Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER  14, 1937
PRICE TEN CENTS
U. S. THREATENS TO AID CHINESE UNLESS JAPAN MOVES TO END WAR
TERM TOKYO OOT OF STEP WITH WORLD
SEW TAXATION PLANS FACE SPECIAL SESSION
President    Points    Policy;
Seek More Taxpayers,
Fewer Hidden Taxes
TO MEET UTILITIES
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Washington, Nov. 1.^ (UP)—The special session of the 75lh Con¬ gress open.? Monday amid conflict over the request of President Roo.sevelt for farm legislation and mounting clamor for action to en¬ courage business. > Congres.snien- pouring inlo the fspital b.v the scores al the lasl minute di.scloscd strong sentiment fnr federal retrenchment and for measure.s lo encourage business and enable it to take at least part of the relief load from governmeni shoulders.
President Roosevelt, some high congressional sources predicted to¬ night after a series of last-minute conferences, may take nolice of this surge of sentiment in his mess- Hge to be delivered Monday,
One forecast was that Mr. Roose¬ velt would touch on the demand for modification of the undistri¬ buted profits tax. but leaders be¬ lieved that action on tax problems would be delayed until the regular session that begins in Januarv RenrganiiHtloii Bills Pirsf
The chief lask o. the special ses¬ sion-enactment of crop control legislation-definitely was pushed out of first place when Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Bark¬ ley. D.. Ky. and .Speaker of the Hou.se Wiiliam B. Bankhead, D., Ala., compared notes after confer¬ ences at the While House and with Vice President John Nance Garner.
The Senate and House hills for reorganiiation of the executive branch of the governmeni will be shoved lo the front unless there is an eleventh-hour change in strate¬ gy or unless the anti-lynching blor Is unexpectedly successful in its demand for precedence.
This (ourse tentatively was de¬ cided upon after it became ap¬ parent that the farm bills would not be ready for debate in either house for al least a week and prob¬ shly two weeks, due in part to pro¬ tests by Secrelary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace against the House committee's action in drop¬ ping compulsory control features of the administration measure. Rnosevelt   Sets   .New   CourHe
Washinston. Nov. 13 iUP>- Pre.sident Roosevell tonight pointed his admini.stration toward a broad new policy of gradually curtailed expenditures, stimuli to private business and a long range unem¬ ployment  program.
There were somc authoritative indications that a helping hand to the railroads and White House ap¬ proval of an overhauled tax struc¬ ture eould be expected.
Mr. Roosevelt has already begun « enmpaign to revive the conslruc- tioH bu.siness and has indicated that rert.iin governmental restric¬ tions may be taken off the utilities In an nttempt In release a backlog •f hesitant investment capital esti¬ mated at more than  .S2.non.000.000.
A conference with private bu.si- nessmen and federal officials. headed by Marriner S. Eccles. ehairman of the hoard of gover¬ nors of the Federal Reserve .Sys¬ tem, has devised rudimentary plans 'or a broadscale home-building program financed by private funds
David  Sarnoff.   president   of  the
Radio    Corporation    of    America,
conferred   for   two   hours   at   the
While House today wilh President [
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Appeal Schools* Tax Levy Power
Philadelphia, Nov. 13 (UP) Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John W. Kephart an¬ nounced today that the high tribunal would withhold a pre¬ liminary order on the contro¬ versy over the power of school board to levy taxes for school purposes until the entire opinion WiUi   ready.
The court was considering an ¦ippcal of the Philadelphia bo.ird of education from a com¬ mon pleas court ruling that the hoard had "a delegated power" to impose an assessment of not more than 85'^ cents per $100 valuation on real estate for s.hool  purposes.
Judge Kephart said the case "has potentialities," and indi¬ cated that the implications were slate-wide.
"Our decision may have some influence upon every school board in the state," he said. "We arc not going to issue a preliminary order as we orig¬ inally hoped, but after talking the case over, il was decided that the matter is too important, nnd we will wait until we arc ready to hand down our entire opinion."
OFFERING COLONIES TO NAZIS
Innocent Young Killer Freed
Britain    Said    Ready    To
Satisfy German Demands
If   Others   Will   Aid
WANT HITLER'S TERMS
Fuehrer Believed Willing To
Offer 10-Yeai* Truce
For Free Hand
Scattered Damage .'^,nd In¬ jury Caused By Storm; River   Rise   Slight
FLOODS ELSEWHERE
A wind and rain storm which in¬ jured one person and cau.sed scat¬ tered damage here, yesterday served lo turn fresh attention to the fad that Wilkes-Barre's plan of flood control ha.s not yet been started despite many months of v.cary debate. The storm was re¬ sponsible for somc minor floods in nearby section of Northeastern Pennsylvania but Wyoming Valley escaped the hrimt. In the city a woman required hospital treatment after a billboard was blown over on her.
While olher sections watched rising streams. River Observer John Mirmak last night announced that the rainfall between 8 p. m. Friday and yesterday afternoon was .64 inches. The Susquehanna river al Markel street was 4.31 feet al 7 a. m. yesterday. At 5 p. m. it had rLsen to 4.7.'i feet. Mr. Mir¬ mak declared that little furlher rise was expected despite heavy upstream rains.
While going to work yesterday morning. Julia Kohalsky. 25, of 8?7 Nortli Pennsylvania avenue, was felled by a billboard bowled over by the high wind, causing the woman to be taken lo General hos¬ pital for treatment of lacerations of the left ankle.
Wire Blown Down
At 9;,TO a. m. cily firemen were called  to  Northampton  street  and Pennsylvania    avenue,    where    an (Continued on Page A-16)
ForYearsSheWavedAt20th Century; Nou) Curly Top Starts A Trip ToFame
Kikhart, Ind., Nov. 13 (UP)—A Piirly-haired litlle girl from down hy the railroad tracks was given » send-off by an 87-piec« band, •peeches hy railroad and Chamber of Commerce nfficials and a parade of fellow townsmen as she prepared to start on a 3,000-mile train tri|). _ By official proclamation it was p 'Curly Top Day" in Klkhart and ^line-year-old Violet Kathleen |Bfchmidl was the heroine. ^¦Violet, better known as curly top, ^^chleved all this by being the most ^faithful train-waver on the New York Central righl of way. Her home was a cottage down where eindcrs of many trains have made the earth black. Every day for yf«rs, so the engineers said Curly Top stood by her home as the Twentieth Century Limited roared By and waved at the engineer.
One day last year the train crew five Violet a ride hrr first train fide to Chicago and a new ward- r robe. Curly Top accepted her hon- ^•ri with so gracious and unaffected
a manner that she charmed all who
mel her.
A book for children capitalized the auccess slory of the litlle girl who waved at the big train. To¬ morrow she will start a trip to major cities to autograph the books and make radio appearances.
Today shc smiled and shook her curls as Banker Lew Armstrong, chairman of a secial Chamber of Commerce committee, told the as¬ sembled citizens of Elkl art:
"We who reside heie fail to realize the Importance of this event bul it is symbolical of her rapid rise to fame."
Violet was guest of honor al a banquet after reviewing a parade led by an 87-plece high school band.
Her trip will take her to New York, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati Indianapolis. Detroit and other cities.
Bul when it is over. Curly Top as¬ serted .seriously, she will be back at her track-side home to wave at her friends in the cab of the thundering locomotivt.
London, Nov. 13. (UP)--Viscount Halifax will inform Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in their conversation next week at Berlin that Britain is pre¬ pared to satisfy Germany's de¬ mands for colonies provided "olher powers make contributions," sources close to the government said tonight.
Halifax is to see Hiller in the role of an interrogator and asl: him what his definite terms are - colonies, western security and the far eastern situalion- for a general settlement of the International situ¬ ation.
He will inform Der Fuehrer, reliable British officials said, that Britain is ready to take up the matter in discussion with all powers who shared in the split-up of German colonies after the World War, This would entail discus¬ sions with the British Dominions, France, Japan and Belguim. Hitler's  10-Ycar  True*
There were reports in diplomalic circles tonight that Hiller is pre¬ pared to offer a 10 years "truce" regarding his colonial demands if Britain will meet him on other issues — including granting the Nazis a free-hand in Central Europe, where Germany already had made great inroads in Poland, Danzig, Czechoslovakia and Aus¬ tria in an apparent encirclement of hei ideological enemy, Soviet Russia.
This report is not con.sistent with Hitler's recent statements that Germany's colonial demands aro inflexible and are not open to bar¬ gaining.
If Der Fuehcrer has actually de¬ cided to offer a "truce" on his colonial demands, it probably i.s for the purpose of making maximum demands in anticipation of a com¬ promise, because Britain can not very well agree to give Germany a free hand in CentrnI Rurono. Britain is closely allied Wilh France in European policy and France would vigorou.sly oppose such a move, principally because of ^er military pacts with Czecho¬ slovakia, Roumania and Russia.
Dispatches    from   Paris   tonight said the French government would play a role of "silent partner". France Skeptiral
The French government, not very well informed as to British intentions, is skeptical of the on: come of the Halifax-Hitler lalk.s and is anxious that Britain make no commitments without France's consent.
It was indicated that Lord Hali¬ fax might go to Rome to talk with Premier Benilo Mussolini after his "private" conversations with Hiller and other German leaders.
^\'ill   Not   Weaken   Bloc
Berlin. Nov. 13 (UP) -The visit of Viscount Halifax to Berlin will not weaken the Fascist bloc or the anti-Communist pact, the National Socialist Korrespondenz declared tonight in a statement carried by the Deutsches Nachrishten bureau, semi-official agency.
Germany, the announcement in¬ dicated, is nol prepared to discuss Japan's conflict wilh China or Italy's connection with Spain wilh the British statesman.
"Suggestions tViat Germany might be ready to Influence her political friends in connection with affairs which do not concern us bul are exclusively of those stales must he described as enlirely beside the point and unrealistic," il was said.
Donald Lewandowski, 13, of Chicago, struck Lorraine Rzeppa, 11, with
a cardboard mailing tube and, amazingly, she died.   Terrified, he was
later freed in court, as shown above, with his molher.
FMR COUGHLIN OUKE IS LOSES EFFORT TO, Tfl BAZAhR FOR
America's 'DeviVs Island' Loses Its First Prisoner
Man Convicted Of Murder On High Seas Outwits
Guards And Suicides  Using Safety Razor
And Blade From Pencil Sharpener
Alcatraz, Calif., Nov. 13. (UP)- A quiet-spoken man who stabbed a fellow seaman to death on the high seas in 1934 today became the first convict to frustrate the stern discipline of the federal peniten¬ tiary on Alcatraz Island. He com¬ mitted  suicide.
He was Edward Wutje. 36. San Diego, first prisoner to die by his own hand on America's "Devil Island." There have heen reports of other prisoners who tried suicide but the strict watch maintained at the island prevented completion of their plans.
Warden  James  A.  Johnston  saiil
Wutje took a blade from a pencil sharpener in his cell, attached It to one of the safely razors allowed each prisoner and slashed his neck in two places.
Wutjc's jugular vein was severed and he died either shortly before guards discovered him in his cell at 3 a. m., or enroute to the prison hospital.
He lefl no note and had not shown signs of an unbalanced mind in recent days, the warden said. Hnwever. he had been morose when called for his regular work assignment.
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Great  Britain  And  Franct
Support America; Severe
Note Has Been Drafted
ITALY BACKS OUT
Hint Plan To Supply Arms
And Munitions To China
As A 'Last Resort'
EVADE RESTRAINT
Vatican   Prelates   Doubtful
Of Plan To Appeal To
Pope For New Rule
SILENCED ON RADIO
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Vatican Cily, Nov. 13. (UP) — Vatican prelates said lonight they doubted whether Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit would be suc¬ cessful in his reported plan lo appeal directly to Pope Pius XI for permission to establish his Shrine of the Little Flower aa a separate   ecclesiastical   unit.
¦The prelates .said that under canon law it is impossible to obtain exemption from the supervision of the local bi.shop for either persons or places, unless the latter are attached to a religious order ap¬ proved by the Vatican.
The Shrine of the Liltle Flower, it was pointed out, does not be¬ long to any recognized religious order and Archbishop Mooney must remain   as   its  juridical  head.
The creation of a special order to elude Archbi.shop Mooney's juris¬ diction would be a difficult and long procedure because canon law says that a secular priest of a church or sanctuary not belong¬ ing to a religious order must al¬ ways be subjected to the juris¬ diction of the bishop of the terri¬ tory in which the priest or sanc¬ tuary   exi.sts.
Informed prel.iles stressed that the Holy See holds Archbishop Mooney in "the highest esteem."
They indicated that the Vatican, although maintaining Its custo¬ mary reserve, approves of his re¬ buke of Father (loughlin which led to cancellation of the latter's radio programs.
Seen As Friendly Overture
From Church Of England
As Result Of Rebuff
•^n(^>^v^/   F? Few Auto Accidents Are Reported By Police
FLEEING DRIVER HELD
NO CENSURE RISKED
VARGAS DENIES STATE HAS BECOME FASCIST
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Nov. 13 (P) President Getulio Vargas to¬ night pledged th.it his authoritarian regime will respect all treaties in force and asserted that the new constitution is "neither Fascist nor Inlcgralist,  bul  Brazilian."
The president's statement was made at a press conference in Cat- lete palace with foreign correspond¬ ents. His reference to the Integ- ralist party, Brazil's green-shirled Fascist nrganization, was construed as a reply to belief expressed abroad that the newly-proclaimed corporate state was based on Fas¬ cist ideology.
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Paris, Nov. 13 (UP)- The Duke and Duchess of Windsor rebuffed by an Anglican clergyman on Armistice Day after they had ar¬ ranged lo observe the two minutes' silence and prayer al Sl. George's Church, received a friendly over¬ ture from the Church of England tonight.
The Rev. W. H. F. Couldridge, vicar of Christ Anglican (^hurch in suburban Xcuiily for the last 29 years. Invited the duke and duchess lo open a church bazaar next Sat¬ urday and the duke immedialely accepted.
Rev. Couldridge's Invitation, closely following an ecclesiastical order of inquiry Into the Armistice Day Incident, appeared to be an informal "gesture of good will' nn the part of the Church of England toward the man who- as King Ed¬ ward VIII—was once its titular head.
Result of R<-huff
It was reliably stated that Rev. Couldridge acted as a direci resull of the treatment of Ihe duke and duchess or Armistice Day when the Rev. J. L. C. Darl of St. George's Church said they were "not welcome" and referred to the "controversial matler" of the duchess' two divorces.
Anglican church authorities pointed oul that the vicar of fashionable Christ Anglican Church does nol risk any censure from the Church of England hierarchy be¬ cause divorced persons are banned only from communion service. In the same manner, they pointed out. no violation of church law would have hcen incurred if they h.nd at¬ tended the .St. George's Armistice, anniversar.v service of the British Legion as they had planned.
SAN FRANCISCO JUDGE TOSSED INTO BOX CAR
CIO Office Now Reing Picketed
Massena. N. Y., Nov. 13. (UP) - The Committee for Industrial Organization was picketed by the American Federation of Labor today when the John L. Lewis organization opened an office next to the headquarters of the Massena Aluminum Workers' Union, a federation affiliate.
AFL pickets paraded before the CIO premises wilh signs reading "this office is unfair to the A. F. of L."
VISITORS AT KIS LYN GET CIDER AND APPLES
Two hundred visitors yesterday took full opportunit.v to try apples and cider produced al Kis Lyn Industrial School. It was visiting day for parents of the boys con¬ fined there.
After the last visitor had gone lasl night. Superintendent Charlea F. Johnson declared that the day's guests hsd eaten fifteen bushels of apples and washed Ihem down wilh two barrels of cider. Between rounds of the apples and the cider, th* parent! Inspected tbe buUdinfi.
San Francisco, Nov. 13. (UP) — Municipal Judge Charles Boden was kidnaped in his own car to¬ night by two men who forced him lo drive several blocks hefore they bound and gagged him and tossed him  Into a  box  car.
The two kidnapers, both describ¬ ed as young and roughly dressed, stepped into Judge Boden's car when he stopped for a traffic light. Pressing guns againsl him, they commanded, "keep on driving and go   where  we   tell   you."
At Third and Army streets the men lied Judge Boden's hands and feel with ropes and placed tape over his mouth. They then tossed him inlo an empty box car and drove off in his car.
Judge Boden managed to roll around on the box car floor until i he attracted the attention of a I passerby who released him He ; said he could think of no explana- I tion of the kidnaping other than I to rob him of his car and »ome change h« was carrying.
A West Side mine worker died from a broken back nnd an auto¬ mobile driver was held on a hit- and-run charge lasl night, accord¬ ing to authorities who compiled a list of week-end accidents in Wyo¬ ming Valley. Despite the stormy weather conditions that existed through part of the day, hospitals reported relatively few highway mishaps. Slate Highway Patrol investigated a numher of auto col¬ lisions but declared none of them serious.
Andrew Forgatch, hfi, father of eight children, of 17 Lackawanna avenue, Swoyerville, died last niglit at 9:30 oclock as a result of a broken back. He was admitted to Nesbitt Memorial hospital Friday afternoon after a fall of rock trap¬ ped him and a companion al the Sunday Coal Company in Exeler. The other man, reported recover¬ ing at the ho.spital, is John Chona. 46, of 943 Main street, Swoyerville. Forgatch received the full force of i the rush of rock when a section ' of mine roof caved in. Hi.s com¬ panion was first reached by res¬ cuers, who had to work a half hour more clearing away rock hefore Forgatch could be taken to the surface.
Mr. Forgatch is survived by his wife, Susan, and the following chil¬ dren: Mrs. Adolph Pechkis, Joseph, Andy, John, Annie, Susan, Mar¬ garet and Irene; two sister.s, Mrs. Anna Thibus and Mrs. Mary Goryl, and a brother, Joseph; also three grandchildren.
8kld  Brings Crash
Driving on a slippery pave on Norlh Main sireel yesterday after¬ noon al 4 oclock. Olympia I'. Kar- ' ambellas, age 25, of 86 Corlear street, city, skidded on the car tracks, crashed into a parked ma¬ chine owned by Mrs. A. O. Weilz, 261 North Main streel and then scraped a third machine owned by C. S. Bell of Upper Darby, Pa. Officers Fi.sher and Aiistclt m.ido the arrest and released the driver when it was disclosed that insur¬ ance  covered  the  car.
A machine operated hy MliliacI Katsak, i"i Easl Union .sti-ect. Plains, was struck by a hil and run driver on Wesl Market slrect. al 8 oclock lasl night, with slight properly damage resulting. Kingston polfce were notified and al 9:45 picked ui> John Pucylow.ski, age 21 of IS Coulter street, and Bernard Mul- arczyk, age 22, 70 West Hartford streel, both of A.shley.
Held By Police
Mularczyk. who was the drivei of the car hearing a Maryland li¬ cense, is accused of .sideswiping the other vehicle at the corners of West Markel and River street after passing through a red light. Rotli occupants of the car were held for investigation.
Eugene Jennings, one year old, fell from his mother's arms and rolled down some stairs al the family home on Main Road, Ply¬ mouth   Township.
Two drivers escaped uninjured yesterday afternoon al 4:.50 oclock In an automobile collision al the intersection of the Trucksville and Fernbrook roads. The machines were operated hy Arthur S. Hull of Shavertown. fnrmerly of 67 Park Place. Kingstnn. and Edward Gro- zalis of Alderson Pennsylvania Motor PoUce Investigated.
Room; Fear For Defenders' Morale   After   Defeat
DRIVING ON CAPITAL
Shanghai, Nov. 13 (UP)—The thunder of cannon faded Into the norlhwest tonight and the Chinese army with it, as Japanese forces from norlh and soulh pointed a new drive, the objective of which ap¬ peared to he the capital at Nan¬ king.
For the first lime in man.v weeks this great commercial port began lo .show signs of normality to the extenl of an announcement that the Catha.v Hotel ballroom would resound tonight with American jazz instead of the whistle of machine gun bullets .and detonation of bombs.
Strong  Point Falls
Kiating, 15 miles norlhwest of Shanghai and one of the strongest defen.se points of the "Chiang Kai- Shek" line, fell at 9 a. m. today when Japanese lanks rumbled into the walled city. Japanese infantry marched in al 11 a. m., completing one of the most serious Chinese defeats of the war.
Chinesa quarters believed that as long as C^hina spurns Tokyo's peace gestures the Japanese will continue their push on all fronts, with Nan¬ king ns the principal objective.
The vernacular press in Nanking published for the first time today the fall of Taiyuan. capital of .Shansi. Chinese sources believe the Japanese will attempt lo drive down from Taiyuan on the national capilal.
The Japanese army in the Shang¬ hai area is expected to push up the Shanghni-Han.schow railway and at the same time attempt lo ap¬ proach Nanking on the southern side of Taihu Lake along the Nan¬ king-Han ;chow highway.
There was much speculation as lo whether the morale of the Chi¬ nese army had been broken by the smashing defc.Tts on the Shansi and Shanghai fronts.
Xo  (iuns  or  Planes
For tlie fir.sl time in three months Shanghai was quiel loday. Not a .single shcllburst, machine gun or airplane was heard. Traffic on the Whnnsi'oo River, blockaded for weel<s by a ('hlne?e constructed boom was resumed after the Jap¬ anese dynamited it.
Except  for the  long line  of for¬ eign   warships,   sand   bagged   win¬ dows and redoubts, the water from along the Bund was almost normal. (Continued  on  Page  A-16)
Brussels, Nov. 13. (UP)—Pow*r« of the Far Eastern Peace Confer* ence. overriding protests from Fas¬ cist Italy, moved lonight to brand Japan as an outlaw among peace- loving nations because of her re* fusal to discuss peace terms witll China,
The conference of 19 nations gave tentative approval of a strongly-worded declaration which was drafted by the United Slates, liiv. ar.d France and hinted at stronger measures—per« haps Including direct aid to Chin* —unless Japan drops her defiance*
The declaration, whioh f :ndemn» Japan for being "out of step with the rest of the world," will b9 formally approved Monday, with Italy abstaining from voting. Italy  Objeota
Fascist Italy, which has defend- *d Japan before the conference and is glorying in Premier Benito Mussolini's week-old adherence to the German-Japanese pact against Communism, flatly rejected tha resolution.
The other powers, however, ap¬ proved the declaration on first reading after making only slight changes and adjourned at 7:55 p. m. until Monday afternoon. At that time the resolution probably, will be formally approved with Italy abstaining from the voting. The changes gave the document stronger   wording.
The powers tacitly rejected Italy's suggestion that Ihey make slill another approach to Japan "in conformity wilh the reality of Ihe situation." Italy vehemently; denounced the wording of the resolution.
Count Luigi Aldrovandri-Mares- colli, chief Fa.scisl delegate, said that under na circumstances could Italy accept, either partially op wholly, such an angry denuncia¬ tion  of  Japan.
There were widespread fears that Italy a signer of the nine-power Washingion treaty of 1922 on which the conference is based- might bolt the conference. Hint Supplying Arm*
The declaration hinting at an already-discu.ssed plan whereby the leading conferencc powers would supply arms .Tnd munitions to China on credit as a "la.sl resort" means of haltln.5 the Japanese war machine, followed speeches li» which the United Stales, British, French and Chinese delegates turn. ed their anger upon Japan.
Norman H. Davis of the United States warned the Japanese that It was to their own material interest to co-operate in ending the  war  with   China.
Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. in tha name of China, demanded that tha powers take immediate steps to guarantee China's territorial and polilical integrity under the nine- power treaty hy denying financial and material  aid  to .lapan.
It was (^hina':i first formal de¬ mand to this conference for a boy¬ cott.
Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos of France   made   a   veiled   attack   oni the  C.erman-Japanese-ltalian  antl- (Continued on Page A-19)
Penna. Mountaineer Kills Wife 'Because Someone Told Me To*
Albany Township. Pa.. Nov. 13. IUP) William Leibensperger. 45, a farmer in this wild section of the Blue .Mountains, allegedly shot and killed his wife. Bertha, 42, loday "because someone told me to."
Leibensperger, arrested when he returned to the farmhouse, con¬ fessed the slaying, Stato Motor Police said.
Three children, Arthur, 17, Irene, 15, and Victor, 12, heard the shoot¬ ing and saw their mo'her lying on the kitchen floor. They told police their father ordered them upstairs, then le.iped from a second-story window and fled to the home of a brother. C^eorge, who notified eu- thorities.
Meantime, Leibensperger ran t<| the home of a neighbor. Charleg Pauify, saying. "I just shot my) wife, come back to the house with me," according to police. When seized by state' troopers, Lcibcn* sperger allegedly had a pistol an4 50 bullets.
"I shot my wife because some¬ one told me to." Leibensperger at first told Trooper L'Iward Strick¬ land, then later said, "someone haa been piitting poison in my food"
The brother said I.eibenspergef and his wife had been quarreling recently and that LeibenspergS* I had b««n drinking b«*vU|,
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