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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1937- Alumni Official HARMONY LINE HEARING OPENS RIOT AMUSED POLICE, AVERS Ex-Movie Heroine Dies, Made Fortune in Realty Ruth Roland, Star of Silent Thrillers, Is Victim of Cancer at Age of 39. HEPPENSTALL Laughed, Denied Aid Official Says At Writ Hearing. TELLS OF ATTACKS her death were her only survivors, her second husband, Actor Ben Bard, whom she married in 1929, and an aunt, Edith Thompson. Miss Roland's first husband, L.

E. Kent, continued as manager of her business affairs after their divorce and still holds the same position. Miss Roland made a nine months' vaudeville tour seven years ago after completion of her first and only talking picture. Funeral services will be held sometime Friday at the Wee Kirk of the Heather in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Strikers Barred Doctor HOLLYWOOD, Sept 22.

UP Ruth Roland, who turned quietly from life as a queen of silent screen -serial thrillers" to a $3,000,000 career in real estate operations, died today after a five months' illness from cancer. Miss Roland, S9, entered pictures in 1912 at the age of 17, after some brief experience on the stage in her home town of San Francisco. She rose to stardom in the popular chapter-a-week movies of that period. In the early '20's, Miss Roland retired from the screen to devote her entire time to extensive real estate holdings, consisting principally of business lots in the Wil-shire-Fairfax district here. With Miss Roland at the time of Called for Marooned Employe, Claim.

Testimony that police laughed and failed to interfere when strikers overturned an automobile and beat officials and loyal work EXPERTS PREDICT the biggest real estate and building boom of this generation. Buy Real Estate NOW. See TODAY'S Post-Gazette want ads for better bargains. Adv. is crs at the Heppenstall Steel Company plant during the August 23 riot was given at yesterday's In junction hearing by S.

B. Heppen 47 stall and Max Heppenstall. S. B. Heppenstall said four auto Testimony Begins on Plea Of Bus Company For Tube City Route.

Taking of testimony on the Harmony Short Line Motor Transportation Company's application for the right to operate bus service in McKeesport and vicinity was started yesterday before Public Utility Examiner L. N. Dilley. It is one of three concerns asking for the McKeesport privilege after proposed abandonment of street car service by the West Penn Railways Company. The other applicants are the Mon Valley Bus Company, the hearing of whose petition has been completed, and the Penn Transit Company, operating one line there, and which has been purchased by the City Coach Company of Chicago.

Both oppose the Harmony petition. C. A. Sweeney of 1215 Meadow street, McKeesport, a Harmony company employe, who said he is to be its McKeesport district manager if its petition is granted, was on the witness stand all day. Ha told of a survey he made of tha territory, described the proposed bus routes, and gave estimates of yearly mileage operations proposed, and of traffic expected.

He gave 919,710 as the estimated yearly mileage. The fare is to be five cents within the city, with a three-cent ticket rate for school children. The com-pany asks also the right to operate between that city and Irwin and Suterville. The company proposes a line in Patterson avenue, for convenience of millworkers, besides routes designated as the Walnut street, Jenny Llnd street, Bailey avenue and Grandview avenue routes, with service for the Bryn Mawr and Lincoln way districts. More testimony is to be presented at a hearing to be set later.

mobile loads of men were driven to the plant gate which was found DON F. SAUNDERS. Succeeding the late Dr. John W. W.

Hallock, Saunders yesterday was appointed by the alumni council as acting secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University of Pittsburgh. barricaded and bound with wire When the obstructions were cleared, he said, three of the cars PITTSBURGH MUSICAL INSTITUTE, INC. 131 Bellefield Avenue Phone MAyflower 1000 CLASSWORK RESUMES WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 27 Preparatory theory, harmony, ear training, counterpoint, keyboard harmony, form and analysis, composition, orchestration, teacher training, pedagogy, interpretation, piano or string ensemble, church music, children's piano classes, eurhythmies, expression, etc. Telephone or write for schedule and rates. PRIVATE LESSONSt Piano, organ, vote, oxpraition, violin, 'cello, harp, or any orehtitral instrument.

succeeded in passing in but the BLENDED WHISKEY THE WHISKEY WITHOUT REGRETS fourth bearing himself and several others was set upon by a gang of SECRETARY PICKED 90 PVo4 ttsv fjlffvtf6f vfftsoJMsv strike sympathizers. The witness, who was struck in the head by a flying missile and injured, said he saw Fred Richard BY PIH ALUMNI Ol.lMlorto(looeloiyloodA;oTll,"'4 Cod No. At All State Stores Available at yonr favorite club, bar. hotel Branch olf.i Commonwealth Annex B'dr, Pittsiw, son, an employe lying on the ground nearby. Don F.

Saunders Plans "Several men were beating and For Membership Drive. Don F. Saunders, '29, yesterday was appointed acting secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University of Pittsburgh in succession to the late Dr. John W. W.

Hallock, according to announce fmmmmemsmammmm ment by the Alumni Council. I In his new office Saunders will take an active part in an inten ii sive membership campaign to be conducted In Allegheny county this I fall. He has been editor of alumni publications since 1933, and was formerly publicity representative of Pitt's department of athletics. i The council also announced the appointment of William Allison, a 1933 graduate, as managing editor ef the "Alumni Review," the as sociation's monthly magazine. usm kicking him," he added.

"A group of police stood a few yards away, doing nothing." Brother Backs Testimony. Heppenstall said a squad of police was stationed at the gate when the cars were driven up and laughed loudly when his machine was overturned. The car was destroyed by fire and 12 persons were injured in the rioting, some of them seriously. Max Heppenstall, who was riding in the wrecked car, corroborated his brother's testimony. saw several policemen standing about," he testified, "but none made an effort to interfere." James Ford, a department superintendent, told of demonstrators crowding about an ambulance removing injured persons after the riot and hurling bricks at the vehicle.

"If the police made an effort to halt the bombardment," he said, "I did not see them." Ford said men marooned inside the plant dared not show themselves lest a barrage of stones be hurled at them, Physician Barred, Is Claim. On the evening of August 23, after the rioting, Howard Grimm, general superintendent, said, he notified police that the demonstrators were attempting to batter their way through one of the gates but the officials did not respond to the alarm. When those Imprisoned in the works finally were evacuated on August 24, he said, stones were hurled against a patrol wagon in which they were taken out. This, he said, resulted in no action by the officials. Previous to the riot, Grimm tes QUARANTINE NEAR END IN DAYTON, PA.

Infantile Paralysis Held ink i5cvi To Two Cases. Two cases of infantile paralysis, one fatal, in Dayton, Armstrong county, and vicinity recently resulted in a general quarantine as a precaution against a possible epidemic of the disease. Barring further appearance of the malady, the quarantine, which was ordered September 13, will be lifted tomor row night, according to S. P. Butler, secretary of the Dayton board of health.

A 19-year-old Dayton girl was stricken with infantile paralysis and died in her home last Sunday tified, a physician was summoned while officials sought an "iron lung" to aid her breathing. A school teacher at nearby Hawthorn is now fighting the disease in a Punxsutawney hospital. 6 ItfSI 78c falm, pint No. 384 90 Proof Quart L48 Cod. No.

383 I to the plant to treat one of the maintenance workers who was severely burned. He was turned back by pickets, according to the witness. John Boor, a telephone repairman, was placed on the stand to corroborate testimony given Monday by C. W. Heppenstall, who said he was unable to obtain a police escort so the man could enter the plant to inspect The quarantine closed schools, churches and theaters, and prohibited all public gatherings, while confining children to their homes.

CARMELITE ORDER NOVENA ON OCT. 3 Service In Connection With St. Day Listed for Loretto. The feast day of St. Therese of Llsieux will be preceded by the seventh annual solemn novena at the Carmelite Monastery, Loretto, Pa, opening Saturday and closing on the feast day, October 3.

The novena, marking the twelfth anniversary of the canonization of the "Little Flower of Jesus," will NEW PUGH STORE OPENS TOMORROW Jewelry Firm in Air Conditioned Building at 409 Smithfield. Celebrating a quarter century of business in Pittsburgh, Pugh Brothers will open their new jewelry store at 409 Smithfield street tomorrow morning. The new store Is in a four-story building equipped with air conditioning and the most modern indirect lighting facilities. Walls are paneled with walnut and ceilings painted a pastel blue. The new store will also maintain an optical department equipped with scientific examining instruments.

The Pugh Brothers have three stores in Pittsburgh and stores in Youngstown, Wheeling, be conducted by the Reverend Peter Lark in of the Oblate Fathers, Washington. Holy mass will be celebrated each morning in the Loretto mountain shrine's public chapel, followed by novena services in the chapel twice dally. 97c I I 111 PINT FIFTH Cod No. 478 Detroit, Chicago and Omaha. They began business 25 years ago in 5412 Three Pittsburghers Get Posts With State Three Pittsburghers were among the 151 employes hired by the state according to personnel change sheets made public in Harrisburg yesterday.

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