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nn MORNING GALI LXIII, NO. 181 ALLENTOWN, FRIDlY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1921 PRICE THREE CENTS THE ALI MN i GIBB0NEY HEIRS SUE BAND SPLITS 0 COMMITTEE NAVAL HER JOB IS TO STUDY ALL LAWS AFFECTING WOMEN ITS Fill 10 AFTER KILLING ON ROOT PROPOSAL TO USE OF SUBMARINE LIMIT IN WAR CLERK AND WQUNDIHG ANOTHER' Bravery of Official, Who Returns Robbers' Fire Altho Fatally Injured, Prevents Well-Planned Holdup at Nyack, N. Y. WILSON EXPECTED TO BREAK SILENCE ON FOUR-POWER PACT Borah, Leaderof Opposition, in Conference With Tumulty, Secretary of Former President NOISE OF SHOOTING ATTRACTS ATTENTION Would Be Thieves Beat Hasty- Retreat to Waiting Auto at Rear of Building and Make Their Escape Slight Trail of Blood Indicates That One of Four Was Wound ed Posses Scour Country side for Traces of Gang. Pearl Hirer, N.

Dec. 29 (A. Four armed bandits today swooped iown on Pearl Kiver, failed in an tempt to rob the First 'National bank, BERGDOLL ESTATE Alien Property Custodian Also Named as Defendant. Philadelphia, Dec. 24.

(A. The estate of D. Clarence Gibboney today filed suit in the federal district court against Grover C. Bergdoll, army deserter, for counsel fees. Thomas W.

Miller, alien property custodian, who seized Bergdoll's property some time ago, Js also named as a defendant, as he refused to pay the bills presented by the estate. Gibboney, who was Bergdoll's c-ounsel at the time of the latter's court martial for desertion from the army, was drowned in Mexico a year ago. The estate contends that the lawyer was entitled to $25,000 counsel fees and $5969 for expenses incurred, and claims is still due the estate. KING TAKES REINS OF Premier Elected on Platform Favoring Reciprocity With U. S.

Ottawa, Dec. 29. (A. William Lyon MacKenzie King, elected premier of Canada on the Liberal tidal wave at the general election December 6, took the reins of government from Premier Arthur Meighan, Conservative, today in the presence of Baron Byng, governor general of the dominion. Mr.

King will have a strong Liberal backing in Parliament, for in the election, in which the government was overthrown, the Liberals elected 157 members, the Progressives, 65. the Conservatives (Unionists) 51 anid Laborites, 2. The tariff issue played an import ant part in the election. The Liberal platform favored a tariff for revenue only and a return toward reciprocity in natural products with the United States. The Meighan government stood for a high tariff.

The new premier is a former minister of labor and an expert on dominion labor matters. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and also studied at Harvard, the University of Chicago and abroad. He was once an instructor in political economy at Harvard. Later he became an editorial writer on the Toronto Globe. He has been a government conciliator in numerous labor disputes.

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA Lnd fled, in an automobile after slay- Ing two men and probably fatally bounding another. Onrobber, wounded by one of his victims, left a slight trril of blood In the snow, but this was lost when he entered the machine. To. light tlhe town fire department in their trucks, citizens in private machines and the police afoot and ahorse were scouring the countryside for trace of the robbers. It was 12.35 o'clock, the lunch hour, when the robbers appeared to carry out What was evidently a fe-fully planned hold-up.

Driving their machine into a lumber yard behind the bank, tJhey left two of their number In the car. The other pair opened a back window of the bank with a penknife and slipped Inside. Jiust what occurred was told the district attorney by Otto Miller, a railroad flagman, who was conferring In an Inner office with James P. Moore, assistant cashier, when the robbers appeared, and who tonight 14! 17 .3 .1 ii XT 1. hospital.

Only one other person was in the bank at the time, Siegfried Butz, a who, with Moore, was slain. Attracted to the bank by the prospect of a $7000 payroll for the Dexter Folder company plant, cross the street, the robbers with-it any preliminaries began shootings Butz was the first to fall. Wlhen Mooro and Miller from the Inner office, the rain of bullets con-v tinued, with Moore returning the fire and wounding one of the bandits. Even as he fell, with a bullet wound BAIL HAS NO PO WER TO RA TIFY IRISH PACT Be Valera's Contention Regarded as Correct Future Plans Besigned to Avoid Wrecking of Agreemen Are Now Being Considered CASHIER MEXICO TO HONOR U. S.

MARTYR TO YELLOW FEVER. Mexico City, Dec. 28. (A. President Obregon lias ordered official honors for the late Dr.

Howard ti. Cross, of the rockefeller Institute, who died at Vera Cruz from yellow fever, and the body will be brought to the capital to-day. The president referred to Dr. Cross as a martyr to science. After ceremony the body "will be placed on board a train and taken to Enig, where burial will take place.

SOVIET HAMPERED IN TRADE GERMANY Cites Lack of Office Space as One Reason For Breaking Off Negotiations Berlin, Dec. 29. (A. The official Russian Soviet trade commission has notified German firms with which it has been dealing, here, that it was unable to conclude pending agreements. It says if is hampered in the execution of its contracts by difficulty in securing permission for its representatives to enter Germany and by lack of office space in Berlin.

The commission, which has a man-opoly on German trade, has at present a personnel of 340 office rooms. Mid-Continent Producers Predict Ruin Without Tariff Levy Washington, Dec. 29. Varying duties on crude oil were proposed before the senate finance committee today by spokesman for mid-continen producers and all duties were opposed by American producers operating in Mexico and representatives of various classes of oil consumers in this. country-Renewing the fight for a tariff levy which was lost in the house by an overwhelming vote, Senator Harreld, Republican, Oklahoma, said he was satisfied with the original rates proposed by the ways 'and mfans committers 33 cents a barrel on crude and 25 ceiSv a barrel on fuel.

Senator of Kansas, a Republican member of the finance committee, has introduced an amendment to the tariff- bill, proposing these duties. A duty of $1 a barrel was urged by Harry H. Smith, of Tulsa, secretary of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. who said this would equalize the difference in the costs of production in Mexico and in the mid-continent fields. W.

H. Gray, of Tulsa, representing the National Association of Independent Oil Producers, suggested no specific -ates, but urged that the President be empowered to assess a duty equivalent to the combined import and export duties levied by Mexico. Spokesmen for the domestic producers said, and some members of the committee agreed, that the mid-oontinent industry was in bad condition, at this time. Mr. Smith said that 200,000 small wells could not continue in operation at present prices and that a tariff ought to be enacted both as a protection and a conservation measure.

Opponents of a duty on oil said tariff protection was not necessary and would serve only to increase the price to all consumers. SENTENCE MAN TO CHURCH Clayton, N. Defendant on Drunk Charge Chooses Pew to Jail Clayton, N. Dec. 29.

When a man was brought before him for the second time within a few weeks, charged with drunkenness. Mayor Potter, of Clayton, director of the Malaga camp meeting, gave him his choice of being sentenced to jail or attending church regularly. The prisoner took the church sentence. TO DRILL FOR GAS IN CITY OF BUFFALO Buffalo, X. Dec.

29. The city council has authorized Frank Perkins, commissioner, to spend $20,000 sink wells to determine whether nat ural gas can be found in paying quantities within the city limits. Perkins, who is a socialist, and an advocate of municipal ownership, fathered the proposition for city gas wells. KILLED WHEN HORSES DASH INTO TRAIN Washington, Dec. 29.

(A. S. B. Hayes, of this city, was killed and another man was injured here tonight when their carriage crashed into a freight train. Reports to the authorities indicated that the horses became frightened and dashed Into the train, ARGU And con FOR CRUDE OIL DUTY Agrees to Reaffirm Ex isting Principles of International Law ATTEMPT TO LIMIT AIRCRAFT ABANDONED Other Naval and Far Eastern Questions Before Conference Remain at Standstill -Cliin-ese and Japanese Unable to Reach Agreement on Shantung, Appeal to U.

S. and Great Britain to Act as Mediators Capital Ship Question Regarded as Good as Settled. Washington, Dec 28. (A. The arms conference naval committee spent all of to-day debating proposals to restrict submarine warfare, but got no further than a general understanding to reafflm existing pinciples of international law.

A dispute over phraseology blocked formal adoption of an affirmatory resolution, and the subject was laid aside for consideration by a special sub-committee on drafting. The naval committee itself then began what promises to be a prolonged debate over the American proposal to prohibit use of submarines against merchant vessels altogether. Meantime, the sub-committee on aircraft decided to abandon any effort to limit the airplane strength of the powers and to recommend instead that an attempt be made to agree upon restrictions that would make an air warfare conform with consideration of humanity. All the other naval and far eastern discussions before the conference remained at a standstill during the day except for an intimation from Ufe Japanese that only mediation by he United States and Great Britain could save the Shantung negotiations from final deadlock. It was declared both for the Japanese tnd Chinese that their governments had gone as far as possible toward a compromise and hope for a settlement was seen only In the possibility that some new element could be.

Injected into the conversations. There were Indications that the naval experts of the various powers were far from an agreement on the proposal that airplane carriers be limited and all the foreign delegations were waiting on further instructions as to the American pro-(Continued on Page Seven.) DOZENS ARRESTED IN MOTOR THEFT CAMPAIGN New Haven, Dec. 29. A campaign against automobile thieves has resulted in the seizure of scores of cars and dozens of arrests. The police had In their possession today forty machines on nearly every one of which the engine number had been buffed off, the factory marks altered xntl various parts interchanged.

PENNSY ENGINE WRECKED Passengers Have Narrow Escapes East of Rheems Lancaster, Dec. 29. Passengers on train No. 38. Cleveland to New York, narrowly escaped death today east of Rheems when the locomotive was wrecked by a bar dropping to the tracks.

Portions of the engine gear were hurled over the four tracks for a hundred yards, but it was not derailed. None of the passengers was EXTEND GUARD LINES IN NEWPORT STEEL STRIKE Newport, Ky, Dec. 29. The guard lines around tde Newport Rolling mills were extended today by Colonel H. II.

Denhardt, commanding the Kentucky militiamen who were sent by Governor Morrow to preserve order during the strike oC the steel workers. GOVERNOR TO HOLD USUAL NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION Harrisburg, Pa Dec. 29. Governor and Mrs. William C.

Sproul wil give their New Year's day reception at the executive mansion on Monday afternoon. The governor and Mrs. Sproul and a party of friends will spend the week-end in Harrisburg and the reception wil be in line with the traditions of the governor's afternoon "at home." SEEK RELEASE OF W. VA. MINE WORKERS' CHIEF Charleston, W.

Va Dec. 29. Counsel for C. F. Keeney, Fred Mooney and William Blizzard, district officials of the United Mine Workers of America, who are still in Jail at Logan, W.

Va, announce proceedings for a writ of habeas corpus seeking the roloase of the prisoners will be instituted at once. DANCE SATURDAY EVENING. LEHIGH SAENGERBUND. 30-2t THE WEATHER Washington, Dec. 29.

Pennsylvania: Fair and cold Friday; Saturday cloudiness and warmer, Eastern continued lncreasins BLAMES STRAW SUCKERS FOR THE DREADED CANCER New York, Doc. 29. Chewing the straw suckiers used in pop bottles is likely to cause cancer. Dr. Charles B.

Graf, specialist and vice president of the Medical Association of America, declared today. The increased use of the straws with soft drinks, Is possibly responsible for the great Increase of can cer, he said. The straws carry a ray fungus, he explained, which is trans mitted to the blood. TO THROTTLE POTASH NDUSTRY IN U. S.

Sen. Smoot Places Contracts With 27 American Firms on Record Waslhington, Dec. 29 (A. A copy of a contract entered into by thirty-four American manufacturers of fertilizers with the Potash Syndicate of Germany, by which the former bind themselves to purchase 75 per cent, of their potash requirements from the latter, was read today in the record of the tariff hearings of the senate finance committee. The contract was produced by S.

O. Crenshaw, vice-president of the Virginia -Carolina Chemical company, of Richmond, Va. and placed in the record by Senator Smoot, Utah, Republican, who said he wanted the senators to know that it evaded, not only all anti-dumping provisions but all American anti-trust laws. "If that contract can stand," Sen ator Smoot declared, "Germany will see that the potash Industry in the United States will never be developed." EDUCATORS CONSIDER RURAL SCHOOLS AT STATE CONVENTION Warm Discussion in College and Teacher Training Department Altoona, Dec. 29.

(A. Rural schools were considered at today's general session of the State Education Asso. convention. Mias Williams, of Memphis, president of the National Education Asso advocated the doing away with the one and two room rural schools and consolidating the schools of a neighborhood to raise the standard. A warm debate took place in the college and teacher training depart ment when Joseph H.

Heiges, of Shippensburg Normal school, con tended that the character of work done in normal schools should admit graduates to the junior classes in colleges. President Brumbaugh, of Juniata College, declared there would be a distinct lowering of college standards if normal graduates were so admitted. Departmental presidents were elected as follows: College and teach er training, Clyde C. Green, Clarion; rural schools, J. S.

Champion, Lycom ing county; High School, II. E. Winner, Pittsburgh; Americanization, H. E. Stone, Erie; continuation schools, Lewis F.

Hoyer. Philadelphia; Eng lish, Miss Mabel Muloch, Altoona; commercial, G. G. Hill, Indiana; M. C.

Rosenbern, Reading; history and civics, W. G. Kimmel, Latrobe; mathematics. W. B.

Bray, Freeland; classical language, Jesse E. Allen, Philadelphia; modern languages. Irvin L. Foster, State College. RAIDERS STUMBLE ON TWO LOADS OF BEER Dry Agents Swoop Down on Stores Near Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Doc 29.

(A. Prohibition agents 'returning rrom a raid on stores on the Library Road near here, today confiscated an auto mobile truck loaded with beer. After raiding the stores and confiscat ing a still and some liquor, the agents started for Pittsburgh. Enroute they met a truck loaded with barrels An investigation discolsed that the bar rels contained beer and it was takn over by the agents. YORK MILL BOUGHT BY DERY COMPANY York, Dec.

29. The Pennsylvania Textile Company, a Massachusetts corporation, has sold the Diamond Silk Mill, one of the largest in York, to D. G. Dery, a Pennsylvania concern and the. Dery company has also purchased part of the machinery in the Pennsylvania Textile Company's mills.

West York borough, which will be closed shortly after the new year. The price paid for the Diamond Mill is said to be $230,000. Join Our Christmas Saving Club. RIDGE AVE. DEPOSIT BAN JC.

5ES GERMAN ATTEmP 1 I Washington, Dec. 29. (A. -Although the seriate is not in sessioni, echoes of the proposed fight on ratification of the four-power Pacific agreement continue to reach the delegates of the arms conference. In a formal statement today, Senator King, Democrat, Utah, referred to the treaty and seit forth a summary of what hie called the "monmmentaJ failures" of the Washington negotiations.

The ratification fight also was discussed durinrr the day between Senator Borah, Republican Idaho, leader of the anti-treaty forces, and Joseph IP. Tumulty, former secretary to Woodrow Wilson, ROOT'S FIRST POINT Reaffirms Existing Rules of Naval War With Strict Application to Subs Washington, Dec. 29. (A. A resolution by EHhu Root, reaffirming existing rules of naval warfare for surface craft and strict application of this code to submarines operating against merchant craft was accepted in principle to-day by the naval committee of the arms conference.

Mr. Root's second proposal that a new rule of international law be initiated outlawing entirely submarine attacks against merchantmen was still under discussion when the committee adjourned for the day. It had been urged in addresses by each (Continued on page 14.) membership is nearly, but not quite, the same as that of the Dail. The Dail includes some members from Northern Ireland and excludes four elected to the southern parliament from Trinity college. The Idea is that after the Dail approves of the treaty, which it is expected to do by a comparatively small majority, the ratifying body as named in the treaty shall be summoned.

The Dail members who are dissatisfied with the treaty need not attend this gathering, it is pointed out, and thus their colleagues, plus the Trinity members, might ratify the document unanimously. The Dail would still function as Ireland's only recognized elected parliamentary assembly. port continued and "investigation disclosed a general laxity in the observance of block signal rules." Added to this, it was said, was extremely Jax supervision by responsible officials over the conduct of employes In the observance of ordinary safeguards to train movement. "The laxity with which the manual block system was operated on this line is a condition which could have been easily discovered had any attempt been made by officials to check it up." the report continued. "To' prevent the recurrence of accidents of this character, it is recommended that measures to adopted by the carrier to insure that employes properly understand and obey operating rules which are provided to safeguard train operation and, the carrier be required to Install on this line a complete automatic train control system." Wooden cars which caught fire greatly increased the death list, it was concluded, and the further recommendation was made that the road be required to provide steel equipment "at the earliest practicable date." It was explained, however, that all of tJhe road's car purchases for a number of years had been steel.

ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE On DEC. 15 In a conflerence which attracted wide attention and gave impetus to speculation as to what attitude may be taken by the former president. Thus nlo intimation of Mr. Wilson's opinion of the treaty, or other conference issues has figured in conference circles. It is knowni however, that he has taken a keen Interest in all that has transpired and some of his friends are said to believe that they may in some way make his position clear before very long.

Neither Senator Borah nor Mr Tumulty would say whether the former president's purposes were discussed in their talk today. PEKING REMINDED OF REV. REIMERT'S DEATH U. S. Demands Trial of Gen.

Chang Whose Troops Slew-Missionary Pekin, Dec. 28. (A. The American legation has protested formally to the Pekin government against the return to the capital of General Chang Ching-Tao, former military governor of the province of Nunan, whose troops killed the Rev. W.

A. Reimert, an American missionary at Yo-Show in June, 1919. The legation reminded the Chinese foreign office that formal protests from Washington and demands for punishment of Chang had brought bo result, and insisted that, now that he was in Pekin, the Chinese government was responsible for his detention, pending trial or other disposition of his case. The goverment is embarrassed by the new demands as the general is now one of the followers of General Change Toa-JJn, military governor of Manchuria which formed the new coalition cabinet, and who is protecting him, thereby making his arrest by the civil authorities virtually impossible. Rev.

W. A. Reimert was a native of Lehigh county, and a former resident of this city. His widow and children, who spent years in China with him, escaping at the time of his death, now reside here. SAYS ONLY ONE MAN OUT OF 100 REALLY INTELLIGENT Philadelphia, Dec.

30. It is impossible for 99 per cent of humanity to be or to become intelligent. Dr. Lightner Witmer, of the University of Pennsylvania, declared in an address on "What is Intelligence and Who Has It?" Pr. Witmer said there is less intelligence to be found within the walls of the American University than there is in the business world.

He added that the university professor is to be depended upon for almost anything but a display of creative originality and that which even borders on in-teligence. Dr. Witmer defined intelligence as "the ability to solve new problems." "Our educational system as a whole is distinguished chiefly by its mental discipline," he continued. "Perhaps that Is as it should be, since 99 per cent of the people are capable of nothing more than conformity." MAN, 94, LIVED ALL HIS LIFE IN ONE HOUSE Gibson, Dec. 29.

Hubbard Payne, who died recently at the age of 94 years, was born in the house where he died. His parents settled on the farm in 1812 he was born there and always lived there. He was the youngest of thirteen children. WOMAN NAMED BY PITTSBURGH MAYOR Two Newspapermen and Businessman Included in Cabinet. Pittsburgh, Dec.

29. (A One women, two newspapermen and a business man were included in cabinet appointments announced tonight by Mayor-Elect William A. Magee, who will take office January 2. Mrs. Enoch Rauh, widow of the late city councilman, was selected as director of public purchases, while George McCandless, a business man, was named director of public safety.

The city treasurership was tendered Iaw-rence R. Goshorn, newspaperman and Edward X. Jones, news writer, was named secretary to the mayor. Chas. A.

Finley, managing engineer of the city bureau of water, was appointed, director of public works. MUMMER'S PARADE AT PHILADELPHIA Monday, January 2d. special excursion via New Jersey Centra! leaves Allentown 6.50 A. stopping at Columbia Avenue and Spring Garden Street. Round trip 12.23.

Dublin, Dec. 29. (A. Although no compromise between the opponents and advocates of the Anglo-Irish treaty in the Dail Eireann has yet been attained, future plans designed to avoid wrecking the agreement are being considered. It is generally recognized now that Eamon De Valera was right in stating that the Dail has no power to ratify the treaty.

The treaty itself prescribes the mode of ratification to be made by the members elected to sit in the house of commons of southern Ireland, which was constituted under the home rule act of 1920, but which actually never met and wnich, except for the purpose of ratifying the treaty, probably never will meet. Its Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews. Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews, legal research secretary of the National Woman's party, is directing: the nation-wide investigation of laws affecting women.

Her work will be among the preliminary steps to the introduction of an amendment to remove all discriminations in national and state laws wrainst women. Indications That Other Railroads Will Follow Suit New York, Dec. 29 (A. Many railroads of the country soon may their employes, it was indicated tonight after the Delaware Hudson company announced it had taken out group life and permanent disability insurance far every one who has been on its payrolls months or more. Each Delnw-ue Hudson employe of two -uxding was insured for $500, in the service six months, but his than two years, for $250, the cojjjjiy to pay the entire cost, and tv men to select tiheir own beneficiaries.

At death tlhe insurance will be paid in a lump sum, and to permanently or totally, disabled in monthly installments. A plan by which the workers banded in class groups could increase the amount to a maximum of $5000 each, the company to pay part of the additional premium and the men the remainder, was also announced. In addition, the company said it had arranged for the workers to take out "at exceedingly low rates" insurance against accidents not covered by the workmen's compensation laws, loss of work throusfli sickness and also unemployment. DEBS SPENDS QUIET DAY IN HIS HOME Socialist Leader Holds All Plans for Future in Abeyance. Terre Haute, Dec.

29. (A. Back at his home after almost three years in prison because of his antiwar speech in 1918, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist, spent today in quiet, broken only by visits of friends. He announced tonight that all plans for his future activities be held in abeyance for some time.

Friends said he would maki a lecture tour next year, probably under the auspices of the Socialist party. Mr. Debs also announced that he had declined to address a new year's day meeting at New York, which he said is planned by the Rand school of Social Economics. Most of the Socialist party leaders who had gathered here to welcome Debs back visited him during the day and then left for their homes scattered over the country. Motorist Held in Woman's Death Harrisburg, Dec 29.

George Ballets, of Lemoyne, has been held in bail in connection with the death of Mrs. Clara Williams, this city, who was run down and killed by his automobile Christmas eve. Bailetz, it is charged, drove his car through a safety zone where pedestrians had congregated. SEIZE BRITISH SHIP AS B00ZE RUNNER Vessel Said to Be Owned by Former Boston Bartender. Boston, Dec.

29. (A. The British schooner Golden West with a cargo of alcohol and case liquor aboard wa seized by the coast guard cutter Acuahnet while at anchor out-sida tluis port, it was announced today. She was towed here by the cutter this morning and turned over to customs The. latter said they had received word that the liquor laden vessel flying the Union jack, but said to be owned by a former Ebston bartender, was bound here from Halifax, N.

S. OTIC E. Employees Kaltenbsch A Stephens, on account of Mr- Otto Suther, Sr. death, Kaltenbach Stephens, Inc. Mills will le closed all day Friday, December 30th.

1921. All employees call at the Mill Office on Saturday morning, December 31st, 1921, yvX 11.00 A. M. KALTENBACH STEPHENS, INC. DELAWARE 8 HUDSON NSURING EMP DYES FEDERAL INSPECTORS PLACE BLAME FOR FATAL WRECK P.

R. AT W00DM0NT ON jresaeA trigger twice, but the BLlnO TVCliv tTllU. IIC OlIVULIIIg VY heard In offioes oveir the bank, and was believed the scuffling of their feet caused the bandits to flee through the window they had left open, witli a in position to assist them to climb to the ledge. Investigation sfrtowed the robbers had obtained nothing. The pay roll had been taken to the factory before their arrival and the inner doors to the vault were locked.

PRAY FOR AUDIT OF POLITICAL ACCOUNTS Voters at Clairton, Want to Know What Became of Funds Pittsburgh, Dec. 29. A petition signed by six nnsildents of Clairton and asking Sac mat audit, of the accounts of Baker, treasurer the People's; Pirty Committee, tf that town, waa filed, in quarter sessions court here today. The petition alleges that Baker's account, filed witlh the clerk of court, was "not true ami correct." Several days ago a petition was filed in the same court asking for an audit of the accounts of J. R.

Mc-Vey, treasurer of the Citizens' Party of Clairton. GOVERNMENT TO DROP P0C0N0 PINES SCHOOL. Wilkes-Barre, Dee. 29. The government has decided to abandon its training school for ex-service men at Pocono Pinej.

according to information that reached here from the Veterans' Bureau to-day. The school has been under fire for some time, a Wilkes-Barre American Legion post having Investigated a number of charges against it. Whether the decision to abandon the institution, which cost the government $56,000 to lease, was influenced by the unpopularity of the school among those who trained there is not known. 131 WARTIME DRY PROSECUTIONS DROPPED Harrisburg, Dec. 29.

(A. Prosecution of 131 persona charged with violation of the wartime prohibition regulations and the national prohibition act was abandoned in the federel district court here today. The announcement was made by Judge W. S. jrjiompson ana juage unaries f.

urr "after Walter Lyon, district attorney, had filed a statement with the court and presented a motion for, discontinuance in each case. EXTRA SPECIAL. U. S. Army Hip Boots $3.40 Safeguards "Rendered Ineffective by Error on Part of Employes Involved, Misunderstanding of Rules and Improper Practices" Washington.

Dec. 28. (A. All the safeguards provided for the operation of trains were rendered ineffective by error on the part of the employes involved, misunderstanding of operating rules and improper practices' on December 15, last, when two Philadelphia and Reading trains met in a head-on collision near Wood-mont, according to the report giyen out today by safety inspectors of the interstate commerce commission. In the accident twenty-seven passengers and employes were killed and seventy injured.

"This accident" the report said, "was caused, by the failure of Conductor Evans and Englneman Yeakel, of Train No, 151, to obey train order number No. 11 directing them to meet train No. 156 at Bryn Athyn, also by their failure to observe manual block signal in the stop position without securing a clearance card. Contributing to this was the failure of the oCHV.Jtrr either Bryn Athyn oi Churchville or both, properly to operate the manual block system." Both the block system and the train orders failed to control the movement of th two trains, the re 1 1st Q'-" ARMY GOODS STORE, foufciV''- 3" Hamilton St..