Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - December 2, 1930, Titusville, Pennsylvania fair and continued fah aild ESTABLISHED JUNE 14 1865 FIRST DAILY PAPER IN THE OIL OVER 5000 DAILY Published in Titusville Birthplace of Oil and Natural Gas Industry Original VOL 66 NO 146 TITUSVILLE PA TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 2 1930 THREE CENTS WOMAN FLIER SAFE Davis Steps Aside To Await Probe Of Sen Nye Committee UP AT NASSAU Says He Has Nothing to Conceal and Will Extend Coop Paddock Great Runner To Be Wed This Month MAY APPEAR TO BE SWORN TODAY Dill Willing to Offer Resolution to Withhold Seating of Penn BY D HAROLD OLIVER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Dec to withhold the oath of from James J Davis as a Republican sena tor from Pennsylvania were under con sideration tonight after the Nye cam funds committee received reports indicating primary expenditures in be half of the ticket had reached more than It had been expected the contest would be initiated today but Davis deferred appearing in the senate to present his credentials pending exam of the additional expenditure reports by the Nye investigators He indicated however that he might ap pear to be sworn tomorrow T was informed Davis said in a statement that Senator Nye wished to study further the matter of contri butions in the recent Pennsylvania election After consultation with sen ate Republican leaders who had also conferred with Senator Nye it seemed to me best to withhold my credentials until Chairman Nye had time to make his examination that is tomorrow In the meantime Davis added I desire to say that having nothing whatever to conceal I fully court whatever further investigation Senator Nye cares to make and will cooperate with him and the committee Calls Action Gracious Chairman Nye termed the former action as gracious but added he would be compelled to ask a delay in acceptance of his credentials if he appeared before the committee completed its investigation 01 reports it received today from Harrisburg Regardless of when Davis appears it was almost certain tonight he would be asked to step aside pending senate determination of his case Senator Dill of Washington a Dem member of the committee ex pressed a willingness to offer a resolu tion if Nye does not to bar Davis and have his credentials referred to the Nye committee Dill added that he was willing to close the door to the former Hoover cabinet officer even if thc committee had not found evidence of additional expenditures Meanwhile Senator Grundy who was appointed to the seat denied Wil liam S Vare but who was defeated for the nomination by Davis still holds the post stirred the senate to heated debates for four years Senate parliamentarians held Grundy was en Continued on Page Seven LOS ANGELES Dec 11 Charles formerly the worlds i greatest sprinter and his fiance Mrs Neva Prisk Malaby today filed notice on intention to wed Charles H Prisk Pasadena per publisher announced the engage ment of his daughter several weeks ago Thc wedding will take place in Pasadena December 11 gave his occupation as a journalist and said he was 30 Mrs Malaby gave her age as 26 She was divorced four years ago British and American Boats Collide in Panama Canal Lawmakers Try to Work Oat Program From Jumbled Docket BATTLE ON OUTSIDE PANAMA Dec Brit jish freighter ami the Amcr ship were in collision I today near the Culebra bend of the Panama canal Damage to the the bow ol which was virtually demolished was estimated at to the was estimated u about 000 The was one of the ships which stood by the German freighter after it caught fire in I the Gulf of Panama yesterday Police Use Sticks and Tear Gas to Disperse Crowd REPRISAL IS FEARED TWO KILLED LAUREL Md Dec persons were killed instantly and two seriously injured near here late today when collided on the Baltimore pike The dead M Braun 35 and Miss Eleanor Sallman 22 both of Baltimore The injured Mrs E E Harris 42 and her daughter Gladys 23 of Pitts burgh condition of both critical State said Braun and Miss Sallman suffered broken necks and died almost instantly Mrs Harris and her daughter re fractured skulls They were tak en to Casualty hospital in Washington where their condition was described as critical WASHINGTON Dec 1 Several hundred Communists picked the mo ment of the convening of congress to day to stage a wild scene on the broad plaza of the capitol before tear gas and sticks drove them in a straggling march Dispersed with comparative case the demonstrators nevertheless left be hind them a fear of further reprisal Capitol police hours afterward pa trolled their stations with army rifles while Washington bluecoats gathered in knots near the White House and the city in police cars Many of the Communists however left the capital before nightfall in special busses headed toward New York and no further disorder was re ported At least six of their number re mained in jail while cne hos pital treatment for a broken nose Start at NOOK It was exactly noon the de made their first move shouting and pulling denunciatory placards from beneath their coats The noise drew some senators and repre from their chairs and the crowds attracted by the melee ly upon the group The display of placards apparently had been the awaited by police for no sooner were they shown than the tore into the crowd to snatch them down Sporadic fist fights in which spectators joined sprang the edge of the group and the first tear gas bomb re leased caused more weeping among bystanders than Communists Asthe demonstrators moved down to the fost of Capitol Hill however they fell into far less gentle hands Dis of Columbia police rained more tear bombs and night sticks upon them Finally Step Fighting tears streaming down their cheeks Dcnt wipe eyes let them see it while the men cried down with imperialism and down with the dirty cowards in answer to shouts from the spectators to take them away Police reserves finally were called and the general fighting stopped Several dozen Communists moved up I Robinson Offers Drought Relief j Hoovers Message Today i By FRANCES M STEPHENSON i Associated Press Staff Writer j WASHINGTON Dec pre vailed both and outside the cap j itol today as the ranks of I the 71st congress reassembled for the concluding short session i While Communists battled police on l the capitol plaza and congress went i through its brief opening formalities i harassed party leaders inside were I striving to work out of a jumbled legis lative dockst an orderly program thai j be completed by March 4 j The only unanimity however ap j to be on drought and unem ployment relief legislation I The first measure proposed dealt with i drought relief Senator Robinson of Arkansas the Democratic leader who yesterday assured President Hoover of i support for a bipartisan relief pro gram a drought relief and Republicans in the house 1 end senate hastened to advance similar legislation Await Hoover Ideas But the organization of the public buildings road construction and program awaits the rec to be submitted to con tomorrow by President Hoover Among the other perplexities that i arose as congress met was whether i Sana Davis of Pennsylvania i will be seated Mr Davis failed to put in his appearance and the senate cere monies were over in 20 minutes To the solution of this controversy and the problem of what to do wich i the World Court protocol which ident Hoover has decided to submit to the senate the Republican leadership i bent itself in conference tonight i With these two troublesome propo and that of Muscle Shoals leaders were still dubious of their abil ity to forestall ui extra session in the spring j Representative Tilson of Connecticut the Republican leader announced he was ready tc begin night sessions with a view to clearing up al controversies Ignoring the demonstration by the Communists early crowds filled the galleries in the senate and house to watch the opening Animosities of the campaign together with its joys and sorrows for the membership seemed forgotten by the congressional hosts as the galleries looked down Formal attire was absent The mem bers slapped each other on the birsk and exchanged greetings like school boys After the prayers of the chaplains and the opening roll calls elected members were sworn in to complete un expired terms A committee including the Republican and Democratic lead ers of each branch was sent to the White House to inform President Hoo LUl Prohibition Is Attacked From 5 Different Angles By House Wet Advocates Two National Referenda Pro posed Along With Other Plans 200POUND DEER BAGGED I PITTSBURGH Dec snow of blizzard proportions in some i sections hampered hunters today in western Pennsylvania as the season for bucks opened but did net prevent in several counties from I meeting with success Game Prelector William E Clark at Franklin said a record first day kill in Venango county was indicated Hun j tors in the laurel hill section embrac ing parts 01 Somerset and Westmore land counties estimated a kill of be j tween GOO and 300 Crawford county reported an ordi nary first day but in Blair where a heavy snow set in about noon thc kill I was said tc be only fair and counties a liht kill was the order of things for the first time in many years A blizzard hampered the hunters believed to number 0000 and I 30000 and effectively aided the deer in j hiding Reports reaching Dubois ut that not one lodge boasted TO MEET ON WEDNESDAY fU WASHINGTON Dec of more strength in the next congress wets attacked prohibition from five legislative angles today as a call was issued for house to meet Wednesday Two national referenda on the repeal of the eighteenth amendment were proposed along with bills to permit the manufacture and sale of wines and beer In addition Representative Wood ruff i Rep Mich proposed in u that the federal government give as sistance to states in bringing interstate gangsters and racketeers to justice Representative Linthicum Dem Md j chairman of the house wet bloc sum moned the executive committee to a j conference Wednesday to map out an i aggressive plan of action for modifica i tion or repeal in both this session and in the new congress Offers Amendment Proposing referendum on i prohibition Representative McLeod Rep Mich also offered an amend to the constitution to legalize the manufacture of liquor for use in homes and places of abode and a constitu ATM SAYS SHE WAS FORCED DOWN Mrs KeithMiller Had Been Given Up For Lost Since Then LANDED ISLAND OF ANDROS Come Back Soon She Says in Message to Miller A IE AND SLEPT LITTLE By A HICKOK Press Staff Writer NEW YORK Dec be solne woman in the world who could keep from crying over the news that her daughter given up by most of the world for dead was alive and safe I but that woman is not Mrs E M L mother of Mrs J M Keith j Miller I She tried to keep calm tonight but filled her eyes and her voice was as she said I wont say now that I believed she was alive but I hoped so hard that 1 almost believed it i Soon after she received her daugh Attacking prohibition from a differ slant Representative Andrew Rep iMass asked in r resolution for a vote on an amendment to the constitution message Mrs Beveridge sat with hand wrote out the following message which she sent in care of The Associated Press Delighted to hear of your safety Aviation Circles Puzzled How Avia trix Got So Far Off Havana Miami Coarse He would allow seven years for i cation by the states through conven j tions i A Democrat Representative Boylan of New York proposed to exclude beer I ale porter and stout of not more than j four percent alcohol and wine and i of not more than ten percent on the first day One lodge reported I thice and two cr three others two each i One To Tors One game warden returning from a trip between Caledonia and I said an unbroken strins of cars was i passed in 15 miles but only one i car in 50 contained a deer i John B Grazier 70 of Tyrone re tired Pennsylvania railroad employe i dropped dead while hunting cr War ridge in Huntingdon county Death was attributed to heart disease i The storm did not prevent an unu sually large turnout of hunters In j Westmoreland county alone it was 1 that more than 12000 hit j the trail George Salada Dubois bagged a 14point deer 200 pounds Edward Reintzen La I shot down a 13pointer with an antler spread of 21 inches and ing 175 pounds r are legalized by f j Then she began to worry about j whether the news her peo in Australia i I know they must have been nearly as I have been she said And II wonder if Captain KingsfordSmith Her NASSAU Bahama Dec J M KeithMiller Australian aviatrix who had been given up for dead ap tonight in this British capital of the new world and announced that sbe was forced down last Friday on the lonely island of Andros while on a flight from Havana to Miami Mrs KeithMiller left Havana at a m Friday with the announced intention of flying to Miami on the leg of a return air journey to Pittsburgh She flew a small and re conditioned monoplane which had no radio bank dial drift indicator or oth er instruments and took off in the face of expert advice that the weather was too severe for such a venture After that nothing was heard until she arrived here this evening with the announcement that she had been caught in a terrific gale and was forced to land on Andros the same day she left Havana Andros the largest of the great Ba hama bank is an island 65 miles from this port Immediately the aviatrix grams to her mother Mrs C S Bev eridge of New York and to Mrs John Liggett Jr of Pittsburgh advising them of her safety Mrs HE 118580 STOLEN mm MONEY CINCINNATI O Dec Cincinnati street railway company money rack commandeered and four street car employes were kid naped today for 15 minutes by three lobbers who 313580 in cash from the truck into a stolen bile and escaped Nearly 24000 car tickets also were stolen i The robbers entered the money truck an unarmored car as it was leaving I the street railway offices at the terminal building in the downtown district The street car employes had no guns to guard the money and their abductors forced the truck driver to icp near the Pennsylvania station i As the truck stopped a stolen auto mobile driven by an accomplice of the robbers came to a stop behind it and I money bags containing the loot were into the automobile i hardly eaten or slept There were dark I circles under her eyes tonight I You see my husband died six years jago she said and she is my only Ive got She didnt have the proper equip I know She didnt have an arti horizon and she didnt have any j do you call it Bank i indicator thats it And she might so i easily have become lost But all those i things cost so much money you see j Mrs Beveridge said that in all she had about four hours sleep since i her daughter was reported missing j I slept for a couple of hours Satur day night she said and again last i night lifter some of my daughters friends in aviation had telephoned me most hopeful messages j Much of the time her daughters I friend Mrs Felix Salmond wife of the I cellist was with her Mrs Salmond i was present tonight when the message came i Mrs Beveridge arrived in New York from Australia only three i months ago lers flight ten days ago mini Continued on Page Three Continued on Page Two BOAT REACHES PORT PANAMA Dec North German Lloyd freighter on which a fire broke out yesterday while the boat was southeast of Cap Mala tied up at the Balboa docks to day after coming in under its own The fire caused the crew to i take to boats for a time Many Bills Are Offered Qn First Day of Congress WASHINGTON Dec i A P Members of congress today thought GOO legislative changes were neces sary in the laws which regulate veterans affairs tariff immi gration and other subjects and intro bills to support their beliefs Fh of changing the prohibi tion laws were suggested proposal to abolish lie 1 lame duck session was introduced by I Representative Johnson Dem Texas SITS OX TACK DIES FAIRVIEW Utah Dec Fied Stewart 14 sat on a tack fellow students had en his at Today he died of blood poison developed from the wound made bv the tack j NEW YORK Dec I lives of Michael Gushing missing since i November 19 received a telephone call I today from men who said they wre j holding him for ransom The relatives were directed to go to i a spot in Queens where they would two homing pigeons in a cage tie i cne to each pigeon and let the pigeons do the rest The got fis police and the police got an airplane Lieut Charles Dorschel went up circled above U cage and one of rhr pigeons was rc There ict more police on the ground and an system oi signals had been out between the ground cops and the air cop The freed look off with lr airplane after him but the chase ian ed only a few minutes For on a roul the pigeon espied a big Heck of pigeon Down he flew The circled the hoping to him out It and a other pigeons too They looked The airplane wen back to the hanr ar and the panted men in the bushes near ihr pigeons caco to await 11 II IE TO ELECTION Dec In of campaign expenditures ii behalf of James J innv into the gen eral election an agent of the Nye in committee indicated here tonight tinnier his search of the records on file ru the state bureau without finding the supplemental report of aci expenditures in the primary lor the tick hrd by M Davis and Francis Brown defeated for the Re publican gubernatorial nomination mentioned in Washington dispatcher of the primary for the ticket in tho file revealed a total cx cf between and AKRON O Dec ex plosion believed to have originated in a gas tank wrecked the basement of the Bath Consolidated school eight miles of hare late today and seriously injured five boy pupils who were preparing for a basketball game The explosion occurred shortly after classes at the combined grade and high school had been dismissed and the five boys and and a class of 13 gills in the gymnasium were in the building The girls and their instruct or escaped injury The injured brought to Akron hos are Jack McCauseland 15 and William Hazer 15 still unconscious and in critical condition tonight Charles Codding Kenneth Powers and Howard McKisson 15 The latter thiee arc seriously burned Fire that followed the explosion was put out by hand extinguishers wielded bv school officials Aviation circles are greatly puzzled as to why Mrs her flight in the Bahamas which lies 200 miles to the east of the usual Havana Miami air route The assumption would be that she was blown eastward by winds yet last Friday when her flight began fliers in Havana said that the winds were blowing very strongly from the east and hence would have been likely to drive her south of Flor ida and westward over the Gulf ol Mexico Details of the landing were extreme ly difficult to obtain Capt WN Lan caster of the British Royal air force said at Miami that he had been ad vised by the fliers mother that she was forced to use a collapsible rubber raft after landing and that she was picked up by a fishing boat which took her to Nassau Captain Lancaster who flew to I Miami from to Hid in the search for the Australian air woman planned to leave for Nassau in a char tered plane to return Mrs ler to the United States The aviatrix who is 27 is a native of Australia Her husband is a news paper man in In 192 she first gained attention by a flight by easy stages from England to Australia Wants To Continue MIAMI Fla DSC A mes sage late tonight from Nassau said that Mrs J M KeithMiller landed her plane safely on Andros island last Friday after losing her course on a flight She requested 20 gallons of gasoline and enough oil to continue to Miami The Nassau agent of PanAmerican Hoover Urges Steps To Improve CROSSES 0 Health Of Youth In Radio III B1 Til Hunting As Form Of Farm Relief Described By Conservationists for the ship The plane was undam aged in landing the message said Captain W M Lancaster former flying partner of Mrs KeithMiller said tonight he would leave at dawn tomorrow in a chartered plane with a mechanic and the fuel After dropping the mechanic and fuel at Andros Captain Lancaster said he would fly on to Nassau to pick up Mrs KeithMiller and return to An dros I probably will not allow Mrs KeithMiller to fly her plane back here Captain Lancaster said but will bring it myself She is heroic in her plan to continue the flight but I think it best she should not fly from the island NEW YORK Dec tonight expressed belief that a fire which swept through the upper struc ture of historic St Andrews church in City Hall place causing damage was of incendiary origin The flames started in the belfry of the edifice erected in 1808 and known as Thc Printers church for min to newspaper typographers from nearby Park Row File Marsha Brothy tonight an investigation Monsignor William E the church and a score of city of joined the firemen in guarding relics of St Andrew in the building where today had been observed as that Patron Saints day The famous old church was swept by in 1870 WASHINGTON Dec to im prove the health of young people I urged tonight by President Hoover i The chief executive advocated this I action in a radio talk from the Housa over the National Broadcasting company chair to the annual conven I of 4H in Chicago I Recalling that research had Mini hoy iand one girl in four is less than the full measure cf health I which is thc inherent richt of every human being Mr Hoover added I Most o their physical d could be prevented or cnm if knowledge of the best of every day living was spread to every family school and In every com munity You know from personal how mure flour is the re sult from a single of corn io which yen havn applied your and your skill Imagine how much more would be tin 10000000 human beings il industry should equally scientific in making as find incl as tho row of corn Not only would the world by their of whi n they up but much more than that hri own life would be enriched by joy and happiness mv woman has rt r iv York I a ii IK Vt S Avi KCT iim h IMC stt iv A M r iv incr set last August over a similar route NEW YORK in as a form of vas bv u My 17th Lamc conference L cf Pa chairman oi he conference and presi dent c beard of aid aro any who make more money out of gamp they do from crops This was by J O of he Texas nh nMi and Sii K 1 director cf tho Iaac Walton League of America who discussed tho relations of sportsmen am farmers in tie West and South Tevas land owners he explained make more money under a law in thc states hunting preserve winch provides that a farmer may up to n maximum of Si a day for Iran in privileges on his land In Pennsylvania Loftier said money is from sportsmen by several i methods One nian was for hunters to for which meant keeping suffi drn and natural 1 fend and control of predatory birds animals Another in the sale of hunting privileges acting as hunting 1 guides and boarding bird dogs JONES TO BE i WASHINGTON Dec companied by a group of her boys the body of Mary Mother Jones 100 yearold labor crusader who died last night will be started Wednesday night on the trip to Mount Olive 111 where she will be buried with others who gave their lives for the working man Burial in the Mount Olive cemetery was definitely decided upon late today by Mrs Walter Burgess at whose home in nearby Maryland Mother Jones spent her last days Thc American Federation of Labor authorized Mrs Burgess to all funeral arrange ments
