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ALTOONA TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1923' 11 PROHIBITION PARTY CHANGE OP ROUTE Grace Lutheran Bible School Ends Term SEEKING DEMO I i 'r TEXAS LEADERS BOLT DEMOCRATIC TICKET TO SUPPORT HOOVER DALLAS, Texas, July 4. Renewed signs of a split in the Texas Democratic party ranks were seen here today. Mrs. Kdith E. WSlliams, of Dallas, candidate for governor, declared she will not support Governor Alfred E.

Smith for president. Thomas 33. Love, of Dallas, candidate for lieutenant governor and former national committeeman from Texas, re-itereated his intention of bolting the Democratic national ticket, and Mayor R. E. Burt, of Dallas, said he believes he will support Hoover.

"My conscience would not let me vote to put a sachem of Tammany Hall in the White House even there was no liquor question involved in Smith's candidacy," Love said. Mrs. Wilmans said she feels "it will be better for the Democratic party to fail than to succeed in forcing upon the good citizens of the United States a man who, by his acts as governor of New York, has nullified the prohibition amendment in the State of-New York." TO BE PROTESTED Blair and Huntingdon Officials Confer Today With Highway Bureau Heads i Commissioners of Blair and Huntingdon counties, with their solicitors and representatives in the state legislature, will meet for a joint conference of protest against the relocating of a section of route 5, between Tyrone and Water Street, with James L. Stuart, state highway commissioner, at Harrisburg today. The local commissioners, John F.

Royer, John C. Gorsuch and Daniel S. Brumbaugh, and their solicitor, John J. llaberstroli, and the representatives from this district in the assembly, Fred A. Bell, Walter Lotz and Samuel Hartsock, are scheduled to meet with the Huntingdon county commissioners, Allison Black, Jesse Shctrom and J.

O. Bergantz, who will be accompanied by Richard W. Wil- Jiamson, senator, of Huntingdon, and tneir solicitor, at the highway commissioner's office to ask for a change in the state highway plans for relocating the route at Pemberton, which is proposed to take the road around Union Furnace. The protest developed from the large amount of damages that are expected to accrue from the change of route. It is said that the new route wll cut through farms owned by W.

M. Wallace, Blair countv; S. W. Louder, William Van Tres, I. G.

Owens and John Iset, in Huntingdon county. The Blair county- commissioners apportioned $33,000 for highway dam ages their budget, and have al ready paid out $60,000 in claims. The Huntingdon county commissioners have paid $550 this year. It is in anticipation of the damace claims that the protest will be mads against cutting through these farms. ASK PADLOCK PROCEEDINO FOR HOLLIDAYSBURQ INN Padlocking of Holland Inn.

Holli- daysburg, was asked by Frank Fislier, assistant district 'attorney, in an in junction presented to Judge Marlon D. Patterson in county court Tues day morning. Judge Patte.Von di rected a hearing of the case July 11. Hie injunction proceedings were brought against Gorge Garland, pro prietor, and II. S.

Holland, owner. It is asked by the district attorney that the- establishment be closed to busi- ness for one year. Garland was arrested last month on a charge of violating the liquor laws, and was fined $300 by Judge, Patterson and sentenced to' serve six months in jail. In the raid, a bottle of liquor was found behind the lunch counter. Students of the vacation Bible school of Grace Lutheran church, Twelfth avenue and Eleventh street, which closed Friday.

Nominee for Presidential Race To Be Chosen at Convention July 10 CHICAGO, July 4. A prominent Dry Democrat, preferably from the south is under consideration to head the ticket of the National Prohibition party in the coming presidential election, it was made known here by D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman. Mr. Colvin arrived here simultaneously with the first delegate to the party convention which opens July 10.

O. TJ. Hull, of Orange, who is credited with the defeat of the Rominger bill in that state which would have permitted the eale of light wines and beer was the delegate to arrive. Mr, Colvin refused to disclose names in connection, with the possible candidates under consideration, yet it is understood three names are being entertained, William G. Mc-Adoo, former Senator Robert L.

Owens, of Oklahoma, and David G. Roper, who was commissioner of internal revenue under President Wilson. That there is some ill feeling between the Anti-Saloon league and the National Prohibition party was indicated by Mr. Colvin who said the Anti-Saloon league called its convention on July 10 "to decrease interest in our convention and to interfere with our program." The Anti-Saloon league, he said, will not be a party to the plan to launch a third party ticket in the coming elections. He added that the Anti-Saloon league is not a league, being merely a group paid superintendents.

BOYS DROWN TOGETHER FOUND WITH ARMS CLASPED SUNBURY, July Two boys drowned at Northumberland tonight while playing on a flatboat in the west branch of the Susquehanna river. Harry Smith, and Robert Haines, both of Northumberland, dared each other to go into the water, although neither was able to swim. A short time later Smith fell off the boat into the river and Haines was dragged in when he tried to rescue his playmate. Wheeler Bronson, one of a numbef of men who dove to recover the bodies, found the boys nl the bottom, with their arms clasped around each other. MacFARLANE REELECTED TO BAPTIST PUBLICATION BOARD 1929 POSTAL MEET TO BE HELD HERE United National Association Select Altoona as Convention City This city will be the convention place of the Pennsylvania branch, United National Association of Post-office Clerks, in 1929, according to decision reached at the closing session of the association at Lebanon Tuesday.

A delegation of local clerks, consisting of Frank Stoner, Doyle Reed and Clair Curtis, presented the appeal, which was accepted. Other members attending from this city were Elwood Clouse, Clark Gibbons and Carroll. A. Glenn. Mr.

Stoner, who is state secretary, has held that position, for the last two years. Officers elected at the convention were: Grant B. Steckbeck, Lebanon, president; C. It. Tobin, Cresson, and C.

E. Holly, vice presidents; M. Prang, Easton, secretary; William M. Britsch, Harrisburg, treasurer. Fhotn hv Tribune Staff jVhotoeraDher ON -THE AIR AT I 11:45 a.

m. New York stocks, First National bank studio. 12:15 p. m. Kiwanis club program, Penn Alto hotel.

3 p. m. Capitol theater trio. 3:30 m. Housekepeers chat, U.

S. department of agriculture. 4 p. m. Closing stocks.

4:05 p. m. Baseball scores. 4:10 p. m.

Victor selections by Sit-nek's Victrola department. 4:45 p. m. Baseball scores. 7 p.

m. Baseball final scores. 7:10 p. m. Farm flashes.

7:30 p. m. Closing stocks. 7:354 p. m.

Capitol theater concert orchestra, direction Mrs. Grace Drye. 10 m. Tribune news review, courtesy Associated Press. 10:15 p.

m. U. S. "Weather bureau forecast. IB I IN MURDAY Erie Publisher and National Officials to Address "Typo" Union Sessions More than 200 members of the Western Pennsylvania Typographical union are expected to attend the twenty-seventh semi-annual meeting, and fortieth anniversary of the union in this city Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8.

Sessions will be held Saturday, with delegates from Erie, Butler, Johnstown, Pittsburg, Wheeling, West "Virginia and other cities in the conference attending. More than 23 delegates are expected from Johnstown, it was announced last night by William Corneman, president of the local chapter, No. 240. Amone the sneakers at the ses sions will be Theodore Eichorn, Erie publisher, who is district president, Local publishers and members of the union will attend the sessions, which will adjourn about noon Sunday, Several national officials are also ex pected to be among the speakers. One of the features of the program is the banquet at Valley Forge Inn at 8 p.

m. Saturday. Altoona was selected as the con vention city at the fall meeting in Sharon. FENSIOX IXCHEASED Congressman J. Banks Kurtz haR been advised by the commissioner of pensions that the claim of Frank L.

Kline, 205 First avenue, for increased pension under act of May 1, 1926, has been allowed at the rate of $40 per month from April 2d, 192S. I MEET Re-election of H. King MacFar-lane, of this city, as a member of the board of managers of the American Baptist Publication society took place at the recent Northern Baptist convention held in Detroit. For several terms Mr. MacFarlane has served the society in this capacity and his re-election is in recognition of his service with the important institution.

Some of the most prominent members of the great Baptist denomina tion are on the board, both laymen and ministers, all sections of the country being represented, including Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and District of Columbia, as well as Pennsylvania. The society publishes periodicals for Baptist churches and Sunday schools connected with the Northern Baptist convention, the combined number of copies printed for a single month totaling several millions. It has one of the largest publishing plants in the country. It also publishes many books and pamphlets pertaining to home and foreign missions. The publication society has been functioning more than 100 years, having observed its one hundredth anniversary in Sebruary, 1U.4.

Through careful management iof its officers it has had a wonderful and consistent growth during the intervening years and. is an honor and credit to the great denomination it -ves. The mechanical plant is equipped with modern presses, type-setting machines and photo-engraving plant. AH profits of the business department are devoted to the missionary objectives of the denomination. W) Tc? ff TTTT TTv 10 SEWER ORDINANCES Health Officer Instructed Restrict Construction Chicken Houses to of Two ordinances relative to the city's share in the construction of the Pleasant Valley sewer sytsem and disposal plant were introduced at a session of council Tuesday.

Both ordinances wore presented by Bence Keatley. commissioner, and provide the city's acceptance of permission to use the system, the cost and the materials and inspection of the work. Sanitary sewage from the city territory in the Pleasant Valley district not now sewered will be drained into the new system and the city will pay four-fifteenths of the cost of the outfall sewer and treatment plant and four forty-fifth3 of the cost of the land. oT Limit Poultry Houses Council requested Thomas G. Herbert, health chief, to prepare a rule limiting and restricting the construction houses within the city, following a complaint made by several citizens because of the incurred by poultry raising- near their homes.

The health bureau regulates the conditions of hen houses hut has no authority to prevent their construction near residences and in other ways is limited, so that an ordinance will be required before the condition can be corrected. Council passed finally an ordinance for the vacating of Eighth alley from Twenty-eighth street a short distance in a northeasterly direction. Another ordinance passed grants Frank Dixon permission to pave, at his expense a short section of Twenty-ninth street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. This legislation is the outgrowth of the erection by Mr. Dixon of the wholesale building for the A.

P. company at that point. Ordinances were passed fixing the grades at the following locations: Second avenue. Furnace avenue to Thirty-first street; Sixth street. Eighteenth to Twentieth avenues; Tenth street.

First to Second avenues; Eighteenth street, Twenty-fifth avenue to the city line; First alley, Lloyd to Kettle streets: Third alley, Nineteenth to Twentieth streets; Twenty-first alley. Fourth to Fifth streets, and Fell alley. Fourth to Fifth Ftreets. and Eighth to Ninth streets. Petition Is Presented A petition was laid before council requesting that in the paving Third avenue, Twenty-fifth street to Dysart avenue, the cartway be narrowed from thirty feet to about twenty-eight feet.

It was pointed out that the property owners can save a number of shade trees and will have a better chance to terrace. The request will be granted. Mr. Keatlev called attention to ob- lections that have been made to the ravin? of Thirty-first street. Fifth to Sixth avenues, and councilmen will visit the location and decide what to do.

The contention is that it will create a dangerous traffic condition. Representatives of the Atlantic Refining company appeared before council to get permission to re-erect pumps at the gasoline station at Sixth avenue and Fifth street, op erated by Harris Brothers. They said that the numns lias been maliciously torn down. The matter was taken tv.ider advisement. COLLECTS $1,467 IN FINES DURING JUNE Receipts collected in fines rind for feitures at the police department last month totaled the monthly report, completed Tuesday, shows.

Traffic violations numbered S4 and other violations against city and state laws totaled I'll). Ninety-one drunkenness. 14 drunkenness and disorderly conduct, panhandling, resisting, or fighting cases were recorded during th month. There were S'i arrests on the charge of disorderly conduct and 20 were arrested for operating a gambling device. One person was arrested as proprietor of a disorderly house, and nine as inmates.

Other arrest listed in the monthly report are as follows: Dangerous and suspicious persons, seven; fighting, four: fugitives from justice, five; shooting firearms and panhandling, three, each; violating the liquor laws and street walking, two each: gambling, four; interfering with an officer, larceny of an automobile, demented, operating gambling house, and obstructing sidewalk, one each. Talks Farm Relief Production at a lower cost is the key to the farm relief situation, according to Dan H. Otis, above, of Madison, agricultural expert for the American Bankers' Association. Ho points that through use of imnroved Jive stock the U. S.

OUNCIL GETS -fir- ammm KI'G MacFARLAXE Its headquarters are at Seventeenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, in a seven-story building owned by the society. The publishing plant and mail order department are housed in a separate plant which is also owned by the society. Its activities are directed by Dr. 'William H. Main, executive secretary, and Harvey E.

Crissman, business manager, in co operation with the board of agers. man-1 H. Since halitosis never announces itself to the victim, you simply cannot know when you have it. ont fool yourself: 11 he ring came back With a bottle victim. The one way to make sure of yourself is to rinse the mouth sys tematically.

with Listerine every day especially before meeting others. Listerine ends halitosis because it is a powerful deodorant. If you need proof of this, rub a bit of onion on your hand and then The ring came back with a bottle a bottle of Listerine which explained more clearly than words that halitosis was the reason for breaking the engagement. Brutal? Not at all. Halitosis is avoidable and therefore inexcusable.

People who permit themselves to have it, do not deserve much consideration. Don't fool yourself that you never offend this way. You simply cannot know because halitosis doesn't announce itself to the READ i had 11C 2bout man that walks has halitosis. know better Face to MEN The new Listerine SHAVING CREAM keeps skin cool long after shaving an amazing Just tell one of our ad-takers what you want. The chances are ten to one that you'll get it within a day or two through a little ad in our Classified Columns.

i Gall aslls. 8ir ana today 2 apply Listerine clear. Immediately, the odor is gone. Even the strong odor of fish yields to this treatment. Lambert Pharmacal Company, St.

Louis, Mo U. S. A. THE FACTS halitosis barbers say that every third into the shop Who should than barbers? face evidence END HALITOSIS WITH LISTERINE The safe antiseptic along with millions fewer animals, releasing millions of seres for other purposes..

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