Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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33RD YEAR, NO. 5    5(9 PACKS
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1939
PRICE TEN CENTS
FRENCH TAKE LAND GIVEN ITALY
Mine Workers Expected To Favor State Control
IWorking Man-Made Lead Mine
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Meet James Friday; Await Drive for Tax System Cliange
Leaders of the United Mine Workers, it was learned last niRht, will adopt a cautious policy in deal- iHE with the problems confronting the anthracite industry when they meet Governor Arthur H. James on Friday. The operators went to the capital last week to give the Tiovernor their version of what is wrong with  the  industry.
The United Mine Workers have consistently favored some sort of state control of the industry for five years.
President W. W, Inglis of the Glen Alden Coal Company, largest producer in this region, told the Covernor that his company was ngainsl slate regulation of any kind, feeling It would wreck the industry. JaniPA Hit« ,liinRle l.aw
Offlcials nf the Reading. Hudson «nd Tennsylvania companies, along with a number of independents, indicated they would look with favor on some legislative remedy. Donald Markle, head of llie .leddo-Hirhland Co., one of the leading independents in Luzerne county, stated his company was satisfied to have the industry left alone and that if weak companies could not stay in business the fault was with them.
The statement of Mr. Markle. along with similar remarks, caused Governor James to declare that the law of the jungle would not prevail In the coal industry while he is governor.
Mining men last night were skeptical that a legislative remedy was in sight to regulate the coal lousiness with so much competition existing. They commended Gover¬ nor James' interest. T»  Attack   Tax  Problem i
However,   the   question   of   coal taxation eventually will be brought I before   the   governor.    Taxation   is on« of the major reasons why coal [ i«   hifh.    It   is   reported   that   the i Olen Alden Coal Company contrib¬ utes   120  In   taxes   per  man   each ¦
year
It is estimated ninety cents must he added to the price of every ton nf coal for taxes.
Governor James is expected to h« requested to pass the necessary legislation that would enable a change in the tax law so coal would not he taxed underground, but U it: comes out of the mines. .V>,flOO,0(M Tons In IflST
The elimination of the tax problem is difncult. according to mining men, as most of the munici¬ palities in Lucerne county have bonded indebtedness ultimately de¬ pending for liquidation upon taxes from coal.
Lale returns on production for last year indicate the industry will have produced .W.OOn.OOtl. several million tons short of the year pre¬ ceding However, this year started nut v<'ith a hang, production far exceeding the same months In the (wo previous years.
Old El Stations Are Gold Mines
New York, Feb. Ig. (UP) — Thar'a gold  in  them  there  El's.
Substitute nickels and dimes for gold and you have the elec¬ trifying news which flashed up and down Sixth avenue today, attracting scores of "Forty- Niners" with pans to the richest diggings east of the Rockies.
For decades passengers on the .Sixth avenue elevated line, now being demolished, had been los¬ ing coins down chinks in the flooring of the structure's 18 stations.
Now the floorboards are com¬ ing up and in the solidly packed dust underneath, workmen and others are finding hundreds of long lost nickels and dimes, many of them bearing outmoded designs and l!)th century dates.
No accurate estimate of their value is available because with the workmen and volunteer miners the rule Is "finders keepers."
But the richest lode so far, according to James H. Markey. boss of the project, was the station at S.'ird street. It yield¬ ed  at  least  J,SO,  he  said.
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250,000 in Day At Exposition
San Francisco, Feb. It. (UPt —The Golden Gate International Exposition, California's mighty pageant that took $.'50,000,000 and four years to build, opened on Treasure Island In San Fran¬ cisco  Bay  today.
Five hours after the gates opened It was estimated there were 100,000 people on Treasure Island, Exposition officials ex¬ pected  250,000 by midnight.
President Roosevelt, from Key West, Florida, sent his good wishes to the exposition in a nation-wide  broadcast.
MAKING READY TO
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Lee Is Receiver; Back Pay Settletl For 20 Per Cent
'PROUD or
PLANE SALE TO FRANCE
Morgcnthau Calls $65,000,000 Order 'Good Business'
Young Mother Stole for Family
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 18. tlIP)-A 3«-year-old mother who stole a suit of clothes and $12 because, she said, she needed funds for her baby and sick hvisband was given a two-month suspended   Jail   sentence.
Judge Arthur P. Stone order¬ ed the defendant, Mrs. Esther M. Beane. to reappear m court Monday but did not explain wliv She was held In continued $1,000   bail.
Her husband Wilbur. 37, was .sentenced to one year in jail at the same time for forgmg and passing a $;s check.
T
TROOPS AN ANSWER TO MUSSOLINI
Infantry Marches in Area Ceded Rome By Pact of 1935
ONLY 2 GOOD MODELS
IN r LEAN CASE
For 27 years trapshooters have been firing at clay pigeons over Sloan's Lake, near Denver, Colorado, and Harold Roberts, above, and Daniel Winters, unemployed, believed they could find a lead mine there. They went to work on it and are reclaiming a ton of lead a day at $65 a ton.
Loyalist Leaders Split Over Demand for Peace
Kephart Orders Objecting Briefs Be Supressed
Finding "nothing whatever In the record which in any way supports" objections made when exceptions were filed to the a.:counts nf At¬ torney William S. Mcbean III and the late Judge William S. McLean jr. inconncction with the estate of the late Percy D. McLean, Chief Justice   John   W.   Kephart   of   the
Pennsylvania   Supreme   Court   has .   ,, ,
dismissed    the    appellants'    briefs "Mlsck   ""   Madrid   and   Valencia.
Azana May Declare Negrin in Rebellion; General Resigns
Paris, Fe^ 18. (UP) Loaders nf Rppublioiuif' Spain were split by wide dissension tonight as (ireat Britain and France moved toward recognition of Nationalist Spain, whose armies geared  for an  early
Unleash Worst Air Raid in Year
and  ordered  Ihcm  supressed.
He thus sustained the early de¬ cision of Judge E. Foster Heller in Luzerne county's Orphan Court and dismissed the case.
When the first account was filed by Attorney W. S. McLean HI for   at   Valencia   it   it   refuses   to   seek
It was  another hope  for  an  early peace.
It was reported that President Manuel Azana, who is in Paris, threatened to break relations with Premier Juan Ncgrin's government
SEAL VERDICT ON FATE OF WPA DRIVER WHOSE TRUCK KILLED 4
The fate of George Taylor, 2."!. "f .^2R Cherry street. Scrantnn. iharged with manslaughter as the result of the death of four men and injury nf several others when a WPA truck he was driving over¬ turned will not be known uiHtil Monday.
The jury last night returned a scaled verdict after deliberations since  noon yesterday.
The case attracted wide atten¬ tion in Lackawanna county and was hard fought. Taylor was ac¬ cused of being drunk.
his lale father, George R. Mcl>ean, as executor of the estate of his late brother. Percy D. McLean, an account also was filed by Judge McLean for himself and George R. Mcl^ean, showing disbursements of money, they had set up in a voluntary trust for payment of creditors and support of the family of Percy D. McLean. Widow Flies Kxceptlons I Emily D. McLean, widow of I Percy, filed exceptions to these accounts and the case went into Orphan   Court.
There, after hearings held over six weeks, from February of 1937 to January of 1938, Judge Heller dismissed the exceptions, stating that the descendant had voluntarily ' changed the beneficiaries of his life insurance to his brothers, George R. and Judge William ,S. jr., and that these brothers received this as their own and that they then set up a voluntary trust of $120,000
peace. Negrin's refusal may pro¬ voke Azana into declaring the Valencia government in rebellion. Another blow was struck at the Loyalist cause by the announce¬ ment of General Vicente Rojo, one of the two highest ranking Repub¬ lican officers, that he would not return to Sp.-iin from France. Ho was reported to have sent his resign.itinn to Negrin.
French, British Active
At Burgos, Sir Robert Hodgson, special agent of the British gov¬ ernment, was laying the ground¬ work for recognition. He was join- i ed today by Senator I.#on Berard. I France's special envoy to the Nationalist capital.
Their hope is to obtain assur¬ ances thnt Franco will not make wholesale reprisals. Their work also must he cautious because of the fear that Netionnlist Spain will align     itself    with    Germany    and
Valencia, Feb. 1«, (UP) Nationalist air raiders blasted Alicante today killing 60 and wounding 200 in the most deadly riir raid in central Spain in a year.
Four Savoia (Italian type) planes appeared from the north¬ east at 11:.">0 a. m. They flew over the city proper and after unloading their bombs disap¬ peared out to sea.
Two bombs fell on a building filled with people who had sought refuge when the air raid alarm sounded. The building was com- oletely razed. Thirty were kill¬ ed and  100 wounded.
Another bomb fell on a school killing several children and wounding .'50 others.
Nationalists shelled the center of Madrid at 11 a. m. today causing numerous victims when a ten-inch shell fell into a sub¬ way entrance jammed with crowds  seeking  refuge.
HOUSE MINORITY CALLS GUAM AIR BASE HAZARD TO PEACE
Preliminary steps for re-openlng of Chauncey Coal Co. were taken on Friday when Judge Alfred Valentine appointed George F. Lee, owner, as receiver. Lee was given full authority to arrange for re¬ opening without interference. His bond was placed at $5,000.
The colliery has been closed since April 11 when stockholders, Dr. C. A. Judge, Jerome McCrystle and Attorney Ralph Lynch, de¬ faulted on payments of royalties and salaries of employees. It was reclaimed by George F. I-,ee by default after operators were given a 30-day notice.
The owner will endeavor to re¬ sume operations in the near future and employ most of his former workers, many of whom held jobs there for more than fifteen years. Aeeept iO'^'r Back Wages
All Others in U. S. Inferior to German; Craig Sees Secrets
WR.shington. Feb. 18. (UP) Rec¬ ords nf the Senate military affairs committfe revealed tonight that Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor- genthau jr. refused to give the committee a copy of President Roosevelt's letter ordering three government departments to aid a French mission purchase American made fighting planes.
The committee made public testi¬ mony presented at secret hearings, reviewing the mission's activities since last December when U. S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt revealed France's aerial rearmament plans to Morgenthau. Testimony .'Made Public
Morgenthau, it was disclosed, was requested to submit a copy of Mr. Rooscvelt'.s letter instructing the War, Navy and Treasury de¬ partments to co-operate with the French mission. He replied that since the request "relates not to one, but to many confidential com¬ munications, written and oral, be¬ tween the President and depart¬ ments of the government," he could not comply.
Committee Chairman Morris Sheppard, D., Tex., made public a transcript  of  testimony  given   last
EORCESE.R.IO PLAN RUSH HOI
Sails on Cruiser To See Maneuvers: Prowler Chased
BUILD UP DEFENSES
Increase Fleet in Somaliland Waters, Double Military
Key   West.   Fla.,   Feb.   18   lUP) President   Roosevelt,   gravely   con-
Paris. Feb. 18. (UP) —France haa reoccupied territory ceded to Italy In 1935 along the western border of French Somaliland and has es¬ tablished frontier defenses to meet Italian threats to the French col¬ onial empire, a foreign office com¬ munique revealed  today.
Senegalese infantry were moved into a triangle facing the Straits of Bab El Mandeb, the narrow bottle neck which connects the Red Sea and the Gulf  of Aden  and  formi
The way for re-opening finally month and last Thursday by Mor- has been paved after the removal ; genthaii. Secretary of War'Harry of several legal entanglements. : H. Woodring, Assistant Treasury Stockholders had to be properly Secretary Jnlin W. Hanes. Assist- notified of the change and 150 ant Secretary of War Louis ,Iohn- cmployees who claimed back wages son. Army Chief of Staff Malin had to be satisfied to avoid suit Craig and other high officials, in  court. Proud of Sales
Employees  accepted  20 per  cent
of heir own money which was used   Italy in an anti-Communist pact.
for payment of creditors and. in large part, for support of the de¬ ceased Percy D.'s family. No part was taken for repayment nf pre¬ vious advances they had made. After that decision, the case was (Continued on  Page  A-16)
James Says Bar Association Made 'Mountain Out of MolehiW
^4|»i.
Chicago, F'eb. 18.   (UP)—Governor   James,   as   judge,   dramatically   re- thur  H. .lames  of  Penn.sylvanla   signed  to  himself  as  Governor.
*id today the American Bar Asso¬ ciation's committee on ethics had fsdc a "mountain nut of a mole¬ hill" of charges that he violated judicial ethics by retaining an $18.000-a-y»ar judgeship while cam¬ paigning   for   office.
The Governor emerged smiling after being closeted an hour and IS minutes with the rommitte* "hieh met in executive session to hear the case. Refuse to I'nmnient
Bnth James and Ucan W. H. Aran), chairman of the committee, refused to comment on the out¬ come  of  the  meeting.
The Governor complained after todays hearing that "the unfair¬ ness of such a meeting is the atti¬ tude that ne is guilty or he wouldn't be there    that's the public   to Spain.
In Paris, despite a French ban on political activities, Diego Mar¬ tinez Barrio, vice-president of the Republican government, convened an "unofficial" meeting of the members of the Republican parlla- .ment now in France.
ritlmatum Sent
Barrio reported to the deputies the nature of the ultimatum which Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Loyalist , foreign minister, carried from Azana to Negrin. Del Vayo left for the border last night to fly to Valencia.
The ultimatum was understood to include:
1. That Azana remain in France for the time being contrary to Negrin's   demands   that  he   return
Washington. Feb. 18. (UPl—A minority of the House naval af .irs committee tonight asserted that administration plans to build a .¦55,000,000 air base on Guam- only 1.400 miles from the .Japanese main¬ land—involve extreme hazards to the  peace  of  the  United States.
The minority five Republicans and a Democrat charged that plans for development of the tiny South Pacific island is the first step toward ultimate fortification of the isle which lies amid Japan's South Pacific mandate.
Authorization for the Guam de¬ velopment was carried in a $52.- 000.000 measure reported favorably to the House yesterday b.v a ma¬ jority of the committee. The bill authorizes development of 11 naval air bases.
of their wages as settlement in full and automatically withdrew charges in court. Although Lee was not directly responsible for lost wages, he had to meet demands to avoid suit and probable entrance into bankruptcy.
Dr. Judge had offered to pay workers 25 per cent of their wages last year, and 10 per cent each month until the debt was cleared if he would be allowed to operate. At that time the men refused. Shortly before the end of the year they accepted the offer of Lee, after being advised by their at¬ torney, Ray Livingston. I'nion  I..eader Resigns
Attorney Livingston issued a re¬ port to union leaders, Michael Koaik and John Sabol, that bank¬ ruptcy or suit In court would net the men les.s than 20 per cent, after  liabilities  were  met.
In the meantime, another ob¬ stacle in the path of Ijtt has been removed. Jo.seph S. Gerko, Chaun¬ cey union leader who fought I^ee so consistently on grievances, has resigned the presidencv. He was being accused of keeping men from working the mines by his domineering tactics and. because of the.«e charges, sacrificed his position for the good of the local. Frank Novak, former vice-presi¬ dent,  filled the  vacancy.
BUSINESS LOOKS UP. STOCKS ARE LIFTED
SOVIET K'E RRKAKKR REA<'HF,.S FARTHEST NORTH
Moscow, Feb. 18 (UP) Fifteen volunteers on the Soviet ice-breaker Sedov, drifting for its second win¬ ter in Arctic seas and disabled by a     broken     propeller,     today     ap-
New York, Feb. 18. (UP) Grow¬ ing prospects that industrial recov¬ ery which got under way last June soon will be resumed lifted stocks this week to the best general levels since Jan. 21.
Extent of the advance and deal¬ ings were limited, however, by con¬ tinued uncertainties over the European  situation.
An encouraging domestic busi¬ ness scene was enhanced b.v as¬ surances    by    President    Roosevelt
altitude."
"They make a mnuntaiii nut of a molehill and the result is that plenty nf people in counties back home will think 1 really have done something serious." Refused to Submit Brief
.lames refused the committee's offer to allow him to submit a brief regarding the charges and elected to appear before the hear¬ ing in person.
2. That the Negrin government abandon plans to continue the de¬ fensive war and take advantage of the French and British readiness to press Burgos for acceptable peace terms.
Negrin Thifat«'niHl
If .Negrin refuses, Azana may proclriim him in rebellion against the republic's highest authority. If he accepts, Azana is ready to start
proached nearer the North Pole that he would not recommend than man has ever before by ship, higher taxes and that the federal News reaching Moscow gave government would make no fur- their position as R.'i degrees. .56 niin- ther expenditures for hydroelectric iites. 20 seconds cnsl   Inngitiidr. nrnjects.
County Institutional Tax Rate Cut 1.5 Mills
"The matter is strictly within the , by   Col.   Carl   L.   Estes,
The  Governor  was  accompanied   negotiations     with     France     and
bar association and is no concern 0' the general public," Arant said.
The Governor likewise said the case   was   "not   a   public   matter."
James retained his scat on the Superior   Court   bench   while   con-
Minneola, his cam-
Britain for intervention at Burgos.
County taxpayers received pleas¬ ant news from the court house yes¬ terday   morning,   when   nnnounce-
Tex.,  publisher  who  wa.' paign advisor last fall.
While the executive session was in progress, Estes sent a notatiftn to James saying that Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois Had  retained his
Twelve  of  the   republican   depu- j ment  was   made   by  County  Com
ducting his gubernatorial campaign   seat   in   probate   lourt   during   his
last fsii. Democratic opponents accused him of "unethical prac¬ tice ' and formal charges were filed with the bar assoiiation by Penn- •ylvania Public Utility Commls- •ioner Thomas Buchanan. After    th«    November    election,
first campaign  for (^lovernor.
James refused to say whether he had called the notation to the at¬ tention of the bar committee.
.lames said he would leave this afternoon on the return trip to the state capital at Harrisburg.
lies decided to refuse to return to the Madrid zone pending the out¬ come of del Vayo's conversations with Negrin on ihe basis of Azana's insistent demand for an early peace.
Nationalist air raids on east coast Loyalist jiorts were particu- larl.v violent today, chiefly at Ali¬ cante and Valencia. Twelve bomb¬ ers dropped 120 bombs on Alicante killing at least 60. Forty bombs were dropped at Valencia.
missioners MactJuffie and Davis thai at the next meeting of the commissioners action will be taken to reduce the lax levy of the Lu¬ zerne (bounty Institution District one and five-tenth mills.
This is made possible, according to the commissioners, by economies put into effect during the past year most of which were in the form of more efficient management and the concentration of all activities of poor relief under one head.
The new institutional rale will be 3 mills instead of 4.5 mills levy for the past year.
The county tax rate will remain the same as last year, 5.2 mills.
The reduction of 1.5 mills will be quite a saving to property owners and should also be particularly beneficial to several coal companies now finding the going hard as a result of oil  competition.
There has been a total saving in court house levies the past two years of 3.3 mills, which means a reduction to property owners In that period of more than $900,000.
,     The testimony disclosed that:
1.—Morgenthau said that Mr. Roosevelt considered the sale of planes to France "good business" and "instead of being ashamed" of the transaction "it is something to be proud of.'"
2.—Morgenthau denied vigorous¬ ly that the $2,000,000,000 stabiliza¬ tion fund was used in any way to extend credits to the French government.
3.-- Morgenthau refused to an¬ swer questions as to whether Bul¬ litt had taken up the question of French purchiises with the Presi¬ dent before bringing it to Mor- genthau's  attention.
4.—That the French representa¬ tives were under a pledge that no fighting planes pure hased in the United States should leave France aand that none of them should be   shown   to   "anybody."' j
Cnlled '\'aluH>ilfl Secret* |
5.—That (!^raig considered the new Douglas attack bomber which F'rance sought to buy to be one of two "valuahle military secrets if we are  to lead in the air."
6. The army objected to the sales, basing one objection on the fact that it would lose the oppor¬ tunity to add Ihe Douglas type plane   to   its   air  force.
7. Morgenthau said the French would not purchase any planes un¬ less   they   could   obtain   "something
[as good or better than the Ger¬ mans have."' And that he had been infoormed that there were only two models "which would stand in the air for one second against the l".»rman   plane."
8. Craig endorsed the sale of planes abroad as a means nf set¬ tling the "Icnihle bugaboo of obso¬ lescence of planes," but the French purcha.ves seemed to him to be "a little   bit   different."
9. Morgenthau and Woodring disputed the possibility nf deliver¬ ing the planes to France by July 1. Woodring said that "if they want them hy the first nf July they will never buy an airplane in this country. . . . They cannot be de¬ livered in that time." (
Objections .Set  Korlll
10. Woodring submitted to Mor¬ genthau a memorandum setting forth the War Department'.^ ob¬ jections to I lie sales, but the Treasury secretary returned it "unacted  up."
11. The whole policy of co¬ operation with the French repre¬ sentatives was settled at a confer¬ ence with President Roosevelt after a cabinet meeting at the White House
12.- Morgenthau adniiUed that War Department officials objected to Ihe salc.s of iatcsl-lypc plane? at a conference with him last December 22. and thai they had raised the question nf wlicther the French orders could he filled with¬ out interfering with the Army's own   procurement   program.
Morgenthau    testified    that    the French    were    prepared    to    spend [ $65,000,000 for  l.ono planes, that  he
cerned   over   new   complications   in ^^^   southern   exit   from   the   Sue»
the   international   situation   which ^.,^^,   ^.-^^^ ,.fg ,.^g ^j ,^g French
may force his return to Washing- ^^^ Brx\.is\\ empires.
ton  on  short  notice,  sped   through j^^^j,  ^^y^ Taken Over
tropic   seas   tonight   to    join   the .J.^^     communique     emphasized
American battle fleet in maneuvers. ^^^^  ^^^  triangle   never  had  been
The chief executive sailed from taken over by Italy. The pact here aboard the swift cruiser Hous- under which the territory was ton with his plans so arranged that reded by former Premier Pierre if developments abroad warrant, he Laval in 1935 was recently de- can leave the naval maneuvers Im- nounced by Premier Benito Musso- mediately  and  return  to Washing- ijni.
ton   before  March   4   as   originally The   treaty   was   denounced   to
planned. make way  for Italy's "natural as-
Before   the   President   embarked, pirations.'    meaning    new    colonial
he served notice on the world that ambitions   expected   to   be   gained
institutions   of   democracy   in   the at   the    expense    of   France.    The
western    hemisphere    "must    and demands were expected to be based
shall be maintained."   At the same on   secret   promise   made   to   Italy
lime, he renewed in vigorous terms when  she joined  the Allies in  the
his   intention   of   carrying   forward World  War.
the   "good   neighbor"   doctrine   in The  move by France was inter-
this nation's foreign  policies. preted,   however,  as  an   answer   to
Last-minute   Information   relayed <he    preliminary    maneuv^erms    at
to Mr. Roosevelt bv the State De- R»me,  including  abrogation  of the
parlment    in   Washington    caused Lav»l   Pact   and   anti-French   at-
Jhe   chief   executive   to   take   new '«-c'<'' '," "i* l^i'"*"  P"'"'
notice of the foreign situation. N'w t^mmaiider Arrive.
That information was to the ef- General   leGeniilhomme  has  al-
feet that a po.ssibility existed that ready  arrived  at   Djibouti  as  new
certain countries would renew their ««neraliss,mo of the French forces
international demands. "' Somahland  to co-ordinate  land,
sea and  air  defenses of  the  vital
¦Man Chased from Car
railroad   terminal   against   possible
Before leaving Florida City, how- ^d^ck from Eritrea or Ethiopia, ever, police and secret service men ; yj,, triangle of land occupied by were in action unknown to the ,j,g French is a narrow sliver ex- President who was at breakfast in (ending from the Gulf of Aden, his private car. along   the   border   between   Eritrea
A policeman noticed a maij mak- and French Somaliland and reach¬ ing his way through the under- ing inland to the frontier of brush   near  a  highway  that  paral-   Ethiopia.
Irled the tracks. His movements -phe French fleet off Somaliland aroused Ihe suspicions of the ^,„ increased to five warships ofTicer. who immediately summoned vjhen the 8000-ton cruiser Primau- help  and  started  in   pursuit. guet, en route from duty in Chinese
A dozen  policemen, deputy sher-   waters,    was    ordered    to    call    at iffs   and   secret   service   men   beat   Djibouti.    It  will  remain  there  in- the woods hut could find no trace   definitely, of the man. j French Fleet Increased
         ,     . In   addition   the   destroyer   Eper-
State nepartnient Siirprl«»«d \ ^j^^    ^^e   gunboat   Dibenille   and
Washington. Feb 18. <"?>/»"»«} two 1..300-ton submarines. theSouff- Department officials reflected sur- | ,^„^ ,„^ (^^ Caiman, arrived at pri.se tonight at announcement tha pji^, ^^^ ^,^^„j transfer President    Roosevelt    may    curtail      '
his  review  of  fleet  maneuvers  be- j cause of concern about new inter- i
orders.
Reports in Paris said that French colonial   forces  have  been  doubled
national /'"¦'•'"'l'^^^"/'''^,,^^   . ,„ . , ' i„   the   past   six   months   bv   levies cOffirials would not consent to he i i,       . j .  ......
quoted, but Ih-ir guarded responses "" n»tiv' troops and concentration to inquiries indicated they were "' ^^^ forces ay he most threat- not more concerned over the pres- ened spots - Indo-Lhina, Tunisia ent     iiilernalional    situation    than   «";•  ¦^Ji"""",
they   have   been    for   weeks   and months past.
There   were,   however,   some   in dilations thai  the  "last minute In
General le Gentilhomme ha» about 3.000 troops to defend the colony, including the last detach¬ ment of 1.000 .Senegalese who were
formation" concerning the foreign »»nt to reoccupy the thin triangU situation which had given Presi- which Laval gave Mussohni in dent   Roosevelt   increa.sed   concern   '935.   The  triangle  lies behind  Du-
meira   Island   and   the   straits   of Bab El .Mandeb along the Critrcan
may have been  the report on Ger- ni,in>'s   economic   situation   result¬ ing   from   failure   of   Hitler's   new frontier, finance   minister.   Walter  Funk,  'o Preparations Secret curtail   imports   and   increase   ex- Preparations   in   Somslilami   ar» norts   to   bring   Germany's   trade , being kept secret, hut according t« into balance. (Continued on  Page  A-16)
Former Scranton Gambler Is Shot Dead in Rich Poker Game
had   made   certain   the   trans;jction (Continued on Page A-16)
Maiden. Mass., Feb. 18. lUP' A Revere man once implicated In a shoe company holdup was ques¬ tioned by police here tonight in connection with a card game rob¬ bery in which one player was slain, another perhaps mortally wounded and S.'i.OOO to $8,000 stolen.
The suspect was seized at his home and brought to Maiden police headquarters, only two blocks frnm the basement clubroom where the shootings occurred early today. Three masked bandits engineered the raid during a stud poker game at  $10  per card.
The robbers overlooked an addi¬ tional $4,000 which was found in- t,ut in the pockets of John Wheelock, 50. nf Allston. the slain player. Shot in the back, his body was found sprawled beneath a card table on which was scattered a deck of c ards. all face down except the qreen nf spades.
(Wheelock for three years oper¬ ated a gambling house on Wyo¬ ming avenue, ,Scranton. an elabor¬ ate place designed to care for race track   bets.     When   the   place   wa»
raided   in   1934.   a   Scranton   mui
was  designated  aa  the  owner aad
sent    to    prison.      'Wheelock    l»ft
Scranton.)
Misa Money on  Table
The wounded man. Patrick Flynn, 40. of Everett, a forma* boxer, still was unconscious at Maiden Hospital after an opCr«* tion.
Though the bandidts robbed all 12 players, they did not touch • stack of $10 hills in the middle of the table. Anthony Mondello, door¬ keeper of the club, stuffed th*M bills into his pocket and later turn¬ ed them over to the police.
11 was Mondello who opened tha "Utaide door to be confronted by the three bandits, each of whom wore a handkerchief mask. Two of the men carried pistols and the other a sawed-off shotgun. WTien Mondello. with hands upraised, ap¬ peared al the door of the clubroom, followed by the bandits. Wheelock reached for his revolver. He wM shot dead hy one of tha trio. la , the gun battle thst ensued, wai shot in tha htad.
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