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The PittsMrgl Press 'News and Finance Real Fstate 4 Always in the Lead" PITTSBURGH, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1928 "APress in Every Home' MOTHER ARSENAL EXPLOSION RECALLED' BY COMPLETION OF NEW MONUMENT SUBPENA 200 MORE IN RUEI RltJG IflflUIHY Liquor Probe of Pennington Extends Throughout District. Niratn "PUSSYFOOT" 01 DRY STAND Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senator Turns Down Strategists. Keeping Up With The News Politics, Oil and War Dominate News. Hoover Fights Big Odds in Indiana Race.

Mellon Holds Balance of Power in G. O. P. Public at Last Awakens to Oil Scandals. ilif I jr Kh r-r t.Arri NX A The shaft monument erected to the victims of the Allegheny arsenal explosion has been removed and the new one erected.

A. G. Trimble is general chairman of the committee which worked to get all the names and erect the monument. Dedication Win Take Race in Cemetery Next Sunday. Dedication of a new monument to the victims of the Allegheny arsenal explosion will take place in Allegheny cemetery on Sunday, May 27, at 3 p.

reviving memories of a great Civil war tragedy. Seventy-eight munition workers, most of them women and girls, perished in the explosion which wrecked the arsenal on Sept. 17, 1862. The blast occurred in that part of the arsenal which occupied the land at Perm ave. and Fortieth now the site of Arsenal park.

Not long after the disaster, a monument was erected near the east entrance of Allegheny cemetery, over the grave of those killed in the blast. The passage of almost 66 years came near to obliterating the names of the dead, engraved on marble plates on the sides of the cenotaph. RECOUNTS STORY. As long as six years ago, a movement was initiated to replace the time-worn shaft with a new monument. The old marker was removed so that the new monument could be constructed, and it is this memorial which is to be dedicated.

It bean bronze plates which carry the names of the arsenal heroes and recount the story of the explosion. A. G. Trimble is general chairman of the memorial committee, which has worked under the auspices of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and its auxiliaries. A.

G. Oehmler is ceretary of the committee, and E. A. Young, treasurer. George S.

Davison, president of the Gulf Refining who lost two sisters in the explosion, will be a speaker at the dedication, according to Mr. Trimble. The arsenal exnlosion shnnt tv. city on the day that the armies of ine norm ana south were going into action at Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of all time. Hundreds of eirls were hi ISV of tVta arsenal, fill ins cartridges der from the magazines to the cartridges laboratory.

The explosion came while a wagon was delivering the last load for the day of five barrels of powder from a magazine. It was believed that some of the powder leaked out" that a mule stamped its hoof, struck fire when the iron of its shoe hit a flinty stone, and that the spark leaped to the powder THREE SEPARATE BLASTS. Not only the powder, but the cartridges produced that day, blew up in three separate bursts of fire Rule and revolver cartridges and shells for seige guns exploded. The blast occurred about 2 p. m.

After the first explosion, which came with a roar nnH a A A AiV flash, many of those vnrtino at arsenal had time to escape. j.ne next two blasts cut down the girls traDDed at vnrt TV AAU 1XOU not been killed by the concussion SUMMONSENATORS Miners Ask Probers Take Stand in Indiana Case. Special to Pittsburgh Press. Indiana, May 12. Bruce Sci-otti, counsel for striking miners in the Rossiter injunction trial here has appealed to United States senators, composing the coal strike committee, to appear here next week and testify for his clients.

If the senators cannot come. Sd-otti has asked that-. nofAK n. ing. Wagner, Pine and Wheeler mase ae positions to be read into the record of the case.

The defense today admitted that seven defendants were officers of District No. 2, United Mine Workers, and 24 other members of local Union No. 1736 at Rossiter. Witnesses testified that the yard of the Magyar Presbyterian church was the scene of crowds gathered for the purpose of intimidating and threatening non-union miners. Here, it is charged, strikers gathered and sang, for which they were enjoined.

The hearing will be resumed Monday afternoon. 0. K. Bridge Plans. Washington, May 12.

Assistant Secretary of War Robbins today approved plans for a bridge over Fort Point channel at Congress George, David Gilliland, Virginia Hammill, Sidney Hanlon, Mary J. Heeney, Hester Heslip, Mary J. Jeffrey, Mary J. Johnson, Annie Jones, Catherine Kaler, Margaret Kelley, Uriah Laughlin, Elizabeth Lindsay, Harriet Lindsay, Adaline Mahrer, Ellen Manchester, Elizabeth Markle. Elizabeth J.

MaxwelL Sarah A. Maxwell, Ella McAfee, Kate Mc-Bride, Maria McCarthy, Susan Mc-Creight, Ella McKenna, Susan Mc-Kenna, Grace McMillan, Andrew McWhirter, Mary Ann McWhirter, Catherine Miller, Phillip Miller, Mary Murphy, Melinda Neckerman, Alice Nugent, Margaret O'Rourke, Mary Riordan, Martha Robinson, Mary Robinson, Mary S. Robinson, Nancy Ross, Ella Rush ton, Eleanor Shepard, Sarah Shepherd, Elizabeth Shook, Ellen Slattery, Mary Slattery, Robert Smith, Lucinda Truxall and Mar A song I made of glory. Of honor and of fame. Of every great achievement That earned the world's acclaim.

The song told of the triumphs Men know before they die. And yet none paused to listen; Each passed, unheeding, by. A son? I made of battle; Of hero and of war. Of mighty legions gathered From lands both near and far. To overcome the tyrant By valor and by deed.

And though my song was stirring, No mortal ear gave heed. And then, heartsick and lonely, I breathed a little song Of mother, wondrous mother. Whose love has made men strong. My song was oh. so simple With scarce a melody Yet lo the whole of mankind Gave voice to it with me.

FRED S. WERTENBACH. 500 ENGINEERS TO MEET HERE Prominent Visitors to Tour Local Industries. More than 500 engineers, representing the best technical minds of the country, will make Pittsburgh their headquarters, next week, May 14 to 17, during the spring meeting program of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The A- S.

M. as the association is known in engineering circles, will make its headquarters in the William Perm hotel for the four days of the meeting. Technical sessions will be held throughout, interspersed with trips through the industrial centers of the Pittsburgh district. TO INSPECT PLANTS. The trips scheduled include three, one through plants of the United States Steel corporation, one to the East Pittsburgh works of the West-inghouse Electric Manufacturing and one to the American Window Glass in Jeannette, Pa.

These trips are in addition to those which have been, arranged for the women who will attend. The woman's program includes a trip to Carnegie museum, a private theater party at the Little theater of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, luncheon at the Long Vue Country club, tour of the H. J. Heinz plant, and a tea bridge. PLAN TECHNICAL.

TALKS. Twenty-seven addresses on tech nical subjects will be made before the delegates during the four-day meeting. In addition to the addresses there will be three dinners, one on Monday, an informal smoker and entertainment; another on Wednesday, for men and women in attendance, and Thursday night, when Elmer A. Sperry of the Sper-ry Gyroscope will be presented. A.

N. Diehl, vice president of the Carnegie Steel is serving as general chairman of the Pittsburgh committee in charge of the spring meeting. The various chairmen of committees are as follows: Hotels committee, K. A. Treschow; technical committee, John A.

Hunter; printing committee, G. G. Bell; meetings committee. C. E.

Da vies; entertainment committee. Barton Stevenson; transportation, Alfred Hurlburt; information and registration. T. A. Peebles; publicity, Morris Knowles.

EXECUTIVES TO ATTEND. Alex Dow, president of the A. S. M. who is also president of the Detroit Edison is among the prominent members who will attend the Pittsburgh meeting.

It is expected that all, or nearly all, the executives of the society will also attend. These are as follows: Vice Presidents Charles L. New-comb, E. O. Eastwood, Edward R.

Fish, John H. Lawrence, E. A. Mul-ler, Newell Sanders, Paul Wright. Erik Oberg and Secretary Calvhi W.

Rice. FOUR ARE INDICTED IN PITTST0N FEUD Murder of Mine Leaders Results In Charges By Jury. By The United Press. Wilkes-Barre, May 12. Four men today were under indictment for murder in connection with the death of Alexander Campbell and Peter Reilly, in the Pitts ton mine feud on Feb.

28. The men indicted are Ralph Mellissari, Port Chester, N. Vincenzo Daminni and Peter M. Dulca, who are fugitives and another man listed in the indictment merely as John Doe. aiellissari, who is in jail here, has been identified as a member of the party in the death car.

Campbell and Reilly were shot down as they were returning from The car in which they were riding was overhauled by another machine on a lonely road and the two miners' bodies were riddled with bullets from automatic rifles. HOLD ROBBER SUSPECT Police Say Prisoner Is Accused of Highway Robbery. John Novak, aged 21. of 221 Larimer is beinz held in nw stead police station on a charge of uiguway roDoery. He was identified, police say.

by Charles Noll, aged 47, of 541 Amnion Homestead, who accused Novak of holding nim up at the point of a revolver yesterday and stealing his watch, fhni and 80 cents. Andrew Pastor, of 298 River Whitaker. who is said to hare been with Novak, is being held as a witness. Plan Joint Picnic. The Ross twp.

board of trade will hold their annual community picnic this year in conjunction with the Ross twp. schools at West View park. May 29. It is hoped to make this picnic tagger and better than anything of the kind ever previous being crushed by falling walls and burned by the name of the powder. In the buildings which were the center of the blast, 186 persons were at work, 156 women and girls and 30 men and boys.

Fifty-three girls and four boys were killed instantly. The death list was increased to 78 when many of the injured died. The tablets on the original monument carried only 38 names, and some of these were scarcely decipherable. Much research on Mr. Trimble's part was required before he could assemble the complete list of the 78 persons who lost their lives in the explosion.

The memorial committee chairman has requested relatives of the arsenal heroes to communicate with him at 3006 Jenkins arcade, so that he can make arrangements for them to attend the dedication ceremonies. LIST OF VICTIMS. Those killed in the blast, accord A Hero Dies Four-Footed Machine Gun Scout Yields To Old Age. By The United Press. RADNOR, Pa, May 12.

Jack of Flanders, dog war hero, lay today in the Francis Vale dog cemetery after "going west" to join his buddy who died during the World war. Wounded, gassed, shell-shocked and decorated in the World war, Jack was put to death in the Humane society's gas chamber because of old age. Jack, was trained to point out German machine gun nests. JACK went over the top with his master, Lance Corporal William Warr, of the British service. Warr was injured fatally when a shell exploded and his dying wish to his friend, Lieut.

Norman Wallace, was to "care for Jack, he's all I've got." Wallace gave i the dog to a friend in Philadelphia, because he could not take Jack with him when he went to Australia. Trains Colfide. Mexico City, May 12. Five passengers and three soldiers were injured near Chihuahua when a passenger and a freight train collided. 500 ARE CALLED Witnesses Identify Majority of Those Connected With Ring.

Entwining more members of the alleged police-controlled political rum ring in his net of evidence, Prohibition Administrator John D. Pennington had details of his secret service agents combing the South Side and South Hills of Pittsburgh last night subpenaing 200 additional witnesses in his grand jury probe. This raises the number of witnesses called thus far to tell what they know of the liquor ring to more than 500 persons, the largest group of witnesses ever called on. one investigation before a local federal grand jury. BELIEVE SCORES VIOLATED.

Pennington's agents, working in collaboration with United States Attorney John D. Meyer and his Assistant Ralph IL Smith, are believed to have enmeshed scores of police and politicians in cases of graft and rum. They began the presentation of the evidence before the grand jury during the early part of last week. When the case began, it was rumored that it would be completed before last Friday, but the stories of the; witnesses have evolved into an end less chain affair, according to rumors in the Federal building. MOKE HELP REQUIRED.

As each witness was called to testify in an alleged booze ring, said to have operated with the sanction of the police and politicians on the North Side, more names and accusations were hurled at others not yet involved in the case, it is said. New corps of stenographers were neces sary to take the testimony and transcribe the stories told by these witnesses. With the sworn testimony of those summoned the case has become so large in its scope, according to prohibition authorities, that they believe every person ever connected with illegal liquor operations in the Pittsburgh district has been identified. MAY END WITNESSES. With the 200 subpenas the agents of the dry administrator ere serving last night, it is believed the government will have completed its list of persons required to come before the investigating body.

The utmost secrecy has surrounded the entire proceedings and continued last night as the subpena servers went about their work without divulging the names of any of the persons required to come before the grand jury. The rush of witnesses brought about by the summonses has been stemmed by the staff of the district attorney. They will be handled in groups of 50 persons each day. Taking evidence at that rate will mean that no definite action will be taken by the grand jury or indictments returned before the latter part of this week. Some idea of who may be involved in the probe may be made known tomorrow, it was indicated, when dry officials said last night that Monday will bring to light some of the names of those who are scheduled for indictment.

ROBERTSON ELECTED President of Philadelphia. Co. Becomes Director of U. S. Chamber.

Andrew W. Robertson of Pittsburgh, president of the Philadelphia has been elected a director of the chamber of commerce of the United States. He was chosen to succeed A. I Humphrey, president of the West-inghouse Airbrake who on account of the pressure of personal business resigned his directorship after a service of nine years. Humphrey was chairman of the transportation committee of the national chamber as well as a director.

Both men are directors of the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce. THANKS RAIL HEADS Council Head Wires Appreciation For Reduced Coal Rates. Messages expressing appreciation for the prompt action on the part of railroad officials in cutting the freight rates on shipments of coal from the Pittsburgh district to the lakes were sent Gen. W. W.

Atter-bury. Pennsylvania railroad: Daniel Willard. Baltimore Ohio railroad, and P. E. Crowley.

New York Central railroad, by President of Council Malone. The city, through a resolution sponsored by Councilman Fnglish. joined with coal operators two weeks ago in urging a revision of the rates. File Primary Returns. Harrisburg, May 12.

Chester and Lehigh counties today filed their official primary vote, and Allegheny, Center and Washington counties alone are yet to be heard from. Sixty-four counties out of the state's 67 give Secretary Hoover a Republican presidential preferential vote of 59,012. Democrats in the same counties give Governor Smith 30,759 votes. Bridge Collapses. Wheeling, W.

May 12. A bridge weakened by fire two years ago collapsed today into Cross creek when a road repair truck loaded with dirt drove on to it from the Steubenville-Cadiz rd. The driver leaped to safety. CANT BE SILENCED Interesting Situation Looked for If He Is Slated With Smith. W.

N. McNair, of Pittsburgh, Democratic nominee for United States senator in Pennsylvania, has turned down sug gestions of some political strategists that he pussyfoot as to some issues and forget some of the propositions for which he has stood for years. McNair is in favor of prohibition and will say so in the campaign. That will make an interesting situation if the Democratic ticket is headed by Gov. Smith as the candidate for presidentr average prohibition champion is strongly opposed to Smith WORKED FOR DRY LAW.

McNair, recalled during a talk, yesterday, that he was the secretary, some years ago, of the Penn sylvania Dry Federation, which labored to bring about prohibition. "I am a dry," said McNail. "but I am not in accord with the position of some of the ardent supporters of prohibition. -They -seem to think that enforcement of the prohibition amendment is the one feature of the Constitution which should receive attention. I hold that great care should be exercised in the enforcement of prohibition not to violate other provisions of the Constitution.

I am strongly opposed to violation of the provisions of the Constitution against guaranteeing freedom from search and seizure and from violation of the home." SINGLE AXE It. McNair has been an ardent supporter for years of Henry George's single tax theory. Pittsburgh's graded tax law, whereby the tax on land is double that on buildings, is a modification of that plan. McNair has made many speeches in Pennsylvania in explanation of the Pittsburgh law. "If given the opportunity to address the Democratic state commit tee at its meeting in namsourg I will declare I am a single taxer and a free trader," he declared.

"I will not be silent in the campaign on the things for which I have stood." RAPS TAXMEASURE Walsh Condemns Corporation Levy Provisions. By The United Press. Washington, May 12. Corpora-' tion tax provisions of the revenue bill favorably reported by the finance committee were condemned as an injustice to small corporations in a speech before the senate today by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts. Speaking for the Democratic minority of the finance committee, Walsh advocated a graduated tax on corporation Incomes, ranging from 5 per 'cent on a net income of $7,000 to 11 per cent on $15,000 or more.

The bill reported by the Republican majority on the finance committee provides for a flat rate of 12 per cent on corporation Incomes. The present rate is 13 per cent. It also increases the exemption from $2,000 to $3,000. Walsh said the flat rate would place the burden of taxation largely upon small corporations and benefit large monopolistic corporations. FIVE COUNCILS WILL BE CONVENED Many of K.

of C. Members to Attend Degree Work. Five councils of the Knights of Columbus are to hold an inter-council third degree meeting at St. James' auditorium. West End, today.

The meeting, which is scheduled to commence at 2 p. will be followed by a banquet at Hotel Chatham at 6:30 p. m. District Deputy William A. Ryan and District Warden Charles T.

Doyle will be in charge of the degree ceremonies. M. J. Hoban is banquet chairman. P.

J. McArdle will be toastmaster. Addresses will be made by Leo G. Griffith and F. W.

Ries, Jr. Rev. George Bullion will deliver the banquet invocation. Councils to take part in the activities are Pittsburgh, Chartiers, Washington, Cor-aopolis and Archbishop Canevin council, led by their respective grand knights Louis F. S.

Cook, John L. Starry, wuuam ijoiaen, jonn r. Goff and P. J. Callaghan.

HISTORIC PRISON WALLS CRUMBLING rmnhr Rnanl Art in store Jail Turrets. By The United Press. Lancaster, May 12. Age is crumbling the stone walls and turrets of the Lancaster county prison here and some of the huge stones, modeled to resemble an old English castle are slipping. The crumbling turrets are directly over the once famous dungeons when the prison was first built almost a century ago.

Tradition sayr that one prisoner chained to a dungeon wall and forgotten, died and was not discovered until only a skeleton remained. The countv commissioners have asked bids for restoring the walls. -By LCDWKU. t-nOLITICS, oil and the Chinese- Japanese situation dominated the news of the week. In politics the chief factors are the results of the California and In diana presidential primaries, and the senate investigation of cam paim funds.

Following Governor Smith's sweeping victory in the California Democratic primary. Senator Walsh of Montana, famous Teapot Dome inquisitor, retired from the race. Walsh, a dry Catholic, had been put up by McAdoo, the man who stopped Smith nomination at Madison Square Garden four years ago. Southern California is a Mc Adoo dry stronghold. The fact that Smith was victorious on the battlefield where his opponents were strongest is accepted by Walsh and most others as final proof that the New Yorker's nomination is almost inevitable.

In Indiana on Tuesday it was a Republican test. Hoover, the leading presidential candidate, had entered that state against the favorite son. Senator Jim Watson, who was supported by the state machine, by the Anti-Saloon league, the Ku Klux Klan and the rural sections. Lowden, Dawes, Curtis and other candidates forming the anti-Hoover alliance stayed out of the race and threw their strength to Watson. Hoover's friends made the fight on the issue of cleaning up state politics in connection with the fact that 22 Republican state party officials, from governor on down, had been imprisoned or indicted for corruption.

Against tremendous odds Hoover lost by 23,000. THERE is the usual disagreement in interpreting the national significance of the Indiana primary, anti-Hooverites argue that it proves the commerce secretary cannot carry the farm vote, because of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. If nominated, they say, he would lose the middle western farm states, which are nominally Republican. As a result the Lowden-Dawes combination is making new claims that they, as the Farmer candidates, are going to control the Kansas City convention. In the east the Indiana results have encouraged Hilles, vice chairman of the national committee and New York boss, to try to revive his so-called draft Collidge movement to stop Hoover's nomination.

Hoover's managers, are not worried by all this opposition activity. In the first place, no practical politician or press observer expected Hoover to carry Indiana against such odds. His showing was much better than expected by most observers. As anticipated he ran strong in the cities and industrial communities and was defeated by the rural vote. This rural vote, however, was the combined strength of the Anti-Saloon league and klan, rather than a straight farm issue vote.

It is perhaps accurate to say that the Indiana primary neither advanced nor retarded Hoover's national candidacy, that he is still overwhelmingly the leading candidate though not yet assured of a majority of the convention delegates. SUCH being the case, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, controlling the Pennsylvania and other delegations, now holds and probably will continue to hold the convention balance of power. Neither Hoover nor Lowden can be nominated without Mellon's support. By withholding his votes from both. Mellon probably can deadlock the convention and in large measure dictate the choice of a dark horse, such as Hughes or Dawes.

Though Mellon has not yet committed himself, it is rather generally believed that he leans definitely to Hoover. INTEREST in the senate campaign contribution investigation centers in Smith. Hoover and Lowden. Expenditures of other candidates have been negligible. Lowden will testify next week.

Some of Hover's friends charged that the committee, appointed by Vice President Dawes, was hostile to him and on the stand Hoover was offended by the implications of some of the questions asked. His campaign was being carried on by voluntary state committees and, he said, he personally had spent only $100 or $200 and had made no promises of appointments if elected. James R. Good, of the Washington Hoover headquarters, said the organization as a whole had received $49,150 in contributions and would spend less than $250,000 up to convention time, all for publicity and legitimate expenditures. Governor Smith's manager testified to receiving total contributions of $103,302.

William F. Kenny, a New York contractor and old friend of Smith's, contributed $20,000 and loaned $50,000. THERE has been a so-called public awakening to the oil scandals. John D. Rockefeller, has requested the resignation of Col-Robert W.

Stewart, chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, who together with Sinclair, Blackmer and O'Neill, engineered the notorious Continental Trading Co. deal and shared in the $3,000,000 profits. After denying to the senate Teapot Dome committee last winter that he personally profited from the deal, Stewart recently admitted, what the committee meanwhile had found out for itself, that he got $759,000 from the Continental deal. ing to Trimble's list, were: Elizabeth Ager, Mary Algeo, Mary Ama-rine, Hannah Baxter, Barbara Bishop, Joseph E. Bollman, Mary A.

Boll-man, Rose Brady, Ella Brown, Alicia Burke, Sarah Burke, Catherine Burkhart, Bridget Clare, Emma Clowes, Mary Collins, Melinda Colston, Mary Cranan. Agnes ML Davison, Mary A. Davison, Ann Dillon, Kate Dillon, Kate Donahue, Sarah DonnelL, Mary Donnelly, Magdalene Douglas, Mary A. Dripps, Catherine Dugan, Nancy Fleming, Catherine Foley, Susan Fritchley, Sarah PREPARETO OPEN Improvement of Poor Ready for Summer Work. Preparations are being made for the opening of the Oakmont summer home of the Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor.

A corps of workmen will be put on the grounds within a few days to clean up the accumulation of the winter and get the big open air place in readiness for the coming of the women and children who have found rest and recreation away from the city during the hot weather for the past several years. Harry W. Shepard, general manager of the association, already has scores of applications from mothers who desire to take their kiddies into the country for a few weeks during the summer and it is expected this will be the greatest season the home has ever had. The annual spring appeal for funds with which to conduct the home is now being made and with the prospects pf more persons to be cared for this year than before, the officials of the association are urging more generous contributions than heretofore. No definite date has been set for the opening of the summer place, but the first "family" will probably be sent out early in June.

titude toward Mother's day, that radio privilege is cheerfully extended by the signal corps. And mother can answer simply by mailing that reply to the Presidio of San Francisco, where it will span the ether to her boy's station. Special measures are under way at all the Army posts, both throughout the United States and overseas, to bring the approach of Mother's Day home to every soldier of the command. Commanding officers take an active interest in seeing that facilities are available and encourage programs for, building up interest in the event. An index to the soldier's participation in Mother's Day observance is the degree to which post exchange officers, wise beyond belief in the yearnings of the soldier-man, plunge at this time each year in the purchase of various articles likely to appeal to mothers.

Gaily colored and elaborately fitted sewing baskets adorn most exchanges. There are warm, soft shawls, stockings not too sheer, and a surprising assortment of picture frames, out of which the soldier of the family will eventually smile from the mantelpiece. As a theme of those soldier poets whose contributions brighten the mimeographed pages of the post weekly. Mother's Day Is just now coming in for considerable space. Editorials, too, appear in these papers stressing the number of days remaining before a letter should be dropped in the post RADIO SALUTETO MOTHER SENT BY MEN DN ARMY garet A.

Turney. All Is Not Gold Special to The Pittsburgh Press. Kent, May 12. Dreams of George Kruger, Cherry st. gold prospector of Kent, have been shattered and his castle of riches has crumpled.

When Kruger found the little nugget of ore resembling gold while digging in his back yard he had visions of limitless wealth, gilded castles and painted ships. Experts have told him what skeptical friends had said long ago that his "find" was "fool's gold," nothing more than iron sulphate. "Oh, I had a lot of fun pretending," said Kruger as he gave a disgusted kick to the little "dream nugget." FISHER AND WORK MISS DEDICATION Governor and Secretary Unable to Attend Indiana Service. By The United Press. Indiana, May 12.

Governor John S. Fisher and Secretary of Interior Hubert C. Work, scheduled to speak here this afternoon at the dedication of a new $250,000 gymnasium at the State Normal school, were unable to attend the ceremonies. To promote interest in Mother's Day, many chaplains find means to furnish special stationery, which is distributed through barracks for use of soldiers at no cost. It is the chaplain who plans Mother's Day programs of songs and a talk or two for the post auditorium.

In Mother's Day broadcasting exercises at many of the pig stations, regimental bands from nearby posts provide an added note of melody. IN THE view of higher army officers. Mother's Day assumes major importance because of the fact, little realized by the general public that large numbers of soldiers of the Army of today are not far beyond boyhood days. Indeed, a high percentage of recruits enlisting fall between the ages of 18 and 21, and come into the army because their mothers believe the training will shape their growth and therefore give their written consent to the enlistment. It is to these youngsters that one is likely to overbear some grizzled old sergeant addressing a shrewdly considered word during a lull in barracks these days.

Out of his ripe wordly knowledge the sergeant will make it a point to see that every man in his charge will have his chance to learn Just why hell feel better, sleep better, soldier better, and generally play a man's part in life better if he doesn't overlook writing home that letter to mnthr on Mother's Day. Special to The Pittsburgh Press. WASHINGTON, May 12. There's one band of mothers who this Mother's day will not smilingly behold son sporting a red carnation for a boutonniere as his tribute of love. These are the army mothers, with sons off with the far-flung regular army forces in Panama or Alaska or along the Texas border, perhaps in the Philippines or Hawaii or even China.

A pity? Nothing of the kind! For soldiers of the regular army pride themselves in not allowing a little thing like a mere ocean or some continent to d'r" the happiness of mothers loyal and brave enough to let son do his hitch. with the colors when asked to. And army mothers will certainly thrill to every last tingle of joy that other mothers feel when receiving tokens and tributes at first hand if plans for Mother's day in all garrisons of the army are any indication. Within the army ranks it is no exaggeration to say that there is no other occasion, not even Christmas, when sweethearts and others must share in the soldier's fund of devotion, which stirs the army man to such earnest worship nor results in so much feverish but well-meant activity. Both to the soldier and his commanding officer.

Mother's day has become one of the army's red letter days. THE secretary of war has issued instructions to the chiefs of all war department branches and bureaus, the commanding generals of all corps areas and departments, the commanding general. United States forces in China and the commanding officers of all exempted stations that he desires that each officer and enlisted man of their commands write a letter to his home on Mother's day as an expression of love and reverence to the mothers of the country. For the mother with a son serving across the Pacific, nothing less than a personal radiogram will do as her Mother's day remembrance. Thousands of these overseas radio greetings will be flashed 'from the Islands and from Hawaii.

It has been arranged already that every soldier in these commands will have the privilege of radioing home without charge. THAT army mothers may enjoy the distinction of receiving a radiogram and not an ordinary letter, soldiers of the signal corps will volunteer to serve as operators during their off -hours to keep the flow of Mother's day greetings traveling at a high rate of speed. From every camp and station throughout both the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands the Mother's day messages will be sent to department headquarters, at either Fort Santiago, Manila or Fort Shafter, Honolulu. Directly across the Pacific to the Presidio of San Francisco they will then be radioed. It is typical of the army's at ly held by the.