VOL. 4“ hi proposed Luzerne by-pass between Kingston and the road to Dal- have the germ of an advertis- or even just a need for ee that you want translated into actual salss-pulling Ladvertising or direct mail printing you will find a responsible and interested man to help you at The Dallas Post, Inc. wn Finance Problem ~ Big Handicap To Luzerne By- -Pass Committee Moves To Secure Definite Figures On Cost LUZERNE PROTESTS . Faced withthe problem of reducing “costs to a point where they will come nearer to available finances, the com- mittee which is working to secure. the as a link las from: Luzerne this week moved to- o tative state, would have the highway | ~ ward securing definite costs and was considering several alternate plans. Ome of those plans, as yet in a ten- constructed along ‘the right-of-way of ‘Wilkes-Barre Railroad Corp., that company to abandon’ its street car line in favor of busses for transportation between Dallas and Wilkes-Barre. ~ County officials met with members of | ~ the committee supporting the by-pass project last Friday at the home of Senator Andrew J. Sordoni at Harvey's ~ Lake. The commissioners stressed the - county's inability to finance the pro- ject now because of other indebtnéss but expressed their willingness to co- operate in the plans. . Authority was designated to differ- ent members of the group who will re- “port on detailed costs, on damages, on the possibility of securing C. W. A. funds and on other alternate plans ¢ suggested at the conference. . It is expected that the committee will eventually ask the State to relo- cate the highway as the first step. “Once the relocation is accomplished the ‘desired funds will be sought from the: State and the County or. from .the Federal Government. .. Wilkes-Barre ~ Railway Co. may then be approached to determine if its right-of-way can be ‘purchased. : © ‘Opposition Appears Business men -of Luzerne, fearinz that thé by-pass: would harm their ‘businesses by directing ‘traffic .along the outskirts of the: borough- instead of a “— persons from the lower ston and, Wilkes- Barre than the pro-. through its Main Street as at present, “appealed to Samuel, S: Lewis, Secretary of Pennsylvania Department of High-’ ways this week, protesting against. the by- -pass plan. The Luzerne ‘merchants protested that™ constriction of "thé by-pass would cost twice as much as the im- provement of the main thighway through Luzerne. They argted that Bennett ‘Streét can be widened from 34 to 40 feet and that other traffic ‘bottle-necks cdn be eliminated simi- larly. The route they suggest, how- “ever, would be considerably longer for end of King- posed by-pass. The by-pass was planned originally because it ‘eliminated the congested bottle-neck passage through Luzerne Borough and because it shortened the distance between Dallas and Wilkes- Barre. Those who attended the meeting at ‘Senator Sordoni’s last Friday were: ~ John A. MacGuffie and Dr. Lewis Ed- wards, County Commissioners; Charles ‘IL. Albert, Peter Jurchak, R. L. Cough- and Senator lin, Luzerne County solicitor; Robert IL. Williams, eounty engineer; Norman Johnstone, secretary, Wyoming Valley Motor Club; R. J. Harper, State High- ‘way Department; J. P. Potter, Wilkes- Barre Railway Corp.; William H. Conyngham; Harden Coon, Arthur L. Stull, Albert Stull, J. Albert Bolender, Sordoni. ~The following letter was adopted to Send to Samuel S. Lewis, chief of the highway department at Harrisburg, as well as to Senators Andrew J. Sordoni and Laning Harvey: “Luzerne Borough Association at a regular Friday, February 9, 1934, directed me to file formal protest with you and with Senators Sordoni and Harvey to the proposed plan to build a. by-pass road around Luzerne Borough: “1, Because such a road is unneces- sary. : 2 road. “3. Because the present route from Wyoming avenue, Kingston, over Ben- nett street, can be widened and re- paved at less than half the cost of the proposed new road. This road is now highway route 115. “4, That repaving of Bennett street ~ and Main street in Luzerne Borough, with ‘the removal of certain hazardous cornérs,offering at least as much con- venience to through traffic as the by- Business Men's meeting on Because of the cost of such a _. pass road suggested. “The Business Men's Association un- tstands that your department has ns and figures on the cost of im- jving Bennett and Main Streets as 11 as for the construction of the by- pass road. We suggest that your de- ~ partment sulrmit to the Business Men's Association the figures on the cost of’ the two projects at once.” MILDER WEATHER A RETURNS AS SUN SENDS WARM RAYS Temperatures mild in contrast to the zero marks which havg been registered during the past few days prevailed yesterday £s. the sun blazed forth to send thie . mercury above freezing for the . first time this week. For three days preceding the | temperature had threatened to 3 each the record-breaking low arks of last weck, dropping elow zero several times, ntinued cold weather with possibility of snow is pre- fed by the weather bureau. The Dall ws Jost. More Than A Newspapet, A Community Institution get Advertising in The Post is a safe bet. Ask our a roomful of furniture. . advertisers. One woman sold Another man S an average Of one customer a . week from a one-inch ad. Last week a local store was unable to meet the demand for a food product advertised. THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS PA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934 continuous months on the job. over again. DO YOU KNOW Photograph, Canadian National Railways HAT one of the biggest paint jobs in the world is that of protecting the superstructure of the Quebec bridge from deterioration? year 7500 gallons ‘of paint are sprayed on this bridge by specially | designed air brushes operated by a force of 35 men who work for five The bridge, part of which is shown above, is 2830 feet long, and three coats of paint have to be applied, one each year for three years by which time the job has to be started alt Every | ::Denounecing® the propaganda and during. times of :war and scoffing at such slogans as “war to end war” Fred ;M. Sellers; pastor of Shavertown M. E. Church “and former member of the English Air Corps. delivered a stirring plea for peace ‘among all ‘nations before ‘a small audience in Dallas M. B, Church on Monday night. PASTOR, EX-WORLD WAR AVIATOR, GIVES STIRRING PLEA FOR PEACE "Rev. F. M. Sellers Relates Experiences In France belligerent countries ,. Rev. lies: spread by .To drive his points home, _Rev.® Mr. Sellers illustrated his talk “with incidents from his own war experience when as an English pilot he raided edemy lines ‘and was later shot down and taken -prisoner in German terri- tory. Without Se or dramatics he told of the dea‘h of his observer on air with German Fokkers and of his fatal erash into a ruined building with German planes swooping low above pumping machine gun bullets into the ruined plane to make certain of the death of the pilot. Seriously injured in' \ the Th. Rev. Mr. Sellers told of his later experiences in a German hospital and of the kind- nes with which the German surgeon treated him. Then came his experien- ces in a German hospital where as a patient he suffered the mental torment of an aerial bombardment by English bombing planes. Although these planes were seeking to destroy an enemy de- pot a mile away they nevertheless tore both ends out of the hospital. At this point Rev. Mr. Sellers took occasion to say that the destruction of the hospital was not planned or intend- ed but that bombs have a way of land- ing where they are not supposed to. Likewise stories of Germans bombing hospitals are untrue as were the stories of Geérman atrocities against women and children. Most of these stories were manufactured lies to stir hatred and increase recruiting. He recounted incidents of other kindnesses shown him by German sol- diers one of whom shared his food with the prisoner and another who might have shot him as he attempted to escape from prison but who chose to spare life rather than take it. In concluding his address, Rev. Sel- lers paid tribute to the idealism of such ‘men as Woodrow Wilson and be- rated the selfish tactics of such men as Lloyd George and Georges Clemen- ceau and American politicians in ar- riving at the peace terms of ‘the war [to end war”, He quoted Abraham Lin- lcoln, saying there must be “malice toward none and charity toward all” if wars are to cease. Citizens of all na- tions must learn that they must think before they rush blindly into war shouting the manufactured slogans of diplomats and munition manufacturers which lead only to death and destruc- tion with no permanent good. achieved. that last trip, o a “dog fight” in they 14 New Contagious _ Cases This Month Scarlet Fever - Leads; Kerr ~ Warns’ ‘Against Measles .—" Epidemic Fourteen new cases of Sarlet fever, chicken pox and whooping cough which have been reported to Elmer Kerr, district health officer, since Feb- ruary 1 are evidence of the necessity for vigilance on the part of parents! locally if the dangerous prevalence of contagion is to be curbed, Mr, Kerr said this week. The spread of contagious diseases is general, Mr. Kerr reports, and au- thorities are of the opinion that this year will have an ynusually large num- ber of children’s diseases. In some |parts of the East severe epidemics of jmeasles are reported and Mr. Kerr is anxious that parents guard against any appearance of the epidemic here. Cases which have been reported since February 1 are in the homes of the following: Whooping Cough, home of Lee Hier, Shavertown; hone of Al Major, Sha- vertown. Chicken Pox, home of Howard Ed- wards, Shavertown: home of Edward Gregory, Trucksville; home of Oscar Spile, Hillside; home of Lloyd Pur- cell, Trucksville. Scarlet Fever, home of Edward Mec- Carty, West Nanticoke; home of Al- bert Swithers, Hunlock’s Creek; home of John Adams, Cease’s Mills, (two cases); home of Albert Briggs, Cease’s Mills; home of Theodore Allabaugh, Avondale; home of Wesley Diamond, Orange; home of David Walp, Fair- mount Springs; home of Howard Spencer, Exeter township. Meeting Postponed The Meeting of Dallas Borough Taxpayers’ Association which was scheduled to have bee. held on Mon- day night was postponed until Wed- nesday night, February 21. Lee Tracy, Shavertown’s Contrib tion to motion picture stardom, is in the enviable position of teaching Hollywood a lesson. Motion picture magazines, Holly- wood gossip columns and grapevine ‘reports fron the movie capital are {unanimous in their opinion’ that Lee {Tracy is teasing the movie magnates because of the «cold shoulders they turned toward him after his: Mexican episode several months ago. g When Mexico heaped abuse on the local film star after his alleged insults to the parading cadets in the now- famous balcony scene, Metro-Goldwya- Mayer cancelled Tracy's film contract | and left the likable young star high and dry without a job. As the true accounts of the affair HOLLYWOOD WANTS LEE BACK IN PICTURES BUT STAR TAKES TIME [madebox, stimulated by the sensational success which had met his latest pic- ture, “Miss Lonelyhearts”, but Lee, accepting the advice of close friends who had stood staunchly by, decided to wait, Among the most popular defenders of Lee Tracy has been Walter Win- ichell who has a kind word for the “bad boy of Hollywood” at frequent inter- (vals in his radio period or his news- (paper column. Tracy is as popular as, or more pop- ular than, ever. How soon he will take up his career where it was so rudely enterrupeed is a matter of conjecture. As it stands, Hollywood wants, him, {Broadway wants him, and the fans, from Maine to California, want him. And perhaps when Lee Tracy comes began to minimize the seriousness “of 'home to visit his mother at Shaver- Tracy's offense, Hollywood began to town the next time he will be accom- regret its snap judgment and make panied by Isabel Jewel, motion picture overtures to the local star. : star who, rumor ras it, will soon be ‘Offers began pouring. into’ Tracy's Mrs, Lee Tracy. i ¢ 4 | a project, although affording the bor- Council Turns Down Borough ~ Park Proposal 4 Winters Is Acquitted On Manslaughter Charge Rejects McHenry’s Plan As Too Expensive For Dallas LOCAL OBSERVERS ° ! “SEE ASTRONOMICAL He RARITY IN SKIES ROAD COMPLAINTS Persons watching™ “thé sunset : from “Dallas “and vicinity on Wednesday night saw. one: of the : rarest of astronomical phenom- ena in what scientists call a “paihdlion”; more . conmonly -- known as a “sun dog’. 3 The “sun dog” appears in close proximity to .the blazing sun: and creates an illusion of two -suns ' Setting, an extraordinary sight and one whichronce filled people *with awe and frequently. super- stitious terror." The ‘“parhelion” is . a bright spot formed in the fleecy clouds by ice crystals in the air with a luminous display of prismatic colors. ‘ Borough Council. at its meeting on | Tuesday night turned down the pro- | posal: of L. A. McHenry to give the! borough an athletic field if local au-| thorities would have it graded and purchase $1,400 worth of nearby lots on the Goss Manor plot. | Council felt that the expense of such ’ 2 @ Pct. 1.000 | .800 .400 .400 ! SoM ro ao E ough with an adequate athletic field in a good. location, was too great for it to bear at this time. There was also, some | doubt as to whether grading of the lot | could be done through Civil Works Administration as it was the opinion of some of the councilmen that such work would cost in the neighborhood ! of $16,000. S h With the rejection of this offer com- Q pleted and settled, Mrs. Ray Shiber ap- C ool uintets peared before council to enter formal | complain against the condition of | End First Half Centre Hill road. She said that the section of the road maintained by | Laketon Has St Safe L.ead As Dallas Borough was in good condition | but that section maintained by Dallas | Teams Enter Home Township was in bad condition. She Stretch asked that something be done to have | a the township live up to its ggreement ; : z Boe ont a dion nes Ly he i. sotelastic saskethull sive the borough was obviously living up tol of their season this week with Lake- its agreement by keeping its section of | ‘ton leading, Dallas Township’ sécond, the road in a good state of repair. ‘and Lehman, Kingston Township and: Mrs. Shiber expressed the opinion of | Dallas Borough tied for third place.: ‘nany residents who live in the bor-| y,yeton’s lead was ‘safe all through ough along the road which the town- |jtg game “with Beaumont last Friday ship promised to maintain, This sec- Inight, ‘the Harvey's Lake five winning tion is an easier ome to keep in era lits fifth consecutive contest, 49 to 12. than the one taken over by" pod Dallas Borough defeated Lehman, borough and it is the opinion of i {23 to 20, in one of the close games of residents that the township is neglect- [the Season dnd stepped ip a notch into. ing its duty to the extent that the road jts tie for third: place. Dallas was lead- willbe returned to Luzerne County | ing at the’ half but Lehman’ tied the court when the-constables make their |g ore. in tHe last quarter: A. basket by retyrns in March. LaBagr -and a foul shot gave the bor- lcugh its’ three- point lead shortly pefote Jr. 0. U. A. ML Raising the Fone —— : : allas Township aited a one-point Fins For School Flag [victory over’ wns Township, £150 3 had: been favored: to’ win? The . score ! ‘was 19-18. Dallas Council, No. 281, JT. 0. U. A. M., will sponsor a dance tomorrow | The scores for th, «frls’ games were night, (Saturday), in the Dallas Bor- ough High Séhool Auditorium to raise 510% TONRSLD IL, Dates wasting funds to purchase a flag for the pole ‘qo 0 duled: this eek Tas: in iFfontTof the high school. Laketon at Lehman; Beaumont wat Terry's Orchestra, one of the out- Kingston Township and Dallas Town- standing musical aggregations of this Yoni. at Dallas Borough. section, will provide music for round | Teague standing follows and square dances. William Cobleigh | Team will he caller. {Laketon The Council will conduct dances | | Dallas Township every” Saturday night and because of {Lehman J the popularity of these affairs in the Kingston Towaship {past it is expected that a large crowd | {Dallas Boro ough will be present. [Beaumont TRIBUTE TO “THE LOST SISTER” between Peru and Marion, Indiana, close by the banks of the Mississinewa, is an historic spot which has nearly as much interest for per- sons from Wyoming Valley as it has for natives of the region, who have guarded its treasures and preserved its significance for posterity. There, surrounded by a score of mementoes and markers, is the grave of Francis Slocum, whose romantic and dramatic story is one of the most thrilling echoes of Wyoming Valley's past. Stolen fron her home in Wyoming: Valley by Delaware Indians on Nov- ember 2, 1778, Francis Slocum came to love her Indian friends so much that when she was located by her family fifty-nine years later she refused to leave her crude home, even for a visit to the home of her childhood. The White Rose Of The Miamis they called her. Two widely separated communities perpetuate her memory. Children laugh and play today at the Frances Slocum Playground at North Pennsylvania Avenue and Scott Street where once stood the home of Jonathan and Ruth Tripp Slocum, parents of The Lost Sister Of Wyoming, In front of the Wyoming Historical and Geo? logical Society relatives of the girl have erected a memorial tablet which tells, briefly, her story. And her last home, in Indiana, where chieftains and warriors came to see The White Rose, is being marked by the residents of that section, who recently designated the thirty-mile highway from Peru to Marion as “Frances Slocum Trail”. ‘When Frances Slocum’s brothers and sister located her in Indiana they found her thoroughly accustomed to the life of the Indiang and recognized as a queen by the Redmen. She told them th: story of her adoption by Tuck Horse and his wife who named the little white girl Wele- tawash. As she travelled about with her new parents, through Pennsylvania Ohio, Niagara, Detroit and Indiana, the memories of her own family grew dimmer and dimmer. She was at Kekionga when Harnar and St. Clair were defeated. She saw the victorious Indians return with scalps and plunder many times. She saw General Wayne begin his victorious campaign against the Indians and was among the squaws and children who fled to safety. 3 Her first marriage was to a Dela- ware, ‘but she lived with him only a short time. She married She-po-con- ah, a Miami Indian chief, later and her name was changed to Maconaguah, Little Bear Woman. When her hus- band became old, they moved to the spot which is marked today. They had two sons and. two daughters, but the sons died young. When her family found her, Frances Slocum was living as the head of a Half-way Gates Funeral This Afternoon Obsequies For Widely Known. Resident To Be Held At 2 The funeral of Chester 73, a resident of Dallas for fifty years, who died Tuesday night following a brief illness, will be held this afteraoon at 2 with services in charge of Rev. Francis Freeman of Dallas M. E. Church.l Interment wil be in Forty Fort cemetery. Mr. Gates was a familiar figure in Dallas and nearby communties. In his younger days he was engaged in the lumber business and later alternately served as postal tnail carrier from the Dallas post office, manager of the Ry- man water company and for a number of years worked in the Ryman store. He served one term as school director of Dallas borough. He was a man of gentle personality and was known and loved by old and young alike. Surviving are his wife, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Winifred Thomas of Dallas: a brother, Livingstone Gates of Chase, and two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Learch and Mrs. William: Warren of Peckville. Gates, aged the past Ladies’ Auxiliary The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Henry M. Laing Fire Co. will hold its monthly megting at the hose house on Tuesday evening, February 20, at 8 o’clock. There will be election of officers and refreshments will be served. I —.. Township P. T. A. Dallas Township Parent - Teacher Association will hold its monthly meet- ing’ } night, February 19, at 7 45, in the high school. Pupils from the fourth, fifth and Sixth grades will present a minstrel. Juniors will serve family, which inciuded her daughter, { {Continued on Page 3.) » ot A refreshments. All are invited to at- tend. er 2 °o % I returned Wednesday afternoon. 0 Lehman; 30,” Dallas Borough, 6; King= | .000 | Twp. Freed In Silick Death QUICK VERDICT Clare Winters, former Dallas Town- ship constable, [Charge of manxslaughter by a verdict The jury took only fifteen minutes and one {ballot to reach that verdict. l.. Winters’ ‘had = been fatally assaulting Steve Silick as the jelimax of a quarrel at Michael Haz- Paskrs” at Fernbrook on the aftérnoon vember 7, 1933. Silick died in | Nesbitt: Memorial Hospital “four days after the quarrel in which Winters and |Silick had figured. The original charge of murder was withdrawn by the Commonwealth early in the trial and the jury was instructed to determine only whether or not the defendant was guilty of manslaughter. Winters’ wife and child were in court when the verdict was read, as were many of his friends from this section. When he was acquitted, Win- ters shook hands with all the jurors and left, a free man. Mr. Winters has lived Township for five years. . First Day ~A large crowd, including many resi- of the defendant, attended the opening of: ‘the trial. ". members: Oliver ‘Fort; TH." W. Danks, TrucKsville; Matthwe . F. Farrell,” 'Wilkes:Barre; David Engler, Rice ‘Township; Charles Bradbury, ‘Avoca; John P. P lips, Hazleton; John Walters, - ‘Wilkes-Barra John Wolfinger, Ross , Township; Har- ry L. ‘Knies,’ “Hazleton: * Harry W. Montz, Kingston; William: A, Hewaivh of Wilkes-Barre. , Clauss,. Forty der verdict, based, its charges on thé allegations that Winters, intoxicated, ‘had fatally injured Slick by striking him with steel knuckles and a black- Jack and then running over ‘him with an automobile; ? The prosecution, represented by As-~ sistant District Attorneys Felix Bolo- wicz and John ‘H.: Dando ‘and Attorney iM. H. Salsburg, attempted .to, recon- struct the case to prove that Winters had ‘engdged “in ‘an argument with Silick in Hazlinski's and that the ar- gument was climaxed in front of that establishment when Winters struck, first with steel knuckles and then with a black-jack. Dr. FT. T. Wenner described the in- juries sustained as a fractured skull, ana head. Second Day. - ‘When Attorneys Roscoe B. Smith and Lorrie Holcomb, counsel for the defense, opened their case on Tuesday morning they said they proposed to prove that Winters had carried no “black-jack” or other weapon and that the victim had suffered his injuries when he fell from the running board of Winters’ automobile after it had been started. The defense also indica- ted that it would attempt to prove that quarrel. Walter Lewin of Fernbrook testified that he saw Silick jump on the running board of Winters’ automobile as it was starting, that he saw Silick strike at Winters and then topple to the ground his face striking the running board or fender as he fell, He said Winters did not carry a club and that when he returned several minutes later “his left eye was swollen and his lip wa$ (Bleeding, : John ' Morris, William Dawkins, Philip Knell, Joseph Randall, = John Chappel, Glen Ross, William Anderson, ;Leroy Weidow, William Reese and {Ziby Huey also testified in support. of the argument that Silick had been the aggressor. Russell Spencer said he saw Silick striking at the defendant and , that Silick’s brother, George, had intimated at the time that Silick was at fault. « Mrs. Frank Martz of Plymouth, who (Continued on Page 3.) re et ere To Continue Tests The United States Civil Commission has announced that an open competitive examination will be held to fill the position of postmaster at Shavertown. The commission an- nounced the date for assembling of competitors will be stated on the ad- mission cards sent to applicants after the date for the close of receipts of applications March 2. {Former Constable Of Dallas MAPS OF ANTARCTIC READY FOR MEMBERS OF THE POST'S CLUB The Post received this week a limited supply of maps of the, South Polar regions for distri- bution to - members or persons who want to become members of The Little America Aviation and Exploration Club. Any persons desiring one Of. these maps or a membership card may secure them at Tha Post without assuming any obligation. The maps enable a reader of The Post to follow the adven- tures of the club’s president, iral Byrd at the South Pole /and whose dispatches to The 5 £ Post appear weekly on Page 2; Captain Abele, who is with Ad- | was acquitted - on a charged with) in Dallas 5 dents of this section whe were friends The jury selected had as - * The Commonwealth, seeking’ a “Hiur- : \ 400 1a) broken jaw and wounds on the face TT Silick had been the aggressor in the Servics
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