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F5 I Court Rejects Mistrial Plea by Brownmiller Defense Objects to Statement by Prosecution in Outlining Allocations For Roads NEW FINANCIAL REPORTS GIVEN A demand for a mistrial was denied the defense today in the trial of Roy E. Brownmiller, former Secretary of Highways. Counsel for Brownmiller, charged with permitting payrolls to be padded, objected to a statement by Earle V. Comp ton, assistant District Attorney Carl B. bhelley.

Arguing for the admission as evidence of charts showing State wide road allocations, Comptoh said they would show some districts were "robbed" in favor of Luzerne. Defense Counsel H. O. Betchel declared use of the word "robbed" MQ 1 CJ si was sufficient grounds for a mis 1)31 ollfltCllCG trial as it tended to preiudice thei jury. Judge Howard w.

nugnes refused the motion and then explained to the jury that the word "robbed" was not used in its "criminal sense." Armand E. Keeley, assistant to the chief engineer of the Highway Department, was recalled to re sume his story of oad expenses, but he stepped aside temporarily for Walter F. Galen, Harrisburg, highway clerk, to explain how department charts were prepared. Explains Chart Material Galen said the charts were pre pared from material obtained from the maintenance section which re ceived the data from the county superintendents. Betchel objected, that it was.

in valid material, because it was "a copy of a copy. Compton branded the objection as "ridiculous and said if county superintendents were forced to come to testify about their data, the whole process could be carried further so that every worker would have to be called to check the data of the superintendents. The discussion flared quickly. Bechtel: We would a'sk the purpose for the offering of the charts of the State wide? Compton: These are offered for the general purposes of the case, and to shpw the total number of employes at each time in the whole State, the mileage already having been shown in evidence within the whole State, and to be taken together with all of the other evidence in the case to enable the jury to determine (Please Turn to Page 17, Col. 4) From Cradle Found in Creek Ohio Sheriff Believes Maniac May Have Kidnaped Infant PARENT SDIVORCED By Assqclated Presi Clyde, Ohio, June 14.

Sheriff H. L. Myers announced today the body of 10 weeks old "Haldon Fink, reported stolen from the crib of his home here last night, while his mother was away, had been found in a creek on a farm seven miles west of Clyde. "It looks like a kidnaping," Sheriff Myers said. The baby was sleeping in a street level room at the home of the grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Oran Baker. Mrs. Irvin Fink, 27, the mother, and the grandmother left the house at 10 o'clock last night. An hour later they returned and found the baby gone.

The parents are divorced. The child's father, a 27 year old foundry worker, was in Fremont all evening. Sheriff Myers said he had been unable to establish a possible motive. "I believe it was the work of a maniac," he declared. "It seems like the entire family is EDITORIAL Persistent Police Work Puts Underivorld on Run But Drive Must Go on Relentlessly Until Vicious 'System' Is Smashed Harrisburg's underworld is on the run.

The Telegraph extends its congratulations to Colonel George J. Shoemaker and his police department and the State Police for the manner in which they have hammered away the past few days at the capital's once defiant "tenderloin." 1 But there must be no let up. Only by the most persistent battering of the vice dens can the racketeers and their forces be driven to cover to stay. On the night of May 26, raiding squads made up of State, county and city officers rounded up more than 150 men and women and cleaned out 79 places of ill repute. It was the biggest raid in the capital city's history.

But the next day many of the places were reopened and the operators, out on bond, were back in business at the same street addresses. Such was the word from the slums of the Seventh ward which the Telegraph is battling to clean up. Telegraph Reveals "Reoneninir" Even some city and county officials were skeptical. They couldn't believe that the places were reopened. The Telegraph made its own investigation and last week disclosed that vice ruled the area as usual.

Then the police struck. A number of places were raided a second time. More orisoners wpr? hrmiaM i cw, had been taken in the original raids. Other raids have almost every night since. More than a score of arrests have been made this week.

ine underworld is beginning to wonder. Is this the "works" after all? Several notorious characters frnm the cinm.uir.a have been ordered to leave town. That is proper step, but Harrisburg must make certain that thpv sta nut And there must be no let down, until the vicious svstpm operating in the Seventh ward is smashed. Now, if Councilman DeHart and his hpnlthirlpnartmont will step in, something worthwhile and 1 astino ran hp ac complished. burned clothing and a pair of eye glasses, spread their investigation to Brooklyn today as they sought an answer to the puzzling death of an unidentified man whose burned body was found wired to a charred tree high on the Palisades near here.

Seared beyond recognition, the body was discovered yesterday by a WPA worker in the center of a blackened area of grass, one ankle secured to the tree by a heavy piece of wire. Dr. Raphael Gilady, Bergen county physician who performed an autopsy, declined to tate whether the middle aged man was dead before burning or not; He also declined to say whether he believed the death was suicide or murder. As Court Decided Fate of Rosebud SI Charles Hoak, 2901 Canby street, Penbrook, dairyman, extinguished unaided a fire that threatened to destroy his summer cottage today at Mt. Gretna.

The blaze imperiled his wife, Mrs. Minnie Hoak, who was unable to descend from her bedroom to the first floor because the stairway was in flames. He used a ladder to bring her to safety. Smoke that filled the lower floor aroused Hoak at 6 o'clock. He investigated and found a closet in the kitchen on fire.

Using water drawn from kitchen faucets he fought the blaze for nearly half an hour before the fire was controlled. The cottage, on the Chautauqua grounds, was damaged to the extent of $400. The fire was confined to the kitchen, closets and stair way. Open Major Fight on Revision of Administration By Associated Press Washington, June 14.. A 1 1940 relief appropriation, car rying the lull $1,477,000,000 asked by President Roosevelt for WPA but recommending substitution of a three mail board for the WPA administrator, went to the House today from its appropriations committee.

Announcement of this and a hindful of other recommendations for major changes in the relief set up signaled the opening of a major fight over whether Federal relief would continue to be ad ministered along the lines follow ed by the Roosevelt Administra tion since 1933. The committee ax, its report to the House showed, was directed chiefly against the National Youth Administration. The NYA ppropriation was slashed from (Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 1) City Traffic Clerk Lauded by Police Chief Chief of Police H. S.

Carey, A1t toona, a director of the Pennsylvania Traffic Officers Training School at State College, in a letter today to Chief George J. Shoe maker lauded Patrolman Ezra Meals, a clerk in the Harrisburg Bureau. The school closed April 28 Twenty one policemen represent ing nineteen municipalities, at tended. Meals and Sergeant John Diener were sent from the city. Capitol Hill Hears James Will Prune Appropriations Governor to Make Allocations Fit Into the Income State Intimations that Governor James in his labors to make legislative appropriations fit the Commonwealth's income may make reductions in allocations of money to departments, boards and commissions of the State government beyond what was done by the appropriations committees of the two houses disturbed the few people about Capitol Hill today and furnished a theme for much talk in the city itself.

Capitol Hill Hears No one knows how heavily the requests of department heads were pruned by the legislative committee chairmen; there were three or four revisions of estimates in some instances; and of late results of the General Assembly's money policy have been under the budgetary microscope. If it is found necessary to make additional slashes this may have effect upon (Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 3) ayer Slllll Msffll fill vf JtiSSVW aL. FsasBSSsway I i fll W'sMiaaaaHaaHiitiMiHia 1 I ill Having entered a plea of guilty, Paul Barrick, former brickyard worker, of Marysville, left his fate up to President Judge James M. Barnett and two associates at Mifflintown.

They adjudged him guilty in the first degree and gave him life. Upper left The Mifflintown courthouse where testimony was taken to decie his degree of guilt. Inset is Harry B. Crytzer, appointed by the court to defend Barrick. Lower left Sheriff Karl Hower who has custody of the prisoner.

Upper right Barrick in court. Center Helen Wolf, mother of the "Rosebud Baby" who testified. Lower right District Attorney Joseph E. Niemond. Autopsy Finds Eight Bullets in GirPs Body State Policehian, Held Slayer, Fired Two Other Shots as REPORT IS AWAITED By Associated Pres Nesquehoning, June 14.

An autopsy on the exhumed body of 14 year old Joan Stevens, killed by a State Motor Policeman disclosed she was shot eight times, instead of six as had been previously believed, an attorney for her family said today. While county authorities awaited a full report on the post mortem before commenting, James C. McCready, Summit Hill lawyer, said four physicians found that seven bullets ripped through the girl's 'torso and that another had penetrated her brain. McCready, retained by a "citi jzens' committee" after the girl's parents had been urged to obtain legal aid, said two other bullets had been found embedded in the framework of a house near where the girl was killed by Corporal Benjamin Franklin, 33, the night of June 5. Corporal Franklin told a coroner's jury he shot the girl in self defense when she threatened him with what appeared to be a pistol.

Heimbach said it turned out to be a toy. The type of pistol Franklin used fires 10 shots with one pressure of the trigger, District Attorney Heimbach said. The automatic is not regular service equipment. Sleuths Probe Torch Death Puzzled in Finding of Burned Body Wired to Tree Fort Lee, N. June 14.

De tectives, concentrating on bits of Relief Bill Sent to Floor of House YOVR FLAG AND MY FLAG! Our pledge today Flag Day: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, And to the Republic for which it stands, One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Written by James B. XJp ham, of Maiden, Massachusetts. Hoak Battles Cottage Flames C7 Penbrook Dairyman Ladder to Carry Her Out Mt. Gretna Window More Students Are Suspended in "Branding" Four High School Pupils Added to Penalty List RACE HATE PROBED Bv Associated Press Baltimore, June 14. A retaliatory attack on pupils at a junior high school where a 14 year old Jewish youth was branded with an brought suspension today of four City College high school students.

Their suspension was in addition to 18 others from the Gwynn's Falls Junior High School were Melvin Bridge said he was pulled from a baseball game by 40 stu dnts with swastikas inked on their arms who knifed the letter in his neck. Police established a two car radio patrol at the junior school where half the 2500 students were said by officials to be of German origin and 30 per cent. of' Jewish faith, while school authorities sought to determine if the assault was the result of a prank or an organized anti Semitic outburst. Barring of the four from classes was disclosed after a preliminary hearing yesterday into assault and disorderly conduct charges against Morton 19 year old seaman and friend of Bridge. The charges were made by Harry Eberts, 15, and Carroll Phillips, 17, students 0 the Gwynn's Falls school, who alleged Rosen, accompanied by about 40 attacked them Monday.

Rosen chose a jury triaf and was released on bond of $100 for action by the grand jury which is also expected to make an inquiry I the attack on Bridge. The de fendant withdrew a complaint against two teachers whom he ac cused of hitting him with base ball bats. King and Queen Nearing End of Canadian Visit Saint' John, New Brunswick, June 14. (Canadian Press) Picturesque New Brunswick bade farewell to King George and Queen Elizabeth and Prince Edward Island took up the cry of welcome that "has sounded continuously since their majesties arrived in Canada four weeks ago today. The final farewell was shouted from Cape Tormentine, rocky promontory on Northumberland Strait, from which the royal couple sailed this morning for Charlotte town and the four hour Prince Edward Island visit.

Tonight Nova Scotia welcomes them, and tomor row visit will end when they sail from Halifax on the Empress of Britain. 1 WEATEEU HAJRRI FINAL FAIR Founded 1831 VOL. C3X No. 140 18 PAGES Dally, Except Sunday. Entered as Second Claw Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1939 Only Evening Associated Press Newspaper in Harrisburc News Around the Clock SINGLE COPIES THBEE CENTS MM 9 BA FOR LIFE Rosebud 9 Slayer Declared Guilty in First Degree Marysville Brickyard Worker Says He Preferred Death in Chair to Long Imprisonment JUDGES ANNOUNCE VERDICT AFTER HEARING WITNESSES Mifflintown, June 14.

Paul W. Barrick, 22 year old Marysville brickyard worker, was sentenced today to life imprisonment for fatally beating the "Rosebud Baby," two year old Miriam Wolf. Barrick, who said nothing wrhen sentenced, quickly re gained his composure. He boasted in his iail cell a halt hour later: would have preferred the chair to what I have to face now." His bearing however, belied this statement, lie was, jail guards said, as "cocky as ever." British Plan to Retaliate For Blockade Nature of Possible Measures Against Tokio Not Disclosed FOOD PRICES SOAR By Associated Press London, June 14. The British government informed the House of Commons today that it was considering possible measures of retaliation against theeJapanese blockade of the British concession at Tientsin.

Foreign Undersecretary R. A. Butler announced the government's position, but said the exact nature of possible retaliatory measures had not yet been deter mined. He said Britain was keeping in close touch with the governments of the United States and France on all developments. The French concession at Tientsin also is blockaded.

Butler's Comment Asked whether he would inform Tokio immediately that Japanese ships would be barred from Britain's i far eastern ports of Hongkong, Singapore and Penang in retaliation for the blockade, Butler said: "The question of what measures would be appropriate with regard to the Japanese blockade of the British concession at Tientsin is at present under examination and must depend in some degree on the (Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 2) Compensation Awarded Typhoid Victim's Widow The Workmen's Compensation Board has approved a referee's award of $3000 to Mrs. Bessie M. Loudon, Mechanicsburg, widow of Simon Loudon who died of ty phoid fever contracted while he worked on a road construction job. The award is the first made as compensation for death or loss oW work from typhoid fever.

Loudon and a group of workers became ill while working on a road near Hogestown in 1936. The claim of his widow was made a test case. More than thirty simi lar cases are pending. Barrick pleaded guilty, ana was taken before three judgei yesterday, they heard wit nesses to determine the degree of guilt. The jurists President Judge James M.

Barnett, of New Bloomfield, and Associate Judges M. P. Crawford, Mifflintown, and James L. Innis, Academia decreed Barrick was guilty of first degree murder, and directed that he serve his life term in the Western State Penitentiary. District Attorney Joseph E.

Niemond had demanded the death penalty. The defense attorney, Harry B. Crytzer, told the court yesterday? "I make no plea for sympathy. I aeree that Paul Barrick conw mitted a series of cowardly, cruef and malicious deeds, and it wai at my suggestion that he pleaded guilty." ford and J. L.

Innis. Barrick did not take the witness stand yesterday when witnesses told how the child died. The judges heard Helen Wolf, Barrick's former sweetheart, and mother of the slain baby, tell that Barrick was jealous of her child. She said he had bruised the baby on other occasions. Her trial, as an accomplice, is to start after disposition of Barrick's case.

Brain Injuries Fatal Corporal R. E. Gray, of the State Motor Police, read a statement, in which Barrick said he had struck the baby "about fifty times," and then demonstrated how he said Barrick had kicked the baby's rocking chair into a stove with such force that the child's head swung a ten pound door closed on its hinges. Dr. C.

W. Rice, chief of at a Sunbury hospital where the baby died subsequently, said death had been caused by injuries to the brain. His testimony Was supplemented by Miss Marion Mills, superintendent of nurses, who said she saw Barrick bringing the baby into the hospital for treatment "like a bag of wheat his arm. Welfare Department Plans Picnic June 29 The State Department of Welfare will hold its annual picnic Thursday, June 29, at Twin Grove Park. Miss Betty Glass is general chairman.

State Liquor Control Board employes picnicked at Hershey Keystone Lawmakers Balk at Foreign Entanglement Friendships Cemented by Royal Visit but Neutrality Remains Unshaken By Associated Press Washington, June 14. Pennsylvania members of Congress, confessing the admiration of thou sands for Britain's King and Queen, maintained nevertheless today that the royal visit would not alter the popular tion to remain neutral if war came to Europe. Some members read world po litical significance into the acclaim given George VI and his Queen, such as a possible sobering on dictator nations. Almost unanimously, however, they answered "no" to the question whether the royal visit promoted the possibility of an alliance with Great Britain in the event of war. Representative John C.

Kunkel, Harrisburg Republican, commented that "the King and Queen sold themselves as two human, delightful people, but that doesn't mean we are any more likely to get into foreign entanglements." Representative Robert L. Rodg ers, Erie Republican, cited the spirit of friendliness manifest in the royal visit and its possible (Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 8) THE WEATHER Hrrlsburr and vicinity: Fair, illrhtljr cooler tonifht; Thursday partly aloudy and warmer. Law hifh ti; river it. 4.

Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair, llfhtly cooler in touth pdrtion tonifht; Thursday partly cloudv and warmer west and north portions,.