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72. MOUNT CARMEL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935. PRICE TWO CENTS. UNO UND GUIL TY OF MANSLA UGHTER FO Friends Meet in Common Cause Convicted Robins Arrive In Sub-Zero Weather CASE CONSIDERED 66 HOURS BEFORE VERDICT RE A CHED TAKES HIS OWN LIFE IN PHILA. BUSINESS PLACE HAUPTMANN FRAMED IS CONTENTION OF DEFENSE Alexander Watkins, 46, Member of Former Shamokin Family Shoots Self Illness of Juror Speeds Decision; Conviction Carries Penalty of 6 to 8 Years; Defense Counsel Asks New Trial Reillv Seek To Prove That Ladder Lumber Not From Defendant's Attic BELIEVED DESPONDENT DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT FACES TRIAL AGAIN IN MARCH FOR DEATH OF ANOTHER KELAYRES FOE '5? ffS FISCH FRIEND GOES ON STAND Burial To Take Place At Shamokin On Saturday Afternoon POTTSVILLE, Feb.

7. (U.R) Sub-zero weather hovered over this. region last night and early this morning. This morning the ofifiacl government thermometer at Johnson's dam, at Gordon, registered 18 below. In the Shamokin area thermometers varied from eight to seventeen degrees.

At six o'clock the thermometer registered 4 below at the Colonial colliery; 4 below in the west end of town and 3 below at the Locust Summit breaker. At Fourth and Oak, and at the Item office, the thermometers registered zero. It was still 3 below at the Summit breaker at 7:00 o'clock. An hour later the mercury went up to zero. Sub-zero temperatures also prevailed in Midvalley and Aristes.

At the Midvalley store it was 6 below at an early hour this morning. Desipte the intense cold two robins, harbingers of spring, were reported seen by Joseph W. Butker, of this city, and DanielJEverett, of Shamokin. Butker, employed on road repair work, said he saw a robin early yesterday morning perched on a tree near Chestnut and Second streets. It had a yellow beak and a reddish-orange body.

Everett saw a robin yesterday afternoon bobbing along through several inches of snow. It seemed unmindful of the cold and scampered Prosecuting Attorney Wilentz Fails To Shake Testimony of Dr. Hudson Joseph J. Bruno, erstwhile Republican boss of Kline Township, today was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Frank Fiorella, 65, one of five men slain in the mining town of Kelayres on election eve. Bruno's.

wife and his two daughters, Alveda Bruno and Mrs. An Believed by authorities to have been despondent because of unemployment, Alexander Watkins, 46, member of a well-known former Shamokin family, took his own life yesterday at Philadelphia, Watkins, police were informed, was in a cafe at Broad and Lycoming streets with friends shooting darts and when an employe, William Lee, JOSEPH J. BRUNO toinette Billig, were visiting with him FLEMINGTON, N. Feb. 7.

(U.B Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense fought bitterly today to establish a theory that their client was "framed" and that a board Irom which the Lindbergh kidnap ladder was constructed did not come from his attic, as the State contends. Through Dr. Erasmus Hudson, physician and fingerprint expert, IMPERSONATORS informed the group that he was Mrs. Connors at the courthouse las night, made a more complete examination today and reported that her condition was weaker. She rested on a oat which was moved into the Jury room when deliberations were resumed this morning.

Shortly after Dr. Heller completed his examination the other jurors gathered around her cot and agreed on the verdict within a few minutes. Bruno, together with his sons, Alfred and James, his brother, Phillip, his nephews, Arthur and Paul, and a brother-in-law, Anthony Orlando, were taken into custody during the week that followed the shooting in the small mining community where the Bruno's Republican regime was bitterly opposed by the Democratic faction under the leadership of Carl and Daniel Mac-Aloose. Counsel for the seven petitioned the Schuylkill County Court on December 4 for writs of habeas corpus. Six days later while a hearing on the petition was still pending the grand jury returned true bills on each of the five counts of murder against Bruno and his relatives.

the defense set lortn tnat mere WILL REMAIN IN COUNTY PRISON ready to close for the night, the former Shamokin resident sauntered into a nearby room. Lee told authorities he heard a shot in the room and upon investigating, he found Watkins dead. Watkins, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Watkins, will be buried at Shamokin.

The body is scheduled to arrive there at 3:15 p.m. Saturday. in nis ceil wnen wora or the jury's agreement reached the jaU. Bruno was brought into court at 11 :50 a. m.

Eight minutes later the verdict was announced. The verdict of voluntary manslaughter automatically carries a possible sentence of not less than six years and not more than eight years. H. O. Bechtel, chief defense attorney, immediately motioned for a new trial and arrest of judgment.

This legal procedure prevented passing of sentence and argument on the motion will be made later in the month. Bruno stood as the verdict was read and, showed no emotion. As the jury was being polled he whis was only one nail hole in the ladder section, and Jiot four as the prosecution has declared. The matter of the nail holes was Important, because Arthur Koehler, the State's wood expert, said he had matched four of them against holes In an attic beam, and that, nails through the yard In search of food W. Stratiff to Complete Unexpired Term; J.

Witkuskie, Ranshaw, Gets 2 Mos. fitted in them perfectly. Dr. Hudson was not shaken by Attorney General David T. wilentz, INJUNCTION RESTRAINS NEW UNION COASTER HURT IN A COLLISION WITH AN AUTO biting cross-examination, and he left the stand at 11:35 A.

still At the end of the long line of strangers who appeared to aid his defense, his friends of arfcfree days were prepared to testify for Bruno Hauptmann. Here nre three chatting while waiting to go on the stand: Carl He'nkel and his wife Greta, Hauptmann's playmate; and Henry Uhlig 'right)," an intimate o4 the prisoner and Isidor Fisch. Insisting he saw only one nail hole In the section when he examined it In March of 1932. A heated debate over fingerprints Charged by Mary Montilio with assault and battery, and using profane language, John Zelinski pleaded nolle contendere, and was sentenced by Judge C. K.

Moiganroth to pay the costs in Criminal Court at Sunbury yesterday. Walter Stratiff, of Sunbury, and Jack Witkuskie, of Ranshaw, were returned to the county jail yesterday by Judge C. K. Morganroth, after having been arraigned on the charge of impersonating officers of the State Liauor Control Board, brought out the fact that Dr. Hud-eon found "500 prints" on the lad' Anthracite Miners Ordered To Andrew Klacik, 12, Receives MR.

AND MRS. MERGES ARE MARRIED 35 YRS. der through his silver nitrate process, although the State experts had been unable to find any at all at Cease Interfering With Glen Alden Employes Injuries of the Back and One Leg pered to his counsel. To prevent any possible demonstration, Judge Palmer ordered the court room cleared of all persons, except court attaches, when the jury filed in. Special Prosecutor Albert L.

Thomas announced Bruno would be tried at the March term of the Schuylkill county court for the murder of William Forke another victim of the shooting. Bruno's wife and daughters remained in an automobile outside the jail when Bruno was taken to court. The prisoner was allowed to see his family for a few minutes before he was taken back to the county jail, where he will be confined pending disposition of the motion for a new trial. Twenty ballots were taken by the Jury. The first ballot stood at seven for second degree murder and the beginning of its tests.

At the time of his arrest Bruno had lived in Kelayres 45 years and was justice of the peace, a county detective, president of the school board, and director of the First National Bank of McAdoo. Because of Bruno's position as a county detective, Distriot Attorney Leroy Enterline withdrew from the case and the attorney general's office at Harrisburg named Albert Thomas as special prosecutor. When the trial began on January 7 Bruno was confident that he would be acquitted. During the selection of the jury he smiled and waved to acquaintances in the courtroom, conferred with his attorneys, and exchanged pleasant remarks with his wife and his 18-year old daughter. Alveda, who sat with him throughout the trial.

His self-assurance remained unshaken until shortly before the commonwealth closed its case and the time neared when he would be PAST EXALTED RULERS' NIGHT HERE TONIGHT The Government insists that Hauptmann wore gloves when he Anniversary Is Celebrated With Dinner at Home of Couple on South Vine One boy was hurt and another committed the kidnaping. escaped injury in a coasting accident five minute recess was ordered and also carrying concealed deadly weapons. Charles Podregel declared that on December 2 he was intimidated by the two youths. Stratiff, who -was out on parole when Dr. Hudson was excused.

Henry Uhlig, who was Isidor WILHES-BARRE, Feb. 7. (U.R) Judge W. A. Valentine, of Luzerne County Court, today issued an injunction restraining the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania from picketing and interfering with employes of the Glen Alden Coal Company.

The Injunction order read: "Now, February 7, the Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, its officers, members and associates and all oth from another sentence, at Uie time, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Merges of 235 South Vine Street, observevd their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary last evening. Dinner was served to the guest who had assembled to extend their felicitations to this well-known couple. The guests were Mr.

and Mrs. was returned to jail by the court to serve out in full the sentence for which he had been paroled. Sentence on the present charge was Elkdom Will Honor Former Rulers; Entertainment After Lodge Session here late yesterday. Andrew Klacik, 12 years old, 429 east Avenue, received injuries of his back and one leg but his condition this morning at Ashland State Hospital was said to be "good." Young Klacik with the other youth, whose name could not be ascertained today, was coasting on the north Hickory street hill when a collision With an automobile driven by John Adzema, Mount Carmel, occurred. The aufeo was traveling up the grade and the boys' sied hit between suspended.

Witkuskie was given Fisch's friend in America," today began a recital of the activities of Fisch which the defense hopes will clear Hauptmann of the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Uhlig followed Dr. Hudson and was on the stand only a few minutes before the noon recess Interrupted his story of a trip to Germany he had made with "poverty stricken fur cutter." Fisch died In Leipzig, four months after he and Uhlig arrived in Ger two months. five for acquittal.

The jury remained split in this manner throughout deliberation, never voting for a first deeree murder verdict. The illness John Merges, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Merges, Matthew Merges, Frank Merges, Miss Elizabeth Merges, Miss Two cases were nolle prossed by the District Attorney's office. One er persons are hereby enjoined and restrained from doing any act or thing Intended to induce employes of the Glen Alden Coal Company bo leave their employment with said company at Its various mines in Past Evalted Rulers of Mount Carmel Lodge No.

356, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, will be honored tonight by Elkdom. The exercises, slated for the Elks' Catherine Merges, Mrs. Robert Lu- was a charge of larceny and receiving stolen goods. The other kens, Miss Pearl Horoschak, Fos ter Richards, David Smith, Frank was a charge against Joseph Shidi-sKi oi tneit oi a siu battery. Home on north Oak street, will onen rhA two thC ijUKeme county.

many. Klacik was taken by the motor' at 7:30 o'clock with a regular session of the lodge. Past Exalted Rulers will Carmel, Henry bmlor and daughter, Miss Mae Omlor and Miss Bridget called upon to deny the charges against him. The outlook of the trial apparently grew darker as step by step Thomas built up the case, beginning with t.h finrUrt of newly firpH in the Bruno home shortly after the shooting and reaching the climax when several commonwealth witnesses testified they had seen the former county detective shooting into the crowd from zhe window of a second floor bedroom. When the commonwealth rested defense counsel called witnesses who (Continued on Page Seven) 1st to two doctors for examination He testified, however, to various enterprises, including a pie business, Under the terms of the injunction, members of the United Mine Workers of America, the recognized union, will be permitted to go to and then removed to the hospital.

of Mrs. John Connors accelerated the compromise verdict of voluntary manslaughter. The jury which was given the case at 5:58 p.m. Monday had deliberated 66 hours before reaching a verdict It was feared for a time that a mistrial would be declared because of the Illness of Mrs. John Connors, Juror No.

2, who suffered a slight attack of appendicitis. Dr. James B. Heller, who treated be assigned by Exalted Ruler David in which Fisch had a hand. Burke of Shamokin.

London to the various offices. Hauptmann, who insists Fisch left a shoe box with him containing work without running the gauntlet The festivities will include lunch PATROLMAN UNDERGOES Charles Herrold, who is out of the Eastern Pen on parole was before Judge C. K. Morganroth or. a charge of breaking and entering the A.

P. Store at Milton. The court deferred sentence until he confers with Parole Officer Powcli of the pen. H. S.

McOarrah was fo.md not guilty of a charge of breaking and entering on oath of Elmer Rhip- NO NEW OPERATIONS IN SCHUYLKILL STRIKE the ransom money found later in his garage, looks to Uhlig to prove his statement that Fisch had all the eon, a program of entertainment, featuring Kitty Cleary, of the Musical Clearys of radio fame, and Mart Barrett, impersonator and comedian. ANOTHER OPERATION ransom money in 1932. of daily skirmishes with pickets. mrsTpTbreslin expired today The witness remarked that Fisch Every Elk is invited to attend to Reset All was reported as quiet today night's gala affair. (Continued on Page Seven) Delroy Anderson's Leg and Strengthened With Silver Plate.

a man. The Past Exalted Rulers Include: Another charging violation of the George Keefer, James Wightman, along the strike front In the Sccuyl-kill County area of the lower Anthracite region. No other mines nor strlppings were added to the list of operations idle Penn Kemble, George Womer, James State Highway Patrolman Delroy M. Anderson of the Mount Carmel J. HolUster, A.

R. Curnow, J. A. Dun' It's A Great Old World State Liquor Control laws is scheduled to come up today with trial of Charles Karshinokl, of Shamokin, charged with manufacturing and possession. The govern kleberger, Frederick Wagner, Harry FATHER KILLED 10 DAYS AFTER DEATH OF SON sub-station, recently Injured when in connection with the walkout M.

Kehoe, Michael F. Judge, T. E. nis motorcycle was struck by Mrs. P.

J. Breslin, one of this city's most prominent residents, died this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at her home, 130 soii Hickory Anthony, Thomas W. Martin, Clar truck at William Penn, today was ment agents allege he was encaged SEMI-MONTHLY SOCIAL AFFAIRS BYREBEKAHS brought about by truck drivers. Picketing was said to have been only light. The operations still in idleness in reported to be making more pn in moonstuning.

street. gress toward recovery following an ence E. McGee, Ray J. Howells, Elmer H. Williams, O.

J. Powell, Richard B. Thomas, John Andrews, John F. Reilly, James J. Brennan and Morris Miller.

Further Information will be given cluded Mahanoy City, Maple Hill, other operation at Locust Mountain Hospital, Shenandoah Heights. tomorrow. i William Perm, Knickerbocker, Lawrence and Buck Run mines and William Penn, East and His left leg, fractured la the accr COAL TRUCK SINKS 40 FT. dent, has been reset and a silver FRATERNITY AUXILIARY MINSTREL plate has been placed in It. Wm.

Maurey, Mahanoy City, Dies In Blast; Son Killed Coasting TORONTO, Feb. 7, (U.R) Mike Kravtz, 37, will appear today on a charge of assault with intent to do bodily harm. Kravtz is alleged to have asked his wife for a kiss and when the request was granted, he is said by police to have bitten off her nose. Mrs. Kravtz was rushed to a hospital where surgeons attempted to restore her nose.

West Bear Ridge, Morea, Reppelier, Buck Run, St. Clair, Fidelity, Primrose and Lawrence strlppings. TO ELECT OFFICERS PARENTAL EDUCATION First Session Will Be Held This Saturday Following Lodge Meeting REHEARSAL Ten days after his ten-year-old PARTY Mr. and Mrs. William Weisslnger, Four Shenandoah youths mlracu Election of officers will mark a CLASSES TOMORROW monthly meeting of the Ladies west Third street, gave a birthday lously escaped death late yesterday when their coal truck sank 40 feet son, David, was fatally injured in a coasting accident at Twelfth and Mahanoy streets, Mahanoy City, William Manrev.

32. of Mnhnnov Auxiliary to the Mount" Carmel Rehearsal for the Clover Hose party last night In honor of their daughter, Emma, who observed her Another of the weekly series of Fraternity Club' tomorrow night In Minstrel will be held tonight at 7:30 classes in Parental Education or ninth birthday anniversary. Masonic Hall, it was announced to as a result of ground giving way in the vicinity of an independent mining operation near Ellangowan. Stanley Gludock was the only one o'clock the Hose House. A full at Child Guidance will fall tomorrow Minerva Rebekah Lodge No.

245, Mount Carmel, will inaugurate a series of monthly social affairs. The affairs, to be held every second Saturday night of each month, will Include regular lodge session, entertainment, practice work for A tasty luncheon, was served. The tendance is requested. City losf his life in a gas explosion at the Packer No. 5 mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Lost Creek.

afternoon and evening. following young people attended LONDON Specialists abandoned ed as hopeless today their effort to find out what caused the whistling heart which impelled Robert Lock-year, a saloon keeper of Whimple, Devonshire, to kill himself. Every time Lockyear's heart beat, it would The Minstrel is scheduled lor pro day. A tea towel shower Is to be an other feature of the session sched' uled to start at 7:30 o'clock. hurt and his injuries were not of a serious nature.

He was lacerated The afternoon session at 2:30 o'clock is to be held In the' rooms Sally Hick, Jean and Blanehe Baily, Gloria and Blanche Gloria duction on March 4 and 5 in the Mount Carmel High School auditor John Sahutsky, 55, Mahanoy City, the degree team and refreshments. Snyder, Margaret Martz, Edith Ev about his head and face. Workers in the neighborhood low ium. of Miss Gladys Pautz, south Oak street, and the evening session will The first is scheduled for this ert, Theresa Bottarl, Jacqueline Maurey'a buddy, was injured in the accident, receiving burns of the face and hands. He was admitted to the whistle so loudly that people in the ered ropes into the hole to rescue Saturdav evening.

Weissmger, Grace, Jack, Emma, and be in the social quarters of Grace the group. Officers particularly urge all June Aurand, Margaret M. McHale, Lutheran Church, west Avenue. 100-YEAR-OLD same room couia near it. An autopsy failed to disclose the reason for the whistle.

members of the degree team to at Classes, it was again pointed out PREDICTS ALL COUNTRIES tend. Ruth McCarthy, Ramona O'Reilly, Marie Sassoni, Arline Evens, Grace Boyle, and Emma, Lois, Mary Lou, today, are open to anyone Interest' OPERATIONS The following persons submitted to operations today at the Ashland State Hospital: Elmer Moyer, Schuylkill Haven; Helen Dewey, Girardville; Jacob Sabator, Shamokin; Clement Schiavone; Mount Carmel, and Mrs. Foney Starr, Klingerstown. ed in the discussion of different WILL ABANDON GOLD WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (U.R) Ashland State hospital.

According to reports, the accident is said to have occurred about 9:30 o'clock in a breast In the Buck Mountain vein on the second level of the mine, where robbing work was in progress. Maurey and Sahutsky are said to have climbed the manway to the face and Gerald Weissmger. WOMAN DEAD problems confronting children. PHILADELPHIA -Thomas Hughes, 59, an unemployed bartender, was believed today recov Frank A. Vanderlip, ex-president of the National City Bank of New York, KIDNAPING SUSPECT ESCAPES FROM POLICE There is no charge for admission, The teacher is Margaret Steely.

predicted today that the "gold bloc" countries eventually would abandon INDICTED IN DEATH OF SCHOOL TEACHER ering from a hiccoughing malady from which he has been suffering for more than 100 hours. Hughes Mrs. Maria Marksman, aged 100 veasis. 10 months and 13 days, died yegan hiccoughing Sunday and has from Infirmities ox age yesteraay ai the gold standard. "I don't believe the world will e-return to the gold standard," derlip told the Senate Agriculture YORKVILLE, 111., Feb.

8 U.R) Jesse Doyle, 34, wanted in connection With the kidnaping of Edward G. the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Mine Investigation To Be Started Next Week GREENSBURO, Feb. 7 (U.R) Earl Zahn, of 1220 Burton street, been unable to take nourishment. Physicians, who took X-ray pictures of his throat, said Hughes appeared to be Improving.

William Lea therm an, 25, was Indict committee "export clinic." Freeland. Bremer of St. Paul, escaped from federal agents last night after the airplane in which they were taking ed on a charge of murder today in She was a native or Runmney, Solution of the currency problem or the breast, approximately two hundred and sixty feet above the gangway, shortly before the explosion, which was heard by fellow-" workmen along the gangway, occurred. The force of the explosion hurled Maurey against the face of the breast, causing Instantaneous death. Rescue workers were.

elayed in recovering his body untu late In the afternoon as the result of the man the death of Viola Dennis, Donora Morganshire, South Wales, and came is tne nrst essential in the restore' toon of trade, he said. him to St. Paul, was forced down, it to the United Stats in 1883. HARRISBURG, Feb. 7, U.

"High tariffs are only secondary. LONDON The Archibishop of York condemned the custom of singing "Amen" at the end of hymns. In an address at the an A thorough investigation of work PARTY They were really enacted to protect ing conditions in Pennsylvania coal The Grace Daughter Sunday me goia stocks." school teacher. Miss Dennis was killed during an automobile ride with Leatherman last August IT. Leatherman contended that she tripped and fell as she left his parked machine on a lonely highway.

He will be placed on trial March 4. School Class of the Grace Reformed nual banquet of the Incorporated mines, the second of the year, probably will get under way next week, "The gold standard worked pretty well for a Vanderlip said, Church gave a surprise birthday par guild of church musicians, he added: way becoming blocked with dabrif following the explosion. 40-year-old mining statutes as all bituminous and anthracite properties in the state. Michael Hartneady, State Secretary of Mines, is conducting a departmental Investigation of mine law enforcement at the 500 collieries in the anthracite district. His inspectors were ordered to file reports before Feb.

18. The Downey resolution directs a ty in honor of William Hildenbrand, -out it gradually got loaded with re John J. Downey, chairman of the mines and mining committee of the State House of Representatives south Chestnut street, last night. sponsibilities which it couldn't "If a tune is good it comes to an end of itself. To put on an 'Amen' afterward is redundant.

And It's always rather a bore." Tie party was held at the Hilden BABY BOY said today. stand. Vanderlip advocated adoption of a price index system of measurine val was revealed today. Doyle was described as an alleged member of the Alvin Karpis-Fred Barker gang which federal officers have set out to exterminate. First news of his escape came as federal forces mobilized to hunt for him.

Doyle escaped from a hotel where he was taken alter the plane landed. He leaped through a window, jumped Into an automobile and fled as agents sought to shoot him down. The prisoner was said to have been captured in Kansas City. The plane, piloted by Joseph Jacobson, landed on the E. L.

Matlock farm south of here because of engine trouble. brand home and was attended by the members of the class and their The Schuylkill county representa tive revealed the resolution he in husbands. A baby boy was born to Mr. and ues. Instead of basing the dollar on a certain number of grains of gold.

ALFARATA HINKLE HOM Alfarata Hinkle, 12, daughter of A light luncheon was served and troduced in the House, empowering NOTTCM TO ADVERTISER A3 advertising copy la. ended for Saturday's aue must be la our office not later than 4:09 o'clock Friday af- ternoon. Va exceptions will be made. a his committee to Investigate the Mrs. James MoCullion, of Shenandoah, Tuesday night in the Ashland State Hospital.

The dollar should be regulated so that It will have a constant ourchas- January 21 colliery disaster at Gil- probe of the Gilberton disaster specifically but allows a more extensive investigation to determine whether the disaster was due to "failure on the part of the laws of (Continued on Page Seven) Constable and Mrs. Joeepb Hinkle, of 46 south Spruce street, baa returned from the AshlAnd Btate Ho-pital where, a week ago, aha wirfmit- everyone spent a most enjoyable evening. According to the number of candles on the cake, Mr. Hildenbrand observed his 21st birthday anniversary, i ing power," he said, advocating a berton, in which 13 persons were commodity dollar" based on the The baby is a grandson of Mrs. Gertrude McCullion, prominent resident of Centralis.

killed and 72 injured, will allow a check-up of enforcement of the 1926 level. lliMHliiitftlf mi ted to an appendicitis optrauoa..