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ALTOONA TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1930 battery of run tanks on the lla- Hiolia-St. George lease in the Mildred oil field near here today. A. L. Wilson, welder for the Pure Oil company, was cutting into a pipe line removed from the tanks when the blast occurred.

He was not injured. He said he believed gas I from the filling tanks came in con tact with the flume of his torch. Physicians said the injured men probably would live. DO-X PRIMED FOR FLIGHT TO LA CARUNA BORDEAUX, France, Nov. 18 Germany's big DO-X is to leave tomorrow morning for La Caruna, on another stage of her proposed flight to the United States.

Dr. Claude Dornier, the DO-X designer, said today that when the ship reaches Lisbon, starting place of the ocean lap of the journey, he may decide to take down her 12 motors and install British engines. It was believed, howeve. that the motor trouble, if there is any, probably involves the magnetoes, and a magneto expert was on his way to Lisbon today to look over the power plant. FIRE RELIEF FUNDS TO RECEIVE $151,437 FROM PA.

HARRISBURG, Nov. 18. (P) Fire relief funds of municipalities in Pennsylvania alert enough to take advantage of a state offer of financial assistance, are to receive a total of $151,437 in the near future while payments, to others are being held up by negligence. Vouchers for the payment of that amount were approved today by Auditor General Waters, the money to be paid out of the two per cent tax collected by the state on fire insurance premiums of policies in effects in the various cities, boroughs and townships. The" payment last year was $810,190.

Amoung payments to the large municipalities are: Altoona, Sayre, $927; Johnstown, Lancaster, Greenville, for SAF Please Don't! Him Don't let A II INDIGESTION spoil holiday fun. Don't take chances. You're SAFE with Kcll-aiis. BELL-ANS fsi FOR INDIGESTION Lyii.wi lip A COOL AXD COLLECTED Private Henry Keefer of the guard detachment at Governors Island, one of the government forts, received the Soldiers' Medal from Capt. Philin Brown for his coolness and courage in forcing an.

armed and barricaded military prisoner to sarrender under the threat of a gun which hf knew was jammed and useless WORKER KILLED, FOUR BURNED IN EXPLOSION CORSICANA, Nov. 18. MP) John H. Moss, 38, was killed and four other workers were burned severely in the explosion of a' new I Bister Sunbury, $1,524 and York, PLOT TO OVERTHROW SPAIN'S MONARCHY IS DISCOVERED MADRID, Nov. 13.

government tonight discovered a plot which it says was designed by communist agitators to overthrow the monarchy. Sixty suspected leaders of the conspiracy were arrested. Officials charged that the movement had as its object the establishment of a Republic, with communists working with certain Republican elements. It was believed that the plot was wholly broken up by speedy arrest of the leaders. BOOKMAKER RELEASED TULSA.

Nov. 18 (P) George H. Hurford, wealthy Tulsa race bookmaker, was safe tonight after having been held by kidnapers almost 3G hours. Accompanied by two detectives, Hurford was on his way home from Chetopa, where he was put out of a motor car about 3 a. today.

J. H. Lancaster, night policeman at Chetopa, quoted Hurford as telling him his captors had sought a ransom, but that he had refused their demand. PEACE OVERTURES (Prom l'nge Stores i bureau was allotted $9,000,000 for the present fiscal year. Dr.

James M. Doran, commissioner of industrial alcohol of the treasury, said he planned to ask for about with the increase of $200,000 over his current appropriation covering the cost of adding 90 medicinal liquor and industrial alcohol in- COLDS Prompt relief from HEADACHES, SORE THROAT, LUMBAGO. RHEUMATISM, NEURITIS, NEURALGIA, COLDS, ACHES and PAINS Does not harm the heart BAYE SP Accept only "Bayer" package which contains boxes of 12 tablets. Also bottles of You Can Select proven directions. Handy "Bayer" 24 and 100 All druggists.

AT ROTHERT'S Gifts for the Whole Family in This Great Sale Schwartz Bros, as usual, offer the greatest dollar values to be found anywhere In Altoona. This will be a day of great excitement because we have made great preparations our page ad carries news of outstanding importance to the thrifty shopper to all who want double value for their money. Look over cur offerings and you will agree with us that now is the time to buy your present and future needs in apparel for the whole family for Thanksgiving for Gifts and for home needs. Come in today and save on every purchase. Your Choice of These Items, SI.

00 Electric Percolator, 1 qt. size, with cord $1.00 Thermos Jugs, 1 gal. size 81.00 Handy Ann Garbage Pails $1.00 Folding Card Tables, red or green 81.00 Door Stops, cast iron, Bull Dog Covered Wagon, 81.00 Art Metal Smoking Stands 81-00 Your Choice of These Items, 69c Regular Values'Up to $1.00 ll JWIIlWllg I Uf El SIN CD IMifC STRICTER ENFORCEMENT PLANNED BY DRY CHIEFS WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (A') Plans for a stricter enforcement of prohibition were forecast today as the dry chiefs of the justice and treasury departments prepared requests for appropriations totalling approximately $17,400,000, the highest figure ever placed in the budget for the work.

Prohibition Director Amos W. Woodcock said the total to be requested for his department including the cost of adding 500 new dry agents would reach $11,200,000. This Wagons. 98c to $9.98 Automobiles, to $28.50 Drums, 25c to $3.98 Blackboards, 39c to $3.49 Sets of Dishes. 89c "to $2.49 hundreds of other Toys all at special low prices.

OUR CLOTHING DEPT. 18. Regular price (IJK OO $30.00 $20.00 Regular price 2" Pfl liS.OU from $49.30 to $45.00 to use. Size 81x90. $1.00 DAY $1 DOWN DELIVERS ANY OF THESE ARTICLES Electric Waffle Iron $5.95 4-piece Electric Urn Set 85.95 Sampson Electric Iron, lifetime guarantee 85.95 Vapo-Seal Cooker, cooks without water $3.95 4-way Electric Toaster 83.25 126-pieee Dinner and Silver Set 819.95 Ladies' Week-End Cases $3.95 to $19.50 Men's Gladstone Bags.

$17.75 to $49.00 Men's Club Bags $4.95 to $23.50 Wardrobe Trunks. $32.00 to $65.00 Mahogany Spinet Desks Smokers, over 50 styles 81.00 to $23.50 Cedar Chests, 45 styles and sizes 827.79 to $75.00 50 lb. Cotton $8.50 50 lb. Layer Felt Mattress $13.65 Metal Bed Spring $8.13 Steel Beds. 25 styles $12.70 to $22.50 Cribs and Bassinettes, 15 styles $5.10 to $36.50 Porcelain Kitchen Table 4-piece Enamel Breakfast Set $19.24 Cogswell Chair and Stool to match $17.50 Occasional Chairs $6.95 Occasional 86.45 to $38.50 Telephone Stands $5.95 to TOYLAND SPECIALS Xo need for any child to go without Toys this Christmas ALL THE TOYS YOU WANT ON CREDIT AT i aura- tu be wa ie-ti.

ib kj ii -a rr Dish Drainers Decorated Cake Covers t-1'iece Bread Box Set 6 ft. White Enamel Preserving Kettles Glass-Bake Tie l'late Glass-Bake Bread Pan Decorated Metal Waste Baskets Vegetable Bills Aluminum Beverage Shakers Art-Glass Sugar and Cream Sets 3-l'iece Aluminum Splice Pan Sets 4 (t. Aluminum Stew Pan Hand Dusters Child's Folding Chairs DOLLAR DAY SPECIALS All Big Values 4 tit. Granite Potato Pots to issue a proclamation. The sheriff' refused to do this, saying it would incite to riot more than quiet the people.

Union leaders after the meeting said that 2,500 were on strike throughout the county. The Cham- ber of Commerce announced that a survey showed 495 had left work. Federal and state mediators who have been here since last week, when the strike first threatened, announced they had made no headway. A conference was held in Washington between union heqds and Secretary of Labor Davis. COLDS Best treated by stimulation and inhalation MS2 CD) Drapery Dept.

Specials Big values offered in Drapery Damask, Cre tonne, Silks, specially marked for this day only. Bring sizes of windows with you and share in these big values. Window Shades One lot at One lot at $1.00 'Assorted Colors. Lamp Shades Table Covers Cushions Odd Lamps Table Lamps Fancy Braids for Trimming Curtains, 2c yard. Curtains Net, Voile, Scrim, Colored Madras at special prices, $1.00 to $5.50 pair.

Remnants materials, price. of 1-2 Curtain marked Glazed Chintz, big ue, 25c yard. A ACTS TWO WAYS AT ONCE' I 0- MELLON, REVEALS MARRIAGE OF YEAR PITTSBURG, Nov. 18. (P) Their plans for a brilliant Bociety wedding interrupted by disclosure that the youthful principals already were man and wife, members of two prominent Pittsburg families seemingly were undecided tonight whether a second ceremony would be performed.

While the higher circles of society here were engrossed in preparations for the wedding of Miss Grace Rowley, 19. and W. L. Mellon, 20, there came within 48 hours of the wedding date the announcement that the couple had been married more than a year. They eloped and were married November 16, 1929, at Wellsburg, W.

Va. Pittsburg's "gretna green." GAME PROCEEDS l'OK NEEDY SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. (Pi-Stanford university officials agreed today to turn over a percentage of the receipts of the Stanford-Dartmouth football game at Palo Alto November 29 tcf a fund for relief of unemployment in the bay district. The proposition was made by the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce.

J. H. Threlkeld, president of the chamber, estimated the proceeds would net the relief cam- I paign nearly $22,000. WOMAN RELEASED NEW MARTINSVILLE. W.

Nov. 18. OP) Mrs. Louis Zambrano, 19. Pittsburg, wife of the man who officers say.

has confessed slaying another Pittsburg man near Pine Grove, was freed today from the Wetzel county jail where she has been held as a material witness. Zambrano is alleged to have admitted killing a man who, he said, knew too much about Zambrano's liquor activities. SWEEPING PROBE PLANNED PHILADELPHIA, Nov. IS iP) Gifford Pinchot, governor-elect of Pennsylvania, was represented today as preparing to "rip out by the roofs the present government of Philadelphia." S. Davis Wilson, Philadelphia manager of the Pinchot campaign in the general election, said that Pinchot plans a sweeping investigation of the city and county government of Philadelphia as a means of accom-pishing his end.

BOB INDICTED NEW YORK, Nov. 18. OP) Charles V. Bob, missing engineer, promoter and flying patron, and three colleagues were indicted by a grand jury today, on charges of grand larceny. It was persistently reported at the district attorney's office that Bob, who vanished in Chicago several weeks ago, might appear with his attorney to answer the indictments.

HOOVER. CURTIS CONFER WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. tP) President Hoover called in Vice President Curtis and Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, for a luncheon conference today on the legislative situation confronting the approaching short session of congress as new problems arose to threaten the plan for avoiding an extra session in the spring. CHILD SCEIJ FOR DIVORCE NEWPORT, Nov.

18. (TP) Richard Washburn Child, former ambassador to Italy, is being sued for a divorce by Mrs. Eva Sanderson Child, the divorce docket of the December term of the superior court here issued tonight shows. The case is due to come up the first week of December. COLLEEN ILL BATTLE CREEK, Nov.

13 (P) Colleen Moore, screen and stage star, entered Battle Creek san-j itarium today. It was said that she i was not seriously ill but needed a complete rest. The production in I which she is now starring, "On the i Loose," is playing in the east. FILE DAMAGE SUIT MIAMI, Nov. 18.

JPj A damage suit filed for Irene Bordonl and several others, against Mrs. Ganson Clark and a number of social leaders, was dismissed today, the court ruling it was not a matter for the district court. Several plaintiffs announced through counsel that BANDITS HOLDUP DAIRY PROVIDENCE, R. Nov. Five armed bandits hold up a score of employes in the otlice of the Hood Milk company in the whole- sale district here this afternoon, and obtained the day's receipts be- I tween $6,000 and $8,000.

1 INTERIOR 0- A Velvet Stair Carpet, 27 in. wide, $1.00 Per Yard. Carpet Samples, 18x27, $1.00. Carpet Samples, 27x36, $2.00. III 'A i ii for ROTHERT'S.

Dolls, fiflc to $18.50 Teddv Bears, 29c to Sl.flS Wind-up Trains, Sl.l to S3.38 Klectric Trains, $5.95 to $28.50 Buddy Steam Shovels, S3.S5 Tool Chests, Sl.U to $16.50 elocipedes, to DOLLAR DAY SPECIALS IN Two Women's Sport Coats, size $19.73. Dollar Day One Fur Coat, size 18. S130.00. Dollar Day Toy And Cast Iron Skillets 98c Fire Shovels 10c Aluminum Cora Poppers Ironing Boards or Stands 81.93 Heavy Galvanized Garbage Pails ,.81.98 Metai Medicine Cabinets 81.49 Foot Step Ladders 98c lb. Electric Iron 81.93 Electric Toaster 82.25 Radio Lamps 81.9S Many Beautiful Styles GEM KITCHEN WARE Pitchers 9p, 49c, 81-29, 82.2.V (5-piece Bowl Sets 82.98 Tea Pots 75c Casseroles 89c Custard Cups 12c and Beautiful Shapes.

Canary Yellow or Green Decorated Magazine Baskets 98c Assorted Pictures. G9c and 98a Sewing Trays 98c Boudoir Lamps 98c to 88.50 Table Lamps. $3.98 to $14.95 Bridge Lamps $7.95 to 822.50 Junior Lamps $6.00 to $28.50 Walnut Finish End Table One American Broadtail Fur Coat, size 16. Regu- COA ()( lar price $175.00. Dollar Day Four Men's Mixed Suits, two size 35 and two size G- fk flfi 40.

Pesrular Drice $18.95. Dollar Day (JXV.VV One lot Men's Fancy Topcoats, slightly soiled. Sizes 3t, 37 and 39. Regular price $30.00. Dollar Day One rack Women's Silk Dresses.

118.50. Dollar Day One small-lot Women Tan Broadcloth Dress DECORATORS 1x1 1-Z and 1x2 (J i cnoice jj a Rugs, $2,00 yard. Ter 4 large room size rugs, 25 to regular price. Phone 4112 a flake Coats left from last season. Priced to $198.00.

Now $10.00 Women's Service Weight Diamond Point Silk Hose. CI ffl Regular $1.65 grade, to close out Dollar Day, Cotton Sheet Blankets in fancy plaids. Size 81x90. C- Afl Special each Jpl.UU Carpet Samples, 27x51 $3.00 Small Axminster Rugs, 16x27 2 for $1.00 100 small size Rugs, Hooked Hugs, Wiltons, Axminster Velvets, Chenille Bath Room Rugs. Size 27x54, 36x63 and 46x76.

Two for the price of one. HALF PRICE. Armstrong Quaker Felt, 2 yards wide, for $1.00 per Ladies' Fancy Silk Umbrellas Ladies' Raincoats Out for Dollar Day $3.50 $15 grades. Orders AH Sales final Linen Table Cloths Napkins and Towels, slightly soiled, to close out Vi Price and Less for Dollar Day running yard, bmall size ana i-zxz varas. iour Inlaid Romanesque Oval 1 1-2x2 vards price $2 ff Off the regular for Dollar Day.

Cotton Sheet hemmed ready Special, each yards 1(0O Congoleum inch. Each. $1.00 81.00 $1.00 Rubher Stair inch. Each 22 To Close $7.95 grade $13.50 and Xo I'hone Rothert Sweeper Congoleum Square yard Dollar Day Specials in Our Rug arid Drapery Rug Border, Oak Finish, 1 yard wide, 2 yards for $1. Our entire line of Remnant Inlaid Linoleum, 2 to 12 square yards in a piece, regularly Department Rug Mats, size 16x27 15 fi1 Voile Panel Curtains, 2' long, silk fringed.

Each Treads, size 9x18 $1.00 $1.00 Silk Cushions in assorted styles and colors. Each Rag Rugs, size 2 1x18 inch Silk Tapestry Radio Scarfs, size 11x14 inch Special Carpet "1 OQ Floor Covering. JOf? S1.00 S2.00 to $4.00 per square square vara All of our entire stock of 33 1-3 per cent less than Weidner Ruffled Curtain yards long. Pair. Silk Drapery Material 'inch.

Kelt Base Rugs, size 36x7; inch Hassocks, made of velvet carpet The largest and most complete assortment of furniture and special articles suitable for gifts in the city, all at surprisingly low prices. UseRothert's Dignified Easy Budget Plan SpecinlintM In Interior Decorations and Moor Coverings. 1422 12th Ave..

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