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Which Puts The Back Mountain's
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Vol. 48 THE DALLAS POST FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938 (No; 20
POST
SCRIPTS
JUST
ELEVEN
YEARS
‘AGO
TOMORROW
“No,” reflected the man in the white
tie on our left, “I don’t expect ever
to see a night again like that one was
in Paris.” He smiled as the memory
brightened and he blew a cloud of
smoke lazily toward the ceiling. He
stretched his legs and studied the end
of his cigar. We knew it was to be a
long story.
“We were at a dinner to honor a
very distinguished French scientist,”
he began. “Rather a swell affair, too,
it was. Man had found a new ray or
smashed an atom or something,
Strange fellow, too, because there we
were waiting for him and where was
he? Couldn't be found. Late for his
own party.
“Well, of course nobody could say
much because he was such a disting-
uished fellow. We just stood around,
wondering where he was. Mighty em-
barrassing, you can imagine.
late for his own party. Smashed an
atom but he couldn’t get places on
time. Half an hour passed, then an
hour, two hours. Terrible situation.
Then he came rushing in the door.
. »-
“You should have seen him. He'd
lost his hat. His tie was up around
his ear. His hair looked like a hay-
stack after a wind-storm. He was bub-
bling like a coffee-pot. He was cer-
tainly a fine-looking guest of honor.
In fact, he’d completely forgotten
about the dinner. He had something
else on his mind.
“He gave us no chance to calm; him.
‘He is sighted!” he was shouting. ‘Hhe
is sighted! Your Lindbergh,” he said,
pointing to a group of us Americans.
‘He is sighted over Ireland. We must
go to Le Bourget. Hurry! Hurry!’
“There was nothing to do but go.
The old man was too excited to argue
with him. With a last fond glance at
the elaborate tables which had been
waiting for two hours we trailed out
and into taxis and headed toward Le
Bourget.
“It must, have been something. like
that the night they commandeered the
taxis to stem the German tide at the
Marne. Cars were lined up solidly,
bumper to bumper. On each side of the
line of taxis there were processions
of men on bicycles, and beyond them
were pedestrians, all hurrying toward
Le Bourget. We couldn’t help catching
the tremendous excitement of the
moment, and we almost forgot how
hungry we were.”
* *
“Le Bourget was ablaze with lights
and the crowds were jammed thickly
against the heavy wire fence, We
managed to elbow and wiggle to the
fence and call a guard, to ask him if
we could be admitted. He started to
say mo, and then he saw we were
Americans and he grinned and saluted
and hurried to the nearest fence and
admitted us. He hadn't eaten either
but he had acquired a long loaf of
bread somewhere and he broke it and
we ate it ravenously
“It was quite cold for May and we
were shivering. I can’t recall a might
as clear. When you looked at the sky
you felt that you could reach up and
pluck a star, And everybody knew that
somewhere up there, alone, a tired
youngster was winging through the
night, his eyes straining for the lights
that were blazing up around us.
“The crowds kept pouring in and the
babble was almost deafening. I don’t
know how we managed to hear that
first faint thrum of a motor. The
voices stopped and everyone listened.
And then the roar faded away and
there was a deep sigh of disappoint-
ment from the crowd. But the purr of
a motor came again and louder and
louder and then a great roar, an ear-
shattering tidal wave of sound, went
up. Above us, its silver wings bathed
in moonbeams, a plane was gracefully
circling.
“It was a thrilling moment, I can
assure you, It was more than a trans-
oceanic hop. It was the boy up there.
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CHAIN LETTER MAKES
REAPPEARANCE; GETS
108 RECIPES FOR ONE
The chain letter, which had
national vogue two years ago when
thousands of persons set out to be-
come wealthy on a dime, is back
again!
This time it calls for recipes, in-
stead of money, and local house-
wives are receiving copies of the
letter. It asks the recipient to send
her favorite recipe to the first of
the three persons named in the let-
ter to friends.
Some housewife with a math-
ematical turn of mind has figured
that one recipe will bring you back
108 if you follow the instructions
in the letter.
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Fellow
Local Methodists
Prepare To Show
Honor To Wesley
Eight Churches Here Pre-
pare For Bicentenary
Next Week
COMMUNION SUNDAY
More than 3,000 Methodists in
Dallas and neighboring towns will join
on Sunday with 12,000,000 Meth-
odists throughout the world in com-
i memorating John Wesley's conver-
sion at Aldersgate, England, 200 years
ago, an event which resulted in the
formation of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. :
The] Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
will be administered in each of the
local M. E, Churches. In the after-
noon clergymen from the larger con-
gregations will journey to smaller
supply charges to officiate at Com-
munion. Pr. George M. Bell, district
superintendent, and Rev. CC. Duane
Butler will go to Maple Grove, Rev.
Harry M. Savacool and Rev. Russell
J. May to Alderson and Rev. Francis
E. Freeman and Rev. Charles Gilbert
to Centermoreland.
Sermons will take their inspiration
from the experience of Wesley on the
evening of May 24, 1738, when, after
a heart-breaking search for spiritual
inspiration in a variety of mystical
and religious groups, he found peace
during a meeting on Aldersgate Street,
London, and launched the career which
was to make him one of the greatest
religious leaders of all times.
Although references to the bicenten-
ary of Wesley's conversion will con-
tinue throughout the year, Sunday’s
services will mark the most unified
observance locally.
On Sunday afternoon from 2:30 to 3,}
Eastern Standard Time, a dramatiza-
tion of the highlights of Wesley's life
will be broadcast over Station WEAF
and the Red Network.
On next Tuesday night Dr. Kolstedt
of the Board of Home Missions of the
Methodist Church will speak at a mass
Meeting at 7:2: af ¥1e®. M. E. Church,
Wilkes-Barre, On that same evening
there will be a number of broadcasts
on which dignitaries of the church
will pay tribute to John Wesley and
choruses will sing hymns written by
his brother, Charles Wesley.
The observance of the 200th anni-
versary of the Aldersgate Experience
is of especial interest here becauss
Methodism has been the dominant re-
ligion in the Dallas section since the
first Jersey settlers built cabins here.
Today there are eight Methodist
Churches within a close radius of Dal-
las, with 3,170 members.
Langhorne Races
Scheduled Sunday
Auto races, scheduled for Langhorne
last Sunday, have been postponed to
next Sunday, May 22, with the sam=
program and same star-studded field
set to go into action in a truly pre-
Indianapolis card.
In fact, seven of the entries who are
entered in the “500” will ride through
the night Saturday in a special plane
chartered -*by Ralph Hankinson to
bring them from the first day of qual-
ification on the Hoosier Speedway to
the Langhorne races.
The time schedule will remain the
same with gates opening at 10 a. m.,
daylight time, trials starting at noon
and races proper at three o'clock.
Local Men Witness
Dauber’s Victory
Fred Eck, Willard Garey, Howard
Isaacs and David Evans motored to
Baltimore over last week-end and saw
Dauber, William CC. Dupont’s three-
year-old, win his great race on the
muddy track at Preakness. The fam-
ous race track was jammed with
crowds, the local quartet said, and the
lines to the betting windows scarcely
indicated any depression thereabouts.
On their return the travelers stopped
at Washington to visit Mr. Eck’s
brother, a former! guide, who was able
to show them a number of interesting
spots.
OFFICERS MEET
Officers of East Dallas M. E. Church
met Tuesday night for a covered dish
supper. Plans were discussed for the
year amd it was arranged to hold a
Sunday School and Official Board
meeting the fourth Monday night in
June with Mrs. John Hildebrant.
Present: Rev. Francis Freeman, Mr.
and Mrs. George Snyder, Mrs, Goldie
Strazdus, Wilma Brace, Mrs. Leslie
Stanton, Mrs. Mary Pickett, Irene
Brace, Mrs. John Hildebrant, Elizabeth
Love, Myra Carlin, Mrs. Charles Moore,
Mrs. Ben Brace. :
MADE CAPTAIN
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CAPT. HARRY LEE
Larry Lee Promoted
By War Department
Made Captain, Local Man
Will Command Battery B
At Tumrkhanngek
The United States War Department
informed Henry Lawrence (Larry)
Lee of Dallas this week that he has
been appointed captain of Battery B
of 109th Field Artillery at Tunkhan-
nock.
Captain Lee enlisted as a private in
the 109th F. A. in May, 1922, at Wilkes-
Barre. He became a corporal two years
later and a staff sergeant in another
vear. In November, 1927, he was com-
missioned a lieutenant and in June,
1931, was transferred to Tunkhannock
and promoted to a first lieutenancy.
In 1936 he received an appointment
to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, army training
school, and was graduated fifth in his
class.
. His latest promotion will place him
in command of the battery at Tunk-
hannock, which will soon be housed in
a handsome new armory. At the same
time it announced Captain Lee’s pro-
motion, the War Department announc-
ed the promotion of Charles Henry
Snyder of Tunkhannock to a first
lieutenancy, to succeed Lee.
Tests For Model
Planes Saturday
Ships Built By Youngsters
Will Compete For
Prizes
Yquthful aviation enthusiasts from
Dallas Borough and Dallas Township
High Schools will test their model air-
planes tomorrow in a contest which
will climax this section’s observance)
of Air Mail Week. The builder of the
best plane will be treated to an air-
plane ride over Dallas from Wyoming
Valley Airport.
Joseph Polacky, postmaster, said the
trial flights will take place on Oliver's
used car lot at 2:30 p. m. Saturday.
Three boys, Alden LeGrand, Clayton
Carl and Arthur Garinger already have
entered planes. Others can enter until
tonight. A larger plane built by Jack
Dungey has also been on display at the
post office but will not be entered be-
cause of its size.
94 Per Cent
ere
State Department
Is ‘Pleased’ With
Plans For Annex
Hare’s Approval Opens Way
For Final Steps To
Construction
' COST ABOUT $20,000
H. Frank Hare of the Department of
Public Instruction at Harrisburg in-
formed Dallas Borough School Board
this week that he is “very much
pleased” with the plans for a four-
room addition to the high school build-
ing,
Mr. Hare's approval of revisions
calling for an annex about thirty feet
longer than originally planned opens
the way for quick completion of form-
alities which have been delaying the
project and although it is unlikely
that the addition will be ready when
school opens next Fall dinéctors intend
to rush work to have if compicied as
soon as possible.
The plans now call for a hall; two
30’ rooms and the girls’ shower room
on the first floor and two over-size
high school rooms on the second floor.
The annex will extend to the rear of
the main section, according to the new
plan. Two high school rooms on the |
first floor will be turned over to ele-
mentary classes and the old building,
which has been mentioned as a future
town hall and community building, will
be abandoned by the school district.
Instead of constructing the building
as a WPA project, the board will at-
tempt to make it a PWA job, with a
45 per cent direct grant from the gov-
erment. The cost will probably be less
than $20,000, with the local board’s ex-
pense about half of that amount. The
next meeting of the school board will
be angMay 25. :
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OLDEST VOTER
The distinction of being oldest voter
on Tuesday at the North District of
Dallas Borough went to Mrs. Rachael
Wyckoff, aged 90. She was accom-
panied by her daughter, Dr. Sarah D.
Wyckoff.
161 Farmers Get
$35,206 From AAA
County Farms In Program
Improve 14,006
Acres
Seven hundred sixty ome Luzerne
County farmers received $35,206 last
year for improving 14,006 acres of farm
land in the county, the Agricultural
Conservation Committee annpunced
this week.
The committee, which is/located in
the rear of 18 Scott Strel t, WWilkes-
Barre, is working now with farmers
who wish to participate in the new
program for 1938. About one-half of
the total cropland of the county was
represented by farmers who participat-
ed last year.
The work in 1937 included seeding
6,101 acres with clover and timothy,
395 acres with alfalfa, applying lime
or fertilizer, applying nitrogen, grow-
ing woodland pasture and similar con-
servation measures.
Waters Was Guilty Youth On
Satevepost’s ‘Bad Boy’ Cover
as those in his arms and those which
he has tucked into the bosom of his
old-fashioned blouse.
“It cost Mr. Robinson a lot for ap-
ples,” Mr. Waters recalls. “It was
summer and he had some difficulty
getting big ones. In addition, I spoil-
ed one for the picture every time I
took a bite. Those bulges inside the
blouse aren’t apples at all, but oranges,
which were easier to get.” There was
also a bulldog on the original picture,
Mr. Waters explains, but it didn't ap-
pear on The Post's cover.
Mr. Waters posed for the famous
artist all summer. One of his paintings
was of the Old Swimming Hole, with
ten beys diving and swimming and
playing. Mr, Waters was all ten. He
merely posed in different positions and
when Mr. Robinson wanted to change
his appearance he put red hair on the
figure.
When an artist, wisiting in Dallas
twenty some years ago, set out to find
a typical “bad boy” for his magazine
covers he found his model in Dan
‘Waters, and that lad, who was to grow
up to be one of the town’s most pro-
minent citizens and present secretary
of its school board, became a Satur-
day Evening Post cover.
The artist was Robert Robinson, who
came here to visit his relatives, the
Wyant family. Mr. Waters chuckled
this week as he recalled his only ex-
perience as an artist’s model. “Robin-
son wanted a bad boy, “Mr, Waters
said, “and I guess I was it.”
The cover of The Post which car-
ried Mr, Waters’ likeness is framed and
hangs on the living-room wall at the
Waters home. It is of a boy with
roguish eyes and a guilty smile, tak-
ing a bite from an apple, which has
obviously come from the same source
Of Record
Voie
Cast For Arthur James
2,098 Republicans Vote, 740
His Pluralities In Back Mountain Run A
PLYMOUTH JURIST GETS BIGGEST
PLURALITY EVER RECEIVED HERE
igh As 22 to 1;
Democratg In Three Towns
Flannery Leads Democratic Candidates
ELECTION ORDERLY DESPITE TENSE INTEREST
HOW NOMINEES OF
TWO PARTIES WILL
LINE UP THIS FALL
Thirty-one aspirants for office
were eliminated from the race in
Tuesday's primary election, leav-
ing fourteen candidates to enter
the November general election,
when seven offices will be at stake.
The line-up for November fol-
lows:
UNITED STATES SENATOR
George H. Earle, Democrat
James J. Davis, Republican
GOVERNOR
Charles Alvin Jones, Democrat
Arthur H. James, Republican
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
Dr. Leo C. Mundy, Democrat
Samuel S. Lewis, Republican
SECRETARY INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Thomas A. Logue, Democrat
William 8. Livengood, Jr.
CONGRESSMAN
J. Harold Flannery, Democrat
Michael Yeosock, Republican
STATE SENATOR
Frank Correale, Democrat
Robert Miller, Republican
REPRESENTATIVE
Edgar W. Lare, Democrat
Don Wilkinson, Republican
Expect Shake-up
In District G.0.P.
Election Results Forecast
End Of Old Leaders
In Dallas
A shake-up in the Luzerne County
Republican Committee is expected as
a result of the outcome of the cam-
paign to select new committeemen.
The majority of those elected in Dal-
las and vicinity are opposed to the
leadership of Henry Disque, district
chairman and ally of Attorney John S,
Fine.
Practically all the committeemen el-
| ected throughout this section rode into
office on the tremendous surge of sen-
timent in favor of Judge Arthur H.
James’ candidacy for Governor. Some
of the new Republican committeemen
elected are:
Dallas = Borough, North District:
Morgan Wilcox defeated Brinley
Davies; South District: Kyle Cundiff
defeated Harvey McCarty.
Dallas Township, North District:
Henry Shupp defeated Fred Honey-
well; Middle District, Shadrach N.
Gross defeated Fred Turpin; South
District, Earl Layaou had no opposi-
tion.
Kingston Township, Shavertown,
Sam Woolbert led a field which in-
cluded ‘Harry Ritts, Francis Young-
Trucksville, Ralph Hazeltine defeated
Royal Lyne; Carverton, John L. Earl
was unopposed.
New Democratic committeemen are:
Dallas Borough, North District, Tho-
mas J. Healey defeated Charles Ran-
dall;
Clarence Esser.
Dallas Township, North, Ralph M.
Elston defeated Frank Boston; Middle, |
Michael J. Sedler defeated John Lum-
ley; South, Steven Apalaski defeated
William H. Martin.
Kingston Township,
Martin Bilbow defeated Edward Mec-
Gough; Trucksville, Ford Johnson
defeated Charles Perkins and Fred
Hughes;
feated Clifford Culver.
DENDLER-CASTERLINE
Mr, and Mrs. George Casterline of
Harvey’s Lake announce the marriage
of their daughter Margaret to Walter
Dendler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Dendler of Noxen on Saturday night,
‘May 14, at the St. Luke’s Lutheran
blood, Will Morgan and Albert Stitzer; |
South, Scott Van Horn defeated |
Shavertown, |
Carverton, Herbert Lahr de- i
‘Church. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hobbs!
were the attendants.
Rallying to Judge Arthur H. James’ call for volunteers to follow him
in his crusade against the New Deal in November, voters of Dallas and
neighboring communities flocked to the polls in record-breaking numbers
on Tuesday and gave the former breaker boy from Plymouth the greatest
plurality ever given to a candidate here.
Ninety-four per cent of the Repub-
licans from Dallas Borough, Dallas
Township and Kingston Township
cast their votes for James in a land-
slide which contributed greatly to his
plurality in’ Luzerne County. In one
district Judge James led Pinchot 22
to 1, a plurality which, until someone
produces something better, will stand
as the heaviest percentage given the
fighting Republican anywhere in the
state. }
Despite the fact that it was the
heaviest primary election vote ever re-
corded here, Tuesday's balloting was
without disorder and, besides the one-
sidedness of the gubernatorial contest,
was distinguished only by the smooth-
working efficiency of the volunteer
James’ workers, who stopped working
only when the doors of the polls were
closed. They laid the groundwork for
another smashing James’ victory here
in November.
Judge James and his running-mate,
Samuel S. Lewis of York, candidate
for lieutenant-governor, led the Re-
publican aspirants here, with Lewis
running about 600 votes behind James
in the borough and Kingston and Dal-
las Township. Kingston Township,
which, which turned in the biggest
plurality for James, also favored the
candidacy of Senator James J. Davis,
Pinchot endorsed candidate for re~
election, but heavy voting for Judge
James’ running-mate, G. Mason Owlett,
in Dallas Township and Dallas Bor-
ough sent him out of this section with
a slender plurality.
In the contest for State Senator,
Robert Miller of Kingston led in all
districts except Dallas Borough, and
his lead contributed to his nomination
as the Republican candidate. Despite
strong support throughout the Back
Mountain Section, Willard G. Shortz
lost to Don Wilkinson in the race for
the nomination for Representative to
the Legislature.
In some of the local districts ninety
per cent of the registered voters cast
ballots, an unusually high percentage
in a primary election. There were 2,-
098 Republican votes cast in the three
local towns, as compared with 740
Democratic votes and that percentage
was maintained in other Back Moun-
tain communities.
Of the Democratic candidates, Con-
gressman J. Harold Flannery polled
the highest vote. Kingston Township
Democrats favored the candidacy of
Thomas Kennedy for the gubernatorial
nomination, but Dallas Borough and
Dallas Township Democrats gave
Charles Alvin Jones, State organization
candidate, enough votes to send him
out of this district with a slender lead.
Governor George H. Earle, candidate
for State Senator, ran ahead in every
district here, indication that many lo-
cal Democrats took seriously James J.
Farley's advice to vote Earle and Ken-
nedy.
Attorney Edgar Lare of Luzerne
took a decisive victory over his op-
ponent, Frederick R. Pritchard, also of
Luzerne, in the contest for the Demo-
cratic momination for Representative
from the Sixth Legislative District.
A summary of the local returns ap-
pears on page 8 of this week’s Post.
JUDGE JAMES’ SISTER
THRILLED BY RETURNS
FROM BACK MOUNTAIN
Of all the local people who were
thrilled Tuesday by Judge Arthur
H. James’ sweeping victory in the
Republican primaries, it is safe to
say that no one was more pleased
than Mrs. David W. Spry, 68 E.
Franklin = Street, Shavertown.
Judge James is Mrs. Spry’s bro-
ther.
Mrs. Spry will be remembered
by many of The Post's readers for
her series of articles on local birds.
She visited her brother on Wed-
nesday to congratulate him and
discovered that he was celebrating
the landslide by taking a long
walk and visiting with the miners
at No. 11 colliery, where his father
once was foreman. RO