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abd gh 3 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1941 Mrs. Wintersteen Wins Reno Divorce, Weds Dude Ranch Cowboy Mrs. Joan Kaufman Biddle Wintersteen won a divorce from the second of her two Main Line husbands in Reno yesterday, and a few hours later married a dude ranch cowboy she met after arriving in Reno six weeks ao. Her first husband was George Drexel Biddle, operator of a Merion automobile sales agency and the son of Craig Biddle, of the Bund Head and 8 Aides Get Year in Jail for Anti-Jewish Speeches NEWTON.

N. Jan. 31 (A. A rural judge who ruled there was "'no room in this country" fc anti-Semitism today sentenced Wilhelm Kunze, national leader of the German-American Bund, and eieht associates to serve one year to 14 months in prison. Tw of the nine were fined $2010 each and the others $1000 each.

Three speeches made at the Hund's Camp Nordland in nearby Andover last June led to their indictment under New Jersey's "race socially-prominent Philadelphia family. She was granted a divorce from Biddle in Cody. Vyu, two 1 hatred" law. They admitted the ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT CEMETERY IS ISSUE li REALTY BATTLE SUESOilOST addresses, defending them as permissible while attacking the statute as unconstitutional, but Judge John C. Losey had overruled their plea in demurrer.

The bald, spectacled judge of the Sussex County Court then set bail at $2000 each pending an appeal which defense counsel said would be taken to the United States Supreme Court if necessary. FIVE LODGED IN JAIL Bail was pasted for Kunze, August years ago, after 12 years of marriage, retaining custody of their three children. CRUELTY CHARGED A month later she married Joseph M. Wintersteen, now of San Francisco, son of Mr. and Mrs.

A. H. Wintersteen, of 142 Grays lane, Haverford, and won her divorce from him yesterday on a charge of cruelty. There was no property settlement, her attorney said. As she left the divorce court In Reno yesterday, after a private trial, fry 7 1 liilfflililTillii mm mil I 11 mininp 11 mm i "Tl if- -r ilt iwiii i 1 1 nr" jm inn mi iiili' Special to The Inquirer WILMINGTON.

Jan. 31 -All that was left today of Elliott Roosevelt's dream of a coa.st-to-eoa.st radio net- work called Transcontinental Broad- casting System. was a suit he filed against the defunct j-ystem for $70,000 as holdrr of 4000 shares of Class A stock. The son of the President Joined Klapprott, of Andover, the Bund's Eastern regional leader; Matthias Kohler, of Irvington, State Bund treasurer, and Paul Schnaarschmidt of Paterson. Camp Nordland trustee Sheriff Denton J.

Quick said, how ever, mat me loiiowing rive were lodged in the county jail for the night, bail failing to arrive before with other independent radio station operators in 1939 to form the new system, intending to make his Tcxa3 chain of stations a part of it. At one time he was slated to be president of the chain, which was to compete with the National, Columbia and Mutual networks. He was unable to line up enough stations from coast-to-coast to com the County Clerk's office closed: Rev. John C. Fitting, of Union An ancient South Philadelphia burial ground, once honored as the resting place of hundreds of Civil War and Spanish War veterans but now dilapidated and used as a rubbish dump, became a real estate battlelront yesterday.

The plot is the 106-year-old Lafayette Cemetery, bounded by 9th, 10th. Federal and Wharton sts. In it, bc-Mde chose of unknown war heroes, he the bodies of Van Rensselaers, Van Duesens and Vauclains. But the last burial to take place there was seven years ago. SEEK TO REMOVE BODIES In Common PIea.s Court No.

4. Charles Bechtel. president of tho cemetery corporation, petitioned Judge Otto R. Heiligman yesterday fcr permission to remove 24.000 bodies from the cemetery to Warminster Gardens, Hatboro. He said the consent of a majority of relatives to the removal had been obtained.

Afterward, according to R. B. City, State Bund secretary. Leonard D. Clark, of New York writer for a Bund publication.

shi was met by her fiance, Frank Polk, 32, lanky cowboy wearing a 10-gallon hut, leather jacket aiu! boots. COURT ASTONISHED To the astonishment of her attorney, John S. Sinai, and courtroom attendants, she rushed up to Polk, kissed him and smiled as they left the courthouse together en route to the marriage license bureau. In obtaining the marriage license, Mrs. Wintersteen gave her age as 32.

Mrs. Wintersteen met Polk at a dude ranch south of Reno where she stayed while establishing her six-weeks' residence required before obtaining her divorce. FIRST WED IN 1926 Mrs. Wintersteen is the daughter Carl Schipphorst, of Glen Rock. it was said, and plete the network.

(A. P. Wirephoto) BUNDSMEN HEAR SENTENCES FOR 'RACE HATRED These three German-American Bund leaders yester- law. From left to right in the Newton, N. courtroom day heard themselves sentenced withsix others, to one are Wilhelm Kunze, national leader; Leonard D.

Clark, year to 14 months in jail under New Jersey's "race hatred" Bund writer, and August Klapprott, eastern leader. so the venture collapsed. The cor- I amp trustee. Richard Schiele, of Paterson, chartered in Delaware, was I poration, dissolve and its affairs turned over I George Neuppert, of Cliffside Park, ITS. to receive Chancellor W.

W. Harrington, of I Court of Chancer-'. the Wilmington trustee. WO ROOM' FOR THEM With the exception of Clark, each last month instructed all creditors and holders of Class A stock to file their claims with the receivers before Feb. 20.

PROCESS SPEEDS STEEL PRODUCTION GIRL, IS, IS FREED ID DEATH QF BABY was sentenced to prison and fined 1 1000 for permitting the speeches. Clark's prison term and fine were Creditor's in Opvrutv Bankrupt Brinkley Needs Financial 'Goat Glands' far making a speech, while Klapprott and Kohler were fined an extra $1000 I )r making speeches. A 19-year-old girl was freed yesterday on charges of murder and of Louis Graveraet Kaufman. New York banker. Her marriage to Biddle in 1926 was one of the mast brilliant events of the social season, and was often described as "the happiest in New York and Philadelphia society," but they separated after 10 years, and she charged desertion in winning her first divorce.

Her second marriage took place at Valparaiso, in December, 1938. xou cannot penalize people for soeaking their own mind," William Azzoli, of Newark, defense attorney, told the court in trying to avert sentence. Judge Losey countered KNOX' A simple electrical process designed to speed up the production of steel for national defense at virtually no extra cost was described yesterday to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the closing meeting of its five-day convention in the Bellevue-Stratford. The method, described by H. W.

that the Constitution guaranteed re ii i i litmus ireeaom ana mere was 'no room' for those disagreeing wi'ii ft 'It seems to be conceded," com-rr ented the court, "that the purpose of the German-American Bund is to Sew L'niiersity Stylet in KNOX HATS $5 7' $10 Campbell Philadelphia Quality Storr or Mr 1334-1 336 Chestnut STREET Memorial Services Held for W. M. Lewis a ascendancy over the Jews." QUOTED ON JEWS The indictments, which Judge Lo manslaughter after she pleaded guilty to concealing the death of her child, while the infant's father was sentenced to a year in prison on adultery charges and fined $500 and costs. In Quarter Sessions Court, Judge Otto R. Heiligman sentenced Julia Buffone to 51 days in jail the length of time she had been confined since her arrest and permitted her immediate release.

MAXIMUM PENALTY At the same time Morris Aronxon, 38, married and the father of a nine-year-old child, admitted causing the girl's plight and was given the maximum penalty. The more serious charges against Miss Buffone were dropped when the Commonwealth admitted it had insufficient evidence to prove them. She told police her child suffered a fatal head injury at birth, at which she was unattended. Special to The Inquirer SAN ANTONIO. Texas.

Jan. 31 TORN R. BRINKLEY, whose goat-gland operations made him a fortune and almost made him Governor of Kansas, was adjudged a bankrupt today. In a voluntary petition, he listed his assets at $30,000 and iiis liabilities in excess of that amount. A meeting of creditors was set for next week in Del Rio.

Beleaguered by Kansas authorities who protested his much publicized goat-gland operations, Brinkley ran for the Governor's chair both in 1930 and 1932. He came near to election both times, running on a platform of attrition sey upheld Jan. 7. quoted Klapprott against those who assailed his medical practices. AT THE height of his career Brinkley performed 75 gland operations a week and was said to have a weekly income of $30,000.

His radio station in Milford, was his means of inviting the aged to his hospital. Later, he moved to Villa Acuna, Mexico, where he established one of the then most powerful stations in the world. Over it he sold hundreds of thousands of prescriptions, adding oil burners, gold mine stock and fortune tellers' advice to Ids line in recent years. as saying, ine day Is coming when will take care of the Jews and Oliensis, counsel for Bechtel, the land would be told to pay the cost of removing the bodies. PETITION OPPOSED The petition, however, encountered strong opposition from B.

Nathaniel Richter, counsel for Sklarow, real estate development concern. He said that in actuality, since there has been no record of a duly elected officer of the cemetery corporation for the past 20 years, the land now belongs to no one, and should go to the Commonwealth by escheat. Richter added that the group represented by Oliensis has no legal claim 'to the cemetery. "They just assumed ownership." he declared. "They are interlopers." BUILDINGS PLANNED Richter told the court the real estate company claims partial title to the property because it was instrumental in discovering the lack of ownership, but that it is willing to remove the bodies to any the relatives of the deceased may desire, and to turn over any profit to the State.

The real estate group, he said, wants to purchase the land from the State after it has been taken by escheat, and to erect on it a business block, including a movie theatre, stores and apartments, which would an estimated $200,000 yearly to the city in taxes. Further hearing on the dispute will be held Feb. 14. Neblett, of Inland Steel one of the Nation's largest producers of steel, is in operation in the Inland plants today, he said. The new method speeds up the removal of scale which forms on steel during the manufacturing process.

EXPLAINS METHOD Before the cold-rolling process of steel is begun, Neblett explained, it is necessary to remove all the scale. The standard method used in virtually all steel mills, he said, is to submerge the steel in a diluted sulphuric acid bath. This method is satisfactory, Neblett continued, but is so slow that production is delayed. It can be speeded up considerably by electrolytic action. their friends'." It accused Kohler of remarking: "We know who you are, all Jews; and we'll get rid of you." And Clark: "The day is coming when wt will be able to do what was done fo- the white.

Christian race in Ger Memorial services were held last night at Temple Beth Israel, 32d st. and Montgomery for William M. Lewis, former judge of Municipal court and a leader in the Zionist movement, who died two years ago. 1 Rabbi Aaron Decter presided. Following the services an open forum on Zionism was held in the basement of the synagogue, with! Harry Takiss, national president of the Masada organization, leading the discussion.

Rabbi Solomon Bar-sel, of Temple B'Nai Jeshurun, 32d and Diamond was chairman for the forum. Other speakers were Dr. Alfred Kricun, who was associated with Judge Lewis in the Zionist movement, and Mrs. Judith Cohen, representing Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization. many." The Sussex Grand Jury's investi gation resulted from summer-long agitation over the presence of the caup in Andover township.

The NAT on rs ACCIDENTS FOUND BY NEIGHBORS I Diss House Committee also inquired The child, according to police, was ITURBI S0N-IN-L1 SUES OVER CHILDREN The electric current, in conjunction with the sulphuric acid, releases hvdrogen eas at the surface of the born in the bedroom of the Aronson home, in which Muss Buffone had NCR E4 PERCENT been employed for more than a year mio activities there. The courtroom was well filled for tho sentencing, but there was no expression of emotion, by either the defendants or the crowd Appeal will be taken from the county court to the State Supreme Court. From there it would go to the Court of Errors and Appeals before reaching the Federal courts. as a servant, and upon its death was wrapped in a towel and placed in a trash can at the rear of the house, where neighbors found it and notified police. CHICAGO, Jan.

31 (A. The National Safety Council reported today that 96,500 persons were killed in accidents in the United States last year. Miss Buffone said Aronson refused steel, and the hydrogen gas "peels" the scale away quickly. RESEMBLES PIIILA. A British engineer told the convention that London, with all the bomr--ing it has undergone, looks just about like Philadelphia, with all its gaping parking lots.

He is F. C. Knowles, of London, who was sent here by the British Government to show American industry how to build an improved type of airplane fuel gauges. Knowles attacked those supporters of the lease-lend bill who say that Special to The Inquirer NEW YORK, Jan. 31.

Stephen Hero, concert violinist, today charged his estranged wife with being an unfit mother to their two children. In a habeas corpus writ filed in Supreme Court, Manhattan, he asserted that his wife, Maria Iturbi, to take her to a hospital after she revealed her condition to him. Aronson denied she had ever informed Grabs Woman's Purse A purse containing $47 snatched from a woman walking Spruce st. between 9th and 10th shortly after 10.30 last night. The woman.

Miss Florence Greenberg, 640 Spruce told police of the 12th and Pine sts. station that the thief grabbed her handbag and ran awav so rapidly that she was unable to gain an adequate description of him. Another 9.100.000 were injured. It estimated the economic loss, including medical expense, property him of her condition or asked him to enter her in a hospital. Aronson's wife is seeking a divorce.

VX lau s. UFTtt.MU Hillman Recovers From 3-Week Illness BALTIMORE. Jan. 31 (A. Sidney Hillman, associate director of the defense Office of Production Management, has fully recovered from grippe and has left Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr.

Samuel Wolman today. Hillman entered the hospital Jan. 7. and was under treatment more than three weeks. unless America rushes all-out aid in 60 to 90 days.

Britain will fall. "Tall talk like that gives the impression that if the needed materials are not delivered by then there would be no use delivering them at all," he said. daughter of the famed Spanish pianist, Jose Iturbi, got drunk last Nov. 1 1 and tried to commit suicide by cutting her left wrist and "taking a quantity of poisonous pills." ITURBI. SISTER ACCUSED Hero demanded the appearance in court of Joe Iturbi and the latter's sister, Amparo Iturbi, also a concert pianist.

He accused them of engineering a plot to spirit the children away from him and send them to Beverly Hills, where Maria now has them. damage, lost wages and the overhead cost of insurance, at $3,500,000,000. 4000 MORE LIVES The council said the 1940 death toll was four percent or almost 4000 lives greater than it was in 1939. This was the first increase over a preceding year since 1936, but the council said it was far from the highest on record. In 1936 there were 110.052 deaths.

The death rate per 100,000 population in 1940 was computed at 73.2. Since 1900 there have been only eight years with lower rates. HALF FROM TRAFFIC Half of the 1940 increase, the council said, came from traffic accidents, with occupational accidents accounting for most of the remainder. A death list by classifications follows 2 Children Saved As Flames Sweep Adjoining Home Two small children, left alone In their home at 1742 Carlton near 17th and Vine were carried to safety by firemen shorUy before 5 P. M.

yesterday when fire swept an adjoining house and for a time threatened an entire row. On the way to the fire a pumper from Engine 17, Broad and Race traveling west on east-bound Cal-lowhill collided with a trailer truck as the latter attempted to turn into Callowhill st. at 17th. No one 'Native Son' Author Awarded Medal NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (A.

Richard Wright, 32. Negro author of the novel, "Native Son," was named today 26th winner of the Spingarn Medal awarded annually to the American Negro who "shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any honorable field of endeavor." Last March, Hero and Maria made a separation agreement under which the children, Maria Theresa, 4, and Maria Antonia, 3, were to be in their mother's custody nine months each year and in Hero's custody the re WEEK-END SPECIALS Wurted Chocolate n-Strips gQc lb Chocolate Covered Molasses Sticks 6QC Assorted Salted e- nn Nuts Ret. l-uw lb 1626 Chestnut St. Call RITtenhout S070 was injured. 19.19 Pet.

change 9-2. Plus 4 32,386 Plus 6 Iliiuclisi From Phil a. DARK, lean-faced Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, 35, who stepped up to head the Ger-nan-American Bund when I'ritz Kuhn went to jail for nisuse of funds, describes himself as a "former Phila-celphian." In an "interview" which he typed himself in 1939, he said he was a mechanical engineer who lived in Camden until 1916, when he packed his suitcase and moved to Philadelphia. He moved on to New York from here three years ago. While in Philadelphia, Kunze made numerous "business" trips to Texas, the West Indies, New Mexico, California, Canada and Europe on an admitted salary $45 a week.

Protesting against the con-sc ription bill last September, hi called it "damnable, vicious and a Congressional declaration of civil war upon every German-American." Seventeen days later he told a Dies subcommittee that he is a a n-American. Throughout his testimony, placed the German before tl American in the hyphen-ation. Asked how long he thought it would take to be-ccme just an American, he replied, "perhaps a thousand yt-ars." 3 Bandit Suspects Seized by Rookie 1940 All accidents Motor vehicle 34,400 Public tnot motor vehicle) 15,300 Home M2.5(KI The medal was established in 1914 by the late Joel E. Spingarn, presi- dent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People i The children, left by their mother, Mrs. Mildred Dukeman, when she went to Broad and Arch sts.

to pay a gas bill, were Leroy, 4, and Harriet, 2. Firemen, hearing their screams as smoke ate its way Into 15, SV1 15.500 No change Plus 2 Plus 10 Occupational 17,000 for many years. maining three months. SENT TO CALIFORNIA Hero charged that on New Year's Day, Jose and Amparo spirited the children away from him and sent them to California, whither Maria Increased activity in all fields, largely attributable to National Defense, was the key to much of the 1940 increase, the council stated. the house, broke in and rescued the pair from the third floor.

.3 had gone on Nov. 17. The blaze started in the home of Aloysius Fleming at 1740 Carlton where a kitchen stove exploded. Elizabeth Flemming, 32, and two In his court papers. Hero said his U.

S. Underestimates wife's mental, physical and moral condition made her unfit to care for children, Betty, 13. and Loretta IHitler, Author Says heard the noise and rushed down the children. Before her departure Belfry Club Gives 'Imaginary Enemy' More than 500 attended a performance of a play. "Imaginary Enemy." presented in the Bellevue-Stratford last night by members of the Belfry Club, dramatic organization of Germantown Academy.

The cast for the annual undergraduate play of the school was headed by Charles D. Ford, Pierson Fort Melcher, Henry M. Irwin and Douglass H. Warner. All Ready Today For Another Busy Saturday! Closing Out This Season's SUITS and OVERCOATS At Qreatly Reduced Prices! s30 Overcoats s15 a s2000 '30 Worsted a Cheviot Suits 2P $35 Overcoats a 265B '30 Worsted a Tweed Suits 24" Two Trousers $4S Winter Fleece Overcoats 30 '40 Glen Derry Worsted Suits 28S '40 Fine Worsted trouser Suits 335 '60 Imported Fabric Overcoats 42S '95 SEDAN Overcoats 6750 Divided Payment Charge Accounts For Your Convenience for California, he said, she made the suicide attempt.

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He said the democracies including the United States "are dawdling while Hitler is feverishly building up his strength." When there is a lapse stairs to find the kitchen in flames. Before firemen, summoned by a motorist who saw the smoke pouring from the house, could get the blaze under control the first and second floors of the Flemming home were damaged. Playing water on the roofs and walls of adjoining homes in the narrow street, hosemen prevented the flames from spreading. Members of the Flemming famliy were cared for by neighbors. MUST APPEAR MONDAY "The police found her in her bedroom," he asserted, "in a comatose condition and dressed in evening clothes, suffering from depressive suicidal mania and also intoxication." The writ called for the appearance of Jose and Amparo Iturbi in Supreme Court Monday.

Instead spending more money repairing the old car, why not buy a really good used car? See the ads in The Inquirer. oi sigh with relief, but Hitler is busy backing up his threat or an all-out blow this spring," Streit said. A rookie policeman, warned by ra dio of a holdup 14 miles away, un-limtered his revolver early yesterday and, single-handed, captured three men suspected of robbing a Now You Can Be Hill Than "SHE" Is! $100 Reading Fire Takes Two Lives READING, Jan. 31 (A. Two lives were lost tonight in a quickly-quenched $100 fire.

Joseph Posey. 48. was suffocated while trying to escape from a blazing stone dwelling in which he lived. Joel H. Englehart, 32, a volunteer fireman, died of a fractured skull when he slipped on ice and fell when responding to the alarm.

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