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The Daily Republican MONONGAHELA VALLEY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED 1846 NOW IN ITS 93rd YEAR The Newspaper An Institution Developed by Modern Civilization To Present The News Of The Dar, Foster Commerce And Industry, Ts Inform And Lead Public Opinion, And To Furnish That Check Upon Government Which No Constitution Has Ever Been Able To Provide OLTJME 93 NO. 138 MOXOXGAIIELA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938 The Weather: Fair and warmer tonight TWO CENTS Welles Explains His Broadcast PUETIB DISSOLVES; Cleveland Firm Only 'Official' Decorator Here ALONG MAIN STREET fhis That F. D. R. LEAVES FOR NEW YORK HOME TO VOTE mm eve besoms Chamberlain To Propose Outlawing Of Poison Gas Warfare, Bombing Of Civilian Populations Orson Welles (center) whose broadcast of H.

G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" panicked the country, is pictured in New York as he explained to the press. Welles expressed his regrets for the unforeseen consequences, which resulted in a Federal Communications Commission inquiry. THE POLITICAL ARENA PARTY HEAD SEETRIUI FOR Torrance, Lawrence Bath Foresee Victory At Polls Nov. 8.

Harrisburg, JJov. 2 (UP) Republican State Chairman James F. Torrance and Democratic State Chairman David L. Lawrence both foresaw sweeping victories for their opposing tickets in the Nov. 8 election in statements today to the United Press.

The party chairmen outlined their views of the issues and drew their conclusions as the long campaign neared an end. By Republican State Chairman Torrance: "Republican victory is assured on Nov 8.. "Pennsylvanians yll no longer tolerate an indministration reeking with charges of graft and corruption. They protest the ruthless-ness with which this administration has compelled the destitute of the state, as well as all the taxpayers, to pay for their futile cam paign for reelection. "From the very opening of the campaign, the trend to Republican ism has grown daily.

people of our Commonwealth have recognized that our candidates a'nd our platform stand for honesty in gov ernment and assure an end to t'J scandals on Capitol Hill. Old line Democrats are led up with the Earle administration and its policies. Tney, together with first voters and all thinking people in the state, including those who have been coerced and intimidated into registering Democratic, will march to the polls on Nov. 8 a righteously indignant army of voters determined to put an end to corruption. "The voters must know that their ballot is secret and, knowing this, they will vote Republican.

(Continued on Page Three PUS KETS President to Deliver Political Address There Friday. Washington, Nov. 2 (UP) President Roosevelt leaves today for his New York Country home to deliver a campaign speech and vote in next Tuesday's general election before returning to the Capital next week. An afternoon departure will put the Presidential train in Hyde Park, N. well before dinner time.

Mr. Roosevelt will ride into the hottest New York State campaign since 1928 when he led the home guard as Democratic nominee for Governor to support Alfred E. Smith, the nominee for President. Republicans have not had much success in New York since that 1928 election when they won tne State's big presidential electoral viote for Herbert C. Hdover although Mr.

Roosevelt was elected Governor and started directly from that point to the White House. Democrats swept the State in 1932 and that tide carried on right through the '1934 and 1936 elections. Now 10 years after the Republican presidential triumph of 1928, New York State is seeing some major candidates coming down the stretch sufficiently close together to make it a real contest. (Continued on Page Eight) CLUB BACKS COMMUNITY CHEST PLAN Opt'mists Pledge Support To General Campaign In Community. The Monongahela Optimists Club went on record at its weekly meeting last night as approving a Community Chest plan for the city and promising the support of its individual members to such a campaign should it be organized here.

The question of a Monongahela Community Chest drive was broached after the club took a vote to appropriate a contribution to the Associated Charities, local welfare organization. Following this vote, the members discussed at some length the Community Chest plan of charity work and belief was expressed that this idea would prove more effective in Monongahela than individual drives by the various organizations Which depend largely upon support from public contributions. President George Eppler stated that although the Optimist club was not organized for the purpose Continued on age 3 CLAIRTON TO USE VOTING MACHINES Pittsburgh, Nov. 2 (UP) Delivery of voting machines to several communities in Allegheny county will start next Saturday, according to announcements today. The automatic balloting devices will be used in Pittsburgh, McKeesport, Clairton and London, Nov.

2 (UP) Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends to propose that the Great Powers agree to outlaw poison gas warfare and bombing attacks on civilian populations, it was said today in well-informed political quarters. As the House of Commons met to debate the government plan to bring the British-Italian friendship agreement into effect, and in doing so to recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, it was asserted that the Prime Minister, confident of support for his policy of European appeasement, had worked out a sweeping diplomatic program. It was said that as the first move toward testing the strength and value of the Munich four-power agreement on Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain intended to place before Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, the German and Italian dictators, a plan to abolish gas warfare and the airplane bombing of civilian populations. He was expected also to suggest the possibility, and the desirability, of outlawing al! sorts of warfare on civilians if a practicable plan could be found. Washington, Nov.

2 (UP) President Roosevelt's billion-dollar Naval expansion program swings into high gear at noon today when the navy department opens bids for construction of three battleships. Elsewhere: Vienna German and Italian Foreign Ministers met to hear and decide the claims of Hungary to a large part of Czechoslovakia's frontier areas, including Ruthenia. The decision, which will be a display of solidarity of the Rome-Berlin axis, is expected to avoid handing all of Ruthenia over to Hungary and thus blocking the route of Nazi eastward expansion by giving Hungary and Poland a common frontier. Australia The government ordered 50 aerial bombers from the United States in connection with bolstering of defenses. Tokyo Japan, renewing hints that the "open door" in China may (Continued on Page 3) France pump truck was purchased about 10 years ago through public subscription.

Borland, who has served as president of the fire department since 191G, also was reelected for another year at last evening's meeting. Except in the membership of the advisory board, all of the former officers were returned to the positions they hold for the ensuing year, as follows: President Mark G. Borland. Vice-president Frank H. Hamilton.

Chief Frank M. Myers. Assistant Chief Elijah Har rison. Secretary-treasurer T. A.

Wilson. Hose captain Joseph Adams. Chemical captain Walter Con-lin. Advisory board Mayor W. E.

McCracken, Dr. George K. Hayes, W. H. Isaac, C.

H. Landefeld, H. Clark Underwood, and Dr. G. H.

Murphy. Chief of Police William H. Stewart, chairman of the decorating committee for Frank Downer Post's Armistice Day celebration group, today called attention of local merchants to the fact that the Nelson Decorating Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, is the only "official" decorator chosen by the Legion committee. Stewart said that other firms were now soliciting decorating orders from local places of business, but that the Legion receives a pecuniary return only from the Nelson company which already has begun its work here, and has established headquarters in the Second street storeroom formerly occupied by the Maloy plumbing establishment. Although merchants are required to pay for the decorating of their places of business, under its agreement with the Legion the Cleveland firm not only will turn over a certain percentage to the local Post but also will place decorations, free of cost, at several street intersections.

The Legion committee pointed out that considerable expense is entailed in staging the annual district celebration, and it stands in need of any funds it may be able to obtain. It hopes to more than "break even," if possible, in order that the Post may net something to apply toward the $2,000 indebt edness remaining on its home. It is sparing little expense, however, in planning to make the celebration one of the best yet held in view of the fact that this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice. JOHN RUE, FORMER LOCAL MAN, SISTER DIE ON SAME DAY Belated word of the deaths of a former Monongahela man and his cister, one at Follansbee, West Virginia, the other at Mount Pleasant, on the same day last week reached this city today. John Rue, aged 71, died of a heart attack suddenly Thursday evening at his home in Follansbee, about ten hours after his sister, Mrs.

John Walker, the former Maggie Rue, succumbed at her home in Mount Pleasant. Rue had been employed as mine superintendent in different localities over a long period of years. The family removed to Follansbee about ten years ago. He is survived by his son Donald and one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Evans, and two grandchildren.

Funeral services for Mr. Rue were held Sunday with interment following in the cemetery at Follansbee. VET MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN PUSHED Over the Top by November 11, "date of the district Armistice Day celebration here, was the goal today of Chairman Louis Habersack and his Frank Downer Post No. 302, American Legion, membership committee as they pushed a campaign to swell the roster of the local Post to 205 members. That is the quota lot for the Post this year by the new district commander, Louis Nagy, of this city.

The Post last year had a membership of 196. Its membership to date this year is 135. has a stevedoring business. The disappearance of Fried had been a mystery. On the night of Dec.

4, Hoover said, two men in an automobile forced a car driven by Fried to the curb in White Plains and made him get into their car. The next day Fried was forced to write his family a note demanding $200,000 for his release. The ransom negotiations continued until January 3 when Hugo Fried, a brother, agreed to contact the kidnapers. He was to have gone to a theater and dropped the ransom money from the mezzanine flour to a man on the street below. He did not drop the money.

Hoover said the victim already was dead when the contact was arranged. He said Fried was killed by one of the kidnapers four days after he was seized. He said the body was burned in a furnace the basement of the Ukrainian Hall, the same hideaway used when Miller was kidnaped. Hoover said that Farber was (Continued on Page Eight) TODAY'S HOROSCOPE born on this date often very critical of others. They not, however, relish criticism themselves.

These traits may to loss of friends and should avoided. They are easily an-ed and are savage in their ath, but soon get over it. They daring, reckless, but magnani-us. They are rather difficult to jociate with both in business, me or society, but are really loy-to employers, family and ends. The Daily Republican today ex-ids congratulations and its wish-for a Happy Birthday to the fol-'ing local and district residents observe their natal anniver-ies tomorrow: NOVEMBER 3 )arla Lee Anders.

rohn Scurfield. ihirley Green, immie Meredith, unius R. Thornton, red Hansen. lexander Cherry is celebrating seventh birthday today. Daily Republican welcomes litions to its birthday lists.

Ve sympathized with the pretty al woman at the football game Pittsburgh last Saturday who the object of black looks from husband and other members her party (all for Pitt, of irse), when she ripped into a cheer for Esh-jnd. The radio "panic" DID strike mongahela In the Rossi me in Williams Hill, Albert. a Daily Republican newsboy, 1 his sisters were listening to too-realistic dramatization of "War with the Worlds" and ien' after so long, the girls burst frightened sobs and ran to a ighbor's house, Albert was left me to await the coming, of the irtian monsters Like others, wever, he survived the on- ueht A fnrmer Mononcabi'- I girl now living in West Virgin-put in a frantic long-distance 11 to her mother in this city: other, I just wanted to hear ur voice once more before what?" queried the moth-( slightly bewildered. "Before end of the world," said the 'ier, starting to weep affrighted-. The mother finally was able "get" what it was all about, and oh-poohed at her daughter's ars The young woman kept saying, "Turn on your radio! irn on your radio!" which the aer did, in time to hear the last isps of the succumbing operator, un-responsc to the "Station" 11, then the matter-of-fact voice the regular announcer who dmly (of course) announced that nis was a play adapted from H.

Wells' book Needless to iy, she called the daughter's ime just to hear the relief in the rl's voice A Monongahela an heard the "bulletins" and ro cs rted to his family that there jas "something wrong in New Arsey" Turning to dial farth-, again and again further "bulle-ras" were heard seemed as ough it was on every station, jiut of course he was getting only BS stations) Well, he was all hot and bothered when he tasted hearing about the from Mars; then he knew at nc what had happened, even he had never read Wells' ook which is the logical contusion, we think, any adult would irrive at under the same circum-tances maybe we're wrong V'e remember hearing about one Out" program A group vas sitting around to listen to it nd one of them said, "I get the Ueerest feeling whenever I think this program. It was Eleanor's avorite one and ever since she lied, I've just never been able to isten to it" Some desultory followed to get her houghts away from sadness and hen the voice of the narrator ame on hollow, sepulchral, i.nd in slow measured accents 'And her name was El-ean-or (N. B. They didn't listen to the tory .) iollyhocks in November! Sounds like a title to a song, but ank B. Wickerham, former eriff, brought in the top of a llyhock stock Monday bearing iur large blooms, a half-blown jud and quite a few smaller buds.

"He says its unusual to find hollyhocks at this time of the year. He told also that his tomato plants have grown a foot since the 'irst frost on his farm on Fourth street Extension. Anyone doubting his veracity is cordially invited (Cr.Tif:nued on Page 3) 4, Commission Will Call Annenberg, Son For Questioning. Harrisburg, Nov. 2 (UP) The Dauphin County Court dissolved today injunctions that prevented expenditures by the Thompson Legislative Commission investigating race track gambling and protected M.

L. Annenberg, Philadelphia Inquirer publisher, and his son, Walter, from the group's sub-penas. The joint Commission, headed by Sen. Edward J. Thompson, Centre, immediately resumed hearings here on dissemination of horse racing information for gambling purposes.

The group had discontinued hearings shortly after the Court issued a temporary restraining order Oct. 18 barring further expenditures from the $25,000 legislative appropriation for the investigation. That order was in response to a taxpayer's petition filed by John M. Annenberg, no kin to the publisher but circulation director of the Inquirer. The other temporary injunctions were responsive to petitions of M.

and Walter Annenberg who were served commission subpenas to produce records of 52 corporations allegedly engaged in dissemination 'of racing information to "Bookie" establishments and controlled by the Annenbergs. Commission Counsel Lemuel B. Schofield indicated the group would not attempt to enforce the Annenberg petitions today but probably would order the publisher and his son to appear for questioning before the end of the week. In dissolving the injunctions, the Court said: "We conclude that the statute under consideration does not so clearly violate the Constitution as to enable us to declare it in conflict with" the Constitution and since the power of the Commission to subpena the plaintiffs as witnesses depends upon the constitutionality of the statute, it folfows that the injunctions heretofore granted to the plaintiffs must be dissolved." BUILDINGS ON SITE OF NEW CHARLEROI SCHOOL ARE SOLD Charleroi, Nov. 2 The Morgan house and garage located on the property adjoining Charleroi High School, which must be cleared 'to make way for a new vocational school that is to be constructed there, was sold this week by the School Board to R.

J. Hiernaux, of North Charleroi. The building must be removed by November 21, in view of the fact work of erecting the new school under a WPA project is to be started soon. FIRE REPORTED ON RAILROAD TRESTLE City police received a report by telephone at 1:25 a. m.

today that a tie was on fire on the trestle of the Donora Southern extension -of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia railroad in the Taylor Run road. They notified the yardmaster at the Donora Southern railroad, at Donora. Reports on the fire and damage were lacking today, but loss, if any, is believed to have been slight. The trestle spans the highway near the former Roth brewery. WEATHER FORECAST Western Pennsylvania Fair end warmer tonight.

Thursday cloudy with mild temperatures. Ehowers Thursday night and possibly near Lake Erie late Thursday afternoon. People who passed by the Abbey during the night were surprised to see elusive flashes of light which gave momentary glimpses of the richly colored stained glass It was remembered that Abbey authorities had agreed to open Spenser's tomb at the insistence of members of the Baconian Society, formed to promote their claim that Bacon really wrote the plays which have made Shakespeare one of the great figures of world history. (Continued on Page 3) Old Macaroni Factory Fire Worst, Loccs! Fire Chief Says Looking Back Over 20 Years I REPUBLICAN Pittsburgh, Nov. 2 (UP) Judge Arthur H.

James, Republican gubernatorial candidate, nailed a new plank in his platform today that promised arbitration of the differences between capital and labor with "due regard for both sides." That came out last night in a rally here that followed a warning to a meeting of business men that James would not allow business to go unregulated, although he would "still recognize that without initiative, enterprise and ambition, our much-vaunted civilization is going to perish." "But," he sad, "We are not going to have the old days over again. Business is not going to have a free lance to do just as it wants." James reiterated a charge that most of the laws of the Democrat-is legislature of 1937 should be burned, and singled out two of them for-attack. He belittled effects of the Revised Workmen's Compensation Law, and denounced failure of the ne. Elections Code to provide penalties for "macing" of public employes for campaign funds. "I said before, and I say tonight that most of these laws should be burned," thundered James.

Harrisburg, 2 (UP) Republicans expect a protest vote against the Democratic Federal Farm policy in rural Pennsylvania to provide the margin of success in the party's campaign to regain control of the state's congressional delegation which it lost, 26 to 7, in the 1936 Roosevelt landslide All seven G. O. P. incumbents were re-nominated at the May 17 primaries. Re-election of those veterans and victory for minority party nominees in 11 other National House districts were predicted by Congressman J.

William Ditter, Montgomery County, vice-chairman of the National Republican (Continued on Page 2) NIGHT SCHOOL WILL REOPEN Registration to Take Place Tonight At High School. Enrollment for the third annual industrial extension courses, offered in evening classes at the Monongahela High school during the winter and spring months, will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at the High school, it was announced today. Anyone interested in continuing the courses, in taking advanced or new courses, or in enrolling for the first time, have been asked to present themselves at the school at this time. Mechanical drawing, shop mathematics, blueprint reading and sketching and theory of the development of metals from ore to the finished product, given the last two years, will be offereu again, together with related mathematics and science, offered new this year. Classes will be held from 7 to 9 o'clock every Monday and 'Wed sday evening and will continue until May.

DEMOCRATIC Philadelphia, Nov. 2 (UP) Gov. George H. Earle, campaigning for U. S.

Senator, today defined the issue of next Tuesday's election as "Roosevelt Liberalism vs. Republican Reaction." He charged in a statewide radio address last night that the supporters of Judge Arthur H. James' Republican gubernatorial candidacy had contributed "almost a half million dollars because they wanted a safe candidate." "What are the safe dividends they expect from Arthur James?" Earle asked. "We do not have to speculate because James himself has told us. James has pledged himself to burn up the liberal legislation enacted by this administration during the past four years.

In his own words, he has pledged 'to give a drumhead court martial to the New Deal'." Earle reviewed the Social Security Program enacted under his administration and defended the taxation policies of his "Little New Deal." Recalling that he had fulfilled a pledge to see that no Penn-sylvanian starved during his term as Governor, Earle said the cost of feeding the needy over the four year period would approximate $250,000,000. (Continued on Page Two) TO VISIT U. S. CAPITAL British Monarch Reported To Have Accepted F. R.

Invitation. London, Nov. 2 (UP) The Daily Herald asserted today that a personal letter from King George VI to President Roosevelt, accepting an invitation to pay a state visit to Washington next Summer, was on its way to Washington. The newspaper said that after the King and Queen completed their Canadian tour next Summer they would be the guests of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House for three days and two nights.

It was asserted also that when the King and Queen arrived in North American waters United States and French warships, as well as Canadian ones, would welcome them. (France the St. Pierre i and Miquelon Islands groups off the South Coast of Newfoundland.) GLASS COMPANIES CREATE NEW FILM New York, Nov. 2 (UP) The creation of a new company to manufacture a new product glass textiles was announced today by the Owens-Illinois Glass company and the Corning Glass works. The new industry will operate through the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, financed jointly by the two long-established glass companies, with plants at Newark, and Corning, N.

Y. Headquarters will be at Toledo, with other offices at New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and San Francisco, I G-Men Seize Four Men In Murder, Kidnapings From a fireman's point of view, the conflagration wnich, in 1925, destroyed the old Lazzari maca roni factory in Chess street was the worst Monongahela has experienced since he took command of the local fire-fighters back in 1917. or thereabouts, Fire Chief Frank M. Myers recalled today following his reelection to the same post for another year at a meeting of the volunteer fire department last evening. Looking back over the two decades or more since he became chief of the department, and the 30 years he has been a member of it, Myers said: "We've had some serious fires on Main street, but the old maca- roni.

factory fire was probably the worst. It was a stubborn fire and took us a long time to control it." Myers' service on the fire company goes back to the days of the horse-drawn vehicle the horses were kept in McAlister's stable. The first automotive equipment, he said, was a hose truck which carried 1,200 feet of hose. The present local fire company is the outgrowth of a reorganization meeting held in 1913 in the old municipal building in Chess street. George A.

Anderson, present editor of The Canonsburg Daily Notes, was the first chief of the reorganized company, serving until about 1917. Myers then was an assistant lire chief. According to Mark G. Borland, president of the local company, the department's first pump truck the recently reconditioned Sea- grave triple combination apparatus was purchased in 1914 by the municipality, just before the company, together with city officials, moved into the present municipal building which was completed in 1915. The large American La- Eerie Lights In Abbey; Spenser's Tomb Opened? New York, Nov.

2 (UP) J. Edgar Hoover announced today that his Department of Justice Agents had captured a gang of former convicts believed responsible for three kidnapings in New York. The kidnapings had not been disclosed heretofore. All the victims were adults; one was murdered. Arthur Fried, missing since Dec.

was shot to death and his body burned in a furnace while the gang was demanding $200,000 ransom for his safe return, Hoover said. Those seized were Joseph Stephen Sacoda, 27, Demetrius G'ula, 30, John Virga, 34, William Jacknis, 27, all of New York. All had prison records for crimes ranging from counterfeiting to burglary and arson. A total of $14,900 was paid in ransom in two of the kidnapings, none in the third. Hoover said the pang also was wanted for.

three robberies which netted $1,798. Those kidnaped besides Fried were Benjamin Farber, 38, Brooklyn coal proprietor, and Norman Miller. It), whose father, Charles, London, Nov. 2 (UP) Eerie lights which flashed in Westminster Abbey during the night caused reports today that the tomb of Edmund Spenser, "Prince of Poets," had been opened in an effort to end a 170-year-old claim that Francis Bacon wrote William Shalrespeare's plays. Abbey officials denied that the tomb had been opened and intimated that the lights were due to a secret preliminary survey as part of which experts sought to place the exact spot where Spenser's bones repose..