Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 1

ARNOLD'S BOOK BINDERY, WASHINGTON INC. READING, Disiuateh tain Ljin Good Evening "X'F Vacation days for school CJl kiddies are rapidly ap- proaching. Weather Cloudy, probably show crs tonight and Tuesday; not much change In tem- perature. I Largest Circulation of Any' Daily Newspaper in Northumberland County VOL II- No. 201 olSPATCH (Kstab.

1886) Combined Sept. 18. 1933. With DAILY NEWS (Estab 1893) SHAMOKIN, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1935-12 PAGES UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE PRICE: TWO CENTS IMDS DWELT MM Clash in $500,000 Balm Suit Rakes Long's War Record GIVES NO HINT nrr nrcor 7yy COMPROMISE YOUTH DIES FROM SHOCK AS HE PICKS UP LIVEWIRE Robert G. Wenrick, Killed Instantly By Charged Wire in Northumberland Railroad Yards.

THOS. GILES LOSES LEFT im DUE TO BL00KL0T Former Tax Receiver Submits to Amputation of Member at the Shamokin Hospital. President Still Determined to Veto Patman Bill After Conference With Advisors. iii Newest of Huey Long's senate antagonists is Senator Millard E. Tydings, above, Maryland Democrat, who hurled a scorching challenge at the Kingfish to justify his World War record, after the Louisianan had alluded to the war work of President Roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy at $10,000 a year.

Tydings, a veteran, angrily warned Long that he might face something besides a vocal argument. Long did not serve in a military capacity during conflict. Poland Mourns Death Of Marshal Pilsudski MINERS PLAN TO MEET ALL CUTS IN COALPRICES Bootleggers Declare They Will Undersell Coal Companies. WILL DOUBLE CUTS Independent miners of Northumberland, Schuylkill and Columbia counties in a meeting at New Philadelphia yesterday indicated they will fight to the finish to maintain their position in the depreasion-born bootleg coal industry. Delegates from all sections of the three counties met yesterday to discuss the drastic price cuts in anthracite made by big producing companies.

Speakers who addressed the meeting declared that "for every dollar the coal companies reduce the price per ton, the bootleggers will make the price two dollars less." The price reductions in legitimately mined coal are said by the independent miners and truckers to be part of an organized campaign to put them out of business. The Holstrom bill, hearings on which were held at HarrLsburg recently, is also part of the plan, the men SISTER TOOK LIFE TEN MONTHS AGO Curiosity on the part of Robert G. Wenrich, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Wenrich, of Northum- berland, brought death by electrocution in the Northumberland clas- sification yards of the Pennsylvania railroad late yesterday afternoon i when he picked up a wire charged I with 2,300 volts of electrical cur- rent.

Wenrich and a companion, Robert i Weaver, were returning toward Northumberland after spending the the railroad yards. While proceeding toward the town and while trespassing on posted lands of the railway company, they encountered the dangling wire. Wenrich, despite the warning of Weaver of the likelihood of the wire being "hot," picked it up. There was a sharp flash and the youth fell heavily to the ground. Physicians and others summoned from Northumberland found that the youn? man had met instantaneous death.

Both hands were severely burned. The victim was a brother of Mary Wenrich, Northumberland, who about ten months ago ended her life by throwing herself in" front of a fast-moving Pennsylvania pas senger train at Northumberland. The parents and several brothers and sisters survive. Coroner Dr. A.

J. Ancerawicz was notified of the fatality and will conduct an investigation. THRIFT GARDENERS TO RECEIVE PLANTS Distribution to Be Made to Local Gardeners This Week. Distribution of cabbage plants and seeds to county thrift gardeners will be made during the next several days, it was announced by John Royer, Sunbury, in charge of the thrift garden work in this relief area. Plants and seeds arrived late last week at relief headquarters and distribution to Shamokin, Coal Township and other gardeners in this end of the county will be made Tuesday and Wednesday.

LOCAL MAN NAMED TO OFFICIAL POST George E. Grow Elected Vice-Presi dent of Assessors' The Pennsylvania State Association of Assessors honored the Northumberland county assessors' organi zation at the annual election held at namsourg taiuraay aiwrnoon. when George E. Grow, of this city, was eieciea vice president, oi uie state organization. R.

E. Hardinger, of Reading, was elected president; H. L. Ash, of Connellsville, was the choice of the state organization for the position of SeM-etary-treasurer. A delegation of 12 assessors from this city attended the annual convention with 130 representatives present from other sections of the state, includ ing assessors from the fourth to eighth class assessment districts.

1 I I MOUNT CARMEL WOMAN HELD ON FRAUDCHARGE "Faith Cure" Operator Taken Into Custody at Berwick. HAS MANY ACCUSERS Mrs. Ada Lord Hawk, Mount Carmel, widely known throughout the region as a "faith cure" expert, is under arrest and confined to a Berwick home under guard, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. From the number of complaints that have developed as a result of the woman's unexpected arrest, it is believed wholesale charges will be lodged against her in many nearby counties. The arrest of Mrs.

Hawk, well known to many Shamokin residents who had admitted to the woman's "pow-wow" and "faith" treatments, came at the home of Mrs. Samuel Petty, Berwick, where the woman was said to be engaged in the practice of her "arts." Mrs. May-nard Hack, Berwick, preferred the false pretense charges after she had paid Mrs. Hawk $75 for faith treatments without benefit. Armed with warrants, officers visited the Petty home to find Mrs.

Hawk bedfast, claiming to have suffered paralysis. That she claimed to be able to cure others and could not help herself, mystified the officers and they summoned physl- clans to examine the woman. The doctrs stated after the examination that Mrs. Hawk was merely suf fering from a mental condition and there was no real evidence of any paralysis. Due to the fact the woman was under the care of a trained nurse, authorities placed an officer on guard at the Petty home.

Soon thereafter other Berwick residents and persons from nearby places I appeared before Justice Jacoby, at I Berwick, to enter charges against the woman for obtaining money I under false pretenses. Some paid I as hich as t14fl fnr falt.Vi treat- i ments while others paid smaller i sums over long periods, they claim. The treatment consisted of a (Continued on 2nd Page, Col. 4) MAN BREAKS WRIST CRANKING MACHINE His left wrist fractured yesterday afternoon when he attempted to crank an automobile, Stanley Cer-culskie, 829 West Spruce street, was admitted to the Shamokin hospital for treatment. Cercluskie said the motor backfired when he cranked it.

He was treated at a physician's office before being taken to the hospital Autoists in Accident Car Overturns on Highway Near Rupert and Is Wrecked TWO BADLY INJURED Four persons, all residents of this city were injured a thrilling high way crash In the CatawLssa narrow. below Rupert, yesterday arternoon, when the car in which they were riding overturned. A list of the injured follows: Beverly Hill, 16, North Franklin street, concussion and fractured pelvis. George Cameron 21 South Second street fractured pelvis. Viotor Murdock, 23, South Fifth street, extensive cuts and bruises.

Eleanor Saburnie, 17, North Franklin street, laceration of leg. All the injured were treated at the Bloomsburg hospital. Miss Hill and Cameron are still patients at the hospital, where their condition is said to be serious. The others were dismissed after being treated. Five stitches were required to close the gaping wound in Miss Saburnle's leg.

The car carrying five young people was en route to Bloomsburg when the accident occurred. Mui dock, who was driving the car, told state highway police that he swerv ed sharply from his course after (Continued ou 2nd Page, Col. i) ASKS SPEED ON NEW DEAL LEGISLATION WASHINGTON. May 13 (U.R A fighting President was said today to have emerged from week-end conference with political advisors. Despite the great mass pressure brought to bear on the White House by extensively organized lobbies, and at the risk of the political animosity of veterans organizations and Father Charles E.

Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice, the chief executive was still determined to veto the Patman inflationary bonus bill. Moreover, President Roosevelt wai represented as weary of congressional dilly-dallying and would insist upon enactment of the entire New Deal legislative program at this session. His conferees were understood to have detected no indication of a willingness to compromise. Father Coughlin turned his guns upon the White House last night. Speaking directly to the chief execu tive with his radio audience listening, the priest urged Mr.

Roosevelt to sign the bonus bill, representing that "the millions who supported you" wanted him to sign, whereas those against the bill "seek to wheedle you into a fatal trap." Coughlin's words only suuplemenU ed pressure brought by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Thousands of telegrams continued to pour into the White House, man bill. The Veterans of Foreign Wars frankly seek to inspire lfiQQ, 000 telegrams to the President. At his week-end conference with Vice Presidnt John N. Garner, Senate Majority Leader Joseph T.

Robinson, House Speaker Joseph Byrns, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison and Postmaster (Continued on 7th Page, Col. 6) PARADEPRIZES ANNOUNCED BY FIREMEiYS BODY Long List of Awards Planned for Annual Convention. CITY MEN TO MARCH The list of prizes to be awarded firemen in the annual convention parade of the Six County Firemen's association to be held June 20 at Tamaqua as the closing feature of the sessions, has been announced, by the firemen and the host borough. Several Shamokin and Coal Town ship companies will enter the competition. The list as announced and forward ed to all member companies, is as follows: Fire company, outside Six County association, with largest number of men in line and band, courtesy prize, silver trumpet.

Largest uniformed fire company, 40 or more men accompanied by band or drum corps, first prize $100, second $50. Uniformed fire company with not less than 40 men or more, with band or drum corps, coming greatest dis tance, first prize $100. Best appearing company In line, not less than 40 men accompanied by band or drum corps, first priza $50. second $25. Uniformed company with best band in line, $50.

Uniformed company with best bugle corps, $50. (Continued on 2nd Paw. Cnl i CLUB TO DISCUSS CHILD WELFARE Educational Program to Feature Meeting of Kiwanls. Under-privileged children and provisions for their care, will be the major subject of consideration at the weekly session of the Klwanis club on Tuesday evening at Penn Lee hotel. The program will be In charge of the under-privileged child oonuniti tee, comprised as follows: Vosburgh, chairman; Charles E.

Jones, Dr. Robert Vastire, liar rla Renninger and Dana Young. The siH'dal uwain will of educational interest, in view of the fact that under-prlvlleKw child work is Project No. I of the clviq Jervice organization, CORONER WILL HOLD INQUEST IN DEATH CASE official Inquiry Into Death of Mrs. Kelly Slated for Tonight.

ARREST IMMINENT An inquiry into the death of Mrs. Daniel Kelly, this city, run down and instantly killed by a hit-and-run motorist on the Shamokin-Sunbury state highway on the night of April 23, wili be held this evening in Kulp-mont city hall, with Coroner Dr. A. J. Ancerawicz presiding.

Corporal Raymond G. Schwartz, of the state highway patrol and a state trooper are expected to present evidence to warrant an arrest in connection Corporal Schwartz and Trooper Jones, the latter specially assigned from state police headquarters at Harrisburg to assist in the investigation, are understood to have assembled much, evidence in connection with the fatality. They will present suffcient of this to the coroner and jury tonight to establish facts necessary for the holding of an unnamed person on charges of causing Mrs. Kelly's death and with failing to render assistance after an accident. At the same time inquests will be held in three other motor fatalities which occurred in the county in recent weeks.

These are in the deaths of Mrs. LydTa Mutchler, aged Tharptown resident, who was run down by a car near the state police barracks at that place, Lester Shipe, of Trev-orton, who was run down on the Shamokin-Trevorton road on the night of April 29, and Miss Frances Selter, of Sunbury, who was fatally injured when the automobile in which she was riding with her brother and two friends, struck a pole at (Continued on 7th Page. Col. 4) ENGINEERS MAKE PROJECT PLANS Mount Carmel Federal Project Will Be an Enormous One. State bureau of forests and waters engineers, with engineers from Mount Carmel borough and major coal companies, conferred at length over the past week-end on the proposed million dollar creek-cleaning and covering project for Mount Carmel, to be designed to prevent future flooding of the lower sec tion of the borough and for the re of unsanitary conditions which have prevailed many years.

aiAOI Harry Jones, Mount Carmel engineer, who it thoroughly familiar with the situation, prepare all projects as one major plan. These plans will be rushed to early completion and when approved by all Interests Involved, will be presented, to the state and federal authorities with application for funds necessary for the work, which will require many months to complete and give employment to large numbers of men on relief. sales In Increasingly large numbers, Ea business place cooperating in me iiuih viiy suits win nave un display in their windows large ban- PATIENT RALLIES AFTER OPERATION Thomas B. Giles, 103. South Shamokin street, former tax receiver, prominent in fraternal organizations and one of the community's best known men, at the Shamokin hospital Saturday submitted to the amputation of his left arm above the elbow, the result of an embolism which threatened his life.

Mr. Giles was acutely stricken at his home last Thursday morning while dressing preparatory to transacting business in connection with Qie collection of delinquent taxes, he family physician, discovering the existence of an embolism, which blockaded circulation in a major artery of the left arm, ordered him at once to the hospital, where Dr. Reese and staff used everything known to medical skill in an effort to dissolve the blood clot. The embolism, however, failed to yield to treatment and with the circulation of the lower arm and hand completely blockaded, the menace of gangrene developed as did the possible release of the blood clot, which In that event would have passed to the heart and caused sudden death. The combination of these circumstances prompted the hospital surgeons and medical friends of Mr.

(Continued on 7th Page, Col. 2) legioFladies perfect plans FOR 'POPPY DAY' 9 ive Thousand Poppies Received Today By Local Auxiliary. MADE BY VETERANS Preparations for "Poppy Day," to be observed here Saturday, May 18, went forward rapidly today with the arrival of the memorial poppies at American Legion Auxiliary headquarters. The little red flowers, 5000 of them, came from Aspinwall hospital where they were made by disabled World War veterans, comrades of the men in whose honor they will be worn. The popples are being counted and arranged in readiness for distribution to the workers who will offer them on the street May 18 to be worn as a tribute to the World War dead.

All work in connection with the observance is being carried out by volunteers so that every penny received as "Poppy Day" contributions can go into the welfare fund of the legion and auxiliary. The poppies are cloth replicas of the wild European poppies which blossomed along the battle front and )n the war cemeteries during the World War. It was this flower, growing between rows of wooden crosses above fresh battle graves, which inspired Col. John McCrea to write his famous poem, "In Flanders Fields." The flower is now recognized throughout the English-speaking (Continued on 7th Page, Col. 2) MVS' LOS ANGELES, May 12 Well, big headline today says Barbara is marrying a Count, or a Duke, or something, and we get all excited and start as though she was a ward of the people.

It's her money. It's her life. She must pay a tremendous lot of taxes to our government. She deserves some right. Her fortune was made from len-cent purchases, so nobody got stuck very much.

So if she tvants to pick up where the U. government left off and fi-I nance all Europe, it's her own business. Yours, due. MNuhl Si odictU. In Enterprise Workers Vote to Remain Idle Ardent letters in which Lord Revelstoke, left, wealthy young British nobleman, declared his love for Angela Joyce, above, Miss England of 1930, and asserted that she was "driving him crazy" created a stir in court In London, where the actress' $500,000 balm suit was being tried.

Miss Joyce filed suit after Lord Revelstoke married Miss Flora Fermor-Hes-keth. PRISONER WINS FREEDOM DUE TO WIFE'S ILLNESS i Peter James, Sentenced for Robbery, Freed on Parole. FIVE SENTENCED Peter James, fhis city, who last week pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods, involving plunder from a series of local burglaries, and who had been sentenced to serve six months in the county jail, was paroled by the county court at Sunbury this morning because of the serious illness of his wife. Elias Lahr, Trevorton bachelor and trucker, arrested some time ago by state patrolmen on charges of overloading his truck, tMay pleaded guilty to the charge, admitting the truck was 1100 pounds over the limit allowed under the motor code. The man said it would be cheaper for him to serve time in Ji ll rather than pay the fine and costs and he was sentenced by the court to ten days back of the prison bars.

Niles Kilgus and Ralph Maier, of near Watsontown, pleaded guilty today to charges of stealing chickens from farmers in the ural section (Continued on 2nd Page, Col. 6) Four Local Injured UNUSUAL TWISTS IN DAY'S NEWS LINDEN, N. J. OI.R) Confronted with the possibility of meetings of the Friends of the New Germany t.h- ctrPPt from eanh other. nZvnr mv1p -i Mr-Manns cancelled thrvrmit issued to the former meeting under the "vice and immor ality" act, and denied the applica' tion of the latter.

NEW YORK (U.R) The post office gets a raw deal In the latest version of the chain money letters here. The idea is to deliver the letters by hand. NEW YORK (U.PJ Bivalves in the drawing room is the latest possibility in home aquariums. Dr. C.

C. Clark, of the University of New York, has made possible the keeping of oysters, clams, starfish and crabs in the house by perfecting a series of small tanks cooled by electric refrigeration and filled with filtered sea water. NEW YORK (U.R) The New York Central is urging customers to walk to increase its passenger business. between here and Beacon for the hikes and picking them up on the way back late in the afirnoon. The rate is less than a cent a mile, you 'furnish the shoes.

Nation Further Shocked By News of Illness of Dictator's Widow. BURIAL THURSDAY WARSAW, Poland, May 13 (U.PJ Poland, in deep mourning over the death of its national hero, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, was further shocked today when his grief-stricken widow was seized with a heart attack. Physicians feared her condition was serious. The nation was bowed in grief. Markets and the universities were closed.

Factories shut down at noon. Pikudski's body will lie in state at Belvedere Palace tomorrow and the people will file by to pay him tribute. The mourning extended to other nations. Although Pilsudski, actually dictator, held no other government position than minister of war and inspection-general of the army, his death was treated as though he had been a president or ruler, and flags were half-masted both in France and Germany. Pilsudski, called the greatest of all national heroes, died last night.

The nation was advised of his death in an official communique early today and the country, including those of political factions who had fought him bitterly in life, mourned him sincerely. He had dedicated himself to the cause of Polish freedom in boyhood, he had gone to prison under the Czar and, in the World War, under the German emperor for persistance to his ideal, he had proved himself a brilliant military leader during the World War and, immediately after it, during the campaign In which he thrust back an army of the new Communist republic. In his last pain wracked days, suffering from cancer of the liver and stomach with which he had been ill for days, he was at peace because he had just seen inaugurated a new constitution he believed would make the country strong, and insure its (Continued on 7th Page, Col. 7) BOARD RULES ON LOCAL UNION CASE The executive board of District No. 9, United Mine Workers of America, has made final ruling on the dispute between the members of Potts and Bast collieries locals as to Jurisdiction over the loading of culm from a bank at the rear of the high school building at Ashland, and the loading of coal from a stripping operation at Arlstes.

Both locals claimed Jurisdiction over the two enterprises. The board has ruled that inasmuch as the culm loading project is west of the barrier pillar beneath the school building at Ashland. Potts local shall have jurisdiction. The Aristes local, in charge of the source of stripping coal at that place, is given Jurisdiction over the loading at Ashland, where the coal is placed oboard railroad cars to be shipped to a washery near Mahanoy City, to be prepared for the markets. HEIGHTS MINER IS BADLY HURT Firing of Shot in Coal Hole Reputed as Cause of Mishap.

Michael Falsossl, 18, Marion Heights, was painfully injured Saturday while at work in a coal hole nerw that place. According to available Information, a shot was fired in an adjoining coal hole, resulting in the shot breaking through into Falsossi's working place, with the result he was struck by flying coal and badly i cut. He Is under the care of a sur gcon at his home. Conflicting Reports Made Concerning Dispute Over Wages. COMPANY SOLVENT Conflicting reports concerning the walkout of employes at Enterprise colllf Saturday were current here toda.

A cemmittee of Enterprise local union members, headed by President Albert Hartman, told the News-Dispatch company officials had -efused to guarantee current wages of employes as previously agreed upon. John Oshinskle, district board member of the United Mine Workers, told this newspaper that current wages of the men had been guaranteed by Scranton officials of the Northumberland Mining company. This confirmed the statement made to the News-Dispatch by company officials Saturday. The miners committee declared today they were opposed to "secrecy" which surrounded the present financial difficulties of the company, and that they wanted to see the company's books. Attorney Fred B.

Moser. retained Saturday to give the employes legal advice concerning their status, was quoted by Oshinskie as saying that the Northumberland Mining company is complying with all requirements of the law in their case. Members of the Enterprise local union met last evening and voted to remain away from work until "assured current wages would be paid and a definite understanding arrived at on back pays." Judge Watson of federal court, advised district headquarters of the United Mine Workers that the Northumberland Mining Company is solvent. I Thrift Day Sales Planned By Merchants for May 16 Holiday of Bargains Scheduled for This Thursday by Merchants; Stores to Display 'Thrift Day' Banners. ners carrying tne inscription, The road yesterday ran its first Day." Clal train for hikers, dropping them Merchants announced today that off in the morning at varifius points Thrift Day, which has become an established merchandising event in I Sharnokin, will be celebrated here Thursday, May 16, it was announced today.

Thrift Day means bargain day In this city, since-the merchants co- operating in the sales event mark down merchandise for real holi- clay of bargain. Thrifty housewives have been taking advantage of these i the coming sales program will out- 'do previous events of Its kind and elaborate preparations are be-1 ing made to handle large crowds of buyers, i.