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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION ANY" MORNING NEWSPAPER I IN PENNSYLVANIA OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURGH WORMING PAp NUDE REJECTED LONDON, April 30 (P) Some sensation has been created iii art circles by the Royal academy's rejection of a picture by Mrs. Dodd Proctor entitled "Virginal" a full length nude figure holding a bird. WEATHER Showers and possibly thunderstorms Wednesday, cooler at night; Thursday fair. Yesterday's temperatures: High, 67; low, 39. Complete Weather Statistics on Page 20 Volume 71, No.

53 Whole No. 22,061 Member ASSOCIATED PRESS READING, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1,1929 Member N. E. A. SERVICE 3 Cents a Copy OF i 1 By ARTHUR BRISBANE To Discourage Vice.

5,000,000 Flying Miles. 1 Day, in Prohibition. (Copyright, 1929) rpHE way to discourage vice is to make it expensive. To gamble in Wall Street Monday you had to pay 15 per cent interest for call money. In England and France speculators investing in American1 stocks pa.d 4.11' and 5 percent for money.

Bankers there seem not to know their business. And they have no Federal Reserve to help the game of usury, with solemn warnings, tell the people what they may and must not do. a GENERAL MOTORS of the Air" I was predicted when Charles E. Mitchell, head ot tne national wiy Bank, started the United Aircraft irl Trnnsnnrt ComoratiOll. Monday, United Aircraft announced absorption of Stout Airlines, urst regular passenger carrying line ablished in America.

funited Aircraft owns, besides the iUf companv, the Pratt and Whit Aircraft company, making Wasp id Hornet air cooled engines; Boe Airpiaue wiuyau). irransport company, Hamilton Metal plane company, namiitun nu 7 ufacturing company, Boeing Air Transport company of Seattle. Chance Vought corporation, ana other aii plane interests. And Monday Boeing Airplane, which unites Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, witn air mail, express and passenger rdVites, flew its five millionth mile. It has now 10,000 miles of regular living routes.

The Boeing branch of United Air crai't is about to establish regular ilights from ocean to ocean witn eighteen passenger planes. AURORA Illinois. Thomas Emmett Lvons, twenty five year old caddymaster, asked Wilder M. Rosworth, twenty three, "Where will you have it, in the stomach or "young Bosworth smiled, thinking was a joke. He is in the hospital witia bullet in his stomach.

Lyons, Ln jail, asks, "How did I get here? fi must have been pretty much under ij the weather." He was. rNE of the best known hotels in Ncw York City was told by i pntleman was apparently planning Tfitm Kirs ni. dvc vj frmn an miner Window. A prosperous, "respectable" guest. i'Pri when his legs were over the 4 indow sill, told a snort siuiy.

tt met. on Fifth avenue, a lady snpakpasv. 10 mi" Unit, hp mats an ne reiuumuno. "ot back to nis notci ne uuvou Know. uj All marks ot lacnuncauuu imu been cut from his clothing.

He had been robbed, of course. He did not know what "they" had given him to tj'oc'tors took care of him, two male nurses took him back to his wife in his home town. nai ijjulo ui u. news the reporters missed. OUT WEST, in South Dakota's state park game preserve, a hunter of the National Biological Survey has at last killed a 'wild cmnn shpiiherd rios" that for two years has been killing ucer uy uic rnvntps eatiiiB the remains.

New York policeman, after a long chase, Kiuea a my, leader of a gang of mongrel curs Tt had bitten nffo.i'e line! frionrK 1HJ L'll a UULGiwi w. nrpp cniimtn. ivxai www need regulating. UNMAN killings arc becoming VJ systematized, occurring on sched ule time. Enrico Arguini told his partner, Denny Tortorici.

I hey are out to get me. A bunch tried it a tew minutes ago. They will try iigain." Five hours after the prediction, "thpy" put a bullet in the back of Arg uini's head as he sat in his automobile. Organized crime decides that killing is the cheapest, surest, simplest way ot settling quaneis ami emulating rivals. A GOOD Esquimaux hunter makes a thousand dollars in a winter sPAsnrv epttine 420 to $30 each for lpx skins that used to sell for $10, r.nd he can earn vuc spring's beaver catch.

At Flat. Alaska, Indians earn $7 a day. Mr. Twitcheli; scientist, says this demoralizes the Esquimaux, who drink too much and die off. It is easy to stand hardship, ntit easy to ttand prosperity.

High pay. gin, and the diseases that come with gin, will solve various race problems. BOSTON, April 30. Did you see the figures issued by the Department of Commerce about the amount men spent on cosmetics to beautify themselves. Didn't I tell you they are getting vainer over their looks than women.

They spend over one billion dollars and there is more bald headed ones and more ugly ones and more funny looking ones than we ever had They will try anything in the world that a woman does. They will have on in less than 10 years. Beauty parlors are thicker than filling stations but more power to tbe people that run 'cm, for they earn it for having to listen to people with nothing on their mind but wanting to look better, Tonrs, WILL. 'i hsr will; DEPOTS SMASH mm rr Fritz, Prison Board Head, nd, School, Director Scho fer "Out in Cold" BACK RHODE AND GREBE Mrs. Hirsliland, Mrs.

'Kissinger and Gilbert Hintz for Board of Education Departing from its time honored policy of "hands off before the primaries," the Democratic county organization last night endorsed two reform candidates for prison board "leaving out in the cold," William I. Fritz, Democratic president of the board who is a candidate for reelection. The organization will support Cyrus J. Rhode, Kutztown, reform member running for re election, and Louis F. Grebe, president of the Prison Economy group.

Grebe lives in Lower Alsace township. At the same time, the row office holders in a "harmony" session with the executive committee of the Women's Democratic club took another unprecedented action in endorsing C. Gilbert Hintz, for school board although it had been freely rumored that Harry L. Schofer, whose term expires will seek reelection. Hintz is a former member of the board and was defeated at the last election.

They also endorsed Mrs. Helen C. Hirsliland and Mrs. Katherine Bell Kissinger. Mrs.

Hirsliland is the wife of Dr. Harold Hirsliland, 1032 Penn and Mrs. Kissinger is the wife of Robert E. Kissinger, 923 McKnight st. Neither of the women has ever held office.

Is First Time The endorsement of Rhode and Grebe marks the first time, It is said, that the Democratic organization has put its public approval upon candidates before the primaries. On the other hand, leaders said last night, the organization had quietly opposed Rhode and other candidates who had prison economy endorsement in other elections. Party leaders said the meeting had been of the unanimous opinion that the voters were "tired of politics ki cue jau ana anxious to elect candidates who had shown a real Interest in prison management. The two women candidates for school, board "were chosen by the executive committee of the women's organization at the request of the row office holders at a meeting about two weeks ago. Hintz's name was proposed by the men and approved by the women.

Party leaders said last night thai the judgeship fight was discussed but all action looking to the elimina (Turn to Page Three) PACIFIC STEAMER SENDS SOS CALL SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 (IP) The steamship Kadiak broadcast an 3 call oil Point Reyes, at 10.20 o'clock (Pacific coast time) tonight. The message said: "We are sinking and want aid." The Kadiak, owned by the Alaskan Packers association, is listed as .16 tons gross, and was bound from Naknc Aleutian Islands for San Francisco. ENDORSE kY candidates I Oh! Tis May the One, Elmer Observes So He Suggests Child Health Ideas By ELMER PICKNEY Today is the first day of the merry month of May, and let us have no mistake about it, "Red" Wright, or any other proofreader, be he Wright by heritage or Wrong from practicing his trade. May is the merry month, and let's spell it merry. It's short enough a spell for a merry month at that, considering how soon we'll have with us June, which is known far and wide as the marry month.

Marry in June, as Epictetus used to say when he was courting Barbara Frietchie, and the biscuits won't be fit to eat till Christmas. This, then, being the first day in the merry month of May, it behoovers us to pause and reflect a moment, mes enfants (the Gallic for the expression meaning mes enfants). Let us pause and ask ourselves what Is the first of May noted for? It used to be noted for strikes, but the Keys are on the road today, or at least they're supposed to be on the road. Maybe they're on a detour, or on a horse In the fourth race, or on a diet, or on to the pay as ypu go promises. No matter what they are on, the fact remains there are no strikes today except those made by Butch Wanner at the Recreation Bowling alleys.

May first also used to be noted for the number of people who moved from one residence to another domicile. Today, however it is no cheaper to change addresses than to pay rent. This makes people slower to move than in the past, thus guaranteeing that no matter what else may happen we will always have plenty of timber for office holders, chess players, and bosses who are asked to raise the weakly stipend of people named Elmer nckney, A SUMMER GAMP FOR EVERY ODAY is National Child Health day. 'Everywhere in the United States child welfare organizations today will stress the needs of children and the need of the world for better children. President Hoover in a proclamation calls upon us all to consider our personal and our community responsi bility toward 'the children.

To this newspaper it seems a fitting moment to express a thought we have had for some time; to makd a suggestion of a ncw way in which this community, which now does so much for its children, can do still more. This idea of ours came out of the excursions which for several years were sponsored by The Times. As everyone knows, the people of Reading were very generous in the support of these outings and each summeu for four years the poorest children of the city, chosen by the Visit ing Nurse association enjoyed one day of great fun. other city, so far as we were able to discover, ever gave its poor children outings on such a scale. The good men and women who volunteered to dp all the work of organizing and conducting the trainloads of children felt that the excursions were successful and gave to these boys and girls something they otherwise could not have enjoyed.

And yet The Times has had a growing feeling that these excursions left' something to lie desired. Frankly, in" the face of the real need of the children of this city the outings seemed an expensive makeshift. The more we thought of them the stronger became our conviction that successful though they were, what the children of this city needed and should hAve was something quite Finally we evolved the idea which we sug jrest toda WHAT every child needs in the summer time is a taste of Nature. The children of the well to do get that. A few of the children of parents of moderate means get it.

The vast majority of children not only those of the poor but those of the great ordinary class do not get it. Their lives the year around are spent upon the city streets and in our narrow parks. Civilization has cheated them out of their children's heritage of opc.i field and running brook and wide blue sky. For the few there is tie sum ma camp. For many there is nothing or there are only makeshifts.

Yet all around this city of ours the green fields stretch, hills rise in the cool sky and valleys wind and twist through the forests. We have at our very May the One isn't the same May the First it used to be, and instead of devoting ourselves to old stuff, Herb Hoover wants everybody to celebrate the day by doing something for Child Health. The question of the day is, therefore, how shall we improve our babies? Another question today is: Who took Butch Ermentrout's hat at the Chest meeting Monday night? As Butch's hat is only a slouch of a problem alongside the health of babies, he'll have to wait for his answer. Today, I must give my undivided attention to the younger generation and how to make 'pm healthier than a boot legget's income, weaklier than "a night club hostess, and wiser than a window washer. Parents of the two leading sexes in the U.

are therefore advised as follows too witty: 1. Keep your baoy away from the bottle. 'It only makes 'em brazen enough to demand diamonds, fur coats, and lobster dinners, and if you are cold to such suggestions, she's Just as likely as not to bang on the table with a spoon or a corkscrew and make a scene, "and gosh, I hate scenes, don't you? 2. Never drop your baby on the head, or it might grow up to be a child evangelist, a clarinet player, or an alderman. 3.

Never punish children inhumanly. Give wi neck and wir.gs to the old man. 4. Don't change the baby. Keep It.

Don't swap it. If you won't stick to it, how do you expect it to stick to you' when it grows up? 5. If you want it to grow up to be a councilman, don't discourage It when it opens Its mouth and sticks its foot it. 6. Never get excited If baby swallows as penny.

It's 'time enough to worry when it swallows a dime. DAY doors a paradise for children a paradise the great majority of them seldom or never use. Why shouldn't we provide every child in this city with an outing in the country every summer? Not a one day's outing, but a real vacation two weeks' long, or longer. That is the idea we have. We can vision a great summer camp, somewhere in Berks county.

We can vision its tents populated by all tne children ot public school age of the city, or say between the ages of seven and 12. Not jucl undernourished children. Not just the extremely poor children. Not only the children who must be objects of charity. But all the I children, rich and poor and from the "in between" families.

Wei can see them all enjoying what! so re now enjoy. Does it seem like such an expensive proposition, to provide all these children with a summer camp each year? It really isn't. There are in our schools almost exactly 1 0,000 boys and girls between the ages of seven and 12. The cost of a camp for them would be very largely the cost of their food and in such large numbers it surely would not cost more than $3 a week a child. That means it would require $30,000 a week, or $60,000 for two weeks' camp for every boy and girl in Reading from seven years to the 'teen age.

At first blush that may seem like a huge sum. But is ft? We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for school buildings and new city halls and new court houses, for roads, bridges and all manner of public improvements. We do not begrudge FOR MAT RIOTS Police and Soldiers to Guard Cities; Communist Posters Spread in Mexico City PARIS, April 30 (IP) Most of Paris expects to go about its work and play ps usual on May Day, but both city and government have taken precautions against any trouble that might arise in or near the capital. Extra detachments of the republican guards and soldiers brought from the provinces within the last 24 hours, were stationed tonight at strategic points of Paris and Its suburbs. A quiet roundup of sus picious foreigners, another preliminary measure, resulted in the expulsion from France of 26 within the past two days.

It is expected that the Paris taxi drivers will take the day off as has been their custom for many years. BERLIN, April 30 (P) Fifteen thousand policemen were mobilized tonight fortomorrow's celebration of May Day in anticipation of. defiance by the Communists of police decree forbidding, for the first time since 1918, workers open air demonstrations. MEXICO CITY, April 30 The capital was placarded today with posters signed by iuj Jrom," Mexico's biggest labor organization, and by the "Red Synd 'es, of Mexico." These call Mexican workers to two street manifestations tomorrow to be staged Independently by the "Crom" and by the Communists. PARI BERLIN Play Very Important In Health Program By GRACE ABBOTT Chief, Children's Bureau, U.

S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. D' act of congress and by proclamation of the president we have all been asked to give thought today to our personal and community responsibility for the health of children. The American Child Health association, which has developed the May Day as Child Health Day idea, suggests that this year we consider in its health aspects the theme which embodies the old spirit of May Day recreation for children.

Too frequently parents give their first serious thought to the play habits their children are developing when they reach the adolescent age and they become apprehensive lest their desire, for time. May lead iheir young: people away from happiness and health. The communities, schools and parents which are now investing thought and money in developing recreational programs which will insure the healthful participation of all children of every age in games will realize dividends on their investment. ourselves a few thousand dollars when we adults want a thing. Why shouldn't we spend a fraction of this amount giving children what they want and need? When we think how much a camp of this kind would mean to the growing boys and girls of Reading, the $60,000 a year it would cost seems a trifling sum.

It is indeed a small price for us to pay for never to be forgotten hours and days and weeks in the open air for these 10,000 boys and girls who are Master Bouncing Prizes At Child Today, May Day, is National Child Health day. That means that today His Imperial Majesty the Baby is king. Of course, Baby is always king. That's what mamma and papa and grandma and aunty say. But today he's to have a special rumpus all his ow.n He's to rule the roost at the Northeast High school at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon when the Visiting Nurse association holds its annual May Day fete for the babies who attend the association's Baby Welfare clinics.

Special music will be furnisbid by the Northeast Junior High School orchestra," and still more, special music by the 500 babies expected to attend. Mrs. Anna R. Barjow, superintendent of the Viisting Nurses, last night declined to promise that the fete would not be marked by an JOHN D. WRITES POEM TO WOMAN WORKER ALLENTOWN, April 30.

John D. Rockefeller, has been Inspired again to wax poetic. His latest verse was written In response to a poem composed by Miss Eva Mertz, for 39 years matron at the Reading and Jersey Central station here. Miss Mertz wrote of the Joy she obtained from her work. Here is the Rockefeller effort: "I was early taught to work as well as play; My life has been long happy holiday, Full of work and full of play, I dropped the work on the way.

And God jvas good to me every day." The poem, signed by the multimillionaire, and accompanied by a bright new dime, was sent Miss Mertz, and Is now numbered among her most treasured possessions. CHILD WHY NOT? growing up deprived of 'these blessings. WHERE can this money come from? How can such a dream be. made a reality? In many ways, we think. The school district might and perhaps some day will conduct camps as it now conducts schools, paying the cost from taxes.

Or perhaps the city could provide summer camps and camp leaders as it now provides playgrounds and play leaders. Or the county might find ways. Or the three departments of government cooperating could bring this camp into being. But governmental bodies are proverbially slow to move. Private citizens with vision and with money have pioneered the way in nearlv all these new de partures in government.

It was only a few years ago that our public playgrounds and public library were being privately maintained. So with this free public summer camp for children. If this idea of ours should find favor and grow, we hazard the guess that some one of our philanthropists a man with a large purse as well as a large heart will have to blaze the trail. With this in mind, we offer as a suggestion a plan of financing which looks' practical to us. We suggest that any person in Reading with the means could start'this thing, contributing the first sum toward a permanent children's camp fund.

It is our thought that this money would never be spent, but only the income from it used each year to run the camp. To provide $60,000 a year for a Baby Rules Today Health Day Fete impromptu lung testing contest among the youngsters. In fact she thought it would. It has been every May Day in the past. I Then, there will be a talk by Councilman Smith.

He has no special hope of being heard. He is a veteran baby day speaker and he said yesterday the babies had been able to drown out his voice every time. Will Count Toes A motion picture, "New Ways, tor Old," is also on the afternoon's program. Spokesmen for the Amalgamated Association of Bigger and Better Babies intimated that a toe counting contest Is to be in order while the picture is being shown. The fete will be the fourth annual one of its kind here, and previous experience that today's affair will not go unmarked by up (Turn to Page Three) DAUGHTERS WIN RACE WITH DEATH NEWTON, April 30 (P).

Two daughters today had won a fight with the elements to the bedside of their 85 year old father, M. A. McCord, former Newton mayor and postmaster. Air, water and rail transportation and the radio were used In a race to reach Newton before the expiration of the few hours physicians had given McCord to live. Today the daughters, Mrs.

Tred W. Jasper and Miss Stella McCord, were rewarded with the word that their father had a "slim chance to recover." The fight against time and the elements that brought the daughters home from a European trip to their father's bedside started when Me Cord's close friend, F. L. Maytag, a local manufacturer, radioed them on the liner Baltic of their father'i two weeks' camp for every child, would take a fund of $1,000, 000 at 6 per cent interest. We might establish the camp with less than that, with say, or $500,000 which at 6 per cent would give $30,000 a year or enough for one week's camp for every child.

Once such a fund were started surely we have many men of money and of heart to make it grow. It should be made, we think, a trust fund, in the hands of some trust institution, to be administered by some proper committee named by the donors. If a plan of this kind were followed, it would be only a few years before we would have our $1,000,000 fund and then the children of Reading would be guaranteed forever their annual summer camp. The principal need never be touched only the income. We spend a half a million Jollars for a school and' think little of it.

But in a few years the school is old and we must build another. It is the same with nearly all our public works. But with a camp fund of the kind we suggest we would, always have the money. We would never, spend it. The interest alone' would give our boys and girls their camp year after year.

The site of such a camp seems to' us the simplest part. There are thousands of idle acres in Berks county and surely the men are available to give our children a suitable camp site. We need worry very little about that. Nor need we" spend much thought now upon equipment. That is cheap.

The. big cost is for food and annual maintenance. WE have made our suggestion. We have given you our idea. We would like to have you think about it.

This is all we can do now. We have nn thoucht and we should make this very clear of a Read ing Times summer camp, i ne camp we have in mind is much bigger than that. is not the kind of a camp which could be established in a small way or conducted from hand to mouth. It is not the kind of a project which could be financed by con tributions solicited each summer and spent as they were collected. That would make the project uncertain from year to year and would tend 'to make it a charity.

Once it is established there should be nothing uncertain about this camp and it should be no more a charity than city park or police service or schools or Penn street bridge. It should be in every way a public institution, free and open to every growing child in Reading, not only one summer but every summer. 'TORCH SLAYING' Body Not Burned Until Si; Days After Killing in Former Home WHITE PLAINS, April 30 (JP)A. confession signed by Earl Francis Peacox in the presence of the district attorney today attributed the killing of his wife, Dprothy, to her reference to the home in which she and Peacox began their ill fated married life as a "dump." Her body, six days later, was saturated with kerosene and partly burned. The Peacoxes were married on April 21, 1928, fie being len 20 years old arid she 19, and they experienced strife almost from the start.

They separated and the young wife, went to New York while Peacox, a radio repair man, stayed on in the home he had furnished for his bride. (Turn to Page Nine) NO PRECEPT, 1929 ASSESSMENT STANDS City and school taxes next year will be paid on property valu fixed by the "scientifle appraisal," it became certain at midnight when council bad not issued a precept for a new assessment. The Jaw says that a precept for a new assessment must be Issued before May 1. Next year the triennial assessment will form the basis of 1931 taxes. "There is nothing more to say about the appraisal or the court appeals compromised by the city," stated Councilman Maurcr yesterday.

mere will be no new assessment HUSBAND CONFESSES this Rl SCARED TO DEATH AS HOIIS Body of Daniel Breitenstein Found on Floor of Amity Township Home NO MARKS OF VIOLENCE Telephone Wires Cut; Premises Ransacked; Cash, Watch Stolen; Cold Coins Overlooked (Pictures on Page Twenty) Thieves came to the lonely home of 84 year old Daniel F. Breitenstein, retired farmer, in Amity township in search of his hidden gold. Yesterday noon his body, partially clothed, already cold was found by his son, Jacob Breitenstein, of Amityville, in the kitchen of the house. Police believe he was either murdered or frightened to death. And if he was murderpd thpv rtn A 4i not know how.

for there were no marks of violence on the body. Since his housekeeper left 10 days Breitenstein ago Breitenstein had lived alone with his little hoard of gold coins, and it may have been the fright he suffered when the robbers demanded these coins that caused his Overlook Gold, Get Cash Although the entire two and a half story frame house was ransacked and Breitenstein's clothes were searched, pocket by pocket, by the intruders, his store of gold, amounting to $187.50, was overlooked. The gold was found by his son in the bureau where it had been hidden. The thieves took the aged man's gold watch, knife, about $65 in cash and even the handkerchief which had been in his trousers pocket. Breitenstein's body is in the Reading hospital, where a post mortem will be performed today to determine the eau.

of. death. Coroner Rorke and County Detectives Hilzlnger and Tullev lean to the theory of death by fright. Rorke examined the old man's body before it was removed to the hospital and said he discovered no signs of violence. Son Blames Fright Jacob Breitenstein, pf Amityville, the son, also blames fright.

He said his father apparently was in good health when he last saw him alive, at 5 o'clock Monday evening. Father and son had shelled corn together at the Breitenstein piace, three miles south of Yellow House along tne ror to Monocacy which once was known widely as "Mud Lane" and deserved the name. Now the lane is a gravelled road. Jacob went to his father's home at noon yesterday to do some ploughing. He had sold his.

father's pair of mules for him last week and took two of his own horses the two or three miles to his father's place for the ploughing1. He hitched the horses at the gate and went to the side door of the frame house. Inside the kitchen door he stumbled over his father's body. The aged man lay on his back, arms flung outward, feet crossed at the ankles. "I thought he was ill and began to taHk to him," the son said Jast night.

"I shook him. Then I saw that he was The body was cold." Finds Home Ransacked Jacob Breitenstein ran to the home Jacob Bitler, who lives a half block away, and telephoned to the authorities. He ran back to his father's place and then discovered hat it had been ransacked. When police arrived, they made a hurried investigation. The door at the kitchen had been forced open.

Its hook lay on the porch floor. But the inner door had 'been opened from the inside. Not certain how the aged man met death, the authorities have reconstructed this story of the robbery: Daniel F. Breitenstein was awakened from sleep Monday night or (Turn to Page Three) MORROVrOPTT QUIT, JUST ON VACATION MEXICO CITY, April 30 VP). The vacation plans of United States Ambassador Dwight Morrow had caused rumors to spread Jiere that he was going home to resign but it was authoritatively said today that he has no present Intention of resigning.

He intends to go north in the latter part of May and will re sume his post here in July. KILLS HIS 3 SONS AND; SELF FORT WILLIAM, AprU 30 (IP). A 30 year old paper mill employe, deserted by his wife, today strangled his three small sons and then committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train. Cross Word Puzzle" Fans Have Voted Six to One to continuo running the solution to the puzzle on the same day the puzzle appears. Turn to page 17.

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