PAGE EIGHT. JELMIRA STAR-GAZETTE. DECEMBER 28, 1934. 256 FATALITIES RECORDED IN STAR-GAZETTE AREA IN 1934 Yan fire chief, and Elwood H. Bur-dick, Waverly, die.
Rising from Ashes of 1933 Fire Eyes of Science Focus on Corning Fatality Toll During 1934 100 Per Cent Rise Is Shown 20, i mi, vmum Opened Dec 6, the new Robert Packer Hospital stands where In May, 1933, were only smoking ruins. nominated for camptroller by state GOP; Walter Taylor, 77, wine company head, dies at Hammonds-port. October 1. Four suspects in abductkft case arrested at Waverly; H. tift Clark, 65, Canton business leader, dies; Ray Millard, 16, Allen town, near Wellsville, killed, Lawrence Hal3ey, 16, also Allentown, fatally hurt in car accident; over 600 Scranton GOP clubmen guests at Watkins Glen.
2. Carl H. Reynolds, former Elmira man, killed by train at Williamsport. 4. George Stebbins, Hugh La-Farro and Dominic Ruffo, Hornell, found guilty by Bath arson jury; the Rev.
Jarries Kennedy, Corning native, dies at Rochester. 5. Fred S. Willard. 56, Ham-mondsport store manager, drop-dead.
6. William Wentz. 10, Chemung, killed in fall from tree; Frank Haley, 58, retired Avocan, found victim of car fumes; Hornell arson defendants, gef 12 years, $500 fines; Robert A. Edwards found guilty in Wilkes-Barre "American tragedy" slaying case. 8.
5,000 see Addison street celebration, parade; Harvey Struble, 60, Owego, dies of injury in sewer accident; Bert Loomis, 30, former Athenian, killed in Binghamton car accident; Mrs. Robert Van Gelder, 38, Laceyville, fatally hurt in fall from tree. 10. Fred Clark, 70, former Pratts-burg mayor, heart attack victim. 11.
Harry T. Phillips, 75, Wellsboro, drops dead; five Owego crossings designated for removal. 12. Johnny Farnelli, 10, Penn Yan, fatally hurt by car. 13.
Ivan Kelly, 39, and Bruce Murray, 52, Reynoldsville, hurt when car hits pole at Burdett. 15. Skull fractured 11 days ago, Frank Axtell, 29, Waverly, dies; Arthur G. Johnson, 28, Blossburg, Fred H. Loveland, 32, Mansfield, J.
Carl Hartsock, 32, Mansfield, and Merton Freeborn, 18, Shinglehouse, Pa, killed in underpass accident near Elmira. 16. Dr. Henry J. Wynkoop, 58, dies at Bath; Mrs.
L. Norris Sitter-ly, 71, killed in fall in Savona home. 17. Hornell scoured for J. Oscar 1 Roach, 71, missing.
mm 18. Burned in attempt to rescuer 74-vear-old daughter. Mrs. Eliza Bonham, 37, Woodhull, recovered from river at Addison. 21.
Mark L. Tingley, Blossburg, named 16th Pennsylvania District Legion commander. 22. Four buildings on Louis Ken-drick farm, Delmar, lost in $10,000 fire. 23.
Vicinity suffers damage in heavy wind storm. 24. Raymond R. Henley, 39 Waverly, killed in Lowman road crash. 27.
J. John' Hassett 22, Elmira, and Albert Boyer, 45, Penn Yan, hurt in weekend accidents; Eli B. Hutchins, 88, last Owego Civil War veteran, dies; seizure fatal to Frank A. Klock, 69, Wellsboro farmer. 28.
Dawson B. McClurg, 34, Dundee, dies of crash injuries, Mrs. Emma Ross, 22, Wayland, gravely hurt. 29. A.
E. Allen, 58, Elkland hotel proprietor, dies; Frank Smith, 52, Addison telegrapher, killed by train; John S. Everett, 40, formerly of Sayre, dies in Washington forest fire. 31. Mrs.
Ruth Litteer Van Duesen, Richester, and Otto Chris-tensen, Penn Yan, hurt in car 24. Horace M. Dygert, 45, Wal lace postmaster, found victim of car fumes. 25. Bullet in head three days, LaRue Masteller, 25, Mehoopany, recovers from operation; Mrs.
Robert J. Mulligan, 82, fatally hurt sayre accident. 26. William B. Wilson, Bloss burg, former Cabinet member, dies, 28.
Martin Metzger, 31, and Lud- wig Walz, die in car crash on Ad-dison-Corning road; Harry McCaf- terty, 55, sugar Run, dies as train wrecks car. 29. William B. Wilson's funeral held at Blossburg. 31.
Marguerite Baldwin, Tioga, and Helen Woodruff, Endicott, seri ously hurt in car accident near Mansfield. June 1. Willis Martin, 65, former cowboy, dies at Watkins Glen. 2. Jesse Stover, 70, suffers seizure, drowns near Burlington.
4. Vicinity suffers damage as heavy storms end drouth; Nathan Woodruff, 76, Montour Falls, ends own life. 6. In ill health, Mrs. Nell Thompson Kilpatrick, Blossburg, ends life; Sayre fire cuts off power in Northern Tier.
7. Jerry Peet, 3, and brother, Allen, 6, rescued from river at Towanda; Archie R. Myers, Waverly, elected state Moose president. 9. Ill, Harry Goundry.
52, Rock Stream veteran, ends life. 11. Mitchell Sajtar. 67, Lopez, leaps into pond to take own ARCHIE MYERS Waverly man chosen state president of Moos In June. life; Charles E.
Mills Sheshe-quin, and Miss Ella Rundell, Towanda, hurt as car crashes into house. 12. Dr. Kenneth P. Foster, Dundee, hurt in Penn Yan accident; 20-million flow in Schofield well, Potter area extended.
13. Charles Mehlenbacher, 62, Canaseraga, killed, four others hurt in Hornell truck accident; William Foote, 70, Candor native, killed in Gas port, N. ear smash; 200 Athens and Waverly silk workers walk out. 14. Mrs.
Cornelia Younghanz, 67, Utica, mother of Athens man, car victim; Everett Sayles, 30, Hornell. second victim of Hornell truck mishap: Mrs. Virginia N. Sedore, 26, Waverly, killed in Waverly hill accident. 15.
Stephen Casey, 54, Canaser aga, third Hornell truck crash vic tim; Paron Brink, 62, Allis Hollow, ends life; George Maloney, Sayre, rescued from burning truck cab. 16. Senate votes $68,000 for Wav erly post office; Mrs. Clara Holland, Keuka, Mrs. Edith Hall of Mansfield, and Miss lone Horne, West Palm Beach, hurt in Keuka car accident.
18. Claude E. Ervay, Corning, victim of car fumes; Lloyd Hough- talen, 39, Sayre fireman, killed In Depew, N. rail accident. 20.
Mrs. Charles Billinghurst, 74. dies of burns. 22. Crystal Valley area severely damaged by storm.
23. Albert VanGorden, 98, dies at Wayne. 25. Watkins Glen post office authorized; Christopher Christen- sen, 46, Penn Yan, drowns; D. W.
Putnam storage plant, Hammonds- port, damaged by fire. 26. Mrs. Gladys snowaiter, Cam bridge, and Miss Delores Lloyd, Penn Yan. hurt in accident; Prof.
James G. Morgan re-elected Tioga County, Republican chairman. 27. Mildred Brass, 14, killed in Osceola accident; Arthur Sick, 38, Hornell. crash victim.
28. Eleanor Foxdale. 12. Ingle- side, car victim; Drs. Daniel Preston, Canton, and Joseph Jaquish, Mansfield, hurt in Canoe Camp accident.
29. Mayor Michael F. Buckley, Penn Yan, heads Yates Democrats; Attorney Michael H. Cahill, Corning, assumes leadership of Steuben County Democrats; victim of heart attack. Lyman L.
Donaldson, 64, Branchport, found dead In water tank. 3. J. T. King, Lawrenceville, heads Tioga County, Demo crats; Mrs.
Mary Keegan, 83, war-erlv. killed in fall; Harry Atkins, 69, fatally hurt in fall from tree; Charles H. Wood, Towanda coun cilman, dies. July Parachute fails. Merrill Mc- TTonnr aft Wornell.
falls 800 feet to death; skull crushed by midnight assailant. Mrs. Lena xoung. i. Covington, in hospital; Elmer Jake-way, 81.
Athens, killed by train; Corp. Walter Powell, Pennsylvania police officer, dies or injuries received in fight with prisoners, a rr Joseph P. Jacauish. 33, Mansfield, succumbs to car injuries; 11-year-old Charlotte Stranger. Athens, drowns, brother William re covers body.
5. John Miller. 51, Caywood, and Charles H. Sanford, 82, Hammonds-port, victim of vicinity storms; fall brings death to David Russell, 10, Canton; Ball Memorial HalL Keuka College, damaged by fire; Dorothy Magee, 5, and motner, airs. Josephine Magee.
Penn Yan, burned bonfire accident. T. Ruriu fatal to Dorothv Ma gee: 8-year-old Clive Gowan. Liteh- eld. found dead: Paul Baiter, iz.
Savre, drowns. Lehigh tunnel guard, killed by train; Mrs. Maoei uaiutia. js, nn runawav car at Avoca. RiMn Roll 2 kills Aliiina Searfors.
21. Sayre. and self: Theodore R. Wagnr. 29.
Hornell. dies after being hit by baseball; How I The Star-Gazette during 1934 covered 256 fatalities in its territory more than double the number carried in 1933. Automobile accidents accounted for the bulk of the deaths, 106 persons losing their lives on vicinity highways. A breakdown of the fatality figure compared with 1933, follows 1933 1934 Automobiles 47 106 Drowning 20 13 Fires 9 21 Homicide 6 11 Suicide 19 31 Asphyxiation 2 11 Miscellaneous 63 Totals 123 256 Under miscellaneous are classed deaths by falls, trains, guns, and industrial and farm accidents. auto; Dr.
I. C. Munson, 58, Avoca, dies. 6. Bath trustees retain Frank Nollett as gas-electric system head.
8. Merritt H. Howe, 41, Tioga, ends life; William Hughes, 20, old Forge, dies in crash near To- wanda; Charles F. Reidy, 38, Elmira, killed in accident near Corning. 9.
The Rev. H. E. Schmaus resigns as Tioga and Westfleld rector. 10.
Mrs. Helen L. Allen, former Elmira and Bayonne, N. resident, dies at Dundee. 12.
Harry Tsibulsky, 11, Hornell, killed by car; Mrs. Luna Evans Simpson, Westfleld, Republican worker, dies; Miller mill, Woodhull, razed by fire. 13. Miss Bessie Brady, 64, Ulster, killed by fumes from stove; three barns on William F. Brown farm near Burdette burn, ruins searched for possible victim.
15. Famous Rapalee disappearance case revived by finding of skull near Canandaigua. 16. Paul Dreste, 41, Granville, killed in car crash near Towanda. 17.
Three Watkins Glen business blocks destroyed, three more damaged in $200,000 fire; experts convinced skull that of Indian, not that of Inez Kelly Rapalee who disappeared from Penn Yan Sept. 13, 1923. 18. Former Kimmick bakery building in Horseheads burns. 20.
Mrs. Belle Fyffe, 82, Hornell, dies of burns; summer home of Mrs. -Althea Quirk near Watkins Glen lost in fire; Mrs. Henry Clark, 57, Pleasant Valley, and Mrs. Mary Storms Clark, 84, her mother-in-law, die only few hours apart.
22. Herbert R. Clark, 28, formerly of Bath, killed in Seattle, Dr. William E. Manning Todd, 69, retired Hornell clergyman, dies; Fred Sumner, 41, Athens car dealer, asphyxiated; Edward B.
McGinnis, Waverly, hurt as Lehigh caboose lCcivcs mils. 24. Prof. G. W.
Strait, 69, retire from Mansfield State Teachers' College faculty. 25. Believed only slightly hurt in accident, Keyes Whitmore, 33, Addison, dies; state vetoes Bath plan for water works system; body of Torrence Irwin recovered from river at Jersey Shore. 26. Ross Rapalee's home at Penn Yan destroyed by fire; 1,500 chickens lost in Watkins Glen fire.
27. Robert S. Lewis, 12, Pittsburgh, drowns while skating on Lamoka Lake. 29. Lester Hutcheson, Mansfield, hurt as car hits tree; Burton C.
Post, 65, Athens, victim of hit-run driver, dies; Mrs. Richard Marlowe, Elmira, killed, husband hurt in crash near Penn Yan; Dr. G. Chapman Jones, Hornell, dies. 31.
Joseph W. Grumme, 68, former Sayre business man, Elmira native, dies; Frank Lambert, 55, Waverly native, killed in Ithaca railroad accident. February 1. Ernest Elsbree, 49, Windham, killed, William H. Benjamin, 56, Lounsberry, hurt, when latter's truck hits tree; Mrs.
Earl Stone-metz, North Chemung, rescues three children when home burns; Joheph R. Jaquish, 26, Mansfield, killed, wife hurt in car crash. 2. Ten boathouses, 13 craft destroyed in $30,000 fire at Watkins Glen; William Sullivan, 46, Waverly, hurt in Buffalo bus accident. 3.
Amelio Oliano, 39, stabbed to death in yard at home, Mrs. Mary Covello, 38, common-law wife held; Robert Weeks, 21, Westfleld. hurt in Elmira car accident. 5. Earl D.
Schaeffer, Elmira, ab solved of criminal responsibility in accident fatal to Karl Huonker, Corning; Alvin Carlson, 56, Bloss- burg, killed in truck collision. 6. Lester Rutcheson, 38. Mans field, dies of crash injuries; Philip H. Dewey, Secretary of Internal Affairs, honored at Wellsboro.
7. Nearly 100 driven into icy morning by Hornell business section fire; Mrs. Marietta Strange. 90, dies at Mansfield. 8.
James Sullivan, 38, Towanda, gravely hurt in fall; vicinity tem peratures down to 20 below. 9. Cold wave increases, 4U Deiow at Coudersport; Holiday, school burns; Leon C. Allen, 47, Rome, killed by truck. 10.
Sub-zero temperatures continue; child from Oliano common-law marriage to inherit slain father's estate; Dr. William Charles McCormack. 68, dies at Tioga. Pa. 12.
Dr. George B. Van Waters, formerly of Wellsboro, dies at Syracuse; five Sayre firemen in hospital, several others hurt in fire truck wreck; Howard Banning, 57, killed, and Stanley Quick of Quick's Bend. seriously hurt in Wyalusing accident; Orville L. Putnam.
50. Towanda, victim of car fumes; Washington Hotel, Sayre, burns. 14. Stanley Quick dies of Injuries; Blue Goose Inn near Bur-dett burns; temperature down to 14 below. 15.
Mrs. Roosevelt pays surprise visit to Towanda. 16. Ambrose Scudder of Painted Post and Miss Nellie Knowles of Watkins Glen honored by Gov. Lehman at Cornell; William Eggleston, 27.
CWA worker, crushed to death by cave-in at Savona. 17. Caid H. Peck. 79.
Waverly inventor, dies; Coudersport reports 20 degrees below. 19. Edward Miller, Troy, collapses on finding invalid wife, 91, dead, found nearly frozen by neighbors; Heyniger, 72, dies at Corning. 20. Beatrice Horton, 16, Sayre, In Accidents Automobile Accidents Alone Claim Lives of More Than 100 Persons During Year News in Retrospect W.
Charles Barber Stale Editor The State Editor of any newspaper in this section earned his tav. during 1934. if he kept abreast of all the tnings mat happened on his "beat." During the year now closing xne ocar-oazette territorial news has Included more than 250 fatalities, an increase of better than. 100 per cent over the 1933 toll. A complete table of deaths by various causes appears elsewhere on this naee.
The year came to a close with tne aeatns or two prominent Steuben County widows under ghastly circ*mstances. Mm Winni Burllngame, 69, was found dead in ner uanisieo nome Dec. 7 with more than two score head wounds. Her death was classified as a "enicide." Ten dava later Mn T.vrila Tt.oir man Parker, 72, socially prominent widow of a former Bath mayor, was found murdered. Four days later Joseph Lewandowski, 44, Bath nome veteran, signed a confession Political Fireworks New York and Pennsylvania politics erupted.
In the Empire folates 37th District four Republicans sought the Congressional nonv ination and W. Sterling Cole of Jsath was the winner. Steuben County's district attor ney was asked to Investigate a cnarge that Republican campaign funds had been solicited illegally. In Keystone State the fiery Gif- ford Pinchot gave up his Senator ial quest against David A. Reed, veteran Senator, who in turn lost out to Joseph J.
Guffey, Democrat, the first to represent Pennsylvania in Washington in better than 60 years. Pennsylvania Democracy made sweeping inroads and sent its nominee, George H. Earle, to the executive mansion at Harrisburg. Louis T. McFadden, Canton, who represented the 15th Pennsylvania District in the House for 20 years, lost out to C.
Elmer Dietrich, Tunkhannock. And in a post-election action Attorney Emory B. Rockwell, Wells-boro, was asked by the court to explain charges he made during his campaign, as Democratic nominee for the General Assembly. The charges were withdrawn after two hearings. Fires and Storms In mid-January three Watkins Glen business places went up in flames1 and three more were damaged in a $200,000 fire.
In February Hornell had a business section fire that sent more than 100 thinly-clad apartment dwellers into an icy night. Elkland had a $25,000 business section fire the same month. Temperatures went as low as 42 below zero Feb. 28 at Lawrence Corners. Coudersport had previously held the record with 40 below.
Half a hozen damaging summer storms broke over the region. One of them cost two men their lives. Red Bunion Derby A bit of press agentry that captured the fancy of newspapers far and near came along in mid-August when a group of Indian braves left Old Fort Niagara and ran to Washington with a message for Great White Father Roosevelt. Indian authorities found what they said were flaws in the names of some of the copper-hued runners but they sounded swell and no one had the heart to regard the stunt as anything but a heap interesting yarn, publicity or not. Ugh! The Watkin Glen business sec-' tlon fire, In January, at Its height.
January 2 Thomas A. Crichton succeeds Howard F. Marsh as judge of Tioga County, James A. Conroy, 79, Bath, long county clerk aide, dies; Hugh Haven, 50. Troy, and Torrence Irvin, Jersey Shore, drown when bridge collapses under car at jersey Shore; Roy Strait.
55, Owego postal worker, ends own life. 3 Arcadia Theater, Wellsboro, damaged In $10,000 fire- Lawrence A Walker, 4, Dresden, fatally burn-el. Mrs. Addie Smith. 10, Cana-seraga, seriously burned when stove nites clothing; the Rev.
John G. Mahoney, Waverly native, dies near Boston. 4 Apalachln's main Street damaged by fire; Clarence Allen. 69, Owego, fatally hurt by train. 5.
Towanda garage watchman trussed up by trio who steal $5 and car; Louis Karbel, Cayuta. vllled bv car near Endicott; Alvie G. Grove 47, Van Etten, killed by a If I i 1 mm ard Roberts, 19, Eldred, formerly of Millerton, dies in Allegany River swimming accident. 11. William Crosby, 32, Sayre, killed, Criss Tarbake, 38, and Ernest Hewlett, 22, hurt in accident.
12. 300 at Lake Keuka Medical Society meeting; William D. Green, 71, Canadaigua, slashes throat, leaps into lake to end life. 13. Pennsylvania warehouse at Penn Yan and Perl Corey farmhouse at Yatesville destroyed by lightning; Kenneth Hollenbeck, 32, Erin, ends life.
14. William Barnes, Waverly, gets 1 to 5 years in Elmira car fatality; Lehigh Valley traffic halted by landslide near Tunkhannock. 16. Rodney Chase, 9, crushed to death by land roller near Cameron; Albert Mays, 22, Canton, impaled in fall on pitchfork, dies. 18.
Allen Memorial Laboratory, Alfred University, damaged by fire; James Bennett, 2, Athens, killed by car; Charles Kinch, Canton, drops dead; Daniel Chase, 94, dies at Gillett, Samuel Savage. 28, New York, killed, five hurt in Can andaigua Lake boat blast. 20. H. Prentice Stone, 41, Hor nell theater manager, killed, six others hurt in accident near Hornell.
21. J. John Hassett, Elmira, hurt in acc'dent near Penn Yan. 23. Robert Chalmers, 17, and Paul Buckley, 7, hurt in Penn Yan car accidents.
24. Walter Stevens, 60, LeRays- ville, killed as motorcycle rams car. 25. E. H.
Hopkins, 60 years Penn Yan jeweler, dies. 26. John P. Baulf, 54, Corning engineer, stricken in cab, dies; Shepard firm decides to move Philadelphia branch to Montour Falls. 27.
Mrs. Emily Gee, 21, Tioga, wounded, house near Middlebury destroyed; John C. BrookslwBJoss-burg merchant, dead; Harry Otis, 40, Camptown, killed in truck accident; Sheldon D. Clark, 41, Bath, found victim of auto fumes; Smith warehouse, Savona, lost in'fire. 28.
Thomas L. Davidson, 56, Sayre councilman, dies. 30. Ten Arnot men hurt when car and truck ram near Liberty, shooting was accident, Tioga woman says, blames house fire on cigaret. 31.
Mrs. Vincenza Virgilio, 30, Detroit, killed in Tunkhannock, car accident. August 1. Robert H. Gleckner, 50, Canton, died in fall from Packer Hospital roof; the Rev.
James H. Herendeen, Montour Falls and Catharine retires. 3. Miss Mary Gertrude King, 19, Montour Falls, ends life; Robert A. Edwards, 23, former Mansfield student, held in Freda McKechnie death at Wilkes-Barre.
4. Merritt D. Curran, 75, Owego farmer, killed by car; William R. Logan, 55, Blossburg merchant, dead. 6.
Mrs. C. H. Cleworth, Dundee, hurt in fall from car; Valentine Keefe, 35, Blossburg, killed by car; Mr. and Mrs.
J. Frank Miller, Bath, hurt in Springwater, N. accident. 7. Senator William S.
Vare dies in Philadelphia; man identified as Edward P. Johnson, New York, killed by train at Waverly; Fred Truesdale, 65, Tioga Center, dies as team bolts in front of train. 8. Elmer H. Cowburn, 43, and Mrs.
Viola Gardner Blackman, 27, both Ulysses, found dead in "suicide pact" tragedy near Wellsville. 10. 200 attended Watkins Glen Yacht Club outing at Glenora Point; Harold F. Durham resigns as Spencer school principal; Carl Millard, 20, Sugar Run. found drowned in Susquehanna River.
11. Gene FT; i ckerson, i Nf Westf ield hurt, Kteam killed by -T'-H" car; Reading IpjfS 3CUUUI UUI US, fk Edward Fisher, -LI42, Shortsville, killed by car near Corning. 13. Shirley Wlf Annette Morse, a a Sheldrake; tiZ'J Clifford Brown, of car injuries; the Revs. Frank Bisbee, Dundee, and Alexander G.
Cameron, 80, Syl- 'ania. Pa, die same day; Abraham H. Feld-man, Mansfield merchant, dies at 71; Indians run through lu. Gazette territory en route to Washington; dump explosion burns send Leo Berlin, 16, Corning, to hospital; 5,000 Steuben farmers attend Addison picnic; 200 doctors at Sayre cancer clinic. 14.
Arthur Tompkins. 18. Cleveland, dies in fall from train at Odessa. 15. In hospital seven years, Elmer Johnson, 28, dies at Penn Yan.
17. 5,000 see Waverly firemen's parade; George F. Budd, 55, former Luzerne sheriff, killed in crash near Wyalusing; High Baker, 28. Corning, hurt in Rochester park concession mishap. 18.
Prof. Walter F. Kaubisch, Corning, drops dead; Dr. Charles X. Hutchinson, 73.
Rochester, die at Towanda; body of Charles W. The world's largest astronomical Mar. found seriously hurt in wrecked car. 2X. Beatrice Horton dies; Mrs.
Rose Bellis, 50, found dead in ashes of home near Tozer Bridge, Athens Township; Mrs. Katherine Miller, 75, victim of burns suffered two weeks previously; Dr. John F. Dwyer, 53, dies at Corning. 22.
The Rev. and Mrs Frederick Maunder of Horseheads recovering from car injuries. 23. Homer D. Rapalee, Penn Yan, held to Grand Jury on second degree arson charge.
24. Joseph Warren and Howard Hulbert, Montour Falls, narrowly escape when car goes through ice on canal. 26. Five inches of snow fall. 28.
New cold record set, 42 below at Lawrence Corners, many towns report 40; three Elk-land business buildings burn, two others damaged in $25,000 fire. March 2. Martha Dura, 12, and Thelma Davi3, 10, Corning, killed by car in coasting accident. 5. Mrs.
Minnie Jeffries, 77, Cana-seraga, dies as home burns; Elmer Covell, 68, Bentley Creek, fatally hurt in fall; Police Chief Robert J. Mulligan, 77, Athens, on job 44 years, dies; George Weber, 31, and Cassie Smith Dillon, 17, Hornell. die as car hits train. 7. Dr.
Freeman H. Smith named Bath mayor. 8. Charles O. Cotton, 73, former Avoca Supervisor, dead; Peter Swensen, 56, Towanda, killed in Sayre shop accident; Clarence L.
Mabb, 42, Big Flats, dies In car accident. 10. Edward Housel, 29, Elmira, has narrow escape when truck goes wild on Ithaca hill. 12. Fred Corey, 70, Dundee, killed in car accident near Victor, N.
Joseph Movak, 9, Dundee, John J. Corino, Manchester, N. and Blanche Shaw of Elmira hurt in ear accidents; coroner's jury holds Beatrice Horton, 16, Sayre, at fault for car crash that cost her life. 13. Sayre beer garden front blown out by supposed bomb, valley liquor war hinted.
15. Leon T. Goodenough, 48, Lounsberry, hurt by piece of falling tree; legality of Watkins Glen election upheld by Judge Per-sonius. 16. Car crash injury fatal to William H.
Beebe, 52, Montour Falls, former sheriff; Jay Allen Smith, 8, Blossburg, killed by truck; Wilson Baker, 54, loses life in fall in vat of boiling soap. 17. Five made homeless in Watkins Glen fires; Mrs. Barbara Covlck, 54, Keuka Park, sets gasoline-soaked clothing afire to end own life. 19.
Tree injuries fatal to Leon T. Goodenough. 20. Edward Bump, 4, Horseheads, killed by car. 21.
John Lynch, 82, East Towanda, walks from roof during sleep, killed; Mrs. Louise Kress, wife of former Watkins Glen mayor, dies; Walter Babco*ck, 50, Prattsburgh, Farm Bureau official, dies. 24. Estimate 100 Avocans made ill, water given test. 26.
Result of casting of world's greatest astronomical disc at Corning waited; Mrs. Joseph Pike, 27, Green's Landing, hurt as car upsets; burns fatal to Marie Blan-chard, 3, Howard, mother, Mrs. Leon Blanchard, 43, badly burned. 28. Scalded, James Grattan, 4, Wallace, dies; 6-year-old Donald E.
Seibert. Wellsboro, drowns. 29. Body of Hugh Havens, 38, Columbia Cross Roads, drowned Jan. 1 at Jersey Shore, recovered at Williamsport; Miss Lu M.
Hart-man, former Mansfield College teacher, dead; Mrs. Leon Blanchard succumbs to burns; Jacob W. Winters, former Assemblyman, and Herbert White, 22. an employe, hurt by car near Watkins Glen. 30.
Mrs. Jerome Kingsley, 26, East Smithfield, severely burned, four children saved as house takes fire. April 2. Breaking sawmill belt kills William Crainey, 68, Odessa. 3.
Clifford Slater, 24, Kinney's Corners killed, Clark Parmle, 23. Penn Yan, hurt as car hits tree. 4. Dr. Barker, 77, Troy, dies; Daniel M.
Clark, 51, former Dundee mayor, dies. 5. Earl Eddy. 42, Towanda, hurt as train hits car at Elkland; Mrs. Irving Hibbard, 25, Rush, leaps into pond with two sons; Mrs.
Helen McConnell. 83, Mansfield, and Enos Watson, 71. brother, die two hours apart. 6. Rammed by car, Watkins Glen bridge settles into creek; District OES meeting attracts 200 to Watkins Glen.
7. Harry Green, 45, Starkey, wounded during argument, Nathaniel Doane, 79, held; John F. Morgan, Wyoming County, school official, plunges to death in Susquehanna River. 9. Floyd Howe, 32.
wounded in argument with neighbor. 11. Former Sheriff Sid McClelland ends life at Mosherville; Mrs Augusta Sticklin, 73. Wellsboro. dies of accident injuries; grass fire bums cause death of Earl Coleman, 50, Mrs.
Cis.ur.cer YJ.I-bury. Prattsburfch. dies; Hiram Rude, 73. Trouosburg. ends life.
12. RalDh Haines, 26. and Earl Haines, Chicago, hurt la Sheshe- disc cast at Corning, Sunday, 25. quin accident; Mrs. Bessie Young, Keuka Hotel proprietor, hurtjin accident near Dundee; Mary Adele Wheeler, 6, killed by car near Hornell.
16. Body of Helen Bills, 16, of Nichols, takem from river at Barton after car accident; John S. Onmsby, 51, Bath police chief, dies; Gilbert Zittle, 25, victim of gun wound near CantonJ 17. Tobias Silowitz, 21, Alfred junior, dies in Wellsville car crash. 18.
Arthur J. Peck named Watkins Glen mayor; Carl Ronald Abbott, 8 months old, dies after operation for removal of safety pin. 19. Nicholas Cieri, Elmira, nar-rawly escapes as truck g6es over bank near Nichols; Harry Hurford, 67, Penn Yan official, fatally stricken. 20.
Fall causes death of Cassius Kizer, 32, Knoxville; Mrs. Eliza J. Mitchell, 96, dies at Troy. 21. John A.
Morley, 79, former Athens banker, dies. 23. Mrs. Jerome Kingsley, 26, East Smithfield, burned rescuing children Mar. 30, dies; Henry Gil-fert, 25, Tamaqua, missioner killed in Rummerfield accident.
24. Mrs. Mary Covello, Sayre, indicted on murder charge. 25. Clothing ignited by grass fire, George E.
Beagle, 64, Montour Falls, dies; fall on stove causes death of Lee Berg Allen, 66, Grov-er; Williard Lathrop, 77, Campbell Creek, found victim of seizure in field. 28. Old grist mill at Mansfield burns. 30. Body of John E.
Morgan, Tunkhannock educator, found in Susquehanna River after month's search; Mrs. Frances Ames French, former Savonan, victim of Dover, N. furnace blast; Mary Covello signs indictment to avoid trial; five Spencer business places, one house, los in fire. WILLIAM B. WILSON Blossburg man, former Cabinet member, died May 26.
May 1. Charles C. Mummert, 18, Ham-mondsport, given medal for heroism in Lake Keuka regatta tragedy of July 23, 1933; William Hollis, 56, found dead in cabin near Watkins Glen; Frank Alden, 9, and Carol Root, 8, hurt in Mansfield accident. 2. Willard R.
Passmore, 15, missing Wellsboro boy, located in St. Louis; Mrs. Lena S. Dunham, 38. Owego, fatally hurt in Endicott.
3. William Baker, 34, Towanda, victim of car crash. 4. Sixty-two men walk off Waverly TERA jobs as pay cut protest. 5.
Bath trustees oppose county hospital plan. 7. Mrs. Samuel Davis, 60, Wellsboro, fatally hurt, husband injured as car rams buggy; William H. Barnes, Waverly, held in Elmira car fatality; William Kelly, 24, Philadelphia, CCC camper, drowns in Lake Mokoma.
8. Mrs. Mary Covello, Sayre, gets 5 to 12 years for stabbing Amelio Oleani, Sayre; Dexter Fowles, 16, Tunkhannock. killed as car upsets. 9.
Ohio car accident fatal to James Cleveland, 28, Cohocton; Robert G. Wallace. Ogdensburg, and James M. VanFleet, 19. Scars-dale, native Towandan, killed in car wreck.
10. Miss Louise Covell. 76, dies in Bentley Creek house fire. 11. Mrs.
Charles Billinghurst, 74, Tyrone, severely burned in explosion; Waverly TERA strikers go back to work. 14. Mrs. Catherine Durkin. 79.
Riverside, killed by car; court holds Lewis E. Kenyon. Watkins Glen, winner of highway Job over Donald D. Smith, Townsend. 15.
The Rev. John C. Crowe. 43. Wellsboro, killed In Ogdensburg, car accident.
16. Reed defeats Pinchot for Pennsylvania Senatorial nomination. 17. Harry T. Pettingill, 51.
Leona. Pa killed by breaking buzz saw; 3-year-old Duain King drowns in Sabinsville. Pa spring. 19. Mrs.
Florence Leet Miner. 42. Hornell teacher, accidentally shot bv son. 21. Mrs.
W. G. Shaw. Fishkill. N.
killed bv car near Kane. Mrs. Minnie L. Pierce. 58.
foun victim of burns and suffocation oiiltenevr Frnv Storms. 59. fc er Hornell baer. d'es. 23.
George J. Almy, 51, Penn beth Nichols, 95, Hornell, dies; body of George Rice, 65, Candor, missing nearly week, found near home. 19. Mr. and Mrs.
Dwight Rhoades and nephew. Earl Williams, all of Elmira, hurt when car hits pole near Lowman; Mrs. Verna Randolph, 20, Mrs. Beatrice Stage, 31, and Bernard Stage, 12, hurt in crash near Watkins Glen. 20.
Four Washington, D. and Bain, Pa, men hurt in Canton crash. 22. Stewart Cortright, 30, Binghamton, wounded in hunting acci dent near Waverly; bill found in Wellsboro first thought part of Stoll ransom, discounted; Barney Van Ness, 63, Blossburg, killed by train; Eugene B. Beaumont, 66, former Lawrenceville mayor, dies.
23. Parmelee Johnson, 41, Penn Yan banker, found victim of car fumes in garage; State. Police under fire at Scio during search for arson suspect; the Rev. Hans P. Berthelsen, Penn Yan, honored by Danish King.
24. Gun accident fatal to Mrs. Robert Ford. Ithaca. 25.
Neil Champion, 36, Roches ter, killed by car fumes at Athens. 26. Memorial for John Daven port, Bath pioneer, dedicated at Amherst; Charles Prindle arrested near Scio by troopers after two-day hunt. 27. Joseph Favero, 19, electro cuted in Elkland tannery.
29. Jacob Simmons, 38, Bath, fatally wounded by Grover Ashley, 41, landlord, in dispute over bill; body of J. Oscar Roach, missing Hornellian, found In vacant house; Sarah Lynd, 24, Hornell nurse, kill ed, three others hurt near Leicester, N. Clinton Clair, 7, Andover, killed by fall. 31.
Arthur J. Towner, 52, former Avoca editor, dies; Leo McGraw, 27, Sayre, found dead in car wreckage near Bernice, Henry Reed, 36, Odessa, crushed to death by falling tree; Mrs. Emma L. Sackett, 79, Keuka, dies. Js PHYLLIS R.
DAVENPORT Prominent actress, claimed at Canton, Pa, In November. November 1. Lewis C. Falrchild, 52, Bath merchant, dies; Edward Culver Jr, Big Flats, killed by car; Mrs. Thomas W.
Lynd, Kenmore, second victim of Leicester accident. 2. Mary Jarvis, 12, killed by car near Horseheads; Richard J. Moore, 27, Hornell. and companion killed in New Jersey crash; Steuben County GOP fund collection inquiry asked by attorney general; Hugh Wilson.
48. Blossburg, dies; George Norman, former Tioga County, Pa, official, dies. 3. Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd W. Smith of Elmira, killed on Waverly Barton highway. 5. Court upholds Watkins Glen election; Mrs. Mary Keavin, 65, Athens, killed, son hurt in crash near Canton; Mrs.
Paul B. Robinson fatally wounded in Owego gun accident 6. Egbert Shoemaker, 80, form' Corning attorney, dies at Ilanv' mondsport; Franklin F. Irish. 76, Watkins Glen news dealer, dies.
7. Seymour Bridge, Cohocton. dead at 65; Galetorj post office damaged by gas blast and fire; Marion DeSisto. 17. Sayre, dies of poison dose; Congressman Louis T.
Mc- pleaM Turn to fa*ge THE REV. E. J. DWYER Waverly priest, who died Sept. JL September 1.
Lewis H. Klein, 82, Lehigh shop veteran, dies at Waverly; Emma Jean Horton, 7, Litchfield Station, killed by car; William R. Mott, 65, prominent railroader, dies at Towanda; Charles Henry Webber, 67, Erie employe, dies at Big 4. Herbert D. Nihart, 59, Cast-ana, and Calvin Snyder 3 months old, killed in Waverly-El-mira road accident; Morris Watkins, 32, Ulster, loses leg in car crash; Warren Keller, 34, Blooms-burg, killed In crash near Milan, William J.
Whiting, 58, found asphyxiated in garage at Montour Duane Burdick, 19, Elmira, hurt in Corning accident. 5. Mrs. Lena Hern Hedges, 44, wife of Waverly police chief, dies. 6.
Dite Talada, 82, Sayre, drops dead; Mrs. Mary B. McDuffee, 35, Waverly, heart attack victim; Elba Green, 64, Hornell. wounded, Mrs. Harriet Goode, 47, Buffalo, killed by gun.
7. Safe crackers get $902 from Schuyler mill safe, WeUsburg; Juanita May Bailey, Erin, dies of burns. 8. Daton Gilbert. 69, Corning banker, dies; Jacob Gregory, 48, dies of road roller accident injuries.
in Kvnia TaIi searched for Thadius 52, Alpine, after boat is found empty; George wucox, wj, Athens, hurt in fall, dies. 11. Swan letter reveals suicide plans; loan to Lehigh provides four million hours' work; James Semple, 4, Corning, killed by car. 13. Hallett Hunter, 28, Penn Yan, held after Bradford, crash fatal to H.
R. Sullivan, Hornell; Leon Townsend, 32, also Penn Yan, hurt in same accident; Norman Martin, Blossburg, seriously hurt In car smash. 14. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, wins four-corner fight for GOP Congressional nomination.
17. John Ackley. 45, South Towanda, loses life in Susquehanna River; Roger W. Swetland Harrison Valley native and former Cook headmaster, dies; George W. Mansfield, 60, LeRaysville shot, wife is held.
18. Mrs. Francis E. Baldwin, Elmira. "killed in car accident near Gillett, murder charge placed against Mrs.
Frances K. Mansfield, 33, LeRaysville; Mike Comerinski. 52. South Waverly, ends life. 20.
Glenn Sours, formerly of Elmira and Mansfield, escapes from Auburn Prison farm. 21. Dr. Harold L. Stem and H.
C. Gates, Canton, hurt in Lock Haven, Pa, accident; the Rev. Edward J. Dwyer, 56, dies at Waverly. 24.
Steuben Republicans and Democrats re-elect J. C. Latham. Canisteo, and M. H.
Cahill. Corning, chairmen. 25. Walter Klin gel, 28, Genesee. Pa, found dead: Father Dwyer's funeral held at Waverly; Herbert T.
Baird, 68, Avoca banker, dies. 26. Mrs. Jennie Nixon, 74. Hornell RD, burned fatally, mother.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols. 92: seriou-lv burned in rescue attempt: Archie E. Clark. 65.
Ellistown, killed by tra'n at Waverly. 28. Branehoort Baptist Church rared on 100th birthday. 29. Willson R.
Campbell, Bath,.
