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Five Are Held For Grand Jury In Lottery Case Former Wriler Calls Moran 'The Boss' At Hearing (Continued from Page One) route away from me and gave it to Borrell. Names Three As Operators "Who were the operators of the bank?" Assistant District Attorney Mark C. McQuillen asked Houck. "Tony Morajj, Johny Wittig, and Paul Jaslow," Houck replied. He visited the Cherry street address the last time in February.

1938, Houck said, but continued to write numbers after that. "Wittig and Moran came to see me at my hotel toward the end of August, 1938," he testified, "and asked me to have a drink. A number writer from another bank came in. Another man called and anted a dollar straight on a number and 50 cents in a box. I wrote it and wanted to give it to Wittig but he said 'Lay it down for a The maa went out and Moran followed him and asked him how much I wrote the slip for.

Moran came back and asked me what's the idea of writing numbers for two books. I told him because those fellows were good for $25 to $35 a week." The only subsequent conversations he had with either Moran or Wittig. Houck said, were that "Wittig used to call me the number until I closed the hotel last January." Spliting Profits "When did the books split profits?" McQuillen inquired. "Saturday mornings at first, then Tuesday afternoons," Houck testified. "Who was there paydays?" the assistant prosecutor inquired.

"Sometimes Moran, sometimes Wittig," Houck said, adding that Jaslow and Joseph Albert "made up the pay." "How did Moran, Wittig. and Jaslow get their share?" McQuillen asked. "In an envelope, from Jaslow," Houck replied. "On Saturdays, that is. I didn't see it when it happened Tuesdays." Counsel for the defendants Lester J.

Schaffer, of the office of William A. Gray, well known Philadelphia attorney, for Moran: Bertram J. Murphy for Bonnano: Warren K. Hess for Wittig, and Alan M. Hawman, Jr.

representing M. Bernard Hoffman, for Borrell cross examined Houck closely. Talked To D. A. Houck told Murphy that he had talked about his 'testimony to the district attorney's office prior to the hearing but denied that he had been promised immunity.

During cross examination, Houck testified that he had been prosecuted previously in connection with the numbers game, both by city and state police. Murphy wanted to know if Houck had been on "good terms" with the men he testified against. McQuillen interposed an objection. "But," said Murphy, "this man here is obviously sore at some one." Schaeffer elicited testimony from Houck to the effect that the witness was not in custody, that he had been writing numbers about six years, that he quit the bank when "they got me to turn my route over to another man." He denied, however, that he was discharged, and testified that at his hotel he wrote numbers for Borrell. His salary at the A A bank, he said, was "30 percent." Explains Moran Visit "Why did Moran come to see you at your hotel?" Schaffer asked.

"To see what other bank I was writing for," Houck said. "What was that other bank?" Schaeffer asked. "I don't know," the witness said. "There were blank slips. They said it was the fz but I don't know.

I was only writing numbers for another man." "Was there any reason why you were not friendly with Moran?" Schaffer asked. "Yes," said Houck, without stating the reason. Houck told Hess, on cross examination, that he quit writing numbers in January, that nobody suggested that he lay his information before the District Attorney, that he had known Wittig since 1931 or 1932, "when the bank at Sixth and Cherry, in the basement, opened; that Wittig was at the bank as late as February: and that he, Houck, had 180 men working for him when he was in charge of an A A substation. "Moran was the boss," Houck said. Asks Dismissal When the commonwealth closed its case with Reilly's and Houck 's testimony, Murphy immediately moved that the charge against his client be dismissed.

The other attorneys for defendants echoed Mr reouest. "I maintain that my client must be discharged," Murphy told Breen. "All we have here is the uncorroborated testimony of an admitted accomplice." McQuillen denied the contention, declaring that "he can not only be held but a conviction can be sustains on this evidence." "If the district attorney has additional evidence, he ought to submit it at this time," Murphy declared. After a few minutes discussion of the point by attorneys, Breen an HOLIDAY SPECIALS Pickup Portable fj V45 Radios, nnlv WE WILL ALLOW UP TO $5000 FOR YOUR OLD RADIO ON A NEW PHILCO RADIO Dial 7329 THE READING TIMES. READING, PA.

SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 27, T939 Children Invited to 'Captains Courageous' XWX ft nnn nirminrmnini imiiiii iiiiiiimw George A. McKinney, potentate of Rajah Temple, called yesterday at the Home for Friendless Children at Centre Avenue and Spring street, to invite the little inmates of the home to be the Shrine's guests at Monday's special showing of the picture "Captains Courageous," starring Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney, at the Rajah Theatre. The show will be for the benefit of the Mystic Shrine's crippled children's hospital fund. All receipts will be turned over to the Shrine by Jay Emanuel and C. G.

Keeney, operators of the Rajah. In the picture, left to right, are William Watt. Doris Watt, Betty Long, Leland Miller, Sally Salone, the potentate, and Robert Bear. Times Staff Photo. Kills Baby Brother Also Shoots Herself During Mother's Absence BARBOURVILLE, May 2fi (IP) Sheriff R.

C. Partin said Elsie Higgins. 11, fatally shot her four year old brother Joe today and then fired two bullets into her own breast from a pistol at their home at Bailey Switch, four miles from here. The little girl was brought to a hospital here. Physicians said her wounds probably would prove fatal.

The shooting took place shortly after their mother, wife of a miner at Blackstar in Harlan County, had left home for Barbourville. The only witness was an eight year old brother, who summoned neighbors. The two other Higgins children were absent from the house. Coroner Clarence Mitchell said the distraught mother told him Elsie frequently had remarked that if the mother "went to town" she would kill the other children, burn the hou.e and kill herself. The mother said she never had regarded Elsie's remarks seriously.

Sheriff Partin said if Elsie recovered she would be taken before juvenile authorities. Late Death WILLIAM ESCHBACH, 75, died last night at the home of a son, Webster Eschbach, NEW BERLIX VILLE. He was a son of the late Herman and Emmalina (Gerhart) Eschbach. He belonged to Eschbach Council, 1019, I. O.

A. His wife, Mary Ann (Fayers), cKed 15 years ago. Surviving are these children: Orlando, Kutztown R. D. Ida, wife of Charles Weller, Perkiomen ville; Mrs.

Sallie Hcrbst, Stowe, and Oswin and Webster. New Ber linville; three sisters, Amanda, wife of William Ziegenfus, Barto R. Elizabeth, wife of James Laggert. East Greenville, and Mrs. Annie Bauer, Barto; two brothers.

Frank, Brchtelsville. and Charles, Red Hill; 23 grandchildren and 36 greatgrandchildren. Funeral on Tuesday, 1.30. from the home of Webster Eschbach. Continued services in Huff's Church.

Interment in Huff's Church Cemetery. Wayland G. Schwenk. funeral director, Boypttown, has charge. nounced that all defendants would be held for court.

Houck came to the hearing accompanied by Reilly, the state trooper, and left with Reilly. Stale Senate Democrats Filibuster In Hope Ot Killing GOP Measures (Continued from Page One) now in conference to iron out differences between the two houses. A few hours previously leaders of the legislature decided definitely to adjourn the session tomorrow. They debated for hours whether it should go into next week because of the jam of unsettled major issues. Senators emerged from a four hour caucus with the word that the official last day would be Saturday although mast of them expected the windup would run into the early hours of Sunday morning.

Other developments at the capitol included Governor James signed a bill requiring assessors of third class cities to use the "actual value" of real estate for taxation purposes. Senate and house conferees on the Van AlLsburg relief bill decided on a straight $30 a month pension for Pennsylvania's blind, dropping a provision to place the pensions on a basis of need. A state investigating commission urged further study and" "remedial for the oil industry. Denies Industry Moving Claims of a flight of industry from Pennsylvania were described as a "myth" by Senator Israel Stiefel who submitted a one man supplemental report on the Dent tax study to the legislature. The commission had created two years ago to determine the effect of the state tax system on industry after statements were made in the legislature a.nd elsewhere that plants were leaving the state for that reason.

"No one disputes that industry is entitled to relief immediately and that immediate revision should be undertaken at once in order to extricate Pennsylvania from the unremitting perplexities of our taxation problems," Stiefel said in his supplemental report. "It, is an egregious error, however, on the part of Pennsylvania's tax revisionists to maintain that there is an exodus of industry from our state." House and senate conferees on the Van Allsburg relief reorganization bill decided to continue Pennsylvania's blind on a straight pension of $30 a month. The conferees accepted the senate view which had struck from the measure as passed by the house a provision that would have placed aid to the blind on the basis of need. Organizations of the blind had objected to the clause contending it placed them in the same class YOU ARE INVITED to Our RECEPTION and OPEN HOUSE Commemorating Our 100th Anniversary TODAY Saturday, May 27th 5 to 9 P. M.

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A claim that a "loop hole" to permit firing of married teachers was included in last minute amendments to the school code was made today by Sen. Leo C. Mundy. The house has changes In the 1911 school code and amendments to Mundy's 1937 tenure law in position for a final vote. The senate already has passed the bills, but would have to concur in any house changes.

The Luzerne Democrat pointed to a section of the school code amendments which would permit school boards to make "reasonable rules and regulations" prohibiting conduct which "impairs the professional usefulness of employs" of the district. The sponsors of the tenure act saw in that wording a possibility that boards might consider marriage as "impairing the usefulness" of a teacher in the classroom. The house education committee, before releasing the senate approved bills for a vote, excluded RUTTENBERG'S FOR SUMMER FURNITURE school nurses and physicians, and truant officers, from tenure provisions accorded to teachers and other "professional employes" of the district. HorsFHOi.n r.oons A piann, ga rotl. larae rtavenport, tabln.

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Carina, one of 15 widows among the 29 persons now in custody, wa3 reported by detectives to have mentioned tubby Mrs. Sadita in the Piorolli case. The search for the missing couple brought the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the, investigation for second time. Local officers delivered to FBI agents a warrant for Mrs. Sadita 's arrest as a fugitive.

Two weeks ago, J. Edgar Hoover's men arrested Mrs. Carina in New York and returned from Cleveland a dapper little man, Dom inick Rodio, charged with drowning Joseph Arena off the New Jersey coast. Mrs. Carina has been on a "hunger strike" and was under guard today in a hospital.

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Snite, in his "iron lung" among hundreds of other invalid pilgrims, tonight heard the special sunset benediction of the Virgin of Lourdes in the great Court of the Rosary. A place was roped off among the flowering chestnut trees lining the court for the trailer of the 29 year old American victim of infantile paralysis. On either side rf him stretched the beds of other pilgrims. Just below his trailer was a crippled four year old boy in a baby carriage. As the procession of the Sacrament wound from the grotto behind the basilica into the courtyard, Snite followed the ceremony through the mirror which hangs over his head.

The Host, borne by a priest in a golden robe, was lifted before Snite and other invalids, who were blessed individually. It was the second service of the day in which Snite began a week long offering of prayer to the Virgin after a 5.000 mile pilgrimage. Just at dawn he attended open air mass at the Lourdes grotto with t'ses i sive 8 mm film and gives real theater quality movies. No gadgets just aim and press a button, and make your movies; We 50c carry films, projectors, screens, etc. UNIVEX MERCURY PAY 50c WEEKLY It Hi SU.95 WE CARRY COMPLETE SUPPLIES to State Theatre iF A WEEK 33B35r 757 PENN STREET Next Door its statue of the Virgin set in rocks.

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