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tit Am A The Weather. Western Pennsylvania, Ohio aid West Virginia Fair, narratr, today; showers Friday; Sunset, 6:16. TTpnttiw Detail on Ttt 4. The Only Morning Paper in Pittsburgh NEWS SEKVICKS. Aik laird Press New Vork Times I'nited Nw Consdlldnted Press Chimin Tribune lniver.l herrire VOL.

3 NO. 1SS Gazette Established 1786. Post Established 1812. Combined I 1927. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1930.

THREE CENTS RED THURSDAY AIDES Fawn Runs Wild Through Main Oil City Streets YTRB MARTIN, PROMINENT JURIST, SUCCUMBS TO BRIEF ILLNESS U. S. PROSPERS BY DRY LAWS, HEARING TOLD Prohibitionists Begin Statement of Case To Committee. ATTLE FOR DAVIS PARADES TO BE STAGEDTODAY Bloodshed at Demonstrations Feared In All Larger Cities. NEW YORK IS READY OIL CITY, March 5.

UV-A fawn ran wild in the main streets of Oil City today before plunging through a barber shop window and being captured. Two customers, their faces well-lathered, leaped out of their chairs as a shower of glass marked the unexpected arrival. The fawn's neck was so badly cut by the glass that a butcher from a nearby shop had to kill it. unted in Mystery Jurist Dies Pneumonia Ends Life Of Candidate For Mayor. WETS BITTERLY ASSAILED Assassinations Threatened For Authorities Of Chicago.

STRICKEN UPON BENCH Sudden Relapse Breaks Down Resistance, Use Of Oxygen Futile. Stricken Philadelphian Puts Hopes for Vindication In Pittsburgher. HARIUSBURG. March 5. (A.

The declaration that William S. Varc was definitely "out" and Secretary of Labor James J. Davis was definitely "in" the race for United States senator, with the support of the Philadelphia Republican organization, was made here today by State Senator Samuel W. Salus, one of the leaders of the organization's "war board." Senator Salus. who said he came to Harrisburp "on business that has nothinjr to do with politics," talked nevertheless considerably about politics and thp situation concerning the make-up of the ticket to surround the candidacy of Francis Shunk 'Prown for Governor.

STIMSON HAS PLAN FOR BIG CUT INNAVIES Announces Slash Possible In U. S. Fleet. ended Judtre Richard desperate battle of two li 1-5" i i i 4 1 NEW YORK, March 5. (United News.) Thousands of Com-I munists.

and more thousands of unemployed men attracted to their red banners in sullen, blind protest against their failure to "bbtain work, will mobilize tomorrow for "Red Thursday" demonstrations which promise bloodshed. i Ford and Edison Express Themselves Unalterably Opposed to Repeal. WASHINGTON, March 5. Advocates of prohibition today vigorously assailed the arguments of anti-prohibitionists for repeal of the eighteenth amendment before the House judiciary In the first day of their allotted time of seven days, the drys presented four witnesses who attributed to prohibition general prosperity, improved conditions among working classes and a better environment for the growing generation. They Insisted that evils attributed to prohibition by its opponents before the committee had been exaggerated and that isolated instances had been taken as indications of gen-, eral conditions.

Ford, Kdison Express Views. Two of the outstanding American jJ against pneumonia in his at 5S07 Stanton avenue last; jurist's death occurred at! o'clock last several after physicians had an-i that they had abandoned; Yfiv his recovery. Martin, who had been on the bench of common; court three weeks ago by -r diagnosed as influenza, which; In all large American cities, in all European capitals and many other towns. Communist leaders bad their MORE IN GREAT BRITAIN'S Trooper Keeps Own Death Date, His Log Shows Tardieu Wins Confidence Vote in Chamber Of Deputies, 316-263. "Serretary Davis w.ill announce his candidacy soon." the senator said.

"He is the personal choice of Mr. Vare to carry on his campaign for vindication." Personal Choice of Vare. Confirming reports frepm Philadelphia that Vare had decided to step out of the race for senator because of his weakened physical condition, Salus asserted that the Philadelphia leader had postponed his return to Philadelphia from his winter home at St. Lucie, on the advice of his physicians, who said the present cold snap would not be conducive to -I'HClllC A ri ntl.M F.SS F. HAItONTK.

The reputed print-ess, Cierve ttaronte, and her supposed husband. Col. ('. I. Townsend, former British secret agent, are being sought in connection with Town-send's alleged sale of Archduchess Maria Theresa's SHOO.OOO Napoleonic necklace, for StiO.niHI.

POTSDAM, Germany. March 5. Soldierly punctilious even in suicide, Sergeant Paul Falck today entered In the garrison log book the exact hour and minute of his death and by whom relieved, then shot himself. plans prepared, and police and soldiery had plans to suppress their parades- or, permitting the demonstrations themselves, to act quickly and sternly in event of disorder. Police Warn People.

In New York, police warned women and children to keep away today from Union square. Communist headquarters. The hundreds of police assigned to duty at the square had orders to "keep their heads" and to let the demonstrators start any possible trouble. In Chicago, the chief of police asserted that Reds threatened bombings and assassinations. Reds denied By L.

C. SPEER. Ry Cabl to the Post-Gazetr p. Copyright, 1930, by New York Times. LONDON, March 5.

Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson issued statement tonight saying that prospects at the naval conference v-- eloped into lobar pneumonia, been conceded a desperate of recovery until Tuesday when a second relapse over-him. breaking- down the little stance -eft after" a previous r- during the week-end. those at Judge Martin's when he died were his wife. M-s Jean Bailey Martin, and his sons.

William McFall, Richard and Bruce R. Martin, sndidate for Mayor. drvs the prohibitionists hoped to present Henry Ford and Thomas A KICHARD W. MARTIN. Martin, prominent in Allegheny county politics for the last 22 years and candidate for mayor at the primary election last fall, died last night in his home of pneumonia after an illness of about three weeks.

CONVICT KILLS AUBURNKEEPER Head Official Meets Fate of Two indicated a net reduction of Edison expressed to the committee in the form of telegrams to Samuel Crowther of Bayside. L- 1, the first 200,000 tons in the American Governorship Race Plans Of Pinchot Kept Secret Confers With Labor Secretary, Then Takes Under ing successively as assistant witness, their unalterable opposition to repeal of the dry laws. neet Duiit, Dunning and appropriated for. This applies to Ford expressed a conviction that the "sane people of the nation" would it. In Paris 26,000 police and soldiers were assigned to riot duty.

The actuating motives of the Red demonstators are In some cases, the main protest will be never see the eighteenth amendment Vare's recuperation to health. "Mr. Davis will conduct his own campaign with the Philadelphia organization's support. We are back of him because Vare wants us to be," Salus said. Salus said he believed Vare would issue a statement of withdrawal In favor of Secretary Davis upon the return of the organization chieftain next week.

Some clarification of the stand of Judge George V. Maxey, of Lackawanna county was also offered by Salus, who said Maxey had been slated with his consent for justice of the supreme court on the Davis-Brown ticket. "Judge Maxey is committed to Brown and is so strong for him that be will take off his coat and fight for him," was the way the repealed while Edison said he felt Advisement Support of Davis-Brown Ticket, Or Own Entry Into Contest. that "prohibition is the greatest experiment yet made to benefit man," and that it was strange to him that some men of great ability and standing "do not help to remove the curse Hy KAVMOMI Z. HKM.E.

Post-Gazette Correspondent of alcohol." Although the drys. headed by Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, legislation direc vvt attorney, city solicitor, service commissioner, and Judge Martin's last occasion i-ome into widespread public no- was in the primary election of when he waged a vigorous, unsuccessful, compaign for Republican nomination for op. Identified throughout most public career as an independ-Judge Martin entered the oralty contest and was defeated the nomination by Mayor Charles Kline. Martin wa3 born in Fitts-i- September 14.

the son of William and Delia O'Connor Martin. He received his early education in Pittsburgh public schools and "as graduated from the old Central High school. In 1904 he received the iree of LL.B from the school of himself could form a ticket for senator and governor. The luncheon conference was held March 5. cD guards and S75 Keeper Edward AUBURN.

X. Within sight of 43 prisoners. Principal capital ships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines but not to aircraft carriers. Stimson's statement follows: There seems to be an impression that the work of the American delegation at this conference is likely to result in an increase instead of a reduction in the tonnage of the navies of the world. The surest way to answer that is to give such results as seem to be within reach up to date.

The plan which in its essentials appears to be ac-, ceptable to America and Great Britain provides for a net reduction in the tonnage of the American fleet, in capital ships, cruisers, destroyers and submaritH-s, built," builfKng or apprwpriated for, of 'r WO tons, and an even larger reduction tor of the Women's Christian Tem perance Union, planned to present against unemployment, in others against religious denunciation of Soviet Russia. New York's Communist leaders and police officials perfected tonight their plans and counter-plans for a gigantic red demonstration tomorrow in Union square perhaps the biggest of the post-war years during which Communists have been active. Communists and unemplojed propose to mass in the great square which separates downtown Broadway from midtown Broadway, and at which half a dozen streets converge. Fiery Manifesto. -The Communists eve-of -th-hattle WASHINGTON, March 5.

With the expectation of reaching a decision within the' next 10 days, for-m'er Governor Pinchot took under adviscmejit today the question of whether he will support the Davis-Brown ticket or enter the primary himself as a canidate for governor. The question was discussed by the L. Beckwith of Auburn prison today was stabbed to death by a long term inmate impelled by a fancied griev- in the Washington home of Pinchot. Immediately afterward the former governor took a train for Philadelphia, where he said he intended to complete the reading of proofs of his forthcoming book on South Sea island adventures. Secretary Davis ance.

Beckwith was the tntni principal keeper in three years to die through the fury of a convict. Beckwith's assailant, Anthony Mor- former governor over the luncheon declined to disclose details of the table with Secretary James J. Davis, meeting. six witnesses today, the cross-examination of the four was continued at such length that testimony of the others was put off until tomorrow. After Crowther, who is an author on economic subjects, the committee heard Edward Keating, editor of "Labor" and a former representative from Colorado: Daniel A.

Polling of New York, general director of the J. C. Penny Foundation and president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, and Henry M. Johnson, lawyer and business man of Louisville. Ky.

Crowther explained that he had made a survey of industrial eondi- manifesto tonight was a fiery one. While positive verification was not who made the appointment to oe- terrains Pinchot's plans. No definite answer was given, except that Pinchot assured the lalor secretary he looked upon Davis' political ambitions in the friendliest manner. While no authoritative in- 1 formation could be obtained, there vere indications Pinchot played with obtainable, some reports were that Davis conferred with Pinchot with the knowledge of the Philadelphia "war board" to determine where the former governor woul 1 stand. Reports that Davis himself was seeing an alternative alliance with Pinchot "The grim specter of starvation stares in the face of 7.000.000 American workers and millions more of their dependents," it said.

"Starvation is not a bugaboo; It is a concrete reality. The workers have two courses to lie down meekly and of the Western University of 4 tilito. Jl, serving- a sentence of 20 rrsylvania, now the University of years to life, was clubbed into ub--rurgh. In the general practice mission in an instant after his flash-r he was first associated with -ms knife plunged four times into Senator John S. Weller.

the officer's abdomen. He was A- a young attorney he displayed dragged almost unconscious im-n interest in politics and in 1908 mediately to an isolation cell to rewarded by the Republican await full investigation. ir by being appointed assistant! Beckwith's death came at a attorney under District At- matic moment in the trial of Max rney Harry L. Goehring. on the part of the British fleet.

If vessels authorized but not commenced were included in existing fleets the amount of the reductions would be much greater. Of course these reductions are contingent upon some reductions (Continued on Page Five, Col. 3.J the hope that Secretary Davis and (Continued on rage Four, Col. (Continved on Page Four, Col. (Continued on Pane Five, Col.

(Continued on Pope Tiro, Col. 5.) came a partner in the law Beany. Magee Martin upon senator explained it-Second Plate Mill Open. The lieutenant governorship place on the ticket is still open, according to Salus, with the Philadelphia organization looking kindly to either Major General William G. Price, of Chester, commanding- officer-of the Twenty -eighth division, or State Senator Horace W.

Schantz, of Al-lentown. Salus said he did not believe either man was an active candidate for the post hut that they would accept that place on the ticket if offered them. Salus also said the organization was favorable to Judges William B. Linn and J. Frank Graff for the two places on the superior court.

The Philadelphia senator, known for his cryptic wit, took occasion to land another blow on Philadelphia's mayor. Harry A. Mackey, who is committed to Senator Joseph R. Grundy's candidacy. "Harry Mackey," Salus said, "is the only man I know of who can jump faster than a shuttlecock on a sewing machine." Salus said he did- not call on any politicians at the capitol.

Against "Wet-Dry" Issue. While he was here, however. State Treasurer Edward Martin, chairman of the Republican state committee, who has distributed nominating petitions for Senator Grundy and Brown's opponent for the governorship, Samuel S. Lewis, dictated a reply to a telegram he received from Raymond Pitcairn, Philadelphia airplane manufacturer, asking Martin to support Congressman James M. Beck of Philadelphia for the senatorial nomination because of Beck's attitude against Martin's letter said raisins of the EX-YALE HEAD DIESINJAPAN I Daughter Is Informed I By Cablegram Of Hadley Death.

REDS TO DEFY POLICETODAY Permit Refused For "Demonstration" By Walsh. Although denied a permit by Police Superintendent Peter P. Walsh for an outdoor demonstration at the Pennsylvania station, the Communists and the Trade Union Unity-League will defy the police and attempt to carry out their program at 11 o'clock this morning. The permit was applied for and refused, according to announcement last night by Patrick Devine, Communist district organizer, and John Casper, board member of the Trade rnng his connection with the dis-a'torney's office, remaining the firm until 19:2. at which he was appointed city solicitor.

3 so served as county solicitor of county from 1913 until Named Judge by Pint-hot. V-zm January. 1922, until June, he served as city solicitor in a-irnsaist ration of Mayor W. A. In 19.5 he was appointed service commissioner and -i until September, 1926, when was appointed a judge of the of common pleas to succeed H.

Kline, who resigned to r'OTi! mayor of Pittsburgh. He as the appointee of Governor 0 Pinchot until 1927 when he elected to the regular 10-year 1910. Richard W. Martin tr- Tried Jean Bailey McFall. the A-- of William B.

and Martha V. McFall. of Pittsburgh. He was a the Masonic order, the Club, the University Club 5 "1 the Allegheny County and the Bar Associations. NEW HAVEN, March 5.

Arthur T. Hadley, president emeritus of Yale University, died in japan today, according to a cablegram received here tonight by his daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Moseley. Dr. Hadley, who was 7.1 years old, ded of pneumonia at Kobe.

Japan, according to the cablegram. He left from New York on the Empress of Australia, December 3. for a round-th-world cruise. Dr Hadley became president of Yale in 1S99, retiring in 1921. Professor Moseley, Dr.

Hadley's son-in-law. tonight said that the body will be brought to San Francisco by the Empress of Australia which is expected to arrive in that city March 31 and then be sent I here. Funeral services will be held at Battel! chapel at Yale. (Continued on rate Fivc. 'Col S.J1 (Continued on Page Four, Col.

SJ LAST MIiNUTE NEWS HUGHES BUYS CAPITAL HOME FREIGHTER, FERRY COLLIDE IN EAST RIVER. New York, Thursday, March 6. (A. The freighter Bogota, Columbia line, and the Governors Island ferry Gen eral Humphries collided late last night m'the East river. Each vm Ibmse in Sheridan Orcle ectiin Is Acquired by Chief Justice.

PRESIDENT'S CRIME STUDY COMMISSION SHOULD RECOMMEND RECONSIDERATION OF VOLSTEAD LAW FOR NATION'S GOOD During the past month, in the testimony given in the hearings before the House Judiciary Committee, the country has received confirmation of what it already knows about the non-enforcement of prohibition. Leading citizens of the United States, industrialists, lawyers, clergymen, journalists and educators, both Republicans and Democrats, men and women of the best character and of unquestioned patriotism, have testified not only that the present prohibition law is unenforced, but, also, that it cannot be enforced because, plainly, a great number of people are antagonistic to a statute which restricts their personal liberty. All these witnesses have urged either the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment or modification of the Volstead Act and State control of prohibition. In the ten years of the Eighteenth Amendment we have seen that the ideal of prohibition is impracticable. We have seen that temperance has not been promoted by it.

We know that whiskey is being made, sold and distributed in every State in the land, and that a gigantic, illegal business of distilling, brewing, rum-running and speakeasy operation has been set up. Naturally, this illegal business has been largely taken over by gunmen and gangsters, crooks and killers, who hesitate at no crimes to furnish the demand for liquor which many law-abiding men and women feel it is no moral crime to drink in moderation. We know that more boys and girls drink now than ever before. We have read the statements of Gen. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Dr.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Col. Samuel Harden Church, president of Carnegie Institute; Pierre S. du Pont, industrialist; Grayson M. P. Murphy, banker, and many others that prohibition has not contributed to industrial efficiency, economic prosperity or public morality.

We have read the statements of these gentlemen and of lawyers that it has contributed, instead, to a breaking down of the law, to the congestion of our courts, to the curtailment of human liberties, to a promotion of disregard for all laws, and has in its enforcement the potentialities of rebellion. Prohibition is not a contest between "wets" and drys," between people who want to drink and people who do not. Prohibition is a national problem on which the patriotic men and women of the United States ought to work together for a solution. We know, that some States in the Union, possibly many, would vote to remain dry. They ought to have the right to be dry and to enforce their own prohibition laws.

We also know that some States, particularly those containing large industrial centers, accustomed by habits of generations to different ways of living, would vote wet. They also ought to have that right so that they could bring an end to the crime and corruption which bootlegging has forced on them through a law they do not want. The time has come for prohibitionists and anti-prohibitionists to discuss this problem, not as wet and dry partisans but as Americans, as patriotic citizens who agree that the welfare of the country is the principal consideration of each, and to reach a conclusion of how to promote temperance in a way that the people of each State will approve. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the President's Law Enforcement Commission will recommend the discussion and consideration of a change in the present prohibition law which will defi craft reported the damage as slight. HARVARD MEN AGAINST DRY LAW, 500 TO 10.

Cambridge, Thursday, March 6. (New York Times.) FAIR, WARMER FORECAST HERE Harvard students voted 500 to 10 against prohibition, at a mass meeting- at the Harvard Union last night. The meeting was the start of a drive on the part of the Harvard debating council to determine student sentiment in the country on the lowest Temperature to Be Degrees, According to Prediction; Rivers Falling. dry law. sburjrh Post-Gazette j)e New York Times.

'AWPHINGTON. March 5. Chief Oharies Evans Hughes has --it as his new Washington resi- the four-story stone house in street, in the fashionable Un Circle section along Massa- aenne. it was reported to- property is a large house of wv? design, containing It rooms it stands next to the purchased by Charles F. ''ts.

secretary of the navy, as his residence. NOTED WOMEN EDUCATOR IS DEAD AT 82. New York, Thursday, March 6. (A. Mrs.

Christine Fair and slightly warmer weather is forecast for the Pittsburgh district today by Meteorologist S. Brotz-man. The lowest temperature during the early hours today will be about 25 degrees. Brotzman says Rivers here are Jailing, the stage at the Point yesterday being 15 feet. Ladd-Franklin.

82, noted educator, logician and psychologist, and wife of Dr. Fabian Franklin, author, editor and mathematician, died late last night at her home in Riverside drive. Stimson's Typist Killed In Fall From Hotel Window Woman About to Return to U. S. From Work At London Conference, Victim of Accidental Drop of Six Floors, Police Find.

THREE MISSING IN FIRE STARTED BY BLAST. Eldorado, Thursday, March 6. (A. Fire late last night levelled two blocks of business structures here. One man was injured, probably fatally.

Three others are missing'. All were employes of a garage wherein a blast started the fire. VISCOUNT GLADSTONE SUCCUMBS TO LONG ILLNESS. London, Thursday, March 6. (New York Times.) Viscount Gladstone, son of the great Liberal statesman, died early this morning; at his Hertfordshire home after a long illness.

70 ARRESTED IN STRIKE DEMONSTRATION. Philadelphia, Thursday, March Police late last night arrested 50 men and 20 women who were conducting a nitely help curb crime that is so prevalent in the country today. '-'DON, Thursday, March 6. ''s. Pearl Demaret, stenog- 'o Secretary of State Sim-ed in St.

George's Hospital morning from injuries suf-n a fail from a sixth floor of the Mayfair Hotel. Demaret shared a hotel suite ''s Hurley Fisk of the division nt information. Mrs. Fisk re was in the bathroom of the r.tn Mrs. Demaret fell.

Authorities who examined the room pronounced the fall accidental, as marks on the window sill Indicated that the unfortunate woman had clutched It in trying to save herself. AH arrangements had been made for Mrs Demaret'a sailing Her baggage had been passed and flowers from Mrs. Stimton came as a parting gift. -V' "peaceful demonstration" near a hosiery mill, which is said to be working on a non-union basis as a result of a strike. FAMOUS VIRGINIA MANSION SWEPT BY FLAMES.

Washington, Thursday, March 6. (Universal Service.) A colonit! mansion near Alexandria, once the property of George Washington, is a maps ot chirred ruins as a result of a fire last night swept the historic site. PUBLISHER.

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