Chester Times (Newspaper) - July 29, 1926, Chester, Pennsylvania DAILY NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR JUNE 18469 With AH Best News of the 15486 CHESTER PA THURSDAY JULY 29 1926 EIGHTEEN PAGES BUSINESSMEN OF CHESTER HOLD Inspect New Bridge Then View Wonders of Big Exposition t Herald and Motorcycle Guides Precede Bus Car avan SLOT MACHINES TRY COMEBACK PRICE TWO CENTS I McCLELLAN HELD WITHOUT BAIL MURDER CASE PRINCIPALS Lin wood Man Faces Trial in Delaware Says Girl Jumped From Slot machines arc back in Chester A few of the gambling devices of the nickel and Quarter type have hern installed within the pist week in cigar stores and pool rooms in tlic western part of the city And already women rre complain ing their husbands are losing RoberL young man their weekly pay by playing the siding on Hewes avenue chines in connection with the in II is more than a year since tlc i juries sustained by Miss Kvi Plot machines were driven out ol naught girl Chester Before that lime they i lying in tlic roadway The Chester Business ASRO I played an pan 1 in the yesterday i Thousands of persons viewed the procession of five bus loads of Clus icr merchants HS they paraded i through Delaware County down I Market street Philadelphia across i IIP great bridge to where i ho South Jersey Imposition was held and bad to the Centennial grounds The business then lined up in front of ilu Building at the I hem in use in corner stores pool i looms and other places open to ill j public A storm of protest was i against ihc machines and the police were ordered to see that all stores got rid of them Almost overnight I the gambling devices At thai time Mayor Turner gavo his pledge that the slot machines i would not be allowed to return to Chester while he was Mayor Information has come to the Times wht r long road given a l j hearing last night before Justice of Peace Joshua K Hailey of Boolh wyn and held without hail pond ins thai there arc operation and as several machines In that are being feeler to see what If thore is no move to oust these machines it is i said that many others will make heir f appearance in corner stores he placed in conspicuous places to en tice the nickels and quarters of men women and children Those who placed in MIR stores are said to he anxiously waiting to see what the police will do fair and posed for official photographers of ihc exposition as well authorities will do The association members started from the City Hall courtyard al n m Before leaving members posed for a group picture The local business men then six buses jne of which went out of 1 sion outside of Chester oc 1 crowded into the oilier live i The group was led by Mayor Siim K Turner Charles Hopkins president Business Mens As sociation John Sorcuss chairman of the days activities and John i Boyle secretary of the association j Members of council were in the first bus A bugler of the local boy scouts 1 sounded a trumpet along the route and many thousands during ihc busy 1 midday period rushed to the curbs to witness tlie buses and banners inscribed with the name The route through Delaware county took the local mrn a Ion Chester and through the vari boroughs At a mo policeman preceded buses and guided lie procession through to city line of i at Angora Here a1 squad of four motorcycle police sent 1 by tlie City of Philadelphia ook up guiding the buses through j Hie crowded city the Delaware bridge The parade then followed the of through busiest Philadel phia with people B CHANGES MADE Switches Removed Will Soon Relocate Freight Station i are being received by B engineer of IS ml division of the and Ohio Railroad on tlie cost of moving tbc freight station now located on the north side of tbc tracks on Twelfth street between j Upland and Totter streets to a point west of avenue near the which were crowded juncture of the railroad and Chester out Tor lunch The change in the location of the freight suit Ion was one of the three steps in the removal of the delay at and Providence avenues promised by Baltimore and Ohio officials K general manager of the railroad visited Chester with a party of engineers and other on July 6 to In spect the situation at the grade crossings 011 these streets and to plan for the elimination of tfic trouble announced thit several switches near these inter Continued on Page Seventeen BOTH SIDES OF CHESTER PIKE MUST 12 lie Roth sides oC Chester Pike will opened Monday August 12 A celebration is by Keystone Automobile Club In conjunction with the boroughs along the pike J Borton Weeks the automobile club has called a meeting for Monday August 2 to be held at tlie Chester Club to which the burgesses of all the bor along Chester pike have been invited Complete plans for the cle will be drawn up at that tinie It is expected I a number oC officials of the slate will be present at the festivities on August n Tho Keystone Automobile Club s having printed a number of illus i rated pamphlets the history f the road from earliest Colonial Days These will be distributed a motif crowds attending the celebration Tlic pike paving is a I present com plete on both sides except that one section from road Crum to the city line of Chester is a curing process POISON LIQUOR DEATH TOLL REACHES 44 iie arrival ot the Delaware authori ties lie is charged with aggravated assault and battery with intent to kill was in custody early yesterday morning by Deputy Sheriff Vincent Massey and Constable following tlie com plaint of James an uncle of the injured girl Miss Fausnaught was taken to rbe hospital Monday night by James Slevenson of 13 Virginia avc nut Aniline Village who went to j her assistance be noticed her i lying in the roadway Her condition improved today I and testified dining j last nights hearing Unit had admitted lo that girl had been in his auto Monday night The officers said that McClullan suited tho girl jumped out of tin car am her injuries when she fell County Detective p J lias been Investigating the manner in which the girl was injured said today that it was a 411 Villon ot whether the vic tim was thrown or had fallen from the car His showed that Mc and another man Har vey Morris of Claymont took the girl for an automobile ride to Car Delaware where she left the car and started to walk home was later overtaken by two men invited her to reenter the car promising thai she would be taken to her home It was after she i tlic car that she was in jured according lo tlic investigation made by County Detective Quinn believes that during a struggle tho girl either or was pitched out the machine McClellan has agreed lo return to Delaware without extradition papers and according to the authori tes Morris who hails from I boro and who has been living at Claymont is i fugitive James of and his Mrs Harris and Mrs Bertha Taylor also yt Iin wood stated during last nights bear they learned Hint she was a patient it the hospital The condition of Miss Fausnaught was said to be improved Ibis morn ing She has been in a state of coma the greater of the since she was admitted lo the hos MRS HALL ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGE HELD WITHOUT BAIL MRS FRANCES S HALL REV E HALL BOROUGHS MEET ON and Prospect Park Favor Location in Road Center tions wouk bo moved to shunting of freight truins back Y July United Press in a new quarter southern tici of Western Xew York II Albin 10 Fris and tist farmers near died and another man IK in a critical condition in a hospital from ibc poison Iroin Salamanca Mayvill points clime reports largo of the deadly f were there Tin death toll from poison liquor 1 today stood at 14 Search was insti men said to be mem bers of the higher tips sought by authorities The names given out by tbc police are Dave Goldberg and sect tlie and forth across the street The railroad officials also promised to move the freight station from its present location and to extend the platforms of the passenger station to Potter street as steps in re moving the causes of traffic delay Work was immediately begun on changing fhe switches through the Philadelphia and has now been completed A at the cast end of a siding west of was removed and one main track switch abandoned Another main track switch from its former location to a point 1500 feet west of Crosby street The moving of the freight station which was promised to be begun within a week of the Inspection trip on July 6 at the latest has been held up by the problem of handling the freight consigned to Chester during tho progress oC the operations It not definitely known how soon actual work will be started on the location of the freight station The contracts for tbc job arc being handled through The office of the division engineer iti Baltimore MEDIA WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN HER BED Miss Marie Davis who Is em ployed at the court house in Medi to her apartment at 110 State street for lunch today and found her companion Miss Ilar liet Kirlin lying dead in bed Or J Clinton Starbuck was im mediately summoned and after nn examination said that Miss Kerlin bad been for more than an hour Mins Kerlin was also an em ploye of the court house but did not TO LET CONTRACTS FOR 3500 FEET OF SEWERS Contracts for approximately ect of eight ten and twelve inch terra cotta sewers will be awarded by City Council at a meeting to ie tiehl August 17 the time designated In Tor reception of tor this work In tlie main will he in conjunction with new of streets opened to public use and travel and to provide for new ing Three hundred sewer will be constructed In street from a point 150 feet west of Grower street to the west city line 420 feet of sewer in street from Madison o Upland street ISO feet of sewer in Church street from Second to Mary ISO feel of In street Ninth street fo a point 120 feet north of Tenth street 400 feet of sewer In Tenth street from Highland avenue to Hayes street 190 feet of sewer in Worrell street Sunny side avenue to street 1100 feet of sever n Tilghman street from Ninth to Twelfth street and SO feet of eight inch for repairs to Ridley nve rre sewer between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets of and Prospect Park voiced stern to tlie plan to side line pole con on Chester pike during n meeting ot ofthe various boroughs and towns ot the pike district held in ters oC the Fire Company last night Tlic which wiis presided over by C Thorn of Jark nearly two hour before its adjournment Another meeting is scheduled for Friday 13 In the meantime of the boroughs involved will he asked to the stand by their CH at last nights gathering Glenolden was represented at the session by A and Charles K deni council man briefly urging center line construction lur Prospect Park Mr in speaking on the uniform placing of tlic sides of Chester pike stated that ho did not favor such a measure be cause hud not given up ope ot forcing the electric light company to place Its poles in tlic center of the roadway despite a re cent court order to the contrary Mr expressed a similar opinion A letter from the Southern Penn sylvania Traction was read during the meeting and It slated it would be to do away vith tb center line construction un less nil favored it The work of placing tbc Holes Is to start in about thirty days providing the matter cun be amicably The meeting was opened by for mer C rover C Talbot and then turned over to Council mini Thorn Robert O MacKendrick was secretary of the meeting Those attending wore II AV Faust T S Carpenter Samuel A Jackson John A and 1 Miir of Arthur F C M Fleming and 1 Sharon Hill Charles A 1 Harry C Wigmore Harry V MRS ELEANOR MILLS SHERIFF SUES TO RECOVER FUNDS Johnson Brings Action to Get Money Deposited bj Allison ARREST SUSPECT IN MURDER OF MELLETT Ohio July Contos Mii In the murder C Don H Millet of tins Vila here today at the ino lie being held on u of suspicion of Pittsburgh who for will conic U In grill irc MMI hold All deny ot the end f was today Connors employed u tracing reports Mini Pittsburgh bad i purl in the murder if Don U fit Clinton Ohio ti July 1C announced be had Ilu Hied his investigations Tin evidence be has uncovered believes is to war rant The mid los of being accessories before Ihu lu tbo vice cru editor Wife of Slain Minister Is Accused of Killing Him and Mrs Mills Choir Singer in New Jersey Four Years Calls It Ridiculous N J July Frances Stevens Hall was arrested formally charged with the murders of her husband the Rev Edward W Hall and Mrs Eleanor W Mills the singer in his choir Tho was held county Jull Branding the arrest as Mrs Hull taken WOMAN TWO MALE ASSAILANTS widow of tli 9 in the ridiculous Sheriff Isaac W Johnson his attorneys John B Jr and C thin morning filed suits in one against the Trust Company nnd Delaware County Trust this city for the institutions of money lo accounts the late Sheriff Allison v the la tr sheriff checking in bolh hanlis of which there is a balance in the Trust Company of mid in the County Trust Company amounting lo accord ing o Johnsons of claim was received by Allison by virtue of bis from persons and cor ATLANTIC N 1 July mid along a street here early today hoi lorn and Jaw broken Miss I nf 17 Hartford lo a hospital lo Ify her a nl s She bad lold Ihc that luo men wllb Him was had her who hml of Miss Mil run ret Tulley a waitress In n hotel here home is at SI Lenox Mint Tii Hoy said Klie hud last her friend early night While they were being by In tho n cii up with til and men The body Unit of the of u lord aednn which Into a on the troni to Kgg Harbor The crushed alive WHS hi companion As the man into K warl Miss Tulley ouiv face one of tlie men tool out last night she ex claimed The dead waa is his companion Miss Mulligan corroborated her to the Juil shortly this inorn Sho was held bull tot thn jury v L will no until I Irani what the is on she MIK Hull will tight lo the utmost tho that she killed lur il unfaithful husband Mrs hurried to hrr As nho with she said will suffer for There was a dramatic midnight when the was at lior hi V r to the by who invoke Mrs Hull She before down to meet mid on reading the warrant and to her on by uil J 1 lamb M nnd of tho lersey G Howard Iundy K A La Crosse of Bur gess E W It C Paul Alexander and Grovcr C Tiil bot of Charles of Prospect Park C AV Thorn T p Ward William Thomas of and 1 M Hinkson rep resenting tee Inter viewed the Burgers John Thomas llar and Carroll of During ibc meeting Mr Talbot made the suggestion that i perma nent organization of tives if the various pike towns be formed MELLETT FAMILY IS GASSED IN HOME RESTRAINS WARREN FIRING ITS POLICEMEN Xale Buffalo to work today She bad been New York Their ali suffering with heart some operation were said to eclipse summoned Dr Percy Hell of C Voelker the soI this morning lie hor usual and called alcohol kin worse than usual a who now accused of first a grec murder his connection w the distribution of the poison Major C Jr dT her return at noon her to spend the day Davis found her doad bed Miss on Ohio July CANTON O July T tho families of Uon slain publisher and his brother wore ill from n which reloaded their homo across His they were seated The four children of lon nrd temporary injunction j well oa Mel this city of 40000 population abolish ing its entire police department as r economy move I Tlie injunction restrains Mayor Jii II Marshall and thirteen city I including members of city from the of police an I twenty men Saturday condition Is not serious The gas could have conic gas bomb such as police raiders ixc or it might have been impounded in and the bottle broken the home according to corse E ford detective invest U a administrator gaid he learned that more than 3500 gallon of tlic poison had been released in Ihls vl f which amount IP al to have received 300 gallons ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Claude Ferguson in 1100 bail ta keep the peace and fined the costi at a hearing before Magistrate yesterday le was arraigned on a j f and having been j arrested by Constable Taintor on a warrant out by Mrs Susie len of Uppers rials According t Mr Allen Ferguson her i house on and bent her down nnd on her letter her husband remon with Jerguson who struck him with a club and one ff bis ribs it wap also lives in recently Miss Kerlin con ducted a millinery store n Medici Khe Ihc daughter of the lae William Kerlin it one time ot the department at the Pennsylvania Training School at is survived ITI sister Mrs Mink of Col lingdale RESORT FIRE LK Fin Fire starling CHILD MOTOR VICTIMS i United today at Jacksonville Beach to destroy that town of Jacksonville and South Jacksonville chocked it liter it had burned the Ocean Vfw anil bath houses with nn damic automobile is as much a men aie to child life ns scarlet ever ind in combined required by to payments and are tho subject of distribution to and among persons and corporations an by law required to assert their and ownership to funds I hrough the sheriff Sheriff Johnson claims Unit he is entitled to the possession of the money in order to distribute it according lr Inw Tho money has in litigation since the death of Sheriff Allison tnd this Is ihc tirst legal step taken to have it distributed On April 7 of Ibis year according to tbc laic Judge Johnson by a court order directed Sheriff Johnson to secure nil funds deposited to the account of Thomas W Allison sheriff and pay tlic same into court In pursuance to that order Sheriff Johnson slates that be drew checks on tlic Cambridge and Delaware County Trust to tlic order of William Ward Jr dated May 7 The first check for and the The checks were signed Isaac W Johnson sheriff successor to T W Allison sheriff The checks were sent to notary Ward and to each was a short cf of the of Wills as evidence of T W death The Cambridge Trust Company a in statement upon lion of the cheek refused to pay the money out stating as Us reason No authority lo pay Tlie check duly protested on May 10 When the was pre sented to the Delau arc County likewise forthcoming nnd the reason there was No funds This check was protested The tvo trust companie WEST BADLY HAMPERED stale police she was brought to head of thr slate troopers nnd hold until hrr admittance to the jii II Is to base followed an afternoon amme nnd Supremo Court Jus Charles W at town X 1 Prosecutor nf Somerset mada till and the wariant out by of K lit wlek Francis of Sorn who to wur ranl of tho li of Brunswick who held her for llif grit ml on Major Mark O of Ilir police who made thi refused to any hint of they ir on what facts they the rest Th his Mini deliberately lor FUJI lho Of new to bo culled tho jury Continued on Two PRIMARY COST NEARS MILLION Senate Probe Committee Bares Source of Illinois Contributions to in the vicin ity of Third ami Ward streets sev eral motorists narrow cscn fiom possible serious within tlie past few nights as I be result of Hut between on WiKl Third lorn uji and placed near Ihc wions It said that n ck dropped the tiacks curly this and until shortly Ij oclock of the S P T have torn up the paving between i ml street M pr paratory to new rails a dif ferent type of lar section of Third has In en iii a condition for several years TRAIN HOLDUP IS REPORTED TAKE PRISONERS SOUTH according j to nw are required lo file to statistics compiled by a New defense within days from Into n corn City life insurance company the date they arc served with notice bandit lifl from automobile accidents have the suit creased 50 per cent since JO twtr of the deaths being rhil umler made from Mass July 2 held up on a of the branch of and Maine today and A by police officials al completed before placed obtained by the bandits at Most of the money It is said was included in from Huston to Die of and In rali Tlie men thf as pax ct Salisbury and the Irani a on Uic main road and Salisbury i the July Another by to tlic funds fn the April primary was disclosed today senate funds te It vi Id lo Old Jon of ook county which sup ported Krank L Smith of the Illinois commerce commission In his successful fight lo wrest the Tlu from William B known outlay Ihc lo of which was a gift to ilie Smith 10 won the Democratic and 1 00110 lo the group lu Cook conl testified to y V Barrett of Chicago treasurer of or who disclosed also thai bin group spent a total mating This with other but smaller expenditures testified to dur ing the day rained the known total In Illinois to or to million dollar pri mary This total Is divided as follows William C5 Jtu Frank L Smith H Helicon group for A court Chairman I teed today Thomas W inm of that he would be cited be Torn Senate fo for refusing lo before the in not a tol the niti rt clerk of win to say where he got hn to the successful of Vare nominee PURE OIL CO WORKER IS FATALLY INJURED dren been ri tes 1 tin in thr c drilh ALEXANDER DIES un f d baggage master aid of I hi m it the point of his tile other r trie mail sacks No shots fir measles scarlet fever jijon ED FRY PURCHASES EAST 13TH STREET HOME 1 diphtheria J four chief childrens diseases A low Ten prisoners of various i record was also established Tast year crimps in for diseases associated with and who had been sentenced to terms j in The Federal prison at Atlanta i WAIVES A HEARING Announcement today the property at Kast street had purchased by ir lr coroner and Ninth wanl who it is understood is preparing to left this morning in charge of dep uty marshals for tlie southern city Among the officers in charge of group were Deputy U S Marshal McGinnis and Georer Pierre river connected with the Ches ter police department AUSTIN APPEALS SESQUI FINE take possession of the property in the j near future Tbc dwelling of brick construction and stories high was built 1 number of years ago by tho late folin o Wilson manufacturer and at e was considered one of the Appeals from the decision of Ma Falmestock In the recent of 71 f Austin director gf neral of the and four of viri lation of the Sunday laws were yesterday in Quarter N J July Court allowed petition of latin x F counsel for Mr A u si in for nn appeal from gist rates il anI fixed the date for the hearing FAIL TO FIND BODY of i failed to private homes in that part of the city yesterday property has a of C3 mi him with Fourth on Thirteenth strret and Cr eii ln with modern a when taken rear of plot is situated of Hail waters in this vicinity today reveal any trace of of Frink of Ocean N T who verc thrown into the ea off River inlet of th tiled suddenly in City TKI from a attack Mr I with one of resort in tfr about ten rigo Mr FinI x number of friends v ho were shocked to beir his path FRANK MATHUES BUYS ESTATE IN MARYLAND WORKMAN INJURED Samuel Duffy of in siuth first to the Hospital from a lio Inst nt Ihc St school Fourth and MR ECKMAN IMPROVED MOTHER DIES f last night and bond for bis in Rudolph arrested by Dcp Jty Sheriff Vincent July 5 from street i the No was as to the mother of Walter Rathenau who was price paid by Mr Fry Cor the afler the war but it Is snid the amount was in serving as chancellor of Germany the neighborhood of died Allen H director of Welfare Federation of anil Vicinity who was seriously in nn accident last Friday night at Clifton was re porter lo b much improved this morning at the hospital Mr chief injury is a badly Fashed leg RUMSEY IN K OF C GOLF Jimmy league and intercollegiate basketball is listed among the late entries for Knights of Columbus golf tourney which will start at 111 Bala Club Monday Marshal Frank has purchased a farm eom about acres al Mil Md llf will take on Hal The is just three miles below ibc of former A IS i adi Granger near While point In the section arc located th farms tf lir S U P Crozer T Woodward Samuel U lyde S Irving and Kingsley General Prices farm Is also In There a largo and bnrn in cluded In Marshal property CLEARVIEW TO TRAVEL Clear view nan to the reason as a team club has won forty of played scaron CHESTER MAN KILLED IN BROAD ST STATION Thomas K 71 West street Chster fatal Injuries shortly before noon to day in Broad station wan when he between two trains NEWSIES IN ATLANTIC Contest Winners Arc En at World Fa mous Resort Special o the Chester of HiR of the are Jti and and are s tilp to the fullest extent wan Atlantic City Diu The by built to liin via trolley car to Atlantic City hern was nothing hero that the boys that they did not nkc In Four solid hours on the fam IIK Pier capped lay The boys have many it the cottage nt Ocean City by their good conduct Charles been nick named tlie nnd N out to wnU tbo fair of the guests Fatso Mason Is the fun maker ot the parly He Keeps the of his companions Lawrence f Chicle Carroll Is the only one who bus developed 1 cast of Ilo sure on tho i of tlie crowd when Vie walk IH running n race for tho honors of Patsy Tinone goes along very but nothing him QUITS CHANNEL PARIS Tuly H United Olav Farstad the Norwegian mer abandoned bis attempt to the channel early today Far stail entered the water shortly after Q a m yesterday Topics of Times 10 of died the Chester Hospital at 115 this morning as the result of a fra lured skull sustained yesterday after noon while a I work at the Vure Ol plant at Marcus Hook Deputy Coroner White took charge of tlie body and removed it to his limerick was working with a con struction when lit met with his Injuries of the oil plant say that b1 was struck by a piece of limber He was rushed o tbc where an examination showed Ills skull had been fractured He was in jured at 1 oclock yesterday afternoon STOLE HAD IN PURSE PARIS July United Miss Louisa cates said to be ot a Now York lawyer was taken in custody in a department store hcn on a charge of pilfering n of gloves At lime she bad 300 iii her purse anil wore ex pensive jewelry Her release was soon by the American Con sul after which she said I dont mind the French much but the bread is too black A tils pa tch Informs us that In Lon don they moved a of time on their hands County officials are rapping mil crossing They better not try to wrap them They dug a well near tlic local swimmingpool several hundred feet doop If they dig any deeper they arc liable to strike French francs Harold Hughes thinks tho city should have municipal golf links Hes n ooji and although no one ever saw him do U he swings a mean A woman must admit she is 30 years old lo vote in Butch says that tlie politicians who framed that law knew their business c A man died who claimed he made a fortune dressing chickens Thats one of the beat ways to lose it nowadays Jerome Renting that this has twothirds of the worlds phones Wo use them calling tne to fix of worlds autos Tf vou are observing you will that iho fellow who paddles his own canoe IK generally passed by the fel low who gets help The fellow who runs is no nrd says Captain Right Cap providing he has the backing of the The Weather WELSH MUCH BETTER Thomas 1 Tucker Welsh who is a in Chester from several gunshot wounds to he much improved thin He is expected to be strong enough to permit his removal to in the near future Weather forecast for tonight Fri day little chinge in temperature Gentle to moderate shifting Sim am pm High water fiOl am and 627 p m water and 127 p m Record Midnight 71 7 R m la Sa t B 74 10 ft m 77 m
