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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-17

Boys high top shoes, $2.95
Mems Freeman, SIS Dress Shoes
Right for gifts.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-17

Wagons, Sleds, Scooters, and
Skates, at the Malta Hardware
Co. 10d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-17

Special Christmas sale on Mobil-
oil Motor Oil, at the Malta Hard
ware Co. 1902
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-17

Linen and Turkish Towels, Towel
Sets, Wash Cloths, Bath Mats, good
for gifts-White'S.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
FAITHFUL QUIZ
SAYS SUICIDE

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 IN.SD.
Secret investigation of the mys-
terious death of Starr Faithful
by the Nassau county district at
torney's office has concluded that
the madcap beauty committed
suicide by jumping from an ocean
liner the morning of June 6.
Assistant District Attorney Mar
tin w. Littleton, jr., has inter
viewed an eyewitness a member
Of the crew of a vessel on which
Starr slowed away the night of
June 5. He said he had seen the
girl creep to the rail of the ship.
climb up, and leap overheard.
For moment the man said
he was so Mortified he could not
spread the alarm. When he re-
covered his wits, he reported the
tragedy to his superior officer.
One of the officers of a compet-
ing steamship line was receiving
columns of unfavorable publicity
because of his intimacy with the
Greenwich Village playgirl, and
the witness to her suicide was in
structed to hold his tongue, the
authorities say.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
P AIR MARRIED
IN HOSPITAL

That "love laughs at lock
smiths" is we'll known, but that
it also laughs at closed court
houses and sick ministers was
proven yesterday by Fanny j..
Misner. 21. of Broken Bow, Neb,
and John L. Todd, 21, of the Nat
uralization Bureau of the Depart
men of Labor.
When the couple obtained their
marriage license yesterday after
noon they named the Rev. Allan
w. Poore, as the officiating clergy
man, 3O8 A st. S. E. Arriving at
DR.. Poore's home the young
couple were informed the minister
was at Sibley Hospital.
Apparently believing in the old
superstition that its "unlucky to
postpone your wedding day" Mr..
Todd and his fiancee journeyed
back to the Courthouse to give
the marriage license clerk the
name of new minister, but the
Cou: house was cloSedH
UndiSmayed, the couple then
journeyed to Sibley Hospital where
DR.. Poore, although sick in bed,
consented to wed the couple. He
performed the ceremony with
number of nurses witnesses.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
HOLIDAY
STRIKES SNAG

The Hoover debt moratorium
will not be ratified by December
is, the date on which European
debt payments are due at the
Treasury.
All doubt concerning this point
was diSpelled today when Speaker
Garner said the House could not
possibly act by that time. There
is scant prospect of the Senate
acting, either, as Senator John,
son (RD of California, has
served notice of his intention Of
opposing ratification at any time.
Asked if the House would
insist upon hearings before vot-
ing. Garner said:
well, if 1 were on the com,
mittee considering it l certainly
would insist upon information
before acting"
While under the law the debtor
Nations that do not pay on De
cember Is become defaulterS, the
point probably will be waived.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
BY MARGARET LANE

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Dec.
10 U.N.SD Excitement runs so
high in ClarkSburg over the clos
ing scenes of the "Bluebeard"
trial that if the jury does not
return the expected verdice to-
day, Moore's Opera House is
likely to be a rough house and
the crowds troublesome in their
anxiety for a fitting gallows cur,
tain to their melodrama.
Demand His Life
Perhaps never in the history
of crime has a community so
violently, so determindedly de-
manded a life for a life. A po-
liceman said;
"If they acquitted him today
we wouldn't be able to get him
out of the town alive"
When Powers was lodged in the
local Jail the prisoners we're more
violently against him than was
the town.
The prison authorities were
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
FLAYS
FANTASTIC
AL|B|S
Powers Lawyer Fears Case
Will Be Lost; Defense
Gains Small Point

OPERA HOUSE COURT
ROOM. CLARKSBURG, W.
Va. Dec. 10 G.N S. - The
strange murder case of Harry
"Bluebeard" Powers is bound
for the jury. Both sides COM
pleted their case at II a. m. and
Judge John G. Southern began
reading instructions to the
jury.
First degree murder is punish
lie by death unless a recon-
mendation for clemency accom-
panies the verdict, Judge South
ern said.
The judge decreed that both
prosecution and defense could
have one hour and fifteen min
utes for stunning up their case
to the jury.
Tried On 0nes arge
3 Powers, although accused OF
strangling Mrs. Dorothy Lemke,
Of Northhoro, Mass, Mrs. Asia
Eicher, of Park Ridge, Ill, and
the latter's three children, is spe-
officially being tried for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Lemke.
Judge Southern pointed out 10
he Jury that they could bring IN
a first degree murder verdict
based on circumStantial evidence.
The court also emphasized that
a presumption of innocence must
be held. 49,
Judge Southern outlined the
five possible verdicts to be
brought in by the jury:
I. Murder in the first degree.
2. Murder in the second de-
gree.
3. Voluntary manslaughter.
4. Involuntary manslaughter'
5. Not guilty.
UnbridIed Passion
Powers was pictured by Assist
ant Prosecutor w. A. Stathers as
having COmmlCCeQ IIlc LAuAOoA Va
Mrs. Lemke for greed of money.
He stamped the tragedy a
melancholy crime of unbridIed
passion"
Stathers demanded the death
penalty or nothing from the
jury. He shouted:
"He should either hang or
10 free. He is either guilty of
this heinOuS crime and should
pay-Or he is innocent"
StatherS began picking to
pieces the story told by Powers
on the witness stand.
He referred to Powers posing
to Mrs. Lemke as an engineer,
a wealthy. influential ranch
owner. a builder of mighty
bridges.
"And everything he has said
on the witness stand has been
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Riots Feared Should Jury
Acquit Harry PoUers

afraid to let him exercise With
the other prisoners and he was
kept practically in solitary con-
finement to protect him from
their rough justice.
$4,000 Visit Scene
Thirty-five thousand people Wis
tied the Quiet Dell murder farm
on the first Sunday after the
crime was diScovered-an amaz-
ing number for this thinlypopu-
lated section of West Virginia,
Ever since that time the mud
road to QiueU Dell has been
churned up by pleasure traffic.
Hundreds of thousands have gone
down into the four underground
death cells of the garage" to
fan their righteous indignation.
The audie laughed in
Powers face when he told his
own rambling story of defense.
and they have leaned forward
in tense excitement and all but
cheered when some particularly
damning piece of evidence has
been given against him.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
MINER GUILTY,
JURY FINDS

MOUNT STERLING, KY, Dec.
10 1.N.SD W. B. Jones, Harlan
county mine leader, was found
guilty of the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Big Jim" Daniels here
today by jury which recon-
mended a penalty of life i'm
prisonment.
The verdict was reached after
more than seven hours delibera-
ton. 1t climaxed the outstand-
ing murder trial of the coal min
ing region.
AS the jury made known
the verdict, Jones refused to
make any statement and was
remanded to Jail.
w. C. Hamilton, State attorney,
declared, the law has been
vindicated."
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Cannon BROKER
DENIED PAROLE

The parole granted Harry L.
Goldhurst, the former New York
broker with whom Bishop James
Cannon, jr.. had an account at
one time, has been revoked by
Attorney General Mitchell. The
Earole would have become effec-
tive April Is, next.
Mitchell wrote Senator Glass
CD of Virginia today that the
parole was cancelled because Gold
hurst attempted to corrupt JUS
tice by attempting to bribe an
assistant in the United States
District Attorneys office in New
York, and that he was indicted
twice on a charge of using the
mails to defraud.
The second indictment was re.
turned against him while he was
awaiting trial on the first.
He was sentenced october Is,
1929, to serve five years in the
Federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Treasure Ship Deal
JUiLS Er-Grid Star

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 10
1.N.S0 Eugene Shirley, former
star end of the Ohio State Uni
versity football team, and Charles
G. Paulliot, of Quebec, were held
by the police here today in con-
nection with selling stock in a
salvage company formed to raise
a sunken treasure ship off the
Pacific coast of Mexico. The po
lice say the two men promoted
sales of the stock both in Mexico
and in the United States.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
NEW.
MESSAGE
To BOTH
HOUSES
Asks Ratification by Dec. IS
of Moratorium; Would
Share Responsibility
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES

J
President Hoover advised
Congress today that it will be
necessary for the United
States to make still further
concessions to European ma
tions that owe us approx
mately .OO0,O0O,OOO, and to
that end he proposed to re-
create the War Debt Funding
Commission to deal with the
problem.
Although not so stated in spe-
cific language, the impression was
conveyed that the debts which Eu-
rope owes the United States Treas
ury must be further scaled down
Observation-Disclosures that the
Treasury itself is facing deficits
totaling $3,540, 900 900 in the next
two years,
Sends Special Message
Mr., Hoover's recommendations
we're contained in special mes.
sage addressed to both houses OF
Congress, requesting ratltlcaClon
of the one-year debt moratorium
arranged last June.
This moratorium, he said. had
reversed the drift toward gen.
eral economic panic 1t was, ne
asserted, a necessary step. He
asked ratification of the morato
rum before December Is next
Tuesday,, when the foreign dept
payments to the Treasury taL
due.
President Hoover said:
"As we approach the new
wear. il is clear that a number
of the governments indebted TO
us will be unable to meet fur.
ther payments to us in full
uending recovery in their eco
nOmic life. 1t is useless to
blind ourselves to an obvious
fact. Therefore, it will be nee
essary in some cases to make
still further temporary adjust
mentS.
TO SHARE RESPONSIBILITY
"The Congress has shared
with the Executive in the past
the consideration of questions
arising from these debts. / am
sure it will commend itself to
the Congress that the legiSIa-
tive branch of the Government
should continue to share this
responsibility.
I'm order that we should be
in a position to deal with the
situation, l recommend the re-
creation of the world war debt
commission, with authority to
examine such problems as may
arise in connection with these
debts during the present eco
nOmic emergency, and to report
to the Congress its conclusions
and recommendations"
Only a part of the Presidents
message dealt with international
debts. It was an omnibus mes
sage concerning foreign relations
generally, and in the course Of it
he reported this Governments
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Bullet -RiddLed Body
Discovered in Trunk

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 G.N.SJ. .
The CHASTITY sight of the bullet
riddled body of his roommate,
Lewis Jensen, confronted Irwin
Keller today when he opened a
trunk he found in the living
room after he returned to his
Bronx apartment. A revolver lay
on the table.
Detectives will lodge a homi-
eide charge against Otto Jock
man. a waiter who was in Gus
tody in Hoboken, N. j.. now
charged with the larceny of two
suit cases..
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Kin Seek $45O,OOO
COn1iSkey Estate

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 1.N.SD &.
Claims for $45O!OOO on the estate
of the late Charles A. Comiskey,
owner of the Chicago White Sox,
were filed in Probate Court today
in behalf of two relatives. The
claimants declare Comiskey did
not die inteState, as was an
nounced. The protesting relatives
are Marie Bernoudy, 80, and her
brother, Alfred, 20. They are
the children of a niece of Com
iSkey'S wife.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
TRUCE PACT
SIGNED BY
JAPAN
Tokyo, Nanking Reservations,
However, Are Attached
to League Document

PARIS. Dec. 10 I.N,S.) A
resolution by which it is hoped
to end the Sino-Japanese con
flict in Manchuria was adopted
bv unanimous vote of the
League of Nations Council at
) p. m. today.
Japan accepted the resolution
with the reservation that 1t
should not be construed as inter
fering with her pursuit OF bandits
or protecting her citizens in Man
churia.
japanese acceptance was an
nounced by Kenkichi Yoshizawa,
chief delegate.
DR.. Alfred SEE, speaking for
China, said his government must
reserve the rights to which it is
entitled under the League cove
rant.' .
League Helpless
Having found itself powerleSS
to alter Japanese policy in Man
churia, the council, by the terms
of the resolution, has left Japan
in control of most of Manchuria
for the time being, but has urged
that Japanese troops be withdrawn
within the South Manchurian rail
way treaty zone "aS speedily as
possible"
The resolution also calls upon
both governments Ito adopt all
measures necessary to avoid any
further aggrevation of the situa.
ton and to refrain from any
initiative which may lead to
further fighting and loss of life"
Neutral Zone Plan Fails
This was a virtual reiteration of
the Original pronouncement of the
council in September. when its
first efforts were made to avert
war in Manchuria.
The council abandoned its plan
to establish a neutral zone in the
Chinchow area of South Man
churia, leaving it to Japan and
emma 10 QcGcIulluc WQeG1ci
China is to remain in control
there or whether the civil and
military administration is to be
taken over by the Mukden authori-
ties.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 10 G.N.S0 T..
Rioting by thousands of Chinese
students calling for war with
Japan resulted today in the dis
missal of Police Chief Chen Shih
Tseng after the students seized
the city hall and made threats of
violence against Mayor Chang
Chun.
MUKDEN, Dec. 10 0N.S0 .-Ac-
cepting the realities of the changed
business situation in Manchuria
since the Japanese invasion, the
Ford Motor Car Company today
replaced its Chinese agents here
with Japanese. 1t was the first
/ American corporation represented
here to take such step.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
Japanese Action
Held Peril to P0ctS

LONDON, Dec. 10 U.N.S.D -
The action of the Japanese army
in Manchuria has endangered
the whole system of peace treaties
upon which the security of the
civilized world depends, Gilbert
Murray. widely known as one of
Great Britain'S leading League of
Nations partisans' charged today
in a speech before the annual
meeting of the League of Ma
tions Union.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
MOB LYNCHES
2 ACCUSED
Of KILLING
JaiIer Forced to Hand Over
Keys to Cell; Lynchers
Shoot Bodies of Pair

LEWISBURG, w. Va, Dec.
10 (I.N.S.) Two negroes were
taken from the Grecnbrier
county jail here early today
and lynched by a group OF
w hite men. The negroes,
George Banks and Tom Jack
son, were awaiting trial on
charges of having killed two
white men in a fight.
The lynchers listed the county
Jail about 2 a. m. and entered
while Jailer S. w. Flint was on
duty. Flint surrendered the keys
on demand of the men, who then
took the pair from their cells
and loaded them into an auto
mobile.
Strung to Poles
They were taken to a point
about a mile and a. half west Of
tile town and hanged from
telegraph poles after which their
bodies we've riddled with bullets.
Those at the Jail SAID they :.
not knoN how many men took
part in the lynching, and did not
recogn any of the men.
Sheriff Out CT City
Sheriff John Bowling was aD-
sent from the city at tE2 tim
of the Jail delivery. it was said.
The white men alleged to have
been killed by the negroes were
Joe Miles. a pea officer of
LeWiSburg and Jack Brown.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
So Loaded Coal Cars
Piled Up In Wreck

ALTOONA, Pa, Dec. 10 1.N.SD .
More than 400 workers and five
wreck trains today strove to clear
away one Of the worst freight
wrecks in the history of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. A train of 88
loaded coal cars left the tracks
nine miles west of here last night.
One man is missing. Four others
were hurt.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
British ShlIn Beer
Rather Than Pau Tax

LONDON, Dec. 10 uN.SD "A
big decrease in beer-drinking in
Great Britain since the tax was
increased 2 cents a pint was re-
vealed today when the treasury
announced the tax, which was eX-
pected to yield $2,625, 900 month
ly. was found to be bringing in
only $l75,000.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
N. Y. AUTHOR MARRIES

PASADENA, Dec. 10 0N.SD. .
Allan w. Wells, SO, New York
author, and Hazel June Dunn, "a,
Seattle authoress. will be married
soon. They filed an intention to
wed yesterday.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of De-
cember 8, $83, ,183, BAIL; expendi-
lures, $l0,053, ,481.09; customs re-
ceipts. $7,721.91542.
The Washington times., 1931-12-10
POUND RISES

LONDON. Dec. 10 1.N.SD
The pound sterling was quoted to-
day at $3.31R. showing a 3-cent
rise over yesterdays closing price.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-22

orriS root, or some similar sub
stance. All sorts OF foods may be
involved in food allergies-straw-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-22
Dorothy Dix and Love Nests

Dorothy Dix says that love nests don't pay Dor
othy is a very wise woman. Perhaps the wisest contributor
to the American newspapers. She is correct. When the
nesters are caught it is a losing game. When they re-
main uncaught or undiscovered it is a losing game for
those who form the alliance.
A New Jersey senator was known as "the tiger boy"
He was a leader of his party. He had an interesting wife
and three lovely children. He was on the road to the
governorship. He was a banker high in financial circles.
He was monarch of all he surveyed. He planted a lovely
young creature on the payroll of the state. Then he
planted her in a lovely apartment in the city of New York.
He was a churchman on Sunday and a player in dizzy
places after the evening shadows had fallen. Now the
love nest has been broken. He was forced to resign his
seat in the senate. His lovemate shot him in a drunken
brawl. She has gone home to mother and will not be
prosecuted. AS for the wife of 'the tiger boy" who had
lost his love nest and his lovemate, his senatorship, his
pickings as a powerful politician, she said that ne was
foolish and loving and easily led astray and from the bot
tom of her heart she forgave him and welcomed him home.
According to a New York newspaper account. the chill.
dren declared that daddy was all right" and the idol OF
the household a beautiful miss of 16 gave this message to
a timid reporter, "We are for daddy against the world"
Yes, love nests are dangerous and costly and play
havoc with the fortunes and social affairs of the nesters
if they are given to gin revels in the nest and the women
carry pistols.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-22
Daily Health
Talk

There seems TO be in certain lam-
lies a tendency toward what is cali
ed allergy, a form OF sensitivity
whereby the taking into the body
OF certain forms OF protein results
IN symptoms that are known as
allergic symptoms. For example,
hay fever and asthma may run in
families-one member Of a family
may have hay fever, another
asthma, another may break out
with eruptions OF hives on eating
certain foods.
When both parents suffer from
some form Of sensitivity, there is
a likelihood that at least one-half
their children will probably develop
some form OF sensitiyity during
life. These allergic manifestations
may skip one generation and the
mother and father be free. whereas
the children display various types
OF allergy. investigations made
with the special idea OF allergy in
mind revealed some family history
Of sensitivity In almost 60 per cent
OF cases. IN one series OF cases,
when both mother and father had
sensitivity, 80 per cent OF the chill
dren developed such a condition
within the first 10 years OF life.
The nature OF the sensitivity de-
veloped, as pointed out BY Or. War
rem T. Vaughan. depends largely
on the conditions in which one
lives. Thus people who live in the
British Isles develop hay fever
chiefly from exposure 10 grasses.
while in the United states most
cases Of hay fever are associated
with the pollens Of the ragweed.
In this country the concentration
OF ragweed pollen in the air is
much greater than that OF any
other plant. including the RAISES.
II was found that the children
Of certain immigrants in New York
slept on felt pillows OF which the
chief constituent was rabbit hair.
Most American children sleep on
feather pillows. Thus more chill
dren Of immigrants were found
sensitive to rabbit hair than OF
the American population, and
more of the American population
were found sensitive TO chicken
feathers than OF the immigrant
population.
Miners and bakers were found 10
be sensitive 10 wheat flour. paper
makers TO the dust OF wood pulp.
laboratory workers to the hair OF
the guinea pigs. and workers
around the race tracks to horse
hair.
This would seem to indicate that
It is not a specific sensitivity that
Is inherited. but merely a general
tendency 10 sensitivity. the exact
nature OF the disturbance depend
ing on the surroundings in which
the individual works and lives. The
symptoms associated with sensi-
tivitv seem to depsnd to a consid-
cradle extent on the way IN which
the sensitizinr substances get into
the BODY.
Sometimes ii is inhaled: some
times ii Is eaten; sometimes II
is kept in prolonged contact with
the skin. and sometimes II Is in
iected under the skin. Thus. hay
fever. sneeZing and running OF the
nose may be associated with the
inhalation OF various pollens. Erup-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-22
Quotations

The United States Is invincible
from foreign assault.
Ernest Lee Jahncke. assistant
secretary OF the navy.
haven't been happier with plenty
OF money than I was when / didn't
know where the Eext months rent
was coming from.
Theodore Dresser.
Biographers have been a little too
anxious to prove that the great are
also the good.
-Rebecca West.
The Russians seem 10 me 20 be an
important cause OF the economic
troubles which exist all over the
world.
-Ex-Rlng Alfonso OF Spain.
Criticism Is n bad road 10 travel
toward frienship.,
Sir Harry Armstrong.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-22
TO-DAY r. THE
AnniUersdry
OF RIGA

on Oct. -, 1917. the Germans
carried their invasion In the Gulf
or Riga 70 the mainland by seizing
the Werder Peninsula.
This strip or land Is opposite
Moon Island. where the Germans
appeared the day before. The WI
lage Of werder was taken by the
Germana. This village is about Is
miles south Of Hapsal.
The Russians. swept before the
invasion, started TO evacuate Re-
val.
Meantime British and French
attacks In Belgium I'm the neigh
borhood Of Poelcapelle. and south
OF Houtholst Forest were reported
Nv Field Marshal Haig as highly
successful" AL the detectives were
captured.
LLOYD George speaking In Al
bert Hall. London said: There
will be no peace in the world un-
Ill the shrine OF the war spirir
in Potsdam is shattered and its
priesthood IL dispersed and dis
credited forever"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-22

To comprehend the background of the current trou-
BILE in Manchuria, it is necessary first of all to realize that
agriculture in the Orient is by no means the depressed
and discouraged industry that it is in the United States.
China and Japan suffer from over-production. Their
people often go hungry, not because of a business depres-
sion but because It is hard to raise enough food for them
on the land available. And Manchura is, potentially, one
of the worlds garden spots. Its soil and climate are much
like those of the American middle west. It represents a
fertile granary for hungry millions.
Recognizing that fact, one can more easily under
stand why both China and Japan are trying to get posses
sion of the country. China is always hungry; Japan is
always looking for room for her surplus millions. Their
collision was northumberland, by the same token, it will
not easily be settled.