Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 15

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as SeCond-CUun Mutter at (hit Post nt Lebanon 14 MINE DISASTERS TAKE HEAVY DEATH TOLL IN FOUR DAYS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF COUNTRY 236 Workers Lost Their Lives in the Underground Workings, MANY MISSING Gas and Coal Dust Explosions Assigned as Causes. Bluefleld, W. Va. Today. (IP).

Thirteen miners were knoWn to havo been killed and four Were missing today following a blast in the No. i mine of the Coal Company, at Yukon, McDowell last night. i The bodies of the thirteen worK- ers had been brought to the- surface by rescue workers. The exact number of men In the mine at the time of the explosion was unknown, but company officers said they did not think there were more than seven- Only loaders and machine cutters were in the workings, It was said. The bodies removed were those of loaders, The mine was quickly cleared ot (Continued on 1'tutn 1 wo) PROF.

STOKES IS AT LIONS LUNCH A Lebanon Val. College Instructor Interesting Address Prof. "WV L. Stokes, head of the department of business administration at Lebanon Valley College, at the Weekly 'noon meeting today, Addressed the Lebanon Lions Club at the Crystal Restaurant. Prof.

Stokes, a native of Toronto, Canada, and a member' of the Canadian bar, has been. in the United. States for almost two years. His address was entirely different from any other speaker who has appeared before the local Lions Club. For almost thirty minutes the MINE DISASTERS.

(By the Associated Press) Indications wore today that 286 workers had lost their lives four mine accidents since Saturday as follows; Mather, mine explosion; '164 known dead; 33 missing. Yukon, W. mine explosion; 13 known dead; 4 missing. Harlan, mine explosion; two dead; 16 missing. Klmberly, Mine In; four dead.

PLAYLETTES1N SOCIAL ROOMS OFSALEMLUTH. Presented by the Members of 'the Girls' Guild NO SAWDUST TRAILS. Reading, Is announced here today that although sawdust trail methods will NOT be adopted or, Imitated, Reading Classls ot the Reformed Church, hae recommended to its members, the holding of evangelistic campaigns In each church. Rev. Dr.

Rufus Zartman, Philadelphia, synodlcal evangelist, advised a'galnst union campaigns, recommending that each congregation, In order to make membership gains hold Its own special services. LARGE AUDIENCE DelightecfWith the Efforts' of, Those Who. Participated of tj Salem Lutheran thu church on Tuesday- night presented two pretty playlettes in the society rponw of church, Eighth and. Willow stree'ts, the presence 'dt'tin audience 'of several h'u'ndred, who well pleased with the The same performance wljlch was (Continued on Page Nine) PRES.COOLIDGE FAVOREDCIVIL WIDOWS HOWARD ALLEN READ PAPER AT R01MY MEET On the Progress Made by the Community Library MR. ALLEN ALSO Gave Brief Report Regarding Airport For Lebanon Rotarians of Lebanon, at their weekly meeting Tuesday evening, at (the Hotel Welmer, learned much about the progress of the now Community Library, through the medium of a very able paper presented by Howard P.

Allen, Mr. Allen divided the" growth of the institution into four epochs, or steps, epitomized as follows: JANUARY, J020 Library in; the '(Continued- on Fourteen) CIVIL WAR VETERANS GRATEFUL FOR FLAG POLE ON THE SOLDIERS' BLOCK COL. LINDBERGH HEADS AN AIR TRANSPORTCO. Takes Over Practically All the Running Operations Rail and Plane Service Between N. Y.

and Pacific Coast (Continued on Four) PRINCE OF WALES, IS HURT Harry B. Millard, Annville ciuar- ryman, and one of the most enthusiastic horsemen in the eastern part of the state, is acquiring a reputa- tion not unlike that His Highness, the Prince of Wales. Millard indulges in training of horses to Jump fences and barriers as one of recreations when not-engaged in business cares, and he was 'thus engaged this week at Bphrata, training one of his own thoroughbred mounts, when he was thrown roughly. Fortunately he escaped with plight bruises to the limbs and body ajid abrasiona on the nose and cheeks. Associates have likened his performance to 'those of tha daring Prince because this was the second accident of the same kind within two weeks, and-also because of his plucklness in returning to the horse's bapk immediately after being thrown.

imi BLUES EXCHANGED TBY BUCK AND HARRY David Hunaicker, better known as "Buck 1 of 418 Gannon street, formerly employed as manager of the Lebanon Auto- Service, South Eighth today took up hia new dutiea as an employe of the Rohland's Ice company. Harry Polinsky has taken puck's place as driver of the cabs, and Buck ha? taken Harry's place. Now figure it out. For Auto Insurance see Sprecher Washington, (ff) Cpoljdge signed today a bill raising' the pension to Civil War widows from to $40 a mouth, PRES.COOLIDGE VETOED FARM RELIEF BILL Washington, Today, President Ooolidge today vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST TO BE HELD IN HARDING JUNIOR HIGH TOMORROW A public speaking contest will be held in the Harding Junior High School during the' assembly period at 10:25 o'clock tomorrow morning.

The contest- will be in the auditorium of the school with the following pupils ap participants Walter Qraeff, representing the ninth grade; Qrace Bbyar, representing the eighth grade, and Margaret Mish, as speaker for the seventh grade, invitations have been extended to parents and of the pupUfl. HRULL FOUR ASSOCIATES Western Railroads and Wrights Compose the Ineorporators New Charles Lindbergh has decided to enter the commercial 'airplane Hold and has accepted a Job" aa chairman of the technical committee of the recently Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. He Is to assume his post at once and will take charge of patting into (Continued Thret) AN AIRPORT FOR LEBANON IS ASSURED Veterans of the.Civil at tjio meeting of Sedgwlck Post, No, Grand Army of at the Court House, on Jueaday, expressed their appreciation, of the services ren. dered in' the placing of a fine new pole on the Soldiers' Block, ut Mt. Lebanon cemetery.

The former, flag pole was blown down by the wind. Members of the Joint committee of Veterans of Foreign and the American Legion In charge of tho Memorial Day arrangements, acted for the G. A. RTT in securing a steel pole, and fitted It with pulley, ropes, and a Metropolitans Edison crew of erectors placed it in position on the block free of charge; It la set in heavy concrete and stands thirty feet out of the ground. It is permanent in the older veterans' are very grateful to those wiho had a part In the'work of patriotism.

GEORGE JACOBS, OF THE BON TON, TO LEAVE ON EUROPEAN TOUR TOUGH ON DEMOCRATS Houston, Texas, large consignment ot liquor, said to havo been ordered for delivery prior to the JJemocratlc National Convention hero, has been confiscated and the crews ot two ships havo boon arrested on charges ot possession and transportation of liquor, The boats, carrying tlie names ''Lena Beaumont" and "Intp'era- tor," were seized yesterday when they docked Scabrook, 25 miles southeast of here. Tho raiding parties obtained liquor valued at $75,000, Including rum, whlsk'ey, beer and wlno. PREHY REVUE IN AUDITORIUM OF HIGH SCHOOL Clever Dances Featured May Day SCENESJDF REVUE In" Artist's Retreat and Gypsy Gampjn Catskill Mountains Again the' students pf the 'thigh school demonstrated-what they really ware capable of- doing, if they receive tho slightest bit of co-operation from the officials and the faculty, by staging on.e, of Hhe Cleverest and prettiest Mayl-Day exercises' in high, ROCKET PROPELLED AUTO GERMANY'S NEWEST Demonstration on Avua Speedway Speed of 100 Miles an Hour With i Opel at the planes Drawback of Rockets. BERLIN, "Opel Eocket-Carill forward by of rockets placed wx chine, was demonstrated for tye first time BLttrlUU W1U1 and a cloud of yelfiw smoke aa 'the sucedsltye The machine gainodhnomentum as of uhlforrii power, every time a fresh rocket exploded. 1 Opel said that the machine tlonize motoring, a practical ste'pjtoward problem of flying at a tudea of the earth's atmosphere strata with i 1 J.

i 1 -k A nti light between circling motor Jacobs, man a't Members, of. That the project to "secure an airport for Lebanon is'no mere passing fancy, but an 'honest-to-goodnecs objective for immediate consummation was emphasized today, when Charles S. Doriough, president of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce announced the appointment of son, general manager ot the'Calcite (Continued on J'age Two) GENERAL COMMITTEE ON MEMORIAL DAY TO MEET THIS EVENING The general committee in charge- of the Memorial Day activities will meet this evening in the Veterans of Forign Wars home, 718 Chestnut to make final arrangements for the Memorial Day parade. All other organizations who plan to parade are invited to attend. Col.

Marshall Case is tho chairman in. charge o.t the committee, TWO LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE CO-EDS WERE SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING While walking across the campus at Lebanon Valley college on Mon PAUL'S, EVANGEtlCAl MEN TO BE GUESTS OF PRESBYTERIAN MEN M.embers of the 'Moil's Association of St. Paul's Evangelical church, one ot the most progressive of Lebanon's organizations will -be guests of the men of Fourth Street L'resbyterlan church tomorrow 'even- ng. A of entertainment has been provided, and Jt.will include- flu Wide-Awake Work Shirts made. The CfllWs Easton, (ff) Franklin, 73, while hurrying across a street this morning to board a trolley oar to take him to work, was struck by an automobile driven by John Hixsoo, also of this city," and died from a fractured skull shortly after being admitted to the Eastou hospital.

The driver released ou bis own recognisance. VIOLENT Tokyo, fight- the City of Jjokien, important JOfi sciiitb lor in one of'their hands and a basket between them, two CJ-ede were shocked by lightning during the electric which was playing havoc over the community. girls wore Miss Irene Schell and JVMss Mildred Lane, both students at the Institution. Neither were hurt, but were scattered about somewhat and were suffering merely from shock. th.

Srnl.ht wdth aj umbrella leave Friday morning on the 8:38 th hfl and a bfl ket train for Europe, where he will spend an indefinite period touring Parlfl, and may visit In Switzerland and Italy. Mr. Jacobs Is head of the coat and department of the etore. He wji; 1 on the 8. S.

Carmanla and will land In Havre, France. ERECTlOfGUARD TARGETS COMPLETED AT GRETNA Harrlsburg, em- ployes at the military reservation at Mt. Gretna have completed erection of additional landscape targets and a 75-foot rifle range, Adjutant General Frank D. Beary said today. General Beary said that although bad weather had delayed some of the work at the reservation the Guard will find-everything in readiness for the annual encampment.

ARTHUR LONG BREAKS LEG IN CORNWALL MINE A fractured kg and severely bruised back, were suffered by Arthur Long, 27, of Correaall when was caught between twafe cars, -while at wprlt at the pethlenlp Mines, Cornwall on Tuesday ftfwfe'itPon- injwed was, rushed to 1 Wir MAX CHERWINSKI AND JOS. MERKLE ESCAPE INJURY IN COLLISION Max Cherw'nski, of this city, and Joseph Merkle, of 630 CJwtnut street, both escaped unhurt when the automobiles In which they ware driving pollided at Spruce and Church streets, shortly after 9 o'clock this morning. Cherwinskl was driving a Dodge south on Spruce street and was about to turn on Church street, and er We was driving an Oakland touring car west on Church when the cars collided. Moth Proofing. Please Stand By exhibition of the son Company's movie picture.

''The Romance ot Power," secured thro.ugh the courtesy of Stang, a member of the Fourth Street Men's There will be a social hdur for an exchange of personal, and reti-esSmentB-wlU be served. DR. HOLLISTER, OF THE STATE DENTAL DEPT, TO ADDRESS KIWANIS CLUB Dr. 0, J. Ko-Ulster, 'Chief of the Dental Dlflslon ot the State Department of who.has visited Lebanon a number of times with hie dental clinic on wheels, and who several years ago addressed the local K(- wanls Club, will appear before that organization again tomorrow at the weekly session at the'Hotel Welmer at, noon.

He will be here by invitation the head of tho educational committee of the club, Dr. H. F. Lombard, Lee Ru'tter will be the booster. Announcement Is made that R.

veterans will again be guesta of club on May 31, and it will. DO an unusual session as Reading K)T wanians will put on the program. SAMUEL MILLER HAS PEONY IN FULL BLOOM ON DISPLAY AT NEWS Samuel Miller, residing on Federal etreet this morning dteplayed at tha NEWS office a fine specimen of blooming peony, raised In the .1 CQns'lderftbW' prese'ntatlpn of titled, Bridegroom," was given by 1 'the St. Wfttthow'8 Lutheran Sunday School 1 In' the -Henry School Building. i large crowd turned out to wlt- nesp' the ence greatly wltlj expjreftfllrig roar of, 'Bridegroom" proved to and an extremely atnhat.

Miriam Oerras and Gordon Smith (Continued on TQM AND MOTHER GOOSE PARTY IN TABOR REF. CHURCH A Tom 1 Th'umb wedding' and a Mother Qooae party will be given in Tabor. Reformed and Walnut streets, Thursday- and, Friday evenings of this week at 8 o'clock, Mrs. Phillip Light will direct the events which are glren by the beginners' department of the Sunday school. Mrs.

Light produced'these same -little plays to' capacity audiences (n the old Family Theatre and these events are freauently 'referred to to this day- Rehearsals are being, held dally and the little folks are acquitting themselves finely to the varlousyfoartB. TANK While tho wood peonies, an early variety, made their debut a week ago, the general variety are far back because of the latenws of the season, In porrnal weather peonies usually appear during the last week. of May, but this most planta will probably not burst into bloom before the firs-t or second week in June and the specimen on at NEWS office today is therefore rarity, and those who inspfwted so far state that it is the one they saw this 50c Special Thursday 50c i i "tog-lilt Berlin, Farman passenger plane, fly Ing-from Paris to Berlin, was forced down near- Cologne today. The tank exploded as the plane landed, and tho pilot, tha mechanic and a woman, passenger were KEPT HI8 Martinez, Today. MR)--'Brandishing his cane at prohibition agents, 74-year-old Nathan Allen Powers swore he would die before he would submit to another arrest on a charge of bootlegging yesterday- He kept his word and dropped dead a moment later from a heart attack trough on by the excitement of a raid.

their Chestnut the usual hour will thJip well will fce who remainder, of, Ihe vlsiClng in Fa.tTO DR. CALDWELL SPO with the State health morning addreaned 1 the Henry jt the moral enthusiastic one, and he, row morning at 10:89 q'cl the of the- genlor'. on the same subject)' tar, of making (heir lives ft healthier, TOM THUMB WEDDING MOTHER QOQSE'8 SIX I4TTLB An OW at by OLIVER HOKE'S HO IS DAMAGED BY Only slight waj't fire the Oliver Hoke, Qviemjn, th shortly after 8 The Chemical Cprapar- to a csiH fj CommlMtoner, WiMJam cordlngr to cow.pa.ny ale9.