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PAGE SEVEN SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949 British Vessel Strafed Again in mi i- Injured Baseball Umpire Submits to Charles Kline, Bloomsburg, who was seriously injured last Wednesday while umpiring a baseball game in Elysburg, underwent a delicate operation in Geislnger Memorial Hospital, Danville. Doctors said the Thieves Steal Heavy 'I' Beam at Ashland Ashland police are seeking to learn the identity of thieves who were required to work hard in perpetrating a theft. They removed a 20-foot steel beam from the site of a new garage being erected on Hoffman Boulevard by George Shoemaker, an automobile distributor. Chief of 73-Year-Old Man Sought by Police For Fleecing Widow CHICAGO, June 22 (U.R) Mrs. Reseda Corrigan rested today from an unsuccessful pursuit of her 73- operation was for relief of a depressed fracture of the skull over the right eye.

Kline was umpiring behind the plate when a foul tip from a bat Police John Snyder said the beam, weighing several hundred pounds, was taken from thi scene by a truck. Burgess Intervenes in Strike of Bus Drivers WILKES-BARRE, June 22 (U.R) Company and union officials were asked today to resume negotiations to end a 39-day-old strike of bus drivers on the local and inter-state lines of the Martz Bus Company: Acting under instructions of Burgess Samuel Brokenshire, of Plymouth, Councilman I. J. Hosey, of Plymouth, sent letters to- union and management representatives suggesting that negotiations be resumed immediately. Hosey said that he and Brokenshire were intervening in the dispute only in the public interest.

The bus company's local lines serve Wilkes-Barre, Hanover Township, Plymouth and Plymouth Township, while Its longer routes link Wilkes-Barre with New York, Philadelphia and intermediate points. year-old suitor and told how he wooed her continental-style: "He kissed me on the lips," she said. "Then he kissed my ears, my neck, my shoulders and my arms." There still was no word from Sig-mund Z. Engel, 73, identified as the veteran smoothie who bilked her out 6,000 Expected to Attend RR. Picnic Third annual picnic for employes of the Shamokin Division of the Reading Company will be held next Sunday at Lakewood Park, near Mahanoy City, railroad officials announced today.

Sponsors expect 6,000 persons to attend. Two special trains will be operated for the affair, which will be conducted for employes and members of their families. One train will be operated from Newberry Junction and will make stops at all points along the division, including Shamokin. The other train will be operated from Pottsville, by way of Port Clinton. Special contests for adults and children will be held throughout the day.

A. R. Nice, Is chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the annual fete. He said ice cream, coffee and soft drinks will be served by the company. The picnic will be a basket type outing.

4 crashed through his mask and struck him over the eye. The umpire was rendered unconscious by the blow and was taken to the hospital. Doctors said the operation was necessary to relieve pressure on the brain. The condition of the umpire is reported to be critical. raj i iim i 31 U.

S. Farm Boys To Work in Europe NEW YORK, June 22 (U.R) Thirty-one farm boys and girls sail on the Marine Shark today to work four and one-half months oil European farms to learn how other people live. Mi wnangpoo Kiver LONDON, June 22 (U.R) The British passenger-cargo liner Anchises was strafed for the second straight day today near Shanghai, its owners reported. The Blue Funnel Lines said today's attacking plane was not identified. Yesterday, Chinese Nationalist planes bombed and strafed the ship so severely that it was beached at the mouth of the Whangpoo River with at least four of Its 68 crewers injured.

There were no additional casualties today, the owners said. Dispatches from Hong Kong said both British and Chinese newspapers in the British colony were urging the British government to recognize the Chinese Communist regime as result of the air attacks. The South China Morning Post, leading British newspaper in Hong Kong, said that recognition of the Communist regime would give Britain "the rights of war neutrality." The latest attack on the Anchises came only a few hours after For- eigu Secretary Ernest Bevin lodged a strong protest against yesterday's "unwarranted bombing" with Chinese Ambassador Cheng Tien-si. AUAKrc C1 Thev'll return November 4 with the results. They took a good cross settion of America with them.

There was tail, bespectacled Alton Nelsen, of Dane- vane. in his wide white hat Ui LAST LOOK Milton Babich (left), convicted slayer of Patricia Birmingham, takes his last look at the outside as he enters Waupun, state prison. With him are, left to right, Lieutenant Frank Callan and Sheriff Herman' Kubiak. Babich, 19, sentenced to life imprisonment, will be eligible for parole, with good behavior, in 11 years. "I'll be an old man before I get out of here," he said.

AMERICAN PLAN PLANTATION ROOM Cocktail Lounge Grill NtW AUDITORIUM COFFEE SHOP -SODA BAR Concreting Completed On Berwick Area Road and high-heeled cowboy boots, although he's a cotton and rice farmer, who is going to Denmark. There was short, blond, Alter Van Eitel, of Greencastle, who's going to Belgium. Dark, quiet Coyte Sigmon, of Ca-tawaba, N. is going to France. The 31 were commissioned "grass Board Indicates No Mercy for Slayer HARRISBURG, June 22 (U.R) The State Pardon Board today indicated it probably would refuse to intervene in the case of Rufus E.

Keller, 30-year-old Allentown man, sentenced to die July 11 for the mutilation slaying of Mrs. Mary Avalon. Two members of the board said Keller's actions showed "beyond a doubt" that he was the type of man "which society should not tolerate." "This man doesn't mean much to the world," Lieutenant Governor Daniel B. Strickler, board chairman, said during the clemency plea by Philadelphia Firm Low Bidder on Dam Projects HARRISBURG, June 22 (U.R) Conduit Foundation Corporation, Phil Crews in the employ of Mahlon H. Livengood Construction Company have completed the pouring of concrete on the three-lane state highway project between Bloomsburar AMIRICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS Coach-and-Four Cocktail Lounge Mother of Mt.

Carmel Man Expires at Lykens Mrs. Alice Finton, 79, Lykens, mother of Harry Finton, Mount Carmel, superintendent for Lykens Collieries Company and former mining engineer and superintendent for Susquehanna Collieries Division of the M. A. Hanna Company, died in the home of her son, Malvin Finton, after a long illness. Two sons, a brother, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survive.

The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon in Reif Helt Funeral Home, Lykens. Woman Boomed for Post as Governor EUROPEAN PLAN ATLANTIC CITY'S POPULAR and Briarcreek Borough as the first phase of the new route between Bloomsburg and Berwick. The new road will be thrown open for traffic on Friday. In the meantime, Bloomsburg service clubs are seeking to have Governor James H. Duff serve as guest speaker for the proposed dedication of the new road on Wednesday, July 20.

Slgmund Z. Engel of $5,000 in her late husband's insurance money. Police wanted him even more than Mrs. Corrigan did. Reports were PRICE FAMILY HOTEL Keller's court-appointed attorneys, Randall W.

Snyder and Earnest F. roots diplomats" by Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen. They sailed under the auspices oi the Department of Agriculture's international farm youth exchange program to promote a better understanding among the peoples of the world. The youngsters were allowed a choice of the country in which to work, and most Ol them chose the country their forefathers came from.

The group includes: Charles Bas-tin, of Kentucky; William S. Lefes, Pennsylvania; James Alfred Shaffer, HARRISBURG, June 22 (U.R) Mrs Hannah Durham, an Allentown ex coming in from over the country on ecutive's wife, endorsed last night by adelphia, was the unofficial low bidder for construction of six temporary dams on the Schuylkill River. Conduit bid $750,650 to construct the dams, which will be used to float dredges pumping culm and silt from the river. The dams, to be removed after dredging is completed, will be located at a point near Pickering Creek, near Phoenixville; at the site of the old Pawlings Dam, north of Valley Forge; at the site of the old Catfish Dam, south of Valley Forge; near Birdsboro; near Douglassville, and near Pottstown. The Catfish Dam will be of the concrete crib type; the others will be of cellular sheet piling.

the fabulous fellow who for 50 years a GOP women's group as a guberna torial candidate, said today she con sidered "the election as good as won." and under 42 aliases has left a long line of penniless widows in his wake, while his frauds netted him Mrs. Corrigan, 39, flew home to her three children last night and The first extension courses offered by colleges was offered bv Delegates to the south central re gional convention of the Pennsyl Columbia University in 1889. Kentucky; Charles Billmyer Sperow, vania council of Republican women West Virginia, and Alice Mane last night endorsed Mrs. Durham un Ritter, both of Allentown. Snyder quoted from psychiatric reports in an effort to convince the board that the condemned man was "morally insane" and should not be electrocuted.

The attorney did not dispute psychiatric findings that Keller was legally sane and therefore should be held responsible for his acts. The Lehigh County district attorney's office opposed clemency. Keller pleaded guilty to the murder of Mrs. Avalon November 12, 1948, after a 10-hour drinking bout. He fled Allentown, but was captured 36 hours later outside Camp Hill while hitchhiking.

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Fluke, Harrisburg, was reelected president of the south central council and was installed last night by Mrs. Helen M. Schluraff, Erie, state council president. 1 i Reds Hint at Arrest (Continued from Paee One) violating the laws of the Czechoslovak republic by forbidding priests to take part in political activities which benefit the Czech "people's democracy," by persecuting priests who nevertheless have taken jobs to help the new state, and by condemning the Catholic action movement. If Archbishop Beran is arrested and Jailed, it will not be the first time he suffered for defense of his church in Czechoslovakia.

The Nazis threw him into the notorious Dachau concentration camp in June, 1942. He remained there until liberated by Allied armies in April, 1945. In recognition of his wartime devotion to his country and his church, the late President Eduard Benes awarded him the war cross of 1939, Czechoslovakia's highest military order. Monsignor Beran became archbishop of Prague and thus head of the Czechoslovak Catholic hierarchy July 6, 1942. His palace is almost across the street from the castle in which Communist President Klem-ent Gottwald resides.

She didn't take much money with her because Freddie had told her she didn't need any. and she had only $5.00 in her purse when she decided to give up the search. Meanwhile, authorities said that Engel was the same man who married Mrs. Pauline D. Langton, of New York, and allegedly relieved her of $50,000 in jewelry.

And at South Bend, a friend of Mrs. Annette Kubiak, 47, identified a photograph of Engel as the man who married Mrs. Kubiak and disappeared with $5,000 of her money. Maryville College, located at Mary-ville, was founded in 1918. 1 COSTS IESS jiS zr because it gm LASTS iplrf i LP Mm Isr QUALITY SINCE 8o7 fpflf PETER'S HARDWARE CO.

jW, 413 North Shamokin Street" CiiVfl CHARLES KREBS QSaaaf Market and Walnut Streets KORBICH LUMBER INC, 22 South Pearl Street WEEKEND SPECIALS PICARELLI'S MARKET promptly fainted into the arms of her 21-year-old son, John. He carried her into the airport office, where representatives of the state's attorney's office took charge. She explained she had been widowed for three years and helped support her children by singing at clubs and private parties. It was her voice, she said, that first attracted the man known as Engel. He told her he was a movie producer, she said, and offered her a job in pictures.

Not adverse to having her name in lights, the red-haired Mrs. Corrigan fell for the smooth line and after three weeks of arm-kissing, he proposed. "I didn't love him, I guess," she said. "I just admired his ideals. He had lots of money," she added.

"He was passing all kinds of checks." This the police didn't doubt. They said the checks were phony. Because he appeared rich, she said she wasn't afraid to "lend" him her late husband's insurance money He wore fine clothes and a Homburg hat," she reminisced. Shortly after he got the $5,000, the man disappeared. She began to worry a little.

But "Freddie," as her suitor called himself, telephoned her on the night of June 12. Freddie told her the money was "safe," and yes, he still wanted to marry her. She should meet him the next day in New York's Grand Central Station. There was a train leaving Chicago in an hour. So without exciting the children John, Orpha.

Annette, 17, and Reseda, 19 she went to get her money back. The children had no idea what happened to their mother and reported to police that she was missing. Mrs. Corrigan remained unaccounted for until yesterday when she telephoned Chicago authorities from a Newark, N. airport.

There was, she said, no Freddie when she got off her train at Grand Corner Market and Walnut Streets Phone 902 Woman Injured as Dog Seeks to Protect Her A rare instance of a "Seeing Eye" dog causing injury to its owner today was reported from Ashland State Hospital, where Mrs. Janet Stang, 30, Franckville, is being treated for an injury to her right ankle. The Injury was sustained at a Frackville street intersection when the dog stepped in front of Mrs. Stang to prevent her stepping to the street as a car approached. The woman tripped over the dog and fell heavily to the street.

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to attend a family reunion, was swimming alone while two companions. Faith and Jovce Snyder, Danville, watched. The girls saw Kocher disappear beneath the Moser's Special Summer SKIRTS Made From Famous Men's Wear Materials $3.95 Value surface of the pool, which is 100 feet deep in some areas. unnnoni mi i rrA linUUUULA I I LLC 10 ib. The Snyder sisters summoned aid Central.

She waited around for aim aner consmeraoie time a group at rescuers recovered thp snldipv's body from a ledge 13 feet below the surface of the quarry pool. LITTLENECK CLAMS CHOWDER CLAMS LOBSTER TAILS SHRIMP SCALLOPS FRESH FRUITS and PRODUCE several hours, looking for a slight, dnpper, white-locked man under a Homburg, and then walked to the Waldorf-Astoria, where Freddie said he was stopping. The Waldorf never heard of him. Then she began "walking, walking, walking," she said. "I walked over bridges many times.

It was then that I thought of suicide." 95 1 Area Young Man Begins State Police Training Albert V. Belkoski. Mount Carmel, Is one of 55 newly enlisted recruits for Pennsylvania State Police who yesterday began their training in Pennsylvania State Police School in Her-shey. The new recruits are the first enrolled under the plan to increase the state peace force from 1,600 to 1,800 officers. After completing their training in the state school, the recruits will be assigned to patrol duties on the highways.

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