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Uazett fcaUblishe! 116. Combined 1921. SATURDAY Telephone ATlantic 6100 JvlORNING, 1936. THREE CENTS THRONGS HAIL RIGH Ex-Governor Smith I SMITH ON ARRIVAL HERE For Major Talk Tonight Mill. s-x A TOB'SM CLAIMS I I FAIN IN WAR WO AID HapP Warrior" To Pehver Address For Landon.

5C0RTELVIIN PARADE Fortunes Change Riff lurnOUl uutfucauc Duquesne Bows To Wesley an In Big Upset, 2-0 Garden to Hear aiasn-in Speech Tonight. 3r EUROPE FEARFUL MOVE TORPEDOES NEUTRALITY HOPE Italy Reported Ready to Quit London Parley Today as Result of Notice Served by Soviet. Russia told the international committee for neutralitv I. llv Ml West Virginia School Panthers Rule 8 to 5 Favorite to Defeat Notre Dame. hi.

Smith, the Happy unnumbered past the Democratic ne into Pittsburgh ami'l the glare of irr-h lights and the of thousands of 4 -w elcomers to campaign against administration he of the led. r( the "Sidewalks of welcomed Governor usburgh. i Wins on Safety Early in Game. MIKE, MOORE STAR Small Crowd Sees Bluff Team Victim of Startling Defeat. By Jack Sell One short, sweet week of Th? 70,000 TO SEE GAME Undefeated Irish Squad Faces First Real Test Of Season Today.

After a lonely -week spent in hcalinjr the wounds suffered in 'I LiHllillWSM lllii! illllill the traditional dfTy ajar, -ir ii 2 from his mouth, his wrapped tight around a I gridiron glory, of headlines and pictures in the sports pages of the nation's leading newspapers, of acclaim as Du-mipsne University's greatest Doors Open at 7 ForSmith'sTalk the Duquesne disaster and in slowly working itself into a vengeful mood, an aroused Pitt Panther is prepared to pounce on the invading Irish from Notre Dame in the Stadium this afternoon and rip the visitors from the select ranks of the nation's unbeaten teams. in Spain yesterday she would act as she pleased toward the Spanish civil strife, but she retained her membership in the committee. The Exchange Telegraph Ag-ency reported from Rome that well informed official sources said Italy would quit the "hands-off Spain" agreement. In Spain, Fascist airplanes made their first daylight raids on Madrid. While the civilian population fled to shelter, government anti-aircraft guns unsuccessfully fired at the attacking aircraft.

Portugal today officially broke off diplomatic relations with the Madrid Leftist government, said a Lisbon dispatch this morning. By WilliamHillman Copyrirht, 19.1. by Universal Service, Inc. LOXDOX, Oct. 23.

Soviet Russia tonight virtually bolted from the non-intervention pact and tossed into tlie laps of Europe's assembled statesmen an inflammatory declaration openlr indicating that eleven in history ended all too soon in the mud and rain at Forbes Field last night. While a small crowd estimated mm, SrSX IRENE BENNETT. at 5.000 huddled in the stands to escape a steady drizzle, as courageous a group of pigskin warriors as ever trod a barred field carried the colors of little West Virginia Wesleyan College to a 2-0 victory over the Night Riders to The ilnfir of Duquesne Garden mil he oppii at 7 o'rlork tonight (he rrnwd expected to hear the miilrr- there of former finiprnnr Alfred K. Smith. At "ii thf Landon Volunteers will pffpr nm-ir and entertainment, and at o'clock the meeting will railed to order by Mrs.

A. S. F. he-lT. Colonel Henry BwUinridue will speak at 9:30, and at lt o'clock Major E.

After being the headliner in Hollywood's biggest success story six months ago, Irene Bennett, pretty Oklahoma girl, is in sanitarium dangerously ill with tuberculosis. Miss Bennett went to Hollywood in 1935 as a beauty contest winner. She tried again early this year and got a contract. The kickoff is scheduled at 1 o'clock. The second largest crowd in the history of the DeSota street saucer is assured.

Ten days ago the last precious pasteboard was sold, thus giving Pitt officials plenty of time to carefully total both paid admis the U. S. S. R. will bend all its efforts to save Spain's oociaiist communist regime from collapse.

(An Exchange Telegraph dispatch Servant to Tell Court Of Simpson and Blonde irom Rome quoted a Fascist offi- Wry Hume will introduce Mr Smith. Hi1 address will be rirrird on a national radio Miip. with KDKA the local outlet. No tickets will be re-yiT't for the meeting, and the ftrt thprp will he first seated, it announced, Post-Gazette Photo. ALFRED E.

SMITH "Instead of an orderly, sane and sensible government we've got a football game the mortal sin is that the rank and file of the American people are the football." Chicago, October 22. "I firmly believe that the remedy for all the ills we are suffering from today is the election of Alfred M. Landon." New York, October 1. Other Pictures on Page 1, Part S. shock the college world for the second time in seven days.

Smashes Into Grime. Early in the first period the boys from Buckhannon scored the only points registered against the Hill-toppers in five starts and those two markers, looming larger as each minute ticked away pushed the Red and Blue out of the unbeaten class and into the discard with the other also-rans. George Mike, burly 208-pound right tackle and Ken Moore, 187-pound center, battered their way through the Duke defense as Ken Bechtloff stepped into his own end zone to punt The local fullback fumbled and was smashed into the grime for the safety and what proved the vic Ipswich Village Crowded, Session of Court That Will Hear Vital Divorce Case Will Open With Pomp This Morning; 'Wally" May Leave Britain. cial there as having said Ambassador Dino Grandi, Italy's representative on the non-intervention body, will "undoubtedly" receive instructions tomorrow to hand in Italy'i resignation from the committee. This could not be confirmed in London tonight.) Diplomats Stunned.

Precipitating the gravest threat to Europe's peace since the close of the World war, Ivan M. Maisky, Soviet representative on the tottering non-intervention committee, sore from speaking, off a train in the into a close- sions and Annie Oakleys. Subsequently they announced that exactly 70.224 persons will squeeze into the permanent seats, the temporary bleachers and field boxes, provided, of course, that no enthusiastic old grads linger for one round too many or absent-minded persons reach Oakland only to discover they left the ducats in their other clothes back home. Fitt 8 to 5 Favorite. Pitt and Notre Dame set the local crowd record back in 1930 when 74,000 watched Knute Rock-ne's great machine capture an "easy 35-19 victory.

There were more field seats available at that time than there will be today. Despite Pitt's pitiable performance last Saturday against the Dukes, the betting fraternity has installed the Blue and Gold as the favorite and late last night were ed i 0 about 5,000 cheer- By Thomas C. Watson Copyright, 1938, by Universal 8ervire, Inc. Respondent's solicitors Middleton Lewis Company." 13 IN DISTRICT WIN IN SWEEPS TRAFFIC TASK WILL BE HUGE i i 1 6 irl'H' I'M! I I i ht i i 1 'i- t. j.

fill. I' I 4 i I i 1 1 Five Get Chance To tory. Put on Defensive. Thus, only a few minutes after they had received the opening kick-off, the Bluffites were battling from behind in an almost perfect duplication of the bewildered Pitt Panthers, who stunlbled around in the Stadium only a few blocks distant in vain efforts to overtake their city rivals last Saturday. Coach Cebe Ross' team emulated Stadium Grid Game And Political Rally Give Police Problem.

nd the locked hands of 5 police could the gov- "5e from the press about 1 which men and women! own derbies, sang with ind yelled their personal for Al Smith. vrl followed close behind who bore the Democratic Mndard eight years ago. ranched the parade cars, in a rush that all but Mrs. Smith, who is travel- governor, from her pi. 'led the fur wrap loose -houlders.

aflame, the crowd fell 'fhmd Smith'3 car in the along Grant street to Hotel. Cop Grand Prize Of $150,000. IPSWICH, England. Oct. 23.

The eyes of the world will be focussed on this sleepy, old-fashioned country town during the next four days when Justice Sir John Hawke in the full panoply of state presides at the Suffolk assizes and gaol delivery opening tomorrow morning. In the course of this assize the judge will be called upon to adjudicate the undefended divorce petition of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, American born Englishwoman, against Ernest A. Simpson. This petition is formally scheduled on the matrimonial causes list as: "Petitioner's solictors, Theodore Goddard Company, London.

Class of case W. D. (meaning wife divorcing). Names of parties Simpson, W. versus Simpson, E.

A. Evidence will be given by Mrs. Simpson and also by a chambermaid of the Hotel De Paris at Bray, a fashionable Thames resort. The alleged misconduct, on the basis of which Mrs. Simpson's petition was filed, occurred, it is stated in the suit, about three months ago.

The case has been referred to the Ipswich autumn assizes by the London district court. It is expected to be heard Tuesday, although under British law it can be heard any time after the opening of the assizes. Mrs. Simpson is staying in a house on Woodridge road in the (Continued on Page Four, Col. ft.) (Continued on Page Sixteen.) 800 STAY IN MINE ON HUNGER STRIKE Pittsburgh faced something akin to a war crisis last night as hordes of football fans and Al Smith fans the- famous Iron Men of Brown who wrote their names indelibly in college grid history years ago.

Only 13 members of the Orange and Black squad got Jnto action. On the kickoff which opened the sec- Novel Plan Adopted For Increase in Pay. the welcoming crowd (Continued on Page Seventeen. stunned the diplomats of 27 nations by presenting a formal statement, which declared: "Pursuant to its declaration of October 7 (in which Russia charged Germany, Italy and Portugal were directly aiding the Spanish insurgents) the Soviet government cannot consider itself bound by the non-intervention agreement to any greater extent than other members of this conference." Terming the neutrality pact an "empty, torn scrap of paper which ceased in practice to exist," the sensational Soviet declaration, threatening immediate Russian help to the Madrid regime in Spain's civil war, stated: "The government of the Soviet sees only one way out of the situation to return to the Spanish government the right and facilities to purchase arms outside of Spain and extend to the parties to this (nonintervention) agreement the right to sell or not to sell arms to Spain." Virtually Wrecks Accord. Maisky, Russia's ambassador to Great Britain, submitted the Soviet statement after the non-intervention committee, established to prevent the Spanish war from spreading into a general European conflagration, reconvened late this afternoon in an atmosphere of super-charged tension.

Thirteen children of fortune in i the Pittsburgh district found themselves at the end of a rainbow yesterday as news from Europe gave them shares in the Irish Sweepstakes pot of gold. Five of the lucky 13 have a chance to win $150,000 on each of their tickets. The balance are assured of at least $2,900 each. The winners, so excited at their good fortunes they were unable to make definite plans, promised themselves trips, clothes and automobilesand one announced the money will permit him and his fiance to carry out marriage plans four years delayed. Americans drew a total of $1,250,000 out of the $.000,000 in prizes for the nineteenth Irish RAIN DUE TODAY, WITH HIGH WIND BEUTHEN.

Germany, Oct. 23. Eight hundred miners entombed themselves tonight in an underground hunger strike in a coal mine on Polish territory near here. The mine extends underground beneath German soil. PEDESTRIAN DIES IN MOTOR MISHAP began descending on the city.

Traffic regulations were tightened and all police were called to duty to keep order in the city during the biggest Saturday of 1936. A scene the equivalent of a nightmare confronted the force long lanes of automobiles jamming the streets leading to Pitt Stadium, where the Pitt and Notre Dame teams will attempt to take each other apart 10.000 or more political enthusiasts converging on Duquesne Garden to hear the former Democratic presidential candidate doing the same for the New Deal. In addition, there is the duty of seeing that ticket scalpers and peddlers of phonev tickets do not Weather Man Warns Gridiron Fans To Go Prepared. ESTATE FEE CASE LOST BY LAWYERS Pittsburghers Fail to Get $36,000 by Ruling. By Our Own Correspondent.

FRANKLIN, Oct. 23. The three "outside" attorneys, engaged by three former county commissioners to collect estate taxes due A similar strike at Mala Dom-' browska, near Beuthen, involving 300 miners was ended August 29 Republicans, their joined with yellow Wt'rtk From Speaking. more than the usual street crowds were nc of the parade, and fell almost silent at parade moved slowly a shout of "We rU" came from a street passing automobile, al-' r.z a lusty boo from the ni-faced and unoom-" Smith who rode In -r through the Ohio Pittsburgh last night, ho will deliver an-" -iashing attacks on the Pittsburgh today will share in a general rainy condition prevailing in the Ohio valley, according to the weather bureau. Besides being prepared for wet weather, football fans would do well to equip themselves with heavy clothing for the Pitt-Notre Dame game, for it was indicated after the men had stayed underground six days.

The Polish miners have barricaded approaches to the shafts and hoisted a black flag at the pit-head as their signal that the strike was on. Frantic wives and children Nurses at Dublin, operate under the lure of the $50- sweepstakes. Victim Is Blinded By Headlight Glare. Blinded by the headlights of an oncoming automobile, Roscoe Drun-bar, 35. WPA worker of Bright-wood.

Bethel township, was struck by the machine and killed early today in the Coverdale road, Bethel township. Joseph Saginsky. 22, Beadling, alleged driver, took Drunbar to the office of Dr. H. S.

Lake, who pronounced him dead and held Saginsky and three companions, including two girls, for arrival of constables. xx-hn rnndlirted the drawings frOIU fl.nair hirh Hi nfTproH fnr- gH. huge drums holding d.000,000 i mission to the game. millpd ahout the nit-head. The men that a brisk northwest wind will All the 700 uniformed policemen i on patrol duty will be detailed to demand higher wages and better make the Stadium a chilly place to working conditions.

1 sit for two hours or more. counterfoils, pulled out a total of 992 counterfoils, of which 465 were held bv Americans. It was the While not unexpected, Soviet Russia's action virtually wrecking the non-intervention agreement Venango county, were denied any remuneration whatsoever, in a 45-page opinion handed down late today by Judge Henry C. Niles of York, who, this week, heard testimony of counsel for a 20 per cent fee. The sum of $180,000 was turned in to Venango county as taxes due from the estate of the late George W.

Crawford by their efforts. In the decree nisi. Judge Niles ruled a power of attorney between the former commissioners' board 'hf man who was once Americans biggest take since the -onal friend and polit- sweepstakes started. The drawings will be concluded Saturday with 10 a custom of his cam- i residual prizes and 1,600 consola-'m- receiving reporters, i tion prizes of $500 each. the job of handling the crowds by Police Superintendent Franklin T.

McQuaide. Afternoon and night men, whatever their regular hours, will be detailed to the football game and traffic duty on the streets leading to the Stadium, and all night men (Continued on Page Two, Col. hoarse voire, more mm his sore throat, LAST MINUTE NEWS Sixty-two horses are enterea ior the race next Wednesday, with 25 scheduled actually to run. Each of the tickets drawn yesterday is worth $2,965. Holders of Mollison Denies He Gave Ring to Beryl Markham Briton Preparing For Ocean Hop Says He Wont Fight Amy's Divorce Plans, But Insists There's No Romance With Blonde.

Special to the Pittsburgh Fost-Gaiette and the Chicago Tribune. will be at Duquesne Garden along with a big contingent of the other turns. Parking has been limited for the ever-present cigar 'a a he talked, shoul- the day no parking in Fifth avenue from downtown to Neville and three attorneys, Samuel Wilson, Clarion; John E. Evans and Sebastian Pugliese of Pittsburgh, was "null and void." The three "outside" lawyers sought a fee of $36,000. WAGE RAISE OFFERED TO LONGSHOREMEN.

San Francisco, Saturday, Oct, 24. (A.P.) East coast and foreign steamship operators sponsored a new peace move on the waterfront last night by offering a wage increase to longshoremen, but its fate was left in the balance when union spokesmen (Continued on Page Four, Col. 5.) rn P(uje Four, Col. 6.) (Continued on Page Two, Col. 2.) dayboys Wait Sentence For Embezzling $54,000 NEW YORK, Oct.

23. James A. Mollison, transatlantic flier, today I said it could not be accepted without approval of the maritime union "solid front. BROWDER VISIONS PACKING OF COURT Names Roosevelt Second Choice of Radicals. made his first comment on the crack-up of his marriage to Amy Johnston Mollison, England's fore-, most woman flier.

Mollison is making test flights at Floyd Bennett Field preparatory to taking off Monday for He hones to establish a new time Clerks Quickly Plead Guilty to Taking Money I- mance Gay Times; Musmanno, Scoring Pris-nncrs, Sets Wednesday For Fixing Penalty. I VP record. tectives and bankers alike in a daze, can be set at imprisonment r-max to the incredi- ihry took $54.000 1 Mollison does not intend to balk anv divorce plans made by his 1 Sep Pittsburgh Trust I from six months to five years and a fine of $500 to $5,000. Renkin. who lives at 335 Mich- CHILD, NAIL IN THROAT, FLIES FOR OPERATION.

Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 24. (A.P.) Joan Oliver, four year-old child of Mrs. Clara Oliver, was streaking toward Philadelphia last night in an American Airlines plane with a nai1, swallowed a week ago, lodged firmly in her throat. Before leading here her condition was pronounced dangerous.

PITTSBURGHERS ENTER COLLEGE OF SURGEONS Philadelphia, Saturday, Oct. 24. (A.P.) The American College of Surgeons inducted last night into fellowship 488 surgeons of the United States including Herbert Frankenstein, Samuel Goldstein, Frederick E. Kredel, James R. Watson, John E.

Weigel, Warren A. Wolf and George E. McKenzie of Pittsburgh. FEAR OF STUDENTS STOPS MEET FOR REDS. Montreal.

Saturday. Oct. 24. (United Press.) Fear cf sporty, free-spend- Special to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Chicago Tribune. NEW YORK, Oct.

23. Earl Browder, Communist candidate for President, told 500 New York University students today that "the number of justices will be increased from nine to twenty, with eleven good Farmer-Labor justices, on the bench," if the United States supreme court "doesn't stop trying to dictate economics and social security." In Today's Books 11 Church News 6 Comics 25 Culbertson 11 Cross Puzzle 25 Damon Rtmyon 18 David Lawrence 4 Death Notices 28 Dorothy Dix 13 Dorothy Thompson 8 Editorials 8 Emily Post 13 Fair Play Club 20 Financial News 21-22-23 Foreign News 2 Grantland Rice 18 Hungerford's Cartoon 8 Mirrors of Sport 16 Pittsburghesque 8 Radio 2 'Round the Town 15 Shopping With Polly 13 Society, Clubs 12 Sports 16-17-18-19 Stamp News 25 Theaters 10-H Weather Detail 24 William Lyon Phelps 8 Women's Feature 13 wife. There have been previous recurrent rumors that the Mollisons were going their separate ways. But each time both have denied them vehemently. The report of a new romance in Jim's life cropped up when Mrs.

Beryl Markham recently arrived here in a solo hop from London. George Renkin. avenue, Beltzhoover; and Schmidt. 30. were i pcnmidt.

of 4 Perryview avenue, Judge Michael A. jorthside. were arraigned in court rvtrrday afternoon and yesterday afternoon a few minutes to charges of em- after a lightning hearing before Alderman Andrew M. Maloney at rn denouement fnl- rx-icnnoi-e aryaafOroA 4 hours after the guilty to the charges of Chief of County Detectives Peter Connors that thev had taken $54,390.50. The Communist candidate said that his party program of "progres- 0 Bin Art ab unHsp ronitalicm" Reports of an interest between Jim and Beryl are said to have nnnoved Amv.

When Mrs. Mark- Pir early Thursday 3 attractive wife went Attorney Andrew T. v-r. plain of her husband's violence from hostile students of the University of Montreal last night caused cancellation of a meeting in behalf of the Spanish W- ham returned to London a story appeared saying Beryl was wearing Tinn try or Leftist government. i 1 Sivc juiaui vai.k v-i.

ft will tax the rich, adding that "if the rich do not like taxation, the only alternative is confiscation and revolution." "Vote Communist." he told the students, urging them, however, to vote against Governor Landon if This Mollison never erine McCann. 25, of 940 West North avenue, Northside, waived hearing before Alderman Maloney yesterday afternoon on a morality charge and bond was set at $2,500. Visibly worn by their long grilling, trembling, with Renkin wear- A Pter to the story will nrxt Wednesday when held on $100,000 bond brought into court for the intricate ramifications have de- BIRTH OF SEXTUPLETS REPORTED. Allahabad, India, Saturday, Oct. 24 (United Press.) Reports reached here last night that a woman at Miani gave birth to sextuplets.

One of the infants died. gave any woman a ring," he said, "and Beryl Markham and I are merely good friends. I think she is a charming girl with real spunk." 1 they did not want to vote the Red SIRS. BEKVL MARKHAM. ticket outright.

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