Chester Times (Newspaper) - December 15, 1932, Chester, Pennsylvania DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR SIX ENDING SEPTEMBER 201 OS tme 17465 FINAL EDITION With All Latest and Best News of the Day Daily Leased Wire Reports of United Press UP CHESTER PA THURSDAY DECEMBER 1932 TWENTYFOUR PAGES 9 OF DEBTORS TOILS PAYING UP TODAY About in Gold and Credits Change Due French Default Irks Con gress Herriot Refuses to Form New Cabinet TO SPEND CHRISTMAS IN U 3 PARIS Dec defeated as Premier on the debt issue declined President Albert invitation today to form a new cabinet Before receiving Herriot LeBrun saw former Premier Pierre Laval The latter said the cabinet crisis was probably the first of several in view of the difficulties of the situation f Later Camille Chautemps of mier Edouard Radical Socialist party was invited by dent LeBrun today to form the cab inet WASHINGTON Dec Ambassador Paul Claudel of France today presented to Secretary of State Stimson a note regarding Prances instalment due on war debts The ambassador refused to re veal the contents of the note as did the State Department Dispatches from Paris indicated it conveyed Frances decision not to meet the pay ment WASHINGTON Dec The United States will carry on busi ness as usual with nations which have defaulted war debt payments Secre tary of Treasury Mills said today after announcement of the payment of due from Great Britain The British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay called at the Treasury to inform Mills that the 595550000 in been paid A number of smaller European countries which owe smaller amounts were expected to make their payments through the Federal Reserve Bank in New York later during the day Mills said nothing could be done about the defaults by France and other countries Their default will increase the de for the fiscal year 1933 by the amount they fail to pay he said It was said at the White House that Hoover has made no move toward starting the draft of his pro posed special war debts message to Congress It has been announced that the message would be sent at the conclusion of negotiations regarding todays payments Published reports that Mr Hoover HOUSE WOMAN DRAFT BEER VOTE NEXT WEEK AND IT Plan to Fulfill Incoming Former Fifth Ward Mer Administrations Pledge j chant Sues Beauty Shop for Change Owner soldier and is shown with his daughter the Hon Moya as they arrived at New York on the S b Bremen to Die Christmas holidays with American friends The late Lady Decies mother of Miss was before her marriage Miss Helen Vivien Gould daughter of the late George Jay Gould American v AUTO OVERTURNS HURT Accident Near Doyles town Companions of the Driver Uninjured Dr Carl M Banse optometrist of 607 Welsh street was severely injured and two companions J Bowns 29 806 East Ninth street and Charles A 301 Mcllvaine street were shaken up when an automobile in which they were riding skidded on ice on the Lackawanna Trail at Pipersville 10 miles north of Doyles Pa early today and turned over Dr Banse is now in the Doylestown Emergency Hospital was admitted suffering from several frac tured ribs cuts and bruises of the head and body and from shock Dis patches say he was car when the accident happened The three local men left here bound county on a hunting trip Their automobile was not equipped with chains as the highways in this section were dry when they started they were of the impression that the same condition existed in the western section of the state The victims were extricated from the damaged automobile by passing motorists who took them to the hos pital Bowns and Trainor planned to return home immediately having abandoned the gunning trip for which the trio had been planning for weeks M GET iTWO STATE BANKS F Banking Secretary Re Teller Forced to Open t i Committee Cold to Secre tary of Treasury Mills Sales Tax Plan WASHINGTON Dec i House leaders were i in agreement to leave j mem of a budget balancing lo the next session of Congress determination was revealed by j Majority Leader Henry and Chairman Collier of the Ways nnd Means Committee Both said the short session would make no effort to pass the sales tax recommended by President Hoover The Collier Committee meanwhile began drafting the beer upon which the leadership is to lean for needed additional reve nues It expected to be brought to the floor for action by Tuesday and upon before the Christmas i recess Rep Ragon Dem Ark said today i the committee had reached a tenta tive agreement to make 32 per cent the alcoholic limit of the beer now being drafted Later the committee approved a five dollar per barrel tax on the legal alcoholic beer according to Rep Bacharach N J Secretary of Treasury Mills yester an Denies It All Claiming Cash Saved by Her Was DOG INHERITS FORTUNE Continued on Paffe Twentytwo A lengthy legal battle with as the stakes for the winner began at Media yesterday when of Morton avenue this city testified in his equity suit to recover sum which he claims Mrs Druscilla Killen attract v o shop proprietor is withholding from him once a prosperous busi ness man in the Fifth ward claims that in May 1929 Mrs Killen who operates a beauty shop on West Fourth street near Edgmont avenue induced him to deposit the hi her name in a Philadelphia bank with the understanding that he could get it at any time When he asked for the money he testified Mrs Kil len refused to give it to him Mrs Killen contends the money deposited in May 1929 represented her own savings from her par lor where she claims she has earned as high as a week She denies that Kolasinski owns one cent of the money and claims that she never had anything to do with the man Judge W Roger ing the case which will probably last on Page Twentytwo OFFICIAL VISITATION Members of Chester Lodge No 263 I O O P will be hosts to a large group of visiting members of the order tonight at Odd Fellows Hall Broad and Crosby streets when Dr O E Williams district deputy grand master of Delaware county will make an official visit to Chester Lodge He will be accompanied by the F M and U Club an organiza tion of Odd Fellows who will pre sent an entertainment after the meeting HORSES WITHDRAWN FROM RACES TODAY United Tress ports Conditions of Two Closed Units First accounts of the closed Drexel Hill Title and Trust Company Drexel Hill and the closed Lansdowne Bank and Trust Company Lansdowne were filed with the Delaware county courts today by Dr William D Gordon state secretary of banking The Lansdowne account shows as sets of available to meet deposit liabilities of Over 42 per cent of the assets of the in were liquidated by October 31 the date of the statement filed today Cash disbursements included an advance payment of per cent to depositors amounting to The appraised value of the remain ing assets was compared with the banks valuation of 5208766993 i Cash disbursement in the Drexel I Hill bank includes a payment of 15 i per cent to depositors Nearly 35 per cent of the banks assets were liquidated by October 31 the date of the in Media today The appraised value of the remain ing compared with 554203328 as listed on the books of the bank The remaining balance due depositors was NEW LICENSE TAGS ON MANY CARS Automobile tags for 1933 made their appearance today not a few being noticed on automobiles parked in the central city area The law permits the use of the new tags on December 15 and those fortunate enough in having secured their tags did not hesitate removing the old ones It was suggested some months ago that an extension be given motor ists this year allowing them to op erate on their 1932 license plates un til the latter part of January but so far nothing has been heard about this suggestion and it is highly prob able that nothing will be heard about it Vault Robbers Escape Police Pursuit NEW YORK Dec heavily armed gunmen scooped 213000 from the vault of an uptown bank today hurled a tear gas bomb at employes and outdistanced police radio cars in a chass through the Bronx The raid was conducted methodically introducing a new tech nique The bandits one of whom carried n machine gun entered the Bank of Manhattan branch The machine gunner and an accomplice with a shotgun herded six employes to ward the vault while the other three flourishing revolvers went about collecting the bank guns and cutting telephone wires A teller was forced to open the vault and the two most heavily armed robbers stepped inside stuf fing their pockets with currency A youth at the door guarded their re treat As the five were grouped afc the door Manager George W Huhn baum made a sudden movement to follow One of the bandits pulled the pin of a tear gas bomb and on the floor effectively forestalling pursuit Police radio cars pursued the auto mobile through upper Manhattan and the Bronx for more than an hour before giving up the chase INJURES KNEE IST FALL Falling at Fifth street and Highland avenue last night Stella 43 of 2833 West Sixth street sus a fracture of the right knee The victim was removed to the Ches ter Hospital where she was admitted COUNTY MOTORIST KILLED BY FUMES Carbon monoxide fumes killed two motorists accidentally today in their garages Joseph Dever 22 Millbourne was found dead in his garage a block from his home and William H Fatten 57 Philadelphia hardware salesman was found dead in his car in the garage beneath his home Lost His Pet Dog Times Ad Goi Him Thomas H Bowne of 703 Six avenue Prospect Park lost his pet dog and Mr Bowne was downcast After making an ineffectual search around the borough he had a happy thought Why not a Chester Times classi fied ad When tha advertisement ap the dog was as good as home Two young boys found the animal and they saw the advertisement in the paper In no time at all Mr Bowne had the pet back in his custody Mr Bowne gives the Times ad full credit for the recovery and he joins the body nf Times classified ad boosters France Will War Debts Says Herriot By RALPH HEINZEN PARIS Dec 1932 by United Press in all countries France eventually will pay her war debts to the United States Premier Edouard Herriot predicted today The fighting head of the government after the Chamber of Deputies overthrew him on the debt issue received me in his private apartments at the Quai DOr say today immediately after return ing from the Presidential Palace where he refused President Albert invitation to form a new cabinet Tired after days of ceaseless debate argument and conferences but his eyes alight with the fire of declared emphatically that heis convinced France will pay on the same terms as Britain sooner or later He would never return to power until France sig vowed this pledge he made an impassioned appeal to ths American people to judgment on France because he feels his country will reconsider the action of the chamber He expects France will pay with the reservations he outlined to the Chamber and that such payment will facilitate an early solution of the en tire debt problem The nextstep in the debt muddle must come from France he said As retiring Premier relieved of the burden of world made a masterful summary of economic and political ills which ha feels only com plete international governmental cq effort can solve Personally my position changed by the parliamentary over he said I ns always remain convinced that France must should and eventually will pay r Both France and America must avoid rushing to bitter conclusions nnd taking hasty There has never been any serious dif ference between our peoples The only difficulty now is reaching just terms for paying the debts under conditions Continued on Papc Twentytwo When Alice Chicago died she left half her property h rP i to her Thus Reel the above became ot an apartment a property hold In trust for him and another neta the rest of their lives On their deit a the money is to he divided between animal shelter activities ami charity Gifts Contributed Are to Be Distributed Among Poor Childrea The Christmas party to be given for the poor children of Chester has elicited much favorable comment throughout tho city nnd vicinity Plans that have been underway since the appointment of the com have been progressing smoothly and it the party will be one of the biggest af fairs of its kind ever held in Chester The Company has announced that the program ar ranged for thn morning of December 26 will be a perfect show for chil Several comedies de lightful cartoon vitaphone and a main feature special for chil dren are on the Monday the three local theatres will start toy mountains in the each theatre These mountains will Continued on Twentytwo CORONER FREES Car Operated by Him Killed Traf fic Officer Peace on Earth Survey of World Reveals AT JEFFERSON PARK Luck Piece St Mica Chancellor Northern Water Business Wrench R i c c i a r d o Providence Lass Brinkley Betty Beau Amour Gypsie Chief Hazel Den son Hamburger Jim Austerlitz Pattie Kate Copper Lurht Xun Mix Up Play Santa Sophia Helen Green Chas Clarke Outer Harbor Spot Pot Ottie M Statecraft Oldfield Miss Delight Polaire Magnitude Ul mer Valley Dred Scott Odd Star Con cicus Catwalk Fly On Coi Clois ter Johnny Kingpin Eveline F Barney Sex ton The Break Gay Bird Hal Dreams Race Extra Pomfret Uncle Si J A Weil Checkmate Winnie C Sunny Bob Timekeeper Weather cloudy track By United Press The world fighting the depression with efforts seemingly as futile zs those of a fly in a spiders web was faced today with trouble spots on every continent The threat of war was apparent in several sectors and in fact has been Most disturbing element of all al though involving no threat of inter national discord was the default of a ranee and on their war debt payments to the United States which will not be met av tne that international agreements and the signatures of nations were so many scraps of if coula be repudiated at win Another serious situation was the dispute between Britain and Persia over Persia s threatened cancella tion of the concession to the Anglo Oil Company The latter was controlled by the British government vital link in its naval chain co the Far East The dispute was re ferred to of Nations which has been striving unsuccess fully for months to settle the Man and Gran Chaco In the Far East Japan defied the Leagues efforts to solve dispute was a lull in actual righting after Gen Su Ping Wen had been driven across the Soviet border but Chinese sources threat ened to continue the fight to the end echoes were heard mean while in Tokio over the resumption of relations between Russia and China the Japanese fearing their position against China would be weakened In Latin America Bolivia and Par aguay were in a death struggle over possession of the Gran Chaco region This battle is being fought on the modern lines ofthe World War and has resulted in thousands of casual ties A out revolution con in Honduras Along the upper reaches of the Amazon there was a situation loaded with potential dynamite It involved Colombia Peru Ecuador and Brazil Its nucleus was a border fight be tween Columbia and Peru over seiz ure by Peruvian irregulars of the town of Leticia awarded to Colombia bya recent treaty designed to define the boundaries Brazil and Ecuador whose territories adjoin the sector in an international four corners sent up troops and gunboats to preserve their neutrality and national inter ests There also were rumblings of pos sible revolts in other countries A coroners jury yesterday after noon exonerated Kenzie Trader operator of a Southern Pennsylvania Traction Company trolley car of blame for the death of Harry B Kitchen veteran police man who was killed by a runaway trolley car at Chester pike and Parker avenue in Collingdale a week ago The verdict was reached bythe jury following an inquest lasting nearly three hours It was conducted by Coroner J Evans Scheehle in the office of Magistrate Robert J Mac Bride of Collingdale Following the inquest Magistrate MacBride conducted a hearing last ing not more than five minutes and released the trolley car operator Nearly a score of witnesses were Endorses Chamber of Com merce Movement to Seek Tax Reductions Members of Chester Kiwanis Club I were practically unanimous in their t support of a resolution presented at their meeting held yesterday in the Y W C A building Seventh and Sproul streets assuring support of the entire membership of any effort the Delaware County Chamber of puts forth in behalf of tax reductions in this city and county The resolution presented by Rev Herbert A Weaver chairman of the resolution committee was framed following discussions of the question with William F Delehanty manager of the Chamber of Commerce a member of the Kiwanis Club The altruistic motives which prompt the community work of the Kiwanis movement were clearly shown yes Continued on Eleven Continued on Papc Eleven MOT RECOVERED Home of Josiah Sleeper in N Providence Entered and Ransacked Boy Is Hurt Fatally Wrestling With Older Brother The home of Josiah Sleeper over looking Ridley river in Nether Provi dence township was burglarized early today and one hour later Chester po lice the loot and also had two suspects under started search for a third man believed to be the one who engineered the robbery having obi a good description of the sus from a resident df Sun Village whose information led to the recovery of the stolen goods The loot consisted of womens wear ing apparel table linens nnd also several Christmas presents These articles were packed in a black leather hat case and an overnight piece of jewelry and considerable silverware were overlooked by the in truders who completely ransacked the Pape Twentytwo A friendly wrestling bout last night staged in the parlor of their home by jwo boys Daniel Freeman 8 and his brother Joseph 11 of 8 West Chester pike township resulted in a tragedy when the younger of the two boys died early this morning in the Delaware County Hospital The boys who hnd been playing during the evening began to wrestle and during the tussle Joseph threw Darnel to the floor In falling the younger boy struck his head against a wall and rendered unconscious Joseph became frightened when his to arise nnd called his father Thomas Freeman who worked feverishly to revive theboy but without success The father took the boy to the hospital where he died at oclock this morning without regaining con Doctors afc the tion diagnosed the cause of death as a fracture of the skull and cranial hemorrhage The grief stricken brother accom the younger boy to the hos pital and remained at his bedside until he died Deputy Coroner H Rigby of Media took charge of the body andwill conduct an tion Joseph will probably be placed under technical arrest today on a charge into the custody of his father pending the re sult of the coroners investigation FUGITIVE FROM CHAIN GANG IN CELL THE MOVIE METEOR SHOWER OF 1933 NEWARK N J Dec UP Robert Elliott Burns spectacular and widely publicized brushes with the law came to halt today as he awaited in a jail cell the arrival of officers who may return a Georgia chain gang He was held in 521000 bail Burns escaped from the chain gang in 1922 became editor ofa prosperous Chicago magazine was arrested and returned in escaped again in 1930 and wrote the popular book I Am a Fugitive Prom a Georgia Chain Gang published in January 1932 The book was basis for the motion picture I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang The boasts in his book and of his publisher the Vanguard Press that he was hiding some where in the east safe from Georgia aroused police to an extensive search He was arrested last night He had been operating a art shop in neighboring East Orange Burns was understood to plan a fighton extradition PRICE DARBY MAN ARRESTED ON POISON CHARGE Case of Young Woman Al Suicide 2 Years Ago Reopened Parent of Victim Tells of Deathbed Accusation Denial Is Made A suicide pact in which a Darby girl died but the man in the case failed to go through with his part is charged by the mother of the dead woman who yesterday had the man arrested on a murder charge Thomas Alessi 57 of Tenth street and Cedar avenue Darby was ar rested yesterday on a warrant sworn to by Mrs Adele Boido of Darby charged with poisoning her daughter Rose Boido 32 nearly two years ago Alessi held without bail by Magis trate David M at Swarth more was later released under bail in habeas corpus proceedings Judge Albert Mac Dade at Media bail was furnished by his brother Alexander R of Drexel Hill prominent and wealthy real estate operator and contractor ot Upper Darby Another hearing will be given before Magistrate tomorrow night Charges against Alessi were in by the district attorneys office under the direction of Assist ant District Attorney William B Me Jr in August 1931 it charged by the girls mother in facts presented by Attorney John V Diggins Alessi and the girl en tered into a suicide pact that she drank poison prepared by Alessi at January 19 1931 but that he failed to take any of the n took tne woman to the Misericordia Hospital Philadel phia where she died four days later A coroners jury in Philadelphia pro the case a suicide to the before the died she exclaimed Mother forgive Im dying I was forced to do this Tom gave me to buy a lot in Mount cemetery When the mother according to in formation given the district attorney to also the ll nodded her head affirmatively Heads of Two Senior Mu sical Organizations As sure Cooperation Information given by Attorney gins showed that Mrs Boido retained Bonnelll Brothers a Philadelphia arm of lawyers but nothing was done interested Mr Diggins in the district attorney was Continued on Twentytwo MOVE ENDORSED Club Adds Pledge of Support to C of C Proposition Foreman Manager Club members unanimously pledged support to of the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce to have taxes reduced at the December meeting held last evening In the Y M C A building Seventh street and Edg avenue The support of the club was so by William F Delehanty manager of the Chamber of Com who made a short speech preceding the business meeting He explained the vital importance of the tax question to all citizens of the county saying Ownership of real estate has become a burden He read the recently adopted resolution of the Chamber of Commerce concern ing tax reduction and then told of the progress made to date A movement for the complete ap proval of the club members was made by Edwin McCadden of the Pure Oil Company and was seconded by Joseph Blakiston the action being followed by the unanimous approval of all members present Fred M Barden of Philadelphia who was the principal speaker of the evening was presented by Mr Dele hanty His topic was War Debts and Continued on Twentytwo ics of Times After all horse sense is only stable thinking observes an indus trialist Yes but its the lack of it that keeps Congress stalled Scoffing at suggestions of his friends that he be made Ambassador to France Jimmy Walker says run ning an embassy is an expensive business As if his running a city New York Endorsement of many of the lead ing institutions of this city has been given to the Y M C A boys band movement E T McCormick the organizer leader and instructor of the organiza tion which is controlled by a special j committee of leaders in civic and I boys activities has received letters of endorsement from the presidents of both the Chester Civic Orchestra and the Chester Symphony Society the citys leading musical organizations The following message to the or was sent by Karl E Agan j president of the Chester Symphony Society As president of the Chester I Symphony Society I am glad to en j dorse Mr McCormick and to ask that j the people of Chester support him in his efforts to organize a boys band Everything that can be done to foster music among the young people of our city should be encouraged A similar letter praising the boys band and giving the support of the Chester Civic Orchestra was accorded Mr McCormick by Phillip Tollin its president who said Your organiza Continued on A man should marry the girl who chooses him says a Northwestern University professor Wed like to see him get out of it Hospital officials announce that babies now are to cheaper than they used to be And the qual itys just the same Well theres one hopeful thing about the depression anyway As long as the economists try to cure it the patient must still be alive Men will walk out to sea to fight in the next war says J E William son the underseas explorer Picture doughboys chucking mer maids under the chin and going A W p L off the Grand Banks you can say for a cold wave is that it isnt a permanent WASHINGTON Dec UP Forecast for tonight and Friday Eastern Pennsylvania Partly cloudy and colder tonight much colder in southeast portion Friday Western Pennsylvania Partly cloudy and colder possibly ries along the lake tonight Friday partly cloudy
