PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Uniontown.—Charged with operat-
ing a speakeasy 'ncidental to n board.
ing house, Stephen Patak was lodged
in the Fayette county jail. The of-
ficers claimed to have sont men Into
the boarding house who purchased
drinks of moonshine for thirty-five
cents, In addition the officers state
that they found twgo gallons of liquor
in the house,
ence D. Fortman, at Tyler
One hundred tons of hay were also
lost,
Six months age another barn was de-
stroyed on the Fortman farm
forty head of cattle burned.
Plttsburgh.—Secretary of
ture
the convention
Producers’ Association
sumption
state In
Agricul
of the National Milk
that the
of milk per capita In
1922 was thirty gallons,
The
tion in 1870 of four gallons. in-
cent. In value of mllk
ranked third in the nation. The value
of the milk output in 1022 was 280.
715,000. Butter and cheese produc.
tion in the state, the ecretary sald,
was on the decline, In 1870,
state produced 58,000,000 pounds
butter as compared with
pounds in 1922
Altoona.—"More stores are open In
Altoona on Sunday than churches.”
the morals committee reported to the
ing prevalent on every side, The com-
ditions.
Pittsburgh. Bight horses were
burned to death and two automobile
trucks and forty tons of hay destroy-
ed by fire in the stables of the Dia-
mond Ice company, at Braddock,
loss was estimated at $15,000
Greensburg. The congregation of
ecopal church lald the
new chureh edifice here,
Harrishurg.—To determine the na-
the
w'll use Pennsylvania roads, seo
ly, the state highway department be
gan a motor transport survey on
Important roads. The survey will be
the most intensive ever undertaken
by any American state or foreign
country, will involve the operation of
seventy-eight truck-weighing stations
and more than 300 recording stations,
distributed over Penns lvanla's pri-
mary and secondary highway systems
in a manner calculated to give the
most accurate estimate of the traffic
It will contlaae Jor an entire year, it
ia believed
leading. — Judge George W. Wag-
ner, 82 vears old, of the Berks bench,
died here. He was ill for almost a
year from heart trouble, with rare
intervals In which he was able to at.
tend court. He was completing his
fourteenth year on the bench, having
teen elected as a Democrat for his
second term four years ago.
Sharon.-—Hunters who spent the
1ast several days in the woods in Mer.
cer county report game more abund-
ant than for years. Practically all
experienced hunters have been able
to bring In the limit in rabbits and
birds. In some Instances ring-neck
hens have heen killed by careless
hunters, but they have been left in
the woods, as arrests were feared.
State College. Requests for infor
mation on the businesa and commer-
cial home study courses offered re-
cently by the engineering extension
department of the Pennsylvania State
(College have come from over fifty
chambers of commerce in Pennsylva-
nia, according to an announcement
here, Inquiries are coming In faster
than the department ever anticipated
and already arrangements have been
made for extension representatives to
visit a number of chambers prepara-
tory to installing courses In depart-
ment stores and In commercial offices,
Kane. -—Willlam O. Altman, who re-
cently left his home In the forest near
Westline, sald the coming winter
would be a mild one. As Mr. Altman's
accurate predictions on the season's
weather months In advance has at.
tracted the attention of the United
States weather bureau, his forecast is
taken with credence by many people.
Harrisburg. — Governor Pinchot's
Thanksgiving Day proclamation, lssu-
ed here, calls upon all the people in
Pennsylvania to assemble Thursday,
November 20, and give thanks that
“Almighty God has spared up the bur.
dens of industrial contention and so-
cial unrest and has given us prosper
ity at home and peace with honor
abroad.”
Poftstown. Confronted by a negro
burglar who drew a revolver and
threatened to blow out his brains if
he did not comply with his demands
for Money, Joseph Simmons parted
with $40.
Oft Clty. ~Working In an excavation
for the new junior high school, Ed-
ward Siegel, 20 years old, was caught
beneath a heavy fall of earth and was
dend before he could be extricated,
Shamokin~-Stepping In front of a
locomotive in the yards here while
starting work for the day, Daniel H.
Bavidge, aged 65, a veteran track
Loreman, was Killed,
i
Reading —Dr. Levi W. Mengel, di.
rector of the Reading Public Museum
at the high school for girls In appre
ciation of the services of girl stu
dents in obtaining thousands of sign.
ers to petitions for a new bullding for
the art display. Twelve citizens have
scholarships, and the fund will be
perpetual, since the girls will repay
the money from time to time,
Harrisburg.--The office of the state
highway department superintendent In
charge of maintenance work In Co-
lumbia, Montour and Northumberland
counties has been moved to Danvlile,
Quarryville—~Arthur B. Waltman, 8
years old, was severely bitten by a
Bethlehem. —M'ss Jennle A. Grow,
a 15-year-old girl, died from a burst
her head. After
the local Hallowe'en
re-
turning from
headache, Over-exertion Is
believed to have led to her death,
Reading. —At the quarterly meeting
of the Philadelphia visiting committee
faith,
oR.
Mary Jackson Shoemaker, of Phila.
delphia, was secretary.
Pittsburgh ve robbers, armed
and masked, entered a McKees Rocks
held up Edward
the proprietor, and {wo customers and
escaped In an automobile with 5000
Erie.—When an automoblle carry-
ing five Erie
Coreen,
James
John Anderson
occupants of the
minor hurts,
Uniontown,
ax John Edwards, of New
machine
York, was
Constable Ball
ed that Edwards approached
number of times concerning a
report
market
ordered the man to deliver four
delivered the whisky he was arrested
Bloomsburg.
tomoblle Millard
He was
exploding
slightly hurt.
machine, whieh, refused
owing to the cold weather, when
exploded, pieces of the cylinders being
blewn through the hood. It set fire
his but the the
Roming
cranking
'
fo
harn, damage
Harrishur® Siate hanks
banking companies, trust
panies, savings banks and unincorpor
ated banks may no longer
surety upon the bonds of
public and county offirers,
General
to Secretary of
King, announced,
Harrishurg Application
Pennsylvania raliroad to abandon it»
stations at Khire Onks and Houston
Run, Washington county, and
lish a new station, to be known asx
(on! Bluff, midway between
incorpor
the
of
estab
publis service commission announced
Pittsburgh —John Semmner, an
ploye In the Neely nut and bolt plant
om
entangled In an automatic cutting ma
chine,
stopped his body was cut In two
Reranton George Smith, aged
a hunting accident While hunting
rabbits at Nicholson, Pa, with
uncle and other relatives, he stumbled
soon after heing taken to a hospital
Pittsburgh. Two men,
policeman, were held for
morals court in connection
alleged attack upon Thelma Perry, 16,
who testified she was lured to a room.
ing house by Patrolman Anthony Riz.
zo and Clyde Hawthorne, Rizzo in ad.
dition was charged with conduct un
becoming an officer and will be given
a hearing before the police trial board,
Harrisburg. Collections of gaso-
line tax in October, for July, August
and September, totaled $1,539,500,
State Trefisurer Snyder announced
The treasury also collected $188405
delinquent taxes on sales made prior
to July 1 at the old rate of one cent
a gallon tax. The report is the first
since the new tax became effective.
The tax collected in Philadelphia,
£224,208, headed the list. Allegheny
with $£222.085 was second, and Erle,
with S48885 third. Collections in
other counties Included: Adams,
$9706: Berks, £30,651; Bucks, $17,500;
Chester, $24800; Columbia, $8254;
Lackawanna, $30,486; Lancaster, $36,
871: Lehigh, $40,547: Luzerne, 842.
B77; Northampton, $31,217 ; Schuylkill,
$27,008; York, 885.4038; Dauphin, $30,
150.
Altoona. ~~Four hundred violations
have been returned by members of the
citizens’ safety council In three
months,
Harrisburg. Governor Pinchot an-
nounced the appointment of J. Turn
er Moore, of Reading, as a member of
the board of trustees of Wernersville
State Hospital,
Hazleton A parade of the 7000
school pupils was held to boom the
£600,000 loan proposition for the erec
tin of a new high school.
Rockport. Two fawns, killed with
bird shot, evidently by hunters who
were out for pheasants or rabbits,
were found on the woods near here by
Elmer Young, state game warden,
Lewistown, ~The postoffice has add.
ed another mall carrier to its city
force, 5
Hazleton ~~Mre. William H. Boyer
gave a dinner to frhads in observance
of the fiftieth anniversary of living In
one house,
court in
1—Mrx, Coolidge planting the 1h
Hef soclety,
SUnUS wi
learning to
fapceoin Memorial in Washington.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Bavarian Monarchists Attempt to
Start a Revolt. but Are
Easily Suppressed.
LUDENDORFF IS IN PRISON
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
close
aon
eacited
ward the
Geniuany was
civil
the verge of
orrespondents
War, and
eabled that the re
attack of the
pelered
monarchists
Then It The
which
all
was started by
of the Bavarian Fascist]
Erie von Ludendorff, «ol
staff of the German arales dn
out revoit
Adolph Hittier
war, was easily suppressed,
srnment under Chancellor
was declared to be
Ludendorff
of
Strescmann
than
who fins hie
stronger ever
OHM
something
Hitter,
s rn pous
wounded
aa Was in
WHS rep wind
dispateh
he also was 8 prisoner
Mu
f the
into a political
nich, proclaimed the overthrow «
government of
German government and
the nrrest Ff Premier von Knilling
and Minister of the Interior
esting in
and
ordered
Buvaria
Sehweyer
Stresemann Hittler then
himself to be the new national
tor and appointed General von Luden
forff war mister and commander in
dicta
“rmy
made extraordinary
aor of Bavaria. General von
Baravin war minister
premier of Ravaria
But Kahr
were unwilling
plot, aud as soon as possibic
together and made
They found the Bavarian
loyal the Berlin
and =o directed It
retake the public
Kahr was rover:
{ossow
and |
Yon L.oswon
Yon and
participants in the
they pot
plans to frustrate
to government
and the police to
buildings that Hit
Yon Ludendorff prisoners. There
killed and wounded, and then the Fas
cist] gave up.
Hittler troops in Augsburg alse at
tempted to bring off a coup like that
in Munihe.
armed them. Abeortive puisches In
Martial law was declared for
Bavaria and It was announced
death sentences would be
executed,
had counted on the support of the
monarchist troops under
Erhardt along she Thuringian border,
his men stood firmly behind General
Yon Seeckt, whe had been named su
preme military dictator of Germany
by President Ebert, and would obey
his orders. Former Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria declared him.
self strongly opposed to the revelu-
tionary movement jn Bavaria, and
France let the Germans know she
would not permit the overthrow of the
republican government.
At the request of the allied council
of ambassadors, the Duteh government
has forbidden former Crown Prince
Frederick William to leave Wieringen,
““ OT so good” fairly sumupmrizes
for adoption of the Hughes repars.
tions plan at this writing. They are
not broken off, however, and there is
still a chance that France will see her
way to joining Great Britain in the
formal invitation to the United States
to tuke part in the suggested exam
ination of Germany's capacity to pay.
Just now thizx ali seems to hinge on
whether the proposed committee of ex-
nerts shall be restricted to determina:
tion of Germany's “present capacity,”
und just what period that word “pres.
at” should cover. If MM. Poincare is
fairly liberal in bis inferpretation of
tgs restriction, making the the, say,
two years, It is likely America and
the allied governments will | consent
wo it. Ambassador Jussernnd con
ferred with Secretary Hughes several
times
long
jast week and
communications from
Neither has yet made any public state
ment, but it is understood the French
are not disposed to press at this time
Poincare
man reparations Is Impossible unless
the debts of France to
Grent Britain likewise
down, Mr. Hughes
| willing to concede
are
was sald
that the
to
other questions pertaining to it should
be declared the jurisdiction
lof the committee of experts, though
he cannot see Germany's ability
io pay can without
into consideration the
ity of the Ruhr,
London dispatches assert!
gium and Italy have joined
| Britain In the demand that the in-
quiry into Germany's financial and
| economic condition ghall be free and
F unlimited, and that If United
! States and France cannot come
{ an agreement, the three nations
| shubly such an investigsa
(Certain correspondents are in
sistent in that France
with
outside
how
he explored
{ing
that Bel
the
to
will
unite In
their reports
| is about to be isolated, but
of them the wish may be father lo
the thought Pelgium officially ad
thut
'
| mediator
art As ®
of estab
she
and is
mits is seeking to
“hopeful
England.’
Ambassador
to France, In
arin farm where the
fought beside
army. seemingly
od States to the duty
Europe. Raid he:
hands on
to run the
know if the
solved, and justly
Herrick,
an address al
Just
Gouraud’s
the Unit
re
General
committed
of helping
establish
“We put
and are
through, for
{ problem is not
our the plow
we ready
we present
and
have fought the war in
This stirred
{ ables” a bit,
wins understood that
vain
up the “irreconcil
but In Washington it
Mr. Herrick
expressing his own views
was
merely
Parise
government
take a hand in European affairs. main
Ivy because it is convinced that Jduring
the coming winter America must pro
vide Germany with hundreds and
thousands of bushels of wheat on long.
time credit te prevent wholegale star
{ ation.
The council of allied
! demanded the reestablishment of
| allied control over German military
| equipment, which has been in adbey-
hinted that France might be
take military measures
“reactionary mill
{ and
forced to
| protection against
a considerable part of Germany.”
| clally French and Peiglan, in uniform
to check up the armed strength of
| pannot take the responsibility
proceeding with the work.
F THE recommendations of the im-
perinl economic conference in Lon-
don are adopted by the British pariia-
ment, and they probably will be, the
United States will be given a strong
ose of the tariff medicine it has been
administering to others for many
years, These recommendations are
that Great Britain put a tax of five
shillings a hundredweight on raw
apples from foreign countries; a duty
of ten shillings a hundredwelght on
canned salmon: a duty of six pence
a gallon om fruit juices, and a 25 per
cent duty on foreign tobacco, The
first, second and fourth of these pro-
posals would hit America especially,
It was pointed out that the whole
basis in considering these questions
wag whether dominion trade can ex-
pand rapidly enough to supply all
British needs, and In the case of ap
ples It was stated thut the supply
would easily equal fhe demand,
DVANTAGE In the elections of
A net Tuesday was claimed by both
the Republicans and the Democrats,
The former recaptured the Twenty.
fourth congressional district of New
York, where Benjamin Fairchild was
elected, and won in Vermont, where
Porter Dale wis chosen United States
sonater. ‘The Democrats elected three
‘governors — Ritehle In Maryland,
Fields In Kentucky ang Whitefield in
Mississippl, and Tammuny was victori-
ous in New York city, routing both rhe
Republicans and Williams Kandolph
Hearst in the judicial contest
In the next congress the senate will
Republicans, 43 Democrals
and 2 Farmer-Laborites. The lineup
in the house will be: Republicans 225,
Democrats 205, Socialist 1, Independ-
ent 1, and Farmer-Laborite 1—a Re
publican majority of 17. with two ve-
canties still to be filled
feated sn avowed wet, but In general
the results were accounted a
by the anti-Volstead law element
was especially true In Maryland
Kentucky, In many
Kian was an
cases the Klan won.
This
and
(3 OY ERNOR WALTON of
ma sought the intervention af the
federal courts to halt the impeachmen!
proceedings against him, but
diction In the ease. However, the gov
date not yet set,
Walton
through coun-
governor's lawyers Insist
eharges before voting on a verdict.
A report to the President the War
other producing
tries at lower prices than are satis
factory to American growers, and the
system. The Istter, the directors of
plan
the uncertain functioning of the specu
The report expresses strong opposi-
an increase in the tariff on wheat, gov
snd governien!
wheat.
banking controversy,
reserve board has ruled, as a condi
tem of state banks, that the appiicant
is located. This policy goes into effect
ed by the board declared that estab
produced an inequitable situation for
national banks, which cannot establish
tranches without permission of the
controller of the currency,
IR ERIC DRUMMOND, secretary
\J general of the League of Nations,
was received the other day by Premier
Mussolini, and came away with the as
surance that Italy had mo prejudice
agninst the league and that the pre-
mier favors its principles. Mussolini,
however, informed the secretary gen:
eral shat Italy required that her posi-
tion as one of the great powers and
one of the founders of the league and
a principal signatory of the Treaty of
Versailles should be “adequately estab
lished.”
FE budget bureau has received the
department estimates for the next
fiscal year, pared them to the bone and
submitted them to President Coolidge.
The total sum asked by the bureau ls
$1.700,000,000, this representing a sav.
ing of $126,000,000 from the amount be-
ing expended In the current fiscal year.
Of course congress may see fit to
change some of the items.
N A decision announcing the prinel
ples to be applied in determining
American claims against Germany, the
mixed claims commission upholds
broadly the claims growing out of the
torpedoing of the Lusitania, numbering
o18 and aggregating about $22,000,000,
The comission refuses to assess ex.
emplary, or punitive, damages, holding
they are penal In nature and not aw
thorized by the treaty of peace. It dis
missed 80,100 clalme, totaling about
340,000,000, for the recovery of insur
ance premivius paid by Americans for
protection aguinst war hazards.
BLIGHTLY NERVOUS
An English barrister, after a particy
larly trying day, came home with his
nerves on edge, and at once sought
refuge In his own study, well away
from the noises of the household ma
chinery,
He sat down by bis fire and was
gradually getting calmed down when
the cat, which had been sitting there,
too, got up slowly and walked scroes
the room,
The master turned on her and ssid
indignantly: “Now, what are you
Why Does it?
The head of the office was in a
ulty the fig
“Just
“The figure is a 7, sir,” said
“Then,” roared the old man,
does it look 97 —York-
the clerk,
ike 8
Curbing Their Eloquence.
First Attorney—Your honor, unfor
Second Attorney—My learned friend
Judge (sharply)—The counsel vill
{1i.Chosen Metaphor,
Were | 8 raindrop and you a
He
She—Why, you'd evaporate,
pose. And so I'd be rid of youn.
1 sup
THE REASON.
For breath our
Eas bills
never pause,
Those sprinters
fast and fleel,
Perhaps they run
sO fast be-
cause
They have
many feet
BO
Same Old Human Nature.
No green-goods man can bring dismay.
But-—whisper—jars must have their
iarks
jot of us bought German marks
Time Will Egualize.
Do vou know that Ida's hus
several years younger
Maud
band is
herself?
Marie
than
Oh, time will change that
Playing the Races
“1 suppose 1 was foolish to take a tin
fromm a bootblack, but 1 thought one
tip was as good as another.
#80 11 is Just about,”
A Big Ors.
Have von heard the atest
Optimus
Ford joke?
Cynicus—Yes; he wants to be presi
dent.
Feet and Shoes.
Mr. Oldbi—I ain a self-made man
sir. 1 began life as a barefoot boy.
Rennard--Weil, 1 wasn't bora wita
Costly Aire,
“It keeps me poor.”
“What does?”
“Trying to make other people think
I'm rich”
EXONERATED.
You come home
of the
all hours
night.
No,
only
each
dear,
hour
my
one
night
Art and Nature.
A people by dissension struck
Exciaimed, “We revel In hard luck
We have no sarthquakes ready-made
let's wreck the lend without ther
ala!”
New Use for Mookworms,
“They tell me,” sald Jackson, “that
he is an expert angler.”
“Yes, maybe, but he doesn't know
anything about fishing.” sald Johuson.
“Why that guy Is so dumb that he
thinks hookworms are used for bait”
The Artiste.
“A fine stenog you are! Call your
self a typist and don’t know how to
put a ribbon in a typewriter”
“Does Paderewski know how to tune
a plano -Life.
On the Safe Side.
Husband—My wife does nothing but
ask for money-it's £5 one day, 88 the
next, and so on,
Solicitor—-What does she do with
all this money?
Husband--Nothing,
to her.
1 don't give It
An Inventor,
“a. whet is an inventory”
“An inventor, my boy. Is usually a
man who has thought 35 a way th do
with machinery some task that be is
tired of doing himself”
\ it
he