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CHESTER TIMES, CHESTER TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931 1" SEVENTEEN WORLD NEWS TOLD IN PICTURES REHEARSE ON BEACH "Early to rehearsal, early to iwhn, keeps the chorui girl in trim" is the motto of these stage beauties rehearsing on the of Santa Monica, Cal. Illilii HAGS FEH0C10US SLA DANG lJ.imjf the sladang, ferocious exploits of Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Chicago and New York publisher, snapped on her arrival at San NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT M. Paul Doumer, center, with wh in the Versailles pai.ee following his election president of Fn Pierre Laval, right, the premJerjjfFrance, and M. Kb bier, left, aenrd nnd overcoat, is shown le.iv Accompnnying the aged man nre ores id th Fren ch se not ENVOY CARICATURED HIS CONSCIENCE LEADS TO CELL NEWS JOHINGS A QUEER WISH GRATIFIED SCHOOL BOARD FIXES TAX RATE AT ELEVEN MILLS OF BORTONDALE CHESTER HOSPITAL BULLETINFOR TODAY The following persons were admitted to the Chester Hospital yesterday and today: John While, 120 Rcaney street; Joseph Friel, 1126 West Second street; Margaret Sweeney. Forrest street.

Media; Catherine Morctti, Ninth and Wilson Personal Notes and Sotial'' Continued From 1 TITHABLES BOOK GIVES OLD VIRGINIA RECORDS The llbvnry of William riuI Mary College, at Williamsburg. hr.s acquired a collection of papers of historic value irom Sou'hwrjt. Virginia, among which Is an account book kept, by James McGavock nt Fort ChisweH, during the early Revolutionary period. In It lucre Is a list of llthablcs carefully marie out with lhe pages hand ruled by the recorder. This rcrord Is headed: "William English List of Tithsbles for 772S' Listed for the most part alphnhetlcnlly, ihese arsouuis rover about flf.v ftvn Hriefs of Interest t6' lvocal Readers .0 Man Circulated Worthless Checks Here, Held in Heavy Bail Conscience stricken because he had passed bad checks amounting to S147.00 In this city, Walton Pell, "who rooms Rfc a house hi the 400 block, East Fourth street, surrendered to the Baltimore, police, and was returned in this div by Deter' geanL Feency ana Patrolman Stewart 'V 1 iVloreUi, same address, Theodore Link, Brandywinc Summit; 71 fi East, Eighteenth" reels Barbara Smith.

HIS Rstler street! Four legged Chick Owned by Prospect Park Poultrymah One of the queerest freaks of Mother Nature enmo to Delaware county this monthly In lite Ur. of a. baby chick that has four legs. The chicle is the property of John Wiley. 1116 Chester pike, Prospect, Park, who maintains siiiftll poultry farm.

The brood was hatched litis morning and "CW nrrlvi0ft Wfts thc While I lie chick Is apparently enjoying the best of health, viy after, It was hatched, placed it hi an IncutjiHcr In order Dint Its chances lor longevity mav be Wiley, who' was gassed hi thc war and must find his occupation out of doors, has been in the poultry business four years. He Is an i 1 Ltd ken. a says, while lie. has observed a lew three legged chirks, he has nem. heard a four legged one.

UK nuiiic at miss ford, of Knowltoif road, durlne tha. week end included, Miss Bessie Ulnnd, of Strafford; Lester Yeatman, or New York; S. Ttlarl Brown Charles Bonsall nnd Miss Gertrudtfi' Plckcn. of Media; Mr. nnd Mrs.

Karr children lo attend ihe exercises. A resolution was formally adopted engaging George s. idell, hi, archL of Philadelphia to prepare Lhe plans and supervise ihe building of a new school building on the plot, of ground recent i hum iitij, west Third i L.vnch, C1C Edgmont a it ueiore Magii uriswold, oft, school board on Seventh street near five shillings Central avenue. ucnaiew, ou.v west tjlxtlt street; Stephen Collies 2818 West Second street; Andrew B. Morris, 1D04 Hancock.

street. discharged were: Ruth Gibbs, 38 Flower street; C. J. Elam, 33 Abbott street: Harvey Powers, lfj04 Potter street; Genifer Waters, 2211 West' Second street. oi bine prints and speclfica In old Wlncastin rotmty, and the onto lions and posed buil sKcr.cn oi the pro submitted by the i.iain,e wentlell, of Frazer.

la the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Allnm, of Ouk nventte, Bortondale Mr. nnd Mrs. James K.

Shields. and" son Stanley, of Bortondale, and Miaa Mary Treses, of Pnrkslde. visited Mr "ill i'S' Clmrlcs Saltan, of xlonroe of the ie, Or. Salvador. le MadriaRa is if the intellectuals of Spain, hr S'l i i ptinlin niapa zlnc nt Fort Chlswcli, named after Colonel John Chlswcli, of Wlllinms brR.

whose homo Is slid standing and to be restored by Mr. Rock? James McGavock, the storekeeper, in charge, was a member of the Fin castle as shown by Summer's Annals of Southwest Virginia. An undated memorandum in this old booK gives a list tl gofids seized v.wi.. venue were tne euestai J. .1 CUts Patrick, of Cor.

Unh The checkpassing episode occurred cm Saturday. May 16, when. Fell! in the company of another man still at large Who posed as his son, purchased articles Irom five merchants Lo whom they tendered checks in psymenc. All of the checks werr made out to one bank. At a jewelry store, the aged man :n.c.

accomplice purchases; watch for 557. Fell said he later pawned the timepiece for $15 and tore up the ticket. A clothing store received two checks, one for $23.75 and another for s.7t; a pawn shop received r. worthless check Tor 515; a haberdashery, one for 510; and a clothing store, one for 510. Among the articles purchased by the men were suits, shirts, unuerclotlimg and a suitcase.

With Th hotefl seat PINCHOT SAYS 'GANG' PROFESSORS GATHER FOR NEWDRY INQUIRY 'WASHINGTON May 26 The vanguard ol a ptsasp of nine university professors who will', seek means by which college, graduates can help solve the prohibition gathered today Ihe With one addition, the group com i 1 ubi Mrs. Stanley Sayer, of Fox road on Sunday Included Mr. and Mrs. Walter. Vnckcl nnd family and Mr.

and Mr. orlrl famous Cuban car: ftuer, shows a characteristic ex on nt Ser.or Madriaga. TRIES TO KILL BILL HARRrSBUItG, Mey 26 (INS) Members of the "Phlladclnhla anna Arthur Sayer. of Philadelphia. nnd Mrs.

Samuel Borisall, rft? th sites WALL ST. SEES DRIVE ON 'BEAR RAIDING' structed of brick and concrete and will be fireproof. It will be two stories and fUtrea The board passed a resolution to grant an exoneration of taxes on ihe property at 1014 West Second street from May 15 to the Child Health Center Association of this c)lv wln organization look title to the premises on that date when the property' was cohveyed by Patrick J. McHale. lhe resolution was passed on the advice of Paul Lnnc Ives, solicitor lor Ihe board, as the new owners arc a charitable organization nnri exempt Irom taxation under the law.

When the final bill of the Stewart Walters Company, contraclors, who installed (he electrical work in the John Wetherill school, was presented for It was passed lor settlement with a provision that (he company submit a guarantee for the work, which must pass the approval of the architect and the building committee, before the check Is mailed out to the crm! meter. The amount of the check Is Contracts were aoproved bv the owner tv coinmitt.ep. fm v. ivii closed doors in the Prohibition Gov. I'inchot charged here today, arc attempting to kill thc Bttckman Philadelphia Port bill carrying nit appropriation of $250,000 ror development of the lower Delaware river Orlcld 7S i ecu rt hi iv II, Miss Stella Ford, o( Welfscrest? road, was the guest of Miss Franc Bosler, of Media, recently Mr and George Sandersoii nwl fnmlly, of Pnulsboro.

N. wer' east fide section of flle.vel.inil, during the pa it seven is liclievc.l Phil leaders of thc New York Stock Exchange today opened what was construed in Wall street as a determined drive against mwe, wnere pangs or conscience became so strong in Fell that he decided to to the police. 'Hie other man, whose name is not known, is still at large. had never been arrested for a crime before, though he was fined SoO in California once for accidentaUv en(1 soivcii ny uie re.il of 2S year oU youth. Goodwin, nheve son nf a retired fireman.

Police sa he Intd Ihcm that lie had licen out il work and discouraged when the dc sire came "lo olhcrs suffer, dared, "Senale. 13)1 No. (the Buck man measure) the best bill ever prcaenlecl In the Legislature for development nf the port at Philadelphia has been sent back to committee in I tor in the decline'of stock, prices'. nt Media Presbyterian church market and thfc encouragement of In me Charles E.V N.lBhbour end bin associates will havatf charge or the meeting. William E.

Walters, oi ColJingdale, "8th February 1775 Rco'd or Mr, 0ns McGfU'ock for Alexander Robertson four pounds ten shillings and ten part of a bond assigned from Colo. Byrd. (Signed) Richard Madison." Accounts dated nt Fort Chis well in 177G and 1777, run like these "Sept. 3, 1770. Received from James McGavock out or the Public Magazine for the Use of Brogarie of Waggons Thirty four a half Bushels of Indian Corn.

Issac Campbell." (The receipts given arc all signed In autographs.) A purl of this old record is practically a "homemade" arithmetic. Much space twenty six pager. Is given to the practical solution nf problems In "Reduction" reduction of pound, shillings and pence and more pages arc covered with longhand writing of examples of solutions of problsms on many other subjects of arithmetic. KILL 2 CHILDREN; "ucr fusing uie enntc. hat Interest the gang may have in trying to defeat this measure so essential to development, and prosper ly of Philadelphia, do not know.

Neither do I know what politics may ject of the drive, it is believed. The committee on busings conduct 1 Uu Jut a lestion lUieiddleuivm PrS FAILS AT SUICIDE terials to be used by the manual asKing jor as follows: Galev Hardware Company, for hnrdwnri innlc t.te a nl meetings designated, In the words of Prohibition Director Woodcock, to "jsrnnilap plans for research into the operation of the Eighteenth Amendment In the fields of sociology and political economy." Specially, the professors will work out a list of subjects on which graduate students can conduct original research in sre'ninR their masters' and doctors' degrees. U. S. ARMY PLACES PASSOVER ALBANY ALBANY, May 26 (INS) With perfect flying weather, the grut armada of army fishting airplanes passed over the State Capital In squads of about a dozen each, the army aviators, Tying low and fast, swept down the Hudson river, toward Nexv York, to protect the metropolis from invasion.

The planes staged a rendezvous at Troy where the two main groups of the air force joined into enc formation. Just before rraching Albany the planes spread out and literally SAN FRANCISCO. May 211 (INS) After chlomfnrmln V.n,. I umruwing ana loaning of stocks, this wlu U'f. 10 members of he Walt street' "bear clique" could, T.

will meet at the home thfe president Mrs. Frank Perrln, or tom0nw flf 'erneon at sr.l6.P7; B. D. Wright, paints. S207sU; AL RASCHID FACES Children and watching them die, Mrs.

vi. naiimion, lor i UCmS 01 various kinds of lumber, 534.32, Hnd' Brady Hlndlc Company, of Philadelphia. 34 items of varlnue inrtc The Thimble Guild will. meet at the Charles WUIer, ofi her life by hurling herself into "the 'EMPTY' PISTOL GOES OFF DURINGCOURT TRIAL A supposedly empty pistol went off Quarter Sessions Court in Philadelphia and the buliet struck the marble slab at the base of the bench occupied by Judge Joseph L. Kun.

Two prisoners charged with a clplnup were on trial. An assistant district attorney had taken the weapon from a detective and was questioning one of the prisoners when he pulled the triger. The. bullet went through the back of a chair in which a court crier had been sitting. Judge Kun then announced that the detective who brought the pistol into court without emptying it should be reprimanded.

THIRDMPORTATION NEW vonw aa meeting on i lumber, S130S.5. Officers found her ns she staggered f. i 11 "rvc Itlllcd my tuB committee apposutcd to select 1 architect to nrpnaro nlans nnrl GRAY SQUIRRELS BECOME Mohammed AI Raschid, styled decide on a site tor (he erection of PESTS IN ENGLAND cinu oi jwiroisian, tailor, ind the most deported man In th cribs pouring a deadly" antiseptic into 'i. mai the Middlctown Presbyterian Church II be held June 10. Charles Wor 4 mUtc(' chnlrman of the "nance com, 1 Mrs.

Laurence E. Lindldy, of Medi KnC3i slc aker at Crfrtstlan: Endeavor on Sunday evening. ty The Rttractlvr lill.le FnerlUh 'tnannJ a new school in the Sun Hill district, reported that It had been unable to reach an agreement as to an architect and requested that a conference with the board be held following the meeting for the purpose of getting stood on the brink i or the Atlantic today and unless Civil Liberties iu tne onor oi the chloroform. She had been havtnir flnanclnl li onhiet oi. rma.1 anairs, ir.c uouniry man, has Information through sev CODE BILL REPORTED BY SENATECOMMITTEE HARRISBURG.

'Mav 26 (UP) The admlnistratlvi codp bill was reported to the Senntrt favtirablv today by the Senate Judiclaiy General Committee, minus many of the pro ccntainecJ tne original Provisions In the bill relating to the proposed fair rate board was struck out, and the provision to create a mining survey bureau likewise we5 eliminated. Senate leaders, however, said that the mining bureau section in amended form would be reinstated In the if an agreement on the purpose of the proposed bureau could be Robert Saun'dtus si eral correspondents that the Amer I union can nelp mm he soon will be outward bound again. he Is, it will be his thtk dcporta tlon in live years and, whfie the rark. was thc guest of Mr. and l.h'.

a final derision is reached. Patricia Lee, Rmay have had some premonition of their deaths, for they xnc supply committee was granted Ktccn minutes for the 600 odd V. at mcir iiomc on Mid (itetown road, during thc weefc eniLj itan gray squirrel, introduced into England in several colonies here and there throughout that country, is threatening to become as great a pest, as the rabbit has become in PLEADS FOR U.S. AID TO DISTRESSED AREAS fond or the U. eipccla llyDc lanes to pass over the rlty.

The planes left Albany at 12.23 Middlctown road, entertrtined durlnvi ter High School, and two for to their playmates "for MISSION WORKERS CHANGED SHANHHAl Mnv OaIIKBl.ul. Australia. Our favorite squirrel is: nections in the automobile industry. ii.c oonn weinenn hrnooj. Permission was granted bv lhe board to the First Baptist Church to allow chlidrpn In thr.

nrbhhnrU accused ot ravaging Iruil and gai dens, and even of devouring thi wheat in the field. so thnt thi sc) for the Civil Liberties Unio'mwho slonarlns of the American Methodist HIGH COURT NAMES JUDGE TO HEAR CASE theory of restricted local ctv farmers are rising up and demanding HELD FOR MURDER roreign oard were withdrawn today from Sler.yu near Foo of the Eyre School or. West Seventh street to use the playgrounds for rec the boundaries of this nation, obtained from Federal Judge Bondy permission to hold a hearing in a iecau.se cf ftghl OF STATEPOLICEMAliX This seems strange lo Americans, who are not aware nf any such wholesale devastation U. S. SUPREME COURT SUSTAINS RADIO VERDICT Illinois, today advocated financial aid irom the Federal Treasurv to cities and counties expressing distress.

Modern economic conditions with their tendency to erase local boundaries justify a system of Federal foans to small communities, the Senator declared in a noon day address delivered before the Illinois State Bankers1 Association, assembled for their annual convention here. HOME FROM COLLEGE UJKJtl cnarges 01 first de? grec murder, Marshal! Lodge, 31 year though It is true that In our woods and public reservations around Boston the squirrels have long been known to cover the ground around oak trees with bud twigs and young reational purposes. J. C. Taylor, former president of the was a visitor lat evening, and vthen the board went into conference following the meeting, Mr.

Taylor was invited to join his former associates. Mrs. Margaret Coulter, nee Mahon, a former employe in the ufTlce the secretary of the board, who was recently married, tcndeied her resignation and it was acctpted. i luumaincer, today was heid Z' the Fulton county Jail here penUi ing action of a rnrf i i im, May The 'judgment of the Circuit Court of (Appeals sustaining the patent crantd Hs imr must ifc.XlN' TWfWe; IT'S, jtavus apparently miten oy tnem iron vp.cuum tubes used In radio" and The devastation reported in Eng a hospital where his "rr of puiii reproduction processes was reversed hv the Supreme Court. i sun tors report tin i well fcnown fact that a bird or of Anrii and ordered it of mal.

Introduced into a foreign country and well established there, and being free there of the enemies which yolIct! tor the shooting, SerBtunt Timothy Mc? filed. Bills to the ai were ordered paid. The Supreme Court today, In Phil adelphia, took cognizance of the alleged ttnse political situation existing in Clearfield county between the county treasurer's office and Judge William S. McLean, of the Com nion Picas bench, by appointing Judge William S. Green, of Luzerne County Common Pleas Court, to preside over litigation in Clearfield county Involving A.

G. Cowcrlck courstv treasurer. The action of the high tribunal was on the appeal for a change of venue or appointment of a visiting Judge by counsel for Cow crick, who alleged that the treasurer had not been given a fair trial before Judge Chase, in Clearfield county, in a recently completed case. 31 HOURS IN FLIGHT JACKSONVILLE BEACH. May 26 (INS) Droning through the night without evjn a "chuckle" from.

their motor, Walter A. Lees and Frederick A. Brnssy. Detroit fliers, passed their thirty first hour In the air at 1.42 p. n.

today In an attempt u. liic ponce at odge'i: rraigned before Magistrate Charles" waiver! a hearing ni2 Keep it down in its native habitat, is apt to increase and multiply beyond all bounds. Boston Transcript, LOTT WINS AGAIN PARTY LEAVES TO CLIMB THIRD LOFTIEST PEAK i onea oy tne Cieneraf Electric Company. It was attacked by ihe DeForest Radio Company, which contended that unless the Langmuir patents were set aside General Electric would have a virtual monopoly of the radio tube now In common. use.

It pointed out that the present day tube was used also for other purposes than radio Iran Emission. SEES TyCATiON" AUTO SPEED LIMITS LIFTED IN COLORADO" AUTEUTL, France, May 26 (INS) George M. Lott, young American tennis star advanced lo the fourth round of the men's singles in the French hard court chRmnlnnahms nt. FEDERAL JUDGE THROWS PINT CASE OUT OF COURT MIAMI, Fla May 26 William E. McCarthy, of West Palm Beach, was called in United States District Court here to answer an indictment charging transportation of one pint of liquor.

"Is Ihf another of those one pint asked Judge Bitter." "i answered the prosecutor. 'Dismissed 1" said the judge. WORSTED IX FIGHT Alexander Pat.tereon.52, of 701 Pin street. Darby, was admitted to the Delaware County Hospital, Upper Darby, shortly after last midnight and was given treatment lor seven 'aIPJ wounds, said to have been Inflicted by blows with the butt of a revolver. According to physicians at the hospital he was beaten during a the Roland Garros stadium today hv in the Himalayas, third loriiest mountain peak in (he world, a second Bavarian expedition left here under the leadership of Paul Bauer.

The peak Is 23,225 feet high. A former expedition in 1929 reached a height or 24.272 fret, but was compelled to turn back because of a. terrific storm. rj ci eating c. h.

Kingsiev, of England In straight sets 6 0. 6 1, 6 limits, day 3 PLEAD NOT GUILTY code hill iiy Governor Adams, tha. only restrictiojj Is that vehicles amfcr TO TRIAL IN FLOT NEW YORK. May 25 (UP Samuel Greenberg and Harry Stein, Jointly Indicted on a charge of the murder of Vivian Gordon, today pleaded not guilty before Supreme Court" Justice Albert Cchn in the oe operated at a prudent and aarajr A motorist arreslcd for reeklesa driving need not appear for trial foe five davs and ran nrocesri under th'o' OF PRESENT DRY LAW WASHINGTON, May 2 rrNS) Modification of the Eighteenth Amendment is inevitable and within a few years unless the American people pull themselves out of. the depths of the moral depression through which this nation is now passing.

Dr. Clarence True Wilson, of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, predicted today in an interview published in the Washington Times. The. moral standards of the age are fast, falling. Dr.

Wilson believes. ARRANGES FOR INQUEST Coroner J. Evans Scheehle will conduct an inquest the case of Walter TUghman, Negro, who was kilted in a brawl in Darby township, Sunday morning. May 17. WOUNDS WOMAN TkiTlS SELF law without giving security for jo ians were completed by the Fascist authorities today for the trial of Michele Schirru, a naturalized American, on charges of plotting the assassination of fsjjc.

i4wicu proviaea ne cames nss registration issued by the state. TAYLOR HOSPITAL BULLETIN HIGH AMBITION TO BE GUEST SPEAKER. uled to go on trial Thursday." Admissions to Taylor Hospital, Rid Ify Park, were: Miss i Frances Wright. 817 McDowell Chester, and Mrs. Minnie Cum Col.

Charles' A. DraVo. of the C. UnivensitV of Perns vh.anU o'liipiaits oi inr united plates have more than $1,115,000,000 LONDON England Is sending another expedition Into the Himalayas to attempt what no other has done scale the peaks of Mt. Kamet and Mt.

Evtrest, the highest peaks In the world. It will cost about 2,000 for each man In the party. third and Frinu avenues, Esslng will be the guest speaker "at thVv; weeklv nipeltriff nf th r.hni.r WVV listen is needed to put the naticV 1 back on its moral fceL proprietor of rooming house here today, Sylvester Niehaus. 30, police character, shot and killed himself. distribution facilities in foreign coun Kiwanlo Club, to be held In the 'den, eveni,.

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