Daily News (Newspaper) - February 27, 1931, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania PA HUNTINGDON COUNTYS OWN DAILY NEWSPAPER THE NEWS VOL 10 HUNTINGDON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 1931 THE In creasing Am Hy hi And West Or At Winds Shifting To Kust And Saturday NO 24 3 BANDITS Overrides Veto Veterans Loan Bee POLICE SEARCH FOR DARING GUNMEN IN STOLEN AUTO In Stolen Car Eat Lunch Then Demand Fire Immediately STEAL REVOLVER OVERLOOK CASH Greensburg Pa Feb 27 Three youthful bandits shot and killed Frank J McGreevey 39 proprietor of a barbecue stand along the road early today and escaped ia a stolen automobile The bandits secured 56 or from the cash register but overlooked about in one ot Sockets Two other persons In lunich room at the lime of the holdup and shooting Miss Mar garet McGreevey a clerk and John A Kegler McKeesport a customer were unable to give the proprietor assistance The three men described as well dressed aad unmasked en tered the place ordered and ate a lunch As they completed the lunch they ordered McGreevey to put up his hands As McGreevey was about to comply with the order be turned and was shot through the back witnesses said The men rifled his pockets securing the money and a revol ver and fled in a large sedan The stolen last night from in front of the home of D C according to police Pittsburgh Caldwell is a ot public Director Ciark Pittsburgh The barbecue is located several miles from Irwln to wards McGreevey had a premonition that he might be held up accord ing to Mrs John A Kegler wife of Kegler when he saw the men eating slowly Other patrons were leaving the room McGreevey slipped out of the barbecue and secured the license number of the automobile which the three had the stand He handed a slip paper with the number on i Mrs Kegler a waitress in the es driven to of to may need it according to c Keep it You McGreevey said Mrs Kegler It was through this paper that tue car was identified as the machine stolen in Pittsburgh several hours According to witnesses one ot the trio covered McGreevey with a gun while the others took a small amount of money from the cash register Wheres your money the youth with the gun demanded as he pressed the weapon against back to Brother Of Woman On Trial For Slaying faand Confesses Crime Philadelphia Feb defense rested its case today in the trial of Mrs Clara Grace Prophet District Attorney Kel ley immediately commenced his rebuttal The case may go to the jury before court adjourns for the night it was said During the closing hours of the trial the defendant told of the life she had endured with her husband William F Prophet who was slain in their home on November 22 by her brother Harold E Williams previously convicted of first degree murder As Mrs Prophet completed her two hours of testimony and pre times A Law pared to fainted When she leave the stand was revived her FRICTION LOOMS IN HOUSE AS CAUCUS OF G HELD Many Congressmen Absent Themselves On Account of Personal And Principles LONGWORTH SEES A TASK AHEAD By THOMAS L STOKES Stuff Correspondent Washington Feb she i Longworth took a new grip on j his leadership of House brother took the stand and repu his original confession in an effort to assume the blame for the slaying and save his sis ter from the electric chair 1 4 OTHERS WOUNDED AS HOLDUP FAILS Officers Tipped Off On Plans And Open Fire As Holdup Begins Only I Escaped Grants NSI Feb 27 One bandit was killed and four others seriously wounded when a band of sis walked last night in to an ambush two sheriffs who had been warned secretly aa would be made to hold up the Bond Sargent store Sheriffs Gallegos Valencia county and Crockett of county laid their ambush of depu ties three days ago after tii tip The bandits entered shortly after dusk and ordered G G manager to give the money The Hidden deputies answered with a volley of shots that rocked the building The bandits returned the fire hut the battle was short and onesided with them in the open wd the deputies hidden A ban dit named Rucker was killed in police In my hip pocket vey said McGree Without searching and without another word ac cording to police report the youth fired the bullet striking McGreevey in the and pierc ing his heart The bandit stooped and pulled a revolver from and the three made their Continued on Page Two Gov Issues Respite To Cambria Slayer Harrisburg jpa Feb 27 Joseph Parse Cambria county has been Governor Pinchot staying execution from Ire week beginning Monday k of murder granted a respite by Judge John Evans of Cambria county and Attorney General Schnader recommended the respite pending action of the State Supreme or appeals for new trials entered by three other men convicted in the same homicide with Parse Those whose appeals are are Carl Crow Frank Can and Frank Powell Bellefonte Pa Feb 27 Thomas F Martin 27 is sche to be executed in the elec tric chair at Rockview tiary next Monday while Joseph Cambria county originally scheduled to be executed Monday has been granted a respite until the week of April 9 Martin was convicted of slay ing C Cameron Cook 54 bank messenger duri a holdup 6 1929 in which be secured His case has been heard by the State Supreme Court and State Pardon Board Although one respite been granted Martia prison officials went forward with preparations for his execution with little ex critically the wounds of three ni escaped of the deputies were hurt cans today well aware his task henceforth would be no easy one For despite ail efforts to pre serve harmony several sources of future party friction bobbed up at last nights party caucus at which Longworth was renominated and Floor Leader was reelected The oil embargo controversy which has kept Republican ers in hot water for several days was brought to the notice ot the caucus through the absence of five regular Kansas Republi cans who stayed away iu protest Later there was a futile attempt to get the caucus to go on record in favor Of an embargo or tariff protection A dozen other seats served as portents of the fight next session on liberalization of House rules and progressive leg The caucus took cognizance of the rules liberalization campaign by adopting unanimously a reso lution offered by Rep Swing Calif instructing Republi can members of the Rules com to draft recommendations tho Ganges and report them to the caucus at the be ginning of the next Congress The resolution did not specify any particular changes It does not satisfy those for rather radical changes of the Kan absented them various ome Some them like and Rep j e Wiscon absentees are opposed to caucuses on principle Others had persona grievances such as Minn who is engaged i JUST A COMMON SLAIN GIRLS WARY MAY SOLVE CRIME REVEALS j Prominent NY Citizens An Police Officials Named May Outrival Becker Case Scarface Al Capone Public Enemy No A1 surrendered to federal in a with General tue st Park Supervisor Placed On Parole Fatally Injured Boy During Ball Game Pittsburgh Feb William Hartlep 00 supervisor of West lark convicted of manslaughter m connection with the death of a toy whom be was charged with striking with a base nan bat today was placed on par ole for two years fined 500 and costs and ordered to pay all hospit al and funeral costs incurred bv parents of the boy Hartlep was charged with fatal ly injuring j during an argument over a base ball biing staged by boys in toe park Immediately after sentence was pronounced by visiting Judge Mc Connell Beaver county a was made to 3000 employes of the Department of Public Works for subscriptions to raise a 000 fund to aid Hartlep in defraying the costs of the case released under bond pending set Brown over mastership There is potential trouble defection OPPOSES BIG IN CHICAGO RACE Mountain City Trust Co Of Closes Doors Pa Feb y Company u closed its doors today n an effort to protect depositors i cording to officiate No statement of condition was made doors here this week the g closed a few days ago citizens to bank officials at a and sentenced jail to six months in The Judge made his decision unexpectedly as soon as the final arguments were finished He had been expected to take the case under advisement The gang leader forewarned by remarks of the Judge during the final arguments gulped and when the jail sentence was decreed He refused to comi ment I The decision marked the firat time in 10 years of gant leadership in Chicago that had been he court The only other conviction behind his name was in Phila delphia in ano that for carrying Judge Wilkerson granted Qa cone a execution until bail of and an pa h f n attorneys 3d n en today knowing the second bank Unless the hysteria is come at the statement said the entire banking system of this district is threatened and lh s endanger untold hardship would all houses in and this see that delay The Mountain City Trust Com pany was said to be in good condi tion financially but its closing fol owed heavy withdrawals of depos he of the HERMAN Coroner Herman N Bundesen o Chicago has announced as an Independent candidate for mayor against William Hale Thompson and Anton Cermak Republican ana Democratic nominees Bun desen has been prominent in tor Harrisburg Pa Feb 7 Peter G Cameron State Secretary today that the Banking Department had tak en possession of the Mountain City i rust Company as tbe re sult of extraordinary withdrawals believed to have been caused by the closing of a private bank in AI toona last Tuesday George F Taylor Jr a special y has been in charge of the affairs of the Mountain City Trust Company y Since te closing of the Union Bank in last Tues day Secretary Cameron said there have been numerous withdrawals from other banks in that city showing an unrest on the part of depositors Particularly heavy withdrawals City Trust Company and the bank ins department decided it would be to the best interest of the stockholders and depositors if the took j of tin of the Tryst and that Capone would be fr on bond until then The Judge selected the Cook county jail as prison ee t apparently the famous Harry Sinclair case in mmd when he decided against the gang leader w he Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grossman had cited the case in final arguments Sinclair was sentenced to six was told down decision Judge Wilkerson brought out sev had in his own behalf and attitude 3 Firemen Hurt In Box Factory Blaze Pittsburgh Feb Mercy hospital SEEK TO DISCOVER SCENE CRIME Kn o court on a contempt charge and it was there that detectives served their vagrancy warrant Observe Als worried look wes AL CAPONE GETS 6 MOS IN JAIL Chicago Gang Leader Smiles As Judge Rules On Contempt Case Chicago Feb 27 A was found guilty of contempt of Federal Court today by Judge James H Wilkerson Slayer Of Woman Found Along Road In Va Re turned To N J Eizabeth KJ Feb 27 centered today on at tempts to exactly where Mrs Stader was killed prosecution of William B Prazer on charges oE killing her may be started Frazer who was returned to day from Raleigh x C had ad mitted shooting the woman with whom he had been friendly but claimed he 5s not certain where the shooting occurred He con tended the Shooting was tal a gun having been dis charged as he stepped out of his motor car Prosecutor Abe 7 David of Union county zer back said the case is in the bag He hopes soon to estab lish an which county Mrs Stader was killed Uncertainty as to where the woman was killed is based on the lact that Frazer and MTS Stader were en route through Aew Jersey in a motor car atthe time of the shooting After the woman had been killed Frazer drove on her lifeless body propp ed up in a seat to Bowling ho Probed clothing and threw the corpse alongside me road NOTES DISCLOSED PROBE STARTED New York Feb black books in which was written the diary of Vivian Gordon wer expected today to solve the mys tery iu her death a crime whia may reveal racketeering rivalling those of New Yorks 19 yearold Lieutenant Becker case Names of many figures i New Yorks night life were liste therein names oC police figurin in the current New York CU vice investigations were included incidents which have been written into police records of her owt activities were amplified an fear of one man was described I fear only John A He could get Cohen or some o his friends to dispose of me th diary read Police Commissioner Edwan P Mulrooney announced early to day that John A with offices in Brooklyn an for Mrs Gordon for two year and Sam Cohen alias Charle Harris were held for questioning on her personal affairs At the same time it was an that Andrew McLaughlin a plainclothes man partner o another plainclothes man indicted on charges of in vice cases would be Questions on his return Saturday from Bermuda had arrested Mrs Gordon on a vice charge in 1923 one of three arrests including a reformatory term chalked up against her And only a fev weeks ago Isidor S Kresel prose the investigation of minor court activities in this city re a note I have some information in connection with a frame up by police and others I appreciate an interview at your earliest convenience Gordon An appointment made for her was not kept for some unknown reason With discovery of the womans body yesterday along the road way in Van Park and subsequent investigation it was learned that McLaughlin left for Bermuda last Saturday for weeks vacation woman told police had confided to him her intention of making Mc Laughlin suffer for arresting her the arrest which resulted in her sentence on a vice charge He protested the case was Ill make him suffer Ill give him the needle she said She wrote a let ter contents unknown to Mc on Page Two PNEUMONIA THREAT SENDS SCREEN STAR TO BED FOR WEEK n Rebuilding occupied by the D J Rex Box company mm the were over come by smoke The third failing when ff the flooring gave way None In serious condition was e was estimated at Treasury Balan Washington Feb Treasury net balance The on jat day were receipts for Fearing developments of pneu monia doctors have ordered Constance Bennett screen star to remain bed at least a week at her home in Hollywood She became ill there yesterday from Influenza Work on a in which she is to receive a week for fife been DEACON DUBBS IS Three Act Comedy By Local Talent In Reformed Church Deacon Dubbs from Sorghum Center State of West will arrive at this evenins Final preparations were made last evening by the Areta and Kappa Chi classes of the Abbey Reformed Church school for the arrival of Deacon a jov ial and kind hearted farmer from Sorghum Center State o West The citizenry of Huntingdon cannot afford to miss the oppor ot meeting this distin gentleman when he makes his appearance in our city this evening at for the first time Trixie Coleman the niece of Deacon Dubbs is ready to play her pranks upon her The members of the cast for the play Deacon Dubbs have been working faithfully lor the past months to put across their parts in a creditable manner a large and appreciative audience is re quested to make their efforts worthwhile The small admission fee of fifty cents is all that asked from the citizens for evening of entertainment pleasure is this and The brass industry certainly is lucky About the lost the railing marked the saxa Shone market opened up Bomb Found In Ambassadors Car Paris Feb today seized a grenade which had been placed iu the automobile Count Manzoni the Italian Ambassador to Prance The explosive was discovered by tbe Ambassadors chauffeur be fore Count Manzoni entered the A police investigation was started immediately Meanwhile were retic ent discovery as the Ambassador had asked them not to announce the affair RUSH OF BUSINESS HAMPERS HOOVER ON TWO MEASURES SENATE APPROVES VETS MEASURE BY VOTE OF 76 TO 17 Necessary TwoThirds Vott By Senate Is Conceded By Advocates And Opponents VOTE IN HOUSE WAS 328 TO Executive Veto On Wagne And Norm Bills Expected Over Veto Doubtful By PAUL K Stan Correspondent Washington Feb dent Hoover fears that the rusl ot business will pre vent him from acting before week on the modified Norri Muscle Shoals and the Wag ner Unemployment measure was learned at the White House today The bills are going through the normal course oC all such measures anci now are tied up ii the War and Labor Departments it was learned The Presiden will find it impossible to them before Monday if then i was said The delay may seal the fate o the bills Parliamentarians be only good chance now of their becoming a law Mr Hoover to sign Against this possibility is for them come authoritative information that the President is opposed to both measures in their present form IE both bills should be sen back to the Capitol Monday with a veto only two days would re main in which Congress could pass them over a veto Unlike the Veterans Loan Mil these two measures are opposed by a strong minority House leaders say it would be impossible to pass the Muscle Shoals over a veto and leaders on both sides are doubtful about the Wagner The shortness of time makes the possibility of favorable action even more remote Mr Hoover may save himself the trouble of acting upon the bills and kill them by pocketing them No measure to Congress would be necessary in that event A dozen or more Senators anfi Representatives have called at the Executive offices during the past lew days urging the dent to sign the Muscle Shoals Mr Hoover has listened to all but said point nothing his asso out most of the callers are Democrats who have had little influence at the White House during this administration PLAYS POLITICS Artemisia Cal es above youngest daughter of Calles of Mexico an show her noted father a hing or two in the game of poH ics Seeking election as carnival at an exclusive San Diego alif school where sho attends calles wired political riends m Mexico City for their the aid of the Mexican Consul was forthwith enlisted nd when the balloting ended Tiss Calles was votes ner nearest competitor By C Correspondent Washington Feb 27 The Senate today passed the Veterans loan over President Hoovers veto aud the measure became aw The vote in the Senate was 76 to 17 The vote yesterday lu the house was 328 to 79 The vetoed yesterday wni immediately passed for the ond time by the House by an overwhelming majority and sent to the Senate The Senate how ever chose to hold it over unlit today when it became the first order of business Washington Feb 27 The son ate begun consideration of the Vet erans Compensation shortly after 11 a m today circum stances assuring its passage over President Hoovers veto The question announced Vice President Curtis is on passage oi the the objections of the Pres ident of the United States to tlie contrary notwithstanding The clerk will caI Senator Renn to obtain an immediate vote and be gan a speech which he said would be brief reviewing the history of the dispute The galleries were crowded to the doors as on Feb 19 when tke Senate first passed the biil Veter ans who could not find seats crowded the narrow spaces behind the galleries In one gallery Sat Fascist cadets in uni form who have come from Italy to study physical culture under tha aegis of Bernard MacFadden addressing the Sen ate expressed pointed disagree ment with Jtr Hoovers analysis of which would be crest ed by enactment of the loan mea sure If there is a tax increase he said it will not be because ot this will be because of a budgetary Quoting from the Presidents message the assertion that thers is not a penny in the Treasury to meet the demands of the he said that was true only in the sense that a trust fund containing three quarters of a billion dollars has not a penny in it Senator Hastings Republican Del in a speech against the said that some would steal the certificate from their wives and go out ana borrow money to spend the night with another woman Cries of no no came from the allery despite a warning just Senator Moses Republican N H who was presid ing that gallery visitors were of the Senate and were not permitted to express any senti ments about proceedings on the floor Hissing also was audible from the galleries after Hastings re marks Attendants rushed around to quiet the gallery crowds Name one soldier will do nat demanded Senator Barkley Dem Ky 0 I will not name one Hast ings replied He said Barkley knew as well as he what would happen Barkley insisted the Delaware Senator name one and Hastings re plied that was not fair I should like to know in quired Senator Tydings Democrat Aid at that point In what re spect soldiers in the mass are dif ferent from Senators in the Replying to Tydings said I am stating frankly what ev ery Senator knows Im not casi ng any reflections on the diers of fho country It amounts o this there is no money in the to meet this demand you go out to the other citizens of this and get it by or It is simply that I am not fraid the government cant bor ow 1000000000 but I want to that the government hould not have to borrow to give o men simply because they are who do not need the In a few years Hastings con We will have senators here telling us to forgive he interest on these loans They will tell us the rates are nt Continued on Page
