot down in the presence of the wife and three-year-old son. Byers, son of a former Dover police chief, was killed when he resented disparaging remarks made by Alexiano about Mrs. Byers, officers said. was asked tod by a committee of 3 6 clergymen, attorneys and professors from the American Civil Liberties Union in a memorial to President Roosevelt. Company un -ins were called "the chief inroads on workers' liberties under the NRA." The national labor board was said to be tending to "weaken trade unions in their efforts to enforce codes through strikes." HEAD OF POWER COMPANY SLAIN through the efforts of the March program committee, composed of Dwight P.

Smith. Dr. Harry L. Knox, Robert R. Black and E.

C. Frampton. Dr. Knox will be program chairman for this week's meeting. "With Eyrd at the South Pole" will be Lofgren'g subject, it was announced today.

Cliiragoim Killed in Argument Over Dumages From Dam. SEGULV, Tex. George W. Pock, of Chicago, president of the Texas Hydro-Electric company was shot Bnd fatally wounded this morning in the office of former State Senator A. J.

Wim. Wirt allegedly was hit over the head with a pistol at the time Peck was killed. A prominent ENGINEER FALLS DEAD TOLEDO After mounting to the cab of his locomotive to begin his run, Joseph E. Fitzjohn, 65, engineer for the New York Central railroad, fell dead of heart attack. Counterfeit Coins Found At TV Police Open Probe Probe Circulation of Spurious Nickels After Candy Machine Yields Quantity of Death Toll Fixed at 24 as Tornadoes Rip Through South BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

(AP) The deep south's death roll from a series of sabbath tornadoes had reached 24 today, with the possibility that it would go even higher when full communications are restored. Slashing the "tornado belt" several weeks ahead of the usual season, the terrific winds killed at least 14 people in Alabama, eight In Mississippi and two in Georgia. Many were injured and! the country-side slashed by ter-an unknown number of dwellings rifle rain. Remove Wreckage Of Three Planes In Ohio Crashes Wreckage of the army plane which crashed southeast ot Mansfield a week ago last night after Lieut. J.

H. Gibson, Its pilot, bailed out, was moved to Columbus yesterday. A crew of workmen with a large truck, loaded with two other army planes that crashed in Ohio last week, salvaged the motor and other valuable instruments from Gibson's plane. The wings and fusilage were given to Henr Freund, farmer, in whose wheat field the plane crashed. The truck arrived here from Fremont w' 're the wreckage from another "lane crash In which the pilot was killed, was loaded.

The motor and instruments of the plane which crashed near Toledo, injuring the pilot, were also on the truck. Gaudalupe county land owner wag LIKELY TO QUIT KcMgnntion of SwaiiMiii From Cabinet Believed Near. WASHINGTON A possibility that Claude A. Swanson may resign as secretary of the navy because of ill health was discussed In political circles today. The secretary, who Is 71, has spent considerable time in the hospital recently.

Although responsible political circles said any talk of a successor to Swanson would be premature, one name being mentioned is that of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, one time physician to Woodrow Wilson. Peck's companies were builders and operators of dams along the Guadalupe river. Officers said they believed a dispute arose over the amount of damages resulting from water backing over the land owner's Four of the coins held by police, show crude counterfeiting. Cast in the Indian head-buffalo design, the coins are imperfect and blurred in detail.

Police were of the opinion that Seven unidentified person wrecked. property from one of the dams. Food supplies and medical aid were reported killed at Shadv was rushed into the breach, by. Grove. In Clay county, seven The News-Journal Starts a New Serial Story Wednesday Watch For It! ROBBED OF $4,000 llandils (in Wcek-Fml Keceipts of Hotel From it Employes.

Police today were probing the circulation of counterfeit nickels in the city following discovery of a quantity of counterfeit coins that had been used In obtaining candy from a candy machine at the Y. M. C. A. Whether the spurious coins have been generally circulated in Mansfield was still unknown, although police believed Imperfections of the counterfeit would be quickly recognized if given in trade.

Reports that the fake money-had been used -vere made to police late Saturday by the owner of the candy machine when 'ie opened the device to collect deposits. Captain T. M. Bell was detailed on investigation. persons were also reported dead.

The storm was said to hav wreaked destruction at Wadley in Randolph county, but communications were down and the reports were not immediately verified. the Red Cross. The storm hit Mississippi first, laying a trail of destruction and killing a husband, wife, anil four of their five children. Then it traced a course along the "tornado H' in Alabama, for the scene cf the tornado that ST. PAIL Three men.

trans-j ferrins $4,000 to tiie auditor's of-! tice of the Lowry hotel, were held the counterfeit was the work of youths and were the investigation along that line. I Officials of the Y. M. 1. A.

are co-operating with authorities in the investigation in effort to find the source of the counterfeit nlckles. No, other spurious coins have ever been found at the officials said today. Police plan to check other ma-: chines in the city to determine if the use of 'slugs' has been general. An entire family, excepting AGED ATTACK VICTIM DIES HILLSBORO. O.

Thomas Mitchell, 91, retired farmer and a Civil war veteran, died last night of injuries suffered when attacked and robbid. Police today were holding Krmll Kihtrell, 25. colored, who confessed, authorities said, that he struck the aged, man down with a rock on street Friday night and fled with $1. SWEENEY PREDICTS PROBE CLEVELAND Declaring inadequate equipment is a menace to national defense. Congressman Martin L.

Sweeney predicted congress soon will Investigate the fly. ing facilities of the army. up here today by two bandits who! with the money. i Auditor II. K.

said the; loot, consisting of the week-end! receipts, was about half in checks and halt in cash. i killed mot" than 20 persons eldest daughter, was wiped out in March, 193 in Center Hill, Miss. The greatest damage apparent- Two aviators, believed to be ly was in Alabuma, where trees from Miami, were injured when were uprooted, homes and their plane crashed in the storm ness buildings blown down, and near Ashland..