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342. PITTSBURGH, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1925. 1 "T- nnn lo)n I I I II I I VU II I I I I I 111 I I I I I mm mas mman Mill, I ix II IMI l) I II I I I I I I I I II I 39 Injured by Fireworks Here; 3 Shot in Day; Firemen Busy A.A.U.CHAMPIDN Put Bootlegger Taint On Special Police of HOLIDAY REVELERS PLUNGED TO DEATH; 12 BODIES. FOUND Five-Story Building Crumples Without Warning and Hurls Merrymakers Into Tangled Mass of Wreckage 25 Injured Taken Out Girl Is Pinned Against Corpse Five Hours liy Tons of Brick and Mortar Establish Field Hospital at Disaster Scene. Special Telegram to Gazette Times New York Times Service.

July 4. One of the worst disasters in the history of this city oc Westinghouse Force curred early today, when the building occupied by the Pickwick Night Club, a Chinatown resort, collapsed without warning, carrying a hundred or more merrymakers down in the ruins. Twelve bodies had been removed tonight, and probably 38 more dead remain in the ruins, police and firemen estimated. Twenty-five injured had been rescued and taken to the hospitals, andN many others are believed to have escaped and gone to their homes when the crash came. Probably 100 to 150 persons were dancing in the club at the time of the which came just before 3 a.

m. First the wall on the. South Station side of he building, bordering on a for a huge garage, buckled, trapping' and burying many in chance for escape, GOES WITHOUT WARNING. The building 'collapsed without warning. It is at No.

12 Beach street. It fell on couples one step, while others sat around A moment later pretty girls FOURTH TOLL DISTRICT BIGGEST IN MANY YEARS Two Score Victims of In dependence Day Fireworks, Mostly Boys, Treated in Hospitals. Fireworks used In celebrating: Independence Day yesterday caused mostly boys. Three persons were fctiot. i Names of injured given out at the various hospitals made up one of the largest Fourth of July casualty lists in recent "years, according: to police.

Hospital emergency rooms thoroughout the district were visited at frequent intervals by youngsters suffering from powder burns. Police reported that many physicians were called upon to attend fireworks victims. Fire alarms were rung continually. His Pipe Explodes Powder. Joseph Stammet, aged 29, of 511 Dalton street, was seriously burned on the body and hands when gunpowder he was drying ignited from a pipe he was smoking in his home.

He was taken to the St. John's General Hospital. Firemen were sum moned when the floor of the dwelling caught fire. The damage was slight Martha M. Clark, aged E.

of Belle- vue. was probably fatally burned last night when her dress ignited from a sparkler near, her 5he was Centinwd oa Fare Two, Cohumn Tata. MacMillan's Ships Set For Dash to Arctic ABOARD EXPLORERS SHIP PEART, BATTLE HARBOR. La brador. July 3.

(By Radio To Navy Department At Washington, Delayed). The Peary and Bowdoin Ehops of the MacMillan Navy jolar expedition, planned to weigh anchor here tomorrow, and make for Hopedale. Labrador, there to take on outfits of Eskimo clothes and boots for the navy flyers of the party. The Peary joined the Bowdoin, flagship of the expedition here Thursday after a stormy passage up the coast from New Foundland. The Peary twice anchored in Havens enroute, once between the Island of Fan Bote and Dreemly, and the second time at Forteay.

Labrador, because of a 45-mile gale. PAGE ONE hi; Nation Defense Test Solid jtacking Twenty Million Participate; Radio Carries Army Heads' Addresses America; Success Claim. Br Gazette TntEs Peitatr Wmi (N'ew York Tims Service.) WASHINGTON. July 4. Dwight F.

Davis, Acting Secretary of War; Gen. John L. Hines, chief of staff. Gen. John J.

Pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary forces in the World War, and W. S. Gifford. president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company tonight talked to the coun try on Defense Day through thC medium of the most pretentious pro-, gram of radio broadcasting ever undertaken. Reports were received tonight by telephone at the War Department from the nine corps area commanders testifying to the sue- cess of the national defense dem- onstration.

Defense Day was observed in apt proximately 7,000 localities and early estimates fixed 20.000,000 as the number of persons who took active part. In the broadcasting of addresses 95,000 miles of telegraph and tele-r Continnrd cn Page Two, Colnma Tm. MELLON BEVeSPARADE i SOUTHAMPTON, N. July 4. (A.

Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, who is passing the summer in Southampton, occupied a seat in the judges stand for the Fourth of July parade today. War veterans, the fire department and patriotic societies took part in the parade. to The Gazette Times objects precious to the church Jiav- been gathered. After leisurelv ran- sacking the room and selecting as booty half a dozen objects that could easily be carried away they fled.

leaving behind a rope ladder, clec- trie torch and burglar tools. Gives been holding them in their arms, tables, musical instruments-all the paraphernalia of a celebration had been turned into a charnel house. The very fingers that had a banjo were hanging by a thread, ihood they represented begged him of his pain. been PINNED AGAINST CORPSE. A pretty girl, whose cheek a moment before had rested against 3 UNA BASQUETTE, DANCER, WEBS WARNER, FILM WAN NEW YORK, July 4.

(Special.) Lina Basquette, well known dancer, and Samuel L. Warner, a VI member of the firm of War ner Brothers, 1 1 moving picture producers, were marnea here tonight, Miss a s- quette made her Broadway debut a few seasons ago in "Jack and Jill" ilia Hasqnette. and has recently been in the cast of Ziegfeld productions. It is announced" that she will continue her stage career and will appear in the summer edition of the Ziegfeld follies, which opens Monday night. N.Y.

ROBBER HITS LOCAL GIRL Rose Kline of Stanton Avenue. With Cousin, Held Up in Subway, Struck Resisting Thug. Br Gazbttb Truss FxTYtrs Wiu (New York Tiroes Service.) NEW YORK, July 4. Two yon.ig women, visitors, one a Pittsburgher, who came here for the Fourth ot July, were held up by a man in the subway passage of tho B. M.

T. Station at Thirty-second street and Broadway late thus afternoon. The screams of the women brought a crowd and two policemen and the holdup man was arrested. Miss Rose Kline. 22, of 5428 Stanton avenue, Pittsburgh, and Mrs.

Ida Levine. 26, Port Chester, N. both of whom are guests at the Hotel Pennsylvania, entered the subway kiosk near the Martinique Hotel to catch a northbound local train. As they were walking througn a long, narrow passage to the station platform a man, who afterwards de- CVntinnfd on race Thre, Golnmn Two. BRIDE'S BROTHER SUBS AT ALTAR SAN ANTONIO.

July 4. With the bride's brother, Eduardo Villela representing the absent bride groom by proxy. Miss Maria Guadalupe Villela of San Antonio was married in San Ferando Cathedral last night to Oscar Yaquiam, of Mexico City. The wedding had been set for July 2. but Yaquiam, a surgeon in the Mexican Army, was detained by the illness of his mother.

The proxy was arranged according to civil and ecclesiastic laws. SHANGHAI MOB ATTACKS JAPS SHANGHAI. July 4. (A. P.

Mobs attacked three Japanese here last nicht. The victims were rescued by Chinese police. Reports received in Shanghai state Japanese and British stores were looted yeaterday at Swatow, Kwang- tung province. "ONE-ARM" that of the man with whom she ife, lay jammed against a corpse, beams pinning her there. She was released.

Throughout today, while the lay lot that is being excavated and then the roof fell in the debris' without the slightest dancing to the strains of a jazz at tables. in flimsy frocks, men who had plucking syncopations from while the musician whose live- only that someone would relieve was dancing a dance so full of with tons of mortar and' steel there for five hours beore she rest of the town celebrated fire trying to extricate those still living in the ruin. "The Night Before the Fourth-dance was an annual affair, famous for its free and easy revelry. The celebration was at its heighth about 2 a. m.

"I had just finished playing," said Joseph Downey of Jamaic Plains, relief saxophone player, who escaped. "We had torn off the Twelfth Street Rag" Continued on Pare Two. Column Three. EXECUTIONER HAS FAT YEAR OSSING. N.

July 4. (A. John Hulbert, executioner in Sing Sing prison, completed today a banner year in the collection of fees for putting to death convicted murderers. Hulbert received a total of $2,100 for 14 executions, in addition to his salary as electrician of Auburn Prison. In the previous fiscal year he received but $750, for nine executions.

STORK HOLDS UP FORMER FOLLIES GIRLS DIVORCE SUIT MILWAUKEE. WIS, July 4. (X. Y. Times.) The stork is responsible for X.

the delay in rying the di- jfcswst vorce suit or aw Mg VOl Mr rs. Peggy lJ Conzelman. for merly Peggy Unertl, of the Ziegfeld Follies. Mrs. Con-zelman's attor-n W.

C. Zabel, had the clerk the i Circuit Court here continue the case scheduled for trial Friday, until September. Mr. Zabel said Mrs. Conzelman had not recovered sufficiently since the recent birth of a child in the East, to appear for trial.

Mrs. Conzelman is 0 and her husband, James Conzelman, Chicago song writer and professional football player, is 27. They were married in Waukegan. His, in February, 19C4. The following June his wife sued for divorce, charging non-support.

Mrs. Conzelman is a daughter of Dr. John T. Unertl of Milwaukee. Dry Law Laxity Fault, People's PinchotSays Churchgoers Leave Duty Undone, Pinchot Charges.

Secretary Mellon Bitterly Attacked in Speech. rsracui. Tbjsuic to Th Gazsttb Time. PORTLAND, July 4. Re sponsibility for open defiance of the prohibition enforcement laws rests first, "upon the citizens who have tolerated it when they could have stopped it, and next, upon the officials of our national government," declared Gov.

Gilford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, addressing the International Christian Endeavor Convention here today. "The criminal elements of our. population, aided and abetted by tens of thousands' of those who think themselves respectable, are banded together to instill disrepect for law in the souls of our people," said the Governor. "No such widespread defiance of the will of the people has ever been known in America, and no such flood of poverty, crime, disease and death has ever before flowed from such defiance." The Governor said that the greatest Cautioned an Page Thtwe, Column Three. EEDRBIA AUTO RACER KILLED ATLANTA.

GA Jury 4. (A. H. S. Taylor, Macon automobile racer, was instantly killed here Iafe today in the Fourth of July races on Lake-wood track when his car crashed through the barrier as he entered the stretch.

Independence street. West End, and had a key to the establishment. She averred that they went intc the barber shop and he ordered her to disrobe. When she refused to comply with his wishes and started toward a door, she said, Paul drew a revolver and threatened to shoot il she made an attempt to leave. Mrs.

Ada Moore of 420 Independence mother of Inspect Moore, telephoned the West End station that she had observed a woman and a patrolman in uniform enter the barber shop across tho street from her home. Wagonmen John Muck and Thonv-s Boggs went to the establishment and gained entry through a side window. As the officers entered the shop th patrolman fled through another win dow, abandoning the woman, who was arrested. 1 Police say the patrolman eluded the raiders by crossing the yard of lh St. George's Episcopal Church, ai jacent to the barber shop.

men, laborers, clergymen, doctors and nurses risked their lives ONEOFTilO Vincent Uaughey Victim of Undertow at Oak-mont Charles Bender Goes Down as Tots Look On Two men were drowned while bathing in the Allegheny River yesterday afternoon. One body was recovered. Vincent Haughey, aged 19, of 4916 Broad street, a young boxer of Law- renceville, was drowned at Oakmont about 3 o'clock. when, it is believed, he was drawn under a sand barge by current suction. Haughey, with two friends, John Kilcoyne, aged 2 1, of 4915 Gem way, and Edward Herbert, aged 20, of 4827 Jordan way, went to Oakmont, to spend the "Fourth" at the i Vinrent Haughey.

Lawrenceville Triangle Club camp which is on Twelve Mile Island. Kilcoyne was a witness of the drowning. Haughey was only a fair swimmer, and was trying to swim out to a Con tinned on J'ajre Six, Column One. TEACHER'S ONLY PUPIL DAUGHTER MIDDLETOWN, N. July 4.

(N. T. Times) A novel situation exists in school district No. 5 of the town of Frostburg. There is only one class in school and only one pupil in the class.

The teacher is Mrs. Mary Hickey and the pupil is her daughter, Anna. The purchase of farm lands in the district by the Mongaup Falls Power Company for the purpose of constructing sup plementary dam has caused the rare condition. A short time ago the school had 25 pupils. PELL R101G ITALIANS NEW YORK, July 4.

(New York Times Service.) A clash between the black-shirted followers of Mussolini and crowd of opponents of the pres ent Italian government in front of the Garibaldi memorial mansion on Staten Island today led to a call for police reserves. They came on foot. In fliv vers and in patrol wagons, to stem the tide of battle and to reinforce the policemen detailed there to keep order. arrested seven of the al leged combatants, whom they charged with possessing clubs or throwing stones and bottles. WOMAN HURT IN AUTO CRASH Mrs.

"Winifred Reed, aged 24, of 2410 Eraddock avenue, Swissrale, was seriously injured last evening when an automobile driven in More-wood avenue by her husband. NeaJ Reed, aged 24, struck a machine driven by William B. Sloan, aged 26, of 800 Maryland avenue, at Fifth avenue. Mrs. Reed was removed to the Magee Hospital, MAN SAYS HIM TO STOP Boulevard of the Allies with one arm around a girl companion.

At Second avenue and Wood street. Motorcycle Patrolman William Vogler in plain clothes drove ahead of him in a tour ing car and ordered him to stop, ar resting him. Perry contended when taken to the police station that the arresting officer had been clasped in the arms of a girl companion at the time of the arrest and wanted to know why he should be, arrested while the patrolman was not. MIDDLEWE GH DAY More Coal and Iron Officers May lose Permits, Secre tary Kins, Continuing Probe, Says. Stbcial Teligcam to Thi Gazetts Timer.

HARRISBURG, July 4. "The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is going after men who hold its commissions as coal and iron policemen and who go crooked. Revocation of the commissions of 16 men employed by the Westinghouse Company in Allegheny ccunty is only an example cf what we are going to do." said Secretary for the Commonwealth Clyde L. King today in regard to the whole-sale punishment of special policemeii in the East Pittsburgh district. Similar investigations are understood to be in other industrial communities and the personal record of every man who has been given a commission as a coal and iron or special policeman has been checked tip.

From what Dr. King said today, some holders of commissions are in for a rough time. "Over a year ago I began hearing things about men who had commissions as coal and iron policeman. Sergt. Freeman of the state police made some investigations and a result we had to revoke several com missions," said Dr.

King. "As I began going into the matter I found bad conditions. Finally, I launched a general inquiry and have ContimH-don Fage Three, Column Three. LIGHTNING KILLS 3 AT NEW KENSINGTON Two Other Picnickers Hurt as Bolt Hits Tree Sheltering Them in Park. SreoiL Teukxam to Tbi Gaztttb Toixs.

NEW KENSINGTON, PA-. July 4. An Independence Day 'outing in Community Park here had a tragic ending tonight when three persons. including a man and his wife, were killed by lightning which struck a tree under which they had sought shelter during a storm, and two others were injured. The dead are Mr.

and' Mrs. Andrew King, and Edith Shearer aged 7, all of New Kensington. William King, aged 10, son of the dead couple, and Alice Shearer, aged 4, sister of the dead girl were injured. Persons who saw them struck hailed a passing automobile and had them taken to the Citizens General hospital here. Physicians pronounced Mr.

and Mrs. King and Edith Shearer dead, said that the injured would recover. Mrs. Coolidge Jaywalking As Cyclist Grazed Her SWAMPSCOTT, July 4. (A.

Mrs. Coolidge today laughed off an Incident of yesterday when she was very nearly run down by motorcycle during a walk near here. Sergt. Charles B. Cboly.

of the state police, driver of the machine which Ushot between her and James Haley, secret service man, on a turn in the road, called at White Court today and Mrs. Coolidge took the blame of the affair. "It was all right," Mrs. Coolidge assured him as she shook his hand. "Anyway, I was on ths wrong side of the road." HOLIDAY-STRUCK CANARY RETURNS TO COP'S ME Patrolman J.

J. Kohnke of 137 South Fifteenth street mourned the loss of his pet canary, Sam, that escaped from its cage last June 17, when the policeman's 6-year-old son. Regis, opened the door and the bird flew out. Nothing more was seen of the bird until yesterday morning when Sam was back on his roost in the cage. Everybody in the neighborhood wonders where Sam was between the anniversaries of the battle of Bunker Hill and Independence Day.

Ti it -f 7, TRAPPED, DIE IN SARANAC LAKE FIRE Escape of Victims Shut Off by Flames in Apartment. Br Arfociatto Psess to Gaebtti Tima SARANAC LAKE, N. July 4. Seven persons are dead and one is believed to be dying as the result of a fire in a three story apartment house here early this morning. The dead: i Peter Iwyer of Saranac Lake.

George Dukett of Saranac Lake. Patrick Martin, believed to be of Chateaugeay. Kenneth Monakey, 12-year-old son of Mrs. Sarah Monakey of Saranac Laka. Infant of Mr.

and Mrs. George Du kett. John and Patrick McGowan, Bur lington, Vt. Mrs. George Dukett is in the hos pital here and believed to be dying of her burns.

Mrs. Sarah Monakey also is in the hospital but her injuries are not believed serious. Several other persons suffered minor injuries in escaping from the house. The blaze started at the foot of the stairs and trapped the families living on one side ot the main hallway. GOVElOeS RIDE ON SHENANDOAH BAR HARBOR, ME.

4. (A. Governors of three states were taken for a short flight today on the Navy dirigible Shenandoah while the rest of the party which is touring Maine after their seventeenth annual conference at Poland Spring cruised to Camden on Cyrus K. Curtis' "yacht Lyndonia. Those who made the flight were Gov.

Trinkle of Virginia, Jackson of Indiana and Trapp of Oklahoma. Radio Programs on Page 2, Sec. 2 Party With Woman In Barber Shop Brings Policeman's Arrest PRICELESS TREASURES STOLEN FROM VATICAN GIRL WAS HUGGING COP By Associated Press ROME, July 4. The treasury 01 St. PeterX repository of the il ican's priceless collection of reiigious and historical relics and artistic treasures, was violated last night.

when thieves broke into its second reassure, room and escaped with a number of irreplaceable objects, estimated variously in value at from 1,000,000 to 3.000,000 lire. The thieves, using gloves, left no fingerprints. Pour painters and two Uiborr-rs, who have worked in St. Peter's, and another laborer. Giovanni Bellini, who slept in a room near the scene of the crime, have been arrested.

Bellini denies any knowledge of the crime. He says he slept undisturbed last night. Nearby residents ray they saw three prowlers and heard an automobile during the night. The thieves were manifestly acquainted wtth- the treasury. They forced the door of a storeroom ad joining tho treasury and then en tered one ot the chambers Nvhere Patrolman Torrence K.

Paul, a Nc-, gro. reporting to the West End Station, was arrested last nii'nt In connection with an escapade with a woman in a West End barber snap fcarly yesterday morning. The woman, Margaretta. Bemo-Jaute. aged 21, of Ranksville road.

Banksville, was trapped in the bar, ter shop by police and was arrest id on a suspicious person charge. She yia held over for further investigation after a hearing. Information jriven by her resulted in the arrest of Paul, who, police allege, was the pa-. trolman in uniform who escapsd from the barber shop when they raided the building at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Paul was lodged in the South Sid- station on a suspicious person charge.

His suspension by Inspector Harry E. Moore was expected shortly. The woman, according to police, told them that Paul was a friend of tb owner Ot the -barber shop at tS The stolen objects include tin cx- tremely valuable ring, set with sap phires and diamonds, which is placed on a finger of Uhe statue of St. Peter in the basilica upon cer. tain occasions; a golden mass serv-" ice given to St.

Peter's by Cardinal Merry Del Val. a golden cross pre-sented by King Alfonso of Spiin, a golden cross set with emerald- given by the republic of Colombia, a golden cross presented by Cardinal Delia Volpe, a silver vessel oma mented with diamonds which be- -longed to Pope Pius IX. -v The robbers also took a. ciboriom, or coffer, in which the host is kept. in the belief it was gold, but aban- WHO TOLD The legal status of an automobile driver using but one arm for guiding a machine while the other nestles around a girl's waist and the status of an arresting officer driving an automobile while a girl companion has both arms around his waist was raised last night in Central Police Station by T.

IL Perry, aged 28, of 238 Savina street, arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and for violating traffic laws. He is reported to have been driving slowly along the donea it alter discovering it was silver. 4.