Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              DOOM OF BOBBY EDWARDS DEMANDED OF STATE
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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The Only Sunday  Nenapaper Coierinf (ha Wyoming Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1935
Entered at  Wllkea-Barre,  Pa. Aa Seeond  Claaa  Mall   Maiter
PRICE TEN CENTS
FATHER COUGHLIN REFUSES AID
LONG LAUNCHES BITTER ATTACK
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Report On Commutation Of Sentence For Edwards Is Denied At Harrisburg
P. O. Santa Claus Is Nearing Death
Santa Clam, Ind., April 27 - UP—James F. (Jim) Martin, 60. internationally known as Post¬ master at Santa Claus, Ind., was reported near death tonight by his physician, Dr. Norman Med- calf. At 9:30 P. M., Dr. Med- calf said: "We are afraid he won't  last  out  the  night."
Martin suffered a paralytic .itroke two weeks ago. It para- lyt»d- his ftntire left tMa, hiil he rallied and was recovering rapidly until a relapse set in late  today.
"He is sinking rapidly," Dr. Medcalf said. "He is in a coma and death may be expected momentarily."
TO, FIND LOOT
French Purchase Meets War Need
Paris, April 28-(Sunday)-UP - France moved today to con¬ solidate its food resources for an emergency when the Minis¬ try of Agriculture announced, in an official communique, that silos in which to store huge stocks of wheat will be con¬ structed  immediately.
The government, the com¬ munique .said, already has pur- rhatg-l—•'ifW.mi't. grin'B'f OO^
2,'50.00O bushels I of wheat for .storage and another 3,000.000 quintals will be bought at the earliest  possible time.
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DOCTORS TO ACT
Opponents Of Mercy Launch A Campaign To Enforce Law's   Extreme   Penalty
DECISION IN WEEK
Harrisburg, Pa., April 27. -What | appeared to he reliable information i that Bobby Kdwards, sentenced to | die for the murder of Freda ' McKechnie, both of EdwardavUle, j Pa, had been voted a commutation i to life Imprisonment, was authorita- | tlvely denied here today. The re- | port gave rise to belief that three of the four members of the Par¬ don Board had favored the merci¬ ful verdict In the lase of Edwards and that their recommendation was on the desk of Governor George H. Earle, awaiting the signature that would release the young mining engineer from the fate pro¬ nounced on him by a jury in the courts  of Luzerne  county.
Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Kennedy, whose horn* is in HatJe- ton In the home county of Edwards, sol at rest all rumors in connec¬ tion with the supposed ballot of the Pardon Board. He is chairman and the other members are Attor¬ ney General Charlea MargiottI, Secretary of Internal Affairs Philip Dewey and Secretary of the Commonwealth David L. Lawrence. If commutation should be voted by three of the four members, as pro¬ vided by law, there is also necess¬ ity that the Governor sign the agreement before it become effec¬ tive. It is remembered that in another Luzerne county case some years ago, that of Frank Kennedy of Pittston. jailed ior libel, the board granted a complete pardon, but Kennedy remained in prison to the end of hi« term because Governor Pinchnt at that time re¬ fused to attach his signature to the order.
\\'ill Test Kdwards What has happened in the Ekl- warda case is this; Two processes of examination, to determine the mental and physical soundness of young Edwards, have been set up. On the one hand he is to be eximined by .specialists who will «eek to determine the present con¬ dition of his mind, the likely con¬ dition at the time of the McKech¬ nie murder and the effects to be noticed now or to be considered present at the time" the young man, faced by what he might have be¬ lieved to be an inescapable pre¬ dicament, brought about the death of his   unwanted   sweetheart.
In   the   secondary   examination, •very letter of Edwards written to Mwagaret  Grain  of  East  Aurora, (Continued on Page 14   Sec. 1)
PRESIDENT PUTS A DIRECT APPEAL IN NATION'S EARS
His Radio Address Tonight Will Seek Public Help For   Complete   Program
MAY JOLT CONGRESS
Large Area Of Underworld Cleared By Federal Men In   Five  Surprise   Raids
MANSION HIDEOUT
Fourteen Thousand Dollars Of Mail Robbery Money Is   FoSnd   In   Subcellar
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Number One Racketeer Is I Free Under Bail Bonds '    After   A   Federal   Trial
State Crossing Kills 1 Injures 4
Lansdale, Pa., April 27-UP Mrs. Emma McGarth, 38, Lans¬ dale, was killed and her husband and three children seriously in¬ jured today in a collision be¬ tween their automobile and a train here. The injured were John McGiath, 41. and his daughters, Pauline, IS, Alberta, 13, and Jane, 8. AH are in Kim Terrace Hospital here with fractured  skull.s. 	
McGrarR, ~3river of tEc fna-~ chine, was returning home with his family from a shopping tour in Philadelphia. As he started to cross the Reading company tracks one block from his home, a train collided with the car, dragging it more than 150 yards.
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JURY DISAGREES
GET CRIME CLUES
Washiington, April 27 UP President Roosevelt is going over the heads of Congress to |ippeal to the Ameriean people in behalf of his legislative program, jeopard¬ ized by Wavering and bolting Demo¬ crats. iAr. Roosevelt delayed his offensive until Congress voted him the unprecedented $4,000,000,000 Work* Relief appropriation. Ma¬ chinery for spending that sum has been  set  up.
This Sunday night the President will resume his fireside chata with the electorate. He will .speak at 10 P. M. EST. His last chat was on September 30, 1934, almost seven months ago, in behalf of NRA, which was crumbling under in¬ ternal   and   external   friction.
This time Mr. Roosevelt will dis¬ cuss extension of NRA, the Social Security bill, abolition of public utility holding companies and the Works Relief program. This ex¬ panded subject matter was reveal¬ ed today, 24 hours after the White House had announced that the i Presidential discussion would be; limited  to  Work  Relief.
Inclusion   of   three   major   New Deal    legislative    projects    in    the j chat  indicated  that  Mr.  Roosevelt I has decided finally to t»ke the of¬ fensive against Congrets in behalf of his program.   With $4,000,000,000 : to  spend,  Mr.   Roosevelt  can   risk ' a  fight  with  Democrats,   most   of ! whom ran for office la.st year on a •upport-the-President platform and many of them have been sabotag¬ ing  New  Deal  bills  in  House  and Senate.
Legislators with bridges, dams, slum clearance or other local pro¬ jects depending upon White House generosity may be less inclined to bolt now than earlier in the ses¬ sion. In Congress itself there is a movement to strengthen New Deal defenses.
Providence, R. I., April 27. (UP) Federal and local officers, staging five surprise raids in this State and another in Massachusetts to¬ day, arrested at least 17 persons in connection with the $130,000 Fall Rivet-il:Mnf^MM|*<MMMI^ at Janu¬ ary 23, and besides solving that crime appeared to have unearthed a large section of Rhode Island's very realistic underworld.
Investigation of the murder of Andino (Andy) Merola, Providence racketeer whose bullet-riddled body was found in an abandoned auto¬ mobile in Wrentham, Ma.ss., yes¬ terday,     hastened     the     roundup.
Left Lying Upon Highway And Guilty Man Sought By   State   Police   Force
Prosecution Makes Ready | To Restate All Charges: On   Fourteenth  Of   May
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BIBLE IS QUOTED' TO LASH SINNING UNDER NEW DEAL
At Head Of Money Slavery And Declares Hanging Would Be Just Punishment For Destroyers Of Crops In A Time Of Emergency
CALLS FOR UNITED OFFENSE
ADMITS BRIBES
OTHER ACCIDENTS
Accidents here yesterday caused injury to thirteen persons, police and hospitals last night reported. Among those requiring hospital attention was a young girl who was deserted on the highway by a hit-and-run driver. The only death of the day claimed a miner who developed lock-jaw from an injury received while at work.
Bertha Coolbaugh, 13, of Tunk- hannock, was severely injured last
iExtra   Highway   Patrolmen,
sought in the mail robbery, it was i night at 10:1,5 oclock by a hit-and- understood he was silenced for fear "in driver. The girl was walking he would squeal. along    the    Carverton    road    near
West Wyoming when run down. The driver disappeared and was being sought early today by State police. Walter Sobocinski of 569 West Eighth street. West Wyom¬ ing, took the girl to Nesbitt hos¬ pital where it was said she is suf¬ fering from a possible fracture of the skull and body injuries.
Tetanus   that   developed   from  a mine accident caused the death of John    Swiderski,    45,    of    13    Mill street, yesterday in Municipal Con¬ tagious  Disease  Ho.spital.   He was caught under a fall of rock a week ago while at work at South Wilkes- Barre  colliery of Glen Alden Coal Company.    He  was   first  admittt^ to Mercy hospital but later trans¬ ferred   to   the   Municipal   hospital i when    lockjaw   developed.    He   is , \ survived by his widow and the fol- .T!'y-T,!'-!';'!..!!^!.''°'f:,*"     '°w'"K   children:   Raymond,   Anna,
.IUBLK88   .MAN   IS   HONEST
Washington,    April    27.    (UP) Henry A. Yoder, who hasn't had a regular job for four years, found a soiled   bag   containing   $210   while he was looking for work yesterday.
Today he placed a "lost and found" advertisement in a newspa¬ per in an effort to locate the owner of the money.
WORRIED BY ARREST ROB THEATRE, STORE
Most  spectacular was  a raid  in the  old  Colonel  Felix  R.  Wendel- Schacfcr    mansion    in    Warwick, where   isiO.OOO   to   $14,000,   believed part   of   the   mail   loot,   was   re- j covered  in  an elaborate  sub-cellar I hideout.   There, besides the money, were   found   quantities   of   alleged ! bootleg liquor, four machine guns, , two sawed-off shotguns, two auto¬ matic    pistols,    three    bullet-proof vests,  one  sawed-off revolver  and thousands   of   rounds   of   ammuni¬ tion.
Raiders iipreatl Out
i     Police said the old mansion was
leased  by Carlo  Rettich,  and  that I
he   lived  there   with   his  wife,   his!
j father, Emil, A brother-in-law, Ira I
1 Steele,   and   the   latter's   wife   and I
two children.   Steele was arrested, j
it    was    understood,    but    Rettich
vanished
Joseph Fisher, Providence jail in¬ mate, were among alleged "ring¬ leaders"  of the mail robbery  plot.
Three other fruitful raids were conducted in Providence and an¬ other in Johnston, while at Law¬ rence, Mass., Morris Rubin, 26, and his wife, Helen, 24, dress shop operator, were seized as alleged accessories after the fact. They and most others arrested allegedly shared the spoils. Names of moht of the 17 under arrest were with¬ held.
Coincident with the arrests, Fed¬ eral authorities began a drive against three groups of underworld allies contractors who build hide¬ outs like that found in the old mansion: doctors who treat wound¬ ed gunmen furtively: and lawyers who  assist criminals.
Expect   Other  Solutiona
The daring Fall River robbery was perpetrated by five bandits, armed with a machine gun and revolvers.   They hi-jacked a U,  S.
Despondent over his arrest, "Jiomas "Nemo" Nealis, 30, of ,Mtin street. Fifth ward, Duryea, •Jded his life last night in a cell M the Avoca police station, lie ™Ht<\ himself from one of the ''«! bars through which he had   J«ll(ed with a friend only a short "me earlier. Police called mcdicM *¦«. but the Coroner's office an- "ounced death occurred before dis¬ covery.
Nealis was arrested yesterday at
V »Uf oclock on a charge of in'^oxi-
«alion.  Placed in a cell, he appcar-
^ contest  to wait  for a  hearing
• "^« »t  8:15  oclock   last  night   he
unversed     with     Tax     Collector
<C"\* O'Malley whose office ad-
.'«»• the cell block.
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collector had closed his office. Janitor William Gordon discovered Nealis hanging in his cell. The young man, member of a well known Avoca famil.y, had used his belt for the act. Chief of Police Joseph Kearney called medical aid, but the victim was beyond aid. The Coroner'i office ordered the body released to Undertaker Austin O'Malley.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Mary Nealis, with whom he lived; a brother. Jack of Albuquerque, New Mexico; three sisters, Nan, a registered nurse in Scranton; Mrs. Elizabeth Neary of Avoca, and Mae, a teacher in Duryea schools; a brother, ,loseph at home; and a brother, the Reverend Donald Nealis of Union City, New Jersey.
mail truck on North Main street kidnaped the driver and escaped with registered payroll monies totaling $129,800.
Chief Postal Inspector John J. Breslin of Boston, who directed the ' roundup, said he believed it might lead to solution of "a number of major crimes.' There were "leads" it was understood, which might link the Fall River robbery with the $480,000 Brooklyn, N. Y., arm¬ ored truck holdup; the $300,000 Magnolia, Mass., gem robbery; and the mail robbery at Boston's South Station. Solution of the murder of Danny Walsh, former pal of the missing Rittick, and of the sus¬ pected murder of Vincent (Legs) Carella, another Providence racke¬ teer, may also  result,
Valentine, Mary and Clara, at home. Private funeral services will take place this afternoon at 2:30 oclock with burial in St. Mary's Polish cemetery at West Wyoming. Eugene King, 2, of 201 Lincoln street, suffered bruises of the left le^yesterday afternoon when snick by an automobile driven by Dr. James McMahon of 234 Hazle street, at Lincoln and South streets. The physician was driving north on Lincoln street when the young¬ ster darted into the rear fender. Vincent Deliada, 6, of 468 South Grant street, suffered a possible fracture of the right ankle yester¬ day afternoon at 4 oclock when he was knocked dow.i by an automo¬ bile driven bv R^lph Bernnda, 21, of 384 South Grant street. The ac¬ cident occurred on South Grant street near the intersection of Stanton. The injured boy was taken to Wyoming Valley Homeo- I pathic hospital and Bernada was 'released under $300 bail by police.
Suspects Jailed
Youngstown, O., April 27. (UP)— George Sargent and Anthony Labrizzetta, reputed Akron gang¬ sters, pleaded not guilty before a United States commissioner late today  when arraigned  on  charges
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Syracuse, N. Y., April 27. (UP)~ Unable to agree upon the guilt or innocence of Arthur (Dutch Schultzi Flegenheimer, New York's Number One racketeer, who was tried on cllarK,e|LglgMiaiii)g iit^ome tax paymwhts or fBU'lKK), a Federal jury was discharged at 3 p. m. today.
The jury had considered the Schultz ca.se, which parallels that of Scarface Al Capone, for more than 27 hours. It received the case at 11:.52 a. m. Friday. Once, during its arguments, it had asked for additional instructions, revolv¬ ing around the defense assertion that Schultz had manfully offered to pay the governments its dues, but the twelve men were hopeless¬ ly deadlocked.
Schultz ha* been indicted for fail¬ ure to report the reputed $2,000,000 income he received from a beer kingdom that reached from the upper Bronx down into the Harlem black belt, and that had as col¬ lateral industries the management of the lottery-policy rackets and a slice of the bail-bond business. The government had shown, over the course of the three years in¬ volved, when bootlegging was in its flush era-1929, 1930 and 1931- that Flegenheimer's income from beer distribution was more than $1,800 a day. It had traced to him a mysterious account book found in one of his offices, deposits, re¬ ceipts and other evidence of a lucrative  business.
Generous With Bribe* And   against   this   factual   array, the racketeer's counsel had set up only   three   defenses.   They   were:
1. That the government obtain¬ ed its evidence against the gun¬ man-beer   baron   "illegally."
2. That Schultz's net income- after bribes, payments for protec¬ tion and other overhead (not in¬ cluding taxes)-was not sufficient to require  payment.
3. That Schultz had been advised by his attorneys that, "being in an illegal business," he needn't pay any   tax.
Throughout the trial, too, the defense had tried to picture the powerful gangster, who openly boasted of his political drag, as a "human benefactor," who was in business in the interests of his fellow-man.
There was no disposition on the part of the government to cry quits with Schultz, merely because the   Syracuse  jury was  unable  to
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Excelsior Springs, Mo.. April 27. (UP) --Middlewcstern Republican leaders, who met here tonight in what they called an unofficial ses¬ sion of the "CSrass Roots Com¬ mittee," decided to hold the first regional GOP rally the fir.st week in June. A definite date was not set, nor was a meeting place desig¬ nated, but leaders said the conclave
Will Be On Duty Today i '*'""^<^ *" '" '*'« Middle west.
I       i«i-j       r>   r   1       rt j    '     It was understood, however, that
In    Wide   Safety   Crusade | Kansas   city,   Mo.,   was   receiving
the most serious consideration as a convention city where the first step in launching the 1936 Republi¬ can national campaign will be taken. This conference is to be followed by similar meetings in other parts of the nation.
ALL ROADS GUARDED
Concentrated forces of State Highway Patrolmen here today will continue a recently inaug¬ urated system of extensive week¬ end safety campaigns that have been productive of highly satisfac¬ tory results in the Williamsport and Scranton areas.
Ten patrolmen from D troop headquarters at Williamsport were dispatched here yesterday after¬ noon by Captain J. M. Bender to join forces with six patrolmen reg¬ ularly stationed at the Forty Fort sub-station which is under the di¬ rection o£ Lieutenant C. H. Killian,
New Deal Foes I nite Des Moines, la., April 27 (UP). United political action of Npw Deal dissenters in 19.'IH was brought closer to realization tonight as Huey P. Long, the Louisiana King- fish, talked of Midwestern alli¬ ances in conversations with groups representing widely divergent ele¬ ments  in  many Slates.
tendance here is because of our in¬ terest in the social and economic problems  of  the  people."
The Louisiana Klngfi.-sh, aban¬ doning natty Summer gabardine and purple-splashed tie for attire as somber as that of his rural listeners, was the tieadliiier of the annual convention of the Farmers Holiday  Association.
Within the packed outdoor amphitheatre of the Slate Fair Grounds, Long flailed his fists and shouted th.it "the property of our country is going into the hands of those who toil not, neither do they spin."
The audience in "Sunday best" clothes sat in rapt interest, fasci¬ nated by Long's rhetorical trici;s and colloquial barbs as he ex¬ pounded his "Share-The-Wealth" plan.
Behind him on the stage were arrayed representatives of two national armies of di.sconlent the holidayers and the Rev. Charles E. i Coughlin's National Union for So¬ cial  Justice.
The radical farmers, participants in   two   violent   agrarian   revolts.
Long, who instructed 18,000 Iowa j hope that a union of their unrest farmers   today   in   the   ABC's   of  with   Long's   Utopian   crusade   and
Share-the-Weallh,    planned    tenia-
who    is    in    charge    of    Highway! , ^.^ ^  ^^ ^^.„.
s>dva°nia."      '" "°'''''"'*'" ^ ^""-; neapolis next month a.s added im- All principal highways outside of
New Type Is Put In Use Today For Readers Of Independent
The SuNliAV I.SDEPENDENT today is jirinted in nrw-.style modern type. Technically, the type style i,s 7'2 jioinl Ideal News on an 8-point .«lug, newest development of the Intertype Corpo¬ ration of Brooklyn, N. Y. More vital to readers is the fact that the type is larger and cleai«r than any u.sed before in Wilke.s- Barre.
Newspapers, in contrast with books and magazines, often are read under trying conditions. They are read for long hours and often under artificial light. Publishers, theiffore, owe it to readers to go as far a.s possible in the direction of absolute legibility. Recognizing this, the Su.nuay I.ndependknt is giving its readers the most easily read newspaper it is possible to pub- | lish. The nvw type is used today, added to the advantages afforded by the new press put into service la.st Sunday.
cities and borough of Luzerne county and those leading into Lackawanna, Wyoming and Colum¬ bia counties, will be well manned by highway patrolmen all day to- : day and tonight in an effort to I extend to this locality the no-acci- j dent record established last week i in the Scranton territory and the previous week-end at Williamsport. The first patrol period in this vicinity, from noon yesterday until 6:30 oclock last night, failed to bring a single accident report, it was stated last night by Sergeant Miller at the Forty Fort sub-sta¬ tion. This is an unusual Saturday record, particularly in view of the fact that between 4 and 6 oclock in the afternoon accidents occur most frequently.
The sixteen men available for active duty yesterday and lasl night will again patrol the region today. Four patrolmen will be on duty between Kingston and Shick- shinny and two from Shickshinny to Berwick. This* provides com¬ plete patrolling of Route 11 from Kingston   to  Berwick.
On route 309, Sullivan Trail two patrolmen will be on duty to the Wyoming county line, from where men of the Tunkhannock sub¬ station will take up the patrolling. I Two more will be on duty on the new Dupont-Wilkes-Barre high¬ way from Lackawanna county line to the East End boulevard junc¬ tion of Route 115, Between Wilkes-: Barre and Blakeslee on Route 115 there will be three more men. Two highway patrolmen will watch the River Road from Pitl.ston to Wilkes Burre City line and two or three others will be assigned to the Har¬ vey's Lake highway. The patrol system calls for an officer to be on duty every six or eight miles of widely traveled highway in this vicinity today. In addition, a desk man will be on constant duty at the Forty Fort sub-station to con¬ tact the field patrolmen.
In addition to being on the alert for violators of speeding, passing and reckless driving laws, the highway patrolmen will seek to remedy annoying and dangerous conditions caused by slow drivers, one of the most dangerous menaces on crowded highways.
petus for third party hopes came from Upton Sinclair, California's EPIC  inspirer.
Sinclair sent a message which was construed as a definite bid to count him in on any plans which are being made to unite - perhaps not in a new party under a new name, but at least behind a com¬ mon set of candidates -radical and anti-Roosevelt elements for a vigorous political campaign.
Senator Huey P. Long, beating the  drum   for  a  political   rebtTion;
Coughlin's supporters will bring a j third parly into power next year. I A .Mortgaged  Nation
"The New Deal financial policy brought our country into slavery," the Louisiana dictator told his lis¬ teners, who had greeted him with applause heard  for five blocks.
"In the United States alone thera are $40.l)00,()()0,(tOO in mortgages and $25,000,000,000 more in State debts and the total debt is now $262,000,- 000.000 or $2,100 for every child on earth,
"The interest on that debt amounts to $28.000,00O,(K)O and tha national    income    is    only   $42,000,»
in 19:!6, told 18,000 farm folk of the i 000,000.    How are you going to pay
it'.' You would have to turn over all the money in existence 50 times."
drought and dust-swept prairies today that "the .N'ew Deal policies are driving the people into financial slavery from which they cannot emerge unless there is a ihange," He quoted Ih.^ Bible to prove it. Father   Coiiglilin   Out
The farmers' eiithusiH.sm for a third-party revolt ne.xt year under a Long-Cougliliii-Reno bminer was dampened a bit by the Detroit priest's announcement that he was 'not officially represented" at the huge forum of discontent.
Nevertheless, Father Coughlin's Washington attorney, A. Ralph Burton, appeared on the program during the noon hour while the farmers ate shoe-box lunches and held   tight   to   their   choice   seats.
The priest sant word that he wanted to remain a "teacher," rather than assume the role of political leader. Burton prefaced his talk with an explanation that he  was  not  acting   for  his  client.
"It was an unfortunate misun¬ derstanding," Burton said. "Our at-
'     Long spoke less than four miles
from    the    home    of   Secretary   of
, Agriculture     Henry     A,     Wallace,
whom he described a few days ago
¦ as  "The  Ignoramus  of  Iowa."
The farmers, joining whole« heartedly in laughs with Long aa he inserted colloquial anecdotes in his tirade, were promised that tha [ Kiiigtisli would have "something damned iiol" to say about Wallace. Upon his arrival Long lost no time 111 turning a biting attack upon Wallace, along with Morecai Ezekiel,  statistician  of the  AAA.
"They would have been hanged in the lime of Moses for doing what they are destroying food," he said, shortly before a band led him into the amphitheater to tha strains of the Long theme song, "Every  .Man  A  King."
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DARING BANDIT TRIO ROB THEATRE, HERE
Worcester, Mass.,
A daring bandit trio.
April 27.  (UP) 1 hundreds    of    week-end    .thoppers unmasked, i passed   by   on   the   sidewalk,   they
held up a theatre a.id a large chain   ";«<'«   ^''f   K««way   in   a   larpa
, „ black   sedan   driven   by  a  confad-
store here and  in  nearby Shrews-1 ^..^i,      H   .^.^j,   ^^out   10   minutes
bury  tonight  and  escaped  with   an ! before the theatre people could ra» estimated     $1,800.       An     estimated ; move tiieir bonds to notify police.
JACOB KREBS
Final tribute will be iiaid to Jacob Krebs tomorrow afternoon at 2 oclock in the home,, 147 Com¬ mercial street, Plymouth. Services will be conducted in the residen<p with Rev, John Hall Griffith officiating.
$1,IS00 was seized at the Capitol theatre on Franklin s'leet, across from Worcester Common and only a stone throw from city hall.
Two of the gunmen confronted Manager Elmer R. Daniels as he walked to his office about 10 p. m., forced him to open the safe and trussed him. Cashier Julia O'Reilly and Assistant Manager William J. Halloran.
While a large unconcerned audi¬ ence watched the show and while
Earlier in the night the sama men the description furnished in each instance were almost identi¬ cal held up tlie big chain stora on the much-travelled Boaton- Worcesler turnpike in Shrewsbury. They escaped with $300 after herd¬ ing Manager Grover Joudrey, threa clerks and four customers into an iie room, .loudrey said it was tha same gang that held him up In mid-aflernoon on April 18, gattlBg $136.
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