The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 1

URRENT OMMENT Partly cloudy i and a a ton i a a warmer Thursday. SCIENCE'S BYPRODUCTS GREED AND DEPRESSION "IGNORANCE IS BLISS" Judged by its fruits, modern science can not be quite as magnificent an edifice as its builders have been fond of believing. So, at any rate, says Professor Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago, winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1927. Professor Compton told a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington the other day that splendid scientific achievements often seem to bring rather puny results, "is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have t-een working for?" he asked.

"Think of Benjamin Franklin and his kite, of James Clerk Maxwell, Mar- coni, De Forest and others, is that 1 what they were after, or is there thing more?" THE PAPER THAT GOES INTO TOE HOMES EDITION VOL. 43. NO. 151: PMONTOWW.PA, Locomotive Bursts; Man Burned Kills Brother The question, now that he asks it, is something of a poser. It can be duplicated, too, with other inventions.

The automobile is a marvel of mechanical ingenuity; but sometimes its chief results seem to be clogged highways, a rising toll of fatal accidents and a deplorable tendency on the part of who ought to be at home to find shabby roadhouses or shaded "lovers' lanes" in the country. 8 PINCKOT SAYS CONDITIONS ARE MATTER'S OF GRAVE CONCERN TO THE STATE. INVESTIGATING (By United Press) HARRISBURG, June tociiot today announced that an im-- iu Ail tlic country. mediate investigation would be started Edison performed a miracle in Invent- iato the working and living conditions ing the movine hi.f TMm of bituminous miners of Western Penn- slyvarda about 10,000 men are on ing the moving picture, but some of the treacle that gets thrown on the silver screen seems worthy of his brilliance: Mr. Bell's telephone, likewise, is quite an invention: but did strike.

The administration is determined to get the facts in detail and as promptly A A ULlb CliU I ttkrf Mr. Bell ever dream of the hours upon! as possible. hours of idle gossip that would be sent "Information is reaching mv office over the by suburban housewives? which shows beyond controversy that T77! the conditlons a large number of feo it goes. If the present age has, miners and families in Western Penna genius for producing men who can i sylvania are pitiable in accomplish the Impossible, it also has a Pinchot said. genius for debasing the miracles that "I am having an investigation made these men produce and putting them to to ascertain what wages are being uaid siliy and inconsequential ends.

individual soft coal mines how ever, that isn't quite the whole story, many hours a week the miners are Inane radio programs, dizzy movies, working, what the situation is to check moronic auto drivers and telephone keighraen and need for check Miss St. Louis gossipers are, after all only byproducts. important thing is that these bright and marvelous new tools have been put in our hands. We may mis- them for a while, and we may even -not tolerate it cm ourselves with them, but once we recognizes that men and other similar matters. This administration has set its face like Hint against violence by any people or from any source and will At the same time it working and living scientists who brought them forth win -F the conditions of the miners are a matter oe vindicated.

-TM-- of deepest concern to the government and people of this Commonwealth and It proposes to get the facts concerning Consider the raaio, for example, them in detail as promptlv as possible Seme fcariul tripe does get put on thej Pinchot there ver sc al Ln air. after jail, tnousands of lives vestigations already at work in the at sea bv the radio, bituminous area and that they would Gene Rafal, above, 19 and blond was selected by st, Louis stylists to represent the city the international beauty pageant at Galveston, 12, 13 and H. The indicator around to 121 pounds- when St. Louis" steps on the scales (Continued on Page Four) nas report to him. He added that no hearings would be held and that the investigation would be conducted secretly.

United Spanish War Veterans Daniel M. Bierer Camp. Regular meet jng tonight, at 7:30. G. A.

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S10.00 to $16.75 URNOi AGLES MEETING CLIMBS OF BED, SECURES SHOTGUN AND FIRES NEEDED BLANKETS Temperature hit 42 degrees last night, an exceeding low mark for June. At 2p.m. today however, things had warmed up with the thermometer reaching the 74 mark. WAS TRYiNG TO AIR PUMP ON FREIGHT REPAIR LARGE Taking up its task of showing hov Linford Fitch Ruth allegedly misapplied $60,000 in funds of the Title and Trust company of Western Pennsylvania-, of which institution he was president, the commonwealth entered into more vita! phases of the intricate case early this afternoon as E. K.

Dick, former secretary and treasurer of the bank testified to a number of checks paid at the direction of the elderly banker, especially those from which Ruth himself personally bene- ntted. The charges Ruth personally benefited by the $60,000 Waynesburg Coal company mortgage manipulation in the amount of apprJx (Continued on Page Two) (By United Press) YORK, June six- year-old boy, William Prone, today shot and killed his seven-Tear-old brother, Charles, after two had argued over a handful of crackers. Another brother, George 9 witnessed the shooting The two boys, George told police, were in bed and started to quarrel over possession of the wmiain finally climbed out of bed, went to an adjoining room and obtained a I'-au-e shotgun. He returned and fiid it Charles. The elder brother's face was blown away.

the -water bottle- of a bf- Pittsburgn and West Virginia I i BALE YAUGER IMPROVING Dale Yauger, young son of Mr. Mrs. Utofce" auger of Hop w(xxJ, is improving and is able to ba up and about in tne house. He is suffering from a gun shot wound accidentally inflicted by a playmate last week. th the Bowest yards near Dunbar George Simpson, 68, Dunbar, in the cab cf locomotive attempting to repSr a Stepson is in the Connellsvflle State I i C0ndi 011 The third annual summer session opened-this morning at the Uniontown Cemer, University of Pittsburgh, with an enrollment of over one hundred t.

reglStereci for seventeen dif- entire county is ferent courses. represented in the as good. Simpson, an employe the Dickerson Construction company, Wto at- mSke me ad the air pump. The water bottle broke and showered him with steam ana hoc water. Simpson managed agger from the cab to safety and thS alone saved his life, it is believed Tne locomotive, No.

923, was in the i se fair ants 0 Second of a series of liquor raids in onnie under the direction County Detective A. A. Downing resulted in the seizure of big moonshine and Hershel Mnerd and Era Bloom were arrested by the officers, Mr. Downing ENJOYA PLEASANT MUTES 0. C.

CIuss Lumber Co. Yards: Uniontown and Fairbanks Over Station Fairmont, W. at 7:30 P. A big turnout is expected at the reg- jUlar meeting of Uniontown Aerie No 828, F. O.

E. tonight when officers will be installed for the ensuing year. Plans also be completed for the Aerie's participation in the parade at the State Convention next Tuesday afternoon at MWVJJ. iiiver ancs Cnlef of utch Lunch" win be and a11 in default of $1,000 bail each pending a hearing before Alderman Russell Smiley. Visiting the three-story brick resi- dence in 137 West Peach street at 2 I o'clock this morning, the officers found Mrs.

Bloom and Minerd sitting in the I roorn of the house. A trip to the Isadore Picks, tried before Judge i the stracture revealed a John Morrow after an involuntary! 7 merril 5' boiling away, manslaughter count against him had of mash, 30 gallons of been ignored by one grand jury and 432 quarts of beer, 28 gal, true billed by another, was found not' Ions of and 100 pounds of bn I guilty by a jury returning a verdict Arrested last night by Federal prohibition agents, Cosmo Stengoni and Sandy Mucci, among principal figures in the Donohoe murder case investigation two years ago, were incarcerated in the Uniontown police station pending action by Federal authorities. Details of the arrest of the couple are lacking for the Federal men left for west Virginia headquarters immediately upon completing their mission here, it is understood. Stengoni and Mucci, who figured prominently in the Masontown liquor ring uphea'val sequel to the Donohoe being held, however it is understood, on a charge of conspiracy to violate a Federal prohibition act. Tiie violation is understood to have taken place in West Virginia.

The couple were arrested In the vicinity of Masontown. They will be returned to Fairmont, headquarters of the Federal prohibition commissioner for that area. MENALLE Tl COMMENCE EIGHT THIS NSHIP NT AT 20 HOUR FOB JOHY TO FBEE EASY STREET graduated. G. Rob inson county 5uperin liquor law violation charges TM a i She ISADOBE FIGKS IS jiTTED BY JURY 166,762 Are Offered Rolfs On Page 9 I ing assessed to the prosecutor, 'Assist- I ant County Detective W.

T. Walker Nick was said to have been a visitor 1 at the home of Mrs. Grace Marachini (Easy street, when officers pounced down' the residence, in course of tral he denied his guilt and his denial was A by Mrs. Marachiani who subsequently entered a plea of guilty to charges growing ouiTof the same case and was directed by Judge John Morrow to pay a fine "of S500 and sent to the workhouse for one year. tt WiUK The ury retireci at 3 p.

m. yesterday besides cA-SV ffoIIo children i remained out the entire night and oesio.es Geoige F. Stammler, Mrs. 1 Farted Us verdict A- -u- Bailes, Uniontown: Scott B. JDENLY OF A HEART ATTACK! Mrs.

fcara Stammler, 63, widow 01 George Stammler, died late last ni-ht? at the home of her son, George at Springhill Cottage due to a heart attack. Stammler, Grayling, at m. today. William Diehi Marion. Funeral sendees will be either Fri- urda depending on the ar- 5 frora The Mr.

Hoon of Pt. Marion will offi- presented to the December 0715 Aid Society of Fayette -County, 1930, grand jury and ignored. It was i stated this morning. re-submitted to the June, 1931. lurv AIrs declared at the time of ana an indictment was returned her arrest tha Minerd was a perfect aga.ns, him.

stranger and had been there only an ore officers ar7lved Communist demonstration occurred iast night in front of the United! States consulate. Windows Li a bank! were broken. Communists said the 1 RETURN TO CHARLEROI in company with his manifestation was a protest against tne 2j nc returtl Sunday uie i IO oeath sentences imposed upon eigN, i nanerci Bowing a short visit at the ncgrces in Alabama. Ol nrirT Ar There is a reason for this dramatic offering--If you are earning money and can buy you will get twice as much for your money--That's reason enough but more than that by haying you are putting people back to work who can't buy now and in turn they will soon be earning then- bread and butter. For your own sake id for your brother's sake buy wisely and buy well-but buy if you can- NSI OBEO IN STATE R.

ELECTION (By United Press) LANCASTER, a June Oil City, was elected ment commander of 65th annual 5 cctd Deluded: Harrisburg was selected for encampment. TWO THIS ADVERTISEMENT BT AUSLAXDERS. DISPLAY AD APPEARS OX PAGE tbe TWO WOMEN" ARE REp ORTED SLAIN SAuYERSVILLE, Ky, June 10- Sheriff Adam Carpenter and 12 deputies left for the Upper Licking Rive- valley last night upon receipt of information two men and two women had been slain from ambush they were hoeing com. WITH THE BUYING PUBLIC will be Silverman's motto more so NOW than ever before. to the WORLD WIDE DEPRESSION we are to make sacrifices in order to do our bit to ease these deplorable conditions, NEVER BEFORE in our history have we offered oar high class merchandise at the low prices existing in EVERY DEPARTMENT of onr store TODAY.

WE so do YOU, that by BUYING--and keeping money In circulation--conditions will more i easily be restored to normalcy. be given more people--if there is more buying and selling--and we are going to make it EASY for you to buy. We are willing to do our bit-and we are counting on the buying public to do the same. Beginning Wednesday morning, June 10th, the new prices will go into effect, In every department of our store. Come in and convince yourself that we are wholeheartedly doing more than our OUST THIS DEP8ES- SILVERMAN'S 56 WEST MAIN ST, WEST.