Chester Times (Newspaper) - August 4, 1934, Chester, Pennsylvania NOW FINAL EDITION With All Latest and of the Day 17972 Leased Wire Reports of United Press UP and News Service INS CHESTER PA SATURDAY AUGUST 4 3934 PLANNING LOVE MURDER IN NEW CONFESSION Police Say Alleged Boat Slayer Wanted to Get Rid of McKechnie Girl vVi 1 kes B a r r e Man Is Charged With First De gree Murder WILKESBARRE Pa Aug first degree murder charge today stood against Robert Edwards Lothario who slew one of his so he would be free to another But despite Bobs alleged confes sion that he deliberately planned the murder of Freda 26 Ed church worker the other girl itill believes in him Margaret Grain old music teacher of East Aurora N Y visited with Edwards yesterday She assured him in a 20 minute conference that she did not believe him guilty of the brutal though he ad mitted it Id rather not talk now Miss Crain said after her meeting with Bob Ill do my utmost to aid him Edwards however told a new story today of the slaying indicating the murder was premeditated District Attorney T M Lewis said Edwards in a second confession told how he wanted rid of Freda who was soon to a mother and marry Miss Bob and to the alleged confession went to Harveys lake last Monday night The youth told the girl of his desire to marry another Miss McKechnie took the startling news calmly and the couple entered the lake for R swim Edwards Prosecutor Lewis said drew a black jack from his bathing suit and beat Freda on the head Previously Edwards told a story that Miss McKechnie fainted when he told her hc was going to marry Miss Grain according to Lewis The youth it was said tried to revive Freda but was unsuccessful To make her death look like an ac the first alleged confession was reported to state Edwards ran to his automobile got a black jack struck Miss McKechnie on the head and threw her body into the water Lewis said Edwards admitted he told lies in his first confession and that the boy said the second version of the slaying was the whole truth The horror of the story did not dim Miss Grains love for Bob When they met In the Luzerne County Prison there was Oh my dear I am so glad you have come Edwards said And I have been trying to see you all day Bobbie dear Margaret told the prisoner The two were permitted 16 move out of earshot and talk for 20 min utes When the time wss up Bob put his arm wound Margaret and again they kissed Do you feel better now that you have seen him Miss Crain was asked How could I help it she replied She left the prison with a relative of Edwards Prison officials said Edwards old self confidence had returned today His former attitude of dejection and remorse vanished after the other girl in the triangular affair prom ised him her loyalty and support STOCKS IRREGULAR IN EARLY MARKET CHILD KILLED AS PARENTS LOOK ON Patricia Whitehead old of the Shirer Apartments Park avenue Swarthmore was fatally in jured yesterday when she was struck by an automobile on the highway near her home The child with her parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Whitehead were leaving to spend a weekend vaca tion at Ocean City Mrs Whitehead with her daughter was awaiting her husband on Park avenue near the Pennsylvania Railroad station When he appeared and waited to cross the child excited by the pros of the trip dashed out to meet him when tragedy clouded their summertime happiness The child ran directly into the path of a car driven by Miss Mary Banon of Yeadon who rushed the victim to the Chester Hospital where she was pronounced dead Deputy Coroner George White was notified and removed the body to morgue at Third and Norris streets Miss Banon was placed un der arrest and released under bond to await the action of the coroner APPROVE BOND FOR FRY Set at County Tax Duplicate Here Is About The bond of Edward S Fry col lector of county and poor taxes in this city was approved yesterday by County Commissioners Hunter and Desmond in an adjourned meeting held in the court house at Media The bond issued bythe New York Casualty Company is in the sum of It was later turned over to County Solicitor Williams to receive the approval of the court The tax duplicate of county and poor taxes for the city of this year is about much less than the amount of the 1933 cate It was also reported that the bond ot V Ervin Bond tax collector of Upper Darby had received approval Only six tax collectors bonds are outstanding for this year It was said and they will be submitted shortly it is expected The awarded to Lees and Hill of Philadelphia an order for a special filing cabinet for No 3 court room at their low bid of This and two other bids were opened NEW YORK Aug Chrysler Corporation equaled its low for the year at 32 off i in the early trading on the Stock Exchange to uay while the general stock list con to move irregularly in a nar row range with volume small Leading issues in various eased at the outset and some of them gave ground funher in the later dealings Steel Common opened at off and hen dipped toward 34 was at 109 off i Schenley 20 ofT Union Carbide off Loews ofT and American Smelting of 4 J C Penney opened at up points In the first six months of 1934 the company had net profit of or a common share against or a share in the corresponding period of 1933 Utility shares slipped back small amounts following the speech of President Roosevelt in which he in further government compe tition in the utility business Frac tional losses were sustained by Stand ard Gas Consolidated Gas Ameri can Water Works Columbia Gas and North American Trading continued very dull after the opening Chrysler broke below 32 a new 1934 low J I Case dropped more than a to Railroad issues continued to decline after an irregular opening Pennsylvania Rail road equaled its 1934 low at 23 H General Motors opened at off and then broke to below 27 U BALANCE WASHINGTON AugT 4 INS balance as Of August 2 internal revenue in customs receipts last Tuesday Warden Fellman submitted bids which he had received ifor 320 rods or wire fencing for use Farm The bid on Buffalo 87 cents a rod on Columbia cents a rod and on Pittsburgh Steel 94 V cents The bids were referred to the county controller The appointment of S K Palmer as temporary bridge inspector was made for work on the repairs to the Addingham bridge The commissioners extended for 30 days the sale dates on properties on which taxes are delinquent for the years 1930 1931 and 1932 DAVIS SEES NATION TURNING TO G O P WASHINGTON Aug James J Davis R back at his desk after a tour of hc west predicted yesterday the lican parly would gain two Senate scats and a number of House scats in the Northwest at the November is back to the Re elections The trek publican party Davis told reporters Members of both parties told me believe Republicans are juing to gain at least two Senate seats in the Northwest The Senator declined to be more specific as to what States ex I to go Republican This is era now cver he said Two years from now well be in the paying era anc will have a people Were not going to return to prosperity by Government spending Government spending is like priming the pump with an approve of the Government program but not as a substitute for private enterprise Davis mentioned the Grand and Bonneville dam projects the Government has underway in the State of Washington The Government is spending tre mendous sums of money there he said but private power corporations arc not spending a cent for sion because they dont know what HORSES WITHDRAWN FROM RACES TODAY By Unites Press AT HAWTHORNE Geronimo Try It Howard off clear track fast AT DETROIT In Motion Max dw track fart Burning Feet this Government going to mean competition is PRICE TWO CENTS LAST HONORS FOR HINDENBURG AS GERMANY MOURNS HIS DEATH EACH SIDE HOLDS TILT Two ol I lie stand at the bier of bed on which he died ai his home of ilen d Marshal von us lie body m in 1 his picture was transmitted to the United States by F P R OUTLINES POWER POLICY Pledges Yardsticks on Prices in Speech at Bon neville Project ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE GRAND C O U L E E WASH Aug resident Roosevelt was on his way to inspect another great power project today after forcefully the gov to creation of yardsticks of value to show the public whether it is paying too much for privately produced electricity Mr Roosevelt and his party will arrive at Grand Coulee Wash today and inspect th vast government power and reclamation project that centers about a dam being con across the upper Columbia 100 miles west of Spokane Yesterday soon after he barked from the cruiser Houston at Portland Ore ending a sea voyage eastern coast to Hawaii the President inspected the dani arid power project of the Lower Columbia 40 miles East of Portland In a brief speech at Mr Roosevelt revealed that he still hoped to see concerted power development of the St Lawrence river despite the Senates defeat of the United States Canada St Waterway Treaty The river project hc he said is the third of the govern ment yardsticks the others being the Colorado river and the Tennessee river projects And another the St Lawrence is going to be started he said Mr Roosevelt was cheered by hun dreds that lined the Columbia river Continued on Last rage MYSTERY BURGLAR FLEES AMID SHOTS The mysterious man who during the past several weeks has burglarized homes in various sec tions of the city escaped amid a fusillade of shots when detected in an apartment at 201 East street early this morning The intruder secured two valuable watches before his movements awak ened Mrs Olin Lyons When de he crawled from the room on his hands and knees and then ran downstairs followed by Mr Lyons who shot in his direction The in truder escaped but left fingerprints that were later photographed by Charles Dunlap Jr local fingerprint expert DR WEISENBURG 58 NEUROLOGIST DIES Dr widely known H neuropsychiatrist CUBA ASKS ARREST OF MACHADO AS KILLER of the archives of neurology and psychiatry and for mer president of the American Neurological died In the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia yesterday after an illness of more than a year He was 58 years old A pioneer in the use of motion HAVANA Aug State De last night instructed the Cuban minister to the Dominican Re public to request the arrest of President Gerardo Machado pending a request for extradition based on seven charges including murder Linwood Radio a Week Stilt A radio set has been in operation since last week In the home of Mr and Mrs Andrew Davis on Huddell avenue Linwood who are of town The fact was discovered by Joseph of Ihc Lin wood Fire Company headquarters located opposite the Davis residence who heard orchestral music shatter ing the stillness of the night early yesterday Hickey MIS awakened by the music and upon out the firehouse windows saw that all the homes In the immediate vicinity were darkened Looking directly across the street he could sec through the Davis front window and noticed a tiny beam of light burning in the parlor He walked across the street and up on porch of the home and upon looking in the window saw I hat the light was the pilot bulb on the radio set The music was com ing from the set that had been in operation since the family went away Ic is stUl on 1 GASHES WRIST ON BROKEN WINDOW McCausland 23 of 224 Cherry street Sharon Hill was ad mitted lo the Delaware County Hos pital last night after gashing Ills wrist on a broken window pane McCnusland told authorities thai hc was attempting to raise a window in liis home at about oclock last night when he slipped and thrust his arm through the glass in at tempting lo save himself He sus several severed arteries and tendons A friend Kenneth Bow man 23 of 44 Boone avenue Sharon Hill rushed him to the hospital where ho was treated and admitted Ke is resting comfortably this morn ing He is the son of Mrs Viola Mc Causland CLOSED BANK TO PAY 11 P C MORE Suburban Title and Trust tors Checks Soon to Get Checks for il per cent of their deposits will be mailed io 17338 de of the closed Suburban Title and Trust Company of Upper Darby an August 16 and two days previous lo this date 5248 depositors of the Title nnd Trust Com pany will receive dividend checks for 8 per cent of their deposits Dr Wil liam D Gordon State Secretary of Banking has announced With the U per cent dividend to depositors of the Suburban and Trust Company a total of 36 per cent will have been made available The remaining deposit liability Is 28310 and there are on hand assets with a book value of an praised at for further dation The payment by the Title and Trust Company will amount to and will bring the total percentage received by depositors to 33 per cent The remaining net de posit liability of the institution is and there are assets on hand with a book value of G appraised at Dr Gordon announced at the same time a 40 per cent dividend to depositors of the Valley Deposit and Trust Company Belle a 10 per cent payment to depositors of the Heights Deposit Bank Wilkes Barre and a 33 and onehalf per cent payment to depositors of the Erie Trust Company Erie The five dividends all of which will be paid between August M and 17 will place 69322 In the hands of 49092 depositors THR JURE IN ODD ACCIDENTS FRANCE BUYS AIRPLANE CONTROLS PARIS Aug Air Ministry has bought patents for fool proof airplane controls which an aviator works by pressing a of buttons the newspaper Lc Matin said today The inventors four engineers work ing together now have begun experi ments which they hope will make possible an airplane operated from the lly drop bombs and fire machine guns One Button in the control system bought by the ministry controls wing movements and provides automatic stability other buttons bring right and turns ascent descent nnd horizontal flight By pressing but tons in combination such evolutions as spirals are possible U S K BUILDING SPAN Engineers Constructing Pontoon Bridge in Place of One Washed BRIDGETON N J UP by a flood that away its bridges and damaged crops and property halves will be connected today uy a pontoon bridge Two companies of the First Engin eers United Stales Army arrived here at dawn to construct a pon toon bridge across the river Pontoon boats stringers nnd floor ing were brought hern on 12 large army wagons Officers said the bridge would be ready for use In a couple of hours depending on the river cur rent The disastrous flood occurred when six small dams burst after a rainfall of six and one halt inches in less than four hours In addition to the heavy property damage the flood waters wrecked the city pumping station cutting oft its drinking water supply Health of said today that water supplied the city Is now polluted nnd unsafe for drinking unless it Is boiled first ARK AS WIFE BEATER Nine years of married life and the presence of his two terrorstricken and cowering children failed to de ter an East man from allegedly beating up his wife and knocking her down with his fist yes Thr man who gave his name as William A 28 143 Beverly avenue was arrested by East Lans downc police when neighbors phoned headquarters that hc was beating his wife Marion 25 years old He was arraigned U S BRITAIN IN Discuss Pacific Naval Co operation in Certain Contingencies PARIS Aug The United States and Grew Britain were re ported today lo have been In com the possibility of naval cooperation In the Pacific in event the conference failed Though the reports were not con firmed they came from informed naval quarters hero It was said the discussions concerned defense plans from Aus tralia to Alaska based on the possi that Japan would insist on maintaining its claim to equality causing the great powers to engage in a building race The United States It was said it thu agreement concluded would proceed with defense plans in Alaska nnd the Ha walian Islands while i Britain with plans to build it second naval and air at Port Darwin on the Australian continent and simultane complete the great Singapore base both buses would be available lothe United States it was said The exact nature of the proposals were withheld pen continuance of negotiations between British and American experts at London prepara tory to the 1935 conference Naval sources said that Britain would be glad to cooperate with the United States If this conference proved futile Much Interest attached here to the visit of Sato Japanese ambassador lo France to Toklo He was expected to return with a fair idea of what Japan will seek at the 1935 conference Maxim Russian foreign minister Is expected to propose n treaty of mutual assistance for Pa nations If Russia Is invited to the conference Japan it was thought here might object to such a treaty it was granted full naval equal ity which the United States seem In disposed to grant ORLEANS La Auc augmented force of National Guardsmen with more machine guns trained on the City Hall was the answer of U S Senator Huey Long and his political machine today to a court order demanding that the be disbanded To prevent possible seizure by the state troops thn city administration strengthened Us force of armed policemen stationed in the city Four that some untoward act might bring ah mined clash between the two forces caused an air of appre hension The city voters registration across the street from tho city hall WHS nn armed today Guards men who have held it since the martial law proclamation was Issued Monday carried additional machine guns tear gas bombs and the night The militiamen were equipped with steel helmets Senator Long and Brigadier Gen eral Raymond Fleming have refused to obey the mandate of District Nathaniel Bond ordering that the demobilization of I he National Guard Contempt charges against the two loomed as a possibility Gco L Fanumi N Provi dence Estate Set at The estimated value of the per sonal estate of George L late of The Acres Beatty road Nether Providence Is placed al 000 In probating his will at Media although bequests totalling tiives that amount nro made Thu Income from Is to be paid to Elizabeth H for life tho will directs lifter which the principal is to no to the children o n cousin Frances Breed of Law N J The income of is lo RO to two cousins Kate and Tif fany and the principal of this fund Is likewise to be to Mrs children The Income of Is lo be to a cousin Aubrey H Martin who is also to receive Mr jewelry guns and other sporting equipment Elizabeth L of Ruxlon Md another cousin Is to receive the Income from two funds of Cach and from one of Mrs is to receive Mr curios bronzes etc v Robert L Martin a cousin Is tt receive outright and L Martin another cousin James M Earle an employe L left and Harry Stanley Hugh Ross other employes each The soil of a cousin Henry W Far num is given and University Is given as well n any balance in the estate Mr Farnums collection of horns animal heads and other natural his tory specimens arc given to tin B A K ON ADVICE OF BORAH Continued on Last Tag FERRY AIDS CHILD INJURED IN CRASH GLENNS FERRY Ida Aug The price of white bread dropped a cent a loaf here A small girl Injured In nn auto mobile accident near Bridgeport N J last night was aided to medica assistance by attendants of the who called I he boat In operation fo a special trip In order to get her t a hospital She was riding In the automobil of her parents her father driving when the car skidded on the wet roa surface and crashed into a passing physician stopped and ap piled a tourniquet to the right arn of the child The father whose name was no ascertained by ferry righted his car and rushed her to th terminal of the Ferry Company where the 01 day after Senator William E Borah duty H sounded th n promised to provide siren and called the boat tied scl without expense to R baker if he in this city to the oilier shore should be prosecuted for defying an NRA code authority administrators order E W the only baker here Increased his wholesale and retail bread prices one cent lo 7 and 10 cents August 1 In accordance Three victims of unusual accidents jast nigh were treated at the Taylor Memorial Hospital Ridley Park yesterday Charles Murray of Elmwood avenue Folcroft received a severely lacerated right hand when hc was closing a spigot In his store Several sutures before Magistrate Wil with an order Issued by Sid Graven st nigh and held Twin Palls bakery code dcr bail lo keep the peace I for Southern Idaho After re was d as a man he Senators message In rc rig sawng wood studying nervous patients he showed in 1913 several miles of film which recorded the actions and expressions of persons suffering nervous ail treated at the who drank too much and was in to be a bully The magistrate said he would like to be informed why two people who could be married for nine years couldnt arrange their affairs so as to and harmony together In peace ments DICTATOR LOOMS IN MINNEAPOLIS Governor Orders Strike Settled in 48 Hours to Avoid Drastic Measure Charles Stof 15 of 18 Ashland ave nur gashed his wrist with a tin can which he had been swinging on a string Several stitches closed h wound DIKS SCRANTON Pa Aug Dr Jonathan M Wainwright sur of the Moses Taylor Hospital and nationally known for his research work died at his home here today a victim of the disease hc had spent most of his life and fortune battling SLA Y ER A M E D IN VICTIMS WILL Charles deaf mute of Philadelphia charged with healing his sister Helen to death is the first named in her will Ths document filed for probate in Philadelphia directs that her estate valued at be divided among Charles Nathan and Albert her brothers Charles Is held without ball for trial MINNEAPOLIS Aug Governor Floyd B Olson today ex tended for 48 hours deadline of his ultimatum to 6000 striking truck drivers and their employers Unless the ong lobor battle Is ended by Sun day midnight Minneapolis will be ruled by the autocratic methods of a military dictator Olson had planned to order trucks except those transporting the most essential commodities off the streets at midnight but labor lead ers and employers representatives Mill were discussing peace and the hope for caused ex tension The governor def aligned himself on the side of the workers declaring he was deter mined the drivers would get decent terms from the employers National Major Crimes Decrease Police Survey Indicates Statistics covering a threeyear period and now being compiled by Police Superintendent James A reveals that while honi and other crimes are on the decrease in this city other crimes arc on the increase especially burglaries and store robberies The report will be completed within a days it is said According to criminal experts veteran police officials who have made years of study on the question Chester has inadequate police At present the force is composed of ap proximately 55 men including turn i keys patrol drivers telephone man detectives traffic men ser geants and captains who do not pa trol any certain area The logical setup for an Indus trial city such as this is said U be one policeman exclusive of those men in the preceding paragraph for every thousand persons This would require a force approximately double the strength of the present one In addition lo the shortage of men local police officials are confronted with inadequate equipment Chester is the only city of its size in Eastern Pennsylvania that is without modern fl w t on board operators clerks a fingerprint Uwt sponse to an appeal for advice as lo the course lo pursue lowered the prices to former Allen B Eaton of Boise labor com of the NRA head quarters offices for Idaho said it would that was within his In declining to abide by the order in view of President Roose velts executive order exempting busi in towns of less than 2500 pop which do not employ more lhan five and do not com pete other businesses ADDITION TO Stone Build ing to Adjoin Seventh Ward Institution the bc On a vacant lot in 800 block of Third street low the Mercy Hospital which about months ago was placed in a fund a stone Colonial style building will be erected in which the clinics dispen sary and nurses quarters of the hos pital will be housed HITLER ISSUES ORDERS FOR HINDENBURG Tells Nation Con duct Itself During Serv ices on Tuesday Begins Drive to Send Voters to Polls at Aug 19th Election BERLIN Hitler has one of the greatest mass demonstrations of the people in his ory for Tuesday In observance of tha of President von Hindenburg In his new capacity as der Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Hitler today is sued instructions to the people of Germany on how they arc to con duct themselves while the funeral ceremonies in distant the Polish corridor in East Prussia arc going on H probably will be the greatest in stance of popular regimentation in but a regimentation that will easy task for the government so arc the people to do honor to their dead hero In his instructions Hitler has asked Ihc German people to devote to the commemoration of the President field the fifteen minutes between 1145 a in and noon Tuesday At noon theic win be one minute ol absolute silence throughout the nation except for the lolling of the bells as the people stand with heads bared praying and look InK toward the cast and where with the panoply of the medieval Teutonic knights home from the crusades with the banners of heraldry flying and the pomp and circumstance of an age that riled In the national solemnizes the fu neral of its great captain But there is one big point Hitler did not give n flna Cling on Where It was learned from a source very close to that he is firmly re from participating in tha discussions now going on at over the place of burial The final decision as to whether Neudeck or will be tho field marshals last resting place may be contained in jast Continued on MRS MOTHER OF NEW YORK Aug s first born willnot follow in his footsteps firmly established to nay wnen H was announced that tha former heavyweight champions wife had given birth to a seven and a ha f pound girl at Hospital Bo h Mrs who was Hannah Williams stage star and the baby were reported doing well reported Max Waxman business man Mn a lot Punishment uhl Hc was up all night the floor But he loo Is resting well now Dempsey had expressed the the baby would be a boy If Is Im goln to match him with Gene kid as soon as they are big enough he said as he was walking up and down the hos pital corridors After he learned he had nin rlr Of n pion quickly assured his friends that satisfied Just so long as they arc bothall ght I hc said HOUSING PROGRAM READY TO START WASHINGTON Aug 4 of tha The boat made a hurried trip across in response to the walling o the signal and the damaged cnr wa aboard As the return trip wa made with but thn one vehicle on th boat members of the crew In the tourniquet on childs arm A check on local hospital reports made morning did not show where the child was taken B A N FROM CAM DEN BANK N J AMR dar ing bandits escaped with from a branch of the National Bank yesterday In a holdup en while more than 400 men nnd women wailed in the same room to get their weekly pay The was completed with such quiet nnd skill that the holdup men strolled from the bank safely past guards and the crowd of wait ing with the stuffed in their pockets The robbers stepped into a cage occupied by George Shannon of chief teller One pointed a pistol at Shannon holding the weapon so low those outside could not sec His accomplice un armed helped him handle the money which Shannon was forced to give over in bundles of ten and twenty dollar bills currency ter SI 500000000 housing program from paper into action was almost ready today for first test The housing administration which hopes to pui 1500000 men back to work through loans to home owners for repairs modernization and build ing Ls finishing drawing up the re for those loans Administrator James A Moffatt hopes to have copies of the regula tions in the hands of the 18000 financial who will finance campaign by tha middle of next week 34 REPORTED DEAD IN DYNAMITE BLAST HIROSHIMA Japan Aug An explosion of dynamite today killed 34 laborers on a power dam construction here Officials said the dynamite was set ofT by heat of the sun Topics of Times FIND U S ARMY IN WEAK POSITION WASHINGTON Aug The twentieth anniversary of the start of the World War finds Ihc The building a Army in a relatively weaker en t U in t n Of 52 feet on Third street and will run to a depth of 60 feet The im provement will not only be an aid to the suffering but an improvement which will add to the beauty of the neighborhood Its cost which will run Into several thousand dollars will be defrayed by donations from four former patients of the hospital whose names have not as yet been disclosed The necessity for the erection of position than it was shortly before the United States entered the Eu ropean conflict This was disclosed today by a high ranking military chief attached to the War Department general staff A national defense survey confirmed his views ISSUES SCHOOL BAN MADRID Aug gov banned coeducation in all primary schools today on the ground bad effect on v A trolley car here jumped the tracks at Seventh and Welsh streets the other day Maybe it saw the Ford cowboys on their way home Treat your horse as you would a lady reads a local academy ad 01 ess to its patrons But will not accept a A domestic note informs us that table scraps can be converted into something useful Divorces for ex ample And common summer colds ars caused from lack of Vitamin A we read How about going to sleep without covers Explorers have just found 200000 lost natives of New Guinea And all this time the natives never realized they were lost British Broadcasting Company has barred the song Love Thy Neighbor from the air Europe might take it as a personal affront The Weather WASHINGTON Aug Eastern Pennsylvania and Sunday north and west portions Si Western antl Sunday warmer Sunday ia wet
