Couple Rearrested In Auto-Slaying Probe; Jealousy Theory Sifted

A 32 year old night watchman In a shirt factory was arrested by Chester county authorities last night, charged with the murder of his friend, Walter H. Weaver, 39, of Parkesburg, who was mys-

—i terlously shot to death on the j night of May 17 as he sat behind

the wheel of- his automobile. The prisoner is George S. Lyle,

Jr. His wife, Margaret, 20, was held with him In Chester county prison In West Chester, as an accessory after the fact. VICTIM AT LYLES' HOME

Fifteen minutes before Weaver was shot between the eyes, police said, he was playing with a kitten on the floor of Lyle's home at 304 Main st., Parkesburg. He had spent the day with the Lyles, police said, and earlier in the evening had driven them to a cemetery to help decorate graves.

Parkesburg, a town of 2300, is seven miles west of Coatesville. Weaver's was the first murder committed there in 15 years. Police, seeking a "jeal­ousy •motive" from the very beginning of their investigation, detained Lyle and his wife for questioning the day after the slaying, but later released them.

Chester County Detective Palmer R. Raysor and State Police Sergeant Stiles Smith continued to investigate the pair, however, and District At­torney Thomas C. Gawthrop ordered them questioned again. ARRESTED AT FACTORY

Lyle was arrested at 7 A. M. yes-

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 6. 1942

MEET HEBE TDDAY By JOSEPH H. MILLER

The Republican State Committee will meet at the Be lie vue-Stratford today for its biennial reorganization session and elect State Senator M. Harvey Taylor as chairman.

Taylor, head of the Dauphin coun­ty organization and primary cam­paign manager for Major General Edward Martin, the party's nominee for Governor, will succeed State Sec­retary of Property and Supplies James F. Torrance. * OTHER OFFICERS SLATED

Other officers to be chosen will be: Vice chairman—Mrs. George B.

Lamade. of Williamsport, president of the southeastern district, Pennsyl­vania Council of Republican Women, who will succeed Mrs. John Y. Huber, of Montgomery county.

Treasurer—David W. Harris, head of the Philadelphia Republican or­ganization, for a new two-year Jerm. | terday at the shirt factory as* he

came off duty. His wife was taken into custody a few minutes later as she reported for work at the same factory.

Weaver, who was employed in a greenhouse by a Parkesburg florist, left the Lyle home about 10 o'clock the night of his death. He was seen in his automobile on Mam st. with an unidentified companion by Harold Ogden, who lived nearby.

Weaver was unmarried and lived

Secretary—Gregg L. Neel, Pitts burgh real estate man. who was Mar­tin's Allegheny county manager, or Ray Smock, Republican leader of Crawford county. The office was for­merly held by the late District At­torney Charles F. Kelley, of Phila­delphia.

Assistant Secretary—Mrs. George R. Hemphill, of Beaver, for a new term. MARTIN TO SPEAK

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with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Several hundred Republican lead-. Weaver, at 103 Mam st.

ers from all of the 67 counties in the j - . Commonwealth arrived here yester­day afternoon and last night as party chieftains completed plans for the State Committee meeting.

One of the highlights of the meet­ing will be an address by Martin in which he will outline his views as to what the issues of the fall campaign should be.

Following Martin's address Taylor will name a platform committee to draw up a battle plan for the No­vember election campaign. The plat­form will be adopted at an adjourned meeting to be held in Pittsburgh in September. MARTIN PRAISES JAMES

Last night James and Martin and the other party nominees addressed a farewell dinner tendered Mrs. Huber by the State commltteewomen at the Bellevue-Stratford.

Martin said that "after I am elect­ed Governor if I can do half as much for the State as Governor James did, then Pennsylvania will succeed dur­ing the next four years."

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PUPPY HUNTED FOR HIS SAKE This is Stephen Segal, bitten Sunday by a three-

month-old puppy named Corky, which has since disap­peared. Unless the puppy can be found, health authori­ties have ordered the long Pasteur treatment for Stephen. His mother has appealed for help in locating Corky.

Democrats Nominate Roland's Widow

HARRISBURO, June 5 (A. P.).— The Executive Committee of the Democratic State Committee today nam ma ted Mrs. Veronica Bo land, widow of Rep. Patrick J. Boland. as the Democratic candidate for his un­expired term at the November gen­eral election.

State Chairman Meredith Meyers •aid the selection was made at a spe­cial meeting, on recommendation of the Lackawanna County Committee.

Meyers said nothing was done about a candidate for the regular term in Congress, beginning to Janu­ary. Boland was re-nominated by Lackawanna county Democrats for another term at the May 19 primary. He died the day before the primary.

Bar Group Opposes Ouster of Hoban

SCRANTON. Pa., June 5 (A. P.h— Members of the Lackawanna county Bar Association went on record to­day as opposing the move to replace Judge T Linus Hoban on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas here while he is away serving with the United States Army.

Any effort to remove Hoban from the bench while he is serving his country or to fill any vacancy that might be created as a result of his role "would be considered an af­front to the sentiments of the people of this community," read a resolu­tion adopted unanimously at a meet­ing of the directors of the association.

Democratic ward committees-, choosing delegates to the City Com­mittee m preparation for the elec­tion of a city chairman on Monday night, were reported last night to have unseated only one incumbent ward leader.

He was Prank OReardon, city com­mitteeman from the 19th ward, who was defeated after three ballots by Thomas Meehan in a final 41-38 vote. William Limper, who made it a three-cornered fight on the first on the first two votes, withdrew. 52D PICKS GRANAHAN

William T. Granahan, 34th ward leader, was unanimously chosen to the. City Committee from the new 52d ward, created out of part of the old 34th. The new 34th ward chose James A. Quinn by 40-27 over Charles Papa.

Among the changes in personnel caused by resignations and retire­ments was that of Michael Byrne in the 18th ward, now serving in the U. S. Navy, who will be replaced by Joseph Cog hi an. HERING IS VICTOR

In the 39th ward, Emanuel Wein­berg succeeded Robert Fitzgerald, re­signed.

Contests won by incumbents in­cluded State Representative John B. Hertog's victory in the 31st ward by 27-24 over Russell Nicolai, and Frederick Bickert's 35-22 victory over Joseph N. Corocoran in the 47th after George Jackson, the orig­inal opposition candidate, withdrew.

FEAR RUMP MEETING George Crevey was elected with­

out opposition in the 16th ward, but city leaders were uncertain whether a rump meeting of the opposition also was held and there was no official report from the 17th ward, where Michael A. McDevitt was be­lieved re-elected.

In the 5th ward, Isadore Ostroff. who had resigned, was persuaded to accept the membership on the city committee for another year.

A move to draft John B. Kelly back I into the chairmanship of the Demo­cratic City Committee at Monday's meeting, was renewed yesterday.

! Kelly, who previously had announced | his support of James P. Clark for re-I election, said last night that such a ! move "would be against my wishes."

Calling for 'Corky9

Bitten Boy Faces Ordeal

If Puppy Isn't Found

TO spare a five-year-old child the ordeal of the 21-

day anti-rabies Pasteur treat­ment, a public appeal was made yesterday for help in finding a three-month-old brown puppy which will come frolicking in answer to the name "Corky."

Mrs. Pauline Segal, of 5216 Gainor road, made the appeal for help. The city Department of Health is assisting her.

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H ER small son, Stephen, was nipped on the right

leg Sunday night by the little dog, owned by a neighbor. Then the puppy disappeared.

Unless "Corky" can be found and examined for r a b i e s , Stephen, for his own sake, must undergo the Pasteur treatment, Department of Health phy­sicians toid Mrs. Segal yesterday. That's a gruelling, though life-saving, business which should not be undertaken unless it is absolutely essential.

• • * H^HE pup which g a s h e d J- Stephen's leg, Mrs. Segal said, "is an adorable little

Boy, 13, Killed By Plant Blast

Special to The Inquirer WILKES-BARRE. June 5—A 13-

year-olds boy died today as the re­sult of an explosion in a Plymouth fuse factory—an explosion which he apparently caused himself while playmg about the plant.

The boy. Alfred Razert. of High st , Plymouth borough, was'found uncon­scious in the wreckage of a shattered two-story frame building which is used is an annex to the Plymouth Fuse Co. factory, four miles south of Wilkes-Barre. He died two hours later in Wyoming Valley Hospital.

The plant, which normally employs 40 persons, was not in operation to­day, and the bey, presumably playing in the annex, in some manner set off five cans of black powder stored there. The boy is the son of Mrs. Mabel Razert. His mother said she believed him to be in school this afternoon.

Full-Dress Rehearsal Of Air Raid Is Held

While more than 700 persons watched. Sector 6. Zone 17, Diamond to York sts.. and 16th to 18th sts.. last night held a full-dress air raid rehearsal.

Air raid wardens used stirrup pumps and sand to extinguish make-believe incendiary bombs, a' man jumped from a make-believe burning building into a fire net. a woman was rescued from the roof of another building by a rope pulley rigged to the roof, and the Emergency First Aid Squad from Women's Homeo­pathic Hospital was on the scene. The rehearsal was held under the di­rect Son of" Sector Warden William Norton

Memorial Service Held by Masons

Special to The Inquirer ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 5.—

Memorial services for Henry D. C. Dubois, of Providence, R. I., were conducted today by delegates to the National League of Masonic Clubs. Dubois, who died May 23, was first vice president and was slated for elevation to deputy president.

The league today elected Harold C. Bean, Melrose, Mass., its new pres­ident, succeeding Charles H. Taylor, of Washington, D. C. Other officers named include: Deputy president, Joseph Montgomery, Cliffside Park; First vice president, Albert J. Sylk, Philadelphia; second vice president, J. Earle Kelton, Richmond Hill, L. I.; third vice president, Ralph Kirby, Rumford R. I., and secretary-treasur­er, Arthur B. Eaton, Philadelphia.

Two at Wilmington Hurt in Air Crash

WILMINGTON. June 5 (A. P.).— James Kelly, 31, Brooklyn, was seri­ously injured, and his brother, Lawrence J., of Wilmington, suffered minor injuries tonight when their airplane struck the top of a tree at the duPont Airport of the Atlantic Aviation Service and crashed.

James, pilot of the plane, was taken to the Wilmington General Hospital and was treateoTTor a frac­ture of the skull.

Towanda Girl Killed ! Running Into Saw

TOWANDA. Pa., June 5 (A. P.).— ! Lucinda Barbara Ashcraft, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

• Fred Ashcraft, was killed late today when she ran Into the saw at her father a saw mill.

A letter written by Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the Civil War Presi­dent, was one of the historic docu­ments introduced yesterday to the Government's suit to U. S. District Court against four Pullman com­panies on trust charges.

James M. Carry, assistant to the operating vice president of the Pull­man Company, reviewed the" history of the company and produced the letter from the younger Lincoln. WAS PULLMAN PRESIDENT

It was written when he was presi­dent of the Pullman Company to 1899 and discussed a demand of the Chicago, Burlington Sc Qutocy Rail­road that it be given a share to the profits of Pullman cars operating on its trains. Carry said the C. B. & Q. was the first railroad to have a contract with the Pullman interests. It Installed Pullman service in 1865.

Trial of the Government's suit la expected to continue for several "weeks. The Pullman company main­tains it Is not guilty of having forced railroads to accept its service, as the Government charges, and that it has not worked to keep companies out of the sleeping car business. Docu­ments Introduced yesterday will be used to show it has made concessions to railroads at many times since its founding.

Man Wounded During Chase Dies

Accidentally wounded by a bullet fired by police at a fleeing purse snatcher at Clifton and Kater sts. Thursday night, Clarence Kelly, 39, Negro, of 612 s. Clifton st., died yes­terday to Pennsylvania Hospital.

Kelly was hit as Patrolman Nor­man Thorns and Louis Glacoetti fired at a Negro who had stolen the purse of Miss Mary Macy, 68, of 1012 S. 11th st.

Undertaker Sues C. J. Joyce Estate

A Pittsburgh undertaker who buried Coleman J. Joyce, lawyer long Identified with the Mitten interests to the old P. R. T. Co., brought suit in Common Pleas Court No. 3 here yesterday for his funeral bill—$596.31 plus interest.

The claimant is Edward J. Mc-Avoy. At the same time the Calvary Cemetery, of Pittsburgh, entered suit for $1500 for the price of a lot and use of a vault. Suit was brought against the estate. Joyce died to June, 1941.

animal, a cross of police dog and Boston bull."

"We feel certain someone picked him up, because his owner doesn't know where he is and the dog-catchers have no record of him. If whoever has the little puppy will only tell us, we shall never cease being grate­ful."

Riddles Houses in Fear Neighbors Would Poison Pet Obsessed by the belief that a neigh­

borhood air raid warden was seek­ing to poison hli pet dog, a erased 37-year-old man terrorised the vi­cinity of 27th st. and Allegheny ave. early yesterday morning with two blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun.

The shots broke window glass and tore awnings of six row houses in Marston st. Just south of Allegheny ave., and sent their residents, to some cases aroused from sleep, scurrying for cover. No one was Injured.

Lawrence Hoffman, of Allegheny ave. near 27th st., held by police as the wielder of the gun, collapsed at the 22d st. and Hunting Park ave. police station yesterday during a hearing before Magistrate Medway. He struck his head against a table leg in falling and was taken to Tem­ple University Hospital.

The prisoner, who was arrested at his home a few minutes after the shooting, is charged with intoxica­tion, disorderly conduct, threats to do bodly harm, and reckless use of firearms. He will have .another hearing tomorrow. FUMES OVER THREAT'

Mrs. James Lill, whose husband is senior aid raid warden of Zone 39, Sector 4. said Hoffman was standing outside their home at 3157 N. Mars-ton st. when they emerged shortly before midnight, and that he was "swearing and carrying on." He contended that the air raid wardens in the neighborhood had sent him a note threatening to poison his dog.

Hoffman, the Lllls told police, went away saying he would "come back and blow your head off," and returned shortly with the shotgun. Lill and a neighbor,.Matthew Miller, seeing him, entered the Lill home, put out the lights, and threw them­selves on the floor. Mrs. Lill and Mrs. Miller took refuge to the let­ter's home.

Standing in the street, Hoffman fired the single-barreled gun once at the Lill home, reloaded and fired again. Bullets spattered houses on both sides of his target and sent the neighborhood into an uproar.

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Wissahickon Group Names New Officers

Members of the Friends of Wissa­hickon met last night at the home of Mrs. William Clarke Mason, at 601 W. Hartwell ave., Chestnut Hill, and heard an illustrated lecture on Switzerland and her flowers, by Jay V. Hare.

Mrs. Frank Miles Day, the secre­tary, reported that toe board of di­rectors had elected James Somers Smith, Jr., to the vacancy in the treasurer's office, and Mrs. Mason to fill a vacancy on the board.

Crippled Army Plane Lands on One Wheel, Averts Crash Here

A crippled Army pursuit plane circled over Philadelphia Mu­nicipal Airport for two hours early last evening until its gasoline was exhausted.

Then, with the danger of ex­plosion and fire thus minimized, the young pilot of the plant made a remarkablo one-wheel landing just as darkness settled on the field. PLANE KEELS OVER

At the end of its landing run on the only good front tire on the plane, the fighter ship went over on one wing with a wrenching shock, but the grinning pilot stepped out un­harmed, to receive the congratula­tions of his squadron mates.

Throughout the tense two hours in which he waited for his gasoline tanks to empty before essaying the hazardous landing, crash wagons and ambulance and a rescue crew in asbestos suits stood by, while po­lice kept traffic moving on Island road to prevent the curious from congregating.

The pilot took off at 6.30 P. M. on what was to have been a routine pa­trol, but as he began to fold the undercarriage into the belly of the fast ship, his ground crew saw that one tire was damaged and had gone flat. PILOT WARNED BY RADIO

The men knew that the pilot could not be aware of the damage, and that if he attempted a conven­tional landing, the high speed of his plane would fling into him a disas­trous crash.

Accordingly they at once informed the filer by radio of his danger, told him to run dry of gasoline and come in with a dead motor. Obeying orders, the pilot spent the next two hours at 1000 feet. During his lonely vigil, a passenger plane arrived at the field and departed unhindered by the mobilization of the Army and airport emergency equipment.

While Army intelligence officers approved publication of the story, the name of the pilot was withheld.

4 Horsemen Fined On Cruelty Charge

Four young horsemen were fined $7.50 each yesterday for riding their mounts too hard to Fairmount Park. In addition. Lawrence Kessler, stable owner at 2310 N. 28th St., was fined $12.50 for permitting one of the horses to be ridden while it had fever.

The horsemen fined by Magistrate Dogole at Park Guard Headquar­ters are James Burke, 19, Ruth st. near Allegheny ave.; Edgar Ganster, 19, Huntingdon st. near nth; Richard Gerhart, 18, 9th st. near Allegheny ave., and Martin Frank, 18, of Corlies st. near Lehigh ave.

Don't roam—read. If you're looking for an attractive room or apartment, *ave your-•elf time and work by looking over those . , . advertised in The Inquirer daily and Sunday. " e saia

I Pleading guilty to having Improper

relations with the wife of his former business associate, Alexander 8. Boyd, described as a builder of model homes, was given a suspended sen­tence and assessed costs of $25.13 by Municipal Court Judge Adrian Bon-nelly yesterday.

Sentence was suspended after Boyd's attorney, William A. Gray, asserted that Boyd had paid $675 at Doylestown, Bucks county, last week

settle a similar charge involving to the same woman, Mrs. Mildred Jack son, Forrest ave., Elktos Park. John R. K. Scott, representing the woman's husband, William H. Jackson, 5925 Roosevelt boulevard, agreed that Boyd had been penalized sufficiently in Bucks county, but added "other action may soon be taken."

The Jacksons were married 20 years ago. Boyd also is married, but his wife had stood by him since the charges were made public a month ago, court attaches said. They live to Germantown.

If you want to take off or put on weight, read Ida Jean Kain In The Inquirer. Doc­tors all over the country are recommending her scientif­ically balanced diets.

Dr. Corwin Skeptical Of World Union

The "real test" of the applicability of the World Federation idea to the peace problem will be furnished by western Europe, Edward S. Corwin, professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University, asserted here yesterday.

Dr. Corwin, guest speaker at the seventh "world-wide broadcast' pre­sented to the hall of the American Philosophical Society, Independence Square, was skeptical of the growth of such a union.

"I must frankly say that I do not believe that the avoidance of war is even today a strong enough common interest among the nations of the world to sustain a world-wide federal government which would possess powers at all comparabale to those of the Governments at Ottawa, Can­berra (Australia) and Washington,"

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John H. Neeson, Director of Public Works, said his department ordered the counter closed because the operator, James Perry, owed the city $1500. Dr. Ruth H. Weaver, as­sistant Director of Public Health, said the place was also ordered closed by her department's Bureau of Housing and Sanitation, because of "generally insanitary conditions."

Perry operated the counter on a concession basis and paid the city a percentage of his profits.

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