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THREE CENTS Pulitzer Prize 41 Licenses Revoked By State Board its (balled 3 Ray Sprigle Won 1 2,000 Rcke its 11 I -i oday Best Reporting Job Wins Award Bachelors and Harrison Clubs Among Those Closed Up. Suspend 18 Others ack-Klan Year's Best Drops Charges Father Cox Oh Trial In 'Stake' Case Six Beer Distributors Also Penalized In Sweeping Drive. Reporter's The Pennsylvania liquor con Exposure Brings Award Here. trol board last nitrht revoked the licenses of 41 more clubs I i A ,1 -l -tx -T i i Honored ai Mayor to Reveal Trolley Arbiter Nominees Today ParkingLot, Garage Attendants Prepare To "Bear Down' on Demands As Employers Shun Conference. Developments in yesterdays strike of park 'tig lot and gtrae employes and negotiations in the threatened tie-up of street car and bus operations were: Plans to place 2,000 demonstrators, recruited from affili- ated union groups on the picket lines today announced by leaders of strilang garage and parking lot attendants.

Safety Director Fairley apparently fearful that yesterday's sporadic minor disorders might develop to serious Fete Busy Ha Had No Definite Agreement For Paying Prizes Made, Claim. Five Facing Jury Seven Others Offer No Defense in Mail, Lottery Charges. inner Colorful Career In Journalism. p. the reporter who The Federal Government i inaT it nan a of ilie Ku Khix Klan vi-pvcine Court, won the trtr Prize yesterday for his reporting.

X-. serif- of articles in the exposing: Justice l. B'a as one of the 0f terrorists that stirred religious hatreds during iss considered the most vrant r.rws story of the year. Gts Prize at Banquet. was awarded a $1,000 by hf Pulitzer committee at in New York last night.

JUDITH ALLEN. LOS ANGELES, May 2. (United Press.) Actress Judith. Allen today dropped her $2,000, 000 suit against Mrs. Delphine Godde, automobile heiress, for allegedly alienating the affections of Miss Allen's former husband, Jack Doyle.

imu. lapiuuuii. uspruru 10 others and also "withheld the licenses of six beer distributors. The board's action was the most sweeping in its history and virtually completed the intensive drive against violators that has been proceeding in the Pittsburgh district since February. Numbered among the victims were many politically powerful organizations of the one-man club variety which had been thought invulnerable.

Bachelors' Club Revoked. Heading the entire list is the East Liberty Republican Club, better known as the Bachelors' Club of 6308 Penn avenue, operated by James Smith. The notorious Homestead "Three Hundred Club," of which County Airport Manager John J. McLean is a director, not only lost its license for three years but forfeited its $2,000 bond as well. The same fate befell the famed Benjamin Harrison Literary Club, the Harmony Club, the Orchards Hotel of Adams-burg, the Twin City Camping Club, 410 Third avenue; the War Veterans' Industries.

635 Liberty avenue, and Mathew Cavanaugh's Cafe, 332 Liberty avenue. Other Places Closed. Less well-known places that lost both license and bond are: Italian American Citizens Club, 521 Broad street, rear, Sewickley. Derry Club, 134 East First avenue, Derry. Arnold Progressive Society, 1710 Fifth avenue, Arnold.

Allegheny Athletic Association of McKeesport, 934 Market street, Mc-Keesport. Pittsburgh Imperial Italian Or- proportions through such a mass demonstration, orders police to keep open entrances of establishments affected. He conferred with legal authorities on possibilities of drastically limiting number of pickets. Negotiations for settlement of the dispute were reported at a standstill. Deadlock over street car and bus strike threat continues as mediators, headed by Mayor Scully, report "some progress" and adjourn until 2 m.

today Company and union place with mayor, in, sealed en- velopes, the names of their choice of two of three men who may be appointed to arbitrate wage rate disputes. Union heads plan to submit draft of their modified proposals today, following a private conference last night with Judge Henry Ellenbogen. 6 The Pulitzer puzes are awarded Post-Gazette Photo. RAY SPRIGLK var for the best work in the of editorials and news in the United States, for rarmons appearing in jinc-s the best books and v5 sni the newspapers contrib-zz mn.t to public service. was for the best in--id'sl joh of reporting.

Other Awards Made. s-A-ards announced by the are: frr fcstinzuished service as a correspondent during Primaries Set For Today In Four States moved into action against the Reverend James Ti. Cox of Old St. Patrick's and his associates in his $25,000 "Garden Stakes" contest yesterday afternoon, charging bluntly they divided $21,000 of the proceeds among themselves without any definite agreement as to who was to pay the prizes. And when the time to pay came, according to the Government, there was not more than $6,000 to pay off $25,000 worth of prize winners.

So, the prosecution charges, on the night before Christmas in 1937, after vain attempts to raise and borrow money, they met in a conference and devised a scheme to award fictitious prizes to relatives and friends. As a result, only the winners of $10 and $20 awards were actually the only ones to receive cash, it was charged. Five Placed on Trial. Assistant United States Attorney John D. Ray made these charges as the Government opened its case in Federal' district court before Judge F.

P. Schoonmaker a case for which the Federal Government has summoned witnesses from all sections of the country. They are expected to support its charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud and for operation of a lottery against Father Cox and the four others who have elected to stand trial with him. Prosecutor Ray outlined his case after a jury of seven women and five men, with two other women as alternate jurors had been selected. Originally there were 13 others indicted on the two charges with Mother and Two Babies Victims of Suicide Pact Peace Moves Fail in Park Lot Walkout See Progress In Street Car Negotiations "-Arthur Krock.

of the New Balloting Mav Indicate In-fluence of Slump On iu Politics. Soon, it was his see- Former Pittsburgh Husband, and Wifeipree To Die and Take Two of Children, Note Reveals, But Man Is Missing. i sward ny Pulitzer commit- "nr the play Thornton author of "Our Town," VY1 (Pictures on Page Peace parleys at a standstill, Names of company and union nominees for two of the three places on a proposed arbitration board, which would be charged with the task of lifting a street car and bus strike Fir the outstanding biography of $1,000 was divided be-Marquis James, author of a i striking parking lot and garage attendants, reinforced by sym-; pathizers from affiliated Amer-1 ican 7-Ydcration of Labor or- A suicide pact between a Pittsburgh mother and father was believed responsible last nieht for the deaths of the. mother and two of her daughters in a Tampa (Fla.) house. The mother, Airs.

Mrie Kunge, 42, and the children. Edith Ann. 7. and Nina. 5.

were found dead late yesterday after a third Andrew Jackson, and Odell (Continued on Page 5, Col. .) daughter, Ingeborg Kunge. zx, ot 350 Stratford avenue, Pittsburgh, fk (TI ST f51 Oil threat from the city, will be in conizations, last night laid the hands of Mayor Scully to- pans for a mass picketing day and are expected to be an- blockade designed to bring nounced when peace negotia- o.OOO demonstrators into action tions are resumed at 2 p. m. in today.

sent a frantic telegram to Tampa "jifi. ho wrote "Pedlar's life of Bronson Alcott. Fr 'he most distinguished book United States history Paul -rr. Buck. author of "The Ji 'o Re-Union, 1S65-1900," Ft 'he most distinguished vol-: verse Marya Zaturenska, "OM Morning Sky," 51,000.

Cartoon and Novel Winners. police telling them she had received i Totals Given Gas Dealers' Leader Quits Father Cox. Thomas A. Harkins of a "suicide pact letter from her father, Paul Bunge. Search for Father.

Police from coast to coast last night were searching for the father, the mayor oftice. This apparently was the main basis for a declaration by the mayor that progress toward an agreement was being made. Union officials conferred for more than an hour last night with Judge After a day which saw Mayor Scully hold aloof from further attempts to arbitrate the dispute, and members of the Downtown Parking Association, as well as independent operators affected by the tieup, refrain from further n'e- Donahue Gives Failing Fnr the best editorial writing Health as Reason. WASHINGTON, May 2. (A.

Primary balloting tomorrow may indicate what influence if any, the economic slump and other events are exerting on 1938 political trends. Four states will have primary elections. Prospects for an indication of voter sentiment toward sending Roosevelt supporters to next year's new Congress appeared best in Florida. Senator Claude Pepper had the endorsement of the President's son and secretary, James, in his campaign in that state for the Democratic nomination to succeed himself. His opponents included Representative J.

Mark Wilcox, a foe of last year's court bill and certain other Roosevelt measures; former Governor Dave Sholtz, allied closely with the White House in the past; T. C. Merchant, publisher of a weekly newspaper, and Finley Moore, head of a Florida abstract company. Indiana, Alabama and South Dakota also have primaries tomorrow, but they efffer no contests comparable to the Florida senatorial struggle in potential material for national political speculation. In Alabama, Senator Lister Hill, an administration stalwart, had the field all to himself in his race for the Democratic nomination to succeed himself.

W. Wiymack. associate editor th Des Moines "Register and ni.ire."' for his work throughout Henry Ellenbogen, of common gotiating -attempts with the union, pleas court, in his City-County John A. Stackhouse, strike leader, building chambers, and said they last night stated it was planned would mail the name of their ar- to "really bear down today." vear, Fr 'he net rartoon of the year aiiEhn Shoemaker, of the Chicago Pasadena, C. A.

Pierman and Herbert Schearf, both of Buffalo, N. and P. E. Shepard, of Cleveland, deeided to stand trial. Seven Offer Xo Defense.

Seven others, as had been forecast, entered pleas of guilty before the trial opened. They are Bernard J. Clifford, Cleveland, one of the original promoters of the contest; Michael Lehan, Fred Block, E. Robinson and Ernie Whiteleather, all of the Cleveland area; Sol Bloom of New Jersey and Arthur Wicks of Cleveland, office manager of the contest headquarters in the old Monongahela Bank building. It is expected that they will be called on to testify for the Government.

Two others, J. Armond Chart- (Continued on Page 5, Col. SJ Conf'nvri nit Parr Four Col. 5.) John H. Donahue, chairman of the Associated Gasoline Retail Dealers, who has been leading the fight to check the gasoline price war among retail dealers throughout the county the last six months, resigned as head of the association last night.

Although his letter to the board Democratic Enrollment Is In Lead by 89,721. Registration totals in Pittsburgh, gi-ven out last night by Lawrence O. Clarke, chairman of the Pittsburgh Permanent Registration Commission, show a Democratic majority of 89.721 in the city. Yesterday, the last day to change party registration, Clarke said, brought 763 changes from Republican to Democrat, and 100 changes from Democrat to Republican. The final figures gave: Democrats 205.303 Republicans 114,582 A checkup is under way to verify the lists, and Clarke said this and the May movings might alter the totals.

Mm (U i Vacations To Cut Rising Costs bitration choice to the mayor before midnight. Employes Draft Agreement Present at this parley were Edward McMorrow, international vice president and executive officer of the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America; L. Oscar Witt, president of Division 85 of the union; Alex H. Logue, financial secretary, and William L. Robinson, business agent, both of Division 85, and James W.

Redfern. president of the bus drivers' Division 1084. Witt and Redfern emerged from Vve went along easy for the first two days, giving the owners an opportunity to come to terms," he said. Cabbies Aid in Picketing. Operators of seven small downtown lots signed contracts calling for wages increases carrying from $3 to $10 weekly late last night and Stackhouse said he expected more to fall in line today.

The signers were the Service parking company with six places in the triangle district and the owner of a lot at Third and Grant streets. Stackhouse said it was planned to put up to 2.000 pickets on the line, the men to be recruited from units ASHINGTON. May 2. J. Hoover has ordered 335 G-'n assigned to 42 field offices vara ion this month "in the "ress of economy." Hoover said additional aocnts o.milH Vl who apparently failed to keep his end of the bargain after seeing his wife die of a slashed throat and his two baby daughters sue- cumb to chloroform.

I Homicide detectives in Pittsburgh late last night were searching for Ingeborg Bunge, who fled from her rooming house in a distracted state after sending the warning telegram to Tampa police. Miss Bunge received the letter at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning. It told of the family's trials, and said that her father and mother had determined to take Edith and Nina with them in death so that they would not be a burden to Ingeborg and her sailor-brother, Wolfgange, stationed in Honolulu with the United States navy. Began Letter Week Ago. The first part of the letter, all of which was in her father's handwriting, was written a week ago Saturday night.

A second part was written last Wednesday night. It was mailed Friday night The letter was signed "Mother and Dad." Detectives said they believed both "Mother" and "Dad" were written by Mr. Bunge, although an attempt apparently had been made to disguise the writing bf the word "mother." The family lived at 531 Fairmont avenue, Pittsburgh, until February (Continued on Page Tico, Col. 6J to take leaves of absence in of directors announces his resignation is due to failing health and business conditions, the letter also hints at factional strife within the organization. In his letter he states "Lack of co-operation from the majority of the dealers and particularly the desire of certain factions to tear down the very structure of the association, tend to make it impossible for me to continue with the work." The resignation will take effect May 10, allowing the association time to audit the books and elect a new chairman.

sr.e. Dolores Costello Sued saUrs's will continue during the the judge chambers long enough Weatinns. Hoover said the orders ot the Teamsters anrl Tn-riah to PYnlDtn that- nnforsaa urdm I Baby Starves OnNorthside By Penniless Father making a draft of an agreement, to fJZTf Vlun cover the proposed 'arbitration. Ithf he taxi' i -a uuvns mir leamsiers in rcr diem expenses. He said 'Justii number of costly hflr; caused a $107,000 '-n bv.reau's budget.

which they had promised to bring into the mayor's parley with union volved in the strike but are closely affiliated with the attendants' organization, which is a unit of the General Teamsters Council. Meantime city police, who yester- 1 One-Time Stage-Film Idol Faces Eviction, He Says, and company executives today. While not technically retained as counsel for the union, Witt and 4 Asking for $200 Month From Daughter Who Is Declared "Well-Fixed." Continued on Page Four, Col. 6) I (Continued on Page Col. B.J La Simon Admits Giving Friend Two Golden Keys Cause of Death Revealed Through Autopsy.

Tragedy again overtook Mrs. Jean Talkington, 27-year-old Northside mother, last night. Separated from her husband, father of her six-year-old twin boys, she returned from West Virginia to find that a new-born baby she Payoff Night Conducted For Democratic Raffle EvSrrrrtarv's T.nwver Makes Star Tell of Other had left with a brother in an East In Today's Intimate Gifts; Pajamas Returned To Store, Court Told. Tak en LO? ANGKLES, May 2. Members of Club "Kiek in" With Money, From Sale of Tickets, at Meeting Addressed by Candidates.

Simon notitA French A'hich she had engraved en save tn an unnamed North avenue rooming house had died. She had taken the older children to Fairmont, detectives said, to leave them with relatives while she returned to care for the baby. Nephritis a kidney inflammation was given as the cause of the infant's death by a family physician, but a verdict of death by starvation was given at the morgue following an autopsy. The report to Coroner P. J.

Henney by the detectives said the child had been prematurely born. "fre exhibited todav in the HOLLYWOOD, May 2. (United press) Hollywood's current epidemic of parent children suits spread to one of America's best known theatrical families late today when Maurice Costello, onetime Pittsburgher, filed an action against his daughter, Dolores Costello, demanding $200 a month support. The 61-year-old actor, once a reigning matinee idol, described himself as homeless, penniless and ill in petitioning the courts to compel his eldest daughter to support him. Costello contended he had searched in vain for a job and that only last Saturday he was notified that he would be evicted from his home unless he paid his rent.

His daughter was described as being "in excellent financial circumstances, owning and possessing a home of the approximate value of $50,000, kept and maintained by a staff of at least five servants." Costello said he had been in ill health since 1932 and that he had been unable to find enough work to support himself for the last of nrr former secretary, Martin, on charges of pil- lnn Kl-Vti from the star's bank court. -V the conclusion of the hearing f'- Martin was ordered held for fAj on Counts of grand theft forgery. Miss gimon on de. The pajamas. Miss Simon testified were returned to the store from which they were purchased.

Asked later by newsmen to identify the friend, she deepened her famous pout and replied: "You'll never know." Questioning the actress about a $735 check which Miss Martin cashed, Simpson asked: "Didn't you order her to have the engraved blank keys made to fit the door of your house, and order her to pay the bill?" Simone heatedly answered that she had paid for these things directly herself. Simpson asked her if she recently went to Miss Martin's apartment to look for certain recording discs. "Yes, and I found them," she shot back. Miss Martin had said previously she had made recordings of private conversations of several famous film stars. BonJ Bliss 5 Comics 18 Culbertson 18 Crossword Puzzle 18 David Lawrence 19 Death Notices 23 Editorials 6 Emily Post 11 Financial News 19, 20, 21 Foreign News 4 Grantland Rire 15 Hungerford's Cartoon 6 Let's Explore Your Mind 6 Mirrors of Sport 14 Pittsburghesque 6 Radio 11 Shopping With Tolly 11 Society, Clubs 10 Sports 14, 15, lfi Theaters 8 Under The Capitol Dome Walter Lippmann 6 Women's Features 11 Last night was the payoff at the Twenty-eighth Ward Democratic Club.

All members of the club who hold public positions with the city, county, state, or WPA "kicked in" the money they have collected during the past month from the club's sale of raffle tickets. Collections were taken at a meeting in the hall of the West Pittsburgh Post, No. 496, American Legion, Crafton boulevard. The regular order of club business was postponed to listen to Democratic candidates' campaign speeches. A crowd of some 200 turned out, however, because some of them a post script requesting them to see Miss Susan Conwell, treasurer, or John Ellwell, according to pay-rollers present.

During each lull in the speaking program city policemen, WPA workers and white collar office holders went back to the kitchen, just off the main hall. There Miss Conwell and Ellwell had set up their collecting agency. Before Miss Conwell were sheets of paper which contained names of every one who had been "asked" to sell raffle tickets. As the money came rolling in, she checked off the name. Ward Chairman Charles Daugh- ner expenditures; the de- ver.

William E. Simnson. ine House Votes to Make Nov. 11 Legal Holiday WASHINGTON, May 2. (IPs The House passed and sent to the Senate today a bill to make Armistice Day, November 11.

of each year a legal holiday "dedicated to the cause of world peace." The day now is a legal holiday in 44 states. that the actress also "Ae tier unnamed friend: gold hairbrushes. hp own handwriting. a watch fasnioned in the Z8 r' 1 znlf ball. -1-0 dressing gown and slip- i in tii.

mi i ir ii li "I irmif three years. He explained that his 1 daughter had contributed to his I support, but insisted that she now refuses to continue to help him. were reported to hav received DOLORES COSTELLO. A Pair of cards announcing the meeting with (Continued oh Pag Two, Col. .) pajamas..