Pennsylvania
State News
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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H245012.60,
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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."