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SECTION SECTION CITY NEWS WANT ADS FINANCIAL SPORTS II iP I. Ill II I I i I 1 w'8ir'-Tft1 II PAGE ELEVEN ROCHESTER. X. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY liMo 103D YEAR New Hands Hold Up School Flags SEERJ amid f7'f 'a 1 u.

30 oo SUBWAY LINE IN SPOTLIGHT AT CITY HALL 9" FOR BEAUTY hi 1 Si LrJLJiO 1 1 1 KlSfil3 5 itliei 3 'l1 lf'ilaWi An i 4 iiii'iaiii jiji a mm Hu BlSnVl New Contract Holds Fate of Service To Industry By EMMET X. O'BRIKX Tn the role of the railway's whip over the city, the subway last night exerted a decisive influence In negotiations for a new trolley contract. Aware that, refusal to come to i terms with New York State Railways by Mar, 15 might mean dis- continuance of the $12,000,000 un-! derground aystem, city councilmen will meet at 10:30 a. m. today to.

draft a program. Operation of the subway by contract with the rail way company Is tied into the ser- vice-at-cost pact and unless th main contract is renewed, the sub way will cease to operate, it was said. What this lack of service would BOARDtaS LEHMAN'S OK ON BOND BILL Meeting Called Off as Executive Takes Weekend Holiday Because Governor Lehman i oa a Washington's Birthday vacation, today's scheduled special meeting-of the Board of Supervisor has been adjourned. The board was to meet this morning at o'clock to authorize the disputed county bond issue. The Assembly passed th neceseaj-y Langenbacher bond ieu bill Tuesday and the Senate Wednesday.

But it developed yesterday that Governor Lehman left on his vacation without waiting for the bill to arrive for his signature. Througout yesterday County Attorney Marvin R. Dye and Charle J. Knapp, chairman of the Board of Suporvlsors, sought way to reach the governor by telephone. In iaie niter noon they admitted failure and turned their attention to notifying board members the next meeting will be the regular session Mar.

1. Both Mr, Dye and Mr. Knapp declared they held every faith thtf governor would sign the bill and pointed out that he left Albany immediately after the adjournment of the Senate Wednesday. Incinerator Projects On $300,000 Pioposal Is Studied by Morrison A part of Its tentative PWA largement of the present plant at the foot of Falls Street are ttf- geeted. Cost of handling rubbish could be cut 2S per cent under the plan.

It said. PARISH CARD PARTY St. Francln Xavier Parish will hold its monthly card party In th Parish Hall, Bay Street. Tuesday evening. Host and hostess will be Mr, and Mrs.

Joseph Ralf. Succumbs to Illness DENTISTS LOSE ALL TO THUGS ON AUTO TRIP Rochesterians Are Victims of Holdup Near Gary, M. Three Rochester dentists, homeward bound from a Chicago convention, Thursday lost to three bandits everything they had except the clothes they wore and their automobile. The victims are- Dr. William R.

J. Wallace, with offices in the Cutler Building, East Dr. Harold O. Brown. Cutler Buildimr.

and Dr. John Ranks, East Side Savings Bank Building. Doctor Wallace is a member of the Rochester Dental nisnensjirv staff snd nr the of General and Strong; Memorial Hospitals; Doctor Banks is a paist miles east of Gary, lnd after the ronOers 0w tk. rnttfi thn Rnfrin-itflr ns d. The bandits got $150 in money, A rf i Li.

ft ii ,4 I '1 RUDOLPH SPETH coat and lug- mean to industrial and commercial enterprises along the subway was troubling officials. For that reason. Councilman Julius R. Hoester-, ey (D) frankly admitted the! so-called Industrial Railway and Rapid Transit System is the only whip the company has over the I Massed flags nearly filled the huge Eastman Theater stage yesterday morning when high school pupils met for the annual transfer to new standard bearers. Here's a part of the stage Beaven Pleads for Thinking By Nation at Flag Transfer HENRY W.

CLUNE TOURISTS GO "Daylight was making," writes Theodore Roscoe, fiction writer, returned from a trip into jnuthfrn waters. "A lemon banner streamed along the sky, and grew. The mainland of Central America loomed off the bow in a series of sharp peaks, a vjn of mountains in blue silhouette. The peak3 grew with the liht in the cleansed, still air. A seaward island, green and tiny, stood like a gem on glass, and the bay was a lavender mirror fractured into ripples by the cutwater.

"The white ship moved close under a mountain with the blue flag of Honduras standing on her foremast and flying fish like fleets of miniature silver airplanes under her prow. The day abruptly flamed, i he water turning peacock and me. The foreshore of Honduras was a rice-white beach curv-ns as far as the eye could see, tenuous ribbon of sand backed 'v emerald palms behind which lifted flack on flank uf jungle-clad mountains, cliffs of dark green going up 10.000 feet. A golden heat, freighted with a thousand strange tropic perfumes, drifted across the water. Our port was a clutter of red roofs and pastel walls, houses bunched like a handful of confetti on the distant sand.

"Powder-blue herons flew along the beach, a couple of fishing schooners and a raft laden with green bananas came out to greet us, and indolent brown men in Spanish sombreros began to gather at the dock-head. Honduras at last; land of the banana and machete, the Spanish temper and furry Latin eye, Mayan ruins untroubled by the hunter's picA, gold mines buried still, jungles above the clouds yet un-explored. The Seven Cities of O.bol 1 might be behind those sky-capped walls, or the Fountain of Youth "Our passengers lined the rail and regarded the new shore. And as I was saying to Jack, the Wilmington Country Club should never have put him en the greens committee after such a Of course Hauptmann was guilty. The indictment wasn't, did he murder the child, hut was he accessory to the fact, see? And Wilentz Playing bridge in the lounge room last night.

Mrs. Starr is so nice, I didn't mind a hit being paired off with her, but I really think if the steward wanted to run a tournament, my 'iear, the way she was bidding I says to him at the time, huy motors and A. T. T. You wait, 1 says.

After the gold clause decision everything will go up, I says. You don't suppose the radio operator has yesterday's closings, do you? "A hand touched my arm. "A New York lawyer in flannels and tweed cap, his face swollen from last night's wassail at the ship's bar, his eyes fermented seeds under shrewd yellow lids. Ha pointed a manicured ,773 Tax Due On Jones Estate Son Is Willed Farm and Pittsford Residence Surrogate's Court yesterday en- tered an order determining the r-, a loin Lai.c i.QA via city. Fight on Kare Scale At the same time, it was authoritatively reported, the administration would turn thumbs down on the of fer of the company of five fares for 5 cents.

It was understood the administration was divided on what other stand to take. Some quarters are reported willing to abandon the six for 45 cent scale but anxious to retain the three for 25 cents rate. An- other faction desires to retain th? present scale until Jan. 1, 1936 i The dollar weekly pass, shoppers i pass and other rates are agreeable tn iitr artri nmran i counter proposal of the com-1 pany. in event the five for 45 is dropped, is said to be six for 50 cents.

It was considered the city could accept this lien of the three for 25 cents, even though the ratio is the same. Warning against powerful pre-, Rochester Standard Bearers" Asso-1 program, theity last night wa ent day instrument! of propaganda, elation of which Supreme Court considering jptpanslon of Its in-Rev. Albert W. Beaven, D.D.. preBl-i Justice William F.

Love was chosen cinerator facilities estimated to dent of Colgate-Rochester Divinity president. He was the June. 1895, 1 cost J3OO.0OO. School yesterday pleaded that the standard bearer for Whitney! Erection of a new plant on tna nation keep cool and do Ha own School 17. The election waa held east side of Genesee River and an- thumb at the houses along the shore, 'So that's Honduras, eh? That's what they get you up at 5 o'clock in the morning to see, the dumrheap of the world! After getting through a long and arduous fall and winter campaign of clambakes, dinners, banquets and suppers, without so much as a spatter of gravy on hia waistcoat or a drop of soup on his shirt front.

Mayor Stanton, at theCity-Country dinner in the Greece Baptist Church, the other night, had to go and spoil his perfect score by spilling a cup of tomato juice all over his best pants. The colors of Augustine B. Hone overcoat are as confusing as Mr. Hone's politics; now you think you can define em, and then you think you can't. Don Turner, Rochester boy, is a soloist and sax player with Hutley's highly entertaining band, now playing in the Hotel Statler, Buffalo.

George Teporcer, Red Wings ex-manager, is a dyed-in-the-wool track and field fan, and went all the way to New York to see the Milrose Games, a few weeks ago. He has seen all of the champions who have appeared in indoor track meets in recent years and is a walking encyclopedia on times and distances. Speaking of encyclopedias, did you know that Sears, Roebuck and Company owned the American rights of the Encyclopedia Britannica? On the day that Harry Hoffman, manager of the Hoffman Music Shops, signed up as local agent for a nationally known electric washing machine, Mr. Hoffman told the representative of the company, with whom he was dinning in the Seneca, that he would begin his sales campaign immediately. So he stopped the waiter who was serving him, gave him his newly learned sales talk, and left the restaurant with the waiter's signature on a sales contract and a down payment of $10T Burrill H.

Leffingwell of Normandy Avenue, who is a private secretary for a business executive in Reynolds Arcade, has the finest collection of old glass-ware in this section of the state. Paul T. Gascoigne of Sawyer Street, who travels for a local manufacturing company, has never been in New York City, although hie business journeys in the past three years have taken him to every other large city in the East and Middle West, Moreover, he has no desire to set foot on Manhattan. When they locked a drunk in the cell room of Police Headquarters the other day he gave off an indignant protest that could be heard to the: Four Corners. I here do they get this stuff." shouted.

Didn't; 1 vote a straight Re-; publican ticket last i ie Mi; F- RATION james feter, Kelly of Har vard Street, father of Senator Ceorge B. Kelly and four other Continued on Page Twelve Coal Dealers Back City License Plan Would Protect Public and Labor, Official Says Licensing 6f retail coal dealers by city ordinance was supported K. nanwer, Comment ntr on the nmnn.nl 7 wnicn may oe introduced as an ordinance at the next Citv Coun cil meeting, providing for an annual license fee of $150, Mr. Kaelber said it would protect the i at the annual luncheon for thei standard bearers at uhc Chamber of Commerce following the exer- cise. Must Find Own Method Prophesying "tremendous times" ror America, uocr.or Heaven pleaded this nation must flnd her own WRy out of difficulties without aping any other nation.

"Nothing could be more tragic Continued on Page Twelve Complicating the subway situa- president of the Seventh District tion, informed persons said, is the (Dental Society, and Doctor Brown fact none of the carriers is anx- I is a member of the Dental Dis-ious to operate It. It was the oniy pensary staff. part of the city transportation sys- The 'holdup took place about 8 DEATH TAKES SPETH, KODAK FISCAL CHIEF; Veteran Executive, 64, Aided Expansion Of Company Rudolph Speth, 64, treasurer of the Eastman Kodak Company and an Important figure in the growth of the company since he joined it in 1902, died of septicemia yestor- day afternoon in Strong Memorial 1 Hospital. He was in the hospital only three days but had been in ill health for some time. Mr.

Speth played a substantial, part in the expansion of the company that began in 1902 and carried the firm to the world-wide proportions of today. He was ac- tive in establishment of Kodak subsidiaries in foreign countries, acquisition of retail establishments in the United States, and organization of factories for the manufacture of miscellaneous photographic products in this country. Mr. Speth was born at Milten-berg. Bavaria.

Germany. After graduation from the University of Wurzburg he spent a year in an insurance business and several years in cotton importing. He came to the United Slates in 1892. Worked as Accountant From accounting work for two Chicago firms he went to the secretaryship of the American Copper, Brass Iron Works, and then into the accounting business of Price, Waterhouse Co. While an employe of that firm, in making an audit of a photographic house purchased by Kodak immediately thereafter, he met George Eastman.

Half a year later, after further contacts with Mr. Eastman in connection with stores under consideration for purchase, Mr. Speth joined the Kodak Company to do special work connected with the expansion program then getting Continued on Paice Twelve 2 Thieves Use Ruse To Loot Bake Shop One Knocks at Rear Door As Pal Rifles Till While his partner al traded at- tention to the back door. sneak tmt a rnal1 OI casn r- v' Mrs. Charles LcFevre of 300 MCrtaugnton street, wnoe ms- Panu run me Daaer.v.

was a.one In the store at the time. A man pounded on the rear door, ehe told pwlice, and when she went out ha i asked her if she knew anyone in the block. Answering "No" she returned to tfie front of the store, and found the cash register had been rifled. It Is believed the theives escaped in an automobile. Suspect in Stabbing Gives Not Guilty Flea; 'Walter Brown, 32, of 26'-4 Pros-; pect Street, charged with second- degree assault in the stabbing of Reginald Ward, 44.

of 50 Ed In-, burh street Thursday night pleaded not guilty in City Court; yesterday and his case was adjourned to Mar. 8. James Jones, 38, of 135 Main Street West, arrested with Brown, pleaded guilty; to public intoxication and drew a suspended sentence. Ward is in St. Mary's Hospital with back and neck wounds.

Tom Goodwin Escapes Injury in Auto Plunge; Goodwjn lrlsurance aKent, 169 Arnett Boulevard, is talking aij'JUl fu nyii a.v. v.i.j feeling fairly fortunate, that can. Mr. Goodwin, with Mrs. Goodwin, escaped uninjured when their car plunged down a 150-foot; embankment near Clarence Wed-; nesday.

GARDEN CMH TO FXKCT Spencerport Garden Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Ray Austin this afternoon to elect officers. Income Tax Data Told by Collector To acquaint i.t rtniiers wilh Federal incnme tax returns, TJi? Democrat and Chrnmclr will publish daily qucilions and an.tncs about these taxes, prepared by Revenue Collector (ieirre t. McGotxan Miir. 1 the deadline for your return.

Question Nn. 1 I am a single man, but I am required by circumstances to support a mother, father and two minor children. My salary is $1,200 a year. Must I file an income tax return? Answer As the Revenue Act of 1934 provides that all persona, other than married persons actually living with husband, or wife, having a net income of $1,000 or more, must file Income tax return, it is legally required that you file a tax return, even though no tax may be due from you under the circumstance as set out in your question. "om.

WR OI Aln m-. Qua ty liakerv, Jefferson Ave-trare of the m. had Pag' No been reported last night. Doctor Brown and his com pan-' ions left Chicago Thursday morn- after having attended the con- 1 vention Society, r.f the Chicaco Denial Twin Boys Arrive On Famous Birthday Dewey Avenue Parents Undecided on Names it will be some lime before either of" the GiUen twins starts chopping down cherry trees. They took the first step in the rignt airection yesterday, inuugn, nv m'juuc uorn un uiti un uiudy the "Ftrther of Our Country." They arrived shortly after 1 a.

m. at St. Mary's Hospital. Whettier their names will be "George" and "Washington" hasn't been decided yet by their parental, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank J. Gillen of A lfAnim Vfrwnital nil. thoritles eay both boys are dointj nr IJ Mini iiven I trr Hum i UieS in VnemuTlS J3n tern which showed a gross deficit j-a. ,1 inci no fcivtrn u.v the voters, according to one school i of thought, or by the legislature the city could 'operate the under- Hopeful of Program Administration leaders were hopeful lajjt night that the city would present a definite program after today's meeting. Mayor Charles Stanton said he anticipated a decision by the councilmen.

If city and railway officials come to terms before Monday night, an ordinance extending ttie contract can be introduced In Council ready f0r a vote Mar. 11. Otherwise, un der Council rules, if the ordinance Is presented Mar. 11 all councilmen must agree to let the matter go to a vote before action can be taken. The challenge of Republican Councilman Harold S.

W. MacFar-1 lin to the administration to Incor-: porate in the proposed trolley refer-: endum iron-clad clauses making municipal usinponairon Rystem pcit-auooniiiiK uicw eiuiuneu cum-I ment from Hoesterey yesterday, Hoesterey said he advanced the same idea last year after a study1 of the Toronto system of operation and tiat the provisions suggested by MacFarlin already are mcor- porated in the special state law re-; PBrrtmH miiniftinBl nivnamKin i Rochester "Furthermore." said Hoesterey. "the administration did not suggest! a referendum. That was done bv an inuiv.auai councilman, myseir. -4fc- I 't1?" of A uii'i2 rnTiMi vim.

1 St. Law- rence Universltv. has heen associate editor of HIM News, Week-' ly campus publication. Mr. Laugh-1 land is chairman of the Student Chapel Committee and a member ojfciua ruppa.

Dal i See Attorney mumr ivi rsssjs ki came to Roch- ester, he explained, to settle flnan- clal affairs with his attorney, Milo I. Tomanovich. who had lust nc- cessfully represented him in an i i YOU REMEMBER? thinking. He was addressing 3,000 boys and girls and citizens at the annual Washington's Birthday flag transfer ceremony of the Rochester pub lic schools In the Eastman Theater Seventy bovs of elementary and i high schools as retiring standard bears delivered the colons to 70 1 new setndard bearers. Yesterday's celebration also; marked the beginning of a new DO MAIN From was accorded son of Buffalo while Me is a the same Africa.

While Baptist Temple by Mr. Many will onlv yeterday, short space of To interest) helping vou to The same sure way to There Is of Lewis B. Jones at $10,777.83. Mr. executive secretary of the Roches-Jones, vicepresident of Eastman ter coai Merchants' Association.

A few hours before he was to gone to Monroe County Peni- and he ana.urov t-iace, junior at oenent organized labor. It will guarantee the purcHaser, the speciflc type of coal he orders anti him receiving honest W(, ht checking the irresponsi- dcaJe KJ 1 February 1 7th to February 20th, 1927, Rixhrster the honor of a visit by Prince Wilhelm, the second King Gustav of Sweden. He arrived here from on a very informal tour of this country. sportsman and a bi( game hunter, and had covered trails as George Eastman and Carl Aklry in here, Prince Wilhelm gave a lecture at the on his hunting experiences and was entertained Eastman. rcmenber the visit of the Prince.

It seems yet it actually happened eight years ago. A time! If you had started to save then and deposited each week, you would have saved a total of this, the bank would have added dividends (compound every six months, enlarging your total and reach your goal. opportunity is offered today. It is the one financial No Substitute for a Savings tuount. tentiary to serve a four months Banian.

nia At nriaiin if. Kmiln ai.rf PN.m,, fVuniv Jail after a heart attack. He was sentenced to prison for passing i a worthless S10 check which he I claimed was an error Smi, at Police Stories Of Intensive Hunt in Western New York Search for Missing Priest Ends Abruptly On Discovery He's Seeing Rochester Sights Found Sending Telegram To Allay Anxiety of Family in Buffalo tvuuoa uraiw, home in Clover Road, Pittsford.r- Aug. 25. last.

Resides his residence and farm In Pittsford, his estate consisted ota residence in Brighton, where his daughter, Mrs. Horace S. Thomas now resides, and various securities. Mr. Jones willed his farm and residence in Pittsford I I tn ann I i.

Robert Jones and ot equal value to his daughter. Mrs. Thomas. His yacht was given to his son-in-law, Horace S. Thomas.

The balance was divided equally between his son and daughter. BK.U.l.F. DOG Ht'NTKD Sui'y. 2-year old beagle dog miss ing since Monday, was the rjuwit U.U nitrht of Orald P. Fisher, 43 south Washington street.

The oisappesreu irvm tue numr Christopher Cobb, cousin of the owner who was boarding It temporarily, in Worchester Road, Greece. The dog, said to be a neighborhood pet, carries 1935 license tag 170,111. New U. R. President Marks 34th Birthday Alan Valentine, who will take over his duties as president of the University of Rochester In September, is 34 today.

He is two years younger than President Robert M. Hutchins of Chicago University, who on his appointment to that office six years ago, was called the "boy president." The new administrator will have the distinction of being the youngest president of any large university in the country. i If ROCHESTER SAVINGS BANK Offices Rev. Ladislaus Massalskl dined automobile negligence action. A 'ingPord hSmnr i nr-s 4 ning and heard with mild wonder out of which he paid his attorney.

nromDtlv as he had been under a distance iV San', cae sfnce ltTgust disappearance. i located him and said he had spent h. waa involved in an auto- Missing since Tuesday, when he about $58 in Rochester, I I ,,11 AlnLn sine, th, Xnl I eulDeMMvl Fath" that time he had not been attached ester, the slight, bespectacled Po-, Massalskl was asked by Detective t. an(1 had hPn v)ng, llsh priest, 40, was found In theiCapt. Anthony A.

Andrews; I h.f RurTalo New York Central Station at 5:15 1 "When you heard about the 'th h'S Buffa'-o'clock by Policeman Adelbert i search for vou todav, what did vou At the, request of Captain An-Northrup. 'do?" i draws, Buffalo relative motored Ignorant of the search instituted "Oh," said the priest, "I just Ro'er n'ht to take father for him here and in Buffalo by! smiled." home, relatives, Father Massalskl ex-! Wrote Telegram At the Invitation of the captain plained he had merely remained He was sending a wire to his he agreed to await the relatives In in a Rochester hotel to "see the sister, Miss S. R. Massalskl. 61 the Detective Bureau and ordered sights." Roslyn Street, Buffalo.

when a supper sent up. Police of Buffalo and Rochester Policeman Northrup identified, Throughout the day Detective directed a search that spread him through a furnish-d descrip- Edward Duffy of the Musmg Per-throughout Western New York'tlon and asked him to accompany i sons Bureau tiad directed a search yesterday afternoon. blm to the station. 1 of hotel and hospitals. Jo FRANKLIN ST.

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