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VOL. 45
DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935.
POST
SCRIPTS
FROM THE
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CUFF
OF A
REPORTER
Notes For Evenings With Our
Grandchildren: Trampling over dead
cows in a freight car with a politician
who believed the cattle were tuber-
cular .[“. . writing ‘our stories for -a
week on a typewriter planted back of
"the men’s toilet because city officials
were trying to subpoena us . . . getting
tar on a good pair of pants while
climbing to the roof of a shack so we
could watch cows being slaughtered
. . . Ham Fisher's cartoon supporting
the charges that tubercular cattle were
being shipped into the city . . . riding
in a photographer's ancient Ford to
‘White Haven to celebrate Martin Gal-
lagher’s 100th birthday anniversary
. . . shoving stones under the wheels
when the car stalled going up a ‘steep
hill . . . running back down the hill
after a tire that had spun off the
wheel gulping at Dan "Hart's
speech . . . “May the Autumn of your
life be long and may every falling leaf
sing sweet melodies of what has gone”
... . Using the same line in a speech
we wrote to the President of a grad-
uating class to deliver at commence-
ment , , . it was the second year we
had written the President’s oration . . .
interviewing Esther J. Cantor, then
“Miss Wilkes-Barre”, now June Clay-
worth, of the movies.
—Q—
Our favorite story , . . about the
mongrel and the poodle we used to see,
every morning at 2 when we walked
home one morning the mongrel
was in the gutter, dead, and the poodle
was sitting beside him, cocking his
head and pawing the carcass ... when
we came near the poodle growled and
bared his teeth . .. a protector . , . at
dawn the police came and shot the
poodle and threw both carcasses on
the dump . pleasant memories of
Galli-Curci, who underwent an opera-
tion for a goiter two weeks ago and
can sing more beautifully than before
. how we tried to escape the assign-
ment because we’d been out in the rain
lall afternoon . . . our shoes were mud-
dy and our pants were baggy . how
she postponed her dinner to talk to
‘us . . . how aghast we were when she
walked into the room, gave us the only
big chair, and sat herself on the piano
bench . . . aghast, hecause we hdd ex-
pected a homely woman and saw the
most graceful human we had ‘ever
looked upon . , . our mental note that
she could have been a great dancer
had she chosen that instead of music
. her soft, musical voice . . . her
friendly smile . . . how we talked and
talked until she missed her dinner and
had to go to her performance . .. our
agreeing that “the bigger they are the
BIGGER they are”.
Interviewing Arthur Conan Doyle's
spirit at a seance two months after he
died ... . sitting in the dark room
watching the radium-tipped trumpet
circle the ceiling... . “I live. I live, Tell
it to the world, I am alive. IT am alive,
Connan Doyle”. . the syncopated
music floating into the room from an
automatic piano that was jangling in
a neighboring apartment the
dreamy quality of the street-world
when we walked down after the
seance . , . going from there to cover
the first night game on a tennis court.
ios
Standing beside heavy
among tearful women catching the
names on the ambulances as they
whizzed away from the .grimy shaft
. going to the houses of the victims
to get pictures of the dead men, some-
times before the family knew of the
fatality . . . interviewing, the deaf and
dumb brother of the famous New
York war chaplain . . .
'phoning in the story, and returning
to the scene with the first edition |
carrying the story, before the fire was
out’. . the shame we felt the time
the copy reader caught us writing that) pr ‘ater, Mrs.
‘outened” a fire.
——
The politician who wanted
someone had °*
us to
about his grandmother's funeral
our refusal . . . the five dollar bill we
found stuck in our hat band later . .
sitting before a desk in a telephone
exchange from 4 in the’ afternoon to 3
in the morning . . . relaying election |
returns to the main office . . . and then |
returning to the city room to complete
(Continued on Page 8.)
wire gates | wards, Stanley Davis, and H. M.
covering a fire, |son;
‘Valley,
entered into
maneuvers to test the
forces.
109TH MOVES IN VAST BATTLE MANEUVERS
The broad fields in the shadow
of Old Blue Mountain echoed
the tramp, tramp, tramp of long
khaki files this week as 15,000 sol- |
diers, including 109th Field Artil- LEFT: The candid camera snaps
lery, with men from Wyoming | the home folks_routing a trip to
Dallas and Tunkhannock,
complicated battle
strength
and efficiency of Eastern army
ABOVE: Reminiscent of war-
to | time days, soldiers parade in re-
view at Indiantown Gap before
maneuvers begin.
Indiantown Gap to visit soldier
son and to watch the maneuvers.
The concentration point is within
an easy drive from Dallas over
good roads.
Kingston Township, Dallas Township
and Lake Township among the twenty-
five thousand men who are concen-
trated at Mt. Gretna and Indiantown
Gap to take part in the most impres-
sive maneuvers since the Civil War.
That seems like a small group, com-
paratively, but it is encouraging to run
across a friend every once in a while
between duties.
LOCAL GUARDSMEN INVOLVED IN
MANEUVERS AT INDIANTOWN GAP
vit By EDWARD F. KOTCHI
Indiantown Gap, Aug. 22—Although most of the National Guardsmen
who are here from towns in the vicinity of Dallas are veterans in the sense that
they have had at least one period at camp they are finding this year’s encamp-
ment far different from that of last year.
Borah Choice Here
As G. O. P. Leader
Roosevelt Forces Smothered
In Post’s Straw
Vote
We are a part of a force more than
twice the size of that in camp for
training here last summer. Throughout
the East, in similar concentration
points, National Guardsmen and Reg-
ular soldiers are engaged in war prob-
lems to test the efficiency of the East-
ern army forces.
‘So far I have had very little OppoOr-
tunity to do anything more than the
duties or details assigned. This had to
(Continued on Page 8.)
Unmistakeable evidence of the local
antagonism to policies of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt is emphasized in
the second week’s returns in The
Post’s straw vote.
Four hundred one more votes were
cast this week, bringing the total to
741. Of that number, only seventy have
indicated that they would favor re-
Shavertown Ready
For Community Day
Fifth Annual Field Day To
Be Held At School
Saturday
The fifth annual field day of Sha-
vertown Chemical Co. will be held at
Shavertown school grounds on Satur-
day, beginning at 1 p. m. The firemen
have planned a program which is ex-
pected to attract a large throng.
In the evening at 5 the Ladies Auxi-
liary will serve a baked ham supper in
the dining room of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Hundreds of form-
er residents of Shavertown will re-
turn for the day to greet old friends.
William Cobleigh, general chairman,
is being assisted by Willard Garey,
secretary, and P. M. Malkemes, treas-
urer.
Other firemen who have worked hard
|to make the affair a success are: Soli-
citations, Harry Goeringer, Cortez Jen-
nings, W. H. Pierce, George Prater;
advertising program, Howard EQa-
Hall
for Shavertown. IL. T. Schwartz, Fran-
cis Youngblood for Fernbrook and
Dallas; ‘Stanley Shewan and Harry
Siegel for Wilkes-Barre; Kenneth
Cobleigh, P. M. Malkemes and A.
Jeorge Prater, nearby towns; purchas-
ing, A. George Prater; concessions, A.
J. Fisher; construction, John Steven-
publicity, L. T. Schwartz, A. G.
Eddinger and M. M. Chait.
Mrs Martin Bilbow heads the auxi-
Iw illiam Dierolf,
Mrs. G.
|innick.
take five dollars to write a good. story |
-| Diningroom:
liary committee and is being assisted
by Mrs. Z. R. Howell, Mrs. George
William Perrego, Mrs.
Mrs. Albert Bush,
Harold Lloyd, Mrs. John Dob-
Other women who will help are:
Mrs. Helen Heale,
| chairman; Mrs. Fred Bronson, assist-
lant chairman; waitresses, Mrs. Tho-
fees Jones, Margaret Ford, Frances
| Bilbow, Mrs. Arch Jackson, Mrs. John
(Engler, Mrs. George Swan, Mrs.
George Still, Mrs. Neal Henry, Mts.
Albert Stitzer, Evelyn Compton, Min-
(Continuwed on Page 5.)
DALLAS POST
Roosevelt's policies?
continuation of his policies?
didate?
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REPUBLICAN, |
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DEMOCRAT | foil
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1. Have you any sympathy with any of President
2. Do you favor re-election of President Roosevelt and
3. Would you vote against President Roosevelt?
4. Who would be your choice as the Republican « can-
STRAW VOTE
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sign your name if you prefer not.)
election of President Roosevelt and a
Wilcox Takes Oath continuation of his policies.
! Two hundred twenty-one voters ad-
As Council Member
mit they have sympathy with some of
Fjlls Vac Ly Caused" By
the President's legislation and al-
though voters were not asked which
Dedth Of Harry
Garrahan
policies they favored, a number jotted
those they approved. Most popular
was the Civilian Conservation Corps,
with the President’s banking regula-
tions, child labor laws, and work re-
lief program receiving votes also.
Senator Borah slipped into the lead
this week as the man most favored to
be the Republican nominee in 1936. He
took first place from Herbert Hoover,
who led in the first returns. Col. Frank
Knox, who was not in the first week’s
returns, received a flock of votes
which put him third.
Governor Wynant of New [Hamp-
shire, Robert Moses, Colonel Charles
Lindbergh and Governor Gifford Pin-
chot ranked in that order among the
also-rans.
Although it has been apparent that
there is strong opposition to the Ad-
ministration in this traditional Repub-
lican stronghold, the tremendous ma-
jority of those opposed to the Presi-
dent’s policies was far greater than
careful observers predicted.
Because it seems unlikely that the
final tabulation would do any more
dered paid as read and $250 was or-|than accumulate more votes, without
dered borrowed from the First Nation- [changing the outcome, the poll will be
al Bank of Dallas to cover current ex- |ended next week.
penses, a u
Former Resident Dies
A note for $5,700, due August 22 at :
Word has been i the death
the First National Bank of Dallas, was
renewed for three months and interest |of Miss Ada Braden at Cfifton Springs
Morgan Wilcox, who was appointed
‘a councilman at the last meeting of
Dallas Borough Council, was sworn in
by Justice of the Peace John Yaple on
Tuesday might.
Mr. Wilcox fills the vacancy caused
by the death of Harry Garrahan. The
oath was administered at a regular
meeting of council.
A complaint was received concerning
condition of the sidewalk ‘on the re-
cently-completed Huntsville Street
cut. The road committee was in-
structed to investigate and report at
the next meeting. The committee also
will have road school zone caution
signs erected at the proper points.
A report was made on road repairs |
done for the Dallas Water Company to
the amount of $379.17.
Bills amounting to $358.59 were or-
for that period ordered paid. | N. Y., Sunday, August #8. Miss Bra-
A bond from the American Surety |den is a former resident of Ferpifook.
Company for $5,000, for Tax Collector [She had been ill for some ti #na was
at the Clifton Springs itarium for
| Arthur Dungey was received and acs
treatment,
| cepted.
“And That Night I Trumped
My Partner’s Ace Again
By FANNY FERN
y
Major Leonard R. Gracy is conducting a duplicate Elective Contract
tournament on the twenty-sixth of this month at the Harvey's Lake residence
of Mr, and Mrs. C. B. D. Wood. A charge of fifty cents a player is being
made and the entire proceeds, I understand, are to go to the Harvey's Laks
visiting nurse fund.
Being curious to know what it is all| “No, but that is the essence of it.
about, I interviewed the Major at his | Of course there are a lot of details
|that need to be understood. But they
Harvey's Lake Cottage yesterday. 1 are all comparatively simple changes
found him in his work room surround- | trom the procedure in ordinary con-
ed by more books on bridge than I|tract bridge.”
have ever seen together at one time, bs Is} Elsciive
ame to learn?”
Contract a difficult
I ga
ny own bridge library consisting of | “It depends entirely upon your point
one old copy of Mr. Culbertson’ Sof departure. If you know nothing at
“Blue Book.” all about contract bridge Elective
“Major,” I asked, “can you tell me | Contract would be a very difficult
all about Elective Contract in a few game. If you play contract bridge
well chosen words?” with a reasonable degree of intelli-
“Certainly,” said the Major. “Elec- |gence vou can learn to play Elective
tive Contract is the new form of con- |Contract in a half hour.
| tract bridge in which there are a “Just how would a contract bridge
permanent partnerships. At the beg- | it to learn Elective
inning, of each deal no player has a
partner. During the auction a player “If I may do a little advertising, I
may select a partner. When a player would suggest that he spend a dollar
so elected accepts the election, he and | for the book on Elective Contract that
player go about
Contract.”
the player who elected him are part- | Mr. Courtenay and I have prepared.
ners for that deal. The other two |It explains clearly and simply every
players automatically become part- |step of the game and is, if I do say it
| myself, an extremely well written
Miss Kathleen Martin who con-
ners.’
“Is that all that there is to Elective | book.
Contract?” (Continued on Page 5.)
Gonract
Township Directors Award
Sutter Gets General Contract
On Annex To School"
oS Building
——
CON STRUCPTON RUSHED
Contracts for the erection of a one-
story annex to Dallas Township High
School were awarded this week by
township school directors. Execution
of the contracts will be speeded so
work can be started within the next
few weeks. It is expected the addi-
tion will be ready for use before the
end of the year.
The general contract was awarded
to W. F. Sutter of Nescopeck at his
bid of $19,185. J. IL. Turner and Co.,
of Nanticoke received the heating con-
tract and the plumbing contract was
awarded to Leo F. Steadle. #
Two class rooms will be finished and
the remainder of the annex will be
constructed to permit additions as
finances warrant the expenditure. It
is expected that the balance of the
building can be finished within a year.
The annex was authorized last Fall
when voters in the township approved
a $25,000 bond issue to finance the
project. Crowded conditions made it
necessary to have more room for pu-
pils.
Bids received by the directors ex-
ceeded the amount budgeted and on
two occasions it was necessary to re-
advertise. Under the present plan the
bond issue will not be floated. Instead,
the district will exercise its right to
borrow two per cent. of its assessed
valuation to finance the construction.
Local Candidates
Will Draw Today
MacGuffie And G Gwilliam Win
Best Positions On
Ballot
Candidates for offices in the Sixth
Legislative District, of which Dallas,
Kingston Township, Dallas Township,
and Lake Township are a part, will
draw for positions on the September 17
primary ballot at Luzerne County
Court House tomorrow morning.
John MacGuffie and George Gwilliam
drew the top positions among candi-
dates for County Commissioner when
the drawings opened on Tuesday. On
the Republican ballot William R. Tho-
mas drew No. 1 position for sheriff,
with Joseph F. Keller second.
For District Attorney Thomas B.
Miller will be first on the Republican
ballot; Albert Brobst, second; Roscoe
B. Smith, third. Nicholas Curcio, 4;
Mitchell Jenkins, 5; Frank Williams,
6; Leon Schwartz, 7.
William Davis, candidate for the
Republican nomination; = won first
place on the ballot for county treasur-
er, with Walter Richards, second;
Henry Jones, 3; Russell Davis, 4. © “
a ——————
Win Contests
MARS MARCHES ON
Paris, France—With the collapse of *
the three-power conference on the
Italo-Ethiopian dispute, virtually all
hope of averting war disappeared.
Though gentle diplomatic give-and-
take will continue, no important de-
velopments are expected until the
League of Nations Council
again on September 4th.
“TIMES” CHANGES WITH TIMES
New York City—Two years ago, on
March 17th, 1933, the New York Times
called President Roosevelt's latest
move “A transcendent feat of states
manship”. He had just sliced .$425,~
000,000 from the budget—$125, 000,~
000 from Federal “salaries and $300,~
000,000 from veterans’ pensions. Now
the House (unanimously) and the
Senate (54 to 1) pass a bill to restore
veterans $45,000,000. This, with other
veterans’ pensions and restored Feder«
al salaries, makes the economies of
1933 seem invisible. Said the
Roosevelt, “He has helped to destroy
the last remaining major reform
achieved by the National Economy
Act of 1933.” :
JEW-HATER CONDEMNS PRIVATE
POGROMS
Berlin, Germany—*“If Pontius Pilate
had been a Nazi,
crucified Jesus, the ‘Aryan’ fighter of
Nazareth, The father of the Jews is
the Devil.” So shouted Julius Streiche
Germany’s Jew-baiter No. 1, to 16,000
loyal Nazi's in Berlin’s immense
Sportpalast. A huge banner on the
balcony read “German girls, the Jews
are your ruin.” Streicher quoted anti-
Semitic ‘jokes’, inaccurate historico-
scriptural discourse, bitter invective t
whip up anti-Jewish feeling. But h
strongly condemned individual acts of
vielence. Jew-baiters felt let down
and the expected rioting fizzled out.
A few days later, in his speech at the
opening of the Eastern Fair in Koe-
nigsberg, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minis~
ter of Economics and President of the
Reichsbank, sounded a warning that
persecution of Jews, Catholics, ete.
was arousing indignation in other
countries that might do Germany
grave economic harm.
CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF
Ironwood, Mich.—Frank KE. Hook,
Democratic Michigan Representative
denounced his State’s relief adminis-
tration, Prying reporters spotted the
names of Hook’s father and four bro-
thers on relief rolls, then cornered the
Congressman. I wish I could support
{all my relatives,” he protested, “but
if anyone can tell me how a Congress-
man can live in Washington eight
months of the year, meet all the res
quirements of his _constituents, and
have a penny left over, I wish he
Miss Pauline Varner, Dallas, oR had do it.” A congressman draws
the second prize in the nail driving [$10,000 a year salary, $5,000 a year for
contest and Miss Clare Tredinnick, |clerk hire, $125 for stationery, and 20
Dallas, won the second place in the |cents a mile for travel expenses.
ball throwing contest for women at]
the annual Jr. O. U. A. M. picnic and | ONE CHANCE IN 107,510 5
| New York City—
field day held at Harvey's Lake Sat- A golfers chance of
day, About 11,000 members and | | scoring a hole-in-one is exactly one in
riends attended. By 107,510. He hag 1,229 more chances of
. fathering twins, In 1932, the New
Lehman Alumni | York World Telegram started an an~
Holds Weiner Roast nual hole-in-one tournament. Edward
{1D Searle, won this year for the sec-
ond time. In 1934 he came within 17
The annual Lehman High School |
{Alumni Weiner roast will be held on inches of the cup; in 1935 8% inches.
{In the tournament’s four
{shots have been made.
| Jack Hagen’s in 1933.
MALE SUPREMACY
vears 7,403
Wednesday night at Glenn
Only one aced-
Every one attending is requested to
take his or her own cup. In case of |
rain, the roast will be held Thursday. |
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Brown's.
In Chicago, David Hipple, bachelor
beat 100 women in a jam-making con-
Reverend Harry Black of Los An-!test. In Boston, John F. Cann, 66,
geles is the guest evangelist at the | knitted faster than 10) women com-
Free Methodist camp meeting at Dal- | | petitors. In Seattle, W. H, Love, 29-
las. The camp meeting opened August { year-old father, won a diaper-chang-
15, and services are being held every | ing contest. His time: 16 seconds
day from 6:30 A. M. until 7:45 P. M. | flat.
BACK MOUNTAIN BIOGRAPHIES: NO. 2
CHARLES D. KUNKLE
Charles D. Kunkle was born on January 2, 1845, in Dallas Township,
in a log house which is now part of the home on the Miller Farm on the
Dallas-Beaumont Road. His grandfather, Philip Kunkle, had moved here
in 1817, because spring floods stopped him from farming the land he had
at Kingston. No one knew then that coal under his Kingston land
would have brought him much more than he earned farming, Philip's
home was a place of worship for early pioneers. His son, Conrad, married
three times and had fifteen children. Charles was one of them. In 1862
Charles became a member of Company G, 143rd Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry. He served to the close of the war, having fought at Chancellors-
ville, Gettysburg (where he received a severe wound), Wilderness, Spottsyl-
vania (where he was again wounded) Weldon R. R., ete. Three of his five
children are living, Olin, Mrs. Fred Makinson, and Margaret Kunkle, One
sister, Mrs. Roannah Landon, 86, lives at Kunkle and Mrs. Carrie Ells-
worth lives at Trucksville. Hl
NEXT WEEK—CHRISTOPHER EIPPER Hi
Camp Meeting Speaker
bought