Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 2

SHAMOKIN DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931 PAGE TWO Miss Bullock To Be Graduated Henry S. Smith Gets Post In Knights Templar I See by the Dispatch "that From Art School Frank Zeck, local Jeweler, was In New York today on a business TO ADJOURN TOMORROW STAUDENMEIER OUTSTANDING IN ASSEMBLY Metropolitan Newspaper Calls Ashland Legislator One of MR. LEARNED'S OFFICE CHANGED TO QUAKER CITY Indicates Pre. Maloney Will Spend Portion of Each PLAYGROUND IN OCEAN LATEST VACATION PLAN If Plans Materialize, an Artificial Island Will Float 250 Miles Out in Atlantic Ocean Under American Flag CHAIN STORE HEAD KILLED BY BANDITS Four Bandits Take Part in Holdup in Which President of Standard Grocery Chain Stores Goes Down Firing Gun Popular Shamokin Girl Completes mission. Mrs.

Arthur Holman, wife of a Mount Carmel furniture cealer, and son, Arthur, both formerly of this city, submitted to operations for the removal of thfir tonsils and adenoids at the Geisinger Memorial hospital at Danville. LEGISLATURE Calendars of Both Houses Notably Lightened for Last Full Day of the Current Session By WILLIAM B. BROWN Special INS Leased Wire HARRISBURG, May 27 A calendars notably lightened by long session, both houses of the legislature today began what was slated to be Shame-kin Man Named A Grand Sword Bearer At Annual Con-Clave Held in Erie Special INS Leased Wire. the Big Surprises of the Sev Special INS Leased Wire WASHINGTON, May 27 Atlantic City is destined to have a competitor Week in Pottsville Headquarters The Philadelphia and Reading Coal nd Iron Company today announced that F. E.

Learned, vice president of the company in charge of operations will move his headquvters from Pottsville to Philadelphia elective June 1. The office of the vice president is to be maintained for the present at Pottsville, however, and the official will occupy it a portion of each week. Ever since the reorganization of the company under President A. Maloney the vice president has been in the Pottsville office in charge of the operations of the company in this section. Special INS leased Wire INDIANAPOLIS, May 27-De-fying a bandit gang wit.i the same spirit in which he fought the famous Indiana chain store tax Lafayette Jackson, 70-year-old president ci the Standard Grocery Chain of Indiana, went down before a hail of lead in his downtown office here today while emptying his gun into the faces of the men.

Jackson was shot in th- head and several times in the body s.nd received probably fatal wounds He was rushed to St. Vincent's hospital. Detective Sergeant Chf.rles Bauer was shot in the head when he went to Jackson's aid. Detectives Kelly and Defter, who heard the shooting, reachc' the scene in time to wound one of the bandits. Pour bandits were believed to have taken part in the1 raid.

They swooped down on the store in downtown Indianapolis, almost within the shadow cf the Marion county coun house. Two of the bandits, one carrying a machine gun and the a sawed off shotgun and a .45 caliper revolver, entered the store. A thin? bandit remained at the wheel of the bandit car. A fourth member wore a large, I sion In analyzing the cross currents of the present session of the legislature a metropolitan newspaper with decided Democratic leanings credits Charles W. Staudenmeir, cf Ashland, with being one of the big surprises in the house this session.

Staudenmeier -is pointed out as one of the big guns of the administration attack. The Ashland man tied his political bag to the Pinchot wagon at the beginning of the session. It was he who introduced and sponsored the three bills which passed the house and were killed in the senate to abolish the public service commis sion and substitute a fair rate board. Mr. Staudenmeier is thoroughly an anthracite representative.

Thi3 section has never had a man in the legislature who fought more determin edly for the interests of the people he represents at Harrisburg. It was he who led the anthracite bloc in the fight on the unfair anthracite tonnage tax. It was he who worked unceasingly for better highways in this section and his efforts, time and again, have been crowned with success. It Is an propria te indeed that the metropoli tar. press or tne state snouid recog' nize the work of the Ashland legiS' lator.

WORKMAN MEETS DEATH IN A LONG PLUNGE Employe of the Lykens Gas Company Plunged Head long 14 Feet From Scaffold to Concrete Walk Ivor Deiter, 29, of Wllliamstown, met instanteous death late yesterday when he fell from a acaffolding to a concrete pavement in the plant of the Lykens Gas Company, Lykens, where he was employed as a laborer. Deiter, who had only recently ac cepted employment at the plant after several months of Idleness due to closing down of a colliery at which he had been employed, was cleaning some of the gas-making equipment when he slipped while walking on a narrow scaffolding and plunged headfirst to the ground. A doctor hastily summoned pro nounced the man dead from a com pound fracture of the skull Probe Alleged Cruel Treatment Of Farm Stock Inspector of S. P. C.

A. Investigating Reports of Cruelty to Animals in Shamokin Hills Section W. J. Diamond, of Philadelphia, an inspector in the employ of the Penn sylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is visiting the Shamokin Hills section, north of Elysburg, in response to complaints that several farmers in that locality hnve not eiven proper feeedlng and attention to horses and cews. It is alleged in reports to the society that several farmers have been using livestock not fit fo daily toll and that as a consequence the work being given the animals cruel and barbarous.

In visiting in the vicinity of Richfield, Snyder county, yesterday afternoon, Agent Diamond found one farmer to be the owner of fourteen thin and wan dogs, not any of 1 nfnfn 1 1 ft i Course at National School of Elocution and Dramatic Art Mrs. Richard Bullock, wife of the president of borough council, left for Philadelphia yesterday to visit Miss Miriam Bullock, daughter of the well known couple, who is a student at the National School of Elocution and Dramatic Art. The young woman will graduate from the school on Friday night of this week, and Mrs. Bullock will remain in the Quaker City until after the exercises. Mother and daughter will return to Shamokin some time Saturday.

Woman Is Dead, Four Injured In Explosion Father and Three Children In Hospital Suffering From Serious Burns When Kerosene Lamp Exploded Special INS Leased Wire SCRANTON, May 27 A woman was dead and her husband and three children were in a hospital here today, suffering from serious bums received when a kerosene lamp exploded in the kitchen of their home last night. Mrs. Elmer R. Case, 27, was burned to death when the lamp exploded as she was filling it. Cass and three daughters, Mildred, 7, Betty, 4, and Mary, 6 months old, were seriously burned.

Fire which resulted from the explosion caused slight damage to the Case home. Seventeen Year Locusts Are Due In Near Future Will Visit Only Certain Sections of State This Year HARRISBURG, May 27 Brood five of the "seventeen-year locust" is expected to make its" appearance this spring, according to A. B. Champlain, entomologist of the bureau of plant industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. "Pennsylvania will be affected mainly in the southwestern area, although the distribution records indicate a few western delegations of this clan," Champlain stated in relating some of the interesting facts surrounding this unusual insect.

"The Denser appearances will be in Fayette, Greene, Washington and a portion of Allegheny counties; while a few local gatherings will be observed in Schuylkill, Carbon and Berks counties. Persons living in the areas included should be on the lookout for these insects, reporting their ap pearance and any damage done. This brood whose ancestors passed in 1914, have missed the world turmoil and ensuing changes and will have a lot to learn when they 'come up' near the end of May and in June this year. "Without further notice, the 'lo custs' will appear in the territory mentioned, uhe ground will be in terspersed with exit holes and the Cicadas themselves will swarm over trees, shrubbs and vegetation, feeding with beak and siphon upon tender plant juices. Here a'so one will find the males drumming their shrill discordant notes and the females busily slitting twigs and branches in which they will deposit their eggs.

This destructive practice is rather hard on trees in general, but when an orchard is in the path of infestation, considerable damage may be done, more especially in the case cf young trees and nursery stock. Growing fruit breaks the twigs at the weak points or the injury may affect the growth of fruit or branches for the next year. However, there Is but slight permanent injury to trees and it is soon forgotten. Do not be afraid of them, they do not bile or sting and the stories of their venom and non prognosticating qualities are mere superstition. Start Life Cycle "The baby cicadas or nymphs of the species hatch within a few weeks.

They drop from their aerial cradles to the ground where they start little subterranean tunnels into the darkness of the earth. Each now on its own and shifting for itself, will proceed to attack tender rootlets of var ious plants for subsistence. They will manage in this way to eke out the majority of their 17 years of life. "Brood five is but one of the thirty or more broods that appear from time to time. They do not appear simultaneously over the country, but a treed that has colonized a certain area will rppear periodica ly every 17 (Sometimes 13) years.

Brood sis, which will appear in 1932. will have a much wider distribution than BrcoJ five of this year. "Soon after the activities are completed, probably about the middle of June, the rdults will suddenly die off. Their bodies will be feasted upon by birds and beasts and will soon disappear. "The '17 year locust' may be identified by its orange veined wings and a black body, banded and marked about the abdomen with orange bands.

Six reddish legs, brinht eyes protruding in front like headlights and the four membraneous trans-parent wings complete the desciirtieu." Two workmen rn the eolf ecu Prestcnfield. Scotland, rre without their nests cn ten cf the ao- parel hanging in a building while th owneis were at wcik cn the Spring bet's, shewtr baths an-dio are part cf the c' a fleet of meter cars in whiel? an err-peJ'tion intends to ric-s A frori Syriv tiu. rr.s. Pamir to tiunu, aua r.fcrug t.ua Lud.a. i i ERIE, May 27.

Selection of Harrisburg as host city for the 79th annual conclave of the Pennsylvania Knights Templar, to be held in May, 1932, and election and automatic elevation of officers featured closing sessions of the 78ih conclave here today. Clyde P. Love, Harrisburg, was elevated to the past of deputy grand commander. Other officers selected were Maurice E. White, Norristown, grand generalissimo; Charles D.

Zimmerman, Reading, grand captain general, B. Tipton, Pittsburgh, grand senior warden; Harry E. Sobel, Meadville, grand junior warden; Boyd A. Musser, Scranton, grand treasurer; Howard Thomas, Philadelphia, grand recorder; John W. Laird, Philadelphia, assistant to the grand recorder.

John E. Cheeieman, Theodore A. Mazheral and Louis G. Groh were chesen trustees. Immediately after the installation ceremonies at which Love formally took over the guiding reins of the Knights Templar in Pennsylvania, he announced the following appointments: The Rev.

John N. Levan, D. Harrisburg, grand prelate; Levi M. Mvers, Bowmansdale, grand standard bearer; Henry S. Smith.

Shamo-kin. grand sword bearer; Harry J. Bell, Dawson, grand warden; Harry L. Gauthier. Scranton.

grand captain of the guards; Robert G. Cunningham, Harrisburg, grand marshal, and Anthony J. Barron, Franklin, grand herald. ANNOUNCES Motor Sales and Service Takes Over Franchise for Popular Car in the Shamo-kin Territory The Motor Sales and Service, Franklin and Commerce Streets, this city, have taken over the franchise for Hupmobile. They now have a full line of these cars on display at their show rooms and are also equipped to take care of all Hupmobile owners in this section, in their service department.

The Motor Sales and Service is one of the oldest automobile firms in this, city and is under the management of H. Kurtz, who is well known to the automobile world for the past ten years, having formerly been connected with one of the largest factories in the industry. H. A. Zimmerman Has Recovered Stolen Sedan Machine Abandoned by Thieves on Northumberland Street After Apparent Joyride H.

A. Zimmerman, well known Market Street jeweler, whose Buick sedan was stolen last Sunday evening from in front of trip home of his son-in-law. Rev. R. E.

Neighbours, of Northumberland, and where the local jeweler and his wife were visiting, has been restored to the owner without damage. The machine was found by Officer Fiehat'er. of the Northumberland police force, parked near the home cf H. C. Aunkst, on Duke Street, Northumberland, where it had been abandoned after the thief or thieves had enjoyed a brief joy-ride.

The officer had been notified of the of the car and was patrolling in search of the machine when he came upon it soon after it had been abandoned. There are no clues as to the identity of the thief. Umpire Named In Dispute Over Insurance Claim Milton Man Appointed by Court to Adjudicate Controversy Arising Over Fire Because cf the failure of insurance adjusters to settle a claim brought by the Sur.bury Produce Company, of which Samuel Gaglione. formerly of this city, and William F. Babbitt, of Sunbury are the proprietors, against the Caledonian Fire Insurance Company of Scotland, and the World Fire and Marine Insurance Company, cf New York, the court this mornir.z found it necessary to appoint H.

J. Kramer, of Mii'on. as sn umpire in the disagreement. The plant of the Sunbury Produce Company, located opposite the Readme depot at Sunbury, was swept by fire cn March 15th and was badly damage! Following the fire appraisers were appointed to adjus carnage? but the owners refused to flAi tett'empnt offered, claim- 1 ir.g a total of $15,000 loss. As a result, the unusual procedure of going into court to ask for an umpire was inaugurated this morning.

TREASURY STATEMENT Special INS Leased Wire. WASHINGTON, May 27. Treas-rarv balance as of May 25, expenditures, customs receipts, Japan tiox is the world's greatest exporter cf rubber footwear. Eight hundred miners employed at William Penn operation ct the Susquehanna Collieries company have resumed work after rep-Mrs to the main slope, on which fjur miners were killed instantly and one seri-cusly hurt last week, were completed. While sinking a shaft for the Glen Alden Coal company at Dundee, Hanover Township, Carl F.

Shupp, 31, of Wilkes-Barre, was killed und Daniel Wegg, of Euttonwood, injured In a premature blast. Shupp was a rock contractor. Burns and injuries suffered when she fell down a flight of iteps while carrying a pan of hot fat ended in death for Mrs. Lilla (Kraner) Moyer, wife of Walter S. Moyer, Grove street, Orwigsburg.

Although everything possible was dona Mrs. Moyer, the injuries and severe burns were too much for her to ithstand. William Davis, a forme'1 resident of Mount Carmel, and a brother-in-law o' Chief of Police A. Morgan, of that place, is a patient in the Warne hospital at Pottsville, suffering f'om a ccmpound fracture of the arm sus tained when he was struck by a lump coal while following his duties as a foreman at the Lytle cudiery. Mr, Davis lives at Primrose.

The body of the late Christopher C. Miller, 67 years old, former well known resident of Mount Carmel, was laid to rest at Montourtville. The South Williamsport man was buried from his home at 25 We. Southern Avenue. Rev.

F. L.Teter had charge oi the services. Miliar, when in Mount Carmel, was agent for the United States Express company. Death occurred on Friday. A demand that the Scranton school district vote to bar all outside teachers was held up by the directors pending word from the solicitor whether such a resolution would re in violation of the code.

The move against non-residents would bar al7 applicants vho have not been in Scranton for at least two years. One n.rector said the move would be unfair to thousands of families in the valley who spend their money at Scranton stores. Fred J. Richard, 71, of iiloomsburg, died after a leng illness He was a retired manufacturer and had held a leading place in Bloomcburg for more than thirty years. He was vice-president of town council.

He made the first all-steel Tpihthoure fcr the government, invented the civcular lamp wick, held original patents fij wire drawing machinery, whicn plant, the Richard Manufacturing company, mp.de for many years. He Is survived by his widow and eight children. Charles Schcmery, aged 19 years, of Williamsport, has been named the champion of "h'tch-hikers Last fall Schemery hitch-hiked to San Antonio. Texas, whnre he attended a school to leam the art of censtructing rustic lawn ornaments, sih as seats, t.ee stump vases, bird baths and ether ornamental novelties. A'ter young Schemery had returned to Williamsport he had covered a distance of about 2,300 miles ertiry by the "hitch-hiking" method.

He is hoping to build up a profitable business with his art work. Steer Runs Wild In Philadelphia; Marines Make Catch Cowboy Marines From State of Wyoming Capture Animal With Lariats ASier Wild Chase Special INS Leased Wire. PHILADELPHIA, May 27. A thirteen hundred pound steer that broke loose in the streets of South Philadelphia today led a squad of fifty marines on a wild chase thru busy thoroughfares until two Wyoming born soldiers captured the animal with lariats. Private Robert R.

Thompson lassoed the steer after it made Its way into a crowded section of Broad Street near the marine parade grounds. Thompson was dragged more than 50 feet before Private James F. Tyler, grasped the lariat and threw the steer to the ground while police completed the capture. Trio Bandits Stage Holdups In Philadelphia Series of Robberies Nets But One Hundred Dollars Rob Shoe Store for Largest Haul Special INS Leased Wire PHILADELPHU, May 27 Three bandits who roamed the city in a large blue sedan today were believed to have perpetrated a series of three robberies during the night which netted them more than $100. Trussing the manager in a rear room, the trio escaped with $50 from the Thomas Morgan shoe store.

Joseph L. Johnson. 30, of Philadelphia, vas robbed of $30 cash a'-d the keys to the car in which he was sitting with a woman. Charles "atman, 25, negro night attendant a garage, v. as relieved cf $17 by two bandits, vho took $8 from the cash register, police reported.

People of Peru are pretesting thrt tie new export taxes are seriously ejecting the country's buying power. as the "Nation's Playground." If the plans of Edward R. Arm strong materialize an artificial Island will float in the Atlantic 2o0 miles off the Jersey coast and although it will display the American flag, its attendants will serve liquor if its guests prefer and will "go as far as Reno, In the gambling line." "This seadrome would be subject to American protection in case of need, Just as any American private property in the Sahara desert or elsewhere would be subject to that protection," Armstrong told reporters today. "But neither state nor federal American laws nor those of any other nation, would be applicable on the structures (the seadromes) as long as their operations are free from practices which would shock the conscience of mankind." Armstrong said he had asked Charles E. Asnis, prominent member of the Philadelphia bar, to make a lengthy report on the status of the seadromes which will be anchored tar from the 12-mile jurisdiction of the United States.

The inventor- plans to anchor eight such seadromes in strategic places in the Atlantic so Trans-Atlantic airplane travel can be made within 26 hours, the airplanes being refueled or exchanged for fresh ones on the seadromes. Each landing island will have a hotel large enough to accommodate 4C0 persons, he said, and predicted the initial fare for an air trip across the ocean via the seadromes, would be about $500, later to be reduced to $150 one way when traffic increased. He visioned business men of the United States and Europe meeting on a seadrome in the center of the Atlantic, and each returning to his country the same day he left if the conference were brief. Armstrong said the Delaware Du-Ponts would take up the stock for the seadrome project and that no public subscription would be floated. He came here to protest against the proposal of the post office department to designate Charleston, S.

as the principal port of entry for Trans-Atlantic mail. He declared New York must be regarded as the inevitable terminal for ocean air mail and travel. Air Armada In Parade Of New i Jersey District More Than 600 Planes Take I'art in Huge Air Display Sky Cloudless and Blue Special INS Leased Wire. NEW YORK, May 27. Soaring into a blue and cloudless sky, the great air armada of the army today was winging its way over New Jersey in what Army officials said was more than a mere parade of air power it was a maneuver to prove that the United States' far-flung coast line can be defended from the air.

By 12:30 E. D. T. virtually all of the more than 600 pln.nes in the demonstration were aloft and sweeping in long lines over the ocean and down the New Jersey coast. The enemy has been located, the army information service revealed, and now nothing remains except to blast the imaginary forces of the foreign powers into invisible with make-believe bombs.

bits Pastime Theatre In Lewistown Is Prey To Flames Less Estimated at as Flames Sweep Theatre Building Blaze Originated In Orchestra Pit Special INS Leased Wire LEWISTOWN, May 27 Fire cf unknown origin, believed to have originated in the orchestra pit, early today destroyed the interior of th3 Fastime theatre here with loss estimated at between S60.C00 and $75, COO. The fire was discovered by Dr. David Johason, who lives an apartment house adjoining the theatre building. He turned in an alarm and every fire company in tie city re-ponded. The flames had gained such headway, however, firemen their first efforts to preventing a spread cf the blaze.

The flame were held in the interior of the theatre and four office suites in the front oi the building were undamaged bv tee blaze. The theatre, remodelled about two veers ago, had a seating capacity of 650. HAWAIIAN'S INCR2TAS- Rn-OLULL T. h. Mav 27 The Hawaiian race is on the increase, ac- cording to a fc-bukticn of the census bureau.

In 1920 there were 11.730 Hawaii ans and part-Hawaiians, of which 23,723 were of pure stock, on the islands. The figures of the 1930 census show there are now 53 830 cf native blood. This is a gain of 3.110 or 22 per cent NO GOLF ON EEACHES MILFORD. Mat 27 The person who drives a golf ball on the beaches cf Milford durir.f the summer months will be arrested and fined. Such is the dec'sion of a town Leeting held here.

Four wer? taken to the for treatment last summer after felled by driven golf talls- the last full day of the 1931 session. Sine die adjournment of the assembly has been set for noon tomorrow and as both branches met, there were good indications that they would bo in excellent shape for the final day. Senate and house each worked fur iously to catch up on their calendars and when they recessed early this morning had acted on all pending final reading bills before them. And while tomorrow's session will doubtless run past the noon mark, with legislative clocks stopped to make the fiction legal, it is believed both will quit for the year sometime Thursday afternoon. Today, the senate was slated to dispose of several major bills which came out of committee last night and to try and agree with the house on a number of measures thrown into conference committee.

Carrying a total of $153,123,017.62 for expenses of the state government during the next biennium, the general appropriation, bill was before the upper house for final action today. As reported from the house the carried total appropriations of $149,558 117.62, the increases in the senate totaling about Increases were due principally to a $752,000 boost for the public service commission for salaries and general expenses; increased appropriations to the treasury, public instruction and judicial departments, and individual boosts in several classifications. The senate also had before it the Shcffer motor code and the Sterling capital stock tax levy bills, expected to be given final approval today. The bills sponsored by Rep. Mason, Luzerne, providing for jury trials in contempt cases arising out of labor injunctions and for limitation of use of labor injunctions were also before the upper house for action.

The house was more at ease today, having cleaned up its calendar pending arrival of senate bills passed finally in the upper house. Principal house attention was centered on conference committee where today agreements will have to be reached on the Howell utility bill, the Musmanno Coal and Iron police bill, the Mc-Clure congressional re-apportioning measure and the house parliamentarian bill among others. Last night, its immediate work done, the house indulged in its annual night of horseplay to mark the closing session. Bills over which members fought all session were ripped from their holders, torn to shreds and hurled aloft. Others were wadded up and members pelted each other with favorite legislation now in the legislative "bone yard." Finally, with the chamber ankle deep in spots with shredded bills, the house indulged in a songfest, then quit until today.

Stiff battles in the conference committees were indicated today. The house refused to concur in senate amendments to the Musmanno bill and unless they recede from that position, or the senate conferees recede from the amendments, an unlikely step, the measure will die today. The Howell bill, with the "firing" provision still in it, empowering the governor to dismiss public service commissioners, was also slated for conference and little indication was seen of either chamber receding from its original stand. If they don't, that measure, too, will die in conference. Disposal of conference reports and of the appropriation bills which have not yet passed both houses was expected to be the principal work of both chambers today and if they maintain the clip set late yesterday and last night, both will be ready and willing to call it quits to the 1931 session tomorrow.

Helpless Miner Becomes Teacher; Aided By State HARRISBURG, May 27 One of the best examples officials said today of the accomplishments of the bureau of rehabilitation, Department of Labor and Industry, is given in a letter from a young man who expresses his appreciation to the bureau "for aiding in transforming me from a dependent to an. independent person." 'Without this said the writer, "it would have been an almost impossible task to place myself in the position I now hold in life. After having completed my first year in high school I decided to enter the mines. Four weeks later an accident caused a compound fracture of my spine. I spent six months in a hospital and was discharged, permanently disabled.

I completed my high school education, and with the aid of the bureau of rehabilitation and workmen's compensation from the mining company I was able to continue my studies until I received the degree of bachelor of science in commercial education from the Indian State Teachers College. I became a high school instructor of commercial subjects, and now have charge of scheduling the work of 74 teachers and more than 1500 students. I "My work has just begun. I am only a few steps up the long ladder that leads to the goal which I have oft fcr myself. I hope that sometime I may be able to shew my appreciation to the commcnweaitn of Penniyl-' vania which has p.ayed such a pctent part ia my life." New air time tables in cera-ticn in -Europe mr.ke posc-ible for cne to leve Lor.dc-n spend four hours in Pe.rLs, Ei'e pr Zurich, and return heme for dinner.

NEW REICHWEIN POOL TO BE OPENED MAY 30 Lavelle Resort to be Added to the Region's Growing Centers of Amusement A. P. Reichwein, of Mowry. tdav announced that he wil be ready Memorial Day to open his new park and swimming pool at Mowry. The park Is located to the south of the Lavelle-Mowry Highway and motorists can't miss it.

Mr. Reichwein began work on his park last year and spent emite a sum of money on the building of a swimming pool filled with watrr so clear that it is possible to distinguish the part concrete, part grael bottom. Picnic tables and cooking stoves have been placed on the grounds, two golf courses, eight stands, and a soda fountain are ready to serve the customers. There is parking spare on the frounds for 1.000 automobiles and tne park is expecting a rush of business this summer. Swiss Scientists On Daring Venture In 'Stratosphere' Continued from Pace One ly spread throughout the countryside.

The last official sighting of the balloon was over Kempten, in the Bavarian Alps, some fifty miles from the scene of the start. At that time, the craft was scarcely visible as it soared through cirrus clouds at an altitude of between 20,000 and 30,000 leet. Balked in two previous attempts. Professor Piccard started out this morning confident that the perfectly calm weather prevailing would enable him to rise ten miles above the earth In an effort to obtain data en the origin of cosmic rays, which were discovered by the American scientist. Professor Robert A.

MiUikan, several years ago. Extraordinary precautions were taken by the scientists to permit them to live in the extremely rarified atmosphere of the far reaches of the skies. The aluminum baU in whicn pro fessor Riccard and his assistant sealed themselves before the take-off is seven feet in diameter. It is equipped with delicate meteorological and astronomical apparatus as well as a device enabling the scientists to keep the air within the chamber at whatever pressure they desire to permit ezsy breathing. Professor Piccard planned to maintain a pressure of 0.6 atmospheres, while at an altitude of 50,000 feet the outside pressure probably was not more than 0.1, insufficient to sustain human life.

The start of the scientific venture, preparations for which were watched with interest by authorities throughout. Europe, was made without display of any kind. Last night Professor Piccard announced his belief that the unusually calm weather prevailing during the last three days would hold almost Indefinitely, and declared' his intention cf leaving bejore dawn. Police squad cars were summoned to patrol the field in the event that a huge crowd gathered, but not more actual start. Professor Piccard and Kipfer took their places in the aluminum ball when the giant bag.

with a gas capacity of more than 5D0.C00 cubic feet, had been completely inflated, and without a moment's hesi tancy, gave the signal for the balloon I to be released. Ey Walter Dietzel AUGSBURG, Germany. May 27 Grave fears for the safety cf Professor Augustus Piccard, famous Swiss scientist, and Dr. Ptul Pipfer. his assistant, were felt by aeronautical authorities in Germany this evening when they failed to at the scheduled time after their atempt to penetrate the stratosphere ten miles above the surface cf the earth in a hermetically sealed gondola slung from a gigantic free balloon.

Balloonists, airmen and scientists were almost unanimous in express ine doubt cf Professor Piccan's ability to make a safe landing, and some were frankly fearful that the coring air explorers might have sucumbed for lack of air miles above the earth. PHOXE WIFE LISTENED LOS ANGELES, May 27 Mrs. Marjorte V. Sanders, a telephone operator, was granted a divorce from fcer husband, J. Emer Sanders, when the lestLled she had listened in cn her husbands line distance "business" calls.

Ehe founi he was arranging dates with ether women, Mrs. Santfcrs wild western type sombfro and sat straddling the hood oT the engine of the bandit car, holding a machine gun in his lap. Thieves Loot Cash Register At Remo Garage Burglars Force Entrance to Motor Company Building and Escape With Small Sum of Money Unknown thieves forced their way into the Remo Motor Company building on North Sixth street last night or early this morning and looted the cash register in the office of approximately $10. Police investigating the robbery this morning were inclined to the belief that the robbers were juveniles, since a number of footprints outside the window through which they entered the building were too small to have been made by men. Song Composed By Local Man Is Published James Edward McHugh Author of Song Which Has Been Put to Music by N.

Y. Publisher Words to a song, written by James Edward McHugh, of this city, were bought by Walter W. Newcomer, a music publisher of New York City. The song is entitled, "If I Could Fly Through The Clouds On My Love." Mr. McHugh wrote the words a short time ago while the music was written by Walter Newcomer, ne New York publisher.

Hie song lias ueen piayed and sung several times and is said to be very beautiful. Mr. Newcomer will place the song on the market and it is expected that in a very short time the arrangement will be heard over the air. To Hold Memorial Service At Reed's Station May 39 A Memorial Service will be held at the Old Log Church Yard near Reed's Station on May 30th at 2:00 P. M.

An interesting program has been arranged. The graves of Revolutionary War Soldiers will be decorated. Although the service is scheduled fcr 2:00 P. many of the participants will assemble at the historic spot at noon with basket luncheon. An invitation is extended to everyone.

ADMISSIONS TO STATE HOSPITAL The following persons were admitted to the Shamokin State Hospital today according to a report received from the officials of that institution: Mrs. Beatrice Rcthermel, Rebuck, obstetrical. Mrs. Stella Cleaver, Shamokn, abdominal. Charles Klemick, Shamokin, hip.

Alfcnse Farni, Shamokin, tonsils and adencids. Edward Osierki. Shamokin. tonsils and adenoids. Only two patients were discharged from the Shamokin State Hospital today.

They were: Sar.erie- Creto, Atlas. Strausser, Shamokin. $1,000,000 FOR SCHOOL MER1DEN. May 27-The Connecticut state school for boys, a great storm center two years ago when Governor Trumbull "investigated charges against the management and put in a new staff, is to be completely rebuilt this summer at a cost cf nearly $1,000,000. State officials, deciding the work of the school wis handicapped by ancient structures at the institution, had little work of persuading the appropriation of funds fcr the plant.

now has cne store to every people. was received that the canines had L2-been without food other than that ob- tained in kill'ni shppn and c.aver.wt hence the complaint to the state as sociation and the visit on the part of tne agent. Prosecutions will be entered by Diamond against all farmers and others found negligent in the care pnd use of livestock. Valparaiso Hi School Athlete Gets 1-10 Years Virgil KirUand, On Trial For Assault and Batlery With Intent to Attack in Which Sweetheart Is Killed, Draws Mild Term Speciil INS Leased Wire. VALPARAISO.

May 27. A broad smile written across his face, Virgil Khkland today appeared before Circuit Court Judge Crumpack-er and heard himself formally sentenced to serve a term of from one to ten years in the state reformatory at Fendleton for assault and battery intent to attack his sweetheart, Arlene Dravea. The 2n-year-old erstwhile high sehool gridiron Idol was favored by wton the Judge, hi pauoing sentence, sent him to the ard of trustees of the reformatory will determine how many years serve. The youth was found guilty of 2s-' 53j: and bstrcry wirh intent tn attack by a jury that deliberated less t'-ree rnnrs last nig'it at (lie conclusion ot his second trUi gro-. out cf th? of tre Drive jlrl durinT ein in Gary.

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