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Mm NEWS COMICS PUZZLES WOMEN'S FEATURES PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA. FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 2. 1942 Man Is Police ShoS" Kills Youth In Wcrferfron. Chase She Hum Her l1 ur.se Again Thief Snatched It, Police Returned It Strictly M'olitica Happy Answers Complaint About Hose 'Hellzapoppin' Comedian Draws Cartoon io Illustrate His Reply By JOHN M.

CUMMIXGS FOR THE benefit of customers who came in late we open this piece with a reminder that a few days back there appeared here some critical comment on the deplorable condition of the open-work stockings worn by the "Hellzapoppin" girls in the opening number the night the riot opened in the Forrest Theatre. What follows is a translation (with artistic accompaniment) of abetter received from Happy Felton, who seems to have something to do with the show. "Well." wells Happy, to start his letter, "so your political story a few days ago about me and our 'Hellzapoppin ladies and their stockings gives me a chance for the only thing I like doing. I have always wanted to be a cartoonist for a paper. I've been an amateur cartoonist for a long time, but now I step into the big time on The Inquirer if, and when, you use my art.

(See cut) "Mr. Cummings, I agree with you and I don't agree with you. (Nothing could be fairer than that. Ed.) I agree that there was perhaps a hole or two in the stockings of our lovelies on the opening night when you saw our musical massacre. But I don't agree with you that there were as many as you seem to have seen.

(Maybe he was seeing double, Hap. Ed.) The why is simply because we' opened on Christmas night, and on Christmas night it was difficult to get baggage delivered, and the one trunk that By HitrRun Car Police Hunting Green Sedan Driven From Scene of Tragedy Near Cramp's Shipyard A 50-year-old man was killed last night in what Dolice de Patrolman Fires on Three' Young Suspects as They Flee; Coroner Orders Investigation A 19-year-old South Philadelphia youth was shot and killed by a policeman's bullet on the Delaware River water front early yesterday, as he and two companions allegedly tried to break into a manufacturing plant. The two others were captured by police after a brief chase. They denied that they had been doing anything more criminal than sky scribed as one of the most brutal hit-and-run accidents in their records. Thomas Flynn, of 1222 Day crossing Girard ave.

at Marl- -V Iff" At. Margaret Bainbridge, 32, of 1227 E. Venango st. is shown at the 12th anq Pine sts. police station with a purse a young Negro snatched from her at a central city parking lot.

She recovered it when he and two others wrecked their car at 12th and Spruce sts. 3 Escape IPnraMcrs a 1 Walter Luzak South Philadelphia youth who was killed by a policeman at Washington ave. and Water st. Boy, 12, Dies AsFI ames SweepHome Surrounded by flames as he stood in a second-floor window, hesitating to Jump, a 12-year-old boy was burned to death early yesterday when fire caused by defective Christmas tree wiring swept a tiny South Philadelphia home. He was John Dey, Jr, of 1211 Dur-for near 12th and Wolf and police said if he had jumped he would have landed in a blanket held by four men, as his mother and two-year-old brother did.

MOTHER, SON BURNED The mother. Mrs. Edna Dey. 34, leaped into the blanket holding her son, Joseph, in her' arms. Both were badly burned about the face and hands, and Mrs.

Dey sprained her ankle in the leap. When she discovered that her older son was still in the burning house, and had refused to jump, Mrs. Dey tried frantically to crawl back Into the mass of flames, but was restrained by neighbors. FOUND IN ALLEY The fourth member of the family, John Dey, 37, was found unconscious from smoke in an alleyway behind the house, after he had apparently leaped from a window. The father and his baby son were reported in serious condition in Methodist Hospital.

Mrs. Dey's condition was reported as fair at St. Agnes Hospital. BOY SLEPT ALONE From the Incoherent remarks cf the sorrowing mother, as she lay on her hospital bed, police learned that the fire had broken out suddenly at 6.15 A. M.

and had spread so rapidly through the house that all means of escape were cut off except the windows. Dey, a bus driver for the Epiphany Parochial School, 11th and Jackson and his wife and baby occupied the front one of two second-floor bedrooms In the small frame house. Twelve-year-old John Slept alone in the rear bedroom. DISCOVERS FIRE The fire was discovered by Con-cetta Anselmo, 24, of 1213 Durfor next door, when she arose to go to work at the Quartermaster Depot. The spreading flames, which destroyed the Dey home, also damaged the dwelling next door and Miss Anselmo.

her mother and her brother had to seek safety in the street. Woman Accused As Theft Suspect Police pointed an unpolite finger at Mrs. Clara Martha Vanloan yesterday, and said she was the woman burglar who has been robbing homes in Nortn Philadelphia. Mrs. Vanloan.

who is 53 and lives on 10th st. near Cumberland, is also known as Clara Ritchie. She was arrested late New Year's Eve after a woman intruder fled from the home of Mrs. Mary Pfleiger at 3943 N. 9th st.

with a purse containing $3. Magistrate William J. Hess, after hearing the testimony of Patrolmen George Harrison and William Schulty, who arrested Mrs. Vanloan. held her without bail for a further hearing Tuesday.

Killed borough st. 'at 8:30 P. was struck by an automobile traveling west on Girard ave. BODY FELL ON HOOD The body was thrown onto the hood of the automobile and was car ried along for more than 50 feet. As the car came to a stop, the body fell off.

-Almost at once, according to snec tators. the car started off again, and disappeared. Descriptions of it were not, complete, but police did learn mat is was a green sedan. POLICE MAKING SEARCH Immediately a search for a car an swering the description ed. and every suth car that had any auspicious marsings or indentations on fenders, hood or body was stopped and its driver closelv oiiPstionpH Flynn died at St.

Mary's Hospital 45 minutes after he was left injured in the street. A passing motorist took him to the hosnital. nnnriiKlnn nf the brain was the Immediate cause or death. His limbs and body were crushed by the blow of the hit-run car. Boy, 14, Injured When Hit by Auto Struck by an automobile at Hunt ing Park and Allegheny 14 year-old Thomas Brown, of 2932 Wishart was taken to Woman's College Hospital last night in a serious condition from a fracture of the skull.

The driver of the car, Charles F. Orton, of Maypole road. Upper Darby, will be arraigned this morn ing at the 22d st. and Hunting Park ave. police station.

Freight oh Car Rips 'Low Bridge1 The 10th st. bridge over the B. and O. Railroad at Packer ave. was ser iously damaged last night, after steel machine on a railroad flat car failed to clear the span.

Traffic was rerouted. The heavy piece of machinery, be ing moved on a westbound freight, ripped the wooden planking of the bridge and buckled and twisted the supporting steel girders. Finally the machine stuck beneath the bridge halting the freight train. City engineers closed the bridge to all traffic, including the movement of trolleys to the Navy Yard. Rail road employees worked for several hours to release the machine and clear the track.

Fee for Children Cut to 15c at Zoo The Philadelphia Zoo has lowered its admission fee for children and raised it for adults, It was announced yesterday. A new ticket price schedule, which went into effect immediately, re duced children's admission from 17 to 15 cents and raised adult fees from 28 to 30 cents. Defense taxes, it was explained necessitated the use of many pennies and slowed up the process of making cnange. The admissions are now in round figures without increasing the cost of admission to the average xamiiy, officials declared. The Helping Hand Lamp, Sofa Are Needed You can aid a neighbor with things you no longer use, through The Inquirer's Helping Hand column.

By LYDIA WIIITAKER STELLA, 18, is trying to take her father's place as the family's wage earner. She has turned over to her mother every penny she has earned at the Job she got after' graduating from high school last spring, and has done without all the things most working girls buy for themselves. Stella has a room of her own, but none of the "fixings." She would like a lamp or a bedside table anything that would make her room attractive. Alt ILDRED'S husband deserted her a year ago, leaving her the full responsibility and support of five children. There is scarcely any furniture In the house, and now the sofa the only article in the small living room has broken down and is beyond repair.

A sofa another no longer uses would help Mildred in her efforts to make a home for her children. If you can provide "trimmings" such as a lamp or bedside table for Stella's room, or a sofa for Mildred, won't you please write me, Lydia Whitaker, The Inquirer, Philadelphia? A iter IPnrse Theft Fleeing south on 12th st. after one of their number snatched a purse from a Mint employee, three Negroes abandoned their automobile and escaped on foot when the car struck a pole at Spruce Worshippers Pray for U. S. Victory A Nation at war yesterday interrupted the frivolity and merry-making which marks the advent of a New Year to pray for the triumph of liberty and freedom with an ultimate just and lasting peace.

Special prayer services were held in scores of Philadelphia churches throughout the day and dozens more were open for the first" 24 hours of the New Year as worshippers visited them to offer private prayers for Divine guidance for the Nation. F. D. K. URGED PRAYERS The local and National observance was in response to President Roosevelt's proclamation designating New Year's Day as an occasion for prayer.

"The new year of 1942," the Presi dent said, "calls for courage and the resolution of old and young to help win a world struggle in order that we may preserve all we hold dear. Our strength, as the strength of all men everywhere, is of greater avail as God upholds us." SPECIAL EXERCISES Services without sermons, but in cluding the Litany, were held in Lutheran churches at the urgence of Rev. Dr. E. P.

Pfatteicher. president of the Lutheran Mlnisterium of Pennsylvania. A large number of Protestant churches affiliated with the Philadelphia Federation of Churches held special exercises at the request of that body and all Episcopal churches of the Diocese of Pennsylvania were open for prayer throughout the day. PRAYERS FOR NATION Prayers for the Nation also were offered in Catholic churches as thou sands attended Masses celebrating the Feast of the Circumcision. A plea for greater church attend ance in the face of the world crisis was made by Rev.

Dr. Jacob A. Long, executive secretary of the Presbytery of Philadelphia North. OPPORTUNITY FOR SERVICE 'With a growing conviction that contemporary world problems are essentially spiritual, the Church con fronts the new year with an unparalleled opportunity for service." he said. "It is the Church's responsibility to lead in the restoration of spiritual values in the thinking and living of men." Among Jewish worship on the spe cial occasion was a large union ser vice held at West Philadelphia Com munity Centre, 53d and Ludlow sts.

Participating were the congregations Beth El. Uaar Zion, B'nai Aron. Beth Israel, B'nai Jeshurun, Beth Judah and Temple Israel. Nurses to Get 'Refresher Course1 To meet the growing demand for nurses both for defense and general work, the Abington Memorial Hospi tal has instituted a "refresher course" for nurses who have been away from the work for a long pe riod of time. All nurses who are members of the American Nurses' Association, and who are registered with the State, are qualified to enroll in the course, which will begin as soon as registra tion is completed.

The courses will last four weeks, for six days a week, eight hours daily. Army Employee Held as Thief. Charged with stealing electrical supplies from the U. S. Signal Corps supply depot at Wissahickon and Ab- bottsford where is is employed, James Stephens.

38, Negro, of 15th st. near Lombard, was under arrest at the 22d st. and Hunting Park ave. police station last night. Police said a guard searched Stephens as he was leaving the plant after work and found $15 worth of supplies in his pockets.

He will be arraigned this morning. Eisteddfod Held By Welsh Church The First Welsh Presbyterian Church, 21st st. below Fairmount yesterday held its 29th annual New Year's Day Eisteddfod, a competitive festival of music and literature. About 250 participated, with more than 800 in attendance. There were prizes for solo singers, choruses, piano solos and recitations.

Airlirtes Cancel Flights in Phila. Bad flying weather south of Philadelphia caused the cancellation of all flights in and out' of the Municipal Airport last night. A New York-to-Atlanta plane was grounded here at 7:30 P. M. and its passengers transferred to trains.

Regularly scheduled flights to Chicago also were canceled. larking on New Year's Eve, buti police said that all three of tne youths had records. The slam youth, waiter LuzaK, oi 114 League worker in a shoe factory, was dropped by a bullet in the brain as he and his companions fled from Water st. and Washington ave. along darkened Water st.

toward Christian. INQUIRY ORDERED The shot, authorities said, was fired by Patrolman John J. Quinn. of the red car detail at the 7th and Carpenter sts. station.

Quinn was accompanied by his car-mate. Pa trolman Joseph Samartino. As Coroner Hersch ordered an in vestigation of the shooting. Police Superintendent Howard P. Sutton revealed that a department inquiry was also being held.

This had not yet been completed, he said, but thus far I it had shown that under the cir cumstances, the policemen were only doing their duty. HAVE SPECIAL ORDERS "Police of all riverfront districts have been given special orders to watch for suspicious characters in the neighborhood of commercial and industrial plants," he pointed out. Luzak's two companions, captured by the policemen after a chase, gave their names as Robert Garson, 21, Front st. near Federal, and Thomas J. Burns, 20, Howard st.

near Chris tian. They were arraigned before Mag istrate Brady at the 7th and Carpenter sts. station, and were held without bail for a further hearing. They were slated as material wit nesses, and as suspicious characters. NEVER IN TROUBLE Although Luzak's, parents protested that he had been "a good boy and never was in trouble," and although his two companions also denied any wrongdoing.

Patrolmen Quinn and Samartino reported that the three apparently had been trying to enter the Heyl Brothers Co. syrups manufacturing plant, at the northwest corner of Water st. and Washington ave. Police records showed that all three had been arrested before. Luzak and Burns were arrested on April 7.

1940. for breaking into a garage at 922 S. Water only a few feet from where yesterday's fatal shooting occurred. The two youths were caught stripping a truck of its accessories, police said. On April 12.

1940, they were tried before Judge Frank Smith in Common Pleas Court on burglary charges, and both were sent to Huntingdon Reformatory for inde terminate terms. RELEASED ON PAROLE On June 14, 1941. they were released on parole after serving 14 months. Both registered at City Hall, and promised, under the parole code, not to associate with other criminals after dark. Thus Luzak and Burns were violating their paroles by being together when they were seen by the red-car patrol, police said.

As Patrolmen Quinn and Samartino approached to question the youths, they ran. Quinn whipped out his gun and fired. The bullet struck Luzak "in the back of the head, and he dropped. Physicians at Mount Sinai Hospital said that the missile had pierced his brain. Customs Official Retires From Job Charles F.

Schmidt, deputy collector of customs in charge of the warehouse division, retired yesterday. Schmidt, who is 70, and lives at 490S Cedar began work as a junior clerk in the Customs House 39 years ago. He and other retired employees will be honored at a celebration at a future date. College Students Aid Red Cross A gift of $224 has Just been received by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross from the students of the Pennsylva nia State College of Optometry in this city. This sum represents an increase of more than 100 percent over last year's memberships from this group towards the annual roll call.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Volpe, 6050 Vme st. Third arrival in the metropolitan area, but first outside the city prop er, was an eignt-pound. six-ounce girl born at Montgomery County Hospital, Norristown.

at 12.02 A. M. to Mrs. Marie Murphy. 21.

of 1204 W. Ford West Conshohocken. Between 1 and 2 A. M. two more babies were born in the Philadelphia area, one was born between 2 and 3.

three between 3 and 4. three between 4 and 5. one between 5 and 6, and three between 6 and 7. had all the new. scrumptious, superb, perfect hose wasn't in the load.

(Whaddya mean, load? Ed.) -K TEXT DAY the two pairs with the slight holes jj were sent to the Salvation Army and (come back and see for yourself) the entire group of charmers had their new ones. 'And the new ones, like the old or.es, didn't come from Japan. They were especially made riht here, in a mill a few leagues (Big or bush? Ed.) outside Philadelphia. "As to your point that there were many holes, let me point out another thing that just comes to mind. The stockings are NET.

Net means holes. How can we have ret stockings without holes? I'd like to ask the fisherman and Lorelei about that. (You'll find Lorelei in the lobby with Mrs. Jones. Ed.) Perhaps that's how you got the idea that they were full of holes.

(Idea me eye.) "But stockings apart (They were that, all right. I was thrilled by being in politics in your column. I am a statesman, not a politician, however. (That's what they all sa.v. Ed.) That is to say I would want to be a statesman! Actors, unfortunately, have no fixed homes and that would prevent me from going into politics, but if the day ever comes (God speed it, Ed.) when I settle down in Philadelphia which was my home for so many years, I hope you will further my candidacy for Councilman (Another Pommer! then to Harrisburg as a Representative (Another Kil-roy! then a Senator and then, of course, the Governorship.

(Whoops! Ed.) A MI AMBITIOUS? Moreover, you will be glad to hear that all of oilr Hellzapoppin people are ready, willing and able to do everything they can in the war. While we were in New York they gave shows for the soldiers and the sailors, going as far as Virginia on their days off. All theatre folk are like that. Already several of our troupe have promised the lovely daughter of Meyer Davis to go to Indiantown Gap next Sundav to appear for the soldiers there. "And they will go with great good will and eagerness and do not look upon it as a 'benefit.

Arid with gratitude for the opportunity of doing a slight service to the men who are giving such great and sublime service." That's a fine letter, Happy, and we're glad to spread it on the record here today. Your apology or explanation or whatever you might term it for the condition (not the shape) of the" stockings has been filed for future reference. Your kind invitation to check the. net is accepted with thanks. For the benefit of your large number of friends and such relatives as you may have in this old town, we hasten to state your amateur standing as a cartoonist is unsullied.

WE KNOW you will forgive this department for refraining from rendering an off-hand judgment on your political ambitions. Before reaching a conclusion we should like to have time enough to ascertain hether the municipal Council, the Hon. General Assembly or the Congress could properly function with another ccmedian. Before getting too far away from the subject which started this discussion we would remind you, Happy, that we are familiar with the nettish nature of the hose. It was taken into account.

What we complained of, Oh, what-the hellzapoppin is the use of going over that again! We'll go down to see for ourself. What we like, every bit as much as your show, is the willingness of the gals to entertain the soldiers. Any day now. Happy, these lads in the camps are likely to know the real meaning of hellzapoppin. They are in training for serious work.

But training can get monotonous and we know from experience that entertainment good singing, good dancing can lighten the burden. When they get up to Indiantown Gap tell them to drop in on General Ed. Martin, who's in command of the works. He's an old friend of our'n and a fine guy as the gals will discover. To you and the "Hellzapoppin" gang, a happy New.

Year from our old woman, our Uncle Dominick and self. Our old woman, incidentally, saw what we saw. Only she taw it first. Don't change the color of violets. We like pink.

5 Captains Get New Police Posts Five police captains were transferred to new assignments yesterday by Public Safety Director James Malone. The new duties began at midnight. Captain Edwin Willdridge, who has been in command of the 17th district. at 20th and Federal was 6ent back to his old command in the tenderloin district, the 8th. at 10th and Buttonwood sts.

Captain John Driscoll. who had been in charge of the 8th, was re turned to his home district, the 39th. at 22nd st. BLACK AT CITY HALL Captain Robert Black was transferred from the 39th to headquarters at City Hall, where he will aid Captain John Knecht in civil defense duties. Andrew J.

McDcrmott. one of three new captains sworn in last week, was transferred from headquarters to command of the 18th district, 4th and York sts. He replaced Captain Arthur Fania. who was assigned to command of the Harbor Patrol, which in recent years had been functioning under a sergeant. Captain Willdridges' place at 20th and Federal sts.

will be taken by Sergeant Joseph J. Phelan, who was named acting captain. st. yesterday at 5.30 P. The fugitives, one of them a wo- I man.

left behind in the car's ton-neau a large quantity of luggage and other articles which police said apparently had been stolen parked automobiles in a day-long foray through the central city. Whether the thieves' machine was also stolen could not be learned immediately. PURSE RECOVERED The purse, containing $30, was recovered in the wrecked automobile by its owner, Mrs. Margaret Bain-bridge, 32, of 1227 E. a typist at the U.

S. Mint. With Miss Marian Hitchcock, 35, of 3031 Richmond Miss Bainbridge was entering an automobile in a parking lot at 212 S. 12th st. when a young, flashily dressed Negro snatched her purse from beneath her arm and ran, she told police.

With the two women and Patrolman Joseph Nixon, stationed at 12th and Walnut in pursuit, the purse-snatcher ran south on Camac st. to Locust, and east to 12th where he leaped into a convertible sedan awaiting him at the curb. The driver last control of the machine and it sidewiped a parked automo bile, went out of control, and crashed into a pole nearly a block lurtncr south, at Spruce st. There the occupants took to their heels. Loot found in the rear or tne machine was taken to the 12th and Pine sts.

police station to await claimants. New Year Frolics Blamed in 2 Fires Firemen were summoned twice early yesterday to the vicinity of May field st. andBelfleld ave. to extinguish blazes believed to have been started by New Year celebrants. The first fire damaged an awning on the butcher shop of Andrew Shales at the southwest corner of the intersection.

The second, which occurred 20 minutes later, at about 3 A. burned another awning on the delicatessen shop of William Olickman, at the northwest corner 3 Waylay and Rob Victim on Street Anthony Chioda, 24. of Wlster st. near Belfleld accused of being one of three men who" robbed John W. Crawford, 55, of 4824 Stenton of $22 early yesterday, was arrested near the victim's home about two hours after the theft.

The three men, Crawford said, grabbed him as he alighted from a taxicab in front of his home at 2.30 A. M. Two held him while the other rifled his pockets. He identified Chioda as one of the trio. Stork Uti Visits As MP 2 Us Mtmmfj On Old Mr.

Stork, who always celebrates the New Year's debut with a few new vital statistics of his own, sat down somewhat breathlessly yesterday and studied the figures. He discovered that 16 babies had been born in the Philadelphia area between midnight and dawn, and that 10 of them were girls. It was a boy, however, who was the first new arrival of 1942. He checked in exactly one second after midnight at Hahnemann Hospital, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Max Shapiro, 7095 N. 20th st. The child, weighing six pounds, six ounces, is the first in 12 years of married life for the Shapiros. RUNNER-UP ARRIVES Nine seconds later, at University Hospital, arrived the runner-up, the.