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'A Paper For The Home ?- SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Weather Sunday: Mild, ocrssional raJa, Monday: Rain and much celd«f« FIFTY-TWO PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1937 PRICE TEN CENTS THREATEN HOUSE REVOLT ON TAXES BLAME RAIL UNION FOR BUS STRIKE IMMEDIATE RELIEF IS DEMANDED STEGMAIER BREWERYW $ AND [N61AND•S^'''W REJECTS PEACE; rRFYHnilNn WILL ENLARGE PLANT imif yj ^^fr^GREAT ATTACK FEARED ""^ J rnn 7 MILLION Adds $350,000 To Program For Children's Home, Hospital, School LARGE FEDERAL WORKS Wyoming Valley soon will have its own share of the housing and construction program which eco¬ nomic experts in Washington claim Is necessary to revive business on a national scale. A survey of builders and archi¬ tects last night by the Sunday Independent revealed that major construction jobs already planned for the next five months will rep¬ resent an outlay of approximately J2,000,OOO. Significant is the fact that this outlay is confined to but five jobs and does not take into consideration any other construc¬ tion work that might result from the housing program, which wiil be one of the major problems of the next Congress. 8tegniaier Plans Kxpansion The Stegmaier Brewing Company will spend a sum estimated by its offlcials at J3.'5n,0OO in 1938. Just hnw it will be expended was not revealed by this large local con¬ cern. The next big job lies wilh the proposed construction of a new children's home on Snuth Franklin street to replace that now in use. The new building I.s expected to cost .mOfl.OOO and is made possible by Martha Bennett, whose death occurred in Ifloa. In her will, she left tn the city of Wilkes-Barre an estate of approximately $800,000 to provide a home for poor ehil¬ dren. Not onl.v will her money ba of tremendous value in taking care of orphans and other children without material means, but il will also be valuable in contributing to the iinusing program of the nation. Hospital and School Another large sum, estimated at $700,000, will be spent on new build¬ ings for the Hazleton Slale Hos¬ pital by the Commonwealth of | Pennsylvania, At the present time, the school district of Nanticoke cily Is solict- Ing bids for a new school building which will cost ,$387,000. On Tuesday, the state will open bids for the construction of a pro- |inspd home for the Nanticoke ."'Inte Hospital. The amount in¬ volved will be In the neighborhood of »fio,noo. Mot sime the boom period has Wyoming Valley entered a new year with such a promising prngram. particularly with such a greal amount of money involved in a few con,struction jobs. The only air of pessimism re¬ vealed in the survey wns the ques¬ tion nf housing, particularly in connection with the erection of moderately priced homes. Rural Honie Building Near Hnys Corner, P. J. Con¬ nolly, a real estate and lumber dealer of the West Side, has several houses ill rourse of constiuction. He i.s planning lo build several more with the arrival of spring weather. He expresses the convic¬ tion that the coming .year will sec considerable building in the rural districts heyond Lur.erne borough. The foundation for a new breaker at the Maxwell Colliery has been completed and a new breaker will 'Continued on Page A-14> State Starting Housing Program Harrisburg, Nov. 27. (UP) — Pennsylvania's $,')2,000,000 hous¬ ing program will be launched formally in a slate-wide confer¬ ence of hou.sing experts on December 17 at the capital. The conference, called by Gov¬ ernor George H. Earle, will dis¬ cuss the problems of slum- clearance and filling the general shortage of homes in Pennsyl¬ vania. It will be directed by the Governor's housing com¬ mittee. Health Secretary Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter, who.se depart¬ ment will direct stale housing activities, announced that mem¬ bers of the state housing board received assurances from Fed¬ eral Housing Administrator Nalhan Straus that stale and municipal allotments for slum- clearance would be made shortly after the first of the year. Pennsylvania is seeking at least $.')2,000.000 of the .11,126,000,- 000 sel aside for the federal program. Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron- Negrin of the Loyalist government iier, Nov. 27. (UP)—The Spanish 1 at Barcelona asserted; Millions In Investments In¬ volved If Japan Seizes Customs TOKYO WARNED Washington, No\. 27. (UP) The United States and Greal Britain, in Nationalist and Loyalist regimes lonight rejected neutral efforts lo bring about an armistice before Christmas and 800,000 troops moved up into advance positions along a 900-niilc front. Apparently in preparation for the Nationalists' long-heralded offen¬ sive that may be launched at any "We will fight on, firmly con¬ vinced that the final victory will be ours," To Confer In London Although the statements of Franco and Negrin appeared to have smashed diplomatic mediation efforts, originating in London, there will be furlher discussion on the Hero's Funeral For Racketeer point. Insurgents airplanes roared possibilities of peace in Spain E SHAFT FATALLY HURT Directs Own'Rescue After Plunge Down 300-Foot Opening Is Broken MANY TRAFFIC MISHAPS over enemy bases in Aragon on bombing and machine-gun raids. Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the Nationalists, in an an¬ nouncement from his Burgos bas" in the norlh, said: , , . . "1 will win this war by arms, parallel aoiion, maue representa- , ,j,^^._.p ^^^^^ ^^ „„ mediation and no lions to Japan today in an effort .,rn,i.,uce. The enemy must sur- 10 protect thoir interests in Chinese i ^p,,^^^ unconditionally." customs, part of which are used | simultnneou.sly Premier .Tuan to pay China's foreign debts. ; Secretary of Stale Cordell Hull revealed that U. S. Ambassador Joseph Grew had conferred with officials al Tokyo at the request of the American government. Earlier the British foreign ofiice disclosed that its ambassador was insiructed to leave Japan "in no doubt what- ! ever that his majesty's government claims the righl to be consulted on Then Mi's. Amelia HaiTibui'g Of West Pittston Dis- when Premier Camille Chautemps of France confers in London, Monday and Tuesda.v with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Onlv 24 hour- h-,-ni-.> '•¦' "-.'.•ar '.- K niiinn" opclara' -•*' ctlon.> i»..' r'ur^n"-. 'n.-in reached diplomatic circles along the frontier that Franco had fixed pQMp LOCal Wednesday as the "deadline" for the neutral mediation efforts. Motor Lines' Trouble Blamed On Efforts To Benefit Railroads Is Murdered Man's Mother Didn't Know New Name Men Arrested For Disorderly Conduct . By Scranton Police A mine accident that left a fatal¬ ly injured workman dangling in mid-air as he directed his own rescue, and slippery pavements that created the season's worst traffic hazards, combined here yes¬ terday to roll up a heavy casually list for hospitals and police. The injured mine worker lalcr died in any arrangements concerning the Chinese customs," Dispatches from Shanghai re¬ ported that the Japanese were tak¬ ing over Chinese government property and functions in terri¬ tory conquered in the undeclared war. There was no indication that : Japan proposed to divert cu.«toms I revenues from the channels to ' which they have been pledged by China. V. K. Millions At Stake The Uni^il. States has ..ft multi- million dollar stakji^'in Chinese cus¬ toms, which amount to mately .HI 17.000,000 annually, ac cording to late statistics. Chinese customs are pledged as partial security on wheat and cot¬ ton credits tended to China in 1931 and 1933. The U. S. Export- Import Bank, which holds the paper for these credits, said that China slill owes the United Slates $14,200,000, This sum was to be paid in quarterly installments over a six-year period starting lasl year. covers '\N illiam King', Shot In Chicago Holdup, Is Her Son British Business Alarmed London, Nov. 27. (UP)—Concern of British commercial interests over JSOO,000,000 in Far lOastcin investments emerged tonight as tlio underlying cause for the goverii- a hospital after he had fallen half ' cent's stronglv-worded warning to way down a 300-foot shaft. The aulo accidents were due chiefly to poor visibility as a fine rain drenched all of Wyoming Valley. Joseph Brozena, 34, of 98.'S West Main street, Plymouth, died in Nan¬ ticoke Slate Hospital at 4:4,^ oclock, two hours after he had been pulled from the shaft of Avondale colliery of Glen Alden Coal Company, While making repairs af the head of the shaft, Brozena lost his foot¬ ing and plumeted toward the bot¬ tom. Half way down his clothing hooked onto a projection in the Japan againsl atly seizure of tlie Shanghai customs and other Chinese projects. Premier Camille Chautemps of France, who will arrive in London with Foreign Minister Yvon Del¬ bos Monday lo confer with Cham¬ berlain, is ex|iected to follow the example of the British and Ameri¬ can representations. The cabinet, it vas said, is await¬ ing the Japanese reaction before deciding whal action will be taken regarding olher questions affecting the International Settlement and Jajian's threat lo seize all Chinese func- shaft and suspended him 150 feet from the bottom. The jolt injured , government property and him internally but he was still I tions. consrious enough to yell for help, j xhe general impression in London Al his direction other workmen ^^.a, ti,„t Japanese control of the lowered a rope which Brozena tied j shanghai customs would provide around his waist. Then hc told , ^ means of obtaining large funds the men to hoist away. As soon j which could be diverted to financ- as he was lifted to the surface | jf,g t),^ .Japanese military machine, he lost consciousness. j it was pointed oul ttiat foreign Brozena is survived by his widow trade in Manchukuo and Hopei and four children: Jo.seph, Irene, Helen and Robert: his parents. Mr. (Continued on Page A-14) Missouri Toivn Held In Terror As Maniac Makes Third Attack . ai Mexico Mo„ Nov, 27. (UP) — Funeral services were held today at the Methodist church for Mrs. Albert S. Mortimer, 40, who for many years sang in the church choir and whose death at the hands of fiem'sh slayer Thanks¬ giving Eve has instilled fear in the residents of this small north¬ eastern Missouri city. (Citizens were careful to bolt their doors lonight. Unescorted women remained off the streets. Authorities believc that a sex ¦laniac Ir at large. The assault n Mrs. Mortimer, attractive and )/oniinenl socially ind in church s'ork, was the third on women here in 18 months. Screams Frighien <jirl A dozen suspects, many of them Negroes, have been rounded up, queationed and released when they established alibis. Rewards total¬ ing $1,500 have been posted and Latney Barnes, the prosecuting at¬ torney, has issued public appeals for citizens to come forward with any information they might have. It was just after dusk Thanks¬ giving Kve when Mrs. Mortimer was hurrying home alone in one of the he.st residential districts of the A itw itejps behind ber wa* iai«U^Ln'.^.-i£«l><UllGlii^ii^^^«.'nSiL^^.„ts... ,: Miss Jewell Polls, 16. The dark streel shadows frightened the girl. She hurriedly passed Mrs. Morti¬ mer. When ahe was about 100 feet ahead of the choir singer. Miss Potts heard a muffled scream. She broke Inlo a run. Ofiicers believe that had Miss Polls nol hurried she would have been the victim instead of Mrs. Mortimer. Finds Wife Dying Less than half an hour later the victim's husband was returning home from the opposite direction. Near his home he met a large Negro, at least six feel lall, he said, "He watched ma sharply and I sized him up also," Mortimer said. The husband went into his house. Some three hours later three boys came in and said someone was hurt. He accompanied them to the rear of the house next to his. There he found his wife. Her stockings were torn and her clothing pulled up over her shoul¬ ders. Her face and head were covered with blood. Nearby was a slick of while oak stove wood, IR inches long and three inches in diameter. II was hlood.stained. Mrs. Mortimer's skull had heen fractured by Ihree blows Mrs. Mortimer died three hours later in a bssultal* province already has been discour¬ aged by Japanese occupation and asserted that the door to foreign trade in Shanghai might soon be closed in the same nianner. JOHN N. ESCHENBACH REPORTS CAR STOLEN John N. Eschenbach, ."514 South Franklin street, reported to city police the theft of his car from in front of lhe home early yester¬ day morning. The machine is a 1937 Chevrolet coupe, and the body has a pea-green color. AMERICAN DUCHESS IN FRENCH REVOLT Paris, Nov. 27. (UP) The Ameri¬ can-born Duchess di Borgo, hurry¬ ing home from London lo aid her imprisoned husband, was charged by the leftist press tonight with having spirited away documents concerning the plot of the Cagou- lard territories to overthrow the governmeni and set up a dictator¬ ship. The newspaper Ci Soir asserted that the attractive woman, the for¬ mer Valier Norrle of New York, fled to London wilh the compro¬ mising documents a few hours be¬ fore the arrest of Duke Porzo di Borgo, a one-time lieutenant of the French Fascist leader. Colonel Francois de la Rocque. The duchess' mother, who lives in Paris, is the Countess de Jumil- hac and her sister alsn married intn European nobility, becoming e Baroness de Neufliz*. All day yesterday Mrs. Amelia Hamburg, 76, a widow living at 120 Delaware avenue, West Pittston, couldn't understand why a police¬ man had knocked on the door of her home to tell her that William King had been murdered by rob- licrs in Chicago. No, she didn't have any relatives by that name and she told the officer so. Fur- II,. iv i thcremore, she didn't know any family by the name of King in West Pitlslon. She also expressed sorrow for the murdered man's family, whoever they might be. But last night she learned tragically that she did know "Wil¬ liam King" but not by that nafne. Slic knew him as her son, Mortimer Hamburg, 50, a prosperous furni¬ ture dealer who had changed his name in Chicago for business reasons. Sometime today Mrs. Hamburg, with another son, Irwin, will slart for Chicago lo claim the body. The last lime they met was on Ijabor Day, when the victim came here for the holiday. Then his molher warned him about carrying large sums of money on his per.son. Hiimtaurg, or King, was shot down Friday night on a Chicago street only a short distance from his home. A United Press dispatch declared they saw three men shoot him nnd then escape in an auto¬ mobile. When police reached the body, there was $750 in his pockets. Two empty pistol holders were also discovered strapped around his in¬ side clothing. Police expressed be¬ lief that Hamburg was shot by his own guns wrested from him by the robbers as he defended his money. First news of the killing came ye:5terday morning when Sheriff William Thomas received a tele¬ gram aent by Chief of Police John L. Sullivan of Chicago. It read: "Notify family of William King, 120 Delaware avenue. West Pitts¬ ton. Hc was killed here lasl night. Robbery victim. Body at Drum- mon's morgue, 62nd and Doreches- ter. Advise disposition of body." Wilh this information Deputy Sheriff William Beaney and Chief of Police Stutz of West Pittston wenl lo the Delaware avenue ad¬ dress. They were mel by Mrs. Hamburg, who told them she knew of no one by the name of King. .She also tried to think of someone in the neighborhood who might direct the officers to the right family. From there the search for rela¬ tives of the murdered man spread to Pittston and Sebastopol. All families by the name of King were interviewed bul none of them could help. Burgess Andrew Jones of West Pittston spent several hours altemptiiig to trace families of that name who had lived there years ago. Meanwhile Deputy Sheriff Beaney had communicated with the Pennsylvania Motor Police and the search was continued through the lifternoon. Il was Mrs. Hamburg herself who finally received the correct clue. Hnrly last evening she re¬ ceived a telegram direct from the Chicago police declaring that the murder victim was originally knnwn as Mortimer Hamburg bul had changed his name to King. She at once communicated with the authorities who had been talking with her during the day and then they all went to the Wyoming Bar¬ racks lo iV^a aure ttet it was the correct Identification. Mrs. Ham¬ burg was eventually statisfied that it was her son and she arranged to start this morning for Chicago. She declared that when her son visited her on Labor Day she warn¬ ed him about his habit of carrying large sums of cash on his person. However, he calmed her fears by saying he never had any trouble and didn't expect any. At that time nothing was said about any change in the family name. T T Second And Third Interna¬ tionale Bring Together 30 Million Workers A. F. OF L INCLUDED I Wanted Only A Loaded Gun West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 27. (UP)—Chester Brigham, 60, res¬ taurant proprietor, hailed a pa.ssing hunter, Louis Ayres, 16, today and asked him if his gun were loaded. "Yes," Ayres replied. "Let me sec it." Brigham took the gun, step¬ ped inside his restaurant—and commitlrd suicide. Moscow, Nov, 27. (UP) Nearly 20 years of strife belween the Sec¬ ond Socialist Internationale and the Communist trade unions of Russia ended today when organizations embracing nearly 30,000,000 work¬ ers of the world joined in a united front against Fascism. The American Federation of Labor is one of the adherents to the Second Internationale. Agree At Conference Leaders of the Second Interna¬ tionale, which was organized at Amsterdam in 1903 while the czars ruled Russia, signed an agreement with the Soviet's trade unions at the close of a six-day conference. The rise of totalitarian regimes and the new German-Italo-Japanese pact against Conimunism brought the workers' organizations together. Leon Jouhaux of France, vice- president of the Amsterdam Second Internationale and head of the Gen¬ eral Labor Federation of France, said: "Soviet adhesion is based on the nece.ssity for co-operation among non-Fascist workers of all coun¬ tries in a common struggle againsl war and Fascism." General t'ongreas To Mert The exact lerms of the agree¬ ment wilh the Soviet trade unions, which are the core of the Third Internationale, were nol made pub¬ lic pending ratification by the Am¬ sterdam Internationale's executive commillee and the general con¬ gress of the Soviet trade unions which will meet soon. The agreement was signed loday by Moskalov Nikolayeva and M. I. Shvernik of the Soviet trade unions and Jean Shevenels, leader of the Belgian trade unions and vice- president of the Amsterdam exe- cutiv commillee. The Soviet trade unions were the lasl lo remain outside the Second Internationale, which the Ameri¬ can Federation of Mbor joined a tContinued on Page A-11) A i" Cleveland, Nov. 27 (UP) Grey¬ hound Bus Line officials charged I tonight, through nine federal suit.s for a total of $7,500,000 against tho Brotherhood of Railw.ny Trainmen, that the B. R. T. called its wide¬ spread strike of Greyhound drivers in an attempt lo cripple the hus industry for the benefit of rail¬ roads. They accused the brotherhood of insincerity in its demands fnr wate increases and a closed shop the issues of the strike -and charged that its real purpnse was to turn bus patronage back to the railroads to give employment to more train¬ men. Four Arrests Herei (Four striking bus drivers in the Wilkes-Barre area were ar¬ rested in Scranton yesterday afternoon on a disorderly con¬ duct charge. Special police rounded them up when, they shouted epithets at a driver who refused to leave his post. Taken to Scranton police sta¬ tion, the defendants gave their names as Harold Harvard, 30, of 2 Kearn street, Pitlslon; John Dalton, 31, of 100'2 Searle street, Pittston; Fred Mat¬ thews. 31, of 1071 Exeter avenue West Pittston, and Fred Hughes 28 of 10 Bennett streel. West Pittston. They were released in cu.stody of their attorney to appear to¬ morrow for a hearing. Mean¬ while, local spokesmen for the Greyhound lines declared all schedules were in operation with the exception of the Wilkes-Barre - Philadelphia route. They explained this gap by declaring that in Philadel¬ phia the strike Is 100 percent effective.) Railroad* Lost Passengers The suits charged violation of the Serman anti-trust laws. Earh of the eight Greyhound companies af¬ fected by the walkout and the par¬ ent holding company. Greyhound Corporation, filed a suit. The court move came aa John Conner, federal labor conciliator, brought together management and union representatives for the first time. Conner met separately with each group toda.v. Conner declined comment on the suits. He conferred with Ivan Bowen of Chicago, (ireyhound gen¬ eral counsel, who filed the actions, then with S. R. Harvey, as.ilstant president of the B. R. T. and ils spokesman in the walk-out, called early Monday. The actions said railroads had lost passengers to bus lines to such extent that unemployment of many railroad trainmen had resulted, and that the primary interest of the brotherhood was opposed to the motor bus industry and favorable to railroads. Would Cripple BusHes The suits asserted that the wascs demanded for bus drivcrs--5.5 cents per mile and a minimum of 200 miles a working day- are "grossly excessive" and that if they became effective the buslines would be un¬ able financially to continue. Service remained partially crip¬ pled throughout 16 populous north¬ eastern states. Al the company's (Continued on Page A-14) Revere, Mass., Nov. 27. (UP) -A hero's funeral was given Liiuii, Gacta, SH, .il.iir. racketeer, today as a 30-man racket- busting squadron of Boston police began llie task of "clean¬ ing up" Revere on orders of Governor Charlps F. Hurley. Military honors were accord¬ ed Gaeta, a World War veteran, by the Revere American Legion Post despite growing criticism. Sharpest rebuke came from Lhe Harvard Crimson, under¬ graduate daily newspaper, which editorialized: ". . . in the ludicrous hand¬ ling of the last riles for Louis Gaeta (the Legion) has sur¬ passed itself. Yeslerday the Legion draped wilh an Ameri- lirmcd racketeer, gambler, polit¬ ical grafter, all-around public enemy. . . . The Legion, in dis¬ gracing the nation's colors in Revere this week, has shown its own colors and ideals lo be perverted." Gaeta, head of a horse racing syndicate, was slain Tuesday. Rep. Celler Calls Meeting Of Congressmen To Dis¬ cuss Plan Of Action DENOUNCES DELAY Insists Both Large And Small Business Need Similar Aid Now Ei OF AlO FOR STATE ROADS IS Washington, Nov. 27. (UP)—Rep, Emanuel Celler. D., N. Y., sought tonight, despite apparent determin¬ ation of congressional leaders to delay business tax revision until the regular session, to lead a House revolt aimed at immediata temporary relief to private enter¬ prise. Celler summoned a group of House members interested in amending the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes to a meet¬ ing early next week to discus* plans for House action. About 60 Democrats and Republicans will atlend, he said. Celler maintained that a three-fourths House • ma¬ jority for immediate modification could be obtained if a vote can ^1» Aa-anged. Barkley Against "Kidding" The New York Deinocrat brushed aside the reiterated statements of President Roosevelt's leadera in Senate and House that a thorough- Washington, Nov. 27. (UP)- Ko'nK lax revision is in process President Roosevelt, departing for which cannol be hurried unduly, a week of rest in Florida, gave He demanded that action be taken administration leaders farewell in- i now on a four-point program, leav- structions today on maintaining I inK the more general bills for next his budget-balancing prog: am and i year. mceiing a new double-barrelled lax i While Celler revealed his planned revision drive in Congress. j revolt. Senate Majority Leader The President's altitude on both i Alben W. Barkley, D., K., said it problems was designed to bolster i was "not fair to kid the country the administration's general pro- j that it Is going tn get something! gram for encouragement of busi- before it is possible " Members of ness which will be opened formally j the House lax group, still far from Monday wilh his message to Con-1 final agreement although they have Roosevelt Offers New Econ omy; Departure Givingi Congress Opportufl^'' CHANCE FOR TAX BILL MRS. ROOSEVELT TAKES HEIRESS TO PROJECTS gress on housing. But the prospect of delay until Jauuury for tax modification continued to moot op¬ position in both Scii.ntc and House. Remove State Road Aid On Tue.sday, Mr. Roosevelt will send another message, recommend¬ ing that Congre.ss reduce federal aid to stale highway systems hy approximately $120,000,000 a year to aid in balancing the 1939 budget. In regard lo making both ends meel in the federal financial set¬ up, Mr. Roosevelt wrote a letter lo Senate Majority Leader Alben W budgeted important tax savinga to business, have been infnrmed It will take from two to four weeks to draft a bill even after disposal of all policy matters. Provisions Outlined Celler advocated a composite bill containing these provisions: 1. A 30 per cent flat exemption from the undistributed profits tajc for all corporations, regardless of how they use the earnings they retain. 2. A provision giving corpora* Barkley, D„ Ky., slating that any, tions 90 days after the fiscal yeaf increased expenditures in the pend-j to determine the exact amount ot ing farm bill must be met by in- i their earnings and declare dlvl« creased revenue provisions. dends before paying the undian Al the same time, he permitted a tributed profits tax. White House slatement that any I 3. Amendment of the capital bill -meaning specifically the crop control measure- -would he vetoed if it increased costs without co¬ ordinated action to increase in¬ come. Later the President called Berk¬ ley, Chairman Robert H. Dough¬ ton, D„ N. C, of the House ways and means committee, and Rep, John E. Rankin, D., Miss., lo the White House lo discuss the gen¬ eral legislative situation. Rankin, co-sponsor of the meas- gains and losses tax to place tha old rate of 12'3 per cent in effect and segregate capital gains from income. 4. Provisions making the whol* program retroactive for 1937, Calls Delay Dangeroua "There must be some temporarjf emergency legislation passed," Celler said. "Business is frightened. The longer they wait the mor» drastic the revision will have to ure to create regional TVA's, had a j be. If they wait loo long Congresa 15-minute conferencc with the j will have to repeal the undis* President, Rankin said he could say ' tributed profits lax altogether. "definitely there will bo no change in the Tennessee Valley Authority or its yardstick policies." The persistent congressional de- (Continued on Page A-14) "Business is like a man suffering from progressive slac;es of tuber* culosis. The longer h" waits be* fore applying the remedy, the mor# (Continued on Page A-14) Czechoslovak Count May Become President Of Irish Free State Dublin, Nov. 27 (UP 1 Reports the local government; General Washingion, Nov. 27, (UP) —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today took Mrs. James H. R. Cromwell, the former Doris Duke, on a week-end tour of governmeni homestead pro¬ jecls near Arlhurdale, W. Va. They lefl this morning by auto¬ mobile to make an extensive tour of the area where a model govern¬ ment homesteading conimunity has been built. They probably will re¬ turn here Sunday night. Mrs. (^romwell is due back at her home in Somerville, N. I., Monday. Mrs. Roosevelt will go to New York Monday for her final ChriBt- maa shopping tour. that Count Edward Taafe, a Czecho-Slovak of Irish descent, would succeed him as president ot the Irish Free State, were denied today by Eamon de Valera. He added that Taafe was not the man he had in mind when he stated he already knew a man suitable to be the flrst president under the new constitution, effective Dec. 29. Taafe's family settled in Czecho¬ slovakia more than 200 yeara ago but always retained Irish traditions. The count speaks English and Gaelic fluently. Recently he sold his estates in ('zechoslovakia and pur¬ chased an estate in Ireland, where he will live. Despite de Valera's denial, it still waa believed in some quarters that Taafe may be the flrst president of "Eire " Clher names mentioned Include .^ean O'Kelly, minister of r Dick Mulcahy former minister de* feated in the last elections for iLb derman, and .\lfred Byrne, lorij mayor of Dublin. Novel Klertion Plan De Valera made a fresh efforti lo overcome the crisis over tli4 formation of a new Senate by an« nouncing terms of a novel plan to form an electoral college composed of representatives of county coun¬ cils, county boroughs and lurll bodies as chambers of commerce, Rotary clubs and labor and farm organizations, to be known aa "vo¬ cational" members. These representatives, together wilh members of the Dail, would form an electoral college of 3S5 members who wou'd make nomina¬ tions for the Senate. The new effort follows the defeat of earlier pro» posals placed hefnr* the Dail ta I reatorc the Senate bt aboUaba<L i
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1937-11-28 |
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Month | 11 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1937 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1937-11-28 |
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Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
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'A Paper For The Home
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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Weather
Sunday: Mild, ocrssional raJa, Monday: Rain and much celd«f«
FIFTY-TWO PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1937
PRICE TEN CENTS
THREATEN HOUSE REVOLT ON TAXES BLAME RAIL UNION FOR BUS STRIKE
IMMEDIATE RELIEF IS DEMANDED
STEGMAIER BREWERYW $ AND [N61AND•S^'''W REJECTS PEACE; rRFYHnilNn WILL ENLARGE PLANT imif yj ^^fr^GREAT ATTACK FEARED ""^ J rnn
7 MILLION
Adds $350,000 To Program
For Children's Home,
Hospital, School
LARGE FEDERAL WORKS
Wyoming Valley soon will have its own share of the housing and construction program which eco¬ nomic experts in Washington claim Is necessary to revive business on a national scale.
A survey of builders and archi¬ tects last night by the Sunday Independent revealed that major construction jobs already planned for the next five months will rep¬ resent an outlay of approximately J2,000,OOO. Significant is the fact that this outlay is confined to but five jobs and does not take into consideration any other construc¬ tion work that might result from the housing program, which wiil be one of the major problems of the next Congress.
8tegniaier Plans Kxpansion
The Stegmaier Brewing Company will spend a sum estimated by its offlcials at J3.'5n,0OO in 1938. Just hnw it will be expended was not revealed by this large local con¬ cern.
The next big job lies wilh the proposed construction of a new children's home on Snuth Franklin street to replace that now in use. The new building I.s expected to cost .mOfl.OOO and is made possible by Martha Bennett, whose death occurred in Ifloa. In her will, she left tn the city of Wilkes-Barre an estate of approximately $800,000 to provide a home for poor ehil¬ dren.
Not onl.v will her money ba of tremendous value in taking care of orphans and other children without material means, but il will also be valuable in contributing to the iinusing program of the nation. Hospital and School
Another large sum, estimated at $700,000, will be spent on new build¬ ings for the Hazleton Slale Hos¬ pital by the Commonwealth of | Pennsylvania,
At the present time, the school district of Nanticoke cily Is solict- Ing bids for a new school building which will cost ,$387,000.
On Tuesday, the state will open bids for the construction of a pro- |inspd home for the Nanticoke ."'Inte Hospital. The amount in¬ volved will be In the neighborhood of »fio,noo.
Mot sime the boom period has Wyoming Valley entered a new year with such a promising prngram. particularly with such a greal amount of money involved in a few con,struction jobs.
The only air of pessimism re¬ vealed in the survey wns the ques¬ tion nf housing, particularly in connection with the erection of moderately priced homes.
Rural Honie Building
Near Hnys Corner, P. J. Con¬ nolly, a real estate and lumber dealer of the West Side, has several houses ill rourse of constiuction. He i.s planning lo build several more with the arrival of spring weather. He expresses the convic¬ tion that the coming .year will sec considerable building in the rural districts heyond Lur.erne borough.
The foundation for a new breaker at the Maxwell Colliery has been completed and a new breaker will 'Continued on Page A-14>
State Starting Housing Program
Harrisburg, Nov. 27. (UP) — Pennsylvania's $,')2,000,000 hous¬ ing program will be launched formally in a slate-wide confer¬ ence of hou.sing experts on December 17 at the capital.
The conference, called by Gov¬ ernor George H. Earle, will dis¬ cuss the problems of slum- clearance and filling the general shortage of homes in Pennsyl¬ vania. It will be directed by the Governor's housing com¬ mittee.
Health Secretary Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter, who.se depart¬ ment will direct stale housing activities, announced that mem¬ bers of the state housing board received assurances from Fed¬ eral Housing Administrator Nalhan Straus that stale and municipal allotments for slum- clearance would be made shortly after the first of the year.
Pennsylvania is seeking at least $.')2,000.000 of the .11,126,000,- 000 sel aside for the federal program.
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Fron- Negrin of the Loyalist government iier, Nov. 27. (UP)—The Spanish 1 at Barcelona asserted;
Millions In Investments In¬ volved If Japan Seizes Customs
TOKYO WARNED
Washington, No\. 27. (UP) The United States and Greal Britain, in
Nationalist and Loyalist regimes lonight rejected neutral efforts lo bring about an armistice before Christmas and 800,000 troops moved up into advance positions along a 900-niilc front.
Apparently in preparation for the Nationalists' long-heralded offen¬ sive that may be launched at any
"We will fight on, firmly con¬ vinced that the final victory will be ours,"
To Confer In London
Although the statements of Franco and Negrin appeared to have smashed diplomatic mediation efforts, originating in London, there will be furlher discussion on the
Hero's Funeral
For Racketeer
point. Insurgents airplanes roared possibilities of peace in Spain
E SHAFT FATALLY HURT
Directs Own'Rescue After
Plunge Down 300-Foot
Opening Is Broken
MANY TRAFFIC MISHAPS
over enemy bases in Aragon on bombing and machine-gun raids.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the Nationalists, in an an¬ nouncement from his Burgos bas" in the norlh, said: , , . . "1 will win this war by arms,
parallel aoiion, maue representa- , ,j,^^._.p ^^^^^ ^^ „„ mediation and no
lions to Japan today in an effort .,rn,i.,uce. The enemy must sur-
10 protect thoir interests in Chinese i ^p,,^^^ unconditionally."
customs, part of which are used | simultnneou.sly Premier .Tuan
to pay China's foreign debts. ;
Secretary of Stale Cordell Hull revealed that U. S. Ambassador Joseph Grew had conferred with officials al Tokyo at the request of the American government. Earlier the British foreign ofiice disclosed that its ambassador was insiructed
to leave Japan "in no doubt what- !
ever that his majesty's government
claims the righl to be consulted on Then Mi's. Amelia HaiTibui'g Of West Pittston Dis-
when Premier Camille Chautemps of France confers in London, Monday and Tuesda.v with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Onlv 24 hour- h-,-ni-.> '•¦' "-.'.•ar '.- K niiinn" opclara' -•*' ctlon.> i»..' r'ur^n"-. 'n.-in reached diplomatic circles along the frontier that Franco had fixed pQMp LOCal Wednesday as the "deadline" for the neutral mediation efforts.
Motor Lines' Trouble Blamed On Efforts To Benefit Railroads
Is
Murdered Man's Mother Didn't Know New Name
Men Arrested For Disorderly Conduct . By Scranton Police
A mine accident that left a fatal¬ ly injured workman dangling in mid-air as he directed his own rescue, and slippery pavements that created the season's worst traffic hazards, combined here yes¬ terday to roll up a heavy casually list for hospitals and police. The injured mine worker lalcr died in
any arrangements concerning the Chinese customs,"
Dispatches from Shanghai re¬ ported that the Japanese were tak¬ ing over Chinese government property and functions in terri¬ tory conquered in the undeclared war. There was no indication that : Japan proposed to divert cu.«toms I revenues from the channels to ' which they have been pledged by China.
V. K. Millions At Stake
The Uni^il. States has ..ft multi- million dollar stakji^'in Chinese cus¬ toms, which amount to mately .HI 17.000,000 annually, ac cording to late statistics.
Chinese customs are pledged as partial security on wheat and cot¬ ton credits tended to China in 1931 and 1933. The U. S. Export- Import Bank, which holds the paper for these credits, said that China slill owes the United Slates $14,200,000, This sum was to be paid in quarterly installments over a six-year period starting lasl year.
covers '\N illiam King', Shot In Chicago Holdup, Is Her Son
British Business Alarmed London, Nov. 27. (UP)—Concern of British commercial interests over JSOO,000,000 in Far lOastcin investments emerged tonight as tlio underlying cause for the goverii-
a hospital after he had fallen half ' cent's stronglv-worded warning to
way down a 300-foot shaft. The aulo accidents were due chiefly to poor visibility as a fine rain drenched all of Wyoming Valley. Joseph Brozena, 34, of 98.'S West Main street, Plymouth, died in Nan¬ ticoke Slate Hospital at 4:4,^ oclock, two hours after he had been pulled from the shaft of Avondale colliery of Glen Alden Coal Company, While making repairs af the head of the shaft, Brozena lost his foot¬ ing and plumeted toward the bot¬ tom. Half way down his clothing hooked onto a projection in the
Japan againsl atly seizure of tlie Shanghai customs and other Chinese projects.
Premier Camille Chautemps of France, who will arrive in London with Foreign Minister Yvon Del¬ bos Monday lo confer with Cham¬ berlain, is ex|iected to follow the example of the British and Ameri¬ can representations.
The cabinet, it vas said, is await¬ ing the Japanese reaction before deciding whal action will be taken regarding olher questions affecting the International Settlement and Jajian's threat lo seize all Chinese
func-
shaft and suspended him 150 feet
from the bottom. The jolt injured , government property and him internally but he was still I tions.
consrious enough to yell for help, j xhe general impression in London Al his direction other workmen ^^.a, ti,„t Japanese control of the lowered a rope which Brozena tied j shanghai customs would provide around his waist. Then hc told , ^ means of obtaining large funds the men to hoist away. As soon j which could be diverted to financ- as he was lifted to the surface | jf,g t),^ .Japanese military machine, he lost consciousness. j it was pointed oul ttiat foreign
Brozena is survived by his widow trade in Manchukuo and Hopei
and four children: Jo.seph, Irene,
Helen and Robert: his parents. Mr.
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Missouri Toivn Held In Terror As Maniac Makes Third Attack
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Mexico Mo„ Nov, 27. (UP) — Funeral services were held today at the Methodist church for Mrs. Albert S. Mortimer, 40, who for many years sang in the church choir and whose death at the hands of fiem'sh slayer Thanks¬ giving Eve has instilled fear in the residents of this small north¬ eastern Missouri city.
(Citizens were careful to bolt their doors lonight. Unescorted women remained off the streets. Authorities believc that a sex ¦laniac Ir at large. The assault n Mrs. Mortimer, attractive and )/oniinenl socially ind in church s'ork, was the third on women here in 18 months.
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Year | 1937 |
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