Olean Times (Newspaper) - May 29, 1931, Olean, New York WEATHER For New York and N W Cloudy much cooler tonight and mday with tonight probably Ing Saturday morning Sun set Sun OLEAN The Paper That Goet Home CLL E A N TIMES NEW VOL No 109 FRIDAY MAY 29 1931 PRICE TWO CENTS FINAL Yesterday's Total Circulation 9485 Closing Stock Quotations Heat Fascist Soldiers Execute American For Part In Plot Holds Country In Its Grip They'll Plan Dry Studies for College Folk Speedy Justice In Tria Of youth Who Planne To Slay By EDWARD A STORER United Press Staff Correspondent Rome May 29 Miche Schirru naturalized citizen the United States of plotting to assassinate Pre mier Benito Mussolini executed at sunrise today The debonair young self anarchist died be a firing squad at n m He was convicted of th plot against Mussolini befor the special tribunal for de fense of the state and immediately sentenced die execution of Schirru place in the courtyard of the ol Braschi fortress in the of the Vatican The firing squa wks composed of twelve Fascis militiamen Schirru pale and walking be tween guards moved to his posi tion in the courtyard as the dark ness turned slowly to light A de of 100 militiamen form ed a square about the execution The end of career as a gay figure in Rome night clubs and as leader of an anarchist band followed his sum mary trial and conviction by the Fascist tribunal sent ence came at the close of the first and only day of his trial Schirru confessed during his trial that he had come to Italy with on American passport to assassinate Mussolini He was pale and nervous as he replied to questions from the court which was composed of five superior cers of the blackshirt Fascist militia and two civilian judges The young anarchist admitted that he had taken rooms in a tel on a stieet along which lini frequently passed Schirru was described as a dangerous anarchist He gled against capture when arrested last February wounding three policemen and then attempting cide He shot himself but the bullet passed through both cheeks without inflicting serious injury While living in Rome where he came several months ago with the American passport Schirru spent much of his time in night clubs apparently seeking to allay that he had any interest iii politics He was a good-looking athletic youth and the police at first paid little attention to him He boasted he could have killed Mussolini on several occasions but rhat he refrained from hurling his because it would have en- dangered the lives of others near Fascist premier The st served in the Italian army ng the World War and left Italy he was born for New York five years ago Will Rogers Gillis In Spotlight Once More r t Mayor Would Close Schools Pleads For Circus Newburyport Mass May 29 The fire siren sent forth a no school signal today at orders of Mayor Andrew Gillis so that school children might attend the circus but the students stood by the dictates ol the ent and a great majority of them attended classes Bossy may even go to jail again as a result Gillis the renowned red haired mayor early this week asked Starr M King to give a half holiday today so the students might go to the The superintendent refused Gillis had the following no- tice inserted in and There will be no school Friday all day If this is any violation we can hold one day er in June I tried to compromise vith the superintendent by having school Friday morning but he ruled all day As mayor public schools will not open waved aside this mayoral pronouncement He warned that or no school must jo on A checkup after the fire had signaled the no school High school 598 total ion 50 absent Grammar school total 150 absent with characteristic r had threatened to have the ops out to pi event teachers and hildren from entering thH morning No such ion was taken however the Meet the Prohibition Research Council formed organization will attempt to determine how graduate students In colleges may help solve the question of really Is happening in the United States as a result of prohibition Pictured as they met the other day In Washington they are left to right front Walter K Mills Stanford Cnl Miss Susan Myra University Pa Roderick Duncan McKinsey University of Michigan Emory Richard Johnson University of Pennsylvania Back row left to Charles W Pipkin Louisiana State Uni- versity Charles Emerson Gehlke Western Reserve University Ohio William Seal Carpenter Princeton University N 3 Samuel C May University of California Samuel Lindsay Columbia sity New York r I bad a talk with the city olid tor and he said I'd be ng a law against intimidating chool children and trying to pre- ent them from going to school he law carries a fine and lirty days or three months or T may get the cops out o stop the kids from going back or the afternoon session though Beverly Hills Calif May 29 Special to Olean Times Last week we had quite an unusual murder out and it's getting very hard to put on anything unusual in the way of a murder A well-known politician was killed and at first they could find no reason Then it was discovered that he was on the verge of ing a preacher in ing a radio broadcasting station So now the surrender and show that his deed was to the public and he will be quitted with honors and his services will be in de- mand everywhere The regret is that this hero didn't start his life's earlier Milk Man Finds Body Of Woman Thought Killed New York May body a young woman bearing marks an automobile had been riven over her repeatedly after was killed was found today on ic Old Country Road near ury L T Police believe she may have been lied by gangsters who then ran car back and forth across the dy to make certain she was dead ic body was so badly mutilated at police were unable to ine immediately whether the woman had been shot or stabbed She was about twenty-five years old weighed 125 pounds and was five feet six inches tall The body was attractively dressed in a ed dress black shoes and black stockings and a black coat When found by a the body was face down on the road There was nothing in the clothing to aid in identification but in a bag nearby was found a piece of paper bearing a pencilled drawing of a man's head with these tions beside June 20 picnic and June 12 dance Police are seeking the who after entering a lunch wagon and announcing he had found the body Brothers Found Fraud Hartford Conn May eric E Kingston of Branford and ils brother Harold who spread a chain of brokerage houses into Connecticut and New York state cities and organized trading corporations and subsidiary prises to issue stock which he night deal were under sentence o state's prison today Superior Court Judge Frank P wno tried the cases of he and three convicted the brothers of hree of six counts of fraud and misrepresentation and acquitted Colonel L Field Edmund J and Frank H Smith McEvoy Frederic Kingston to five to twelve years Refuses To Debate Wet Dry Issue Atlanta Mayor Thinks Proposition Should Be Voted On Again By MARY KNIGHT United Press Staff Correspondent Paris May James L Key of Atlanta Ga said today he intended to stand by his ment that prohibition in the United States should be submitted to an- other vote The Atlanta mayor made this statement in refusing to accept a challenge to debate the vet and dry issue with former man William D Upshaw vice- president of the League Upshaw a militant challenged Mayor Key when re- ports of the mayor's opposition to prohibition were published in At- lanta newspapers Upshaw is looking for notoriety and an audience and I don't wisi to accord him Mayor Key said Prohibition is a question I am not in national pol but am bold enough to my personal opposition as a simple American citizen It is the basic principle of our government to submit to the peo pie the manner in which they should be governed Prohibition was voted as a measure Few gave a thought to its effects in lime of peace That is why T have definitely stated that I feel prohibition should be submitted again to the people One need only to travel in countries where there is no such thing as prohibition to see tha nefarious results of our present system Referring to the easies in New York Mayor Key sarcastically remarked that he had rather do his drinking in the daylight Admits He Was Wrong Quitting Liquor Racket Buffalo N Y May Jack Frost 32 deserted a small Riverman Will Make Second Try To Beat Falls And Whirlpool ml Harold Kingston to ive steady bootlegging business to go into the swindling racket he made a big mistake admitted day Frost awaits sentencing ing conviction on a charge of at- tempted grand de- gree He is liable to five years imprisonment A jury yesterday found Frost guilty of accepting from a detective who posed as secretary to a Chicago millionaire The was the down payment on the chase of more than a half million dollars in bonds which Frost claimed were the hidden assets of a bankrupt Pennsylvania concern Government To Aid Vienna Austria May approved today on three readings at a single session a designed to solve the present crisis in the Austrian bank whereby the entire economic William Red Hill To Brave Waters Of Stream Decoration Day By GEORGE J MAHDER United Press Staff Correspondent Niagara Falls Out May Red-haired and tion hard to beat even for the lower Niagara River rapids And so tomorrow William Red Hill master riverman of the agara will risk his life relying on he color of his hair and a lucky streak to carry him safely trough the whirlpool rapids in a barrel When at p m tomorrow Red Hill enters the steel-lined of George us Buffalo chef who was to death last July 3 when he went over the horseshoe falls will be his second attempt to conquer the Niagara Rapids More than persons saw Hill navigate them last year in a barrel of his own construction A far greater number of Decoration day tourists are expected to line the shores tomorrow Slightly more than a mile be- low at the far end of the pool William Hill Jr will await the arrival of father to tow the barrel ashore as he did last year Some Well I made were Hill's first words when he was taken from the barrel ly bruised but unshaken last year Will I make it this he said today Sure Nothing to it If you know the river I was bom here and have almost lived on the Niagara river There's nothing about the river that T tell you And then there's my red hair and luck The river likes that color and wouldn't hurt my head for worlds And talk about Well at this face of mine I wasn't born that way Got that and two other wounds in the war and I'm living to tell the tale You can't beat red hair and luck no matter which way you look at It Hill's face is pitted and the continual smile which he wears accentuates the he received during the war He also was shot the arm and leg Hill served with the Canadian army until forced to a hospital with injuries About forty-six years old Hill has worked at many er of a business and a riverman in ways Is called upon when any cue woik is to be done on the now has entered the writing business His first book William lill Daredevil of the ivas today and will be on sale at all souvenir stores here and across the border tomorrow And I'll make good at writing 00 I Hill said It's my red lair and luck You can't beat em Piccard Plans Other Excursions To Upper Air To Aid Science Publication Ban Placed Upon Press Mussolini Takes Personal Interest To Effect A By FRANCIS REA United Staff Correspondent Rome May ban was in effect today against publication in the press reports of recurrent anti- Catholic demonstrations and de- of the Pope by Fascist youths The censorship instructed the press to refrain from referring to attacks made by the Lavoro Fascist organ against the Azione Cattolica no reference can be made to the incidents re- current during the last week in- the burning of a raph of Pope Pius XI The cessation of demonstrations against the Catholics was believed lue to superior orders declaring hat the tions of Fascist students must stop The differences between the Holy See and the Fascists meanwhile re being discussed through diplo- matic channels It was indicated hat the differences although troublesome have not become and that there were few in- an open break would re- sult at this juncture It was reported that Premier Benito Mussolini personally was an interest in seeking to a settlement of the growing A mob damaged the magazine's throwing books into the street They burned several imes and carried a picture of the into the street where they on it crying down with death to the traitor This incident on Wednesday night resulted in drastic steps to further outbreaks which to inflame the people and develop into serious trouble Thousands Seek Relief In Many Eastern Cities Zamora May Resign As Party Head Decision Will Not Affect His Position -As dent Of Spain May 29 within the ranks of Republican leaders threatened today to resul in the resignation of Alcal Zamora as head of his party th so-called Derecha right It was emphasized however that whatever Alcala Zamora's de in regard to his party lead may be it will not his presidency of the He expects to hol hat office until the constituent as meets The President told nen the entire question of rela lions between the Catholic Church and the state would be held up lending the drafting of a new con Alcala Zamora said that since no constitution exists at that the old constitution ol 876 had been killed by the dicta was necessary to lei the constitutional assembly deter mine the nation's future policy re the church and its ion to the state rela FLASHES Latest Off The Wire WILL BAN TEXAS Paris May Minister of Interior and Labor decided today to refuse permission for Miss Texas and her troupe of show girls to land In France Pre- viously there had beep an in- dication that the group might not suffer the fate of being banned MERCURY GOES UP New York May one p mercury had risen to m the Advocates Export Planning Group New York May the United States tariff had med the door on foreign trade in a vigorous defense of the American tariff Dr Julius Klein assistant secretary commerce last night advocated an export planning body in major industries to coordinate America's effort in winning over- seas trade Branding those who favored re- from the foreign field in favor of hard-pressed rivals as worthy of the decoration of the grand order of the yellow Klein told members of the Export Managers Club of New York at a dinner held in connection with the convention of the National Foreign Trade Council that even the most ardent partisans could not prove that the United States trade de- cline was directly attributable to the tariff He de- nied that foreign countries had placed a heavy embargo on can goods because of the recent tariff eighty-six degrees a new record for the season The record for May 29 made in 1919 was nine The mercury jumped six de- grees in the hour between twelve and one Enthusiasm Leads To Be- lief Life Could Exist In Stratosphere GurgI Austria May 29 Prof Auguste Piccard elated at the success of his flight to an tude higher than man had ever ascended planned today to make other excursions into the upper air n the interests of science He and his companion Charles refreshed by a sound night's sleep their first in eight hours were ready to climb back to the glacier high In the Australian Alps to recover the in which they soared iOO feet into the stratosphere They had broken all altitude by more than two miles in heir ten-mile ascent hut Piccard In the University of was more interested in he scientific value of the daring than the fact he had gained world fame as a balloonist enthusiasm in ming up the scientific gains of flight led him to predict that it ad proved the stratosphere or are upper air strata were able and that life could exist ten position of the country Is above the earth chines racing at tremendous speed about the earth The flight proved that the is Prof card asserted It proved also that man with his modern cal methods will be able to master the problems of pressure and cold at high altitude I am convinced that my studies will make life in the stratosphere possible in future I am glad that I helped to inaugurate this new era of aerial transportation I hope that others wil now attempt similar flights to break my od Loans to aid the one to will be guaranteed by the I ment until May 30 1936 Gas Leak Halts Distance Flight McKeesport Pa May Amelia Earhart was delayed at Bettis Field here today while repaired a leak in the gas tank of the autogiro plane In which she Is making a experimental flight Miss Earhart plans to stop next at Columbus Ohio although she may stop at some intermediate He aroused the Imagination with I point she said She left Newark hin prophecies hinting at airways I N yesterday morning flying filled with new flying to Field via Harrisburg CLAIM LAWYERS UNFIT Xew York May teen including one state assemblyman are un- fit longer to Ire members of the legal profession Referee Samuel Seabury reported to the Appellate today after nn Inquiry Into lower courts FOR BODY Detroit May police today were ing Lake Erie near for the body of a man first no- by W F Kimball pilot of a Ford Motor Company freighter as he flew over en route here from Cleveland ROOSEVELT INDUSTRIOUS Albany N Y May During his trip to France and hack Governor Franklin D Roosevelt wielded an fountain pen He re- today that ho wrote all of his correspondence some 320 letters In long hand be- ing He sen ices of a stenographer OPERATOR IS JAILED Buffalo N Y May White twenty-four of Cleveland 0 was sentenced to three and one- half to fifteen In Auburn prison today on a charge of slaughter White was convicted of driving an automobile which fatally in- jured Philip of Buffalo hero recently Fire Breaks Out In Patrol Boat New York May toms patrol boat Atalanta took fire in New York harbor today and after her crew of three men had been rescued started ward a scow with more than a ton of dynamite aboard The Atalanta was bound for the Many Prostrations And One Death Re- ported At Chicago Chicago May 29 A summer like heat wave which killed at least one caused several tions made the crops grow and sent thousands scurrying to the lakes and rivers for relief gripped some sections of the try today as it abated in others In the east there was a blistering sun which sent the mercury to within a degree of the all-time record Chicago was promised cooling breezes off the lakes and tures ten to twenty degrees lower than yesterday's maximum of eighty-seven which was just one point lower than the May 28 ord that has not been equalled lince 3895 In the South where the climbed yesterday in some places to as high as two little relief was promised Western states suffered little from the heat and continued sonable weather was forecast there for today Thousands sought relief in New York Washington Chicago and other midwestern and eastern as the first real heat of year fastened its grip securely these sections One death in Vew York was attributed to the heat one man suffered heat stroke and in Chicago William Banks a negro collapsed from the heat on forty persons when between the two points a short circuit developed and flames en- the craft A passing tug drew close and removed the Ata- lanta's deck hand engineer and Capt C Tobm Then the Atalanta creeping toward her large gasoline tanks moved toward the dynamite scow Increase Tariff On Auto Parts President May Summon State Tax Officials Washington May 29 Hover is considering summoning a tax conference of state next fall according to members of a delegation which such a step The delegates representing New York Illinois and Massachusetts the problem presented by ack of coordination in taxation y which the average man is d at least three times by different with little if any ation Mark Graves of the New York tate Tax Commission H S Hicks ax commissioner of Illinois and enry Long tax commissioner of called yesterday at he White House to urge the con- They said afterward the President was planning such a conference Officially it was said he had the matter under Gangsters Slay Two In Gotham New York May m a speeding sedan opened fire i ith a machine gun and slew two 1 racketeers on a busy Harlem street and were believed to have wounded a third last night Ottawa Ont May 29 parts of which an- Dominick thirty-four Tariff o the Bronx and Frank Amato ot imports from the United States amount to will be increased in the budget to be introduced Monday by Premier R B Bennett it was disclosed today The move is an attempt to the Canadian automobile industry on a firm basis It the increase protection granted a few months ago to shed cars when the maximum discount from list prices was im- posed for duty purposes Booze Kills Child Marstons Mills Mass May Two-year-old Walter Fontes died from the effects ol a drink of moonshine Dr James H Higgins said today The child's parents told Medical Ernest F Curry they had been visiting friends when the whiskey was placed on a table They said the youngster reached for an unguarded glass and drank from it were standing against a when a large sedan raced toward them and slowed down as it pulled into the curb Two men leaned from the side and a dozen shots were fired and falling to the pavement A sedan owned by Joe Rao a Harlem racketeer was parked near the spot Police found blood stains on the seat and immediately started a search for Hao on tho theory that he had been wounded They said the shots may been meant for him MEMORIAL DAY In accordance with custom no editions of Tho Olean Times will be published tomorrow MAY 30
