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THE WEATHER Fair with Mmewhat warmer In south portion today; tomor row, Increaslnxlondlneu with rising temperature followed by rain tomorrow Yesterday'! tnuc. 36, BOOSTBVY BVRy ANTHRACITE tun za. ESTABLISHED 186 48, NO. 48 MEMBEB OP tml ASSOCIATED PRESS SCRAISTON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1929 TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS i mm FIBTI Summons Warren, Dean of Senate 6 Killed How Blast Wrecked Crowded Store Flam es Fanned Veteran Solon Fails to Rally After Relapse By Brisk Wind; Towns in Peril Passing of Wyoming Lawmaker, Thought to Have Been on Way to Recovery, Comes as Creat Shock to Colleagues and Friends Was Oldest Member of Upper Branch Hundreds of Woodsmen Engaged in Battling Fiery Torrent Fail to Check Conflagrations in Northwest Timherlands One Blaze of Incendiary Origin Sweeps Vast Area GRANTS PASS, Nov. 24.

Grave fears for the safety of scores of residents and several small towns between Gold Hill and Palmer Butte were expressed tonight by United States forestry service officials after hundreds of fire fighters failed to stop fires which were fanned by a brisk wind. (By the Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 Death today removed from the senate the man who had participated in more of ihe political struggles of that body than any other person in history Senator Francis E. Warren, Wyoming. Bricks, timber and concrete rained upon a street crowded with noon hour pedestrians, six were killed and forty three injured, and the damage shown above resulted when a boiler exploded In the basement of a Washington 5 and 10 cent store.

The entire front of the store was blown off, and here yon see rescue workers seeking bodies in the debris after the force of the blast had opened up a cavern thirty feet square In the A faulty safety valve In the boiler was blamed. Clemenceau to Be At Rest This Services for Former French Premier to Be Private, With Burial In Upright Position; Nation Plans Gun Salute on Land and Sea In Auto Mishaps Three Residents of Pennsylvania Victims of Motor Accidents in Western ATew York; Three Others Injured BUFFALO, Nov. 24 accidents In western New York took a toll of six lives over the weekend. Three of the victims were Pcnnsylvanians. Harry S.

Wager and Frederick W. Dasen, both of Warren, lost, their lives at Fentonvllle, when their car overturned. John Jablonskl, 40, Beach Ridge, met death when his automobile skidded from the pavement in North Tonawanda and upset In the ditch. Robert Studham, 17, St. Petersburg, and Loren Harmon.

17, Honeye, received injuries which caused their deaths when they crashed into a gravel laden truck on the highway near Olean. Fred Porcello, Olean. died from In juries received when he was struck by an automobile driven by Ira Hawkins. Cuba, N. near Olean.

In the accident which cost the lives of Wager and Dasen, W. Barton Hammond, son of the founder of the Hammond Iron Works; John C. McLaughlin, Wsrren telephone man, and Harrison Covert. Clarendon. tele phone executive, were slightly hurt.

Hammond was the driver. KILLED BY AUTO PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4 (IP). A man believed to be Stanley Zonsa, 55, Pittsburgh, was killed almost instantly early today when struck by a stolen automobile. The driver of the car escaped.

Warren Third Senator to Die In Few Months WASHINGTON. Nov. 24 VP). Death has exacted a heavy toll from a nine month old congress. Its hand also has reached Into an equally young presidential cabinet and taken the life of Secretary of War Good.

Not yet In regular session, the seventy first congress has lost three senators and nine representatives by death. Four of those elected to the house died before they had an opportunity to assume their seats. Senator Francis E. Warren. Wyoming, the last to go, was the oldest In years and point of service In the senate.

Less than a month ago. Senator Theodore E. Burton, Ohio, a beloved personage who had thirty years service In the house and senate, died after a lingering illness. Senator L. D.

Tyson, Tennessee, passed away In August. The body of Representative O. J. Kvale. Minnesota, a minister of the gospel, and the only Farmer Labor ite in the house, was.

found in the ruins of his summer cottage In the northwestern woods in September. The other representatives who died were Leslie J. Steel, Georgia; John J. Casey, Pennsylvania; Whitmell P. Martin, Louisiana; Charles W.

Roarke, Kentucky; Royal H. Weller, New York; Edward J. King, Illinois; Charles L. Faust, Missouri and William A. Old field, Arkansas, the Democratic whip in the seventieth congress.

Judge Berkey Civet Bond In Liquor Conspiracy Case PITTSBURGH. Nov. 24 UP). Judge John A. Berkey of Somerset county, common pleas court, ana fourteen other residents of the cour.ty indicted with him for alleged conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws, have posted bond for their appearance in court here when wanted.

The case has been set tentatively for tr'al next February. 40 DEATHS IN EPIDEMIC PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad. Nov. 2A OP). The British authorities in tha small island of St.

Kitts (St. Christo pher) are fighting a serious epidemi? which In the past four months has caused forty deaths among the Negroes. There have been 375 cases witnin that period. The disease fllarla of fllarlasls. DRIEST IMPROVED MT.

CLEMENS, Nov. 24 The condition of Representative VV. W. Grlest. Pennsylvania, who has bec.n 111 with pneumonia at a Mt.

Clemens hotel for the past few days was reported improved tonight. Opera BOSTON, Nov. 24 VP). A two weeks opera season put on by the Cosmopolitan Opera company at the Arlington theater came to a riotous close on the last night because lingers refused to sing unless they received what they claimed was owed them and and the idea spread to a restive audience which stormed the box office for its money back. The 85 year old "dean" of the senate, who had served continuously since 1895 and for three years previously, succumbed at 10:05 o'clock this morning to "an attack of pneumonia after three weeks' Illness starting with bronchitis.

The veteran statesman was the oldest member of the senate both In years and length of service and was the only member who participated in the war between the states, serving in the Union army along with Justice Holmes of the supreme court. Representative Stedman, North Carolina, Is a veteran of the Confederate army. His passing came as a shock to his senate colleagues and to his many Washington friends who had hoped his rugged constitution would bring him through to recovery. Suffers Sudden Change A turn for the worse came'last night and so weakened his resistence that he was unable to rally, despite every effort made by his physician. Dr.

John Minor, who maintained an all night vigil at the bedside. Present when he died were Mrs. Warren, his son. Fred Warren. Cheyenne, and his son iaw, uenerai John J.

Pershing, commander of the American force to France In the World war. General per.hinir lirxwi his arrival from abroad Monday, visited his father in law and expressed confidence that he would recover. A pioneer of the West. Senator Warren was intensely interested in development of that section, but he was best known for his work in the senate. As chairman of the powerful appropriations committee since the Harding administration came into power in 1921.

he was responsible for piloting through the senate the legislation providing for the monetary needs of the federal government. An indefatigable worker, he remained at his post in the senate during a number of all night sessions In the filibusters of recent years and during the last few weeks he demanded at a Republican party conference that the senate go into night sessions to pass the tariff bill, promising to attend them all. Later the senate voted night sessions, but he was ill at the time and unable to attend. Physically he was very active and despite his age refused to ride the (Continued on Last Page) Fisher Pledges Help to Hoover Governor Advisee President Stale Will Co operate in Business Program HARRISBURG, Nov. 24 (.

Penn sylvanla will co operate with President Hoover In his plan to improve nationwide business conditions by Judiciously distributing the $155,000,000 fund voted by the last legislature for highway and public building construction, Oovernor Fisher stated today in a telegram to the president. Immediate steps to ascertain the extent of improvements through the state was also promised by the state executive. The message was in reply to a message from the president. In which was urged energetic progress of public works as a means of strengthening the present economic situation. Governor Fisher advised President Hoover that the greatest capital building program In the history of the state is now under way, with steel going up for the new educational building and the new north ofllce building only recently completed.

Bell Telephone Company Plans Big Expenditure PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 confidence In the soundness of industrial conditions, Leonard 8. Klnnard, president of the pell Telephone company of Pennsylvania, announced tonight that the company planned to spend $44,000,000 on construction projects In this state next year. This is $10,000,000 more the announcement said that the company had planned to spend before President Hoover began his move for the stimulation of business. Mr.

Klnnard also stated that similar Increases In expenditures for construction during the next five years have been decided upon. 100,000 Wend Way to Shrine Seeking Relief Despite Biting Wind, Monster Crowd Again Visits Maiden Cemetery, Pausing to Pray At Grave of Ydung Priest, Where Cures Have Been Reported MALDEN, Nov. 24 IP). A biting wind which swept Holy Cross cemetery today failed to daunt the unending line of stricken pilgrims seeking relief in the reputed miraculous quality of the grave of Rev. Patrick J.

Power. It was the last day of the pilgrimages. A ban which will close the cemetery to the affilicted until the church has had opportunity to Investigate the manifold stories of miraculous cures was to become effective at midnight. It was estimated that at the closing hour, 100,000 persons would have attended the grave during the twenty four hour period. Last Sunday it was estimated that 200,000 persons had attended, but the falling off was attributed by cemetery officials to the published request of William Cardinal O'Connell, archbishop of Boston, that the public refrain Immediately from visiting the grave until after the Investigations were completed.

Today was not materially different, except for the Intense cold and dampness, than the previous three Sundays and twenty four week days that have Intervened since stories of cures at the sixty year old grave of the young priest had become widespread. Today there was a similar line of lame, blind (Continued on Page Two) McManus Juror's Claim Is Upheld Doctor Confirms Statement of Illness; New Panel Likely To Be Called NEW YORK. Nov. 24 the trial of Oeorge A. McManus on a charge of murdering Arnold Rothsteln, Broawway gambler, will get underlay again tomorrow, the possibility ap peared tonight that no new evidence would be heard until next Friday.

The possibility hinged upon whether or not Judge Nott will excuse Eugene A. Riker, a Juror who reported illness after adjournment last Friday. Riker was reported to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown and at a conference prosecution and defense attorneys sig nified their willingness to excuse him and select another Jurof. If the Judge excuses Riker, the pro cedure probably will be to call a new panel, select a Juror and read to him the record of the trial until about Fri The finding of a nerve specialist ap pointed by the court to examine Riker, was reported today to confirm the Juror's statement of his Illness. Defense and prosecution spent the week end preparing for the remainder of the trial of Rothsteln's one time associate.

A vigorous fight by the defense against the state's contention that it has the gun with which It says Rothsteln was shot in a room of the Park Central hotel on Nov. 4, 1928, was indicated. ROB TAXI OPERATOR NEW YORK. Nov. 24 (IP).

Four robbers lined up ten taxi drivers and their employer, Max Rubin, against a wall in a Bronx garage tonight, forced Rubin to hand over to them $890 la cash, and fled In a waiting car, threatening the taxi men with death If they should follow. The Palmer Butte fire, which late yesterday and swept toward the Pacific coast line unabated, is of in cendiary origin, said James H. Billing slea, supervisor of the Siskiyou na tional forest, and forest rangers were Intent on maknlg arrests. A second fire, said to have been started by unidentified persons, was burning fiercely In the Jacks Creek district near Brookings. After hav ing burned down the last line of communication between Brookings and Grants Pass, the Hogue river fire was reported by widening its progress.

All communications with fire fighters in the district have been lost, leaving a single trail which must be traversed by foot before word can be relayed. The California Oregon boundary line fire which has given firefighters stubborn resistance since last Wednesday, was reported to have changed its course and headed toward Crescent City. The shift in the wind probably will save the Redwood district or vir gin timber, but will endanger many persons living in the district. Official reports from the fire fronts indicated low humidity and increased fire hazards. Additional crews or men were sent from here to relieve those who have been fighting the flames since Thursday.

Green Unwilling To Be Secretary Governor of Michigan Says He Has No Desire to Become Cabinet Member SHINGLETON, Nov. 24 (IP). Oovernor Fred W. Green announced today that he would not accept the post of secretary of war made vacant by the death of James W. Good, if it were offered him by President Hoover.

The governor who has been In upper Michigan on a deer hunting expedition for the past week, sent a telegram to Senator Vanderberg, Michigan, who suggested his name to the president, stating that he appreciated endorsements given him, but felt it his duty to remain governor of Michigan. ISo Word From Parlies Making Search for Lost Arctic Fliers SEATTLE, Nov. 24 (IP). Shrouded In the silence of the Arctic northland, the search went forward today for Pilot Carl Ben Elelson and his mechanic. Earl Dorgland, who disappeared early In November after they took off from Ellcr, Alaska, in an attempt to reach the fur trading ship Nanuk, Icebound near North Cape.

Siberia. Four dog team parties were sent out from the Nanuk to scout the shore line in the vicinity of North Cape for the missing fliers, but none of them has reported as yet. ADMITS SLAYING FATHER DETROIT. Nov. 24 (IP).

Joseph Maltck, 19, confessed today, according to Wayne county officers, that he shot and killed his father, Frank Mallck, in his greenhouse in Nankin township, near here. Chicago Cabaret Scene of Slaying Union Labor Leader Killed By Former Chum, Later Business Rival rvrrrknn Nnv. 34 iPi Edward Tracv. union labor leader, was killed In a tnsofaiMilar thnnt.lnff that ter rorized celebrators of football victories at the Club Arlington, a caoarec, to day. As the orchestra played a stirring college march, witnesses said, Melville Purves, boyhood companion and later business rival or me siam man, rone tmm an aHlarvnt tnhl and fired four shots Into Tracy's head.

Purves, with immiunlnni than rushed from the club, pursued by Police Ser geant rnomas iwcuaiiery. ino oih cer overtook Purves and his brother, William after a chase throueh North side streets, The others escaped. Passes Beyond Senator Francis E. Warren, Wyoming, who died yesterday morning in Washington. He was the oldest member of the senate.

Slayer of Chief Shot to Death By Patrolmen Negro Seizes Gun From Cop Attempting Arrest and Inflicts Fatal Wound on Other Officer; Trailed to Home Dy Posse and Killed MADISONVILLE. Nov. 24 (IP). Chief of Police John H. Ashby.

65, was shot and killed here today by Houston Cooksey, Negro, 28, and Cooksev, in turn, was shot and killed by members of a posse who trailed him to his home. Chief Ashby, a veteran police officer, hod received a report from residents of a Negro district that two Negroes had stopped a car and searched three white youths and were walking up atid down the street, flourishing guns. The chief and Patrolman S. A. Dcmoss answered the call and found Houston Cooksey and his brother, A.

B. Cooksey, standing on a corner. Chief Ashby and Patrolman Dcmoss left their automobile, the former going to arrest AB. Cooksey and the latter his brother, the chief did not draw his gun. although the Negro (Continued on Page Two) 5 Boys Drowned When Ice Breaks Single Grave to Hold Bodies Of Youths, Victims of Skating Accident JE ANNETTE.

Nov. 24 (IP). Five boys were drowned late yesterday after breaking through the ice while skating on a reservoir will be burled In a row In a cemetery here after Joint funeral services Tuesday. The boys were Jhn Cehlarlk. 12; Walter Loseshy.

10; John E. Rlsh. 8: Chester Lanceskl, 10, and William Oobleskl, 13, all sons of miners. They had climbed over a wire fence about the reservoir to go skating after a sharp frost, but the Ice was Insufficient to bear their weight. Hoover to Meet With Leaders Of Farm Bodies Representatives of Agricultural Organizations and President to Confer on Business Speedup; Calls on States to Co operate WASHINGTON, Nov.

24 (P). President Hoover completes his cycle of business progress conferences tomorrow by receiving heads of farm organizations at the white house. This will be his first meeting with spokesmen for the agriculture Industry since the farm relief legislation was nut into operation and it is to be ex pected that there will be such assurances of federal co operation as to stimulate the Industry. The president may have covered the major fields of endeavor in the country with the conclusion of tomorrow's conference. He also has called upon (Continued on Page Two) Woman Fliers Abandon Endurance Flight Plans L03 ANGELES, Nov.

24 (). The avlatrlces. Bobble Trout, Los Angeles, and Elinor Smith, New York, abandoned their second attempt at sustained flight by refuelling early tonight after only a few hours in the air. The fliers started on their flight yesterday, but were forced to abandon It after four hours In the air. Miss Trout was burned slightly on the face during refueling operations when gaso line spiasned on her.

She was treated for the burns after landing. $75,000 FIRE IN SHARON SHARON, Nov. 24 (IP). Fire of undetermined origin swept through the J. M.

Wil'on Sons, furniture store. and the Shuntz it Myers' men's clothing store here late today, causing dam age which the store owners estimated at $75,000. HE4RT ATTACK FATAL OLD vVESTBURY. N. Nov.

24 (P). Samuel Willets, horseman and club man. died of heart disease todav. He was 53 years old. Laid Morning Soviet Forces Trap Chinese In Manchuria Red Cavalry and Tanks Encircle Foes and Cut Off Retreat in Border Conflict; 12,000 Casualties Reported In Severe Fighting TOKYO, Nov.

24 (IP). A telegram from Japanese sources in Harbin today said Soviet cavalry and tanks had penetrated behind the Chinese army's position at Khallar, In Manchuria, cutting off the Chinese retreat. Severe fighting was reported. Japanese sending the message believed the Soviet forces now hold the whole area west of the Ghlngan mountains. Another Harbin telegram estimated Chinese casualltes at 12,000.

Chinese likewise were reported losing heavily on the border east of Khallar. The message said Soviet troops had extened their line around Muling west of Po granichnaya. Khallar was reported captured. Advance of the Soviet forces In Manchuria, driving the Chinese troops before them and capturing thousands, has been reported persistently over a period of several days. Russian sources announced Friday (Continued on Page Two) Wireless Operator on Ship Sent Needless S.

O. S. Call VALETTA, Malta, Nov. 24 (P). The wireless operator on the British steamer Baron Elcho, who started four destroyers rushing to the aid of his ship when he sent out S.

O. S. calls last Thursday saying an attempt was being made to murder him. has been removed in custody to the destroyer Witch. The master of the Baron Elcho said the operator still maintained everybody was trying to poison him.

He was found last night hiding In a ventilator. The Witch, with the three other destroyers that answered the S. O. S. calls headed back to Malta.

V. S. TREASURY REPORT WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (P). Treasury receipts for Nov.

21, were expenditures, balance', $118,657,132. left after several previous debts had been paid, satisfied the cast or stage hands. He said that $19,000 of the company's $23,000 debts were paid off. Six principals, ballet and supporting members of the opera cast claimed they were owed a full week's salary and that those who had been paid got their checks back marked Insufficient funds, (By the Press) PARIS, Nov. 24.

Georges Clemenceau, his sufferings ended early today by death that clesed eighty eight years of a fighting life, tonight was being taken for eternal rest in the loneliness of a little wood nean Mouchamps in his beloved The min who had been a firm and fiery pre.nier for France in her trial of the World war rode through the darkness In an automobile hearse over 250 miles of roao toward the southeast to a spot within thirty miles of the sea no loved so well. There he will be buried tomorrow morning under the trees in a grav? that his chauffeur and friend, M. Brabant, dug for him today. He will enter the soil of his France for which he had fought so vigorously at a spot; he himself had selected. The grave will be marked by a stone friends had sent from Greece which he had erected several years ago with few if any sharing his secret.

In Upright Position He will be burled upright, as his father before him. What he desired above all was to carry out to the end his appearance of a hard exterior, which all knew covered a warm heart. He lived and wanted to die "a man." In one of his last lucid moments on his deathbed he said, "I want ni women, I want no tears. Let me die before man." Clemenceau In death as In life re jected ostentation and ceremony. He asked that when death came to him that he should be permitted merely to disappear.

He wished a funeral as aulet. as drab, as bare as those for a million of "his boys" killed in (Continued on Last Page) Canton Church Erected In 1861 Destroyed by Fire TOWANDA. Nov. 24 (IP). Tile First Baptist church of Canton, erected In 1881, was totally destroyed by fire last evening.

The blaze is believed by firemen to have started in the basement of the church. Troy and Canton firemen prevented the names from spreading to nearby buildings. sponded, but they were swept aside by the crowd and it was not until 10 p. ra. that the officers, aided by reinforcements, succeeded In clearing the theater.

Tomaso Nazzaro, manager of the company, announced that everyone would receive his money back tomorrow, but that satisfied the crowd no better than his offer to split with the company $200 In box office receipts Season in Boston Has Riotous Ending Several hundred persons waited for an hour after the curtain had been scheduled to ring up on the first scene of "Alda" while the cast and the manager argued back stage until some one in the balcony Jumped up with the cry "If we don't get the show we want our money back." A rush started for the box office, windows were smashed, and a riot call sent out. Fifteen policemen re.