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PAGE SIX WEST VIRGINIA VOTE TOMORROW SEEN AS HEAVY SILENT CANDIDATE OP POSES ROOSEVELT;BO RAH UNOPPOSED CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 11 (TP).—One of the most silent candi dates for the presidential nomination on record will battle President Roose velt at the West Virginia Democratic primary polls tomorrow. The President’s primary opponent Is Joseph A. Coutremarsh, of New Hampshire. Aside from filing in the West Virginia primary contest, Cout remarsh has done little In his at tempt to West Virginia delegation ballots. He has made no speeches, he has distributed no litera ture and very few West Virginia voters, if any, have ever seen the gen tleman from New Hampshire. President Roosevelt isn’t expected tn have much trouble in piling up a vote edge over his primary opponent. On the Republican ballot, Senator William E. Borah to unopposed, but faces a hard fight waged by those who favor an uriinstructed delegation ’ympathetic to Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. A record vote Is expected in the West Virginia primaries. The recent battle between Senator Rush D. Holt and Senator M. M. Neely, has made a wide split in the state Democratic party and half a dozen factional bat tles will be settled at the polls. HONEYMOON PLANS OF HAINES HALTED NEW YORK. May 11 (TP).—lt’s a drep blue Monday for Harry S. Haines, an insurance company execu tive who was to be on his honeymoon today. Haines, the high-salaried secretary and treasurer of the Excess Insurance Compan yof America, which special izes In handling big insurance poli cies. is held in $7,500 bail on charges of having stolen more than SIOO,OOO from his firm. His arrest -was made only a few minutes before he was scheduled to walk to the altar with his bride-to-be. Accountants are checking over Haines’ books in the belief that the total tosses may reach a uarter of a milion dollars. 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Jupiter SEN S AIR DI S dess of 14—Toward— —————— KENTUCKY’S ‘CAMPUS SWEETHEART’ If /z ; I. Mi ** Billie Hollida y 118 Es x SHBBhk jifl Ts : * z: - : Miss Billie Holliday, a freshman at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, is one of the latest recruits to the ranks of outstanding college beauties. Miss Holliday, whose home is in Winchester, Ky., was elected "Campus Sweetheart’’ in a poll conducted by men stu dents at the university. Pretty smile, hasn’t she? —Central Press —Central Press Mice Billie Holliday JERSEY‘QUADS’CRY FOR WHISKEY NIP FRANCES, FRANK, FELIX AND FERDINAND KAS PAR DOING FINE* PASSAIC, N. J. May 11 (TP)—The four Kasper quadruplets bawled lustily for their morning ration of whisky, sugar and water today. Frances, Frank, Felix and Ferdi nand, the four-of-a-kind babies whom the stork left at St. Mary’s hospital late Saturday, are in fine shipe. Doc tors attending the quads are using the same diet that the Dionne quin tuplets thrived on during their early days—whisky, mixed wiht sugar and fed through an eye-dropper. Seeing that the quadruplets’ fa ther, Emil Kasper, earns only $22 a week, and recalling that the Kas pars already had two other children, Mayor Benjamin F .Turner of Pas saic decided that state assistance wa.i due. Governor Harold G. Hoffman probably will receive the plea for fi nancial assistance before nightfall today. NEW SHIP RECORD NEW YORK, May 11 (TP).—The Panama Pacific liner, “Virginia” will set a new record today when she docks at New York. The “Virginia” just in from the West coast byway of the Panama Canal and Havana, carries 232 C.aiifcrnians among her 600 passengers. The California dele gation is reported the largest carried by any intercoastal vessel trs year. STRIKE THREAT WORRIES GREECE ATHENS, May 11 (TP)—The dan ger of a general strike which would paralyze all Greece has government a .thorities and police worried today. Strike riots at the seaport city of Salonika have brought a score of deaths and wounds to more than 100 persons. Army troops and naval forces who rushed into the city were forced to charge enraged mobs time and again as the strikers surged up through the narrow streets of the old city. Premier Metaxa accuses political enemies of fomenting the strikes in an effort to overthrow his govern ment. Radical Greek labor leaders replied with ..he warning that un less their demands are met, the gen eral strike will spread to Athens and other cities in th? islands. BRICK BRADFORD—And the Lord erf Doomby WILLIAM RUT and CLARENCE GRAY BMW-TUK vra5 E Jc?o S?* W$E 1 WANT W_TH£ MOST I ANO TURN I I WHEN WE HAVE CONQUERED 11 WHY, WU-I (EASY BRADFORD? 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Hadassah national board voted the $15,000 grant to erect homes for young Orthodox German Jews sent to Palestine by the youth Aliyah movement. , Mrs. Edward Jacobs, Hadassahs na tional president, said that an addi tional SI,OOO contribution will ba sent to Jerusalem to finance tech nical training for the Orthodox pu pils attending the technical school' in Haifa, Palestine. The $15,000 is said to be the first of its kind of fered since the youth Aliyah project was begun in 1934. STRIKEMENACES AUTO TRAFFIC DRIVERS UNION ST. PAUL MAY PREVENT SALE OF GASOLINE ST. PAUL, Minn., May 11 (TP)— Business leaders ot the twin cities predicted today that that threat of a strike among transportation workers will bring a ’fight to the finish” be tween union drivers and trucking com panies. Operators of bus and truck lines and filling stations say the general drivers’ union has threatened to halt all automobile traffic in St. Paul at midnight, May 31. The union de mands a minimum wage and a 40- hour week. Union workers threaten to call out aU commercial driversand raise minimum wage demands if employers turn down their request. Meanwhile, twin cities police are doing double duty to put down vi olence by cruising pickets. Fifty fill ing stations were wrecked when their operators defied pickets and opened for business. STRIKE STUDENTS BACK AT DESKS NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. (TP) More than 200 striking school chib, dren are trooping back to their classes in the hugenot school today. Their walkout, which was backed by their parents, has b?n temporarily called off. The children went on strike when the new Rochelle board of education voted to close three classes. Parent teacher organizations joined the pro test and the Hugenot school young sters enjoyed an unexpected vaoatior with the fond hope that the dispute would not be settled fpr months. Today, however, mothers packed their children off to school on sched ule. Parent leaders of the strike move ment voted to suspend the protest until the board of education holds it' reorganization meeting tomorrow night. PART OF BUSINESS SECTION OF TOWN SLIDES INTO RIVER iflr - ' Wig ® w Xc® V i ijSF W| 11 ft ' ** flßr I WET » K 3 8 » t.jßw H1 v < ~ X < j How Part oi Business Secti.u At Smithland, Ky., Slid Into Ohio River. A sudden slide sent a halMstock section of the engineers said the entire area was likely to business area at Smithland, Ky., into the Ohio crumble into the stream and warned residents river, carrying away part of a furniture store of their apparent danger. Photo shows a sec and menacing the town of 800 residents. U. S. tion of the caved-in river bank. LUCKY POLICEMAN QUIZZED TODAY NEW YORK, May 11 (TP)—The jinx number 13, will be prominent today when ‘‘Lucky Luciano, New Yorks public enemy number one, goes on trial in the supreme court with 12 lieutenants. Luciano and his henchmen aro charged with supervising a giant vice ring which prosecutors say conducted an annual $12,000,000 busmes. The ring was smashed by a series of lightning-fast raids on Feb. 1, when 41 places were raided and 110 per sons were arrested. “Lucky,” who is said to be leader of the vice ring, was found weeks later in Arkansas and was brought back to face charges. The swarthy young racketeer has been held in $350,000 bail since his return to New York. Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey will head the prosecution when the Luiaso gang goes on trial. Selection o/f the jury is expected to require today’s full session. OCTOGENARIAN TWINS OBSERVING BIRTHDAY HINSDALE, N. H„ May 11 (TP)— Four spry old New Englanders, all members of the same family, are joining today in the celebration of the 89th birthday of the twins. Th? twins are Mrs. Harriet Dari- ing and her brother Henry. On hand for the birthday celebration are their older sisters, Mrs. Maria Crowning shield, 96, and Mrs. Fidelia Thomas 98. All of them live In Hinsdale. The twins, both enjoying good health, are not excited about reaching the age of 89. They believe that they are the oldest living twins in the New Eng land and probable the oldest in the country. The father of the four spry old New Englanders, Levi Streeter, died at the age of 100- YOUNG AMERICA GOES TO MOVIES ALBANY, N. Y„ May 11 (TP)— Young movie fans in New York state are given a break today by a new bill which bears Governor Her bert Lehman's signature. Under an old law —a throwback to bring an older person along when they went to the flickers. The new law permits children between the ages of eight and 16 to visit the movies unaccompanied. From now on, moviegoers under 16 can buy their own tickets but must Sit in special sections, under the su pervision of a matron. Winesap apples are virtually the only ones that contain sugar, tannin and acid in such proportion that the cinder made from them needs no modification. LINER ‘NORMANDIE’ VIES WITH ZEPPELIN BIGGEST OCEAN LINER AR RIVES IN NEW YORK DOCK TODAY NEW YORK, May 11 (TP) —The biggest ship afloat will arrive in New York today to show America how she looks after her operation. The French liner “Normandie” got a royal reception when she made her maiden voyage to the United States last year. Her arrival today will find many of the throng that were pres ent. on the occasion flocked to Lake hurst, New Jersey, to view another new visitor to these shore®, the big zeppelin “Hindenburg.” The “Normandie” was taken out of service soon after she made her fast trip across. Engineers swarmed over the huge liner to remove the vibration which bothered passengers during the first few voyages. Now according to French line officials, the shimmy that marred the first trip across has been entirely eliminated. Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer at Ajaccio, Corsica, was the father of four kings, a queen and two duch esses. They were Napoleon, 1, em peror of the French; Joseph, king of Naples and later Spain; Louis, king ogf Holland: Jerome, king of West phalia.; Maria Caroline, wife of Murat ‘LUCKY’ LUCIANO, 12 AIDES TO FACE VICE TRIAL TODAY SELECTION OF JURY EX PECTED TO TAKE ALL DAY SAN FRANCISCO. May 1 (TP) Sergeant “Lucky” Shannon will go before the Frisco police commission tonight to tell the whole story about the $25,000 in the woodpile. Sergeant Shannon won the “lucky” nickname when he told about his phenomenal ability to pick winning horses. A police graft probe uncover ed the fact that Sergeant Shannon had $25,000 tucked away. Police of ficials asked how come. The ser geant promptly explained tthah he had won the $25,000 playing the ponies in 1923 and 1924 and had hid den the small fortune in a pile of kindling wood for safe keeping. Police authorities swallowed hard at the explanation, but s uspended “Lucky” on charges of wagering on the races during years that batting was illegal in California. Tonight he will face charges of conduct unbe coming an officer and falsifying testi mony, in addition to the illegal bet ting complaint. and consequently queen of Naples; Marianne Elisa, grand duchess of Tuscany; Marie Pauline, ducess of Guastalla. Despite the royalty of his progeny, the lawyer never held a po sition higher than assessor to the royal court in the district. by Jinny Uig * RM I’M ALWAYS glad when that salesman comes in about the 29th of the month. He’s always good for a free lunch if I work the angles—or the curves.