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Evening Times pULL LEASED yylRE OF THE UNITED PRESS Every Day Except Sunday THE WEATHER Rain, possibly changing to snow. Colder tonight and Friday. DUXLII. NO. 286 SAYRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935 PRICE THREE CENTS mm Te o)(n)fn) MIc'IcW (o) lo) (o IcT MWfnl loinnd Their Verbal Fireworks Interest Nation CUBA Oil VERGE ii 10 Richberg Offers A Broad Program To Extend NRA EXPLOSION HI OIL Mil IIS lit PERSONS If LOIN.

moors CALLED 10 SAVE LIVES Utah FIGHTS REBELLION Recommends Limitation of Codes to Industries Engaged Strictly in Interstate Strike of Treasury Department Employes Causes Trouble Premature Blast in Injures Many Others Gen. Condyiis Begins Long-Awaited Drive to End Revolt NEWSPAPERS CENSORED TEN IN HOSPITALS SEA BATTLE IMPENDS and Government Raids Radicol Centers Hunting Terrorists Follows Explosion Many Are Badly Burned By RONALD G. VAN TINE, United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, March (UP) A broad program for two-year extension of NRA was laid down before the senate finance committee today by Donald R. Richberg, recovery coordinator, and immediately attacked by New Deal critics as vague and evasive.

Government Fleet Sails to Attack Insurgent Navy By LAWRENCE S. HAAS, (United Press Staff Correspondent) (Copyright 1933 by United Press) HAVANA, March 7 (UP) A strike by treasury department em By ANTHONY KEDRAS, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Copyright 1935, by United Press. ATHENS, March 7 (UP) Three hundred fleeing Greek rebels crossed the border today and surrendered to Bulgarian frontier guards, as Gen. George Condyiis began his long-awaited drive to smash the bele forces in Macedonia. Vice Admiral Sakellariou was sent to sea under sealed orders, at the head of the government fleet.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, March 7 (UP) A premature explosion of powder charge in an oil well seven miles south of here killed nine persons and seriously injured several others. A crowd had gathered to see the Arrowhead Petroleum Company bring in the well last night when the "shot" exploded unexpectedly. The dead: Charles D. Alsop, general manager of the company.

Mrs. Charles D. Alsop, wife of the manager. Mrs. Joseph S.

Snow, former state representative. Joseph Empey, electrician. tiUmx am mutr.inniur.il Richberg recommended limitation of codes to Industries engaged strictly In interstate commerce, a "clear definition" by congress of what constitutes monopolistic practices and of what classifications of industry should come under codes. He admitted many Individuals had suffered "hardships or injustices" under the present administration, but denied that codes of fair competition generally had proved harmful to small enterprises. Urging continuation of general NRA principles, Richberg said that "for the first time we have ployes precipitated a situation today which threatened to bring to blood climax Cuba's 19 months of political turmoil.

Acting under its almost unlimited emergency powers, the government decided on stern suppression of disorders, fearing that the strike would become general and turn into a revolution. Seamen from Cuba's little battle fleet reinforced soldiers and police in guarding all central areas. Tight censorship was clamped on Cuban newspapers. Troops took over Havana Uni Fiery attack by General Johnson, former NRA chief, on Senator Long and Father Coughlln may result In public debate with Louisiana's "Kingfish" Senator and the radio priest allied against Johnson as defender of Roosevelt administration. Radio chain executives are trying to arrange broadcast.

Gen. George Condyiis The Minister of War of Greece. Gen. George Condyiis, is personally leading the government troops against rebel forces In Macedonia. He ordered the rebels "to surrender or be crushed." LIB I acquired the ability now to give an 1 STATE BILLS ON ous READY TO honest protection to workers and consumers against the abuses of economic power.

It would be well And Johnson To Continue THE CONSTITUTION to contact and attack the rebel navy. The Straits of Salamla were blockaded with a line of torpedoes to prevent rebel ships from attacking the arsenal near Piraeus, the port of Athens. Batteries of Carabournou fortress dominating the entrance to Salonica harbor were reinforced with heavy guns. It was Indicated that the government had lost touch with the rebel navy and feared an attack on the country's two chief seaports. Ships were warned to remain close to harbors and avoid danger of being hit by bombs of patrolling-government seaplanes.

Cessation of heavy snow, which followed on fbrrenital rains, permitted Condyiis, commander in versity where professors and students were in an ail night meeting with labor leaders, presumably to continue their efforts to promote general strike. Raids by government forces on radical centers and audacious excursions by terrorists kept Havana and other cities Intense. At an emergency meeting under to preserve this new-found ability and to use it effectively." Sen Gerald P. Nye, N.D., coauthor of the resolution under which the committee is Investigating NRA, criticized Richberg'g suggestion as "designed to justify Gail Nicholson, Salt Lake City, son-in-law of Empey. Joseph Kitterman, Salt Lake City, druggist.

William M. Maloney, St. George businessman. Ray B. Nelson, St.

George grocery clerk. C. M. Flickenger, oil driller in charge of the "shooting." All, with the exception of Nicholson and Kitterman, were res-JISUs of St. George.

nmong the seriously Injured were Miss Rosamond Snow, daughter of Mrs. Snow, and Miss Leah Cottam, daughter of a St. George contractor. Neither is expected to I HARRISBURG, March 7 (U P) Carrying reams of testimony taken at four public hearings on re Senator, Priest and General By ROSS DOWNING, President Carlos Mendieta In the United Press Staff Correspondent. irani ousts vision of the basic law of 1874, the state Senate constitutional changes committee will go Into executive session at 4 p.m.

Monday to amal Stir Senate With Fiery Words; Republicans Desert early hours of this morning, the cabinet decided to appoint military supervisors with soldier detach what has become a great national racket." Other senators expressed "disappointment" in the program, declaring Richberg made it difficult to distinguish between Industries en- HARRISBURG, March 7 (TJP) Holding the first Thursday session of the current legislature, Mie house of representatives to ing the Kingfish STATE ATTORNEY ments to oversej the functioning of all internal revenue and tax of By LYLE C. WILSON, day was to advance for final pas (United Press Staff Correspondent) gamate the Ruth and Woodward bills for prompt report. It was considered likely G. Mason Owlett, would report the majority recommendation on the floor of the Senate Mon (Continued on Page 11. Column 7) (Continued on Page 11, Column 8) WASHINGTON, March 7 (UP) fices, here and in the provinces, whose employes were on strike.

Radicals were expected to make every effort to force out workers chief of the government's Macedonian army, to move east from the Struma river to attack the rebels under General Camenos. It was bitterly cold. As they started, army airplanes wrought destruction over eastern Macedonia, sending rebels and Senator Huey P. Long's feud with the New Deal boiled toward new sensations today while left wing HARRISBURG, March 7 (UP) Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti today notified J.

Harry Morosini, of Scranton, counsel for the department of justice in Lacka 10 PERISH III APARTMENT FIRE wanna county, that his services are at once terminated. day night or Tuesday. The Republican controlled committee will adopt a plan embodying the "desirable" features of the two proposals, it was indicated, including provision for a referendum on the calling of a convention, and of all classes. The cabinet delivered an ultimatum to striking students and teachers to return to their class rooms by Monday. It ordered dismissal of all government employes on strike and that any more who walked out would be removed from Morosini's name was mentioned recently in the case of Frank sage monday night five emergency bills designed to prevent the lapse of state financial aid to the blind, the indigent aged and the sick.

While approximately 40 bills were on the house calendar, the five administration proposals, introduced Monday night were of chief concern. Received from the senate last night, the bills were given first reading and posted for second passage today. They provide for transfer of from the motor license and the fire insurance tax funds for the purpose of paying $1,000,000 in over-due subsidies to hospitals and financing old age assistance and Bruno, convicted Lackawanna MRS. DAVIDSON KILLED BY GAS, DOCTOR ASSERTS PINEHURST, N. March 7 (UP) Carbon monoxide poisoning alone caused the death of Mrs.

H. Bradley Davidson, a coroner's jury was informed today by the autopsy physician, Dr. C. C. Carpenter, who added that bruises incurred by the Statler heiress shortly before her death could have resulted from "blows struck by a human hand." Dr.

Carpenter, first witness at leaders made ready their defense against General Hugh S. Johnson's charge that they are political shysters. Long will reply tonight and Father Charles E. Coughlin speaks Sunday and Monday nights. There -were guarded intimations here that Long will be "dealt with when the time comes." The Senate is bitter.

Some Republicans who (Continued on Page 11, Column 5) election of delegates from congressional districts. county arson-murderer, before the state board of pardons for commutation of his death sentence to life the rolls. townspeople alike scurrying for shelter. Condyiis informed the government he planned to proceed with deliberation. He intended, he said, to avoid hand to hand action and hence would use his superior artillery In close support of his infantry.

"Attack has become an Imperative necessity," he reported. "The whole affair will be ended shortly, and the rebels will be severely punished." Intelligence agents reported that BRIDGEPORT, March 7 (UP) A mother and daughter and at least five persons were injured when lire drove 73 families from an apartment house early today. Mrs. Nellie Roff, 59, and her The army seemed firmly loyal to imprisonment. The pardon board commuted the president and his cabinet.

Before their own meeting, cabinet members engaged in a 6 1-2 Bruno's sentence to life Imprison ment. Following his commutation a daughter, Janet, 3, were found suf hour meeting with all army officers rumor spread that a certain coun the third day of the inquest, said above the rank of. captain. The The pre-referendum would be a contribution of the Republican plan, introduced in the Senate by George W. Woodward, Philadelphia.

The congressional district representation is a feature of the Ruth bill, sponsored by the administration and passed by the House. Both plans have been held by the Owlett committee for more than a month. Several of the committeemen are known' to be not 1 ens conference was held at Columbia sel for the department of justice 'n Lackawanna county had accepted a $1,000 fee to use his influence before the board in effecting a pardon for Bruno. barracks, outside Havana, the country's chief military center, to discuss means to meet a strike or a rebellion. rebel leaders were guarded closely because townspeople in the area they held were angry because of his opinion was that none of the bruises could have been caused by impact of a tennis ball as testified by her husband.

The physician's testimony was to the effect that an unconscious person placed in the position In blind pensions until the end of the blennium. After giving final passage to these measures yesterday, the senate adjourned for the week. The house, convening at 10 a.m., ended Its week's work today. The bills will be enacted Monday night and sent to the governor. During the meeting Col.

Fulgen- dwindling food supplies and Interrupted business. overly enthusiastic about rewriting cio Batista, the power behind politi HARRISBURG, March 7 (U the constitution but popular senti P) Governor Earle has promised which the heiress' body, was fonud on automobile in her gas-choked NEW BUCKNELL CAPTAIN focated in their third floor ilat. Thirteen persons were admitted to Bridgeport hospital, immediately across the street, for treatment. Three firemen and two civilians were given first aid. An 80-year-old woman, paralyzed and unable to call for help, was carried by firemen from the second floor.

Two babies were among the rescued. More than a score of persons, "flying the third floor, were trapped for nearly half an hour be-j fore firemen carried them down ladders. About 200 persona occupied the apartments. ment in favor of revision, evidenced educators of the state to take them The first administration revenue bill a graduated levy on chain Margiotti In his letter to Morosini said he had considered "all the facts brought to my attention" which proved that 'you have subjected yourself as a department of justice official to justified suspicion." POSTOFFICE ROBBED PARK RIDGE, 111., March 7 at the hearings, assures submission garage would have been subject to carbon monoxide and that a person of a plan for House conference. stores will reach the senate Mon cal ngures struggling for power, warned that the army would use 'the Instruments at Its disposal" to quell disorder.

The crisis started last week end, but major violence broke out at noon yesterday when four bombs were exploded in the customs day night. It was passed finally in All groups represented at the final hearing yesterday favored re the house last night by a v'ote of 148 to 37, many Republicans hav vision except the Young Republi LEW1SBURG, March 7 (U P) John Sitarsky, Rutherford, N. has been elected captain of the 1935 Bucknell university football team. The star quarterback on the grid team the last two seasons, and a letterman in basketball, and baseball, Sitarsky, a junior, Is the ing joined with the Democratic ma jority In the affirmative. cans, whose representative, Ralph E.

Ulmsted, Philadelphia, provided the only sensational testimony. could have escaped from the garage before being overcome by the fumes if conscious and desiious of escaping. Herbert Vail, a friend of the Davidsons, described a dinner party at the Davidson home on Feb. 8. He said Mrs.

Davidson was moody and that after dinner she said "The best thing for me to do in to go out in the garage and turn on the (Continued on Page Six, Col. 6) Into his confidence before any drastic action is decided upon in the reorganization of state teachers colleges. When he recommended in his budget message $2,500,000 for the next biennium to defray the expenses of the 14 institutions, loud protest was heard. It became more pronounced when a week ago he suggested in a letter that some of the colleges might not be operating to the best advantage. A delegation of 50 educators conferred with him.

late yesterday and (UP) The Park Ridge postoffice was robbed today by thieves who dug their way through a cement vault and dynamited a safe believed to have contained more than $10,000. 1 (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) first backfield man to captain a Bucknell team In five years. State C. of C. Objects to New Compensation Bill New Tax Collection Bill Introduced In Assembly Exchange of Shots Marks Anthracite Mine Warfare 60 FEDERAL AGENTS drew his assuranco that he would "sit down and discuss the organi zation and operation of the colleges HARRISBURG, Pa March (UP) The first objection to the PAYLESS 3 MONTHS PHILADELPHIA, March 7 (UP) administration's proposal before In addition to the chamber the letter was signed by a half dozen other industrial associations, including the coal industry and the railroads.

It was pointed out that the ad before he takes any action." They asked him that the appropriations for the next biennium be Increased instead of reduced in comparison with the $3,000,000 al WILKES-BARRE March 7 the legislature for revising and liberalizing the Workmen's Com Payless for more than three months, 60 agents of the alcohol tax unit of the U. S. internal rev (UP) An exchange of shots pensation Act of 1915 came today marked the resumption of mine warfare today a few hours before enue bureau here, re faced with from the State Chamber of Com 'serious problem," Leo Crossen, merce. campaigned for election to the legislature on a platform of reducing governmental costs. Cost of tax collections in Pennsylvania in 1932, according to statistics compiled by the forum was 13,671,478.

If the proposed law had been in effect, according to the organization, the cost would have; been but $634,324. The bills have the backing of all organizations comprising the taxpayers forum, which includes the Pennsylvania iFedeiati On nf Judge W. A. Valentine resumed hearings on contempt of court supervisor of the unit, revealed The same condition, resulting HARRISBURG, March 1 (UP) Cost of tax collection in the state would be reduced a year by the provisions of a bill sponsored In the legislature by Rep. P.

C. Moomaw, Franklin Democrat, the taxpayers' forum of Pennsylvania estimated today. The bill, drafted by the forum, would centralize tax collections In all counties, except 2,617 "unnecessary collectors" and placing the 113 remaining collectors on a salary Instead of a fee basis. treasurers would supervise the collection of the taxes in each county, and they would be paid flat salaries, borne by the county and other municipal units. lowed for the 1933-35 biennium and that none of the schools be closed.

Calling attention to the necessity for economy in government, the Governor said he wanted to obtain full reports cf the status of each institution and then to go over these matters with the heads' of the colleges. The delegation was led bv Mrs. ministration compensation bill would effect not only organized labor but all workmen and every form of industrial activity. Rep. John Yourishin, Luzerne county Democrat, is chairman of the house labor committee.

He has been actively connected with compensation work in the anthracite coal fields since the from a legislative quirk, affects Meanwhile state police patrolled the streets outside the Luzerne county courthouse in an effort lo forestall a repetition of the disorders Monday when 3,000 strike sympathizers attempted to gain entrance to the courtroom. Eleven persons already were held under ball on charges of contempt resulting from the failure of the union to call off the strike as directed by Judge Valentine. Counsel for the union charged in their answer to the bill of complaint filed by the coal company that the present labor strife was fomented by the company "for the purpose of destroying, If possible, 900 agents throughout the nation, charges against officers and members of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, Anthony Augusta, 45, a South Wilkes-Barre miner, who had refused to join the strike called by according to Crossen. The men are former prohibition Labor, the National Council or 1 agents who were to have been Jewish Women, National Economy dropped last December 1 following League, Pennsylvania Dairymen's a rulin8 by the Attorney General The objection was in the form of a letter to Wilson G. Sarig, speaker of the house in which it was pointed out the bill had been referred to the labor committee while all other bills previously Introduced on the same subject had been sent to the judiciary special committee.

"Under these circumstances," the letter said, "we respectfully re-Quest In the Interest of all concerned that the legislative precedent you have established be not departed from and that you re-ler this measure to the committee which has had charge of all compensation bills since the beginning of the session." that former agents separated from Association, Pennsylvania Federa tion of Business and Professional enactment of the present law In 1915. He has advised all members of the committee to take copies of the bill home with them over the week end for study. It will be reported for action on the floor of the house as soon as service between June 10 and December 1 were to be discharged. Women's clubs, Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, Penn the United Anthracite Union at the Glen Alden Coal company collieries, fired at a group of men who stoned his house. Later when Augusta started for work a sniper fired from ambush, wounding the miner 'in the head.

He reached the mine where he was treated by a doctor. "I wanted to show them they couldn't stop me," he said. Emma GufTey Miller, sister of tho Pennsylvania senator, who is a trustee of Slippery Rock College. Others were Dr. Albert Lindsay Rowland, president of the Shippens-burg College: Charles Llewellymn.

Uniontown, representing the Pennsylvania Schools Association; and J. Edgar Sherts, Millersville, representing the trustees of the 14 teachers colleges. TREASURY BALANCE the existence of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania." inree companion bills, amending other laws in conformity with the unit tax collection bill, also were sponsored by Rep. Moomaw. The forum explained that Moomaw agreed to sponsor the bills, having The United Mine Workers of sylvania Taxpayers' Association, Second Class Township Supervisors, State Federation of Pennsylvania Women and the Tax Justice League.

the committee members have thoroughly familiarized themselves with its provisions and public America, the union recognized by WASHINGTON, March 7 (UP) The treasury balance to March 5 was $,013,364,171.56. the operators, refused to loin the have been held. walkout. 1.