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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A.M. SUNDAY
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The Only Hunda; Newspaper Corering tbe Wyomlag Valler
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1935
Rntered at Wllkes-Barre, Ft. As Second CIsaa Mall  Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
MINERS HERE ORDERED TO VOTE ON SHUTDOWN OF COAL COMPANY
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Her Burial Plan Defined In Will
London, May 2.5. (UPVA de¬ sire to be buried in her fur coat, and a provision that anyone at¬ tending her funeral be paid gen¬ erously, were embodied in th'' will of Mrs. Nellie Taylor Welch, American, made public today. She died at Hove, Su.ssex. at ,'^4. widow of .1. A. Welch of Phila¬ delphia. She left 1,855 pounds (about |fl,2iS0). She also asked that she be buried with her platinum wedding ring and the United .States flag over her coffin in  her husband's vault at Hove.
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IN RELIEF GRANT
Seeks Poor Farm With $3,900 Cash
Oconomowoc, Wis., May 25. (UP)—Miss Mary Gallagher, 80, went to county authorities and told them she was destitute. County Judge David W. Agnew decided there was nothing to do but commit her to the poor farm and he signed a commitment order. While preparing to move her from her home, police found an old suitcase containing $3,900 in silver and old bank notes. They were amazed and asked Miss Gallagher if she didn't know about her treasure. "Oh, yes," she said, "but, you see I've been saving that for a rainy day."
Heir To Lumber Fortune Is Snatched By Gangsters Who Evade Police Hunt
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DEMAND $200,000
Remainder Of Building Cost 	
Would Be Met By Loan!
On   Cut   Interest   Rates '^alv   And   Abyssinia   Are
  Persuaded    Into    Peace
Department Of Justice Is Given Most Daring Case Since   Lindbergh,  Crime
BLOW TO UTILITIES
After   A   Bitter   Dispute
HAVE ONE CLUE
NAVY AIR FLEET SAFELY RETURNS TO
Three Of Five Mourners In Serious Condition; Auto Crashes Against A Pole
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Rich Gift Made By Rockefeller
New York, May 25. (UP) — The Museum of Modern Art announced tonight that much of the $200,000 personal art collec¬ tion Mrs. John D. Rockefeller jr. haa gathered during the past ten years has been presented to the institution.
The collections—181 paintings, drawings and water colors—in¬ clude the works of the Ameri¬ can artists Bellows, Wakefield and George "Pop" Heart and an assortment of French, German, Russian and Scandinavian ef¬ forts.
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Wa.shiiigton, May 2.'). (UI') The Administration tonight pushed its national campaign for lower utility ratM by promising increased hnaii- cisl sid to cities building municipal power and waler plants.
The government, heretofore, loan¬ ed political sub-division* seventy percent and granted them thirty percent of a project s cost. Grants have been hiked to iS percent and interest rales reduced from lour lo three percent under the new $*,- 000,000,000 Work-Relief program.
The anion. Public works officials •aid, will reduce by almost one- third the bonded indebtedness of any municipal  utility  project.
11 will allow cities to supply elec¬ tricity and water to tlieir con¬ sumers at lower cost than under the old program.
The move was made to expedite re-employment through the $900,- 000,000 fund set a.side for public works. Applications for loans and grants under the new program were filed almost immediately after the announcement was made. "The way is open," one official said, "for cities to come to the government for aid in getting their own utility plants. We will give a town 45 percent of a project's cost and loan the other ."55 at three percent.
"Another attractive angle to the proposition is that a political sub¬ division can post revenue securi- j tits aa collateral for the loan, and i not increase its bonded indebted-j ness." I
Forre Reduced RhIcs Cities also were expected to use the governments offer as a means of forcing reduced rates from private utility companies, even if they don't build municipal planta. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia gained a .lO percent slash in costs of lighting city buildings by threatenihR to apply to PWA for a $l,')0O0,0OO loan and grant to finance construction of the city's own system.
President Roosievelt was ex¬ pected to act next week to reduce Public Works construction costs •till further by amending the pro¬ gram's 30-hour-week law, possibly increasing the figure to 40 hours. PWA will continue to pay exist¬ ing wages, contrasted to the $94 maximum and $19 minimum monthly scale set up for the most of the Work-Relief program.
Organized Labor protested so »|rongly against the pay that H«rry L. Hopkins, head of the "orks Progress Administration, announced he would .set up a board to mediate Injustices.
POWERS GIVE AID
By WAI,I,A( K ( AKKOLL (C^ipyrlght, 1985, By Inlted Press) Geneva, May 25. (UP)—War be¬ tween Italy and Ahys.'inia, con¬ sidered inevilablc 24 hours ago, appeared today to have been averted.
Credit for the achievement goes to the youthful Anthony Eden, who has won a place among the "iron men" of British diplomacy by his efforts.
The tall, thin Briton, barely re¬ covered from a recent heart illness, proved the atrong man in the cur¬ rent meeling of the League of Nations Council, settling almost single-handed the Italian-Abyssin¬ ian dispute, as well as the quarrel between the Jugoslavian and Hun¬ garian governments and the clash between the League and the Dan¬ zig government.
For five day.s, Eden, who is only .'n. locked horns with the formid¬ able Premier of Italy, Benito Mus¬ solini, in a battle of wills, p^deii insisted that the League must in¬ tervene in the Italian-Abyssinian dispute. Time after lime, he made j new suggestions for a solution to I Baron I'ompeo Aloisi of Italy for submission to Mussolini.
Each time, a rejection came back from Rome, and Eden prepared new proposals, virtually as strong as the preceiling ones. When the Council finally approved a selllc- menl at 1:30 a. m. today, many ob- .servers believed Kden had won the battle, because the League's power lo intervene had been firmly eslab- hshed.
Under the League's two resolu¬ tions passed this morninR. Italy and Abyssinia will attempt lo settle the dispute by direct negotiations. The League will meanwhile observe progress, and if no solution hns been reached wilhin three month.s. the Council will meet to decide on a course, of action.
Today's developments recalled to more than one observer another midnight session last December, when Eden averted conflict be¬ tween Jugoslavia and Hungary.
The Council finally closed the Jugoslav-Hungarnian dispute today, Hungary promising to continue all measures against terrorists, includ¬ ing supervision of Jugoslav exiles and other foreigners. The chapter was  thus  considered  ended.
GIRL 13 YEARS OLD IN RAGGED ROMANCE
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New York, May 25. (UP)—A policeman and a detective brought back to New York tonight, rienry Hlmpson, 35-year-old choir leader, and 13-year-old Eleanor Schamus, Who were found living togethci In n«PPy but rustic seclusion In the '-atskilla yesterday.
The child, protesting the ending 1' «n amiable and carefree llfr in **?. ""<!   tatters,   was   taken    to
lldren's .Society Shelter, and the man was lodged In jail.
"I'm  glad  she's  back,"  said  her
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prosecute that fellow or not, or whether I'll ask that they marry. I'm just glad she's back."
"Why couldn't they have left us alone?" B'leanor asked. "We were happy.     Everything   was   perfect."
"The couple were found In a $25 log cabin, with a folding col, an oil stove, a ragged blanket and a few cans of food.
Late tonight, Simpson was booked at Grecnport station on a charge of abduction, filed against him by Detective George O'Connor, whil*^ the girl was charged with juvenile
Tacoma, Wa.sh., May 2.^ (UP).— The kidnapers of 9-year-old George Philip Weyerhaeuser, scion of a mullimillionaire lumberman, in their $200,000 ransom note lo the boy's parents, instructed them to watch classified advertisements in I Tacoma Sunday newspapers for further instructions.
Two carloads of Slate Police hurriedly left the courthouse here tonight, bound for three abandoned gravel pits, on the road to Sleila- coom, south of here. The gravel pita will  be searched.
Slate Police would not say any¬ thing definite in connection with the sudden move, but it was an¬ nounced that a clue had been found near the pits. In the meantime, government agents were working on theory that the kidnaping was planned by an "intelligent man." Officers based their supposition on the fact that a ransom letter was well-written, although plainly word¬ ed.   The note was signed "Egoist."
Boldest  Since   Lindbergh's
America's "G-men," aces of the Department of Justice, swung in¬ to action to solve the most brazen kidnaping since the Lindbergh crime. The kindnapers are holding the boy for $200,000 ransom, which was demanded in a special-de¬ livery letter received at the Weyer¬ haeuser home several hours after the child's disappearance. The note was written on a sheet of heavy linen paper, "such as a woman might use."
Tonight it was believed the child's parents were attempting to communicate with the abductors. A large sheet, draped from the rear porcii of the Weyerhaeuser home, was regarded as a possible signal   to   the   kidnapers.
KHstern Gang Suspected Belief that the crime was com¬ mitted by "Eastern gangsters" was expressed by U. S. Marshal A. J. Chilty who, with fifteen Depart¬ ment of Justice men, is at work on the case.
Chilty declared his belief that tho kidnapers were inspired by re¬ ports of the $400,000,000 fortune said to have been left by the child's grandfather, John Philip Weyerhaeuser, who died a week ago.
All the millions of the Wyer¬ haeuser clan and all the power of the Federal government were thrown behind John Philip Weyer¬ haeuser, the boy's father, in his determination to get his child back. Authcnticily of the ransom note was determined, according to friends of the family, by the boy's own signature on the back of the letter.*
Was to Meet Sister At 6 p. m. George hai been miss¬ ing 30 hours. He was last seen at noon yesterday, trudging from Lowell School to meet his 13-year- old sister, Annie, at the Annie Wright Seminary only six blocks away. There the family chauffeur was waiting lo take the children home for lunch.
The last person known to have talked with him before he was seized was a classmate, Bruce Bow¬ man, who walked about two blocks with him and then bade him good¬ bye. No other person in the neigh¬ borhood could recall having seen him afterward.
After waiting for some minutes at the seminary, Annie returned home with the chauffeur. When the boy failed to arrive for luncheon, however, members of the family became alarmed, and at 1:30 (Continued on Page A-6j
U. S. S. Pennsylvania Heads Display Of War Power In   Harbor  Of   Honolulu
Haste To Visit A Relative Who Is Critically III Is   Cause   Of   Accident
CONTINUE MANEUVERS
Honolulu, T. H., May 2.V (UP)- Completlng a leisurely return flight from Midway Island ten huge naval seaplanes landed at Pearl Harbor, The squadron ar¬ rived at 3:15 p. m. Honolulu lime, after an approximate 600-mile hop from French Shoals, where they had  spent  the  night.
Their arrival marked completion of an ambitious round-trip mass flight of 48 Navy planes from Honolulu to isolated Midway, part of the current fleet maneuvers.
Members of the squadroi^ said the flight had been withoiR in¬ cident. They took off from the Shoals at 8:21 a. m.
With 225 airplanes thundering overhead, 24 United Stales Navy warships steamed into Pearl Har¬ bor earlier today, marking one of the la.st and most spectacular phases of the Navy's pretentious North Pacific war maneuvers.
Arrival of the warships marked beginning of a concentration which will transform the sleepy isle of Oahu, peaceful "Pearl of the Pa¬ cific," into a veritable mid-ocen fortress, bristling with steel-hulled fighting ships and naval airplanes. The first craft to arrive was the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, flying the four-starred flag of Ad., iral Jo¬ seph M. Reeves, commander-in- chie off the fleet.
As the warships nosed toward Pearl Harbor, the aerial armada roared out of the Pacific, across the point and over Honolulu. Thou¬ sands of citizens rushed into the streets as the airplanes sped east¬ ward toward historic Diamond Head.
TAR BURNS BOYS
LEAVE STOLEN f'AB
ON RAILROAD TRACK
Automobile thieves were not satisfied with stealing the car of Henry Kromelbeln of 23 Priestly street, city. They also planned to have it wrecked by a railroad train, according to police who reported the auto recovered early today at Dupont.
Kromelbeln reported his machine stolen last night at 10:40 oclock frorn a street in Port Griffith. A warning was sent out on the State Police teletype without immediate result.
At 2:20 oclock this morning a Lehigh 'Valley railroad inspector discovered the car abandoned on the Valley tracks at Dupont. Its position indicated it had been pur¬ posely left on the tracks.
Five persons were Injured yes¬ terday afternoon in an automobile accident while they were hurrying from the funeral of one relative to the bedside of another relative critically ill. Their car got beyond control of the driver and struck a pole on the Sullivan Trail three miles north of Weat Pittston. All were taken to Pittston hospital, where three remain in serious con¬ dition. The victims:
Joseph Radzvilowicz, 69, of 2 O'Neill street, Plainsville. He has a possible fractured skull. His wife was killed earlier in the week by a Laurel Line car and was buried yesterday morning.
Joseph Radzvilowicz jr., 28, same address. He was able to go home after treatment of Injuries of the head  and  body.
Charles Adamocitch, 26, of 147 Pringle street, Kingston. He was driver of the car and received la¬ cerations of the head and left ear. Mrs. Anna Namiolka, 55, of 1312 South Washington avenue, Seran¬ ton. Severe scalp laceration.
Edward Sterlicki, 25, same ad¬ dress, stepson of Mrs. Namiotka. Discharged after treatment for facial  lacerations.
Had Attended Funeral The five victims earlier in the day attended the funeral of Mrs. Radzvilowicz, who died in Wilkes- Barre General Hospital on Thurs¬ day, She was run down last Mon¬ day by a Laurel Line engine while hurrying to church. Her funeral was held yesterday morning and later in the day the party of five decided to visit the home of a sick relative  at Falls.
Starting from Plainsville about 4 oclock, Adamovitch followed the Sullivan Trail. On a curve near the Seranton power plant, his car got beyond control. It swerved from the road into a pole. The car  was   wrecked.
Pa.ssing motorists summoned of¬ ficers of State Highway Patrol and Howell's ambulance to take the In¬ jured to Pittston hospital. Of the three who remained in the hos¬ pital, the husband of the woman buried yesterday was reported in the most serious condition because of possible skull fracture and in¬ ternal injuries.
Freak Accident A  freak  accident  at Dallas yes¬ terday resulted in the injury of two children.
Roy Trudgen, 12, and his brother, Leslie, 6, were playing near a bar¬ rel of tar in front of the residence of Harry Arnold at 170 Main street, Dallas. In some Bnexplainable manner (Continued on Page A-6)
FINAL SA Y GIVEN TO WAGE EARNER ON ABANDONMENT
Thousand Employees Of Operations In West Side District Are Given Statement On Losses And Told Only Change In System And Loan Of Pay Will Keep Them Employed
KINGSTON COAL IN TROUBLE
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Kingston  <^oal  Company,  one  of the  largest  independent  coal  con¬ cerns in the anthracile fields, will _ j abandon operations on Tuesday at
I Edwardsville,   was   the   announce- AUtOmObileS •"*"' made yesterday to one thou- j sand employes unless certain con- ViCtimS'cessions  are  made  relative  to  the ,        a     o     ¦ n      j'i-      ' mining and preparation of coal for
In  A   Serious  Condition i the mtrkets
The ultimatum delivered by J, H. Pierce Engineering ('ompany, who took over the Kingston Coal Com¬ pany In regard to new mining methods, was relayed through va¬ rious mine foremen to the men, as well as to the union leaders.
Whether Kingston (.'oal Company will be abandoned will be decided al a mass meeling of the union men to be held Monday evening at which Edward Bunoski, Peter Naylis and Adam Mench, union leaders will be in  charge.
It is understood that Kingston Coal Company in presenting the case to the men, as well as to the community, showed that during the month of April its loss was $45,900 and during the month previous the losses from operations were fixed at $39,000. That the company could no longer successfully stand the financial strain, unless the em¬ ployees afford co-operation was made plain.
The demands of the company as to whether operations will continue will depend on the action of the men in regard to controversial queslion.s. First, to permit shaker chutes at fair rates; second, no re¬ striction of output; third, clean coal loaded; fourth, standard top of nine inches; fifth, elimination of Number Three shaft.
Difficulty in regard to demands of the company officials is expected to hinge on whether the men will agree to advance fifty percent of their pay for a fixed period of time
WOMAN IS STABBED, HUSBAND IS BLAMED
Stabbed by her husband and chased from their home, after which the man of the house went to bed and to sleep, Mra. Eva Yat- savage, 256 Sheridan street, was picked up about 2:30 this morn¬ ing by the crui.sing car of the Wilkes-Barre police.
The woman was rushed to Gen¬ eral hospital, suffering from a deep chest wound which, however, is not expected to prove fatal. The husband,   John   Yatsavage,   about
fifty years of age and employed as a miner at the Dorrance col¬ liery, was also taken by police and lodged in the city police station.
Both husband and wife were re¬ ported intoxicated last night and the Ftabbing was very evidently the result of a quarrel.
The police car, with Ofliicers Carl Sprow and Edward Brown in charge, was hailed on Sheridan street   by  a  neighbor  of  the  Yat-
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Nine persons wera injured and a 10-year-old boy was drowned yes¬ terday in accidents reported to authorities here. Automobile mis¬ haps accounted for most of the in¬ jured, aeveral of whom were de¬ clared in serious condition early this morning. The lone fatality of the day occurred at Shlckshinny when the young victim slipped from a ledge of rocks while fish¬ ing and perished in deep water. These accidents were in addition to one on the Sullivan Trail where five members of an automobile party were hurt as their machine rammed a post. *
Two Wilkes-Barre youths were injured, one of them seriously, shortly before midnight when an automobile in which they were rid¬ ing crashed into a tree and then toppled over on the East End boulevard.
Robert Tretheway, 19, of 63 Stan¬ ley street, was seriously Injured, while Clarence Tressler, 20, of 38 West Market street, escaped with shock and bruises. Investigating police said Tressler was driving the automobile when it crashed into a tree bordering a dirt road which connects with the boulevard a short distance above the top of Hairpin Curve.
Tretheway was thrown com¬ pletely out of the machine and suffered a face laceration extend¬ ing from his forehead to his throat. He also suffered bruises and lacera¬ tions of the body and lost consider¬ able  blood.
Andrew W. O'Malley jr., of 217 South River street, and John Ben- din of 287 Madison street, brought the injured youths to General hos¬ pital. They told city police and State highway patrolmen that the two injured youths left a party of young people a few moments before the crash occurred. Tress¬ ler was unable to give police a coherent account of what happen¬ ed but said he was driving an automobile loaned to him by an¬ other youth.
Three Hurt In Crash Three persons were injured last night at 11 oclock in an automo¬ bile collision on the Middle Road near Askam, Hanover Township, Two of the injured were taken to Nanticoke State hospital while their companion was removed to Mercy  hospital
The injured were: Marie Klem, 16, of 498 Front street. Warrior Run; John Gudoski, 22, of 774 Main street. Sugar Notch; and lohn Tudgay, 19, of 203 Chestnut f.treet. Warrior Run,
Gudoski was driver of one ma¬ chine and told hospital authorities that the collision occurred when his car collided with another auto traveling on the wrong side of the highway. The Klem girl suffered numerous lacerations and was re¬ quired to remain at Nanticoke hos¬ pital. Gudoski was able to go home. Tudgay was removed to Mercy hospital for treatment of scalp wounds.
Boy Is Drowned Walter Appleby, 10, of Shlck¬ shinny, drowned while fishing In Furnace Dam near Shlckshinny. At 7 oclock yesterday morning the victim, with George Welsh, 13, took up positions on a ledge of rocks over a deep pool formed by fhe dam. Half an hour later young Appleby slipped off the ledge. He (Continued on Page A-6>
board of directors following tha selection of J. H. Pierce Engineer¬ ing Company to handle the com¬ pany's affairs. The directors stated that in a period of five yeara before the engineering company was instructed to take the opera¬ tions over a loss of approximate¬ ly $1,000,000 had been incurred.
The first action of the new man¬ agement was closing of CJaylord colliery at Plymouth. This threw aeveral hundred men out of work and at the present time the break¬ er is being dismantled. Following the closing of the Gaylord, concen¬ tration of mining was made in the Edwardsville operations where hope was held that mechanical mining could be substituted. The union men refused to concede the mod¬ ernization  of the  workings.
Beside heavy losses in March and April, the company will suffer a loss estimated at $,50,000 for the month of May. This loss is large¬ ly due to drastic price reductions made by the large coal companies.
Big Payroll At Stales
Kingston Coal Company has a payroll of $1,,500,000 a year or S6,.500 a day, a tremendous amount of money flowing to the West Sid* communities. The elimination of the payroll would be a tremendous blow, not only to the people of the communities, but to various school districts and borough governments that would be forced to increase tax levies to make up the loss of revenue from the closing of mines.
Whether employees of the com¬ pany will realize the critical con¬ dition at the mass meeting that ia scheduled for Monday evening re¬ mains to be seen. Some of tha union leaders are in favor of putting the question solely to the men, without making any effort to influence their action. John Kmetz, one of the district
In return, the men will receive notes payable in December, 1935. The demand for the loan from the men is to carry the company over the months of June and July when the coal business is at its lowest ebb.
Offer   A   Precedent
organizers of United Mine Worker! was in Edwardsville yesterday con¬ ferring with the men relative to what action is to be taken. Tha company declares Tuesday Is tha dead-line, that an answer to de¬ mands must be made by that day or  pumps will be  taken  from  tha
The    frankness    in    which    the I mines and the breakers dismantled
company ia presenting its case to the men and the community offers a precedent in the long and suc¬ cessful history of the anthracite industry. Along with the conces¬ sions, the company announces it owes $200,000 in back taxes to the county, and the following West Side boroughs: Kingston, Ed¬ wardsville, Pringle and Larksvllle.
It has been no secret in mining circles that Kingston Coal Com¬ pany was in bad shape, but no thoughts were entertained that a complete abandonment of opera¬ tions was contemplated. The com¬ pany is one of the oldest in the coal fields and has been the back¬ bone of industry in Edwardsville and adjacent communities fur the past fifty years.
The first announcement that Kingston Coal Company was not meeting expenses was made by the
and equipment sold as junk. Threa hundred men formerly employed at Gaylord colliery were not given that opportunity, although willing to negotiate if there was any chance of the mines continuing to work. In respect to this operation, Kingston Coal Company was un¬ able to do anything, because of the Immediate necessity to reduce ex¬ penditures.
Whether Kingston Coal Company will go the way of the Haddock mines at Luzerne and Pettebone colliery in Kingston will be decided one way or the other by the am- ployes. It is expected also that • formidablii body of citizens from Edwardsville will attempt to or¬ ganize so as to be in position t* act as mediators if there is a hope* less deadlock.
It is understood the company haa (Continued on Paga A-6)
HAY RIDE CRACK-UP KILLS 1, INJURES 20
Blomlngton, Ind., May 25. (UP) —A 20-year-old Bloomington girl was killed and nearly a score of young companions were Injured tonight in the tragic ending of a high  school  fraternity  hay-ride.
Louise Hendrix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hendrix, was killed almost Instantly in a colli¬ sion between two automobiles and two wagons.
Most seriously injured of her companions were Robert Bales, 21, Elkinsville, and Margaret Lou May
Indiana University. Bales waa driving the car in which Mlsa Hendrix was riding. His conditloa was  considered serious.
Miss May, riding on on* of Mm hay wagons, suffered a brain eon* cusaion, Bloomington hospital at¬ taches said. Two horses drawinf the wagon on which Miss May waa riding were killed when they wara jammed into the rear of the flrat wagon.
Approximately 25 membera a( Beta   Phi   Sigma   fratarnitjr
daughter of Prof. Clarence May of I riding on tha two wafona.
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