Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
THE WEATHER
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Eastern    Pennsylvania:     Partljr
cloudy   Sunday,   followed  by
fair   Monday,    cooler.
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The   Onir   Sunday   Newspaper CoT«Tlng   tha   Wjomlng   Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1936
Bntered   tt   WUkes-Bnrre,   Pa. As   Second   Class   Mail   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
BIGGEST CROWD IN U. S. HISTORY
HEARS CHIEF'S CALL TO BATTLE
British Notables Come To Town
Deposits Ruled Of No Value Wherever Abandonment Of    Operations    Ensues
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ASSESSMENTS CUT
Highest Tribunal Of State Sets Anthracite's Levy On Demand By Consumer
RESULT FEARED HERE
Dangerous to the tax reaources which Luzerne County and its com¬ munities and School districts (ind in anthracite coal was the decision rendered yesterday by Pennsyl¬ vania Supreme Court.
"If anthracite coal cannot be sold," said Justice H. Edgar Barnes, speaking for the Commonwealth's highest tribunal, "then the land containing it is useless as a mining proposition. We have reached the ccnclusion that (in the case of appeals from Northumberland County assessments) thc lower courts erred and failed to make sufficient reduction ia assessments. The lower courts regularly assessed undeveloped properties at rates higher than those applied to lands  n production. In this the lower courts erred. And the same is true with respect to those tracts where the workings have been abandoned for reasons of economy or other¬ wise."
Justice Barnes declared the lasessments should be directly in proportion with the demand for inthracite.
How far-reaching the highest court's decision may be throughout the anthracite territories was left to conjecture last night. If it is meant by the Supreme Court jus¬ tices that coal is utterly without value where mining haa ceased, then the abandonment policies that have been current In Luzerne and I^ackawanna counties in recent years might possibly cause retire¬ ment of assessments m such com¬ munities as Larksville, Plymouth Township, Parsons, Wilkes-Barre Township and parts of Wllkes- Barre and Nanticoke regions. In instances there has been no pro¬ duction of coal for as long as five years.
Coal Chief Resource It happens that where abandon¬ ment took place, as in Larksville, Plymouth Township and Wilkes- Bnrre Township, the great bulk of laxes which support community and schools comes directly from levies on coal in the ground.
Where that coal is being left un¬ disturbed, one probability seemed to be that the coal assessments could no longer be collected but that re-assessment would have to be made on surface rights until such tirne as mining would be re¬ sumed.
Coal companies, it was feared, might even go farther and demand that in agreement with the Su¬ preme Court decision there shall be drastic reduction of assessments on virgin coal tracU such as obtain in Hanover Township.
Court Cuts Coal Levy
Philadelphia, Jun 27 (UP)- Reduced assessments on valuable Northampton County coal lands confronted   county   authorities   to-
75-Miles-An-Hour Motorcar Goes Over Embankment Carrying Two To Doom
BOTH YOUNG MEN
Banker And Sportsman Of Scranton Is Badly Hurt By A Fall At Horse Show
OTHER ACCIDENTS
rorsonal representatives of King Edward VIII of England arrived in Berwick yesterday, bringing Great Britain's greet¬ ings to the town which begins today the celebration of its one hundredth fiftieth anniversary of founding. In the picture taken for The Sunday Inde¬ pendent    are    shown,    left    to
right; Sheriff Joseph Fleming who brings the King's personal good wishes for success of the observance; Mayor Phihp Spowart of Berwlck-on-Tweed, Scotland, the community for which the Susquehanna river town was named; and Sergeant- at-Mace William S. Blake^. In the churches today and in the
community-at-large for the re¬ mainder of the week, Berwick will mark ils Sesquicentennial with thanksgiving first, then with parades, spectacles, con¬ tests and air maneuvers by a squadron of United States Army airplanes (rom Mitchell Field, Wyoming Valley will participate  in the  proceedings.
GREEK CATHOLIC UNION GIVES UP TO BARRED GROUP AT HEA VY COST
day as a result of a State Supreme Court order.
The appeals on which the as¬ sessments were reduced by the State's  highest court were:
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and Ebenezer Greenough Estate, assessments re¬ duced from $5,678,193.50 to $4,938,- 427.81.
Mt. Carmel Twp. appeals: Phil¬ adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and Ebenezer Greenough Estate, reduced from $3,616,490  to  $3,198,247.50.
East   Cameron   Twp.:   Philadel phia  and   Reading
  T Michael    Staurovsky,    Pittsburgh;
$54,000 Given To Conven- Michaei P-|j;„M;^,^-^Xr'^r; tion Session That Con-1 a^or^^^e^^p^^^^^^^^^^^^
tinues  For Another  Week l Plvovamick,   McAdoo;  Mrs,  Helen
Poproch,    Monessen;   John    Lois,
BUDGET DOUBLED
Pittsburgh, and Stephen Istvaneck, Youngstown, O,
Most o( the convention delay Is
attributed to the credentials com-
Fireworks galore are predicted to   mittee's hard Usk o( weeding out
again stir the procedure of the 22nd oflicial delegates who were properly
annual   convention   of   the   senior sanctioned by their respective  or-
branch of Greek Catholic Union of ganizatoins. The rejected delegates
Russian Brotherhood this week at were    members   of   the    churches
"''•;   *""""'""! Eagles'   Home,   North   Washington where     excommunicated     pastors
,     A "Ih tJ^^   street, as more than fifty rejected were in charge.
Company, assessment reduced from   delegates have been approved after Failure   o(   the   credential   com-
a full week's debate which resulted mittee to properly recognize the in¬ in several court actions. dividual cases of rejected delegates This dissension among fellow- prompted these "^•^'"bers to file members of the organization threw mandamus P"[:««<^'"8^„^^.^'" ju"^ the convention session into turmoil committee to show cause why they last  week   and  made   it  necessary 1 shouldn't be admittea
$735,175   to  $686,175
West Cameron Township: Phila¬ delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, reduced from $266,700 to $231,000.
Shamokin Borough: Philadel¬ phia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, lessor of land owned by William Green and Samuel Weth¬ erill, assessment reduced from $74,100 lo $67,000.
In two cases, the court affirmed the lower court's ruling. They were thc Fulton Coal Company, whose assessment was left at $834,000; and thc coal property of Philadel¬ phia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in the "built up" section of Mt. Carmel Borough which was assessed at $236,265.
In   writing   the   court's   opinion. Justice H. Edgar Barnes said: Lower Court Erred
"The court beiow regularly as¬ sessed  thc  undeveloped   properties
for officers to extend the sessions another full week. The entire cost of holding the sessions here will amount to more than $54,000, the amount spent by the Union in Detroit four years ago and double the total originally set aside for this assembly.
While the majority of "unwanted" delegates have been seated, four ex¬ communicated priests were still barred from the convention as well as several of their followers whose credentials are not in accordance with the organization's by-laws.
Confident that their cause is just and that they are being purposely excluded from the convention for "political" reasons, the priests last
Junior Brancli Held Cp
The excommunicated priests. Rev. Crest Chornack, Bridgeport, Conn,; Rev. Stephen Varzaly, Rankin, Pa.; Rev. Peter Mulchany, Homestead, Pa. and Rev. Conslantine Auororoff of Hawk Run, Pa., were severed from the Greek Catholic church (Continued on Pxge  A-10)
Two young men met instant death near Mcshoppen yesterday afternoon when the automobile they occupied swerved from a high¬ way and hurtled down an embank¬ ment. Both victims were thrown from the machine. A prominent Scranton banker and sportsman was injured during a horse show in the Electric City when he was hurled (rom his mount. Several other accidents were reported last night by local hospitals.
Marvin Jackson, 32, and Donald Robinson, 30, both of Endicott, N, Y., were killed late yesterday after¬ noon in a motor-car accident near Meshoppcn. The tragedy occurred on the highway between Lawton and Meshoppcn while the victims were traveling toward the SulUvan Trail and enroute to their homes. The accident happened shortly be¬ fore four oclock.
Authorities report that the ma¬ chine, traveling at a high rate of speed, failed to negotiate a sharp curve in the road and plunged down a steep embankment. Hit 75 An Hour The men were killed instantly. Jackson was hurled through the top of the automobile and was dis¬ covered several (eet from where the wrecked car halted, Robinson was (orced through one side of the machine which was a total wreck, B. L. Billings, a Tunkhannock undertaker, reported the skulls o( both men were fractured. It Is his opinion they died immediately after the crash.
Highway patrol reported the auto was traveling 75 miles an hour, the speedometer having re¬ mained fixed at that speed when the vehicle ended its plunge at thc foot of a hill that hugs the high¬ way. Highway Patrolman Walter Mam Investigated the acoident. Undertajjer Billings took charge of the bodies and removed them to his morgue in Tunkhannock. Fur¬ ther inquiry revealed that Jackson and Robinson were the only occu¬ pants of the death machine. Banker Thrown Warren T. Acker, prominent Scranton and Clarks Summit sports, man and banker, was injured yes¬ terday afternoon when thrown from his mount while participating in a horse show at Athletic Park in Scranton. A hospital report re¬ vealed Mr. Acker's skull is injured. Acker's horse was taking a double (Continued on Page A-10)
Seeking 3 Girls Lured By Circus
Lure of the circus is believed to have prompted three Han¬ over Township girls to take "French leave" of their homes, police said last night.
The missing youngsters are described as Lillian Schubacher,
14, of 342 Phillips street, Lyn¬ wood section; Josephine Rasi¬ mas, 14, of 359 Cowley street, Lynwood,   and   Helen   Yenchak,
15, of Engle street, Lynwood, all of Hanover Township.
Parents of the missing trio told police they had hccn cor¬ responding with some one affili¬ ated with the Kay Brothers Circus which is playing at Seneca Falls, N. Y. Authorities there were asked to be on the lookout for the missing girls.
DEAFENING CHEER WHEN ROOSEVELT ANALYZES DUTIES
The complete address of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, accepting noviination to a second term as Chief Executive of the United States, will bc found on Page A-3 of today's Sunday Independent.
RIOT IRS PICNIC AT HARVEY'S LAKE Y
T
Attempts To Cash Tickets At Wrong Stands Cause Much Trouble For Forty
TWO ARE JAILED
NOTTINGHAM MINES CLOSED FOR REPAIR
With the end of work on Tues¬ day, the Nottingham colliery of ^yClen Alden Coal Company at Ply- mouih will suspend operations un¬ il "further notice," it was an¬ nounced last night hy Edward Griffith, vice president and general manager of the company.
Approximately 1.000 men employ¬ ed at the mino will he idle until a shaft repair program is com- "leted. Mr, Griffiths said.
at rates higher than those applied j ^j^j^^ gai(j ^^^y ^ould again enter (Continued on  Page A-10) j Lucerne  County  Oiurt   with   their
lawyers, R. L. Coughlin, J. S. Russin and P. N. Barna, the latter of Pittsburgh, and file four writs of mandamus against the conven¬ tion chairman to entertain the motion (or their acceptance into thc organization at the continued sessions beginning Monday morn¬ ing at nine oclock.
Barred Delegates Get In Approval o( tne "unwanted" dele- sates was made yesterday after¬ noon and last night by a special committee named by the conven¬ tion chairman when certified dele¬ gates rc(uscd to allow the conven¬ tion session to open until judgment was passed on other individual de¬ legates being withheld (rom the conclave. On this committee were: Rev. Nicholas  Chopey.  city; Rev.
The contemplated repairs consist chiefly of concreting of the Not¬ tingham shaft as protection against flood waters. During the March floods the shaft was threatened by rising watera along sections where there is no conrete or natural rock (ace.
As soon as repairs are completed thc colliery will he reopened. The current work schedule will end on I Tuesday night.
\EARNING POWER LAGS IN PRODUCTION'S GAIN
Washington, June 27. (UP)— America's economic machine stall¬ ed in 1929 because employers (ailed "to (eed enough wage (uel to the economic carburetor," according to a study by the Council (or Indus¬ trial   Progress.
Taking the food manufacturing industries as an example, the sur¬ vey o( that group showed that pro¬ ductive ability of wage earners in¬ creased two and a half times (ast¬ er from 1919 to 1929 than those workers' wages or purchasing power.
Tho survey, put out by Industry Coordinator George L. Berry, warn¬ ed that unless employers corrected the maladjustments between in¬ creased production and purchasing power, then the 1929 crisis would be repeated again and again in American  history.
"What happened in 1929 and suc¬ ceeding years vividly attests to the frightful consequences which must inevitably follow the creation of such an unbalanced condition be¬ tween purchasing power, or the power to consume, and produc¬ tion,"  the  report  said.
Continuing ils analysis of "tha absurdity of some of our economic philosophy," the report said:
"The operation of the engine in an automobile is (amiliar to all. The power developed is dependent upon a proper supply o( gasoline. I(. in the operation o( our auto¬ mobiles, we insisted on shutting the supply of fuel to such an extent that the engine faltered and stalled on every small grade, and then blamed the manufacturer (or the (allure o( the engine to pcr(orm according to specifications, we would be called crazy."
A frce-(or-alI fight, bordering on a riot, created temporary turmoil among three thousand WPA workers and their (amilies at Har¬ vey's Lake last night at seven oclocit. About forty men participat¬ ed in the melee and more than half the number left the picnic grounds with discolored optics, bruised Ups and pummelled ears, A (ew nasal casualties also were reported by Lake poUce. Two WPA workers were jailed. John Mangione, 21, of 720 Wyoming avenue, Exeter, was struck by a stone during the battle. It fractured his lower jaw. He was admitted to Pittston hospital.
A picnic, sponsored by WPA workers of Sixth Legislative Dis¬ trict, was conducted at the Lake yesterday. An excursion train, starting at Lehigh Valley station in Pittston, carried three thousand persons to the picnic grounds. Tickets, sold in advance of the outing, provided refreshments and edibles. The tickets were not ox- changeable at regular concession stands and the near-riot com¬ menced when a group of workers attempted to force attaches at the restaurant of Gus Conduras to accept them in exchange (or (ood. Peace-makers endeavored to ex¬ plain stubs were for use only at stands set up by the WPA com¬ mittee. The explanation was not acceptable and the disgruntled group began to swing (ists with reckless abandon. The (ighting had subsided when police arrived. Gustave Walepes o( Wyoming was arrested by Chie( o( Police Ira C. Stevenson on a charge of disorderly conduct. When ar¬ raigned before Justice o( the Peace Ralph Davis the Wyoming man was committed to Luzerne County Prison (or thirty days. Walepes is reported to have had a run-in with Al Hanson, who opeiates a scale at the picnic center. The prisoner is a WPA worker.
Elmer Cawley, 20, cf 1036 Plane street, Avoca, another Works Pro¬ gress Administration worker, was picked up by Chief Stevenson last night. He was accused of breaking into the cottage of Jos.;ph Zioleski, a caretaker. The latter nabbed the Avoca man and turned him over to the police chief. Taken before Squire Davis, Cawley was com¬ mitted to Luzerne County Prison in default of $1,000 bail.
SHAKE VAST FIELD AS115J0Lm
New Deal Triumph Is Scored As Party Head Accepts Leadership In Campaign
BREATH-TAKING SCENE
AHACKS DESPOTS
By JOE ALEX MORRIS (Copyright By United Press)
FrankUn Field, Philadelphia, June 27. (UP)—The black curtains on the stage parted and (or one breathless moment the white cata¬ ract of light beating on the (ace of Franklin Delano Roosevelt stunned the New Deal's biggest celebration into a semblance of silence.
He stood there, smiling and tilt¬ ing his chin upward a little in a quick gesture of satisfaction, while 115,000 jammed into FrankUn Field caught their breath.
Then the levees broke.   Over in the  Texas seats,  a tall  girl sailed her  white  sombrero  upward  past the  spotUghts. "Yipee-e-e-e!"
The Vermont placard fluttered in a rumble o( thunder on the left. The vast double-decked stands magnified the (irst swell of cheers a thousand-(old till the (lags (ring¬ ing the upper tier trembled in the roar.
Biggest Crowd In History It was the moment (or which tens o( thousands had waited through bursts o( rain (or hours. It was a New Deal howl o( triumph and i( it was also a smooth demonstration o( how party ma¬ chinery could flag weary delegates into a last burst o( enthusiasm there was Uttls to show it In the quick-moving Mardl Gras In the great sports arena.
It was a quick-moving perform¬ ance (rom the word "go." The loundspeakers had announced ' the arrival o( the Presidential train and the crowd was prepared by the popping o( flashlights outside. But there were a (ew minutes o[ delay and the cheers had al¬ most died out when, at last, the curtains at the back entrance o( the platform parted and the Presi¬ dent, accompanied by his son, James, stood for the flrst time be¬ fore perhaps the biggest political crowd in the history of America —a crowd that stretched out to every State through a broadcast of proceedings to 6,300 "Nomina¬ tor" meetings in cities and hamlets.
Welcomed  By  Throng
The crowd (irst saw the glisten¬ ing   head   o(   National   Chairman (Continued on Page A-lOi
ON PEOPLE'S TOIL
President Says He Enlists For Duration Of A War To   Restore   Democracy
SPECTACLE AMAZES
By LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright By United Press)
Franklin Field, Philadelphia, June 27. (UP)—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt led 115,000 cheer¬ ing persons packed in this sports bowl tonight in a thunderous be¬ ginning of "a war for the survival of Democracy."
Standing before a crowd which dared not let itself go for fear of crushing some of its number to' death, the President accepted re¬ nomination to the Presidency and brought the vast assembly storm'' ing to its feet with his oratory.
"I accept the nomination," ha shouted, head tossing and huge hand brandishing in the blue-white Ught of the kleigs.
"I join you. I am enlisted (or the duration o( the war.
"It is a war (or the survival ot Democracy."
The President opened his cam¬ paign in a blazing bowl o( Ught and humanity. Surrounded by family and friends, outwardly un¬ mindful of the bolters who de¬ nounce his plans, the President to¬ night Invited his enemies to come out (rom hehind the Flag and the Constitution to (Ight the campaign battles of 1936.
Clouds Do Not Scare
Mr. Roosevelt accepted tonight in a double bill which brought to the rostrum with him his running-mate o( 1932 and the man named to stand with him again this year. Vice President John Nance Garnef pledged himscK to (oUow the or¬ ders o( his chief.
Spits o( rain and skies which clouded darkly were no obstacle. This crowd determined tonight to give the President a cheer. Hours be(ore he arrived in the city tho people of Philadelphia and vicin¬ ity were pouring into this rain¬ swept stadium. Loud-speakers blared through the town that tha Democrats were going through with it.
"In the stadium, rain or shine," bawled an announcer who swept the towTi with his words. And the crowd came on. They piled Into the delegates' seats on the playing (Continued on Page A-10)
SWINGS AT POLICEMAN BUT LANDS IN TROUBLE
Joseph Kezle, 57, of 236 East Market street, swung a chair at Crusicr Patrolman Patrick Dough¬ erty shortly after 8 oclock last night when the patrolman and 0((icer Meyers arrived at his home to place him under arrest.
Later, at Wyoming Valley Home¬ opathic hospital, where physicians were placing six stitches in Kezle's head, Kezle was told he would be arraigned in police court this morning on charges of being drunk, disorderly and resisting arrest.
Patrolman Dougherty reported that when Kezle attacked him with the chair he used his night-stick to quell the drunken man. After treatment at the hospital Kezle was locked up in police headquar¬ ters.
JOSEPH COTTER DIES FROM HEART ATTACK
Joseph Cotter, recently appointed Supervising Principal of West Wyoming schools and son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cotter, his father being Democratic Chairman of Sixth Legislative District, died sud¬ denly last night from a heart at¬ tack while seeking bait in a creek near a flshing camp about two miles outside Tunkhannock on the road to Factoryville. He was 25 years old.
The young man, his brother Paul and another companion left on a lishing trip yesterday afternoon at 5 oclock. His companions were with him when he was stricken. Dr. Arthur Davenport of Tunkhannock was called, but his efforts were fruitless. The young man had died instantly. R. W. Greenwood. Deputy Coroner    at    Tunkhannock,    pro¬
nounced death (rom a heart at¬ tack. There was no water In the victim's lungs, although he had dropped into the scr.!ani. Word o( his death reached his home in West Wyoming shortly before midnight when his brother Paul telephoned.
Mr. Cotter received his early ed¬ ucation in St. Cecilia's parochial school, Exeter. He received his de¬ gree at Notre Dame. He taught (our years in Swoyerville schools and resigned recently to take charge of the schools of his own community. He was the youngest supervising principal in Luxerne county.
Surviving besides his parents are the following brothers and sisters: William jr., Mrs. Francis Connor of Pittston, Mrs. Charles Adonizio o( Pittston, now visiting in Cahfornia, and Paul and Leo at home.
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