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The Weather. Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Snow and colder today: Saturday fair and slightly warmer. Sunrise, sunset. 4:53. Weiiwr i totai! mi Pare Largest Circulation of Any Pittsburgh Daily Newspaper StHVlCK.

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FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1929. THREE CENTS i i i i 3 BYRD AMP THR EE AIDES ST ART PROJECTS FOR 1930 IN U. S. WILL COST OVER SIX BILLIONS PITT DEFEATS STATE, 20 TO 7, IN HARD GAME Panther Put to Test In Annual Classic At Stadium. PERILOUS AIR DASM FOM POLE Amazing Schedule Of Business Is Called Wed Secretly Hops for Pole "Mere Start." 30,000 WITNESS BATTLE GOOD REPORTS POUR IN Balchen, Hero of Trans-Sea Flight, Is Pilot on Bold Journey.

BULLETINS. Parkinson Stars, Scoring Every Point For Winning Team. WINTERS KEEPS POLAR CLAIMS SILENT ABOUT OF BRITAIN GO CHANGING JOBS UNRECOGNIZED Council to Act Today U. S. Note Neither De-On Resignation nies Nor Affirms Of Evans.

Sovereignity. Jobs for Millions Assured As Hoover Plans Make Headway. Not Without Work The followine bulletins -were received from Bjrd's plane at the wireless station at Little America and re-broadcast to the Tost-Gazette: p. m. Pittsburgh time, flying well.

Just passed 45-mile depot. fine. June." PITT 20. STATE 7. Tiin heo StahleT Tull.r 1 Shnn lry Monlmmfrj Martin Oaimhrrt.T SOME HOLD POST VACANT Ilimriilit C) ARGUMENT SIDETRACKED "11 p.

m. Pittsburgh time, firing well, passed snowmobile. June." JaGfr ft jJis K. ti K. T.

K. I- F. orella Kicker Kaplan French Iicdrich Snyder l.nsich Marliird Btrwe libera; taker lanta Waliiirhnft Parkinson Controller-elect Believed Awaiting Development At Session This Afternoon. '12 o'clock Pittsburgh time, 'r lying: well." 'Flyinjr well, motors fine at crevasses. 12:30." Reply of Washington Leaves Antarctic Question Open For Discussion.

.4 Score l.v Pitt 7 7 20 State 0 0 7 By OWES. (Cnpvricht. bv th. New York Times C-ompanr and Th St. Loua Post-rlspatcii.

All riarhta for publication reserved hmuf hoot the world. TonrhiloniM t'aricitlvnn 3, Stanley. Ptint after totlehdown nleririrh (plnrrment Parkinin (placement Missed point Parkinson (placement 1. Substitution. I'itt.

Collins for Htrsrh- herg. Qnatse for Tully; Mate, Fdnarris There was no statement yesterday from Councilman Daniel Winters, city controller-elect, to indicate when he will enter upon fur Kaplan. Kschhaeh for yieAndrew. DutbII for Martin, Fanarrion for Zorella, Marti for Cillard for lnrall. officials Keferee.

k. Thorp. ie 1a his new duties, and it is under- By vi irelesa to tha Post -Gaierte. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Nor. 28.

A huge gray plane slipped over the dappled barrier at 10:29 o'clock this evening in this latitude where at this time of year, we know no nisrht. The sun is cleamin on its sides, reflected in bright flashes from its metal wing and whirling propellers. With a smooth liftinsr movement it rose above the snow in a long, steady Commander Pyrd had started on his 1.600-mile flight to the WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. (Universal Service.) Six billion dollars of public and private works was virtually assured today for next year, as a mere starter for President Hoover's program of business stabilization and sustained prosperity.

Outstanding projects approximated this vast sum as wires and mails poured into the White House reports of a quick spread of the business progress movement. It represents the known, not the complete, projects of Federal, state and local governments, railroads, electric, eras and traction utilities, and telephone interests. Xo detailed reports have been made by other major industries, although announcements by individual companies have made it plain they will account for a huge ofitlay. Assures Jobs to Millions. Administration officials regarded the known program, as it stands, as assuring continued work for millions of men and a steady stream of ders for steel, lumber and other materials, manufactured equipment and supplies-, that will go far toward keeping industry on an even keel.

A message on its way to the carried tidings of a 100,000,000 improvement and expansion program for the industrial empire of Northern Ohio. This program grew out of a meeting of 2on civic and business By RICH Aft I V. OrT.AHAV. SrfCls! t- the Pittshurub Garette and the New York Tiojes. ASHI GTOX.

28. After giving consideration to the matter for a year, the United States Government has responded to the note of the British government dated November 17, 1928, with respect to the question of sovereignty in the Antarctic re Salle: umpire. W. R. Crowley.

Rondoin: I linesman. T. J. McCabe. Holy Cross; Held Stood none Will precede the special Hit HARD K.

KVKI). The culminating effort of Commander Richard K. Ityrd's Antarctic expedition was undertaken last night, when the intrepid flier set nut on his (light to the South Pole. Itvrd was accompanied by three jnns-e. A.

W. Talmer. Coll.y meeting of council called for this Time of qnarter IS minute. SI CAROL Special to th Pittsburgh rvit-Gzette and the Chicago TribuDe. I.OS ANCJKI.KS.

Nov. 28. The secret marriage last July of Sue Carol and Nick Stewart, both screen players, was revealed here today. They have been reported engaged since last January when Miss Carol received a divorce from Allen H. Keefer, of Chicago, hut have steadfastly refused to discuss marriage plans.

others in the big plane. afternoon to consider the resignation of Controller Henry O. Evans. A view entertained last night by some councilmen was that the office South Pole and back. With him were Bemt Balchen, transatlantic pilot, flying the plane; Radioman June at the wireless: gion raised in connection with Commander Richard E.

Byrd's $1,000,000 LOSS "1 By JACK The challenging: cry of a champion blends with the note of triumph in the fierce roar of the Pitt Panther today. In the Thanksgiving Day feature with Penn State at the Stadium yesterday the voracious Golden Cat topped off a season-long: gorging of Waynesburg Yellow Jackets, Duke Blue Devils, West Virginia Mountaineers, Nebraska Huskers, Allegheny Methodists, Ohio State Buckeyes, Wash-Jeff Presidents and Carnegie IN RESORT FIRE 12 Hurt as Flames Sweep Nantasket Beach. and Captain McKinley, photographer and general utility man. Weather Is Good for Get-Away. Once in the air, as if liberated from the clinging influence of earthly things, the great plane became suddenly light, a true bird of the air.

With its three motors roaring their deep song it turned southward and was gone into the wilderness of Fpace over a land of white desolation. This will be a historic flight over the rolling barrier through gaps in towering mountains, where the wind whirls in buffeting eddies, and on over that lonely polar plateau, the loneliest spot on earth, where somewhere is a tiny visible point which, with all his navigator's cunning, Commander Bvrd or controller now is vacant, due to belief that when Evans' resignation was handed to President James F. Malone of council it immediately became effective. Named in Emergency. This belief is predicated on Evans" election by council, which was to fill an emergency and was to last only until the people had elected his successor.

This interpretation would leave Evans free to retire with the issuance of a certificate of election to American expedition to the South Pole. A note sent by the state department to the Rritish government tinder date of November 5, the text of which is still withheld from publication, does not acquiesce in the British suggestion that Great Britain has a prior claim on large portions of the vast Antartie area but leaves the issue open to further discussion. Valuable Deposits Indicated. SNOW AND COLD IS PREDICTION Temperature to Drop To 15-Degree Mark. HUM Nov.

38. (United News.) Nantasket Beach, summer amusement tenter north of here, mas ravacH by a fire tonijrht with dam- Winters, which has been done. Whether Evans' time for serving The importance of this matter has been on ha need hi' tha sionf i ftf Hm. Skibos with a satisfying dessert of Mt. Nittany Lion to round out a perfect season of nine consecutive attempting to reach.

The night came, as does everything here, with thrilling jase estimate! at more man leaders at Cleveland and a check of industries in many cities and counties of the region. Evidence that business was little affected by the stock market crash xip to the end of last month and in at least some instances was recording new gains, was given in trade surveys made public by the Federal re rittsburghers reai hed for mori and heavier blankets early yesterday morning, when Thanksgiving and genuine winter arrived together in a snow storm, accompained by a fall of the mercury to the 21-degree mark. -d 000. Five steamboats, a railroad station, the state IwthhouFe. a pier and St.

Church were destroyed. The Church of the Assumption and the steamer Mayflower were seriously damaged. Twelve firemen were injured, one of them. William Hatch of the Hincrham fire department, critically. It was helved that the fire started in a docked at the Nantasket Steamboat Company's pier.

The wind caucht the flames effect. Here more than anywhere else, flying depends on the weather, and the genius of the winds brooding over the mysterious heights above us had been idly stirring the conflicting elements into shifting winds and clouds which blocked the way. New Creation in Polar Spaces. Then, as if by- rnagie, a deep hush' spread over the rolling plain, shining cream arid rose colored under the flowing rays a sun so bright in this translucent atmosphere that it seemed to fill half the sky. It was as i Nature said, "I have done my part, now: there is peace before you." 11 that frlirtorinrr i lotiaffto on -rsi mArninfr TtrwM was up when his successor wa elected is a question likely to be battled over by legal authorities and councilmen in the special session this afternoon.

With Winters standing pat, silent and hesitating before the door was thrown to him by Controller Evans on Wednesday, the situation last night portended a memorable session of the solons today. No one was quite sure what the developments would be. but all indications were for a clash between opposing councilmanic forces with the mayor on the side lines. The messed (Continued on Vaae Ten, Col. Three) 11 below freezing.

Those of. the popuJare who by choice or necessity tore themselves away from turkey dinners and homes during the day shivered in spite of snug wrappings, for. though the co veriest of Commander Byrd and his companions who have been shut up in the snowbound wastes of Antarctica, as Commander Byrd has christened the region which he is exploring. Commander Byrd's discoveries of the area he has named Mario Byrd Eand and the Rockefeller Range have given the British contentions a new and important angle. Perhaps of greater consequence than what may become a celebrated case is the possihilit yfor exploiting the Antarctic country through aviation.

Reports that this hitherto almost (Continued on Pape Four, Col. One) victories and securely seize the bauble of Eastern supremacy. The score -was: Pitt 20, State 7. Whether the local jungle beast will get an opportunity to extend the season's foraging on California bear or some other west coast delicacy- in the annual Tournament of Roses tilt of New Year's remains to be seen. No official word has been received as yet, but the local gridiron prowler is known to welcome any invitation that would be forthcoming.

About 30,000 frozen fans snuggled close together on ice-coated bleacher (Continued on Page Kinhtrrn) temperature rose to 34 decrees for a short time, the average for the day was 28 four below the freezing. and carried them to nearby boats belonging to the same company and and midnight are all the same, men scurried busily about, inhumed them to the wateriine. tense with excitement. They knew that the moment had come There will be a slight rise in th" temperature today from the 1 Of or which tbey bad worked for man degree mark scheduled for early this than a. year, in black isolation' and in cold that searad and burned, fa morning, the coldest of the present season, according to "Woather Forecaster W.

S. Brotzman. Continued HOME BURNED cloudv weather and more snow js predicted for today. Western Pennsylvania roads, par IN SEWICKLEY ticularly the main arteries through serve board. Stores Gain In Sales.

"Department store sales for October were three per cent larger than in the corresponding month a year 350, according to reports to the Federal reserve system by 523 stores in 229 cities." its announcement said. "For the first 10 months of 1929 sales were-three per cent larger than for the same period last year. "Inventories of the reporting department stores at the end of October were at about the same lev-l as a year ago. according to reports from 433 stores." Big gains In chain store sales, compared with la.t year, were shown in the board's indexes. With his business progress program committed to governmental and business agencies.

President Hoover looked back on this Thanksgiving day to these achievements and assurances of his personal conferences over the last 10 days: A $1,800,000,000 program of construction, maintenance and expansion by the electric, gas and street railway utilities of the country. Assurances by spokesmen for most of the farmers of the country that the morale of agriculture is "better than it has been for years past, with prices of farm products beginning to recover and an increased farm income this year enabling farmers to buy more goods. A truce between capital and labor forestalling new wage con i -J the mountains, were icy yesterday, and likely will be so today, the Automobile Club of Pittsburgh announced last night. Although the state highway department called its men from their Thanksgiving dinners and had them scatter ashes on the winds that shrieked and hid tbe earth in a shroud of numbing and bewildering quick movement, confidence and eagerness. If they could have done so.

they -would have pushed tbe heavy plane off the ground with their own determination. Mechanics hurriedly looked with skilled and careful eyes where tbe huge metal machine rested on tbe snow like a ponderous big confident bird. It looked so so graceful, even in its bulky outlines, so st ranee in this environment, as if in itself it had the" will to conquer. How different riding- this machine from the way men bave toiled with aching- bodies and troubled minds F. S.

Sage Residence Destroyed Loss Set at $75,000. curves and steeper grades, the reads, though open to traffic, call for ex treme care in driving, club officials cautioned. ,2 OFFICER DIES over the treacherous surface of the AT PITT GAME Fire of undetermined one in yesterday destroyed the home of Frank Sasje. ceneral aent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark. N.

at S79 Thorn street. Sewickley. Damage was estimated at $75,000. The fire, which left only the brick walls of the structure standing, was discovered at 9 o'clock yesterday morninsr. according to P.

Y. McFar-lane, chief of the Sewickley Are department. Chief McFarlane said that he believed that the fire was btirn-incr for an hour or more before being snow- above which this great creature soars so easily: It is hard to believe, as it wheels in graceful curves with long sweeping- dips of its wings, that it la not a conscious entity. One never tires Falls to Aisle Clutching at Head, Pronounced Dead by Doctor In Audience. Patrolman Silas Yimin.

42, 10 of watching it it is believed it la ao -rf out of place here or because In this-1 lost land it becomes a prehistorkv denizen of the air. this its natural flicts and embracing an agreement Logan street, was stricken with apoplexy yesterday a few minutes before the Penn tate and Pitt foot- Oof. Continued on Page 6, ball teams arrayed themselves (Continued on Page Tiro, CoT. Three) (Continued on. Page Two, Col.

Six) (against each other, and was pro GRIEST SHOWS IMPROVEMENT LAST MINUTE NEWS Physician Kncou raged by Congressman's Change For Better; Has Fighting Chance Belief. NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEED PUBLIC WORK. In his appeal to the Governors of the forty-eight states for co-operation with the Federal government in its efforts to speed construction programs as a stabilizing factor in industry, President Hoover placed particular emphasis upon the important assistance which cities and counties can render to this program. In the aggregate there must be thousands of projects new bridges, highways, public buildings which have been contemplated for some time or actually approved, but on which work has been delayed for relatively unimportant reasons. The present is the right moment to cut through red tape and get busy.

Pittsburgh and Allegheny County have a number of important projects now under way, including new boulevard construction, the airport, and the County Office building. But there are other improvements for which money has been appropriated and which can and should be launched almost immediately in response to the President's appeal. There is a downtown subway, for which $6,000,000 has been voted. Tentative plans for a loop through the "triangle" have been approved, and this work should be started at once. Another $6,000,000 has been set aside for a Town Hall.

This has been held up by the presentation of various favored locations, but there should be no further delay in deciding on this program. Army engineers are working with the city on final plans for the much needed rail-river terminal especially important since the canalization of the Ohio and the increased traffic that is expected to result. In keeping with the President's program, the Army representatives may be expected to do everything possible to speed this project. Two railroads are holding up large programs contingent upon reaching agreements with the city on street changes and the re-routing of traffic which their plans would necessitate. Traffic problems of first importance are involved, especially in connection with the great new passenger and express terminal which the Pennsylvania will build on Penn Avenue, and while the city cannot afford to accept an inadequate or makeshift plan in order to speed action, it should exert every possible effort to reach an early settlement.

Surely the Pennsylvania Railroad officials will co-operate to a greater extent than ever before in removing the last obstacle to the immediate starting of this work. The City must show the same spirit. The proposed widening of Carson Street in connection with warehouse and terminal improvements of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie is also of major importance. The Board of Public Education has planned a $15,000,000 expansion program over a period of ten years. It has $1,500,000 set aside for 1930, and is prepared to go ahead with a number of buildings, notably the Taylor Allderdice extension and the new Arsenal Junior High School.

This work is being held up by differences between the Board and the Electrical Contractors Association. The President's appeal should act as a spur to new efforts to adjust these difficulties. President Hoover does not suggest any unnecessary work merely to provide additional employment, but he urges that short cuts be taken to speed action on improvements now in the mak ing, so that this work may create new earning power at a time when it will do the most good. Private enterprises have indicated their willingness to fall in with the Administration program and certainly states and municipalities should not be laggard in offering their co-operation. They should take the lead, and by their example encourage private business to go forward with greater confidence.

Our citizens have the right to demand prompt action. nounced dead in the presence of thousands of football fans who crowded Pitt Stadium, Oakland. Dr. H. A.

R. Shaner, 325 Neville street, hurried from his seat and pronounced the policeman dead of a cerebral hemorrhage. Morgue Superintendent John P. Black was notified and Deputy Coroners John T. MoQuaid nd Raymond Fellers took the patrolman's body to the morgue.

Yimin had been a patrolman since 1914. and prior to that had been employed 15 years by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company. He leaves his mother, his widow and 13 children. SEVEN WELSH MINERS DIE IN MINE EXPLOSION. Swansea, Wales, Friday, Nov.

29. (A. Seven miners were killed in a colliery near here last night by an explosion. MAN AND GIRL KILLED IN PLANE CRASH. Big Spring, Texas, Friday, Nov.

29. (A. G. H. Byrne local as, ent for the Texas Pacific Coal Oil Company, and Mis Marie Williams of Pyote were killed last night when their plar MT.

CI.KMKXS. Nov. 28. tP) The condition of Congressman W. Griest, 71-year-old Pennsylvania representative, who has been ill here, of pneumonia for more than two weeks, tonight was slightly improved.

Ir. O. C. Flucmer, his physician, said that he believed the aged representative had a "fighting chance." trabiieu at iuc opi ing put v. STUDENTS, POLICEMEN, HURT IN FOOTBALL RIOT.

Los Angeles, Nov. 29. (Universal Service.) Several policemen were hurt, and a number of students of the TJniversity of California at Los Angeles, were severely beaten in a riot on the Coliseum football field last evening; following the U. C. L.

A.Montana game today. Child Is Burned to Death Waiting for Turkey Dinner Clothes Catch Fire From Open Grate as Girl Stands In Warmth Until Thanksgiving Feast Is Ready. "i 3 CALIFORNIA YACHT CLUB DESTROYED BY FIRE. Wilmington, Friday, Nov. 29.

(United News.) Fir which started from defective wiring -completely destroyed the California Yacht Club late last night with an estimated damage of $50,000. i HIGH SCHOOL GRID STAR SERIOUSLY INJURED. Lubbock, Friday, Nov. 29. (A.

Carroll Laird, 18, Plainview High school football star, was critically injured in the Lubbock-Plainview Thanksgiving game, while playing; his last high school game. Small hope is held for his recovery. JAPANESE ENVOY TO CHINA SHOOTS HIMSELF. Tokio, Friday, Nov. 29.

(United News.) Sadao Sabwi, minister to China and former counselor at the Japanese legation 1 the mother called, wandered to the gas stove and lolled there. She had been standing in front of the flame but a moment when blazed up from her dress. Screaming, running helplessly seeking to elude the pain, Heien tried to get to her mother. Ruth soueht vainly to put out the flames which engulfed her sister. Meanwhile.

Mrs. Jackson had raced into the room. She swept her child into a rug and smothered the flames A few moments later, Helen, her wound salved hurriedly by her mother, was wrapped up In blanket being raced to the hospital. There was no Thanksgiving dinner In the Jackson home yesterday. For Mrs.

Jackson was beside her child In the hospital. leaning over the bed when the doctor came in While awaiting the call to the Thanksgiving dinner with her five brothers and sisters in her home in Butler street. McKeesport, before noon, yesterday, six- ear-old Helen Jackson's clothing ignited from a gas stove, burning her so badly that she died several hours later in the McKeesport hospital. Time seemed to lag for the six youngsters. Helen.

Sydney, 6: Stanley. 7: William. Ruth. 11; and Toris May 2. waiting for the dinner hour.

Out in the kitchen the mother. Mrs. Stanley Jackson, after hours of patient work stuffing the turkey and preparing the big meal, awaited the moment when she could lift the big bird from the oven. The children in the living room were restless. And Helen, moving i at Washington, was found dead, a sucide by a revolver bullet, at the Fujiya Hotel.

Hakone, at 6:30 this morninj. BRITISH DELEGATION TO BE NAMED MONDAY. London, Friday, Nov. 29. (A.

The personnel of the British delegation to the naval disarmament conference prob jably will be announced Monday, according to repoxSf in well informed circles last nigh Publisher. about seeked to speed the time until and said Helen wa dead. I.