The Daily Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • Page 1

The Daily Republican MONONGAHKLA VALLEY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ARE YOU PLANNING PROPERTY REPAIRS UNDER THE HOUSING ACT THIS SPRING? V0I.1I.MKS:'-- li ON'ONO A II RLA, FRIDAY, APRIL .19, 19:55 The Weather: Fair tonight and Saturday TWO CENTS U.S. HOLDS UP TRAIN KILLS ALONG MAIN STREET This That. PROTESTS BRITISH EXECUTIONS PWA ALLOTMENT FOR LOUISIANA WORKMAN IN VALLEY MILL 0 Hfe''A TO QUIZ POLITICS iVBA THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED 1841 Jg NOW IN ITS yjLmm EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR 1 PROBE TURNS ON 3 A letter: Plant Foreman Is Victim of Tragedy At Monessen. i Mistake In Identity Nearly Involves Assistant District Attorney of County In Political Charge. CONGREGATION FILLS CHURCH FOR SERVICE HOUSE RUSHES ENACTMENT OF SECURITY BILL Administration Acts To Force States Behind Work Drive.

ItriXETlN Washington, April 19 (IT) Ilelief administrator Hurry Ifnpk'ma today took over nnem-i ployment aid activities in Cleorgia, shutting out Gov. Eugene Tnl-madge from administration of IVdernl unemployment aid funds. The' action was taken after the Governor attacked President Kooscvelt and the New Deal, and the State legislature failed to appropriate its own funds to augment Federal grants. Hp a "Dear Mr. Along The Avcnoo: "Your operatives must bo slipping peili.

iis too often into one of those to idiots yon so often mention in the lolunui. "Where tliI they got thoir information or lack of it about that horsele.ss isirringo? Surely not from the owner. "I had the of seeing it the first d.iy it arrived in town iind I can Assure yon that it was very much in one piece and appeared thoiinh it had heon that way for a Umx time. "Aside fiom the I'ael that the rims are not the original ones, the present ones having been welded to the one because the original size tins couldn't be scoured, it looked as though it hadn't been modelled much. one thing your agent overlooked.

Another was the oil There was no oil in the pan, lubrication for the bearings (nine from a small oil enp on the It ft side of the motor. This cup had a valve that was opened v. hen the motor was started, and that allowed the oil to drop to the hearings. Also the original ignition system had a magneto like the Model Ford that was replaced by a battery. "There could probably be a man-sized argument about the original price, but skip it, it's 32 years old.

Another thing, 10 minutes is a very conservative estimate of the time required to start it. Ask the mechanic that did it. "Your operative should have asked Mr. Deems why he didn't drive it into Pittsburgh. His an- swer, if true, would have been interesting." i SO LONG.

I And contents noted: Dear So Lony: We had our op Mrs. Violet Vanderelst, wealthy British humanitarian, is protesting all executions in England. She not only employs "sandwich" men with placards denouncing capital punishment but has an air- erative on the carpet as as giving him jurisdiction over all your anonymous Utter came, and money spent in the state under the he assured us that he all of new work-relief program, his dope l.om Mr. Deems person- i "Tf the 'Emperor' keeps on It may be true that when you ing tho way he is now, he soon will saw the car it was all in one piece, have a share-the-unemployment but don't forget it was assembled instead of a share-the-wealth plan before being brought here. And as in operation in his state," Ickcs for the ten minutes required to i said.

"Draw your own conclusions start it, don't forget that this took as to whether Louisiana will get place after the car had been any money from the new program." worked on tor some time and tun- He ridiculed threats of the Sena-ed up. Thanks, however, for the tor to attack him on the floor of ir.fo about the oil system. Our the Senate Monday by asking p.eent admits that "he didn't know "will he have his bodyguards with Washington, April 19 (UP) The administration took relentless action today to force states into line behind the $4,880,000,000 reemployment drive. 1. Public Works Administrator Harold L.

Ickes held up in construction allotments tentatively approved for Louisiana because Senator Heuy P. Long sought to gain control of expenditure of the money. 2. He rescinded $210,000 scheduled to go to Georgia. The state's Governor, Eugene Talmadge, is an out-spoken anti-Roosevelt Democrat.

3- Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced he was cutting Pennsylvania off the unemployment aid grant list until the legislature starts spending S5.000.000 of its own money for relief every month. 4. He held tho same threat over Illinois, demanding the assembly appropriate $3,000,000 to feed and clothe its npprlv pvcrv month In- drew the ire of hoth Tckcs and Hopkins by pushing through the Louisiana legislature a bill him?" The trouble with Long, he added, "is that the man is suffering from halitosis of the intellect." Honkins refused to he drawn intn the vitriolic verbal exchange. He revealed, however, he had ousted il" pouucai nenenmen irom tho stat0 rIio'' administration whpn he ma) F-a" Peterman.

a blttrr (nm' of th Senator, the new unemployment aid director "Talk doesn't count with me," Hopkins said. "What I want is ac-, tion, and Peterman is going to spend every cent of relief money that goes into Louisiana. The state administration won't get to touch a cent of it. "Long's threat to have Petereman put in jail if he distributes the state grants without going through Gov. O.

K. Allen doesn't worry me-a bit." Talmadge, in addition to his attacks on the President, clashed with the administration when he vetoed a bill authorizing issuance of securities as collateral for PWA loans. "I don't know how to do bus-1 7r 7- (Continued on Page 6) 1 SEEK $520,000 F0RC.S.T.C. Two New Buildings Planned If Funds Are Received From PWA. California, April 19 California State Teachers' College will receive approximately $520,000 should a request of the State Department of Public Instruction to the State PWA planning board for to be expended in improvements at State-owned schools, be approved, Dr.

Robert M. Steele announced today. The proposed program at California entails construction of a new physical education building at p. cost of a new heating plant, site and service lines, new industrial education building, $125,000, and alterations and repairs to science hall, $25,000. R.

R. WRECK CASE APPROACHES JURY Pittsburgh. April 10 (UP) A Criminal Court jury was to deter mine today the fate of Robert Ed 41 unit Cl.iii.nrt 21, accused of derailing a train near Sturgeon last October. 4 His skull fractured when struck by a train while at work in the Page Steel Wire company in Monessen late yesterday afternoon, a 59-year-old Monessen man, employed in the plant for 23 years, died shortly after last midnight in the Memorial hospital here. The victim, Cataldo Bernardo, of f13 Ontario street, was admitted to the local institution at 6 p.

m. rind died at 12:10 a. m. today. He i had suffered a fractured skull, I fractured jaw, and chest injuries.

Bernardo, a labor foreman since he lost his left arm in an open hearth accident at the mill several vears aso. was assisting in weighing freight gondolas on the mill scales and, believing the work completed at 4:30 o'clock closed the mill gates. After closing the gate he turned around to see the engine coming slowly toward him. Realizing that the work was not completed and that the locomotive was headed for the P. L.

E. tracks to get another string of cars, he started to reopen the gates. As he was pulling a large iron bar lock from the gate, to let the engine pass, the bar was struck by the engine, and he was thrown to the tracks. His head was caught between the engine footboard and the rail and badly fractured. The wheels did not pass over his body, the engine stopping immediately after striking the man.

Bernardo was a widower and I has one son surviving. Funeral i I se.rvices win be Monday morning iwith interment in Monessen. ADVANCE PLANS FOR EXHIBIT Legion Committee Plans Prosperity Week -During May. The local American Legion committee in charge of Monongahela Prosperity Week, scheduled for i. it a.

Ma 10 lnl P'uns Ior the week of entertainment are going along smoothly and that keen interest is being shown as the opening date draws near. One of the features of Prosperity Week is the contest to determine who will be "Miss Prosperity" for 1M5. This contest is open to all young ladies of the city and vicinity and the attractive list of awards has resulted in a large number of entries in the contest. The winner will receive a loving cup in addition to a new 1935 Chevrolet roadster. Second prize will be a diamond ring and third place winner will receive a wrist watch.

The contest will close May 11. Committees announce that the names of the contestants will be published next week. I Entertainment for the week will be furnished by the Knepp Dehnert Combined Exposition Shows which carries a large number of attractions, including animals, side shows and! new and novel rides. minimum quarterly royalty specified. The lessee also was to assume the taxes, she claimed.

The widow calculated that her lessee fell in arrears almost since the receivership became effective September 15, 1930, and under a provision of her lease she gave 90-day notice last November 15 of her intention to seize possession if the indebtedness were not liquidated. Her petition to the Federal court followed the company's failure to pay. Answering her petition, the Union Trust Company, trustee for Gilmore bondholders, contended that the 1922 document was not a lease but an actual conveyance at a flat price of $1,000 an acre. Indication of the Intensity of re-slstence the company will offer was seen In its claim that it has spent $850,000 in Improving the property-through construction of a tipple, a power house and a colony of miners' homes. Since 1922, 1,085,963 tons of coal have been removed from the tract.

The company has estimated that 3,000,000 remain, 1 I The legislative investigation of emergency relief in Washington, and Greene counties turned to politics this morning as the third week-end of hearings being conducted by legislators of the two counties got under way in the public meeting room of the county court house at Washington, Pa. After hearing a witness make the allegation that all men in key positions on relief projects that he knew of were Republicans, a member of the House committee, conducting the hearings, questioned another witness who recently was appointed to an official capacity in the county RWD office on the political preferences of several relief officials. A mistake in identity of a speaker at a political meeting held last Fall in the second precinct of Chartiers Township nearly involved Donald R. Hart, assistant district attorney of Washington County, in one of the political charges hurled by a witness at this morning's hearing. Roy Deck, of Chartiers township, charged that at a political meeting held in the township last Fall, a man representing the District At torney's office of Washington County, suggested by a spectator as Donald R.

Hart, said that "If things went as you are trying to push them, you people on relief will suffer." Deck said that he is a Demo-j cratic committeemen and that the meeting was a Republican gathering. Feeling at the time was running high among the Democrats, he asserted. Deck said that if anyone on relief in that section wanted a job all they had to do was see the Republican bosses. He said he didn't know, as a fact, whether or not politics was directly responsible but asserted that it "looked that way to him." He declared that Joe Ferest, a Republican power, was a foreman on a job near Canonsburg and transferred his employees from one job to the next. He said that other men were being discriminated against and also declared that he had received a card to go to work i it, u.

dui whs never caueu. ne aiu nc came to Washington to see R. H. Rush and Roy W. Clovis about this work and they said they were using men closest the job.

He said several of his friends and neighbors were working on the project. Deck was recalled to the stand just before the close of the morning session but failed to identify Hart as the man who spoke at the Chartiers meeting. The witness asserted that the man at the meeting was a "small fellow- Rod ioMn- complex- liuuru Uliu wuic iaa-a tic said that this man represented the Washington county district attorney's office. When asked by Roy E. Furman, committee chairman, if the statement he made pertaining to the charges made by the speaker were to stand Deck replied: Aosoiuieiy, aim iiic iiiun i.

'ougni ner- 'Jy i nave seen nun aiuunu ton many times." Anthony Note was the third wit ness called and he, a neighbor of Deck's, verified statements made Republican party for five years. Just prior to the election last Fall, he declared he went to the headquarters of the party in Washington and asked for a job. He was told to go to the re-employment ff. foP worlt' H(, tnpm he aIreajy haj a cafd fln Rs a musie leapner and wag sugROSted he add foreman, or cierk. He was not called for any job and turned Democrat and worked at the last elec tion.

He said that in the meantime G. E. Arnold, a very personal friend of Frank Mazza, who had been acquitted in a ballot box fraud of a few years ago. was given a job timekeeper. He said he did not know of a Democrat who was timekeeper.

On all projects that he knew of, he declared, the officials were all Republicans. Charles F. Thomas, of Donora, the man whom Rex O. Young refused to name last Friday afternoon as the man who accompanied him to Harrisburg the previous Wednesday, was called on the stand. Under cross-examination by Dr.

A. O. Hind man, of Burgetts- (Continued on Page 6) Bill Providing Old-Age, Unemployment Security Nears Senate. Washington, April 10 (UP) The administration's billion dollar economic security bill, shorn of all "economic panacea" proposals, was rushed toward passage today by the House. The "Keystone" measure to provide unemployment and Old-Age Security for 40,000,000 wage earners was piloted safely past Town-send Old-Age pension and Lundeen unemployment Insurance plans by leaders.

The House was called into session at 11 a. m. an hour earlier than usual to expedite the bill and possibly send it to the Senate netore adjournment. By permitting votes on the Town-send and Lundeen proposals, administration leaders smothered opposition to the bill and apparently killed off Insurgent Bloc movements for the remainder of the session. The measure provides for state unemployment insurance plans and a National old-age benefit system to be financed through payroll and earnings taxes which in a feC years will yield $1,000,000,000 annually.

Action was virtually completed on the $49,500,000 needy old-age aid title and on the contributory old age benefit section. Unemploy ment and health provisions were yet to be fought over. Before final passage a roll call vote was planned in a Republican-backed motion to increase Federal aid to needy aged from $15 to $20 an individual per month, and to strike out the drastic old age tax features. The House yesterday soundly defeated on separate division votes both proposals having Republican support. The hike in Federal aid to needy aged was turned down 144 (Continued on Paee 4) FEDERAL CASH ASSURED FOR STATE RELIEF Hopkins Extends Deadline As Earle Agrees to Fund Transfer.

Harrisburg, April 19 (UP) Al-. though the legislature's failure to agree on taxes for raising a de-j manded $5,000,000 monthly relief contribution FERA Director Harry L. Hopkins a "pain in the neck," he had said the word to-', day which assures Pennsylvania's two million unemployed subsist-, ence for another month-Retreating from his ultimatum that no Federal funds would be al-; located to Pennsylvania after April 15 unless provisions were made for raising that share each month throughout the coming biennium, Hopkins accepted one installment payment by "stop gap" transfers from special state funds. Ills acceptance of a single month's share as sufficient pledge for an allocation of $15,000,000 more in Federal funds will maintain re- lief functions at present levels until May 15. In negotiations with Gov.

George H. Earle yesterday afternoon, Hopkins agreed to advance that sum to Pennsylvania provided the leglsla-I ture approved the pending transfer of $5,000,000 to the general fund for relief purposes. After "giving in," Hopkins told the press in Washington: "The state gives me a pain in the neck because it is one of the richest in the union and still fails to raise money for relief." The House and Senate, marking time, were immediately notified The House adopted, 152 to 0, a resolution pledging the transfers. The House Appropriations Committee reported out the four transfer bills, introduced by Senator John McClure, Delaware Republican, which passed the Senate last week. The bills were approved on first (Continued on Page 4) I I Good Friday Is Observed At Impressive Union Worship Here.

Very impressive were the Union Good Friday services which were conducted at the noon hour at the First Methodist Episcopal church today. Almost every seat was taken in the large auditorium as persons of all denominations, from all walks of life, gathered there in reverent observance of the holy day. The following program was presented: Hymn. Invocation, the Rev. Ross Haverfield.

Devotional reading, the Rev. M. H. M. Pape.

Hymn. Scripture lesson, Mr. L. G. Sim-monds.

Special music, "Nailed to the Cross," quartette: Miss Ethel Coady, Miss Bernice Blythe, Mr. Harry Corrin. Mr. A. H.

Todd. Sermon, the Rev. E. J. Barber.

Prayer, the Rev. A. U. Gesler. Hymn, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory." Benediction, the Rev.

E. J. Barber. The Church of Christ was crowded to capacity last evening to hear the sermon on "Christian Baptism" delivered by the pastor, the Rev. E.

J. Barber. Tonight at 7 o'clock a candle-service for children will be illustrated, using about one hundred candles, after which will be held the regular evening service. The sermon-there will be "Is Youth on the Skids?" This service is especially for young people but all are welcome and invited to attend. At St.

Paul's Episcopal church was held the three-hour meditation, "The Seven Last Good Friday service, from 12 until 3 p. m. this afternoon. Tomorrow at two o'clock will be held the Easter Even service in charge of the Reverend A. Worthey, rector.

ROAD PATROL ARRESTS TWO Monongahela Men Arrest ed For Operating Two Cars With One Set of Tags. One Mononguhela man is in the County jail and another is scheduled for a hearing following their arrest last night by the State Uolrnl (nr Anorntinir two ailtO- mobiles with the same set of H-1 cense plates. Harlan Br Harlan Brice. 30. colored, of 308 Vine street, arrested at 6:40 p.

on charges of operating a car bearing only one license plate, was given a tice of the Peace J. B. McAlister I here and in default of fines and costs amounting to was lodged in the county jail. The other man, James Queen, about 25, also colored, was sought by the Patrol at his home in 621 Lincoln street for several hours and word was finally left with his wife, ordering him to report to the New Eagle Patrol sub-station. He reported at 8 p.

m. and was re- leased on his own recognizance pending a heariug on charges of misuse of registration plates. No date has been set for the hearing. Riding through the city last evening, State Highway Patrolman William Snyder saw an automobile bearing one license plate, trailed by another car also with only one tag. Unable to catch the first machine, he overhauled the second and arrested Brice, the driver.

Later he learned that Queen was the other operator. He was subsequently arrested. Queen, who operates a garage in East Monongahela, explained that he and Brice were taking the two cars to Queen's home, and that he had tuken one plate from his Chevrolet sedan and placed it on on a Chevrolet coupe, owned by his brother, which Brice was operating. I I plane pull i banner through the sky. Many have joined her in demonstrations before prisons.

She is shown here with a "bobby" following a futile protest against an execution. ATTORNEYS FOR CRAG0 WITHDRAW Attorneys' Harry Huffman and Frank Throckmorton of Waynes-burg, have been granted permission by Judge A. II. Sayers to withdraw as attorneys for George A. Crago, of Carmichaels, who will be called for trial at the June term of the Greene county court on a charge of criminal libel.

Crago, editor and publisher of the Greene County Record, was arrested last February and the two attorneys were retained. They set forth that Crago had refused to come in and prepare his case for trial. They had also been informed that he is consulting other attorneys. D0N0RAN SUCCEEDS YOUNG AS RWD AIDE Announcement was made yester-1 day of the appointment of C. F.

Thomas of Donora, to the position I of supervisor of non-manual projects in the works division of the Washington county emergency re-1 liew board. He succeeds Rex O-1 Young, former supervisor, who has been promoted to a Federal pos- ition of a like nature. Thomas gained experience for 'hit: rlliHtfie in ftirnftinrr Dnnnpti non-manual projects, including the recent real property survey. V4S 11 street, and left Him rain. in the Still Jesus cried, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do," And still it rained the winter rain that drenched Him through and through; The crowds went home and left the streets without a soul to see, And Jesus crouched against the wall and cried for Calvary.

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy 1 i J. Holy Week Meditation Rev. A.

Lester M. Worthy, rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church that." We'll try to see Mr. Deems again about burgh. that trip to Pitts- A comely lass, employed in a store along the street but living some blocks away, overslept one morning recently.

When her sleepy 1 eyes finallv opened and she glan- ced at the" clock with comprchen-' sion of the hour, she realized that she had only a few minutes left in which to catch a trolley to work or wait for another hour. She was out of bed in a flash, but a precious minute or two were lost in washing the sleep from her eyes. Tunc was so short that after donning her unmentionables, she grabbed her coat but neglected to put on a dress. In this way she rode the trolley to work where she found a gown waiting for her, so she was saved from any embarrassment. Wonder what would have happened had the incident occurred on a warm summer clay when a coat was unbearable instead of on a cold morning when a coat was a necessary habiliment? Epochal Hanging William De Bo The execution of William DeHoe.

23, on the gallows at Siniihland, i Friday, April 19, marks the hanging of a whit man in Kentucky in many (Other-have gone to iht? tieittic chair.) riel-ioc wa ronvicled of criminul assault in Livingston county. I i a i i Shift Fight For Rich Coal Field In County Pittsburgh, April 19-(UP) Battle for possession of a million-dollar coal field had shifted today to new locale with Federal court saction to file in Washington coun ty common pleas court a writ of ejectment against the Gilmore Coal Mining Company, now in hands of receivers- Mrs. A. M- J. Burgan was grant- ed permission to Initiate ejectment "ON THE CROSS" "And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him." The Crucifixion of Jesus the Christ was the enactment in time of a fact of Eternity.

Men are forever crucifying Jesus. But behind the Crucifixion there is the Resurrection. The death of Jesus is but the vindication of His deathlessness. The battle between love and hate, between life and death is forever being sought and forever the deathless Christ rises victorious. Evil dies, and Good lives on, loves on, and conquers all all war must end in peace.

When Jesus came to Golgotha der, and they would not give they hanged Him to a tree, Him pain, They drove great nails through They only just passed down the proceedings against the present operators of the 562-acre tract in Cecil and Mt. Pleasant townships, Washington county, by Federal Judge Nelson McVicar. His approval was necessary because of the receivership. Dispute over whether Mrs- Bur- gan leased or sold the property with its rich deposits of Pittsburgh seam coal, was expected to be the battleground on which a bit-I ter legal fight, involving the Union Tpuiit Pnmnniiv rf PiHuhurfrh will hands and feet, and made a Calvary; They crowned Him with a crown of thorns, red were His wounds and deep, For those were crude and cruel days, and human flesh was cheap. When Jesus came to Dlrming-ham they simply passed Him by, They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let Him die; For men had grown more ten- bl, Mrs- Burgan, a Carnegie, widow, claims that she leused the tract for 30 years to Gilmore Coal Mining Company on February 28 1022.

Royalties were to be paid her on each ton of coal mined, with a.