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WILKES-BARRE RECORD, WEDNESDAY, 'AUGUST 31, 1938 Three Witnesses Against German Appear Before Grand Jury State Unfolds Testimony for Several Hours in Effort to Have Bakery Owner Indicted jurors yesterday afternoon spent several hours listening to testimony from witnesses presented by the Commonwealth in an effort to obtain indictments against Henry German, Forty Fort bakery owner, who is charged with conspiracy to commit arson in the burning of a summer home and with conspiracy to defraud an insurance company after the alleged theft of German's automobile. Several State motor policemen, Fire Marshal McLaughlin, George Riley, noted sportsman of the Poconos, and one the three Passaic, N. men who allegedly came here to steal the German automobile were before the grand jury most of th afternoon. Assistant District Attorney John H. Another day, the eighth in will be devoted by the grand jury to considering transcripts, the jury having been held over this week by Judge John J.

Aponick because there were too many cases for consideration last week. Most of yesterday morning's. was devoted to hearing cases of alleged violation of the liquor la laws. The grand jury yesterday morning reported to the returning true bills and ignoring 34 other cases. Judge Aponick examined the report and thanked the jurors, with the comment "Keep up your good work." 1 Among defendants indicted yesterday was Rocco Garramone of Hazleton, alias Rocky Boo-Boo, alias Corky Gorman, charged with aiding, assisting and harboring a prisoner.

Garramone is alleged to have helped Joseph Bruno, former Kelayres political leader and Schuylkill County detective, in his escape from Schuylkill County Eastern jail while awaiting transfer to Penitentiary to serve a life sentence for the Kelayres massacre of November, 1934. The escape occurred on December 18, 1936 Bruno went to South America and returned to New York, where he was arrested and returned to Eastern Penitentiary. Garramone became a months fugitive and was arrested two ago in Hazleton. He was refused bail by Judge Thomas F. be Farrell tried sev- at eral weeks ago and will the September term of criminal court.

Amang cases ignored by the grand jury in its report K. Scherrieb, yesterday 144 was Wil- one Dem Street, Pittston, whose autoagainst Carl hit and killed Mrs. James to, 54, of West Pittston, at Weet Pittston on August 11. Another auto driver similarly freed from criminal charges by the grand jury was Stanley Shylock of 115 Dixon with Street, the Duryea, fatal injury to Luther who was charged Williams, 5, of Wyoming, on August 12. List of true bills returned yesterdav: Aiding, assisting and harboring Hazle- a prisoner -Rocco Garramone, Playfully pointing a pistol--Michael Skirchak, Nuangola.

Aggravated Assault Albert and Corner, Battery -Arthur Lutz, Frank Miles, also known as Frank Violation auto laws -Nelson E. Mvers, Wilkes Barre, Beers, Scranton; Kirvelatis, John John Brochock, Parsone; Tomko, Hazleton; William Rice, Ashley. Larceny and receiving Helen Joseph procha, Nanticoke; Elwood Hintze, Kaperainski, Sebastopol; Hughestown: Jennie Kamus, Wilkes- West Hazleton; Rose Clark, Barre. Assault and battery Joseph Scripski and John Driscoll, Hanand Anthony Scripeky, over Ashley, Township; Ellis Houseknicht. Luzerne, (two cases); Stephen Sawichak, Wilkes-Barre; Stanley Maloney, Matunas, Pringle; Joseph Laurel Run Borough.

Nuisance Francis E. Devlin, Edward Duffy, Shawanese; Wilkes-Barre; Estelle N. Benethum, Shawanese. Fraudulent check-Edward Gelb, Wilkes-Barre; Frank H. Bestorick, Fraudulent conversion--John J.

Kingston. We -Cord, Plymouth; Paul Victor, Glen Lyon. Fraudulent removal-William and Catherine Tracey, Nanticoke. Larceny by bailee-Carl Long, Wilkes-Barre. Receiving--Ralph C.

Mathewson, Exeter; Leon Polk, Hazleton. Robbery- Bohn, WilkesBarre, Defrauding boarding house Sheldon Reese, Kingston, (two counts). Involuntary manslaughter--Peter Belleteire, Conspiracy Roscoe Garramone, Hazleton; R. A. Hubler, West Pittston, and C.

B. Hughes, Philadelphia. Malicious mischief -Francis WarHanover Township. Attempt to abort with drugsHarry Piefer, Luzerne. Morals-Charles Friendy, Hazleton, (two counts): Rocco Aritz, Pittston; John Marinell, Hazleton, (two counts).

Recruiting Sergeants To Spend 12 Days Here Sergeants Edgar S. Vaughn and Dean C. Barnum, U. S. M.

of the Philadelphia Office of the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Service will visit Wilkes-Barre, from today to September 12 to interview and examine prospective applicants for enlistment in the United States Marine Corps. They will have temporary offices in the post office building and those interested in obtaining information relative to enlistment, educational advantages and general information, as well as those who wish to take the preliminary physical examination to enlistment, determine should their call on fitness the recruiting sergeants between 9 a.m. and 5 p. m.

Building and Plumbing Permits Issued by City City Building Inspector Edward Eyerman yesterday iseued seven building and plumbing permits for improvements which will cost $960. Permits were issued to Paul Zaroski, 37 Reno Lane, residing and repairs, $200; Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maceyka, 9 Frank Lane, residing, Orchard $250; George Stoner, 35 Street, two-story porch enclosure, $150; Harry Rutetein, rear of 86 $50; J. M.

Young, 66 High Street, Carey Avenue, raze frame garage. reroof, $175; Joseph Culkin, 69 Max- Mrs. well Street, residing, $100; Willard Meyers, 262 South Sherman Street, plumbing, $35. Turkey Spreads Education Ankara, Turkey (By Mail) (P)- Mobile circulating libraries on trucks have started a trek into Turkey's remote sections to carry the new Turkish gospel of elementary, education for all by means of tree books. Heads C.

E. Meet GILBERT CULP Christian Endeavor Societies of Northeastern District will hold conference at Y. W. C. A.

camp, Lake Ariel, September 9 to 11. Counties included are Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wayne, Pike, Columbia and Montour with total membership of 5,000. General committee includes Gilbert Culp, Forty Fort, president; Charles Lahr, Wyoming; Mrs. D. H.

Littlejohn, Scranton; Mrs. Clarence Thomas, Kingston; Harold Wardlow, Avoca. Among conference leaders will be Stanley Rinehard, Lemoyne; Jean Thomas, Biglerville; Margaret Burton, Pittsburgh; Rev, W. R. Stare Straw, Honesdale.

Rev. Paul Price, Matamoras, will be dean. Convention to Attract 150 Delegates From U. S. and Canada Coming to Rus- sian Aid Meeting More than 150 delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada will attend the 16th quadrennial convention of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Mutual Aid Society to be held in this city from September 11 to 17 inclusive.

Convention sessions will be held in Hotel Redington. The society is one of the oldest Russian fraternal organizations in this country and has branches in this Forge, city, Scranton, Hanover, Edwardsville, Old Mayfield and Simpson. St. Mary's Branch 10, one of four branches affiliated with Holy Resurrection Church, city, is host to the convention. The organization, which is made up of more than 250 brotherhoods in this country and Canada and has assets of more than $1,000,000, its national headquarters in the Russian Building, 84 East Market Street, city, where the society's weekly periodical, "Svit," is printed, The "Svit" is the oldest Russian newspaper printed in this country and at present is edited by Rev.

John J. Krashkevich, pastor of Holy Resurrection R. C. Church, North Main Street, city. Society has a a membership of more than 10,000 adults with a juvenile branch of more than First branch of the society was organized in this city in 1895 and was formed as an affiliate of the North Main Street church.

Organization of the first branch in this city 43 years ago was in charge of Archbishop Nicholas of New York and San Francisco and Archpriest Alexis Toth, then pastor of the North Main Street church. Society through its various branches aided greatly in the establishment of Russian Orthodox parishes and furtherance of Orthodoxy in thie country. Convention will be opened Sunday morning, September 11, when delegate attend a divine liturgy service in Holy Resurrection Church when His Eminence, Metropolitan Theophilus, head of the Orthodox Church in North America, has charge of the service. Business sessions will open in Hotel Redington on Monday morning, September 12, at 10. Dinner for delegates and gueste will be held in the Redington on Thursday night, September 15, when selections will be given by Wilkes-Barre Russian Orthodox Male Chorus, directed by Basil D.

Pelesh. Officers ROBBINS' INS' SHIRT SHOP SHIRTS Madras Materials Regularly $1.25 TIES 4 for $1 Regularly 55c PAJAMAS Fine Quality Regularly $2.00 price SILK TIES $1.00 Regularly 36 Public Square ON THE CORNER AT NORTH MAIN Branch Office Listings Asked Commerce Unit Spokesman Urges Rotary to Record Out of City Concerns William N. Reynolds, chairman of the Distributing Agencies Committee of Chamber of Commerce, addressed Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club at ite luncheon meeting yesterday and asked for the cooperation of Rotary and other organized community groups in preparing lists of out of town concerns which have opened branch offices here. Gordon Williams, chairman of the Crippled Children's Committee, asked for Rotarians' cooperation in aiding the success of the play to be sponsored by Kiwanis Club for the Crippled Children'e Fund. "Room Service," with the" Nuangola Players will be given at Coughlin High School in September.

Crippled Children's Transportation Committee for September be William N. Schang, L. J. VanLaeys and Aaron Weiss. Guests were introduced by Robert P.

Snow. Walter Johns presided. Special guests were Mayor Charles N. Loveland, City Councilmen William B. Hauser and Thomas A.

Toole and Capt. C. P. Hardy, who will succeed Major J. F.

C. Hyde as chief engineer in charge of the flood, control Hyde, project principal here. speaker, was introduced, by Col. Ernest G. Smith.

his talk will be found in another part of this newspaper. will be elected Friday, September 16. National officers of the society: President, Attorney Paul Dzwonchyk, Mayfield; vice president, John Ressetar, Minneapolis; secretary, Photius Bodasiuk, Scranton; treasurer. John Repa, Wilkes-Barre; supreme judge, Basil D. Pelesh, Wilkes-Barre; controllers, Onufry Thier, Edwardsville; George Bobalko, Edwardsville; John Horhutz, Mayfield; trustees, Rev.

John Kushwara, Yonkers; Rev. Joseph Dankevich, New Britain; Michael Rozdilski, Plains; Elias Telep, Mayfield; Michael Glowach, Plains; John Barna, Edwardsville; Stephen Bubenko, Baltimore; John Curik, Jersey City; spiritual adviser, Rev. John Adamiak of Jersey City. Nicholas Merowsky, president of St. Mary's Branch 10 and general chairman of the convention committee is assisted by this general committee: Michael Repa, Harry S.

Russin, Michael Rozdilski, John Swantko. Delegates from city branches will bliss Mrs. Jule Mary Repa, Michael Konstantinovich, A. Yeosock, Nicholas Merowsky, John Swantko, Walter Walko, Michael Bowanko and P. F.

Goobic. of the Edwardsville affiliated with St. John's R. O. Church, Edwardsville, will be Ignatz Seman, Cyril Morza, Wasil Barna, Theodore Kurilka, and John Berdy.

Enrolls at School CARLETON KEIBACH Registrar's office at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, has announced that Carleton T. Keibach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Keibach of 105 Simpson Street, has enrolled as a freshman.

Mr. Keibach is a graduate of the E. L. Meyers High School and will study the pre-medical school at Selinsgrove. Horner to Lead In Discussion 'What Are the Trends in Boys' Work to Be Topic at Sunday Night J.

M. Horner, boys' work secretary of Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C. will lead a panel discussion on Sunday evening, September 4, at 7, dealing with the subject, "What Are The Trends In Boys' Work?" On Wednesday morning, September 7, Mr.

Horner will addrese Eastern and Western chaptere of the Association of Boys' Work Secretaries on "The Plans of "the National Hour Glass." O. B. Anderson, physical director of Wilkes-Barre Y. M. C.

will be installed as the new preeident of the Northeast District Secretaries' Conference at a dinner meeting Tuesday, September 6. The service will be attended by all Y. M. C. A.

secretaries from the Northeast District of Pennsylvania. Other Wilkes-Barre secretaries attending the conference are O. B. Anderson, J. M.

Horner, F. M. Devendorf. Gambler in Poorhouse Philadelphia, Aug. 30 -Today police found the.

man they were geeking on an indictment for gambling. He was in the poorhouse. LAZARUS wyominG VALLEY'S FASTEST GROWING STORE Our August Coat Sale Ends Today! Don't Miss This Exciting Feature! The Coat with Separate Fur Bolero only $44 Green, Rust or Beige with Separate Lapin Bolero! Julliard and Botany fabrics in this new 1938 fashion! Sizes 12 to 20. Also featured in this sale are smart boxy or fitted styles, some with detachable capes yoke treatments fur sleeves. LAZARUS- -COAT SECTION-SECOND FLOOR Last Day---August Home Sales! Feature! Reg.

$29.95 9x12 Seamless AXMINSTER RUGS Deep, luxurious pile all wool and modern designs! Hurry, in conventional, hooked $24.95 day and save. LAZARUS- -LOWER FLOOR OF HOMETHINGS Swoyerville Hires Teachers Board Engages 3 Instructors, Musical Director; Elects Janitors Swoyerville School Board at a meeting last night granted contracts to three new teachers, elected janitors and janitreeses, a musical director, truant officers and awarded contracts for furnishing coal to the school district. Mary. Sabreski, Lydia Gordon and Catherine Dunn received contracts to teach in the Swoyerville schools at a salary of $1,000 a year. The resignations of Mrs.

Florence Spiegel Sibener. and Isabelle Sieminski were accepted by the board. Glen Alden Coal Company received a contract to furnish coal to the School District for the 1938-1939 school term at the following prices: Pea, buckwheat, rice, chestnut, $6.25. The following truant officers were appointed at a salary of $15 a month: George Mustapitch, Stanley Padloski, John Shalata, Joseph SalFrank Stofko. Janitors elected at a salary of $115 a month were Joseph Hazinki, Peter Lukatshko, Andrew Semanek, Michael Senal.

The following 16 janitresses will alternate eight each month and receive a salary of $30 a month: Mrs. Mary Blight, Mre. Catherine Burns, Mrs. Mary Kozak, Mary Gaber, Dorothy Reynolds, Pauline Ewanko, Cecelia Lavelle, Anna Hruboychak, Mrs. John Tibus, Mrs.

Mary Tomchak, Mrs. Johanna Urban, Pauline Samko, Helen Wienkoski, Mary Hilla, Lottie Kryslick, Susan Kundrat, Mary Calahan and Anna Ewanko were elected jaintresses at a salary of $35 month. John Salinsky was elected musical director for the 1938-1939 school term at a salary of $360 a year, Anthony Shakofeki was transfered from grades to high school instructor at a salary of 400 a year. Miss Margaret Gimber Dies; Ill for Week Miss Margaret Gimber, 25, of 358 North Washington Street, city, died of complications last night at 11:25 after a week's illness. She was born in Wilkes-Barre and attended the public schools here.

She was a member of the Young Women's Bible Class and Christ Lutheran Church. The deceased leaves her mother, Mrs. Clara Gimber; three sisters, Mrs. George Ogin of of of of of of of of Wilkes-Barre, Mrs. Corbin Ward of Dallas and Mrs.

Harry Dugan of Lake, and one brother, Carl Gimber of Kingston. AMUSEMENTS Davis's Letter Prize-Winner Heights Historian and Hiker Gets $10 From King Features William J. Davis, Heights historian and hiker, has received a check for $10 from King Features Syndicate, Incorporated, as the prize awarded by Elsie Robinson for the best letter the question, "Who Has it or Hardest Dad the Children?" Mr. Davis, father of five children, His prize-winning letter and picture asserted that Dad has it hardest. will appear in the Listen World column on Youth Page of the New York Journal on Sunday, September 4.

Davis received congratulatory lettere from Robinson, sent by air from California, and one from M. J. Forstadt, Daily Feature Editor. Mr. Davis expressed very modern ideas on raising children, one of them being that mischievousness in a child is merely misdirected energy and it needs only a little underetanding to direct that energy into the right channel.

"I would much prefere a mischievous child to a dull one," Mr. Davis asserted. Mr. Davis, who has won several other prizes in various letter-writing contesta, is perhaps most proud of hie hiking records. Less than a week ago he made a 42-mile hike from Wilkes-Barre to Effort, following the original Sullivan Trail, in less than 10 hours.

He is greatly interested in the "Susquehanna Trailers," local hiking club. He has been a lifelong resident of the Heighte, his present address being 48 Cueter Street. He was a teacher of gymnastics at the Y. M. C.

A. for a number of years. He was a founder of the John J. Casey Park in the Heights where he is still employed. His children are Martha, Gladys, Edward and John.

Ukrainian Youth Club Will Go to Pittsburgh Ukrainian Youth Club of WilkesBarre, a chartered club with a membership of 40, will attend the sixth annual Congress of the Ukrainian Youth's League of North America, of which it is a member, on September 3, 4, and 5 at Pittsburgh. Convention purposes are to better organize the Ukrainian Youth and discuss their national problems. An informal dance will be held Saturday night. Following mass on Sunday, a choral festival will be held with choruses representing Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York and WilkesBarre competing. Winning chorus will be air at 5:15 Monday night.

Following the festival, a formal dinner and dance will be held. U. Y. C. will be represented at the Congress by Myron Shpur and Stephanie Lawney, elected delegates.

Club will leave Friday night from the Ukrainian Hall, 833 North Washington Street. Ross Says Daughter Is Not Regular Employe Harrisburg, Aug. 30 -State Treasurer F. Clair Ross said today his daughter, Marilyn, 17, was "helping out in the clipping bureau and publicity of Treasury Department this eummer at "about $85 a month." Ross said she would return to private school in Harrisburg in two weeks. He asserted she was not a regular employe at the capitol.

At Sans Souci Bruno Kryger and his popular band which features polka and modern tunes will furnish the music tonight at the beautiful ballroom of Sans Soul Park. THE PRICE OF tiberty STERN PRICE was' paid for' this" liberty Which you enjoy A America. Your fathers bought it by fighting for it.) The price they paid was struggle, hardship," and even blood. 1 The price which you must pay if America is to remain a democracy and if liberty is to be passed on to generations of Americans yet unborn is unremitting watchfulness. 1 You are as an individual, to keep a constant personal watch on the actions and policies of those whom you have elected to govern You are unable, as an individual, to reach 1 the ear of government with criticism, approbation, or suggestions for official conduct but, in your newspaper, you have a representative who assumes the responsibility of civic watchfulness for you.

You have a voice to which all must listen. No candidate, no official, no political leader can long surviate ander the constant scrutiny of a free press unless he performs his trust with competence and with honesty. Freedom of the press is your greatest assurance that America shall remain free. The welfare of your newspapers is your welfare and the welfare of American freedom. This is the second of a series of twelve institutional advertisements CRI rived paper stitute William sponsored University.

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