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1929 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: THURSDAY, APRIL" DATES TO OPEN I sPeak Tomorrow I Two Probes Are Planned On Theft of Court Evidence BIDS ON RIVER WORK ARE SET a I TO 1 lie eXl'-lii. ot I in in- his acuity wi s' on reduced by 'he commonwealth was the fact that the victim was uea-1 Ratieri wen on tl.e stand and ex-I j-lame that l.e ktiied the man in 1 'Iain the or 7. after th came 'o detective inforrnini? tliem that 4 i -V 1 I 4 Lock Gates for Dam On Mississippi Are On List. BUSY SEASON FORECAST shoo' in? at 101S I'eti-r Connors, who a tt.JTfeJ USA fW, in 'i-. nai h'id been demoted in char ge of th' a as in he office self-defense and the state had nothing with whuh to combat his story.

A of -ulky of voluntary rnanslaiu was returned by the jury after being out an hour. Spac-noletti was shot April X'JZ', a 101S Poplar way. and died April 5. in the Pass.ivanr hospital of a -runsho. wound in the abdomen.

P.anieri went on trial Monday in criminal fourr before Judge O. C. Kent, of Crawford county. He was defended by Attorney diaries O. Notari.

Assistant District Attorney M. Harney Cohen handled the case for the commonwealth. I the He went to w.iv address and found 1 i inc. He ordered him to Ho.spital and went work on tlie case. He found a brother of the victim and shortly after arrested when the Motler identified him as the fiun- if- 'ft: He found three other wit-to the shooting and d-tained All of the evidence he his prisoners he then over to the homicide squad.

man liesw hem. t. nncd Ul lli' i First Two Craft of Big Barge Contract Launched By Dravo Firm. Tli I n.i 'l war niiflU In Id tin market for navigation foi in I. hi.

I river it wa mated ynterl.i r.il eiiKineeia of thi Si. rani ilisnni will I.hIm M.iy 1 fur ii i Imk KtfH for tint I l.t.-t ti, i. ii Hi- Mi.v ii.I'i river, work en ttie iluiu i.nw inn timler way. At Mm Harm- tirne bids will tie 0.rni-.t for lime liou! trex-tln, nmr ai roim na'eH for fh Itoule litfii. ulni lor four Imii; tioxi-H anil II rx-arriH.

TIih Iitii 1. i fur aces Second Charge. Ranieri. in los own defense yesterday, admitted the shootingr but de-! clared it was in self-defense when he was on the floor heing pumnieh-d by Mike rind Matthew- Spa-noictti. brothers of the dead man.

Antonio, he testified, had been in the kitchen and was sl-f accidentally during the TIE TdB8M anei A FT Bill scuffle. Following the verdict, Ranieri was remanded to jail. He awaits further trial on a charge of felonious assault and batter' growing out of the shooting of Mike Spngnoletti durincr the fight at lois Poplar way. failure iIHivit ui'Iiiii a I timw I i-r i.iy. Tho I'liUnil i in'iinrH of Mie I'lllH- tnjrKh iliKirut will open lldn Mity 13 for the conM rm ion of ti.xT and lower lock Kittm for No.

7. where the lravo Contracting Company now im construct mir the lock, i Th Kitten will require approximately TAX COLLECTORS BOGUS, CLAIMED Hoard President Recalls That M.niy Merclianls re I'eiii" Fleeced. A beautiful April day. Spring i in the air. Suddenly clouds roll up.

Gusts of wind stir the trees. A light drizzle starts. As nipht comes on. the temperature drops. The drizzle becomes a heavy downpour.

The spring day turns to a blizzard, and the rain to sleet. The trees become many-fingered ghosts of icy whiteness. Telephone poles become lurid shafts pointing up into the inky-blackness. As the hours pass, shimmering streaks of silver appear between the poles. The rain and sleet are coating the wires! With their heavy loud of ice, the poles and wires sway in the tempest.

Suddenly crash! The line goes down. Over a wide area, other lines fall. The works of man are as naught against nature's fury. Before the storm has reached its climax, the guardians of the wires are calling for help. Near and far, from other states, from nearby towns, the call is heard.

Trucks are loaded and manned with crews. North. eat, south, west they head for the storm- stricken area. They arrive. The fight is on lo undo the wrath of the storm king.

They unscramble the tangled wires a hundred miles each hour. wires, new cables, are uncoiled along the highways, on fences, on posts The service must he restored. In a matter of hours every telephone is back in service. Then the calm. Months of steady, continuous construction.

New poles are set. Permanent cables and wire are placed. In time of stress, of storm, of catastrophe, tiie Bell System knows no boundaries. Hell workers know no hours, the Bell Companies spare no expense The obligation to render a continuous service has its roots deep in the Bell organization. lK.

AK( IIIHAl.lt III NDI KXIN. I list iniiuihed critic anil historian wlin will deliver a tree be- Hire at the Nixon Theater tomor- i row afternoon at o'clock on Keriiard h.iv and his plaH. Dr. Hemlerson, i ips lest known as shaw's biourapber, roiiien here under the auspices of the New ork Theater timid and friends and subscribers of the tiiiild especially are invited to attend BUILDERS HEAR INSURANCE MAN Convention Delegates Told of Accidents Costly Toll. A visit to the nulls of the Jones 4 tjuinhtin Steel Co.

at Aliii nip-pa occupied the afternoon of yesterday's session of the builders and contractors here this week tor he conference of the r.uildin,' Officials of America in the William lVnn hotel. II. W. Heinri. assistant superintendent of the engineering and inspecting; division of the Travelers Insurance Company.

Hartford, speaking- at the morning- business session declared that the construction industry incurs a loss of 13.000,-Odoo yearly from accidents. Turn, he said, is the direct result of the tremendous development of machinery and the failure of supervisory methods to progress correspondingly. Iick of supervisory ef-ftclecny and on the part of employes cause SS per cent of the mishaps. A scientific program of accident prevention is necessary for Improvement, he concluded. Other speak-rs at the meeting were W.

R. Richards, safety director of the Associated General Contractors of America, Washington, D. C. I'. J.

Reville, superintendent of builduiRs of the Bronx, New York city, and Cecil C. Chad-wick, putilic buildings commissioner of West Newton, Mass. That many small merchants throughout the county are being fleeced through bogus mercantile tax collectors was revealed yesterday afternoon by A. R. Bowden, president of the Allegheny County Board of Mercantile Tax Collectors.

liowden stated that the authentic tax bills for mercantile taxes had been mailed from his office on April 18 and that the taxes were collectable during the months of May and June only at the office in the Allegheny county court house. He stated that his attention had been called to the activities of three or four bogus collectors by merchants who called his office and stated that they had paid his collectors for the taxes which he had billed them for. Descriptions of the foremost operator given to Bowden stated that the man was about 42, weighed about 170 pounds, graying about the temples, sandy complexion and wa-s driving. All Make Statements. Xi-ril K.

according to police records. st.it, Hu nts were taken from the ti iihh by a Richards, a sten, a pher. The nu were taken to the office of r.urke Reed, secretary to superintendent Walsh and a notary public. Reed snore the men to their statements. The statements were made in triplicate.

The original copy as left with Supfrintend-. lit The ollar two were ik. to the homicide 5quad offices i filed. April Iiet.rtive William Mc-i 'ri a went to the scene of the killing and took pictures covering all of Mm testimony obtained tip to that tune. It is tiiese statements and which now are misMnir.

Shortly afterward with all the, accumulation of testimony against him tending to prove first decree murder, Ration was released on a chart-e of murder by the office of the district attorney on bail of $5,000. lie has been at liberty ever since until his conviction yesterday. "I am unable to explain the disappearance of the statements," said Lieutenant David Corbett, of the. homicide snuad. "I took those statements.

I'm not sure whether we male two or three copies. One we sent to the superintendent's office, and the other one, or two, we placed in our files. How they vanished I don't know. It" I did I would have told it at the trial." Only in the last year or so. Corbett explained, has a particularly close STUard been placed on the tiles of the homicide department.

The sergeant in chaise and Corbett are the only ones having keys to the files. Before that, Corbett said, any one could have removed things from the files, as the key remained in the lock. It has been known to officials for three days that the evidence in the Ratieri case was missing. Despite this fact all that was permitted to leak out was the information that one "statement" from one of the witnesses was missing- Gardner's office declared at the time this was revealed that the statement was "unnecessary" und unimportant. Not until yesterday, when the case "flopped" completely, was it made known that all the evidence was missinc Maims Self-Ik'feiise.

For three days the case of the prosecution stumbled along with spectators who were unaware of the stolen or destroyed evidence amazed at the showing of the district attorney's office in what had been heralded as a water-tight first-degree murder case. I'ractically the only evidence in- no toim of matiriul for their construction r.i'In also will I opened in Mm office May ii) for Mm construction of two lock build-lnga for the lock mauler anil engineer in charge of the 1 Kallmann Island lock. Ohio river. Dravo launche Hume. Tin: Dravo Contracting; Company launclieil thu flint two of an order of 13 flush deck type barges for the IhhIhhIi'IiI river commiKHiori, Mem-lihiH.

Thu t.alance of thin order will tiiiiiii'hf'l nt lli! rate of one every 'bird Hay. Cuhi icul mil of the for the i on.xt ruction of five harKi-s for the New York Central railioail is now koui; Muuunh the Neville IhIhihI hIio.m. Tin material will lie shipped to their Wilminston for Hs.s. Th Kiter- 'onley Manufact linns Company ill nhl one steel pontoon to iUton Rouse May I. This float was const ructeil for the Standard Oil Company of Ijimisiana to he utwd as a landing hoat.

Want I niiiie Itoat Here. Uiver interests are petitioning licneral T. W- Atthburn, chairman anil executive of the lnlanil Waterways I 'orponition, to have the steamer Iramht K. Ixivis brought to for inspection. The hoat tnaile an cxn llent trial run last week from the ways of the Chnrles Ward HnKineerinif Charleston, pulven.e.l coal beintr The coal in pulverized in a specially UeslneJ mill on hoard the steamer and the diiMt In Mown Into the furnace for combust ion.

The packet l.ilierty in and out yesterday. Three steamer" left the harbor yesterday with a combined tow of 11 barges of coal and four hurst of coke. Following slacea were reported last ninht: I-ock No. 2, Ohio river, 119 feet, falling: No. 5.

Alle-irhenv river. feet. falling THE BELL, TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE TELEPFIONE BOOKS ARE TIIE DIRECTORY OF THE NATION Harris and Sheridan Have Opener Movies Movies depicting' highlights in the Pirates' 13-inning victory over the Chicago Cubs yesterday will lie shown at the Harris and Sheridan Square theaters today. Views of the players and also the celebrities attending the 5-i Forbes Field opener are included in the screen shots. BROTHERHOOD DINNER DANGER SIG NALS JUMPY NERVES ARE TO US" The annual dinner of the Community Itrot hei -hood of the West View Methodist Church will be held at the church eYiday at p.

m. The speaker will be Attorney N'orval E. who will have for his subject, 'Rrotherhood and CIGARET TE PROBE RS RAILROAD MEN TELL Hf i .1 HI I Jf5. if. Investigators Find Tareytons Outstanding Favorite Here "STEADY NERVES" THE REASON GIVEN it 7 PHILADELPHIA, PA.

It's anotLer scoop for Tareytons. Another victory. In a railroad clieck-u just completed, they're outdistancing the field in cigarette popularity. That's today's to Chicago Indianapolis St. Louis Beginning April 28th big news in the rivalry for cigarette supremacy.

Tareytons have won again with sensational sales increases. Trained investigators searched out the facts. Iu scores of cities. Along the routes of four of the largot Eastern railroads. SKK 'i.

II 'fr. NO NERVES HERE! A'o Sir. these Railroad aren't taking any chances v'th jumpy nerves. They s'irk to Tareytons and won't smoke anything clue. Picture was made by photographer during recent probe.

They talked to engineers, firemen and dispatchers. Conductors, signalmen and section gangs. Clerks and company officials. They found "nerve strain" everyw here! Minutes divided into High tension and high pressure. And they found that Tareytons had supplanted ordinary cigarettes because of this faster tempo.

Women in railroad offices have switched to Tareytons "because of the nerve strain." Even club car porters have noticed this big change in cigarette preference Today Tareytons are setting the pace leading the field with spectacular sales increases. Factories are running night and day. Can we ever make enoutih to meet this great demand.1' Union Tobacco Co. officials ask. Tick the winner, if you waut the utmost in cigarette pleasure.

Switch to Tareytons. You'll enjoy smoking niore. Surely, it's worth a test. Try Tareytons for 7 days. Then see if you don't notice a marked improvement in the way you fed.

"Will j-ou start today? Make A Conclusive Test 1 far fan fann i Here's an interesting experiment that will help you pick the best cifiurctle. CLEAR TRACK AHEAD. Switchman Frank Metosh gives a freight the main line after the limited has passed. Yes, that's a Tareyton he's smoking! itemciiilier one cigarette smoked right after another won't Qrm- was tell you a tliiiitr. It takes several days a week at least really to puss honest judgment on a cigarette.

So when you stop in at the nearest, tobacco store buv a carton of Tareytons. A full week's supply. When you decide to change brands, make your test conclusive! A AKtI smoker tliat iw' tW or i -JD-'f rfrjr docsn worry alxit jumpy nerves. WESTBOUND Lv. Pittiurgh 9:30 Ar.

Chicago (N.Y.C.) 8:00 a. m. (C.T.I Ar. Indianapolis (Big 4) 7:55 a.m. (C.T.) Ar.

St. Louis (Big4 lJ0p.tn. (C.T.) EASTBOUND Lv. Oiicago (N.Y.C.) 9:00 p.m. (C.T.) Lv.

St. Louis (Big 4) 5:00 p.m. (C.T.S Lv. Indianapolis (Big 4) 10:00 p.m. (CT.) 5 REASONS for Turey-ton's suivess.

1. "Steady Xervcs." 2. Humidor Fackaire. 3. Heavy Foil.

now 15 for twenty 4. Quality tobacco. 5. S-jiled Perforated Top. 'J'hat's hy there's no Ar.

Pittsburgh 9:00 a. m. (E.T.) Drtwtry wow, eoiryartnxnt, rc-tton flUetfxiE curs, inHadln kmitfe cf mrni coarh brtwwi pittuhurgh and Chicago- Stand srd vrtion room lrrptn( cr be-twreo Ptttbtixh and SV Lxjuia, obarrvaijon car brtwrm Ckrvrlaod and St. LooM. PLAIN OR CORK iygfei Dimoc cr acrvuig all meals.

City Ticket Offire William PmnWiT, Union Trufl BHc Pbooc 429. Conrt 3JQI. KftLB. PaMcnffrr Station. Fhonr Court 32ol Lake Erie Pittsb TARE PASSENGERS, TOO! "Tareytons are t-ettinp popular on these trains," says Porter James Abrial.

"More and more folks ask for them. Guess everybody wants steady nerves," dp 1929, The Union Tobacco New York City.