Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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STICKUP ON WEST SIDE-MEYER VICTIM AGAIN
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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THE WEATHER
Fair, slowly rising temperature In afternoon; Jlondny cloudy, fol¬ lowed by snow or rain.
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The  Only  Sanday   Newspaper Covering the  Wyoming  Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1934
Entered  at   Wllkes-Barre,  Pa., As  Second  Class  Msll   Matter
PRICE TEN ( ENTS
LABOR AND CAPITAL IN DEADLOCK AS ROOSEVELT URGES AGREEMENT
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Two Thieves Enter Kingston Store And Obtain Only Small   Amount In   Cash
BIGGER SUM SAVED
Pay Envelopes And Register Deposits Remain Safe In  Hurry  For  Getaway
NO CLUES FOUND
Gnaslilng of teeth ¦will be In ordor today when two bandits who held \]p four attaclies of a Kingston store last night read that they over¬ looked at least $300 In cash, due either to incxpprieno© in the stick- op "racUet" or timidity and haste CO depart without being nabbed by police.
Shortly after 9 oclock both ban¬ dits appeared at the entrance of the American store at the corner of Bshuyler avenue and Dorrance rt-eet. Hesitating for a moment, the pair entered, made a cursory survey of the premises and whipped out revolvers, pointing the weapons meniclngly at four employes, all standing In tho rear of counters.
One of the bandits "covered" Ray Tippet, manager; Alice O'Malley, cashier; and ¦William Cooper a clerk. The second holdup man leveled a weapon at Calvin Brlt- tlngham, a butcher and former member of Wllkes-Barre police de¬ partment. No resistance was of¬ fered by the store attaches.
The bandit who directed the re¬ volver at tho butcher stepped to the cash register, keeping the gun leveled toward the meat man, and with one hand removed fifteen dol¬ lars In bills and silver coin from the cash box. In a nearby box in the register $200 reposed. The bandit didn't see it.
Warning the employes to remain In the establishment, both bandits backed out of the i)laco and soon were lost In the dark shadows of a nearby street. The robbers did not have an automobile.
Brlttlngham and Cooper rushed Into the street a half minute after I lie departure of the gunmen. They were not observed. A call to Kingston police headquarters brought Officers Nork and Bryant to the scene. The employes told police all had received their weekly pay, aggrpgatlng more tlian $100, shortly before the bandits entered tlie store. They registered pleasure over the lack of experience on the part of the robbers who failed to search thom.
The gunmen are about 21 years old. One wore a dark overcoat, had a ruddy complexion and stood about o feet 4 Inches. The second rottier was attired In a dark grey over¬ coat, wore a brown soft hat and Is nljout  !-, feet 10 Inches  tall.
She Eats Crow To Aid Recovery
Manhattan, Iml., March 24— UP—Mrs. Maude Horker smack¬ ed her lips over a large dish of crow-a-la-klng today and an¬ nounced:
"This Is tho way to end the depression. Eat crows. They're good. If people would eat more crows and quit talking depres¬ sion, the depression would end," she s.'iid.
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Diamonds And Rings Taken From Display Windows On   City   Public   Square
SEEK 2 SUSPECTS
For the second time In flvo weeks and the third time since .January of 1931, till! .Icromo .Meyer & Sons Jewelry store at 15 Public Square was robbed early today. Timing their, coup between the hourly patrols of the night watchman of the Meyer building, thieves cut out a largo section of the show win¬ dow and removed diamond rings and watches valued . at approxi¬ mately $1,200.
William Fahey of Kingston, night watchman, told police he discov¬ ered tho shattered window about 12:45 oclock this morning as he left the basement of the building to make his one oclock patrol.
Noticing that the darkened win¬ dow was strangely bare, Fahey made a close examination and dis¬ covered two largo pieces of plate glass lying in the store entrance. Much of the jewelry on display In the window had been removed, while on tho sidewalk Fahey dis¬ covered a watch that had been dropped by the thieves in their flight.
The "diamond window" in tho Meyer jewelry store has double glass, hut the thieves pushed the Inner plate backwards so that ac¬ cess was gained to the jewelry on (Jisplay. A number of articles were beyond reach of Implements used hy the thieves and they were un¬ touched.
Stolen   Articles   Listed
Fahey summoned Patrick Tarzan, watchman of Isaac Long Store, to mount guard wliiie he notified po¬ lice and owners of the store. Fahey declared that just as he left the basement of the Meyer building to make his hourly visit to the jew¬ elry store and the office floors of the building, he saw two youths hurrying from tho westerly side of Public Square in the direction of Capitol   theatre.
Harold and Nat Meyer, owners of the store, said early today that the loss is covered by Insurance and made known tho following Inven¬ tory of stolen Jewelry, based on re- tall prices:
A tray, containing four dinner rings and one three-sione ring, re¬ tail value 29.75 each.
A gentleman's single-stone dia- nioiul ring,  $112.50.
Two ladies wrist watclies, one valued at $87.50 and one valued at $135,
A diamond and wedding ring combination, $75.
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PLACES VAST WEALTH AS AID TO CITIZENS
VV:isliingiui,, March 24. — UI> — f^tatlstlcs released today by Public Works Administrator Harold L. I^kes indicated that $1,382,000,000 In PWA funds Would go into citizen's pockets during 1934, Increasing pur- tnaslng power and re-employment. Ickes said a recently completed •tudy showed that expenditures "iner the widespread Public Works program would reach $104,000,000 a month In June. Statutory and exec¬ utive allotments totalling approxi¬ mately one-third the entire PWA rund were not Included In the com¬ pilation, lekes emphasized tliat "no pro- ¦li«e« of any kind have been or will »»mad« by PWA In advance of de¬
livery, but it is my desire to show what PWA seeks to accomplish and give some Indication of what may he expected In this phase of the Re¬ covery program. There has been a lot of unJustUled talk from sources Independent of PWA about how much PWA could and should do. All statistics run tho risk of misin¬ terpretation and PWA does not de¬ sire to raise false hopes."
Ickes said the survey showed that Public Works allotments for power generating and distributing plants total $128,860,000. Of this $104,- 160,000 is being spent hy the Fed¬ eral guvernmeiit and $34,700,000 has been allotted to 50 non-Federal pro¬ jects.
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Third Dillinger Gangster Is Given Life Sentence By Verdict  Of  Jurymen
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FATAL JAIL RAID
Crime Committed To Free John Dillinger Results In   Highly   Tragic   Toll
SHERIFF VICTIM
Lima, C, March 24.—UP—Verdict of murder in the first degree, but with a recommendation of mercy, was returned by a jury in Allen county court here today against Russell Clark, accused slayer of Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber. The verdict means Clark will be sentenced to life   Imprisonment.
Clark was the thid gangster tried on charges of murdering Sarber, but was the first to receive life Im- jJrlsonment. Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley were found guilty on similar charges and this after¬ noon, a few moments after the Clark Jury began deliberations, were sentenced to die In the electric chair at Ohio penitentiary on Fri¬ day, July 13.
Judge Emmitt E. Everett an¬ nounced tonight that he would Im¬ pose sentence on Clark Monday morning  at  9.
According to unofficial reports, Pierpont, Clark and Makley will be taken to the Ohio penitentiary at Colombus Immediately after Clark Is sentenced. All plans for transfer of the three dangerous prisoners were shrouded  in  secrecy.
The Clark jury deliberated two hours and 45 minutes.
It received the case at 2:25 p. m. and tapped on the jury door at 5:10 p. m. announcing the verdict was ready.
Freed  Dillinger Sarber   was   slain   by   an   outlaw gang   who   raided   the   county   jail here  last   October  12  to  free  John Dillinger.
Pierpont had been named "trig¬ ger man" In the raid and Makley Identified as the gangster who clubbed Sarber as he slumped to the floor, mortally wounded.
The courtroom was baro when the jury announced It was ready to re¬ turn. Prosecutor Ernest Botkin had left a few moments earlier for the Nerval hotel, headquarters of tho National Guardsmen guarding the jail,
Clark was rushed back to the courtroom from his cell and the others summoned.
Judge Einmlt E. Everett said sen¬ tencing would be delayed until Mon¬ day.
Jury Badly Divided Tho jury took only three ballots. The foreman said that on the first ballot, six jurors voted not guilty; that three recommended mercy and three voted Clark guilty as charged In the indictment.
On the second ballot 10 voted for mercy and two held out for not guilty. The third ballot was unani¬ mous for guilty with a recommenda¬ tion for mercy.
"We had a tough lesslon," the foreman said.
Clark seemed pleased with the verdict and smiled broadly. The verdict means he must spend the remainder of his days In the peni¬ tentiary without hope of parole.
Clark sat back and resumed the Indifferent expression he has worn throughout the trial.
Reports are heard hero that tho escaped John Dillinger has changed his facial appearance through plas¬ tic surgery,
DIRTY HANDS CAUSE SHOOTING Chicago, March 24 —UP — John Mazolewski's refusal to wash his h.ands before dinner resulted to¬ night In a quarrel during which, police .said, his wife shot him with a shotgun. He wrested the gun from her and tired three shots into her body, inlUcting critical wounds..
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Meets Bad Luck In Triple Style
Meridian, Miss., March 24— i:i>—Fate grimly pursued O. F. McDade, assistant manager of Robert E. Lee Hotel in Jackson, Summoned to Electric Mills, near here, to the bedside of a sick sister, McDade left the hos¬ pital after visiting her and started for her home. On the way he discovered his sister's automobile overturned In a ditch, with her children pinned In the wreckage, although not seriously hurt. He stopped to rescue the children and was struck by a passing truck. He suffered a broken leg and arm and severe head Injuries and was rushed back to the Elec¬ tric  Mills hospital.
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Double Tragedy Is Worst Of A Series Of Mishaps During   Valley  Weekend
ICY PAVES MENACE
The badly mangled bodies of two men lay In the Davidson morgue In Avoca this morning awaiting Identity by relatives or friends. The men were crushed to death yesterday afternoon at 3 oclock by a D. & H. passenger train In Avoca. More than 400 persons, from nearly every section of lower Lackawanna county and upper Luzerne county, visited the morgue, each holding hope of being able to idetnify  the  victims.
The double tragedy occurred about 250 feet north of Langcllffa breaker, where last August two Miners Mills boys were killed and several badly injured when a train was wrecked. A sharp curve on the right-of-way impeded the vi¬ sion of Engineer John Morrison and the train struck tho victims before he was able to stop it. The train. No, 502, southbound, was In charge of Conductor George Chapman.
Authorities describe the victims as follows: One of the men lost both legs and his head was crush¬ ed. He was about 5 feet 11 Inches tall, weighing about 200 pounds, had brown hair, wore a blue work shirt, blue tie with white stripes, gray socks, brown trousers and a blue zipper jacket. The other man was 5 feet 6 inches tall, about 150 pounds, and had brown hair. He wore brown trousers, white shirt, light gray cap, blue sweater with white cuffs and collar, and a brown overcoat.    Ho  was  hurt  Internally.
The Erie railroad tracks cross the D. & H. north of the scene of the accident. The belief was expressed early today that the men might have come from a distant point via the Erie and after leaving a freight train walked south on the D. & H. tracks to their doom.
Chief of Police Joseph Kearney of Avoca and M. T. Caffrey, U. & H. agent at Avoca, assisted Under¬ taker Davidson in removal of the bodies to the morgue.
Icy  Strsats Cause  Mishaps
Sheathed by ice as a result of yes¬ terday afternoon's fall of snow, Wllkes-Barre streets proved a men¬ ace to motorists until late last night. Three accidents were re¬ ported between 4 and 4:30 oclock, none of them serious.
Jacob Slomovltz, 54, of 129 South Grant street, suffered bruises and lacerations when an automobile he was driving down East Northamp¬ ton street hill skidded and crashed Into the A. & P. store front at Welles street.
A few moments later, Mahlon Casterllne, 24, of 944 East Market street, was driving up East North¬ ampton street hill when his car skidded backward. Ho was unable to control the machine and It crashed Into the parked car of Wll- lard Waillams, 28, of 61 South Meade street. Both drivers agreed to fix up the damages. The acci¬ dents were investigated by Officer Joseph Murray.
Automobiles driven by James T. Walsh, 18, of 21 West Hartford street, Ashley, and John Kadick, 47, of 151 Park avenue, i ulllded at the Intersection of Hazle and Grove streets at 4:10 oclock yesterday afternoon.     Both   drivers  were   or-
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A SUICIDE
Courtney Charles Julian En¬ ters Pact With Girl To End   Life   With   Poison
Negro Is Saved From Union Mob
liarrlsburg. 111., March 24— 1"1'—While a mob of several hmiilied men stormed the front iloors of county Jail tonight to lynch .Sugel Dabbs, Negro miner, (ifticcrs removed him through a rear door and escaped. Tho Nesro shot and critically wound¬ ed Kitten Vinyard, a Progres¬ sive miner, during a union quar¬ rel. Dabbs Is a member of United  Mine  Workers.
SOFT COAL FACES
FLED FRAUD CASE
Millions Of Dollars Lost To His Investors But He Also   Is   Left   Penniless
DEALT IN OIL
Shanghai, Sunday, Mar, 23—UP— C. C. Julian committed suicide as part of a pact with a Spanish girl who also drank poison, but who is expected to recover, authorities in¬ dicated today attern an investiga¬ tion. Authorities ."laid Julian swal¬ lowed the contents of a full bottio of deadly poison and still Wits writhing in agony when discovered.
Unconfirmed reports said the woman, with who.ai Julian was re¬ ported to have been seen recently, used tho same kind of poison. She was discovered before Its effects were fatal.
Shanghai Mar. 25—(Sunday) — UP—Courtney Charles Julian, one of the most spectacular figures in the history of oil, was found dead today—a suicide by poison—in Astor Hotel here.
Julian's end came after he had fallen from great riche.s, amassed in oil promotion, to poverty and virtual exile In Shanghai. Friends sai<l the colorful promoter was pen¬ niless.
"Well, I've spent my last dollar," they quoted him as saying when they last saw him,
Julian's body was discovered In his room when a hotel by investi¬ gated groans heard by adjoining guests.
Julian, who built up five or six great fortunes tlirough dazzling stock promotions, appeared nioro depressed than usual Saturday night. Ho went to his room about 11 p. m. Two hours later he was found   In  agony.
He was taken to a hospital where physicians battled to save him. Their efforts were in vain and Julian, a fugitive from Oklahoma Justice, died at 1:30 oclock Sunday morning.
The suicide was the second at¬ tempt within a fortnight to end his life. The first time he slashed his wrists. But, friends who had been watching closely, because of his extreme depression. Intervened and halted the flow of blood until doc¬ tors arrived  to treat   lilni.
Julian's tragic end came only a few days after the sensational mall fraud case for which he was want¬ ed in Oklahoma City had been practically dismissed because au¬ thorities were unable to apprehend the principal defendants. Accused   Of  Fraud
Julian came here March 23, 1933, as a fugitive from United States Federal warrants. He was charged with using the mails to defraud In selling stock In his last company— a   $3,000,000   Oklahoma   concern.
Shanghai offered Julian a sate refuge as lawyers advised him ex¬ tradition would not apply here. He was listed as a British subject. He first registered at Hotel Metropole as "T. R. King."
Later ho admitted  his  identity.
Since then he has been a spec¬ tacular figure in Shanghai. There have been numerous reports he was Interested In Chinese promotional projects, but Julian always laughed such reports away.
Only a few days ago Julian B:ive the United Press what is believed to have been his last interview.
He predicted that defendants in the Oklahoma City case "would never be brought to trial."
"Only one man could be guilty— and that's me," ho declared to Don King of tho United Press Shanghai staff.
"The   Julian    Oil   and    Royalties
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Railroad Labor Also Fights To Restore Standards Of Former Wage Scale
PEACE EFFORT TODAY
Washington, March 24.—UP—Bi¬ tuminous coal operators, gathered here tonight for the code conference which opens Monday, were prepared to fight miners demands for shorter work hours and Increased wages.
The code, as adopted, provided for a general conference Jan, 5 be¬ tween operators and miners with NRA looking on, to consider the industry's progress and revise the code. As changes seemed desirable, this meeting was postponed several times.
Wage scales adopted with the code were effective until April 1 for the northern and southern Appala¬ chian fields and until April 1, 1935, for other fields. Negotiations of a new scale for Appalachian mines began two weeks ago, but have made little progress.
The wage scale committee met until late tonight, with no agree¬ ment reached. Only a week remains before the new scales go into ef¬ fect, and the situation has possi¬ bility of serious trouble if operators and miners maintain their present attitudes. L'nited Mine Workers de¬ manded the new agreement shall have a work day fixed at not more than 7 hours. This Is bitterly op¬ posed, particularly by mine oper¬ ators In Indiana, Illinois and wes¬ tern States, who aro determined to continue the 8 hour day.
Jolin L. Lewis, V. M. W. head, to¬ day hoped for settlement soon and said the wage scale, after consider¬ ation by joint session of miners and operators, had been referred back to the scale committee.
Another serious threat to peace In the industry is offered by at¬ tempts of railroad operators to lease and operate tiieir own mines and further threats that they will shift orders and buy from lowest- price sources if prices do not come down. If commercial operators lose this tonnage, production costs will go up, threatening maintenance of present wage scales, the mine owners claim.
The railroads are said to be of¬ fering to maintain the mines on all-year production, and a possible 7-day week, which would result In greatly lowered  production costs.
Railroad   Wage   Problem
Wasliington, Mareli 24.— UP—The railroad wag© controversy reached a critical stage tonight. Labor re¬ fused to accept a compromise of¬ fered  by  President  Roosevelt.
Alexander A. Whitney, union ehleltaiu and general chairmen of the rail unions representing more than 1,000,000 men, told Transporta¬ tion Coordinator Joseph B. East¬ man that the men would accept only full restoration of 1929 wage scales.
K.istman, acting for President Roosevelt, said cryptically he would meet again tomorrow moi-ning in the Willard hotel with the cont'eit'iice committee of railroad managers to present them "certain propositions,"
These "propositions" Included tho union's rejection of a plan proposed by President Roosevelt and ac¬ cepted by the railways which would continue the general 10 percent wage "deduction" for another six months, but would rai.se pay of workers in tho lower wage brackets.
The unions' thumbs down attitude to\\;ird Mr. Roosevelt's proposal brought to the front again tho Pres¬ ident's implied threat to use more drusliu settlement measures.
SUNDA Y MEETING CALLED TO A VERT TIEUP OF MOTORS
Johnson Of Recovery Adminstration Declares Only Nonsensical Point Separates Workers And Owners And Sounds Hopeful Note With A Belief Of Reaching Peace Today
UNION CONTROL CHIEF ISSUE
Washington, Mar, 24—UP—Con¬ ferences between President Roose¬ velt, Recovery Administrator Hugh >S. Johnson, union chieftains and automobile manufacturers over a strike threat within the Industry ended on a note of uncertainty to¬ night. All preparations had been made for a dramatic announcement of a compromise, when an unex¬ plained hitch developed. Union leaders were gravely concerned. They did not know what would happen Monday when factory whis¬ tles call 300,000 motor car workers
The President went to the Press Club's jubilee dinner, where he was tohave made the revelation concerning the settlement. He de¬ cided to go at the last minute, while conversations still were proceeding between Johnson and the motor makers.
Mr. Roosevelt had arrived at the club when Johnson put his head out of the door of his office. In the Commerce Deparement,  and  .said
"There will be no announcement of  a   settlement   tonight,"
The General, however, appeared gay—in better mood than at any other time this week. He said tho point of difference between the unions and the manufacturers Is "nonsense" and revealed that the conferences would continue tomor row  morning.
William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, was not so optimistic.
"Tho strike is still off," he said, "but tomorrow Is Sunday and the men can't work anyway, I can't tell wliat will happen Monday. 1 only hope something will happen Sunday."
Mystery  For Union
William Collins, rosy-faced na¬ tional organizer of the American Federation, followed Green out of Johnson's office.
"We have had no opportunity to meet with the emiiloyers and under¬ stand their position," he said. "All the negotiating has been done by General Jolinson. It Is a mystery to me the way they handle business down here."
Green, in a formal st.atement, charged the automobile makers with confusing the public in announcing higher wages and shorter hours tor their workers.
"The public apparently has been confused by the recent announce¬ ment of automobile manufacturers that the hours have been reduced from an average of 40 to an aver- ago of 36," ho said. "Since this average extends over an entire year, the companies are under no obliga¬ tion to reduce their present weekly schedules • • *.
"The 'compensating wage increase' announced by the companies cannot mean anything until there has been an actual shortening of the present weekly hours. When that has been done It win be time to consider whether the companies have actu¬ ally granted the men higher wages." Half An  Inch Apart
Recovei-y Administrator Hugh S. Johnson   said   the   disputing   parties
were  just   "half  an   inch"  from  A compromise agreement.
The manufacturers formally an¬ nounced their willingness to agrs* to establish an Imperial board tot review of discrimination charges against  union members.
That helped some. But ¦ettlem'snt of the crucial Issue or arrange¬ ments for collective bargaining bs- tweeii the unions and the com¬ panies   remained  unsolved.
The unions withdrew their de¬ mand for Immediate elections to give employers a new choice be¬ tween American Federation of Labor and company organizatlon.s. They agreed to submit thelt union membership lists to govern¬ ment officials If manufacturers would submit their payroll lists. The government then would de¬ termine which men the union of¬ ficers could represent In coUectlv* bargaining.
The manufacturers, however, served notice In a formal statement that the unions must reveal th« membership lists directly to them. There the situation rested while President Roosevelt, hoping for further concessions from both sides, held himself In readiness for more confernces.
Points of Rejection Rejecting the proposal for a gov¬ ernment agency to check the union and payroll list.s, the manufacturers' statement   said:
"It (the union) wants the right to act for employees without disclos¬ ing their authority from them. It Is like a lawyer saying to you 'I have a client who Is suing you. I won't tell you who It Is, but I will haragin  for him.'
"No outside agency can check the union claims against the payrolls and come to any fair decision with¬ out disclosing the name to the manufacturer.
'The union refusal to say who it represents is just another indication of Its purpose to dominate Industry. All the union would have to do Is to coerce the men into signing union applications.
'The public should know that this refusal on the part of the union to say whom the union represents is the same Issue of union domina¬ tion  in another form.
"The union says that if It tells the manufacturers whom it repre¬ sents there will be discrimination against union members. On ths contrary, the manufacturers havs agreed to an impartial board to pass on any cases of alleged discrimina¬ tion and to have Its findings re¬ viewed by a board created by NRA. Thus there Is no warrant for ths union's claim that there will be dis¬ crimination."
The manufacturers have asserted from the first that although they would never bargain with tho union Itself, they would bargain with representatives of union niera- bers when they showed definite authority to act, '
Union spokesmen bitterly de¬ nounced   the  manufacturers'   stand.
"The administration alone has th«
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SHRINE OF PATRIOTS DESPOILED OF GOLD
Washington, March 24—UP—The Shrine of the Unknown Soldier In Arlington National Cemetery was despoiled today by a thief to whom priceless medals were so much gold.
While the Army guard of honor liaced the 20 yards In front of the unknown's tomb, the thief broke Into the marble amphitheater, jirled open a glass case, and took from
it medals and insignia struck oS solely in memory of the hero.
These  medals   he   took:
Caroll Down Al Romanlel, Vlr- tute Milltala; Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Dam«« of the Loyal Legion; National Society of New England Women; Descendants of the Signers of tlie Declaration of Independence; •nd National Auxiliary of th* Unltai Spanish  War veterans.