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FOUR ALTOONA TRIBUNE. ALTOONA, PA. 8ATURDAT, MAT li. 10SJ or ideal: it is system of work PAINTER OUSTED IN CENTER "ART THOMAS SEES tftta pat Ik WARREN HELLER (From page 1) ing. At the close of the lecture, the meeting was thrown open for gen MM oK.

not fall prey to panic; let, us not throw cur cargo overboard; we eral discussion, this forum prov ing interesting and instructive. have something worth Questions concerning the redis There is yet time, he believes, tribution of wealth under Socialism; the way in which Socialists to save the world. The theme, of course, of his talk, was. that Socialism alone can aave it perman- would put mea back to work; the enforcement of world peace; the income of the Socialist State, the ently and guarantee the enduring duty of an American citiien. etc.

heppiness of the race. All other social philosophies! he insisted, were asked, receiving thoughtful answers. The brief, but sincere talk by Mr. Zeller. one of the are dangerous, or at best make shift stop-gaps, which would even tually have to be scrapped.

audience, on the duty of the American citiien was applauded by all present Mr. Thomas esti In closing, Mr, Thomas pointed out that a great, common purpose is needed to weld society, together for a conquest of all the ills of Harry" Barton, accompanied by Phil Geary, sang two, fine numbers, and Clem llershey played two selections on the plann-accord-lon. Musical selections through the evening were played by Dean Drlscoll, local pianist, and Paul Vetter, violinist. Addison E. Pohle, sponsor of the Hi-Y, spoke and expressed his appreciation for the fine attendance and introduced Charles Drlscoll.

J. N. Maddocks, assistant principal of Altoona High school, congratulated the club for being one of the outstanding organizations of the school and made awards to members for their assistance In the recent membership drive. Pin awards were mde to: Fred Pick, Arthur Oracey. Richard Lurkner, Jack Nolan, William Wolf, William Batrus, Edward Nelson.

George Knepley, Carl Robinson. Harold Miller. Charles Park, Tony Fusoo and Max McCoy. Roll buckles bearing the insignia were awarded to: Robert Mock, Jack Neal, William Acker, Robert Hlte. Jack Brown, Jack Williamson, Phil Geary and Don Gaver.

Principal Levi Gilbert was introduced and congratulated the club for its fine work. He presnnted a our time. As the overwhelming unity of the great Crusades weld mated that 30 years would be sufficient for rebuilding America on a Socialistic basis. Following the lecture, air. Thomas, accompanied by Dr.

William J. Van Essen, former candidate for the U. S. senate, left for Pittsburg. Officer Nominated By Fraternal Order of Police Nomination of onicere for the ensuing year was the outstanding item of importance at the May session of City lodge No.

Fraternal Order of Folic. Thursday night. The election will be held at the June meeting and those elected will be installed at the July session. Those nominated were: president, John Orabill, Charles Dean and Harry E. Nale; vice president, R.

J. Bigelow, Robert J. Bertlebaugh, and George K. Paul; secretary, A. O.

Fluff; treasurer, 3. Boyer and W. Qearhart; conductor. C. B.

Campbell, Fred Shaw and Charles Dean; guard, Fred Shaw, E. B. Hamilton and A. J. Wlnlnger; trustee, one year, H.

E. Nale, and A. J. Wlnlnger. 'Ofncera J.

F. Marshall, PlurT. Boyer and Shaw were nominated as candidates for the honor of being sent to the national convention of the organlaatlon, to be held at Gary. Ind. One delegate from the local chapter will be sent.

R. J. Rigelow, H. E. Nale and George Paul were appointed as members of the publicity committee and memberships of associate members.

The session was concluded with a buffet luncheon. KKSCl'E MISSION SERVICES Services, tonight, at the Altoona Rescue Mission will be in charge of T. LanU. who has secured the young people from Juniata Reformed church to present the song service. The guest speaker will be Rev.

B. A. Peters, Grace Lutheran church. Sunday morning at 7:30. there ed Europe together against common foe, so should the pur poses of Socialism lead the work ers forth against the predatory classes that prey upon the major ity.

But there is no Socialism of INCREASED (From pas 1) wishing, he admonished; Social mil 1 -r4t ism is more than a mere theory street reported business to be still on the upswing although the normal seasonal expansion period has Heads Farm Relief passed. The report spoke of a general feeling of assurance that the current revival rests on a firm foundation." CHICAGO United Air Lines re ported carrying 6.345 passengers during April, an increase of 1,404 over March, and 333.637 pounds of express an increase of 3.000 pounds. special award from the Altoona Y. M. C.

A. to Charles Pack for his outstanding leadership. Mr. Fohle announced the names of basketball players of the Hi-Y who assisted in winning the junior championship for the second consecutive year. Warren Heller made the individual awards to WAYNE, Mich.

The Stinson Aircraft corporation reported itself working on the largest schedule in Diego Rivera (left), foremost Mexican artist, was dismissed as one of the painters whose huge murals were to decorate the great hall of the new 70-atory building of Rockefeller center In New York. He was called from his scaffold and given a check for $14,000 In full payment of his contract. The principal objection to hit work was a likeness of Lenin which appeared In one of the panels. Ha had refused a request by Nelson Rockefeller (Inset below), son of John D. Rockefeller, that the face of an unknown man be substituted for that of Lenin.

The portion of the p'cture about which the dispute centered Is shown at the right. --'-tM Press. its history with $100,000 in unfilled orders on hand. MILWAUKEE. The Luther- Hammer corporation raised wages of 500 employes five per cent.

SOUTH BEND. Ind. The Stude- HOPEWELL BABY rvm page 1) baker Motor company reported orders for new cars during the first fore the court adjourned until 10 days of this month were XT.S Monday he subjected the defend per cent above the same period in 1933 S.lii units as against 3,194. ant to a brief but rapid fire ques will be a service for the men who Stay overnight, under the direction of E. W.

Dougherty, Mr. Lantx and others. Regular Biblo school will convene at 9:30, with Ed. Cnshman as superintendent. All those who do not have a noma Sunday school are invited to attend.

In the afternoon at 2:30 there is a praise and prayer service. Special singing will mark the regular evangelistio service at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Shaw will be In charge.

to niscrsVHABrriES Representatives of atholic Societies will meet tomorrow at p. m. in the Knights of Columbus, 1M0 Twelfth avenue, to discuss Catholic charities. The session each player. Basketball awards were made to: Captain George Knepley, Co-captain Jack Brown.

Harold Miller, Richard Gracey. William Schmidt. Jack Nolan, Robert Mountain, Wil-Jack Nolan, Max McCoy, Anthony Fusco, Don Gaver, Joe Mlnielll and Manager Jack Jackson. A special Hi-Y letter award was made to Jack Williamson, Bell-wood, for good work. Coach, Ernie RudlslU was given a special medal for helping the team during the year.

Toastniaster Pack closed the program with appreciation to participants in the program, the Ladies' auxiliary to the Y. M. C. and the men who aided in preparation. The next regular meeting of the Hi-Y will be held at 7:30 p.

m. Tuesday, at the Y. M. C. A.

CHICAGO The Blackstone hotel nappe rs, went to Chicago. There he said ha saw Fenton again and was shown $49,000 of the "Jafsie" ransom money paid by Colonel Lindbergh to the supposed kidnapers. Fenton wanted to put it in a locked box with two keys, one for him to keep and the other, said Means, "for me to take back to Henderson." "Fenton then handed me some 'deadhead' messages from Mrs. McLean to Miss Elizabeth Nelson, a nurse Mrs. McLean had en 1 Murder Attempts Cited In Weird Insurance Plot NEW YORK.

May 12 A grotesque insurance plot was charged today to eight men, who are accused of obtaining policies totaling $2,776 on the life of an unemployed fireman and then slaying him, after resorting to four different methods of assassination. Michael Malloy, the victim, said police, had been plied with liquor in an attempt to undermine his health: he had been given wood alcohol: he had been taken while announced it would reopen May 20 with SCO employes returned to work after a modernization program that cost $100,000. Plan Blair Unit Of Allied Temperance Group A preliminary meeting prior to the county organization of an allied unit of the Allied Temperance group was held last night. The Rev. Owens of Williamsburg, secretary, announced last night that definite plans as to organizing would be made in the near future.

Another meeting of the group will be held on May 36 with two sessions, one at 3 p. m. and another at 7:30 p. m. Further announcements in regard to this meeting will be forthcoming within several days.

tioning. Hurling his qttestions at Means with machine-gun rapidity he drew from the witness admissions that those he named as key principals in his story are now dead, and that he has been convicted twice on federal indictments. He also gave the address leither 2419 or 3419 Grand River avenue, Detroit) of Irving Fenton and Wel CREDIT MEN MEET TODAY The semi-monthly meetinar of the 'Retail Credit Men's associa gaged, and asked me to decide them." said Means. "I did, and tion will be held at the Penn Alto I will be in charge of the Rev. Fath-er John O'Connor, pastor of St, Leo's church.

the sense of one of them was that Mrs. McLean offered to make an exchange for the 'Jafsie hot When the new farm bil. becomes law, Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, will exercise wide power in controlling production, processing and distribution of farm products. (Associated Press Photo) lington Henderson, the two men with whom he says he conducted the ransom negotiations.

Early in today's testimony Means named Max Hassel and hotel on Tuesday evening, May Id. at 6 30 o'clock. Plans for the meeting have not been announced, but J. E. Corn, secretary, assures the members of an interesting program.

intoxicated to a remote section and run over numerous times with an automobile. And when all these methods failed, police said, the beneficiaries under the insurance policies took him," senseless, to a rented room, Overheated Stove Causes "Hot money" was described by Max Greenberg. slain beer run Fire In Tenth Ave. Store him as an underworld expression for money which wa dangerous put a gas hose in his mouth, and to use at the time. April 13." Means continued.

ners, as the actual engineers of the Lindbergh kidnaping. Hassel and Greenberg. he said, delivered beer to the servants in the Lindbergh home by means of "operatives." These "operatives," he continued "Fenton contacted me in Wash ington through a third party and I I your nickel. (M war! and bath- 'n. room namel ond I porcelain.

Cut your '52t housework in half I and yu 11 i jflTVC neverbewithoutit. i asked that I meet him in Frederick. to arrange for the ex change of the 'Jafsie I carried three bottles of beer to the Lindbergh home the night of the kidnapping, and took the finally killed him. Then, the charges run, a physician signed a certificate that Malloy had died from pneumonia, and an undertaker put the body in a pine box, without performing any of the customary post-mortem duties such as embalming, obtained a charity burial plot for $12 and interred the box 12 feet below ground. In homicide court Pasque, 24, an undertaker, and Tony Marino, described as a speakeasy owner, were held without bail for An electrio stove which was left turned on almost resulted in serious fire loss at the Charles L.

Bender store, 14814 Tenth avenue, shortly after midnight last night. City fire companies Nos. 5, 7 and truck were called from a box alarm at 12:07 o'clock and extinguished the blaze before any serious damage resulted. The alarm was sounded from box No. 61.

According to the report to police who went to the scene, an electric stove had been left on and became over-heated, igniting the boards beneath. baby away without using the makeshift ladder found under the nursery window. we men said tne baby was taken to a liquor dugout in New Jersey and kept in hiding. Later, he said, he had been informed examination next Thursday. that while trying to remove the Dr.

Frank Manzella, 39, who I baby it was dropped on its head drove to Frederick the next day, met Fenton and told him that Mrs. McLean had not returned to Washington yet. Fenton then told me that a newspaper syndicate had offered a $25,000 reward for the safe return of the Lindbergh baby and he saw no reason why he should not have that too, 1 "I told him that I would take it up with Mrs. McLean and see what could be done." Means said that he repeatedly had asked both. Henderson and Fenton whether or not the baby was still alive.

After he had heard that the Lindbergh baby had been found dead In New Jersey, he said that he asked Fenton about it. "I understand the Lindbergh signed the pneumonia death certificate was held $10,000 bail as an accessory after the fact. TO PLAN FOR OBSERVANCE Plans for Memorial day will be and killed. TJoafAl r. Member P.

G. A. Affiliated With 6.000 Grocers In Pennsylvania Specials For Today and Monday, May 13 and 15 Patronize Your Economy Grocer He's Your Neighbor MEAT SPECIALS I'nited Home Dressed Meat Co. Fresh Pork Shoulder. Cala style lb.

8c Sliced Bacon f-lb. pkgs. 19c Lebanon Bologna. Sliced lb. 23c Boiled Ham.

Sliced lb. 25c Longhorn Cheese lb. 17c Jersey Bran Flakes 2 lge. pkgs. 15c Economy Peanut Butter '-lb.

jar 19c Mueller's Macaroni. Noodles or Spaghetti. .3 pkgs. 29c Golden or Pale Cloverdale Ginger Ale 2 bottles 21e 1c Bottle Deposit furthered at the meeting of Post Tariff Truce Adopted, 62. Grand Army of the Republic, to be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the post rooms.

Arrangements for the part this post will take in the annual tribute on May 30 will be completed. Eight Nations Join Pact LONDON, May 13. The B.xiqUeni Satlvustnnh. quM. eccncmlcallif ea April in in what police regarded as a gang slaying.

Autopsy Cited Perhaps the most sensational part of Means' testimony today was brought out under questioning of his own attorneys. "Wellington Henderson, described by Means as the ringleader of the kidnappers, visited him at his home here, the witness said, and cornerstone of, the world economic conference was laid today by the adoption of the American tariff truce which was declared imme baby is dead," Means said he told Fenton. Fenton replied. Means said, "That is not so. The baby "COTTON-SOFT" you saw is the Lindbergh baby.

There can be no question about i told him that the body of the diately effective in the eight key nations rpresented on the conference organizing committee. The text of the truce will be sent to other nations hy Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald who will ask them to adhere to it until June 12, when, upon the opening of the conference, the United States will that." baby identified by Colonel Lindbergh fl5 hi rliM woe a "nlonf1 anu inn me real oaoy was alive in Juarea, Means further declared that Henderson" had told -him that formally propose that the armis- the autopsy of the baby perform ed at Trenton. Is. proved that it was not the right child, due to marked differences in measurements. This was on May IT, 1932, and he said.

His story- of how he turned over the ransom money given him by Mrs. McLean to three strangers on a bridge near Alexandria, Pennington Told Job Is Safe, By Dalrymple PHILADELPHIA, May 12. (JPh-John D. Pennington, prohibition administrator for Pennsylvania. New Jersey, and Delaware and arch foe of racketeers, today was told by Major A.

V. Dalrymple, national director of prohibition, "your job is safe." Several political leaders in the district, notably in New Jersey, demanded Pennington's removal some on the grounds he was a He-publican, and others because he belonged to the beer era." The recent killing of Max Hassel, Reading beer barn, and Cn aide in an Elizabeth, N. J. hotel renewed the controversy after it was charged that several so-called "racket breweries" obtained federal permits to make beer over Pennington's protest. Dalrymple's declaration that Pen- tice oe continued throughout the parley.

The moratorium on tariff changes was the first big achievement of President Roosevelt's ambassador-at-large, Norman H. Davis, who came to London two weeks ago expecting to get the truce approved in two days. Altoonan Exonerated In Death Of Hitch-Hiker CLEARFIELD, May 12. (JP) Coroner H. H.

Lewis, holding that two fatal accidents near Clearfield were unavoidable, today exonerated two automobile drivers, Frank Anderson of Altoona and Frank Din-aunt of Clearfield. Mrs. Evelyn Bauman, 21, a i after they had waved him off the road with a red lieht and eiven him the correct code numbers, told in detail. I xie saio ne was returning irom Pnnrnrri with hie when the surrender of the 000 ransom money was made. He "hitch-hiker" wan killd After a train struck the car driven by Anderson.

Jacob Frankovich, 37, returning home after watching at the sick bed of a relative, was killed by Dinaunt's car. testified he was halted by the three strangers who said that Mrs. McLean had instructed them to take the money. Means said he told them his orders were to deliver the money to Mrs. McLean personally.

"'Those orders have been he said they replied. "Then I reached back in the car, picked up the package of money, gave it to them and proceeded on to Washington." Saw 'Jafsie Money Earlier the defendant described the trial he followed in quest of the kidnapped baby that led from Aiken, S. to El Paso, Texas. Kidnaped, Beaten gentle, so pure, so "cotton-soft" no wonder Mothers insist on SEMINOLE Tetley's Orange Pekoe Tea l-lb. pkg.

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Telling a story of the "mental cruelty" of a "jealous and suspicious" husband, sun-tanned Joan Crawford, one of the movies' fa-rite personifications of the modern American girl, obtained a divorce today. thence to Chicago and to Wash ington. When negotiations for the re-, turn of the baby at El Paso had been dropped temporarily, Means I said that he and Whitaker, act- ing on instructions from the kid- Few bathroom tissues, if any, compare with the gentle "cotton-soft" quality of Seminole. This is because it is made so carefully and from such fine materials. Each snow-white sheet instantly reveals its absolute purity.

And because it is so sterile, so amazingly soft like a puff of downy cotton as well as highly absorbent, Seminole is the perfect aid to healthful cleanliness. Avoid the risks of harsh, impure toilet papers. Physicians say Seminole is so soft, so pure, so hygienically safe it is recommended for the most sensitive body baby's. Order today. The interlocutory decree, under which she cannot legally marry again within a year, ended her four-year marriage with Douglas Tr- 1 I Scratch Pads 6 25c 2 10c For Ink Work Good Bond Paper 9 lbs.

for 25c 3 for 10c For Pencil Work Supply Limited Call at TIMES TRIBUNE CO. JOB PRINTING DEPT. 1 NOLI raiiDacKfl, ur.t sun ui me veteran screen actor and husband of Mary Pickford. No mention was made during the trial of the $50,000 alienation of affections suit filed against young Fairbanks last March 18 by Jorgen Dletz, young Danish chemist Dietx accused Fairbanks of stealing the love of Dietz' wife, Solveig, who since has been divorced. Having entered a default, Fairbanks was not present to hear his smartly dressed, but obviously nervous wife tell of their quarrels and differences over what she said was his attitude toward her friends and his questions as to her whereabouts and doings when she was! out of his sight.

COTTON SOFT TISSUE IOOO SWRo noi ike usual 650 Nancy Torres, screen actress from Mexico, told Los Angelas police of being kidpaped and severely beaten. She escaped from her abductors and found refuge on a doorstep in Pacific Palisades. (Associated Press PhotQl i 1000 Eleventh Altoone.

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