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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-08
of that great heart with which hs

of that great heart with which he
/ has been endowed.
! Governor Davey left his palatial
quarters in Columbus Immediately
garbed Known the country over as
most fastidious dresser, he looked
anything but that when he arrived
/ in this stricken city. His hair was
/ tousled, his clothes were wrinkled,
! the hip boots he had salvaged on his
trip were mud to the top. His face
was drawn and carelined, for he
was deeply touched by the sadness,
the sorrow, the suffering he saw on
every hand He looked anything
but the '.dandy'' when he met the
editor of the Labor Review. Gov
ernor Davey, as tired as a Walker
hound after an all night fox chase,
was half-reclining on a homemade
davenport at the East End fire en-
gine house when we clasped hands.
He was 100 darn tired to raise him
self SO we just Topped down beside
him, just like two kids in an old
fashioned hammock. Neither cared
as to etiquette or the proper pro-
cedure But the governor did care
as to the situation in Portsmouth
he was deeply concerned as to the
awfulness of the situation that
found this town two-thirds buried
in water mud, filth and silt-homes
wrecked, household effects lost,
business gone blooey, kids hungry
and cold, mothers hysterical and
fathers whipped to frazzle.
Governor Davey did not send
: n n N, ~, ittno t0 inyactiuafa conditions
He came himself He could have re-
mained in his upholstered office and
awaited a report of an investigating
committee and formed conclusions
accordingly But he is not that kind
of a governor-he's one with
heart He braved the elements and
ran the food gauntlet like an old
sailor. He visualized the aftermath
and he wanted to SO fortify himself
with facts-first hand-that COM
plete Justice might be done in the
end
1--WE chatted with the governor
for thirty minutes, and at the con-
clusion of that heart 20 heart talk,
our opinion of the governor took on
new meaning For he was deadly
sincere, earnest and deeply inter-
ested in any plan that had for its
object the prevention of such dis
aster as the one that had engulfed
the people of this fair city. He was
happy of course, that but one life
had been lost, for Ohio's first duty
is to preserve life, and he was par
ticularly glad to know such sensible
and active steps had been taken to
prevent the spread of contagion,
Ohio's second duty Yet, he was
desperately anxious to see rehabili
tation take place and he was so hui
name in his desires and thoughts
that we predict he will be, a stand
out" among the governors of Ohio.
He is "tops" right now with Ports
mouth folk.
"The governors helpfulness did
not stop with an intense genuine
sympathy. 1t manifest itself with
something concrete and specific.
''Mr. Davey was in Washington
when the disaster struck. Immed
lately he was in communication
with his office and personally issued
orders which instantly set the state
relief agencies in operation He or
dered all other state business side
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-08
HOOksburg

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Davis and
little daughter of Salineville, spent
the week end with his mother, Mrs.
Azelia Davis Mrs. Blanche Simp-
son and daughter Mary, Betty Dun
can and Norma Slater spent Sunday
afternoon with Everett Williams
and family. Pennsville.--Mr and
Mrs. Dotson. Tabor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Roberts. Mr.: and Mrs. How
ard Roberts, GAINESVILLE, and Asa
Cheadle. Stockport, spent Sunday at
Freeman Cheadle's sMrs. Denver
Kelly whose illness was mentioned
in last weeks paper. was brought
home Sunday slightly improved
j. A Simpson called on John Wells
and Luther McKibben. Sunday. -
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mccoy visited
his father. last week. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. H. Patterson, East Windsor, spent
Sunday evening with the latter's
parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas:
Taylor and Orlan Jones spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Dallas Gheen, Portersville.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-08
East Bloom

The last p. T.. A. meeting for the
year will be held at Tunnel Hill,
Friday evening, April 8. The fol-
lowing program will be given: Mu-
sic; health talk, by DR.. Tombaugh:
reading, George Duvall; club work,
James Hum, county agent; talk, by
State Patrclman Mr.. Adams. Re-
freshmentS will be served Each
family please bring a dozen sand
wiches and covered dish Mrs. Mar
garet Greer has been visiting rela-
ltives in this community.-El Eloise
Stewart returned Saturday from
Dale Bucey's, where she had been
helping them move from Strasburg
to the Harry Bucey farm Harold
Clifford and family spent Sunday at
John Gifford's, near McKendree.--
day evening, was well attended,
and all seemed to enjoy it very
much. The Eureka club met with
Edithe Greer Thursday, April /; IS
members and number of visitors
were present. The program was
carried out and social time enjoy
ed. Delicious refreshments were
served. Mae Barkhurst's name was
drawn for the June meeting. The
May meeting will be at Birda
Greer's. Program follows: Each one
wear a flower for mother; song. In
the garden, by club; children's ap-
probation Of mother, Betty Stewart:
mothers appreciation of her chill
dren, Mary Greer; Memorial day
reading, Alice Clifford; roll call, my
gardening problem, followed by dis
cussion.- Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Greer entertained with birthday
dinner, Sunday, April a in honor of
their daughter Gladys birthday. A
tine chicken dinner was served.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-08
Page Seven

Worley Greer, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Masterson, Maydelle Greer, Eldon
Greer and the host and hostess
have been living on the Reed farm,
near Durant, have moved to the G..
B. Ritchey farm Miss Betty Bulen
of McConnelsville and Katherine
Greer spent Saturday night and Sun
day with Ruth Culver at Philo, who
was home from 0. u, Athens, for
her Easter vacation.--- Theodore
Ickes of Akron spent Saturday night
at Lewis Greer 's.--GeO. Ritchey OF
Columbus brought his father, C. B.
Ritchey, down to stay a few days
last week at their farm here.
Evening star., 1937-11-24
HOUSE DUE TO GET
CROP BILL TODAY
Committee Completes Draft
of Compulsory Control
Measure.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The House Agriculture Committee
completed today the draft of a COM
pulsory crop control bill for wheat,
cotton. corn, tobacco and rice
Chairman Jones said he would intro
duce the measure in the House this
afternoon, adding, Il hope that debate
on the bill in the House may start
Monday"
The final draft, as agreed on by the
committee. includes provisions for con-
tinuation of present soil conservation
practices and payments, with compul-
sorry control obtained through market
ing quotas, and penalty taxes for sale
of production above an individual
quota.
Asked to compare his committees
version Of crop control with that being
debated in the Senate, Mr.. Jones
shrugged and said:
This is much better bill than the
Senate bill"
In the Senate. meanwhile, Chairman
Smith of the Agriculture Committee
said he did not know how high cost of
the Upper Houses measure would run.
Senator McNary of Oregon, Repub-
lican floor leader. predicted it would
total OoO,oO0,oOo a year. Some
committee members, on the other
hand. declared the cost would be held
to 100000 900, the amount appro-
priated for the present soil conserva-
tion program.
Agriculture Department officials
have split the difference in their esti-
mates of s750.0O0,000, while Senator
Copeland. Democrat. of New York
forecast the cost might run into bill
lions.
Senator McGill, Democrat, of Kan
sas, one of the bills authors. re-
joined that the cost would be trivial
if the program succeeded in keeping
the price of corn, wheat and cotton
so high that benefit payments would
not be needed.
The 97-page measure, proposing
control of crop surpluses by an ever
normal" granary and various subsidies,
is so complicated that Senator Nc
Nary asked clerk yesterday to read
it to the Senate-an unusual procedure.
Evening star., 1937-11-24
Ford Calls Trade Recession
'STemporary and Artificial''
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Nov. 24-Henry Ford,
in an interview today, said that the
present business recession is tempo
rary and artificial
"No one" he said, need look at
next year with any uncertainty. The
present showdown is not setback;
it's the pause before another climb.
Two things helped to bring it on just
now and one of them was the uncer-
tainty of business regarding political
interference, but Congress is taking
care of that. The other was the stock
market fuctuation.
Everybody knows the stock market
has no permanent effect on business,
but it does have an effect on the state
of mind of the American business man
who plays the market. He often mis-
takes his personal depression for .
business depression. The stock market
has no more real effect on American
business than the results of dog race
in California"
A contributing factor to the present
pause" Ford said, has been the fact
Evening star., 1937-11-24
LEADERS CONSIDER
EARLY TAX MOVE
May Take Action to Assure
Business Levy Burden
Will Be EaSed.

By the Associated Press.
Administration officials talked with
congressional leaders today on the
possibility of some quick action to
assure business of an eased tax burden.
Chairman Harrison of the Senate
Finance Committee, who up to this
morning was insistent that nothing
could be done Immediately on the tax
question, was busy conferring with
finance officials from the departments.
He conferred first with Mariner S.
Eccles, chairman of the Federal Re-
serve Board, and later with Treasury
officials.
There were reports that two pro-
posals were discussed:
l. A simultaneous announcement
from President Roosevelt and congress
sional leaders that business taxes
would be revised.
Bill Being Framed.
2 Quick action this session on the
bill being framed by a House Tax
Subcommittee to modify the corporate
surplus tax
The House subcommittee, however,
worked this morning on levies other
than on corporations. 1t surveyed
nuisance taxes"-those on movies,
cosmetics and the like.
The new bill virtually abandons the
theory of taxing undistributed cor
porate profits.
A Republican resolution demanding
immediate repeal of the undistributed
profits tax was adopted unanimously
late yesterday at special caucus at
tended by 81 of the partys 80 House
members.
They declared immediate repeal was
necessary lin view of distressing in
crease in unemployment during the
last six weeks" and asked Congress to
make the repeal retroactively effective
on this years corporate incomes.
Seen as Business Aid.
Representative Vinson of Kentucky,
chairman of the Tax Subcommittee
said, however. he believed the new
system couldn't keep from having a
good effect on business confidence now,
even though the projected revision is
not carried out until Congress meets
next year."
Democratic Leader Barkley of the
Senate expressed similar view, and
added.
Il don't think the committees ac-
ton increases the prospect for revi-
sion at this session.
Unlikely Before 1888.
The parliamentary situation in the
Senate made tax action difficult be-
fore 1888, even if the House should
act more swiftly than present plans
contemplate.
The Senate faced battle of in
determinate length over the farm bill,
after which a special order makes the
bitterly fought anti-lynching bill the
next business.
Senator King, Democrat, OF Utah
said, however, he would move to re-
place the anti-lynching measure with
his bill to modify drastically the cor
porate surplus tax and to repeal the
capital gains tax.
Evening star., 1937-11-24

that money too long has been "prin-
cipal commodity Of commerce"
Money" he said. "has become a
business in itself instead Of an ad-
junct to business. The pres
ent system breaks down so often that
it is time our financial engineers de-
veloped a better model"
The present money system as ex-
eInplified by those who manipulate it
for profit" Ford said, is entirely out
Of date, and is in large measure re-
sponsible for recurring business recess
sions. 1T Is q system that seeks to
control labor: wants to control govern
ment, finance, food, industry and even
the schools. It manifests an avari-
ciousness that would control every
thing"
The solution, Ford said, lies in teach
ing the coming generation the real
purpose of money and IAN understand
ing, Of a system that may have been
adequate for society's needs many
years ago, but no longer meets its re-
quirements today"
A real understanding of the money
system, Ford said, might well be taught
In the Nations schools.
Evening star., 1937-11-24
DRIVE CONTINUES
AS CHEST FALLS
100000 SHORT
Volunteer Workers Shout
Affirmation of Plan to
Keep On.
SUFFERING OF NEEDY
SPURS NEW EFFORT
Non.Contributors to Be Canvassed
Again-Second Donations
Also to Be Asked.

Following one of the most dramatic
gatherings in the history of local
organized charity last night. an army
of nearly 5000 tired but determined
Community Chest volunteers returned
to its labors today, pledged to attain
an all-time record goal Of $2,059,000
in the tenth annual Chest drive.
What was to have been the final
report meeting of the campaign was
turned into a tumultuous demonstra-
ton last night as more than 1000
volunteers and their leaders refused
to admit defeat, shouted down an
effort of Chest Director Herbert L.
Willett. jr., to make final report and
thunderously voted by acclamation to
continue the drive another week
They went out today under a pledge
to carry the drive to every person
and group in Washington and its
suburbs able to contribute to the
Chest fund. They went with the res
olution either to obtain a contribution
from every individual who is able to
give or to leave him branded in his
own mind as a Stacker in the war
against suffering, hunger, delinquency
and want.
Gift Increases Sought.
Every person who has contributed
to the Chest SO far and who is believed
capable of giving more will be advised
OF the urgent need for additional funds
and requested to increase the amount
of his gift if it is possible for him to
do SO. Every contributing group which
has not reached its quota will be asked
to put on the extra pressure necessary
to carry it over the top
Last nights meeting. in the main
ballroom of the Willard Hotel. never
reached formal conclusion. 1t dis
solved in wild outburst which left
Chest leaders a trifle stunned, amid
scenes without precedent in the his
tory of the organization.
For more than a half hour
the volunteers listened ir growing
disappointment to final" reports from
the campaign units which, it speedily
became apparent, would leave them
far short Of their goal There were
growing murmurs of discomfort from
all over the room as unit after unit
fell short of its quota.
Finally, Director Willett rose to
announce the final totals. Before he
had an opportunity to open his mouth
he was interrupted by a shout from
the floor.
Wants to Finish Job.
I'VE don't want Director Willett to
waste our time with his report" a
man cried. Its perfectly evident We
have failed to reach our goal and we
don't need Mr.. Willett's word for it
Don't let's summarize, let's 60 out
and do our job!"
The speaker was John F. Victory
secretary to the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, member
OF the Chest Budget Committee and
leader of the N. A. c. A. Unit in the
(see CHEST, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-11-24
MINISTER APPEALS
MURDER VERDICT
Rev. c. E. Newton's Sen.
tenCe of Life Term Auto
maticaIIy Stayed.
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. PA mo-
ton for new trial automatically
stayed sentencing today of the Rev.
c. E. Newton to life Imprisonment on
his conviction for the murder of his
former Sunday school teacher, Mrs.
Dennis Kelly.
The 51-year-old minister, held in
the Pike County Jail, was not in court
when the motion was filed by Martin
S. Turner, one of his attorneys. If
the motion is denied, the lawyer an
nounced the conviction will be ap-
pealed to the Illinois Supreme Court.
The verdict Of the jury, announced
early this morning after hours and
So minutes of deliberations, failed to
disturb the Baptist minister's calm.
He slept well and awakened early to
breakfast on coffee and rolls.
The Missouri country preacher had
pleaded he was the victim of circum-
stances in the brutal hammer-slay-
ing last July of Mrs. Dennis Kelly,
45-year-old mother of Paris, Mo.
I'm not surprised at the verdict
because of prejudice in this case"
said the sleepy-eyed pastor calmly
when his fate was declared long be-
fore dawn.
Merrill Johnston, youthful States
attorney who read to the jury New
tons purported confession" to slay-
ing his former Sunday school teach
er with something, think ham,
mer" the night of last July IL, said:
I'm we'll satisfied with the deci-
SION"
None of the minister's family or
friends were with him when he heard
the 10 farmers and two tradesmen
decree that he spend the ''rest of his
natural life" behind prison bars.
Miss Myra Hanan, Rev. Newton's
Foster daughter, testified Newton gave
her an envelope of money last July
13, said it had belonged to Mrs. Kelly
and asked her to tel! questioners he
had not left his home the previous
night.
The minister admitted helping Mrs.
Kelly flee from her husband, a rural
mail carrier, but declared she was slain
after he was abducted and beaten on
lonely road by captors, among them
Miss Hanan. Later he testified Miss
Hanan told him May Belle (Mrs.
Kelly is dead"
One juror commented that none held
out for acquittal. Another said six
ballots were taken before the punish
ment was determined. The jurors were
qualified to assess the death penalty.
Evening star., 1937-11-24
WINS
POWER EXECUTIVE
EXPANS|0NPLAN
Floyd L. Carlisle of ConsoIi-
dated Says Firm Will Spend
100000, 900.
TALKS HAVE LESSENED
COMPETITION FEARS
President of Commonwealth &
Southern Corp. Favors "Pru.
dent Investment" Idea.
BY the Associated Press.

by tEe Associated PreSS.
Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman Of the
Consolidated Edison Co., reported
after White House conference today
he was in substantial agreement with
President Roosevelt's power views and
his company expected to cooperate
in the new construction program by
spending s1o0,ooo,ooO in the next
two years.
Mr.. Carlisle gave added indications
of progress in the Presidents efforts
to get private power utilities to meet
what Mr.. Roosevelt calls crying
need for expansion of that industry
to help the general business situa-
tion
Il think the fears of Government
competition are very much lessened
by the discussions that have taken
place." MIR. Carlisle told newsmen as
he left the White House.
II am not in dissent from the
Presidents general views in reference
to the basis of rate making. I am
going back to New York with a study
of the possibilities of increased ex-
pansion we can make in connection
with the new national housing pro-
gram. expect this will be very sub
stantial in nature.
I'VE are going ahead with expan-
sion OF generation and distribution,
and I am confident there will be mar
kets for power to absorb that expan-
sion"
VTIIJKTE CUVES VTCvHS
Evening star., 1937-11-24
WILLKIE GIVES VIEWS.
Favors Prudent Investment Idea Of
Valuation of Power.

NEW YORK, Nov. "a (P).-Wendeli
L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth
d Southern Corp, said today that las
compromise, in order to bring
reconciliation between the administra-
ton and private utilities" he would
be willing to adopt in the future the
prudent investment" theory Of valu-
alton of properties in rate-making.
This is the rate-making basis recently
proposes by the administration.
Mr.. Willkie, the head of one of the
country's largest holding combina-
tions, said, II would recommend that
utilities should be valued as Of this
date by the rules laid down by the
Supreme Court, which have been in
effect for 40 years, and that the
prudent investment theory should be
adopted hereafter"
Would Recommend 1t.
Mr.. Willkie, who conferred with
President Roosevelt at the White House
yesterday, said he would recommend
this, even though l do not think the
prudent investment theory is as salts
factory from the standpoint of the
consumers as the method laid down by
the Supreme Court"
However" he said, "the utilities
could constitute such great force for
the stimulation of recovery, and their
satisfactory relationship with the Fed
eral Government is so indispensable to
their own wellbeing, that I would
recommend the modification in the
valuation of utilities in the hope that it
would constitute the basis for an ami
cable adjustment"
Saying he was bound by the cour-
tesies of the White House, the utility
executive would not discuss his con-
ference with the President.
Prudently Made.
Mr.. Willkie said he understood the
prudent investment" theory of valu-
alton Of properties to mean whether
an investment was prudently made"
Several weeks ago, at the time when
President Roosevelt made a peace ges-
ture" to the utilities in the
current conferences with utility oper-
ators-the administration was moving
to make this theory controlling factor
in valuation and in ratemaking.
Under the methods laid down in the
past in Supreme Court decisions, the
original cost and the present repro
ductive value, Mr.. Willkie remarked,
were the principal factors in valuation.
Evening star., 1937-11-24
CHARLES c. M'CHORD
DIES IN new YORK
Former Member of Interstate
Commerce Commission
Was ~

Charles Caldwell McChord. a former
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission and for many years
prominent in transportation circles,
died in New York today of heart
attack He would have been 78 years
old on December 8.
Mr.. McChord served on the Inter-
state Commerce Commission from De.
cember II, 1910, to December 81, 1925.
and was chairman of the Commission
in 1856.
After leaving Federal service Mr..
McChord practiced law here and made
his home at the Shoreham. He left
Washington this past summer.
He was a native of Kentucky and
was engaged in transportation work
there before coming to Washington.