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Today's Paper The GoYomor's ttxsstft: inspired document from a Editorial Pmte 4. The Weather Mtryetot Dosty HeraM and Jffcfciwfioaes VOL. LXXXI--NO. 6. Established 1851 MIDDLETOWN, N.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1SSSL PRICE THREE CENTS BOMB HURLED AT JAPANESE RULER NEW COUNCIL TO CONSIDER PAY PROBLEM Conference Tonight WU1 Introduce Aldermen to Emergency Pf SEVERAL SAID TO FEEL THERE'S TOO MUCH FUSS Municipal Tax Receipts Show Heartening Rise That May Change Official Attitude Problems of municipal mance and Question of municipal salaries continued in the limelight here- today, with interest shifting, however, from the Board of Estmate to the Common Council as the source of the next immediate development. Tonight the new Council will hold its lirsv regular conference at City Hall in preparation for its meeting Monday, and before it for discussion may come official report of the Board of Estimate's ten-cent reduction, Wednesday night, in the hourly wage for city laborers, as well as recommendation from Mayor Clarence C. Van Fleet and City Clerk Harold LaPolt on the $54,000 paving bond problem. Salary cuts are regarded as a certainty at the next meeting of the Board of Estimate, and present indications are that the Council will back up an action the former board takes. But the Board of Estimate does not meet again before January fifteenth for consideration of salaries, and its action can not be reported to the Council therefore until the- end of the month.

By that tune the present official attitude may undergo some change if tax receipts are up to normal. See "Too Much Fnss" Several Council members are of the reported opinion that "too much fuss has been made and too much alarm raised without any justification in actual municipal conditions here." Consequently if the Council receives report of the slash from sixty down to fifty cents in the laborers' wage scale it may postpone confirmation until the Board of Estimate's entire piogram is submitted By section sixty-four of the 7 city charter, "The board (of estimate and apportionment) shall fix the powers and duties and regulate the salaries and compensation of all city officers and employes, except as otherwise provided in this act, but no such salaries or compensation shall be effective until approved by the Common Council" No assurance appeared among city employes today that the Council would upset the salary reduction plans of the Board of Estimate, and they seemed prepared to accept lowering of their compensation as inevitable. Tax Receipts Show Rise In the Pv Jice Department a possible effect was noted hi the application of one patrolman for enlistment the New York State Police, and Cor tinned on Page Ten BATTERY CLUE SOLVE THE BOMB MYSTERY Police Find Radio Batteries Were Purchased At Chain Store NEW" YORK--A manufacturer's code, stamped on the bottom of the small radio batteries used in the recent nationwide bomb plot against prominent Italians has given investigators their first real clue. The leteis "tEJOB" placed on the JBoya! radio batteries used in the twelve Jximbs mailed and expressed to sympathizers in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Youngstown, led the investigators to a metropolitan chain store. They hope the radio clerk there identify the purchaser of these batteries The investigators feel that an order of twelve batteries at one ,11010 should have attracted the clerk's attention Discovery of the battery clue marks the starting point of the second investigation into the bomb plot The first collapsed when three Italian travelers who spent the night of the explosion in Easton, Pa, and then drove to New York, were able to explain their presence satisfactorily.

Can You Answer These? (Answers oo Classified Pare) 1. What country, formerly partitioned among Germany, Russia and Austria, is now an independent nation? 2. What is the salary of a United Senator Representative? 3. Who was Rudyard Kipling? i 4. Who was the author of "The Bond S.

What royal ruling: house haa family n'itne In wbAt year was the Edison Incandescent lamp first exhibited? 7. What major league manager is oiled the "Big Train?" 8. What Indian cchool Is located at Lawrence, Kanaaa? t. Who was Ra? 10. What was the clam name of the Buddha? Forty-six Cows Die in Mysterious Fire in Barn On the Scotchtown Road Forty-six head of rattle died in the midst of roaring flames when fire destroyed large barns on the farm owned by D.

Winfield Lee and operated by Charles R. CudaS. between Cocleville and Scotchtown shortly after one o'clock morning. RELIEF WAGE CUT GREETED BY PROTESTS Men At Incinerator and Athletic Field Drop Picks; Some Urge March on Hall Reduction by the Emergency Work Bureau of fifteen cents, from sixty to forty-five, in the hourly wage for men receiving unemployment relief here nearly fomented a parade of protest on City Han by eighty workers when the regulation was announced as effective yesterday at the incinerator plant and athletic field relief projects. Reading of the announcement to the labor groups by foremen was the signal for a shout of protest from eighty employes, tossing of picks and shovels to the ground, dropping of wheelbarrows and some minutes of heated discussion -whether the group would march on City Hall, according to reports verified here later in the day.

Eight men wno had thrown down their shovels, started off the field and. did not return. The others after reviewing their financial position ami the conditions of their employment admitted they shouldn't "look a gift horse in the that "discretion, was the better part of and various other precepts which prompted them to return to work with the hops that their actions would not result in discharge The situation was reported fairiy quiet this morning, but. with some grumbling evident. One man appeared at City Ball to announce ne had quit.

Prior to the ciit, the Rev. Robert A Greenwell, Bureau chairman, had predicted it would result in a decrease the applicants for relief employment. Problems, however, have been created in employment schedules, which Harry itnight, executive secretary of the bureau, admitted today he could not solve adequately without further advice from the bureau members. These difficulties relate to arranging the number of days a week allotted a man. In making the cut the Bureau advised that the length of weekly employment given each man be extended so that his aggregate compensation would not be reduced if possible.

Such extensions have not gone into effect, Mr. Knight said, because of the apparent inequalities occasioned by increasing the one-day, two-day, and three-day a week men to two-day, three-day and four-day employment. On the former schedules the weekly payments were respectively $480, $960 and $1440. On the latter it would be $7 20, $1050, and $14.40. At present about one hundred and seventy-seven work tickets are out- Continued on Page Fifteen TREASURER OF HUDSON SURRENDERS Charles J.

West Held in $20,000 Bail HTJTJDSON, N. --A two-month search for the City Treasurer, Charles West, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, was ended today West, whosie disappearance disclosed an alleged shortage of $250,000 in his accounts, surrendered last night to Police Chief Thomas Connor. He was arraigned and held In $20,000 bail. Prior to last night, West was seen last at the Rcpuoncan olub In New York, the day after election. Later that day he telephoned his wife, informing her he intended to come home immediately.

An unofficial search revealed alleged discrepancies in Ills accounts NEWBURGH TRUCKMAN HELD FOR BAD CHECKS Allegedly Gave Phoney Paper For Tires NEWBOROH--Jamrs Mac- Gownn, thirty, a Ncwburgh truck- man who was Indicted October thirty-first on a charge of firs! degree grand larceny, here last night and release In $2,000 bail today The charge resulted from his passing of an allied bogus check (or $1,800 at the Harvey Tire Co, here several months ago MncOowan also said to have in- sued a worthless checlf for scvrnty- four dollars as payment for truck registration plates at the Motcr Vehicle Bureau here December Uilr- ty-fiwt. He ma amitled by Under Sheriff Bert Trucsdell as he left a motion picture chow with his wife last night. Old wanted to take charge Iras terminal. Report 10:30 a. Saturday and Monday.

Capitol Coach Lines, SO Jama Ongin of the blaze is undetermined. Mr. Cudak said he was in the barn las-: at seven o'clock last night. He was awakened early this morning by the continuous barking of fes dog and saw the glow 01 flames. "The structure was and cows bellowing in terror.

Officials sought to establish the ideimy of two men who were seen an automobile in the vicinity shortly after Mr. Cudak discovered the blaze. The men inquired the way to a main road, Mr. Cudak said. The Waalkill Engine Company with Fire Chief W.

M. Seeley answered a telephone request for aid. When they reached the larm all of the cattle were dead They constructed a dam across a -small brook to form a water supply with which they saved an adjoining ice house and house after three hours efforts Mr. Cudak estimated the total loss at $15,000 which -was only partly in- sored. The bam was built two or three years ago to replace a structure which burned on the same site.

The forty building was feet with an eighty by thirty by eighty feet and a sixty foot shed, ail of which, were burned. The loss included 150 tons of hay, fifteen to twenty tons of feed, and all fanning impliments. The blaze had not started at 12-30 a neighbor who passed the place on the way home al that hour said. The farm is situated on a hill on the Boomingburg-Goshen turnpike. Glow from the blaze was plainly visible in Middletown and for many miles in almost every direction throughout the county.

CHIMNEY FIRE Ontarios and Excelsiors were called to the house at 383 North street, cwned by the Charles Schupp estate, to extinguish a chimney fire at 9:30 last night. SAYS BEER IS LESS HARMFUL THAN FOOTBALL Yale Poison Expert Tells Senate Committee Beer Harts No One WASHINGTON Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale told a Senate committee today that beer drinking hurts no one, but football, considered an alement of healthy college life, killed forty persons last season. Testifying at opening of hearings on Senator Hiram Bingham's four per cent beer bill Henderson, an expert on volatile poisons, said. "Taken in moderation, alcohol is no more harmful than smoking or coffee drinking." teaching of physiology and toxicology is, that the definition of an intoxicating alcoholic beverage implied in the Yfllstead Act excludes from use beverages which are practically non-intoxicating That act forces most persons who desire to consume alcohol at all to make use of those beverages, such as whiskey, gin and half-diluted crude alcohol, which are highly intoxicating," Henderson said. Speaking from forty years contact with students, he declared.

"I would say that cutting oft beer has had a bad effect upon college student life in promoting the of the highly intoxicating form-! of" distilled spirits Beer drinking hurts no one, while football, the other great student amusement, killed forty young men and boji this last season. Yet university authorities generally consider that it makes for college 5Ue The professor said a should not be classed as intoxicating unless the drinking of it results in from 60 to 80 cubic centimeters absolute aicohoJ being absorbs the blood in ftn hour Half a gallon of four per cent an hour would not excerd this limit, he wua 5's caparttv I BANK ADMITS PAYING BONUS ON PERU BONDS Son of Former President of Latin American Country Got Share of $533,008 LOAN MADE IN 1927 DEFAULTED LAST YEAR Seligman Firm Member Grret Details of Transaction Under Quiz of Johnson WASHINGTON---The York banking firm of J. W. Seligmsn paid $533,000 to a group of Peruvians including the son of the then President of Peru to turn a $100,000,000 Peruvian loan to them, Frederick Strauss, mem her of the Seligman firm, revealed today. He was testifying before the Senate Finance committee investigation of foreign leans.

Of the total paid the son of the president--Leguia--received $415,000, Strauss said. Harold Bolsten. New York attorney now dead, received $67,000, S. A. Maginnts, a former American Minister to Bolivia and T.

V. Sate of Titsman and company, banker, $10,000 in connection with the loan, it was brought out. The witness said no payment was made to President himself, wnom. Senator Johnson maintained, "sustained himself in power by these loans." The Seligman officials said they made the payments as commissions without contract nd maintained the practice was not irregular. The loan was made in 1927 aad 1928 It was defaulted in 1331.

The Seligman firm, Mr. Strauss added, participated in much South American financing, charging as high, as thirteen per cent spread. Senator Johnson asked Strauss if he paid any money to anyone In Peru in connection with these loans. "Yes. we received the business through J.

T.iwnan anjj Co Strauss, -We subsequently learned Physician Stricken As He Aids Patient LEEMON DIES A SUffllONS AID that a group of the son of the one received some charges," "How much was it?" asked Johnson. "I believe they were paid two- thirds of one per cent on the first loan and one-Jialf of one per cent of subsequent loans," Strauss replied "That amounted to $533,000" much did the son get?" "I believe $415,000." Straus said the president was L-eguia and his son's name was Juan. They were tried and found guilty of a revolutionary tribunal on charges of "a great variety of illegal enrichment amounting to millions of dollars." "How was the money paid?" asked Johnson. "It was put in the account of Juan Leguia in our books," cne of Strauss' assistants, a Mr. Brech, broke in.

"What did you pay him for?" "Because he was a member of a group of promoters who brought the business to Llsman and to us," the assistant replied. "After you sold these bonds to the American public you paid Juan Leguia?" "Well, twenty per cent of these loans were subscribed abroad," Strauss said. Struass said that the province of lower Austria was charged 11 1-2 per cent ac "spread" or cost to the borrower, on a loan of $2,000000 and the department of Corqua Valley, Colombia, was charged 13 per cent on loan of $2,500,000. He told the committee that hU company floated or participated In $128,000,000 worth of loaxu to South America. WITNESS IN CUN MISSING rfEWBOROH-- Trial of FWd CJH- land of Nrwburgb, charged with li- possession of a flrtrarai, was poitponed by Judge Jonattisn 0 Wilson In County Court ThunaUt when fca Important reported miwrtni: Pred I thf witness, oriis- tnaUy catuml arrest of St was after tt Strideea nc for Vial of Pdfefc to I Grc Office CaBer HI MEDIOKE HERE BEGAN IN 1884 Entered SpsmaJJ War At rate Note far fijlit AftBtft Fever bs Army jKoreanAccused Of Attempt on Emperor's Life JAP CABINET ASUS.

DK, JOHN E. IJEEMOS "What's he gasped a daughter and wife rushed to asasi him. And death ksterreced before another physician arrived. MILK PRICES STOP Sussex Coeaty Dairymen Protest Against Action of Franklin Lakes Dairy NEWTON Fanners to Stsssex County today refused to deliver milk to the Franklin Lakes Dairy of DeKorte and son, because of they considered an unjust cut la the prices received its Uaslr ml5k Protest csune after twwtt7- eisijt farmers received their etoecks 'from ths Dairy for the first hali of December and were paid only for per hondrM pounds for tbeir mftfr product or a Itttte less than four cents per quart. They had no notice of the cut before tin- checks were received The doom of the DeKorte Dairy were closed today when a suppjy of milk was received from but one Jarrn Bemer- villc.

The men met at the dairy early today and in the prrzsn of Austin'. Hough explained their grievances to the head of the concern, DeKorte. 8r Mr to give any reason lor tht cut, to promise anything in the future, "What the farmers will do with the tptitr. or what the dairy will do without it was unccrtxixi late today APEAL A I BROADCAST FROM FLOODED DELTA Army Patrol Also Sought for Inundated Sfistustppt Region; Many Homeiesi i ptiiest SB ciTsee si sisters Grew Br Mta SXssos few iaaeRis 'aaA 5 iKisl. His sUs 10 exy, Or- WLlis who called to fcUesat feist Dr LeetBCtx IsauS la good heaSSs ditrsof had Attack on Crowded Street Imperial Carriage from INDEPENDENCE IS BLAMED PLOT BY POLICE i paexft at lUxxtt Kftn o'clock.

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