Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - August 13, 1937, Altoona, Pennsylvania STOCK EDITION The Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday FAIR United Press Association Wires Keep Thoroughly Informed on All Im- portant Foreign and Domestic News ESTABLISHED JUNE 13 1874 ALTOONA PA FRIDAY AUGUST 13 1937 TWO SHANGHAI CENTER OF HEAVY FIGHTING UST DAY SHOWS Many Citizens of County Be Disqualified to Vote Unless They Appear at Courthouse Personally FALLS FROM TRUCK Man Is Admitted lo Mercy Hospital William White aged 00 of 608 Marie street Hollidaysburg was admitted to the Mercy hospital at D o'clock this morning suffering from injuries received when lie fell j from a truck in the vicinity of the overhead bridge at the south end of Hollidaysburg Examination in the hospital dis- disclosed that the man had suffered a possible fracture of the skull and a laceration of the scalp An X-ray examination of his skull was made later in the morning White is employed by the ough of He was Piles Will Be Closed Until in the body of the truck but standing against the cab of the Sept 20 i machine when he fell He was i i taken lo the hospital by Frank Utility Will Be Given to i ot m aml T A Lang of 113 Canal street His condition is regarded as BLACK OPPOSITION CHINESE NATIONAL PLANS REAL FIGHT IS MASSING Threat of Senate Battle Over General Staff Aims to HAVE ONE DAY YET TO REGISTER Fallen a Fatal Trap for 19 Confirmation of Alabama Senator to Supreme Court Is Revealed round Japanese Armies on Two Sides of Peiping and at Tientsin SUB-COMMITTEE TAKES i FLOWER OP IN UP ISSUE AT THREE CONCENTRATIONS Enroll for Election The last day on which registrars for boroughs and townships in Blair j county sat at the polling places to register citizens so that they may at the primary election on j Sept 11 passed with the closing of the books last night at 10 o'clock While up to noon today less than a dowm of the precincts had made returns to the registration office in 1 the courthouse at Hollidaysburg those that did make returns I cd that the registration was light below any of the three previous days The three previous registration days indicated that 41 per cent of the potential voters of the boroughs ami townships had registered in addition approximately 700 citizens had appeared at the office in and qualified to vote r Extended to Scpi 1 That number added to the last day's registration will increase the total to a possible 60 per cent while citizens outside the city of Altoona have the privilege of registering up to and including Wednesday Sept 1 not yet registered however have only one more day to become eligible to vote at the mary election Sept 14 and that is tomorrow when any not registered may appear at Hollidaysburg up to noon and have their names enrolled The registration office witl be open during regular hours every week day from now to Sept 1 to those who failed to enrolled but how many will take advantage of that opportunity would be a mere guess However on the basis of past experiences it has been predicted that mately 65 per cent of the potential vote of Blair county will be eligible when the files are finally closed An opportunity will be given those not the primary election to qualify for the general election from Monday Sept 20 to Saturday Oct 2 inclusive MAIN IS BROKEN FLOODING STREET Friends Claim Overwhelming Correspondent Completes Majority but Republicans] and Some Democrats Fight for Delay By United WASHINGTON D C Aug j A senate judiciary sub-committee today overrode protests of Sen Warren R Austin R approved the nomination of Sen.: Hugo L Black to the supreme court The sub-committee voted p to 1 to approve the nomination with Water j only Austin voting against his bama colleague Consideration of Alleged Drunken Driver De- Car and Plug Torrents the be undertaken by Are Arrested This morning at 1.15 o'clock trolman E J Fyock of the police force was to the corner of Mulberry nd Juniata streets where an going south on North Front street had crashed into a fire plug of the Hollidaysburg wa- ter system The car was demolished and so the full judiciary committee President Roosevelt said today that Attorney General Homer H had informed him he court nomination of ator Black was perfectly legal and constitutional in every way By JOE ALEX Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON D C Aug j Threat of a senate battle over Ten-day Swing Through North Havoc Wrought by Planes By JACK Correspondent Copyright by CHINESE ARMY TERS Shihchiachuang Aug flower of the Chinese national army is massing through North China on three fronts to fight the Japanese is little doubt that in suit of a carefully laid plan of strategy and tactics the Chinese general staff is trying to surround the Japanese armies southwest of northwest of Peiping and in the Tientsin area It is proposed according to what I have seen and heard in a wide swing through China to cut Japanese communications and leave three separate Japanese armies isolated from each other and the outside world i Chinese Regulars and anese Bluejackets Meet In Streets In First Big Test of Arms for Possession of City of Set Afire Whole Blocks of Native City GREAT SLEEPY CHINA HAS AROUSED HERSELF Awful as the pile of wreckage appears by daylight it is hut an iola of the horror that New street in New Brighton S 1 viewed ill the darkness after the collapse of a tenement and factory hull killed persons and injured four Two were valiantly Irving to rescue the tenants from their deluded homo when the undermined foundations way arid let the structures topple into Above firemen carefully remove the wreckage liy hand lest they mutilate concealed or further injure trapped victims FORUM MEETINGS ARE CANCELED FOR MONTH i was was the water plug The impact was so great that the mahi with which the fire plug is connected was broken and the streets were flooded and soon became veritable t ivers Patrolman Fyock look the driver two other occupants of the demolished sedan into custody AIV locked them up for the night r the comity jail The employes of the water department were called nto action and worked the re- mainder of the night to make re- pairs Tile driver of the sedan Lloyd of Williamsburg D anci the two passengers Harry Martin and Florence Finnegan ali of the same address were charged with drunkenness and will be corded hearings Burgess R R Potter on borough charges and the driver faces n charge of ing a motor vehicle while ed Information was made before Justice of thr Peace C I Lewis by Officer and he will be accorded a hearing late this afternoon None of the occupants of the car injured in the crash Chamber of Commerce members In attendance at yesterday's session of the forum voted to discontinue the weekly meetings for the re- mainder of August A large ber of special committee and board meetings made necessary by the press of chamber business brought about the decision to cancel forum meetings for the last two weeks of this month TOTAL MOUNTS Five consecutive days of sudden rainstorms have added 1.78 inches of rain to the month's precipitation total the storm yesterday noon adding 46 of an inch according to measurements made at the test department building The tola for month is now 3.03 inches The high temperature yesterday afternoon was 83 degrees the low last night was degrees and ai Chairman George of morning the committee made wils 73 short report on the activity of his committee and Chairman James A Johnston of the tourist publicity committee also made a short re- port for extending the ice of the chamber were discussed with Forum Chairman Joseph V Fritsche leading discussion along this line of Sen Hugo L Black as a member of the supreme court threw new dangers today before harassed leaders fighting to save President Roosevelt's battered legislative program A bloc of Republican and cratic the strategy of their successful fight gainst the administration's reorganization a determined campaign to delay approval of the Black until we've heard from the country The extent of opposition to the of the Alabama ocrat as successor to retired Justice Willis Van was uncertain as well as public comment showed it would include most of the seventeen Republican senators as well as an indefinite roup of so-called Democratic con- Friend's of Black asserting that he vould have an overwhelming Continued on page 21 column PROBE IN SUBMITS REPORT POLICE PROBING FATAL COLLAPSE ON PLANE CRASH BIG POISON PLOT en Chang Is In Supreme Command and Moves Many Troops For- Admiral Yarnell Speeds Down Coast to Take Command of U 8 Naval and Marine Forces ing to staff officers here is as General Shan with two divisions and General Pang with three in the area be- tween Tientsin and Three Fred D Fagg Jr Director Hold Mrs Anna Marie Habit mites south of it These divisions are moving over toward the coast General Sun with several divisions in the vicinity ol 15 miles southwest of Backing these arc the Mlh Chinese army at SO miles south of along with Chinese regulars General Tang with three in the area 23 miles northwest of Peiping First Bis Battle The troops arc now In the first big battle of the war and skirmishing which is developing into battles has started southwest of south of Tientsin Ill each instance the beat men In all ot China are in the forces Backing them arc hordes Continued on pane 21 column 8 Persons Missing way Inquiry Starts Into Deaths of Nineteen MULTIPLICITY OF MACHINE SHOP TO CHARGES DECRIED By Stalf Correspondent NEW YORK Aug j and deeper into the muddy ruins of a tenement house in New Brighton Staten Island today searching for the bodies of three persons believed still buried While they worked five separate groups prepared to investigate Nineteen bodies had been taken from the slimy of plaster and splintered boards when new rains of Air Commerce Bureau Gives Data on Recent at Stultz Field Tile Altoona Mirror this morning received from Washington D C a copy of the report submitted to the secretary of commerce by Fred D Fagg jr director of the bureau of air commerce concerning the able cause of an accident which occurred to a craft at Stultz field near Altoona on June 6 last The statement which will set at rest a number of rumors is AS Who Allegedly Received Large Sums After Four Aged Men Had Died On June 6 at j O BULLETIN CINCINNATI O Aug Traco of a metallic poison possibly has found in the body of man aged died on 6 Attorney Dudley M announced today Press CINCINNATI 0 Aug Police awaited today the before contin PICNIC TOMORROW man Five investigations were planned to determine if the disaster was i the result of negligence Borough Magistrate Discharges Employes of Altoona works president Joseph A Tho pilot Bernard A Lynch as a poison that it is not in- held a federal student i eluded on the standard check lists cense The airplane a Taylor used in autopsies model bore federal license er Previously Fined and Who Was Confronted With Commonwealth Hearing Unit Their Families and Friends to Take Full j for expenses pealed for funds to aid the families 1 bcr and was the property of victims He said money was of burial and of Paul Peterson of Altoona Pa Student Pilot Lynch had been to provide food and shelter for the j receiving flying instruction at Stultz DEAD FIVE HURT UNIONTOWN Aug Mrs Bertha Walton of killed yesterday in an auto- accident which injured five others The automobile in which all six were riding plunged over an embankment on route 119 near FLIKKS FILE SUIT PITTSBURGH Aug Richard Trader and his asked the courts day to stop the flight of airplanes over their property adjoining tis Airport in the decision made in police j Altoona machine shop employes court this morning in which he families and friends will take discharged a defendant Alderman entire possession of park Anthony who presided in- his disapproval of the idea picnic tomorrow Session Of Lakemont Park four of whom are for two weeks preceding the in Staten Island hospital He accident and had been instructed I flags on all public buildings in spins from which it is stated he Mn Staten island at half-staff until recovered very readily About t p after the funerals m- Police lor the holding of their annual All details have of multiplying charges against been completed and a program of are arrested by the police j entertainment and sports will meanwhile abandoned of Mrs Anna Marie Hahn a blonde wife who purportedly was friendly with five old men four of whom died within the last five months The croton oil search was being made because a bottle of it was found in the office locker of Mrs husband Philip a rapher He said his BULLETIN Aug brought a perceptible lull in flic Shanghai war There was an outburst of machine Kim lire as Japanese naval landing forces set about Chinese snipers wise the city SAN 13 radiophone ice tn has Ireen tem- the Pacific Telephone Telegraph Co sail today By United SHANGHAI Aug 13 waged with rifles machine guns tanks incendiary bullets and lata tonight by artillery lire on both Chinese and Japanese the north of the city in mortal Combat Not until rarts of north of tile international settlement had jeen set afire and two Japanese gunboats the Seta ana the Kuri in the river lad started shelling Chinese shore nations did the Chinese utilize ar- lillery But tonight their batteries let go Their fire was directed at Japanese positions outside Shanghai university adjacent to which their landing forces were attempting to construct in airfield U S Land Naval patrons were landed from the U S S Sacramento station ship and proceeded to posla as guards over the Shanghai Power company the installation and the Shanghai branch of the Texas com- pany Smoke from flaming buildings ew from the and an quarters Glare of the conflagrations the skies as if a portent of in blood to be Japanese reinforcements ling camions on which machine uns were mounted rumbled the streets even those of ie settlement in the ion SUBDIVISION CASE BEFORE PLANNERS s city the day from morning until arc forced to face night for an expected crowd of hearings people Everything has been j W Havlin was the by the Pennsy shopmen j in the case in question He la boost the movement to malic the had been arrested early on day morning after his car had ck a parked car belonging to of Richmond and by Mayor F H LaGuardia District Attorney Frank H Continued on SI column I Hearing was given tins morning before the city planning A Kane of West nut avenue in front ol 1023 Union avenue He drove away after the accident was arrested shortly after and in police court that popular resort a real community recreational center i The general committee and the LOAN IS Aug j the nal Affairs Secretary Thomas A today approved a bond issue by Indiana township school district Allegheny county for a new school building sion at a meeting at City hall on ing he was assessed on a various have been j busy the past two days in ing details for the outing The en- refreshment sports and transportation committees were especially busy in their application for the approval of being plans for a subdivision orderly has been plotted and on an j A city charge of driving plication for then entered by Officer J B The estate is plotting as who had conducted Presentation to subdivision a plot embracing the investigation and made the will receive treats lo expand I j spinning or AND NAVY REVOLT hill about one and one-half miles i west of field An exam i tint ion of the aircraft wreckage indicated lhat it bad made impact with the pro u ml in a practically vertical position while spiraling to the right appeared to be in good and there was nothing found to indicate structural failure of tiie aircraft The airport from which Student Continued on i column 3 ml to make the day one of lure for Uic young and oM ni ing the Thousands of amusement tickets were counted for the kiddies who In Today's Alie Martin g C Forbes K Cartoon liy H Church and Fraternal 18 Comics 25 23 dimly Dr Morris fi 8 Financial -i Our Boarding Out Our ay It Forum IS -3 30 linger liabson H Side Sports Stories In Stamps 3 That Body of 8 This Curious World 11 This Week's Books 7 Folks 21 Walt Mason 8 Features 18 a full city block located north of Ellsworth avenue and west of avenue Twenty-ninth be opened through the plot but because of the contour of the ground it will make a curve and come out on Ellsworth avenue rather on Washington avenue The plans were gone over in detail by the commissioners at a previous hearing and also today Some United j ASUNCION Paraguay Aug army and navy re veiled today against President Franco and forced his cabinet lo i Groups of rebel which the regular j in charge wiJI be given army in the north entered the the evening Hai bringing to 1 climax a j tion that nad been reported as grave The interior ministry yesterday had issued a communique saying INVALID CUMBERLAND Aug office and planned to turn it ovc to police if anything Police found it yesterday reported to Dudley Miller that the found symptoms of a type of ill ness caused by doses of croton oi when they were called to the horn of George aged 67 wh died on July 6 Autopsies were here on the bodies of Continued on page 2 column 8 LOSE LICENSES Aug rest commonwealth charge was preferred before OToole Attorney John J after fended Havlin at hearing this morning on the reckless driving charge He contended that there was no evidence of recklessness on the park theatre beginning at the part of his client and lhat the o'clock under Ihc direction of ends of justice do not call for Man rne former tnc government had adopted i ordinance which I nue Secretary J Griffith Boardma limited to six the number of announced today that licenses wcr cts at each entrance to an from automobil trial plant and imposed other drivers during July Of the tota strictions on picketing was were revocations and 792 sus invalid late yesterday by Chief j pensions Licenses were restore Judge D Sloan the month to 313 A will special feature of the picnic be a battling beauty contest and a floor show It will be staged FAVORABLE REPORT ON LOOPHOLE multiplying charges a that nad been made before are arrested in such cases by them were incorporated in the The attorney declared that his plans and they were accordingly client already had paid a line of approved today Consideration was given to the Continued on i 2 column 5 application of William OF GIRL FOUND wishes to have from single I Sirls under 16 years and girls over tion on the part of a sector of 16 years Considerable interest has regular troops m the north been manifested in Uic event communique was I he first by the entry of contestants intimation of any trouble although second and fourth Of rebellion had circulated WASHINGTON D C The ways and means com- EIGHT MEN KIDNAP SENTENCES h to dwelling lo business the properly at Grant avenue He plans Mie erection of A line station and store on Ihc erly The application was before Uic commission some time but at lime Patios did not sufficient signatures as required by the act The three opposite cor- ners arc vacant and owned by Jaggard estate They have not signed his application but he pre- that he had the requisite number and frontage on the part of the other property owners of the neighborhood However a check revealed that he lacked a majority so the plication was continued to a future date when the required frontage in approval may be obtained place awards will be made in each event A special musical program tor the will he rendered by life Hawaiian Judges for the content include IN ABANDONED HOUSE NEW YOKK 13 body of Joan Kulcha missing from her home nl South island since yesterday afternoon was found in an abandoned liouse not far CHANCES SLIGHT FOR from the The child's body had been ed with a knife from throat to waist It was lying face here for several days dose tax loopholes communique claimed the Action came after two days of tire country was calm sessions J Plank D 1J war Bolivia pledged its holes through which an estimated i less than I Continued nil page 1 column fi port to President Franco against or more of revenue of deliberation By UmU N Y men convicted of the tion of John J O'Connell jr of Albany in 1933 faced prison terms today ranging from twenty-eight to seventy-seven The long trial ended night when a jury which had listened to testimony for almost three nop months found Ihc three hours WAGE AND HOUR WASHINGTON D C Aug ward with several stones piled T Norton of the the back any eventuality Franco Paraguayan hero of I Chaco war became president as a result of a coup against the then established government The rebels asked President Franco to retain presidency and house labor committee today said i continue governing that she had virtually given up I with a new cabinet i leaks annually j It will be brought up in tht house 1 early next week It is one of the major bills on which the leadership desires action before adjournment minor revisions were made ill tho recommendations of the avoidance WEATHER FORECAST hope of securing right of way WASHINGTON D C Aug j tho deadlocked house rules Western committee on the wage and hour night and Saturday not in temperature Eastern continued cool Garrisons throughout the country committee were reportedly supporting Ihc Chairman Robert L Asuncion rebels Commandant said that no members of the com Ramos in charge of She admitted that chances were military forces took of the tonight Saturday partly cloudy next session the measure would be delayed city pending establishment opposed the favorable re- port although seven of the i Franco's new government of five committee publicans numbers Re- Percy Geary and John of Albany and Charles Harridan John McGlone Thomas and George Garguillo of New York city were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined S 10.000 each Manny of Albany v pictured himself as an innocent go-between during ransom was given fifty-eight years imprisonment and a fine of Harold Crowley of New York city was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 000 Uy H R Staff Correspondent Copyright Dy Press SHANGHAI Aug tlnejackets and Chinese regulars lashed today in the streets of Shanghai in the first big test of for domination this city of people Six hundred miles to the Japanese and Chinese armies met a three fronts northwest of southwest of Peiping and south of Tientsin United States Admiral Harry E Yarnell in his flagship cruiser Augusta steamed at full speed down the coast from Tsingtao to take command of the American naval and marine forces in Shanghai fighting zone Sleepy China Aroused Great sleepy China had roused herself It looked as if matters had got beyond all control and that a war which must mean rible slaughter was on General Chang roic commander of the army in the Shanghai war was named in supreme command of the army in the king area Division after division of nese regulars concentrated on Shanghai The Japanese navy position seemed one of urgent danger and it was reported on most authority that the high command had appealed to Tokyo fsr im- mediate reinforcements Thirty-three Japanese warships were concentrated here but massed a great army oven ol Way Troop trains were given the tight of on all converging on Shanghai and I arrived nn the last airplane permitted tor civilian use on the kow line A battle that looked like start of a new Shanghai war ed in part of the city this afternoon following three minor clashes this morning Chinese regulars and a landing party of Japanese bluejackets be- gan fighting just oft the range in the northern area and near the Japanese barracks Rifle and machine gun fire started and proceeded for some time The Chinese responded for shot The Japanese that they were in for a fight Continued on page J columa 1
