Editorially Speaking:
EN M-DAY FOR DALLAS
THE POST WANTS:
1. The election of Wendell L. Will-
kie as President of the United States.
2. Emphasis locally on activities
The new kind of war in Europe has a special lesson for
every man and woman, every boy and girl in Dallas.
War, as it is fought in 1940, is not exclusively a con-
flict of armies.
It is not confined to a “front”. It hurtles
seemingly impregnable fortresses and broad seas and makes
whole nations a battlefield.
There are no “non-combatants” in this kind of war, and
being a “civilian” is no protection.
joke about that.
In England there is a
“The safest place to be is in the army,”
bomb-battered Londoners wisecrack.
This is the kind of a war in which the morale and train-
ing of every citizen counts heavily.
We must not overlook that important lesson while we
are strengthening our own defenses against the likelihood
of attack.
As individuals, we must not be lulled by the false
premise that we can let Washington take care of every-
thing. A strong army, navy and air force is not enough
in a modern war. Each community, each man and wo-
man must be ready.
It is highly improbable that Dallas would ever be bomb-
ed, but it is inevitable that if this country goes to war its
chances for victory will be greater if Dallas and communities
like it throughout the nation are prepared for the emergency
and ready to contribute to the total strength.
The Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company already has a
committee studying a plan to provide preliminary military
training for young men, who will be given an opportunity
to drill, to practice markmanship and to hear lectures on mil- .
itary tactics and strategy. But there are a score of other
things this community, as a compact unit, might be doing.
There is a need to instruct citizens in the purposes
and kinds of propaganda governments use today to con-
fuse the enemy and create
confusion and destroy mo-
rale. If war comes, the people of Dallas should be fore-
warned against such tactics and able to recognize de-
structive propaganda.
There is work to be done in the fields of war charities.
Most of them are worth-while, but some are rackets, mas-
querading agents for foreign powers.
A local defense com-
mittee could catalogue such organizations and warn against
those which are reputable.
The same committee could make
preparations against the day when the community may be
called upon to provide bandages, sweaters, socks, etc., for
soldiers.
fore the emergency arrives.
Valuable time will be saved if plans are made be-
We have all read of the urgent calls to the civilians of
belligerent countries for scrap metal, worn-out auto tires, old
aluminum and other war materials which can be salvaged
from domestic channels.
It would be good for Dallas folk to think of the day
when we may receive such calls, and to have on paper a plan
for quick response to such an appeal.
Some of these items
are likely to be needed badly, and if millions of families have
some available for salvage, America’s reserves will be great-
ly increased.
The growing army and navy will need more reading
matter for the new soldiers and it might be wise to do some-
thing about collecting magazines and books to fill the de-
mand. Dallas can do that, too.
Communities all over the country are organizing for
home defense work. As a nation, we all insist that the
government be prepared for the emergency.
It is fitting
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too, that Dallas organize now in anticipation of its own Ivi-
Day.
A committee and sub-committee could be appointed to
study the possibilities of such a plan, submitting it later to
the community at a mass meeting. Why waste any more
time, when time plays such a vital part in the kind of war
we face?
Dallas’s contribution to national defense cannot be a big
one, but if each community puts democracy into action and
contributes its small quota of strength, the strength of the
whole nation will be so great any foreign power will hesi-
tate before it challenges us.
POST
SCRIPTS
WE HAVE BEEN waiting to hear
from Sir Oliver Lodge. Sir Oliver
died a few months back. He was
a spiritualist. The reason we thought
he might get in touch with us was
that we had an interesting interview
once with his eminent predecessor,
Sir * Arthur Conan Doyle, shortly
after Sir Arthur concluded his ten-
ure of existence on this earth.
We put it that way in respect to
the considerate medium who assured
us it was the voice of Sir Arthur
we heard. We couldn’t prove that
it wasn’t.
We had been interviewing the
living for some time before we ven-
tured into the realm of departed
spirits. Interviews weren't our long
suit, but it seemed that whenever
someo®e was needed for one we
would be the only reporter in the
news room. So we interviewed
beauty contest winners, a deaf and
dumb hobo, an escaped lunatic, jazz
band leaders, Senators and Con-
gressmen, literary lions and sundry
other newsworthy citizens. Except
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He Also Attended
FairEvery Year
Arkansas Man Matches
Record Of Mrs. Yaple
In Fayetteville, Arkansas, Harry
Welch glanced over The Post last
week, spied a story about. Mrs.
Amanda Yaple, who never missed
a Dallas fair. Then Mr. Welch sat
down and penned this letter to the
editor:
“I see by the paper of September
20 that Mrs. Yaple was at every
fair during the life of the Associa-
tion.
“I, too, was at the fair every year
until I moved away in 1903. I was
secretary of the exhibition building
for two years and I had Will Frank-
lin for my assistant and Will Norton
was general secretary. I remember
we all got arrested one year because
a man was playing a shell game and
lost his money, but nothing ever
came of it.
“I do not know very many people
in Dallas any more, but I would like
to drop in and see the changes that
have taken place there. I think I
could find the Dallas Post and where
W. A. Cook lived, for I have spent
many evenings in their home.”
Mr. Welch lives now at 404 East
Lafayette Street, Fayetteville, Ark.
HARDINGS WILL SHARE CHILD;
PLAN TO START
“The whole thing was a misunder-
standing and it was a pity for Faith
that it received so much publicity,”
was Mrs. Harry Harding's comment
this week on the collapse of a
threatened quarrel between Mrs.
Harding and her husband over the
custody of their five-year-old daugh-
ter, Faith Hope Charity, ‘The Little
Prophet.”
Several weeks ago Mr. Harding
asked the court to give him cus-
tody of the child, who has been in
Tryon, North Carolina, where pat-
rons who believe she can foretell the
LECTURE TOUR
future had established a colony to
perpetuate her teachings. The hear-
ing on the writ of habeas corpus was
to have been held on Monday morn-
ing, but the amicable settlement of
the dispute made the court’s inter-
vention unnecessary.
In announcing the reconciliation,
Mrs. Harding said she and Faith and |
Mr. Harding would leave soon on
a lecture tour which would begin
in Wilkes-Barre, include one ap-
pearance in New York and continue
through the South. She said they
would leave Trucksville within a
few weeks.
HE Darras Post
' MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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4.
5.
Vol. 50
It's Mrs. Kiefer's
Story This Time;
She's Expert Now
Her Trophies Qualify
Her As Authority Among
Hunters Of Big Game
Every time Fred M. Kiefer
of Shrine View comes back
home from some exciting ex-
pedition with another load of
hunting trophies he has to sub-
mit impatiently to a barrage
of questions. Fred’s adven-
tures make swell newspaper
copy.
But now there’s a new au-
thority on big game hunting
in the Kiefer family. It’s Edna,
Fred’s wife, and as glamorous
a figure as ever slammed a
slug into the shoulder of a
rampaging silver-tipped griz-
zly.
Mr. and Mrs, Kiefer have returned
from a month’s trip into the virgin
Wapiti River watershed in British
Columbia, Canada, bringing with
them the pelts of 11 big game ani-
mals and a fund of amusing experi-
ences. Mr. Kiefer accounted for his
usual number of crack shots, but
the story is Mrs. Kiefer’s this time.
It’s the story of a pretty, gracious
young mother who decided to ac-
company her sportsman husband on
one of the gruelling trips he calls a
vacation and how she stole the
show by bagging a grandfather
mountain goat, a 450-pound grizzly,
a moose which had a rack of 53%
inches wide and an assortment of
other game—big and little—too
numerous to mention.
Traveled By Pact Train
The Kiefers left Dallas on August
23 and reached the Beaver Lodge,
“Wapiti” Brown, their outfitter, on
August 30. They changed quickly
into woods clothes and were off
within 2 few hours by truck for a
40-mile trip which took seven and
one-half hours over the Monkman
highway, a rutted trail which Can-
ada started to the Western Coast
and abandoned when war started.
The truck ride saved days of sad-
dle-pounding for it enabled them to
catch up with the pack train which
had started two days before. On
Sunday morning they clambered
aboard their mounts and headed
through the foothills into the
ascending mountains. The party in-
cluded Mr. and Mrs. Kiefer, a cow-
girl as company for Mrs. Kiefer, a
cook, a wrangler, two Cree Indian
guides and Mr. Brown, the outfitter.
Also in the party were the eight
and the two colts who went along
because they hadn’t been weaned
yet.
During the next three weeks the
magnificent country, where no white
woman had ever been. They main-
tained one camp for four days, in-
cluding one day when they were
fogbound and confined to camp,
but mostly they broke camp at
dawn. From sunrise to sunset they
rode the rims, peering down into
the basins for game, or stalking
quarry, sometimes for a kill but
more often for pictures to include
in the 650-feet of natural color
film they brought back.
Mrs. Kiefer shot two -moose, one
a freak with 11 points on one side
and three spikes on the other. Her
other moose, a handsome specimen
with an antler spread of 53% inch-
es, had 21 points, coated with ‘‘vel-
vet” which hung in strips where
the animal had rubbed its rack
against tree bark. Mrs. Kiefer also
got the biggest mountain goat, a
billy seven feet, 10% inches long
from tip of nose to root of tail,
which evoked high admiration from
J. M. Koval of Kingston, who is pre-
paring the pelts.
Wanted Photo, Got Caribou
Mr. Kiefer’'s caribou was in the
nature of an accident. He photo-
graphed the animal as it stood on
a rim, silhouetted against the sun-
set. Then he pulled his rifle out of
its scabbard and aimed, rather hap-
hazardly, at the caribou, 250 yards
away. The caribou dropped with
the first shot and almost before he
realized it Mr. Kiefer had another
trophy.
On the second day out, riding
through a driving rain, the party
spied three wolves slinking through
an arroyo. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kief-
er bagged one apiece and the pelts,
as black as sin, will make two more
rugs for the Kiefer’s cozy third-
floor library.
Twice the party saw grizzlies, but
they were not able to close in for
a shot. The vacation was almost
| over, and both Mr. and Mrs. Kiefer
{were beginning to believe that they
{would have to come home without
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saddle horses, the 10 pack animals: {§
Kiefers ranged through lonely, wild, 28
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940
an air raid over London.
the wrecked buildings.
6.
No. 40 |
LONDON'S GRIM MONUMENTS TO GOD OF MODERN WAR
Gutted and reduced almost to rubbie, these buildings were hit by German incendiary bombs during
Air raid precaution workers are shown extinguishing the last of the fire in
‘We Will Be Ready
security in its intense devotion
awakened at last to its peril in
REPORTS ON DEFENSE
EY
Congressman Flannery
. who analyzed U. S. national
defense for Kiwanians and Rotari-
ans at their joint meeting at the
country club Wednesday night.
Dive Bombing On
Show's Program
Thrills Galore Planned
For Valley's Air Meet
A two-mile vertical bomb dive by
Capt. Jesse Bristow of Fort Worth,
Tex., in his 1,000 horsepower Boe-
ing Navy “Hell Diver” will be one
of the events at the third annual
aviation meet at Wyoming Valley
airport Saturday and Sunday.
Captain Bristow’s fastest speed in
“dive bombing” is 480 miles an
hour, just 20 miles an hour under
the German Stukas.
Spectators also will see a sen-
sational ‘pic-aback” plane in aero-
batics. Two planes of equal horse-
power and weight will be mounted
together, one above the other. They
will take off, execute maneuvers at
tree top altitudes, then separate and
pull up into loops.
Capt. Bob St. Jock of Auburn,
Me., will send his special Comet
pursuit plane into a series of per-
fectly-timed scientific aerobatics,
shaving the ground at 200 miles an
hour. Clem Honkamp of Cincinnati
will be at the meet with his 1910
Curtis pusher plane, the oldest craft
still flying in this country.
And Jack Huber of Miami will
pitch headlong into thin air at 20,-
000 feet in an attempt to shatter
the present world s record for a de-
layed opening parachute jumping
record, now held by a Russian
parachutist.
The program will be described
over a public address system by Bill
Sweet of Columbia, who has an-
nounced every major air show in
this country. Novice acrobatic events
will start each day at 12 and pro-
fessional events will begin at 3.
For Armageddon,
If Crisis Comes, ‘Flannery Declares
Kiwanians And Rotarians Hear Up-To-The Minute
Report On National Defense From Congressman
The United States of America, which sacrificed its own
to the cause of world peace, has
a world of enemies and is mar-
shaling its gigantic resources against the day of Armageddon,
Congressman J. Harold Flannery told a joint meeting of Mt.
where they met 78-year-old Frank |~
Greenwood Kiwanis Club and
Dallas Rotary Club at Irem
Country Club on Wednesday
night:
“Democracy in the world,
free institutions, these things
which made America great, the
things in which we believe, are
in serious jeopardy,”
mitted. “They survive tonight |
only here in our country. Whether
Fascist and Nazi ideologies will clash
with Communist doctrines, no one
can say. As long as they are united
by common, materialistic interests,
I don’t think they will.
“We believe in government for
the people. They believe people are
made to serve the government. The
conflict is direct. There is no com-
| promise. There is no middle
‘ground, We are content to enjoy
our own beliefs in our own hemi-
sphere. We crave no man’s land. It
would appear that they are not con-
tent to enjoy their doctrines with-
| out violating ours.”
“Whether or not this is the death
of our civilization God only knows,
but we do know that tonight our
civilization is in jeopardy. We are
arming for Armageddon in America,
and if Armageddon should come,
then we shall, God willing, be pre-
pared. I feel that if the crisis
comes there will be not a man who
breathes in this broad nation who
will not be ready to defend our in-
| stitutions, convinced of the justice
of his cause. And that cause must
triumph!”
Admits Gravity Of Situation
Flying here from Washington, D.
C., Congressman Flannery brought
an intimate and up-to-the-minute
picture of the gravity of the world
situation. He was able to match it,
though, with an inspiring story of
how the nation, united and as in-
dividuals, is responding to the chal-
lenge.
He declined to prophesy, but he
sounded an encouraging note for
Great Britain. “It is difficult to see
England winning in the affirmative
sense,” he warned. “To do that she
would have to land forces on the
continent, and that seems almost
impossible now. But there is the
possibility of disorder among her
enemies, disagreement and the pun-
ishment of blackade. England can
stalemate the war, and the ap-
pearances are tonight that she will
stalemate it.”
The new pact among Italy, Japan
and Germany surprised no informed
observers, the Congressman said.
“It merely put into writing a condi-
tion which has existed for three
years,” he said. “It is a formidable
situation, which now can be defi-
nitely recognized.”
Of Anglo-U. S. friendship the Rep-
resentative said: “The United States,
as a nation, has but one friend in
the world today, and that friend is
sorely beset and can give us no help.
England "is the only government
which has any cordiality toward us
today. God knows Great Britain
has her hands full.”
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Penitent Driver
Taunted By Crepe
Admits Part In Crash
Which Costs Girl's Life
Tormented by the sight of a crepe
hanging on the door of the home of
a 13-year-old Alderson girl his car
had killed the day before, penitent
Wilbur Lynn, 27, Sweet Valley, sur-
rendered to police Saturday.
As he was surrendering, though,
Chief of Police Ira C. Stevenson,
who had worked nearly all might on
the case, had followed the faint
trail to Lynn’s home, only to learn
that the man had already gone to
the police.
The girl, Grace E. “Betty” Mar-
he ad (tin, an eighth grade pupil at Lake
Township, was fatally injured Fri-
day evening when she stepped from
a school bus in which she and her
classmates had returned from the
Bloomsburg Fair.
Betty was killed directly in front
of the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. David J. Martin, on Route 29
to Loyalville. R. Williams, the bus
driver, had just pulled away when
the pupils in the vehicle heard the
impact.
A witness, J. B. Quick of Me-
saw the accident and
watched the death car speed away
after the girl’s broken body had
been hurled high into the air.
Lynn, a workman on the new
boulevard, said he was on his way
home when his car hit the girl.
Panic seized him and he drove on.
On the following morning when he
passed the home on his way to work
he saw the crepe on the door and
returned to Sweet Valley, burdened
with remorse. He told a neighbor,
Alfred Bronson, who advised Lynn
to go to the State police barracks
at Wyoming to give himself up.
He was arraigned before a justice
of the peace and committed to jail
on charges of involuntary man-
slaughter and attempting to escape
after an accident. Later he was re-
leased in bail to await trial.
Middle District GOP
Has Enthusiastic Rally
The Republican Club of the Mid-
dle District of Dallas Township had
an enthusiastic meeting on Wed-
nesday night and heard several elo-
quent pleas in behalf of Wendell L.
Willkie, GOP Presidential nominee.
Floyd Chamberlain, who presided,
was one of the speakers. Attorney
Peter P. Jurchak also addressed the
group.
which will train men and women in
national defense measures.
Dallas Borough.
er highway between Dallas and Har-
vey’s Lake before 1942.
tion in the Dallas area.
The installation of fire plugs in
The construction of a new, short-
Centralization of police protec-
More sidewalks.
Councilmen Order
Welsh To Enforce
Building Code
Inspector Told To Warn
Permit Applicants Of
Fire-Proofing Clause
Determined to protect the
town’s appearance and minim-
ize fire hazards, Dallas Bor-
ough council on Tuesday night
ordered Building Inspector
Fred Welsh to enforce sternly
the existing code which gov-
erns construction, alteration
and moving of buildings.
The action followed a warn-
ing from Mr. Welsh that at
least three structures are to
be moved to new locations
from the route of the new boul-
evard and that no one had yet
applied for permits, as requir-
ed by the building code.
In two cases, where the buildings
are to be moved a considerable dis-
tance, the code would require that
they be fire-proofed in order to com-
ply with the town’s ordinance.
Mr. Welsh was instructed to noti-
fy the contractor who will move the
I. O. O. F. building on Main Street
that he must secure a permit—
which costs $1—before the building
can be moved. The councilmen felt
no other section of the ordinance
would be violated in this case, be-
cause the building is not to be mov-
ed to a new location, but is merely
to be set back, off the path of the
new highway.
In two other cases, however,
owners had apparently overlooked
the long-established restrictions ap-
plying in Dallas Borough.
Buildings Must Be Fire-Proof
James R. Oliver has purchased
the old red street car station, it was
reported, and is planning to move
it to a site on Lake Street, on his
used car lot. A clause in the build-
ing code prohibits. the erection of
any building in the central part of
town unless it is fire-proof, and bars
the moving of any building to a new
site until it has been fire-proofed.
A. C. Devens has bought a barn
on Mill Street, formerly the prop-
erty of Wilkes-Barre Railway Corp.,
too, and intends to move it to a
site adjoining his warehouse across
the Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks.
The same clause in the buiding code
conflicts with his plans, unless the
building is fire-proofed on its new
site.
~ After discussing the problem, the
councilmen concluded they had no
choice but to uphold the law and
ordered Mr. Welsh to confer immed-
iately with the property owners in-
volved to inform them of the re-
strictions effecting their plans.
At the same meeting the council-
men blocked a loop-hole in the new
ordinance restricting the erection of
billboards in the borough limits.
As submitted by Attorney Arthur
Turner, the ordinance provided
that council could grant $5 permits
for the erection of billboards. This
was revised to eliminate cquncil’s
jurisdiction and ban billboards en-
tirely. As if reads now, the ordi-
nance makes it unlawful to erect
a billboard or sign in the borough
and fixed a fine of not less than
$10 and not more than $25 for each
offense.
Building Permits Numerous
Applications for building permits
reflected a mild boom in town.
Lewis W. Roushey will build a $6,-
500 dwelling for Mrs. Susan Orr on
Main Street, next to the Parks
home. Albert Parrish was given a
permit for a new dwelling at Par-
rish and Moffat Streets. Alfred Rae
will build ‘a garage on Huntsville
Road. Earl Thomas was given a
permit for a new roof on his home
and Clark Hildebrant will put a
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