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More than a year ago nine colored
boys were dragged from a freight train
in a little Southern town and jailed
on a charge of having ‘attacked two
white girls who had heen stealing a
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be thirteen years old, were tried and
sentenced to die. The prosecution
based its case largely on the testimony
of the two girls, Victoria Price and
Ruby Bates.
/ Criticism of the sentence became so
wide-spread that the International La-
Ror Defense and other liberal sroups
became interested in the case and a
Jewish attorney from New York City
‘was sent to Scottsboro, Georgia, to help
the colored youths. Racial prejudices
handicapped that attorney and pre-
vented commutation of the sentence
but interest in the case grew, particul-
arty when Ruby Bates, one of the two
girls who had testified to the attack,
. repudiated her former statement and
said she had accused the negroes in an
effort to escape arrest on another
charge.
‘The case inspired two plays last sea-
son. One of them, “They Shall Not Die”
by John Wexley ran for some time in
New York City. That play ends as
the Southern jury files into the jury
room. . From behind the doors the
Jewish attorney hears 'the loud and
raucous laughter of the jurors, It is
‘evident that they intend to have the
lives of the colored boys. Rubin, the
is delivering a furious and
bitter attack on this kind of justice as
the curtain falls. He promises to de-
vote his life to the case until the in-
nocence ‘of the boys is established.
“They shall not die” he swears.
Regardless of the innocence or guilt
of the colored boys, the case is one of
_ the most wramatic in many years and
~ it may reach its climax next month.
The youths are to be electrocuted then,
‘One of the leading persons in the
stark drama is Ruby Bates, who was
converted and went back into court to
say that she had lied when she said the
negroes attacked her and. Virginia
Price.
‘Ruby Bates will be in Wilkes-Barre
tonight, police permitting, to address a
public meeting at 325 East Market
Street.
Some seven or eight years ago this
. writer lived for a few months at the
Central Y. M. C. A. in Philadelphia and
became acquainted with a young man,
also a resident at the “Y”, who talked,
lived, and dreamed music. There were
in the same building some five or six
young fellows who had come to Phila-
delphia from the vicinity of Wyoming
Valley and the young singer was one |
of them,
His all-absorbing interest in music—
and operatic music, at that—was a
never-ending source of wonder to his
associates, all of whom had come to
the big city for the express purpose of
devoting themselves. to business
careers which weren't coming along as
fast as they should. :
We left Philadelphia and the next
time we heard of the young singer was
friends here at home told us he had
sailed for Italy to acquire a background
of operatic training, From time to
time, we heard that he had sung such-
and-such a role in Milan, that he was
touring Burope, that he was making a
sacgess, and, finally, that he was com-
ing home.
A fews weeks ago John Rowlands ar-
rived in New York and came directly
to Shavertown to the home of his par-
ents.
"Until he completes arrangements for |
appearances in this country, Mr. Row- |
lands will reside here and we hope
there will be opportunities to hear him
sing before he leaves,
His favorite opera is La Tosca by
Giacomo Puccini. He has sung in
of Europe, which he
has grown to love very much.
—Ch et
We take our hats off to Jacob Mann,
department
destroyed “in the |
Street, Luz- |
Luzerne merchant, whose
store was recently
disastrous fire on Main
erne, The day following the fire Mr. |
Mann had plenty of troubles of his own |
but as always he took the time to con- |
sider the problems of his employees |
who were now without jobs. He im- |
mediately set to work and before the |
night following the fire had all of
them located in jobs with Wilkes-Barre |
and other Wyoming Valley stores, No |
matter how many troubles some men |
have they are always considerate of |
others and always willing to face big |
problems with renewed courage. The
bigger the man is, the more we have |
found this to ‘be true.
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The only cavern in the world in|
which the 'wind produces musical |
sounds is believed to be Fingal's cave |
on Staffa island, one of the Hebrides. |
During a visit there Mendelssohn was |
inspired to write his overture, “The |
Hebrides” | i
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joint own-.
ty, in-
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A Burmese woman has a
ership in her husband’s proj
herijts the whole of it
if she marries again, 1
retain half of i
children. She is
holds the family 2,-and is a cap-|
able and careful housewife.
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is the favorite to win but Lehman has
also made a strong showing in tough
competition and will be a worthy op-
ponent.
Kingston Township will play no
game this week-end but will entertain
the West Wyoming aggregation at the
Trucksville field on the following Sat-
urday. The Kingston Township-Leh-
ing
field.
Dallas Borough will play Factory-
ville on Friday and Lehman will
play West Wyoming today.
Both Dallas Borough and Dallas
Township have been defeated by Leh-
man and Kingston Township. The
borough and Dallas Township teams
also will meet on Thanksgiving morn-
ing to break their tie. ;
Last + Saturday at a Booster Day
Kingston Township defeated
Dallag Borough, 18-6. Dallas Borough
won the Back Mountain Championship
last year.
Miss Almira Shafer
The fdineral of Miss Almira Shafer,
65, wag held fron the home of her sis-
ter, Mas», A. Frantz of Dallas on
Monday afternoon. Miss Shafer died
last Thursday night at Nesbitt Hospi-
tal of complications. Services were
conducted by Rev. Francis Freeman of
the Dallas M. E, Church.
Miss Shafer is survived by one sister,
Mrs. C, A. Frantz, of Dallas and two
morning at Kingston Township's
|brethers, Jesse C. Shafer of Wyoming
and Albert Shafer of West Wyoming.
The pallbearers were, C, A. Frantz,
Jesse Shafer, Harold Titman, William
Gravel, O. H. Aurans, and Howard
Shafer.
town’ Burial Grounds.
Organization Meeting
For Local Quoit Club
The Dallas Borough Quoit Club will
hold an organization meeting and elect
officers on Sunday afternoon at 2 at
the high school building. All persons
interested in pitching quoits at the
court to be built in the school base-
ment are invited. The meeting will be
conflict with any week-night church
meetings. Leaders are eager to begin
competition immediately.
Thanksgiving Day To Mark Climax
Of Race For Grid Supremacy Here
Kingston Township, Lehman Tied For Top Place £
The ayes of Back-Momntain football fans are turned toward Thanksgivi.
Day and settlement of the close race for the district championship.
Lehman and Kingston Township high schools are tied for first place and
Dallas Township and Dallas Borough are in second place. Kingston Township
man game will be held on Thanksgiv- |
Interment was at the Shaver- |
Approval Of New
~ Project Expected
Educational Program Will
Continue Throughout
Winter
The plans for the Back Mountain
Section’s State-financed education pro-
jects this winter were being considered
‘by the Emergency Relief Council at
Harrisburg. this week and local leaders
expected word of approvat at any time,
The plan, if approved, will provide
for the immediate establishment of
classes in music, current events, handi-
craft and health in the local schools
and for adults. Although facilities for
the classes will be provided by local
school districts in whose buildings they
will be held, the State will pay the
teachers and it is expected the appro-
priation for the local territory which
would be about $600 a, month.
School boards from Dallas Borough,
Dallas Township, IL.ehman, and King-
ston township have agreed to co-oper-
ate, Prof. J. S. Martin,
principal of Kingsten Township,
Eugene Lazarus, a member of the Dal-
las Borough School Board, have been
leaders in securing the appropriation
supervising
and
Cases Reported In Dallas
i+ Township; Precautions
Urged
An outbreak of Scarlet fever in Dal-
las Township was reported by Elmer
Kerr, district health officer, yesterday
afternoon. = ©
Five children have been stricken and
two cases are under abservation. An
effort to bar progress of the contagion
is under way.
Thirty-two cultures were made early
in the week and three had a positive
reaction to tests. Yesterday morning
eighty more cultures were made,
The fact that one child was discover-
ed in school with all symptoms of scar-
let fever led health officials to issue a
warning to parents and a request that
they co-operate by keeping from school
any children who are ill and may have
been exposed to the disease.
Charter Draped In
Memory Of Leader
Resolutions Testify To
Respect For Local
Man
An impressive tribute to the memory
of James E. Jones, widely-known labor
leader who died at his home here late
last month, has been paid by members
of U: M. W. of A. as far distant as Al-
bert, West Virginia.
Mrs. Jones has received copies of the
resolutions, which testify to the ex-
treme respect which his associates had
for Mr. Jones.
The Resolution Committee of I.ocal
for this section.
The program will operate under the
| State Work Division and will ‘start
| next Monday if approval is granted in
time. Its purpose will be to develop a
| social, recreational, and educational
{program that meets the needs of the
| communities and gives employment to
[workers who have qualifications and
{the ability to develop such a communi-
ty program. Each community has been
lgiven: an opportunity to express its
{choice of program.
| Y. P. B. Meeting
| held on Sunday afternoon so it will not |
| The Y. P. B. will meet at the home
lof Miss Mildred Devens on Tuesday
evening, November 20.
FATHER O'LEARY DESCRIBES HIS
EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD WA
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| Union No. 4240, U. M. W. of MM Al-
bert, W. Va., in deciding to drape its
| charter for a ninety-day period, adopt- |
| ed
| es
a resolution which said in part:
Our membership feels we have lost a
|great friend and advisor. Though his
| work will be carried on, we feel a great
vacancy has occured in our District
He was a man who had given the’ best
He
and respected by all who
days of his life to organized labor.
| was loved
| knew him.”
Another resolution, signed by a
|group of outstanding labor leaders
| from District No. 16, which Mr. Jones
headed, paid the following tribute: “In
|the deuth of Brother Jones we have
| sustained the loss of a friend whose
fellowship it was an honor and a plea-
[sure to-enjoy;
[mony to his many virtues, to his un-
| questioned probity and stainless life; |
|we offer to his bereaved family and
mourning friends, over whom sorrow
{has hung her sable mantle, our heart-
Section, under the direction of Mrs. H
‘WILL BROADCAST
TESTIMONIAL TO
DOCTOR SPRAGUE
One of the most impressive tri-
butes ever paid to a great educator
will take place on Saturday night,
November 17, when friends of Dr.
Levi 1. Sprague, president of Wyo-
ming Seminary, assemble at the
Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia
to honor the venerable school head.
Dr. Sprague’s address will be
broadcast over Stations WIP (610
Kilocycles,), WPEN (920 KC) and
WHAT (1310 KC). It is suggested
that alumni and friends from this
section send telegrams to Dr. Spra-
gue at the Penn-Athletic Club on
that night.
Flames Threaten
Fernbrook Home
Quick action or Firemen
Prevents Serious
Damage
M. Laing Fire Co., assisted by the Sha-
vertown Chemical Corps, prevented a
serious blaze on Wednesday morning
when papers around the chimney in
the residence of Lewis Stritzinger,
Lincoln Street, Fernbrook, became
ignited.
Mrs, Stritzinger was ironing and the
extremely hot fire in the stove sent in-
tense heat up the chimney. When'local
firemen arrived the flanigs were raging
through the attic and threatening to
envelop the home. Spectators said
there was every indication that the
flames would spread. Flames did
break through the roof but valiant ef-
forts of the firemen halted their fur-
ther progress and extinguished them
before any part of the house except the
third floor had been damaged.
Pageant To Be Given
Here Sunday Evening
Members of Moosic Epworth League
will present a pageant entitled, “The
Lost Church” this Sunday evening at
Dallas M. E. church. Fourteen .per-
sons are in the cast and with them will
be brought the choir of the Moosic
Methodist church. About thirty per-
sons from Moosic are expected to be on
the program.
Prior to the pageant which will be
given during the regular time alloted
for the evening church services, Mr.
Knecht of Moosic will lead the Ep-
worth League program.
Trucksville Man Named
~ + Free Methodist Elder
ev. T. M. Holcomb of Trucksville
has been elected elder of the Wilkes-
Barre District, New York Conference,
Free Methodist Church, and is conduct-
ing a three-weeks campaign of old-
fashioned revival meetings at the Free
Methodist Church, 309 South Main
| Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Rev. Mr. Holcomb is a native of Ilii-
nois and served. as pastor of South
we bear willing testi- |
{| Canaan, Pa., Free Methodist Church
| before coming here. He was chosen el-
|der last month and will serve until
next Fall.
28-Inch Pike
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{| John McHenry, of Wilkes-Barre
|caught a wall-eyed pike recently in
| Lake Silkworth that measured 28 in-
Iches and weighed 7% pounds.
Three-Act Comedy
At Centermoreland
M. E. Church To Sponsor
Production Next
Wednesday
A three-act comedy, A Little Clod
| Hopper, will: be produced at the Cen-
[termoreland Grange Hall next Wednes-
{day night, November 21 at 8. The pro-
One of the most beloved and popular chaplains during the World War, |felt condolence and pray that infinite |qyuction will be sponsored by the M. E.
ev. J. J.- O'Leary, pastor, of St.
the
Rev. Father O'Leary was a chaplain
with the Seventh Infantry of the 32nd
Division, He with that outfit
while it was fighting in practically all
the major battles in ‘which American
troops 1 €
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of
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uly by
operation that life was s
her service to his broth
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Armistice Day last Sunday by preaching a sermon in which he described some |their burdened hearts and inspire them
f the |
Church at -Shavertown, observed
more horrible aspects of the world conflict.
Ater health
Father O'Leary
his had returned, Rev.
accompanied American
with the
of Occupation and learned intimately
|of the conditions there after the great
conflict,
troops into Germany
c¢ of the econo-
17 war and he
ted in a religious ca-
{pacity with various veterans’ organiza-
| tions.
He is. a sincere
imic waste t
is closely ¢
of
Army |
[goodness may bring speedy relief to
| with the consolations that Hope in fu- |
|turity and Faith in God gives even in |
the shadow of the tomb.”
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Drain Dam
The dam on Red Rock Mountain has
been drained to separate the suckers
from the trout with which the dam h¢
been xd. The draining is under
the direction of the North Mountain
Club, which leases several thousand
acres of land along North Mountain,
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| Church.
| The characters and the actors and
actresses are: Septimus Green a young
|book agent, Kenneth Besteder; Ocey
| Gump, a fresh country product, Gerald
{ Dymond; George Chiggerson, an inno-
|cent lad from the city, Richard Prynn;
| Mrs. Chiggerson Boggs, his doting
mama, Mrs. Frank ' Heitsman;
Julietta Bean, a boarding house keep-
er, Florence Weaver; Chairman Carter,
who thinks she’s a vampire, Mrs. Rich-
ard Prynn. Judy, a little clod hopper
from the poor house, Ruth Ether.
Charter draped in memory of leader.
Quick action of members of Henry |
Miss: |
A large group of public-spirited men and women from the Back Mountain
arry Montz, this week began their an-
nual effort to secure contributions to Community Welfare Federation. ;
By Tuesday at noon $668.45 had been reported by the local volunteers, an
amount representing 18.5 per cent of the quota for this district.
will end next week and indications are that the volunteers will reach their
The campaign
quota late this week
first part of next week.
Although officials were grateful and
appreciate the response already shown
or during the
‘lin this section it was stressed that a
united and generous interest in the
campaign is necessary if the Back
Mountain Region is to make a good
showing in the comparative reports of
the campaign.
Mrs. Montz and her corps of assis
tants were confident the residents of
this section would realize the necess-
ity for co-operation and that the end
of the campaign would find the Dallas
Division near the top among the divi-
sions.
C. W. F. Busy Here
Because affiliated agencies of the
Community Welfare Federation have
been very active in this district during
the past year and because of the many
services given the people of this com-
munity by those agencies, it is certain
that the current campaign to raise
funds in support of these agencies is
deserving of the wholehearted interest
and financial support of every one in
the entire district. :
Last year residents of Dallas Bor-
ough, Dallas Township, and Kingston
Township contributed $3,076.12 to the
thirty-two affiliated agencies of the
Federation. 3
The amount subscribed exceeded by
13.9 per cent the goal which had been
set for this section. The Dallas Divi
sion ranked tenth among the: thirty-
seven teams which worked in the cam-
paign. It was one of the seventeem
teams which exceeded their quotas,
Interest Grows In
Musie Competition
Entrants To Fix Date Of
Contest At Meeting
Tonight. .
Entrants in the music contest to be
sponsored by Luzerne County Agricul-
tural Extension Association in: ¢on-<
junction with the annual dramatic ©
tournament will meet tonight to fix a
date for the -competition, ;
Quarters from Mountain Grange at
Carverton and Black Creek Township
M. E. Church and orchestras from Har-
veyville and Pike’s Creek have already
registered. The object is to stimulate
in the rural regions interest in cultural
pursuits that will make a worthy con-
tribution to country life. :
Only rural groups from communities
of less than 2,500 population will be al
lowed to enter. All contestants must
be amateurs. The groups will be limit~
ed to six members. ’
The judging will be on the basis of
tone quality, use of the voice, techni-
cal correctness, skill, diction, interpre-
tation, tempo, expression, phrasing,
mood and memory.
Winners will compete at the State
Farm show at Harrisburg. :
Famed Veterinarian
To Speak Next Thursday
Dr. Louis A. Klein, professor of phar=
|macology and veterinary hygiene in
[the Veterinary School of the University
{of Pennsylvania, will discuss “Masti-
[tis of Cattle” at a meeting of the
Northeastern Veterinary Medical AS-
| sociation to be held at Wilkes-Barre
|at 1 p. m., on Thursday, November 22.
Dr. Klein’s address before the North
eastern Association, having as mem-
{bers practicing veterinarians from SusS~
[quehantia, Lackawanna, Wayne, Pike,
| Monroe, Wyoming, Luzerne and Cars
| bon counties, will be one of a series
| which members of the faculty of the
University’s School, of Veterinary
Medicine will deliver before veterinary
medical associations in Pénnsylvania.
M. E. Church To
Sponsor Bazaar
Members of the Dallas M. HE. church
are planning a Bazaar to be held in
| Dallas borough high school auditorium
lon December 6 and 7.
| Attractive booths for the sale of holi-
|day merchandise and candy will be ar-
[ranged and plans are now going for-
ward for a Community supper to be
held on one of the nights while the
| Bazaar is in progress.
The Ladies’ Aid socjety will have a
| Quilt booth while the J. E. B. Sunday
| School class will have an attractive
{display of fancy ‘work in its booth.
{Members of the Epworth League will
sell candy. Mrs. Fiske's Sunday school
class will have a Christmas tree load-
led with seasonable holiday movelty
merchandise, !
Committees have been appointed and
| further
{tainment and the Comununity will be
{announced next week, }
arrangement for booths, entér- -