PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS { | Lewistown.— Free mall delivery hus been promised to Lewistown Junction and Juniata Terrace. Tamaquu.—~—Tamaqua union ecarpen- ters decided to stand pat on the de- mand for increased wages made on April 1, Lancaster.—Boy Scouts of Lancas- ter county are conducting a drive for end of the year. Mount Carmel.—Rev. John J. Kealy and Rev, Michael Menko, of this place, and Rev, were ordained to the priesthood in St Patrick's Cathedral by Bishop Mec- Devitt, Wilkes-Barre.—Two firemen were in- jured and damage estimated at $75,- 000 resulted from fire which dam- aged the lumber yard of the Susque- hanng Lumber Company and Nantl- coke Construction Company at Nantl- coke. Raymond Vivian and Albert Van Horn were scorched ang other firemen were overcome by heat bile with his brother-in-law, Harvey Strohl, and father, Robert Green, on their way to work at the Penn Forest Brook Trout Company's hatchery, Wilson Green, aged 50. suddenly col- lapsed and died. He had been talking and did not indicate he was in the least ill. He leaves a widow and sev- eral children. Chester.—Willlam Stewart, colored, died In the Chester Hospital, the sult of injuries received In an un- usual! manner. Employed at an auto- mobile mechanics’ school he was changing a large tire attached to the tire his attention was diverted and there was n report. The tire was blown from the wheel and the steel r'm was driven against Stewart with great force. was struck full in the face, his jaws and ‘nose were fractured and he suf- fered concussion of the bra ternal injuries. Bristol. — Shipbuilding Huff. Da! of the Merchants’ poration yards here to & Company, airplane builders of densburg, N. Y., was made by B. Easthurn. real estate er. a local brok- The price was stated to be in the neighborhood of $200,000 and the prop- erty includes 30 acres with buildings The sale will bring to the state Penn- sylvania’s first commercial factory. The plant of Huff, Daland & Company at Odensburg has been work- ing to capacity since the war produce ing airplanes for the army and foreign governments. Scranton. —Edward Wilde, 12 old. was instantly killed, being struck by lightning In the yard of his home here. The boy and two companions were playing cowboy In a shanty dur. ing ¢ severe electrical storm. Wilde came out of the shanty carrying an air rifle. Lightning struck it and burned a hole in the boy's side. The other two boys were stunned. Conyngham.— Women again are being hired due to an insufficient supply of labor. Decrease In prices of farm products, which resulted in a decline in farm wages, hus been. assigned by many farmers as cause for the scarcity of men workers, Farmers in this section | Harrishurg.— Former State Treas. urer Snyder will be reappointed head of the inheritance tux bureant in the auditor general's office, according to gossip about the capitol. Since May 4, when he went out of office us tress. since 1902. when he was» member of the house. Ie be named a special deputy by Auditor General Martin and will have charge of collection of the Inheritance, mercantile and gasoline taxes, York William P. Olp, 72 years old, died In the York Hospital from In- juries sustained when he was hit hy on the Maryland rallroad. The train go on a spur from The crew and claim to have that the train was He prob. time & Pennsylvania wus backing to had noticed Olp, motioned to him going to back on the spur. misunderstood the warning. His skull was fractured, one foot crush. ed and an arm torn from the shoulder, Tamaqua.—The school hoard raised the general school tax rate from 17 to 19 mills. Pottsville.~—~Two bulldogs, guaran- teed to “chew the headg off” of any burglars, happened to be absent when the home of W. C. Howell was visit. ed by burglars, who failed to make any haul. The dogs were present, however, when the police called to in- vestigate and the officers were forced to beat an ignominious retreat. Harrisburg.—Nattie Jones, of Phila deiphia, convicted of the slaying of William Martin, must die [n the elec tric chalr unless the State Pardon Board intervenes with a commutation of the death sentence, under a ruling by the State Supreme Court. The state's highest tribunal aflirmed the of the Philadelphia court. has been set as'de Governor Pin.’ date for her elec If the Pardon Board intervene with a commutation she does Pennsylvania since the eighties West Chester.— Edwin Norris, 13. son of Benjamin Norris, of Westtown drowned In the Chester Creek near his home when went heyvond his depth In a deep pool He who was visiting him. and Norris reached the His compa 10 years old, quick!y was extinct York.—There York who are ed at a meeth go of the men he and went disapg deep porti stream. nion, ran for help wis recovered, are 1000 pes bad pay, It when 120 na black list Thi ant one hen he I wnt, on the population of the city, 5 Harrisburg. Appoint of Lock Hav Judge for Clinton ceeding the late Torrance SEY open county, Sherer, was Dar the world war Judge Dunn sers Hintan Coant y © 18 vice president of the State Tobacco Growers’ Asso eral cool periods, which slightly the growth of early vegetables to keep the ground In good condition, but not heavy enough to with plowing. Lewistown.—E. Thomas Beck was elected supervising principal of the Lewistown High Schooi to suceeed Walter Fisher, resigned, Harrishurg.—The highway depart. ment awarded a contract for 12.155 feet of road In Lower Paxton and West Hanover townships, county, to the Frey Construction Com- pany of York for $91,780. Bradford.—His French war plane coated with ice, his motor In a erip- pled condition and himself half frozen. Captain Nungessor, famed French aviator of the World War, was forced to land here after losing his bearings on a flight from Buffalo to Kingston, N. Y. Captain Nungessor, who shot down 105 enemy planes. made a land ing on a small unused landing field. Mount Carmel. — Jjcseph Kerdock, aged 5 years, who was badly burned by gasoline, died in the State Hospital at Fountain Springs. Harrisburg.—~Governor Pinchot plans a tour of the west beginning the lat- ter part of June, he announced. He sald that arrangements had not been completed fully, but that he expected among other things, to talk on giant power. He will address the Interna- tional Christian Endeavor convention in Portland, Ore, the first week In July. Shenandoah. Alex Slowta, 51, a contract miner, was killed by mine enrs while on his way home from work, York. Council sold , the. 1025 mo. nicipal Improvements \ bond issne of £250.000 at a premium of $7011.25 Huzleton—Dr, W. A, Lathrop, su. perintendent of the State Hospital, wis tendered a testimonial dinner by the local branch of the Luzerne Coun. ty Medieal Society. Lancaster.~Forty arrests have re. tilted from a campaign agninst 1. legn! putomoblle Inmps In Lancaster ronnty. West Chester Miss Mary of Broomall, was so bad!y In the automohile of W. 11 of Haverford, that her Iater, It is said the light the Thomas, Swain, she was blinded by of the home of to that took the her brother, of Mrs Seth woman to the Thomas, at Duaey Broomall, Following the accident Justice Haslam held Swain in $1000 bail on a manslaughter charge. Chester, old, ~Buorritt St of Sun Village, tevens, 12 years iz a victim of sev. He fell and broke one later fell azuin and broke other one. Then he rolled over in his sleep and broke of the splints on one of his arms, Port Allegheny. Stndent and teach er for 23 years without an absent aor tardy mark against her name. Miss Esther McLaughlin, graduate of the local high school, has broken her per fect attendance by an attack of measles, Starting school at the age of 6 years she was graduated from high school 12 years later without hav- ing missed a session or having been tardy. This record was duplies* during her attendance at the West Chester Normal School and continged uninterruptedly daring her teaching career until she was stricken with the mensles, Lancaster.—Leander Mott, 50 years old, is In jJall here awaiting trial for alleged theft of several hundred dol. lars’ worth of merchandise from lLein. bach & Co.'s department store, Norristown. Word has been recelv- ed by Major Fellman, warden of the local prison, that James McKeown, whoi fled from the local Institution on the night of July 8 last year by cut. ting a bole in the roof, has been enp- tured and is in jail at Huotehinson, Kan, A telegram from the Kansag officials informed the warden that McKeown had been arrested there as a burglar and is facing trial, The man was ne. companied by Moses Ralmerone, who still Is at large, Hazleton.—The entire staff of the Hazleton city schools has been re elected except four teachers who did not re-apply. Gettysburg The High Schoo! vale dictorian will be Miss Mildred Dene. dorff. of Cashtown, and Miss Cordelin Hartman, living near Gettyshure, will be salutatorian. Unlontown, Fire In the Ritz Flotel drove guests out into a snowstorm, The blaze was blamed In Incendinries, Harr'sburg.—At a meeting of Penn. sylvania Newspaper Publishers hero It was decided to open headquarters hare arm and one 1.—Reur Admiral F, C. Means (left), convicted how trafic in Baltimore ernor general of Australia. Billard “fixer. CURRENT EVENTS World Ataiting Word From the Amundsen-Ellsworth North Pole Flight. By EDWARD W. PICKARD HE success or fullure of the Amundsen-Ellsworth attempt to fly to the North pole may be made known to the world nt any moment, On the other hand, the fate of the daring ex- plorers may remain shrouded In the mists and snowstorms of the Arctic regions for several weeks or even for months, At this writifig one after the departure of the two pl itzbergen, no from Captal sign has been celved announced of New of Lincoln Ellswe naed ta o aneg 10 8 Hzaster, for It is successful in ¢ $4 condi} make landings wrecked the 3 ine] s fattening had Sa ip to civilization on foot and month sald it relief for one Polar experts to send out slready movements are on end, both in America and Amundsen and Ei started, appointed mittee on relief, of mentioned above, Norwegian government at a moment's notice, tn out a relief expedition, President Coolidge and all other American gov- ernment officials are Intensely Inter ested and will see th this country whatever ald is necessary and Suggestions that either the Los Angeles or the Shenandoah. dirigibles, be sent to the Arctic. do not meet with official approval Capt. Donald MacMillan, who is him self to lead an Arctic sald to officers National G graphic society: “If Amundsen Is to return to civilization In the flesh, he must make a quick get-away, The ice area is rapidly expanding circle and every day of delay adds to the hazards of the situation that con- fronts him.” food supplies wae ton soon but foot to that in Norway. they com expeditions lsworth, before an advisory which Mr. Prentice is the chulrman. wend expedition soon, of the pI LBERT B. FALL, former secre tary of the interior, and Harry F. Sinclalr and Edward L. Doheny, magnates, have been Indicted again by a grand Jury in Washington In con- nection with the Teapot Dome affalr. oil those recently quashed on the grofing was Illegally present in the jury room when they were voted. In general the former charges are repeated. but the Sinclair indictment charges new overt acts In addition to those set forth in the Indictment of last year. Chief among these Is the alleged passage of $230.500 In Liberty bonds from Sin. clair to Fall through the Continentgl Trading company, Ltd. a Canadian corporation, Out In Loa Angeles. Federal Judge P. J. McCormick rendered a decision in the Doheny lease case, ordering the Doheny Interests to surrender for can: celiation thelr lenses In the Elk Hills naval reserve No. 1 and thelr contracts for construction of oll-storage facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawall. The leases were declared vold both because of “fraud upon the United States” and because the transfer of leasing nuthor. ity to the Interior department was ir. regular. A financial settlement for oll taken out and for construction work done in Hawall was ordered. Avr this country, at least, Is he coming deeply Interested In the coming trial of John T. Scopes, ology instructor in a school of Dayton, Tenn. for violating the state law which for bide the teaching of the theory of evolution In public schools, It 1s a test case, deliberately arranged hy Mr. sured of the support of selentists and others who welcome the lssue between itherallem and fundamentalism, The fundamentalists will be commanded, the coast guard, by a May ballstorm, 4.-—Ma}j. presumably, Bryan, | toe nl by the perennial Willlam though prosecuting attorneys will willing to surrender chief place to him, The Indictment Mr. Scopes by the grund jury at Dayton was o | rezone conclusion, for there is item im that he did not vio ante the statute. The fight, of course centers on the constitutienality nw, The little Tennessee town is pre great Influx of that a huge temporary of to cla uy be which is to open July 10. Clarence Darrow, noted Chicago lnw- yer, and Dudley Field Malone, leading attorney for the American divorcee col in Purls, counsel to ald the defense of But Mr. Darrow is kpown skeptic and Mr. Maione has been some what tinged with political pink, and as the Ten make ur of ony to who will be both and oc lawyers nesseenns certain to of mind the jury are religious turn tive, { i Alabina wy Birt hearets that “the intelligent to deluded Jea that to protect It again other Force bill the right at tir should be given to a minority, or even senator, to throw 0 wrench into the legislative machinery No is too + § ie ane Answering critics of the reform paign, he sald that unlimited debate ‘had not checked multiplicity of laws but had resulted In their passage with out proper consideration.” He referred to the Force bill, beaten by a fllibus ter, as “a wrong measure” which repealed If passed onm- would have been of present rules, he decia effort intended "to affect telligent South and happy issues which have the North and South.” red, was an the great In- those un alike In 10 revive died minority, checks tion, "protected as it Is by and balances of the Constity- shall not exercise veto rights degires only to exercise stitutions] rights of legislation.” Senator Underwood, who Dawes on the his efforts that would limit debate in the senate. Opposition to the proposal, he sall its platform, the senators themselves, discussion,” and from “those persons in special legislation or, more particu. larly, In preventing legisiation to which they are opposed.” UBLICATION by newspapers of income tax lists is declared lawful by the Supreme Court of the United States. The court affirmed decisions of lower courts in the cases brought egainst the Kansas City Journal-Post and the Baltimore Post. The opinion, written by Justice Sutherland, held that the Information, as made avafl- able to public Inspection and the terms of the revenue act of 1024 "cannot be regarded otherwise than as public property. to be passed on to others as freely as the possessor of it may choose,” It was added that “the contrary view requires a very dry and literal reading of the statute, quite Inconsistent with its legislative history and the known and declared objects of its framers.” RESIDENT COOLIDGE did not approve of the plans of the War department to have a second national defense test on Armistice day, and suggested that July 4 would be a better date. His preference will be complied with, although the time remaining to prepare for the demonstrition Is ex- ceedingly short, simian FFICTAL reports from Tokyo give the number of dead In the recent earthquake In Japan as 278. Many thousands of others were rendered homeless and the property damage was enormous, The district most af the rum fleet. 2. —Gaston 8.—Picture showing fected was that around Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, on the west coast. Several villages were but there was little damage larger cities, The most tragic at Kir where hundreds of visitors were the hot baths, The pavilions collapsed and persons were destroyed, in the BOONES were nosakl, aking tnany to death r report eq victories over the Rifflans, Morocco. Abd-el-Krim hangs on a leach and is said to be preparing ra great offensive, and mean he French troops have drawn b behind a defensive and are constructing ions were firmed, that Franc negot his been ke ack wwerful fortlf slorkes, uncot pain » There e and were ready to ute a chief! The truth, s Bn a heated debs peace ain wt ir aris 11 ever, no be sustained A NOTHER » dishigter, 1 linn, Near miners plos deplorable his time in Nov Glen nat entombed by the in litt Coal Ileus? three shaft were ions thot wrecked have recovere a penetrited without fin that of then bodies had been rescue crews had 1.8001 any oot level YO, NDAMENTALISTS in the and Presbyterian the peneral Ohio, and F fitea crodied bly In great that swords in Columbus, assem. such there are predictions of a controversy in the church possible litigation. The York preshytery, which Is fighting to stay the church of in and of the denomination If New Yorkers should be forced led by Modera- tor Charles R. Erdman, pins its hopes for church unity on a special commis sion which was named to study ways of "assuring the peace, purity, unity and progress of the church” and to report to the next assembly president of the University of Chicago, was one of the most notable of death's victims during the week. ile had been {ll for a long time and suc cumbed after surgical operations Others who passed away were: Field Marshal French, earl of Ypres who commanded the “Old Contemptibles” Englands first arngy in the World war, and who won fame In previous cam. palgna; Col. C. A. Repington, noted British war correspondent and writer on military toples. and Louis Falk, long one of America’s foremost organ ists, RANK M, SURFACE, an economist of the United States grain admin. istration, has made a report, approved by Secretary Hoover, designed to dis prove the theory of American farmers that wheat would have gone to $3 or more in war time If the government had not fixed the price at $220. The report declares that world conditions probably would have forced the price of 1917 wheat down to $1.50 per bushel and that the action of the gov. ernment in establishing a minimum of 82.20 saved many millions of dollars for American farmers, Recretary of Agriculture Jardine vis ited Chicago last week to held secret conferences with board of trade of clals for the purpose of bringing about the “house cleaning” which he had demanded. THE MARKETS BALTIMORE ipot, domestic, fomestic, $1.92 Corn—"Track mestic delivery, is quot $1.30 per bu., spot, Ontg--No Wheat—No., 2 $1.92; No. 2 garlicky, red, yellow nominal, f 2 while white, 6c asked Rye 2 spot, $1.20 Hay—No. 2 timothy @19 No. 8 timothy light clo mixed, $17.504018; No. 1 clover mixed gor 50 mixed, §15¢ Straw-—No 1 gtralght rve $18@18; No. 1 wheat, $15@1 I gat, $15.50@ 16 Milifeed—Spring wheat bran ern, in 100.1b. racks, Western middling sacks, per ton, §3% Egge—Nearby, fresh gathered, one sale, 50 cases, 30c Butter—Creamery, 41@42; do, mood 60, prints, 44046: do. blocks, ladles, 30; Md Pa. rolls { West Virginia rolls, 27628; Ohio re 27T@28; Md. Va. and Pa. dairy i Z £4 128 No per ton, $18.50 $15.50@ 17; No : ver, NO, 2 clover West. $37 106-1p per on (brown), in firets, fancy, do, choice and Live Chickens 43% Ibe r. per lb, 27@2 dium, 33% to 4 Ibs G26; smaller or ib., 36 24 Poultry and ove 27 smooth 2: old roosters weighir mixed colors. 45@ 5( 1% Ibe, 40@ 43 do, leghorns, 13% lhe. and ov 1% to 1% ibs. 33@37 Ducks. Pekings per 20@ 22 18@20 a ens do, smaller old ib., uddle muscovy and i gm ng. ov Li ald | G 40 id, per pair old, as to sizz Fig? lam Carp er Harr small Hard Crabs Sn Crabs Snappers NEW YORK —Wh No. 1 dark Northern spring, ¢ New York. lake and rail, $1 hard winter, £. 0. b. lake eat—8pot 81%. Ne mixed $1.37%: No Butter 2 mixed amery, extras (82 421 Crutn ‘ irst (8K 10 91 1 gcor Eggs——Fresh gathered, extra firsts 33@ 33%: do, storage packed, 24G 3 fredh gathered NYGIZH% storage 2K GIT; gathered 30% 31% Cheese whole milk. 22@G 23¢c; do, average ru State, whole milk, flats, held - HB%@T; firsts, packed seconds ~Riate, fresh, firsts 21%; specials, average run, 25% G26 PHILADELPHIA. — red winter, §1.51@1.52 Corn—No. 2 yellow, $§1.31@01 32 Oats—No. 2 white, 58% @60%ec Buatter—Solid-packed. higher extras, HW G4T%e the latter small lots; extras, 92 score, 43%: 91 gcore, 43; 80 score, 42: 88 score. 41; £8 peore. 40: 57 score, 35: 86 score. 38 Egges—Extra firsts, 35¢c; firsts, 32%; seconds, 20@30 : Cheese—New York, whole flats, fresh, 22G22%c: held, 27 Whest -= No than for cream BEN LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE Cattle, steers, good to choice, $0.75@ 10.50; medium to good, $8500 9.25; common to medium, §7.25 G8; common, $666.75. Heifers. good to choice $8.25@875; fair to good $7.25@ 8; common to medium. $5 2567 Bulls, good to choice, $6256.75; falr to good, $5.25@ 6; common to medium $425@5. Cows, good to choice, $8§ 7; fair to good, $4.75@5.75; common to medium, $2.50 4. Sheep and Lambs—~8heep $1500 7.50; spring lambs, $13@G16; extras $16.50. Hogs Lights, $13.30; heavy, $13.10; medium, $13.20; pigs, $13; light pigs £212.25; roughs, $7500 11.50; Western hogs 16¢ higher than quotations, PITTSBURGH. « Hogs -— Heavies $12406012.60; heavy Yorkers, light Hghts and pigs, $1285¢13. Sheep and Lambe—Clipped sheep. $8.50; clipped lambs, $12 59: spring lambs, $16. Calves—Top, $11.
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