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240. MOUNT CARMEL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 1938 German Plane Makes Berlin-New York Hop Blonde Latin WPA WORKER OF ASHLANDKILLED DEDICATION OF MONUMENT AT SHAM0K1N Little Hope Held For Passage of Hard Coal Bills BENEATH TRAIN Harrv Kehler. 37. Dies Half Monument Tribute to Member Of Departed Veterans of Spanish-American War Stock Market 9 -Hour Later In Ashland State Hospital CHEST CRUSHED AND Anthracite Reluctantly Included In Call For Special Slate Legislature WILL HOLD GREAT MILITARY PAGEANT INJURED INTERNALLY Closing Summary MEASURES SLUMBERING IN MINES COMMITTEE NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (U.R) Stocks declined today for the fifth con- General Shannon Grand Mar- ecutive session.

Railroader Hears Scream and Finds Victim Pinned Under Bottom of Coal Car Losses amounted to 1 to 3 points until late in the day when short i hal Lawton Camp of This City To Participate Writer Advises Citizens To Closely Analyze Language Of Proposed Laws An Imposing bronze monument on the park plot at Market and Lin' coin streets, Shamokin, a tribute to the memory of the departed Vet (Special to The Item) By Oliver B. Lerch, Esq. HARRISBURG, Aug. 12. erans of the Spanish-America War, will be dedicated tomorrow.

covering developed. Some of the leaders came back 1 to 2 points from their lows. The rally, however, failed to bring In new buying and volume fell below following the heaviest activity since late July. At the lows today, the market was down 10 points in the Industrial average from the high made on Saturday. The latter set new tops for the year.

The 10-point loss was in line with the predictions of the chart experts who now felt that further recesion might bring another sharp break. Support at this level, they felt, would make way for a substantial techni The occasion also will mark the 49th anniversary of the day when Spain sued for peace. Prospect of enactment of legislation by the special session of the Legislature to aid the beleagured anthracite industry has gone a -glimmering it appears here today as legislators prepare to return to the capitol Monday for the fourth week of the special session. The military pageant, which win Harry Kehler, 37, a WPA workmen of Ashland, was fatally injured by a Lehigh Valley train near the Goyne steam pump works east of Ashland at 3:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was so badly crushed about the right side of his chest and injured Internally that he died half an hour later in the Ashland State Hospital.

Just how Kehler was caught beneath the train, which was the 2:55 run out of Shenandoah, no one was able to explain today. The only account of the fatality was that a railroader, one of the crew, heard a scream and when he investigated he, found Kehler pinned beneath the bottom of a coal car and the road bed. Kehler was born in Ashland and piecede the dedicatory exercises, Is scheduled to move at 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon. Distinguished visitors including officials of the Cuban government, Differences of opinion among the cal recovery. .1 TV PT I Greatest activity centered in the would-be saviors of the industry together with a general disinclination automobile issues with General Mo on the part of the Earle Adminis tors the most active stock on the and of Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands, will be on the reviewing General E.

C. Shannon, commander of the Pennsylvania Na- 11 1 1 111 1 board. Large volume came Into tration to take up the anthracite question at this time are at bottom Chrysler, Studebaker and Yellow Taking off from Staaken Airdrome, near Berlin, at 2:53 P. New York time, August 11, the giant German monoplane Brandenburg hopped across the Atlantic to New York, arriving at 3:49 P. Thursday, after a non-stop flight of 24 hours and 56 minutes.

The all-metal, four-motored plane Is pictured above after landing at Floyd Bennett Field, L. I. Pictured below, with a New York policeman, are the crew of four, left to right: Walter Kober, radio man; Rudolf von Moreau, co-pilot; Captain Alfred Henke, pilot, and Paul Dlerberg, flight engineer. Preparations were made for a quick turn-about and return flight to Germany. Truck.

Rubbers were heavily trad the reasons underlying this outlook. spent all his life there. He was a Periodic outbreaK of what would ed and steels received considerable attention. Hollywood is full of dark lan-gorous Latin beauties, so just for contrast the movie moguls are Importing a vivacious blonde one. She's Amand Varela, noted Argentine stage and screen star, pictured atove as she arrived in New York enroute to her debut in American films.

at a more distant view appear to be definite progress toward such legislation may at this writing and from STRIPPING Secretary of Mines an on-the-scene view of the situation be safely discounted by the anthracite community as so much grandstand play. EARLE WAIVES M. J. Hartneady Dies GERMANS WILL -BEGIN RETURN HOP TOMORROW All four of the anthracite it STRIKE STILL IN PROGRESS son of Wesley I. Kehler, now a resident of Locust Dale, and of the late Mamie Owens) Kehler.

Sixteen years ago he and a Locust Dale girl, Adelaide Oral or, were married. Survivors are his wife and three children, Owen, James and Yvonne, his father and the folowing brothers and sisters: Clarance, Dwight and Mrs. Ray Miller, of Ashland, Daniel, Raymond and Mrs. Albert Evans, of Locust Dale, and Mrs. Harold Beck, of Hazleton.

The funeral is- to be held from ihs late home, 1205 Race street, Ashland, on Sunday afternoon with the pastor of the Ashland Evangelical Church officiating. Burial will be made in the Fountain Springs Cemetery. appears, are slumbering in the Committee on Mines and Mining where the possibility of their seeing the light of day on the floor is as remote Member of Governor's Cabinet Succumbs To HIS IMMUNITY FROM ARREST as though they were buried In the deepest mine in the anthracite area. Heart Attack While Visiting At Home Of Relative In Nesquehoning No Prospects For Early Settlement; Statement Is Issued The view of this observer is con Trans-Atlantic Plane Brandenburg Under Heavy Guard At New York Airport NESQUEHONING, Aug. 12.

firmed by an analysis of the anthracite legislative outlook by the Har-risburg Telegraph which on Thursday, August 10, headlined the situation as: "Obstacles Looming In Legislative Road for Coal Bills." This refers to the plan of Governor of the military parade. His aides will be Colonel Stephen Elliot, of head of the 109th Field Artillery, and Colonel M. Vail, Also of Wilkes-Barre head of the 109th Infantry. Eight companies of the 109th Infantry, four batteries of the 109th Field Artillery, one aircraft company and a searchlight company, all from the National Guard, will take part In the festivities. Augmenting these military units will be several supply companies, ten Philipinos with old-type pack mules, and large details of Spanish-American War Veterans, patriotic organizations and fire companies.

The Amercan Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, together with eight bands and drum corps will also take part In the parade. A special detail of 25 Motor Policemen will arrive tomorrow morning to assist the 14 regular troopers now at Shamokin in the handling of automobile traffic. Major General Guy V. Henry Post, Shamokin will Be host to theSpair-ish-American War Veterans from all sections of Pennsylvania. The festivities for the day will open at 9:00 o'clock in the morning with prolonged cannon salutes.

Route of parade, It was announced, will be north on Shamokin street to Independence streej, west on Independence to Market street, south on Market street to Montgomery street, countermarch on U.R State Secretary of Mines Mich Challenges Shelley To Bring Him To Trial So He Can Answer Charges section of Pennsylvania's vast anthracite fields. It was Hartneady's ability to handle difficult situations that was The strike of shovel engineers at all strippings operated by stripping contractors in District 9 continued today with no prospects of early JAPAN RENEWS ael J. Hartneady, prominent figure in Pennsylvania's anthracite mining regions for years, died suddenly here believed to have prompted Governor Earle to name him to the Important today of a heart attack. He was 60. Earle's Anthracite Coal Industry Commission for State control of the By Morey J.

Potter (United Press Staff Correspondent) Hartneady was fatally stricken cabinet post. industry as a solution to its Ills. HARRISBURG, Aug. 12. (U.R while visiting at the home of- his Contractors, headed by Harridan Randall of the Rhoads Contracting Company at Ashland, termed as il Meanwhile the United Mine Work Gov.

George H. Earle's constitu BIG OFFENSIVE NEAR HANKOW brother-in-law John Cadden. Death Hartneady was widely known throughout the hard coal regions. In 1913 he was sheriff of Carbon county and during the serious trolley strike tional immunity from arrest was ers are drafting their solution far iJSme-at 6:55 a.m."r" under waiver today through his At the bedside of the cabinet offi the problem. "In addition," the Harrisburg Tel legal the strike which started yesterday.

Randall said that as far as ne knew, there is no conference sched In Pottsvilie he was named a mean cer when death came was Hart challenge for District Attorney Carl B. Shelley to take him and his 13 appointees and political associates ber of the arbitration board. During neady wife, Catherine; his brother, egraph continued, "the- members who introduced the Commission biDs the reign of President Roosevelts Patrick, and his brother-in-law. Members of the family said Hart are not particularly hopeful of fav NRA, Hartneady was named a mem facing graft charges before a magistrate for arraignment. Earle, Democratic nominee for U.

Concentrates On Subduing China After Sealing Border Truce With Russia orable consideration. Many mem ber of the Hazleton Compliance neady suffered a stroke about eight bers," the Telegraph reported, "ere S. Senator, issued the challenge in Board. Recently he was engaged in a ser a radio address directing verbil o'clock last night. Prior to that time he had not been complaining of feeling 111, they said.

not certain they want the coal problem, certain to cause much contro NEW YORK, Aug. 12, (U.R) A constant police guard was kept today on the German trans-Atlantic airplane Brandenburg, which landed yesterday after a non-stop flight from Berlin and will take off tomorrow on the return trip. As a precaution against anti-Nazi demonstrations, the plane had been surrounded with policemen and sailors from the instant it touched the ground at Floyd Bennett Field at 3:40 p.m. yesterday, 24 hours and 8 minutes after having taken off from Berlin the fastest westward Atlantic flight ever made. The newest air heroes were Capt.

Alfred Henke and his crew of whose flight was kept secret until it was almost completed. They averaged 153 miles an hour for 3,985 miles against prevailing ocean headwinds in their sleek, 26-passenger land monoplane which has a black Swastika on the tail. Sailors from the United States naval base stood shoulder-to-shoulder and formed a lane for the black and silver plane to taxi to a hangar, and 300 policemen took up the guard in relays, although the crowd of 2,000 which watched the landing had cheered and waved warmly, and there had been no outward barbs at both Shelley, Republican versy, to be a part of the special Hartneady, who began his career By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) Japan formally sealed a frontier official who petitioned for a grand jury Inquiry of the charges, and Democratic Judge Paul N. Shaeffer in the hard coal regions as a slate ies of controversies with District 7, U. M.

W. A. officials, over his reinstatement in the mine union from whioh he was expelled for non-payment of dues more than two years ago. His appeal for reinstatement This outlook confirms the original battlefield truce with Soviet Russia today and immediately opened a view of seasoned legislative observ uled with the shovel runners and members of the District 9 Executive Board. He also said that before the contractors consent to hold a conference the shovel engineers must first return to their jobs and then file a grievance with the Conciliation Board, as prescribed In the agreement between the miners and the operators.

Shovel engineers are getting per week six days pay for five days work and repairs either on Saturday or Sunday. Prior to the 7-hour day, the engineers received per week seven days pay for six days work and repairs on Sunday. The daily pay, Mr. Randall ex who ordered key witnesses to reiuse testimony to the Legislative Com ers that Inclusion of the anthracite Market to the monument. World War veterans and their affiliated organizations will comprise the fourth division.

At "the head of the seventh division will be O. G. Crawford, of Erie, mittee created to take over the in great offensive up the Yangtze Valley against the Chinese provisional capitol at Hankow. vestigation and publicly air the subject In the governor's call for the special session was, in fact, but a gesture. was to be heard in Hazleton tomorrow by union officers.

Hartneady was tlie second mem picker at the age of 11, rose to the position of a cabinet member for Gov. George H. Earle at $10,000 a year. His activities In the hard coal regions, as an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America had always kept him In the thick of any fight. He later fjecame president of District 7, U.

M. W. an important Forty-five Japanese bombing It was the Governor's first pub planes unloaded devastating explo The plan of the anthracite com ber of Governor Earle's cabinet to Department Commander, United Spanish War Veterans, and his Chief of Staff, Fred Wagner, of mission comprises four bills: die. Warren Van Dyke, state secre House Bill No. 46, introduced by tary of highways, was fatally strick- Assemblyman J.

Noble Hirsch, (Contlnued On Page Three) sives at Hankow, boosted a two-day toll of casualties to about 1,200 and Inaugurated what appeared certain to be the greatest If not the decisive phase of warfare between Japan and China. Schuylkill, would create a Pennsyl vania Anthracite Commission of plained Is the same as before, but For the moment, at least, danger P.U.C. REFUSES of a Japanese war with Russia has been alleviated by an agreement to bury the dead on Changkufeng MOUNT CARMEL WOMAN DIES ON VISIT IN SOUTH battlefield (Japanese estimated there Mount Carmel Junction. Members of the various Camps, including John Lawton Camp 29, Mount Carmel, will parade in this division. Festivities will be concluded on Saturday night at 9:00 o'clock with a big display of fireworks on the Cameron colliery culm bank overlooking Shamokin.

Distinguished together with State officers of the United Spanish War Veterans, officers of the National Guard, visiting Veterans and others will be guests at a luncheon at Hotel Penn Lee at 12:30 o'clock In the afternoon and again at a dinner at 6:00 at night. Following the fireworks, the. veterans (Continued On Page Three) were 3,000 Russian casualties; 900 Japanese) and to hold present front FURTHER CUTS IN COAL RATES the men work a day a week less, so the contractors take away one day a week from the pay check. The shovel engineers want a monthly pay as before. They now get the same daily pay for a 7-hour day as they got for an 8-hour day, but get paid for only six days a week, instead of seven days a week.

Randall also explained that the decision handed down by Umpire Larkin in the Panther Valley case was against a coal company and not against stripping contractors. Contractors in District 9 agreed Colliery Working Time lines pending efforts of a commis sion to settle the dispute over the Siberia-Manchukuo frontier. three members at $10,000 a year with $500 additional for the chairman. House Bill 43, introduced jointly by Assemblyman John F. Stank, Northumberland, and Charles Wright, Luzerne, would empower the proposed Commission to license mines beginning July 1, 1939.

Under this "anthracite coal. control law" the Commission would have the right to refuse a license to persons or firms who commit "any act injurious to the trade or commerce in coal resulting in demoralizing of the price structure of coal of exorbitant retail prices." On June 1 of each year the Commission would fix production and (Continued On Page Seven) lic comment on the protracted controversy since Chief Justice John W. Kephart acted Monday to halt both the inquiries untU the Supreme Court rules next month on constitutionality of laws enacted by the Special Legislature to sidetrack the grand jury and publicize the evidence in impeachment proceedings. "I don't want this delayed a day longer," Earle said in the address last night. "I want the facts, all of them, out In the open and the sooner the better.

"The District Attorney, if he is an honest public official and not merely the tool of a corrupt political machine, has the solution in his own hands. He can arrest every one of the accused, present his evidence before a magistrate, and if the evidence stands up the accused can be held for Immediate indictment and trial. In that way the accused can face their accuser and the public can learn the facts. "I call upon the District Attorney of Dauphin County to arrest me tomorrow. I call upon him to arrest anyone else whom he accuses of "I have given fair play to every group of our population.

Now, facing a vicious political attack be Heart Attack Fatal To Mrs. Dismisses Retailers' Complaint At any time the crisis and the threat of war may be renewed on the border. Meantime Japan moved to break the defenses of Chinese at Hankow with the greatest possible Mary Kessler While Vacationing In Virginia Against 'Unreasonable' Intrastate Freight Scheduled to Work 6atrdy Centralis Collieries C. Central! Park. Bssle Brook Raven Run (Unavailable).

Continental (Unavailable) to abide by a decision, If and when handed down, In a case involving speed and thoroughness; to throw every resource Into concluding the A Mount Carmel woman, Mrs. conquest of China if possible in or HARRISBURG, Aug. 12. (U.R) The Public Utility Commission re stripping contractors in the Hazleton area, also in District 7. The umpire, Randall said, men Mary Kessler, 54, died suddenly late der to gain freedom to deal with $100 ROBBERY 4T 17ITI niflAMT fused today to order further reduc Thursday In a hospital at Newport News.

Virginia. whre she had been tions In Intrastate anthracite freight Mores Colliery Co. tioned In his decision that conditions in the Panther Creek Valley were peculiar to that region and vacationing with relatives. Russia. Many tons of aerial bombs crashed on the three adjacent cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang to reopen the Japanese offensive after two weeks of serious set-backs coin Kehley Run.

In a teleeram received this morn ALMSHOUSE IS rates and dismissed the complaint of the Pennsylvania Retail Coal Merchants' Association, Bethlehem, local contractors understand tnat the decision affects that region 81 DEGREES TODAY alone and not District 9, or else Al JVULTMUm Break Into Central Garage and Get Oil, Cigarettes, Cigars, Candy and Revolver ciding with the Siberian frontier ing, members of the family were in formed that Mrs. Kessler suffered a heart attack while on a fishing trip yesterday, was removed to the hospital where doctors resorted to the use of andrenalin in a vain effort to where in District 7. The temperature was a great deal crisis. Japanese battleships carried fresh charging present rates are "unreasonable." The Commission held that the Randall believes that the Hazleton more comfortable today with the mercury at 81 degrees. Yesterday it was up around 91 degrees.

cause I have dared to challenge the industrial and political overlords of SOLDBYBOARD Former Borough Poor Farm Disposed Of By Institutional Officials case on which the local contractors agreed to abide was never brought up before the Conciliation Board. complaint, filed April 22, "involves on Page Eight) troops, tanks, more war material up the Yangtze to the fighting front near Kiukiang, and about 100 miles below Hankow. (Continued On Page Seven) substantially the same problems" that were disposed of In a P. U. C.

Nanking, immediate objective of order last February decreasing intra the Japanese, probably will be the State Expected To Assume Merit Exam Complaints Grow To Bitter Dispute Medical Care Obligation scene of the next major battle, but Japanese must face massed Chinese troops over every mile of the route to Hankow. More than a million Chinese soldiers have been massed for the defense of the provisional capitol. Robert Murphy, United state rates on hard coal. Following issuance of the rate reduction order, the Commission held, the complainants did not "avail themselves of the right to ask for a rehearing within 15 days a- required by the Publio Utility law." The complaint further is based, the P. U.

C. found, not on "any allegation of material change In Thieves last night broke Into the Central Garage at Kulpmont, owned b7 Paul Evert, and stole merchan-dATs valued at "$100. The loot included oil, cigarettes, cigars, candy and a revolver, as well as cash. BARNESYILLE MAN HURT IN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT Joseph Bainbridge, 27, of Barnes-ville, is in the Coaldale State oHs-pltal with multiple lacerations, of the right forearm, suffered when he was caught by the handle of a passing automobile at Mintzer's Hill, Bear Tamaaua. HARRISBURG, Aug.

12. (U.R) By James Shepley (United Press Staff Correspondent) HARRISBURG, Aug. 12. State assumption of the obligation for medical care of Indigents out Press correspondent in the front except those in their own Institutions under the 1937 consolidated relief laws. The state held it was not obligated under the statutes.

Rep. William A. Shaw, Alleg side of county poor institutions by line headquarters near Shaho, reported" fresh Cantonese troops, am A bitter dispute over civil service jobs In the relief administration that conditions" but on the contention Members of the Northumberland County Institutional Board today sold the former Mount Carmel almshouse to Grant Williams, a steward and later a watchman on, the premises. The property was disposed of at a public sale for $2,500, a sum previously offered by Williams but considered too low at the time. 'One hundred twenty acres, 75 now under cultivation but bearing no crops this year, make up the grounds.

Besides the acreage, the premises hold a dormitory including a beating plant, a wagon shed and other small buildings. Sept. 15 was virtually assured today with the medical profession ple supplies and good morale among the Commission failed to give pro has smouldered under the grand heny, chairman of the House Wel the Chinese. and the Public Assistance Depart per consideration to certain aspects of the situation." Although some Chinese leaders, jury investigation fanfare threatened today to grow into a major legislative flight if Gov. George H.

ment agreed on a scale of service prices. principally Communist army strat Subsequent to the P. U. C. order A bill asserting the state's obli Earle's attempts to mediate fail.

Bainbridge was standing near al egists, urged that Hankow be defended even at the risk of destruction of the army, it was not believed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai- relief Job battle that led to the resignation of the State's first Assistance secretary, Karl deSchweinits, the dispute wound up last night with a hurried appeal to the governor to intervene. At the request of Shippen Lewis, employment board member, the governor arranged a conference between Lewis and Rep. William A. Shaw, chairman of the House Welfare committee. Earle told the United Press he had not attended the conference but act-er merely In the "capacity of a mediator." Usually reliable sources reported, however, that the House Welfare chairman called for a showdown on future policy of the employment (Continued On Page Seven) Originating with complaints from gation for such care has been approved by both legislative branches reducing hard coal rates, the announcement pointed out, the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed a 10 per cent increase on all freight rates including anthracite.

Democratic leaders and Assistance Department aides that examinations except as to a House amendment parked truck when the machine, driven by F. J. Thornton, of Mid-dletown, N. came along and the door handle of the car -struck him. Shek intended to permit Japanese fare Committee which reported the bill to the floor with a favorable recommendation, announced the Public Assistance Department and medical societies have already adopted a scale of prices for most of the services that will be involved in anticipation of passage of the act.

Shaw said physicians have agreed to accept $1 for each office visit of a relief patient $2 for each home visit plus a 5 cents a mile allowance for traveling expenses to pa-tktnts within a radius of five miles (Continued On Page Seven) drafted to fill 6000 Jo'ds from among fixing the effective date which probably will gain Senate concur seizure of the city to end the war. The P. U. C. also authorized the rence when the Assemby recon Mr.

and Mrs. Hugh "Scotty" M- 168,000 applicants were "psychological rather than practical," the matter first drew official recognition venes Monday night for the fourth week of the special session. A prolonged and desperate defense in an effort to crack the Japanese but eventual withdrawal further inland before the superior air, land and sea equipment of the invaders appeared likely. increase on other rates but refused to permit the anthracite increase. Railroads petitioned the I.

C. C. to require the P. U. C.

to approve the anthracite rate increase and hearings were held last month on the Clymont, of St. Louis, Missouri, motored here from Scranton on Saturday to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keller, of east Dolly Girardlnl, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Louis pirardlni, of 225 south Oak street, had her tonsils removed this morning at the office of Dr. M. J. Stlef and Is now recup-tratlng at home. when House and Senate welfare committees named sub-committees to study the examinations.

The measure was prompted by a Jefferson County Court decision that counties were not obligated to provide medical care to Indigents street. (Continued on Page Seven) Gaining momentum like the last controversy..