APPROPRIATIONS Denounces Legislators For “Log Rolling” Methods. FREELY Governor's Approval Given to $14. 372,000 in Awards—State Owned In. stitutions Fared Well USES Harrisburg, Pa.-—Governor Pinchot announced his approval of appropria- tions to hospitals, charitable institu. tions and schools totaling $14,372,000 The ,overnor vetoed a number bills, giving his reasons, and cut down the sums allotted to many Institutions. Ii explaining his cuts of the ments to hospitals and charities Mr. Pinchot issued a statement vigorously attacking the legislature for using the old “log rolling and blackmailing” methods in making grants of state aid. He rebuked the assembly for not adopt- fng his suggestion of appropriating a lump sum for charity, to be distributed according to fixed rules at so much for each t of free service each lnstitu- ti gives the public. alin~ ini tion Precedent ig Established, Or approved $5,078,600 the $14,372,505 in appropriations by the governor, there Is for state aided hospitals ed and semi-state owned institutions, $1,836,000 for miscellaneous institu- tions and commissions, $1,750,000 for the Mothers’ Assistance Fund and $194,751.20 for deficiencies. before the adjournment of the session i procedure necessitated by the law reguiring him to approve the measure within a 10-day period after receiving it during a legislative the governor established a record. far attaches General Assembly been able determine simli- has case of bills reaching the Governor at the end of a session 30 days are allow- 1, and for many sessions the hos- t pass- session So the to il ever as to have no arisen, have ed in the closing days tal appropriations been The Governor also inmber of ‘In measures appropriation bills, funds The I carrving for sam homes allowed the $500.50 above the mmendation, and 2854 800 several and hospitals. state aided ir budget more they received two years ago, ugh it represented a cut of 268 om the total covered by the bi the General The other bills were not changed ma- from the form In which they ¥ passed Assembly. terially were passed. The aid hospitals £1.000.000 1923. a rerreora tb aggregal for the e approved for state next biennium than cuts is almost allowed made by passed by was were greater Heavier Governor In the Legislature for homes charitable and benevolent An aggregate amount of for institutions and associations was passed by the Legis. lature, but the Governor cut the ag gregate to $347,000 which is £10,000 more than he approved ‘wo years ago. in the and A8BO- ciations fE677,.900 these Appropriations For State Institutions. The miscellaneous appropriations for state owned institutions follow : Seranton State Hospital, £235,000, Shamokin State Hospital, £102.000 Danville State Hospital, $320,000, Connellsville State Hospital, $30.000. Harrisburg State Hospital, $15,000. Allentown State Hospital, £110,000 Wernersville State Hospital, $00,000, Torrance State Hospital, $310,000. Eastern Penitentiary, £620,000. Huntingdon Reformatory, $580,000. Fairview State Hospital, £200,000 Hazleton State Hospital, £105,000, Glen Millis School, £500,000 Nanticoke State Hospital, $75,000, Conldale State Hospital, $358,000 Locust Mountain Hospital, 68,653.70 Blossburg State Hospital, $105.000. Warren State Hospital, $140,000, Phillipshurg State llospital, £205,000, The Philadelphia Museums, £25.000, Soldiers’ and Sallors’ Home, Erie, £250.000. Pennsylvania ganza, $300,000 Pennsylvania Soldiers’ School, Scotland, £300,000. Pennsylvania Training School, win, $357,000, Temple University Pennsylvania State Seranton, $117,000. Pennsylvania State exp. 26000, University of Pittsburgh, £000,000, Washington Park Crossing Comm!s- glon, £120,000, Pennhurst State School, $80,000. Pennsylvania State Park and Har bor Commission, Erie, $75.000. National Farm School, Doylestown, £25.000, Governor Pinchot signed the Craig hill giving thirdyglass cities home rule. Other bills signed Included: By Woodward, Philadelphia, anthor- izing the Department of Welfore to gell surplus prigson-mide products to counties, municipalitics, townships, the federal government and other Elntes, tv Krause, Philadelphia, authoriz. Ing the use of mechanical wirm air for benting moving picture theatres in Uhiladelphia. . iy Whitehouse, Schuylkill, permit. iI'ng fine and imprisonment ns sentence dor operation of gambling devices, Trainiag School, Mor- Orphans’ El- 270,000, Ocal School, ‘ollege-—tobac- Cu PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Greensburg.—When he raced a Bal- timore & Ohlo train near West New- ton, Louis King took his hands off the steering wheel at the train. He lost control of the machine, which hit a telegraph Eight children were in the machine. One was killed, five were injured and King was badly hurt, The dead boy was lewis Zorko, 12-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Zorko, of Collinsburg. Sunbury.—Preferring death tary discipline for absence leave, Private Frederick Albert holtz, 22, United States army, He had overstayed to wave pole, to mill without Sens. shot relatives said in aseribing the for suicide. Lewistown.—A post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars being organized here, Danville. —A drinking fountain the use of tourists will erected Memorial Park Lewistown is for be in Walter F. school, h Fisher, prin as resigned { business, Three additional will employed engage in Lancaster motor- the automo- Cops he on police force to reckless the elty. Lancaster Joseph G. Forney, of the Il. has heen e ineaster eoted president of Mifflinville of this named a fo and advantages of form (Citizens committer invest] borough, State College fleld day will be held here on Ju Sharon. —Twe The annual farmers unmasked in his grocery i bound and gagged him and stole R12 Lattimer Frank Tate, Mat on a charge of wreck a Lehigh Traction and t The i¢8 Pittshurgh + he extent of £400 thr of jurors who served eas court in Inst The o of the pi the their pay warrants ing more than which entitle from one a day, as Reading Rain to two well the Unit shfore the res has rejected a p honored the flrem tion roposal down the red shirt black uniform for fr whine ft white The another vote to overcomes sley eo trousers, trousers “modernists for damentalist” objections Butler 107 3 Butler county home Cabel, of Jacob oldest resident { the that born at 1818 Cabel w near here, in 103 mother was almost her death, ax lived to be yenrs in 100 at the of Cabel three years ago, when to the county home Sunbury selected the National air top of a mountain for night mail fliers It said it the strongest light in the east lencons of smaller capacity wiil be placed at Island Park and Elwsburg Pittsburgh. Madera, a small mining center, volun tric beacon light was will be Yavorski, ill of blood poisoning, but the died in a Pittsburgh hospital, During the fight to save the woman's life state police kept the roadway open for a stretch of almost thirty miles so those offering their blood could be rushed to the hospital, Transfusions them her 12-year-old gon. John Lewistown.--The annual egg dona- tion day for the Lewistown Hospital netted the institution 141 dozen. Hazleton. Miss Olive Meyer, diree. since 1921, resigned to become general field agent for the Red Cross in New Jersey. Burnham.—Herle Fisher, an employe of a bakery, lost two fingers in a dough mixer, Minersville killed by a colliery Lock Haven ~The safe in the BE. R. Wentz feed store was blown open by yeggs who found only $2. Shenandoah.—Eddle Rinko, 18 years old, accidentally shot himself in the right thigh while closing a new gun, State College. —P, C. Weaver, ndmin- istrative assistant In the school of ed ucation at State College, has been promoted to assistant director of the summer session Sunbury. Mrs, Frederick W. Reber, of this place, was elected head of the Northumberland . County League of Republican Women's (ube. Hazleton.—For the first time wince late In January all of the 27 anthra- cite mines on the Hazleton ang Ma- banoy division of the Lehigh Valley railrond are In operation, Sunbury.—Two Indian darts and a French coin dated 1770 were dug up on Island Park, Minersville.—~W. J, Murphy won the oratorical elimination contest of Behuylkill county high school stu. dents Joseph fall of Menpace was coal at the Lytle Maiden Dearborn, first of of his company. 15¢ NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Painleve and Caillaux May Pull France Through Her Financial Crisis. By EDWARD WwW. PICKARD RANCE Is struggling through the governmental crisis precipitated by financial troubles, but the come is still shrouded in doubt Painleve accepted President mergue's invitation to form a after Aristide Briand had abandoned the attempt because the So clalist party tion In the ct unstitute, agreed out- Paul Dog- tried voted against binet he was The Soc support Pi first the National through its p to increase the 10 ment, ried bill from Mo a warm it was but to dis 10 monetary per cent apitnl De mzies financial me debate the compels scheme from passed the bill circulation from 41.000 006) 45,000 O00 O00 money AN francs. The senna followed The rest of financial sc} ing still up in the Though Palnleve pears likely the new gover Calllaux, exiled as a nesty was only recently This former premier financial genius was called on to take finance and accepted bis sult in alr emo the don who, traitor and leve the post of minis He has declare to a capital levy he will was believed opposition what scheme is yet known. It in Paris that the left wing groups were prepared to make aux dictator in right and the Nationalists at tempted place In the read tionaries w= overthrew the Herriot government, offer not Caill conse the wing to power ho ERMAN Socialists were consider G ably relieved by the developments in Paris, for it had feared that If the there would be a revival of of violence” that would greatly the candidacy of Field Marshal Hindenburg for the presidency On the other hand the French are await ing with anxiety the result of the Ger man election. The old soldier's fol lowers, however, indignantly deny that his election would mean war with France within a few years. They as sert that peace is an Important point | In his program, and, furthermore, that | if elected he would take the the Welmar constitution, a clause which provides that war be clared and peace signed only through special law. The German monarch ists say they are willing to stand the republic a few more years, meaning until 1927, when Prince Wilhelm reaches the age of twenty-one years, Violent campaign talk is rife in Ger. many. Von Hindenburg's most ardent supporters declare Germany “will see something terrible” If he is not elected, and they are said to be ready to start a “putech” at a moment's notice. The Communists, for their part, openly say that If Von Hindenburg wins they will start an armed uprising. So In either event there may be lively doings. M and auxiliary craft of all kinds steamed out vin San Francisco through the Goiden Gate Wednesday on the way to attempt the “capture” of the Hawalian islands. At that out. post of the nation an army garrison of 15,000 men with alr squadrons and 20 submarines made ready to defend the islands, The attacking force, known as the Blue Fleet, was an Imposing sight as it started westward, First was a flock of mine sweepers to clear up any mines the defenders, known as the Black forces, Might have placed. Next were 04 destroyers that spread out widely and made a lane of safety, They were followed by 11 battleships and 8 light cruisers, and then came the “policy help Yon outh of in can de ORE than 159 American war ships the lesser craft, Including submarines, carrier Langley, on which were about 30 planes, When the Admiral will be Blue Robison, atta fleet, commanded by nears the Ked by airplanes marines sent out and Sunk 4 he Black {1 by General Lewis, comm rees, and if these 10 pres of the Admiral Coontz Hines, the the troops there will The headed i 2 tt » i anGing pires Dy on are will watch every and up to them battleships are construc move, It is to deci whether tively nny sunk or erippled bs ing plane ¥ : far the War department to « planation and nanding, forwarded From this plotted seners : h 1d tionary ms and the Crouch he enl It Washingto reduced vyements garrison that before sentences will greatly 'ENATOR BURTON K. WHEELER of Montana - rich ing a client Interior the senate aims of a of y elected fee for prosecuting cf before the Department he had been The outcome of this to Wheeler, ' . is by the after to Case for if e he forever varred from holding public office, In ddition he may be imprisoned for two is convicted law Senator Thomas J. Walsh, who went trial, sald that as congress convenes he would press for Wheeler ing company’s leases in the Salt creek fields of Wyoming. These flelds, which the Interior department, are much more productive than Teapot Dome. LANSON RB. HOUGHTON, our new ambassador to Great Britain, galled from duties in London. He had little to say {or publication before leaving, content ing himself with the statement that he was aware of the importance of his new post and realized “the necessity of maintaining friendly relations be- tween the English-speaking peoples.” An assignment has just been given Miss Lucille Atcherson of Columbus, Ohio, the first woman to qualify as & member of the foreign service of the Department of State. She has been appointed third secretary of the lega- tion at Berne, Switzerland. Edward Caffery, consul at Pucharest, has been made consul general at Havana, and George Messersmith has been ap pointed consul general at Antwerp. OMMERCIAL alrplane service be- tween Chicago and Detroit was in- augurated by the Ford interests, but the planes for the present are carry. Ing only freight between Ford plants, Announcement Is made that the Gen- eral Alrways System, Inc. is soon to begin operating an nerial passenger and freight service between Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and 8t. Paul. Ke BORIS of Bulgaria had =» close enll from death at the hands of Communists last week, While mo- toring In the country he was am- bushed and fired upon and two men in the car with him were killed. The king and others jumped out and re turned the fire, but the assassing es- “ i i i | caped One carried away About the General Georghleff, a leader In overthrew the part same time the was crowd in 1823 in great Vere in Tiohn t of t 1 the iabor in Com. i» that en not result raint of Interstate ©, the federal to intervene important tax down by the government powerioss Two decisions Supreme court, The first was that states have the right to prescribe in their inheritance tax laws the market ferred, and the trans de valoe of property to provide that no in computing the state tax for any in heritance or tax pald to federal government. The second de cigion held that any gain in value must be taken into account the 1018 revenue act purchased before March 1, sold In 1910 estate 1913, and V ITH Impressive handsome memorial gate, honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, was unveiled and dedicated at Port of Spain, Trinidad, where the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie died in 1810. The American cruiser Mem- phis was there for the proceeding and military and civic organizations The gate is at the entrance of the cemetery where Perry's body lay until it was removed to the United States in 1826, and i= the gift of Amer fcan residents of Trinidad. ceremony, a EATH took two famous men last week. One was Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Ind, credited with being the Inventor of America's first auto mobile. This “horseless buggy” he drove In Kokomo In 1804, at the re markable speed of eight miles an hour. John Singer Sargent, American member of the British Royal Academy and recognized as one of the greatest of contemporary portrait painters, was found dead in bed in his home at Chel: sea, England. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1854, he won the highest honors that can be accorded an artist and num bered among his sitters many of the world's most eminent men and beau tiful women. ASEBALL, our national sport, opened its season most auspicious. ly with all the teams of the National and American leagues In action. The attendances surpassed that of opening day last year, that at the National league games being 100,000 and at the American, 128000. The one thing wrong in the picture was the absence of Babe Ruth from the lineup of the New York Yankees. He was sick abed MARKETS BALTIMORE spot, aomestic domes Corn low $1.20 per hn corn Oats 3 white ive Hay @19 No light cloyer clover mixed mixed mixed, $16@ 16.50 Straw No 1 $IR50@ 19 No. 1 “0 oat, $15 506 16.50 i { i 99 1L 27 9 “ A G24 h-gathered, extra firsts, packed ogo 4a i@ star storage ar o2 Hi; do do, seconds, browns, exiras, hennery 270 3% milk, average whole milk. flats. he to fancy specials, Z6@ 26%; d 2525% PHILADELPHIA winter, 3167¢ 168 | Corn--No. 2 yellow, | No. 3, $1.25%@ 1 Oate-No. 2 3 @hiy% Hay Timothy 2. $18@ 19; $17@ 18; No. 2 %15@ 18 Butter-—-Solid-packed, higher than extras, 46% @ 40c, the latter for small lots; extras, 92 score, 45%: 91 score, 45. 90 score, 43; 89 score, 42: $8 score 38%. 87 score, 37%: 86 score. 37 Eggs-—Extra firets, 32¢: firsts seconds, 276 28 Cheese New York, whole milk. flats, 26% @27%c: longhorn, 256026; single daisies, 256 26. Dressed Poultry — Fowls, fresh. killed, dry-picked, In boxes, according to weight, 26@33¢; in barrels, 25@ 12: fresh-killad chickens, in boxes. by weight, 28@ 40; In barrels, 266738: old roosters, dry-picked, Western, large. 23624; medium size, 20022. LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE —Cattle—8toers, good to choice, $10@10.95; medium to good, $909.75; common to medium. $8@ 8.96; common, $6.75@ 7.75. Heifers, good to choice, $8.50G9; fair to good, TH50@8.25; common to medium, $64 7.25. Bulls, good to choice, $8.25G 7; fair to good, $5.25 6; cominon to me dium, $4.25G5. Cows, good to choles, $5.50@6.50; fair to good, $4.25@5.25. Sheep and Lambs—S8heep, $2@8: ] exiras Cheese fresh State whole 23@24:; do fancy, 22%. State, fancy | average run, Wheat — No red 26% white 5@56¢c: Ne. 3, No. 1 light No No. 1, nominal clover mixed, a 30; lambs, §10@G 17.
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