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TWO I Other Frws Departments, Court 53 PITTSBUBCn NEW CIVIL WAR Scenes On New Tenth Street Bridge Now Under Construction 1 LOOMS AS IRISH DEFY JNGLAND Northern Ireland Prepares to Resist De Valera's Fight For Independence SEEKS TO END OATH Free State President Says He Will Abolish Payment To Britain for Land fti as- i r-M -u mi i i. in in 4 NJ jf mt Ci 'H -rr-r ii 'w I Iff -s e'n II 1 3 "i I I i i.r3' II I I I lis I- I ilM xr 1 IV r.y VII.MM THILIP SIMMS Scripp-foward foreign Editor WASHINGTON. March 23 Revolution, civil war, or, at the very least, disorder and bloodshed, once 7 Left, the narrow "catwalks" which workers traverse a One of these "human flies" is seen in the inset. Three othe view shows how the great cables are secured in the anchor the new Tenth Street Bridge over the Monongahela River. daring workmen are seen in the center picture while the left lock.

It Seems to Me be tr NIGOLA'STOWN rr-xi 4 HALL SITE AGAIN 4 PUT UNDER FIRE 0 I taken under advisement the by Copyright. 1031. for The Pittsburgh Tress NEW YORK INTERVIEWERS from high school papers have a disturbing tendency to fling the question, "Who in your opinion is the leading American dramatist?" It has been my custom to answer grudgingly and say, "I suppose I've got to name Eugene O'Neill." Not since the earlier years which included "Anna Christie' have I been able to muster much enthusiasm for an author who seems to me a sort of ersatz Ibsen. The longer and more ponderous plays also contain, as far as I'm concerned, at least a little of thequality of "The Royai Nonesuch." Anyone who has spent a week-end in watching a tragic trilogy feels that he must report favorably to friends and neighbors or be taken for a' fool with time on his hands. Within the last few days I have become much bolder.

Belatedly I caught up with at Vienna." It seems to me that this Is the best play written by a living American, and so, as the curtfnt sprint goes, I see no reason why I should not make Robert E. Sherwood my own choice as the leading American dramatist. i.tuT- i iw n-nm nr i- mini miini i in i iumfiiin, -Miinr; iriyin, I New; Tenth Street Bridge To Use 2,500 Miles of Wire What Do You Mean, Light? I AM aware of the fact that several been pleasant and not other plays by this same author have particularly important. Indeed, the objection a earn looms about the lanky form of the Irish Free State's president. F.

a De Valera. Virtually the only strings left tying Ireland to Great Britain are the oath of allegiance to the crown and certain land annuities payable to the British sov-rrnmcnt. These. Ire', and boss asserts, now are to be aboi- tehed. "Our one ulti- mate objective.

Valera frank- i and inde- i 3 he cf Ireland as a sovereign Belfast. Northern 'h part of the country the movement for from Britain of r.z on the part of the 'rmy along the border. r.d a refund rtri and "-f a mm stored at secret po.nts. Pi Valera faces two da nans one from without and one from wirhin England has warned that it view the new trend "with Ki iVfst. concern." and that bitter strife is to expected "if seriously pursued.

At, home De Valera is backed by the smallest of majori-tm 77 to (JB with labor holding of th" 77 seats. And labor warned that it will not ride wiili him on abolition of the oath of nileeianrc or repudiation of land payments to England. Labor wants to concentrate on unemployment If' Fui hermore, jt Is reported. Northern Ireland, which still clings to Oreat. Britain, is prepared to resist neit.

only the "unity and independence'1 movement, to the utmost, but the "sovereign state" idea as well. The British dominions today are si most, as free, so far as Great Brit-pin is concerned, as the United States. the only difference is that the people of the Dominions acknowledge allegiance to the king This difference De Valera intends to abolish. The land payments to which Erin's new chief executive objects, date ba(k to the Anglo-Irish treaty of 10 years reo. At the time of the creation of the Tree State it was provided that Irish farmers should buy their land pnd pay for it on the instalment, plan.

The British set up a loan fund for this purpose. The annuities, which amount to approximately $15,000,000. De Valera now declares belong to Ireland and are no longer to be paid over to British government. the AL CAPONE LOSES IN APPEALS COURT Mandate Ordered for Removal to Federal Prison B'J Th" Vn it'll f'rrn CHICAGO. March 23 The United S'3teK circuit Court of Appeals today denied Al Capone a rehearing of his conviction on income tax fraud chaiges.

The court ordered a mandate preparer! for the gane leader's immediate removal to Federal prison to Mart serving the 11-year term imposed on him by Federal Judge James if. Wilkerson. Cnpone's attorneys were expected, however, to serk a stay pending an appeal to tue United States Supreme Court. Body of Flier Is Found GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador.

March 23 The body of Winfield Hale, a na-tie of Walnut Creek, Cal was found late yesterday Ijeside the wreckage of his cabin airplane on the beach rear Napa, north of here. Hale was on a pleasure flight to South America and camp via Panama. Details of his accident were not available here. Tl We all ler Tl, 1 A hi i'. fr ttitthtn A pt i an idiii rnvpra al( It1 tiU th ttimtrT Itiiitt thp tit ttip Kinkr- Mountains ti pMiitp "I'nif, ttirHar in ttT'ist th Kenton nnl ttv-t- A teii't IIipip t-tiiiatitft 1 A IV, i.i Hoit'tittre (ml itt rtt titti wa tmht m-tl It 'llir- h.tt ttttllt -tpiiirtv ni'Pr the raai'Mti ttatr.

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m. so the heat of the sun does not cause unequal expansion. This is done under electric lights and is necessary so the strands will be of equal strength." Spinners cannot work In heavy wind for it causes the cat-walks to sway and makes spinning almost Impossible and dangerous. Each cable i.v anchored in a huge concrete caisson at the ends of the span. The methods "used today in spinning are the same as when the Brooklyn Bridge was constructed.

So Long! Opportunity Knocks And 17 Prisoner Take Freight to Freedom By The United freia DENVER, March 23 -Opportunity in the form of a freight train knocked once yesterday for a gang of prisoners in the county jail here. It only had to knock once. The gang had been put to work along the railroad tracks, under guard. The freight came along, and stopped. One convict dashed toward the train.

Guards caught him. The train started away. The guards returned and lined up their prisoners for a count. Seventeen had boarded the freight, and were gone. SPEEDY HOLDUP MAN OUTRUNSPURSUERS Holds Up 12 in Downtown Coffee Shop A fleet-footed bandit held tip a downtown coffee-shop early today and then out-ran a dozen persons, mast of them postal workers, one of whom used a mail truck in a half mile chase.

Shortly after midnight the robber entered Clark's Coffee Shop, 414 Third Avenue, and held up the manager. George Nocholson, a waiter, the cook and nine customers. He scooped $16 in bills from the cash register, leaving more than $30 in change, and backed out of the door. The customers and waiter started in pursuit. One of the patrons, a postal worker, leaped into a mail truck and took up the chase.

The bandit fled up Cherry Way, Diamond Street into Grant and out Fifth Avenue where he eluded his pursuers. 4 DIE AS TRAIN HITS AUTO AT CROSSING Engine Reaches Depot With Bodies Of Two Victims Under Wheels By The United Pre BELLEVILLE, March 23 A west-bound train pulled into the station here today with the wreckage of an auto on the cowcatcher, and two bodies caught under the wheels. Two other bodies were scattered along the tracks. The four victims, all from Fort Anne, were killed when their auto was struck by the train at a crossing three miles east of here. The train crew was not aware that anything was wrong until the train reached here.

The dead were Everett Masters. 42; Miles Cummings, 23; Dorothy Danlington, 17, andRecotta Storr, 18. might be raised that I should temper my enthusiasm because "Reunion at Vienna" itself is a light comedy. We live in a world in which dramatic and literary criticism is largely swayed by the specific gravity of the work under consideration. 1 believe that both Dreiser and O'Neill have carried certain trenches through the sheer pressure of their massed battalions of words.

"God," they may say, "must love words, since He made so many of them." A certain primness of visage and point of view is never a handicap when anybody is setting out to establish himself as a genius. But I'm not at all sure that "Reunion at Vienna" is a light comedy. Pavsibly I am not saying very much for its emotional appeal if I record the fact that it made me cry. I am, in the theater, one of the readiest of weepers. Though the notices of the critics were glowing and highly favorable, the printed reports fooled me a little as to the nature of the entertainment which I was to see.

The reviews led me to believe that I was to watch a slightly farcical entertainment, in which the butt of the foolery would be a decadent archduke of the House of Hapsburg. Distinctly I got the impression that Sherwood had written a spoof on the folly of egotism. That is not the manner in which the play strikes me. The Rudolph of the play seems to me one of the most glamorous characters known to the modern theater. After all.

no man is a fool when he comprehends the precise nature and dimensions of his own particular sort of folly. Supreme Court Hears Arguments for Second Time In Four Months Legality of the county's contract to purchase the so-called Nicola site for the erection of a town hall was State Supreme Court for the second time today. O. K. Eaton, appearing for Schen-ley Farms property owners, Attacked the purchase on the grounds that the agreed price of $8 a square foot is excessive, that the site was selected without proper investigation and that the city's zoning ordinance prohibits construction of the build ing on the site.

William Watson Smith argued the case for the Schenley Farms company after M. B. Lesher, former county solicitor, announced the county would not participate in the argument. Eaton charged that, under the contract, the county had agreed to purchase a one-foot strip of property more than 200 feet in length across Ruskin Street from the proposed site which could be of no pos sible use in erection of the proposed building. The case came before the Supreme Court at Philadelphia four months ago and was sent back for re-argument before full bench, indicating an even division of opinion on the court since only four justices were sitting at the time.

Judge James R. Macfarlane, in Common Pleas Court, refused to grant an injunction against the sale of the property and it was from his decision that the appeal was taken. The contract was entered into by the old Board of County Commis sioners, of which only C. C. Mc- Govern is now in office.

The present board has gone on record as opposing construction of the building at this time on the Nocola or any other site. BIG BERTHA'S' DEAD HONORED IN PARIS First Shells Dropped on Capital 13 Year Ago, Killing 75 0y The united Press PARIS, March 23 "Big Bertha," the great German gun hidden in the forest near Laon, dropped the first of its shells in Paris from a dis tance of 76 miles 13 years ago today. Flowers were carried today to Saint Gervais, the church in which 75 women and children were killed and 90 injured by a shell from Big Bertha on Good Friday afternoon, 1918. Radio Crooners' Censor CHICAGO. March 23 Censorship of radio crooners was advocated by Mostssaye Bouslawski, musical purist and pianist in an address before the Illinois Women's Athletic Club.

VI Freud in words or one synaoie. He is the pundit of those who have Just ceased taking their dreams to the gypsy and begun to tell them to the doctor. One Citadel Is Captured ET PHYSICIANS squabble as they please as to whether psycho-analysis is a science and an organic factor in modern medicine. I wouldn't know about that. But I am convinced that it is a permanent contribution to fiction and the drama.

Whatever becomes of its clinical use it has won its enduring spurs 85 a literary method. And so we have a right to ask the dramatic practitioners to combine both delicacy of touch with depth of discovery. When "Reunion at Vienna" was done I felt that I knew the hero of the play completely. It is no handicap, of course, that the role is portrayed hy Alfred Lunt, who gives the finest performance to be seen hereabouts at the moment. And the moment is likely to be a long one.

It is my. conviction that he tander-standst to the full the fact' that here is an opportunity to do a full-length portraft. It is a play which offers many opportunities lor laughter. That is not dramatic crime, although some feel that if a thing is true it cannot also be humorous. -Why should that be? I am not willing to admit that the world can be seen 1 in its entirety only by frowning folk.

and I am certain that one may smile i and smile and be a The Apprentice and the Master IT IS not impossible to make some comparison between the current O'Neill play and that of Sherwood because both authors might well set down in the program the phrase, "With some slight acknowledgment to the labors of Dr. Sigmund Freud." To be sure, neither tries to bootleg the newer theories of unconscious motivation into his plot. Both are frankly Aware of the debt which they owe to the little man in Vienna. And so if anybody says that it is quite impossible to debate the respective merits of incest long drawn out and a single purple evening in the life of an exiled princeling I may reply that at the very least it is feasible to compare O'Neill and Sherwood in the matter of their comprehension of the psycho-analytic theory and its ramifications. In regard to this point I do not see how anybody can fail to put Sherwood far in the lead.

Both "Strange Interlude" and "Mourning Becomes Electra" are kindergarten compositions insofar as they explore the secret springs. Very probably the success of O'Neill lies in the fact that he has When you crass the new Tenth Street Bridge next year your life will depend on the strength of two, small 13-inch cables. And in addition to your paltry weight, the cables, with the aid of two 116-foot towers, will support over seven million pounds of structural ironwork. But what cables' Each cable consists of 19 strands of galvanized wire and a strand is composed of 256 wires. Over 2,500 miles of wire will be utilized in the construction of the latest Pittsburgh suspension bridge.

Work on spinning the cables started Feb. 17 and over 100 men are employed by the American Bridge Company. The cables, on which the steel work will rest, are expected to be finished April 10. At the start of construction a motor boat laid strands across the river and these were raised to the proper altitude to support scaffolds. Cat-walks eight feet wide were constructed and on these the spinners works.

Wire is conveyed by a large wheel which travels on an endless belt. After the cable has the proper number of strands hydraulic pressure is applied and the wires are squeezed into almost solid metal. "Much depends on the weather in bridge work," F. W. Ritchey, senior assistant engineer explained "for PITTSBURGHER WINS MEDAL FOR ORATORY Johns Hopkins Sophomore Awarded He Tocqueville Tri.e Saul Dorfman of 5930 Beacon Street, a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a medal for oratory, annual award of Baron De Tocqueville of France, which he won last year.

The plea of Clarence Darrow at the Leopold and Loeb trials was the oration Dorfman selected. Dorfman, a graduate of South High School, Is a member of the football team. Blood Donors The Vnitrit 're. N' EW YORK, March 23 A cut in necessitated by the general 5' I' SIX HELD FOR QUIZ IN MAN'S DEATH HERE $100 Missing from Adolph Ito tiger's rockets, Tollce Say Two women and four men were arrested on suspicious person charges today for questioning in connection with the death of Adolph Rottger, 54. of 2620 Sarah Street.

RoMaer was found injured on the sidewalk at Thirtieth Street and Carey Way last Sunday and was taken to South Side Hospital. He died Tuesday as the result of a fractured skull. Those under arrest are Betty Mitchell.22; Lilian Oehling, 35, and Nick Kosnovick, 49. all of 2708 Arlington Avenue; David Tucker. 44.

and Richard Harris, 54, of 3006 Carey Way. and Thomas McHue, 58, of 405 Ariston Street. Police claim Rottger had mith-drawn $100 from an insurance account shortly before his injury, but when taken to hospital only a dollar and a few pennies were found in his pockets. Auto Injuries Fatal Injured last Nov. 14 when struck by an auto at Bigelow Boulevard and Kirkpatrick Street, Dennis David.

59, of 521 Duff Street, died today in West Penn Hospital. The driver, Harry. F. Gersten. 5462 Fair Oaks Street, was ordered to post bond pending en inquest.

10 DIE IN FLAMES; HALF DOZEN INJURED Four Victims Trapped Small Hotel in By Thr United Press DALLAS. March 23 The death toll from fires in the last 24 hours in the Southwest stood today at 10. Four men died" as they slept in a small Dallas hotel. Six men were injured. The victims: Grover Hob- son.

60. Sherman. Frank Fisher. 40. Little Rock, W.

H. Bodenheimer. 55, Dallas; Frank Cramer. Chicago. I A four-year-old boy.

J. Hargood, died late yesterday from burns received when his home was burned. Four other deaths were at Shaw-, nee, where a farmhouse was destroyed by flames, burning to death all but one member of the family of Stanley Haskett. 62. Other victims were his wife and two children.

A former Civil War body servant, Dan Hodge. Negro, died from burns received from flames that destroyed his home at Hearne, Tex. WEATHER PROPHETS FEAR TO FORECAST Have Only a Hunch on What Easter Hold Warmer or Itain By The tntfed fre WASHINGTON. March 23 Gov ernment meteorologists, harried by weeks of fickle weather, today declared a four-day forecast of Easter weather could be based on nothing sounder than a hunch. Warmer weather and showers are in prospect for the hext few days, but it was declared impossible to say positively whether either or both will hold over until Sunday.

Hieh pressure and low pressure areas are frisking about the continent, east of the Rocky Mountains, with such abandon that even a one-day forecast keeps the conscientious weather man awake at night, it was said. AIMEE HAS RELAPSE Hotter Orders Evangelist Not to rrrach 'For Some Time' By The Unttea t'tess LOS ANGELES March 23 Aimee i temple McPherson-Hutton, evangelist who underwent a blood transfusion last week, must take a com plete rest for several weeks, her physician ordered today. Mrs. Button suffered a relapse yesterday and was removed from her apartment to the Angelus Temple parsonage. She was ordered not to preach again "for some time." Breaks Pane, Steals Hose A thief early today broke a $150 show window of the Imperial Hosiery Company, 1024 Fifth Avenue, and stole $20 worth of womcn'a stockings.

Cut Prices After 3,000 Answer Ad for 'Jobs Easter Bunny9 Early Visit Stops Car Yes, there is an Easter rabbit. But it was almost seen with a lily, rather than Easter goodies, when it halted a Beech-view street car, last night. When the car came to a sudden stop at the south end of the tunnel near Warrington Avenue, passengers had visions of a holdup. The idea changed to gloomy conjectures of a man helpless on the track when jthey thought they heard Motorman William I. Curtiss say: "Get up off the track.

Buddy. Do you want to get your head cut off?" However, Motorman Curtiss did not say -Buddy," but "Bunny. The trolley headlight showed a pair of steeple shaped ears. Then a fluffy tail vanished in the brush. Doris Arbuckle to Wed LOS ANGELES, March 23 Doris Deane Arbuckle, 28, divorced wife of Roscoe Fatty) Arbuckle, former screen comedian, and Elmer Hartz.

37, banker, will be married Easter Sunday, it was announced today. They filed notice of intention to marry yesterday, the price of blood for transfusions, economic deflation, was announced "Out of the 3,000," Mixon said, "we were able to select a choice group of 100 to replace old faces which were becoming undesirable for this work. We have with us jiow many men who formerly held important and well-paying jobs. Each blood donor affiliated with the agency Is examined and licensed by the Department of Health. Each one must submit to a '30-day Wasserman test.

When he speeds to a hospital, the blood donor carries his registration book with a pink slip which is a signed waiver. One half of the slipis signed by the operating surgeon and the other half retained by the donor. Blood donors are classified in four groups, known, as types one, two, three and four, hospitals phone calls for a donor, always specify which type to send. Sometimes it is necessary to send three or four men to match the donated blood with that of the patient. A donor Is capable of three or four calls a month, although a few men are not used but about once a month, today by the Mixon Blood Donor Agency, which furnishes blood to hospitals and pathologists.

The reduction was not determined by the atrency, but by the 300 men who are employed there as blood donors. They voted unanimously to cut the price of their stock in trade from $50 to $35 for 500 C. the equivalent to a medical pint. James P. Mixon, head of the organization, pointed out that the price of blood never before has been questioned.

Demands for it. he said, are greater today than they ever were, and there never have been so many men ready to sell their blood. Twenty-five blood donors are on hand at all hours of the day and night, ready to dash to hospitals for transfusion operations. Taxicabs are used for emergency calls. SOME TIME ago, Mixon said, the agency decided to get 100 new men and placed an advertisement In newspapers.

Three thousand men answered, I v. ,1.