PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Washington,—A., J. O'Donnell, a
former treasurer of the Union Trust
Company of Donora, pleaded guilty to
vinbezzlement of more than $39,000 of
the bank's funds. He was fined $500
by Judge Erwin Cummins, paroled for
two years and ordered to make restl-
tution. O'Donnell said he was a vic-
tim of stock speculation.
Stroudsburg. —Miss Addie Smith, of
Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, one of the
first 500 nurses who left this country
for service in France during the world
war in 1917, committed suicide by
shooting. She had been in ill health,
directly traceable to her heroic ser
vice overseas, Miss Smith was a mem-
ber of the alumni association of the
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Phila-
delphia, from which she was graduat-
ed in 1915.
Hazleton.—S8tricken with heart trou-
ble while on an automobile trip with
members of her family, Mrs. Anthony
Schmeer, aged 34 years, died in a
doctor's office.
Pittsburgh.—Six armed men held up
n watchman in the Allies Garage and
stole a truck loaded with 27 barrels
of syrup used in making soft drinks.
Police believe the robbers were under
he Impression that the barrels con-
tained liquor. The same truck was
stopped by police and taken tp prohl-
bition headquarters for examination.
Jeffersonville, — The latest victim
of the thieves operating rather eéxten-
sively in the suburban districts is the
Jeffersonville fire company. They
stole the carbon brusheg from the si-
ren on the fire house, thus putting the
alarm out of commission. It is thought
the thieves reshed the roof by climb-
ing on an adjacent house.
Pittsburgh.—Judge Alfred W. Dauf?,
66, the Allegheny court, died at
his home In Wilkinsburg following na
long illness. He was appointed
the post on December 2, 1924, by
ernor Sproul and was elected for a full
term at the next election.
Philadelphia After “sticking
her story” that was kidnaped
from her home In Wayne, Ind.,
for ten hours, Hasslet. 11
years old, admitted to the police that
of
(sOV-
to
she
Fort
Genevieve
her home was actually at 1430 Carlton
had been telling
“fibs. Before she broke down under
the questioning of detectives
Captain of Detectives Wood had sent
out thirty men to run down the train
conductor whom the girl had “de-
scribed” as her “kidnaper.” Genevieve
wag picked up in the Belmont gection
of Fairmound park and did not tell
the true story until taken to the house
of detention.
Pittsburgh.—Mrs. Elizabeth Ladin.
eky, 85, on trial for the alleged mur
der of her husband, Abraham Ladin-
sky, wealthy Jeweler, was acquitted
by a jury In eriminal court here, The
Jury deliberated 20 hours and 20 min-
utes before returning the verdiet. The
defense in the case had claimed that
a prowler jn the Ladingky, home mur-
dered the Jeweler as he was asleep
on May 31, 1924. The commonwealth
in contended that Mrs, La-
dinsky killed her husband because he
threatened to leave her
Waynesburg.—Mrs. Elizabeth For
dyce, an Inmate of the Greene County
Home the Aged, celebrated her
107th birthday anniversary by stroll-
ing around the home grounds and do-
ing her usual dally sewing, thread-
ing the needles without the ald of
glinsses,
Washington —Pulling his 35-year-old
sister Helen Louise from under the
wheels of a freight arain on the Penn.
sylvania railroad Bobby PBraner, 11
years old, son of of Homer Braner,
narrowly escaped death himself. He
Jost a toe on his right foot when |t
was caught by a wheel, 3obby and
his sister had been playing In the
railroad yards. Some of the loys
climbed up and over the cars. The
little girl started to crawl under them.
3obby reached her just as the train
started to move.
Altoona.—Work has been started on
the erection of thirty new cottages at
the Newton Hamilton camp grounds
the Central Pennsylvania confer.
ence of the Methodist church the bulld-
to be completed by the latter
part of June when the summer gched-
nle of outdoor meetings will be open-
ed.* Dates for the various camps In-
clude: June 30 to July 7 and August
19 to August 20. Epworth League in-
stitutes; July 18 to 28 camp for girls:
July 28 to August 6. camp for boys.
A representative of the Boy Scout or-
ganization from national headquar-
ters will be present on the latter dates
to participate in the boys’ camp period.
Pottsville. — The ingenuity of a
number of mining engineers was test.
ed when a cow fell into the Pine Hill
colllery reservoir. To prevent the
cow from drowning a lasso was
thrown over ts neck and it was
brought to safety by a block and
tackle,
Sunbury.—8eventeen hundred per.
sons heard a chorus of 100 volces give
n concert in honor of Music Week,
York Stricken suddenly with an
attack of the heart while operating sn
electrie drill, Thomas Meeley, n York
iron worker, dled while belng taken
to the York Hospital,
Dallastown.—Wilson F. Glatfelter,
nged 68, undertaker and president of
the Union State Bank, died while seat.
ed nt a desk In his office.
Lancaster.—Directors of the Rotary
("lub elected Martin M, Harnlsh presi.
dent and Eugene Andes vice pres!
dent
street and that she
steady
the case
for
of
fugs
Harrisburg.—Miss Louise Hays 08,
drowned in the springhbouse on the
farm; of her father, Jumes Hays, a
mile south of Shippensburg, When
Miss Hays. who was subject to fulnt-
ing spells, did not return from the
springhouse a brother and sister
searched for her and found her lying
ir two feet of water.
Uniontown.—Local officers staged
n narcotic rald on an East Malin street
restaurant. In underground rooms
the officers claim to have found a
quantity of cocalne and other drugs.
Celestin Jones, the alleged proprie-
tress, was arrested and will ba held
pending the arrival of federal! ofil-
Cers,
Pottsville —Edwai.. Dickson, a 9-
year-old boy, was walking the Penn-
sylvania railroad trestle near Minérs-
ville, when he saw a train approach-
ing. It was a single-track trestle and
the boy knew he could not reach
either end before the train would
strike him. He tried to lower him-
gelf by hanging with his hands from
the bridge, but the distance of 40 feet
horrified him that he got up and
wag struck by the locomotive and
knocked off the trestle to the Reading
railroad below. He was brought to
the Pottsville Hospital suffering with
concussion of the brain.
Pottsville—Large shipments of an-
thracite were made from this region
to Buffalo and Detroit for the Great
Lake region. Coal operators say the
demand is very heavy from that dl-
rection because of the fear that a
strike will cause a suspension of coal
mining next September. Every two
years fear of a strike gives the anthra-
cite trade a summer boom, and it is
apparent this will be a summer when
trade will be brisk, There is little
prospect of a strike in September, the
operators say, but the trade Is greatly
helped in_an economic way hy the fear
of the public based on past suspen-
slons, -
Lancaster.—An employer is respon-
sible for his employes while the latter
are in attendance at firm plenles, ac-
cording to a ruling of the workmen's
compensation board in sustaining the
decision of C. W. Bosler, local referee,
The decision carries with it a payment
of £2400 and $100 funeral expenses to
Mrs. Florence Saylor, whose hushand,
RO
of York, was drown
ple of
Saylor,
at the
carpet
annual
Grissinger's
24, 1924
the direction «
per
Westmore
store at ]
county, July
3 smehre *
wreenshur i
g
A E Mack, county vax
visor of agriculture, In
land
#1
Lue
tional st
the
county schools, students
several
planted
planting consists
fowns
thousands
of two
reforested by
and girls
the school
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Museum h
ed 16,000 moths, m i
seen and val-
ued by their owner at more than $10,
xX), The by B
Preston Clark, of Boston, and has been
deposited fdndefinitely at Carnegle
Museum. Mr. Clark recently purchas-
ed the lot from the estate of Charles
Oberthur, a famous collector of Ren.
nes, France. The moths were brought
from France on the Leviathan and
special men were employed to look
after them on the journey. Some of
the specimens are as large as b
Somerset. — Guy Vough,
cashier of the Farmers and
nk arrested,
charged with embezziement of
of the bank's funds, by E. BE
cashier of the bank,
Harrison and United States
sioner Holbert VYough was
ted to the county jail: In default of
£10,000 hail.
*Ittsburgh. — Still in the grip of
drugs, her body a mass of brulses,
Miss Helen Eckles, 18 years old, tele
phone operator of Braddock, a vie
tim of abductors. was in a hospital In
a critical condition. City, county and
state authorities are searching the
Pittsburgh district for an automobile
in which the girl, missing for nearly a
waek, was taken to her home.
Uniontown. —Police were Investigat-
ing an alleged black hand plot follow.
Ing a fire which destroyed the plant
of the Cooley Ice and Conl Transfer
Company at Fair Chance, with an es-
timated loss of $10,000. Homer Cooley,
owner of the company, reported to
police that four days ago he received
a letter signed “bldck hand.” threat
ening destruction of the plant if he
did not dispose of it
Philadelphia. — Advertising a “one-
third off” sale, Mrs. Lena Edes,
conducts a store in South street, cut
fn third off a $1 note and pasted the
mutilated bill on the window on her
shop. The whole idea, she explained
to Captain Houghton, of the secret
service, who arrested her on charges
of mutilating money, was to attract
customers to the shop. She sald the
severed bill would illustrate her point
most effectively, She was held in £500
ball by United States Commissioner
Manley for a further hearing.
Uniontown. Edward Stevenson, col.
ored, slayer of Deputy Constable Rob.
ert Mason, of Washington, was sen-
tenced here to die In the electric
chalr, The colored man was brought
into court on a cot, to which he has
been confined since he was paralyzed
by a bullet a year ago.
Sunbury.~John Devereax, aged 44,
a Coal township, Nerthumberland
county commissioner, slashed his
throat with a knife,
Sunbury.—A Pennsylvania railroad
fast freight plowed into a slide of
earth and rocks below this place, but
the crew escaped with a shaking
Bellefonte. A clase of five nurses
was graduated from the Centre Couns
ty Hospital training school at exer
clgex held In the court house,
Pittsburgh. Announcement of the
closing of four more union mines was
made by the Pittsburgh Con! Com.
nanny
boys
ons
any of them a gpe-
cles never hefore here
collection Is owned
rds
assistant
Merchants
of Rockwood, Wis
SS
Miller,
before Squire
Commis
commit
whe
1—"Kenmore,
shrine. 2--Moroccan troops
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Steam yacht Rowena,
NEWS REVIEW OF |
URRENT EVENTS
Government's Grand As-
sault on Demon Rum
Hits Land Traffic.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
U NCLE SAM, as represented by the
Treasury. department, feels that
he has rather effectually checked the
smuggling of leit liquor the
rum fleet on the Atlantie and
now is going after the land traffic In
with t
President
from
const,
booze
mand.
an
every agency
active interest
of ti
and has d Reeretars
ury Mellon
ASKE
means
genera
throu
board propaganda,
“curse of intoxicating
idea of Prohibitio
Haynes and has
superiors }
The combination «
ting,” it Is hoped,
effective. Under the
mand of Assistant
Treasury Andrews in di the
campaign are Rear Admiral Billard,
commandant of the coast guard:
missioner Haynes, and E. C. Yellow.
ley, head of the fleld forces, David H
Blair, of internal
nue, whatever
pet
and buille.
prove doubly
supreme
Com
Secretary « the
of
f
recting
Com
commissioner rev.
will ald Is
quired from his bureau.
Admiral not
public know what
navy is doing, but it is known that the
blockade of the rum-running fleet has
Many of the
to
i
give ree |
letting the
Jillard is
just now the dry
proved quite effective
vessels have departed, and y
few appeared in the
line, so close a watch is kept that very |
little liquor has reached the she
The blockaders are aided by batteries
of searchlights so powerful that their
beams plerce the fogs on which the |
smugglers had counted There are
current many stories of attacks on the |
coast guard men and threats against |
them, as well as of attempts to cor |
rupt them. But the booze runners are |
not getting far on those lines Natur
ally their activities were diverted to |
a considerable extent to the Great |
Lakes, but there, too, the dry forces |
are preparing to combat them. Many |
more patrol boats will be In commis!
sion there and It is not likely that
Canada will object to the arming of |
such vessels,
On the coast of southern
conditions are reported to be bad, from
the prohibition point of view. There |
are only two coast guard cutters there i
and the smugglers, it is sald. are land
ing between £10,000 and 820.000 worth
of whisky every day in the vicinity
of San Pedro. The dry officials admit
they cannot cope with the traffic ex- |
cept on land.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover In a
trade report includes In the Invisible
foreign trade of the United States for
1924 an item of $40,000,000 of smug-
gled liquor. This sum is vastly more
than is admitted by the prohibition of-
ficials but far less than the estimates
of the bootleg syndicates.
thongh
’ x a
new ones have
ire
Californi
nis
AKINGupublie a preliminary re
port of the Department of Agri.
culture's investigation into the extraor
dinary fluctuations in future grain quo-
tations between January 2 and April
8B, SBecretary Jardine warned all grain
exchanges des goated as contract mar
kets that they must either put Into
effect stricter rules looking toward
the prevention of price manipulation
or else face the probability of further
and more stringent legislation govern.
ing the trading In futures. By all
those concerned the warning was cone
gtrued as a threat to revoke the char
ter of the Chicago board of trade ns a
contract market unless it promptly
provided remedies for existing condi
tions. Indeed, Mr. Jardine already had
Issued a similar warning to representa.
tives of the Chicago board, The sec.
retary made It plain and emphatic
that If that organization wishes to con.
tinue to enjoy the. benefits
ket, It must draft more definite
stringent rules facilitating the
tion and maintenance of federal
vision, preventing the
opera.
super
ate reports and statements,
ing actual or attempted
or cornering of the markets and dis
couraging any tendency toward ex
Mr. Jardine admits that so far
inquiry has not uncovered suffi
proof of manipulation for the obtain
ing of a but the in
vestigation will be continued, with
ald of the Department of Justice,
that if enough
tained it will
conviction, says
the
and
proof of allt Is ob
Progecials
of the law He says, howe
wre concerned wi
of the question,
nent of some
nnial
week after ten
and
of many
The critics
and International
vention
oF
to 8 close last
days discussions resolutions
that aroused the ire women
outsids the council
charges of pacifism
and
D.
the
against the council,
the most bitter, Mrs. O
national president of American
Legion Auxiliary, asserted that the
American delegates had passively per
mitted the foreign women to run the
convention, which she
2% a “propaganda party.”
N. Moore, president of
Council of Women, denied
“I am at a loss to guess at the rea
sons for or the purposes of these un
fortunate tirades which have been di
rected against us” “It nn
be a desire for personal notoriety
the part of the individual
Rin ane
characterized
Mrs
National
sia
this.
the
she raid
triotism. At all events,
tions against our patriotism
alty have been unwarranted,
and unfair.”
or loy
unjust
ing gradual simultaneous disarmament
under the control of the League of Na-
tions.
frained from voling.
V
y ELL, Von Hindenburg Is presi
: dent
ves. What's more,
took the prescribed oath to preserve
the constitution and laws of the com-
monwealth, led the formal cheers for
the republic and with three “hochs™
and In his brief. well- worded address
gave no least intimation that he would
like to see the monarchy restored. The
ceremony of inauguration was rather
simple. The Communists gave it the
only exciting touch, As Hindenburg
entered they chanted: “Down with
monarchisth, long live the soviet re
public,” and marched from the room
Next day the president received rep
regsentatives of all the departments of
state, and his bearing and talks made
an excellent impression, In his eon
ference with Dr. Steller, secretary of
state, the new president came face to
face with the difficulties the Germans
the rafllways from the attacks made In
more employees will have to go before
the rallways can come within the
budget figures,
“A great part of the payments which
Germany will have to make, accord.
ing to the plans of her war adver
sarfes, will be put on the rallways™
Dr, Steller sald, “It will call for our
whole strength If we are to fulfill the
obligations Imposed on us Only if
we succeed will the great treasure of
the German rallways be kept free of
foreign Influence for Germany. It la
not an economic problem, but a na
tional one, that we must solve”
J No operations against the Rif.
fians In the French zone of Moroes
€o are proceeding successfully, though
the tribesmen go stout
resistance, week
there batties
re putting up a
of last
lively
Wednesday
series of
front, The French used
branches of the service and drove
Was 8
wide
ull
back the Riffians with heavy loss, re
lieving all but two of the beleaguered
General de Chambrun, who
Wash
Long
OU POSLE,
be attache in
and
used to
ington married Nicholas
French forces With
from
f
the
of
he Is preparing to
tribesmen
REEUrance
the government large rein
orcements, oust the
entirely from the
reach zone
[FoRmaR
Finance
let it he ki
reaching an
MINISTER BRIAND anc
Minister Callls i
own that they
agreement
the debt
Germany
making safe
EON TROTZKY'S return to Mos
-“ cow is having some ng re
men
is being
5
interestd
has been elected a
soviet cabinet and
patied on the back by hi
to have fled
reintions with the outer
¥ ¥
foes, who seem moGl
heir ideas of
world, But a confidential agent of the
Britishi government
He
over the world
gives out a warn-
ing. gays soviet
operatives al
and especially in Lon
and America, have been
for
This,
motive
purposes of politic
and this
al propaganda
actual
Russia in
By
only, wag the
triumvirate ruling
back Trotzky to power,
masking Trotzky as an “e
pert”—similar to Joseph
M¢ SOOW
regain
rulers hope
hir absolute control
lise im
to
the army are
spreading the false news that the for
v
ner arm
In the meantime they
leader has become less radi-
especially in London and Paris.
LENN FRANK, editor of the Cen
tary Magazine and only thirty.
eight years has been invited by
the board of the University of Wiscon-
president of that in-
stitution. Mr. Frank Is a native of
Missouri and received his education in
Northwestern and Lincoln Memorial
For several years he
of North
old.
wins
asxistant to the president
western.
N TENNESSEE they are about to
try a test case in which an ingtruc-
tor is accused of violating the state
law forbidding the teaching of the
theory of evolution In state schools. A
preliminary hearing of the charges re.
sulted In the Instructor's being held
to the grand jury. The fundamental
ists of the country are intensely inter
ested in seeing that the statute is up
held, and William Jennings Bryan
their high priest among the laity, has
offered his legal services to the pros
ecution, He says the sclentists of
America are “dishonest scoundrels”
who are afraid to tell their beliefs and
“urrow In the ground and steal away
the faith of our children”
Pp EA™ removed last week several
notable persons, Among them
were Miss Amy Lowell, an eminent
American poet and critic and sister of
President Lowell of Harvard: Sir
Henry Rider Haggard, celebrated Eng
lish writer of tales of romance and ad-
venture; Herbert Quick, American au
thor and editor; General Mangin, who
gained undying fame by his defense
of Verdun In the World war; Rt. Rev.
Mgr, Charles A. O'Hern, rector of the
North American college at Rome, and
William FF, Massey, premier of New
Zealand,
Af HAD been expected, the sen
tences passed on the two sol
diers at Honoluln, convicted of trying
to organize a communist league among
their comrades, have been greatly re
duced. Maj. Gen. W, R. Smith, after
reviewing the court-martial proceed
ings, cut the sentences from 40 and 26
years to three years and one year.
THE
MARKETS
BALTIMORE
winter, domestic, $1. 84%; ;
winter, domestic
Shelled Corn
mestic, $1.25 nominal
Oats No, 2
b4
Rye~No
Hay~-No
@1y;
light clover
“Wheat
C4
i
{garlicky},
No -
while
2 snot
2 Bpo
5 timothy
“s
«20
clover mixed
$15@ 16.
Straw
$18506@ 1¢
No. 1 oat
Millfeed
ern, in i
Western middl
Eggs
unless £0 CAR
Butter
do,
~Lreamery
choice, 42@42; do
prints, 456147;
ladles Md
28; Ohio
rolia, 25@ 27
Live
414 ibe
dium, 3% to 4 1
ao, do, blocks
Pa. roll
West
29@ 20 and
-o@ 27
rolls
*oultr Y
and over
chickens, weigh
¥
mixed colors
GVYY and
and poor
be
n
per pi
tes
i i rac
mixed, do
Butter—{
$1.353%
reamery, higher than ex
tras dhe: do. « (92 score)
4% @
44; do, firsts (88 t
Zrs—F
d
ALTHS
81 score), 420 43%
resh-gathered firgis
1 exira
£ packed
31@32
freshgathered
SNL £388
: = a 54
204;
slOorags
ered firsts, do
313, G33
seconds, 29% @2
whites, closely selected extras,
nearby and
whites, firsts 10
Cheese
fresh, fancy,
nearby hennery
RG 3%
Western hennery
average extras, 13637
whole milk, flats
do, average run
whole milk, flats, held
fancy to fancy specials, 20@26%; do
average run, 25@ 25%
nearby
States,
20%
State
PHILADELPHIA Wheat — No
Corn--No. 2 yellow, $1 34@1.35
Butter—S8olid packed. higher
extras, 46@Q 19¢c; the latter for small
lots; extras, 92 score, 45: $1 score. 44:
$0 score, 42; 89 score, 42: 88 score. 41;
87 score, 40; 86 score, 39
Eggs Extra firsts, 33¢:
seconde, 2614G 27%
Cheese New York. whole
flats, fresh, 21@22¢; held, 21628
Live Poultry—Fowls, fancy. fat Ply
mouth Rocks, 30c; medium, 27628:
mixed breeds, fancy. 28629: medium
26@27; ordinary fowls, 20620: leg
horns, 27@28; spring chickens, Ply
mouth Rocks, broilers, 55@58: mixed
breeds, 50055; leghorns broflers. 1 to
1% pounds, 35@ 42; capons, $0645:
roosters, 15@ 18; turkeys, 20025
LIVE STOCK
BALTIMORE —Cattle—S8teers, good
to choice, $0.75@ 10.50: medium to
good, $8.50 9.25; common to medium,
$7.26@8; common, $666.75. Heifers.
good to choice, $825GR.75: fair to
good, §7.25@G8; common to medium
$5.25@7. Bulls, good to choice. $6.25@
6.95; fair to good, $5.256G6; common
to medium, $4.25@56. Cows. good to
choice, $6@ 7; falr to good, $4.7565.75.
Sheep and Lambs-—Sbwep, $368.50;
lambs, $10016.60; spring lambs, $15
18.25.
Hogs Lights, $14.10; heavy, $14.10;
medium, $14.25; pigs, $14; light pigs,
$12.25; roughs, $8.25 12.25.
Calves—Calves, $6G 10.50,
—————
PITTSBURGH. — Hogs — Heavies,
$13.40@ 13.50; heavy Yorkers $13.850
14; Hght lights and pigs, $11.506 12.60,
Sheep and Lambs—Clipped sheep,
$0.50; clipped lambs, $14; spring
lambs, $19, :
Calver—Ton, $11.50. t
than
firsts, 30%;
milk