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THE WEATHER
Warmer  today with  scattered showers: Monday prob- ably   raia.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1937
Entered   st   Wilkes-Barre,   Pa., As   Second   flaai   Mall   Mailer
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Shoots^ Wife, Then Finds Her Companion Is His Son
Retired Army Major Mistakes Sleeping Form Of
Boy For 'Another Man'; Tells Police Young
Mate Nearly Drove Him Crazy
RELIEF IS
Martin Told To Call Prom¬ ised Sympathetic Strike In U. S. Or End His Efforts
CONFERENCE FAILS
'. Santa Cruz, Cal., April 17. (UP) j —Allan D. Boggs, 52, socialite and retired U, S. Army major, shot his I beautiful 37-ycar-old wife today be- I cause he mistook the sleeping form of his own 12-year-old son for "an- i other man."
'• Arrested by deputy sheriffs, who i traced him to thc fashionable Palo- mar Hotel where he had registered under an assumed name, Boggs revealed he shot because he be¬ lieved his wife was unfaithful to him.
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  After  he  came  home  early  this
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He borrowed a revolver, forced his way past a frightened Negro butler at the Harris home and searched the house until he found his wife.
He saw his wife in one of the twin beds. In the other he saw what appeared to be a man's form, he said.
Boggs started shooting. One bul¬ let coursed through his wife's chest puncturing her lung, A second struck her in the abdomen.
Then   the   "form"   in   the   other
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Oshawa, Ont, April 17 (UP)— The "Stewards Committee" of the United Automobile Workers local union determined tonight to seek an independent settlement of the strike of 3,700 General Motors em¬ ployes here unless Homer Martin, international union president, calls a sympathetic strike Monday in all G, M, plants in the United Slates. That would end relations wiih the C. I. O.
Martin,  faced with this demand i that he make good on his repeftteJi promises  of support  or else  liavrfl local   free   to   make   its   own
tllemcnl,   decUned   to   say   what oiild do, SfRtiW^lt n  was lime  for  Martin  to  "make  good." They want tn get back lo work.
Martin had left Toronto by air¬ plane for Flint, Mich., late In the afternoon, then suddenly changed his mind in mid-air and returned to renew conferences with local union heads.
Conference Collapses I
The local union's decision to i force a show-down, and Martin'3 about face in his traveling plans, followed swiftly upon the collapse of a settlement conference In thc office of Premier Mitchell Hepburn in Toronto. This conference broke wp upon Ihe same point on which Hepburn ha.s insisted all along- thst he will not "negotiate with John L. Lewis' paid hirelings."
Hepburn   charged    that    Martin
Bullets Mix With Ballots In Mexico
President Strives To Hold Down Costs To Keep Bud¬ get Near Line Of Balance
MESSAGE AWAITED
twin   bed   arose.   Boggs   saw   that,   to survive."
Instead of another man as he had expected, his wife's companion was their own son, Denny, 12. The boy ran screaming from the  room.
Boggs said he ti J to kill him¬ self. His hand shook as he pulled the trigger and the bullet missed. He tried again but the gun mis¬ fired.
Says She Drove Him Craiy
The scene of the shooting was tho palatial residence of James Harris, former president of the White Motor Truck Company, of Cleveland. O., and now president of the Monterey Bay Redwood Company, Boggs drove to down- u/pA Officials See Little town  Santa Cruz  and  parked  his    "^^^     UlllUldia     OCC     UllliC
automobile  in   a  garage   near  the,       ChanCC   Of   Cuttlng    RollS Palomar hotel. He registered at the hotel  under   the   name   of   "F.   H. Brown,      Burlin,«.ime."      Deputies traced him Ihrou^i his car.
Questioned by District Attorney Ben B. Knight, Boggs reportedly signed a statement attributing his act to his jealousy but maintained what officers described as "a surly attitude,"
He said his wife's nagging bad "nearly driven me  crazy."
Knight filed charges of at¬ tempted murder.
Hospital attendants said Mrs. Boggs had only "one chance in 500"
'JOYER MACHINE ISUCCESSOR FOR :0MY is to ; REV. et-tENOAR ENLARGE PLAN! BELIEVED NAMEO
Davis Announces $20,0001 Rev. John G. Frey Of First Addition; Product Shipped I    Endicott M. E. Expected
Of Those Now Given Aid
FEAR TAX INCREASE
To  All  Parts  Of  World
THEATRE CONTRACT NEAR
To Come To Forty Fort
The Royer Foundry and Machine Company, developed and controlled by local capital, yesterday award¬ ed a contract to the A, J. Sordoni
snd   other   union    representatives, !:>';'J:;"rT,n"/rJHiHnn', TihlTr sgain hsd  raised  the  issue  of  in-! °U^° ^-^^^Plf/il^irK n«tnn
rerncrnitlnn       nf       IheiP'*"'   ""   Pr'"8'«   street,   Kingston,
union     H»   Il^.^^.H    «,,fl    .^^*! The improvements will cost in the union.    He   accused    Martin    and! neighborhood of $20,000,
Announcement of ihe company's
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and I Hugh Thompson, C. I, O. organizer nf "trying to pull the old double cros.s" on him and urged the Oshawa strikers to send a delega¬ tion of their own members, .Martin  Says   Nnthinir
Martin, located in Toronto to¬ night, gave no explanation of his sudden return lo the city except to «ay that it seemed "advisable."
C. H. Millard. Oshawa union president, and Thompson left here by taxi lo confer again with Martin.
ilartin said they would "talk over the whole situation." After 'hat. he said, he might be in a position to tell what the interna¬ tional union will do.
The stewards committee demand¬ ed lhat Martin call a strike in the United Slates to "make good" on nn promise that "all the resources of the U. A. W. A." were behind the Oshawa strikers.
plans to expand was made last night by Stanley B. Davis, presi¬ dent and general manager.
The two wings will be used as a storage for steel casting, carpen¬ ter shop, assembly rooms, shipping department, cutting room and for other facilities to match the tremendous strides the company has made the past two years. Holds Important Patents
The Company controls many ex¬ clusive Inventions in foundry equip¬ ment, mining machinery, golf equipment machinery used in the creation and preservation of the modern golf course, as well as farm machinery.
The products of thc company are shipped to nearly every section of the world. Orders have been re¬ ceived from Japan and China and also from European countries. The • Continued  on  Page  A-4)
installment Plan For Payment Of Property Liens Made Late
Luzerne County's four cities, in aaaition to other municipal govern¬ ments, now will collect thousands of dollars in unpaid paving and ••wer liens by virtue of the pass- »>« of a bill eliminating all interest •na filing charges. While passing Of an ordinance to that effect is optional with each municipal gov- •fnmenl, it is expected all will take aovantage,
Hazleton city  has  frozen   assets
Of 1440,000 in sewer liens, while thc
'•ty of Wilkes-Barre has $220,000 in
wvmg   hens   outstanding.     These
municipal governments, in addition
"Others in the valley, constructed
"Wage  lines  and   roadways,  later
™««sing  taxpayers their  pro-rata
"•re.    Many   payments,  however,
n«ve   been    "hanging    fiie"    ever
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I th     u^""' *^''« <"*>*¦•» partially met ' the obligation.
Heretofore, a six percent interest f^narge was affixed to the unpaid oslancc. This, in addition to penal- I'cs, cost of filing and other unH Accumulation of charges,
.„_ ^ "''^ arrangement, would 'onnetimes add two hundred dollars w an original five hundred dollar
account. While the sum increased from year to year, the majority of the  debtors showed little concern.
The law empowering councils to drop interest and other charges was signed by thc Governor on Wednesday.
Installment Plan
Payment of sewer and paving liens will be made under a five- period installment plan, according to provisions of the enactment. First payment of 20 percent must be made on or before November 1, 1937, with a payment of 20 per¬ cent each year thereafter for a total of five. Should debtors fail to clear up their debt under this arrangements, all charges then will again be charged against them.
Much work waa done by the Wilkes-Barre Taxpayers and Property Association, headed by William D. Berryman, In behalf of the bill. In a statement last night, Mr, Berryman said that, in his opinion, officers of all local munici¬ pal governments will take ad¬ vantage of this system of collect¬ ing; old accounts. "They have mttic to gain by adopting such an ordi¬ nance," be stated.
LOCAL PEOPLE ELECTED
(Special To Independent)
Binghamton, N. Y., April 17.-- Authoritative reports in Wyoming M. E. Conference circles here to¬ night indicated that Rev. Dr. George Callendar, pastor of the Forty Fort, Pa., church, will go to the Norwich charge and Rev. John G. Frey, leaving First M, E, al Endicott, will become his succes¬ sor.
This report was among several involving Luzerne county pastor¬ ales as the conference cabinet end¬ ed a meeting here tonight after being in session since afternoon.
Bishop Ernest G. Richardson said tonight that he expects the deliberation to continue right up unlil the reading of appointments and transfers on Monday at noon. "There are too many problems to be solved and it is difficult to get pastors and charges to think to¬ gether," he said,
A delegation from the Forty Fort church conferred with the confer¬ ence cabinet this afternoon but no statement was  issued.
Although the Forty Fort church has been the only ono in the Wilkes-Barre district to be offi¬ cially mentioned in discussions, other changes are being consider¬ ed it was reported tonight. Rev. Swales May Leave It was learned on good authority lhat the Rev, Thomas G. Swales, pastor of the Derr Memorial, church at Wilkes-Barre, has been offered the Athens charge, a post where his brother. Rev. Harold S, Swales, pastor ot the Myrtle street church, Scranton, served from 1931 to 1933, The Athens charge is considered an advancement.
Rev. Wilton J. Dubrick ot Glen Lyon is reported as being slated to go to the Derr Memorial, these reports gaining circulation after It was indicated that Rev. Luke W. Hovey of Avoca would go to Whit¬ ney Point, N. Y., a charge first mentioned fdr Rev. Dubrick. The Whitney Point change resulted from the transfer of Rev. Edras Lowry from lhat charge to super¬ intendent of the childrens' home at Hillcrcst.
Reports say Rev. Clarence R. Hickok, retiring Monday from superintendent of the Scranton district, will be appointed to First Church, Endicott.
The conference today found no invitation from any of the 194 charges for the 1938 session and turned over to Rev. Charles H. Newing of Kingston, Pa,, chair¬ man of conference entertainment, the task of finding the next place (Continued on Page A-l>
Registering   pain,    and    possibly | fear of death,  here  is one of the three persons shot in an electoral
FLIGHT ENOED FOR BIG CITY BAD MEN
Shot Federal Agent Lose Way In Nebraska Town|
PART OF MONEY FOUND
Washington, April 17. (UP)— President Roosevelt worked over¬ time in his White House study today charting the government's probable Income and spending plans for 1937-193S with the hope that no new taxes will be necessary at this   session   of  Congress.
The President sought to hold relief expenditures for the 12 months after July 1 lo less than $1,500,000,000 to bring the national budget nearer the balance line and still keep his administration's pledge  to  care   for  the  needy.
Whether he finds this can be done will be known next Tuesday or Wednesday when he sends a special message to Congress ask¬ ing for money to continue federal work-relief.
The administration, it was learn¬ ed, has decided to make a tenta¬ tive allotment of $1,125,000,000 to provide for 1,600,000 needy on WPA work rolls during thc next fiscal year.
Full Reduction Intpossible
A high WPA official said today, however, that there was "little chance" for the government to cut job   lists   to   1,600,000   by   July   1.
r'U^rfir /o!";rbie™r::^l Katonah Bank Robbers Who
indicated the figure would be pared cnly to 1,800,000 within the next two months and a half.
The President's message, a re¬ sult ot collaboration by the U, S, Trca-sury, thc Budget Bureau and the Works Progress Administra¬ tion, will contain a recasting on thc 1937-1938 fiscal outlook, what money the government expects as revenue, how many billions it pinr to spend for recovery and rcl t and regular expenditures.
When President Roosevelt sub¬ mitted his first budget plans to Congress early in January, he said the administration could spend $1,- 500,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year and present a budget virtually balanced except for a $400,000,000 statutory debt retire¬ ment item.
Tax Increase Expected
Since that time, however, govern¬ ment rcceipt.s have fallen some $500,000,000 below expectations, Thc deficit stood at $1,951,971,300 on April 15. Congress was consider¬ ing plans to pour out millions more for low-cost housing projects and farm aid program.
Mr. Roosevelt continued to ex¬ press the hope that no new taxes will be necessary at this session of Congress; that he still looked for¬ ward to a budget near balance in 1937-1938 and a budget In actual balance in 1938-1939.
Sen. David L. Walsh, D.. Mass., a member of the Senate Finance Committee, predicted today, how¬ ever, that the government must assess "drastic" tax increases either this year or next.
"We cannot continue," Walsh said, "to spend money as we have been without drastic increases in taxation all along the line, I have long been of thc opinion that in¬ creased taxes are certain to come."
OF TAXES
Unconstitutional Decision By Court Of Appeals At Boston Menaces Program
CUMMINGS ACTIVE
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riot in Mexico City, when pri¬ maries were held. The shooting occurred near Popular Front head¬
quarters when victorious members of President Cardenas* National Revolutionary  party  approached.
VAN DEVANTER MARKS HIS   78TH   BIRTHDAY
Washington, April 17. (UP) — Justice Willis Van DeVanler, con¬ sistent dissenter in New Deal cases in the Supreme Court, spent his 78th birthday anniversary today in seclusion.
Van Devanter, dean of the court in years of service and its second oldest member, shunned observance of the day except to receive friends who called to congratulate him.
He seldom is seen in public and dislikes being photographed. He prefers the "den" of his Con¬ necticut avenue apartment to his ornate three-room suite of offices at the Supreme Court building.
Van Devanter was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Taft on Dec. 10, 1910.
Kansas City, Mo., April 17 (UP) — Two tough New York ex-convicts, who shot a federal agent when he ricd to arrest them and then were caught   by   a   rural   sheriff   when | Ihcy couldn't figure their way out; of  a  small   Ncbra."ika   town,  were | lodged in the county jail here to-' night, I
Alfred Power and Robert J. j Suhay, charged with the robbery of; a bank at Katonah, N. Y„ la.-it monlh, will be held here unlil it is ' certain whether W. W, Baker, the wounded Federal Bureau of Invcs- | ligation agent, will recover. j
"We'll keep the pair he;j unti we sec how Baker makes out," said Dwight Brantley, agent in charge of the Kansas City office, "If Baker dies they go to Topeka, where we'll make every effort to secure a death I penally." I
Force  Doctor  to  Help ]
Brantley and fellow officers 1 brought Power and Suhay, the lat¬ ter wounded slightly in the wrist, back from Plattsmouth, Neb,, to¬ day but for hours there was no word where the pair was held During the day a hotel room they had occupied was located and in it was found $0,964—money that Brantley believes is part of 'he Katonah loot. The men also I'.'^d about $5,000 with  them.
Brantley said that when Powers and Suhay got near Sabctha, Kan., after their flight from Topeka yes¬ terday afternoon they stopped at the farm home of Joseph Garvcr and forced him to ask Dr. S. M. Hibbard to drive out and treat Syhay's wound.
When the wound was dressed and Mrs. Garver had cooked dinner for thc men, they told Dr. Hibbard they were going lo lake his oar because theirs, with a New York license plate, was too conspicuous. Tells Of Hidden >loney "But don't worry about il," one said. "Here's a key to a room in the Phillips Hotel at Kansas City. You'll find enough money there  to  make  it  worthwhile."
A few hours later the men were cornered In Plattsmouth and ar¬ rested. Dr. Hibbard telephoned Kansas City police and told them about the hotel room. They in¬ vestigated. Besides the $6,000 they found 12 suits of clothes and sev¬ eral pieces of luggage. The men .(Continued ca Pas* A-;i>.
Deny Settlement In Spry Will Case
Reports that the vigorously contested Orphans Court will contest over the estate of the late Franklin B. Spry, wealthy Plymouth banker and indus¬ trialist, will be removed from further litigation by settlement, lacked official confirmation here last night.
Attorneys Thomas B. Miller and George I. Puhak, counsel for Mrs, Cecelia Zelinski Spry, blonde widow who battled pro¬ visions of a will filed for pro- bale and subsequently upheld by Orphans Court, discounted tile settlement reports. Attor¬ ney Thomas M. Lewis, repre- senling other Spry heirs who were bequeathed thc bulk of the estate in the probated will, could  not be  located.
Despite the lack of confirma¬ tion, reports persisted that thc settlement will result in discon¬ tinuance of an appeal filed with higher court by Mrs. Spry. Tlie disputed estate is valued at sev¬ eral   hundred   thousand   dollars.
Two Weeks Work On Record Done In Day To Permit Immediate Appeal Of Case
MILLIONS AFFECTED
PinSTOJUS DEAD
Passes After Second Attack Of Pneumonia in Year; Was County Sub-Assessor
KNOWN AS SINGER
NICHOLAS GIVES UP REVOLUTION PLANS; TO GO INTO EXILE
Bucharest, Roumania, April 17 (UPi-Princc Nicholas moved lo-i ni,'.'ht to case thc tension which had I pointed to po.ssible revolution a.s a | result of his expulsion from tho i Roumanian family by King Carol, his  brother, |
In a letter to Premier George Tatarescu, Nicholas repudiated nil dissensionist activity in hi.s behalf by the Fascist Iron Guards or any other political groups opposed to thc king's action.
Alluding to reported expressions of violent dis.'ialiafaclion with Carol's conduct as king, Nicholas wrote:
"I have heard rumors to thc ef¬ fect lhat I am connected with thc manifestations of certain political parties,
"If these rumors continue, they may harm the intcre^' of my country. I declare that I am not in contact with any political group and protest against thc rumors.
"Please lake whatever measures you think fit to put an end to lhem."
Other sources reported that Nich¬ olas, expelled from the family be¬ cause of his marriage to a com¬ moner, and Carol had reached ii compromise agreement financially satisfactory to the prince.
The reports said that Nicholas was convinced the Iron Guards were not sufficiently strong polit¬ ically to give him effective support in any peaceful maneuver against Carol and that Ihe cost to the country in blood and money would be too great lo justify any revo¬ lutionary aclion.
Nicholas' letter lo Tatarescu al.io indicated he would accept hia brother's expulsion order and go iala f:ule ii]:ioeid.
A second attack nf pneumonia within a year brought death last night to Michael E. Golden, a former mayor of Pitlston, the end coming at the family home, 124 John street, at 11:30 oclock, P'or thc past ten years he had been engaged as sub-assessor for Luz¬ erne county, working under direc¬ tion of the County Board of Assessors,
Strickcned one week ago, he con¬ sistently weakened until claimed by death. One year ago pneu¬ monia confined him to bed for one month. Born in Pilt.ston the former mayor spent his entire life in th=it area of tho counly. A man of sterling character and of singular vocal talent, he ingratiated him¬ self with Pittston people at in early age. He possessed a fine tenor voice and for more than Iwcnty-fivc years directed the choir of the Church of Sl, John the Evangelist, His rendition of Rose- wig's "Ave Maria" nt consecration of thc ma.ss always had been spirit¬ ually impressive. For several years Mr. Golden directed singing in Pittston   public   schools.
Elected   aiayor   In   1909
In 1909 he was elected mayor of Pittston on thc Democratic ticket, serving a four-year term which expired in 1913, shortly be¬ fore adoption of the Clark Act (Continued  on  Page  A-2)
Washington, April 17. (UP)—Tha administration moved wllh unpre¬ cedented speed tonight to cxpedita Supreme Court consideration of the constitutionality of the vast federal old  age   pensions  scheme.
Importance of the court ruling was emphasized by fears of pos¬ sible wide stoppage of old age tax collections as a result of the de¬ cision of thc First Circuit Court ot Appeals at Boston in declaring Old Age Pension features of the New Deal Social Security Act unconsti¬ tutional.
Attorney General Homer S. Cum¬ mings said every effort was being mads "to obtain a Supreme Court determination before end of tho present term early in June. Want Quick Action
Solicitor-General Stanley Reed is marshalling efforts of the govern¬ ment to reduce legal red tape, which usually measures Supreme Court appeals in weeks or months, to a matter of days.
The extra effort was necessary because thc Supreme Court is ap¬ proaching thc end of this year's term. If a ruling is not handed down this spring, it will be delayed for months—probably until early December or January.
Thc Boston court yesterday ruled two phases of tho Social Security; Act unconstitutional—those cover¬ ing old age pensions and unem¬ ployment insurance. Since the Supreme Court already h.is under con.sideration tho unemployment pha.se of the act. only thc old ago pension case is being appealed.
Po.ssible tax stoppage was be¬ lieved to be the most important consideration in the effort for a quick Supreme Court ruling. Legal authorities said thc collection ot both old age and unemployment taxes in the jurisdiction of the Boston court —embracing the New England states—could be expected virtually to cease until the Supreme Court rules.
CollectioiiH .Alay Stop
Should the Internal Revenue Bureau attempt to collect taxes in that area, the federal courts, bound by the circuit ruling, wouid enjoin collections.
Delay of several months in final determination of constitutionality probably would result in spread of legal aclion lo halt tax collection.s, with resulting serious effects upon the treasury's budget estimates. Thc treasury budgeted Social Se¬ curity taxes to yield $324,600,000 in the fiscal year ended July 1 and $774,800,000 in the  1937-38 year.
It was believed the administra¬ tion wished to make every effort to avoid a situation similar to that preceding Supreme Court invalida¬ tion of AAA processing taxes when for a period of months before the final ruling tax collections had vlr« tually ceased.
In addilion lo Ihe tax angle, th« wide scope of the old age pension* (Continued  on  Page  A-2)
County WPA Office Affected By Extensive Retrenchment Program
Following instructions from VVashington and Harrisburg, offi¬ cials of the Luzerne County Works Progress Administration are en¬ gaged in an extensive retrenchment program here that is expected to lop several thousand dollars a month from administrative and project payrolls.
Thc general impression that the curtailment applies only to mar¬ ried women on the WPA roster whose husbands arc gainfully em¬ ployed, is not entirely correct ac¬ cording lo Administrator Joseph G. Schuler last night.
He said the federal government wishes to be as certain as po5.sib!c that WPA funds are not going into
families in which there is sufficient sustaining income from private in¬ dustry or through other member* of the family being in the employ, of WPA.
As a result the retrenchment will apply not only to cases of married women, but also to male employes of WPA. In some in¬ stances dismissals already hav* been carried out while others will follow as the county-wide checkup continues.
No exceptions will be made to the rule on  married women. Adminis¬ trator Schuler said, in discounting reports that Harrisburg and Wash \ ington    intervention    would    "take i care of" some employes who would 1 Otherwise be dropped
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