Wilkes-Barre Times Leader from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Man Killed TRIANGLE WITNESS By HiuRun Car HOMES WITHOUT WATER AS HUGE MAIN BREAKS TT TAXPAYERS COUNSEL HITS COMMISSIONS PAID IN HANOVER Apparently the victim of a hit-and-run motorist, the body of Reeves Peters, about 40, a fir. man at.Buckwood Inn in the Poconos, was found lying on the Shawns Poeono road today about two miles from the inn. Ptr kul, police said, was crushed and hi body was badly bruised. An inquest will be held tonight by Justice of the Peace H. R.

Brewer of Delaware Water Gap. Peter leaves hi widow and. three children. IN HAiVER TOiSHIP J- s. I Voynet i nv IAD GAMS Oliver Claims Teachers Are Paid Above Legal Limit Treasurer Also Hundreds of homes located in more than half a dozen communities including the Heights, Newtown and.

South Wilkes-Barre sections of Wilkes-Barre were deprived of water today when a 24-inch main broke at a point below the lower Plymouth bridge under the Breslau flat lands. More than three million gallons of water gushed from the break and dug a deep crater in the flats before Scranton-Spring Brook Water Company employes succeeded in closing shut-off gates on both sides of the river. Market Stamps Way Employed on County Mine Schedule For Tomorrow Working order of th aver I coal companies for tomorrow ar mm foUewsi Glen Aldan All idle. Hudson Ail Kingston All id I. Lahigh Valley Dorranc ana Hazlaton No.

1 working. Pittston Ewen, No. 1, Under weed and Erie werking. Plymouth Rd Ash Working. Susquehanna No.

7 working. Through Opposition. Shorts Squeezed Net WALKER CASE FRAUGHTWjTH Gains 1 to 6 Points Roads, is Charge Attorney Hayden Oliver, counsel for -the Glen Alden Coal Company, today before By John L. Cooley Aioc iUd Fri rinuoial Writer.) New York, Aug. 8.

(IPy Stocks enough to cause suspension of operations. Communities without water from 3 o'clock this morning until noon included Breslau, Korn Krest, Askam, Lee Park, Ashley, Buttonwood, Hanover Green and certain sections of this city. Consumers on the Cause of the break has not yet been determined this afternoon as a corps of more than 10 water company employe under the direction of Superintendent Wayne- Lance, William P. Barnes and G. S.

Sawyer, company engineers, were repairing th break. It wa Ideated between th river and First avenue. crashed through to the highest prices since March today in a tidal wave oi buying that piled up a turnover of well over 6.000,000 shares, the largest volume In more 2 BOLIVIAN Breslau. Heights north of Grant street suffered considerable inconvenience. In some of these sections homes In the than a year.

Roosevelt's Political Fu-ture Rests on Decision, Political Observers Be Climbing crest after crest during Min Forced To Close. Maxwell colliery of the Glen Al. lowlands had partial service the frenzied advance of the morn lng and early afternoon, the mar throughout the morning. Other Reservoirs Tapped. The 24-inch main, with a 24- lieve den Coal Company at Ashley was forced to remain idle today because of the break while South Wilkes-Barre No.

5 colliery of th tame ket finally reacted under the heavy pounding of profit-taking traders, and extreme gains of $2 to $8 were hour pumping capacity of more than company reported difficulty but not (ruin Tarn To rag 8) sharply reduced by, the close. Led by railroads and cotton, which had hUtKii it DunrnniMM Albany, N. Aug-. 8 (flV-The an extreme rise or more than ii a Walker hearing, scheduled for Thursday, atood out far above all bale, commodities were generally LATG other matters on Governor Roosevelt program for this week as he buoyant. Bonds strengthened substantially.

All in all, it was a day of brilliant performance in the financial markets. Here's a new picture of Mr. Jessie M. Keith-Miller, Australian aviatrix, central figure in the sensational triangle murder trial at Miami, TU. She has defended staunchly her flying; partner, Captain W.

N. Lancaster, charged with murdering Hayden Clark, writer, who stole her affections from Lancaster. returned to his desk today after a NtWS Bears, badly singed throughout quiei isunaay at ai home in Hyde Th New York mayor' tat will Judge W. Valentine in a crowded court room made a bitter attack on the school directors of Hanover Township, declaring they were negligent in their duties and extravagant in the expenditure of tax funds. Today was th time fixed for closing arguments on the legal questions involved in the equity proceeding in which the Taxpayers' Association seek to hav the mtllage reduced from 111-to 9.i mlUs.

Attorney Oliver, In giving his conclusions on the facts revealed by testimony In recent hearings, said that th school directors were grossly excessive and extrawgant, and that the clerks, school teachers mdotheic employee ire ttaioTtoo much and that some of the positions are unnecessary. He made a bitter attack on Supervising Principal E. 8. Williams, declaring that Williams' testimony was Incredible, unworthy Of belief and he asked the court to eliminate ail the statements made by Mr. William from the lawsuit.

Says Salaries Too High Oliver said that a reduction In salaries is proper and essential as a good business proposition and that the salaries now paid In Hanover Township are higher than allowed under the Edmonds Act and the highest salaries paid In anv school me recovery movement of the past fortnight, appeared to be fighting rt rt i i the rise of stocks tooth and nail. oe wnoiiy in tne hands of th governor as th Democratic presidential nominee takes his seat in the executive chamber to hear the nrMui. mail viutvu rcatc rrus pects Fade-ftio Sends More Troops to "S20 Pflnln ing in the attempt to oust Walker on cnarges brought by Samuel Sea counsel for the Hofstadter committee investigating New York v-uy aiiairs. The rovernor hna the, rio-ht tn Money Is Not Lindy Ransom Albert, N. Aug.

8 P) Th manager of th local branch of the Bank of Nov Scotia, Where it wa reported that $95 the $50,000 ransom which Dr. J. F.J Condon paid to th supposed Lindbergh Baby kidnap-r had bn recsived, said this afternoon police war satisfied AS SHE TELLS Asuncion, Aug. Prospect for peace in the dis and their offerings, together with realizing sales began to check-mate the advance around the beginning ef-theHast- hour, with "the Tesult that prices in that period scaled downward from the early afternoon $1 to Gain. Held At their peak, it was estimated that market quotations of all listed Issues represented an appreciation of roughly ten billion dollars from the average June lows.

Final prices were well under the beat, but net gains nevertheless ranged from $1 to $6. Trading was relatively dull on the late reaction whereas the market earlier had been so active that quotations appeared on the high-speed tape as much as ten minutes after actual trans. uuci me neanng arter his own fashion, under th law, In judging the fitness of a public official he House Attacks Long De may receive or reject arguments pute between Paraguay and Bolivia over the Gran Chaeo appeared more remote today following the shoot- inff down nf Hnllvl 1 hearing or ref us to hear witnesses call witnesses on his own account. Political observers say that the Iayed Measures Tonight, 24 Hours Before Senate 0 LOVE over the Paraguayan lines on th frontier. The Plane was shot down as It wnoie matter of the witty and sar-torially perfect mayor's allesrert mis Meets conduct in office, as presented to the governor by the persistent.

district in Luzserne Countv. He probing Seabury after many months of investigation and hearings, carries a great political significance. By removing Walker from office. actions on the exchange floor. United States Bteel Common Aug.

8. (TV-Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller testified at the murder trial, of Captain W.

N. Lancaster today that she had become "completely disillusioned" and no longer loved Lancaster nor the memory of Haden Clarke, her writer fiance whom Lancaster is first took up the sinklnr fund re By Norman Gage (By SU Ctrnoondtnt.) Harrisburg, Aug. 8. (Penn was reconnoiter lng Paraguayan forts, SO miles east of Fort Chanar. In the middle of the swamp of Estero Patlnp.

The two Bolivian aviators were captured." As a result of the Incident the Associated Pre wa informed, tha Paraguayan government wa -pr-' paring to send a nw not to th quirements, and declared that the th bill wr not part of th ransom money. Wood Withdraivs From Net Match Rye, N. Aug. 8. Sidney B.

Wood, recant winner of th Sebright Bowl, withdraw from th atrn grass court tsnnis champlonihipt today, da-faulting in th first round to Liut. R. M. Watt, Jr, of Nw York. sylvania Legislators today were confronted with the issue of either directors put $99,000 in that fund and that it requires only $38,000.

He then discussed the right of appeal from the triennial' assessment accused of slaying. neutral Central and; South Ameri enacting new taxes or adjourning She said she is still very fond of and that while the school board did without affording relief for the can nation, and to the- United Lancaster, to whom she was once State's 1,150.000 jobless. not appeal, it put $15,000 In the budget to investigate the assess Washington, Aug. 8. () -Gratification at the "unmistakably better tone that now prevails in our Industries and marts of trade" was expressed today by Roy D.

Chapln as he was sworn In as secretary of Commerce. The Detroit automobile manufacturer took the oath as successor to Robert P. Lamont, who retired to re-enter private business. Lamont, who was present, told Chapln he was certain every American businessman approved President Hoover's selection. In reply, th new cabinet member said.

"Naturally, like every other American, I am gratified at the unmistakably better tone that now prevails in our industries and marts For six weeks the special session engaged, but that she has not loved him for two years. "Even if you have said you would die for Captain Lancaster?" State ment for an appeal that wa invalid has sought unsuccessfully to obtain relief money from economies and closed 12 cents higher at $41.62 against Its high of $44.37. Amerlt can Telephone's maximum rise of 16.25 was reduced to $2.25, the final price being $110.25. Santa Fe closed $6 higher at $46.62, up $6, whereas its extreme gain was $8. Allied Chemical, at $76.50, was $1.50 lower.

'Steel Drops Back Union Pacific rise of $7 was cut to $3, the last price being $66. United States Steel preferred, Saturday's star performer, was $3.75 lower at $83.25. Other final prices were: Case $50.25, up National Biscuit, $37.62, up Coca Cola $98, up Air Reduction $50, oft General Motors $15.62, up Dela (rieas nra To rag S) rrpr nr OrW Rio De Janeiro, Aug, 1 (0V-TB federal government pressed a steady stream of troop Into? its lines on the northern front today a th fifth week ot the Saa Paulo tney believe, Mr. Roosevelt would make friends in western and southern states which frown upon Tammany Hall. On the other hand, they point out, he would risk losing New York City votes by ousting the popular mayor, to whom Tammany ha clung during all the revelation; charges and counter charges brought out during th Seabury probe.

Prepare Sur-Rebuttal New York, Aug. 8-ff) Mayor Walker's sur-rebuttal, probably th last official word to be uttered before the public hearing Thursday to determine the mayor's fitness to retain office, was at th printer' this morning and wa expected to be released for publication In to Federal loans. Both have now been definitely eliminated as sources of Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne asked her. Natalie Keaton Immediate funds.

Economies have reoemon openea. General Francisco was attempt "Yes." "Would you lie for him?" She hurled back. "Weren't you a traitor to him. If yielded a scant $14,000,000 to restore abated appropriations to the Mothers Assistance fund, hospitals, homes and colleges, federal loans mg to oust me reoei irom th Parana territory and tha district around Jacareiinho, preparatory to a drive on Sao Paulo Itself. are dependent upon further legisla you have not loved him for two years, when you wrote him constantly of your love while he was on his western trip to get all the tive contributions to unemployment Gets A Divorce Los Angeles, Aug.

8. (P) Mrs. Natalie Talmadg Keaton obtained a divorce today from Joseph Franeia (Buster) Keaton, film comedian, after testifying that he neglected her. Th testimony was corroborated by her aister, Constance Talmadg Netcher, former film star. relief.

SURRENDERS ware A Hudson $63.25, up of trade. The House convening 24 hours China Heat Wave Kills 14 Soldiers" "Concerning the future trend I will not be so bold as to venture a prediction now, but one thing is morrow morning' papers. The sur-rebuttal is only four pages long, by far th shortest missile yet hurled in the mayor's documentary duel with Samuel Seabury, chief counsel of th Hofstadter' legislative committee which I ahead of the Senate, attacks the long avoided Issue tonight. Two new tax measures are scheduled for final action. The Black, (Fayette), flat one per cent income tax bill has been made a special order of busi money he could for you?" "You don't understand our situation" she answered.

Witness Weeps The Australian Aviatrix was recalled to the stand today after having testified last week as a court witness. The state charges Lancaster killed Clarke, a writer, after the latter had replaced him in Mrs. 10 SHERIFF i-xew iuiji central tu.DV, up fl.za; American Tobacco $78.60, off American Can $51.37 up General Electric $19.12, off 12 cents; Pennsylvania Railroad $14.75, up $1. Chicago wheat. New York rubber and sugar, and miscellaneous other markets made the day's rise virtually unanimous.

Santa Fe Railroad led the proces very certain; we must all exert ourselves to the utmost, striving to strengthen all favorable factors and to make the inevitable 'turn' come as soon and with as mucji security as possible. "The facilities of the Department gaiea we waixer administration. TREASURY RECEIPTS Washington, Aug. 8. (JPl Treas Shanghai, Aug.

I. (TV The tern-' perature at Hankow today reached 108 degree a the heat wave sweep lng Central China During an Inspection of the army -garrison at Hankow 14 soldier col lapsed and died of unstroke FARM SOLD ury receipts for August 5 were expenditures, balance $556,518,326.32. Cus The fox farm' of Thomas C. Tho sion In the carriers with a rise of Widow of Tobacco Heir of Commerce, designed solely to help business, should prove a potent instrument in aiding an advance along the upward road." man, spring Township. Snyder tom duties for 6 days of August were $4,036,292.03.

Keith-Miller's affections. Mrs. Kelth-MUler wept on the stand as she attempted to show Hawthorne how she could be very fond of Lancaster and still not be in Ifcve with him. county, was soiu last Week hv tha $8 to a price above $48. American Telephone made another long distance move of about $4 which county sheriff to Ira Lepley of Beav- ness for 9:30 o'clock.

The Memolo, (Lackawanna), State occupations tax measure ha a non-preferred position on the regular third reading calendar. Both bill have been advanced a emergency measures to finance the $12,000,000 direct relief included In the Talbot bill sent to the Senate last Tuesday. One would raise the money by a straight 1 per cent on all incomes of more than $2,000 a year. The other would apply the same tax rate to occupational valuations to be set by the Department of Revenue to yield an average of $2 to $3 on the Gives Self Up to North Carolina She had told Haden many times OSHIS pusnea me price to xiiz. Public Service of New Jersey, Consolidated Gav and North American rose $3 to $3, while in the Industrial there was a similar range of advances enown, tnat county, for $2,100.

Tho-man la In Columbia Co iaty Jail on an 18-year sentence for writing letter demanding $15,000 of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Magee, of Blooms-burg. He has served but two months.

before they were engaged she never expected to marry anyone, she continued, but she always felt that when Bill should be free from his wife England she would marry for U. 8, Steel Common, American- LET THE WOMEN SOLVE 1 GARBAGE RIDDLE! (Ctprrifkt. lttt. By Th To the Editor of Tha Time. HUGH PRICE ILL H.

F. Price, for manv vearn Wentworth, N. Aug. t.iV) Libby Holman Reynolds, missing torch singing widow ot the late Smith Reynold, surrendered to North Carolina authorities here at 2: B0 p. m.

today. Dressed in black and heavily Reverlv Hill. Anc JL 5 nected with Stegmaier Rrwine can, Allied Chemical, and American Tobacco J. I. case rallied more than $5.

In Demand General Motors turned over In enormous volume, adding more than $100,000,000 to the market value of Its 43,500,000 shares with a gain of better than $2. Automobile stocks, Turn To Vage 8) Company, is seriously HI at his home entire adult population. Other Bill In Reserve The Ways and Mean Committee holds measures to Impose a gross sales tax and levies on cigarettes, soft drinks and cosmetics. Members of the Wade-Sheffer rural bloc have prepared for introduction tonight a bill to permit counties to levy an I have been telling you for him. "Would Lancaster give you any money he had if you needed it?" "Yes." "Would he die for you?" "Yes." Clark Had Violent Temper "Lie for you?" "Bill doesn't lie." "Steal for you?" "He doesn't steal." ii9 trarK avenue.

Mr. Price Is suffering from complications, rtrnv. fears are expressed over his condi tion. year what these Republicans would do "with that market just in time to knock the poor inoffensive Democrats out of their, hard-earned rote in November. occupational tax.

This measure is similar to the Memolo bill but would Declaring that the question of garbage collection concerns women more than men, Mrs. Edward G. Kemmerer, ot 533 South Franklin street, today suggests to City Council several means of reducing the "Wouldn't be steal a chicken for allow county commissioners to de cide whether such a levy would be you?" The witness laughed. Now they are all just a buy ,1 i 113 il made and to establish their own Hawthorne referred to excerpts selves in stocks that haven't i from Lancaster' diary, when he shown a cent in increased earning power. That shows Glen Alden Payroll Here This Week Near Million Dollar Mark the thinir 1 Irimfo VnrVvA' The earnings should coma first veiled, Mrs.

Reynolds stepped out of a large limousine In front of the post office and surrendered to Sheriff L. M. Sheffield -ft Rockingham County. She wa accompanied by William Graves, on ot her attorneys, and her father, Alfred Holman, Cincinnati attorney. Warrant Served A few minutes later Benet Poll-koff, another of her attorneys, and Sheriff Sheffield went Into the hotel.

Pollkoff returned a moment later and announced the warrant had been" served. Graves came from th hotel and joined Polikoff and they left immediately tor the courthouse, presumably to confer with Judge A 14. Stack about a -w Pollkoff aid Mrs. Reynolds arrived at Reldsville at 1:30 p. m.

Asked where ahe had been in seclusion. Polikoff said: "I da not know from where cam to Reldsville, or, how she got there." While the two attorneys went to and then th raise in price of with garbage, seeking where they can get rid of it? They might land on Riverside Drive, 1aut they could not dump the stuff there, nor on River street. Union street, or Franklin street. How would It look In front of Kirby Memorial Health Center if one of. the women happened to fall and her basket or can ot rubbish landed in front of this finest building ot its kind in th world? How would business men ot Public Square and the central city like to have garbage left in front of their placet? Warn Official "Why should some hot-headed politicians push- this on to th women houlder instead of sitting down quietly and figuring the matter out in a plausable way? If this Is shoved on to th they deserve to be paid just a would any body le working for th I am warning city official that if an epidemic breaks out because of th way in which they hav left 4hla question, they will be responsible.

"I am talking for the women of Wilkes-Barre because hundreds hav phoned me to express these views. Every woman would be glad to cooperate In helping aolv this problem. Giv th women a chance and see If. they can't mak things asier for all" wrote of stealing chickens and rabbits with Clark for their table. "Yes, he would do that," she laughed.

Mrs. Keith-Miller testified Haden Clarke had a violent temper and frequently was in high rag at his mother and at Peggy Brown, a girl he brought to the house on several occasions. The Australian aviatrix wept on the stand as she told of losing her love for the memory of Clarke, "after I found out since hi death that he lied to me about many thing," ah aid. "His 'physical condition was incorrectly attributed to me," she stated. "I didn't object for I was passionately in love with him." During a recess ah rave way to schedules of occupational valuations.

Th Memolo bill on the basis of 1930 census statistic would mako about adult subject to the tarf but woUld actually tax only If exemption certificates were Issued to the estimated 1,150,000. (VI Vara Xo lg S) To Administer Remaley Estate, Florence and F. M. Newberry were named today to administer the estate ot F. B.

Remaley, late of New Columbus, who left property value! at $1200. CRASH AT HUNLOCK The automobile of Joseph Klem, of Warrior Ran and of Kenneth Morgan of Academy street, Plymouth, were damaged last night about 9: IS o'clock' to th extent of cost. "First and foremost," she asserted, "have the garbage gathered for the sake ot humanity. Second, eliminate entirely the gathering of all papers and odds and ends, as the paper can be burned or better still will be taken to th Salvation Army. Last but not least, cut the bid of $10,000 for the collection ot garbage in two by having In gathered only during the six months of warm weather.

In winter tlm jthe rubbish can be burned In stoves, heater and furnace." Man Not Concerned. "This Is a womans1 problem," continued Mrs. Kemmerer. "Women are better versed than men In the disposal of garbage a they have experience in 1l cat three meal a day but giv little or no attention to what la left Why should this question not be put up to the women, who are taxpayer aa well a the men? The matter just goes back to good housekeeping. But they are not taking the steps at City Hall.

"Hew would a pictur Ilk this be women, traipsing around town the -stock. 1 Like everything' that; It pre- mrranged, tta being kinder -y overdone As dumb aa ar we Snow we cant get pros. perons i But one good thing about It ill ia that it might have a lasting mult But don't for- get the original idea of it was i' tabeat' the poor old Itemo-" cratsj who never, did anybody any harm in their lives. Yours, Heralding the approach of pro, perlty in the anthracite Industry, notice? of th biggest pay roll In a year or more were posted by the Glen Alden Coal Company and bther companies her today, Distribution of the Glen Alden pay estimated close to the million dollar mark, wilt begin on Thursday of this week. The period covered'! for the last two weeks in July when everal ot th collieries the courthouse, Holmoa remained In the hotel with his daughter.

worked 11 shifts and the balance 9 to days. Pin Rldg colliery of th Hudson Coal Company will pay tomorrow afternoon for, thirteen shifts for th i two weeks. Pine Rldg worked twenty-three shifts during July. Delaware colliery of the company will also pay tomorrow for thirteen shift. It also worked twenty-three days uuring July.

Laflin colliery will also be" paid thirteen ahift tomorrow afternoon. Tin rag t) her emotions outside the court room upon reacning the courthouse. Grave and Polikoff went to th office of the clerk of the Superior Court to complete a peuttlon for a writ of habeas corpus which prob- and Lancaster, appearing highly perturbed, motioned to newspapermen to come to him. Whatever he planned to say was Interrupted by James M. Carson, Tan Xo lg 1 approximately 125 each when they amy wiu pe argued later this alter his aft' crashed near Hunlock's Creek.

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