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Finance Section R. R. News Sports Section Comics Magazine 2 WE DO OUR PART NEWS OF THE THEATERS HARRISBURG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Mines Operate on Holiday to Meet Demand for Coa Steagall and Schnader Enjoy ChatBefoYe Addressing Bankers 50,000 Workers Forego Washington Observance As Cold Booms Orders FRAUD CHARGES ARE NOT PROVED, BROWN CLAIMS By United Prest WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Former Postmaster General Walter F.

Brown today told Senate airmail investigators his handling of airmail contracts had the approval of former President Hoover. G.O.P.IS FLAYED IN LETTER SENT BY LABOR HEADS Representatives of 500,000 mostly among the laboring classes, called on the Republican State Committee today to outline its stand on social problems before the 1934 elections. The open letter to the committee members listed eighteen questions on which answers were demanded, and urged their incorporation in the Republican party platform. "We have had too many broken Illness Force 8 Stars From Hollywood Scene' URGES RETURN TO PRINCIPLES OF WASHINGTON By Vnited Preti WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.

A return to the principles of George Washington was urged today by Secretary of War George H. Dera. Speaking at Memorial Continental Hall under the auspices of a number of patriotic societies on the 202d anniversary of Washington's birth, Dern cited Washington's advice, in his farewell address, in favor of "reasonable preparedness," but said this did not mean the United States should maintain "an overgrown military establishment." In appealing for a return to the principles of liberty for which Washington fought, Dern said this was the brand of liberty that spells equal opportunity for all. on the realm of international relations, Dern said war or peace is made by public opinion, rather than by rulers of the nations. And public opinion, he said, is moulded largely by the newspapers, either through the manner in which they report the news or through their editorial columns.

rl a. r0 i Representative Henry B. Steagall, of Alabama, (left), chairman of the House Committee on Banking, who spoke to Group 5 of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association today in the Penn-Harris Hotel, Is shown talking to Attorney General William A. Schnader, another speaker. Flute Soloist for, Orchestra Concert I 4 7 1 1 I AM A 0 a International Xewn Service POTTSVILLE, Feb.

22. Heeding the call of operators, approximately 50,000 miners in the lower anthracite field today abandoned their usual observance of Washington's Birthday as a legal holiday to report for work. All companies in this section, large and small, appealed to their workers to be at their posts today in an effort to meet unusually heavy demands for coal resulting from the severe cold spell. Operators, flooded with orders such as they have not experienced in years, posted working schedules together with messages calling upon the men to work. 'We are especially anxious to have all our mines operate today so we can continue to fill the orders which an unusually cold winter is providing," said a statement from John R.

Sharp, general manager of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Other companies issued similar statements. The general call was welcomed by the miners, most of whom have been working spasmodically. A long period of steady employment in the mines in this region was also foreseen. MT.

CARMEL, Feb. 22. A double shift of 450 men was in effect today at the Colonial colliery of the Madeira Hill and Company as a result of the continued demand for coal. WILKES-BARRE, Feb. than fifty collieries in the Wyoming Valley were scheduled to continue operations today as operators discarded the usual observance of Washington's Birthday to meet heavy demands for anthracite.

TOWN OPPOSES PLAN TO REMOVE STATION AGENT PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. Arthur Bagshaw, Pennsylvania Railroad station agent at suburban Glen Loch Jn Chester County, stood revealed today as that community's most indispensable citizen. And the 200 residents of Glen Loch were on record as opposed to any change which would mean Bagshaw's removal. Bagshaw's vital importance to the community was disclosed at a Public Sen-ice Commission hearing on the Pennsylvania Railroad's application for permission to make Glen Loch a non-agent station.

Appearing for the town's citizens, R. H. Reilly, a securities broker, and Charles W. Shiner, principal of the Farm School, told the commission that Bagshaw runs all sorts of errands; summons the police, ambulances and fire wagons when needed; awakens the town druggist at night when some resident needs medicine, and even looks after children when their mothers are away. Reilly, whose office is in Philadelphia, said that Glen Loch husbands feel that their families are safe and secure while they are away on business "as long as Bagshaw is there." The commission promised sympathetic consideration of Glen Loch's plea.

Bishop Orders Flock To Ignore Sally Rand OMAHA, Feb. 22. Sally Rand her famous fans will go on exhibition at a local theater tomorrow, but Catholics of the Omaha diocese are under injunction of the church to remain away. In a pastoral letter by Bishop Joseph F. Rummel, Catholics were forbidden "under pain of "grievous sin" to attend the show.

Protestant ministers recently named a committee to investigate objectional theatricals, and it was expected they would support the bishop's stand. Ralph D. Goldberg, theater manager, said the show would go on as planned. He invited Bishop Rummel to attend and see that the fan dance was "purely artistic." Flees With $30,000 in Diamonds WILKES-BARRE, Feb. 22.

Police today had found no trace of the unidentified man who snatched up two trays of diamond rings valued at $30,000 and fled from the jewelry store of Jerome Mey ers and Sons yesterday afternoon after posing as a customer. The man fled with the rings when Nat Meyers, a member of the firm, left the counter for a few minutes to get a special ring, according to police. By United WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Walter F.

Brown, postmaster-general under former President Hoover, told the Senate airmail investigating committee today that it had failed to obtain evidence of fraud in airmail contract awards in his administration. He charged the committee was "obscuring the issue" with testimony relating to the private affairs of his "old friends." Brown appeared incensed at Chairman Hugo L. Black's attempts to inquire into the banking transactions of the lata Joseph P. Bagley, Brown's close friend and business assistant. Bagley was Washington representative for several companies that obtained Government construction contracts.

COLLECTIONOF INCOME TAX IS SHOWING GAINS By United WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Business improvement together with aggressive tax collection methods have caused an encouraging rise in the Treasury's income tax collections. Those collections, with revenue from liquor and other sources, are helping the Government to meet the unprecedented recovery costs. For the first time in many months, income tax collections are running substantially ahead of the corresponding period of last year.

Current collections are for the calendar year 1933 and are expected to continue to grow with the approach of the March 15 deadline. Income tax collections so far in February amount to against $14,762,389 in the corresponding period of last year. These collections have brought income tax revenue so far this fiscal year to $355,358,691 or within striking distance of the collection of $373,626,713 in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. Miscellaneous internal revenue collections rose from $48,385,532 in the first nineteen days of February, 1933, to $86,129,014 this year. Customs receipts rose from $10,786,380 to $16,148,034.

Mrs. Pinchot to Speak At Weirton Saturday Bv United Preti WEIRTON, W. Feb. 22. Mrs.

Cornelia Price Pinchot. wife of Pennsylvania's Governor, will address a rally here of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Union Saturdav night, it was announced today by William J. Long, union president. EIGHT VICTIMS OF FIRE BURIED International Kcc Service BROOKVILLE, Feb. 22.

Deep in mourning, residents of this boroueh bent their heads in sorrow and prayer today as the bodies of eight aged women victims of the fire that swept the Pennsylvania Memorial Home Infirmary, were borne to their resting place. Streets were lined with sympathetic mourners as the bodies in individual caskets were taken from an undertaking parlor to the Brook-ville Presbyterian Church. Funeral services were conducted by the Brookville Ministerial Association with members of the local American Legion Post acting as pallbearers. The bodies of two other victims Mrs. Florence Roberts, 84, Pleasant-ville, and Mrs.

Helen Setley, 76, Tionesta, also were being at their homes by relatives. Those buried here were: Mrs. Mary Gannon, 80, Sunbury; Mrs Christie Bobst, 74, Reading; Mrs. Mary Narvin, 81, Verona; Miss Iva Perry, 76. Grove City; Miss Martha Moore, 74, Baxter; Mrs.

Jennie Showers, 94, Reynoldsville; Miss Mida Crompton, 68, Scranton, and Mrs. Elizabeth Loveland, 76, Moscow. P. R. R.

Retired Men Hear Local Minister The Rev. Dr. A. S. Fasick.

pastor of Camp Curtin Methodist Episcopal Church, spoke on George Washington to about seventy-five members of the Retired Men's Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia Division, at a luncheon meeting this afternoon at the Hoffman House, Fifth and Market streets. S. E. Elitt, of Sunbury, vice-president of the association, presided.

promises." the letter read, ana we are not going to stand for another. You are hereby requested to give clear and open answers, without any evasion to the demands of the persons represented by the signers of this letter." The eigners were: John A. Phillips, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor; Stephen Raushenbush, secretary of the Pennsylvania Security League, and four members of the Co-operative Board of Railroad Brotherhoods, George Rowand, trainmen; M. W. McCarty, engineers; James A.

Fox. fitemen, and W. A. Major, conductors. Assemblymen Criticized Republican members of the General Assembly were charged with having spent "the best part of their time fighting our program" and fome county committeemen were alleged to be members of the State of Commerce and the Manufacturers' Association "which have consistently fought that program." "They have consistently fought the attempt to inaugurate the new deal in Pennsylvania," the letter read.

"They have frustrated it at almost every point. "Any failure of the new deal in Pennsylvania can be laid in part at the doors of some cf your conspicuous members, who have given aid and comfort to those who maintained that Pennsylvania not only has been, but always would be a State controlled by special privilege. The NRA codes are openly violated and evaded. Charge NRA Violations "The provisions for collective bargaining and real unions are for the most part quietly ignored. Compli ance boards were sei up Dy ine Chamber of Commerce, which boasted of the way Speaker Talbot nicked House committees to kill bills.

"The NRA in Pennsylvania has been put and kept in the hands of its enemies. A very considerate portion of those enemies are in your camp." Republican State Committeemen were called upon to refuse support to all candidates for State or National offices "who are personally, financially or politically tied up with the forces which so far have been successful in weakening the NRA," or who do not have the confidence of the laboring class. The letter criticised the Pennsylvania Civil Works program for "using considerable money for luxuries such as landscapes, bridlepaths and airports." and asked support for the establishment of a State employment authority to produce necessities for the unemployed. SANDINO KILLED WITH TWO AIDES From Page One and a child of 10 were killed when fuardsmen attacked the home of linister of Agriculture Sofonias Salvetierra. President Juan B.

Sacasa publicly denounced the killings as acts of lawlessness and asked Congress for the necessary powers to establish order. Don Gregorio Sandino, father of the dead general and Minister Sal-vatirra were with Sandino and his two aides when they were shot and were taken prisoner by the guardsmen, but were later released. The death of Sandino at the hands of the national guard was ironic, for he had made peace with the government and the guard only a year ago after a seven-year struggle against both, culminating in the withdrawal of the United States Marines last January. Class Will Commemorate Birthday Anniversary of Mrs. Henry B.

McCormick The birthday anniversary of Mrs. Henry B. McCormick will be commemorated by the Mrs. Henry B. McCormick Men's Bible Class of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church as part of the Sunday School session next Sunday morning.

The anniversary occurs on February 28 but the class observance will be held Sunday. The last lesson prepared by Mrs. McCormick before her death will be taught by Henry B. McCormick, the teacher of the class. Others who will speak briefly will be the Rev.

Dr. C. Waldo Cherry, pastor of the church; Harry W.Keeny, assistant superintendent of the Sunday School; J. Wilmer Burkepile, C. Sherman Garrett and Frank J.

Consylman, three members of the class. Last year the attendance at the special service was 301. As part of the service, the favorite hymn of Mrs. McCormick will be sung. Within a month of her death, Mrs.

McCormick had completed forty years as a Sunday School teacher of the class which she founded. INQUIRY OPENED INTO PRICES OF WHISKY AND GIN WASHINGTON, Feh. White House backing, the Federal Alcohol Control Administration today started delving into the costs of manufacturing whisky and gin under existing conditions. The FACA called up all distillers and rectifiers to submit on on their costs and other information relative to the industry. Washington has been deluged with complaints over the high prices for good liquor, and charges have been made that the manufacturers are taking advantage of the situation to "gouge" the consuming public.

The FACA proposes to go into the primary costs, under the law, the distillers and rectifiers have to open their books to Government inspection upon demand. The call today was for the manufacturers to supply the FACA by March 10 with not only cost figures, but "other data covering the fermentation, distillation, ageing, and rectification" of whisky and gin. $20,000 CARGO OF SILK STOLEN PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. Five armed men today hijacked a consignment of silk, valued at bound from Burlington, N.

to New York in a truck and trailer. The hijacking was staged one mile west of suburban Chester. While Thomas Faucett, driver'3 assistant, slept unnoticed in a rear compartment of the trailer, the five thugs leaped aboard the truck and overpowered the driver, French Jfolt. With Holt their custody. the gunmen drove around Chester streets and to Prospect Park where the driver was thrown out.

A few hours after the hijacking the truck and trailer were found parked on a Philadelphia street. The entire silk cargo, with the exception of two boxes, had been re moved. ARREST 14 IX RAIDS McKEESPORT, Feb. no- Iice raids in the McKeesoort-Brad dock-North Braddock District today resulted in fourteen persons being neia on cnarges or. operating lot teries.

WASHINGTON. Feb. yesterday afternoon to see what the, boys who live by the ballot box are They're busy as usual passing appropriation bills like hot biscuits at a country farmhouse. Saw the Senate vote full pay back to Government employes, so the old Government is not so tough to work for at that Many another fellow would like to be able to get what he used to. Went into the airmail investigation.

Mr. Black had been asking Mr. Brown questions since early Monday morning. That's about the longest any man has ever had to think up answers, but they was both doing it so friendly and nice you would think they room together. Snowed here, but you can't see the ground for the lobbyists.

Nighttime is when you find out the news, so I will know more by tomorrow. Yours, ELISSA LAN'DI A CLAUDETTE COLBERT Copyright. 1034. by V'nitea Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22.

Illness forced two actresses from the Hollywood scene today. After undergoing a minor opera tion for sinus trouble. Claudette Col bert departed for Palm Springs to recuperate. She expects to be away two weeks. Elissa Landi was confined to her home in Santa Monica, suffering from a severe attack of tonsilitis.

Her illness disrupted the production schedule of her picture. SLATE-MAKING STIGMA IS FEAR From Page One and that it is going to "win in November with a harmony ticket." Despite protestations of leaders that the Republicans will insist on the principle of an. "open primary" Martin himself said in so many words that the Old Guard group will stand back of United States Senator Reed for re-election. There are those who think more concrete evidences than mere talk against hand-picked slate making are needed to persuade the rank and file that Republican harmony has been restored and that an open primary is to result. Experience has shown, they point out, that too much "harmony" in the past gave the State too many hand-picked Republican slates.

Even the Philadelphia Inquirer, Republican, is dubious about the harmony shouts. To quote from one of its editorials today, it said in part: "In this connection, let it be said again the Philadelphia organization should take steps immediately to effect a drastic reorganization. It will get nowhere until it has repudiated the absentee landlordism of William S. Vare and has reformed its methods. There must be a thorough housecleaning.

This is a particularly good time to start, because the ward committeemen are elected at the May primaries. Organization reform can be facilitated by a proper selection of men for these posts." 15 AUTOMOBILES BURN ni vnited rr PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. Fifteen automobiles were burned and mechanical equipment was wrecked when fire swept through a garase here last night. The damage wa-estimated at $15,000.

Vi INVESTIGATOR FRENCH BANKING SCANDAL SLAIN By United PARIS, Feb. 22. Ugly charges of murder by a hastily-organized political Mafia were made today while police investigated the death of Magistrate Albert Prince, judicial financial investigator who almost alone knew the secrets of the Stavisky banking scandal. The Stavisky scandal almost caused a revolution. Lured by a false telegram to Dijon, Trince was found dead on the railway tracks there, his legs were bound, and a dagger and a woman's powder puff were nearby.

It was accepted that he was murdered to prevent disclosure of evidence he held that it is believed would have meant political ruin to many high politicians, including former cabinet members. He was to have testified today before a commission of magistrates at the Palis de Justice, Sat urday before the newly-constituted parliamentary Stavisky commission, and next week before a committee of magistrates at Bayonne, where Alexandre Stavisky operated the bank through which he defrauded investors of between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. HONOR MEMORY OF WASHINGTON From Page One clerks in the main building were given a twenty-four-hour holiday on orders of the Post Office Department at Washington. While the jobholders will return to their occupations tomorrow, the school children will remain at home, particularly grateful that the anniversary this year falls on Thursday and that the schools will not reopen tomorrow for a single day session. Banks were observing a legal holiday and the institutions were closed.

Many of the bankers utilized their opportunity by attending the annual convention of the bankers in this city. Many parties were planned for today and this evening. The Beth-El dance at the Penn-Harris Hotel is one of the feature attrac tions of the holiday entertainment lhe Russian Symphonic Choir, appearing in concert at the Forum of the State Education Building, is another highlight in the evening's program. Many smaller private parties have also been planned. LEGION ACQUIRES BUILDING CARLISLE.

Feb. 22. Carlisle Post, American Legion, formally acquired the Armory Building yesterday when the deed was filed yesterday in the Cumberland County courthouse. Mr. and Mrs.

Allan J. Stevens surrendered thed eed. SOUND BASIS FOR RECOVERY SEEN From Page One McClean, of Shippensburg, who was appointed to the council of administration. Harry S. Smeltzer, Harrisburg, was re-elected secretary-treasurer for the fifteenth year.

The following were elected- to the executive committee; Edmond W.Thomas, Gettysburg, chairman; Arthur W. Loser, Harrisburg; J. W. Staman, Columbia; C. W.

Smith, Red Lion; A. H. Benner, McAlisterville; F. S. Carmany, Myerstown; and B.

S. Dieffenbach, McVeytown. To the Federal Reserve relations committee were elected Harper W. Spong, Harrisburg, chairman; George L. Sprenkle, York, and Penrose H.

Ruhl, Lancaster, Explains Insurance Steagall explained the Federal regulations under which individual deposits up to $2500 are insured at present and after July 1 deposits up to $10,000 will be insured in full, up to $50,000 for 75 per and over $50,000 for 50 per cent. "The act," he said, "will free the banks from the strain under which they have been working for years and will preserve the banking system. It will mean the return to the bank check as currency, the mainspring of the banking system. It will aid commodity prices to rise." Dr. Harold Stonier, of New York, said that the Government, in using its credit to lend money to industry and in spending millions to stimulate business, has "definitely broken the back of the depression," but warned against too great extension of social control over industry.

He pointed to the record of achievement under the economic philosophy of individualism and laissez-faire, and said the tradition should be preserved. Defining speculation as the assumption of an economic risk absolutely basic to industry and gambling as an uneconomic risk because it does not increase real wealth, Doctor Stonier said the Government had assumed the role of speculator necessary to restore commercial confidence. Similarly, he said, confidence had been restored in past panics by private speculators, but that none was equal to the emergency created by the latest depression. Three Dangers He said that while the Govern ment action has had the desired ef- iect in checking the depression, the situation has three dangers which must be guarded against. These are that the Government might go too i heavily into debt, that political ex-' pediency might outweigh economic considerations and that the Government might assume too great control over industry and business.

Attorney General Schnader re viewed the crisis which necessitated closing of the banks in the State by proclamations last March and outlined the legislation which was subsequently enacted. The emergency Sordoni act, he said, had saved sev-1 Photn hr Hrri n4 Ewlnr. ERIC EVANS Eric Evans, flutist' of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, will be one of the soloists in the third subscription concert of the orchestra next Tuesday evening at the Forum. Evans is a pupil of Andre Ma-quarre, first flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. During the 1928-29 seasons he toured as solo flutist with John Philip Sousa.

In addition, he has been solo flutist with the Victor Herbert Orchestra, Vessela's Band, Leman's Symphony Orchestra, Steel Pier at Atlantic City, Erno Rapee Orchestra. Fox Theater, Philadelphia; Fox Theater, Washington; Mastbaum Theater Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia; Stanley Theater, Philadelphia, and Stanley Theater. Atlantic City. enty banks from closing. Of this number, since then, he said, eleven have been definitely reorganized, reorganization plans for thirty-seven more have been approved by the Banking Department and re-organization plans for three are pending.

Only nineteen have been taken into possession. Deposits in the saved banks, he said, were more than He then outlined the banking codes enacted at the 1933 session of the Legislature and amendments passed by the last special session, as a result of which, he said, "within a very few months there will be no longer be such a thing in Pennsylvania as an unsupervised bank." The most important changes, he said, were the capital and surplus requirements, which exceed those of all states bordering Pennsylvania. Urges Organization After keeping the House in an uproar for half an hour with impromptu witticisms, Daniel N. Casey secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, emphasized the need of organization to preserve the best interests of the bankers. "You're all in the army now," he said, "marching down a narrow road.

You're working under common rules and you've got to follow the sign posts. Business must be conducted with an eye on Washington. It isn't always clear, what's going on, and the only way to get any light is from organization." He reminded the bankers of the need of small industries to get loans, and the need for easing up private credit..