Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              HEAVY RAIN CAUSES TROUBLE IN VALLEY
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A.M. SUNDAY
THE WEATHER
Fair Sunday; Monday Increasing cloudiness followed by showers In late afternoon or at night. RIsInK temperature.
FIFTY PAGES
The  Only  Sunday  Newapaper Covering the  Wyoming  Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1934
Xntered  at   Wllkea-Barre,  Fa.. As  Second Claaa  Mall   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
ORDER GIVES MINERS VICTORY HOUR DAY, $5 MINIMUM RATE
Automobile And Streetcar Traffic Is Impeded In Areas Near To Streams
CELLARS FLOODED
Obstruction In CWA Project Is Tiie Cause Of Alarms To  People  Of   Parsons
'     RIVER SAFE
Volcano Starts Ice River Flood
Reykjavik, Iceland, March 81 —UP—The volcanic peak sur¬ rounding one of the world's biggest glaciers, 'VitnajoekuU In south Iceland, was In violent eruption  today.
Pillars of flre have been visi¬ ble throughout south and south¬ west  Iceland  since  Friday.
¦Vast quantities ot the glacial ice were melted, causing the river Skeldara, running from the glnciers, to overflow. It Is now three   and  one-halt   miles  wide.
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The heavy downpour of rain lust nisht, lasting five hours. Interfered with slryel car and motor trattic In several sections ot Wyoming Val¬ ley. Cellars In homes on Center street, Kingston, were partly filled ly water from Toby's creek, which oyerVowcd Its biinlNMiln that areu. ConKideruble inconvenience wns caused himdrcils of persons In out- f%lng districts In reaching home on account ot impeded street car progress.
Wllkes-Harre Ituilwuy Company reported awuslioiil at Mt. Green¬ wood, holding up for ubout one hour traffic on the Dalius line. A sec¬ ond washout occurred on Chestnut street near Plymouth and uffected transportation on the Kdwardsville route.
KIghteen Inches of water covered the upper section of tbe main highway In I.uzerne. It was neces¬ sary to transfer street car passen¬ gers to buses which carried com- niulers lo a section ot the highwny not affected. Traction company otlicials feared sending cars fhroiipli for reason that motor equipment Would bo put out ot commission.
Water flowed over Pringle street and Schuyler avenue. Kingston, Interfering with traelion company traffic for about one hour.
Solomon Creek Overflows Solomon creek, due to the ex¬ cessive rain lasl night, overflowed its banks on Aslihw streel. Ashley, and hailed trafflc In that area. The flooded sireet is the nuiin artery for tiafllc belween Ashley and Hanover 'I'own.shlp. The water poured Into the nearby fields, owned by Cilen Alden Co.il Compuny. The ground Is not cultivated and only one house Was In the pa^h ot the flood. It Is Unoccupied.
Two motorists attempted lo drlvo through the water and wero forced to rever.se gears and back away from the rapid flowing flood waters which covered the wheels. Ashley police were assigned to the scene and directed eastbound truffle lo the -township over the Liberty streel route at Frunklin Junction.
The creek In the affected region Is 20 feet wide and about 6 feel deep. The overflowing occurred be¬ tween the bridges ot Jersey Central and L. v. R n. companies. Trouble In Parsons Memories ot the devuslating floods ot last August were recalled last night to the minds of Parsons residents when Laurel Run creek llireatened to overflow Its banks be¬ tween the Ash and Oliver street bridges.
I'oiice heudquurier.s ^s deluged Willi telephone culls during the niKlit from ulurined r.>sldenls resid¬ ing on Ash und Luurel streets, which border the creek, with the result that P. p. Bolen, heud ot the CWA project In Laurel Hun creek, and (Continued  on  Page 10,  Kectfon  1)
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Civilian Corps Withdrawal Rate Touches 7500 Mark On  A  Monthly  Average
iSSIlAP
Woman Aide Foils Police When 2 Federal Agents Stage   Apartment   Raid
SHOOT WAY OUT
A GOOD SIGN
Washington, March 31.— UP — Recovery Administration is watch¬ ing eagerly the progress churt ot Civilian Conservation Corps, which indicute an averago of 7,500 youths are withdrawing nionthly from for¬ est camps to accept jobs,
Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work, said 8,331 campers were honorably dis¬ charged In January, when they submlltcd proof of jobs offered llicni. The total dischurged for tills reason in February, a 28-day montli was 6,601.
Fechner has ordered a close study of rcporls by field men lo determine what fields of business and industry offer the greatest opporlunlly to the campers for re-employnient.
Increasing employment, the CCC records Indicute, sturled in October, 1!)33, when 4,027 withdrew from forest camps to accept jobs. In Xoveniber, S.O"! men were honor¬ ably discharged and In December there were 5,023,
J'cchner was "especially pleased by reports for January and Feli- riiiiry, which showed a niurked In¬ crease over the preceding three months."
More tliun lUd.OUU young men will be given an opportunity to join ranks of tho CCC sturting Jlonday, wlien applicuiions will be received for the third six-months period, 'i'ho emergency conservation organ¬ ization has un authorized aggrc- guto enrolled strength of 303,520 persons, divided into 250,000 young uninurricd men, 2S,125 war vlerans and 25,400 experienced woodsmen. Camps operating ai-e more than 1500.
Tho program for the third en- rollmenl period, which begins April 1, culls for discharge of all men In the corpse loduy. As the men are dischurged those whose work has been salisfacory will be offered an opportunity to re-enroll. Thoso who enrolled for the tlnio prior to July 1, 1933. will be re-enrolled tor three months. Those who first entered the corps after July 1, 1933, will be re-enrolled for six months.
ERIE ENTERS BIG ORDER
Cleveland, March 31.—UP—Or¬ ders for nearly $2,000,000 worth of rails and track fustenlngs have been awarded by Erlo railroad as purl ot a maintenance and renewal progrum. It wus announced today. Tho announcement said that orders call for fabrication of 32,000 gross tons of rails and 12,000 tons of spikes, plates, bolts and other ac¬ cessories necessary In track laying.
Leader Is Believed Absent From Battle In Which Machine Guns Are Used
ONE WOUNDED
INSURANCE ON WIFE HINTS ARSON-MURDER
^ineUnd, N. J., March 31.—UP—
t^narlea   Busch,   58,   was   arraigned
L-h M     * •'•"•border here tonight nnd
l""»lil   on   charges   of   murder   and
""¦"on without liuil for a grund jory.
rohiB   believed   Kusch   inurdcred
"I"  Wife,   i.oiiisu,   53,   and   then   set
"<¦<• to their coltugc In an effort to
1 foiiceal  the crime.
Jliisrh,   a  poultry   fanner,   denied •na'Ke.    Ha   aald   he   escaped
from the burning house by leaping from a second floor window. He could not save his wife "because she was too heavy." Tho man ex- plulncd a wound on Ihe dead womun's head by siiylng she "prob¬ ubly  fell."
Police discovered, however, llnsch hud saved his clothing and pupecs. Including an insurance policy on his wife's life.
St. Puul, Minn., Marcii 31.—UP— Search tor John Dillinger, fugitive desperado, swung to the Twin Cities tonight, after two men and a wo¬ man, identified as remnants ot his gang, shot their way out ot a IJe- partment ot Justice trap. Aiilhor- Itles snspecled that Dillinger him¬ self was not fur away and threw patrols across all exits from the Twin  Cities.
It was at llrst believed that Dil¬ linger was a member of the trio, that he covered the escape with a muchine gun, and that he wus wounded In the fight.
Blood on tho snow outside the apartment wliere the trio wus sur¬ prised, indicated one ot tliem was wounded. Two Deparlment of Justice agents and a policeman, who participated In tho fight, were unliurt. One agent said the man wiio operated a machine gun was Dillinger.   Local polico doubted  it.
Tlie buttle occurred in the liall- \vu>'s of an apartment house in an exclusive residenliul district. The cool alertness of llie womun mem¬ ber ot the gung, described as a red- liuired beauty, saved the two men from  capture.
The officers knocked on the door of hor third floor apartment. .Slum¬ ming tho door In the fiice of Police Deleciive Hurry Cummings, she shouted "it's tlie cops," to her com¬ panions.
Fearing tlie quurry would use another exit. Cummings durted Into a rear hall, leaving Depurtment of Justice Agent Uufus Coulter to cover the doorwuy.
Geta  Drop  on   Police
A man armed with n pistol burst out ot the apartment, held up Coulter, who hud no time to draw Ills own gun, and forced him down the hallway.
At the end of the hull. Coulter leaped down a stairway, dodging bullets, and drew his pistol. He tired  several  shots  as  he  ran.
In the rear hall, Cummings lienrd the shots. Ho ran to the apartment door. It opened. The occupants ap¬ parently thought it was tlie gun¬ man who wns pursuing Coulter. When they saw Cummings, a pistol opened flre and then a machine gun.
(hininiings retreated to the hall, look cover and emptied his pistol at the machine gunner.
Tho latter, accompanied by tho woman, ran Into the hall and es¬ caped down the back sllrway. Ho covered the back of the building | with a machine gun until the olher gunman came through the hallway from the front afler firing at Coulter.
Woman   Showa   Daring
The three then ran to a private garage nearby. While the machlno gunner again stood guard, the woman backed out a sedan and headed It through the alley toward the nearest street.
Her companions jumped Into the muchine. Releasing the wheel, she then dived backward Into the rear seat, while the machine gunner slid into her place, and drove awuy.
This purt of the escape wus wit- iiessed by a 16-yeur old schoollioy, Hichurd Bluke, who wus slunding on  tho  opposile side of  the  street.
In the meantime, another Depart¬ ment ot Justice agent, U. L. Nails, had heard the battle as he sal In his automobile, watching the front of  tho liulldliig.
Ho   had    been    posted    theii guurd   a   coupi'.   which   one   of two  gunmen  hud  driven   up  lo  the building.
Sensing what was happening, (Continued on Page 10, Section 1)
Hamburg Steak Seen As Puzzle
Albany, N, Y., March 81-UP —Ingredients of hamburg ateak would be the flrst subject of In¬ spection powers sought by Charles H. Baldwin, Commis¬ sioner ot Agriculture and Mar¬ kets, by a bill betore the Legis¬ lature. The bill would author¬ ize the department to Inspect and license slaughter houses. The annual fee would be $10. Baldwin explained his deter¬ mination tg Investigate the manufacture ot hamburg was the result of reports indicating "that this article of food la be¬ ing sold for prices whicii are so low that there Is a (luesllon as to just what kind of meat Is used  in  making  It."
VALLEYRESIOENl
Police Obtain Parts Of Car After Owner Runs Away From Scene Of Mishap
OTHER ACCIDENTS
to the
Hunover Township poilce early loduy continued a search for a hll- und-run driver who last night shortly after 8 oclock ran down and killed Joseph Mazka. about 50 years old, of Old River Road, Hanover Township. The Iragedy occurred neur Wyoming Brewing Company plant.
The victim was picked up by Wil¬ liam Williams, Lape apartments, N.inllcoke, and John Kmetz jr., also of Nanticoke, and hurried to Mercy hospital. He died at 9:20. Mazka was hurt Internally and suffered several Lacerations.
The mun was a border at the home ot John Ukela. who resides on Old Klver Roud. The victim left home shortly betore the accident. Police found the lop of a radh-itor cap and the rim of a headlight. Sergeant Arthur Lewis and Patrol¬ man Ernie Slavenskl of the town¬ slilp police deparlment are inves- tlgaling the case.
injuries, received early yesterday morning, brought death to Robert Hess, 21, ot Camtara, He died in General hospital at 6 oclock yester¬ duy morning. The car occupied by Hess overiurned on East End houlevnrd near the Intersection ot the Dupont highway. Three olher young men escaped Injury. Hess' compunlons were Oliver Lord, Jo¬ seph Doris and Alex lUdall. Prior to tuking a ride Ihey attended a dance In Berwick. The quartet formed the Hunting Mills rifle teum. Hess was a son of Mr. und Mrs. Reuben Hess. His p.ireiiis were visiting relatives in Ashley at the lime ot the accident.
Tliree members of a Centermore- lund family were seriously injured at 7:45 lust night wiien the auto¬ mobile in which they were occu¬ pants crashed head-on wllh a Dal¬ las street car In the upper section ot Main sireet in Luzerne. The in¬ jured: Rus.seil Race. 81, a fruit grower, possible skull fracture; his wife, Mrs. May Race, 31, serious scalp lacerations; Mrs. TiUio Race, 69, mother of the man, fracture of the left leg. They are In Nesbitt Memorial hospital.
The Race machine was proceed¬ ing Bust on Main sireet and the car was westbound, nearly filled with passengers wlio were jostled and shocked by the impact. The driver ot the auto, police believe, either lost control or was blinded by lights of other machines traveling In an op¬ poslto direction. His car waa totally wrecked. The street car was In charge ot Motorman George Carter. 118 Church street, Kingston, Ser- geunt Geoige Jacobs ot Luzerne police department liivesllguted the accident. The vicllms were removed to the hospltui by Kvun Hudson of Trucksvllle. nnd severul other men who did nol register at the institu¬ tion.
George Toliltusli, 11, ot 307 Mat¬ fett streel. Plains, wus treated at Generul liospital for a dog bite.
A nail entered the right bund of Arthur Johnson, 22, of 3!hi -Vorth \\'ushiii^;loii street, ycslerduy while ul  Work  111 11  local store.
JiiliiiH i'ooslay, 12, ol 67 Poplar streel, I'lalns, was admilled to Mercy hospital last llight after he (Continued  on  I'aga 2. Section 1)1
Son Arrested In Case And Shifts The Blame Upon Four Alcohol Dealers
CANNOT FIND BODY
Badly Confused Story Is Given Police Searchers In  A  Mysterious  Crime
RECORDS TRACED
Soup Employees Vote Walk-Out
Camden, N, J., March 81—UP —Approximately 1,500 employees ot Campbell Soup Company voted today to walk out Monday in protest agninst Bon-recogni- tlon ot their union. They also demand a IB percent wage In¬ crease.
The atrike, supervised by leaders ot Canners Industrial Union, may affect three-fourths ot the plant's workers. Union representatives said a picket line would restrain all but em¬ ployees ot the company power house from entering the plant Monduy.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY I
Sought by deteclivcs and Stale polico aU day yesterduy for ques¬ tioning in connection with the re¬ ported brutal slaying of lils father, John Joseph Musick, 19, ot the Yostvllle section of Springbrook Township, near Mooslc, was arrest¬ ed shortly befure midnight near his home.
The father, George Musick, 42, Is reported to have been slain on Feb¬ ruary 5. A meat cleaver was used In the murder, according to author¬ ities. The young man told dcleclives last night thut four alcohol dealers were Involved In the slaying. Polico doubt the story, chiefly becuuse the prisoner confused details and wus unuble to tell where the dead body was placed. He was locked in a cell and will be further examined today.
Convinced that there is foundation to reports of the murder, authorities yesterday dug into a frozen lieup of sawdust neur the Sluslck liome. Excavuting in other sections of the properly last night was also con¬ ducted. The diggers, early' lust night, thought they discovered ^he body, but upon Investigaiion found the dcoomposed remains ot a deer. Digging will be resumed todny. The probe Is under direction of District Attorney III. J. Kagan and Sheriff George T. Willianis o£ Lackuwunn.i county. State Tropcr Ilenry Duub- enspcck is also investiguting the re¬ ported homicide.
Musick had not been seen around his home by neighbors since Febru¬ ary 5, and when Fred Haiiimi;rsmlth and other residents reporled his dis¬ appearance yesterday morning to the dis'iftlct attorney, the probe was launched.
Tracing Reports Stanley Lucas of Dupont. a for¬ mer boarder at the Musick home, and James Cavanaugh, another for¬ mer boarder, are Important wit¬ nesses in the case. Lucas told police he hud left the Musick homo lo go ice-cutlliig on February 1. and when he returned some time ugo was intornied by Fred Peterson and J. Howard Kills, or Allls, who had been keeping bachelor quurlers in the Musick 14-rooni homo, thut the son had used the cleaver on his father. Lucas took autliorities to the basement where the killing is said to have been perpetrated and showed a board where he found what Is believed to have been blood and brains of the victim. State police today will make an analysis of the evidence.
Neighbors reported that when they quizzed the .--on about the whereabouts of his father, he shrugged his sliouiders and gave various answers, among them be¬ ing that he might have been In Jail for a violation ot the law or vlsUIng his brother In Oxford, N.  Y,
Muslck's wife died several years ago and the son lived with blm In the home purcliused from William Lambert, while two duughlcrs, Mury, 15, und Helen, 14, were placed in St, Nicholas Urplianugo at KImhursl. The senior Musick la reporled to havo operuted u large still on his farm for Beveral years and some timo beforo Prohibition was ended was arraigned before U, S. Commissioner Jerome 1. Myers of Scrunton, In connection with discovery of a lingo sllll iicui Murshall's Creek in Monroe county In 1927 he was in court on a charge ol possession ot narcotics and was sentenced lo 60 days in Lacka¬ wanna counly prison.
Collieries Idle Tomorrow As Workers Prepare To Enter Hearing On Rates
DUES UP AGAIN
Glen Alden Coal Company general grievance committee, sponsored by Uniied Anlhrucllo Miners ot Penn¬ sylvania, last night directed Thomus Maloney, new union president, to Immedlutely lake steps toward re¬ covering money allegedly deducted from employes' pay envelopes with¬ out their consent and forwarded to officcr.s ot the United Mine Workers of America as union dues.
In the event refunds are refused by the compuny, it was decided at last night's general committee meet¬ ing In Union Hull on East Market street thut suits will be Instituted against the Glen Alden for loss of wages. Al the same time any new union nicmher who has proof thai his slKiiutiiro was forged lo the dues curds by some member of the United Mine Workers—as was charged In a number of instances last night—is lo swear out warrants charging forgery.
An amendment to the resolution i instructing Maloney to seek a con-' fereiico with Glen Alden officials also proposed that he seek some ugrcemciit with the conipany to per¬ mit new union commiltecs lo collect dues lor liieir union on conipany grounds.
Holiday Tomorrow
-¦Vctlon uguinst tho compuny and the United Mine Workers by the sevcn-monlhs-old union came on the ovo of tho ISlli aiiiilveisary ot tho 8-liour day. Today is observed goncruliy by mine workers as the uiiniversury ot the victory over coal opcrulors thut fixed eiglit hours as tho duruUon ot the miner's work duy.
In vivow of toduy being Sunday and all mines being idle on Easter .Monday. proclamutions sent out duiing tlio week to all local unions urged the men to observe the aniii- versury of tlie 8-hour duy tomorrow, which will find practically all mines III the coul fields shut down. If April 1 hud fiillen on some other duy tliun Sunday tho mines would rciiiuin idlo In accordance with tra¬ dition.
Addressing the Glen Aldcn gen¬ erul body last night, Maloney re¬ minded the delegates that hearings of gricvunces filed by the new union will begin Wednesday morning al 10 ocloL'k on the fourtli floor ol Anlhiucite building. West .Market street. Jumes A. Gorniun, umpire ot Anthrucilc Conciliation Bourd, will preside. Eleven grievances will be heard the first day, all ot the filed by employes of Kast Boston Coal Company at Luzerne. Back Pay
Maloney lust nlghl declared that efforts will be made to huve the complalnunts wllhdurw their griev¬ ances und cited u number of lii¬ slunces where men whose wuges liud been slushed arc now receiving tbo amount sllpuluted by the col¬ liery rulu sheets. Ho also exhibited a number of checks issued by a con¬ tractor In llio Ewen colliery of I'ittslon Company at PIttslon, whicli he suid represented back pay to em¬ ployes of tho contractor, •
A number ot local unions will have meetings the first purl ot this week. Local Union .No. 31 will meet Tuesday in Guffiovitch's hull at Nanlieoke lo discuss union dues und plans for the banquet to be held; (Continued on I'aee 10, Seciion 1)
450,000 TOILERS GAIN UNION WAGE BY JOHNSON ACT
Entire Bituminous Industry Is Put Under Regulation That Will Take Effect Tuesday In First Of The Nation's Major Setups To Receive Plan That Betters Basic 8 Iiours
FINAL HEARING ON APRIL 9
¦Washington, March 31.—UP—Re¬ covery Administrator Hugh S. John¬ son established today by adminis¬ trative order the seven-hour day and $B basic wage for the entire bituminous coal Industry. The rul-'" Ing is subject to a hearing April 9. The order is subject to modification at the NRA hearings on amend¬ ments proposed by the Appalachian wage scale committee, which has adopted the seven-hour day through¬ out the Appalachian field. The pro¬ posed amendment to the code wns endorsed by Uniied Mine Worker district heads throughout the United States.
Administrator Johnson said In view of the serious emergency threatened In the bituminous coal Induslry he approved temporarily the umendmenls whliii will mean a $5 minimum daily wage inatead of the present $4.60.
"It appears that such amendments will lend to effectuate the policies ot the Kecovery Act, and are neces¬ sary In this emergency," Johnson said, numing April 1 as the effective date for the amendments.
John L. Lewis, president of the U. M. W.. promised complete co¬ operation ot Ills organization in effecting Johnson's adminlslruUve order, and commended the action In the following statement:
'I am assuming thut the order will be made immediately efteclivo , in every mining region to which It refers. The action on the part ot the admlnistrutor Is Juslifiablo and commendable In the face ot the emergency which confronted the In¬ duslry.
"The   United   Jline   Workers   of .\merica will give complete co-oper¬ ation in making il cfr.'olive." Boosts  450.000   Miners
Tho Administrative order affects approximately 450,01)0 miners who will begin Tuesdny lo operate on a 7-hour day in the llrst major In¬ dustr.v which has adopted, even temporniily, a work day shorter than 8 houis by amending its code. The automobile Induslry had a 35- hour week for the first three months of code operation, bul In- crcused the work-week to 40 hours, and later reduced It to 36 Iiours or a i^i  duy  week.
The bituminous Induslry hus had an 8-hoi.r duy, and 40-liour week, since 1898. Operators In the Ap- pHlachlsii fields who signed con¬ tracts including the new lubor pro¬ visions were optimistic over llio prospects for addilionul employ¬ ment afforded by the reduced hours.
Uniied Mine Workers offlcials. uLso, welcomed the possibilities ot added employment, bul were unublo to predict the number of jobs which would  bo  mude  avulluble.
The opposition ot various mine districts, purllcularly the Smokeless und Appaluchlan gjoup in southern West    Virginia,    fields    in    western
Kentucky, Alabama aad Ifiaaouri and aouthweatern Statea, to th« amended wage scale, which would bring all southern mines «p to $4.60 basic daily wage, appeared to¬ night to be weakened by the ad¬ ministrative order.
While the Industry la wlHIn» t* continue the 40-oent differential for another year, pending an exhaustive study and report before signlnK wage contracts In 1935, It la known that the administration is oppoaed to differentials auch aa that enjoy¬ ed b.v Alabama mines which have a $3.40  basic wage under the code.
Allhough tho operators paying lower i-ates insist they will ba forced to quit business under the new scales. It Is believed the deaire to Increase w.Tges and purchasing power will make it difficult for them to secure concessions other than those granted to all southern mines.
Captive Mines Sign Up
A one-day contract covering to¬ day's operations ot Bethlehem Mine (Corporation coal mines at Cambria, Pn., had been signed with United Mine  Workers  of America.
This group ot mines, owned In¬ directly by Bethlehem Steel, is the last to come under the settlement proposed by National Labor Board in Junuary. Other Bethlehem mines In the Pittsburgh district last week entered contracts which also ex¬ pired tonight.
Thomas W. Kennedy, United Mine Workers secretary, pointed out these short-term contracts would establish basic relations for captive mines in District Nuniber 'I'wo and suid new contracts un¬ doubtedly would be signed under the terms of the new union agree¬ ment for the entire Appalachian Held effective  tomorrow.
INSULL STAYS ON SHIP AS NATIONS DISAGREE
Istanbul, Turkey, Mar( h 31—UP -Samuel Insull lonight defied two governments — Turkey and the United States—ns he continued hia light for freedom, Greece demand¬ ed release ot the fugitive utilities magnate, who is held up by Turkey, and Turkish authoriiies were un¬ able to forco Insull ashore from his little private freighter In the harbor here. Tho United Statea asked Turkey to arrest him.
Turkey obligingly but hesitantly ordered Insull and the master ot the sliip under arrest, and detain¬ ed the sleuiuer, the Malotls, in the Bosphorus off Istanbul. Greek For¬ eign Minister Demetrio Maximos demanded the release of the veaael and Insull, asserting Turkey's ac¬ tion was In violation of interna- llonul  luw.
HAD HARMLESS GUN FOR HOLDUP BOAST
The overheard whispered boast of a patron In a South Muln street cafe thut he Intended to "stick-up" the eslubllshment resulted In the arrest eurly loduy of two men, one ot whom was "armed" with a harm¬ less toy pistol.
The "gunman" Identified liimselt as Warren Olds, 41, ot 717 Cornelia streel, Utica, N. "V., and the second man as Leonard Luheski. 24, of 203 Hanover street. Warrior Run. They were arrested by Detectives Wil¬ liams and relrosKI and Olllcei s Dougherly; and .Menjak in un eslab- llshnienl iin South Muin sireet con¬ ducted by f'lill Clifford. Both were locked up in police headquarleri for
hearing this morning.
I'oiice rushed to tlie Clifford es¬ tablishment after a call had been received from putroliiien on the beat tlml Clifford had asked for help In trustruUng an impending holdup. Ono of tho patrons overheard Olds' remark that he was going to rob thu establishment and saw what ap¬ peared to be a loaded revolver hi his pocket.
Searched by detectives. Olda was tound to be In the po.ssession ot a reullhtic bul harnilcxs niet.il gun of the "pup" variety. With Lubeski he vvas lakeii to police headquartere and after quesiioiiing It waa decided to hold them (or haarlnc.