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Remember These Dates!
Dr. Henry M. Laing
Firemen’s Carnival
August 10-11-12
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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
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New Noxen Postmaster
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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.
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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<taking display of all
time. :
“Poodles” Hauneford, greatest of
riding clowns, and the famous Hanne-
ford Family of bare-back riders; the
sensational Billetti Troups of high-
wire performers; “Bombayo”, The
Man From India; t h e Picchiani
Troupe, thrilling spring-board acro-
bats; the Canestrelly Family, unsup-
ported-ladder performers, and the Fly-
ing Hills and Clarkonians, famed
troupes of daring aerialists, are, but a
few of the one hundred acts and dis-
plays which go to make up the gigan-
tic 1933 program of the Great Hagen-
beck-Wallace Circus this year.
Innumerable horse displays, trained
wild animal numbers, herds of per-
forming elephants, educated seals, and
scores of thrilling ground, and aerial
displays, and a new version of, “Cleo-
patra, Queen of Egypt”, lyrical page-
ant of ancient Egypt which opens the
performances, will be additional fea-
tures.
Clyde Beatty is the greatest wild
animal trainer in the world and the
only one to perform in a cage with a
mixed act of both lions and tigers.
Both Collier's magazine and the Am-
erican magazine have carried thrilling
stories of this youthful trainer whose
only weapon on entering the cage is
a common kitchen chair which he
holds before him. Beatty opens his
act early each spring with the Bar-
num and Bailey show in Madison
Square garden, New York. When the
show takes to the road he joins up
with Hagenbeck-Wallace which is
owned by the same syndicate as Bar-
num and Bailey.
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Less Vacant Farm Houses Now
Than At Any Time Since 1927
Fewer vacant farm houses were re-
ported in Pennsylvania on June 1, this
year than at any time since records
were first compiled in 1927, accord-
ing to the Federal-State Crop Re-
porting Service.
Estimates based upon June 1, re-
ports this year indicate that out of
every hundred farm homes in ‘the
Commonwealth, 86.5 were occupied
by families engaged in agriculture,
10.9 by families not engaged in agri-
culture and 2.67 were vacant.
compared with conditions existing
June 1, 1928, §t is found that the
number of farm houses occupied by
families engaged in farming has in-
creased only 1.5 per cent, while the
number occupied by non-agricultural
families has "increased 2.1 per cent,
and the number of vacant houses has
decreased 2.6/per cent. These figures
indicate that more of the houses have
been occupied by non-agricultural
than agricultural workers.
The reoccupation of vacant farm
‘When
Yet This Year|
DALLAS PA., FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933.
SCOUTS LEARN
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Remember These Dates!
Dr. Henry M. Laing
Firemen’s Carnival
August 10-11-12
No. 29.
HORSEMANSHIP
This young Girl Scout equestrian evidently has a way with horses. With
a wisp of hay and a friendly pat she has Induced her camera-shy mount
s to pose for his picture.
Friedrich Karl von
Huber und
Hertzog
Oestemann Speaks
Methodist Church
Starts Campaign
$6,000 Goal In Effort For
Improvements To
Church
Methodist Episcopal church of Dal-
las started a campaign among its
membership on Tuesday to raise $6.-
000 for needed improvements to the
church property.
For many years the facilities of the
chureh have been inadequate to meet
the needs of a growing community.
During the fall and winter many im-
" “|provements were made to the-property
through the aid of Relief work funds.
through the years was used to pur-
chase materials for construction of a
modern basement, retaining walls,
windows, sump and relocation of th
heating plant.
Until a few months ago it was not
the intention of the church to do any-
thing more toward the completion of
the basement and other desired im-
provements until business conditions
improved. At a recent meeting of the
congregation, however, it was almost
the unanimous opinion to proceed with
the work at once. An architect has
been engaged and preliminary plans
have been prepared. The cost of im-
proving the church will be about $5.-
000. Repairs to the parsonage and
painting of the church will cost anoth-
er $1,000.
Within the next week some member
of the solicitation committee will vis-
it every member of the congregation to
explain the plans and seek help. These
golicitors will also present the bud-
get for the coming year Subscrip-
tions are to be in cash or payable at
weekly or monthly intervals over a
period of two years.
Trucksville Man
Killed On Highway
Dies In Nesbitt Hospital
Twenty Minutes After
Accident
The funeral of John Jackson, aged
62, of Trucksville who was killed Wed-
nesday afternoon by an automobile
while crossing the highway in the vic-
inity of Birch Grove, will be held Sat-
urday afternoon from the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Albert Russell of 485
Vaughn street, Kingston.
Mr. Jackson died Wednesday after-
noon, at 2:35, about twenty minutes
after he had been admitted to Nesbitt
West Side hospital where he had been
taken after the accident by Albert
Zikcavage of Lee Park who had pick-
ed Mr. Jackson up from the road.
Corporal K. J. Lewis of the State
Highway Patrol .investigated the ac-
cident as did Deputy Coroner Charles
Doran. According to reports Mr, Jack-
son had walked across the highway to
empty something from a basket and
started to return to the other side. He
jumped out of the way of pne auto-
mobile directly into the path of an
automobile owned by Prof. D. J. Cray
of Wilkes-Barre, superintendent of
schools of Pittston city. The Cray
automobile was going in the direction
of Dallas. Zikcavage who was going
in the direction of Wilkes-Barre pick-
ed Mr. Jackson up and rushed him to
the hospital. Prof. Cray followed go-
ing immediately to the Highway Pa-
trol headquarters and reporting the
accident, where he was released on
his own recognizance, pending an in-
quest, but Deputy Coroner Doran stat-
ed Wednesday night that he did not
believe an inquest would be neces-
sary.
Mr. Jackson leaves one daughter,
Mrs. Albert Russell of Luzerne aad
-f three sons, ‘William and John of Forty
Fort and Alfred of Laurel Run,
Gives Dallas A Glimpse Of
Latest Styles For
Wanderers
Friedrich Karl von Hertzog-Huber
und Oestemann (Fred to you) gave
Dallas a preview of What Men Will
Wear this week as he passed through
here on his way to nowhere in parti-
cular. 5
Friedrich Karl von Hertzog-Huber
und Oestemann (who might have
been in China covering the war if the
war hadn’t ended so soon) was wear-
ing tall hiking boots, scanty khaki
shorts, a bit of a jersey which left
most of his bronzed chest, shoulders
and ‘arms €xposed to the atmosphere
[pas fat little pancake of a cap made
A building fund of $1,000 accumulated | from
real Scotch plaid and perched
precariously on the top of his. head.
Friedrich Karl von Hertzog — well,
Freq, then — carrie§ a heavy ‘pack and
a en by seven by seven (his own
ln tent on his back. = His ori-
gin is almost as vague as his destina-
tion, because he’s been from California
to Florida and he isn’t headed for any
particular spot.
His most recent habitat was in New
York City, where he spent many de-
lightful days and nights in that city’s
parks. He has visited practically
every Hoover City and Roosevelt
Circle between here and New York
These are the pathetic little settle-
ments where jobless wanderers stop
for a while to rest in shabby shacks
clustered about a dump or a vacant
plot.
Mr. von Hertzog-Huber und Oeste-
mann was a printer. For the last five
years he has been travelling about, al-
ways searching for a job, but never
passing up an. opportunity to meet
new people or to see new country.
He is no ordinary Gentleman of the
Road. He expects to be a writer some
day and he is a great admirer of Wil-
liam Randolph Hearst. He hints at a
respect for the principles of the Khaki
Shirts and believes United States some
day will have a Nationalist Party in
control, as Germany has now.
He knows these jobless men who
have created a new social problem for
their country and he says they have
never lost hope that America will soon
have prosperity and economic peace.
He believes the editors of all the
newspapers should join forces in a
united effort to rid the country of de-
pression and force the measures which
will assure the country of permanent
prosperity.
Friedrich Karl von Hertzog-Huber
und Oestemann told us these things
and then he tramped on down the
road, his funny Scotch plaid cap wob-
bling on_his head, the clump-clump of
his heavy boots growing fainter and
fainter.
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Tannery On Full Time
The big J. K. Mosser Tannery at
Noxen, owned by the Armour Leather
company, is now working on a full
time schedule. The leather produced
at Noxen is considered among the best
produced in this country. The excel-
lence of the water used is considered
one of the big factors in bringing this
about.
Taxpayers’ To Meet
“Here Monday Night
Problems related to water supply,
sewage disposal and reduction of trol-
ley fares will be discussed at a meet-
ing of Dallas Borough Taxpeyers’ as-
sociation Monday night in the borough
high school building.
There will aslo be reports of the
various committees from Shavertown,
Trucksville and. Dallas borough which
were appointed last Friday night at a
meeting of Shavertown Improvement
Association to discuss projects bene-
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Council Not Enthusiastic
About Sewage Plant Plans
STATE SCORED
FOR PASSING UP
BIG OPPORTUNITY
Pennsylvania officials are be-
ing severely criticized for pro-
crastinating in Geveloping a road
construction program.
“Road funds became available
July 1 based on the National
Recovery’s Act's allotment of
$400,000,000” says Peter L. Wei-
mer, chairman, highway commit-
tee, Pennsylvania’ Hotelmen’s
Association. “Plans for road con-
struction in New York have been
submitted to President Roose-
velt. Pennsylvanians are remiss
in their duty in delaying pro-
projects”. —
“The primary object of the
Act was to place the money al-
loted and men to work. Even
though plans are submitted
within the next few weeks, it
will at least be the middle or
latter part of August before any
of these projects can be placed
under contraet. This does not
apear to be consistent with the
idea of getting men back to
work and adding the stimulant
necessary for complete business
recovery. al
A fraid Of T Indebtedness; :
Write Admifistrator
For dfiformation |
PO DISCUSS LATER
Discussion of. possibilities for con=
struction of a sewage system in Dal-
Las borough from money appropriated
and loaned by the Federal government
were lightly discussed at a meeting of
borough council on Tuesday night in
the borough building.
Many councilmen, unaware that the
government is making grants to bor=-
oughs under the Federal Industrial Re~
covery act, were unprepared to discuss
the matter. The secretary was, how=
ever, instructed to write the Pennsyl-
vania administrator of the Federal
fund for further information on the
rate of interest, number of years over
which loans will be carried and the
amount of outright grant which the
Federal government will grant bore
oughs for public works.
At the present time the borough has
no definite plan for the construction
of a sewage system here nor idea of
the cost of such a system. The gen=-
eral opinion seemed to be that the
borough is getting along very well
without adequate provisions for sew=-
age and that it can continue to get
Firemen Busy On
Carnival Plans
| Enthusiasm Marks Efforts
Of Company To Make
Event A Success
With the erection of two large street
signs in Dallas, distribution of auto-
mobile stickers and placarding of tele-
phone poles and store windows within
a radius of twenty miles, the adver-
tising campaign for Dr. Henry M. La-
ing fire company carnival, August 10,
11, and 12 got under way this week.
During the week of the Carnival
there will be daily broadcasts over sta-
tion WBRE in Wilkes-Barre calling
attention to the Carnival events.
At the enthusiastic meeting of more
than thirty members of the fire com-
pany last Friday night in the borough
building members of the various com-
mittees reported on the progress of
plans to date, James ‘Besecker, £or * the
purchasing committee, reported that
the contract had been signed with the
James Bell company for the novelty
booths and wheels. The merchandise
will be of a higher type than in pre-
vious years. There will be a Bingo
game, bottle game, blank and quilt
booth, mixed merchandise booth, toy
booth and candy booth.
Members of the entertainment com-
mittee reported progress in obtaining
a number of amateur boxing bouts to
be featured on one of the nights-of
the Carnival. It ig also expected that
there will be a different orchestra on
each night of the Carnival, with per-
haps a band on one night. .
Arrangements are being made to
have a square and round dance on the
upper floor of one of the buildings on
the Adelman plot. The Ladies. Auxi-
liary will also serve a chicken supper
on the Carnival grounds on the last
night. Tickets for the big community
dinner are now on sale.
_ Within the week members of the
building committee will be at work
constructing booths and soon there-
after the members of the electrical
committee will begin stringing color-
ed lights over the grounds.
If enthusiasm and hard work are in-
dications of success the Carnival 1s
bound to be one of the best both from
an entertainment and financial point
of view ever held in the community.
At Friday's meeting five new mem-
bers were accepted into the organiza-
tion and committees reported many
others who were anxious for member-
ship.
At the conclusion of the meeting,
John Sullivan owner of the Meridian
Restaurant served a sauerkraut and
bean supper to the members present.
Qs
Link In Highway
The famous Snake Creek road be-
tween Montrose, Susquehanna county,
and Binghamton, \N. Y., is on the pro-
gram for reconstruction this year from
Federal Funds alletted for the purpose.
The Snake Creek road is in reality an
extension of the Tunkhannock-Mont-
rose highway which in turn forms a
north and south highway with the
Tunkhannock-Dallas road. If the
Snake Creek and Bowman's Creek
roads are completed this season they
will form an important link in what
may in a few years become one of the
most important trunk highways in
the country.
along as it has in the past. The fact
that the Federal government will make
an outright grant of 30 per cent. of the
cost of such public works created little
or no enthusiasm in the
councilmen who feared that a bond is-
sue might be necessary to amortize the
long term loans of the government.
The discussion closed with the sug=<
gestion that the possibility of con=
structing a sewage system be discuss-
ed at the next meeting.
Other business at the meeting
cluded the ‘payment of bills in the
amount of $477.50. ‘These were com-
posed largely of three accounts; $198.-
40 to road department employees;
121.55 to S. R. Durland Sand Co., for
sand and gravel and approximately
$75. for repairs to the street depart-
ment truck. Since there is a balance
of only $146.51 in the borough treas-
ury it was moved to borrow $250 to
meet current expenses, making a total
of $2,250 which the borough now has
on short term notes. In an informal
discussion councilmen approved the
suggestion that the amount of bor-
rowing for the year be limited to $3,-
000.
- The borough engineer was instructed
to prepare the grade on Ridge street
Thick runs Iroa “Parker: lane
Franklin street and report his findings’
at the next meeting of council. He
was also asked to get releases from
property owners living along the street
so that the street can be taken over
by the borough if funds are available
this year for its construction. The
street was not, however, taken over
by the borough.
There was some discussion of the
Dallas township end of Center
road. The contract signed by officials
of Dallas township and Dallas borough
with regard to the upkeep of the road
was presented for reading by those
interested in the condition of the road.
If the road is returned to the Court
by those residents of the borough who
live on the street, the contract will be
presented ‘to the Court as evidence of
the agreement by the borough con-
stable.
Leonard O'Kane presented his resig.
nation as high constable, having been
recently appointed constable hy Luz-
erne county court to fill the unexpir-
ed term of Elwood Elston. James
Gentzle was appointed high constable
in Mr. O’Kane's place.
Sees “New Deal”
Working On Trip
L. A. McHenry Returns
From 3,500 Mile :
Journey
Farmers of the middle west are en-
thusiastic over President Roosev,
and the ‘‘new deal” according t
A. McHenry, local real estate man
has just returned from a 3,500
motor trip to Baldwin Kansas wheg
he left his three small daughters to
visit his parents for the summer mon-
ths.
Everywhere, says Mr. McHenry,
farmers are encouraged by the rise of
food products. Although few of them
have not yet benefitted by the advance
of farm prices, they expect higher
prices for this year’s crops.
All that the western farmer as®s is
a return to the price levels of 1909
to 1913. With 60c corn and $1.00
wheat the farmer believes he can
meet his taxes and buy the products
of the industrial cities of the east.
Last fall, corn in Kansas, where Mr.
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Youngsters
The play adventures of two local
boys almost turned to tragedy on
Wednesday when the roof of their
underground bunk collapsed -and bur-
ied the boys face down under a pile
of earth, tin and wood.
Lewis LeGrand, jr., 11, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis LeGrand and Francis
Freeman, 11, son of Rev. and Mrs.
Francis Freeman, had completely re-
covered from their scare yesterday but
(their next bunk, if any, will probably
ficial to the respective communities ot be constructed along more sound en-
the region.
gineering principles.
Near-Tragedy Comes
To Local
Playing In Dugout
The two were alone in the subteran-
nean rendevous on a vacant plot on
Baldwin Street caved, but a number of
other children who were playing with
them gave the alarm.
Parents worked feverishly for sev=
eral minutes before the assortment of
shutters and tin could be removed and
the youths could be extricated.
The dugout had been constructed by
digging a hole in the ground, laying
supports over it, and covering the sup-
ports with dirt and a tin roof to pre-
vent leakage. ; 4 : .
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minds of.
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