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Girl Shooting Puzzles Police pn In "ill JJ era US 11 11 Li a I BARNUM'S ADAGE GOOD EVEN IN HOLLYWOOD if 3f 3fi 3f A Minute" Only Too True, Breaking Confidence Game SPANS OCEAN SETTING NEW TIBEJCOB Globe Girdling Hop he wanted to talk to Mayer. Smart said he fixed a telephone line, whereby Burck talked not to Mayer, but to Britton, who impersonated Mayer. That satisfied Burck and the money was forthcoming. Last Saturday Smart tried to borrow $37,500 from Attorney Max Fink with which to pay the others. Fink refused.

By then Mayer had heard of the proceedings and notified authorities. ment brokers, examined the deal and approved it. Smart confessed further, Pitts said, that when Burck wanted Mayer to sign a new note for the $25,000, he had the lawyer mail the blank document to Mayer's home, Smart said he hurried to Mayer's house, talked a Negro chauffeur into handing him the letter, signed Mayer's name to the note, and mailed it back to Burck. Burck still wasn't satisfied. tiated a $10,000 loan on note which District Attorney Buron J.

Fitts said bore the forged signature of Mayer. Smart told the banker that Mayer had plenty of money, but wanted to pay Miss McDonald a secret bonus. It wa- secret, Mayer would deny all knowledge of the deal, if approached. Smart said. Austin handed over the $10,000 Fitts continued.

A few months later, he said, Smart paid back the loan LJ 1 MiWiiBtf iflrtfiftiffltrfmiriii ifflrfitimft igirofrffitntttf rriWiiVftl 'ill 1 -f 1 r1 1 son Eddy and Charles Laugh-ton. In custody were George Donald Smart, 35, a film sound recorder, and Layne Britton, 30, a make-up artist, both employed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but probably entirely unknown to Mayer whose name, authorities said, was forged to notes totaling $100,000. Thru his next door neighbor. Smart met President Aubrey Austin of the Santa Monica state bank and nego Full Leased Wire Report ot Oni ted Press en tame Lostioctoe 1 Best ot Newspaper Features. Comics and Pictorial Services COSHOCTON, OHIO, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1938.

Fail up Attempt in Barbara and 'aps Launch Drive For Hankow With U. S. Gunboat in Danger "One Born HOLLYW OOD Police claimed today to have broken one of the most brazen and sueccessful confidence games In Hollywood history with the arrest of two men charged with peddling promissory notes on which were forged the name of Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn. Mayer.

The victims included a bank president and a prominent attorney. The confidence men made use of the names of such stars as Jeanette MacDonald, Nel VOL. XXIX, NO. 317. BANDIT TRIO INVADES CITY LOAN OFFICE Three unmasked bandits armed with revolvers held up the City Loan, 115 North Third at 3:10 this afternoon, but failed find any cash.

The thugs missed the sum of $300 in one of the cash drawers, and $1,000 had been taken to a bank a few minutes earlier. The trio entered the loan and ordered Mrs. J. Malcolm Mac-Queen, cashier, to sit down on a chair and face the wall. "We have a gat," one of the said.

One of the bandits went on to a rest room in the rear of the building and covered Ralph J. Sharpies, manager, while the other two rifled the cash drawers. Mrs. MacQueen said she told the two men where the $300 was kept, and when they failed to find the cash they shouted for their companion in the back room and dashed for the door. Mrs.

MacQueen said she heard a car start In front of the building, but did not see which way it went. Leaves Texas OnWavWcst President is Expected to Okay Jones at Amarillo By FREDERICK A. STORM FORT WORTH, Tex. President Roosevelt, refreshed by a week-end of rest at the ranch home of his son Elliott, today resumed his trans continental speaking tour in the interests of "forward looking" candidates with a major speech at Amarillo, Tex. The chief executive's departure from Fort Worth on his special train took place at noon.

At Amarillo, center of the Texas panhandle country, observers expected Mr. Roosevelt to speak a kindly word for Rep. Marvin Jones, chairman of the house agriculture committee, who faces strong opposition In the July 23 primary election. Mr. Roosevelt's address at Am (Continued on Page Seven) Native of Everals Is Taken by Death Charles Martin, lifelong resident of Newcomerstown and vicinity, died at 5 p.

m. Sunday at the Tuscarawas county in'irmary following a two months' illness of complications. He was 77. He had entered the county home two weeks ago. Mr.

Martin was born in 1861 in the Everals vicinity, two miles north of Newcomerstown. He was a member of the Newcomerstown U. B. Church. Surviving are a son, T.

B. Martin of Toledo, and a brother, John Martin, Wood Newcomerstown. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Hinds' funeral home, West Neighbor Newcomerstown.

Rev. M. L. Oliver will deliver the sermon, and burial will be In the Evreals I he Gunm I I i i Police Say, having floated another one with Charles D. Case, one of his neighbors for $15,000.

This sum. Smart said, would enable Mayer to give Eddy a secret bonus. Smart's next transaction, he told Fitts, was his best. He borrowed $25,000 on another forged note, so that actor Laughton could have a bonus. He borrowed the money from Gall Iturck.

attorney. Smart said D. Morgan and E. W. Grlgg, Invest Her Men Folks Death Toll end accidental death toll for the state to at least 17 lives.

Velma Holden, i4, lost her life in a vain attempt to rescue her uncle, Daniel Holden, 33, from drowning in Overhaus creek at Napoleon. Holden stepped into a deep hole and cried for help. The girl dived in to save him but he grabbed fat her frantically and they drowned together. Jesse Swartz, 26, was drowned while wading in the Ohio river at Levanna, O. Jack James, 16, a deaf mute, drowned in the swift current of the Maumee river near Perrys-burg.

He signaled to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl James, on shore, but they were unable to save him. Lawrence W. Bosley, 13, was drowned while swimming in a creek at Bedford, O.

George Petrulak, 5, and Henry Kajdasz, 37, were drowned in the Maumee river at Toledo. When a small plane crashed shortly after they had taken off, Roland Harmer, 'A, and Stanley (Continued on Purs Seven) Hold To Moscow Is Delayed LE BOURGET AIRPORT, 7rance. Howard Hughes, meriean sportsman-aviator, landed his big two-engined "scientific" plane on Le field today, the second time in history that the flight across the Atlantic to this airport has been made non-stop. He had hoped to take off for Moscow about 6:30 p. m.

(12:30 p. m. F.ST) but at the last minute It was found that the radio equipment had to be repaired and the big plane was wheeled Into a hangar at 7 p. m. and a delay of several hours appeared likely.

Hughes made the trip In the phenomenal time of hours. He more than rut in half the time of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who made the first and only solo flight from New York to Tarls In 1927. Lindbergh did It In 33' hours, flying a single-englned Ryan monoplane.

The Hughes plane, which will continue eastward on an around-the-world flight back to New York, left New York at 6:20 P. M. EST. Sunday and arrived here at 10:58 A. or 4:58 P.

Paris time. Made Record Time Hughes thus made the trip In 18 hours and 38 minutes. Just as Ambassador Myron T. Herrlck rreeted Lindbergh, Ambassador William C. Bullitt was on hand to extend warm congratulations to Hughes and his four companion fliers.

Hughes was five hours ahead of the schedule which he had set. He (Continued on Page Five) Local Men Attend District Meeting American Legion Parley Is Held at Canton Over Past Week-end Three delegates from the Coshocton post attended the 10th district conference of the American Legion at Canton over the weekend. They were George Swalley, Robert Mandley and Arch Campbell. Mr. Swalley was elected as one of the district alternates to the national convention at Los Angeles, In August.

Sixty posts were presented at the conference, Including West Lafayette, Newcomerstown, Millersburg and Stone Creek. Rev. George Shurtz of Orange, Ohio chaplain of the American Legion, conducted services Sunday morning. In the afternoon the new Legion home at Canton was dedicated by State Department Commander James Suhr, A business session was also conducted in the afternoon, after which a parade was held In which 10 bands and drum corps participated. Brother of Local Men Dies Saturday Benjamin H.

Cooper, Zanesville, died at 11:40 p. m. Saturday of a bowel obstruction after a year's illness. He was 54. Mr.

Cooper had lived in Zanesville for 18 years and was a well known thruout Muskingum and Coshocton counties. He was a member of Amity lodge, F. A. and of Amrou Grotto. He was also a member of the first M.

P. church on West Main st. He leaves his widow, Mabel Parkinson Cooper; two sons, Robert and Richard Cooper, of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Vernal Von Kanel, Zanesville; five brothers, George, John and Merl Cooper of this city, and Charles E. and William Cooper, Newcomerstown; two sisters, Mrs.

Mae Emerson, this city, and Mrs. C. E. Tuller, Bucyrus, a grandson and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at the home at 317 Brighton Zanesville, at 1 p.

m. Tuesday. The body will then be brot to the South Lawn cemetery here where short services will be held at the grave. Rift Over British Fascist Pact Looms ROME Trustworthy Italian quarters reported today that several important Fascist party officials were strongly urging Premier Benito Mussolini to denounce the impending British-Italian pact on the ground that it is beneath Italy's dignity to await Britain's approval of its going into force. The officials believed Britain still nourishes secret hopes of humbling Mussolini.

THREE CENTS Expect Wait 'til January No Recess Selection for High Court Planned WASHINGTON President Roosevelt was expected today to defer until congress convenes In January his third opportunity to appoint a justice to the supreme court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Because there Is no pressing- need to replace Cardozo Immediately, It was believed that the president would not make a recess appointment. While the president ran make an appointment during a congressional recess, the nominee still would be subject to the senate's approval when It convenes. While official Washington mourned the death of one of the nation's most distinguished jur- (Continued on Page Eight) All Is Harmony In Indiana G.O.P. Van Nuys to Be Recast In Role of Nominee At Meet Tonight INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

The final link in a chain of events that removed U. S. Sen. Frederick Van Nuys from the role of an Indiana Democratic machine castofT and projected him into party leadership for the November election fight will be forced today and tomorrow. The state Democratic nominating convention will get under way officially tonight when members of varoius convention committees will be chosen at district caucuses.

Tomorrow delegates will assemble in the state fairgrounds coliseum to renominate Van Nuys and choose his running mates. With Van Nuys' renominatlon expected on the first ballot and by acclamation the Hoosier Democratic organization founded in 1932 by former Gov. M. Paul N. Mc-Nutt, Philippines high commissioner, will present a solid front.

It has been split for a year by the controversy centering around Van Nuys and his opposition to President Roosevelt's supreme court reorganization bill. Hold Funeral Rites For New York Woman Funeral services were held today at North Tarrytown, N. for Mrs. Charles T. Lipscomb, 56, a cousin of Mrs.

Hugh Hay of Coshocton. She died last week at the home of her father, Joseph Kerr Cass in Irvington, N. Y. Mrs. Lipscomb was formerly Margaret Kerr Cass and her father is the son of Dr.

Abncr Cass, early Coshocton physician. Her mother was the daughter of Dr. John Anderson, another early-day Coshocton physician. Both doctors had homes on lower Main st. here many years ago.

In addition to her husband and father, Mrs. Cass is survived by a son, Charles Lipscomb, a brother, Charles A. Cass of New York, and a sister, Mrs. Bernon T. Woodle of Irvington, N.

Y. Mysterious circumstances surrounded the death of Mary Britton, 29, top picture, who was found dead of a bullet wound In the 111., home owned by Elvin Satterlee, below. The body was found by Satterlee and a friend as they returned from a business trip. A revolver was beside the body, bloodstains were found elsewhere in the house, and there were reports that a blond girl was seen leaving the house just before the body was found. Truck Needs to Be Probed Commissioners Plan Investigation For Workers Investigation into WPA's need for county-hired trucks was promised by the commissioners today, after a delegation of county road Workers appeared before them, requesting additional funds to finance a five-day work week for regular road employes.

The regular county road em ployes, including common labor and maintainer operators, are now working two and three days weekly. Truck and other machine operators are averaging about five days a week, but many of these are employed to aid on WPA road projects thruout the county. Heretofore, County Engineer E. P. Alford has been allowed about $3,000 monthly to meet the road payroll.

The delegation today asked that additional funds be made available to increase employment and finance needed road work. It is now the practice for the county commissioners to hire about (Continued on Page Seven) Seventeen Hurt As Bus Crashes Defective Steering Gear Blamed by Driver For Accident BLUEFIELD, W. Va. Seventeen of the 35 passengers on an Atlantic Greyhound bus required hospital treatment after it left the road and was destroyed by fire 15 miles east o'f here Sunday. All but two of the passengers were discharged from the hospital after first aid treatment.

Most seriously injured were Mrs. Faye Chenoweth, Columbus, and Earl of Bluefield. Mr Chenoweth said she was on her to the bedside of her dying husband, Norman Chenoweth, whose spine was injured when he dived into a shallow pool at Ben-nettsville, S. C. Chenoweth died yesterday before his wife could have arrived on the bus, had there been no accident.

The Chenoweths had been estranged since last year. R. D. Brawley, Charleston, W. the bus driver, told hospital attendants a faulty steering apparatus caused the accident.

MAKE APPOINTMENTS Celia Lonsinger, Walhonding, was teamed administratrix of the estate of the late Elizabeth Lonsinger by Probate Judge Clyde Burklew today. Judge Burklew also named A. D. McKelvey, Killbuck Route 2, as administrator of the Mary C. Stos-8er estate.

Craft Stays in War Zone Chinese Fight Hard to Halt Drive on City BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Japan's redoubled offensive up the Yangtze moving dangerously close to American and British warships hammered stubbornly today toward the outer defenses of Han kow. Chinese defenders made every step of the advance slow and costly, but the Invaders fought their way close to Klu-klang In an effort to establish a base for effective aerial attack on the provisional capital, 135 miles away. China's bombing planes struck at the Japanese at Anking and near Kiukiang, reporting that two warships had been damaged and at least one other vessel sunk. The United States funboat Monorary, with 48 aboard, lay In the Yangtse within a few miles of Kiukiang- from which she moved during: a Japanese bombardment of the city. In Spain, another pounding offensive gathered momentum when Rebel Generalissimo Francisco (Continued on Page Five) English King III, On Diet of Milk Gastric Influenza Sends Monarch to Bed At Royal Lodge LONDON King George was on a milk diet today, fighting an attack of gastric influenza which sent him to bed at the royal lodge at Windsor.

An official bulletin issued by Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir John, physicians in ordinary to the king, announced the illness last night: "The king Is suffering a mild attack of gastric Influenza which will necessitate a rest for the next few days, especially having In view his majesty's projected visit to France. King George is scheduled to go to Paris July 19 for his state visit, postponed from June 28 because of the death of hip mother-in-law, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, June 23. Nellie Woman Dies After Year Illness Mrs. Sadie M. Fisher died at her home near Nellie at 5 p.

m. Sunday after a year's illness with complications. She was 77. She was born Nov. 13, 1860, and was married in 1908 to Thomas Guthrie, who died several years.

She leaves her second husband, R. M. Fisher, whom she married in 1928. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m.

at the Urey funeral home in Warsaw in charge of the Re" tr. H. Willyard, Mohawk. Burial vill be In UhrkhsviUe cemetery. Local Wheat to Be Insured ew Supervisor 1 ells Detail of Plan For Crop r-i-i i Solicitations of Coshocton county farmers in an effort to thoroly familiarise them with the federal government's wheat crop insurance program has been started by representatives of the County Ag ricultural Conservation Committee, it was announced today by Joe Slaughter, local supervisor of the program.

Mr. Slaughter today issued the following statement: "The federal government has, inaugurated an insurance plan for the wheat crop to be sown this fall. This plan is to meet the demands that were made by farmers, as a result of the loss of their crops, similar to that experienced in this county, as a result of the flood of August, 1935. Only a few farmers were prosperous enough to withstand such a loss as occurred at that time. "To store a portion of the surplus crop to be used as a payment of loss equalizes prosperity to the benefit of both producer and consumer.

Ev- Continued on Page Eight Accused Murderer Asks G-Men's Aid Attorney For Peter Sereno Says Client Innocent of Conn Killing PITTSBURGH An appea was made today to J. Edgar Hoover, chief G-man, for aid in al tempting to prove that Peter Sep eno, 22, of Pittsburgh, is innocent of the murder of Highway Patrol man George Conn, of Ohio. J. I. Simon, attorney for Sereno, asked that Hoover or one of his aides be present at a habeas corpus hearing here tomorrow with a confession allegedly implicating the notorious Al Brady gaing in the Conn killing.

Simon is attempting to obtain Sereno's release on a writ of habeas corpus after Gov. George M. Earle grante Ohio's request for extradition. Charles Ford, Negro, has named Sereno as the Conn killer. But Simon claims James Dahlover, a survivor of the Brady gang, made a confession to G-men allegedly implicating the Brady gang in the Conn murder in Ohio.

Burglars Get $50 Loot from Theater FREMONT, O. Burglars who blew a door off the safe in the Paramount theater office here early today were believed to have taken about $50 of Sunday's receipts. Alva M. Swedersky, night watchman, said the men jimmied open a back door and walked thru the theater to the offices of W. O.

James, manager, on the second floor. The loot, would have been larger had the burglars been able to open another door of the safe. Leading male characters in the unhappy married life drama of the former Barbara Hutlon are her husband, her father and her son. It is the husband. Count Court llaugwilz-Reventlow, lower left, who now comes to the center of the stnge as he prepares to take the witness stand at Bow Street Court in London to answer his wife's charges that he threatened her and their 2-year-old son Lance, lower center.

The youngster has been a central figure since the start of the divorce wrangling. Barbara's father, Frank-lyn Laws Hutton, lower right, the Woolworth 5-and-lQ magnate, has played a minor role in the present difficulty. When Barbara married the first time, to the late Prince Alexis Mdivani, Hutton said: "Well, one can't choose one's relatives." Heat Adds to As Seven Ohioans Drown BY UNITED PRESS Seven persons drowned in Ohio over a week-end that saw thousands seeking relief from the 90- The Weather OHIO Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Little change in temperature. degree heat by swimming or wading.

Airplane, automobile, motorcycle and other fatalities brot the week- Highway Patrolmen Seek Missing Man CLEVELAND State highway patrolmen today searched for George Richie, 26, starter at the Metropolitan Park golf course who disappeared Sunday while on his way to work. His car was found near Bellevue, its gasoline tank empty. Mrs. Richie believed her husband the victim of amnesia brot on by constant exposure to the sun..