Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 4

PINCHOTLEADERS LIST 31 COUNTIES NOW IN HIS CAMP Republicans in Union and Butler Are Latest to Support the Former Governor JAMES FORCES WORRIED His Lieutenants Feel Campaign For Him Should Take on More Speed Now While Field Marshal P. S. Stahl necker was today announcing the declaration of the Union County Republican organization for Gif ford Pinchot's nomination for Governor made thirty one out of sixty seven in the State for the Forester men active in support of Judge Arthur H. James were demanding the campaign of the Luzerne county jurist be either speeded up or some declaration made why it has not left the post. It is no secret friends of the judge have been disturbed by the alignment of one county after another and one group on the heels of others for Pinchot as "the Republican who can win." Counties where it was expected he would show strength have gone into the Pinchot column.

A further cause of uneasiness is that Stahlnecker is not overlooking a bet and is in touch with every county. Committees have been set up ia what were supposed to be old time organization counties. Stahlnecker said yesterday petitions numerously signed had been brought into Pinchot headquarters by Union county people. "This is like other counties; it means there will be no real contest there as far as Mr. Pinchot is concerned.

We are going to have more," said he. "Word from Frank Clark, county chairman in Butler, is that his county is eighty per cent. Pinchot and Goerge Blair has been picked to run Pinchot's campaign in Erie with nearly everybdoy for the Governor." Signers in Union Signers of Pinchot papers in Union county are announced as follows: "Lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Wolfe, burgess of Lewis burg, and chairman of the Republican County Committee; Warren S. Reed, register and recorder; J.

Earl Miller, county treasurer; William E. Roth, coroner; W. J. Seaman, tax collector; Brown Focht, editor of the Saturday News, and son of former Congressman Benjamin K. Focht; Miller A.

Johnson, lawyer and son of Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson; O. A. Campbell, chief of police of Lewisburg; W. Neil former postmaster of Lewisburg; Elwood M.

Feter, prothonotaryr M. V. Arbogast and Baker Kohler, members of the Lewisburg Council; and Paul E. Brough, school director of Lewisburg." James Plans Tour Judge James is anxious to go: into the southern counties as he! did among northern counties last! i i 4. i i i i wets, uui ms neauquai lets is rnn developing much steam.

There are letters on file for James, which seem to have been disregarded, according to old time regulars up State. No one knows the reason. Aspirants for the Republican senatorial nomination have hundreds of petitions moving, but none appears to have been sent out for James. On the other hand James scouts have been travelling the roads for two weeks. Senator James J.

Davis' plunge i into the senatorial race yesterday is to be followed by a campaign like the senator has been accustomed to make in years gone by. He will visit numerous towns. Senator G. Mason Owlett has sent word to friends in this section he intends to make a strenuous campaign. Want to See Earle Democratic State headquarters! people were feeling better today over reports that Matthew H.

Mc Closkey, did not really mean it when he resigned as the financial guide of the State organization and that when Big Chief David L. Lawrence came home he would have a public handshaking with the Philadelphia. The Kennedy announcement today Is to be followed by a close survey of its effect and the results will be laid before Lawrence when he returns from Florida sands. Much interest prevails on the Hill over the statement of At torney General Charles J. Margi otti that he wanti to talk to the Governor about certain activities among payrollers not exactly along lines friendly to him.

But the people who want to see the Governor are the Capita! Hill folk who seek a line on how Sen ator Joseph F. Guffey now feels about the slate. PA7R01MAN RETIRES Rlckert Completes 21 Years on City Force; Will Celebrate 65th Birthday Tomorrow "The trouble caused by drunks has been worse than any other difficulty." City Policeman William E. 2416 Reel street said today as he retired from the city's police force, after twenty one years service. Rickert said he had been forced to draw a gun once and had never been called "on the carpet." Tomorrow he will celebrate his nixty fifth birthday.

"I shall rnixs the fellowship of the boy." he said rather wistfully, 'Tve always enjoyed my work, with the single exception of constantly being called to brclis up boisiercui prrtics since the repeal of prohibition." $1100 an WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 9, 1938 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH mini srvr pr 11.1 II iX fMi 'yfH. After the headlines are forgotten, what happens to the victim of an automobile accident? John Weaver, Camp Hill R. D. 1 knows. Weaver, a railroad carpenter, was struck by an auto while he was walking on the York road near New Cumberland on February 10.

of both legs, broken ribs, and severe lacerations of the METALLURGISTS TO MEET AT STEELTON Plan to Entertain 200 at Banquet April 20 Philadelphian Speak Officiak and employes of the Bethlehem Steel Company, many of whom are members of the American Society of Metals, will be guests of the York Chapter of the society at a banquet to be held in Steelton, Wednesday night, April 20. Dr. Thomas Nelson, Philadelphia, chief of the department of research metallurgy of the Harrisburg Steel Corporation, will be the principal speaker. District Attorney Carl B. Shelley will be the after dinner speaker.

Carl Ilenzelman, open hearth superintendent and chairman of the committee in charge, will be toast master. Other committee members are Ernest Wigfield, m'elter foreman of. the Harrisburg Steel Corporation, and William Faithful, superintendent of the open hearth at the Central Iron and Steel. Burgess John C. Craig, Steelton, superintendent of the rolling mill at the Steelton plant, will welcome the society to the borough.

The Steelton plant has twenty one members; the Harrisburg Stee! Corporation, eighteen members, ind the Central Iron and Steel has twelve members in the society. A. Floyd Whalen. metallurgist, Harrisburg Steel Corporation, is chairman of the local society. Invitations have been sent tc steel company officials in this vicinity and plans are being made to handle 200 persons.

EMPLOYES' ELECTION Nineteen Departments to Nominate Representatives For Election Nominations from nineteen departments of the Steelton plant at the Bethlehem Steel Company will be made next week for representatives to the employes' representation plan. The election will follow next week. The departments and number of nominees eligible from whom one half that number will be elected are: Coke ovens, blast furnace, open hearth, rolling mills, 28 inch, 35 inch, 44 inch bloom mill, No. 1 roll shop, narrow gauge, 10; merchant mill, No. 2 roll shop, splice bar, forge, chem.

laboratory, phys. laboratory, metallurgical, steel foundry, steam, general mechanical, ma Chine shop, combustion, brick, blacksmith, boiler shop, tin shop, car repair, shifter house, scale repair, real estate, pipe shop, riggers, 'carpenters and painters, electrical, general labor, scrap preparing, auto trucks, locomotive cranes, Steelton and Higspire railroad. frog and switch, 10; fabricating, 2, and miscellaneous, 2. ANN0UNCEMARR1AGE Mr. and Mrs.

Clark D. Hoffman, Steelton, announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Marian Louise Hoffman, to Frank J. Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman, also of Steelton.

at Martinsburg, W. on August 4. 1936. After April 1 they will be at home at 2119 South From street, Steelton. BIBLE CLASS MEETING The Emma Miller Bible Class of First Presbyterian Church, Steelton, will meet at the home of Mrs.

Anna Crawford. 222 Pine street, at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow night. M. E. DELEGATE Mrs.

G. Fulmer Chapman is a delegate of the First M. E. Church. Steelton, nt the Philadelphia M.

E. Conference at Reading today and tomorrow. Accident John Weaver Yf "I tries to make I himself comfort i able in bed at KSlfJL. the Harrisburg zT, Hospital. He should I himself as comfortable as possible for he must remain two months more.

He was struck by an auto February 10. body," physicians at the Harrisburg Hospital said when he was ad mitted. They believe in about three months he can be sent home where he faces two months more of convalescing. His hospital bill will be at least $600. Counting loss of wages, total cost of the accident to Weaver will exceed $1100.

What price safety! BASKET BALL SQUAD ARE CLUB'S GUESTS Team Won 19 of 20 Games Played, Outscoring Opponents 930 to 635 Steelton High School's championship basket ball players were guests yesterday noon at the Steelton Kiwanis Club at the luncheon held at Shelley's Cafe. Present were: Coaches, Nelson Hoffman and Charles Hoy; faculty manager, Guy A. Koons; student manager, Charles Newbaker, and team physician, Dr. W. P.

Dailey. Team members present were: John Mahalic, Dusan Maronic, Anthony Dragovan, Tom Furjanic, William Binder, Alleman Leo, Raymond Julian, John Savage, Steven Zugay, Milan Barber and Steve Mick. The team has won nineteen games of the twenty played this season. They have scored 930 points to the opposition's 635. The team's leading individual scorer, Johnny Mahalic, was runnerup with 160 points as high scorer in the Central Pennsylvania Scho lastic Basket Ball League.

CASH BALANCE $76,282 Steelton Auditors L. H. Sutton, C. W. Newcomer and J.

Earl Long have audited accounts of borough officers and submitted their report to the president and members of Steelton Council. Steelton treasury had a cash balance as of December 31, 1937, of $76,282.56. The summary of the report follows: Balance on hand, January 1, 1937, receipts from all sources during 1937, total, $253,319. 70. Actual expenditures during 1937, cash on hand, December 31, 1937, $76,282.56, total, $253,319.70.

churoTmovie The motion picture, "The Thunder of the Sea," produced by the United Lutheran Church, will be shown at St. John's Lutheran Church, Steelton, Tuesday night, March 15. WOMEN'S GROUP TO GIVE CARD PARTY The women of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon will give a benefit card party tomorrow afternoon at Chetnut Street Auditorium. Playing will begin at 2 o'clock, and tea will follow the play. Mrs.

F. P. Whitman and a large committee are in charge of the party, which is the first of a series. TREGO ON THE BOARDS? Highway Clerk May Get Chance to Play Butler Role Ed T. Trego, chief clerk of the city highway department, who looks like Hugh Herbert, the movie actor, may get a chance to prove his ability.

Mrs. William C. Pelton has asked him to play a butler in a play she is directing, sponsored by the Council of the Republican Women. The name of the play is "One Thing After Another." STUDY COMMUNISM The St. James Unit of the National Council of Catholic Women, Steelton, will continue their study of the influences of Communism at 8:13 o'clock tonight in the club room.

TO IMPROVE PROPERTY H. W. Glazier was issued a $1000 building permit today for alterations to his property at 1726 North Fourth street. BAR ASKS FERTIG TO DRAW UP A TAX COMMISSION BILL Proposed State Body Would Supplant Auditor General as Revenue Collector John H. Fertig, who recently retired after years of service as director of the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau, has been invited by the committee on taxation of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association to draft a bill creating a State Tax Commission.

Mr. Fertig's work in the Bureau covered almost a quarter of a century during which time he drafted possibly 10,000 bills and became an "authority on taxation legislation. The plan of the State Bar Association is to have the proposed act read for discussion at the summer meeting at Bedford, which is always a time when leading men of the legal profession assemble. At that meeting there will also be reports upon litigation over various acts of 1937 now occupying much attention in the courts. "I have accepted the invitation to draw up a bill for a State Tax Commission," said Mr.

Fertig, "but I have not yet gotten it into shape for talking about. It will be prepared in ample time for the meeting." For some time Mr. Fertig has been studying State taxation laws of various States. Years ago a State Commission drew up a bill for a commission of five. Probably the Pennsylvania Commission to be proposed would be smaller and be given wide powers in settlement of taxes in view of experience with the circumscribed conditions now prevailing.

The Massachusetts commission has been under observation. If such a plan were to be adopted for this State it would materially change the status of present methods. Prior to 1929 the auditor general was the chief collector of taxes. Fertig has served as counsel arid designer in chief of bills for numerous State commissions, including the celebrated Sterling Committee. He is now counsel for the Local Government Commission and the Dent committee looking into effects of taxation on industry in Pennsylvania.

RAILWAYS PROTEST NEW RATE BOOSTS (Continued From Page 1) would hold a previously discussed railroad conference at the White House next week. The meeting will consider the whole question of railroad finances. Those to attend are chairman Walter M. W. Splawn and Commissioner Eastman of the ICC; Senator Wheeler (D Mont), representative Lea (D Calif Carl Gray of the Union Pacific, and George Harrison, representing railway labor.

With certain exceptions, the I. C. C. authorized the railroads to increase freight rates by 10 per cent. It stipulated, however, that increases granted on many commodities last fall must be included in that percentage.

Increases of 5 per cent, were granted on the following commodities: Agricultural products, except tropical fruit; animals and animal products, except horses and mules; lumber, shingles and lath; cottonseed oil and vegetable oils, except linseed oil. Anthracite coal rates were increased 10 cents a ton, or about 5.9 per cent. Increases were specifically refused on bituminous coal, lignite, iron ore, fresh milk and cream, and refrigeration service. The Commission deferred a decision on the application of eastern railroads for permission to increase passenger coach fares from 2 to 2.5 cents a mile. Senator Wheeler, as chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce committee, said he did not believe the increased rates would "materially help" the railroads.

"What the railroads need Is more business," he said. "I can not see how they can get more business by raising their rates." Almost every railroad spokesman expressed disappointment that the permitted increases were no larger. Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, said the increases were net nearly enough to cover added costs in wages, materials and taxes. The lines had sought $470,000,000 more revenue to meet such expenses. "How can this do us any good?" Asked J.

M. Kurn, co trustee of the St. Louis and San Francisco. "Entirely inadequate" was the comment of Samuel T. Bledsoe, president of the Sante Fe.

H. C. Wcller, vice president of the Norfolk and Western, also said he did not expect that the increase would help much. However, Norman Call, president of the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac, called it "very satisfactory." The anthracite rate boost was criticized by mine operators and union leaders alike in Pennsylvania, where Public Utility Commissioner Richard J. Beamish said the hard coal industry was "already sick to death." Spokesmen for livestock shiDDers weri im.

ilarly critical of the per cent. ooost on their product. Interest in the fortunes of the champion Steelton High School basket ball team's cage game at Lancaster tonight is evident by the advance sale of tickets in the borough. Fifty six student tickets have been sold by the high ichool while Phil Waidley reported more than 225 adult tickets were told at his store. Fire Comes Above sixty old cars lie in this heap.

Below the torch is applied. Sixty cars, once new and shiny, ended their years of service in a giant bonfire last night at Twenty first and State streets. It was part of National Used Car Week, and local dealers had the old autos burned as one contribution toward safety on OBITUARIES EXECUTIVE OF WPA IN CITY SUCCUMBS J. Cleveland McCormick, Assistant Director, Division of' Operations, Dies of Heart Attack J. Cleveland McCormick as sistant director, Division of Operations, Works Progress Administration, Cameron street office, died suddenly of a heart attack last night at the home of E.

A. Sellers, 1612 Briggs street, where he He was a resident of Germantown, Philadelphia. McCormick, a former Philadelphia city employe, was connected with CWA, SERB, and WPA State wide projects handled from this city since the fall of 1933. He was employed in an engineering executive capacity. He served as a captain during the World War with the First Engineers, First Division, Regular Army, and fought in all the major engagements of that division in France.

A graduate of Germantown Academy and Pennsylvania State College, he was a member of Olivet Lodge, No. 607, F. and A. M. Philadelphia, the S.

A. E. Fraternity and the Association of the First Division, composed of officers who fought, in France with that division. He taught for a short time at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. Survivors include his widow, and two daughters, Victoria and Dorothy, all of 6931 Sherman street, Germantown.

Funeral services and burial will be held later this week at Germantown. CLAUDE E. GREENE Claude E. Greene, 44, died this morning at his home, 433 Second street, Highspire, following a heart attack last Sunday. He is survived by his widow, Mary; three sisters, Mrs.

George Fetrow, Pen brgok; Mrs. Thomas Reigle, Philadelphia, and Mrs. George Ris singer, Highspire, and two brothers, Meade, of this city, and F. Lester, of Washington. Services will be conducted at 2 o'clock by the Rev.

Fred Barry and the Rev. H. E. Wagner, both of Highspire. Burial will be in the Oberlin Cemetery.

The body may be viewed Friday night from 7 until 9 o'clock at the funeral home. MRS. HERBERT R. TAYLOR Mrs. June Quann Taylor, wife of Herbert R.

Taylor, died Monday in Philadelphia. Survivors are her husband, a son, Roland a sister, Miss Rosabelle Quann, both of Philadelphia, and four brothers, Samuel Albert Robert and William E. Quann, all of Harrisbuig. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Walter J. Hooper funeral home, 604 Forstcr street.

The Rev. Thomas H. Smith, assistant pastor, Bethel A. M. E.

Church, will officiate Burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 o'clock this afternoon. WILLIAM H. FLOWERF1ELD William Henry Flowerfield, 78. 536 Second street, Enhaut, died yesterday afternoon at the Polyclinic Hospital. He is survived by a son, Fred, Enhaut; three daughters.

Mrs. Grace Lebo and Mrs. Lillian Heck, Harrisburg, and Mrs. Florence Sheaffer, Enhaut; nine grandchildren; four great grandchildren; two sisters. Mrs.

Laura Bowers, Enhaut, and Mrs. Catherine Walters, Steelton, and a to Aid of Safety Campaign brother, King Emanuel Flower field, Tennessee. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Lee G. Wilt funeral home, 50 South Front street. The Rev.

Walter F. Sipe, Enhaut Church of God, will officiate. Burial will be in Oberlin Cemetery. Friends may call at the Wilt Chapel tomorrow night. MRS.

W. A. FENICAL, SR. Mrs. Katie Malinda Fenical, 56, wife of William A.

Fenical, and mother of Marlin E. Fenical, staff artist of the Harrisburg Telegraph, died of a heart attack at 8.30 o'clock last night at her home, 1339 Vernon street. Surviving are her husband, William A. Fenical, three sons, Marlin William and Kenneth P. Fenical, all of Harrisburg; a daughter, Miss Catherine Fenical, at home; a brother, Clayton Baer, Harrisburg, and a grandson, William A.

Fenical, III, Harrisburg. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The Rev. H. W.

Zechman, Derry Street United Brethren Church, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in Shcop's Cemetery. Friends may call at the home from 7 to 9 o'clock tomorrow night. ALBERT K. ZELLERS Albert K.

Zellers, 73, 1838 North Third street, a retired engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia Division, died yesterday at Jeane's Hospital, Philadelphia. He was retired in 1930 after thirty seven years' service. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Norman Shettel, Harrisburg; two sisters, Mrs. O.

F. Hoffacker, Ronks, Lancaster county, and Miss Lillian Zellers, Lancaster, and a brother, Buron Zellers, Lancaster. will be held at 1.30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Charles C. Baker funeral home, Third and Maclay streets. The Rev.

David Dunn, St. John's Reformed Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Heller's Church Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Lancaster county. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock tomorrow night. MRS.

EMMA BOOKS Mrs. Emma Books, 77, Annville R. D. 1, died Monday afternoon in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon. She is survived by two sons, Amos Books, Annville R.

D. 1, and Emery Shertzer, Her shey; a daughter, Mrs. Mable Beck, Palmyra; sixteen grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and a brother, Emanuel Ramsey, Grantville R. D. 1.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Boyer funeral home, Shcllsville, with further services in Zion Lutheran and Reformed Church, of which she was a member. The Rev. W. A. Lutz, a reformed minister from Jonestown, will officiate.

Burial will be in the cemetery adjoining the church. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 oclock tomorrow night. HOLDS FIRST MEETING Exchange Club Has First Luncheon Since Receiving Charter; Delay Election Norman M. Haag. Philadelphia, State vice president of Exchange Clubs, spoke today at a meeting of the Harrisburg Exchange Club the first meeting of the club under the charter received last week.

Election of officers, planned for today, was delayed until next Wednesday. Jack Harman Is temporary president THIEVES SHATTER LOCKSON STORES (Continued From Page 1) The proprietors reported $12 was stolen from a cash register. Several packages of cigarets were taken. The thieves overlooked $150. The theft was discovered at 3.30 by a passing milkman who notified police.

A check is being made to determine whether narcotics wero stolen. Both doors were open and drawers in the store were ransacked. Take Ninety Pennies At the gasoline service station of Warren L. Motter, 2306 Walnut street, thieves stole ninety pennies and a carton of cigarets. Jay Bres sler, an attendant, discovered the theft.

A pair of socks and $4.90 in change was stolen at the Fair mount Shoe Repair Shop, at the rear of 2801 Walnut street, Pen brook, W. J. Lowry, 1724 Walnut street, owner, reported. The front door was forced. A sneak thief who entered the home of Mrs.

Paul Orsinger, 1350 Vernon street, while a meeting of the Mothers' Club of the Boy Scout Troop of St. Francis Catholic Church was in progress stole a purse containing $2 last night. At the Cameron and Herr streets gasoline service station of R. D. Belknap, Lawnton, thieves ripped a pay station telephone from the wall, then broke open the coin box.

They also took a large pinch bar. Police were summoned by Russell Simons, Mechanicsburg, an attendant, who discovered the theft when he opened the station at 7 o'clock this morning. Again a front door was forced to enter. At the drug store of Harry M. Loper, 1537 State street, thieves broke a pin ball machine and removed the contents, stole more than $5 in change from a cash register, cigarets and other articles and carried away a peanut machine.

Mr. Loper reported the theft was discovered at 7:45 this morning by his daughter, Miss Blanche Loper, when she opened the store. An attempt was made by thieves to enter a wall safe at the Essolene Gasoline Service Station at Third and Harris streets, operated by Charles L. Roscnber gcr, 97 Disbrow street. A coin bcx from a bell phone pay station was ripped off and carried away.

Detective Harry L. Page reported thieves atempted to force open the front door, failed, then pried open a lavatory window and forced another door to enter. The thieves also failed to enter Potts Drug Store, 1100 North Third street. Investigators said three marks apparently made by a bar were found on the front door. Cross Street to Grocery Going across the street to J.

R. Miller's grocery store, 1101 Ncrth Third street, the robbers forced open a front door, searched a cash register but obtained no money and then helped themselves to ten packages of cigarets. They overlooked twenty full cartons of cigarets. Police said Mrs. Anna M.

Yar nell, who lives In the rear of the store slept throughout the robbery and was not disturbed by noises made by the intruders. The grocery store of Jacob Hess, 630 Caldcr street was entered twice since Sunday, police reported. Mr. Hess said cigars, cigarets and a small amount of money was stolen from the cash register Sunday night by thieves who entered through a basement window. Yesterday morning he discovered cigars, cigarets and more money had been stolen.

Police said the thieves on their second visit had entered through a rear door. HIGH PRICE LEVE IS REPORTED GOAL OF GOVERNMENT Added Value of 65 Billion Be lieved Desirable by New Deal Supporters in Washington MORE MONEY" SUGGESTED By Associated Press Washington, March 9. Informed persons said today the Administration is seeking to lift the general price level sufficiently to give the nation's good an added value of $65,000,000,000. These persons said the adminis istration would like to raise the price level from 79 per cent, of the 1926 average, where it stands at present, to 92 per cent. With each increase of 1 per in the general level, economists said, the aggregate value of the country's goods and properties would rise $5,000,000,000.

President Roosevelt recently said some prices were too high and others were too low. Authorities declared it would be de sirable to raise the prices of ag ricultural and other non monopolistic products, while holding down the prices which may be fixed artificially. Senator Thomas (D ad vocate of a "stabilized price" sys tem, called on Mr. Roosevelt yesterday, leaving a summary of steps which he said could be taken to increase prices. These included reduction of the amount of reserves which banks must hold against deposits, further desterlization of gold, and, if i necessary, Federal Reserve Board purchasing of government securities on the open market.

Thomas said his data showed there is only $3,000,000,000 of "free money" available for business expansion. This he said, would not be sufficient to support a major economic upturn. KENNEDY EXPECTS TO BECANDIDATE (Continued From Page 1) date for the Republican nomination for governor in 1934, then switched to the Democratic side. Some observers estimate that 500,000 votes in the primary would win in a two way fight, but their calculations have been tossed into the discard by the uncertain factors of the impending three way scrap. Long a Union Leader The mine union put Kennedy into the race yesterday by circulating nominating petitions in his behalf in Luzerne county.

He lives in Hazleton. Kennedy has been identified with labor unions for more than thirty five years. He is 50 and a native of Lansford in the Panther Creek Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania. He rose from breaker boy' at 11 years to Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania at 47. When his father was killed in the mines, Kennedy, only 16, and the oldest child in the family, became the principal support of his mother and seven brothers, as a mule driver.

Kennedy joined the United Mine Workers as soon as he was eligible and at 21 was elected president of District 7, which embraces the middle anthracite fields. Serious minded and a good speaker whether it is in a rough and tumble convention of miners or in a drawing room, Kennedy steadily rose in the ranks of the union and became international secretary treasurer in 1925. He succeeded William Green, who was elected president of the American Federation of Labor after the death of Samuel Gompers. 60 ANTIQUATED AUTOS DESTROYEDJN BLAZE Harrisbuig's automobile "population" had been reduced by sixty today. Setting the example for their customers in removing from the highway cars which are no longer safe to drive, automobile dealers of the city sent more than sixty cars up in the flames of a monster bonfire at Twenty first and State streets, last night.

The obsolete automobiles were driven and towed through city streets in a unique parade before the fire. And then, while a crowd of several thousand watched, they were thrown into one huge pile with the aid of a crane and ignited. The parade and bonfire were part of the observance here of National Used Car Exchange Week. GOING TO RELIEF SESSION Harrisburg Welfare Federation will be represented in Washington Saturday at a conference of the National Citizens' Committee at which problems and policies of relief and public welfare will be discussed. Delegates from Harrisburg will be J.

Thco Johnson, director of the Federation; Thomas B. Schmidt and Vance C. McCormick, vice presidents; Mrs. McCormick; Albert L. Allen, chairman of the 19.18 campaign.

MUST PAY REPAIRS Police today said Herman Emery, 1816 North Fifth street, driver of a truck which backed into a police radio car at Twentieth and Berryhlll streets, Saturday, will be compelled to pay for repairs to the damaged machine. Charges of reckless driving will not be lodged they added, because Emery's helper was directing him at the rear of the truck and did not tee the police car approaching..