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19 Shopping Days To f-lirislmas NOW WITH CASH! EMI'IliE I'LKSONAL LOAN CO. jflfobletoton merger ol tin Dally Herald ani Xlddletown Times-Press 77i? Weather rain tonight and Y. FH1D DECEMBER 2. I A I i Ci.M 3 Charges Against Sloan Defective, Wiggins Asserts Defense Counsel Contends Welfare Superintendent is Not a Public Official, Did Not Audit Bills NRVA'BURGH--A motion for of the sixtc en-count indict- ut ngr.inH John L. Sloan, Newbnrgh Superintendent, was expected by oUior.s in the crowded courtroom today as examination of Timothy J.

men, VA'eli'are Department auditor, continued. Ir. Cr.nmm. thc first prosecution 1 u'is. was cmcitkuied yesterday Timon and today until the rectos.

That Russell Wiggins, uuiinsi'I, intended to move dismi.y.\l oi ihe indictment i i indicated by several re- In his opening to the jury Wigyitis had told the 1 not, be to pass evidence. Aprun during the edition's examination of Mr. Mr. had observed Mr. Sloan ntui been miiicteU the Public Officers Law al- igh, his counsel contended, he not a public official but an 'love of the Newburgh City and Home Board.

suppose I should object to this of lettimony until it is proven Mr. Sloan is a public Wiggins commented. )'ihis Justice Ely W. Personius Trailer Dumps Ten-Ton Load in Monticello Street And City Levies Helsingfors Bombed Again TVsnite Clianffp in Cabinet Soviets Announce Working District. New Finnish Rule I 4 planes Down 01 Yesterday Set is the "Demeerane Finnish Rraub- he," dispatches to Tass.

official Sov- A sharp curve caused a shift in the heavy cargo of this tractor-trailer that ended in disaster at Monii- yesterday. The vehicle was operated by Harlcy H. Kent, of Buffalo, starting-point for the let nctts riirt'ncy. kl. The Terioki government, Tzts i is headed by Otto Kuusmni.

premier and foreign minister. Prior to She official announce- i nient thai a Communist Finnish government has been established on aps At 72 By Officials; More Killed Today "That, I take it, will come inter. I will take the testimony is being 1 Questioned on Procedure innon had been questioned by i F. Tucker of the Balmville as to the procedure of the 'are department in auditing hers, and for this purpose the mention had entered into the a voucher of October, 1937, lilted to the department by Mrs. jaret Corhcdale, proprietor of a at 150 Ann street, mt store had been once oper- by Joseph Friedman, Newburgh M- who has pleaded guilty to a ge of fraudulent audits.

Fried. it is believed, will be a priii- prosecution witness. sscond time, during esamina- of Cannon, Mr. Wiggins rose stated: "This is not clear inas- i as they have not established lefendant's status." Wiggins continued that his was on the ground that Sloan WOK nnf; nuhlV UIUL me voucher in question not against any State, City or subdivision, but against Increase of $1.75 Indicated As Supervisors Frame 1940 Budget An increase of per thousand in the combined city, school i New Haven factory for a government contract. As the truck turned over, the machinery hurtled through the canvas top of the trailer and came to rest within three feet of a butcher-shop by Ooer communist party which, the Soviet lias been Broadcast in Newburgh Woman To Gain Freedom As Christmas Gift Freedom Soon Mrs.

Sherwood, Sentenced For Murder of Son, to Be Released Dec. 27 get makers at Goshen, and a ten- tative estimate concerning the municipality's financial position at the close of the 1939 fiscal year here by City Clerk Percy E. Benedict, Pegged at $20 per thousand for the last two years, the combined rate is expected to advance- approximately to $27.75. An increase of seventy-four cents per thousand was predicted for the county rate today on inclusion of special vice inquiry costs. The general city rate will advance about fifty cents.

A similar increase already has been fixed in the education rate. County supervisors will have their first reading of the budget this afternoon. It was understood by the fiscal schedule there would be an item of covering costs of the Orange County investigation. This will include about $53,000 borrowed to defray expenses of the inquiry during 1939, and the estimated expenditure for 19-10. Exclusive of investigation costs, the S7uu.uoo budget, Hack Tax Collections Less Computing city balances for 1939 I was a suggestion subsequently Dorothy Sherwood, the Newburgh waitress who went to Bedford Hills instead of the electric chair for the murder of her baby son, will be among the prisoners of the State receiving freedom during Christmas week.

It was announced today from the offices of the parole Board that she would be released from the women's detention Quarters at Westfield Farm on December twenty-seventh, and placed under ihe supervision of the Salvation Army in New York. Mrs. Sherwood drowned her son, Jimmy, aged two, in Moodna Creek. On surrendering to the police in spaired of supporting the child, but End Communistic Ties, Lehman Aide Urges Democrats Brown is Speaker at $7.50 Victory Dinner of Party Here Walter T. Brown, executive sec- press sa Finland.

Marching As A Friend The communist manifesto paid that the Red Army was marching into Finland "not as an enemy but as a friend." The Soviet radio announced what purported to be the program of the i Finnish peoples government. Soviet for Using Policy of Force Bombings in Finland Show- Wanton Disregard for Law, Says FDR HKLSINGFOKS. Finland--po 1 r.ikied tir.iPE today, dropping at i teen bombs on the working elciss districL the same Urne Soviet warships bombarded Il.in^oe, ihe mouth of the Gulf of Finb.r.d, and s.i id. "The will of the people lias ended Finnish territory, the President Tanner's i.V. A.

Tanner, new Finn- said, came well as Red army thrusts at the Arctic coast of Finland and the port of Petsamo came as a new government was formed to succeed the resisuiiKi cabinet of Premier A. K. possibly with a view to reopening negotiations for tet- tleinent with the Soviets. H. Courier Endangered retary UIUUL- i-.

profound shock I Ihe renewed Soviet air raids eii- 10 Uiis government and the people thuigen-d the United States Lega- of the United States." Uon couner Lawrence Von Hel, lens, who was forced to liee along 1 1 roaii in his automobile as the I planes roared down at him. Finnish messages reported the ish foreign minister) policy," the radio announcement said. "The new government will end the struggle against the war provo- cut trend to force makes insecure cateurs and reactionary plutocrats the independent existence of small who turned the country into white nations in every continent ana i a to sc-ue guard hell and tried to sow enmity jeopardizes the rights of mankind i moMlc mto a cmcn to es among the people against, the Sov- to self government." ILI i 1 1 1 1 "0 -S imll m-ea. Four Soviet airplanes had been brought down in the iirst two raids today, Finnish officials said- Most of the damage Uonu in the raid was in the western pare of ration, and not a corporation Mr. Benedict predicted today a lorn-ii in i tie Public Officers' under which Mr.

Sloan was of recreant lover, whose broxen i the return of surplus to reduce the general city levy would be less than there was no prooi that Mr. fercnce is largely attributable to i haa audited any of the bills, I sharp decline in the collection of id any power to audit them, lice Personius replied that the ion would come up Inter, but Wiggins retorted: "I think it i to come up right now, be- an inmate of Sing Sing's death block after conviction for the firsl degree murder iby was in 1935. Charged with i sentenced to serve six to fifteen s20 00 0 i and death" "while she I degree manslaughter after reversal me a in thc a House at Sing of her conviction. Mrs. Sherwood Sing her case was reviewed on ap- will be paroled December twenty- organ, Pravda, appealed to Finnish estates and make Soviet 1 The terms of the Pravda appeal delinquent taxes-.

In 1938. when the city conducted an extensive tax (Com'mm'ci on Pao? 2 Coi li Supervisors to do something about welfare distributions and the coun- 1v canalization nf (axes, henrd the Uemocnilic Couiuy commit lee treasurer. Paul R. Cart, declare his preference for third term for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and heard Mr.

Brown assert that liberals of America were disillusioned and ihat- Communists and Hint nt liUO Program The chief aide of the Governor rved oi Empire State may have sup- three years and three months in permitted to nlead guilty of man- rit i IM I'lllllS OlSliCl DV A 1 witiirtrmv KUSSKI. or possiuie ui i bas.sadoy Steinhnrdl Irom MfiTow for consultation. I The President'- i a i said: "The news oi the Soviet, naval i and military bombings within Fin- iiMTUory iitis come as a pro- i if I nm right, all this tcsti- i sd to discuss with counsel when itiesiion should be raised and Tucker remarked: "If it is to be long (referring to the I don't think the jury be present." won't be long," said Justice nius. He then overruled Mr. s' objection.

Courtroom Crowded courtroom was packed to ig capacity ihis morning, Sev- public officials and attorneys sitting in the audience, listen- attentively to the arguments ion Mr. Wipe-ins and fhf Cnnrt atmosphere appeared tense anticipation of dramatic inci- Yesterday and Wednesday es between the prosecution and efense had been frenuent. "ong those in the court today now first assistant, and Jacol District Attorney Henry defeated at the last firemanic elec- Rivals for Rost Held By Harding Tvi Contests Develop Nominating Convention Of Port Firemen one for the Chief's post and the other for the position of second assistant chief, will be decided at Fire of -six to fifteen years in prison. August twentieth, 1935, Mrs. Sherwood startled members oi the Newburgh police department by walking into Headquarters, placing a bundle on the railing and saying quietly: "I've goc a dead baby here." She said she had taken the child to Ccasar Lane and let him play near the waters of Moodna Creek.

Then, she said, she held his head in ihe creek until he had drowned. The case, because of its emotion- and unusual aspects, attracted I nation-wide attention and thc Newburgh courthouse was packed to capacity during the first trial. A psychiatric commission found Mrs. Sherwood sane, despite her calm and unruffled manner before and Hunters Believed Responsible for I I were symv Outbreak ot rire Flames Sweep Over Acre Tract South of Bellvale During Night election. His speech in iial-1 ancD with others during the ning which maintained a fanfare for liberal public relief but i ited a growing tendency conservatism, "Liberals of all stripe." said Mr.

Brown, "while disagreeing- with Communist philosophy in general sympathetic to specific in- lesigned to eliminate cer- and social inequalities, but the recent rapprochement, between the Nazis of Germany and i the Coinir.unisis of has dis- Sweden Seriously Alarmed; Many Youths Volunteer to Fight COPENHAGEN. dp.nnvmn countries stood by angry but "neipiesH today as the Russians battered at their back door. I There was more anger than fear i IITP and more a 1 n5c of ilnpwcncl cinne i a in neighbor- -Finlund. affie Arrest: Rise. Then Drop about thiny miles from Helaingfors.

Oi'ici: 1 cloH- niie word about developments at Boryaa and it was not known whciher Soviet forcL 1 'iverc tempting to land for encirclement of the Finnish capita! in cooperation with possible landing at Coalition Cabinet Formed The new I'iibmei designed to represent all Finnksn i cials The list was not im- modhiti'ly announced but it, expected include Kiso i governor of the Bank of Finland, probably as Premier; V. A. Tanner, of the negotiators who went In Moscow, a.s Foreinn Minister: J. K. PaasiiUvi.

former Premier and head of the Moscow mission; and the Peasant Party leaner. T. M. Kivi- nesday, One Today them as frauds and fakers. mid-afternoon officials said that no and hampered by the major war to armistice had been proposed, nl- Another outbreak oi iorest fires, countries, aligned i Kin- if we permit termites in the Dcmo- ost of which were believed caused took r.s odd a fall.

A during the trial. She cried hyster- land bv blood and in an economic over cratic system to feed on intoler- period of one or two cases a day ically at the beginning of the second trial. She pleaded guilty then. the realization of their futility Sweden Alarmed Sweden had more caiif.fi for alarm Engine Comoany for the post of counsel table, stood up in the nee. Board Minutes Produced imony was begun yesterday mori with the railing oi Mr.

Eight persons, besides thc four second assistant Mr." Buch- ancn's name will a above that ol Mr. Murphy by receiving twelve votes to his opponent's seven, last night. Three delegates from each of the He was questioned as to Department's seven companies met ervice with the dL-pariint-nt in city Hall to chose thc candidates. .5 a i was Despite thc- of Chief ain why he had failed to pro- Harding's withdrawal from the race, the minut-s of the Commis- hu received three votes on a prc- the City Town Home liminarj- informal ballot, while i a subpoena had been votes were cast for Mr. Miller and Lippincou, Gcshen surgeon, niusi pay a six-cent vercli i for Mr, Lean.

Mr. Hardins I Jury clrrldctl LSkcd Mr. Sloan for them and withdrawal a announced by The a i eleven-year-om Ed; Charles but, no specific muwi Sikorsiii. son of Mr. and Mrs.

i reason was given for the Fire Lad Gets 6-Cent Verdict FQT Removal of Tonsils 4 HURT IN CRASH AT SOUTHFIELDS Port Jcrvis Residents Treat- a Tuxedo Hospital Police Believe Dynamite for Faun i i HI i 1 1L )1 Meanwiiilc 1 and hi." brother. tv. i appeared in the wailing room be- to have the removed from the har.d laceration. A nurse i ajked this Dr. i pRtic-nt.

and rcct; i left Henry in the 'vaitir." Ldmur-rl to i i him for a i George "hen Iht bc-y arrivtd in A IHi'h Dr. Lippir.cott rrid a f.nn^i.io: 1 Onlv one autoiaobilc accident caufinsr personal injurie. 1 had been reported in Orange County at noon. Tnat occurrtd fields this morning and 10 Tuxccio Hospital 'or Trie injum! wore Frar.k L. Hud: -I it oil were Mill in i not i i a a worried a tcmpis to ihe i a i dc Nev' Yori: City or any oth-jr projicrly he a or a to blow np it nis own back yard." i 0 'o- whr-n hr 1.