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Telephone: ATI antic 6100 SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1933. THREE CENTS fo) 0 ED OJ Commands Macon HE INQUIRY Demand Parley Quit Is Made By French Deputy SPLIT IS SEEN AT CONFERENCE OF COAL MEN District Operators Are Preparing Two Separate Codes. DENOUNCED AS POLITICAL Says WOMEN DENIED NEW TRIAL IN POISON CASE Munhall Pair Will Be Sentenced On Monday. APPEAL IS PLANNED it. 1 Mth rtain a just 'ent'j bills, or- Are Derr.o Enters Men's Race American Stand On Stabilization Causes Responsible.

Act PARLEY IS HELD HERE ion. ONE OF PARTY OF FIVE TAKEN IN LIQUOR RAID Alleged Members of Alcohol Ring Arrested in East Liberty Storeroom. Five men, all members of an alleged city-wide alcohol ring, were lodged in Central police station last night by city detectives who declared one of them had been identified positively as one of the three men who participated in the bombing of the Ban Box night club, Highland avenue and Broad street, three weeks ago. Detective Lieutenant Edward Harkins and Homicide Detectives Robert Carroll. James O'Kane and Nathan Averback stated all five men were being held in connection with the blast that wrecked the entrance of the night club on May 30 and the MOTION IN CHAMBER 5TIFIF.S IN QUIZ Are Returned 10 Fourth Vartl Oificials.

Pittsburgh Coal Taking Lead in Forming Of New Association. New Problems Taken Up In London as Currency Issue Is Buried. 1 i investi- i indictments lec tion offi- a ard for a r.ccd as "full ALGER H. DRESEL Commander Dresel was in charge of the U. S.

S. Macon, world's largest airship, as she sped through the skies en route to her temporary base at Lake-hurst, N. last night. The huge ship passed over Pittsburgh two hours after it left Akron where it was constructed and recently commissioned in the navy. 'd tn and hind ing and and their to Oors, sCCS- just job- have more the are imes dcle- i in-'Orks last 'own.

i 'fcere tiled xnied bombing of the automobile of Tom PARIS, June 23. (United News) Adjournment of the world economic conference was demanded in a motion laid before the Chamber of Deputies tonight. The adjournment demand, presented by Deputy Dommange, of Paris, was inspired by the American declaration yesterday against stabilization of currencies for the time being. The French stand at London has been that stabilization is the first point to considered, prior to price raising or other economic problems, including tariff adjustments. They have refused to consider tariff cuts until moneys are stabilized, and Dommange maintained there was little use continuing the economic parley under the circumstances.

The Dommange motion demanding adjournment of the world economic parley interrupted debate on the Government's wheat project. A vote on the motion was improbable before the end of the wheat debate, which probably will last all night. Bostonian Winner In Spaghetti Gorge Tony (Vacuum Cleaner) Leswaa Eats Mexican Challenger Under Table; Takes 10 Pounds To Opponent's Eight; Retains World Title for U. S. Congressman witness.

tlie jury noon, the r-jiret'nta- hirty-fourth this investiga-, a the and one Re-; It is attempt-. i i tsc on rumor not on evi-: i i ml sayinj; I re-1 to testify." i. II con-fact that "I tte ajrain for gained .1 hr-ffre this in- be directed trict does not lion probe, and sc nt for me." I Minutes. was made croup of r.cws- request was being photo- ie the statement 30 minutes from which he ui'stt and angry, i onfrressman, who utive years until i last November by a Democrat, -vp by air from Wash- Split into two groups, Western Pennsylvania coal producers were preparing separate codes of fair competitive regulation for Western Pennsylvania's soft coal industry, following a meeting late yesterday in the William Penn Hotel, at which the Pittsburgh Coal Company took the lead in initial steps to form a new association of operators lines similar to those adopted by the recently-formed WTestern Pennsylvania Coal Producers' Association. J.

D. A. Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal, announced after yesterday's meeting, from which newspapermen were excluded, that the new organization was not in conflict with the other one. This view, however, was not shared by B. H.

Canon, secretary of the Western Pennsylvania Coal' Producers Association. "We invited Pittsburgh Coal officials to our meetings several weeks ago, but they did not see lit to attend," Canon said last night. "I don't know why they didn't fall in line with us, but they didn't. What their object now is in forming a separate association I am at loss to know. It seems to me that the more we divide our strength in this manner the less v.

are likely to achieve at Washington. Meeting Monday. "I attended today's meeting," Canon added, "and nobody without credentials was allowed in the room. We held all our meetings in the open, with newspapermen present I guess we'll just have to wait and see what they intend doing. I don't know whether there is any common ground on which their association and ours can get together or not, but I hope there is." No name was selected for the new association.

Morrow said, but he was authorized to appoint a committee to draft articles of association and report at another meeting in the hotel at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. "We have only one purpose," Morrow stated, "and that is to act promptly on a suitable code with the main idea in mind that we must protect the coal industry of R. George. By James Post-Gazette Housewives Convicted Of Second Degree Murder In Jurys Verdict. The two Munhall housewives, Mrs.

Mary Chalfa and Mrs. Anna Alias, convicted of poisoning the latter's stepson and accused of leadership in a wholesale insurance murder ring, will be sentenced in criminal court Monday, Judge J. Frank Graff of Armstrong county announced yesterday, when he refused a motion for a new trial. The jury that convicted the women after a spectacular trial several months ago recommended a sentence of life imprisonment for the women, who stand convicted of poisoning one child and are accused ot causing the deaths of three other persons. Defense Pleas Refused.

Judge Graff, besides turning down a motion for a new trial, also refused tne defense petition to exhume the bodies of the three children and the man the women are alleged to have poisoned, so that chemists, to be appointed by the court and the defense, might make new chemical analyses. Attorney Louis Little, counsel for the two women, stated last night that an appeal would be filed with the supreme court, immediately after sentence is pronounced. The verdict of first degree murder, with a recommendation of life imprisonment, was returned last February 2, after a bitter legal battle, in which the chemical analysis of County Chemist C. F. Buckmaster was supported and attacked by chemistry professors at Pitt and Tech.

Case Argued Month Ago. The motion for a new trial and the petition to exhume the bodies, alleged to have been poisoned by the two women to collect insurance, were argued last May before a full bench, including Trial Judge Graff and Judges S. H. Gardner and Wr. Heber Dithrich.

The two women went on trial for the death of Steve Alias, 12, stepchild of Anna Alias, who, it was alleged, was poisoned by the two women prior to his death, December 2, 1931. The fact that evidence of three other deaths, laid at the hands of the two women, was permitted to go before the jury was the principal objection of defense counsel in the argument for the new trial. The others whom the two women were alleged to have poisoned were Joseph Mantyo, a former husband of Anna Alias, who died in June, 1928; Richard Duyava, a baby, foster child of Mary Chalfa, who died in March, 1932, and Andrew Alias, 16, another stepson of Mary Chalfa, who died in April, 1932. Staff riter. as much gusto as anybodj' with eight pounds of spaghetti under his belt could manage.

He did not call for dessert. For something like 15 minutes the contestants had been taking in spaghetti in a large scale, and to the naked eye of anybody unacquainted with the technicalities of spaghetti-eating it appeared that Tony was the winner because of his ability to take it off the plate without the aid of a fork. Mr. Leswaa seemed to be the guy who gave them the idea for the vacuum (Continued on Page Two, Col. 5 (Pictures on Page 1, Second Part) Splashing through the last half-pint of marinara sauce amid several cheers, Tony Leswaa of Boston was proclaimed the spaghetti-eating champion of the United States, Mexico and various other sections last night at the end of tbe big international inhaling contest at Charlie Perrone's beer garden in Miller street, Rankin.

Joe Lopez, the challenger from Mexico City, raised his arm from under the table, where he had collapsed on the last pound of spaghetti, and shook Tony's hand with MISS HELEN' MACCLOSKEY. CHICAGO, June 23. CT) A Pittsburgh woman, Helen Mac-Closkey, today announced' her intention of going: up against crack men fliers in the 50-mile speed feature race at the American air races here July 1. Miss MacCloskey is the only woman entered in the event, in which veteran fliers will attempt to break the world land plane record of 294 miles an hour. ROOSEVELT DENIES HE'LL CROSS SEA He was informed Condas, alias Tom the Greek, proprietor of the club, on May 31.

Lodged in Central Station. The five men, all lodged in Central station on suspicious person charges, were Wrilliam Ramon, 22, of 421 Laven street, Wilmerding; James Marciano, 25, of 130 State street, Wilmerding; Joseph Rose, 30, of 1849 Funston street; Frank Ruffo, 24, of 812 Fifth avenue, and Louis Busa, 32, 604 Larimer avenue. The three homicide detectives had been watching an olive oil store at 602 Larimer avenue for three weeks on information which they had received relative to the bombings. They lay in wait yesterday and arrested Ramon, Marciano and Rose and searched the building occupied by the store. Two rooms back of the store were found to be fitted with desks and stoves and in the desks were found records which the detectives claimed related to alcohol sales in the Pittsburgh district during the last year.

Although they refused to show the records, the detectives said they contained the names of the purchasers and a notation as to address and amount in gallons. No alcohol was found in the place and the three men were taken to Central station for questioning. Refuses to Identify Owner. A key to the store was found on Ramon and he finally admitted he w-as running the store for a man whom he refused to identify, the detectives said. The three detectives and Lieutenant Harkins then returned to the store and arrested the other two men.

The detectives said one of the five had been positively identified from rogues' gallery photographs as a member of the trio who bombed the Ban Box. Detectives refused to disclose which man it was or to name the witness. They stated they were withholding the information until the witness would be available for hearing next week. The Ban Box, owned by Condas, whose real name is Anthanasios Korkonikitas, was damaged by a (Continued on Page Two, Col. 6.) jurv n.ifcht need him Monday.

1'rf)secutor Karl I7. Keed Liter, hownir, that his i to conduct the in-n hini authority to ill congressional rourity, in- i -i i The probe i to the point where them all, it was i h. distric ts eompris- tv ar the Thirtieth, i. Thirty-third and and the Far- fee 5 of iify -y his ros ha. tn- at-i a at enn and ato- the 40 jse- of tb ywn va- BUSINESSWOMEN HELD WASTEFUL FRENCH GALV POINT.

LONDON, June 23. (J The troublesome currency issue was temporarily buried tonight as the world economic conference plunged into other work with France proposing an immediate truce on quota restrictions. While providing against any further use of the quota system as a weapon to curb importations, the plan would permit France to continue indefinitely the enforcement of quotas it has already adopted. The move was interpreted as a counter-stroke to the American demand for elimination of import discriminations. British and French delegations insisted that international agreements could not be completed until dollar stability was achieved, but finally joined today in a unanimous agreement to table the currency question.

Prime Minister MacDonald, chairman of the conference, asserted that the failure of the American Government to agree to an immediate fixing of the dollar value was a "setback" to the international efforts here. Plan for Going Ahead. But currency uncertainties, he said, would not be permitted to block the activities of the conclave. The quota system, a favorite device of the French" 'to prevent im- Continued on Page Four, Col. S.J FEDERAL ADVISER QUITS WASHINGTON Bartich Goes to New York For Indefinite Stay.

-i the first and last returned last fall. the Thirty-second with at ir.fj-iiry, but indicate Thirtieth will be Monday, indictments (Continued on Page Four, Col. 2J TWO CUT IN FIGHT OVER BENCH IN PARK f-r, Careless on Big Sums, Stingy on Trifles, Claim. CHICAGO, June 23. CP Women who manage iron and steel mills, hold high offices in coal and food companies, or practice the various professions were told today they lacked man's viewpoint on money matters.

They heard this opinion in a convention session of Zonta, business and professional women's society, from Mrs. S. Katherine Maddux of Chicago, its president. "Women will spend freely," she said, "and demand very little accounting of where their money goes. But they quibble over society dues and expect magnificent returns for very small outlays." Two Others Sought After Argument Over Sleeping Place.

TO CRASH GIVES DIRIGIBLE MACON PASSES OVER CITY Pittsburgh Officer Signals Greeting to Mother. Her riding lights winking a greeting down through the haze, the dirigible Macon, new queen of the skies, passed over Pittsburgh for the first time last night en route to her temporary base at the naval air station, Lakehurst, N. J. As was his custom when stationed on the ill-fated Akron, and the Los Angeles, Lieutenant Commander B. F.

Rodgers, second in command of the big airship, saluted his mother, Mrs. Clara E. Rodgers, of Orchard place, Knox-ville, through lights in the keel of the ship, as it steered a course directly above her home. The ship came over the Triangle from the North boroughs and headed eastward after passing over Kncxville. A crowd of 20,000 watched the Macon leave Akron where she was constructed at a cost of $2,450,000, at dusk last night.

She was expected at Lakehurst at sunrise. A crew of 82 men were aboard the ship, skippered by Commander Alger Dresel. RILL TO HOOVER Is Satisfied With Parley Trend, President Asserts. PULPIT June 23. CP) Elated over the progress of the London conference, President Roosevelt let go today and shot his schooner up the Maine coast far ahead of schedule under a driving northwest wind and bright sun.

Pulling into this isolated harbor at the tip of Northaven Island in Penobscot Bay, Mr. Roosevelt took occasion, through his secretary, Stephen T. Early, to express his satisfaction over the present trend of the events at London. Early's statement denied fresh reports that the President was going to the London parley. Early's statement in part follows "R.ecurring reports that the President will board the cruiser Indianapolis for a rush trip to London are without foundation in fact.

The President plans to complete his vacation cruise and return to Washington as. scheduled. "At no time has the President considered going to London and he sees no reason whatsoever to do so now." The day's trip brought Mr. Roosevelt almost half way from Portland to Campobello Island, N. B.f where he had expected to arrive a week hence.

Whether he will lag along the remainder of the course or shoot on was problematical tonight. HOTTER WEATHER FORECAST TODAY Fair With Rising Temperatures Indicated. A quarrel over possession of a park bench ended in the stabbing of two men in the presence of their wives, early this morning in West Park, Northside, near Lake Elizabeth. The two men suspected of the stabbing fled. The victims were taken to Allegheny General Hospital.

The men under treatment are Harry Corrie. 25, of 710 Wettach street, and William McFarland, 33, of 304 West North avenue. Their wives were questioned by Police Captain John Flavin. The two couples went to the park to sleep, the women said, and were seated on benches when two other couples came along and demanded the benches. The cut-ing followed.

LAST MINUTE NEWS lust In Front Of i '-President. 23 f'nio Alio, aft-days in J'resident 'i Mrs. Hoover moments pass- today. a coi- ru force di-: 'he Hoover ma-: Hoover were while police jim that re-' automobile was i of the ht-r two automo- Fair weather witi; a slowly rising temperature was forecast for the Pittsburgh district today by the local weather bureau. The official high temperature yesterday was 86 degrees, recorded at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, but a steady breeze tended to keep the heat from becoming too uncomfortable.

The low was 61 degrees at 6 o'clock in the morning. WASHINGTON, June M. Baruch, whom President Roosevelt has asked to serve as an unofficial adviser to Government heads during his absence, left today for an indefinite stay in New York. On July 15 Baruch plans to sail for France for a vacation at Vichy. It was asserted today that this could not be connected writh the London economic conference.

Baruch said the time of his return to the capital depended upon developments. RUNAWAY MACHINE CRASH HURTS TWO Woman Clings to Running Board in Parked Car's Dash. Seek to Link Maug With Boxcar Murder fayoral Candidates Praise Straw Vote Charleroi Youth Believed Slain for Suit of Clothes And Body Sealed in Refrigerator Car For Journey to Texas. Riding her runaway automobile on the running board, trying to bring it to a stop, Beatrice Bale, of 5437 Ellsworth avenue, was injured seriously early this morning when the car coasted through a stop signal at Aiken avenue and Baum boulevard and was struck by another machine. The other car was driven by Robert Geiser, 40, of 318 Amber street.

Both Geiser and the injured woman were sent to Homeopathic Hospital where they were treated for cuts. Miss Bale's injuries required 40 stitches and Geiser's nine. stf Pozt-Gazette Ballots to Be Distributed This morning Names of Six Leading Possibilities Listed on Cards. BEST CHOSEN SPANISH VET COMMANDER. Williamsport, Saturday, June 24.

(A. William J. Best of Pittsburgh, last night was elected state commander of the United Spanish war veterans, defeating" E. Morris de Cann of Philadelphia by a narrow margin. Charles Armstrong-of Pittsburgh, was elected inspector.

SURVIVOR OF LAKE PLANE HOP RESCUED. Traverse City, Saturday, June 24. (A. A wireless message last night said that an Ann Arbor car ferry had picked up Mrs. Charles Kennie 30, believed to be the only survivor of a party of four prominent Traverse City persons who took off on an airplane flight across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee yesterday morning.

FOUNDRYMEN ELECT PITTSBURGHER. Chicago, Friday, June 24. (A. Frank J. Lanahan, of Pittsburgh, was elected president of the American Foundry-men's Association.

Dan M. Avey of Cleveland was elected vice president. GANGLAND VICTIM FOUND IN RIVER. Passaic, N. Saturday, June 24.

(Universal Service.) For the second time within 24 hours, the mutilated body of a gangland victim was pulled last night from the Passaic river. CHINESE REDS OUST MISSIONARIES. Shanghai, Saturday, June 24. (A. Foreign missionaries in Western China, have been forced to evacute their stations as the result of incursions of Chinese communists from Shensi province, said advices received here today from Chengtu.

MACHADO EXTENDS DICTATORSHIP. Havana, Saturday, June 24. (United News.) President Gerardo Machado last night issued a decree continuing for another year the suspension of constitutional guarantees Havana province as authorized under the law of June 21, 1932. In Today's Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 21 Culbertson 11 Church News 5 Death Notices 25 Dorothy Dix 11 Damon Runyon 14 Editorials 6 Edgar A. Guest 6 Fair Play Club 12 Etiquette 10 Financial News 17-18-19-20 Foreign News 2 Hungerf ord's Cartoon 6 Hollywood Starr-Dust 9 Mirrors of Sport 15 New York Daily Letter 13 Pittsburghesque 6 Raymond Moley 17 Radio 20 Shopping With Polly 11 Sports 14-15-16 Serial Story 7 Society 1 Theaters 8 Weather Report 22 Women's Features 11 Moley Writes About Rackets Eugene's the suit Maug wore when he was arrested.

Robert refused to detail his suspicion, except to say that his brother had worn a gray suit, very similar to the one Maug had. Eugene was identified by a class ring, given him recently by Anna Rovela, Charleroi schoolgirl. Police at Big Spring traced the ring and notified Charleroi police that he nad been killed by a blow on the head. The body was only partly clothed when found, and the youth was buried before his identity was learned. The refrigerator car, a Pacific Fruit Express carrier, was traced from the Forty-third street yards of the Pennsylvania railway to Big Spring.

It had gone through Wheeling, where Robert believes his brother was killed, about the time Maug and Turpack were said to have been seen in that vicinity. A murder which rode 2,000 miles in tbe sealed ice bunker of an empty refrigerator car to a lonely Texas plains town, may be a new link in the chain of crime forged by John Maug and Edward Tur-pack during their holiday from the penitentiary. Robert Jossen, brother of the slain youth, whose body was found in the car at Big Spring, yesterday revealed his suspicion that Maug and Turpack were guilty of the killing. Other reports said that Eugene Jossen, the dead youth, had been a police informer and this was seen as a motive for the crime. But Robert, the brother, believes the 20-year-old lad was killed for a suit of clothes.

He and Police Chief Alex Murray, of Charleroi, will visit Western penitentiary today in an effort to identify as ity wide approaching ts under way the hearty ap- rjly of the pos- on the bal- 'o the Highland 'Vashington dis-' the first of the hich the city has the poll. Every r- a copy of the two sections receive with it a '1 of a pre-paid names of the six candidates for now under THING TO VOTE candidates which is your FIRST and which your SECOND choice for mayor. Mail the ballot WITHIN 48 'HOURS! Tnen watch the Post-Gazette daily as returns come in from one district after another for the next 18 day3. Your vote will have considerable influence in showing each possible candidate how the winds of public sentiment are blowing and may clear the field for the fall election. Carrick, Overbrook Vote Monday.

Carrick and Overbrook will get ballots on Monday morning Then on Tuesday, the Woods Run and Brighton road districts on the Northside will be polled. Returns will be announced early in the week. Here are how those of the may-(Continued on Page Four, Col. 1) Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state and advisor to President Roosevelt and now on his way to the World Economic Conference in London, discusses "Rackets and the Industrial Recovery Act in his series of weekly articles on The State of the Nation" on Page 17 of this morning's Post-Gazette. squares oppo- of your favorite; ft 'W Ballots in Straw Vote for Mayor in Highland, Mt.

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