Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1937 — Page 6

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SLAYS MOTHER AND SISTERS Pennsylvania Youth Kills Three, Then Commits Suicide Pittsburgh, Aug. 6 — (U.R) — 20-year-old Bernard Gregor, of Crafton, a suburb, shot and killed his widowed mother and his two sisters today, then ended his own life, police reported. The dead: Mrs. Anna Gregor, 47. Betty, 25, and Mary Ann Gregor, 15. Bernard Gregor. 20. The bodies were found In the Gregor modest home in suburban Crafton by Frank Gregor, another son, when he returned from work at 8 a. m. His mother, In nightdress, lay on a bed in her room. His sisters were huddled on a bed they shared. The body of Bernard, fully clothed, was on the floor at the foot of his sister’s bed. A 12-gauge shotgun lay alongside his outstretched hand. Homicide detectives believe Gregor shot his mother as she slept. All were shot through the head. Frank Gregor prepared his breakfast upon his return home. Then he went upstairs. Through the open door of his sisters' bedroom he saw Bernard on the floor “Get up,” he said. “You're not fooling anybody." Then he saw the shotgun and the bodies of his sisters, their heads distorted by the shot, on the bed. Screaming, he ran to his mother's bedroom. She, too, was dead. Frank went to the home of Herman Schutte, next-door neighbor. Schutte called police. Police believed the shooting occurred about 5:30 a. m., Mrs. Schutte said she was aroused at that time by a noise resembling “woodchopping." “I got up and looked around but saw nothing to arouse my suspicions.” she told police. “I was getting ready to get back in bed when I heard a deep thud, which seemed to come from the Gregor's j home.” Investigators said they learned that Bernard had been ill and job-

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Iless for several months. His father died last February. o — * LOUIS HAINES * (CONTINUED FROM PAaE^ONB) - teams weighing over 3,000 pounds g will be held Saturday morning on the Schmitt field at 9 o'clock. The horses, as in the past shows, pulled cement blocks on a sled, i The ground was hard and dry, which made it more difficult to • pull heavy loads. Saturday the state police safety t car is expected to be used in an- - nounclng the contest. The same i cash prizes will be given. o CLAIMS ATTACK BY AIRPLANES British Tank Steamship Cancels Early Appeal For Aid London. Aug. 6.—(U.R)—The British tank steampship British Corporal appealed urgently for aid today against a bombing attack by airplanes in the Mediterranean, an<j then cancelled its appeal, the admiralty announced. Latest messages from the ship, the admiralty said, reported that it had repaired its wireless, damaged by concussion from bombs 1 apparently, and was proceeding to Algiers, North Africa. The British Corporal was between the African coast and southeastern Spain when its first, urgent appeal for aid was sent. Its position was in the main steamship lane between the Straits oi Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. "Receiver broken, concussion,” its first appeals said, and the admiralty assumed that it could send but not receive messages. The ship was bound for London, its home port, from Abadan Island in the Persian Gulf where the Anglo-Persian Oil company has refineries. It was in waters not far from those in which the British destroyer struck a mine May 15, suffering casualties of eight killed and 14 wounded. o Mr. and Mrs. John Carmody of Fort Wayne attended the street I fair last evening.

MOTHER DIES, BABY IS SAVED > Caesarian Operation Performed On Body Os Dead Woman > Philadelphia. Aug. 6 — (U.R) — Sprgeons performed a caesarian ■ operation on the dead body of Mrs. Mary Boccawsinl in Philadelphia general hospital today and brought into life a baby girl. The mother had died a few seconds before of tubercular meningitis. Man’s surgery culminated a duel (between two forces of nature — one creative, the other destructive —that had been raging within I Mrs. Boccawsini’s frail body for | hours. While the meningitis virus I crept toward her brain to kill her. I her reproductive functions fought to give birth to her baby normally. At 3:15 a. m. (1:15 CST) today, the destructive force won. The surgical instruments had been sterilized, and Dr. John Corbit. resident obstetrician, his assistant and nurses were waiting. Sixty seconds later, the life that had been condemned with Mrs. Boccawsini's life, was saved by science. Mis. Boccawsini’s temperature was 109.4 degrees at death. Hei* baby was born with a high temperature, small and frail, and began breathing with difficulty. By 8 a. in. her temperature had fallen to 103.1 and her tiny black eyes were open for the first time. "The baby is expected to live.” Dr. Corbit announced. “She is having trouble breathing, but oxygen is being administered to her.” The baby could not be weighed at once, but she was estimated to weigh between three and lour pounds. Dr. Corbit said that there was only a slight possibility of the baby having been infected by her mother's disease. Tuberculosis is not an hereditary disease. A tiny oxygen tent, which Dr. Corbit made of X-ray film, was placed over the head of the little girl. She will be moved to childrens' j hospital, which is more fully l equipped to care for her, later I today if she is strong enough, j the surgeon said. “The child is apparently very

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sturdy," one of the nurses who assisted Dr. Corbit said. “She lived through a temperature of 1109.4, The husband and father, DornI Inlc, who had consented to the post-mortem caesarian only after the commonwealth of Pennsylvania had ruled that it was proper and could be performed without his permission, was not at the hospital. There had been two nights and ’ a day of intensified anxiety. Dur 1 lug that time, Mrs. Boccawsinl had f been in the process of dying and ' the destructive force within her 1 was master. Its victim had been ! rendered unconscious, her tern- ' perature was mounting, her pulse slowing, and a nurse sat beside 1 her bed waiting for the instant of ' death. Then, suddenly, the cre- ‘ ative force offered battle. Labor 1 began and her body struggled to ' give birth, but too late. i o MEAT PRICES ON INCREASE Meat Prices Are Reported Rising 15 To 25 Per Cent In Nation Chicago, Aug. 6—(U.R)—The corner butcher asked 42 cents for a pound of his choicest pork chops ( today and advised housewives not to look for any meat bargains for a few months at least. Meat prices are rising 15 to 25 per cent, all over the nation, deal-' ers said. Forty-two cent pork chops became the rule in Chicago. A pound of good sirloin steak came to 60 cents. A year ago the same butchers were charging 30 cents for the same chops and 35 cents for the steaks. Butchers today were charging two cents a pound more than last Saturday for cured ham, four cents more for round steaks, two to seven cents for lamb chops. Similar increases may be expected throughout the country, dealers warned, because farmers stricken by recent droughts have little corn to feed their hogs and few hogs to ship to market. i Chicago's packing houses were j operating on part-schedule. The I J Chicago union stockyards and I | transit company closed half its hog-alleys yesterday. Pork prices rose first. Some of the meat demand switched to beef and lamb, and prices on ihem : rose. Hogs sold at Chicago's stockyards yesterday for the highest prices in 11 years — $13.65 per hundred pounds. In Pittsburgh I they sold for $13.80, Buffalo $13.85, Blast St. Louis $13.35, Indianapolis $13.50. The packers got as much as 832 , for a hundred pounds of the best > light fresh pork loins. Early in July they were getting $25.50, and j a year ago $23.50. At the lowest i point of the depression they got j only $6.40 for the same meat. Whole beef carcasses commanded $12.50 to $24.50 a hundred ! pounds wholesale. A month ago i packers were getting sl2 to $22.50 for them and during depression they got as little as $5 to $9. The rise was reflected in other foods. Milk prices rose one cent a quart in Chicago this week. Some retailers—though not allhave increased lard and flour : prices. Market experts said the higher j prices—for meat at least —would persist for several months. A huge corn crop is anticipated this year, but farmers must raise new herds of hogs before they can increase the pork supply. o Change of orchestra Sunday—Sunset Dance. ——

’rebels again .1 SHELL MADRID i Spanish Capital Again ‘i Subjected To Terrific Shelling 1 Madrid. Aug. 6-(UP)-Natlonal-I ists subjected Madrid to the most terrific bombardment in months . day. Systematically, street by street they spread a blast of big shells through the city for hours. As this dispatch was written big shells were screaming across the central squares at three minute ,n---tervals and landing in the Puerto De Sol, the city's heart. It was feared that casualties were heavy. As the bombardment continued. streets were deserted. But the shelling was timed to start ' while most people were going to I work and the central part of the city was crowded. The central area and the eastern residential district suffered heav- : I ilyLoyalist batteries opened up as I the bombardment continued, try- ■' Ing to silence the insurgent guns. , The the Nationalists diminished their fire somewhat, apparently unwilling to disclose their positions to government observers. — o BAKER TRIAL (CONTINUED.FKOSt FAOE ONE), is the worst offender in this case Pete Cancilla said ‘we better wait when Baker told him to ‘go get that guy.' Cancilla didn’t want to do it. He knew it was a dirty job." Hagemeier described several of Baker's statements as “lies.” "Baker,” he said, “was looking ' in the door of the speaker's office for Coy, to spot him for Cancilla. Joel Baker lied about that. He said he didn’t look in the door. "Joel Baker lied again when he said he didn’t see Art Rose. I Baker testified they were interest-1 ed in the police merit bill. The only thing that concerned Baker • was the welfare merit bitt. Baker didn’t want anything to do with i a law requiring merit employes. 1 | “He was going to get more. i power if he had to mow’ down' opposition with the fists of Pete . Cancilla.” Clyde Karrer made the opening statement for the defense. "The prosecutor’s office is prejudiced in this case,” he said. “If Spencer (Prosecutor Herbert Spencer) wanted to do his duty, he would have made an effort to convict some bankers in this town. He said he couldn't get the money but he did get $1,917 to bring Wayne Coy back here (from the Philippine Islands.) “I ask you jurors to go out and look at the wide open gambling in I this town. If they want to get j gang politics, let them start in the statehouse. “Judge Myers is my friend . . . and I don't dispute his testimony, but the state very cleverly added to the testimony. Judge Myers said that Baker said ‘Go get that guy’ but he did not say what guy. "Baker testified that he wanted to go see Speaker Ed Stein of the house. “You didn't hear Coy deny that he called Pete Cancilla a bad name. The prosecutor was afraid to ask Coy if he cursed Cancilla. He was afraid he would say yes.” o Mrs. C- O. Drollinger of Fort Wayne visited here yesterday afternoon. Mr. Drollinger was formerly from Decatur.

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