Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1936
Entered   at    Wilkes-Barre.    Pa. Al   Second   Clata   Mall   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
LOCAL MAN
KILLED BY HEAT
TWO OTHERS SUFFER COLLAPSE
BLAZE RAKES RUINS OF VARNISH FACTORY
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Body Of Stenographer Found But Search Continues For Three Male Victims
HEAT BARS RESCUE
IS FATALLY HURT IN RAILWAY FALL
Baltimore, Md., July 11  (UP)—A body believed to be that of Augusta
Renne, stenographer, wa.s taken to- [ 	
night from the ruins of the C. A. [
Webb Co paint plant, de.stroyed I Police Seek Hit-Run Dhver
by nn explosion and nre. The bodies
of three men were believed atill in
the ruins. The girl's body was removed by
flremen  who  braved  blasts  of  ex¬ ploding paint and turpenCTfK:'drums
to search the ruins. The explosions
continued si.\ hours after the first
blast   which   was   followed   by   a i
seven-alarm tire. I     An  Ice company ofllcial wag in-
Intense   heat   of   the   ruins   pre-   stantly  killed  yesterday,  a hit-run
Who  Injures  Four  Men On The Carverton Road
OTHER ACCIDENTS
vented flremen from searching for the miesing. The fire was brought under control two hours after the flrst blast, but minor explosions of highly inflammable paint, varnish and turpentine continued.
Cause of the explosion was not Immediately determined, but it was believed due to combustion of il¬ luminating gas in the basement which quickly ignited thousands ot
driver injured four young men and several other accidents were re¬ ported by seven hospitals in thia region.
Harry B. Decker, about 52 years old, prominently known in the Wilkea-Barre area, met instant death yesterday afternoon when he fell from a railroad car at Goulds- boro. Decker, superintendent of Gouldsboro Ice Company, had been
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gallons    of    paint    manufacturing ' directing the loading of an ice car
materials on  upper floors. I when he accidentally slipped  from
Officials  said  it  had   been   defl- | l^he roof. When picked up by work
nitely learned that the girl sten¬ ographer was in the building when the blast occurred. The three men were believed working in the warehouse.
HELP FOR THE BLIND GIVEN BY ROOSEVELT
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Washington. July 11 (UP)—Use of $171,500 Work-Relief money to produce 5,000 "talking books" to enable many of the nation's blind to "read" the world's best liter¬ ature was authorized today by President Roosevelt.
He approved the allocation for manufacture of machines similar to portable phonographs, and re¬ cording recitations by radio and Itagc artists who donate their lervices.
DR. S. PARKES CADMAN BELIEVED NEAR DEATH
Plattsburgh, N. Y., July 11. (UP) —Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, 71, Brook. Jyn clergyman, waa "very low," at¬ taches at Champlain Valley Hos¬ pital said tonight. The elderly preacher, ill of peritonitis, follow¬ ing an operation for a ruptured appendix, was given only a slim chance to live. His personal phy¬ sician. Dr. George L. Buist, how¬ ever, held out a "little hope for his   recovery."
Cadman was removed to the hos¬ pital several days ago when ho complained of a stomach ailment. A blood transfusion and applica¬ tion of oxygen were strong factors in   Cadman's   fight   against   death.
WOmTn IS REVIVED
FROM DRUG EFFECTS
San Francisco, July 11 (UP) — Mrs. Georgia Reynolds, .11, socialite New Yorker, regained consciouncss in an oxygen tent today after a 48-hour  drug-induced  coma.
"I want to see my husband," she murmured. "I want to be a good wife."
She and her husband, Arthur Reynolds jr., scion of a Chicago and San Francisco banking family, were found apparently lifeless in their apartment on Thursday.
He recovered from*the effect of the drugs yesterday, staggered to the room where his bride was, gazed at her and denied the brush with death was attempted suicide.
Physicians gave Mrs. Reynolds more than an even chance to live.
men he waa dead. It was reported he suffered a skull fracture. The victim was a broadly known Mason and Shriner, being affiliated with Irem Temple of this city. He was superintendent of the M. E. Sun¬ day school of Gouldsboro. In recent years he was active in the organ¬ ization of local ice retailers. In addition to his widow he leaves three sons and two daughters, and also the following cousins who re¬ side in Wilkes-Barre: Mrs. Carv- anna Williams, Mrs. H. C. Field and  Mrs. Mirhael Lauer.
Four Hurt By Auto A hit-run motorist, responsible for injuries to four upper county yrung men, was sought early today by police. The injured, treated at Pittston   hospital,   are:
Frank Rinaldo, :^, contusions of back; Carmen Rom.i, 20, scalp lacerations; Leonard Russo, 22, scalp and chest injuries; Liberti Darbenzio, 23, possible fracture of left shoulder. The young men re¬ side in Old Boston section of Jen¬ kins Township. A fifth youth in the same motor car escaped injury in the crash.
The young men were enroute to Harvey's Lake for a swim. The machine they occupied was side- swiped on the Carverton road, three miles west of Wyoming, by a motor car operated by the hit-run driver. The latter continued toward Wyo¬ ming without stopping to investi¬ gate. The car used by the upper county young men swerved from the highway, crashed into an em¬ bankment and upset. They were removed to the hospital by passing motorists.
Killed By Train Frank Orzelle of West Wyoming was killed early yesterday by a Lehigh Valley freight train near his home. He was 40 years old, and a veteran of the World War. It was not fully established how he met death. The body was found by Joseph Sonday and An¬ thony Hozyniski near the L. V. station in West Wyoming. Orzelle resided alone in a cottage on West Sixth  street.
Abdominal injuries were suffered yesterday by Calvin Stewart, 12, of R. D. 2, WapwaUopen ,when he fell from the roof of a porch. The boy is a patient at Nanticoke hospital.
Joseph   Traelia,   20,   of  406  Par¬ sonage street, Hughestown, stepped on a nail.   His left foot was punc¬ tured. Michael   S.obol,   49.   of  393  North (Continued  On  Page  4-A)
Plymouth's Newly-Completed Huber Field Project
STABBED CAPTAIN
PLYMOUTH TRIUMPHS IN REALIZED DREAM
Daring Rescue Accomplished Against Dangerous Sea By Colonel J. T. Moore
VICTIM CRITICAL
PROFITS BRING BOOST TO WORKERS WAGES
Pittstburg, July 11 (UP)—West¬ inghouse Electric and Manufactur¬ ing Company granted wage and salary increases amounting to ten percent in May and eleven percent in .lune, under the newly-inaugur¬ ated "profit-sharing" system, it was revealed tonight.
The company's highest profits since 1929 made possible the in¬ creased phyments' involving more than ts.ooo.ooa
Beginning May first the company adopted the "profit-sharing" plan under which employees would be granted increased pay whenever the company's profits exceeded $500,000 monthly. Every $C0,000 in¬ crease in Westinghouse profits above $600,000 monthly brings an automatic one percent increase in salaries and wages. Earnings hnve been running double basic earnings.
San Juan, P. R., July 11. (UP)— A U. S. Marine airplane flew 200 miles out to sea today to bring ashore the captain of a passenger liner who had been stabbed in the throat  by  a  member  of hi*  crew.
Weak from loss of blood caused by a four-inch gash in his neck. Captain Terrcnce Burrows, skipper of the A. H. Bull Steamship Com¬ pany's Liner S. S. Catherine, was transferred from his ship to a Douglas amphibian plane in treach¬ erous   rolling  seas.
A three-way drama of radio com¬ munication was carried for two hours as the Marine plane, des¬ patched from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, sought to find the Cath¬ erine before her skipper bled to death.
At flrst unable to locate tho Catherine, Lt. Col. James T. Moor.3 of the U. S. Marine Corps, who had taken off for the 165-mile flight to sea to the Catherine and back 200 miles to San Juan, in¬ structed the ship to lay down a heavy smoke barrage. By the trail of smoke  he  located  the  ship.
Accompanying Colonel Moore were Co-Pilot Lt. Ward Dickey, also of the Marine Corps, and U. S. Public Health Physician Dr. T. R. Bollng, who volunteered for the flight when a frantic radio mes¬ sage pleading for help was picked up by the Marine radio station at Virgin Islands.
Once the ship was reached. Dr. Boling administered flrst-aid to Captain Burrows, who had lain for six hours without adequate atten¬ tion and was weak from loss of blood.
High seas were rolling and it was at flrst thought impossible to transfer the stricken captain to the amphibian. Finally, Colonel Moore took a rubber boat from his plane, floated It on one of the Catherine's own lifeboats and put Captain   Burrows   aboard.
Little was known of the attack on Burrows, except that an alter¬ cation had occurred between the officer and a fireman, who sud- (Continued On  Page  4-A)
Produced by the co-operative efforts of Plymouth Borough School District headed by Attorney R. R. VanHorn as president and with Property Chairman John Daugherty actively in charge, and Luzerne County Works Progress Adminis¬ tration under direction of William J. Dougherty and Joseph G. Schuler, the finest public school stadium in all northeastern Penn¬ sylvania was ready yesterday to be formally dedicated as the new Plymouth Huber Field. President VanrtCrn, Chairman Daugherty and other officials of the school district found in the job the fulfilment of a dream whioh Plymouth never had any assurance of realizing until the co-operative plan was concluded between school directors and WPA.
A total cost of nearly forty thou¬ sand  dollars represented mostly a
contribution of work directly to the hands of labor, skilled and un¬ skilled, and to craftsmanship. Leaders in the community that put high school football definitely on the map for the first time in his¬ tory, some years ago, and the first to put the game on a broad com¬ munity basis, President VanHorn and Property Chairman Daugherty were close observers of every step taken in organization of the work and materials and their final place¬ ment in the idealized Huber Field Project.
While the major share of the funds came in WPA grants, there was heavy expenditure of school district funds; so, it became Chair¬ raan John Daugherty's self-imposed and unpaid duty to match the In¬ spection of the government fore¬ men and to approve after careful (Continued  On  Page  4-A)
Address To God
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Maybe you're cross at us, God, Maybe we haven't been good;
Where is the grass for the sod?
Where are the trees for the wood?
Honest, now, is this a test?
Earth is a cauldron entire. Must we, the worst and the best.
Robbed of Your mercy, expire?
Earth is a crucible. Lord,
Fired by a merciless sun;
Please, may we ask You, afford Fountains that endlessly run.
Fountains let loose from the skies. Thunders so crashingly loud
Earth from  its death-thrall may rise Crowning its brow with a cloud.
God, are You looking askance.
Heeding us not from Your throne?
Give us a pityi'-n glance;
We are bui children. Your own.
See how our sustenance pales.
Famished our crops and our herds;
Plains are made deserts, and vales Wither—and what of the birds?
God, of Your mercy the least Beg we; oh, say not in vain.
Please, both for man and for beast. Fling us a skyfull of rain.
—J.v.h.
DEBTS OF NATION
GRADUAL DECLINE IS NOW FORECAST FORTORRID WAVE
P.A.rLAUGHLIN ^ MEETS HIS DEATH IN AUTO CAPITAL
Valley Gets Slight Relief After Brief Downpour And   Late-Night   Breeze
BEACHES CROWDED
EOF IS STRUCK DEAD BY HEAVEN'S ORB
Gain To 5 Billion Dollars From 630 Millions Seen In   New  Securities  List
CAPITAL REVIVED
University, Va., July 11 (UP) - Forthright defense of the Govern¬ ment's attempt to exert social con¬ trol over finance was made before the Institute of Public Affairs here tonirht by William O. Douglas, member of the Securities and Hii- change Commission.
Douglas denied emphatically that regulatory activities of ths SEC had resulted in clogging or retard¬ ing tlie capital securities market. He pointed out that registration of new securities increased from $630.- 000,000 in 1934 to an estimated $5,- 000,000,000 in 1936.
He conceded that only about seven percent of the net proceeds of the securities were de.itincd for use for plant expansion or for in¬ crease of working capital. He con¬ tended, however, that this trend was not abnormal.
"It has always been the case," he said, "that the revival in the capi¬ tal market starts with refunding issues and spreads to the so-called new money issues only after a wave of refunding issues has lowered the level of Interest rates and has again accustomed investors to participate in new offerings of securities."
Douglas made counter-charge to contentions made previously by speakers at the Institute that the Government had been guilty of "reckless and extravagant Federal financing."
From the end of February, 1933, to June 30, 1936, he said the public debt had a gross increase of about $15,000,000,000, including the contin¬ gent debt. He pointed out, how¬ ever, that the contingent debt is secured by " high-grade tangible assets" and that there are "large realizable assets, or assets of defi¬ nite value, which must be offset against the public debt."
The simmering sun that literally persecuted Wyoming Valley's thou¬ sands since Tuesday was forced into temporary exile at three oclock yesterday afternoon by h»avy, fast-moving clouds. A cool b/eeze cheered hundreds in central (.ty and it was pursued by slight / ainfall, insufficient to leave in its wake the usual cool thrill of a storm.
When rain began to fall the m•^- cury registered 97. One hour later the official reading was 85, a dip of 12 degrees.
Valley folk eagerly retired last night to make up rest interrupted during the previous three nights. Cooling zephyrs were prevalent early this morning.
Although "Sol" hied to other areas at 3 p. m. yesterday the "burning visitor" will re-appear this morning and this afternoon will lose a good portion of its po¬ tency as weather forecasters say the heat wave will be shattered late today by northwest showers that are rapidly heading eastward. Dies From Heat
A former Wilkes-Barre man died of heat prostration in Detroit yes¬ terday afternoon. He was P. A. McLaughlin, a plumber, formerly of 602 North Main street, city, who moved to Detroit eight years ago. Notification of his death was re¬ ceived by his family late last night.
Mr. McLaughlin is survived by four sisters, Mary, Mrs. Margaret MacDonald and Mrs. Loren Oitrander of Wilkes-Barre, and Mrs. Carl Ware of Detroit; also by three broChers. John, Leo and Thomas J. McLaughlin of Detroit.
His body will arrive here tonight. Funeral services will be held from the family home at 602 North Main street at a time to be announced later.
Two persons were overcome by heat yesterday, the first being Miss Florence McLaughlin, 23, of 42 West Union street. She received treatment at Homeopathic hospital after collapsing at Galson's grill, 1 North Main street, where she is employed as a waitress. The second person to be felled by the heat is George Ball, East Broad street, Nanticoke. He weakened while standing on East Main street.
A storm struck the Pittston and Duryea   regions   at  7   oclock   last night and the temperature dropped ten degrees in the following hour. Rush To Beaches
The Susquehanna river, between
North   street   bridge   and   Lehigh
I Valley   bridge   at   Pork   Bowkley,
was    a    rendezvous    for   youthful
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"Federal Government Rushes Plans For The Rescue Of Thousands   Of   Stricken
SUFFERING INTENSE
Cedar Falls, la., July 11. (UP) — Mrs. A. W. Depensier, wife of tha Archbishop of the Angelican Church of British Columbia, Canada, died today from a sun¬ stroke. She was stricken while riding with her husband on a high¬ way near Cedar Falls. They were enroute to Montreal, Canada, to attend a reunion of the veterans of ths Battle of Vimy Ridge.
COBPOBATION  AtX)U8ED
Washington, July 11 (UP)—Na¬ tional Labor Relations Board today issued a complaint charging Good¬ year Rubber Company "with com¬ plicity in three separate assaults ac Gadsden, Ala., on members and organizers of United Rubber Work¬ ers of America."
Washington, July 11. (UP)—The Federal Government coupled its emergency drought-relief program tonight with a nation-wide water conservation plan designed to make the best possible use ot rain—when it comes.
While emergency agencies re¬ doubled efforts to care for destitute farmers in an ever-growfng drought area. Works Progress Administra¬ tion announced the most extensive water conservation program ever attempted. It plans to construct thousands of dams and reservoirs. The WPA slogan is:
"In time of drought, prepare for rain."
End of the first week of gov¬ ernment's battle against drought found more thousands of persons on the public p.iyroll, other thou¬ sands receiving direct Relief grants and plans under way to care for every farmer and his family whose crops have been burned out by weeks of torrid heat and lack of rain.
A su.-nmary of government drought-relief measures during tha week Included:
Swift Relief Measure*
1. Formation of a national com¬ mittee under chairmanship of Sec¬ retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace  to direct  relief measures.
2. Providing 75,000 WPA jobs— 55,000 in the Northwest and 20,000 in the South—which are to be filled within 10 days. Some 16,500 hava been filled. Thousands of men are being employed daily.
3. Announcement by Resettle¬ ment Administration that 50,000 more farmers, in addition to the 70,-000 on its rolls in the drought area, would be given loans to re¬ habilitate themselves. The Admini¬ stration declared a one-year mora¬ torium on payments to farmers ia the  stricken districts.
4. The AAA set aside $5,000,000 to ship cattle from the drought area and, in some cases, to buy animals.
6. The AAA also announced that it would pay benefits to farmers who had planted soil-preservation crops, even though they failed, and would also permit them tp devota (Continued On Page 4-A)
EARLE BEGS BOSSES TO RELEASE RELIEF
Philadelphia, July 11 (UP) — Governor George H. Earle tonight asked four State Republican lead¬ ers to break the deadlock in the special session of the Legislature which has halted Relief in the State.
The Governor's message was in the form of a telegram to Joseph R. Grundy, textile manufacturer of Bri.stol, Pa.; Andrew W. Mellon. Pittsburgh financier: Ernest r. Weir, head of Weirton Steel Com¬ pany, and Joseph N. Pew, official of Sun Oil Company. It read:
"Your orders to your puppets — the Republican State Senators—are causing steadily and supely the de¬ struction of 600,000 men, women and children.
"Ten million Pennsylvanlans ar« not going to stand by idly whila 600,000 of their neighbors starva to death. It is a policy such as yours that caused the French and Russian revolutions.
"The RepubUcan Senators are controlled by you, body and soul, because they know they cannot win the election this year without the campaign funds you give them. Empty stomachs do not reason, and you are, by your barbaric cruelty, deliberately sowing the seed that mav destroy our democracy.
'lielease your Republican Sen¬ ators and let them for once vote for the best interest of the 0*^^» who elected them."
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