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12 a THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. 1942 TUESDAY MORNING'. NOVEMBER 3. Miner Dies in Cave-In Girl, 17, Depicts Tryst With Errol Flynn as Star Listens' in Court LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 (A.

A movie-struck girl from the Middle Wes, took the witness stand today and, before an intensely As Sister Frantically Digs to Rescue Him Special to The Inquirer MT. CARMEL, Nov. 2. Trapped in a mine cave-in, Joseph Kogut, 31, was smothered today in a second slide which seriously injured his younger sister, Mary, as she worked frantically to save him rV v- rvx cn tv 4 -fl women, related intimate details Ml si (A. P.

Wirephoto) TELLS DETAILS OF ALLEGED SEDUCTION Betty Hansen pictured in a Los Angeles court yesterday where she told the details of how she accompanied Errol Flynn to a bedroom during a Hollywood party. He is accused of statutory rape. With her is Policewoman Helen D. Stone. (A.

P. Wirephoto) WAITINCT TO TESTIFY AGAINST FLYNN Peggy Satterle, night club dancer and singer, pictured in a Los Angeles court yesterday as she waited her turn to testify against actor Errol Flynn. She accuses him of statutory rape as does Betty Hansen, 17, who testified yesterday against the dashing screen hero. The patch on Miss Satterle's forehead covers a slight scratch. from the first fall of earth.

Kogut was buried alive as he and his brother-in-law, Peter Ibanez, were working a small mine which they jointly owned. Ibanez managed to leap from the pile of debris and ran for help. Miss Kogut, whose home is near the mine, heard Ibanez' cries and sped back with him to her brother's assistance. BOTH DIG DESPERATELY Both dug desperately through the rubble, all the while hearing the moans of the trapped man just beneath them. Then, just as the woman caught sight of Kogut's hand, the second cave-in occurred.

Both the rescuers were nearly buried, but Ibanez was able to make his cries for help heard. Several young men from the neighborhood were attracted to the scene and quickly freed the pair. Ibanez apparently was unhurt, but the woman was found to have suffered severe injuries of the back and legs. Kogut was reached a short time later, but he was dead. He is survived by his wife and a two-months-old son who live in Atlas, a suburb of Mt.

Carmel. EARTH SETTLES ANEW Meanwhile, at West Pittston, 40 miles northeast of here, five more houses were damaged today in the further sagging of earth above a mine shaft. The houses were near a two-block area similarly affected last Friday. About $2000 damage was caused to the homes of Anthony Agati. Daniel Schwartz, Mrs.

Lucius B. Crellin, Miss Mary Dickey and Rev. and Mrs. R. A.

Rlnker. on Parke and Spring sts. Water and gas mains were broken, but had been shut off since the previous disturbance. Flames Destroy Glass Warehouse HAMMONTON. N.

Nov. 2. Fire destroyed the one-story warehouse of the Enterprise Cut Glass Co. plant on st. here this afternoon, causing damage estl mated at $10,000.

John F. Rothfus, one of the fac tory's owners, collapsed while watch ing firemen battle the flames and was removed to his home. The blaze had wrecked the interior of the warehouse and its contents, and had spread to the roof, before workmen in the cutting unit, adjoining, discovered the flames. The company's accumulation of finished products destined for the Christmas trade and a large supply of raw materials received only yesterday were ruined by the flames. Quick action by Hammonton's two fire companies, coupled with the fact the wind carried the flames away from the cutting room structure, prevented the fire from spreading.

1943 License Tabs Now Being Made HARRISBURG. Nov. 2 (U. The two-inch-square metal tabs that will bring current automobile license plates up to date next year are now in production at Western State Penitentiary, Welfare Secretary E. Arthur Sweeny announced today.

The tabs, which will be attached to 1942 license plates as a metal-saving measure, are red and black. Under the legend, "Penna. '43." in red letters, the markers read: "Exp. 3-31-44," designating March 31. 1944, as the expiration date.

The identifying registration number is the last of three lines, and, superimposed on the tab is a red keystone, the State's symbol. Convict labor at the penitentiary will turn out at least 2,100,000 of the tabs. Sweeny said, but this number may be increased. The new regis tratlon period begins next April 1. 10 AS Special to The Inquirer MONTROSE.

Nov. 2. One man was killed early today and 10 ethers were injured when a bus left the Lackawanna Trail at Alford. 15 miles north of Montrose, plunged down a bank and overturned. State Motor Police said the acci dent was caused either by a me chanical failure of the bus' steering gear, or by a blowout of a front tire.

Police and motorists removed the injured through the windows of the bus. VICTIMS LISTED The man killed was R. Wesley George, 50, of 311 Franklin West Pittston. Those injured were Robert 25, West Pittston: John Dempsey, 40. Pittston; William Dickson.

57. Trucksville; Arline Graham. 18, Old Forge; Margaret Brown. 31. Old Forge; Stanley Dombroski, 36.

Dick son City; August Pasquale, 55, Wells- ville; William Richards, 18, Bing-hamton, N. John Brozd. 18. Binghamton, and Darwin Snell, New Milford, driver of the bus. The bus.

owned by the White Bus Binghamton, was bound for Binghamton from Scranton. 2 Brothers Killed When Hit by Train Special to The Innuircr PITTSTON. Nov. 2. Two brothers were killed early today when they were struck by a train as they walked across the tracks at the Market st.

crossing in Laflin, two miles south of here. State Motor Police identified the victims as George Antonitis. about 55. of Laflin, R. D.

2. and his brother, John, about 60, of Philadelphia. Apparently no one witnessed the accident, police said. Passersby found the bodies near the tracks after discovering a pair of glasses and torn articles of clothing at the crossing. TOUPEES ad T1AMSF01MATI0KS COT? W1CS IQI W1U fnt Consultatn-i JOSEPH SCHMITZ Pn.

71)31202 LOCUST ST. DR. C. G. ALGASE DENTIST 901 Market Street Bl04' WAL BIOO Extractions Asleep or Awake Prices Toe Can Afford Pay I.

DENTAL PLATES HMSILED IN ONE lAY I DAILY -8 SL'N. lt-S Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you axe to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Couehs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis I HURT OVERTURNS fyBSOLUTIiyf pi DEFIES a OCTECTlflM INSANITY 15 DEFENSE OF GIRLS' SLAYER listening courtroom jammed with WIFE ADMITS TRYSTJf LOS ANGELES. Nov.

2 (U. Mrs. Evelyn McKee, who seeks a divorce because she said she was merely 'head wife in her husband's harem," admitted in cross-examination today she had made a trip to San Luis Obispo, with Max ce la Fuente, former Peruvian consul here. But. she testified at her trial before Judge Thurmond Clarke, she and de' la Fuente had two separate rooms at a hotel there.

ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT Earlier a deposition testimony of Mrs. McKee's stepdaughter, Jo Ann Guislain. accused Mrs. McKee of sharing the same room with de la Fuente when the consul assertedly was a boarder in the McKee home. She admitted receiving gifts from a mysterious "Ralph" but said he aLso gave gifts to the children and whisky to McKee himself.

She denied that Ralph ever gave her his fraternity pin. ANGERED AT ANONYMITY Pretty Mrs. McKee grew exasperated at the anonymity with which McKee's attorney, Joe Scott, cloaked the persons he asked her about. Asked if she had been found in a local hotel room with an American Legion official, Mrs. McKee burst out: "I wish you could name these people and then I could answer you." "I refuse to expose them," Scott returned.

Whereupon Mrs. McKee denied she had ever been caught with anyone in any such circumstances. Doris Duke Suit Delayed by Judge NEWARK. N. Nov.

2 'A. Federal Jude Guy L. Fake today gave counsel for Mrs. Doris Duke Cromwell and the township ui Hillsborough, Somerset county, ten clays in which to file briefs before he decides whether she may add more defendants to her suit for damages against township officials. Mrs.

Cromwell has alleged an attempt to defraud her through discriminatory tax assessments against her. citing that her personal holdings were assessed at $60,054,424 for 1940 and '41. and at $161,886,014 as trustee of the Duke endowment. Her legal home is in the township, although she is now living in Hawaii. Counsel for the township described her charge of excessive assessment as worthless, saying the law required her to file a statement cf her holdings, thus assuring a fair levy, and she had fulled to do so.

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Only 35f. ZEMO DENES llll i cf I i a her alleged seduction by Errol Flynn, gay, dashing hero of a thousand and one film adventures. Flvnn. accused of the statu tory rape of two minor girls, fol- lrwed the testimony closely but tetrayed little emotion as blonde Hetty Hansen, 17, told her story nder questioning of Deputy District Attorney Tom Cochran. SECOND GIRL PRESENT Sitting in the courtroom at the fetor's preliminary hearing was I'eggy Satterle, night-club singer tnd dancer.

She also accuses Flynn statutory rape. Miss Hansen, who said she "never thought much of" Flynn as an actor, said she became ill during a dinner party at the home of Fred McEvoy, British sportsman, and went into the den to lie down. "After dinner everyone went into he den," she testified. "I went with Mr. Flynn.

He told the others he was going to take me up and let me lie down for a nap. We went to the bedroom, and Flynn locked the door. He told me to lie down." They were in the room about half an hour, the blonde girl asserted, and after an alleged act of intimacy there was a knock at the door. "It was Lynne Boyer's voice," Miss Hansen said. Miss Boyer was guest at the party and was scheduled to testify.

"She said something about wanting to use a telephone," Miss said. "Mr. Flynn told her he was taking a shower and that there vas a telephone downstairs. At the vlme of the knock Flynn was in the bathroom putting oil on his hair." NO TALK ABOUT JOB Miss Hansen testified there was no talk of the actor getting her a job in motion pictures. She said Flynn left the party about an hour later after kissing her ood-by.

"He said he would telephone me t-he next night," she declared, "but he didn't do it. I didn't see him again until two weeks later at Juvenile Hall." Harry Gicslcr, defense attorney, asked Miss Hansen: "Have you ever seen Mr. Flynn on the scrc COOL TO HIS ACTING "Yes, at home in Lincoln (Neb.) I used to see his pictures once in a while, but I never thought much of him as an actor," responded Miss Hansen. Flynn, who sat grim-faced through the hearing, constantly "doodling," smiled faintly at her remark. Miss Hansen also told Giesler she had had "difficulties" at the home of her sister, Mrs.

Patricia Marsden, and that she had gone to live at a hotel. She said she was directed to the hotel by a "man I met on the street." Under further questioning, she said she usually said she was IS when anyone asked her age, And that she sometimes called herself Ronnie Hansen. When she took a job as a drug store soda dispenser, she said, she gave her age as 18. TWO OTHERS ACCUSED An earlier witness was Mrs Marsden, who gave routine testi mony as to Betty's age and birth place, Lincoln, Neb, Two young studio workers, Mor- rie Black, 22, and Joseph Geraldi are also accused of raping Miss Hansen. Their preliminary hearing was held Oct.

26, and they were or dered held for trial. Similar charges against Armand Knapp were dis missed JEWEL THEFT PITTSBURGH. Nov. 2 fA. The theft of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry from the home of John W.

Hubbard, wealthy shovel manufacturer, was disclosed today with the arrest of an 18-year-old youth in a pawnshop. City Detective Thomas Mulvahill said the youth was trying to dispose of a diamond-studded cigarette case, a platinum watch and other jewelry. By using a baggage check found on the boy, the officers also located three suitcases filled with other valuables at a baggage station. Magistrate W. M.

K. McDiarmid held the suspect, Norman Nusser, pending further investigation. Hubbard was out of town and the extent of the thefts could not be determined immediately. BARED i V'jli, 4X -x JiwM WHITE PLAINS, N. Nov.

2 (U. Edward Haight, 17, charged1 with the murder of two small girls, is sadistically insane, a defense psychiatrist testified today. Dr. James Gaetaniello. nsvehia- trist of the Harlem Valley State Hospital at Wingdale, told a jury of six men and six women that Haight is a victim of dementia praecox and has a psychopathic personality with a mixture of "sadistic trends, antisocial and moral deficiencies including lying and stealing." KIDNAPING AND MURDER Haight was accused of kidnaping and killing Margaret Lynch, 7, and her sister, Helen, 8, on Sept.

14. Dr. Gaetaniello, first defense witness, said he had examined Haight four times at Westchester Cotmty Jail and observed his conduct during the trial. Haight's father, he said, has served two prison terms and two paternal uncles aLso have been in jail. Factory Policeman Is Found Shot Dead PITTSBURGH, Nov.

2 fA. Edward J. Kulpa, 33, cf Etna, a plant policeman, was found fatally shot today near his automobile on Squaw Run road in Fox Chapel. County detectives reported a shotgun and hunting clothes were found on the blood-stained front seat of the automobile. Mrs.

Kulpa told detectives her husband left home for work last night. She said he had planned to go hunting after work and had taken his hunting clothes with him. (A. P. Wirephoto? FILM STAR AT PRELIMINARY HEARING Errol Flynn pictured with his attorney, Jerry Giesler, at the preliminary hearing in Los Angeles yesterday on charge of statutory rape.

Blonde Betty Hansen, 17, a movie-struck waitress, brought the charges. U. S. Indicts Four for Fraud ARRESTPasedon Dream Gold Mine says, dreamed of a mountain of gold in Utah." It also says he contended his wife had been cured of an illness through the means of the OBSCENITY CHARGED NEW YORK, Nov. 2 fA.

On the heels of a declaration by Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, that producers of some Broadway shows were dragging "souls down to hell," the producer and managers of the musical show. "Wine, Wo men and Song," today were served with summonses charging operation of an indecent exhibition. The show features the strip teaser, Margie Hart.

VIOLATION CHARGED The summonses, returnable Nov. 4, were obtained by License Commissioner Paul Moss and specifically charged violation of that section of the penal law which prohibits obscenity on the stage. An indication that the action may be the opening of a decency campaign came when the plainclothes-men servers replied to Producer I. H. Herk's protest at being singled out, "You'll have company soon." Herk was manager of the Gaiety Theatre before Mayor F.

H. La Guardia closed burlesque houses. Commissioner Moss declined to discuss the case other than a reference to a statement by Herk's attorney in the Gaiety case, to the effect that such cases should be tried in court. "You can say that we are now going to court," the commissioner declared. The Mayor remarked that the title, "Wine, Women and Song," was "very misleading.

The public thought it was Viennese music." In his denunciation. Archbishop Spellman declared that producers of some Broadway shows would make the name of New York City "synonymous with Sodom and Gomorrah." 12 Families Refuse To Vacate Hotel Twelve families living in the Regent Hotel, 39th and Walnut who had been ordered to vacate by last Sunday, "sat tight" last night 1 despite the fact all their bedding was removed yesterday by the hotel's operator. The place has been sold, the transfer becoming effective Nov. 15. Members of the families, which include 20 persons, most of them Government employees or war i workers, were ordered to leave by Nov.

1 in a notice sent to each on Oct. 15 by the operator, Samuel El-gart, 1612 Locust according to the resident manager, John Rams- berger. I The tenants, according to a spokesman, appealed to the local Office of Price Administration and were been told to "sit tight." Don't throw away melted kitchen fat. Save it in a tin container and take it to your butcher. Uncle Sam needs fat in making explosives.

Soldier's Body Found on Track The body of a soldier was found last night in the middle of No. 4 track on the Pennsylvania Railroad main line at Paoli after the Philadelphia to Buffalo express had pulled out shortly after 9 P. M. A spokesman for the railroad said papers found in a pocket gave the soldier's name as Private A. Coleman, 42, of Atlantic City, N.

J. Two trains, the Akron Express and the Cleveland Express, were delayed for 15 minutes pending removal of the body. Can you use a salaried, part-time job? Employers need part-time workers In offices, stores, industries, restaurants and other businesses. Turn to the classified columns and see the jobs advertised under "Part-time" jobs In the Help Wanted I classifications. DW 15ALT LAKE CITY, Nov.

2 (A. Pour persons, one a former Utah State official, have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on a charge of defrauding investors with a scheme involving a dream gold mine and the miraculous powers of a church, court attaches reported today. A. Ezra Gull, former director of the Utah Securities Commission, was accused of using his position to assist the others in promotion of the asserted scheme. NAMED CO-DEFENDANTS Named co-defendants were Patrick T.

Henry, of Marysvale, Utah; Louis C. DeLuke, Danny DeLuke and Professor William Estep. The DeLukes are listed from Wilmington, and Estep from Chicago. Louis DeLuke. the indictment tfrnefacG, For lection Uekuvns call 5 itiheimlhotuise EVERYWHERE WEST! WW7 MM National Church of Positive Chris tianity," which Estep claimed to have founded.

RAINBOW GOLD MINES With that basis, says the indict ment, the plan was for organization of the Rainbow Gold Mines with Henry as president, and for issuance of a million shares of stock at $1.00 a share to be sold only to members of the church. The bill says it was to be represented that the church was to benefit because of DeLuke's gratitude for the healing of his wife. Gull, the charge said, used his position by mail and verbally in recommending the stock and Henry. Save fats for ammunition. Your butcher, co-operating in the fat salvage drive, will pay you for melted kitchen fat.

Famous River Boat Destroyed by Fire NATCHEZ, Nov. 2 (A. Disaster today closed the pages on old time "steamboating" on the Lower Mississippi when the Tennessee Belle, one of the last of the famous river packets, burned and sank while tied up at Natchez Island several miles below the city. It was the second and final sink- ing of the proud 175-foot reminder of the golden age of steamboats along the Mississippi in the 1870's, the Belle having been raised from shallow water and put back into use after striking a bar at Lake Provi dence, with a heavy load in 1936. The Tennessee Belle was built in 1923, but her cabin deck had great historic interest, being lifted from the packet Kentucky, which had previous long service.

Her master. Captain Charl-js Barker, said the crew was aroused by flames at 6 A. M. and barely escaped the fire. The packet was towing a barge without cargo, and the damage was estimated by Barker at $60,000.

Get up-to-the-minute election returns tonight by calling The Inquirer Election Bureau Rittenhouse 5000. A special staff of telephone operators will be at your service from 9 P. M. until midnight. Remember the special phone number Rittenhouse 5000 (Please call this number only) -1 I 14 DIESEL-POWERED jfjphyrs AND A FLEET OF FINE STEAM TRAINSl Buy War Bonds and Stamps it inseparable from the war effort.

Burlington, with its 14 diesel-powered Zephyrs and a fleet of fine steam trains, is providing transportation for both Everywhere West. There is tremendous amount of military travel these days important travel which calls for quick, dependable transportation. There is greatly increased civilian travel, too much of The Philadelphia Inquirer An Independent Newspaper for All the People Wartine Travel Suggestions Depart and return during mid-week Make reservations and secure tickets well in advance If your plar are changed, cancel reservations immediately Travel light. E. O.

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