Warren Times Mirror from Warren, Pennsylvania • Page 1

THE WEATHEi; I I Fair and warmer tonight; Wed- nesday increasing cloudincss and I warmer; showers Wednesday night i or Thursday. Warren High 56, low 27. WARREN TIMES-MIRROR THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY ONE PAPEK IN MOST HOMES The big trouble with that radio thriller Sunday evening may have been in the timing it should havi been presented on Hallowe'en! VOLUME I I A PA. A l) 3 8 PRICE 11 REE IGHTLOSE UVES OPENING DAY ARE UllSED BY prge Number of Deaths Indirectly Due to Launching of Small Game Season in Pennsylvania Provides Thousands of Sportsmen Roaming Woods and Fields With Grim Warning to Exercise Extreme Care Party Leaders Making Last Appeals to Voters Producer Action IMBER LESS THAN THAT OF YEAR AGO By the Associated Press The deaths of eight persona on fiist day of jall-gamc season provided thous- Is of hunters roaming woods fields today with a grim warn- to exercise care in the use of harms. persons w-ere shot to death the opening day, four others Id of heart attacks in the field fi a score of others were iftjured I stray bullets.

lerman Wonderly, of Allentown. Is accidentally killed while gun- near his home. Tychsen, 16, of died in an Erie hospital to- fiom gunshot wounds in the inflicted by the acciden- discharge of his gun while iting near his home Monday, larry Miller. 38, of Caimbrook killed by a blast from a com- gun. Paul Matsick, Nesquehoning high lool boy, was fatally injured as jattempted to free his from llerbrush on a mountain near his le.

Those who died of heart attacks Robert J. Hoffman, 34, Meadmerchant: Coover A. Nied- ler, 48. of Wormleysburg, Cum- lland county; Ira Kimmons, 44. York county, and rry McCommon.

65, of York. Antonia Marth, of North- iton borough, in Lehigh coun- was hit on the face and body gun pellets while taking the family wash in the yard home, iDUt hospital physi- is said her injuries were not lous. folice investigating the accident While he rehearsed the cast of -the Mercury Theatre of the Air in the H. G. Wells story, of the Producer Orson Welles little thought that their acting skill w'ould send the nation into a panic.

Welles is show'n, with hands upraised, directing the actors who are gathered, scripts in hand, around the microphone in the foreground. So realistic was the Welles production of the utterly imaginative tale of a descent upon earth of monstrous people from Mars, that radio listeners from New York to San Francisco and Canada to the Gulf of Mexico believed the catastrophe was really happening. Many w'ere injured in the widespread panic that ensued. SUMMON CCC CAMP LEADERS Cameron County District Attorney, Directing Inquest Into Death of Seven Enrollees Resulting From Forest Fire Near Emporium in October, Attempting to Determine Whether Fighters Were Properly Supervised PARENTS OF VICTIMS AMONG SPECTATORS Emporium, Nov. 1.

While a score of CCC youths waited to testify, a jury heard two oflicials outline today 1 details of the training and equip- ment against fire at camp Canior -1 on where seven members of the or-! ganization died in a flaming forest 1 October 19. Lieut. Rodman M. Haynes of' Morrisville, an army reserve officer. i-ead a chapter from a book entitled safety regulations' relating to forest Haynes CONCERTED WORK AND REPORTING A I I I DAILY IS ONLY SURE WAY TO WIN; PEAK VOTING PERIOD IS NOW ONf LAN NED who have entered the Subscription have but one thought 111 iiund to ket-p a.s busy a.s possible every minute, telling and selling their many prospoets on the idea of voting and bettering their no later time in the will there be douole voir olTer.s of better inducement.s than are in effect now.

Nece.s.saiy prize ning vote.s count their maximum values now and may tie had for the asking. NIGHTLY Many have suh.senpt winning chances in thi.s ea.sy-go- W'aiting for the contestant ing affair. waiting, phoning prove.s hi.s after them. 01 1 hlne.s.s i)y going phone call uill not writing the pro.specKs will not do net votes only the payments. the 'I'hey mu.st he seen, talked to and tliat between now and Noveinhei votes are al their guaranteed peak of value.

Never again will siih.sei ipt ions earn more voles. is the tive assurance of the contest manager and is doubly vt)uched for by the fixed controlling thi.s contest and annouiK'ed in its beginning. and the.se should be obtained each day. 'To lo.se a day i.s to lo.se many votes. New entries, who have been wailing and wanting (o enter this money maker, wa.stc no more valuable time.

In many ter ritorie.s the management i.s with the work of those first appointed or entering A re ('I'lirn lo Miie) 1 I With Meetings and Conferences Scheduled Candidates and Workers Have Busy Week Outlined, Winding Up With Election For Slate-Wide Offices Next Tuesday; No Special Ballotting In Any Precincts lA real casualty of the make believe broadcast by the Mercury Theatre of the Air was (Caroline ('antIon, above, WPA actrcss. Hearing from her radio an announcement of in Times she started to rush down.stairs. Rhe fell, suffering the broken arm and knees shown in the photo. HOUSE PROBERS LONDON ACCORD IN NEW OVER DEMANDS PUT INTO EFFECT Representative Perry Prime Minister Chamber- Echoes Recommendation Of His Colleague, Ellsworth Turner, That Governor Testify About Political Accusations said the book had been issued brui.sed tober 21, two days after the fire. District Attorney Edwin Tomkins asked Haynes if he had seen any other regulations in the camp regarding fire fighting, and Hayne? replied he had not, the best of my Haynes, stocky and square-jawed, speaking calmly, asserted, this was a matter handled by the forestry department.

Earlier, Earl Getz, the project supervisor, had explained firefighting training came under his supervision. Getz refused to answer a num- of questions put by Tomkins Hmts 1 hat tamer Kcpre- lam Iniorms Commons Ol'on the basis they related to parts of his record. He said his superi- I 20,610 ELIGIBLE TO speeches rarey and Landon vote in the district Start Heavy Week of Canipaigning Dcmocialic Chainnaii nnillllTTrr Rcpuhlican Prcsidcnlial UlLu bUlftlfll I I tt Nominee in 1936 Arc in it ii rklfl Disagrecnicnt Over Now I HAVE I 0 END Deal and Busnicss Ini- HEARING SOON NKW YORK BAIT Li- Plans to Put Into Opera- Fi-ank Henits, of Northamp- BANK RECORDS SHOWN CZECHS POLES AGREE mto custody. Chief of Police es Hiestand quoted Henits as pi ri.shiir£>-. Nov.

py the Associated Press Republican Prime Minister Chamberlain year, faction for the appearance of Gov- house of commons today He and Getz weie the only wit- ernor George H. Earle as a wit-; he expected to put in opera- nesses heard before the luncheon Nov. ing he fired at a pheasant and fj.pgh demand by the realize the shot would car- 30 far. Lt least four persons were in- td in Adams county, six in Lan- per, and one each in or officer in the agricultural de- tinn Snnn FripnfUkin' answer' lion ooon rnenasnip questions until the depan- Pact, Key to Policy With nient released the record. Tomkins asserted he had told Dictators Getz to bring but that he failed to becau.se they were not part of the record.

Lieut. Haynes the youths W'ho lost their lives had been with the CCC from months to a ne.ss in the campaign charges in- soon the Italian-British friend- recess, vestigation today precipitated a accord, a key point in his pol- The District new dispute among members of the dictators. Signed April 16, the agieement erset, Jefferson, Erie and Al- house inquiry committee. hp Representative David R. Perry has remained inoperative pending he number of peisons killled (R.Blair) fiired the first shot as a of the Snanish first day was one less than the thp nearine-s were resumed echo- sciuerneni ot me bpamsn fatally injured on the of day last year.

Ninety were Rcpre.entatlve Rllwood .1 1937. During the season Turjier. that Earle testify about unters died and 308 were in- the political graft accusations. d. (Turn to Nine) JERFORD HUNTER Turner had prepared a minority brief in which he said impeach- some issues- the ment jiroccedings should be brought unless his opinion of the into effect soon as possible and proposed the question for debate tomorrow.

Another of trouble- Czechoslovak- Attorney called the camp leaders, he said earlier, in an attempt to determine w'heth- er the fire fighters were properly supervised. Five of the enrolees died when they were trapped in a of he lor jusl. ,1 weeji party in Waircii county are making la.st inimile to the who will go 1(1 tlie pollH one ueeU from loday to their bal- loLs for 1 lor llv. com- prii'cipiil oMicea. Tlui next day.s iU busy ones for and their sup- poruMH, with l)(jtli parties rallie.s each night, Hi'heduUMj.

Mo.st, of candidalcH for have visited t'nc county and it va not expei-ted that they will return Since President I I A 1 Although seven purtirs will havo And Members of Admin- plHce.s on the bailor re.spect to II rp I offices, the ('led ion will istration nave laken center around Hie of tho Vprhal nioQ Innnirv eruai Lrlgs ai inQUiry admim.st ration at Chairman is None Too iie- I I publican.H to turn to the ticlpiul they io.st four years ago. lieside.i the Ivvtj major parties, QPPAliQ PAniA ballot will be reprcsenta- OrCAIVO tive of the Royal Oak, Socialist, and Path- Wa.shiiigton, Nov. 1 finder ))arties. 'I lie Oalc i'liairmaii 1 (l)-'I'ex) today ticket has been combiiieil with that Continued experimentation with'the committee on iinAmeri-'of flir Deuiocral.s, while the the he sadi. is can activities may have to end finder will but one candidate.

Federal Aid as Alterna- thing that is holding hearings soon because for IT. S. and the Com. back exiieiiHe fiiiifl i.s running low. niuni.sls bill three.

tive to Reductions Come Farley. the other hand, Since Pre.sidc'iit and Warren county, aIways a strong- WAGE CUT PLAN MAY BE DROPPED EXECUTIVES nts That Carrier Representatives May Accept By the Associated Press Democratic Chairman A. Farley and Alf M. Landon, I93() Republican presidential nominee, were in disagreement today over the relation of new deal policies to business improvement. Landon told a political rally last night at Bartlesville, election of Republican congressmen and goveinors next Tuesday would be Important step in leading the way back to economic From Officials ne.ss is better everywhere, consti-; committee.

Dies was none too STRIKE THREAT WANES tilting complete answer to the hopeful of getting more cash after woeful prophecies of those who congress meets in January. Nov. 1. Hints that the railroads might accept federal aid as an alternative to wage cuts in their search for economic relief came today from management oflicials. railroad strike is so far, far away in my H.

A. Enochs, chairman of the wage committee, said with a smile, no u.se to get worried endorsement of a Nfew York about candidate, praising jpenator Rob- .1. J. Policy, president of the ert F. Wagner in a letter as a by a shift of wind and two A.ssociation of American Rail- terior lekes ioine.i dn rM.iieni died in hospitals.

roads, also grinned when he told The New York Times, independ- Ijemocratic paper which back- Parents of four of the victims reporters that any strike was ent in an endorsement of the Cahfor- members f)f hi.s administration Itepublicans, remains in nia Democratic ticket that bu.si-1 have taken verbal digs at the column this year, although in, the 'ew the number of Democratii! regi.stratir»ns has increased gieally. Total registration, in the county i.s now' 20.610, of which 8,200 are Democrats anfl Other make iij) the of 466. The only vote in which the people of Warren county alone will be concerned v.ill be the election of a repre.seniative in the general ussembly. W. VV.

Muir, ha.s served two terms in the office, i.i the "hoice of the Republicans for re-election. Dr. L(dloy B. Campbell, head of the Warren Conservatory of Music, i.s the Democratic candidate for the second lime. lo I'ago Nine) of sre attempting to discourage the new Their speeche.s, starting a heavy week of cami)aigning by both major parties, shared attention with critici.sm by Secretary Wallace of Thomas Dewey, Repub- li(van candidate for governor of New York.

President Roosevelt made his The would have gone farther, the chairman in a radio address last night, had g(jvernment (lei)artmcnts supplied lawyers, investigators, stenogra- I)hers and clerks in accordance with the house resolution ordering the said, however, that af)peals to the justice and labor departments, the and tinally to the president, had brought no results. In fact, he added. Secretary and Secretary of Ihe In- attended the credit the committee oy ridicule opening of the in- 30 days Wagner years ago, announc-- quest yesterday. They were Mrs. Pelley asked heads of leading ed it would John Lord 1 Eva Bogush of Coneniaugh, j-oads to meet in Chicago Friday his Republican opponent, olhsh bolder dispute was settled Ann Stephenic of Twin to accept or reject cancellation of and Edward Corsi, Republican can ('I urn lo Pago Nine) victim in the Erie giavel case ijrllJUlliNu ICl lIVl w'as contradicted and explained by the chief executive.

new Jrie, Nov. 1 i I'equosv; brought from Chairman hsen, 16, of Waterford, died; Herbert B. Cohen a repetition of hospital here today, after his previous stand. been shot through the ab- has not been one scinit- (T'arn to Tage Nine) FOG SNARLS TRAFFIC AROUND PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, Nov. A en while hunting near his home i ilia of to any move described by weather Monday.

Hospital attendants to invite or subpoena the governor as about as den.se as (Tuni to Page Nine) SEErFUGfTIVE IN PHILA. AREA neighbors told him Tychsen ni degradation of his high tw'irling his shot gun It Cohen a.ssertecJ. hiarged. He was given a blood i He said the testimony had pro- sfusion today in a futile effort duced exploded theories of ave his life. The second hunt-' we ever get around shrouded the Pittsburgh district today, snarling traffic and halting air travel.

Philadelphia, Nov. highway patrolmen and other officers searched wooded Meteorologist W. S. Brotzman areas near here today for Charley la 15 percent pay reduction. President fact-tinding board recommended Saturday that the railroads drop that jiroposal.

Some 900,000 union railroad (lurn lo Nine) SCREEN COMEDIAN WOOLSEY IS DEAD Malibu Beach, Nov. 1. didate for the unexpired term of the late Senator Royal S. ('ope- land. The New York Daily News, indejiendent tabloirl which has fa- ored the new deal, endorsed Wagner ar.d Representative James M.

Meafl, Democratic oppo- PROBE REGISTRATION IN ARMSTRONG CO. Harrisburg, Nov. 1 Attorney General Guy K. Bard complete iiujuiry is being made into illegal registration of voters COMMUNIST URGE.S DEFEAT OF JAMES victim in this area was Paul Turner backed Perry. He said attributed the in chapman, escaped bank robber de- isman, 39, of Erie, who was statement with smoke from steel scribed by Federal Bureau of Inin the left side and over the hokum and objected to Cohen furnaces to a rapid vestigation men as one of the eye while hunting near Con- i claim that the Republican mem- tumble in the temperature from most desperate law- itville.

He received hospital bers had the proceed- 50-degree level to freezing. breakers. tment and was released. jngs. Pittsburgh Motor Club re- Major B.

Birdsong of the Herbert W. Goodall, president of 1 the fog extended into Ohio state highway patrol identified the Tradesmen's National Bank of blanketed some valleys in chapman as a man who last night irrisburg, Nov. Philadelphia 1928 produced Pennsylvania, south- fled an automobile when George Earle, acting on records of the accounts of York and northern West fleers opened fire. recommendations of the board M. Greenfield.

Former Attorney Virginia. today granted 11 par- General Charles J. Margiotti had mercury dipped to a low of w' and 36 commutations. Fif- 1 testified he received information degrees in suburban communi- outlaw was a In Pennsylvania Judge Arthui H. James, Republican nominee foi Nov.

1 (. P)-Elizabeth Chirley Flynn, Pittsburgh Communist speaker, defeat of Republicans in in an address at a meeting of the C'ommunist party here last night. She called upon Judge candi- statement that Harry B. Iiearic delayed for an hour, and she said was sufTer- nent. Both newspapers have en- ickusu iuoo communist to defeat 1 I r.i,rr.Q„ Armsti (jng au( countics.

lo (u real vl? Ho the inve.stlKation Arthur H. O. P. la.st niiht in a Kl cases of the September term in a lettar from 27 at Franklin; 25 at continued and 92 applications that a check for went from at Saltsburg. demency were refused.

(Turn to Page Nine) State Politics at Glance By The Associated Press) DANIEL BOONE PARK IS DEDICATED TODAY wounded in the thigh Records compiled by the Arkansas state police and Federal Bu------------- reau of Identification show that Reading. Nov. 1 Chapman was first arrested in Mi- says James has and county dignitaries gathered i in April, 1931, on publican candidates wind up his ut.ter to continue as today on a farm where Daniel charges of carrying concealed campaign in PittsbuUgh superior court judge or to serve Boone was born and spent his boy- weapons and hijacking. Democrats concentrate in 1 as governor. hood to dedicate it as a In August, 1931, he was arrcst- Lieui.

Governor Thomas Ken- park. ed in Ventnor City, N. .1., on a nedy tells Democratic rally The cabin that was the famous i charge of highway robbery, but Kentucky birthplace i acquitted when brought to trial at after an 18 illness which had forced his retirement from pictures. Bert Wheeler broke off a Birdsong said he believed the 40- gonal appearance tour at Chicago turn- and flew here early today to attend ing outlaw was a successful con- the funeral which will be tractor at El Dorado, and held Friday. W'ho has escaped from Arkansas and Texas prisons, was nepuni can nominee loi a Republican, was The film colony and a worid 'governor, replied to criticism from arrested by state motor policemen which was of fans today mourned one of the President Roo.sevelt.

who had hail for a hear-'meeting she address- top comedians, be.specta- charged James with misrepresen ing tomorrow lustice of the ed Sunday night in Xenia, O. clod, cigar-chewing, wise-cracking tation in saying the chief execii- pgace Lynn Patchin Ford City, i Robert Woolsey.p had refrained from taking added that the IN WOODS Death came to the elder member part in the Pennsylvania campaign state 1 i warrant charged Erie, Nov. 1 body of of the Wheeler and team order not to put his hands in Rearic registered voters places a man found hanging in the woods at his Beach home here yesterday, other than the courthou.se or the near Little Hope, 11 miles south precinct polling places, and during of here, late Monday, was identi- BADLY BURNED WHEN hours other than those prescribed tied today as Adam Kielack, 67, ric TAMU rvni Wattsburg farmer, who disap- uAo lAlNn. tAlLUUtiJ Bard said he was sending Deputy peared on September 12. Dr, W.

Attorney General W'alter E. Glass G. Stroble issued a verdict of sui- Erie, Nov. 1 i.Pi investigation. cide.

Script Broadcast Received by Federal Commission rle outlines plan for mining and storing of vast supply as measure. nes pledges to relief VPA as long as 'd and to economize by elim- ig and cratic victory in Pennsylvania will for 1940 national election. Robert Vann, Pittsburgh ro publisher, promises to tell why he split with Senator Guffey and Purged followers to vote for James, and home until ne was about 17 is being restored by the state historical commission. There wdli also be a rcplica of another cabin, built by grandfatlier. Lowe, 52, Lakewood.

N. was Woolsey, 49 when he died, was a reported in critical condition in a jockey at 15. But when Pink Star, here today, from later a Kentucky Derby winner, abdomen fell with him and broke hands, suffered when the gas leg. he turned bellboy and met tank on his car exploded in Union actors, W'ho helped him get a start last night. attend- in vaudeville and said a brother of the victim His big chance came when Flor- told them Lowe was cranking his Washington, Nov.

commission said, to permit an in- enz Ziegfeld, who had used him in car, when the tank exploded and Communications Commis- vestigation of complaints against the Follies, teamed him and clothing was enveloped the broadcast. Wheeler in in 1928, flames Cause of the blast was not i Officials said tho of the determined. i complaints of an alleged pj-oadcast on H. fantasy TO SPFI.Mi Semitic and had been received from the Colura- Harrisburg, Nov. 1 MOTOKCVCLIST KILLED cast by radio station WHOM of i bia Broadcasting System but the Democratic state committee today Pittsburgh, Nov.

Jersey City on September 18. electrical transcription had not listed Daniel C. Roper, secretary motorcycles collided wdth an auto- commission disclosed today yet arrived. of commerce in Pre.sident Roose- i mobile early today on the busy Saw that it had granted the station aj The bioadcast, described as cabinet, for a speech Mill Run Boulevard, fatally injur- 90-day temporary renew'al of lie- by Commission Chair- tencc.s of 85 years for bank rob-; night in Pittsiburgh on behalf of ing Joseph Brickett. 24.

one of the cnse, instead of the usual six- Frank R. McNinch. caused bcry and kidnaping al the time, Democratic ticket. icyclistfi. Six others were hurt.

month renewal. This was done, the among many Mays Landing. His last escape was from Eastham prison in Texas July 8, 1937. He was serving combined sen-.