Chester Times (Newspaper) - January 23, 1926, Chester, Pennsylvania DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR DECEMBER FINAL EDITION 15327 CHESTER PA SATURDAY JANUARY 23 1920 PRICE TWO CENTS i I 9 DEAD 15 HURT IN HOTEL FIRE AT PRELATE DIES Old Lafayette Prey of Fiames Early Today As 45 Guests Flee Some in Hospitals May Die the Result of Fall From Windows leading Miss Pa Jan people are dead fifteen Injured and several missing as a result ot u lire swept the Lafayette hotel here early today Although the hostelry can accom 200 guests only fortyfive were believed to be in the hotel when the fire occurred The identified dead are Anna 22 waitress 42 Allentown James Philadelphia Alexander Troup Boardman Pa One woman identified was a domes tic employed in the hotel So far us could be learned she was the only woman in tho hotel at the time of fire One of the known dead wao a of the hotel and died of in juries received In a fall from a fifth window to a roof near the fourth floor He to the Allentown Hospital The other three unidentified dead huddled in a corner on the fourth floor when the ruins had cooled sufficiently at 5 a to permit firemen to explore the upper part of the structure Firemen said they believed that tho would be found on the fourth or fifth floors The root of caved in half an hour after tha fire started falling to the fourth floor The firemen began an exploration of tho upper floors at 7 am The escape of most of the guests off when a cry of fire was heard from the fifth floor by the night He sent inan alarm and tried to rouse the rooms could be reached Most of those who escaped slid down ropes improvised from bedclothes from the windows of their rooms to street There was no time to dress and the guests forced ay temperature that hovered 15 A told ot Novak when she broke away and ran toward the rear of tho building The cause of tho fire is The were discovered floor by a guest jan to shout and the warning was heard at the hotel desk and in some of the rooms By tho time firemen the of the Hotel was a mags of flames and escape by the stairways off Fright rmed and guests stood at their windows waiting cued Spectators standing on tlie k below could see the pants of the burning building and wero unable to offer help Firemen ran up ladders and started those 01 the guests who had not jumped or slid from their windows by means of Improvised ropes those who were res cued reached the street clad in any but the flimsiest of garments ard drenched by streams of waiter that were being played on the sides of the building and were commandeered to take to he hospitals and other hotels inthe city were thrown open to guests wbo had arid spectators Threw blankets over the shivering some of whom were hurried to police stations for warmth The Allentown Hospital to which many of the injured wero taken forced to call every in the in to duty The hotel built in was valued at 175000 in a realty deal made re cently It was of the oldest hos in Only the waits of the building from fourth floor to tiie roof were left standing at 7 R m Firemen were waiting for tho fourth floor to cool to allow them to explore the ruins in the hope ot finding bodies of those reported missing Some of arc believed to have been trapped on the fifth when the roof of the build ing fell In shortly after the fire Until the ruins havo been combed thoroughly bythe firemen it impossible to count the full roll o the dead It Is feared that a number of guests are in the ruins The death total undoubtedly will by deaths of some of the injured it was said at the hospitals Guests who escaped from the hotel the outset of fire either reg in other were cared i or by neighbors The majority lost their belongings and were forced to borrow clothes until they could buy more The has not yet been mated CARDINAL DIES MASSEY TELLS OF GOLD MINE FRAUD BODY OF VICTIM WAS FOUND Courageous Accused Bank Employe late 75 III for Weeks Underwent Operation Says He Stole for Scheme Copyright Harris CARDINAL MERCIER YERRES STARTS JAIL SENTENCE BRUSSELS Jan Mer cler bravo prelate died here at 3 p m after several weeks illness following a stomach operation Courageous in Ills last days the Cardinal passed on peacefully With tho passing o Mercler one of tho heroic figures oC the war died Mercler refused to bow bis head to tho yoke of the German Invaders of his country and he throughout the world by his Christmas 1914 letter In which he declared that Germany by her march through Belgium had broken faith But he added fearlessly Occupied provinces are not con provinces The authority c f the Invader is no lawful authority Therefore In sou and conscience you Former Magistrate Walks Unaccompanied to the County Prison Clarence H Massey aged 23 for mer bookkeeper at the Chester Na tional Bank told United States Com missioner Manley at a hearing in Philadelphia that he In vested the ho stole the bank in a phantom mining stoCk He was held under JGOU ball for the federal grand Jury On the stand Massey recited how a smoothtongued salesman who he said had offices in the Crozer build ing this city Induced him to buy stock In a mine In Colorado Massly refused to give tho name He tho man told him ot huge give It neither nor obedience respect attachment D Martin Yerkes erstwhile mag istrate at Millbourne is now a prisoner ot the commonwealth lodged in the county jail at Media This morning at 330 oclock he walked alone to the jail applied for admission to the wardens and formally began the start of his sen ence which was pronounced by Judge Barnett to be six months He also was fined case which has attracted interest developed from his arrest of John Williams a Phila delphia real estate man in He refused io permit Williams to waive a hearing for an auto law violation For this Haunting of tho masters the aged cardinal was Im prisoned In his home but he would not yield tothe German Gen Von Biasing who had failed despite tho detailing of many spies to pro vent circulation of this letter Again In the spring of 1916 the cardinal his spirit still militant Iri cause of Belgium issued a new letter which proved to be n new thorn in the flesh of the German militarists In this second message to his flock the cardinal called upon the Belgians to your plans place your batteries coordinate your movements and remember that man proposes but God The Germans an apology for what they deemed a clerical call to God for wiping out the Germao armies But the intrepid cardinal as before stood pat and tho came out of the struggle without the and sent the prisoner to when he refused to pay a fine and costs Williams was released on habeas corpus proceedings and later Yerkes was arrested for violating the state law He was found guilty iri the county courts at Media of and malfeasance and was sentenced to six months with a fine He ap pealed case in tho superior court Again he ap pealed to the states supreme court through his attorney W C Alexr this month decision was handed petitioned for a parole IpsC this and this morning downhearted companied by friends walked to the jail a solitary CHARLES R YOUNG SR FIFTH WARD MAN DIES desired apology The cardinal is known in tho United States where he was highly honored on his visit being re by Gen and accorded degrees and other tributes in his Journey he expressed himself as willing in his age in cir should so turn Cardinal Mercler was born 22 1851 in a little town near Waterloo He was the in 1875 and later was made a University In 1 appointed domestic prelate and in 1307 became cardinal v In tne years since the war the cardinal had Buffered two Tlie first was In 1025 when he wan influenza and the next in December 1925 when liewas afflicted with ulcer of the stomach later pro cancer gold silver deposits and pictured how he could grow rich quickly Massey said he was appointed sec of the board of trustees of the phantom mining concern when he expressed fear over tho safety of his investment This promotion said led him to put more money In slocks Massey appeared at the hearing without counsel He believed that United States District Attorney Coles would defend him because it was latter who made a plea for leniency at a preliminary hearing last week Massey was jolted when Mi Coifs announced ho was the prosecutor anil turned the case over to Assistant United States Attorney The former bank bookkeeper re fused to answer the prosecutor he was asked tho dent of tho company in which he Invested was arrested after anex amination of the bank books b Charles II Hartman an examiner on September 35 Hartman wis the principal witness against The latter testified tha when Massey was he denied having taken any money fron tho bank but later confessed Tho the four or five SEARCHERS MAKE GRUESOME FIND IN UPPER DARBY Magistrate John J Saling Discovers Head Near Railroad Tracks Just Above Garrett Road Upper Darby Bloodstained and Burned Carpet Found ties Get Description of Man Dropped Warren Freed After Quizzing The picture shows the where the dismembered body of Anna May Dietrich cf Norwood was found Thursday afternoon The body had been in a little hollow in a field on the estate of Sam uel J Henderson a Philadelphia lawyer The estate is large one extending formany acres along Upper Providence road juat north of the Rso Troo Hunt Tin body was in tho field fifteen from is one to east off Providence road about halfa the Rose Hunt The spot where the body was found is a mile enst Providence road The man in the picture Is Joseph R Donovan nf Chester Times branch office in Media Mr Donovan was one of the first i the of ho ti o with the state and county they were notified of tho crime theft according la covered a period ot years of the amount taken the bank mafia Massey was released under light ball PETITION SENATE K Young Sr the oldest and best respected residents oC the Fifth ward was the old est employe the American Steel street ami Highland avenue died at Oil Morton avenue yesterday morning following a few days illness Mr Young was born in Baltimore but when still ayoung man came tu this city He settled in the Fifth ward section he remained He was the father ot a large fam ily having reared nine children all residents of today Thirty secured with the American Steel Foundry which company he remained until last Sunday when while at work he suffered a stroke Following his collapse at work he was removed to lils homo and for a time seemed to respond to medical suffered i and gradually sank until death relieved his sufferings yester day morning Ho was a member Houston Council No 739 Jr O U A M Chester Council No 36 and a mem berof the Franklin Fire Company Besides his widow Anna E the 10 lowing children survive Robert An nie Howard Charles Jr Frederick esti GROUP VISIT FORDS YACHT Through the courtesy of W D Hash members of the Company force and their friends made an inspection trip of the Sialia Fords yacht wh I eh is undergoing repairs in the Kun Shipyard The Sialia lias been in for two months It carries a crew ot thirtythree under Captain Perry Stakes Engine alterations which are being made are expected to be com Tuesday or Wednesday at which time the yacht will sail south Tho members of the inspection party were the Misses Guffy Myrtle Townsley Anita Button Ethel Lankford Doris Mar garet Powers Edna Carpenter Mrs E Bair Mrs E Mrs E Evans Mrs D Newlin TUr and Mrs II Story William Mack and R Howard X Jan lion to the World Court reached the end of Its string last night caton soon after February 10 is In OWNERS REJECT COAL PROPOSAL Mew Plans for Negotiation Urged By An Editor New bring re sumption of negotiations to end the yesterday COLD WEATHER GIVES POLICE BLANK MARK Business was unusually dull in police circles last night presumably due to the weather pre vailing and the result was that no Mrs Mrs William i arrests recorded officers The presentation of a peti tion climaxing a dazzling succession of spectacular scenes and events forced battalion of the wall and compelled He surrender Tomorrow the band of will give up their swords and bow to tlie yoke cither by way of in agreement to February 10 or by submitting to the the Courts sup porters have invoked Fortyeight Senators twentyfour from each party signed the petition offered nt the crucial mo ment by Senator Lenroot Wisconsin leader of the administration forcea If by any chance tho unanimous consent agreement to vote on Feb ruary JO is all Is for the banded Democrats and Ile to demonstrate that they can command the additional voles to make required to put the rule into effect That would com pel a vote early next week They say they have the vote ITALIAN C E SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS A meeting tit the Senior Society of tho Christian Endeavor of tho First Italian Presbyterian was held last night in tho church Third and Fulton The following of to serve for the ensuing year elected Michael dent Mrs vice dent and Mrs Frances Carollo sec and treasurer After the meet ing an entertainment took place Tho ot the Intermediate Lament Mrs Clarence Wright and Mrs Harry Storkey The funeral wil Ibe held from his late residence on Tuesday at 2 oclock Burial will be made in Chester Rural NURSES CAPPED AT CROZER HOSPITAL An interesting program was car ried out last evening at the J Lewis Crozer Homo and Hospital at Up land when four probationary nurses were capped by tho senior class They Miss Elizabeth OPon nell Miss Mary Kennedy Miss Florence and Mrs Ruth Troutman Miss Mary A su delivered an address Following the capping exercises a dance was conducted with music be HEADS TEMPLE TRUSTEES inP furnished by an orchestra He were served at the close reporting few people on the streets after 10 oclock There was only one case for Mag istrate Berry to dispose of in police court today It was that of George Perry Negro no home arrested at Marcus Hook by Patrolman Crockett on suspicion of being a robbery in the borough last night Perry was brought to this city for safe keeping cind this morning was given into the custody the Hook Christian Endeavor Society ot this church organized a sewing club called Tlie Eusy Bees Thursday evening at a meeting held In the manse ot the church The following were elected officers of the newly or club Nellie Pizza president Lily president Ethel Boyle secretary and Mary Shcp pard treasurer After the meeting refreshments were served Charles E Beury banker and law and a trustee ot Univer sity Philadelphia since 1013 was unanimously elected president of the University at a of the board of trustees yesterday afternoon The Weather 1 Jan WASHINGTON rail Eastern Pennsylvania fair to night Sunday increasing cloudiness and rising temperature fresh west winds TODAYS CALENDAR rises 717 a m Seta 507 p m High water a m and 1005 p iy Low water 424 a m and 503 p m Hourly Temperature Midnight lo S a m 15 1 a m IG 7 a m 13 a S n m 15 S a m 15 9 am is a Ift a m 30 i 5 a 11 am 31 CLAYMONT MAN IS BEATEN AND ROBBED George Perry Negro of Claymont reported to Justice of the Peace Ernest G Richardson of Marcus Hook that two Negroes broke in a room at Market street and Morton avenue Linwood which he was oc last night and after striking him over the head with a blackJack robbed him of K2 and a watch Perry was treated at tho Chester i Hospital The Marcus Hook police are conducting an investigation IRISH PRISONERS FREED INTERNATIONAL RADIO WEEK STARTS SUNDAY NEW YORK Jan of radio fans throughout the world are waiting for International radio week starling tomorrow night when South America and European stations plan programs for Transat broadcasting tests These given good trans mission conditions will be heard in the In the late hours of the evening and the American stations have agreed to keep silent during the testa so that there may be no In interference from their waves Germany Is sending programs of classical nature much of it from the State Opera House in Berlin while England offers quar tets solos and in general music of less classical nature than the German DR TO SPEAK AT Y W C A MUSICALE j Dr Francis M rector of St Pauls Episcopal church will bi the speaker at the fourth of the held Sunday afternoons in the W C A roums The Glee Club of College will when representatives oC operat the proposals ot E U of Scran ton following their acceptance by John L Lewis tho United Mine of America The termination suspension now In its fifth month no closer today then when miners laid down their tools at midnight August J In rejecting plan made bythe S ran ion editor of tho operators pointed out that i contained nothing which had no out in previous confer ences and for that reason It did no form the basis for a resumption o negotiations Only a few hours be fore dispatches from that Major William chair man of the Negotiating committee o the Anthracite Operators favored as a basis foi negotiation The decision of the operators announced In a statement made fron the office of Samuel dent ot tho entire operators confer ence Senator George Philadelphia announced in the Kcn ato Washington thru IIP had been telephone that the Pennsylvania coal strike been settled hut this afterwards was proved a mistake CONSUMERS COMPANY IN ANNUAL ELECTION David B street and Providence avenue wai reelected president of the Consum era Ice and Coal Company at thi annual meeting held by the holders nnd at the o the concern Front street and mont avenue on Thursday Other officers chosen John i Sr treasurer Harry f Bloom secretary manager for th year are D B J J Me Joseph II Howar Eeh Christopher Georg J Hunter McKane Sr and William The Consumers Company was or in as an Ice ing concern with a capitalization ot f 50000 and lacr reorganized as the Consumers Ice and Coal Com inny tho capital stock of which at the present time Is During recent years extensive Im have been to tho ant and its equipment Including one ofthe largest and most modern stor age buildings with a capacity of RIENDS HEAR ROLAND SMORRIS Ambassador to Japan Tells of Christian ity There Delaware countys mystery killing moved a notch solution today when discovery made of the head of Miss Anna May Dietrich 35 years old of 229 Leon whose headless and legless body in a woods on the Henderson farm near the Rose Tree Thursday The missing was Run a narrow the border of the Upper Darby section A tip had been received last night which that area Discovery of the missing head was made while Nathaniel Warren of the apartments Upper Darby tis being questioned by District Attorney Taylor regarding Miss Dietrich When word ofthe find reached the district attorneys j he detailed County Detective 0 N Smith and Sergeant of Stata Police A F to hurry to the scene The head was taken to the UpperDarby township building by the Upper Darby Frankenfield was notified and look charge of it Shortly after district attorneys office to go Darby Mr Warren was released from question ing Attorney Taylor Mr Warren at once left Media MrTaylor informed a Chester Warren had told a straight forward story past ten S formerly to Japan under the Wilson attorney spoke last night a largo o rii tho Friends louse on West Third street m the oC Christianity In fa pan Jlr his address principally to tho of In Japan and gavo fist mnd Information of their activities mil In Christianizing the people Jfo sit on the work of tho mission aries of tho old Creole Catholic In Japan and Bald that dur ng there In the ind sixth Jiml all ut converted tho greater part of apan to At the mime line ho explained Christianity over Into China by tho way of Korea Tho next great movement of the said was In Japan n the fourteenth when tho of the Roman church their district that he satisfied that Mri I the c Says Mr Taylor said was that Miss Dietrich Taylor said seen Warren preyedupon the mind of a woman and made him insanely jealous Mr Taylor then arranged meet in an rage killed her and cut upherbody to dispose of it and hide her identity Mr district attorneys oclock half beforo Attorney Taylor put himself Mr War rnn went Into Hie anil was by Mr Taylor o Police A F County O N Smith great of progress In work of Christianizing It was about tho middle of nineteenth century iho speaker said that the Japan government began to of their younger generation to country to learn of tho western civilization After a few years ot their quest of western knowledge and ideas how over many of thein returned to Japan not entirely with what they had found It was about that time hat the Japanese decided the speaker said that they could not win for themselves a place In the world affairs a little fighting and taking they by force It wan Mr pointed out that tho con of the with other countries began The declared that ho bo In time that Iho greater part of Japan would bo but Una tho day was as yet far oft and would tho diligent missionary ef forts of every that Bond to accomplish that end nd JMr Warrens Is on tha sec ond floor of tho building where Maa Dietrich worked aa a a millinery ahop Mr with his De Coursey AVilson ot camo to tho of tho District Attorney at 030 this morning He was exonerated by Mr Taylor after he told n complete story of his move ments for the last ten days Mr Taylort Statement District Attorney Taylor when In by n Chester Times re porter following Air lease said I released Mr Warren after he ear Ilia answers were all told hesitation and In a calra volco So I concluded that he hld with the disappearance murder of Miss v foreI released him I did not con older his connection with tho case of enough Importance to hold him heio the was brought After talking with Jlr Warren M I formed n theory as to tho motive for the murder of Miss rich I think that unknown to Mr Mlsa Dietrich may hav a fallen in love with him or that her with him at different Hart let to tho belief tha cared for former or ot Dietrich in a tit of killed her and cut up cannot believe that the motive for n such n MOB SEEKS NEGRO WHO ASSAULTED CHiLD WINS DIVORCE BELFAST Ireland Jan Irish politico i prisoners in northern Ireland will be liberated with warn ings not to return to Ulster for five years as the result of In after the recent boundary settlement and Just concluded A legal battle to obtain her freedom terminated yesterday in Mrs Mabel C Blerck of receiving formal decree ot divorce In Philadelphia from Harold A Bjorck Eon of the Rev Julius G Bierck retired Episcopal clergyman The decree which gives Mrs Blerck custody of two children and the right to resume her maiden name actually was made final January 16 by Chan cellor Walter at Trenton Karl W director of tho club has arranged a program includes My Native Land by an Alsation Br Burnished by Brahms In the Silence of tho Night by Rachmaninoff Keep rn Hopin by Maxwell Tho Fairy Pipers by Brewer tho plantation melody Swing Low Char There will be violin and piano lot and other numbers solos Caroline Rebecca Hathaway ami Cyclic A eux will Ring obligates to several numbers The are at oclock on the first floor of the Y W C A CONGRESSMAN DIES WASHINGTON Jan 25 Repre John E Raker California at hs home hero last had been II since five ago when he operated on for a stomach abscess FIRM HEAD DIES AKRON O Jan M president of the Gool ycar Tire and Rubber Company dropped dead at his home here Iml night 50000 of Ice Heretofore the directors have been held in the of tho second Tuesday of tach month At Thursdays It was unani decided to change the lime of meeting to 1030 a in on the Tuesday Jan Harry 21 years old colored of Can non Station In confined in a cell at the Now Casllo County Workhouse he was brought yesterday after state highway policemen suc In a mob of sev eral hundred county WARMER WEATHER FOR SUNDAY IS PROMISED Fair and continued cold today fair with rising temperature tomorrow This Is tho latest forecast sent out by tho weather bureau in connection with the col wave ot the season winls from the northwest on Friday routed balmy weather of the preceding two days continued to drive down the temperature last night Last midnight the thermometer reading at the City Hall vras 15 de had been predicted by the weather there was not tli slightest variation in tempera ture tho ensuing S hours same reading being token at oclock that had gathered about tho county Jail In Georgetown and demanded that Butler bo turned over to them Butler confessed to Magistrate James K Phillips at Scaford It la to criminally as 12 years old of neir and to hav ing also committed Uvo assaults on William Neat and mother of chil dren whom he later struck over the bnd with a flatiron Tho Steinmetz child Is In a had told mon story of his movements for tho laut ten Mr Warren la a high typo of man and ho told a not to or any of my questions I him particularly ns tp movements on Tuesday and day Me told mo that hti tho Mr Warren who had tho engage ment to go to tho dance nnd reil estate banquot with Mias Dietrich They to have gone to the danc ing academy on night They also were to havo attended the ban quet of tho Delaware County Kcal Board on Wednesday night He told me went to his place of business In Philadelphia on Tuesday and Mlss Girling proprietor of Iho millinery shop Mlsa Dietrich worked naked him If ho had Minn Dietrich that afternoon Mr Warren that he told her that he had not seen tho young woman Girling a KI In asked him later in the day about Miss Dietrich and he again told her ho had not seen her that evening when Miss Dietrich had not been seen appeared Mr Warren said ho called her homo and was told she hail not arrived there Mr Warren said that he had no further word of Dietrich that evening and he concluded that aho had made nomo other arrangements about the dance so he went to his home in Upper He said that he and his roommate then called upon two women and tooX them to a motion picture theatre at Mr Warren tho District said is about thirtyfive and not married Magistrate Head The missing head was found by Magistrate John J ot Darby who was with a Upper Darby The head was found bj a henvy wooden support of tho train bridge on a siding of tlis railroad the branch bc ng part ot the line running from ho Perry road to Newtown Square The siding ig used for tha of freight The bridge the head ound spans Run a spot to tho northeast of Saint Vin cents Orphanage on Continued on Page Topics of Times cal condition at tho Emergency street He said that after In and the woman lho ho roommate went is in a serious condition at her home near COMMUNISTS MEET A meeting of tho Chester branch of the Workers Communist Party was htld last night at Third and home to bed As to his movements on A local dentist works a scheme Before he presents hla final ho gives victim a sniff laughing gas Recent bridegroom with sporting tendencies wants to con test between the Human Flv en gaged In buildings and the High Cost Village Green clog had his lait caught in a washing machine Good tho darn thing wasnt buttoned Weather liko we had yesterday teaches one thing rasy on tho feet but they aro hard on tho head r Somo people wonder why day Mr Warron told mo that he get en when they aro went to his place ot business as us ual and remained in Philadelphia trying to get by most of tho day He said that when I Saint Georgo Is said to havo evening not having heard from a dragon that was spitting forth Miss Dietrich about their engagement Wonder where we could capture Kerlin streets with about twentyfive to go to the real estate banquet ho few euch reptiles until the coal persons attending Tho meeting was termed The Lenin Memorial Meet Ing and tho talked of the went home and arranged with a male is over friend to attend tho banquet that j night which ho they did He j life apd work of Lenin Albert J that following the banquet he u it Carer of Philadelphia was the to his home On received from Johnny Callaghan speaker Ho that The he attended to Ms business at Is at in that state Florida lias become the ol palms according to a letter lifes work of Lenin points out the meaning of communism Thomas Foley of this city presided The other speaker was ot Philadelphia i fairs as usual Sses New Theory Mr Warren impressed me very much as a man who lad nothing to Our street cleaners ate having awful time these work on account storms that arc
