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VOL. 43
Headlines
Of The Week
A summary of this week's
news of international in-
terest, reviewed for Post
readers.
GOLD
‘When Al ‘Smith flat-footedly opposed
‘President Roosevelt's monetary plan
with an editorial in which he said he
‘was ‘for gold dollars as against
he could not have
foreseen the potent enemies he was
First, Senator Borah ridi-
culed Smith's lack of a better plan,
then Father (Charles Coughlin, radio
priest, told his listeners that Smith
was ‘content to squint toward the fu-
ture with his face turned toward the!
past.”
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LYNCHERS
Like most Americans who considered
the lynching of the Brooke Hart kid-
nappers fair punishment for their
Jr., of
California, in whose state the kidnap-
‘ping and lynching took place, approved.
He considered the lynching “a fine
lesson to the nation”, promised blanket
pardons for the lynchers, if they are
identified. :
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Bound for Washington after delving
“jnto the complexities of Wyoming Val-
© ley’s mine labor troubles, the govern-
ment’s fact-finding commission wearily
‘left Wilkes-Barre on Monday night.
They will report their investigation of
grievances, then return for more facts.
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DEATH
Unlike Thurmond and Holmes, who
- were mob-lynched for their murderous
tendencies, Anthony Tetrosky and
Frank Stabinski, who climaxed their
criminal careers with the murder of
Mary Malinowski at Wilkes-Barre a
year ago, still lived this week. Under
sentence to die in the. electric chair,
they were refused a new trial by the
Supreme Court, planned a petition to
the Governor for a respite.
GERMS
A thief stole a physician's kit bag
from an automobile at Glen Cove, L. L,
on Monday. Within thirty minutes, Dr.
George Zuccalo, owner of the bag, le
notified police that it contained mil-
lions of deadly typhoid germs, enough
to plunge an entire county into an
epidemic. An alarm was broadcast
asking the thief to destroy the bag
immediately.
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MINERS
Thirty-five thousand unemployed
‘miners must be absorbed by other in-
dustries if future strikes and flare-ups
are to be eliminated locally, said
Howard Strong, secretary of Wyoming
Valley Chamber of Commerce, this
week. The industry, which once em-
ployed 170,000 workers; Dow supplies
work for half that Suber.
.
WORK &
To make good news travel
summons to work for men who will
have jobs on the numerous Civic
Works projects throughout this region
were delivered to 410 homes in Wilkes-
Barre by city policemen. So 410 men,
who would not have received the order
until late afternoon, were able to 80
to work early in the morning.
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CONFESSION.
In an on-again, off-again, on-again
investigation, police investigating the
murder of Rheta Wynekoop at Chicago
first heard Dr. Alice Wynekoop, 62,
Rheta’s mother-in-law, confess, then
heard Mrs. Wynekoop's son, Rheta's
husband, insist that he had been the
murderer, then heard Dr. Wynekoop
repudiate her confession. The State
moved swiftly to prosecute the doctor
and her son.
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SPIDER
Experimenting with the poison of
the “black widow” which kills rats,
mice, guinea pigs, Professor Allan W.
Blair 33, permitted a spider to bite his
tittle finger. A sharp pain shot
through his hand, spread to his shoul-
der; violent abdominal cramps doubled
him up, gasping with pain, Professor
Blair insisted on having his heart
action recorded before he would allow
Two days in
the hospital gave him time to reflect
on the "Black Widow's” virulency.
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AVIATORS °
Five months ago two French avia-
tors, Gate and Constant-Bree, flying
along the West African coast, vanished.
When Portuguese soldiers searched the
interior, Pilot Gate's wife accompani-
ed them, returned this week with the
horrid news that black cannibals had
caught, butchered cooked and eaten
the men in a drunken orgy.
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THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1; 1933.
PTA Cot Wins
Victory In Play
Tournament Here
To Represent County In
District Contest At
Benton, Dec. 8.
TWO SELECTED
The. dramatic group representing
Dallas Township Parent-Teacher As-
sociation in the Luzerne County Rural
Play Tournament at Trucksville High
School on Tuesday night was one of
the two entries selected to represent’
the county in the district contests in
the high school at Benton on Friday
night, December 9.
The PTA group, with the group
from the Bloomingdale Grange, was
selected after a series of preliminary
tournaments in which about ten groups
from all over Luzerne County had
competed. At the competition at Ben-
ton, judges will select the winner to
represent the Northeastern District in
the State tournament at Harrisburg
next Januay.
rd
Members of the cast of the play “Not
Quite Such A Goose,” which won
first place for the 'local group are:
Mrs. Loretta Cooke, Mrs. Bell; Willard
Lauderbach, Albert Bell; Mary Jane
Stahlman, Sylvia Bell; Walter Lewin,
Philip Flick; Marie Woolbert, Hazel
Henderson,
The Bloomingdale Grange presented
“D 298” with the following cast: Rus-
sell ‘Culvers, Billy; Mrs. Paul Crockett,
May; Mrs. Arthur Seward, Miss Pratt;
Richard Sutliff, Mr. Ebbs.
The Kingston High School orchestra
played and several members of the
dramatic groups entertained. Russell
Culvers and Mrs. Paul Crockett played
a guitar selection and Little Miss Carr
‘gave a tap dance. ;
_ Other groups competing:
Memorial Class of the M. E. Church
at East Dallas presenting “Good Girl in
the Kitchen.” Blanche Love, “Yennie
Yenson;” Rozilla Carlin, “Mrs. Jen-
nings;” Beatrice Ross, “Julia Jennings”
Beulah Brace “Josie Jennings”; Helen
Bush, “Samanthy Jones”. Hazel Hilde-
brandt, “Mandy White”; Freda Hugh-
vy, “Mrs, Smith.”
Huntington Grange, presenting
“Sunset”. R. B. Ridall as “Mr. Rivers”;
Carleton Ridall, “Lawrence. Leigh";
Alexander Ridall, “Azariah ‘Stodd;”
Ethel, Line, ‘Aunt Drusilla;” Mrs.
Ethel Dinger, = “Lois Rivers;” Doris
Norman, “Joan Jasper.”
The climax in the preliminaries were
reached last Friday night when the
winners in the (North District was sel-
ected. The PTA group and the entry
from Bast Dallas Church were tied for
the honors so both competed wat the
finals in Trucksville on Tuesday night.
BOROUGH'S ATHLETES
HOLD DANCE TONIGHT
Dallas Athletic Association will spon-
sor an informal dance to be held in the
borough high school auditorium to-
night.
Music will be furnished by Terry's
Orchestra, and ‘it is expected that a
large crowd will be present.
Proceeds of the dance will be applied
to a fund from which expenses of the
Athletic Association will be paid.
EDDINGER SCORES AS
109th POLO PLAYER
st co,
Adolph Eddinger of Kingston Town-
ship is one of the mainsprings of the
109th Field Artillery polo team which
will begin its regular season soon.
In the preliminary games which
have been played by the squad, [Mr.
Eddinger has won a reputation for his
hard and clever riding.
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Old Resident Dies :
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Mrs. Mary Woolbert, aged 73,-dt6d
at the home of her daughtef, Mrs,
Frank Garrahan, on Wednesday morn-
ing, Funeral services will be on Fri-
day afternoon at 2 with interment in
Warden Cemetery.
Mrs, Josephine Risley /
Passes Away At Savro
Mrs. Josephine Risley, 85, mother of
W. B. Risley of Dallas, passed away
at her home at Sayre on Monday at
1:30 after a lingering illness, Mrs.
Risley was beloved by a number of
persons throughout this section who
knew her.
Mr, and Mrs. Risley, accompanied by
their son, Howard Risley, attended the
funeral services yesterday at Sayre.
LOWER STREET CAR RATE TO BE
EFFECTIVE ON DECEMBER 15th
The reduction in the cash street car
rate between Wilkes-Barre and Dallas
will become <effective December 15, it
was announced this week.
Through the rezoning of the route
between Dallas and Wilkes-Barre,
street car riders will pay only twenty-
four cents cash fare, instead of the
thirty-two cent fare in ‘effect now.
The price for tickets will be the same,
twenty cents, and tickets will be placed
on sale at convenient locations,
The reduction follows the Public
Service Commission's approval of the
petition filed by Wilkes-Barre Railway
Corp., asking for permission to lower
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the fare on this branch. The reduction
is a victory for the Dallas Borough
Taxpayers’ Association, which sponsor-
ed the movement for a lower rate,
' Although the mew zones give Dallas
residents the benefit of a lower fare,
the rezoning does not reduce the fare
paid by Shavertown residents riding
into the city and it is expected a lower
rate will be sought by that group.
Officials of the local taxpayers’ group
expressed their gratefulness to J. B.
Potter, general manager of the trac-
tion company, for the cooperation he
gave ‘in satisfying the demands of the
local group.
SRR LE Ga py aE
15,000 GO BACK
TO SCHOOL DESKS
AS RESULT OF NRA
Return to schools of approxi-
mately 15,000 boys and girls be-
cause of NRA codes barring
children under 16 from industry
has been accomplished in Penn-
sylvania with.a minimum of dif-
ficulty, Dr. James N. Rule, su-
perintendent ‘of Public Instruc-
tion, reported this week.
Since the opening of schools in
‘September these children, who
otherwise would have been
working and attending school
only about eight hours a week,
are in schools on full time.
The additional teaching bur-
den has been absorbed mostly by
those formerly engaged in con-
tinuation work.
Irem Clubhouse’
Sports Expected Te Bring
- Hundreds Here During
Next Three Months
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Instead of closing its Clie at
the end of the golf season, Irem Coun-
try Club has announced that the club-
house here will remain open during the
winter for members of the Temple,
their families and friends.
Tobogganing, coasting, skiing and
skating will be available when weather
permits and it is expected the club will
be a center for the lovers of winter
sports.
The clubhouse, as during the other
seasons, will be available for dinners,
luncheons, bridge and other social
functions.
Preparations for the holiday season
are under way with either a dance or
cards after midnight on Chistmas’ Eve,
as well as entertainment, dinner and
dancing on New Year's Eve.
Firemen Ask For
Citizen’s Help
Meet $200 Equipment
Note By Dec. 16
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Notified by Hamburg Bank & Trust
Co. of Hamburg, Pa., that the note for
$200 on new equipment, due on Decem-
ber 16, must be met, members of
Trucksville Volunteer Fire Company
this week asked for immediate pay-
ment of pledges from as many citizens
as are able.
The amount can be raised, the fires
men believe, if those who have not
paid their $4 pledges will do so. Cards
were mailed last May to each owner
and tenant of a home in the fire dis-
trict, asking for a donation of $4, pay-
able in $1 installments on May 1, Au-
1gust 1, November 1, and February 1.
To date, less than one-half have
made payments and inasmuch as the
third payment is now due, the fire
company requests all those who have
received these cards to make their
payments to a solicitor when he calis
or at Leonard's Store, Carverton Road,
before Friday, December 15.
The fire company needs the help of
the citizens’ particularly now in order
to meet the payments and it is ex-
pected there will be a united response
to the plea.
Open All Winter
Trucksville “Company Must
Tracy, Back In
~ Hollywood, Gets
14 Stage Offers
Local Picture Star Sure
Of Job Despite Loss
Of MGM Contract
DEFENDED BY FRIENDS
Lee Tracy of Shavertown whose five
year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer was cancelled last week was a
result of Tracy’s now famous Mexican
window ledge episode, will have no
difficulty finding a new job. :
- Fourteen offers to return to the stage
and two motion picture contracts have
already been tendered to the former
local star, it was reported on good au-
thority this week.
Variety, theatrical newspaper, quoted:
Tracy as declaring he has received the
fourteen stage: offers, but none from
another film concern, but Mrs. W. L,
Tracy of Shavertown, mother of the
star, said she had received word that
Lec had received two _motion picture
‘offers.
Tracy returned to Hollywood this
week insisting that the incident which
drew the ire of Mexican officials was a
great msunderstanding.
It was understood in Hollywood that
MGM’s action was an invocation of
the Hay’s morality clause and although
Will Hays has taken no stand in the
matter it is understood that he sanc-
tioned. MGM’s move against Tracy,
whose contract had three more yearly
options. S
The Mexican incident played havoc
with the staff and cast on “Viva Villa”
the picture Tracy was making, Dir-
ectors were, changed, Donald Cook
replaced Donald Reed and Dorothy
Burgess will go in for Mona Maris.
After considering Leo Carrilo, Charles
Butterworth, Stuart Erwin, Wallace
Ford and Lynn Overman for Tracy's
role, Only members of the cast to re-
main were Wallace Beery and Irving
Pichel. :
Screen Actors’ Guild will not inter-
fere in the aftermath of the Tracy
case. ii pe
After eulogizing the production as a
splendid one, Mexican newspapers did
a sudden about-face this week and
lambasted “Viva Villa,” asserting it in-
sults the country,
Within the last three years seven
Hollywood made pictures,
can authorities, with some of the films
banned. Among these are: “Under a
Texas Moon,” “Girl of the Rio”,
“Strangers May Kiss”, “Gay Caballero”
“Straners May Kiss”, “Gay Cabellero”,
“Broken Wing”, “Woman I Stole”,
“Kid From Spain”, “Lasco of the Rio
Grande” and “In Old Mexico”.
All players on location with Tracy
are defending the actor.
Prominent friends in the motion at
ture and stage world came to Tracy's
defense and criticized Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer for cancelling the five-year con-
tract it had with the former Shaver-
town boy. y
Among these was Walter Winchell,
Broadway gossip columnist, who re-
minded M-G-M that “we all misbehave
sometime or other”. He hazarded the
prediction “that the picture com-
pany will lose more financially than
will Mr. Tracy through the cancelling
of the contract.
Films of Tracy's latest picture,
‘Viva Villa”, were reported destroyed
in an airplane crash near the Mexican
border. Tracy had been in Mexico com-
pleting the picture when the .charges
that he had Jinsulted the government
by appearing on a balcony semi-nude
to watch a parade were lodged against
him,
. and two,
shorts have aroused the ire of Mexi-
ALL-CONFERENCE
TEAM TO BE IN
POST NEXT WEEK
The all-conference team sel-~
‘ected by coaches of thig section
will be announced in The Dallas
Post next week. :
Because of the holiday, + The:
Post was printed on Wednesday
afternoon this week, before the
important Thanksgiving games,
and it was impossible therefore
to include reports = of those
games.
Summaries of the Thanksgiv-
ing games and of the season’s
victories and highlights will ap-
pear 'in next week's Post.
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Church Schools Of
District To Meet
B. A. McGarvey Speaker
At Conference At:
Shavertown
All church schools of Dallas District
are expected to be represented at the
conference to be held on December 4th
at 4:15 in Bhavertown ‘Methodist Bpis-
copal Church.
The conference will be addressed by
B. A. McGarvey, State superintendent
and field representative of the Penn-
sylvania State Sabbath School Associ-
ation. The theme will be “What Ts It
All About”. A supper will be: serv ed
in the evening.
After the supper, Thos will be a
mass meeting for all members of the
Dallas District. Mr. McGarvey will
speak again on the Subject “The Chal
lenge of Life.”
A Young Peoples’ Conference of the
Dallas District Sunday School Associa-
tion will be held in Shavertown M. E.
‘church on December 5, ‘beginning at
4:15. Rev. Narman Clemens, pastor
of Kingston M. E. church, and Rew.
F. M. Sellers, pastor of the Shavertown
church, will speak at the evening ser-
vice. His subject will be “Adventur.
ing In Co-operation.
tee QI Qe.
Lake Taxpayers.
Lake Township Taxpayers’ Associa-
tion will meet in the Loyalville School
House on December 7 at 8:30. All
members are urged to be present
and new members will be welcome.
Reorganization Of
Board Next ] Monday
New School | Directors Will
Assume Duties; Officers
To Be Elected
Henry Disque and Harry Pittman,
who were elected members: of Dallas
School Board at the general election
this month, will assume their duties on
the board at the regular reorganiza-
tion meeting next Monday ‘night.
Mr. Disque and Mr. Pittman will re-
place Mrs. A. C. Culbert and John
Durbin, who will retire... Mr. Durbin
months ago:
In accord with the yearly sepeadle,
the board, after accepting the election
certificates of Mr. Disque and Mr.
Pittman, will elect a president and
vice-president. Later, committees for
the year wlli be appointed.
Repair Right-of-Way
Traction company employes have
cheer.
Therd is mo need to examine
For these reasons, and for the
begun.
Ed CR SER a ob
Thanksgiving, 1933
America gave thanks yesterday with a new ring of sincerity and
For the last three years there has been an element of hesitancy
- and bitterness about America’s Thanksgiving. The smile was forced;
it was like whistling to keep up our courage. .
But yesterday, America gave thanks honestly and sincerely.
During the first part of the year, she had faced a test such as she
had encountered only once or twice in her 157 years. That she came
safely through it, and that we approach the end of this year with a
confidence that the gravest dangers have been avoided, is an inspiring
tribute to the inherent strength of this nation and its institutions.
The worst depression and financial crisis in living memory has
been safely weathered. The Ship of State, manned by citizens who
now have the courage and confidence for the suprme effort, is off on
its course again, with all sails swelling in the breeze.
the confusing statistics to know
that millions have returned to work, that fewer people are starving,
that wages and prices have increased, that production is stepping up,
that business failures are decreasing. :
fact that we have been capable of
fighting through the conditions which marked the last three years,
America was truly grateful yesterday.
May God, in his infinite wisdom, help us to carry on in the same
spirit of sincerity and gratefulness the task that has been so well
been engaged for several weeks in
strengthening and improving the right-
of-way between Luzerne and Hillside,
along Toby's Creek. Tons of earth
Lhave been removed from one side and
placed along the bank of the creek and-
the tracks are now in excellent comn-
dition and safe from almost any pos-
sible hazard.
Schools Open Monday
Schools throughout this section end-
ed their session on Wednesday with
special Thanksgiving exercises and
closed for the holiday. Classes will be
resumed on Monday.
Rehearse Minstrel
—
The recently organized dramatic
club of St. Therese’s parish will meet
next Monday night to select members
of the cast of the minstrel, “Jinny’s
82nd Birthday,” which will be given
soon. Trials have been held for
several weeks under the direction of
Bernard McNelis.
diately. Other .
{have started their projects and unless
a great share of the amount granted
|cil a comprehensive plan for insuring
was appointed to fill a vacancy Several :
ee Immediate ag
Use Of Federal |
Funds By Dall:
by Dallas Borough Council and School
Board if some share of the $2,000,000
alloted for Federal Civic Work pro
jects in Luzerne County is to be. re
tion at its meeting on ition night.
Differentiating between the Public
Works - Commission, which allows an
outright grant of only thirty per cent.
and the temporary Civic Works Pro-
gram, which offers payment for all la
bor and materials used by municipa
ties, Henry Disque, president of the
Taxpayers’ Association, explained that
any applications for the Civie Works ¥
money must be made so the work is
completed before February 15, when
the temporary groups will again be
dissolved by the larger Public ‘Works
Commission,
Because of the clement of tine ‘he.
said, it is necessary that plans for the
work and applications be made imme-
communities already
council and school board act quickly ;
to Luzerne County will have been
taken by more aggressive towns,
Dallas Borough Council already has
applied for Public Works money to
pave Cemetery Street but there are a
number of other projects in the bor-
jlough that can be completed before
February 15 and for which the ‘borough
may apply for funds to cover the en-
tire cost.: 30 & AeA
The association iso] authorized Vi
A. Shindel, chairman of the committee
on the water supply question, to co
| plete the investigation and survey pge
paratory to presenting to Dallas coun-
an adequate water supply in case of
fire. Mr. Shindel's committee will d
termine the saving to borough Prope’
ty owners as a result of decreases in
fire insurance as well as the number
and location of the plugs and the cost
to the borough. 7 TE
Indignant complaints were received
regarding the direct dispaeal of sewage
into Toby's Creek within the borough
limits and the association moved to
ask council for some temporary mea
sures to prevent the hazard to health
which results from the unsanitary 2
practice. k
Christmas Dance
Season’s Climax
Women’s Club P Planning For
Initial Yuletide Affair
On Friday, Dec. 29.
One of the most outstanding events
of the Christmas social season will b
the initial uletide dance to be spon
sored by Dallas Women’s Club on Fri
day, December 29, in the Dallas Higl
School Auditorium.
Jean Turner is general chairman, as-
sisted by Thelma Wilson, Verna Welch,
Angeline Diamond, Mary Btahiman and.
Kathryn Shindel.
Elaborate plans have been made fol
decorations. The ceilings and walls
will be draped with midnight blue ma,
terial, having silver crescents and stars
as trimmings. The orchestra “will play
in a red brick house ‘to be constr ucte i
on the stage,
Dancing will’ be from 8:30 to 1. The
music will be furnished by Ralph
Paul's orchestra. Reservations can
made by telephoning Dallas 171.
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JAW PIERCED BY BULLET
Junior Misson, son of Harley Misson
of Main Street, was accidentally sho
when a bullet from a .22 calibre ri
in the hands of Paul Redmond pierce
his jaw,
Misson was bound for home whe
several boys who had been hunting
called to him. As he approached the
group, the gun was discharged acci-
dentally. The bullet pierced Misso:
lower jaw; causing the loss ~ of tw
teeth. =
- Merle Anderson took the boy to the
office of Dr, Fleming where he was
treated.
In accord with The Post's editorial
last week urging the construction of a
sidewalk along the highway between
Dallas and the junction of Pioneer
Avenue and the state highway, Philip
H. Dewey, Pennsylvania Secretary of
Internal Affairs, “this week asked that’
some of the Federal relief money for
public works be used for sidewalk
construction throughout the State.
Secretary Dewey addressed Eric H.
Biddle, Federal Civic Works AZ ‘minis:
trator for Pennsylvania, explaining
that during several sessions of the
Legislature in recent years, efforts
have been made to procure appr opria- |
tions for the construction of such
Past called. srcocial atteniion-is
ularly ‘hazardous to pedestrians, thers"
are a number of rural roads through-
jout thig section where the safety of
pedestrians would be assured through
the adoption of Mr. Lewis’ S Suggestion, %
SIDEWALKS ALONG HIGHW AYS p>
/_ NEEDED SAYS STATE OFF ICER
walks for the safety of pedestrians
The proposals have been dropped a
each session,
The invitation of the administrato
for suggestions prompted Secretary
Dewey to revive the proposal in the
hope that the Federal moneys to be
advanced could be used
promoting
) highways and in the congested areas.
in part i
safety along the mail
‘Although the highway to which The
pat