itorially Speaking:=——==
The | Promise Of Easter
Last year all over the world there was sorrow and deso-
lation. War laid waste the foundations of our civilization.
Bombs crashed through the air to shatter the earthly mon-
uments of past glories, and the vultures of the sea laid in
wait for the proud ships that bore the harvest of the
world. Everywhere there were homeless, heartbroken folk,
harried here and there by their relentless oppressors.
This year our own country, sucked into the vortex of the
struggle by the insatiable
greed of the hate-mongers,
knows first-hand the bitter pains of war. Hearts are heavy
and minds are fraught with trouble. Separation, anxiety,
death, weigh down the spirit and the minds of countless
millions.
Across this darkness falls the light of Easter — the
pledge of life and of life eternal—a life in which there
shall be neither sorrow of parting nor afflicton of heart
and soul.
The pledge of the resurrection symbolized in
Easter is like a light in the darkness — a ray of sunlight
falling across a woodland glade, dank and cold from the
devastation of wintry blasts and the melting snows of
countless storms.
To the worried, Easter brings hope; to the downcast of
spirit, courage; and to those who have lost ‘all that was
dear to them in life, it brings the comfort of faith. It is the
triumph of good over evil—of truth over error, of life over
death, of the Eternal Goodness over the forces of evil.
There is no deeper human experience than the realiza-
tion of the impermanence of evil.
It is that knowledge
which will sustain and support us through the dark days
ahead. We know that ours is the ultimate Victory for we
fight on the side of right.
Sorrow there is, and suffering and pain and loss, but be-
yond them all is the glory of the Easter morning when the
stone is rolled away. In the words of the old hymn, “Weep-
ing may endure for a night,
ing.”
Easter is the eternal pledge of the resurrection.
but joy cometh in the morn-
The
voice of the prophet, Job, paraphrased and set to trium-
phant strains of music, still rings out: “I know that my
Redeemer liveth—and because he lives, I too shall live.”
Banking Job Well Done
The superb work being done by the banks in these un-
predictable days deserves nation-wide attention.
No in-
dustry has more swiftly or efficiently adapted itself to the
unprecedented demands imposed by this war.
The banks have literally placed all of their resources at
the disposal of defense industries. It has been said on high
authority that no needed defense work has been delayed
for lack of bank financing.
The banks have done an extremely effective job—and a
job which produces them no profit whatsoever—in selling
Defense Bonds and Stamps to the public.
The banks have taken on and discharged many new
tasks—such as cashing checks and providing bank ac-
counts for troops at cantonments and forts.
The banks have cooperated fully with the Treasury De-
partment in the exceedingly intricate work of freezing the
financial resources of industries and individuals of enemy
nations.
A full list of bank achievements would be a long one.
Banking has proved its ability to gear itself to the needs of
war no less than to the needs of peace.
Don’t Tell
MacArthur
“So live that you can look MacArthur in the eye.’ a
Leaders of the United Auto Workers have just won an
arbitration decision in Detroit. It gives them double time
in all General Motor plants when the men work on Sun-
days or holidays, even though this work is merely part of a
40-hour week.
Where would they look if they met MacArthur ?—San
Francisco News.
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FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
§ By Mgs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
This is the first Easter for nearly twenty-five years that has not meant
gaily-colored Easter eggs, marshmallow bunnies, bright jelly-beans, and
shredded green tissue. paper in vari-colored splint baskets.
The Easter
celebrations started out mildly enough with half a dozen plain dyed eggs,
working up from that modest beginning to ten or twelve dozen, dyed first
with a plain foundation color and
then decorated lavishly with mar-
belized effects and splashes of gold
and silver paint, The baskets grew
in course of time from one plain
pink basket filled with green excel-
" sior and jelly beans to forty or fifty
little crepe-paper baskets, just large
enough to hold one hard-boiled egg
apiece in a nest of green.
Startilg with one roll each of
green, orchid, pink, blue, yellow,
and white crepe-paper, any number
of combinations are possible. Green
baskets with pink lining and a
pink flower, orchid baskets with
yellow lining, white baskets with
blue lining, each with a braided
crepe-paper handle and a matching
flower, each with its lining turned
down around the top in a ruffled
petal effect.
The dining room window-sills,
with their complement of pastel-
baskets, look like beds of crocuses.
Once the eggs are dyed and
heaped in a big wooden bowl, it is
difficult to persuade ourselves to
separate them for basket filling. It
is a great temptation to leave the
soul-satisfying mound in all its glory
in the middle of the table, and in-
vite casual callers to help gloat.
The baskets filled, the pain of
parting is imminent. We decide
which baskets can best be spared,
and which baskets must be kept
until the very last for our own de-
lectation. Each hand-decorated egg
is dear to us, We part with each
gift reluctantly, masking our real
emotions behind a poker-face and a
hypocritical smile,
The crocus-bed thins out, and
now there are only three baskets
left—a’ pink one lined with baby-
blue, a yellow one lined with orchid,
a green one lined with white and
decorated with a pink apple-blos-
som. This last is our favorite, and
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Dallas Sewing Project
Closed Down Yesterday
After nearly seven years of con-
tinuous operation, the WPA sewing
project on Main street] employing
women from all portions this
area, was closed down yesterday as
the WPA quota reduetion for Lu-
zerne County went into effect,
Supplying articles of clothing to
needy families Back of the Moun-
tain, the local project has regularly
employed 17 women, with a month-
ly payroll of well over $1,000.
Nine sewing projects in all were
closed down this week in the coun-
ty, among them an 18-woman pro-
ject at Hunlock’s Creek.
MORE THAN A
Tur Darras Post
NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Vol. 52
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942
No. 14
- And Tears!
More Sweat,
Less Blood
Liquor Agents
Arrest Noxen
Saloon Keeper
Raiders Discover
Minors At Bar In
Wilson's Taproom
Allen “Torchy” Wilson, proprie-
tor of the Noxen Inn at Noxen, was
arraigned yesterday afternoon be-
fore Squire J. P. Allen of Tunkhan-
nock on charges of selling intoxi-
cants to minors and breaking the
Sunday no-liquor law. He will be
tried on these charges in Wyoming
County Court House, with the Penn-
sylvania Liquor Control Board as’
prosecutor.
Yesterday’s hearing followed a
raid last Wednesday night on Wil-
son’s establishment, conducted by
ten officers of the Liquor Control
Board and the State Motor Police.
Fifteen minors, found frequenting
the inn, were questioned and will be
subpoenaed as witnesses. |
member of the investigating party
entered the establishment and found
it crowded with youngsters who
were being served liquor in viola-
tion of the minor regulations. Evi-
dence that the taproom had been
regularly operated on Sundays was
obtained previous to the raid.
Wilson, who was absent when the
police closed in on Noxen Inn, was
arrested Thursday and placed under
$500 bond to appear for the hearing
at Tunkhannock.
Township Man
Goes To Jail
Mitchell Convicted
Ot Stabbing Friend
Friend A. Mitchell, 60-year-old
Dallas Township resident who last
summer: stabbed and seriously
wounded a road construction work-
er during a drunken bout at Hayes
Corners, was committed to Luzerne
County Prison last Thursday to
serve a term of one- -and- a-half to
three years.
Found guilty of aggravated as-
sault and bdftery on the person of
Aaron Wandell of Wilkes-Barre,
Mitchell was also directed by Judge
W. A. Valentine to pay court costs,
a $500 fine and hospitalization fees
for Wandell.
The stabbing, which occurred last
August 13, was first discovered by
Miss Gertrude Mitchell, sister of the
convicted man, when the injured
Wandell stumbled fup to the door of
her home at Hayes Corners, cover-
ing a gaping wound in ‘his abdo-
men with his hands. He had been
stabbed during an argument with
Mitchell. Both men were intoxicated.
Mitchell was apprehended by Dal-
las Township police and turned over
to the State Police at Wyoming. He
was arraigned on charges of assault
and battery and released under bail
until his trial last week.
Citizen Offers To
Paint Street Signs
James Stile has offered to paint
street signs for all streets of Dallas
Borough as a community contribu-
tion, if some organization will
sporisor the purchase of materials
for, the signs. Mr. Stile played a
large part in the construction of
street signs erected in Kingston and
Wilkes-Barre some time ago by the
W.P A
Wilsons Unable To Contact Son
Serving With The AEF At Bataan
No word has been received from
Walter “Cease” Wilson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Wilson of Frank-
lin street, and who has been sta-
tioned with the air corps in the
Philippines since the outbreak of
hostilities. The last message received
from him was a cable before the
fall of Manila and no letters have
been received since shortly after
his arrival in the islands more than
three months ago, Efforts to com-
municate with him have been fu-
tile, but none of the letters for-:
warded by his family hove been re-
turned.
This week his/sister, Miss Gert-
rude Wilson, noted an Associate
Press dispatch in, a daily paper tell-
ing of the receipt of a letter by
Mrs. Mary Bauman of West Etna,
Pa., from her son, a priest, who is
a chaplain with the besieged Philip-
pine forces. Miss Wilson wrote Mrs.
Bauman for information and was
informed that there was little news
in the letter from Chaplain Bauman.
He wrote that he had mailed his
mother a letter the previous day, but
that since he had learned that an-
other mail was going out he would
write another letter. The letter
mailed the ‘previous day” had not
vet been received by Mrs, Bauman.
The one she did receive bore several
censors’ marks and was postmarked
U. S. Navy, March 4.
Miss Wilson has also been in
touch with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
MacAndrew of New Grant street,
Wilkes-Barre, whose twenty-three
year-old son is in the Ordnance De-
partment in the Philippines. They,
like the Wilsons, have had no word
from their son for several months.
Radio communication with the
The raid was carried out after alld
LIEUTENANT KEATS POAD
March 23, 1919— March 3, 1942
/ a
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Missing In Action--Far Eastérn Theatre
“Deeply regret to inform you that
Second Lieutenant Keats Poad, U.
S. Army, has been reported miss-
ing in action since March 3rd in the
Far Eastern Theatre. Further re-
ports will be forwarded as received.”
To Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Poad of
Demunds Road, this terse message,
sent them from Washington last
Friday, meant that, {-eir fine young |
son—who had visited them here
not three months” ago—had gone
down in action against the enemy
somewhere in the Pacific.
But that Second Lieutenant Keats
Poad may still be alive—perhaps
stranded wherever his Army bomb-
er was forced down, or perhaps as
a prisoner of war—is a confident
hope in the minds of his parents.
Just “missing in action”, as the tel-
egram reported. And Mr. and Mrs.
Poad feel that some day, possibly
in the very near future, another ad-
vice will come from the War De-
partment, bearing the reassuring
news that their son is alive, and
safe,
At the time he was reported
among those ‘unaccounted for”,
Lieutenant Poad was serving as a
navigator aboard one of the great
new bombers of the Army Air
Corps. He left this country for the
Far East on February 2nd, but, al-
though he was permitted to phone
his parents just prior to his de-
parture, he could give no informa-
tion as to where he was going or in
what unit he was to serve.
Keats graduated in 1937 from
Dallas Township High School, where
he was an outstanding athlete and
student, went on to spend two and
a half years at Penn State and en-
Parents Of Missing Officer .
Confident He Is Still Alive
listed in the Air Corps in February,
1940.
" He served as a Flying Cadet at
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was
transferred from there to the Pan
American Airways school at Coral
Gables, Florida, to specialize in nav-
igation. After further training at
Langley Field, Virginia, concluded
last May, he was assigned to a
| Bombardment Group and sent ‘to
Westover Field in Massachusetts.
Keats was commissioned a second
lieutenant in June and sent to the
Air Corps Ferry Command at Boll-
ing Field in Washington, where he
soon gained an appointment to an
Ohio factory to supervise the prep-
aration of bomber fleets for ferry-
ing to the War Zone. Early in No-
vember he was sent to Cairo, Egypt,
on a secret mission, returned with-
in a month and was granted a leave.
When he reported back to Wash-
ington the middle of December,
Lieutenant Poad became seriously
ill with tropical malaria, and after
hospitalization in Washington, was
sent home to recuperate.
Keats bid his parents and friends
here goodbye on January 18th,
when he was ordered back to Boll-
ing Field and to active service.
Now, only a few short weeks be-
yond that last farewell, he is “miss-
ing in action”, It seems hardly pos-
sible to Mr. and Mrs. Poad that
their son is no longer flying: for his
country and doing the job he had
trained for so hard and enjoyed so
well. But whatever trouble he has
encountered, they know he is
meeting it with all the courage and
resourcefulness that a man—and a
soldier—can muster.
Softball League Formed
The Back Mountain Softball
League was re-organized on Mon-
day night at a meeting held at the
Tally-Ho Grille with the following
teams accepted as members: Dallas,
Shavertown, Trucksville, and Tally-
Ho.
The season will open on May 5
and two games will be played each
week. The league will again use the
split season with the winners of
each half meeting in August for the
championship.
A final meeting before the season
opens will be held at the Tally-Ho
Grille on Monday, April 20 at 7:30
at which time the schedule will be
announced. A complete schedule
will be published in The Post prior
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to the opening of the season. :
Dick Cease Flew To Avenge Death
Of Classmate In Hawaiian Attack
Mother Of Officer Who Was Killed At Pearl
Harbor Writes Parents Of Trucksville Hero
The first bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor killed Lieut. Louis G. Moslener,
a former cadet, classmate of the late Lieut. Richard Cease, it was revealed
this week in a letter from the boy’s mother, Mrs. L. G. Moslener of Butler
county, to Dick’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Cease of Trucksville.
Moslener enclosed photographs of her son taken from Life Magazine and
Mrs.
clippings from a Butler County
newspaper revealing the -circum-
stances of her son’s death. She had
visited the young air corps cadets
when they were stationed in Salt
Lake City and in Florida.
In part Mrs. Moslener’s letter
said: “I do. think that Dick’s death
was pure murder and I think Louis’
death was caused ‘by the highest
neglect on the part of our govern-
ment. We are all alone now. We
just had one boy and one girl and
the girl is married.
“My husband wants to enlist, He
is a civil ‘engineer and he would like
to be sent to Hawaii. I don’t know
what I'll do if he goes. Life seems
cruel sometimes. Two years ago we
had our family and were very hap-
py. Now we are back where we
started, with a lot of happy mem-
ories.’
Mrs. Moslener then enclosed a
copy of the communiecdtion she had
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Jap Houseboy Arrested At Hayfield
Farm On Suspicion Of Spy Activity
Tei Takahashi Taken Into Custody By F. B.IL.;
Rgents Confiscate Short-Wave Radio And Maps
The devious trail of Axis espionage led last week to the Dallas area
when a Japanese employee of Hayfield Farms was apprehended at Leh-
man by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Japanese, Tei
Takahashi, middle-aged houseboy of Mrs. John Conyngham, was taken
into custody Friday TOTRInE by two F. B. I, men on suspicion of spy ac-
Low Wage Scale
Costs Lehman
Two Instructors
Dodson Leaves/Faculty
For Mail Carrier Job?
Coach Also Resigns
The low wage scale for teachers
! which prevails in the school districts
of the Back Mountain Region was
made painfully evident again this
week as two Lehman Township
High School instructors resigned to
take more lucrative positions.
One of the pair, Donald Dodson,
left the Lehman faculty to become
a rural mail carrier at Hunlock
Creek. Mr. Dodson, who had worked
his way up to an annual salary of
$1,300 after three years of service
at Lehman, will receive a base rate
of $2,100 as a mail carrier, and an
additional five cents a mile for ex-
penses.
The other, Henry Counsman, shop
and mathematics teacher and ath-
letic coach, goes to the Phoenixville
schools, near Philadelphia, at a con-
siderable increase in salary.
Mr. Dodson’s resignation, which
became effective today with the be-
ginning of the Easter holidays at
Lehman, has put Supervising Prin-
cipal H. Austin Snyder and mem-
bers of the school board in a diffi-
cult position, The vacated instruc-
torship—that of physical education
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WILLIAM CAIRL
William Cairl
Commissioned
Served In World
War At Fifteen
William “Bill” Cairl, Common-
wealth Telephone Company wire
chief for the past seventeen years,
has been commissioned a Second
Lieutenant in the United States
Army and has been ordered to re-
port for active duty April 10 with
the Signal Corps Replacement Unit
at Fort Monmouth, N. J. Bill's en-
listment in the armed service of his
country is his third. since he went
overseas with the A. E, F. in 1918
as one of the youngest members of
the Second Division. It is his second
in the United States Army. From
1920 to 1923 he served a three-year
trick in the Navy,
Bill first enlisted in the United
States Army at Philadelphia on
April 26, 1918, when he was fifteen
years and nine months old. He spent
five weeks at Fort Slocum and two
weeks at Fort Wood on Bedlow’s
Island. With no further training he
embarked for France at New York
on June 14 and fourteen days later
landed at St. Nazarre, France. He
was assigned to the Signal Corps
Replacement unit at St. Aignan and
a few days later joined the First
Division in the Soissions offensive. *
One of his most interesting war
experiences came during the early
days of that offensive when with
sixteen other replacements he was
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Field Signal Battalion of the Second!
$tivity. A thorough search of his liv-
ing quarters at Hayfield revealed a
short-wave radio, a powerful cam-
era, and several maps and pictures
of Wyoming Valley. All these were
confiscated by the G-Men.
The arrest of Takahashi is be-
lieved to have been the result of a
report sent in to the F. B. I. recently
by Chief Ira C. Stevenson of the
Harvey's Lake police force, In this
report, Stevenson submitted that
the Jap had made several trips to
New York City without first apply-
ing to him for permission. Taka-
hashi, subject to a routine investi-
gation by the F. B. I. last December
following the declaration of war up-
on Japan, had been placed under
the jurisdiction of Stevenson and
was ordered to report to the Har-
vey’s Lake Chief whenever he had
occasion to leave this section.
Takahashi had been in the employ
of Mrs. Conyngham at Hayfield
Farms for more than a decade, and
prior to that worked in New York
City. He lived by himself in one of
the tenant houses at Hayfield and
rarely conversed or associated with
any of his fellow workers at the
estate. While there had been no
demonstration of any sort against
him at Hayfield, other employees of
the farm began to resent his pres-
ence there in recent months and re-
garded his secret trips to New York
with considerable suspicion.
Laux Sells Out
Shop Equipment
Local Machine Plant
Bought By City Firm
To better serve the interests of
National Defense, a local machine-
shop operator decided this week to
merge with a larger manufacturing
concern in Wilkes-Barre and dis-
solve a business which has thrived
here for more than two decades.
The latter part of next month the
entire complement of machinery in
Jacob Laux’s three-story plant on
J
| Pioneer avenue will be transferred
| to the Popky Freezer Company plant
on North Pennsylvania avenue,
Wilkes-Barre, where it will be de-
voted to work on government con-
i
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G. 0. P. Leaders
Endorse Flack
Clark Organization
Chooses Candidates
Endorsing Harold Flack of Shav-
ertown, candidate for representative
of the Sixth District, and Pete Clark
as district chairman, Independent
Republican leaders of this section
met Friday night at Kunkle Com-
munity Hall to make plans for the
May primaries.
The local politicos, among them
officials from all the Back Mountain
municipalities, heard speeches by
Burgess Herbert A. Smith and Jo-
seph H., MacVeigh of Dallas, Bur-
gess Frank Hughes and Atty. D. O. .
Coughlin of Forty Fort and Tom
Lewis of Wyoming, and chose the
following candidates for committee-
men:
Dallas borough—Joseph Jewell,
south district, and James Besecker,
north district; Dallas township—
Walter Elston, north, Floyd Cham-
berlain, middle, and Earl Layaou,
south; Kingston township—dJohn
Earl, north, James Trebilcox, mid-
dle, and Ted Hinkle, south; Lehman:
Bruce Williams, north, Clyde Coop-
er, middle, and Frank Crossin,
south; Jackson—Harold Palmer.
Cycling Hazards
Bicycling has had its drawbacks
in Noxen, along with its ecstacies.
Doris Traver, 12-year-old daughter
of Mrs. Ruth Traver, ‘was injured
Sunday, when she was thrown from
her bicycle. Marjorie VanCampen,
7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles VanCampen, was caught in
the wheel while her uncle, Elmer
Race was taking her to school last
week. Her ankle and leg were badly
bruised, but no other serious injur-
ies resulted.
Men To Sing
Men’s Chorus will present a pro-
gram at the 7:30 service at Dallas
Methodist Church this evening.