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000 Loss in Zelienople, Bad Check Hits Children's Home Double Twister Play Fails A worthless check suspect made a mistake Saturday when he tried to fool employes of an Oakland drug store the second time. Paul Walter, 53, of Olympia St. was arrested when he tried to have a check cashed in the Goldstein Drug store, 4600 Center A police reported. Last Friday he passed a worthless check at the store, employes say. They remembered him Saturday and called police.

Walter, police said, deposited two worthless checks in the Farmers National Bank on May 9. They said one for $10,000 was drawn on a San Francisco bank and the other for $23,000 on a New York bank. USED RECEIPTS- He received, receipts for the deposits, police said, and used them to help pass the worthless checks. At a hearing today before Magistrate W. H.

K. McDiarmid detectives said 1 he passed checks at the Harris Foods store and the Kleber Trunk and Baggage store. Millvale police said they wanted him for passing two checks, one for 3400 and the other for $15. He was held for further investigation. Police said he has a record dating back- to 1928 for worthless checks, embezzlement false pretense.

800 in Tests For City Jobs It took 20 doctors and six nurses yesterday to process approximately 800 applicants for city fire bureau jobs in CityCounty Bldg. The group is believed to be the largest number of persons ever applying for fire bureau vacancies. Those passing the physical examination still have mental, to take. tests, listed exams by the Civil Services Commission are: Equipment operator, Traffic Planning Bureau, pay $8.92 a day -10 a. June 15.

Blacksmith. Public Works pay $20 a day, 10 a. June 10. Painters, all departments, pay $17.60 a day-10 a. June 13.

Tree pruners, pay $9.07 a day -10 a. June 8. Clerk typist, all departments, pay open-10 a. June 3. Sir John Case Before Court UNIONTOWN, May (AP.) The Fayette County Court, sitting en bane, today heard arguments in the exceptions filed by Princess Lida of Thur Taxis to a special master's decision upholding the marriage of her son.

Special Master E. D. Brown upheld the marriage of Sir John Fitz-Simmons, 50, and Eileen Simmons, New York model. The princess, who inherited Uniontown coal fortune, sought to annul the marriage on the ground that Sir John a habitual drunkard and intoxicated at was the time of the wedding. The princess and another son, Gerald, attended the hearing.

Sir John and his bride were not present. He was represented his counsel, Cong. Anthony Cavalcante. The court is expected to hand down its ruling within a few days. Actor Leaves Hospital Gregory Peck was released yesterday from St.

John's Hospital where he had been under treatment for an eye infection. BEFORE TRAGEDY STRUCK. with their two children, Thomas 2, (left), Mr. and Mrs. Richard Miller are shown and Richard 5, during recent vacation.

Father Scholz, Pastor, Dies of The Rev. Anthony P. Scholz of Creek, Glenshaw, who hid the ravages gregation for nearly a year, was dead Father Scholz was reportedly carried to his church for services until early this year when he was finally bedridden. Stricken by cancer in March of 1948, Father Scholz underwent a major operation and then calmly carried on at his post until death came on Saturday. PASTOR 11 YEARSHe had been pastor of St.

Mary's for 11 years. Before that, he was pastor at St. Margaret's in Mahoningtown, assistant at St. Joseph's in Braddock, and with St. Joseph's Protectory in Pittsburgh.

Translation of the body will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow; office of the dead Wednesday at 9:30 a. and pontifical high mass at 10 a. m.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Father Scholz. was the son of the late Anton and Mary Just Scholz. Glenshaw Cancer St. Mary's Church, Pine of cancer from his contoday.

FATHER SCHOLZ dies of cancer Mystery Shotgun Blast In Window Kills Ford Man WINDSOR, May (AP.) -Provincial police sought to turn up a clue in the mysterious shotgun slaying of a Ford Motor Co. inspector. The victim, William D. Allen, 37, was felled by a shotgun blast at midnight Saturday as he ate a sandwich and worked a crossword puzzle in kitchen of his home. Officers said the assassin stood Man, 24, Faces Girl's Charge Stanley Noftz, 24, of Penn was held for court today on a charge of criminally assaulting a 20-year-old girl in his car in Beethoven St.

early today. When Noftz was asked if he had committed the assault, he told Magistrate W. H. K. McDiarmid: "She says so.

She's a lady." Noftz testified that he had been drinking and that he remembered the girl slapping his face. Burglar Takes $225 Samuel Scaranelli of 413 Sapphire reported to police that $225 was taken from his home by a burglar who pried open a kitchen window. BurglarsDrillDouble Double Wall To Rob Drug Safe of $65 Burglars, who drilled out two, holes through a double tile wall to evade a protective system, entered the Federal Drug 949 Penn and took about $65 from a cash box in an unlocked safe, R. H. Motts, office manager, reported today.

Two other safes were damaged but were not opened. No drugs or other pharmacy items were reported taken. A second hole was necessary after the first hole was drilled directly behind a large office safe. Entrance into the Federal Drug Co. office was gained through the adjacent George W.

Snaman carpet distributors, 945 Penn where the burglars forced open a second story window after climbing the store's fire escape. Nothing was taken from the store. The knob of office safe carpet, was knocked off but the safe was not opened, an official of the carpet firm reported. The two places were entered either Sunday or early today, officials of both companies disclosed. for 22 YEARS "a better way to go more places ATLANTA NEW ORLEANS CHARLESTON, W.

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PAGE Crash Kills Man; Stork Due Wife While his wife lay in Magi Hospital expecting their this child, a young executive of tr Steelwood Corp, died in Shad side Hospital today from injurie suffered in an automobile a cident. Richard W. Miller, 28, of 430 Stanton died at 6 a. m. from a fractured skull, police said.

was vice president of the buli ing concern and only son of president, William S. Miller. Police said Miller, his wif Gertrude, 27, and their two chi dren, Richard 5, and Thoma: 2, were out for a Sunday driv when their car sideswiped al other automobile at Northumbe land and Wightman Sts. yeste. day afternoon.

CHILDREN SAFE- Sun- Telegraph Photo. DAMAGED GARAGE- WORKSHOP AT LUTHERAN CHILDREN'S HOME ZELIENOPLE, May clearing the wreckage of chimneys and other debris tornado that caused upwards No one was injured. The twister struck hardest at the Lutheran Childrens' Home, where more than 100 children were playing on the spacious grounds. PLAYING BALL- By MURRIN HELD Staff Writer citizens today were uprooted trees, lifted roofs, broken left in the wake of yesterday's of $50,000 damage. was alive and shook then settled back down again.

I was sure scared." Two chimneys and several large trees in the front lawn of the New Maples roadhouse, about a mile from the center of town, were blown down. BUILDING SHAKESMrs. Mary A. Entress, part owner, said: "The first thing I heard was one of waitress' screaming and then building began to then shake. We haye had plenty of wind storms up here but nothing like this before." Philip Drushel, acting superintendent of the Pennsylvania Power Zelienople station, said: "There were six breaks at least in distribution circuits.

We had crews working all night. None of our high tension lines were hit." Several tombstones and trees were overturned in the Zelienople Cemetery, GARAGE WRECKED- A garage, belonging to Mrs. Perry Meyers, Route 10, here, was toppled over on a new car. A cow and "dozens of chickens" were killed from the high winds, witnesses said. At Harmony Junction, three miles from here, the wind shattered 6000 window panes at the McCallum Flower large greenhouses.

Uprooted trees blocked several streets in New Brighton and Beaver Falis for a few hours. 46 Die as Twisters Lash 10 States, 229 Injured The Rev. Philip W. Seiberling, superintendent of the home, said: "Most of the children were out playing ball when it started to rain suddenly. They ran to the porches and almost immediately the winds started to blow.

heavy winds lasted for about 15 minutes and did about $20,000 damage to our lands and buildings." Mr. Seiberling said that most of the damage was done to a combination garage workshop, a large barn and the roofs of the 12 main buildings. Dozens of large oak trees were uprooted and tossed about like matchsticks, he said. Many of the trees were 100 to 200 years old, and 70-feet high. The Old Peoples Home on Route 19 suffered slight damage, but several trees were uprooted in I the front lawn.

100-YARD PATCH- Burgess James Henderson said: "Most of the damage seems to be in a 100-yard wide path. My place was just missed, but the roof was lifted from the house next door. would say the damage was at least $50,000." Janice McClain, 16, next door neighbor of the burgess, said: roof just seemed like it (Continued From Page 1.) More rain was forecast 21 dead, more than 200 injured and hundreds homeless. The hard-hit city had 202 houses destroyed and 231 damaged. Eighteen business establishments and a church also were destroyed and 13 others were damaged.

Indiana's 11 dead and 47 injured are at Shelburn, Terre Haute and Clay City. At Wood River, five persons died, 55 were injured and 325 homes vere destroyed. At Palestine, four persons were killed when a lunch room collapsed. At Somerset, a woman was killed and 60 houses were damaged by high winds. MILLIONS LOSS- Property damage in the 10 stricken states was estimated at several million dollars.

Cape Girardeau alone reported between three and four million dollars damage. At Charleston, W. four sections of the city were roped off as unsafe, property damage was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Roofs were blown off buildIngs, store windows were shattered and merchandise scattered on the sidewalks. Five persons were injured and seven homes were smashed at Abilene, Tex.

Two more were injured and several buildings were damaged in a hail and wind storm at Texarkana, Tex. Several homes were flattened In a gale which lashed at Macon and Clay Counties, Tenn. Heavy hail which accompanied the storm in Pennsylvania and the midwest damaged crops. LESS DAMAGE- Less extensive damage was reported in Pennsylvania, Iowa Maryland. Weather observers, said the storm began on the Pacific Coast.

The first of it hit Pittsburgh Saturday night, felling wires and the branches of trees. Its full fury struck Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon and evening. No serious damage was reported in Pittsburgh, but surrounding counties were damaged' Burglar Gets $2400 Loot A light-stepping burglar tered the home of J. L. Pennock of 6027 Jackson sometime early yesterday and took about $2400 in jewelry and cash in the second Pittsburgh gem robbery in three days, police said.

Pennock, a sales representative for the Richard Hudnut a cosmetic firm, police that the thief entered home by told, breaking a kitchen window, made his way upstairs, ransacked a clothes closet and a then took a jewel box containing the valuables. The Pennocks usually sleep in the room where the burglary occurred but Saturday had used adjacent room, police said. Mrs. Kenneth M. Day, wife of a physician, of 623 Devonshire Shadyside, reported on Friday that a youthful burglar held her at gunpoint while looting $10,000 in jewelry.

Video Man's Death Probed MINEOLA, N. May (AP.) -A medical examiner says there is "strong suggestive evidence" of drowning in the death of television producer Owen Davis Jr. on a fatal midnight yacht cruise. But, Dr. Theodore J.

Curphey said, it may be tonight or tomorrow before a definite finding in the death can be made. Davis' body was found early Saturday at the base of a rocky cliff off Long Island Sound. The 42-year-old television executive disappeared mysteriously early Saturday morning from a 29-foot sloop in the Sound. He and a companion had gone aground during a midnight cruise. Near Davis' body police found a ring life preserver.

Police theorized Davis may have drowned while trying to swim to shore from the grounded sloop. County Park Band Concerts Memorial Day band concert programs for North and South Parks were announced today by the County Parks Bureau. The Amerita Band will play at South Park's Corrigan Dr. swimming pool from 2 p. m.

until 4 p. m. and from 5:30 until 7:30 p. m. The Grand Army Band will play at the 80th Division Memorial Monument in North Park from 3:30 p.

m. until 5:30 p. m. and at the swimming pool from the air by power failures. 6 p.

m. to 7:30 p. m. for Pittsburgh tomorrow. TOWN ISOLATED- The town of Somerset, was isolated all night because its telephone service was cut off.

One house near the town lost its roof and many trees were blown down. Chimneys were swept away and windows were shattered at Uniontown. Several buildings were demolished at nearby Masontown and, in the mining community or Rence, huge trees were felled. Three persons were injured slightly at Johnstown when a tree fell on their auto. Street crews worked all night to clear the debris from city streets in Altoona.

Two radio stations there were forced off Sun- Telegraph Photo by Bill Herman. ROBBED. Helen Hakim, employ of Federal Drug 949 Penn peers at damage through one of holes in wall which the bur lars made. They were unable to open a large safe but did find $65 in unlocked cash box. Sponsor Drops Eddie Cantor NEW YORK, May A Eddie Cantor was dropped yesterday by his sponsor and the comedian was because radiat he considered it an "artistic impossibility" to do his show both on radio and television.

The Pabst Brewing sponsors of Cantor's show for the past three years, said it had reached agreement with Irving Brecher for use of his "Life of Riley show for radio and television broadcasts next fall. Cantor said his contract renewal talks with Pabst had ended after Pabst decided to add a television show from New York next fall in addition to the weekly radio show. The comedian's contract with Pabst ends next month. Boy, 17, Drowns Swimming AMBRIDGE, May Richard -Malloy, 17, of Ambridge, was drowned yesterday while swimming with two other boys in the Water Co. reservoir, a mile west of Koppel.

Louis Geallorengo, 16, and Harry Bezubrak, 16, were in the Elias, Aliquippa, was on water and Louis with. the bank of the 150-foot square reservoir when the youth apparently suffered an attack of cramps, state police Firemen from Koppel, Ellwood City and Beaver Falls joined in searching for the body which was recovered a few hours later. Star to Wed G. S. Kaufman DOYLESTOWN, May (AP.) -Actress Leueen MacGrath and playwright George S.

Kaufman applied for a marriage license Saturday. Miss MacGrath, 36, Irish born Broadway actress, recently was linked romantically with Thomas Heggen, of the play "Mister Heggen was RobertshoT found dead last Thursday. Kaufman, a widower, gave his age as 60. Miller and his wife wer rushed to Shadyside Hospita where he was detained and sh was treated for shock and a pot sible fractured wrist. The child ren were not hurt.

Then Mrs. Miller, who is ex pecting a baby soon, was trans ferred to Magee Hospital. The driver of the other auto of 236 Oakland was no mobile, Charles L. Gregory, ya 21 hurt, police reported. The Steelwood Corp.

has large construction program Millermont, Stanton Heights, an Shadycrest Village, Beechview. Mrs. Miller before her marriage was Gertrude Strem of the Stren Studios family. Mr. Miller was a member the Westmoreland Country Club Junior Chamber of Commerce A graduate of Shadyside Aca demy, he attended Stanton Mili tary Academy, the University of Illinois and Carnegie Institute of Technology.

He was a member of the Rodef Shalom Congrega: tion, In addition to his family, he leaves his parents; a grand mother, Mrs. H. Miller; and a sister, Mrs. Edward L. Strem of St.

Paul, Minn. Services will be held Wednes. day at 1p. m. in the Ralph Schugar Chapel, 5509 Center Ave.

Burial will be in West View Cemetery. Pawnshop, Market Entered by Thieves A $20 store window was broken by thieves who entered Nick's food market, 512 Larimer and stole $20 from the cash register over the week end. A similar robbery reported by H. Rossen, pawnship operator at 213 Federal who said the front window of his shop was broken and field glasses valued at $100 stolen. on the porch of Allen's home, rammed the shotgun through a window and fired from about seven feet.

Allen's wife, Delphine, was under doctor's care, suffering shock at discovering the fatallywounded man. After returning from a party Saturday, Mrs. Allen prepared the late snack for her husband and then went to bed. Their asleep a room next to the old, daughter, Lorraine, was kitchen. Detective Inspector James P.

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