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The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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FAnLES MOTHER PAYS FIRST VISIT li June 10 Catherine H. French Earle, mother 1 called at her office today for the first time since i -or. Stote Senators, cabinet members and others waited in the lady in black, accompanied by a sister und Mrs. (irnprnor. looked throuRh the executive rooms and iiihrrsc'n The mother was returning today lton and planned to continue her journey to Philadelphia, home.

UNITED PRESS---Complete World News Service---ASSOCIATED PRESS KELLY GETS HIS LICENSE! BUTLER, June 10 Bettres of Lyndora, who was deprived of his automobile license by police because couldn't got it back again today. The motorists appealed and at a hearing he showed he could read and other signs. The officers contended Betres couldn't read and The Judge ruled that the motorist was competent, that was a poor sign, that it should read Roads." rwo POTTSTOWN. TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE il, 1935 Phone 2263 5 MAY UP ITS BARGAINS You Tell Me! Aged Physician Goes on Trial Laws To Be Re- To Full Vigor; P'-n Forced 10 the extension virtually administra- on a plan to laws to fuU to make governing' V.

reached at a I r.r‘''‘hr: of the Sen- iirtonded by retiring chair- board, and, 11a leading A plan. anti-I only i nr be- coverine col- 1 rhild labor, and ndy held unfair itp to the I plan prrsi nt anii-trust t' rompro- would get Senate to- i upon which the ivariiPd today would from the ''extend only action there into effect the I ion 7 hiding x.mum hours and labor, and (2) competitive prac- H'cnd existing unfair under the rommlssion, as HONORED: Henry Ford with an honorary- degree of doctor of laws from 'Colgate university. FAINTED: William White. Florida hitch-hiker, on streets at Towanda from hunger. ESCAPED; Six long-term prisoners at Caledonia prison farm, near Raleigh, N.

C. DEAD: Unidentified man wearing five vests. He was killed yesterday afternoon by a truck in Philadelphia. ALSO DEAD: Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Tomich, Granite City, at Zanesville, Ohio, in auto crash. They were married Sunday. PAID: Fine of $100 by Dorothy Appleby, a stage and screen star, at Portland. on charge of diiv- ing an auto while intoxicated. WRECKED: Two buildings in Brooklyn, N.

by Old 34, veteran locomotive as two jovial fellows accidentally started the engine. KIDNAP THREAT BARED BY STAR Ann Harding Fears Attempt To Abduct Her 6-Year-Old Daughter GIRL SOUGHT CHECK CHARGE Picture On Pafe Nine) SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 Ann Harding, motion picture actress, announced here today efforts were made to kidnap her six-year- old daughter, Jane. The disclasure was made in an application of the State Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition to restrain a Los Angeles Superior Court from proceeding with a custody action filed recently by her divorced husband, Harry Bannister. Miss Harding said she has had guards for the child ever since receiving the kidnap threat. She did not reveal by whom the threats were made.

Maintaining the guards, she said, entails an expense which Bannister would be unable to meet. Zimmerly Trial Starts After He Is Indicted built on his ramshackle farm, but never operated. It convicted, Zimmerly faces a maximum Jail sentence of ten years the Illegal operation charges LANCASTER, June 10 H. C. Zimmerly, 67-year-old village was rushed to trial late Dr.

H. C. Zimmerly, 67, who yesterday was indicted on charges he performed illegal operations. He immediately went on trial. He is shown leaving a police car in Lancaster, where the trial is in session.

Inset shows Mrs. Gladys Lawson. 26, Calvert, who disappeared from the of the Mechanics Grove residence where he allegedly performed the operations. JAPANESE DEMANDS CREW OF 28 RESCUED ACCEPTED BY CHINA FROM GROUNDED SHIP Juno 10 A Leby a cirl, who is be- to be his wife, a i nuiomtibile and a iiM-' plates, are being tonight. an order for the Mnhand tonight an automobile the farmhand I- a check in car.

A little later i were asked by the of revenue to ap- for the check he I n- the license plates also Vi be worthless, iioii-e went to the farm where the man nnlrivpd for The past sev- 'rhey did not find the nl. but ihey did en- the owner of the he believes his ooeri with the man. 7000 REPUBLICANS CHEER AT CONVENTION Predicted By Agreement READY ns 2D FLIGHT Ninel 10 at her condi- the Pan to Hawaii lie 19-ton to make air halted when liiP adverse possibility Pan A officials an- i'i 0 had his i 'tween level nd irom 10.000 to however, pre' 'if sr TWO elevations. (Picture on Pafe Nine) SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 10 thousand Republicans gathered from ten farm belt States in the opening session of their roots today cheered bids for Democratic support for 1936 campaign based on of the The fiag-draped coliseum at the State fair grounds rang with applause when rally orators turned aside suggestions for formation of a new party and Instead invited all anti-new deal elements Democratic as well as join forces under the GOP standard. Frank O.

Lowden, silver-haired elder statesman of Republicanism, came out of retirement to voice a battle cry: preservation of the is the supreme issue of the Delegates came to their feet in a rousing demonstration as the former Illinois governor predicted: of thousands of patriotic men and women of the Democratic party will rally to our banner, in the gravest crisis since the Civil Harrison E. Spangler of Iowa, temporary chairman and keynoter asserted that any new conservative party would only divide the electorate. EXECUTION DATE SET HARRISBURG, June 10 Governor Earle today set the execution of John Kozier for the week beginning Monday, July 15. Kozier was convicted of first degree murder in the shooting of Samson Rosensheim, Masontown jeweler, March 2. Grampaw Ned Oakley gives you a daily laugh on the editorial page of The Mercury.

The establishment of a "new in North China appeared imminent last night when the Chinese government apparently completely capitulated to a series of Japanese demands. Japanese military officials in Peiping said all the demands had been granted and expressed the opinion the crisis would be settled amicably. The Chinese government in ing issued a mandate "forbidding provocative speeches and actions to foreign relations. Uneasiness in Tientsin, huge port which is key to the affected area, was renewed when Japanese troops were dispatched to Yangstun upon reports Japanese military telegraph lines had been burned. A Japanese spokesman said the incident was warranting Chinese troops were reported to be evacuating Hopei.

LAWYER DENIES HE SHARED KIDNAP RANSOM Lumber Schooner is Piled On Rocky Reef OKLAHOMA CITY, June 10 with rage, Ben Laska, Denver attorney, shouted a denial to a federal court jury today he directed disposal of the $75,000 his kidnaped client received when the $200,000 Charles F. Urschel ransom was divided. The denial, delivered in bitter vein, climaxed the crowded first day of the government's trial of Laska and James C. Mathers, Oklahoma City, attorneys for two of kidnapers. They are charged with accepting as counsel fees money from the ransom paid for release of the oil millionaire.

Previously, Prank Dudley, assistant U. S. district attorney, charged working behind the told Edward Feldman, step-son of Bates, kidnaper client, how to safely dispose of the ransom cash. SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 The crew of the lumber schooner Novo, which piled up on a rocky reef 100 miles north of here, was rescued today by the coast guard which removed 28 men from the stricken vessel in two boatloads. The Novo lost a rudder and for ten hours the crew battled the surging waves while coast guard and cutter ships responded to the call for assistance.

The craft left here yesterday afternoon with a cargo of lumber for Fort Bragg, Calif. It sent out an SOS shortly after noon today. today, a few hours after he was Indicted on charges of performing illegal operations at his rural "House of Horrors." The case revolves chiefly around the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Gladys Lawson, one of his patients who. police believe, died after an operation Farch 16.

Bones and clothing: found in the cellar and ash heaps at the eerie farm at Mechanics Grove have been identified as those of a woman of Mrs. description. Another charge is that he performed a similar operation on Miss Elsie Miller, Rising Sun, who was found delirious with pain in the makeshift the day Zimmerly was anested. She recovered in a hospital. The State also accuses Zimmerly of using and trafficking in narcotics.

District Attorney Paul A. Mueller mustered more than a scose of wit- as the trial began. Counsel for the stooped, gray- haired surgeon asked that six of the nine counts against him be quashed, but the court overruled the motion and ordered the trial to proceed. Seven Jurors, one a woman, FEZZ-TOPPED SHRINERS CROWD INTO WASHINGTON On Page Nine) WASHINGTON. June 10 Thousands of Shriners marched into the capital today, bringing a band-playing, fezz-top- ped carnival spirit into a city whose pulse rarely quickens to displays of pomp and dignity.

That they landed in the middle of a short-lived taxicab strike did not matter to the Shriners. Train after train unloaded at Union Station its host of red fezzes. The taxicab strike which met them at the gates resulted from an Washington taxicab drivers said had been given them in a warning that had broadcast to delegates to watch out for a hike in fares. The strike was settled in the late afternoon. Imperial Potentate Dana S.

Williams had an official reception at noon for the incoming delegates. The United States army put on a two-hour show for the visitors during the afternoon with various drills, wall scaling and music. A fight between Tony Canzoneri, the lightweight champion, and Frankie Klick, the junior lightweight champion, with Jack Dempsey as the referee, constituted the chief event of the evening show. were chosen today from among 24 talesmen. Most of the challenges were for fixed opinions, but statements of several proa- pective jurors led Judge Beniamin C.

Atlee to explain murder is not involved in the against Zimmerly. The jurors chosen today: C. Ivan Wissler, laborer, Manor township; D. H. Weidler, painter, Upper Leacock township; Cyrus W.

Geib, lalKDrer, Rapho township: Charles Leinlnger, retired. West Cocalico township; Hazel A. Fry, housewife. Rothsvllle; Elmer Erb, foreman. East Petersburg, and David S.

Herr, nurseryman, Conestoga township. Zimmerly, and neatly dressed, went over the list of jurymen with his counsel. S. V. Hosterman.

former district attorney, and Benjamin F. Davis, Jr. Mueller said the physician wouici be tried first on the charge involv: ing Mrs. Lawson, He said one of his first witnesses would Dr. J.

W. Rice, Bucknell university pathologist, who examined the hone fragments, William A. Miller of the State police homicide squad in charge of the investigation, also will be a principal witness. Another will be Richard Parker, the who was arrested on a narcotic violation charge the day after Zimmerly was locked up, Zimmerly was arrested on com- plalntr of Mrs, relatives. He insisted he took the woman to Lancaster March 16.

Blanche Stone, Dr. said at a preliminary hearing she heard Mrs. Lawson moan on the night of March 15 and that Dr. Zimmerly went upstairs to see her. When he came down, Miss Stone said, he remarked: never saw her after that," the nurse asserted.

Bones were found in the doctor's furnace, in ashes about the and in refuse heaps about the modern tile garage Zimmerly on and a total of 20 years on four counts of violating the narcotic laws. Pennsylvania statute stipulates seven years as the maximum for an illegal operation resulting in death and three years if the operation is not fatal. STUDEBAKER stock car champion OF INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY his year, the specially built racing cars swept fhe boards in the Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Speedway. Not a car produced by a stock manufacturer was able to last the 500 miles. The great performance at Indianapolis is still In 1932 and 1933, the last time Studebaker contested, cars entered by the Studebaker factory finished brilliantly.

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AS LOW AS DELIVERED IN POTTSTOWN Iqulpped Including Safety QIatt Nothing More to Pay This delivered price Includes bumpers, bumper guards, spare tire and tube, metal tire cover and all necessary equipment. KEISER BROS. 950 HIGH STREET INDl.lN STAR HURT CLEVELAND, June 10 -General Manager Billy Evans, of the Cleveland Indians, disclosed today that Ab Wright, hard hitting Tribe outfielder, sustained a broken finger yesterday In pre-game practice and will be lost to the club for five weeks because of the injury. DAY DEATH ON HAWKS Paul Krueger, farmer of the Egypt community, Texas, became alarmed at the slaughter of quail, prairie chickens and other fowl by owls and chicken hawks. Since 1933, he has caught and killed in traps 235 owls and 78 hawks.

GENUINE CAMPFIRE BLENbED.WHISKEY stinte fi 5 4 PUU. QUART FIRST DEATH IN 54 YEARS The firet death in her family in 54 years occurred when Mrs. O'Dell La Vigne, of Norwalk. Ohio, died at 74. She was mother of 12.

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