Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News du lieu suivant : Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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MOST PROGRESSIVE AN 0 A NEWSPAPER 0 CENTS PER MONTH WILKES-BARRE, TUESDAY, sAPRlL 8, 1930 THREE CENTSPER-DFY- loirsNirTD) HO COPE WINS Trio Of Victims In Crossing Crash PARTY OF MINERS Won Easy Victory LYNWOOD COUPLE ARE FOUND DEAD AT CEASE TOWN POSITION HIT BY TROLLEY NEAR NANTICOKE WITHJASE Domestic Difficulties That Started Only Last Saturday Another In Serious Condition At State Hospital County Superintendent Has yyfis ii 1 1 li Ilalfefi Finds Culmination In Double Tragedy During The Night Roadster Carried Down The Track By Impact Of Electric Car 112 Majority For Contest THE YOUNG HUSBAND HAD WARNED OF INTENT AUTO GROUND TO A MASS OF WRECKAGE FOR HIS SECOND TERM Carrying by, a majority of 112 voies, a. f. uope, Trucksvllle, was re-elected superintendent of Lu xerne Cqunty Schools, embracing sixty-three districts, over his opponent, Edward Sylvanus Williams, Warrior Run, at the oonvention of Four men are dead and one other is in a critical condition in the State Hospital, at Nanticqke, as the result of a collision early today between an automobile and a street car at. the Dundee crossing, of Wilkes-Barre Railway Corporation, in Hanover Township. The Dead The dead, all mine workers, and all residents of Lower LOUIS PRUDHOE- SAMUEL WEST school directors in Y.

M. C. A. this PROF. A.

P. COPE mornin-. The nnal tally was 212 ior cope, ana loo tor Williams. In addition to electing the county HIT IS ASKED of Schools the directors went Askam, Hanover Township: on record Increasing the salary of Samuel West, 32, married, minr, owner and driver of ine nve assistants to the superln the automobile. MILLER TELLS tendent $500 per year.

The salary of each assistant now will be $4,000. An effort was made to Increase the AUDIT CASE superintendent's salary, but Coiie re quested that his salary remain at Louis Prudhoe, 29, married, laborer. Arthur Roachford, 39, single, miner. Raymond Hayward, 32, married; section foreman. The Injured Unconscious since the accident and suffering a possible Aw? ,4 I I a- "i am l.

i' 7 1 i 1 vvi 1 I 'f I to.uuu per year. The session was over in less than one and one-half hour. David R. OFTHIS COUNTY Davles, president of the Hus-hes town board, was named chairman, fractured skull in the Nanticoke Hospital is: ana upward Keating, of the Pitts ton Township board, secretary. OF PROTECTION ON MACHINES Confessed Racketeer On ueorge f.

Williams, and William E. Alex Nicholson, 32, married, laborer. The five men were on their way to work in the mines of Attorneys For Commission No. 8 shaft of the Loorhis' colliery. Glen Alden Coal Com Morris, both of Edwardavllle, were elected tellers.

The roll call showed fourteen women present among the delegates. Twenty-three directors were pany, when they met their fate. ers Appear In Supreme Court Today As tne small Star sports roadster with rumble seat. marked absent Following- the roll moved out of the Dundee crossroad to turn upon the main call. William O.

Jenkins. Edwards- ylUepresentftd th.xrdentia.ls -of Mr. Williams who war seated in the road leading to the operation where its passengers were employed, a Nanticoke street Car, southbound, struck it broad gallery of the auditorium. EARLY DECISION DUE Nominations Made side, and drove it down the track for a distance of 120 feet. Stand At Scranton Gives Plan Of Operation "BAG MAN" REVEALED The machine was ground to a mass of wreckage.

Havward John R. Hatten opened the nominations by presenting the Philadelphia, April 8. Phlladel died in Nanticoke Hospital at 1:30 this afternoon. phia Supreme Court Justices Simp West, the driver, and Prudhoe son and Schaeffer after hearing argument in the latter's chamber ARTHUR ROACHFORD were killed outright. Roaourord on the petition of the county com died about two hours after the ac mlssioners of Luzerne County for a supersedeas In the matter of their cident, 8:80 a.

In the Nanticoke atmeal from the report of the coun GANDHI'S SON State Hospital. The accident oc While a crowd of several hundred persons clamored for admission to the courtroom, Edward G. Miller, confessed Scranton racketeer boss testified today In the trial of former Mayor E. B. Jer- ty comptroller In the aua.lt ol the name of Mr.

Cope for re-election. It Was seconded by Charles Hoffman of Bear Creek. Mr. Jenkins followed and gave an address on the qualifications of Mr. Williams as a candidate.

He declared that Mr. Williams ts equipped educationally for the post and that he was a friend to the public school plan in Luzerne County. Mr. Jenkins pointed out that Mr. Williams will have time for directors and that he was a great friend to the children.

The name of Mr. Williams was greeted with a loud applause. Mr YJaften th.n tnnlr ihn flnnr curred at 6:16 according to public accounts lor tne year people living In the vicinity of the today took the matter under con slderatlon an early decision is ex- crossing, who were among the first myn and his then civil service Made Trip Daily According to relatives of the dead and Injured men, West and his associates made4he trip every day to the colliery at which they were employed. Four of the men, neighbors, were in the habit of getting on the car at Lower Aakam. They would pick up Hayward at a crossroad leading Into Loomls Park, where the Hayward family lives.

All worked In the same section of the mine. Raymond Hayward was a foreman; Arthur Roachford was a miner, and Alex Nicholson worked as his laborer. Samuel West was also a miner and Louis Prudhoe was his laborer. Every one of them was well acquainted with the highway and knew of the dangerous nected. JAILED IN SALT on the scene after the tragedy.

If granted the supersedeas would The trolley car, No. 890, was commissioner, Harry J. Friend, that he had paid protection money to operate 28 slot machines. stay all proceedings in the lower manned by John W. Hall, motor- court scheduled to take place on man, and E.

L. Peters, conductor, AdHI 17th until the appeal or the Jermyn and Friend are the first commissioners can be heard and both of the West Side. The motor-man was cut by broken glass from decided by the Supreme Court. the vestibule of the car, but a to go on trial 150 Lackawanna ana declared that inasmuch as the countians Indicted for conspiracy opponent took to speak of his canto set and maintain slot machines didate's ability, it behooved him to and gambling devices in the coun- declare that Mr. Cope possesses all Attorney Edmund E.

Jones, or check-up showed that he was not Wllkes-Barre also was present to LAW VIOLATION Charged With Aiding His taken to a hospital. Passengers in oppose the petition on behalf of the ty. the car mostly mine workers on T. figured Friend was close to the taxpayers. The chief ground of the petition their way to the Susquehanna col street car crossing at the point of the tragedy.

the qualifications and furthermore that he has served for four years. He asserted that it has never happened yet when a superintendent was not returned for more than one term. Mr. Hatten said Is that the general county act of May tj pp i mayor," Miller testified in explaining why he went to him to make lieries in isanticoKe, were anaaen a bit but not hurt The car is known 1929. elves the commissioners tne The Survivors Two of the dead men.

Samuel arrangements. I paid out $700 and more, week- right to have the issues raised by the appeal and answer tried by a court and Jury, Instead of by the West and Louis Prudhoe, were that Mr. Cope was not a politician Tt -M'tllA- eoM "an4 WfonA tnM Father In Civil Disobedience Campaign I proof of which, he stated, was in married: the other, Arthur Roachford, was single. as the second Nanticoke, and leaves Public Square at 6:45 a. m.

Its load is composed mostly of mine workers for the Buttonwood and Loomls workings in Hanover Township and the Susquehanna Collieries Company In Nanticoke. court enbe.no without a jury. The oDDosintc counsel were given four that the rest went to city appomentf two men, ft. Mr. West is survived by his MR.

AND MRS. THEODORE TUROSKI I akt Via -nil no 11 rsf tliA widow, Mrs. Mildred West, and a. a hearing by Justices Simpson and Schaeffer In the latter's private Found dad today at Ceasotown Dam as climax to domestic difficulties Miller stated later that he had ilVJ" lu office, all other parties being barred STAGE DEMONSTRATION daughters Verna; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

James West, of Lee Park; a brother. Cecil, and a alster, Mrs. placed twenty-eight slot machines Cops Gets Big Lead In Scranton and that the protec- Th rt fnnr diatrintj. on tha tnat panea tnem oniy last oaxuraay. Domestic difficulties that parted Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore The last stop It made before the accident was at the Loomls colliery, tion cost per day for each machine sixty-three districts, Mr. Cope car- Thomas Hughes, of Wyoming, and Turoski, both 23, of Phillips street, Lynwood, Hanover Towtt TREASURY BALANCE London. April 8. The stern hand (10 Thaa lMaf.infr was four dollars.

ried thirty of them without opposi two brothers, James and Ernest, and one sister, Alice, In England. ship, only last Saturday, had a tragic culmination during (Continued on Page 17.) of British authority struck close to protected aurinK busy traffic hours Mahatma Gandhi today, when the Mr. Prudhoe leaves his widow. of the day and night Dy an auto the night when the young husband shot and killed his wife nationalist leader son, Ramdas, Mrs. Winnie Prudhoe; twin daugh Washington, April 8.

The treasury balance April 5 was and then turned his weapon on himself. He was found this matic signal light which operates In the same manner as the traffic lights in this city. It is reported was sentenced to a six months' nrison term for violation of 'he ters, Dorine and Gwenette, a brother, Thomas Prudhoe. of Beav- BITTER FIGHTI morning at the Ceasetown dam, with the death weapon sulfa his hand. The wife's body was only a short distance away salt laws.

Continued nn Vgc t) as out of commission today. $348,121,641.69. CLEARING HOUSE REPORT An Exchange telegraph dispatch from Bombay stated Ramdas had Both had been shot through the head. tion, while Mr. Williams secured seven of the districts without a vote going to his opponent Following the election, the question of salary was placed before the delegates.

D. R. Tredlnick, of Rice Township, declared that the superintendent's office is helpful to education and that It supervises 1,587 teachers. He-spoke of salaries of superintendents in other cities in comparison with this county. In Lackawanna County, he explained with only 800 teachers to supervise, the superintendent re-(Contlnued On Page 2) been taken into custody at Surat New York, April 8.

Clearing Found By Watchman IN ILLINOIS Mast on charges of aiding his father campaign of civil disobedienca by The discovery of the double tragedy was made by wilfullv removing salt from the house statement: Exchanges, $1,784,000,000. Balance. S197.000.000. waters of the Gulf of cam Day. Michael Reilly, watchman at the dam, which is in Jackson Township in a remote lonely section.

Word was sent to the When Ramdas was haled before Federal Reserve Bank's balance, the court, the dispatch added, he $174,000,000. FOR SENATE Defend Right To Take county court house. County Detective John Dempsey and launched into an anti-government Corporal Robert Frick, of the State police at Wyoming, were speech, during the -course of which he admitted removing the salt but denied he had committed any of detailed to make the investigation. fense. LITTLE STUDIES Certain Railroads Find Marriage Certificate Mrs.

McCormick Is Fav The court held, however, that wilful removal of salt from the water constituted a violation of tho Their first discovery was a marriage certificate on the un in thm eomDanv of a man of Russian ex body of the man. It furnished the clue that led to the iden ored In The Betting To Defeat Deneen government salt laws, and sentenced him to six months in prison. Washington, April 8. The Inter traction. He was particularly rssentful because some of his fellow countryman had tried to interfere with his progress in a venture he had saw the like of if, he commented.

"You would think that Four Indian congrass leaders tification and later to the discovery of the motive for the double crime. This story was told by relatives this afternoon were arrested at the same time State Commerce Commission today ordered the Dels ware and Hudson after county officials had traced them from this clue, Ramdas was taken into custody. They were sentenced to six months and Wabash Railroads to show cause they would be the, last ones on earth to hurt my chances, yet tney are within 80 days from April 7 why CONTESFWIlirBE-CLOSI In prison saeh also. Broke- Up Last Satnrday" little better thanHiiy are." their aDDllcatlon to acquire 1 cerwin A huge crowd containing many As revealed by the certificate, the couple were married railroads should not be dismissed The commission said tbe applies Gandhi sympathizers gathered out Chicago. April 8.

Millions of Il about two years ago. They lived together at 10 Phillips street and Hartford, Pittsburgh and West Virginia, New York, Ontario and Western, Reading, Virginian sad Western Maryland. The Wabash set-up would Include the Lehigh Valley, Wheeling anj" Lake Erie, Pittsburgh and West Virginia, Western Maryland, Lehigh and New England, Toledo, Peoria and Western, Chicago and Illinois Midland. It would also have a pirt Interest in several other road and terminal companies. Both of these plans.

In many Instances, It Is charged, are contrary to the general consolidation plan outlined by the commission last linois voters tramped to the polls side the court house while the case of Ramdas was being decided. They staged a demonstration- of protest upon learning he had been today to decide the most spectacu until last Saturday, when a quarrel resulted the wife leav Hons do not comply with requirements because they do not set forth terms and conditions under which the proposed acquisitions are to be He raved on. There was no stopping mm, no reasoning, nm nma been hurt and he did' not hesitate to place the responsibility. To us, it was an old, old story. We had heard it a hundred times at least with variations.

We've seen man of Welsh extraction berate the Welsh, men of Irish extraction berate the Irish, men of Polish extraction berate the Poles. In everv ihstance, the person who complained had what appeared to be a real grievance. A man, whose parents came from the Emerald Isle, once threw another slant on this particular phase of racial misunderstanding. Ann' tha Walsh doina that to their own he snanDsd. "They lar primary tne State has ever ex ing and taking up her residence with a relative at No.

13, on perienced a contest that has pitted sentenced to jail. effected, nor the considerations to the same street, bhe was employed an overall factory, on a brainy, resourceful woman against be nald for the roads involved. skilled politician of the old the lower section of Carey avenue. The commission explained that no school. coDles- of leases, contracts or other By they will have d.

stick help each othr whenever there is an opportunity Instruments In writing, by which th termlned whether Ruth Hanna Mc-1 yVe shrugged our shoulders, said nothing. too Bxcusa ig ttamnt anv conversation. Agreement was the easy way out until some Cormick Is lo be the Republican She was at work yesterday, when a telephone call summoned her to return home at once. She arrived at the address of the relative to be informed that no" call had been made. She then left to return to her work more or less mystified.

proposed acquisition of control will be effected were submitted with tbe ither moment when his nerves would be settled. nominee for the Senate, or whether it is to be Senator Charles S. De THEATERS CO. Husband Gave AVarnlng neen, a two-time governor, who has been a power in Illinois affairs for more than a quarter of a century. A Welph friend of ours, a enum since ooynooa aays, laugnea wnen we told him about the man's grievance.

"The Welsh stick together?" he echoed. "They're just as jestous of each other as any I know." We suppose if we- were too interview Italians we would hear the i it SUNBURY SCHOOL HEAD DIES 0T HEART ATTACK That was the last seen of ber It is an engrossing contest. Mrs. alive. In the mean time the young McCormick.

the first of her sex to make a real bid for the Senate. Moreover, she is the daughter of applications. The Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio have already withdrawn their merger applications and are preparing to submit new proposals aimed to overcome the objections raised by the commission. The D. and H.

and Wabash applications are conflicting and In some Instances include roads that have actually been allocated other carriers it Is said. The Lores proposal In effect asked that the D. and H. i linked up Dr. Walter A.

Qeesey, 41. tor one' famous senator. Mark Hanna. the widow of another. Medill Me- same complaint, no aeiiOf, inv stmi ib iruo wiin ins uermana, tne 8panish, the Greeks.

We've thought the matter over many times and somehow wa can't agree that it's nationality that's behind It Maybe, it's only a hunch, but strongly suspect that if one were to probe beneath the surface far enouoh, he'd place the responsibility where it rightly belongs on the individual. Every racial group unfortunately has its quota of envious persons, men and women, who are jealous of the sucotss of others. Because of that, there are many who immediately rush to conclusions that are not i twelve years superintendent of the Sunbury Public Schools, died at his home there yesterday from heart Delmare K. Townsend was appointed an auxilllary receiver for the Chamberlain Amusement Enterprises Company, by Federal Judge Johnson at Scranton today. The company operates motion picture houses in Lansford, Shamo-kin, Mt.

Carmel and Mahanoy City. The original proceedings in the bankruptcy case were filed in the Eastern district. Cormick, and she Is, running against dan. Prom the theory of the police, reconstructed from the storus heard it is thought that he sent the decoy message and metx his wife with the car, as she started back ta work. He evidently drove her out Into the lonely -spot at the dam.

In the back country section, to seek a reconciliation. It evidently failed and then, as so clearly closed by the physical evidence on the scene, he first shot her down and turned the weapon on himself. Death Is believed to have been instant. (Continued On Pace 17). the man who defeated, her late husband.

The situation offers a vehicle for a first class drama. husband about his home, only a shot" distance away, was warning Hi Relatives that he was about to fcSQ them. He told them that as a rJfcult of his wife's departure he was going to end It As he left the home it was with a warning that they would never see him again. Mystery Shrouds Movement From that point on, until the disclosing of the double tragedy this morning, their movement are not known. When the husband left he 4ror ear a owned, Ford se attack, following an Illness that dated back to last Fall.

Dr. Geesey was a native of Alloo- The surface odds, betting, cli justified bv fact. with the Boston and Maine, Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Susquehanna. Central of New Providence has ssen it tit to distribute the good, and the bad among matic and! otherwise, favored the woman a the trek to thefoils be all doodIss of the earth There is no spot where they thrive in particular, and Frank Hamerman and Swald I Jersey, na.

and came to 8unbury from the Hummelstown schools In it II. won State-wide prominence as an educator and brought national recognition a tbe Sunbury schools Lackawanna, Lehigh and In the worst of countries, where is some 8. where IS some oood and in the baat thera is gan i this morning. The so-called seme bad. wise money In the Loop was being And that goat for the lesser divisions of the human family Kramer, of Shamokin, were ap-1 Hudson, Lehigh and New England.

Maine Central New York, New Haven pointed appraisers. ltntinud unifsge.