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.