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ft 1 be WEATHER Fair and warmer today and Sunday VOLUME 49; No. 91 16 PAGES. PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1932 Entered ma mcand-claM matter Postoffice. PitUburh 1 1 Ki Tl 71 Football Extra PRICE THREE CENTS tag MOT tp fin LnJ A JV Today Opposing Schools in Opening Game of 1 932 Season at Pitt Stadium I PAIB BIG FAVORITES CI FIRST BATTLE No Soft Spots Left in Re REPRISAL FEAR BALKS VOLPE DEATH PRQBE Four Eyewitnesses Fail to Name Spinello Aides to Coroner's Jury WOMAN IS HIDDEN Photo Shown Under Protest; Bystander Says She Knows Nothing Fear of underworld ven-glance today was blamed for balking efforts of a Coroner's jury to learn the identities of two of the three gunmen who V36.

Ns fir 4 THE PITT TEAM i few; i i -T 1 From left to right Skladany, Hoel, Onder, Tormey, Hartwig, Cuba, Dailey. Back row Hogan 1w 7 rA X-TT-jf (back of center), Reider C), Brown. Back row Diamond, 1 THE-OHIO NORTHERN TEAM From left to right Rogers, Milburn, Patterson (C), Shipe, Robert if' 1 I .1 i 4" KM i 'I i I i I Lineup and PITT U. S. Bares Lodge's 'Lottery Profits Coyne Will Probe Vote Reg is tr a tion No.

Wt. Name Position 11 (162) Daily L.E.. 23 (200) Cuba L.T.. 14 (174) Ormiston or 26 (184) Hartwig 15 (179) Tormey 16 (190) Onder 17 (193) Hoel mainder of Season's Back-Breaking Schedule HELLER ON SIDELINES Reider's Running Mate Given Extra Week to Recover From Injuries By CHESTER L. SMITH Sports Editor will get its first look at the Pitt football team that "has to be good" when the Panthers meet Ohio Northern at the Stadium this afternoon in a game that rates as little more than a warmup.

A crowd which may run between 5,000 and 10,000 persons was expect- ed to attend the season opener, which will serve to put the Blue and Gold on edge for the back-breaking schedule which follows. There is not a single letdown for Captain Paul Reider and his players for the remainder of the season. They must face on successive Saturdays, West Virginia. Duquesne, Army, Ohio State, Notre Dame. Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Carnegie Tech apd Stanford.

This afternoon's match with the Polar Bears from is counted on by Dr. Jock Sutherland, the Pitt coach, to enable him to try out his first, second and third elevens. Cap-, tain Reider and his varsity mates fwi te orr-therfleTdt they probably will not remain in action long. New Line to Perform The only two men counted as first-string starters who will not play are Ken Ormiston, sophomore guard, and Warren Heller, Reider's brilliant running mate at halfback. Both are recovering from injuries received at training camp and while either could be used if necessary.

Dr. Sutherland is inclined to give them another week's fest. There will he more interest in the opener than is usually the case because it will mark the first appearance of the new rushline that has been pieced together to take the place, of the seven veterans of last season, all of whom were graduated in June. They were Captain Hirschberg and Collins, ends; Quatse and MacMur-do, tackles; Morris and Milligan, guards, and Daugherty, center. This line won the reputation of being one of the strongest in Pitt's history, and how well the coaches have succeeded in replacing it is question of vital interest to Panther followers.

Dr. Sutherland probably will start Ted Daily and Muggsy Skladany, substitutes last season, at the wings; with Cuba, another holdover, and Hoel, an Evanston, sophomore, at the tackles: Ted Hartwig and Tor Onder at guards, and Ted Tormey, Daugherty's understudy in '31, at center. Hogan at Quarterback With Heller on the sidelines, Nick Nicksick, Burgettstown sophomore, likely will be at the vacated halfback post opposite Captain Reider, with Hogan at quarterback and a sophomore, Weinstock, at fullback. In view of the recent illness of John Luch, the regular fullback and the threat that he may not be able to take his regular place, the per- lormances of Weinstock and Henry Weisenbaugh, both recruits from the freshman squad of last year, will be watched with interest. Ohio Northern will be outweighed many pounds both in the line and backfield, the heaviest man on the starting eleven being Bob Roberts, the right tackle, who goes 180 pounds.

Joe Uhl, at fullback, a Sharon boy, is the only Western Pennsylvanian on the first eleven, al though Kenneth Dunn of Pittsburgh, an -end, doubtless will get into the game. Comparatively minor games throughout the country serve to open the campaign for a majority of the colleges. Grove City Meets Gletoville In the district, Grove City meets Glenville at Grove City; Thiel and Morris-Harvey of West Virginia play at Greenville and Westminster, defeated by Duquesne in the inaugural last week, takes on Slippery Rock. Major eastern schools which break away from the barrier are Colgate vs. St.

Lawrence, Columbia vs. Mid-dlebury, Cornell vs. Buffalo, Dartmouth vs. Norwich, Holy Cross vs. New River Teachers and Syracuse vs.

Clarkson. Chicago, alone of the Western Conference teams, gets into action, meeting Monmouth. In the Far West the California-Santa Clara game overshadows all others, with Stanford battling San Francisco and Southern California entertaining Utah. Alabama, Tennessee, Duke. Kentucky, North Carolina and Vander-bilt play in the South, engaging in games of little or no significance.

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Hedderley, ex-cabinet member admitted the case in point, without comment. Sensation Is Sprung The sensation of yesterday's hearing in Federal court came when Jacob Heffler. sDeciaKaeent. of the Department oi Justice, testified that in examining books of the Propagation Department he found a check signed by Theodore Miller, depart ment head, indorsed by Fred W. Jones, Davis' alleged fiscal agent, and marked "pay to the order of James J.

Davis." Heffler admitted that he did not know whether the check might have been a payment to Davis for debs owed rum by Miller. Senator Davis, who denies the government's assertion that he personally profited by about $173,000 from the alleged lotteries or that he knew lotteries were conducted, saw the introduction in evidence of a contract between Miller and Bernard C. McGuire, a promoter, which said Davis had been consulted on the activities of the Propagation Department. Under the contract McGuire was to receive a $200 a week drawing account and one-third of the department's profits. Tickets Traced to Pittsburgh Shortly before, Louis Mead Tread- well, Federal prosecutor, had presented a -eceipt for a book of tickets entitling Davis to chances on a 000 cash prize awarded in 1931; The book had been addresed to him at 1110 Farmers Bank Building, Pitts burgh, and the receipt was signed by Jones.

The tickets read: "Mooseheart Charity Ball. Free $50,000 given away Free. Moose heart Dividend of Happiness and Good Cheer." A list of prizes, ranging from $100 to $20,000, is printed on One back of each ticket. The government holds that anyone seeing the tickets would be aware that the event constituted a lottery, while the defense contends that there is no evidence that Davis ever saw these tickets. Editor Admits Caution However.

Donald F. Stewart, edi tor of the Moose Magazine, admitted that he did: not print stories of Moose Charity Ball drawings in the publication because he feared possible violation of the postal laws. "As an "experienced editor," he said, he thought "it was better to be extremely careful because of postal regulations on use of the mails." Heffler said Me found three other checks totaling $100,000 made out by the Propagation Department to the Organization Department. Davis is head of the latter department and Jones is it secretary and treasurer. In its six bank accounts the department had on deposit (Continued on Page 2) 18 (184) Skladany 19 (190) Hdgan 41 (165) Nicksick, 47 (160) O'Dell or Simms Reider 48 (165) Simms 10 (156) Reider -V--V; 7 i VM JP-' -p, Numbers OHIO NORTHERN Name Wt.

No. Regers (170) 6 Milburn, (180) 24 (C) Patterson (175) 17 Cornmester (175) 14 Snipe (185) 21 Roberts (180) 13 Brown (155)- 8 Uhl (165) 9 No. Name. Pos. 41 Michael 42 Matesic 43 Weisenbaugh 44 Hasson FB 45 Mungas 46 Kliskey 49 Stark 50 Shindehutte 51 Arthur Craft 54 Kleinburg 55 Sekay 56.

Ruff QB- 57 Balasia 58 Gelini 60 Oleojnizak 52 Tiernan 59 Hamel Wt. (165) (180) (169) (189). (1N (190) (170) (179) (180) (160) (168) (165) (170) (190) (170) (168) Substitutes No. Name. Pos.

59-. Elder 7 Riefsnyder 3 Shaffer 20 Watts 16 Baker 25 Ayres J9 Studer (175) (150) (175) (190) (170) -(175) (160) I GIRL SEEKS BALM FROM BROKER Says He Proposed, Then Refused to Marry Her By The United Press KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24 Miss Lillie Culver of St. Louis, formerly of Kansas City, filed a $25,000 breach of promise suit here yesterday against S. J.

Brown, Great Falls. broker. The suit charged Miss Culver accepted a marriage proposal' from Brown and he since has refused to marry her. A killed John, James and Arthur Volpe, Wilmerding racketeers who bossed the Pittsburgh liquor and alcohol rackets. Giuseppe (Big Mike) Spinello, sought by police since the triple slaying on July 29, was- named by the jury yesterday as one of the killers on the strength of "delayed" testimony of a mysterious woman eyewitness whom, police admitted, they did not dare produce at the inquest.

But the name of no other suspect passed fear-sealed lips of four eyewitnesses who did take the stand, nor were homicide detectives able to produce clues as to the identity of two other gunmen alleged to have assisted Spinello in the massacre at a Wylie Avenue coffee shop. Jury Sees Photo Under Protest Even the picture of the woman who Homicide Lieutenant Ferris said had identified Spinello as the leader of le killers, was guarded carefully and only shown to the jury under protest. "Ferris said the mystery woman had been talking to Spinello in front of the coffee shop just before the shooting and that later she had identified his picture in the police headquarters files. Coroner W. J.

McGregor, showed Spinello's picture to each of the eyewitnesses. Although one said he had known Spinello, none was willing to say the picture was that of the alleged killer. Antoinette Ferrara Ali, of 102 Elm Street, who was so close to the shooting that a bullet just missed her, told the. Coroner she had fainted at the sound of the first shot and therefore could give no information. Negro Tells of Flight Ralph Mellis, a Negro, of 713 Gearing Avenue, said he had been so frightened by the sound of the shots that he had run all the way to the garage where he works, ar- i riving on time for the first time in months.

Sam La kin. a convicted bootlegger of 4625 Bayard Street, admitted he was an eyewitness to the killing, but said he had not known the Volpes well, denied ever having met Spinello, and refused flatly to identify his picture. A witness who it had been expected would be able to identify the (Continued on Page 2) Wilkinsburg Has Battle of Tomatoes The Battle of the Tomatoes was fought to a squashy finish at Penn and Center Avenues, Wilkinsburg, by rival gangs of about 400 students from Wilkinsburg and Westinghouse high schools last night. The affray was in keeping with a tradition that on the night before football activities students shall show that- they are prepared to support their warriors even to the extent of receiving a rotten egg in the face for the dear old school. As the two groups drew up in battle array in Wilkinsburg's main thoroughfare and laid down a barrage of missiles, several passing cars became targets and police were called.

A dozen youths were taken to the station, where they were kept a few hours until their ardor cooled, then released. IMPORTANT FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES Page 4 25 7 16 Comics Editorials -T. Fifty Years of Fun. Finance I Dare Say. Jig-Saw Contest 16 Joe Williams Mr.

'Fixit Mrs. Howe New York Inside Out Paris Fashions Proverb Contest Tiadio News. Programs 10 6 3 5 3 6 5 Seckatary Hawkins 15 Show Shops Side Glances Society arwirt-; 5 16 3 9-10 Btory of Sue 3 Theaters The Wrong Wife 1 Village Smithy Vital Statistics What's in Fashion 3 Porosky (165) 18 R. H4 Diamond (168). 4 32 (186) Weinstock Hedderley (180) 23 Average weight, lines Pitt, 184: Ohio Northern, 17 S.

Average weight, backfields Pitt 174, Ohio Northern 169. Average team weights Pitt 180, Ohio Northern 12y2. Referee W. Friesell, Princeton. Umpire Dan Daugherty, W.

J. Head Linesman Al -Slack, Field Judge H. O. Dayhoff, Bucknell. Pitt Substitutes 'ls.

xo. Name. Fojs, 12 Meredith 20 Heller 22 Wo jcihovski 24 Seigel 25 Shotwell 27 Love 28 Timmons 29 Cutri QB 30 Brown HB 31 Sebastian HB 33 SeifTert 34 Walton 35 Kotz 36 Wilkins 37 Kasaris 38 Valenti 39 Rooker 40 Schricker Wt. (180) (169) (170) (165) (165) (195) (175) (175) (170) (166) (170) (195) (177) (179) (176) (240) (174) (160) Ohio Northern committee. "From what I read in the papers," he said, "they can't see any good in this committee because I stopped a bill to abolish the delinquent tax office." Then he explained his position on this proposal, adding: "I want the people to know that I don't care what the papers say.

i Continued on Pace 2) PITT STUDENTS OPPOSE PLEDGE Undergraduates Mutter as University Forces Them To Take Oath Mutterings among undergraduates today met the latest move of the University of Pittsburgh in its guerrilla warfare with campus radicals. One group of students, a spokesman said, signed a pledge of allegiance to the constitution, the laws of Pennsylvania and the regulations of the university, only under protest and intends to follow it with a petition demanding the administration's reasons for requiring the pledge. The pledge is required of all of the university's more than 10,000 stu dents and is admitted by university officials to be a manuever against student radicalism. More Than 6,000 Sign No student had refused to sign the pledge. Registration continued today, with more than 6,000 enrolled.

"We want right minded students here," John Weber, business manager of the University, explained. "We think we have as loyal a student body here as anywhere, and we want to prove it." Weber laid all the blame for the University's frequent entanglements in radical issues on "a handful of Student Expression Claimed "They have been posing as the student body and issuing their opinions as coming from the student body," he said. "This (the pledge signing) gives the student body a chance to express itself and every one has signed it so far. "We could settle it another way by turning the students loose on them (the radicals) but that wouldn't be very nice." Weber denied that the pledge was required as a result of the legal victory of three students who won a reversal in county court of their arrests on the campus in connection with an anti-war demonstration that wasnt held. By The United Press NEW YORK, Sept.

24 Prosecution counselers rested today their efforts to connect Senator James J. Davis with illegal activities. The trial was recessed until Monday. Seeking to prove that the Senator profited personally from an alleged lottery conducted by the Loyal Order of Moose, the government yesterday showed that funds from the propagation department of fhe Moose went into Davis' personal bank The attorney for the gray-haired CHINESE 'BANDITS' SEIZE TSITSIHAR Jap Stronghold in Manchuria Taken by Insurgents' By The United Press HARBIN, Manchuria, Sept. 2 Chinese "insurgents" revolting against the new Manchukno government have captured Tsitsihar, northernmost stronghold of the Japanese, according to advices received here today.

The Japanese drive which resulted in capture of Tsitsihar started just a year ago, when Chinese troops commanded by General Ma Chan-Shan were defeated at the Nonni River Bridge. General Ma resisted the Japanese advance northward past Angangki and across the Chi nese Eastern Railway into the Soviet sphere of influence. His troops were routed from Tsitsihar after severe fighting. Mice Martyrs Play While Storm Rages By The United Press EVANSTON, Sept. 24 Four white mice frisked in their cages at Haven Elementary School today un aware they were the center of a con troversy that has ranged Mrs.

Irene Castle McLaughlin and the Anti- Cruelty Society against school au thorities. One of the mice is on a balanced diet. The other three are being fed tea and coffee instead of milk. School authorities said it was a vivid demonstration to teach young sters the importance of eating proper food and that the mice did not mind being experimented upon. Mrs.

McLaughlin' said the experi ment would make the children cal lous. "It will lead them to harming their pets, she said. New aims in his avowed program to reduce governmental costs in Allegheny County were disclosed today by Senator James J. Coyne, head of the Legislative Investisating Committee. Coyne favors permanent- registration of voters in Pittsburgh, Mc-Keesport, Clairton and Duquesne, a reform already advocatd by the Pittsburgh Registration Commission.

Indorsed in this stand by committee colleagues and Assistant County Solicitor Ralph H. Frank, who represented the County Commissioners at the hearings, Coyne announced his intention to grant the Registration Commission a hearing. "If they'll go along, we'll leave it to them to present the bill in the Legislature," Coyne said, Markrell Probe Faced 1 Coyne also asserted his intention to investigate the costs of Register of Wills Joseph N. Mackrell's office, the Jury Commissioners, the Regis tration Commission and for the first time declared himself publicly on the proposal to abolish the lucrative office of County Delinquent Tax Collector. Although insisting he "was not ready to say" whether the tax office should be abolished, he indicated his opposition to it, favoring instead a drastic reduction in the fees paid this official.

"They abolished the city delinquent tax office years ago." he said, "and since that time millions of dol lars in unpaid taxes have accumulated. Pay Reduction Proposed "I am satisfied the county delinquent tax collector is getting too much money. I will be ready to submit a bill to the Legislature to reduce his compensation. "But I think a man working on commission is better than" a salaried official. If he's appointed at $7,000 or $8,000 a year, hell sit there and not collect any taxes.

He should be paid a fee which will provide him a reasonable income and no more." Coyne criticized the newspapers for editorials on the investigating FIND MAN DROWNED, HANDS, FEET BOUND Police Uncertain Whether Death Was Murder or Suicide Bv 1 ne United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. The body of a hands and feet bound, was found floating in the tidal basin today. Papers in his pockets indicated he was Thomas N. Innes, Elmhurst, Long Island contractor.

Police were undecided whether it was 'murder or suicide, pointing out that the man could have tied himself up. i ''j I 'A i No. Name. Pos. WC 50 Cushman (170) 1 Bales (165) 2 Plotter FB i 56 Cooper (160) 63 Huber HB (160) 11 Arnold HB (160) 60 Kyle (155) 58 Cseh HB (170) Laughing Judge Falls Of Bench By The United Press GRAND RAPIDS.

Sept. 24 Doane McConnell, Negro, on trial for driving a car while drunk, heard a police physician testify he noted dilation of McConnell pupils. "Were your eyes dilated?" the court asked. "I don't know, but you can look for yourself." McConnell said, removing his glass eye. In' the uproarious laughter that followed the Judge upset his chair and tumbled from the bench.

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