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The Pittsfonrrfi Bress Financial Sports Classified Comics "Always in the Lead" PITTSBURGH, PA APRIL 25, 1929 IN TWO SECTIONS SECTION TWO. "A Press in Every Home Society Women9 and Magazine Pages LA WKiiNCE VILLE CHURCH KNOWN PDAI PftllHF It Seems to Me SEEK DRASTIC LAW TO REDUCE FIRE HAZARDS By Heywood Broun Views of the Author Uncensored I tcT? NVY me, sirs; I am a coward," said the old gentle-man in Stevenson's story "The Suicide Club." At any rate, he said something like that. Nobody is going to demand that a columnist should have such a passion for accuracy as to compel him actually to look up his quotation. Besides, I merely want a text on which to hang some praises of timidity. Mankind has always known that fearlessness was a weakness.

There will be no discussion here of the sad young men in ancient days who said, "To hell with the mammoth and never came back to the family cave at nightfall. You see, they left few, if any, descendants, and nature seems to feel that the timid are the fit, since she bestows survival upon them. I would rather pin my case upon folklore than science. Generally it represents a truth more ancient and profound than any passing verity discovered by the experimenters. And you will remember that in the story there was a prince who could neither shiver nor shake.

Quite rightly he diagnosed his condition as an ailment and went out into the world to seek a cure. Ghosts and monsters failed to terrify him, and eventually he was brought back to normalcy with no better remedy than a pail of coid water. Very probably he relapsed into impervious-ness later on. Without Benefit of Tremors. BUT to get down to the modern world, I think that in some respects I am better off than Colonel Lindbergh.

It is hard to understand in just what way flying fascinates that gallant youngster. There is no evidence in any news story that he has ever felt fear, and long hops made without benefit of tremors, would seem to be pretty dull business. We've heard that Colonel Lindbergh rides alone, and no one has ever said that timidity perched upon his right hand. To whom, then, does he talk during the long nfght' hours? Under the stress of terror it is possible to carry on long and earnest conversations with yourself. For instance, I suppose I've said to myself a hundred times, "Don't be a fool that dog isn't going to bite you." And generally I was right.

Since Lindbergh knows no fear, I don't see how he can get much thrill when on a misty morning he spies some speck of land after a dark journey over water. Probably a taxicab ride down West st. fills my chest with more commotion than he felt during the entire flight to Paris. But I like it. At least, I do in some ways, and I' realize that all pleasures are shot with counter currents.

To a timid man fear is more stimulating than strong drink. They say the brave die once and cowards many times. In that case the brave don't know what they're missing. A fit of sheer panic is like a scenic railroad. It is fearful when you elide down to the depths, but what fun it is to come out on the other side And it's good practice.

To die many deaths is to accept the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. Everybody wants to put his best foot forward after he has gone, and so I ask that there be carved upon my modest slab the epitaph, "He never told a taxi driver, 'Go slower'." Heaven knows that I have want-d to a score of times, but it is one of my few points of pride. It helps to make the West st. ride significant. There are no traffic lights in that if fj iE has journeyed here from across the sea to participate in the celebration.

Below Rev. Coyne is his cousin. Rev. Charles J. Coyne, pastor of St.

Mary's. In the lower left are Rev. Justin J. Gallagher and Rev. William St.

Mary's Catholic Church, Lawrenceville, will observe its seventy-fifth anniversary May 5. The upper left is the church. Upper right is Rev. Christopher Coyne of St. Finton's, Leix, Ireland, cousin of the pastor, who peded by a number of things.

A terrible panic in 1873 slowed up things considerably. In addition, Lawrenceville, as did other parts of the city, suffered from cholera and small pox epidemics. The War of the Rebellion sapped the young life blood of the parish, even as the World War did. The present St. Mary's Church is known to Lawrenceville Catholics as the very heart of Lawrenceville.

A fine group of buildings gives the parishioners ample room for pride. The simple Gothic church structure with its Cleveland stone trimmings has some very fine stained art glass windows, executed in Germany by the famed Mayer of Munich. Leaders to Confer Monday on Bill to Create More Jobholders. NO CUT IN RATES Reduction in Insurance Costs Considered in New System. A will committee of City Oouncilmen be named Monday to confer with the Chamber of Commerce, Fire Chief R.

L. Smith and Safety Director James L. Clark. The ultimate purpose is to draft drastic laws for fire prevention. A Chamber of Commerce committee headed by Charles Donley has been making a study of fire prevention methods for three years, and incorporated its findings in an ordinance now before City Council.

But certain pertinent information is yet needed, it was shown at a hearing on the ordinance before Council yesterday, and that information will be sought by the combined committees. CREATE MORE JOBHOLDERS. Donley explained to Council the work of the Chamber committee and urged passage of the ordinance which, among other things, would create a chief inspector of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, and give to the bureau those regulatory "powers now held by the Bureau of Building Inspectors. Chief Smith said that the Fire Bureau now has no legal authority to compel building owners or lessees to remove fire hazards found in them. H.

E. Newell, engineer of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, said that in addition to a chief inspector, he-believed there should be other competent men to work under him. Providence, R. he said, has four or five such men who look after special fire hazards, while the rank and file of firemen make the usual inspections. NEW JOBS QUESTIONED.

Creating these extra positions was questioned by members of Council, particularly when it was shown that the present fire bureau reduced the fire losses Pittsburgh last year nearly 50 per cent, compared with the previous ear. And even with such a record there has been no reduction in fire insurance rates for Pittsburgh, it was shown, a factor that should be considered in the creation of a new bureau, members of Council said. C. B. Auel, of the National Safety Council, quoted figures to show the loss of life from fires in the United States each year, and Chief Smith declared that between 80 and 85 per cent of the fixes in Pittsburgh are preventable.

WHY NO CUT IN RATES. Pittsburgh, Smith said, spends much for fire extinguishing but nothing for fire prevention. What effect this new fire preven tion bureau would have on insur ance rates is to be sought by the committee by studying New York, Chicago and Detroit were such a system is in operation, and after which the proposed bureau for Pittsburgh is patterned. 7 POISONED BY FOOD Family in Serious Condition in Wilmerding. Seven members in the family of Michael Potter, 37, of Westinghouse Wilmerding, were ill in their home today from ptomaine poison me as a.

result of eating a can of tomatoes as a part of their dinner last night. Physicians said that Potter's wife, Mary, 34; her sister, Miss Josephine Carlove, 20: a son, William, 16, and a daughter, Jean, 2, were in a serious condition. Potter, his daughter. Dorothy, 9, and another son, Ed ward, 11, were recuperating, it was said. MAN ENDS OWN LIFE Grief Over Friend's Death Believed to Have Inspired Act.

Injuries reported to have been self-inflicted, proved fatal to Herbert Elling, 28, of 110 Fourth Sharps- burg, today in St. Margaret's Hos pital, according to deputy coroners. Elling, a volunteer fireman ot Sharpsburg, slashed his throat with a piece of glass in his home yesterday afternoon, it was said. He had been morose since finding Gus Ma- thias, 48, in his barber shop in Main st, Sharpsburg, fatally injured several months ago. Mathias, who had slashed his throat with a razor, later died, deputy coroners said.

broad street beside the docks. It is LUCKY LICENSE NUMBERS ULILHILU DAK CASE Fuel Company Held Liable for Acts of Officers It Employed. FAG AN AWARD CUT Judge Gray Sustains Victory of Miners in Famed Test Case. Corporations employing coal and iron police cannot escape responsi bility for unlawful acts of the offi cers on the ground that they are public officers, Judge James H. Gray declared in an important opinion handed down yesterday in Common Pleas Court.

He refused to set aside a verdict returned in favor of P. T. Fagan, president of District No. Umted Mine Workers of America, against the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal for damages suffered as a result of his unlawful arrest. While the judge did not set aside the verdict he did reduce the amount of the verdict from $5,000 to $3,000, however, because it was not shown that he suffered any se rious loss of his reputation 'by his arrest, as he was re-elected presi dent of the district by the miners afterward.

VICTORY FOB MINERS. "It is a victory, as the court has established that corporations cannot escape responsibility for the wrong- iui acts of the coal and iron police they hire and pay," said Oliver K. Eaton, counsel for theyminers. "The United Mine Workers of America wished to determine the status of the coal and iron police, which was the purpose of bringing this suit by r'agan. It is believed that the opinion will be far-reaching in its effects and it is the first time that the issue involved in the suit has ever been determined in this state.

IN SPECIAL SERVICE. Commenting on this feature of the case Judge Gray in his opinion statea: The law Is well settled that coal and iron policemen presumptively act as public officers and that those who employ them and pay them are not responsioie lor their acts as public officers, but It is also well settled that the presumption that these officers are acting as public officers may be rebutted by evi dence warranting a Jury in finding that the officers were at the time of an arrest engaged in some special service for the company which em ploys and pays them, such as guarding property or enforcing obedience to its rules, and in such cases if it appears that the wrongful act was within the scope of the special serv ice or employment of the officers, the fact that they hold commissions as coal and iron police will not bar a recovery against their employer. An emnlover of coal and iron po licemen may be liable for the wrong ful act of such officers their acts have been instigated or ratified by the employer, or some of its officers within the scope of their employ- menu NO DISPUTE AS TO FACTS. 'There is no dispute a3 to the facts from which a jury might rea sonably find that the arrest was not in the of tii mihHi Hm ties of these coal and iron policemen employed by the defendant for the vindication of the public law, but within the scope of their authority to protect the interests of the de fendant and that the arrest was made as private employes of the defendant on special service. We are convinced that under the authorities the case could not have been properly taken away from the jury and that it was correctly sub mitted to them to find whether the arrest was made and the plaintiff restrained by the officers in the discharge of their public duties or by them in their private capacity as employes of the defendant company, making an arrest and imprisonment within the scope and authority granted them by the defendant or sanctioned by its duly constituted officers and employes.

OFFICERS' DUTY SHOWN. "If the defendant was responsible for the act of its officers, it should be held responsible for their acts in illegally restraining the plaintiff even though the arrest was lawful. It was the duty of the arresting of ficers to take the plaintiff before a magistrate within a reasonable time and give him a hearing. There was ample evidence from which the jury might find that the officers held the plaintiff for Shi unreasonable time." Judge Gray directed that unless the reduction of the verdict is agreed to within 15 days, then he would grant a new trial and the case will be submitted to a jury again. Attorney Eaton, counsel for the miners, declared that the court's re duction of the verdict would be accepted, as the primary purpose in bringing the suit was to make a test to determine if coal companies were responsible for the unlawful acts of the coal and iron police engaged by them.

HELD IN COAL CO. OFFICE. Fagan was arrested June 1, 1927, in front of the Wabash building. Liberty while addressing strike breakers who were being loaded on a truck and were being taken to Coverdale to work in the mines of the company. Fagan was taken to the office of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal and kept there for over an hour, although he demanded that he be permitted to communi- cate with his ccunseL Fagan demanded that a warrant for his arrest be secured and that he be taken before a justice of the peace and allowed to furnish bail.

While the defendant company admitted the arrest of Fagan. the officials took the position that they were not responsible for the acts of the coal and iron police who figured in the arrest, as they were public officers and were performing duties for wktlch they were commissioned. 'arish of Enright, De Lowry, Carlin to Hold Anniversary Fete May 5. By MARIE M'SWIGAN. THREE NATIONAL heroes, killed in their country's service, are on the rolls of St.

Mary's Catholic Church, Forty-sixth Lawrenceville, which will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary May 5. Thomas Francis Enright, one of the first three American soldiers killed in actual combat with the enemy in the World War, and for whom the theater in the East End was named, grew up in the parish. Francis Patrick De Lowry, first to die at Vera Cruz in 1913, wa3 another. And finally, Joe Carlin, the youngest of the trio, an 18-, year-old stripling, met death while engaging the enemy in a glorious encounter at sea. Carlin, a gunner, died while still trying to man the gun.

Enright and De Lowry, all turbulent thoughts of combat now ended, sleep in graves in St. Mary's Cemetery. Carlin, it is said, was buried at sea. "S' RUNS the tale of match less glory" as recounted by Francis Foley, seminarian at St. Vincent's Seminary, Beatty, who has prepared a brief history of the parish for the diamond anniversary.

Local and sectional pride runs high. But nowhere is it higher than in Lawrenceville. Members of St. Mary's Church feel themselves signally honored through the deeds of the young men of the parish. It was in September of 1853, the historian recounts, that Catholics of Lawrenceville met to plan a church which was also to house a school.

The following Jan. 23 the building was finished and dedicated. The first pastor. Rev. A.

P. Gibbs, was a remarkable man, the records show. He commenced his priesthood with only a mass kit and a saddle horse. He became pastor of two parishes at the same time, of St. Mary's and also of a church in Sharpsburg.

I SHARPSBURG he built a rectory and provisional church. He saw the first little frame structure replaced by the present brick edifice. Under his leadership, two parochial schools were built, our historian relates, both of which were fully paid for. "He built a convent and a rectory. Three acres of church property in all was acquired under his guidance.

-All in one lifetime! What a pretentious, far-reaching and triumphant accomplishment for one man," Foley says. Throughout, the work was im- BANDITS SOUGHT IN TWOJOLDUPS Thugs Get Over $250 From Autoist, Store Manager. Four bandits, who escaped with more- than $250 last night in two holdups, were being sought today by police and detectives. Two of the thieves, it was reported, stole $102.41 from the cash register in an Atlantic Pacific Tea Co. store at 611 Lincoln after locking Victor T.

Newcomb, manager, in a rear room. Shortly after the store had been closed, Newcomb told police, one of the bandits, who had been a patron of the store for a week, rapped for admittance. AUTOIST ROBBED. Newcomb admitted the man who forced Newcomb into a rear room with a gun and opened the door for his companion. Police released Newcomb after being notified by Mrs.

Scott Crooks, resident of the second floor, that he was locked in a room beneath her apartment. One hundred and fifty d-Uars was stolen from L. B. Woods.Njf 309 McKee tL. by an armed bantwho held him up last night in A st.

The bandit escaped in an driven by a confederate. A cash register in the P. H. But' ler store at 7400 Monticello st. was robbed of $40 early today, Wilfred Disher, the manager, notified Frankstown ave.

police today. HOUSE IS ROBBED. Before leaving the robber stole $7 in cigarets. Entrance to the store was gained by forcing a cellar window. A robber who entered the home of J.

Heltzell of 924 North Murt-land ave. escaped with $100 in cash and jewelry, police were notified today. It is believed the robbery occurred late yesterday during the absence of the family. they had as little idea where the man who drew the money might be as they did of the whereabouts of Dr. Brancati himself.

i HE PHYSICIAN, who was in his forties, was a leading practitioner among the wealthy Italians of New York. After building his prosperous medical practice, he had invested in real estate, holding some 20 valuable parcels of New York property, largely in the Bronx. He also speculated in the stock market with much success, rolling up a fortune believed to run well over a million dollars. The Gouverneur Morris mansion alone was worth $400,000 and his account with his broker involved a half million in cash, stocks and securities. There had been nothing unusual in his activities immediately preceding his disappearance, according to his friends.

They had re List No. AUTOMOBILES 15 180,342 258,463 287,775 742,996 831,003 994,746 707,815 These Numbers Are Good Only Until Noon of May 2, 1929 Although a broad course, West st. is not without its hazards. No avenue in town is better bunkered. The market wagons zig and zag, and in the Eleventh ave.

extension there are the freight trains to contend with. A brush between a taxi and a yard engine is one "of the most enlivening experiences a passenger will ever know. If you win, of course, It's a triumph, and in defeat there is the final consolation of knowing that you gave away a lot of weight. Last night we missed the fire-spitting dragon by at least three feet. The chauffeur jerked the wheel at the moment it was needful.

Then he turned and shouted, "Am I driving too fast for you?" Resolutely I answered, "No!" and clung to both sides of the cab. For a Good Cause. OF COURSE, it would seem extravagant and wilful to risk life and limb except in some good cause, but there is never any trouble in fomenting some excellent reason for last minute haste. One can always be late with his copy. I'm late so often that any psychiatrist would probably hold that I really desired in my heart of hearts to be put under the necessity of taking a racing taxi.

A columnist must create for himself the illusion that what he writes Is of vital importance. Somehow it is easy to convince yourself of that. And inevitably there are days which seem to strike a higher level than usual. Upon such nights or early mornings a messenger boy seems unsatisfactory. TJid the man from Marathon ring for Western Union or Garcia intrust his message to the Postal? I am, you will observe, splitting the business neatly between both companies, and you know the answer to the question is, "Of course, he didn't So, with a good column in my pocket and a mustang cab to convey me, I love to thrill and tremble in the mad scramble between the trucks and trains of West st.

Each trip takes 10 years off my life, but most lives are in need of plucking. The truly dramatic conclusion would be to have the man at the other end exclaim, "You're wounded, boy!" to which I could reply as I handed over the copy, "No, dead, Mr. Bcripps and Mr. Howard!" and smilingly expire. But I think I'll reserve that privilege until I have written a good enough column.

(CopyrisM. 1929. For The Press.) ir White pine altars are finely wrought and nicely balanced with the sanctuary line. Confessionals, pulpit and sanctuary finishings are done in white oak to blend with the altar. I ADDITION to the church there is a lyceum building fronting on Forty-fifth st one of the finest of its kind.

Rev. Charles J. Coyne is pastor. An auditorium seating 1,750, bowling alleys, and a gymnasium are executed in chaste Spanish style. A school, academy or high school, a convent and rectory complete the group of church buildings, save for the quaint old structure, the lyceum.

April 25, 1929 AUTOMOBILES 825,092 120,017 481,835 279,175 730,910 630,474 48,046 875,901 689,496 557,820 the day of publication. Remember that the observers are apt to be any place in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area at any time and they are watching for careful drivers. They may be watching YOU, and if they see you doing some bit of cautious motoring they will report your license number and it will be $5 in your pocket. So drive carefully. Get the safety habit.

Then watch the license numbers daily and Sunday in The Press, and be ready to grab your share of the $100 a day if your number happens to be listed. GUARD PRISONER Fear Gangsters Planned Release of Man. Heavily armed deputy United States marshals locked Steve Zoccoli, of Midland, alleged post-office robber, in Allegheny county jail yesterday in default of $15,000 bail, when it was reported that gangsters were in the government building ready to aid Zoccoli to escape. He will be given a further hearing later. Zoccoli was arrested in Midland several days ago uy officers, led by Pos toff ice Inspector McLaughlin.

He is suspected of being implicated in the $35,000 postoffice robbery in Steubenville, last Nov. 11. Zoccoli's arrest was kept quiet until he was given a hearing before a United States commissioner yester day. The government seeks to re move Zoccoli to Columbus, for trial in connection with the robbery. Brennan, assistant pastors at St.

Mary's. The center is Thomas Francis Enright, first American to be sacrificed in the World War and member of St. Mary's parish. Lower right is the old lyceum. more than three score years old.

This building, attractive in its primitive simplicity, once housed a finishing school for young ladies. Grilled iron work, its single cir- -cular window and its straight lines pick it out as belonging to a color ful past. Rev. Coyne came to St. Mary's 17 years ago.

Assisting him with his duties as shepherd of a flock of about 750 families, nearly 4,000 parishioners, 'are Rev. William Brennan and Rev. Justin J. Gallagher. The seventy-fifth anniversary will be marked with a solemn pontifical high mass.

Rt. Rev. John Mark Gannon, bishop of Erie, will attend as well as Rt. Rev. Hugh C.

Boyle, bishop of the Pitts burgh diocese. RANIERI GUILTY IN DEATH CASE Pnmiintarf nf Mortcloiinritar" wi i ivu a i vi Faces Second Trial. A Criminal Court jury of seven wompn anri fiv men convicted Ralph Ranieri, 30, of Poplar way. of voluntary manslaughter, late yes terday. The verdict was returned before Judge James H.

Gray who ordered Ranieri remanded to jail pending filing of a motion for a new triaL Asst. Dist. Atty. M. Barney Cohen prosecuted the case before visiting Judge O.

Kent, of Crawford county, Ranieri rlso is accused of felonious assault and battery and will be tried on that charge later. CLAIMED SELF-DEFENSE. Ranieri was accused of fatally shooting Antonio Spagnoletti, 30, of 1316 Poplar way, at 1018 Poplar way April 3, 1927. It was alleged that Ranieri shot Mike Spagnoletti, a brother of Antonio, in an argu ment and that a third shot fired by him struck Antonio as he approached to see what the trouble was. Ranieri said he fired in self-de' fense against Mike and that the bullet which struck Antonio was discharged accidentally in a scuffle for possession of the revolver.

Dist. Atty. Samuel H. Gardner said investigation will be made in an attempt to learn what happened to statements taken by police from eye witnesses after the shooting. The statements were reported missing from police and detective files when they were sought for use in the Ranieri triaL Fire Sweeps Town.

ST. JOHNS, N. April 25. A great fire swept part of the town of Carbonear yesterday, destroying a large number of public buildings, business offices and private homes, according to advices received here. The town has a population of about 4.000.

and is located a few miles north of Harbor Grace. I See by Today's Want Ads WANTED Used canoe In good condition. See Classification 88. CAMERA Graflex, $75; cost $125. Practically new, owner leaving town.

See Classifica tion 78. VANITY DRESSER Triplex mirror; Simmons metal bed, complete; both walnut finish; all for $25. See Classification 79. CHRYSLER Finer 70 Coupe, low mileage, excellent condi tion, $725. See Classification 93.

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SHALER TWP. MAN FIRES AT CHICKEN THIEVES Two Accused in Robbery of Coop Monday Night Now In Jail. A. J. Sterling, of Anderson Shaler fired a revolver at two strangers whom he dis covered attempting to break into his chicken coop early todaV.

Sterling said he saw one of the men stagger in the dim light and believed he struck him. When Sterling reached the coop after running a short distance from his home where he had fired he found no trace of the fugitives. Fifty-four chickens were stolen from Sterling's coop Monday. Two suspects were arrested the next day and held for court by Alderman George J. Anderson, of 507 Wylie ave.

Arthur Greeley, of 211 Fifty- second st. and Frank Cabowic. of Forty-first and Butler were those jailed to await court triaL HOLDUP SUSPECT HELD Say Negro Fled After East Pittsburgh Robbery. Brownie Mason, negro, 35, of Main East Pittsburgh, is being held in the East Pittsburgh jail pending investigation of charges that he slugged and robbed Charles Glen wood, 40, insurance agent of East Pittsburgh, of $37.50 in a lonely spot on Main last night. John Navish and Steve Antolivish of East Pittsburgh saw Mason running from the scene, they say, just before they found Glenwood's unconscious form.

Mason will be arraigned before Squire M. T. Gorham of East Pittsburgh, GOURTESY shared the nonors with carefulness and the protection of jay-walkers in reports that came in from the special Press observers yesterday, and the 20 safe drivers reported are each entitled to $5 upon presentation of license cards that bear numbers corresponding to those published herewith. Bring them to the editorial department of The Press, Boulevard of the Allies, any week day between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Each series of numbers is good for one week from NOT SEEKING RECORD Mrs. Thaden Not to Attempt New Aerial Honor. Mrs. H. B.

Thaden, better known as Louise McPhetridge, whose endurance flight for women record was broken yesterday by Elinor Smith of New York, does not plan an attempt to regain her title, she an- ounced on her arrival in Pittsburgh terday. Mrs. Thaden was met at the station by her husband, H. B. Thaden, designer of the Thaden all-metal monoplane, which will be built here by the Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corp.

The wife of the aircraft builder denied a report that she was planning another endurance flight in June in a specially constructed plane now being built in Kansas. Mrs. Thaden said that while she had been approached with an offer of a plane in which to make an- other flight it had been rejected, marked that he seemed to have left rather suddenly when several of them received telegrams cancelling appointments, but for a time little was thought of his absence. THEN A MAN appeared at the brokerage house with a paper, apparently well authenticated and bearing what was identified as Dr. Brancati's signature, authorizing the bearer to act for the doctor in financial matters.

The bearer of the paper, after establishing himself with the broker, began drawing against the account urrtil he had transferred a total of $225,000 from the broker's office to an Italian bank in Mulberry st. At the bank he had given a mid-town address, and had conducted himself in a manner which did not arouse suspicion. But detectives, tracing this man. DISAPPEARANCE OF RICH DOCTOR LIKE FICTION MYSTERY FAKE COLLECTORS WARNING IS GIVEN Complaints Made to Mercantile Appraiser's Office of Their Acts. A warning against fake mercantile tax collectors has been issued by A.

L. Bowden, of the State Board of Mercantile Appraisers. Many complaints have come to the offices of the board in the Courthouse from small business concerns about having been victimized by fraudulent collectors recently, Bowden said. Te mercantile tax is not payable until May 1, Bowden said, and payments can be made only at the Courthouse, as the board employs no collectors. He said reports have been received of four different fake collectors, the most prominent being a man about 42 and weighing 170 pounds, with sandy hair, gray about the temples.

CLOTHING DEALER FILES PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY fimithfield St. Merchant Fails To Include Statement of Assets. The Good Luck Klothes Shoppe, 402 Smithfield through its owner, Myer Shapiro, filed a voluntary petition of bankruptcy in Federal Court today. Assets and Labilities not announced, the law allowing 10 days for the filing of such jSeBSbsenbauth, a plumber, ot Beaver Falls. filed a voluntary petition, listing liabilities at jfmes A.

Shaffer, trading as the 27 North Pennsyl vania aveV Greensburg, filed a By MORRIS DEHAVEN TRACY, United Press Staff Writer. NEW YORK, April 25. Dr. Charles BrancatL wealthy Italian physician who owned and lived in the famous old Gouverneur Morris mansion in New York, has dropped from sight and with his disappearance as unusual a mystery as any fiction writer could concoct, has arisen to harass the New York police. Dr.

Brancati was last seen at 8 a. m. Nov. 19 when he left the mansion where he and his brother maintained bachelor -partments, saying he had been called to visit a friend. Since that day.

investigation has revealed, at least' $225,000 has been drawn by a man who held papers empowering him to act for Dr. Brancati, from his half million dollar account with the brokerage firm of Hardy Co. But today, after two weeks of secret search, detectives admitted found that all of the $225,000 he had deposited in the bank had been checked out excepting $269 which still remains. Then, detectives who went to the address given at the bank, found the man who had the account had lived there but a few days, having rented a single room. THREE LETTERS, detectives found, had come here purporting to be from Dr.

BrancatL They were cruelly worded, hardly after the manner of the physician who was well educated. Two of these letters had been mailed in Canada and the third in London. One, to a banker friend, asked that if any demands for money were made by anyone on his account, the demands be honored. Attempts to trace' these letters have led to nothing in the way of valuable information. a yaCUJUca t--.