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Area Lutheran 1 4 Feb. 23. 1949 The Scranton. Tribune I Church. Partlcltpating churches will be: Bethel AME, Immanuel Baptist, Elm Park Methodist, Pine Street Baptist, St.

Johns Lutheran, St. Lukes Episcopalian, Westminster Presbyterian. Prayer Day Set 1 1 Seven churches and the Salvation Army will participate in the World Day of Prayer at 7:45 p. m. March 4 at Cyrus Jones Memorial Elm Park Methodist Keystone Pupils Hear Description Antarctic Trip Rally Tuesday Head of Laymen Movement to Speak Dr.

Clarence C. Stoughton, executive director of the Lutheran Laymens Movement and Secretary for Stewardship for the United Lutheran Church America, wiU speak at a pre-Lenten rally Tuesday night at Christ Lutheran Church, Cedar Ave. Life In the Antarctic was graphically described by Comdr. Finn Ronne, USNR, of the government scientific expedition to Antarctica in an illustrated talk yesterday afternoon at Keystone Junior College, La The commander spoke of the second Byrd expedition to the Antarctic in 1933, when 'he was ski expert, and of the 1939 expedition when he was second in command of a field base. The governments scientific expedition from which he recently returned, Commander Ronne said, definitely established that Antarctica is a single continent, not divided by a strait as had been believed previously.

He said that approximately 250,000 square miles of unknown territory had been surveyed by the expedition last year and that valuable records had been compiled on geological formations, tidal readings and climate. The pictures with which he illustrated the talk showed highlights of the expedition and of exploration of the southern shore of the Weddell Sea, which until the expeditions work was the last major unknown seacoast in the world. Vets Field Day Set March 8 400 From Region Due to Attend Agriculture Veterans Field Day Is planned at Dallas Twp. High School on March 8, with approximately 400 from Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties attending. H.

E. Newcomer, county vocational advisor for the State Department of Education in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties, is supervising the program which 'is being arranged by E. J. Keller of the Dallas Twp. High School faculty.

Veterans from' the two counties receiving agricultural training under' the Veterans Administration will participate in an extensive program to be presented. Speakers will include R. H. Olmstead, dairy husbandry, State College; W. F.

Shafer, artificial breeding plant, Turlkhannock; F. H. Leuschner, poultry husbandry, State College; Fred Wolfe, poultry producer, Sweet Valley; G. H. Bergen, agronomy department, State College; Jesse L.

Landen-berger, county agent for Lacka-awanna County; James Hutchinson, county agent for Luzerne Count; J. P. Ehke, chief of training for the Veterans Administration, Wilkes-Barre. WESTMINSTER HONORS WASHINGTON Dr. Imre Kovacs of Phoenixville, left, was the principal speaker at the Washington Day dinner of Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Center is Mrs. Karl P. Conrad, president of Westminster Women who served the dinner, and at right is the Rev. Dr. Peter K.

Emmons, pastor of the church. Fight the Battle of Peace Plea at Washington Dinner Dr. Imre Kovacs of Phoenixville, principal speaker at the Washington Day dinner in Westminster Presbyterian Church last night, called for Americans to fight the battles of peace in the same aggressive spirit in which Washington and his associates established the democratic idea in the last-quarter of the 18th century. M01 $953 diPINT AT ALL STATS STORES AND TAVERNS RARE PRE-WAR QUALITY BLENDED WHISKEY sjrajtfit whiskies in this product are 5 years or more 0 Jfraight wtliske- 65 grain neutral spirits. 86 SSL18 whiskey 5 years old.

21 straight whiskey 6 years old. 4 stralehfl whiskey 7 years old. Copyright 1948, Schenley Distillers Corporation. New York CV CONTINUE HEARING A hearing in which David D. Evans, 29, 338 Putnura a Scranton Transit co.

bus driver is charged with larceny by employe, will be continued today before Alderman Dominick Manzo, Evans pleaded innocent to the charge at the outset of the hearing Monday night. Rev. Paul F. Evans on program Program Listed For Gymanfa at Bethania Sunday Plans have been completed for the Gymanfa Ganu to be presented Sunday at 6 p. m.

in Bethania Welsh Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Paul F. Evans is pastor of the church. A program of organ music will be presented at 5:30 p.

m. by Mrs. Margaret Petherick Ale. Morgan Leyshon will be conductor. Mrs.

Ale and Ivor Price will be accompanists. J. Haydn Carpenter is Bethania minister of music. The program follows: CaU to Worship, Rev. Paul T.

Evans, Pastor Choral Response, Aberdare, Double Quartet Scripture Reading and Prayer Introduction of Chairman Sanford Phillips by Dewi Williams Remarks by Chairman Hymns, Sail On Hyfrydol Penpark, Double Quartet Thelma Sealy, Celnwen Edwards, Lucille Davis, Gladys Davis Lewis, Glyn Treharne, J. Haydn Carpenter, William Williams, Sidney Lewis. Hymns, Aberystwyth Diadem Solo, The Holy City, Adams, Shirley James Hymns, Penpark, Huddersfield, Rachie Selection, The Days of Man Are As Grass Double Quartet Hymn, Nazareth, Lead Me Gently Home (In Memorlam) Ebenezer Solo, Lead Kindly Light, D. Pugh Evans, Margaret C. Francis Hymns, Crugybar Calon Lan Offering S' Hymns, Babel Groeswen Solo, Divine Redeemer, Gounod, LoDonna McCourt Hymns, Bryn Calfaria, Cwm Rhondda Sandon Benediction Pastor Mrs.

Regis Walker Dies After Illness; Scranton Native The rally is sponsored by the Lutheran Cooperative Committee of Scranton and vicinity. Dr. Stoughton will speak of his experiences as a representative at the World Council of Churches Assembly in Amsterdam. He is president-elect of Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. The Charles E.

Brodell is host pastor. Robert Nagaeli, St. Johns Lutheran Church, is rally chairman. Albert Hoffman, Christ Church, is president of the sponsoring of the committee are: the Rev. George W.

Fritch, pastor of St. Peters; George W. Schroeder, St. Marks; Frederick Pletcher, St. Marks; the Rev.

William O. Moyer, St. Johns. The Junction of the Lutheran Cooperative Committee is arranging for rallies and meetings for the laymen of churches during the year. Refreshments will be served following Dr.

Stoughtons address. Revised State Tax Setup Proposed (Continued from First Page) ment of a four per cent tax on the net income from investments in' its place. 5. Impose a 1 per cent tax on the income from unincorporated business and such as medicine, law, engineering. Gov.

James H. Duff, however, already has ignored the committees proposals in submitting his tax program to the Legislature. The Governors program has been passed by the House and is now awaiting Senate action. Sen. James A.

Geltz Allegheny), is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which is now studying the administration program. He also is acting chairman of the Tax Study Committee. It (the committee plan) may not be enacted this year but as the public gets to understand it, I am sure there will be more and more support for it, Geltz told reporters. The committees tax measures were presented in the House by Rep. Warner Depuy Pike), another committee member.

They were immediately referred to the House Ways and Means Committee. The tax group, In its report to the Legislature recently, estimated that its program provide a net gain of $13,412,000 a year in state revenues even though its suggestion for abolition of the 1947 soft drink levy is carried out. It said its new business taxes would produce $99,300,000 a year or the same amount now brought in by the present four per cent corporate net income, capital stock, corporate franchise and corporate loans taxes all of which would be repealed. In addition, it said the state would $7,600,000 from the proposed four per cent tax on investment income and $24,165,000 from the income tax on unincorporated business and professions. The remaining $17 million from the tax on investment income would be shared by counties.

The measure amending the local tax law would limit municipalities to levies on wages, unin committee. Other members The annual birthday dinner, a1 feature of the church calendar for approximately 75 years, was served by the Wistminster Women, of whom Mrs. Karl P. Conrad is president. A capacity group of more than, 250 persons filled Sawtelle Auditorium at the church, and lack of space forced the church to refuse additional requests for places at the dinner.

Tables were decorated with the national colors by a committee headed by Mrs. Helen Davis, and the stage setting in the auditorium was a bust of George Washington flanked on one side by the flag of the United States and on the other by the Christian flag. The music was by the church quartet made up of Eleanor Thorpe Mohring, soprano; Ethel Jones Jenkins, alto; Sam Smith, tenor, and John L. Burnett, bass-baritone, accompanied by Llewellyn Jones, church organist. The turkey dinner was served by a committee headed by Mrs.

Alfred Roper. Dr. Kovacs pointed to the sacrifices that Washington had made for his ideals, sacrifices that included his love of his plantation home and his love of ease and comfort. He also pointed to the intellectual sacrifice he made when he resolved to permit the sovereignty of his favorite state of Virginia to be merged into the larger sovereignty of the United States of America. Couple to Observe 52nd Anniversary Mr.

and Mrs. James Moore, 1217 Monroe Ave Dunmore, will celebrate their 52nd wedding anniversary tomorrow with a family dinner at their home. The couple was married in St. Pauls Church by the late Rev. Father Dunn.

Mrs. Moore is the former Miss Catherine Quinn, Scranton. Mr. Moore before retiring was superintendent of the Quinn Coal Scranton. They had 15 children, six of whom are living.

They are: James, Avoca; Mary, New York; Aloysius, Budd Lake, N. Mrs. John Kane, Dunmore; Catherine and Joseph, at home. They have 18 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. President Hits Press Criticism (Continued from First Page) just as loyal to my military aide as I am to the high brass, and I want you to distinctly understand that anyone who thinks he can cause any of those people to be discharged by me, by some smart aleck statement over the air or in the paper, he has got another think coming; No commentator or columnist named any members of my cabinet, or my staff.

I naine them myself. And when it is time for them to be moved on, I do the moving, nobody else. The Argentine decoration The Order of the Liberator General San Martin was presented to Vaughan at a reception at the Argentine embassy, Feb. 4. Dr.

Jeronimo Remorino, the Argentine Ambassador, conferred the decoration in recognition, he said, of Vaughans virtue as a soldier and an American. You are a loyal friend of my country and also a brillant soldier in the glorious army of the United States, the Ambassador told Vaughan at the time. His excellency the President of the Argentine Republic, Gen. Juan Domingo Peron wished in this way to recognize your outstanding merit." Health Club Elects The YMCA Health Club has named W. Edgar Duncklee as president, Victor J.

Michael, YMCA physical director, announced yesterday. Other officers are: Walter Ward, vice-president, and Dr. Frank Gardner, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Daniel S.

Gardner chairman of the Health Pepart-ment Committee will be ex officio chairman of the Health Club. Mrs. Regis Walker, 319 Keystone Peckville, died at the Mid-Valley Hospital yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. Mrs. Walker was born in Scranton, the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Margaret and William McGettrick Walker. She was a resident of Peckville for the past 25 years and was a member of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Peckville, and its Altar and Rosary Society. Besides her husband, John she is survived by a son, John a student at Mansfield State Teachers College, and a daughter, Joan, employed by the Bell Telephone Co. The funeral will be held Saturday from home with a mass at 9:30 a.

m. in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. Interment, St. Patricks Cemetery, Blakely. Arrangements, Byrnes Funeral Service, Olyphant.

Bulganin Calls U. S. War Seekers (Continued from First Page) emerged from. World War II stronger and vigorous. Soviet Army men are standing guard over peaceful labor, perfecting their military, political and technical knowledge, he said.

Bulganin, whose order of the day was dated Wednesday as Moscow is three hours ahead of London time (and eight hours ahead of EST), ordered 20 salvoes of- artillery fired in Moscow, capitals of Soviet Union Republics and in other cities in honor of the day. He concluded: Long live the armed forces of the Soviet Union. Long live the mighty Soviet motherland. Long live our Soviet government. Long live the glorious Communist Party.

Long live the inspirer and organizer of our victories, our leader and teacher the great Stalin. PRICES HAVE BEEN SLASHED TO THE BONE! This is your opportunity to get the BEST BUYS EVER! Selections ore good Quality is Guaranteed PRICES ARE THE LOWEST EVERL BUY NOW AND SAVE! corporated business and professional activities and per capita taxes. Losses of revenue would be made up from the statewide sales tax. Youth Council Dinner The YMCA Youth Program Council will meet at 6 p. m.

7 in the YMCA Building for dinner and a business session. Speakers will be the Rev. J. N. White, pastor of Simpson Methodist Church.

The Group Leaders, Teen-Age, Athletic and Young Adult Councils, which comprise the Y6uth Program Council will hold separate meetings after the main session. WALKER ARRESTED A man described as Clarence Walker, 32, 127 South Sherman was arrested by Detectives James Walsh and Leo Marcus at 4:30 p. m. yesterday on a charge of suspicion. They said that Walker is winted on a warrant sworn out by Plymouth.

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