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MAN mi in 8 LI EVED SCARED TO DEATH Body of Daniel Breitenstein Found on Floor of Amity Township Home (Continued From Page One) early Tuesday morning by knocking at the door. Perhaps someone called and he thought he recognized the voice. In his underclothes, socks and shirt, he went downstairs and opened the door. May Have Been Struggle A few minutes later he was dead. Someone may have grappled with him and the strain may have been too great for his heart.

Some wound as yet undiscovered may have been received. Or the shock of seeing thieves at the door' and of being threatened with torture unless he gave up his gold may have killed him. Were those thieves masked? Did Daniel Breitenstein recognize them? Did they point guns at him In dramatic fashion and frighten him terribly? Police do not know, and so far can only guess. But it is fairly certain that after Daniel Breitenstein fell to the floor, and while he was drawing his last breath, the thieves stepped across his body and began their search for tne gold they believed he had hoarded. Yesterday the son found a kerosene lamp beside the body, and around it many charred match sticks.

Did nervousness cause the Intruders to burn so many matches before lighting the wick of the lamp? Did they plan to set fire to the house? All Shades Drawn Upstairs, all the shades were drawn, although none had been lowered on the first floor. Behind the drawn shades, and probably using one of Breitenstein's own lamps, the thieves made a careful search for his gold. Drawers were pulled out and their contents thrown to the floor. Mattresses were overturned and shaken. Pillows were torn from fheir covers.

The search must have been long. To make sure they would not be interrupted and probably to prevent Breitenstein from calling help if they had failed to enter easily, the intruders had cut the telephone wires outside the building. Either they did not know that the telephone had been removed from the house several years ago or they severed the wires to mislead police. Overlook Hidden Hoard Only one place was overlooked. On the slide beneath one of his bureau drawers, the old man had placed nine $20 goldpieces and three $2.50 gold coins.

By shoving the drawer inward beyond the front of the bureau the thieves could have discovered these. By pulling it out altogether they must have seen them. They did neither, and yesterday the son, Jacob, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles Rahn, of Douglassville, found the little hoard. Breitenstein had been living in the house for more than six years, ever since his son moved out of it.

Until recently a Mrs. Kinard had been keeping house for him. Ten days ago she went to the home of her daughter near Birdsboro for a visit and since then the old man had been alone. Police believe the thieves knew this. Besides the son and Mrs.

Rahn, Breitenstein is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Elmer Herbine and Mrs. Laura Einsel, both of Birdsboro. He was born in Amity township and lived there all his life. WOULD OPEN MAILS TO SEX PAMPHLETS WASHINGTON, April 30 (T A bill to permit sex pamphlets, which may be classed as obscene, to be sent through the mails by recognized medical organizations, was in course of preparation today by Senator Copeland N.

The need for such legislation, Copeland said, was called to his attention when Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was convicted recently in New York of sending through the mails a sex primer which had been distributed by Y. M. C. A s.

PERMITS UNOPPOSED HARRRISBURO, April 30. Because there is no opposition to requests by the Consumers' Gas company, Reading, for permission to place mains in Robesonia and Wer nersville, and by the Edison Electric company to furnish light to Morgan town, Berks county, it Is expected that the public service commission will approve the applications. The requests were submitted today. READING CO. GIVES CONTRACT Contract for an $850,000 general store house and auxiliary buildings was awarded by the Reading company yesterday to the Hughes Foulkrod company, Philadelphia contractors.

The store house Is to be built on the block bounded by Spring, Windsor and Sixth streets and the Reading company tracks. Work will start after ground is broken early next week. Weekly Payments Good Dentistry Small Profits Big Business 1 The Cheapest Price High Class Plates Have Ever UP Sold A complete eVntal ecrvlce plates, gold nd whits crowns, bridge work, extraction and treatment of the gums, nil at price low enough to allow everyone to tnjoy the pleasure of a pretty, healthy mouth. DR. GOULD Denial Specialist 636 PENN OrEN DAT AND NIOHT TIMES PHONE 6101 THE READING TIMES, READING, WEDNESD MORN IN A Y.9 2 9 Master Bouncing Baby Rules Today Prizes At Child Health Day Fete (Continued From Page One) risings of various sorts.

In past years efforts of the nurses, acting under special police powers, have been unable to check a toddling contest in the aisles, extemporaneous chirping matches, squalling bees, and squirming settos. Will Award Medals In between times, the association hopes to be able to find time, to award medals, pins and ribbons to several hundred babies. About 300 TELLS CONTINUATION SCHOOL PROBLEMS Principal Asks for Employers' Co operation Urging cooperation between Reading employers and the Reading Continuation school, Miss Caroline M. Reedy, principal of the school, spoke to members of the Rotary club at a luncheon at Whitner's yesterday. "Three per cent of our weekly enrollment of 1,400 pupils at the continuation school change jobs from 12 to 14 times a year," Miss Reedy declared.

"This three per cent presents a grave problem. I would suggest that manufacturers take these boys and girls and train them to do simple tasks efficiently, eo that they will not eventually become a burden to the community. If this or some other plan is not worked eut, these pupils some day will cost Reading money." Some Would Benefit Seventeen per cent of the pupils in the continuation school could benefit by junior or senior high school training, and the rest could not, Miss Reedy said. She cited broken homes and failure to keep up with classes as the chief reasons why pupils leave school. "Our job is to steer our pupils either back to school or to the proper jobs," the principal said.

"We send hundreds to night schools, and induce many who would benefit to return to day school. Eighty per cent of our pupils work in hosiery mills and the rest in a score of other industries. The average child between 14 and 16 years earns $8.34 a week. The 2,000 pupils we have each year would thus earn about $800,000 a year, and it is the business men who( benefit by the spending of this money. Consequently, I feel that employers should cooperate in every way to make the continuation school a babies will get gold medals for attending Baby Welfare clinics every week for a year.

About 100 others will receive gold pins for attending the clinics weekly for two years. Blue ribbons will be given to about 600 youngsters whose mammas have taken them to the clinics every week for six months. The little "bless his hearfs" will come to the fete from all parts of the city and county from the 23 Baby Welfare clinics in Reading and rural boroughs. Big babies, little pink babies, white babies, cooing babies, pudgy babies, roly poly babies, dimpled little darlings, pink and blue ribboned cuties, squalling, crawling, crying, sighing babies all these, and each of them a king in his own right in his own home, will flock to the Nurses' May Day fete at Northeast today. The affair will be in general charge of the Visiting Nurse association's baby welfare committee, composed of the following: Mrs.

Ferdinand Thun, Mrs. Howard Freese, Melvin H. Nuss, Heber Ermentrout, Herbert Elvidge, Mrs. Fred Curtis, Dr. Robert Alexander, William J.

Smith, Mrs. Heber Smith, S. S. Schweriner, Landis Tanger, Miss Anna Goetz, Mrs. J.

LeinbaQh Rieser, Dr. Margaret Hassler, James and Dr. Ira Hain. And All Month Although the nurses will hold their special fete today, they will stress child health during the entire month of May. They will particularly emphasize the importance of inoculating children against diphtheria with toxin anti toxin.

National Child Health day exercises in the public schools will be held May 10, in connection with the annual May Day and field day programs of the first six grades of the city schools. Each school will hold exercises at its own center, most of them at 2.30 p. May 10. The majority of the exercises will be given in costume, and will consist of health plays, operettas, dances, and games. The programs will be composed largely of exercises learned in the pupils' physical 'education classes.

In the school fetes will be folk dances like the klappdans, Norwegian Mountain dance, bleking, and shoemaker's dance; operettas like "The Road to Grown Up Town," which Millmont pupils will present and "In Quest of the Fountain of Health," which Rose and Washington, and Oakbrook pupils will give; and outdoor games hop scotch relay and standing broad jump and dodge ball. I "readmgs representative store iiiiiii7iiiiiii WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st, 1929 Vfojifimitrl 1 Demonstration AH This Week New Beauty for the Stout Figure THE Armmori Slenderbelt offers new possibilities for the figures that are over the average. Its inner belt creates a new softness of line. While it is particularly adaptable for stout figures, it is also offered in models for the more slender. In all of them the distinctive feature is the.

abdominal support given the individual. In many cases it is a distinct help following surgery. Many physicians, in fact, welcome the knowledge that there is such a corset as the Armmori Slenderbelt. Miss Vera C. Gough is with us all of this week to be of assistance to all visitors who will consult SECOND FLOOR C.

K. WHITNER CO. iiiiiiuiiiiii 1 1 lllliTlllllIlllllIlllllllllllllll lllll IMIi 111) llttMtl IIM IIIIMIIMII1 IIMIIIf I II III1IHIM.III NDUSTRY U.S. I ACTIVE SURVEY REVEALS Retail Sales Increased and Prices Continue Stable; Textile Orders Large PHILADELPHIA, April 30 Trade and industry in the Philadelphia federal reserve district have been seasonally active, says the monthly business review of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank. "The volume of production and distribution of commodities has increased since last month and was generally larger than in the same period last year," the review says.

Distribution of goods continues in good volume for this season. Retail sales in March increased substantially and were about 6 per cent, larger than in the same month last year, pwing chiefly to the fact that Easter occurred much earlier this year than last. Wholesale and jobbing trade also showed a pronounced gain in the month, but was smaller than in March, 1928. Wholesale and retail prices continue relatively stable. Railroad shipments of merchandise and miscellaneous commodities in this section showed more than the usual seasonal increase, similarly the total movement of commodities in railroad freight also increased noticeably in comparison with the, preceding four weeks and the same period last year.

Registration of new passenger cars in Pennsylvania and Delaware also snowed large increases in the month and as compared with March, 1928. Conditions in the manufacturing industry in" the main have been decidedly more satisfactory than Jast year. The demand for goods has been fairly active, showing gains over a month and a year ago. Unfilled orders, while in most instances declining recently, are appreciably larger than This is especially true of iron and stael products, and some of the textile commodities. Building materials, on the other hand, have had a considerable seasonal increase, but just about measured up to the volume of a year ago.

MORE ON Democrats Smash Continued from Page One. tion of either District Attorney Wolff or Harvey F. Heinly from the race was postponed until a later meeting. A joint committee of three men and three women which waited upon the two candidates after the last joint meeting reported last night that both men Insisted upon running and that the committee would not take the responsibility of recommending the elimination of either. Postpone Other Discussion 'Discussion of other places on the ticket was also postponed last night to a later meeting.

It had been rumored for several days that party "harmony makers" would like to have Deputy Coroner Abner Bauscher, who has announced himself for coroner, step out of the race in favor of Dr. W. H. Ammarell, of Birdsboro, who is now a candidate for poor director. If this switch could be made leaders indicate that Ammarell would be willing to abandon the poor house fight in favor of J.

Clinton Bach, candidate for re election. Ammarell, it is said, is willing to name Bauscher his deputy, if he is elected. Bach, COMPLEXION I CARTERS EEL, IMPROVED QUICKLY Look Fill Be Alive! Get rid of that pasty, sallow, blemished complexion! Instead of spending many dollars on fancy creams and skin lotions, buy a 25c pkg. of Carter's Little Liver Pills and remove the constipation poisons. Your skin should be benefited, likewise your health Improved.

All Druggists 25c and 75c red pkgs. CARTER'S ESI PILLS it is has the support of the women's organization and leaders admit that they, do not want to see a bitter primary fight) between Ammarell and Bach. E. C. Hunter, former city councilman, whose friends say he will seek the nomination for poor director, would then be Bach's only rival, Fritz is completing his third four year term on the board, and In Kit r)k ALL THE Tne f0ur leading cigarettes, names or prejudice, 172 Bronzltes compared the 4 cigarettes conceal their identity, in this Grand Concourse store.

And "O.Gs." won again! THE BOWERY REPORTS! of the blue shirt I and calloused hands knows tobacco quality as well as the 7 Fifth Avenue smoker; The Bowery toted forO.Gs.'' too. A TIMES PHONE 6101 former primaries has had the support of the organization although in those elections it gave no. public endorsement. Twenty nine men and women attended last night's meeting, JUSTICE HOLMES' WIFE DIES WASHINOTON, April 30 (IP) Mrs. Fannie B.

Holmes, wife of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the supreme court of the United AYE ICS Three States, died at her home here to night. Mrs. Holmes was the daughter of Epes S. Dixwell, of Cambridge, Mass. She was married In 1872.

t0LDSC0U6HSJ Tlhose friends you're planning to visit tonight may be away. Save time and TELEIPfflaDNIE WHO'S WHO? LOOK IN THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY East side wesi 11 J.L ail arouria mv All NEW YORK compares the 4 leading cigarettes, with brand names concealed si 1 sfxA any. if ww ri on FIFTH AVENUE "Just say which one tastes best to you" is the way the IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT close to the JT Jf SXpi mid town business men ou Fifth Avenue 517 brokers, bankers, merchants and their secretaries compared the 4 leading ciga test was 10 xasnioi rettes with brand names concealed. It was a bull market for OLD GOLD. at 50th Street.

And the Avenue went for OLD GOLD strong. i tfft WIEGNER, ROCKEY ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS. At SROAPWAT. HtH 0H new york March 16, 1929 P. Lorillard Inc.

119 West 40th Street New York City Gentlemen: We hereby certify that we have conducted and audited a series of public tests of the 4 leading cigarette brands in various parts of New York City. These tests were open to the general public. Every person who entered one of the "testing shops" was asked to smoke the four cigarettes with brand names concealed and to designate, by number, which one his taste liked best. We further certify that the following table correctly summarizes the total results of these tests Votei for Votef for Votet for Vottt for LOCATION OF TEST OLD "Brund Brand "Brand Total GOLD A 9 votef Fifth Avenue; (corner of 50th Street). 90 SQ 60 41 241 208 267 191 155 154 767 Financial District (76 Fulton Street) 145 125 142 105 517 Broadway, near 55th 601 450 22 430 2003 Greenwich Village (183 West 4th St.) 128 93 126 104 451 174 East 125th 194 131 165 113 603 The Bronx (2486 Grand Concourse) 54 36 46 36 172 Total votes for eachbrand 1479 1076 1216 983 ,4754 Very truly yours, O.

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