The Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • Page 13

A 1-H Kirtly cloudy tonight and Saturday; slowly risiilg temperature Saturday is the ofllcial word of the weather forecaster for this section of Pennsylvania. VOLUME 256. I-1 AN INDIANA COUNTY NfWSPAPIR THAT SERVES EVERY MEMMR OF THE FAMILY TWELVE PAGES I I) I) If you would Rrt the moat fo- your money, glance ovor the advertisements in this and SRC week-end specials our merchants arr ofTerinsr for your selection. INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933. TWO TWO CENTS A COPY CAPULM'LAIN PASSED AWAY IN WASHINGTON Son of Major and Mrs Charles C.

McLain of Town Died Wednesday Night Following Operation. WASlVAlfHERO Captain Charles Lucas 43 years war-time commander of Company of the 110th Infantry and holder of French and American decorations for bravery and valor, died Wednesday night at the Mount Alto Hospital in Washington, D. where he underwent a serious operation Tuesday. Captain McLain, for the last two years stationed'at Charleston, S. as an agent of the United States Department of Commerce, entered the hospital last week.

He was born in Indiana, February 9, 1890, the son of Major Charles C. McLain, now county treasurer, and Martha Lucas McLain. He was descended from Revolutionary stock, his grcat-grcat- great-grandfathers being Charles Campbell and Samuel Mitchell, both veterans of the Revolutionary War. His grandfather, Captain G. A.

McLain, was a veteran of the Civil War and his father, Major Charles C. McLain, was-a veteran of the Spanish-American and the World Wars. He enlisted July 12, 1907, in Company Fifth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, of Indiana, which was later changed to Company 110th Regiment Infantry, Twenty-eighth Division. He was promoted to first sergeant, then to second lieutenant May 22, 1913, and to captain February 4, 191C. He commanded Company on the Mexican Border and later when it was called into Federal service in the World War.

Captain McLain was stationed with his company in Indiana, Camp Hancock in Georgia, and commanded the company in France. He participated in the Champagne-Marne Defensive and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He was gassed July 16, 1918, and was --wounded September 29, his actions under (ire Captain feflrtcLain was decorated with the Dis- tinguished Sarvjce Cross and France. coaferrad upon him 'the coveted Croix de Guerre. He was honorably discharged at Camp Dix, N.

August 23, 1919, and returned to Indiana. He later reorganized the new Company of the National Guard of Pennsylvania and was its commander until removing his residence from Indiana. As' a result of disability from wounds Captain McLain was retired with the rank of captain and for the past few years had been an agent of the United States Department of Commerce. He was a member of the First Presbytcrfan Church of Indiana; Indiana Lodge No. 313, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Coudersport (Continued on Page Two) CHARLES LUCAS McLAIN MAY TIGHTEN INCOME LAW -0 Lawmakers A bused Over Acquittal of C.

E. Mitchell on Charges of Violation of National Income Tax Laws. be proposed to Mitchell case. FRANKLIN DENTIST DIES SUDDENLY FRANKLIN, June had entered the Rickards family for this this year taking Dr. Rickards, i2, brother of the lajjp, General Geo.

C. Rickards. Dr. Rickards, who had practiced dentistry here for 38 years and was well known in local club circles, died suddenly in his home. Death was believed due to angina pectoris.

Only an hour before his body was found, Dr. Rickards was seen strolling on the streets Friends said the doctor had been devated to his brother and never fully emerged from the mourning that him at the time of Gen. Rickards' death last January. CLYMER SCHOOL TAX RATE CUT FREED THURSDAY WILLIAM S. MEAL (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June Aroused by the acquittal of Charles E. Mitchell in New York on charges of violating the income tax laws Senate and House tax investigating committees today announced thai legislation would prevent "another The House Ways and Means subcommittee investigating incoprfe tax laws called for the record in the Mitchell case. A Senate finance subcommittee, which opened a similar inquiry, also announced it would review the case.

AVhile the jury which held the former head of the National City Bank not guilty of violating the law in selling bank shares to his wife in 1929 and buying them back later and other deals by which he established losses against income taxes, was severely criticized, the investigating members of Congress promised to study the law for defects. Members of Congress generally agreed that the Mitchell verdict will give a tremendous impetus to a complete overhauling of the revenue laws by Congress next winter. While the investigating committees; will direct their efforts to closing up loopholes, they admitted tK rich and poor, alike may feel the of limitation upon deductions from income lax returns. Attorney-General Cummings announced that the failure of the government to convict Mitchell will not halt the investigation of charges of tax evasion by former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon and others. NEW GULF GAS STATION ERECTED CLYMER, June Gulf Refining Co.

umiu- the management of J. E. Clawson of Clymer is changing the location of the Gulf Gas Station on the East End of Franklin street, from in front of the J. E. Clawson department store to the location of the former Franklin street garage which was burned down a couple of years ago.

A complete new building is being built on the old foundation, not as large as the old building, jupt a one story gas station. It will improve the looks of the place as it is being built with brick. PRESBYTERY AGAINST REPEAL IN PENNA. JENKINTOWN, June Rev. Dr.

John McDowell, moderator of Presbyterian Churcli in the United States, today was to deliver the principal address at the annual convention of the Presbyterian Synod of Pennsylvania. The synod pledged its membership to "leave nothing undone" to prevent Pennsylvania from joining the repeal column in balloting on the Eighteenth Amendment in November. CLYMER, June a regular meeting of the Clymer school board held recently, it wius decided to do its bit in economy, in the saving of the tax payers money by cutting the millage of the taxes all that was possible. So after very careful consideration they found that they could cut the millage this year two mills less than So the millage of the school tax of Clymer borough on real opiate for the year 1933 will be twenty-two mills (2'2 mills) for the year 1032, it was twenty-four mills (24 mills). The per capita tax will be the same as la.st year FILES SUIT FOR $246.19 AGAINST SELF against MOW CASTLE, A suit by Klla M.

Moore IClla M. Mooro was on lile here today. Tho suit seeks the sum of ijilMG.ia. Tho plaintiff filed the suit against Inn-golf as executrix of the estate of Ira As executrix she was to collect rent aii.d bills. In order to expenses, she avers, sho put in of her own fluids.

The suit names herself and two co-cxoculors. NINE-YEAR-OLD DROWNED IN RIVER HARRISBURG, June Stricken with cramps, nine-year-old Eark Denk was drowned while bath- in the S'lsquehanna river here night. and firemen worked for an hour in a futile effort to revive the boy. MBS, AGNES McGREGOR DIED AT O'CLOCK Mrs. Agnes McGregor Mrs.

Agnes McGregor died at her home in North Twelfth street at a. m. today of complications from she had suffered for geyeral months. Funeral arrangc- ftot Veen TWO KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH SAN DIEGO, jTTne victims of an airplane crash today wi-rc identified as Ensign M. E.

Vorhccs, 27, Findlay, and J. A. Sheridan, 21, Bridgeport, who were attached to the U. S. X'avy air slut-ion herp.

They were killed whf-n their plane fell near Descanso 45 miles from here during 1 naval air maneuvers. DEMONSTRATION AT PINE FLATS The demonstration of the Daily Vacation Bible School will bo held in the Pine Flat Christian Church Sunday, June 25. AH are invited to attend. CRISIS AVERTED BY AMERICAN DELEGATION Ever-Increasing i ff i- culties on Gold Standard Seek Means of Preserving Currency. DEVELOPMENTS By International News Service With the currency stabilization issue temporarily shelved by action of the American delegation, the World Economic Conference struggled alorg an uncertain course today.

Extreme divergence of views among the various nations represented indicated cver-increasintr difficulties, but the United States strove to find a common platform by presenting a resolution calling for cooperative monetary and credit action to speed world recovery. Meanwhile, nations still on the gold frantically sought mesns of preserving their currency basis despite America's opposition to a stabilization pact at the present time. The American dollar gained slightly in London but declined in Paris. GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, LONDON, June over America's refusal to enter a temporary currency stabilization agreement, the European gold bloc today frantically sought ways and means of clinging to the gold standard. Headed by France, representatives of gold countries at the World Economic Conference launched a series of private conferences in an attempt to determine their next move in ths international currency poker game.

Tense discussions centered around the question whether the European gold bloc can resist instability of the American dollar and British pound and remain on the gold basis. French financial experts expressed themselves as less certain than Finance Minister Bonnet that the franc will stay on the gold standard. France is virtually the only major (Continued on Page Two) VERA SIMPSON AT N. Y. UNIVERSITY Registration ffT the intersessioiv term of the New York University School of Education Summer School which opened June 5 showed an increase of twenty-five per cent over last year, it was announced by Dean Milton E.

Loomis, director of tho Summer School. The enrollment increased from 120 students to 150, Dean Loomis said. The following from this community are registered in the inter- session term: Vera Simpson, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, critic and teacher. THIS FELLOW MAY GET SOME WORK GREENSBURG, June G. outlook for employment was brighter today.

The 23-year-old Mount Pleasant youth recently wrote a letter to President Roosevelt stating that he had tried vainly to get any kind of work. In answer he received an application blank from Mary Laclame, acting supervising director of the U. S. employment service department. Farrah today left for Pittsburgh to visit the employment service bureau there where he was ordered.

Holds Her Funeral While Alive In Forefront of the Nation's Recovery Drive task to put the sweat on a man's brow is that of General Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of President Roosevelt's industrial recovery program, pictured at his first press conference when he promised a fighting campaign to put "several million men back to work this summer." between railroads and railway labor suspending their wage reduction controversy until June 30, 1934, was the first major accomplishment announced by Joseph B. Eastman, federal railroad oo-ordinator, after industrial recovery machinery was set in motion. Eastman is pictured after the conference that produced the truce. Lindbergh Gives Home NEW YORK, June The estate of Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh at Hopewell, N. from which his infant son Charles A. Lindbergh, was kidnaped and slain, will become a haven for children. This was definitely announced today from the office of Col.

Henry Brackenridge, close friend and personal adviser of the famous aviator. Specific details of the plan have not been worked out, it was sai.d, but will be announced later. "The property of Col. and Mrs. Charles A.

Lindbergh in Huntington county, N. said the statement issued from Col. Breckenridge's office, "will be. used in connection with welfare work for children. The project has not been developed with sufficient definitencss to date to admit an announcement of the specific plan." PROHIBITIONISTS MEET TONIGHT Miss Pearl Kieghley Miss Pearl Kieghley believe.s in n-aise for the living 1 so she's hold- ng- her own funeral now and has nsked her to make it "gay lively." A business woman in Jniontown, Miss Kieghley says, ''It' my friends are really my 'yiends I would like to know it while live.

I hope to enjoy the friend- hips for many Then I 1 may uie happy." All Organization Interested in Non-Repeal Invited to Attend. A meeting of representatives of all organizations interested in tlie retention of the eighteenth amendment will be held in the Indiana Y. M. C. A.

tonight at 8 p. m. Daylight Saving Time. The meeting is open to any person interested in prohibition and especially all organizations interested in securing information relative to the way things will be handled in the coming election. A committee of the organization will plan for the big mass meeting which will be held in the First Methodist Church, Thursday night, June 29th, when Dr.

Omer B. Paulson, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Prohibition Emergency Committee will address the gathering. Plan now to get in line for this important work. Even though things look dark it is not the time to give up. Got in touch with those who know the workings of the McCluro Convention bill and then plan to help put Indiana in the dry column.

The meeting will be held at 8 o'clock, daylight time. NEW KENSINGTON POST OFFICE OPENED NEW KENSINGTON, June dedication of New Kensington's new $285,000 federal postoflicc was to take place here thi.s afternoon with C. R. Eilenberger, third postmaster general, scheduled as chief speaker. A public inspection of the building- and a dinner and Deception to Eilenburgor also aro on the program.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN FOUND JEAN'NETTE, June attempts at identification having failed, the body of an- unidentified man found in a Jeannetto- brick yard, wa taken to the Westmoreland, county home for interment. Death was believed due natural causes. The man was about 35 years of age. CONVENTION AT ELDERTON Mrs. J.

J. Mcllvaine Elected President for the Coming Year. The 55th annual convention of the Young Women's and Women's Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian church of the Conemaugh Presbytery was held yesterday at Elderton. It was an all-day convention, divided into three sessions. During the morning reports of the past year's activities were given by various chairmen.

In the afternoon Emma Stauffer, a returned medical missionary £rojn Indiana talked on the life and customs of the people in that far-off country. Conferences were held by groups representing the junior young women, and women's departments, at which time discussion "of each groups' problems were entered into. At the evening session a Biblical drama was presented by the young people of the Second United Presbyterian church of Indiana. It was a splendid program. Officers elected for the coming year are: Mrs.

J. J. Mcllvaine, Indiana, president; Mrs. William Henderson, Crete, vice president; Mrs. S.

W. Shane, Indiana, corresponding secretary; Mrs. R. V. Wright, Elderton, secretary; Mrs.

Agnes Magill, Homer City, treasurer. INDIANA MAN GETS CONTRACT Charles H. Miller, general contractor of Shelocta, was awarded the general contract for the erection of a new school building at Elderton when the board of the Elderton school district met for the purpose of awarding the contract Tuesday evening. The plumbing 1 contract went to A. S.

Birdsall, Indiana, and the heating and electrical contracts have not yet been awarded. The building as drawn by Till'man Schreen, architect of Kittanning will be a modern and up to date room brick house with an auditorium and plans are being made for commencing the actual construction at once. Classes of the Elderton school be held in the Montgomery residence when school opens next fall until the completion of the; new building. VETERAN MINER GETS HOLMES AWARD Forty-eight years of labor inside of the mines, without a single losi- time accident, is 'the remarkable record of Robert Sloan, veteran Soldier, Jefferson County, miner. It him signal honors last Friday night when he was presented with the Joseph A.

Holmes Safety Award at a special meeting held for that purpose in the Union Church at Soldier. Many of his friends and mining men from all over the section wcru present and J. J. Forbes, safety director of the United States Bureau of Mines at Pittsburgh, made a special trip to Soldier to present the honorary certificate. The Rochester Pittsburgh Coal by whom Mr.

Sloan is employed was represented by L. J. Redding, safety engineer, of Indiana. Water Tests At Co. Home Last evening two pumpers of the Indiana Fire Department taken to the County Home and used in pumping the water out of the which had been built there last fall, for protection against fire.

The two fire pumpers were attached to the sump with large section hose and pumped the 30,000 gallons out in 38 minutes. During all the pumping water from the fire hydrant located there, was turned in, the purpose being to see how long the water would last in case of fire. Had there been only one hose attached, it would have two hours and twenty-one minutes to empty the pool. The cuunty officials and company members ware very'iirafeh pleased with the experiment, and feel the protection offered now is sufficient for any emergency. CLYDE KELLY ON RECOVERY ACT Says It "Is the Mightiest Machine Ever Devised." PITTSBURGH, June Clyde Kelly today told a group of Pittsburgh manufacturers and businessmen the national industrial recovery act "is the mightiest machine ever devised in this country to meet and overcome the greatest danger the nation ever faced." The bill, strikes at the very roots of the depression by providing for the return to work of the nation's idle through cut-throat competition.

Kelly characterized the bill as having two principal aims, namely to restore employment and to restore purchasing power. Without these, he added, recovery is impossible. After explaining in detail tno workings of the bill, Kelly summarized by saying: "Tho industrial recovery act provides the method for curbing the greed of a minority in every industry which would destroy every decent standard of employment. It loosens the restrictions of the antitrust law.s and encourages co-operation instead of ruinous competition." RAILROADS TO BE GROUPED IN 3 SETUPS 0 Coordinator a tman Paved Way for Set Up of All Roads Into Eastern, Southern and Western Groups. FIGHT 1cOMING By HARRY WARD (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June Moving swiftly in his capacity as federal coordinator of transportation, Joseph B. Eastman today paved the way for grouping the nation's railroads into three regional setups. They will be known a.s eastern, southern and western groups.

The law gives him the right to make any changes -jr subdivisions in such groups as he may deem necessary or desirable. The big fight on the railroad program is expected to come over the appointment of the regional co-or- dinating committees and it is in this fight that Eastman will have to demonstrate he is railroad czar. The law provides that "at the earliest practicable date, three regional coordinating committees shall be created, one for each group, and each committee shall consist of five regular members and two special members." Mileage will be the yardstick in selecting these coordinating committees. The act specifically requires that the coordinator "promote or require action on the part of the railroads to avoid unnecessary duplication of services and facilities and permit the joint use of terminals and trackage." CLIMAX SOON IN GOAL CODE ADMINISTRATION Coal Operators of Four States Submitting a Basic Code to National Administrator for Consideration. JOHNSTOWN MAYOR HELD FOR JURY JOHNSTOWN, June Eddie McCloskey, red-headed fight- Ing chief executive of Johnstown, today was being hel.d for grand jury action on a charge of having punched Leon Bennett, poor director, on the jaw during a.

demonstration at Cambria county relief headquarters. McCloskey denied the charge when arraigned before neese. IJ'o- ty to charges of riot, arid ihcMfng' to riot. All three charges are after- matlis of the demonstration. Tho flglving mayor acte.d as his own attorney during Vie two-hour hearing.

Following the alderman's hearing, McCloskey furnished $2,500 bond and was released pending grand jury action. CLARK DAUGHERTY HOME DAMAGED To Close Wednesday SALTSBURG, June The Press is authorized to announce that the business houses of Saltsburg will close Wednesday af-1 lernoons commencing July 12 and I ending in September, instead of Thursday afternoons as heretofore published. Fire, believed to have been caused by wiring in a door bell transformer in the basement of the home of S. Clark Daugherty, well known druggist, of Jeannette, damaged the dwelling considerably curly Friday morning. The los.s covered by in- i suiance.

Mr. Daugherty is a broth- i of William James John M. Frank H. Daugherty, of town. Sent Bombs to F.

D. R. for 'Fun' MEETING IN MALTA HALL SUNDAY NIGHT A cordial invitation is extended to all truth loving people who desire to study the Prophesy of Revelation with Jehovah's Witnesses on Sunday evenings at 8:30 Daylight Saving Time, in Knights of Malta Hall, North Sixth street. The study of particular interest at this time is "Armageddon" with the help of Light Book No. One written by Judge J.

F. Rutherford, Bible student, lecturer and author. An able leader has charge of these meetings, which are for the purpose, of helping everyone to have a better understanding of the scriptures. No charge and no collection. An offering may be given for the extension of tho work if desired, in which case free literature will be supplied.

SEN. REED HITS AT RECENT LEGISLATION ERIE, June Senator David A. Reed, of Pennsylvania, today went on record with the intimation that unless the U. S. Supreme Court keeps an eye cocked on the 1932 Roosevelt landslide, a considerable portion of the administration's emergency program will be ruled unconstitutional.

Much of the emergency legislation Reed told the Erie County Bar Association, is unconstitutional and "will be so held by the Supreme that body does not follow the: election returns!" Reed satirized the title of national recovery bill, remarking: "The sweeter the name, I suppose, the sweeter the rose." Reed cited the farm bill and the Muscle Shoals bill as most likely to be held unconstitutional. NEW SET-UP (Copyright 1933, by I. N. PITTSBURGH, June Flanked on every side by contradictory reports and actual discord, the task of sifting a fair 'competitive' code for Western Pennsylvania mine operators moved rapidly to a climax today. Chief among the expected developments was to be the submission to Brig.

Gen. Hugh Johnson, National Administrator of the Recovery Act, a basic code drafted by the Central Coal Association, representing the Pennsylvania bitumin- ous, West Virginia, Ohio and Mary- land coal fields. Confusing this principal objective, however, are a number of other issues both at Washington and at the mine pits. Some of the most important of these are: 1. Apparent disagreement between some operators and United Mine Workers of America over the status the union will enjoy under the new setup.

at Washington by the operators of the age-old and highly controversial issue of rail and wage scale differences for southern and the central fields. 3. Thinly-veiled threats of a strike from union leaders unless the operators submit to labor's interpretations of the bill. In this connection, about a dozen district mines, are closed by strikes at the presentV time. confusion resulting from varied interpretations of the' National Recovery Act, its requirements and its as relating to the social aspects to be guaranteed labor.

In drawing up the proposed code. expected to be submitted to Johnson today, the operators spurned the invitation of P. T. Fagan, district president of the U. M.

asking operators to meet in conference with labor tp draft a worl the ad The' operators apparent! ed under Johnson's statement to? labor's opposition has been re- gistered, that competitive codes-' containing acceptable provisions as to maximum working hours, minimum pay, would be approved regardless of whether or not they were reached by collective bargain(Continued on Page Two) INDIANA DEMOLAY -i ON FINANCE COM. I KANE, June Members of the Order of DeMolay in ftate convention here today prepared to elect new officers and select the 1934 convention city. Pittsburgh and Lancaster were mentioned as possible sites for tho conclave next year. Following the elections this 1 'afternoon the Legion of Honor degree, highest DeMolay award, will be conferred on 33 members from chapters throughout the state. dance in the state armory in the evening will climax the social activities, a feature of which.was a banquet last evening.

Tomorrow will be occupied with a sightseeing tour. Committees appointed for the ensuing year include: Finance, Allen Fleming, Indiana, AMBRIDGE WORKS ON WATER PLANT AMBRIDGE, June work to scores of men, construction today was under way on the municipal water softening: and filtration plant at Ambridge. A loan granted by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation enabled borough officials to immediately begin work on the $135,000 structure. When completed the water works is expected to result in great savings for Ambridge water consumers through its purification and bution system. GREEN TOWNSHIP TAXES ARE REDUCED 10-YEAR-OLD BOY HAS "HARD LUCK" Joseph Doldo, 20, above-, of Watertown, N'.

told police he two crude bombs to Prcs-Mont Roo.sevalt for Inn." Police found the bumbs in the and Watertpwn postonkes. They were traced to Doldo. CHESTER, Juno Billie Carter, 10, today made a strong bid for the hard luck championship as he started his fifth extended visit at the Chester Hospital with a broken leg suffered in a fall from a cherry tree. In 1928 Billie broke tin arm, in 1929 his skull was fractured and in 1932 it was refractured in a fall into a quarry hole. LITTLE TOT DROWNS IN TUB OF WATER i PITTSBURGH.

June i Rose Marie's older sister played alone today. Little Rose Marie Dzurisko. aged year, tumbed into a half-filled tub of water and was drowned terday while playing with her older "sister. Through the transferring of the district from the third to the fourth class, the citizens of Green township have affected a. reduction in the school niillage for this year.

In 1939 real estate was assessed 18 mills; in 1930, 16 mills; in 1932, 14 1-3" mills, 'and in 1933 there is a reduction of 3 mills, making the levy now 11 1-2 milk. There ig a total reduction of 6 1-2 mills or 36 per cent tiiu-e 1929, the high years in gov? eminent costs. $250,000 ALCOHOL PLANT SEIZED CHICAGO, June 1'ibition agents today confiscated $250,000 distillery scribed as the largest complete ever found, in the west. Six men were seized. Federal officers said; the ing an estimated.

papacHy of gallons a day, was the.