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NEWS PHONES 4000 Telephone Four Neme Itema To The Neum Just Call 4000 NEW CASTLE NEWS WEATHER Cloudy Tonight And probable Showers Late FIFTY-NINTH YEAR-No. 157 NEW CASTLE, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939. PAGES THREE CENTS A COPY GUARD KENTUCKY NUNES Reciprocity On Complete Basis Demand Russia Gives Reply To Great Britain On Aggression Bloc Robert Taylor And Bride, Barbara Stanwyck, Return To Studios After Wedding Movies Out, Says Double REASONABLE REFUSAL DIPLOMATIC REPORT Way Open For Further Negotiations By Latest Soviet Note By CHARLES A. SMITH International News Service Staff Correspondent L0N DON, May 15- Soviet Russia gave its an- international News Service Staff HOLLYWOOD, May to work went Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyk today, the handsome screen idol and the pert brunette star weren't entirely in a whistling mood. Although the famous film couple was extremely happy ever the weekend wedding, which was a surprise despite being rumored for many months, they pointed to a dash of ormw ood "No honeymoon for wreeks and weeks and vveeks.

We possibly honeymoon until some time next summer. We had to be back to work And to make matters worse, when erstwhile last class A bachelor completes the vehicle he currently it starring in he is to go to far away Payette Lake in Idaho for location work in another picture. Prom the looks of things at present, the owm studio chores in Hollywood will result in an unwelcome separation. Accompanied by a few friends, the stars motored to San Diego for the ceremony last Saturday night. Municipal Judge Phil Smith was ready to perform the ceremony in the heme of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Whelan, old friends of the couple, when somebody remembered the date was May 13. Taylor and Miss (Continued Two) kouviv i ry- Hope, peace and untiring effort, is swer today to Viioai 151 the keynote of the Regional Con- counter-proposals of Western Pennsylvania, Russian narticipation in the Eastern Ohio and West Virginia XVUSolctll Phantorc nf Uariaccah whnsp mpm- and reliable information stated the Soviets were standing on their demand for complete reciprocity. The reply, handed to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds by the foreign office in Moscow, was a of the British proposals, reports in political circles said. The soviet embassy characterized the reports as substantially Soviet Aims Stated The reply, it was said, restated Soviet arguments that if Regional Conference Of Hadassah Held Here Neutrality Bill Being Framed For Congress Chapters of Hadassah, whose members congregated here for a two-day period, with headquarters at The Castleton.

Guests numbering several hundred have been attracted here and Sunday evening the banquet served in the ballroom, highlighted their program of activities. Mrs. Emanuel Halpern of New York City, a brilliant young member of the National board, is guest speaker H0US6 Foreign Affairs Comfor the two days. She was intro- mittee Chairman Out- duced by her classmate w'hile a student in York, Mrs. L.

Kohn, of this city, general chairman, who so capably planned and arranged the conference, supported by co-opera- tive committees Mrs. Cobb is the Soviets are to aid Britain and i president of the local chapter. Mrs. France in Europe. Britain and I Halpern has contributed much to- France must promise to aid Russia ward the Hadassah goal with her in return constant work and continued enthu- The Soviet note left the door open siasm Only last week, she received Showdown for further negotiations.

a coveted award for work in Jewish Prime Minister Neville Chamber- circles in New' York, lain, battling against obstruction Mrs. Halpern at the banquet, told tactics of the laborite opposition, ob lines Provisions TRADE AT-YOUR-OWN RISK POLICY IS SEEN today concentrated on pushing the conscription bill through parliament by Friday, while diplomatic negotiations to bring Russia into the front on terms continued under cover. Chamberlain plans to keep debate on conscription down to a minimum in the house of commons. On Wednesday. however, the laborites will demand greater pay for militiamen than the one shilling 25 cents) a day now' planned.

While the government is expected to make some concession, authorities are believed to be opposed to paying con- scriptionists the twTo shillings daily received by soldiers in the regular army. Negotiations for Russian guaran Ship Carrying King And Queen Out Of Ice Area Better Progress Being Made Arrival In Canada Likely Tuesday Night On Neutrality Issue Is Given President And Hull (International News Service) ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF tees Tior Poland and Rumania are AUSTRALIA. AT SEA. May 15. expected to reach a decisive point when Foreign Minister Lord Halifax meets Vladimir Potemkin.

Soviet Foreign Vice-Commissar, at Geneva a week from today. PANEWC OBSERVES Harry Sanderson, of Pittsburgh, a former local resident, who was in the city over the week end. brought a copy of an old city directory Issued here for the years 1872-73, which shows in some measure the Out of the perilous ice-packs of the Labrador current and under the shelter of Newfoundland, the Empress of Australia today dashed at her full speed of around 30 knots with the king and queen of Great Britain, Canada-bound. But the clear pathway for the liner opened too late. Day after day of fog that cut visibility almost to zero, and ice jams which a man cculd walk across, kept the Empress at a standstill for hours on end.

At a result the king and queen, originally scheduled to arrive 1n Quebec tcday, will not get in until late Tuesday night, and probably will not land until Wednesday morning. For most of Sunday, the Emoress scraped slowly through the ice fields, which grated against her sides and tcok off the paint, although her navigators took a more southerly ccurse in an attempt to dodge the ice. Although disappointed. King progress which has been made by tl this city in 67 years. The book I George and Queen Elizabeth made which aiso contained a directory of the best of the situation, with the Sharon, Greenville, Mercer, and i king snapping pictures of the ice Sharpsville, was scarcely a third wrhen the fog cleared.

It the peo- the size of a present-day directory for New Castle alone, and most of the names are of people long since passed to their reward. On South Mill street, it can be noticed, that where there was formerly a junk and wrecked car lot. the ground has been leveled off nicely, and grass sown, also shrubbery planted. afc Lawrence apple blossom show is now in full swing. Thousands of trees throughout the county are in bloom.

aje Folks motoring along the bv- ple sorry the queen com men those who have making plans to see us in Canada, and w'ho perhaps travelled miles to do Former Banker Given Four Years For Embezzlement By WILLIAM S. NEAL International News Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 15 neutrality bill calling for repeal of the mandatory embargo provisions of the present law and substitution of a trade-at-your-own-rick policy for Americans, was framed today bv acting chairman Sol Bloom of the house foreign affairs committee, as the neutrality issue neared a showdown in congress. The Bloom measure, said to conform to the policies laid dowm by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, may be thrust before the foreign affairs committee for a vote this week. With the senate foreign relations committee still torn into factions over neutrality legislation, the administration was expected to seek action in the house first. Bill Will Include Bloom, w'ho has conferred with Mr.

Roosevelt on the neutrality issue. said his bill will include: Repeal of the provisions of the present law prohibiting shipment of munitions to warring nations. American ships and persons to travel at own risk in war zones. President to define areas of combat. Prohibits financing of foreign wars, collection of funds in the ob two ---------------Judge Braham In Pittsburgh Court Hears Guilty Plea Three Youths Plead Guilty To Killing Of Turtle Creek Confectioner In Holdup (International News Service) PITTSBURGH, May youths charged with the hold-up slaying of Martin Fink, Turtle Creek confectioner, pleaded guilty to murder generally today.

Visiting Judge Walter Braham (international News Service) of Lawrence county ordered testi- rxiiiLs oiuiis me PITTSBURGH. May mony taken immediately to deter- oads, off the Butler road. Sunday Mervos, former vice president and uiine the degree of guilt. Fink was nktorvc manv ffphs nf tent cashier of the Duquesne National slain in store on November 21, Bank, of Duquesne, today plead- ed guilty to embezzlement and was; Thc sentenced to four imprison- James Barnett, 21; Howard E. Boyle, ment by Federal Judge R.

M. Gib- and Hlchard Groter, aiso 19. son. A $1 fine and costs of $29.81 also were assessed against Mervos, who admitted embezzlement of $57 000 in bank funds. G-men said Mervos used the money, withheld from accounts of seven relatives and friends over an 18-year period, to play the stock market.

could observe many webs of (Continued Two) -------------Dally Weather Report United States weather statistics tor the 24-hour period ending at 5 p. m. Sunday are as follows: Maximum temperature, 67. Minimum temperature, 31. frost.

River feet. Statistics for the 24-hour period ending at 5 p. Saturday, are as loilows: Maximum temRnalure, 60. Minimum temperature, 51. No precipitatior.

Medical Men Are In Session (International News Service) ST. LOUIS, May world's The loss was discovered February largest medical 11 by a teller who noticed differ- American Medical ences in a depositor bank book and vened its 90th convention in St. the bank's ledger for the depositor, Louis today to review the progress His term will be served in the jmedical science is making in its hu- frderal penitentiary at Lewisburg, manitarian fight to conquer dis- Pa. I ease. Lima, Peru, Reports Girl State Troops Of Five Years Is Mother At Coal Mwik I Harlan Area (International News Service) LIMA, Peru, May the reported age of five years and seven months, dark-eyed little Lina Medina made a bid for world fame today as the mother of a perfect and normal six-pound baby.

A Caesarian operation performed by Dr. Genaro Lozada before a congregation of incredulous physicians at the Lima Maternity hospital resulted in a successful delivery of the tiny mother's still tinier baby boy. An International News Service correspondent visiting Lina in the maternity ward found her surrounded by dolls much larger than her lusty, bawling infant. Lina, the child of Peruvian Indian parents, was apparently unaware of what happened to her. Identity of the baby father was not known.

The physicians who attended the child were of the unanimous opinion that medical records contain no mention of a birth at so tender an age. is just a normal little doctor said. is some Report Efforts Of 6,000 Pickets To Form Lines Are Blocked one Two) EFFORT TO REOPEN MINES TO BE MADE Program Hit By Delay In Arrival Of King And Queen Tension Increasing Steadily As Operators And Unions Prepare For Test Paul Stone, Chicago ELIZABETH COZAD Beauteous Elizabeth Cozad, Rock Island, 111., student in a Chicago business school, isn't even the little interested in a movie career, though she looks enough like Hedy Lamarr, glamorous screen star, to be her twin. She wants to be a secretary. -Oniral (BULLETIN) International News Service) HARLAN, May 15.

hundred National I Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and il ies, today blocked efforts of 6,000 pickets to form lines jat strike-bound Harian eoun- jty coal mines, which were preparing to reopen this aft? ernoon. George Tiller, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, said the troops would not permit the striking miners to approach (International News Service) within eight miles of a mine. WASHINGTON. May added rmutwnng beiW! unCer HU bre.U, they better city are not being allowed to go to By WALTER KIERNAN International News Service Staff Cot respondent QUEBEC. May 15 medical report on Canada today would read: subsiding but patient restless and serious complications expected Somewhere, some how.

the program for the royal visit must be altered to conform with the delayed arrival of King George and Queen Elizabeth, and every official from Roosevelt Will Visit Exposition In San Francisco not try to trim his part down to a walk-on with no lines. The king and queen now are not the White House today. Mr. Roosevelt, if adjournment and from their homes The guards Hunt Slayer Of Sees No Problems Girl And Youth To Iowa Couple Shot Down By Unidentified Assailant Last Night REJECTED SUITOR SOUGHT BY POLICE iinLHW (International News Service) WATERLOO, 111. May posse of citizens and officers today hunted the unidentified assailant who shot to death Miss Hattie Grcse.

21, and her companion. Wetzler. 23, both of Waterloo, 111., as they w'ere driving along a lonely road with another couple en route to a dance. Police believe the man was a rejected suiter of Miss Grate. A man stopped Miss Grose and Wetzler as they left a show at Waterloo, 111., last night and warned them not to ro to the dance at Boxtown.

Ill. 18 miles south of Waterloo, according to state police. The couple started for the dance despite the warning. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.

John Mitchell. Car Shot As the four neared Boxtown, a man in an automobile pulled up beside them and crow'drd their car off the read. He then leaped to the running board of their car. One of the four in the other car locked the door but opened it when the man threatened to shoot into the car anyway. The intruder shot Wetzler.

Miss Grose jumped out of the car and started running up the road. The gunman then shot Miss Grose, nicked her up and said. want to do this to you, and then shot her again. The gunman re-entered his car and drove off. Council Decides City To Take Over Park Concessions During councilmanic meeting held in the city building today, council adopted Councilman J.

D. motion to the Park commission. instructing the body to arrange for the taking over of the and the merry-go-round at Cascade park. The city will operate the devices. The city will pay $1,000 to the Strayer Coin Bag company of Beaver Falls fcr the merry-go-round and $925 to Pierce Ai Bartsch for the and also cancel a debt of $225 cwed the city.

The suggestion that the move be made was made by Mayor Charles E. McGrath, following a recommendation by the Park commission. If the owners of the devices sign the papers council will order the transaction completed and payment will be made. At Justify War Present Time now are not iuch uumca. uo Wednesday or of Congress permit, will go are stopping them eight miles from before Wednesday or tQ about the mldrile thf Thursday.

June There he will dedicate May Shorten V. S. the Smoky Mountain National Park. There is even a possibility that He will then motor through the the four days allotted in the pro- park to Nashville. Tenn.

gram to the United States will be At Nashville the President will i trimmed, although the problem of board a special train which will how to alter the visit of the head take him across the continent to of one state to the head of another San Francisco, after the plans have been an- i Mussolini Discusses European Situation As He Makes Tour Of Turin Area Western Peona. Miners Return Service) TURIN. Italy, May the cries of his northern people for nounced is one to test diplomatic etiquette. Only Ottawa through Prime Minister Mackenzie King has graciously trimmed its program by one day. 'So far.

the interdepartmental com- mitee on the royal visit has no idea what It will or can do about revising the balance of the schedule Short stops at Cornwall and Brock ville after the Ottawa trip were cancelled and immediately delegations from those towns sped to Ottawa to register their protests, Officialdom FreU Meanwhile, bright-eyed expect- Six Holiday Is End ancv has turned to glassy-eyed No Trucking Of Pickets Col. Roy W. Easley declared military orders had been given against the wholesale trucking of pickets into mine territories, and that men found loitering about Harlan streets will be given out of town. He said: will not interfere with peace! ful picketing in reasonable numbers. but will not permit the massing of pickets at any one point.

The groups will not be permitted to number more than 20 or 25 The operators said no attempt will be made to bring coal out of (Contiimad Oa Two) To Their Work lax Assessments waiting as icy waters slosh against the sides of the Empress of liiv Tunis! echoing jia and siop on ft beautifully elabo- acros, the nearby French frontier. program scheduled to begin at Dfttvif A Ariov Premier Benito Mussolini today continued his tour of inspection and speech-making in the Turin area. 10:25 a. m. today While officialdom frets and worries and banquet delicacies wither ci I BUU uauHuvt II Ducfs address before 50 000 wlth ol(j hotel ice chests, the Fa cists in Turin yesterday wHi ac- population of eastern Canada is cepted by Europe as reassuring.

In getttng a series of previews of pa- spite of the reaction of the crowd Troops and bands swing Vise i ncicf onoo hflf PPf tain nfflh- A mnciotonc ed For Miners Of This Section MINES WILL RUN AT FULL CAPACITY Is Before Court Taxes On Cascade Park And Golf Course Are Issue In Court Argument and his insistence that certain problems call for immediate solution. Or Mussolini's answer to the question there be war or w'as: a cold, objective examina- Before Judse Thomas W. Dickey in court room number two of the Lawrence County Court house today. PITTSBURGH. May the case of the City of New Castle (International News Service) over narade routes, the musicians testing their wind and legs on the coal diggers returned to the pits to- against the County of Lawrence, hill, bituminous fields of west- the Lawrence County Institutional One or two revisions may be made era Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Board.

Shenango township and Ellis program to fit the unavoida- "holiday" Shaffer, tax collector was opened, blc but neither is def- bands the in- The suit asks that the defendant pie cm ability of operators and union lead- bodies be restrained from lewim? tion of the situation. I declare there mite. They are eliminate the two a contract and hi are not at pre.sent in Europe prob-i and one-half ies Orders to resume operations in the municipal golf course big enough or acute enough to sufttcient number of at lie lftchi justify a war. which by logical de- end of the trip to retraverse eastern Saturday after John facV7hat dtv now two velopment would spread beyond Canada and fill in L. Lewis managed to win a properties mentioned Europe and become an universal af- Mussolini himself did not men- i tion the French colonial and African possessions demanded vociferously 1 by his listeners, nor did he dwell upon Europe's most precsing problem of the day.

Danzig, but he reaffirmed the strength of the Rome- BerHn axis as emphasized by the forthcoming German-Italian military alliance. eliminated at the beginning. Argentine Beef Parchase Brings Congress Storm By EDWARD LOCKETT International Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May by a Democratic charge that President Roosevelt had violated the spirit of the law. the storm the purchase of Argentine beef for the U. S.

navy broke in full fury today over both branches of congress. Senator Adems of Colorado, cne of the cattle bloc in the senate which is backing an amendment to the naval appropriations bill to compel purchase of American products only, made the charge against Mr. He pointed out that the law provides for the purchase of American products for public use except when this is with the public or when the cost is The county. shop clause in the new U.M.W.A. and the township argue that thev pact Operators and other mine can tax the properties to which leaders signed the contract Satur- city rejoins that one political sub- division cannot tax another political Theoretically, the prolonged sub-division A paper tbe county and the township in paychecks, $15.000.000 of solicitors appeared Attorney which came from the western Penn- william McElwee, and Attorney sylvanla fields.

Over the entire Ap- j. Rov Mercer. For the citv Solin- paiacWan area, the shutdown af- tors William Cobau and Gilbert E. fected 320,000 miners. Long appeared.

As the men in the northern sec- (International WASHINGTON, May iTfuif capacity for tnne'beine An ordinances es- Hent Rnnseveit todav ordered fed- i capac11' Ior tabiishing the recreation board and dent Kooseven toaay oraeiea iru to replenish empty industrial bins, i arc-minr rWru rth inrnmp tax records ooened to! i accvpung act as ior property. The Orders Federal Income Tax Books Open To Committee eral income tax records opened to the Dies committee investigating un-American activities in the efforts to expose subversive groups operating in this country. The recordvS pertain to organizations and individuals, and the order provided that examination of the tax returns may be mode when relevent or pertinent to the un-American inquiry. Chairman Dies Texas of the special committee, will seek to determine the source of income of organizations which tie believes are operating against the American form of government or are spreading anti-American SOAP MANUFACTURER LEAVES BIG ESTATE WALLACE SCORES COURT VICTORY arguments were to be held this afternoon. (International News Service) WASHINGTON.

May suffering two defeats. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace today scored a victory in the supreme court in the famous Kansas Citv stock yards case. The decision was 5 to 3. The high court enjoined repayment of $586.000 excess charges to 50 commission men operating in the stock yards so that Wallace can attempt by a new hearing to correct defects in original rate proceedings. Arthur Mometer I (International Service) PITTSBURGH, May personal estate of $350,000 and real estate of value" was disposed of today by the will of William G.

Hasley, prominent Pittsburgh soap manufacturer who died last week. He was 74. Each of two sisters, Miss Anna R. Hasley, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Emma C.

Pressing, of Norwalk, will receive one-fifth of the estate. The DEATH RECORD Monday, May 15. 1939 Mabel Shingledecker Hoovler. 52, West Middlesex. Mrs.

Fannie Pierpont McConnell, 72, Pittsburgh. Mm. Jane M. Anderson, 69, tnon Valley. Mrs.

Carmrla Calao, 60, Elhvocil remaining three fifths is divided City. among nieces and nephews. 1 Jacob M. snydcr, 67, Grove City. You can have your chicken or caviar, or sweetbreads or good spring lamb, or liver and onions or mulligan stew or a piece of bacon or ham, and it all sounds good to a hungry man.

but in victuals you get a break, so it seems to me when the menu says, a goixl sized platter uf steak. Take it out to the woods with an open fire and broil it a while and say. thats food for a king or a of kings, its up seventy eight today..