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Tv.r Hoffman to Ask Immediate Return of Condon Re The Kane publican KANE, o) cr1! o) mm i mm George Washington Father of 1732 1799 WtJ rnA' tl i III I mi CSPS' 'Pfel i 1 10 i ft I I 1 Statu of ieorg whington ygfrw I I 1936 a His Country Says 'He Was Acting For Pittsburgh Attorney TO CONFIRM SALE MONDAY Mystery concerning the purchaser of Durant City deepened today when F. Woods, Kane attorney who made the successful bid of less than $20,000 for the town and its sole industry, the American Plale Glass plant, revealed he acted for Paul G. Sullivan, Pittsburgh attorney, who in turn represented an undisclosed client. Mr. Woods staled this morning that the sale will be confirmed in Elk county court Monday morning in Mr.

Sullivan's name. Sullivan is affiliated with the Pittsburgh law firm of Patterson, Crawford, Arenberg and Dunn. Reliable reports indicated that the Kane syndicate, which held a first mortgage "of approximately $182,000, were in agreement on the sale, but no verification could be obtained. Toboggans for hire $1 per half day, (5c for Kane Ski club members). Inquire information desk New Thomson, ad.

Daily IVmpeiature Reading 6 A. M. Ifi Noon 12 KANE The year around health resort VOL, XL! NO: 138 WW WW JUDGE DEFENDS PAPER TRUTH to Jury In Charge Rules Article Privileged 'PUBLIC SHOULD BE INFORMED' WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (V.i'i A criminal court jury resumed deliberations today on the libel charges which Attorney General Charles Margiotti of Pennsylvania preferred against the Philadelphia Inquirer and two of its executives.

The jury was locked up for tho night at last midnight, after it had considered the charges for 5 1 2 hours. Judge William S. McLean, of Luzerne county, told court attaches at that time that he would receive a verdict any lime after 9:30 o'clock this morning. Charles A. president of the Inquirer company, and John T.

Custi.s, its editor, were named with the newspaper as defendants in Margiotli's suit. The attorney general claimed the three libeled him when, last Sept. 2i), it published an article claiming tha; Margiolti's private law partners and associates were, seeing conuacis wnn rennsyivania county commissioners to collect delinquent personal proper ty taxes at high commissions. Margiottl sued because the newspit 1 per intimated that his name was' user! as a "sales argument" in persuading the commissioners to give the contracts. He claimed his character, both as a private attorney and as a slate official, was defamed.

If convicted, the three defendants would be subject to maximum $1,000 fines each. Tyler and Custis would also, be subject to maximum terms of one year. No civil damages were Involved. Margiotti's attorneys claimed during the trial that the Inquirer article overstepped the bounds of privilege laid down by the state constitution for comment on officials for the public good. Judge McLean, in charging the i jury, ruled, however, that the articl; was privileged.

i "In both capacities," Judge McLean told the jury in his charge, "as an at torney at law and as attorney general occuDving public office, in matters i that related to his practice of law and the performance of duties of his public office, the public should be informed." (Continued on page eight) OUR WEATHER MAN Western IV nna. l'artly cloudy Sun slowly rising temiwriitures Sunday. SUN AND MOON Sun rises tomorrow at 0:47 a. in. Sun sols today at 5:10 p.

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24 In I i I I i to of I Roosevelt Urges Freedom in Education PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 22. President Roosevelt spoke feelingly today upon the necessity of "freedom of the mind" in education. "True education depends upon freedom in the pursuit of truth." he told persons celebrating Founder's Day at lemple university which awarded Mr.

Roosevelt the honorary degree of doctor of jurisprudence. group, ne saiu, ana no gov ernment can properly prescribe pre cisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. "It is this belief in the freedom of the mind, written into our fundament al law and observed in our every dav dealings with the problems of life, tha distinguishes us as a nation." Mr. Roosevelt took advantage of the Washington anniversary to issue in satiric vein a warning against the current practice of citing quotations from the works of historical pcrson ages.

i "George Washington," Mr. Roosevel said, "deeply appreciated the import ance of education in a republic am the responsibility of the governmen promote it. Let this simple state ment stand by itself without the proof quotation. "I say this, lest, if I quoted excerpts from lhe Romcwhat voluminous writ and of Ult! first delU of (no UnUtd gtatt critic might swrh the vLi brary "of Congress to prove by other quotations, that George Washington was in favor of just the opposite." It was recalled that on birthday congressional spokesmen both Democratic and Republicans cited conflicting quotations from Lincoln. Democrats sought to show Lincoln fighting the supreme court while Republicans cited passages in which Lincoln praised the court.

"On this anniversary of Washington's birth." one president said, "I propose to break a century old precedent shall not quote from George Washington on his birthday. "More than this, and breaking precedent once more, I do not intend to commence any sentence with these words 'If George Washington had been alive today or Tf Thomas Jefferson had been alive today' or Tf Alexander Hamilton had been alive today' or 'if Abraham Lincoln had been (Continued on page eight) 21 BLAZ BALTIMORE, Feb. 22. (t.E Water from scores of firehoses sank the nitrate laden Norwegian freighter Gisla today, extinguishing a fire which had claimed the life of one fireman and injured The six alarm blaze, aggravated by a series of explosions which continued throughout the night, was brought under control only after the burning vessel sank until only her superstructure protruded above the water. Fireman iGeorge J.

Rief was thrown from the ship by one of the first explosions, and drowned before aid could reach him. Another fireman, Charles Kulp, nearly lost his life in the same manner. He was found unconscious oh" the ice of the jiarbor, and was revived in an ambulance. Sidonian Club card party Masonic Temple, Monday, Feb. 21.

Masons and friends invited. 2 4 10 17 24 1 i i THREE CENTS A COPY STATE WITNESS LLED Millard Whited to Be Questioned Again At Trenton BEG 'JAPS! TO RETURN AT ONCE TRENTON, N. Feb. 22. MI.R) Gov.

Harold G. Hoffman will ask Dr. John F. Condon to return from Panama immediately to answer questions about the Lindbergh kidnaping case and another important witness against Brunq Richard Hauptmann may be examined today. Hoffman decided last night upon drastic 'steps to solve alleged mysteries of the murder of which Hauptmann was convicted.

He reached his decision at a conference with the Hunterdon county prosecutor, Attorney M.IIauck, and Hauptmann's chief attorney, C. Lloyd Fisher. Hauck refused to be a parly, publicly, to action that might reflect on state witnesses, but he promised to make no objection to steps the governor might; take. Persons close to the smiling young governor said he probably would write to "Jafsie" that his return was necessary for a realization of justice. Immediate interest centered 'on what the governor planned "for Millard Whited, former resident of the Sourland mountains who testified at Hauptmann's trial that he saw the Bronx carpenter twice in the vicinity of Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh's Hopewell estate. Whited's testimony underwent a terrific battering from defense attorneys during the trial. The defense attack on him was so successful that Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, summing up evidence for the jury, did not even mention Whited.

Hoffman and Fisher, it was learned, agreed at last night's conference that ho should be ques Continued on page eight) Late Bulletins TANKER SENDS S.O.S. NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (U.R) The S. S. Albert Hill, an oil tanker, sent an SOS at 11 a.

ni. today saying tthe was afire after an explosion in her forward deep tank, Mackay Radio reported. The Albert Hill, which Is owned by the Atlantic Refining company, gave her position as 500 miles east of the South Carolina coast. GREATEST U. S.

MASS FLIGHT STARTS BROWNSVILLE, Texas. Feb. 22 (U.R) Twenty one United States Army planes, attempting the greatest mass flight ever made from mainland United States to overseas territory, left Brownsville at 9:50 C. 8. T.

today, enroute to Tanania. Tamplco, Mexico, is the next re fuelingr stop. OHIO RIVER REACHES FLOOD STAGE EVANSV1LLE, Feb. 22. (U.R) Flood menace from the surging ice choked Ohio river increased today after a temporary break in tha gorge between Newburgh, and Owens boro, flooded much lowland and threatened vast damage.

The stream climbed a foot in 14 minutes during the break and last night stood at 39.3 feet, more than foul feet above flood stage. Lighthouse keepers George Peek and his family were marooned in a flimsy house on stilts at the mouth of the Green river after a cutter failed to, break through ice to them. COLD TO LINGER PITTSBURGH. Feb. 23.

(U.R) Western Pennsylvania was given little hope for any Immediate change for lhe weather today as forecasts railed for more cloudiness and below freei ing temperatures. fey streets and side wii Iks remained hazards to all forms of traffic. No immediate thaw, carrying with It threats of floods to river communities, appears In the offing. Tonight's lowest temperatures, according to the weather bureau, will be between 10 and 15 degrees. POISONS PARENTS, SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAMLIN, W.

Feb. 22. (U.R) While her mother and father and six irra Br GOV. HOFFMAN SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, ROME, Feb. 22.

O) Premier Benito Mussolini has decided lo release some 500,000 soldiers from. his army of more than 1,000,000 according to infor ution received today from usually most reliable sources. The men would be sent home by degrees, on indefinite furlough and subject to recall within 24 hours if necessary. Only men now in Italy would be affected. The report was denied officially.

At the same time, it was again announced that the Supreme Army council would meet Monday. The meeting was called Feb. 8. It was said that the proposed reduction in army strength was due first to confidence that the European political situation was much more poaceable in atmosphere, secondly that there was but a remote possibility that the league might adopt further effective penalties against Italy for its Ethiopian war. News of the plan for release coincided with a revival of reports that Emperor Ilaile Selassie had expressed readiness to agree to a League of Na tions mandate over his country; with reports that Ras Kassa, one of his principal chieftains and perhaps Ethiopia's strongest military mun, showed signs of disaffection; with a new important, advance of the Italian army in northern Ethiopia, and with a series of interesting diplomatic talks among Italian, German and Austrian leaders.

Men who would be Included in the reported plan for army reduction belong to the army classes of 1911, 1912 and 1913 men born in those years. The 1911 and 1912 classes were called to the colors last summer because of the aggravated international situation. PUNXSY BOY HURT AS SLED HITS CAR PUNXSUTAWNEY, Feb. 22. (II.H) Victor Zreliak, 14, received a broken leg, a broken shoulder and head injuries when his bobsled struck an automobile driven by Ruth Allsip here last night.

Five other boys on the sled with young Zreliak were uninjured. Zreliak's condition today was described as only fair. Army J. of i yiki MJu i 1 J'" IS. Rtr1 birthplace in Wettmoretand county, Virginia TiSTUlflnc.iieileWfflir niF 1W HRflRHi PlsnUnfnt PUMTRIFR IWitten Held in Lindbergh Case SANTA ANA.

Feb. 22. Alexander Witten, slender German carpenter, who admitted entering this country illegally in 1929, today was held for federal authorities while investigators tried to unravel reports 1 he had "certain information" about i Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted I slayer of the Lindbergh baby, Although Witten denied any know ledge of Hauptmann or the Lindbergh kidnaping, his fingerprints and records were sent to Washington in an effort to trace his movements since he entered this country three years before the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnaped at Hopewell, N. J.

Witten, mild mannered, slightly built and resembling Hauptmann some what in appearance, was taken in cus lody when an unnamed informant told police he believed Witten was a man named bv "Rev. Mr. Burns" in an ar ticle in neai ueieciive aiory magazine last month as having "important information about Bruno Hauptmann." A Rev. Vincent G. Burns was recall eJ as a New Jersey pastor who interrupted the Hauptmann murder trial on its last day, shouting "I have a confession by the man who committed this crime." Later he told reporters he had talked with a man who resembled Hauptmann, and he believed the Bronx car Iprnter innocent of the kidnaping.

I The informant who reported Witten to police said he noticed his resemblance to a picture in the Detective i aiory iiiagazine ariicie wniien oy a Rev. Mr. Burns, and had become suspicious because Witten "seemed lo be concealing something." Witten now working as a manufacturer of Abalone shell ash trays, admitted he was a fugitive from justice, but said he arrived in New York in April 1929, went directly to Chicago and was in San Francisco at the time of the Lindbergh kidnaping. Sheriff Logan Jackson who question ed him said he "doubted if there is any connection between this man and the Lindbergh case." Witten denied he knew Hauptmann, or that he had ever been in New Jersey. He was booked at the request of In spector Franklin Davis of the U.

S. immigration service, and will be held, Jackson said, until his movements in this country are traced. HIT BET APPROVAL HARRISBURG, Feb. 22. (U.R E.

Arthur Sweeny, Greensburg publisher, loomed today as a Republican primary candidate for auditor general who may be able to harmonize the various factions of the party. Torn asunder 10 days ago when M. Harvey Taylor, state chairman, announced his candidacy for the post now held by Frank E. Baldwin, party leaders have threatened to flood the ticket with their favorites. Coincidental with Taylor's announcement, Baldwin said he would seek the nomination for state treasurer, the other statewide office to be filled by the voters this year.

Western Pennsylvanians demanded representation on the ticket. Young Republicans and War veterans sought recognition. The latter group meeting in Harrisburg last week end requested Taylor to withdraw in favor of (Continued on page eight) "In my opinion the case is closed," he continued, "Therefore, I will take no cognizance of the New Jersey pastor's appeal for assistance." The Rev. Malthieson issued his form letter to all Lutheran ministers in the nation yesterday, but up to ten o'clock this morning the Rev. Benson had not received his copy.

The New Jersey pastor clings to his belief in Hauptmann's innocence in the face of recent developments which have appeared to shatter any chance the Bronx carpenter had of escaping I Ml 1 1 II 1 1 vr mm i uiuwi.il i Two from Pitt Killed, 5 Hurt as Auto HitsTroTley ALL UESIDENTS OF PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Feb. 22. Two University of Pittsburgh students, one a co ed, were killed and five of Iheir companions injured when their automobile crashed into a freight trolley at Wilkinsburg early today. They had attended a dance at a Pittsburgh hotel and later had gone lo an East McKeesport night club. The accident occurred as they were returning to Pittsburgh.

All lived in Pittsburgh or nearby. The dead: Doris Vogan, 17, of Pittsburgh. William McLaughlin, 18, of Pittsburgh. The injured: Irene Maroney, 19, or Munhall, fractured jaw. Edwin Ellis, 17, of Pittsburgh, possible skull fracture.

Donald Crane, 18, of Pittsburgh. Mary McClain, 17, of Pittsburgh. Frank Sweeney, 15, of Pittsburgh. All of the injured are in Columbia (Continued on page four) corded here, the longest spell there has been in 85 days without som snow falling. The record of more than an inch a day since the first of December still stands, with the total number of inches close to ninety.

Township highway workers continued their battle against snowdrifts at Greendale last night, after opening the road up to traffic the previous following a siege during which even the skiing mailman had not entered the road leading to nine farm Continued on page eight). Rev. Benson Terms Matt hieson Letter 'Publicity Will Not Aid Bruno 1 9 Below Here; Battle Against Snowdrifts at Greendale Continues "A publicity stunt." Thus the Rev. J. V.

Benson, pastor Tabor Lutheran church here, dismissed a form letter sent by Bruno Richard Hauptmann's pastor, the Rev. John Malthieson, to Lutheran clergy men throughout the nation, pleading for assistance in saving the Lindbergh baby slayer. "As far as I am concerned Matthie son's letter is just a publicity stunt," the Rev. Benson declared today when questioned concerning his answer to the letter, Despite predictions that the elongated cold wave was due lo break, thermometers dropped far below zero here again last night but by noon had gone back up to 10 degrees above zero. At four o'clock this morning it was 19 below, stated the Spring Water company, at six o'clock it was 14 below and at seven it was still 10 below zero.

By mid morning the zero mark was Today was also the fourth in succession that no precipitation was re the chair, on page eight,.