Olean Times (Newspaper) - May 21, 1931, Olean, New York WEATHER For Southwestern New Vork tnd N W Pennsylvania Generally fair and continued cool tonight und Friday probably light frost in places tonight except near the lake Sun Sun riles GLEAN The Paper That Goes Home TIMES VOL No 102 THURSDAY MAY 21 1931 PRICE TWO GENTS F I N A L Yesterday's Total Circulation 9467 Stock Quotations Near Revolution In Cuba Women Triumph In Boycott Of Meat Retailers Housewives Turn Effort Now To Have Bakeries Decrease Prices Middle Village N Y May triumphant over seven butchers and two try dealers in their boycott of high prices 800 militant housewives were intent today on forcing two bakers to slash their prices The boycott started five ago when the women banded and refused to deal with the butchers and poultry men until their commodities were reduced The butchers and chicken ers were on the verge of closing when they called a conference and decided to advertise drastic cuts As a result lamb dropped from sixty to thirty-eight cents a pound and steak from fifty-five to thirty cents was off fourteen cents a pound from the previous day's close of forty cents and quotations on chickens were from ten to twelve cents a pound lower Meat and chicken went back in- to the daily with these re- and bread rolls and buns disappeared Mrs Rose Fagan and Mrs Sadie Goodman started the cheaper foodstuffs Uad crowds of women would ride Into the village and orate on the I high cost of foods They called attention to flour products pointing to the vast Sties of cheap wheat as a reason for lower prices I The Morton Avenue Bakery capitulated Rolls were cut seven cents to seventeen a dozen and bread two cents to seven cents a loaf The price of twist loaves fell from twenty-five to two cents fifteen to thirteen cents and ten to seven cents But two other bakers remained adamant Sees His Boss As Clerk Leaves As Commissioner New York May was still little be- today Yesterday was n chief clerk in the Department ot Docks a salary ot Today he is Commissioner of Docks salary of And ho Is so far from many Hall that he doesn't even know his district leader appeared before the sinking fund commission to ar- gue for some pier projects when Mayor James J Walker Inter- him and asked if he could get a e of absence from the civil sen ice zie assured him that he could Well when you leave this the Mayor said go back to the department and become commissioner The Mayor said he appointed Kenzie because of his ability and his twenty-eight jears of ben ice with the department United States In Opposition To Quota Scheme London May United States stood alone today at the world wheat conference in tion to a quota scheme for the ex- port of wheat as a method of ing the crisis All delegations with the tion of the American tentatively to the quota plan with reservations It was understood that Samuel R McKelvie chief American gate although he has clearly stated his opposition to the plan would not pronounce his final stand until they have examined a report of the tee headed by F L McDougall of Australia The McDougall report was expected to bp available today Will Rogers Beer Baron Slashed By Assailant Vannie Higgins In cal Condition From Knife Wounds New York May Higgins one of New York's most powerful beer runners and teers was taken to thp Hospital today in a critical tion from knife wounds Higgins was and he refused to tell police who had him The racketeer who heads a gang in Brooklyn and who was with Jack Dia- mond was taken to the hospital in a taxicab from Long Island Although suffering intensely from three deep gashes in the chest Higgins consented to talk with long enough to say i he had been stabbed in Flushing L I i My wife knows who did he said Police immediately began a search for the wife but learned at the Higgins home that the had not been there since seven o'clock last night Detectives feared she may have been kidnapped or killed by the same enemy who attacked her husband The only persons at home were Higgins son and Mrs sister Mrs Hansen who was ried over Mrs Higgins ed absence Santa Monica CaL May 21 Special to Olean Times at the government hospital out here in felle and all the disabled boys were working hard making poppies which they sell on Poppy Day which is next Saturday May 23 It's a great cause so don't pass em up Saturday Asking our small aid one day a year is not exactly having our soldiers impose on us Nobody can sell thing else nowadays and this starting in buying a poppy might be the turn- point So buy one and you will feel so good you are liable to buy a coat lo pin it on be- the clay is over Bar Invention In Murder Trial Valparaiso Ind May The lie detector test which Virgil attorneys said would prove the Gary youth innocent of causing the death of Arlene his sweetheart by criminal attack appeared ly barred today from his second trial on charges of minder After a wrangle by at- Judge Grant Crumpacker expressed opposition to use of the invention intended to prove whether a person is telling the truth I will not permit this machine to be used until it has been ed definitely by Judge said However I will allow the defense two more witnesses lo describe it before I make my decision Good-Bye Broadway Hello Another little Broadway star who'll twinkle In Hollywood is blonde and winsome Noel comedy favorite Here jou her in a charming pose let this unnerve going to be cast as a siren in her next Politician And Veteran Newspaperman Lose Lives In Los Angeles Slaying Beauty TO Army Puts Down Come Back To America Acquitted Of Murder Will Claim Share Of Estate Disturbances Irf Two Shot To Death As They Discuss Vice Expose In Office Of Former Suspend Girls For Violations So Hartley Mass May enteen Mount Holyoke College girls have been suspended for the rest of the academic year for various violations of the college rules it today Names of those suspended were withheld President Maty E Woolfey asserting It was a college policy never lo make public LOS ANGELES MAY PREDICTIONS THAT THE LID WOULD BE BLOWN OFF LOS ANGELES UNDERWORLD LIFE WEKE MADE TODAY BY LICE AFTER THE DOUBLE SLAYING OF A POLITICIAN AND A VETERAN NEWSPAPERMAN WHO FOR TWENTY HAD EX- POSED VICE CHARLES H CRAWFORD FIFTY-FIVE POLITICAL LEADER AND BEKT SPENCER FORTY RE- PORTER UEKE SHOT TO DEATH AS THEY SAT lSr CRAWFORD'S OFFICE SING SPENCER'S SERIES OF EXPOSES OF G A M B L 1 N G WHICH HE HAD BEEN LISHING IN THE CRITIC OF CRITICS LOCAL LIBERAL MAGAZINE Crawford died without revealing the name of the slayer Today police searched for ai in a downtown FLASHES Latest Off The Wire Rudy Must Pay Chicago May of the which Rudy Vallee radio crooner the two companies and a man who claimed authorship received from the song I'm Just a abond must be returned to the real author Attorney Jesse H Brown it was decided by Judge Philip Sullivan By MARY KNIGHT United Press Staff Nice France May 21 lotte acquitted by a jury of Frenchmen made plans today to as quickly i possible to the United States The St Louis beauty queen was j free after two months in jail in Nice following the shooting of her husband Fred G ger wealthy Philadelphia theatre owner Mrs departed for a mountain village in the hills of the Alps overlooking the I Mediterranean where she sought to avoid the throngs of curious She left her two small children at the apartment in Nice scene of the shooting Her mother Mrs H Nash companied her into seclusion She said they intended to remain eral days before proceeding back to America The acquittal permits the young widow to claim a third of her husband's estate valued at 000 Her claim would have been annulled under the Pennsylvania law had she been sentenced Mrs said she had little money available and that she intended to live simply ing her share of the the education of the children She was nervous and tired after the exacting experience and said she intended to get away from Nice as soon as possible It held only tragic memories of her ried life with whom she said she shot when he tried te strangle her during a jealous quarrel the night of March 11 Sues for Separation White Plains N Y May Norma Jones wards of White Plains has brought suit for separation against William H Edwards former Princeton football star and former collector of Internal revenue In New York it was learned today Other Currency Base Toronto Ont May of a metal other than gold as the basis for currency m Canada was advocated by B K at McGill University here which contained evidence of a vice- j today ring and which was expected to reveal the name of the gunman or his superiors Both had received threatening during the past few months Spencer in fact had printed a box in the ot which he was assistant editor warning those who might attempt his life that evidence of tion was in his possession and that the documents would be turned over the the district attorney's of- fice should the threats be carried out Crawford had established nis brother George as a bodyguard outer office after the threats against his life But George was absent when a man walked In late yesterday nodded to Lucile Fisher twenty-five Crawford's secretary and was greeted by the politician Hello there bid man How are Spencer arrived later anfi was ushered into the inner sanctum After about n half hour there was the sound of an altercation Fires Two Shots Two shots were heard the stranger rushed out the door and disappeared in traffic Spencer staggered out blood streaming down his side and pursued him to the street As sid reached him he cried Where is that and col- lapsed on the sidewalk in front of the Church of the Blessed ment He was dead when earned into the office a bullet through his lunga and heart Meanwhile Crawford was found on the floor of his shot in the abdomen He was rushed to a police hospital and despite a blood transfusion died four hours later Crawford maintained to the last that two- men walked into his of- fice Other witnesses were that one man did the shooting Reach Voyage End Aboard S S He de France He de France currying the American ors are guests of the French on a tour of reached the end of its voyage today As the liner approached Le Havre preparations were made for the official reception to he ghen the majors and their by the city row Weds Follies Girl New York May F Jr son of the asbestos king and Avon former Follies girl whose beauty was complimented by thf Prince of Wales were married in the chapel of the municipal building today Discuss Rail Kates New York May ing eastern railroad met today to discuss proposed application freight rate Although if a regular monthly meeting unusual In- terest HBS attached to It be- cause here was a possibility that a rate policy would be upon Food Prices Down Washington May food prices in the fifty-one largest cities of the country showed an decrease of about two cent from March 15 to April 15 the bureau of statistics an- today The figure for April 15 was eighteen per cent be- low that for April 15 the bureau said Five Day Week Campaign Urged By Business Man Toronto Ont May 21 in Canada and the United States to persuade to adopt a five-day week and con- the present wage scalp was suggested today bv Norman Clave Mich dent of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers McClave said leading American furniture manufacturers already favored such a program and that he had found sentiment strongly against wage cuts at this time Many he said have said they had placed their plants on a five-day week basis and through increased efficiency were effecting savings at the Meanest Thief Steals Insurance Fund Albany Y May lice had a now story of the meanest thief today Mrs Dp Sorbo n of reported that someone entered her home and 860 all that was left of her Insurance money after HIP of his funeral had paid Thr thief left the with to port herself and rwo children Tlie husband was killed when lie fell Into an acid at the New York Central shops Revolt In Towns Of Holguin And parra Makes Precautionary Measures Necessary Situation Well In Hand Armed With Rifles In- stead Of Clubs By KENNETH D United Press Staff Havana Cuba May 21 Octavio secretary of the interior admitted today that at- tempts at revolution has been quelled last night by j the army at Manzanillo and and that a con- i dilion of near-revolt had made precautionary ures necessary in the towns of Holguin and Chaparra He said the army had the Make Plans To Abandon Army Posts Action Will Contribute To Military Efficiency Of Department Washington May of fifty-three army posts is plated by the Wai Department The posts were designed by the general staff after a survey dered by the President Their abandonment General Douglas Chief of said j will contribute to military I ency as well as economy Only thirteen of them now aie soned may be added to the list MacArthur said Some of the more important posts proposed for abandonment Fort Eustis Fort Blown Brownsville Tex Fort Hunt Va Camp Harry J Jones Fort Lincoln N D Camp Stephen D Little Miller Field N Y Fort Foit D A Russell Tex and Chanute Field Head Near Death In Capital Union Official Roughly Dre In Washington rant well in hand today and that all necessary measures had been taken to prevent recurrence of last night's disturbances He declined to reveal what casualties If any had occurred or whether additional troops were being sent to the other end of the island Gen Albert Herrera chief of said there had been no Shot movement of troops today and he declined to forecast what might Roughly Dressed Man be done Questioned concerning possible renewed suspension of tional guarantees Zubizaretta said such action might be taken at any moment depending upon the at- of the opposition He hinted that if the suspension took place it might be far more rigid Washington May 21 A labor leader lay near death today shot the head in Washington's fifth major shooting affray in four days Seven men have been killed and three wounded here in five days than the last time Police Disarmed Meanwhile Police Commissioner Herbert denying Crosby was existence of officially a crime Abandonment of these ten posts j alone would involve removal of nearly officers and enlisted men Consolidation of army wave Police headquarters made public an official crime map of the city showing 567 speakeasies 158 gambling houses and 40 disorderly houses It was ad- mitted that there were more such crime centers not known to police The labor official Frank B Langdon seventy-two was shot yesterday by a roughly dressed man while seated in a restaurant Langdon editor of the Trade Union Journal and an officer of the International Union of ing Engineers was sitting with Aithur M Huddell president of the union and John mation and which were officially denied named a total of six towns m connection with the rebellion They included Guantanamo to Tarafa and Bayamo Police at Holguin were said to have been disarmed The military supervisor at Santiago de Cuba was said to have ordered a new shipment of rifles and tion unpacked while troops were standing by ready for action In the capital orders were sued that all police captains keep their men on call armed with rifles instead of the usual clubs after the chief of police had re- turned from an emergency call to the presidential palace Reports of unrest followed arrival of teen men charged with tion in a purported plot against the administration of President Gerardo Machado They were in production costs and same time maintaining a high I from various interests is looked standard of furniture for tion Huddell was struck by i brought under military guard and u line of the bullets fired by the un- Pending trial before a tions has long been desired by the Dut a I Police confiscated the student magazine Alma Mater because they said it contained sive articles general staff but political have it j fore Even now a flood of protests Further army economies to sist President Hoover m his at- tempt to cut governmental ex- penses involve of harbor forts through a new method of railroad guns and bombing planes Adirondack of the old stationary Guide To Take Stand In Trial Corning N Y May let in his pocket saved him from injury Hope Wanes For Plan To Reduce Probe Income Conscript Armies Tax Payments Geneva May waned today that the World Arms tain guide on trial on charges ofi slaying Miss Elizabeth Rofinot was expected lo take the stand except for caretakers will be dis- in his own defense tomorrow i posed of Fort Dale Fla Fort De Solo Fla Key West Barracks Fia Short court session was uled for today owing to the neral of one of the juror's sisters but it was believed the defense would complete all its ary evidence before the recess and be ready to offer Gumey himself tomorrow Explosion Fires Two Warehouses Buffalo N Y May abandoned warehouses of the old Elk Street Market were gutted by flames which followed an sion shortly before noon today Damage was estimated at be- tween and Firemen answering three alarms Conference next year would suit in reduction of co: The ing posts unoccupied 1 armies The council of the League of Nations rejected Germany's effort to consideration at the con- next February of a plan to Fisherman's Island Va Fort Ward Willapa Bay Wash Fort Morgan Ala Camp Upton N Y Camp Lee Va limit trained reserve forces in Eu- ropean countries and Japan May ing a decision as to whether hs aid be extradited to England on script charges nf John Jake the Barber Factor was called day by the American government to explain why he h ul paid no income tax on at least 5500.000 it was said he had made on tha stock market Factor was neither denied bail The opposition to the German nor admitted to bail after he plin was practically unanimous rendered yesterday and ended the Camn Earle Camp j The opponents I Iong nc ied de- Furlone N M Park Field Tenn no attempt to conceal eitner their back and forth between Field Fla and Dorr attitude or their reasons for re- and America fusing to support the _________Even Henderson British foreign secretary that i Germany's proposals which Mem And Wife Are ch he commented often a mistake when g with practical things Anstide French foreign minister said that the projected disarmament convention drawn up by the preparatory commission of the league was exceedingly and his wife and that any effort to Ways New York May 21 The ro- mance of Graham McNamee the His fingerprints were for the time m his lite ho he was not to jail A deputy U S Marshal ed him last night at an sive but interfered in no way with his freedom Hearing brought the fire under control In I parted when he met her ten touch It might can less than an hour despite a strong ngo while they were to tumble flames were halted be- jn a choir seemed destined fore they spread to other sections t0 cnd m a separation suit McNamee admitted that his wife filed separation papers in Court several weeks ago Although there had been rumors for several weeks that the the entire of the market or to the new ket across adjoining railway tracks Trust Fund Examiner Albany N Y May pointment of Myles W Joyce of North Tonawanda as trust fund and examiner was announced day at the offices of State Morns S Joyce whose appointment be- came effective May 8 will act as a representative of the state in the examination of records Jn the rious county treasurer's and clerk's were not living together even closest friends of the couple v-ere unaware of the action Namee said that he hoped a re- might be effected The radio announcer said he does not know what charges his wife has brought In her suit has been seen ly at clubs and with New York May At- totney Thomas C T Cram faced 1 additional charges of ignoring I dence of bribery and graft against 1 i TJ j Tammany Hall when his on I inns resumed today before Brest France Miy 21 missioner Samuel Ann O'Brien a model foi Howard was sunk by an explosion Chandler Christy and Harrison while at work and 16 of her crew Fisher salvage ships sailed today to re- Charges that former Magistrate sume operations for recovery of George F paid Martin 0 1 Healy Tammany leader for his office allegations of bribery and corruption against the board of standards and appeals and Its for- mer chairman William E Walsh and other charges of bribery among officials ol public tions together with i new tion of negligence in a stock fraud case form the basis of thu tional charges against the gold in the sunken liner Egypt off Us nan t The Egypt went down in 1922 after a carrying more than in gold and silver to the bottom Salvage has been going on for several year Last December the Italian salvage
