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glppSi Complete "Wire Reports of UNITED PKESS. ThV Greatest World-Wide News Service lEM-fl-fl- CLOSING STOCKS FINAL THREE CENTS FORTY-TWO PAGES. WEATHEK POB RT.A.1T Partly eloady. PITTSBURGH, -WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928 GREATEST CIRCULATION Daily mm! Sunday 1 nn 1 LTU uu mm nn PRESIDES Freedom Brings Happiness AL SYMBOLIZES DREAM Philosopher Tries to Fathom Smith's Appeal to People-Finds Spectacle of Man Rising From Politics to Statesmanship. DRY LAW WON'T BE WIPED OUT, SAYS ROBINSON Permanent Chairman Continues Attack on G.

0. P. Begun by Bowers. STATE GROUP THREE WES IN LIMELIGHT Bryn Mawr Delegate Gets Place on Committee Escorting Bowers. VOTERS FAVOR BOND ISSUE'S SEVEN ITEMS Big Expense Program Wins Apparently by Vote of Two to One.

-By WILL, HOUSTON, June 27. This is Houston, lovely and lovable, brilliant with sunshine, architecturally handsome, leisurely active, courteous and uncomfortable, with a library that rivals New York's and a temperature that rivals helL The streets are vivid with bunting, noisy with bands and almost covered with parades Below the hotel window long troops of cowboys pass, lassoing pretty maidens on the curb, who mourn when they find the capture temporary; ahead and behind the cavalcade are samples of the national political symboL the donkey. What stirring music! Tears come to the eyes as one recalls the Memorial Day processions of years ago, and the fine songs we sang, and the dreams we dreamt of a nation intelligent, peaceful and free. Later comes a sparsely-populated prohibition parade, chanting "Glory Hallelujah" and announcing that "the Constitution must be preserved not saying whether in alcohol or otherwise. There is hardly a delegate in line: they are all standing with one foot on the brass rail, blowing off the foam.

Houston is a perfect host; it receives the delegate with great warmth, with cordial and yet quiet hospitality; it meets them at the trains, escorts them to their hotels in private cars, and welcomes large numbers of them into private homes where the southern lady radiates her aristocratic grace. I'm glad I came. AND yet our coming, anybody's coming, is quite useless; for here too the convention la over before it has begun. A1" (or, as we are told to say now. "Alfred" as if anyone would vote for Alfred There was a happy reunion today when Olga Pawlishak, aged 17, of Fair Oaks was released from jail after a jury has acquitted her of the murder of her sweetheart Nick Anderson, and the court nolle pxrossed a charge or manslaughter.

Pictures of the reunion are printed above as follows: Left to right, Rev. Peter V. J. Koch, the. girl's spiritual adviser and Nikolay Pawlishak, her father.

Olga is seated beside her father. Inset is a picture of Olga, smiling after she had been freed. DISPERSED BY POLICE, MINERS PLAN MEETING Open-Air Church, Service at Rossiter Announced by Pastor of Union Flock Enjoined by Coal Company. Senators Attended There. OFFICIALS PLEASED McKeesport, Clairton and Duquesne Defeat AH Projects.

Allegheny county's greatest bond issue to provide $43,680,000 for public improvements, was approved by the electors at, a special election yes terday.with big majorities for seven Questions. Returns from a majority the 1,42 election districts throughout the.county show the voters approved thef bond issue as a with the largest majorities jgistered for the questions providing funds for roads, boulevards fyaQ an airport. The foujother questions were reporter Th. returns in the following positions in the approval of the voters: Bridges, fourth; parks, fifth; county office building, sixth, town hall, seventh. CALLS IT VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Chairman Joseph G.

Armstrong of the board of county commissioners, with Commissioner E. V. Babcock, looked upon the result of the election as a vote of confidence in their administration and the program of improvements pushed by the county in the last four years. Improvements, for which funds were voted yesterday, will be started in the near future, Armstrong stated. He pointed out that plans for several of them have been prepared for two years with the expectation' they would be paid for from commissioners bonds, the sale of which was held up by the lack of a statement on the county's financial condition.

Armstrong said that the bond issue had been up to the people as a jury and that in view of their verdict, he would see that the schedule of improvements as provided in the issue, is carried out. BROWN IS PLEASED. Commissioner Babcock said the action of the voters "puts Allegheny county into a position to keep up the race for supremacy among the great centers of population in the United States." Director Norman F. Brown, of the public works department, said the vote shows the public senti-Continued on Page 6. Yes, Two to One Vote Returns From 790 Out of 1421 Districts Indicates Large Majority for Whole Bond Issue.

Considered sufficient to determine the approval of all seven questions in the $43,680,000 county bond issue, voted by the people yesterday, returns from 790 of the 1,421 election districts in the county, carefully checked, give the following total votes: Question No. 1 $6300,000 for new roads and reconstruction, erection of safety barriers and curve and grade crossing eliminations Yes, 40344; No, 19,721. Question No. 2 $10,930,000 for the Saw Mill Run, Ohio River, Allegheny River and Moss Side blvds. Yes, 39330; No, 20,083.

Question No. 3 $1300,000 for the purchase of the lands for the North and South parks and improvements Yes, No, 21-628. Question- No. 4 $14,650,000 for the McKees Rocks, East End-North Side, South Tenth Boston and many smaller bridges Yes, 39.126 No, 20,373. Question No.

5 $2,550,000 for a new county office building Yes, No, 22,885. Question No. 6 $6,000,000 for a town hall Yes, No, 22,921. Question No. 7 $1300,000 for the county's share of the cost of an airport Yes, No, 14,751.

Smith) is nominated before a vote is cast; and that item settled, it does not matter a bean what the platform says about prohibition, farm relief, or -ways and means of mitigating Tammany corruption on the sidewalks of New York. WHAT sort of man is it that has captured all these delegates and resurrected and united a shattered party, without stirring from his or neglecting for one moment the tasks which for eight years he has done so well? There is something irresistible in him a personality whose color and lure makes Hoover seem infinitely remote, impossible for the common people to understand or love. What is the secret of this pervading popularity? There are many elements in it, running from racial considerations to astute expenditures; but beneath them all is the fact that Governor Smith is not so different from the average man, either in character or name, but that affection can mount to him. People will admire Hoover, but their hearts will be far from him. They will sing "Al's my pal," but not even a college cheer leader will persuade them to sing about the man who wishes to bring science into government.

They will call Smith by his first syllable, and It will be difficult not to vote for a man with whom one is so friendly. That first name will be worth half a million votes; even the last name should bring a hundred thousand. Millions more will go to Smith because he symbolizes perfectly the ultimate dream, in every American heart, of rising from poverty to hon-Continued on Page 6 proceed with a simnar meeting this Sunday. The church is that which attracted nation-wide attention after a temporary injunction by Judge J. N.

Langham prevented the strikers from singing certain hymns there. Phillips and his followers claim they held the open air services over the county line in Jefferson county, and accordingly did not violate the decree of the Indiana county judge. ARGUE OVER LINE. The contention of the other side to the- controversy is that the court order and the sheriff's proclamaion applied 500 feet beyond the county line, and that this took in the territory on which the meeting was held. Members of the congregation plan to hold the next meeting deeper in Jefferson county territory and further from the Indiana county line.

The church was that at which United States senators of the coal investigation committee sang hymns with the congregation when hey winter. Pastor Phillips claims he was obliged to hold the services outdoors because the Magyar Presbyterian congregation which owns the building barred the miners' congregation from the church recently. FAMOUS MTOR DIES Robert Mantell Succumbs to Illness of Weeks. By The United Press. Atlantic Highlands, N.

June 27. Robert B. Mantell, Shakespearean actor, died at his country home, "Brucewood," here today after an illness of several weeks. Mantell was aged 74. Mantell was taken ill about six weeks ago at Baltimore while on tour.

For a time it was thought he might recover, but during the past few days he sank so rapidly virtually all hope was abandoned. Mantell was one of the greatest tragedians Scotland has produced. He was born at Irvine, Scotland, on Feb. 7, 1854. STEAL LOCOMOTIVE Lumber District Young Men Take Seven-Mile 'joy Ride.

By The United Press. Warren. June 27. Two young men are being held in Sheffield jail for stealing a narrow gauge locomotive owned by the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Co. for a joy ride.

They are Allen Hallenbaugh, 23, and Charles Harkens, 21. both of Sheffield. They were arrested in their homes last night and are said to have admitted taking the locomotive from the Tionesta valley railroad yards at Sheffield, running it seven miles to Brookston and deserting it at Martin Station after the return trip. Railroad officials said the locomotive was damaged by being run at high speed. It was used to haul log cars.

When taken it was standing on a siding with fires banked ready for use next day. DELEGATION TO FIGHT Mrs. Thomson's Group Will Contest Credential Committee Ruling. AT A GLANCE. Convention prepares to hear speeches nominating presidential aspirants.

Eloquence of Claude G. Bowers in keynote speech thrills assent- blage. Pennsylvanians play prominent part in work of party's conclave. Robinson of Arkansas, believed tare choice to run ufith Al Smith, makes address as permanent chair-fnan. Platform framers begin work with their product already "cut and dry." By CARL D.

GROAT, United Press Staff Writer. Convention Hall, Houston, June 27. The Democratic national convention was advised today by its permanent chairman. Senator Joseph E. Robinson, of Arkansas, that there need be little fear of repeal or nullification of the eighteenth amendment.

He sounded this note, together with a blast against alleged Republican corruption and a plea for economic equality for agriculture, in his address to the third session of the quadrennial meeting. Robinson Chairman Robins on's speech to the Democratic convention will be found on Page 13. Bower's keynote speech is on Page 7. urged against inclusion of a "wet" plank in the platform and opposed controversy over the liquor Assembling here before noon, the thousands of delegates and guests anxiously awaiting the now assured nomination of Gov. Alfred E.

Smith, of New York, as presidential candidate, heard Robinson continue the anti-corruption attack which Claude Bowers, of New York, voiced in his keynote speech last night. FIGHT OVER CREDENTIALS. The convention sweltered in oppressive humidity. A rainstorm, which last night wet part of the convention hall, had failed to bring relief, but delegates still had the holiday spirit. Bands furnished plenty of noise, and the notice of a fight over report of the credential committee served to thrill the delegates and guests.

Their attention was centered around the contest of the Louisiana delegation in which the credentials committee had ruled that Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thomson, daughter of the late Speaker Champ Clark, and her followers were, improperly chosen. PLATFORM HEARINGS. Meantime the platform committee had convened for public hearings on prohibition, farm relief and other platform planks. Eight hours were allotted for this, though the leaders were in general agreement already as to what the planks should be among others, a dry law Contained on Page 6.

ADMITS OHIO MURDER "Confession" In MeRett Case Is Not Given Credence. By The United Press. Atlanta, June 27. Complicity in the murder of Don A. Mellett, militant Canton, editor, was admitted here today by a man who surrendered to police, giving his name as Cecil Porter, aged 30, steeplejack, of Canton.

Police were inclined to doubt Porter's story. He would give no details when he gave himself up and police said Canton authorities wired that Porter was not known there. Porter is held on a charge of suspicion pending further word from Canton. He was penniless and out of employment when he surrendered. "My conscience hurt me," was his explanation.

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By JOHN R. TOWNLEY, Pittsburgh Press Political Writer. Houston, June 27. Pennsylvania pushed into a corner of the Democratic convention limelight on three occasions last night. The demonstration of the corn belt states over the farm relief section of Temporary Chairman Claude Bowers' speech the biggest outburst of the convention thus far gave an opportunity for John A.

McSparran, past master of the Pennsylvania State Grange, his opportunity for enthusiasm. Being an opponent of "Al" Smith for the nomination for president, McSparran until last night had found nothing to cheer him in the convention. When the agricultural states started the demonstration, in which all the states joined eventually, McSparran seized the Pennsylvania standard and paraded around the halL Close to him was W. M. Brown of Williamson, W.

carrying the standard of his state. PENNSYLVANIAN NAMED. At the opening of the session Pennsylvania was recognized by the appointment of Gertrude Ely of Bryn Mawr as a member of the com mittee to escort Bowers to the The convention had Pennsylvania brought before it by the shafts which Bowers hurled at Secretary of the Treasury A. W. Mellon, during which the Aluminum Co.

of America was mentioned. This is the Mellon company which is now a subject of inquiry by the federal trade commission because of charges that it has indulged in monopolistic practices. The Bowers speech was accepted as showing that the Democratic managers are planning to make a tremendous effort during the campaign in the agricultural states. A very large part of his talk was an appeal for the placing of farming on a parity with other industries of the country in fostering care by the government. FAVOR STRONGER PLANK.

It is assumed that there is a plan to place in the platform a plank dealing with the farm relief which the Democrats will regard as appealing much more strongly to the farm interests than the one adopted by the Republicans in the Kansas City convention. McSparran has said that he will ask the resolutions committee to adopt a plank favoring legislation which would be a combination of the plans put forth in Washington by several farm organizations. RED WON'T QUIT Missourian in Contest to End, He Declares. By The United Press. Houston, June 27.

Reports -that he was about to quit his fight for the Democratic presidential nomination were denied by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Reed's statement was provoked by an interview credited to one of his Kansas City lieutenants, J. B. Shan non, which appeared in newspapers here.

Shannon was represented as having said that Governor Smith would be nominated on the first ballot but that Missouri would stand by Reed Reed's statement said: The alleged Shannon statement is entirely without foundation, is unauthorized and was made without my knowledge or consent. "We will carry on the fight in good faith to the very end and hope to win. We have not made any trades for or considered any other position than the presidency." HAS TO WALK as much as I like cake, it is too warm here for tea. Yes, um-m-m. Egad, Alfred, this is the point I am leading to.

It is obvious that you will get the nomination. Yes, I am confident of it. In fact, as the saying goes, you will win in a walk. Nine blocks to the convention hall, and nine blocks back. Yours truly, Major Amos B.

Hoople. P. Egad, Al, in the hotel lobby this morning, the California delegates were passing out packets of California raisins with your picture on the cover. They also gave away a prune wrapped in waxpaper, with no picture on it. Tell me, do you suppose that is a subtle jest directed at your running partner, the nominee to be, for vice president eh? Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas who was named permanent chairma nof the Democratic convention today.

He is believed almost certain to be named as Smith's running mate. Senator Robinson presided over the Democratic convention in San Francisco in 1920. ROBINSON SEEN CERTAIN WINNER Arkansas Man Is Likely to Run With Smith. By The United Press. Houston, Texas, June 27.

The vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic convention appears almost as certain now as the selection of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for Presidential nominee. Senator Joseph T. Robinson Arkansas, Democratic floor leader in the senate and permanent chairman of the convention, seems slated as second man on the ticket. He is acceptable to the Smith leaders and generally favored by other factions in the convention.

Next to Robinson, Evans Woollen, Indianapolis banker, is most prominently mentioned. Talk of Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessee and Senator George of Georgia, both Presidential candidates, has practically stopped. BOOM FOR WOMAN. There are booms also for a woman, Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, former Wyoming governor, and for two former military men, Maj.

George Berry of Tennessee, and Gen. Henry T. Allen, commander of the American army of occupation in Germany. Activity to obtain the yice presidential nomination for Atlee Pom-erene of phio, was started today by George "White, former chairman of the Democratic national committee. Officials of the American federation of labor are concentrating their efforts upon the New York delegation in the small hope of obtaining the endorsement of the Smith leaders for their candidate, Maj.

Berry. A group of labor chiefs held con ferences during the day with Judge Olvany, Norman Mack, George Van Namee, and other Tammany leaders. BOND ISSUES WIN Carnegie, Brentwood, Wil-kinsburg, Harrison Approve. Four local bond issues in Allegheny county totaling $1,300,000 were approved by voters yesterday. Carnegie voters polled 1,143 votes for a bond issue of $275,000.

There were 367 dissenting votes. The proceeds will be devoted to a new municipal building and sewers and street repairs. By a majority of approximately 500 votes, Brentwood's proposed issue of $150,000 was approved. The proceeds are to be used for street and sewer improvements. A proposed issue of $125,000 in Harrison township, was approved by 707 voters.

Three hundred and seven persons voted against it. A new fire truck will be purchased and streets and sewers will be improved. A large majority was polled for Wilkinsburgs proposed issue of $750,000, to be used in borough improvements. POPS QUESTION ONCE TOO OFTEN Bride Aged 55 Accepts Proposal After 20 Long Years. Camden.

N. June 27. Miss Martha Sniffer, aged 55, told her friends today she was going to be married soon to Robert Owens, aged 54, after "about fifty proposals in the past 20 years." "I gfuess IH go through with it now," she said. "Tve got a new dress and 111 look as good as a young bride." Wife-Slayer Held. Brooklyn, June 27.

John Bon-derchuck, aged 45, was arraigned yesterday on a charge of murdering his wife, Fannie. Bonderchuck found a strange man with his wife when he returned home Monday and kicked her to death, according to police charges. Sperral to The Pittsburgh Press. Indiana, June 27. Despite the fact that state police and deputy snerms dispersed an open air cnurcn meeting last Sunday at Rossiter near here, Rev.

A- J. Phillips and members of his flock of striking coal miners are firm in their intention to WOMAN FREED OF SLAYING Court Fines Spectators Who Applauded Verdict A Jury of nine men and three women returned a verdict of not guilty, freeing Rose Bartolette, aged 35, of Beck's Run rd of a charge of murder in connection with the slaying of Simone Lagatutta, aged 39, in their Beck's Run home, last March 16. Two young women who applauded the verdict, in the face of the court's warning that no demonstration would be tolerated, were ad judged in contempt of court and fined $5 each. They said they were Josephine Murgi and Mary Christy, of Epiphany st. The taking of testimony was concluded yesterday and the closing addresses of Assistant District Attorney Roy T.

Clunk and Attorney R. P. Tannehill, opposing counsel, and the charge of the court were made today. In her own defense, the woman said Lagattuta was shot in a struggle for the possession of a revolver. She declared that Lagattuta first had poked her with a broom handle during an argument arising over his moonshine operations which she wanted him to cease and that when she took the broom from him.

he secured the revolver. She denied she was jealous of another woman and declared she did not have a fight with Lagattuta over his paying the gas bill of the second woman. The defendant denied she had admitted to City Detective Jerry Deasy that she had shot Lagattuta. TODAY INSIDE OLGA IS FREED; FIANCEJ AILED Girl's Sweetheart Given 6 to 2-Year Term. While Olga Pawlishak, aged 17, of Fair Oaks was regaining her freedom after being acquitted of the murder of Nick Anderson her sweetheart, Mike Papowich, was sentenced to serve from six to 12 years in the penitentiary today by Judge A.

B. Smith of Susquehanna county. The last barrier that stood between the girl and freedom after the jury returned its verdict yesterday was removed today when a manslaughter charge against her was ordered nolle pressed. Mike pleaded guilty last week to a murder charge in connection with Anderson's death, and Judge Smith fixed his guilt at second degree murder and handed down the sentence. Olga had been remanded to jail last night on the manslaughter charge after the jury brought in the acquittal verdict late in the day.

GIRL IS OVERCOME. The fate of the girl was placed in the hands of the jury at 4 p. following the charge of Visiting Judge A. B. -Smith of Susquehanna county, and the verdict was returned at 5:10 p.

m. Olga slumped in her chair after the verdict had been returned, but was quickly revived. She rushed to the jurors as they left the courtroom, shaking their hands and. thanking them. Pleading guilty last week, Mike Papowich at first said he had shot Anderson and then the next day he changed his story and said Olga fired the shots.

PROSECUTOR TO WED John D. Meyer and Edgewood Girl Take Out Marriage License. John D. Meyer, United States district attorney, and his bride-to-be, Margaret Spraggon, of 125 Gordon Edge wood, were issued a marriage license today in the City-County building. The wedding will be in St.

Stephen's Episcopal church, Wflkinsburg, at 11:30 a m. Saturday. ture. Now drat it Al, I had to walk down those 16 floors to the lobby and I found that I was two inches shorter, due to my legs bowing from the descent. Every day it is the same.

I get knock-kneed walking up, and bow-legged coming down. A ridiculous position to put me in, Alfred. A thousand people jammed the lobby like flies on a sheet of yesterday's tanglefoot. I finally reached the street and discovered I had rode out on a midget's shoulders, egad. He was trapped in an attempt to go through my bowlegs when they straightened up.

Great Caesar, Al, has anyone in Albany told you yet that it is a nine-block walk to your convention hall? Yes, nine blocks, by Jove. So give that a 'thought NO GAMBLING IN EASTENDHOSnE Police Make Report on Garland's Charges. A report of Lieut. Nuncie Marino of the Frankstown ave. police district strongly intimates that Councilman Robert Garland is all wrong in his contention that there is a gambling house operating within a block from the ccomcilman's home.

A resolution calling for an explanation from Director of Public Safety James M. Clark as to the reason why Councilman Garland's complaint against the house was not heeded and action taken, was unanimously indorsed by city counciL Whereupon Director Clark took a trip to the east. However, it was learned today that Director Clark had referred the matter to Superintendent of Police Peter Walsh through Clark's chief clerk, ETias John; the superintendent in turn referred it to Inspector Bernard J. Kirley and the inspector in his turn referred the matter over to Lieut. Marino for investigation.

Lieut. Marino's report in a letter presented to council today declares that the house was visited at 11:30 p. hl, June 21, and again at midnight, June 23, and that no evidence of gambling was found. However, the lieutenant adds that the house will be kept under surveillance and if any evidence of gambling is seen In the future it will be Councilman Garland said he had "no comment" to make on the report. CITY SWIMMING POOLS WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK Playgrounds in North Side District Will Be Ready July 5.

Swimming pools in the North Side district will open July 2, Mrs. Mary J. Cowley, president of the North Side Playgrounds association, announced today. The playgrounds in that district, also operated under the supervision of the association, will open July 5. Public Works Director Lang announced that all city swimming pools, mcluding the North Side pools, will be opened July 4.

The North Side pools are: Mary J. Cowley pool, Troy Hill; Roberta Lang pool, Woods Run; Lake Elizabeth, West park, and Riverview park pool. when you tune in on the radio from your front porch swing, i N' OW Al, what vexes me most is this when I finally limp ed into the hall and swooned into my chair at 12:30, some delegate, I suspect he is a Reed man, asked the chairman that the convention be adjourned until evening. Confound it, the convention was only in order 11 minutes. A little over a block a minute.

During this time, mayor of Houston made a speech of welcome, saving that the homes of Houston were open to visitors, avoiding giving his residential address. In fact, to show the true spirit of southern hospitality, he said he wanted us all to feel that we could walk right out into the kitchen any time for a piece of cake and a cup of tea. Hm-m, H00PLE PROTESTS TO AL SMITH THAT HE By MAJOR HOOPLE. Copyright, 1928, by N. E.

A. Service. HOUSTON, June 27. To Governor Smith: Dear Al: Confound it AL your convention started off on the wrong foot. This is a walking convention, composed of walking delegates, egad.

Among them is Jimmy Walker. I am staying at the Rice hotel, where 5,000 people are proving the Darwin theory. My room is on the sixteenth floor and with all his aerial achievements Lindbergh couldn't get up to it. Your party at Sam Houston hall was scheduled to open at noon and I left my room on the sixteenth floor at 11 a. m.

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