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MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1936. TEN PAGES. SPORTS TO PiAY IMPORTANT PART BELABOR DAY Occupy Entire Fotenoon TVith Contests to- Attract Both Sexes. SOAPBOX DERBY IS BIG FEATURE Sports will play an important part in the all-day program arranged by the Connellsville High School Alumni Association scheduled for next Monday, Labor Day. The association, originally planning the event in connection its educational program and tying in with the golden anniversary of the Class of 1886, is now also planning to make the occasion one of welcome for Johnny Woodruff, former C.

H. S. track star who is expected home from the Olympic games on that day. The forenoon will be devoted to various types of sports under the direction of a committee of Robert Husnack. The soap box derby will be held in the area, and West Apple street- will be used.

for the roller skating and bicycle races. Field events will be at Fayette Field. The sports events will begin promptly at 9:30 o'clock, in order to permit their competition in time to allow participants to go home for lunch and then march in the afternoon parade. The first event will be the boys' roller skating contest, open to entries up to 15 years. Cash prizes will be given in each instance to first and second place winners.

Then the girls will compete. Afterwards, without delay, comes the bicycle races for boys and girls. It is open to every youngster in the city, up to and including 15 years age. At 10:30 o'clock there will be an open bicycle for girls of any ages. Brimstone corner will be the scene start of the soapbox derby.

It "will be run to Fayette Field and a purse of $4 will go to the winner. There will be $2 for the runner-up. Entrants may be of any age up to 16 years. At Fayette Field there will be broad, jumping, pole and 75 cents- being offered, first and second places. Some; of the best known athletes in the section have already signified their intention of partidpat- One-Arm Drivers Must Show Permits Or Face Arrest National Head of O.RC.

Envisions Four-Hour Day For Coming Generation Unless "one-arm" drivers in Fayette county can show special permits to operate machines with one hand while the other is encircled about the waist of a woman companion, they will be arreated by the wholesale and fined $12.25 each. This was the warning issued over the week-end by Corporal H. L. Istand, commanding the I'ayette county detail of the State Highway Patrol at the Uniontown barracks. The corporal explained that the "love" operators are in the same class in the eyes of the law as a man or woman who'has lost one arm.

The motor co'de provides that special 'permission is required by one-armed persons to operate an automobile. If a glare on a flashlight reveals only one arm on the wheel and the "boy friend" doesn't have the one- armed permit, he will be promptly arrested and fined $10 and costs with the right of appeal. There will be no exceptions nor any favors shown in this crusade, the corporal explained. A crusade against speeding also was started Sunday wilb. the higl- way patrolmen, "clocking" the suspects for a quarter of a mile.

If the speed is greater than 40 miles per hour, the patrolman's whistle will herald arrests. The 20-mile an hour limit will be strictly enforced in a 'into Gallup. He left Dashes ol various kinds are on the schedule, and three-legged ract is expectsd to be a big feature. It is planned to conclude all sports events, with Uie exception" of a mushbalr-ganre; -by 1 o'elodv-or earlier. The tall game win follow the afternoon program.

DoininicanTatEers Slaughtered by Reds By United Press. Aug. Romanes, Vatican organ, reported today that five.Dominican fathers in the Convent' of Saint Gervasn in Barcelona'were barbarously slaughtered by Spanish Communists. Two of the fathers were professors in Rome's Argelicum college. ROSCOE TURNER HURT SLIGHTLY IN FIRST WRECK By International News Service.

GALLUP, N. Aug. Roscoe Turner, famous speed pilot, was Los Angeles by train early today, barirg a few minor bruises incurred when his bullet-like racer crashed at 9:40 A. M. Sunday on an isolated farm on the Zuni Indian reservation 60 miles" south of here.

It was Colonel Turner's first crackup in 19 years of flying. The plane in which he was flying cross country had 150 gallons, just enough gasoline to reach Albuquerque, Colonel Turner said, when his carburetor cut out, causing the motor to idle without enough speed to sustain it. Forced to land, the left wing due soft the plane. An Indian herding loaned the aviator sheep nearby a horse and posted and restricted areas. Even with no cars approaching in the opposite direction, operators driving to the left of the center line, to the extent of a few inches, will be arrested and fined for a of the code which provides right-side driving.

Particular pressure will be brought against highway hogs. Boy 15 Confesses Killing Aged Woman CHICAGO, Aug. the MADRIn electric chair loomed for 15-year- valid widow. The serenity with which the red- haired boy accepted his predicament amazed authorities. The youngster, an avid reader of detective fiction, apparently was more perturbed over the solution ol his "perfect crime" than the murder charge he faces.

"I didn't really mean to go so far as to Mil her," he remarked, "but I don't think: they'll convict me because I'm too young. They wouldn't send 'a 15-year-old boy to the electric chair." The state, however will likely ask the death penalty, Assistant- State's Attorney Kichard Devine declared today. Apparently unable' to realize the enormity his crime, Holahd slept soundly in" his jail cell last night. He was. sound asleep yesterday when police arrested him at his home for questioning.

Just Off the Wire BERLIN, Aug. Russia's purge of Trotikyitej suspected of complicity in a plot to assassinate Dictator Josef Stalin and other high Moscow officials has extended to the soviet fleet, the newspaper Berliner Volkszeitung. said today. Even mmleT V. M.

Moltov is under suspicion, ihe paper claimed. VIENNA, Aug. Casol of Koumania and Madam Magda I.upescu. auburn-haired beauty for whom he once forsook: his throne, are closer together than ever a result of last week's cabinet shuffle, Bucharest advices said today. Although in the recent past there has been strong agitation against Madam I.upescu, especially among anti- gemetic groups, her strongest Mip, porter, Vice-Premier Jobn Inclulotz, has now become Roumania'B new strong Hamilton Reassured By Landon's Tour CHICAGO, Aug.

Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in a statement last night that the maiden campaign tpur just completed by Governor Alf Landon, Republican presidential nominee, 'had given party leaders "reassured confidence" of success in November. DIPHTHERIA FATAL TO SMALL CHILD Samuel Little, four years son of Grover and Bessie Nixon Little, James A. Phillips of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, National president of the Order of Railway Conductors, and Mrs. Agnes Whelan' of Oklahoma City, grand head of trie Ladies' Auxiliary, were included among 17 speakers who addressed the open afternoon session of the Pennsylvania State Association, Order' Railway Conductors, Sunday in Eagles Hall, attended by more than 200 persons. Tlie association meets only in Ihe months having five Sundays.

During the morning business period, the officers were reelected and it was decided to hold the next meeting on November 29 at Harrisburg. The staff chosen follows: Chairman, William A. Major, Harrisburg, who presided at the conference; vice- chairman, H. O. Cook, Duncannon, and secretary-treasurer, H.

A. Peters, Harrisburg. The rest of the tima was given over to a general discussion of the political situation in the State and Nation. Mrs." Whelan said that the depression has taught the people that "we must live by the golden rule" in that the welfare ol others materially concerns everyone. Mr.

Phillips spoke of the accomplishments Ihe organization in bringing about reforms in working conditions of members, citing particularly the seniority ru'e, adoption of multiple safety measures and the shorter hour day. Mr. Phillips said that the slow evolution has seen the reduction cf working hours of anywhere between 18 and 24 down to eight and r.ow a movement, is afoot to make a working day six hours. "And possibly the next generation will go a step farther and demand a four-hour day," he said. The grand president tola of the bitter fight that was waged oefore Congress enacted an eight-hour day law, declaring that the ruling on its constitutionality was not nandod down until after the railroad iin- pioyes had decided on a strike.

He then launched into a brief discussion of the Railroad Retirement Act, constitutionality of which is now being considered by the Supreme Court, saying: "If we ajair and justlaw through we have "just tacking rebels were driven back, with as much powerful economic means loss of many men, including scores. as before, and it's not too Ute' yet," of Moors, the government stated. In intimating that if the need arises the one clash here, the opposing armies organization would approve a strike fought a hand to hand encounter i to bring it about. guided him on an 18-mile ride into the Zuni pueblo, where he caught an i here at 8:35 P. M.

on a westbound passenger train. Colonel Turner was bruised about the head, neck and shoulders. A physician here said his injuries were not serious. MADRID CLAIMS VICTORIES ON TWO FRONTS By International Service. ist in -Madrid's lett- in western stry announced.

In the Sierras EUROPE TOLD DUCE HAS EIGHT MILUONSOLDIERS All Beady for War on Feu Minutes' Sotice, Dictator Tells Army. SPEECH IS AIMED AT LEFT WINGERS SPAIN WARNED U. S. NEUTRALITY MUST BE STRICTLY RESPECTED SNOW AT KANE, MERCURY DROPS TO 30 DEGREES with bayonets and hand' grenades for more than three hours. The speaker declared that the older men will stand behind the young The insurgent leader, Colonel employes in such a call to get a just Garcia was reported, to pension law.

have been seriously- wounded and then took up mergers with taken to Valladoid for hospital treat- other railroad orgnizations and said At Huesca, government forces repulsed an insurgent sortie and killed 35 rebels, it was reported. Black Legion Trial Delayed to Tuesday DETROIT, Aug. of a 'dozen Black Legion members charged with the wanton slaying of Charles A. Poole, WPA, worker, was adjourned today until tomorrow when the first jury panel will be called. Circuit Judge Joseph A.

Moyniban ordered the adjoHrnment after ruling that Thomas R. Craig, one of the defendants, must stand trial for the slaying last May 12, when Black Legion members shot Poole on the outskirts of Detroit as he started to protest his innocence of wife beating charges. MOOSE TO CHECK NEW HOME PLANS THIS EVENING Hopeful that work on construction on the new home of the Loyal Order of Moose in West Apple street will died at the family residence in begin about the middle of the month, Davidson Hill at 2:30 o'clock Sunday i the building committee will meet to- morning after a four-day illness night and carefully check over the with diptheria. In addition to the" parents he is survived by two sisters and one brother. The funeral service was held at 1 o'clock this afternoon with interment in Hill Grove Cemetery.

plans and specifications. By International Service. AVELLINO, Italy, Aug. armed forces prepared for a general review by King Victor Emmanuel today as formal conclusion of a week's war maneuvers following a fighting speech by Premier Mussolini, who termed a lasting European peace "absurd" and warned his neighbors he has 8,000,000 men for war. II Duce assented he is ready to hurl 8,000,000 fighters against enemies of- Fascist Italy "on a few minutes' notice," if war breaks out in Europe--and he made it clear he i expects the present armaments race to lead to war.

Interpreted ail an ominous warning to Soviet Russia and leftist France and Spain, Mussolini's words formed the most momentous speech he has made since announcing formation of Italy's Ethiopian empire, Addressing 60,000 troops who participated in the war games, Mussolini declared they formed only a small part of the aimy Italy can count on "to preserve armed peace in the midst of Europe's chaos" and meet whatever emergencies destiny holds in store." Thunderous cheers greeted II Duce as he--like an ancient Caesar--commanded his listeners: "Listen to me!" Calling on every Italian man and woman io be ready to do their part, he shouted: "This is my personal edict in the face of certain political situation obscure indirect By United Press. KANE, Aug. fell in Kane today. The temperature dropped to 30 degrees. Furnace fires were lighted.

which are ambiguous and and in the face of the antagonism to the peaceful wishes of the Italian people. "This is the order of the day for all Italians. "The order of the day for Italians is fascism. "We must be strong, always more strong--so strong, that we can face and look into the eyes of anything destiny offers. "The entire life of the nation will be subordinated to this edict.

This Borough, Township Registers Will Be At Polls Wednesday Registry assessors of all boroughs and townships in Fayette county and other places in Pennsylvania will be at their polling places Wednesday, September 2, for the purpose of registering voters not heretofore enrolled. This includes voters have moved into other districts, voters who have reached the age of 21 years and those who desire to change their political affiliation. In this connection, it is pointed out that any voter may see his registry assessor at any time- before September 2 and up to that date and have the change or addition njade. The hours for sitting at the polls is 10 A. M.

to 3 P. M. and 6 P. M. tol 9f.

standard time. Persons whose names do not appear the registry list may have a qualified elector mske an affidavit at the polls subject to the approval ol the judge' of elections that they are qualified to vote, otherwise they cannot receive a ballot. Persons residing in Connellsville and Uniontown and other third class cities have until October 3 to register at the office of the county commissioners. In order to accommodate thos'e of the city, the county commissioners propose to spend at least one day. Those who will be voting for ihe first time, others who "This warlike Italy stands over the just plain Jim, spoke of the peace Europe," loared financial assets and iis "Black Shirts: Smcu ithat "amalgamations are bound to come because one of the proper kir.d is good but it must be on a righteous basis," holding, however, that the O.

R. C. will mainta'a consistently as it hds in the past that the man with seniority is entitled to a dividend. Mr. PI who referred fo himself as organ! solvency and discussed the continued growth in the membership "but more important is the priceless'asset of the growing improved morale of the C.

H. C. members." Dealing with politics, the speaker said in part: "A man ought to be politically independent. He should go from one parly today to another tomorrow and if he does this will get him something in this country that shock Wall Street. He must tease to vote the way his grandpap clid.

He must go modern and cast his ballot where it will do the most good for labor. He must disregard the politician'with hot air because tie will get hooked." Mr. Phillips, saying that he was a II Duce's words were generally regarded as a defiant answer to the recently reported speech of Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia, calling upon Red Russia's forces to be ready for war at a moment's notice. Despite routine denials from Moscow that Stalin made the speech, reports concerning it created a deep impression in Italy. Mussolini pointed pridefully to: Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.

victory, he said, was not won by 'compromise on the table of diplomacy 1 but by "fine, glorious and victorious battle." iir ward since have moved from the last election and sire to change their party aifiliation should attend to their personal permanent Registration. maneuvers only 12 months have passed, but what things have hap- ppned! How rich these months have been in events whose effects are now being fe't and will be felt in the course of time." Loyalists Caught With Dynamite Are Executed LISBON, Portugal, Aug. thc last great i ty-seven leftist Rio Tinto native Action Follows Attark Bombing Plane on American Destroyer. MAINE INCIDENT ATTEMPT SEEN By ROBERT G. NIXON International News Service.

Aug. blur.t warning that America's neutrality must bo respected was laid before both factions in the Spanish civil strife today following an airplane bombing attack on the U. S. S. destroyer Kar.e.

American warships patrolling Spanish waters prepared to return "fire for fire" in the event they are attacked. The Kane, speeding Gibraltar to Bilbao on a mission of mercy to evacuate American refugees, was bombed Sunday afternoon 40 miles off the Spanish coast The attack was launched by an unidentified "m3-stery" tri-motored bomber which dropped six bombs at the Kane but which failed to score a hit. The plane fled as the Kane's anti-aircraft guns opened 5ce. President Roosevelt, infarmed of the incident in a telephone conversation with Secretary of Stfte Cordell Hull, directed that an immediate protest be made to both the Madrid government and the insurgent forces commanded by General Francisco Franco. Hull, in protesting the bombing, asked that "both sides issue instructions in the strongest terms, as the American government feels confident they will desire to do, to prevent another incident of this character," The "mystery" bomber, whoHy unidentified by any insignia, according to Lieutenant Commander J.

D. Alvis, commanding the Kane, launched three attacks on the destroyer. Each time it unleashed bombs. Whether the ship was a government or insurgent plane could not be ascertained, Alvis reported. The Kane flew the American flag at her foremasthead and another was laid out horizontally over her well deck, the American officer said.

The bombing, Alvis declared, was carried out with careful deliberation despite this display of the Jlag and the obvious American design of tha destroyer. The question was raised unofficially as to whether one side in the bitter fighting might be attempting to create anjther battleship Maine "incident," in a bold attempt to force American intervention. FISHING BOAT IN PORT AFTER NIGHT AT SEA By International News Service. NEW YORK, Aug. all Republican, intends to vote for I a the fishing boat Almira put into port at Point Lookout, Lnng Island, today alter being tossed about all night at the mercy of a raging President Roosevelt "although I didn't vote for him four years ago." "But I believe," he went on, "his record is such that every railroader, all unions and wives of these members, ought to give him consideration to put him back in the White House to finish his program." The speaker insisted that "if a working man is to get anywhere he must forget political party and support those candidates who will for his (the working man's) good." Tomorrow the committee will con- i After Hev.

David E. Minerd offered gale that whipped the North Atlantic coast. The little craft, carrying 25 persons, left Brooklyn for a day's fishing yesterday. When the engine became disabled, the Almira began drifting out to sea but emergency repairs enabled the ship to maintain headway and plow slowly toward shore. A few miles off Point Lookout, the tact contractors and ask for bids on prayer, Mayor Ira D.

Younkin do- asoline supply was exhausted. A the proiect to replace the structure I livered the address of welcome, invil-1 assin trawler was hailed and towed destroyed by fire number oi months ago. NORTH DELLMOKE, N. Aug. persons were reported to huve been killed in an airplane crash near here today.

The pilot it believed to have been Lieutenant Jack Bishop ol the air division of the Nassau County Police Department. The plane landed in a field. NEW YORK, Aug. Ruins of Ancient City Discovered in Arizona By International News Service. TUSCON, covery of a which lies under the ing the association to pay the' city Almira into port.

ers captured with 14 truckloads of dynamite by Spanish rebels enroute to executed today, according to reports reaching here. SEVILLE, Spain, Aug. headquarters today claimed insurgent troops commanded by Colonel Yagues are now "at the gates of Toledo," after four days of fierce fighting. The rebels captured 1,000 prisoners, it was asserted, as well as 20 One, 18-year-old youth, was field guns, 16 machine guns, 800 pardoned. The death sentence the miners ivas requested by special war council.

for LONDON FLIERS AGAIN DELAYED NEW YORK, Aug. for the third successive day by adverse weather, Harry Richman, Broadway entertainer, and Dick Merrill, transport pilot, now plan to take off tomorrow or Wednesday on their projected round-trip flight to I ond-jn. Possibility of a race across trie ocean loomed when Baroness Eva von Bhxen-Finacke announced she also would take off this week on a non-stop flight to Stockholm. Millsboro Bank Dividend. UNIONTOWN, Aug.

sixth and final dividend of 9.08 per cent will be paid by the First National Bank of Millsboro on Tuesday and Wednesday, Receiver E. S. Tyler announced. The payment will aggregate about 510,000, making a total distribution of about $85,000 or 82.08 per cent of the original deposits. rifles, nine trench mortars and 400,000 rounds of ammunition.

Insurgent leaders stated relief for more than 1,000 rebels who have been besieged in Alcazar fortress for more than six weeks by leftist militiamen in Toledo is now in sight. JOHN TORRENCE NAMED FOREMAN OF GRAND JURY visit again at some future 'irre. The address of Chairman William A. Major of Harrisburg was followed by a talk by Congressman J. Buell Snyder of Perryopolis, who said that "we're living in a changing world" and we should "strive to hand down a better social and economic world to the generations that follow us." He declared that social and economic conditions must be kept on an Ariz Aug.

support walls and keep them from ewn leveL or theie willFbe a dis buried city of "dog men" caving in," Cummings explained. "So result, etfijbutinj this un- ancient metropolis of Kinishba was ruins of the i these primitive people built them in vote tonight whether to call a strike that would halt movement of freight in the greatest port of the world and poiibly interfere with the food supply of 10,000.000 persons. NEW YORK, Aug. CumrmngS; who led a University cf Arizone expedition this summer into the Apache Indian wilds. The sunken village may dog fashion, by scooping a hole in the ground, and building crude stone walls or.

the side, roofing it over with brush. "The people of this village probably wandered away after living noted scientist said, and is thought to be one of the oldest ever found. E-irhart Putnam landed her bic I It lies directly under Kinishba, a city monoplane at Floyd Bennett Field of gigantic apartment houses, which today, tlie first of the contestants, to' Cummings has been excavating for the time ol Christ or before, ibe there a short time. The debris of many years filled the pit houses and then came the Kinishbans, vho built another city over it." The dog men were savages who gathered berries and ran down wild arrive for the start of the trancontln- several years. game for their food.

They wore lit- F.trndix air race Friday. She! "The buried settlement is the i tie or no clothing and worshipped here from Cleveland. age when man didn't know how Continued on Page Three. The Weather Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, somewhat warmer Tuesday is the noon weather forecast for Western Pennsylvania. Temperature Record.

1936 1935 Maximum 74 72 Minimum 32 32 Mean 63 52 Alice Longworth Says: JACKSON HOLE, Aug. 31. Special to The Courier. tonal dictator he ir.Sy even permit --The day doesn't look any too bright for Spam. Clouds of ifs blot out the sun.

The rebel high command says a if it wins it will establish a dictatorship and if the people want the king back they may have him. There are many implied ifs when vou read between some votes to be cast against his own scheme, whatever it may be at the time. If the rebels win they will wipe out the reds and if the reds win they will liquidate the Fascists. In either case, free expression of opinion will be abolished and newspapers suppressed. To an American it seems almost incredible that the rebels, seemingly on the verge of victory, should announce a program of tyranny and blood letting as if they were holding UNIONTOWN, Aug.

Torrence, retired, of 400 West Crawford avenue, Conriellsville, was named foreman of the September grand jury this morning, the ap- coming at the hands of Judjre H. S. Dumbauld. It was the court's first charge since assuming the bench and covered the duties the grand inquest from every angle and including its civil as well as criminal work. District Attorney James A.

Seilly had 25 cases to oring before the inquest as a part of the first day's Including these was a bill against Jess James Omdorff Franklin avenue, ConneUsville, charging him with the slaying of hsr, brother-m-law, Melvin Black. Law enforcement officers were the first to be caHed before the grand inquest. out bright promises. Abolutism in rosy Mrs. Lonsworth the lines.

If the government, red or white dictator feels inclined to give up his recognizes no rights but its job, when he has got it, he may give own the people a -chance to vote on the king, and if he is not a very dicta- Copyright, isse, McNaught Syadiatt, tee. ALICE LONGWORTH Missionaries Slain by Black Bandit Band By InterraitonaJ News Service. ADDIS ABABA, Aug. I. Devers, a Canadian missionary, and G.

Mitchell, New Zealand, were murdered by Ethiopian bandits today while trying to escape from their station Ethiopia, ceived here. Yerga Alem in southern according to reports re-.