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The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 9

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DECEMBER 15, 1937 UM0NTOWN, STAOTABB NINE Dunbar Girl Scouts Launch Christmas "Old Toy WILL GATHER AND MEND TOYS FOR POOR TOTS Canvass Of Dunbar Section To Be Begun At Once; Gifts, Asked. One Year Old By MARTHA PARKER DUNBAR, Dec. 15--5irl Scouts of Troop One, Dunbar, are sponsoring a drive "for old toys, which they plan to repair and repaint, and distribute to needy children Christ- a Eve. A canvass of Dunbar and vicinity is to begin immediately, and any persons having old, disused or damaged toys are asked to contribute them to the cause. Tops, dolls, wagons, trains, fire engines, indeed anything in the toy line will be of use, and will gladden the heart of some child -whose Christmas stocking might otherwise bs empty.

Widespread closing of mines and factories and decrease of relief appropriations foretell slim Christmas cheer in many homes, and the scout drive is offered" in the effort to ameliorate these conditions as far as possible. Anyone wishing to contribute toys to the drive, if not called on in the next few days, or if outside the im-L nd Satsuma. is so great that mediate vicinity of Dunbar, is asked i ec representatives of the peo- STOCK MARKET NOON 'PRICES Allied Stores AUis Chalmers American Can 7 5 American Car Foundry 26 American Smelting A. T.T. American Tobacco 62 American Tobacco 63 Anaconda 3Hi Atchison 40 Atlantic 20 B.

O. ll'-s Bendix Aviation 13 Bethlehem Steel 57 Calumet Hecla Canadian Pacific Chesapeake Ohio Chrysler- Columbia Gas 9 3 4 Consolidated Oil 1 Continental Can Curtis Wright Pont Patricia Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mohar, Miller avenue, will be one year old December 18. AMERICAN BOYCOTT Estman Kodak 160 Erie R.

General Electric 43 General Motors 33 Harbison Walker International Nickel I. T. T. Kennecott Liquid Carbonic ISri i Mack Truck 20vi McReesport Tinplate Montgomery Ward National Dairy National Distillers 21 3 Power Light 8's New York Central N. H.

-North American 21 (Continued from Page One) to get in touch with the scoutmls- tress, Mrs. Walter Reynolds. Dunbar, who will see'tbat all toys are collected. Reynolds may be contacted by mail 6r by calling Dunbar i Lqtry conquests," TOr. Park: continued.

pie are powerless. "The man in the street in Japan has led to believe that all the world is holding up its hands, in admiration, at the Japanese mil- epub 5 ICY COATINGS ISOIATE MANY IN OKLAHOMA Highway Traffic Tied Up As Slippery Covering Makes Hazards. BY UNITED PRESS A crippling glaze of ice covered states from the Rockies to the -Alleghenies today, imperiled motorists and isolated scores of communities. Highway traffic was tied up in Southern Indiana, Eastern Missouri, Southern Wisconsin and Iowa. Police received reports of hundreds of minor accidents.

Motorists found another hazard in ice that formed on windshields and obstructed visibility. Twenty-eight villages in Oklahoma were isolated as Ice coatings snapped communication lines and paralyzed transportation services. Glen Losure, 34, Enid, maintenance man, died after a fall from a pole while repairing a telephone SHANGHAI, Dec. (UP)-- An official casualty list of the Japanese attack on the United States gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil ships was released today by naval officials attached the United Stales cruiser Augusta. The entire personnel aboard the Panay, including Americans, Europeans and Chinese, was accounted for.

but the casualties among the Chinese personnel aboard the Standard Oil vessels was not available. Standard "Oil officials said that many of the Chinese probably were killed. The official list: U. S. Forecaster C.

A. Donnel said rain, sleet and snow fell' in the Mississippi, lower Ohio and Mis- Northern Pacific souri valleys" and in the upper Great 'Lakes region. Although he predicted higher temperatures over most Packard Penney 63 91 Pullman Pure Oil lOTi Radio R. K. O.

Reading R. R. and any offers of toys or help will be greatly appreciated. Honor Roll With the issue of the second per "The one weak spot is their financial structure. If their mar- Sears Roebuck .1 15 Socony Vacuum Standard Brands 8 Standard Gas Electric iod report cards Borough school.

at the Dunbar Principal C. are cut off, they will be less i Standard Oil of Cal. jabie to prosecute a war. and Standard Oil of N. J.

the pinch cf poverty begins, the! Studebaker fir Blair has announced the following honor roll: Grade one-- Jean Blair. Japanese public will begin to wonder why. if the Western world filled with admiration, such action is being taken." Texas Corp. 391s T. W.

A. of the great plains he said the icy conditions would continue for another 24 hours. Chicago motorists proceeded with utmost caution over ice-covered "Loop" traffic was snarled at intersections and elevated trains were slowed. Guy Bush, pitcher for the Boston Bees, escaped injury when an automobile skidded into the rear of the machine was driving. His brother, Granville, was injured slightly.

Temperatures throughout the United Air Corp. generally were higher. The United Corp. United Gas Improvement lowest reading was 16 above zero at North Platte, and Goodland. it was 75 at Los Angees and Tampa, Fla.

Thirty persons, stranded und-3r a Miller. Loretta Pople, Wilbur CO mpla'int Dr" Park feels i Western Union 24 3 covered bridge at Ferdinand, Ind, Westinghouse Air Brake 24 when their automobiles stalJed on Dale Gangaware. Dorothy It is extremely unlikely that SiSmeltui George Hyatt. David Einkie. Grade Mikado will assume responsibility TJ Steel two--Anna Bell, Richard Hardy.

0r the Panay incident, and make Walworth Vera Jobes. Audrey direct reply to the" President's 4 Warner Bros. key. Wa'nda Wilspn. Grade three-- "The Mikado is God to the Westinghouse Joan Martin.

Waitc Strong. George anese declared. --And God can- Wes 106 Sea ton, Pauline Wallace. Snot work directly. 38 Grade four--Leonard Bell, Lloyd "The most that can be hoped forj Gangaware.

Margaret Berieter, is to get an apology from the warj Pauline DeMarco.AlaineQuairiere.jministrj-/ If the general who! Grade five--Betty Lehman. Betty -ordered the indiscriminate bomb'' Lancaster, Margaret Betty ing of foreign ships in the river can; I Anthony Frank Grade "six--Lucy Bell; Gangaware. Jacqueline McClintock. Norma Spangler. Grade seven--Lynette, Joseph been able to get anything but be forced to perform -hari-kira Cof-j NE YORK.

Dec. the business and rnark- "England. you know, -has. never et data for 1937 brings out several an icy hill, were rescued by ay-crews. Near New Albany, Edward Jones, wife of a'WPA worker, gave birth to a baby with only her husband in attendance.

Her doctor was unable to reach her home because of the hazardous driving conditions. ficial suicide because of dishonor), that will be fine. Blasio, Freda Harvey. Lois Neighbors. Lillian Wilson.

William Hardy, William Gaiand. Amedeo Caruso. Grade eight--Harry McDowell. William Reynolds, John Bunting. William Seaton.

Norman Afurray. Guy Brunetti. Grade nine--Gloria Zuzel- li. Alfred AUdridge. Nina Hair.

Edi- a I interesting items. rab)e lie in toe NOT SATISFIED The most fav- Frnm From end. A worded, formal protest, reciting at snooting or ner amoassaaor. rnat I wwueu iu iui4i piutcav, id-imig attack was plainly; intentional. and great many of the major lines length the facts of the Panay was launched because the ambas- any year but 1929 despite the slump bombing and the futility of prev- sador was on a peace mission, and Japan did not wish peace.

"Japan. England's hands are tied by the European situation, and they have no more re- and they would have set all time records but for that. Electricity output this year will make an all- time peak. Automobile production son Strong. Grade ten.

Concetta spect or the English than for a Grade worm. "The Western nations have completely lost 'face' in Japan because of a number of military and moral Caruso, Richard Malcolm, eleven--Roberta Spa ngler. Church News their highest levels in history nrnde in 1929. Building is a bad laggard. It doesn't even begin to compare with 1929 and therein may be a favorable factor, according to The regular meeting-of the Pres- defeats, chid of all being the way! exp rts sinc it can start from tT no 4 i i i i i ious Japanese assurance against interference with or injury to American nationals and their property.

Demand Is Urgent "In these circumstances," the note stated, "the government of the United States requests and expects of the Japanese government a formally recordeo expression of regret, an undertaking to make complete byterian Missionary society is to be they permitted themselves to be! cratch' held tomorrow afternoon, at two i bluffed in the occupation of Man-'" o'clock at the home of Misses Mar- churia. ra st ock rnade its con garet and Jennie Watt. All members are asked to be present. "The Chinese still retain more for Europeans than for tributions to the record but on the adverse side. The de- and comprehensive indemnifications; and an assurance that Unite and specific steps have been taken which will insure that hereafter American nationals, interests At a recent business meeting Japanese, and Japanese war lin in UCh 'order' was one i and erty in China will not be the Presbyterian church the a deliberately slapping faces the SW ift record subjected to attack by Japanese of down lowing, members were elected to the board of trustees: Ewizig Marietta.

Todd Burhans. Edward Hardy. Ray Holsing. At a later meeting of the i or China, except for horror at ine swntest on recora. jaowever, Western to try.

to-break feefore it beg an, the averages and vn that feeling." the valuation total for all listed shares reached the best levels since liouidation that armed forces or unlawful interference 'by any Japanese authorities or whatsoever." both the President's J- a a board, Ray Holsing was elected murder and pillage going on Hull's protests was seen the determ- I -r-s i t- CS-illc Olio JLIao rr Port Tomorrow evening, the members of the Ladies Missionary society of the Baptist church will take their i Dr. Park feels. "I have no fear for the ultimate future of he said. "I look on this as one phase of a built up in more than other things being make a base for a pageant. "The Challenge of the that will continue for centuries.

Birthday Candles" to Smithfield. "Even if Japan can complete her All 'who. can are invited to go to inis program. Scout News 'military domination of China, there is. too much national feeling for moral domination ever to be ccm- ination of this government to resist; the efforts of Japan to setle the Panay bombing on the basis only of the attack the American gunboat and its convoy of Standard The committee looking Into stock Oil ships.

Officials said the pro- comeback. exchange work out organization its may soon for action. tests rested upon a broader base than merely the Dunbar Scout Councilnien. John! Golden. Harry Ainsley.

Thomas Clements, William Tietboll, the-county scout leaders meetings, which were held in Connellsville. BABY GUNBOAT I The organization now is complete i with Carle Conway. Chairman I of Continental Can company, as chairman; Trowbridge Caliaway, i ence with Amencan rights or I of Callaway; Pish vice-'! property there, they said. They rest- upon the principle Of the policy in China and illegality of Japanese interfer- Charles Lee Ensminger, storekeeper first class, gunboat -Panay. Next of kin, wife, Lucuie O.

Ensminger, 188 Bacon street, Ocean Beach, Calif. Sandro Sandri, Italian war correspondent. Capt. C. H.

Carlsen, Waterbury, master of the Standard Oil steamship Meiping. (A survivor of the attack, arriving at Shanghai today, insisted that Capt. Carlsen accompanied him ashore, and expressed belief that he might be alive.) Seriously Injured Carl Henry Birk, ship's cook. third class, gunboat S03 Moore Philadelphia, Pa. Edgar W.

G. Hulsebus, seaman first class, gunboat Panay, RFD'2, Canton, Mo. Kenneth J. Rice, electrician's mate third class, gunboat Panay, 111 North Indiana Mishawaka, Ind. Peres Dix Ziegler, ship's cook gunboat Panay, Route Delaware, O.

Injured Lieut, ComCr. James J. Hughes, Washington, D. commanding officer of the Panay. Broken leg.

Lieut. Arthur F. Anders, executive officer, Weimar, Tex. Lieut. (Junior grade) John W.

Geist, watch officer! Altoona, Pa. Raymond Leroy Browning, electrician's mate third class. 1629 Smithfield Boy Acquitted Today Arthur Ford, Local Man, Tried For Gamblin. West 80th street, Los Angeles, Cal. Newton Lewis Davis, fireman first class, 1533 Anna street, Shreveport, La.

P. Hayden Hines, Roanok-e, an employe of the American British Tobacco Co. Cecii Bernard Green, seaman first class, 1730 1-2 South Quannah street, West Tulsa, Okla. Alex Kozak, machinist mate second class, 16 Hull street, Ansonia, Conn. John Henry Lang, chief quartermaster, 1062 Pacinc Long Beach, Calif.

Charged with a violation o. the Charles Scott Schroyer, seaman i vehicle code, Joe Latin, 18-year- first class, Box 325, Baxter, Iowa. E. P-. Gassie, clerk in the American embassy.

Uninjured Civilians George Atcheson, American embassy -secretary. J. Hall Paxton, American embassy secretary. Norman Alley, Universal News Reel -camera man, Hollywood. Weldon James, Chief of the United Press bureau at "Nanking.

Norman Soong, Honolulu, employed by the New York Times. Luigi Barzini, Italian war' correspondent. G. M. McDonald, London Times war correspondent.

Smithfield R. D. youth, was acquitted by a Jury shortly belere The defendant, rep- Attorney Alex Z. noon today. resented by Goldstein was directed to pay costs.

Latin was charged by Privsu-e H. E. Rang of the motor police having applied for a learners permit after his operating privileges i pool room. The house, he testified, received 25 cents on each dollar witt tip to two dollars while 50 cesrts ww paid on everything over two dollars. District Attorney James A.

HeiUy prosecuted the case with Attorneys Wade K. Newell and Fred Brothers acting for the defense. Gibers in the establishment when Montgomery was allegedly assaulted Vf'ho were named by' the Tsitnesa were Elmer Truly, Oliver Paige, "Happy" Jamison and Isaiah Johnson. Second case appearing before Judge Durnbauld this morning was against Joseph P. Burke, charged with- larceny by bailee by Henry De- Uniontown R-.

i- Burke is said to have accepted $75 from the prosecutor to purchase potatoes for DeCarlucci xnthcrat siaking the propere return. Tfeis Is What had been suspended. The youth, it When The EllffillteF was testified, had been involved in an accident three years ago he possessed neither a driver's license a learner's permit. Tbc Department of Revenue suspended his privileges for three months and until such time as he could estefe- CU. i -Roy former responsioihty, tne obi of the Washington U.

football team. Albert Ross, clerk' in the Italian embassy. J. V. Pickering, Cadiz, Ohio, Nanking manager, for the Oil Co.

John B. Sherwood, McGraw, N. Captain Jorgensen, a Norwegiaji- P. Mender, Estonian, of the Meiping. fleer said.

Application for a learner's permit was made through Van Masontown justice of the peace, who was called to "the stand by the defense. Lowe said that he did set know that the boy had been involved in an accident. Assistant District Attorney 'W. Brown Higbee represented the commonwealth. Arthur Ford.

Park avenue 'PHILADELPHIA, Dec. --The engineer of a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train esfcotf from Cleveland to New York suffered a fata! attack in his eat today and his assistant; took over tfafi controls and 'brought the traia safely to the Philadelphia staticu. Engineer im M. Burd, 54 of Trenton. N.

who had bearded the train at was stricken sa it entered the suburbs. He halted the locomotive and collapsed. A. R. Engleman brought in tSi train without passengers aware of the accident.

J. S. TREASURY i imtnftwn on trial before Jud Thom.as Cash Balance---- 52.643.477,73031 u. Kudsoa this mo rnihg D. S.

Golding, address unxnown. Captain P. N. Roberts, -assistiu. United States military attache.

No official information was given ating bfttterv and ope? gambling house in concerning the condition of Jim Marshall, a writer Weekly. for Collier's Fred Montgomery, Oliphant gro. took the stand to tell the i and the court the intricacies of gambling game as which he declared was played in the Miss Sue McLaughlin of Vander- pool room. bilt spent several days last week Montgomery, brought charges with her aunt Mrs. Nellie against Ford, the proprietor, when jthe latter allegedly struck him OR November 2, telling him that he was wood.

Miss Harriette Mumper, the local j-broke'' and "to get up and let high school teacher spent the week- i someone there who.could gamble." end at her home at Washington, i The witness said that Saturdays Pa. I and paydays were big days at the i THE COMFORT AND PRIVACY of our modern adds Johnston Mortuary Established in TJniontown Since 1885 (Continued From Pase I chairman, and William C. Martin, Edwards Sons, St. There is no indi- Comdr. James J.

Hughes, of Wash- Jr of A Troop One Boy Scouts meet every ington D. gave the order to! Louis secretary. Tuesday evening in the scout hall. They are preparing for tile Fay- ette-Westmorelarid Scout meet to be held at Scottdale this week. Basketball The Dunbar junior basketball team won its first game in the Connellsville Becreation center league by defeating a strong West Side team Saturday to the score of 17-8.

Bob Dunavv ay, sensational Dunbar forward led the Mule attack with two field goals and three fouls for a total of seven to take the scoring honors of the game. In awaiting victim, a trapdoor spider will lie at its door as long as three NOTICE Estate of Maggie Grabiak, a weak- minded person. In the Court of Common Pleas of Payette county, Pennsylvania, at No, 622 September Term, 1935. Notice is hereby given that Barclay-Westmoreland Trust Company, Guardian of Maggie Grabiak, a weak-minded person, has filed its First and Final Account at the above number and term in said estate and intends to apply for confirmation thereof to said court on the day of December, 1937, at 10 o'clock a. or as soon the attention of the court may be had thereto.

Unless exceptions are filed before said date, the account may mav then be made. HtGBEE. MATTHEWS LEWELLYN, Attorneys for Accountant. abandon ship. The gun crew stay- Cation as yet that any of the ed to the end und went ashore only when, at 3:34 p.

the little ship meetings will be tin-own open to the public or that any information an American warship that never will be forthcoming until the corn- saw its home land, for it was built mittee works out a plan--if it is on the Yangtse--went down. fable to agree on. one. As for a The three survivors who arrived i port, no time limit has been set here are Jim Marshall, Seattle, Col- when one must be handed in. In lier's writer, wounded in the neck and shoulder; John L.

Hodge, Silu- announcmg the committee, however, the exchange asked that it ria, machinist's mate second re port as soon as possible. Many class, of the Panay, and C. C. Vmes, that means before the next exchange elections scheduled for Roanoke, employed by the British American Tobacco Both Hodges and Vines suffered slight wounds As these three arrived, a little fleet of warships of three nations, United States, Great Britain and Japan, started down the winding Yangtze on a dangerous, dramatic race through-a 200-mile war zone. Two of the ships bore the survivors of the Japanese attack, ing 14-men wounded, and were believed to bear also the bodies of the three killed--Charles L.

Ensminger, Ocean Beach, storekeeper of the Panay; Capt C. Carlsen, of Waterbury, master of one of the three Standard Oil ships attacked, and Sandro Sandri, Italian war correspondent, who was aboard the Panay. First Jn the fleet that, started down the river toward Shanghai were Japanese minesweepers, delegated to bear the first shock of any possible attack from ashore. Next were the United States gunboat Oahu, sister ship to the Panay, and a British gunboat--either the Bee or Che May. Only upon this basis, it said, would this gox'erriment consider the affair closed.

It was believed that the Japanese government now realizes the gravity of the situation and the seriousness with which the United States views the Panay attack. POST OFFICE (Continued from Page One) 'tion in the post office lobby is occasioned by the last for stamps. This will avoid the neces- Republic Steel Head Blames Administration CHICAGO, Dec. 15. sity cf patrons standing in line to be served.

your parcels -securely and legibly addressed Parcels may be insured, at a small and this provides the maximum- of may contain t'ne UP)-- Ad- "Do not open before Christ- ministration policies, well intended but impractical, are the cause of the present business recession, Tom M. Girdler, chairman of the Republic Steel Corporation, said last night. Speaking before the Illinois Manufacturing Association, he said there were no basic economic causes for a prolonged recession. "It comes rrom a whole series of national policies, probably well intended in their humanitarian objectives, but impractical in their operation and administration, and undemocratic in their impact upon the Country," he said. Seven-tenths, or 257,000,000 aci-es, of total farm lands', of the United States, are" used to produce foracc croos.

mas" or -words of similar import. Do not seal parcels. Frequently patrons place small stickers or stamps upon parcels in such as to seal them. This should not be as it subjects such parcels to the first, class postage rate. Such stamps or stickers' ns.iy be placed upon parcels, but not in sv.ch manner as to them.

Place no writing in such parcels except your name and address. "Be considerate of the postman whose burden nt the Christmas son is moro. than doubled. You will help him and all other postal employes by observing the foregoing suggestions." Howard McCann. Carmichaels.

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