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WAY PAVED FOR TRACKLESS TROLLEYS HERE
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Weather
Sunday:  Fair, warmer and late
ihowers. Monday: Showari.
FORTY-EIGHT PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1937
PRICE TEN CENTS
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SNOW STORM LASHING SOUTHERN SEAS DASHING HOPES FOR AMELIA EARHART
Makes First Hop Of Commercial Te^t Sea Fight
StrMt Car Company Able
To Abandon Right Of
Way Under New Law
GIVE UP MAINTENANCE
Early Action Expected To Replace Cars; Con- gtstion Of Roads Aided
Significant of the trend in local paasanger transportation toward! buaaei and track ieis trolleye if> a biU that has Juit become a law thtougll attachment ot Governor Elarle's signature. The measure is deHtiaed to revolutionize the pres¬ ent method of trolley transporta¬ tion in this valley.
Officials of the Wilices-Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction Com¬ pany have long had under consid¬ eration the advisability of tearing up the tracks on its trolley system in congested districts and substi¬ tuting trackless trolleys.
Under terms of the franchises that were gianted wtaMi trolley traffic was on a highly paying basis, the trolley company was compelled to maintain eight feet of the streets over which its cars travelled. To discontinue the cars now in use under the previous law (no longer in effect as a result of the passage of the new law) the cost of maintenance would remain the responsibility of the company. Borden Is Dropped The new law gives- the local trolley company the right to re¬ move its tracks and substitute trackless trolleys without shoulder¬ ing the cost of maintaining the portion of the streets over whicn the cars pass. Cost of maintenance will revert to the state and muni¬ cipalities.
General opinion is that use of trackless trolleys will facilltau ? traffic in all municipalities of this vslley. Most of the streets are narrow and, with parking on both sides, the increase in automobile travel b— made passage through many local boroughs a nightmare. Trackless trolleys will abolish this nuisance.
The   local   company  ha.s  substi¬ tuted busses on several lines in this area. Now that the new mea.sure is on the statute books  it is expected trackless   trolleys   or   bus.scs   will appear on all of them, resulting in a   big   improvement   in   travel   to I   and from the county scat, F      Passage and signature of the hill r   will    undoubtedly    accelerate    the f   movement   towards   more   modern I   transportation in this valley, E. A. ¦ Hoffman, assistant manager of the I* Wilkes-Barre Railway CorpA.ation said   last   night,   after   being   in¬ formed of the new bill. ^ ,          ExpMt  Early  Improvement I       "Much of the heavy cost of main- I   taining trolley service has been in I   upkeep of the right of way through F            (Continued  on  Page  A-8)
PAN-AMERICAN CLIPPER
ARRIVAL OF 4,000 NAZIS REPORTEO
Will  Aid   Spanish   Rebels;
Loyalists To Retaliate
With Air Terrorism
Amelia Earhart And Her Plane
ITALY SOUNDS CHARGES
Claims- British  Gas  Shells
Being Used; Eden Warns
Of End Of Patience
Dupont Camper Drowned As Friends Make Search
Score Injured In Continuance Of Traffic Toll In
Valley With Wyoming Woman Seriously
Hurt; FirecradMraJilllvn Boys
U. S. FLYING BOAl
A camper was drowned as his mother urged on reieucrs in a fu¬ tile effort to save him and a score of other persons were injured last night as a wave of accidents keyed hospitals and police to a high pitch in preparation for Fourth of July tragedies. The drowning victim was a Dupont resident.
Once again automobile accidents, which caused five deaths in Wyom¬ ing Valley in the last week, led all other causes of injury as traffic grew to wide proportions because of the week-end holiday. Several of the auto victims were reported in critical condition early today. Despite police regulations for a safe and sai-u- holiday local hos¬ pitals reported they had treated severs! young celebrators burned b     firecrackers.
Soarcli For Body
Albert Cuzydlo, 31, 131 Grant street, Dupont, drowned yesterday afternoon in Crescent L«ke in the Pooonos. With a party of berry- pickers, including his mother. Cuzydlo pitched camp on the shore of the lake. He went in swimming shortly after 2 oclock. Sometime later he was reported missing. Al¬ though a strong swimmer, Cuzydlo apparently became tangled in weeds or water plants.
For more than four hours other members of the party, with his mother witnessing their efforts, searched the lake before the body was recovered. It was taken to Dupont by Deputy Coroner Ed¬ ward Lokuta. Besides his parents, the victim is survived by several brothers   and   si.iters.
Wyoming  Woman   Hurt
Mrs. Emma Sands of Carverton was perhaps fatally hurt last night at 9 oclock when run down by un automobile while on a shopping tour in Wyoming borough. As she was    crossing    Wyoming    avenue,
Italy Upholds Catholic Divorce Of *Birth Control Pact* Marriage
Kome, July 3. (UPl-IteVs supreme court, overruling a lower . cwirl, upheld today an ecclesias- '< t> al decree of the Roman Catholic |:Chureh annulling a marriage based < «i a "birth control pact".
The case, which threatened for a
' Midi Tl atn, hi h
to provoke a controver.iy be-
the state  and the Vatican,
"i the  June,  1921. marriage
toiiio Riva and Emi' i Cor-
ecclesiastical court Tient- iiean, annulled th rriage ¦ afur the coupk losure
Ih^t before their mar Flor-
•nf?, luly, they sigr ifree-
me it to "take  the  nec^       ' P»«-   v«»t«Hve  measures  to avoiu  pro- ' creation."     They   also   agreed   to ¦ep«»au in event of "spiritual or physical alienation."
The Catholic Tribunal annulled the marriage on the grounds of |-"fault in accord" but the Florence I'Civl! Court of Appeals rejected the [ecclesiastical annullment two years M40.
B The case, without p.tfi-ed nt in ftuiy, was then carried before the ^ome Court of Cassations—the na- ¦on'i supreme court.
The Florence appeals court re¬ fused to liquidate the civil partner¬ ship of Riva and his wife because "mental reservations prior to mar¬ riage can not invalidate a civil marriage ceremony." _^.
It was contended by the lower court that a marriage ceremony, in the .eyes of the church, is a sacra¬ ment whereas it is a binding, un¬ breakable contract under laws of the lUte.
Ulghest Court Decides
Their marriage went on the rocks after four yeai-s, at a time when they were living in China, but they could obtain no divorce in their native Italy. Tn 1931 Signora Riva learned that a 'solution" was pos¬ sible under the Latcrn accords of 1929 and she sought annullment.
After the annullment, in March, 1984, Cardinal Uasparri, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of Apostolic Signatures, transmitted the de¬ cision to the Florence court, asking for ciTil approval. Seventeen months later the request was re¬ jected and the case was carried to the Court of Cassations at a "test action."
near Second street, sne was struck by a machine driven by Victor Zdonovicz, 25, of 49 East Fourth street, Wyoming. Mrs. Sands was unconscious when taken to the office of Dr. Smith. •She was placed in an ambulance for a quick run to Nesbitt West Side hospital where it was announced she suffer¬ ed a fractured skull, fractured ribs and internal injuries. The driver was freed under JSOO baUby Jus¬ tice ot the Peace HoweW" Evans after he surrendered to Wyoming police.
Walter Horace! of 127 Franklin street, Plymouth, escaped injury but wrecked his own car last night in attempting to avoid a collision at Bear Creek. When another ear suddenly stopped in front of him. the Plymouth man swerved his auto against a concrete culvert. The front wheel.'! were knocked off. PIkul Run Over Frank Pikul of 777 Lehigh street, Georgetown, suffered a fracture of the skull last night at 9 when he was run over by an auto on North Pennsylvania avenue near Union street. He was taken to General Hospital by Joseph Jailiski, R. D. 2, Hunlock's Creek.
City police said driver of the machine was Steve Hutnick, 27, of 29.') East Broadway street, Larks- ville who was traveling north on the thoroughfare at time of the accident. He was held under $500 bail to await outcome of PikuU's injuries.
Five Hurt in Crash Five persons coming here to spend the holiday week-end with relatives, were injured in an auto¬ mobile wreck at Franklin, in wes¬ tern Pennsylvania. William Mill- hou.se, 24, of Flint, Mich., was re¬ ported in serious condition at Franklin Hospital. Others less seriously hurt were Ernest Mill- house, 19; his sisters Marian 29, and Alice, 15, and Elmer Rcmaley. 27, of Huntington Mills. Police told the United Press they believed William Millhouse attempted to take control of the car being driven by his brother, Ernest, when an¬ other car approached. The tourists were enroute from Flint. Children Struck Ralph Fisci. four, of 994 North Main street, Hilldale, suffered frac¬ tures of both legs and a possible fractured skull when run down by an automobile near his home. The car was driven by J. Sherman Ryan of 300 Luzerne avenue, West Pitts- ton, authorities announced. The accident occurred shortly before 4 oclock as the child attempted to cross the street. Ryan took the boy to Wilkes-Barre General hos¬ pital where last night his condi¬ tion was declared serious.
Another Plains child, John Pam- biano, six, of 307 River street, was struck by an automobile operated by Joseph Yapsuga of 62 Frederick street, city. After treatment for bruises at General hospital, the boy was able to go home.
Employed as a welder at Pros¬ pect colliery, Joseph Fcdock, 35, of 23 Milton street, Pittston, was scalded while using hot water. He was admitted to General hospital for observation. Baden Thomas. 37. of 568 Main i (Continued on Page A-21).
IN I^ONEER FLIGHT
Co-operating  With  Europe
To Open Atlantic Service;
British Start Monday
TRYING TWO ROUTES
Botwood, Newfoundland, July 3. (UP)—The giant four-motor Pan American flying boat, Clipper III, arrived here tonight on the first jump of its pioneering flight over the Atlantic to survey a commer¬ cial  air route.
Four nations — Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States—are co-operating in the trail-blazing flight which will be followed by a simultaneous east- west trip of a British Imperial Airways flying boat, the Caledonia.
Capt. Harold E. Gray, veteran trans-Pacific flier in command of the big clipper plane, planned to take off Monday night for the Im¬ perial Airways mooring base at Foynes, Ireland.
The Caledonia, a 20-ton empire flying boat, will take oft at the same time, arriving here enroute to New York on Tuesday morning.
Although the flights will be car¬ ried out independently by both companies, representatives of the German Lufthansa Corporation and Air France Transatlantique will share in data and facilities for the flights.
French On Seuthern Route
While Imperial Airways and Pan American are completing survey flights over the northern route, the French company will send a flying boat, Lieut, de Vaisseau Paris, over the southern route from Lisbon, Portugal to Port Washington by way of Bermuda.
Two four-motored German sea¬ planes, Nordmeer and Nordwind, will make experimental flights for Lufthansa over a route between the Azores and Port Wa.?hington.
The Pan American clipper ar¬ rived at 5:49 p. m. (4:19 p. m. EDT) after a 1,072-mile journey from New York, stopping at Shediac, New Brunswick, to refuel after taking off from Port Washington at 7:30 a. m. EDT.
BULLETIN
Gibraltar, July 3 (UP)—An informant arriving here from Seville reported the arrival yes¬ terday at San Roque, Spanish Nationalist port_ of 4,000 Ger¬ man  infantrymen.
The Germans were said to have been wearing Spanish uni¬ forms and 4o have undergone training immediately after their arrival.
Air Terrorism Ordered Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron^ tier, July 3 (UP)—The Spanish Loyalist air force, under orders to "fight terror with terror," was re ported tonight to have bombed six Nationalist strongholds in a series of raids.
The Loyalist air fleet was report ed to have bombed, during the last 24 hours, Nationalist bases at Sal¬ amanca—Franco's general head¬ quarters—Seville, Talavera de La Rcina Avila, Toledo and Tuesca.
Tlie drama of a marriage:
YOUNG MRS. STANLEY
By Hazel  Dcane
Before the troubled first year in the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. David Stanley had run its course, that most dan¬ gerous of events had occur¬ red: the reappearance of an old suitor. Ward Bartel had once fascinated Elaine Stan¬ ley. Could her loyalty to David withstand that fasci¬ nation  now?
The first ehapt.fr of thi» new
short   serial   appears
today on Page B-10
Italy Sounds Charges
Rome, July 3 (UP)—The Fascist press alleged tonight that mustard gas shells of British manufacture are being used by the Spanish Loyalists on the northern Basque front despite their promise to re¬ frain from "inhumane" types of warfare.
Similar charges of the use of poison gas by the Loyalists were made by the DNB, German official news agency, but brought prompt denials from the Valencia govern¬ ment of Spain.
Italian newspapers said that, as result of the introduction of gas into the civil M^r, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Nationalist lead¬ er, might be "forced to employ re¬ prisals."
Eden Sounds Warning
London July 3 (UP)—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden tonight publicly warned Italy, and British critics of his neutrality efforts as well, that the government's struggles to prevent a general European war must not be con¬ strued as a pohcy of "peace at any price."
Speaking at Coughton Court in Warwickshire, Eden declared with emphasis that Great Britain would not permit any foreign power to use the Spanish civil war as a means of injuring British interests.
"We are still prepared," he said, "to co-operate in any fair and just measures intended to prevent the conflict from becoming a European war, but being disinterested in this matter does not mean we shall be disinterested where British inter¬ ests  are  concerned."
While Eden spoke three more British battleships were sent into the troubled Mediterranean. The admiralty also learned that Span¬ ish Nationalist planes dropped bombs around two British destroy¬ ers  in  the  bay  of Biscay.
Limit to British Patienc«
The foreign secretary's statement that there will be a limit to British patience was a shorp retort to violent anti-British attacks in the Italian press and veiled hints that Premier Benito Mussolini might use the present state of affairs and the "insufficiency" of British arm¬ ed strength to upset the status quo in the Mediterranean.
"Last summer," Eden said, "I had occasion to say in the House of Commons that, for us, the Medi¬ terranean is not a short cut but our main arterial road. The govern¬ ment's view in this respect has not been modified, nor will it be."
Three days ago opposition peers in the House of Lords launched an attack on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Eden, charging them with "humiliating" British prestige by permitting Germany and Italy to defy them while they pursued a course of pacifism at all coetai
Here the world's most famous woman flier is shown with her "Flying Laboratory" at Oakland, Cat., before start of flight which seems near
tragic ending.
TOPS CAPACITY OF TRANSPORT LINES
Holiday Visitors Jam Trains,
Force Bus Companies To
Use All Equipment
STOP SELLING TICKETS
Interstate busses and trains en route to this city were taxed to capacity yesterday, last night and early this morning as thousands of local residents rushed home to spend the week-end with families and celebrate the Fourth of July. Frank Martz Coach Company and the Greyhound terminal reported the heavfest week-end traffic in history. Busses of every type and description were pressed into ser¬ vice in a strong effort to handle the rush. Man.v people, however, particularly those coming from New York and other eastern cities, could not be accommodated. Pri¬ vate cars crowded highways all day   in   all   directions.
The Greyhound Company report¬ ed a 50 percent increase in busi¬ ness as compared to traffic for the Fourth of July week-end last year. Four extra busses were add¬ ed early yesterday to handle pas¬ senger traffic through Wilkes- Barre. The Martz Company used every bus available, inrluding sev¬ eral  vehicles  of  ancient  make.
Lehigh Valley Roalroad Company used four extra coaches on the westbound line Friday, adding two additional car.s again yesterday. The chief dispatcher reported traf¬ fic "very brisk" with prospects for a big increase over the week¬ end. Outbound travelers mostly went to Niagara Falls and Atlan¬ tic City, They were greatly out¬ numbered by those returning to spend the holidays here.
Stop   Selling   Ticket*
An attache nt the Greyhound terminal stated that reservations from New York had been "sold cut" for four days. Innumerable people cannot be guaranteed trans¬ portation until Tuesday, he reveal¬ ed. "Of course," he said, "every effort is being made to handle the big   increase   of   passengers."
Traffic from Washington, Yocjt and Harrisburg was exceptionally heavy yesterday and last night. An antiquated bus, arriving from Harrisburg yesterday afternoon, re¬ called the time when commercial motor travel was in its infancy. Arrival of the old bus, much small¬ er than the vehicles now being used, drew laughter and comment from those at the termina!-
Ticket   sales    for   Wilkes-Barre, (Contlned  on Page A-21)
STEEL L DESE OF LA
Demand Report Of 'Off The
Record' Evidence; Send
Washington Protest
ACT 'CONTUMACIOUS'
Chicago, .Tuly 3. (UP)—The National Labor Relations Board's first test of whether the Wagner Act requires written contracts was disputed today when counsel for Inland Steel Company walked out of the board's hearing and tele¬ graphed  a  protest  to  Washington.
Board officials charged Inland counsel with "contumacious con¬ duct" in insisting upon having a private stenographer take down "off the record" evidence and argu¬ ments.
The steel lawyers strode out of the hearing chamber and an¬ nounced they wouldn't return until Trial Examiner Charles A. Wood leversed his ruling against the pro¬ cedure.
Inland telegraphed to the board in Washington asking that the trial examiner be overruled and that either the official reporter make a full transcript or a pri¬ vate reporter be allowed to do .so. Checkoff   Protest   Loses
Inland iiad been brought to tiear- ing on complaint of the Steel (Confined  on   Pago  A-21)
U. S. NAVY SEARCHERS TURN BACK
Seaplane Unable To Con<
tmue Hunt For Miss
Amelia Earhart
LEXINGTON ORDERED OUT
Huge  Aircraft  Carrier  To
Sail For Scene With
72 Planes Aboard
Early   this   morning   hope   waa fading   fast   for   Amelia   Etu'hart and     her     navigator,     Fredericlj,^- Noonan, lost since Friday in mid- ^ Pacific     on    their    world-girdHng flight at the Equator.
Their slim chance for life in a land plane depending upon the buoyancy of the empty gas tanks, the almost unprecedented sweep¬ ing of southern seas by a battering sleet and snow storm dashed the optimism of searchers. It forced back rescue efforts by naval sea- plane*!
Not since 10 oclock Saturday morning have the radio signals be¬ lieved to have come from the stricken  plane   been  heard.
Most of these were picked up by amateur operators along the Pacific Coast while the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, the only ves¬ sel near the spot the "Flying Lab¬ oratory" Is believed to have gone down, heard nothing. However a technical explanation for this was given by the radio consultant to Miss Earhart.
Turning forth every available facility to find the fliers, the U. S. Navy ordeftu the aircraft carrier Lexington from Sant . Barbara to join the search and make a syste¬ matic hunt of the sea about How- land Island, which the fliers ap¬ parently mi.ssed, to be forced down by gas shortage and the storm.
It will be six or seven days be¬ fore the Lexington reaches the scene.
Honolulu, T. H„ July 3 (UP)— The Navy tonight ordered tho great airplano carrier Lexington to prepare to join the search for Amelia Earhart, believed lost somewhere near Howland Island in the mid-Pacific just north of the equator.
Naval shore police scurried about in San Diego, Calif,, rounding up members of the crew of the Lexing¬ ton, which carries 72 airplanes, after a big naval plane was forced to turn back to Honolulu by a sleet and snowstorm when within 500 miles of the tiny Howland Island.
The Lexington weighed anchor at S^ta Barbara, Cal., at 6 p. m. (PST) and rushed under forced draft to San Diego to prepare for a long trip.
If the Lexington joins the search it will take six or seven days to reach the sandy island. It will then release its seaplanes on a sys¬ tematic hunt for the famous flier and her navigitor, Frederick Noonan, who disappeared late Friday on their attempt to fly around the world at the EquatorlaJ belt.
At San Diego's naval base tha (Continued  on  Page  A-8)
EarharVs Flight Intended To Be A Prelude To Teaching At Purdue
New York, July 3 (UP)—Amelia Earhart's flight arourd the world, abruptly interrupted when she was forced down in Mid-Paciflc was designed to provide exactly what the name of her plane—"The Fly¬ ing Laboratory"—connotes, friends disclosed  tonight.
It was to have been a "labora¬ tory flight" to provide data for an aviation research and educational department at Purdue University, which helped back Miss Earhart's flight.
The curly-haired flier, formerly a settlement worker at Dennison House, Boston, and ,a teacher in Ma.ssachusetts during the early I years of her flying career, had In- I tended to devote much of her time after the world flight to teaching aerqij^aut^s at  Purdue.
The   university,   which   financed
heed Electra mo
with Miss Earhart more than a year ago to provide her with lab* oratory equipment at the Unlver* sity.
A friend of Miss Earhart said university officials asked Miss Bar- hart what she wanted in return for her services, and she replied with a smile:
"What every flier wants—a good plane."
From this was born the "Flying
Laboratory" and the flight around
the world.   Miss  Earhart  intended
to   devote   two   years   to   teaching,
but decided to make the flight and
compile  dat.a  from  the  flight  for
use ir. studies at Purdue.
Since she began her flying career
' in   1918,  Miss  Earhart  has  been •
student  of aviation   rather  than  a
j technical  < perator.  She  learned  to
I fly  in  Los Angeles when  she waa
i 20, pawning her fur co«t for money
j to pay !ot  lessons in a day wbaa
I flying was "a man's nm»r
onoplane, arranged [fljrinc was "a man'
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