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the I slowly flurries, rising Tuesday fair temperature. with COITIUN Ohio: Cloudy with snow MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL WEATHER I VOL. 49, NO. 301 (News (Journal Established Established 1885) 1930) Combined 1932 MANSFIELD, OHIO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934 15 BY CTS. PER CARRIER WEEK PRICE THREE CENTS 61 DIE AS STORM LASHES ALL U.

FIVE-INCH SNOW COVERS MANSFIELD CANVASS FOR NEW PLANT TO OPENMARCH5 Special C. of C. Committee to Seek to Raise $25,000 to Bring Industry Here. MEANS JOBS FOR 300 Electrical Appliance Makers to Move to Mansfield From Minneapolis. A campaign to raise a $25,000 quota with which to assist defraying expenses for moving the Dominion Electrical company to Mansfield from Minneapolis, will open here a week from today.

The drive will be sponsored by the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce with John H. Finefrock, heading a committee which is to make a canvas for subscriptions from retail merchants, businesses of various industries. Due to Move in March. The electrical concern is to move its equipment for manufacturing electrical appliances, late next month. The plant will be located in buildings formerly 00- cupied by the New Method Stove company on Elm street.

Operations are to start immediately after the equipment is installed. The company employing more than 300 persons, exclusive of office and sales workers, expects to bring only a nucleus organization of 12 to 15 people from its present location in Min- neapolis. Explains Need for Fund. In commenting 011 the campaign, A. D.

Caddell, secretary the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce today, said: is customary," for a town to assume a part of moving expenses for an incoming industry, particularly when in competition with other cities." 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 which could be adapted to their business at reasonable cost." Two reasons for moving to Mansfield were advanced by the secretary today. First the company 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 297.35, a decrease of only 656.33 over 1931. Complete sales figures for 1933 have not been received here but they were esA sales increase per cent timated to run about, $750,000. is anticipated after the plant comes to Mansfield. Some products from other Mansfield industries will be purchased for raw materials used by the plant. It was estimated the Dominion company uses 50 car loads of steel a year.

Remove Wreckage Of Three Planes In Ohio Crashes Wreckage of the army plane which crashed southeast of 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 Henry Freund. farmer, in whose wheat field the plane crashed. The truck arrived here from Fremont w1 re the wreckage from another niane 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. SWEENEY PREDICTS PROBE CLEVELAND Declaring inadequate equipment is a menace to national defense, Congressman Martin L.

Sweeney predicted congress soon will investigate the flying facilities of the army. Find 8 Dead In Wreckage Of Airliner Victims of Crash Never Knew What Happened, Probers Report. SALT LAKE CITY--(P)-The W. wrecking of a giant United Airline transport last Friday was so swift sudden, line officials said today, that the eight persons who died, never plane knew fell what vertically, happened. like a great ball of steel and struck the ground with such force that the engine was imbedded in the ground up to the cabin.

the bodies were pushed forward," said Leon Cuddeback, 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 1 all." The dead: Miss Mary Carter, stewardess, formerly of Omaha and Chattanooga, Lloyd Anderson, Cheyenne, rilot; Eric Danielson, Cheyenne, co-pilot: J. Sterling, mayor of Benton Harbor, Marcellus Zingmaster, Des Moines, Evald W. Berglund, Boone, Bert MeLaughlin, Perry Springs, Wyo. Plane Sights Wreckage. ly after it had taken off here for Missing since last Friday, shortCheyenne with five passengers and a crew of three, the transport was found wrecked in a snow-covered pass 20 miles east 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 the five passengers thrust into the forward 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 others, 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. WHITE NAMES HEAD OF PENSION SYSTEM Secretary of Ohio Eagles to Direct Old Age Relief. COLUMBUS-(P)-Matthew -Matthew L. Brown, of Springfield, was named director of the today, established old age pension system by Governor George White. 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, he said. that average pension will be around $18 a month. Brown called attention to the 1930 census which showed 000 Ohioans in the age classification that would make gible. Brown is state secretary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles which sponsored old age pensions. His salary will be $4,200 a year.

SEES HER HUSBAND SLAIN DOVER. 0. Officers today were seeking George Alexiano, 48, for the slaying of Leo F. Byers, who was shot down in old son. Byers, son former ence of the wife and three presDover police chief.

was killed when he resented disparaging remarks made by Alexiano about Mrs. Byers, officers said. City Battles Similar Conditions in Heaviest Snowfall with which Mansfield was instances, and their cars out fine snow, starting yesterday, the heaviest snowfall in this morning, blanketing the school attendance threatening to tie up traffic standstill. The above scenes show out of their houses in some of a record snowfall several 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 sultation 10,000 miles long Saturday Smith, according to Commander of the Knox county man from his tell into an ice crevice, bringing on INMATES WILL FACE CHARGES OF MURDER White Approves Transfer of Pair to Cleveland.

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, 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 no notice of the governor's approval of the transter but expected it today or tomorrow. Joseph will released to Cleveland detectives to be taken to Cleveland sometime this week, 0.

S. R. officials said. Letizia is already in Cleveland where he is appearing as witness in a criminal case. Both were sentenced the reformatory on robbery charges from Cuyahoga county.

EXPLORER TO ADDRESS CLUB C. E. Lofgren, With Byrd at Pole, Booked Thursday. Charles E. Lofgren, who was second in command of the first Byrd expedition to the south pole, will be speaker at this week's Kiwanis club luncheon at the Mansfield-Leland hotel Thursday noon.

Lofgren will be brought here 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's subject, it was announced today.

ENGINEER FALLS DEAD TOLEDO- 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. The News-Journal Starts a New Serial Story Wednesday Watch For It! 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. Here are shown the confronted today as a blizzard continued through last night city with a five-inch snowfall on highways and city streets. Mansfielders dug their DEATH CLAIMS 0.

B. OFFICIAL Edward F. Wickwire, Vice President of Mansfield Dies in Cleveland. (Picture on Page two) Edward F. Wickwire, 58, vice president of the Ohio Brass company, died Saturday at his home in Cleveland.

Mr. Wickwire, a resident of Mansfield until two years ago, was one of the founders of the Richland County Automobile club and was active in the Elks lodge, and Westbrook 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 as a salesman, later as sales manager and in recent years as vice president and a member of the board of directors. Born in Cahoes.

N. he later resided in New York City, where he served as secretary to president of the New York, 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 asseciation and was nationally prominent in the electric railway field.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Metelene Wickwire. A large delegation of officials of Ohio Brass company is planning attend funeral services at the Wickwire home, 3397 Daleford road, Shaker Heights, Cleveland at m1. Tuesday. Burial will be at Cleveland.

SEND PETITION Group Appeals to President to Outlaw Company Unions. WASHINGTON- of company unions under the NRA was asked tod by a committee of 36 clergymen, attorneys and professors from the American Civil Liberties Union in a memorial to President Roosevelt. Company un ans were called "the chief inroads workers' liberties under the NRA." The national labor board said to be tending to "weaken trade unions in their efforts to enforce codes through strikes." Counterfeit Coins Found At 'Y', Police Open Probe Probe Circulation of Spurious Nickels After Candy Machine Yields Quantity of Police today were probing the Four of the coins. held by pocirculation of counterfeit nickels lice, show crude counterfeiting. in the city following discovery of a quantity of counterfeit coins Cast in the Indian head-buffalo that had been used in obtaining design, the coins are imperfect candy from a candy machine at and blurred in detail.

the Y. M. C. A. Police were of the opinion that Whether the spurious coins the counterfeit was the work of have been generally circulated in youths and were conducting the Mansfield was still unknown, al- investigation along that line.

though police believed in perfec- Officials of the Y. M. C. A. are tions of the counterfeit would be co-operating with authorities in quickly recognized if given in the investigation in effort to find trade.

the source of the counterfeit Reports that the fake money nickles. had been used made to po- No other spurious coins have lice late Saturday by the owner ever been found at the offiof the candy machine when he cials said today. opened the device to collect de- Police plan to check other maposits. Captain T. M.

Bell was de- chines in the city to determine if tailed on investigation. the use of 'slugs' has been general. deep ruts, as they experienced Conditions in rural sections brought transportation to a New Yorkers dug their way out ago. COAL CODE IN EFFECT TODAY Mansfield Dealers, Others in Ohio Move to Comply With Provisions. Coal dealers in Mansfield and nearby towns today moved to 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 increase 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 the purpose of discussing prices (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) PRESIDENT TO SEND CONGRESS MESSAGE Reports Indicate It Will Deal With Communications.

WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt plans to send a message to congress late today, but the subject matter was withheld at the White House. Unconfirmed re reports at the capitol said it would have to do with communications. It is known that the administration has for some time had consideration a plan for consolidating control of communications, which are now under the saparate jurisdictions of the interstate commerce commission and the federal radio commission. The plan has been under consideration also in senate and house committees. HEAD OF POWER COMPANY SLAIN Chicagoan Killed in Argument Over Damages From Dam.

SEGUIN, Tex. George W. Peck, of Chicago, president of the Texas Hydro-Electric company was shot and fatally wounded this morning in the office of former State Senator J. Wirtz. Wirtz allegedly was hit over the head with a pistol at the time Peck was killed.

A prominent Gaudalupe county land owner was arrested. 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 property from one of the dams. ROBBED OF $4,000 Bandits Get Week- Receipts of Hotel From 3 Employes. ST.

PAUL--Three men, transferring $4,000 to the auditor's office of the Lowry hotel, were held up here today by two handits who escaped with the money. Auditor H. E. Key. nds said the loot, receipts, consisting was about of the half weekend and half in cash.

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 24 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 still more cold, but no more snow. In the south, authorities rush- Lang's vision probably was imed food, clothing and medical aid paired by the snow. The locoto communities in three states motive turned over and Laman where tornadoes wrought havoc. and Palmer were buried beneath Thirteen were known dead in Ala- the wreckage for more than three bama, eight in Mississippi, and hours.

two in Georgia. Scutes of others Nine other persons were killed were injured and their homes in Ohio, in addition to those who were wrecked. died in the Delphos crash. At Five passengers and a crew of Canton, one man was killed when three were found dead, as feared, skidded into a pole, and when the passenger air liner, another was overcome by smoke sought for two days, was located in a shack near the city dump. last night near a snowbound can- Three colored persons were killed von not tar from Sald Lake City.

witen their car was hit by a train The plane crashed in a blinding near Toledo. the subject of a medical connight. Byrd who broadcast the story ice-bound ship Saturday night, a recurrence of an old spinal ailment. Smith's mother, Mrs. Kingston, 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 expects to receive an official report this week. There is no doctor in Antaretica 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 expedition, and Commander Byrd said Saturday night that his pain had been eased with hot applications to the spine. News of the accident was transmitted to New York and the information passed to a committee of doctors.

THREE DAYS REMAIN FOR TAX PAYMENTS Total Collection $623,000, County Treasurer Reports. With three days remaining for the collection of current taxes on real estate, County Treasurer A. M. Lantz today reported that receipts so far total approximately $623,000. 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 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. LIKELY TO QUIT Resignation of Swanson 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 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. AGED ATTACK VICTIM DIES HILLSBORO.

Mitchell, 91, retired farmer and a Civil war veteran, died last night of injuries suffered when attacked and robbed. Police today were holding Ermil Kihtrell, 25, colored. who confessed. authorities said, that he struck the aged, man down with a rock on street Friday night and fled with $4. blizzard Friday.

3 Die, 4 Hurt in Crash. to injured, seriously, early Three, were killed and today when a Pennsylvania flyer, crashed into a truck at a crossing in Delphos, early today. The locomotive was overturned and 1 seven cars derailed. The dead are: George Laman, Fort Wayne, engineer; Andrew Palmer, Fort Wayne, fireman and Philip Lang, Chicago, truck driver. The accident occurred during a snow storm and officials said Near Lorain, a restaurant proprietor was overcome by fumes from a water heater and died.

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

Y. Only two of the six bodies were (Continued on Page 12, Col. 5) Gas From Furnace Kills 9 Students in Fraternity House HANOVER, N. H. (AP) skilled hand was blamed today mouth college students.

They were killed by carbon yesterday in the Theta Chi fraternity ently had disconnected a chimney through the 16-room house. Dr. R. E. Miller, medical ref-1 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 entirely familiar with the furnace." The dead were: William S.

Fullerton, 20, Cleveland Heights; Edward F. and Alfred H. Moldenke, brothers, New York City; William M. Smith, 21, Manhasset, N. Edward Wentworth, 21, Mt.

Dora Americo S. De Masi, 21, Little Neck, N. Harold B. Watson, 21, Wilton. Wilmot H.

Schooley, 21, Middletown, N. Griffin, lingford. Conn. The fact that it was a weekend probably saved the lives of eight fraternity brothers who ordinary occuy the house. -A furnace tended by an unfor the death of nine Dart- monoxide gas as they slept early house.

An explosion apparpipe and the deadly fumes 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 Merton Little fixed the fires. He smelled coal gas and adjusted the disconnected pipe. Then, he went to the room of the students and saw them apparently sleeping. They all dead then, but it was not until afternoon that the deaths was discovered.

Death Toll Fixed at 24 as Tornadoes Rip Through South BIRMINGHAM, roll from a series of sabbath day, with the possibility that full communications are restored. Slashing the "tornado belt" season, the terrific winds killed eight in Mississippi and two Georgia. Many were injured and an unknown number of dwellings wrecked. Food supplies and medical aid was rushed into the breach, by the Red Cross. The storm hit Mississippi first, laying a trail of destruction and killing a husband, wife, and four of their five children.

Then it traced a course along the "tornado in Alabama, for the scene cf the tornado that killed more than 200 persons in March, 1932 The greatest damage apparently was in Alabama, where trees were uprooted, homes and business buildings blown down and deep south's death tornadoes had reached 24 toit would go even higher when several weeks ahead of the usual at least 14 people in Alabama, the country-side slashed by terrific rain. Seven unidentified persons were reported killed at Shady Grove. in Clay, county, seven persons were also reported dead. The storm was said to have wreaked destruction at Wadley in Randolph county, but communications were down and the reports were not immediately verified. An entire family, excepting the eldest daughter, was wiped out in Center Hill, Miss.

Two aviators. believed to be from Miami, were injured when their plane crashed in the storin near Ashland..