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FORTY-EIGHT PAGES
Ifio  Only  Sunday  Ncwipaper CoTcrlng the Wyoming  Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1934
¦otered  at  Wllkea-Barre,  Fa., Aa  Second  Claat  Uall   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
WALKER HEADS GOVERNMENT PLAN
TO OPEN HOME-BUILDING CAMPAIGN
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Elusive John Dillinger Has Authorities Of Several States In Mad Scramble
IN SMALL CAR
Collision In IncTiana Offers Clue To Desperado's Movements; Trail Is Lost
FEAR OUTBREAK
John Dillinger, notorious bandit and escaped convict, according to a police teletype bulletin, leceived at police headquarters here this mjrning at 2:30, passed through Pittsburgh and is headed for the East. The auto, bearing a Minne¬ sota license plate, corresponded with early reports of the plate car¬ ried on the Dillinger car. The ma¬ chine, occupied by the bandit, an¬ other man and two women, was sighted on the Boulevard of the Allies, near Forbes street, by a Minnesota man whose car was park¬ ed nearby.
Imagine Seeing This At Fair!
Moscow, April 7 —UP —Offi¬ cials of Chicago's Century of Progress have requested the Soviet government to loan them the Russian crown jewels for several months' exhibition, It was reliably reported here to¬ night. The request Is under consideration.
The famous collection is stored in a vault of the State Bank and t;uarded by two soldiers of the lied Army who stand with flx- rd bayonets at the entrance. It i.s valued at $250,000,000.
Included in the collection Is llie crown used by Catherine the (ircat and her successors at their coronations, a magniticent (liadoni valued at $,'12,000,000. .iH well as a golden sceptre used hy the izar.s containing the faiiiuus 196-iiarat Orloff dia¬ mond.
POSE AS DETECTIVES DURING CITY HOLDUP
Administration In Washing¬ ton Seeks To Restore Peace   In   Many   Cities
Bandits Imitate Tobyhanna Silk Robbery In Theft From Local Junk Dealer
SON KIDNAPPED
AUTO MEN IDLE
TO FLY IS
By UNITED PRESS
John Dillinger, eluKivo desperado, was sought by police in widely suatlercd sections of the country la.st night on the strength of a re¬ port lie was traveling in a small si'ilan with .Minmsdla license plates. Uillingor shot liLs way out of a piiiice trap in Minnesota last Sat¬ urday.
Police guarded highways near Fort Worth, Tex., when the sedan was reported seen in the vicinity.
Pittsburgh radio cars were or¬ dered to look tor the sedan, also reported there. The report, from ii "cunlldentiul source," said Dillinger was accompanied by John Hamil¬ ton, a companion, and an unidentl- fied woman.
In Indianapolis, officials of an express company a.sked extra police guards to help them transfer money from department stores. They said tliey feared a holdup by Dillinger or his gangsters.
Oklahoma City, April 7.—UP— Police radios tonight broadcast a wnrnlng to all Oklahoma officers to watch for a 1934 Ford deluxe sed.m carrying Miimesota license No. B-420-21:!, believeU to be driven by .lohn Dillinger.
Sheriffs' forces said I lie onlir for broadcast came from federal agents.
Officers Were warned to u.se ex- (•'ontlnucd on  Page  10,  .Section  1)
Ira Biffle, Veteran Pilot, Succumbs After Transfer From A Charity Hospital
ONCE WEALTHY
Chliago, April 7.--UP-Ira Biffle, the man who taught Charles A. Lindbergh how to fly, died tonight with a smile on his pain-creased face.
He died in a small room at the Wesley Memorial Hospital to which pals who once rode the airways with him had taken him two weeks ago from a charity ward in the C'linty Hospital.
l.'lutrhed in his hand was a tele¬ gram from his most famous pupil, one of a dozen or more lamed avi¬ ators to whom he gave "wings" back In the days when airplanes were known as "flying <askets."
It Was a brief note of cheer from Lindbergh iind it had been accom¬ panied by $00 to swell the fund which removed Biffin from the char¬ ity ward.
Almost blind and without funds, the 44-year-old veteran aviator looked up at a nurse In a starchy- white uniform as dusk fogged the room.
"I'm trying but I'm afraid I can't make It."
He smiled and lifted his hand limply.
"Happy landing.'
The nurse nodded.
"Happy  landing."
None of the pilots who rallied to build the fund which took him from the charity ward were with him when the end came. Many of them, including his pal of former years, David Dchnke. were out flying their I'outes.
His wife had left the hospital (Continued   on   Page   2,   Section   1)
Tool And Die Makers Warn Of Walk-Out Unless Wage Boost Is Given Thursday
MINERS RETURN
Two Old Sisters Refuse Right To Telephone Company To Erect Poles
I^ansdale, Pa., April 7.—U'l'—The War of the telephone poles was temporarily halted tonight as the nell Telephone Company sought legal assistance against "the white- hnlred Bubbles."
"Our   family   has   lived   on   this
^irm for more than 100 ye  rs," Miss
,."^'\"   Buzby,   vigorousi,,    asserted.
and  «e ^^g^.^  ,„,p„^  j^  ^^^^  ^^y
lelephope poles put on our ground." Victory   in   the   first   battle   was
ercdlled to mi„h Sarah. 70, and her
«'>"fc>-,   Miss   Kate,   81,   after   they
Peisonally sawed a pole erected by
t"e company In half. „ Refuae to Scare
' guess  that'll   show   those   tele-
P'lone peoplo whether  tliev can  do lat they want without asking us,"
ilias Kate declared.
.Ill'" ""' tfol''K <" scartt us, •liner, Migg sarah added with a •n^'P of her lip,.
When officials of the telephone ^""ipany were Informed of the pole- ¦awing     situation,     tliev     ordered
orKmen from the farm and sought "?^.«i aid.
Ihls   property   has   been   in   our ' "Hy   io,j   long   to   have   anv   one .'ling US what to do wllh it," Miss ivati, continued.
Ye«,   and   we   pay   our   taxes,"
Miss Sarah Interjected. "We have every right to keep them off the place.
"Let them put the poles down tlie road. If they must have them.
"The tnaln reason we're .against them erecting the poles," the two spinsters agreed, "Is because It will spoil  the shade trees.
"Of course," Miss Sarah said rather wistfully, "we'd like to have a phone, liut we're not going to have those shade trees cut down Just for an old telephone. Make Fire Wood
"The next time they try that I'll not only cut the poles down but I'll use them for (ire wood," Miss Sarah insisted.
"Vou'il do nothing of the kind," Miss Kale smilingly admonislied her younger sister.
The sisters both speak In quiet cultured tones.
"The only reason 1 did it," Miss .Sarah said, "was because I Just got 'hopping' mad."
The spinsters' brother. Henry, who served Willi the lUth Pennsyl- v.inia Infantry during the Civil War inc'i 1\' smiled when asked what he planncil  to do.
"Let the glils eiijciy themselves,;^ he Nuid.
Labor disputes threatened lurtlier strife in half a dozen cities tonight while administration leaders at Washington struggled with the cap. itai-labor problems of the National Hecovery Administration.
Strikes and thrcatned strikes were widespread, centering Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, Ala¬ bama and West Virginia. In St. Paul, Minn.. Governor Floyd D. Ol¬ son licgan an investiRation of yes¬ terday's riot at Minneapolis, where 5,000 Jobless stormed the court house.
Most of the labor disputes In¬ volved the automobile and allied in¬ dustries.
Some 2,200 tool and die makers at Detroit issued an ultimatum saying that they would go on strike unless they received higher wages and shorter hours by Thursday night. Such a strike would cripple pro¬ duction in many of the largest motor car factories.
The Nash Motor Co. employes, who have been on strike for a month, became divided against themselves. About l.-OO employes at the Haclne, Wis., plant ratified an agreement proferred by the com¬ pany, but workers in the Milwaukee and Kenosha factories voted against it.
A two week strike by the SOO em¬ ployes of the Addressograph Multi- graph Co. In Cleveland, Ohio, was ended when they de ided to accept an agreement, but this gain was more than offset by a strike threat on the part of 1,400 airplane workers at Hartford. Conn.
The latter, employed by the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co., tho Chance Vought Co., and the Hamil¬ ton Pro|)ellor Co., subsidiaries of the United Aircraft Corp.. said they would strike Tuesday unless their wage demands arc met.
Seven thousand coal miners at the Logan. W. Va., coal fields re¬ mained on strike while Alabama <'oal operators carried their strike troubles to Washington against an NH.\ order increasing miners' wages.
The National Labor Board, NUA Administrator Hugh S. Johnson and Sccretai-y of 1/ahor I'Vances Perkins were taking an active interest in most of the labor .ictivitics. Mrs. (ilfford Pinchot. wife of the gover¬ nor of I'ennsylvania, meanwhile, charged before a Senate committee, that Pennsylvania sweat shops were operating as usual, despite the Blue Eagle. She urged that Congress adopt the Wagner labor bill. Soft Coal Strike Endi
Logan, W. Va., April 7.—UP— Termination of a strike of more than 6,000 coal miners in this sec¬ tion was made possible here to¬ night when representative of United Mine W'orkers local voted to return to work Monday.
The decision was taken following a <nnference with K. II. Dnnnigan, l^. S. Labor Board mediator, during wliirh miners were assured that operators of mines liere had signed the new Appalachian code for hours and wages.
Peace Hope* Fade
Milwaukee, April 7.—UP—Hopes for an early settlement of the month-long strike of 4,700 automo¬ tive workers in Wisconsin faded to¬ night after tlie rejection of a com- piumise offered by the National Automobile Labor Board.
lOmployes In two of ilii- three plants involved—in lluclne, .Milwau-
iContinued  on I'age 2—bee.  1^
Placed under "arrest" by two men who said they were "detec¬ tives." Anthony Johns, 19, employed in his father's junk yard at 57 Wal¬ ler street, was kidnapped and rob¬ bed of $70 in cash yesterday after¬ noon.
Ordered to accompany the bogus police officers in their roadster. Johns was driven to a point near the Wilkes-Barre Contatgious hos¬ pital on Division street and com¬ manded to empty his pockets. He was then tossed out of the car while the bandits turned In the direction of ccntritl city and speeded away. Silk   Bandits   Copied
The kidnapping and robbery of Johns came while police authorities of Northeastern Pennsylvania were engaged in an extensive manhunt for a bandit gang who secured a silk cargo worth $10,000 after two of their number—wearing State troopcr.s' uniforms—held up a truck and trailer near Tobyhanna, Monroe county. The similarity of operation of tho nWk thieves and the two men who kidnapped Johns was com¬ mented upon by detectives here last night alihougli they said there waa no possible connection between the two holdups.
According to Johns, the two "de¬ tectives" entered the Junk yard of his father, Joseph Johns, shortly after 2  oclock yesterday afternoon.
They inquired if he had any copper wire In the establishment and said they were detectives in search of stolen wire.
Johns showed the strangers a quantity of wire that was stored in front of the junk yard and offered to take the "detectives'" to the reir of the shop, where more wire could be examined. Tho "detectives" noticed that about five or six em¬ ployees were working In the rear of the shop and said that no further examination was necessary, but ordered Jolins to come with them in their car.
During their 'ntei" "¦-.¦ilii." "I Johns, the "detectives" asked hlui a numt)er of (luestions i.^ .o . ,
he had been to tlie bank to make any deposits of money taken in during the course of the day's busi¬ ness.
$70 Is Taken
Johns said that when the roadster in which he was taken reached llif Contagious hospital, one of the nun made a movement as if pointing a gun at him from his pocket and or¬ dered the youth to empty his pockets. About $70 in small bills was turned over to the bandits ijy the youth.
After he was ordered from the automobile, Johns returned to tho Junk yard and from there tele¬ phoned police headquarters. Detec¬ tives 'Wiiliams, Coyle and Petroski went to Division street to search for the holdup men's roadster but fail¬ ed to find any trace of It.
Johns said the roadster carried license plates 95709 and a check of records showed that these tags were issued to W. S. Pctry of 401 St. John's street, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.    Police   there   were    requested
(Continued  on  Pago  2-   Sec.  1)
E TAX RISE
RECOVER TRUCK OF SILK HOLDUP
Troopers Hope For Clues To $10,000 Robbery Staged At Tobyhanna On Friday
FOLLOW OLD ROUTINE
2 NEW ARRESTS
IN
stale troopers last night sought clues that might lead to the cap¬ ture of four highway bandits, two carrying police uniforms which they wore early yesterday morning in holding up a $10,000 cargo of silk near Tobyhanna. The large seven-ton truck and trailer of the A. Blackmore Company, Dunmore, in wliich tlie silk sliipnicnt was be¬ ing driven to Scraiiton and which was taken by the bandits, was re¬ covered last nigiit at Blakeslee Corners, on the Bear Creek road, minus   its  valuable  cargo.
The truck was located by Albert Blackmore, a member of the flrtn, and Jack Pratt, manager of the Paterson branch of the company. They nolitled state police, wlio ex¬ amined the truck in the hope of obtaining some clue to the identity of  the thieves.
The bandits, after tlie holdup, drove off with the truck after forc¬ ing John Schacffer, the driver, and John McGoldrlck, helper, into a sedan. Two of the four bandit J drove them to the Dalevllle high way, near Moosic, where they were tossed   from   a  machine.
Silk bandits usually have their own truck hidden nearby the scene of holdups, transfer valuable ship- nient.s and then abandon the stolen truck many miles away. Early in March, after three bandits, one at- tireii as a state trooper, got away with $8,000 worth of merchandise after a truck holdup near Lehigli- toii, the vehicle was found aban¬ doned on Parsonage street. I'lttston.
Schacffer and .McColdrick liad Just passed Tobylianna at a oclock yesterday morning wlien two men wearing police uniforms stopped the truck. When the "troopers" ap¬ proached the cab they pulled re¬ volvers from side holsters and or¬ dered tlu'm out. 'I"wo men attired In civilian clothes .ilso joined llie bogus police and drove Schaeffer and .Miduldrkk lo .Moosic. The ountcifeit policemen boarded the silk ttuuk and drove away.
Picked Up In Philadelphia; Marriage Plans May Have Been   Basis   Of   Killing
MEN ARE JAILED
Pred Peterson, Howard Alios, Stanley Lucas and Michael Biger were committed to Lackawtmna county Jail late yesterday afternoon by Alderman Thomas W. Davis of Scranton after being arraigned as accessories after the fact in connec¬ tion with the murder of George Musick, bootlegger-farmer of 'Vost- ville, Springbrook Township, who was slain on February 5. His sun, .lohn Musick, 19, confessed he kilbd his father when questioned Friday by State police and Lackaw.inti.i county detectives. A club was used in the slaying. Tlie victim's body was buried in a coal pile on the Musick farm. The body was recovered Friday.
Lucas and Biger were in custody several days, but Allcs and Peter¬ son were not arrested until Friday, when they surrendered to police in Pliiladelphia. Authorities re|)ort tlio latter two know more about the patricide than they have confessed to so far, their only admission be¬ ing that young Musick told them he had a fight with his father and that he used a club. They said they advised John to notify police. Lucas and Biger also are reported to have known of the disorder be¬ fore the report of the aged man's death  reached  police.
Burial of the victim will take place Monday, the funeral to be held from the Wesley Franklin morgue at Moscow. Rev. Kugeue Rumpah, pastor of St. Michael's Greek Cath¬ olic church, Dunmore, will conduct the service. He will be burled In .Moscow, a request by the son that the victim be burled iicside his wife in  Old  Forge,   having  been  denied.
The funeral had been scheduled for yesterday but when Attorney Morris Gelb secured a court order for John, the son. to attend, ii was postponed  until  Monda,\.
Authorities report a new angle of the crime ilevelo|)eil last night, in that the son belicvi-d his fallicr planned to be married soon ;iiid committed the ciime ratliei' than let their foui teen-room home and adjoining farmlands iiass out ot his control. ;
?ongressmen Fear Conse¬ quences With Re-election Ahead; Hit Senate Plan
10 PERCENT BOOST
Amendment Would Be Felt By Every Taxpayer; Claim More Receipts Not Needed
AWAIT ROOSEVELT
Washington, April 7.—UP—Stiff opposition developed today in the House, all ot whose members come up for re-election this Fall, to the Senate plan for a blanket 10 per cent increase In taxes on 1934 In¬ comes.
Political considerations loom large in tax matters. It Is partic¬ ularly true in a flat advance such as seems likely to be adopted in the Senate. It is the easiest kind ot tax to understtand. It would be felt  by  every  taxpayer.
Congressmen   Fearful
Many in the House feel their chances for re-election would be handicapped by a record which in¬ cluded imposition of the 10 per cent levy.
House Democratic leaders cau¬ tiously indicated opposition, but said they would await views ot I'resident Roosevelt before commit¬ ting themselves. The rank and file of House members, however, with eyes to tho fall elections, criticized cized tho tax increase proposals generallj'.
House Majority Leader Joseph W. Byrns oi>posed the Senate in¬ crease. He thought It unnecessary "to saddle the tax bill with any new   levies."
Chairman Robert L. Doughton, of the House ways and means com¬ mittee wanted some definite repre- scntatiims from the Treasury that tlie  additional  money   was   needed.
Representative Samuel B. Hill, Dem., Wash., chairman of the House tax sub-committee, opposed "the proposed   10   percent  advance."
Chairman Pat Harrison, of the Statu Fincance Committee, has ac¬ cepted the 10 percent plan, spon¬ sored by Senator James Couzens, Reiiublican, Mich., in such a way that its approval by the Senate ap¬ pears   assured.
It \\as not the bill as It passed the House. Conferences therefore would be necessary. Harrison will be asked, before conferences are ar¬ ranged, to Insist on Senate amend¬ ments. Many Senate amednments in tlie past have been lost In con¬ ference, sometimes because the Senate leaders have not held out aggressivcii' for them.
Defeat Looms
If the 10 percent plan gets through the conference it will be necessary to vote on it in the House. Unless the White House gets act¬ ively behind it. It seemed probable that it would be defeated there.
Doughton, who was one of the 75 to vote for the President when the veterans" veto waa overridden, said the money appropriated that way might have to come from nex tax¬ ation. He would not accept the 10 percent plan, however, until he has heard from the Treasury about the need for new revenue.
Harrison, before accepting the Couzens amendment, said In the Senate that revenues were not In¬ tended beyond the amount his com¬ mittee had recommended. Revenue from the liquor tiix probably would be more than had been anticipated. This would take care of the in¬ creased   veterans'   benefits.
EDITOR   REPORTED   IMPROVED
Karly today a lepoi t fi oiii llie home of Kugeiic T. Gieriiig. piom- liient newspaper editor, revealed an imiirovcment in his condition. l''or the past few days .Mr. Gierlng's condition had been critical. He is confined at his home, 38 Kast North street.
VALLEY NATIVE HAS GREAT TASK TO AID RECOVERY
Former Larksville Residen t Explains Program To Stimulate Lagging Building Industry And Help Mort¬ gagors; Expenditures Well Under The Present Budget Estimate
CONGRESS TO BE GIVEN BILL
¦Washington, April 7.—UP—A gi¬ gantic Federal government plan to restore stathilitv to tlie home build¬ ing and financing fields, which In turn would promote business and employment, reached Us final draft today with Indications It would be embodied in a bill to be presented to Congress.
The homo plan is the latest re¬ lief program ot the administration and is designed lo atimulate the building industry which has con¬ sistently lagged behind oilier In dustrles in the recovery drive. It is being mapped by Frank C. Walker, director ot tho National Emergency Council, who is seeking to co-ordinate all government relief agencies.
5  Billions for  Relief
The tentative draft of the meas¬ ure was revealed by Walker today coincident with treasury figures showing government expenditures, mostly for relief, had crossed the $5,000,000,000 mark for the first time in 13 years. Sixty percent ot the outpour ot funds with less than 10 months of the current fiscal year elapsed went Into "emergency uses."
The Walker home ,-ellct plan would broaden the present Home Owners Loan Corporation set up possibly to Include nil home niort gages including those not in dis¬ tress. It would set up machinery whereby mortgagors would be able to extend the common 3 to 6 year mortgage into a government Insured 10 to 15 year mortgige.
The mortgage holder would take a reduction in the rate of interest, but would be reiiiibursed by the government Insurance which would add to the value ot the mortgage and improve its saleabillty. This is similar to the plan being followed by the HOl.i: with respect to only distress mortgages.
Tho government may set up an Insurance corporation along the lines of the Federal Deposit Insur¬ ance Corporation. .Vppioved mort¬ gages likely woulil be stamped with a government guarantee. Based on records over the past 100 years, the average loss to mortgage liolders is less than 3 perccni. Under this ratio the federal governiiient could insure   the   esiiiiuiled   1515,000,000,000
home mortgages with a maximum loss of $450,000,000.
Benefits Outweigh Loss
Tiie actual benefltB from the plan would far outweigh any possibla loss to the government. Carrying charges of homes would be reduced, new buildings and modernization would be promoted and financing for slum clearance and low cost houses would be provided.
Under the tentative plan, to b« announced with 10 days, all gov¬ ernment home and building relief agencies would be oo-ordlnated un¬ der the direction of the executive council. The Home Owners Loan Corporation would be used as a nucleus.
In the period from July 1, 1933, to April 5, 1934, less than 10 months, the federal government spent $5,- 005,402,334, compared with $4,845,- 018,254 in the entire preceding fiscal year and with $5,115,927,889 In the full 1921 fiscal year.
Of this year's expenditures, $2,- 980,512,018 went for "emergency uses." Tlio Reconstruction B'inance Corporation took $1.311.090,6t;9, while tho Civil Works Administra¬ tion was the second largest emer¬ gency   spender   with   $400,005,000.
With only $5,000,000,000 spent to date and nearly 10 months of the current fiscal year elapsed, it was indicated tliat total expenditures for tlio current year may fall as far as $4,000,000,000 under the $10,- 500,000,000 budget estimate for the current year. Meanwhile, income liaa held up to expectations with a result that tlie current deficit Is only slightly above the two and one-half billion mark and at an only small Increase over a year ago.
RECTORY IS ROBBED
Chief of Police George Steber of Beaver Meadow worked late last night In an effort lo capture thieves who robbed the rector.v of SS. Peter and Paul Greek Catholic parish, taking about $50. Rev. Anthony Mliley is pastor of the church.
The clergyman and members of Ills family were in chu-ch attend¬ ing service when the thieves entered the rectory The entlrt* himse WAS ransacked. Kntiance wa.-' gained by forcing a window in  the kitclien.
Humans Can Eat What They Please ButNRA Is Checking On Dog Foods
Washington. April 7.—UP—Hu¬ man beings can eat what they please as far as tlie National Re¬ covery Administration is concerned, but dogs are going to get only the purest  foods.
The food codes for dogs and people are in the making. The can¬ ine code, it was learned today, will contain specific provisions about what shall not go Into dog dinners. The other code will Include no such purity   clauses.
Mystery  Dog Biscuits
The nieai-for-dogs situation al¬ ready Is codified, but the dog bis¬ cuit problem Is pending. That is complicated, because some dog bis¬ cuit makers want to shroud the contents of their bi.'cuils In mystery. However, Administrator Hugh S. Johnson hopes to sign the dog food coile within a week.
Status of food for the masses is something else again. There are four iiroposed codes for as many aspects ot the grocery business. These codes still arc in the argu¬ ment stage. The manufacturers of foods, it dcvelo|)cd. have so many specific problems ot their own that the giocciy manufai luring code will be the broadest kind ot ilocunicnt, laying down general principles,  but
containing no s|)ccitic provisions about such things, for instance, as how much chicken there ought to be In a can ot chicken  soup.
The reason for this apparent dis¬ crepancy between dog and man's food codes are obvious. Human be¬ ings are supposed to be smarter than dogs in the first place, and the production of foods for human consumption already is under fed¬ eral   scrutiny.
Formulation of the codes for the dog food business is revealing some interesting facts, meantime, about a little known Industry. The canning of dog foods is a multi-million dollar enterplrse, second, in fact, in the whole can¬ ning industry.
Whales and   Raindesr
One major maker of food for dogs so far has used S.oOO.OOO pounds ot whale meat. That has been a big hel|) to the whaling fleets, now that whalebone and whale oil sales are not what they used  to be.
One would-be dog food maker wants the code to contain specific provisions for the use of reindeer meat. He has a lof of reindeer in Alaska. Bought 'em hoping rein¬ deer steaks would make a hit In the American meal martlets. Thejr didii'L