Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • 3

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xVi 'V 4 A 4 A -ilT iV i' .4 SK. v.0 rvsN. i jki. A vA' THE OAME: A FINE TICTITIE OF A ITNE MESS OF BIG CLARENCE GIBSON, OP EAST LIBERTY, HOOKING A TROUT IN 'v A-i S' THE FIRST CATCH: CRIDER DENIE! EMBEZZLING ATMUNHALL Horace W. Crider, ex-Munhall council president, today denied charges of embezzling borough funds.

He admitted he did not inform Council when he knew Louis Woodward, 76, former borough clerk, was short in lus accounts. Under severe cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Hoy T. Clunk, Crider shouted: "I did everj thing under the aun to keep things straight in the borough funds. I named Woodward not to fool around with the payroll and prtty cash drawer. I told him if he continued to do so, he would go out the door.

THOUGHT HED MAKE GOOD' Clunk retorted: "You knew Woodward was short over $37,000. Whv didnt you refuse to sign his pay checks? Crider said: "I thought Woodward had money anil he would make the shortage good. Crider said he never checked the cash drawer, adding: "I alwavs took her (Frances Lancas'l word for it. Miss Lancas was a borough clerk. CHECK EVIDENCE He said Woodward told him he was short only between $3,000 and $4,000, and that he said: Woody, Its more than that.

Witnesses testified that after Woodward admitted his defalcations, he promised to pay back between $3 000 and $4 000. Woodward pleaded guilty to embezzlement some time ago and was sentenced to three years in jail. While in jail he became ill and was taken home. Clunk produced a canceled check for $600 which Miss Lancas said was drawn on borough funds and used to pay watchers at the polls in November, 1933, when Crider was elected to Council. ADMITS SIGNING CHECK Cilder denied the check was used for that purpose, admitting he had signed it.

Crider is on trial before Visiting Judce Harry M. Rimer, of Clarion County. Before Crider was called to testify, Albert Williams. Frank Matthews and William Cain. Munhall Cotincilmen, testified against him, Thev told how, when informed that Woodward was short in his accounts, thev w-ent to Woodward and questioned him.

to a a 4' A TROUT NEAR THE SURFAC IN A 1. l. Loilil. Consul. Bios John E.

Loibl, 49. German vlre consul here since 1926. died rally today in West Penn Hospital of pneumonia. Ho had been ill 10 da vs. Mr.

Iziibl lived Ids youth In his native Ueinuinv, studying at Heidelberg University In lus home town. In 1908 lie enmo to Pilts-liui gh. He was consular agent, uni 11 the lnle Piesldent Von liindeiiburg appointed him vice emmsul. Ln.st year lie served as president of tiie Consular Association of Pittsburgh and was tills year as sccre-tnrv-treasuier. He resided at 5806 Howe Street, and was head of tiie John E.

Loibl Travel Buienu, 444 Diamond Street. Ho leaves Ins wife, Mrs. Josephine Loibl, and two daughters, by a former marriage, Alice and Loyola. 4 Firemen Hurt At 2 Fires in Homestead Two fires in the business section of Homestead last night caused Injuries to four fhemcn and loss estimated by fliemen at $8,500. The Injured fliemen were Jack Womlbuine, of Munhail, who suffered a wrenched nerk when Fue Chief Herman Samuels, of Home-si end.

fell from a ladder onto Woodbume; Robert Motieian, Oeotge Williams and Charles Varnum, ail of Munhall, HURT AS FLOOR RASHES Motfernn and Williams were victims of smoke and bruises When a section of tiie floor of tiie Wiiite Star Produce Company, at 140 East Eighth Avenue, clashed down upon them. Firemen said the building was fired by lightning. As they were returning to their stations, fire bioke out in tiie Keystone Casket Manuf.ietiulng Company at 229 Sixth Avenue. It spread to three old wooden houses. One was occupied by a Negro family.

The others were vacant. I ENDS I NI LE HURT While the iniured firemen were being treated at Homestead Hospital, 19-year-old Iepgv George, telephone opeiator, rushed back to find out about the commotion. She discovered one of tiie Injured was an un le Roliert Mot-ternn with whom she made her home. Traffic on tiie Pi nnsylvnnia and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroads was delayed. 'rf.

A 4 Jf LYNN BUN WO POOL -i ft rht an a van and crew of five. The price for a crew of four is $7,50. The average moving within the city costs from $30 to $40. Last year about 15,000 person changed homes on moving day. New Castle Shannon Chief John of Orove Avenue, Castle Shannon, has been appointed chief of police of that borough.

The Council will meet next month to confirm the A I. hi- sj i' 1 1. t41' 1 -t BROTHER SEES MAN'S KILLER HANGED MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va April 15. The brother of Ills victim stood below high wooden gallows here Inst night and watched Flank Pramesa, 26.

die. John Y. Tlinmes, of Braddork, was permitted to see Pramesa, a coal miner, hanged for killing his brother. Louis Thames, a neighbor of Pramesa. rRAU.lt I OR MIRCY as thev adlusted a black rap on his head and Rlipped it.

into the noose, the witnesses heard Pramesa murmur: "May God have merry on my soul. WAVES GOODBYE Just before the tiap was spuing, the Brooke County World War veteran convicted for the shotgun slaving of his neighbor, Tlinmes last July, waved to the witnesses: "Goodbye, ever) body. Among the witnesses were two women tiie third and fourth to see an execution since the establishment of the prison in 1892. Thev were Mary Glass and Mary Kathryn Maley, both of Wells-btug. It was all over in lo minutes.

Hours iRter Pramesa's parents claimed tiie body. 1913 SLAYING REVEALED INEZ, Apiil 15. (AP.) A 31-yenr-old matron's story of a tragic April night 24 years ago, untold until now, brought a statement today from Commonwealth Attorney L. Harrington that lie will seek to extradite Harvey Hardin, western farmer, on a murder charge, Tiie Martin County grand Jury, this week, indicted Hat din, member of a prominent Inez family, on a charge of having slain James A. Wutterson, wealthy lumberman, in a timber ramp in April 1913.

Hairlnglon said Mis. Viola Runyon Harless, then only 7 years old, testified she saw Hardin enter a room in tiie lumber shark with a gun in his hand. Wattersons death was recorded then as from natural causes, but tiie prosecutor said a recent examination showed Watter.son had been shot in tiie head. Church lo Honor Pastor and Bride The vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Crafton, will give a reception in the Parish Hall at 8 p. m.

today. The affair will honor the Rev. John S. Tavlor and Mrs. Tavlor, whose maniage was solemnized at Trinity Cathedral, April 6.

Tarentum for Daylight Time Despite bitter opposition from three eounellmen of the Third Ward, Tarentum Council psssed a resolution to observe daylight saving time this summer, rvk will be advanced Sunday wnornlng, April SHALEY FREED, CABIN DEATH UNSOLVED GREENSBURG, April 15. Absolved of implication In the murder of Mrs. Lillian Edna Householder, 27-year-old night club entertainer, Charles Edward Haley, unfrocked priest from Canton, was freed today. Haley had been In custody in the state police barracks here since March 24, when the partly nude body of Mrs. Householder was found on the floor of three-room cabin near Laurelvllle.

FREED AT HEARING Haley was freed after a hearing before Alderman J. A. Walton, who decided that there was no evidence to support a murder charge. Immediately, state police turned the laboratory for further investigation. Under microscopes, criminologists examined eyebrows or eyelashes found under the nails of Mrs.

Householder's right fingers. The release followed a coroner's jury verdict last night that Mrs. Householder had been killed by the severance of at artery at the hand of a person or persons unknown. Mrs. Householder was secretary to Haley.

PURSE THIEF FELLS WOMAN Knocked to the ground by a young thug at Margarotta and Mellon Streets, last night, Miss Anna McBride, 714 Mellon Street, was robbed of her purse containing $1.50 in cash, car checks and pass key to her home. According to Miss McBride, she had been on an errand in East Liberty and was within four blocks of her home when she was approached by the youth. Injured Often, Dies Naturally at 89 GREENSBURG, April 15. (AP.) In 18R5 a fall of slate broke Robert Bickerstafl's back, He recovered, but walked with cancs. In 1913 he broke both legs, physicians shook their heads.

A few years later he fell from a born on to a cows horns, ripping deep gash in his body. He died yesterday of natural causes, aged 89. Cuwrlght ft? Run TdfKMph. All flight RwrenJ, JOHN TROUTMAN MRS. CHRISTINA MELRAVY FRANK EERAVY Mr.

Troutman and the McElravy couple, all Thousands of other took to the field today, the of McKeesport, getting their tackle ready for a first day of trout fishing, despite the downpour days fishing in Lynn Run, near Rector, today. of rain that swelled the streams. lir Run Tilm t.ti'!i Ml rl.M, frill'd. TOOL A KI HS IM 2 CONTRADICT ICETHEORYIN AIR CRASH For the seeond time in three weeks tiie theory that ice caused the clash of the TWA Skyllnrr, killing 13, in cornfield at Clinton. was disputed today.

William Dagleman, testifying at nn inquest before Cm oner William J. McGregor, said, ns he had before at the Bureau of Air Com-meree homing: "I absolutely could find no Ice nn I Itr ailerons it lie Instrument ss hit li ruulrtds the plane's balancing pmrer) and what I though might be Ice was aluminum paint. One gas tank was empty, the other broken open. "I got there before any I he aileron was open. I slm inv hand in anil could find no lee.

CM LDN'T HEAR MOTORS Dnglemnn, a poultry farmer, lives near tiie erasli scene, Wilbur Kaufman, nn engineering student nt Carnegie Tech, said: "1 saw the ship wobbling. The left wing wns down, I could not hear the motors. Tiie weather. Kaufman Enid, wns "not wiy tlilik." after the clash Punt E. Richter, vice president of Transcontinental Western Air lines, said ''iced-up'' ailerons in a localized air pocket caused the crash.

SI COM) 8 YS 'NO ICE' Tiie Bui can of Air Commerce, in preliminary fundings, had substantiated Richters report. Dagleman' father. William Dnglemnn, fir, of Uiidgevllie R. D. 2.

roi roboi ated his sons testimony Hint there was no Ice. Tiie plane flashed March 24 nfter flying ihe miles beyond thn sitIKirt, as required by federal regulations, while it was eliding bni k. RADIO SINGER MARRIES Calvin Ellis Miller, who "Curly Miller, liill-blily radio singer and lendi of the WWSWI "Plowlxiys," is man ted today. His wife is Sybil Clarice Lowell, 25, of Hit kintin Rond, McKeesport, Recording to the license Issued in Cheensburg, When "Cmly isn't singing "Tiie Mm tins and the Coys over the air, he live at 944 Ridge Avenue, North Side. "If Just mire.

Blie lav still until the prowlers crawled through a window, taking with them several ring and $5 had kept to pav the Insurance. Later, she explained: 'T wa afraid Isndnre might go out and be shot. Isadora had taken part In the sit-down strike at tiie Pennsylvania Association for tiie Blind, where lie works, i Today Mr. Knfiichcr was busy lock on jtho windows, Ixr- Crooks High Few Trout Faugh I Armies of hardy fishermen biaved an all-night downpour, accompanied by cannon-hke thunder, the fishing season opened at dawn today In Pennsylvania. Streams were high, muddy and rising, and the current was so swift that many took one look and went bark home to wait for better weather.

Trout No. 1 was credited to Clarence M. Gibson, of East Liberty, who pulled a fighting nine-inrh trout from Lvnn Run, where regulations are surh that the fish are almost on a 40-hour week. Farmers were reported Incensed at the Sunday fishing bill just signed by Gov. George H.

Earle. One landowner In the Lynn Run district was up early today, placing signs on his property forbidding Sunday angling. A dozen night clubs were Included among the places which lost licenses for violations of state law. The remaining 120 dispensaries closed promptly at midnight, the new closing hour. Two dealers, forced out of business, printed signs and placed them in front of their plarrs, among kegs and cases.

The signs read: "We surrender. The license revocations cost the Jobs of 00 person Belter Houses in Demand As Annual Moving Day Nears Better times are causing many housewives worry as April 30 approaches. The annual moving day, always one of confusion, is going to be more of a scramble this year, according to real estate and trucking men, because more families are going into better quarters. It is largely a matter of trucks. Haugh Keenan, storage and ing $9 hour for IjV'Tcndior Granted Hearing on Mnvviow transfer, have been booked up for seven weeks.

MANY CALLS DAILY C. Seivert, manager, said: "We get between 30 and 40 rail a day. It looks like some families are going to have to More their furniture a few days. If one move he must have cooperation of the trnant where he I moving. That tenant must have co-operation where he is going and so on.

We have traced this for six moves and then found the sixth holding up the whole line, LEASES TO BLAME G. A. Shanahan, president of Shanahan's, says the trouble comes from nearly all domestic leases expiring the same day. Judging from orders now booked, he savs there is a trend toward the suburbs. Rent Increases have been generally uniform, real estate men say.

They have gone up 10 per cent, BETTER HOMES To get larger or better homes 1 this year's chief reason for moving. Another motive, real estate believe, Is the desire of families that doubled up during the depression to undouble. Transfer companies art charg Wheeling lleer I tan Ituings Free Brinks Fulls BKoIiIhm'S 'Mico, Slut Saves Bliml Male "We exist In agonv and despair. I have been deprived of inv constitutional rights. I shall die soon If I do not receive medical attention.

Dr. O. S. Llewellyn, Mayview superintendent, said: "Mrs. West is definitely insane, suflering from paranoia.

She was admitted under the art of 1933, under whlih a person injv be confined by lertillrale of two doctois. At the hearing the hospital 111 be represented by stall doctors. Mrs. Anna West, a Mayview pa pnt, will appear before Judge ider W. Marshall tomorrow to rad for release.

The Judge issued a writ of ha-as corpus after receiving a let-T from Mrs. West, protesting ie is not mentally ill. She deal cd she was impusoned unlaw dy among maniacs and syphl-ties. The patient, a fotmer city hool teacher, is widow of Charles She asserts sane people re confined with dangerous inane, saying: WHEELINO, W. Va April 15.

A lot of beer drinkers awoke today wishing the hadn't been quite so law-abiding, They co-operated too willingly last night in the "purge of Wheeling beer dealers ordered by State Tax Commissioner Ernest K. James, The co-operation consisted In drinking the stock of 93 vendors who gave away their beer because their licenses, revoked b' the Commissioner, expired midnight. i Sounds In the kitelien awakened blind Isndore Kabeeher, 4V and his wife, Hilda, 46, earlv today. jsadore whispered: Hilda, there' somebody In the kitchen, Peering through connecting doors In the three-room apartment 101 Roberts Street, in the Hill District, Mrs. Kabeeher saw two Negro prowlers ransacking drawers.

But she whispered to her hus baodt she whisper.