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Voi. 49 No. 17
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1952
Price Ten Cents
BLAZE TRAPS FIVE ON THIRD FLOOR
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'Peg o' My Heart' Here Tomorrow Night
jEADING ROLES—Robert Hardwell and Sada Thompson play the leading roles n the Pittsburgh Playhouse production of “Peg O’ My Heart,” which comes to he Sewickley High School at 8:30 p, m.,‘on Friday evening April 25th, under he sponsorship of the Sewickley Valley Hoard of Trade, Irtc. Reserved seat tickets, ire on sale at the N. E. Abercrombie Paint and Wallpaper Store, 555 Heaver itreet, and will be available at the door. Student tickets are also available at less han half the cost of regular reserved seats.
Hit Ploy To Benefit Board of Trade's Local Community Welfare Projects
“Peg; O’ My Heart” is the sentimental comedy by J. Hartley banners which waS first produced in 1912. His wife, the famous «tress Laurette Taylor, played the leading role for a year in New fork, a year in Los Angeles, and a year in London. At one time luring the season of 1915 there were eight touring companies out vith the play.
The play holds a record of being one of the “golden fourteen” lox-office hits of all time. It has been produced regularly through he years and is now rated alongside of “Oklahoma!”, “Life With father,” “'Abie’s Irish Rose,” and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as the iggest money grossers in American theatre history.
As the poor little Irish girl who smes to live with her wealthy relatives, ada Thompson as Peg, is turning in one : the greatest performances ever seen : the Playhouse. As a result of her >le in this play, she has been offered motion picture screen test.
Qther featured roles are played by obert Bardwell, Alma Lind, Paul [lively, Billie Frederick, and William utch.
"Peg O’ My Heart” will play in Se-ickley one night only oii Friday, April 5th, and tickets are on sale at Aber-ombie’s, 555 Beaver Street, and at the ix ofliice tomorrow night.
Music before the opening of the cur-in and between the acts will be by ntoinette and Raymond Masai, a other and sister piano team who have lilt up an enviable reputation , in their >nte town of Ambridge for their Spark-ig pcrformtinces, Students at Ambridge igh School, they study piano under
Alfred H. Johnson, organist and choirmaster of the Sewickley Presbyterian Church and head of the Music Department at Geneva College, They have appeared at die Sewickley Presbyterian Church and made a hit there,
• Proceeds 'of the production will be devoted to replenishing the Service Fund of the Board of Trade, which, in the past, has been used for such purposes as the welcome signs on tile boulevard, prizes for esSays in the schools; part of the cost of die audiometer for testing the hearing of school children of the Valley and Heights; purchasing fence for dm Chadwick Street playground; buying prizes for the Hallowe’en parade and window painting contest; helping support the Ohio Valley Little League; .helping with die expenses of the War Memorial Park and gathering facts to support the arguments in favor of a Ipcal parking lot,
Correction!
Number Writer Arrested On Street
A news story on Page 7 of last week’s Herald is incorrect in several details. It concerned the arrest of Joseph Sacco, Beaver Street, Sewickley, who was arrested by County Detectives on Wednesday, April 9, on a charge of writing numbers. The story -last week stated, “Mr. Sacco had made die mistake of wiring numbers in Sewickley^ Hotel, whpre County Detectives Samuel Graham and another County Detective were having lunch and caught him in the act, according to Detective Graham.” That was die brief report given by Detective Graham to Sewickley police, but he did not reveal all the details.
Detectives Graham and Joseph Start were having lunch in die Sewickley Hotel, but the arrest was made across the street by County Detectives Ted Batula and George Puff, strangers to Mr. Sacco. Mr. Sacco was not actually caught in the act, either, but had numbers slips on his person when intercepted
We are sorry if die story gave the impression that Mr. Sacco was in the Se-on his rounds by the two> County Detec-1 wickley Hotel writing numbers when he rives, according to Detective Start. was arrested, for such was not the case.
Appointed Sewickley Justice of the Peace
Photo by McCandless Studio Stewart M. Morgan, Jr,	\
Stewart M. Morgan, Jr., was appointed Justice of the Peace in Sewickley Borough on Wednesday afternoon, April 16th, by Governor John S, Fine, to serve out the unexpired term of Mr. Morgan’s mo.ther, the late Mrs. Margaret M. Morgan, Sewickley ’squire for many years.
Real Estate Agent Appointed
After a long period during which Sewickley was without a 'squire and then ’Squire Bill Evans was appointed to one vacancy, VGovernor John S, Fine last week filled the other vacancy by appointing Stewart M. Morgan, Jr. He will fill the unexpired term of his mother, Mrs, Margaret M. Morgan.
Stewart Morgan was bom in Edge-worth, 39 years ago and was educated in the local schools, He graduated from Princeton University, Class of 1935, With an AB'degree and took post grad-
Firemei) Rescue Mother and Four Children Cut Off From Door By Flames
Children Saved From Asphyxiation by Cool-Headed > Mother, Whose Husband Is In Korea
A mother and four children were safely rescued by Sewickley firemen at 7:40 a. m. Tuesday morning, shortly after fire broke out in a clothes closet beside the only entrance door, effectively trapping the five in Suite 7, Apartment B, of the Plaza Apartments on the Ohio River Boulevard west of Walnut Street. Mrs. Chester De Vincent, whose husband is a Captain with the Military Police stationed in Korea since January, awakened to the smell of, smoke. Entering the hall, she saw flames coming from the cupboard and called the fire department. She then vainly tried to reach the door, which was not only locked hut fastened with a chain, but the smoke and heat drove her back towards the front of the apartment.
Remembering that the apartment building was fire proof, she took all four children into the bedroom at the opposite end of the apartment, took out the screen and started to tie the sheets into a rope. She closed the door, which was also fireproofed and opened both windows in the room for cross ventilation. As a result, little smoko penetrated to the bedroom.
On arrival, Sewickley fireman, led by Assistant Chief Bertil Neely, who kicked the door open, breaking the chain, quickly controlled the blaze in the closet. With smoke masks protecting them from the extremely heavy acrid smoke the firemen searched the apartment for the family and guided them to safety in the hall. Assistant Chief Neely, Jack Proud and Bill Carson helped carry them out of the apartment and to the apartment of neighbors, still in their night clothing. The small children are Mary Ann, Jimmy, Lynn and Danny; They all escaped" injury and didn’t inhale enough smoke to bother them much. However, had they remained in the apartment much longer, the smoke and fumes may have asphyxiated them, had not the fire been controlled so quickly. Assistant Chief Neely, carrying one of the children, .had Mrs. De-Vincent hold on to his beltr to guide her out.
Once the family was out,of the apartment, the fire was thoroughly extinguished in the closet. The fireproofing of the ceiling and walls and the steel doors and frames of the cupboard confined the blaze inside the cupboard. While the plaster in the cupboard ceiling was: bulging and cracked, the flames did"not penetrate to the space under the roof, The asphalt tile floors are waterproof and the firemen swept and mopped the water down the metal inside fire escape. Kitchen, hall, living room and bathroom were heavily begrimed with smoke, but the two bedrooms escaped, much smoke damage.	,
Winter clothing stored in the closet was destroyed, along with a movie camera, large and small electric fans, a vaporizer, baby scales, a stack of phonograph records, which added to the smoke, an ironing board and similar household articles were badly damaged or entirely burned, while three suitcases in the bottom of the cupboard were partly burned. The hottest part of the fire seemed to be on the shelf, and the upper part of the closet. Its cause remains a mystery, as there arc no electrical connections or other apparent causes in‘the closet, unless it was spontaneous combustión, Assistant Chief Neely estimated the damage at $500 to the apartment and $500 to the clothing and other articles in the closet,
Oddly enough, it was the same apartment in which there was a fire last September, although the DeVincents moved in about two months after that blaze. The fire last fall was in a couch, started apparently by a cigarette in tbe hands of a visitor who was dozing on the
unto work at the Robert Morris School of Business in 1935-36. From 1936 to
j>)4u, he was employed successively as office manager, credit manager, assistant sales manager, ‘secretary and assistant treasurer with a wholesale chemical firm.
Enlisting as a private in the United States Army October 15, 1940, he served continuously until January, 1946, when lie was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in New Guinea, Philippine Islands and the occupation of Japan,
Active in Republican politics since 1935, he served as Republican commit-
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