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)-4mMnel sjc 1S21. Telephone: ATlantic 6100 MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1934. ro( Miaoiunni uu. THREE CENTS Li-JiO-1' Betrothal of British Prince, Princess Seen RAMEY CALLED BY DEATH, VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK PROTEST Jib MOUNT Lt. Number Of hitler Ballots Last Test, jince Dies Suddenly Industrial 3llC Risin? City Is Thronged With Veterans Of Spanish War wf" Iff- I WKTr-SKi fit Opposition 1 ide.

Frederick r' in A VitliiiiiiiR ft 1 four t've minion tar3fd -'iLlu'1 DUl an nver- vne co.i-. STEEL CHIEFS TALK OF CODE Speaker of House, Gaining After Pneumonia, Is Taken Suddenly. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19.

(A. Henry T. Rainey, beloved speaker of the House of Representatives, died unexpectedly in De Paul Hospital here tonight. The picturesque, white-haired speaker, who had been ill for two weeks from bronchial xcuiuonia, would have been 7-1 years old tomorrow. Mr.

Rainey died quietly at 7:50 p. three hours after Mrs. Rainey, happy over the apparent improvement in his condition, had left the hospital after spending the afternoon with him. Three physicians, hurriedly summoned, and a hospital supervisor were with the speaker when he died. Dr.

H. W. Soper, in charge of the physicians attending Mr. Rainey, said he developed angina pectoris and died before medical science could aid him. A native of Carrollton, his home throughout his life, Mr.

Rainey, first was elected to Congress from the Twentieth Illinois District in 1902. Except lor the landslide of 1920, when he was defeated although running ahead of the Democratic ticket, Mr. Rainey was returned in each biennial election. Long a colorful and influential Thousands Assemble For National Encampment. 25,000 ARE EXPECTED Three Major Issues Are Scheduled for victory t- Js swing the -n behind him, early today.

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RAEVEY. Believed on the way to recovery after an attack of bronchial pneumonia, Representative Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the National House of Representatives, died last night from a heart attack in a St. Louis hospital. 1 ro-i Twelve thousand visitors had arrived in Pittsburgh last night to attend the thirty-sixth national encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans, it was estimated by leaders of the organization who predicted the number would be doubled before the convention closes Thursday.

From every state in the union prixcess marixa. trixce george. Princess Marina, third daughter of Prince Xicholas and Princess Olga of Greece, and Prince George, fourth son of King George and Queen Mary of England, Mill be betrothed according to rumors heard on The Continent. The rumors gain impetus by the fact that Prince George has been invited by King Alexander, of Jugoslavia, to be his guest at the royal summer palace at Bled, an invitation that is looked upon as a means of promoting, the marriage between the prince and princess. bid for frrr.em:s to deduce figure in the House, he was elected opposition Has Sh.ick Leadership.

STRATOSPHERE FLIERS SAFE MAYOR CURBS MORALS COURT Crucial Phase at Hand In Mill Election Dispute. Signs of an imminent testing of the Federal Government's control over the steel industry were multiplied yesterday as the possibility of revoking the steel code was discussed by steel leaders here and in New York. It was indicated such action might be resorted to if "unsatisfactory" rulings on Section 7-A of the Recovery Act are handed down by the national steel labor relations board, headed by Judge vote vs heaviest v.c.-t. Catholic and ViohoM'. The mil-jjjreJ vote "nein" on the the duties and Capone Reported Moved To Pacific Island Prison Chicago Gangster, 42 Others From Atlanta Being Taken to San Francisco Bay Prison for 10 From Lewisburg Also Transferred.

r.t and Rcicr.s- to the speakership after John Nance Garner of Texas had been elected to the vice presidency in 1932. Mr. Rainey was conscious until the time of his death, Dr. Soper said. Throughout the day he seemed in the best of spirits, especially while chatting pleasantly with his wife and sister, Mrs.

Williams. Suddenly, Mr. Rainey called for a hospital attendant on his floor. She summoned three physicians, including Dr. Soper, but he succumbed before they could administer aid.

c.mte us a shock to the Belgian Pair Land in Jugoslavia; Fail to Set New Record. McNair Shifts All But Few Cases to Other Tribunals. :i.p. as v.c'1 as observ- fr- an iiiniost unani- ATLANTA. Aug.

19. (United Walter P. Stacy. News.) Al Capone, Chicago rack Until the steel board makes fur came the veterans, many of them clad in the picturesque blue and khaki uniforms of the Spanish campaign. Most of them were accompanied by their wives and children, who constitute the auxiliary organizations.

The Nixon Theater, jammed to overflowing, could accommodate only 3,000 of the delegates and their relatives and friends who wished to attend the memorial exercises last night, the first general session of the convention. The first business meeting will be held in the theater this morning. Stand On "Americanism." Although the policies of the veterans as mapped by the resolutions' committee will not be outlined until later in the week, it was broadly hinted that a call for stronger national defense, a new definition of "Americanism," and restoration of pension cuts which the Spanish campaign veterans have suffered will be among the resolutions presented. Some 12,000 of the veterans were Had Shown Improvement. 3-'vote hid been expected.

to most of the ifonrcd once or twice at fia the chir.cellery to sa-bo' tn the wild acclaim Berlin throng. election night scenes 'tfd in Borl.n. Solid deep of Nazi Storm :rir.d;shir.s torches and "1:1 until they were rt the man head of Ger- ther rulings in cases it heard here last week, on complaints of the The angina pectoris attack, Dr. eteer, was en route tonight to the Federal Government's new island prison for "dangerous" criminals in Amalgamated Association or Iron, Steel Tin Workers, such action is likely to be held in abeyance. San Francisco bay, according to reliable reports.

Determined resistance by large steel corporations is regarded as a certainty if the steel board attempts to compel them to sign Capone reportedly was among 43 prisoners who were awakened in their cells at the Atlanta Federal penitentiary before dawn and put arm raised, stood window at union wage agreements or contracts with the Amalgamated As were untrue. Washington justice officials refused to comment. Warden A. C. Aderholt of the Atlanta penitentiary was "out of town." He probably accompanied the two-car special train of prisoners.

At New Orleans tonight. Federal guards kept reporters away from the train. One prisoner shouted that Capone was "the man at the sith window" in the first car. A man resembling the gang leader waved from that car before a guard pulled down the window shade. Capone has served more than two years of his 11-year sentence on income tax evasion charges at the Atlanta penitentiary.

He has waged two unsuccessful fights for liberty on habeas corpus actions. The group leaving here reportedly was joined by 10 convicts from the Lewisburg (Pa.) prison. aboard a pecial train which is taking them to San Francisco via and watched the :r.t for hours through the New Orleans and Houston. Utmost efforts for secrecy sur rrar.z von rapen, sociation. Advocates of abandoning the code say this would free them from any obligation to live up to Section 7-A, which, under the law, must be incorporated into any code adopted by an industry.

rounded the movements. char.ceiior and new Statements of prison officials lent strength to the reports. Dep eliminated from consideration for pension by the Economy Act, an tD Austria, stood near parade marched by sotsy procession. action which the organization will Ikis Blare Nazi Tunes. Xpollo Vote Is Delayed.

Renewed last fall for the re seek to have rescinded. Mayor William N. McNair yesterday virtually repealed the city ordinance creating morals court, in an order direeting police to bring no cases there except those involving morals. The mayor, sitting as presiding magistrate in morals court, decided the whole system of handling morals court cases is wrong. His decision, provided it is not disputed, will end the practice of bringing to morals court cases of disorderly conduct resulting from complaints of the arrestee's family, and cases of alleged drunken women and minors.

The mayor wanted to be informed why police even arrested drunks. "Isn't drinking legal?" he asked. He announced the procedure of morals court is too formal, declared it would be changed immediately, and put the idea into action by coming down off the bench and sitting with the prisoners in conference style. In his order to police stations, which was issued shortly after the hearings, the mayor directed that hereafter all cases on complaint of families of those arrested and all cases of drunkenness be heard at the police stations in the district where the arrest is made "for the reason that the arresting officers shall appear in such cases." A dozen or more social workers, not paid by the city, but assigned to morals court for welfare work by various agencies, will have no more social work to do there, under the mayor's decision. The num- (Continued on Page Three, Col.

wedged in the mill- uty Warden J. H. Schoen here replied to queries: "You'll have to get that information from the department of justice at Washington." Officials normally would be quick to deny the reports if they A strong defense has long been advocated by the veterans, but they SO, 000 persons in mainder of the Recovery Act's duration, after an initial trial period, the code can be abandoned by a LJUBLJANA, Jugoslavia, Aug. 19. (Universal Service.) Dr.

Max Cosyns and Neree Vanderelst, Belgium stratospheric ballonists, landed near here safely last night at 7:30 o'clock after having attained a height of 16,000 metres, or approximately 10 miles. Nose and mouth bleeding by Vanderelst, Cosyns' assistant, as their metallic globe penetrated the upper air, forced them to abandon efforts to ascend higher in search of a new altitude record. Land in Remote Area. The two venturesome scientists, whose death in the sealed gondola had been feared by an anxious world, were cut off from communication overnight because of the remoteness of their place of landing and news of their whereabouts and safety got abroad only thts morning. Dropping down near the village of Zenalvje, in this section of northwest Jugoslavia, after nightfall, the balloonists spent the night in peace with the village schoolmaster.

This morning they took all moveable equipment from their balloon to the village of Gormiji-petroviski. Cosyns termed his trip "successful" and arranged to send the balloon to Belgium where the instruments will be checked. Balloon Drifts Southward. Cosyns and Vanderelst launched into the air fftim Brussels yesterday morning shortly after dawn. After disappearing in a southeasterly direction, their balloon was in the afternoon sighted at a level of about 3,000 metres.

For hours it drifted in plain sight of the earth, southeast and southward over Ger- (Continued on Page Two, Col. Z) are expected to speak out in new terms in their resolution on hrfore the chan-js unable to move out a vote of three-fourths of those af 'Americanism." Whether it will on thousands Soper -said, was so sudden that they could do nothing to prolong Mr. Rainey's life. Complications developed after the speaker. had suffered an attack of bronchial pneumonia at his home in Carrollton two weeks ago and he was brought to the hospital here.

For the past several days his condition showed improvement and today was regarded by his physicians as his best day. Henry T. Rainey reached th powerful post of speaker of the National House of Representatives after service in 14 Congresses. He was a white-haired veteran of 72 when he was handed the gavel at the start of his fifteenth term in March, 1933. He started his congressional service in 1903, and thereafter kept the Twentieth Illinois district in the Democratic column except in the Sixty-seventh Congress, when he was a victim of the Harding Republican landslide of November, 1920.

Faced Problems at Outset. When he failed of re-election, a compliment unprecedented in history was paid to him by his colleagues who held open his place on the powerful revenue committee. Two years later he was returned to Washington and his old place on the revenue committee. As speaker he was faced at the outset with the extraordinary series of legislative acts which marked the opening months of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

The national bank holiday, return of beer, the amendment to" abolish the Eighteenth Amendment, the grant- fected by it. brown waves marched Faced already with a threat by the famous avenues, Nazi machine's pro- COMPOSER FOUND DEAD BY BULLET 8,000 SEE DEATH OF 'CHUTE JUMPER ''si: popular emotion for hit at Communism or at those forces that have been fighting pensions for veterans could not be 'earned. William L. Grayson, of Savannah, chairman of the resolutions committee, would only indicate that it will contain plenty of "bare facts." tw tzar. tderstorm drove thousands the West Virginia Rail Company that it would "resist in every legal way" the holding of a Government-supervised election by its employes to choose collective bargaining representatives, the steel board on Saturday postponed the date of a similar election for employes of the Apollo Steel Company, Apollo, Pa.

ff as dusk fell, but most In a returned to watch the Irene Franklin's Husband Is Victim. Roy Stillman Killed 2,000 Foot Fall. f'rade and brave inter- The marchers' Memorial Services Held. Nearly 700 veterans had regis Apollo Steel had agreed to sucn dotted with many tar.r.2 popular and Nazi BEDFORD, Aug. 19.

(Universal Service.) While 8,000 persons tered last night but they had brought several thousand visitors with them members of their auxiliary and several other allied or an election, set for August 27, but company counsel in a second appearance before the board admitted that Amalgamated represented a majority of its employes. On the looked on, Roy Stillman, 26, noted parachute jumper, leaped to his Jt.t amazing increase in "i cn Fir, Col, 2.) ganizations whose conventions will basis of this admission, the com death today when his two parachutes failed to open properly after he dropped from a plane at an I BOYS SAVED pany sought to have the election altitude of 2,000 feet during tne called oft and at the same time stated it would reserve the right to deal separately with those of RIVER RESCUE show of the Westchester Air Pilots Association. its employes who are not members Stillman was removed to the of the Amalgamated union. Continued, on Page Two, Col. Northern Westchester Hospital at "I Waves of Steamer POND AND SABELLI CRASH IN WALES Plane Wrecked on Return Flight to America.

NEWPORT, Pembrokeshire, Early Ruling Promised. The board has promised an early Mount Kisco in a fire engine. He died in the hospital several hours after he had been admitted. LAST MINUTE NEWS aes Near Tragedy. waves of the river ruling on the main point raised by Apollo Steel, whether its admitted MENJOU TO MARRY AGAIN SATURDAY in the i r.v-r nenr Glenwood Hazelwoo.t bovs in a Wales, Aug.

19. (Universal Serv when the s'enmep Wil- (Continued on Page Five, Col. 1) NINE ARMY PLANES LAND IN DAYTON Only Waits Final Divorce Decree To Wed Verree Teasdale. ice.) Narrowly escaping death, Captain George Pond and Lieu Jones, following the hore down on the skiff. tenant Cesare Sabelli, American HOLLYWOOD, Aug.

19. tD Jerry Jarnegin, composer and husband of the musical comedy actress, Irene Franklin, was shot and killed at his pretentious home here tonight. Police said they were not able to determine immediately whether he had been slain or had taken his own life. The tragedy interrupted a dinner party just as it began. Miss Franklin told officers she and three guests had seated themselves at dinner and she had called to her husband to join them when a shot rang out in the living room.

Miss Franklin said she hurried in from the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, a bullet wound in his right temple. She summoned a physician and an ambulance, but Jarnegin died almost instantly. When "police arrived they found a .38 caliber pistol in a chair about six feet from the body. Detectives were examining the pistol for fingerprints. An autopsy was ordered.

Miss Franklin said the weapon belonged to her husband and he had kept it under his pillow on their bed. Detectives observed, they said, the pillow apparently had not been disturbed. Some three weeks ago the Jar-negins were in municipal court appearing against Lawrence Thomas, their former house boy, whom they charged with felonious assault. They alleged the boy beat them both after he had been discharged, and broke up furniture. Thomas was held for superior court trial and his hearing set for August 27.

Jarnegin was the principal witness against the youth. pc fore tne crew could (Continued on Page Three, Col. S) BICYCLE RACERS AHEAD OF RECORD Relay Riders Seeking New Coast-to-Coast Mark. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.

UP) Three hours and 48 minutes after being sent on its way in a transcontinental bicycle relay race, New York's team of riders entered Philadelphia today. In an effort to beat a 38-year-old record of 13 days, the East-West riders clipped the first lap mark by 29 minutes. Steve Dorie and his alternate, Mike Frank, brought from New York a message from Mayor LaGuardia to the mayor of Los Angeles. A minute after their arrival the message, in a leather knapsack, had been strapped to the back of Roy Berg, who set out toward Baltimore with relief riders to meet him on the journey. While the cyclists started pedaling from New York, another team started from Los Angeles for the East, each team striving to beat the other's time.

he ho' p-'d into the pproathed, the the Tenth On Alaska Trip renin in the little board. Capri. T.f. Downed by Motor. DAYTON, Aug.

19. UP) By LOUELLA O. PARSONS. Copyright, 1934, by Universal Service. HOLLYWOOD, Aug.

19. Adolphe Menjou today whispered that his marriage to beautiful, statuesque Verree Teasdale will be next Saturday, August 25. Menjou's divorce from Katherine Carver will become final tomorrow. Once the final divorce decree is in his possession, the best dressed man in the movies will go to the marriage license bureau here and file a notice to wed the lady of his choice. ti, Nearing the end of a history mak I'm out me up f.f the boys.

P''d -hnri VL'VtnrA Transatlantic fliers, attempting a return flight from Rome to New York, crashed to earth near here early' today in a heavy fog which drove them inland from the Irish sea. The daring aviators were badly shaken up but suffered no serious injuries. Their plane, however, was demolished. The accident occurred about four o'clock this morning, after the fliers left Rome last night in an effort to span the Atlantic on a return trip. The scene of the crash is a hillside 10 miles from Fishguard on the extreme western extension of Wales.

'tok them, send- to m0. Hospital for and the others ing flight that has taken them from the nation's capital, across desert land to Alaska and return, nine United States army bombing planes settled down upon Patterson Field late today, en route to their point of first take-off. 'h names of Re nova In A V. The tenth experienced motor n. Re- "t''fr 12, trouble, and tonight was at Omaha, from where it will hop tomorrow for Dayton, thence to FATHER, SON DROWN IN CAVE HOLE.

Scranton, Monday, Aug. 20. (A. John Walker, 46, and his son Howard, 15, of Carbondale, drowned last night in a water-filled cave hole near their home, the father sacrificing his life in an attempt to save the boy. FOREST FIRES MENACE 12 TOWNS.

Antigonish, N. Monday, Aug. 20. (A. Sweeping through sunparched timberlands, two forest fires, were roaring toward each other last night and threatening scores of homes in Antigonish county.

Both fires were growing in intensity and 12 communities were thought to be in danger of being destroyed. EARTHQUAKE FELT IN MISSOURI. Charleston, Monday, Aug. 20. (A.

An earthquake shook Charleston early last night, causing some damage. No one was injured. Several chimneys were torn down and slight damage was caused to numerous houses. The quake was felt in Cape Girardeau and other points in Southeast Missouri and in the vicinity of Cairo, 111. FAIRBANKS ON WAY TO LOS ANGELES.

Colorado Springs, Monday, Aug. 20. (Universal Service.) Douglas Fairbanks, -after spending the week-end here and in a visit to the Cripple Creek gold mines, left last night, for Albuquerque, N. whence he will proceed by plane to Los Angeles. THREE DROWN IN COLUMBIA RIVER.

Portland, Monday, Aug. 20. (A. Three persona were known to have drowned and two others were missing after a 12-foot boat capsized in the Columbia river near here last night. FIREBUG SOUGHT IN MAINE.

Skowhegan, Monday, Aug. 20. (A. Authorities last nighi pressed a search for a firebug believed responsible for of three fires which yesterday cansed damages in excess of $100,000, killed one and injured a score. its i odd.

Washington. eph Popp, a s' LONG WILL SPEED NEW ORLEANS PROBE Governor Plans to Sign Dictatorial Bills Today. rd h'iflfs Voss, 15, James street. PERNOR nunFR? TWO CHILDREN DIE OF COFFEE BURNS Special Spanish War Veterans Section RIOT PROBE In Today's Claire Boothe Brokaw. 20 Comics 14 Culbertson 14 Crossword Punle 14 David Lawrence 15 Death Notices 19 Dorothy Dix Editorials Edgar A.

Guest 6 Emily Post 8 Financial News 15-16-17-18 Foreign News 2 Hungerford's Cartoon 6 New York Daily Letter 2 Pull Up a Chair 12 Radio 20 Serial Stories 7-9 Society, Clubs 8 Sports 10-11-18 Theaters 20 Weather Report 18 What's in Fashion 0 William Lyon Phelps 6 Women's Features 9 H21 in: NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 19. Senator Huey P. Long, invested with dictatorial authority over Louisiana, intimated today from his armed headquarters at Baton Rouge that he would start his investigation seeking to remove Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley from control in New Orleans this week.

"They'll find out about it so quick they won't have to ask when it will start," the senator declared. Governor O. K. Allen announced Outbreak One Succumbs to Injuries Suffered Early Last Month. Two small children died of coffee scalds in local hospital late last night.

Leonard Davis, 14 months, of 2163 Wylie avenue, succumbed to the effects of burns received when he was scalded accidently at a cottage in Oakmont early in July. Andrew Caruso, 1 year, of 3409 Ligonier street, died as a result of similar scalds caused whan he pulled a cup of coffee over himself at his home yesterday. Today's Post-Gazette is in three sections, including an eight-page tabloid in honor of the National Encampment of the United Spanish War Yeierans. This special section contains many interesting Spanish "War photographs, the complete convention program and other unusual features. Be sure to get the complete paper.

5' intft aS? riot at the hpre yesterday. that he planned tomorrow morning t7" kllle1 nd to sign the 27 bills passed by the Legislature that gave Long the most power ever conferred upon a public official in this state..