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The Times Recorder from Zanesville, Ohio • 2

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1981 TWO THE TIMES RECORDER. ZANESVILLE. OHIO Find Bodies of Slain Women In Two Trunks Gruesome Discovery Made at Los Angeles Railroad Station LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19-(P) -Dismembered bodies of two women of undetermined age and identity were found in trunks tonight by police at the Southern Pacific railroad station. One of the trunks was large, the other small.

The headless torso of one of the women was in the small trunk. The two heads, the other torso and the amputated arms and legs were in the other. Police said the trunks carne from Phoenix, Ariz. Los Angeles man whose poThe trunks were to consigned, lice refused to reveal pending an atrest. A man and a woman called at the baggage room at noon today to claim the trunks, but employes had become suspicious because of a strong odor and refused to yield them.

The man and the woman walked away, and it was several hours before the trunks were opened. One of the slain women apparently WAS in the early 30's, with dark hair. Her face had been beaten and was unrecognizable. The other, whose body had been hacked into pieces, was younger, apparently about 20 years old, shot and had her red hair. She had been and face also had been crushed as though in 8 deliberate attempt to prevent identification.

PROBABLE VICTIMS PHOENIX, Oct. cials of the Grunow Memorial Clinic cf said tonight Mrs. Agnes Anne Phoenix, clinix X-Ral technician, hag been missing from her home since Saturday night, and expressed belief her body may be one of two found in trunk in Los Angeles tonight. Miss Hedvig Samuelson, who maintained her home with Mrs. Lerol, could not be located by newspapermen who called at the residence.

Neighbors said they had not seen either of the women since Saturday. Case Against Ex-Cashier Is Nearing End TOLEDO, Oct. 19-(P)--Lee N. Murlin and Herman Krueger, assistant U. S.

district attorneys, are expected to close the government's case against Virgil Squire, cashier of the former First National bank of Deftance, tomorrow in federal court. Neerly 40 witnesses will have been put on the stand for the prosecution against defendant, charged with misapplication of the bank's funds and of making false reports, before Harold Fraser, Squire's attorney, calls on his first defense witness late tomorrow or Wednesday. Miss Eleanor Steffel, Defiance, stenographer in the bank who was one of seven witnesses beard today, that on two occasions Squire's account in the bank was increased by 8200 after funds of similar amount had been withdrawn from the account of a Masonio lodge of which the defendant was treasurer. Ex-Priest Wants $50,000 Heart Balm. NEW YORK, Oct.

19-(A)---While vivdly-attired actress sat smiling in court today, a former Czecho-Slovakian priest, Benjamin Chudacek, took the stand in his $50,000 breach of promise suit against her and said she had broken his heart by refusing to marry him. He met the defendant, Betty Randolph, he said, after seeing her picture in a newspaper and writing her a "letter of condolence over her troubles." Ignoring the fibes of defense counsel, who termed him "male flirt." "religious gigolo," and "fortune hunter," testified he became physical and mental wreck because the actress "failed to show up" on two occasions when he had arranged for their wedding. Miss Randolph, in a long flowing gown, a brilliant red coat, a sable neckplece and a black turban did not have a chance to tell her story before adjournment. He testified he arranged for their marriage in Greenwich, June 3, 1928, and Sept. 14, 1928, but she falled to appear on either occasion.

The former priest under cross- amination was asked: "Did you know the defendant's income was $62,000 a year!" "Yes." "Did that have any bearing on. your interest in her?" "It was purely love." Jilted Former Actress Wants $250,000 NEW YORK, Oct. betrothal party at which her alleged fiance failed to appear was described to supreme court jury today by Vera McCord, former actress, as A basis of her breach of promise suit for $250,000 against Maurice Rothschild, elderly Chicago millionaire. Mis9 McCord told numerous meetings and cocktail parties with Rothschild between 1915 and 1928, when she said he passed out of her life. She testified that her affair with the Chicagoan, whom she met while starring in a play in that city, WAS "the most important event in my life." Miss McCord, on cross-examination, said she WAS "probably between 45 and 55 years old;" that she mara ried when she was 15 or 16--and was divorced about two years later, DAYTON TO PRISON Deputy Sheriff Howard Ardrey was in Columbus Monday, taking Lloyd Dayton to the Ohio state prison.

Dayton was sentenced to the prison last week when he violated his parole given several months ago when he pleaded guilty in common pleas court here to a charge of non-support. PAYS TWO FINES Alonzo Spinka, of $10 and costs being drunk and reigned in municipal morning and was tod3 DEFINITE PLANS Some young men start their business careers in a hit-or-miss fashion. Having definite plans for the future leads to advancement all along the road to success. Start a Savings Account today. THE FIRST TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK Huge Flag Staff Raised Monday At Court House Raising Is Witnessed by Hundreds of People Lining Adjacent Streets The huge 110-foot steel flag pole, adorned with a bright new goldleafed ball, stands majestically in the garden on the court house esplanade, where it was erected by L.

W. McMaster Son Monday afternoon. work of raising the staff rebut little time and was witquired neased by hundreds who lined both sides of Main street and the west side of Fourth street. While the pole has not yet been curely imbedded in its. concrete base, 1t 18 being held in position with wires ropes attached to- -adjacent electric light standards.

Work of burying it in its concrete base is being done by Walter Bolin, local contractor, will likely finish the job sometime Tuesday. Just when the flag will be raised to the of the big staff could not be top learned Monday night, but it WaS it will be waving from the stated mast in a few days. The pole was purchased by the Muskingum county board of commisstoners several weeks ago from Youngstown Sheet Tube plant, lower Putnam, where it stood since 1917, when America entered the World war. It will be formally dedicated with appropriate ceremones by local patriotte bodles on Armistice Day. Hazlett G.

A. will present the flag to post, the commissioners. Youths Confess Burglaries, To Reformatory BATAVIA, Oct. 19-(P)-Three 18-year-old youths from Xenia, Forest Stingley, Durand Lemon and Carey Storey, pleaded guilty of burglary when brought before Judge Charles G. White in common pleas court tonight and were! sentenced from one to 15 years in the Mansfield reformatory.

The youths were arrested six weeks ago, charged with taking chewing gum and cigarettes from a Loveland store. A Simple Application That Dissolves Blackheads No more saucezing and pinching to get rid of those ugly blackheads. Get A little Calonite powder from ANY drug store, sprinkle a little on hot, wet cloth, rub over the blackheads and in two minutes every blackhead will be dissolved AWAY entirely, CHICHESTERS BRAND. PILLS Ladies! Ask your Drugglat for Chi-ebes-tera Diamond Brand Pills in led and Gold metallic boxes, staled wish Blue Ribbon. Take no other, Bay of Droggiet.

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Opposite Imperial Theatre Open 9:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Wed.

and Sat. eves. 7:30 Closed Thursday Afternoons HAPPY HANNAH says, "We've catered to expensive appetites and to dwindling pocketbooks, but we've never changed the quality of our Better Realizing that our reputation hangs on the thread of QUALITY. we hold fast to that thread and will not let it go. However, our menu is as changeable no the weather.

AS fall approaches, tinkling glasses of Iced Ten are giving place to cups of steaming Chocolate. As the demand for Ices and Cold Outs diminishes, our Home-made soups step forward to take their place. So, throughout the year our menu constantly changes, and spring or fall, fair weather or foul, Bailey's Bites are Better. BAILEY'S ON MAIN $10,000 in Gas Tax Is Received Monday A check for $10,000 in payment of township gas tax was received by County Auditor Paul D. Fleming from State Auditor Joseph P.

Tracy Monafternoon. The money will be paid in amounts of $400 in the 25 Muskingum townships. The money represents the amount due the townships for the past three months. The sums will be used by the varlous township trustees in repair of secondary roads. a Charge Police Killed Alleged Slayer in Jail Committee Probing Third Degree Methods of Cleveland Police CLEVELAND, Oct.

18-- (P) -Despite a coroner's verdict that Tony Colletto, Cleveland gangster, committed sudcide in a county jail cell here a year ago, by hanging, his attorney, William F. Marsteller, charged today that Colletto was murdered. Colletto was fund hanging by strap the morning he was to have gone on trial charged with murder of his young bride. There were two other prisoners cell, and Marsteller claimed Colletto could not have strangled to death without creating a disturbance which would have awakened the other men. Marsteller presented his opinions before a committee which is re-investigating the case as a result of a report from the Wickersham commission which charged -Colletto had been subjected to brutal treatment by the The attorney did not offer a theory to the identities of the alleged murderers.

He alleged 'however that Colletto was seriously beaten by police to force a confession from him. Colletto claimed, Marsteller said, that Detective John Corso beat with a rubber hose on the bare back for 45 minutes, and that Detective Bernard Wolf slugged him in the ribs with his fists. The attorney also recalled that supposed friends of the prisoner once brought him a soft drink and once 8 dish of spaghetti, both of which made Colletto seriously sick. Mrs. Colletto was slain, Marsteller said, not by her husband, but by members of his gang who feared she "knew much." He said she was a witness of the killings of Sam Tilocco Joe Porello, bootleg chieftains.

Little Activity In Common Pleas Until Wednesday Cases Originally Docketed for Tuesday Were Disposed of Last Week Action in common pleas court Monday was devoted to the hearing of orders, demurrers and motions. The petit jury will not report again until 9 o'clock Wednesday morning when two cases are scheduled for trial. They are: Jack Thompson vs. Muskingum Laundry. L.

M. Soliday represents plaintiff and Meyer and Crossan the defense. The Spence Music company VS. Thelma O'Neill, et al, Graham counsel defense. the plaintiff and C.

Maxwell The trial of Harold Sampson on charges of burglary and larceny and automobile theft set down for Tuesday has been postponed until a later date. Sampson was indicted by the September grand jury and on arraignment entered pleas of not guilty. Other criminal cases were scheduled for trial Tuesday but they disposed of last week. Thursday the Jury will hear testimony in the state cases against Don Collier and Sherman Allen charged with manufacturing distilled liquors. Two civil action cases docketed for Friday wind up the court for this week." State Seeks Bid for Bridge Over Fox Creek Sealed proposals for the erection of a bridge on the National Road, U.

S. Route 40, 12 miles east of Zanesville, will be received at the office of the State Highway director in Columbus on Friday Nov. 6. The bridge to be erected over Fox creek in Union township will be of concrete, with a 36 foot span and a 34 foot roadway. The approach slabs and approaches will give the bridge a length of 2,050 feet or .391 mile.

The estimated cost of construction 18 $28,842.82. The work in the event a contract is awarded is to be pleted by May 1, 1932. Bids are also being sought for bridges in Belmont county on the St. Clairsville-Warnock road, estimated cost Guernsey county, National road, Tuscarawas coun1 1 1 ty. Canton-Dover road, $1,150 and on 22 bridges in 17 other counties.

REPORTS AUTO THEFT L. D. Buck, address Zane Station, reported to police Monday evening the theft of his Chevrolet coach, 11- cense B9-986, from Fifth and South streets. "Give me Lucky Strike Every Time" "My tant to me. No harsh truly.

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B. C. networks. Seeks Damages as Result Of Auto Injuries A suit for $10,000 was filed in common pleas court Monday afternoon by Mary Thomas of 124 Park street against James Mattingly of 515 Lenox The for personal injuries, cuts and proper relief as the result of an automobile accident on April 26 1 last. The petition alleges that car in which the plaintiff was riding WAS struck by a car driven by Mattingly and that the plaintiff suffered bruises and a shoulder dislocation which fined her in a hospital for four weeks.

The accident occurred at the corner of Maple and Forest. George and sure counsel the plaintiff. American Legion Plans Observance Of Armistice Day Big Parade, Public Meeting With Prominent Speaker, Is Idea Plans for the celebration of Armistice Day here Nov. 11 were dis. cussed by members of Zanesville post No.

29, American Legion the regular meeting Monday night. There will be a big street parade in the morning which will be followed community meeting in the afternoon when a nationally known speaker may be secured. The speaker and the place of holding the meeting was not decided upon. The dedcation of the new flag staff placed Monday on the court house esplanade, will be a part of the day's program. the During newly the meeting, officers Monday were night stalled.

Commander Stubbs, of Cambridge post, was the installing officer. Russell R. Roberts is the new commander and succeeds Capt. F. C.

Leslie. Other officers installed are as 1ollows: First vice commander, Thomas Wells; second vice commander, Mrs. Margaret Gibbons; adjutant, F. F. Bealmear; financial officer, Dr.

A. E. Walters; executive committee, Maynard Sprague, C. A. Graham, W.

M. Snyder; historian, Miss Stella Cougler; post surgeon, Dr. M. A. Loebell: chaplain, Rev.

S. R. Martin; color bearers, Abe Goodman and Harry Kollus; sergeant-at-arms, Albert J. Adams; bugler, Capt. C.

G. Wiltshire. During the meeting a committee was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Dr. David J. Matthews, past commander of the post, who died the past week.

The Legionaires went on record as supporting the state tax levy for 500,000 for improvements on state An $8,000,00 mortgage paid down to $4,000.00 on property taxed at $32,000.00. Interest. A $12,000.00 mortgage paid down to $5,500.00 on Main Street property taxed at $18,000.00. These are examples of hundreds of mortgages you can invest in at The Equitable Savings Co. Zanesville, Ohio for safety of principal and excellent earnings.

Smaller investments can be made in smaller mortof like calibre. Net 6.65% interest after tax gages paid. LIBERTY BONDS AT FULL MARKET PRICE accepted in payment for these mortgage investments. Child Drugged, Forced Into Marriage TOLEDO, Oct. 10-04 that marriage she was two drugged ago, and Sylvia forced Anna- into rino, 15, suing through her mother, Mrs.

Nellie Baker, asked for an annullment of her union with August Annarino, Chicago, In common pleas court today. In the petition the girl stated that when 13 years old she entered a soft drink parlor and took a glass of buttermilk. The next thing she knew, she said, she woke up in a Chicago hotel room with a marriage license under her pillow. Samuel Mather Estate More Than $100,000,000 Cleveland Capitalist Had Given Away More Than $8,000,000 CLEVELAND, Oct. 19 -Friends of Samuel Mather, one of America's greatest capitalists and philanthropista, who died early Sunday, tonight that his estate amounted in value to more $100,000,000.

Mr. Mather had given more than a $8,000,000 to public institutions and charities, and two years ago said his will provided for additional bequests of a similar nature. The will itself has not been opened however and Philip R. Mather, a son, its provisions were unknown. Mr.

said Mather, who 80 years old, made some revisions two weeks ago and gave it, sealed, to his secretary. The funeral services which will be held at 2:30 p. Wednesday In Trin1ty Episcopal cathedral here, will quiet members of the family said. Mr. Mather was senior warden of the cathedral, a post which was held by his father, Samuel Livingston Mather, before him.

The final rites will be solemnized by Bishop Warren Lincoln Rogers, will head The be of in great the Lake diocese wealth View of of Ohio. Mr. cemetery. I Burial Mather was partly inherited and partly built by himself through active participation for many years in many lines of industry. He wee one of the outstanding figures in the mining, shipping and industrial life of the nation.

He was head of Pickands. Mather company, iron and mine erators and shippers, and was a director or officer in more than 25 other corporations. Heading the list of Mr. Mather's pital, Cleveland. He had given apnearly $5,000,000 to the Lakeside a hosbenefactions were his gifta totaling proximately $1,560,000 to the Cleveland Community fund, and was recognized as the principal factor, by his financial aid and personal efforts in the fund's annual successes.

Other recipients of large gifts from Mr. Mather included Western Reserve university, college, the Episcopalian clergy, M. C. war work, and the Cleveland orchestra. Several Cities Bidding for G.O.P.

Convention WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-(P)-Cleveland and Chicago appear to be leading in the contest that will determine where next year's Republican national convention will be held. Chairman Fess of the party's national committee said today that the party officers would be called into session on Dec, 15 for the selection of the convention city and of the time the convention. "Several cities are bidding for the Republican gathering, including New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, San Francisco, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louts.

committee will be named by Senator Fess to consider the convention city selection, but the choice will be left to the whole committee. He also will name a sub-committee to consider the problem of apportionment of delegates to the states in accordance with the reapportionment cal the house of representatives. Delegations to the convention have been based on the house membership. Republican leaders will look to Prestdent Hoover in selecting convention city, but he has indicated no choice. Early speculation on the midwest as the logical meeting ground.

ENFORCING GAME LAWS COLUMBUS, Oct. Conservation Commissioner William FI. Reinhart today announced that 23 persons had been arrested since Oct. 1 in a drive for enforcement of the state conservation laws. SCARLET FEVER CLOSES SCHOOLS PORTSMOUTH, Oct.

19--(2)- Schools of Humersville, Brown county, were closed today in order to check the spread of scarlet fever in the village. Several children contracted the disense, TO GIVE DANCE Beulah temple, Pythian sponsoring dance which held immediately following ular Odd Fellows' 7 p. Tuesday. The vited. corkscrew, tweezers.

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They also will support the one and one-quarter tax levy In Zanesville for maintenance of public schools. The post accepted an invitation to attend in a body Armistice Day services at First M. P. church, West Main street, on Sunday evening, Nov. 8.

Rev. Martin, the pastor, is a member post. has meeting to be District, Commander cliff Wagoner held Oct. 25, at cambridge and all officers and Legionaires are expected to attend. Following the business session a chicken dinner was served by the Ladies' Auxiliary.

Conference Tuesday on Bridge Repaving A conference between the Muskingum county commissioners and County Engineer George R. Evans with B. F. Frasch, division highway engineer and John 8. Dennis, resident engineer will be held Tuesday at which time the repaving of both the and the Fifth street bridges will be discussed.

Efforts have been underway for several months in regard to these improvements and the commissioners at the meeting Tuesday will endeavor to promise of early action. The Roseville bridge project will also be brought up by the commisstoners. The county officers together with the citizens of Roseville want a new bridge over the Pensylvania tracks there. A design of proposed new structure has been drawn in the office of Engineer Dennis. This at present is in the hands of Roseville citizens.

County Commissioners Award Contracts Contracts for the improvement of eight sections of county roadways were made in the office of the county commissioners Monday afternoon. Awards on other sections are expected to be made as soon as the township funds are available. The contracts made Monday include roads in Adams, Union, Perry Salt Creek, Hopewell and Licking townships and total 7.58 miles. This awards are a pert of the 20 miles of highways bids on which were opened by the commissioners last Monday. TO ATTEND FUNERAL Mr.

end Mrs. tr Thomas Murphy and children of Detroit, have been called tar. thrurpty, to brother. attend the funeral of AUTOMOBILE THEFT AUTOMOBILE THEFT W. L.

Garrett, of 707 Baker street, reported to police the theft of his Pontiac sedan, license B15-115 from Fifth and Market streets Monday night. Kidney Acidity Kills Energy If Getting Pains, Burning, use Often hours. pletely money you feel old and run-down from Up Nights, Backache, Leg Nervousness, Stiffness. or caused by Kidney Acidity, quick-acting Cystex (Siss-tex). shows big improvement in 24 Guaranteed to satisfy comor return empty box and get back.

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