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LATE CITY EDITION PUBLIC tsm LEDGER VOL. 216, NO. 21 Published dallv and Sundv. Entered Mcond-dHs matter at the, Poatoffloe in Philadelphia, under Act of, March 3. miJ.

PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21. 1937 Copyright. I3J7, TH Pailadefpaia tnquxrtr Co. a TWO CENTS II S. OFFICIALS 1 G.

I. HEADS 2 Die in Fire As Rescue Efforts Fail PRESIDENT PROMISES WAR ON WANT AND ASSAILS 'CANCERS OF INJUSTICE' AS HE TAKES OATH OF OFFICE IN RAIN sttmiib imt Hill SHE Lead the American People Forward' SA YS AMERICA FACES ERA OF GOOD FEELING Roosevelt Declares Fight to Rescue Third of People From Poverty Must Be Continued; Democracy Has Not Taken Holiday, He Avers at Second Inaugural Ceremony Finds Moral Climate Improving and Insists 'Hard-headedness Will Not So Easily Excuse Stands With Head Bare in Downpour to Utter Message of Hope A full page of pictures of President Roosevelt'i inauguration in rain-swept Washington yesterday will be found on Page 12 of today's Inquirer. Other inaugural pictures will be found on Pages 9, 10, 11 and 13. Mr. Roosevelt, standing bareheaded in wind and rain, is sworn a special stand, shows him taking the oath as administered by Charles Chief Justice Hughes, President Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, his son, in for his second term as Chief Executive.

This photo, made from Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States. Left to right, and Vice President John Nance Garner. A man and a woman were burned to death yesterday in their home at S218 N. Hutchinson while neighbors watched outside, powerless to aid them. Three times Patrolman Bongard tried to break through the flames which cut off the rear bedroom of Mrs.

Helen Warren, 38. Each time be was driven back by smoke and flames. She was burned to death. Mrs. Warren's father-in-law, Walter Warren, 74, was found unconscious in a middle room, hands gripping a balky window frame.

He was taken to Jewish Hospital, where he died at 4.10 P. M. The dead woman's husband, Alvln, 39, a WPA worker, who is believed to have started the fire when he fell asleep smoking a cigarette in bed, was less seriously burned. He was discharged from the hospital yesterday. But for the sagacity and persistence of Jack, the German shepherd dog owned by the Warrens' neighbor, Howard Eisenblse, the death toll might have been higher.

Shortly before 5 A. ft. the dog Jumped on the bed of Howard Eisenblse, 19, barking and tugging at the covers until the youth got up. Still half asleep, young Eisenbise Continued on Page 5, Column 15 GETS LIFE TERM II Mrs. Greifer Is Found Guilty of Murder in First Degree "Family trouble, which brought about the slaying of net husband, culminated yesterday in a aentem of life imprisonment for Mrs.

Esthvr Greifer. She stood with trembling lips in Quarter Sessions Court De'ore Judge Fugene V. Aipssandro.nl Jury of 10 men and two womer convicted her of first degree murder. "I loved him; I wasn't Jealous ot him," she had protested Tuesday night on the witness stand as she maintained the three shot which killed her husband, Harr, 38-year-old embroidery manufacturer, were fired accidentally. But the Jury whico reached its verdict yesterday apparently believd the dying words of her husband, on July 11, 1935, the day after he was shot In his apartment at 1527 8th st.

Under the verdict of the Jury the 46-year-old woman loses her right to inherit a share in a $15,000 trust fund established by the will of her husband. She suffered a nervous collapse and Continued on Page 5, Column SICK MINER RESCUED BY MOUNTAIN DOG-TEAM Doctor and Appendicitis Victim Make Treacherous Trip on Sledge WINTHROP, Jan. 20 (U. Dr. E.

T. Murdock arrived here tonight with Frederick White, 24, a miner suffering from acute appendicitis, completing a treacherous trip from the Azurite mine high in the Cascade Mountains on a sledge drawn by a team of dogs. White was placed in a State patrol ambulance for a hurried trip to a hospital in Okanogan, where an operation can be performed. Plans to fly the stricken miner to Okanogan were abandoned when there was not enough snow for the ski-equipped plane to land. WIFE CONVICTED By JOHN M.

CUMMINGS WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Looking into the uplifted faces of a storm-swept crowd on the east plaza of the Capitol today, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his head bared to the wind and the rain, began his second term in the Presidency by solemnly promising: the people of the Nation that for the New Deal there would be no turning back, that the fight to provide the under-privileged with a better share of the material things of life would be vigorously pressed until all objectives have been attained. "If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation," the President declared, "we will not listen to comfort, opportunism and timidity. We will carry on." President Roosevelt uttered his pledge a few minutes after he had taken the oath of office from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

Speaking with the confidence and authority of one who had been elected by the largest wave of popular approval in the history of the country, President Roosevelt warned the forces of reaction that under the new Text of Roosevelt. Speech Starting Second New Deal Secretary Perkins Meets Sloan and Gov. Murphy in Secret Washington Conference While Lewis Calls C. I. 0.

Aides GREAT BUICK FACTORY AT FLINT SHUTS DOWN Collective Bargaining Rights for Union Still Remain Sole Issue as Industry Lags; Roosevelt May Be Asked to Act as Mediator Hopes for the settlement of the General Motors strike, which has made 135,000 workers idle, centered again on Washington, where Secretary of Labor Perkins conferred yesterday with Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan and three high officials of General Motors. After a prolonged conference Secretary Perkins announced no basis of settlement bad been reached, but added, "We have hopes that negotiations may be resumed." Speeding from Detroit in response to a call from John L. Lewis, C. I. 0.

chief, were Homer Martin, head of the United Automobile Workers of America, and John Brophy, C. 1. O. leader. While these moves were under way the Bulck plant at Flint, closed as a result of shortage of materials caused by the strike, and 10,000 more men were thrown out of work.

Two other General Motors plants, the Fisher Body and Chevrolet, were ordered closed in Baltimore, with 1200 men in each being affected. Perhaps the brightest ray in the strike picture was the settlement of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. walkout, with prospects for settlement of the strike at the' Libbey-Owens-Ford glass plant. Two tire plants were shut yesterday -Firestone at Akron, with 700 employees, and Kelly-Springfield at Cumberland, where 1800 were made Idle by a "sit-down" strike of about 300 men in a dispute over wages, By ERNEST LINDLEY WASHINGTON, Jan. four-hour secret conference this afternoon of high officials of General Motors Corporation with Gov.

Frank Murphy, of Michigan, and Frances D. Perkins, Secretary of Labor, left the strike of automobile workers in to- same deadlock which it has Dten caught since the breakdown of Governor Murphy's plan for negotiations between General Motors officials and union officers of the United Automobile Workers of America. Miss Perkins issued a hopeful but fMjnued on Page 4, Column 5 2 SEIZED AS RIOTING IS RENEWEDJN READING Iwo Other Pickets Hurt as Police Charge Mob at Berkshire Mills READING, Jan 2u (Tj. pickets were under an en today fresh riots broke out at the Berk-'hire Knitting Mills, in suburban omissing. To other pickets, Herbert Bohn ni Charles Burkhart were injured 'lightly when police aid deputy herirfs charsed the mob patrolling the mill yards.

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20 (A. Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Detroit, died in Providence Hospital here tonight. He was 70 years old.

The prelate, who had been suffering from a throat ailment ten days was taken to the hospital only today The Bishop's housekeeper became alarmed when he failed to awaken from a sound sleep at the episcopal residence late in the day arid she called a physician. Dr. Ray Andries examined Bishop Gallagher and ordered him taken to the hospital immediately. He died within a few hours. Bishop Gallagher visited the Vatican only a few months ago.

He is the immediate superior of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, and frequently defended Fath- Continucd on Page 8, Column 5 EDWARD IN CAR CRASH ON ICY AUSTRIAN ROAD Duke of Windsor Shaken and Auto Is Damaged Near Castle ENZESFELD, Austria, Jan. 20 (U. Edward, Duke of Windsor, was shaken tonight when his automobile collided with another while he was returning from Vienna to the castle of his hosts, the Baron and Baroness Eugene de Rothschild, near here.

The machine was damaged. Icy roads were blamed. Holds No Facts Were Probe Case flnanciers, business men and lawyers indicted last September on charges of mulcting investors in the Philadelphia Company. The indictments, reported secretly and held in escrow until last November 19. charged fraud in the exploitation of first and second mortgage bonds of the Sylvania Hotel and the Bankers' Trust Company.

The Investigation which led to the indictments followed the collapse of the $132,000,000 Philadelphia Company. No date was set yesterday for hear- Continued on Page Column 3 IS DEJID II DETROIT Drenched Throngs Join Inaugural Pageantry as Gale Whips Capital By JOHN M. McClXLOL'GH WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Drenched to the skin and chilled to the bone, but heroically undismayed, a quarter of a million or more valiant Americans from all walks of life today defied a bitter nor'easter to give Franklin Delano Roosevelt one ot the greatest ovations of his public career.

From the time his limousine forged out of the White House gates into the bayonet-like slashing of a torrential mid-winter rain, on the way to his second inaugural, until the file guard of sodden Washington police brought up the rear ol the military parade shortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon, he it was, and he alone, who evoked hardly believable enthusiasm from the miserably huddled thousands. It erupted into vocal thunder as he first made his appearance above the corona of umbreiiag and the spectrum of colored raincoats and Continued on Page 13, Column I GERMANY BANS BOOK BY DOROTHY THOMPSON Author, Barred in Person Two Years Ago, Calls Nazi Censors Slow BERLIN. Jan. 20 fA. Dorothy Thompson's book "I Saw Hitler" was officially banned today in Germany.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (A. P.J.Dorothy Thompson, who In private life is Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, when informed that her book, "I Saw Hitler," published in 1932, had been banned in Germany, said the action only impressed her with "the slowness of German censors. Their secret service Is much faster.

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SO (U. it tin text of President Roosevelt'g tccond inaugural add) en: My fellow-countrymen: When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the republic pledged ourselves to drive from the temple of our ancient faitn those who had profaned to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. We did those first things first.

Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the Individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered. For, without that aid we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men, New Chapter in Democracy We of the republic sensed the truth that democratic government has Innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable to solve problems once considered unsolvable.

We would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave th problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes ot disaster. In this we Americans were discovering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of self government. This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional convention which made us a Nation. At that convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong Government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution.

A century and a half ago they established the Federal Government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people. Today we Invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives. No Holiday for Rule by People Four years of new experience have not belied our historic Instinct. They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy. Our tasks in the last four years' did not force democracy to take a holiday.

Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase power to stop evil; power to do good. The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections. The Constitution of 1787 did not mak? our democracy impotent. In fact, in these last four years we have made, the exercise order "hard-headedness will not so easily excuse hard-heartedness," that the country is facing an era of good feeling and is not in a mood to tolerate interference with the orderly process of social progress. Hits 'Cancers of Injustice' He voiced a belief that the people of the country will demand a "Nation uncorrupted Continued on Page 9, Column 1 THE WEATHER Official Forecast Eastern Pennsylvania: Occasional rain and warmer today; tomorrow cloudy and colder, probably rain in southeast and rain or snow in west and north portions.

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MILLER WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. -Thousands of Pennsylvania Democrats returned to their homes tonight bitterly disappointed because they were unable to enjoy the inaugural proceeding which marked the beginning of President Roosevelt's second term. A driving rain which began last night and continued through the day drove the Keystone Stale Democrats to shelter in hotels and taprooms depriving them of the opportunity to witness Mr. Roosevelt's induction and the victory parade which followed over rain-drenched streets.

Fully 30,000 Pennsylvania were In the capital to watch the ceremonies, but due to the Inclement weather it la doubtful whether more than 2000 of them witnessed the President take his oath of office and the parade that followed. Althougji the State's Democrats were shunted to the background by the weather their Governor, George H. Earle, occupied the spotlight throughout the entire ceremonies. After occupying the platform on which Mr. Roosevelt took his oath, Earle, despite the steady ram, rode over the route of the parade in an open car the only uncovered vehicle in the whole procession.

All along the route Earle was Continued on Page 10, Column 1 MRS. R. H. BRAND DIES; SISTER 0FLADY ASTOR End Hastened by Son's Tisftc Plunje In New Vork LONDON. Jan.

20 Mrs. Robert H. Brand, the foimcr Phyllis Langhcrne, of Richmond, a sister of Lady Astui, died today influenza and complications at Eydon Hall, Northamptonshire. Mrs. Brand was the rite of the managing director of Lazard Freres, bankers.

Lady Astor was with her sister when she died. Friends said Mrs Brttnd never really recovered from the shock ot the death of her son, Da, in Brooks, who plunged from a 14th- flror Pars, ve. apartm-nt in Npw York Ci'y Nov. 15. KURTZ ASKS COURT TO VOID INDICTMENTS Pennsylvania Co.

Official Given in Mortgage William Fulton Kurtz, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, yesterday sought quashing of indictments returned against him following last year's investigation of the Philadelphia Company for Guaranteeing Mortgages. Through his attorney, Thomas Raeburn White, he filed in the U. S. District Court here demurrers and motions to quash. His motions were the first "offl- cial" action taken by any of the 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 11, COLUMN 1 0 3.