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TELEPRONE YOUR WANT ADS TIMES LEADER, WILKES-BARRE, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1936 To 3-4141 Federal Posts Eliminated Here Decision and enchment Result in ing of Government rolls ve government employes ositions under the Luzerne Works Progress Administhis city and the Internal Department at Scranton ped from federal payrolls A personnel cut involved core employes of the distriet West Market street, same number of clerical was "furloughed" by the Revenue Department, them being Luzerne idents. WPA dismissals will be with exception of several transferred to Harrisburg quarters, the internal Floughs will be temporary furloughed employes were in the processing tax divine Revenue Department the Supreme Court out. AMA their jobs have not en sary. Within the next ten ver, most of these furmployes will be returned government service in the Income PA Force Is Cut Tux Department which will shortly be gin its annual rush of business. Reduction of personnel in the PA here is the result.

of orders from Harrisburg that retrenchment be carried out in every possible department. The eliminated positions were reported to be those earmarked recently when investigators from Harrisburg made a survey of WPA districts in the State. Villiam Cotter of Wyoming, head the processing tax department he internal revenue department, remain in charge with a skeleforce of four employes. Their esence is necessary because of ork yet to develop as a result of recent Supreme Court decision the AAA directing refund of prosing taxes. ope Pius Grants 1 Official Audiences Vatican City, Feb.

Pius ranted audiences today to three high officials, including the Superio ress General French Missionary Sisters Mary. Tomorrow, he will receive representativees of Roman colleges and schools in the annual ceremony of presentation of candles on the occasion of the Feast of Purification of the Virgin Mary. GEDDES WILL By the will of Mary S. Geddes. late of Kingston, she leaves $200 and a bedroom suite to daughter Agnes C.

Lloyd, a so a music cabinet. She leavers $100 to grandson Donald Geddes! $200 and another bedroom suite, rugs and family pictures to daughter Mary G. Cleaver; silverware and other articles to three daughters, and Sarah, and the reminderary her estate to daughter Sarah, who is named exercutrix. The estate is DAVIS, LAUREL RUN OFFICIAL, LOSES POST Court Rules Appointment of Councilman Was Not In Conformity With Statutes Declaring that the three councilmen of Laurel Run Borough were not vested with authority to elect David Davis as a councilman to succeed Charles Dukes, who resigned, Judge W. S.

McLean, in a decision today, directs judgment be entered for the Commonwealth against David, excluding him from holding or exercising the office of councilman. Judge McLean holds that the action of three councilmen, who there stituted were a three minority other of the members board- who did not attend the meeting was not conforming with the law. On August 5, 1935, Dukes tendered his resignation as a councilman and the three members of the board a who were present at the meeting, namely, Joseph Casterline, Joseph Frank, and James Brennan, elected Davis to fill the vacancy. They gave as a reason that Peter Kearney, William Brush and Thomas Davis, the other three councilmen had not attended meetings from May to September, and had therefore forfeited their rights serve councilmen. The court said that while the deliberate and concerted action of certain members of a borough council in absenting themselves from council meetings may subject them to penalty of removal from office in proper proceedings, it cannot validate any 1 business transacted at the meeting at which less than a quorum were present.

Heir Takes New Name; Church Loses $20,000 Tacoma, Feb. Rector Tiefel, 23, had a new name today and it cost the Christian Church of Grayson, $20,000. Tiefel, a student at Washington State College, appeared in court and changed his name to Nethercutt. By so doing he qualified to inherit the estate of the late George Nethercutt, an attorney who had said he had the same regard for the youth he would have had for a son. The lawyers' will named fel a principal heir if he would take the name of Nethercutt.

Had Tiefel declined, the bulk of the estate would have gone to the church. TRADE IN YOUR OLD RADIO, NOW. AT LANDAUS Get a New RCA Victor "Magic Brain" Radio with Magic Eye and Metal Tubes PRICES $19.95 to $600 Liberal Allowance On Your Old Radio -LANDAUS60 S. Main St. AFTER SPEEDING TRAIN'S FATAL PLUNGE A3 "It seemed that people were screaming crying everywhere about us," one of the men helped pull the three dead and thirty -two from the Sunbury, train wreck, said.

The in the foreground, the toppled baggage and MINERS CAUGHT IN ROCK FALLS; OTHERS INJURED Caught under a fall of rock at 6 o'clock last evening at the Schooley Shaft, Ewen Colliery, of the Pittston Company, Michael Grabowski, 54, of 51 Welsh street, Sebastopol, and Domnick Buscemi, 46, 229 Sharpe street, Wyoming, were injured. Joseph Gloshinski, aged 37, of 42 Hill street, Nanticoke, laborer at No. 7 mine of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, sustained injuries last work when caught under a rock fall. He was admitted to Nanticoke State Hospital. Struck by an automobile at 9:45 last night on River Road, near West Carey street, Edward Marko, 19, of 7 May street, Plainsville, a mason on WPA projects, was treated at Wilkes -Barre General Hospital for cuts and bruises.

Plains police reported that the driver of the car was Charles Ferraro, 63 Pine street, Pittston, who took the injured the hospital. Josephine Hungarter, 16, of 30 Rector street, suffered lacerations to the left leg last night at 9:30 when the sled on which she was coasting near her home collided parked automobile. She was treated Mercy Hospital. John 0'Brittious, 38 Coal street, Old Forge, received treatment in General hospital this morning at 3:45 for left hand lacerations received in a fall on North Washington street, city. He was taken to the institution by city police.

Stephen Search, 41, of 393 East Union street, Nanticoke, suffered lacerations of the face at 9:30 this morning when struck by a rock fall in No. 7 colliery of the Susquehanna Collieries Company. He was taken to the Nanticoke State hospital. GRANTED LETTERS Letters of administration have been granted to Agnes Zyzniewski, in the estate of Amelia Zyzniewski, late of Duryea, valued at $3,700, and to Elizabeth Harding in the estate Margaret Tredinick, late of Wilkes- -Barre, valued at $35. Young sturgeon have teeth; older ones do not.

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MAIN ST. DIAL 2-8181 WILKES-BARRE, PA. CHASKO FACES MURDER TRIAL NEXT MONDAY Accused by Commonwealth in Death of William Lane- -Victim Was Killed at Clambake Michael ChasKo, 38, of Hanover Township, will be placed on before a jury in Criminal Court Monday charged with murder. He is accused by the Commonwealth of fatally assaulting William Lane of Plymouth at a clambake held near Breslau, Hanover Township on Labor Day. The defendant was indicted on this murder charge with William Riley and Joseph Pacrokis, both of whom were granted separate trials and were convicted at the last term of court of second degree murder.

Monday will mark the opening of the February term of Criminal Court, which will consist of three weeks. The trial list and jurors on Monday will be in charge of Judge B. R. Jones and Judges W. A.

Valentine and W. S. McLean will assist WOOLWORTH'S OFFICE HERE TO CLOSE NEXT WEEK One week from today, according to expectations of F. W. Woolworth Company officials here, the WilkesBarre district office in the Miners National Bank Building will be permanently closed.

A skeleton force of about a dozen employes has been conducting business of the Wilkes- Barre district office since the majority of employes were transferred to other districts. Most of the furniture of the Wilkes- Barre district office which occupied an entire floor of the bank building has already been moved out or disposed. The Wilkes district office, bich employed no fuzz of executives and office employes, was located here since 1912. WESTERN MAN KILLS HIMSELF AT HAZLETON William D. Hamer, aged 55 years, of Indianapolis, who arrived Hazleton at 8:30 this morning, shot and killed himself in the bathroom in the home of his brother, Lewis Hamer.

He suffered from heart trouble, had sustained financial reverses and had recently closed his store at Indianapolis, according to the family. His widow and two sons Earthworms can be brought to the surface by knocking on a stake driven into the soil. Birds have a great variety of eye coloring: black, brown, blue, grey, green, orange, red and white. RECALLED FROM FURLOUGH Firemen and Trainmen of Delaware Hudson Railroad Firemen commencing with No. 86, Alex Dilello, and ending with No.

101, Robert Truman. Also Trainmen commencing with No. 259, Isaac Jones, and ending with No. 299, Joseph P. McCann, are recalled to service immediately.

M. F. CLUNE, Trainmaster and ger car, the twisted steel siding of the bridge in the who background testify to the body shattering jolt to injured which passengers were subjected when the speeddebris ing cars crashed through a broken rail as it appassen- proached the bridge over the Susquehanna river. 30 INJURED IN RAIL CRASH (Continued From Page One) Fulton of Muncy were improved this morning, the Mary Packer Hospital reported. The Williamsport- New York train hurtled from the bridge over the Susquehanna river, onto an abandoned canal bed, 30 feet below, Thursday midnight.

The railroad announced a broken rail caused the wreck. Two Interstate Commerce Commission inspectors came here today and conferred with Henry J. Rose, accident investigator for the State Public Service Commission, already on the scene. Rose said the two forces would cooperate in the investigation preliminary to examining witnesses, probably early next week. Giant derricks were already at work on the clearing up process, tugging and pulling at the battered, train service as soon as possible.

twisted cars, in an effort to restore Reading officials announced it will be a week or 10 days before they will be able to restore the single track paralleling Susquehanna Trail, torn up by the wreck. They estimated it will require even longer to rebuild two spans of the old curved bridge that were torn away as the locomotive and five cars leaped in a shower of sparks from the rails. Meanwhile, they said. Reading trains will be routed eastward over Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at Sunbury. Repair crews hurried completion of a spur line from the scene of the wreck.

OOPS! Tacoma, Hoss calls himself lucky. After all he got out of it with nothing more than a couple of broken legs. Alfred was pulling a load of groceries on a hand truck. He pulled into open elevator shaft and" dropped. 50 feet.

The truck came tumbling after but missed him by inches. For years Europeans believed the bird of paradise to be legless, because all the skins imported from the birds' native islands had no legs. The dealers cut the legs off before shipping. Irem Lecture By Journalist Jack Morrow, distinguished American author, editor, journalist and lecturer on Japan and Hawaii, will at 3 in Irem Temple auditorium at the weekly service sponsored by the Central Y. M.

C. A. Having spent 16 years in the Far East, Mr. Morrow is regarded as one of the leading authorities on conditions now existing in Pacific region. Miss Betty Pauling, soloist and violinist, will furnish special music, accompanied at the piano by her mother, Mrs.

W. J. Pauling. Kemmerer Heads Democratic Unit Jacob Kemmerer was re-elected president of the Fourteenth Ward, Sixth District, Young Democratic Club at a recent meeting. Other officers chosen were: Leo Ward, vice president; Richard Gill, recording secretary; George Morio, secretarytreasurer Tony Decker, Jacob Farber and Boskowoski, sergeants-at-arms.

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Alice Longworth Says: (Special To Time -Leader) Washington, D. February 1. -The President writes letter to the League of Women Voters, praising the Civil Service extravagantly, Reading this letyou would think Civil Service was cred to the President, and very close to his heart. At the same time the Atlantic Monthly carries an article by Mr. Lawrence Sullivan on "Our New Spoils tem." It is a shocking indictment of the Administration for.

its demoralization of the Civil Service. Mr. Sullivan tells how the Service has been shot to pieces under Mr. Farley's "Political Clearance" plan, setting Civil Service reform back thirty years. A logical conclusion is that the President and his political manager are on opposite sides of this great question.

Isn't it just too bad that they can't find some common ground? A new Deal officer is required to handle this situation. He might be called the Lord High tor, and his duties would be to coordinate statements and actions, keeping Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. shoulder to shoulder on important public questions. ALICE LONGWORTH.

(Copyright, 1936, By The McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) RODEO TO ENACT 'PONY EXPRESS' ACT AT ARMORY The rodeo coming to the 109th Armory this will settle down into surroundings a absolutely foreign to its own features and type. The show is entirely "Old West'-the audience and country about 4 is "New East." One of the rodeo acts 1s. the reenacting of the old "pony express," fastest mode of messenger and mail service in the old west. The sturdiest, speediest ponies were raced in the rough trails ming rivers, attacked by savages, red or white. A trip of the pony express was a hazardous journey, replete with thrills to the romantic mind, hut in efficiency highly uncertain and very slow when compared with modern methods of communication, where now the maZe of telephone and telegraph wires, radio, threads across the continent carrying messages with the speed of light.

Jury Will Visit Scene of Crime Salem, N. Feb. 1-(P)-The jury which has been asked to send Mrs. Marguerite Fox Dolbow and Norman Driscoll to the electric chair will visit the farmyard today where the two allegedly slew Mrs. Dolbrow's husband, Harry.

The comely widow and Driscoll, her alleged lover, were in their cells preparing for their appearance on the witness stand next week when the trial will resume after the weekend recess. The defense will open its case Monday. SLAIN MAN IS BURIED; HILL IN HOSPITAL Heffernan Funeral Services From Home of Sister Attacker Gets Medical Care of trial on One of the largest funerals held 'in Larksville for some time was held this morning for Lawrence Heffernan, former school director, victim of a murder last Wednesday afternoon. Rites took place this morning at 9 from the his ter, Mrs. Charles Dundan, 290 State street, Larksville.

The body was taken to St. Vincent's Church, where at 9:30 a requiem mass was celebrated Rev. George Jordon, Services were conducted at the grave by Rev. John Maher, Bess Foley sang appropriate hymns. There were number of floral tributes.

Casket bearers were: James Williams, M. J. Dwyer, Edward Flynn, Kielty, John Rowlands and William McGroarty. Interment was in St. Vincent's Cemetery.

Prison physicians today observed Ronald Hill, 31, Larksville Mountain chicken raiser, who is charged with the murder of Heffernan, who was a recent employe of the Luzerne County Commissioners. Heffernan was slain when Hill is alleged to have shot him twice with a shotgun and then clubbed him with the butt of a rifle. Hill is being held in the prison dispensary, where he was taken Thursday, following what keepers said was. a fall against the corner of his cell. He suffered a laceration on the top of the head.

NEA EARLY YIELDS FOR PRESIDENT'S FUND REPORTED Washington, Feb. -The receipts haven't been counted yet but plenty of dollars found their way Thursday night Into the Warm Some of the figures on attendance and receipts at birthday balls in honor of President Roosevelt Washington, 10,000 persons, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, 4,000 persons, about Boston Garden, Boston, 8,000 persons. Cleveland, 4,500 persons; Los Angeles, 12,000 persons, $5.060: Denver, 6,000 persons, Boulder, 79,090 pennies from school children; Santa Barbara, 1,300 persons, St. Louis, 5,000 persons, Miami, 2,000 persons, Indiana polis, 4,000 to 5,000 persons; Milwaukee, 15,000 persons; Madison, 10.000: Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Duluth, 500: Knoxville, Chattanooga, 4,000. BETHEL BAPTIST Sunday services will be as lows: 9:30.

prayer service: 10, preaching sermonette for the children: girls' choir will sing; 11:16, Sunday School; 6 p. preaching, Lord's Supper will be administered at conclusion of sermon. Only PHILCO has it. built-in AERIAL-TUNING SYSTEM that doubles Foreign Reception NEWEST 1936 MODELS A WEEK YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD MORRIS SQUARE DE IT IEWELER 70 SOUTH 00R STREET.