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TWENTY Other Press Departments, Court Jim FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17, Want Ad Headquarters, Court 1900 THE PITTSBURGH PRESS. STATES W4MD I Wom an Leads Ticket in Central Labor HOUSE DEMOCRATS Vote as Two Veterans Are Unseated m. Modernize TO GET READY! FORRELlEFJOBj POLICY Two powerful executive board memhprs nf th Pittshurch Central Campaign Subcommittee Drafts Questionnaire for Major-ity Members to Be Used in Program to Retain Control of Congress GO? Leader Says Problem Must Bs Returned to Local Control Labor Union were unseated last night at the annual elections of the American Federation of Labor central body. All other officers were re-elected without opposition.

Trailing irr eleventh and twelfth places in a field of 14 candidates were Lloyd C. Shawl of General Teamsters' Local 249, and Hunter P. Wharton, business agent of Operating Engineers' Local 905 and secretary of the Building Trades By The United Pre' toiaie ana iuctu guveiuuieiiut must "oohumuiun, teb. 17 House Democrats sought to-'prepare to take over the admimstra day to deterrn me from their experiences in the 1938 campaign what policies they must pursue to retain control of Congres Council. Miss Amy Ballinger of Laundry Workers' Local 141, not only cap tured one of the executive board posts but led the field with 193 votes.

She is the second woman, in A sub-committee of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, headed by Rep- resentative William Cole Jr. (D when Representative drafted a questionnaire to be Hugh Peterson Jr. Ga.) ac-sent to majority nartv mpmhor cused the Republicans of "desert- the memory of Pittsburgh laborites, Pennsylvania Conference on Social Work at the William Perm Hotel, yesterday. Mr. Reed is the director of studies for the program committee of the Republican National Committee.

He "scored social workers, charging them with failure to take an interest in problems of government other than those in which they are directly concerned. "There is a vigorous reaction," Mr. Reed said, "against in Washington. Demands Pnrge of Waste "There is little question what to win this distinction. The other was the late Miss Cecelia Dixon of the United Garment Workers.

for information tht ig" the way pointed out to them wuiu uc u.jcu by Abraham Lincoln. -I f. Ji ff Sk 1 "-7. Seven of the 10 incumbents were re-elected. An eighth, Jerry B.

Mc- Munn, of Iron Molders' Local 46, declined nomination for another "The Republican Party," Representative William Ditter Pa.) replied, "is not in any way ashamed of the solidarity that prevails in its ranks today. It flaunts this solidarity in the f2ce of a discordant, disrupted, disorganized group on the by all Democrats in preparing for the next campaign. A tentative draft of 10 questions has been prepared, but the three members of the sub-committee refused to reveal them pending a decision as to giving them publicity. term. The other two new members are Hugh Mullin, auditor of the State ST In Your Choice Whit Mi IS or Yellow Gold.

ffi S'd Diam0nd One of 15 New Styles I TT 'ill "nil Federation of Labor and represen Democratic side." xxic oiner two members are Repre-'T? TT 1 tative of Firefighters' Local 1, and Don Ackard, of the Motion Picture Operators' Union. County Commissioner John J. administration of relief and other elements of the social program for some years to come is going to be more and mor a problem for the state and localities. They must be prepared to take it up and they cannot become prepared except by purging themselves of waste, extravagance and corruption." The nation, Mr. Reed said, is -tching to see what the new state administration in Pennsylvania will do to meet the relief and social Kane, of the Web Pressmen's Union, won second place.

Others reelected to one-year terms were John A. Feieel, of Typographical Local 7: George E. Frazier, of Bakery Driv it mr I I mtm -rmk 1 1 1 -c rm mm it ers' Local 485; George J. Walters, of sentauves John Houston KasJiriAj nVdU SUUrtiU and Butler Hare S. O.

suied Questions jOf Power Seeking P16, lUESsted fluestions. it Bu The United Press SecTsCmberS' Vi6WS 1 CFe, 17-Senator 1 What was for the Wallace H. White, Jr. last change in your district between i night accused Chairman Frank R. 1936 and 1033? McNinch of the Federal Communi- 2 What ways and means do you 'cations Commission of seeking re-suggest for counteracting the a nization of the strife-torn Republican trend in 1940? ipgoncy to assure himself "life and Chairman Patrick Drewry D.J death" control over the nation's va.) of the campaign committee i communication enterprises, who reported to Tuesday's Demo-1 The attack was based on a meas- i ft Ml Bricklayers' Local Gene Urban, of the Pittsburgh Musical Society; William J.

Eakin, of Milk Drivers' Local 205, and' John Weitzel, of the service problems without increase in taxation. The problem can be solved, he added, "but it will be Brewery Workers. Executive officers re-elected were i Huusepiiinuii THREE I S0NS 0 A fUd 311 SMITKF1ELD jfr fjHB; '3 eloy 544 SMITKFIELD WV I stores 6111 PENN AYE. uy0 1 Eut Librtr Store Op Wed. A S.t.

Ni.bt. I ii'vvili' an 1 1 President Leo Abernathy, Vice Presi dent John Dorsey, Secretary John A. Stackhouse and Treasurer Fred F. Meyer. Trustees are J.

Francis Smith, Scott F. Marshall and John Weitzel. tough on some of the boys who have been out of the gravy for some yoars." That was a reference apparently to the reductions in the state payroll which have been ordered. Urges Interest in Government Addressing himself directly to social workers Mr. Reed said: "If all you fellows do is to shout for funds for your pet purposes and lend no hand in the slow and ardu ure introduced recently by Chairman Burton Wheeler Mont.) of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, to reduce the seven-man FCC to three members and to make other administrative changes.

The legislation was offered upon advice of Mr. McNinch after President Roosevelt expressed "thorough dissatisfaction" with the present setup and demanded dra stic i 12 MISS AMY BALLINGEE Paced a field of 1 AFL leaders. 9 ous task of clipping and paring the changes White charged that McNinch ad-'cancerous growths of waste and cratic caucus on a preliminary analysis of last November's election returns, was understood to have revealed that 160 of the 262 Demo-crates elected to the House had "safe" margins, while 102 received a bare 50 or 55 per cent of the vote. Mr. Cole said defeated Democrats also would be questioned as to their Views on reasons for defeat.

The militant House minority of 169 Republicans, meanwhile, gave evidence of further fight when Minority Leader Joseph Martin Mass.) announced appointment of a special committee to examine the extraordinary powers of the President. Mr. Martin named 17 members, headed by Representative Jesse Wolcott 'Cosily Experiments "Six years of costly experimentation under the 'emergency theory of government has demonstrated that vast discretionary powers vest- extravagance from your political vocated a seven-man commission in Watered Liquor Charges 0 Mm Lru lzj vi And Books Get Club in Jam 1937 and other policies which he now repudiates, end attributed the change to the fact that other FCC commissioners opposed his policies. Townsend Pleads For Pension Plan system you have no right to complain if your funds run dry." He added that social workers will "undermine their own jobs and principles" by lack of interest in government. You are perforce going to be interested in good government for nation, state and locality," he continued.

"For some of you it is going to be a life and death matter to keep the social welfare machine in motion." TA 0 Apparently there was some skull-' duggery afoot last fall before Government men, on a routine check, walked into the Moose Club at pressed the opinion that "someone" must have "helped themselves to a drink or two" while the aged steward was away from the club and then replaced the whisky and A Feature of Our February Remodeling Sale By The United Press Feb. 17 Dr. WASHINGTON, Ta gin with water. Pesiclent have solve? I Francis E. Townsend, old-age pen Meantime, J.

H. Forrest, of 4121 Bristol Pittsburgh, executive secretary of the Allied Fraternal Protective Assn. of Pennsylvania, planned a little bookkeeping instructions for the club officers. STORE HEADS HONOR VETERAN EMPLOYE Two hundred executives, department heads and office employes of the Rosenbaum Co. last night at- tended a fare- problems," Mr.

Martin said. jslon teader. told the House Ways The G.O. P. committee will advise! and Means Committee today that the minority on such powers as the poverty breeds subversive agitation Errittn and that the profit system must be dollar, to operate an exchange stabilization fund, to print three bil- overhauled to survive, lion dollars in greenbacks, and to "If we can't establish a higher continue RFC lending.

Most ol these standard of living for the sub- nirLJrne 3- ne-half of our people than The new partisan spirit of the! House expressed i-self on the floor 1 540 a month, then certainly were not going to be able to maintain our 1 WW WLmu dinner at well Roosevelt for Miss the Hotel Frona Avonmore, and found three bottles of liquor on the back bar. The steward, 79-year-old S. P. Allison, of Salina, and none of the trustees, officers, or members of the house committee knew anything of the "watered stock" until a Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agent tested the three bottles, it was testified yesterday at a State Liquor Board hearing on license revocation. 'Twasn't right," D.

R. Carnahan, a Saltsburg carpenter and secretary of the admitted to. Examiner J. Frank McKenna Jr. "But it happenedespecially that bottle of gin No we don't deny any of these assertions." It seemed it's a double offense for any licensee to sell anything except the pure, unadulterated liquor one against Federal, the other against State liquor laws.

The club settled its score on the spot, with the G-men, paying a $30 compromise. But that didn't satisfy State agents who investigated and found evidence that the club bought Langen bacher, who STONE GUTTERS UNFAIR COMPETITION type of government much longer," he said. Arguing for the Townsend pension plan to provide up to $200 a month to persons over 60 by a two per cent transaction tax, he said "that is only a decent standard of living today." He testified before GOP HEADS SCORED AT DINNER FOR FREY Republican State leaders are "a bewildered, group of men" because they did not expect their candidates to be elected and did not expect to be called on to redeem campaign promises," Senator Thomas E. Kilgallon, Democrat, said last night at a dinner for Senator Edward R. Frey, in the Fort Pitt hotel.

He said he and a number of other Democratic Senators have been invited to meet with Republicans next Tuesday to discuss the State budget but said he would not be a "stooge." State Chairman David L. Law- 169.50 10-Piece Din-ins Room Suites in Walnut or Mahogany Duncan Phyfe Suites That Are Furnished With Hcat-Resisting Pads. ended 38 years' service with the store. Miss La'ngen-bacher, who was disbursing official and head of the committee which is studying If the accounts iXk i fML. tl Representatives of 70 cut stone contracting firms ended their two-day convention at the William Penn Hotel yesterday after drafting plans to "eradicate unfair competition in fabrication or cut stone." The National Cut Stone Contrac proposals to broaden the social security program.

Current social security legislation, he charged, "is the height of absurdity of all legislation ever passed." He said that if Democrats payable department of the store, will move Hollywood, Cal. David Klein, do not solve the problem the Re- Miss Langenbacher beer on credit and failed to keep tors' dormant because of in-1 publicans would return to power, T114'1 was a delegate for Franklin D. aaaiuon 10 me watering" cnarge. Rooseveit in the 1932 convention secretary and treasurer of the store, was toastmaster and introduced the following speakers: Max Rothschild, president emeritus of Rosenbaum 's; I positively did not "buy any beer Andrew G. Shephard Andrew G.

'Shephard, a lifelong resident of Braddock, died yesterday at the Braddock General Hospital after a lingering illness. He B. B. Croup, president; B. T.

Glick, store manager and Charles Eyster, DAVS at Taylor's I I mmmmmmmm merchandise manager; F.A.Weston, store publicity director; and Stanley "when the forces of reaction were gaining on Roosevelt as some of them are gaining on -him now." County Commissioner John J. Kane said the Ear le administration will be recorded the greatest administration for the common people. County Chairman James P. Kirk presided. Other speakers were County Commissioner George Rankin, Joseph M.

Barr, State president of the Young Democrats, and Councilman Thomas J. Gallagher. on 'tic'," Steward Allison testified He admitted there may have been discrepancies in his bookkeeping. But officers and members corrober-ated that resulted because there had been no systematic ledgers kept. "We've been a little careless, no doubt," Mr.

Carnahan said, and then agreed with Board's attorney J. S. Jiuliante, Erie, that "It's a good thing this investigation was made." Mr. Allison and the officers ex- Rosenbaum. Gifts from employes and firm were presented by Mr.

Glick. activity in building construction, was revived to protect and promote the interests of individual companies in their own communities. The association plans to encourage the use of local stone by its members and to fabricate the stone with local labor. Officers elected were: W. J.

O'Meara, Baltimore, chairman; J. D. Thomson, Cambridge, vice chairman; Miss G. V. Carew, Boston, secretary; John D.

McCormick, East Longmeadow, treasurer. William J. Dunkle, vice president of the Pittsburgh Cut Stone was elected to the board of governors and to the executive committee. was 79. Mr.

Shephard was former owner of the Copeland Brick Yard and served several terms as Councilman in Braddock. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Katyiryn Fitzpa trick Shephard; two sens, George A. and Leonard E. CREAMERY RAZED BY $35,000 BLAZE IS 3 rA 3 a IS IS IS IS Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta TA Ta TA Ta Ta Ta Ta is Ta TA Ta Ta 179.50 2-Piece Living Room Suites in Fine Mohair Covers, Hardwood Frames That Are Made for Long Years of Service.

Walter Graham was chairman. Shephard; two daughters, Miss By The. United Press 1 IlisfewWI fTtfSiWIll Elizabeth L. Shephard and Mrs. Evelyn Devlin; two.

brothers, Henry A. of Crossfolks, and Samuel Shephard of Homestead; three sisters, Mrs. Mary A. Reed of Los Angeles, Mrs. Sadie Hass of St BROS.

si MEADVILLE, Feb. 17 A $35,000 fire of undetermined origin last night destroyed the Crawford Creamery at Harmonsburg, eight miles east of here. Firemen from Conneaut Lake Park were unable to fight the blaze, but saved an adjoining boiler plant and storage tank containing 600 gallons of gasoline, and the Bessemer Railroad stop station. William A. Sheaffer William A.

Sheaffer, retired assistant to the superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsyl Homestead and Mrs. Ann McGurk of Swissvale, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at OFFERS 2:30 p. m. Monday in his home, 1003 Fourth N.

Braddock, with burial in the Monongahela Cemetery. FLINT TOOLS of Old Stone Age cave men have been found for the first time in Bulgaria in stratified sequence. vania Railroad, died last night in his home in Lakeland, Fla. Mr. Sheaffer was born in Pittsburgh, Aug.

5, 1360. and entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1384 as a clerk. He served through various capacities and for many years was freight trainmaster of the Pittsburgh division, later Roller Skating Party A roller skating party for the benefit of the Garfield Boys' Club will be held at the Penn Rink 1 51 i Vs AT. w' ASY -Tit- being made assistant to the superintendent. He retired Sept.

1, 1930. Mr. Sheaffer is survived by a brother, C. M. Sheaffer, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad official, of Philadelphia; three sisters, Mrs.

J. B. Mitchell, Mrs. J. H.

Barton and Mrs. Roberta Markel, who made her home with her brother in Lakeland. Funeral services will be held at the T. D. Turner Funeral Home, 729 Wallace Wilkinsburg.

Ar 6" V' Ac i So Formerly $34.50 I 1 1 I 1 DAFa Mm anY suite feared -A TiM Take as long os 04 rnthstopay. Taylor's I IB'llH P'S 1 I 169.50-3-Piece Period 61 H3 If 5 14 Mahogany 1 1 4 1 13 Pocketbook in the Feb- ii ff Mi l-i 4 i 0 rSt 'A ruary Sale. Taylors LteMw.v.'j0r Jtf wn ji. Atuv a nv lrMi'aiiTi aHVi -i fi iWmanr ii rf-MVJmw HHHHaVaWHHVHHHHB ITAYLOR BROS 1 1 ft EJ El E3 rangements have not been completed. Wild Turkeys Studied STATE COLLEGE.

Feb. 17 What is the average meal for a wild turkey? The answer: 12,930 This bit of information was 1 j0itr obtained through study of the crop i of a wild turKey cy ur. ixgan j. Bennett, director of the Wildlife Research Unit at the Pennsylvania State College. ci LACK STRENGTH? TF you feel weak, have no appetite MAITITIEESSES til rf-' and lack pep, you may need a tonic to help build you up.

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