The Times Leader from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • Page 7

Seven WILKES-BARRE RECORD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1949 Sharman in V. S. Rubbish Load Doubles Within 3 Years A2 Inches Court Orders ness could not be held an excuse. Judge Sloane asked specifically that the District Attorney's Of- fno lnnlr littn rennrta tht delnhla hartenden haH Mtahitshli Wilkes-Barre's Bureau of Refuse family actually is only about on eluded In the computations. A Of Snow Falls lnqu lry a defense fund for Comber, and I sposal is handling almost twice 'Cfnt a week, records kept in the' separate record is kept that one of the jurors was mar- mhhi.h mm i Department of Streets and-Public; During 1946 the number of rub- ried to a bartender the mount of bish it did in improvemenU showed yesterday, jbish pickups for a week totalled The judge also ordered the ir-l1S4g yct the cott to th? cily Per Garbage collection is not in-1388.

L. 1947 the number Jumped of assault and battery or aggravated assault and battery. "These two crimes were constituent elements of the crime of muraer and Mr. (James) Comber was tried and acquitted of murder. He cannot pe arrested for assault and Walsh said.

"The law is well established on that point." The Jury returned Its findings last night, a few hours after Judge Joseph Sloane of Common Pleas Court charged: "I do not see how you can find a verdict of rest of a bartender who testified1 In 1948 pickups totalled he had served drinks to Comber P-i 1 Pnn If iji. 1 nnn I5-475 ww nd A Prosecutor Directed to Mercury Goes Below Pa viuuuiitinai vxiu uiiiia i average nas oeen Heaviest Louisville, Dec. 2 dav tompany-wide Contract and NMWn. and Madden, who he said Was noticeably intoxicated, the night of the brawl. Assistant District Attorney Americo V.

Cortese likewise criticized the verdict, saying Jurors Consider Rearrest of Man Freed in Murder saia today it plans to lay oil Employes Busy On Saturdays an extra truck is assigned to permit employes to quit on time. not guilty." Pittsburgh, Dec. 2 UP) A con- "PI 1,000 trainmen, i Under the lash of the judges inaa set tnemseives up as medical tract which ants a five-cent starting Monday. censure the Jurors wepi ana one ouwumics. hourly wa age increase for 10,000 General Manager R.

C. Parsons i rubbish collections increased dur- of them fainted and was carried! Several of the Jurywomen had ed Steelworkers In 24 CIO Unit. Dec. 2 UP). An indignant Judge-today ordered a sweeDinz investigation of an all- from the jury box.

Such a hubbub jsaia they Deiieved acute alcohol plants of the Continental Can aid tne layoffs wU1 necessary ing the last four years. It shows was signed today. because of plans of the United the number of pickups for each ik firet onntrani Min working day of the week: the first contract cover- Mine Workers to work onlv three ism was at least partly the cause ensued that bailiffs threatened to Comnany of Madden's death. It was ing ail uonunentai plants. a week.

The reduced coal clear the courtroom. The accused was 31-year-old James Comber, charged with beating and kicking to death Hubert E. Madden. 53. well-known club Shaving It Fine 'Sy agreemgnlS WerC nanJlea tonnage makes full freight train Schenectady, N.

(JP Metal The 'firm was not affected by unnecessary. Thur.y5' 1947 1,773 754 801 243 859 634 1948 1,420 1.092 834 398 940 780 1946 J.047 448 202 706 1949 1.914 1.1M 1.14.1 582 1,192 1.036 man and sales executive, last shavings so thin that they are the recent steel striKe. 'V? 'y Host of Northeastern Pennsylvania was blanketed by a heavy snowlall that at 8:30 last night, reached 4.2 inches, the heaviest storm of the season. The weather forecast said the temperature will be three to four degrees below normal today. The weather will be cold today, with some snow falling.

On Sunday it will be warmer with some rain or now. The weather wUl change to cold on Monday and will remain cold until Wednesday. Yesterday's heavy fall started shortly after 2 a.m. and continued heavy through the morning. The fall slackened during the after woman jury which he rebuked for acquitting a club bartender of a murder charge.

He also asked tu study of the possibility of rearresting the formerly accused man" on charges of assault and battery. The verdict, he asserted, was a "miscarriage of Justice." John Patrick Walsh, attorney for the acquitted bartender, said "it would be illegal" for the State to rearrest his client on charges rent can be produced March after an all-night drinking itransi on a Besides the raise the pact ln-," lms nl1 us. ramna irn minthlv nnlnn, In. SalU. I 1100 monthly pensions in- here.

eludes spree. machine developed 3.588 4,375 5.475 6,620 1 i oiais The device is the work of Dr. E. eluding social security, improve- F. Fullman of the General Elec-iments in the existing Insurance trie laboratories, and will produce plan and an increase in the shift onsburg, and In New The 1940 census made the first New York, Maryland, West Vir- complete inventory of the educa-einia.

Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Ten- tional status of the entire dodu- witnesses testified they saw tne defendant maul Madden. Defense counsel argued Comber was drunk that night.

But Judge Sloane instructed that drunken- a metal slice lsuu.uuutn or an differential inch thick. Continental has plants in Can-'nessee, Iowaexas andCalifornia. lation of the United States. noon until at times the sky was clear, in some areas the sun came out in the afternoon and the snow melted fast. i During the time of the snowfall.

7 i IP I the temperature hovered near freezing mark. Last night the tem- i 1 a a rw i perature was dropping. The CAA Communications Station at Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Air port at Avoca reported the depth oi the snow, and said the temperature was at 31 degrees and falling sieaauy. Workmen at the State Highway garage on the East End Boule vard said the temperature was at 28 decrees at 8:30. Meal Lealliea JJewell HBu Daughter of S.

Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Sharman Douglas, 22, is shown on her arrival at International During the storm the department used 150 men who operated plows and cinder trucks to clear slush from the highways. Sheer Luxury! Mary drey Nylons Airport, New York. Sharman, 1 When the snow started falling, the crews were called out and con tinued to cinder the highways. In spots where snow accumulated, plows were pressed into service who has been squired during the past year byjome of England's most eligible bachelors told reporters she isn't the least bit interested in any of them romantically.

(International) and the area cleared. Last night cindering was con Covered With Pure Aniline Dyed Leather T1.35 tinuing as spots on some highways were freezing, making driving hazardous. The antics of the elements In Exciting Shadow-Tones J-L ranged from an all-out snowfall to 1.05 Federal Water and Gas Dissolution Approved Wilmington. TW. 1 Iff) that measured six inches in Erie to fog-bearing drizzles in the southwestern portion of the State The snowfall was general in the nigner ana mosi nonneriy regions.

u. S. District Judge Paul -Leahy rr oi rennsyivama Pittsburgh and its environs en Mary Grey nylon hose all nylon from top to toe the choice of fashion-minded women! Proportioned in sizes for the small, medium and tall sizes 8Vj to 11. countered a bit of nearly every kind of weather. Sleet and snow flurries early in the morning gave way to rain which In turn became enow flurries again later in yriaay.

ShadowT onet oft Tan Beige today directed that an order be submitted approving the dissolution plan of Federal Water Gas Corporation, as- "fair and equitable." The plan had been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. It also has been upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. The plan provides for distribution of one-half share of Scranton Spring Brook Water Service Company for each full share of Federal Water.

Although approving the plan, Leahy said he found no evidence to support an SEC finding that C. T. Chenery, Federal's former presi 100 Wool Hon 11 Ooon9 MS- Taupe Black in rnuaoeipma it rainea sieaaiiy all day and citizens prepared for colder weather. The State Highway Department made the first general jise of its cinder and plow crews for the season as rain-soaked highways became glazed with a drop in temperature. The Weather Bureau in Pitts-bureh oromised clear skies and Wine Blue 7 JM Skating Hose dent, and certain other officers, warmer temperatures.

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But he indicated this could happen again if Americans refuse to obey the orders of his zonal border guard. Yelisarov replied to a protest by Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, U.

S. commandant, over the shooting of an Air Force staff sergeant, John E. Staff, of Ramsey, 111. Staff apparently had failed to heed a challenge at a Russian checkpoint. The Russian colonel expressed "sincere regrets," but made it plain he considered the shooting the American's own fault.

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In the job here. General Casey had succeeded Maj. Gen. J. C.

Me-haffey, a native of Lima, who retired November 30. General Casey, 51 years old and native of Brooklyn, was one of the handful of officers who escaped with Gen. Douglas MacArthur from Corregtdor at the time of the surrender of the Philippines in 1942 He said "it 4s difficult to leave the Corps of Engineers and the Army in which I have served for 34 years," but he added that the new job was "a field of broad public service and I feel I must accept" He said he received the offer ffom the Philadelphia Hot-nital only last week. Tex is a small, evergreen bush and blooms with beautiful cream white and rose tinted flowers. "Radio Tyme" A Christmas gift that gives him comfort and pleasure all year 'round Evans slippers! Genuine leather, hand turned soles and rubber heels easy-fitting opera style.

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