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CALLS GOMPERS
CAPITALIST TOOL
Berger Says He Prefers I. W.J
W. to Labor Fed
eration
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29. Victor
Berger, testifying before the special |
committee investigating his right to i
a seat in the House, said he pre
ferred the Industrial Workers of the
World to the American Federation
of Labor, because, he added, "Sam
uel Gompers for some time past has
been the tool of capitalists."
Asked to explain this statement I
imore fully, Mr. Berger said that of :
Jthe two labor organizations, "the I. '
W, W. was the better, for it as least '
had tho class instinct."
Mr. Berger said he was in favor of .
Intervention in Mexico in 1916 but
greatly opposed to the draft and its
effect in forming an army in 1917.
Asked by Representative Welty,
Democrat. Ohio, his probable atti- j
tude if permitted to take his seat in '
the House, Mr. Berger replied that |
he always would vote against war
appropriations but would support
tax legislation, provided there was
an equal distribution of the taxes
among all classes.
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SHIP OF LOOSE PLANKS
WILL BE LAUNCHED SOON
Prince Rupert, B. C., July 29.—A
ship unique in maritime history is
soon to be lnunched on this coast
for a trans-Atlantic voyage byway
of the Panama Canal. It will be
built solidly of 2,000,000 feet of
British Columbia lumber and will
sail for England under its own pow
er.
By reducing transportation costs
and automatically solving tho ton
nago problem, this strange vessel
Is expected to revolutionize tho
overseas lumber trade and Increase
British Columbia's lumbor exports
speedily to gigantic proportions.
Sir James Ball, British timber
controller, has already ordered tho
ship constructed. Tho timber, of
which It will be formed, was cut in
tho vast forosts of central British
Columbia along the Grand Trunk
Pacific tailway and is in course of
shipment to the coast.
The method of constructing the
vessel will be simple. Blocks will
bo laid for the keel and fore-and
aft and cross timbers will then be
Strike of Marines
Is Finally Settled
By Associated Press.
New York. July 29.—The strike
which for about three weeks has
tied up shipping along the Atlantic
and Gulf seaboard, was finally set
tled last night when an agreement
on wages was reached with the ma
rine engineers. William S. Brown,
national president of tho Engineers'
Union, immediately sent out orders
to move ships without delay.
Six Destroyers Go
Ashore in Slorm
By Associated Press.
Newport, R. 1., July 29.—Six de
stroyers dragged anchors and went
ashore in a tempest in Xarragansett
bay yesterday afternoon. All were
refloated after the storm passed and
naval authorities said little damage
had been caused.
Dock Workers at
Liverpool End Strike
By Associated Press.
Liverpool, July 29.—The strike of
dock workers has been settled.
Work was resumed to-day.
The strikers regard the settle
ment as being greatly in their fa
vor.
BIRDS DO NOT MAKE
BIRIVS-EYE MAUDE
What makes the bird's-eye maple?
That is a question which you have
asked yourself when you looked at a
beautiful piece of furniture made of
placed in position. "When sufficient
timber has thus been put together,
in regular shipbuilding style, to in
sure buoyancy, the embryonic vessel
will be launched.
Donkey engines on board will
hoist the lumber into place. The
planks will be so adjusted as to
form rounded bows and stern for
a ship of solid lumber which will
ride low in the water. The vessel
will be fitted with live masts with
great fore-and-aft schooner sails
and auxiliary engines which will en
able it to travel at fair speed in
calm weather.
When the ship arrives at port in
England, the fastenings. which hold
the lumber in place, will be releas
ed, leaving the lumber, now loose
planks, again, ready for immediate
distribution. The unloading of the
craft, of course, will mean its de
molition. When the lumber is taken
away, there will be no ship left. -The
engines will be taken out and sent
back to British Columbia to be
used in another vessel of the same
kind.
this wood, says the American Forest
ry Association, of Washington, D. C.,
which is campaigning for the plant
ing of memorial trees. There have
been a number of theories but the
real reason is simple.
The favorite theory has been that
sapsuckers, by pecking holes through
the bark of young maples, make
scars which produce the bird's-eye
figure in the wood during succeeding
years. Bird-pecked hickory is often
cited as an analogous case, yet who
ever saw bird's-eye figure in hickory,
though the bark may have been
perforated like a collander by the
bills of energetic sapsuckers? The
effect in the case of hickory is the
opposite of bird's-eye in maple; the
wood is discolored and unsightly.
Some attribute it to the action of
frost, but no such connection be
tween cause and effect has been
shown to exist.
The explanation of the phenomen
on is simple, and a person with a
good magnifying glass can work it
out for himself. The bird's-eye fig
ure is produced by casual or ab
normal btlds which have their origin
under tho bark of the trunk. The
first buds of that kind may develop
when the tree is quite small. They
are rarely able to force their way
through* the bark and become
branches, but they may live many
years just under the bark, growing
in length as the trunk increases in
size, but seldom appearing on the
outside of the bark. If one such
bud dies, another will likely rise
near it and continue the irritation
which produces the fantastic growth
known as bird's eye.
It is said the Japanese produce
artificial bird's-eye growth in certain
trees by inserting buds beneath the
bark. The Field Museum, Chicago,
has a sample of what is claimed to
be artificially produced bird's-eye
wood from Japan.
HAItRDSBTJRa TELEGRAPH
STORM WRECKS
! THREE PLACES
[Buildings and Tents Blown
Flat During Heavy
Winds
By Associated Press.
Minrola, July 2 9.—Three bomb
ing planes, including the Martin
machine in which Captain Roy N\,
Francis planned to leave next Fri
day on a trans-continental flight,
were wrecked by a terrific electri
cal storm which, sweeping over
Long Island yosterday afternoon,
I struck a steel hangar at Hazlehuist
Held and hurled fragments of steci
for a distance of half a mile.
Sweeping along from the north
west, the storm wrecked virtually
everything in its path.
Forty temporary wooden build
ings and 300 tents at Mitchel avia
tion field were blown flat, and tlie
stable of the Meadowbroolc Hunt
Club and two semipermanent offi
cers' barracks near there were lev
eled.
The storm, as intense as it was
brief, sti*uck a sevent-ton Hundley
Page bombing plane while twenty
men were trying to hold it down. It
was blown half a mile across Hazel
liurst field and literally reduced to
splinters. At Mitchel field a 10,-
000-gallon gasoline drum was rolled
for a distance of a mile. At Roose
velt field the roofs were blown olt
two frame hangars. The northern
edge of Camp Mills was struck by
lightning.
Only two men were in the steel
hangar at Hazelhurst field when it
was struck by lightning. They
crouched between two of the ma
chines stored there and thus found
shelter when the roof fell. Both
miraculously escaped injury.
In this hangar was the Martin
bomber commanded by Captain
Francis, a Caproni airplane, and
two De Havilands. The Martin and
Caproni were virtually demolished,
but the smaller planes, stored in the
other end of the structure, escaped
with slight injury.
M iddletown
Committee Plans
Welcome Home Fete
Clarence Hickernell has returned
home from a week's visit to rela
tives at Pittsburgh.
John Shenfeld, who visited his
daughter, Mrs. William Farmer at
Harriman for the past month, has
returned home.
Frank Shenfeld, the mail carrier,
and who was off on a week's vaca
tion, returned to his work on Mon
day morning.
Miss Elizabeth Carr is spending
sometime at Harrisburg as tho
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Paul Gerber.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ctife, of
Witherspoon ave., spent the day at
Hagerstown, where they attended
the funeral of the former's sister,
the late Mrs. Edward Miller, held
there this afternoon.
Christian J. Yost and Sarah Jane
Heller, both of Middletown, were
married at Hagerstown, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. David Rehrer re
ceived word from their son, Charles
Rehrer, who spent the past eighteen
months overseas, he arrived at New
port News, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewie Calter and
two sons, Frank an<L Leonard, who
spent the week end in town as the
guests of the former's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Calters, Catherine street,
have gone to Atlantic City, where
they will spend a week before re
turning to their home at Wilkes-
Barre.
The Welcome Home Committee
that was appointed sometime ago,
for the Welcome Home Celebration,
met at the home of Mrs. H. S. Roth,
North Spring street, last evening
and laid plans for the celebration,
which will be held on Labor Day.
The Middletown baseball team
will play the York, American Chain
Works team at York, in a twilight
game on Thursday evening.
The Middletown Praying Band
will meet at the home of Mrs. Cath
erine Groupe, South Catherine
street, this evening at 7.30 o'clock.
George Mateer, of Coatsville, is
spending sometime in town with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Baeehore,,
and children, of Birmingham, Ala.,
are visiting relatives in town for
sometime.
William Holland has returned
home from a month's trip to Chi
cago, 111., Detroit, Mich., and Can
ada.
Mrs. Charles Faust, son Jack and
daughter, Elizabeth, are spending
sometime at Mahanoy City, as the
guests of Mr. Faust's mother, Mrs.
William Schlier.
Mrs. Harriet Stern, two daugh
ters, Ethel and Sarah Stern, of Wil
mington, Del., are s-ending some
time in town, as the guests of the
former's sister, Mrs. Sarah Coxe,
East Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Helms and
two children, of Germantown,
Philadelphia, are speeding some
time in town as the guests of the
Misses Keevers, North Spring street.
Miners Will Carry Alleged
Election Fraud to Courts
By Associated Press.
Scranton, Pa., July 29.—Defeated
candidates for offices in District No.
1 United Mine Workers upon being
refused an investigation of their
charges that the election was
croo'ked, declared that thew would
carry the question of legality to the
courts. Enoch Williams, insurgent
candidate for president, declared
that they had evidence that the vote
of certain locals hqd been changed.
"You must reap what you sow,"
he said, "and I want to serve no
tice on you delegates now and here
that we do not intend to abide by
your decision refusing us the privi
lege of proving our charges. We in
tend fighting this fraudulent election
to the bitter end."
Lightning Hits Hangar,
Demobolizing Plane
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29 —Lightning
struck a hangar at Hazlehurst field
yesterday afternoon housing the
Martin bombing plane in which
Captain Roy N. Francis was pre
pared to make a one stop flight
across the United States. The ma
chine was completely demolished,
reports to air service headquarters
I said, except for its motors, but It
will be replaced as soon as possible
I and the flight made notwithstand
ing.
AMERICAN FLAGS STUCK
IN LOAVES OF BREAD
MADE OF AMERICAN FLOUR
New York, July 29. Howard
Heinz of Pittsburgh, formerly food
administrator for Pennsylvania, and
more recently tlio representative of
the American Relief Administration
in Southern Europe and Asia Minor,
who returned from Europe on the
Aquitania Sunday, yesterday gave
the first detailed account of condi
tions in Rumania, Poland, Serbia,
Czecho-Slovakia and all of the
countries in which Mr. Hoover has !
been operating. The children there '
are a charge on the world's charity, ;
he said.
"I made a motor trip of inspection !
through Rumania in May after the j
American Relief Administration had I
been working there since Febru- j
ttry. On a prior visit starvation was i
very great because that German j
robber, Mackensen, had destroyed i
or stolen all the feed he could ship |
to Germany.
"In February in every village one |
would find peasants—fine types of i
men and women—who had exhaust
ed their food supplies, begging the
mayor of the village to get them I
Would Feel Lost
Without Their Diamonds
Los Angeles, Calif. —Many men
and women who wear diamond
rings regard them not'only as part
of their apparel but as part of them
selves. Many persons, especially
women, became attached to the
beautiful ornaments and would feel
not only undressed without them
but as if some vague element of
their pcisonality were missing.
But Judge Craig of the Riverside
Superior Court holds that, while a
diamond stud and a gold watch are
wearing apparel, a diamond ring is
merely property wihch under cer
tain conditions may be seized and
attached.
His ruling, which is unique in
California court proceedings, was
handed down in a probate case in
which a widow sought to gain pos
session of a diamond stud, a dia-
I mond ring and a gold watch which
I belonged to her husband. Judge
! Craig ruled that a stud Is an es
| sential part of wearing apparel be
; cause it holds garments together
and that a watch is so frequently
used and so necessary in personal
affairs that it may be classed prop
erly as wearing apparel. The dia
mond ring however was awarded to
| the petitioner, because, the judge
said, it was merely luxury and con
sequently subject to legal seizure.
Judge Craig's decision has opened
some interesting questions for Cali
fornia women. Only the stud, ring
and watch were concerned in his
ruling, but the fine distinction he
drew might seem to affect other
articles of jewelry. If a diamond
ring is an asset rather than apparel,
the women are wondering in which
class such a construction of the law
would place bracelets, necklaces,
brooches, earrings and many other
bits of jewelry which in many cases
women have come to regard almost
as part of themselves.
KXOCKOI'T BLOW
The knockout blow Is scientifically
explained as follows: When the low
er Jaw is struck on its point, espe
cially with an uppercut, the bony
portion of the ear inside is driven
forcibly upward into the glenoid
cavity of the skull, above and behind
which Is situated the delicate laby
rinth of the inner ear.
The jawbone strikes hard upon the
thin plate of bone that supports these
sensitive organs and gives a shock to
the semicircular canals that is In
stantly transmitted by them to the
bulb, producing dizziness, nausea
and momentary paralysis.
This explains why a sideways blow
on the Jaw is more effective as a
knockout than one delivered directly
upon the point of the jaw. For the
shock of a sideways blow is received
in one glenoid cjvity, that on the side
opposite the fine on which it is
struck, while the shock of a blow In
the center Is divided between the
cavities on the two sides.—Detroit
News.
Abyssinian Duke, Head of
Mission, to Thank U. S. For
Helping to Beat the Hun
DEDJAZMATCH NADO
Abyssinia sent a mission to tho
United States to thank the Nation for
its part in defeating the centrul pow
ers. This photograph shows llis Ex
cellency Dedjazmltch Nado. duke of
the royal family and heud of tho
mission, in his striking Abyssinian i
costume.
food. After the news was spread
that American flour had reached
Bucharest, every American who ap
peared was greeted with cheers and
the bakers in many shops stuck little
American flags into their loaves of
bread.
"Starvation prevailed in Febru
ary before Mr. Hoover's forces ar
rived. In May in the same territory
everybody smiled and had put on
pounds of flesh. Little children
played and laughed in the street
' where before they were dropping
i with sheer weakness. If the Ainer
: ican people could hav visited these
| regions and seen the use to which
■ their money had been put they
would never regret having given
I America's aid to the rehabilitation
i of Europe.
j "The bulk food supplies furnished
j by the American Relief Administra
tion as a givernment organization
| will be sufficient to meet all the re
| quirements of a simple ration until
j this year's harvests are available,
i but special food for the children
must be imported from and paid
• for in America."
Diamonds Worn
Aplenty in U. S.
Chicago. Diamonds never have
been so generally worn in any na
tion or in any period of history as
they are in the United States to-day.
Time was when they adorned only
the princes of the earth and sparkled
only in the palaces of the great and
wealthy. Now, in a manner of
speaking, diamonds don't care who
wears them and one has only to look
around him to note to what an extent
they have become in this democratic
age, tho jewels of the common
people.
The stenographer emits Kimberly
sparkles. Faint Dutoitspan gleams
show on the fingers of the pretty
waitress as she sings out "Ham
and " or "Draw one" in the res
taurant. No cook or housemaid can
hold up her head without at least
one diamond among her jewels. The
teamster gives a diamond ring to
his factory sweetheart. The office
boy pays a dollar down and sports
a diamond in his tie. The janitor
lives up to his ring with an air of
noblesse oblige; and the diamond
headlight of the soda water clerk
has an intoxicating effect that his
drinks lack. A palace is no longer
necessary as a stage-setting for a
diamond. The flat over the grocery
store back of the gas-works seems
to serve as well.
Diamond prices, according to
dealers, were never so high nor dia
monds so popular. Importations to
this country are greater than ever
before despite an alarming shortage
of the gems in European markets.
Dealers are unable to supply the
market demands. From July, 1918 !
i to last April, the value of rough and j
cut diamonds brought into the United |
States was $28,631,469. This year's
sales are expected to exceed those '
of the last year before the war when !
the total was $35,000,000.
NOTomors
This Is how a high school girl re
cently parsed tho sentence "He
kissed me:"
1 " 'He.'" she began, with a fond
lingering over the word that brought
the crimson to her cheeks, "Is a pro
noun, third person, singular number,
masculine gender, a gentleman, and
pretty well-off, universally consider
ed a good catch, 'Kissed' is a verb
transitive indicative mood, indicating
affection, first and third persons,
plural number, and governed by cir
cumstances. 'Me'—oh, well, every
body knows me!" And she sat down.
—San Francisco Chronicle.
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JULY 29, 1919.
Millions Lost in Forest
Fires Points to Need of
National Forest Police
Washington, July 29.—Estimated
loss by forest fires in 1918 is placed
at twenty-eight million five hundred
thousand dollars and with fires
sweeping sections of three States
the American Forestry Association
points to the need of a national
forest policy. The association to
day sends out a call to all those in
terested to send expressions of opin
ion as to what should be embodied
in a national forest policy so that
these ideas can be presented at the
annual meeting.
"Considering the annual fire losses
and the fact that the markets of the
world are opening to the United
States something must be done to
replenish our forests," says the
statement by the association. "The
wartime call upon our forests were
tremendous but the call of peace
time activities will greatly exceed
the call of war. In peace time we
"Play safe"—give baby Grade-A Milk
then watch him grow!
LOOK FOR THIS NAME ON CAP
CHAS. A. HOAK
PENBROOK Roth Phone*
"Hirffliii—TlllM—mrT'iriwinien iiwii ■mwi—n i
Two More Inspection Days
Wednesday and Thursday
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During these two days yoit are invited to
come in and inspect the extensive lines of furni
ture for every room in the house, which we will
offer in our
August
Furniture Sale |
At Savings of 10 to Per Cent.
The August Furniture Sale Will Start on
Friday, August Ist.
Furniture selected on inspection days will be
sold as of August Ist., and we will store pur
chases for a reasonable length of time.
exported about three and a half
billion board feet of lumber and
saw logs to say nothing of home
consumption."
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