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The Pittsburgh Press FINANCIAL NEWS CLASSIFIED TWO SECTIONS SECTION TWO PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931 PAGE 25. Workmen Cut Up Old Span WOMEN'S PAGES SOCIETY MAGAZINE They Picked the Six Most Beautiful Women of the Talkies SEXY COLLEGE SINK BRIDGE 1 LIFE ASSAILED BY EDUCATOR IN RIVER, CUT IT UPBY FIRE Workmen Break Up Submerged Span to Make Way for New Structure Pitkin Says 'Giggling Co- LJiMu UU Lihx-J CHANNEL IS BLOCKED Hundreds Watch as Jacks Slide Huge Beams Into Water Edward Sutherland a under Charlie Chaplin and has wielded the megaphone on several of Clara Bow's and Jack Oakie's most popular films. Allan Dwan A veteran from the early days who has made many great pictures, dividing his time between directing, acting and writing; now an ace of Fox George Fit zmaurice Directed many Ronald Colman-Vilma Banky films and has the reputa-tion of never directing a bad picture; now directing Colman in "The Unholy Garden." Mervyn LeRoy The "boy director" who startled the industry with "Harold Teen;" has since directed such successes as "Little Caesar," "Gentleman's Fate" and "Five Star Final." Left to right, Mack Sennett won fame as a connoisseur of feminine beauty with his celebrated bathing beauties, and has since made stars out of many girls. Josef von Sternberg Discovered and brought to America Marlene Dietrich; directed "Underworld," "Morocco," "The Blue Angel," "Dishonored" and "An Ajnerican Tragedy." Here are the six noted directors who comprise the NEA Service-The Pittsburgh Press board that has selected "The Six Most Beautiful Women of the Talkies." Each director submitted his choice of the six outstanding beauties. Then the six actresses receiving the highest number of votes were declared the most beautiful.

Marlene Dietrich Selected As One Of Six Film Beauties 7 WorKman witn acetylene torcnes today started cutting up the north span of the old South Tenth Street Bridge which was lowered into the Monongahela River yesterday during razing operations. A new suspension bridge will replace the old structure. BIRTH CONTROL FACES BAPTISTS Rhode Island Leaders Assail Federal Church Council By The United Fre KANSAS Mo. Birth control, which has incited religious circles the world over, faces action by the North Baptist Convention today as a five-day session was opened. The board or managers of the Rhode Island State Baptist Convention passed a resolution attacking the Federal Council of Churches for "issuing statements purporting to represent between 20.000,000 and 25,000,000 Protestant Christians regarding birth control.

"Many Baptists," the resolution continued, "find it obnoxious to have it claimed that the documents published by the Federal Council represent opinion of churches or individual Baptists." The measure asked the convention and the church's executive committee "to take cognizance of the resolution with reference to relations between the convention and the Federal Council." Delegates from 34 states and several foreign countries are registered. Victim of Poison Dies Mrs. Katherine Moschell, 27, of 1900 block Fox Way, died in South Side Hospital last night from poison tablets she swallowed in her home yesterday. Reports to the coroner blamed ill health. Verse or tsm, Acetylene torch burners were at work today on the steel superstructure of the old South Tenth Street Bridge, cutting it to pieces to be hauled away and scrapped.

The north span of the bridge was slid into the Monongahela River yesterday as contractors continued their 'razing program to make way for a new $1,900,000 structure. Hundreds of motorists stopped along the Boulevard of the Allies and Second Avenue last night and today to view the structure, half submerged. Crowds Watch Work Crowds collected as the acetylene torch burners began to cut up the steel beams. The heavy braces will be cut at the water line and loaded on barges. The steel below the water will be hauled out by derricks.

The giant span, weighing 800 tons, was skidded into the river by four men, manipulating huge jacks located on the stone pier in the middle of the river. The extreme north end of the span had previously been removed in sections, and the span, 450 feet long, was held in place by arch bars. Acetylene torches nipped th supports in mid-river and jaclw slid the structure off the pier. Span Falls 2 Feet The span fell about 20 feet from the pier, landing "just where we wanted it to," according to Herman Tuch, sub-contractor for Vang Construction Company, general contractor. Harry G.

Quail, superintendent, said removal of the old steel will take a week to 10 days. As rapidly as top sections are severed the bottom pieces will be hauled out and loaded on barges. The scrap steel will be moved across the river to South Twenty-seventh Street and heaped on freight cars. The operation yesterday, Quail explained, while it involved painstaking engineering, is an improvement over the more dangerous and difficult method of jacking the bridge structure up and rolling it onto the shore. The contractor obtained permission from government engineers to temporarily block the north channel of the river while the steel is being removed.

Nap Costs Freedom PORTLAND, Ore. It's quite a different life that a 300-pound sea lion is living in his fresh water pool at the Portland Zoo than when he flipped in the restless seas around Newport, Ore. But it's the old fellow's fault. He napped on the beach i at Newport when the tide went out. Worse Vi The sea-going pootch! Did they 4 Eds; and 'Futile Youths' Scorn Studies BOOK FLAYS 'NECKING' Columbia Professor Charges Love Making Is Principal Activity Bright girls "giggling their sexy way through college," and clever boys receiving sheep-skins after "four years of necking parties," prov sex the predominant interest of many college students, according to Professor Walter B.

Pitkin of Columbia University. Especially is that truVe of co-educational institutions, Professor Pitkin contends. He said this distraction from studies goes a long way to explain the "tremendous time allowed for the learning of a college course." "Many college students waste four years simply because they cannot keep their minds off sex lures," Professor Pitkin says in his new book, "The Art of Learning." published today by Whittlesey House, New York. "In co-educational schools this is at its worst." Scholarship Low Productive scholarship in co-educational schools is low, he claims "even contemptible at times." Social advantages gained from throwing impetuous youths and maids together, he believes, "probably do not outweigh the intellectual stunting." "Many a bright girl," the professor has it figured out, "giggles her sexy way through college, learning less than a decimal of what she might but for her flirting and erotic fidgets. "Many a clever boy receives his sheep-skin after four years of futility and necking parties during which he has not even learned how to be a wholesome male." Adults Praised So far as actual learning is concerned.

Professor-Pitkin holds adults learn better than college students. He believes students who spend four years in college cover no more ground than "a fairly zealous and able person or 30 or 40 might complete, even more thoroughly, in five or six months of sustained study." The latter years of high school and the entire college period he terms the poorest of all for learning. Children learn best, he contends. "Rapid sexual development' thwarts the learner, especially between the sixteenth and twenty-first years," Professor Pitkin says. "The law of cupid, who steals so much of the youthful learners' mental concentration, is 'Never think Obey that impulse'." TUNNEY REVEALS GOAL IN PARAGRAPH Cites Last of Book When Questioned on Future By Thp Inilrd Tress mpw n-.

7- 7. ,7 p-hv-jiv-c ia apparently ine goal of Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion, just returned from abroad. When asked what he was going to do now, he said the answer could be found in the final paragraph of James K. Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The end of the book, in diary form, reads: April 26. Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order.

She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. "Welcome, life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to enforce irijthe smithy of my souUthe uncreated conscience of my race. "April 27.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead." PRINCESS ELIZABETH 'CALLS' QUEEN MARY. Rebuke Registers, Too, and Visitors Join in Ball Game By The L'nited Press LONDON It isn't a daily custom in London to rebuke Queen Mary. However, little Princess Elizabeth felt her grandmother needed it. The incident occurred when three prominent women were invited by Queen Mary to tea, after which the Princess walked in. All joined in a game of ball, but the conversation soon turned to figures and statistics.

After a few moments the Princess approached the Queen and said: "Please don't talk serious, grand-mama, when it is my play time." This remark, it is said, had the necessary effect, and the game of ball was resumed with renewed vigor. watching the burglar creep across the room, remove her purse which contained $37 and vanish through the She finished the hand, taking four spade tricks. Then she arose without a word and searched the room to be sur the burglar had vanished. I wasn't until then that she told tt other rjlajrers. GIRL 18.

PUT IN MORGUE Regains Consciousness After Being Pronounced 'Dead' By Doctor By The Cnlted Pre NEW YORK Miss Ivy Rogers. 18 fainted Jn the Grand Central Term inal, was pronounced "dead" by a physician and regained conscious ness on a marble slab in the tem porary morgue at the station. Her screams roused attendants who released her. Today she was recovering from shock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Richard W. Rogers, ureenwicn, conn. "She was on her way to catch the train, for home," the girl's mother said, "when she fainted. Some at tendants ran to her side and a doc tor was called. He examined her and pronounced her dead." Screams Bring Aid The linal has an emergency hospit'' temporary morgue attache -o it.

Miss Rogers was carried ato the morgue, her mother said, and laid out on a cold slab. Then the door was closed. "The cold air." Mrs. Rogers said, "revived Ivy and she was terrified to find herself in the place, which was totally dark and without ventilation. She jumped up and ran to the door.

She hammered on it and screamed. When an attendant finally unlocked the door she ran. half crazed and screaming, through the station." Sergeant Scully of the Greenwich police, said he received a telephone call from New York. "A man told me he was a doctor at the Grand Central and that he wanted to report a death to me." Scully said. "He said Miss Rogers had died in the terminal and that I should notify her parents.

I called them up and told them she was Learn Girl Is Alive It was not until later, according to Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, that they learned their daughter was alive. Officials of the New York Central Railroad, on which she was a regular commuter, declined to discuss the case today, as did persons at- tached to the terminal hospital. A nurse at the latter place admitted Miss Rogers received treatment there and that, though she at first was thought dead, she revived and went home.

The girl said she had fainted and that when she revived in the temporary morgue she poumied to at tract attention. "Finally a watchman came," she said. "He seemed to be even more surprised than I was frightened. I was told I had been regarded as 'dead' but here I am; I'm all right." POLICE GET ROBBER, HIDING IN THEATER 51,830 and Toy Gun Taken From Suspect Just After Bank Holdup By The Inited Press SAN FRANCISCO For the second time in a month, a bank robber was caught at a bus intersection yesterday. He gave his name as John O'Shaughnessy, of San Diego, and officers took from him $1,850 that had been stolen from the Humboldt Branch of the Bank of America only a few minutes before.

O'Shaughnessy purchased a tick et and entered a theater a block from the bank. Officers followed, ordered all lights turned on and ar rested him when he was pointed out by the teller of the bank. He had a toy pistol made of glass. DRINKING ON WANE, SAYS JANE ADDAMS And Her Reason There's Less Rum Available Now Than in Wet Era By The I'nited Pres NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, be lieves there is less drinking now than in pre-prohibition days. "The same amount of liquor." she said in a speech here, "cannot possibly be obtained now. and it stands to reason that therefore there is less drinking." I Marlene Prisoner and Bride Set Up Housekeeping in Jail Court Room Is Wedding Chamber for 'Blondy' and Girl; Wife Becomes Cook and Mate Trusty Directors Chose Blond Ger man Actress in Vote on Hollywood Stars EDITOR'S XOTE: This is the first of a series of stories revealing "The Six Most Beautiful "Women of the Talkies" as chosen by a committee of Holly-vood's famous directors for XEA Service and The Pittsburgh Press and telling the story of each. By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD are the talkies' six most beautiful women? Ever since the motion picture in dustry began the battle over beautyH has raged merrily in Hollywood, where the most beautiful women in the world are assembled. Numerous girls have been presented for beauty honors, but seldom has it been possible to get even any two "experts" to agree on a certain one.

The greatest difficulty in making a selection is to determine exactly what constitutes beauty. Should physical features alone be considered, or should personality, disposition and ability to wear clothes enter in? The decision is always a hard one. But NEA Service and The Pittsburgh Press wanted "The Six Most Beautiful Women of the Talkies" selected and now this has been done with the aid of a special board of judges composed of six of Hollywood's most noted directors, each on unquestioned judge of beauty. Directors-Judges The famous directors on the NEA Service-The Pittsburgh Press board are: Mack Sennett, Josef von Sternberg, George Fitzmaurice, Mervyn LeRoy. Edward Sutherland and Allan Dwan.

Each submitted his choice of the six outstanding beauties, then the six girls receiving the highest number of votes were declared "elected." Marlene Dietrich! This blond German actress Is the first beauty, not because the judges decreed her "the most beautiful of the six" (they certainly weren't rash enough to attempt any such distinc tions as between the six!) but merely because the story of somebody has to be told first. "Another Garbo!" was the word passed around when Miss Dietrich arrived in Hollywood from Germany, Everyone immediately started comparing her with this mysterious and aloof Greta. In the opinion of this writer such a comparison was en tirely unwarranted. While each is a great actress, they are entirely different both from a standpoint of appearance and personality. Little Comparison They are no more to be compared than are Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, both comedians but how totally different.

Marlene is a discovery of Josef von Sternberg at least insofar as America is concerned. She played opposite Emil Jannings in "The Blue Angel," which he went to Germany to direct. In her he saw a great and beautiful dramatic actress who could inject a note of humor at just the proper moment. With a five-year contract she came to this country to reap fame and riches such as she never had known in Germany. There is in our opinion only one way in which the Misses Dietrich and Garbo can be likened both shun publicity.

But they have different reasons for doing so. To Garbo it is purely business. Largely because it is impossible for a newspaper of magazine writer to see her she has remained "good copy" all these years. Talked of Daughter For a short time after Marlene arrived here she faved interviewers almost every day. And her conversation with them centered chiefly around the young daughter whom she left in Germany with her husband.

"Please don't talk so much about your daughter it is bad publicity," admonished studio representatives. "All right, if I can't talk about my baby I won't talk at all." replied the actress. And she has stuck to that. I doubt if any actress ever attained stardom as quickly as Marlene Dietrich. One' picture was all she needed.

Immediately after her arrival she was cast in "Morocco," co-featured with Gary Cooper and Adolph Men-jou. Unknown and unseen by the American public prior to that picture, she became an instant box-office hit and was starred in her second production, "Dishonored." Flier's Injuries Fatal GALVESTON. Tex. Injuries received when his airplane crashed near the Municipal Airport were fatal yesterday for L. J.

Conway, 23, cadet flier from Brooks Field, Words by Charley Johnson Music by Ralph Reichhold I Dare Wherein Capital Punishment Is Considered by Readers By FLORENCE FISHER PARRY THE FOLLOWING letters appeal to me as stating vigorous views on capital punishment. "Dear Mrs. Parry: "I read your editorial of May 27 on capital punishment. It interested me to get your slant on this much debated subject. I have for years been fighting the system of state killing.

"Your article interested me because you are usually quite a consistent Mrs. Parry thinker. But in this article you plead for more capital punishment to stop murder, and yet say. 'But let it in Heaven's name be quiet, unexploited and But if capital punishment is to stop murder it must be made public and exploited. "The fact is, Mrs.

Parry, capital punLshment does not as a whole deter murder. If you are interested in this angle get 'Capital PunLshment in the Twentieth by E. Roy Calvert, and see the data from an English standpoint. States and nations without capital punish ment have as good or better record on the murder score, than those which have it. Dr.

Calvert says that in no single instance has there been a permanent increase in murder after capital punishment has been established; generally there has been a decrease. "As you study the hLstory of capital punishment you see it has come down from hundreds of causes for putting people to death, now to about three or four. It Is the progress of the ages. In time we will get away from this hangover of the barbaric ages. The time will come when after-ages will wonder at our capital punishment mania with as much awe as we do at witch burning.

Murder is often the result of social conditions. Rather than impose such social conditions we permit them to exist, cry 'Put the murderer to death." and then we try to wash our hands of the guilt by saying, 'Let us be merciful in our method of "Instead of capital punishment we need 'certainty of conviction and celerity ot court somewhat as our present District Attorney Park has given us, and a closer study cf the problem or parole and parpen. But in Heaven's name let Fuch elear-visioned persons as yourself take the advanced stand that this anachronistic, stupid thing of killing people to solve social problems be kicked on the scrap heap of Giscarded methods now and forever." G. E. SWOYER, Pastor Mt.

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, N. S. Pittsburgh. Electrocutions Are Horrible t-vEAR MRS. PARRY: YJ "While reading your article en the electric chair in today's Pittsburgh Press, I certainly want to agree with you in dealing with the murderer mercifully.

"I have led no less than five men to the electric chair at Columbus in the last year, and was present at the death of Dr. Snook of the Ohio State University. In acting as niritual adviser to these men. I was v-ith them to the last moment and Ttood by the side of the chair, at which position it was possible to ree their faces draw in agony. with Mr.

Edison, believe it is jnst Lke thousands of pins and needles (Continued on Page 38) cETcREAjyTDEnEsTir 4 000 Gallons Survive Although Flames Char Refrigerators LON'G BEACH. which cwept the plant of the Pacific Ice Cream yesterday failed to harm 4.000 gallons of ice cream, hut did $20,000 damage. The ice cream was stored in two refrigerators, the exteriors of which were charred. 11111 NEWS ITEM From th Press HAVRE, France Texas Guinan and her troupe of dancing girls have been ordered to leave France by 1 p. m.

Wednesday. "Hello there, suckers," shouted Tex. "Goodbye, Tex," answered France. "Aw, brush the hayseed off your necks And give us girls a chance!" But France ruled "No!" So Tex and pals Are bound elsewhere right now. Have they a kick? France gave the gals A hand and where! And howl NEWS ITEM From The TreM WASHINGTON An 18-inch snapping turtle smoking a cigar tied up downtown traffic when it strolled across an intersection.

Dietrich zens, he was sentenced to a term In "jail on a bootlegging charge. But the sentence did not discourage Miss Bennett. They were married, in the county jail by Peace Justice Roy Connor, who gave the newlyweds an exclusive key to the courtroom as a wedding present. Sheriff Pete W. Kinney then ordered a bed and other furniture moved into the room and the couple set up housekeeping.

Christian was made a trusty, and his bride became the chief cook at the jail. "Blondy" forgot bootlegging in his enjoyment of his bride's biscuits. His bride also cooked the meals for her "family," consisting of three other prisoners. Every evening, when "Blondy" had carefully locked (he other three up for the night, and Helen had scraped and polished the last dish, the honeymooners walked up the steps to their courtroom bed chamber. WOMAN GETS AWARD FOR 'SHELL-SHOCK' Injuries in Blast Win Compensation for Tamaqua Victim By The Lnited Pre Mrs.

Mary Allison, Tamaqua, has been granted compensation for total disability due to "shell shock" such as many veterans of the World War suffered. Although Mrs. Allison was never near a battlefront, she claimed "shell shock" for the nervous condi tion which developed following an explosion of dynamite caps at the Atlas Powder Company plant here in 1927. She lost an eye, suffered hand in juries and developed the "shell shocked" condition following the ex plosion, she claimed. BOY HIT BY TAXI Driver Released on $50 Forfeit for Reckless Driving Floyd Franks, 13, of 300 block Lombard Street, was struck by a taxicab at Fifth Avenue and Din-widdie Street today.

He was taken to Mercy Hospital with injuries on the body and face. Joseph Mancuso, driver, was ar rested lor reckless driving and re leased on a $50 forfeit. i A CIGAR-SMOKING turtle? see such, or was it just Washington hooch? We've a friend who admits he's seen odd-colored creatures pink monkeys and rhinos with green-tinted features. By The Cnited Pri HILLSBORO, N. M.

A court room off or the county jail was the strange bridal chamber of "Blondy" and his wife. "Blondy" is J. A. unristian, 29. His bride was the former Helen Bennett, 21.

After Christian was acquitted of liquor conspiracy charges in cases brought against a number of Hot Springs, N. citi- CLAIMS ICE SELLS WITHOUT BEER'S AID 'Baron Tells Judge Chicago Disgusts Him, Detroit Is 'Swell By The Lnited frfs CHICAGO Frankie Lake, alleged beer baron, told Judge Joseph Bor-relli he became so disgusted with Chicago he moved to Detroit, "a swell town." Lake quit as a city fireman when prohibition went into effect, and wjth Terry Druggan as partner, police said he was the first to make a million dollars out of the beer racket. "I'm in the ice business over there, your honor," he said, "and I don't mind telling you my ice is so good I don't handle any beer to get rid of it either. This charge is a joke." "This charge" was vagrancy. Judge Borrelli severely criticized police, telling the prosecutors and officers they had arrested a man first and then started to look for evidence.

He freed Lake. 10 BURNED, 'HUMAN TORCH' SAVES OTHERS 2 Blasts Rock Ford Plant in Texas; Flames Quelled By The Press DALLAS, Tex. Ten men were burned yesterday when two explosions shook the Ford Motor plant. The blasts, 15 minutes apart, workmen said were caused by gasoline leakage that was ignited by a spark. The second explosion shot flames over a crew of workmen who were clearing up derbis of the earlier blast.

W. L. Corey, burned in the first explosion, saved other workmen when, with his clothing ablaze, he ran through the building to spread an alarm. Fire followed the second blast but extinguished. TjE'S SEEN checkerboard elephants, striped and nice dashing il into the clothes closet, chased by red mice.

"I've seen many queer beasts they don't have in the zoo, but when turtles pulf stogies," he told us, "I'm through!" NEWS ITEM from The Pre DIJON, France Touring American mayors were scheduled to visit Burgundy vineyards here. Drj's, lead by Mayor John H. Porter of Los Angeles, objected. To keep peace the others gave in and the party inspected a gingerbread factory. Girl Bridge Fan Plays On, Mum As Thief Robs Her In vain officials labor there With California's Porter, fn vain they beg and threaten, dare The mayor to hoist a snorter.

We've heard about Pacific vines And California juices. The French are known for rare old wines. Here's what a bard deduces: Home industry's entrenched before The French redoubt of sport! Is it California's Porter or Just California's Port? By The Ceited Press OMaAa, Neb. Miss Dorothy Cohen, an ardent bridge devotee, was in the midst of an exciting game when she saw a burglar crawl into the room through a window. Bridge jstiquet under such circumstances is not clearly defined.

Miss Cohen, however, calmly tools trick, while i i a K1.