FIRE WARDENS
MUST OBEY LAW
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Cannot Employ Minors fo Fight
Flames in Forest.
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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,
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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.
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to
lected
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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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