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ANY MORNING NEWSPAPER IN PENNSYLVANIA OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURGH MORNING PAt LIGHT READING LONDON, July 5. Mrs. Charles B. Cochran has conceived the idea of printing theatre programs on black paper in white ink They can easily be read by holding them up to the light from the stage. "ICO WEATHER Cloudy Saturday and Sunday with afternoon thundershowers little change in temperature.

Yesterday's temperatures: High, 89; low, 67. Complete Weather Statistics First Page, Second Sectloa Volume 71, No. 110 Whole No. 22,118 Member ASSOCIATED PRESS READING, SATURDAY MORNING; JULY 6, 1929 Member N. E.

A. SERVICE 3 Cents a Copyl THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF 2 WORKERS KILLED NAVAL REDUCTION CLEVELAND FLIERS TAKE LONGEST AIR RIDE Texas Governor Decries Criticism of Mrs. Hoover IN NEW ORLEANS LAI AFTER RECORD Jtoy Called 'Sissy' 4 For Wrist Watch Killed in Fight A. i5 1 OVER TROLLEY STRIKE Cars Are Seized from Emer gency Crews and Burned To Ground by Strikers HUNDREDS ARE INJURED Wrecked Coach Is Pushed Along Tracks and Into Doors of Company's General Office NEW ORLEANS, July 5 Historic Canal street was turned into a battleground today as striking street car men and their sympathizers fought it out with non union workers and policemen. The day's casualties showed two dead union men, one union man shot through the shoulder and hundreds of bruised, maimed and injured from both sides from the brickbat, club and gun fights precipitated by at tempts of the New Orleans Public Service, to operate street cars.

Starting ealy today with the launch' ing of the first street car from the Canal street barn, mob fury rapidly rose until 2,000 men and a few women were engaged in attacks on the street cars. Finally the. crowd captured the third and last street car to put out from the barn, chased the non union workers and police guards off, dismantled the car and burned it on the tracks in front of the Louisville and Nashville passen ger station. Trouble Car Burned Previously they had overturned and burned a company motor trouble car sent to rescue the street car and set upon the car starters' hou.se and tool shed in the middle of Canal street, nemonsnmg it and applying the torch. Several hundred men then righted the burned trouble car and pushed it a quarter mile to the general offices of the Public Service and shoved it into the door, smashing tne jams and creating panic among the women employes and customers.

A police riot squad drove them off and dragged the car to headquarters. Farther up Canal street, the strikers tore up a section of tracks spiked ians, neavy timbers, concrete and other obstacles placed across the track. Police admitted they could not control the mob and firemen had their hose jerked out of their hands when they attempted to stop the fires. Order Service Halted After receivingf reports of the dis orders, the city commission council formally ordered Public Service to cease attempts to operate any more cars for the time being and instructed the police to break up anv street gatherings other than author ized picketers allowed for each car bam. These orders served to quiet the disturbances somewhat, although sporadic trouble continued throughout the city late in the day.

Sylvan Thibodeaux, union motor man, died today from a bullet wound through the head, received from a volley from the inside of a street car, and Joseph Molinerio, 60, a car washer, died from a bullet wound through the neck, from the riots of last night. William T. Foret. union conductor, was in the hospital for (Turn to Page Two) Setting a new record for refueling planes, with a flight of 174 hours, Byron K. Newcomb, right, and R.

L. Mitchell came down early this morning in their "City of Cleveland." FAVORED BY NEW Administration Changes in Three Powers Uphold Pro gram of Limitation JAPAN BELIEVED IN LIN Nippon Prime Minister Said to Prefer Statesmen's Views To Technical Opinions WASHINGTON, July 5 (). Ad ministration' changes in Japan, Great Britain and the United States the three leading naval powers are re garded in official and diplomatic circles here as having brought to the fore points of view favorable to naval reductions. Since President Hoover was in augurated on March 4 the United States has taken the leadership in pressing not only for a worldwide policy of naval limitation but for reduction in fighting fleets, no mat ter how drastic. In connection with this develop ment, Prime Minister MacDonald of England promptly initiated conversa tions with Ambassador Dawes look ing toward a basis of agreement on the naval question between the two major naval powers.

Expect Japanese Help Former Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan officially informed the Amer ican government that Japan would be wholeheartedly favorable to any steps which might lead to some so lution of the naval problem, and the Liberal government of Prime Min ister Yugo Hamaguchi, who has just taken office, is expected by diplo matic and official circles to play an active part in any disarmament nego tiations. Those who have been closely fol lowing "the recent developments pointed out today that Hamaguchi is a civilian the second non military or non naval man to hold the prime ministership in Japan. Tanaka, his predecessor, was army trained. It was believed here that the present prime mmister, in view of his civil ian. background, would look with considerable favor ufn a confer ence of "statesmen," rather than technicians, for final discussion of the naval question.

"Yardstick" Theory The most intimate problem which each of the three administrations has before it is the working out of a formula on the basis of the "yard stick theory urged by Hugh S. Gib son, American ambassador to Bel gium, at the recent session of the League of Nations preparatory dis armament commission. Under this theory the naval strength of the several naval powers would be meas ured by relative considerations of age, armor, speed and other such facers in the ships of each category. American naval experts have evolved a tentative plan already along the lines of the theory, and the United States is prepared to place its formula in the hands of the preparatory commission as soon as some other powers have deposited their formulae. High administration officials here have decided that it would be best for the United States, since the Washington government took the initiative in proposing the plan, to await devolpments among the other naval powers.

After the various naval powers have deposited their formulae a meeting of the commis sion will be summoned probably in September 4o work out a common agreement on the technical aspects of the situation. This will probably be followed by a meeting of states men to agree upon a final solution of the problem from a political point of view. week end weather TO COPY YESTERDAY Remember what the weather was like yesterday? Well that, according to last night's forecast is about what it will be today and tomorrow, only it may be a shade warmer. "Partly cloudy, Saturday and Sun day, local thundershowers in the afternoon, possibly warmer," was about the substance of the weather man's report. There is no steady rain in sight, the forecaster said, but atmospheric conditions will be somewhat disturbed.

Cool nights can be expected. SOUSA HEADS BANDMEN NEW YORK, July 5 (P). Band masters from the United States and Canada today organized the American Bandmasters association, designed to promote better band music, and named John Philip Sousa, honorary life president. NEW YORK, July 5. If there's one lucky cat in this world "it's Olaf.

If, as may reasonably be expected, he fathers a numerous progeny, he will be able to tell them of having been flung into the Atlantic 800 miles from New York, of having swum about valiantly in the high of haying a liner heave to on his account while a first officer and crew of six put off in a life boat and rescued mm LEADER LINER HEAVES TO of ot in Statement Deplores Invitation of Negro To White House, HoweW AUSTIN, Jul" Dan Moody todav and dlsappro'" rent resoh legislature Hoover, wi C.2V raining wife of a congress man at a White House tea. "Any part of this resolution which may be reasonably con strued as a per' sonal criticism of the wife of the president of the United States of America, does not Governor Moody have my approval and I decline to have any part in it," he said in a statement filed in the document de partment of the secretary of state's office. Won't Criticize Voters Referring to a section of the resolution which reminded southern Democrats who voted for the Republican presidential nominee that they had been cautioned just such inci dents as the one condemned might happen, the governor said: "Recognizing the right of every citizen to vote his own conviotions, I do not assert the right to officially upbraid any because they exercise the liberty to hold and vote views differ ent from mine, nor do I approve any attempt at official criticism of any citizen's vote." The resolution had his "hearty ap JONES CHIEF ORATO AT HALL DEDICATION Cho rus of 100 Voices, Three Orchestras Engaged; 21 Men Move Table It took 21 men under the shirt' sleeved direction of Councilman Maurer just 2Q.minutes of hard labor to put the new 800 pound council table into the council chamber at new city hall yesterday. Maurer, aided by Mayor Stump, City Clerk Glassmoyer and City Comptroller Rothermel lent a hand here and a hand there, and issued orders to the workmen. And while they worked at that job and in fact all day long a tornado of activity was sweeping through the rest of the hall as a veritable army of workmen started a final drive to have the building ship shape for the dedication ceremonies.

These "idication exercises start Wednesday night, with George M. Jones, former head of the Recreation board, as chief speaker. Other civic leaders will give brief addresses and members of council are also to talk. There will be a chorus of 100 voices and Earl Boyer's orchestra on the musical part of the program. The mayors of all Pennsylvania cities (Turn to Page Two) Naturally, some of the eggs get cracked quicker than The prize goes to the man who catches his egg longer than anybody else.

Those who don't get the prize get something else. They 'get, part of the yolk on their clothes fingers and neckties. Some of the crackers laugh it off. Others don't smoke murado, and their faces turn more colors, "sometimes, than the Berks County Trust building does these fine evenings. In due time all the eggs but one get scrambled worse than the baseball game played on the Fourth in the jail yard.

The Rear Jail: and the Front Jail were pitted against each other, and when the game was over the Rear Jail was in front and the Front Jail was in the rear to the tune of 10 to 0. I'll bet it took Warden Mosser all day yesterday to get his jail straightened out. Be that as it may, Judge Schaeffer held on longest to his egg. The fact of the matter is that no body else had a chance alongside him no more chance than George Mountz, school janitor, had against George Albert, the constable, the 100 yard race in the 500 block celebration on North Thirteenth street. A constable naturally would win.

He has more experience running. If he didn't run well, he wouldn't be a constable. So, too, the judge had to win the egg contest. For three reasons. First, a judge knows his laws, especially the law of Every judge knows that law.

That's what makes 'em so grave. Secondly, the Judge's egg was probably1 a bad one. And no self i respecting Judge, believe you would give a bad egg a good break. Third, and finally, a Judge has to enforce all laws, including the Volstead Act. Therefore the Judges couldn't let even an egg take a1 drop.

i. if is of By ARTHUR BRISBANE Where Are the Signers? 50,000,000 Degrees. 100 Calls Per Second, No Chinese Rum Wall. (Copyright, 1929) rpHE snows of yesteryear, le preux, Charlemagne and other things, vanished, interested Villon. Where are the signers of the Declarations of Independence, where are their descendants, what are they doing? You see Jefferson's Tiervous signature, between Richard Henry Lee's and Benjamin Harrison's, and Franklin's fancy flourish above John Mor ton's compact writing.

There stand the names, more than fifty of them, on the faded paper. Where are the men that signed? Whither have they gone? Where are their descendants, what important things are they doing? Our great names vanish quickly from memory unless great iortunes make them "important," even though holders of the names no longer amount to anything. In England you see, high in states manshin. descendants of the man that was Elizabeth's prime minister, Which name of the signers, except ing that of John Adams, stands out, conspicuous now, oniy ta years irum the LITTLE AMERICA," where Byrd in the Antarctic waits for Spring and the sun to return, the temperature on July third dropped to 64 below zero, and men "could hear their breath freezing" as it left them. Sixty four below, and 120 above zero we call "terrific temperature." Those figures emphasize the marvellous protection and safety we enjoy on this well balanced earth.

On our journey to heaven, once we leave our atmosphere, our spirits will endure, for millions of light years, me zciu ui wc ether, hundreds of degrees below our zero. And If we pass close to our sun, we shall need to, be prepared for heat from a furnace reaching 50,000, 000 degrees of heat, centigrade. READ Sir James H. Jeans' magnificent book, "Astronomy and Cosmogony," and learn, in the chapters on Gaseous Stars, and on "The Source of Stellar Energy," what differences in temperature are possible. After you have read that book and waded feebly through the four, hundred pages, chiefly of abstruse mathematical formula, you will be glad to return to the happy level of average ignorance.

rpHE gigantic telephone company puts through 100 telephone calls, EVERY SECOND over New York City's 1,750,000 telephones. Men read that, and pass on, taking for granted, the greatest scientific miracle, and industrial achievement. If the calls average only two miles, from telephone to telephone, the statement means that human thought and words are carried, with out effort 17,200,000 a month. It means that all the transporta tlon facilities could not carry to and fro, the millions that without moving, meet and talk, on the telephone. Tne puoiic owes a aec io inventive genius and industrial effi ciency that work such wonders.

SECRETARY MELLON says the Treasury Department NEVER planned a seven foot barbed wire fence along Canada's border to keep out rum. The secretary is too prac tical for that nonsense. fihina tried the fence plan 2.200 years, starting 300 B. C.v the Great Wall. 1.500 miles long.

It couldn't keep out Genghia Khan, or other energetic Tartars. And no seven foot wire fence could hold back the American brand of bootleeeers. rum runners and hi lackers. Today they would cut through it, fly over it, or tunnel undemit. KING GEORGE may pass next winter in South Africa to escape eold and fog.

His subjects there will be glad to see him, and his black Bantu tribes will be especially delighted. What white civilization mistakes for "loyalty" is a savage desire to bow down to something a wooden idol with a pink nose, or a royal personage with a golden crown. BEVERLY HILLS, CaL, July 5. We really ought to have celebrated today (the fifth of July) for the small amount of people that lost their lives yesterday, the They must must be getting harmless pow be getting harmless powder. An American ambassador to England has only really two duties, one is to introduce daughters of prominent Republican leaders to King George, and the other one is to make a speech on the Fourth of July, that will make England think wa are not celebrating us licking them on that date.

Charley Dawes did mighty fine, his speech really made It look like England had won. Yours, war REFUELING FLIGHTl Keep in Air 174 Hours and 53 Seconds, Hour and Halt More Than Old Mark FUSELAGE BADLY TORM Fliers Exhausted by More Than! Week in Air and Virtually Deaf from Motors' Roar CLEVELAND, July 6 (IP) After establishing a new world's rec ord for refueled flights, Pilots Roy; L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb descended to the Cleveland airporS early today at 12:39:50 eastern stan dard time. The official timing gave them a record of 174 hours, no.mhv utes and 59 seconds.

The fliers landed a few seconds short of one half hour after breaking the record at 12:10:52 a. m. and an hour and a half passing the old record. The former endurance rec ord was established in Fort Worth, by Pilots Reginald Robbins and James Kelley, who remained aloft 173 hours, 32 minutes and one second. Cable Rips Fuselage Fatigued by their long grind, bu8 game to the end, Newcomb and Mitchell had intended to stay aloft as long as possible.

The big Wright whirlwind motor was running smoothly when they landed, and there was plenty of fuel to lasts through the night, but the turtle back, a part of the fuselage of tha craft, was torn by the wind. It had been damaged during the repeated transfers of oil cans, which bumped as they were landed from the end of a cable, dangling below the supply snip. The' crowd about the airport which had witnessed a celebration when the record was broken remained, because of the traffic jam, for the landing. Police lines held back thousands who pressed forward to congratulate tha men. Mitchell and Newcomb? exhausted by more than a week in the air and rendered virtually deaf by their long fight with the motor roaring steadily ahead of them, were taken from" tha plane and taken to offices of backers of the flight.

50,000 At Field As the hour of the new record was reached a bombardment of fireworks was released above the field as a salute to the fliers. A crowd approaching 50,000 cheered and tha brilliant lighting of the field was increased by flares' and skyrockets sent up in salute to the airmen. The fliers were soaring 3,000 feefi above in the darkness when the celebration broke out. They gave no sign when the time was reached that they felt any elation. Whistles were blown and lights were firmed on the city's buildings when word went out that the record.

had been broken. CALIFORNIA CHEW SHOWS 1 FIRST BIT OF OPTIMISM CULVER CITY, CaL, July 5 Flying conditions for the "Angeleno" took on a brighter hue today as the biplane sailed on toward the halfway mork in its drive for a new endurance refueling record. The fog menace disappeared gradually before a bright sun on the fourth day in the air for the plane's pilots, L. W. Mendell and R.

B. Reinhart. After a morning refueling, tha fliers dropped a message which indicated the first optimism they have shown since the record attempt began Tuesday. HOOVER WILL ASK BIG BUILDING FUND Wants $2,500,000 More An nually for Ten Years WASHINGTON, July 5 (IB) President Hoover plans to ask congress for an additional $2,500,000 annually for 10 years in connection with the program of government building construction in Washington. The president has conferred with Secretary, Mellon and it has been determined xthat the present contem plated expenditure of $50,000,000 to be spread over a 10 year period will prove insufficient to carry out the work of adequately housing the vari ous government developments.

The administration is particularly anxious to have some definite arrang ment made for housing the Depart ments of Justice and Labor and for storing government archives. These are not included in the present program, excepting so far as sites for the buildings are concerned. WASHINGTON July 5 (. Pres ident and Mrs. Hoover left Washington late today for their usual week end sojourn at the chief executive' Blue Ridge mountain fishing pre serve near Madison, Va.

Sud Americano was making 17 knots, he ordered her hove to. It would have been a bit of terrible bad luck to lose Olaf. A lifeboat was called away with Chief Officer Anderson and six oarsmen aboard and it cruised about until Olaf, swimming for dear life, was picked up. This accomplished, the Sud Americano was set back on her course and arrived today at her pier in Brooklyn. insun, x.

juiy o. 9leen yeaf" oid John Nolan, 3Y' called him a sissy for wear irv fVio wrist, watrh hh wifJnwpd mother had given him as a graduation present. Louis Torvello, 16, is too young to remember that men scrambled out of trenches in the World War behind officers who timed the advance by the watches twined with pistol lanyards on their wrists He saw young Nolan walking in front of his home yesterday, wearing his new watch. He jeered at young Nolan and called him a sissy, according to police. Joseph Hebda, 15, and Tony Patlon, 17, stood with Torvello in the fight.

Nolan's wrist watch flashed in the fight with the older boy, but he went down. When the three boys drew back, he was choking to death. A kick had dislocated his windpipe. He died as he was taken to St. Joseph's hospital.

proval" in so far as "it condemns customs that bring the two races into contact, upon the same social he stated. Condemns Social Mixture "Any mingling of the races upon a basis of social equality is intolerable and no precedent can justify it," he said. "The ill effects of acts tending toward equal social recognition be tween the races are thoroughly demonstrated by the recent contemptible public utterances made before mixed audiences by the Negro whose wife was the recipient of the invitation mentioned in the resold tlon." SLAIN CULT LEADER PRACTICED 'HEXERI Detroit Man, Killed with His Family, Moved There From York, Pa. DETROIT, July 5 (). Police tonight believed they had established a connection between the axe slay ing of Bennie Evangelista, religious fanatic, his wife and four children Wednesday, and.

a series of similar crimes committed recently in the vicinity of York, and known as the "hex" murders. Behind all of the slayings is a background of black magic and weird religious occult beliefs, officers say. This link was established today when officers learned that Evangelista and his family had come to Detroit from York in 1921. The crimes in the east which police believe may be linked with the Detroit case included the murder of Nelson Rehmeyer, reputed "witch doctor" near York, in December, 1928, by three young men who sought to ob tain hairs from his head to bury as a method of breaking his "spell." Another "hex" slaying which came to light following the Rehmeyer kill ing was that of Verma Octavia Delp, 21, at Allentown, last March. Three, Are Released The decapitated body of Evange lists and the multilated bodies of his wife and children were found in their home Wednesday.

Three men arrested for question ing in connection with the murder were released yesterday. Umberto Tecchio, 42, and Angelo de Poli, 34, were still being held for questioning. Officers discovered an axe buried in a barn behind their home. Analysis of stains on the implement deter mined they were not blood spots. However, Dr.

Paul A. Klebba, Wayne county coroner, stated yesterday a heavy knife or cleaver was the weapon used in the slayings. Police continued to delve into the mass of religious writings and paraphernalia found at Evangelista's home in hopes of finding clues. The strange beliefs and dogmas espoused by Evangelista and his followers are similar to those which werc revealed the "hex" slayings in the east, officers say. Followers of the latter faith were attracted to who professed similar NO LIGHT THROWN ON "GREEN DEATH" TRENTON, July 5.

Health authorities today faced a blank wall in their effort to find the causes of the mysterious disease that has killed two children, has sent another to the hospital in a serious condition and endangered 23 others. Dr. Alton S. Fell, city physician, reported he is not at all certain that it milk which caused the disease. The city has closed a dairy operated by R.

R. Shaddow, whose two little girls were the first victims of the "green death," so called because it turned the bodies a greenish hue. Samples of the suspected milk from the dairy have been fed to' rabbits and guinea pigs, and the effect on these animals is being closely watched. Anastasius Parobek, city hopes' these experiments may lead to the unraveling of the mystery. Parobek made a chemical analysis milk taken from' the stomachs of the dead children, but failed to dis 1 cover anything wrong.

2. Mm is iLAST HURLED ROCK IREAKS MAN'S SKULL Ben Bernie, Orchestra Leader, Escapes in Country Club Mishap Beii Bernie, famous orchestra leader and radio entertainer, nar rowly escaped death at the Reading Country club yesterday and his chauffeur, Roy Moss, is in Homeo I pathic hospital with a fractured skull received when a huge hurled into the air by a charge of dynamite; aroppea on nis nep.d. Bernie was a few feet from his chauffeur when the accident happened. Officials at the club explained that the boulder, was in the way of i road they are building, and work men were blasting to remove the stone. Bernie, with other members of his orchestra who were playing at Carsonia park last night, drove to the club yesterday afternoon to play golf.

Fail To See Boulder The leader and his chauffeur were walking near the club house when the explosion sent the boulder into the air. They both looked toward the barn about ,100 yards away but failed to see the huge stone flying through the air. The rock fell on Ross, knocking him unconscious. He was carried to the club house and an ambulance from Homeopathic hospital At the hospital, It was found his skull was fractured and he may have in ternal injuries. His home is in New York.

Bernie is on the road after a long engagement at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York city. His orchestra is one of the headliners of the National Broadcasting company. TWO SCHOOLBOYS DRUNK IN GUTTER CHICAGO, July 5. Two grade school boys in trousers, found drunk in a gutter, refused today to tell police where they obtained the moonshine with which they "made whoopee" over the The youngsters, Jbhn 'Bronskl, 11, and William Tumczyk, stubbornly insisted they found bottle. Both were unconscious when removed to Cook county hospital.

It was several hours before they were able to tell their names. GOVERNOR ON FISHING TRIP TIONESTA, July 5 (iP) Gov ernor John S. Fisher arrived from Harrisburg late this afternoon to spend the week end fishing for trout and bass. In time the Sud Americano set out on her first voyage to this country, to be put into service to Montevideo, Buenos Ayres and other southern ports. On the westward run, the ship ran into high seas on the morning of July 2, and suddenly the cry of a deckhand was heard: "Cat The skipper of the ship, Capt.

Thorbjorn Ddttger, knew at once that this meant Olaf, and although the Bausher Gets Crackers For The Fourth And Judge Wins Egg Prize, Elmer Notes TWO FARMERS SLAIN DURING LIOUOR RAID Agent and Three Deputies Are Arrested on Charges of Murder July Two men are dead as the result of a fight that occurred during a liquor raid yesterday at the James Harris farm home near Tecumseh. Oscar Lowry, farmer, died in a Shawnee hospital late today from wounds received in a gun battle with Jeff B. Harris, who accompanied W. Thomason, federal prohibition en forcement agent on the liquor search. James Harris, Lowery's brother in law, died last night from wounds re ceived in the fight.

Murder charges have been filed against Jeff Harris, Thomason, Tom Lewis and Jack Williams, in connection with James Harris' death. The latter two men were said by H. K. Hyde, assistant United States district attorney at Oklahoma City to have been deputized tof assist Thomason in the raid. Not Regular Agents Prohibition Commissioner Doran at Washington and B.

D. Monbrum, prohibition director for Oklahoma, denied that Jeff Harris was a regularly employed federal agent. Randall Pitman, Pottawatomie county attorney, said late today thai Lowery's death would bring addi tional charges of murder against Jeff Harris, who admitted he shot both farmers. Jeff Harris told investi gators the two farmers were wounded when James Harris advanced toward him with a shot gun. The raider was searching a chickencoop for liquor, he said, when the farmer approached.

Jeff Harris drew his gun, and both fired at about the same time, he said, some of the shot from the farmer's shotgun striking the raider in the shoulder and heck. James Harris was not injured in this exchange of shots Investigate Status Jeff Harris declared that Lowery was shot when he ran from the farm house after the first exchange of shots, Jeff Harris then went after the other farmer, meeting him in the underbrush near a creek. James Harris, the raider said, came at him again, aiming his gun, and the officer fired, striking him in the abdomen. James Harris, in a deathbed state ment, accused the officer of ordering him to throw down his gun, and then, firing, after he had complied with the order. Mondrum started an investigation of the raid and the official status of Thomason's him.

For that's just what happened to Olaf. When, the shipwrights of a 'yard at Kiel were finishing the equipment the steamship Sud Americano for the South American Steamship line, Olaf came aboard and defeated all efforts to get him overside. So there was nothing for it but that the crew should adopt him. Then he was christened Olaf and accepted' as one the 6hip's company. By ELMER PICKNEY I see by the world's largest morning, paper in Berks county that Judge Paul N.

Schaeffer brought, home the bacon with the he kept catching on the farm of Solon D. Bausher, the big Hamburg and egg man, on the Fourth of Jufy It seems that when Independence Day rolls round, Bausher gets a lot of big guns to visit him and the favorite sport is the egg tossing game. Bausher naturally has a purpose in promoting this festive little affair. He is a law abiding citizen and therefore doesn't like to violate the ordinances and by laws against fireworks. He therefore has worked out a plan to get his crackers in a perfectly lawful manner.

To this end, he gives one egg to every two of his guests. Each pair of guests then tosses the egg to each other, back and forth like politicians passing the buck. Well, you know what an egg is, don't you? It's, the only breakfast food that comes in a natural sanitary wrapper, a fact that is of course worth crowing about. But who does the crowing? The rooster. Yet it's the hen that does all the work.

My, my, and still some say that there's no comparison between human beings and our feathered friends. But let us not waste too much sympathy on the hen. After all, it doesn't have such a hard job. It does all its work sitting down. Well, each pair of guests on Bausher's farm tosses the egg till it drops.

And when it drops it cracks. That makes all the eggf throwers crackers. And that manner Solon gets himself a fine lot of crackers every Fourth of July without running 'the risk of being picked up by Harry Hilzinger, Chief Shearer, or Mabel Wille brandt ON HIGH SEA, SAVES NINE LIVES OF 0LAF THE MASCOT.