Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              > CITY MAN MURDERED, BOY DROWNS, ONE KILLED
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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THE WEATHER
Qenerally fair Sunday and Monday; not  much  change   In   temperature.
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T^.Tv^VJn7yZ"       WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1934
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PRICE TEN ( ENTS
ATTACK 5 JAIL
REAKERS
CAUSING THREE TO BE CAPTURED
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Larsons Resident A Victim Of A Maddened Recluse With Love As A Motive
IVs All Over
Says Johnson
San Francisco, July 21.—UP— General Hugh Johnson, NRA Administrator and spokesman for President Roosevelt's Medi¬ ation Board In the Paclfllc Coast strikes. Issued the following statement on the strike situation tonight. "The San FrancLsco and Pacific Coast general strike Is over. Credit is due to the ship¬ owners and responsible labor leadera. Pending final settle¬ ment every interest has submit¬ ted all Its difficulties to the l^residcnt's Mediation Hoard."
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ONE OTHER DEAD
RUN IH RECORD
Assailant   Turns    Weapon ^ Upon  Himself And  WiiH^^^-^^-^^     ,^q^j^^
Die   ts   Hospital   Report,    finding The Married And
 
GIRL ESCAPES
Pcnjamin Tasker, 62, o£ 426 George avenue, city, was ono ot two murder victims shot down near Scranton yesterday afternoon by Henry Most, 52, a recluse, who also shot himsclt anc". who early today nas In a dying condition In a hos¬ pital. The other murder victim was John Lowry, 72, ot Scranton. A love complex. Involving Mrs. Flor¬ ence Dietrich, a dangliter of I.owry. Is believed to have caused the trag¬ edies, according to police authorities checking the motive.
Tasker Is widely known In tho Miners Mills, Kast i;iid and Par¬ sons sections of this city. Recently be went to reside In Scranton. hav¬ ing obtained a Job nn tin' Dalevillc road project. His wife died about two years ago. A daughter, Irene. 6. Is living with Mr. nnd Mrs. James Holland. George avenue, I'arsons. Tusker, nt one time, was engaged by the D.  &  If.  R. R.  tNimpnny  to
Most, the killer, shot Lowry out¬ side the latter's shark at Snook's Addition on East Mountain. After 11* shot rang out Tasker, who was standing no.ar the Dietrich home, ran into the house nnd .Trmcd him¬ self with two revolvers. >lc later reappeared nnd went toward Most's shack, followed hy Mrs. Dcitrich's twin daughter, Lenore. Most ob¬ served Tasker and the girl ap¬ proaching. Taking aim tliroiitih a window, Most fired, dropping Task¬ er In his tracks. The girl was only a foot away when Tasker fell, a bul¬ let hole In his chest caused by a 35-calibro Uemington pump gun. Mo died Instantly, as did Lo\ ry.
Kills  Himself
When police arrived Most re¬ mained In his shack. With tlic aid of a fountain pen he sent a volley at tear gas Into faces of officers looking through a window. A crow¬ bar was then used by police to bat¬ ter down a door. While thus en¬ gaged they heard a shot and later found Most on the floor Vitli a gap¬ ing wound In his left side, close to the heart.
Most had been a boarder nt the Deitrich home for sixteen years, bul was forced to leave /when other members of the Deitrich family moved In. Recently Tasker became a hoarder. This Irritated Most, police report.
The  first    Intimation  that    Most
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inding Divorced
On  Pay  Rolls
7.730 IN ALL
Wa.shlngton, July 21—ICNl—New Deal Administration leaders, bat¬ tling here In Washington's record hot Summer to solve the uncnipioy- mont problem before the chill days of early Fall, and Winter, today focused their eyes on startling fig¬ ures Just released revealing keen competition for Jobs existing be¬ tween tlie men, single women, mar¬ ried women and divorcees and widows of Wilkes-Harre where 7,730 women are gainfully employed. In the Wllkcs-Harre woman job race 563 are married job-holders and 662 aro widowed and divorced women holding iluwii Jobs. The re¬ maining 6.D03 VVilki s-Rarre women Job-holders  are  single.
The plienonniioii ot married women holding an increasing num¬ ber ot Joba is decidedly a modern one, New Deal Kniploymcnt Survey experts here declare, e.xplainini; competition faced by today's single woman job-hunter. Of added post- depression employment significance New Dealers found tluit the total figure ot 7,730 females gainfully oc¬ cupied In Wilkes-Karre compared with 25,024 male workers. Increase In women workera compared witn men  recently  has  been  marked.
Bachelor girls In Wilkes-Harre must not Interpret undue hope from New Deal marital st;itus survey, nor matrons, particularly. Wllkes- Barre teachers read into findings imminent fear for loss of their Jobs since Dr. Peters of Teachers Col- leae, Columbia tJniverslty, an¬ nounced this week married women make best teachers.
10 TRUCE
Last Of Walk-Out Groups Turns The Coast Issue To A Vote By Workers
BALLOTS GO BY AIR
Governor Of Minnesota Is Determined Upon Peace Or On Rule By Soldiery
WHITE HOUSE ACTIVE
QUAKE UPSETS TRAIN
Puerto Mucllcs, I'aiiaiiia, July 21. —UP—A locomotive hauling a long train ot banana cars plunged Into the sea today during a renewed and inten.se earth shock. Many casual¬ ties wero reported, nnd the govern¬ ment was Bending aid.
San BYancisco, July 21.—UP— Officials of Longshoremen's Union decided tonight to submit to a vote ot longshoremen In all ports of the Paclflo Coast the matter ot arbitra¬ tion In the maritime strike that started May 9 and has crippled shipping since
The decision was reached after longshoremen officials conferred with Senator Robert Wagner ot New York, White Hou.se emissary, and members of President Roose¬ velt's National Longshoremen's Me¬ diation Board.
Ballots were to be printed imme¬ diately and sent out tonight by air to all coast ports. The ballots will contain the following single ques¬ tion:
"Will International Longshore¬ men's Association agree to submit to arbitration by National Long¬ shoremen's Board the Issues In dis¬ pute In the Longshore strike and to be governed by the decision ot the board'.'"
This put the Issue directly to the striking men, a majority of whom wei-e reported to favor arbitration. The vote should be returned early next week.
Among the Longshoremen offi¬ cials at the conference were William J. Lewis, president ot the Coast unit of the I. L. A.; Clifton Thurston, district preaident of the I. L. A., and Harry Bridges, head ot San Fran¬ cisco's Joint maritime strike com¬ mittee.
The nine other union groups con¬ cerned in the marine walk-out and all shipping employers at San Francisco agreed on submitting tho dispute to arbitration.
Mother Admits Killing Of Girl
Guthrie Center, la., July 21.— UP—Mrs. Jes.'3le Hopkins, 43, confessed today, after a week ot grand Jury questioning, that she killed her 17-year-oId daughter, Elma, rather than let her be In¬ carcerated In a State Institution for the feeble-minded. Mrs. Hopkins told how sho prepared a gay birthday party for the child and fed her fried clilcken containing strychnine. "I could not bear the thought ot Elma going to an asylum." Mrs. Hop¬ kins .sobbed. She pleaded guilty to a charge of flrst degree mur¬ der and was sentenced to lite Imprisonment In the women's reformatory.
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ARE LOST TO DEATH
Youthful Bather Enters A Deep Part Of The River And Sinks To The Bottom
Have Trap Set
For Dillinger
Culver, Ind., July 21.—UP— Federal agents and State Police were reported today to be pre¬ paring to raid a cottage near here In an effort to trap John Dillinger, another man and two women. Local police threw a guard around Culver City Bank.
It was learned that authorities received Information some time ago that the Hoosior outlaw and members ot his gang were hid¬ ing at one ot the numerous lakes In this  vicinity.
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OF THREE SAFES
FRIENDS HELPLESS
Policemen Of Two Cities Succeed In Solving Of Several   Recent   Crimes
CITY MAN HELD
HER SON MISTREATED
Paris, Tiiin.. July 21.—UP—Be- cau.se she believes her son has been mistre.ited In Jail here, Mrs. Edith S. Wooten today announced her candidacy for Sheriff. Morris Wooten has been In Henry County Jail since last March for failure to pay alimony.
A WARD MADE DOUBLE FOR INJURED WORKER
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A^ Wllkes-Barre man, tho father ot nine children, yesterday was awarded $1,484 In compensation by Referee Asa E.. Lewis, for the loss of eight In one eye, caused by an accident at the new Y. M. C. A. building.
The award would have been one- half tho listed amount it claimant's Counsel did not file a petition to review the case under terms ot the recent Romlg decision.
The beneficiary of the award Is Michael Stephanette, 210 Lehigh ¦treet.    Ho  wa» employed  by  Stees
Id Lindsay, sub-contractors, on Jnniiary 8. this year. Wolle actual- 'y engaged In furthering the Intcr- **!'« Of IiIm cniploycrs. .Stcphiiiollr *a« struck In  the right  eye  by a
quantity ot lime which Inflicted an injury of such severity that It has caused the loss of the use of the eye tor  industrial  purposes.
The sub-contractors were cover¬ ed by the State Compensation In¬ surance Fund and claimant entered an agreement whereby he was to receive $5.68 a week for a period of 125 weeks   a total of $710.
Subsequently he engaged the ser¬ vice ot Attorney E. C. Maiianclll to study tlie case. The attorney draft¬ ed a petition, basing the appers on the recent Romlg decision which allows a claimant sixty-five percent of his weekly wage, und presented tho petition to the referee for re¬ view. The l.itter decided Stephan¬ ette Is eiitlllcd to $11.44 a week for i25 weeks or a total o£ »l,4Jt.
Fore*   In   Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minn., July 21—-UP —Governor Floyd B. Olson appeal¬ ed tonight for arbitration and a "rule of reason" lu Minneapoilc' bloody six-day_ strike ot 7,000 truck and   taxlcab   drivers.
Wliile he extended the olive branch In one hand, however, the Governor held In the other a threat ot martial law, should there be a re¬ newal of vi(iience such as already has sent 49 strikers and two police¬ men  to  hospitals.
Truce was declared over tho week-end as police protection was withdrawn from blockade-running food  trucks and  the  trucks  halted.
Simultaneously Governor Olson called a secret meeting of employ¬ ers and employees together with Federal  mediators.
Governor Olson demanded that union leaders and employers get together immediately on "som« sane plan" for settlement of th,! controversy "or take the conse¬ quences."
In a caustic statement tliat re¬ buked Police Chief Michael Johannes for the tiring Into unarmed pickets who halted a blockade-running truck. Gov. Olson said the "conse¬ quences" would be iron rule under military   dictatorship.
. Threatens Armed   Law
"It civil authorities can't or won't handle the situation, I will turn It over to military uutliorltles," he said. More than 4,000 guardsmen were assembled In Rt. Paul and Minneapolis, fully equipped and ready  for  instant  action.
The Governor, whose forceful ac¬ tions ended a strike of the same union last May, went from a con¬ ference with military advisers to a meeting   with     I't'dcral   concilirtors,
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Arrest ot two Nantlcoke youths and a Wilkes-Barre young man last night and early today resulted In the clearing up ot three safe crack¬ ings ot recent weeks, two In this city and the third at Wanamie.    .
One of the two jirisoners, Stan¬ ley TydrychowskI, 17, of 390 East Union street, Nantlcoke, arrested early yesterday morning a few minutes after he had cut a hole through tiie rear of a safe in an American Store at 135 Blackman street, la.st night admitted to police here that he had cracked another American Store sate at Hanover and Barney streets several weeks ago and, previous to tliat time, an¬ other strong box In an American Store at Wanamie.
Grilled all day yesterday at police headquarters, TydrychowskI admit¬ ted that his accomplice in the Jobs was Leo Pa.szek, 19, of 393 East Union street, Nantlcoke. Detectives Olds and Koils went to Nanticoko and with Officers Smereski and Dorak of the Nanticoke department took   Passiek   into  custody.
Still later police learned from the two prisoners that they were ac¬ companied In the Jobs by Victor Peters, 18, ot 44 Sambourne street, city. Shortly after 1 oclock this morning. Detectives Oliver and Petroski took Peters Into-custody at his home. Shortly after his arrival at police headquarters Peters ad¬ mitted his guilt.
Until early today the youths Insisted they did not take part or stage any other safe crackings or holdups here, but they will be questioned   again   today.
TydrychowskI gave the name of Stanley Byarick, 17, ot 17 Railroad street, Lynwood, wlien ho was cap¬ tured yesterday by Patrolmen Kmetz, Galnard and Toole, but sev¬ eral hours later admitted his real Identity. In his possession police found two chisels and a short handled sledge hammer. Tho safe cracking yesterday morning netted $34 of which $28 was found in the possession ot Paszek. The two previous Jobs netted amounts ct only a few dollars, iiollce said.
FRANK   WARD   VISITS
Frank Ward of Olen Rock, New Jersey, Is spending a few weeks with his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Tnllman, 51 West Walnut street, Kingston,
SEND   FIVE  TO  DEATH
Leningrad, Russia. July 21.—UP— In an ertort to wipe out "Hooligan- Ism" the court here sentenced five defendants to death and 51 others to prison terms, acquitting only one ot a gang of 57 accused of violence and disorderly actions. The group was charged with raiding workers' clubs and beating or knifing mem¬ bers, apparently without reason.
MAN AND GIRL HURT IN  MOTOR ACCIDENT
West Side Playmates Get Into Path Of Speeder And One Is Fatally Hurt
OTHER  MISHAPS
VICE IN THE CITY TO FACE AHACKS
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A. C. Stulle and Elizabeth Goss. both ot Nantlcoke, were Injured at 2;30 this morning in an aul" aecl- dent. Their conditions were re¬ ported not to be Mrl'-.l:' "t ""¦'-e oclock at Muntlcuke hospital.
A Hanover Township youth sank to his death early last night In the Susquehanna river while a younger brother helplessly watched the trag¬ edy. A West Side child, tour years old, was killed when rammed by an automobile traveling at an esti¬ mated speed of forty miles an hour Several minor accidents also wero reported  by   hospitals  last  night.
Unable to swim a stroke and bathing In the river tor the second time this Summer to escape the heat wave, a thirteen-year-old Hanover Township boy was drown¬ ed shortly after six oclock last night in twenty feet of water. The tragedy occurred 500 feet below tho Carey avenue bridge. ^ The body was recovered at two oclock this morning nnd removed to the morgue of Deputy Coroner Emmltt  Brlslin.
The victim was Walter Dro.st, 275 Phillips street, Lynwood section. His brother Joseph, four yeais younger, saw him sink to death. He was handica; pcd to give aid due to Inability to swim.
In the same spot one year ago, Stanley Petlavage ot Beade street, Plymouth, lost his life, the body being found 24 hours later near the Sand Bar at Plymouth.
Yesterday's drowning was tiie fourth so far this Summer In Luz¬ erne county. Two Luzerne boys drowned In a pond at Pringle eight weeks ago, and a Kingston young man, wearing an Improvised diver'd helmet, went to his death at Har¬ vey's Lake about one week later.
Shouts For Help
The victim ot last-night's drown¬ ing left his hoiiio with bis brother and three companions, Joseph Stel- nachovitz, Robert Oliver and Cliarles Boyer, for a bathing lark In the river. The quartet ot youngsters had been In the stream only a few minutes when Walter shouted for assistance. His companions, boys ranging from nine to twelve years ot age, essayed to reach him, but on account ot fright and Inability to  swim,   tlie  efforts  wero  futile.
When the youth sank trom tho crest ot the river the youngsters hurriedly dressed and ran to the home ot George Mahallck. The lat¬ ter notified llanover police. Officers Joseph Cusick, Frank Churnetskl. Ted Uziila and Barney Siavlnski hurried to the scene of the drown¬ ing. Upon arrival they found two young men In bathing suits endeav¬ oring to locate the victim.
Chief of Police Larry Kendig ot Plymouth sent Sergeant Joseph Stencavage and Patrolmen Thomas Plscotty and Timothy Murray to the scene to aid llanover policemen.
The scene ot the drowning was about twenty feet from the east bank ot the river, along the Whit¬ ney Memorial Gardens area. The boy's clothes were found seventy teet trom the river's edge. The youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Drost, took the tragedy In near collapse and wept in despair when the clothes of their dead son were carried Into their home.
Beside the parents the following brothers and sisters survive: Joseph, John, Kdward, Jennie, Irene and Anna. Walter was the oldest of the children. He celebrated his thir¬ teenth birthday on the eighth of this month. Next September he would have entered the ninth grade at Thomas Jefferson school In Han¬ over   Township.     The   lAy   was   a
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Health And Fire Bureaus Join Police In A Razing Of The Shacks Of Shame
LOVELAND'S ORDERS
An extensive cleanup campaign- designed to permanently rid Wilkcs- Barre city ot vice-infested sectors- will be launched tomorrow, backed by the combined agencies ot police, tire nnd health departments.
Warfare on disorderly houses and their equally undesirable inmates was declared Inst night by Chlet ot Police Russell Taylor In answer to public charges that the existence of houses of ill-repute Is tolerated by his department.
Purging of the "Red Light" dis¬ trict will be "100 percent thorough" Chlet Taylor declared In a state¬ ment, adding that the eradication process will bn general In all re¬ spects, with particular reference to certain streets and sections In which establishments have been singled  out publicly.
Permanent removal ot unsavory business will be accomplished hy rigid inspection ot places known to police through previous complaints and others brouglit to the attention ot U.i department during the past few days.
Those found to be in an unsani¬ tary condition or in such a state that they are fire haz.irds must he immediately emptied of occupants and either razed or boarded up, Chief Taylor said. Where estab¬ lishments have been conducted as disorderly houses occupants will be ordered out and warned not to re¬ turn.
ThorouBh Inspsction
Chief Taylor will personally rep¬ resent the police department, he said last night, while Thomas Fiannery wiil accompany the In¬ spection committee aa head of the lire department. A representative of the City Board ot Health will comprise the other major member of tlie group, all of whom will he assisted by health and Are In¬ spectors.
Results obtained are expected to be as satisfactory as followed the recent cleanup ot unsanitary resi¬ dences on Lincoln street. Two months ago the three municipal de¬ partments Joined In an investiga¬ tion ot several dwellings on Lin¬ coln street where transient and perm.Tnent occupants were living in conditions of squalor. As a result ot this probe the buildings were closed up, windows barred and doors  locked.
In throwing down the gauntlet to disorderly house operators—botli white nnd colored—Chief Taylor .said last night that the forthcom¬ ing cleanup does not imply that his department has been lax In its atti¬ tude  or  vigilance.
Frequent raids by detective squads have been the chief weapon ot offense against disorderly houses. Chief Taylor declared, while of re¬ cent weeks the lines have beer drawn tighter In view of tlie whole¬ sale desertions of undesirables from Scranton where the lid was clamp¬ ed down on that city's familiar zones of iniquity.
A   Defiant  Group
Disorderly house Inmates, suffer¬ ing from the depression, as have all professions, have bared their teetl* In defiance ot orders to leave town, and upon their release from prison through payment of fines or Jail sentences, return Immediately to old or new haunts, the police chief  declared.
In announcing tho city's plan of campalKii, t'lilcl Taylor declared (.Continued on Page 2—Se:?. 1).
DROP INTO SEWER OF PRISON'S YARD TO ODD SURPRISE
Take Advantage of Ball Game By Fellow-Inmates To Open Man-Hole For Escape But Vicious Rodents Drive Them Back To The Surface To Meet Cordons Of Policemen
2 GO JN TATTERED CLOTHES
Philadelphia, July SI.—UP—An elaborate prison break at Pennsyl¬ vania Eastern Penitentiary was toiled tonight when rats drove five convicts trom a sewer after they had tied tho jail. Three ot the con¬ victs Involved In the desperate at¬ tempt to escape were captured. Two others eluded cordons ot police who were detailed tb hunt them.
The prisoners jumped down a drain in the prison yard while two convict teams were playing basket¬ ball. They tollowed the sewer lln« for five blocks before hordes ot rats attacked them. Unable to keep their tooting In the slippery sewer, the men sought a man-hole and hurried to the street.
Pedestrians seeing five partially clad men, their clothing having been bitten and torn by the rats, emerg¬ ing from a sewer, gave the alarm. The convicts fled toward a railroad yard.
After two hours of freedom, George Wilson, serving six years for larceny; William Conway, serving 25 to 50 years for robbery, and Edward Dyarllnsky, serving 5 to 10 years for robbery, wero captured.
Martin Farrell. serving 13 years for larceny; and Frank Wiley, serv¬ ing 10 to 20 years for robbery, dis¬ appeared after they reached a rail¬ road yard.
Learned  How To Break
Wilson, according to police, was the leader ot the break. He said he was a former Army engineer and had studied a means of escaping for some  time.
The men were all dressed In bas¬ ketball suits, shirts and shorts and had difficulty In hiding. After they left the man-hole they tied toward the banks ot Schuylkill river and made toward a high-speed railroad freight line.
Four hundred policemen, all the reserves In the city and the bandit squads, were ordered to take up the search   for the  fugitives.
The five were spotted running to¬ ward a moving freight train. Th« officers opened  fire.
Wilson surrendered, but Conway and Dyarllniky leaped from a rail¬ road trestle and Injured themselves when they landed. They were cap¬ tured without a struggle.
Meantime, the other two men dis¬ appeared In a marsh.
Three   hundred   patrolmen    wer» ordered   to   search   the   marshland. They   started   wading   through   the grass and  low water .nt dusk. Used  Sewer Trap
Wilson, detectives said, admitted he lifted a sewer trap In the prison yard and his companions dropped from sight when the other prison¬ ers on recreation were watching a basketball game.
They followed the line five blocks. Hordes ot rats drove them to the surface, breaking their plans to fol¬ low the sewer to where It emptied far down the stream.
"We guessed wrong," Wilson said. "Tho sewer had water In it from yesterday's rain and we couldn't keep our footing. Every time we fell, a hundred rats were on us. If it hadn't been for the rats we'd be going yet."
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
FOR  BETTER  NAVY
Aboard U. S. S. New Orleans, En Route to Hawaii, July 21.—UP— Congress and the eotlre country are behind the naval construction pro¬ gram, although three or four years time must elapse hefore the United States Navy Is brought up to full treaty strength, Preaident Franklin D. Roosevelt told the officers and men ot the U. S. S. Houston tonight.
In an address to the personnel ot the vessel carrying him to Hawaii for a vacation, the President praised the efficiency ot the Houston's officers and men. He said the trip has given him a close insight Into a cross-section of the United States Navy.
Hia remarks were delivered after the regular Saturday Inspection of the vessel.
Mr. Roosevelt recalled that the last Inspection In whicii he partici¬ pated, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the \Vllson cabinet, was at Queenstown, Ireland, In 1918. In the company ot Admiral Baly and other high officers.
TWO BANKERS HELD
FOR STOLEN BONDS
Joneshoro, Ark., July 21.—UP— Two prominent bankers ot this sec¬ tion were arrested today on charges of receiving part ot the $25,000 com¬ mercial bonds stolen In New York City In July 1933.
C. B. Barnett, former Joneshoro banker, pleaded not guilty when ar¬ raigned here before U. S. Commis¬ sioner E. L. Wcstbrook. He re¬ quested that his preliminary hear¬ ing be set for August 7.
J. If. Meyer, former liquidator and banker at Walnut Ridge, Ark., near here, was arrested by Chief Postal Inspector D. F. Elliott ot Joneshoro at noon and said he would come here to make bonds.
Federal authorities said Barnett disposed of two of the $1,000 bonds through the bank at Nettleton, Ark., within thirty days after the New York robbery. Another $1,000 bond was found in Meyer's bank today, Elliott said.
United States District Attorney Fred A. Isgrig at Little Rock said charges against the men involved "about  $30,000".
STATE LIQUOR PRICE TO OFFER REDUCTION
Harrlsburg, Pa., July 21.—UP— The Ll((uor Control Board Issued a new price list today which will be¬ come effective Monday, reducing prices ot 46 Items, ranging from 30 to 75 cents a bottle.
The new list contains standard brands ot straight whisky which will sell as low us 95 cents and $1 a pint and three brands of Imported Scotch listed at $3.25 a fifth.
In announcing the reductions, the Liquor Board said it "was aiming another blow at the bootlegger."
The reductions were ilescrlbed aa a part of a definite program nut only to cut deeper Into the actlv- itles ol the bootlegger but nlso to reduce the present stock •! liquor
so inventories can be controlled on a  practical   turn-over  basis.
Another changed regulation which will affect retail license holders Is the reducing ot the minimum pur¬ chase amount on which discounts win be allowed  from $20 to $12.
This was designated by the board to aid licensees who wish tc buy, on special order, trial cases of liquor, many brands of which retail for less than $20.
Items In this category were grouped together at the top of the new price list and It was explained that retail licence holders will not be given the usual discount on such items because of the extensive re¬ ductions