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FIGHT SHERIFF SALES OF HOMES IN COUNTY A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Weather Sunday: Cloudy, warmer, Monday: Scattered shower*. FIFTY-TWO PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1938 PRICE TEN CENTS WOULD IMPRISON RELIEF POLITICIANS BRUCE BARTON CRACKS PENNSYLVANIA TO OPPOSE ^r Who Killed Mother [XRECTAFL oAi ro rnn ^'^'^ Ruling of Judge j «-. ...._. ^. uALLu rUK Whatever You Do Will Be All Right... I Loved My | (J KAIU Ull Lindbergh's Island Castle off Coast of France 1 BACK TAXES 'Whatever You Do Will Be All Right... I Loved My Mother,' Says 16-Year Old Who Murdered in Blind Rage When Scolded; Father Aids Commissioners Act to Off' set Expected IVIove Against Treasurer DISORDER IS FEARED Chicago, April 23 (UP)—Teddy | throat when she scolded him for : Danielsen prayed in his cell tonight truancy. I while awaiting a judge's ruling on ! "I have prayed to Almighty God ¦ '.he puni.shmenl he must face for | for forgiveness," he had said. At his side, a reassuring hand on his shoulder, stood Theodore Dan- ielson sr., an athletic equipment salesman who said his son is "all I have left." Together they had listened tensely as it was demanded that MacGuffie Says Ousting of Families Would Be an 'Appalling Injustice' Ivilling his mother in a moment of blinding rage. The frail 16-year-old school boy tearfully placed his case in the hands of Criminal Court Justice Cornelius J. Harrington. He con¬ fessed his act, but said he couldn't have been in his right mind be- j Teddy be sent to a penal instltu- Meyers tion for his deed "He must be punished, said sternly. "I don't care what Mr. Meyers said," Teddy told the judge, as he glared at the prosecutor. "If I was cause he loved his mother. Biting his swollen lips, he stood before an adult's bar of justice and staled his case. "I Loved .'My >lolher" "I just want to say, Judge Har¬ rington, that whatever you do will in my right mind at the time I be all right. I want you to know wouldn't have done it," To prevent the possibility of , i loved my mother." I "Father and .Mother t« Blame" sheriff sales of nearly 30,000 prop-1 He had been unable to explain "And your fath-r is here to back erties in Luzerne county Attorney | the "irresistable impulse" that it up." the elder Danielson broke Robert L. Coughlin, solicitor for | drove him to plunge a bread knife ! in. "Your father knows. If you the county commissioners tomor-1 into Mr.s. Eleanor Danielsen's' (Continued on Page A-6) row will file with the Court of __^ Common Pleas a petition request¬ ing a stay on sheriff sales of prop¬ erty for the taxable year of 1937. The unusual procedure on the part of the county commissioners Is prompted, it is reported, by the belief that proceedings will be in¬ stituted against Dr. Frank M. Pugliese, county treasurer, to com¬ pel the collection of taxes through such sales. The attorney int»rested in this action is Miner Aylcsworth of Sweet Valley. _ Exp«ct IvEglslatfve Action . Returns on uncollected taxes for 1937 will be made in May. From May until August, under the law. the county commissioners, jointly with the county treasurer, are em¬ powered to collect taxes through sheriff sales. CIO UNIONS Federation Believed Set to Finance Drive for Dis¬ satisfied Groups MOTOR STRIKE VOTED Leaders Hopeful of Settling Workers' Grievances in Conference JENNINGS ASKS EARLE TO REMOVE MARGIOTTI Civil Liberties Union After Punishment of Those Who Backed Case MORE CHARGES MADE American Civil Liberties Union, from its New York headquarters. In connection with the petition ! last night dispatched a telegram to be filed tomorrow by Attorney I to District Attorney Leon Schwartr. Coughlin, John A. MUcGuffie. Asked to Double Robbery Reward Atlantic City, N. J., April 2,1. (UP)-^Insuf'ahce adjusters post¬ ed a $7,5<X) reward for the re¬ turn of $85,000 worth of jewelry taken in a robbery two weelts ago. Today they received a post card which read: "Double the ante on that reward and maybe you will get some action." president of the Luzerne county commissioners, said: "The action taken by the county stating: "We now look to you to see that that gang of framers and perjurers is brought to justice.' E AT Ml [NDED; 45 DEAD, 2 HURT "i All in Pit Perished When Fire Followed Blasts- Killed Instantly (Clopyrlght, 1938, by United Press) Washington, April 23.—American I Federation of Labor leaders, con- ] vinccd that there can be no peace i in labor's civil war, were believed ] ready today to finance raiding | parties among "dissatisfied " Com- J mittee for Industrial Organization unionists. | View of the castle on the Island An A. F. of L. executive council of Illiec, recently purchased by Col. member said he wag convinced that Charles A. Lindbergh. It is near there never would be peace be- ; __^____^——^———^—— tween the Federation and the C.I.O. "as long as John L. Lewis wields the power he now has." The council gathers here Mon¬ day for its annual spring meeting and may expel at least two more C.I.O. unions. It also may broaden the charter of the Progressive Miners of America so that it can raid Lewis' own United Mine Work¬ ers of America. Aft«r Coal Mines The mine workers, largest and richest labor union in the country, is the backbone of the C.I.O. and has furnished large sums of money JapgnCSe DrlVB tO Hank0V\/ to advance it. It claims control ¦'"r"" of 95 per cent of all coal miners. tO Start Final StagCS CONGRESS TO FIGHT SPENDING WPA Charges in State Used by Opponents to Un¬ controlled Program WANT FUND EARMARKED the Island of St. Gidas, home of Dr. Alexis Carrel, with whom he is collaborating. As French islands are strategic points not to be pur¬ chased by foreigners, Mm«. Carrel signed the agreement. CENTRAL CHINA PLYMOUTH STRIPPING ¦' I I Huge Machines on Hand to Uncover Mile of Coal for Glen Alden Co. MOUNTAIN TO START 8 CARLOADS ARRIVE commissioners is prompted by the ! It referred to the case of Emerson hope that the court will grant a j P- Jennings. Attorney General stay until the next session of the i Margiotli during the week request- legislature. The lawmaker.^ may j ed State Attorneys Thomas M. have some new ideas in regards to j Lewis and Michael McDonald to the collection of taxes. - nol presses the case, drop it en- "To proceed now with sweeping ' tirely. sheriff .sales on approximately 30,000 Jennings was convicted in Lu?.- properties in Luzerne county would erne county court of dynamiting, lead to much disorder as well as op plotting to dynamite, an auto- a big item of expense to the county, mobile of Judge William A. Valen- Fear to Oust Families | tine on March 2S, 1935- more than "Most of these properties are in | '"'° y*^'"'' "K"- "'» HUegcd con- the J3,000 class, practically the sav- federate, Charles Harris, was con- Ings of a lifetime for thousand.s • ^'':t«d "' ^^e actual bombing of of our thrifty citizens. To oust ' "i« <^^'^- ^^ ^as served nearly two them from their homes would be i y^*" in the county prison, •n appalling injustice." District Attorney Leon Schwartz, The county commissioner added: contacted at his home last night, "At the present time, a number was non-committal on developments nf taxpayers are making a sincere ¦ in the case which has assumed Hanger, Va., April 23. (UP)—Six effort to pay taxes, while others do nation-wide proportions. It was his , rescue crews, ripping through red- not. The county commLssioners. I desire in the first place, before the hot debris in the explosion-shat- i , u i t h f i i " ta, however, constantly urge tax col- case even was tried here, to insti-i tercd Keen Mountain coal mine, '" . "* siatea tor expulsion. Two lectors to force collection on those tute nol prosse action on the today removed 25 more bodies from ""'<»"' consmered most ikely to people with help from the com- grounds that insufficient evidence J the smoking pit and placed final -. "ustea were tne Amalgamated missioners office." had been compiled against the two i death toll of the mine disaster at of Bloody Campaign FRESH TROOPS LANDING TO OPEN INQUIRY But one Federation council mem¬ ber predicted that U.M.W.A. mem¬ bers would flock to the Federation "by the thousands" if the Pro¬ gressive's charter Is enlarged to make it a national rival of Lewis' union. At present the Progressives ! are confined to the Illinois dis-1 Shanghai, Sunday, April, 24. trict, where they revolted against! (UP)—Commanders of heavily re- Lewis in 1932 I inforced Japanese armies in North Use Assessment Complaint Ce""»' '-^hina claimed today they _,, . ,, . , 1 had smashed their way into This council member said that Kiangsu province to within 10 the Progressive's charter probably ^ j ti,e famous Lunghal rail- would be extended at the next ^^^^ ^A%Kl ™**''"<f' He said that many i spearhead of the drlv« on tho U.M.W.A. members are complain-1 ^jjiimad along wnich are China's ng about the special assessment, strongest defense fortifications levied to finance the C.I.O. and | guarding the provisional capital of political activities of Labor's Non- «¦ . ~ . Partisan League. The official A. F. of L. announce¬ ment of th^ council meeting said that it would "consider the advis¬ ability of further action against suspended unions affiliated with the C.I.O. Some unions appeared Delinquent taxes have been the i men. source of much controversy of late. It is estimated by the Taxpayers Wants Margiotti Ousted 45. Twenty bodies previously had Clothing Workers, headed by C.I.O. Vic-Chairman Sidney Hillman, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, which Emerson P. Jennings, local prin- been removed. With recovery of the j ^j,g taken over by C.I.O.' Vlce- rhprT.ir«nnr:""''T!'"''"«^^., ter, ycstcrday wrote Govemor Earle 25 additional, the rescue workers , chairman Philip Murray there are approximately $(i.000,00i) in outstanding taxes owed various municipalities. Treasurer Also Threatened to or- asking that Attorney-General withdrew from the mine. They ganize the nation's steel workers Charles J. Margiotti be removed indicated that no additional miners other suspended C.I.O. unions from office immediately on the were missing. which might be expelled Include grounds that it is "for the protec- All the miners who went into the | [hp American Newspaper Guild. Reports have been heard in the i tion of the good name of the Com- pit for the second shift last night . th^ United Automobile Workers of court house during the past few | monwealth of Pennsylvania." He , perished in the terrific explosion. | America, and the United Rubber -weeks that an effort would be made said he was prompted in this ac- Trapped 2,.'500 Feet Back i Workers, to oust the county treasurer for tion by the Superior Court's find- ¦ Loaded into ambulances and mine j Pleased with Rift neglect of duty in connection with ing and the resultant move on Mar-! „„ bodies were taken to no action was expected to be this large amount unpaid. The giotti s part in asking for di.scon-: ^„rtuarv at Richlands, Va.,,aken against the International county treasurer has taken much tinuance^ Jennings feels that he .s ; ^j,„^ relatives from this mining ^ Ladies Garment Workers Union as omZTnnfr. ' " ' "'""''' mere le.al TorT-lu'v' "" ""'" " | community began the work of Federation officials are pleased at .ornmlssioners mere legal formality. I identification. This was difficult in the apparent split between Lewis In n,any instances, it is reported, In addition to the telegram sent ' ^^ny cases, \ and the garment workers' presi- delinquent taxes on many proper- Mr. Schwartz. Court Stenographers ^hg miners were trapped 2,500 dent, David Dubinsky. They hope ties in Luzerne county are now Yeisley and McHale were .sent an- f^^t ^ack in the workings. Those i Dubinsky may come back into the greater than the value of the other. This came from Attorneys ^.^q were not killed outright by | Federation if he bolts the C.LO. property. j Samuel Untermeyer, Francis Bid-, j^e dust explosion apparently were j over, the question of setting it up Dudley Field Malone and ; turned to death or suffocated in ; a., a* permanent rival of the A. F. County Commissioner MacGuffie j die. (Continued on Page A-6) 'Continued on Page A-6) riankow, was east of Suchow. The city, one of the "gateways" to Han¬ kow, is strategically located at the junction of the Lunghai and Tient- Sin-Pukow (Nanking) railroads. Its loss may prove to be the start of the final stages of the Jap¬ anese campaign in China. Wedge Between Retreat In crossing the Kiangsu border, a Japanese communique said, the Nipponese imperial armies drove a wedge between Chinese troops retreating from Linyi and along the Tientsin-Pukow railway. The Japanese claimed that 20,- 000 Chinese soldiers began an or¬ derly retreat only 16 miles from the Lunghai line which runs east and west through the heart of China. Spokesmen for the Japanese be¬ lieved that the Chinese would make a last stand at that point. Heavy Chinese reinforcements were re¬ ported rushing to that front. Chinese reports ignored the Linyi front, but claimed that the Chinese crushed a Japanese ad¬ vance at Wungwfewu, 12 miles north of Taierhchwang, where the original Japanese drive was halted two weeks ago. Chinese .Make Claims A bloody battle raged near Wung- wawu all last night, according to the Chinese. Hankow said that $26,400 per Year Is Required To Care for Dionne Quintuplets [ Callander, Ont., April 23 (UP) — To bring up the Dionne Quintuplets In the manner to which they are rapidly becoming accustomed, costs $26,400 a year, about $,'(,000 more than the amount derived from in¬ terest payments on their $600,000 estate, it was learned today. The monthly cost of operating Ihe Dafoe nursery, home of the vjuins, and payment of .salaries to inc staff and to Dr. Allan Roy uaroe, their physician, is $2,205. The detailed monthly cxpend- Hures are as follows, according to "le Toronto Daily Star Moffat, his secretary, $175: Keith Munro, the Quins' business man¬ ager, $.500: Oliva Dionne, their father, $300; W. Flannery, secretary of the board of guardian.s, $150: Roah Rousscllc, their teacher, and Nurses Molly O'Shaughnessy and Segrid Ulrichson, $100 each: Pro¬ vincial Police Officer John Cagne, chief nursery guard, $110; Provin¬ cial Police Officers Basil Somers the fire which followed. i of L. The explosion rolled through the , Most officials doubted that any several Japanese columns which galleries of the mine shortly after ^ disciplinary action would be taken i broke a Chinese cordon and in- the second shift went on duty, i against the International Typo- j tended to storm into Taierhch- Riding on flat cars, most of the ¦ graphical Union, headed by C.I.O. I wang received "a crushinir blow" victims apparently died instantly as the blast shattered the interior of the mine. Recovery Work Complete Secretary Charles P Howard, al-' Foreign military experts observ- though its members last week voted ing the fighting reported that 3 to 1 to refuse to pay a one cent troops of the Chinese Eight Route per member special assessment j (former Communist) Army had cut Weary rescue workers, haggard : levied by the Federation to fight | the railroad from Isinan to Tslng- after more than 20 hours of work j in the red-hot debris of the mine, j staggered out of the pit. J. F. Vavies, district representative of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, who rushed here from Norton. Va., an¬ nounced the recovery work was complete. j He telegraphed the bureau at j Washington: Forty-five dead, two injured (Continued on Page A-6) (Continued on Page A-6) T\ 4 T% puili:c |SU«l"-i» nut, 1 ^r. A. R. Dafoe, $210; R. G. | rooms and board free and Robert Purvis, $100 each: housekeeper, $35; assistant house-{ Work stopped until Monday morn- keeper, $25; attendant, $25; hospital '¦ ing." supplies, food, etc., $175. i On Monday, several investiga- The nurses, housekeepers and 1 tions of the blast are scheduled to police guards also receive their open. G. W. Grove, representative Continued on Page A—6 A LITTLE GLAMOR To get it« color, glamor and, perhaps, escape from thn too-real realism of the every day, n good bit of America turns to the movlea. ... To add to your enjo.vment of the make believe, the Sunday Independent presents an Illustrated ajid Improved theatrical section. ... It starts Page B-9. Opening operations for a gigantic stripping undertaking will begin in Plymouth mountains within a few days, according to statements made by executives of Carey, Baxter & Kennedy, New York contractors. Two large draglines and a Deisel- motored shovel were unloaded at j the Gaylord Colliery property yes¬ terday in preparation for the work, I The company will strip the moun¬ tain section above Plymouth bor- I ough, from the Larksville boundary southward for a distance of about a mile. The coal, at places es- ! timated to be fifty-one feet in I depth, will be loaded on trucks, sent to Nottingham, and then hauled off In railroad cars. Ap- I proximately thirty men will be ' given employment. The operation will be mostly by dragline. The contract for this work will be for an indefinite period, since the company has agreed to excavate only a specific number of yards. Huge Machines Arrive The mailiincry, brought to Plym¬ outh yesterday, consisted of a drag¬ line equipped to lift eight ton.s, another built to lift two square yards and a shovel for regular, scooping. The large dragline is, j operated by electricity, has a boom | I of one hundred and ten feet and | weighs 200 tons. The other, also , I electrically-equipped, has a boom ! of seventy feet. Eight large flat- I bottom railroad cars were required to transport the machinery. W. F. Carey, president, of Bear Creek, and W, E. Conray, vice- ' president, Scraiiton, are the active field men for the company. They have secured contracts and now have nineteen draglines and shovels operating in the hard-coal region. The present work will be contracted j from the Glen Alden, while other I jobs are now being carried out ' under Hudson Coal Co., Lehigh Valley, Pittston and Reading Coal Companies. I I Largest in Anthracite I Equipment of the company, ac¬ cording to officials. Is part of the 1 largest in this region, and the com¬ pany is reputed as the largest in the anthracite area. Their prize dragline, believed to be in a class by itself, has a twelve-yard bucket and is now operating for Reading Coal Co. in Mahanoy City. ; ! E. C. Weickel. engineer, has been I Investigating conditions in the j Plymouth mountains since Decem¬ ber. After approving the work, he reported findings to the company and a contract was signed with Glen Alden Coal Co. KIDNAPPED, ROBBED Boston, April 23, (UPi-Julius Vakas, 42, Brighton butcher, re¬ ported to police tonight that two | bandits forced him at gunpoint to drive them a mile in his automo¬ bile, robbed him of $1,100 and left him at the roadside. She's 99 Today; 246 Grandchildren Gonzales, Texas, April 23. (UP) — Mrs. Mary Jane Skinner, whose living children, grand¬ children, great-grandchilden and great-great-grandchildren num¬ ber at least 246, will celebrate her 99th birthday anniversary Sunday. Her birthday wi.shes were that she live to see a great-great- great-grandchild born and to live to be 110. COLUMBUS TROLLEY STRIKE IS SETTLED Columbus, O., April 23. (UP) — The strike of Columbus street car operators, which has paralyzed city transportation since Easter Sunday, was ended tonight by a vote of union carmen to accept a compromise offer of the Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co, The offer did not grant the union's original demands for wage increases ranging from 10 to 13 cents an hour and a closed shop. STEPS ON TRACKS, KILLED Medford, Ma.ss., April 23, (UP) — An unidentified woman, about 55, was killed tonight when she stepped from the platform of the West Medford station into the path of a Boston-to-Lowell express train. BARCELONA-MADRID BREACH IS WIDENED Hendaye, April 23 (UP)- Nation¬ alist forces widened the wedge be¬ tween Barcelona and Madrid along the entire southern front today, capturing the city of Aliaga, 23 miles north of Teruel and driving the coastal highway on Castellon de la Plana. Nationalist troops of Gen. Miguel Aranda ¦ smashed a formidable Loyalist concentration on the coast highway and occupied Alrala de Chisbert after which they con¬ tinued towards Castellon, halfway between Benicarlo and Valencia. Nationalist headquarters an¬ nounced that Gen. Bautista San¬ chez's troops captured the city of Aliaga at 6 p. m. and continued to advance to the south, wiping out the long )iorket which extended from the sea hack to Teruel. Party Lines to Be Forgotten When Battle Against Plan Opens Monday Washington, April 2,1 (UP)—A bitter congressional fight brewed tonight over the New Deal's $4,512,000,000 lending-spending pro¬ gram. When Congress resumes work j Monday, the battle will begin in earnest and it will transcend party ' lines. A House appropriations sub- I committee is holding hearings on [the President's request fo* $1,250,000,000 to finance relief fof the first seven months of the 1938 fiscal year and will begin work on the plan to provide $1,000,000,000 for public works spending. Charging "political favoritisra and pressure" in the administration of relief. Rep. Bruce Barton. R., N.Y., announced that he would in¬ troduce an amendment to the Cor¬ rupt Practices Act .Monda.v, fixing a penalty of $5,000 fine and three years imprisonment for any official distributing government funds to influence the political beliefs or acts of a recipient. Point to Pennsylvania Trouble Barton said he was timing his amendment to coincide with the drive to push the President's lending-spending program through Congress. Barton's plan to place stringent restrictions on the handling of relief funds was regarded as par¬ ticularly significant in view of the charges and counter-charges con¬ cerning relief administration in Pennsylvania. He specifically mentioned the situation in Pennsylvania, where Works Progress Administration in¬ vestigators are inquiring into charges by John B. Kelly, Demo¬ cratic leader of Philadelphia, that Sen. Joseph F. Guffey, D., Pa., was exerting political pressure on relief worlcers. Other Abuses Named Barton declared that this condi¬ tion was not confined to Pennsyl¬ vania alone. He charged that re¬ cipients of farm rehabilitation loans were forced to sign agree¬ ments that they would not oppose the AAA program: that in Kala¬ mazoo count.v. Mich., relief clients were required to answer questions revealing their political affiliation in recent elections; and that state relief administrators in West Vir¬ ginia required subordinates to sep¬ arate Democratic needy from Re- publicans, and set up "preferred lists" of physicians. The rebellion against granting Mr. Roosevelt a blank check for spend- ' ing had spread into Democratic I ranks. Rep. Andrew May, Ky., chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, announced he I would seek to earmark $120,834.- 760 of the recovery funds for ths ' improvement of army posts, j Want Funds Earmarked I Rep. John Taber, R,. N. T., promised Republican support for ' proposals for earmarking funds. I The U. S. Chamber of Com- I mercc, in its weekly review of I ..ational business affairs joined In I the fight again.st renewal of pump- ! priming, declaring that business ; was skeptical of its worth. I Mr. Roosevelt, on a week-end ¦ cruise on the Potomac River, worked on the draft of his eon- ' (Continued on Page A-fl) President to Recommend Income Tax To Be Put on Government Employes Washington, April 2.1. (UP)— President Roosevelt, facing a test in the fall elections on his partial victory on the undistributed profits levy, prepared tonight to advance his taxation program a step fur¬ ther by recommending future re¬ ciprocal state and ftderal taxation of government securities and sal¬ aries. Preparing for aggressive action after winning the struggle for re¬ tention of the undistributed profits tax principle In the new revenue bill, Mr. Roosevelt will send a new 1 tax message to Congress—prob- I ably on Monday. It will recom¬ mend a plan to open new revenue I sources to meet increasing costs of government by imposing regul- I lar levies of future issues of gov- I ernment securities and the sal- ' aries of government employees. A coalition of conservative Demlcrats and Republicans warn¬ ed the administration that reten¬ tion of the undistributed profits tax in "skeleton" form will be made a major issue In the con¬ gressional elections this fall. \
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Date | 1938-04-24 |
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Day | 24 |
Year | 1938 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Date | 1938-04-24 |
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Day | 24 |
Year | 1938 |
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FIGHT SHERIFF SALES OF HOMES IN COUNTY
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Weather
Sunday: Cloudy, warmer, Monday: Scattered shower*.
FIFTY-TWO PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1938
PRICE TEN CENTS
WOULD IMPRISON RELIEF POLITICIANS BRUCE BARTON CRACKS PENNSYLVANIA
TO OPPOSE ^r Who Killed Mother [XRECTAFL
oAi ro rnn ^'^'^ Ruling of Judge j «-. ...._. ^.
uALLu rUK Whatever You Do Will Be All Right... I Loved My | (J KAIU Ull
Lindbergh's Island Castle off Coast of France
1
BACK TAXES
'Whatever You Do Will Be All Right... I Loved My
Mother,' Says 16-Year Old Who Murdered in
Blind Rage When Scolded; Father Aids
Commissioners Act to Off'
set Expected IVIove
Against Treasurer
DISORDER IS FEARED
Chicago, April 23 (UP)—Teddy | throat when she scolded him for : Danielsen prayed in his cell tonight truancy.
I while awaiting a judge's ruling on ! "I have prayed to Almighty God ¦ '.he puni.shmenl he must face for | for forgiveness," he had said.
At his side, a reassuring hand on his shoulder, stood Theodore Dan- ielson sr., an athletic equipment salesman who said his son is "all I have left."
Together they had listened tensely as it was demanded that
MacGuffie Says Ousting of
Families Would Be an
'Appalling Injustice'
Ivilling his mother in a moment of blinding rage.
The frail 16-year-old school boy tearfully placed his case in the hands of Criminal Court Justice Cornelius J. Harrington. He con¬ fessed his act, but said he couldn't have been in his right mind be- j Teddy be sent to a penal instltu-
Meyers
tion for his deed
"He must be punished, said sternly.
"I don't care what Mr. Meyers said," Teddy told the judge, as he glared at the prosecutor. "If I was
cause he loved his mother.
Biting his swollen lips, he stood before an adult's bar of justice and staled his case.
"I Loved .'My >lolher" "I just want to say, Judge Har¬ rington, that whatever you do will in my right mind at the time I be all right. I want you to know wouldn't have done it," To prevent the possibility of , i loved my mother." I "Father and .Mother t« Blame"
sheriff sales of nearly 30,000 prop-1 He had been unable to explain "And your fath-r is here to back erties in Luzerne county Attorney | the "irresistable impulse" that it up." the elder Danielson broke Robert L. Coughlin, solicitor for | drove him to plunge a bread knife ! in. "Your father knows. If you the county commissioners tomor-1 into Mr.s. Eleanor Danielsen's' (Continued on Page A-6)
row will file with the Court of __^
Common Pleas a petition request¬ ing a stay on sheriff sales of prop¬ erty for the taxable year of 1937.
The unusual procedure on the part of the county commissioners Is prompted, it is reported, by the belief that proceedings will be in¬ stituted against Dr. Frank M. Pugliese, county treasurer, to com¬ pel the collection of taxes through such sales. The attorney int»rested in this action is Miner Aylcsworth of Sweet Valley. _ Exp«ct IvEglslatfve Action . Returns on uncollected taxes for 1937 will be made in May. From May until August, under the law. the county commissioners, jointly with the county treasurer, are em¬ powered to collect taxes through sheriff sales.
CIO UNIONS
Federation Believed Set to Finance Drive for Dis¬ satisfied Groups
MOTOR STRIKE VOTED
Leaders Hopeful of Settling
Workers' Grievances
in Conference
JENNINGS ASKS EARLE TO REMOVE MARGIOTTI
Civil Liberties Union After
Punishment of Those
Who Backed Case
MORE CHARGES MADE
American Civil Liberties Union,
from its New York headquarters.
In connection with the petition ! last night dispatched a telegram
to be filed tomorrow by Attorney I to District Attorney Leon Schwartr.
Coughlin, John A. MUcGuffie.
Asked to Double Robbery Reward
Atlantic City, N. J., April 2,1. (UP)-^Insuf'ahce adjusters post¬ ed a $7,5 |
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