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MOUNT CARMEL, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1938. PRICE THREE CENlSu AUTOIST IS PROTEST FILED BY NEXT BIENNIAL 14 Rescued From This Flaming Death HELD UP ON TRIP HERE UMWMEETMAY BOROUGH BE HELD HERE Shenandoah Man Vic L. V.

Would Discontinue Passenger Service Here Mahanoy City Also Considered As Convention Site MOUNT CARMEL Cool in Fire tim of Two Hitch-Hikers PUSHED OUT OF Ah fej HOGARTY LOSES ELECTION FIGHT CHIEF BURGESS TAKES ACTION CAR BY BANDITS The plane pictured above as a charred, heat-twisted wreck caught fire 14,000 feet in the air, shortly after taking off from Montgomery, on a Houston-New York run. But the eleven passengers and the crew of two escaped without injury, thanks to the cool-headed heroism of Pilot David Hissong, of Atlanta, Ga. With fire burning his head and hands, one motor dropped out of the plane and a wing about to fall off, he set the craft down safely. A moment after the occupants hurrie out, It exploded in a mass of flame. Japanese Into City Fight Way of Canton 78 SURRENDER TO WPA FRAUD INDICTMENTS I A i Relieved of His Machine, Money and Watch State motor police early this morning were patroling all roads in this section seeking two hitch-hiking bandits who held up and robbed a Shenandoah motorist who had befriended them a few minutes before midnight The two, picked up in Girardville by Anthony 330 Palmer street, Shenandoah, ordered the motorist to stop as soon as they had reached the outskirts of town.

Backing up their demands at gunpoint, they relieved the driver of $12 which he had in his wallet and a watch valued at $65. Then, while one held the door open, the other pushed Malinowski Into the middle of the road and they drove off with his car. Malinowski hailed a passing mo torist and explained his plight and a hurried call was put in for police. Within a few minutes police, armed with a description of the bandits, were on the job. Malinowski told police he was en route to Mount Carmel to visit a friend when he picked up the two.

He said they were neatly dressed but spoke little. Motor police, remembering a slaying near Deer Lake two months ago of a Primrose coal trucker who had picked up a hitchhiker, were pursuing their search relentlessly today. Malinowskl's car was later found abandoned at Germantown along the Mount Carmel-Ashland moun tain road by a Mount Carmel resident, John Mazaka, who had driven the Shenandoah man back home following his visit here after the holdup. HARRY HOPKINS' FIANCEE DIES IN 16-STORY FALL Beautiful Widow, Mrs. Gard ner Hale, Plunges To Death From N.

Y. Apartment NEW YORK, Oct. 21. (U.R) Mrs, Gardner Hale, widow of a noted mural painter, who was reported engaged last May to Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, plunged to her death today from her apartment on the 16th floor of fashionable Hampshire House.

Mrs. Hale was introduced to Hop kins by James Roosevelt. When they were seen together in subsequent weeks the report of their engagement circulated. It never was officially confirmed. The fall did not disarrange her tipswept coiffure.

She wore a black velvet hostess gown and black and silver sandals with high spiked heels. Around her throat was a black ribbon suspending a gold Florentine ornament. The routine card filed In the station listed the cause of death as "probable suicide." Mrs. Hale was the former Miss Dorothy Donovan of Pittsburgh. Her first husband was VT.

Gaillard Thomas. She was married to Hale, who revived the art of Fresco paint-ting, in 1929 and posed for many of his works. Hale was killed In an automobile accident near Santa Maria, Cal, that same year. His car plungedWr a 500-foot cliff. After his death Mrs.

Hale tried the stage but with indifferent success. She was known to her friends for her gaiety and they expressed the opinion today held also by one of the police who investigated that she might have tripped over the low windowsill. FARRELL RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Raymond Farrell, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Farrell, of 208 south Pear street, returned home today from Ashland State Hospital, where, two weeks ago, he submitted to an abdominal operation.

The young man, popularly known here, is a Sophomore at Mount Carmel Catholic High School. BABY BOY A baby boy was born early today at the Shamokin State Hospital to Mr; and Mrs. Stephen Warsavage, of 112 south Spruce street, Mount Sessions Near End At Williamstown; Resolutions Passed WILLIAMSTOWN, Pa. Oct. 2f Driving toward possible adjournment late today, the biennial convention of District No.

9, United Mine Workers of America, heard reports of the committees on officers and resolutions and approved recommendations. As suggested by the resolutions the international union was petitioned to broaden the scope of the cooperative retirement plan to include all district officers, permissa-ble at 65 and mandatory at 70. While the district officers pay into the retirement fund at present, only the international officers benefit from its provisions. The committee on officers with consent of the convention, recommended the following: Opposition to any amendment to the Wagner Labor Act. Enactment of legislation to rehabilitate the anthracite industry.

Employment at a decent wage io every working man and woman in Pennsylvania. Adequate appropriation by the state to the Pennsylvania Housing Authority to repieve housing condi tions at Gilberton. Amendment of the Workmen's Compensation Act to protect all mine workers not now protected. Substantial reduction of the age limit in the old age assistance law and enactment of legislation to in-'-clude persons who are not able to work because of occupational disease. Unemployment compensation benefits payable for longer periods.

Improvements of the social security acts. Better mine safety laws. The committee on officers ais "expressed sorrow for certain members of Cameron colliery for Joining (Continued on Page Nine) LIEUTENANT OF POLICE HELD IN RECORDTHEFT Charged With Looting Police Station of Records Before Investigation By Earl B. Steele (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Oct. 21.

(U.R) Po lice Lieut. Outhbert Behan was Jailed today in the Bergen Street Station which had been mysterious ly looted of Its records just before an Investigation or judicial corruption In Kings County (Brooklyn) was ordered by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. Behan was charged with grand larceny and the mutilation of the records which had been needed for the sweeping investigation of alleged corruption In Brooklyn law enforcement agencies started six months ago by Mayor F.

H. LaGuardia on petition of the Citizens Committee for Control of Crime. "The mystery has been solved." Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine announced at 4 A. M.

"The contents were cut from six arrest record books at 3:30 A. M. on Oct. 15. Lieut.

Behan has Just been suspended without pay and placed under Three hours after he was jailed. Behan began shouting for help from his cell. The guard called Capt Francis A. McCoy, In charge of the station. McCoy called the Jewish Hospital for an ambulance.

The ambulance surgeon diagnosed Be-' han's ailment as gastritisrH'ureat-ed him in the cell and said Behan was not too sick to appear at the police lineup. Six months ago Behan and two other lieutenants had been transferred from the Bergen Street Station after an investigation of a bail, bond racket. The theft was discovered Tues day, when a clerk went to the book i shelf and noticed that the content had been slit from six ledgers and that all the data on 7,200 criminal cases in the precinct over a two-year period were gone. Among them were the cases that had been scrutinized In the ball bond investigation. Valentine said it was evident that the theft was pertinent to the broader scandal that had been developing in Kings County, second mo6t populous in the United States.

(Cook County, embrs-cing CW-cago, is the largest). Delcamp Has Solicitor Louis Cohen File Protest The Borough of Mount Carmel has filed with the Public Utility Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania a protest to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company's petition for discontinuance of passenger train service between this city and Hazleton. The protest was filed by Borough Solicitor Louis Cohen at the request of Chief Burgess Elmer J. Delcamp. Service clubs in the communities served by the railroad In the local division, including the Exchange Club of Mahanoy City, have joined in the protest.

Communities served by the road include Shenandoah, Centralia, Raven Run, Park Place, Delano, Aud-enreid and McAdoo. The service is furnished by a gasoline run two car train which makes the trip between Mount Carmel and Hazleton twice a day. Officials of the railroad said that the issue Is not one of sentiment, but of revenue. Notice of the petition and, subsequently, of a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday at WilkesBarre, was distributed throughout the division about ten days ago. The notice read: "Notice is hereby given that application has been made to the Public Utility Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, under the provisions of the Public Utility Law, by Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, for a certificate of Public Convenience evidencing the Commission's requisite approval of discontinuance of passenger service on trains Nos.

209, 229, 217, 218 and 210 on its Hazieton Branch between Hazleton in Luzerne County and Mount Carmel in Northumberland County, A. 55101. "A public hearing upon this application will be held in the Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday, October 25, 1938, at 10:00 A. when and where all persons In Interest may appear and be heard, If they so PREPARING FOR RALLY HERE ON MITCHELL DAY Planning For Big Meeting To Be Addressed By John L. Lewis Preparations are being made for the John Mitchell labor rally to be held in the Mount Carmel High School Stadium the morning of Oct.

29. John Lewis, International President of the United Mine Workers of America, will be here to address the District 9 miners on Mitchell Day. In addition there will also be other leaders of the mine workers organization here to participate In the program. Members of the Locust Summit General Mine Standing Committee stated today that In case of rain on the morning of October 29 making it impossible to hold the meeting in the stadium, the rally will take place in Our Mother of Consolation Hall at Avenue and Poplar street. All officers of the various locals of the United Mine Workers of America of District 9 are Invited by the Locust Summit General Mine Standing Committee to attend a meeting to be held in the American Legion home at Avenue and Maple street on Sun day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, mem bers of the Summit committee announced today.

District leaders are to be present at the meeting Sunday to assist In making plans for the rally. ONLY MORNING SESSION IN SCHOOLS HERE TODAY Public schools In this city had only a half session today, beginning at 8:00 a.m., an hour earlier than usual, and dismissing at noon. The schedule was shortened to allow the 92 teachers on the borough faculty to attend the Educational Conference at Bucknell University this afternoon and tonight in 7 7 PLEAD GUILTY IN COUNTY OTA EMBEZZLEMENT Trial of William Cashman, Former Director, Continued Until December SCRANTON, Oct. 21. (U.RX- Seven former employes of the Na tional Youth Administration's Northumberland County office, In dicted with former County Direa tor William Cashman on embezzle ment charges, pleaded guilty, it was announced In Federal Court today.

The court granted a continuance of Cashman's trial, scheduled to open here today, until the December criminal term at Harrlsburg, at the request of the former supervisor's counsel, Donald Johnson. Sentences of the seven other for mer employes of the Sunbury NYA office will be deferred until after Cashman's trial, at which they are expected to testify, It was said. The defendants whose guilty pleas were entered today Included Ruth German, Earl Snyder, Charles P. Hare and Oliver Long, all of Sun-bury; Jesse Neiswender and Enoch Kanaskie of Shamokin, and Mrs. Katherine Moyer of Beaver Springs.

They were charged with conspiracy to add names to the NYA payroll, forge the additional checks and cash them. Approximately $2,500 in federal funds was Involved. Federal authorities said the seven had admitted knowledge of the forg ing and cashing of the checks, but charged that Cashman apparently was the only person to profit by the illegal transactions. In other cases of the current criminal teram of Federal Court, Judge Albert L. Johnson late yesterday sentenced to prison terms three men convicted of counterfeit money charges.

Indictments handed down late yesterday included bills charging Louis Cotter and Steve Rady, both of Pottsville, with transportation of untaxed alcohol to Hazleton on Oct. 14. Francis Hepler, Shamokin mail carrier, received a suspended sentence on charges he delayed 12 letters, some of which contained money. The letters were found in Hepler's automobile. They had not been opened.

Witnesses testified that Hepler was suffering from a mental condition and that the American Legion at Shamokin Is planning to get him treatment HEIGHTS MAN ISEJURED James Bonilla Hurt In Auto Accident; Jaw May Be Broken James Bonilla, 36, of Marlon Heights, was admitted to the Sha mokin State Hospital yesterday with injuries sustained In an automobile accident According to the hospital report, Bonilla Is suffering from a severe blow on the face, a possible fracture of the jaw, contusions and abrasions of the body, and several broken front teeth. Motor Police interviewed Bonilla at the hospital today to ascertain the nature of the accident, but up until this afternoon they Issued no formal statement WELCOME SON Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Grove resi dents of 1471 Poplar street, Kulp-mont, welcomed a baby boy, their first child, at their home yesterday afternoon. Mrs.

Grove is the former Elizabeth Clayberger of Kulpmont Complete Survey Designed To End High Mine Water HARRISBURG, Oct. 21.CU.R) Completion of a survey of Pennsylavnia's anthracite mines In connection with a proposed $5,000,000 program to eliminate water hazards Was announced today by Joseph J. Walsh, Acting Mines Secretary. The program, ordered by Gov. George H.

Earle, is aimed at preventing, in some degree, the flooding of anthracite mine workings, which annually throw thousands of workers out of employment. Results of the recent survey, which covered more than 500 square miles extending from the Lykens Valley to Forest City, will be turned over to WPA officials in' an effort to have the elimination work listed as a WPA project. The preliminary survey disclosed that for every ton of coal taken from the mines an average of 22 tons of water must be pumped. In some sections of the hard coal belt the ratio reached 70 tons of water pumped for every tons of coal brought from the mines. Chief features of the project would be to determine how much stream and surface water enters the mines and how It can be diverted.

CONGRESSMAN WILL SPEAK IN THIS CITY James A. Gildea and Insurance Commissioner Owen Hunt To Give Addresses Democratic Committeemen of this borough, at a meeting last night at headquarters in the Guarantee Trust building, were addressed by County Chairman Frank Dressier and Alfred Cherneskl, of Nanticoke. The committeeman also voted to join the Democratic caravan, headed by Senator Guffey and Congressman Gildea, which will tour the western end of the county on Monday. School Director Leo "Jim Pulas ki, Chairman of the Committee, presided. Others present Included James Tameckl, secretary; Chester Hynoski, treasurer; John Brennan, Frank Pulaski, Joseph Mahanoy, Andrew Strike, Peter Dziedyeicn, Peter Boleski and Harry Beier-schmitt.

Monday's tour, headed by Guffey and Gildea, was announced as follows: Montandon, Potts Grove, McEwensville, Tur-botville, 12:00, noon; Watson town, Milton Elks, Northumberland, Dalmatia, Hickory Corners, 4:30.. Mandata, Leek Hill. Rebuck, Herndon, 7:00, and Sunbury, court House, at 8:00. Another tour, scheduled for Tuesday, and headed by Congressman Gildea and Insurance Commissioner Owen Hunt, follows: Snydertown, 12:00 In afternoon; Elysburg, Paxinos, Marion Heights, Exchange, Wilson School, Mount Carmel, Oak and Third streets, Locust Gap, high school, Excelsior, Brady, Kulpmont, Trevorton, 3:15, and Shamokin, American Legion Hall, 8:00. Chinese Lines Tremble; Mediation By Britain and Germany Likely By Joe Alex Morris (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Japan's 14-month conquest of China whirled toward a smashing climax today.

Mediation of the long war, possibly by Great Britain and Germany, appeared to be a possibility. The vast Chinese defense lines trembled and appeared to be breaking from the Yellow River to the Yangtse valley and in the far south. Japanese naval and land troops squeezed the huge ring of defenses around Hankow, in the central Interior region, until it appeared to be giving way after months of powerful resistance. Japanese columns pushed their lines further westward along the Yellow River on the nothern salient of military operations which extend over probably 700,000 square miles of Chinese Territory. The swift drive Into Canton, center of British and other commercial interests In China, broke through the reinforced defense lines with startling speed.

Only nine days ago the Japanese troops landed at Bias Bay, notorious pirate stronghold 80 miles from Canton, to start an offensive which experts had believed would require many weeks. But the motorized Invading units, led by bombing planes, struck overland and by water with a force that prevented the strong resistance offered by Chinese defense armies in the Yangtse valley and along the Yellow river in the north. The result of those military operations indicated that the Japanese were in a more favorable position than at any time since they started their conquest It north China In August of 1937. For months they had gradually extended their military lines over three vast spheres along the Yellow River, the Yangtze and, In the last two weeks, in south China. Again and again they had appeared to overreach themselves and had been thrown back by the Chinese.

After every reverse, they came back reach out for more and more territory. In recent months it had been made clear that Japan had no Intention of halting the great eastern Chinese area a thousand miles from north to south and hundreds of miles from east to west was penetrated and the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek was destroyed. But the mere fact that the Japanese military was making rapid advances did not mean that objective was about to be realized. Chiang has persistently rejected all efforts by Chinese extremists to force him to mass his armies and meet the Japanese to trap him into a similar battle, which eventually his forces would lose because of inferior training and equipment. Throughout the conquest, Chiang's policy has been to rally the Chinese people to a strong feeling of national unity, to join the resources of the vast country in resistance against the Invaders and to withdraw his crack troops at any time it appeared the Japanese were about to destroy them.

Thus, he has been ready if necessary to surrender Hankow and Canton as he did Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping in maneuvers designed to increase Instead of weaken Chinese resistance In the long run. By withdrawing still farther Into the interior, by building up his armies and supplies and by keeping up widespread guerrilla warfare in many regions where the Japanese lines are stretched thinly over large areas. Chiang hopes eventually to see the conquerors destroy themselveswith whatever aid the Chinese may give them In that connection. But the Japanese have been expected to end their operations with (Continued On page Ten). Charged With Misuse of Machinery, Materials and Workers In New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N.

Oct. 21 (U.R Seventy-eight persons, includ ing the sister and son-in-law of Sen. Dennis Chavez, N. sur rendered today to provide bond guaranteeing their appearance In court to answer Indictments charg' in 7 them with criminal misuse of the Works Progress Administrations machinery, materials, and workers. The Federal grand Jury indicted 58 persons on a charge of conspiracy to violate the WPA appropriations code, which carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine and two years imprisonment.

It indicted 15 on a charge of diversion of WPA labor, falsification of payrolls, or diversion of materials. Conviction on these charges carries a maximum $2,000 fine and one year Imprison ment. Among the Indicted were Chavez's son-in-law, Assistant U. S. Attorney Stanley Miller, her sister, Mrs.

Anita Tafoya, and Fred Healy who was dismissed as New Mexico WPA Administrator, by Federal Administrator Harry Hopkins Sept. 24. The WPA appropriations code states that its money is not to be used for political purposes. But the Jury reported that violations affected nearly every section of New Mexico and favored no one political organization. It said that in one community "one particular political advantage was sought" while in another "political advantage or just an opposite type was sought" The time of the violations was not specified and copies of specific charges against the defendants were not made public immediately.

General charges of the Indictments said that threats were used to compel WPA workers to join indicted officials in unified political action. WPA employes reportedly were made to help in political campaigning while they were on the payroll. WPA workers were said by the Jury to have been used for a special constitutional amendment election last year. The amendment would have abolished the present law that county and state officials can serve two consecutive terms only. The amendment was defeated.

The Jury charged that WPA employes were made to join political clubs disguised as. social organizations and made to pay dues and buy tickets to so-called social functions. Those who failed in political serv ice, the jury said, lost their Jobs. MINER INJURED IN EXPLOSION John Gallagher, This City, In Pottsville Hospital With Face Injuries John Gallagher, 55, of 31 south Chestnut street, this city, was injured by an explosion In the Reliance mines at 10:20 o'clock last night. He is a patient in the Pottsville Hospital with lacerations of the face and eye injuries caused by flying bits of coal and dirt.

It Is believed that Gallagher, who was engaged with other miners In cleaning up after they had fired several shots, stuck his pick into an un-explcded piece of dynamite. He was given first aid and colliery attaches called the company doctor, A. B. Buczko, who ordered the Injured man to the hospital. Some of the smallest comets known to mankind are much larger than the earth.

Courageous Helen Kuaak, a-bove, 19-year-old business girl from Cleveland, roused 28 young women from their sleep and led them to safety when a fire broke out in the Clare Club, Baltimore, Md, residence club. Friends hailed Helen as a heroine for her coolness in the face of the emergency. FLASHES Ex-Scnator Joyce Dies PITTSTON, Pa. Former State Senator P. F.

Joyce of Luzerne County, prominent In politics here for many years, died today. Jdyce, a Republican, was 71. He represented the 21st Senatorial District in the Legislature for two terms, from 1920 to 1928. County Church Center PHILA The center of population for church members in the United States is In Northumberland County, according to Father James of Mt. Sinai, N.

missionary and member of the Episcopal Order of St. Francis. Bishop Francis M. Tait of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese or Pennsylvania predicted a great increase in church activity during the coming year. Guards Check Suicides PHILA.

Park guards were credited today with saving two persons who allegedly attempted to commit suicide. Joseph ODonnell, 35, was stunned by a 60-foot fall into the Schuylkill River from the Spring Garden Street bridge and Guard Thomas Doyle towed him to shore. An unidentified guard struggled in shallow water with May Dooney, 28, and finally succeeded in pulling her to shore. FRACKVILLE GIRLBURNED Putting Paper Into Kitchen Stove When Flames Ignite Dress Anna Naicey, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John Naicey, of Frackville, is in a critical condition at the Ash land State Hospital with severe bums of the abdomen and both legs, sustained when her clothing caught fire. Acceding to the hospital report, the girl was putting paper Into the kitchen stove early last evening when the flames ignited her dress..