Pennsylvania State News Forest fires in the mountains sur rounding Mifflin County if the dry weather continues are feared by war dens. The Bethlehem plant of the Beth- lehem Steel Corporation is running full capacity, with 12,000 men em- ployed. Incendiaries are blamed by the pol ice for fire which destroyed the home of Samuel Gremo of Berwick, with $2,000 loss. Former Councilman George J. Moses, of West Chester, pleaded guilty in Court to being in possession of a half pint of liquor and was fiued $150 and costs, Emily Brandt, 15, of Waynesboro spending the summer at Buena Vista Springs Hotel was injured about the head when she was thrown from a horse near High Rock. Postal inspectors and the local pol fce are trying to solve the theft of a mail bag which was found by boys playing on a lot at the corner of Frank- lin and Bolmar streets, West Chester. Albert White, who lives near Berlin, had his right leg cut and chest injured when the steering apparatus of his au- tomoblle became disabled and the car landed against a tree near Almones- son. In an effort to avoid striking a group of school children at Bethlehem, Jos- eph Dollinger ran his automobile into a tree and Edward Green, who was riding with him, severed an artery in his right arm. Burns received at Bethlehem when a still she was operating in her home exploded, resulted in the death of Mrs. Betha Galumbos. The woman had been severely burned about body and legs. Fire of unknown origin In Henry's auto accessory shop at Mt Carmel, caused $4,500 damages. The loss was covered by insurance. Water and smoke in Ray Miller's tailor shop caused $500 loas. At Pottstown County Court the John the Montgomery 3 has granted ‘hange in the polling place of the trit, borough, from Scheflfey store to office stable Jacob A. Keifreider. Mrs. Stewart, of Del ta, R. D,, is suffering severely as the result of burns she received when poured gasoline into the there was fire in kitchen was somewhat the fire. ’ The new two million dollar breaker in course of construction at Lansford by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Com- pany ls gradually nearing completion and will be the last word in coal breaker building. It will take care of three collieries, Fire destroyed a large frame barn, farm machinery and crops on the farm of Russell J. Martin, five miles east of Blain. The loss was estimated at $20,000, and is partly covered by insurance. Virtually all the live stock on the farm was saved. A blast of 13 tons of powder and dynamite, fired by a road contractor on Bear Creek boulevard, Whits Haven, hurled rocks, some weighing a t more, up in air, covering the tracks of the New Jersey Central Railroad, 175 feet higher up the moun- tain, and delayed trains for several hours. People's Sanitary Dalry has refused an offer of sale of its plant to the United Milk Products Company. Patriotic Order Sons of America da cide to float $4,900 bond issue to bully new lodge hall at West Fairview. Coatesville celebrated a “pet day” last week, all the youngsters of the town bringing their pet dogs, cats, rabbits and pigeons to the Central Playground. The Bethlehem Steel Company has purchased the Borzillo tract of 24 acres along the Chester Valley branch of the Reading Railway near Shain line's crossing. Fire Chief Roy Sanford, of Oil City, has again issued a warning concern- ing the bullding of bonfires in or near weeds, pointing out the dry condition of the grass snd underbrush. Under the direction of Mr. and Mrs Russel Rowland, rehearsals are prog: ressing for one of the episodes In Schuylkill Haven's 175th anniversary celebration—the staging of a symbolic pantomime in which 36 people will take part. Mrs. Sarah Gifford Yarnall, sald to be one of the oldest white women In the country, whose home was with Lor son, Howard E. Yarnall, of Philadel phia, died In her 107th year at the home of another son, David G. Yarnall, cf Wallingford. After an idleness of five weeks oper ations were resumed at the concen- trator plant at Lebanon of the Bethle- bem Steel Company. When a cloud burst on South Mountain caused the Eethlehem mines at Miners Village to be flooded on July 26, the concentra ter plant was forced to suspend. With the largest enrollment in thelr bistory, Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law will open ‘September 17. Altboughe Glen Onoko, one of the most beautiful gpots in the Lehigh Val ley, has practically been abandoned by the railroad companies, still many peo- ple are visiting the place to enjoy its heaut’es, The Switchback Raliroad seems to be Increasing In popularity right along, people artiv.ng at Mauch Chunk al mort dally by auto from practically every Sate in the Unlon, as well as trom Conadian points. this the Charles sha stove while The b y the stove. damaged the m or the 1. ~Lufuyette birthday exercises of the victims of the Shenandoah. dl west Polit asitiewi Wien J uvudeiny Russell, American in honor Wash- slooy silent vue minute did $500,000 damage. NEWS REVIEW OF | CURRENT EVENTS Honolulu Flight Aviators | Are Found Alive Near Island of Kauai. By EDWARD W, PICKARD \ HEN hope for their survival had almost abandoned, the five men who eomprised the crew of the Honolulu flight plane PN-8 No. 1 were found on Thursday afloat on their plane and all Capt. John Rodgers and his four com. been well for when were R-4 of outside sen ten days picked up by fifteen Kaual, of the plane they the submarine enst of the This considerably zone previ irched ; had drifted about 200 passing to the north of Oual miles island wns usly se: the miles Morocco and partly to keep the Ital. ians from aiding Great Britain In the Mosul dispute. Sheik Ahmed, Senussl chief, Is likely to be of uprising Mohammedans the {f Nations, honorary 1.4 neue o its chairman of world mier and war minister plea for dis. fifty-four nations pare a call for a us the European security pact other uzre represented to pre conference as soon regional ments are con aon some this was looked unother attempt of the {on Hsarmament but Mr league i '.1 3 . ‘ forestall President lidge's plan another conference Coolidge at chief | mference that his oncern was that such should be held § chance conference to material walt to see there was uns for the league on which Honolulu Is situxted tenant Oshorne, commanding marine found the k once notified the naval anthorities at Honolulu, and a later i the crew and plane were heing taken to Nawiliwili on Kaual island. The members of the plane's besides Captain Rodgers, Byron J Connell, Lieu the sub. that uvintors, at message ald crew, deut, pilot, fire: nesistant tion pllot, Jackson, Bowlin, aviation chief mate, Richmond. Ind.: Otis G chief radio man, Terre Haute, Ind Pa.: William BE a sound within =» ret Morocco S 9NERODY is doe to . thrashing In short time. according to patches It may he the current Riffiians forces are starting a squeeze movement Adjir, the capital it may be the sector, for great offensive whose ohiective is ! of Abdel. Krim, Or | Spaglards In the it Is reported that the Rif fiang have them almost surrounded at | Tetuan and that the capital of the Spanish protectorate Is In danger of capture. At the beginning of the week the Spanish, under the personal direction of Dictator Primo de Rivers, under. west | at Alhucemas bay near Adlir after thoroughly bombarding the Riffiian po- sitions on the hilizides. But they ap- parently overlooked a lot of machine gun nests, for soon as the legion naires started wading ashore from the barges a storm of bullets struck them. They fled back to thelr boats, leaving an some B00 dead and wounded Next day, however, Rivera successfolly | Innded his forces at another with the assistance of French and alr units naval | Sixteen thousand men were debarked and the heights domi- nating Adilr were occupled. Mean while the French were moving from the south and the prospect was that the Rifflans would be squeezed from their mountain strongholds From Alhucemas bay Rivera hurried to Tetuan, calling for all available extreme east He also urged the French to start an offensive in the Ouezzan sector to relleve the pres sure In the Tetuan region, where the Riffians had broken through the Span- fh line near Arzila and had cut the Ceuta-Tetuan road and rallway. The situation there was considered ex- tremely serious by the Spanish com- manders, 4 Colonel Sweeney and other Ameri ean aviators who make up what Is now known as the Sherifian escadrille are fully embarked on their rather In- glorious adventure. Already they have made many flights, dropping thon saands of tons of explosives on Riffian villages. Thelr exploits will not arouse general enthusiasm In this country. HE revolt of the Senussli against Italian rule in Tripoli Is gaining In intensity and Mussoiini has sent rein. forcements of 20000 troops and 500 airplanes, Rome admits that thé Ital. lan forces are being forced back to the const with rather heavy losses, As has been sald before, President Kemal of Turkey Is supporting the Renussl, partly because he fizures the revolt will embariss the French In Paul nan approved of AM. Painleve's suggestion but sald it did not take the initl dent crucial time had Loehe, president of the Gor. reichstag. warmly ym Presi the itive Ir Coolidge and he believed Senator Dandurand of Canada was elected pregident of the league for the ensuing vear Delegate Zahle of Denmark mefe a that If adopted might the of position In adhering to the iriefly,. he proposed the crea- special of attached to to which all states ad hering would be obliged to submit “all tion of a commitiee the exception” yet with its rich oll wells While Foreign Minister Tew. Rushdi of Turkey, now In Geneva, Is pacific In his talk, the ley war if Mosul is taken from them and given to the British under a mandate. Turkish authorities say: “Even Brit. Ish statistics show that the Arabs are trying to declare as Arab England states there are 785000 Inhaljtants in Mosul, with only 185.000 Arabs, hu 570000 Turks. Right Is on our side. and also the power to fight a separa- tion of part of the country which Is wholly Turkish. We are now trusting to the fairness of the League of Na- tions” WO pleces of Interesting avia- tion news come from Europe. One is that Capt. Roald to fly over the north from Spitzbergen to Alaska dirigible next year and has obtalned an airship from the [Italian govern. The other tells of the consoll- dation of sixteen of the European air plane lines under German leadership. ONTINUED drought and extreme heat during Augugt have reduced the indicated yield of corn by 65,000. 000 bushels. according to the govern. ment’s latest estimates. The official guess now Is that the crop will he 2.885.000,000 bushels, As an offset to this there is a gain of 21,000,000 bush- els In the Indicated spring wheat crop, of 75,000,000 in oats, and of 8.000.000 in barley. Winter wheat and rye re. main unchanged. South Dakota showed the greatest reduction in corn crop estimate—42.000000 bushels. Minnesota and [Iilinols each lost 9. 000000. Ohlo, Kansas and Nebraska each showed big gains over the August estimate, HILE Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne and three other vie- tims of the Shenandoah disaster were being lald at rest in the national ceme- tery at Arlington, Colonel Mitchell continued his attacks on the army and navy alr services, Inviting court-mar tial or other discipline, and General Hines, chief of staff, started proceed ings that presumably would give Mitchell his desire. Ma). Gen. Ell Hel. mick, Inspector general, was Instruct. ed to make an investigation and he gan by sending Colonel Nugent to Texas to ask Colenel Mitchell If he had been correctly quoted. a neces sary step preliminary to possible trial by an army court Secretary of The Wilbur has made no represen tations to the War department on be. half of the navy. He did. however, reply to one charge made by Mitchell secretary sald the Shenandoah had not been sent on her western trip ingan effort to make up for fallure of the polar flight and the Hawalian flight. A western voyage had been months he sald, before the Hawallan flight was arranged and Navy ago, was agreed Other upon. of the Mitchell charges were denied army officials, but the rampant relterated them, and added “If the War department doesn't like the statements I make, let officials take any disciplinary action they want” colonel N THE best of health iy rested, hroua and thorough President Coolidge his vacation to a close last id returned to the White House ashington heen hours again Into the husiness of runn country, taking up, among the distribution of anthracite co which in his absence Within entirely rend of his ‘antes. holding a eabinet meeting and other matters al dur ates and of an ambagsador to Japan. It rumored that Und®rsecretary of State Joseph C. Grew would be offered the The day he left Swamp the President received a visit Nicholas Longworth, speaker of next house, who told Mr. Coolidge it would be easily possible to pass the tax reduction bill in the house before He sald it might be pos Was son tt from the alty primary campaign fight beg ween Tammany and the Hy. fo a contest and Publisher Hearst as to which other and the other's candidate. Last Democratic nomination, were few If any takers. It is taken for granted that Hylan, If defeated, will run as an Independent candidate, and hase thelr man. and there their expectations of nominee, probably Mr. Water HAIRMAN AITCHISON of the In. terstate heen holding hearings in quéstion of rates on the increasing freight western rallroads. Fred W. Sargent. president of the Chicago and Northwestern. said the unfor tunate conditions under which the western rallroads are laboring have a direct and depressing relation to the prosperity of the communities served rect this situation, general prosperity. Mark W. Potter. one of the recely. ers of the Chiengo, Milwaukee and St Paul, proposed there be a § per cent increase and that Its benefits be pooled among the western roads. Charles Donnelly. president of the Northern Pacific, opposed this as “so. clalistie, Impossible, unworkable afd In effect a long step toward govern. ment ownership. However, It was sald Charles Evans Highes would sup. port the Potter plan In final argu. ments before the full commission In Washington. producing greafer NCE lost one of her most emi rent statesmen in the death of Rene Vivianl, former premier. He was at the head of the government when the war broke out In 1914, and a year later became minister of justice. In 10% he accompanied General Joffre to the United States, and In 1021 he came with M. Briand to the Washington conference, In which gathering he was an Important figure. He was a mod erate Socialist and an anti-clerical, and had much to do with the sep aration of the church and the state a quarter of a cefitury ago. M. Viviagl was premier three times and a min ister five times. His ability and his patriotism were of the h order. COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. - Wheat — No. 2 red garlicky, domestic, BALTIMORE - spot, $1.58; do, $1.40. Corn—Domestic yellow corn is quot able at $1.1091.11 per bushel for No. + in car lots on spot, Oats—No, 2 white, 46c asked; No. § white, 45 asked. Hay-—No. 1 timothy, per ton, $21.50 @22: No. 2 timothy, per ton, $20.504Q 21; No. 2 timothy, per $16@ 13; No. 1 Hght clover mixed, per ton, $19 @20; No. 2 light clover mixed, per ton, $17@ 18; No. 1 clover mixed, per ton, R1850@18. Straw-—No, 1 wheat, per ton, $11Q 12; No. 1 oat, per ton, $12@13 Millfeed—Spring wheat bran, West. ern, per ton, in 100-pound sacks, $34; Western middlings (brown) in 100 pound sacks, $37. Eggs—Western, bids. Butter ao, do, ton, firsts, offered 34c; no Creamery, fancy, 46G 46%c¢; cholce, 44@ 45; do, good, 42@ 434; prints, 46@48; do, blocks, 45G 47; ladles, 36@ 38; Maryland and Pennsyl- vania rolls, 34@36; Virginia 344 35; Mary- land, Virginia and Pennsylvania dairy prints, 34G 36 Live Poultry 415 medium, 3% to 4 lbs, i 25@ 27: or rough and poorer, Leghorns, per 1b, 20Q 16@ 17; spring Ibs, and over, : to 2345 ibs, 28 4 to 2 be, 25@12H,; 2RG28, 23Q Western rolls, Ohio rolls Old hens, x OQ fo ib, 23@ Chickens per smooth, ibs, and over, er 1b. emaller per ib. 20422; 22; old roosters, per lb. chickens, weigning 2° mixed colors, 2. 3 - G31; do, gpringers, Leghorns, 2 ihe. and over, do, 1% to 2 lbs, 25@27; 24; minorcas, as to size, 22Q 27 ng Pekins, 4 1hs per 1b 24@ 25; per pair, 25630. Guinea Fowl gmaller and over, uid puddle, per 1b, young, each Bi per Ib, simon Trout, large, medium, GR 8G 10 black, Ib, 18@ 20¢; Pike, native, Spanish, per 1b, Clams—<Per 104 y medium, & ard Crabe—Prime males $5@ 5.50; do, mixed, $3G 4 } inches or over, per dozen, per ib, 1 per . per ib large, to medium, ib., 35¢ 6@ 8 small per 12@15 Mackerel, large, $1.10@1 0 S0e, per bar Per 1b, 7@ 8c. DORK Wheat - 1 dark Northern Spot weak; lake mixed Manitoba, and aurum, No, 1 do., in bond, '{ 1% Corn—Spot firm; No. 2 yello , $1.13 % Oats—Spot steady; + mixed, No. 16,786 tubs. 46% @ do, receipts, than exiras, 46¢c; n higher extras (92 8S to 81 score), 43@ 450; stock, current make, acore No. 2, 35@ ~Fresh gathered extra firsts i ig c; do, storage, 34G 35 gathered, firsts, 32% G24; do, 32633: do, gathered, a storage, 29@ 31; closely fresh S01 32; do, nearby ed, ex 2 hennery whites, seed tras, 80@ €2 Cheese flats, fresh, 23, G24 %e; to fancy average run, 22%. PHILADELPHIA red winter, $1.49% @1.51%; licky, $1.42 @1.44%. Corn--No. 2 yellow, $1.15@G1.186. Oats—No 2 white, 48% G50, Butter--8olid packed, higher than extras, 47% @5014¢, the latter for small lots; extras, 92 score, 46% ¢; 91 score, 45; 80 score, 44; 89 score, 43; 88 score, 42; 87 score, 41%; 86 score, 41. Eggs—Extra firsts, 37¢; firsts, in new cases, 34; do, in second-hand cases, 82; seconds, 286 30. Cheese — New York whole cream, flats, fresh, 25@25%e¢. Live Poultry--Fowis, fancy, fat, Ply. mouth Rocks, 31@32¢; medium, 270 28; mixed breeds, fancy, 2829; me dium, 26@27; common fowls, 24625; Leghorns, 21G26; spring chickens, 20 @ 25. LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE—Cattle—Stegrs, choice to prime, $10.75@11.50; good to choles, $10@10.50; medium to good, $8500 #.25; common to medium, $6508 7.26; common, $5@G6. Heifers, good ro choice, $7.50G8; fair to good, $6.50@ 7.25; common to medium, $4.7506. Bulls, good to cholee, §5.5006; fair to good, $4.5045.25. Cows, good to choice, $5.26@ 6.25; fair to good, $4.20G6, Calves—Calves, $a fancy do, do, gar GETTING SERIOUS “look here” commanded the traffie cop, “if you're the driver of the car that knocked down this old lady, you're ander arrest.” “Wot's the matter?’ asked the hard- ened motorist, in surprise. “Ain't it all right?” “+h, sure; but you prked too long after the accldent.”-—American Legion Weelly. J city man called upon another and, a glance around establish- inquired : “low's your new office boy getting alo: 7” : af! me the ine I" “He's can't was the thirzs so mixed up aloug without him” : reply. that 1 ort go get THE LARGEST EXPENSE Business penses cut off the I: Jim—8am get a divorce? Partner——Jim, are rgest are mense, ¥ of them. you aft ! or agvising Cowcatcher as a Churn The cow stood on track A-looking at the Down ‘he track Oh, see the railroad sky the limited; butterfly Came the pretty In Spirit Only Co—Don’t you think Connie looks Edna-—Well, I'll admit there is not Pauw Yellow AN EARNEST STUDENT “Yes, sir, the more | study about “You must be an earnest student S— Too Much to Expect An epitaph must not include A trace of criticism rude 80 who shall lead a life by half Deserving of hi. epitaph? More Retractions Mary--1 took your advice, mum, anc wrote to tell him 1 didn’t mean wha I snid In my last letter. Mistress—\What did you say in your lust letter? _ Mary—That 1 didn't mean what J Mistress—So you are leaving me to go and work ut an asylum, Jane. De strain? Maid—Well, madam, I've been here for two years —— Thus Shutting Him Up First Deaf Mute—What's the mat ter with Dumboyg's hand? The Other One-—An accident he had at the club last night. Broke two fin. gers telling dialect stories His Pride Mrs. Brewer—Mrs. O'Sly says she has never caught her husband in a lie Mr. Brewer—Yes, and O'Sly goes around blowing about It. Wasn't It Sad! “Would you belleve It, we married two days when
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