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A Man Becomes Great , . . See
‘The Pictures of Washington's
Career on Page Six. A Great
Man Dies . Rives = Matthews
Writes a' Masterly Account of
"That Man's Passing.
VOL. 47
POST
SCRIPTS
LOTUS
WEATHER
WARMTH
BANDITS
CUP
Hiya, Lotus!
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Unaccustomed as we are to associ-
ating with hippopatami (to say noth-
ing of trying to spell it), we must ad-
mit that we've taken a yen for you,
Lotus.
Of course, we're glad the make-up
man put us over on this side of you.
‘Wie might have ended up over there
in column two. Oh, my!
‘Wie're right proud of you, Lotus, and
_ mighty glad to have you with us in
The Post this week. Sorry you can’t
come up and see us in the flesh some
time. We'd have a swell time scar-
ing two or three of this section’s hard-
est drinkers into signing the pledge,
we bet.
And would we show those fellows
out at Harvey's Lake that got so much
publicity with Alex, the Bear? Wow!
Cw
This has been a very unusual win-
ter for fellows like us who like to
write :about the weather.
Just about the time we begin a piece
of descriptive writing on how beauti-
ful the new-fallen snow looks on the
evergreen outside our winter there
comes a thaw and that's the end of
that.
If we speak of the mild winter we're
sure to bring a blast of wintry weath-
er around our ears before the column
gets into print.
We took a walk last week up over
the hill to Huntsville Dam, figuring It
might be worked into a paragraph here
some way. Down on Lehman Avenue,
it was mild, Spring-like weather, peo-
ple walking along with their top-coats
open, and the grass turning green.
‘We hit the temperate belt at
Pinecrest Avenue and began to long
for a dog team shortly above. Final-
ly, figuring it was no use trying. to
get too far ahead on our Annual
Spring Column we just sat down and
threw snowballs at a ground hog, who
apparently had been wearing black
glasses on February 2.
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If the cold weather keeps up,
though, we’ll almost have to support
Jack Roberts' for school director this
Fall.
‘When he delivers milk up on our
street, along about dawn every morn-
ing, Jack, with his usual neighborli-
ness, drops in to put the draft on The
Post’s furnace.
Result is when everybody arrives to
set the wheels of this organization
running there's no waste time waiting
for the place to thaw out.
It’s been working fine all winter—
until the other morning. We changed
the lock on the door and forgot to tell
Jack and so he couldn't get in and
we had to work all morning in muff-
lers and ear-muffs.
Wie understand it’s all been straight-
ened out now and in appreciation of
Jack's fine work this winter the boys
are preparing to throw their support
to him if he runs for re-election this
Fall.
Their slogan is going to be “He
made it hot for us. Now let’s give him
warm support.”
If we know them right they'll elect
him, too.
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Special Notice to the Bandits Who
have been Operating in This Section:
The safe at the Dallas Post will be
open every evening from 5 p. m. to 8
a. m. If you promise not to break
anything you are welcome to examine
its contents. If you find anything, let
us know. It will be a complete sur-
prise to us.
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Speaking of bandits, it may interest
them to know, if they should happen
to run across this column, how near
they came to having their hands blown
off on one of their petty thefts here
this month.
‘At one of the gas stations they rob-
bed, the proprietor, who was in a sec-
ond-story window overlooking the sta-
tion, had a revolver sighted on them
and could have, with one little twitch
of his finger, ended the unworthy
career of at least one.
He didn’t shoot because
want to risk harming an
‘person.
In view of what four bandits will do
for twenty dollars it is probable that
they would not exercise such restraint
under similar circumstances.
‘Wle just thought they might like to
know. The next time they might not
‘be so lucky.
he didn’t
inhocent
iO)
'The Great Basketball Cup Mystery
has been solved!
The three-year search ended this
week with the discovery of the long-
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e Dallas Po
More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937
pe
L Photos, Bob Wallace
GOING NORTH
femmes remem ——
and
Lotus
GOING SOUTH
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IT WAS on her 25th birthday that
Lotus, the only trained hippo-
potamus in the U. S., posed for
these photographs. ‘A circus per-
former, Lotus was snapped at
winter quarters in California. She
weighs 4,800 pounds.
Pictures from current issue of LIFE magazine, reprinted by spacial permission.
WPA Rectoation
Program Started
Here By McHose
Seven Towns Offered Oppor-
tunity to Have Own Play-
grounds Next Summer
EMPLOYS LEISURE
(See Editorial, Page 6)
The most ambitious program ever
launched in this = section to provide
recreation during leisure hours for
young people and adults is being car-
ried on in seven local communities in
co-operation with their school officials.
The program, initiated by the Adult
Education Reereation Department of
the WPA, in co-operation with the
State Department of Public Instruc-
tion, is being directed by Calvin Mec-
Hose; Luzerne County project head
and former supetvising principal at
Dallas Borough Schools.
If present plans are successful the
movement may; expand into this sec-
tion’s first system of supervised play-
grounds next summer. —
Carls lastrislor
The adult education recreation de-
partment has named Tyrus Carr,
Shayvertown, as the instructor for
courses in physical education and rec-
reational periods scheduled weekly in
nearby ‘high schools.
Young men and women of the com- |
munity a. “4 adulis are invited to at-
tend these courses and participate.
The recreational periods are held from
7 to 10 p. m. The schedule: Monday
evening, Orange; Tuesday, Kingston
Township (three groups, Shavertown,
Trucksville, and Trucksville Letter-
men; Tuesday, Lehman. Wednesday,
Lake Township; Thuwsday, Dallas
Borough; Friday, Dallas Township;
Saturday, Dallas Borough. .
Two periods are hela each Satur-
day in Dallas, one from 9:30 to 12
for young men and women and an-
other, from 1 to 4, for older men and
women.
Mr. Carr’s program includes health
exercises, gymnastics, competitive
games, _calisthenics, basketball and
volley Vito
al - For Playgrounds
If the communities co-operate by
providing a site for a playground the
Adult Education Recreation Depart-
ment, which 1s financed by the fed-
eral government, will supply such ath-
letic equipment as quoits, volleyballs,
mushballs, handballs and hard base-
balls and pay the salaries of experi-
enced supervisors.
Any stationery equipment on the
playgrounds must be supplied by the
school district or the community, al-
though the supervisors named by WIPA
will care for such equipment during
the summer.
The Dallas Borough Parent-Teach-
ers Association already is making
plans to raise money to buy equip-
ment for a playground in the borough
next summer.
In view the possibility of the ex-
pansion of the program and the desire
of WIPA. to use local supervisors
whenever they are available, any per-
sons in this section who hold teach-
ing certificates and are eligible for a
WPA appointment may submit their
names to The Post to be referred to
the officials who have charge of the
program.
Lancaster Pastor
Here Next Sunday
Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort of Lan-
caster will conduct the morning serv-
ice at St. Paul's Luthsran Church,
Shavertown, Sunday. Rev. Mr.
Frankfort ig another guest preacher,
a graduate of tho Tautheran Seminary
Class of 1936. All members of the con-
gregation are urged to be at a meet-
ing Sunday night at 7:30 since a new
minister may ‘be. selected then.
NEW SOIL PROGRAM ANNOUNCED;
NO DIVERSION PAYMENTS HERE
Details of the 1937 Agricultural Con-
‘servation Program, as it applies to
Luzerne County farmers, were an-
nounced yesterday by W. S. Hagar,
State Executive officer.
Local farmers will not receive pay-
ments for diverting acreage from soil- | proving farm lands
building practices, unless county and
state committees secure approval to
add Luzerne to the list of counties so
designated.
Luzerne County
will be
hy
farmers
eligible to earn soil-building payments
for each of the approved practices.
Most of the soil-building practices aim
at’ these goals: Improving or estab-
lishing pasture land, increasing acre-
age of legume hay and productivity of
all hay lands, reforesting hillsides, im-
and improving
Soil-conserving crops in orchards and
vineyards.
~ For most farms, soil-building allow-
ances will be larger than they were
last year,
Local Couple, Wed F ifty ¥ oars,
Observe Anniversary On Monday
MR. AND MRS. NEELY DUE FOR CONGRATULATIONS
A good thing to remember, to assure happy mri life, is that there are
two sides to every question.
This is a part of the advice Mrs. A. A. Neely of Lake Street, Dallas,
gives
as she and her husband prepare to celebrate” their fiftie €dding anniver-
sary next Monday. .
. Another of Mrs. Neely's favorite keepi the site of their present
mottoes is “Be sure you're right, then
go ahead.” She remembers that clear-
ly today because it was the title of
the play Mr. and Mrs. Neely went to
see in. the old Grand Opera House in
Wilkes-Barre on their wedding night |
fifty years ago.
‘I've always remembered that say-
ing,” Mrs. Neely says, “and it's always
been a good guide.”
Looking back on half a hundred
years of happy married life, Mrs.
Neely advises young married people to
remember that tact, courtesy, appreci- !
ation and understanding are among
the most important factors in assur-
ing domestic contentment.
Mr. and Mrs. Neely were married
by Rev. John LaBar, a retired min-
ister, at Wyoming, and set up house-
home. Mr. Neely was born in that
old homestead, on Lake Street, and
has spent his entire life in ° Dallas,
with exception of two years in the
West -when he was a young man.
Their present home on the same site,
was built since their marriage.
Mr. Neely, who had a large farm,
retired about ten years ago.
'There are four children, Mrs. Charles
Hawk of Bear Creek; Ralph Neely,
Wilkes-Barre; Floyd Neely, at home,
and Mrs. Ralph Welsh of Dallas.
They will be home for the family
dinner next Monday evening, Mrs.
Neely says. During the day, though,
| “open house” will be observed at the
Neely home, and a great host of
friends of the family probably will
drop in to express their well-wishes.
Firemen Further
Plans For Home
Shavertown "Company May
Buy Building Occupied
By Albert ] Bush
Fire Co. will be taken at a meeting
in the Shavertown school house next
Monday. night at 8.
Last week the firemen decided to
purchase the building now occupied
by Albert Bush's Garage, Main Street,
Shavertown. A committee having as
members William Cobleigh, Frances
Youngblood and Howard Woolbert has |
secured a price on the building and
estimates on the cost of repairs to the
second floor, which is now occupied
by the Shotwell family but which
would be used as a meeting room and
for community activities.
The firemen report requests for the
use of the new hall have already been
received from Kingston Township Vet-
erans’ Social Club and the Dallas
Chapter, Eastern Star. Other organ-
izations desiring to use the building
may communicate with members of
the company.
Further stéps towhrd acquiring a
new home fo¥"Shavertown Volunteer.
Lehman Pupils In
Annual Musicale
Outstanding Program Prom-
ised For Interesting
Event Tonight
The annual musicale of the Lehman
Township School will be given in the
school auditorium tonight (Friday) at
8 p. m. The affair attracts a large
audience each year and H. Austin
Snyder, supervising principal, prom-
ises an outstanding program tonight.
One of the unique features will be
the Kiddy Band, a group of younger
pupils which has grown in the last
few years and has some new stunts
for its audience. Peter Pappas, solo-
ist of the Kiddy Band will sing “The
Wise Bird.”
Girls of the lower grades will dance
to the familiar tunes of “Captain
Jinks” and “Where, Oh Where, Has
My. Little Dog Gone.” The boys’
chorus from .the high school, largest
in its history, will sing “The Capital
Ship” and the high school girls will
sing “Katy Did.”
In charge of the program are Miss
Lydia Smith, Mrs. Esther Wolfe and
Mrs. Beatrice Cornell, grade teachers;
Miss Delilah Kistler, high school
teacher, and C. F. Terry, who will
have charge of instrumental numbers.
AN EDITORIAL
On October 23 The Post, recognizing the danger locally because
of an old-fashioned system of police protection; asked public officials
to call a conference to discuss ways
enforcement here.
of modernizing and centralizing law
I was suggested tentatively that local communities might pool their
police resources and finances to establish a centralized system which
could have a full-time chief, a motorcycle to answer emergency calls,
and possibly a cruiser car, with a radio tuned into the Wilkes-Barre
station, to patrol the local territory at night.
The editorial stirred no great
interest among public officials but
‘one far-sighted clergymen wrote in, commending the idea and saying
“The day of high-powered automobiles; good roads and fast-firing ma-
chine guns virtually demands that we give to our police sufficient auth-
ority to combat the criminal element at least on even terms.”
No word from public officials, though.
On January 29 three bandits held up Fred Woolbert’s service sta-
tion at Trucksville, took $30, and escaped to freedom down the high-
way toward Luzerne.-
The following week The Post again brought up the need for a more
modern and centralized system of policing.
“The present lack of or-
‘ganization” we pointed out ‘exposes the citizens of this section to the
danger of hold-ups and burglaries.”
No word from public officials yet.
On February 10 four bandits drove up to Hillside Gas Station, took
$20, and fled through Dallas to freedom.
~ Sull no word from public officials.
On Sunday night, February 14, four bandits drove up to the Pen
Fern station at Fernbrook, relieved the attendant of his receipts, took
a watch, and escaped.
Fortunately the attendants in all three cases have been sensible
enough to hand over the money without resistance, so murder has been
avoided, but the likelihood of more serious results sooner or later will
exist until criminals learn that police protection here has been stream-
lined to meet modern conditions.
In anticipating the danger and calling public attention to it The
Post fulfilled its duty and can do little more except to stress that from
now on the safety of this section rests squarely upon the shoulders of
the public officials who should have taken steps to improve police
protection here four months ago.
Trucksville, L.ehman,
GANNETT’S PETITIONS
OPPOSING PRESIDENT’S
BILL NOW AVAILABLE
A number of the petitions which
will be forwarded eventually to
the Senate and the House oppos-
ing President Roosevelt's bill pro-
posing changes in the Supreme
Court have been sent to The Post
by Frank E. Ganhett, publisher of
the Gannett newspapers, with the
request that they be made avail-
able to those persons who oppose
the proposal.
Mr. Gannett, an. ardent support-
er of some of the President's pol-
icies, is organizing a nation-wide
committee to oppose the Presi-
dent’s bill on the grounds that it
would grant the nation’s chief ex-
ecutive “power that would be dan-
gerous even in the hands of the
best-intentioned man” and would
“destroy the Constitutional balance
among Legislative, Executive, and
Judicial departments uf the govw-
ernment.”
Any one wanting copies of the
petition may call at The Post.
'
Dallas Team Faces
Big Test Tonight
Basketball Clout in Fine
Frenzy As Season .
Nears End
STANDING OF THE LEAGUE
ks. Pet:
714
.666
B71
.333
.166
Dallas Borough
Kingston Township
Lehman
Laketon
2
2
3
4
A furious, last-minute race for the
basketball championship of the local
scholastic circuit developed this week
as Dallas Borough, which has been
on top most of the season, braced it-
self against the oncoming rush of the
Kingston Township basketeers.
If the borough defeats Dallas Town-
ship in their game tonight (Fridayy
the borough will be assured of noth-
ing less than a tie.
But Dallas Township, even though
it is having a bad season, is always
a threat to Dallas Borough.
Last Fall Dallas Township had =a
poor football season but it upset the
dope and defeated a highly-favored
borough squad. The township jinx
‘worked early in the basketball season,
when the borough, which was leading
the league, lost to Coach Ronald Doll's
township five, in a game so rough
three of the borough’s players were
out of the next game.
So a fighting township team will
try tonight to block the chances of
Coach Ernest Line's. eagle-eyed, fast-
playing borough quintet for the Back
Mountain championship.
another hurdle to jump.
Coach Walter Hicks’
Township team must meet TLaketon
tonight and Dallas Township next
Friday night before concluding its sea-
son.
If Dallas Borough wins tonight and
Kingston Township wins its two re-
maining games there will be a tie for
first place.
If Dallas Borough loses tonight and
Kingston Township wins its two
games the Township will win the
scholastic championship for the first
time.
If Dallas Borough loses tonight and
Kingston Township wins only one of
its two games there will be a tie.
A tie will necessitate a series
three post-season games.
Kingston
of
Ruff Installed In
Down-State Charge
The formal installation of Rev. G.
Elson Ruff, former pastor of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church, Shavertown, as new
pastor of Christ Lutheran Church at
Schuylkill Haven, took place on Mon-
day.
Dr. E. P. Pfatteicher, president: of
the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsyl-
vania, officiated.
Mrs. Louis E. Cottle, 30 East Cen~
ter Street, Shavertown, received quite
a thrill when she learned ‘that
“Scalawag of Fenbor,” an eleven-
month-old wire haired fox terrier bred
by her and now one of a stringw.
good ones owned and being shown
throughout the East by the Fenbor
Kennels of Robert B. Neff, Montclair,
N. J., topped his class at the West-
But even if the borough wins it has!’
History . . . Romance . . .
venture . . . Packed Into Samuel
Hopkins Adams’ New Post Serial,
“Maid of Salem.” Begin the First
Installment on Page 7 of The Post
This Week.
W.C.T.U. Delegates Oppose
Changes In Supreme Court
Say Roosevelt’s Plan Would “Preparé The Way for Dicta-
torship”’; Resolution to Be Sent to Congress; Dele-
gates Also Consider Temperance
CHARGE REPEAL HAS NOT ENDED BOOTLEGGER
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The mounting opposition to Plosident Kooseverts bil proposing changes
in the Federal court system enlisted & er new ally this week when dele-
gates attending the district meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance
Union in Shavertown M. E. Church went on record opposing the plan.
There were women at the meeting from churches in Dallas, Shavertown,
Chase, Idetown, Huntsville and Wyoming,
They adopted the following resolution: ;
“Believing that the proposal to re=
vise and weaken the United States
Supreme Court would prepare the way
for a dictatorship in our country, we
earnestly urge you to use your influ-
ence against the measure.”
The resolution will be sent to the
United States Senator and Represen.
tative from this district.
Bootlegger ®till Busy
The charge that sixty per cent of
all liquor sold is still sold by boot-
leggers was made by Mrs. Paul J.
Kolesnikoff, home missionary working
under the ministerium union of Wiyo-
ming Valley in charge of the Brook-
side Mission in Wilkes-Barre.
“As a matter of fact,” she said, “the
hope that repealing prohibition would
drive out the bootlegger has not come
true.”
She said that temperance is really a
people are needed to support it.
“All-Day Session
Rev. Fred M. Sellars, pastor of the
hostess church, welcomed the dela~
gates at the morning session.
A five-point demonstration on tem-
perance was presented by Mrs. A. H.
Van Nortwick, Mrs. Howard Patton,
Mrs. Herbert Riley, Mrs. Ernest Keller
and Mrs. J. Lienthal at the morning
session.
At noon, Mrs. W. H. Stang offered
prayer. In the evening a missionary
and temperance play was given by
Howard Frantz, Catherine Brace, Jen-
nie Hill, Robert Koons, Wilma Hunt,
Leroy Miller, Delbert McGuire, Willard
Puterbaugh, Mary Porter and Mildred
Porter.
Mrs. William Ashburn of Outlet led
devotions.
dinger sang. Robert Fritzges played
a violin solo. Mrs. Earl Weidner of
Dallas presided and Mrs. Howard Pat-
ton led the worship program.
$200 On Education
It was announced that the group had
spent $200 on educational work in this
section last year. A number of pos-
ters were displayed, including that of
Louis Spaziano of Shavertown, who
won first prize in the contest.
Prizes will
year for
children.
Three Robberies
Net Thieves $55
Gas Station, Drag Store and
A. &P. Among Week’s
Victims
essays and posters of school
It’s a hard way to make a living!
The gas station bandits who have
been striking with serpent-like swift-
ness here in the last month have stol-
en $55 in three robberies.
Split among the four, that nets
each one a little less than $14 for
three stick-ups, not to mention the oc-
cupational risks of their profession
and the threat of imprisopniet hang.
ing over them:
i'hey stiuck the thifd time within a
land
|i
month last Sunday” night when they
held up the wa hi station at Fern-
| brook Corners And escaped with $5
a watch.
een taken fr the station ten min- -
's before the bandits arrived.
Zollowing Ar established proce-
«ure, the bandits i a-
tion for gas, held up George Hein-
baugh, attendant, and took a watch
from Oliver Thebey, who walked into
the station while the bandits were -
working,
The bandits were operating a tan
Ford stolen from Wyoming the day
before. Police believe they are guilty
of a number of other robberies in the
vicinity of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.
Evans's Store Looted
On the same night, Sunday, thieves
broke a window in the rear of Shel-
don Evans’s Pharmacy, Main Street,
Shavertown, forced a lock and took
about $25 in cash, a .22 calibre pistol
and about $30 in merchandise. i
* The same method was used in at-
tempting to gain entrance to the A.
and P. store, next door to Evans’s, but
the thieves could not get in. Sam De-
Witt, Shavertown, manager of the A.
and P. store, discovered the attempt
to enter on Monday. morning at 7:30.
ice tlle <n
TURKEY SUPPER
The Ladies and Men of the Dallas
M, E. Church will conduct a Turkey
Supper at the Church on Friday eve-
ning. Supper will be served at 5:00
o'clock. Music will be furnished dur-
ing the meal by Howard Hallock, cor-
net; Jack Dungey, violin; and Mrs.
Maude Baker, piano.
WIRE-HAIR FROM LOCAL KENNEL
TOPS CLASS AT NEW YORK SHOW
minster Kennel Club show last week
at Madison Square Garden.
“Scalawag” had previously placed
third in his class at the Associated
Terrier Club’s show also held in New
York City, and a sister, “Susan of :
Fenbor,’ »~has done some nice winning § i
in the Middle West.
Mrs. Cottle expressed a justitied
pride in the placing of these puppies
from the local kennels. 3 of
missionary program and that young
Jennie Hill and Rhoda Ed-
be awarded again thig
vo
wham
fs night’s receipts had