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FORTY-FOUR PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1938
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NEW DEAL TO RESUME SPENDING BEORGANIZATION PLAN CURTAILED
CONFESSES Stenographer Needs Law\'""'"'"'"""^"^'^^•¦^>"<^"'Birthdays ||y|gg|pY ^jfX^HOPING TO STOP
POnSVILLE JAIL BREAK
Police   Continue   Effort  to
Connect Him with Two
Shooting Affairs
To Slow Up Her Fan Mail
Dorothy Hochman Got 11,000 Letters and Postcards
in Four Years—But They All Were from One
Man and All They Said Was 'I Love You'
CAUGHT IN PLYMOUTH
Yodock   Persist  in   Denial
of Attempt to Break in
Bank Vault There
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^ Though he persists in denying . any connection with the attempt Thursday nighl to crack the vault In Plymouth National Bank, John Yodock, 2fi, last nighl was grilled in connection with a murder, a shooting and aeveral other bank robberies in addition to the failure in Plymouth, and he has admitted he Is a fugitive from Schuylkill County Prison.
"You've got me on the Schuyl¬ kill job," he told Motor Poiiee al the Wyoming Barracks lasl night, "but you haven't got anything else on me."
In spite of fail denials ever since being picked up by Plymouth police Fridav, the examination was con¬ tinued as police seemed to ^see a connection between Yodock'a'meth¬ ods and those used in olher burg¬ lary cases still unsolved and were giving strenuous efforts to link him wilh a fatal shooting in Ohio and the wounding of a man in Berwick. They were far from satisfied with his admission that hia jail¬ break at Pottsville is the only crime for which he is wanted »nd police of other sections have been contacted in the effort to complete the caae.
9Vt BUI IdcnUfied While Motor Police and members of the Plymouth department are reluctant to talk, they nevertheless cannot conceal their delight that sn important capture haa been made. Searching the prisoner at the barracks, it is reported officers found concealed in a zipper belt a twenty dollar bill and part of a hack saw.
The twenty dollar bill, is la said, answers to a serial number sent out by Ohio police in connection with bank robbery held in that state. II is also reported lhat the saw part Is similar in construction to that found by postal authorities following the attempt t,o burglarize i the Freeland  postofflce. j
Every effort to connect him with I nther  crimes  has  been  completely balked so far.   The admission that he    broke   out   of   the   Schuylkill County Prison was made after he looked at his picture taken by the police  authorities   of   that  couniy. Explaining  his  escape  from  tho prison, Yudock stated that he was raised in Shamokin  but  never got any "breaks in life"; that he later became    involved    in    a    robbery through  undesirable  companions. Says He Stayed In Plymouth After     his     candid     admission. Motor  Police  pressed  him  aggres¬ sively    concerning    olher    crimes. (Continued  on  Page  A-2)
New York, April 2 (UP)-Doro- thy Hochman's fan mail added up to 11.000 letters and postcards over a four-year period - not bad for a 22-ycar-old Brooklyn stenographer.
The trouble, she told Magistrate Jacob Eilperin today, was that all the messages came from one fan, 24-year-old David Lloyd Brother, a bookkeeper in her office.
And there was the monotony, too, she said. All the letters contained the  same  refrain:
"I adore you, I worship you, I love  you."
This theme, occasionally with variations, had been repealed as often as 10 limes a day since she first met Brother four years ago. Miss Hochman said.
No Noticeable Encouragement
All she did to precipitate Broth¬ er's courtship-by-mail, she assured the magistrate, was to speak lo him "as people do with people they work with." She had never "gone out" with him, she said.
She returned all the gifts—stock¬ ings, candy, manicure sets, per¬ fumes and the like—which Brother sent: but his ardor instead of wan¬ ing niounted higher by the day, the stenographer complained.
Last Tuesday, she said. Brother added possessiveness to insistence.
i Among   that   d^y's   messages, said,  wa.s the  following:
"Any time I see you with a low no matter where it be knock his teeth  out."
Miss Hochman said Brother was "a very nice young man" and had. she gathered, fallen in love with her. But "I don't love him." she said, "and I want him to stop."
The telegram he sent yesterday. Miss Hochman said, was an ex¬ ample of Brother's persistence. It read:
"Receive summons. I love you. Nothing can change that, darling."
Magistrate Eilperin talked to Brother In private a while and then called Mis.s Hochman lo the bench.
GiftH Also Taboo
"David." he said, "now sees the seriousness of the situation he is willing to apologize and will prom¬ ise nol to annoy you any more and will nol send you any more letters."
David spoke.
"Can I send her some gifts?" he asked.
"If you do. young man, I'll »«nd you away," Eilperin  replied.
David said all right he wouldn't, and the magistrate dismissed the complaint.
Miss Hochman, guarded by « couple of friends, packed up her fan mall and left the courtroom.
LOCAL n
AS FEARS OF REVOLT RISE
President's   Leaders   Ease Reorganization Drive to Assure House Passage
FACES MORE DELAY
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U.S. GOVERNINI TENURE
Shirley Temple, first lady among junior screen stara, ioon will arrive at the advanced age of nine years. Here she gets a preview of the huge hirthday cake lhat will help celebrate the occasion on April 23. Incidentally, Shirley appears to be growing up and has changed her former long curls for the pinned-back style.
After Spending Thousands Newport Unable to Have Sports Fields Completed
NEED 15-YEAR LEASE
Suing the federal government Is virtually impossible, unle.ss by agreement, but members of the hoard of education of Newport Township are seriously considering just that sort of action.
Directors three years ago started a project for construction of an athletic field, but It is not yet even half completed. It was started un¬ der rules of PWA, which required a five-year lease on land to be used. Now the PWA is Out of existence and WPA, its successor, demands a 15-year lease.
Glen Alden Coal Company, owner of the grounds, emphatically '.old the school board. In a letter Fri¬ day .that its program of awarding leases will not be altered for the WPA. Directors now are puzzled as  lo  their  next  step.
Thousands Spent
"Wc   will   hold   the   federal   gov¬ ernment to its original agreement." state   directors   of  the   school   dis- ] (Continued  on   Page  A-lOl
Says School Board Associa¬ tion Used Tax Money 'to Carouse Around'
TRUTH CONCEALED
Sen,   Vandenberg Asks Roosevelt To Renounce Third Term Ambitions
Washington, April 2. (UP) Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., said in an Interview tonight that President Roosevelt should unequiv¬ ocally renounce any ambition for a third  term.
The senator, frequently mention¬ ed as a possible Republican presi¬ dential candidaie in 1940. added that the President by taking such sction would supplement his recent denial that he does not aspire to be • dictator. Reference was to the letter which Mr. Roo.sevelt sen', to Wl unnamed friend in connection With the reorganization bill.
"If the President would unequiv¬ ocally renounce a third term for nimself," Vandenberg said, "it would put reality into his midnight re- Syipciatlon of dictatorship.
Shows Need for Expression
"If he deems American fears to P« so acute as to require his amaz- ("Rly sudden protestation of anli- '"iperialiBtic aspirations, I respect¬ fully suggest that the tangible way express   himself   in    terms   of
to
American politics is to now become "Pecifir."
The President never haa answer-
SENATOR VANI)EBBER(i .... want* aomethlng deflnlt**
ed publicly questions hs tn whetl.ir he desired a third term, and his (Continued  on  Page A-2)
Harrisburg, April 2. (UP) — Artriur A. Maguire of Plains, U. S. District Attorney and counsel fnr the Stale Teachers League, told the league's annual convention to¬ day he doubted if a single school direelor in Pennsylvania approved of the 1937 legislature's Teacher Tenure Act.
Maguire assailed the State Asso¬ ciation of School Directors, charg¬ ing school boards used the tax¬ payers' money tn "send a couple of delegates somewhere to carouse around."
He contended that school direc¬ tors attempted to "conceal their true feelings" by arguing the tenure law jeopardizes the professional standard of teachers."
"WU.A you responded to their political whip, you were 'profes¬ sional,' "   Maguire   a.sscrled.
Mundy .Says Fear Ended State Senator Leo C. Mundy of Luzerne county. Democratic candi¬ date for Lieutenant-Governor, told the delegates the tenure act had removed the "spectre of fear" from the life of Penn.'fylvania teachers, enabling them to do good work from Ihe "start lo the finish of the school year."
The sponsor of the measure to prevent dismissal of school teach- I ers on "political grounds" said he had fought for the tenure law despite the wariftngs of friends it was "political suicide."
Dr. Arabel W. Clark, teacher in Ihe West Philadelphia High School, said that enactment of the three amendments proposed by the school directors association would "re¬ move  the  tenure  law."
• .'Miss Mcdlynn Re-eletced iTie league re-elected Barbara C. McGlynn, Wilkes-Barre, as presi¬ dent and these other officers: Lotts Davies, Lansford, first vice presi¬ dent; Margaret Latham, Philadel¬ phia, second vice president; Eliza¬ beth S. Baker, Harrisburg, secre¬ lary.
Harrv J. Swanger, Lebanon, was named  treasurer.
The following committees were reappointed:
Executive—Joanna Connell, Erie; C. L. Harie, Hazleton; Edward A. Jenkins jr., Wilkinsburg; Bertha Holderman, Shenandoah; I. H.Bar¬ tholomew, Bethlehem. Legislative John T. McClintock. Elizabeth S. Baker, both of Harrisburg, and Hugh Boyle, Hazleton. ,
OVER $5,000 TAKEN IN DURYEA HOLDUP
Congress Will Be Able to
Disapprove   Orders   on
Mere Majority Vote
Washington, April 2. (UP) President Roosevelt's leaders, faced wilh a spreading revolt in the House, agreed tonight to a com¬ promise government reorganization bill. The aciion was believed to have assured House passage of the controversial measure.
The compromise was offered after telephone consultation wilh the President at Warm Springs, Ga. House leaders denied, how¬ ever, that Mr. Roosevelt had spe¬ cifically accepted the modifications.
Outa President's Power
The compromise:
Would allow Congress lo disap¬ prove presidential orders for aboli¬ tion or reorganization of govern¬ ment agencies by a simple major¬ ity vote instead of a two-thirds: vole a.s provided In the original; administration draft. I
Exempts from presidential  reor- [ ganization     powers     th«     Federal Bureau of Education.
The   compromise   offer   was   fol¬ lowed by nearly six hours of gen- (Conllnued on Page A-10)
RECESSION WITH MORE BILLIONS
Roosevelt Administration Is Preparing Re-
turn to Earlier Methods of *Pump-
Priming* in Spite of Advisors Who
Expect Natural Recovery
AIM AT STAGNATED INVESTMENTS
Washington, April 2 (UP)—The Roosevelt administra¬ tion, confronted with ever-deepening business recession, was lielieved tonigiit to be contemplating resumption of large- scale "pump-priming" reminiscent of early New Deal days.
Support for expanded government spending was gaining strength in administration circles despite views of a small but powerful group of presidential advisers who insist that the business recession will soon be arrested and that an upturn will be evident by summer.
Considerable significance was attached to conferencea between President Roosevelt and \Vorl<s Progress Adminis¬ trator Harry Hopkins at \\'arm Spring.s, Ga., this week. It was generally  believed that the two talked of the relief
outlook for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Mr. Roosevelt in January hoped the appropriation would not exceed $1,000,000,000. Since then business haa slumped sharply. Some officials estimate that between .?2,000,000,000 and »3,- 000,000,000 will be  needed.
Spending School Wins
The spending school In the ad¬ ministration has won out against the budget balancers, who have been entrenched in the Treasury Department under Secretary Mor¬ genthau. Likewise, the sentiment in Congress haa undergone a change with news from back home of increasing unemployment.
The object Is to pump money quickly Into the channels of pur chasing power to hall the recession until some nf the other measures already   planned   can   take   effect
PRESIDENT CONSIDERS ANTI-MONOPOLY TALK
Two holdup men, at 11:15 oclock last night, held up Michael Swan- toskl, proprietor of the largest grocery store In Duryea, and rob¬ bed him of more than five thou¬ sand dollars. His establishment Is located at 326 Soulh Main street. In the center of the town.
Swantoski was leaving the rear of the store to lock an adjoining warehouse when the attack took place. As he .walked through the darkness, the bandits jumped on him. taking the money which rep¬ resented a week's collection from customers. Various collieries of the vicinity paid employees this week.
Due   to   the   darkness   and   con-
Duryea businessman eould not slate whether the men were masked nor whether they had pistols. Neither could he give any description of the bandits.
The men fled. No one witnessed the robbery and details were not known unlil Mr. Swantoski in¬ formed neighbors and State Polloe.
Wyoming Barracks quickly dis¬ patched two Motor Police to the scene of the crime and Chief of Poiiee Joseph Russavage of Duryea dispatched several olher ofBcers.
Near the section where the rob¬ bery was perpetrated Is one of the most desolate spots In the upper- end section. Railroad tracks arc located   to   the   rear   of   the   store
fused by the startling attack, the / aa well as a dense, wooded section.
Also to Get into Reorganiza¬ tion Fight and Confer on Railroad Aid
MET BY JACKSON
Vatican Denies Part in Radio Attack on Nazis
Disclaims Responsibility for Anon.vnious Broadcast Against Hitler; Speech and Article With¬ out Authorization of Pope
Vatican Cily, April 2. (UP)—The Vatican today disclaimed respon¬ sibility for an anonymous radio at¬ tack on Germany's annexation of Austria and the forthcoming pleb¬ iscite ordered by Fuehrer Adolf Hiller.
! The broadcast, and an article In I Osservatore Romano, official Vati- i can organ, both were withoul au¬ thorization of the Pope or the sec¬ retariat of state, it was announced. The disclaimer further compli¬ cated the relations of the Holy See with Germany, long al odds over Nazi interference wilh Catholic or¬ ganizations in the Reich.
Last Sunday, when the Austrian Catholic bishops gave their bless¬ ing to the anschluss and admon¬ ished the faithful to vote "yes" In the plebiscite April 10. many quar¬ ters predicted an early healing of the breach between Berlin and the Vatican.
Speerhea Not Denied A few days later, however. Osser¬ vatore Romano published criticisms of the speeches of high Nazi offi¬ cials. This was not disclaimed by the Vatican broadcast repudiated today   branded   Austrian   CalhoUc
co-operation with the Nazis a "breach of faith". The newspaper article opposed Theodore Cardinal Innitizer of Vienna, chief signer of Sunday's pro-Nazi declaration, which waa read in all Catholic churchea In Austria.
A semi-ofllcial source said the broadcast was made without the knowledge of the secretariat of stale and that the appearance of the criticism in the offlcial organ waa  "purely  coincidental."
German Priest* to Aid I nion
Berlin, April 2. (UP) —Roman Catholic bishops of Germany may join the Austrian episcopate in urging all Catholics to endorse the union of Austria and Germany in the April 10 plebiscite, it was re¬ ported today.
Despite the criticism of the Osservatore Romano and a speech over the Vatican City radio de¬ nouncing the action of Austrian church heads, il was reported that German bi.shops meeting at Fuida discussed the advisability of en¬ dorsing Austro-German union.
Evangelical church heads also met here to consider the matter.
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Aboard Roosevelt Special, En¬ route to Washington, April 2 (UP) —Possibility of a decision by the Roosevelt administration on the scope nf a prnjccted anti-monopoly message to Congress was seen lo¬ night as President Roosevelt, en¬ route to Washington, was joined in Atlanta by Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson and Benjamin Cohen, close administration ad¬ viser.
Jack.son and Cnhen were waiting in the Atlanta station as the Roose¬ velt train, rnlling northward from Warm Springs, paused for a brief operations stop.
To Enter Reorganization Fight
It was a-ssumcd the President would confer with them later in the evening and again tomorrow morning.
Harry Hopkins, WPA admlnis- tratnr; Aubrey Williams, deputy adminlstratnr; and Leon Hender¬ son also were aboard the presiden¬ tial sperial. It ""hs regarded as cer-^ tain that future relief requirements were being studied although WPA officials insisted they had no ap¬ pointments  with  the  President.
Mr.   Roosevelt   was   returning   to (Continued on Page A-10)
\Supreme Court
Gets Bath Case
Billy'Sunday jr. Taken by Death
Los Angeles, April 2. (UP) — Pneumonia today was fatal to Billy Sunday jr., 37, aon of the late Billy Sunday, former base¬ ball player who turned evange¬ list. Sunday had been in the real estate  business here.
CITY GIRL, 18. SOUGHT; GONE   SINCE   TUESDAY
Police have been asked to in¬ vestigate the disappearance of Mar¬ garet Herriotl, 18, of 323 Horton strt'et, Wilkes-Barre, who has been missing from home since lasl Tues¬ day. Information Is sought by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Herriotl.
The young girl, a senior In high school, left home for school al 8:30 oclock Tuesday morning and was last seen with a tall thin man with glasses driving an Illinois machine. They were reportedly headed in the direction of Plymouth.
Miss Herriott is four feet, eleven inches in height, weighs 140 pounds, has light complexion, blue eyes, golden hair, and a scar over her left eye. When last seen she wore a black spring coat, checkered coat suit and black hat.
These ini hide long-term RFC loana to indusiry, authorized in a bill passed ye.slerday by the Senate; aid to railroads, lo be proposed in a Presidential message to Congi-css soon; the tax bill which the Senate will take up next week; attempts to breait the jam of high material prices and labor costs in the build¬ ing industry so that a housing pro¬ gram can get under way, and prob¬ able efforLs to attack the price control-monopoly problem in other directions.
Rpleasing Capital The ultimate objective of open¬ ing up the channels of capital in¬ vestment, the stagnation of which is the ba.sic difficulty at this time, cannol be reached overnight nor through any one avenue, it is felt here.
Nor can business be expanded at this time, nor investments induced into industrial channels, when mar¬ kets are contracting through a diminution of purchasing power and increasing unemployment.
Various administration leader* have given much thought in recent weeks to reopening of the invest¬ ment markets, including William O. Douglas, chairman of the Secur¬ ities and Exchange Commission, who has direct contact with mar¬ kets through supervision of the stock exchanges.
Fundamentally, he sees the need of more Investment serviCfs to di¬ rect money Into the business struc¬ ture.
Decentralizing Capital Investment hankers now art geared to handle chiefly the "blue chips," the stocks of great Indus¬ trial corporations. A great mass of sound business ventures lark necessary investment services. The investor, too, has become wary from his experience In the stncli market mania preceding the 1929 collapse.
It has been suggested that tba government might extend aid In the way of loans for creation of new inveatmcnt services to help promote the flow nf capital to sound business which needs it.
BOATMEN DEFER STRIKE AFFECTING LARGE AREA
New Orleans. April 2 (UPi—Mili¬ tant members of the ClO-Inland Boatmen's Union at the Federal Barge Lines terminal here tonight voted ,.0 defer action on a St Loul.s-to-Mobile general strike, but voted lo urge congressional investi¬ gation nf the lines and removal of Maj.-Gen. Thomas Q. Ashburn a* president.
Washington, April 2. (UP) — William Heller, Elaston, Conn., believes that the U. S. Consti¬ tution guarantees him the "in¬ alienable" right to bathe In his own  back yard.
The Supreme Court may rule Monday on Heller's contention. He is appealing against convic¬ tion under Connecticut law which prohibits bathing in a stream which eventually flows into   a   municipal   reservoir.
Heller contends he bathed in a stream thnt flowed through his .3a-acre estate and that the Constitution gnes him that right, regardless of where the stream  may  flow.
Society Woman and Her Daughter Are Feared Victims of Kidnappers
Berkeley, Calif., April 2 (UP)- Mrs. Hazel Frome, Berkeley society matron, and her daughter Nancy, 23, were sought tonight as possible victims of kidnaping or murder.
They disappeared Wednesday, re¬ portedly while carrying $2,000 in I travelers' checks. The search began police said, when their automobile was found abandoned in a ditch on a lonely desert road.
Mrs. Frome. wife of W. G. Frome executive of the Atlas Power Com¬ pany in San Francisco, lefl Berke¬ ley March 23 with Nancy to visit another daughter, Mrs. Benjamin McMakin, wife of a lieutenant of Marines stationed at Farris Island. S. C.
Texas authorities reported today that Mrs. FiVime's automobile had been found in desolate sagebrush country between El Paso and Pecos. Texas. The car. they re¬ ported to Police Chief John A. Greening of Berkeley, was In good condition, with the ignition key In the lock. The tank contained plenty of gasoline.
Greening said Frome reported he received a letter from Mrs. Frome dated El Paso, in which she said her next slop would be Dallas.
Miss Frome is a graduate of Bradford Academy in Massachu¬ setts. Her sister. Mada, was mar¬ ried last December to Lieut. Mc¬ Makin, son of William McMakin of Sprlnfiield, Ky.
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