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SECTION II CITY NEWS WANT ADS FINANCIAL SPORTS SECTION II it er, er. tmtitmt 102D YEAR IiOCHESTEJi. N. 8 AT U1U) AY. NOVEMBER 10, 1KU PAGE ELEVEN 1 Mr.

Pile Driver Gets in First Blow for Neio Bridge TAX REFUNDS HOPETOEVEN CITY BUDGET HENRY W. CLUNE ITUEBI AND THE DRUMMER BOY STRIKE HERE BY LABORERS IS UP TO U. S. Federal Board Asked To Authorize Raise And Avert Strike 5J Jp4l 1, taken with the co-operation of the Robinson Air Service, shows the junction of Plymouth and Elmwood Avenues in the foreground, the present bridge and the projected route of the new $290,000 span, Across the river can be-seen the Rochester's latest PWA project gathered "steam" yesterday afternoon, as is shown at the left where the huge pile driver is driving the first of the deep concrete pillars into the west bank of the Genesee River in preparation for the new Elmwood Avenue Bridge. The picture at the right, rial Hospital in the Auto Wrecked at Crossing, But oman Driver Escapes out Sousa march, where he doesn't have to pull his punches.

But then, who am to pick out piece for a drummer? Bernard Held got off the New York train early one pheasant day, hurried home to change his clothes and get his ihot gun, land went, down the Pugway to get a pheasant. He saw a large and Pretty cock bird sitting In a field, set off both barrels it it, saw it didn't rise, and was chagrined to hear a shout of laughter from a small boy nearbv cried the kid. doubling with laughter; and so It was. Edwin Goodman, head of the famous New York house of Berg-dorf Goodman, dealers In women's apparel, whose "profile" appeared in last week's New Yorker, used to stitch seams in coats for Stein-Block In Rochester The voice that, broadcast the Illinois-Army game from Champaign, 111., last Saturday, belonged to William Stern, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Isaac Stern, who was born and raised in Rochester, and who later became band leader at St. John's Military Academy His parents now live In New York, where Mr. Stern, senior, is New York representative for Michaels-Stern Company, It, seems to me the New Dealers are overlooking a bet In their educational program. Here we have the New Era Schools, with their courses In almost everything irom basket-weaving to automotive mechanics, from freehand drawing to window-washing, and a lot of men hang daily over the railings at Court and Broad Streets and South Avenue virtually pleading for instruction in the engineering processes involved In the construction of the Rundell Memorial Library. A sign above the work announces it as a Federal Project.

Since this Is the case, why not instruct these jealous and constant observers through a federal educational program? There is neve hour in- the working day when several scores of interested spectators are not peering down at the workmen. My idea is to offer a practical engineering course to these Idlers, the greater share nf whom are doubtless members of the Great Army of the Why wouldn't It be entirely feasible to set up an amplifier, engage a competent engineer, and let him talk to the spectators at the railings. He might, supplement, his verbal instruction with blackboard illustrations. "Today," he might say, "we will give our attention to the best method of pouring cement. You will observe, please, the wooden frames In which the cement, a grayish, soup-like mixture, Is moulded.

Cement is made of lime, or a calcinated mixture of clay and lime-stone, etc." In the group of daily idlers there might be one, or there might be 10, who would take the instruction to heart. This simple impetus might fire within the breast of some disconsolate youth the desire to follow an engineering course. Maybe he might be come a famous engineer. You never can tell. The carelessly dropped acorn may be a great oak, 50 years from now.

Teacher to Discuss New Deal at Forum "The New Deal Its Successes and Failures" will be. the topic of Jack Ross, Benjamin Franklin High School teacher at the flrt of this winter's series of forums conducted by YM-YW council tomorrow at 4 p. m. in the YWCA administration building. Avenue, with Strong Memo- ALLIED FORCES ENROLL 585 IN MEMBER DRIVE As the membership campaign of Allied Temperance Forces an cud workers have reported new members and more than $1,800 In special gifts.

Contributions were announce! yesterday at. the report luncheon by W. W. Day, chairman of the special-gifts committee. Rev.

Paul Carter, executive mifretmry of the Allied Forces, said the drHn was meeting marked success, Kov. era! hundred more members are Continued on Page Twelve Watching Jose Iturbi put the Philharmonic players through their pace the morning before Thursday night' performance, I got to speculating aa to what would happen If the drummer suddenly went haywire in the mfildla of a regular concert, Not that It probably wouldn't be bad if the first fiddler, the second fiddler, the trumpet player, or any other member of the closely co-ordinated unit, went haywire. But my imagination was stimulated Ht the thought of what a drummer could do to make a hum out of h's fellow musicians end Mr. Iturhi If he wanted to. He could, It seems to roe.

he devastating. The boys were playing what an informant advised me was the Schumann Symphony. Mr. Iturbi stood on the jmall conductor's dais without a score before him. But the boys couldn't fool Mr.

Iturbi, even though he was scoreless. He could call the shots Just by corking his ear. Once he stopped the playing with a sharp-rat-tap of his baton on the first fiddler's music rack. "Here, here," he said, "you're playing that in eighth notes. It sho'uTd he in sixteenth I thought that was splitting hairs, hut the boys took It all in good part.

They started again, and didn't waver an eye lash from the sixteenth. It just shows, you can't fool the masters. Mr. Iturbi had hi coat off during the His sleeves were rolled back and his tie was pulled loose from the noft collar of his shirt. He was about as formal as a plumber tinder a sink.

Some, of the boys had their coats off. One or two wore sweaters. Three or four wore green eyeshades, like the telegraphers in the AP room. Except for the music, which I am told was very good, they might have been a German band having a Saturday night concert in Krausmeier's saloon. But my mind was on the drummer.

He stood before a couple of large kettle drums in the last row and when Mr. Iturbi said "too forte," which sounded, from where I sat, like the clerk of course at a country fair announcing the race for green trot ters, the drummer iaia ms teainer headed clubs as lightly on the tough hide of his drums as a cat walking across a bed. He jus-, barely mumbled with his sticks. Right then I thought, if I were a drummer, I would have an almost irrepressible urge to bring one of those sticks down on the drum with a helluva whack, just to see what would happen. It was similar, I suppose, to the desire to toss a bowling ball around thai, always gets me when I enter a china store.

But the drummer kep his beat down, and one eye on Mr. Iturbi, playing low, "very piano," as they called It. What he could do, though, during those seconds when the fiddles barely sighed and the trumpets were muted, or stilled entirely, would have been just too bad. However, like the rest of drummers probably have wives and children dependent, upon them. I shouldn't think it would be much fun being a drummer in a philharmonic orchestra.

A drummer is the sort of a fellow who should walk down Main Street It) a glittering uniform, head tossing, elbows riding high, cracking Gas Price Off Again As War Is Continued Reach Low Record In Second Week Set Gasoane prices In Rochester took another drop last night, reaching the low record made last week as the city entered its third week of a ga3'-l'ne price war. Two standard brand companies drooped to 9'j cents a gallon, plus! 4 cents tax, while other major com-j pan'es operating het fixed their prices a 10 cents a gallon, plus tax 2' ycsicti Truckside brands were still being sold at cents a gallon, plus tax, with tin change forecast for over the wwki'iid. Standard brand prices also expected to remain the sw.i'. All trajor company brands were being old for 10 cents a gallon, plus ir in the New York area. Tracside operators charged that one m.t,ior company is violating Its policy by remaining a half cent above the former's prices.

The major frm, it was said, had set a definite policy of holding to one cent tiackslde prices. Th. low prices also saw dealers' profit nargins cut to their last week t'pures of 2 and Vi cents TO TALK O.V Kl'ROl'K A recent visitor to Eurone. Prof F. W.

C. Meyer will give an 11 1 us- traied lecture on "Scenic anJ Scientific Attractions Abroad" be-! fore the Academy of Science at! :15 p. m. Monday in taa Enatmntt i Building, Women's Campus. The! lecture will be free and open to the it PSC HEARINGS OMAILWAYS NEARING END Conclusion of the Public Service Commission hearing into reorganization plans for Rochester Lines, New York State Railways, lajt night was slated for Nov.

30. Commissioner Maurice C. Burritt adjourned until those dates the hearing held yesterday in the Court Houe. Opposing attorneys told him. following request, that thi'y would have all evidence in the record at the next, hearing.

If time does not allow completion of the case Friday, Nov, 23, it will be finished Saturday morning, it was agreed. To Prepare Report The case was opened last May, Examination of the books and property of the company by commission experts required three months and since then a number of hearings have been held to receive evidence. After Commissioner Burritt. adjourns the next session. he will begin to prepare his report to the Commission.

Action by that body is not expected before January. It may be necessary, Commissioner Burritt said, to call some extra hearings to gather a few loose ends. Land values of the local property provoked bickering among counsel at the close of yesterday's hearing. Exhibits were offered for identification which showed values at $1,230,000, based on 100 per cent assessments by the city and towns. The equallbed value on an K0 per; cent basis was $953,000.

The ex-: mibil was challenged by Sherman 1 C. Ward, attorney for the Com-1 mission. "We will not concede," "that the addition of 20 he said, per cent to the equalized value represents the present value." Trustee Tetin Commisioner Burritt was Informed by reorganization counsel that, a real estate expert is making a study of the holdings and his report would be filed at the next hearing. Testimony concern Administration Casts Anxious Eye on State Capital With the Democratic star In the. ascendency over the State Legislature, city officials last night con sidered a form of budget relief through increased state refunds.

Although no official comment was forthcoming from the Democratic administration In City Hall, it was learned that a reimbursement to Rochester by the state from proceeds of a state collected tax would be welcomed with greater Joy than the return of a prodi-cal son. Three taxes enter the discussion, sales tax, general manufacturers tax and a gasoline tax. Mayor Stanton declined to enter discussion over the proposal of state reimbursements. Greater aid to cities lias been advocated for a long time, he pointed out, but unt.il definite, proposals were presented he Intends to keep his thoughts to himself. Asked For Debt Service One of the suggestions advanced last year along with the sales tax argument was that reimbursements to cities be used entirely to retire debt costs.

Although the state aid would not enter directly Into the operating expense column, It would aid the local taxpayers by cutting an Item always large In the annual fiscal estimates. Next year, the cHy will retire more than In bonded debt, according to nuaget estimates. Passage of a tax law along the lines suggested might benefit Rochester next year, It was said. Under City Manager Baker's proposed financial plan, the city will borrow J2.076.0O0 for welfare and raise by direct taxation for that purpose $1,250,000. State aid received during the coming fiscal year could be included in the unanticipated revenue item of the budget and might serve to oiTset the welfare borrowing figure.

In other words it might materially aid in bringing the budget in balance. Federal Tax Possible In studying sny state aid plan, one abserver said, consideration must be given possibility of a Federal manufacturers tax. Such a levy might put a state proposal in a bad light or even nullify Its intentions. Another point relating to the sales tax concerns the method of assessing it, whether It would be passed to the consumer or absorbed by the merchant. Until such a point is cleared, the city administration, it was believed, would judiciously refrain from endorsement or opposition the plan.

For the past several years, the State Conference of Mayors has advocated that a portion, of gasoline tax moneys be returned to cities directly. Now the state refunds to counties or uses the tax for Its own purposes. Direct city grants of gasoline tax funds would be of substantial assistance, It was said. Stallknecht Names Woods Undcrsheriff The $5,000 vacancy In the sheriff's office was filled yesterday when Sheriff William H. Stall-knecht named Chief Deputy Thomas C.

Woods undersheriff. The action gives Woods a substantial salary increase for the remainder of his term of office, It is expected he will be removed when the Democratic Party takes-control in January. As chief deputy Woods' salary was $4,000. The uu-dersheriff'g post pays $5,000. Sheriff Stallknecht said he did not plan to appoint a new chief deputy as Woods will perform the duties of both offices.

The new appointee fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Blackwood, Third Ward Republican leader, two months ao. DONALD A. DAILEY tured three of them when he slipped and fell sgainst. a china closet In his home as ha got up from the dinner table te answer a. coasratulatory telephone at to as and Organised 'Rochester laborer! wired the Board of Labor Review In Washington laat night that fav.

nrRhle hoard action on their demand for increased pay can avert a laborers' strike set for Monday, Dispatch of the wire followed id Informal conference In Power! Hotel between laborers' delegate and Rev. John P. Boland of Buffalo, federal director the Third District Regional Labor Board. Father Boland Informed the com mlttee from Rochester Local, In ternational Hod Carriers. Bulldlnf and Common Laborers Union, that the Washington board, connected ith the Federal Emergency Ad ministration, has assumed Jurisdic tion nad is considering the local demands for Increased pay.

recommended the local take at strike action until the board reached a decision, Pledge Withheld Delegates headed by Bualnest Agent John F. Bruce and Attorney John J. Scully told the Buffalo di rector they were unable to jrlvs such assurance. The wire, sent by Mr. Bruce, eald that a reply before Monday morning i necessary.

Union mem bers met last night In Carpenters Hall and named a committee to set the time of the strike Monday unless favorable word is received tefore, Fattier Boland said he wae In formed of tension in the Rochester area on Oct. 26 and laid tfe case before the Washington Bort at that time. The union asks continuation of the 30-hour week and ral In pay from 55 cent to SO cents an hour. Committeemen told the director that the 55 cents scale makes possible, If full hours are worked, a weekly wage of $16 But, they eald, not only cannot union members live on that wrga and support families, but the average weekly houre of work for union men is below the 30 hours maximum. Set Wages nt tS.M They estimated the average hours at 18 and said that by that token the average wage here la $9.90.

Union leader prophesied a complete tiejp of Public Works Ad- (nnMnued on Page Twelve mi Contfpiirt tl km Suen hill 17 railroad underpass in Elmwood far background. When it was all over, Mrs. Courneen climbed weakly from a car from which the entire front end was missing, then fainted and toppled Into a ditch. She was picked up by a motorisrand taken home. Bngineer of the train was Howard Ray of East Syracuse.

F. Stress of Syracuse was brakeman and Spencer nf East Syracuse, was conductor. The watchman at the crossing, Alfred Dilloway, of 1180 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester, told sheriff's deputies the warning signals were working at the time. 47 MAW mt Mort il rt-t II C. A In 1837 this" settled with other men back to work.

an effort to alleviate The largest hill on Main Street, relief were employed. than 60,000 cubic the city of Rochester Savings Bank Today, nearly being used. The thing during its following good times and mutual saving There is No Work Project of 1837 Though her automobile was struck and practically demolished by a fast New York Central passenger train at the Washington Street, crossing in East Rochester at midnight, the driver of-the auto, Mrs. Loilyn Courneen, 43, of Linden Road, East Rochester, completely escaped Injury, Confused by warning signals as she approached tlje crossing, Mrs. Courneen, alone in the car, tried to stop and shift into reverse, but became excited.

Instead, she shifted Into second gear, stepped on the accelerator and turned east on the second track. She had gotten about 20 feet when the passenger train, travelling west on the first track, struck the front part of her car which had wavered too far to one side. Paralyzed with fright, Mrs. Courneen sat Immobile in the driver's seat, while every car in the train rushed by and wrecked the auto. The entire procedure waa a matter of a few seconds, as Deputy Sheriff Walter Malcolm said the passenger train was travelling at 70 miles per hour.

Publisher Sails To Study Europe! Gannett to Report Views; Of Leaders Abroad Frank E. Gannett, publisher of: The Gannett Newspapers, em- barked last night on the Bremen sailing for Europe at midnight. llis intention is to interview dusi- ness, Industrial and political lead-: era and to report his Interviews! in The Gannett Newspapers and other American publications. Mr, Gannett, Incidentally, prob- ably will go to Europe faster on! the Bremen, owned by the North German Lloyd Line, than if he were on any other liner. The Bremen cele-1 of the North Atlantic Wednesday by setting a new record of four days, 15 hours and 27 minutes from Cherbourg, France.

Accompanied by Mrs. Gannett, the publisher will he gone about six weekj. Extradition Denied In Spagnolia Case John Spagnolia, 34, of 4303 Lake Avenue won his fight against ex-j tradition to Boston yesterday when Governor Lehman decided not to, issue the warrant requested by Massachusetts authorities. i Wanted by Boston police to face a first-degree robbery charge In the payroll holdup Apr. 30 of (he Boston store of Sears-Roebuck "Company, Spagnolia was arrested here Sept.

11, charged with being a fugitive from justice. He protested Innocence, claiming It was a case of mistaken Identity, Oswego Cutter Puts In At Summerville After buffeting heavy wave for a tout six hours, the Coast Guard Forward, of the Oswego Station, steamed Into port and tied up behind the Eagle, cutter of the local coast guard elation, late yesterday afternoon. Although the crew said they had experienced no trouble on the voyage, they did admit Forward had shipped water over her bows many times. The trip here was made for the regular test run, required of every rotter every four months. ing land values was given by L.

R.jbrated its 100th westward passage Three Ribs Are Added to Democratic Losses-Thai's Why Leader Datley Hasrit Been Around country waa enveloped in a panic and depression over nil business. Rochester suffered along communities, and every effort was made to put Municipal projects were carried out in unemployment. project in Rochester was the lowering of th west of King Street, Men who were on All work was done by hand. More yards of dirt were removed. At that, time, was only three year old, and the Rochester was six years old.

100 years later, work projects are again "Old Bank" has witnessed many of these century of service to this community prosperity depression. History repeats itself, but in bad, it is wise to save. This 100-year-old Bank can help you attain financial security. Substitute for a Savings Account Brown, engineer for the company, and Oscar Guelick, land and tax agent. Benjamin E.

Tilton, trustee In bankruptcy for the company, led Cnailnued ob rage Twelve Political Hordes Tear Hair In Meantime When Big Chief Stavs Away Yesterday while long lines of patronage seekers fumed at Democratic headquarters In Hotel Sen-eca, their leader fumed hi his bed home, his body strapped tightly, and under doctor's orders not to move. Philip Daiiey, his nephew, said! last night ell patronage will have! wait until at least next week Mr. Dailey's physician will not permit him to make any appoint-! ments prior to that tune. Mr, Daiiey waa given the "Iron Man" cognomen for his smiling good nature throughout the cam paign and his composure under trying circumstances. While his confreres fretted as the campaign drew to a clo, he spent his evenings at home and even when excitement was at its pitch Election Night, the Democratic leader left headquarters "to go down etairs get a bite to eat." Confined to Bed Since Fall; Wednesday Night Broke Three of His Bones fix his itry cnncialmcnl ht added i me to fame.

Tacitus, the old Roman historian, wasn't writing about Donald. A. Dalley, Monroe County Democratic-leader but then, Tacitus never met Mr. Dalley. Or Tacitus might have learned something more about the business of which he waa writing.

For not only has Mr. Dalley succeeded In concealing himself since Election Day to a degree which had hoPeful Democratic Jobseeker tearing their hair, but for more than 48 hours no hint of the real reason had even reached the newspapers. Now ft comes out, Mr. Dailey has three broken ribs. During the political campaign the Democratic leader became famous as the "Iron Man." His ribs seems, however, are built like most person.

Mo It happened that Wednesday night Mr. Daiiey irao- ROCHESTER SAVINGS BANK Two Offices STW. FRANKLIN ST. Than 100 Yean of Servict.