Pittston Gazette from Pittston, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Jt iv A by Recordist, ThmmwHtnr i Grti BaUdtnc tus to iQ9 m.m.; ju, .15, m.t Max fsV. pi auv nrsaassssai BaaSBSaei aesneaBaBt i r. WRWCLT BUTABLWHEU 'lSSO DAlIT B8T. BT. THBa HART ISM INftXAM A TRAB PfFTT MOXTtf V1 the TEWC GALES OIIETUCOAST SKillillGFJ! OFWMM LACSCiO IS HELD CarmeHo Lacscto, aged 31 years, eoaf eased sTayer of John DIForto.

48. his father in law in the Vlacenso apartments. 10 South Mala street. TOMEETTdNIGm 3 latndndac tbs lamlri eC WllUaa Ute the afternoon on Chr stmas I "Bl rimZ Zmli ZiZtZLrl SSJUT striking Fenasytvaala SariSaSoma. M'i Hillside mine workers back to their Magistrate Thomas English yea 1 mrm hu h.i mmA rta.

reotratkM of Labor. Seatea. trodr left to right, are Miss Roth Oresa. Mrs. vnmaia Oreaa and Mrs.

Nemo Shepler. Standing, left ars Hari7 Oroaa. Mrs. Esther McManns, Miaa Cisra Qresa sad Mrs. rknl YEAJL fn' Burns Job 1 J.

Kt Hoover ol Wuhlnston baa been named by Attorney General Harlan mu director of the Bureau of Investigation tn the Department of Juttice. He edecteda Burn. vWh'reelnel during tbe Daugherty i inquiry. FIGHT EXPECTED By4L.P. HOLLINGSWORTH.

fUnltea Preae Staff Correspondent.) HJ Dec. 39. With tbreecandldatee for Speaker of the frexriPwwieylvanla House of Repre HMJUl HhaMaiiialMMM Oil SPEAKERSHIP TJF STATE HOUSE INTENSECOLDVAVE GRIPS NORTHWEST AND IS MOVING EAST teraay arternoon, attar ne naa ear iA A a iii, formal charge of murder was pre sented against him. He. was re manded without ball to the Luzerne County gtrlson.

pending the action of the next grand Jury. Lacacio was subjected to a severe gruelling yesterday afternoon by Chief of Pol ee Leo A. erney and Lacacio freely admitted bis part in the slaying, It Is said, and informed the authorities that he went to home of a friend In the South Pittston negnborhood. where he wh led away his time leisurely until a few minutes before be present SEES? panled by bis brother in law, Sal vatore Abuto. when he voluntariy ntmA h.

htered the custody of authorities 'eatarday afternoon Abuto ths man who Officer Mor ray with details of ths crime and adraed him to "keep it UQW101E HMUBEOF DEATH CMeaco. Dec 27. Charges that "mercenary persons" are behind the irveetigatfon into the death of BUly "miaiouaire orphan." were made today by WttUam D. Shepherd, foster father of tbe youth. Suits will be filed against eiery par son coonccxea wn.a too ne the investigation Shepherd told newapapermen.

Isabel le Pope. chUdhood sweet nearv oi jouiy. wno wajtea wc a 1 Ik memage nceose a am ucarw grievance committee or district un door prepared for a bedside cere ion officials wiH attend the meeting, mony. is "mercenary" Shepherd de The ohui is tn ha mmn il'mum clored. He refused to amplify this siatementr raepnero ennerea a general aerwi of aH Intimations that hi ward's I called, it hi said, after It bad been death was due to causes other than I learned (hat a large number of Un typho'd.

I derweod men are desirous of bring a cere as no irum anv oi 'nmiug ths etnlce toamn end. Under eHa)nvf vtriuaiiy the field and ri Jrthere Whw rrooined for Che contest HPtthUcaa caucus Monday whiUJB.aIl moves, fovhaianojny. at th oonifnW: of Of. State iegto lature today were thrown ta the Us wd' Fnm Speaker C. Jay Good toough, was to conference wKh GoTernot Pihchot at the Executive.

nanefcra was expected to r's make si fonmal announcement of his coin 1 Washington, Dec 27. Preside rt Coolldge expects in the near fuure to can his conference of governors of tbe coal producing states to consider promotion of mine safety. The program for the conference, to which about ten states baring extensive coal mines win be invited to send representatives, has com Dieted bv the Denartmant nrfA and its bureau ot mines, ft Is tr.e intention of tbe President to bold tbe conrerenc at an early data so governors desiring to seek leghuatioa along lines agreed unon bv the con ference can do so at the fortbeomir cessions of tbe various stats lei lata re. The mining of coal is an raostly under state regulation aad is anticipated that the States I have to take most of ths steps ded the loss of life from mine disaster. Should legislation or other action by tbe Federal government befoand ad visable, however, the President ri.l stand ready to see that such action Is taken.

vH; Til nMMrtmMf a day reported that accidents at coal mines in the United States durirr November caused the death of Hi men, a fatality rate for the entire industry of 3.2 per 1,000,000 tons cf coal produced, TGOAiBOAT HASTD16T0flESE: FISHHZ Washington, Dec 27. Ths Coa. Guard cutter Tampa today was ordered to proceed at ful speed .263 miles north from her New England coast patrol beat to the little Joe bound island of Westport, N. sWto rescue two starving and rnaroone 1 American fishermen. Tb two riiilinann ti iiiifi Addison.

wera tsAdTed bare and anlnhabited stopplra tor the fishing fleet, after their craft was sunk. When Captain HuQ, Of 'PoirC Me notified the Coast Guard tt tbe men are believed to be in d2rt need of food, beat and clothing, tie Tampa was immediately ardered northward to attempt to eara. tiie two eastawava. lUii conn AT HE' Washington. Dec 27.

APPofct ment of E. E. Gnlcbtel as interr I revenue collector at Newark. was recommended to President Cord idge today by Senator Edge, pubUcan, of New Jersey. Due to protest by the AnU Ba3oo; League, Edge wtbdrew tbe name et George H.

Johnston, of Scotch Plains, whom be bad previously recommended for the post. Gnlchtel is president af the Springfield Avenue Trust Comparr. of Newakr, an dreasurer of tha La sex County Republican Committee, I GRAEt MARKET REVIEW. I Chicago. Dec 27.

The entire fraH list went into new high ground 1 1 early trading on ths Chicago Board of Trade today, but In a last' hour selling; wave slumped to a lower close. It was believed large interests re duced wheat boldinga when export ers failed to foirow the advanee.y Corn was under tbe dominance of bread grains. Boms of tbe largest handlers took profits when country offerings increased. Oats under lncuencs of otner s'" sola off fractionally at the finish. Provisions wera gold off sugatTy also.

i i CRUDE OIL STARTS tTS Piitflburgb, Pa Dec tisT. first increass In the crude ofe, rof ket since last January was ma here today when Peonaytvar crude was boosted 2 cents to a barrel. The crude market had bean clinins since May. the last decree being on Aug. 6.

Other grades quoted by the Joseph Seppe pure has lea; agency; also advanced today. BOOM FOR STEEL MTXIA. Youngstown, Oboo. Dec 37vIr and steel production in the Mahm mg Valley, one of the largest ters of the industry in tha eounur, Is nearing 100 per cent, Plants of the United States 61 Carregie Steel. Trumbull Steel Sharon Steel Hoop Companies begin operating full time next arte they announced today.

The Youngiitown Sheet as Tu" plant will be on a 98 per cent and the Repubkc Iron eV Steel on e. 90 per cent basis. NOTED ARTIST DEAD. Paris. Dec 11 Leon Bakat, v' ry known artist and scenic pan.

died today. JusS recaived a shirr of What Became of i and Follow the Ctc FBEED'S Jewelr 'ft PROM safet; ji corrrxaff; iWfni ror une epeaKersniD. 'A Vf i London. Dec. JTj JPerrlflo.

gales which lashed Southern England throughout the night toaay out to sea and enaejigero. several The 5.000 toye.1 Mall freighter earths is' in distress in tne Biscay. Shore life boats have been sent to the aid oi the J.oOO ton steamer PItton, ashore in Sully Bay in. the Bristol Channel. An unidentified steamer is flying distress signals off St.

Catherine's Spit, near Yarmouth, a small seaport of the Isle of Wight Aeroplane service to tne Continent is disrupted. The Thames is reaching ths flood stage. Indications that the fury of the storm is widespread came In a message from which said the steamer Sortland was wrecked outside the port 'of Bodo and that the captain and .12 of tbe crew are missing. Nine men were rescued. Numerous sailing and coastwise vessels are ashore or in distress, but so far there are no reports of lives lost.

Tbe wind still wm of gale proportions off Southern England at p. m. New Tork. Dec. 27v The Canard liner Aqukania has encountered heavy weather and probably will be late arriving in New York, she re ported to the company's offices here today.

The Aqultanla, from Cherbourg, was scheduled to arrive Tues day. By A. L. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Paris, Dec. 27.

The conference of ambassadors, in session here today, agreed not to evacuate Cologne. The conference will send a collective note to Germany on the Question. The ambassadors met at noonK with M. Cambon, of France, presiding. Marshal Foch and a number of military experts were At the same time German Ambassador Von Hoesch was received by Marshal Foch In his bed chamber, where he is confined by Illness.

The allied activity followed rap idly on receipt of news of discovery of huge illegal arms stored in Ger many wntcb Jvrance claims is ev oi reot violation, of the disarmament proviatoneaf thereagriVersamea. isvacuauan of cologne sbad neon scheduled for January 10, but the Allies decided to retain troops there when France presented reports of the alleged Illegal arms stores. To days action bv the ambassadors. therefore, is In tne nature of 'ton firmatlon of the allied declfrion and puts Germany in the position of having to prove that she is carrying out in good faith the disarmament provisions of the Versailles treaty. tion committee, which is charged with the task of seeing to tt that Germany does not arm.

and destroys her military equipment over the amount allowed by the treaty, is due in the middle of January, and a final decision on the Cologne matter will not be made until after that time, The French claim that huge stores of arms have been found and tha Germany is training her youth in various ways to prepare tor a wai of revenge, KIDNftPPtNG CASE POSTPONED TODAY PottevUIe, Dec. 27. The case in. which Martha Siiknetter and hus band are charged with kidnapping Kusseu sum I rag, from Irani Manor, was called for hearing be fore Aterman Hiram Davles this af ternoon, but the child claimed by two mothers was absent. The defendants and their attor ney, T.

J. Mtnnlch, of Philadelphia, were on hand, as was also Howard Boch and wife, grandparents of lit tie Russell. It was fmaily found that the child is at Girard Manor with his parents. Hs was taken there, at the point where he was kidnapped last summer, to see if the people of that place recognized him. Alderman Davies decided to.

post TMn ihtt hAArinor af th mm until the child, wSTh his alleged parents, could arrive later In tha afternoon, Athens, Dec. S7. Achmed Zogu. leader of the successful revolution in Albania has formed a new cabinet and plans, to dismiss all Albanian diplomatic representatives abroad, according to messages from Tirana today. There was bitter fighting yestet dav between the revolutionists and the forces of the defeated Premier Fan Noll, along tbe Scoumpl line to which Fan Noll's men retreated after the capture of Tirana by Zogu.

The revolutionary forces In southern Albania also nave been successful, supporters of Fan Noil only occupy small area here. i Newark. IN. Decs: 2 7Federal prohibition 'agents from New' York made 21 raids to Newark today and one mBJur4oon. It was the second massed attack in the drive to dean out Jersey' There DEBIT! AMBASSADORSNOT TO QUIT COLOGNE GMIETin Washington, Dec.

i(Bhe movement for complete HPUbMcfey of tn come returns was given great Impetus today when Senator Couz ers, Mwitigaa Beoubiicaa. and cnair man of ttie tax tovestigating com mtttee announced hlmeeil tn xavor of complete BobllcMar. Couzens decried the statements, of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Adrom Istratl on chieftains and big Industrial leaders, who ctalm that the publicity provision of. the present tax Jaw is hunting business and the Government's revenues. Coming from a mam who was associated with one of the biggest pri vate business in the country, the Ford Motor Company, for years and who himself signed a check to tbe Government for S8.000.000 to taxes In one year, the statement was given significance by Congressional leaders.

"The plea that tax publicity gives away, business secrets is pure, bunk, Oousene told the United Press. "Such propaganda is spread without Justi fication, when as a matter of tact every big business man knows that he can find out all he wants about the financial conditions of his com petitors at any time he wishes, "The. trick of getting information concerning your competitors is accomplished by Wrtag their depart ment heads as has been done tor years. It was worked on me sever al times when I was manager for Ford. "But most operators of big busi ness do not care iparticularly what taxes are being paid by their com petitors.

"I could walk across the hall right now and look up the taxes pah by every one of my friends. The information has been supplied by the Internal Revejiue Bureau for the purpose of our investigation But I'm not curious and I haven't the slightest Idea or desire to know what taxes my business friends are paying. "The one shtog that publicity does give is a mora honest enforcement of the tax law. There is not the slightest excuse for keeping tax secrets and the only purpose it serves Is to encourage dishonesty. "Our investigation would not have, been so necessary had the facts been available for public Inspection." Because of the strength of publicity adherents in this Congress leaders have decided to postpone any effort to repeal the, preseat tax publicity law until the next session Chairman Smoot, of the Senate Finance Committee, who Is leading he opposition to the present law, has liwHcaied that: President Cool Me." tny caU an extra session lr September to deal with new tax revision and take up the publicity clause, the Constitutionality of which is now being fought out In the courts upon indictment of three newspapers which printed returns of taxpayers.

JURORS INTO HIS COURT Los Angeles, Dec. 27. The Kid McCoy Jury stands seven to five which way no one but the Jury knows. Called before Judge Charles S. Crail at 11:30 a.

m. the foreman reported that the 8 to 6 stand of last night had changed to the latter figure. Los Angeles, Dec. 27. En tering its second day's deliberations on ithe rate of Kid McCoy, ex prize fighter, accused of murdering Mrs.

Teresa Mors, his ninth love, the Jury of nine women and three anen filed into tbe conference room this morning. The women seemed tired and worn. One was reported 111 with a cold, but determined to stick until the end. Hope of breaking the slx to slx deadlock which existed when the Jury was locked up last night was considered remote. Judge Crail is expected to kep Ithe body deliberating today and tomorrow, if necessary, dismissing it Monday.

an hour's deliberation, the Jury sent for the rubber apron which the prosecution claimed Mrs. Mors was wearing at the time of her death. This iwas taken to mean that the Jurors were discussing the credibility of McCoy's suicide story, related on the witness stand. The State claimed that the two big holes in the, apron corresponded In location to stab wounds on Mors' body. The prosecution also alleged that McCoy did not explain how the apron came to be tn tbe kitchen of the apartment where 11 was found.

IIUEHMUST White Plains, N. Dec 87. Mra Leonard (Kippy) Rhiaelander was allowed $800 monthly alimony and $3,000 counsel fees In Supreme Court hers today, pending trial of mum luom. oii()n nor nusosna bases on the charge that she tricked him Into marriage without making known her race. Mrs.

PJhlnelander asked $1,000 monthly al mo ny and $10,000 counsel PITTSTON MAN MAKES GOOD HT PITTSBURGH William W. Reynolds, of Pitts bufgh.v Is pemUnjg a few days at tbe home of his mother, Mrs. Edward E. Reyxolds, of Luserne avenue, Reynolds ha been engag ed In tha business of buying and elHng stocks and bonds in Pittsburgh for a number of years, and now head of the firm of Reynolds at Oo members or the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, with offices to. ths JUDGE SUMMONS "1 Ta canawate Tor speaxer.

ot tho session of 1925, and believe that I iaye ionK claim to the position on my ecord in the last session, and for fee further reason that reelection At speaker is customary," Good nouirH etated. At A. I I evateu lO max posinun i Tnb8.fl ib much gratified and will rkii rCA Imnnrtlfll fairness; as in thestosion of 1923." W. Harry Bafcej Republican State a. a.

ii twmw tZiT ZL7 Prwdent BJnaldo CappaWnl, of the Mine Workers' organization, apparently has given an trvtec to deal with the general grievance committee. He is carrying out his announced plan of meeting with ooUtery locals, lnetead of with the grievance committee, although teca nicaljy there are no local orgaaisa ters harirar been revoked weeks ago. Tbe district president 4s trying to gnutne atrikers together in groups and orgs them to return to work and permit tbe dletTlct officers to take up their grievances with the company officials In tne 4V A Jmj rAoXm P.yes naa peen arranged for 1 regular way provided by the con o'clock this afternoon at the Hughes town hose bouse, but the session was not held, atthough a number of colliery employes were on hand at the hour appointed. It is reported that there is a sharp division of sentiment among members of No. Colliery local with regard to the Justification tor the present suspension of opera tions and tbe report was borne out this afternoon when prior to the time set tor tne meeting of mine workers gathered and arguments be gan.

Sensing that disorder might result if tbe meeting was permitted to take place it was called off. For an hour after the tune originally set tor tne meeting, groups ot men etooa about the hose bouse entrance, but they conversed in moderate tones and there was no semblance of dis order. unjs arternoon. at 2:30 o'clock a meeting of Underwood colliery em ployes being held In the Under 1 wooi village school house, for the purpose of considering the strike (situation. Announcement was made I that only employes of the colliery 1 would be admitted to tbe meeting I place.

No members of the general the situation themselves and take a I vote on whether or not they shall resume work. The meeting I wood colliery is In Lackawanna county and is farthest removed from the center of the strike zone. Not unta recently did the Utderwood miners act. in ooneert with tbe Pitte ton district miners, and it Is the only coWery outside of the Pittaton district affected by the present five weeks strike. Division Sunerincen entd Winisan P.

Jennings, who has supervision of Underwood colliery, baa stated tbat tbe company stands ready to resume operations at tbe colliery Monday morning if the em ployes decide this afternoon that they wish to resume "work. District President Oappellral had nothing to ldo with tbe arrangements for the Underwood meeting, but when be neara about 4t he said, "That's One. I They're dorag the right thing." No meeting; of the No. 14 colliery local was held last evening, as was reponsa. but District President ICappeJHnl announced today that he I had called a special meeting of tbe I employes of No.

14 for next Tueada I afternoon at Hill dale vlllaae. near i tne oouiery, and urges all tbe men i to attend. Tbe district president I said be would urge the men at this I meeting to take a vote on the, ques hoi oi recurmrg to worlc There has been a general calf for a meeting of members of all general miners' grievance committees in tne Wyoming valley to be held this evening In wukesbarre. for the our pose of considering tbe question of calling out the employes of other companies tn sympathy with tbe reaivania HUiside fnen. it is I expected also that some action may I be taken in the matter of calling a i special our net convention to con aider the questions at Issue in the Pittston strike.

In regard to this general meeting of grievance committees District President CappetUni Is quoted as saying. "You might say for me that I call upon every loyal member of tbe United Mine Work ers of America to ignore the call for meeting of general grievance oonvmittees In Wilkeebarre." Nine, of ten Lehigh Valley Coal Company colliery local unions ren resented last night at a special meet to strike in sympathy with the Pennsylvania and Hillside. Coal Sc. Iron Companies mine workers, who have been Idle more than two weeks. This was the report made by the delegates ar the session.

After a lengthy discunsion, it was decided to withhold action pending In wilkeebarre tonight. The Lehfcb Valley general committee voted to send four men from each local to tbe Wilksebarre meeting, TBI DI5TRIDT BOARD TODaiFTPROGH Hasleton, Dec 27. Thomas J. Kennedy, chairman of the legislative committee of tbe United Mine Work era of America, today issued a calf for meeting of tbe executive boards of ths three anthracite districts In Wilkeebarre. Jan.

3. Ths committee will pass upon legislative program to be urged at the coming session of the legislature. TWO LODGERS PTE TN ROOMING HOUSE FIRE. New York. Dec 27.

Two lodgers in a Harlem tenement conduced as a rooming bouse, were, burned to death todar when fire swept the building. Two others were severely injured when they Jumpd from the windows at the rear of ths bouse af ter firemen arrived. I Read The Gaae aad Kstp Posted, Oreas, nw president of ths. Wasbinsron, Deo 97. drop In temperatare of at least SO degree i tonight aad tomorrow was forecast for met of tbe Eastern States by the WeaUwr Bureau today.

The cold wave which has gripped tbenilddlewest for the past B4 boars advancing on the East and cold wave warnings were ordered oat by the bursa in all spates except tbosj va tbe South AUairtc aad Gulf re gionaL. These will receive freezing tempera area, bat without the hnarp phince of the tber mometer scheduled vii the North. Snow flnrres wuTaooonroany the co'd wave in the aapaatabM of the East bat the weather wiU be fair in other sectiona. Strong BOAtbweet wbid vdH hamper snipping aloaaf AUanUe TO CAPETAL AFTER Stanley R. Harris, manager of the champion baseball team of the world the Wash ngton American League Club and Plttston's leading envoy in sportdom.

left here early this morning for Washington. D. C. after having spent Chriatraa Day with his brother Merle. 229 Lnden street, West Pbttston.

It was Burky's second visit to Pittston within a month, and was the fourth time that he visited his home town since September. The "boy manager" of the big leagues arrived here early Christmas morn ag. In deference to bis wishes no celebra tion was arranged in his honor and he was permitted to spend a few days 'n seclusion here Harris plans to leave for the South shortly after New xears Day. He and Oark Griffith plan to get In several In teresting rounds of golf on the links at Tampa, FIa before the other Senators arrive at the Southern camp to undertake the "limbering up" exercises. BIG EflMAllEflT FOB CHARITY MONDAY There will be 100 tables, well located, at tbe Quota rub's card party and dance to the State Armory Monday evening: Bring your own cards and your own crowd.

For the players who wm rema at the same able, nhianglng partners aifter each game, there will be a prize for each. HAble. The prizes are as worth play lag for. Where players remain at the table each one keep Si li own score. In the event of some pally era wanting to progress, this, too, wu be arrangea, jaras wiu oe pnair sd In Ww rooms on the first and second floors.

Game will start promptiBt 8:15. There will be flnmcing all eyendng. Quotariam Ethel Price and her band wrliH see to it tKat dancers htivs a good tPme Those who attend will surery enjoy It and at the same time will be neaping, very worthy cause. Tha ent're proceeda go to the Vislt tng Nurss Aseoclaton to.belp pas the four registered nurses working Or the health of the comnwnov. Neigh bosOng cities have oommanitr Htrtjs vrd Welfare Federations.

Plttnrton llkew'ne baa.a faitlbfal corps of friends working for welfare laaunaBnoms. AM the friends ox the V. N. A. are eaked came to the party.

LrrBTUAIflAN CTiTTB AJfNOUJfCE DAXCE The Lithuanian Club of Pittston have announced their Sixth Annual New Year's Eve Ball. Elaborate preparations are being mads to make it the most enjoyable to date. Earl Keating, and his famous musicians will renoer the nmsla The dance be held at the Elks LHome which. being 'decorated by ylester GrabUck and wiu represent an Alpine Snow sen. served under the.

dl recUon of the HoUl Redlngton. HfDUOP IS PREDICTED FOR MEASTTOII'GHT HARRtS RETURNS SOJOURN AT HOME rumoty. and I Shall sue the parls who started them, hs saw. "too whole aciair started by mer senary 'persons bone to prod by whaiaver cansres tbev can biSfng ahoot to tbe will bueathrn BHU's fortune to me and to my wire. i Chicago.

Ill Dec. 27 W'fllam D. ebnierd. central flrure ln t4 in vestigation of the death of Wll iam MeCI ntoclt. millionaire ornhan.

arrived bre todv from Albuquer que. N. "ready to answer all Questions and to ask a few myself of certain persons." I bick here of mv own free will." Shepherd told nwsp I ermen who met him at the sat on am ready to tea all I know, to anrwer all questions. have noth ing to conceal. Also I am going to ask a few questions myself of certain person he added, with a significant shale of the head.

i hephrr was nW 'y hi attornev and went directly to the tatter's of roc jno repr i staie ai. tot ney ko oen b. as present, Later. Shepherd wl 1 go to Crowe's ofice for exam nation. is.

nepn r. is in a oh querque. New Mexico. iU. The Shep herds were willed the bulk or tne estate by McCllntock Shepherd is 50.

stout, fair, and rtars glasses. He seemed un troubled by Intimations that there was something strange about h's ward's death. The vital organsuVthe youth are be ng subjected to enemies analysis for traces of poison. A preliminary report snowed presence oz typnoia germs. WD HID DEAD III FIBE AT WAVERLY 8ayre.

Pa Dec 27. Henry Mul ford, 70, and Eleanor nine, I chairman, hurried to Phlladftlphla yesterday in hopes of placating the PhUadelvhla delegation. He orriv od t6b lafe to prevent the endorse ment of Thomas Bluett, of Phlladel phla, as Bpeakex. Baker has been offertnar the name of W. Clyde Har er, of Lycoming county, as a com promise.

Wltj fhe leaders of $ie Logtela f1 turr brushing aside harmony moves a ba4s for supremacy appeared 't' elated mX tha outset of the eess'on. The discord has given Governor Pin cbot a distimot advantage In con troWW the. House. Goverflor Plnchot appealed today "2rV to h0 Republicans of Pennsylvania 1 16 see to it ihat a speaker is ohosen who is in sympathy with the funda principles of the Republican Dee. 27.

Intense cold is sweeping the northwest today, and moving east and southward. Severe drops in temperature were reported from northern Minnesota and northern Canadian provinces, Duluth. experienced a drop ot 54 degrees, in 24 hours. The thermometer stood, at 28 below here to day. In the twin cities It was 20 below, against SO above yesterday Minnedosa, Manitoba, reports.

34 below sero. Other temperatures were: Calgary, Alberta, 10 below; Medicine Hat. 82 below; Winnipeg, 28 below; Moose head, 20 below. The Dakotas. Nebraska and Iowa alo reported big drops In temperature.

The middle west Is still suffering severely from demoralization of wire facilities from the storms of 1 0 days ago. Illinois and Nebraska are par ticularly hard hit. Central Illinois remains practically isolated from outride telephone and telegraphic service. Northern Illinois an In diana also report great difficulty, Thousands of poles were pulled down in the storm ami repairmen have been hampered by the extreme cold. Hundreds of new wire are being reported as wires snap to pieces.

from ths great Although no deaths are reported today, scores of persons were, frost omen. vTalsa are rnnnlnai tut seheortrre. Great Crack train from, the west coast, running to St. Paul is, 2. hours late, St.

Ftral. Dec 27. fern' peratures in the twin cities this JLl flff from yesterday's high. The reading at 7 a. in.

today was 20 below zero, Yesterday at 1 p. m. thermometers showed 30 above. ml mrn' mometers down SO to 40 degrees from nigh points registered yester day. The reading here at 7 a.

was four below, a drop of 36 degrees in io nours. SAVED UFE OF MAN BLEEDING TO DEATH Put In Bay. Dec 27. The heroism of Dr. G.

M. Riley, who tramped 12 miles over a perilous bridge or ice in darkness and subzero weather, was believed today to have saved the 1 fe of Dr. J. L. So wash.

Slowly bleeding to death from hemorrhages, after a severe stomach attack. Dr Sowash. lone physician on tV desolate rlttle island In Lake Ere, was without medical aid un til Dr. Riley risked his life to assist a profess onal brother. Today reports from tbe doctor's bedside said he had rallied remark ably and bnay live.

Dr. Sowash is stile too weak, however, to be removed to a Mainland hosoital on the big sled which stand inhabi tants constructed hurriedly for that purpose. LAID AT BEST TODAY Several hundred men and women gathered at St. JoWs'R. C.

Cun ch tats morning to attend the funeral services conducted' over the remains cc Mrs. John Schrelber, formerly Mtsa Mildred Mamaa. to testjy their Borrow Dor fhc bereaved husband, parents and other anCKmate relatsves. The funeral procession left ths home ot her parents, Mr. and Mna Nicholas Memgan, 1.201 'Main Port Griff tth.

at v9 o'clock. Rev.H jF Reap was celebrant of a requiem: mass in St. Jcnn Churon at 9:80. o'clock. As the body, was being borne into the.

church, the choir, sang "Nearer, My OodwTo Thee." At the offertory of the mass Miss Mary MoOfuiiy n' In VTarla Vwna the ''Agnus Def." Aft the conclusion of Jhe mass Joseph Boyd i Jesus. I Come" and. as the renmme were betnc removed from ths chwrch Ml Hen Keating sang "Beautiful Land on H'gh Intermvw was tn Sf John's Cem etery. Tbe pall bearers were' Mar tin. Thoovas and Jdhn Mantasi, brotthcrs of the deceased; James Mel and FranX ln and Joseph of Newa kv Fraacto': Regan, PaWck, Lavel'e.

HaroM Sowejl and James Johnson. Read Ths Gasetts and Keep Read Ths Gasetts and In a statement he attacked Bluett. the unanimous choice of the Phila delphia dejeg atlon, as a "wet" and thereby challenged his Republican Msmi "Ths great majority of voters of this state, are dry. They have a na 1 turil right 'to be represented lit the selection ox a presiding oixicer oi the who shall conform to the majority sentiment of the State," said the' Governor. Hs charged the Philadelphia machine was to force a wet speaker on th: etate.by selecting a candidate whatever he may sav, now.

is consistently wet" The election of a speaker, the Gov ernor. declared was "a matter of the died today in Packer Hospital of I lag of the general grievance comb urns sustained In a fire tn tbe I mlttee tn West Wyoming, are ready Elha Building In Waverly, N. late yesterday. I Mrs. Joseph Wiewetl, mother of I the child is tn a serious condition, I toot is expected to live.

I The fire, which is. believed to have originated from a kerosene I cooking stove, caused more than I gravent oonseanence to the people szs.oov damage to tne Business ns outcome of tne meeting of Dis btock. jtrict 1 general grievance committees oi Pennsylvania. "i appeal, to the men and women ef Pennsylvania: who believe in the to see to it that their representatives In the House shall choose for; speaker a man who be UPTW 11, Flames forced Mrs. WisweJl and her daughter to the window sill on I the third story and they were about I Jump to the street below when fhremen placed a ladder and made a daring rescue.

Mr. Mulford. who was out of tbe building, rushed In to aid tbe others and was complete ly enveloped tn flames. His rescue was effected with great difficulty. FLOOD DEATH BOLL iyi.UBERS22 Saltvllle.

Dec 27. Funeral services were held here today for tbe victims of Parmarton's Christ mss Evs flood tragedy. Twenty two persons are knowA to. have perished when the muck dam of ths Math eson Alkali Works bare burst, spreading death and destruction through the hamlet of woraers. 'Fourteen bodies had been recov ered today and elgst persona are known to be missing.

A score 'njursd are being cared for in an emergency hospital hers and two of. these are expected to die. A force of .4 00 employes tbe Alkali works continued tbe search today, for the missing villagers. Bead The Gaseta Keep lieves In 1J as they do." mm EFMlf BUfl'JED OBOYMAYM faster," Dec. 27.

Wh'ls rescued four occupants of Ting building here today Rev. us Pasavasllrvav of the Greek i here. ctlmbed to the tin roof unable, to escape, reen by the firemen he was 7 across the red hot roof, 1 Is hands frantlcaVy. When 1 bv ladders. pastor col ria hands and feet were nd he is in a cr'tlcal con i started from rgas beater Two childrenVwere res youngest.) asleep on a i ed.

was saved, but is not to llvey Vn and JXteaiFpstad. es PpgUd. s. 1 jDiA'BafeBuaUn. wero 44 agaota to cbs raldinf party.

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