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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 9. 1943 'ibde dh 3 2 Taxis Held Up- Suspect Seized In 5-Crash Chase City Expects to Recover in Lost Taxes A witness testified yesterday during the lmrjeachment investi-f of Receiver of Taxes W. Frank Marshall that he believed the city will be able to recover all of the $209,000 tax money reported i stolen by city employes.

He" also (AP Wlrepboto) SCHOONER LOCATED AFTER GIGANTIC SEA-AIR SEARCH The schooner Keewatin, with four aboard, originally believed adrift in the Atlantic with two children locked in a cabin, which has been located after a Coast Guard sea-air search in the British West Indies. All are safe. Those aboard are Mr. and Mrs. Donald Parrot, of Baltimore, and their sons, David (below), 4, and Stephen, 10 months.

Human Shield Fails Thug Shoots 29 Then I Slain VANCOUVER. B. C. April 8 (INS). A BANK bandit mho shielded him If from gunfire with a five-year-old child was shot to death today on a busy Vancouver street by a "Deadeye Dick" policeman.

Two bank employes were wounded by the fleeing gunman before he Wis shot down. The bandit was identified as Robert Harrison, 29. of Alliance. Sask. Witnesses said he snatched $700 from the teller's window in the Canadian Bank of Commerce before th shooting began.

Five-year -old Ian Erlason, the child Harrison used as a shield, escaped uninjured. POLICE CONSTABLE CECIL PAUL brought down the fleeing robber with one shot which struck Harrison in the head. The gunman collinsed to the Davement. still cluching the frightened boy. Harrison wounded C.

T. J. Scan-Ian, the bank manager, and Arthur -arson, the teller, as he fled the Iding under fire from the teller. J. 'her was seriously wounded.

grabbing the child Harri-attempted to shield himself a woman bank customer as Mrs. J. Kelley. but she from his grip and fled. I oBce said ail currency taken from the bank was recovered.

40 Agents Check One-Man Clubs Cantlnard From Flrtt Page laying open as long as a customer Is tn sight. The agents. Cortege said, then will examine each charter and the history of Its Issuance, looking for fraud In the allegations on which the charter was asked, and to see if the purposes stated in the charter preambles are being fulfilled. RECORDS TO BE AUDITED Auditing of the money records of the clubs will follow, to see if they are actually non-profit associations or If one or two men (usually, listed as 'steward or president' or some other such title) are in fact getting all the profits from the sale of liquor. The freering' of club licenses came as disastrous news for one-xnan operators who had planned to tell out if what they called "the heat continued.

The asking price for a club liquor license was quoted yesterday before the 'freezing" announcement, at $10,000. a price expected to evaporate when the racketeers realize no such license transfers win be ratified by the State Board. Cortese said the whole program of action was laid out at hisilong conference at Harrlsburg Tuesday with the full membership of the Liquor Control Board. BEADY TO GO TO COURT He Is ready, he said, to start the first padlock proceedings against a private club and will probably file the papers Wednesday in a Common Pleas Court. He declined to identify the club involved.

It was regarded as possible that he wlU begin this first test action before Judge Raymond MacNeille, one of the three Judges who ordered the District Attorney to proceed against one-man clubs. Public attention first became focused on the whole problem of one-man clubs after the murder of Hubert E. Madden, well-known business executive who was kicked to death on the street two weeks ago today. Madden, police said, was drink lng until dawn at the Moravian Dining Club. Chancellor st.

near 15th. The bartender of that place was held in the police inquiry into Madden's death. The 40 agents chosen by Gelder for the Philadelphia inquiry represent the largest force ever sent on such an assignment Into Philadelphia. Cor-tese said they were specially selected men -from all parts of the State." all specially chosen for the enormous job in front of them. Memphis Wins Contest WASHINGTON.

April 8 (AP). Memphis. was declared winner today of the United States Chamber of Commerce's annual fire prevention contest. It''" A "i 1- TV1RS. ETHEL ROOSEVELT Divorce Planned By Mrs.

FDR, Jr. Continued From First Page have joint custody of their two sons, Franklin, 3d, 11, and Christopher. 8. Sprmgmeyer also would not discuss a report" that a $2,500,000 trust fund was to be set up for each child. The Roosevelts were married June 30, 1937, in Wilmington, Del.

The ceremony was attended by many of the Nation outstanding social and political figures. DECLINES TO COMMENT Franklin, who is 34, spent four years in the Navy during the war, during which time he rose from ensign commander. He holds the Legion of Merit medal "for exceptionally meritorious conduct" in action in the Pacific, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. He recently announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives from New York City to fill the vacancy caused by the "death of Representative Sol Bloom. In New York today, he declined to comment on the reported divorce action.

I never discuss my private life," he said. FAMILY'S FIFTH DIVORCE The divorce, if it is effected, will be the fifth among the five children of the late President and Mrs. Roosevelt. All the other children, excepfJohn Roosevelt, have been divorced at least once. John was married in 1938 and he and his wife, the former Anne Clark, have two children.

The only girl of the family, Anna Eleanor, was divorced from Curtis Dall and married John Boettiger. James Roosevelt married Betsy Cushing, divorced her and married Romelle Schneider, a nurse. Elliott Roosevelt was divorced twice, from Elizabeth Donner and from Ruth Googins to marry his present wife, Faye Emerson, the actress. Diggers Trying To Rescue Child Continued From First Page and for a while, officers said, they felt some pressure at the other end They heard a scream, then all was quiet. Advice was shouted down to the child.

Could she tie a rope around her waist? No reply. Kathy's parents, Mr. and Mrs David H. Fiscus, were among hun dreds watching the rescue attempts. The girl fell into the pipe about 5 P.

M. (P. S. Her cries ceased about an hour later. Authorities discarded the idea of lowering a midget or a circus thin man down the pipe because they.

feared cutting off the oxygen sup ply to the girl. Then, too. there was the danger of a second person being trapped in the narrow tube. FELL IN WHILE PLAYING Digging the pipe out in sections or whole appeared to be the solution police were taking. But it was con ceded that it would take hours to dig straight down 100 or more feet.

Kathy was playing in a vacant lot near her home with her older sister. Barbara, 9, and a cousin. Gus Lyon 5- They were foot-racing from one end of the lot to the other. Kathy couldn't keep up. When the two older children look ed back, they couldn't fee little Kathy.

They started looking for her and Gus heard her crying as he passed within inches of the hole. GIRL REPLIES TO MOTHER The children ran to the Fiscus home and told Mrs. Fiscus. The frantic mother told police she leaned down and shouted: "Can you hear me, Kathy?" The reply came faintly, a terrified, "yes." The pipe down which the child fell one of several drilled by the San Marino branch of the California Water and Telephone Co. on the future site of a Masonic temple.

Kathy's father is the San Marino district manager of the company. Suspect Caught A bandit, using the technique of the "big scare" to coerce his victims into parting peacefully with their valuables, held up two taxlcab drivers in the North Philadelphia area last night. The timely arrival of police resulted in the arrest of a suspect, later identified by both victims. "I'm the guy who knocked off those two on South so I hav nothing to lose." he told Alfred E. Ooldstein, of 4207 Chester ave.

"So take it easy or 111 kill you." Whereupon Goldstein relinquish ed two wrist watches worth a total of $45, and $5 In cash. THREATENS LIFE A short time later the man rnH. bing another cab driver. Vincent Biglin, of 103 W. Court land used a different techniaue at Camac and Diamond sts.

"Give me vour nhone number arvrf address." he demanded of Biglin. "Write it on a niece of. naner. Th if you report this to police, IH kill you. Biglin had alreadv handed over both the monev and the memoran dum requested by the bandit, when a pouce prowl cur came along, bear ing patrolmen Lawrence MurnhT and Benjamin Craig.

POLICE CATCH SUSPECT As the man looked toward the police car, Biglin took advantage of his opportunity. He started his cab up suddenly, and the rear door, still open, struck the man and knocked him off balance. He straightened up quickly and ran, the police after him. They caught him a block away, at Camac and Diamond sts. As he was being booked at the 8th and Jefferson sts.

police station, Goldstein came in, and immediately identified the prisoner as the man who had robbed him a few minutes earlier. "It was at 16th and Susquehanna." Goldstein declared. "He took my tw wrist watches." IDENTIFIES WATCHES A search of the man disclosed twr watches, which Goldstein identified as his. The nrisoner save his name Walter Riley. 21.

of 12th st. near Diamond. He said he worked for a metal working firm. Neither driver had en tnnnn during either holdup, and police did noc Know wnetner the big threats had been chiefly to cover up lack of such persuasive aids. The bandit's assertion that he was the murderer of the two clerks in th South st.

liquor store holdup was not given too mucn credence, by police, but nevertheless he was carefully questioned about it. Actor Rex Ingram Undergoes Surgery KANSAS CITY, April (UP). Rex Ingram. Negro actor, who portrayed "De Lawd" in "Oreen Pastures." underwent an emergency operation today, the first of two necessary abdominal operations, William H. Towers, his attorney, said.

Towers and Elmer C. Jackson, Jr, are court-appointed counsel for Ingram in a Federal morals case involving a 15-year-old girl from Sa-lina. Kan. Ingrahm was to have gone to trial in Federal District Court In To-peka, early next week. Because of the operation.

Judge Arthur J. Mellott today postponed the trial date to April 25, 3-Dimension Lens Claimed by Dane COPENHAGEN, Denmark. April (AP). A Danish engineer said today he had obtained a world patent on a new-type lens for making three-dimensional motion pictures. The inventor.

Egon Wendelboa Schriwer, said he had developed "a new sort of optic lens, which may be fitted on any camera." He predicted it would "revolutionise tha film industry," but declined to describe the lens in detail. He said an American syndicate had offered him $90,000 a month for world rights to use his lens. Reds Mighty Proud Of Their New Pig MOSCOW. April 8 OTP). The Communist newspaper Pravda reported today that M.

F. Ivanov. a Ukrainian member of the Academy of Sciences, had raised a new typa of pig known as the "Ukrainian White Steppe." The pig was said to excel any other pig, especially the so-called "English white pig." Pravda said the sow produces 22 pigs in one litter and that the average weight of the sow was 400 kilo (882 lbs.) and the boar 463 kilos 11021 Woman Is Irked By C.O.D. Presents SPRINGFIELD, April 8 (INS). Miss Bcttie Westbrook has been receiving all kinds of presents, from coal to flowers during the past month, she complained to police.

She said that an unknown person orders the items and has them sent to her COD. The "presents" included coal, beer, whisky, flowers, furniture, besides a taxlcab and a laundryman, each to perform services. home, ringing the bell and then hiding in the shadows until he saw the baby taken in. The couple, married last October, told police they had taken the baby from a Pittsburgh hospital whera he was born, March 26 and brought him to a hotel here. DECIDE ON ABANDONING After spending most of the night talking, they decided to "give away" Uteir CIU1U dcvkiub lie wm wuiu ma soon after their marriage.

Melquiet said he left his wife la a restaurant, hunted a home with a vestibule, so that the baby would he out of the weather, and then placed him on the doorstep. Although they have been held for trial, District Attorney Clyde lv! tj4 a wi could be worked out to reunite the parents and their son. rS skfeL It 111 jljL A Willow Grove man's homeward Journey from Washington in a borrowed automobile ended in his arrest on drunken driving and other charges in Chester last night after a chase in which the machine he was driving allegedly struck at least five other cars. The suspect. Thomas F.

Walsh. 34, of Evans Willow Grove, was booked on charges of driving under the influence of liquor, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving, and driving without a license. He will have a hearing thii morning before Magistrate R. Robinson Lowry in Chester police court. BORROWED CAR FROM FRIEND The police report said Walsh, driving a car bearing Wisconsin license plates which he said he had borrowed from a friend in Washington, first got into trouble about 8 P.

M. when his machine side-swiped another driven by Fred C. Petersen, 22. of Earleville. in Claymont, Del.

Petersen gave chase when Walsh failed to stop, police said, and twice forced him to the curb- only to have Walsh drive around him and keep going. With Petersen still in pusuit, Walsh wove through narrowly missing several parked cars. At Ridge rd.and Price st. in Trainer, according to the charges, he collided with a car driven by Mrs. Blanche Benoit, 42.

of Darly "Uaymont. She suffered a bruised knee. Her husband. Oliver, and their son. Joseph, 11, riding with her, escaped injury.

After the collision Walsh's car mounted the sidewalk and blew a tire but kept going, police said. ANOTHER JOINS CHASE A half-mile farther on. at 9th st. and Keystone Chester, Walsh's car sideswiped another driven by Joseph Eelixson, 44, of Chester pike and Ridley Ridley Park. Ellix-son joined Petersen in the pursuit, both with horns blowing steadily.

A few blocks later, police said, Walsh's car hit two other automobiles, one driven by Raymond Hibbs. 45, of Philadelphia pike, Wilmington, and the other by John Grady, 39, of West Wilmington. He caromed across the street and finally halted at 9th and Booth Chester, where police arrested him. He was pronounced drunk by Dr. D.

C. Donahoo. Chester City physician, and jailed for the night. Chester police tentatively estimated the total damage at $2000. Walsh, a former Army Air Forces major, was reported employed as a Civil Aeronautics Administration inspector in Washington.

$50,000 Missing At N. Y. Airport NEW YORK. April 8 (AP). A manila envelope containing $50,000 in cash was reported missing today from the International Airport offices of K.

M. Royal Dutch Airlines. Police said it was left on an office desk and disappeared last night. An extensive search was begun of the airlines' hangars and offices at the Idlewild, Queens, airport. An Amsterdam-bound plane that left Idlewild early today was held up at Gander, Newfoundland, in the hope the money might have gone aboard it without being noticed.

All cargo was removed and crew and cabin compartments searched without finding any trace of the money, which was in $100 bills. 80-Mi. Gale Kills 15inW. Europe LONDON, April 8 (UP) Eighty-mile-an-hour gales, which lashed most of Western Europe, today caused heavy crop damage, paralyzed channel shipping, slowed the Berlin airlift, toppled bomb-damaged buildings and left at least 15 persons dead and scores injured. The giant liner Queen Mary was 25 hours late in entering Southampton harbor after riding out the violent storm off the channel port of Cherbourg.

Eleven persons were reported killed in Germany, at least two persons were killed in France by gale-caused accidents, and two more were reported dead in Switzerland as a result of the storm. FISHING BOATS MISSING Several small fishing craft from ports in northern France were overdue and feared lost. Barns were blown down and crops suffered heavy damage in northern France, and trees were uprooted and tile roofings swept to the ground in northern Italy, injuring at least 20 persons. Landing intervals in the Berlin airlift were widely spaced as planes bucked heavy cross winds which made flying hazardous. Despite the gale, Britain's deputy Prime Minister, Herbert Morrison, flew into Berlin to inspect the British-American airlift.

CHURCHILL USES TENDER SOUTHAMPTON, April st mPK Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill landed by tender today from the Queen Mary after spending the night aboard the liner in the stormy Engiisn cnannei. Air Crash Survivor Is Operated Upon ALLENTOWN, April 8 (AP). Kenny Blekicki was on the mend today after he successfully underwent an emergency operation for the removal of a kidney. The six-year-old radio talent show prize winner was one of two persons who survived the crash of a private plane in a wooded area near here at midnight Tuesday. Three others were killed, including tne boy's mother.

Danny de Turk. 34-year-old banjo player hurt in the wreck, is now off the critical list. Both are patients at Allentown General Hospital. Kenny's father called on the boy today and physicians said the young saxophone player appeared cheerful and is showing marked accused the City Controller's of flee of shortcomings in the tax account investigation. Assistant City Solicitor Abraham Wernick testified at a hearing of the five-man committee court-appointed to sift the facts on Marshall's conduct in office.

Upon the committee's findings will depend whether Marshall is brought before City Council for an impeachment trlil. Representative Albert L. Pfaff, a member of the Legislature who foi 10 years prior to February, 1936, worked in the office of the City Controller under Dr. Robert C. White also testified.

J. Wesley McWiiliams, chairman of the five-man committee, demurred on the statements that the city would get its money back, through various devices. He said that testl mony he had heard up to the present time seemed to indicate that a much larger amount than $209,000 had been stolen from amusement tax and other funds. The witnesses, however, stuck to their opinions. When yesterday's hearing ad Journed, McWiiliams announced that the committee would take time out to study testimony and a re port on tax office business by one of several cerifled public account ants assigned to analyze the city's money business.

He said that, pos sibly, another hearing will be held on April 30. Both of yesterday's witnesses at tacked previous testimony of Wood ward Johnson, chief auditor for City Controller Frank J. Tiemann, that tax records were made out in triplicateone copy each going to the cashier and the billing department of the tax collector's office, and a third copy going to the City Con troller. EX-AUDITOR TESTIFIES Representative PfafC said that. during his employment in the Controller's office, he had never discovered a triplicate control system.

although he was assigned to make audits of certain tax office matters. He said that his "checks" involved 40 "spots," but admitted that he made his "checks" with less than a day's work each year. He testified that parking lot and amusement tax collections were, to his best know! edge, operated on an "honorary basis." He added that, so far as he knew, the Controller's office never got its copy of the tax receipts. Wernick testified that a "school boy" looking at the amusement tax records would have known "some thing was wrong." However, he reiterated his opinion that the city would eventually collect its lost money. Some of it, he said, would come from the Continental Casualty which bonds city employes.

He pointed out that a judgment of $102,000 has been obtained against Herman Taylor, boxing promoter. The Judgment has been appealed. SETTLEMENT, MADE He, also, said the city' has made an agreement on settlement with the estate of William C. Foss, former amusement tax division head whose suicide last May threw the tax theft investigation into high gear. He said that the widow, Mrs.

May Foss, had agreed to turn over to the city $13,000 in cash, $3400 in U. S. Savings Bonds, a home next door to the Foss home at 643 N. Marlyn and a house and its contents at 6200 Seaview Wildwood, N. J.

All this, he estimated, would amount to something between $55,000 and $65,000. Plane Flies Food To Stricken Village ST. JOHN'S. April 8 (AP. A rescue plane flew to hunger-stricken St.

Mary's Bay in Labora-dor with food today. A doctor aboard reported the situation there was "desperate and that babies were dying. Word that the 100 residents were "gripped by starvation" came yes terday from Dorothy Jupp, nurse at the tiny outpost. Bad weather prevented earlier attempts to fly food there. The coast is clogged with ice and no ships could get through.

Forrestal Guarded After Mail Threats Chicnnn Tphim Prm Rurvirtr WASHINGTON. April 8. Former Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal tonight was under guard in the Navy Hospital at nearby Bethesda. after receiving a number of threatening letters following his resignation March 23, Navy sources disclosed tonight.

He was flown to the hospital from Florida, where he was found to be suffering from nervous exhaustion. command of Eighth Division almost as quickly as Murphy took over in West Philadelphia. Murphy, who is 47, lives at 4030 Mitchell Roxborough. He is married and the father of five boys and one girl. Promoted to a detective in 1931, three years after he joined the police force, he was slated unofficially to head the Detective Bureau in 1939.

He missed the post because Andrew J. Emanuel was removed as Director of Public Safety and replaced by James H. (Shooey) Malone, who asked him to stay in charge of the special squad assigned to break up the rackets. Connor is 57 and lives at 4800 Castor ave. He has been a member of the police force since September, 1917.

He was an acting inspector from 1945 until January of this year, when he received the full rank. Clark, 67, lives at 2729 S. 13th st. He is one of thj oldest ranking officers in the bureau and has been a lieutenant since 1930. He first entered the Detective Bureau in 1922.

Later, Rosenberg announced that he had requested Assistant City Solicitor James F. Ryan to prepare a bill calling for an amendment to the City Charter to increase the probationary period for police and firemen from the present 90 days to six months. According to the director, the longer probationary period will give him a better opportunity to ascertain the capabilities of (AP Wirephoto) DAVID PARROT AT WHEEL OF SHIP Schooner Safe With 4 Aboard Continued From First Page in the Pensacola Island group. 157 miles east-northeast of Miami. Discovery of the vessel ended a vast aerial search by Coast Guard, Air Force, Navy and Marine planes from bases along the Atlantic sea board from Salem, to Miami, Fla.

Don Cobaugh, of Cleveland. Aviation Pilot First Class, who flew the rescue plane, said he saw "one child and what might have been the second by the ship's wheel. LOUNGING IN SUN "The grownups were lounging around in the sun and there was no sign of any trouble," he said. "We didn't land because it was fairly rough and they didn't ask for help. The vessels were anchored in the lee of the bay and there were several fishing boats a few miles away." Some 29 planes took part in the search after reports were received that the two Parrot children might be aboard a schooner seen drifting out of control and apparently aban doned 70 miles off Charleston, S.

three days ago. The Keewatin sailed from the Bahamas April 1 with Mr. and Mrs. Parrot and their two children. David.

4. and Steven. 10. The Coast Guard feared Parrot and his wife might have been swept overboard after locking their children below for safety. Cobaugh said he dropped two messages and made four passes over the two schooners.

He saw the messages picked up in a dinghy from the schooner, but there was no reply. Earlier today the master of the schooner Windfall arrived at Swans-boro, N. and told Coast Guardsmen his vessel was the one the tanker Richard Cleveland had sighted Tuesday morning, when the search for the Keewatin was touched off. ALL HANDS WERE SEASICK The Windfall's master, Capt. W.

C. Norton, of Newport, R. said his schooner was in the approximate area in which the Cleveland reported sighting a "derelict." He said his rigging was damaged and the crew would not have heard the Cleveland's whistle blasts because all hands were seasick and below decks. Parrot's brother. Hadley Parrot of Baltimore, first raised the possibility that the two Parrot children might have been locked in the Keewatin's cabin.

He said Parrot customarily locked the children in the cabin during rough weather to protect them in the event he and his wife were lost. Big Trucks Barred At Penna. Border ERIE, April 8 (UP) 300 trucks carrying valuable merchandise were piled up at the Pennsylvania-Ohio border near here tonight by a police blockade against overloaded vehicles. Moving to enforce Pennsylvania's ban on loads exceeding 45,000 pounds on its highways, the police set up scales one mile east of the State line on Route 20 a week ago. Truckers not wishing to run the risk of the weighing-in halted at the border in increasing numbers.

At least 65 drivers who sought to run the blockade have been halted and fined $50. Some of the trucks were reported to have waited a week in hopes that the police would relax their watch. Others have reduced their loads by transferring goods to small helper trucks. Two Babies Burn To Death in Home PETERSBURG, April 8 (AP) Two babies burned to death today as firemen from three central Pennsylvania communities tried to rescue them. Coroner Blair Shore said the victims were Dennis Lee Yoder, 17 months, and Rebecca Ann Yoder, 6 months.

He said their mother. Mrs. Daniel Yoder, had been visiting a neighbor about 45 minutes before the fire started. The official said there was no fire in any stove when Mrs. Yoder left the house.

He added that cause of the blaze was not known but that it "may have started from a short in an electrical circuit. -v New Dodge Charged Tax Lien Put On Ituhinstciii Chicago Tribune Press Service NEW YORK, April 8. SERGE RUBINSTEIN, the Russian-born millionaire draft-dodger, is: In the Federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, completing a jail sentence for ducking out of the war to make millions. (He will get out April 25. assuming he's been behaving well).

Under indictment on charges of obtaining some of his wealth by putting over a $3,000,000 stock fraud. Facing a rather uncertain deportation proceeding. (His native Russia wants no part of such a successful capitalist and Portugal has cast doubts on his claimed Portuguese citizenship.) Being sued for divorce and alimony of $100,000 a year. SO TODAY. Capt.

William J. Pedrick, District Internal Revenue Collector, slapped a $775,193 lien on the assets of Serge and his estranged wife. The lien is to cover unpaid income taxes and interest for 1945, the year, the indictment charges, that the international financier rigged the market to make a killing in oil. Serge, who will be brought to New York on his release-from Lewisburg to plead to the stock fraud indictments, may have something to say then. Penna.

Soldier Killed by Train NEW YORK, Apri 8 (AP) Pfc. Kenneth Mitchell, 21, of Inkerman, near Pittston. hitchhiking by air back to his Army post, was killed during a stopover here last night when his borrowed car was hit by a train. Authorities said the car apparently stalled on an isolated crossing of the Long Island Railroad near Farmingdale. Mitchell was en route from Inkerman to his post in California, catching rides on Air Force planes when space was available.

He landed at Mitchell Air Force base yesterday. Brooks to Marry Ina Ray Hutton HOLLYWOOD. April 8 (UP Ray Hutton. 30, and Randy Brooks. 28.

both orchestra leaders, took out a marriage license today. They first met in New York two years ago when Miss Hutton went to hear Brooks orchestra play. They said they would be married here Sunday. It will be the second marriage for both. Movie actor James Craig will be best man and Miss Hutton's sister, songstress June Hutton of the Pied Pipers, matron of honor.

Police Inspector Shifted From Command in W. Phila. Thugs Hold Up 5 Viewing TV Bout Special to The Inquirer ALLENTOWN, April 8. Three bandits walked into an Allen-town industrialist's home with a tommy gun and two pistols tonight and held up five persons watching a televised boxing bout. Morris Kaplan, 5, of 223 N.

Marshall president of the Sondra Manufacturing lingerie makers, was in the first-floor television room of his fashionable West Side home with his wife, a daughter, Sondra, 17, and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fels. ONE SHOT FIRED Shortly after 10 P. M.

the doorbell rang and Kaplan answered it. Three men entered holding the weapons, took $310 from Kaplan, ushered all five persons to an upstairs room and demanded to know the location of a safe. "I have none," Kaplan insisted. The bandits searched, but found none. In anger, one gunman fired a shot into a wall.

Then the three locked their victims in the room and fled. A few. minutes later, Kaplan and Fels forced open the door and telephoned police. Police roadblocks stopped hundreds of automobiles in the next two hours, but found no suspects. The robbers were dapperly clad in tweeds and gabardines.

They wore no masks. The tallest was a six-footer. CHECK PHILA. LINK Kaplan's house is half a mile from that of Louis Weiner, another textile manufacturer, where four gunmen took $89,000 in cash, jewelry and securities on June 27. 1947, after tying and gagging Weiner, his wife, a daughter and a guest.

The crime is unsolved. Detectives speculated tonight's bandits were the three who held up a woman and man watching television in a home on Philadelphia's Lincoln drive Monday night. McCIoskey Wins Hospital Contract HARRISBURG. April 8 (AP). The Commonwealth today awarded a contract for $1,173,000 to McCIoskey Homes, Philadelphia, for general construction of a new ward building for women at the Embree-ville State Hospital, in Chester county.

At the same time the Department of Property and Supplies awarded these other contracts on the same project: Heating and ventilation, Corbit's. Reading, plumbing and drainage, Corbit's. electrical. Progressive Electric Construction Philadelphia; elevator. General Elevator Baltimore, $35,946.

Couple Risk Jail to Regain 10-Day Son They Abandoned Continued From First Page Rosenberg's pledge of an all-out war against crime. Rosenberg declared that "these changes are definitely for the betterment of police service. They are In lirw with the policy that has been established to secure the highest caliber police service. This policy wlU be maintained and changes will be made In the future whenever they are found to be necessary." BORDERS O.V PRECEDENT A rumor that a number of captains had been asked to turn in their resignations spread through City Kail within nunutes after Rosenberg's statement as to "further changes was made known. nh Rosenberg and Sutton denied thit any such request had been made.

Not only did the suddenness of thi change strike at the department, but it was pointed out that Rosenberg's transfer of a plainclothes ranking officer to a topflight uniformed post bordered on a precedent. PROMOTED IN 1931 Within minutes after the changes were announced. Murphy conferred briefly with Sutton and then moved to West Philadelphia headquarters at 33d st. and Woodland ave. to take rap his new command.

A short time later. Connor reported to Sutton and was assigned to duty is City Hall. Clark assumed BUTLER April 8 (UP) An unemployed factory worker and his 20 year old wife risked prison terms today to claim the 10-day-old son whom they had abandoned for fear of scandal. Conrad Earl Melqulst, 23, Bemus Point. N.

and his wife. Marjorie Ellen, surrendered to police and the mother pleaded tearfully to see her baby Donald Allen, who was found in a doorway here early Tuesday. "I want my baby," she told police. "I'd give my very life for him." LODGED IN JAIL The couple was lodged In Jail on abandonment charges while authorities studied ways to re-unite the family. The eight-pound baby, in excellent health, is in Butler County Memorial Hospital.

Police said Melqulst admitted placing his son In the vestibule of a.