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lj 1EJIVES EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY l-l WEATHER tknefaliy toff and sitBhtly cold er, occasional mow flurries today, frlday, contintied cold, mow and ill sort ot thing, lay Ut forecaster! for the Keystone aleta. Indiana merchant! art pre narins Israel far mi convenience and benellt over tile commit week-end. Read advertise Menu in today's tnd Frlday'l issue. VOLUME 32. NO.

121. TWELVE PAGES INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936 TWO SECTIONS Victim Of Mpad Accident Last Might EWSPAPEIt THAT It TEDDY'" tCf Indiana fhtrehanU at rt. 'll. narlnl Israel fa TUll I 6t TWO CENTS COIY SUPREME II II I til. 111 II II II II Im- 111 I II 1 UU U9U UVUIf UU 1U Foreigner DECISION COURT ORDER FAMILY DOG aiiisioi a as HAEffllSBURQ WASHINGTON aiAin MaTM mm "Jtim nuw ur tun Congreaa Fights Shjr On MYSTERY IN DETAILS NOT YET CLEARED Terribly-Mutilated Body of Mike Preigygoda, 44, Found on Road Near Annulment Paves Way For Wedding GOVERNOR! BULLETIN 2:45 P.M.

a-f w-U-V: WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. i'M (AP) The Supreme Court re- vgl fused today to save Richard Hauptmann from the electric chair tomorrow mghti Apparently the only hope ot the convicted kidnap murderer of the Lindbergh baby lies in possible reprieve by Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey. COMPLICATES MILKORDER Protett from 24 Dealer Bringi on Injunction Until February "3 May Make 11 Cent Retail Price for State.

HARRISBURG, Jan. 18 (VP) A court protest from 24 milk dealers put them beyond range of the new regulations for the dairy Industry today, and befogged the future of the state control board order. The protesting dealers, described aa a "representative" group from Har-rlsburg, York, Wilkes-Bavre and Scanton, obtained a court ruling re straining, enforcement, so far as they are concerned, until February 3. They aciea yesterday just a lew hours before the new order became effective. The order, the first under the Dem ocratic administration, was amended by the board after a second set of hearings, precipitated by protests against the original draft, announced in August.

Meanwhile, Charles T. Carpenter, member of the board, disclosed that the board Is considering an attempt to meet the situation by fixing the retail price of 11 cents per quart for milk throughout the -state except in strictly rural areas. This would be ac companied by a one cent discount on milk purchased at stores. Carpenter said a principal conten tion of the contesting dealers, mostly in area No. 8, was that dealers In other districts have a price advantage.

Continued on Page Three. Hfliinrmann'ii tMtitlmi for writ of Habeaus Corpus and a f- stay of execution had beenr filed shortly after noon by hid attorneys. nru. il. IIC UCV131UI1 HI UCI1V UIC PCs.l"'..iVi lion was BKFeea upon wnue justices ate their lunch from Chief Justice tiuirhes an- nounced the verdict to a hushed audience as soon as the court.

convened at 2:33 P. M. three minutes late, Apparently the discussion i had extended overtime. The chief justice said merely that the petition for a writ of ,5 Habeaus Corpus was Court observers said that ac- Md Pt I AS MAN APPROACHED Prosecution Pounds Home Additional Testimony That Squire Westwood Was Murderer of His Pretty Wife. Pittsburgh! Jan.

is culiors at the -murder trial ol James J. Westwood heardl one of their witness es testify today that the defendant's 1 dog remained quiet while a prowler I crept up the a lairs of the Westwod. home and fired the three shots that killed Westwood's The witness, Mrs, Mary Kasarda, testified the dog usually greeted West-wood with joyful' barks that could De heard through the neighborhood. The commonwealth charges West-wood, 43-year-old justice of the peace in suburban McKees Rocks, killed Mrs Martha Westwood, 38, early the morning of July 10 because "he no longer loved Prosecutor Chauncey Pruger expressed surprise with the testimony of Mrs. Kasarda, given while he was cross-examining her.

The witness 'said the shooting occurred about 155 a. m. the dog was sleeping in thd kitchen ot the West-wood home. Pruger declared Mrs. Kasarda told him and detective Walter Monaghan, who arrested Westwood, she had no idea what time the shots were fired.

Earlier. Max) Chisasikoff, a boarder in the some of Mrs. Soohie Sehar. a neighbor, testified he came home Continued on Page Three BroJhei N. B.

redhead, director of com modity distribution for the state emergency Relief board, will have charge of the distribution. The SERB will supervise the program designed tor one year. The new program calls for an allo cation of $950,808 from the federal government and $132,780 from the SERB. Headquarters for the individual projects will be maintained in each of the 35 counties which will have local warehouses. The total of $1,083,598 made avail able for the projects will be expend ed, as follows; Storage arid handling at central warehouses, transportation to warehouses, M6.000; distribution from warehouses jo consumers, (028,364: (Continued on Page Three) "Iron Out" Senate tion in effect included the tion for a 3tay of The delay had been request- i i a- ii cu uruer permit ine courv COnyrlEht' 1B3B.

hv'AsBoetatpH si. Jn IflcrAmicl WPA SHORTLY TO TAKE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD unsubstantiated reports- of a -eonfeeM AND CLOTHING sion xrpm a new figure, Bruno Haufctmann's Tate forked two way tot" day: toward the United SUtes Su-Jv WJ. Warehouses to Be Established in 35 Counties Including In one of these directions lay only hope of the convicted kidnap-, slayer of the Lindbergh baby Indiana Contracts to Be Awarded This Week Will Requisition $44 Employes For State-Wide Undertaking escape ma appointment with death, jj: tomorrow at p. m. afc Reports which lacked official nrmauon said an unidentified person' filed a written confession with thtv Governor, believed to favor a reprieve'J oeveiopmenu warrant.

Report Agreement On the National Delegate; Political Merry Go Round Gathers Speed Earle Said Ready to Call Extra Station. National Delegate HARRISBURG, Jan. 16. Dem ocratic leaders were reported today to have agreed upon a tentative list from which Pennsylvania's delegation to the national convention will be chosen. The names will be submitted to the State convention in the Capital January 27.

New Dealers are reticent regarding the most likely candidates for seats at Ihe Philadelphia conclave, June 23, dui weu-miormed circles said Gov ernor Earle will lead the delegation, witn Lvid l. Lawrence, State Chair- man, and at least six other men and women prominent in party affairs. U. S. Senator Joseph F.

Guffey who boomed Roosevelt for President long before the Chicago convention In 1U32, and who will be one of the President's stalwarts in Philadelphia, does noi seek a place in the delegation. He has solid he feels he can be of better service free from delegation responsibilities. The State convention is expected to name eight delegates, men and women, each with half a vote, Mrs. Edith DeWitt of Williamsport, a vice chairman of the State Commit tee, is one of the most prominently mentioned leaders, HalDh M. Bashore Secretary of Labor and Industry, is anomer, Robert L.

Meyers, secretary to the Governor and unsuccessful candidate for Superior Court last November is said to be almost certain oc a place. Mrs. fcmma Guffey Miller, sister, of the U. S. Senator ia listed as likely to be honored, as are John R.

Collins and Sedewick Kistler. n-ldine Dmn. KcmlcW'6fmon poiiiic4i4 war. Edward 77. Jones, Slate Directorfor Progress Administration ia frequently mentioned as a possible aeiegaie along with Matthew H.

Mc Closkey ot Philadelphia. Warren Van Dyke. Secretary- of Highways and frequently spoken of aa a candidate for Auditor General, ia another party figure likely to win a seat at the Philadelphia spectacle as is Arthur Coelgrove, Eaiie's Secret tary ot rroperly and Supplies. (Continued on Page Two) DISTRICT NURSES MEET SATURDAY District No. 5 of the Pennsylvania Stale Nurses Association will hold its annual meeting at Fort Stanwix Johnstown, Saturday.

Several hundred nurses from Cambria. Somerset, Indiana, Clearfield, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon and Clinton counties will be present. The conference will open at 12:30 with a luncheon in the main dining room and will be followed by a new meeting and election ot officers, Those in charge are Miss Anne Plowman, general chairman; Mildred Clark, Leola Swank, Elizabeth Craw ford, Meredith Miller, Ruth Stocic- berger and Cora Davis, NEW FLORENCE GIRL INJURED IN FALL Helen Stiles, seven-year-old da ugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stiles of near New.

Florence, received hospitalization in Johnstown yesterday afternoon for contusions of the rifih' side of her head received when she fell on the ice in front of Armagh High school. The injuries were not serious, however, and the girl re turned to tier home. Highway's Safety Plan HARRISBURG, Jan. 16. () John B.

Kelly, Secretary of Revenue, placed the director of the Division of Safety and gave him an assistant, predicting they will "put across highway safely program in Pennsyl- vama that will be second to none other in the United States. He said yesterday that S. Weston Scott of Hershey, will aiiccec1 Waller W. Matthews aa director February 1, and that H. Richard Stickel, will be bcoira assistant.

Scott ia chief of food and conser vation development in (he Game Com mission and stickel is executive assistant ia the Bureau of Motor Ve hicles. Kelly said Scott has been identified with accident reduction activities tor many years and has been directed to coordinate all safety activities with tnose ox the Governor highway safe ty council. "The time for talking safety it Kelly said. "I intend to see that it fell tome action from now on. Plane Pilots In Record Tragedy Only few minutes before the airliner erash In which 11 pcrsena died near Ooedwln, G.

V. (Gerry) Marshall (abeve), veteran pllet 4 the ship, reporteS all well. Glenn FreeUnd (belew), Mn aviator, shared the piloting assignment. Beth were killed. The erash was the worst plane tragedy In American aviation.

DUBOIS HIGH TO GET DRIVING In Accordance With Modern Trend in Education, Students Will Be Given Course in Traffic Safety Conditions. In accordance with the modern trend in high school education; an other new course will be installed at DuBois High School for the second semester of the current school term, when students will be given an opportunity to study "Traffic Safety and Driving." The course, which Is to be taught by Profs. Richard Butta and WUUrd Grubbi, wiL be instituted for second half of the present term of school to cmform with the nationwide move to reduce the list of traffic casulties. By the time the let-in ot school a full-fledged course including instructions in automobi'e driving and care in expected to be in action. Automobile instruction in the schools cbpLsirlly the traffic tide the automobile business, it not taught in maiiy rnoois Pennsylvania, out in New Jtrsey is a required sul-jict.

Local school authorities lu 'e been in touch the educational au- cf New Je-sey, New Y.trk and Harrisburg and will pattern the local course along the best lines of tnose now in use. In addition to the background of history of the automobile industry and transportation and a study of accidents, facts and figures, the course also will include training in Ihe high way rules, study of the mechanism of the automobile, as well as instruction In driving, use of mechanisms and devices, study of questions for drivers' tests and society's methods of handl-in the traffic problems. Wanted nice clean rags, no stockings or silk. All buttons and hooks must be removed. Bring to Gazette Office and get the cash.

tt. We Buy Old Gold Lpxenberg's. r'Q I New Tax Measures; Foes Lose Hope of Stopping Bonus; New Farm Parley May "Blow Up," Fear of Leading Groups. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.

(P) A White House, conference of administration and congressional leaders on the farm problem growing out ot the Supreme Court's invalidation of the AAA was called today by President Roosevelt Chairman Smith (D-SC- summoned the Senate Agriculture Committee to discus3 the question prior to the downtown meeting. "My efforts -will be for permanent legislation within the. Smith said. By NATHAN ROBERTSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.

Despite the gaping holes, torn In- the Roosevelt budget there was tittle dis position on Capitol Hill today to Dro vide new taxes at this session unless the administration demands them. Within ten days, developments have arisen that threaten to knock the Roosevelt fiscal program from 000.000 to $3300,000,000 out of killer. The AAA decision by the supreme court left huEe CflDS in the revenue and congressional plans for paying the bonus would add to the expense. Mire aamage to the president's estimate may be forthcoming later; But administration leaders remain non-commital over the prospects of new taxes, or go further and forecast there will be none except to finance a new farm plan. Opposition forces are critical, but are not yet demanding new.

taxes. Determination of the tax question depends to a Jarge extent upon -ad- Dlans for a new, farm program. "It is generaliy- believedthis taxes, and that they may to some extent cover up the hole in the budget created by the supreme court's AAA decision. Administration chieftains have taken the position the bonus will not require hew taxes. Other legislators say that regardless of that, the bonus bill, if it passes in Its present form, will add more than $2,200,000,000 to the public debt, BY FRANK WELLER Associated Pre Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan.

-16. (flV-Flat predictions that the national agricultural conference would "blow up" were heard among men high in its councils today as the five major farm groups composing it met to discuss a (Continued on Page Three) COUNTERFEIT 20'S IN CIRCULATION PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16. (Pj Federal agents warned that many counterfeit $20 bills are being circulated Jn Western Pennsylvania. Fred W.

Gruber, head of the Secret Service in this section, said the spurious notes bear the fame check letter and plate number, K-53, He said the plates were seived recently in New York after the arrest of "Count" Victor Ludwig, known by agents as an international confidence man. Ludwig is serving a 20-year term. FIRST REPORT IN ELLSWORTH CASE LONDON, Jan. 18. WV-The captain of the Discovery II, searching for the missing explorer, Lincoln Ellsworth, indicated in a report today that an airplane had been sighted in Little America and that a man had been seen on the Bay of Whales.

The report did not identify the man or the airplane. Questioned On Rackets PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16. Pr Detective Captain James Ryan arrested two men early today and announced he was questioning them in connection with a police drive on rackets. Meanwhile, a squad of police was i called to quell a disturbance between two groups of men said to represent nvai iruc ariver umo.nf: na pushed their investigation of a threat- ening note sent Harry Publicker, al cohol company official demanding (25,000.

Ryan said the men he arrested were booked as Max Rothman and William Weisberg. Ryan is conducting a drive ordered by Mayor S. Davis Wilson, which the mayor said "will disclose the ramifications of organized crime in high places in this vicinity. Wilson's statement yesterday declar ed that "persona high in social and business life' are involved in rack eteering. and added that "we'll strike (Contjaued os Faa Tbxet) ture of the purported document or ot me person involved.

Members of counsel on each side and one Ctymer Late Last Night Authorities Are tigating. NO FAMILY A widespread Investigation into the finding of the battered body of a Clymer district coal miner on the Cly-mer-Dlamondville road late last night wan under way this afternoon. The body, identified as that of Mike Presgygada, 44-year-old employe of ihe Wilmore Fuel Company near Clymer, was found about one and one-quarter miles Irom Clymer. The body lay near the center of the road about-midway between Hie Cly mer brick works and the Russell Coal Company mine. A Clymer merchant.

C. B. O'Neill. discerned the body in the road about 10:15 p. m.He made an examination and, finding the man was living, no-lined Cbicf of Police Askey of Cly- mer.

njei AsKey dispatched an am bulance and then hurried to the lo cation reported by O'Neill but the man was dead when he reached hi; The body was taken to the Clymer Furniture Company mortuary and, after a preliminary examination, Dr. J. Lee of Clymer performed ar autopsy for Coroner John Woods. The post-mortem examination disclosed a fracture of the skull, frac ture of the back near the pelvis, fracture of the pelvis, and fractures of the ribs on the left aide of the chest. Besides the mulllpliclty.of fractures, he.

had suffered severe lacerations of the right shoulder penetrated to the. collarbontr.aSS -tonUfr-toup lacerations of- -V Presgygoda had drawn hJbvpuy yesterday. Coroner Woods learned, and last night had a $10 bill changed at the Neal drug store in Clymer. Only $4.78 was found on the body. A half dollar and two nickels were found on the road near the body.

The victim's head lay In a pool of blood and another large pool of blood was found 18 feet west of the body. Coroner Woods reported. Corporal R. Felonl of the Indiana detachment of the State Highway Patrol assisted Coroner Woods in the preliminary Investigation. Presgygoda, unmarried, lived at a mine near Clymer known as Egypt.

DEAN BARBOR IN NEW POSITION The Pittsburgh School of Accountancy reparls that the profession has already absorbed twenty-three of -its graduates. One ot those who it to be complimented upon procuring an opportunity to approach nearer to the degree of Certified Public Accountants, is Dean Barbor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barbor of Grant strum, this city, who has accepted a position with Haskins Bnd Sells, Pittsburgh. For the past nine years Mr, Barbor had been connected with the Westing-house Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh.

TREASURY BALANCE IS $2,124,295,315.73 WASHINGTON, Jan. The position of treasury January 14 Re ceipts, an, expenditures, baalnce, 12,124,209,. 315.73, Customa receipts tor the month 16,377 ,313.81. Slayer Of Her Kiddies Will Survive WEST CHESTER, Jau. IS.

Or. LeRoy Barber said he expected the eventual recovery of Mrs. Sara Ober- le. who attempted suicide alter beat-ina her three children to death. Dr.

Barber, who discovered the tragedy yesterday, said the mother apparently was deranged Irom lear of ill health, and that she slashed her throat and abdomen and twisted a wire around her neelp In an attempt to take her own life. The children, Mary, 17; Joseph, Jr, and Umise, 7, were found dead in their beds, beaten with an iron bar. Dr. Barber came to the house in response to telephone call from Mrs. Oberie in which she said "come right away, I've just lulled them." The husband and father, Joseph Oberie, head of the Chester County Farm Extension Association, wee on a business arip to State College.

His father, George W. Oberie, 79, slept iu another part of the house, unaware of the tragedy, until Dr. Barber called bim. lnent State official denied the sion rumors. vr'ttg mysterious midnight conferences in --S a new xorx noiei.

oresumabiv eon- ducted by the Governor, raised apecu- Edward N. Jones, state works ad-1 ministrator, announced today the WPA wiu; lake over distribution ot food and clothing to more than needy in 233,000 families, within two weeks. I Relief commodities previously had been disbursed by the state emergency relief board. the new setup, warehouses will be established in 35 counties, including Indiana, and covering all the 16 WPA districts. In addition central warehouses will be set up in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Johnstown, New Cumberland.

Erie, Wilkes-Bai-re and York, Jones said the state procurement officer is expected to award contracts this week for the seven central: warehouses after which work of requisi tioning S44 WPA employes as personnel for the statewide undertaking wUl begin Asks Chance To itiun nidb ne waa conferring other officials on startling new evi dence. eral Bureau of Investigation, left the.vf hotel early today but declined to sayyiJ whether he ha dtalked with Hoffraan-'v-' Two hours earlier Edward j. (Continued on Page Two) REFUSES TO BE A SQUIRREL, SUES BUTLER, Jan. 16. OP) James Vas- oinaer places a financial value on being mistaken for a squirrel.

Ha filed damans nttt ia -waa aa. aiuusi V.UUI11J tUUII'V "iJt against Daniel W. Gensamer, whom he' charges with peppering him with OUCKSnOI. y' Vnchint4i aalrl a ohiriu LV3s as he sat on a tree stump, after which A bride at 14, Derethy Dudley (top), 18, daughter Bide Dudley, New Verk theatrical com-menutor, fcaa btained an annulment af her marriage Tbee-dore Kurrua In what Broadway hails aa a preliminary to becoming the wife ef playwright Sidney Klngsley (below), author of the hit plays, "Dead End" and "Man In White." DEATH CLAIMS MRS. HARTMAN Former Resident Who Died in Woot ter, Yester day, to Be Buried Here Tomorrow Other Deaths Recorded.

MRS. 'STEELE G. HARTMAN. Fol lowing a prolonged Illness, Mrs. Nellie (While) Hartman, 73, a native of Indiana county, and widow of Steele G.

Hartman, one-time Indiana druggist, died at 2 p. m. Wednesday in ine nome of her son, Alexander W. Hartman, Wooster, O. Surviving are two sons, the other being John B.

Hartman of Pittsburgh, and four grandchildren: Jeanne and Virginia Hartman of Wooster, and Jane and John Hartman of Pitts burgh. Mrs. Hartman had long been a member of the Episcopal church, The remains will be brought to In diana tomorrow and taken to Streams Funeral Home, where services wilt be conducted at 2 o. m. tomorrow, in charge of the Rev.

Gifford Clement Belcher, rector of Christ's episcopal church. Burial will be In Oakland cemetery. TOBBENC'C C. RAW- Funeral services for Torrence Bair, 58, whose deatn occurred at his homo in Olivet, South Bend township, Armstrong county, at 4:20 a. m.

Wednesday, wili be conducted in Elder's Ridge Fret byterian church at 2:30 P. m. Friday. and interment will be in the church cemetery. A son ot Junes and Melissa (Coulter) Bair, be was born June 1, 1877.

Mr. Bair had been a life-Ion resident of the Olivet vicinity and was prominent in business. He was active in the membership of his cburcb and beloved by all who knew him. Surviving are three children: Mrs. Ethel M.

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Eight sons, five of them children, were en to hospitals today suffering what doctors said was poisoning. City detectives siad the victims them they were stricken after eaiin'l cream puffs purchased from udif dler. Doctor D. J. Georgetson said condiuon ol three Mothers.

eMWRlfc Yokel, Richard, 1, and TooseV uriac itir-al Suaarrf Vnlrakl 33, and his wife, Marie, JO. also TS-i in the hospitaL -alM James. 6, and Harold, 9, children ma. nwi, mm criticaUy ill. Mrs.

Aust waa taJua hospital but later wwieu4 itift'i Detectives Edward, I Robert CarroU atvuoUAa mm aiea rauajtawavw Bafaaai Twin Sweatax Mluat'tet Velclaja Ihe tope thai six ceo -trot rif et tiguj is Mrs. Theaaaa V. Sckall, uiiiew of UIomwu's Mias) iulr, Is ahowv at her lreo aa bar ituU4ey for the (I. bcoale tee4 vacate ay ScfeaJI'a Jealk waa aaoouiweaj. Pelllki baa kaea ur part ef ker lite for to year the enpUluet), tni 4clare4 thai, a a eM-atyle patriot, aha wal eBtMiue SeheM'e attack en sUwMraUea-1 Her wiu carry a the anwler't f4 with Gov.

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