Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - March 28, 1940, Altoona, Pennsylvania Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday CLOUDY FACTS ABOUT THE HOME TOWN Altoona's first daily newspaper The Sun began publication May 2 1870 lasted seven months and then became a weekly VOL 55 NO 247 PHONE 7171 ALTOONA PA THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 28 1940 TWENTY THREE CENTS ALLIES DECIDE UPON FUTURE ACTION Council Directs Reinstatement of Stoker on Police Force COMMANDS REGIMENT TO PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Former Officer Also Must Waive All Claims for Damage Against City of Altoona Following a hearing yesterday afternoon on the application of James Stoker for reinstatement as an officer in the police bureau which lie left by resignation on Jan 4 1934 city council by un- animous vote directed his statement as of April 1 j There are however certain con- ditions with Stoker must comply before he is reinstated He must submit to the usual physical Examination he must waive all claims for damage by reason of his having been deprived of his tion and he must assume all re- sponsibility for any recurrence of the mental lapse under which he testified that he suffered when he resigned It was ALTOONA HAS BIG INTEREST IN FHA PLANS Modernization and Building of Small Homes Arouses asm at Meeting Finns Lost War With Russians In a Battle That Was Not Fought COLONEL A O KING contention all along and reiterated at the ing during the afternoon that at the time he resigned he still was suffering a head injury he had received while in the discharge of duties and that he has no recollection of what occurred at the ACCORDED FULL MILITARY TITLE The designation of Albert O King of this city as colonel in command of the infantry Pennsylvania National guard announced day by the state adjutant general completes the promotion of Colonel who has been in command of the regiment since July 1 1939 As commander he was in charge at the field maneuvers of the ment at Manassas Va last August directed the increase of the mental strength by 300 men last October supervised the increased time the resignation is alleged to I field training and directed the have been submitted equipping of the regiment with the Off Several Months Attorney Louis S Walton represented Stoker and he outlined his client's case He pointed out that Stoker while on duty had been that Stoker jl struck on t r fied person i the head by an in Seventh alley be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets receiving an injury at the base of the skull on Nov 28 1933 He was under treatment at a for some time and he re- turned to work on Jan 4 During the night he was taken from his beat to headquarters where he wrote out his new Garand semi-automatic rifles The regiment was the first in the state to receive the hew rifles The regiment is comprised of nineteen and a band in Altoona Somerset Indiana Blairsville Greensburg Mount Pleasant Monessen Washington Monongahela and New Brighton Altoona has the units the regimental headquarters company company G 2nd battalion headquarters company and the regiment band Colonel King has a long period of military service haying enlisted A large number of Altoona I dents are keenly interested in homes and in building new ones This interest was made parent at a meeting in the War Governors suite of the hotel last Not only was the meeting room taxed to but the audience also showed its individual and collective inter- est in the program by remaining to ask questions after the session was adjourned Oakley W Heselbarth regional director for the FHA was the speaker He explained in detail how loans can be obtained from local financial institutions for and construction work Two films one dealing with of existing structures am the other with the of smal homes in the range were shown They were sound films in technicolor and revealed some of the marvels of modern construction and work R M Phelps chairman of the lousing committee of the Altoona of Commerce presided and introduced the FHA executive o the audience which was com- posed of contractors prospective ionic owners and owners of homes who wish to modernize their Tlie war in Finland ended two weeks ago but people are still ask- ing how the Finnish army could have collapsed suddenly after such a brilliant record on the battlefield In the following dispatch Edward W Beattie jr who was there and who had seen other armies and other countries go down to defeat the restraint of the ended as it did war in Finland By EDWARD W BEATTIE Staff Correspondent STOCKHOLM March land lost her war with Russia in a battle that was never fought I have seen wars in many lands I have seen armies defeated tions beaten into surrender pia Czechoslovakia China Poland But I seen a country whose armies have defended it as forcefully as the Finns did accept defeat and agree to onerous terms of peace Why did it happen in Because the Finns knew that a battle was in the making probably would be raging at this very ment had not peace been in which their tired troops would no longer be able to Withstand the new fresh waves of Russian troops The Finnish commanders knew they were going to lose that battle They made peace before the and hopelessness of that impending catastrophe compelled them to take even terms from the Russians than they two weeks ago The suddenness of the TESTIMONY IN GRAFT TRIAL HELD HOSTILE TO GRADUATE Prosecution to Convict cratic Chairman and Associates Is Resumed By MOKEY J Stud Correspondent HARRISBURG March efforts to convict Democratic Finnish peace startled many Finns State Chairman David L Lawrence Russo- am seven parly associates of macing during the Earle and many observers outside nd who had seen in of Finnish successes north of Lake Ladoga a portent Continued on pane 20 column i little new deal regime resumed the today vith the state's sixth witness especially ntl the stand and the trial record Mr Details gave of The hearing hinged on the August WOt in what was then tion of whether or not any lc regiment of the sory attempts had been made to vania National guard The Stolter off the force Lieutenant R N Ickes who was in charge of the tour of duty at the time testified that Stoker was very very nervous and that perspiration was running down his face and he added that Stoker said Well I've given you enough trouble I guess I want to quit I Neither Lieutenant Ickes nor i Lieutenant H S Carey then cap- tain in charge of the department ment became the 10th on Jan 1 1910 and the when mobilized for the World war continuing the last identification since Colonel King's enlistment has been continuous and he moved up through the various sioned grades until in 1912 he was appointed a second lieutenant and the following year a first lieutenant He went as first lieutenant and acting battalion adjutant for Major Edward Martin now General could clarify why they had ti t th ed the signature lo the in view of the officer's condition j for thc war City Solicitor S H Richard Coulter r sought to ascertain whether or not any attempt had been made to get rid of Stoker Lieutenant Ickes re- plied that there had been a tion before that time Find Nothing Wrong Officers C O and Charles Gindes testified that they had been directed to check on with reference to liquor Spicer said he found nothing to warrant the allegations Gindes charged that any superior officer who wanted to work had to abide by orders to watch Stoker This statement was branded as un- true by Lieutenant Carey who that never once had he signed Gindes to special duty Carey testified that T i transferred tenant King from Altoona to La- trobe as captain in command of company M there At Camp cock Georgia a short time later Captain King made der of the newly organized plans for thc modernization of homes including additions to homes existing ures and landscaping thc surroundings He pointed out to he audience how these loans are applied for through ions and how they arc repaid Thu film dealing with Ihc tion of existing structures presented Continued on 2 column 1 FIVE ACCESSORIES WILL FACE ARREST ON BINGO CHARGES mental headquarters Continued on page company of column 4 orders to watch Stoker came Erectly Mayor John J Murray and that alleged attempts to get rid qf Stoker never ed in orders down to me Testimony as ito ency an officer prior to the acci- dent was given by Sheriff J H Continued on page 2 column 4 Grounded ELEVEN VETERAN ALTOONA WORKS The Altoona works honor roll of veteran employes grows with the passing of each month It contains the names of more than men who have retired since the federal railway pension act became tive Eleven more names will be added to the roster at the end of the employment the month Seven workers of shops severed their relations with the company during the month as did three of thc car shops and one of the Twelfth street car plant They include mechanics a j and laborers men who have been By the for OSLO Norway March or German submarine has gone shons A n aground off the southern Norway a D- Bradley coast and hy a German trawler has been escorted to dais fjord where its crew was dis- armed and Interned despite rep of the German tion the foreign ministry announced today The submarine the coastal type 250 surface tons and 330 tons submerged with a normal ment of twenty-three went aground Tuesday night near vinga lighthouse A German trawler succeeded In it and Norwegian boats escorted it to MandaLi fjord The said that the German legation had asked that tht be reed bul that investigation disclosed that it had grounded owing to mistakes in navigation and thai therefore the Norwegian dis- It and interned Its crew Warrants were issued today from the offices of Alderman H Prank of thc Fourteenth ward for five persons who are said to be implicated as accessories in thc operation of thc bingo games at the West Altoona fire station raided Tuesday night by local and i state officers I MONEY FOUND IN SLOT MACHINES WILL GO TO POOR Arrested in connection With the raid at the Forty and Eight club in Pleasant valley on Tuesday ing on a charge of possessing gambling paraphernalia in the form of a slot machine Aaron forfeited at police court yesterday afternoon The seven slot machines con- by the officers who con- ducted the raid are still at police headquarters Mayor Charles E Rhodes stated that it was his un- that the state motoi police will bring a commonwealth charge in connection with this case GIRL 17 STUDENT AT PENN STATE IS FOUND SLAIN By United Press STATE COLLEGE Pa March and criminally testimony of two ing occupants as hostile to the commonwealth case Privately prosecution Counsel Earl V Compton extended the de- scription to include all testimony recorded since the cal opened Monday and announced the state would dis- pose of the hostile witnesses first Compton openly accused Mrs Grace Lehr and ard R Spicher Indiana vice man and chairman respectively of the Indiana county Democratic committee of being hostile and the slot machines ed over to them The mayor stated be 1 further that it was probable that a court order would be sought for the de- struction of the machines and that when this is carried out the money found within them will cd body of a girl a freshman student at Understanding Both denied emphatically under c cross-examination yesterday that State college was found nny J wiu house al and WAR COUNCIL IN ENGLAND British and French A g r e e T h a t Neither Will Con- elude Separate Peace school miles casl of here in front of four today Obviously a victim of n sex fiend thc girl was identified as H Taylor of N 1 a home economics who en- rolled at thc college last September Thc body of Ihc chubby student was found at 6.30 a m by Harold janitor at thc Lemon consolidated school who almost ran over the victim as he drove up to fire the school furnace A physician performed an autopsy on body said the girl definitely was a victim of a sex maniac Her skull had been crushed as though with a heavy instrument marks of be turned over to the proper for the benefit of the poor and needy The police report that all way t alld there were other quiet and in darkness along the j mutilation on the body bingo front last night so there were The scene of the slaying n lonely new developments so far as I road is not far from Rock view the city was concerned whereby state employes would denied appointment demoted 01 discharged for refusal io pay n centage of their salaries into party coffers i The state thc eight I with n cons pi racy to the state payroll to the extent i of 3 per cent of salaries under j 200 a year and per rent of the higher earnings thc state tee receiving of total collections to the oppression of the public employes and to the of thc commonwealth Allegheny street Mrs Lehr and confirmed Continued on 2 column I DECAPITATED BODY OF INFANT FOUND PHILADELPHIA March Thc decapitated body of a one- month old baby was found in a burlap bag today a few minutes after the infant had been reported missing from its crib The baby was identified by police Beatrice daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Menichella is a farmer in the Tacony section of Philadelphia Charges of operating and i Mrs Menichella awakened her penitentiary nt The girl was en route to school from her Easter vacation when she met death College authorities fin id Continued on page 2 column 3 SNOW HITS NORTH TIER OF ANNUAL FAIR FOR HOBBYISTS OPENS AT Y BUILDING Altoona Rotary club's eighth an- By FREDERICK KUH Staff Correspondent LONDON March allied supreme war council met in don today and decided on future action of the allied forces The allies agreed it was an- officially that neither would conclude a separate tice or peace The council was the first since French Premier Paul Reynaud formed a new government in re- sponse to demands from the public for a more vigorous war policy It was understood that the cil also considered cacy of a new strong allied hid for Italian friendship and it con- relations with the Balkan nations generally nnd policy ing Russia specifically Must Agreement Coincident with the return of Stunner Welles to the United States to report to President Roosevelt oil his fact-finding tour of Europe it wiis announced officially that the war council agreed that the allies would not discuss peace terms be- fore reaching complete agreement on conditions necessary to ensure their security A communique issued after council mot said that the allies had agreed 0 maintain after the con- of peace community of tion in all spheres for so long may be necessary to safeguard their security France was represented at the meeting by Reynaud Minister of of Mrs Bell Chandler of lho ter of Air Charles will bo graduated with this years lo Lm cte at tho United Military Gamelin academy West Point N Y j s Ad- A TO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMAS FROM WEST POINT A Ferry son of William S Ferry of wcn and Martin Chandler sou General Joseph chief of the air force Alexis Leger of the foreign off ire and Britain Britain was represented by Prime Neville Chamberlain For- eign Secretary Viscount Halifax Graduation exercises at the commander emy will be held on June of 11 according to the June week gram recently published hy dter General Jay L June will extend from June 5 to June 11 this year and will include the usual annual presentation of awards and alumni exorcises j Flirt Lord of the Admiralty ing with thc award of bachelor of j Churchill War Secretary i i science degree and diplomas on I vcr mid Air Minister Sir hobby and achievement fair morning lt which i Kinsley Wood opened at noon today at the V M time the graduating will he I action in receiving JC A building Lexington avenue sworn in second lieutenants in Italian minister PITTSBURGH March and Ninth street It will he open United States army io Paris immediately after Pennsylvania II o'clock tonight and the Included in thc graduation class jln premiership and in its first warm weather in same hours will be observed lro cadets from forty-seven states moiling Andre rla lnc Columbia Hawaii j French ambassador to Italy to the Panama Canal and the j Paris In report were regarded as months the northern tier of row It is free to the boys and ties today were digging out from land the men and women of ing in operating a lottery have been against tho five defendants as Edward A Smith of 2801 Washington avenue John A Smith of 3025 Washington avenue Charles M McLucas of 2314 Eighteenth street Homer French of 2700 street and Mrs Homer French of the same address Officers Were expected to serve the warrants on the quintet of de- fendants today Meantime George D Raber of 1309 Twenty-fourth street arrested on charges of con- a m and told j Cameron and Columbia counties should husband at 4 the baby was missing Menichella rushed to the police station A de- of policemen searched under a snowfall ranging up to community There are Elk features that thirteen inches in depth Forest Clinton One of were hardest hit by the snow storm these outstanding in its which struck yesterday An tion of the Horseshoe curve which pine islands This state of number of unusual i waro representative in this every person in the year's class Both thc Alti Continued on boys entered column 1 the house and found the body in the cellar A bloody shovel and an butcher knife were found age fall of twelve inches was re- made Altoona famous throughout baby's ported in with five to i the world It is in the form of a i eight inches in the other counties huge plaque the work of girls of Meanwhile the temperature NYA under the direction of W lying stood at 42 degrees early today and H area director of the ducting a lottery and playing game for money has posted bail pending a hearing before man District Attorney Chester Wray whose orders sent the of- ncar the body In the cellar police the forecast called Then there is the model said Were several damp places in- for light rain with little change of old Fort the work of that spots had been in temperature Temperatures the NYA boys They will be seen fully washed recently The father was taken to a police slightly below to slightly station for questioning but freezing fastly maintained his innocence the northern counties ranged from ion the main gymnasium floor above The Altoona High school art and vocational departments arc tors in art sculpture and metal i INQUEST Thc exhibit outclasses those i BAPTIST MINISTER DIES j An the deaths of f previous years Thc MAL.DEN Mass March Robert P anil Clyde W Keith Junior High schools and j CASH ON BARREL HAS EVIL EFFECT UPON D S TRADE indications of desire to win Italian friendship Many that thc war deliberations would result in nny decision involving major tary moves at this time fleers on the raid at West Altoona said today that all was quiet along the bingo front with no further reports of such violations received at his offices Mr Wray reiterated his lions to wage a strenuous w bingo and other forms of gambling violations However he pointed out reports of violations must come from responsible people if The veterans retiring from any action is to be taken By DAVID WASHINGTON D C March 28 misgivings arc stirring B- i Rev William Quay aged father and son from the school of also i word comes Hint the 70 who retired four years ago as Centre county on Monday night nro represented hy exhibits of art j British pound sterling is dropping pastor of tho First Baptist church i when their automobile was struck other by the students here died yesterday A native of i by a train at thc Tipton Tho WPA educational Dawson Pa ho had held i crossing will be at o'clock under the direction of ales at Pittsburgh Philadelphia j Saturday afternoon in thc com- P Beech is represented in j CHILD INJURED IN FALL FROM WINDOW i Donald aged 1 of 909 avenue was admitted to tha Altoona hospital over thc noon hour suffering from head injuries re- when he fell from a second floor window tif bis home onto the brick sidewalk along the house He suffered a laceration of right side of the forehead which required fifteen sutures and sible skull injuries The child was stale of shock when admitted to the institution and his condition in in relation to purchasing power in America Strange feelings j was regarded as fair arc astir too as Washington re- 1 and Williamsport during for- years in thc clergy inanity room at City hall Coroner Chester C Rothrock E and M shop C H man coppersmith E and M shop Paul helper E and M shop C H Larson tool room J A Long laborer M W maker E and M shop Karl mcier laborer The veterans of the Altoona car shops are J D Delozier laborer J T Graham and G W Ralston machinist The lone veteran of the Twelfth street car plant is J R Benson car SUMNKB HOME NEW YORK March ner Welles United States under- secretary of stale returned today on the Italian liner Di Savoia from a fact-finding tour of Europe for President Roosevelt He ar- ranged to taki an early train to SEVEN ESCAPE Seven members of a Six Mile Run bowling team climbed out through thc windows of their car unhurt when the automobile in which they were returning home plunged down a twelve-foot embankment and rolled upside down in a creek near Canan Station last midnight of the car Included George Cochlan Steve William Johnson Grant Taylor Carl ings Ensley and Elmer Closser HAND SEVERELY LACERATED Twenty-one sutures were required to close lacerations suffered by Josephine Branda aged of 1010 Fifteenth avenue when her right band was caught In the wringer of a washing machine at her home yesterday The wounds were ed In the Altoona hospital stry Communications Again Disrupted by Sun Spots Worst In Modern Times By united NEW YORK March disturbances for the second time since Sunday yesterday blotted out radio communications between the United States and Europe and South America American Telephone and Tele- graph company reported that all of its overseas communications went out nt noon as lho sun went Into action again with an electronic bombardment of the carlh through miles of space An hour later however contact with Rome Amsterdam London Paris South America and ships at sen began coming back A T It T reported The disturbance was San Francisco reported short wave broadcasting disrupted as ly as on Sunday with Pacific coast stations unable to contact cither the orient or thc cast coast Land lines were less seriously Telegraph companies of nelic but no tion of service nnd commercial bles and cables said they were Mackay radio however reported fair with n variety of exhibits i Hint cotton previously bought showing what the youth of the in large quantities for the British ganglion are capable of doing i cul down tobacco on page 2 column 4 nrp no MnK chased in as big an amount by the allies as in peace time The reason of course is that the congress of thc United States re- to what was at the limo a demagogue appeal passed a law WPA workmen who have been engaged In tearing away vast of rock and earth from Bald Hill on thc town link of thc William all its America South and went silent at 11.20 a m R C A said sll transoceanic Continued on page 1 column 4 REMOVING ROOK Raid Hill Operations to Be Completed In Two Weeks highway arc making good progress and will complete the program within thc next two weeks This project has been sponsored by the state highway department and was to safeguard traffic over the new route Danger from rock and earth slides was en- countered last year and the state then determined to correct the Tho face of Bald Hill been cut away as much an 75 to 100 feet giving wide clearance from the highway State highway engineers estimated today that ft total of cubic yards of and dirt have been removed from the hill insisting lhal belligerent ments pay in cash on the barrel head Tile administration wanl law passed lo cash bul had lo yield in order to get a of the embargo passed at all The British and French in order lo comply Ihc American re- Continued on page 9 column 1 WEATHER FORECAST WASHINGTON D C March 28 Pennsylvania Cloudy with occasional rain In south and light snow or rain in north portion Friday occasional rain Rising temperature Friday and In- northwest portion tonight followed by rain Friday and light rain or snow In north portion tonight warmer Friday IK Bulletin Press March for hours last night ill the works in thc outskirts of lin of electrical equipment anil possibly small arms munitions vvan brought under control early this ing LONDON airplane flew over the Shetland Islands today causing an air raid warning which minutes No bombs wero reported dropped British planes took oR to attack the Invader TEMPERATURES Thermometers at the railroad test department building recorded 36 degrees as the low reading last night and 41 degrees ns the high yesterday afternoon At o'clock this morning the temperature was 39 degrees
