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ASBURY PARK, N. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933 PRICE THREE CENTS Asbur As Dust Storm Swept Kansas RRACE OPPOSES ELIMINATION OF ALL WAR PROFIT DECLARES II L0N 1 SHAPES POLICIES OE HUGE FORTUNE i John Houghton Succumbs; County's Probation Chief Kidney Ailment Fatal to Long Branch Man Who Served as City's First Judge Active in M. E. Church. 5 "4f; i 1 hi This unusual photograph shows an automobile racing near Scott City, to escape one of the dust storms which swept the West, sucking up thousands of tons of rich topsoil and damaging farm lands.

Moving at 56 miles an hour, the pall blotted out daylight and left heavy films of grime over wide areas in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. A moment after this photograph was taken, Scott City was enveloped in murky semi-darkness. (Associated Press Photo). Bank-Borrower Cooperation Is Urged by Jones, RFC Head Rapidity of Repayment of Loans Gives Federal Agency a Problem, Chairman Tells National Educators at Atlantic City Convention. Banker's Secretary Tells Tax Board Multi Millionaire Personally Supervises Financial Affairs.

U. S. RENEWS EFFORT TO COLLECT THREE MILLIONS PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25. Andrew W.

Mellon personally shapes the policies and guides the destinies of the great Mellon fortune, the banker's sec-rctarj-, Howard M. Johnson, told the board of tax appeals today. Called as a witness for the fourth day at Melion's $3,000,000 income tax inquiry, the gray-haired former bookkeeper, who has drawn up the financier's income tax returns for 20 years, was asked by Government Counsel Robert H. Jackson: "Were sales or purchases made on your part without consultation with Mr. Mellon?" Johnson answered: "An individual sale might have been made but it always was in line with the policies set by Mr.

Mellon." "Then Mr. Mellon made these policies entirely of his own accord?" queried the "Correct" was the witness' firm answer. Attorney Jackson asked Johnson if Mellon always was in close touch with his financial situation, and the secretary said: "Ke always was actually in charge, with the qualification that while he was in Washington he did not have the 1 same close touch." I Jackson's cross-examination brought from Johnson the disclosure that he received from the former secretary of treasury an annual salary of $15,400 since 1930, besides director's fees for companies he served. The government's questioning was an apparent attempt to establish that Mellon himself was responsible for the conduct of his huge businesses. The government charges the financier filed a fraudulent Income return in 1931, and claims he now owes $3,089,000 but Mellon contends the government owes him $139,000 for overpaid taxes.

The board of appeals' hearing went Into its. second week today. Desperado Flees With Boy Hostages Raymond Hamilton Escapes Police Ambush, Kidnaps Three Youths. MCKINNEY, Texas. Feb.

25. (A') Raymond Hamilton, elusive desperado who narrowly escaped death in a police ambush near here last night, was reported fleeing west today with three abducted farm boys after spending part of the night at a farm house three miles west of Celina. The three captives were said by officers to be J. C. Loftice, 16; Buster Mayes and J.

C. Harlow. Hamilton's compan'en gunfight, and still with not definitely identified they thought he was hoodlum. in Sunday's today, was police said cjt Dallas Hamilton was reported wounded hi the jaw irom the barrage laid down by ambushing officers Sunday. Search thru the night for the killer who fled the Texas prison dcathhouse last summer and a month ago escaped from another trap in Dallas was unavailing.

This morning officers learned that after abandoning the bullet riddled car near Weston, Hamilton and his companion had held up Loftice, and driven away in his roadster to the farm of Bill Mayes, three miles west of Cellna, a town 18 miles northwest of McKinney. At dawn they left, taking with them Mayes, son of the farmer, Harlow and Loftice. BARBOUR, MOORE TO DINE WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (JPy Both of New Jersey's senators, W. Warren Barbour and A.

Harry Moore, are to attend the annual dinner of the Lafayette Reformed Church club in Jersey City tomorrow night. They are scheduled to bo the principal speakers at the function. The two senators will be together again on Wednesday night, February 27. at a dinner to be given here by Barbour, the senior senator, for the entire New Jersey congressional delegation. A similar dinner was given by Barbour last session and now takes on the aspect of an annual affair.

Late News (Staff Corrcpondfnt) LONG BRANCH, Feb. 25. John H. Houghton, chief probation officer of Monmouth county since 1915 and Long Branch's first police judge under the city charter, died yesterday morning in Monmouth Memorial hospital. He was 70.

Mr, Houghton was removed to the hof.pital from his home at 87 Washington street early in January. He had been suffering from a kidney ailment and for a while his condition was not regarded serious. Three weeks ago he began to fail. He died shortly after 5 a. in.

Born here May 24. 1858, the son of the late George W. Houghton, leading florist of the north Jersey shore, Mr. Houghton was educated in local schools and then went into business with his father. He then became affiliated with the L.

and D. Edwards Lumber company and was superintendent of 1U mill for 20 years. After the company went out of business in 1909, he became superintendent of carpentry at the New Jersey Reformatory at Rahway. Mr. Houghton remained at Railway until 1915 when he was appointed Monmouth county probation ofllcer by John W.

Slocum, Long Branch, then common pleas judge. He was an active church worker, having served at one time as preacher in the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal conference. Director of M. E. Home Mr.

Houghton was also secretary of the Long Branch Y. M. A. for four years; a ilireetor of the Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged, Ocean Grove; president of the board of trustees of St. Luke's M.

E. church here, and vice president "of the church's official board. He also served as assistant superintendent of its Sunday school. He was LOCAL STORE IS Green Brothers' Establishment Blaze Spreads Smoke Over West Side. DEFECTIVE LAMP CORD IS BLAMED FOR $4,000 LOSS A defective lamp cord, firemen believe, was responsible last night for a fire which damaged the rear of Gren Brothers department store, 925 Spring -wood avenue, this city, causing a og $4,000.

Discovered by employes of the store, which was open yesterday, the blaza filled the four story building with smoke which spread over a considerable portion of the city's west side. Firemen (battled the flames for two hours. The building is owned by Nancy Fcmlumo, New York city. The fire was discovered after it had spread thru some shelving in the back of the store. Headquarters companies, responding to the alarm, found it difficult to locate the source of the flames as the store was quickly filled with smoke.

Five lines of hose were utilized as the flumes made their way upward thru the cast partition of the store. The blaze was confined to the back of building, tho the rfont of the store was damaged by smoke and water. A tap room next door to the building was slightly damaged by water as were rooms in the upper floors of the structure. The second floor of the property operated as the Plantation restaurant. The other floors are used as a rooming house.

The building Is covered by Insurance. LOCAL YOUTH IS REPORTED MISSING Joseph Jcflers. 13, colored, has been reported missing from his home, 21 Borden avenue, since 5.30 p. m. Saturday.

When last seen he was wearing knickerbockers and a brown overcoat He is five feet tall and weighs 100 pounds. His description was broadcast over the state police teletype system. AUTOS CRASH IN NEPTUNE Cars driven by Russell Edelman, 1217 Sixth avenue, Neptune, fend Miss Velma Keith, 17, of 210 Fiftli avenue, Avon, were In collision yesterday at Stokes and Sixth avenues, Neptune. Police said both cars were proceeding south on Stokes avenue when Edelman, in the lead, turned left into Sixth avenue. Neither driver was hurt in the crash that followed, Officer Lester Gra-vatt reported.

OAIAGED BY FIRE I DEATHJN WEST Four Women Killed and 130 Injured as Blizzards and Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Over Wide Area. I TORNADO DAMAGE ALONE i ESTIMATED AT $200,000 KANSAS CITY, Feb. 25. HP Blizzards, tornadoes and dust storms a strange weather mixture marked their passage with death In the Mid West to-day. Four persons were killed and mors than 130 injured by storms which struck between the Mississippi and the Rockies.

Tornadoes ripped over a narrow triangular course from Wichita, to Commerce, and Joplin, last night. leaving damage estimated unofficially at more than $200,000. Mrs. Ellen Teague, 69, was killed in a tornado which swept the mining communities of Commerce and Douthat. Okla.

Ruby Reifl. 16. Ordwar, died with the overturning of her motor car in a highway sand drift. Two women were killed in Chicago traffic accidents attributed to a wet. blinding soow.

Dust. snow, sleet and sented a baffling hodgepodge over west ern tiansas, eastern Colorado and the Panhandle country as a norther pushed rapidly toward the Texas gulf coast. Trains, buses and motor cars wer delayed by the heavy veil of dust. Planes were grounded. Temperatures-springlike for a week in much of the area fell toward zero.

Snow Drifts Mount Forecasters predicted one of the worst I pnAW ctnme nt auisn ovuiiuo ui mc wuuer ior normern and central Illinois. Highway maintenance crews worked thnmiii- tho nirh 4., Iowa, righting steadily growing drifts. coioraao, Wyoming and South-Central sections of Nebraska renorted bet wppn six and eight inches of snow. Three inches of sleet covered the ground in northwest Missouri. Motorists driving from Belleville, to St.

Joseph, reported they encountered successively a blinding dust storm, a blizzard, sleet and rain. Funnel shaped tornadoes which moved with express train speeds, carrying away homes and buildings, struck Wichita, Independence, and Baxter Springs, in Kansas; Joplin and Webb City, in Missouri and Commerce, North Century, and Douthat in Oklahoma. Twenty-one houses were wrecked at Independence, and property damage was estimated at $100,000. At Joplin, a tornado cut a swath about 100 feet wide and three blocks long thru a residential district. Nineteen persons injured in the Oklahoma communities were b.Hng treated at a Picher, Okla.

hospital. Stockmen in the plains states feared for their sheep and cattle as njar zero 1 temperatures followed the snow. The northwest gale which reached an estimated 40-mile-an-hour velocity and lashed southern California during the past 48 hours appeared to be abating. The windstorm was accompanied by temperatures as low as 30 degrees in the lowlands, but wind prevented formation of frost in the citrus belt. ELKS OPEN HOME-TO PUBLIC EVENTS Inaugurating a new program, Asbury Park lodge, 128.

B. P. O. E. announced today the Elks' building.

Cookman avenue and Heck street, is available for public functions. The members of the club will endeavor to have the building recognized as a civic center. The modern four story building hai two floor available for banquets, dances, card parties, public meetings and entertainments. Each floor has a seating capacity of from 300 to 500. The Palm garden on the third floor, provided with modern lighting equipment and an organ, is considered one of the most attractive halls in the state.

Elks pointed out. The building, centrally located, is surrounded by ample parking facilities and is equipped with elevator service. It also has a number of smaller rooms for private meetings. March 9 th; lodge will act as host to employes of the Seaboard Ice company at a dinner-dance. Several other functions have already been held under the new open house plan.

SCHUSCHN1GG IN LONDON Austrian Chancelor, Foreign Minister Confer with British Diplomats. LONDON. Feb. 25. (VP) What ars i probably the most delicate and still the least important international diplomatic exchanges in London in several years began today as Kurt Schuschnigg, chancelor of Austria, and his foreign minister, Egon Bergerwaldenegg, made their rounds of British government offices.

The British cabinet held a special session after the Austrians had a half-hour conversation with Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, and had met Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin, lord president of the council GIRL RUSHED TO HOSPITAL POINT PLEASANT BORO, Feb. 25. Violet Morton. 10-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Williai.i Morion, John-sen avenue, was removed to Btach Boros hospital by the local first aid squad early yesterday. She was ordered to tlie ir.stKution by Dr. Harry J. Ivory, who found here miTering from pneumonia.

Squad member? administered oxygen to the child un the run from her home to the hospital, where she was placed in an oxygen tent. Her coidition was reported as Permanents guaranteed. $3.50. Cro-quignole ends, $3. Frederic's combination $5 up.

BeUv Tavlor, 603 Fifth, Bradley Beach. Phone 5812, adv47 Every Tuesday, each item 25c. Elki5 Beauty Salon, 3J8 Cookman. Phone 8ti23. advm SNOW SPREAD RUIN AND Bethlehem Ship Building Head; Says Government Operation Would Be Inefficient Hits 100 Percent Tax.

MANPOWER AND MONEY DIFFER, HE DECLARES WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Opposition to elimination of all wartime profit was expressed to the senate munitions committee today by Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Ship Building company. The noted ship builder and steel maker dcrlared there was a "diflerence" between drafting manpower and capital.

would not get anything like effective production under government ownership," he told the committer. "I don't believe the government would get as good results as private operation." "Do you see why a skilled mechanic should be drafted and capiial left to operate at a profit." Sen. Bennett Champ Clark tD Mo.) asked. "What is the difference between capital and man power?" "There Is a difference," Grace responded. "Would you favor or oppose a 100 percent tax on proflt.s in w.ir time" asked Chairman Gerald P.

Nye N. "Let me answer In the reverse," Glare answered. "I would be pleased If we no longer made any kind of war equipment. I would like to see the relations among nations such that no would spend a dollar in preparation for war. I think, however, we should be fairly compensated for use of invested private capital." "You would oppose a 100 percent profits tax then?" Nye pressed.

"Yes," Grace said, "I would." "You would consider it excessive?" "Yes." "Would It bankrupt the ompany?" Nye continued. "The company couldn't operate. It would ruin It," Grace replied. "Wouldn't it ruin a man to be called from his job to work for S1.2.'i a day and perhaps lose his life?" Claris asked. Again the there was a "difference." "Why should there be a difference In dealing with life and with property?" The shipbuilder did not Grace said he had "very great doubt" that government operation of industry would be efficient.

"Suppose an officer walked into your plant and told you you were drafted," Senator Clark asked, "and nc rold you the trains were still running out. to lieavcnworth (penitentiary), what would you do?" "I would do the very best I could," Grace replied. Local Groups Meet On Finance Tangle Cather at Hoard of Trade to Discuss Ruling by Perskic. Sixteen persons representing nine local organizations met today at the Board of Trade headquarters to discuss the city's financial problem. Chief topic of discussion was the statement made Saturday by Supreme Court Justice Joseph B.

Perskic that he would place the city under control of the state finance commission at the first overt act by city officials tending to Jeopardize holders of municipal bonds. The group considered means by which to prevent the city council from making a move that might be considered detrimental to bondholders. The exact nature or conclu.ilcn of the discussion was not revealed. Those present and the organization represented were: MiUord G. Farley and Orvllle Winterstella, Civic League of Asbury Park; Mrs.

Harriet Crook and Mrs. Grace Tallman, Women's Civic club; Irving Frnncis and Howard Hulick, Klwanls club; Dr. W. F. Jamison and Jack Rale, Lions club; Harry Smock, Earlc O.

Bennett, Chester B. Opdyke and Edwin J. MacEwin, Board of Trade; Harry Welsford, American Legion; Clarence Chamberlain, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Dr. Joseph H. Bryan, Citizens' and Taxpayers' association.

EARTHQUAKES KILL TWO LONDON, Feb. 25. P) Two persons were killed and five injured as a result of earthquakes early today in outlying districts of Candia and Cret There was also considerable property damage, according to reports from Athens. Dispatches from Athens said a severe tremor was felt in Candia and Crete at 5 a. m.

(10 p. m. E. S. T).

And that the disturbance was accompanied by unusual darkness. The Press Today SPECIAL FEATURES Answers to Questions Pg. Comics Pg. 10 Editorials Vg. 8 Haskin Letter Pg.

8 Hollywood Notes 11 O. O. Mclntyre PK. 9 Montana Rides Again Pg. 5 National Whirligig 9 Produce Market Pg.

2 Radio Program Pg. 7 Social News Pg. 4 Sports Pg. 12 Wall Street Trend Tg. 2 Weather Record Pg.

3 Woman's Page pg. 11 All cats and dogs collecicd. Call Jack Kendrick, Asbury Park 2843- adv47 I ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 25. (A) A pica that banks be more considerate of prospective borrowers and that borrowers invest and "take a reasonable risk" in the interest of permanent recovery was made today by Jesse H.

Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction finance corporation. Addressing the department of the National Education association, Jones said great progress had been made toward recovery but that the rapidity of re-payment of loans was giving his agency a problem. "Unfortunately but perhaps naturally," he added, "debt liquidation has continued right thru the depression. Loans in banks in the aggregate are less today than they have been at any time for the last several years. This is accounted for in part by a desire and often determination on the part of people to get out of debt.

"Some banks and many other creditors have been entirely too severe in their demands upon their debtor. Others have been helpful but even in those instances, the person who has been in debt has for one reason or another been anxious to get out of debt. "The time has come, if we are to have lasting recovery, when banks must be more considerate in their attitude toward prospective borrowers, and those who are able should borrow and invest and take a reasonable risk, all with faith in their country and their money." Asserting that there was a disposition on the part of some to hold bad: on the ground that they do not know what to expect from the government, Chairman Jones added: "To my way of thinking this is short- Ritzau Fined SI 50 As Liquor Violator Shrewsbury Township! Committeeman Pays Levy, Plans Appeal. (Staft Corrcpondenti FREEHOLD, Feb. 25.

Committeeman Herman Ritzau, Shrewsbury township, was fined $150 by Judge Harry Truax today for his conviction a week ago in violating the state alcoholic beverage act. Ritiu paid his own fine, altho there was a whispered discussion between the jurist and Ritzau's counsel regarding an appeal that the township official plans to make. Judge Truax ruled however, that the fine must be paid even if an appeal is taken. Four other men were convicted with Ritzau but their sentences have been postponed. They are John Bruno, David Daly and A.

George Cook, Red Bank, and Joseph Ziegler, Rumson. Ritzau. with the others, was found guilty under five indictments by a Jury that deliberated only 25 minutes. He could have received a fine or jail sentence under all or any one of them. The fine could have been between -100 and $500 and the jail sentence, 30 to six months.

mm mm i rm JESSE H. JONES sighted and unsound. Their government is our government and government will be forced to provide work on relief to the extent that private enterprise fails." Jones cited that 63 percent of the $4,020,000,000 actually loaned by the RFC had been repaid and said such loans were made largely on collateral that banks would not accept. Tnins Found After All-Night Search CArl and Bo Tracked thru Swamp Near Haiti-more Pike. WASHINGTON.

Feb. 25. iJj The eight year old twins, John and Margaret Miller, who were the objects of a frenzied all night search after thev disappeared yesterday in Indian Cn.ek swamp in nearby Maryland, were found early today on the Baltimore-Washington pike by a Maryland county policeman. G. C.

Johnson, chief of police at Branchvllle, Maryland, said one group of searchers reported it had followed footprints of the two children all the way across the swamp. Before the children had been found, their mother was in a state of near collapse. MINOR ALTO CRASH HERE No one was injured and little damage resulted In a collision yesterday at Atkins end Springwood avenues between automobiles driven by Charles Clayton, 26 North Main street. Mana-squan, and Thomas Martin, 1826 Mc-Bride avenue, Neptune. No complaint was made.

"I did not ask for a job to keep my mouth shut," he went on "and I am going to tell the public what is going on." charged that Bischoff and Strick- land were inefficient and that tlie "city i manager kept councilman againn i councilman because he did not want i harmony." He declared that Bischoff iand Strickland as well as Harry Voicii beach director, should resign "or ins councilman, for the benefit of the tax payers, should get rid of them at once." "I still think that the city manager law is the best form of government provided you have the right men in office." he declared. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! 20 prizes; bargains galore. "Bangs Ave. Wednesday" ad tomorrow. adv47 Freight of any description going I South.

Call Seaside Park 45. i. 1 I I W-M r'l Si i 1 -rite- 'v 5s8 ,4 i I I HOFFMAN STICKS TO TttPROBRAM Holds Diversion of Highway Funds Would Not Be Practicable. MEETS COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER ALTERNATIVES TRENTON, Feb. 25 Gov.

Harold G. Hoffman today stood back of his new three-tax program in announcing that suggestions to divert highway-funds to relief would not be practicable. He asserted, however, that he proposed to place the highway department upon a cash withhold issuance of $12,400,000 highway bonds and effect economies in highway operation and maintenance. A proposal to divert $7,000,000 from the $40,000,000 highway fund was placed before the governor at hearings held last week on the sales, income franchise tax bills, now in assembly committee. It was advocated by the state and city of Newark Chambers of Commerce and the State Tax Payers association who suight to avoid new levies.

"All the data I have secured, all the independent analyses that I have had made, and my own investigations have convinced me that no moneys can or should be diverted from highway purposes to meet the present relief emergency," the chief executive said- "Diversion would be contrary to the Republican party platform, tax a special group, and cause bonds to be issued for relief," the governor asserted. "If highway funds could be diverted, it would simply be in the nature of a pallative and two months from now or six months from now we would again be face-to-face with the necessity of raising new revenues. We simply cannot continue government under a system in which less than one-third of our citizens are called upon to pay over three-quarters of the cost of government. It is my be- lief that the members of the legislature 1 should have the courage to meet this question right now." To carry out the $7,000,000 diversion proposal and sell $9,000,000 in highway bonds would cost the state $405,000 a year in interest and loss of one-third of the federal grant or $500,000, making a total loss to the state of $905,000 a year, Hoffman said. S558.0O0 Saving "If we followed this proposal," the (Continued on Page Two) YOUTH HELD FOR ASSAULT Arrested on complaint of James Perry, 217 Drummond avenue, Haston Gonzalez, 20, colored, 1 DeWltt avenue, yesterday was held under $500 bail for grand jury action on a charge of atrocious assult.

Magistrate William E. Andrew heard the case. Today, before Acting Magistrate Louis Levinson. a non-support charge against Charles Sirrine, 38, formerly of this city, was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Complaint was brought by Mrs.

Sirrine thru Mrs. Emma Davenport, overseer of the poor. Sirrine gave his aadress as 218 Eleventh avenue, Belmar. The court ruled the complaint should have been made In Trenton where Mrs. Sirrine now lives.

Thomas Shebell represented the defendant. Bulletins Bene.lt of Church. Tickets 50 cents adv44-48 JOHN II. HOUGHTON a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He was Monmouth county's second probation officer, having succeeded William W.

Ramsey, Kcansburg, who filled the position from the time the office was created until April, 1915, when Houghton took office. Surviving are a daughter. Mrs. John R. Sexton, of Summit, two brothers, Frank Houghton, of Boston, and Wilfred, of Colorado; four grandchildren, (Continued on Page Two) HALLENGE CRITICS Offer to Withdraw if Garbage Contract Can Be Carried Out for $20,000.

SAY AWARD HAS BECOME "POLITICAL FOOTBALL" Critics of the award by the city council of a $45,900 garbage contract to Fcr-eday and Meyer company, Elizabeth, were challenged by the company today to secure a contractor who could carry out the terms of the award for $20,000 as has been claimed. A. J. Lippman. secretary and treasurer of the company, in a letter to City Manager Carl H.

BischofT offered to transfer the contract to any firm which can carry out the provisions of the agreement for $20,000. The Elizabeth firm stipulates only that service comparable to that it would render be given with the sam3 rates of pay to employes. Lippman also specifies that any contractor accepting the challange secure a bond in the amount of the and Meyer contract to indemnify them against any loss arblng thru the offer. The text of the lett.T received by the city manager follows: "Without full knowledge of the political situation in the city of Asbury Park and only being interested in bidding on the scavenger service for a period of three years, commencing Feb. 1.

1935, our firm was the successful low bidder at a price of $45,900 per year. "Some citizens of the City of Asbury Park have seen fit to make a political football of this award, with the price of the award getting most of the kicking. The statement has been made that this job could be done for $20,000, if given to another contractor. "Our long-standing reputation for efficient service and honest dealings is such that we cannot allow this sort of thing to go unchallenged and therefore in line with the past general policies of our company, I would like to make this offer to you. "With the permission of the city manager and council, we will transfer our contract to the specific contractor who will perform the work for $20,000, there being only three stipulations that we must insist upon.

"First: That there be an equally efficient service rendered as we have rendered municipalities in the past. "Second That the contractor will pay the same wages to the men that we are now paying. "Third: That the contractor secure a bond in the amount of our contract to Indemnify us against any loss that may arise thru our generosity in offering this contract to him. (Continued on Page Two) I Informed of this last straw in the steadily mounting burden of grief, Jimmy exclaimed: "I em willing to do anything sxeept give up my citizenship!" He said he once made a $25,000 yearly salary as mayor of New York, got $10,000 of it for his very own, and is now reduced to $5,000 of which he pays out 40 percent. He described this financial maze in answering two summonses from American companies which are trying to collect bills.

He testified that his movie actres? wife, the former Miss Betty Compton, (Continued on Page Two) Fresh strawberry Butter Creams, 39c lb. These are covered with our own rich dark chocolate, making a delightful combination. Disbrows, 29 So. Main St. adv47 fEREDAY IYER Scutellaro Ousted Street Head, Raps City Manager and Strickland Jimmy Walker Blames Former Wife For Bills Beyond $25,000 Salary SABOTAGE CHARGED IN AKRON, MACON CRASHES WASHINGTON, Feb.

25 (JP). The opinion that sabotage was involved in the loss of the airships Akron end Macon was expressed today to the house patents committee by Roy W. Kanhenshue, pioneer balloonist and manufacturer. EARTHQUAKES IN GREECE KILL 8 IONDON, Feb. 25 (fP.

Earthquakes in Greece today killed at least eight perscong and injured five more, according to reports from Athens. The casualties were in the Candia and Crete districts where there was also considerable property damage. Other earthquakes were reported at Malta and Cairo. Sylvester Scutellaro, former superintendent of streets, today criticized City Manager Carl Bischoff and Public Works Director William Strickland, charging they were inefficient. Declaring he had been cut of the street department for no reason except petty jealousy," Scultellaro saii snow removal work in the city had 'ioi been carried on properly because the street department has "too many bosses and the men do not know wherj they stand." Scutellaro is now supervisor of ERA relief work here, at a salary of $35 a week, a position which he said was a "politician's job." Tuesday and Wednesday only, 48 fur coats, accumulated in our fur storage to be sold for storage and repair charges due Not new.

but some rare bargains. J. Goldberg, Furrier, 510 Cook- man Avenue. adv47 LONDON, Feb. 25.

(VP) Buffeted by New York creditors and English police regulations, James J. Walker, former York mayj told a chant ery court today that he was so broke, his present wife, Miss Betty Compton, 'had to pay their joint traveling expenses out of her savings as an actress. The dapper Jimmy was still dapper but he was worried when he was called to answer to two judgments against him for bills allegedly run up by his first wife in New York. Then he emerged to find that his status as a legal resident of Great Britain was in jeopardy because of his failure to comply with regulations and register with the bailee in London. Such failure on? to the possibility of fine, imprisonment, or deportation on occasion, all three.

FIVE STEVEDORES KILLED AS EXPLOSIVES BLOW LP TUNIS, Tunisia, Feb. 25 fP). Five men were killtd and many others injured when a case of explosives blew up today in the hold of the French government S. S. S.

Gouverneur General Jonnart as it was unloading at its pier. Five of the stevedores who were unloading a shipment of pyrotechnic displays were killed outright. Six more were seriously injured and it was believed two of them would die. Roller Skating At Casino I Act Comedy, "Looking Lovely" Boardwalk, Asbury Park. Every after- At Belmar Grammar School Auditor-noon ana evening 3.30 to 5 30 after- iuin.

Feb. 2fith. 8.15 P. M. Pre-noons, 8 to 11.30 evenings.

Adults 25c sented by the St. Rose Parish Players including skates. Children afternoons 15c. adrm.w.iT i.