New Castle News (Newspaper) - March 21, 1931, New Castle, Pennsylvania NEWS PHONES 4000 Telephone Yum News To The Call 4000 NEW WEATHER Cloudy Tonight Followed By Rain Sunday No Change In Temperature FIFTY-FIRST YEAR No 151 NEW CASTLE PA SATURDAY MARCH PAGES THREE CENTS A COPY President To Make Address On Arrival In Porto Rico President To Make Address In Porto Rico Expects To Speak Briefly At San Juan After Arrival Monday SPEECH WILL BE BUT WORDS OF GREETING Hoover Makes Inspection Of Spotless Battleship During Day By GEORGE E International Service Staff ABOARD U S S ARIZONA TO FORTO RICO IMar area entered by the Battleship zona today on to the Caribbean made the newly born sprinc season pleasantly real for President Hoover and his party Flannels appeared as if by magic and officers changed into spotless white The great steel ship plowing along at an average speed of fourteen knots was also spick and span after generous applications of elbow grease by several hundred sailors who trimmed her down for a cap- inspection this morning The chief inspector will be the president of the United States of course accompanied by War tary Patrick J Hurley and tary of the Interior Ray Lyman Forty hours after leaving Old Point Comfort the was proceeding along east of Palm on Paje Two Spring Gentle Spring A With Sunshine Baseball House Cleaning Time Robins Automobiles Polished Golfers Get Clubs Out Of Attics And Clean Them Up All Prove Harbingers Of Season That Is At Hand Very Mild Winter Has Passed International Service Several apparently unrelated and irrelevant events occurring happening and taking place over this broad land took on an ed significance today Way down south and way out west exhibition ball games of Mrs housewife appearing at the door and vigorously shaking moth balls from gaily colored ments were reported Grim determination to correct that darn slice was noted in the annual pilgrimage of golfers to the attic to dig out the Unconfirmed reports that Robins had been seen in isolated sectors trickled into newspaper offices The family automobile was gently urged from its place or hibernation and given a vigorous It's useless to go further You've already guessed that Spring arrived this morning at nine o'clock PA OBSERVES AS YET ON Planned Increase For Income Taxes Will Re Delayed International News PITTSBURGH Mar 21 Dr Charles Freeman dean of men at Westminster college 34 years was appointed acting president of the institution pending election of a new president at the regular meeting of the board of trustees it was learned today Dr W Charles Wallace who de- signed recently as head of minster effective commencement day 1931 applied for and was granted leave of absence until com- day with the proviso that he return to the college and take charge of the commencement Painters busy trimming up fire escapes downtown School boys and girls out with their roller skates New Easter dud displays town One man oiling a rusty-looking lawnmower Robins cardinals and other The 21st date on the calendar Understand the fine George ington junior high school athletic fleld won't go to waste this spring They plan to utilize it for an inter- class baseball league track events other things Announcement of Councilman Stanley Treser of the program con- for early spring improvement work in the shape of streets to be paved as given in council yesterday is one that sounds good Plans should be made for carrying it through at the earliest possible ment The city is arranging for a bond issue of to carry the city's end ot the expense j Road supervisors of i township are devoting some tion to the condition of avenue extension from the city The committee in charge of lection of a new president is under- stood to have reported that no de- had yet been made The committee it was said would not again report to the board until the next regular meeting in June Gas Tax Evaders Are Censured By Governor Pinchot Governor In Weekly Radio Denounces Those Who Steal From State PRAISES WORK OF SECRETARY KING Departs From Utilities At- tack To Review able Condition its across to the Wilmington road The road was ashed and is now be- ins touched up with toe gravel With consistent attention this will be one of the most travelled in the North Hill section and will soon face an era of building development that will add to the value of the township While the spring and summer im- provement projects arc being lined up the work of opening North cer street through should not be neglected The project is one re- quiring Joint action by the city and township and probably the county Considerable attention was at- to the moving of the big tree I which now being transplanted on lawn at the home of R C Love j on North Jefferson street The tree A full grown one was hauled to the Love home Thursday evening being transported on a trailer attached to the rear of a big truck International News Service Mar a year and a hair of its existence under the previous administration the State Department of Revenue stood idly by while hundreds of oline dealers swindled the state of millions of dollars due in gasoline That was the charge standing forth today made by Governor ford Pinchot in his week radio ad- dress In vigorous unmincing words the Governor characterized the tion as a not only of money but of good roads Attacks Collection Departing from his favored sub- ject of Utilities the Governor In his radio address made a heated attack on methods followed in collecting the gas tax and urged support of a now before the assembly for col- lection of the tax at the source The delinquent gas tax total he declared has grown from about in 1929 to between four and five million dollars now The De- of Revenue began tion of the tax in July 1929 The only possible Gov Pinchot declared is almost incredible negligence or fraud or both For example Allegheny ty between August 1 and January 31 1931 produced a gas tax return of Philadelphia County had twice as many registered i les but during the same period the U S weather bureau statistics for i pas tax return in Philadelphia the 24 hour period ending at 9 j County was o'clock this morning Few forms ol thievery are more Maximum temperature Daily Weather j Report t taxes Minimum temperature 23 precipitation River stage 6.6 feet to be despised than that practiced i by scores of delinquent dealers I Commissioned by the state to col- j Continued On Pan Not Until After Presidential Election Will Income Taxes Be Boosted EXPECT DEFICIT OF Trend Of Business Activity In Next Twelve Months Will Be ant By WILLIAM K HUTCHINSON Interactional Hews Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Mar country may face an increase in eral income taxes to offset pated treasury deficits but not be- fore the 1932 presidential campaign it was learned today on The expected deficit of 000 on July 1 the end of the current fiscal year will be met by the ance of short-term certificates thus postponing the day of accounting This will postpone a decision on in- creasing taxes until the end of the next fiscal year or July 1 1932 As that date falls in the midst of the next presidential campaign political leaders were agreed there could be no increase in federal taxes until after the election Institute Economies The administration meanwhile will try to hold down expenditures and institute government economies during the coming fiscal year Ad- ministration leaders in the next con- gress likewise will strive to reduce the ever-growing appropriations for the following fiscal year ending June 30 1933 They are hopeful of ting the annual cost of government far below the figure reached in the session just closed The administration's hope to avoid a tax increase rests largely on the trend of business activity in the Continued On Tire Grand Jury WiD Hear Testimony In Murder Case Cambria County's Grand Jury Will Hear Testimony Against Slayer Of Girl International News Service JOHNSTOWN Pa Mar Cambria County's Grand Jury will reconvene Monday to hear the charge brought against Harry chok of Conemaugh confessed er of Betty Mowry a 7-year old child whose mutilated body was found in the attic of the Starchok home li was the first time In the history of the county that a grand jury once dismissed after its regular session was recalled A petit jury was also empanelled to report the first week in May PRISONS Plan To Arraign Akron Mechanic On Grave Charge Authorities a t i n g Sabotage Act Hint At Plot MAY HAVE CAUSED CRASH ON COAST Paul F Kassay Former Austro-Hungarian cer Pleads Not Guilty International AKRON O Mar ed with criminal syndicalism and said to have confessed a sabotage plot to wreck the Akron world's largest dirigible Paul F Kassay was to be ar- today for preliminary hearing as authorities hinted at discovery of a plot Agents of the Department of tice who said Kassay had admitted the dirigible plot announced that they have found evidence tending to link Kassay with the crash of a crack navy bombing plane at San Diego Calif last September when Pilot W Y was killed One of the wings collapsed when the plane was in normal night and tion disclosed the ship been tampered with Coast Crash Reviewed Kassay was at one time employed at the Great Lakes Aircraft ation at Cleveland the firm that built eighteen type navy planes one of which figured in the San Diego crash Investigation dis- Nautilus Will Be closed of group of bombers had been weakened after they had passed inspection Both Continued On Seventeen Continue Hunt For Murderers Search Is Widened For Youths Who Policeman In New York News Service ALBANY N Y Mar city and local authorities today con- the wide search for Stanley Chero and William Schemnitzer Broughton Pa youths wanted for killing Sergeant John E Frey of the state police without turning up one definite clue Some officials who were leading Continued On Two VERNE'S GRANDSON HERE TO CHRISTEN NAUTILUS Marshall Gets Terms To Both Works And Pen Albert Minteer Is Sentenced To Serve 8 To 16 Years To Pen On bery Charge Here is a new view of the submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins will explore the Arctic Jean Jules Verne inset grandson of Jules Verne the French novelist who will be a member of the expedition has arrived in the to christen the boat at Brooklyn navy yard Nautilus was the name of the craft in his grandfather's prophetic story Polar Submarine On Journey To Brooklyn By Jean Jules Verne On Tuesday International News Service NEW YORK Mar 21 submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins will explore the Arctic was to set out today from the Delaware river near Philadelphia for Brooklyn Navy Yard The submarine was ex- at the navy yard row or early Monday and will be christened on Tuesday The Nautilus will be named by Jean Jules Verne descendant of the novelist who wrote The Ship That Sailed Twenty Leagues Under The Sea After the christening the boat will go to New London for further tests and will start for Halifax about the first of April It is due in London the middle of May and the start for the north will be made June 1 Sir Hubert may not Join the party until the submarine leaves London MARCUS HOOK Mar The submarine Nautilus in which Continued On Pape Two Girl Suicide Victim News Service SUMMIT N J Mar Mrs Angeline Mazzacco a widow I who conducts a dairy went to look I last night for she had put aside to pay a feed the money was gone She questioned her daughter Rose 14 about its disappearance Shortly after the body of Rose was found hanging from a steam pipe According to police the girl committed suicide FIRE DESTROYS HALL AFTER DANCE WILL ROGERS News Service SHARON Pa Mar men who last night sponsored a dance at the community house in Wheatland returned to the scene early today to combat unsuccessfully a blaze which gutted the community house with loss of The fire was believed to have started from a carelessly tossed cigarette in the rest room The community house which was built eight years ago ably will not be rebuilt Prince Wilhelm Is Reported Attacked erman Officer International News Service KOENIGSBERG Germany Mar charge that Prince August Wilhelm fourth the former German Kaiser and a strong porter of the German cause was set upon by policemen and agely manhandled was made by tional socialist spokesmen here today The attack it was charged red when the Prince was about to board a train with Joseph Goebbels Berlin Lieutenant of Adolf Hitler leader of the fascist party Special To The News BEVERLY HILLS Col Mar Union gambles as much as Nevada does but they were smart enough to pass a law and get some tax money out of it If Wall Street paid a tax on every game they run we would get enough revenue to run the government on Another don't seem to be able to even check crime so why not legalize it and put a heavy tax on it make the tax for robbery so high that a bandit couldn't to rob anyone unless he they had a lot of dough We have taxed other tries out of business Jt might work litre Yours Support Pledged By Lloyd George For Government Lloyd George And Ramsay MacDonald In ences Seeking port LLOYD GEORGE TO REPORT TUESDAY DRUNKEN DRIVERS GIVEN JAIL TERMS Violators Of i b i t i o n Laws Given Both Jail And Workhouse Sentences Andy Marshall convicted of highway robbery and assault and was sentenced to one year in the Allegheny ty workhouse on the latter charge and two and one-half years to the Western tiary on the former at sentence court held by Judges Hildebrand and Chambers this morning The penitentiary sentence is to begin at the expiration of the workhouse term Marshall with Joe Morocco took Samuel Sankovich of Bessemer out in an automobile and robbed him of Morocco pleaded guilty to the charge but Marshall stood trial aad was convicted Evidence showed that he had been in trouble before was asked for him on the grounds that he has and four children to support Morocco when called for sentence said that he had been thinking it over and was sorry He asked for leniency of the courts as he is only i 20 years old and had never been in trouble before He was sentenced to i Huntington Reform School The On Page Fliers Ready To Hunt Survivors Balchen Plans Take Off From St Johns ing Day News Service ST JOHNS N B Mar spite foreboding forecasts Bernt Balchen and two companion fliers were determined take off immediately for the Northern Newfoundland in a final attempt to locate the 28 men ing after Sunday's destruction of the sealing ship Viking The American air trio which in- cluded Randy Enslow and Meriam C arrived here yesterday after a speedy night from Boston They set out on their rescue mission at the request of Dr L F Frissell father of Varick ture producer of New York who was aboard the Viking at the time of the explosion and has not been seen since Another American who re- mained unaccounted for was A G Penrod cameraman The aviators will cruise over Horse Island and White Bay scene of the tragedy in which some ty men were killed outright and scan the ice packs for any possible survivors They will carry a load of food and medical supplies to drop to inhabitants of the island who sheltered 127 men after their escape from the shattered ship and the hazardous ice floes DEATH RECORD j Believe 10 To 15 Liberals Will Withdraw From Party Over ment By HARRY International Service Staff Correspondent LONDON Mar of continued support have been given by David Lloyd George to Prime Minister J Ramsay Donald it was understood today as conversations continued betw e e n liberal and labor spokesmen over the week-end Lloyd George will report the re- sults of the conversations to the liberal parliamentary party on Tuesday The agreement bein formulated with the Cambridge Crew Defeats Oxford In Annual Race For Eighth Straight Year Cambridge Crew Takes Victory ESTIMATE CROWD AT By F A WRAY International News Service Stair Correspondent England MacDonaid Mar the eighth year in j succession the magnificent eight of Continued On Pace Two Erie Man Admits Gruesome Murder Tony The Sheik Con- fesses Brutal Murder Of Sweetheart boat race here today ing a full two and one half lengths ahead of their traditional rivals in the eighty-third running of the I event I The victory dashed Oxford's hopes Continued On Past Two BREAKS DOWN UNDER GRILLING Arthur Henderson Rainier Oregon C Wesley Yasser 7 307 W ry Carl 1 Mrs Bertha A Barker 41 pery Rock Township Margaret Van Kirk infant Nw Galilee i to a Barbara Ann Russell 23 months I strangled her with a rope and throw 219 East Meyer avenue her body into Lake Eric after at- J George Rock 81 Petersburg p On International Service ERIE Pa Mar ing down under an intensive cross-questioning Anthony alias Tony known locally as Tony The this after- noon confessed the gruesome murder of his heart Mary of McKean Pa whose body was found In Isle Bay cording to District Attorney Ot- to Wieczovkowski married nnd the father ot a four-year-old boy was quoted by police ns having told how he met the girl at an Eric skating on December 29 last drove her to a lonely spot near Gaskell avenue This is the day when the poet tads unstring their lute and bassoon and burst right out in a roundelay that whispers days of June Oh tins is the day when the rhyming youths indite some lor it's spring my dear so the calendar and it's up forty eight today And the Muse i nasty cut the poets wisling their pens and satisfy what their soul dictates those versification yens For the spring is here sing hey sonny hey lei the timbrel sound and Hie let tlLe pods at their verse and uncorking some verses shoot
