The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 1

WEATHER Western' Pennsylvania: Shovers tonight and probably Wednesday morning in south. Showers tonight and fair--Wednesday in north portion. Cooler Wednesday. "THE PAPER THAT GOES INTO THE HOME" FINAL tfm I I VOLUME 48. NO.

188 UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1936 TWO CENTS COUNTY RECOVERS FROM BIG STORM Two Of Many Scenes Of Local Storm Damage Last Night Whyel avenue, completely blocked for 16 hours by a huge tree blown down at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. --Photos by Swetnam, News Standard Staff Photographer. Temporary school building at Oliver No. 1, a total wreck. The permanent building was considerably damaged.

Hunger March Army Storms The Capitol 2,000 Men, Women Jeer i Legislators And Demand 'Action HARRISBURG, July to break a partisan and force a legislative appropriation of 5100,000,000 for un- relief, 2000 "hunger marchers" stormed Pennsylvania's ornate assembly halls today. Recess picketers were reinforced CUT BY GLASS When the window through which he was watching the storm Monday evening crashed against him, Joe Greaves of Braddock avenue, had an artery in his arm severed. Members of the family rushed him to the offices of Dr. Baltz where several clamps were used to close the wound. Although weakened from loss of blood Mr.

Greaves was back to work this morning at the Greaves Service station in Fayette- street. EVACUATION OF ALL AMERICANS IN SPAIN Special Guarded Tram Is Likely From Madrid To Mediterranean Port. Michigan Officials Hunt For Kidnaper (Continued on Page Fourteen) Today- Miami Prepares For Coast Gale Worst ever. -ok-We needed that rain, but not the gale that brought it. It was the most destructive storm of its kina! Hurricane SweeDing I in the memory of the oldest in-; habitant.

i --ok-- i Luckily, "Uniontown escaped hurricane center which tore through I Brownsville to Brier Hill, veered northeast to sweep through; MIAMI, July 28 --(UP)-; This vacation city "boarded up" to- urncane Sweeping From The Atlantic. WASHINGTON, July have been completed to evacuate the Americans' 'and Bother foreigners in Madrid from that city to the Mediterranean coast Thursday morning, the State department was officially advised todav. Governors On Radio Six governors will speak over the radio tonight to tell the nation what was wron? with Gov. Alf Landon's GOP acceptance speech. They will be Governors Henry Horner of Illinois.

Charles H. Martin of Oregon. R. L. Cochran of Nebraska, Clyde L.

Herring of Iowa, George H. Earle of Pennsylvania and Theodore P. Green of Rhode Island. Police Chief Wounded As Two Bandits Escape In Stolen Car. WITNFSS SAYS ffllilLiJu i i i Connellsville.

-ok-But it was enough. --ok-GOP loudspeakers say Gov. Lan- rom don is in a state of sincerity. Watch Jim Farley claim it. -ok-- day and ordered its relief agencies Funny how Japan and Italy faded lout of the world news.

But they'll be back, never fear. --ok-If we were running that show in Spain we would give box seats to I all the bulls. to "stand by" for possible damage a tropical storm sweeping across the Atlantic on' a direct line toward Southeastern Florida. Although this is not the hurricane season and weather reports indicated the storm probably will not reach hurricane intensity, county disaster committees, organized after the devastating Florida Keys storm WASHINGTON, July State department hurried plans for evacuation today of 160 Americans in the U. S.

Embassy at Madrid a-s rebels were reported massing for a new attack on government defenders of the Spanish capital. Third assistant secretary Eric C. Wendelin, in charge of the embassy, reported he was ready to begin evacuation immediately upon assurance from the Spanish government that the way is clear to a Mediterranean port. A report was expected momentarily from Valencia, where a train which left Madrid yesterday is due. If this train gets through, as expected, Americans will board an- rnment guard, Wendelin said.

Nine Quertinmont Glass Claims OK SOUTH HAVEN, July- State police blockaded all highways in Western Michigan today when an alarm was broadcast that two unidentified men had kid- naped Everett Stedman, 20, at Fenn- jville, after shooting the Chief ol Police of Zeeland, near Holland. The two men commandeered Stedman's automobile at Fennville at 5:30 a. m. when their own machine wai abandoned. The wounded officer was Fred Bos- ima, 37, police chief, who i was critically wounded when he Occupant Of Room Next To Helen Clevenger Tells Important Details.

ASHEVTLLE, N. July 28--(UP) Helen Clevenger pleaded piteously for her life just" before rrx she was criminally assaulted and shot to death in a hotel room nere 12 daysi ago, Sheriff Laurance Brown was informed today. Mrs. M. M.

Cowdin. who occupied a room adjoining the 19-year-old New York university student on July 16, told a reporter of hearing the 2.18 INCHES OF RAIN Yesterday's storm drove mercury down 28 degrees and brought a total rainfall of 2.18 inches over a period of several hours, Official Weather Observer W. W. Marsteller said today. Temperature was 94 at 2:30 o'clock and as clouds gathered began falling.

At midnight it stood at 66 degrees. It warmed up today, however, with the thermometer registering 32 at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. Brownsville, Connellsville Hardest Hit As Storm Scourges Region. Gas Company's Many Fees Allowed. last year, were prepared to start i relief work immediatelv.

No matter what happens to thej fc advisory warnings the rollms stone, the Rock of Gibraltar crarhorina vprv little moss these i storm was aoout iiu mnes east. gathering I days. very little moss these -ok-- southeast of Miami, moving more rapidly west-northwestward. "Indi- First. and best, storm pictures in i cations are that storm will reach News Standard today.

--ok-Newspapers are so inconsistent. Tiey insist on copy being one side of the paper only, yet on both sides of every page. extreme southeast Florida coast near Miami latter part of after- attended by gales over small area near center and tides above normal with increasing winds be--ok-- ginning near noon," a weather re- A fortune awaits someone who! por said, will invent a sandwich which con-1 Red Cross emergency organiza- a man crazy who claims he is chobee also were asked to prepare for action. Miami citizens were taking precautionary steps to protect (Napoleon? He's satisfied. Are you? --ok-Read the financial pages for re- orts on business gains and then; if you can reconcile the real! NemaCOlin UaSSCS In hews with the GOPolitical editorial Iravings.

--ok-- It took Uncle Sam a long while; find out. but now he knows that; IjrSr debts and Doker players" lOUs 1 L-- ohrmt onstration in the auditonum of the If IC JUoL C11C ortlllC. i i Nemacolin school on Thursday. July Old Mother Nature showed The class will meet from 7 to home real air conditioning yester-j o'clock, at which time the public is stores, houses and other property. Exhibition Thursday The Nemacolin literacy and citi- class will hold a public dem- Exceptions filed to the third and final account of the Quertinmont Glass company receivers were disposed of today by Judge Harry A.

Cottom who sustained nine claims and disallowed a tenth. Claims allowed against the receivership which, with the filing of the third account closed the books of its stewardship, were as follows: O. R. Brownfield Insurance sought to question the two suspects. and anguished moans, Sheriff Bosma was rushed to Br own was informed.

hospital at Grana- Rapids, where The report was telephoned Sheriff was treated for a serious i i Brown by a Boston newspaper, which said its reporter interviewed Mrs. Cowdin at a Maine resort. She i lost in the vicinity of Fennville was sald to be recuperating there shortly after state 'police found the! frorn the shock of her experience. wound. The trail of the fleeing men was! The U.

S. cruiser Quincy was AgTency $1 3 1 7 50 teaming up the Spanish coast with orders to await at Valencia or any other port to which Americans are evacuated, to take them out of the republic. Virtually all other Americans already have left Spain. The situation in Madrid, meanwhile. appeared somewhat eased for the time being due to continued failure of the rebels to break through government lines in the mountains north of the city.

The State department, nevertheless, instructed "Wendelin to get his charges out of Spain Raymond Dereume, S547.98. Jules J. Quertinmont estate, S16. Greensboro Gas company, 004.31. Estate of Attorney Charles W.

Baer, legal fees. $500. Lloyd H. Humbert, fees as receiver, $5,000. Jules J.

Quertinmont, fees as receiver, $800. Raymond Palmer, receiver. $2.000. J. K.

Spurgeon, attorney's fees, 51,000. The claim disallowed was that of the Quertinmont estate for $741.47. abandoned car. All automobiles were being slopped near South Haven while officers sought to find Stedman and the two men. It was not learned immediately lie To Have Parade Tonight 3 Groups To Participate; Starts At 7:30.

Shocked and crippled by one of the worst midsummer wind, rain and electrical storms in its history, ette county moved speedily to nor- i malcy today. One dead, a score of injured-and property damage estimated at 000.000 was the heavy toll of the cyclonic visitation of the elements which lashed out viciously in all sections of the county. Churches, schoolhouses. business buildings and residential houses I bowed before a gale reaching at i times a velocity of 90 miles an hour 1 and roaring away to a spectacular, blasting and driving accompaniment of lightning, thunder and rain. Farmers of the district, perhaps the worst sufferers, viewed their estates with sorrow and misgiving today.

They had watched their fields and crops burn under -a searing drought sun earlier in the summer" Some 28 different fire companies! witnessed their building ww i i i I i said that if the Maine sheriff's in ana organizations will participate in! trees, and in many Instances, stock rt anvt.hincr nmm-! bl parade at Republic wrecked, destroyed and killed by upheaval of the elements Brown said he had asked a Maine sheriff, whose name he did not reveal, to investigate the report. He i vestigation "reveals anything promising he mav go there to talk afc 7 3 0 clock as art what Bosma had sought to question Mrs the men about. It was learned at Grand Rapids that Bosnia had seen the men early this morning. He thought they acted suspiciously and when he sought to question him they fled. He followed in a police car.

One of the, suspects fired at Bosnia, the bullet striking the policeman in the mouth, coming out through the jaw. Bosnia continued the pursuit into Holland, where he sounded his siren to attract officers there. Then collapsed and Holland police took' up the chase. i the carnival being sponsored by the in a lifetime. Except for a bank JP ublic olu Pirc Service Reestablished who thought he heard screams in i The parade will be one of the largest Transportation, motor and rail.

the room about 1 a. m. the morning ever to ha een he that virtually suspended last night Miss Clevenger was slain. as (Continued on Page Fourteen) Brownsville, Masontown TM a as taken the lead in insisting that the DivOFCCS Are Requested Spanish government act immediately for the safety of foreigners in! Madrid. The position of the United States in taking the initiative was strengthened by the fact that Wendelin is now empowered to speak for nationals of Chile.

Cuba. Sweden, Norway, Austria and Panama as well as his own. Her husband had a custom of dragging her about the room by her hair, falsely accusing and beating Boy Friend Pestered Her So She Shot Him "She was more sinned against than sinner." Assistant District Attorney Harry A. Byrne explained today as he arraigned Mollie Cross- MIDWAY. land.

Hopwood Row Negress, for A bridegroom of Groom Killed In Wedding Tragedy Bride Critically Hurt In Automobile Wreck. and thousands are expected highways and railroad tracks were jNemacolin meets Republic, and the I second will be Friday evening when jthe Fairhope team plays the Repub- jlic organization. Communications, i (Continued on Page Eight) July -five minutes was sentence before Judge H. S. Dum- killed and the bride, critically injur-i i in However, firemen in charge of the! $9,000 Insurance Money celebration emphasized tonight's will be one of the biggest! unatched By 1WO Bandits in recent years and issued, 'a cordial invitation to the entire tri-, PHILADELPHIA.

July 28-- (UP) county area to attend." Joe bandits held up and'robbed a and Ralph DeMike are in charge of pair of Prudentiar Life Insurance arrangements. i company employes today and escap- r- ed With S9 of the company's hx-LOUnty, Detective monev which was being delivered to -mil TJ a nearby bank. IVlUSt ray Case LOStS, The bandits halted the automo- i bile in which a man and woman em- 1 Former County Detective John ploye of the company were trans- Hann must pay the costs of prose-i porting funds to the bank, snatched bauld on a charge of shooting Lee I ed, when the automobile in which Carter last March. her and once, when she was at a lodge meeting, struck her so hard "Carter was always pestering me. Mollie declared in her own behalf.

directed by a i the money and sped away hi a 'Jury. Judge H. S. Dumbauld they were departing for their hon- reed today ln refusin a moti(Jn of she had a stiff neck for three days. Mrs.

Georgia Shaver, of Brownsville, charged in divorce proceedings filed today against Roy Shaver. Edgar Thomson Workers 30 llay. dropping the temperature jiegrees in 30 minutes. ---ok-Hope there is no rain at Republic jonight when the fire laddies stage! Lheir big parade. They are hustlers.l Greene CIOCK.

at wnicn ume uie puuuu is -y TX ft invited to witness the work that is! lurn Lompany being done in aiding aliens in their efforts toward citizenship. i Literacy and citizenship classes, in under the educa- Republic boys. --ok-- tional program of the Works Progress Administration, have been of If all the trees and branches' great assistance in preparing these down yesterday were planted foreign-bom men women for nd would grow, the reforestation iroblem hereabouts would be solved. --ok- thelr appearance before the naturalization court, as has been evi- When all you ask of the world Is er 'Ced by the steady increase in Ihat go away and lei you alone-- applicants, both for first and second ou're getting old. I papers.

PITTSBURGH. July Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation's offer to pay time and a half for overtime was rejected as "of no benefit" today by workers in the company's Edgar Thomson plant. It was the first definite reaction among the country's 450.000 steel workers to the time and a half pay! plan, which was offered them last! week by most of the big steel pro-1 eymoon collided with a truck Bulger, near here. Jacob Cwiakala. 47.

and his bride. nee Angela Burda. 45. were being Carter later recovered in the Uniontown hospital. Judge Dumbauld.

tempering justice with mercy, directed Mollie to also of Brownsville. Thev were mar- a the costs and four months nized ried December 24 i ail beginning as of the date of son by a tormer marriage. 1 her Incarceration in March. Her driving their machine. He was in- be up tomorrow.

jured seriously. 1 Burda was attempting to outdis- GET STATE JOBS I tance Assistant District Attornev Harrv A Id "movable tooth re A. Byrne to set the costs bill aside. a PP liance nea City Hall on 'The case grew out of the or South SUi Reward if re- jcution of Mrs. Frances Grimpin.

to Dr. E. B. August Guerrini. of who married Mrs.

Lena Guerrini. of i Masontown, at New Castle. July l.i 1929. declared in proceedings start- driven from St. Anne's church.

Bui-: PerrvopoUs on a relief chiseling ger, where the wedamg wa? solem-j charge of which she was acquitted Joseph Burda. 20, the brides; Mr BjTne ir islcd that former Re lief Director H. H. Peterson was the real prosecutor and not Hann. Judge Dumbauld decided, how- Bldg.

was ed today his wife was abusive neglected her home and family. Mrs. Mary Miller, of Uniontown, charged her husband, Willard Mil- i ever, that Hann's failure to be in a group of wedding guests i on a subpoena when the case Among appointments to new state ur them. He rounaed a tried constituted sufficient rea- ler, of Uniontown, with deserting her May 1. 1933.

They were married October 29. 1923. positions announced at Harrisburgj curve crashed head-on with a large son why he should pay the costs today are those of Mary Stoviak, truck, the jury directed bill Uniontown, clerk in the Property and Supplies department at a sal- as the jury directed, highway. The machine rolled over i a to $62 5 0 twice and came up against ait WINDSTORM INSURANCE Best Coverage And Rates MARKLE-COMBS INSURANCE 407 Sec. NaH.

Bldg. I It is the third case in which of $900, and A. H. Seals. Dumbauld has sustained Jury township, Greene county' The bride was taken, unconscious, verdicts assessing police officers to the Highway department at a- to a Canonsburg hospital, where heri -lth costs of falling down at recovery was despaired of.

It trial. The other two were those in reported that her flrst husband was which state Enforcement Officer kilted In an automobile accident George Stann and Constable Colvin salary of $1.140. U. S. TREASURY Cash Balance $2.312.545.560.14 only a year ago.

Craft were prosecutors. STORM DAMAGED TREES! EVEX UPROOTED TREES OFTEN CAN' BE SAVED. For Broken Limbs. Pruning and Antiseptic Treatment Is Essential. Phone without obligation for advice.

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