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THE WEATHER. Light mow thii an4 oh jfht and n't quite so cold; Tii day mow flurries ani illgh'ly colder. ASSOCIATED PRESS DOUBLE TRUNK WIRE SERVICE FIFTY-SIXTH YEAK. HAZLETON, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 1G, vm THREE CENTS A COPY. James Confers With Aides On Filling Remainder Of Cabinet As His Inauguration Nears Spanish Insurgents Take Another Town: Wave Of Rejoicing STORK SCORES A TRIPLE THE PLASM SPEAKER Irish Plea.

Spanish Mav He Hetored Swift I)rie IJein Made Toward Barcelona By Franco's Forces. Asks Expansion Of Security President Urges Congress to Begin Old Age Benefits Sooner. VS. til li" -v. ft A proud father, and rightly so, wan Sigmund Fronriak, SI, Chicago.

While he wan trying to get hi car started for a ouirk trip to a hwpital, Mr. Frnnrzak gave birth to a girl. Soon two more habv girls arrived. Then came to phynician and an inhalator equad. Here two other Fronrzak children, Joanne, 7, and Robert, 4, get their first peer at two of the new trio, held in Daddy's arms.

Senator Asks For Survey Of Textile Industij Conditions Martin Suspect Held In N. Y. industry committee appointed by the administrator of the Fair Labor Standards Act. "This committee has the power to set a higher minimum than 25 cents an hour and the minimum can be as high as 40 cents an hour if recommended by the industry committee." Barbour said 80 per cent of the industry pays more than 40 cents an hour; 75 per cent of the industry under union agreements pays base minima of 65 cents an hour; plants in the south and parts of New England, however, pay as low as 32 Deputy Robert Hriticoe. only Jew.

lhh member of the lrih parliament. nan arrived in lork City to begin a campaign to enlist Ameii- can in a plan for rexcttlinir ap proximately 6,000,000 Jews in Pal estine. Dorothy James To Be Hostess Daughter of Governor-elect Prepares For Functions at Inauguration. HARRISBURG, Jan. 16.

(JP) Thrilled at the prospect of four years as hostess at the executive mansion, Miss Dorothy James went over guest lists today and numerous other details of tomorrow's exciting events for her. The 22-year-old daughter of Gov-ernor-clect Arthur IT. James will be the youngest hostess to presida at the executive mansion in Pennsylvania's history. Her first official act will be to keep' things moving smoothly tomorrow afternoon at a buffet supper to be served at the mansion after the inaugural parade. She will lead the first dance at the inaugural ball tomorrow night with her father.

For the second dance she chose as a partner, Leigh Doorly, of Bronxville, N. a member of her graduating class at Syracuse University. In the James party in addition to the governor-elect and his daughter, were his son, Arthur H. James, Mrs. Grace Morris, mother of James wife, deceased; his sister, Mrs, Martha Edwards, of Wilkes-Barre, and his sister-in-law, Mrs.

B. H. Switzer, of Lancaster. They arrived last night. Joining the party today were Miss Jeanne Griffin, of Wilkes-Barre, who will be Miss James' secretary and Miss Barbara Hammond, of White Plains, N.

another member of Miss James' class at Syracuse. One of the hat boxes Miss James brought contained the gold felt model with wimple which the new first lady will wear with a gold crepe dress and mink coat when her father takes the oath of office. Of Doorley, her partner for the second dance, Miss James said: "He is just a good friend." After Miss James arrived at her rooms where she lifted from a very special box the white net inaugural ball gown and from another, the 12-year-old silk hat her father will (Continued On Page 13) Were Lax With Loafers. MOSCOW, Jan. 16.

(JP) Fourteen factory managers and other executives accused of being lax with loafers were ordered today to stand trial in the near future. They will be prosecuted under a section of the criminal code" providing penalties up to three years' imprisonment. Checks Up On Final Arrangements For Ceremonies Tomorrow. WOCT QUIT JUDGESHIP UNTIL LAST MINUTE Hotels And Rooming Houses Begin Filling Up With Visitors. 1IAHRISBUKG, Jan.

18. Governor-elect Arthur II. James secluded himarlf in a Jlarrisburg hotel toiluy, conferring with close advisera on the three plates to bo filled in his cabinet and checking up on final arrangement for his inauguration tomorrow. The governor-elect, who will retain his post aa Superior Court judge until an hour at least before hi induction as chief executive, motored to the capital city last night from his Plymouth home, accompanied by hU daughter, Misa Dorothy James, his son, Arthur H. James, and a party of relatives and close friends.

The appointments yet to be made in the new Republican governor' cabinet are secretary of property and supplies, secretary of banking and secretary of mines. While there was no indication from the governor-elect as to whom he had in mind for tho last three pouts, the name of Roger V. Rowland, of Lawrence County, figured in speculation for secretary of property and supplies, the oflicial who has charge of all state purchasing. C. F.

Zimmerman, of Huntingdon, a prominent banker, was mentioned for secretary of banking and the name of John I. Thomas, of Philips-burg, for secretary of mines. James, as a Superior Court judge, will administer the oath of oflice to Lieutenant Governor-elect Samuel S. Lewis an hour before his own inauguration as governor. He has said repeatedly he would not relinquish the judicial post until such time as he could name his own successor and the belief grew at tho capitol today he would not resign iufcjyould take the position that the Superior Court post will be vacated automatically when he takes the oath as governor.

Hotels, rooming houses and private homes which do not ordinarily take in "paying guests" began fill-continued on Page 4) Says Consumer Wants Too Much Economist Blames Distributors For Excess of Pergonal Service. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16. (JP) Education of the consumer in the "costs of personal services he now demands from distributors," Dr. J.

Frederic Dewhurst, economist, said today, would make the public "less inclined to impose a great burden on our commodity distribution system." The system cost $35,000,000,000 in 1929, Dr. Dewhurst, an associate of the Twentieth Century Fund, told members of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon meeting. Among the "personal services" demanded the modern consumer, he said, were the privilege of variety in goods bought; charge accounts and buying on credit; delivery service and the so-called "returned goods" privilege. Dr. Dewhurst blamed the distribu tor for encoraging the consumer to expect too much in the day of per sonal service.

New Arrivals. A son was born today at the State Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Murphy, of 29 West Noble street. A son was born to Mr.

and Mrs, Edward Logan, of Weston. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Higgins, of 844 North Locust street. A daughter was born to Mr.

and Mrs. James Vittacco, of 568 Harri-lon street. A daughter was born at the State Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. George Patanovich, of 22 North Logan street, McAdoo.

A daughter was born at the Stale Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. John ho-valick, of Beaver Meadow. A daughter was born to Dr. and Mrs.

Otto Pettag, of White Haven, at the Corrigan Maternity Hospital yesterday. The father is surgeon at the White Haven Sanatorium. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Coleman of Mt.

Top. Mrs. Coleman before marriage was Miss Evelyn Carey. A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Kisthart, of Catasau Qua. The father is a former resident of Hazleton and was employed on the old Hazleton Sentinel when that puo- ucation was located on West Broad lUeeU Man Admits He Was in Kingston About Time Girl Was Murdered. NEW CITY, X. Jan. 16.

UP) District Attorney George D. Dorsey of Rockland County said today he had notified police of Kingston, that a man held here on an assault charge was in Kingston shortly be fore Christmas when 19-year-old Margaret Martin was slain. Dorsey said Frank Mozda, 34, of Haverstraw Road, near Suffern, N. had admitted he criminally attacked several women in this neighborhood, as well as a 12-year-old girl. He was arrested yesterday after a woman complained he had accosted her in a public park and knocked her down.

Her screams and the screams of her two conv panions attracted police who cap tured Mozda after a chase across a frozen lake. The district attorney said he had not questioned Mozda in detail about his activities in Pennsylvania, but had sent the authorities a description of Mozda and( was awaiting a reply. Mozda, he said, operates a small poultry market, is married and has one child. Dorsey said he admitted he broke into the summer home of the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes and stole an electric ice box. Anti-Third Term Cards Make Their Appearance WASHINGTON, Jan.

16. (JP) A chain postal card asking ten million persons to oppose a third term for President Roosevelt appeared on Capitol Hill today. Senator Holt (D-WVa) received one. He has said he would introduce a resolution opposing a third term. "Ten million postcards will kill this third term talk," the card read.

"Mail postcards to the WHITE HOUSE at Washington, D. saying 'I am against a third term'. No signature is necessary. Send another postcard to R. A.

Nickell at 143 Cherry, Long Beach California giving name of your city and state, only, that campaign progress may De checked. Have five friends do the same. "DOXT BREAK THE CHAIN." The card was postmarked Long Beach. Germany And Turkey Sign. BERLIN, Jan.

16. (JP) Germany and Turkey today signed a credit agreement by which 150,000,000 marks ($60,000,000) was made avail able to the Turkish government for purchase of German industrial pro ducts. LONDON, Jan. 1. The ufhrial Spanixh insurgent rep-renrntatite in Great Britain hinted today that the Spanish monarchy might be restored if and when inturgrnU win the civil war.

The rrprewntative. the Duke of Alba, in an interview with the Evening New that "there i no tulution for Spain without uphulding Its old tradi-tioiu." He forenaw an initial form of dictatorship and a government with a ytem of guilds in the etrnt of a victory by Onrraliftkimo Franco. Franco already has restored former King Alfonso's civil rights and there have been rumor of a reconciliation between Alfonso and former Queen Victoria Eugenia, preparatory to placing their third aon, Prince Juan, on the Spanish throne. They have been separated since aoon after he lost his throne in mi. The duke aaid Spain had had only two republics one in lasting six yean and ending In chaos and the 1931 republic.

Italians Seek Blow At France Revenge "With Made Guns' is Threat papers bv News- ROME, Jan. 16. (JP) Italy's anti-French campaign gained new impetus today with newspaper threats that Italians might avenge French "insults" with guns The press attacks came as Italy made an insurgent victory in the Spanish civil war the price for settling her quarrel with France over colonial influence in the Mediterranean. Newspapers unanimously publish ed defiant protests against a sate ment attributed by the Paris news paper LOrdre to an anonymous French officer that ten Italian soldiers were hardly enough to fight one retired Frenchman. Virginio Gayda, one of Italy's most responsible editors, wrote that French hatred of Italy was breeding Italian hatred of France until "finally the rifles will go off by themselves." Although the article in L'Ordre was published last Thursday, indignation in Italy reached full cry only after Prime Minister Chamberlain's departure from his appeasement visits to Premier Mussolini.

Newspapers published telegrams from heads of Italian organizations of war veterans to Edouard Guyot, who signed the article, calling him and the unnamed officer he quoted "low persons" and "liars." Gayda, asking whether a "suici dal mania" is moving the French against Italy that Italy is always in the line to defend her national honor, "even by arms." Leave House For Goats. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16. (JP) The David C. Birdsells live tne barn at their Rockledge farm in suburban Whitemarsh and leave the house for the goats.

The transformation started eight years ago when Birdsell "fixed over" the barn built in 1807. The goats, bought to supply milk for the family, were moved into the original house. Just Visited Neighbors. UPPER DARBY, Jan. 16.

(JP) To the intense relief of her parents and 50 policemen who had searched for her, 7-year-old Pauline Gerbron nonchalantly walked into her home last night and explained she had been visiting neighbors a block away. Pauline disappeared Saturday while sledding. Of Smashing Guam Defense (Plans have been drawn for im- proving the lagoon at Wake Island for surface craft of tonnage under cruisers.) The newspaper, which has consid erable circulation in military said that if the United States wants only to increase trade with China, hpn would assist, but if America seeks to interfere with japans v-nina puiicy, en resoiiing to arms, then Japan must be ready i to smash the American fleet. "Thus is the view not of the army and navy but the determination of the Japanese people," Kokumin said, since it realized such fortification "would menace Japan's mandated islands and naturally the Japanese are gravely concerned." The fortification of Guam and Wake is justifiable, it continued, "only if the American people objects to Japan's policies in China and intends to interfere with them." I NEW EASTWARD TIIKIST MAT Feelin That Victory Is Near Spurs Manifestation Of Joy. HENDAYE, France (At the ih Frontier), Jan.

16. (A' The Spanish insurgent command tO'iay reported capture of C'ervera in a swift drive toward Barcelona along the center of Generali.ssimo Francisco Franco's 100-mile front in Catalonia. Cervera, an important town of 4,000 inhabitants, lies within SO miles directly west of the government capital on highway front Lerida. Roads connecting the Ler-ida-Barcclona highway with gov. ernment territory to the nr.r.h and south join at Cervera.

Franco's central Catalonian column laid siege to the town yesterday. His commanders reported that government defense there were smashed tins morning, clearing the way for new eastward thrust to the next immediate objective, Igual-ada, about 29 miles nearer Barcelona. The insurgents' lower Catalonian forces, which had captured Tarragona at the coast and pushed into Barcelona province inland at Bell-prat, were reported veering toward Igualada to combine with the centra! column foi a mas drive on Barcelona. Radio broadcasts of insurgent victories in the drive toward Barce lona particularly the Sunday cap ture of Reus and Tarragona caused a wave of rejoicing through insur gent Spain. The general feeling that victory was rear spurred men, women and children to manifestations such as Spain had seldom seen since the war started July 18, 1936.

Throngs marched along avenues and plazas lined with the red and gold banners of insurgent Spain, church bells pealed almost constantly and bands played. In Burgos, the crowds gathered before the residence of Generalissimo franco singing and shouting his name. The insurgents reported thousands of residents of captured Tarragopa thronged the principal plaza whe priests celebrated mass for the first time two years. Safety Lecturer In Crash. BLUFFTON, Jan.

16. (JP Bluffton High School teachers didn't hear their safety talk. The speaker, from the State Hiehway Department, telephoned he'd been held up on the road by an automobile acci dent. Open Campaign To Push M'Nutt Friends of Philippine Com missioner Boom Him For President in 1910. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan.

16. (JP) -An organized campaign for the 1940 Democratic presidential campaign, apparently the first, started here today in behalf of Paul V. McNutt, United States high commissioner to the Philippines and former Indiana governor. McNutfs supporters opened headquarters in a two-room hotel suite next door to the Democratic state committee and laid plans for statewide organization of McNutt-for-Prcsident Clubs, later to reach out into other sections of the country. McNutt is to return to the United States in March for an indefinite stay.

Frank McHale, national committeeman and McXutt's campaign manager, said he believed the early start, a year and a half in advance of convention time, would help the drive. "If a man isn't strong enough to stad the sunlight now," he observed, "he'll never be. I believe Paul McNutt thrives on sunshine." He said he would offer McNutt as a "conservative New Dealer," ac-jceptable both to the liberals who have followed President Roose-'elt and the conservatives who have fought him WEATHER. Eastern Pennsylvania Light snow this afternoon and tonight; not quite so cold in west and extreme north portions tonight; Tues day fair in southeast and snow flurries and slightly colder in west and north portions. New Jersey and Delaware Snow this afternoon, ending early tonight; Tuesday fair; not much change in temperature WASHINGTON, Jan.

16. UP) President Roosevelt recommended to Congress today wide expansion of the social security act and warned at the same time against "turning to untried and demonstrably unsound panaceas." The expansion program he called for included beginning old age insurance benefits sooner and liberalizing them in the early years, affording greater protection to dependent children, extending unemployment and old age protection as rapidly as possible to "all of our people" and increasing in some instances federal grants-in-aid to atates. He also proposed that atates receiving federal aid bo required to institute merit aystems for the per. sonnel of agencies handling social security funds. "I cannot too strongly urge the wisdom of building upon the principles contained in the present social security act in affording greater protection to our people," the president said, "rather than turning to untried and demonstrably unsound panaceas." His message made no direct reference, however, to old age pension proposals, The president emphasized the desirability of affording greater old age security.

He described as sound a "two-fold approach" recommended by the Social Security Board on this point. "One way," he said, "is to begin the payment of monthly old age insurance benefits sooner, and to liberalize the benefits to be paid in early years. "The other way is to make proportionately larger federal grants in aid to those states with limited fis cal capacities, so that they may provide more adequate assistance to those in need. This result can and should be accomplished in such a way aa to involve little, jf any, ad. ditional cost to the federal govern.

ment. Such a method embodies a principle that may well be applied to other federal grants-in-aid." The president also described as sound two approaches recommended by the board for greater aid to dependent children. "One way," he said, "is to extend (Continued on Page 13) Committee Approves Frankf urter-Murphy WASHINGTON, N. Jan. 16.

(JP) The Senate Judiciary Committee approved today appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court and Frank Murphy as attorney general. This action sent President Roosevelt's appointments to the Senate floor for expected confirmation early this week. The full judiciary committee acted at a closed session after subcommittees had conducted hearirigs and unanimously approved both appointments. Murphy, former governor of Michigan who was defeated in the November election, was named attorney general to succeed Homer Cummings, who resigned. Frankfurter, noted liberal and Harvard law instructor, was appointed to the vacancy resulting from the death of the late Associate Justice Benjamin N.

Cardozo. Gangster Victim Found Slain. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. (JP) A young man, apparently a gangster victim, was found dead today in the snow in Monaco Place, Brooklyn, a bullet hole in his head.

An automobile driver's license in his clothing bore the name of Paul Gleason, 35, Astoria, Queens. Committee disclosed he was considering including in the nrotrram a sys tem of "super highways" across and up and down the nation. In addition to being invaluable from a defense standpoint, he said, these roads should stimulate economic development. A "super highway" program was discussed in Congress last year, but no action was President Roosevelt told reporters last week that if Congress decided to authorize it, relief funds might be used for part of the construction. Outlay for the administration defense program, plus regular army and navy appropriations, was estimated today as representing 14.6 per cent of prospective federal expenditures in the next fiscal year.

Proponents pointed out that European countries are spending far more for armaments than the administration here has suggested. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Senator Barbour (R-NJ) urged Secretary Perkins today to conduct a survey in the dyeing, finishing, printing and bleaching of synthetic and silk fabrics industries with a view to further stabilization of wages. Barbour said chaotic conditions in the textile industry had resulted in prices being reduced to such a point "that the industry in New Jersey and other states paying high wage rates, are unable to continue unless the questions of wages and hours is removed as a competitive factor." "This condition," he said, "may in part be remedied if the' Labor Department would conduct a survey of wages in the entire industry.

"The Federation of Dyers, Finishers, Printers and Bleachers of America, which asked the survey, could present the information to the New Cold Wave Due In State Four Deaths Oecur as Aftermath of Snow Storm That Came With Week End. (By The Associated Press) Light snow was forecast for tonight in all sections of Pennsylvania as a prelude to a new cold wave sweeping in from the west. Falling temperatures, predicted for late today in the western counties, were expected to reach the eastern portion tomorrow. A mantle powdery snow covering the state over the week end was a boon to winter sports enthusiast, but caused few traffic accidents. Mishaps accompanied the fun of sledding.

Glen Dyer, 14, was killed while coasting near Sunbury. Eight-year-old Robert Lowers lost his life when his sled rammed into a truck at Washington. From a hole in the ice covering a pond near Williamsport, firemen recovered the body of Miles Hetner, 18, who broke through while skating. Four persons, three of them children, were hospitalized at Harrisburg for sledding accident injuries. A half dozen others were hurt slightly in coasting mishaps in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Franklin Bowman, 55, perished as he fought his way through wind swept snow to his home at West Wy- omissing. Berks county. A railroader, Blair Shoff, 57, of Wilmore, was killed by a train at South Fork, Cambria county, as he cleaned snow from a switch. Woman Returns To Her Home To Die In Smoke LANDSDALE, Jan. 16.

(JP) Mrs. Fannie C. Logan, 56, suffocated today in her burning home. Mrs? Logan and a daughter, awakened by the fire, fled from the house. The daughter walked through the snow to a neighboring home to summon firemen.

When they arrived they found Mrs. Logan's body inside. They said she apparently re-entered the house to save some of her belongings. No Widespread Layoff. WASHINGTON, Jan.

16. (Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour admin istrator, reported to Congress today that surveys had failed to produce evidence of widespread layoffs re sulting from the new labor stand ards act. "Estimated total employment of employes covered by the act," he said, "showed slightly more (in December, 1938) than the seasonal increase from September to cents an hour. "These low wage areas have created a deplorable price-cutting condition affecting the entire industry in New Jersey," the senator said.

"With a survey such as I recommended, both management and labor could present a clear-cut case before the industry and its administrator and bring about an immediate 40 cent minimum." Jury Nearing Close Of Task Not Empowered to Return Any Campaign Probe Indictments After Today. HARRISBURG Jan. 16. UP) The September grand jury, which didn't get down to its campaign charges investigation until mid-December, came today to the end of its power to indict any of the 14 persons named by District Attorney Carl B. Shelley in his request for the inquiry.

The 11 Republican and Democratic jurors, who have indicted Democratic State Chairman David L. Lawrence, after today can turn over to Judge Paul N. Schaeff er only presentments if they believe testimony presented to them warrants further criminal action. Then, the Berks county judge explained, the January grand jury which has been excused, subject to recall, can indict only if it hears from witnesses at first-hand, and not rely merely on the September jurors' reports. The September panel returns to its labors in the midst of growing hub-dub over the imminent return of a Republican state government in place of the Democratic administration whose chief leaders were accused by Shelley and former Attorney General Charles J.

Margiot-ti. First Come; First Served. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16. (JP) It will be first come, first served for the better seats tonight for tho George Abbott comedy "What A Life," at the Locust Street Theatre.

The producer has decided to ask a flat admission and let patrons take their chances on vantage points movie house fashion. Old Tongue Back At Play. NEW HANOVER, Jan. 16. ()The survival qualities of the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect have given Alton H.

Eppler quite a linguistic problem. Teacher at a 12-pupil school house, Eppler says that although Dutch is taboo on school property, his charges revert to their ancestral tongue in the heat of play. Shiny Daggers For Newly Born Boys AUGSBURG, Germany, Jan. 16. OP) Every new-born boy wh se father is a member of the Suabian (southwest German) storm troops hereafter will get a shiny dagger.

The fathers are to keep the weapons until the boys are old enough to join the Hitler youth movement and can themselves wear them in their belts. The first such dagger was given a baby today. Propose That Army And Navy Be Under One Department Jap Paper Talks U. S. Fleet In WASHINGTON, Jan.

16. (JP)-A proposal to reorganize American military control by placing the army and the navy under a single cabinet officer was revived in Congress today in connection with the president's $552,000,000 defense program. A Democratic senator who declined to be quoted by name said he was drafting legislation to create a secretary of national defense. Several House members also have been advocating such a consolidation. Although similar bills heretofore have met objections from army and navy leaders, the senator contended thj projected strengthening of the military forces was a propitious time to make the change.

The administration's attitude has not been disclosed. Senate and House committees were ready to begin a study of the armament program this week. Chairman May (D-K) of the House Military TOKYO, Jan. 16. UP) The news- paper Kokumin declared editorially today that "the Japanese people are determined to smash the American fleet" if the United States intends "to get a political foothold in China" by fortifying the Guam and Wake Islands.

The article, which caused a sensa tion in Tokyo, demanded to know the real intentions of the American people in the western Pacific, not those of the president or the State Department." (Washington reports last week listed among proposals for new naval bases the long demilitarized Island of Guam, 1,500 miles from Japan, and said an air and submarine base there would outflank any Japanese advance to the south or west but would call for a basic decision on national policy in view of the resentment likely to be aroused in Tokyo..