Daily Courier, The (Newspaper) - February 19, 1934, Connellsville, Pennsylvania Last E iast urien rice Wl DO The Beat Advertising Medium in the Yough Region VOL 32 NO SI Courier IT r in CONNELLSVILLE PA MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 10 1934 TEN PAGES BIG TRANSPORT PLANE HEAVILY LADEN CROSSES CONTINENT IN 13 HOURS Sew Set hr barker Despite Snow Storm Bast FOLLOWS COURSE ABOVE CLOUDS By DAVID P International News Service NEWARK AIRPORT Newark X J Feb across tbe country through now storms and bad weather Captain Eddie World War dying ace today brought his big airliner down at Newark port at M 13 hours and five minutes after he left Los Angeles carrying the last transcontinental mall cargo under the old private tem to set a new record tor the flight tor transport planes The on record for a big passenger ship was made with only three slops en- route one at X M the second at Cltr tho other at home town bus Ohio where the ship was fueled correspondent who made the flight ft party of aviation officials and newspapermen found the Ing comfortable oven when the pilot and had to tako oxygen the liner climbed to tin altitude ot feet enst of to ride over a snowstorm which obscured the Allegheny mountain peaks The last third or the tight from Columbus to Newark was made In a of snow unit mist which ob- the countryside anil forced Captain to to celling to Uie storm 210 to 220 miles an hour the ble ship lore from burg In a world ot Itn own until near where weather lifted and the pilot nosed down to low regular commercial route to ation enn no said twkinK u his watch Itero to you U will Hland to tho Army who will taite over tho ho wna j ackeit It speaks for ho replied The record plane Its and probably taut cargo Lindbergh Denies Excessive Profits In Aviation Lines BELGIANS MOURN DEATH OF RULER KILLED BY FALL President of France anil Crowned Heads Will Funeral Thursday Belgium's New Rulers COMMUNISTS STIR TROUBLE By International News NEW YORK Feb In six years In which he has been actively Identified with commercial aviation Colonel A Lindbergh has a profit from stocks and rants of a by him through his attorney Colonel Henry BracVlnrldge today had revealed Then profits the famous filer de- clared did not Include deduction for business such as of equipment office tenance cost ot surrey flight and many other were ex- ot reinvestment In and warrants In addition Lindbergh denied flatly had received a gift ot stock stock options or warrants from tlie with which he has been Pan-American Airways and Air and its predecessors Transcontinental Air Transport A previous denial of be MM was contained In his to a from tbe Black Senate Committee airmail contracts mailed over a month ago On January 10 letters Introduced as evidence Before the com- Indicated that Colonel bergh had received a gift of of Transcontinental Air Lindbergh stated that by tbe of employment contract with the company he had received In May ot 1933 tn and an option to purchase alock In tho concern or the cash he said he reinvested In the company stock and his total profit from the galu ot stock was 633.75 CoW Wave Coming On Heels of Snow Blowing In fromi the midwest a final of V S Mall The Might Is a mvw storm to by the transcontinental com- th threw a chill over i-.i- Pennsylvania as It headed for the eastern seaboard today The storm expected to lowed by another cold In all ot State Falling with bitter winds are looked tor tonight by weather fore- casters Wore S Amy matt tonight It's a flight became air liner picked tho sky tano up at feet thereby getting a an hour westerly tall wind to help iell nil there Is a snowstorm over the but we'll bust right over U without knowing It The ship with load of mall and woe given something for the Army to ot when they taka over the air The from I on to Kansas CHy wati made In eight the a has ever done It The liner arrived at A M 14.000 neat 203 hour tered A westerly wind Tost possible greater speed KANSAS CITY Mo Fab The TWA luxury on flight from the to New York arrived from Albuquerque X M at A M CST today The ship refueled and departed II later tt wan trip of a ever made and City Lights ot ship at A M and minute later tbe to ground swarmed around and It wan quickly and nail At A M tho baggage taxied ot runway and roared away to oast Lo at P M Pacific hours add eight wheel of at City Airport next atop TO AID IN INCOME TAX RETURNS HERE J J Graham deputy collector ot the Internal Revenue will be located In the flu I Id lag from March 7 to 13 sive to of the region In making out their Income tax re- turns Mr Graham's schedule in Fayette county Bank February 10 Miller's real office February JO Grindstone February 21 February 24 March 14 15 Mauntown February Point Marlon February 17 Brownsville National Deposit Bank March 1 to Inclusive March 7 to 13 Inclusive R X Watt recently appointed uty collector will In borough building ot on February US and 14 and la borough building at Pleasant on February 26 and and at National Dank on March 13 to aid In re- i- MEN WITHOUT FUNDS WILL BREAK CWA Men with got breaks today as the CWA prepared to discharge hi next 1C weeks word went out that In central who can afford It to It to to weather will BO Hefting tonight of Vo J By United Press Staff Correspondent Feb IS Belgium mourning a beloved king today pre- pared to honor blm In death and to crown formally as III his eldest son Parliament was summoned to meet In special session the nowa that King Albert t had been killed by a fall from -a mountain cliff The king's body clad in the uni- form of A general which he wore with gallantry In the World War will be brought from palace out- side Brussels to the royal palace here where It will lie in state on a giant catafalque tomorrow and The funeral was set for Thursday Kings princes and tho- president ot France departing from rigid tion against chief leaving his own country will attend Leopold will take the formal oath of office Friday The coronation ceremonies will come later at a time when the Intense grief for the lend king Is lessened Leopold and his princess of Sweden arrived at the capital late last night from a Swiss holiday and even without baggage They went at once to Laeken to console Queen Elizabeth tbe Pomp ant and elaborate evidences of mourning ally mark the passing of a king In Albert's death the pomp and circumstances were secondary to the mourning for tbe loss of a man loved and honored for himself a dler of gallantry a natron ot the arts a sportsman and athlete and a statesman ot the first rank Shock at the manner ot Albert's death to the sorrow Like all members ot the Belgian royal ty he sought as simple a lite was He went for an excursion by noon They went to the Marches Lee Dames 35 miles from Brussels where ho set out to a peak by tho most difficult route up Its rock face A frost rotted rock gave way He plunged few yards to strike his head on a rock point and to be killed perhaps Rolling sometimes dropping body down tbe mountainside leaving of blood cap bag belt were found along the way The chauffeur waited for hours then telephoned for help Baron Jacques de ot those summoned tn the millions telephone call ot tbe chauffeur from a nearby Inn found body at 1 A SI day when he stumbled over the climbing rope to the body After the funeral be taken back to to burial in family vault m the beautiful park ot the castle where Albert arid the new king once studied botany J reaches boon time lerds gether There was ono political note In j hours following the king's death Belgian Communists in a manifesto called all workers to refuse to tbe accession of the new king and to demand establishment a republic ThU was offset by a statement from Vandervelde leader of and ordinarily an opponent of Thrat li Thomas C Stark of Dawson a deep tub on thumb of bin on Saturday afternoon required to wound Holding a knife In bia hand attempted to clow tke door ot refrigerator door struck It to cut a Baltimore i Ohio sustained an Injury to right ami elbow thrown from freight train wu admitted to pital tor Hugh Ecaard of George Stewart of Point Marlon and Knk of North Eleventh been admitted to Con- tm 1 County CWA Force ARMY FLIERS ARE Numbers Men SET OVER Payroll AIRMAIL SERVICE Fayetto county's CWA workers re- lii wages Cor tlie week ended Thursday February 15 H was announced at the office ot County Administrator C C Gallagher There were -1.573 Then on the roll Both the amount ot money and the number ot men drops from previous weeks attributed to tlie severe cold According to announcement by the Weather Outlook for Eastern Section ol County Unfavorable CONFIDENCE IS RAMPANT By FREDERICK C OTHMAN United Press f taff Correspondent WASHINGTON Feb Federal Civil Works Administration of Planes stripped of machine guns and Pennsylvania at Harrisburg there j racks and their holds were persons on tile payroll in ing- with mail bags were on the Fayette county for the week ending j today ready to carry the United February 10 This force was paid States mails through shine and tog as they years ago making the total for the first 12 weeks of the halt a million dollars The State's tics give the total as Creene received during the week ending February 10 men on the roll This the total to 152.20 Somerset's workers were caid increasing the total to Westmoreland's CWA employes received sending the while Washington's workers received the to Lai to 327.16 In received during the one week throughout tho State making the complete roll total Here Belgium's new King Leopold and Queen ascend the throne ot the little Euro- pean nation following the death of King Albert killed in a tell while mountain climbing hear The now king is 32 years old He married ot SweBen in 1926 Inset the two on their wedding day At right Is King Albert ot World War and recognized us one of leading statesmen ing ol rock he grasped Is believed to death hurled blm to hie 1 Mine j Se ahng r Maude State CWA Project Juit Off the Wire By International Feb Coal it the rait of more than cars hring shipped from The of abandoned coal mines that are polluting streams will be converted trom a Federal project Stale job to insure completion of the program that has been started It was announced at by Appel Secretary of that are wurk In the Held pay two Sixteen were killed and 11 hi a trains near the of r Feb the at I no reason why of the J Balney should not carry out the program of tomorrow his Illustrious father I think Kins was the foremost statesman of Europe SERUM TO BE GIVEN AT TROTTER SCHOOL Beginning Wednesday afternoon at School the Pennsylvania Health will give diphtheria Immunization Parents At Trotter are urged their dren of pre-school age It they haven't secured parental con- sent slips they may get them of Prin- cipal Frank A Harsh signed and returned before Great Is placed on the portance ot immunization ot as they are more likely to develop than of school ace Parents their children to the school arid there ly o'clock The school cal have charge of the Hart Charlei Boyer ot lacerations of face and an Injury to right kDM when a In which be riding Saturday night Int a oar in North He taken to State pital for treatment Frank Murray wu driver Feb than ers and workers in New cleaning and dyeing In forces In a wide strike In an effort to force JiHA recovery upon r I Fred Injured Fred street is at the Connellsville State Hospital for treatment of a triple fracture of the sustained she The There Kurtz the Hospital for X-raErexsnitaa and She leave latter part but will for- six weeka it wait Fair aBd much tonight with a cold in south and In southeast and slowly rising ture Jn portion the noon forecast for Western sylvania ACTIVITIES ARE BEING RESUMED are very An is being to Health Tlie work will be carried on Pennsylvania CWA instead ol Federal agencies he said Ing on orders to halt Federal projects organizations und have been the flail arc and other damage The State recently began scaling mines under Federal and funds several hundred have been Despite tlie cold weather four days last week were spent on the project work Two daya more the street project will be completed It was said 20 more days work would be re- quired at the slag dump sewer Edwin sewer work is going right along Water table jobs over town are being carried on Stone is being quarried for the water table jobs and streets which are being Scottdale through its committee and Borough Manager T B Gibson has made application for another which if granted will put 140 laborers tp work To do this work the borough a certain amount of money Taxes slow coming l made by tbe the CWA work pay at least a tuee as this gives them also something to go on In some other towns where CWA workers not make an effort to pay their taxes with some of tbe money they were not given persons to work and pay at least some of their taxes were given preference Scottdale is more than glad to give employment to Jts men and 1st them in getting along but It must be- understood that they must help themselves to and this can only be done by the borough where it be turned over for the work that is being done as practically all projects call tor some it was said Also Scottdale in all its projects has tried to show something worth while and something lasting not just to put in time when the first rudimentary airmail service was established While airmail charges ing aired in Washington and death dealing crashes ot Iwo Army mail planer were being investigated In tlie Weet the Weather Bureau issued forecasts that wore uot aging to the war birds turned to a difficult duty by the order of Postmaster General A ley private mail con- tracts The read like tor almost the whole eastern halt ot the Snow and much colder snow colder snow flurries snow or and raiu changing to snow But the men generals to tenants were undaunted by the weather the preliminary tragedies or the pessimism of private airline op- ot doubted could measure up to private efficiency in mail carrying The Army telt that its greatest peace time job was at hand its reputation for ciency was at stake Lieutenant J 1 Kelly will fly one of the Army planes loaded mail At P M he will take oft from Airport in an plane bound for Lieutenant Elwood Quesada will make tho Oret flight over the most of the air mail routes New York Cleveland over the He will take oft with the Chicago rt tonight from Newark By midnight Army planes will be chief the region over six Westmoreland strong Indiana and they four ot the there undoubtedly are buried the mountains and tlie sealing ot a the of- its opening have fiome cases water in the Is chemically treated In others the water is up and nature Is permitted to rest must be walled up idle of drew out minere of the Veita In Greene and counties with Michael O'Donnell Dies of Injuries O'Donnell -55 old Baltimore Ohio employe who wao struck by a locomotive while at work in tie yards last Tuesday died at o'clock Sunday morning at the State Hospital He had sustained fractured ribs and a punctured lung when bit engine Pneumonia developed Ing death In addition to his widow MM Ma survived by tour O'Donnell he is children James Emma and all at step- children O'Brien of South and Anna O'Brien home and sister The body was to the funeral establishment of C Mitchell flying all 21 routes the country In Government officials from President Roosevelt down watched the first day's operation by the Army with the deepest ot interest In New York Chicago and other tion private air transport operators were equally as Interested The Army's taak mobilizing its distributing its fliers buying its stores ot high gasoline within the span of a few days was herculean but weary at the War Department reported that the job was done Sixty-eight daily flights were uled over three divisions There 148 planes in the 786- attack 14 bombers 67 observation 30 pursuit and one transport plane Pressure upon the personnel moet that of mations that unprepared said nothing would -or could prevent the mail Before going to Newark today Major General Benjamin chiet ot the Army Air Corps reported that all organization was completed that confidence men was high and that the Army to operate the mail service as long as President deems Later be inspect all routes flown by the doubtless will be given first hand details ol the tragedies which early beset the Army when it started last week to send its fliers to air Two were -a blizzard near Oakley Utah and another crashed to bis death near Jerome Idaho officers ot the corps were frank in saying that other might bet lost before the Army tors become familiar with their stint ot flying Such said could not be cited -as condemnation of the Array service job is vast they said The dangers are apparent Tbe will do The Army's best the Air Corps of leers will be of mail flying have pawed Several ot the private air transport companies called hurried directors meetings to consider for the future Most of that their ships would con- to fly on curtailed and prepared for burial Later It f least for the time being for tin removed to the residence In South ingot Many night flights Tlie service will held at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the residence with W B Wall pastor ot the Church of South Interment will be in Hill Grove Cemetery The miners In at both No 4 and No 8 plants as the morning were ing io after a to the v At MO men No men Sew Closed of hall ot the city's cleaning and voted meetings to close up shop the Government acta who they are violating NBA code Miner Richard employe of C Coke Company at Colonial Xo 3 a painful but not Injury a plank fell oa root however were cancelled to Courier next meeting ot tbe League ot Sportsmen Tuesday evening U o'clock ia Moose in street There win a business senion talks on hunting and and tion William Friday February K the meeting ol will be held At thia meeting a bt take place of Warren er who moved
