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TiiiCJEtE, MISS CIIF10 irv verso tLULd.f Mention Cleanings 'FINAL TONIGHT TO BE BURIED HEBE "AND MANY STROKES, THOWTTH A LITTLE AXB HEW DOWN AND FELL THB HARDEST TIMBEKEDOAKJr 1 WTXLXAM 6HAK8SP8ARS "A WORD tO THE WISE" Make your. WiO and ap point the Miners' Saving Bank your Executor. SIHSII3 rilOIUH, Mk. 1 1 Miners'SavingsEmsI I FRIDAY SATURDAY Saving is Kke that, too. By making many small deposits you can accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible.

We will be glad to have you' as a regular, MSI NauonalPanr PITTSTON. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora tioa Miss Anna Clifford, a well known resident of Upper Pittston for many years, died yesterday at the home of her sister in law, Mrs. Margaret Clifford, in Washington, D. where she had been residing for the past 10 or 12 years. Mrs.

Clif ford is the widow of Miss Clifford's brother, Anthony Clifford, who will be recalled as a Pittston hotolkeep er for a number ot years. Miss Clifford had many friends among the older Pittston residents. Funeral services will be held in Washington, and the body will arrive here tomorrow night at 9:48. It will be taken to Undertaker Donnelly's Funeral Home, and bu rial will take place in St. Mary's Cemetery, Upper Pittston, Satur day morning, the cortege going di ect from the Funeral Home to the emetery.

FOR THREE VICTIMS Separate funerals will be held Saturday morning for the three young victims of the Memorial Day drowning tragedy in the Susquehanna river at upper Exeter borough. The funeral of Louis Kupcho, sun 4 tA aaBstaaaaSaBt.sTlMi JOHN BARRYMORE IMPROVIM Chicago, June 1. John Barry more was improving steadily will the aid of periodio oxygen treat ments today from a mild heart at tack which forced suspension o( his current play, "My Dear Chih dren." Dr. W. H.

Highstona said Barry more should be able to return his role by Monday. "He to In excellent aplrtta," BIr stone said. "His general ooodlutj is much improved over yeaterdr There is no indication, of coronaij thrombosis and we don't anticlpatl any serious development By, proper rest and medication, he "should be able to re appear on the 'stags Monday." 'f BRUCE CATTON IN WASHINGTON Till! "rmtVa pi" 2L Ihrl liffliwairo BY BRUCE CATTON SKA Srrvlcr (Mail Commpeadeat VJW ASHINGTON. Five years and 7 four months after the orohihi ti'on. amendment was discarded, the United States has finally re turned to its pre prohibition status, as far as bootlegging is concerned.

Which is to sav that the rhipf problem of the Treasury Depart ments emorcers" toaay is tnat perennial old faithful, the mountain moonshiner. Organized big city gangs are no longer much of a problem, as far as tne liquor laws are concerned. "Rum row? has ceased to exist, and there is practically no smuggling of liquor any more. Enforcing the liquor laws is a revenue problem once again, attended by just the same amount of difficulty as was encountered back before the war. The job Is primarily in the hands of the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau.

Immediately after repeal, the Treasury moved to co ordinate the activities of this unit with those of the customs service and the coast guard, and began an intensive drive on smuggling. It took about two years to get the smugglers checkmated. In a great many cases, they had laid in huge stocks of liquor at such bases as Havana, the Bahamas, and St Pierre Miquelon. They persisted in trying to unload this liquor despite the fact that the big profit margin of prohibition days had ceased to exist. But file picture had changed.

The" morale of the "revenooers," to say nothing of the morale of customs and coast guard men, had gone up with the advent of repeal. Furthermore, the attitude of foreign authorities subtly changed. In St. Pierre, for instance, better co operation came from the local authorities to prevent booze being shipped illegally to the United States. So the smuggling problem was finally solved.

Today neither the customs men nor the coast guards men are bothered with it, for the simple reason that no one seems to be trying to bring booze in illegally. During prohibition, the city bootlegger was a sinister chap who belonged to a big and powerful outfit, who dealt in carload lots and who swaggered his way about from speakeasy to speakeasy. Today he is a furtive fellow who hangs out behind the bar in some third rate ginmill and has a container full of colored grain alcohol down on a shelf in front of him. When a customer gets too tight to notice the difference, this man will serve him with the colored alcohol rather than with regular whisky. And that, say the Treasury people, is about the size of the operations of the average city bootlegger today.

On July 1, 1938, the federal tax on distilled liquor went up from $2 to $2.25 a gallon. It was ex pected that this would bring a substantial rise in bootlegging, but the rise which did take place was far smaller than had been expected. The Tax Unit experts say that the big fellows had mostly gone out of business, and that the 25 cent tax increase didn't promise enough of a profit to induce them to open up againt incidentally, there no boot legging of beer at all now, as far as the Treasury people know. Despite the federal tax of $5 a barrel, it simply isnt economic to make and sell beer illegally, i It happens, too, that the Amer ican people are not drinking as much now as they did before prohibition. The.

annual per capita consumption of hard liquor now is just under one gallon 99100ths of a gallon, to be exact. Between 1910 and 1915 it stood 1 gallons. Less beer is being drunk, too. In 1917, the nation's beer produc tion totaled 1,885,000,000 gallons: Last year it stood at 1,798,000,000 gallons. And the population has gone up by approximately 20, 000,000 in that tone, too.

4 DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT was postponed from today until to morrow. A DAUGHTER WAS BORN TO day at Pittston hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Roat, of 82 Mill street. CHILDREN'S DAT REHEARS al will be held tonight at 6:30 o'clock in the First Baptist Church.

CATECHUMEN'S CIiASS OF St. Peter's Church will meet to morrow night at 6:45 o'clock. THE CHURCH COUNCIL OF St Peter's Lutheran Church will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock instead of tomorrow night. THE SPRING REUNION DATES of Keystone Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, In Scranton, have been changed to June 19 and 20. ST.

JAMES' GUILD WILL MEET this evening at the home of the Misses Alma and Margaret Myers, Church street MANAGERS OF LEGION Junior League teams, sponsored by Stark Post, will meet this evening at 7 o'clock at the Legion Home. THE AUXILIARY TO THE Lithuanian Citizens' Club will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Casino Hall. THE DRAMATIC SOCIETY, OF St John's Lutheran Church, will hold a regular meeting this even' ing at 8 o'clock in the church par lors. DELTA ALPHA CLASS, OF the Methodist Protestant Church, will meet this evening at the home of Mrs. Ethel Jones, Montgomery aVenue, West Pittston.

A DAUGHTER WAS BORN AT Pittston hospital yesterday after noon to Mr. and Mrs. Americo Pez zello, of 18 Pittston avenue, Yates ville. THE FIRST SERVICES" WILL be held in the new Methodist Church in Tunkhannock next Sun day. The building, modern in de sign, and constructed of brick, re places one destroyed by fire.

FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTIONS will be held tomorrow, as usual, in St John the Evangelist R. Church. Confessions will be heard this afternoon and evening in prep aration. THE WILKES BARRE TAB loid, a five cent newspaper, will make its appearance in Wilkes Barre Saturday. William Lukslk, postmaster of Trucksville, is the publisher.

FORTY EIGHT CRIMINAL cases and 89 summary conviction cases are scheduled for trial in the county court next week. The sum mary conviction cases will be heard Thursday. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES of the Tunkhannock High School will be held Thursday evening, June 8. The speaker will be Dr. Harry S.

Fish, of Sayre, whose theme will be "The Next Step." MR AND MRS. JOSEPH KA shuba and family of Duryea, have purchased a 112 acre farm near Auburn Center, where they intend to make their home. This farm Is known as the Grow farm and re cently belonged to C. B. Tyler, of Meshoppen.

THE FUNERAL OF MRS Michael Guillorn will be held to morrow morning at ten o'clock from the home, 127 Lldy Road, Dupont. A mass of requiem will be celebrated at 10:30 in St. Mary' R. C. Church, Avoca, and burial will be in the parish cemetery.

THE FUNERAL OF RACHEL Butler Van Kirk will be held Saturday morning at nine o'clock from the home. 63 James street A mass of requiem will be sung at 9:30 in St. John the Evangelist R. C. Church and interment will be In the church cemetery.

THE PITTSTON Y. M. C. A. pool will be closed Thursday and Friday for Spring cleaning.

All classes will be suspended until Saturday morning, it was an nounced by Physical Director Ed ward L. Hall. AT THE REGULAR MEET (NTG of Thalia Rebekah Lodge tomorrow evening members who have been affiliated with the lodge for 25 years or more and those having birthdays in June will be guests of honor. There will be initiation work, followed by a program and re freshments. The degree team will rehearse Friday at 2:30 p.

m. Buffalo, N. June 1. Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presiden tial nominee, predicted today that 'any candidate" for President named by the GOP in 1940 would win.

Landon made the prediction while enroute on a brief visit through Western and Northern New York. 'No one can deny that there is a very definitf Republican trend," he said. "I am it confining that to any one particular state." Landon declined to comment on the move to obtain the Republican presidential nomination for District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York. He reiterated, however, that he had "definitely" removed himself from the race.

'If we started discussing Mr. Dewey we would have to call the whole roll," the former Kansas gov ernor remarked. "If you will read my statement made last year you will see very definitely that I have taken myself from the picture." Landon said that with the bright Republican outlook for next year it would not be difficult to obtain a candidate. 'There is never any difficulty se lecting a candidate in a situation like this," he remarked. EDISON WAS HONORED Newark.

N. June 1. Charles M. Schwab and former Governor Harold G. Hoffman were the prin cipal speakers at a dinner last night honoring the memory of the lata Thomas A.

Edison, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond George have returned after visiting relatives in Masury, Ohio. Mrs. Jane Williams, of Buffalo, former resident of this city, is visiting her niece, Margaret Thomas, of 22 Custer street, Wilkes Barra, Dr.

E. Severson, of Philadelphia, and Miss Ida V. Lendrum and Alexander Severson, of Wilkes Barre, were guests at the Sweeny residence on Nafus street over Memorial Day. Miss Mary Elizabeth Stgafoos, of 132 William street will give her graduate recital in expression tomorrow night at 8:16 o'clock in the chapel at Wyoming Seminary. Friends are welcome to attend.

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Stuchiner and son, of New Kensington, Pa have been visiting Mrs. Stuchiner's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Max Connor, of George street for two weeks. Mrs. Stuchiner is the former Lena Connor. Miss Jean Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Nat Stevens, of Tunkhannock, will be graduated from Elmira College Monday, June 12, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. William Bevan, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bevan, of 102 South Main street Plains, Is a member of this year's graduating class of Staunton Military Academy of Staunton. Va.

He is one of a class of 97 boys who will be given diplomas Tuesday. Bevan, whose father is a captain in 109th Field Artillery, ranks in the highest ten of his class. DEPUTY RECOVER OF CLOSED BANKS Harrisburg, June 1. Banking Secretary R. W.

Doty today ap pointed Arthur G. Davis, Scranton, as deputy receiver of 15 banks and trust companies in the Wilkes Barre Scranton district. He succeeds Jerome P. Casey and Joseph G. Schuler, receivers in the Scranton and Wilkes Barre districts, respectively.

The appointment is effective Immediately. Davis will be in charge of the following banking institutions: Dime Bank Title and Trust Company. Heights Deposit Bank, Pennsylvania Liberty Bank and Trust Company, all Wilkes Barre: People's Savings and Trust Company, Duryea: Plains State Bank, Parsons; Anthracite Trust Company, Bosak State Bank, Scranton; Miners' and Mechanics' Savings Bank, Carbondale: Mid Valley Trust Company, Miners' Savings Bank and Trust Company, the Olyphant Bank, Olyphant; Simpson State Bank: Taylor Discount and Deposit Bank, the Throop State Bank, and the Archbald Bank, Archbald. TO TO PENITENTIM Scranton, June 1. After ad mitting that he stabbed a fellow roomer on March 6 after an all day drinking bout George Munroe to day pleaded with the court to send him to a penitentiary, but Judge Will Lewis sentenced him to county jail instead.

"For a. man of my age I believe I would be better off in a state pris on," Munroe, who is about 60, told the judge. The judge said the request was unusual, but that It would not be granted and sentenced Munroe to a year in county JaiL Munroe pleaded guilty to stab bing Walter CsrrolL THROWS 9,000 SHORE IRKIMEN IE New York. June 1 Th Vjutm Steamshin Lines. tortnv laid off almost 3,000 shore workers in seven Atlantic ports as the result or a seamen strike which began last Friday.

All but skeleton staff ra H. missed in New York, Boston, Richmond. Norfolk. Portia nH 111, St John, N. B.

and Yarmouth, N. S. Representatives of the Seafarers' International Union, of the American Federation of Labor, which called the strike, and the company, met today in an attempt to break the deadlock, while lonrahnrsmon complained that a continued tie up woum tnrow them out of work. LABOR PARADE FOR New York, June 1. A crowd of 5,000 labor unionists and sympa thizers was expected to creet Thomas J.

Mooney on his arrival today and parade behind his car to his hotel. Mayor F. H. LaGuar dia appointed a committee of 16 labor leaders to escort him to the World's Fair City Hall. Mooney, who spent 22 years In California penitentiaries as a result of the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco, will ar rive at 5 p.

m. Monday nlcht he will speak at Madison Square Garden in the first of a series of nation wide addresses to raise funds to fight for the release of Warren K. Billings, serving a life term in Folsom Prison, in connection with the bombing. ww Qnww 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Louis Kupcho, 100 Church street, will be held at 8:30 o'clock from the family home. There will be a requiem mass at 9 o'clock in St Michael's Greek Catholic Church, in the 200 block of North Main street Interment will be in the parish cemetery, Duryea. The funeral of Stephen Ravinsky, aged 12 years, will be held at 8:45 o'clock from the home of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Ravinsky, 64 Wood street. A requiem mass will be sung at 9 o'clock in St.

Casi mlr's R. C. Church and interment will be in the parish cemetery. The funeral of Albert Matonis, aged 10 years, will be at 10:45 o'clock from the home of his foster mother, Mrs. Margaret Kizis, 134 Church street.

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