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Limn COSffLETETTELEGRArtnC SERVICE OF TOE UNITED PRESS Mostly clonal tonight Tueeaayj probably showers Tuesday; net much change la temperature. TEMrTRATUM In Rceardlni Thermometer a Gasette kflUdlns as MM. 74, :30 p. min, 56, 5 a. m.

PITTSTON, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935 FIFTY CENTS A MONTH SIX DOLLARS A YEAR 85th YEAR WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 18B0 DAILY BY TBEO. HART, 188 SIX PAGE ADMINISTRATION LEADERS CONFIDENT NRA WILL BE PASSE SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS 1935 II STAGES $580 si HOLDUP OF MAIN MID WEST OPENS THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING CO. BILL HASRIGHTOFWAY I THE HK ONE FAMILY LL COURT ENJOINS I MINING UNDER DURYEA SCHOOL LIVES til H. Q. THOMPSON united Press Staff Correspondent.

Washington, June 10. The White House signalled the senate today to give right of way to the bill extend ing a skeletonized NRA for nine and a half months. The admin'stration measure came from the house labeled "rush." NBA expires at midnight Saturday unless extended. Leaders were confident of senate approval prior to the deadline, despite a determined opposition and a questioning minority. Ahead of NRA In the senate was the President's public utility holding company bill' which received the endorsement of Charles E.

Ccughlln, the radio priest, In his Sunday night speech. Limitation of debate was imposed In an effort to speed a vote, which may come today. Leaders faced demands o' organized labor for on labor legislation. Labor leaders talked of widespread "strikes and strife," unless the measures they spcnsor are enacted. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, described the situation among coal min On petition of the Duryea school Cistrict, through Attorney it.

Cougnlin, Judge B. R. Jones this Inoniing granted a preliminary injunction to restrain the John Gavern Coal Co. from mining coal under the Wilson school building in Duryea and fixed the hearing for June 14, at 10 it for arkument to make the Injunction permanent. Attorney W.

L. Pace, representing th riawm Coal Questioned the right to restrain the mining of coal ney CoughUn explained that the property taken over by the school district in 1913, bafore the building was erected and that it has the right to surface support. Attorney Cough Un contended that since the property was secured by the school district through condemnation and not by Three members of a Broot family were killed and two were badly Injured yesterday Ing at 10 o'clock when thrautor In which they were riding skidd the wet pavement on Route 6, the Scranton Schultsr and was struck by a trailer truct. The dead: fi Pinhass L. Paplsh.

46, ht drh Mrs. Katherlne Paplsh, 48, "i wife. Nlsslm Paplsh, their ion. The Injured: Samuel Paplsh, 14, critical. Yemen Paplsh, 20, ec dltion fair.

Paplsh, according to'. 'o Highway Patrol, had passed anot machine on a slight Incline and he saw the truck approaching ft the opposite direction be applied brakes suddenly and his swerved diagonally across the i and was struck broadclde by heavy vehicle. The impact was tt great that Wilbur Neal, boro, the driver of the truck, tor an injury to his The fc was traveling towards TuAkharr The Papishes had visited on 1M Ml' 1 the usual purcnase irom ine iana 1 wner, the right to surface support 1 holds, it being different from the I ourchase or private property. Judge Jones said he would grant the Injunction to protect the scImm! I building and save the pupils from any mmm REMARK IN COURT DOUBLES SENTENCE ATTEND HEARING IN HARRISBURG I Abe Weinsteln, of Scran ton, proprietor of the Central Meat Market at 41 South Main street, had his second holdup experience in this city early this morning, according to report submitted by him this morn' lng to police authorities here. Wein steln says he was held up at the corner South Main and Dock streets at 6 o'clock this morning by three men, two of whom pressed guns against him while the third frisked his pockets, seizing $580 and making their escape southward in Plymouth sedan.

Weinsteln is said to have explained that the large sum of money which he had on his person was the proceeds of his week end business, which he planned to deposit here this morning. Police Lieutenant James Price and Officer Albert Ull vitch are investigating. Weinsteln relates that he drove to Plttston this morning in his auto mobile and alighted In front of his store. He decided to go to the diner on Dock street, for breakfast and had just reached the Klein Auto Parts Store entrance, at 45 South Main street, when he was accosted by the trio, who forced him into the store doorway and relieved him of his money. Weinsteln says he was so excited that he did not notice the license number or the sedan, but did notice that it was a car.

The police made a hurried trip through the South Plttston section and in highways leading from the main course to Wilkesbarre, but fail ed to find any trace of the Plymouth or its occupants. Eight years ago, Weinsteln sadly recalls, he was held up by five men on Wharf street and robbed of diamond ring and a small amount of cash. bflTmWED, Harrisburg, June 10. The $00,000 deficiency appropriation granted the Department of Forests and Waters for forest fire control during the spring season was returned to the general fund tagged "not needed," Secretary Ralph M. ashore announced today.

Simultaneously, the department head reported the forest acreage burn ed by fire between Jan. 1 and June 1 was the lowest figure on record marking the department's most suc cessful spring season in checkmating the "red enemy." During the season, 2100 fires spreal over 28,500 acres, a new low average of 13 acres per fire, causing damage estimated at $80,000. exclusive of $40, 000 spent in exting ulsh'ng them. April, with 1.100 fires, was. the busiest month of the season for thf forest firemen.

During the last week of the month 750 fires were reported The "red letter" days were April 25 and 26 when 189 and 179 tires re spectively were reported. The department spent $114,616 In extinguishing 3.004 fires during the spring season of 1934. The conflag rations burned over 17,535 acres, an average of 56 acres per fire, resulting In damage estimated at $384,321. HELEN C. Y01G WEDS PHYSICIAN On Saturday afternoon at four o'clock.

Miss Helen Grace Young, of Philadelphia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Young, of Mill street. (his city, was united in marriage to Dr.

Robert B. Walker, also of Phila delphia. The ceremony was perform ed in the Second Presbyterian Church, corner of Twenty first and Walnut streets, Philadelphia, by the pastor of the church. A large company of relatives and friends witnessed the Interesting ceremony. The bride was given In marriage by her father.

The matron of honor was Mrs. Verna E. Stence: the bridesmaids Misses Elizabeth and Reba Walker, nieces of the bridegroom, and the best man was the bridegroom's brother, William T. Walker. The following young men served as ushers: Dr.

W. L. G. Etaeph, Sanford J. and Howard Young.

William Walker. William Stence and William J. Walker. Following the ceremony a recept was held at the Penn Athletic Club. Dr.

and Mrs. Walker have left on a wedding trip, and after July 15 they will be at home to their friends at 1.824 Wallace street Philadelphia. Dr. Wftlker Is a practicing physician In Philadelphia. His bride Is a graduate of the Nurses' Training School of the Philadelnhla General "osoita'.

and for severa' vears hs been supervisor in a Philadelphia STREET MERCH AN By LYLE C. WILSON, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Coliseum, State Fair Grounds, Springfield, June 10. Grass roots Republicans from 10 farm States today launched a midwest attack against the Roosevelt administration designed to carry into the 1936 presi dential campaign a Conservative "de fend the Constitution Issue." Speakers called on American men and women of all political faiths to rally around the Republican banner next year protect the Constitution against threats from "high places. The setting of this unique farm belt rally was a national political convention in miniature. Shot through the proceedings was the strategy of beckoning conservative Democrats to the Republican candidate next year.

Delegates streamed into the flag decked con vention hall talking of a campaign which will create a "Union of sonism and Llncolnlsm." The direct challenge of the New Deal was made on these charges 1. Roosevelt recovery has resorted to unconstitutional legislation. 2. New Deal farm relief has penalized agriculture by sacrificing for eign markets and interfering in the management. 3.

Democratic financial policies threaten not only credit, but currency inflation which may become largely uncontrolled. Former Oov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, sounded the grass roots keynote with a summons to men and women of all political faiths to defend the Constitution against challenge from "high places." Harrison E. Spongier, co sponsor of the rally and national committee man from Iowa, charged' that the New Deal seeks to "take over" every farm in the land.

SENT TO JAIL ON I Joseph Wilbik, aged 17 years, of Swetland street, Duryea, was commit ted to the county jail Saturday aft ernoon, charged with attempted blackmail, extortion and threats. He was unable to furnish $5,000 bail. Wilbik was arrested in what State police say was an effort to obtain $500 from George Yuhas, hotel proprietor, at 404 Main street, Duryea, by threatening to kidnap' one of the Yuhas children or to dynamite the Yuhas home. The successful Weyerhaeuser kid naping Tacoma, State police de clared, prompted Wilbik to attempt to get money from Yuhas. The Duryea hotel keeper received one letter, postmarked June 1, demand ing $500 and threatening kidnap of one of the children or dynamiting the home, but ignored it.

When he received the second letter, post marked June 5, Yuhas Informed State police, who set a trap and caught Wilbik. BENJAMIN F. JAMES FORMER MINI LEADER, DIES AT 67 Benjamin F. James, aged 87 years, owner of the Le Grand Mine Drill Works, died at his home in Kingston, yesterday afternoon after a lingering illness. Before embarking.

in business for himself he was an organizer of the United Mine Workers of America in this part of the state and was a trusted friend and asso ciate of the late John Mitchell He was elected secretary treasurer of District No. 7 when it was formed In Hazleton In 1897, a post he held for the salary of 50 cents a month. He was then elected to membership on the national executive board of the U. M. W.

of A. and in 1899 he was delegated to the task of organizing the mine workers of the Wyo ming and Lackawanna Valleys. Lewisburg, June 10. Mary Wil ms Massey, of Erie, won high est honors at Bucknell College commencement today, having had a perfect record for her college course. It was announced she graduated with grade A In all subjects, a summa cum laude honor.

Thomas F. Fag ley, of Mt. Camel, also won summa cum laude honors. Five honorary degrees also were awarded, in addition to other honors bestowed on prominent proiMsional men ers, scheduled to walk cut Saturday night, as "acute." An extension of old wage contracts, agreed to two months ago, expires then. Sen.

Burton K. Wheeler, "i airman of the senate interstate commerce committee, in charge of the utility bill, hoped for vote on the measure today. He was confident of Its passage. Opposition to the bill, one of Mr. Roosevelt's pieces of "must" legislation, continued to the very end.

Tests were scheduled tcday on efforts of opponents to send it back to committee and also to strike out the section providing for elimination of "unnecessary" holding companies. Wheelet'tAOnj radio last mgnt ne believed pcth attacks would be repulsed. OF STATE'S SCHOOLS SPHKS IT BWELL Lewisburg, June 10. Dr. Lester K.

Ade, state superintendent public instruction, told members of Bucknell University graduating class today that the period of their youth and adolescence was coincident with thg profoundest changes in human thinking in the history of the world. "You have seen the greatest war in human history," the commencement speaker said. "You have seen throner totter and fall. You have seen thi planet of ours grow smaller and smaller, and the interrelations of men and nations grow more Interdependent if not always more intimate. Above all things else you have lived through a revolution in science.

"Quite as obvious is the change which has taken place in the subject matter we teach or ought to teach," Ade said. "Nor has this shifting point of viewto be found only among the sciences. History is being rewritten; psychology, virtually re created; economics and sociology, formulated in new terms." Dr. Ade, member of Bucknell 1921 graduating class, told the university's 1935 class not to confuse a liberal education with mere attendance at school or college or with the possession of a certificate to that effect. "The bridge which a liberal educa tion is to build," be said, provides the only possible passageway from the insulated life where no currents of force, or vitality or of imagination can possibly reach to that 'more abundant ll'e' which is the ultimate goal of the endeavors of all enlightened men.

"The Insulated life is the selfish the self centered, the narrow, and sooner or later, the embittered life. "The man educated in the modern sense will be trained to know, to care about and to understand the world he lives In both the physical world and the social world. A firm grasp of the physical world mean; the capacity to note and Interpret phenomena a firm grasp of the social world means an understanding and a sympathy with current Industry current science and current politics." INC MAN KILLED AT LAKE BY AUTO Stanln nnch uri Alderson, died Saturday night at Harvey's Lake. Joseph 'unU. 50.

of 73 LaOrange street driver of the car was held Chief of Police Ira, Stephenson, Harvey Lake. danger by caves. OYilra Benjamin Patrucci, of Luzerne, ecnvicted a few days ago on a charge of dynamiting the home cf Raymond Berti, 4n Prlngle, last April, and who was recommenQ to the extreme mercy of the court, was sentenced this morning to pay a fine of $100 and the costs and to serve an imprisonment of two to five years in 'ht county jail. Hist! A Man in Disguise hard to believe that kid rs and other hard boiled rworld gentry dread this id appearing gentleman in cat rot Bui and gown but it's true! lie'sJ. Edgar Hoover, head i siars IN COUNTY JAIL 1 ie Department of Justice's tH and or ma men.

shown, in los day at the heme of and 7 Samuel 536 North Irrtr j' nue, Scranton. They stopp on their way to CoBneffUt; Ithaca, N. to bake Mi Paplsh, a Junior summer. These a dinner "if the Katz A Tl illii The annual meeting of th porators of Plttston Hospital A tlon will be held tornorrow aii, at one o'clock, daylight time; Nurses' Home at the hospital annual reports will be present I officers and directors will be Luncheon win precede the meeting. If the weather Is favv a group picture of the directors be taken out of doors.

Ine a inspection of the bulldlnsa grounds will be made. Ifl SUA BJt nrc ill mil SEEKINC TO EQL THE EOT Harrisburg, June 10. A carr' to enroll ex service men of I sylvania under the banner of Republican War Veterans'' Aa6c! was under way today under the ership of George Murphy, Wayne co i ty, newly elected State chairm Murphy was named leader of new organization at a meeting Saturday during which If. Ear Taylor, Republican State chairrr i as principal speaker, mads a see ing verbal attack on Gov. Oeors 11.

Earle, requesting him to retract 3 ments made relative to the 8upre Court decision invalidating NRA cot. or "resign the Other officers elected were: Willie tj H. Beister, Delaware county; Fraci Kurtz, Huntingdon county; Larry Taylor, Erie county, and FrxJ Threscher, Westmoreland county, chairmen; Charles Gebert, BcJ kill county, secretary, and Fix Plnola, Luzerne county, treasurer. More than 100 delegates, re. sen ting the majority of the 87 cos ties, voted to co operate with Re" 11 can state and county cornmlu A resolution adopted by the sec meeting of the organisation st 1 that "the veterans must look to i Republican party as the best In ment through which to perp American Institutions and look the needs of its veterans," work sci1el of colli: THE PrrTSTON CO.

No. 9, Central, Old Forga as fer coUfcrtes wffl wsrk JCaesAs; KJHOE BEaW CO. Tl A second bereavement has come within a very short time to the mem berg of the Elterich family. A message has been received announcing the death of Charles Drake, of Bergen field. N.

which occurred this morning. Mr. Drake was the hus band of the former Bertha Elterich, whose early Ufa was spent in Pitts ton. On the day that the late Louis Elterich, of West Plttston, was buried recently, his brother in law, Mr. Drake, was unable to come to the funeral on account o.

illness. The same day he was taken to a hospital, and underwent an operation, from which he failed to rally. Mrs. Elterich Is the only survivor. The tune of the funeral will be announced later The body will i19 brought here for burial in the EI rich plot in West Plttston Cemetery.

ROBERT LEIGHTON, AFTER LONE ILLNESS Robert Leighton, aged 65 years, of 150 Searle street, Hughestown, an es teemed resident of that community for a long period of years, died Sat urday afternoon at two o'clock at the Ransom hospital, following lingering Illness. Mr. Leighton was born in England and had resided in Hughestown since a young boy. For a period of thirty years he was employed as a fireman at No. 9 Col liery, The Plttston Company, later as a blacksmith for the Lehigh Val ley Railroad.

At the time he was admitted to the hospital, he was employed as a watchman by Dershimer and Griffin. Two sisters, Mrs. Henna Steven son, of Hughestown, and Mrs. D. W.

Quick, of Clifton, are his only immediate survivors. The body has been removed to the home of his nephew, Robert Steven' son, 40 Lambert street, from where the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Plttston Cemetery. ON PACIFIC COAST 8an Francisco, Cal June 10. A liefboat manned by coast guardsmen from the Arena.

Cove Life Saving station groped through thick fog on the Pacific today in search of the S. 8. Noyo, lumber schooner aground on Saunders reef, with 20 persons aboard. The coast guardsmen were the closest of three rescue groups rushing to the assistance of the schooner, which reported at 8:30 a. m.

EDT. that she was leaking badly, but stiU float, Over 150 lawyers, members of the Luzerne County Bar Association expect to go to Harrisburg tomorrow and attend the public hearing before the Legislative' Judiciary Committee in the Impeachment proceedings brought by Emerson Jennings and others of Wilkesbarre against Judge W. A. Valentine. The petition asking impeachment charges the local judge with "arro gant usurpation of authority" in granting an injunction to restrain the United Anthracite Miners Union from calling a strike In violation of an agreement made with the U.

W. of A. and in sending some of the mine workers to jail for failing to comply with an order of court. At a meeting held by the County Bar Association several weeks ago. Judge Valentine was upheld in his action and there were many glowing tributes to his integrity and his rul ings as a judge.

The local delegation will be led by Judge E. Foster Heller, president of the Luzerne County Bar Association, and by members of the resolution committee, Attorneys J. Bigelow, William H. Gillespie, Edwin Shortz, Abram Salsburg, Michael TorUnskl and Andrew Hourlgan. The attorneys will go' down by automobile and also four Martz coaches have been chartered by the Association.

J. J. DRAKE, FORMER OLD FORGE RESIDENT, IS DEAD Mrs. Arabella Jane Safford Drake, aged 80 years. Well known Green Ridge (Scran ton) woman, died suddenly yesterday afternoon In her heme, 1116 Columbia street Scran ton.

She was stricken ill shortly after noon and passed away a few hours later. She was the widow of Ebeneser Drake and had resided in Scran ton the past twenty six years. She was born in Brooklyn, Susquehanna county, and after graduating from Wyoming Seminary, taught school In Old Forge, where she resided for thirty years. Mrs. Drake was a member of Elm Park M.

E. Church and was active in the various women's organisations of that church. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Jennie Drake Avery, King Ferry, N. and two grandchildren, Bryant and Elizabeth Avery.

The funeral will take place Wed nesday afternoon at two o'clock with services at the home In charge of the Rev. Eugene M. Pierce, associate paster of Park Church. Interment will be in Marcy Cemetery, Because of a remark made by James O'Boyle, of Luzerne, before the court for sentence on a charge of second degree murder made in the hearing of the court, he was recalled by Judge B. R.

Jones this morning, after a sentence of three to six years had been imposed, and he was given the maximum sentence of six to twelve years in the Eastern peniten tiary. O'Boyle was convicted of fatally assaulting John Brennan at the Boyle home In Luzerne last December, by striking Brennan over the head with a stove poker. The men had been on friendly terms and quarrelled while both were intoxicated Brennan died several days later In the Nesbitt hospital. The jury, in its verdict recommended O'Boyle to the extreme mercy of the court Michael Mullin, a native of Pitts ton township and a former well known resident of this city, died yes terday at noon at his home, 441 Ocean avenue, Brooklyn, Jf. where he had made his home for the past six years.

The remains will be brought to this city tomorrow afternoon and interment will be in St John's Cemetery at a time yet to be appointed The funeral will be from the Mullin family home, 318 Butler street where Mr. Mullin made his home for many years. Deceased was a son of Mrs. B. A.

Mullin, who survives, and the late Bernard Mullin. He had many friends in this community who learned with sorrow of his death. Surviving are his wife and four children: Mrs. Joseph McAndrew, Nora, Genevieve and Walter Mullin. all of Brooklyn, N.

one granddaughter, his mother, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Catherine Ford, James Donnelly, Mrs. Thomas Moughan, and Hannah all of Plttston, the last named being principal of the Jack son School; Mrs. John McHale, Genevieve James, Dean all of New York City; Bernard A. Mullin, a former member of Plttston High school faculty, of Tottenville, Staten Island.

POLICE FAT OWN WAY New cornea atown, O. With gasoline funds exhausted, police here have teen operating at their expense since January. Already, they have given a dance, earning $30. for a special fund Pi NesUtt Memorial Hospital of a frac wr dskuU suffered when he was v.w. hi.

i r.Ti.:. I ne 0 doc'or of at the Geor? ington University. Wash. Ir. by hospital.

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