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AI.TOONA TOBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 193Q NAVY READY FOB UVNCHWG TEST 6. AS STILL EXPLODES ALTOONA WATER BUREAU HEAD DIS (From Pto BSERVANC phia, and S. A. Galley, Uonongahela, He was a member of Christ Rev formed church, and took an active in terest in church work for many years. He also held membership in camp No, 60 of the patriotic Order Sons of 1 Funera) service will be held at 2: SO p.

m. tomorrow at Christ Reformed church, in charge of his pastor, the Rev. C. p. Rockel, Burial wlU made Fairvjew gemetery, iii.

W. Officer, principal of the Gravity, Iowa, publlo school, spen? summer digging the basement for fFrom Fr It Uve ahunied to the scene to provide tTnited Brethren church, fch of others of the illumination with spotlights. on in this vicinity, yester- 4 observance of the eightieth ary of its institution. At Cornier pastors preach-4Uid the services will continue all week, culminating in the visit nical education, he was recpfplied, an authority on hydraulic engineering problems. Under his supervision he built a splendid organisation.

JJr. Campbell was a man of unassuming nature, and was held In the highest regard by cty officials apd. others with whom he come, into contact. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Minnie A.

Campbell, two sons, Neil of Altoona and of Connells-Vllle, and one daughter. Almeda Mu at home. He Is also survived by two pepuews, Paul W. Campbell, Philadel of Bishop Batdorf next Sunday." The auditorium has been profusely decorated and music was exceptionally SirVw; -i oik BARGAINS ON OREDKKMED I'LEDGES AT'v'Wv-Vv SACKS LOAN OFFICE 16S7 Efrnlh Ave. OPEN EVEMSG3 flue.

Rumors other bodies were in the ruins spurred polira and firepten, who werp clearing away wreckage thrown oyer- the, pavement. There were rumors two children who were passing the building at the time, might be covered by the wreckage. Qlce could not fmd anyone who saw them, however. The explosion shook the entire downtown section of the city, shattering glass 4n homes two squares from the scene' of the blast, and was (tilt nibre slightly throughout the city. Shiny five-gallon cans were tossed about the neighborhood.

A spa-gallon still, bent and twi3ted like a wad tissue paper, was in the center of the wreckage. Beside the still were bundles of five gallon pans, some of them filled The Rew TT. W. Williamson. D.

1 lvisior of the First United Brethren church, Lorraine, Ohio, was the preacher yesterday at the morning service. His theme was The Glory of the Church of God." lr. Vfilhaia- soa was pastor here when the pres- Special For Today! iiit church was dedicated, bavins 1-oen pastor, ISST-lSOt, He was greeted at the close of the service by Jjjocniftit Pm Pt utu- Gretchen Powell of Toledo was viJsi the prettiest eo-ed on the -pus of Flndlay coMege, Flndlay ARIZONA TOWN GIVES WAY TO IRRIGATICN PROJECT '7 JjacuUii Pfes Photo SAN CARLOS. Feb. 16 (jPI -Onoe the capital, of the Apaches and later a historic military post.

San Under favorabfe weather conditions tr.e naval dirigible Los Angeles will take off from Its tike-hurst, hangar with the glider attached to its under side as showr above which will be released when the ship reaches ah attitude of 3,000 feet Lieut Ralph 8. Barnaby (seated in glider) will pilot the powerless craft when it is throw ar of the ship. Carlos disappeared today In the smoke of eight dynamite blasts ta make way for an irrigation project. jitany who were members of the ihureh at that time. At the night service the preacher wes the Rev.

J. S. Fulton. D. IX.

former conference superintendent, now director of the ministers' pension bureau. Dr. Fulton preached "with Hs old time fervor on "AYhy I Think Tou Ought- to Be the Kind of a Christian You Think a. ought to Be." Tonight is set apart especially for former members to "Visit She Old Church," and for members of churches that have been the outgrowth of this church. Rev.

R. K. Penick. Hooversvilie, a former pastor, will preach on 'Is the Church Worth Dying The Second Avenue church choir wiil furnish music When the echo of the last blast died, San Carlos took its place in 'history DEATH RECORD 1 50 BOYS GET with other frontier towns. STRUCK RV COLD fATB POSTON.

16. The worst snowstorm, of the winter to visit the XewvEngland CJasi, followed by a mile a minute northerly gale, and neat cere cold has 'aken a Jol) of at least eight lives. The storm tied up ship ping and made many roads impassable. The Cape Cod section of this state apparently was the worst although no details were reported, from that area. All roads along the cape were piled high with snow, while automobiles and even snow iIjws were held fast in the drifts.

A heavy sea was reported running all along the coast. The dynamite charges removed from the path ot ever-Wwening Coolidge lake the last building the school house erected 40 years ago, when the SCOUT AWARDS WILLIAM A. YanSCOrOC William A. VanSco'0C retired R. R.

blacksmith, died at his home, S03 TweiHy-second avenue, Sunday 'white man brought the teachings bf civilisation to the red men. (From Pat morning, of complications. Mr, Van The waters, backed up from Collidge dam, have been encroaching upon the the arch in its position he stood at salute and explained the inscription. Dr. V.

A. Green led the new Tender Scoyoc was a son of John and Lyda VanScoyoc born at TiPton, April 22, 1S5S. He was a member of Fairvjew Methodist Episcopal church and of Old town for some time. WATER TO PftOTECT FAJJLT (ADVERTISEMENT) foot scouts in the scout o.Kh, and YORK, Feb. 16.

Some from then on for two hours scouts bank burglar of the future may, DOT AGEST ACQOTTEB DULUTH, Minn Feb. IS. (jP) Acquitted by a jury in federal court here last night on a charge of murder in connection With the fatal shooting of Gust Henry Wirkkula a rum smuggling suspect, Emmet J. White, C. S.

customs officer, is to return to his duties Monday as a member of the border prohibition patrol. White was suspended after killing Wirkkula on a country road near Little Fork, last June when the latter failed to stop his ear which the officer intended to search for liquor. SI1LS D1VOHCED WIFE VALLEJO, Feb. 16. Before a crowd of church goers Frederick Schafer, 45, navy yard enir ploye, today shot and killed his divorced wife.

Afis. Ellen Schafer, 49, then kihed himself with the sanio weapon. Persons on their way to c.iureh saw Schafa; drive his autor mobile toward his tornier wile as she 'was about to enter htr grocery store. The automobile crashed into three oth-jr n.acMnes and haftr vasd beneath the arch to receive literally speaking, get all wet, unless their various awards from Mr. Davis.

ITS FINE FOB ACHIHG MX v. i Swimming Exhibit The swimming exhibition of the TODAY Tef 1) the' caterpillar type. Plenty of power with the tracton "track." Fuliy enclosed. Froieeted rora dust. lie cugiii especially to push ahead the aviation work in which he has rendered great service, it'n-5 he has buiit his plane io carry 500 passeng-ers, and his pursuit place to go 50ft fniles an hour Mr.

Ford's most important work will remain undone. Many can "teach trades, few can build UnaChinery for hundreds of millions people. he wears a diving suit to work or operates in a submarine. Walls of water wi)I surround, the great vault of the Irving Trust company when the building, to be the tallest in the world, Is finished at No. 1 Wall street.

comicil continued to attract large the P. RR. Relief association. Surviving are his wife, who was Miss Jennie R. Woomer, three sons and a daughter: Harry SM Alfred Theodore and Mary Elisabeth V'anScoyoc; seven grandchildren, five brothers apd two sisters: Mabel, Pittsburg: Virgie.

Philadelphia; Frank. Edmond, Thomas, Thaddeus, and James, Johnstown. The body has Wen taken to the Hickey and son funerol home, where it may be viewed Tuesday. crowds, necessitating holding it over the second time. Durin? the second exhibition, G.

YT. Shaffer, president Fcmerly Up to 50c Yard of the council, spoke briefly stressing The vault will be the third largest in the wofW- Three stories liigh, it wiil rest on foundations cut into solid rock, 64 feet below Broadway and well below sea level. When flooded the work done here by Gordon A. Blair, retiring executive who leaves Wien Back Hurts Flush Your Kidneys as You Clean Your Bowels Most folks forget that the kidney Ilka the bowels, sometimes get slug the only way to reach it be through a complicated system of edr YARD jur.iped out and began shooting. The.

Bole award cf SlO.uOQ for JJ'hiiadelphian who during the year "VjSS performed a act of service calculated to' advance the best 2nd locks and pumps, such as tunnel workers use. And the water is only supplemental to en elaborate system of chemical and electrioal Altoona early this week to assume a position as chief executive of the Voutli Worcester scout council at Worcester, Mass. John I Taylor, newly-chosen scout executive appeared at the demonstration in company with Roy F. Seymour, regional scout executive oi scout region Xo. 3, which includes the local council.

Scouts who received. Eagle awards at the second session of the exhibition of th "Trail To Citizenship-were Richard Breen and Charles Bot-wright. member JCo. IS, W. KILI.ED IX TAKI8 OFF NORFOLK.

Va Feb. Lieutenant Walter George Maser, attached to the TT. S. S. Nevada, now in Cuban waters, was killed, aboard that ship today while taking off from the deck of the vessel in an airplane, according: to reports received here.

A charge of powder used in the catapult by which the plane was OF FAMILT KILLED GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. Id. Three members pf a family were kelied and two injured in a collision between an automobile and a Pere Marquette passenger train 14 miles east of here tonight. The dead, who lived at Ada, two miles from OXFE3SES HAXXPB MFRPER OLATH. Feb.

16. Wil liam a carpenter, today 38-Inch Foulard Prints and 36-Inch English Prints! Guaranteed Fast Colors! Attractive colorful prints on dark and light backgrounds! Splendid fabrics for Women's and Children's Presses, etc. On Sale in the Basement confessed, county authorities said, to gish and clogged and need a flushing occasionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, severe headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid 6tomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorder Tou simply must keep your kidneys active and clean and the moment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region begin drinking lots of water. Also get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and, your kidneys will then act fine. This "famous salts is made fronj the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithla, and Is Intended to flush clogged kidneys and help stimulate them to activity.

It also helps neutralize the adds in the urine ax they no longer irritate, thus helping launched was said to have exploded Mowing his plane to bits. the scene of the accident, are: John Jljrgest interest of Philadelphia" goes to Mr. CtnnieMuck. He, as you probably know, rejuvinated the "Athletics" asehull team, winning the American pennant and- world series. Connie Mack' no doubt delighted oeisousands ot children of all ages in tnd oat Philadelphia.

But what ft'-'ere other Phiiadelphians doing during the year? Vou would expect an -award in monkeyiand to go to abie to throw a cocoanut farthest ijid fastest. Some ether sign 0. would be exretid anions ia-tellectual PhUadelphiaiis- H. Mikle, scoutmaster. Throughout the demonstration.

Baker, 43; his daughter, Johanna, IS the hammer slaying of his neighbor. T- A. Sanders, SI, a retired chip owner at his home in Lenexa. Kansas. Sandees, -whose body was found, last night, spent 40 years on the Great Lakes as captain and owner of a scorns posted at the.

main entrance and his sop, Martin, fi. Mrs. Baker was injured critically an John, a fractured to the buiidinsr distributed a special leg. T. S.

AVIATORS AT PERU LIMA, Peru, Feb. 16.HPV-Lietj-t,enants, WtJ Wbite and Clement Mc-Mutteni V. S. Army aviators flying from Newark, N. to Buenos Aires, landed at Taxlara, in northern Peru at p.

today, They tele 'Scout Edition" sent to the council with compliments on their anniversary by The Altoona Tribune. Other vessel, his friends here said. Skclton AGED MAX A HEBO HARVEY, nL, Feb. IS. (iPH-Wil-liaru Richardson, SO, became said he killed Sanders Friday night to obtan money which he believed congratulatory messages were received throughout the exposition by graphed that they would continue officials of the council.

a hero today. Awakening to find his tneir journey to lima at a. Sandens had hidden in the house but he was too frightened to search the house for money after striking PROHIBITION FORCES ARE to relieve b'adder disorders. Most of the omcers of the home being consumed by he tomorrow. They took on from Crlsto- scout council and practically all of Jad Salts is Inexpensive; makes a Sanders.

bal, Canal Zone, this morning. delightful effervescent lithla water SAYS WA8HINGTOX, Feb. 3. iP) drink which everybody should take gathered up his invalid wife, Anna, T3, and carried her to safety. Then he re-entered the blazing structure to secure a bag containing his few valuables.

Fifteen minutes later firemen found hiru dead on the bedroom floor. now and then to help keep their kidneys clean. A well-known local druggist says he sells lots pf Jad Salts to folks who the scoutmasters were present at the r.fTair at some tune in the two days of its duration. It was praised as the greatest affair of its kind ever staged in Altoona. Prior to the court of honor ia the uymnasium.

members of Troop IS of the Broad Avenue Presbyterian church. W. H. Mikle, scoutmaster demonstrated an Indian dance "The Brown Bear," that brought a great ovation from the crowd. believe in trying to correct Kidney trouble while i is only trouble.

RAID COCKFIGHT WILKES-BARRE, Feb. IS df- Three state troopers and Avoca police raided a cockfight at the home of Earl 'jrohibjtion forces are constantly in-reasicg in cor.grese, Senator Robison -f Ker.tucio-, said today in assuring a "Women's Christian Temperance njnjou audience that there was little likelihood cf the Eighteenth amend--jjicct atid sax being re-Jpealed. "Speaking ai services ia piemory. of Jaccis E- Willard. he characterized for a referendum oa jro-IJbitiua as ''pure politics," and said ir.ai "instead of so much enforcement -demands, there should be more eui-Jphasis placed on Uw He denied that drinking had prevalent in educational institutions and that prohibition was enacted without a vdiee of the people.

Banner, of West Avoca, today, Fifteen men were arrested and about twice that many escaped in the stampede that followed the appearance ef the raiders. Sixteen gaiue-coeks were seized. 'IDENTIFY CHAEBED BODY SPRINGFIELD, ViU Peb. The mystery surrounding the recent discovery of the charred remains of a human being near a dance hall at Florence, was cleared up today, police said, in a confession by Harry Ross, a local junk dealer, that he killed John Babcock. his former partner, and burned his body.

Dispute over a second hand automobile, purchased for to. resulted in an argument that culminated in the killing of Babcock. Ross was (juoted by the police as saying. 9 ELECTROCUTED CAMAS, Wash- Feb. IS.

Floyd Jones, 26, and J. T. Douglas, 2S, were electrocuted here today when an apartment bouse radio aerial which they were lengthening i Iiatt arrived in Altoona! DISPUTE RULING BY WHICH 2 MANAGER aOSES SHOW 'MW YORK. Feb. cf contacted a high tension power line and sent thousands of volts through their bodies.

Backache Bother You? It May Warn of Disordered IF bothered "with constant backache, bladder irrj and getting up at night, don't take chances. Help your kidneys with than 9 Pills. Used for more than 4Q years. Endorsed the world over. Sold by dealers everywhere.

50,000 Users Endorse Doan's: Mr. Hmimt C. Marts, WMWallaM StChicato, "lfcJ dfcchw ud dizzy tpell u4 fdt Umc and tuM. My ktdacy rcr set meting ntbt: tk caoeliow van my imniUjr ud evmcii ia pHung. I hp-ftmtd to try Don i FilU sad mom I pee asjr too, audi for tons.

Doaa a gun ma (joick rcUet, Oca" or the baby who closed a 'jBro show was born today to BERLIN" CAB STRIKE BERLIN, Feb. H-hrA strike Hayes. And it's a girl. Hayes, the wife cf Charles of taxi drivers today left Berliners almost without cabs. Some dis turbances occurred Saturday night and continued today when strikers bombarded the cabs of strike-break? ing drivers with stones, wrecking severed.

Police arrested strikers. ESTABLISH AIR RECORDS MARSEILLES. France, Feb. 15 jP) Dieudonne Coste and pilot Codos broke the world's endurance, distance and flight duration records for planes carrying one gross ton of cargo today, flying 2.04S miles in li hours one minute 29 seconds. The former distance record was held by the German Pilot Herman Steindorf.

Frite Harm, another German, held the duration record for this type of toad, The Frenchmen took turns at the controls during todays flight lacArthur, playwright, was starring in 'voquete" when approaching mat? trait 'forced her to withdraw from -the cast. Manager Jed Harris ciosed the show ar. refused to pay the company for the two weeks notice did net He maintained that the baby was act of God and that therefore ha -was not required to give notice. An arbitration board, without ruling on "he act God dispute, decided Against him. Bfflo MCSICIAX A SCICIDE LANCASTER, Feb.

16. (iPHThe body of C. Robert Beruederly, 5a a I A Slimulani "Diuretic to the Jfybieys retired Army musician, was found tff-day in the cellar of a house under construction, near his home. A bullet wound in the bead had been selfrin- flirted, a deputy coroner said. IDENTIFY GUNMAN ATTACKER FATALLY BURNED TORK.

Feb. 16. (T) While help (The "1930 Modal" dassi-fied Telephone Directory will be delivered this week) Altoona's "1930 Model" Oassified Telephone Di. rectory has arrived in town. It will take us the best part of a week to deliver them.

We have provided Altoona with a modern, metro politan-type Classified Telephone Directory a Classified Directory which lists EVERY business eoncern in town v. a Classified Directory which will tell you, in a jiffy, just WHO sells the things you want to buy and WHERE they are located. Use your new Classified Directory every time you want buying information, ing her mother prepare supper last i evening. Jean Reikerd, daughter or Mr. and Mrs.

B. S. Reikerd, this city, was so badly burned by flames from the coal range she died today. I rsi 1 I The low back Windsor was I Hlf tn tnalrp and Virginia has more. than 100 "gardens of romance," in historio spots many of them still nurture plants that grew in the days of Washington.

i ADVERTISEMENT) If v- Lt tr-siSk l' 4 yet, strangely enough; -it was the most popular style in Colonial days, Skillfully Reproduced Here At 1 Dangerous To Neglect A Cough A slight cough is a warning 0 95 j-purself of t. A persistent, stubborn cough pften leads to serjous trouble. i Ycur of Chair.oir Rockr fa i LJ. Eckman's Alterative, with its calcium content, is widely known for its beneficial results in stubborn cases. In addition to its value in bronchial it is a body builder.

Four druggist always carries this standard preparation in stock. ECKHAN lae, Philadelphia THE BKFX TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA Many other types as well, at reduced The STANDARD Furniture Co. 1407 Eleventh Avcnws i wpp'g wppy Loog inr tpb TCLCpnoivc DinccTony Beatrics CaHaghsr (upper left) and Mary Psehcek (balow). of Cleveland, have identified Edward Ralph, 18 (right), as the man whe hot them when they refused hia proposals for "dates.".

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