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Vol. CIV No. 71 22 PAGES Accused nn g. w. woodruff falls victim of pleurisy attack Public Service Commissioner Was Attorney General and U.

S. Judge I GEORGE W. WOODRUFF By Associated Press Death today removed one of the most distinguished figures in the official life of Pennsylvania, George W. Woodruff, Public Service Com' missioner and a former State's At torney General and Federal Judge. He was 70 years old.

Stricken with, pleurisy after heavy cold which he fought for two weeks, though refusing to rest from his work during that period, Com missioner Woodruff was removed to the Harrlsburg Hospital early this (Continued on Page 20) $25 FINES IMPOSED IN LOTTERY CASES The treasury was enriched $75 today in Dauphin County Court when fines of $25 each, made pay able to County Treasurer Paul Rupp, were imposed on three men on lottery charges. They are: Thomas H. Taylor, 1852 Deny street; Samuel M. Sherman, also of 1852 Derry, and Ahmad T. Hama wei, 1303 North Sixth.

Directed verdicts of acquittal 'were ordered for Fermon J. Sparks, 632 poas, and Nick Terris, 1303 North Sixth, on similar charges. APPROVE MARKET BILL Washington, March 23, (IP) The Federal Reserve Board today approved the revised Fletcher Ray burn Stock Market Control Bill without reservation. Dally except Sunday. Kntered aa Second Claa Matter at the Poet Office at Harrlsburg Rests rr jvl "HEX" SLAYER RESTS WELL, BELIEVING HE HAS BROKEN "SPELL" Youth Accused of Murdering Woman Says He Is Glad Black Cat No Longer Is Able to Tear at His Flesh By Associated Press Fotteville, March 23.

Down through the centuries has come "hex." It flourished in Germany during the dark ages. Immigrants brought It to Penn sylvania 200 years ago. Nineteen years ago, so the natives here relate, Susan Mummey told her husband one morning she had a feeling he would not return. He didn't. He was blown to pieces in an explosion.

Stories became superstitions under the influence of hexerai. Feared Black Cat Finally a "pumpkin ball" intended for killing deer with a shotguncrashed through a window and killed 64 year old Mrs. Mummey. Now, police quote Albert Shinsky, the 24 year old Shennandoah taxi driver feels "like a reborn man" because he killed the woman who "had me hexed." "She sent a black cat down from the skies," he blurted. "I had to kill her to break the spell." Tow Wow" Spell He said a "pow wow" doctor told him a chant which chased away the huge cat that tore at his side, but he could not break the "hex." Saturday night Shinsky "felt strong," Detective Louis Buono quotes him as saying in a signed statement, so he shot Mrs.

Mummey in her home at Ringtown while she was ministering to an injured boarder. The boarder, Jacob Brice, and her daughter, Tuvelia Mummey, cowered in a corner until daylight and then called police. Peace at Last Acting on an anonymous tip, in vestigators arrested Shinsky and announced his confession yesterday The mountain youth re enacted the shooting and was held without bail. "I know I am going to be electro cuted, but I don't care now," said Shinsky, in his cell in the Schuylkill county jail. "I have peace," he added.

Shinsky said he was "hexed' 8 years ago because he cut across Mrs. Mummey property to go fish' ing. One day she caught me with her eyes," he explained. "It felt as though someone had be my the throat. I ran around and around, trying to 6hake off the grip.

I couldn't do it." Old Case Recalled Shinsky 's alleged confession is strangely reminiscent of that of three youths in York county several years ago. They explained that they killed a man to get a lock of his hair and break a charm. It is the first time hexerai has clashed seriously with the law in Schuylkill county for many years. "Schuylkill doesn't go in for that stuff, much, but was settled by Germans from Berks county," one resident explained. WOMAN SAYS SHE WAS JILTED AFTER 22 YEAR WAIT Asks Heart Balm When Wedding Bens Fail to Ring By Associated Press Philadelphia, March 23.

Miss Nellie Smith, who says she was betrothed to Clarence L. Moore for twenty two years before she learned he would not marry her, has filed suit for breach of promise. Miss a dressmaker, said she met the railroad official in 1909, became engaged three years later, and was told last November that he did not intend to wed her. EXTRADITION BILL SIGNED Washington, March 23, (IP) President Roosevelt today signed the bill aimed at Samuel Insull, providing for immediate removal of American citizens accused of crime from countries in which the United States exercises extra territorial jurisdic tion. "HEX" SLAYER Pow wow Cures For Hex Speels Ludicrous Where Life Is Not at Stake By Associated Press Tie the heart of a bat to the right arm with a red silk string to prevent losses at cards that is one of the tenets of "hex." Coming down from the dark ages, brought across the Atlantic by German emigrants to America, the strange doctrines of hexerai still are believed by thousands of persons throughout the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania.

Different witches" offer different charms and different "powwow doctors" have different remedies. Some of them are amusing to the unbeliever; some of the serious, because they substitute voodism for medical treatment or as in the killing of Mrs. Susan Mummey at Ringtown lead to the taking of a life. Here are some of the teachings of Strings wrapped around trees will capture a victim's chills. A child dropped in the grain hopper at the miller's will be cured of whooping cough.

An ax under the bed, edge up, will cure hemorrhage. The hand of a dead person, passed over a birthmark, will remove it. The right eye of a wolf fastened against the inside of the sleeve will prevent accidents. The words "it is all written backwards on paper and wrapped in a scarlet cloth, then wrapped in the neck on the first Friday of the new moon will cure epilepsy. (This admittedly does not work ALBERT SHINSKY THREE TRAINMEN CRUSHED TO DEATH IN LITTLE CABOOSE P.

R. R. Officials Begin In vestigation Into Cause For Collision By Associated Press Norristown, March 23. Three Pennsylvania Railroad trainmen rode to their death while seeking rest in a caboose. The caboose, pushed by a loco motive, rammed a standing string of freight cars on the railroad's Trenton Paoli freight cutoff, about two miles from Norristown, last night.

The trainmen were crushed in their berths and their bodies badly burned by fire which started from an overturned stove. The dead were: P. J. Minchoff, 43, train conductor, and father of eight; R. D.

Brown, 33, brakeman, and C. R. Heffner, 32, flagman. All lived in. Pottsville.

Charles Kehoe, engineer, and John Safko, fireman, were uninjured; Railroad officials said the stand ing cars were part of a train of sixty cars which had stalled on a grade and been divided. Half of the cars had been hauled over the "hump" when the engine pushing the caboose crashed into the wait ing cars. An investigation was begun bv the railroad officials. They said signals were working properly. if the intended beneficiary ever has fallen into a fire).

The boiled brain of a rabbit rubbed on the gums will permit a child to cut teeth painlessly. A rose seed, a mustard seed and the foot of a weasel in the hands of a fisherman will bring fish. An egg boiled in rain water caught before sunrise, pierced with three holes and allowed to be eaten by ants, will keep an ill person from wasting away. A bit of verse will cure hysteria if repeated while the first knuckle of the thumb is placed on the bare skin over the lower end of the breastbone. Feathers from a rooster's tail pressed three times into the hands of a girl will win her love.

him he changed his plea to guilty. A box of his best "radio pills' Believing in INN PROPRIETOR PLEADS OWN CASE BEFORE JURORS Denies Charge of Sunday Beer Sale; Argues Defense Plea to Jury A jury this afternoon in Dauphin County Court was deliberating the two charges of sale of beer on Sunday against John L. Seward, pro prietor of the Silver Dollar Inn, near Dauphin, during the trial of which Seward acted as his own attorney. Seward explained his case to the jury as the trial opened; cross examined the prosecution witnesses, put himself on the witness stand and finally, argued his defense to the jury. He and his witnesses declared that Saturday night, February 10, he closed the Silver Dollar bar at 11.45 and sold no beer thereafter.

Seward denied the testimony of D. S. Ishler, special agent of the Department of Revenue, that he sold beer Sunday night, March II. Slips found in the cash register on that day reading "4 $2," were interpreted by Ishler to mean "four high balls at 50 cents each" but Seward said the real meaning is "four hamburger plates at 50 cents each." Ale, he said, actually meant ginger ale. 4 CALDWELL TO RUN FOR LEGISLATURE Thomas D.

Caldwell today an nounced that he will be an Inde pendent candidate for the Republican nomtaatiaa or the Statei Legislature. Caldwell said that he win oe favor of "social measures, guar anteeing certain rights and priv ileges to the average person, none of which received any support from the Dauphin county delegation." He said he would ampiiiy uus statement later. 4 URGE COURT SUPPORT Washington, March 23, VP) Strong pleas including one irom Alfred E. Smith, for ratincauon at this session of the protocols under which the United States would join the World Court were heard today at a brief but crowded session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. IDLE BROKERS STRIKE Chicago, March 23, (JPh A brief walkout of brokers halted action today in the wheat pit of the Chi cago Board of Trade for the first time since the World War.

It was gesture of dissatisfaction scarcity of business. OUNCIL ADOPTS MINUTE ON DEATH OF DR. HASSLER City Council today in a brief, dignified meeting paid tribute to the memory of their colleague, the late Dr. Samuel F. Hassler, whose desk was draped in black and on which there was a single bouquet of seasonable flowers.

The rear of the council chamber was practically filled with city employes. Mayor Hoverter conducted the ceremonies on his feet, asked each councilman and those in the rear of the room to stand in a minute of silent tribute, dispensing with speeches. Adopt Minute The resolution, read by City Clerk Herman A. Earley, described Dr. Hassler as "unassuming, cheerful, I sincere and intensely human, he has endeared himself to the many (Continued on Page 20) TO CHECK MOTORISTS Captain Wilson G.

Price, Superhv tendent of the State Highway Pa trol, reported today that 300 men have been assigned to a State wide check on motor vehicle inspections registrations and operators' licenses. "Radio Pills" Licorice; "Doctor" Goes to Prison "Doctor" Harvey O. Ulrich, Allen town, changed his mind today in Dauphin County Court and prescribed a plea of guilty for himself in the charge of practicing medicine without a license. The prescription cost him $145 and thirty days in jail. Ulrich was standing trial on the charge before Judee Fred S.

Reese. unbleached linen and hung around but as the evidence mounted against plained one of his patients, Mar garetti Wert, Millerstourg R. D. 1. Assistant District Attorney Carl B.

Shelley and Charles N. Fry, a special investigator for the State Department of Public Instruction, said the "radio pills" were licorice. When he pleaded guilty, Shelley said the court would be more readily convinced of Ulrlch's good faith if the $45 were returned to the patient. Ulrich paid. Judge Reese then imposed a fine of $100 and the cost her $45 and did no good com Hhirty day jail sentence.

4. HARRISBURG, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1934. Queer Quips and Quirks of Fate CAN'T KILL HIM Raleigh, N. Witnesses were a little premature when they called Coroner L. M.

Wariv after seeing a train run over an aged Negro on a trestle. When the train has passed, the Negro got up unhurt He had snuggled between the rails. MAYBE HE'S CORRECT Groton, Conn. A moist finger told Irving H. Hoppe that it will be a "rather wet and cool summer." He figured that the vernal equinox occurred at 2.28 a.

m. Wednesday and that the wind prevailing at that time should prevail for six months. So he had a policeman raise a wet finger at the crucial moment. It dried quickest on the northeast side. STRANGE INDEED Albany, N.

Y. Whether a grand mother should be held responsible for her grandson's injuries while she is learning to drive an auto mobile is to be determined by the court of appeals. Mrs. Phoebe Mineah is appealing the judgment obtained against her by her son in law, whose infant son, Duane Spalding, was injured during a ride with Mrs. Mineah.

"There is an old adage," reads the petition on appeal, "that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. To paraphrase: It is a hard job to teach a grandmother to drive an automobile, elderly ladies do not readily take to such things; while they are learning to drive strange things can occur. DEATH LARIAT Monroe, Four year old "Bubber Le Vasseur went out to play with a lariat in his backyard. His father, Patrolman E. N.

Le VaS' seur, found his boy dangling from a clothes line. Apparently the child had thrown the lasso over his neck in play and jumped from a bench. He died in a hospital. girl, i Rounds SELF AFTER MOTHER REPRIMANDS HER Altoona, March 23. Julia Lock wood, 17, quarreled with her mother over washing the table napkins and after the argument ran to her room and shot herself with a pistol.

At a hospital today an operation was performed but physicians said the girl probably will die. FISHING TRIP DOUBTFUL Washington, March 23, W. The prospects for that Presidential fish ing trip next Tuesday did not look over so bright today. Business is piling up. WHITE HOUSE TO MAKE NEXT MOVE IN LABOR CRISIS Bv Associated Press Washington, March 23.

Union leaders, expecting President Roose velt to give quick support to their demand for workers elections, strove today to hold off a general auto mobile strike. The situation was tense as both sides waited for a break in the im passe. The next move apparently rested with the White House. The labor chieftains wired home late last night to their unions in Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, Cleveland and St. Louis that the strike already voted should be held off until the "final word" issued from the White House.

Await New Plan There was some anxiety lest the urgent advice be disregarded. But the leaders were held from a more full explanation because tightly bound to confidence as to what Mr, Roosevelt told them In a 4 hour meeting yesterday afternoon. Apparently they dared not communicate their full The union men waited this morning at the American Federation of Labor headquarters for a White House call and a definite plan. 1 REED PETITIONS FOR SENATE FILED Nominating petitions for United States Senator David A. Reed for the Republican nomination for reelection were filed in the State Elections Bureau late this Republican Organization leaders throughout the State are supporting Reed's, candidacy.

He will oppose Governor Pinchot. 1 ONE ON THE BUTTON Grouch "Woman It nothing but a rag, bona and bank of hair. brae, Phil Grouch "Man nothing but a a (roan and a tank of air." H. AxmstroB In the Florida Timet $22, CLASS RINGS ARE STOLEN FROM SHOREBUILDING Robbers Break Into Princi pal Office, Force Open Safe Thieves last night broke into the Lemoyne High School and ransacked the building. According to Chief of Police Stewart H.

Christine, of Lemoyne, every room was entered, the door to the office of the principal, F. E. Burkheimer, was forced open, and the cabinet safe looted of $22 in cash and class rings valued at more than $100. Chief Christine said entrance was gained through a rear window. The safe contained $10 belonging to the athletic $10 to the library and $2 of the principal's money.

The rings were samples sent by firms bidding on the 1934 senior class contract. According to Chief Christine a chisel was used to force open the safe. THREE YOUTHS ARE HELD ON CHARGES OF STEALING OIL Three youths arrested by police in connection with the theft of oil from the warehouse of the Highway Service Stations, Cameron and Paxton streets, were held in bail for court at a hearing this afternoon in police court before Alderman George K. Richards. They are Henry C.

Richardson, 17, Linden street, near Walnut; Lloyd M. Baylor, 17, Ninth street, near Sycamore, accused of breaking into the warehouse, and Rueben Rosen berg, 20, Ninth street, near Hemlock, accused of buying the stolen oil. Their bail totaled $4500. David Ashwell, Mechanicsburg motorist, arrested last night on a charge of failure to stop and render assistance following an auto acci dent was held under $500 bail for court. i ADVICE ON ARMY AVIATION IS SOUGHT Washington, March 23.

All of the nation's airplane designers got a wide open invitation today to tell a House committee how they would improve Army aviation. A considerable response was ex pected. Several aeronautical designers have asserted flatly they could improve upon the types of ships used by the Air Corps, which has been much criticised since it started flying the mails. MERCURYDR0PS TO 14 A low temperature of 14 degrees today set a new March 23 record, C. S.

Ling, Federal weather fore caster, reported. The previous low for this date was 15 in 1906. Snow flurries starting this morning may continue during the night and to morrow with slowly rising temperature. SOCIALISTS FILE James H. Maurer of Reading filed Socialist petitions today for the United States Senatorial nomination and Jesse H.

Holmes of Swarth more filed for Governor on the same ticket. mm MEMBER rHAEffl TELEGRAPH WE DO OUR PART Founded 1831 sbueg mm, WW 1 ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARRISBURG FINAL HOME 8INOLE COPIKt TWO CENTS Fatal Shot Broke "Spell" WOMAN JANITOR AND WIDOW WIN FORTUNES ON RACING TICKETS Women Overjoyed at Lucky Turn on Race Course Br Associated Pres New York, March 23. A woman janitor and a 52 year old widow won big prizes in the Irish Grand National Sweepstakes today. The janitor, Mrs. Margaret Mer inger, of Woodside, Queens, held a ticket on Golden Miller, the horse that won and gets one of the 18 first prizes of $150,000.

She signed her ticket simply "Maggie." Mrs. Laura Anderson, a Brooklyn widow, 52, held a ticket on Delaneige bringing $75,000. Neither knew what she would do with the money. Both said they were overjoyed. Mrs.

Meringer, who became the possessor of a six figure "fortune" (so she terms it) never had won a prize before. She is 38 years old, and is janitor of the house where she lives. Her (Continued on Page 20) $30,000 Canadian Prize It Won by Woman Montreal, March 23, (IP) Mrs. Hannah Waterbury, of Medford, holder, of a ticket on the winning horse, Golden Miller, won the $30,000 first prize in the Canadian Army and Navy Veterans Sweepstakes on the Grand National today. No' other "Americans were listed as holding tickets in the big money.

EXPERT LAVISH IN PRAISE OF CAPITOL ROOMS Most Superbly Decorated in America; Great Art Achievement Dudley Crafts Watson, education director of the Art Institute of Chicago who speaks tonight in the Civic Club, considers the Senate Chamber in the Capitol here "the most superbly decorated room in America, possibly in all the world." He says that the supreme court Chamber's murals painted by Miss Violet Oakley, who also did tne murals in the Senate Chamber and the Governor's Reception Room, to be second only to the Senate Cham' ber in beauty. He says the Gover nor's Reception Room is "beautiful look at, but not the great room that the other two are." However, he adds, the three rooms taken together "constitute by all means the (Continued on Page 11) FLEE WITH $26,000 Brockton, March 23, (IP) Bandits today held up a truck belonging to the Home National Bank here and escaped with $26,000. Enola Rhymster Is Winner of Hummelstown Limerick LIMPIN' LIMERICK No. 20 A smart brunette by the name of Bess Has my brain in a whirl I must confess, No matter what I do or say The answer's the same every day Submitted by Street City Mrs. W.

H. Neumyer of 127 Columbia road, Enola, walked away with first prize in the Hummelstown gourmand Limerick, winners of which are announced today. Mrs. Neumyer 's winning line was a clever play of words. Here it Is: A Hummelstown gourmand too fond of victuals Ejaculated how this old life belittles Ejon't you think 'twould be fine To do nothing but dine Yet 'lettuce" "preserve" our middles.

Second award to Mrs. Parker of 359 West South street, Carlisle, with "Then life would be all 'beer and skittles'." Third Mrs. W. A. Rlnkenbach, 1610 Boas street, Harrlsburg, "And play the role of 'Major Do Little'." Fourth Mrs.

Adeline G. Hayes, 221 N. Front street, Harrlsburg, for her line, "Now 'the glutton' in stone someone whittles." Fifth M. Kipp, Mechanicsburg, "If we wouldn't be hampered for space in our middles." And the Limerick mail continues to pour in as heavy as ever, in fact there are more entries in tomorrow's contest than any to date. Five checks daUy to the waters athe five best last lines.

1 New Record Set Over Difficult Barriers nx.n By Associated Press i Aintree, England, March 23. While a quarter of a million persons watched and the rest of the world listened Dorothy Paget's big English jumper Golden Miller, favorite at odds of 19 to 2, today raced to a record breaking triumph in the 96thi running of the Blue Ribbon Classio of Steeplechasing, the Grand National, i Well up with the leaders throughout Golden Miller came with a rush to finish the four miles, 896 yards of turf, plowed land and obstacles in 9 minutes 20.4 seconds, the fastest in the more than century long history of the race. No Accidents Delaneige, owned by the American J. B. Snow was second to the English owned horse, two lengths back and about an equal distance further in the rear came John Hay (Jock) Whitney's Thomond II.

Ten of the 30 starters finished. Golden Miller's time displaced the mark of 9.28 set by Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Kellsoboro Jack in winning last year. The treacherous jumps took their lightest toll in years, no rider or horse being injured.

The sun failed to break through the clouds but the vast crowd, said to be one of the largest in the history of the race, followed tnerunning all the way with the aid of glasses. WICKERSHAMIS CANDIDATE FOR I ASSEMBLY SEAT Enters Race For Republican Nomination in City For Legislature THOMAS R. WICKERSHAM Thomas R. Wickersham, attorney, 2841 North Front street, today an nounced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Legislature from the city district. A pledge of "100 per cent, support in his campaign" came to Mr.

Wickersham from the John C. Orr ranks of the Republican party. "He will have our whole hearted cooperation and help," Mr. Orr said this afternoon. Mr.

Wickersham is a graduate of the Harrlsburg Academy, Harvard and Harvard Law School. For a number of years he has been as sociated with his father, O. G. Wickersham, in legal practice. County Commissioner M.

Harvey Taylor, speaking of the Wlckershara candidacy today said: "Tom Wickersham is a fine young man. I will be glad to support him." EASTER TRADE SURPRISES New York, March 23, Dun and Bradstreet said today that "re ports received from all parts of the country this week reveal sales of Easter and spring goods surging above anticipated quotas." THE WEATHER Friday, March US, 19S4. Harrlibnrr and vicinity, slao Eaatern Penniylranla: Cloudy with ilowly ria lnr temperatnrt. arobably mow tonicht and Saturday. (Complete report en race one, secona Section).

Shlppere' Foretaste: Protect anrp aaenti dnrinr the nest 24 to St houn from temperature! at North and weit 19 to degree! eait and eouth, 18 to degree. Hirer: Hirer ttacea win Ian aiowiy. pocted for Harrlibur; Saturday morn etate of about 4.5 feet mar be as int..