i \ Remember These Dates! Dr. Henry M. Laing Firemen’s Carnival August 10-11-12 @ VOL. 43 H cadlines Of The Week A summary of this week's news of international in- terest, reviewed for Post readers. WATER Joseph W. Harriman, 68-year old indicted banker, who alienists have said is insane, escaped from his nurs- ing home for the second time this week, returned thirty hours later drip- ping wet, told people who had expec- ted suicide that he had fallen in the river. ARMANDA General Italo Balbo, youthful Ttalian "Air Minister, with twenty-four air- planes and 96 companions, ended his 6,100 mile flight from Lake Orbetello, Italy, at Chicago's World Fair this week, prepared to enjoy the exhibition briefly before flying to New York City and then home. RESIGNS Dr. A. M. Northrup, Wilkes-Barre, resigned as State Secretary of Labor and Industry last week, charging Charlotte E, Carr, assistant, had fom- ented strikes in Pennsylvania. On Monday, Governor Pinchot announced Northrup had been dismissed, had not resigned. Then Governor Pinchot ap- pointed Miss Carr to succed Dr. North- rup. PROGRESS Wilkes-Barre noted the following in- dications of economic improvement: 16 of 59 vacant stores have been rented (11 by beer dispensers); 63 homes, va- cant a short time ago, have been ren- ted; building permits are up $94,- 745 over May; bank clearings increas- ed $476,126 over May and $1,669,109 over June, 1932. AIMEE . Chubby David Hutton, jr., latest hus- band of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, evangelist, this week announ- ced he will divorce the famous soul saver because ‘married life has been no bed of roses for me” REPEAL Success loomed on the Wet horizon this week as anti-prohibitionists scor- ed victories in the first battles along the Southern front. Arkansas ana Alabama, traditionally dry States, Swung in line with the sixteen States which already had approved repeal. Only twenty more are needed to take prohibition out of the Constitution. MELANCHOLY Despondent over financial affairs, H, P. Field, Berwick banker, official of American Car & Foundry Co., this week shot and wounded his wife and daughter, then shot himself through the head. MARRIED = ) Once a resident of Avoca, later the wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn, orchestra leader, pretty Hannah Williams, giv- ing her address as Scranton, Pa., this week became the bride of William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, former beavyweight boxing champion. CONTINENT Five thousand fathoms ocean surface, between Manila, and San Pedro, Cal, Capt. C. B. Mayo has mapped a subr@@rged continent twice the width of America. With the aia of a depth finder, he mapped moun- tains higher than Mount Everest, submerged volcanoes still active, deep valleys cut by forgotten rivers. BASEBALL Loyalty and teamwork make a good baseball team. They also make a good administration. So James A. Farley, Master of Patronage for President Roosevelt, will divide Democratic pa- tronage among those men who are most loyal to F. D., who supported him before the Chicago convention. First rule though, says Postmaster General Farley in American Magazine, will be that the applicant be qualified for the job. POST Three miles ahead of the schedule he made with Harold Gatty last year, Wiley Post, one-eyed around-the- world flier, narrowly escaped death this week when his monoplane scrap- ed the tree-tops in a forced landing at Rukhlovo on the Manchurian bor- der U.S. S.'R. AFTER REPEAL Prediction that racketeers who spent their time in bootlegging will turn to kidnapping was made by Senator Roy- al S. Copeland this week. Senator Copeland urged immediate organiza- tion of a Federal crime investigation group patterned after Scotland Yard. WILL For years the nurse of John Markle, millionaire coal operator, Miss Hulda C. Nvgren will return to her parents’ chicken farm at Wilkes-Barre, richer by $75,000 she received by the will of Mr. Markle, who died last week. under the — ti New Noxen Postmaster —t— Lewis Hackling has been appointed postmaster at Noxen under the Dem- ocratic administration. A. J. Davis, who has been the postmaster there for a number of years will retire because of age. 3 The Dallas Post. More. Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution See Hope For Consolidation Officials and Civic Group Representatives Plan Mass Meeting MEET HERE JULY 31 Possibility of authorizing consoli- dation of Dallas Township, Kingston Township and Dallas Borough at the election this Fall became evident this week as officials from the three com- munities moved to sponsor a series of public mass meetings to sound senti- ment before drawing up petitions Representatives from the school boards of Kingston and Dallas Township, Dallas Borough met Mon- da ynight at the home of Adam Kiefer, Shrineview, with members of Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis and Greater Dallas Rotary Clubs and made plans for the meetings, the first of which will be held in Dallas Borough high school auditorium on Monday night, July 31 At this meeting supervisors from Kingston and Dallas townships and councilmen from Dallas ,members of the school boards from the three com=- munities, officials of the various Tax- payers’ associations and representa- tives of the civic clubs will be pre- sent to discuss the proposed commu- nity merger. If the action at the mass meetings ig favorable to the move petitions will be drawn up and circulated so that the question may be put to the elec- {torate this Fall. School boards of the three towns al- ready have accomplished something toward consolidation by appointing a committee which will purchase school supplies jointly for Kingston and Dal- las Townships and Dallas borough. The two civic clubs represented at last Mondays meeting have looked upon the plan with favor for some time. ) Circus Day Will Be Here July 28 Great Hagenbeck - Wallace Show Brings Thrilling Program For All There were many sighs of disap- pointment among the younger genera- tion this soring®™ when the great Bars num, and Bailey circus passed up Wil- kes-Barre as though it weren’t on the map. But newspaper men who were in on the “know” said “wait there'll be a great circus im Wilkes-Barre this summer. Hagenbeck-Wallace is com- ing.” Hailed as the Highest Class Circus On Earth and the second largest in the world, the Hagenbeck-Wallace showe, which will be in Wilkes-Barre, July 28, boasts of countless new fea- tures thig season, many of them im- portations from Europe and new to America, Clyde Beatty, world’s great- est wild animal trainer, again, heads the list of stellar attractions. Twice daily, this fearless youth gives battle to forty, snarling, and ferocious lions and tigers, declared, the most danger- ous, and hreath