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One 6 America Great Newspapers GaietU Established 178ft. Combined Telephone ATlantic 6100 Post Established 1842 1927 SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1938. it it it it it THREE CENTS 4 1 fate ciiiu uvj iA2J j.iyJiivi lyjir Tennis Match With Love Score unci Leader Tells ar saw Troops Move It JL inis to Vets While nn TTb Deadline 1 JD oraer as TVA Head Again Balks At Hearing President's Attempt To Change Chairman's Stand Fails. 1.000 Picket Hall i. it, s.

1,1 1T Of Ulti am iears Link Abroad, Admit Drive To Affect Jews. Democratic Split Perils WPA Jobs Irked by ChaUenge Morgan Told He Must i 'it. 'l I I i- i Mr Hitler Gives Warning To Czech Heads Give Decision By Next Monday. By Raymond Z. Henle Post-Gazette Washington Correspondent.

State Administrator Is Place in t. S. For ate." Croup Head Is Bluntly Told. V.k Kunzr. New York the embattled Ger-eriau Bund, addressed WASHINGTON, March 18.

Refusing to Allow County Control. President Eoosevelt's second attempt to show up Chairman Arthur E. Morgan, of the May Affect 4,000 Fate of Austria Held Up As What Neighbor Might'Suffer. Praises Mussolini ins last night uit the sched- n. he l'rfcT Germany Reported Agreed To Keep Hands Off; Other Powers Watching.

WARSAW, Poland, March 18. (A. The danger of war between Poland and Lithuania hung over Europe tonight more ominously than ever. Peace depended on Lithuania's acceptance of a Polish ultimatum that will expire at 3 p. m.

(E.S.T.) tomorrow. One Lithuanian offer already has been rejected. Poland, with an army 13 times the size of Lithuania's, moved troops close to the border throughoiit the day to back up her ultimatum with force. Her preparations, were said to be complete. Strong Man Returns to Capital.

Poland's strong man, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, returned late tonight from Wilno, center of Polish troop concentrations. He was met by the cabinet amid great pomp. While Tolish army authorities were extremely reluctant to give out military information, it was disclosed that reinforcements had been arriving at Wilno and vicinitj since morning. Authoritative reports in Berlin said Germany had agreed his nrganiza jStop Taking Names Of Tennessee Valley Authority, as a misguided, fault-finding old man ended in discord today as the chairman, with creat dig i. can- Applicants Sent By Party Chiefs.

nity, refused to submit his Asks Four Years More audience was a group of rs of veterans' organizations had gone to the Xorthside carters of the bund to find it as all about. IjJ I Jt WilftWt t.wVwJ an. extremely critical and To Complete Plans For Greater Germany. BERLIN, March 18. (A.

Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler tonight held up Austria's fate as an implied warning to cal gathering of a dozen or leader? of veterans organiza- ar.i fia.t a aczen policemen, State WPA Administrator J. Banks Hudson has refused to carry out an agreement to allow the Allegheny county commissioners "proper supervision" of county-aided projects. That disclosure, threatening the county's co-operation with the Federal work-relief agency and the potential jobs of at least 4,000 persons, was only one of the developments which indicate that WPA Associated Press Photo. ALDREY RROWXE FAJKOWSKI FRAXC1SZEK FAJKOWSKI Mrs. Fajkowski, who divorced Mercer Beasley, Pi-inceton coach, March 14, was married at Reno, March 17 to Fajkowski, better known as Frankie Parker, rated Xo.

4 in American tennis. Beasley was Parker's tennis coach at Princeton. Mrs. Fajkowski is the mother of two children, Katherine, 21, and James, 14. Fajkowski is 22 years old.

t-. national director or public br.s for the bund, outlined the grievances to a session many look upon as a police court third degree. For a second time Chairman Morgan declared' that such a hearing as was assembled at the White House today was not the proper place to obtain an unbiased, full and free inquiry into his charges that his two TVA colleagues have not acted in the public interest. President Shows Displeasure. Mr! showed his displeasure at Morgan's challenge to the President's desire to investigate TVA himself and demanded that the chairman reply "yes" or "no" by 1:30 p.

m. next Monday to the inquiry as to whether he will co-operate with a Presidential in I ki organization and witn- srrage of questions and riss reeardinz the bunds r.i policies. ViiNt Objector -Jailed. Czechoslovakia. He asked the Reichstag at its farewell meeting for "another four years that I may complete the tasks ahead in the greater Reich." Before Hitler began his 38-minute speech, Field Marshal Hermann 0s.

oreaKing glass in the to keep hands oft' if Poland would acquiesce to Germany's seizure of the Free City of Danzig. The possibility also was raised that hostilities might lead to German annexation of Memel, a former German city and now a Lithuanian port, and the Polish Corridor. All three are territories that tt street doors of the headquar- an entnusiastic objector to und stuck his fist through then went to a hospital, Ghost in Millvale Church Seen hy Painter of Murals Priest at St. Nicholas' Verifies Artist's Revelation Of Frequent Midnight Appearances of Wraith, With Attendant Knocks and Baying of Dogs. Germany lost after the World war Wilhelm Goering as president of the 10 ana roars of protest i crowd of mere than a thou- will be hurled into the primary battle of Democratic leaders for dominance in the state.

It was reported yesterday, also, that the WPA authorities had suddenly stopped accepting recommendations from Democratic headquarters for applicants for jobs. Agreement Breach Revealed. The refusal of the state WPA chief to carry out an agreement, made early in January, that the county commissioners would be allowed to appoint five per cent of Reichstag announced dissolution of in East Ohio street. vestigation. Upon Morgan's refusal to submit, without further study, to the President's request for a Presidential investigation, Mr.

Roosevelt looked out sternly over the conference and said: "As the record stands today, he Liths Keady To Face Pole Edict Today President Confers With Cabinet, Army Heads On Session Eve. This is a ghost story. It is an account of a two-month me which was rather fully illumined by my lamp's downward flood of tent of the headquarters, ate: the half hour exposition bund'j platform. ff group of veterans who -4 Kunze's audience were Sal's Canoelliere. county American Legion, "fy H.

S'ewart Dunn, judge 'xf Department of jy.van:a of the Legion: S. A. western vice commander L-Charles R. Haley. 7 commander of the Veterans nightmare suffered by Maxo Vanka the workers on county-aided projects, was disclosed yesterday.

The agreement, made after County Commissioner John J. Kane had in i I i 1 j't I it i t'r 1 1 i i as he painted the murals in the Croatian Catholic Church of St. that body and called legislative elections for the new Pan-Germany for April 10. Again Thanks Mussolini. The Fuehrer as he completed his address announced that all Germany not only Austria would vote in the plebiscite on union of Austria and Germany at the same time.

A plebiscite April 10 in Austria already had been scheduled. The new Reichstag will be the first representing the greater Germany. Hitler thanked Premier Benito Mussolini again for his approval ot the Austrian conquest and pledged: "Italy's frontiers remain for us inviolate. Behind this word stands the German nation." He pitied "the democracies" be Nicholas in Millvale in the Spring of 1937. Ghost stories and witch doctors light and there was a figure, a man in black, moving this way and that way in front of it, raising his arms and making gestures in the air." Vanka thought Father Zagar was practicing his rituals, and he went on painting.

He did not mention the incident, but he thought it strange that Father Zagar did not offer an explanation. Four nights later, about midnight, the figure appeared again. 'd ori Tiro, Col. 3.) charged that WPA was over-ridden with politics and had threatened to withdraw county assistance unless the organization was reformed, would have allowed the county approximately 200 non-relief employes to oversee the WPA work. Instead, the commissioners have been notified through District Director J.

E. Kesner that the state and voodoo charms are not usually taken seriously and you don't have to believe this one either. You don't have to believe it unless you want fan Is Killed (Morgan) is guilty of contumacy (resistance to authority) in his refusal." Chairman Morgan complained that he did not feel he could get a fair hearing under circumstances as they prevailed today or. as they would prevail under a presidential investigation obviously to be conducted under similar circumstances. Fears Seem Well-Grounded.

And to those who visualized the scene in the Presidential officethe chairman's fears seem well-grounded. Flanking Mr. Roosevelt, who almost from the beginning showed his animosity for Morgan, were the chairman's two opposing TVA colleagues David E. Lilienthal, who is, like the President, an astute lawyer, and Harcourt A. Morgan and a battery of White House secretarial assistants.

Chairman Morgan, untrained in to take Father Albert Zagar's word for it that he, too, saw the eternal light in the church go out at the stroke of midnight and that later, fy AUNAS, Lithuania, March 18. (A. Little Lithuania's president, Antanas Smet-ona, met tonight with his ministers and army leaders on the eve of a special parliament session to 'face an ultimatum from Poland. By 3 p. m.

(E. S. tomorrow, according to the version here of allotment of five per cent of non- relief employes has been cut to and that contain minorities over whom Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler has proclaimed himself protector. Poland demanded that Lithuania renounce any claim to Wilno, her historic capital, and re-establish relations with Poland that have been broken for 18 years. Border Clash Revives Issue.

There has been no exchange of diplomats and no traffic, either rail or air, between the neighbors since Poland seized Wilno and about one-third of Lithuania's territory October 9, 1920. This issue flared up anew over the killing of a Polish guard March 11 on the frontier which Lithuania insists merely is a demarcation line. Besides Germany, it was watched with particular interest by Soviet Russia and by the little Baltic states to the north Latvia and Estonia who wondered whether they, too, would be sunk by a wave of territorial re-arrangement Germany's annexation of Austria set in motion. A Polish government communique said Lithuania had made an unacceptable offer to settle the border incident by appointment of a mixed commission. The statement said the proposal was rejected because it did not include actual pacification on the border which, in Poland's view, can be accomplished only by restoring diplomatic relations.

Watched by Powers. (In Paris, where it was disclosed France and Russia had taken joint efforts to bring pressure on both nations for a peaceful settlement, the Lithuanian legation also said Poland had turned down an offer to three per cent, and no non-relief By Show Case and Crushed Accident. C. "''r Ar- v-sn. if Hoffmar.

road, was supervisory employes will be al lowed Allegheny county. Non-Relief Roles Jammed. "I felt weird, cold; and, trying not to think of him, I worked furiously at the who was practically finished. A while later I heard him walking down the main aisle and mumbling rhythmically the dogs were barking outside." Vanka entered the parish house to have it out with Father Zagar. He stopped, amazed.

Father Zagar i-s-arl- The non-relief rolls, Kesner wrote, are already overloaded, carrying more than the original five a glass jv tw.i other men a truck at a yesterday aft- per cent. cause they did not understand his move into Germany's southern neighbor, a state which he said was "based upon a stark violation of the right of self-determination of the 6,500,000 people of German nationality." Points to Spain. The German leader stood before a cheering Reichstag which included for the first time on its government bench the new governor of Austria, Arthur Seysz-Inquart, and other representatives of what is now a German province. Justifying his sift seizure of Austria, he said his decision to March into the land of his birth was dictated by the realization that otherwise bloody civil war would Breaking of the agreement, under which the county set up more than 'n crushins his (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5 (Continued on Page 3, Col.

the was pronounced $200,000 for material and supplies for WPA projects, is expected to A'leSheny General Hos in bed, he heard three strange raps nearby. You don't have to believe it unless you believe Father Zagar when he says that on such nights his two dogs howl to the sky and act as though possessed. The story, told for the first time in the April issue of "Harper's Magazine" by Louis Adamic, begin3 on April 5. 1937, when Vanka arrived in Millvale pledged to complete the murals in two months time. He was to live in the parish house, and he was promised that no one not even Father Zagar would er-ter the church while he was at work.

Sees a Man in Blaek. Vanka entered upon a schedule of work from 9 o'clock in the morning to 2:30 the next morning with only brief pauses for lunch and supper. Four days passed. The night of April 13 Vanka was high on a scaffold over the altar. This is his story: "I glanced at the altar beneath bring an explosion from the county the Polish demands, Lithuania must agree to re-establish diplomatic relations, rail, air and other traffic broken since October, 1920.

The ultimatum also closed the door, it was said, to 'discussing Polish sovereignty over Wilno, seized by Poland in 1920 but still claimed as Lithuania's capital by the Lithuanian constitution. A semi-official appeal was broadcast to the people exhorting them to remain calm in face of the sudden Polish stroke and the massing of Polish troops near the Lithuanian frontier. Reports that Lithuania had refused to surrender her claim to officials. am "raerea -n ae rase was heinc nn. With WPA's political background in mind, and the fact that Edward N.

Jones, former administrator, is to apr 80Sd fnr Briton Tells Quick Way To Obtain Housing Sites Let Government Fix Price and Take Land As Done in England, He Suggests. lined up with United States Senator Joseph F. Guffey in his bid morning to rquest. Investiga- --aid they were truck was mov-v was being for state-wide power, the state ad i (Continued on Page Ttco, Col. 1.) break out.

"I was determined to spare Austria the fate of Spain," he declared. "(Kurt) Schuschnigg can thank (Continued on Page Four, Col. 7 (Continued on Page Tii'O, Col. 8J asl Barge" Is Made Ready The novel theory that the government to be able to buy land for low-cost housing projects at a fair price without long legal battles 1 or Journey to The Point Geneva Students Threaten Strike to Save Professors (Continued on Page Four, Col. 1J Court Backs NLRB Ruling Refuses to Order New Westingbouse Election.

PHILADELPHIA, March 18. WP) lurc xprchnon Stops for "Repairs" At West -Vuton; Tube City Next Stop. was proposed here yesterday by Sir Raymond Unwin, British housing expert. Addressing the Pittsburgh Housing Authority at a Roosevelt Hotel luncheon yesterday, Sir Raymond said that in England the government names a fair price for a piece of land, pays it and starts to work building low-cost homes, the largest of which rent for 52.50 a week. There is no appeal from the Government's decision, he said, unless some error of law in its action can be found.

Furthermore, he said, the property owner is paid nothing for the slum dwellings that stand on the property, and the property owner must tear them down at his own expense. College Head Denies Dismissal of Two Suspected Of "Communistic" Teachings. By Our Own Correspondent. BEAVER FALLS, March 18., "I want to be frank about this. Angered at the rumored plan toi have had some criticism about Own Correspondent.

March 18. Point. After cermonies in Pitts-i youths in roles of burgh the expedition will move 'ho opened the North- i tlown the Ohio for Marietta, where ritorv i it will land at the point where the who Territory as- 'J uu. on me xorthWest Territory pioneers first toriav to. The United States circuit court of appeals dismissed today the petition of the United Employes Association of the Wilmerding plant of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, "which sought to overthrow Galley." a raft I dismiss two proiessors lor alleged i "Communistic" teachings in the th.

lhe expedition of 50 "pioneers In Today's Bond Bliss 5 Books 20 Church News 7 Comics 16 Culbertson 16 Crossword Puzzle 16 David Lawrence 17 Death Notices 22 Dorothy Thompson 6 Editorials 6 Financial News 17-18-19-20 Foreign News 4 Frank R. Kent 6 Grantland Rice 15 Hungerford's Cartoon 6 Mirrors of Sport 14 Music 5 Pittsburghesque 6 Radio 11 'Round The Town 13 Shopping With Polly 9 Society, dubs Sports Stamp News 13 Theaters 10-11 Women's Features 9 netu carry tnem to the supposed Communistic teachings. But I don't believe they actually teach Communism." Declaring that the reorganization "might" call for dismissals of Wolf classroom, students at Geneva College today threatened strike action to force the administration to retain re. racing the route T-ne agents of the W. pany.

the teachers, is of "i.nea irom in this little Dr. M. M. Pearce, president of and Miss Firor "sometime in tne the college, said that the teachers, I future," Dr. Pearce denied that it Dr.

Don Wolf and Dr. Ruth Firor, i would come at a result of the town, the id J'V" the river. had not been dismissed and that "Communism charges set out from Hamilton, last December 3, in wagons and on foot, moving over highways instead of the trails followed by the original expedition, but under conditions approximating those met by the trail-blazing company. About 36 members of the 1938 company will make the river trip to Pittsburgh and Marietta, where in July President Roosevelt is expected to dedicate a monument to the original company. They will be met in the Ohio city by Mayor P.

W. Griffith, one of the officials who witnessed today's launching National Labor Relations Board's recognition of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America as bargaining agent. Judge J. Warren Davis, in the opinion, said the court was without "jurisdiction until the NLRB had ordered the company to bargain with the union. The board merely certified the results of the election held November 9, he held.

The association sought to have then moored orK the craft Councilman George Evans, cnair-man of the meeting, said that "we would need an amendment to the Constitution" before such direct, speedy action could be achieved in the United States. Sir Raymond, who was chief architect for England's housing program through which 1.000,000 homes for workers were built, said that the Government and the rr-'' Fisher and O. the rumors were the outgrowth of his announcement of a tentative reorganization plan affecting the status of the professors. Admitting that he had received complaints that they taught "Communistic doctrines," Dr. Pearce A member of student council, who refused to allow publication of his name, said that student feeling toward the rumored dismissals was rapidly reaching strike proportions.

Both teachers were well liked and had the "good will" of most of the stitelent he aid. 5 "0" ia t0 the I i the court revoke the board's certi -ctie3 n. to the at l- then down to Pittsburgh's 9 ification and order a new election, said: rCon.tinued on Paae Five. Col. Sffi RAYMOND UNWIN..