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TWO Want Ad Headquarters, Court 4900 Other Press Departments, Court 7200 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1954 PITTSBURGH PRESS Death Claims 'Daddy9 Br owning. Whose Love Affairs Once Were Exposed To Nation HHIUn dUBY HIGHER BUDGET OF $23,451,946 rflie WylgNGT'ON Tax Boost Feared If Added $2,100,000 Asked by City Officials Is Granted By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has under serious consideration a nation-wide program for railroad grade-crossings as a 1934 substitute for last winter's CWA. Cost of the vast project is tentatively estimated at Seventy-five per cent of the money, it is figured, would go direct to the pocket of labor. Besides the controlling factor of appreciably reducing unemployment rolls, the grade-crossing program appeals to the President for several other 4 I If frt tv vrj WEIRTON BEER I 'jp nnnnr in rsnrn V.

it'XcrM wJErxi bonus votes, however, the masterminds of the vet organization who behind the scenes really run its affairs are convinced they can stop a formal indorsement. They believe the majority of the rank and file can be persuaded that it is against their interest-to take such a stand at this time, that it would antagonize public sentiment, endanger the benefits for disabled veterans regained during the last session of Congress. New Conscience HENRY MORGENTHAU'S Internal Revenue Collectors are growing too conscientious for the comfort of Congressmen. They are throwing out income tax returns in which Congressmen claim exemption for traveling expenses at the full rate of 10 cents a mile. Ten cents is the.

basis on which members are paid. But, the collectors, pointed out, 10 cents is not the actual cost. It is about three times the actual cost. They will allow only the exact railroad fare to and from Washington plus one lower berth. This is hard on Congressmen.

For years they have deducted for members of the family, for clerks, for "government business," for extra trips to and from the capital. Traveling expenses of (a majority of members run above their allowance, according to the ser-geant-at-arms. Yet if the total allowance for all were divided equally among the 531 members, of both houses, each would receive approximately $315. For that money he could make two round trips from Washington to the Coast. Merry -Go-Round COMPTROLLER General Mc- Carl's slashing of the initial budget for the President's tree belt from $15,000,000 to $1,000,000 has not halted the plans.

The United States Forest Service, in charge of the work, has opened field headquarters at Lincoln, and has started working. It anticipates appropriation of the necessary funds when Congress convenes. The Securities Exchange Commission is passing up no bets in keeping its eye on the boys in Wrall Street. It has ordered installed in its offices the same Stock Exchange, tickers used in brokerage offices. General Hugh Johnson's forthcoming book wiir not be entirely about the NRA.

A portion of it will be devoted to his military career, particularly that part of it relating to the World War. reasons: First, he feels that the widespread installation of such safeguards has long been urgently needed in American railroad tra nsportat ion. Second, such a plan would eliminate the criticism raised against the CWA that no constructive work was accomplished. Under the plan, as being considered by the President, the railroads would bear half, the cost, with the government lending the money. In other words, the government would put up the estimated necessary to finance the great project.

But the railroads, over a term of years, would repay $500,000,000. Unshaken TEXAS' gentle, hard-working Senator Morris Sheppard, author of the late Eighteenth Amendment, really believes that some day the United States will return to national prohibition. In fact Sheppard always has a little anecdote on the tip of his tongue to drive home his conviction. This is his latest: A teacher called on one of her pupils for a sentence containing the word "diadem." "People who drink moonshine," the lad promptly rattled off, "die a damn sight quicker than those who don't." Legion Convention ADMINISTRATION 1 eaders have been privately advised that the American Legion will do the following at its Miami convention: 1 Elect as National Commander, Frank N. Belgrano, San Francisco banker and Republican.

2 Side-step a declaration in favor of immediate payment of the bonus. While the inside word is one of assurance to the Administration" regarding the final outcome on the bonus issue, it is admitted that there will be sharp fighting pver the question on the convention floor. The bonuseers will go into the battle with a pledged strength of 3812 per cent of the convention vote. Fifteen state delegations have been directed to cast their ballot for some form of bonus payment action. These "departments" are Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Despite this Imposing bloc of (Copyright. 1934. by United CITY ENGINEER ASKEDTO QUIT Mclntyre Is First Victim In McNair -Bell 'House-Cleaning' Campaign U. S. to Call Women Who jfvl y'''401 Attended Country Club "fj AS Tep' Party pfA By The United Press Wrtiff'f f5 a.

Oct. 12- JSHiXttiW?" 1 Attorneys for the government to- S2 day were preparing for a new phase wjj of the prosecution of their suit to juji 1 1 force the Weirton Steel Company Mf fcL. S' KVrtb, 4. By The United Press Oct. 12 Attorneys for the government today were preparing for a new phase of the prosecution of their suit to force the Weirton Steel Company 3 "Peaches" Browning, whose affair with Mr.

Browning held the national news spotlight for weeks. "Peaches" now is on the stage. 4 Mr. Browning destroyed 12,000 answers to an ad he placed for a child to adopt after his affair with Mary" Spas went on the rocks. He is shown in his office destroying the letters.

5 Christmas always was a big event for "Daddy." He is shown here inspecting hundreds of dolls he was about to distribute on a recent Christmas. (Story on Page 1.) Death has closed the career of Edward West Browning, millionaire New York realtor, whose Platonic love affairs made front-page news for years. 1 Dot Browning, the foster daughter of Mr. Browning, who now is quite a young lady. When Mr.

Browning and his wife separated in 1924, it was agreed that each would take one of their two foster children. Dot is shown as she appeared shortly after the separation. 2 Mr. Browning and Mary Spas, one of the girls he "adopted." The Pittsburgh Press FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1934 SEES LOWER DEFICIT McNair Asks Councilmen to Consider Living Costs If Wages Are Cut City departments want $2,100,000 more than they got this year; if they get it there will be an increase in taxes.

That" is what Mayor William N. McNair told City Council in a letter they have before them today, in transmitting departmental requests totaling $23,451,946. The estimated revenue for 1935 is $19,635,903. In the face of such an expected deficit, Mayor McNair made no direct recommendations about the tmdget or pay cuts or raises, but sugeested that if salaries were to be revised downward, the cost of living be considered. Deficit Reduced These points stood out in the Mayor's letter, which was prepared by Mrs.

R. Templeton Smith, his personal budget adviser: If revenue payments continue as at present, the deficit will be only sround $500,000. The present administration inherited a $2,500,000 deficit. Water revenue should be increased through revision of the "flat" rates. The department of public welfare has been starved in the past through unwise and inhumane efforts on the part of previous administrations to economize.

Increases asked by the department of public safety come about through ordinances allowing police and firemen a weekly paid pass day; need for r.ew equipment for the motorized police. Failure in the past to provide proper supplies and miscellaneous equipment for maintenance of park! property explains the increase in ap- propriation for the bureau of parks and recreations. Fraises Treasurer Kirk A pat on the back for the administration of City Treasurer James Kirk. The current tax is 20.6 on land and 10.3 on buildings, but, wrote the Mayor: "On the basis of the assessed valuation for 1934. one mill on land and one-half mill on buildings will produce S873.000 of gross revenue, or $654,750 on the basis of 75 per ceent collection.

Without an increase in the revenues as estimated or without any decrease in the budget requests herein presented, it will be necessary to increase the millage for 1935 on land by 5.8 mills and on buildings by 2.9 mills to balance the budget on the basis of 75 per cent collections." Outstanding increases proposed: Welfare department, public safety, public works, $527,690. RUUD STOCK GIVEN OVER TO TRUSTEES Executors Get Order So Will Provisions May Be Carried Out Executors of the estate of the late Edwin Ruud, millionaire inventor and hot water heater manufacturer, were directed yesterday to turn over 64,420 shares of stock in the Ruud Manufacturing Company and $30,599 in accumulated dividends to the Fidelity Trust Company and Attorney John Sorg, testamentary trustees under Mr. Ruud's will. The order was made by Judge E. C.

Chalfant and places the trustees in a position to carry out provisions cf Mr. Ruud's will, under which employes who had worked for him from periods of 10 years and upward were to be given bequests. These bequests have been held up due to exceptions filed to a decree of distribution and will not be made until the matter is settled in court. The Weather Wffiirn rrnr.sylvnni.i Fair, slii-'hllv ro iPr in Pit ami south portions tomvht. Satun-iav f.nr.

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Louis fil Salt Lake an An'onio 7( 4HSan 51 SO ioattle 5 5 Tampa 7 7- Washington fn 5 Wmnfpec fiO Yellowstone Park 42 MYSTERY NOVEL Free Sunday! "Crime re Luxe," a mystery story by Elizabeth Gill, will appear complete Sunday in the 16-page Fiction Section cf The Press. Watch lor it! Current Events Officially approved for use in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Schools to refrain from alleged violations of Section 7A, the labor bargaining provision, of the National Recovery Act. In the week just closed with recess of the trial before Judge John P. Nields until Monday, the government has piled up an accumulation of evidence by which they hope to show that the Weirton company intimidated and coerced their employes into joining the company union. Worker after worker from the tin mills and the rolling mills, from the open hearth rooms and the furnaces have taken the.

stand to say that they were all but compelled to vote in elections under the company plan of employe representation. This plan, the government contends, wras drawn up without consulation with the workers in order to forestall operation of Section 7A. Workers Charge Job Threats This compulsion, some have said, often went as far as threatening workers with the loss of their jobs. Sometimes this threat, they said, was invoked to discourage their activities in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. American Federation of Labor affiliate.

Sometimes it was used, others testified, to induce them to vote in the company plan elections. Next week the government will call witnesses from a new group of workers who are to arrive from Weirton. W. where the company has its plant. This group, consisting of from 25 to 30 witnesses, will include women from the mills who were present at a much discussed "pep" meeting for the company plan at a country club near Weirton.

Affidavits Tell of Beer Party Affidavits previously filed in the case indicate they will testify that they listened to ringing talks on behalf of the company plan while they sipped beer and pop and ate hot dogs. Men present at the meeting probably will be blamed for the reported plight of two of the young women who "passed out" before the final cheer of "ice cream soda, wieners and pop, the company union goes over the top." In addition, the government expects to call organizers from the Amalgamated union in an effort to show that the movement for the Amalgamated was spontaneous among the steel workers and not the result of solicitation by paid organizers. Joe E. Brown I. i i 1 1 i mm By CY KING AMERICA has its mountain feuds, Italy has its cruel vendettas and many other nations have ruthless secret societies, but none of these is stronger or more fierce than the Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization which, it has been reported, numbered among its members the assas PARADE MARKS COLUMBUS DAY Speeches, Salutes, Sports Are Planned in Celebration in District A lengthy parade, talks and salutes today ushered in the specially arranged three-day celebration of Columbus Day in Pittsburgh and nearby communities.

The program officially got under way at 6 a. m. with a bomb salute announcing the beginning of the festivities promoted by the Sons of Columbus and sponsored by the Italian Royal Consul here. At 1:30 p. m.

the parade, traversing East End, downtown and the North Side, formed at Fifth Avenue and Beechwood Boulevard. It then proceeded through Homewood, Brushton, East Liberty, downtown, North" Side, via the Fortieth and Sixth Street Bridges, and was to file out Fifth Avenue to the Cathe dral of Learning. There several speakers to be heard. Tonight at 8 p. m.

a ball and pop ularity contest will be held at the -Bryn Mawr auditorium. Tomorrow's events include sport ing contests at the Larimer; Play ground at 2 p. a dinner under the auspices of Knights of Colum bus, Pittsburgh Chapter, at the Fort Pitt Hotel, and a commemoration dinner at the Kleman Hotel, East End. The dinner at the Fort Pitt Hotel will follow an informal reception for honor guests and speakers at 6 p. m.

Bishop Hugh C. Boyle will be guest of honor, and Leo G. Griffith, past state deputy, will serve as THOMAS GOYNE FREEDBY JUDGE Directed Verdict Orders Costs Be Paid by Defendant in Jury 'Fixing' Tom Coyne, brother of State Senator James J. Coyne, today was acquitted by a Criminal Court jury of charges of embracery and conspiracy on a directed verdict but the jury ordered him to pay the costs of the embracery, or "jury fixing" case. At the same time the jurors brought in a verdict of not guilty against Charles Fahey, who with Ralph LaRocco, former tax collector of Coraopolis, was on trial with Coyne on the conspiracy charge.

LaRocco also was freed on a verdict directed by Judge Ralph H. Smith. No costs were placed against him. Judge Smith made caustic reference in his charge to the jury of the admission by County Detectives Frank Ritz and Samuel Riddle that they had not made an investigation of any possible link between Coyne and Fahey. "The Court 'can only say," the judge commented, "that the failure to make such an investigation was the mark of bungling inefficiency." Coyne.

LaRocco, Fahey, Charles O'Connell of Leetsdale and Edward Costello of Glenfield. were indicted for the attempt to "fix" a prospective juror in the Monaca Club trial. O'Connell and Costello, who had pleaded guilty, testified for the state yesterday. Fahey already is serving a one-year jail term for his conviction of Kiss Became Bite, Divorce Case Plea When she tried to kiss her husband after a slight quarrel he bit her lips, Mrs. Jean R.

Cottrell, daughter, of George Rankin, Wil-kinsburg banker, told Judge Samuel H. Gardner today as she asked for a divorce. Mrs. Cottrell, who lives in Coal Street, Wilkinsburg, also said that their honeymoon in April, 1931, was taken on her money and that her husband refused to pay their housekeeping expenses. Her father testified that a Wilkinsburg man called at his bank shortly after his daughter's marriage and asked if he could tell him anything about Cottrell's character.

"Why?" Mr. Rankin asked. "He's keeping company with my sister-in-law and I'd like to know more about him," Mr. Rankin quoted the man as replying. embracery, the actual jury fixing attempt, in the Monaca case.

One of the chief witnesses for the commonwealth yesterday was District Attorney Andrew T. Park. He said Fahey had told him that Tom Coyne had given him the list of the prospective jurors to "see" and that he, in turn, had given them to O'Connell and LaRocco. There was no evidence, however, that LaRocco had ever approached any of the jurors. Coyne was one of "The Three Toms" finally convicted as proprietors of the Monaca Club, late prohibition era speakeasy and gambling house.

Tom Dolan and Tom Goslin finished six-month jail terms this week but Coyne has appealed his conviction and is awaiting the higher court's decision. First of the victims in a promised wholesale housecleaning in the City Traffic Planning Division, Lewis W. Mclntyre, traffic 1 a nning engineer for the past four years, today had the alternative of resigning or being fired from a job. Safety Director A. Marshall Bell said he had asked Mr.

Mclntyre 's resignation and Mayor William N. McNair added that whether he re signs or not. Mr. Mr- Mclntyre Mclntyre will be out of the city's employ by Monday. The position is not protected by Civil Service.

Pressed for a reason for the dis missal, the Mayor answered: don have to give a reason, do Previously, the Mayor announced the projected housecleaning in the Traffic Planning Division as an economy measure, adding that the office had "too many high-priced engineers. Plans are under discussion by Di rector Bell and Mayor McNair for eliminating all activities of the divi sion except those of maintaining signals and signs, in order to cut down the $170,000 yearly budget the division now requires. Meanwhile, Peter DeMuth, one of Mayor McNair's appointees to the Board 'of Assessors, was reported as a candidate for the job to be vacated by Mr. Mclntyre. Mayor McNair non-committal as to Mr.

De- Muth's chances of appointment. Before his appointment as traffic engineer in 1930, Mr. Mclntyre was professor of highway engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Better Traffic Committee and chairman of a subcommittee on enforcement of traffic laws. TROJAN GOAGH GIYES HIS TEAMTHE 'RAZZ' (Continued from Page One) reporters have asked Coach Jones if it were true. "That's the way they've been playing," admitted the coach as he shouldered his way through a crowd in Pennsylvania Station here.

"I'm not alibiing for these boys," he declared. "They'll have to play better than they have been." "These boys," disembarking from their eight-car special train after their ride across the continent, were doing their best to live down their newly acquired reputation. No Neckties in Crowd There didn't seem to be a necktie in the crowd. Most of the play ers were dressed in corduroy slacks and sweaters. A few wore topcoats and hats, but shirts and coats were open at the throat to display the upper portions of their chests.

Smiles departed from their faces as the Hollywood charges were mentioned. Grunts of outraged innocence were the favorite replies to the accusation that they were "Hollywood-struck boys who were as toys" in the clutches of "henna-haired film beauties" and movie magnates. Irvine "Cotton" Warburton, bid-get quarterback, drew himself up to his full height and declared, "I have nothing to say." He worked last summer in the film-cutting department of a Hollywood studio. Captain Julius A. Bescos has worked as an extra and other members of the squad have had part-time employment around the studios.

The players are frequently guests at Hollywood parties. Horse Injures Judge Judge W. Keber Dithrich was kept to-his home today due to Injuries received when the horse he was riding near his Coraopolis home stumbled and fell yesterday. Attending physicians said his injuries axe not serious. 1 Feature Syndicate.

Inc.) Shaded portion shows the territory the Macedonians want freed. The terrorist "Imro" secret organization is a factor in the campaign. constitutional that of Hitler In Germany, for instance. He went through the forms prescribed by the German constitution to obtain his power. Mussolini arrived at his present position by a march, on Rome in 1922 which was strictly unconstitutional.

In connection with dictators, it is interesting to note that ancient Rome had laws providing for a dictator to meet an emergency. Equally interesting is the fact that while Julius Caesar ruled Augustus, when he assumed the dictatorship, took care that his powers were authorized. Football Hurts PARENTS who worry about football-playing sons may find encouragement in a new report that proper coaching and more attention to protective equipment results in fewer injuries. The new report was based on a study made by Dr. Thomas N.

Horan, who followed a prep school team through three seasons to determine what injuries were most common and what was the best method of preventing them. Careful notes were taken of each injury. From these, the coaches and equipment men were given pointers. That the analysis bore results is testified to by the figures: Total accidents decreased 69 per cent in three years. V- 1 lJIJt Puts Pitt Cheering Squad Through Tonsil Drill sin of King Alexander.

The secret terrorist organization, called' Imro for short, is a thorn in the side of three nations, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and Greece. The Imro claims it is the real government of Macedonia whose territory is under the control of the three nations. Macedonia is part of the Balkans where the bound.aries of Greece, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria come together. (See sketch). Jugoslavia has most of the country, Greece has th part bounded on one side by the Aegean Sea and Bulgaria has what is left.

Bulgaria and Jugoslavia are friendly, at least for the time being and on the surface, but the frontiers are protected by barbed wire and many armed sentries. Anyone trying to cross the frontier is shot at sight. The Imro is the reason for these extraordinary precautions. Members of the organization conduct frequent raids on Jugoslavia and then run back to Bulgaria and hide in the mountains. Super Ruthlessness THE IMRO and the thousands of Macedonians whom they represent openly admit they will go to any length to achieve freedom for their native land.

Ivan Michailov, once termed the "most loved, feared and hated man in the Balkans," smiles thinly as he tells to what length he and his followers will go to achieve that end. Michailov would start another World War if he could do it and if he thought it necessary to free Macedonia. He believes that political assassination is a patriotic and moral duty. For 50 years, various governments have tried in vain to stamp out the Imro. Still it goes on, maintaining its secret army, law courts, secret service, educational system and tax collection system.

The Imro is a small but fearsome and highly important factor In Europe. Dictators THE assassination of King Alexander is no particular cause for surprise, for, notwithstanding the rise of a handful of men to the peak of power in their respective lands, the history of dictatorships is not a bright one. Some of the dictatorships wera Above Joe E. Brown, famous movie comedian and friend of Dr. John B.

Sutherland, Pitt coach, is shown at the left as he led the collegians in a few cheers. Right, Grace Seifert carrying one of the many signs in evidence at the assembly. It speaks for In the center are Ehown some of the students seated in the audi torium as the halls rang with their shoots. Pitt students held a welcoming party of their own without Southern California's Trojan football squad when they jammed, the auditorium of Memorial Hall in a monster rally at noon today. From the greenest freshman to seniors who remembered previous clashes with the Califcrrtians, the student body united in a deafening roar, "Beat Southern California." It was a re-game tone-up for the more serious business tomorrow afternoon..