< : sided : THE DALLAS POST HAS A COMPLETE JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT — : More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution ROMEO AND JULIET! THEIR PICTURE STORY STARTS ON PAGE 7 VOL. 47 THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937 No. 17 See Need For Reforestti In Area Drained By Engineers Study Toby's Creek’s Contributions alley’s Flood Problem; Will Incase Part Near Mouth In Concrete; Seek Way to Curb Freshets Here DAMS NO REAL SOLUTION, EXPERTS BELIEVE The necessity for an extensive program of reforesting along the head- waters of Toby's Creek has been stressed as a result of surveys made in connection with Wyoming Valleys flood control program. Although it never overtlows its banks here with any serious consequen- ces, Toby's Creek is one of the tributaries of the Susquehanna River which are being studied by engineers in their plans to flood hazard. Usually tributaries can be checked®- by the construction of impounding dams but it is understood the lack of sites and the expense of constructing dams large enough to hold the water pouring trom ° tne unusually large drainage area have caused engineers to abandon that plan here. The easiest solution to the problem of controlling the treshets of Toby's Creek is reforesting, according to experts ques- tioned by The Post this week. After heavy rains or snowfalls, such as caused Wyoming Valley's disastrous flood last year, Toby's Creek drains large quan- tities of water into the Susquehanna River below Edwardsville, and parts of that town, Kingston and Luzerne are flooded by the combination of backwater and freshet. To confine the creek to its banks near its mouth Army engineers are preparing to incase it in concrete walls as far north as the flats between Luzerne and Pringle, where even a slight freshet sends the water sprawling over its banks. But how to control the water above that point remained a problem this week. Although Army engineers in the Val- ley to supervise construction of the dikes have visited this section to study the Toby Creek watercourse the tributary is out of their jurisdiction. The army is respon- sible for work along navigable rivers (the Susquehanna is still recognized as a navi gable river, despite the fact that it is choked with silt) but their authority does’ not extend to small tributaries such as Toby's Creek. . : The survey along the local creek is under the authority of the Water and Power Resources Board at Harrisburg and engineers at the headquarters of the Val ley’s flood control project said this week they had no definite information con cerning what the Board's engineers are planning here. ; In the opinion of one prominent local eiginee who has studied the Toby's Creek watercourse there are no suitable sites for a dam large enough to hold the sudden and short-lived rush of" “water which follows a heavy rain. Sel The source of Toby's Creek is near Shepherd's Corners, at DeMunds, and on its way down to Dallas it taps a number of small pools and several swamps, col- fecting the drainage water from a tre. mendous area. At Dallas it collects the water drained off from the hills on all sides of it and .by the time-it reaches Hillside it is carrying the drainage water from hundreds of square miles. Much of the territory drained. espec- ially in the vicinity of the headwaters, consists of farms which have been cut over for some years, and as a result there is nothing to retain the water, which rolls down the steep hills into the creek. For this reason, experts here believe the easiest solution to the problem of con- trolling the creeks drainage into the Susquehanna would be to launch an ex- tensive program to plant trees along the hills of the headwaters and along its course so the water will be held in the ground until the creek is better able to carry it off. Clubwomen Meet Here Wednesday Dallas Club Hostess To 200 Expected At Federation Meeting Several hundred clubwomen from all parts of Luzerne County will be guests of Dallas Junior Women's Club on next Wednesday at the Spring meeting of Luzerne County Federation of Women's Clubs at Irem Country Club. J The Federation has met at the country club frequently but the Dallas group has never before been hostess to fhe visitors. Miss Beth Love, president of the local club, will welcome the visigors and Mrs. Gilbert Jacobosky, president/of the Federa- tion, will respond. Besides Miss Love, o | C ess club are Mrs. John aple, vice-presi dent; Mrs. ‘Wesley Moore, secretary; Mrs. Charles’ Lee, trgasurer; Miss Jose- phine Stem, iE secretary. The local committee assisting Mrs. Moore, who is general chairman, includes Mrs. Thomas Mogre, registration; Mrs. Yaple, resetvationg; Mrs. Carl Kuehn, de” corations; Miss Helen Himmler, page; Mrs. John Durbin, hostesses. There will be three sessions. At 10:15 Mrs. Jacobosky will open a business session. At a luncheon meeting at noon Attorney R. Lawrence Coughlin will, speak and Mrs. A. B. Shutts, president of West Pittston Women's Club, will lead a discussion of reports of club presi dents. In the afternoon the Glee Club of Dallas Women's Club, directed by Mrs. Allan Sanford and accompanied by Mrs. William Baker, will sing several numbers. Mrs. Keller Struck By @ar In Valley Mrs. Anna Kellarf 58, Parrish Street, Dallas; was injured’ last Thursday when she was hit by an automobile on West Northampton Street, Wilkes-Barre. She was taken to the Meréy Hospital by Wil- liam F. Stolfi, 22,450 Lincoln Street, of Wilkes-Barre, who had been driving the car which struck Mrs. Kellar. ers of the host- protect river towns against MRS. KUEHN IS AMONG SIX LOCAL PERSONS CHOSEN FOR JURORS Mrs. Jean#Kuehn of Dallas was selected this week among the six per- sons from the Dallas section who will serve on the jury during the May term of Criminal Court at Wilkes Barre. “ The names drawn include the fol- towing: Week of May 17 ; Dallas—]Jean Kuehn, Ray Marsh. Week of May 24 ; Kingston Township—]. C. Lewis. Week of June 1 Kingston Township—Curtis Montz, John Pittinger, Harold N. Rust. Dallas—Stanley T. Glidden, M. C. Miers. Lehman Township—W. R. Neely. POST SCRIPTS LETTER CORONATION WRITING ROOSEVELT PALOOKA A few months ago we presented in this column «a letter trom England. Judging trom the response, it was interestung to a number of people and so we are peg- ging oti from our own assignment again ana shoving an Englishman into the gap. We find ourselt now corresponding with five British newspapermen in a trans-oceanic agreement to keep each other informed of what is Lappening in each ot our own bailiwicks. = Since we are the only American on this end of the agreement it keeps us fairly busy, but the insight we have gained into British affairs has made it well worth-while. It all started with .a rather amusing tale. A printer at The Post, a tormer Britisher, gave us the name of a man to whom we could write in England. In the years since our friend had known the gentleman he had left newspaper work behind and had become a Member of Parliament but he informed us he was submitting our letter to the secretary of the National Journalists’ Union, in the hope that he might be able to suggest a correspondent. We had almost forgotten the incident when we received a letter from England in the mail. A day later there was ano- ther, and then another, and another until we had received fifteen letters from British newspapermen anxious to accor modate. Our own letter, inviting a cor- respondent, had appeared, we learned, in the national publication of newspapermen on the Isles—and we were swamped with correspondence. How we got out from that load is another story, but we now have five friends on the British Isles, and one— who tailed along several months after the first rush—in Australia. —r— The young man who supplies us with the material for this week's column is a free lance writer, a former newspaper: man. This letter is in response to a heavy bundle of clippings on the Simpson Case which we forwarded to him a month or so ago. His comment on that case is interesting. —_—— “The clippings” he writes “gave me a good idea, not merely of the case itself but of the censorship which had been im- posed upon us here. Well, perhaps cen sorship is sometimes necessary. I don’ quarrel with the institution, but with th application of it here in what was purely an artificial crisis—so artificial and so un- real that the most popular monarch of England has been completely forgotten by now and we all dutifully sing ‘God save King George VI'". Our friend on the Coronation: “I'm not looking forward to the Coronation, with its hysteria, its pseudo-patriotism, its quack profitmaking and its disgusting contract between luxury and the most miserable poverty. What an immoral world we live in! All the villages and towns are whipping up a simulated en- thusiasm over the event and are financing open air tea parties, firework = displays, sports, fetes and the rest of it. “I should be glad to be out of the country, yet I shall have a sneaking de- sire to be in the thick of it and may probably go to London on The Day. All the motor cars are running around with Union Jacks stuck in their bonnets and mothers are buying penny flags for the children. You can get anything from a pound of sugar to a spring suit in red, white and blue now.” Oa A British writer on American writing: “I liked your magazine ‘Time’. Some of its pertinence bordered on impertinence and some of it was a trifle sordid, yet nevertheless I'd rather have it that way (Continued on Page 5) Visiting the New York World’s Fair of 1939 in 1937] RS NEW YORK (Special)—Profes- sor Lewis Edwin Theiss of the faculty of Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pa, and his daughter Frances, 2 sophomore, are caught by cameramas as they inspect a model of the New York World's Fair of 1939 on display as part of an exhibit on the ground floor of the Empire State Building at 34th Street and | Fifth Avenue. Miss Theiss did the taiking for the family when inter- viewers appeared: “We just couldn't wait until the Fair opened to learn what it is all about,” she said. “We have been thrilled by the models and plans which disclose a scope of astounding proportions, We cer- tainly. will be back in 1939 and know that we shall see the greatest fair of all time.” Mr. Theiss, who was a New York newspaper man before turning educator, expressed intereas in the Theme of the Fair “Building the World of Tomorrew” and fore- cast a large attendance from educa: tional circles. Russian Dancers Coming To City Headed By Member of For- mer Imperial Russian Ballet : Admirers of Mikhail Mordkin are ar- ranging an enthusiastic welcome for the first appearance of the Mordkin Ballet at Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre, Saturday evening, April 24, 1937, under the aus- pices of the Serve Your City Club, when his highly proficient organization = will dance Adolphe Adam’s seldom-produced French ballet, “Giselle”, and follow with the humorous and much discussed Tch- erephine work, “The Goldfish”, adapted from Alexander Pushkin’s delicious poem. The name of Mordkin will always be associated with classic mimodrama in America. His triumph as a handsome masculine exponent of dancing in the famous Imperial Russian Ballet, was the needed impulse to win all music and bal- let lovers and prepared patrons for the visit later on of Diagileff. The Mordkin Ballet presents many new faces and names including the = gifted Lucia Chase as chief prima ballerina and Viola Essen, the youngest premiere ever to reach such honor under Mordkin. They will appear in both ballets. Alter- nating in Mordkin’s former roles will be the Russian dancers Leon Varkas and Dimitri Romanoff, assisted by Janna Per- lova, Janice Hanford, Hermoine Hawk- inson, Fyodor Nazinoff, Dorothy Weiger and Leo Danieloff, who have been under Mordkin since he established his American ballet school. In “Giselle” from Theophile Gautier’s romance, Lucia Chase, has the tragic title part with Viola Essen as Myrta the “Queen of Death”. Leon Varkas is Duke Albert and Dimitri Romanoff is the tragic Hans. In “The Goldfish” Lucia Chase has one of her greatest roles as the Fisher- man's Wife opposite the rotesque fisher- man. She will also do Tchaikowsky's famous “Russian Dance” with Varkas. Viola Essen is the fairy goldfish, a pic- turesque butterfly role of much grace and beauty. The production is in five scenes with costume designs by Soudeikine. Reservation may be made at Irem Tem- ple or Landau’s, 107 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre. Telephone and mail orders will be given careful attention. Call Irem Temple 2-5315. Landau’s, 3-2168. Convention To Be : 55th For County The 55th annual convention of the Lu- zeern County Sabbath School Association will be held in Central M. E. Church, Wilkes-Barre, May 3, 4 and 5. Dr. O. W. Warmingham of Boston University, professor of Biblical history and litera ture, will speak nightly. A mass Meet- May 3. If a sufficient number of recruits can be enlisted locally, Irem Country Club boys this year, Ted Weisser, golf pro at the club, announced this week. Te In the past the majority of the caddies have been boys from towns in the val ley. Weisser reported this week he wants to meet-any local boys 14 years of age who have the qualifications for good cad- dies. They should report to the golf shop as early as possible, he said, so they can be trained before the season opens. ing for adults will ‘be held Monday night, | Glee Club Gives Minstrel Tonight Program Ready For Colorful Production In High School The: Glee Club of Dallas Junior Wo- mai s~Club will present a Colonial min- strel tonight (Friday) at 8:15 in Dallas Borough High School Auditorium. Mrs. Sara Sanford will direct the pro- duction. © Mrs. Ruth R. Manning will supervise dance numbers and Mrs. Maude Baker will be accompanist. Mrs. Sanford will be interlocutor, too. Beth Love is president of the Women's Club and Mrs. Thomas Robinson is chairman of music and chairman of tonight’s minstrel. Other committee chairmen for tonight are: Mrs. George K. Swartz, tickets and ushers; Mrs. Charles W. Lee, publicity; Mrs. Kenneth Oliver, program; Mrs. Karl Kuehn, decorations; Mrs. Robert Baker, Miss Ruth Hull, costumes; Mrs. George Stolarick, script. Ushers will be Mrs. Milford Shaver, Miss Leona Smith, Mrs. Margaret Shultz, Mrs. Herbert Lundy and Mrs. Marie Per- rego. The material for the costumes was purchased and sewed by the members themselves. The program follows: Theme song, ‘Song of the Soul”, Glee Club; Aunt Jemimas, humor; solo, "Mighty Lak a Rose”, Mrs.’ G. K. Swartz; Aunt Jemimas; song, “In a Country Garden”, glee club; country dance; Aunt Jemimas; duet, “I will give You the Keys to My Heart”, Ethel Stolarick and Helen Him- mler; song, “Allah’s Holiday”, glee club; comedy act. Aunt Jemimas; guest artist, Pompilio Forlano, cornetist; intermission; son, “Wake Thee Now, Dearest”, glee club; “Little Old Lady”, Winnie Cease; duet, “Honey, If Yo’ only Knew", Jane O'Kane and Margaret Robinson; songs, “Dixie” and ‘She Sleeps, My Lady Sleeps”, glee club; solo, “Second Minuet”, Charlotte Payne; Minuet by glee club; and finale, “The Star Spangled Banner”. Those members of the glee club who will be “Aunt Jemimas” are Mary Durbin, Ruth Hull, Jane O'Kane and Margaret Robinson. Dancers: Martha Washington — Milli- cent Rustine, Ethel Stolarick, Mary Fe- dor, Annette Baker, Clementa Swartz and Winnie Cease; George Washington—DBar- bara Oliver, Beth Love, Helen Himmler, Charlotte Payne, Lillian Kuehn and Dor- othy Moore. — Basketball Finals : Played Tonight The finals in the intramural basketball tournament at Kingston Township will be played in the high school gymnasium to night, when the Junior and Sophomore boys and the Senior and the Sophomore girls meet. z COUNTRY CLUB WANTS TO USE LOCAL CADDIES THIS SEASON A few early golfers are already enjoy- ing the club's links, which are probably will select its caddies from among Dallas in better condition this year than in many years past. The season will not open officially until May 15, when Irem club members celebrate the annual F. J. Weck- esser Day. Mr. Weisser, who had been at Year man's Hall, Charleston, S. C., all winter, returned last week and is busy making preparations for the summer season. He looks especially fit as a result of his win ter in the South. For Paving Of Main A good start toward eliminating fr: battle to secure a good road for Back most important need is prompt action the town, no matter what route, and and a by-pass be paved eventually. ? NEW PASTOR Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort, who will be installed formally ‘as pastor of. St. Church, Paulis itl. n Shavertown, on Sunday evening at a 7:30: Conference Head T'o Greet Pastor Rev. Mr. Frankfort Will Be installed At St. Paul's Sunday Night The instailation of Rev. Ilacbert E. Frankfort as the pastor of St. Pauls Lutheran Church wil take piace on Sun- day nightat /:9U. Kev. inomas Atkin- son, president or w ilkes-Barre conference, will have charge ot the installation and will deliver the charge to the congrega- tion. Rev. Ernest J. Hoh, B. D., pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Lancaster, will deliver the charge to the pastor, who came here trom Lancaster. A trio com- posed of the Laycock sisters will sing “Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me". Kev. Mr. Frankrort was called to the local church on February 21, tollowing the resignation of Rev. G. Elson Ruft. The new pastor was ordained on Easter Sunday, at the local church, and moved hee the following week. On Sunday evening at St. Paul's Church the Luther League will inaugur- ate a series of devotional services at a meeting at 6:45 in the church basement. Miss Mary Jean Laycock will have charge of the devotions and Rev. Hoh of Lan- caster will speak on “What we know about God”. Beginning this Sunday the Sunday school session will be held at 9:45 a. m,, instead of 10, as in the past. — Group From School To Visit College Eight Dallas Girls Guests At Cedar Crest On May 1 Eight girls from Dallas High School have accepted the invitation of Cedar Crest College, Allentown, to attend the fifth annual Open House at the college on Saturday afternoon, May 1, from 1:30 to 5 ips im. The girls are Bernice Sheppleman, Betty Weid, Alberta Himmler, Elsie Culp, Florence Kelly, Elsie Johnston, Jane Knecht and Roberta Van Campen. Miss Elizabeth Culbert will have charge of the group. 4 The local visitors will be shown various activities of the college by twelve service girls, each of whom will be in charge of a group of high school students and friends. The manufacture of cosmetics | Lewis explained how people in Dallas Opposing Groups To Join | Forces In Fight For Road Dallas Delegation Confers With Luzerne Merchants On The Highway Project; Petition To Be Drafted Asking Street And By-Pass NO COMPROMISE WITHOUT BY-PASS, THOUGH iction between opposite camps in the Mountain motorists through Luzerne was made on Wednesday night when a delegation from this section met with Luzerne merchants to discuss the problem. As a result resolutions and a petition will be drafted stressing that the to secure a passable highway through recommending that both Main street Attorney B. B. Lewis, spokesman for the local delegation, said yester: day he felt the conference had pre- pared the way for a new understand- ing between the allied groups work. ing for a by-pass and the Luzerne merchants who have opposed that plan in the past because of its threat to their business section. Still Want Bysfass Questioned yesterdgs as to whether the agreement mig delay by-pass plans, C. L. Albgft, chairman of Dal- las Rotary Clupfs highwa said it definitefy would he is encourages Wednesday: night’s feels the movement tc ter route to the valley for tain motorists was stimu meeting of Wednesday night. Attorney Lewis and Attorney Henry Greenwald of Luzerne were delegated to draw up a position incorporating the views of Luzerne merchants and local groups and calling upon allied organizations to co-operate in achiev~ ing the goal. y The discussion at the meeting Wed- nesday night was led by Stanley John. son, chairman of the road committee of Luzerne Civic Association. Atfor- ney ‘Greenwald presented the attitude ‘of the Luzerne men and Attorney /’ by the a. and its vicinity feel about the condi- | tions which prevail now. Councilman John Crossin of Lu- zerne suggested that a parking lot be provided in the rear of the firemen's building for persons who wish to shop in Luzerne. Shopping would be free, the lot would be lighted, and police protection would be provided. Mr. Crossin also assured the meet- ing that police will receive instruc. tions to enforce the ordinance prohi- biting double parking cn Main Street and will use every means to ease cons gestion along the main thoroughfare. Red Cross Drive Is Started Here Oliver Calls For Generous Support In Annual Roll Call ; One of the first divisions organized, the Dallas group of volunteers who are carrying on the annual Roll Call of Wy- oming Valley Chapter, Ameri¢fn’ Red Cross, got off to a flying staf this week. “We've seen so many edimples of Red Cross generosity recently” said James R Oliver, local chairman, that there shold be no hesitancy this im"Tesponding to the call of th» Pd Cross. In Wyom- ing Vallev aft + "st vear’s flood the Red Cross expended four times as much as vas ‘on prih to in ithe Valley. The Red “nes is still helping the people of the Mle West to recover from their dis- “ous floods. Dallas people are always 1erous. We ‘expect them to respond overwhelmingly to this worthy cause.” The quota for Dallas Borough and Dallas Township has been set at $500. Local workers who have volunteered are Mrs. James Ayre, Mrs. Nelson Shaver Mrs. Peter Clark, Mrs. Joseph Walle Mrs. B. B. Lewis, Mrs. H. Lee Scott, Mrs Kenneth Oliver, Margaret Czulegar, Mr. Machell Hildebrant, Harry Tennysor Mrs. Ethel Shaver, Miss Josephine Ster Mrs. Georgianna Welch, Mrs. Walte Davis, Maurice Girton, Mrs. Charles Bodycomb, Mrs. Karl Kuehn, Millicent Rustine, Mrs. Kenneth Oliver, Alberta Hofmeister, Mrs. C. W. Lee, Mrs. Harold Rood, Mrs. Stanley Davies. It has been requested that any persons who are not contacted by volunteers but who are anxious to contribute send their donations to Chairman Oliver in Dallas. Madden Sentenced Ten to Forty Years in the chemistry laboratory, jewelry in the jewelry laboratory, a display of gar ments designed and made by the students in home economics, demonstrations of several of twenty-five sports carried on at Cedar Crest, the various machines used in connection with the course in Secre- tarial Science, and art exhibits will be among the many interesting features of the program. The trip will be one of several groups of students from the local high school have made this Spring to educational in- stitutions. rrr A mis Penalty Added To Property Tax May 1 Tax Collector Arthur Dungey of Dallas this week reminded .taxpayers that May 1 will be the deadline for payment of all property taxes. After that date the tax will be returned to the County Commis- sioner’s office and a penalty will be add- ed. Personal taxes must be paid before The last chapter in the career of a gang of youthful bandits who terrorized this section was written last Thursday at which time Wyoming County court sen- tenced James Madden of Pittston to serve from ten to forty years in the State pen- itentiary. Madden, who was sentenced with the gang which held up local gaso- line stations in February and March, was acquitted in Luzerne County but pleaded guilty in Wyoming County. His three friends, who have begun their terms in the penitentiary were taken to Tunk- hannock to give testimony. To Discuss Building Plans Next Monday Shavertown firemen will meet on Mon- day night in the Shavertown school to discuss further plans for the purchase of a site in the township and the construc- tion of a new firemen's home. A com- mittee will report on the results of its survey since the last meeting two weeks June 1 to escape the penalty. ago. Snyder, Mrs. J. C. Fleming, Mrs. Robert