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16,735. FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935. THREE CENTS avssxxxsxxxssxs nrmnrxn 95. SR-. fc- DISPERSE WITH TEAR GA fc3 Plane and Fancy Diving til us POLICE BREAK FEDERAL COMMISSION MOVE TO ERIE PROBERS MAY ASSIST ARRESTED, UONE HURT AT TERRE HAUTE Troops Escort Deliverymen About 4Milk Routes; Merchants Plan to Open Stores.

BULLETIN. TERRE HAUTE, InL, July 23. UP National Guardsmen en i 1, iSomething of a high diving record was set by six Russian girls when they leaped into Lake Senezh, near Moscow, from a height of nearly 2,000 feet. They performed the feat to demonstrate how to eliminate the hazard from landing a parachute on water. Freeing themselves from their harness while descending, they were unfettered when they hit the water.

One of the girls is shown swimming beside her floating England Orders Nationals To Quit Ethiopia at Once G.oyt. Ready to Concentrate All Britons at Addis Ababa in Event That War is Declared. forcing martial law in strike-torn Vigo County clashed twice with pickets today. By using tear gas guns the troops came off victorious in both battles. The second clash came shortly before noon when two hundred challenged i the authority of the troops and rushed the plant.

The troopers, numbering about 300, unlimbered tear gas and held off the attack. The pickets retreated, jeering. By ALLEN C. DIBBLE, United Press Staff Correspondent TERRE HAUTE, July 23. The Terre Haute merchants' association voted today to defy union labor and reopen 150 of the city's stores despite a paralyzing general strike.

The stores affected by the decision to reopen normally employ about 5,000 which is only a small fraction of the estimated 60,000 in Vico County that have walked out. It was uncertain, too, whether all of the 5,000 would return to work. City in Turmoil. The city was In a turmoil National Guardsmen patrolling the streets and prohibiting the strikers from holding public meetings. In breaking up an assemblage of 4,000 pickets at the Columbia Enameling and Stamping Company early today the (guards used tear gas and engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with some of the pickets who resisted.

None was seriously injured. Seven men were arrested their cases to-be held for disposition by a military court By 5 a. m. (EST) more than 2,000 troopers were in the city and Brig. Gen.

D. Wray de Prez said all business would be resumed later today. Squads of troops escorted delivery-men about their milk routes and Pre reported no violence on the early rounds. Street cars, buses and taxieabs, kept guarded by pickets in their sheds yes-(Contlnued on Page 6.) Flays Roosevelt But is Opposed To Impeachment WASHINGTON, July 23. CP President Roosevelt has "violated me Constitution on more than one occasion," Rep.

Hamilton Fish, N. said today in a lashing House speech in which he held, however, that it "would be unwise and foolish to introduce an impeachment resolution." House Republican Leader Bertrand H. Snell said Saturday in a press statement that Mr. Roosevelt had "come perilously close" to what some people regarded as grounds for impeachment. There has been considerable talk among angry Republicans of alleged violations of the Constitution by the New Deal.

House Republican leaders laid today that several Republican representatives were "considering" sponsoring impeachment proceeding against Mr. Roosevelt. But they would not name them. "The President has usurped the powers of Congress and it is time we called a halt." Fish asserted it "is evident the President has violated the Constitution on more than one occasion." He referred to the Supreme Court decisions in tbe Humphrey and NRA case. TEMPORARILY FORESTALLED.

Secretary Van Dyke Announces Headquarters Will be Continued Here for Current Year. The good news that the district offices of the State Highway Department will remain in Franklin for the current year at least was received today in a United Press dispatch to The News-Herald from Harrisburg. Secretary Warren Van Dyke announced the decision to keep the offices here. A telegram from William J. Dougherty, director of publicity of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, also was received by The News-Herald.

The telegram said the removal from Franklin" to 'Erie "has been temporarily forestalled-." There was no assurance that a change would not be made later, since Secretary Van Dyke said only that the offices will remain in Franklin for the current Proposed Move Brings Protests. The movement on foot to have the headquarters transferred to Etrte stirred many protests, since the change was regarded here as detrimental to the interests of Venango County. About 40 families would be affected, the district office personnel toedna' composed1 of 70 persons. Ip that there will be change this year, Secretary Vari Dyke took cognizance of the recent announcement here that transfer of the offices was about to be effected. The statement that the headquarters will remain was received with hearty approval by those who considered the removal a serious blow to the city and county.

i Vigorous opposition had been registered wira Democratk! leaders the state" both at sii WssIh ington after ttoe proposal to shift the district offices to Erie had been revealed. While Democratic State Committeeman O. O. (Martin, of Franklin, made (Continued on page 6.) Continuance Denied, Despite Illness of One of Group. DETROIT, July 23.

UP William Schweitzer and the three women the State contends conspired with him to rob and murder Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent New York attorney, went to trial today after defense attorneys had moved vainly for continuation and for separate trials. Recorder's Judge John Boyne overruled five defense motions seeking continuances in order that three attorneys might prepare their defense of Schweitzer, Florence and Loretta Jack son and Jean Miller. The women, near collapse and weeping, sat under heavy guard in the prisoner's pen of the crowded courtroom as the attorneys and Prosecuting Attorney Duncan C. McCrea wrangled over the defense motions. Schweitzer, 20-year-old underworld figure of many aliases, conferred with his attorney, Ralph B.

Guy. Jean Miller, who "broke" the ease and involved her three companions in the slaying of Dickinson after a party on June 27, required constant attention in the courtroom. Her attorney, George Fitzgerald, was denied a continuance sought on the ground his client was too ill to undergo the strain of court trial Sen. William E. Borah, Idaho, has warned Senate leaders that the Frazler-Lemke bill and a veterans' bonus plan will be proposed in the Senate as amendments to New Deal legislation and that Congress will be in session until Nov.

1 unles the amendments are disposed of. The Frazier-Lemke bill would enable farmers to refinance mortgages on their land at 1 per cent. Interest and on their livestock at 3 per cent. Funds for refinancing operations would be obtained by public issue of farm-loan bonds. But Federal Reserve and national banks would be compelled to In vest all surplus and net profits, leas dividends, in ths farm bonds If ths open market failed to absorb them.

If access to National bank surplus funds failed to provide sufficient cash, the Federal Reserve board would be authorised to issue to 93.000,000,000 of new paper money backed by farm-, loan bonds. The S3 State legislatures listed by Frasisr-bsmte supporters as having memorialised Congress in favor of the Mil Include Ohio, but neither Pennsylvania. We Vlrrlnln. Vuk nor; OfUR ON TRIAL IN LIE MURDER SHIPBUILDERS' PICKET LINES Several Minor Fights Result at Camden Yards; 400 Men of 4,600 Return to Work. By PAUL F.

fcLLIS, United Press Staff Correspondent. OAiMlDEN, N. 23. Poltee in flying wedges Ibroke up a picket line of 3,000 strikers at the New York S'hdpbiufikMtig yards today. minor fights resufltted and about 400 of the 4,600 strikers slipped iback to work during She melee.

The pickets moved back across the roadway Urtom company property amdi police allowed therm to remain and jeer those who returned to work. The disorders started1 when ttiree timekeepers 'reported for Pickets fonmed a solid line across the main entrance to the yards and refused to allow them to enter. Burly police cnaiged ttie pickets and scattered them. The timekeepers got inside. Twelve coppersmiths and six sub- foremen rustied through the gate while ipol'tee, held iback he mclb.

A group of 20 women ran out and! jeered a handful of men who accepted the company's proposal that all strik ers who wanted to return at their old pay rates would be rehired today. Police arrested SO pickets. The men were later released without being taken to (headquarters. Arbitration Plans Proposed. Only one of the 12 gates to the yards was opened1 at 7:40 a.

m. when the work whistle Mew and not a (man made an effort to enter the plant. Then after the timekeepers sueeesstfuHy passed the pickets, one by one trickled to untlH aibout 400 had entered. Pickets to boats on the Delaware River said not a stogie man had been able to slip Into the plaint toy the back way. John F.

Metten president said ttie strike was broken aitwi the yairds would resume full operations tomoirrow-. Union maintained that tlhe majority of tfhose who reported1 today wore "Moe buttons" indicating they were office workers who were not af fected by the strike. Officials of the union saforthey were willing to accept Secretary of Labor Perkins proposal to arbitrate "union demands" but they were opposed to ne gotiating "all matters in dtepute. Company officials contended that per cent, of the employes want to return! to work. ii; WESTWOHD DEATH HELD FOR PROBE Valicenti and Kasparin Identify Suspect But He Does Not Answer Previous Description.

PITTSBURGH, July 23. UP The mian whom Patsy Valicenti installed1 in a McKees Rocks hotel room 48 hours before Mrs. Martha Westwood was shot to death was brought here for questioning by county detectives today. Detectives said1 the mans name was Joe Dundee, an E'lyria, mill worker, and that he denied amy connection with the death of the popular wife of iSquire James J. Westwood, of McKees Rocks.

Valicenti identified Dundee as the man whom he sent, to Adam Kaspari-an's hotel room two days before the slaying, and who allegedly disappeaired from the hotel without having slept 1m his bed. Kaspiwian also identified Win, Dundee did not compare at all, how ever, with the description Valicenti first gave of the "stranger whom he supplied with lodging. Dundee is five feet five inches, rhimky, and wears his hair closely enpped. Valicenti had described the stranger as "tall, thin and dark, with Iwg balir." That latter description is the same published by the police eairty in their Investigation into the puzzling mur der. Dundee was brought here early to day from Elyria.

and his identity withheld at first while detectives ques tioned Mm, $5,000 Bond Required. Valicenti, meanwhile, sought to raise $5,000 bond which was set ifor him today on a charge of illegally pos-sessin fl rearms. The bond was set after attorneys found that what was to have been a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus was changed overndgfct into an arraignment on a minor dhairge. Usual bond on such charge is $500, bwt it was set at the higher flaw be cause of detectives belief that Valicenti wilt be valuable io solving Mrs. Westwood's murder, although he is not suspected of being the trigger man.

G. 0. P. SHOWING GAINS. PUXXSUTAWNBT, July 28.

CP Registration figures In Jefferson County showed today a net jratn for the Republicans of 2S4 voters. Tbe Democratic registration also showed an increase. The total number registered for the Republicans was 18,822, for the Democrnts. 0.04s. MYSTERY MAN "On Ground" Investigation of Protest Telegrams May be Made in Penna.

and N. Y. By RONALD G. VAN TINE, United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 23 UP Congressional investigation of lobbying against the Wheeler Raytourn holding company bill swung to wider ground today when 'Chairman Hugo L.

Black indicated the Federal Communications Commission would be asked to aid and it was charged that telegrams against the bill were signed with names of persons dead "for several years." O. C. Haller, representative of the Metropolitan Edison Company, testified that he dictated most of the telegrams sent from York in protest against the death sentence bill. Asserting that he had no office other than "a table and a chair," he told the committee that he used the payroll of the York Railway Company to obtain 700 signatures to messages. "Who authorized you?" he -was asked.

A. Barnitz, vice president and general manager," he said. Black, who had indicated he might take the Senate Lobby Committee to Pennsylvania and possibly New York state for "on the ground" investigations, overshadowed the testimony of Luther Coleman, York, Postal Telegraph manager, and Rep. R. J.

Dris-coll, when the committee resumed its investigation into lobby and "fake" telegrams attributed to Associated Gas and Electric Company officials. He Indicated the communications commission would be asked to aid in a nation-wide survey of charges that congressmen were bombarded with unauthorized telegrams against the bill. (Continued on Page 6.) Russell Swiger, 23, Pays Penalty for Killing Gasoline Station Attendant Sept. 24. COLUMBUS, July 23.

UP After quoting (Scripture and asking divine forgiveness for those in charge of his execution, Russell Swiger, 23, of Zanesville, died in the electric chair last night for the killing of Harold Fleming, gasoline station attendant last Sept. 24. Swiger spoke extemporaneously for eight minutes before the straps were drawn about him in the electric chair. He prayed for himself, for Warden J. C.

Woodard of Ohio penitentiary, for the guards, and for Miss Grace Mitchell of Pittsburgh, whose love he sought at tbe time Fleming was killed in a holdup. During his trial, Swiger claimed he planned the holdup to obtain money to spend on Miss Mitchell. "'God bless my girl in Pittsburgh, who I know Is praying for me," Swiger said as he knelt before the chair. He mumbled something about having received a telegram from Miss Mitchell but Warden Woodard said he knew of no message having been received by iSwiger. Swiger was pronounced dead at 8:48 p.m..

II. S. ITU WIN DOUBLES MATCH WIMBLEDON, July 23. UP Rising magnificently In the face of defeat to beat toack two matwh points in fourth set and three in the fifth the American doubles team of WUiner Allison, of Texas and Jdhnny Van Ryn, of Philadelphia, today defeated Baron Gottfried Von Oramon and Kay Lund, of Germany. 3-0, B-3, 5-7, 0-7, 8-6 to give the United States a 21 lead in the Davds Cup tie with Germany.

The victory, achieved after one of tlhe gamest raMe ever seen on Wim bledon's elawdc turf, practically C-Uwheri the tie and the right to challenge 'Ftwrtand for the cup later this nionCh. For in tomorrow's two conclud-font single engagements Allison is heavily favored to defeat Young HeinT rich Henfoel ifor the third point necessary to victory. Hud the Germans won today, the tie undoubtedly would have been theirs for the other singles match Donald Budge, the young Oatifornian, is given no chance agaitast Von Gnanxn, BULLETS FROMMP GUNBOAT STRIKE MISSION SCHOOL PTO PINO. China, July 23. CP A Japanese gunboat, practising machine gun firing July dropped several bullets Into the Reformed Church School at Toochow, the American consulate general at Hankow reported today.

No damage was done, the report said, and the Japanese consulate general at Han kow promised an investigation. OHIO YOUTH DIES, THUCOFuI; OWES SCRIPTURE LIQUIDATION OF AUSTIN CAR CO. ORDERED BY COURT PITTSBURGH, July 23. UP Liquidation of the American Austin Car Company, Butler, was ordered today by Federal Judge F. P.

Schoonmaker. Judge Schoonmaker named R. O. Gill, an executive of the company, trustee in charge of the liquidation under $10,000 bond. The decree was granted on petition of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, holder of a $150,000 mortgage on the Butler, plant.

It also vacated an order of last May 22 extending to Aug. 20 the time in which the Austin Company might submit a plan of reorganization in accordance with its voluntary petition under Section 77-B of the amended bankruptcy laws. The Pullman-Standard Company sought the liquidation of the Austin concern last Friday, contending that it had four times postponed filing the plan for reorganization that it asked permission to offer a year ago. Five Per Cent, or $73,081 Available for Materials, Deputy Director Rommerdale Says. Under the new Works Progress Administration set-up soon to be in ef-irt tnr furtherance of relief pro jects, 5 per cent, allowance will be made for materials in Venango County, according to H.

Roomerdale, of Erie, deputy director of Area 12, who was in Franklin for a short time Tuesday afternoon and conferred with Mayor James G. Bohlender. With Rommerdale were S. A. Mc-Gavern, Erie County supervisior, and O.

E. Brenot, works director of Venango County. Rommerdale pointed out that srra.ftRi is available for materials out of the allotment of $1,521,000. In cluded in Area 12 are six counties Clarion. Crawford.

Erie, Forest, Ven ango and Warren and allotment is provided for 2,438 workers, or wnom 311 are assigned to COC Camps. mviioot in exces of $25,000 will be considered at any one time, it was stated. How soon the Works Progress Administration will be ready to function was not indicated, but hope was expressed that the new set-up wouia be arranged shortly. Rommerdale indicated that it was the aim of the central office to deal impartially with each part of the district arA nrrori that oities and towns be ready to submit projects when called for. STATUE OF LIBERTY TO GET IMPROVEMENTS wAlHH.IxvoN,.

Jmlv 23. UP Part of tlhe $4,000,000,000 work relief fund is elated1 for the iStatue or liberty in New York City's harbor. The rwmnirtiment of Interior, asking for $3,775,720 to improve national pairtos In 28 states, applied' for $510,250 to Install a heating plant, safety rails and' ventilate the memorial to friend-sttvip of France of America. The department also eougm siau.uw to purchase land surrounding George WtaBhljwrton'a htrttanlace in Virginia. Other application included Ohio: Mound utry raric, Pennsylvania: Getty starg, $30,000.

Others predicted the measure would not reach the House until the second week in August. The committee was reported near agreement today on an Administration backed proposal to advance the date of making effective the, program from Jan 1, 1036, to Sept. 1, 1036. The proposal to make the taxes effective during the last four months of this year was advanced to avoid a possible rush to evade payment of hiked Inheritance, upward of $100,000,000 additional revenue. Chairman Doughton eald be favored the earlier date, at least on the inheritance, girt and Income provisions.

Conservative Democrats defeated a proposal that inheritances and Income be treated Jointly. Acceptance of the proposal world have Indicated strong sentiment for sharply hiked Uxea on wealth. Doughton reiterated that President Roosevelt "is anxioui to retain the principle of a graduated corporation tax, iu the bills, at enunciated in his COUNTY SHARE OF 11 FUND IS MILLION UNO HALF By FREDERICK Ki ll, Tnited Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1935, by United Press.) LONDON, July 23. Great Britain today completed arrangements to evacuate its subjects from Ethiopia in event of an emergency. Coincidently, it warned missionary societies here that their missionaries, scattered in remote districts of the country, should be concentrated around Addis Ababa, the capital: It advised also that the missionaries should leave the country now with their wives and children.

The government was reported to be ready to concentrate all Britons who did leave the country in event of war within the British legation at Addis Ababa. It, was understood that somewhat under 100 missionaries and their families were affected by today's warning. Cabinet Shows Anxiety. Today's development coincided with an atmosphere of real tension which indicated that the Cabinet was more gravely anxious regarding the Italian-Ethiopian dispute than at any other time in the months of its development. There has been no approach to a solution for a dispute which, if it means war, was seen more clearly every day as menacing the peace of Europe.

Usually well-informed diplomatic correspondents asserted today that one decision of major importance already had been made that at its emergency meeting yesterday the Cabinet decided there were no grounds on which to prevent British firms from exporting arms to Ethiopia. Refusal, the Cabinet was said to nave decided, would violate Britain's treaty obligations with Ethiopia, prejudge possible decisions of the League (Continued on page 6.) JACK PEARL, BARON MUNCHAUSEN, DIVES AND ALMOST DROWNS MONTE CARLO, July 23. UP Jack Pearl, the Baron Munchausen of American back chat acts, needed his partner, "Sharlie" yesterday and came near dying in his absence. He made a comic dive from the deep end of a swimming pool, thinking it was Uie shallow end. His calls for help were regarded as more comedy, and he went down for the third tiine before life guards pulled him out.

It took half an hour's work to revive him. He explained he could not swim. Italian Envoy Not Present at Imperial Party ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 23. UP-4unt Luigi Vinci-Gigllucci, Italian minister, absented' himself today from a reception which Emperor Halle Selassie I gave in observance of his 44th birthday. His failure to attend the reception was taken as an official notification of Italy's anger at the emperor's recent speech in which he charged Beniio Mussolini with seeking war in his own interests.

It was the first open breach In the nominally still friendly intercourse between the disputing countries, for diplomatic niceties bad been maintained even while national anger has mounted on both sides and the countries are arming for war. Abysslnlans said at once they regarded the boycott of the reception a provocative affront. No member of the Italian legation or1 consulate staff attended the reception, which was given for the diplomatic and consular corps at the emperor's palace. It was said that, gravely as the government regarded the 'affront, It would in no way alter the Axed' policy of Emperor Halle Selassie, which is to seek ly all means an honorable peace, but to go personally to war at the head of his army if war can not' be prevented." The Italian legation said Count Vlnci-fligllueci absented himself from the reception on his own initiative, without referring to Rome for Instructions. He informed Bhe Ethiopian For eign Minister of his intention yesterday, i Ethiopian News At a Glance.

Today's developments la tbe Italian-Ethiopian situation: ADDIS ABABA Italian envoy boycotts reception in observance of emperor's 44th birthday ceiled "provocative affront" by Abysslnlans. BOMB Rage at Japan grows hotter; Mussolini's newspaper leads attack. LONDON -Great Britain warns missionaries to leave Ethiopia; preparations for evacuation of all nationals completed, Farm Inflationists Claim Support From 32 States Inheritances Even As Low As $50,000 Carded for Taxes WASHINGTON, July 23. Farm Woe inflationists claim support of 32 states legislatures in their campaign to compel President Roosevelt to acept a 3,000,000,000 currency Issue to liquidate and refinance agricultural debts. Advocates of the measure all but charge Mr.

Roosevelt with political trickery to block it It is known as the Frazier-Lemke MIL Among other things, it would order an election to establish a Farmers' Congress in Washington with authority to take over from Mr. Roosevelt supervision of farm debt relief agencies. The bill would give farmers of the nation large control over the Federal Reserve board which is alleged to have precipitated the farm crisis in 1920 by adopting a deflationary program. The farm mortgage moratorium bill outlawed by the Supreme Court last spring was sponusored by the authors of this legislation, Sen. Lynn J.

Frazier, X. and Rep. William Lemke, N. they also have pending a new moratorium bill drafted ta terms believed to he accept bie to tfce court WASHINGTON, July 23. UP House Ways and Means Committee Democrats decided today to tax Inheritances as low as $,50,000.

They sought to speed up a tentative draft of the Roosevelt tax-the-rich bill. Tentative agreement also wt reached to make the taxes begin at $10,000 In the comparatively few cases in which inheritances are left to others than blood relatives. Tax experts believed revenue on such Inheritances would amount to only $2,000,000,000 or The entire inheritance program us now proposed was estimated to bring In $95,000,000,000 to JHMMIOO.OOO. The Democrats were understood to be near agreement on an inheritance tax schedule which would start at 4 per cent, on inheritances between and $60,000 and graduate up to 72 per cent, on those between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000. Despite indications the Democrats were in sharp dispute over details.

Chairman Rolcrt L. Doiighton said "I uttll believe the bill can be whipped Into shape this week.".