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The Dallas Posi. > ~ara x More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution VOL. 44 Police Start Drive To End Petty Thefts Two 16-Year Old Sent To J Co — | | | oys eni ~ MOTORISTS VICTIMS Breaking up a ring of petty stealing? that has been going on in the borough | for some time, Chief Leonard O'Kane | arrested Frank Klug, Jacob Apolski and Harold Ferdessi Tuesday night on warrants issued by automobile owners who have had 'motometers, hub caps, auto robes and radiator caps stolen | from their atitomobiles during the past! few weeks. The defendants were taken | before Squire John Yaple where Apolski © was exonerated from the! charges but Klug and Ferdessi, who | confessed to stealing, were bound over to the juvenile court for a hearing on Saturday morning. All three of the boys, whose average age is sixteen, are former Dallas Bor- ough sghool students, but have not | been attending classes for some time. Chief Leonard O'Kane does not be- | lieve that the defendants are respon- | sible for the. vandalism which has | lately been reported by automobile owners who park their cars along Lake Street nights while - attending = the Himmler Theatre. Of recent weeks many car owners have been reporting finding their license plates bent double or destroved when returning to their | automobiles after the movies. They also report a number of small thefts | and other damage. Police have been seeking the culprits but have as ye made no arrests. Mrs. Shaver To Head Auxil Women Of Laing Fire Com- pany Elect Officers For Year. | | | i | { | | y Shaver was elected president .of Henry M. Laing Fire Co. for the ensuing vear at the meeting of the organization held on Tuesday night. Other officers elected are: Mrs. Margaret Hildebrant, vice-president; Mrs.” Clifford Ide, xice-presi- dent; Mrs. Ruth Carle, tary; Mrs. Robert Allen, treasurer. Mrs. ; Emma secona secre the contest Mrs. John Intense rivalry marked between Mrs. Shaver and, Girvan for the presidency. Two prox- ies were presented in Mrs. Girvan's } half but Mrs. Shaver won with Jority of eight votes. After h for the presidency, Mrs. Girv clined a nomination for the tr office. Three new and further annual dinaer Lee Tracy Stars In New Picture easurer’s members were receive ed plans were made of the auxiliary. Shavertown Actor Back In| Movies With New Contract Lee Tracy of Shavertown will start work soon under a new profit-sharing contract which he has signed with Universal Producing Co. His first pic- ture will be “I'll Tell Tha World”, which he again plays the part newspaperman. Tracy will tak tl role of a service correspondent in story by Lincoln Quarberg and Dale Van Every. “With battle dissipated, New York Times in | of a Villa’ the the smoke of the ‘Viva it now appears’ Movie column “that Mr. possible vietim mented this week, Tracy wa the row of a labor union Mexico. derstands that MGM with the Mexican unions and Tracy while in Hollywood incident was seized upon agitators, “Substantiation of this is seen ir contract for Universal, v in shying away fr person or story that might engender feeling in any quarter.” new notorious m NO MILKING BULL? REMEMBER MILKWEED, MILKFISH, MILKTREE. When an advertisement men- tioning a “milking © short-horn bull” appeared in the Classified Advertising Column of The Post last week the '2ditors, no dairy- men, found themselves hard pushed to prove that the joke was mot on them. There is, strange as it seems, ‘a milking bull”, Spell it *snilch” if. you prefer, but don’t embarrass it by casting asper- signs on its masculinity or its virility. No milk producer itself, \its children, they say, provide \generously of tha finest milk. And if you think ‘should be applied that “milk” only | frozen e | be coms | k ~ THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934 The Russian Orthodox Male Chorus of Wilkes - Barre, which will on Sunday evening at Shavertown M. E. The chorus of thirty- 3asil D. in native sing Church. six men, directed by Pelesh, will appear costumes and sing Russian numbers. COREY FISH Homels FOUND FROZEN TQ DEATH UNDER GARAGE HERE ictim Was Life-Long Resident Of Dallas The body of Corey Fisher, aged about 65, was found! stiff about ten o’clock Thursday morning in a pack-| t|ing box underneath the rear of Stanley’s Garage on Main! . | Street by John Charnosky of Larksville who was having | repair work done on his automobile at the garage. # Thinking that he saw only a man® sleeping in the box, Mr. Charnosky notified workers at the garage who in- vestigated and made - the gruesome | discovery. Deputy Coroner Harry derson was notified and the body was removed to Brickel's undertaking establishment. Corey Fisher had been a resident of the late Mr. who had their home nue in the property now owned by Eugene Lazarus, His father was a vet- eran of the Civili War and a lumberman and farmer. Recently, ex- cept when the deceased was employed ; by G. E. Hugftiey and Soa at their lumber camp in Susquehanna County | ihe was homeless and frequently slept {nights in the Dallas trolley station. On |cold nights, until about a week | Offi Tie O'Kane took | the Luz lock-up to on Machell Ave- to the him spend onar srne in the covering packing-box over the ght overcoat was the cold and on this lay. It believed that there about a week fused to ward | the [the dead is vd discov body hi lain re its ery. | Fisher carried a $1,500 mortgage in his I pocket and a small sum of money. | The deceased leaves two brothers | tand one sister, Olin of Wilkes-Barre; | Charles of Trucksville, i Litz of Wilkes-Barre. FIRE LEVELS LAST | What is believed to have been the remaining log schoolhouse in i Pennsylvania recently was burned to | the ground, according to reports to the { Department Public Instruction. It known as the Swartz School in ( Township, Juniata County, [few 1 miles north of Thompsontown. | The old log school is estimated to (have been built about seventy-five | years ago and many inhabitants of the ity did not know that it was of lozs until after the fire. Some | ago the structure had been covered with weather boarding. Re- buildir f >ne-roon school is now I WA. project et ee A New Auditor of | years Fe | I 1 | Bvmar nyman, been appointeg a County Court to cy on the board left by the resig- nation John A. Anderson. Mr. derson resigned because he holds executive office with the CWA, Ryman’'s petition was circulated Frederick Turpin. Da of an Mr. by An- | Dallas all his life. He was the son of! and Mrs. Oliver Fisher | retired ago, | When last seen, | and Mrs. James | LOG SCHOOLHOUSE , | Charles auditor {| the | An- | | Township P. T. A. Enjoys Minstrel ‘Borough Quintet Faces Hard Week i Trucksville Quits Rural League; Schedule Changed | LATE SCORES | Lehman, 43, Shavertown, 21. | * Noxen, 55, Dallas 39. | If the Dallas basketball team is to lenter the playoffs in the Rural Basket- ball League it :must emerge successful- ty from the stiff schedule which it faces for the next week. The borough | quintet will play Orange tonight, Leh- man next Tuesday night and Laketon i Students Of 4t 4th And 5th [on next Wednesday night. Grades Entertain Parents Students of the fourth and fifth grades of Dallas Township school pre- | sented a minstrel .show at the monthly | | meeting of the Dallas Town Par- {ent-Teacher Association Monday ‘night. At the 01 business session; before minstrel, Mrs. Lauderbaugh presided and Mrs, Girvan, the retary, and Mr. Kester, the treasurer, reported, | Members discussed the lack of at the small school house the | Sec of having individual {children while water into the buildi for the brought cups being was is ng. It ‘that the school board buy. paper cups | |for the children. i Miss Woolbert and Miss Love dir: jected the minstrel show, which had the following in its cast: Interlocutor, Walter men: George. Moore, Gerlock; Thomas End | Miller, [Robert Fahringer, James Roate, Allan | Sanford, | Caste rline, Donald Kriedlen, William Morris, Charles | ‘Mitchell. Chorus: Janine Sawyer, | {Phylis Carr, Molly Poad, Marilla Mar- tin, Lillian Stritzinger, Emma Creg- | How, Dorcas Davis, Frances Sayre, | Dorothy Rupert, Frances Haey, Eliza- beth Purvin, Florence Hazeltine, Tho- |mas Sawersky, Morton Moyle, Audrey | iShupp, George Russ, Frank Zaileskas, | Robert Lauderbauch, Eugene Schray, Rice, Norman Fritzgerald. {Gypsy Maids: Doris Hess, Caroline Brace, Estella Elston, Isabelle Hudock, Margaret Brzychik, Martha Hoyt, Mil- | dred Kitchen, Dorothy Weaver, Doro- [thy Gries, Mary Jones, Dolores borne, Norman Trevethan. Colonial | Girl Grace Mahler, Jean Hildebrant (Josephine Stockmal, Helen {Margaret Brace. Farmer TILads and! fran Mabe Rogers, Ben Brace, r, Morton Moyle, E Lillis ) Firemen’s Meeting | Members of Dr. lc ompany will meet Friday night at the | fire house to discuss business of im- portance, All members are urged to attend. # so 7 ail Mrs. org or, aged #69, whose husband was the owner and chief executive of the J. K. Mosser Tanning Company at Noxen, died last Thursday morning at the family home at Trexlertown, near Allentown, of an illness which had confined her to her [bed since Christmas. Mrs. Mosser would -have been 70 years of age on Sunday, February 25. Formerly Ida Hausman of Allentown, the deceased was married to Mr, Mos- ser socn after he graduated from Muhienburg College and several years before he moved to Noxen where in 1890 his father had erected a tannery. At that time Noxen was an isolated settlement which grew in size almost overnight as men and > families to imilk-producers’”’ reme k is Tilleran, milksn milkweed and miiksop. Wife Of Former Tannery Head / Dies At Home Near Allentown Lutheran Church and unusually fine talents and great ability at doing things won for her great esteem and love. her When the tannery, which was one | of the. six tanneries owned by J. K. Mosser, was sold to. Armour & .Co., Mr, and Mrs. Mosser moved to Trexler- itown, where Mr. Mosser became finan- fcially interested in the Lehigh Brick Company. 3eside her husband, Mrs. Mosser is survived by a son, Robert K., at home: a daughter, Mrs. Henry M. Fuller, Al- lentown; two sisters, Mrs. M. C. Hen- ninger, Allentown, and Mrs. S. V Fritch of Philadelphia; a nephew, Frank Weinsheimer, Wilkes-Barre: and two nieces, Mes, a BaucE I. died in 1918 influenza at water | during the | cold weather and stressed the necessity | suggested | Os- | Lumley, ! Henry M. Laing Fire | ‘ {hours; epi- tir The ruling of the league is that at [the end of the regular playing period | [the first four teams in thé league must | meet each other to decide the cham- | pionship. At present Dallas’ is in the {the fight but it must hold its slight lead over Laketon. It is evident that | the championship could alnost imme- | the battle | » “iately be decided except for (for positions. Orange, in third might not care to enter the semi finals against Lehman, since the Cen- Iter Hill boys seem to the cream of ithe entire cr p. Noxen would be favorite torwin over Dal ~ Laketon and hold -its second place position. A change in the Rural League sched- [ule was necessitated this week ‘result of Herbert Williams’ action giving up the franchise of ville team. . The franchise will be kept open for a {few days so that any one interested in taking it over may communicate with “Red” Schwartz by calling him any evening at Dallas 19. Orange will play at Dallas (Continued on Page 3.) place, be the in tonight Thomas | thick of | as the! his: Trucks-"! 'Laketon Assured Of Championship ‘League Leaders Narrowly Miss Defeat And Tie For Lead. The undefeated Iraketon high school {basketball tearm = hurdled its last lobstacle by a narrow margin last Fri- |day night by virtue of a close victory |over T.ehman and held a lead this | week which seemed to assure the Har- |vey's Lake five of the scholastic [champlonship. The gap between the league-leading {Laketon and the second-place Dallas | Township team was widened further |by the township's defeat after ‘a stiff fight with Dallas Borough. Had Lake- {ton had two points less and Dallas {Township two points more the two lis would be tied for first place this week. In the Dallas Borough-Dallas Town- ship game Baker, of the borough five, scored on a jochnieatl foul twenty sec- riod, In that | poricd the oniEL. scored a field goal and a foul and the township scored a field -goal. The final score was 27-26. Lehman threatened an = upset: by [leading Laketon several times during [their game but the final score was 29- {2 in favor of Izaketon ard that team {had protected is league lead. Kingston township defedted Beau- {mont 38 to 11. The girl's team from la defeated for the first time this year by | Lehman, 31 to 28. Laketon and. leh- {nian are tied for first piace in the | girls’ division. The Dallas Borough i girls defeated the Township girls, 20 {t015, and the Beaumont girls defeated {the Kingston. Township were a feature of last year's meetings. L. B. Smith and G. L. Zundel of Pennsylvania State Agricultural Extension Depart- ment, will be speaker. All growers, including those affiliat- ed with the Luzerne County Horticultural Association, are in- vited to atte average.