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4 The Weather rsln tonight md allghtljr warmer. COUNTYU PEOPLEJ Established in 1797, Vol. 282. CANANDAIGUA, N. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1934.

Single Copy, 3 Cents BABY FACE NELSON KILLED IN GUN FIGHT SEE SOLUTION IN DEATH OF3 GffiLSJONIGHT Investigators Locate Woman Who Has Knowledge of Case NOT UNDER ARREST Expected to Furnish Information That Will Clear Mystery CARLISLE, Pa. (IP) The baffling mystery that has beclouded the deaths of three sisters found on a mountainside near here seemed today to be approaching a solution. Investigators oredicted the mystery would be solved by sundown They apparently attached great importance -to the finding of a woman Philadelphia who was said to have some knowledge of the case. She will be brought here today to view the bodies, although it was emphasized that she is not under arrest. The finding of the woman was described by one of the investigators as the "best break" so far in the efforts to solve the mystery.

The oart of the "mystery woman" in the "girls' death, and possibly in the deaths of a man and woman near Ducansville, 70 miles farther west, was described by an official as "highly important" but he would reveal no information as to the circumstances under which the woman is held. Mrs. Gooden Dill, of Langhorne, also is to come here today to view the bodies. Description Tallies Yesterday, after hearing a description of the family of five which stopped at her tourist camp last week for several days, state police said it tallied with that of the slain trio of girls and the adult couple at Duncansville. Her story isjhat 1 game November 19 and leffcNowmber 21.

adults, who gava the names "Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Malohe," were "very distant" at first buT later said they were from Vallejo, California.

Mrs. Dill saw their black bag, described as similar to that found near the girls' bodies and a wash cloth, with a stitched also like one found there. Vallejo police said no Malone family of that description resided there. Meanwhile, Prof. M.

W. Eddy, physiologist of Dickinson College, bet gan physiological tests of the stomachs of the girls for poison and a report was expected from Dr. George R. Moffitt, pathologist Of Harrisburg. Dr.

Moffitt Said lie believed the children probably were suffocated. Solution of the "Duncansville pair's death was no further, apparently, than yesterday when-police stood by their "murder and suicide" theory. Quintuplets Are Reported Growing; All Are Healthy CALLANDER, Ont. (ff) The Dionne quintuplets were six months old today and, said their physician, in better health than at any time since their birth. None of the fhe has any organic disorder, explained Dr.

A. R. Dafoe. "They are healthy and big," he said. "Considering everything, they have the normal life expectancy of any baby and as they grow they should be healthier than other children." ASHLEY GIVEN DIVORCE; DOUG TO PAY COS1S Fairbanks Named Correspondent, Not Present At Court Session FINAL IN 6 MONTHS LEADING RACE Speakership Battle in House Is Raging at Terrific Pace Misconduct Charged at Hotel and at Home in the Country Farmer Slain In Fight Over SI.

50; Was Worth $89,595 SYRACUSE (IP) A farmer who was slain in a dispute over the payment of $1.50 today had been le- vealed as being the possessor of an estate of $89,595 including $56,836 cash in banks. The man is George H. Cramer of the town of Lafayette, killed in a fight with Harry Leaffe, 23, an Iroquois Indian who today is serving' a term of 20 years in Attica prison. Leaffe said the faimer would not pay him the $1.50 owed in back wages. WASHINGTON (ff) As the race for the speakership -of the new house turned the back rail today, most observers Relieved-Representatives Byrns of Tennessee and Rayburn of Texas, were in the lead, with Bankhead of Alabama' pulling far ahead of a field of dark horses.

The terrific pace indicates an early decision, although the actual selection of the winner will not take place until a Democratic caucus January 2. Campaigning for Byrns, the Democratic leader, and Rayburn, said by some to have support in administration circles, has become intense. Bankhead is to arrive Monday to get his campaign under way. His chances are generally believed, to lie in a deadlock between Rayburn and i LONDON (VP) Lord Ashley was granted a divorce decree nisi today from Lady Ashley and costs of the action were assessed against Douglass Fairbanks, named as co- respondent. The decree, which gives the young nobleman a final divorce after six months if contrary cause is not shown, was handed down shortly after the case came-before Sir Boyd Merriman.

The suit was not defended and services of a jury were not required. Lady Ashley is the former Sylvia Hawkes, musical comedy, actress. The court action today required exactly eight minutes time. Neither Lady Ashley nor Fairbanks was in court but Lord Ashley was there, smartly attired in a grey suit. Ashley gave evidence supporting his petition and called as a witness a "Mr.

Edwards" who he said had acted as private secretary to" Fairbanks from September, 1933. The nobleman testified he and his wife had lived together in comparative hapoiness after their marriage, February 3, 1927, until Lady Ashley went to America in January, 1928, contrary to Byrns. Flashes of Life New State Statute Is Upheld, Appeals Court ALBANY The Court of Appeals today had upheld the constitutionality of the recently enacted New York statute permitting selection in a trial of one or two alternate jurors who may replace any member of the regular jury in event the latter is unable to continue. The opinion, written by Judge Irving O'Brien, was handed down yesterday in connection with the affirmation of the first degree murder connection of Frank Mitchell, New York city salesman condemned to for the murder of a New York clothing store proprietor Valley Police Slaying Is Now Ten Years Old SCHENECTADY This Mohawk valley city's famous slaying of its "model policeman," foe of the underworld. Captain Albert You- ans.

is 10 years old today and still unsolved despite an active and as a lieutenant on the York city police lorce to ocwne here and run doim the assassin, Police Chief William H. FansUm is on the hunt The veteran has been accumulating data on the crime ever since- confident that some day a clue will be unearthed that mil lead to the ilaycr'A identity. Giant Planes Will Be Inspected on Ground WASHINGTON UP) A fleet erf giants of the air-- Martin bombers -hich can outspeed many a scout has been grounded so war department can inject the Ductosrag that toe inspection or- had zone out an air corps of- said A was done "not because the planes sre not safe bat because ihsy are so fast large they create some problems ire have not considered before." (By The Associated Press) Cause for 'Thanksgiving ANDERSON, S. C. L.

C. Clmkscales was relieved of any necessity to worry over his Thanksgiving dinner. Clinkscales reported that a fat possum dashed into the his Main Street residence last night, and was captured. In Self Defense? PORT WILLIAM, Ont. Maybe Nick Banan's bull knew Harry Kow- lasW was a butcher when he chased him up a telegraph pole.

Anyway, Nick has one week to dispose of the animal. Also, it was alleged, the bull refused to let Kowlaski's three children go" to school, standing in the road and frightening" them. They'd Read PHILADELPHIA What would college professors do if they had nothing to do? Temple university's faculty answered the old "desert island" question with replies listing everything from a mail order catalogue to "Anthony Adverse" as time-passing equipment needed. A majority of the professors picked the bible and H. G.

Well's "Outline of History." Here Kitty SUNBURY, Pa. Councilman Armond Bruno, of Kulpmont. went a long way to get rid of his cat. He took it to a Weikert lodge, of which he is a member, and gave it to the caretaker. That was Armistice Day.

The Bruno household had almost for- Subsequently, Lord Ashley continued, he received information of Lady Ashley's association with Fairbanks. Ke charged misconduct at the Hyde Park Hotel and a house known 'as "North Mimms Park" which FairbankS'-had'taken in the country. -Fairbanks' wife, Mary PIckford, also an American screen star, filed suit for divorce last December. DEFENSE FIGHT, ENGLAND LOOMS Conservatives Prepare to Battle for General increases Public Enemy Gone LONDON prepared today for a fight to increase Great Britain's national defenses because of German "rearmament." Winston Churchill, backed by other Conservative leaders, planned to introduce an amendment asking improvement of air defenses especially. Suppoiters of the motion contend; Germany is violating treaty obligations by rearming rapidly and they claim to be able to produce evidence to support these claims.

A government statement of utmost importance was to be made before Commons shortly by Sir John Simon, foreign secretary. Political quarters heard he would announce a great prospective increase in Britain's air force. French Study U.S.NRA Plan For Industries PARIS French industry studied today a hint from Premier Pierre Plandin of emergency codes to regulate industry somewhat in the manner of Washington's NRA. Recovery legislation to make industry put its production "in order" will be created, the premier said in an address at a banquet of business organizations last night. Prance's new leader gave no details of the program beyond saving a ccmmittee of experts" would decide "what industries cost the country more than they yield and those which must be protected." 58 Five Men Are Found Guilty of Extortion WATERTOWN (fl; Five were convicted in County Court this morning of extorting by force $6,000 from Vincent Sparacino, wealthy wholesale fruit dealer of Watertown.

Judge Henry J. Kimball had waited all night for the verdict. Those convicted: Joseph Carbons of Watertown, George Cotroneo and Salvatore Cambareri of Syracuse, and James Vitale and Antonio D'Anna, of New York. The jury was out 14 hours. At 4 A.

M. it reported it wished part of the testimony read to them, which was done. All five were remanded to jail to await sentence later in the day. The maximum, under the law is 15 years. BABY FACE NELSON Law Catches Up With Man After Ten Years COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo tor, "had forgotten about me after all Compromise Offered in Bonus Payments WASHINGTON (iP) Chairman Harrison of the Senate finance committee made a flat prediction today that if advocates of the soldiers' bonus would agree to a compromise to cash the service certificates now i today as an alleged escaped convict for only the needy former service I from the federal penitentiary at men it would be passed by Congress, Leavenworth, Kas.

Harrison was just back from a trip to He is Jesse Frank McNeely, sought Warm Springs where he discussed I by federal authorities for more than the bonus jind other questions with 110 years A R. Gere, department of justice agent from Denver, who arrested McNeely, said the man admitted he escaped from the prison in 1924. Found Dead After Battle In Which He Killed 2 Was One of Two Men Killed Agents in Automobe Battle Near Chicago (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON--Baby Face Nelson was found dejuFfhis afternoon in Niles Center, 111. Attorney General Cummings said the gangster wis shot yesterday by Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Special? Agent Herman E.

Hollis, who were killed In a gun fight withjhim at Harrington, III. When the body was found today by federal men, it was revealed Nelson had been shot five times in the stomach, twice in the chest and five times in each leg. The body was found in a ditch clad only in underclothing. The outer garments were found by Dept. Justice searchers.

Niles Center was described as 15 miles from Chicago. "Wake it clear that our men shot said. Nelson was considered the nation's No. 1 criminal since the death of John Dillinger in Chicago several weeks ago. Dillinger was reported to have been killed by Hollis.

Finding of the body concluded an intensive 24-hour search for the gangster. these years," was under arrest here President Roosevelt. The statement appeared to leave no doubt that the administration would approve of such a compromise. Harrison added he did not believe the Senate would pass over veto a full cash bonus Declares Hitler Is Like Julius CHICAGO (AP) Samuel P. Cowley, one of the federal government's ace manhunters, died early today from bullet wounds inflicted in a gun battle with George (Baby Face) Nelson in which another federal man was killed.

He died in an Elgin hospital as the government threw all its power into a hunt for Nelson, one of the few remaining members of John Dillinger's gang. Nelson was named as one of two "men who shot down Cowley and Herman E. Hollis in a burst of gunfire in suburban Bamngton late-yeateelay afternoon. Hollis met death instantly in the shower oTpul- lets that Nelson "and an unidentified companion unloosed in a brief, but furious, gun battle. Even as he lay dying, it was disclosed by department of justice agents that Cowley was the real leader HAMILTON iff) Adolph Hitler I pjjj Board of Aldermen Approve Sales Tax NEW YORK A 2 per cent sales tax, championed by Mayor La Guardia--who was an unswerving bassadoVto amTfonner the federal drive that brought down the notorious Dillinger, although Melvin H.

Purvis, head of the Chicago office of the bureau of investigation, had been geneially credited with being Dilhnger's nem- Murder Is Charged in Death of Priest, Wife NEW YORK (if) Two indictments charging first degree murder and a third indictment alleging the illegal possession of a pistol were filed in General Sessions court to! toda y. tne nnci 2i measure oi to so many people. Dr. Schurnian down Charles an Ohio (Pretty Boy) cornfield last and his work today is in the department of justice agents position as Julius Caesar was prior; to the Gallic war, in the opmion of Dr. Jacob Schurman.

-former am- foe of such a tax when he was a member of Congress--had the approval of the Board of Aldermen president of Cornell university. i theater last July. HolUs wag reportet to have fired one of the bullets that killed Dilhn- ger in front of a north side movie "No man in the history of the world ever has spoken so effectively day against Joseph Leid bride and a Catholic priest. The indictments are based on the shooting of the Rev. Joseph J.

Leonard, chaplain of a home for the aged at Lawrence, N. and Steinmetz' wife, Ruth, former Hollywood dancer, in the priest's room in a hotel here last M'onday. an address here last night Signs Death Warrant Thus Nelson, the nation's public took deadly vengeance of Dillinger, but in doing he signed his own death gotten it ever had a cat when walked kitty, having covered miles in barely two weeks. Have A Cap of Wheat? CADILLAC, Sask. Let's have a drink of wheat, says W.

E. Doyle. who farms 10 miles south of here. Lacking the wherewithal to pur-j chase coffee, he set about to manu- facsure a substitute. He uses wheat in the process and claims it tastes better than the real Java.

The process is a secret. Mysterious Malady Hits Dr. Armstrong WASHINGTON Charles Armstrong, modest hero in the government's fight against disease, lay helpless in a hospital today--victim of a mysterious malady unknown to science. For two decades a foremost "microbe hunter" of the Public Health Service, Dr. Armstrong was struck secutive weekly increase in steel pro-1 cownas he pressed research into I duction; has lifted the operating rate; sleeping sickness.

i of the industry to 29 per cent of ca- I But, so far as is known, the mal- pacity from 38 1-2 a week ago. the ady that attacked him bears no re-, -iron Age' 1 estimated todav in its; lation to sleeping sickness. JV skin I weekly summary. eruption appears on the sides of his The magazine noted indications aay against joseon Jbeia oreinmetz ra to feed the pooi 5aia an aQQ T-ess nere last mgni 22. alleged slayer of his 17-year-old pa afford unemployment relief dur.

Our course nov to study and try he hig QWn le-v opened to rrr I understand him i warrant for federal agents earned Mm needed for the relief program, pass-' orders to shoot irst ed the Board of late ves- terday by a vote of 55 to 7. It new goes to the Board of Estimate brar.cr- of the municipal assembly. Reports Rural Homes Have Depreciated Less Production Increase jExtradition Asked in Steel Is Reported in Case of Poderjay 7 YORK tPj The sixth con- i The body, he runs a temperature at times grows delirious. May Ask Cotton to Hold Average Down and that, consumers had exhausted in- 1 ventories build up last Spring and 1 were forced to re-enter the market 1 for steel products. Showers Convicted of Slaying of Small Girl MALONE A nortto country Jury late last night convicted Tom Shwcrs of the Barnum pond CCC camp of murdering 14-year-old Clco Tdlstonc.

but the jury's "second degree" verdict saved Showers from the electric chair. i -Your sentence," Supreme Justice Erstane Rogers announced a few minutes later, "is 20 years to Mfe at Jmrdjabor to Dan- nenicTa state prison," Showers sat with hands crossed on his lap, regarding the jury with tamed dunng the eight-day trial IS KILIED SHANGHAI R. former in JJic Unitsd States Army Corps, was kOTed late his airplane crashed at WASHINGTON Th2 AAA' is ready to call on cotton planters to hold their 1935 acreage down Io 75 per cent, of the 1938-32 average. Utica Man Injured in Fall From Train ALBANY IP- Rural homes have depreciated less rapidly than other forms of property dunng the depression, Dr Kenneth Kood said today in a report submitted to the New" York State Planning Board. "Rural homes purchased more than 15 years ago depreciated 363 per cent to June 1.

1933." he said, upon the Austrian government to- -those from six to 15 years aay for the extradition of Captain deprecated only one-tenth of Ivan Poderjay on charges of bigamy, OI1C CEnt; those bought less A previous request for the re- than sl: vear 3go declined 6.9 mandment of Poderjay, -wanted in! enl ln connection with the disappearance of his bride. Agnes New York and Detroit 3-jwycr. had been becaw is not a cnrm- in Austria unless th" oath is taken fee-lore a court accused Poncrj'iy -of perjury in his ma mace to MJV on -ince he allegedly already i Student Suspended For Gross Disrespect In addition to all the power the department of justice could concentrate in this area, half of the 200 detectives of the Chicago police force were called into the hunt for the baby faced killer. For hours after the new outburst of warfare between the government and the remnants of the Dillinger gang, the police combed the "badlands" of the city, striking here and there for a clew to the whereabouts oi the pair. The second fugitive is believed in some quarters to have been John Hamilton, a lieutenant in Dillinger mob.

Two Men Arrested Two arrests were made by rading squads of police and federal agents. Chester Leader, a garage owner and Lester Van Huston, operator of a tpvern. both described by police as of Xelson were seized for questioning. Detective bureau squads searched the home of Nelson's mother and sister, but found, no the machine in which the agents riding the officers swung' their machine in pursuit. "We could hear the roar of the motors and then shots as the men in the second car began shooting at the other," Mrs.

Frances Kramer, operator of a gasoline filling station, and a witness to the killing said. "Someone in the first, car shot back Just before they reached my station the second car pulled abreast of the other on the outside. the tires of the first car screech-as the driver swung sharply into a little side road about 200 feet past the station. "The second, car swerved with it and managed to pull ahead just the highway, blocking the way of the other car which slid half into a ditch. A woman jumped out, ran up the road a few yards and plumped down in the ditch.

Both, had jumped at the same time-and faced the other car with what looked, like machine guns. They started firing as the two men in the federal car got out. Ccwley Is Struck "All four men were using 'automobiles as shields at first. lOne of the agents (Cowley) fell backwards into the ditch. Tlie other darted across the road bfehind a telephone pole.

He dropped a few minutes later." Another witness, Robert Hayford of Harrington, a park employe, salt. that one of the gangsters, apparently Nelson's companion, was wounded in the Jeg. and was able to get on his feet'idtty with great difficulty after the federal agents had ceased firing. Hayford was about 400 yards from the scene at the time and threw himself on the ground to was cen-I ROCHESTER Walter Wat- sen. 24.

of Ciica. is in serious condi- i of firms; ftnnncitinn I lion in Highland hospital today UCallinUb BATON ROCGE. La. of Loia-Jana Sta' The apparently 3a trnng in the north and nortnwet 1 of Chicago and adjacent! tyrea of the fight was the gunmen called to thtir -a oman'companion, jumped the i federal agents" machine retary Wallace planned between 3 and 4 P. eastern standard tinie, today, is smaller than the 40 per cent reduction promulgated for this year, out it is the maximum slash the AAA can make under existing contracts.

stull believed to have been received when he Ml from a train, Details as to the accident were lacking. He was brought to the New York Central Station lat night by a tram crew that had telephoned ahead lor an ambulance to St. Lawrence Plan Dragging Operations New York Gang Chief For Two Men Stopped; Surrenders to Judge today Hungjao airdrome. Dorsey -nans to China io a high-speed plane (Boeing), for Wawkeek Landing in board motor boat, doned here today. Last hopes were given their boat was foanfl sunk in 40 feet of water upper Saraoac Lake, aWwt one-half mile from their destination.

The lake had been dragged since last Friday. SABANAC LAKE ALBANY JP Arthur Flegen- for Chester A. better known as Dutch the iame stolid attitude he main-1 and Harry Baldwin, lost since i Schultz. mentioned often as a New last Wednesday when ihty York gang leader, surrendered htrc today to U. S.

Commissioner Lester had been aban- T. Hubbard, to answer to a charge evaded federal income tax pay- up -ahen merits Schultz, accorr.par.ied by his attorney, pleaded not guilty to the federal charge. ST. LOUIS 7') Thf Valley Af-iDcialirn La-, its. ODposition to urcHinl nroiisions of the St treaty The as-ocjation at thf iion of its conienlion adopted a opposing federal regulation oT traffic It held that rnav be re- Lcd on to j-fJTulst' aijd in the public and thai no regulation oth'T than that concTn- ing in na-nCation needod.

rsitv by Dr. Jamts Smith, prcsi- for disrespect" pcti- tl the MaR public'-'tion RcviHc re Mon- Dr Smith told th" fCi- t-or ihcv "Rould to iacujtv "ccrL-crship" of the pubhw- not b' prrmi't'-d to any eop-v disparacnnc to Senator Huey Lone; sections disabled Bullets. and punc- K1LLED BY I ROCHESTER FurcT ranKE.njc.Tits Ot'TPI INCREASES NEW YORK iy Eleotry powr output for lavt v.ee" 1 totaled 413,000 hour; compared with 1J6I3LC45WJ the EdKGD Dic-tnt institute reported todav The over loday fr Elizabeth struck and m-tar, 4 r. ahile playing 4 T) of thf tnjc 1 MOTTJ-, T.o'i h'ld. ar- nm- STRIKE TS CALLED ROCHESTER Net today as ihaieu iy The 43-year year record of the Gome Malls-was He was held i ago was 6.1 per cent, compared with shattered when tmploves struck for oeen wounded but "-as to Min- lyapolis ar.d St Paul on the theory killers might seek a hideout in Ihe Minnesota Iwjji cities.

The -who foucht a ranring Lfcbt thf agents thtv along a highway, escaped in the automobile of the federal of- I liotrs. They luad halted their own marhint- and pumpcrd their deadly miohinc CTJD bullets at Hollis and Co-alcy when the two j-teppt-d Irom car and advanced toward the gangsters with drawn guns. and Cro-wlcy. both of whom i.ere -aith Federal Agent W. Carter Baum -ahtu he was, slain, al- Icgfdly by KtlAon, near the little resort not far from Mercer, last April 22.

re tnrouU- to a house in which they belie-icd and possibly Hamilton were hiding when they spotter 1 the dsspcradoes" car. In it were two men and a woman, the believed been Neten's wiSs. She was believed to have Wearing Appard in Greater Demand Now NEW YORS enlarged consumer demand for wearing apparel of all types has finally.forcttS retailers to abandon the hand-to- mouth buying policy through the summer. Substantial replrcement ordfrrs we being booted in the New York wholesale market. After several months of cicoeplion- ally tow volume, clothing manufacturers were the first io feel ihe Affects of sustained retail sa3es.

Orders poured in to fast October that many were prompted io advance prices 000 bond and remanded to the Al- foany County jail, an increase of -5 cent the before. bstter wortang conditions and creased wages m- TREASURY RETORT WASHINGTON The position of the treasury 36: Receipts balance 835.41. Customs receipts tor Chase As the gangsters' car roared.