Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 1

F. wmmm Shamokin the. Recognized Trading Center Dispatch Classified Advertising Brinn Positive, Remits Quickly Fists flew at yesterday'! ses-Ion of the miners' convention. of the mm -ft IBS' Region CIRCULATION STEADILY INCREASING SOLELY ON ITS MERITS AS A NEWSPAPER, WITHOUT PRIZES, PREMIUMS OR CONTESTS (g(g)01rllGI THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SPECIAL WISE AND ILLUSTRATED SERVICE SELECTED HIGH GRADE FEATURES AND COMICS VOLUME XLV No. 292 OLDEST HSWSPAPEB IN SUAUOJUt SHAMOKIN, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1932 TWELVE PAGES MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU 07 CIRCULATIONS PRICE TWO CENTS Poor Board Rejects Bid On Prison-Made Clothing Back to Work TEAM I 2 SCALDED BY S' 0C0I01W CAB OVERSEERS PLAN TO BUY ALL SUPPLIES IN DISTRICT Principals in Blows Exchanged At Convention Of District Miners JM.

Directors of Poor Refuse to Consider Bid of State Welfare Department to Supply Apparel Made by Prison Labor AWARD NUMBER OF OTHER CONTRACTS The directors of the Shamokin and Coal Township Poor District were faced with an unusual situation at the monthly meeting of the. board last evening, when opening bids for wearing apparel for inmates of the almshouse, It wag found tnat me State Welfare department was the only one to furnish quotations, the clothing having been made by prison labor. Not wishing to be subjected to such criticism as might be heaped upon them should they award the contract to the state department instead of placing the business with a local merchant, the directors immediately voted to reject the bid and to purchase such articles as overalls, shirts, underwear, shoes and socks in the open market, giving preference to Prince Gustav Adolf Oscar of Sweden, and his bride, the former Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Cobur, who were the principals in the first royal we" ding in Republican Germany. The ceremonies were attended by eiehty-three membersof royalty including the Prince's father, the Crown Prince of Sweden. Prince Gustav and his bride are in direct line to the Swedish throne.

Shamokin and Coal township deal- ers. I Other successful bidders at the meeting last evening were the Sha- mokln Packing company which" firm was awarded a contract for supply- ing. whlje iZ3SBOWkgS) Basing company received the n-" tract for furnishing- breatf" at" toe i O'NEILL IN ROLE OF OWN ATTORNEY IN COURT TRIAL Northumberland County Prize Fighter -Bandit Handles Own Case at Trial at Towson, on Charge of Burglary TO BE TRIED LATER FOR KILLING JAILER TOWSON, Oct. 20 (INS) Serving as his own attorney, Charles O'Neill, alias James McCloskey, alias MeCauskey, of Atlas, went on trial before Judge Duncan In circuit court today on a charge of burglary. Later he will be tried on a charge of murdering William I-, Hunter, 72, turnkey at the Pikesville; Jail.

Kunter was attacked and fatally Injured when O'Neill and Calvin Tyson, of Shamokin, fled from the jail last June 7. Tyson has not been captured. The two were being held in jail pending trial on the burglary charge when they attacked the jailer and took his keys, the police said. Before their escape the police told the court Tyson confessed he broke into a garage, a filling station and a store and was accompanied by a Joe Miller. "Did Tyson say I was the Joe Miller," asked "No, he dldnt," the witness re- 'j.

if 'v- iL' i wearing: dress shirts when he was arrested, a blue one and a white Later these shirts were identified by the owner of the store which had been entered. the witness testified O'N 1 1 1 claimed a man gave him the shirts because he was out of work. Date for the murder trial has been left open pending Tyson's capture. 84 STUDENTS AT TREVORTON NIGHT-SCHOOL Record Attendance Marks Initial Session Held in High School Building at Trevorton Last Evening CLASSES TO BE HELD TWO TIMES A WEEK Eighty-four students attended the opening session of night school at Trevorton last night, the attendance being 38 more than the number who enrolled for the school when the registration was held last week. Classes will be conducted in Trevorton high school every Tuesday and Friday from 7 to 9 o'clock.

At the close of the term commencement exercises will be held, with certificates being awarded to those who complete the required work, Th commercial department had the largest enrollment, thirty-eight pupils reporting for study in office practice, commercial law, typing, shorthand and bookkeeping. Twenty-one men began studies in the vocational departments, white 15 students enrolled reported to the domestic science department for instruction In the art of cooking and sewing. Brutal Murder Of almshouse for the next three months. The bid of the latter firm was based Estranged Wife ENGINEER AND FIREMAN HAVE A CLOSE CALL FROM DEATH Patrick F. McGrail and El mer Rishe Suffer Painful Though Not Serious Burns When Pipe Breaks, Re-leasing Hot Vapor ESCAPE BY CLIMBING THRU WINDOW OF CAB An engineer on Reading engine No.

1914 and his fireman escaped probable death by scalding when they climbed through the open windows of their moving engine after a steam fitting broke loose inside the cab between Tharptown and Sha mokin at 9:15 this morning. Tfte engineer, Patrick F. McGrail. of 28 South Shamokin street, suffered burns of his legs, while his fireman, Elmer Rishe, of 42 South Shamokin street, received burns of his face and right ankle. Both are confined to their homes.

Finding a foothold outside the cab, McGrail reached up with his hands, caught a hold of the roof-and pulled himself to the top of the cabRishs, unable to see due to, the steam sinxing mm in me iace, neia on to the side of the engine. A brakeman, Harry A. Diezel, of 18 North Shamokin street, who was riding on top of a box car ahead of the engine, stopped the train at the risk of his life by climbing down the end of the box car and throwing the anglecock with his foot. The engine was dragging a string of empty gondolas eastward along the main line of the Reading1 railway when the pipe broke loose at a joint, quickly filling the cab with steam. Unable to reach the throttle or Turn to Page Seven MISSIONARY WORKERS HEAR FINE REPORTS Sessions of Women's Mission ary Society of Lutheran Synod in Progress at Trinity Lutheran Church This City The ninth annual convention of the Women's Missionary Society of the Susquehanna Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, opened yesterday in Trinity Lutheran Chuich, this city, with corporate communion administered by the pastor, the Rev.

Dr. Wi'liam E. Fischer, assisted by the Rev. W. M.

Allison, of Mount Carmel. One hundred and twelve delegates partook of the sacrament. The business session opened im mediately following the communion ceremonial, with Mrs. Loutae Lesher, of Millheim, in charge. Mrs.

H. C. Welker welcomed the delegates in behalf of the entertaining society and Mrs. Paul Keller, of Nittany, responded on behalf of the convention. Reports from th synodlcal dele-Turn to Page Seven Royal Wedding Wide Hunt on for Tilderri Weaber of Palmyra, After Mate is Found With Head Almost Severed by Knife in Clump of Bushes Near Orwigsburg A state-wide search was under way today for Tilden Weaber, of Palmyra, wanted by state police and Schuylkill county detectives as a suspect in con nection with tiie atrocious murder of his wife, Mrs.

Kate Weaber, whose mutilated body was found at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in a slump of bushes about 100 yards from the Gateway Inn, at the top of the Red Hill, just east of Orwigsburg on the Philadelphia- pike by Claude Ben-singer, a timber truck driver: Bensinger, who had entered the edge of the clump of woods, saw a pair of tortoise rim eyeglasses lying on the ground and proceeded further into the woods where he came unon a shambles with the frightfully mutilated body of the woman lying under bushes with her head almost severed and numerous stab wounds about the face and upper part of the body. From all appearances the vic tim of the foul crime had crawled 15 to 20 yards after she had been murderously attacked. Weaber, for whom the police are searcning, and his wife had been es tranged for some time. Mrs. Weaber had been employed recently as nousekeeper for Charles Kline.

S5 of 22 North Fifth street, Reading. Kline was tanen in charge late last night by state police and Schuylkill county detectives at the Reading railway snops at Keacung where he Is employed and taken to Pottsville for interrogation. The hunted man Is said to be traveling in a light two-door sedan, bear ing Pennsylvania license L-8932. Identification of Mrs. Weaber was made by her sister, Mrs.

Ella Sieger, of Strausstown, who was summoned to a morgue at Schuylkill Haven after light company receipts and an insurance receipt were found in the woman's purse, the latter found lying near the body. Mrs. Sieger was accompanied by her husband, Paul Sieger and her son, Guy Sieger. The latter, following the identification, informed state police and detectives he had seen Tilden Weaber and his five-year-old daughter on the state road between Hamburg and Strausstown late yesterday afternoon presumably about 4 o'clock. His presence there would have been possible as the murder was discovered shortly after 3 o'clock.

Checking up at Palmyra' by telephone, officers learned Weaber had returned his daughter to the home of a relative late yesterday afternoon and immediately disappeared. He had not been located until noon today and police believe he Is guilty of the murder. State police in re-enactin the crime as they have assembled fact3, a urn 10 rage seven I Debate Over Report of Com mittee on Rules and Order and Demands for Changes Chief Item of Business at Today's Session of Convention SHENANDOAH, Oct. 20 (INS) Debate over the report of the committee on rules and order and de mands for changes in the report occupied the greater portion of today's convention session of District No. 9, United Mine Workers of America.

Two changes or additions were made to the committee's report be fore approval was given. One decreed that no delegate may speak moke than once on any one ques tion until other delegates who wish to speak have been heard. A time limit of five minutes also was placed on all speeches from the An addition to the report ruled that 30 per cent of the delegates must demand a roll call before it may be called. Heated debate developed over the demand of Fred I. Blase and other anM-adminlstratlon spokesmen that the order of business" on appeals and grievances be moved from eighth place to second position for earlier consideration.

Another move which was quash-Turn to Page Two WIDOW'S SUIT FOR DAMAGES HARD FOUGHT Question of Whether or Not Man Died From Effects of Auto Injury is Issue in Case Against Local Bak ing Company PHYSICIAN TESTIFIES INJURY CAUSED DEATH Whether or not an injury suffered by Edwin F. Dougherty on June 7, 1929, was the cause of his death more than fifteen months later was the issue in a hard fought legal battle in the county court yesterday and today, with the Merchants Baking Company of Shamokin as defendant. After introducing the testimony of a number of eye-witnesses to the accident, the plaintiff presented Dr. E. C.

Williams, Port Trevorton physician, who had attended the victim, and who testified that he was convinced a blow on the back, suffered in the accident, was the direct cause of death. Dr. Williams followed Mrs. Iona Dougherty, the widow and the plaintiff, on the stand. She had testified as to her husband's earnings, per year, which she gave as $1,500 in the marble monument business and $800 as school teach er, a total of $2,300.

She also pre- Turn to Page Two Loree, was to provide a direct low-grade route between. New York and Pittsburgh for through traffic between New York Harbor and, the West. The principal proponents of the proposed line were the interests controlling the Delaware Hudson, headed by Loree. It was vigorously opposed by the Pennsylvania, Baltimore Si Ohio and New York Central on the ground that the territory proposed to be served was already adequately served by them and that the new line would simply divert traffic from them. The route of the proposed main Turn to Page Seven 9 Police Called to Prevent Bloodshed as Administration Forces and Insurgents Engage in Rough and Tumble Battle at Sessions at Shenandoah Harsh words, fists and even chairs filled the air in Mahers Hall at Shenandoah late afternoon during the second day's session of the bl-ennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America, District No.

9, with police rushing into the convention to prevent bloodshed when a riot started as administration forces supporters of President Mart F. Brennan clashed with the anti-administration forces, headed by Frederick I. Blase, of Locust Gap. At the peak of the fistic and other encounters, President Brennan ad journed the sessions until this morn ing. Throughout last evening the situation was reported tense with every indication police will be close at hand during the remainder of the convention.

The fighting started when the re port, of the credentials committee was'. read at 2 President Brennan ordered delegates' badges 10 oe distributed and announced that none should be given to 50 delegates reprerenting local unions who Turn to Page Two SHINE TARR IS REFUSED A PARDON Colored Youth Serving Ten- Twenty Years for Murder of Ted Purcell Refused Pardon by State Board at Harrisburg PREPARED HIS OWN APPLICATION Quentin (Shine) Tarr, local col ored youth serving from ten to twenty years In jail for the murder late In 1925 of Ted Purcell, during a quarrel at the of Market and Spruce streets, must continue a prisoner in the county Jail, the state board of pardons decided yester day in refusing to grant Tarr's own request for a hearing. In an application he had carefully prepared in his cell in the county all, Tarr appealed to the board to permit him to appear and plead his own case for pardon or parole. He contends his aged mother badly needs his aid at home and in his ap plication pledged to immediately get work and support her, at the same time indicating he had been given assurances of employment in the event of pardon. Tarr was convicted of the second degree murder of Purcell during the February term of criminal court and Turn to Page Two MILK STATIONS CLOSED SUNDAY No Free Milk to be Distributed on Sabbath Double Supply on Saturday Mrs.

Jessie Smith, administrative nurse in charge of distribution of milk in Northumberland county, announced this morning that the two local depots would be closed on Sunday, with the applicants receiving a double supply of milk Saturday morning. According to the state nursing executive the supply allocated to Northumberland county is to be Increased shortly which will enable the distributors to accommodate additional applicants in need of further nourishment. The hours et for the distribution of the milk at the local stations has been designated ai from 7 a. m. to a.

m. with the applicants asked to co-operate by applying within the scheduled hours. The prompt return of the bottles properly cleansed Is also advocated by the committee. Miss Jocelyn Lee, well-known American film player, is shown as she arrived at New York from Europe on the S. S.

He de France after a vacation on the other side of the Atlantic. Miss Lee is one of Holly wood's younger set. She will re sume her work at -the studios im mediately. MAN FATALLY STRICKEN ON VISIT HERE Leslie B. MacMulIen, of Saugerties, N.

Y.f Succumbs Suddenly at Home of Wife's Parents, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas E. Richards DIES IN FEW MINUTES FROM HEART ATTACK Death came without warning and with tragic suddenness to Leslie B. MacMulIen, of Saugerties.

N. at 10:30 last evening at the home of Mrs. MacMullen's parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Thomes E.

Richards, co-pastors of the Mt. ZIon Congregational Church, residing at 130 East Elm street, where the young man was a visitor for the night and was due to acute dilatation of the heart. Mr. and Mrs. MacMulIen and their three-year-old son, William Leslie, arrived here late yesterday after noon from Wilkes-Barre, whither they had been yesterday on a busl ness trip and to which place they had motored from their home in Saugerties where Mr.

MacMulIen operated a large garage. Members of the Richards family were assembled in happy reunion at the home in honor of the overnight visit of the MacMullens and were engaged in pleasant conversation in the living room of the home, with Mr. MacMulIen speaking when he was suddenly stricken, collapsed in a chair and lapsed into unconscious ness. A messenger was hastily despatched for Dr. Sidney Kallaway, who made immediate response to the summons, prepared to administer stimulation.

In less than a minute after the physician arrived, Mr. MacMulIen died, his death coming as a great shock to his wife and the members of the Richards family. Mr. MacMulIen, a young man of fine physique and an outstanding citizen of his home community, had suffered a slight illness two weeks ago but at the time it was believed to have been a slight attack of indigestion. It Is now believed he suffered a heart attack, although it was not fully recognized as such at the time because of his almost immediate recovery and restoration to his former excellent health.

Therefore, his sudden death last evening was a most tragic one. i Leslie Brink MacMulIen, son of William and Barbara Short Mac-Mullen, was born at Saugerties, N. January 14, 1898, where his father is a prominent building contractor. He was educated there and some years ago engaged in a major garage enterprise, his place of busi on a 20-ounce loaf while the competi tive bid of another firm was for a 22- ounce loaf. The difference in the bids was less than a fraction of cent per ounce.

In commenting on the Indifference of-local merchants who failed to Turn to Page seven EIGHTY AI WORK UNDER TALBOT PLAN Others to be Assigned 4 Soon as Tools Can be Pro vided Applicants for Aid Express Willingness to Work 6. FEDERAL FUNDS USED IN RELIEF WORK HERE Despite widespread criticism and resignations of various county emergency relief boards because of delays and evasions on the part of the state administration In the distribution of Talbot relief funds. Rev. H. J.

Behney, head of the local welfare group was extremely enthusiastic this morning over the splendid manner in which the relief program is functioning la this community. Although deprived of TaBt aid for October because of failure of the county organization to submit information concerning the unemployed during the period when the county griiip was m. the process of organization, the county has shared in the allocation of the funds derived thru the loan made to the state by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A total of; $4,500 was allotted to this district for the month of September with an additional sum amounting to aimfwt $5,500 for the current man making a total of almost $10,000 Statistics have "been furnished the state department since the county group has effected an organization which will mean that the November appropriation from the Talbot fund will pt assured. More than 200 food orders were Turn to Page Seven r.

OUR WEATHER MAN Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy tonigh Friday partly cloudy and w- GIRL'S STORY LINKS FATHER WITH KILLING Child of Five Unwittingly Gives Facts Which May Lead to Solution of Cruel Murder of Woman YOUNGSTER TELLS OF QUARREL IN WOODS PALMYRA, Oct. 20. (INS) A child of five lisped a story for police today, and unwittingly linked her father with the slaying of his estranged wife. As authorities throughout the state sought Tilden Weaber, a tale they believe may explain his wife's death fell simply and naively from the lips of Betty, youngest of eight Weaber children. Mrs.

Kate Weaber, the mother, was found in the woods near Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, late yesterday afternoon. her throat slashed. In the presence of David P. Palmer, chief of Palmvra nolice. little Betty today unfolded the Turn to Page Two BOY RUN DOWN BY AUTO TRUCK AT KULPMONT Alfred Budner, 6, in Hospit al in Serious Condition as Result of Unfortunate Ac cident This Afternoon Unmindful of traffic, six-year-old Alfred Budner, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Michael Budner, of 1120 Popular Street, Kulpmont, darted Into the main thorofare at Ninth and Chestnut Street, Kulpmont, and was run over by a truck at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. The driver, Guerney Klinger. of Shamokin, an employe of the Shamokin Fertilizer Works, said he was unable to stop in time to prevent the accident. The boy ran from a narked ma chine directly Into the nath of Khnger's truck.

After temporary medical treat ment was rendered by Dr. Joseph T. Wasilewskl. of Kulnmont. the Injured bpy was broueht to the Shamokin State Hospital, where his condition Is regarded as Y)4 ROGERS C.

C. Refuses To Okay Big Railroad Project Construction of 344-Mile Railroad Line Across Pennsylvania From Allegheny City to Easton Denied by Interstate Commerce Commission Called for Expenditure of $178,000,000 BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 20 Yon folks might think yon are big folks up there as a nation, but a1 you don't mean anything down vj) here. I haven't seen one word of news printed about the United States since I left Brownsville, and that includes Spanish or any kind of paper. The Englishmen have rot this country tied up tighter than Borah has Idaho.

Has the election been called off or Just what has happened? The big news down here is the argument between Ireland and England. There is a big mess of both of 'em down here. Yourr, to?" It. McKtthi WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.

(INS) A $178,000,000 railroad project was rejected today when the Interstate Commerce Commission denied the application of the New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railroad for authority to build a 344-mile line across Pennsylvania from Allegheny city to Easton. The commission said that present and future public convenience and necessity had not been shown to re quire the construction and operation of the proposed road. This application has been before the commission since March 30. 1925. The object of the proposed line which was sponsored fcy L.

F. ness having been the terminal and halting point of several large inter-urban bus services. He was one of his home community's best known most popular and highly respected young men and was prominent In Masonic circles. Mr. MacMulIen was married eight years ago last June to Miss Ruth Richards, daughter of the Revs.

Thomas E. and Mrs. Josephine Richards, the former having officiated at the marriage of the young Turn to Page Seven.