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TIMES PHONE 6l01 THE READING TIMES, READING, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 15, If 9 "2 9 TIMES PHONE 6101 Two IMPROVEMENT URGED IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY SHOOTING DRYS SEEK DEATHS TARIFF HELPS U. The Week End In the News FREEDOM ON BAIL AY SENATOR GOFF Committee of 1,000 to Act for Southern Workers and Norman Thomas. Socialist candidate for president at the last election, sponsored formation ot the committee of 1,000. Thomas D. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, and Edward McGfady, special legislative representative of the American Federation of Labor, described their experiences In being ordered out of southern mill towns by local businessmen during the recent labor troubles.

GREEK PRELATE DYING JERUSALEM, July WH Patri arch Damianos, of Jerusalem, was believed to be dying He suf fered a stroke last Tuesday. The elderly Greek prelate has had a long career In the church, the course of which, the Greek synod attempted to remove him In 1908. In 1663 the first school in the city of New York was started by the Reformed Dutch church. West Virginian Refutes Democratic Charges of Foreign Retaliations Widow Says Husband and Brother Slain After Rais ing Their Hands READING WALTER WEISER, 39, of 347 N. Eighth st, died at St.

Joseph's hospital. He leaves a widow, Maude. JOHN Sf WILLIAMS, 66, former Reading resident, died at his home at Drexel Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia. He left this city about a year ago because of failing health. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church.

Besides his widow, Mildred, he Is survived by a daughter, Louise, wife of George Spohn, with whom, he resided. RYE, N. July 14 (JPh Formation of a national committee of 1,000 members to seek better conditions for southern textile workers was decided upon today at a conference arranged by the United Textile Workers of America. Daniel OTJay. associate chair DARLINGTON HOOPES, Beading Socialist, filed papers at Harrisburg with the State Election bureau as a candidate for the Socialist nomination for common, pleas judge of Berks county.

DISAGREEMENT between city officials and officers of the transit company has resulted in a delay of plans for the paving of Franklin street; it was learned last night. The conditions which will govern the covering of the street car tracks is said to be the cause of the iiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiu TECUMSEH. Jul 14 (JPh An WASHINGTON, July 14 W). The ing from 1920 to 1923, when she was elected a teacher of science In the Southern Junior High school She was a member of Salem U. B.

church, Reading, and organizer and superintendent of White Oak Sunday school, Bern township. Besides her mother there survive four brothers: Charles and Albert, Reading; Daniel Stony Creek Mills, and Franklin, at home. SARAH A. HEFFNER, 78, LAURELDALE, widow of William J. Heff ner, died at the home of her daughter, Anna, wife of James Leiben sperger, Kutztown road, from apoplexy.

She was confined to the house for 10 years. Besides the daughter with whom she resided, there survive these children: George, Pequannock, N. Lizzie, wife of Thomas Fink, Hamburg; Clara, wife of Daniel Bailey, Hamburg; 10 grandchildren and eight great Republican Democratic controversy man of the State Democratic com' mittee, accepted the chairmanship of effort to gain their liberty on bond will be made tomorrow by a federal prohibition enforcement officer and an "under cover" aide now facing trial in state district court on murder charees in rnnnep.t.inn with the slav on the tariff continued today. Senator Goff, (R W. and Representative Mansfield entering the publicity drive that bobs up intermittently to overshadow ing of two Oklahoma farmers in i tne senate finance committees hear ing on the house bill.

a body which will organize the committee for American traditions in textiles. Mrs. O'Day, at whose home the conference was explained that the committee will aid the efforts of the American Federation of Labor to organize the workers in Southern Textile mills. Mrs. Rose Schnelderman, president of the Women's Trade Union league, ANOTHER "open house" at the new city hall was held yesterday on orders of Mayor Stump.

The hall was orien Sunday to elve those chance who have been unable to in spect the new city quarters, to go OPTICAL DEPARTMENT New White Gold Filled Frame Willi Periscoptc Lenaes for FAR OR NEAR through, tne Duuaing. JUDGE MAYS Saturday granted an order of publication, returnable WILLIAM B. DICKINSON, 63, died at his home, 338 S. Fifth at 11:15 p. Saturday, after an illness of seven weeks.

He had been employed at the Reading company as a paint mixer for many years. Dickinson was a native of Reading and a member of St. Peter's Methodist Episcopal church. There survive: His widow, Emma C. Dickinson; two daughters, Mrs.

Laura Kissinger and Mrs. Anna Quinters; a stepson, Arthur R. Toole, all of Reading. Undertaker Seidel has charge MRS. SARA FAUST, 89, died of tuberculosis at her home, 123 River at 6:20, last night.

She had been ill for more than a year. BERKS AND VICINITY EMMA. IRENE BOYER, 32, WEST LEESPORT, a teacher in the South JOSEPH GRIFFITH, retired resident of GIBRALTAR, died at the home of his son, Howard, at 10.30 Saturday night after a lengthy illness. He is liquor raid on July 4, J. B.

Budiey, defense attorney, said today. The two men, W. W. Thomason, prohibition agent, and Jeff Harris, deputized assistant at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing yesterday were bound over for trial in the state court for the killing of James Harris, tenant farmer near here, and Oscar Lowery, his brother in law, and a neighboring farmer. Both farmers were World War veterans and were given military funerals by the American Legion.

Widow Testifies No defense testimony was offered at the preliminary hearing. Mrs. James Harris, widow of the slain farmer, was the state's principal wit August 2i, alter Attorneys n. oemei Throm and H. P.

and F. E. Kantner, Senator Goff chose the upfoar created by the recently published foreign protests against a large group of the American tariff proposals as a target, declaring the threatened foreign warfare already had "disappeared in thin air" and the "protests arrayed by the Democrats serve only as a stimulus to American enterprise and adventure." Representative Mansfield, in a statement issued through the Democratic national committee, attacked the proposed 20 percent boot and shoe duty in its relation to the house rate of 10 percent on hides, while the committee itself described the latter rate as "simply a subterfuge" for picking the farmers pocket. Without Justification 1 TON, died in the Allentown hospital. She was a member of the Reformed congregation of St.

Paul's Union church, Mertztown. She is survived by four children: Howard, at home; Milton and Mrs. Howard Dey, of Mertztown, R. D. 1.

and Mrs. Claud renresentine the Wvomissing club, survived by the son, twt sisters, Mrs. Catherine Killian and Mrs. Annie Mc filed a petition for the satisfaction of an old mortgage on the property at the northeast corner of Fifth and this city; three brothers, Evan and Jackson, this city, and Abraham, Gibraltar, and four grand Eck, of Oley, R. D.

a brother, Walnut streets. STEVE FARINA, who conducts barber shoD at 4 N. Second St, cnuaren. tie was a memoer ot camp 230, P. O.

S. of and St. John's Reformed church, Gibraltar. Undertaker Lutz took charge of the body. ALFRED ADAM.

77. GREENWICH mniei Era, or Tempie, and li grandchildren. Undertaker Irvin D. De Long, of Topton, has charge. JOHN REINERT, 72, NEW HANOVER, died yesterday at his home reported to police that his shop was entered Saturday night and about $9 ness.

She testified that Jeff Harris killed both her husband and Lowery, ern Junior High school, this city, died Referring to comment on the was stolen irom tne casn register. at the Reading hospital. She became foreien protests by Senator Harri from a stroke of apoplexy. He Is suddenly ill and was taken to the son. Senator Goff STELLA ROSTEK.

5, of 415 declared the Mississippian's fear that hospital June 18. She appeared to be recovering and was to leave the hos Strone allev. was struck by an auto the protests will result in "loreign mobile near her home. Although COMPLETE $4.95 pital tomorrow, but suffered a re retaliation and a ruination of our Khfi received a fractured skull, TOWNSHIP, died yesterday morning at his home. He Is survived by his wife, Catherine; four children, Alice, wife of Tilghman Herper, New Tripoli; Cora, wife of Quintus Hart man, Allentown; Granville Kemp ton R.

D. 1, and Helen, wife of Oscar Weisner, Kutztown; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Undertaker Fritz of Kutztown has lapse and died. her brotner, as they stood unarmed and with hands uplifted. Several witnesses said that so far as they knew, James Harris never touched liquor or kept any on his farm.

No liquor was found by the raiders. Murder charges which had been filed also against John Williams and Tom Little, two other cover men" who accompanied Thomason and Vff Harris at the time of the foreign trade is without justlnca' physicians at Homeopathic hospital She was a aaugnter or Eiizaoetn tion." survived by his wife, Sallie (Moyer); Ave children, Clayton, Boyer town; Mary, at home; Ralph, Boy ertown; Wallace, Gilbertsville, and Clarence, Pottstown R. two grandchildren, two brothers, Henry, of New Hanover, and William, of Morysville, and two sisters, Mrs. Hannah of Green Lane, and Emma, wife of Elmer Hughes, of Philadelphia. Undertaker J.

J. Brown, of Boyertown, has charge. say her concuuon is not. serious. and the late Lewis Boyer, and wasa "The same charge was made graduate ot the Reading High school.

1922 and was answered by Mr. class of 1915; Lebanon Valley college, AS A RESULT of alleged injuries received while riding as passengers Hoover in the 1928 campaign," said 5 NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR EXAMINATION Come In and Have Your Glasses Adjusted Free DR. BEDFORD EASTWOOD, Optometrist. Tl 1 Illf 1 1I 1 1 IIIIIIMII IIITIIII 1 1 1 IIM IIIIIIIiriTIIIIIl I MIIIIIlIMIf IIM 1 IIIIIIlM 1919. and received an M.

a. degree the west Virginian. in an automobile owned ana oper from Columbia university in 1927. She charge. MARY ALICE DELONG, 54, TOP The shadow fears or the Demo shooting, were dismissed at the hear ated bv Victor L.

Fox. of Temple, taugnt in me graae scnoois oi Keaa cratic sages of 1922 were not ful ing after little evidence had been pro three persons filed suit Saturday filled, nor will thev be now. Why? duced to link them with the killings. asainst Fox for $15,604. Those claim' Because tariffs are not economic ine damages are: John S.

Leinbach Heard Shots barriers to the extent of checking of Laureldale: Elsie Manmiller, Jeff Harris fired the fatal shots, foreien trade and commerce. Mrs. James Harris testified. She ad' Laureldale, and Clinton Marquet, in behalf of his 9 year old daughter, "The business men or au nations Elsie Marquet, of Temple. buy where they can buy to the best advantage and where they can obtain the bet goods on the best prizes WERE awarded at neigh mitted that her husband had fired a shotgun once at Jeff Harris but said he was not aware the latter was an officer.

She said she' shouted to him to surrender, as Jeff Harris was an officer. Her husband then threw terms. Regardless or tarms, econ borhood playgrounds Saturday to Reading boys and girls in the annual omic and commercial history prove this. The American tarirr or iwsz doll show contest. sotn Doys ana down his gun and raised his hands.

girls entered dolls in the show. raised import duties, yet the volume of our sales to foreign countries and our purchases from such markets in she said. At this juncture, she said, she turned away, then heard two shots and looked around to see Jeff Harris and Thomason dragging her husband wounded, from a clump of a swimmer it's SUIT TO collect $11,060.68 was Drought by Amanda E. Kreidler against the Reading National Bank and Trust company Saturday for Hoover Pushed Sales "President Hoover, when secretary Dusnes. iniuries sustained when she was of commerce, nushed American sales struck bv one of the bank's auto in foreign countries beyond all Harris died that night and Lowery mobiles while she was crossing Sixth tne next aay.

and Penn streets on December 2S. previous records, and in the face of higher tariff rates all of which were highly protective. He demonstrated PARIS The first Atlantic that a tariff does not ruin or even TENNESSEE DRYS FACE JAIL FOR SHOOTING check our foreign trade. If this is true, and it is, then these foreign plane race ended almost as soon as it had begun Saturday when the French plane turned back after negotiating 1,000 miles and the protests of producers and manufac TULLAHOMA, July 14 Sheriff Bud Landers of Coffey county, today held wan ants for the arrest of J. N.

Spurrier and J. O. Anderson, turers are entitled to little weight in the minds of American business men, either north, south, east or Polish plane was reported seeking a landing on the Azores due to severe weather conditions. west." reaerai prohibition officers, and Bruce H. Ashburne, Franklin county constable, after a shooting near here yesterday in which Ewin Smith, 22, Pointing out that many of the MOSCOW War clouds gathered over Russia when the soviet Saturday night addressed a note to the protests referred to agricultural commodities, Senator Goff said that in utillzine the complaints "as a Manchurian and Chinese govern means of denouncing the proposed ments giving them three days to was wounaea.

Meanwhile, Smith lay in the home of relatives here in critical condition with a bullet wound through his body. He was shot while the officers agree to a conference on the Chinese Republican tariff as it passed tne house, Senator Harrison is slapping the American farmers who are asking for higher tariff rates on railroad disagreement. pursued an automobile in which TECUMSEH. Okla, JafE thr competitive farm products." Goff said it was "iaie ror us xo smith, with three companions, were fleeing and from which, it is said, quantities of liquor were poured during the chase. Harris and W.

W. Thomasen, dry officers, were ordered to trial Saturday on murder charges. They fatally believe that we can extend world trade and secure world markets by wounded James warns ana uscar means of "eood will." Lowery during a liquor raid. 'Adequate protection lor our own," NORTH PLATTE, Neb. Negroes he added, "never has forfeited the eood will of other nations, but NOTES MAY REPLACE rushed from this city Saturday when racial trouble threatened as a result rather has increased the admiration BULLETS IN MEXICO of us from foreign countries." of the killing of Edward Green, Mansfield declared the shoe trade fy white, a Doliceman.

by Louis Seel had no foreign competition, that the man. Neero. who died from wounds, Religious League Issues Mani onlv importations consisted of women's and children's shoes and He barricaded himself in the cellar of his house when officers sought to arrest him on enrages of beating a these were of "minor concern." festo to Quit Firing MEXICO CITY. Julv 14 (m TVip "We manufacture about 450,000,000 Negro woman. MAN LIKELY FOR national league for defense nf re pairs of shoes and the importations are about one percent, usually a little less," he said adding: "The major portion of the ladies' shoes imported are of special types not made in this country.

Very few of them are made of leather from ligious liberty, which was long alleged to have supported the so called Cristero rebellion, todav. in a mani WILLEBRANDT POST festo to the nation, admitted it had supported the movement and declared bovine1 skins. Those special types Capital of Opinion Woman Not will continue to come, regardless or tne time naa come to lay down arms and adopt other means of resfnriner To Get Job the tariff, and will not be displaced the rights of the church. by shoes or American mase. Instead of continued', warfare "it is piam to De seen mat tne real purpose of the shoe tariff is for WASHINGTON, July 14 (ley With an excuse to raise tne price or snoes, and bv placing the tann wall so i high there can be no possible' foreign competition." called for a national referendum to determine the will of the people in regard to laws governing religious activities in Mexico City.

Jose Tello secretary of the league, who signed the manifesto, declared that this is in line with the statement of President Portes Gil on June 21 when he said that everv Inhabitant, has tha The senate nnance committee win wail mmrr A enter the fifth week of hearings of the house bill tomorrow, taking up the administrative provisions. Nearly the appomtment or a successor to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, resigned assistant attorney general, in charge of prohibition, the highest executive office yet occupied by a woman, probably will pass to a man. Officials of the department of justice are of the opinion that there is but a faint chance of a woman being appointed to the office which thus far has had only two incumbents both women. Two women are now on the list of applicants for the place, but neither right of petition.

witnesses are expected to oe heard before the hearings close during the week. NEW FARM BOARD COMMON SENSE WILL MEET TODAY WASHINGTON, July 14 ot tnese is believed by omciais to oe a serious contender for the appointment. Attorney General Mitchell has asked his subordinates not to reveal the identity, of the applicants. It is customary for the department to make public the list, but the attorney new rederai rarm ooara created, accordance with the desires of the general nas explained that such ac tion would be inadvisable in this in Hoover administration, will hold its first meeting tomorrow and make a start upon its momentous task of ending the depression that for years has gripped the great American agricultural industry. stance, because the list contains names olaced there bv friends of in dividuals who would be embarrassed The meeting will take place at the if the usual nractice were followed.

SHOE SALE Now Going On NETTLETONS HURLEYS And all others except Boys' Scouts included in this sale at the COMMON SENSE Announcement of the appointment AS White House, probably in the cabinet room at the executive offices, and President Hoover will attend. The chief executive is expected to make in a cigarette ifs a snoro aaaress, summing up the thines in a eeneral wav the enrls to be attacked. The famous Baveux Tanestrv. which depicts a conflict between William of Normandv and Wnmm 29 South 5th of England, has a scene showing cooking, and baking about 100 A. D.

is not expected Deiore tne senate reconvenes In August. INDICTMENT URGED FOR N. Y. BANKERS NEW YORK, July 14 TV New troubles brewed over the week end for the four partners In Clarke brothers, 80 year old bank which failed Tecently with $4,000,000 to $5, 000,000 in assets and estimated losses to depositors of from 75 to 95 cents on the dollar. With an imposing array of new evidence, United States Attorney Tuttle prepared to go before a federal grand jury tomorrow and ask that the four be indicted on a charge of conspiracy to conceal assets in bankruptcy.

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