Pennsylvania State News * Gov. Pinchot has asked Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for a per sonal conference on law enforcement with particular reference to traffic in denatured alcohol. Dr, Thomas D. Mills, of Harrisburg, killed a 200-polind black bear while on a hunting trip last week, Doctor Mills was hunting with a party from Lykens in Clinton (County. Election of officers was the para- mount feature of a meeting of the Edgewood Grange, No. 688, held re- cently at the Makefield Community House, Charles T. Carter Was slec- ted Master of the Grangs. Joseph Kovach, aged 11, of Martins Creek, was kicked by a horse and nearly every bone in his skull was fractured. He was operated on at the Easton Hospital, but there seems to be no chance at all of his recovery. John, 12-yearold son of John and Lucille Schermmer, actors in vaude- ville, was killed when he slipped and fell under an automobile while eross ing a street near the home of his grandparents in Johnstown, . with whom he made his home. The steel industry in the Pitts. burgh district is maintaining a steady slow Increase in operating sched. ules. During the past week the In dependents in the district reached an operating rate of between 90 and ‘95 per cent, as against 85 to 90 per cent about 19 days ago. A drive to secure a new home will be made in the near future by the Sharon Post, American Legion. The first step will be taken when the Legion starts a big membership cam: paign with 300 ex-soldiers enrolled as its goal. Every former service man in the ciiy will be visited and asked to join the organization. Who stole the steam shovel at Youngstown? Even Sharon has been brought into this unusual case. Last week a new steam shovel, owned by Ross and Tradler, Youngstown eon- tractors, was taken before they were able to get it home. After an exten sive search in Youngstown It was finolly reported that the machine has been seen in Sharon. One of the most extraordinary fatalities ever known to sport oc curred at Coplay, near Allentown. A group of boys started a football game In a little-used field, and as they were crossing a mud hole, Joe Toth, 15. went down, He was lost in a sink of mud about fifteen feet deep. Nobody knows how he went down. He was simply swallowed up. Supt. H. E. Mason of the H. C. Frick Coke Company of Connellsville, has received orders to fire 200 ovens at its Leisenring No. 1 plant. Ovens will be lighted from day to day as fast as preparations can be made. The plant has been idle since last May. Orders were also given to fire ovens at the idle plants at Dearth. Redstone and Youngstown. People of the borough of Bristol are evidently believers in tne adage that “cleanliness is next to Godliness” if the number of gallons of water con- sumed here during the month of Oe tober is to be taken as any criterion. The report of its public works de partment filled recently with council shows 50,505,000 gallons were used. Based on a population of 12.489, the average would be about 5,000 gallons to the individual. Rev. Joseph L. Shields, rector of St. Michael's Church, Sunbury, has been transferred to Columbia. A gigantic maple tree, three feet in diameter, fell across the Lincoln high- way near Idlewild Park, Westmore. and, narrowly missing the machine of two motorists. Lester Skinner, an employee of the Illinois Torpedo Company, was killed ploded at Bradford as it was about to be moved from the plant. After fifty-two years of duty, John B. Partridge, of Ridley Park chief clerk in the office of the passenger traf. fic manager of the Pennsylvaaia Rail- road, has been retired from active duty. He is numbered among the nine employees of the company who have been in service fifty years or more, Old fashioned Mennonite revivals are still held at Mount Carmel. Rev, E. E. Kublic, pastor of the Mennonite Brethren In Christ Church, in that city, began such services last Sunday, to continue indefinitely. Whenever the weather pernits there will be open-air meetings at different street corners, A fight to obtain the freeing of the toll bridgs owned by the Lehigh Val ley Transit Company and forming part of the highway between Phila. delphia and Allentown was begun at a mass meeting of citizens of the Twelfth Ward, Allentown. The vig. duct is a’ concrete structure and cost more than $400,000 when erected twelve years ago. C. Fred Wright, former state treas- urer of Pennsylvania and former rep. resentative In Congress, died at his home In Susquehanna, Anthracite operators and miners have dug In for an all-winter strike, with nothing in sight to indicate how or where a settlement can be made, Hynicka brothers, of Lebanon, an nounced the sale of thelr Stockdale farm and Guernsey herd to Warren Whittier, of Lowville, N. Y., for $46. 000. Whittier, who Is an authority on Guernsey stock, will take personal Lebanon tc wnship, Wn A ——— 1—Model industrial American Woolen company. NEWS REVIEW OF Sifted by the Shenandoah , Board of Inquiry. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 4 RS, ZACHARY LANSDOWNE seemed to be having considerable difficulty last week in substantiating her charges that the Navy department, through Capt. Paul Foley, then judge advocate, sought to induce her to tes. tify falsely before court of Inquiry. The widow of airship’'s commander repented the her and his sending of an outline of what she should say, and In a general way all this was corroborated by others, But it was brought out that part of the judge advocate’'s duty to interview prospective witnesses, and Mrs. George W. Steele, who carried the Foley memorandum to Mrs. Lans downe, sald that on reading It “she manifested no Indignation and sald nothing whatever about any purpose, nothing indicating any that the memorandum represented any attempt to influence her testimony.” A copy of the memorandum was pro- duced by the judge reads: of the U, which he was no longer In a tion te say for himself: that posi- he the midwestern flight during the thun- doing to the Navy department. husband regarded the Shenandoah as a man of war. He was ready at all times to take the ship out for military maneuvers, but was opposed to using her for nonmilitary duty, “Had 1 known at the time I accept- ed the Invitation of the court to ap In the case would have been duced Into the record of the court as it since has 1 would not have accepted the Invitation of the court to appear. “As things now are I am not only willing but would prefer to leave the entire matter to the judgment of the court in which I have every confi dence.” 4 Mrs. Lansdowne admitted that the only statement in this memorandum to which she took exception is that “her husband wns Yeady at all times to take the ship out for military manen- She said if she had given such testimony she would have made her husband out an ig norant fool vers he was not ready to go at all times, regardless of the weather, and the use of the phrase “nonmilitary duty,” she said, was camouflage for “political flights.” Efforts to involve Secretary Wilbur, made by Mrs. Lansdowne and her uncle, Dr. W. B. Mason, were not im- pressive, Joseph E. Davies, late of Wisconsin, was counsel for Mrs. Lansdowne and he created a tumult by insisting loudly on his right to be present and to ad- vise his client In court. He was ejected once but crept back in and caused more disturbance, Captain Foley took the stand in his own de fense, and denied that he had tried to Influence Mrs. Lansdowne's testimony. ESTIMONY for tho defense in the Mitchell court-martial was com. pleted and arguments were begun. A number of aviators were called to tell of unwarranted hazards in night fy. ing and bombing tests, and then Ad miral Wiliam’ 8. Sims, retired. was called. He told the court that many of the higherups In the navy never had attended the naval war college at Newport and consequently were “hide bound, ignoradt and uneducated.” He asserted the capital ship of the future Is the swift airplane carrier and that an adequate alr force would be the salvation of the country In ease of attack by sen. Concerning the Shenandonh, Ad miral Sims sald: “If the motive of flight Is all military—if, for example be navy suys, ‘We want you to go out and get storm risk data'--that Is all right,” the admiral testified “If it Is all wrong.” “In view of the loss of the Shenan- doah, what is your view of the motive in that case? he was asked, “It did not seem to me correct all.” Capt. at Anton Helnen, the Zeppelin the reduction of the Shenandoah’'s au- tomatic safey valves from 18 to 10, and replied: “If I had known that before the Shenandoah made her fatal flight everybody may rest assured that | would have kicked up a hell of a row. The effect of the reduction of the valves was to reduce the safely of the ship from 100 per cent to zero. I made the Shenandoah absolutely un sdfe.” REMIER MUSSOLINI, now more than the master of Italy opened the new session of parliament with a remarkable address In which he presented his budget of new laws which, frankly declared, tended to do away with the parliamentary form of government, “Inadequate for modern life” and replace it with Fascism. He was impossible to hinder Fascism from the interior, and he warned all | other nations that If menaces his planned regime came from abroad the Italian nation wonld arise as one man ever he were In- present fo The deputies were given the tip not to | waste much time jn discussing the | proposition because Fascist discipline | would not tolerate it Chief of Mussolini's new measures | are these : 1 A iow to establish the ancien: | podesto instead of mayors, which gives the central government control even | of the local political machine® 2. A law Increasing the powers of the premier not only over every department of the government. but even not allowing the order of the day to be discussed in the chamber with out his approval, 3. A law providing for confiscation of property and deprivation of the citizenship for Italians abroad “calum- nizing” Italy or its government 4. A law creating co-operative boards of arbitration between capital and labor, ‘ The premier also has called on all the Italian people to subscribe toward the payment of the debt to the United States, the funding arrangement for which was signed In Washington. American bankers evidently approve of Italy's condition and prospects, for a group of them, headed by J. P. Mor- gan & Co. last week arranged a loan to the Italian government of £100,000. 000 to assist in the restoration of the gold standard and to retire the $30. 000000 credit extended by Morgan to three Italian banks of issue last June for stabilization of the lira. The loan will take the form of bonds bearing in- from bad to worse, from the French standpoint, for the rebellious Druses are growing in strength and last week shifted the scene of their greatest activity to the Lebanon region.’ The French hed armed a large body of Christian volunteers there, but these were badly defeated by the Druses who captured a number of towns and a vast amount of loot. Sidon. on the Syrian coast, was threatened and the American missionaries there asked that a warship be gent from Belrut. RACTICALLY without opposition the British house of commons rati- fied the Locarno treaties. Mr. Cham- beriain, in opening the perfunctory de bate, dissipated the fear that Great Britain would be committed by the pacts to go to war against its wishes. Replying to the charge that Russia had not been brought into the League of Natlons at Locarno, he sald the fault, If any, lay with Russia and not with the western powers. “The Rus: sian government,” he continued, ‘is net prepared to join the league on any terms whatever, its fundamental ob- lection being that the league Is a go ciety of nations based on a system | which Is not compatible with the view of the soviet government of what the world shotld be” md J YESTIGATION by government agents of the alleged national beer yndicate, the Chicago end of which Is indictment of and 24 in the ney at Chicago, is the “first batelh” merely ber and ployees and | purchasing agent of the Atlanta peni tentiary, who has been mixed up other liquor scandals. Allen of brewery managers spiracy, and It is sald he has fled to Europe. The yoked, treasury last effective December 31, Wednesdny an Investigation was started to be renewed. created numerous the been consternation concerns that Among have their normal and legs! needs, The house ways and means mittee, following the advice of | eral Andrews, voted to Impose a new | tax of one-tenth of one cent a gallon near other cereal bever. | nges, as a means of providing for In- | spection of all breweries, COm- on beer and VER the protests Green and most cratic members, committee voted retroactive repeal of increases In estate tax rates of the of Chairman of of all persons dying since that law became effective on June 2, 1024. If ; this feature of the new law Is ace ceplel by congress the government niready collected. kota has appointed George E. Nye fo be United States senator to fill the | ¥acancy caused by the death of BE F. i Ladd. But as Mr. Nye was a sup- | porter of the La Follette ticket in the | last Presidential campaign and might radicals, It is predicted that his seat. publican senators. The opposition will early In the Wilson administration when the senate refused to seat Frank Alabama to fill a vacancy, because rovernor to fill vacancies In state offices, but falls to mention the office of senator, \ HAT might have been a terrible tragedy was narrowly averted { When the Clyde liner Lenape caught {fire at sea off the Delaware coast | After a thirty-mile dash, she steamed | Into the harbor at Lewes, surrounded | prising all but one of her passengers | and the entire crew, were taken off In | safety and just in the nick of time. One man had Jumped overboard and was drowned. Damage estimated at $3,000,000 was done by a conflagration that swept the Mississippi river docks at New Or leans. Great quantities of merchan- dise were consumed and for a time the wholesale business district of the city was threatened. —— “ Jp RESIDENT COOLIDGE," address ing the New York State Chamber of Commerce, outlined his prbgram of economic developments, Including ine land waterways, rallrond consolida- tions, further economy and efficiency in government departments, farther extension of electrification, and elimi nation of waste In Industry and com- merce. He also urged that America Join the World court. a H ERE are a few brief items worthy to be recorded: D.C. Stephenson, former Klan dragon of Indiana, was sentenced to Hfe imprisonment for his part in the death of Madge Oberholtzer, George H. Jones, who started In business as office boy, was elected chairman of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. . General Feng and Marshal Chang of China signed a peace agreement. tenced to death at Moscow for graft. 3 COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. BALTIMORE. — Wheat — No. 2 red spot, domestic, $1.61; No. 2 garlicky, domestic, $1.60%. 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%c; No. 2 white, 47@47%. Hay--No. 2 timothy, per ton, $24.50 @25; No. 3 timothy, $226G123; No. 1 light clover mixed, $23.50@24; No. 2 light clover mixed, $21@22; No. 1 clover mixed, $23@ 23.50. Straw-—No. 1 wheat, per ton, §11@ 12; No. 1 oat, $124012.50. Mill Feed—(In 100-1b. sacks) ton, ipring wheat bran, Western Western middiings (brown), $26 Eggs Street sales, small lots fresh-gathered firsts, 66@58c; candied, 58@60, West Virginia firsts, 54@55; 52@054. Live Poultry—Old hens, 4% pounds and over, 24@26¢c; 3% @4 pounds, leghorns other light f 15@16; young chickens, la 23@24; few higher, small and medium fat, 23@ 24; leghorns and other light stock, 18622. Ducks, white pek young, 24@ 25¢; muscovy, ; puddle, 23G 24; nearby, 24@25; Kent Island, 26@ 28; Western Southern 22€023 Turkeys, Young, # pounds cid toms, 26@ 28; Guineas, young small, 50@ 565; per $34; 59 and Owl, rge size, iat, size, 1 ans, geese wud and over, 30@ 3c, old hens, 260Q28 large, 30Q 85¢c; young, old, 85 *geons, young 25@ 30c¢ Butter—Creamery, fancy, per 1b, do, 48G 060; do ; do, prints, 53@54; do do, ladles, 43@ 44; Pennsylvania 41@ 43; olls, 41@ 42; West Virginia rolls 42; store packed, 40; Maryland, choice, blocks, TP Folin Vir 47 Etc process butter, Fresh Fish, Clam; Bass, na % y ’ trout, arge, per barrel $256736; do, to medium, §16@ 20; do, box, $10@15. Crocu 25 Carp, large, per 1b, § medium, 785. Rock. boiling per 1b, 25@ 28¢ 15@18; do, g ' v6 TET as 10 size, pe? $20@ 1 Go 20, per barrel wall smal to 20Q do, large «AJ ee, ye low redium, extra large do white white, medium, 6@ 8 do, Salmon trout 12@15 Catfish 18@20; yeliow do, smal white large, | 5 LE * SOO 12@ 15¢; Pike ams, large, per 100 small to medium Oysters, raw box do, primes, $3.50@ a3 Eels, large, do, to medium, 8G 8 native, 2 £1.40@ 150 per 100 per barrel, $5@ 5.50 4.50; CO, CHILE NEW YORK -—Wheat- 1 dark Northern New York, lake and rail, $1.70%:. No 2 bard winter, £. ©. b. lake No. 2 mixed durum, No. 1 £1.51%, all nominal Corn--8pot quiet; Spot No an all No. 2 yellow, ¢ No. 2 mixed, do, $1.01%, nominal Oats—8Spot quiet; No. 2 white, 8% Butter—Creamery, higher than ex 19, @49%: do, firsts (88 to 91 score), 45@ 48%: packing stock, current make, No. 2, 41c Eggs—Fresh gathered, extra firsts. gathered, firsts, 556660; do, storage, 36% @37; fresh gathered scconds and poorer, 38@53: do, storage, 32% @G 35%: nearby hennery whites, closely selected extras, 85@ 88 Cheese—State. whole milk flats, fresh, fancy, 26% @26c; do, average run, 24%: Stale, whole milk flats, held. fancy, 271@28; do, average run, 25% @ . 26%. PHILADELPHIA. — Wheat — No. 2 red winter, $1.51G 1.56; do, garlicky, $1.49@ 1.56. Corn--No. 2 yellow, 29c¢6 $1.02. Oats—-No. 2 white, 45% @ 49 Butter--8olid packed, higher than extras, 52@556c, the latter for small lots; extras, 92 score, 51; 91 score, 49; 90 score, 48; 89 score, 46; 88 score, 45; 87 score, 43%; 86 score, 43. Egge—Fresh, extra firsts, 63: first in new cases, 57c: In second-hand cases, 56; seconds, 35@ 38. Cheese-—Fresh, New York whole cream, flats, 25% @ 26; longhorns, 25 256%; single daisies, fresh, 256@ 256%. LIVE STOCK NEW YORK -—Cattle—Steers, $66 10.60; State bulls, $3G 5.50; cows, $1.25 ab. Calves—Veals, common to prime, $8 @16; culls and little calves, $6@7.75; buttermilks and grassers, $445; fed calves, $667. ; Sheep and Lambe-—Sheep, $307: culls, $2@3; lambs, common to prime $11G16.60; culls, $10@11. Hogs--~Light to medium weights, $13 @12.50; pigs, 312.256 18; heavy hogs $11.75@ 12.25; roughs, §5.75@10. PITTSBURGH. ~~ Hogs — Prime heavies, $11.75@ 12; heavy Yorkers, “ H245012.60, Just STRANGE PROPS Carrying his luggage and his golf clubs, le climbed Into an ancient hack and told the driver, an old negro, to take him to the local hotel. The eol. ored man eyed the queer-looking bag with Its queer sticks. Finally his curiosity got the better of him. “Boss.” he begun, “please, sub, 'scuse me, but mout I ax you a question?” “Go ahead and ask” sald the pas senger, “What kind of a lodge is you insti tutin’ 7"— American Golfer, A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD Fama, ANRE Alice—18 It 8 good neighborhood? May—My dear, they all buve lawn never pay cash for a thing they buy! Look Good to Us In iife there are A heap worse iiis Than getting these Two dollar bills The Old Days “Yes. sir, In one town where I lived they would only serve you a drink aft hours with a. meal he mayor constituted a meal” “Why not a soft-bolled eg “The mayor thought hard-bolled egg better. We used to get to throwing Precept and Example “Didn't you hear your father say “Yes” mnswered Miss Cavenne “Bat he was smoking a fifty-cent cigar when he sald it.” Tres Surgeon-—Your hopelessly decayed, Tree Owner— Why didn't those other tree men tell me that before? T. S.—Perhaps they didn't from the inside. Bit of Color My tin Lizette needs a cont of paint I'm tired of these somber hues, I'll spruce the old girl up a bit And give her a dad of rouge. ree, . In speak An Optimist “Gosh! You had a close call! That certainly was an awful accident I” ex. claimed the friend who had dropped In at the hospital to call on the bandaged victim, Yes," he replied, dreamily, "but thank goodness 1 got an eyeful of what I was looking at before the car hit that telephone post and 1 was knocked un conscious.” Marriage in New York Overheard at the Moon in the Vil iage: She (yawning)--Well, let's get mar ried tomorrow afternoon. He (thoughtfully) —Yeh? AVeel I never really figured on getting mar ried until I could afford to pay all mony. (A pause) All right, then, but remember (sternly) no alimony! Aristocratic Dog “But are you sure he's highly bred? *'Ighly bred! Why, mum. ter git the best hout of this little dog, yer ‘ushand will ‘ave ter wear spats an’ a tall ‘at."—World's News. First Aid “S80. Brown took an course In first ald. Is he good at itY” “A little hasty sometimes. A man was nearly yesterday and the first thing did was to throw a glass of water in his face”-—Winton Advance, The Movie ldea RE i tarier b Seng - tion?" : “We want to shoot the ras the living room of a magnute’s home."
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