Evening star., 1934-03-18

ening. Gov. White still favors a per
cent sales tax.
Gov. White strenuously objected to
having the executive residence placed
under guard when the adiutant gen.
eral was advised from Lima that the
Dillinger gang was planning a kid
naping here, but when it was sug-
gested that they might try to seize
his daughter, Miss Mary White, he
Withdrew his objection.
As result of the discovery of a
message in code to Neal Bowman. the
bandit who escaped from the Lima
State prison on Christmas day, on the
person Of a visitor, in which a plan
to blow down the walls Of the peni-
tentiary here to release Bowman's 8
brother. who is In for bank robbery,
about the main entrance.
Played Politics,
The more ardent Of President Roose-
velt's Democratic supporters in Ohio
are inclined to put a rod in pickle
All b44C c4A OCI1lO(I dIc LII LIlG O11lO
delegation in the House who voted for
the soldiers bonus payment under the
Patman plan. They feel that these
members have not heSitated to put the
President on q hot spot In order to
secure the veteran vote for themselves
in the congressional elections this
Fall. They assert that most of these
members rode into Congress on the
Roosevelt tidal wave in 1882.
One Republican defied the order of
State Chairman Schorr that candi-
dacies be withheld until after the
State conference Of leaders here and
placed his hat in the ring. Former
Secretary of State Clarence j. Brown,
who has unsuccessfully tried for the
nomination for Governor before, as
serted in a speech before Republican
organization at Lancaster last week
that whoever took the Republican
nomination for Governor this year
would have to take it away from him.
Mrs. Bernice S. Pike of Cleveland
has taken the appointment as COL
Iector for the port Of Cleveland, with
out reSigning as the woman men,
ber of the National Democratic Com
mittee for Ohio, and United States
Treasurer w. A. Julian of Cincinnati
says he has no intention of resigning
as the man member of the national
committee for the State, and so it
seems to be understood here that the
administration order in this matter
is directed only against lawyers who
are likely to get into practice with
the departments at the Capital, using
their political influence in that prac-
tice.
Police Radio Installed.
The State Highway Department Is
erecting a broadcasting station on
the grounds of the State University
here, which Is to operate with five
substations in the State in handling
police intelligence to the go members
Of the State highway patrol, In ap-
pretending bandits.
F. H. Beach, agricultural extension
professor in the Ohio State University,
states that the unusually severe Win
ter had practically ruined the fruit
crop. 1t has also done much damage
to the wheat crop.
Albert l. Bynum and Wilbur Hook
of Sidney, Ohio, will be released from
State prison this week after serving
two years for crime that they did
not commit. Carl HartS and Frank
Mari, two bank bandits, both in prison
now, have confessed that they COM
mitted the robbery Of which the in
nocent young men were convicted.
Dalla Russell, the young woman who
was robbed, came to the prison this
week and identified Hartz and Mari as
the men who robbed her, thus con-
firming their confession. Bynum and
Hook will ask the Legislature for
compensation for false Imprisonment.
Former Gov. Harry L. Davis, now
mayor of Cleveland. and as such the
principal advocate Of pending meas
ure to enable cities to use revenues
arising from sinking fund levies for
operating expenses, heard himself
described by D. Freer B:ttenger,
Democrat, Of Ashland on the floor Of
the House this week as "the greatest
tax spender Of al time" The bill was
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