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THE NEWS HEI fila? WEATHER FINAE Kali S5TH YEAR NO. 12L955. FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY PA, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1932. Twelve Pagea THREE CENT2L mm 6W 3 i FAX tlASfnc in? r5 5 it 1 Camera Takes Parting Shot as Hausner Hops for Poland I 'I 1 I I 4 DISTINCT SHOCKS FELT OVER 250-MILE AREA; YOMM KILLS a Record Vote Taken, After Meas US 9 Tremors are Severe But Damage to Property is Reported as Minor Eureka Thought Hardest Hit. EUREKA, June 6.

UP Four separate earthqoaka shook the northern California coastline today killing one person and injuring1 two others in Eureka and causing widespread, but minor, damage. The quakes were almost as severe as the 1906 tremors which terrorized sections of the state, but no buildings were damaged seriously although windows were shattered and chimneys crumpled. The quake appeared to hare centered along the coast linein Humbolt and Del Norte counties, but it was felt over an area 250 miles long and as far inland as Roseburg, Ore. v.t Mrs. Wallace-McCutcheon, 35, was killed while asleep when a chimney crashed through the wall of a rooming house.

Her husband suffered a broken leg and several crushed ribs. Ralph Young, the only other person reported iniured. re mm ABOVE The flame-colored monoplane of Stanislaus Hausner, Newark, N. motion picture operator, was TO miles out at sea blunt nose pointed toward Poland when this (picture was taken from a Navy piano which followed Hausner after his take-off from Floyd Bennett Field, Barren Island, N. T.

With Warsaw as his goal, Hausner hoped to make the air voyage in on hop. LEFT Called the "mystery man of aviation" because of his reticence to discuss his flying plana, Stanislaus Hausner, Newark, N. Polish-American airman, is shown above as he posed before his take-off on an attempted trans-Atlantic flight to Warsaw, Poland. Below you set him kissing his wife goodbye at Floyd Bennett Field, N. ceived two broken ribs when he was thrown against a machine a bakery.

SMALL LANDSLIDE IN EUREKA COUNTY. Reports from Crescent City, about 85 miles north of Eureka. Ferndale. Fortuna Areata, Field Brook and other email towns in Eureka county, showed the tremors were felt in equal proportions there. Small landslides were report ed.

One of them blocked the highway of a cutbank slid onto the road. en IKIouoiiiei? Loot at Sea; I 1 UNO ure Was First -Thought to Have Passed Vice Voce Argue Over Electric Power Levy. ON WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN'S. WASHINGTON, June 6. IT The Senate today passed the completed billion dollar revenue bill and sent the measure on to President Hoover for signature.

WASHINGTON, June 6 IT The Senate started voting on the tax bill at 3:11 P- m. The measure probably will pass. It appeared that the bill had passed without a record vote, when Vice President Curtis, presiding, put the question on acceptance of the conference report. There was a treat chorus of "ayes" but when the "nays" were called demands for a record vote came from the insurgent element. A roll call was ordered.

WASHINGTON, June 6 The $1,119,000,000 tax bill was presented in the Senate today for final action. It is scheduled for quick approval and dis patch to the White House before nightfall. Senator Howell, immediately opened the light on the conference report, objecting to the 3 per cent, tax on users of electrical energy. Attacks Conferees. Howell made a point of order agahist the action of the conferees.

He said the conferees had exceeded their authority in levying "a sales tax on consumption of electrical energy." He contended the conferees had no right to extend the tax to energy from publicly owned power plants. "The Senate specifically excluded energy from publicly owned power plants' Howell said. "It must be evident that this new matter and constitutes fly" the conferees. "Under the rule the conferees hare exceeded their power." Senator Walsh, pointed out that there was further new material in the conference provision that the electricity tax be collected by the vendor. "That's not only entirely," he said, "but In some respects it's unconstitutional and unenforceable.

In the case of municipal plant, to undertake to make the municipality collect, is a thing Congress cannot do." Walsh declared that electric light companies had largely escaped the depression, pointing out that the Worcester, Electric Light Co. had paid 96 per cent, dividends in the last two years, "when most business men were out in the garden eating worms." Property damage was estimated in the thousands of dollars. The quake began at 12:45 a. when most 0ple 1 the towns affected were asleep and sheltered from flying debris. The region in which the tremors struck has only a few towns scattered over the forest and ranch land.

Eureka has a population of 12,500 and Is approximately 380 miles north of San Francisco. Crescent City, felt but one shock. Buildings were damaged slightly but the sheriff's office reported no injuries or deaths had occurred. 1 Telephones from Crescent City north Into Oregon were not damaged, although the lines to the south were severed. Property dfamage in Eureka was estimated in the thousands of dollars.

A shipping point for many of the huge lumber mills ln the region, It was not known whether wharves and boats in the harbor had been damaged by the quake. mm MRS. HAUSNER THINKS HER HUSBAND IS SAFE NEWARK, June 6. UP Mrs. Martha Hausner "knows" her husband, Stanislaus, ia "too good a flier to ibe lost" despite the fact that airport officials in Europe feared he had fallen victim ot-ttoe Atlantic on his projected flight to Poland.

Mrs. Hausner fcas spent much of her time Sunday in prayer at the church in which and Stanislaus are parishioners, -She is staying with a brother-in-lawtyJ "I know Stanimns must be safe, I'll (hear from him soon," she said. Rules Committee Decides. to Use Drastic Procedure for; Quick Action Passage Predicted. DEMOCRATS STAND UNITED WASim'NlGTON, June 6 IT 4n the face of renewed Presidential opposition, the House Rules committee deckled tochv to brim 11he-5Jarner-f2.

300,000,000 relief program before 'the House tomorrow under drastic procedure wnich would assure a vote in three hours. 11 Til (President Hoover returned to tne uel gnppiy wouia been exhausted White House from a week-end spent eariy Sunday. with his financial advisors at nisi Rapidan fishing camp to direct the Beacon lights Kept legislative drive toward his own relief A garage proprietor at Cork, Ireland, nroeram. The Administration Dlan Is 'over which the Great Circle route Airdromes From London to War-: taw and Officials of Other Nations Wait in Vain for Word From "Polish FKer. MAN CLAIMS HEARING PLANE LONDON, Jans UP Airdromes from London to Warsaw and air officials of several European nations who waited in vain for word of "Stanislaus-Hausner on his New York-Warsaw flight feared he had been lost -4irw The only possibility was that he might have, landed somewhere on jcontinent where he would.be out of communication with the world.

His would carry a flier over St. George's channel, reported he heard the motor of a powerful airplane early Sunday. Officials could find no other residents of the districts who reported hearing an airplane. ueacons at airports in ireuaa, iTance jjingiana ana 'roiana were Kepi iigmeu throughout Saturday night. Police chiefs throughout Poland were instructed to keep a lookout for Hausner and civil guards In Ireland were on watch.

HEAT GUIS SIX LIVES. PHILAJTEUPHIA, June 6. UP With six deaths attributed directly or Indirectly to the heat wave which enveloped Philadelphia and eastern Penn-, sylvania over the week-snd, the weath er man promised no relief today. The mercury which reached 90 degrees yesterday was expected to go at least that high today. Three drownings and three prostrations were listed as the heat victims in Philadelphia.

Those who drowned were Leonard Bocella, 16; William White, 10, and Raymond Salai, 19. The heat prostration victims were John Hatch, 05; Tlncenso Riccardo, jM; and Leon Midire. to. tif with PARKS LUTHER TltS Wl I fAH FOR LEAD IN QUALIFYING ROUND OF NATIONAL OPEN I PITTSBURGH, June 6. UP Paul "Toota" Erath, of Edgewood Country, JVC 'li- J-'" Ik Li St IB III ft two miles south of Eureka when the aide CHILDREN MARCH TO SAFETY AS SCHOOL IS THREATENED BY FIRE iSCRAJNXOft JtaM ft TV Ue threatened to Oeatwy tbs uu Hlgn flchofli, her, today.

CUt-dwn dsjses to Hf MUStm marched to aAttg tft tS Ossnss towns were called and offer stab-born tattle the finnm ww "ftiHjuwI. Fire officiate said tt would be sarsd ttoo GREENVILLE, Jnne 6. TjP -Two-year-old Marshall Earl Webb, Mercer, was killed and three other persons were injured seriously when two auto- mobiles collided on the Greenville-Mer-! cer highway late yesterday. The injured, who in Greenville Hospital, are Mrs. Aressa Wet, mother of the child; her father, Charles Redmond, and Harvey Morne-wich, Fredonia, Pa.

Mrs. Webb and Redmond suffered' fractured skulls and Mornewlch a puntured lung. The automobile in which Mornewlch was riding, being towed by his son. David in another car, got out of control on a hill and collided with the Webb car, police said. Joseph Webb, father of the dead child, and two others in his car were unhurt.

1 DRAKE UNIV. PAYS HONOR 1 TO KENT COOPER, MERLIN AYLESWORTH AT EXERCISES DBS MOINBS. June 6. UP Drake University conferred honorary degrees doctor of laws on Kent Copper, general manager of the Associated Press, and on Merlin H. Aylesworth, president the National Broadcasting Company, commencement exercises today.

Aylesworth. a Drake tcustee, who gave the commencement address, was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and his father was president of Drake from 1889 to 1S87. 10 HELD IN MINE TROUBLE. WHEEONXJ, W. June 6.

UP Ten men were arrested today as labor troubles flared anew in the West Virginia coal mine area. The arrests were made by Sheriff Ambrose Hablg a result of an attack on the Num ber 3 mine of the Valley Camp Coal Company last night by more ttan a hundred strikers. John Gantzer, flre (boss, was assaulted. Fixed for July 31. VON PAPEN, GERMAN PLOTTER IN U.

HEADS NEW DEAL IN GERMANY; "RIGHTS" IN POWER The quake caused a large section off. earth to slide over die highway leading from Eureka to San Francisco, about two miles soutto of the city. Eureka is a town of approximately 12,500 population, and is the county seat of Humfoolt county. 1 The fact that tihe shocks came when practically no one was on the streets saved many from injury or death. Convmuniaatlons systems to" Eureka were intact, although "local systems were badly damaged.

City officials began a cbeck of the city water and' sewage plants at once to determine the amount of damage to tinose systems. The little town of Areata, seven miles north of here, suffered considerable property damage, but no casualties were reported. The quake was the first of any intensity to strike the town since 1906, When a severe shock accompanied: the San Francisco disaster. The region in which the quake struck is sparsely settled, much of it being in virgin forest and large ranch holdings. FOUR STROKES CLIPPED FROM ROYAL ST.

GEORGE'S PAR WITH SCORE OF 70 SANDWICH, England, June 6. UP flipping four strokes off Royal St. George's difficult par, A. R. Bradfoeer, English professional, scored 70 today to lead tme field in the first qualifying round of the British golf championship.

Close behind was Arthur Havers, an other British pro, who had a 71 on Prince's course. Behind them were two American' stars, Gene Sarazen, stocky New York pro, and MaoDonald' Smith, also of New York, with 73s, made at Prince's. Tommy Armour, of Detroit, defend ing champion and the third important American player in the tournament. had a TO. Ross Thompson, Uniontown, had an 80.

CONNIE MACK MISSES GIRL'S GRADUATION TO WATCH TEAM PLAY PHILADElLiPHIA, June 6. UP Connie Mack, who "never leaves his team," missed the graduation today of his daughter, Ruth McGilllcuddy, from Mount St. Joseph Academy. The veteran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics was too busy to be present, Mrs. McGilllcuddy said.

"He's giving an exhibition game in Cincinnati this afternoon and he never leaves his team," she said. Because of the Athletics' western trip, Mack also will miss the graduating exercises of his son, Cornelius McGilllcuddy, from the German-town Academy Friday. Reichstag Elections LAST MINUTE of of at as are Editor1 Note Germany has turned to the "right" for its latest CM-ttet. The Von Papen regime, known a the "monocle Caoinet" German aristocrats largely affect the single eyepiece is gathered from the elements pfucerful in the days of the Kaiser. The background of the overthrow of the moderate Chancellor Heinrieh Bruening and accession of the man once named at a German plotter in America is presented by the United Press in the following article the first pf a series.

rail iii house BugJc Calls Rout 2,500 From Camp for 'Big Push' ort Congress-Vote Expected Monday. OTHERS ON WAY TO CAPITAL WASHINGTON, June 6. UP Bugle ealls routed 2.500 members of the grim and tattered "bonus expeditionary from their camps today, for a ''big push" on Congress. With a vote assured in the House next Monday on the Patman bill to pay 12,000,000,000 to war veterans, nearly everyone of the 2,500 was ordered to converge on the House office building and besiege Congressmen with appeals for support. Tomorrow evening the "Army" will make a mass demonstration, paradiDg to the White House and Capitol.

A vote on the Patman measure was assured when the necessary 145 representatives signed petition forcing the (bill to the floor. It is conceded that sentiment for the bonus is increasing somewhat in the House. But even if the unexpected: should happen and the House passed the Bonus, a Presidential veto remains certain. Despite the hopelessness of their cause and a shortage of food, the veterans are grimly determined to wait it out and see the House vote. Then and then only will they consider leaving.

They are unmoved by the edict of the Uistriet of Columbia Commissioners that the police cease feeding them on Thursday morning and eject them from their four improved barracks and one open-air camp on the banks of the Potomac. "I'm sticking right here." said one. 'They can't shoot you far standing still." Destitute for months, most of them, they feel things can't get any worse. Food will Ibe forthcoming somehow, they think, from private sources here (Continued on Page 6) By United Press. Bonus "armies" still streamed eastward across the United States toward Washington today but the recruiting of new battalions was checked by the dis couragements which veterans enroute or already ln Washington encountered.

Railroads generally maintained a 1km front against transporting veter-nos, various states and municipaliUes declined to give' further aid and a shortage of food confronted the arrivals in Washington. An estimated 2,500 were barracked in Washington, planning to parade to the White House and capitol tomorrow in furtherance of appeals for passage of the Patman House bill to pay two billion dollars to ex-service meji In Los Afigeles, more than 1,000 veterans were plettged to join, the bonus crusade, one of the few iustances of new platoons forming, but in Boston, a recruiting attempt failed when tr.e leaden withdrew because he had been told communists were backing the march. Unite encountering difficulties in completing their pilgrimage included 480 Oklahoma and Texas veterans stranded (Continued on i age 0) Ice cream and strawberry social, including cake and coffee, 20c, First Baptist church, Tuesday, June 7th, 7:30 p. m. 6-6-lt AMERICAN LBGTON AUXILIARY OAIRD PARTY, Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock.

Contract and auction bridge, y. Prizes, refreshments. 05 cents. 6-6S2t By FREDERICK KUH, United Press Staff Correspondent. (Copyright, 1932, by United Press.) BERLIN, June 6.

Junker lords of the vast Prussian estates, captains of the "heavy industry" in the Rhine and Ruhr, militarists who yearn for the days of the Army's glory, and last but not least the Fascist Hitlerites have joined hands to over-j Young Anarchist Held for Plot Against II Duce ROME, June 6. UP A young anarchist who carried on his chest a thin rubber pad filled with enough nitroglycerine to blow a dozen men to pieces it ta hatt IhoAn Himwn down hv Jiollce or aowiers, faced execution today for a plot against the life of Premier Benito Mussolini. The anarchist also carried a revolver and two flat shaped' bombs hung from his belt. Police revealed that Angelos Sbardel-lotto planned the assassination at the ceremony on Janiculum Hill Saturday. It was attended by Mussolini and members of the royal family.

Queen Helene unveiled a monument to Anita Garibaldi. Police quoted Sbardellotto as saying he would have committed! suicide whether or not his attempt against Mussolini had been successful. He was picked up by one of the detectives of the Presidential squad. The woulde assassin was stationed at a spot where Mussolini would have passed within half an hour. RECEIVERSHIP SUIT IN WARNER CASE DISMISSED WILMINGTON, June 6.

UP When called for hearing in Chancery Court today, a receivership suit against Warner Brothers Pictures Incorporated was dismissed by Chief Justice James Pen now! 1 1 Dismissal resulted when it was found the plalntiif, iMarinus P. V. Newcastle, Nw York City, wished only to make an effort to have the suit amended to amendment petition prior to dismissing the suit. MARKETS AT A GLANCE. By United Press.

Stocks meet support after sharp early declines. Bonds irregular rails strong. Curb stocks lower; utilities and oils In supply. Chicago stocks ease in quiet trading. Call money 2Mt per cent.

Foreign exchange declines before dollar. Wheat breaks more than 2 cents to new lows; corn and oats off. WATSON EXPECTS SENATE TO CLEAR UP WORK BY JUNE 30 WASHINGTON, June 6. UP Majority leader Watson of the Senate said today he expected the Senate would not ibe able to clear up its business 'before June 30, but (Senator Fess, Ohio, said he was hopeful the Senate would adjourn thlaweek. VETERANS ARE REBUKED.

WASHINGTON, Jan 8. UP Speaker Garner today threatened to clear the House galleries of several hundred bonus marchers when they broke Into thunderous applause during consideration of a bill for exclusion of alien Communists, to avoid the bond proposals contained in the Democratic proposals. Borah Plan Is Revived. One phase of the President's pro gram, that relating to establishment of 1 iz mome iiwan uistount uuum, revrveu in iue owuai, wmie iiw committee was directed to prepare a report on- the Watson bill to that end, Continued on Page 6) MILDRED REBUKES PMR AS "MASHERS" LEARNS LATER THEY RE COPS EVANiSTON, 111., June 8. UP Mildred Mudge is accustomed to rebuking young men who epeaki to her without proper Introduction.

As she drove her automobile past the wrong side of a streetcar, two youn men ln golf toga drove along side. "Musn't do that," they warned. "(Mashers," Miss Mudige cried. "I'll report you to the police." "Fine," chorused the young men, "Let's go right down to toe station." They tfid. There the young men revealed themselves as Officer Herbert Ketsh and A.

E. Feely, and charged Miss iMudge with a traffic violation. I throw the last of a line of moderate Cabinets througn DacKstairs plotting and intrigue. Their coup was bloodless, and more effective than the ill-fated Kapp Putsch or the Munich "beer cellar Putsch," for these mighty forces that hearken back to the Kaiser's days achieved power where the Putsch leaders failed. REPUBLIC STILL STANDS; FORCE WEAKENED.

club, was low among the early finishes vuu" in the first 18-hole qualifying round 'week by Harry Koplar, of University for Pittsburgh district entries in thety. Mo The Cabinet is headed by Oberstleutnant Franz Von Papen, late of the ser vice of Seiner Majestaet Wilhelm der Zweite, and Known tnrougnout me worm try club courge ln 75 Ed 0nerretta, because of his ejection from the U. S. as a too zealous German plotter in the gnley park, Pittsburgh, Joe C. war years.

Ludes, of Oakmont, and Rader Jewett, But the real power in this new era of barons, counts and adherents of the Wheeling, W. were second with ancient regime is Gen. Kurt Von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, who with con- Wg trol of the Reichswehr in his hand is as potentially mighty as a real dictator, i Ted Luther, Valley Heights Country Schleicher, heavy set and of the Prussian type is the man to whom the Hitler- clubi formeriy 0f corry, and form-ites look for real domination once they assume the reins of government as they er Wegt penn open tltieholder, and expected to do before long. I Sam Parks, Summit Hotel, Union- FLASHES jj The republic still stands, and repub-f lican elements are sounding a call or battle against the growth of the power of the "right" parties. Bat the lattsr's sweep has been Increasingly great, and between the popular call and the machinations of the barons of steel and coal and great Prussian manorsthese Fascist forces have achieved a strong grasp on authority.

The Von Papen-Von Schleicher cabinet will rule without the restraining hand of an unfriendly Reichstag, for that body has been dis solved, I National Open golf tournament today. TCwafh wan rtvar tYia OalrmnVif Pnlln. former captain of the University of Pittsburgh golf team, later came in with 73's to tie for the lead. Luther's score was 38-35 73 and Parks, 37-3673. PUWPINgIvATER IN RELIEF GARDENS IN ALLEGHENY CO.

PITTSBURGH, June 6. UP Water was being pumped to community rallef gardens ln Allegheny county today the 24th day since rain of any consequence fell in this district. At Orafton Are engines were used to pump water to the dry gardens. A six-inch pipe line may be used to carry water to one of the largest groups of gardens, at Blawnox, where there are more than 400 plots. The river stage at Pittsburgh today was 10 feet five Inches, or 13 inches above the lowest level reached ln the 1980 drought which extended from July to November.

BERLIN, June 6 UP Reichstag elections were fixed for July 31 by President Von Hlndenburg today. Akron Refueled; Ready to Return to Lakehurst. SUNNYVALE, June 6. UP The Navy dirigible Akron was refueled today and its crew awaited orders to begin the long flight to Lakehurst, N. J.

The Akron moored here after participating in the Pacific fleet was games off San Pedro. Two Britishers to Confer With Irish President. LONDON, June 6. UP J. H.

Thomas, Dominions Secretary, informed the House of Commons today that he and Lord Hallsham, Secretary of Stat for War, were going to Dublin to negotiate the Irish dispute directly with PraUv dent Eamon de Valera. Two Fatally Injured in Allentown Plane Crash. ALLENTOWN, June 6. UP Carl Nace, 13, a passenger in the alrplans in which William Lerlche, 40, president of the Allentown Aviation Corporation, was killed, died today in Sacred Heart hospital. two were fatally injured when the plane, piloted by Lerlche, fell into a nose dive while landing, prior to, the opening of an air meet conducted by the Allen town Flying Club.

Double Crossing Was Rampant. Von Schlelscher, whose friends were stationed in the highest government councils next to Hlndenburg and Chancellor Bruening, knew every move of the President and Chancellor, usually at Its inception. Double-crossing was rampant among eminent government officials whose loyalty to the Administration had been Oniinued on Puge 6).