New Castle News (Newspaper) - October 17, 1938, New Castle, Pennsylvania NEWS PHONES 4000 Yota Items To Ttu Call 4000 NEW CASTLE NEWS FIFTY-EIGHTH 292 NEW OCTOBER 17, 1938. PAGES WEATHER Fair Tuesday Partly Possibly THREE CENTS A COPY P DRIVE IS SLOWED DOWN Secret Of Ruth fitting Seriously Shot Former Husband Of Musical Comedy Star Held In Case MAKES CLAIM OF SELF DEFENSE Others In Case Deny Story Of Man Accused Of Shooting Former Mayor Of Philadelphia Dies News Oct. Mayor Harry A. Macbey of a prominent figure in Re- publican politics of Pennsylvania for the last quarter died today Bt the age of 65. The former official's death was directly attributable to internal and other injuries received TWO months ago in an automobile accident in this Although he had been able to get around in recent he never fully recovered from the Angered Woman Kills Attorney Common-Law Wife Of ton ney Does HAD QUARRELED OVER KALAMAZOO TRIP f 1 n Oct. a united front of Martin formerly married to Ruth today clung to his story that he shot and ed the present husband of the dio and musical comedy singing star in The Myrl 30- year-old was reported Vincent's hospital to be in a i rious but not critical from an abdominal I shot at me. He shot at me i former i so I shot at Snyder Prosecuting attorney of I nen was shot and killed early today ii front of the police station here by Miss Patricia his common-law Miss 34, eyed suddenly whipped out a small pistol and fired four shots at All of the shots took two striking the 42-year-old victim in the head and two in the Mind Is Blank Blinking her eyes as police ed out of the station and grabbed Miss Doll was asked why she did it. Sin can't recall My mind is just a that Miss who lived with the attorney in a bungalow at 400 Searles had for hours after brook returned to their home from where he his four children after a visit here to their Holbrook has been separated from his wife for seven HE SHALL NOT Prepare to Give NEW CASTLE COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN STARTS OCT. 241h BUTLER MAN DIES FROM INJURIES IN AUTO COLLISION News 65. of B. D. 7, died today in Buller hospital from injuries Saturday when his truck crushed into a car allegedly driven by Dr. Homer W. suffered head cording to hospital The fatality was the first in ler during the present ing to Mayor George M. C. C. Spurrier Killed Sunday Former Local Man Fatally Hurt By Train At land Sunday Noon Gloria Spreckels Remarries WAS VETERAN OF WORLD WAR Chinese Present Stiff Resistance To Canton Drive Japanese Find It Necessary To Land Reinforcements At Two Points HONG KONG BEGINS TO FEEL WAR EFFECT Japs Continue Drive On Hankow In Addition To South China Eugene of New York Ls with his Claude C. aged 45, of j the former Gloria ex-wife of Adolf a for- j sugar still has two more at Princeton mer resident of was fatally injured at noon when run over by a. freight train in yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad at dying In Buhl hospital at Sharon a few minutes after being I taken there Mr. who employed ELS a for the Pennsylvania Goal Of Represents Minimum Need Of Agencies Which Form Community Chest 1 King And Queen Plan To Visit Mount Vernon Senator Davis Makes Charges Says Of To Be Disfranchised Result Of Incompetence stubbornly insisted in giving his brief version of the wild melee I which occurred late Saturday The 1938-39 budget quotas for the nine agencies of the New Castle Community Chest were determined by the Chest board of directors on recommendation of the special j auditing committee headed by A. L. j Jr. i The goal of the 1938 which opens October 24, will be Quotas Determined Chairman Bintz of the auditing group explained the quota decision as the first time in the ure of the each agency was contacted by accountants to determine the minimum amount of a budget under which the agency could carry on its These were headed by Clyde M. Whitaker and included Frank W. was and out of was attempting to Italy Replies To Note From U. S. Attack Victim By G. W. GIFFEN j Chinese resistance stiffened on the Canton front shattering Japanese i to such au ex- itent Nippon found it to land ments at two j In spite of the Chinese the Japanese ad- through the yards in a northerly i He stepped out o' failing 10 notice I the approach of a southbound train on a nearer and stepped I in front of body crushed under the wheels of the Served In World War j Mr. Spurrier was boni November j 24, the of Mr. and Mrs. H. I O. CIS North After attending The public schools and high school he en- tered the service of the vania and except 1'or time spent in the United Mussolini's Order plies To American Jews As Well As Others LOOPHOLE IS BY BULLETIN today formally notified Stales Premier j i order expelling Jews from Italy Will Also Be White House And Will Be ered Many Receptions News Oct. visit Mount and the grave to i Army during the i Jews as followed the avocation of railroading j as of other all of his was of the first draftees to leave the city in the World inj lo Camp where he be- came a member of Headquarters 332nd and the rank ot He served his unit in Franco and About 15 years Mr. Spurrier of j moved to he Oct. after he allegedly kidnaped j sands of will be dis- man at the point of a gun and franchised for the November 8 forced him to drive to the Etting I tion through incompetence of the Philadelphia registration Denials Arc Made Vigorous denials were made On the first reigning British Sydney B. John W. monarchy ever to go to the United C. S. E. G. Ward John A. Grath and Dudley W. Un- der this careful survey the public can rest assured that both the parliament Nov. 8, court vidual budget and the j The royal party will sail for George Washington is on the i has since gram of King George and Queen Surviving are his Florence it was understood A state visit to America will be announced in the King's speech from the throne at the reopening of represents a according to charges handed based on actual needs of PA OBSERVES the senate campaign expenditures committee today by Senator James J. of Pennsylvania can candidate for opposed by Governor George in the forthcoming told chairman Sheppard of of the Senate that he was to bury state pride and request agency as evidenced by their ords which were made available to the No Paid Director offset the wrong impression that some might have as to es connected with the the of- of the Chest made it clear that this year there are no paid excepting office and Premature are Ing considerable damage In some parts of the Report from avenue is to the effect that the windows in a garage have been and garbage can contents have been strewn over Fun is but acts of that kind are For seven weeks a bride of a few months has reported at the high school for but has not been permitted to as the board had asked the resignation of married She is ing her and claims that the board cannot fire her under the tenure act. your committee to no There is to be no alleged Philadelphia percentage of the total returns to be out to All executives of the Chest are serving without It was also pointed out that the only money that will be deducted Three-Year Stay In Hospital Ends Little Girl Who Lost Lep With Bone Disease Finally Recovers After spending almost three years in the Jameson Memorial during which time she suffered putation of her right leg because of a bone little Esther aged 8, Mr. and Mrs. Nicola of 105 O'Brien has left the hospital cured of her surgeons During her long stay in the Esther had become known to all the doctors and nurses Colonel James retired Slates e affliction she has president of the United States Flag and wiu be tells what to do during a rendition of the Star Spangled On PafTe j Daily Weather Report United States weather statistics missed by the hospital who had become greatly attached to her during her long stay TAXICAB STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA BROUGHT TO END Oct. 17. Pull for the 21-hour period ending at 5 i taxicab service was restored this p. m. Friday Maximum 52. Minimum 45. River 4.8 Statistics for the 24-hour period mcling at 5 p. arc as Maximum 77. Minimum 40. Xo today as 950 Yellow Cab company drivers voted to end a 62- day strike to protest a proposed wage The company's full fleet of GOO cabs were placed in operation this morning lo augment 125 ent taxis already in restaurants and sports events lost thousands of dollars in revenue and strikers lost approximately in wages during the 1 had was Qn Four Germans Are Being Detained Four Were Snapping Pictures Of Gum And Area Near Canal Zone News Prints of pictures snapped among the Panama canal defenses may de- termine today whether four mans are to be held on spy The Including one were caught with cameras at Fort on Caleta where 16-ir.ch guns are and were held overnight in For De Lesseps guardhouse pending development of their Under arrest are Hans and Robert employes of the Hapag Lloyd Steamship company at Ingebord mann and Gesbert Fraulein Guttman is secretary to the German consul in Kurt Army officials said the four ar- rived at Fort Randolph on Sunday morning and said they were going lo the post canteen for When they failed to reappear three the sentry sent M sergeant to He found them taking pictures among the gun though they previously denied they ada late in Their tentative schedule calls for three days and two nights in the White House and one night aboard n United States with a naval review off the mouth of the President and Roosevelt will give a state and will give a state and in return the King and Queen will give a state dinner for the velts at the British Parker of Ash his Mr. and H. O. and one Mrs. I. D. of this and several nieces and He was a member of the Masonic the Order of Railway and other fraternal was also a of the Christian church of Farmer Is Held In Woman's Death United Stales frit a loophole had been and was inclined to view i the Italian notification I Although Italy is adamant in its general foreign u was feit Washington had something to work I case In question will be taken up individually by the Advance Plans For New Highway Route Thru City State Are Shown Proposed Route By City Officials vance although its pace was .i Japanese sources said the column in this sector crossed the East river under cover from naval and was now six miles west of 74 miles Reach Railroad Another branch of the Japanese I striking directly weit from landing place Bias 1 reached the j the only rail with Hong U. S. Plans Arouse S Germany Resents Idea re- Arming Occasioned By That Nation MISS BETTY OFFICIAL ACTION HOWEVER Murder Suspect Taken To Secret Jail In Georgia News Oct. Negro accused of the der of a 67-year-old George and his 26-year-old Christine Camp nieM at their home near was arrested today and taken to an unrevealed jail safe it was announced The Negro was taken into custody by Cobb county authorities he worked on a construction job near Grove in the outskirts oC it was but authorities declined to say where he had been Another step Hie j of a by-pass highway for No. I through was today EASTON Oct. Hart I Highway i ent John B. Engineers Elder 22, today Mayor E Councilmen Fink and Motor Club B. N. L. F. W. and County Com- missioners Bolinger and laced arraignment on a charge of shooting to death his estranged pretty Mrs. Hazel Cronce 22, near on While police sought to unravel the mystery surrounding the attack Mtis Betty North who found unconscious in a her body daubed with tile girl remains in a. critical condition in a hospital at O. Miss daughter of a beet sugar was abducted from a village street and held captive for 24 purchased by the girl to dec- orate her bedroom was used by the abductors smear on her By MEKRE J. 3ERLIX. Oct. 17. lowards their lowest level the World War due to irritation caused by the American was many is made the there was sonie talk that the Reich Hart was arrested 2 hours after the shooting while sleeping In a barn near N. J. He waived Detectives quoted Hart as saying he intended only to frighten Mrs wife of a WPA worker but became nervous and pulled the ger. Police said they found a note in Hart's possession saying he intended to the girl out of the Hungary Calls Out More Men Twenty-Four Overt Acts Are Charged To Nazi Spy Ring News Oct. four overt acts were charged to the Nazi spy today as U. District Attorney Lamar Hardy made his opening address to a federal jury which will decide the fate of three Guenther Gustav S. Army deserter who ed guilty last Friday and will be the government's major was not in the courtroom as outlined the Guards kept an lonal more es of Hungarian army i those of 1903 and 1911, reported for duty it was reported here from They comprised two of the four classes called up last Friday because of strained re- lations with S. HART LOSES HIS APPEAL News Oct. S. two-gun star of the silent lost an appeal to the supreme court for review of lower court decisions dismissing his suit for against the United Ar- Corp. Hart and Mary Hart charged that the United Artists intentionally sold exhibition rights to a movie he under a profit-sharing at such low prices that he lost money on it. made a trip over the posed right of The trip for the purpose of having the city officials show the state highway department just i where their properties I changes they would expect to bo made nnd the points where damages might The trip was made from the inter- section of South Mill street with Grove up to over across the old Harmony of way to Taylor Practically no damages will be necessary us the city owns title to the property over which the way will There will be some engineering necessary over the old Harmony right of with a con- cut in a bank Local highway engineers will start work on the survey immediately and shortly after- the survey goes to the Pittsburgh district engineer's engineers will plot the DEATH RECORD t October 17, 1938 Fred R. 76, R. D. 1. Claude C. 45, Joseph A. 3S, 319 wood Mrs. B. French 37. 132 Benjamin 73, New Castle R. D. 2. Amon 85, 2, Mission Calif. Another Timber Wolf Captured In Kane Region Oct. ber wolf has been the Owls Nest 18 miles south of by State Game Commission Trapper E. it was learned It WHS the second one of a pack Identified timber wolves to be trapped in this Logue has 50 steel traps set area in an effort to believed to migrated from Canada two years The wolf was placed in a with the lost awaiting transfer possibly to a The snared the first taken in western Pennsylvania since the turn of the might indignation of- possibly making in There official intimation that such a might be to the most authoritative will remain strictly indifferent to actual question of America's 2s official described reaction Germany is boing the bugaboo by who want to frighten America into Rearmament b America's own hiph quarters said but objections raised a purist America's tendency to blame Germany for It is only political publicity 10 say the Reich must be reckoned 35 an eventual foe which is preparing to invade the new Tugboat Workers Continue Strike NEW Oct. sand striking employes today ed n peace offer of 300 tugboat ers and continued their which may create complications along New York's demanding a closed seniority nnd of per month for captains and nnd for oilers nnd ed mi offer embodying raises oC nnd for both classes of of light harbor traffic over the the few vessels either departed or docked ex- no Arthur You sing of tile masters wielded a Reynolds and nil of the then lei one you will know cs iup nil world masters the test. 1 speak Danic Mature icko scatters her paints on free and j brush and by lake and I work is all odds the there is. with arc artistic and bronzes nnd colors tkat blaze as you pass by that a oj beauty man could the is about seventy