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THE WEATHER Fair today and tomorrow, ably showers Monday. Wrmtlto Drtafla a Pm ALLENTOWN MORNIN gal: Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper Prob- VOL. XCIV, NO. 149 ALLENTOWN, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29. 1937 SINGLE COPT Three Ceata DAILY SUNDAY 15 Cent! Week DAILY It Cents Week Police Break Up Strikers' Parade Roosevelt Says Many Wealthy Evading Taxes Governor Earle Flies Back From N.

Y. to Sign 37 Bills Measures Approved Include Utility Regulating Law, Small Loans and Assessor Ripper Measure for Third Class Counties Steel Workers Union Appeals For Federal Aid Rebel Planes Kill 200 in Valencia; Hospital Struck Auto Racer Injured New British Premier American Consul Escapes Injury InRain of Debris sir i at 2 per cent. The old rate was 2 per cent. Legislators' Pay Raised Members of the 1939 session of the legislature will receive $3,000 instead of $2,500 by another bill signed. They also will get $750 for a special session of more than one month.

The pay now is $500, regardless of the length of the session. The traveling allowance of 5 cents a mile was not changed. The Governor decided to put to a court test the bill permitting merger of all city sinking funds in Philadelphia into a general fund for the discharge of all bonded indebtedness. He signed the bill, but said Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti advised him it violates both the State and Federal constitutions.

The Governor added that Mayor S. Davis Wilson informed him that the Philadelphia city solocitor considered the bill constitutional. Other bills signed: To provide for appointment of mercantile appraisers in Philadelphia by the auditor general. To permit the creation of housing authorities to provide dwellings for persons of low incomes. To require auditing of accounts of justices of the peace in second class townships.

To permit borough auditors to have an attorney. To regulate tax levies, bond Issues and procedure for rebuilding and acquiring bridges in counties of the second to eighth class. To require payment for treatment of inebriates at county poor hospitals. To regulate the sale of fruits and vegetables in original unbroken stan-(Continued on Page Nine) 4" 1 jiL-j I ii liu.mi" HARRISBURG. May 28.

OP) Governor Earle flew back from New York today and plunged into the legislation awaiting his signature. He signed 37 bills including the utlity regulating law, small loans and assessor ripper bill for third class counties. He vetoed one measure. The Governor met Mrs. Earle, returning from the coronation, in New York.

They flew back to the capital. He vetoed a bill introduced by Rep. Thomas Weidemann, Delaware Republican, to permit payment of taxes on separate parts of a tract of land. "This bill is undesirable in at least two respects," the Governor said. "In the first place, it would encourage the taxpayer to become delinquent in the payment of taxes on the less valuable portions of his property.

"In the second place, it would establish a procedure whereby a real estate speculator owning a large tract of land would be enabled to convey separate parcels thereof, and pay the back taxes on such parcels, and ultimately leave the residue of the tract go for accumulated unpaid taxes, at the expense of the general taxpayers." The utility measure gives the new public utility commission a more stringent enforcement law and makes the commission self-sustaining. The utilities would be assessed for all expenses of the commission, estimated to be $1,500,000 a year. The assessor ripper affects Luzerne, Lackawanna, Montgomery, Westmoreland and Delaware counties. The auditor general is empowered to make appointments immediately. The small loans bill fixes the interest rates on loans up to $150 at 3 per cent and on balances over $150 3 Killed, 4 Hurt In Hudson River Tunnel Explosion Drilling Machine Hits Stick of Dynamite in Hole in Rock WEEHAWKEN, N.

May 28. Three men were killed and four injur ed, one critically, today by a dynamite explosion while at work constructing the second bore of the Lincoln tunnel. The blast occurred 40 feet below the surface of the ground. The men were drilling rock preparatory to tunnelling under the Hudson river. With the first bore, recently completed, each section of the tunnel was to provide one-way auto traffic under the river between North Jersey and midtown New York.

Fellow workmen said the group of seven men caught the full force of the explosion when a pressure drill struck a stick of dynamite. The dead were identified as Salva- tore Ratti, 55, 41 Hopkins Jer sey City; Clarence Hall, Negro, 2323 7th New York City, and Joseph Xacey, 34, New York. Tahott Sellus, 58, Brooklyn, who was (Continued on Page Nine) Quints at Three Worth Million CALLANDER. May 28. (Pi-Five plump little daughters of Mr.

and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, dressed in their best bibs and tuckers, stayed up an hour late to celebrate their third birthday today. The million dollar quintuplets who starred in a movie and made their fortune by endorsing industrial products broke their usual routine to take part in a radio broadcast. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, master of ceremonies three years ago when the quintuplets first saw the light of day.

and master of ceremonies at the third birthday celebration, will have his own birthday party tomorrow. He'll be fifty-three. Aside from the radio broadcast, the day was just like any other day for Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Yvonne and Annette, who would probably have been ordinary Canadian girls if they hadn't been born at the same time. Instead of the ice cream, cake and candy they might have had if they weren't famous, the quintuplets had to stick to oatmeal, spinach and exercise. From St.

John. N. came congratulations of Canada's quadruplets, the Mahaneys, now 13 years old. Oliva and Elzire Dionne remained in the background, remembering that although they are the father and mother the children are wards of the British crown. Meyer's Execution Set for Week of July 12 HARRISBURG, May 28.

UP) The execution date of Alexander Meyer, of Chester county, was set by Governor George H. Earle today for the week beginning Monday, July 12. Meyer pleaded guilty in Chester county court to the slaying of Helen Moyer, 16, Coatesville High school girl. The board of pardons will consider an application for commutation of his sentence at its June meeting. Murray Sends Petition to Cummings Charges 'Unfair Labor Practices Two Members of Steel Work ers Organizing Committee Charge They Had Been Fired Upon by a Sheet and Tube Policeman Head of SWOC Tells U.

S. Attorney General 'Orders Have Obviously Gone Out to Shoot' YOUNGSTOWN. May 28. UP) Calls for federal intervention echoed above the orders of pickets today as the Steel Workers Organizing committee took a firmer foothold at the gates of three independent steel companies and sent in word to sign contracts or stay closed. At scattered points Chicago, Buffalo, Canton, and Monroe, Republic Steel Corp.

workers stood by their steel making, but more than 70,000 workers were idle along the southern rim of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. Philip Murray, SWOC chairman, came to Youngstown today, looked down the broad Mahoning Valley free of the smoke and soot of steel furnaces for the first time in months and petitioned Attorney General Homer Cummings for an investigation of what he called "unfair labor practices'" by Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. and Republic. The third firm involved in the strike is Inland Steel Co. Only a few hours before two SWOC members charged they had been fired upon by a Sheet Tube policeman.

"The plants of Republic Steel Corp. have stored within them all kinds of munitions of war, including ordinary guns, bombs, shells and other war materials," Murray advised Cummings. Claim Orders to Shoot "Orders have obviously gone out to shoot. The people will not long tolerate these vicious war-like tactics on the part of either Republic Steel led by Tc Girdler, or any other group." He also sent telegrams to J. Warren Madden, chairman of the Natioaal Labor relations board.

Chairman La Fol-lette of the Senate civil liberties committee and Governor Martin L. Davey of Ohio, who said he hoped to bring the company representatives and union leaders together next week." Murray said the SWOC would participate in the conference only "with the distinct understanding that the heads of the corporations (Republic and Sheet and Tube) will participate and with the further understanding tnat we will absolutely not compro mise our position." This position, Murray said was "sign agreement or not sign one." The 'companies have contended It was un necessary for them to sign contracts under the Wagner act. Republic officials said they had no statement to make at this time on whether they would attend the con ference. All along the strike line, extending from Republic's South Chicago plants to another Republican plant at Buffalo came charges, counter charges and de-, nials, but the actual picketing settled into a routine which bespoke consider' able preparation and a long siege. No word came from the officials of the three Independents.

The onlv serious casualty of the day was a FWA worKer Warren, (Continued on Page Eighteen) I Telegraphic News Briefs VANCOUVER, May 28. (Canadian Press.) Future Vancouver babies will have their names burned on their backs at birth with the rays of a water-cooled quartz lamp to remove any possibility of infants going to the wrong parents. The "sunburned" name lasts for six months and after that time can be brought back by the lamp. BAKERSFIELD, May 28. UP) A pack of wild dogs, believed crazed from hunger, attacked and severely injured two men and a boy in open country east of Bakersfleld today.

State police caught three of the animals. PASADENA. May 28. OP) A woman who left a note, "The conflict within myself makes for complete confusion," leaped 150 feet from the famous Colorado St. bridge today and was listed by police as the span's 76th suicide.

NEW YORK, May 28. OP) Two short, sharp earth tremors were recorded today on Fordham university's seismograph and were described as originating about 1.830 miles away in a general southwesterly direction from New York. ENDICOTT, N. May 28. UP) Bodies of two 20-year-old Endicott youths were recovered by police from Magic pond this afternoon, two hours after the kyak from which they were fishing capsized.

Parents identified the victims as A. Douglas Bruther and Robert E. Forbes. EAST GREENWICH, R. May 28.

UP) Coroner Frank R. Hill of this "town has resigned after 18 years during which he never had occasion to conduct an inquest, and never collected a fee. He was not. however, exactly disappointed. His father, Charles G.

Hill, was coroner 25 years before him, and collected investigation. At Chicago Plant Many Heads Bruised as Cops Swing Clubs on Demonstrators Hand-to-hand Fighting Near Republic Mills Woman Among IS Marchers Reported Injured by Union CHICAGO, May 28. (IP) A force qf club-swinging policemen repulsed a long file of marching demonstrators tonight in a hand to hand fight near the South Chicago plant of the Re public Steel Corp. Five paraders were left lying in the street as their associates retreated to a point several blocks distant from the scene of the clash. At union headquarters it was estimated 15 marchers were injured in the melee.

Among them was a woman whose name was given as Mrs. Lucille Cook, 27. She was bruised about the head. It was the third successive night on which the patrolmen turned back groups that gathered near the mill still operating despite the walkout called by the Steel Workers Organizing committee. The marchers, estimated to number about 1,000, formed their near the union's field headquarters a quarter of a mile away.

Behind a standard bearer carrying an American flag, they trudged toward the mill. They brushed past eight policemen at an intersection but approximately 30 officers in squad cars and on foot formed a barrier across the street two blocks from the Republic works. The parade proceeded to the blockade of men and machines. The fight ensued. Policemen, flailing clubs, came to grips with their adversaries.

The flag pole was broken. Holding bruised heads, the demonstrators retired. Officers fired six shots into the air during the melee. Dominick Esposito, Identified as the man who bore the National emblem, incurred a head injury. One of his companions retrieved the fallen flag, draped it about his shoulders and joined his fellows in retreat.

One patrolmen, his head bleeding and his ribs injured, was taken to the South Chicago police station for first aid. Casualties among the demonstrators were placed in cars by sympathizers and whisked away. The affray first of major proportions since the walkout was ordered followed a move by the strikers to strengthen their siege of the Republic works. Dean Released In $10,000 Bail GREENFIELD, May 28. UP) Free under $10,000 bail, Thomas E.

Elder, former dean of Mount Hermon School for Boys, tonight appealed to a "fellow lodger" at a Keene, N. hotel to help him refute a charge he imenaea to Kin anotner retired official of the Northfleld school Tuesday night. "I don't know who he was," asserted the 60-year-old, white-haired educator and cattle authority, "I only met him in the hall at about 10 o'clock Tuesday night in the hotel. I don't even know if he saw me." "But." he added. "I'd be tickled to death to have him come forward to help me." It was at 11 o'clock Tuesdav nieht when S.

Allan Norton, former cashier at the school, charges Elder threatened him with a shotgun as he was about to enter his home in t'lis city, 40 miles from Keene. Elder, smiling frequently, talked with newsmen at the home of his counsel, former District Attorney Charles Fairhurst, with whom he conferred for several hours after bail was provided for his release from Franklin county jail. He faces a hearing in district court here next Thursday on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Baker Recovering After Sea Operation ABOARD CUTTER TANEY TN MID-PACIFIC, May 28. UP) Peritonitis-stricken George F.

Baker multimillionaire New York banker, rallied today aboard his Honolulu-bound yacht after Navy, Coast Guard and public health service workers raced to his aid by air and sea. His 200-foot yacht, the Viking, more than 200 miles out in the Pacific, pressed on toward the island capital with all possible speed and expected to reacn port at 4 p. m. (7 p. E.S.T.) tomorrow.

Although Baker's condition was reported improved, Henry P. Fletcher, former chairman of the Republican National committee, who left the Viking recently and arrived in Honolulu today, expressed fear the wealthy banker "must be in worse condition than reported." Fletcher said he had learned Baker was "seriously ill" when the yacht first summoned medical assistance Monday night and said he was "afraid he may be worse after the operation" vi hich was performed aboard the yacht Tuesday night. The Call's Index Amusements Page 15 Answers to Questions Page 12 Birthday Greetings Page 10 Church News Page .3 Classified Ads Pages 19-20 Comics Page 12 Crossword Page 19 Deaths Pages 7-19 Editorial Page 10 Financial News' Page 18 Lippmann Page 10 News Behind the News Page 10 Pumpernickle Bill Page 10 Penna. German Page 7 Radio Time Tables Page 4 Serial Story Page 6 Sports Pages 16-17 Twenty-five Years Ago Page 10 Weather Page 5 Women's Page 11 Asserts Treasury Uncovers Glaring Cases of Non payment Urges Legislation To Close Loopholes Treasury Indicates Scores of Court Actions Will Be Instituted WASHINGTON, May 28. UP) President Roosevelt, declaring the Treasury has uncovered glaring cases of tax evasion by wealthy individuals, called today for legislation to tighten the federal revenue structure.

Mr. Roosevelt told reporters that investigations showed tax evasions and avoidances would run into millions of leaving no question that legislation at this session would be necessary to plug loopholes. Treasury officials declared that arrangements already are being made to bring both civil and criminal actions against evaders. Scores of suits probably will be instituted, officials said, and fraud proceedings will be recommended to the justice department wherever circumstances justify. The President, basing his tax evasion talk upon findings in a special Treasury survey, said decision on prosecutions rests with Government attorneys.

The Treasury survey was started after March income tax collections fell 17 per cent below estimates, to $700,000,000. The inquiry thus far has centered on tax returns of individuals, because many corporations asked extension of the filing deadline. On Capitol Hill, Chairman Dough-ton (D-NC) of the house ways and means committee, expressed the view evasions and avoidances by wealthy individuals were responsible for failure of income tax collections to level up with revenues. Doughton said that if wealthy persons had "paid all the taxes the law infcnded to impose, I believe we would have received all or more than was estimated." It was after the disappointing March collections that Mr. Roosevelt revised his budget for this fiscal year, hiking the estimated net deficit from $2,248,000,000 to $2,557,000,000.

The President said the type of tax evasions which have been uncovered could profitably be undertaken only by persons in the top income brackets. He emphasized that the vast majority of taxpayers filed unimpeachable returns, but added that instances of evasion have been increasing in the last 10 to 15 years. Evasions by upper-bracket individuals, the chief executive continued, works an injury upon all taxpayers. Mr. Roosevelt repeatedly raised the moral issue of tax avoidance.

He said that after Congress passes a tax law in good faith, making every effort to eliminate loopholes, men some persons hire high-priced lawyers to discover loopholes. Describing this as unethical and immoral, he cited as an example one ca in which, he said, a taxpayer with a yacht costing $100,000 a year to operate nad avoided about $50,000 in taxes. The yacht owner, he said, logically wouia oe expected to pay levies on the $100,000 operating expense, because it went solely for his own pleasure. Instead, Mr. Roosevelt continued the man incorporated the vacht.

turn ed over $3,000,000 in securities to the corporation and received deductions for depreciation and wages paid the crew. The chief executive asserted there were numerous other types of tax avoidance, and that Treasury studies thus far have only scratched the surface. President Fights WPA Earmarks WASHINGTON, May 28. (A) President Roosevelt, taking a hand personally in the effort to quell a house "revolt" over relief policies, sought to show today that the rebellion would mean fewer jobs for the unemployed. The administration wants for relief for next year, most of it to be expended by WPA accord ing to administration ideas.

House members, however, have tentatively earmarked $505,000,000 of the sum for specific projects such as WPA undertakings, flood control, highways. ana otners. Mr. Roosevelt said that $505,000,000. if so earmarked, would -provide jobs lor only about 100,000 persons.

If spent through the Works Pro gress Administration, he added, it would employ 630,000 persons. WPA projects involve less expend! ture for materials than some others. Influential House members indicated that there might be a compromise. This might involve, they said, a change in Administration regulations which would make $131,000,000 now in the hands of PWA available for WPA projects desired by certain con gressmen. Farmer Held in Death Of Plough-pulling Wife WOODBURY.

May 28. UP) John W. Davis, 65-year-old farmer accused of murder in the death of his wife Jodie, who had been helping pull a plow over a garden plot for several weeks, today denied responsibility for injury to the woman. A coroner's jury reported an illegal operation caused death, rather than the hard work attached to plow pulling. Davis was charged with performing the crude operation and will be given a preliminary hearing tomorrow.

Sheriff J. T. Smith said the farmer denied the charge. For several weeks preceding her death the farm woman had been helping to pull a mule plow over a garden plot. Immediately after her death Sheriff Smith investigated a theory that overexertion from this work had been responsible.

However, two physicians conducted an autopsy and found she had died of blood poisoning, resulting from an illegal operation. James Jones, chief deputy sheriff. explained the woman and her two children by a previous marriage pulled on a hickory stick attached to the plow, while Davis pushed and guided Norman Thomas, His Wife! Near Scene of Bombings British Embassy Says Bombs Dropped in Harbor Dam' aged British Freighter Pin-zon At Least 50 Buildings Demolished as Franco's Fliers Unleash Most Dam-aging Attack on Tempor-ary Capital Thomas Says Raid 'Diabolical' and Will Send Report to Roosevelt VALENCIA. May 28. UP) Relentless-Generalissimo Franco, who would be Spain's dictator, turned his war planes today against Valencia, the Meditera-nean seaport to which the Government cabinet fled Nov.

7 to escape the siege of Madrid. A dawn attack by five planes brought death to an estimated 200 persons. Observers said the ships were of Italian manufacture. At least 50 buildings were demolished. The Red Cross emergency hospital, identified by a huge painted red cross on its roof and with a Red Cross flag at the front of the building, was struck.

The British embassy announced bombs dropped in the harbor damaged the British freighter Pinzon. The terrific explosions blew men, women and children from their beds. Panic gripped the temporary capital for hours. There have been other sallies against Valencia, both by air and sea, but today's was the most damaging to this maritime city 190 miles southeast of Madrid. When the attack ended, of the city which in peace time is a thriving port with busy silk, tobacco and pottery factories were in ruins.

General Franco apparently had given up for the moment his drive against Madrid, its broad and once beautiful avenues pock-marked with shell and bomb craters. Its buildings shorn of masonry. His guns pounded at the Madrid capital for days. Hundreds have been killed there. But his army never got beyond the University City suburb.

Now Franco seeks, apparently, to terrorize Valencia, where the "win the war" cabinet of Premier Juan Negrin directs Spanish Government forces. (Capture of Valencia and the "win the war" government heads might be of greater importance now than taking Madrid). The base for his air attack on Valencia was believed to be the Island of Mallorca, almost due east. Americans Endangered Several Americans were endangered, but no American casualties were reported. Milton K.

Wells, American consul, was caught in a ram of debris but escaped unhurt. Norman Thomas, United States So-(Continued on Page Sixteen) Find 53 Bodies After Dam Break EL ORO, MEXICO, May 28. P) Fifty-three bodies had been recovered tonight from the mud and sand of an avalanche that engulfed parts of the mining town of Tlalpujahua, about 15 miles from here. Rescue workers believed they would find many other bodies in the debris, which in some places below the town reached a depth of 50 or 60 feet. Hundreds of men were digging into it.

The slow moving mass flowed down the mountainsides and over and beyond Tlalpujahua when a dam, holding back years of "tailings" from the Dos Estrellas gold mine, gave way after three days of heavv rains. It struck the mining town, which has a population of 10,000, before dawn yesterday. Destruction of property was wide spread. The sticky avalanche ex tended 15 miles below Tlalpujahua. covering El Carmen and Somosa haciendas and wiDine out croris and livestock on many small farms.

ine mua and sand reached a maxi mum depth of. 20 feet in Tlalpujahua proper. Municipal authorities said 700 families lost their homes. Parade Is Longer Than Town's Main Street FORTY FORT, Mav 28. (A) A parade longer than the main thoroughfare of this borough, near Wilkes-Barre, vas the perplexing problem that tonight confronted Charles F.

Stretch, parade marshal for Forty Fort old home week organization parade to be staged June 12. Stretch said the parade "is aulte a bit" longer than the two-mile lone Wyoming Ave. on which it will pass. He said his solution, although tenta tive, was to have more than half the parade form in the neighboring borough of Wyoming. In one of the divisions will be the full complement of batteries of 109th Field ArtUlery.

Wealthy Matrons Death Is Listed as Suicide NEW CITY. N. May 28. (P) Dr. E.

Hall Kline, coroner of Rork- land county, decided today at an inquest that Mrs. Charles Starbuck 28, member of the South Mountain colony near here, was a suicide. The verdict was announced after the coroner questioned several witnesses, among them Dr. Georee Bial- kin. New City physician, who tertifled the bullet wound in Mrs.

Starbuck's temple was eu-inflicted. New Dauphin Judge Sworn In HARRISBURG. Mav 28. UP) J. Dress Panneil of Steelton, former deputy attorney general, was sworn in today as judge of the Dauphin County Orphans court.

Th-? judgeship was created by a recent act of FRANK McGURK Speedway Trials Result in 2 Dead And Five Injured One Car in Flames Crashes Into Pit, Burning Up Another INDIANAPOLIS, May 28. UP) Two men died in accidents at the Indianapolis motor speedway today as drivers performed at dizzy speeds in tests for Monday's 500 mile race. Two crackups resulted in the two deaths and the injury of five persons. t-reorge warford, 37, of Indianapolis, standing with a pit crew, and Albert Opalko, a mechanic of Gary, Ind. were the two killed.

Warford met death as a car driven by Overton Phillips of Los Angeles its gasonne ranic punctured bv a broken bit of mechanism, burst int: flames and out of control, ran wild into the pit section opposite the main grand stand. The blazing car collided with an other machine being prepared bv Vern Orendorff for a speed test, set thl3 machine afire and both were destroyed. Injured in this accident were Phillips, Walter King of Binghamton, riding with Phillips; Otto Rhode of Toledo, chief engineer of the Champion Spark Plug and Anthony Caccia of Bryn Mawr, whose brother, Joe Caccia, was victim of a flaming crash at the speedway several years ago. Rhode and Caccia were in the pit i and were caught in the path of Phillips' car. The wreckage of the two cars was hauled away and drivers again took the track for tune up tests and qualification runs.

Just before dusk Frank McGurk of Los Angeles, with Opalko in the mechanic's seat, started on a qualification trip of twenty-five miles. He had completed four laps of the two and one-half mile track when disaster overtook him. A connecting rod broke and the ca-plunged through an inner rail ani rolled over and over, hurling out the two occupants. McGurk was taken to a hospital. His condition was described as serious.

McGurk's accident ended the qualifying attempts for the day. None qualified. Additional qualifying trial will be held tomorrow. McGurk traveled at approximated 119 miles an hour for the four laps of his qualifying run. The lap which he finished just before the crackup was at 119 443.

One of the men fell out of the car as it overturned the first "time and the other was thrown about thirty feet on the second turn. Speedway officials said tonight that Warford was a former race driver and mechanic and obtained track credentials today in an effort to be come associated with one of racing crews. One place still remains to be fillel in order to have a full field of Vi cars for the start of the race Monday. N. Y.

Barbers End Strike; Hairdressers to Go Out NEW YORK. May 28. UP) Just a New York's 6,000 striking barbers reached agreements with their employers today, the hairdressers and cosmetologists union called a general strike of 7,500 operators in 3,000 beauty shops for next Wednesday. The cosmetologists are demanding a 48-nour week and minimum wages in various classifications Barbers on strike in four sectors of the city will return to their chairs as soon as contracts are signed with Individual employers. John Tartamella.

International rep resentative of the Journeymen Barbers' union, announced that the strike would be extended next week to outlying sections of the city. Doctor Says Reilly Wanted Monaghan's Nose Fixed PITTSBURGH," May 28. UP) Dr. Sataldo Corrado, personal physician to District Attorney James A. Reilly who is on trial charged with murder, lesunea roaay Reiny asked an under han's battered nose so "it would look different." The State contends Monaghan was beaten to death in the Bertillon room of the Fayette county detectives last Sept.

12 in a "third degree" attempt to make him confess to slashing a county detective. Drowns as Boat Vosets HARRISBURG, May 28. UP) Paul Ricker, of Hummelstown. drowned in the Susquehanna river today, and his companion. Frederick Houser.

also of Hummelstown. was rescued after their boat went over a dam and upset. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Baldwin Quits; Is Succeeded By Chamberlain King-maker Steps from Brit ish Premiership to Live Life of Ease on Farm LONDON, May 23. W) King. maker Stanley Baldwin stepped from the British premiership into private life today, victorious to the last In his fight to keep Wallis Warf ield from official membership in the British royal family and with the duties of government given safely into the hands of his chancellor of the exche quer, Arthur Neville Chamberlain.

The 69-year-old "Honest Stan" who kept Mrs. Warfield from becoming queen by marriage to Edward VIII in the battle over constitutional rights of a monarch last December, appeared tonight also to have prevented the American-born divorcee from becom ing "her royal highness" when she marries Edward In France June third. Friends of the now Duke of Windsor said today they had received a telephone message direct from him that he had lost the fight to win the royal rank for his bride to be. A "letters patent" by King George VI was expected shortly to announce the status of titles with Mrs. War-field probably to become the Duchess of Windsor but without the "H.R.H." that would rank her with other women married to sons of the late King ueorge v.

Baldwin drove early in the morning to Buckingham Palace and tendered (Continued on Page Nine) Golden Gate Bridge Opened SAN FRANCISCO, May 28. UP) Automobiles streamed across the Golden Gate bridge at a rate estimated at 3,000 an hour today as the great span opened to motor traffic with spactular salutes from 300 lighting planes, the United States fleet and uncounted thousands who watched and cheered. President Roosevelt gave the siznal for the historic moment when he pressed a button in the White House at noon (3 p. m. EST).

The resulting eiectncai impulse ngnted a traffic control on the bridge. Massed naval planes flew In from sea and soared over the $35,000,000 span an hour before opening time Both sides of Golden Gate. San Francisco's harbor entrance, were lined with crowds and motorists anx ious for the "go" signal. A rush of pedestrians comnlicated matters for the hardworking bridce personnel. Despite the fact that 202.000 nedes trians tramped across the two-mile span yesterday in preliminary onenintr festivities, another 9.000 stanmeded the barriers when the "co" sienal iiasnea.

As was the case the day before, the computing coin boxes proved inade quate to handle the deluge of pedes, trians' nickels. The bridge manaee. ment resorted again to tin buckets to catch the unexpected windfall. Mexican Catholics Stage 'Stay-in' Strike in Churches NOG ALES, SONORA. Mav za.

wf) a "stay-in- strike by which Catholics hoped to force the Mexican government to reopen their ion? closed churches spread today through out the State of Sonora. More than 100 worshippers continu ed to occupy pews of the Noeale cathedral, whose doors they broke open last night. From interior cities of Sonora came reports that similar demonstration's were in progress at other churches, padlocked several years ago in a dispute between Church and State. The religious strikers here declared they would remain in the Church until the government returned th property to church officials. Bishop Juan Navarette of Sonora arrived today and appointed Father Ignacio de la Torre pastor of the Nogales cathedral.

A large crew of men worked busily repairing the long vacant church an? placing it in order for services. Stroudsburg Engineer Ends Life in Montreal MONTREAL, May 28 (Canadian Press) A coroner's Jury returned a verdict of suicide today in the case of Louis M. Myers, 55. contracting en gineer irom Btrouasburg. who died yesterday a few hours after he was found wounded in a washroom of the Canadian 'migration detention headquarters.

Authorities said Myers v. as being held on a charge of obtainine money under false pretences. Goebbels Calls Upon Catholics To Stop 'Slander' Threatens to Summon Hierarchy Into Court to Testify Under Oath BERLIN, May 28. UP) Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels called upon the Catholic hierarchy to cease what he called its "slander" of Nazi justice under threat of being called into court to testify under oath. Goebbels, in a speech of an hour and a half which was billed as an "answer" to the critical words of George, Cardinal Mundelein, in Chicago, mentioned the cardinal but once.

Instead he devoted most of his speech to a bitter attack on the Catholic clergy in general. Of Cardinal Mundelein he declared: "A Catholic cardinal in America named Mundelein made a speech in which he insulted our fuehrer (Adolf Hitler) in the most unqualified manner and called me the crooked propaganda minister Germany who has these trials (trials of Catholic priests and lay brothers on immorality on Page Nine) 3 Years for CCG In Compromise WASHINGTON, May 28. UP) A "compromise" giving the CCC a three- year lease of life appeared today to have settled an acrimonious disputi in Congress. President Roosevelt had asked that the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of his 'favorite agencies, be made permanent. The Senate agreed, but the House objected.

Contending that Congress should keep a check on depression-boin agencies, house members voted a two-year extension. Today a conference committee representing both chambers agreed on the compromise, which now must be ratified by the Senate and House. Three more years of life for the agency which has given jobs an.1 citizenship training to nearly 2,000,000 youths since 1933 would extend it to June 30, 1940, near the end of Mr. Roosevelt's second term. Under the compromise, a Senate amendment providing civil service status for administrative employes will be taken to the House for a separate vote.

Hunt Negro in Slaying Of Woman in Factory PHILADELPHIA, May 28. (IP) A Negro from whom three men told police they bought stolen goods was sought today in the murder of Mrs. Rose diSano, 55, of Camden, found beaten to death last Friday in a South Philadelphia clothing factory. The men, Harry Zimmerman, Morris Young and Louis Lash, were held in $10,000 bail by Magistrate Atkinson Costello on the stolen goods charge. Detective David Malone testified at their hearing that stolen goods valued at $50,000 were found in Zimmerman's apartment.

Among them were several pairs of trousers that were stolen from the clothing factory where Mrs. diSario worked, Malone said. Zimmerman testified he bought the trousers "from a colored man" whose description he gave. stroy redeemed currency when It is of a kind no longer being issued. This had the effect of making the remaining Green collection more valuable, it was said, by reducing the number of rare notes outstanding.

The batch of unwanted currency was carried into the Treasury yesterday by Rogers D. Clark, cashier for the First National bank of Boston, to whom representatives of the Green estate had given it for redemption. Flanked by lrivate detectives. Clark asked a Treasury guard for "the man who redeems old currency." Directed to the redemption division, he received a check for the face amount of the notes. Among the currency were rare old silver and gold certificates and national bank notes.

Only one piece was not destroyed by the Treasury a $500 note issued under the 1864 banking act. It was better preserved than a similar one in the Treasury's own currencv exhibit, and will be placed in that i aispiay. Million in Rare Currency Given U. S. for $198, 1 76 WASHINGTON.

May 28. A suitcase full of rare currency was hacked to pieces and burned today at the Treasury. Authorities said it would have been worth $1,000,000 in the collectors' market. They disclosed that the currency was from a collection started by the late Hetty Green, once rated the world's wealthiest woman. It was turned over to the Treasury for its face value of $198,176.

The collection is one of the most valuable in the world, officials said, containing two sets of all notes ever issued by the Federal government. Explaining why the Green estate handed over currency worth $1,000,000 for less than a fifth of that figure, officials said James Wade of the Chase National bank at New York had advised this be done. They said Wade suggested that, where the collection contained more than two of any type of note, the extras should be redeemed. The usual Treasury policy is to de-1 WARSAW, POLAND. May 28.

UP) A bomb exploded today in the office of the Association of Polish School Teachers, injuring two persons setting fire to the building and destroying many documents. BOSTON. May 28. OP) By a vote of 29 to 8 the Massachusetts Senate tonight favored enactment of a "baby" Wagner labor relations law. The measure was passed by the House of Representative earlier today.

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