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The Daily Republican THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDSD IMS NOW IN ITS 91st TEAR A SPRING SLOGAN FOR MONONGABELA: CLEAN UP, PAINT-UP, FIX-UP MONONGAHELA ALLEY' OLDEST NEWSPAPER VOLUME 918 MOXOXGAIIELA, PA TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1936 The Weather: Showers; cooler. TWO CENTS REUEF NEW DEAL FOE IS REfKhVJNATED BY IOWA REPUBLICANS AS AT.IALGALIATED PREPARES TO ALONG IMJ STREET This VThat ACCORD--US REACHED Washington, June 2 (UP) Iowa's primary election returns were scrutinized closely in the Nation's capital today for possible ANSWER LEWIS hints of the state's trend for or against the New DeaL In Republican circles, the 2 to 1 ffinff UniOIl Head DeilUUlds THIS TT THAT: The thieves victory of sen. Lster J. Dickinson veteran New Deal foe, over former Sen. Smith Brookhart in Immediate Drive In Steel Industry.

who stole State Highway Patrolman J. C. Snyder's automobile from a Pittsburgh parking lot in Pittsburgh apparently had it SENIOR HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER MOVES TO COUNTY the Republican Senatorial race was regarded as a tribute to Dickin- I "hard." The machine bad only 300 COURT RULING SPURS DRIVE FOR NEW LAV Pittsburgh. June 2 (UP) The sop's outspoken attacks on the Roosevelt administration. It was thought likely that Dickinson had polled the necessary 35 per cent of the primary vote required if the nomination is not to be thrown into a State Party executive board of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers was to convene in special session here today to answer John L.

Lewis' demand for an immediate organization drive. Louis Leonard, secretary-treasurer of the association, said that miles on it when it was taken. The speedometer showed 500 when it was recovered after having been used in a robbery at Homestead. Snyder hasn't used the car since it was recovered. It's in a garage awaiting inspection by insurance adjusters Take it from A.

K. Turri, himself, the rumors about his planning to sell or having sold Keenie's Garage aren't baaed in fact. He said he intends to stay in business at the same old stand for a long time yet Denial of States' Rights May Bring Campaign For New Amendment Runaway Boys On Way To Washington Nabbed House, Senate Approve Joint Committee's Recommendation For June Appropriation. Harrisburg, June 2 (UP) The" Senate and House today approved the report of a bi-partisan conference committee that the legislature provide an appropriation of for unemployment relief in June and distribution of relief cash and food orders halted since Sunday was resumed by the SERB. The Democratic leadership of the House and the Republican majority of the Senate gave concessions the House committeemen agreeing to the Senate figure which was $2,000,000 below that originally proposed in the House and the Senate members permitting the time element to be stricken from the regulations.

Consequently the money will be appropriated for use as far as it will go. If more is needed, provisions will be made for transfers from special funds. Vote on the conference committeemen's report was 204-0 in the House and 48-0 in the Senate. an immediate meeting by the board today was imperative in view of plans for conference between Amalgamated and Lewis' committee for Industrial Organization tomorrow night in Washington. Lewis, head of the CIO and of the United Mine Workers of Lieut Ray Hoover, a senior officer of the State Highway Patrol, has established a residence with his wife and two children at 670 Duncan avenue, Washington.

Hoover was connected with the Washington patrol sub-station in 1926 as corporal and again in 1927-28 as sergeant. He has been a member of the patrol since September, 1924, one year after its organization Operating under the direction of Capt. D. E. Miller, who commands Troop at Greensburg, Lieut.

Hoover's force numbers 45 men, including four sergeants, nine corporals and 32 patrolmen. This force is distributed among seven substations, at Waynesburg. Union-town, Washington, Pittsburgh, New Eagle, Imperial and Aspinwall. Examining units are stationed at Washington and Pittsburgh, conducting operator examinations throughout the adjoining districts. Pittsburgh, Pa, June 2 (UP) Two 14-year-old runaway Clarion boys came just as far as Mt.

Leb anon on their journey to Washing ton, Pa, when they were stopped America charged that Amalgamat- by police. Washington, June 2 (UP) Organized Labor seized the Supreme Court's 5-to4 denial of states' rights to fix minimum wages and hours for women and children today as an added weapon in demands for a constitutional amendment giving Congress powers over industry. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor, headed by William Green, saw the minority opinion as basis for their demands. The majority opinion was the fourth se Dr. E.

McCowa Dr. Robert W. Thompson The boys told police they were Darwin Blain Beers and Warren Bennett, and were on their way to visit an aunt of one of them yes terday. cd chiefs were guilty of "procrastination," in a wire received here yesterday. He implied the organization was stalling in its steel unionization efforts.

Amalgamated is going to Washington to confer on an offer by CIO of a $500,000 loan to help finance the membership drive in the steel industry on strictly industrial lines. As new moderator of the United Presbyterian church. Dr. Robert W. Thompson of Monmouth, left, is congratulated by the retiring moderator.

Dr. E. C. McCown, following his election at the church's national assembly at Pittsburg, Kas. Central Press "Yes" and "No" were the i.is-wers given to The Daily Republican by local ticket offices of the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads when asked wheth-ed ticket sales jumped yesterday as a result of the new reduced fares.

The Pennsylvania station reported a 50 percent increase in tickets sold yesterday over a normal Monday's business. Nearly all the tickets, however, were for short trips up and down the valley and into Pittsburgh. There was no advance -in ticket sales at the P. L. E.

station, however. The agent there said that he thought there was an increase in passenger traffic over the line, but the local office did not indicate it. HEIR FOUND In his telegram to Amalgamated yesterday, Lewis said in reference "If you do not yet know your Silk Workers Strike Connellsville, June 2 (UP) Approximately 300 employes of the Connellsville Silk Company, were on strike here today with demands for shorter hours and in SEEK MAN WHO SOLD BOY GUN LATE NEWS FLASHES vere blow to labor from the court in a little more than a year. The court knocked out the NRA, Railway Retirement Act, the Guf-fey Coal Control Act, and, yesterday, the New York Minimum Wage Law. All were strongly supported by organized labor.

The court in a split decision two weeks ago held the Federal govern Harrisburg, June 2 (UP) A House-Senate conference committee agreed today on a resolution to "borrow" special funds for unem own mind, please stay at home." Behind the demands of Lewis vas seen a possible threat to place creased wages. a rival organization into me iieia Seeks Landon's Post ment in the Guffey law could notj Detectives Hunt Original Owner of Pistol Used In Matricide. Both agents were of the opinion that the effect of the rates on travel cannot be estimated for several weeks. The increase at the Pennsylvania station was thought to be from the ranks of street car liders who were "sampling" the new fares. In Pittsburgh, the B.

O. sta Pittsburgh, June 2 (UP) unless the Amalgamated union swings promptly into line w'th the CIO plans and rejects those of William Green and his Anerican Federation of Labor. At the organization's recent convention in Canonsburg, Amalgamated did not fully accept either the industrial or craft system of unionization. i The body did, however, leave the way open for both A. F.

of L. and CIO cooperation. County detectives were searching if regulate working conditions of miners and in the New York case held states did not have the power either. Seventeen other states have similar laws. These, however, were not directly involved in the New York case.

The decision brought the controversy over the Supreme Court to a new high point. Whether the fight for a constitutional amendment would be carried into the Jerusalem, June 2 (UP) Renewed outbreaks of violence occurred throughout Palestine today as British troop reinforcements, freshly arrived from Egypt, tramped through the streets of Jerusalem and camped on the slopes of Mount Scopus pending assignment to trouble areas. Arabs rioting in Nazareth tossed bombs which shattered police station windows. Paris, June 2 (UP) The second wholesale strike in industrial Paris within a week resulted today in the today for the man who sold to 17-year-old John S. Hanna, the pistol with which he shot and killed his mother.

-L '-v its Jailed, on a murder charge, the tion reported an increase of 50 percent, but the Pennsylvania ticket office showed no notable rise in passenger revenue the first day. boy said that he had purchased the I last Friday from a coal min er, according to authorities. coming political campaign, remained uncertain. President Roosevelt has given no direct indi M'NAIR FORCES DEFAULT ON BONDS TO DROP PRICES AIR CRASH HEROINE RETURNS TO JOB AS HOSTESS ON PLANE ployment relief financing in June and broke a legislative deadlock which had halted distribution of food orders and relief checks since Sunday. Appointed when the House insisted that its figure of $6,931,211 should be accepted and the Senate stood pat on its $2,000,000 deduction, the committee agreed to the Senate's amount of $4,931,211 when the phrase "for the month of June" was eliminated.

Reconvening at noon (EST) today both legislative branches were expected to approve the committee's report and allow the State Emergency Relief Board to resume immediately distributions of relief the Commonwealth. Karl De Schweinitz, director of the SERB, said Monday and Tuesday relief for 198,000 persons, the number provided for on-those two days of each week, could not be distributed until the House and Senate formally adopted the report and approved the resolution. The money will be transferred from the liquor stores and motor license funds, and an unexpended May balance. The conference committee: Senators Theodore L. Bean, Montgomery; Clarence J.

Buckman, Bucks; J. Albert Reed, Washington; Representatives Miles Horst, Lebanon; Hiram G. An closing of 76 factories, throwing thousands of workers into idleness and again jeopardizing the French armaments program. cation he wilt raise the. issue.

The nnority opinion, written by Justice Harlan Stone, was re Detectives said the youth admitted slaying his mother at the garage of the Hanna's summer home in North Fayette Township late Sunday night. The shooting followed an argument over the use of the family automobile, the youth purportedly said. After re-enacting the crime for William Webster Theile Pittsburgh, June 2 (UP) With Pittsburgh, June 2 (UP) Nellie Granger, fully recovered from the effects of last April's plane crash near Uniontown, was Lake Forest, 111., June 2 (UP) The condition of Cyrus H. McCor-mick, former president and chairman of the Board of the Interna- police yesterday, young Hanna was garded as of especial significance. Some saw in it an implied invitation for a constitutional amendment defining Congress' power over industry.

Stone intimated that the majority decision, written by Justice Pierce Butler, was based upon 'personal economic predilections." Joining with Stone were Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Jus- returning to her job as flyingi turned over to the coroner who tional Harvester Company, turned Chicago, June 2 iuf wimam $5,665,405.20 cash ni its treasury, Webster Theile, 15-year-old "fugi-1 Pittsburgh was in default today on tive from who disappeared ja $22,513 bond interest payment, from the home of his wealthy par- The default was brought about ents at Mamaroneck, N. Y. afor the first time in the city's his-month ago, was found living in a tory because Mayor William N. $5-a-week boarding house today, i McNair refused to sign checks yes- The youthful heir had a job asjterday and the Peoples-Pittsburgh a magazine salesman and was Trust Company, agent for the city, "learning the business." He had could not make the payments with. bond grave today.

He suffered a heart ordered him jailed without pending an inquest. I attack Sunday. Van Nuys, June 2 (UP) Walter Huxman i Robert J. Greer, former Pittsburgh, lost 10 pounds from eating on 25 ticc Benjamin Cardoza and Jus- TWO WHO ESCAPED FROM W. VA.

JAIL GIVEN LONG TERMS out the Mayor's signature. The interest default was thv cents a day. tice Louis Brandeis hostess today. The Dravosburg girl climbed aboard a TWA airliner bound for Kansas City, where she expects to resume her duties immediately. In recognition of her heroic work at the time of the Uniontown tragedy, TWA officials rewarded her jith a vacation trip to Panama.

Slit returned two weeks ago. Among those who bid her goodbye at the airport today were her aunt and unelp, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baumgartncr, of Dravosburg. police officer, today was held on suspicion of killing his 29-year-old son, Samuel Greer, fatally shot during an argument over whether his father should carrv a "hillv" Walter Huxman, above, a Hutchinson, attorney, has been drafted by Democratic leader? of the.

state as a candidate for the gubernatorial seat now held by Alfred M. Landon, who at this a reporter lor the uaiiy times scr.ii-annual payment on 40-ycar-found him living with Charles J.jbond issues floated in 1908 and Fritz, 21, Wilmington, whom 1910. Mayor McNair stated his re- BUILDING PERMITS Wcllsburg, W. Va, June 2-(UP) hc met when he acquired his latest fusal to sign the checks was be- Two men who escaped from the Brooks County Jail recently and shnntin ann IN MAY TOTAL $725; job a few days ago. cause of an expected deficit and a 1 I uri.

ni -4 drews, Cambria; Joseph Burke, Philadelphia. He left home, he said, because desire to impair the city's credit were recapiui eu at jhi. PHI If 17 PINPC 71 stage has a compiandmg Itad ruLiiL mica a a iD, tua nhii. he was "tired of taking money to force Pittsburgh bonds now from my parents and because I selling at a premium to drop in who investigated the case said, Greer wounded his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Greer, in the hip.

While the committee was in session, the House and Senate ran through their calendars and ad? were' given lengthy prison terms yesterday by Judge J. J. P. O'Brien. Ralph Richards, 23, of Pitts- wanted to be on my own." I their market price.

MARTIN'S BODY NOT YET FOUND hurtrh was spntpnrnrl in vpars journed until noon today. The Senate gave final approval to the House bill appropriating $3,630,000 for robbery, three for stealing an HAZARDOUS ROAD officers automobile and 6 months i MAY RF PHAWPPn fnr hrealrinir Inil His rnmnaninn. I 1TI A I Dtt VllAllUEil can presidential nomination. Huxman, supported by Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy Helvering, among others, is opposed for the nomination by Jonathan M. Davis, former governor and Townsend old age pension supporter.

Central Building permits granted by the city for the month of May totaled $725, while fines from the police department amounted to $75. All building permits were for additions and were granted to James Edmund, Fihley street, $150; J. S. Caddell, Third avenue, $75; James Pizzutelli, Fourth street, $100, and E. W.

King, Vine street $400. borrowed" from special funds for Inquest Set For Tomorrow Into Grill Room Death May relief. The money already has I Frank McCulley, 23, of Wheeling, been spent on the strength of a legislative resolution pledging the received 15 years for burglary, 3 appropriation and repayment to the Harrisburg, June 2 (UP) A relocation survey to eliminate a hazardous sector of road No. 51 at Fallston Hill, near Beaver, was authorized today by Highway Secretary Warren Van Dyke. The plans will be submitted to Washington "within a few days" for inclusion in, the 1936-37 Federal aid road program.

Public Service Commissioner years for stealing an officer's machine and six months for breaking jail. Two other men, John Matthews, 22, and Robert Yates, 22, both of Wheeling, jointly accused with Richards and McCulley of robbing a garage were sentenced to 20 and 18 years, respectively. Monongahela Woman, Cult Member, Given Jail Term The body of Fred Martin, 29, of Washington, drowned while swimming in the surf at Atlantic City on Memorial Day, has not been recovered today. Martin was swimming with Robert Reishcr, also of Washington, when the two men were caught by the undertow. There were no guards on duty at that section of the beach, and although Reisher finally managed to gain shore in an exhausted condition, Martin was swept out.

CHILD IN ARMS HIT-RUN VICTIM A coroner's inquest, scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a. in the Charleroi borough building by Coroner W. R. Jones, was awaited today in expectation that it would throw some light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of David Briggs, a 43-year, old bartender who was fatally injured in the grill room of the Charleroi Slovak Club about 5:30 a. on Memorial Day.

In the meantime, Coroner Jones Thomas C. Buchanan, Beaver, and burgh, procured a copy of Supreme Court rulings showing that distributing literature from door to special funds through new taxation. The House had two revenue-raising bills as special business for final passage. One, providing a mill per kilowatt hour levy on electric power sales was amended and held over for final consideration today. Its estimated yearly yield is $5,000,000.

The other bill providing a tax of i cent a gallon on fuel oil sales was approved by a vote of 131 to 66 and sent to the Senate where 'it joined a half dozen other tax bills in Governor Earle's $80,650,000 revenue program. Estimated yield of the bill is $4,000,000 a year. A few Republicans in the coal producing counties of the state joined with the Democrats in favor of the levy which was termed a "benefit for RENO DIVORCE ENDS SECRET MARRIAGE OF GLASSP0RT TEACHER civic leader of the county, pressed for improvement of the dangerous Fallston Hill road which has taken a heavy toll of lives in traffic accidents. I uoor aia not constitute a violation. yesterday ordered the release of Cornelius Soudcn, 25, well known former athlete, of Charleroi, held Twelve members of the Jehovah Witnesses sect including a Monongahela woman, will spend the next 30 days in the Westmoreland county jail at Greensburg in default of fines imposed on them yesterday, by Burgess J.

A. Miller of Belle Vernon for distributing bills without a permit in that borough. Sara Wall, local woman, is among group of twelve sentenced by the burgess. A district woman, Mary Price, of New Eagle, was released because of illness. Thirty two of the 44 members of the religious cult arrested by Belle Vernon Police Sunday, were releas- CONNORS SUCCEEDS MURREN AS HEAD OF ALLEGHENY SLEUTHS Twenty-six were discharged on this technicality after it was learned tht the Supreme court maintains that going from door to door, knocking, and presenting a copy was legal without a permit Those sentenced were purported to have been handing out copies to passers-by on the street.

Mary Galuppo, 36, of Moncssen, a mother of seven children, was of Glassport, June 2 (UP) A Reno divorce had ended today the secret marriage of Jean F. Nicol, former high school teacher here, to Joseph Mcintosh, of McKeesport. Pa. Announcement of the wedding was not made until Mrs. Mcintosh A child-in-arms is the latest victim of a hit-run driver.

Ninctccn-months-old Albert Sal-apa, of Fredericktown, whose skull was fractured when an automobile struck his mother who was carrying him five days ago, died yesterday in the Brownsville hospital. The mothor, Mrs. Frances Salapfi, 22, has recovered from lacerations and bruises. State Highway patrolmen have intensified their hunt for the hit-skip car operator. Pittsburgh, June 2 (UP) Peter A.

Connors began his duties fatal injury a fracture of the skull at the base of the brain. Briggs' right eye also was contused and there was a slight swelling on the left check. Seven persons were in the room at the time Briggs was hurt. So far investigators have apparently been able to learn nothing of what transpired just preceding the finding of Briggs, unconscious lying on the floor, his head near the wall. Believing him only temporarily those in the grill room picked him up and laid him on a couch in another room where he remained until 8 a.

when it was discovered that his head was swollen. He was then removed to the Charleroi-Monessen hospital where he died about 1:05 p. m. the same day. Souden was picked up before Briggs' death at the Hotel Wellington where he lives and is employed in a grill room.

Briggs, employed until just recently as steward at the Charleroi Moose Club, leaves a widow and nine children. Funeral services, followed by interment in the Belle Vernon cemetery, were held fro.r the family home, 802 Meadow avenue, Charleroi, this afternoon. Investigators frankly were puzzled by the case. "So far as we can learn, there was no fight. If any blow was struck the witnesses apparently did not see it.

The coroner's inquest will have to bring put any other facts," one of them said yesterday. left for the Reno, divorce 1 1 1 1 a fi courts. The couple was married in loaay as cnlcl 01 lHC iiiegncny Greensburg, in 1931. County Detective bureau, vacated by the retirement of George Mur- rcn. Connors was appointed yesterday cd.

The remaining iz cnose con- fered her liberty by Burgess Miller on the condition 'hat she would promise not to return to the borough to distribute literature in the future. She refused and went to Greensburg with the others. Among those released was a girl of 14 judged to be too young, and WOMAN DRINKS LYS0L IN BEER GARDEN, DIES by District Attorney Andrew T.nement at ureensDurg in preier ence to posting a $75 bond pending Park and sworn in by Judge Ralph for questioning following Briggs' death, following a conference with Charleroi police. Soudcn was released on his own recognizance in custody of his attorney, H. Russell Stahlman, a former district attorney of Washington County.

Jones ordered Sou-den's release when he could find no witnesses who saw any blow struck by Soudcn. "I have no evidence to show any blow was struck," Jones announced. Reports that Briggs fatal hurts were induced by a fall, after being struck by a heavy blow, were current yesterday but were not verified. Soudcn has emphatically denied from the first that he struck Briggs who was sitting near a pool table where Souden was playing a game of pool with Dr. A.

A. Pa-luso. It was a fall from the chair which apparently caused Briggs' AUTO INSPECTION DEADLINE JUNE 15 H. Smith, presiding judge of criminal court. Connors was promoted to the position held by Murrcn for the past Unrequited love was blamed for the suicido of Florence Hall, 28.

colored, of Waynesburg, who died in the cmcrcencv room of the the coal industry of the state, especially anthracite." Called from second reading postponed calendar, the Van Sickle income tax bill was amended on the floor to reduce the levy from 2 to 1 per cent and to designate the returns for relief. The $20 per person filing credit was- left intact which would alllow exemptions on $2,000 annual incomes instead of $1,000 under the higher percentage levy. It appeared on the third reading calendar today. Rep. Andrews introduced another 1-ycar tax levy for relief, providing a levy of 3 cents on each 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas distributed in the state.

Companies selling the product would be required to pay the tax. Rep. John J. Flnnerty, Phll-(Continued on Page 6) Moncssen police station shortly tcn ycarSi after consuming a quarter of a) an appeal. Burgess Miller spent the entire day presiding at the hearing.

The members of the sect were stopped from passing out a pamphlet in which there was an article entitled 'Mayor Gold Sees It criticized Mayor Gold and his Monessen police officers for arresting 147 members of the sect as they were engaged in distributing literature there on the preceding four who were discharged because of lack of identification. Those sentenced beside Mrs. Galuppo, were: Ranilda Faul, 17, and Helen Paulos, of Pittsburgh; John Ruby, 74, of Brownsville; Sarah Wall of Monongahela; Anna Huey, Smithfield; Sarah McKenna, North Charleroi; Sophia Macheska and Irene Billy, of Monessen; Mike bottle of Lysol in the lavatory of a Monesscn beer parlor Saturday. She was found writhing in agony STOLEN AUTO FOUND The automobile of Attorney George I. Bloom, of Washington, stolen from his home May 27, was With the deadline on June 15, but 14 more days remain for Pennsylvania motorists to comply with the state auto inspection ruling, State Highway patrolmen reminded motorists today.

After June 15 all drivers not displaying the inspection tag will be subject to arrest and liable to a fine of $10 and costs it was staled. and was rushed to the police sta tion where she died. Police took found Sunday in Lorraln County, Thomas Ellicott, colored, of Mon- Ohio, a lake-front county near esseh, into custody during the in- (Cleveland. One man was arrested vestlgation, but later released him. but another escaped.

Mindrich, of Chestnut Ridge, and (Continued on Page 8) I Sunday. Attorney Sidney A. Amdur, Pitts 1 "r-ie M4b'-A jtWti i.