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Vol. 48 J
THE DALLAS POST. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938
No. 49
Susquehanna Drops
After Sudden Rise
Alarms Observers
Heavy Rains Wash Record
Thanksgiving Snow
Away
CREST NEAR 14 FEET
Warm rains which washed last
week's record-breaking snow into the
tributaries of the Susquehanna River
sent that stream on a rampage this
week and threatened for a while to
test Wyoming Valley's new flood
levees.
U. S. Army Engineers, who watched
the river level rise eight feet in three
days, said, however, that the freshet
had caused no damage and had not
afforded a serious test of the huge
dikes, which were well above the high-
water mark. Some damage may have
been dpne where currnts tore at fresh
soil, ey said, but it would be re-
placed easily. oo
Any cause for alarm’ vanished when
_Joh@ Mirmak, pier observer at
Wilkes-Barre, gghounced on Wednes-
day night thagthe river had apparent-
1y jreachedy ts crest, just short of 14
feet. Hedexpected a steady recession
4 p. m.
6.53 ft.
8.99: ft.
13.81 ft.
13.86 ft.
Tuesday
Wednesday ...13.74 ft.
Thursday 13.75 ft.
When Abram’s Creek, which cuts
through the flats between Forty Fort
and Wyoming, backed up on Wednes-
day. Wyoming Avenue was covered
by one and one-half feet of water and
cars were permitted to pass at their
own risk.
A bridge below the airport blocked
the flow of the creek and caused it to
overflow its banks. Some of the low-
er parts of Wyoming Valley Airport
were flooded but not enough to stop
planes from using the port, according
to George Eckman, manager, By Wed-
nesday the water had receded.
Utility Proposes
Peace Conference
Wants To Meet Council
To Discuss Water
Situation
A proposal that Dallas Borough
councilmen confer with officials of
Dallag Water Co. in an effort to solve
the local water problem without legal
action was received by council from
the utility on Wednesday night.
Council has instituted action through
the Public Utility Commission against
the water company, charging that its
service is inadequate. Robert Craig
of Harrisburg, general manager of the
company, acknowledged Secretary Wil-
liam Niemeyer’s letter reporting coun-
cil’s step. He suggested that a con-
ference might bring a satisfactory ad-
justment and save legal expense,
An amusing, and perhaps signifi-
cant incident, arose when Clyde Lapp
proposed half-seriously that Council-
man Peter Clark be drafted as a can-
didate fer County Commissioner next
year, a suggestion which evoked a good
bit of good-natured joshing and em-
barrassed Mr. Clark, who is also Sixth
District G. O. P. chairman.
Former Tax Collector :
Dies At Luzerne Home
The funeral of Henry Nothoff, for-
mer tax collector of Luzerne Borough
and well known in West Side mining
circles, will be held tomorrow (Satur-
day) morning at 8:30 from his home,
759 Bennett, street, Luzerne, with a
high mass of requiem aff Sagred Heart
Church at 9 and intgrpdent in St.
Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township.
Mr. Nothoff died Tuesday night of
complications at his home. The body
was removed to the funeral parlors of
Charles Betz, Bennett street, Luzerne,
after death.
Surviving are his wife, Margaret,
the following children, John of Har-
vey’s Lake, Charles and Marion at
home, Mrs. Joseph R. Harris and Mrs,
J. R. Birkbeck, both of Luzerne, Mrs.
J. J. Nash of Salem, Mass., Fred Noth-
off of New York and Henry of Buffalo,
and a sister, Mrs W. Arthur Lewis of
Trucksville, and 11 grandchildren.
Prof. W. A. Kuhn Dies
At Wellsville Home
Prof, Wesley A. Kuhn, a teacher dn
the business school at Wyoming Sem-
inary from 1883 to 1927, died on Mon-
day. November 21, at his home at
Wellsville. Since the death of his wife
last March, Professor Kuhn had been
living at the family homestead in
Wellsville, near York,
Roosevelt Invited
To Help In Ending
Newspaper Strike
Citizens Committee Also
Invites James To
Intercede
STILL DEADLOCKED
An appeal to President Roosevelt
and Governor-elect James to aid in
ending Wilkes-Barre’s two-month-old
newspaper strike was made this week
by a citizens’ committee headed by
Ben IL. Jenkins and including many of
the large business firms of Wyoming
Valley.
The committee asked = President
Roosevelt to instruct the National La-
bor Relations Board to hold an elec-
tion of Wilkes-Barre newspaper em-
pldyes to settle the knotty “jurisdic-
diction” problem which was respon-
sible for the calling off of negotiations
between publishers and striking Amer-
ican Newspaper Guildsmen in October.
The balloting would determine
whether the guild, a C. I, O, affiliate,
or whether the A. F, of L.’s Federation
of Office Workers should bargain for
employes of the three daily newspaper,
non-mechanical gropps who are not
employes in the editorial rooms. _~
Another messagef was sent 46 Gov-
ernor-elect James, as his inter-
cession. A possibilty of some response
‘to the committee’s appeal was seen in
the arrival of Samuel G. Zack, counsel
for the National Labor Relations
Board, at Wilkes-Barre, on Wednes-
day.
The Sunday Independent manage-
ment, which signed a contract with the
Guild a week ago, will not be able to
publish this Sunday because the In-
ternational Typographical Union,
which is megotiating for itself with all
four publishers, has refused to deal
separately with The Independent.
Lehman Coach’Gets
Wilkes-Barre Post
Malcolm McCulloch Named |
Physical Ed. Teacher
By City Board
Malcolm McCulloch, faculty member
of Lehman Township High School, re-
signed his post this week and took
over his duties as physical education |#
instructor
schools. ; p.
He was appointed to the $1,400 po-
sition at a meeting} of the AV ilkes-
Barre school board Monday” by a vote
of 6 to 3, and his resignation was ac-
cepted by the Lehman Township di-
rectors the same night,
A graduate of Stroudsburg State
Teachers’ College in 1936, Mr. McCul-
loch has: taught at Lehman High for
the past two years and coached two
successful football teams. He plays
professional basketball with the Pitts-
ton team of the NYP Basketball
League, and is a brother of Charles
McCulloch, assistant superintendent of
buildings for the Wilkes-Barre school
district.
in Wilkes-Barre publi€
&
‘Widow Of Minister
Dies At Age Of 68
The funeral of Mrs. Lulu S. Price,
68, Lake Township native and widow
of Rev. John W. Price, Methodist
minister, was held Monday afternoon
from the Frederick Funeral Home,
Forty Fort, in charge of Rev. George
M. Bell, district superintendent. Mrs.
Price died at General Hospital, James-
town, N, Y., last Friday evening.
Known and loved throughout the
Harvdy’s Lake section, Mrs. Price was
born in Lake Township, daughter of
the late Joseph I. and Sarah A. Haw-
ley Gordon, and first mets Rev. Mr.
Price when he became pastor of the
Maple Grove charge, f 3
She is survived locally.bya sister,
Lorena G. Swartz of Harvey's Lake,
one brother, Olin H. Gordon of Pike's
Creek, and several nieces and nephews
in this region a son, Earl W. Price of
Kingston, and 4 grandchildren,
HE LED REPUBLICANS
ee
Prominent Republicans from this
section will assemble at Irem
Temple Country Club next Tues-
day night for a testimonial din-
ner in honor of Peter D, Clark
(above), who became chairman
of the Sixth G, O. P. District last
Spring and led his party’s forces
here to a decisive victoyy in the
General Election.
Milk Price Raised
One Cent A Quart
State Commission Instructs
Dairymen To Increase
Selling Price
The price on milk to consumers in
this section has been increased one
cent a quart by order of the Milk Con-
trol Commission of Pennsylvania.
Dairymen have received orders to
charge for milk on the following
schedule:
Qts. Pts.
07
.08
Regular Milk
Guernsey Milk
Chocolate Milk .08~
Buttermilk 06
The new prices represent an in-
crease of one cent on pints and quarts
except on chiveolate milk, on which the
price has been jumped two cents.
A. S. Culbert’s Brother
Succumbs In Scranton
Robert J. Culbert, 64, a brother of A.
S. Culbert of Dallas, died at the home
of his daughter; Mrs. A. A. Bouton,
933 Penn Avenue, Scranton, last Sat-
urdafy. A native of White Haven, Mr.
Culbert had resided in Scranton for
forty years. Two daughters, three
grandchildren, two sisters and three
brothers survive. The funeral was held
on Tuesday.
Lehman PTA To Meet
Next Monday Night
The regular meeting of Lehman
Township Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion will be held Monday night at 8
in the high school. In addition to the
business session and the musical pro-
gram, there will be a program of en-
tertainment, which will include a play,
“Thanksgiving Anyway’, which the
Sophomore Class gave at Assembly
before the Thanksgiving vacation.
Miss Beatrice Miers, supervisor of
nurses at General Hospital and a grad-
uate of Lehman schools, will speak.
Local Man’s Mother
Buried At Tamaqua
Mrs. C. B. Shindel, 71, of Allentown,
mother of Vincent A, Shindel of Lake
Street, was buried at Tamaqua Wed-
nesday afternoon. She, died Sunday of
complications followistg a brief illness
at a private hospital in Northampton.
She is well kngwn in this section,
having visited here.a“mumber of times,
and is survived by two other sons,
Frank D. of Allentown and George F.
Shindel of Lansford. Mr. and Mrs.
Shindel traveled to Lansford Wednes-
day for the funeral,
Judge James Seeks
‘Inventory’ Before
Outlining Program
Confers With GOP Leaders
At Plymouth And In
: Philadelphia
HAS A BUSY WEEK
Building Program For Local
Schools Snagged At Capital
BEAUMONT AND JACKSON BUILDINGS
AMONG PROJECTS TO BE CALLED OFF
Abandonment Of State’s Thompson Plan Will Waste
$1,000,000 Spent For Architect’s Service In 704 School
Districts In Pennsylvania
STATE AUTHORITY UNABLE TO RAISE ITS SHARE
Although advices from Harrisburg indicated that $3,000,000 worth of
contemplated school construction in Luzerne County under the Thompson
Plan will have to be abandoned for lack of funds, hopes were held here
Shuttling back and forth between
i Plymouth and Philadelphia, Gover |;
nor-elect Arthur H. James was busy
this week preparing to assume charge
of the billion-dollar business which is
Pennsylvania.
Matters which had accumulated
during his 25-day vacation in Texas
left him time for only a week-end
re-union with his daughter, Dorothy,
and son, Arthur, in the little white
home on Church Street, Plymouth.
Early in the week he left for Phila-
delphia to confer with party leaders
and to make an ‘“‘inventory” of the
State government,
By mid-week he had disposed of the
most pressing questions and returned
to Plymouth to confer with local Re-
publican chieftains. After a series of
meetings here on Wednesday, he re-
turned to Philadelphia yesterday for
conferences with some of the G. O. P.
leaders from southeastern Pennsyl-
vania.
It was a busy week but the long va-
cation had restored all of Judge
James’ vim and he was obviously eag-
er to tackle the immense problems
confronting him. With all his meet-
ings, he found time to study the “in-
ventory” of the State's situation.
“Unless we have this inventory,” he
said, “we will not have sufficient in-
formation to determine what our pol-
icies will be. Until we conclude this
inventory we will not announce our
plans and purposes.
“I want to know the financial set-
up of Pennsylvania—its assets, antic-
ipated income and what the liabilities
will be at the close of the biennium.
The next Administration will be both-
ered with many problems the present
Administration didn’t have to contend
with when it started in 1935.”
Former Resident
this week that the program may be revived by the new State Administra
ALL YOU NEED IS PHONE
AND $24 TO TELL HITLER
WHAT YOU THINK OF HIM
Chancellor Adolf Hitler's phone
number in Berlin 1s 116191, ac-
cording to the 1939 edition of the
British Who's Who, published this
week.
The phone rate from Dallas to
Berlin, according to M. E. Kuchta,
manager of Commonwealth Tele-
phone Co., is: 4:30 to 7 p. m., $24
for three minutes, 20 cents Federal
tax, and $8 for each additional
minute. From 7 p. m. to 4:30 ,. m.
the charge is $18 for three min-
utes, 20 cents Federal tax and $6
for each additional minute.
Profanity is orohibited.
Death Snips Link
To Historic Past
Anna Elizabeth Kunkle, 79,
Was Daughter Of
Pioneer
Death snipped a; treasured bond.
with this section’s os past last
Thursday when it /closed the eyes of
Anna Elizabeth kle, 79, descend-
ant of a Huguenot: refugee and a Hes-
sian officer, daughter of Kunkle's sec-
ond settler.
A child of pioneering parents, she
held within her memory a wealth of
information about the early days of
Dallas. She was a well-educated per-
son, despite her isolated childhood on
a farm and she possessed the ability
to record the past with colorful touch-
John Mainwaring, 77, former Dallas
resident and ex-Register of Wills of
Luzerne County, was buried in“ Leh-
man Cemetery Tuesday morning fol-
lowing services at the Honeywell-Da-
vis Funeral Home, Bennett Street, Lu-
zerne, conducted by Rev. H. L. Ren-
ville of Luzerne M. E. Church. Mr.
Mainwaring died Sunday morning at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Her-
bert Shaver of Vine Street, Scranton,
following a prolonged illness.
Ziba S. Huey
Ziba Smith Huey, 74, Kingston, died
December 1 and was buried in Beau-
mont Cemetery Sunday after services
in Beaumont Church in charge of Rev.
Rolland Crompton of West Pittston.
The son of Mary Ann Van Horn
and Christopher Huey, he was born
at Evans Falls and was well known
here. He went to Kingston 30 {years
ago, making his home there. He was
an uncle of George M. Huey, Kingston
grocer. Mores
Surviving are the widow, Helen
Moyer Huey; three children, Milton C.
Huey, Dallas; Mrs. Irwin Berlew,
Kingston; Mrs. Walter Freeman, Lu-
zerne; a sister, Mrs. John Cook of
Vernon and 21 grandchildren.
Pallbearers were four grandsons and
two nephews of Mr. Huey. Flower
carriers were six grand-daughters.
Freedom Ended For Real - life
Man Who Fled From County
Prison 17 Years Ago
Brought Back
The classic tale of Jean Val Jean,
the tragic figure in Victor Hugo's
novel about a man who tried in vain
to bury his past, had a real-life count-
erpart in Luzerne County this week.
After 17 years of freedom, Frank
Rezwillis, who escaped from Luzerne
County Prison in 1921 has . been
brought back from New York to pay
for a crime which had been forgotten
by everyone but himself and the dis-
trict attorney’s office.
Rezwillis was one of five men who
fled the prison on a cold January day.
The break, according to Detective
Richard Powell, was planned for two
murderers who were in the prison:
Powell received a tip on the antici-
pated escape and blocked the attempt
but later five other prisoners, among
them Rezwillis, slipped away during
an exercise period and escaped through
a window whose bars had been sawed
in the right wing.
Two of the men were captured on
the same night. The third gave him-
self up. The fourth was captured a
few months after the break. Rezwil-
lis, alone, made his escape good and
remained on fhe files of the district
attorndy’s office as an “unclosed case.”
He had gone to New York, resolved,
he says, to lead a mormal life. He
married and had a child, who is three
years old now, His neighbors respect-
ed him and even his wife, according
to her story, knew nothing of his crim-
Jean Val Jean
Rezwillis Says He Lived
New Life In Brooklyn
Since Escape
inal past. She calls him “a wonderful
husband and a good provider.” For 17
years he lived his new life, until his
past caught up with him:
Last week County Detective Powell
and Milet Butts, with: C, A: Connelly,
arrested Rezwillis in his Brooklyn, N.
Y. home and brought him back to
Wilkes-Barre. Taken before Judge
William A. Valentine, he entered a plea
of guilty to the charge of jail-break-
ing and was remanded to await sen-
tence.
In the meantime, detectives are
checking carefully on Rezwillis’ record
in New York,
Dies At Scranton!
es.
Within the last year, The Post has
published articles by her on the his-
| tory of Kunkle and her poem, relating
how her cousin, Joseph Hoover, res-
cued the Union colors from the fall-
ing hands of Jay Crippen during a
Confederate assault at the Battle of
Gettysburg. Both brought her enthu-
siastic praise. She had been helpless
for some years, but her courage never
faded.
Miss Kunkle’s great-grandfather was
a Colonel in the Hessian Army which
England hired in the Revolutionary
War. He was captured at Trenton
and, impressed by the promise of the
New World, sent for his family and
gettled here. On her mother’s side,
Miss Kunkle was descended from a
Huguenot who fled to America from
France. :
Her father, Wesley Kunkle, was the
second man to build a home in Kun-
kle and when the post office was es-
tablished there in 1860 he was named
postmaster and the village was named
for him. His father, Philip Kunkle,
had lived in Dallas and gave Wesley
a large tract of land which included
the property of Chris Eipper todafy.
Miss Kunkle was borne May 6, 1859,
in Kunkle but she spent most of her
early life at the homestead of Philip
Kunkle in Dallas. She attended Wyo-
ming Seminary and the National
School of Elocution and Oratory and
took graduate work in English and
Anglo-Saxon Literature at Vanderbilt
University. She also spent a year
abroad, studying at the Sorbonne and
the College de France. She taught
school at Dallas Township and later
at Pittston.
She is survived by a nephew, Berk-
ley Reid of Long Island, and a num-
ber of relatives in the Kunkle family,
which is still prominent here. The
funeral was held Saturday from the
home of Mrs. Carrie Ellsworth in
Forty Fort, where Miss Kunkle had
lived. The body was removed to Maple
Hill Cemetery and cremated, accord-
ing to Miss Kunkle’s wishes. Rev.
Louis E. Van Hoesen, Forty Fort re-
tired Methodist minister, officiated.
Undertaker Howard Woolbert of Shav-
ertown had charge.
CAGE CHALLENGE
The Wilkes-Barre Ramblers chall-
enge any third or fourth-class team.
If accepted please write to I. McHale,
10 ‘D1IBg-SOM[IA ‘OnudAy ied 9%¢
call C. Barone, 3-9119, and ask for any
Rambler,
tion next, year.
The abandonment’ of the plan,
which was to have been financed by
WPA grants and the Genera il State
Authority, with™#6" expense to the
districts effected, would kill $150,
000,000 worth of proposed buildings
in the State and waste the estimated
$1,000,000 which 704 school districts
have spent for architectural drawings.
Two local districts, Beaumont, where
a new $100,000 consolidation high
school was to have been built, and
Jackson Township, which was to get
a modern, consolidated elementary
building costing about $50,000, would
be effected by abandonment of the
plan by the present Administration.
Both districts had been promised new
buildings under the Thompson Plan,
their only expense to be for the archi-
tect’s services. :
Fairmount, Ross and Union Town-
ships also were to have received new
buildings under the Thompson Plan.
Lehman Not Effected
Lehman School district, which re-
ceived authority form voters to float
a $50,000 bond issue to put beside a
$45,000 WPA appropriation for con-
struction of a $100,000 high school, is
not effected by the death of the
Thompson Plan and is preparing to
award contracts and begin construc~
tion soon."
Col. A. S. Janeway, executive direc-
tor of the State Authority, which was
to raise 55 per cent of the cost of the
program to give needy districts mod-
ern buildings and equipment, said
flatly that the program was “dead”
and that the appropriations totaling
$3,000,000, passed by the recent special
session of the Legislature, would apse
into the State Treasury unless the in-
coming Republican Administration
resurrects the construction agenda.
PWA Holds No Hope
Maj. G. Douglas Andrews, regional
PWA director, charged that the State
Authority had not co-operated prop
erly. “I don’t see how it would be hu-
manly possible for many of these pro-
jects to go through now,” Major An-
drews said. “The ‘State Authority has
never shown us that it has the ability
to finance its 55 per cent share of the
cost. Practically all of our money
has been allocated. There is very,
very little left for this spending pro-
gram.”
A. P. Cope, Luzerne County super-
intendent of schools, expressed deep
regret this week at the threat to the
proposed $3,000,000 worth of construc-
tion in this county. “This plan is
too good to die now,” he said.
From reliable sources, The Post
learned that all hope for revival of
the Thompson Plan has not been aban-
doned and a strong effort will be made
after January 17 to secure the co-oper-
ation of the new Republican Admini-
stration in resurrecting the measure.
The Federal Government is vitally in-
terested in the need for improvements
in smaller school districts and may
look with favor upon a new effort to
finance an ambitious construction pro-
gram in 1939.
Mrs. S. M. Evans Dies
At West Pittston Home
Many friends will be shocked at the
death of Mrs. S. M. Evans of Luzerne
Avenue, West Pittston, who died on
Monday at the Pittston Hospital of
peritonitis following an illness of seven
weeks.
Mrs. Evans is survived by her hus"
band, a prominent druggist of hi
Pittston, a sister, Mrs. W. S. Dickie .
of Kingston and a brother, Walter
Morgan of Kingston, Among the
nieces and nephews who survive Mrs.
Evans are Mrs, John Yaple, Dallas;
Mrs. Kenneth Shaver, Robeling, N. J.
Mrs. Stewart Walsh, Syracuse, and
Kenneth Dickie of Kingston. Mrs.
Evans was well known in this sec-
tion, having been a prominent firgure
in the Eastern Star and West Pittston
Women’s Club. The funeral took place
on Thursday with private services at
the home and at the West Pittston M.
E. Church,
LAKE WOMEN'S CLUB
The Lake Township Women’s Club
will meet in the Kearney Building,
Harvey's Lake, December 21 at 7:30.
i