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90 18 PAGES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1937 THREE CENTS MARKETS to See Pajama Clad star stricken on Lost Battalion Job Laid To Roosevelt Prepares to Evacuate To Save Foreigners Artillery Blast At Stronghold Perils Neutrals FTS BOIllb In Crisis 1,000 Chinese; PROTEST DRAFTED Town Afire By H. R. KNICKERBOCKER IniornntfciniU Nrm Centre Oct. 30 One Chinese were killed today, according to Sudden halting of flood control work In -the Western Pennsylvania district today had been laid to President Roosevelt. Reasons for stopping the four million dollar program here were declared confidential' in the first announcement yesterday by Col.

W. R. Covcll, district engineer. Later, however, a wire from Senator James Davis in Washington said: The President has ruled that no relief money shall be expended on projects which cannot he completed either with relief funds or regular funds now available. PRESIDENT HAS TOWER The President has authority to make a rhoiee as to priority and emergency on all these projects.

Ilow long cessation of work shall continue is not definitely known at this time." The telegram to Senator W. B. Rodgers, at the office of the Tri-State Authority, followed a protest to the President by Congressman Henry Ellenbogcn describing present flood conditions, WORK HALTED Work on Tionesta Dam, begun October 14. was halted yesterday on orders from the United States Army Engineers' office. Col.

Coveil admitted likelihood of similar action at Crooked Creek Dam within a week. According to Col. Coveil, 85 per cent of the 80 workmen on the Tionesta Dam ere on the Works Progress Administration payroll BIDS DELAYED Plans to advertise for contractors bids next week will be delayed, he said. On first hearing of the Wash ington orders, Senator Rodgers commented: Today we are back where we were 30 years ago. Tech Clash Kern, Pupi Against Sutherland; Goldberg Out By JESS CARVER For the twenty-fourth time since 1S06, the varsity football teams of Pitt and Carnegie Tech will bat-tie this afternoon on the Stadium turf, with the Panthers seeking their eighteenth triumph of the 31-year-old senes and the Skibos, definitely tin underdogs, looking for their sixth.

Pitt officials expect a crowd of tnore than 40,000 to sit In on the struggle, if the weather continues fair, the attendance figure may hit the 45,000 mark, Todays clash takes on additional color and attractiveness In that it matches a pupil and a teacher in a coaching duel. Bill Kern, new head man at Carnegie, played under Coach Jock Sutherland, of Pitt, and it hit Jock plenty hard when Bill severed relations with his alma mater last winter and moved across Panther Hollow. When he moved, he took an-other man Jock held in high regard, Dr. Eddie Baker, who serves now as the Plaid's backfleld coach, and then went out and signed two more former Pitt stars, Muggsy Skladany, all-America end and Frank Kutz, a shrewd guard tutor. It took Tech seven games to score on Pitt and 10 to gain a victory.

They havent won since 1928. when Howard Harpster threw a pass to Ted Rosenweig and the latter went across for the games only touchdown. Later on, Charley Edwards, shifted to fullback for the day, In place of Big Tom Parkinson, who was hors de combat with a cracked breastbone, plunged over 4fVnttntd on Pn( Miip, Col Six.) Torture Trial Figure Dies Matched reports, when 20 devastated Cliapet was bombed the small wy down Its arms and soon of Sungkiang. conie Into the International devastating attaek on the Settlement for sanctuary. The reported decision of the battalion to abandon Its stand against the surrounding Japanese was said to be the result of the urging of foreign consuls-genoral, who sought to end a situation considered dangerous to the international areas.

It was feared the settlement would be gravely endangered if the battalion continued to defy its enemies. POUNDED BY ARTILLERY The battalion, unit of the famous 88th Division, had held out tn a warehouse-fortress near the settlement boundary since the general Chinese treat from Chapel Wednesday. Thursday its commander rejected an offer of American and pritlsh commanders at Shanghai to facilitate Its withdrawal into the safety of the settlement, Earlier tonight the Japanese, who surrounded the fortress on three sides, had begun a steady, methodical artillery bombardment community, situated miles southweast of occurerd while terror spread through the International Settlement here as militarists threatened tho extent of thetr following the killing British soldiers. authorities reported air fleet carried out work at Sungkiang, disappeared, and then returned to more bombs on thp They declared the was reduced to flaming Pius Back Vatican CITY, Oct. 30 Plus returned to the automobile todny from Gandolfo, where he had of the beleaguered stronghold, summer residence.

LONDON, Oct. 30 (AP.) Britain will enter the Nine-Power Treaty talks at Brussels next and Injured Wednesday, It was Indicated today, with a much stiller back" as a result of repeated Japanese offenses against British troops and property In China. The troublesome Spantsli war negotiations deadlocked on the British plan for withdrawal of foreign troops was virtually shelved over the week-end as British ministers devoted attention to Incidents in the Orient and the appi'oaehing conference alined to curb the Chlnese-Japa-nese conflict. MAP STERN PROTEST Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden devoted another of his busy weekends to the Far Eastern problem while gout-afflicted Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain kept in close touch with the situation front his country estate. The sharpest protest yet in the growing series of representations to the Tokio government was expected to be dispatched as soon as the facts concerning the killing of three Royal Ulster Riflemen yesterday at Shanghai became available.

(British headquartets at Shanghai said the three were hit in a two-hour shelling by Japanese artillery. Three others were wounded and one was shell BOYCOTT DEMANDED The matter will be aired In House of Commons debate next week. Laborites were expected to redouble their pressure for a boycott of Japanese goods. The government Itself was firmly opposed to any official boycott, but the movement apparently was spread ing among the public. Shigeru Yoshida.

Japanese Am bassador to London, called on Eden yesterday, but the subject of discussion was not divulged, Because Eden planned to leave for Brussels Monday, It was believed the conversations might have been tn connection with the conference. Japan had declined to attend the Brussels talks. SHANGHAI, thousand Chlnese nose planes walled city This small Chinese a few Shanghai, and anger Japanese to Increase "big push" of three Chinese the Japanese its deadly drop 100 stricken city. entire town ruins. Pope In VATICAN (AP.l Pope Vatican by Castel long spent a The Pope on the way the new was his first the new view of a screen which had After work, the the and applause spectators.

Police Sleuths On Police force today OLIVIA DE II AVILAND movie actress who was stricken with intestinal influenza while working on location in Chico) Cal. Physicians hope she will be able to return to work soon. Beauty Slain In Woods Body Found in Cabin; Former Major League Ball Player Held Intvrimtktnal St tarvlrt SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont Oct. 30 The pajama-clad body of Helen Grier, pretty 28-year-old Michigan stenographer and hunting companion of Vernon Spencer, one-time major league baseball player, was to be brought to the Soo today from the Isolated hunting cabin in the North Woods, where site was found shot to death.

Spencer, 40 and now married, who played for a short time with the New York Giants baseball club' about 17 years ago, was de tained by Coroner J. P. Keith as a material witness until provincial police complete their lnvestlga tion into the woodland tragedy. An Inquest was ordered today. FOUND DEAD IN CABIN Spencer told Coroner Keith that he had found Miss Grier dead with a gunshot wound in her head in their cabin at a tourist and hunting resort 30 miles north of here after returning from a hunt for moose tracks.

MisS Griers body was found on the floor of the cabin, with a rifle nearby. Coroner Keith asserted that there was some doubt whether the wound was self-inflicted since the bullet had cut a horizontal path through the head DRESSED IN PAJAMAS The former big leaguer said he and Miss Grier had engaged in target practice early Thursday afternoon, and then he derided to. look for moose tracks. Wtien he returned. Miss Grier was dead.

He said Miss Grier did not accompany him because she was dressed In pajamas at the time. Spencers home is in Wixom, Mich. Miss Grier lived in nearby Pontiac, Mich. Slayer, Who Hid Here, Captured Frank Bird, fugitive slayer and bank robber, and his fcife, Sylvia, also wanted by police, were under arrest tn Cleveland today after leaving their hideout In Pittsburgh, according to authorities. The pair had been In Pittsburgh about a week and prior to that had successfully eluded police in Philadelphia.

Bird was the senior partner of the Bird brothers gang which about a hionth ago escaped from the skyscraper Cuylioga County Jail. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and police of the nation are still hunting for Birds younger brother, Charles. Buried Alive Sand Cave-in Holds Youth 12 Hours li New Wervlc EAST CHELMSFORD, Oct. 30 Burled alive in a sand pit cave-in for 12 hours, Manuel Comacho, 19. was rescued by firemen and volunteers today.

Still conscious, he was taken to a hospital where doctors feared the long ordeal and the strain on his lungs might cause pneumonia He was buoyed by sips of brandy given him while the rescuers dug frantically. He complained his legs were numb. Toscanini Decides To Lead Symphony LONDON, Oct. 30 CAP.) Temperamental Arturo Toscanini, world-famous orchestra conduc tor, has decided to direct the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra tonight, officials of the broadcasting company had announced today. Police Hunt Hill Thug After Four Rohheries Police today were searching for a young thug who last night held up four person in the Hill district and sent two of his victims to the hospital.

The first, Leonard Rosenthal, of 23 Grandville Street, was robbed of a $30 watch and $7.50 in cash at the point of a gun at Wylie Avenue and Grandville Street. MARINES WARNED SHANGHAI, British police Oct. 30. (AP,) reported tonight that China's famous Lost Bat- SURRENDER OR DIE! With four 75 millimeter guns mounted 100 yards away, Japanese artillery slowly fired shells in an attempt to batter a hole In the rear of the warehouse through which a hand-to-hand charge would be possible. The bombardment began after Rear Admiral Tadao Honda, Japa-nest naval attache.

Issued the "lost battalion a surrender-or-dte ultimatum. H.steh Chin-Yuan, regimental commander within the beleaguered warehouse-fortress, sent back a farewell message to Gen. Bun-Yuan-Llang, commander of the Chinese 88th Division. Hsich said: "Death Is an unimportant question, and our sacrillco will not be in vain. The commander said defenses of the warehouse, the last Chinese resistance In Clmpoi, were ready and that his soldiers would fight to the last man, JAP BIG GUNS BOOM The Japanese shells were being Cred directly toward the International Settlement.

But the closeness of the guns to their target made It Improbable that stray shots would hit the nearby foreign areas, Officials of the British-owned Shanghai Gas Company were fearful of a possible catastrophe if any shells should strike gas storage tanks 300 yards from the little Chinese "Alcazar, From the top of the gas works, officials pointed out the situation to British army officers, explaining that the tanks contain 150,000 cubic feet of gas. i'hey said they had piped off as much as possible but that there trontlmiPd rt Pe Two, Col. Three.) No Action Bookies Closed Until After Election Intorniittftnftl Smire SOMERSET, Oct. 30 R. E.

Buckman, 43, a private detective who was convicted of attempting to flx' the jury in the "third degree" murder trial of State Trooper Stacey Gunderman, died early today after an Illness of several months. Gunderman, since dismissed as a state 'trooper, was convicted of second degree murder as a result other car of the fatal beating of Frank C. Monaghan, elderly Uniontown hotelkeeper, while being questioned concerning the slashing of County Detective John C. Wall. Buckman was on parole.

When Marioh for his parked on Wharf almost from shore. The into the 25 feet It car, Heart To Parked Auto Hit, Lands in River James Lehew, of 28 Street, Crafton, returned new sedan which he had the Allegheny River early today, he found it submerged and 15 feet machine, police said, rolled swollen river and floated downstream before sinking. had been bumped by another they reported. Attack Fatal Congressman Hill $50,000 as the cost of the flood there. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had miles of flooded trackage, hut eliminated detours over Western Maryland lines.

The flrsjt October flood In Pittsburgh's history would have been 2.1 feet higher, according to army engineers, had It not been for the unfinished Tygart Dam at Grafton. W. Ohio escaped the flood. Meteorologist W. C.

Dcvereaux, at Cincinnati, said no serious damage was reported. At Portsmouth the crest was about 10 feet below flood stage. At Cincinnati the margin was 17 feet. At Clarksburg, W. Va the road commission announced temporary closing of Eldora Bridge on the Bridgeport-Fairmont Road.

Route 19 was reopened to traffic. Roosevelt Accepts Roche Resignation HYDE PARK, N. Oct. 30 (INS.) President Roosevelt today had accepted with reluctance the resignation of Miss Josephine Roche as assistant secretary of the Treasury, effective November 1. Miss Roche plans to return to private business in Colorado.

1 "IF Irwin Succeeds Ball On GOP Committee INDIANAPOLIS, Oct, 30. TAP.) The Indiana Republican -State Committee today had elected Plot to assassinate Chance lor William O. Irwin, Columbus Kurt Schuschnigg, which officials banker and industrialist, nationaljsaid was uncovered by Vienna po-committeeman to succeed George lice. Schuschniggs predecessor, A. Ball, Muncle manufacturer, Chancellor Englcbert Dollfuss, was who resigned October 19.

slain In 1934. Rivers Recede Rapidly, Ending Flood Menace OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 30 (INS.) Representative Robert P. Hill (Dcm.) was dead In a hospital here today from a heart attack.

He was stricken as he was closing his office yesterday preparation to return to Washington fortthe special session of Congress where he represented the Fifth Oklahoma District. 'Plot to Assassinate Schuschnigg Probed VIENNA, Oct. 30. (INS.) Austrian authorities pressed forward today with an investigation into ramifications of an asserted paused for 15 minutes at the entrance of "Conciliation Street. It opportunity to see of St.

Peter's, freed of ancient tenements been razed. architects explained thp Pope's motorcade entered Vatican amid the cheers of several hundred Tagged Face Fine Own Autos tagged some of their own In enforcing the ban on downtown parking. City detectives usually park on Water Street for the 10-minute 9 a. m. rolicall in Central Station.

But this is forbidden in the "no stopping rule In effect from 8:30 to 9:45 a. m. Detectives complain the sport reserved for their machines on the Monongahela wharf is in such bad condition that parking there Is almost impossible. Ex-Ally of Huey Long To Broadcast Weekly NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (AP.) The Rev.

Gerald L. K. Smith, former political ally of Huey Long and Chairman of the Committee of One Million, will Inaugurate a weekly radio program Sunday. November 14. lie describes the committee as a Political Red Cross." Widow Asks $60,000 In Fatal Blast Suit GREENRBURO, Oct.

30. The death of Roy F. Wright, of Jeannette, tn a Rns explosion there last January 29, has resulted In $60,000 datmge suit filed here by his widow, Margaret Wright, RRainst the Greensboro Gas Company, of Jeannette. ern and the European wars became entwined ir the general International discord that is keeping Europe constantly In fear of a malor conflagration. Specifically, according to the Italian version, Mussolini is irked by what he considers Britains fJlure to co-operate with Italy and Germany in Isolating the Soviets st yesterdays meeting of i the non-intervention subcommit tee.

Yesterday Russia killed the British plan for withdrawal of foreign troops from Spain, and attempts to isolate Russia failed. J. H. Parker, Banker, Dies at Youngstown YOUNGSTOWN, Oct. 30 (AP.l J.

Howard Parker, 64, vice president of the Union National Bank, was dead, today. Born In Youngstown, he' rose from messenger In the First National Bank to Its presidency, before assisting with the organization of the bank where he was an official at his death, Court Declines Action On Kuhn Citizenship NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (INS.) Judge John W. Clancy In United States Circuit Courts refused to hear arguments yesterday on a motion asking that the citizenship of Fritz Kuhn, head of the Ger-man-Amerlcan Bund, be revoked on the grounds that Kuhn Is a Nazi propagandist. Children Pie as Ham Hums LINTON, Oct.

30 (AP.) Philip, 5, and his brother, Charles, 3, sons of Mr, and Mrs. John Smith, were burned to death yesterday In a hay-filled bam at their home. n(Vv. Market Chiefs, U. S.

Confer WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. (AP.) A conference between a delegation from the New York Stock Exchange and administration spokesmen caused speculation today that they were discussing a new approach to problems of market regulation. Members of the group said they discussed means of attaining a better mutual understanding of the functioning of the securities market. This might mean that the Securities Exchange Commission will defer further regulatory measures and.

Instead, order some new studies of what goes on In the stock market. The Federal Reserve Board has cut the stock market margin requirements. No Comparison 'Bugs' Finds Animals Wiser Than People By ARTHUR (BUGS) BAER New congressional assessments might be called the pelican tax. Tli at bird carries a reserve in his craw which can be classified as undivided profits. The camel that goes a week without water does so because he has a seven-day surplus pllPd up.

Now, he will have to take a teaspoonful every hour because he cant pay the carrying charges, Thats all very foolish compar lng animals with people because the animals are wiser. The reason a squirrels acorns last through the winter Is that he Issues no statements to stockholders, mortgages no hollow trees and notarizes no Income blanks. The proposed tax and the pres ent tax look like double-parking to us. And alongside the budge tary fire-plug, too. tCopvHght, IMf George II, of Greece, To Revisit England ATHENS.

Oct. 30. George II today had sailed foi Brindisi, Italy, beginning a trip of a few weeks during which he will go to Rome. Paris and London. His visit tn England will be the first since he was restored to the throne of Oreece two year ago.

Fire Plugs Opened; Police Seek 5 Boys Police cruisers last night sought a gang of five youths who opened two Are plugs In the North Side. The City Water Department reported no damage wm done. Soon after, three blocks away, Mrs. John Venables, 50, of 1828 Linton Street, who was walking with her son, Ben, 17, was robbed of $25. She described a young Negro.

In Clark Street, a short time later, a thug of the same description, leaped on the running board of an auto driven by R. R. Welter-hausen, of 2216 Mt. Troy Road, and forced him to stop. J.

B. Slocum, 24, of 6351 Douglas Street, a passenger, leaped from the machine and tussled with the man, INJURED IN FIGHT Although the driver and another passenger, Robert Bowler, of 5831 Alder Street, assisted him In routing the thug, Solcum suffered a lacerated head and face bruises for which he was treated at Mercy Hospital. Treated also at Mercy Hospital for bruises was Andrew Ruchcnoff. 28, of Russellton, who told police he was robbed of a $70 com pensation check In a tussle with an assailant In the rear of 1624 Center Avenue. GUN GIVEN TO POLICE Ruchenofl turned over to police a blue steel automatic pistol which he said the Negro dropped in the fight.

He declared his attacker pulled the trigger several times In the struggle and that lie pulled It as he aimed at the fleeing man, but the gun failed to fire. Police said It was loaded. Police today sought a hitchhiker who yesterday fled with a $35 camera from the truck of A. O. Zimmerman, of Baltimore, which was parked at Tenth Street and Penn Avenue.

Police were holding James Crawley, 35, of 3222 Joliet Street, on the charge of hts father, Mike Crawley, that he stole $45 from their home. Somebody tossed another brick through the window of the State Liquor Store at 1705 Fifth Ave nue today, and escaped with $20 worth of drinks. A similar robbery took place in June. MIRACLE MAN The story of Wilkinsburg Bill" McKechnie and his peculiar baseball career, "WHEN THAT DA COMES" The woman' devotion to her family comes -between her and happiness. II Diicc to Spurn Parley On Jap War, British Hear The flood menace moved rapidly away from Pittsburgh today a swollen rivers earned off tho wa from the heavy rains of the past two weeks.

Ficm 27.8 feet at 5 p. m. yes-terdr" the gauge at the Point fell to 23 oday two feet below flood Itaa md went rapidly lower. Tli- Weather Bureau saw no pro ct of more rain In the next, dav or two. i Maryland and West Virginia roads were being reopened, flooded areas cleaned up, and damage repaired.

The West Virginia Highways Department said loss would be enormous." Between 20 and 30 small bridges were swept away In that gtate. Cumberland, estimated Timely Topics Tomorrow I By KINGSBURY SMITH liilrmnlInnilJ LONDON, Oct. 30 Premier Mussolini has forbidden his son--ln-law, Count Galeazzo Clano, to attend the forthcoming Nine-Power Brussels conference on the Sino-Japanese war, It was reported In Italian quarters today. The reports said the Italian for- elgn minister had been Instructed to spurn the Brussels parley be- cause II Duce was annoyed at Britain's actions regarding the civil conflict In Spain. Thus, once again the Far SNOBBERY and SUCCESS An authority explains why it pays to be high-hat.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION An analysis of Pennsylvanias new ichool laws and how they may affect your children. Pittsburghs bookie shops were dosed tiRht today. It was reported thut horse-racing establishments received orders from police to stay closed until after Tuesdays election. Strangely, it was county and not the city cops, who were said to have given out th closing orders. Jap Plane Shot Down, 3 Fliers Die in Raid AMOY, China, Oct.

30 CAP.) A Japanese bomber was shot down and three fliers killed today when a Japanese squadron attempted to destroy road communications linking this South China port wtih Changchow and Chin-chew In Todays Sun-Telegraph Pages Alcatraz Island 16 Somlrw ..16,17 Crossword Puzzle 13 Damon Runyon 4 Editorial Finance 11,12,13 Hall Cartoon I Remember IS If Tomorrow C'omes" 17 McIntyre IS Radio 7 Ripley 19 Sports 9,10,11 Stage and Screen Society, Women' Club 8 Womens Page 6, Classified ,.,..,.13,14 Bride in Secret Elopement Learns Male Her Brother WHAT'S WRONG WITH FASHIONS? Toni Drake, Sun-Telegraph fashion expert, interview Dr. Clausen on hi tand that women clothes have passed all limits in propriety. FOR THE BEST IN PITTSBURGH BUY THE Sunday Sun-Telegraph CALL GRANT 6500-HOME DELIVERy DEPT. Japan Accuses Britain, Warns of Grave Action TOKIO. Oct.

adopted, accused Great Britain of "Council on the Current Situa- ascMing China and of being "the tlon," whose members Include man (hiving force In persuading army officers and legislators in the convocation of the Nine both houses of the Japanese puuci conference, apparently to Parliament, warned today that mfciventinn." Japah may be forced to take an, Mote than 100 council members attitude ol grave determination attending the emergency meeting against Great Britain. 1 voted chorus on the resolution A Msolution, unanimously amid wild cheering, marriage was annulled Immediately, The couple met when Ben, out to make his own way, got a Job on the Williams farm. He was using the name of Yocum. He took Mary Lee to visit his foster parents. and on the way they were married secretly.

Mrs. Williams had learned Bens real name and Investigated the possibility of relationship. When Ben and Mary Lee returned she greeted them with the news they were brother and sister. Dlsmayed.ljj WARRENSBURG, Oct. 30.

(AP.) Nineteen year ago, Mr. und Mr. Ben Williams adopted orphaned 2-year-old Mary Lee I pock. Mary Leea brother, Bennie, 4 went to live with Mr. and Mrs.

Yocum, of Mountain Grove. In the Southwest Missouri Ozaiks. Today Mary Lee was tn tears at j'er foster parents' Central Missouri farm home near heie. The young farm hand she mar tied September 27 was disclosed os her own brother, whom she bad not leen line baby day. Th they told of their marriage.

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