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Ride in 70-Year Surrey Proves Memorable Event

Scene Looks Like Biggest Day In Wyoming Since the Massacre

By JOHN M. CUMMINGS 9 WYOMING, Pa., Aug. 4.

R IDING down the main street of this town in a surrey drawn by a pair of spanking bays we tried to recall when last we were carted about in a vehicle of this sort. After a while we

gave it up knowing it was so long ago that even to think of it made us feel old.

Judge Hourigan sat in the front seat with the driver, one Denton D. Durland, who steered the horses with expert hand. In the rear seat, looking like royalty come to town, sat our old woman, our Uncle Dominick and self. A half dozen automobiles trailed along and out in front, shooing away traffic, was Tom Parkin­son, Wyoming's chief of police.

Driver Durland told us the surrey was 70 years old. It looked spic and span, even to the fringe around the top, for it recently had been overhauled and given a new coat of varnish. It was a comfortable ride, the sort of experience that carried you back to the "good old days," the days of slow travel and gracious living. This strange procession excited the town dogs. They paid no at­tention at all to the automobiles, but they raised quite a racket as they caught sight of our strange equipage. Our Uncle Dominick

said this, perhaps, was the first time some of these dogs had ever seen a horse.

From porches and from windows citizens smiled and waved a friendly greeting as we passed along. Altogether it looked like the biggest day in Wyoming since the famous massacre.

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TURNING off the main street we went down toward the river, wheeled to the left and presently arrived at Queen Esther's rock. As rocks go you could hardly call it much. Scarcely

anyone would give it a tumble but for the generally accepted fact that it was on this rock that the Indian queen Esther brained some 15 or 16 settlers who survived the Wyoming massacre.

Surrounded by a low iron fence, the rock is four or five feet long and about two feet across at its broadest part. At the time it was used by Queen Esther as a chopping block it rose about two or three feet above the ground. For many years souvenir hunters kept chipping away at the rock until they got it down to a bare foot of so in height. An iron grille now protects it from vandals.

Mrs. Henry Perkins Miller had discarded the badge she wore as president of the Wyoming Monument Association. Here, at Queen Esther's rock, she wore another badge and welcomed our little party in the name of the D. A. R.

Queen Esther, so they say, had one eighth white blood in her veins. With the death of her husband she took command of a small tribe that had an encampment along the Susquehanna near Athens.

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ACCORDING to the local historians, the Queen, as a rule, was friendly to the whites. But a day or so before the battle of Wyoming her son was killed in a skirmish a short distance

from Forty Fort. This so infuriated the Queen that she demanded personal revenge.

After the Wyoming massacre some 18 survivors were taken to the rock. Each in turn was seized by Indians and his head bent over the stone. With a war club Queen Esther bashed out the brains of the hapless victims.

Some historians say that one man, Lebbus Hammond, escaped. He is reputed to have broken away from his captors. After hiding in the brush for a time he made his way to Forty Fort.

Without in any way disagreeing with the historians, we should like here to offer the testimony of Dr. Willis L. Dean, principal emeritus of the School of Business at Wyoming Seminary. The day we arrived in these parts we dropped in to see the venerable school man with young Andy Hourigan, son of the Judge.

They will tell you around here that every successful business man in Wilkes-Barre owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Dean. In the words of the old song he made them what they are today. He retired less than a year ago after 66 years of service at the seminary.

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WE TOLD Dr. Dean we were going out to see Queen Esther's rock. He proceeded to give us something of the rock's his­tory. He stated that a man named Elliott, in addition to

Hammond, escaped from the Indians. While Queen Esther was busy with her clubbing, said Dr. Dean, Hammond and Elliott made a sudden break. Leaping into the river they made the opposite shore and in time found their way to the fort.

This version is not offered with the intention of starting an argument. But Dr. Dean, they will tell you in Wilkes-Barre, knows his local history. So far as we are concerned, you can take It or leave it.

We had a fine time in Wyoming. For one thing, we shall never forget the surrey ride nor shall we forget the many kindnesses shown our Uncle Dominick, our old woman and self. •

on increase Among City's Youth

Delinquency among boys and girls is on the increase in Phila­delphia, according to a report issued yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics of the Municipal Court covering the first six months of 1942.

Although the increase is slight when compared to a report for the same period last year, the upward trend is decisive and Is expected to continue under the impact of disruptive social condi-

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Seaman Also Loses Life in Fall Off Ship

A 13-year-old Camden boy drowned and a companion, 14, narrowly escaped the same fate at 7 o'clock last night when they toppled from a canoe into the Cooper River, near Garden State Park racetrack.

Two hours earlier a United Na­tions seaman drowned in the Delaware River when he fell from the deck of his ship at a Camden pier.

Victim in the Cooper River tragedy was Victor Holshue, of 560 Auburn st. His oompanions, Chester Levock, 14, of 452 Henry st, and Norman Eck-man, 13, of 517 S. 5th St., both Cam­den addresses, said he fell overboard after standing up in the canoe.

12 BOATS DRAG RIVER Levock also was precipitated from

the craft when it pitched violently, but young Eckman managed to pull him back into the canoe, which did not overturn. 'The boys had rented it from a nearby boathouse a half-hour earlier.

After tiie occupants of 12 boats from Camden, Oaklyn, Audubon, Collingswood and Westmont had dragged the river for several hours, the Holshue boy's body was recov­ered and removed to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.

In the earlier drowning the victim was Floyd Scharbaai, 24. Police said investigation showed he had been wrestling with other seamen on the deck of the merchantman, tied up at the Camden Marine Terminal, Beckett st. and the Delaware, when he lost his footing and fell overboard.

PALS CAN'T SAVE HIM Several of the men with whom he

had been scuffling leaped in after him, but were unable to save him. Members of the Camden Emergency Squad recovered the body with grappling irons at 8 P. M., three hours after the accident. Camden police held John Schoff, 23, a seaman, for questioning in connection with Scharbaai's death.

Begin Wage Tax Check Federal Workers

Face Prosecution

Woman Saves Son But Loses $207

Although she saved her five-year-old son from injury yesterday when he was about to fall from a moving automobile she was driving, Mrs. Sarah Mazie, 36, of 5730 Florence ave., lost a purse containing $207 in the process, she told police.

Mrs. Mazie said she had started for a bank with the money to deposit it for her husband, who operates a delicatessen at 71st st. and Oreenway ave., when her son, Frederick, opened a door of the car. He was about to fall to the driveway leading to their garage when she seised the child and pulled him back, then drove on to the bank.

When she got there, the money was missing. She returned home, where she found a witness who gave her the license number of a car whose driver was said to have halted and picked up the pocketbook.

Trolley Derailed In Auto Crash

An automobile struck an east-bound Route 42 trolley car from the side at Chestnut and Sth sts. with such force that the trolley was de­railed and its front trucks shoved almost to the curb shortly after 8.30 o'clock last night.

None of the few passengers aboard the street car was hurt, but the driver of the automobile, Louis Ma-ranco, 20, of 8th st. near Federal, and two companions, Nicholas Re-nardo, 20, of Sears st. near 8th, and Joseph Hoffman, 21, of Wharton st. near 8th, were treated at Penn­sylvania Hospital for cuts and bruises.

Walter Camenisch, special deputy in charge of city income tax returns, and Ann Astrauskas, a file clerk, are shown beginning a check of the 40,000 to 50,000 names of Federal employees on file to determine those who have failed to pay the M/2 percent tax on their 1940-1941 incomes. The City Solicitor's office announced that delinquents are liable to prosecution.

2SOO U. S Employees in Wage Tax Rush

Since last Saturday, more than 2500 Federal employees have paid or made arrangements to pay the city wage tax on their 1940 and 1941 incomes, Assistant City Solicitor Abraham Shapiro re­ported yesterday.

"The announcement that last Saturday wag the deadline for such payments by Federal workers, unless they wished to face prose­cution, had the effect of creating the greatest ruth since we began

collecting the levy on Federal in

P.U.C to Issue Injunction To Speed P.T.C. Rate Plea

Order Expecfed to Oppose Fare Rise; Union Reporl Offered 4-Cent Pay Boost The Public Utility Commission has decided to short-cut the

proceedings in the Philadelphia Transportation Co. rate case by issuing an order nisi, which most likely will be against the proposed increased fares, it was learned yesterday.

The order nisi is in the form of a temporary injunction in an equity case, and may be the basis for the Commission's permanent order in the P.T.C. case.

P.U.C. Chairman John Siggins, Jr., said the Commission has given the P.T.C. until Aug. 25 to file its brief in support of increased fares.

"Following this," Siggins said, "the Commission will state its findings in an ordeE nisi. The company then will be given an op­portunity, should it so desire, to present oral argument before the Commission on exceptions which ; ; e> it may take to the order."

. TO SAVE TIME

Siggins added that the City of Philadelphia and the Office of Price Administration, both opposed to the proposed increased rates, would be notified of the Commission's action.

The Commission, it was under­stood, adopted the order nisi pro­cedure to save time and circumvent further delay in the long drawn out rate case. AUTOMATIC RISE

If the Commission could not issue the order by Oct. 15, it was explained the P. T. C. automatically would have the right to increase its present prices of two tokens for 15 cents, or eight cents for a single ride, to three fares for 25 cents, or 10 cents for a single fare.

Reports "that the directors of the Philadelphia Transportation Co. had offered its employees 4-cents-an-hour Increases—they want 20 cents more an hour—were current yester­day as negotiations for upward re­vision of the wage scales continued.

At the close of a three-hour con­ference of company and union rep­resentatives with State and Federal mediators yesterday afternoon, Ed­ward Hopkinson, Jr., chairman of the P.T.C. executive committee, in­dicated he "believed we are" making progress. This was in answer to a question.

Hopkinson announced after yester­day's meeting that the conferee will convene again today at 4 P. M. in the Mitten Building.

Engineer Named By Taxation Board

Harry Feldman, brother-in-law of County Commissioner Morton Wit-kin, Republican leader of the 13th ward, was appointed an engineer for the Board of Revision of Taxes on Aug. 1, it was announced yesterday. The job pays $3000 annually and was created by City Council several weeks ago.

Feldman, who resides at 6039 Webster St., formerly was in charge of construction work* at the new Municipal Court building.

Man Arrested On Betting Count

Members of Craig Ellis' vice squad late yesterday raided an alleged horse-race pool headquarters to a second-floor apartment on Hunting­don st. west of 10th and arrested Charles Smith, 42, of the same ad­dress.

The raiders found three telephones and slips indicating $400 in bets.

Retired Rector The court handled 3690 juvenile delinquency cases during the six-month period — an increase of 182 1 i j *i I 1 1 over the same period last year. Of m l l O S p i T d l r l e r e this total, 2144 were boys, 426 were

Girls to Compete For Beauty Title

With the entry list at an all-time high, the contenders in the Miss Philadelphia contest will hold an­other rehearsal session at the Vari-

girls. The offenses ranged from stealing

automobiles to running away from home, malicious mischief, incorrigi­bility and sex crimes. BREAKDOWN OF FIGURES

The Municipal Court, through President Judge Charles L. Brown, discharged or adjusted 1862 of the 3690 cases.

Of the remainder. 429 runaways were returned to their homes or guardians, three were referred to criminal court, nine vere compelled to undergo medical treatment, 649 were placed on probation, 70 were c o m mi 11 e d to child • placement agencies, 400 were placed in institu­tions for delinquents, 12 were handed over to parole officers, 42 were placed

ety Club in the Bellevue-Stratford J in homes for feeble-minded or at 8 o'clock tonight to demonstrate epileptics, 22 were sent to hospitals, their talents for the Miss America j and 15 went to other types Of institu show in Atlantic City. tions.

Rev. John C. Vitt, retired rector of Our Lady Kelj^tfChristians Church at 3160 Gaul < S l h a patient in St. Joseph's Hospita^Vather Vitt, who observed the 50th anniversary of his ordination last Friday, was brought to the hospital Friday from his home in Wildwood Crest, N. J.

^ The 73-year-old priest retired four years ago after serving 10 years at Our Lady Help of Christians.

Events of the Day Allied Jewish Appeal, luncheon,

Warwick. 12.15 P. M. Rotary Club, luncheon. Bellevue-

Stratford, 12.30 P. M. Shrine Club of Phlla., luncheon.

Kugler's, Widener Bldg., 12.30 P. M. Textile Salesmen's Association,

meeting, Benjamin Franklin, 8 P. M. Penna. Mothers and Daughters,

meeting, Bellevue-Stratford, 8 P.M.

Quiz Mayor Of Chester in Water Deal

Mayor Clifford H. Peoples of Ches­ter was the principal witness at yes­terday's hearing on a taxpayers' suit in equity to have the Delaware County Court invalidate the Ches­ter Municipal Authority's purchase of the Chester water Service Co.

Peoples was questioned at length by James L. Rankin, Chester attor­ney representing the taxpayers, George E. White and his wife, Ethel V., of 1614 Washington ave., Ches­ter, in an effort to convince Judge Samuel E. Shull the price paid for the stock of the company by the Authority—81,050,000—was exces­sive. TELLS OF MEETING

Peoples described a meeting he had with Robert L. Creek, a represent­ative of .the Chicago brokerage firm of Charles W. McNear & Co., in 1938. Creek asked him, Peoples testified, whether the City of Chester would be interested in buying the Water Ser­vice Co.

Creek told him, Peoples said, that he had talked with former State Senator John J. McClure and the latter's business associate, William C. Purdy, about such a deal, and that McClure had advised him to see Peoples. The latter was then a mem­ber of Chester City Council.

McClure, Purdy and Peoples are among the defendants to the current proceedings, which are being heard at Media.

comes in March, 1941," Shapiro said.

During that year and a half period; he disclosed, "only about 4000 Fed­eral workers have voluntarily paid the tax on their 1940 incomes, and about the same number on their 1941 wages, so it can be seen that the rush in the last four days is just that."

Shapiro added that "from all in­dications, despite the fact that a Federal employees' g r o u p has pe­titioned the U. 8. Supreme Court to decide against the city tax, the flood of current payments will continue."

'QUITE WILLING TO PAY* He emphasized that "every one"

of the more than 2500 who have paid or arranged to pay their taxes since Saturday "never had paid, or at­tempted to pay, the city wage tax •previously."

Many making payments did so by mall, enclosing notes stating, in ef­fect, "that there was a general understanding that Federal work­ers did not have to pay the tax at this time, although they were quite will­ing to pay," Shapiro asserted.

PREPARING TO PROSECUTE Only 50 summonses have been issu­

ed to date in delinquent Federal cases, he said, "but right now the Solicitor's office and the Income tax office is busy going over the 40,000 to 50,000 names of Federal employees in the files, preparatory to taking action against all delinquents."

Conshohocken Cancels Outing

The latest social casualty of war is Conshohocken Day. The event, staged annually In former years at Woodside Park under the auspices of the Recreational Committee of Con­shohocken, and attracting hundreds of adults and children, has been can­celed, Mrs. Henry E. Rollins, Sr., secretary, announced yesterday.

Inability to obtain special buses for the event was given as the reason.

City Seeks To Close 2 Saloons

Two more saloons to the hard-hit "Barbary Coast" area must face the law today and explain why they should not join the eight darkened places that already have padlocks on their doors.

Assistant District Attorney John A. Boyle will go before Judge Ray­mond A. MacNeille to Common Pleas Court No. 3 with a bill of equity asking for the closing of the Young Men's Republican Club of the 9th ward on South Penn Square near 15th St., and Hewitt's Bar on 16th st. near Green. SAILOR FILES COMPLAINT

Only a week ago last Saturday po­lice raided the club on the complaint of William Neilson, a Norwegian sailor, that he had been slugged and robbed of $300 to a washroom by two men.

Close on the heels of the raid came a citation by the State Liquor Con­trol Board to Harrlsburg setting Aug. 10 for a hearing at which the club and its steward, Matthew Hen­derson, should argue any reasons they could produce that the club's license should not be revoked.

Hewitt's Bar, which is licensed in the name of Ellen V. Hewitt, has been raided by police twice within the past two months and neighbors have kept up a steady storm of complaints that its customers are noisy and dis­orderly.*

If Boyle wins temporary injunc­tions, the places affected in these, as to'previous cases, have 30 days to which to appeal and if they do not, the injunctions become permanent padlocks. •

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2 Held Under Bail In Bank Shortage

Charged with conspiracy, John H. Anderson, 44, of Trenton, manager of a Newtown, Pa. meat market, was held yesterday to 85000 ball and Frank W. Sellers, 21, bank clerk, was released to 82500 bail charged with making false entries to the books of the Newtown Title and Trust Co. for the benefit of the market manager

The shortage, bank officials said, amounted to 85070 all of which they said is covered by insurance. Accord­ing to an alleged confession made by Anderson, Sellers "never benefited one penny" from the illegal transac­tion which started to July 1941, and continue until discovered recently by State bank examiners.

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Electricity Fails In Wayne Area

Wayne and the surrounding area to Radnor township were without electric light and power for a few minutes last night, shortly before nightfall, as a result of a minor de­fect in an electric switch.

An employee of the Philadelphia Electric Co.'s Wayne substation said the trouble developed as a direct af­termath of Friday night's severe rainstorm.

Baileys Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bailey, of 215 N. Clifton ave., Aldan, yesterday celebrated their 50th wedding anni­versary at the home of their grand­daughter, Mrs. Frances Whiteman, 3701 Taylor ave., Drexel Hill.

Mr. Bailey is retired. He formerly was with the John Wanamaker store.

2 Riders Injured In Thrill Show1

Two young riders, performers to Larry Sunbrock's Wild West Rodeo and Thrill Show, playing this week at the Frankford Yellow Jackets Stadium, were injured during yes-t e r d a y afternoon's performance when their horses threw them to the ground.

Miss Lorraine Graham, 21, of Sa-lina, Kan., suffered a fractured left leg when her horse reared during the finale. Her brother, Edward, 19, suf­fered a broken ankle earlier in a similar accident. They are members of a family consisting of the parents and nine children, all of whom are with the show. The injured riders were taken to Northeastern Hospital. Earlier this week, Neal Lott, 21, was Injured attempting to hurdle an old jalopy over a bus and five other cars.

Four youths were held as automo­bile thief suspects yesterday. They were captured by police who chased their cars to the early morning hours and halted one of them by rid­dling a tire with bullets.

The first chase began shortly after 2 A. M. at 26th and Parriah st*.. when Patrolmen Dan Oiannone and Roy Zogg sighted an automobile which had been reported stolen from Albert Onartucci, of 5609 Utah st. Ignoring the officers* order to stop, John Cleary. 17, of Thompson st. near 25th, and four companions, sped in and out side streets at nearly 70 miles an hour until they reached Broad and Parriah sts.

FIRES AT TIRE There one of the policemen fired

his revolver first to the air and then at a rear tire. The car lurched to a halt, slamming Cleary against the windshield. His four companions escaped oh foot but the dazed Cleary was arrested as he staggered from the automobile. He was treated at Hahnemann Hospital and sent to Juvenile Court.

About an hour later, three other suspects were arrested after a short chase, when they drove their car, re­ported stolen from Robert Hall, of 3119 Arbor St., through a red light at Lehigh ave. and 5th sts.

FORCED TO THE CURB Patrolmen Adolf Mack and Wil­

liam Segal, on duty at the intersec­tion to a new emergency patrol-am­bulance car, chased them and forced them to the curb at Hancock and Somerset sts.

John Gukeo, of Frankford ave. near Somerset, and Andrew Dlvto-ney, Lehigh ave. near Frankford. both 16, were held for juvenile Court. Ralph Riffel, 15, of Frankford ave. near Lehigh, was sent to the House of Detention.

Moving of Church Over Rails Halted

Heavy wartime train traffic forced a temporary halt yesterday to the business of moving the old Congre­gational Church of Lindenwold. N. J , across the Pennsylvania - Reading Seashore Line tracks to a new loca­tion.

The 25-year-old frame edifice is being moved about three blocks to become the Sunday School Annex of the n e w Congregational Church building, at Emerson and linden aves. But the railroad crosses the route at Linden ave. and operations were halted at the crossing yester­day, until 2 A. M. today, when house movers will resume their task. The job is expected to be completed some­time today.

Physician Denies Alimony Charges

Dr. Arthur Hirshorn, 41, resident physician of the Broad Street Hos­pital and a practicing physician m Camden, yesterday denounced as "base lies" charges made against him to alimony proceedings brought by his wife, Jacqueline Gimbel Hirshorn, 21.

The Hirshorns were married June 4, 1939, and separated June 31. In an affidavit filed by counsel for the young, dark-eyed woman, it was charged that Dr. Hirshorn beat his wife, refused to buy her food and clothing, mistreated her generally and humiliated her.

Advisory Master Lin wood Erickson postponed the hearing until Aug. 18.

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