Pennsylvania
State News
Edward Moore, 17, of Wilkesbarre,
was killed and five companions in
Jured in an automobile accident on
the Wilkesbarre mountain,
Several hundred people attended
the entertainment given recently at
the Good Hope School by the pupils
f the several county schools in the
outlying districts.
If the Reading Company is per-
mitted to use motor busses to sup-
plement its steam road service it will
be the fifty-second railway employing
gasoline driven vehicles as transpor-
tation auxiliaries.
The ordinance providing for In-
creasing the salary of Mayor of Har-
risburg from $3,500 to $5,260 a year
and that of each city commissioner
from $3,000 to $4,600 a year passed
first reading at a special session of
City Council,
Stricken suddenly with a heart at
tack, John Henry Cronkhite, aged 76,
of Wilkinsburg, died in the Second
Presbyterian Church, Wilkinsburg
He fell over while sitting in the con-
gregation just before the commence-
ment of the services.
St. Philomena's Roman Catholic
Church of Pittsburgh, will be closed
and the church, where dally services
have been held for the last 80 years,
will be torn down to make room for
the development program of the
Pennsylvanian Railroad.
John E. Patterson, 76 years old, the
oldest practicing member of the
Dauphin County Bar, is dead. He
was prominently identified with the
Democratic party in Harrisburg and
Dauphin County in the eighties and
nineties of the past century.
Mrs. H A Black of Mercer, has
been named representative of the
Mercer Presbytery to the Woman's
General Missionary Convention to be
held at Washington, la., next June
Mrs. Black has been very active in
missionary circles for several years.
Cornelia Price, pupil of the Con
cord School in Corry, has been
awarded third prize by the National
Eoard of Highways for an essay sub
mitted in the national contest, Her
subject was “Conduct on Streets and
Highways.” She has received a
bronze medal and a check for $5.
the ele
the bor
City was
reduction in
water rates of
Grove
A subst
tric light and
ough-owned plants of
approved by Council.
First
thousand;
gallons 35
0.000
rates ar;
cents per
gallons,
gallons,
ions, 19
ix men,
gang of frei
been stealing
from the freight
more and Ohio
two years, are
North Side Police
burgh
gation into
ued at more
Melville
lionaire cotton
queathed $150,000
lege in his will
ceive . $50.000
amount will be
students and
for the ministry.
40,000
to 80,000
to
over 120,000 gal
25 cents;
21 cents;
cents,
80.000
all
members
alleged
ight who have
goods systematically
stations of the Balti
Railroad for the last
»ing held in the
tation, while Pitts
mine: an investi.
the disposal of loot val
than $25,000.
Gambrill, Wilmington
manufacturer, be
to Dickinson Col
The college will re
immediately. This
used to help needy
educate
One hundred thou
thiov
taleves
detectives
to
death of the
heir to the
college upon the
who is principal
estate,
Dorie Bosler, seventy, was trampled
to death by a bull in a field on the
Olmstead farm near Milford. Frank
Peroz went to his ald, but Bosler was
dead.
Acceptances of John J. Green, Phil
adelphia attorney, and Nelson T.
Wheeler, Jr., of Endeavor to serse on
the commission to recommend revi
sions in the election laws were an-
nounced by Governor Pinchot.
Henry (i. Brock, Philadelphia bank-
er and member of a socially promi.
nent family, who Is serving six to ten
years in the Eastern penitentiary for
second degree murder, has applied to
the state pardon board for a pardon.
Mrs, Samuel Semple of Titusville,
former member of the State Industrial
Board; Mrs. Frank Miles Day of Mt.
Alry and Mrs. Maxwell Chapman of
Scranton will. serve on the governor's
commission to recommend revision of
election laws,
The “little red schoolhouse” had its
staunch defenders at a meeting of the
Board of Education committee on ele-
mentary schools in Philadelphia when
residents from the Thirty-fifth ward
voiced thelr strong opposition to the
proposed closing of Holme school, in
upper Holmesburg, where indtruction
fs given to 22 pupils, a number of
grades being taught by one teacher.
The bullding goes back to 1790 and is
famous for having been the school
house of Commodore Decatur.
Lower Frederick township, Perklo-
men township «nd Schwenksville
voted upon the consolidation of thelr
schools, and the project went through
by a majority of 168 votea,
Dr. Francis B, Haas, state superin.
tendent of public Instruction, was the
principal speaker when Whitehall
township's new high school bullding
in Hokendauqua was dedicated.
Vandals defuced the new Vietoria
Plush Mills memorial bridge over.
Crum creek at Swarthmore, The
bridge was recently ervcted as a me.
morial to Delaware county's soldier
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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Features of Tax Reduction
Bill as Completed by the
House Committee.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
HE house ways and means commit.
tee last week completed its draft of
the tax reduction measure which will
be put forward by the administration
In the next session of congress. and
as it will have the support of the con.
servative Democrats its passage Is vir-
tually assured. Aggregate reductions
of Income and other taxes are esti
mated at $308872,700. There will be
no decrease In surtaxes on Incomes
between 210,000 and $45.000 because
it was found such decrease would re
sult in too great loss of revenue: but
Incomes get benefit of
creased exemptions decrenses
the normal rates.
vice of the treasury
those the
and
Accepting the
experts, the
previous
ad-
com
rescinded its
ption for each
below eighteen years of age
include those up to twenty
still in i, Admi
difficulties made this extension
years when se hon
the su
In
the measure nd
starts
incomes In excess
not in excess of 14.000. as
in the present law. One per cent is
ns in the present for each
- LK} up to $4 (xx) A
»
fopted
per cent upon
of 10.000
at one
provided
law,
fen
at present,
of ex.
excess of
net ine
and not in
per cent
amount ‘ome in
Eleven applies be
12 per cent
and $38.000, and
cent between $42,000 and 844.000,
is no
Under the new schedule there
per cent between
$680,000 and S£70.0¢%), IR per cent be
in-
40
on that portion of net
excess of 3100006). The
per cent maximum of the present law
above $500,000, while the 20
the present law is
cent
per cent rate of
reached at $5G.000,
With every disposition to be liberal,
still found It wise to
reject a8 number of proposals that
would be likely to cut down too far
the government's revenue. Among
these was an amendment under which
small corporations and partnerships
as corporations or partnerships,
electing whether to be taxed at a flat
123% per cent or to be subject to sur
taxes. Another was the elimination
of the present 12% per cent limitation
on taxes and deductions for capital
gaing and losses. A 10 per cent tax
on pistols and revolvers was retained,
The estimated loss of $308872.100
in revenue is distributed as follows:
Income taxes.........$1030574.540
Gift tax. . 1,000,000
Cigars and tobacco... 12,000,000
Alcohol .... 4,000,000
Excise taxes......... 854367.103
Occupational taxes... 11,431,000
Stamp taxes..... 2,000,000
In considering proposals for the re.
organization of the board of tax ap-
peals the committee tentatively ap-
proved a permanent board of 16 mem.
bers with either long terms or life
tenures, subject to removal for malfea-
sanee in office; an increase In salary
from $7,000 to £0,000, a prohibition
against practice before the board at
any time by members who are removed
and a ban against practice within
four years by members resigning.
ines
Str s ana nnn
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Fenn
OL. WILLIAM MITCHELL started
out to mnke good on his promise
to sustain his many charges against
the alr service, and his witnesses, one
after another, confirmed his accusa-
tions of maladministration by the
army and navy officials. The law offi
cer of the trial board, Col. Blanton
bid gave him a free rein. Ma
Carl Spatz, chief of the tactical unit
of the training division of the alr ser-
vice, gave various Instances of nlleg
mismanagement by the War depart
ment and declared he believed the de
velopment of aviation being re
tarded by the department's attitude.
Asked his opinion of the knowledge
of the general staff in aviation, he re- |
plied:
“It Is the knowledge of men who
have not been trained In aviation.
With the exception of Maj. M. F. Har.
mon and Maj. G. C. Brandt, no officers
of the general! staff have had the alr
service training that comes of having
been In command of tactical units.”
Capt. Robert Oldys, who has super-
vision of defense projects in the over.
Seas possessions, sald his recommen
dations In many Instances had not
been followed and he was not given
sufficient equipment or personnel to |
carry out the plans that were ap-
proved,
To support Mitchell's accusation that |
high ranking officers had made false i
and misleading statements to boards
of investi General Fries, head
warfare service, was
mony was contre
ed
was
gation,
called. His
tory to the statement mq
test
that It
of
assistant chief of staff,
pounds
tard gas to render the District of Co
lumbia unoccuplabde and that 2000
pianes would be needed to carry the
d the
4
NER each
would take 3.430.000 mus
General Fries sal
00 pla
gus. fob could
with carrying
fn 1.000-pound
Thursday
the air
atis,
gas bo
five officers
service
delays nd
attributed to
rtment,
of de
they
of
the
of
mendations
which
omings
trai
short, |
the depa neg
; 4 in ’
ected ing and
TO
and on following days the !
nony
up by
Mrs. Lansdowne's charges that
along this line was piled
the de fense,
naval
to dictate her testi
inquiry
nandoah
¥it eel
officials atten pled
before the naval court
by her at the Mitchell
thoroug
Were
trial,
repeated
and are to be hiy investi
the department. Mrs
Lansdowne asserts that Capt. Paul Fo
navel court,
Navy
judge advocate of the
and questioned her,
at later she was given a letter
purporting to come from Foley, con |
taining a sinfement for her to use in
testifying before the court
J orcED to a showdown by
mands of the council of
her home
the de.
ambassa- |
German government has yielded
pected that the evacuation of the Co-
Little or nothing of Germany's mili
tary glory will remain.
main changes to be made by Berlin: |
General von Seeckt, commander of
the reichswehr, is to be replaced by a |
to him. The general staff will |
be liquidated. The security police will
be recruited on a basis of life-long ser-
vice and all military titles in It will
be abolished. The big guns yet re
maining In the fortress of Koenigsberg
will be destroyed. The German gov-
ernment undertakes to prevent mill
tary training of the German youth,
These concessions by the govern.
ment, it is predicted, will make impos.
gible the ratification of the Locarno
pacts before December 1. Consequent-
iy It is likely the treaties will be
signed by Chancellor Luther and For
elgn Minister Stresemann under spe
cial authorization of President von
Hindenburg, based on an article of
the constitution,
ING TUTANKHAMEN, who had
Iain undisturbed in his tomb at
Luxor, Egypt, since 18348 B. C., was
lifted from his coffin Thursday by
Howard Carter and propped up
against a wall. There the scientists
of the expedition submitted the
mummy to an X-ray examination, and
they hope to determine thus whether
the pharaoh died of tuberculosis, as
some Egyptologists think, or was mur.
dered, as Mr. Carter suspects. Tut's
internal organs, which were found In
jars, will be analysed for possible.
traces of polson. Mr. Carter has a
theory that the king was slain by Gen-
eral Horemheb, who usurped the
throne: The mummy was Incased In
three golden Inner coffins which are
sald to be wonderfully decorated. Cars
ter's operations are AuTIvuded with
extraordinary secrecy.
T EWS from China was exciting last
- week--1f you can get excited over
news from China.
the forces in opposition to Marshal
Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian, bad
gathering strength, and
they drove him and his troops north-
treat.
full control at Peking,
ernment officials were virtual
oners, and on Thursday word came via
Hawall Indicating that martial law
had been proclaimed and that Presi.
dent Tuan Chi-ful had resigned. Mem.
bers of the cabinet and other officials
supported Chang already
Gen,
Gen,
Chuan-Fang. governor of Chek.
ewbarked at Shanghal and Halchow.
ever from the rumpus caused by
recent plot to assassinate him,
pian, according to official investi.
gators, first to kill the
and then to overthrow the
revolt. The chief
presumably, are under ar
rest and will be but the die.
tator restrained his Fascist
hosts from exacting promiscuous ven.
are
the
was premier
armed
Spirators,
punished,
wWisedy
Socialist
organizations
13 uppressed
Another ruler,
Rumania, escaped assa
Communi
EFUNDING of Italy's debt to the
United was concluded on
generous the debtor. It is
to give the details of
In the words of the Amer.
debt commission: “U ar
the total ann payments
States
terms to
Unnecessary the
ican nder this
nutnent ual
000 in the last year, For
of S$1.0480000%) the
of the agreement (62 years) a total of
E2407 O00 (00
ECRETARY OF COMMERCE
fourth national radio
announces that vo ad
licenses for operation of
broadcasting stations will be
favored limiting the number
ing on a basis of service to listeners.
Most important of the
of the conference was
of a legislative program
which will be presented to congress.
actions
The administration of radio shall be
vested in the secretary of commerce.
Free speech shall be upheld
While broadcasting stations shall
not be regarded as public utilities, per
to the public.
The President shail have power to
No monopoly In radio communica-
tion shall be permitted
Appeal from decisions of the secre
tary of commerce may be made to ap-
propriaté courts,
The secretary shall have power to
classify all stations, fix and assign
call letters, wave length, power, loca.
tion, time of operation, character of
emission and duration of license,
Permits for the construction of
broadcasting stations must be secured
before construction.
Stations must respect distress sig
nals,
The secretary shall have power of
revocation of licenses for fallure to
comply with the law, regulations of
the department or terms of the li
cense,
Existing stations will be given a
reasonable length of time to comply
with the terms of the new legislation
when enacted.
Rebroadeasting shall be. prohibited
without the consent of the originating
station,
Licenses will be granted for a period
of five years, renewable for like pe
rods,
Call letters represent a property
right during the life of a license and
the secretary shall not change wave
length power, time of operation, nor
character of emission without the con.
sent of the licensee, unless public ne
cessity demands such changes.
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade an
Market Reports.
BALTIMORE. — Wheat — No. 2 red
spot, domestic, $1.61; No. 2 garlicky,
domestic, $1.6034
Corn—No. 2 yellow corn, old, for do-
mestic delivery, Is quotable nominally
at $1.02 to $1.03 per bu. for car lots
on spot.
Cob Corn—New cob is quotable at
3.65 to $3.70 per barrel for carloads
prime nearby yellow on spot,
Oats—No, 2 white, 48@ 48%;
white, 47@17%.
Hay--No. 2 timothy,
@256; No. 3 timothy, 322623: No.,
light clover mixed, $23.53@24; No
light clover mixed, $21G22; Ni
clover mixed, $23@ 23 54,
Straw-—No. 1 wheat,
12; No. 1 oat, §12@12.50
Mill Feed In* 100-ib
ton, spring wheat bran,
Western middlings (brown),
Eggs Street sales, sm
fresh-gathered firsts, 56@ 68c:
b8@60; West Virginia firsts, 54@Q 55;
Southern firsts, 52@%54
Live Poultry—Old hens,
No.
per ton, $24.50
per ton, $114
sacks) per
Western, $34;
$26
all lots,
candled,
unds
4% pe
and over, 24@ 2c; 3% G4 is, 22
@23, leghorns other
15@16;
poun
¥
light f
size, fat,
and wl,
young chickens, large
| 23@24; few higher, small and medi
elze, fat, 23@24; leghorns and
light stock, 18@22. Ducks, white pek-
young, 24@25¢c; Young,
a4; puddie, 23@ 24; geese, nearby,
Kent Island, 26@ 28; Western
22Q23 Turkeys,
| young, 9 pounds and over, 30@32¢:
{old toms, 26028; old hens
Guineas, young, large, 80 @85¢;
! small, 50655; old, 85
| and old,
other
muscovy
-y
Southern,
26@Q 2%
young,
Pigeons,
per pair, 256@ 20c¢.
Butter—Creamery, fancy
do, cholee, 48650
| 485@ 49; do, prints,
do, ladles,
{ and Pennsylvania
rolls, 41642; West
. store packed,
Pen
4 prox ens
»sh Fish,
per
fer
Young
per ib. 51
do, good,
53@ 564; do. blocks,
43044; Maryland
41G 43; Ohio
Virginia rolls, 41@
40; Maryland, Vir
nsylvania dalry prints
butter, 47
"1. py re
Clams Ac
| €@62¢c;
52@53
rolls
and
Bass,
glers, raw
primes, §32.50@G
YORK
1 dark Northe
lake
NEW
£1.70%. No
{ and rail,
No. 2 mixed durum, do
No. 1 Manitoba
alli nominal
8 pot
New York
iter lake
do, in bond
quiet; No
f. track, New York. al
No. 2 mi $1015
Osts—8Spot quiet;
45 hq
Butter—Creamery, higher than
{ tras, BO@50%c; do, extras {82 score)
| 495, @ 49%; do, firsts (88 to 91 score),
45@45%; packing stock, current
{ make, No. 2, 4lc
Egge-~Fresh gathered, extra firsts
| 61@84c; do, storage, 37% G39: fresh
| gathered, firsts, 55@60: do. storage,
| 36% @37: fresh gathered seconds and
{ poorer, 38@53; do, storage, 32% @G
{ 35%. nearby hennery whites, closely
selected extras, S5@ 88
Cheese—8tate, whole milk flats,
fresh, fancy, 26% @26c; do, average
run, 24%; State, whole milk flats, held,
fancy, 27@28; do, average run, 26% @
26%.
ixed. do
PHILADELPHIA. — Wheat — No. 2
red winter, $1.51@1.56; do, garlicky,
$1.49@ 1.56.
Corn-No, 2 yellow, 98c@ $1.02.
Oats—No. 2 white, 43% @ 49.
Butter-—Solid packed, aigher than
extras, 52@656¢c, the ‘atter for small
lots; extras, 92 score, 51; 81 score,
49; 90 score, 48; 89 score, 46; 88 score,
45; 87 score, 43%; 86 score, 43.
Eggs—Fresh, extra firsts, 63: first
in new cases, 57¢: in second-hand
cases, 56; seconds, 35@ 38.
Cheese—Fresh, New York whole
cream, flats, 26% @26; longhorns, 250
26%; single daisies, fresh, 26@ 25%.
LIVE STOCK
NEW YORK.—Cattle—Steers, $60
10.50; State bulls, $3@5.50; cows, $1.25
a5.
Calves—Veals, common to prime, $8
@16; culls and little calves, $6@ 7.75;
buttermilks and grassers, $405; fed
calves, $607.
Sheep and Lambs—8heep, $307;
culls, $2@3; lambs, common to prime,
$1116.60; culls, $10@11.
Hoga~-Light to medium weights, $12
©@12.80; pigs, $12.26@13; heavy hogs,
F11.76@ 12.25; roughs, $0.75@10.
PITTSBURGH. — Hogs ~ Prime
heavies, $11.76@12; heavy Yorkers,
B12.35@ 12.45; light lights and pigs,
HEAGQILH.
SATISFYING
—————— ve
»
Well.
the
hushand's
Mrs, Johnaing,
negro physician,
announced
after taking her
“Ah has
of him. Dat's
temperature,
knocked de fever out
one good thing”
“Sho ‘nuff.” was
“Does dat
well, den?
“No,” replied
fo' h mn;
fraction ob knowing
cured." —Country Gentle
the
dat
excited reply
mean he's gwine git
the doctor,
but you has
dat
man.
“dey's no
satin.
died
de
he
Solace
had some sad disap-
pointments in your career?”
“No,” sald Senator Sorghum. “I
have nde promises which I could n-*
But the
pointments
ter off in
would
“You have
who wanted ap-
proved bet-
than they
politics. —Wash-
people
have usually
private business
have been In
Merciful Judge
Judge—1 will be merciful
Seven days.
Accused—But 1 am to be married In
8 week,
Judge—Then 1
merciful. A
per.
to you.
wiil be still
month. —8tockholm
more
Kas
NOT NOW
Mabel !
m to
Is George
yout
‘ve been married a
year now
Her tempers often lost.
But if he had his cholce
Of things for her to lose
He'd surely pick her
Relations
ur idea of
voles.
“What is yo the relations
87
“They're a good deal like family re-
lations,” answered Senstor Sorghum.
“They don't think a lot of you unless
you're In a to lend ‘em
money.’
position
Oh, That's It
“Jack is such a handy boy, you
know, He can bang nails into wood
like lightning.”
“How splendid.”
“Yes, lightning seldom strikes in the
same place twice." Craftsman.
Too Appreciative
“Has a keen sense of humor, hasn't
he?”
“Rather. A banana peel all by it-
self will make him laugh.”"—American
Legion Weekly,
No Chance
Lady (to man In booth)—Look here,
you've been in there 30 minutes znd
haven't sald a word.
Man-I've been talking to my wife.
Pitt Panther.
PERFECTLY USELESS
Wifle—~Well, my new dress is per
fectly useless,
Hubby-—What!. Get
raion today?
Wifie—Of course not! That Jones
woman next door has got identically
the same kind!
Fighting
A little fray such wealth may ‘win
That life seems half a ae,
A pis ash much money im,
A war leaves nations bdroke.
That's Odd
caught in the