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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS MONDAY, JANUARY 2 2, 1034 Robbed Obituary Foreign News Briefs Smoke Fells Four at Blaze Pershing Bust Racket Bared; Car Kills Man; Driver Sought 4 Motorists Arrested Over Week-End SIEGEL'S fat for Juniors for Spring! r)i three weeks. He was a native of! Cerwensville. Pa. He served with' the Eighty-fifth Pivuion Artillery; overseas. His wife, Edith Greuscl O'Brien: four sisteis, Mrs.

John Crowe, of Binghamton, Y. Elizabeth and (Ella O'Brien, of Johnson Citv. N. and Mrs. Mary Mons.

of'Kvlcrs-: Mother and Son Are Carried to Safety HAZEL PARK. Jan. 21 A mother and her eight-year-old son. overcome by dense smoke, were rescued from their blazing home at f'herrv St. Sundav nicht bv Royal Oak Township firemen, two; of whom also were overcome.

The mother, Mrs. ern Roberts. 40 years old, was released from the Roval Oak I'rivate Hospital alter treatment and the son. Barton. was kept in the hospital for observation.

The firemen overcome 1 were revived at the scene by artl-1 ficlal respiration. I Pnl.ai.la -ft 1 1 1 tr in liAr I I home after the fire had been ex- i hinist for i he D. S. R. for the last tinguished refused to leave the am- 1 ea', be conducted at the bulance and neighbors declined to Hillerton Ave at 8:30 take care of her during the night.

m. Monday and at MsiUHon firemen reported. i Church. ebb Ave. a nd Iwelfh at 9.

Burial will be In Ml. Smoke Hampers Search Olivet Cemetery. The blaze was discovered bv Born in Ireland 56 years ago, Mr. neighbors about 8:30 p. m.

and: Judge came to Detroit 3 years when Fire Chief Raymond ego. He died Friday. His wife, 30 vears old. entered the building Marie: two brothers and three aia-with Firemen Harold Lannan. 31, tcrs, all of Ireland, survive him.

Generals' Names Used Without Consent Continued from Vage One one of the principal complainants in the case. Squier asserted that Layton had executed his signature to 15,000 letters without his knowledge or consent. Rover said. Explaining the relatprl in him. Rover said that the sculptor Dykaar, then in economic straits, had suggested to Gen.

Squier last spring that the bust he had made of Gen. Pershing be purchased by public subscription and presented to the National Gallery of Arts here. Layton was engaged to contact between 25 or 30 prominent citizens and raise about $5,000, considered enough to purchase and install the statue, Rover said. Instead, the District Attorney asserted. Layton had printed about 30,000 sheets of elaborate stationery with a heading inscribed "John j.

Pershing Portrait-Bust Committee. Gen. George O. Snuier. chair man.

Squier asserted, Rover said, that he had given no authorization for the printing of such stationery, or for the signature of his name placed at the end of the letters dispatched to prominent men throughout the country. Squier charged that not only had Layton attached his signature without authority but that he had received mall addressed to him (Squier), and opened an account in a local bank, in which, he understood. Layton had accumulated a considerable sum of money, upon which Layton had Imposed the restriction that only he could draw checks. Further, Squier asserted, Layton directed that all return maii be sent to him at the Shoreham Hotel. In which, he maintained, Layton had neither a room nor an office but had all mail forwarded to him from there to his home.

Victim of Bandits Is Believed Dying town. and a brother. Bernard M. O'Biien, of California, survive him. Capt.

Edward J. Siebert Requiem high mass will be sung for Capt, Edward J. Siebert, re-1 tiled Fire Department captain, at a. m. Monday at Nativity of Our' 'Lord Church.

MrCleiUn on, raim.1 Aves. A private ceremony at the home, S1K2 Gratiot Ave, will precede the mass. Siebert was connected with the Detroit Fire Department for 27 years. Since his retirement in 1916 he had been a member of the Retired Firemen's Association. Cupt.

Siebert, who was 7 years old, suffered a fractured skull when he fell at his home Jan. R. The injury resulted in his death Thursday. He is survived by his wife. Hat-tie; a son, Harold a daughter.

Mis. Lawrence J. Griener; three grandsons, a brother, John, and lour sisters, Mrs. Clara Mueller. Mrs.

Columbus Trnmbley, Mrs. Robert Dalton and Mrs. Martha Cornell. Miss Lucille M. Spanier Miss Lucille Spanier, twenty-two-year-old patient at Eastlawn Sanatorium, Northvllle, died sud- denly early Sunday.

Funeral serv ices will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at the A. E. Crosby Mortuary, 13308 Woodward Ave.

Burial will probably be In Park View Memorial Cemetery. Miss Spanier had been confined at the hospital nearly two years and when she wag stricken Sunday was preparing to return home. Born in Detroit, she had attended the public schools. She had been working for Woodull Industries, until 111 health forced her to leave the company. Her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Lewis; two sisteis, Mrs. D. A Rlgby and Mrs. Carl Allen, and a brother, Harold, survive her.

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namM hrluw A hit-run driver caused the death of one man, four motorists were arrested and several suffered minor in a series of week-end traffic mishaps. The victim, George Staniloul, 46, of 457 I.enora Ave. River Rouge, died early Sunday In Delray Industrial Hospital of Injuries sustained at Schaefer Highway and Bassett where he was struck by a motorist who fled, according to police. Standout was found lving In the road by Kdward Merta. 1S51 South Edsel who took him to the hospital.

The injured man died without regaining consciousness, police said. They reported the only clew which thev had to work on was broken headlight glass at. the scene of the accident. Acciiaed of Iavlnj Scene Waller Elder, 41, of 2933 Hillger was charged by police with leaving the scene of an accident, after fleeing from McClellan and Charlevoix Aves, where he had struck and overturned a car driven hy Otto Koselleek. of 3003 Cop-lin according to police.

Elder, they said, failed to stop for Charlevoix a stop street. He was ariested a short time later HIII-ger and Charlevoix Aves. by Patrolmen O. Weirauch and R. le.

Elder was released at the request of Recorder's Judge John A. Boyne to appear Monday morning. Koselleck'g wife, Ida, who was riding with him, suffered Injuries to her shoulder In the accident. She was given private treatment and her condition was reported as not serious. James Finn.

28. of 548S Lincoln was booked as a drunk driver, police said, after his car had crashed into another driven hy Leo J. Beaubien, 45, of 5870 Wlnslow at Kirby and Trumbull Aves, Beaubien's wife. Elizabeth, 45. and Mrs.

Eleanor Sheen, 52, of 3329 Trumbull passengers in Beaubien's car. suffered minor Injuries, police said. Seized an lim itless Driver Frank Malinowski, 23, of 9339, Dyar was arrested as a reck-! less driver, police said, after he had struck a machine at Canlff and Mt. Elliott Injuring one person. The driver of the other car, po- lice said, was Rudolph Brldemayer, 41, of 6(Mfi Charles St.

A passenger In his car, Alex Botch, 2fi, of 91)62' Dyar was taken to SI. Francis Hospital, Harntramck, where he was1 treated for minor Injuries. Anthony Kraft, 22 years old, 4784 Sprlngwells Ave, was taken to Receiving Hospital late Saturday: night suffering a possible skull frac-' ture. lhe car in which he was a passenger struck a safety zone post at Michigan and Cicotte police reported. Kraft, and his sister, Virginia, 18 were riding with Julius Mlynek, 22! of 7173 St.

John Ave. According to police their car was struck and forced against the safety zone post by another car driven by Edward Tabaczka, 18. of 5193 Thirtieth St. Tabaczka was held on a charge of reckless driving. Strikes Safety hup Peter Warner, 27 years old, 12045 Sorrento was taken to Receiving Hospital with a fractured skull after the car he was driving had struck a safety zone at Jefferson and McDougall Avenues.

The other two occupants of the car also were Injured. i Ijiwrence Oman, 31 years 5091 St. Claire went to Receiving Hospital with head ami Richard J. Strode, 32 years old I 19 Barlett Highland Park, was taken to Evangelical Deaconess Hospital with lacerations of the face and arms. The men were re- turning home from work.

I rKIS (A.P.) Economic discontent was manifested quarters of France Sun-I, v- Six hundred miners demand- and work" paraded the lteets of Ales, while nationwide demonstrations by Government apainst pay cuts threatened Ti complicate the task of police. Ilreadv occupied with turbulent critics of the Stavlsky Pawnshop frandal. VIENNA (UP.) Three judjres h- recently passed the death pear altv which led to the first hanging in Austria for many years, have annlied for sick leave. It is beloved they fear that they may be nsked to hear a. forthcoming trial political bombers which also might call for the Infliction of a death penalty.

LONDON (U.P.) The draft of ihe Anglo-Soviet commercial treaty under preparation, The Sunday Tteforee said it had learned authoritatively. The article added that all outstanding questions had hr-en settled except for the status nf non-diplomatic representatives. Arthritis Rheumatism Neuritis all alike in one principal way the sick tissues are too "acid" not sufficiently alkaline to resist or throw off the disease or painful inflammation. Change this. Alka-linize yourself.

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MAAr.S i REPAIRED Richard Seitner 213 State St. Sun Bldj. Room 400 7r MESSENGERS I Furnished for all purpoaei. I Cartnce And Moving AMERICAN MESSENGER CO. Mr Cadillac 0380 0 White, A 11L.1 1 her to a back room to remain for MIDI Ot JUSpeCt Oeainve minutes, and fled.

MISS I'H-NT A lone bandit, whose methods convinced police he committed two similar robberies reported recently, Sunday afternoon held up a candy store at 1D50 Woodward Ave. and escaped with $25.90. Miss Georgine Pfent, 18 years old, of 14121 E. Seven Mile Road was alone in the store when he entered and placed an empty paper bag on the counter. Pointing to the sack, he ordered her to put all the money from the cash register into the bag.

After collecting the money, he ordered Ford Service Men to Hold Week of Meetings at Rouge Service managers from 13 Ford blancn piants jn the Eastf South and Middle West will arrive in Dearborn Monday morning for a week of meetings at the Rouge plant, of the Ford Motor in connection with service of new Ford V-8 cars for 1934. The branches represented are: Buffalo, Somerville, Atlanta, New Orleans. Houston, Indianapolis, Louisville. Cincinnati. Chicago, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City and St.

Iyouis. This group is the last of seven from the 32 domestic Ford branches, which have spent a week's course at Dearborn during the last month studying new methods, and becoming acquainted with newly developed equipment for service of Ford V-8 cars. to Be Verified Receiving Hospital attaches late Sunday reported that Max Boiger. one of the three victims of the $200 holdup Thursday of the Best Coal I 11.. 11 lHnn a a dying.

The condition of Joseph O. Turner, part owner of the company, also icmained serious, according to reports. Boiger was employed by the company as a salesman. Meanwhile, a check on an alibi furnished by Alvin Doslal, 31 years old, of 139(19 Anglin removed all possibility of his being a suspect. Inspector William J.

Collins, of the holdup squad, said. Saturday the Detroit Coal Bureau, through Its general manager. Ford R. Catc. offered a JSOO reward to the person or persons furnishing information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bandits.

The two thugs fired without warning. Linus Kraemer, order clerk, escaped with a minor injury. Crepe -Topped Jacket Frock s125o Sises (. It's a first spring ensemble; or without the jacket, it's a gay shirtwaist frock to wear now! Black, brown or navy. lourtfi I'lrttir SIEGEL'S on our two most popular Three Pairs on Three Pairs! Three Pairs "1 950 Gustave Busch The Rev.

G. Claus. of St. John's Lutheran Church, will officiate at funeral services for Gustave Kusrh at 2 p. m.

Monday at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Tillie Jahn Schubert, of 6132 Seminole Ave. Burial will be In Gethsemsne Cemetery. Mr.

Rusch, who was 79 years old, died Thursday in Evangelical Deaconess Hospital of injuries suffered fiom a fall a week ago in his home. Born in Kant. Prussia, he had lived In Detroit since 1885, and until in years ago had Deen car- penter. Besides the daughter with whom he lived he is survived by another, Mrs. William Voss, and two step children, Mrs.

Stcpke. R. Hess and Conrad Frank Judge Services for Frank Judge, a ma- Jacob Goodman A six-week Illness ended In death Sunday In Grace Hospital for Jacob Goodman, retired real estate broker, of 3870 Thirty-First St. Last rites will be conducted at 2 p. m.

Monday in Lewis Bros. Funeral Home, 7739 John R. with burial in Obel Moshe Cemetery. Born in Russia, Mr. Goodman had lived on the West Side 3S years 1nd "ntl1 about seven years ago dealt in real estate.

He was pronv inent in a number of Jewish charitable organizations, was vice president of the Congregation Obel Moshe and president of the Obel Moshe Cemetery Association. He was 63 years old. Two sons, Bernard and Martin survive him. His wife, Rose, died three years ago. Richard Frank Thompson Rites for Richard Frank Thompson, six-year-old son of Richard L.

Thompson, field scout executive of the Detroit Council of Boy Scouts, will be held at the Frederick B. Hunter Funeral Home. 13903 Terry at 2 p. m. Monday.

The body will be sent to Indianapolis for burial. Richard's death Saturday was the culmination of an Illness of a month. He was a pupil at the Cadillac School. His parents and a younger brother, Jack, live at 133)7 Whit- eomb Ave. Peter O'Neill The body of Peter O'Neill, 9525 Livernois was sent to Niagara Falls.

Sunday night for funeral services at St. Patrick's Church at 10 a. m. Tuesday. Mr.

O'Neill, who was 72 years old, died Friday of a heart attack. Born in Niagara Falls, he had lived in Detroit 32 vears and for some time was In the real estate business here. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. John Feeley; three nephews, Frank, Fred and John Feeley, and two nieces, Marie Feeley and Kather-ine O'Neill, of Niagara Falls.

Mrs. Mary H. Jones Solemn requiem high mass will be sung at St. Martins Church, Lenox and Averhill at 9 a. m.

Wednesday for Mrs. Mary H. Jones, 59 years old, of 138 S. Lenox Ave. lhe mass will follow brief rites at the home at 8:30 o'clock.

Mrs. Jones, all her life a De-troiter, had been interested for many years in the activities of the Maccabees. It was while attending a party in the Maccabee Building Saturday night that she was stricken with a heart attack. She died a few minutes later. Members of her lodge will conduct special funeral services at 8 p.

m. Tuesday at the home. She is survived by her husband, Alfred a daughter, Mrs. Bersiena Thomson, and a grand-daughter, Mary Aim Thomson. George F.

Masterson Last rites for George F. Master-son, 47 years old, of 4349 Commonwealth an office employee of the Pere Marquette Railway will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the W. Snvder Chapel, 3915 Trumbull Ave.

Burial will be in Grand Lawn Cemetery. Born in England, he h8d lived in Detroit 12 years and had worked for the railroad until a few weeks ago. His wife, Annie, survives. Mrs. Mary Jane Kaul The Rev.

Father Vncent J. Toole, pastor of St. Gertrude's Church, St. Clair Shores, will conduct funeral services for Mrs. Mary Jane Kaul, 31 years old, the wife of Roy J.

Kaul, former Macomb County coroner, at 10 a. m. Monday at the rhurch. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Mrs. Toole was born In Louisville, and had lived in the Detroit area seven years. She had been ill of pneumonia three weeks when she died Thursday, Surviving are her husband, of 28433 Jefferson St. Clair Shores, and a daughter, Julia Ann. Mrs.

Ina M. Lloyd Mrs. Ina M. Lloyd, years old, the wife'of John H. Lloyd, of 7515 Chalfonte will be burled in Oakview Cemetery Monday afternoon.

The body will lie In the First Church of the Nazarene, Mavhury Grand and Hudson from 11 a. m. until 2 p. the time of service. Mrs.

Lloyd, a native of Kansas, had lived in Detroit for 20 years. She died Friday. Only her hushand survives. Andrew J. Willis Funeral services for Andrew J.

Willis. 58 years old, 1074 Atkin-1 son a real estate broker, will i be held in the Armstrong Funeral Home, 5275 Third at 10:30 a. m. Monday. Burial will be in i Oakview Cemetery.

Royal Oak. i 111 only a few days, Mr. Willis died Friday of a heart ailment. He was born in Kalamazoo and nince coming to Detroit: 25 years ago had been in the real estate business. Until a few months ago he had offices in the Pennhsont Building.

He was a member of Palestine i IOdge. F. A. and the Shrine. Surviving are his wife.

Ruby, and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Mercer. Henry J. O'Brien Last rites for Henry J. O'Biien, of 13593 Stoepel a teal estate buyer for the Sinclair Oil since 1921, will be held at the V.

Giest A Son Parlors. 92 Garfield at 8:30 a. in. Tuesday and at St. Cecilia's Church, Livernois and Stearns at 9.

Burial will be in Grand Lawn Cometeiy. Mr. O'Rrien died Saturday in Re. reiving -lospital after an illness of I 9 i I I I MJ(3 BUS Allien SK l'J I li-af I li ar Itiitlalo 4 I a'ltarv it Itn asit SK l'J it i I III. iiiti.tli 1 tl I I tiv t'li-vflatnl 1-1 Ixniw SW Id It I I ilv II Duluth SW 1H ti i Kvii- SK 4a II I In lliranil Manilla SK IS l'J rl'ilv City tl l.n Aniri-l'-a in it tear l.intinirt.iii 4 ti i lp.ir 4ii 4 M'Htillllla at Mian In it Milwaukee 4-; i ii iic'i tmli it i I ilv Mdnnp.il NVV 1 (I Ni (tl lean tl'; Clear N'-w Vol It :14 II ri ilr Port Aiihiir sk 1 1 V't 'AtiiiWi sv i t.

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the smoke made it impossible for them to find the occupants. In the search Lannan stumbed over Mrs. Roberts who day unconscious on the floor beside her bed. As he carried her from the house he was overcome by the smoke and collapsed In an adjoining room. Harold Westlake, 27, of 5452 Rohns Detroit, a brother-in-law of Chief Wachter, who had also Roberts bov lving beneath the bed unconscious.

He carried him to safety. Curriven stumbled upon the bodies of Mrs. Roberts and Lannan and with Chief Wachter carried them from the house. Chief Wachter, erroniously informed that a man was still In the house, was overcome while looking for him. Curriven rescued his chief.

Fire Confined to Basement I Damage to the house, a one-story frame structure a half-block west of John R. Road, four blocks north i of Nine Mile Road, was estimated at JR50. The fire was confined to the basement after the arrival of the Ferndale Fire Department, summoned when the two Royal Oak Township firemen were overcome. The family dog, Fannie, an a Ire-dale, was found dead In the basement. The cause of the blaze could not be determined.

According to the report of Chief Wachter, Mrs. Roberts Is separated from her husband, Frank, a Hazel Park mall carrier. Gas Bomb Hurler Spreads Terror FINCASTLE. Jan. 21 (A.

For a month rural Botetourt County has been terrorized by a stealthy marauder who hurls gas bombs into the bedrooms of farm homes, causing sleeping families to be overcome or to become violently ill. Once or twice victims have caught glimpses of a man fleeing in the night, and twice an automobile has been seen speeding away from the scene of the attacks. Several times a woman's footprints have been found, leading to the belief that the gas thrower has a female confederate. li-lb loaf mmS. JJ PL wi do ova PAtr B.

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