Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - December 4, 1935, Altoona, Pennsylvania STOCK EDITION Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday ESTABLISHED JUNE 13 1874 FAIR WARMER Interest In Saturday's High Championship Game at Mansion Park Is at Fever Pitch ALTOONA PA WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 4 1935 II PUCE UNWORRIED SIXTEEN TWO CENTS THREE HOMES AND GARAfiEDESTROYED Two Double Structures In Hollidaysburg Are Ruined by Fire When Gasoline i Tank Explodes EMBARGO FAMILIES AKE LEFT WITH LITTLE COVERAGE Garageman Is Repairing Hunter's Oar When Latter Lets Light Pall Causing Explosion and Flames Fire which started from a amount needed laid aside it will be greatly appreciated by the carrier line tank explosion in a located at the corner of ery and Spruce streets burg operated by Walter man and owned by the Altoona Mechanics Building and Loan elation last night destroyed the large frame structure an attached I lUU H dwelling facing on Spruce ANNUAL CONTEST FOR CARRIERS IS NOW OH Altoona Mirror carrier boys to the number of 144 have been given their collection books and will enter the contest to get a place on The Mirror Annual Honor roll Each carrier will be given a position mid number on the roll in the order in which tire collection books are finished and brought into the office In order to win this recognition the hooks must be turned in with every cent collected The first list of winners will be published in the near future To be among the first Js ed as a high honor among The faithful carriers The patrons who day after day are served by the carriers can he of great help to the boys at this lime and a full tion is asked Your carrier boy will be around to see you on the matter and if you have the iU S MAY AVOID ON OIL Government Likely to Delay Action Against Warring Amends the Law Amends the Law Another Dry Spell Forecast DETERMINED TO PURSUE AN INDEPENDENT POLICY Foreign Envoy Is Assured Verbally That Embargo on Copper Would Necessitate New Legislation By Press WASHINGTON D C Dec i The United States will avoid Iping an embargo on oil copper and cotton to Italy and Ethiopia it was strongly indicated today amends the neutrality law A state department official the determination of the government to pursue its pendent policy In the European crisis by verbally assuring a for- and occupied by Newman as well j UDT as dwelling house fUll ing and facing on Montgomery street The owner of the Louis Zipp Is Taken In copper would be structure earned ample j out further legislation Observers believed that the same to Taken Number Of conditions in the view of the de- would apply lo other American materials which might ance but Mr Newman the pant carried none either on his household furnishings on the age equipment or on four vehicles which were destroyed The large double frame house on the Montgomery street side was dually owned The side nearest Automobile Tires Louis Zipp aged 23 of Johnstown was arrested at 11.45 o'clock last the sarase destroyed beyond repair It was owned by the toona Mechanics and Loan la association and was occupied by avenue rear on thc come under the heading of war necessities Silent About Injunction At same time state aud Paul Robinson at Owen were interested but used car lot at 2918 Sixth on a injunction suit filed The other half of the house is owned by Miss Margaret Akers and is occupied by Mrs Daisy her three daughters Miss Akers carried insurance the Bancroft family had none ever the Akers end of the house is repairable and tbe furnishings were in part saved by being taken from the building before it was p imperiled Starts by Explosion Newman was engaged t the time the fire started at 9.35 j clock in making some repairs to an automobile owned by George Young of Indiana Young was re- 1 turning from a hunting trip and had a buck deer on the Tender of himself and George his hunting companion The gasoline line had become clogged and Newman had taken the mechanism apart to clean it and had completed the job being engaged iij fastening the gether Young was holding an electric Fight bulb enclosed in a Mar tires Shortly before the arrest was made apprised tbe police that here was a man loitering around thc car lot and acting and when the officers reached the scene they found Zipp and placed him under arrest He had two tires loaded on his car and he had two others in tow when he was caught by the officers When taken to police headquarters and questioned by Lieutenant C Sell he is alleged to have admitted taking the tire's hurst and the gasoline line being open thc fluid ignited and in an instant the had been scattered throughout tbe building which was a large en structure and by reason of many years usage as a garage was thoroughly saturated with grease and oil Youngr attempted to loosen the brakes of his car to push it out into the street but burning his right hand he let go and ran Newman in the meantime bled to his feet his clothing on fire A boy who happened there threw a bag on Newman and subdued the flames All caped to the street with but slight Other thefts were also cleared up before the interrogation was com- Mrs Louise Lloyd of rado reported Sunday night that a tire had been stolen from her car parked in front of the Fifty-eighth Street Methodist church while a similar theft was reported by A C Herbster at 2730 Fifth avenue on last Sunday Zipp admitted tires At the time of these thefts the Continued on page 10 column al T MEMBERS FACE INJUNCTION SUIT NEW met members who compose thc j on thc injunction suit filed lied on pago 11 column 5 in New York to halt a possible embargo on such materials and on Rome dispatches stating that the Italian government and an Italian subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey had a agreement lo circumvent the League of Nations oil embargo Although the international em- bargo vortex appeared to be ing closer around Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull calmly scanned incoming bulletins and as calmly adhered to his com- independent policy in re- gard to embargo action There was however one other development in regard to oil for the war machines of Italy of Interior Harold L when his recent statement was laken to be a pica for oil panies to withhold shipments to Italy He merely meant that oil producers ought to cooperate with the government policy Study Developments Congressmen avoided comment pending study of developments DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR IN ETHIOPIA VOTE TO DISSOLVE Authority Will Make mid u Court Tile local retail coilc authority which was incorporated under the Britain and France Will NHA ami automatically censed to function Make Final Effort for n supreme decision Peaceful Settlement at Week-end Conference SIR SAMUEL HOARE TO MEET FRENCH PREMIER Back In earnest to the wars come these three veterans of many a hard-fought battle for Ihc cause of prohibition confidently pre dieting the of dry rule for Ihc Meeting at tlm twenty-eighth annual convention of the league of America in St Louis jr left William Johnson center and F Scoll McBride right radiated optimism They declared repeal has brought such buses that the turn away mm is in sight FIRST BIG SCALE BATTLE IS IMMINENT IN ETHIOPIA By PACKARD Staff Correspondent 1335 by United Pross ASMARA Eritrea Dec cations that a big scale fight the first of the war may take place ou the northern front became increasingly strong in the eyes of observers today Ethiopians are increasingly tive both in the area south of Makale where they are advancing and in and behind the Makale line where they are harassing Italian outposts and lines of tion It was announced today that southwest of Makale there was a skirmish in which four Italian regulars were killed Ethiopian casualties were not specified Another small skirmish it was said occurred in the mountainous region north of the river which is the Italian front line in some areas to the west One white Italian soldier was wounded in a skirmish yesterday near Makale between nn Italian outpost detachment and Ethiopian warriors The skirmishes trivial as they were were taken as connected with the advance of Ethiopians in great numbers toward tbe Makale region It is reported that between 000 and warriors under Ras Kassa probably Ethiopia's est military leader arc in the Lake dis- sixty miles south of Makale These men are expected to ad- vance northward Has Siyoum commanding troops in immediate vicinity of the Italian lines is reported to he leading warriors toward Amba Alagi thirty-six miles south of Makale where he would join the vanguard of Ras Kassa's men Incidentally there were reports that Siyoum himself had gone to Europe The last two Italian on page 10 column 5 Oil Concession Occupies ter of ian Forces Active Along Northern Front LOW TEMPERATURE MORE CHECKS ARE OF FALL IS SENT TO WORKERS but it seemed to be their Mercury Somerset Office Reports Oil negotiations with Italy in- by an Italian subsidiary of the concern technically would not bo a violator of the neutrality laws None would express any Press Latest war Oil deal to ply Italy with oil mid circumvent sanctions disclosed Government officially denies it New in case of oil concession in Standard Oil head emphatically denies Kalian oil deal Washington State department perturbed by reports from Home of oil deal to investigate anil France to malic filial effort for peaceful of Ethiopian war this week-end Asmara in north presages first big battle of war at date By 1 Staff Correspondent LONDON Deo Britain and France are expected this end to the strongest effort since the outbreak of the Ethiopian war lo end the crisis peaceably and avert the necessity for a dangerous and possibly dis- of strength between Italy and tlic League of Nations Diplomatic activity in London Paris and Rome more intense today than it hits been at any lime during the two months since Italy attacked Ethiopia This activity will reach its climax when Sir Samuel Hoare foreign secretary goes to this end to talk to Premier Pierre Laval of France regarding terms for n peace agreement which would bo acceptable to France Britain Ethiopia and the league the best means of bringing Italy into direct negotiations and imposition of mi embargo against Italy probably before Christmas if peace efforts fail to Mussolini In the last resort it seemed up to Premier Mussolini The terms which he has made publicly ils his for ailing bis war tional munitions control board must Contim show cause in federal court why they should not be re- TTTTT strained from extending an WI I I go on exports to Italy to oil cates Coldest Weather of Season With Mark of 10 Degrees Above Zero Acceptable are Mailing of Large Amount changed Ibc oil embargo seems The mercury fell to Its lowest ebb for the season last night to WPA Employes of Blair and Other Districts Spechl lo Mirror Federal Judge Henry W Goddard signed an order for the tions last night on request of Philip Girodano naturalized citizen em- ployed by II Progresso New York Italian daily newspaper Giordano charged in his suit that a threatened extension of the neutrality embargo would deprive him and other citizens of property i He Phoenix fire company i without due process of law paratus was There was a dano said he had planned to ship guick response and Chief H oil to Italy and contended that in Smith seeing the likely with his plans would be L of the fire had calls for other legally unjustified companies sent out Save Other Structures Within a short time company equipment arrived from ville Roaring Spring and the home company Chief Smith reports the pressure good and the cooperation of the visiting companies could not have been better Streams were not only played on the garage but especial efforts were made to save the St Michael's Catholic church parsonage across Continued on page 10 column 7 In Today's Abe Martin g Behind Scenes In HUNTERS FINDING DEER PLENTIFUL TO STATE CAPITAL SOMERSET Dec in district No 11 10 degrees above zeroT it Bedford Blair Cambria to 11 at the test plant of the and Somerset counties pj Pennsylvania railroad and at 8 j dollar mark several oclock this morning it had not thousand checks mailed from certain regardless of his threats Even if it were not the bloodless war between league and would continue It reported in usually reliable quarters today that before Continued nn page II column 0 changed At JO o'clock it risen but four degrees had S Bedford Blair Cambria i P JJ WIT T counties passed the 1111 II Hill SECURE WPA FUND the district at Somerset over the week-end it was today by Norman J Harris director of ao i uuv Wnile figures Balance 011 Its j Readings taken at the Face Provision fnr of thc Central Light i counts and I Mayor MeNair Backs Down J i u 1 1 It Int tt f L rials for Work Relief Seems Inadequate While a balance between the receipts and the tive expenditures has been struck in thc preparation of the 1036 budget and as soon as the forms arc received from the state capital it will be sent to the bureau of municipalities in the department of internal affairs arc not sure that it should be enacted in its present form 10 mm-1 year rods and many handsome it i ton Blair County Grange Events 3 Cartoon by g Church and Fraternal Kews i Comics Crossword puzzle Correspondence Editorials g Financial news u Frazier Hunt Our Boarding House Out Our Way liadio programs Side Glances Sports Stories In Stamps 7 The Truth About Diet 7 This Curious World Today's 5 Folks 3 Walt Mason 8 Women's features 4 The Sugar Valley Rod and Oun club returned homo yesterday with two deer Dr B T Hudson of 205 Ward avenue brought down a fine animal George Williams the other In thc party were Fred Moffitt John Ralph Meek i W D of Lexington avenue hunted in Centre county bringing down a seven-point buck weighing 145 pounds George and Amos were in thc camp They hunted at Mount Pleasant Russell of was the first hunter in his district to 2 i secure a deer gelling a animal Bus got a four-point buck Harry Im- 13 ler a and Jacob Land an animal Mrs Vina Miller Grove of Bakers Summit was one of thc lucky crs in the cove district She got a deer on the opening day the animal being an buck She hunted at the Barrens near Bakers Summit Councilman Plommer B Dick of Roaring Spring got a nine-point buck at Snow Shoe George Continued on page 10 column 5 thai Hie ments on the basis of ready approved or will nol be less than The valley sewering alone lists for materials and for lools equipment and other expenses which the city must However Councilman ley said today that there will be and Power company indicated the date in the area temperatures at the several amount to it was said tions some of which are high and This amount was carried in unprotected others being lower checks and protected by the hills or j Cambria county carrying the tains There was no particularly j greatest number of projects and severe blowing of wind The lowest reading at the Central stations was at St dict where it registered JO above workers received a total of up to and including Monday Other counties received sums as Blair Somerset Completely and Scores Governor Earle In ment of His Reasons By N McNair has backed down from his militant sland against the works progress In a formal statement with criticism of Governor George Other stations indicated are as Bedford Altoona lg above Checks arc mailed from tho dis- ton 21 above 21 above i office thc same day they arc Warrior Ridge 20 above i received from Harris burg 18 above in pointing out that the above office is hardly responsible H- he charged with un- The rather sudden and severe J for the delays have been en- interference McNair drop as usual caught many pco- i countered on several projects where i yesterday pie unprepared and many auto- j workmen have not been paid for a way this mobiles which had not been some time With thc installation of man in and Ihc ped with liquids were a new system of daily time reports Continued on page 10 column 4 jit is expected that all such delays i holding Ihc authority has voted to dissolve in with the provisions of thc grunted tiie as a corpo ration Tlie code authority tnel ycsler- dny o compile a report and file recommendations with thc court asking for Ihc dissolution of iho corporation and disposition of Iho after all ex- penses and obligations have been met AH the code was marily a governing hotly collecting its from assessments able under the NHA law thc re- maining assets of the corporation consist of cash collected from chants and nol used in course of operation Most of Hie ments were used lo conduct the business of the while it was in operation Disposition of the remaining sets will be authorized by the court after tbe report lias been filed GENERAL YIN IS REPORTED SLAIN Chinese Warlord Friendly to Japan Who Set Up State Said to Have Been Assassinated Reported Agreement by Subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey to Supply Italy With Oil Causes Sensation Among Nations DENIALS ARE MADE BUT PACTS MAY BE CORRECT Under Terms of Alleged Com- pact Company Would nish Oil Through Friendly Countries and In Return Receive Italian Oil oly for 30 Years B United LONDON Dec Vin head of the autonomous regime set up in northern province and in part of has been assassinated Chinese papers reported according lo an Telegraph dispatch from Tientsin Yin obtained much of his early education in Japan He has a Japanese wife and his Inw is a high officer in the ese army Chinese loyal lo Die central at Nanking have openly accused him of being a tool of the army Reports yesterday stated that a mob had demonstrated before Yin's headquarters at a few miles from demanding re- lief from taxes and threatening his life The reports said Yin hud fled in disguise BATTLE IS STAGED BY STRIKERS AND POLICE DETROIT Dec Fired by tile announcement of lenders that their jobs were striking union members of the Motor corporation plant hurled a barrage of bricks and stones al BULLETIN Dec Victor ill and Queen Elena gave their uold wedding rings to their country today to help il combat he economic siege nf Italy by The ring which the royal couple exchanged when they were ried thirty-nine years ago will he incited along with similar donations of gold from their subjects By STEWAUT BROWN Stair Correspondent ROME Dec Benito Mussolini feeling assured of an adequate supply of oil no matter what the League of Nations may do was reported today to be no longer about or oil em- bargo that may be imposed against Italy before Christmas This confidence tbe United Press learns is duo to a agreement reported in able sources to exist between tbe Italian government and the del Petrolic a sub- of the Standard Oil of New Jersey 1 of Agreement The agreement subsidiary would supA ply Italy with oil from and other sources outside the United States upon application of a league embargo return the company would be a thirty-year monopoly for the supply of oil to Italy and Its colonies above the amount produced in Italian tory or in Albania across the Adriatic probable credit of lire for the of oil to be arranged through the subsidiary with the parent company agreement to be effective only If and when tbe league applies an oil embargo Believes Report True Denial of the agreement anticipated but it was expected to have important repercussions In Washington and Geneva But the the motor factory three days before this dispatch A group of police reserves fought I off the renewed attack and is was written and thc United Press lent of its cd eleven men who were held foi investigation Strikers claimed that tear gas was used again and that eral of number suffered mi- nor injuries The violence was a resumption of tbe outbreak last night that resulted In twenty-one Injured and ten Those held lasl night were not booked at the police tion and were later released Pa Dec silk mill here leveled by fire today with a loss estimated at Firemen labored for several hours in lem- in a vain effort to control the flames The plant is owned by the Alvin Silk corporation MANY SEARCH FOR ESCAPED CONVICTS I will be eliminated in thc future FORUM TO MEET t Projects in operation today The weekly forum mceling of employment toona Chamber of Commerce nf persons it was said bers will be held tomorrow at A warning lo all hank officials o'clock at the hotel merchants lo exercise is first meeting in two weeks as the last regular meeting cancelled cians who are running WPA fron behind the scenes we In burgh must cat McNair had declined to By Dec Walter C president of the Oil company of New Jersey denied Hie agreement em- to thc United Press in New York He s Id it was sible of fulfillment and sounded like a piece of preposterous Tbe question was asked in some quarters whether disclosure of tbe agreement might prevent its fruition Elsewhere its effect on thc proposed oil embargo of thc league was inasmuch as oil producing nations in the league while ready to impose an embargo Continued on pago 10 column 4 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TO BE TURNED ON TONIGHT Long strings of colored lights will enhance thc Christmas spirit in the downtown business section tonight the current will be turned on for the first time Lights have been strung along Eleventh avenue on Twelfth street and Penn Central employes completed the installation of the globes day so that everything Is In ness to throw thc switch which r n fugitives from the jail j win the business dis- al heavily armed fled with merry color during the through Ibc rugged employment alc officials on the i mountain territory with it was administration was of in pursuit and nights until wasteful and inefficient a charge he leveled against it again in an- ilion in cashing of WPA nouncing to withdraw his j trail four members of tbe Irish and a cellmate who ice people faced with escaped yesterday regular was was issued by j i opposition of its falling on Banks Hudson director of WPA can s in pursuit I Many merchants are also adding Officers from all parts of Christmas touch to their store homa converged on Ihc to j fronts and entrances wilh garlands of and colored dow -ire filled with Christmas gifts and wilh Christmas trimmings and Thanksgiving No formal subjects district No 71 It was pointed rent of hunger lo prove I am t Leonard Short only the lights were needed to re- considerable salvage of lumber I members attending the dinner from the outfall sewer and other jobs so that can safely be cut to about There are various items which Continued on page 10 column 6 SPEAKER WILSON SARIG IS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL vill be discussed but items of inter- bat a forced endorsement bad been Continued on page JO 3 cst will be brought out by detected over the week-end and i Continued on page in column 3 READING Dec CONFIDENCE INCREASING THAT SANCTIONS WILL BRING PEACE By HAVin TWO DIE IN CRASH Major and i Killed as Plane Kallh WASHINGTON D C Dec A plane crashed at Boiling field jday killing two persons Army officials said killed The policy of Ihc United Slates I Lieutenant Harry H 1035 government has been managed with i army crops assigned lo WASHINGTON D C Dec the greatest Sarig speaker of the Pennsylvania Confidence is beginning to grow America is house of representatives was re- here that the economic sanctions league of difficulty because cl home listed a member of ns Pilot moved from his home at Temple to Reading State hospital today for rest and observation The of the job as speaker since the opening of the legislative session added to the task of conferring with scores ot Nations and yet the of lhc adopted by thc nations of thc world league has proved itself in the 1 victim Major will soon bring an emergency an effective nir plan peace If the world d a way to use economic pressure as a means of preventing the out- for the organization of i His home was given economic pressure s Wyo was a Politically of course President Roosevelt knows that thc league is break of war then the resultant sore spot having been made political leaders and hundreds on world production and the an against the Democratic job seekers are believed to hay movement of capital from country I Party in 1020 with telling effect Sarig Ho country can hardly he 1 Since those days however thc In addition ho had resumed cd It may provo one of the big i world has swung lo a more thp I f V III 1 A t t I t passenger in the ship The piano crashed from a low as it descended to land at Boiling field the army airport at Washington Thc cause of the crash was not immediately ascertained hut a hoard and Russell Cooper t mind busy shoppers that there thc gangsters arc but seventeen more shopping last week of thc simultaneous days until Christmas robbery of two banks in under a act charge in TAX JUSTICE OF COUNTY DISBANDS The fugitives were believed to be afoot in tho heavily wooded try northwest of here abandoned automobile in they fled from Muskogee afler shooting heir way of jail They wounded Detective Chief Ben ton Police Chief Marsh Corgan fatally wounded Henry Blackburn mail tobbery suspect as tbe jail breakers lied WASHINGTON D C Dec not so cold near Lake Uric Thursday partly cloudy with The Blair County Tax Justice league which sprang into being with similar tions throughout the state early in 1932 combining a number of local organizations known as the payers league has disbanded An- to this effect was made by President C L Sandrus at a meeting called to be held In the courthouse last night and which call was attended by six adherents Air explained that the league had been checkmated by the defeat of constitutional revision at the November municipal election which frustrated the plans of the ly rising temperatures probably j a reorganization of snow flumes In extreme north government He stated there lion Eastern could not be in his opinion sny colder in south portion tonight j tax reform so ir with slowly rising i constitution remains the basic law Thursday fair temperatures lot thc slate
