FIRE WARDENS MUST OBEY LAW ss ———— » Cannot Employ Minors fo Fight Flames in Forest. ————————— STATE TREASURY ENRICHED Interesting News Items, Briefly Con. dengsed, From All Sections of the State. Harrisburg, Pa.—Emergencies caus ed by forest fires and state laws au- thorizing fire wardens to press into service people to give assistance In fighting fires do not raise wardens above the minor labor laws, says Deputy Attorney General J. W. Brown in an opinion to Secretary of Labor and Industry R. H. Lansburgh, whose department includes the workmen's compensation bureau. As t result par ents of Anthony Karish, a 14-year-old boy, required by a fire warden to fight forest fireg in the course of which he was burned to death, will not receive compensation. Claim has been made to the department of forests and wa. ters, which has charge of forestry work, In his opinion Mr. Brown says the law not relieve a fire warden from an observance of the law relat- ing to minors and their employment; nor does it allow him to compe! chil. dren to assist in a dangerous and haz- ardous work.” Mr. Brown says the compensation act does not apply In the case, lecause Karish “was a minor and not able make a contract of hiring, and because his employment was illegal.” The report of the labor and indus- try department's compensation bureau shows fifteen less fatal aceidents In July than in June when 109, the high- estpo int In months was reached. Temporary disability accidents ran higher last month than usual. Receipts from the 2-cent gasoline tax for the first half of the present year amounted to $4.657.750.44. ac- cording to figures made public by State Treasurer Samuel 8. lewis, For the fiscal year which expired June 30 the total was $0.877.,580.76, or an Increase of $1.9688,348.72. Of the amount col- during the first six months of 1025 $1,178.802.11 was distributed to the counties, $291842222 was paid into the general fund and $560.4735.11 to the motor fund, The state treasury was enriched to the extent of $16,708 during July from fines growing out of information be. ing made against motorists by the highway patrol. The number arrested during the month was 1764, of which number 33 were for operating while intoxicated. The largest number of arrests, 573, was made for reckless driving ; 820 for violation of the road rules, such as right of way, passing on curves, hill, ete. : 267 for operating with open cutouts; 193 for violation of the lighting provision, and the re mainder comprise various minor vio lations, cr» oS PENNSYLVANIA NUGGETS It wag decided by the York county commissioners to ask the voters of York county to give their permission at the November election to the bor rowing of $15,000,000 for the purpose of bullding a bridge over the Susgue- hanna river between Wrightsville and Columbia. This bridge is to be built Jointly by York and Lancaster coun- ties, Stanley Kozerski, aged 38, father of five children, ended his life with a rope at his home in Plains, In a last desperate effort to collect $8000 delinquent taxeg due from wo- men, Captain A. G. Kostenbader, tax collector of Plymouth borough, near Wilkes-Barre, has made an offer of £30 to any constable who will make the first arrest. So far all have de clined. The collector faces the loss of his position by his inability to col lect, Frank leonard, of West Hazleton, is In the Hazleton Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the right arm, inflicted by a bandit during a hold-up. Joseph Salon was held under $1000 bail hy ayor arvey, of Hazleton, to answer an Involuntary manslaughter charge. His auto ran down and killed James Kelly, who stepped into the street when the eleetric traffic signals had comanded Salon to proceed. Despondency and ill health claimed a second suicide within as many days at Spring Grove, near York, when Howard Nace, living near the Old Forge farm, took his life by hanging. Seven-year-old William Alton Mosh. er, son of Mr. and Mra, Alton 1. Mosh- er, of Fourift, along the Delaware, ubout 12 miles north of Easton, was kliled when he wag kicked by a horse, seorge Delong, miner, was instant. ly killed when he stepped from an aceommodation train at Excelsior near Shamokin and walked In front of a freight on an adjoining track. Resolutions were offered at the state convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernfans at Altoona, condemning the Ku Klux Klan and frvoring a ple biscite on the modification of the Vol stead aet to permit the manufacture and sale of wine and beer, Elory Corwin, winner of American Loglon grade school ward for cour age. leadership and success, was drowned In Forest Lake, near Mon- trose. He as 10 years old and the sun of Mr, and Mrs, Frank Corin, of Montrose, Heart fallure as given as the cause. “does to lected » + -—- or WIR 4 by 3 1—President Coolidge greeting arrival at Plymouth, Vt, for a week's visit. 2—View of Ad- international of fleld work, cordance with for a week treaty. 3-—Plebes of fourth NEWS REVIEW OF | CURRENT EVENTS Settlement of Belgian Debt | Shows Leniency on Part of the United States. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ROVIDED congress Is satisfled— | and there Is no reason to believe | it will not be—the funding of Bel. | glum’'s debt to the United States has | been arranged. The agreement gigned by the members of the two com missions last week at a dinner given | at the Belgian embassy by Ambassa dor Baron de Cartier de Marchienne It is In accord with the advice given | by President Coolidge when Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot conferred | with him, and the govern. | ment authorized its representatives to | accept it. Belgium is highly pleased wi arrangement, and should be first place, a distinction Is tween the obligations Incurred the war and the sums borrower the armistice for purposes of i work and reconstruction, The princi pal is all to be paid In a period of G2 | vears, but on the war f $171 780,000 Belgium Is not required to pay § was irussels the | debt © and the national! wenith of Belgium is £1377 per capita, The enn i drawn that Italy should portionately better PRESIDENT COOLIDGE spent near week at Plymouth, Vi, father } i rest he his began On Thurs he relu tantly started back to Swampscott hy motor, ly a visit his real tanning stopping overnight at Nort} Elmira Good Fridas received Sen Coolidge the Presiden: of New Whitner subernatorial nominee ator Edge Senator Jersey and the tepublican nutter of the Belglar debit agreement, the Presi at Ply e proposed re and Mr. Coo Mellon, Sena finance wouth It « iluction of fe nbout th feral taxes over with those who talked it idge vere Secretary tor Sime chairman of Reg resen necticu nd house wre payment March 15 nade subst ia ral Income taxes proposed vernment the expressed that S300.000. 000 could future. The interest rate on the post war debt Is to be 34 per cent after the first ten vears. During the first decade arbitrary amounts have fixed on the Interest payments, gradu ated on an easy scule, On the war debl Account the first payment of capital, which will be due | June 15, 1028, will be only $1,000.000, Increasing gradually until it £2.000,000 in 1932, the same amount to | be pald each succeeding year until} 1987. Then a final payment of $2,250, 000 will be made For the first year on the post debt the principal and interest ment will be $2.840.000, Increasing | somewhat each year to the eleventh year, when it will be £0.772000. The | annual payment each year thereafter | for B1 years, or until 1987, will be ap- | proximately this amount—a little un- der 10,000.000 a year. The Belgian debt has hitherto been regarded as totaling about $480.04) - 000, Including accrued Interest at a rate of 434 per cent. The settlement, however, fixes the actual amount at £417,780,000, as of June 15, 1025, The American commission refused | to accept Belgium's claim that the war debt should be shifted in any way to Germany, but explained the easy terms granted by saying that “while no legal obligation rests upon the | United States in thé matter, there does continue a weighty moral obligation as a result of assurances given which en- tirely differentiates this sum from all other debts due the United States | from foreign countries.” The allusion, | of course, is to President Wilson's as | surance that the German government | would be substituted for Belgium as the debtor for the prearmistice debts, reaches | war | pay RANCE paturally was {mmensely interested in the Belgian debt set tlement and regarded it ns a happy angury and as proof that America was ready to make generous concessions in the matter of the French obligations, Finance Minister Calllaux, declaring: “The future of European civilization depends on an immediate solution of the war debts” announced thut the French mission headed by Senstor Berenger would come to Washington in September and that he would follow it and hoped a funding agreement might be reached enrly In October, Meanwhile he went on Saturday to London for another conference with the English, expecting to bring about a rapid agreement regurding France's obligations to Great Britain. Tally, too, was cheered by the Bel. glan settlement, hoping for similar and perhaps better ‘terms when Ambassa- dor de Martino returns to Washing. ton and the parieys are resumed. The newspapers In Rome are presenting figures ‘to show that Italy Is receiving $80 per eapltn on her reparations ac. count and the national wealth Is only $586 ‘per capita. while Belgium re. celves ‘from Germany $324 per capita af S12.000 more from 40 per cent to 20 per « r to 15 per cent if cor They aiso favor normal tax less 1 per cent instgnd - - a, ditions war making the of $4000 or of 2; 3 per cent instead of 4 for inconies between and 5 &r SN 00x) on incomes ste of per cent on Mr. incomes over Mellon feels condition of the mit of a redox » per cent, that the financial government tion of the the gt he normal taxes proportic will per to of gurtaxes down ately, and cutting from 2 He favors the the 1 per cent federal gov ernment loning inheri taxes, but remarked that he could not attempt to say how far the general tax reduction program could go, Yoru ¥ nba ance out of SOVEre Millan weather prevailing, the Mana expedition has abandoned for gen by air. Instead the party will de its efforts to the exploring of Norge ruing In Greenland and Labra- dor and to a survey of Baffin island yole to Washington by radio, MacMillan gave high praise to to overcome insurmeuntable obstacles aviators traversed a vast stretch of ranges never before seen by man. RESUMABLY ‘with the aid and sup- port of the Turks and the Egptian pationaniities, the Senussl tribesinen In North Africa have risen against the Ttallem role In Tripoll and Cyrenalca. Led by Shelk Ahmed, they wayiaid and massacred a column of Italian troops south of’ Benghazi and occupied the main caravan route between Trip oll and Egypt. The Benussi, a great body of austerely religious Mohammé- dans, are good fighters and are well armed, Marghn] Petaln has heen sent to Mo- rocco #8 supreme commander of the French forces and is directing the vig- orous ‘offensive which is driving the troops of Abd-el-Krim back northward to the Atlas mountains, In the Oues. zan recon, where the French and Spanis’* armies are co-operating, wholegile submission of rebels Is an. nounced. Spain and France have called off all peace negotintions with the RIY chieftain as he failed to send any representative to Melilla, AX MASON, professor of mathe. matical physies in the University of Wisconsin, hag been elected presi dent of the University of Chieago to succeed the late Dr. Ernest De Witt Burton, The board of trustees has followed the recent example of other similar boarde In selecting a compara. tively young man, for Doctor Mason is Point marching across the Hudson He has with e ily forty-eight vears of age weepted the appolintunent for he 4 vision of us the cultural and intellectual enter of the world, Doctor Mason in Madison, Wis, and gradu- from the state university, after getting Ph. D from | the University of Gottingen, Germany. | He taught Insti | tute of Technology and in Yule before 1008 n- { thusiasm has Chi- vis born ted ard vard his degree at the Massachusetts to the University of mathemati Was eturning in Wisconsin as professor of the i CHS 1 on physics. During war he lied to tter of protection from submarines, | and he Invented the i which the undersea tected and located, issociates he y i i Washington to consider. the hydrophone by vessels were de. According to his has executive ability of order In addition to his aca- ning VICTOR F. publisher News and any years one of aught blished Dally Melville E built the News up In most pequired { of the valuable newspaper prop- He was one of Press inent in its man- erties In the { the ¢ 1 § { the founders of Associated ind always was prom NE of the most distressing the Atlantic years occurred In off Newport T a boiler Mackinac LOUIE disns ters on coast in re Narragansett when jesday night on the ex exploded men, wi ©n scalded to ursion steamer and more thas wo and children death i 5 Mar badly injured that | was probable the death list would b extended The boat from Newport to Pawtucket when the blast came It distress signals quickly brought many navy and other boats to but most of the damage al had been done. Federal and state Inquiries into the disaster were begun at once. Jt was sald the ex- | ploded boiler an old one de | teriorated by wear and thinned down in certain places. were steam Were so wag on its wn) was run aground vessels rescue, ready was ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS and i his expedition, after having made many valuable and interesting discov. { eries in Mongolia. have now been or- dered to leave that country by the government at Urga. The Mongolian officials allege that Mr. Chapman has violated the terms of his agreement with Mongolian seclentific orzanizs. tiong ; that besides carrying on his in- vestigations in paleontology, geology | and zoology, he has engaged in topo- graphical observation work and has employed a number of persons whom they con ider suspicious in g military sense. Mr. Andrews Is also accused | of carrying on political propazanda against the Bolsheviki HE fourteenth Zionist congress opened in Vienna last week and the anti-Semites of the city promptly started a series of riotous demonstra. tiong that kept the police busy for several days, Several members of the mobs were killed and scores were wounded, The rioters, who call them. selves Fascists, finally were persuaded by the government to let the Jews meet in peace. The sessions of the congress were not at all harmonious, the delegates being split up into po- litical groups, N STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, an. other world congress opened, the Universal Christian conference, the fundamental idea of which, according to its originators, is the formation of a united front among the Christian churches to face the great world prob lems that have arisen since the war. Questions of doctrine and faith are not being considered. The American delegates sought to have the confer. ence go on record In favor of total ab. stinence from alcoholic liquors, but the Europeans told them plainly that this would not be permitted. King Gustave and Queen Victoria gave a state Juncheon for the delegates and | cholge wines were served, but the Americans drank only water, COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. JALTIMORE.~Wheat—No, 2 winter, domestic, $1.62%; No, 2 winter, domestic (garlicky), $1.08%, Corn—Track yellow corn, mestic delivery, £1 per bushel carlots on spot, QOats--~No, 2 white, old, ble do, new, 483% sales; No. 3 0c asked; do, new, 47%c asked. Hay—No. 1 timothy, $21.50; timothy, $20@21; No. 3 timothy, $16@ 18; No. 1 light clover mixed, $19Q 19.50: No. 2 light clover mixed, $17@ 18; No. 1 clover mixed, $18@18.50. Straw—Per ton; No. 1 wheat, $11Q 12; No. 1 oat, $12¢@13. City Mills Feed Western, in 100-1b asked for nr said asked; “5 SACKS, per $34.560@ 35; in 100-1b per ton, Butter—Creamery, fi @43%c; do, choice, 42@ 4: 40941; do sacks, do, ladles, 35¢ and Pennzylvania rolls, 33@ Is, 33@34; West Virgin Bai, M blocks, Chick nd over, Poultry 4 to mixed, colored, 32; do 1% to 2 24@2i Ducks, { ngs, 4 lbs, and ove do NEW 1 dark Norther: lake and winter f No. 2 No, 1 York, hard do, durum, bond, mixed Manitoba, do, No. 2 yeliow, §$1.25% rail 50¢ higher than do, extras (92 (88 10 81 score), ex sg, 4G 44% , firsts packing stock, current make, exira 32933; Fresh-gathered rate arsis, Ezgs Su @ile: do, 30@31. nearby vy selected extras, 48@52; henpers average exiras, 35Q4% whole milk, fancy specials, 24% Q average run, 23%. Pouitry-—Broilers, by by express, 26@30; fowls, by 246227; by express, 22Q28; by freight, 15¢. Cheese—8tate, to 25%¢c: do, Live 2662%¢, ireight, roosiers PHILADELPHIA $1.54@ 1.58 Corn— No. 2 yellow, $1.24@1.25. Oats No. 2 white, 53@ 54c. Butter-—-Solid packed, higher extras, 45@48¢c; the lots: extras, 92 score, 44; 91 score, 43; $0 score, 42; 89 score, 41; 88 score, 40; 87 acore, 39%; $6 score, 39 Eggs 33¢; in second-hand cases, 32; seconds, 2RQ30 Cheese—New York, flats, fresh, 24% @ 25%. Live Poultry-Fowls, fancy, Plymouth Rocks, 28@ 2%¢; medium, 25 @27; mixed breeds, fancy, 26@27; Plymouth Rocks, broilers, 83 lbs, or over, 32@34; 2@2% Iba, 20@31. LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE. -— Cattle Steers, choice to prime, $10.75@11.50; good to choice, $9.60@10.50; medium to good, $809. Heifers, good to choice, §7.5008; fair to good, $6.50@7.25; common to medium, $4.75666 Bulls, good to choice, $550@6; fair to good, $4.50 @5.25. Cows, good to choice, $565.75; fair to good, $4@ 4.75. Calves—Calves, $4012.50. Hogs— Lights, $14.50; heavy, $13.40; medium, $14.60; pigs, $14.40; light pigs, $1250; roughs, $8.50@12.50; Westerns 6c to 10¢ higher. whole cream, CHICAGO, ~~ Cattle — Steers, top, $15.50, 1,242-1b. average; best year lings, $15.26; longfed, 1,4381b. bul locks, $15.25; bulk grain fed, $1050@ 13.60; bulk graseers, $7.25G8.25; veal ers, $12.50@13.50. Sheep and Lambs--Best range lambs, $16.15; others downward to $14.75 and below; bulk natives, $14.50@14.75; sheep, fat ewes upward to $8, i IN WASHINGTON Man on Rubberneck In front of you is the National Megaphone Capitol Sweet Young Thing gelic? Mr, Grouch—Angelic? -h, len't It an- Why, Sweet Young hasn't Thing—Well, it it 2- hins Times Florida Bobble—Glmme half your | Mine's all et up. Ethel—1 ngver saw voy. 1 don’t belleve 3 JY a stork, at all, An ostrich cookie guch 8 } were bre greedy rerbyy sR il wust Couldn’t Joke Adam Whatever troubles Adam had No man could make him Ey saying, when he told 2 “I've heard that one befo According to Plan Harold—\When 1 asked Dorothy if she would be mine, she fell on my child, but arms around my breast sobbed like a she put her and and alley finally peck and Ethel—Oh, yes, 1 know all tearsed it with her. it, about The Test put the coat on buttoned It Lt Vv hen or the firs: seam down the back !™ “XY os, ] YE Ot our bnttor that will sho g are sewed on™ His Wife—1 hb was led to the altar for the thir Mr. Pester—Led tc hear she was there first Mrs ear time the altar? ) Hostess—Golng Pstunge? Mr. Pstunge-—-No, I'm not going for 80 soon, Afr. Left With Thorn Talks about the roses Where the light is born, When the darkness closes, leaves us with the thorn Extra Urn Suggestive Kriss—-So you felt uncanny while Kross—You bet. She kept the ashes Kriss—Oh, that isn’t so terrible. Kross—Maybe not. But 1 didn't like Might Have Been Worse Dobbs—The man In the next apart. ment isn't such a bad chap, after ail Hobs~1s that so? Dobhs-—Yes. After he had awak- ened our baby last night with his saxo. phone he kept right on playing so 1 couldn't bear it erying. Why She Made Him Promise Mabel] let Jack kiss me on con dition that he wouldn't mention It. Marie—1 suppose you wanted to break the news yourself, eh, dear? Seasonal Traveling Man—Do you have hot and cold water In this room? Bellbop—Yep; bot In summer, cold in winter. i “Thirty dollars fine for colliding But how did It happen?” “Your honor, 1 was trying to kiss the girl with me” “Did you get the kiss? “No, sir.” “Make the fine $10." msm semanas Must Have It “1 suppose your wife wants the last word." “Yes, especially the last word in bats, gowns and hosiery.” RRA i ¥
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