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The Daily Republican MONONGAHELA A I. OLDEST NEWSPAPER SAFEGUARD YOUR HEALTH, PREVENT FIRES CLEAN-UP WINTER DEBRIS V()l. I'M ONOXft Al 1 LA. WKDNKSOAY, MAY 1, 11)35 The Weather: with rising temperature TWO CENTS AMERICANISM DAY PARADES HELD IN AREA F. R.

SETS UP AGENCY FOR RURAL WORK ALONG MAIN STREET This That. Filibuster Paralyzes Senate EARLE, G. 0. P. CONFER ON REVENUE PROGRAM tf-BA THE REPUBLIC! VW FOUNDED 1841 fXJp NOW IN ITS YJmm, EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR 1 nfii tir j.

1 TTU Mill Watchman Held In Lindbergh Threat Tax Conference Closed To Newspapermen; Senate )mpromise Tugwell Chief of Rural Rehabilitation Phase of Work Drive. Washington, May 1 (UP) President Roosevelt today started brain truster Rexford Guy Tugwell on his phase of the gigantic work-relief program by signing three executive orders that set up the re-settlement administration. May Day Patriotically Celebrated At Monessen, Uniontown. Several Monongahela valley communities joined other western Pennsylvania districts today in celebrating May Day in varied fashions. Communities in Washington, Westmoreland, Allegheny and Fayette counties observed the day workmen the world over have set THIS THAT: How soon we become accustomed to the new order of Uihi'is once the old order is replaced.

A group in a local store recently f.n ered. en tiously, one of the large dollar bills. And it seems no lime since the smaller, newer bills wen- a novelty how gaped the other day when one of the old-time street cars throujyh town! The membership of Frank Downer Squadron, No. Pons of Un-American Legion, this city, is the largest in the State of Pennsylvania if not in the Nation. The I 111 some phrases unprintable.

But each of them contained the following passage: "This is from John. This is not a ransom note. This is a killing note. I am going to take the law into my own hands. I'll kill Lindy and kill myself." One of the letters, for some inexplicable reason, was sent to the warden of Sing Sing prison.

Detective Newman Stone, of the Paterson police, and Detective Sergeant E. A. Hausslin of the State police, were assigned to the cae. Although it was certain the letters came from a mentally deranged person, the police feared the writer might actually make an attack. The police found that in each instance a return address had been carefully removed from the envelopes.

Under ultra violet rays, the I I Senator Smith Trammel! Senator Connally squadron now boasts 172 members The city swcep which works while the city sleeps, will be put on a new schedule this week. Street Commissioner Chris is working on now- the schedules, thatis, District lale spots are getting ready for the summer season. The LeWanna Manor is building an outdoor dance hii. ih New l'enn is IlilVllIluii adding a rising noor mi u- terW.ners. A known band may be brought tlu' brothers Passarello for the cation, according to reports The spacious storeroom of Corrm ind Penrod seems even more sp.i- cious since the two large puiars were removed if past perform- ances mean anything, we know we'll enjoy that annual Turner exhibition on Friday and Saturday of this week, but just the same we'll miss the dean of them all, Bill Kramer, who hasn't taken part in one of the programs for several years.

How we used to gasp as a child, at Bill's giant swings, etc. Maybe we can work up a de- mand for Bill's comeback, eh what? We should iiave reminded you i about it yesterday that this morn- in" was the time when beautiful damsels weie to make themselves more beautiful by getting up be- fore the sun to bathe their faces 1 rnv mnriiine dew we're sor- ry we forgot it. but you're probably thinking that in Monongahela it wasn't necessary anyhow We wonder how many persons in town have missed, as we did, favorite radio programs the last two days on account of Daylight Sav- ing time which we would like to qualify with many and vivid r.djectival phrases The kitchen in the home of Mr. r.nd Mrs. Benjamin G.

Binns, near here, is pictured in the May issue i of the West Penn Power Compa- ny's Kor.it..:ake; Tiiere have been a lot of worried young minds in town the last few (lays. after the first tuberculin test Monday, the ones tested liter--; ally kept eyes glued on the spot where the injection was made i and wondered if they'd recognize si-jns of reaction if they saw them and even the slightest tinge punt sent them scurrying to see if the ethers were like that, too Well, they've kept 'heads left' for a cou- pie of days, and it's "heads right' now for a while, as they got their i second today in the other arm COLORADO SINGERS APPEAR AT LOCAL rUITDPU TUIC WFPlf InUKin iniJ EXM I i i vantelistie services being con ducted at the Nazareiie church, ..11.. I'm, it II Aiwli-nn I pastor, announces the appearance tl the Loag Quartette of Denver, Colorado, tomorrow and Filday nights at 7:30 o'clock. Three brothers and a si.ster make up the quartette, which besides fptcializing in singing, also plays the saxophone, violin and accordion. The group will describe some of the scenes in England, where i i i I 'u Paterson, N.

May 1 (UP) Philip Martin, 40, a watchman in a Paterson silk mill, was arrested today, charged with having sent a letter Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, threatening to kill him. Martin, a Cerman alien, was described as "suffering from and was believed to be irresponsible. His arrest, according to police, solves the mystery of two such letters received by Lindbergh since March 19.

Martin was struck over the head several years ago with a blackjack while he was fighting off burglars in the mill at which he was a caretaker. His wife informed police that he had been brooding over the Lindbergh case, and that since the con- victim of Bruno Richard Haupt-mann, discussing of it had become almost a mania. The letters, according to police, were largely incoherent, and in NO FROST REPORTED IN RIVER DISTRICT Although the mercury dropped to around 34 degrees in some hill sections of this vicinity last night or early this morning, no frost was reported and consequently there was little or no damage to crops, according to a report from one of the nearby farms. Low temperature was reached in Monongahela proper this morning at 5 a. m.

when the mercury stood at 40 degrees, according to an official reading at the Bellewood-Monongahela Gas Company. At 1 p. m. it was 16 degrees warmer. CASH REGISTERS OUT, STATE STORES USE MONEY DRAWERS Old-fashioned monev drawers to- day replaced expensive casJi regis ters in State Liquor Stores on an order issued by the State Liquor Control Board today.

In place of the $1,000 triplicate receipt cash register, clerks now use a wooden cash drawer, with old fashioned bell attached, and write liquor receipts on grocery pads. It is believed the Control Board withdrew the expensive registers and substituted the money drawers because of the great expense involved in the leasing of the cash registers. The money drawers were installed yesterday on orders of the Board inspector and were ordered placed in use today. RIVER TONNAGE FOR APRIL FALLS BELOW MARCH MARK Tonnage nlong the Monongahela river for the month of April was C17.233 tons lower than that for March, according to Anderson Caseber, lock master at Lock No. 4 in Rostraver.

During March. 1.C2M48 tons of material was hnu'ed up and down the river while last month the total was 1,012,715 tons, In March 1,613,775 tons went down stream as compared to 1.000,090 for this month while the figures for up stream in Manh and April, respectively, were 16,273 and 12,625 tons. Lock ma iter Caseber said the river has been below normal in depth for the past few months. I i aside for the furtherance of tne labor movement with rousing demonstrations, but called it Americanism Day. The Monongahela Euglo and Drum Corps will be in the line of march in a parade at Monessen in which fully persons representing civic, social and fraternal organizations will take part tonight.

The principal address, enti- I tied "The Peril of Communism. svill bt. by At. J. Kane, oi 1 School children of Donora and wbster united this afternoon in jtm Americanism parade, renewing allt.Kian(.e tno American Klag (m(, iQ lnis nalion.

More than tiersons participated. District At- torney Warren S. Burchinal was the principal speaker. An estimated 15,000 persons converged on Uniontown, seat of Fayette county, scenes of many labor disturbances in the past, to march in a gigantic parade with distinguished Army men and others prominent in the affairs of the slate and nation. The Uniontown celebration will end tonight with a general convocation in the high school with numerous patriotic addresses.

In Pittsburgh so-called radical groups held two separate meetings under sanction of the police de- partment who issued permits to hold celebrations in public parks, a parade preceded one of the gatherings and was announced as a. "united front demonstration" in which the Communist Party coop- crated. A second meeting was sponsored by the "Labor Day Conference of Allegheny county," and was addressed by a representative of the Socialist Party. Police generally held were ready for outbreaks, but expected none nd took no extra precautions. Meanwhile, American Legion posts in a number of communities sponsored "Americanism Day" such as the one in Uniontown.

Americanism Day was observed in McKccsport last night with some 2,000 Legionnaires, school school children and members of military, civic and fraternal organizations parading. The "United Front" group will stage its demonstration in that city Saturday. Police already have issued a permit for the meeting. Americanism Day occurs on a day that is sometimes called May Day and also identified in recent years as Child Health Day. It is also entitled to another and highly patriotic identification -Dewey Day.

May 1 is the anniversary of the battle of Manila Bay and Admiral Dewey's great victory there in 18H8, and the day is authorized by ltcl of Congres to be known as Dewey jjay. This patriotic signifi- ranee might well be remembered in connection with today's celebra- tion. MOTION PICTURE OF PASSION PLAY AT LOCAL CHURCH A motion picture, "The Passion Play," a talking picture with sound effects, will be shown in the Ebe- I per, the Crucifixion, the Resurrec-! tion and the Ascension. Harrisburg, May 1 (UP) Members of the Senate Republican majority, who are at odds with Gov. George H.

Earlc on new revenue proposals "put their feet under the table" with the chief executive again today. The conference was called for 11 a. m. Announcement of the second tax conference with the Governor was made by Senator John G. Homsher, Lancaster, Republican and president pro lem of the upper body of the General Assembly.

Homsher declined to say what, if any, new compromise offers would be made by his G. O. P. colleagues. The Senate met at 11 a.

m. and then recessed Immediately to release Republican leaders for the parley. The Republican Senators attending the conference were: Homsher, Clarence .1. Buckman. Bucks; George W.

Woodward. Somerset, ana u. uwieu, Tioga. Owlett is chairman of the sub committee of the senate committee on finances. Secretary of the commonwealth David L.

Lawrence and Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti, also were sitting in on the meeting. The session was closed to newspapermen. Governor Earle in serving notice that the press would be excluded at this conference ex- that it was "their confer- ence. rreviou.siy ne nau saia mai any negotiations with the Senate majority would be open to newspapermen.

Harrisburg, May 1 (UP) Pennsylvania's tax-deadlocked legist iture reconvened today with Senate Republicans confronted by io: George 11. Earle's ultimatum that he will never yield on four phases of their $111,500,000 new I revenue layout offered as a substi-! tute for his own $203,000,000 pro gram. The notice, served last night in the Governor's second address of the month over a statewide radio hookup, covered these uncompro-misable features: 1. Senate majority members must accept a tax program providing $60,000,000 for relief during the next fiscal year, discarding their allowance of $57,000,000 for the coming biennium. 2.

They must abandon their plan to" levy a sales tax. I 3. They must tax manufacture pnrnnrut iin fin a itapitt, with other corporations. 4. They must approve levies making public utilities pay their fair share of the state's tax burden.

The Senate, against whose Republican majority the Chief Executive's verbal attack was directed, had on its first reading calendar today the administrations' constitutional revision bill which Earle told his radio audience was "mutilated beyond recognition" after being pickled in committee three months. Senator G. Mason Owlett, Tioga, chairman of the Constitutional Changes committee, reported the Ruth Revision bill to the Senate floor Monday night, drastically Action has been defer red because of the lack of printed copies of the amended bill. Another Democratic administration bill, a measure to liberalize the Workmen's Compensation laws, was to be called up for final action in the House, after which it is doomed for Senate mutilation, It is one of the few items in the Governor's "humanitarian, labor (and social reform" program which has not passed the House. The blocking of that program in the Senate inspired several paragraphs of the Governor's radio address.

He accused the Senate Republic- Jan majority of violating the party platform pledging it to give labor the right of collective bargaining: to outlaw sweatshops, to end ex- ploitation of women and children in industry, to enact a proper mini- mum wage law for women and children, to enact a child labor law and to eliminate industrial police ind company paid deputy sheriffs. "Our bill to insure the right of eeliective the Governor reminded, "was passed by the House on March 10, and has been blocked in the Senate since that time. 'Vmilar fates have been met by the bill regulating the hours of women in industry, passed by the House on February the Child Labor Bill, passed by the House (Continued on Page Washington. May l-(UP) Rexford Guy Tugwell, armed with today attacked the problem of resettling 19,000,000 persons stranded on poor farm land or in dead industrial areas. Success of the $4,000,000,000 work-relief drive rested in part on whether he can dent the problem of providing almost one-seventh the country's population with permanent means of earning a living.

Tugwell will be the chief of rural rehabilitation, the head of a new government agency to be known as the "Division of Rural Resettlement." Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins also planned government-financed pro jects to aid Tugwell in his work, the first of its kind ever attempted on a nation-wide scale. The National Besourees Board estimated that 19,000,000 persons lived on unproductive farms or in industrial areas where there was insufficient manufacturing to support them. For poor families, the government plans to: 1. Retire submarginal land from commercial agriculture, paying $5 or $6 for the acreage and converting it into parks, forests and preserves.

2. Reclaim land by irrigation, drainage and soil erosion control, with a $500,000,000 appropriation. 3. Relocate stranded families on the poor land by a rural rehabilitation program. For Poor City families, the government plans to: 1.

Build subsistence homesteads near industrial centers, providing each group with a garden plot, inexpensive home and new environment. 2. Decentralize industry from metropolitan areas to give subsis-I tence homesteaders part-time employment to augment their farm earnings, and to aid in rehabilitat ing country people. 3. Finance a $450,000,000 low-cost Housing program to eradicate slum conditions in major cities.

A total of $350,000,000 will be spent for erosion control, forest-ation, reforestation and flood controlall intended to better economic conditions of the farm population. The Civilian Conservation Corps will cooperate with its program. Tugwell also will direct subsistence homestead financing, picking up a program already launched by the Public Works administration. Six of the conur.nnities are in process of construction with letting of contracts scheduled soon for four more. Ickes has announced PWA can have almost $100,000,000 in low- net nnncim mmlnnto mtnl.H.....

1... way iiiiu-Miimmer. uana is being ac quired for 28 other developments. CALIFORNIA GIRL REPORTED MISSING Police have been asked to search for a 14-year-old California girl who is missing from her home along with a large amount of money belonging to her parents. The missing girl is Josephine Panepinto, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Dominic Panepinto. When lust seen she is said to have boarded a train with a colored girl named Jones. Her parents reported to police that $120 they had in the house is also missing and are of the opinion their daughter stole it. nection with the case.

All denied knowledge of the baby. The unclothed child was found in a clump of briar bushes yesterday by two 18-year-old boys as they walked ulong a lonely mountain path. Its cries attracted their attention and when they found the Infant they wrapped it in burlap sacking and curried it to a Fair-chance physician. The baby, the doctor said, could not have been more than an hour rid when found. i I imprint of the address had been communicated to the back of the envelopes, and it bore the name of the silk mill where Martin worked.

PAPER OVER GRATE IGNITES; LOSS $50 Sparks from the kitchen stove, ascending the chimney, 'ignited paper covering the grate opening in an upstairs room and caused fire entailing damage at the home of William Parfitt, in Gallatin, about 3:23 p. m. yesterday. Water, chemical and fire damage resulted to bed clothing, carpet and mantle in the room. Members of the family fought the blaze and kept it in check until the arrival of the Gallatin-Sunnyside fire truck with eight firemen who extinguished the flames.

STATE SERUM CASES INDICTMENTS QUASHED Harrisburg. May 1-(UP The Dauphin County Court today quashed the indictment against Dr. E. K. Tingley, head of the Gilliland laboratories, Marietta, and Roy G.

Miller, former State Health Department employe, in which they were charged with conspiracy to defraud the state in the handling of diphtheria anti-toxin. To Succeed Moffett? Charle Editoit Charles Edison, above, son of the famous inventor, may succeed James A. Moffett as federal housing administrator. Moffett, however, if recommending as his successor his present assistant, Stewart McDonald. Edison now i.

president of the Thomas Edison industries and head of the New Emergency council. In Berlin. Reichsfuehrer Adolph Hitler proclaimed Germany's strength and her "honor among nations" in nn address to 600.000. In Chicago, police lined the route of march of unemployed men and women demonstrating against a threatened curtailment of relief. In New York, heavy police detachments were detailed to guard socialist and communist demonstrations, violence was lenred.

Some difficulty was anticipated in several other American cities. I I i I I Senator With administration leaders seeking desperately to sidetrack the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching hill, the senate faced continued paralysis while southern Democrats blocked all activity by filibustering against the measure. The senators shown above have announced they would never consent to a record vote on bringing NIPPON POLICE HOLD 3 YANKS Americans Face Quiz For Entering Fortified Zone In Storm. Tokyo, May 4-(UP) Five I persons, including three identified as Americans, were reported held by Japanese authorities on the island of Formosa today after entering fortified zones during a heavy storm at sea. Nippon Dempo news agency dispatches said one of the Americans was a retired U.

S. Navy lieutenant. Reports of the Americans' arrest came from Taito. Formosa, where a small yacht in which the three were sailing was swept to shore and damaged by the heavy surf. They were arrested by Japanese police, who claimed the boat bore evidence of having been damaged deliberately.

Authorities also alleged the suspects whose names were not disclosed, had taken pictures of the coastline, it was reported. fnr examination on espionage charges. Chosen College Head Dr. Cliarlei L. Antpteh Former member of Ashland college faculty for seven years, Dr.

Charles L. Anspach was choice of trustees for president of the school to succeed Dr. Edwin E. Jacobs. Dr.

Anspach recently has been head of the education department at Michigan State Normal college, Ypsilunti, and is a University of Michigan graduate. up the anti-lynching bill for debate. They are (1) Senator Hugo Black of Alabama; (2) Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina; (3) Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi; (4) Senator Ellison Smith of South Carolina; (5) Senator Park Trammell of Florida, and (C) Senator Tom Connally of Texas. LEGION TO HEAR ADVANCE REPORT ON EXPOSITION Past Post Commander Charles Silko, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the "Prosperity Week" celebration to be held here next week by Frank Downer Post, No. 302.

American Legion, will take members of his committee to Washington tonight to view the Knepp-Dehnert Combined Exposition, whose appearance here next week will provide one of the feature attractions of the celebration. The Exposition is showing in the county seat this week and members of the local committee are desirous of viewing it in advance of its appearance here. Chairman Silko will make a report of tonight's visit to local legionnaires at a special meeting of the Legion Post tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. He also will outline the activities planned for the six nights on which the celebration will be held next week. Ray Wall and members of the refreshment committee will have a treat for the veterans at the meeting.

The Knepp Dehnert Exposition is billed as one of the largest carnivals ever to include Monongahela on its itinerary. It will bring eleven rides, sixteen shows and other tents and will present free acts every aftrnoon and evening, the committee announced. Further plans for Memorial Duy also will be laid at tomorrow night meeting. It was announced today that the Legionnaires would wear Legion caps in the Memorial Day parade. Veterans who have not yet secured them may get them from Adjutant Harry Bullock.

The Sons of the Legion also will wear new caps and will parade with their new flags and banners on the holiday. The card party held at the Legion Hall last night for the Sons of the Legion was a pronounced success. DONORA HIGHWAY RE-NUMBERED BY ROAD DEPARTMENT Pittsburgh, May l-(UP) -The Pittsburgh Motor Club today warned its members of the renumbering of several federal and state highways in Western Pennsylvania, to take effect May 27 wtih the issuance of the State Highway Department's new lf30 tourist map. The changes planned Include: 1. That section of existing route 857 from Leetsdulc to Rochester, to become route 88.

2. Road along the Monongahelr, river from Monongahela through Donora to route 88. north of ChHr-lerol, to bo designated route 837. 3. The Menoher Highway Lig-onier to Johnstown to be numbered 271, beginning at Oak Grove, iiuriii ui mgiMiiri they performed on an internation- Baptist church.

Sixth street, program during the coronation on Tuesday evening, May 14, the celebration. The Uuig Quartette I tne Calloway an-has played some of the best vaiide- today, ville houses in Anieiica, Europe, -jno win portray such and has also been featured ovt striltinK' Biblical Incidents as the the radio. A free will offering will birth of the Savior, the Last Sm Death Defeats Efforts To Save Abandoned Baby Demonstrations Mark May Day Over World he taken up at tomorrow and Friday's SIX MONTH JAIL TERM GIVEN FRANK Pittsburgh. May 1 (UP) Joseph Frank, Homestead politician convicted on federal narcotic charges, was sentenced today to six months Imprisonment in the Allegheny county jail and ordered to pay a fine of $50 and costs. 1 On the plea of defense attorney Isolds Little that the Jury's verdict wns not justified by the evidence, Federal Judge N'elson McVicar, Mid: "The Jury's verdict was justified if the jurors agreed; and it seems that they did." Uniontown, May l-(UP) Physicians' efforts to keep alive a dav-old, seven pound baby boy abandoned on a rugged mountuin slope near Fairchance were defeated today.

The foundling died in UnionU hospital from pneumonia and internal injuries ufter futile, all-uight ministrations. Shortly ufter the infant's death, District Attorney Wade K. Newell announced the arrests of three Fairchance young people in con By United Press May day was celebrated around the world today with extensive labor and communist demonstrations. Minor outbreaks with casualties occurred in Paris and Vienna but disturbances up to mid-afternoon in Europe were at a minimum. The most Impressive demonstration was in Moscow, where there was a greut military display, including 660 airplanes, COO tanks and heavy artillery.