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THE WEATHER GoamnV Mr. nMn la wata wtloa FrfcUn salareay weatiraU nla aai 2 ILILM It MM Is aMatiat WE DOOU PART A nOOBODS KBUfaPATEB Of A ntOGKKSSIVE TKKBITOBT PHONE 8181 ALTOONA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1934 Altoona't 1 PRICE TWO CENTS TTtT. A 7.AV ILK 1) ii a i ii mi mm 1 1 Three of Gang Caught 7,000 Freight Gars May Be 1 Arrested In CWA Graft Probe Gunmen Seized Before They Draw Pistols Built Here A check for $6,990,000 Railroad yesterday as the first installment of the $77,000,000 loan approved January 1, calling for, among other things, construction of 7.000 new freight cars in Altoona. This announcement was of the department of toona last mght by the Associated Press. (Iff ''''X Takes Fifth' Husband I lit Jill A Women's Clue May Lead To Kidnapers9 Lair Say They Saw Abduction Of Bremer, Give Information That May Result In Solution Of Case ST, PAUL, Jan.

25 (JP) Another anonymous note, written perhaps by the kidnap gang holding Edward G. Bremer, wealth St. Paul president and owner of a bank for ransom, was tossed into the grab bag of meager clues in the case today. It was mailed in St. Paul but to whom the police would not say.

They only disclosed it was addressed to a friend of the missing man and his father, Adolph Bremer. It was reported the note, written in pencil and not signed by the captive president and owner of the Commercial State bank, urged immediate payment of the ransom. Federal Department of Justice investigators, to whom the missive was turned over, were unsure whether it was the work of a crank or came from the gang. They planned to compare Its penman-(Contlnurd on Puce 11) Factor's Wife Testifies Against Touhy Gangsters CHICAGO, Jan. 25.

(JP) The small town police who arrested Roger Touhy and three of his "bad men" and the young wife who waited and, worried for 12 days while John Factor was held by kidnapers testified today in Illinois' attempt to send four Touhy gangsters to the electric Wads of currency taken from pockets by Elkhorn, police, pistols and a rifle taken from his car, tape and bandages found in i his possession, we.ee piled on a table as evidence. The tape and bandages were for use, the state contended, in blindfolding kidnap victims. Mrs. Factor, slim, youthful blonde, testified that the kidnapers drove her almost to distraction. A voice over the telephone once told her, she said, that her husband was being starved, and ordered her to forfeit $200,000 for his release.

Department of justice agents arrested Laurette Hasker (left) and Mrs. Emily Paddleford in Los Angeles on charges of conspiracy to defraud the federal government through "arranging" and charging "brokerage fees" or "commissions" to truck owners in return for giving the truckers CWA work orders. (Associated Press Photo) CWA Graft Charges In 45 States To Be Sifted WASHINGTON, Jan. graft in the civil works organization, coming from all but three states, tonight were under the scrutiny of a corps of public works administration investigators. LATE NEWS FLASHES Monetary Bill Is Assailed By Republicans program Call "Unconstitu tional" And "Robbery By Conservatives; Infla tion Battle Plans Fade WASHINGTON, Jan.

25 (JP) How much tax shall be paid was coupled today on Capitol hill with the question of the amount of gold that shall be behind the dollars it is paid in. The chances are that the person whosa income is under $7,000 will pay less tax; the' one who gets more than that will pay more. The screws probably will be twisted down a few notches on corpora tions and interests that in the past have managed to squirm out from under a good share of the burden. These decisions were made by the house ways and means com mittee in a day that saw much verbal flailing back and forth in the senate over the administra tion's monetary bill. "Unconstitutional" and "robbery" were some of the epithets thrown atthe bill by Republican conser vatives.

Democratic leaders said it was unconstitutional as the flex ible provisions of the tariff law and that the authority it delegated was similar to that which the tariff law put in the hands of the President There was pushing and tug ging by Democratic leaders to clear the way for th- monetary bill to go sliding to enactment by early next week at the latest Plans to press for a vote 'on mandatory inflation were dropped by Senator Borah (R-Ida) because of too little support but a silver test wiU be demanded by Wheeler (D-Mont). In the house plans were made for opening hearings tomorrow on bills to upr new federal" au thority would control the issuance of money. Secretary Wallace, meanwhile, i threw out the proposed packers agreement that had been presented. He said it was not likely to provide higher prices for the producer. He arranged, however, for another meeting Monday.

In another quarter. Attorney Gen eral Cummings demanded a deeper (Continitd Pscc 11) Charges Pa. Liquor Stores Nullified Dry Repeal PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25. (JP) Judge Eugene C.

Bonniwell of municipal court, said today that state control of liquor nuts cons oacK in the money and the bootlegger back in the saddle." Addressing a meeting of the Roxborough-Manayunk Lions' club. the jurist declared that the set ting up of state liquor stores nul lified the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and set aside the will of the voters of Pennsylvania who voted against prohibition 4 to 1 "The state stores with their high prices are this very day compet ing with the bootlegger who under sells them, Judg Bonniwell stated The bootlegger is back with us stronger than ever." Johnson Hits Eploitation WORCESTER, Jan. 25 (JP) General Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, tonight charg ed that 90 per cent of the com plaints that small business concerns were or may be oppressed by large ones came from establishments which said that "to survive they must exploit their workers." Johnson made it clear that code authorities would prevent any such oppression. The administrator spoke before a huge gathering in the municipal auditorium at the annual banquet of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce.

With his secretary. Miss Frances M. Robinson, and Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, he flew to Boston this morning and completed the journey to Worcester by automobile. "The line has been drawn at unjustifiable exploitation and we must continue to draw it," Johnson said.

"This act must be executed in sympathy and common sense, but the very fundamental of its purpose is that a unit that cannot live except by exploitation shall no longer be preserved. Regional differences of living costs, the higher costs in larger cities, exceptional cases of honest hard ship, all these are recognized." The other ten per cent of complaints, the administrator continued, came from the effect of price stabilization and otffer regulatory practices. These were being examined, he said, and true exploitation would be stopped. For this purpose, he added, the Presl-'Ccntlnacd rstt RAILROADER TOO SOCIABLE ERIE, Jan. 25.

(JP) Two girls and a young man were detained as suspects tonight while police investigated a report by Edward Logan, a railroader, that he was robbed of $800 and a $79 pay check. On his return from work, Logan said, two girls stopped hint and asked that he buy them a drink. A moment later two youths dragged him into an alley, beat him and fled with his money, he said. Notorious Mobsmen Fall Into Police Trap In Tucson; $10,000 In Cash Found On Prisoners TUCSON, Jan. 25 (Falling into a police trap, the asserted chief and three members of the notorious John Dillinger gang of Chicago were seized in dramatic fashion by Tucson officers today.

Found at different parts of the city, Charles Markley, 50, Russell Clark, 89, and Harry Pierpont, 81, were taken almost simultaneously in a bloodless coup, but were landed behind the bars only after attempts had been made by two of them to wield pistols. A few hours later John Dillinger, master of the- gang that ia wanted for murder, an array of midwestern bank robberies, an escape from the Indiana state prison and jail delivery in Ohio, stepped into the police trap and, although armed, was taken without a fight. Arrested with Makley, Clark and Pierpont were two women. One gave her name at Opal Long. The other first said she was Mrs.

Pierpont, but later was identified by police as Mary Kinder. The -officers said they believed the Kinder woman was wanted in Chicago City, Indiana, on a murder charge. A woman also accompanied Dillinger and both were taken immediately to police headquarters. More than $10,000 in cash, four machine guns and other weapons were seized by the raiders. Makley, Clark, and Pierpont had been sought on murder and robbery charges since they and seven other prisoners shot their way out of the Michigan City, penitentiary lest September 26.

All are wanted on' ''first degree murder charges at Lima, for the slaying of Sheriff Jess Sarber (Continued on Page 11) Girl Believed Kidnaped Merely Visiting Friend BOSTON, Jan. 25. (JP) Lorraine Anita Hewey, 15, object of an intense police search after her parents received a letter saying she was in the hands of a "crazy" man and would be killed, tonight was found at the home of a girl friend. The girl, who disappeared 10 days ago after leaving the home of her sister, Mrs. Irene Small, in Nor wood, was found at the home of Matthew J.

Daly, father of Mollie Daly, the chum, in Norwood. Lorraine said she had intended living with the Dalys until she got a job. POOLED INSURANCE BUFFALO, N. Jan. 25.

(JP) An insurance agreement by 100 men in various parts of the country, un der which each took out X) life policies with the understanding that if any died within hve years a querter of the insurance was to be used to pay premiums for the living was called a "gambling transaction" and unenforceable in supreme court today. Four Arrested In Lynching HAZARD, Ky, Jan. 25. (JP) Four arrests were made and more were predicted by Perry county officials tonight as they pressed their investigation of the lynching of a Negro slayer of a coal miner last night. Murder warrants were sworn out against three miners, Lee Gibson, 37; Andy Workman, 30, and Petle Carroll, 38.

Another, James Collins, 32, was held on orders of County Judge A. M. Gross. A special grand jury was ordered by Circuit Judge Sam Ward to convene Monday. "We have some good information, 'but can't talk about it yet," was all that Judge Gross would say, further than that there would be no formal inquiry until the grand jury met.

There-are some 800 Negroes in Hazard, a town of around 7,000 population in the center of a coal mining district, and threats of retaliation for the lynching were heard. Commenting, Judge Gross said "Those threats came to nothing and there'll be no trouble." Meanwhile, telegrams poured in upon Governor Ruby Laffoon at Frankfort deploring the first 1934 lynching and urging him and all of the mob of 150 to 250 masked men. The Negro, Alex Scott, 20, an cx-convlct, was forcibly taken from jail last night, hanged in a mountain grave yard in adjoining Knott (Continued on Ptg 12) WOMAN DIES AT 101 PHILADELPHIA, Jen. 25. (JP) Mrs.

Ellen E. Mulhern died today at the age of 101. She had been ill four days. A physician said death was due to Infirmities' of age. was mailed to the Pennsylvania issued by Secretary Harold interior and dispatched to Al Tri-Hi-Y Leader MISS MARGUERITE M.

BORDER Central State Girls Meet State Official To Attend Tri-Hi-Y Club Sessions At Tyrone Tomorrow TYRONE, Jan. 25 C. H. Hum phrey, general secretary of the Tyrone YMCA. announces that the Annual Older Girls' Tri-Hi-Y club conference will meet at the Pres byterian church in Tyrone Saturday, with registration at 8:30 o'clock.

This conference will be under the personal direction of Lewis S. Erlckson, secretary of the South Mountain and South West districts of Pennsylvania, who will be assisted by the state women and girls' work secretary, Mrs. Lillian B. Fierstone of Wilmerding, Pa. The following officers and lead ers will participate in the work of the conference: Miss Grace Rep- horn, faculty adviser and leader of the Somerset township High school of Friedens; Miss Gertrude Gar-man, president of the Tri-Hi-Y Club at Tyrone; Miss Mae Williams, president of the Tri-Hi-Y club of Barnesboro, Miss Sara Greene of the club at Roaring Spring; Miss Elsie White will talk on developing a club program.

Miss White is a teacher in the East Mc- Keesport High school. Miss Ber tha Kruger will speak on vocational guidance, taking as her subject (Coatiaac on Pie It) Altoonan Owns One Of First Time Tables One of the earliest American railway time tables, printed Jan uary 25, 1838 and 96 years old yes terday, is in the possession of Guy Matte rn, 330 Fourth avenue. Altoona. Illustrated with reproductions of the puny engines and top-heavy carriage-like passenger coaches of the day, and with the advertising matter written in the somewhat pompous style of the period, the old time-table stands out in sharp contrast to modern schedules. It was issued by T.

G. McCul-loh, then president of the newly-organized but later historic Cumberland Valley railroad, running from Chambersburg to Harrisburg. The old advertisement stating with obvious pride that the little trains would begin operation, is especially interesting in its revelation of the uncertainty of early passenger schedules. The placard, which has been in the possession of Mr. Mattern for about 30 years, is in excellent preservation considering its age.

The text follows: "Cumberland Valley Railroad. On the first day of February next the regular train of passenger cars will commence running dally as follows: "Leave Chambersburg at Four o'clock in the morning, arrive Harrisburg at ft at Lancaster at 12 and at Philadelphia, before 6 p. m. "Returning. it will leave Har- (CMllaaee Pit AGREE ON TRICE UNIONTOWN.

Jan. Meeting behind closed doors, representatives of the operators and the 700 striking miners at the Isabella mine of the Welrton Coal company tonight agreed upon a truce until 10 a. m. tomorrow. I I So direct did.

the news come to Altoona that F. G. Grimshaw, man ager of the Altoona Works, had not yet been informed. While presag- tag government action in Altoona's favor Mr. Grimshaw had not appraised that a check was on its way to the Pennsylvania railroad In touch with the general off i- ces of the Pennsylvania railroad at Philadelphia last night.

The Tribune learned that nearly seven million 'dollars is to be distributed between Altoona, Harrisburg and Pittsburg. Before sending the Pennsylvania money, Secretary Ickes asked his legal division for an opinion as to whether legislation passed by the Pennsylvania legislature had overcome the state's constitutional difficulties in securing public works allotments. This opinion was requested after Governor Pinchot had forwarded to Washington $14, 000,000 of state projects, calling at tention to the enabling legislation. It was generally believed that this (Continaed Pace 11) Disabled American Vets Open Convention Today HARRISBURG, Jan. 25.

(JP) Business sessions of the fourth an nual convention of the Disabled American Veterans, department of Pennsylvania, begin tomorrow with state officer of both the American Legion anJL the. Veterans of Foreign Wars as principal speakers. More than 900 delegates from all parts of the state attended get-together entertainments tonight State officers are Robert J. Do ran, WIlkes-Barre, state, commander; Harry J. Cross, Sharon, senior vice commander; Harold E.

Beck, Altoona, junior vice commander. WILL ROGERS: CLAREMORE, Jan. 25 The old homing pigeon flew back to its nest today crossed Arizona, New Mexico and Tex-, as last night, sleep all the way, Fort Worth for breakfast. Am on Carter meets all planes and sells tickets for the big Roosevelt ball Tuesday night I bet Fort Worth raises more money for that splendid cause than any city five times its size. Bill Murray has taken good care of the old state since I been gone.

In California we had forgotten there was such a thing left as a bootlegger, but back in these states, Okla Texas, and they, are thicker than CWA workers. Tours, BILL. Jail Cleanup Follows Raid NEW YORK Jan: 25 (JP) Fourteen hundred inmates of Welfare Island prison were forced to eat scanty and cold food. Commissioner Austin H. MacCormick disclosed today, while the other 200 cooked steaks and chops over blazing books from the prison library.

The new commissioner, driving ahead with -his investigation that started with a surprise raid on the penitentiary, ordered steam tables built quickly so that all the prisoners could enjoy as nourishing food as the gang overlords who he said had been running the prison. He stopped virtually all communication with the island, held the prison "favorites" In solitary confinement placed drug addicts in the hospital, and kept at his cell-by-cell search that netted additional narcotics and weapons. MacCormick said be would remain on the island two or three days. Meanwhile. U.

S. Attorney Martin Conboy conferred with Frank L. Igoe. supervising federal narcotic agent to determine whether the federal government, could take action on the discovery of quantities of drugs in yesterday's raid. Sixty-eight associates of Joie Rao, described as the gang' czar of the prison, were segregated in cells with their leader, as were the subordinates of Eddie Cleary, head of another prison faction.

These men, MacCormick said, had enjoyed the ran of the Island, kept carrier pigeons, and lived omfortably in the prison hospi-(Contine4 Psge 11) WOULD AID POSTAL CLERKS WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (JP) Declaring thousands of substitute mail carriers and post office clerks and laborers were not re-'Ceiving living wages, Representative Griffin (D-NY) tonight prepared an amendment to the treasury-post office appropriation bill which would guarantee them a minimum of $15 a week. TWO KILLED IN CRASH GREENSBCRG, Jan. 25.

Two persons were killed and half a dozen Injured in a collision of an automobile and a bus near Greensburg late tonight The dead are Robert Hamburg, son of the late John S. Hamburg, former Westmoreland county poor director, and his companion, a young woman whose name was not immediately learned. PAULINE FREDERICK Noted Actress Weds Soldier Pauline Frederick Bride Of Col. Maraion, Command er Of 16th U. S.

Infantry NEW YORK, Jan. 25 Governor's Island dropped its mili tary routine this afternoon to welcome the first bride of senior army officer in many years, and the bride was none other than Pauline Frederick, the actress. Miss Frederick and Col. Joseph A. Marmon, commander of the 16th (Continued on Page 11) Half And Half Blllee Seward, who recently arrived In Hollywood from Philadelphia for film work, Introduced a new fad to members of the film colony when she appeared wearing stockings half black and half white.

ji Ii. 25. (A. Complaints of Forty Eight 'Wfeck'To Blair Voiture Entertains Voyageurs Of 10 Coun ties In Legion More than 300 ajembers de la Grande Voiture, La Societe des 40 Homines et 8 Chevaux, will attend the southwest district depart ment of Pennsylvania, "wreck" in this city today. The Blair voiture will be the host and the voyageurs will meet at the home- of the Charles R.

Rowan post No. 228 at 7:30 o'clock tonight for a parade through the business district up Eleventh avenue to Bridge street which will be one of the principal features of the gathering here. Voyaguers from 10 counties, com prising the southwest district will be here today. The counties Include Blair, Cambria, Bedford, Fayette, Westmoreland, Indiana, Somerset Huntingdon, Centre. Plans have been formed by the Blair members for an entertainment program for the visitors.

Matthias A. Welter, grand chef de gare, of Scranton, is expected to attend. Other officers expected are Salvatore Canzalerio, Pittsburg, Jimmy Playfair and John Hummel, cheminots. The Charles R. Rowan post held its monthly meeting last night in the post home.

The gathering was featured by the inauguration of plans for the local post's annual Flag day celebration here in June. Dr. D. Kaufman was appointed general chairman of the Flag day celebration, a position he has held for the last several years. The reception committee was named as follows: Harry Slep, Dr.

John Galbraith, Frank Hennaman. Publicity committee: John Wei-dley and J. V. Taylor; fireworks, and drum corps competition at the Maple avenue field, Frank Toole, Dr. M.

A. Wolfberg; fi-(Cratlnaei 11) Both Field In Huff Paris, and watched from a distance, shivering, like the others, in a raw morning wind. Hesse just escaped 'a bullet wound in the right shoulder when Beineix fired the fourth and last shot. The fight was over the editor's article criticizing Hesse for acting as a lawyer for the late Serge Sta-visky, founder of the Bayonne municipal pawnshop, which collapsed with a loss of (40,000,000 to investors. Duelling is unlawful in France but neither the police nor the courts are likely to act, since it is customary to ignore such encounters unless they result In deaths.

The result was not satisfactory, the duellists said. Instead of shaking hands, as is customary, they stalked off with their attendants. (Cratlmes oa Pi 11) i day The division of investigation of the public works organization was requested by the civil works ad ministration to sift out the 150 charges of graft ami other irregu larities that had come either to the Interior department or to the White House and had been turned over to Secretary Ickes. In the main, the complaints in volved charges of unjust discrim ination in the selection of civil workers, but there also existed a scattering of charges of padded payrolls, falsification of expense ac counts and in a few instances ac tive job selling. Legal experts of the government said laws already existed for pros ecution of all the complaints ex cept unjust discrimination and that it was possible further study would uncover a statute relating to that The New England states of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine were reported to be the only ones from which graft complaints had not been received.

Of these 150 complaints, it was disclosed, not more than 15 had been turned over by the Depart ment of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan said there were not more than three complaints in his office in connec tion with the public works administration. The public works investigation (Continued on Pate 11) CWA Worker Slips, Falls Three Stories; Uninjured CLARION, Jan. 25.

JP) Benjamin Cyphert 65, a CWA worker doing a painting job inside the county court house, slipped from a scaffolding today and fell three stories to the tile floor below. Fellow workers said the aged man dropped through a narrow space between the succeeding flights of stairs where there was scarcely room for a man's body to pass. They picked him up and rushed him to a physician. Other physicians were called In to study the case. Tonight they scratched their heads and announced: "We can't find a thing wrong with him." Asked how he felt, Cyphert grinned and said "Why I'm all right" French Duellists Miss, Leave PARIS, Jan.

25. (JP) Two prominent Frenchmen sought "satisfac tion by arms" today in a huge football stadium, fired four small and ineffectual bullets at each other, and stalked away, still angered by a dispute over the Bayonne pawnshop scandal. Deputy Andre Hesse and John Belneix, a lawyei and editor, faced each other at 32 yards in the Pare Des Princes within the shadow of gaunt goalposts. Both wore black, but eschewed the tophats prescribed by tradition In favor of derbies which they tipped before the encounter. Thirty seconds, doctors, and friends were present at the duel, which occurred before 20,000 empty seats.

Uninvited newspapermen and photographers scaled the walls of the stadium, on the outskirts of Two Killed In Train Wreck READING, Jan. 25 (JP) The engineer and fireman of a Reading company Harrisburg-to-New York express were killed tonight, as the flier crashed into an automobile stalled on a crossing at Blandon. The engine and baggage car were tossed on their sides, and a coach was derailed but no passengers were injured. The dead: Charles Bowman, engineman, Harrisburg. Joseph Sweigert, fireman, Harrisburg.

Both were dead when ambulances arrived at Reading hospitals. Physicians said they had been scalded and injured internally and probably died instantly. The automobile, driven by Sylvester B. Hess of Reading, stalled on the tracks. Hess, arrested by state highway patrolmen, was held in $1,000 bail on an open charge.

Witnesses said the driver leap-, ed from' his seat and ran down the tracks waving his arms in an attempt to warn the express. The engineer apparently applied the emergency brakes, witnesses said, but was unable to stop the train before it struck the automobile. The machine was dragged 200 feet and fell free as the engine toppled. 100 PER CENT MONOPOLY WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.

(JP) The Aluminum Company of America, described by Attorney General Cummings as a "100 per cent monopoly" in the production of aluminum, is being re-investigated by the department of justice. r..