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FRIDAY NEW YORK PLANS HEARTY WELCOME TO SEA HEROES By HARRY ZANDER, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) New York, Jan. a clumsylooking, but heroic craft of the American merchant marine the America of the United States Line- continues today to battle its way through a lashing northwest gale to this port with the rescued crew of 32 of the abandoned Italian freighter, Florida, New York is preparing one of its most tempestuous welcomes for the gallant rescuers. Capt. George Fried, master of the America, Chief Officer Harry Manning, who exhausted himself in a superlative display of seamanship, the eight members of the America's crew who voluntarily manned the rescuing lifeboat under Manning's command, and Chief Radio Operator Nelson Smith, of thirst America, tomorrow are to taste the fruits of heroism for their spectacular victory over the stormcrazed seas: The United States Lines last night was advised by Captain Fried by radio that he expected to arrive at Ambrose Channel Lightship at "eight Saturday," which is taken to mean 8 a. m.

This would put him in Quarantine by 9 a. and in dock at Hoboken at 10:30 or 11 a. officials of the line estimated. New York will honor, too, the 32 men of the Florida who fought against almost superhuman odds to keep above the sea's surface for four days and who were "dazed and hysterical," according to Captain Fried, when Manning and his men removed them, ill, injured, and almost naked from the rapidly sinking, rudderless derelict. Four are "very ill" and six are "severely injured," Captain Fried reported to his superiors.

One of their mates was swept overboard in the Gulf of Mexico, Sunday, in the early hours of the terrific storm which is still lashing So the the work of the rescue crew of the America, that Captain Fried took space in his radio report to say that no pets perished aboard the Florida when it sank, because inquiries of Manning developed that no pets were carried on the little freighter. Pets, to a sailor, are as dear as human friends. Police Commissioner Grover Whalen, who still retains his position at the head of Mayor Walker's welcoming committee, had given over the policing of America's chief city today to see to it that New York properly expresses itself to Fried, Manning, Smith and their companions. New York, Jan. Capt.

George Fried, in command of the United States liner America which achieved the rescue of the crew of the Italian tanker Florida, radioed his New York offices today that he expected to reach Ambrose Channel Light (in the lower New York Harbor) at about 1 p. Saturday. This wouid bring him to his pier at Hoboken, N. at about 4 p. m.

COMMITTEE NAMED FOR SOCIAL AFFAR OF CATHOLIC LEAGUE Further plans for the first social event to be held under the auspices of the newly at the organized State Catholic Junior MonLeague Armory on day, Feb. 4th, will be made at a general meeting of all committees to be held Sunday afternoon in the library of St. John's School. The following committees were appointed at a recent meeting: Advertising tee-Beatrice O'- Haire, Kathleen Devaney, Charlotte Evans. Ticket committee Bea Sammon, Mary O'Haire, Mary C.

Kelley, Helen Langan, Mary Martin, Mary Kilgallon, Anna Keenan, Regina Conroy, Hildegarde Burke, Rosemary English, Mary Collins. Floor committee John Howley, Charles Morgan; Charles McQueen, James Lydon, Stanley Leonard, John Manley, Jerry Mooney, Michael Dunn, William Haston. Charles McCarthy. Check room -William Burke, Thomas Munley, Joseph Grace. Table, chairs and cards committeeMae McAndrew.

Ada Derrig, Clare Fadden, Mary Barrett, Helen Hughes, Elizabeth Loftus, Rose Earley, Grace O'Malley, Mary Conlon, Blanche McDermott. Prize committee Elizabeth Kelly, Katharine Gavin, Regina Long, Mary McElhenny, Nora Donnelly, Mary Rommell. Special Prizes Charlotte Loftus, Petronella Fanning, Heien Lyons, Marie Joyce, Elizabeth Flanagan, Genevieve Higgins, Grace McNamara, Winfred Howley, Mary Burns, Nora Lydon, Agnes Corcoran. PASSENGERS BURIED BY SNOW AVALANCHE HAVE EEN RESCUED Budapest, Ilungary, Jan. passengers buried under the snow when a Roumanian passenger train WAS caught in the path of an avalanche, have been rescued, it was reported today.

The accident occurred on the line between Turnumagurele and Lita. THE NUBONE CORSET TEN DIFFERENT CORSELETTES, BELTS, AND GARMENTS OF ALL KINDS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE ONLY. KATHERINE M. BLAKESLEE. 38 SO.

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Not long afterward the plaintiff moved out and the landlord attached some of his furniture and sold it for $383. Plaintiff sued the landlord and constable for damages for unlawful distress and sale, there was no rent in arrears and that the property sold was worth over three sale price. At the trial piaintiff was awarded $1,400 damages. Closing a view of the case Judge Jones says in part: "The law lays down no one mode as the exclusive one selling an article in market at or about a given time. It is a matter to be left to the jury on the evidence; but the facts in this case are peculiar.

Here was a public sale of the particular articles for $383. In other words, the articles at a public sale brought less than one-third of the value fixed by the jury. "While such sale may not be decisive of the market value of the articles it is very persuasive, and for the reasons herein stated, we believe that a new trial should be awarded; we suggest that the parties make an effort to adjust their differences without further litigation. The otion a new trial is granted the rule made absolute." CLASSIFIED ADS aca to your chasing power Firemen Rescue Pilot From Tree Thomas Hatton, student pilot of Scranton, was pinned in the wreckage of his plane for more than two hours after the craft dropped into tree in a Cincinnati street. Witnesses, said he apparently kicked the wrong rudder in attempting a vertical bank and dived into the tree fro man altitude of 200 feet.

First rescue workers found Hatton unconscious, but he revived later and helped to direct a fire department life-saving squad in their efforts: to free him. Hatton's right leg was badly crushed. Arrows indicate Hatton (right) and one of his rescuers (left). NEA JANUARY 25, 1929 PAGE THREE Not too late too join Our CHRISTMAS CLUB 65 Don't delay any longer or you will be sorry next Christmas. a little money each week, never missed, and you will be "sittin pretty" next December.

There is a class here to fit you. What the Different Classes Amount to "EVEN AMOUNT CLASSES In 50 Weeks for (Christmas 1929) 25c Class Pays $12.50 $2.00 Pays $100.00 50c Class Pays $25.00 $5.00 Class Pays. $250.00 $1.00 Class Pays $50.00 $10.00 Class Pays $500.00 $20.00 Class Pays $1,000.00 Dime Bank Trust Co. 49 South Main Street. LOCAL GLEANINGS HOCKENBURY SYSTEM MEN ARE working on a project to erect a community hotel in Towanda.

LADY ST. ANDREW'S LODGE, NO. 165, D. O. will hold a regular meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.

ALL SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS of Hughestown Borough are requested to return their badges and police equipment to Chief of Police Strubeck. BIBLE CLASS, OF ST. JOHN'S Lutheran Church, will serve a sauer kraut supper on Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the church. The public is cordially invited.

FRANCIS RITTER, LAKE WInola, was tried in the Wyoming county court on the charge of possessing liquor. He was acquitted and the costs were placed on the county. A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE Italian-American Independent Club will be Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock Panama street. All held, members are urged to be present. THE LADIES OF THE METHOdist Protestant Church will serve a baked ham supper in the Sunday school room of the church Saturday evening, Feb.

2d, to which the pub11c is invited. THE EAGAN SISTERS, OF PITTSton, who own the Triangle at La Grange, have purchased the corner adjoining of George Osterhout, it being part of the estate of the late W. E. -Tunkhannock Republican. MRS.

HELEN AYERS, A FORMER resident of Centermoreland, died at the home of her daughter in Honesdale, and the remains were taken to Centermoreland for burial. THE FUNERAL OF GEORGE SEMber, of 147 Chapel street, will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Mass will be sung in St. Michael's Greek Catholic Church at 9:30 o'clock, with interment in the church cemetery. THE ANNIVERSARY OF ROBERT Burns will be celebrated this evening by the Scotch people of the Pittstons with a supper and dance to be held in American Legion Hall, West Pittston.

Supper will be served at 6:30 o'clock and will be followed by dancing, for which there will be good music. THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA WILL meet tonight and 6th, 7th and 8th degrees will be exemplified. It is expected that the Past Commanders of Columbus Commandery will be present. A social session will follow. Members and Companions of other Commanderies cordially invited.

THE FUNERAL OF EUGENE SCRUdato, of 40 Parsonage street, will be held tomorrow morning, leaving the home at 9 o'clock. A solemn high mass will be sung in Our Lady of- Mount ment will Chutch made in St. John's CemCarmel at 9:30 o'clock. Interetery. SAM VALENTI, AGED 54 YEARS.

of 187 East Railroad street, a miner at No. 4 shaft, of Ewen Colliery, suffered An injury to his left hand, when he was caught in a powder explosion. He was admitted to Pittston Hospital at 9:30 o'clock. His condition is good. OFFICIALS OF THE GLEN ALDEN Coal Company announce that Dr.

Samuel M. Davenport, of the Moses Taylor Hospital staff, has been named physician and surgeon of the company. He succeeds Dr. David H. Lake, of Kingston, who resigned after serxing in that capacity for the past thirty years.

THE JEWISH PIONEERS' BASKET ball team scored a sensational triumph over the Oregon Blues at the game BIG BEN As Regular as a Bugler A bright, cheery roundfaced, handsome, faithful fellow that will never fail to get you out on time. Big Ben and his younger brother, Little Ben, are very likable chaps But then, let us introduce another likable member of the family--the "De Luxe," in Green, Old Rose or Blue. J. A. Lewis Jeweler 5 South Main Street NEUTRAL RIGHTS WILL BE DEFINED IN CRUISER BILL By PAUL R.

MALLON, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Jan. 25. Senator Borah's frank discussion of relations with Great Britain in his Senate speech has resulted in a general agreement today among leaders to include in the pending cruiser bill his amendment authorizing the President to call an international conference for defining the neutral rights of on the high seas. The amedment be adopted. nations, The chairman of the foreign relations committee astounded the Senate late yesterday with the statement hat unless some agreement is reached protecting the rights of neutrals in ocean commerce there will be a real naval race with Great Britain.

"I can see nothing for the future in that event save a super -human burden of taxation upon the people and perhaps another cataclysm like that in 1914," Borah told the Senate. Advocates of the naval bill agreed with Borah's conclusion and were ready immediately to accept his amendment although Borah is opposed to the bill. The provision would merely express the sense of Congress that some definition of a neutral nation's right to carry anything but arms and ammunitions in war times should be guaranteed by international agreement. He recalled difficulties the United States had in the World War when Britain declared "nearly everything in the human imagination as contraband." He read British books indicating Great Britain was planning to embark on a policy of disregarding neutral shippinz rights in war times. SHOOTS 2 CHILDREN, BLINDS WIFE, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE Akron, Jan.

temporarily insane, George Thomas, 30, shot and killed his four-year-old son, Robert, shot his two-year-old daughter as she lay in her crib, gouged his wife's eyes so badly she may be blind for life, then killed himself here last night. The tragedy was the climax to a bitter quarrel--a dispute which has raged intermittently since the Thomases were married in Lorain, Nov. 16, 1922, according to police. The baby, Rose, is not expected to live. Robert died in his mother's arms.

Thomas shot himself twice, then drank poison. He died six hours later, begging his wife's forgiveness. Thomas' wife, Helen, 22, was examined by physicians, who said she probably would for life. She told a story of constant marital turmoil caused by distrust. WOMAN PARACHUTE JUMPER KILLED IN FILMING OF MOVIE Hollywood, Jan.

-A daring leap from a speeding biplane during the filming of "Winged Horsemen," movie thriller, ended the career of Lita Belle Wichart, 22-year-old parachute jumper. Miss Wichart, who had completed 140 parachute jumps in her few years experience as a stunt performer, plunged 3,000 feet to the ground. Her. parachute never opened. It could not be determined whether the young performer had failed to pull the release ring or whether the 'chute had failed to operate.

Floyd Bowman, husband and teampartner of Miss Wichart; "Hoot" Gibson, star of the picture; Arthur Rosson, director, and several members of the cast stocd helpless as the young woman's body, spun and twisted through the air and fell not far from the camcra. Miss Wichart, officials of Universal Pictures said, had a small part in the picture. They denied she was doubling for Ruth Elder, aviatrix, and Gibson's leading lady. Jim Grainger, pilot of the biplane from which Miss Wichart made her leap, said the performer cleared the plane easily, but apparently had made no visible effort to pull the release on her parachute. LEHIGH VALLEY MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED (Tunkhannock Republican.) Harry Lane, 127 East Tioga street, who is employed as a locomotive fireman for the Lehigh Valley company at Cotxon Yard, met with a serious accident 011 Thursday evening last.

A light snowstorm which turned to sleet and 1 finally to rain had made the pavements and walks exceedingly slippery. Mr. Lane was unfortunate in falling near his own home, striking his face on a stone and breaking his nose. The injury caused him to bleed profusely and a doctor was called and finally a second one, but neither was able to stop the flow of blood. At last he was placed in an automobile and taken to the State Hospital in Scranton, where the surgeons succeeded in checking it.

By that time he was very weak from loss of blood and could scarcely lift his hand. Later reports say he is doing well now, though still weak, and if the bleeding does not start afresh he will recover. Creaking of the Stairs The creaking of the stairs At night is due to the change of temperature, which makes the woodwork contract or expand or something, but it's terribly hard to remember that when they creak.Ohio State Journal. THE BUSINESS man knows that the best way to secure help is the classified CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OVER A MILLION DOLLARS Most Satisfactory Way to Accumulate Money Depositing small amounts regularly with the Miners' Savings Bank is the most satisfactory way to save. Safety and compound interest are dependable factors.

Interest Paid on Savings Accounts Miners Aim Savings Sank MAIN BROAD STS, PITTSTON, PA court this morning, score 23 to 10. Close guarding featured the play of the Pioneers, who outplayed the Blues throughout. MISS CAROLINE WOODHEAD, aged 22 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred.

Woodhead Bloomsburg, a highly esteemed young woman, died last night. STRICKEN SUDDENLY LAST night while using the telephone in his home, Ernest Trump, of Orangeville, Columbia county, died of heart disease. MISS MARY M'ANDREW, A MEMber of the faculty of Carbondale High School, has been appointed for the fifth consecutive term on the tee on Retirement Allowances of the National Educational Association. AN INVITATION HAS BEEN EXtended to James J. Deighan, of Philadelphia, State adjutant of the American Legion and official of the 1929 State convention to in manager, Scranton, to attend the in Sal banquet of the chairmen of the various convention committees next Wednesdy night in Hotel Casey, Scranton.

Personal Mention William Pahl, is ill with grip at his home on Mill street. A son was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Dominick Bernoskie, of 75 Church street. Roy Quinn, of Baird, Iowa, is visiting relatives in this community.

He is a nephew of Mrs. F. T. Derrig, of Carroll street. Laurelda Fox, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. James Fox, of Mill street, is recovering from a severe attack of tonsilitis. Thomas Bohan, of Pine street. entertained at a pig roast at his home recently. Rex Bayne, popular pianist of this city and Miss Anna O'Neill, of Scranton, entertained the forty guests.

Roxy Cataldo, of the Master Beauty Shop, has returned after attending the Hair-dressers' Convention, New York City, the past two days. Miss Loretta Mullen, of Scranton, who has served for several years as chief operator at the Taylor Exchange of the Bell Telephone was married Saturday evening at St. Ann's Monastery, Scranton, to Eugene J. Alof Newark, N. J.

Members of the Rainbow Dolly Club were entertained at six o'clock dinner at the Scranton Y. W. C. A. last evening, and later attended the performance at the Academy.

The party was composed of Mrs. Elizabeth Kiernan, Freda Kennedy, Mrs Mrs. William Dunn, Mrs. Frank Kennedy, Mrs. Anna Hapeman, Mrs.

Gus Adrian, Mrs. Freda Kennedy, Mrs. Grace Phillips, Mrs. Albert Orr, Mrs. David Evans, all of the Pittstons, and Mrs.

William Jacobs, of Scranton, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Haine, of Luzerne entertained a number of friends evening in commemoration of their 29th wedding anniversary. last, Chicken dinner was served.

The out of town guests included Mrs. William McCarthy, of Scranton; Mrs. William Navarre and Mrs. L. Parrish, of Tunkhannock.

ROMAN TODAY Jack Holt in "The Avalanche." CARD OF THANKS Mrs. John Skilonge and family wish to express their sincere appreciation to neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted them in their recent bereavement. They also wish to thank those who sent flowers. ITALIANS TO BUILD 13 NEW NAVAL CRAFT Rome, Jan. cabinet approved today the construction of two tenthousand ton cruisers.

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