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Boy Killed List or New Mint Sites fa inquirer Fireman Wins Fight to Stay i FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1950 25 As Cycle and Auto Collide to Less Th sea uce an On Payroll Medical Aid To Be Provided Civil Service Commissioners Woman, Marine, Man, 70, Also Die A 15-year-old Kimberton boy Federal Aide Coming Here Forlnspection was killed and his 17-year-old I v. City Moves to Eliminate Bottleneck at Logart Circle The city, after nearly 10 months of experimenting in an effort to eliminate the traffic bottleneck on the south side of Logan Circle, took steps yesterday to Improve conditions there by removing trolley traffic from the circle entirely. An ordinance Introduced in City Council by Councilman Phineas T. Green to give official sanction to an arrangement with the Philadelphia Transportation under which the transit firm, will remove the trolley tracks lrom 19th st. between Callowhill and Arch sts.

These tracks carry John Langdon Jones an i Robert F. Frankenfield agreed yesterday to keep Hoseman Hugh Gallagher on the payroll, provide him with the necessary medical aid and restore him to active duty as brother was injured critically last night when their motorcycle collided with an automobile at Egypt and Longford Upper Providence township, near Phoe- The Federal Government has narrowed its choice of prospective sites for the new Philadelphia Mint to less than six out of an original 35 locations, The nixville. The fatal accident was one of four Inquirer learned yesterday yesterday. In the others, a 70-year- for tne Mint here have been on the Routes 21 and 33 southward Laugh'Qraphs old Ambler man was killed in White- approved list since last November, around Logan Circle. ROUTE CHANGE PLANNED marsh tnwnshin.

a woman shoDDeribut the Government has shown no haste to decide how the money should be spent. was injured fatally at Lehigh and Germantown and a Marine soon as he again is to perform light tasks. Their decision was corallary to their dismissal of the Fire Bureau's application to have Galligher retired on a disability pension, a move protested at a hearing Wednesday by Gallagher's brother, Edward; James Forbes, president of Local 22 of the Firemen's Union, i nd about 100 uniformed firemen. PLUNGED INTO FLAMES! Gallagher narrowly escaj ed death 20 years ago when he anc a number of other hosemen wen: plunged into the flaming interior of St. Casi-mir's Roman Catholic Clurch, 3d and Wharton by the llapse of a roof.

Gallagher, then 35, landed on his head. He was hospitalized iu arly two lost his life in a crash at Deep-water, N. J. WOMAN DRIVER HURT By the terms of the measure, the PTC would also be authorized to lay new tracks on Callowhill st. from 19th to 17th the nearest southbound street east of the Parkway.

Thus the two trolley routes affected would turn east upon reaching Callowhill st. and travel two blocks in PRESENT SITE FAVORED In the meantime, influential business groups in the city have campaigned vigorously for retention of the Mint at its present location, 16th and Spring Garden and for The Kimberton boy, William Fun- derwhite, a Spring City high school lunior. was killed instantly when he the erection of an addition at the rear of the existing building. This4that direction before resuming their was thrown beneath an automobile operated by Mrs. Charles Reese, 36, proposal, however, was understood suuuiwara run on imi avoiauig Logan Circle altogether.

Green's resolution was the out of Oak, in Upper Providence. Mrs. Reese suffered shock and head years. Then, for 11 years, he was growth of an agreement reached, William was riding on the rear of able to resume his post anc. perform light duties.

In 1942. however, he began to show signs of me stal con the motorcycle operated by his to have received only "tentative" consideration by the Federal agencies involved. locations of the recommended sites were not disclosed by the regional office of the Division of Engineers for Public Buildings. William A. Miller, division engineer with offices in the Custom House, said he was not permitted to do so.

fusion. Last year he was immitted brother. Clyde. They were en route to the Flourtown Fair, according to earlier this week between the PTC, City Traffic Engineer Robert A. Mitchell, and the Philadelphia Highway Traffic Board.

At the urging of the city's two automobile clubs, these agencies have been seeking a new solution of Logan Circle's traffic problems since in State Police. Clyde and Mrs. Reese MamFl' were taken to Phoenixville Hospital. JAMMED UNDER AUTO "1 hear in some parts of the world they bvy this sttrff." UP TO COMMISSIONER State Police said the motorcycle stallation of a channelization island there last November proved unpopu The final decision on a site rests to the Philadelphia State Haspital at Byberry. WEEK-ENDS WITH BROTHER Frequently, his brother testified Wednesday, Gallagher war allowed to go to the brother's home on lane to spend a week-end, and on those occasions his behavior "was normal.

The brother said it was opinion that Gallagher would be able to perform light duties now. If put on a pension, he said, there wou Id not be enough money to pay meiical lar with motorists. Local HBriefs and the Funderwhite boy's body were jammed under the automobile. Clyde was thrown to the roadside, thev said. The Ambler man was injured fatally when he was thrown from a small truck which had collided with an automobile at Bethlehem pike and Valley Green Whitemarsh township.

He was Identified as REQUIRES BIG SWING Under the arrangement instituted at that time, motorists wishing to turn right from the circle into 19th st. were required to keep to the extreme left and then swing across in front of six other lanes of cars waiting to proceed straight ahead down Race st. or the Parkway. with W. E.

Reynolds. U. S. Public Building Commissioner, who has offices in Washington, and Treasury Department officials. Reynolds will visit Philadelphia today, as the guest of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

He will be the principal speaker at a meeting of a small group of businessmen at luncheon in the Green Room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at 12:30 P. under Chamber sponsorship. While here, Reynolds will make a General U. S. TREASURER HONORS PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURER Mrs.

Georgia Neese CIarkr Treasurer of the United States, presents a Certificate of Merit to William J. Meinel, president of the Heintz Manufacturing for Heinti outstanding participation in the payroll savings bond plan. Looking on (left) is Arthur C. Kaufmann, chairman of the voluntary plan in Pennsylvania. Also honored by Mrs.

Clark here yesterday were the John B. Stetson where certificate was received by D. H.Harshaw, president, and the Naval Aviation Supply Depot. Both places similarly made outstanding savings bond records in the voluntary payroll plan. Joseph of 211 Oak Ambler, an employe of tne Montgomery county highway department.

WAS ON WAY HOME Auzustine had "thumbed a ride" Automobile club officials, while admitting that the system might work, objected at the time on the ground that it went against the instincts of any average motorist, who has been trained to keep right when preparing to make a right-hand turn. SYSTEM DEFENDED The system, however, was defend from Rhodes H. Dixon, 54, of Railroad Ambler. Rhodes, a building contractor, was acquainted with the Edward M. Law Ycne, editor of the Nation, Rangoon English language aily, will visit Philadelphia, Aug.

16 to 18, to confer with colleagues in the field of journalism and to observe journalistic trends. He has been touring the United States as a guest of the State Department. While here he will be assisted by the Philadelphia Regional Inter-American Center of Commercial Museum. Abraham Harris, 22. of Boothwyn, was held for the Delaware County personal inspection of the six sites chosen as possibilities by the public building engineers.

THREE PLACES ON LIST While there was no official confirmation, it was understood three of the sites under consideration are a district in the vicinity of the U. S. Naval Hospital, at 19th st. and Pat-tison one near Oxford Circle Driver Is Held In Police Death Despite his statement thf he was driving only "10 or 15 miles an hour," William P. W.

Hancock. 21 of Sun-wood Farm, near Valley Forge, was held yesterday by Coroner Joseph Ominsky in $1000 bail for action of the grand jury. The coroner took the actim in the death of Patrolman Stanfo -d Smith. 36. of 235 S.

Frazier a rr. ember of the Motor Highway Patrol on July 15. 2 More Held In Bank Theft Opponents of Reservoir In Perkiomen Win Del ay ed by Mitchell and others on the ground that it was dictated by the victim. Augustine had been working on a road repair project and was on his way home, police said. Dixon's truck collided with a car operated by Daniel Sinclair, 32, of Germantown ave.

near Benezet police said, then careened into the pasture. The truck struck a ditch, hurling Augustine to the ground. Neither Dixon nor Sinclair was injured. Both were held in $1500 bail by Louis W. Hofman, Whitemarsh township justice of the peace, pend' in the Northeast, and another near Erie ave.

and Lycoming within sight of the Hospital for Contagious Diseases. The common objection raised to all of these by businessmen is that Objectors to the Philadelphia Suburban Water Co. plan to build a big dam and reservoir in the upper Perkiomen Valley near The case was referred to he grand location of the trolley tracks at that point. Route 33 and 21 trolleys, the City Traffic Engineer pointed out, had to make a wide swing across all lanes of traffic in order to Teach 19th st. from Logan Circle, an the only way of preventing even worse confusion was to have automobiles bound for 19th despite the fact that witnesses Green Lane won an Indefinite continuation yesterday when the Two brothers of a suspect in a Cincinnati bank robbery who hid out for eight days in a German-town apartment before his arrest in Maryland, were apprehended yesterday by FBI agents in Rocky Ford, Mid the motorcycle polices went second hearing was held at Nor.

ing a coroner's investigation. miles an hour, his siren reaming. The presumption was tha'. he was pursuing a speeder when tie crash, Bt 30th and Chestnut came, ending his life. The presumi-d speeder escaped.

Dollar Bandit Gets 70 Yrs. ristown by a member of the State Water and Power Resources Board. Attorneys representing property owners and sportsmen alike protested to A. F. Damon, of Yea-don, the sole board member present in one of the Montgomery County Court rooms, that there was no rush, and that none of them had had time to prepare proper briefs.

grand jury in $800 bail yesterday by Magistrate R. Robinson Lowry, of Chester, in connection with the stabbing last Sunday of Mrs. Eddie" Payne, 40, in front of her home at Front and Kerlin Chester. Tha woman was released yesterday from Chester Hospital. Harris said Mrs.

Payne attacked him with an ice pick during an argument. Maj. Arno P. Mowitz. formerly a member of the U.

S. Korean iili-tary Advisory Group and now an instructor of the Army Reserve Corps at the Schuylkill Arsenal, will speak at a V-J Day celebration next Monday in Chester. The celebration will be in Deshong Park, 10th st. and Edgmont Chester, at 8 P. M.

they are too far from the center of city, and inconvenient of access for many Mint employes. Another is that the original estimate of cost may be bosted drastically by rising costs of building materials in the wake of the Korean war. COIN DEMAND FALLING A Mint official who declined to be quoted declared yesterday that the need for a new Mint at this time has been dissipated by a marked drop in the demand for new coins during recent months, and that the Mint should be left where it is. Nellie Tayloe Ross. Director of the Mint, was reported yesterday to be st.

take the same course. Elimination of the trolley tracks at the Junction point will make it possible to channel traffic so that automobiles bound for 19th st. will keep to the outside lanes in rounding the circle, instead of having to cut to the left as they do at present. Burned Mechanic Dies of Injuries WOMAN KILLED BY TRUCK Mrs. Emma L.

Walsh, 61, of 618 W. Huntingdon st. was killed by a water tank truck owned by the Philadelphia Gas Works Co. when she attempted to cross Lehigh ave. at Germantown ave.

at 10 A. while on a shopping trip. The truck driver, Hannibal Car-rulo. 36, of 13th st. near Wharton, said he did not see Mrs.

Walsh. He stopped when he felt the truck bump over something and heard passersby near Denver. According to Arthur Cornelius. special agent in charge of the FBI office here, the pair, John Milton Nolen, 19, and Ballard French Nolen, 20, both of Corbitt, Harlan county, were wanted together with Joseph Wayne 24, for the armed holdup of the Vine-Corry branch of the Fifth-Third Union Trust Cincinnati, on July 26. FIND $3680 OF- LOOT Joseph Nolen was arrested Tuesday Convicted of destroying his victim's right eye with a blackjack during a $1 holdup more than two years ago, Joseph Gilmartin, 20; of Morton Chester, was sentenced yesterday to 10 to 20 years in Eastern State Franklin Institule Honors Professor Dr.

Charles Sanborn Ba Tett, research professor in the Institute for the Study of Metals, University of Chicago, has been named recipient of the Francis J. Clamer Medal by the Franklin Institute, it was an CALLS DELAY UNJUSTIFIED W. James Macintosh, counsel for the water company, said: "It's been three months since the original hearing May 10 That's adequate scream. Killed In the New Jersey accident Burned when he attempted to throw a bucket of blazing gasoline opposed to the sites near the Naval Hospital and near the Hospital for Contagious Diseases, and to have an from a garage near Kennett A "Tall Story" program will Chester countv. on Wednesday I featured at a luncheon of th Penitentiary, Judge Joseph Sloane, who imposed the sentence in Quarter Sessions Court, severely criticized police for "mishandling" the case.

Gilmartin's victim. Stanley Bomblausky, 58, of 4348 Frankford had testified open mind on the site near Oxford Circle. time for these people to be prepared. This move has all the earmarks of a deliberate delay. It isn't justified." To that Julian W.

Barnard, counsel for Green Lane, replied: "As far I as my clients are concerned, we're Shrine Club of Philadelphia to William H. Taylor, 29, of 467 E. held Wednesday at McCalllstr's. South Kennett Square, died yes-j isil Spring Garden st. terday in Chester County Hospital, Delivery Boy, 15, Injured in Leap Leaping from a bakery truck to make a delivery in Black Horse.

night by Maryland State Police on U. S. Route 1 near Baltimore. FBI agents and local detectives found $3680 of the bank robbery loot in an apartment at Hansberry and Knox st. The money was ltidden in the bag of a vacuum cleaner.

Joseph Nolen told police he lived from July 31 until Tuesday in the apartment where he left his wife, Betty Jane, and their two children, aged 2 and seven months. SEIZED RETURNING EAST Cornelius said John and Ballard Nolen had been on the West Coast since the bank robbery and were returning east when they were seized. The three brothers are accused of obtaining a total of $35,358 in the holdup in which four employes and 11 customers of the bank were locked in a basement. was Richard Buechler, 27, of Salem, an automobile salesman who played semi-professional football two years ago and managed his team, the Salem Oaks. He had served with the First Marine Division in the Pacific during the last war.

He had recently re-enlisted. RIDER HURLED FROM CAR Buechler died in Salem County Memorial Hospital of a fractured skull and a crushed chest. A passenger, Leon Hutchinson, 38, also of Salem, suffered hip injuries when he was thrown out of the car. Buechler's car collided with one driven by Charles Cassaboon, 21, of Deepwater, N. and overturned several times before it stopped 345 feet away.

Cassaboon and his brother, Lewis, 22, were thrown out of their car but escaped with bruises. Marine Airmen In Tactical Training Pilots and ground crews of Marine Fighter Squadron 451, a component of the organized air reserve, are holding their summer training now at their home base. nounced yesterday. The medal is awarded at least I once in five years for meritorious. achievement in the field cf metal-i lurey.

Dr. Barrett is beinf cited in recognition of his "outstanding con-, tribution to the knowledge if crystal structures and of the effects of de-formjtion and aging on various metall crystals." Present ition will be made Oct. 18 at the inst I 2 Visitors Injured In Aufo Accidonfs Similar accidents in differ nt parts cf the city caused injurj to two ouf-of-town motorists yesierday. Tiss Eleanor Reynolds, 3'f, of 8417 V-'lr'-nrr Whitemarsh. JSered a brrken left leg when her car ran out of control in the early morn Plymouth township, shortly after 4:30 A.

M. yesterday, Vincent Elser, developing some righteous resentment against this proposal and see no reason for the great rush. People who live in that area don't even want to have a hearing yet. We only recently became aware of the magnitude of the proposition and we're analyzing it now." TOO FAST FOR TOO Assistant City Solicitor G. Coe Farrier, representing Philadelphia, said things were going too fast for this city's liking, too.

He said there had been no time for a proper study he was not asked to identify his attacker until two months ago, al-thogh Gilmartin had been arrested on another charge'only a few months after the holdup. LOST $1 TO SLUGGER The attack occurred at 1 A. M. on March 24, 1943, at Bridge and Walker sts. Bomblausky said he was walking toward his home when Gilmartin sneaked up behind him, struck him in the right eye and over the head with a blackjack, stole his wallet containing a single dollar bill and then slugged and kicked him until West Chester.

Taylor, an veteran of the Second World War, was employed by his uncle, Irving Taylor, at Toughkenamon, west of Kennett Square As he threw out the gasoline, part of it hit a piece of garage equipment and splashed back on his body. He suffered second and third degree burns, which caused his death 12 hours later. Taylor was married and the father of two small daughters. rthe Naval Air Station at Willow Grove, Lt. Col.

Robert W. Clark, commanding officer of the Marine Air Detachment, disclosed yesterday. The training syllabus concentrates on close support of ground units. Clark said. That means in- Phila.

Man Commissioned is, crashed into a parked truck with such force that he fell unconscious to the street. Elser, who lives at 447 Sandy Norristown, was taken to Montgomery Hospital, Norristown, by the driver of his truck. Carman Fran-gioso. Physicians said he suffered a possible skull fracture but is in fair condition. Constable T.

Mason Osborn, of Plymouth township, said Frangioso had stopped his truck in the middle of Jefferson st. and Elser jumped out to make a delivery to a nearby house, evidently not noticing the parked truck in the darkness. he lost consciousness. Police, cruising in a patrol car, found him and took him to Frank-ford Hospital. Later, surgeons at Frederick H.

Gaskins, son of Bruce H. Gaskins, of 5128 Funston has I Institutions Get oi tne plan. After hearing all the argument. Damon announced that "it would be foolish to continue under the circumstances." A future date for the continued hearing would be set later by the board, he said. Applicatipn to "build the dam and a reservoir that would hold gallons of water was made by the company Feb.

28. ing anl crashed into ths ie'e of tunnel under the Prnnsylva ill Ttail- i road tracks at 19t.h and Market sts. I Bank Women to Meet Delegates from all sections of 'the United States will attend the 23th annual meeting and convention of the Association of Bank Women at the Biltmore Hotel in New York, State Payments received his commission as a second tensive training in precision flying, lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force gunnery, rocket firing and bomb-Reserve at the Air Reserve Officer 1 ing.

all with pinpoint accuracy, a Training Corps encampment at well as maintenance of the planes Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, it! under simulated combat condi-was announced yesterday. tions. Auditor General Weldon B. Hey- Robert E. Asterhout, 36, nf Lang-horne.

lost four teeth vhen his car struck a safety island at A st. and Erie ave. 'Sept. 21 through 24. burn announced yesterday he had approved quarterly payments tohe following State-aided institutions: University of Pennsylvania, Wills Eye Hospital removed his right eye.

ARRESTED AS BURGLAR In July, 1948, Gilmartin was arrested in Chester on burglary charges. Detective Sylvan Farr, of Philadelphia, said Gilmartin admitted having had a "fight" with Bomblausky but the charge was not pressed until Gilmartin completed a sentence at the State Industrial School at White Hill last May. It was then that Bomblausky identified him for the first time. A Jury of five women and seven men returned the guilty verdict yester Slioirer of $0eteors 245; University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, 000; Jefferson Medical College, JhniM Store Meld HJp9 13 a am si Stem! An armed robber held up the manager of an American Store at 21st and Federal sts. yesterday afternoon and fled with $30 from the cash register.

In two earlier holdups, gunmen robbed a 70-year- Memorial Hospital, Philadelphia, National Farm School, Bucks county, $6750; Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Funds Asked For Insane Shortage of facilities for mental care at the Philadelphia General Hospital is "desperate and critical," Councilman Cornelius S. Deegan. Scheduled Toiiiijht Tonight and tomorrow night the Perseid meteors are due to shower down in their annual heavenly display, and for the first time in three years, the Franklin Institute has pointed out, there will be University of Pittsburgh. Western State Psychiatric Institute old real estate man of about $76 no moon to dim their light. Just about this time every year the earth in its path around the day after deliberating for only eight minutes.

Gilmartin's explanation for the attack was that he had visited Philadelphia the night before the holdup, spent all his money drinking and Get Degrees At Temple Temple University yester lay conferred degrees upon 244 nen and women who completed academic requirements during the summer school session. Dr. Millard E. Gladfelter university provost, awarded thj diplomas at a luncheon held in Mitten Memorial Hall, Broad acd Berks its. Principal speaker was Dr.

Ellwood A. Geiges, superintendent for the Borough of Norristown, vho was presented by Dr. J. Conrad Seegers, dean of Temple University Teachers College. demanded: "Where's your money?" Shedwick replied that It was in his right hand pockft.

The gunman sun crosses the path of the Per-'i asserted yesterday in urging that in his West Philadelphia office and thugs escaped with $200 from a North Philadelphia grocery a and Clinic, Pittsburgh. Altoona Hospital, Blair county, Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon county, Lock Haven Hospital, Clinton county. $8000; St. John's General Hospital. Pittsburgh.

$10,000, and Wyoming Valley Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, $9575. seids, so-named because they appear Traffic Snows Toll Gain reached in the pocket and took out "couldn't think of any other way" to get money lor his fare home. $75 in bills. Then the man took about $1 in change from a cash box to radiate from the constellation of Perseus. They are seen in the northeast and there probably will be more of them after midnight than before.

RACE AT 35 MILES A SECOND few moments after the store opened for business. FEARS FOR SAFETY OF SON $2,000,000 be included In the forthcoming fall electoral loan to provid adequate facilities. Deegan told Council's finance committee that he got telephone calls day and night from people who were forced to do the best they could with mental cases in their own homes because the city lacked proper facilities in its hospital. in an open safe in the rear. BIND WRIST WITH ROPE Rocco Landeisco, 35, manager of $100,000 Polio Goal In Delaware Co.

Goal of the Delaware County Before leaving, the intruders bound Shedwick's wrists with rope and the American Store, was arranging stock when the gunman entered the Rearrested Eight Held in $400 Bail made him lie on the floor of a wash store about 3:30 P. M. The thug room in the rear of the office. They pointed a pistol at him and an warned him not to move for 20 min utes. nounced: "This is a holdup." Fearing for the safety of his 9-year-old son, Anthony, who was with him in the store.

Landeisco offered no resistance. The gunman opened Shedwick remained in the washroom for 15 minutes and then called police, lie said both of the robbers Traffic accidents in Philadelphia streets have taken the lives of 88 perrons and caused injuries to 5711 in the first seven months of this year two more than the 86 killed in the same period in but 515 more than the 5196 injured in the 1949 period. The monthly analysis, released yesterday from the office of Robert A. Mitchell, chief of the Bureau of Traffic Engineering, showed that 54 of the dead were pedestrians and 34 were motorists. 10 KILLED IN JULY Owen J.

Campbell, senior statistical clerk in Mitchell's office, showed in the analysis that five Sky watchers will see shooting stars of varying They are caused, according to the scientists, by tiny stones, rushing through the atmosphere at about 35 miles a second so fast that they are consumed by the tremendous heat the air friction causes. The Irish have called them the "Tears of St. Lawrence," because the festival of St. Lawrence falls on Aug. 10, yet the Perseids have been traced back to 830 A.

D. and have been turning up fatihfully ver since if not equally so before. THROW OFF HOT GASES Actually, a i to the Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. In this year's March of Dimes Campaign will be at least Alan Keay, chairman of the chapter's board, announced yesterday. Chairmen and aides for the various subdivisions in he Delaware county area are being selected.

Headquarters of the chapter are in the County Building. Media. the cash register and scooped out were about 25 and approximately SITPORTED BY REEVES Supporting him in his statements regarding the lack of facilities wer Dr. Rufus S. Reeves, Director or Public Health, and Dr.

Paschal F. Lucchesl, superintendent of the hospital. Both said that efforts to obtain admission of "an appreciable number" of advanced mental cases into nearby State Institutions had failed, although two-thirds of the 400 mental patients now receiving treatment five feet, eight inches tall. The victim of the grocery robbery was Martin Roth, 35, who conducts 2 DEGREES FROM TEMPLE Dr. Geiges, who forrm rly was associated with the Philadelphia public school system in several capacities, holds three earnec degrees from Temple.

'Today we have man grave problems to face and solve, many threatening evils to figh many deeds to do. but compla ncy Is certainly not to answer le problems," Dr, Geiges said. PRECARIOUS BALANCE "We 'must face facts as 1 hey are, for the ideals and attainments a store on the northwest corner of 15th and Thompson sts. Eight persons, rearrested on orders of the District Attorney's office, after they were freed of numbers charges on May 6 by Magistrate Elias Myers, were held in $400 bail each, yesterday, for the grand jury by Judge Joseph Sloane, who sat as a committing magistrate. The suspects, arrested on warrants charging them with setting up an Illegal lottery and conspiracy, were Ralph Wll.son, of Columbia near 22d Eddie Brown, of Columbia near 21st Junius Graves, of Turner near 22d; George Mickler, of 20th near Columbia Percel Blue, of 17th near Montgomery James Allen, of Croskey near Columbia Edna Lewis, of Diamond near 17th.

and Coreen Dean, of 17th near Norris. Roth arrived at the store at 6:40 'at Blockley are in an advanced stage Franklin Institute, some of the i and should properly be in Stat the contents. Still pointing his Run at the manager, the robber backed out of the store and fled on foot. ROBBER DESCRIBED Landeisco. who lives at 136 Tree was alone in the store with the exception of his son, who was Waiting to accompany him home after closing time.

He told police the robber was about 25, weighed about 160 pounds and was five feet, eight inches tall. He was hatless and wore brown slacks and a white shirt. THUGS DRAW GUNS rock particles are as small, as the hospitals. head of a pin. yet they will some A.

M. and placed the $1200 and some change in the cash register. Two gunmen, who apparently had bsen hiding nearby, walked in as soon as Roth left the cash register. BOTH CARRYING REVOLVERS Both were carrying revolvers. They pointed the weapons at Roth and announced it, was a holdup.

After forcing the grocer behind the counter, they opened the register and Chester Man Held In Fatal Slabbing Robert Teal. 38. was held for the Delaware county grand Jury yesterday by a coroner's jury in Chester on charges of fatally tabbing Charlie Culberth. 32, of 11th and Reaney Chester, during an argument on July 29. The quarrel occurred in the kitch times give a lieht as bright as the North Star.

That is because they throw off terrifically hot gases which in turn heat a hollow cylinder of air about a mile in diameter. The fiery hot cylinder of air is the meteor's tail. which we cherish now swj in a precarious balance. Peace. Iree-riom.

is a gift that does ot tarry long in the hands of those who are feeble or too short-sightel to deserve it. We must drive this lesson home. "We must place stress agiin upon the virtue of Industry and I you to dedicate your efforts to combat complacency and promote industry, resourcefulness anl initiative," Dr. Geiges said. persons afoot and five riders in cars were killed in July, five less than the 15 reported for July.

1949, and that 646 were injured in 687 accidents in July. 1950. Total injury accident for the first seven months -of this year are 4722. as compared with 4453 in that period last year. HIGHEST IN JANUARY January had the highest death rate in traffic accidents so far this year with 19.

May had 16; June, 14; February, 13; July, 10; April, 9, and March, 7. Most injuries so far this year were reported in June, with 979. May was next -with 873: July. 846; March, 799; April, 776; January, 740, and February, 698. John A.

Shedwick. of 49 Windsor took out the bills, ienorine the SAYS STATE SHOULD HELP Clarence K. Crossan. chairman of the committee, declared that Philadelphia should be "rightfully entitled" to Increased financial aid from the State, since it was caring in It general hospital for patients who should be in State institutions. At the same time, he went on, repeated efforts have been made without success to have Mayor Bernard Samuel submit a program for city improvements to be financed by loans.

Said Crossan: "If the Mayor doesn't submit his program to us by early September, we'll just have to draft our own program for public improvement." en of the home of Sophie Bell at Highland Park, told police two 4th and Front Chester. Cul berth with stabbed several times In the chest. Gets ROTC Training William S. Myers, of Kingston. a student at the University of Pennsylvania Dental School, is undergoing six weeks of training at the Army Medical Center, Washington, as a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps.

He has been assigned as a clinical clerk. Word It fine FEASIBLE (FEE-zi-iri) Whatever things are FEASIBLE Are possible for you. They're workable per formaple The easy' things to do'. change. They warned Roth to keep quiet and ran out to their automobile.

They drove away south on 15th st. Roth, who lives at 2312 N. Latona bought the store only recently. He described the robbers as being about five feet, 10 inches tall. Both were wearing dark clothing.

men entered his real estate office at 521 N. 40th st. at 11:40 A. M. and said they wanted to make an application for a driver's license.

Shedwick, who was alone in the took out an application and started to ask questions. Suddenly the thugs pulled out revolvers. One Frank Brookhouset on vacation. Hh column, "It's Happening will be resumed on his return..

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