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Washington, April 5.—Eaatem Pennsylvania: Fair, warmer Sun¬ day; Monday probtibly rain.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 6,   1919
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
FULL TIME FOR ANTHRACITE COAL MINES; LOCAL WORKERS GET HALF MILLION BONUS; FLU INSANITY CAUSE OF TERRIBLE SUICIDE
LABOR BOARD AWARD FOR FOUR THOUSAND REACHES THE VALLEY
Pear hundred thouaand doUaxu In track wages due metal trade workers employed In four of tho largest Indus¬ tries of this city waa paid during tht week. Kour thousand workera, em¬ ployees of thc Hazard Vulcan Iron Works,   W.   H.   Nicholson   &.   Co..   and
the offlciaia of the Induatries and the unionists failed.
.\ sitting was given In this city to the protest by the War Laibor Board during the early part of November and after a several days' aeesion the board retired to Washington. In February a decialoo   was   rendered,   the  opinion
AGAINST PEACE AIMS
E !reVOLUTION|blowsbooyapaiit
Delegates of Allies Face a Seri¬ ous Turn Through Protest of French
the Sheldon Axle Works, altillated with j being against  the four plants  In this tbe    Wyoming    Valley    Metal    Trades j city and the two on the West Side.
-— '      .pjjp  working  hours  per  week  were
Union. Ihrough the War Labor Board at Washington. D. C, reoeived during the week this large sum. Tbis in¬ cludes only the employeo.-' of the city, aad wilh the protest being flled and the award made n^rainat the Exeter and Delahunty shope in the Weat Plltston set^ion, it l8 expected the bonus Ihrough government Intervention will total a half million dollars.
The back wHges date back frt>m Oc- totier Iat of laat year and extend to April 1st. The award granted the aev- erej thousand mechaiiice and workera a 1T\4 per cent Increase over the rate of wage paid on Kepleml»er 1st, when the complaint wa« tiled with the War L«^M>r Board by tbo unionists. It was early in September when the appeal was made to thc government arbitra¬ tors, and only after every effort to renrb  un amicable scttlemont  between!
cut from fifty to forty-Kslght hours with the Instructions to arrange the houra of work to permit a half holiday on Saturday. In addition, and in fact the biggest coneeealon, waa the increase in wages of 17Vi per cent, dating from October first, under the scale of ^-age of September flrst.
Nearly every enxployee. in some in¬ stances  women,   received  checks  dur¬ ing  the     weelv.  concluding yesterday, averaging $100, although some workers received only $75 and others bad en¬ velopes   of   $150.     This,   however,   de- | pended upon tho number of hours they i worked during that period.    With full j time, and  tlmo    and  a half    for over |
JAPAN DISGRUNTLED
By J. W. T. Mason.
Whether R-jssia shall be thrown into an alliance with Hungarj' and Austro- Germany, or whether the Bolshevik shall be given formal recognition by tbe Allies has been the most important matter before the peace conference this week
'So decision has yet been made. l-Yanoe is holding oul against any policy that cndorsies the revolution in Russia. It was the revolution that threw into confusion I""yance's secret agreement with the Romanoffs for the annexation o' tbe whole of the west bank of the Rhine lo the French re¬ public.    It was the revolution too that
HITS RANKS OFALLIES
Poland and Finnish Regions Reported Under Stress of Military Authorities
time,  the 4,000 employees were  bene- , ^        , ^      .       ^ .
fltted hy the    War Board award.    The I repudiate*! Russia s^dcbl of njearly two
n«'W scale of wages Is now in effect in
tlipse plants.
I. W. W. MEN'S RELEASE      ! WOMEN ARE PROTECTED
NOW SEEMS ASSURED
SAY RUSSIAN LEADERS
Chioa«o, April t.-"BiK Bill" Hay¬ wood and Ihirtv-seven other con\icted I. W. W.'F, admitted to ball, will be released from Tjea\enworth prison noxt week, if their attorneys' plans do not  EO wro-.g.
Tbe  me:-,   are   expected  to  come   to Chicago    al    once-     Kecause    of    the pledge  that they f.  W.  W.  work  or propaganda,  mem
Paris,   .\pril   5.—"Nationalization" of women by the Bolsheviki is a myth ac¬ cording   to   William   Bullitt   and   Un¬ coln   StefCens,   American   investigators who  have  ju'it   relumed   from   Russia. "We    asked    Trcmiere* Lenine    and othe,-<< about  the reported nationaliza¬ tion of women  ihc  first time we met thfm." Steffens said.    "All wc got ¦waa ahall  not  Indulge  in 1 ^l*^"^ "^^"^ «"¦ """-'--•"nprehenslon. Wc repeated the question whereup w© were ¦ lold   that   they   bad   understood   first.
bersi here will stage no demonstration. 1 >,ut did not think we wero serious. They they said.    At I. W.  W. headquarters'«'Id they have investigated the matter
it wa. denied  h   program  of welcome  «i"J   '«""^   f'"'"' »"  obscure anarchist ,    ,   ^ ^ . orsanisaiion   in   the   interiors   posted,
had   been  arranged. (notices  pro.-lalminK  naforallratlon  of  ffficial .lapanese circles.   There is hero
According    fo    Attorneys    Clarence ; wonie.n as a joke.   T^iey -aid tbey wero|a "'"'d for pos.sJble gro-wth eastward, if
billion dollars to France. Therefore, M. Clemenceau will bear of no recog¬ nition of the Bolshevik.
But the ofner Allies are showing unea_sinetis lest ^¦tance¦s attitude make matters worse for tho world b.v driv¬ ing middle and eastern Europe into an alliance against the west. Tbe Kussian :ind Hungarian Bolshevik, ¦who are communists, are giving con¬ trol of their industries to the workine- men themselves. Tho German gov¬ ernment, which Is socialistic, is lodg¬ ing control of tlii» industries in the go\-emment itself. While these forma of control are antagonistic to each other, they are united in opposition to private ownership. They, therefore, have this b.-u^lc fact In common to ser\'c ai a rea.son for an alliance.
.T.ipan. during the woek. has shown much re.senlment over the refusal of tbe peace conference to concern itself with the ra>.ial exclusion laws. Mutter- ings and veiled -throats havc come from j
STRIKES IN GERMANY
Uarrcw aiid  Otto  ChEUt^oaen.  ppo*>-   "orrx-Wkat-aome one's'freakish "hnmor' an  aWanoe. nmong Oermany.
rrtv   te  being  scheduled   for  Jjonds  by • ""«d attrarted more attention than any | Hunrary  and   Russia were  I.
tbe T.  W   W. members in all  parts of i •¦^*' arcomphshment of tho sovieta.
tba country,   T'art of the delay in free- '   . "¦*-'= * '"»^"«'- »' ^"^' matters in Kus-
\r^S the prisoner;., they said, i« duo to t "^l"  "^PP-^f^f'  '1". ^"/'^""^t'-    ^"'^w**" t w «,r,,r.n«l
l«mg dirtancs between properties and • "i}^^'   "P'**"   ^Is   ^y   declaring   they \ ly threatened.
consequent   drlH>s   In   vcrllivaSion. *>*^ S"^^^^" '^<' ot the immoral upper
Austria, lo emerge
I Berlin. April 5.—Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Poland, a Warsaw dispatch reported today.
The Overman government announced today it had discovered plans for a military uprising in BerHn, for the purpose of establishing a soviet repub¬ lic The cabinet ordered that dras¬ tic action be taken to suppress the movement.
.A dispatch from Augsburg (3.') miles northwest of Munich,) said ihfe Ba¬ varian soviet!? had opposed a meet¬ ing of the Liandtag, scheduled for .•Vpril Sth declaring they are the Su¬ preme authority of the country. The general strikes continue to spread In fighting between 400 Spartacans and government troops at Stuttgart, 16 persons were killed and 70 injured. At Swinemunde, radicals conducted a hunger demonstration against the gov¬ emment. * Mobs plundered the flsh markets in Hamburg. Strikers at Magdeburg demanded socialization. In tbe Essen district the riumber of strik¬ ers has groa'n lo 10,000-
Mutiny Among  Alliaa.
London, April 5.- Finnish troops, forming a part of the Allied army in northern Russia' bave attempted h Bo!she\nH uprising, it was officially announced by the war office tonighU General Maynard, the British com¬ mander, is taking steps lo prevent the mutiny.
"General Maynard is taking onergeUc action to de.il with a situation which is csiUHlng anxiety. 120 miles south of Murmansk." the statement said. "Re- enforoements are pushing along the railway line in lhe hope of nipping In the  bud a  mutinuous  loot  among  the
.ECHAIiGE FRflMMWEAPON
Infiuenza is Cause of Second Terrible Tragedy Among Natives of Plymouth
IRVIN LONG VICTIM
U using a piece of rope to pull ths trigger of a double barrel shot gun. Irivlng Long, aged  38,    a farmer re-
^Sy. ^mmufi^'Lu'cidrUSl^da;; Railroad Chief Denies Attempt
to   Curtail  Distribution of
FIXATION OF PRICES PERMITS COMPANIES TO INCREASE OUTPUT
NOlESAREPOSra AT SOME COLLIERIES,
pr uL
Mining Product SHOWS FAIR POLICY
STOLE   MUCH   WHISKEY.
Ptltal'urzh. I'a.. Apr:l ^.- Arraigned Oi'forc l.s. ('ommiationcr Roger Knox l'>da>, four men accused by officials of lhe L'nited .«ute.s RaUroad Adminis¬ tration snd the reniisylvania Railroad iy>l:<'e w ilh having broUen into freight '•art and (-tealing whiskey shipments %-Klued 'at fio.ooo wr'> held to await thi.'- action of tbe grandjurj-.
AecordinK to th<' officials the whis- l.ey w-as stolen and hid, the men plan¬ ning tu sell it il is said, to local deal- .«ra. Offic*r.^ iay thoy have a clew '.bat will prt>i»aMy lead to the arreet "f novcrHl liquor dejilera here. The men a-»:-e arr« 'ed TriOay wblK; driving a iruck containing eight barrels of whis- Uey.    All the liquor was recovered.
frcm mistake.1 of the peace conference, i Mnnish  troops In   Maynard's forces. With  .Tapan  joined  to  such  a league.       "The   situation    on    the    Archangel stabilitv of the -world would be scrioua- | front is unchanged.   There has been no
resumption of tbe  Bolshevik attacks. "
Plaaaes The Germans.
i classes." |    TMsquietude ,Tt the peace conference
over such possible developments of GREAT BANK   RECORD. ithe future, has quiokly been espied by
Wa-ihington, .\pril 5. - r>cpo8its and | tbe Oermans. The pa«t week haa seen resources of the L'nited Slates on | the Berlin .government halting tbe March 4 were the "greatest ever rts- | Allies plans for giving the BalUc port ported." tbe comptroller of the cu- i of l>anzig to the Poles. Doniig is rency stated tonight. The only ex-j separated from Poland toy tho width of ception waa in .New Tork where there j E.^t Prussia which is not Polish at all. •9.HH some reduction. j Danslg is of little use to  Poland, un-
"Tbe national banking system is ex- j less the Poles are allowed to annex a perlencing a constantly healthy narrow lane tbrough the E>iBt Prussia growth." the comptroller stated, "and conting Danzig with Poland. This along ¦with exceptional growth in num- plan was in process of adop- bers and  capitalization, attention was' tion  by  tbe    peace  conference    when
called to the stability of the syatem, onb two failures occurring in 18 monthe. This record has never been equalled in the past 25 years," the comptroller added.
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CLASSIFIED COLUMN
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LADY   ASSISTANT   WANTED
'.V.V.Nl'tili -^iirl or woman who un- dr.stands hnt^ i(< make up lasly and fmry sarid\» ieh».s. t<i assist at refresh¬ ment bootli i'l Liberty Market. Call Monday at IJbrrty Mark«et office l)*- twecn  nine o'cJocJv and noon.
"1900 ELECTRIC WASHERS
Three n/«».», iw<> stylrs. "1900" I'.lcc- tnc Washers have been giving aervice for flfte-^ti >«.•»;> OH.'oiini>r ("ompany. S We*) .N'orthamtilon Stroet Oppoeite ll.imptoTi  H.tH.     Hell  phone  23j»-.T.
HORSES FOR SALE T<OU .SA1» A line team of horses ar.l set of harness for heavy ¦work. \*ill b* sold at a good price lo quick bl.', er. .\pply M. A Templeton, Han¬ over \;.'r«-cn C'emeter>'.
CARPENTERS WANTED 1
WANTED    CORPENTERS — Com- pattr't  nie.n  capable of doing  finiahing I worK.     Apply    Wilson   J.    Smith,   2931 Sou'th  Main  St..  Wilkaa-Barre.  Pa.
Oprmany objected. The protest was made possible in a practical sense be¬ cause the Alllea had .irranped that a Polish military unit -which had boen fighting on the west front should be sent home via Danzig. After being taken to Danzig, the Poles were to march through Bast Prussia, practic¬ ally marking out the German lane to be annexed to Poland.
Tbe eyerman gDvemraent during tbe paat week haa indicated it ¦will refuse to allow tho Poles to land at Danxig to proceed in triimiph through Kast Pruasia. The Allies have accepted the Gemran viewpoint and the Poles ¦will go home eastwar<d from the Rhi'ne by
EGGS FOR HATCHING I ^^^T.'p'i^.'n?' ''*'  "'"°'"  "^ *""
S.  r.  Whl.e  leghorns. Tom Barron.!"""* ""   ?h^ts   By   Itafv
]^^> ,?frnT*L^n'*''-.«T'*''!r •     I'-'y  h" -«»'" th^rate/ed  to leave strain,) $1.50 per setting.   $&.(» per 100., ^^^ p^^^„ conference unless Plume i.«
given to the Italians. Piume belongs to  Hunisary     atvl     practically    all  of
RAILROAD TIES  WANTED
TIEa? wanted by Lehigh VaOer Railroad. Good prices. Address H. J. McQuade, Purchasing Ajfent, 143 Lib¬ erty St., New Tork City.
A dispatch lo the Times from the i Murmansk front, dated Thursday, said that General Maynard uncovered a lo¬ cal Bolshevik plot last week and that 20 mutineers had been arrested.
A dispatch also said the Bolsheviki apparently are preparing to attac'.c Kaidish agair.. There has been some enemy shelling In the Oneaga, Vaga and Dvina sectors.
The mall announced it had learned that because of lack food. The .\lllos may have to Quit Odessa. (The Bol¬ shevikl recently claimed they had reached the outskirts of that city, which is held by the French and Greeks.) The news-papers alao forecast the Ita¬ lians shortly will co-oi)crate with the British in the Vaapians region, where the Bolsheviki have recently been heavily defeated
by blowing off the left side of his ab domen and chest. He took his own life while suffering from what friends claim was the hallucination of believ¬ ing he had committed a serious crime. He had been demented since the death of his wifo one month ago.
Long.s suicide was cleverly planned despite his alleged unbalanced condi¬ tion, and he outwitted bis father who h.td lately been keeping a strict watch over him. Following breakfast yester¬ day morning Long told his father that be was going to Huniingrton Creek, a short distance away, to look for ducks. He Intimated that he was leaving his gun at bome and was merely going to watch the flock of birds.
At about 9 o'clock Long's father went Into the fleld to finish plowing. Pinned lo the plow he discovered a note hurriedly written bj"* liis son. In it the son accused himself of a crime. He did not w-ite what the nature of the crime was or when he had commit¬ ted il. He flnished the note by declar¬ ing that he wa,*; going to end his life.
Securing some neighbors, the elder Long went to Huntington creek where after flve minutes' hunt, the searchers found Long's body The shot gun was l.ving alongside. Tied to the trigger was a piece of rope which indicated ¦ the manner of suicide. Long had ap¬ parently plaoed the muzzle of the gun over his heart. When he pulled the trigger the charge tore oft the left sida j
of his trunk.    His hean was mangled.'	
while inner organs were tom to shreds, lof coal conlracts is avoided. This C. H. Marshall or Shickshinny, not!- policy, he explained, should eliminate fied Coroner Charles Ashley. Thc Cor- • tj,^ leverage of ths _Kreat purchasing oner annourc-ed tbat he would go to' po-^rers of the rail lines. Officials of the scene of the tragedy this morning. ^^ t-oal operators organization had Mr. Marshall ."said last night that j claimed that the Railroad Adminis- Long had been greatly affected by the j tration was ruining certain fields by death of his wife from influenza one j transferring its contracts. Hines flat- month ago. an Illness from which Tx)ng I j^ denied ih .^. adding that purchasing also suffered. He had acted strarurely j igcnts throughout the country had! since that time and his mind was be- ^een inalructed not to buy on prioes lieved to have be.'n affected. Because ^hich would force a reduciion in the of that his father had carefully watch-   ^^^ge scale.
ed  him.   buf  was  outwitted  yesterday. | To   Kill   Competition.
It is believed that Long had hidden the | ...pj,^ staiement of the Coal Associa- gun somewhere on the farm and had ^^^^ makes it perfectly clear." the Hines secured it after leaving the house, as gt^tenient coniinued. "that it ia trying he had gone from the breakfast table i
Temple and Jermyn Companies Are First to Call For Full Speed Ahead
PROSPERITY RENEWED
Washington, April 5.—Direct accusa¬ tions that the National Coal associ¬ ation Is seeking to keep up the high prices of coal Ihrough its attacks on the railroad administration were made by Director General Hines tonight, charging the a.ssociation with attempts ! to create a high standard of prices with govemment sanction, wiiich they then would maintain.
"Their present p.-oposal." Hines says, "Is that the govemment fix a uniform price in every Uisiricl witbout oppor¬ tunity for competition The effect of thia will be immediately to create a standard whirti the coa.1 operators will try to maintain in tsellinj: to everybody else. The government therefore will be giving its support to a price level ! ^^tf, which will  be  unneecssarily high andi
far more than    is necessary    to yield j ^d la a sudden boom In the coal market handsome prohta. ! ^.^^^j,   j^^.s   bwn    dormant    since  the
• I flnnly believe that iiny such | siptMixg; of tb* armistice and the clos- policy is opiwsed to the mteresl of j ^^„ ^^^^ ^j ,^j^y industries. Such a every member of the community who ^^^^^ ^.^;, ^^^ ^^^^ ^^.^^ „t ^^^ is suffering instead of prohting by the ^j^^^^ ^^ g.^^^.. .^^^c. while severrU high cost  of living." • thousand mine workers who had  left
The  Railroad  Administration.  Hines   ^j,^ ^.^^ because of the slack work- said,     has     adopted     a     'considerate' policy," by -which undue concentration
A new era of prosperity for thoc* sands of anthracite coal miners with the return of coal company collieries to six working days every week, waa promised yesterday when the coal op¬ erators learned of Governor Sproul's approval of their plan to put into ef¬ fect a gradual monthly increase la tlie price of coal beginning May 1.
Under  the   intpetus  of  the  proral.^*
1 of better times one coai company im-
I mediately    announced that    beginning
tomorrow  its  mines  will  work  a  full
week.    Other companies, among them
I the biggest producers in tho anthracite
district,   are  expected   to   soon   follow
a  similar  announcetnent.
One of the important results expect-
without it.
The father of the suicide and his friends attempted yesterday to un¬ ravel the my.'jtery prompted by the staiement in the note that the young man had committed a crime. He waa known to be a good living man and no act of depredtation or other serious nature has yet been discoverwl. It is thought that his unsettled mind con¬ cocted the story of an Imaginary crime.
Long lived aboul ten years ago in Pl>-mouth. He resided at 142 Willow street. between Eno and Cherry streets. He' left that place to lake up farming. He is survived only by his father
to prevent competition. It is trying to fret some governmental agency to take the responsi'oiiily for naming a uniform price for coai in each district. Such n uniform price would have to be high cost producers, thus producing excessive prubts for the low coat oper¬ ators.
"The question now Is whether the public wants prices esiiablishe<l sup¬ plementing those of the l¦^:el .\dminia- tration. which have expired, so that price levels may be maintained which will keep up the cost of Uving and con¬ tinue to aggregate abnormal proHts for  the  coal  operators." I
t     Hines appealed to tht; public for re- j I ports  on   specific  inaiances where  the
Also brooding hens for sale. 48S Ri'verj Sf,. P'orty Fort. Pa., Bell phone 8129, j Kingston.
GOVERNMENT   JOBS
TOI:ng .men. 18 and.over desiring Railway mall .ind Postoffice clerk¬ ships, $92 month, write for free por- liculars of examinations- ,1. I* Leonard (former Civil Service Exam¬ iner.) 1300 Equitable Bldg., Washing¬ ton.
BIRDS AND DOGS
FOR SALK- Kox terrier and rat ter¬ rier paps. Reasonable. Canaries and parrots. Angora cala Call and aee them. Open Sunday. Peranto. comer East  South  and  Lincoln  streets.
HELP WANTED. IVjAcWilram's   require   alfcem-
LIQHTINQ  EQUIPMENT
Hungary's sbippinir before fhe war centered there. If Flume is given to Italy, Hungapi- will become an.ialand state. Such a geographical isolation is a breeder of discontent, tt was to prevent this cHnse of dissatisfaction from developing In Poland that the peace conference ¦wanted to make Dan- zic: a Polish port. For the sama rea¬ son opposition has developed In Paris againi^t southeastern Ehirope being de¬ nied access to the sea and being thrown into a ferment by the annex¬ ation of Flume to Italy
STOLEN  GEMS  FOUND.
Washington, April .1.—Stolen gems, valued at over $15,000. belonging to former Senator Nathan B. Scott, weal-
r^n, ^^^^hL7Z\ ^ZVJ^.T^JnVri^r^g-s suicide is the second of ter-! administr.alion policy was beins vio I-^T^ for «5^ott"I anaZ^en^t^he rible nature to be adopted by natives Utcd. Theee when found, he asserted, W^d Hotel here "^^oTcesa^d he ^' Plymouth in four weeks, with both will be corrected promptly and with- Wlllard   Hotel   here.     Police   sa.d   the   ^,j.^^,^,y tj.aceoblc to Influenra.    Three ! out argument.
weeks ego Henry Drabel, of Plymouih, Jumped to death down a mine shafe.
mg periods,  will be recalled  to their former poais.
The   new   prosperity   made   its   flrst .ipDcarance  yesterday  when  Governor «pro',>!  at  Harrie'burg announced   that he had decided  that  the action of tha coal producers in announcing a gradual Increase   of   10   cents   a   ton   for   fi^ve months  beginning  May  1   is  jnstlfied. H"  reached bis decision after a  care¬ ful  study of Industrial  conditions and ia survey of the market.    His approval of   the   plan   of   the  oT>erator8   to   put the   slight   increase   on   coal   prices   la -sufficient to have it go into effect when the oper:iiors want it.    It ¦will t>ecome effective next month- Full Time Ordered. Immediately   upon   learning   of   fhe .governor'.*!   action,   the   officials  of  the Temple   Coal   Company   on   the   West .Side of the river sent out an order that beginning tomorrow its operations ¦wi'l work six days every week.    The order will apply  to every worker.    As many workers as mined coal during the war cri.sis.  ¦Rhen   the   mines  wero   running nisht and  day.  will be griven  employ¬ ment     in    the    Temple    minea.      The Jermyn Coal Company alao announced/ j full   time.
I Kred Chase, vice-president and sretv I ural majiafrer of the Lehiirh Valley Coal j Company, aaid la.st night that his com¬ pany has not j-et decided when It will I throw open its collieries even' day. I He aaid lha.l for the next few days at i least bis Ojmpany will continue to ! work its collieries in accordance with market  demands.    .\t  the earliest op-
maid admitted taking lhe gems from Mrs. Scott's trunk. Scott is president of the Continental Trust Co.
IN BUSINESS CENe,
TREASURY CERTIFICATES.
Washington, April ,^.—Secretao' of tho Treasury tonight offered at 4V4 per cent Interest $600.000000 or more in Treasury certiflcates of indeblcdneas.
Subacriptions     -will       be     received
our I
A stubborn flre caused several thou¬ sand dollars damage last night in the jewelry store of J. P. Ernst at 26 Pub¬ lic Square. Flames gutted part of the basement, while smoke and water damaged a portion of the stock of iew- elry on the flrst floor.    For a time the
through the Federal Reaerve banka up | dustries half wav.    We have laid
to April IT. The eertificaf_e» will be is- | gj<jp before tht public and If the Riiil-
j sued  in  denominations  of $500.   $1,000. j road   Administration   officials   do   not
'$5,000.  $10,000 and  $100,000.    They are   -^jsj,   to  co-<n>erate   in   re-establishing: exempt    from    all    taxes    except    in-| price levels theji we are som/."
herltance  taxes and   come  under  the, 	
income tax only wben a person or cor- [ Dip PI  ACU  IM  PARPQ
Officials of the NaUonal Coal Asso- I P'^:^""">- ^t**''^,H" ««7*"y '^"J*" elation .said they were not disturbed by i-«^^,"f '^'^ '»'*1 '^'^y '^"'¦'""'^ lhe Railroad Adminislralion  '1.la-st.'       i     C.     'r^' j    u      .w . _   w-
"We do not feel that Director-General L   ^^   ^ ""« »*'^ »^»^ '^^ """•••«  »J*»
beep  slack  because people wore  hold¬ ing back  jn Ibeir ordera for coal.    He ]l>eileved   that   this   holding   back   was
view   of  obtaining   prices  saUsfactor,'I f"* l^'H''  rrr^^n.-^^o.'^^rnvii^^ to ;U1 and we intended to meet the in- '»'"'  '^«^^""   "'  '*"'  governor approving
Hines has explained away thc point." said WlUiam Helm. sccretar>' of the associaiion.   "We went Into this with a
,1 flre presented a dangerous front, but a The  ultimate ^olution j>f ^jiese mo, ^^^^^ hours work by the flremen of rwo
vexed problems may be the creation of Flume and Danzig Into free ports. Re¬ gardless  of  countriea    to    which  the
tw hmnd* on CO«t» and suits, abo J W. Turner, lO Carlisle street. Wllkea- experienced saleswomen for yari.'B''"-^  «'" P'^'^r "IV-gl ous  departments.    Apply  to  a» perintendent.
OENGO ELECTRIC lighting systems 1 ports belonged, all nations could use for farm, bungalow or cottage. Send | them indiscriminately for embarking for booklet or call Hartman Electrical ; and debarking purposes free of aut> Construction Company at Scranton. or j and free of nationalistic supervision.
BABY CHICKS
White   Leghorn   baby   chicks   from I healthy free range stock.   Ferris strain. TYPEWRITERS ¦ !"   cents  each  delivered.    CaU  at   201
K«mlngton.        Underwood.       Royal, I t>wen    •t'^l-     M*l"»>'      »«*'    Pho"*
Woodatodc.    Oliver;     rented     bought,! "979-'W ^
»n>ld     Monthly    $3    up     BeU    'phone:       ^w w^n^'atr>  mCAMrDC Sll-M     The   MulUgraphing   Co..   1011]        f J J.C 1 KiC  iJJrAnEJO
GUY HALL RETURNS;
R.S.JOHNSON HOME
poration holds more than $5000. Slmiln ceriiflcate.s.   maturing  May   6.   will   bel accepted with accrued interest for tbe new certiflcates.
INDIAN"cmEF'S~SOir
MARTYR TO LIBERTY i
and virtually establishing prices for the remainder of the summer, he said, peo¬ pie will  now  bcirin  to  buy  coal.     Tha
;earlier  they   bu.\   it   the   more  monsK will  b" saved by them.
Il   is  txpected   that   within  tbe  next two week.s the coal companies will ba
j swamped   hy   fhe   rush  of  coal   orders.
CAD  OlIMMCD  TDACCIO'^"•*"*"'"'^'"" ^"'^ educated last year to run  oUWllVltn   Inftrrll/jbuy   their   wmter   supply   during   the
I   I summer   when   coal   prices   arc   at   a
I Washington, .\pril 5.—Big slashes in ; minimuni. Together wilh that lesson, passenger rates to encouraige summer j the consumers have been startled hy ¦travel to all the 'nation's breathing the prediction of former ?\)el Admin- spots will go into effect June 1, it waj* istraior Garfield that a coal famine i slated tonight by tbe railroad admin- will occur next winter. These facts, the ! istration.    Excursion  rates arc expect-i coal operators believe, will lie sufficient
Camp     Devens.     April     5.—A     fla^rjed to reach as much a-s 1.13 per cent of' to supply the stimulus for a busy boy- draped   coffin-     bearing    the  body  of. the Increase durinpr tbe war. or a vlr-J ing season for the rest of the aummer.
Build  Up  Reserve.
With   the   coal    market    back    onee
Guards,  who died  in the camp hospi-;    Itailroads have been .asked  to spend  more to its origln.al business, the mln-
tRi here   begnn a long journey across  $i 000 000 advertising the new rales.   A ; ers will  again  be called  upon  to give
the   continent   tonight. i nation-wide   newspaper  and   magazine j their  best  effort   to  the  production  of
At Susanville. a Ilttle village In the j campaign   will  begin   Aprii   IS,   il   was j coal.     For   the   past   six   months   tl>ey heart of the California mountains, the! stated. I have   worked   only   half   time   becanae
boy's   father.   Harry   Wilson,   once   .a-    Every effort will be put forth to en-   the   coal   companies   refused   to   open famous   Shoshone     chief.     Is   waiting,  courage   the   people   lo   travel,   it   was' their   collieries  on  days   when   maslcet
city companies stopped it.
The  fire  was    discovered    at   10:15 . ^^     	
o'clock   by  a   pedestrian   who   noUced , **oward Wilson, a young Shoshone In-|taal return to summer excursion privl
smoke conting from a basement venti- i t^^"-. membet- of the  United    States: leges of pre-war daya
latlng shaft.    Mr.  Ernst was at work
In the office of the store at that tlme-
Upbn being Informed of the smoke, he
opened  a door  leading into  the  ba.se- |
ment, but was driven back by a bur.«t j
of  flanve  which   singed   his   hair  and i
clothes. I
When   the   firemen  from   No.   1   and j ^*'"®  ^^^ miles away over icy moun-! explained  at  the administration  office, j orders  were  slow.    The  present  army
Coal Kxchange Bldg. top floor.
WATCH   REPAIRING
Is rour wiitib or eloek reliable?
Main springe put In whMe you ¦wait. 80 cccu.
Walch c!e;«ned and t)4iea. $0 cents.
Step in K-d hne ;oi-.r wal.-h i-es:u- latcd free. K I'hoad w.'»t':h»a o'jr vpe- ciaJty.
•-RKSi i:nt .lUWliLKY CO. 1*6 S. Mii;n CL
O'Connor Company.   8  West   North¬ ampton    Street.      Opposite    Hampton ! Hall.    Bell phone 2359-J.
U. S. LIBERTY BONDS $50—$100—$1000
Bought. Sold and Recom¬ mended   for   Investment Room 37 Weitzenkom Bldg.
  I No. 2 hose companies rcsi>onded to the
Two prominent local young men who  aterm that waa sent In, they found the
served in France returned to America I flrgt floor filled with smoke and flames
and Wilkes-Barre yesterday. Guy Hall,; ruging tn the basement    Two lines cf
leader of the famed Hall orchestra, who i hose   were   strung   through   the   store
went over with the 5,-th Pioneer Band , and an iron sidewalk door in front of
and later transferred to the 82nd Divl- , the building   was ripped up to permit
sion,   arrived   in   New   York   City   on I grwater advance    iig-alnst  the    flames.
March   27th  and   came  here  ye.sterday ; The flre was extlnguUhed after nearly
on  a   short  furlouKh.     He anticipates   forty-five   minutes'   of   hard   work.
his diprhar?e on Thursday. |     Mr. Ernst was unable to explain the
Raymond  S.  .Tohnson.  of 117  South j origin of the fire.    DefecUve wiring or
I Sherman   . tii«l.   this   city,   who   ¦was  rats   gnawing   on   matche.s   may   have
I with the Sun.iet Division and 'served in ! been the cause, he said.    The building
ll=>ance. is mu.^tered out.   He came here | :s owned b;  the «rur.ua:a?« otiat-. The
'from Camp Dix.    His la.'t station »-a.3 j fienial office of Dr. I,. /. Mo.-giLn oi ih?
He  i-j  the son I second  /loor escaped   with  a  thoroush
tain trails, fringed in by snow capped'    The rate slashes will be in  effect to I of  mine   workers   will   likely   be   rain- peak's, the soldier'.s aged mother is alt-^ September    30,    according    lo    present I forced   by   others   wbo   have   left   the
Sl.   Mtnon,
France.
ting alone in a little cabin. I plans.   Biggest cuts will be west of the
In a pathetic mes.sa^^e to the camp' Midslsslppi river over long journeys, authorities, the old chief asked that Thus hundreds are expected lo take ad- the body be sent to California- so that i vantage of the opportunity lo visit the he might take it far into the moun- j National Park. Colorado and the Grand tains to rest on a grassy slope where, 'Canyon.   \
as a baby, the young Indian played. In the east, special rales are expected The old man. who had ne\'er been on alto attract thousands to Atlantic City, train, arrived at Susan ville. with the jthe Jersey coast and .New F^ngland Intention of trying to ctosb the con- coast resorts -and summer colonie^s. The tinent on horseback to be near his|r.ortbem llicbigan and otiier great dying son. He was dissuaded and a i lakes resorts al.so will he favored, rephea-. James Jackson, huatled across 1    Thero  will   be  two  classes  of  farea.
mines to seek other work on a better established schedule. The lure of good pay will ha:p solve the labor problaaia id the opinion of one mine worker.
Besides Uking care of market orders, the coal companies will start at once to build up their usual lesarva supply for the future. In paat yaara tbe operators worked their colllerias in spare houra lo lay np a reserve of coal sufficient to supply all or4ars when the buay season arrived, l^n- setiled conditions, however, it <s claim-
of tbe   late   Edward  Johnaon.
i smoking.
Ih** country to arrive only a few hours j Or.e will bp those on-tlrkets. limited to ed by the company, have resulted in Ii:'":- 'Nc -oldier d-co v-'ihoul having. t'lre- month.- and the olhet on tickets! pra'.t.'-e.Ily nil >h'~ eompanle." permit- any nf relatione near him. l^imiled to fifteen daya. ^ (.Contiaaad Oa rafa Two.)