i HOUSE DEFEATS LUDLOW TAX BILL Sponsor of Measure Was Only Speaker For (tf ————————— NO BUDGET AGREEMENT With House and Senate Committee—Gov- Appropriation Bill Now Rests ernor Vetoes Deaf, Dumb and Blind Bills, Harrisburg, Pa.—The House voted overwheliningly to permit the tax col- lector to keep hig large fees, defeating 24 at, fn vote of 170 to sor of the bill, was the only speaker for the measure, The bill was backed by the Pennsyl- vania league of Women Voters who for the measure. It provided for the appointment of and declared local tax collectors Ludlow compensation.” the who ed BOTS, outrageous Fail to Reach Budget Agreement. After a night of conference broken frequently by dickering and bickering, the from the stand It teok amendments to the general appropriation bill and President Pro Tem Howmsher announce. ed the upper chamber would be repre- sented on the conference committee by Senators Schantz, Stiles and Eyre. A few minutes later Speaker Bluett, when the House was Informed of the Senate's auction, sald he would name Representatives MoCalg, Hess and Harer as conferees, Encouraged by the apparent cess of his campaign in behalf of pub- lie finances, lnunched a fight to have all the origi- nal! budget figures, with the exception of the law enforcement item, restored to the general appropriation bill. His anti-liguor battle, from a fiscal stand- pol has been abandoned in order to gain support for the budget. The governor issued his budget ulti. to W. Harry Baker, chairman State Committee, and went so to insist that his dopted without sending the general bill to a committee, In effort to line up the House for his pro gram Mr. Pinchot sent a letter to each member, outlining his budgetary pro- posalg and insisting “there is not a dollar of padding.” The House passed the bills by Rep- resentative Sterling, Philadelphia, to permit judges In” murder cases to ap- point alienists to advise them on the mental condition defendants; by Representative Hall, Dauphin, in- creasing fees of coroners in all counties except those of first and see- and class, and by Representative Horn, Northampton, Increasing the fees of aldermen and magistrates approxi- mately one-third. The Senate concurred in House amendments to the MacDade “omnl- bus” road bill to add approximately 1150 miles to the state highway sys- tem and the blll was sent the govern or for The Davis bill, which would require the public selection and drawing of jurors in Lackawanna Lu. rerne and Westmoreland counties was passed finally and sent to the House. The Senate finally the Sterling blll to provide for licensing and regulating Infants’ homes by the department of welfare and by MacDade, Delaware, eliminating the questions regarding welght and exact from registration records of vot- ers in third-class cities, and by Earn- est, Dauphin, authorizing counties to improve roads for townships at the Joint expense of the county and town. ship, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Bills Vetoed. Four bills, earrying appropriations of $086,000 to Institutions for deaf and dumb and blind children were vetoed by Governor Pinchot. This amount now is included in the genera! appro priations bill, now pending in the leg- isiature, having been restored by amendment on the floor of the Sen- after it had been stricken from the bill by the House. The bills disapproved provided ap- prpriatigns of $434,480 for the Penn- gylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Mount Alry; $247,078 for the Western School for the Deaf, Alle. gheny county; $141,117 for the Wost- ern Pennsylvania School for the Blind, and $163,330 for the Pennsylvania In. stitution for Instruction of the Blind, Overbrook, Disapproval of these bills leaves one of two alternatives for the legislature. Either it must pass the general appro printions bills with this inserted item or pass the geparate bills over the veto If the Institutions are to recelve state aid during the next blennlum. The ways and means committee ro. ported out a bill to continue the extra cent tax levy on gasoline. The bill is to be passed first and second read- fng and then recommitted pending a statement from the highway depart. ment on estimated receipts. The pres. ent emergency tax expires July 1, A bill to appropriate £35.000 to the Rosalia Founding and Maternity Hos. pital, at Pittsburgh, was defeated. The vote was 110 to 45. Under the con- stitution appropriation bills must he passed by a two-thirds majority, Op. ponents of the measure clalined It was for a sectarian Institution, Senate refused to recede on suc- school ns figures be conference an of the action, also passed bills age nte PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Sunbury.~The First National Bank opened Jig new $300,000 building. Pittsburgh.——Another robbery charge was placed against Joseph N. Kelly, of Albany N. Y., who wus cleared of in the hold up of the family of Lawrence E. Sands, Pitts burgh banker, when officers the Allegheny county workhouse verified Kellys clalm that he was an Inmate of the prison at the time of the Sands hold up last January. Kelly now accused of taking £30 from a in a street hold up a month Cressona~—W. F. Brenninger wuz retired by the Reading Rallway arte 45 years of service. Huzleton.—A bond issue of 30600,000 for public Improvements was sold by of is man ngo, Wilkes-Barre.—The Knights »f Co lumbus took title to the mansion of the The new Brethren in Christ I it Go) Florin, Orphanage was opened with a were in on orphans who the home Grantham Pottsville years James motorman, i ease while watching a ooms of the Moose Harrishurg assemblage ed for er comply emergency of assembly, eral Campbell Labor and Indu the ruling Phoenixville. of Phoenix Park, vice Ploneer Bridge ed a large to the borough for ity house. The property has a of $150,000, ag the bul nf William H. Reeves president of the Company, has present ‘hureh street mansion on Use 0 0 commun value house, three stories rooms The site and 250 feet deep. Pittsburg! “1 want sald excited Hotel Henry lobby and rushed Joseph Tinney with once,” an of the to roam the A awis Clerk moned and went her the search floors where 1} for a scrambling over * above, missing much under the beds and dressers t ’ a 3 Opening the purse, t} £450 handed iv Heaving a the bos found wor counted out relief, she telling him to go and hs pressed. The boy thanked man and obeyed her order. Pittshurgh.—There were fifteen busi ness fallures In Allegheny cot March, compared with ruary, but the pronounced failures, twelve it twelve In Feb decrease Of the were in Pittsburgh i i i reported for the county, with thirty-six for the same 1924. Thirty of these failures Pittsburgh, Unlontown.— Ninety children were marched to safety by their teach- ers when a forest fire in the mountains near Fairchance spread to the school. The building and its furnishings were destroyed, but the teachers, William McCuster and Mrs. Elizabeth Swaney, were able to of the plies after the children had been taken out of the danger zone Danville —To bridges within were in school gAve some ®Up- avold rebulldin g four mile the Philadelphia i Ing the course of Mahanoy Creek at Mausdale, two n north of here The four bridges have been In nse for many years, and following a re- cent survey It was found they would have to within a short time, Pittsburgh — Eight teachers ang 375 children were marched from the Brad- dock township schoo! after a note con- taining a threat to blow up the bulld- ing was handed Mrs. Marian A Bushek, the principal. The wns bfought to the by a girl, whe man gave it her, An hour later police arrested Harris Bospeto, who was said by the authorities to have admitted writing the letter, claim. Ing boys of the school threw at him. An examination will be made into his mental condition. Potteville.—Burglars ransacked the home of City Coroner A. P. Knight, taking several hundred dollars. York.—This city i8 to be made de. fendant In a suit for £25,000 damages to be brought by Mrs. Blanche V. Smith, of 870 King's Mill road, who was Injured on the night of October 30, 1922, when an automoblle which she was driving was struck by the pumping apparatus of the Laurel Fire Company. The apparatus at the time was responding to an alarm and was In charge of Driver Oliver French. Huazleton.—The Hazleton branch of the State Teachers’ League, which was founded 15 years ago, will be re. organized, Pottsvile—The Schuylkill County Falr Association decided to erect two more large bulldings on its grounds four miles below Pottsville, Lewisburg Tripping over n pan of water, Marguret Matthias, aged 6. was 80 badly sealded that she died at the Gelsinger Hospital at Danville, Kulpmont, — Burglars looted the store and home of John Dongherty while the fuinlly was away. Bloomsburg. ~~ Twenty-three cnses, the smallest number In some years, are on the list for the May term of common pleas court in Columbia COuRLY les be rebuilt tr note school to stones claim a national Indian holiday. A the President to pro- NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Herriot Cabinet in Peril— Hindenburg Nominated by German Nationalists. By EDWARD W. PICKARD T THIS writing the the Herriot government of France | is momentarily the determined 0] ment to its financial plan 1 downfall expected, because of imposition pariia Alreads i the premier has met defeat on a minor issue, and thm persuaded not to quit It was belleved the cabine be overthrown At atole de of fin: #cheme for meeting the fin This, briefly, Is a eam On £ ves ol Monzie nce, ne otuflage Fren paper « ERI LIRI I R SU O00 (MK), a8 a “voluntn return to he m in for payments month (ntevala ployed at drawing salaries | exempt, All others 10 per cent of thelr wealth, unde alty. The people of France as a whol ade Ware AY] ~~ ohyvaleal 1s physical i2DOr elow a did not measure, the offer and the opp tacked the plan rency Inflation not considere serious since the Bank of France ready has {ssued more frances tha legal limit, the contribution” is being fooght eape by the nationalist bloc and the tionaries. M. de Monzle savs he to raise 15000000000 francs 000,000) during years, whi only about 3 per cent of the nation's wealth, an 1.000.000), - 000 france (250.000. 000) would be pro duced annually of the floating terest and carrying charges. Hundreds of Americans and English- men who have established official resi- | dence In France In order escape heavy Income tax at home will be com- | pelied to contribute a tithe of thelr wealth unless they are able to transfer | their boldings before the measure be. comes operative—if it ever does. The safes of the great gambling casinos on the Riviera and at Deauville also will be tapped. Primarily the plan is de signed to uphold the exchange value of the franc. For the present this is be Ing kept steady by the purchase of francs by the French government with Morgan loan funds. The re-establish. Ing of the gold franc ls the ultimate | alm of the government. aeem especi opposed to this but chambers ha the finance comm vigoro is al- the hut ut “forced volunta five while additional because reduction debt would cut down in- to IELD MARSHAL VON HINDEN.- | BURG has accepted the nomination | of the German Nationalists for the | presidency, In opposition Wilhelm | Marx, nominee of the Republican coali- tion and leader of the Catholic Centrist party. Twice the old soldier declined i the honor, partly because of his age | and partly because he wanted Dr. Karl Jarres to run. But the Nationalists compelled Jarres to withdraw from the campaign and obtained the In- dorsement of the Hanoverian party, the Bavarian People’s party and the Economie party for the candidacy of the field marshal. The German Peo- ple’s party, led by Doctor Stresemann, for some days threatened fo break away from the Nationalist coalition if Von Hindenburg were nominated, but it, too, finally yielded, issuing this statement : “Despite our apprehensions of inter national and national difficulties which may result from the nomination of Gen. von Hindenburg, we will stand with him in the fight for his election for the sake of the bourgeois parties. We will keep up the discipline of the party.” Von Hindenburg still declares him- self the “devoted servant” of former | Kaiser William, and German Repub. Heans wonder how, If he Is that snd If he is elected. he can swear un oath of allegiance to the republic. His most prominent supporters assert openly to that they. as well ag the field believe the idea of a monarch and any slumbering In Germany nation ls the monarch shi preside “For us all” they say, of the crown p the awaiting over tinles, be rince will to when he reac be In 1K when the Natlonall expect the restoration. The way to It has been made clearer by the virtual by Crown Prince Rup precht of Bavaria of lis claims to the mperial t He north Ger. y does ant a Catholle soy. Hes that Is the date hrone, says is broken, of ssions ma ereien edith And then these plans ail feist 2 4 . HOPES and Marx ma discu he futlie, for Pu : % be continued i iS Announced thi marks ($22.02 received 37 0 06 Britain th 21.000 xx) fits for 16 BOven 1 in 0 has heen £147 3 N06, ¥ Wilbur to Mrs. Wilbur Tuesday at Camden. N t! iy promptly of miners} smashed the carrier 1, me 101 water on largest airplane SN. 8. Saratoga ways while whistles raft aloft & the biggest United have the os ¥s food of which 3 the swooped States cost £45000 06%) nother of bom $s t shin 1] fu hers will be parts and explosives and will ha laborate repa Her huge elec give her a speed of * ¢ ir shops. motors will 8 enabling her to f« a battleship fleet, ree The turbine g erators will supply 45,000 horse the four screws, Admittedly something of an experi with scorn by Brig. Gen. William about to retired from post assistant chief of the army alr service Said he: “1 could sink the Saratoga with a pursuit plane; I wouldn't even need ga bomber. As a part of the national de fense It Is not worth considering. By this fall the building of aircraft car riers of that kind will be stopped. It is useless to build a carrier for alr pianes that can be sunk so easily. “The same thing goes for all battle ships. Look at the great fleet now at anchor on the Pacific walting to participate In the Hawalian exer cises. They could be sunk to a ship within a few hours by a single squad of bombers. Holding maneuvers be the ® +1 ¢ const, lous.” PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, a notable advocate of considerable silence, lets It be known that he would like a little more of that concerning several things. One of these is the matter of the French debt. He is fully cognizant cuss the war debt problem until she is in better position. Concerning the plans of the United States for calling another limitation of arms parley, also, there is too much talk, the President thinks, in view of the fact that nothing definite is planned for the Immediate future, Government officials say that the many recent stories of the President's extreme economy in the matter of his clothing purchases are not received kindly at the White House, and that most of them are false or misleading. Merchants In Washington had begun to fear that the example attributed to Mr. Coolldge would be followed by the society folk there and that the resol. ing of shoes and the blocking of old hats would become “the thing.” URKEY Is having a hard time sup pressing the revolt of the Kurds, who are determined to revive the call phate and are all in arms. Sheik Said, their leader, Is sald to have at least ing a number of Important towns. The government has offered a reward for his capture alive or dead and has sent some 70,000 troops Into Kurdistan. mo ation has been dered, admittin Pre: EuLaTING “ Mrs. Mae ahn, both of announced in CONETess of her She we Ww cles established the Donald Arctic explora t for the hos been re iorers, but leave proceed Or Coast, 10 the Green- Abrador Green Norse be explored to nect Eric and ang rains ruins will them, If possible, AS soon as the ex- ite north- Jaflin sea Across way thre and the far north, » reach Axe there, ugh Meliville bay to Etah in i attempt will be made from the northern point of the ie AWay th land. o from the * ¥ £ a , ha this adva » hase, the direc strike kerland, the Are first tion of Cro cont » 4 73 tm 3 roviematicad ¢ y * #4 ibent of the 8 LN *PEAKING of Cook Dr. Fred- id and still gays be discovered the North pole be Peary, Fort Worth, Texas, last week for a sojourn of 14 years in the federal penitentiary at He for fraudulent of already hs the Arctie, who sald } fore left his home In Leavenworth sentenced use and id spent 18 months in Jail. Petitions to the President asking par don for Cook are in elrculation and many signatures have been obtained Was malls the OLITELY but firmly, President Coolidge refuses to reconsider his and Chile or to comply the conditions asked by Peru, which included the dispatch of United States forces to displace Chileans in control of the disputed territory until after the plebiscite is held. In his reply to the Peruvians the President fissures them that their interests are fuliy safeguarded and that the powers of the plebiscitory commission headed by General Pershing are ample. MONG the well known persons taken by death during the week were Mahomet All, former shah of Persia ; Albert Dickinson, head of a big grain and seed business In Chicago; Archbishop Alexander Christie of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Oregon City, Ore. ; G. 8. Fernald, general coun- sel of the Pullman company, and Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon, former patriarch of all Russia, whose struggle against the soviet government attracted so much attention In recent years, prANS are being perfected for a non-political Pan-Paecific confer ence in Honolulu from July 1 to 15 Sever countries will be represented by prominent men and it Is hoped the gathering will take on much of the character and importance of the Insti. tute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass, and will become a permanent forum of all peoples of the Pacific. THE American Cotton Manufactur ers’ association held Its annual con vention Friday and Saturday in New Orleans with all the leading cotton or ganizations of the country represented, Edwin T, Meredith, former secretary of agriculture, was the principal Epeak. er on the opening day. 4 nr ct. A STAB COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. BALTIMORE —W? spot, $1.60 domestic, $1.69, Oats iw 3 white, 51 Rye-—No Hay 18.50: No. 3 light clover mixed, # mixed, §16g17 Straw--No, 1 $18.50@19; No. 1 No. 1 oat, $1556 188 Millfeed ern, in 1060:1b Western domestic we 0 clover RBpring when packs middlinge, brow Eggs—Nearby < gales, 125 cases, 2k. utter chalice fres! cases, 274% Creamery Gao, 4371 44 do, prints ludles £8; rolls Ohio 23¢€ Va. and Pa Po Creamers tras, 5G 45% do. firsts : yacking stock urrent 1 No 23% G24 Egge—Fresh-gathered 29@ 30s do Storage | do, firsts, 27% @ packed. 29¢ 30: i | onds %: nearby closely selected Cheese fresh, do {8S extra firsts packed, 30% @ 21 5&1 2 exh do freshgathered, ge storage 0 “i hennery whites IT @38 State, whole milk. flats fancy, 23% @ 24c do. aver j Tun, 23@23% : State, whole milk. flats | held, fancy to fancy specials, 2620%: do, average run, 256 exiras 25% PHILADELT MIA red winter, $166G167 Cormn--<No. 2 vellow. $1 2TH @1.28% Oats-—No. 2 white. 53@54c Jutter—S8olid packed. higher than exiras, 47@50c, the later for small lots; extras, 92 score. 46; 81 score. 45 80 score, 44; 89 score. 42%; 38%: 87 score, NY: Eggs Extra firsts, seconds, 26627 Cheese—New flats, 26% @27%0 Live Poultry-—Fowls. fancy, fat Ply mouth Rock, 32633: medium 200 21; ordinary, 26@ 28: leghorns 28@27; spring chickens, fancy Plymouth Rock, 3 Ibs. or over. 336035; mixed breeds, 30@32; Plymouth Rock. broil ers, 1% Ibs. each. 5SE60: broilers, mixed breeds, 50G55: leghorn. brofl ers, weighing 1 to 1% Ibs. each, 4@ 50; capons, 40@60: StagRy young roosters, 23@ 25; turkeys, 30 35. LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE —Catile—Steers, rood to choice, $9.75G10.50; medium to food, $8.75@9.50; common to medium. $7.95G8.50; common, $6.50 7.50. Heit ors, good to choice, $8.50@9: fair to good, 37.5008 25; common to medinm, $67.25. Bulls, good to choice, $5.75 @6.50; fair to good, $4.75@5 50; com. mon to medium, $4G 4.50. Cows, good to choice, $5.50G6.50: fair to rood, Wheat — No. 2 £8 score 37 firsts, 86 score 30¢; OG “dy York, whole milk Sheep and $4255.25. Lambs—Sheep, $398; lambs, s10@17. . ¥
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