Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 1

i trta ball Us is a for i-trt Thla Newspaper tht Fun Service of fpsrffi I li-ht fa.tr. 4 i C6Mr. Pef 'Year. IS Published evary Evening except Sunday LEBANON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924. Enteied Mi geeoRd-Clua Ms.t»e? at the Office at 10 PAGE'S-TWO CONFERENCE WILL OPEN ON 125th Annual Session in U.

B. 'Church-at Avon REV. FAKE, PASTOR i Meetings of the Committees and Boards Held Today Avon, Sept. All the preparations have been for the and twenty fifth an- nuaH session of the" East Pennsylvania Conference the "lilted Brethren in Christ, begin -tomorrow morning at 9 In tbs U. B.

I church, at this place. Por several weeks the Rev. N. I. Fako, pastor, (Continued on Paga Two.) INVESTIGATION 1 OF CIDER PARTY wwpiED "(Special, to News United Press.) Washington, TodayU- Assistant Attorney General Mabel today States Baltimore' to fcfart an 'investigation of the cider party held 'by'Representative John Philip at his.

home 'Saturday WMlebrandt promised definite action in the case this week. Hill served. 2.75 pefcent cider to his euests with the' intention of forcing the government a decision as to its by analogy, the legality'of beer-of similar alcoholic contents. Arrested and lined For Selling Lfcuor to Tobyhanna: Soldiers PAID VISIT TO THE KNIGHTS OFFRWSHIP Many Members From Other Chambers Were in- Attendance GRAND OFFICERS Were Present and They and Others Delivered Addresses Members of Lebanon Chamber, No. 104, Knights of Friendship, turned out in largo numbers on Monday evening, on the occasion of a fraternal visit by knights of the Heidelberg Chamber at Kleinfettersvllle, and from r.cading, Allentown and elsewhere.

Tho gathering was in the nature of.a'booster assemblage, and it prov- TWENTY-TWO STATES STOPPED RECRUITING NAT. GUARDS Washington, (United In the Nfttlcfial Guard of 22 states was ordered stopped today by tho War Department because of insufficient funds. The states affected are California, Connecticut, llllnota, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South' Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The guards of the District of Columbia and Porto Rico also were affected. FUHRMANPOST ILL ASSIST THE ALIENS Will Organize Classes to Teach Civil Government on Page Ten) THE LITHUMA RESCUES 27 FROM BURNING TANKER ELSIE SWEETIN TELLS COMPLETE STORY OF KILLINGJ1ER HUSBAND After Many Sleepless Nights And One Entire Night of a Merciless Fire of Questions From State's Attorney She Writes Confession of Crime Sinks Into Peaceful Sleep After Signing.

Todays (United a sea of blazing oil, HALIFAX, the, steamer Lithuania rescued 27 officers and crew of the oil tanker Ivor Sunday, and brought them to Halifax today. The was expected to- explode at any moment the steamer's crew braved the flames aboard her and on the surrounding waters to effect the rescue. Two of the Ivor's men were badly burned, MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS, (United her pastor as her betrayer, Elsie Sweeten 34, today confessed she poisoned her husband. Wllford, so that she could be free to love Rev. Lawrence M.

Hight. After an all night questioning at the Jefferson county jail, following her arrest on a confession last night by Hight implicating her-, the pretty brunette told a complete story admitting the crime Rev. aged Methodist Episcopal pastor of Iria, the village in which Mrs. Swe6ten lived with her husband for several years, loved her and she reciprocated the affection, she, said. no no- Mrs.

Sweeten said she did love her husband because he glected her. After dictating a complete con fesslon, the woman, exhausted, fel into a deep sleep. Rev. Hight, still pious, held in'tin same jail for the murder of his wlfi by murdt- to which has confessed, prayed for the woman as she told her story. "I love her," h.e said, "she reci procated my affection.

It was all a terrible mistake." Hight furnished Mrs. Sweeten with the to poison her bus band, which she administered re (Continued On Voice $265,860.83 TOTAL SHORTAGE OF W.C. WILLIAMS to NVWS by United Scranton. Today For sell- llng llqmor to so.ldiors.at the artillery ramp at. Tobyhanna, John Miisehork, Tobyhanna, be.en sent to jail for three months -and has also twen fined 500.1 Sentence was imposed In Monroe county -court at Stroudsburg.

525,000,000 Bond For Reforestratibn to Be Voted On Next Year to NPTS by United V'ress.) Harrisburg. Today Plans for a campaign in behalf nf the proposed 525,000.000 fitatp bond Issue for reforestation, to be voted upon next j-f-ar. were completed her" today by tbp Ppnnsylvania state conservation council. Thn council named a publicity ro-rarclttee consisting of MP- faleb. of Philadelphia; Dr Donaldson and L.

M. Otto. Wil- Jminsport, was and A Vorsf- was selected as publicity director. Dr. Donaldson Mr.

McCaleb and h. J. Hockenbun 1 Harrisburg, wpre elected vice presidents. Dr. H.

b. Drinker, president of the council, prf to NL-WB by United Scranton, With the complete and final audH made for the Gchool board.by Grant L. Bell, certified accountant, showing the total shortage in the accounts of former Treasurer Wi C. Williams to be Lho school diistriet will lose not more than $1,470.70, D. R.

Atherton. chairman of the finance committee, told his associates last 'night when the auditors report was received. The total shortage, as disclosed I by Mr. Bell's final statanwnt, is I slightly in excess of the! tentative jfiprurp. which was available for the jury investigation some 'months ago when the deficit was nxed at $259,000.

DIRECTORS OF MOTOR CLUB TO MEET FRIDAY New Surface For State Highway Between Lebanon And Pottsville Will Be Considered The movement to secure It possible a new surface for the State Highway between Lebanon and Pottsville. is rapidly getting under way, and on 'Friday evening 'of this week the first meeting will be held for active work. The board of directors of the Lebanon County Motor club, who recently undertook the task, will have as their guests the Lebanon County Commissioners. The Schuylkill County Commissioners and tha directors of the Schuylkill County Motor Club have also been invited, and are expected to be present. A large number of other interested people have been urged to ARMISTICE DAY TODAY IS FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN IB the first day of autumn.

That is. summer bade us bye at 8:60 o'clock after having put In several months of effective work. This is the period when the' atnateur weather forecaster attempts ra'outdo himself, but It doesn't mean anything ns tho weather bureau will continue to prescribe pretty accurately, the same as heretofore. Committee Appointed to Arrange for Observance ol JDvent That alien residents who have been naturalized or are taking the necessary steps to become citizens, are really interested government matters, and anxious to learn, was attested Monday evening in a report made by Commander Paul L. Rtrlckler of Fuhrtnan Post.

Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a meeting of Getting Citizenship Papers Ready For 37 Aliens Naturalized (Continued On Page Six) BISONS FOR ZOO HERSHEYPARK Secured Through the Efforts of Congressman Sites and Will Arrive This Week Through the efforts of Congressman Frank Sites a pair of one-year- old bisons, male and femalo, popularly called ibuffalos, have been secured from the Yellowstone Park herd, and have been presented the zoo at. Hershey Park, They will be shipped immediately and should be in th.elr new quarters this week. The bison is a genus of wild cattle closely allied to the ox. It measures about 10 foot In length, stands about 6 feel, high and is extremely strong, in Its fore-parts. Old bulls can knock down trees 5 or- 6 Inches In diameter, and can readily cope with wolf 'or boar.

The most striking differences between (Contltiuaa on WO KILLED IN CYCLE ACCIDENT (Sceclal to by United Pittsburgh, Frazier, 54, and his brother Robert, 48, of Homestead Park, wore instantly early today when the motorcycle and side car dn'fhlch they were riding to work was struck at street- grade crossing, Rankin, by a west bond train on the Baltimore Ohio railroad. LEFT FOR HARRISBURG TO ATTEND WEDDING INCREASED RATES ARE INEVITABLE SAYS H.S. NEW (Special to by United Prctoa.) Indianapolis. postal rates were forecast by Harry S. New, postmaster general In an address today annual convention of the tion of Postmasters.

"If new-obligations of major- Ina- portancovare created for the Postoffice ordinary prudence suggests an-upward'readjustment of certain rates to meet New said- "Tho present administration department has not' insisted the service 'be' absolutely talning. government of- every other great seeks poatofflce a.revenue service, conducted with the. HbefcaJHy 4f, thp postbfflce department of" the United States. is fair that tho rates, charged should approximate the pense Incurred, for the service -rori- DR. LYTCR BECOME PAS! AT May Succeed 3BJJ at toe United Bretfe ren Church DR.

Derry Street Harrisburg, for Bf 25 Years i JC The Rev. Dr. J. A. the Derry Street United fir.

Church, Harrisburg, niay pastor of the Annvjlle United! ren church, according tor 1 circulated' at Annville ana 1 anon today. The declined to discuss the -mat It is expected the (Continued on Pago NEW MIN1STI AT THE (Continued Pago Two) Mrs. M. 'Holland, of Poplar street, left for Harrisburg this morning, where she will attend the marriage of Miss Francos Klnsler and Edward Hilton, and will also be a guest at the wedding breakfast. i Big Steam Shovel at Work On Lehman Street Additional activity was affixed to the street construction' on Lehman street, from Fourth to front- this morning, when Neiimey- er Brothers, wh 0 have tho contract for the work, put a largo pxcavating for tho of the sub-grade.

SENATOR BURTON K. WHEELER CHALLENGES DAUGHERTY IN ILLS. On-Barnstorming Trip Through Illinois Will be in Home Town Today and Tonight in St. Paul. State Bacdste Autoists Last Week Harrisburg, increase in of persons blacklisted, or whnae licenses were revoked during the past week for violation of the automobile laws, was noted today.

TheJState Highway Department that 55 drivers' revoked, and names ot SO persons.were placed on the blacklist. Last week tbe.numbar re- vocationsi au4 blaoklUtlnga. far 4848 parsons havtf pw ed by the department by these of wWch nurooer County Prothonotary Robert O. Boyer 'is getting citizenship papers ready for applicants who were naturalized on in number. Each of the new citizens will receive notice to come to the caurt house on a certain evening, at which time the papers will he issued.

The applicants will thus be saved the In- conveniencn of waiting a( thp office, and-will also not lose time from their work. Following the administration of the oath of citizenship by Prothono- tary Boyer, about 4 o'clock, Monday afternoon, Judge Henry talked to tt)e new 'citizens, admonishing them to remember that now they are citizens of this country and are sworn not only to support (he laws but to obey them. He delivered a general speech alone lines of patriotism and good citljenghlp. He advised them all to study the constitution, the q( government, and piiliar with the laws of eir adoption. BB.

an examiner from naturalization of by J. By Paul R. Mallon, i (United Press Staff Correspondent) Peorla. Ills. Today Attorney Cnmerai Harry M.

Daugherty was challenged by Senator Burton K. Wheeler today to tell how he "able to spend $30,00 in Washington on his 12,000 salary." I Barnstorming in a private car through the farm d.lstrlcts of Central Illinois. UK- independent vico presidential candldat? centered his themsajyej the had been approached by Blair Coan, detw.tive. working for the Republican national committee and that Coan wanted him to repudiate his story, in return Coan would see Daugherty could help him. i "Later Means told that he i talked with Coan.

Coan had com- invun'loatftd with and they I had promised to help him. i saW that Hiram special ascist- ant, attorney genera 1 who was prosecuting hltn. wan a close friend WALES SHOWED PREFERENCE FOR IDLE SET Seye4al hundred postmasters.Jrom all parts-of'the'Unlte'd States- were in 'attendance, at ttveconyeritlpn America's Housewives Despite High Prices Knead Little Dough (Special to'News by.Un.ited Press.) Atlantic. City, N. Today honaely, old faeli'loned IndustTy of bread'baking by housewtveB Is passing.

No morn srolden crusted of homemade bread oool. In the kitchens of tho United States, in anything like a m'ajorlty of homes, "Wheroaa it hull five yeare ago that 70. percent- the nation'e baking was done th" home, today only 26 percent of America's houue- wives knead their own according to ofRcials of the American Bakers Association. The ofllclals, who will bo in ses- nion untlJ Friday, announced that prlcf of bread wHI remain at 10 cenla a loaf despite a rise In wiheat. Rev.

His First on Rev. C. bytorjan church, of conducted his ffrst services tor on Sunday morning ing. He ie taking the place'oi Fields, who was last year. There was a 'langfe attendai both of the-meetings, on they accorded a 1 -Hnb i the new -Many who 'have not 'been- out tlm because of; age, 1 special effort to come to theW vkes.

PUzor save two (Contfbued on J. Rankin Byers Now Assistant to Engineer at The State entire attack upon Daugherty. of Daug-herty. That the way he taid, ta the "host, living i Daugherty could him, Means of the corrupt influence that was'said. taken over ernment." of our wac gov- in The recent sudden turn of events of our investigation of (he depart- "Means.

Smith Mannlngton, Fall. Kramer ment of Justice how lug ho'd Daugherty still on the departiwent and the courts," Wheeler 8 aid. "Daugherty has given out an al- repudiation by Gubtori f). Means of testimony he gave inHtee, incr roina.tln» attorney he veterans bureau, Holland, and Orr are prominent Republicans who 'in conjunction with er leaders of the Republican party, have been KuUiliiK the ahip of the Btato of thin KopublUi. "There, are the men we want to this govej-nnteut thte is the cause of Wheeler's for" second day out of Ch at Rock onlsbi Dtttei to News by Uriltn New York, Tho Prince of Walefi' departure from Long Is- and was not marker) by extensive odltorial romment hut one paper touching tbr Biibjoct yesterday and one today.

The NPW Vnrk World, in its leading editorial today, faid in part: "A long familiarity with the rulee of the ga.mp of royaii.y acoounte for American about the In thio country we gpecial- Our presidents ate not active lancers. Our active dancprs are not the inmates of prff.idents. "No American ra.n quite imagine Mr. Coolldgn takinK his holiday In riotous living at Monte f'arlo, rely- on the theory that when he Is solemn, he (president and when gay, he IB not." The World says the Prince Vman- aged to demonstrate to Americans grown tolerant of bueineea of royalty that In. whatever his per- democracy may bc, in fact a pyram'd of snobbery." "When the onJy function of royalty left in the modern is to create and presMJf 1 torlal "an4 when by actual demonstration that proKtlgo ill bestowed as H.

H. H. 'bestowed on an idlo a good of fuel is added to the fires of the old faeh'oned Republican conviction that civilization would survive if the king were wound up." Treatment of Seed Wheat For The Control of Stinking Smut local Farm has arrangpmpnts to havo rt. s. Ktrby, Plant ptseasfi Specialist from Stale College in the county on the coming Thursday to treat heed wheat for the control nf Ntlnklng smut.

This disease been morft prevalent' in tho county this Beacon than ever befpro. There will he no dernonHtraflon on treating wheat, hut any farmers who desire informal Ion on thn BUbject are requested to get In touch with. County Agent Berger at once. Stinking mil ut is disease of wheat which makes It very undesirable tor milling purpoHen. The kernels containing Kinut are very short and stout, and filled with a black powder or Imving a bad odor.

Many of thenn kerneln break In thrauhing and color the other wheat kernels. Wheat having' smut- should not be uuad fon seed unleos it is treated. J. Rankin ByerB, of 234 street, who baa boon emploj Home time at the State Harrisburg, has been transfe tho baBoment force there, to announcement made I now iisslHtanl to chief eni The change not only carries a substantial increase In his but the nrfw Job is more in of work and therefore to his 1 He wan engaged for many ye engineer at the New Lebanoh. ery plant, and for a tUn employed HH an engineer at lehem Rteel plant.

He la a. po resident of the Fifth "Ward of'friends unite In felicitations the good fortune which hae be him. Lebo and Keith Cars Collided But None Occupants Inj Randall Lebo, 'driving a and Mrs. J. C.

Keith, wife i r.al cut-rate, driving a tourij met in a collision at Sixth nut streets, near St. Luke' on Monday even! o'clock. None of the the were injured, ai badly Lebo. car was partly etova radiator wan badly iH' Pqr Anto Insurance Bee.