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M. Eskimo EnacmblWEAF. Section 2 Page Thirteen READING. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1927 Section 2 Pag Thirteen G.0.P.C Fire Drills in Industries Show Lack ofTrainingSays Baum, After Annual Tests Secretary of Fire Prevention Committee Declares Schools, On Other Hand, Show. Finest Results Possible IiiTBYHB 15 LIES, IIALF SPEED OF HIS GAR in TO VISIT 12 TOM '1 IN COUNTY DRIVE it: BUS BY KG ITALIAN AMERICANS Meetings Will Be Held Tonight, Tomorrow, Saturday and Monday Philadelphian Testifies He Was Driving at 30 Miles When Struck Congressman Bushong and Mayor Sharman Speak at Meeting in Falcons' Hall TO TOUR NORTHERN BERKS MARCH TO MONUMENT Wreaths Placed; Two Lodges, Sons of Italy, Take Part In Parade THROWN AGAINST ABUTMENT Truck Turned Into Center of Road as He Passed, He Says Caravan to Motor to Nine Communities; City Rallies Also Are Planned The worst drills we have encountered In years," said William J.

Baum, secretary of the fire prevention committee of the Firemen's Union at the close of Are prevention day yesterday. Members of the fir prevention committee. Chief John G. Nietham mer, officals of the Chamber of Commerce and John S. Gragg, state factory Inspector, visited scores of fac tores and schools yesterday where demonstrations and drills were held and with the exception of the schools, the drills and demonstrations were disappointing, Baum declared.

"Conditions at the schools were pleasant," Baum said, "but the demonstrations and drills at the industries and factories showed lack of training and Infrequent drills. Keys Are Locked in Safe "In two plants the committee was Informed that they had never heard of a fire drill or that it was com tty. six minutes; David Crystal, Inc.r 31 South Fifth 200 hands, six minutes; Hollis Chocolate company, 625 Franklin st, 50 hands, two minutes; Reading Hardware corporation, foot of Sixth street, 500 hands, four minutes; Southern Junior High school, Tenth and Chestnut streets, 1,400 pupils, two minutes; Wideawake shirt factory, Tenth and Chestnut streets, 100 hands, seven minutes; Acorn hosiery mills, 210 Maple 250 hands, five minutes; Max Pfau hosiery mill, Fourteenth street above Muhlenberg, 45 hands, two minutes; Meing branch hosiery factory, Twelfth street beyond Green, 175 hands, five minutes; Reading High school, Thirteenth and Douglass streets, 1,700 "pupils, two minutes; Paragon Shirt company. Tenth and Spring streets, 30 hands, two minutes; Riverside dye works, Noe Equl textile mills, Meinig hosiery plant, 2047 Kutztown road; public school at Eleventh and Pike streets; Douglass and Weiser schools; schools and Kitzmiller hosiery mills at Fourth and Elm streets and the Syl vania hosiery factory at Front and Green streets. The members of the prevention committee, officials and guests composing the contingent that conducted and witnessed the drills were: Chairman William J.

Baum, Secretary and Treasurer Thomas J. Evans, who made notes of the results and acted as timekeeper, Chief John G. Niethammer, Edward S. Hinta, of the Chamber of Commerce; John Milton W. Kline, George Troutman, Charles A.

Thomas J. Roberts, John W. Morrison, Ledan R. Conkling, State In speetor John Gragg, George W. Humphreys, Frank Brumbach, James Rentz, Arthur F.

Brunner, Ernest R. Harry Gehry, John Miller, Edward E. Young, Oliver Gehret, representing the new Glenslde Fire company; Martin E. Keehn, Paul F. Wagner and Buildng Inspector Andrew J.

Grove. at r.nlnmhu Dav. honored the discoverer of America. homage to one of their countrymen, the great discoverer, by placing statue in City Mrs. Li vis Soniini (above), wife of L.

Sonsini, committee placed tne wreain in un tvmmimc. Fruit Is Featured on New Menu at Berks County Jail; Prunes, Peaches, Applesauce Added To Bread and Coffee at Breakfast; Okehed By Board COUNTY IS TOURED BY DEMO NOMINEES While Italian Americans gathered in Falcons' hall last night honoring hristopher Columbus, credited by history with being the first man to sail across the Atlantic, hundreds of rther Reading fcitizens were pondering on the fate of Miss Ruth Elder, American girl, who was flying over the same ocean in an attempt to be the first woman to make the New York Paris hop. The programs were held at the Columbus monument in city park. At 10 a. m.

the Columbus monument committee conducted brief exercises and Mrs. Llvio Sonsini, wife of one of the vice presidents, placed a wreath at the monument. At 8 p. m. the two Reading lodges' of the Sons of Italy marched to the lark and Anthony Bodanza, state officer of the lodge, laid a wreath at the base of the monument.

Hear Speaches by Officials From the park they marched to Falcons' hall wheie addresses were made by Congressman Robert Grey Fushong and Mayor William E. Sharman. "Be good citizens. "Get Into the life of your community and take advantage of the opportunities offered you," advised Sharman In his talk. 'We welcome you' to our shores and are ever mindful of the debt we owe your fellow countryman, Christopher Columbus." Bushong urged those present to be "one hundred ver cent Americans but to retain enough of the spirit of your fathers to contribute a new element to out civilization.

In a short time will be in Washington representing this district in congress and I want you to feel that I am your congressman as well as the congressman of anyone else in the district." Sketches Columbus' Life Anthony Bodanza. chairman, (ntrn duced the speakers and sketched the life of Columbus in Italian. The following resolution was passed and telegraphed to Eugeno Alessandroni, Philadelphia, grand venerable of the Sons of Italy: "The two lodges, S. Stefano Cam astra and Massimo D. Azeglio, Order Sons of Italy, and the Reading Italian society, assembled on Oct.

12, 1927, after a parade to commemorate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and after hearing our mayor, Hon. William E. Sharman, and Hon. Robert Grey Bushong, congressman of this district, passed the following resolution on motion of assistant grand venerable, Anthony Zafflro, to wit: "RESOLVED, That the Sons of Italy in America located in Reading, heartily congratulate Eugene V. Alessandroni, grand on his nomination to the office of judge of the court of common pleas of, Philadelphia county; and further, "RESOLVED, That in the spirit of the democratic principles of this country and on account of your eminent fitness for the wearing of the judicial ermine, that a regular plebiscite result in your being elevated to said honorable position at the election next month, knowing that you will endeavor to lilt such position with that degree of fairness and impartiality that has resulted in your being trusted in every way and on all occasions." Open House Is Held In honor of their patron, Reading lodge, Knights of Columbus, held an open house "and dance for members and their wives.

Entertainment was provided and refreshments served. Banks, federal offices, the stock exchange and the court house offices were clpsed in honor of the holiday. Special exercises were held In the public schools; Court sessions were held because of a crowded calendar, although the rule Is to omit sessions on Columbus Day. AURORA BOREALIS ON SPREE; HAMPERS WIRE SERVICES NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (iP) Aurora Borealis, after a spree which tied up thousands of miles of telegraph wires in the United States and Canada for two hours this morning, played a return engagement this afternoon and tonight and crippled wire service as far west as Kansas City and south to North Carolina, The leased wire network of The Associated Press was seriously affected and reports from the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies indicated that their service was more or less demoralized.

Conditions improved after 8 o'clock this morning when the sun began to shine but when clouds banked the sky Aurora came back stronger than ever and conditions were worse again tonight. Borealis, sometimes called Aurora Polaris or Northen Lights, is a natural phenomenon which has puzzled scientists for years and has been the bane of telegraph operators since the Invention ot telegraphy. "TAKEN FOR RIDE" CHICAGO, Oct. 12 few days after his arrest by federal agents for operating an alcohol "re cpoklng" still, S. Passanl, of Chicago Heights, was found shot to death today along a lonely road through the forest preserves.

The police said Passanl apparently had been "taken for a ride." BEAVER FALLS MN HEADS PENNSYLVANIA KIWANIANS YORK, Oct. 12 (jP) Homer H. Swaney, of Beaver Falls, was elected district governor of Penn sylvania district Klwanis today, at the closing session of the convention. John S. Wells, of Beaver Falls, was elected secretary and Leonard L.

Lewis, of Lancaster, was re elected treasurer. Uniontown was selected as the place for the 1928 convention. Fred C. W. Parker, International secretary, and Rangall Caton, international trustee, addressed the convention.

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Levin, 627 North Eighth died yesterday in St. Joscph'a hos Republican rallies will be held in 32 Berks towns and at gne Reading street corner betweenjiow and Monday, Thomas C. Seidel, county chairman, announced following a meeting of the executive committee last night.

A tour of nine towns In northern Berks will be made Satuday. Speakers for the rallies will be recruited from the ranks of party loaders. Forest R. Shanaman and Kmerson Rasbridge, candidates for jijjdsre and district attorney respectively, will speak at city and county meetings and John K. Stauffer, candidate for mayor, and candidates for city offices will address Reading meetings.

Other Republicans who will speak at one or more of the rallies are John H. Breidenbaugh, Elwood H. Deysher, J. Wilmer Fisher, A. Lincoln Frame, former Congressman Charles Esterly, State Senator James E.

Norton, Charles E. Leippe, Edgar S. Richardson, C. A. Fisher, Paul Edelman, Harry Lee, E.

B. Posey, Seibert Witman, P. Herbert Reigner and County Chairman Thomas C. Seidel. At Sinking Spring Tonight The program to and including Monday, follows: Tonight, Eagle hotel, Sinking Spring, with Shanaman, Rasbridge and Briedenbaugh, as speakers; tomorrow night, Miller's hotel, Morgantown, with Shanaman, Rasbridge, Deysher and Lee as speakers; Monday Young's hall, Womelsdorf, with Shanaman, Rasbridge, Breidenbaugh and Esterly as speakers, and Locust and Spring streets, where an open air meeting will be held, with Stauffer and other itv candidates as speakers.

Meeting at Republican headquarters at.l p. m. Saturday, a caravan of 20 automobiles will make a tour cf the northern part of the county. At each of the nine stops scheduled, the party will be joined by a group of Republicans, which will accompany rt he caravan on the remaining part of Jts tour. Candidates To Speak Speeches will be made at each stop bv the candidates and one or more of the other members of the party.

The route includes Hamburg, Shartlesville, Strausstown, Millersburg, Frystown, Mt. Aetna, Pirersbyrg, Schaefferstown and Ijernville. These members of the city committee were present at last night's meeting: Chairman Thomas C. Clarence Hart, Harry Sullivan, Lee R. Quinter, Ed ward Plank, Charles MarKs, j.

vvu tner Fisher, Herbert Foreman, James Wheeler, Edwin Klusewitz, John Brightbill, Robert Shomo, Harry Tmnkelberger, John S. Peifer, Leroy J'rintz, Howard Dippery and Arthur Whalen. GROSS PETITIONS Declares Further Confinement Would Be Detriment to Health; Sentenced Feb. 8 Declaring that further confinement would be a detriment to his health, Lloyd A. Gross, 34, committed to the Berks jail February 8, to serve a sentence of two years and six months fcr violating the liquor laws, petitioned the Berks court yesterday to be released on parole.

Judge Paul N. Schaeffer will act on the petition on Saturday morning. Gross made several unsuccessful attempts to have the verdict of the Berks courts set aside. He has a petition to be released pending before the state board of pardons. The petition declares, "the petitioner is at present impoverished in halth and feels that the punishment imposed tipon him for the crime was unusually severe and It was filed by Harry W.

Lee. INVESTITURE HELD FOR BOY SCOUTS Troop 20, Boy Scouts, held investiture ceremonies last night in Kesher Israel synagogue when Morris Gross was formally invested as scoutmaster by S. L. Schaeffer of the troop committee. The Rev.

Warren F. Teel, president of Schuylkill college, talked to the boys on Lindbergh, Roosevelt and Columbus, urging the scouts to lead clean lives. Robert S. Henderson, scout executive, advised the boys to keep physically strong and emphasized the religious aspect of ithe scout movement. He concluded with the statement that "the Boy Scouts is not a militaristic movement." Greetings were given the lads by three rabbis.

Rabbi Sidney Regner, Oheb Sholom temple; Rabbi Edward Horowitz, B'Nai Zion, and Rabbi Louis J. Haas, Kesner Israel synagogue, who was chairman of the program. After singing of songs and demonstrations of scoutcraft, luncheon was served. MAN INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO rna Yiereinn was lnlured and a number of automobile damaged in collisions during last nignts storm wiinnm mWr. 209 North Eitrhth apparently blinded by the driving ain, received wnat surgeons say may be a fracture of the skull when he stepped in front of a car owned by Charles Stewart, 1016 Pear and driven by Charles Mimmlch, 829 Penn nt.P at 6 p.

m. He was taken to the Mimmich reported to police that Smith was crossing the street from south to the north side of the utreet at Poplar and Walnut streets RT FOR PAROLE Thirty miles an hour xwas the speed of his automobile, while the truck, which he alleges struck his ar, was moving at but 15 an hour, H. J. Philadelphia, plaintiff In a damage suit against the Reading Biscuit company, testified in court yesterday. was in jured in the collision, he declared.

Franche said he attempted to pass the driver of the truck on a highway between Reamstown and Adamstown and blew his horn as a signal to pass; that the truck swerved to the right to let him pass and then suddenly turned back to the center of the road, striking his machine. He testified he was jolted from the seat of his car and was thrown against a concrete abutment on the edge of the road. Denies Truck Hit Car John I. Wenrlch, 528 South Eleventh driver of truck, denied that his truck had struck Franche's car. He testified he found Franche lying In the gutter and pick ed him up, taking him to Reading to the home of a friend or Tancne.

Testimony in the case will be continued today bef ore. Judge John B. Stevens. 1C.C. WITHHOLDS DATA Reading Company Asks Right To Cross Examine Engineer In Valuation Hearing WASHINGTON, Oct.

'12. Charging tht thfl Interstate Commerce commission was intentionally withholding vital data dealing with com YllaHrtT, rf unit nrippfl nn railrnad properties from the inspection of valuation engineers oi tne jeaaing system, counsel for that carrier today demanded the right to cross examine" W. Gray, telephone and telegraph engineer of the commis sion's valuation bureau, upon tnese matters. There 'was vigorous objection by counsel for the bureau. controversy developed during hearings on the protest of the Reading company railway to the commission's tentative valuation of its properties, which were resumed today after a three day recess.

Questioned by John Zisgen, valuation attorney for the railroad, with rl tn oertain recommendations. made by the valuation bureau, dealing with an increase oi approximately $13,000 in the engin rennrt. Grav asserted that the Reading was on a "fishing expedi tion" for the sole purpose or trying to obtain by indirect methods an analysis of the methods used by the commission's engineers in ascertaining unit prices. This analysis is confidential, he said, and barred by an order of the commission from divul gence. REV.

WILLIAMS PLANS SERIES OF SERMONS STARTING SUNDAY "Voices of Spiritual Freedom" Is the theme for a series of four sermons to be preached by the Rev. L. Griswold Williams, minister, in the Unlversalist Church of Our Father, starting Sunday morning. Four writers will be discussed in the series. The opening sermon will be: "William Blake, Poet of the Inner Vision, Freedom from the World and Time." The three others will be: October 23, "Ralph Waldo Emerson! Prophet of the Over Soul.

Freedom from the Crowd and the October 30, "Maurice Maeterlinck, Listener in the Silence, Freedom from Fate and November 6, "Havelock Ellis, Explorer of the Heart, Freedom from Pride and Hypocrisy." "Pictured dramas" are given on Sunday night with stage and motion picture plays as the subjects. COOLIDGE DECLINES PROCLAMATION FOR EDUCATION WEEK WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. () Reports that President Coolidge had declined to issue a proclamation urging observance of American education week, Nov. 7 13, were confined today by 'officials of the National Education association, with other organizations, is sponsoring the week.

They made public a letter to Miss Cornelia S. Adair, president of the association, from Mr. Coolidge'e secretary, Everett Sanders, declaring the president "has expressed himself fully as to his convictions on the value of education and holds that to rephrase such sentiments tends rather to weaken them than otherwise." SPIRITUALIST DIES WHILE ADDRESSING NATIONAL SESSION SAN ANTONIO, Tex Oct 12'(JP Alonzo M. Griffen, 80, of Chicago, died from apoplexy here today while addressing the' National Spiritualist association. Mr.

Griffen collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech urging better education 'for spirit mediums. When Mr. Griffen fell to the floor, President Joseph P. Whitewell led delegates in repeating: "I ask the great unseen forces to help him." In the meantime Dr. C.

A. Burgess, of Chicago, a delegate, and several spiritualist healers came forward and sought to revive Griffen, He was taken to his hotel room where a physician pronounced h'a dead. CHARGES pulsory under the state laws to hold them at intervals. At one place it was necessary to open a safe to get keys to unlock the doors to a fire tower. "At other places we found that passages to fire exits were blocked, or windows locked; that firegongs did not work and that employes were unfamiliar as to what to do after they emerged from the building." Tests at the Southern Junior and the new co ed high chool were without a flaw, the committee declared.

The exhibitons at the schools were real exhibitons according to the officials and could not have been improved upon. Bad weather encountered during the afternoon prevented officials from continuing their inspections to a number of other plants. The Places Visited The plants and schools covered the number of people dismissed, and the time consumed in doing it follow: Eisenlote's cigar factory. Seventh and Washington streets, 300 hands, SPEAKS I Pledges Faithful Service if Elected to Judgeship; Other C. 0.

P. Candidates Talk Pledging faithful, honest, unbiased and intelligent service if he is placed on the Berks county bench, Forrest iR. Shanaman, Republican candidate for judge of the court of common pleas, addressed a Republican rally at Robesonia last night. About 30 persons were present. Emerson Rasbridge, Republican candidate for district attorney; John Blirnline, candidate to succeed himself as bounty commissioner, and P.

Herbert Reigner also spoke. W. W. Livingood was chairman of the meeting. "The efficiency of all public offices," Shanaman declared, "is increased by the application of the principle of minority representation.

We ask that the same principle be applied to the bench as is now applied to the office of county commissioner and prison inspector. Tells of Road Building Blirnline called attention to the program of road building carried on during his administration as county commissioner, citing the Robesonia Bernville road and the Womelsdorf Bethany home road as examples of the program on concrete road con struction. Rasbridge and Reigner both urged that the Republican candidacies be supported in an effort to win for the whole Republican ticket. A number of women attended. It was held at the Eagle hotel.

TERRE HILL CASHIER ACQUITTED BY COURT PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12. Ar raigned on a charge of misapplying of the funds of the Terre Hill National bank, Terre Hill, Lancaster county, Levi F. Talley, former cashier of the bank; was acquitted by the United States district court, in this city. The jury was out five minutes.

The bank was closed by the federal banking department June 2, 1926, Reopened two months later, It is still doing business. Talley, who is 55, was alleged to have given the West End Trust com pany of this city a cashier check. in an effort to redeem stock of the Honeybrock Trust company, Honey brook. Chester county. The govern ment contended that Talley used uie Terre Hill bank's funds for personal advantage.

Highly technical testi mony was given. TO INDUCT COONEY AS ALDERMAN TODAY Alderman. 'Harold C. Cooney, who was appointed October 7 by Gov ernor Fisher to succeed his father, the late William J. Cooney, as alder man of the Ninth ward, will be in Bucted into office this morning at the Berks courts.

His commission arrived yesterday from the; state executive office. INTERNE IS ADDED TO HOMEO STAFF With the arrival yesterday of Dr. Paul D. Good, Camp Hill, the Homeo pathic hospital now has three in ternes. Dr.

Gooa is a graduate of Camp Hill High school, class of 1916, Harrisburg academy, class of 1917, and Carnegie Tech, class ot 1921. He also took a pre medlcal course at F. M. college. Ho is a son of Mr.

and Mrs. Edmund G. Good, Camp Hill. LIBRARIAN HERE rhnmas P. Aver, recently elected librarian of the Reading Public library, spent Tuesaay ana yesicr rtnv mfirnln? visiting thfl library.

Ayer, wno win assume ms new post here December 1, was enroute to Harrisburg to attend a state AT ROBESOMA RALLY Times Staff Photo. Last night Readina Italians paid huge wreath on the Columbus vice president of the monument Will Come Here October 22 Only if Flight Is Sched uled That Date Used at present for training cruises, the Los Angeles, naval dirigible, the big airship wlllcome to Reading, October 22, for the dedication of the Reading airways landing field only if a flight is scheduled for that date, Lieut Commandep C. G. Rosendahl said in a letter received by the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Congressman Robert Grey Bushong, who had telegraphed to' Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, Washington, D.

chief of air operations of the navy, received a reply InfornHng him that there were no plans fori the Los Angeles flights but that hisi request naa been forwarded to officials. Commander Rosendahl's letter to the Chamber of Commerce follows; "In Use for Training" Gentlemen: I "I was Indeed very glad to hear that the past visits of the Los Angeles had a part in promoting the airport which is to be dedicated in Reading October 22. "The Los Angeles Is In use for training cruises at the present time, and for this reason it is impossible to determine upon its schedule for any period in advance. should a flight be scheduled for October 22, I should be more than glad to bring Los Angeles to Reading. "Cordially yours, "Lleut.

Com. C. G. Rosendahl." DISABLED VETERANS ENDORSE PLANS MADE FOR ARMISTICE DAY Endorsement of the plans made by combined military and patriotic organizations for the observance of Armistice Day was made by Reading chapter No. 10, Disabled American Veterans of the World War last night.

The disabled veterans' committee which met with the. military arid patriotic organizations consisted of George Sell, Albert F. Boldt, officer of the day, and Isamuel M. Lunlne, liaison officer. The committee will represent the chapter In all similar meetings this year.

Of the 18 members present! at last night's meetingonly two wdre able to join. In the original celebration of Armistice Day, November 1, 1918, outside hospitals and evacuation stations. The disabled veterans urged an honoring of the living as well as the dead, and pointed out that treater honor can be paid the dead by for the wounded and disabled caring NAMES AUDITOR TO $100,000 OFFER TO DROP CANDIDACY Oct. 12 (X) An swerine the challenge if fnnntv Commissioners Joseph G. Armstrong ana iiaDcocK, county Cohtroller Charles McGpvern today named Walter L.

deputy, collector of internal revenue, as the man who offered him $100,000 to withdraw from the county commissioner race. Dempsey entered vehement' denial "of any knowledge of such a proposal. Not only did McGovern name Dempsey as the man who offered him the alleged bribe, but he also made Dublin the name nt fivA nofortna prominent in Allegheny county politics who, he said, had heard' Pemp sey's offer by means of a installed, in the county controller's office. 'vn 1 TWfl.rv "Plfnn Tawpdumi a (t WIT.VIIVC, UUO Ul these, in an address at McGovern's neaaquarters today declared she had heard Dempsey make his offer. DAMAGES OF $150 ARE AWARDED IN ALIENATION SUIT For the alleged alienation kf the affections of her husband, Mrsf Alice K.

Kerns, of South Temple, was yesterday awarded $150 damages from Mrs. Estella M. Kline, also of South Temple, by a Jury before Judge H. Robert Mays. The Kerns separated on March 17.

LOS ANGELES BUSY, COMMANDER WRITES stctan Thursday Breakfast, corn flakes, applesauce, coffee, bread; dinner, maccaroni or rice, boiled potatoss, bread; baked potatoes, coffee, bread. Friday Breakfast, oatmeal, prunes, coffee, bread; dinner, sauerkraut or fish, whole wheat bread; supper, scrapple, bread, coffee. Saturday Breakfast, cream pf wheat, peaches, coffee, bread; dinner, vegetable soup, meat, bread; supper, fried mush, coffee, bread. Sunday Breakfast, corn flakes, fruit, coffee, bread; dinner, roast beef, dressing, potatoes, bread; supper, pudding, coffee coffee. Menu Is Discarded "The menu previously arranged for this week follows: Monday Breakfast, bread "and coffee; dinner, peas, boiled beef, bread, coffee; supper, mush, bread, coffee.

Tuesday bread and coffee; dinner, maccaroni, bpiled beef, bread, coffee. Wednesday Breakfast, bread and coffee; dinner, cabbage, boiled beef, bread, coffee; supper, liver, bread, coffee. Thursday Breakfast, bread and cof fee; dinner, beans, boiled beef, bread, coffee; supper, rice flakes, bread, coffee. Friday Breakfast, bread and coffee; dinner, rIce. hoiled beef, bread, coffee; supper, fried potatoes, bread, coffee.

Saturday Breakfast, bread and coffee; dinner, vegetable, boiled beef, bread, coffee; dinner, (prunes), bread, Sunday Breakfast bread and coffee; dinner, roast beef, dressing, potatoes, bread, coffee; supper, cake, bread, coffee. EVANGELIST SPEAKS Foregoes Sensationalism During Sermon in Bible Truth Hall Last Night sensationalism and using numerous Scriptural phrases and quotations, Alexander H. Stewart, who worked with Sir Harry Lauder in the mines whSn he was young, preached last night in Bible Truth hall. West Reading. Today he will go to Boston to join Harry A.

Ironside in a religious revival. "It is impossible for a man in the flesh to please. God," Stewart said. "Paul in his epistle io the Romans said, 'They that are in the flesh can not please That word 'can not' shows that It is in impossibility for a worldly man to please God. He can please his friends and neighbors but he can never, please God.

"Dayld says that 'man at his best is altogether vanity As "a proof of this we have the lesson of the teacher sent from God, Jesus Christ, who told the best man in Israel, Nico demus, that he must be bop again. This is the lesson we all r.eed to learn." SHOOTING VICTIM IS SHOWING SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT Charles Wigle, who police say was shot by Albert Hinnershitz last Sat urdayt may recover, physicians the Homeopathic hospital hinted last night. Although, pronounced dying when brought to the hospital, Wigle has rallied somewhat eince Saturday and Is now given an even chance to pull through. Shot above the left eye, with the" bullet penetrating through his brain almost in the center of the skull, Wigle i will be blind and paralyzed in his left side should he recover. I Laura' Gelse, over whom and Hinnershltx quarreled, was' still a patient, at the hospital where she was taken Monday, following collapse, WEST (Picture on Page 24) "Better menus, better prisoners," is to be the slogan at the Berks jail.

tVio nrlarmnrs nrn thinkins of nominating Dr. Harry B. Schaeffer, prison physician, lor some oince or other. TTnnn Vm TAnfimmnfln tion of Dr. Schaeffer, a.

new menu, featuring rrultf wiu De, instituted at tne1 Dema county prison, to continue on trial fnn 'a mnnVt hnnrd nf InsnfictorS decided yesterday. Prior to the re tne menus were'maae out weekly by Warden Thomas M. Hiester and the prison cook. In presenting the menu, Dr. Schaeffer said that there were in the food BiiffififiTit ainries in fats, carbo hydrates, mineral salts and vitamines "for the healthy maintenance or human bodies," and that the cost, toHVi tVi of the fruit, would be about the same as the menus pre viously served.

Protestt Liver, unions AlfVirtuirh Bordner objected to the fried potatoes and the liver ana onions, as an evenmg meai, ymtu poor directors declared that: they lirmiirt Vm "willing to move to the Jail" when the new menu went into effect. The new menu: Monday Breakfast, corn flakes, prunes, coffee, bread; fllnner, Dean soup, bread, boiled beef; supper, fHoH muaVi pnffee. bread. Tuesday Breakfast, oatmeal, peaches, coffee, bread; dinner, Douea cabbage, meat, whole wheat (bread; sunner. fried cotatoes.

coffee, bread. Wednesday Breakfast, cream of wheat, prunes, corree, Dreaa; dinner, pea soup, bread, boiled, beef; supper, liver and onions, coffee, bread. GREATEST ENEMY Destroys Lumber and Food for Animals and Birds, Parkes Tells Pupils Fire in the woods is man's greatest enemy," Solan Parkes, president of the William Penn Conservation association, told pupils of the West Reading High school yesterday morning. The program was of a statewide forest fire prevention campaign. "Fire not only destroys the trees," he said, "but it destroys a needed lumber supply for home building, the food supply for animal life and for bird life.

Birds control insect pests which would destroy man's crops." Book markers urging prevention of forest fires' were distributed. 1 After the assembly Parkes announced that he received a letter from George H. Wirt, chief, forest fire warden, Pennsylvania, which said: "When, fire is not carefully handled we are encroaching on. the rights of our neighbors. If it is wrong to steal, then It is wrong to be responsible for a fire which takes the; property of another, "When we can get the proper attitude more of us will be caref ul with fire, particularly if the individual and the community suffering the loss get together and insist that the tine who is careleEis shall bear the FEDERAL RAID, NOT HIJACKING AT' ALL, SAYS McCLAFFERTY John McClaf ferty, acting1 prohibition, administrator working; out of Pottstown, declared 'yesterday 4hat it was federal men working under him who seized a truck load with 18 barrels of beer Tuesday morning in the rear of a hotel at Hamburg.

MoClafferty declared that his agents waited around the truck for several minutes for the owners and when no one claimed ownersnip the agents seized tho truck, and drove It to Pottstown where the truck and beer were torcd, CALLS WOODS FIRES Visit Committeemen to Give Instructions in Preparation for General Election in November Democratic nominees fnr onnnlv Offices, made a tour nf rural Tlerlro yesterday, during which committee men in various sections of the county were eriven an outline nf Vio duties they were to perform for the general election In November. mciuaea among the candidates ho made the trin were; Kdwarfl ft Deem, for register of wills; "Victor uooanart, tor Walter A. Ringler and Francis K. Savage, for county commissioners; Samuel H. Rothermel.

for countv cnntrniw Harry D. Lebo, for clerk of quarter sessions; Oliver M. Wolff, for district attorney; Milton R. Luft and William J. Stitzel, for director of the poor, and County Chairman Charles u.

SINKING SPRING MAN RELEASED ON $1,000 BAIL AFTER CRASH NORR1STOWN, Oct. 12. Mrs. Jennie Sanky, 32, Schwenksville, suf terea back Injuries, a possible fracture of ribs and other Internal injuries, when an automobile driven by her husband, J. Sanky, was struck by a car driven by C.

B. Hull, 50, Sinking Spring, on Ridge pike near Troop, three miles from Norristown, at 9 a. m. today. Sanky was hurt slightly.

Hull was given a hearIngbefore Burgess Hendrickson at Pottstown; charged with assault and battery and released on $1,000 bail. Sanky said he was following another car, when Hull's car forced his automobile, into a pole, crushing the car like an accordion. Hull declared the Ford coupe driven by Sanky passed a truck which forced him off the road, the rear end of his car striking the coupe. Mrs. Sanky was taken to the Montgomery county hospital at Norristown.

1 PRINCESS, SISTER TO EX KING GEORGE OF GREECE, ENGAGED VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 12 (iP) Princess Irene, 23 year old sister of former King George of Greece, is engaged to Prince Christian Schaum bourg Lippe, of Denmark, former King Geofge announced tonight before he left here for Bucharest, Rumania. Princess Irene, who is a tall, beautiful blue eyed blonde girl, telegraphed the news to her brother while traveling from Frankfort to Flor ence where she and her fiance, who is 29 years old, vAll visit her mother, the former Queen Sophie of Greece. Prince Christian is a nephew of the King of Denmark. Princess Irene was oijce reported engaged to the bachelor King Boris of Bulgaria but she declared she would never marry into any Balkan royal family because of the tragic experience of her sister, Princess Helen of Rumania, whose husband, Prince Carol, deserted her.

SUE FOR $5,700 DAMAGES AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT As a sequel to an automobile acci dent in Douglass township on Octo ber 24, 1926, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tighe, Philadelphia, seek to col lect $5,700 from Charles A. Yogenltz, of Wyomlssing, in a suit heard be fore' Judge Schaeffer yesterday, A Jury will return a verdict this morn ing. VETERINARIANS TO MEET The Schuylkill Valley Veterinary association will hold its first meeting of the fall season next Wednesday at 1.30 p.

m. at the Shartlesville hotel. A speaker from the University of Pennsylvania has been engaged for the meeting. A dinner will be served at 4.30 p. m.

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