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Tiie Favorite Sundav Paper in I 17,000 Homes PRICE FIVE CENTS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT LEASED WIRE TEL-EGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A. M. SUNDAY THE WEATHER Washington, Feb. 6.—Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair Stmday and Mondav: little change. Tbs only Bandar Newspaper Published In Lussmo CouDtr. WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1919 Entered at Wllkes-Barre, Pa, SLS Second Class Mail Matter. PRICE FIVE CENTS MINER REVEALS TRIALS OF 109tll REGT. SIX BILLION LOAN TESTS PATRIOTIS EQUIPMENT IN BATTLE I ' WAS poor! i Hero Leader of Home Forces! Tells How Soldiers Suffered From Unpreparedness PLEADS FOR TRAINING FRANCE FEARFUL OF GERMAN PLAN National army mon Were sent into' KatUs half trained and crack units j ¦w»ro only half equipped because our' nation -was unprepared for war. de-1 clared Oelonel Asher Miner, gallant; Isader cT the 109th Field Artillery and , hero of Apremont who lost a leg in ; battle on October 4. last night In ad- \ dressing nearly two hundred em- ' ;Hoyees of tho MIner-Hillard Milling' cemi>any at a banquet in Hotel Red- { Ington. I Colonel Miner's declaration ofl .Uaerica's unproparedness came as a' Burprlso when thei leader of the home i regiment commented on the efforts of j national leaders to have universal J militarj- training for the young men I of the country. "If wo had nillltar>' ¦ training there would be no wars," ho | said. "League of Nations or no League | of Nations, this country must be ready ( and not unready. We were not ready ¦»'hen this war begran and not pre¬ pared even when tho war ended. "The lOJlh went into battle half equipped, that's what we had lo do. We lacked aeroplanes and other neces¬ sary equipment" he pointed out. Con¬ tinuing he satd: "I saw thousandsi of National army men pushed into the hell with three months of army ex¬ perience and only one week's real train¬ ing.' Colonel Miner in bis long talk told of what the Wyoming Valley boys accom¬ plished In the world w^ar. He ex¬ pressed his pleasure in Joining with his employes in a happy reunion and deplored that other men of his com¬ pany who are in service could not bave saipe;-fencc<l the pleasure of the re¬ union. He wan pre;iciited with a gold watcli. The presentation speech was made by S. C. Coklren. The banquet -vaA an enjoyable evei.t which em-" ployeeb of this city, Pittston. Plymouth. •Scranton and Miner's Mills attended. The Colonel was accompanied to tho dinner by his wife, four daughters and his brother. Br. Charles Ml.ner. Sees Men in Film Through the courtesy of Daniel L.. Unit und l-'red Hernnan, slides and a rvcl of moving pictures, tho latier ¦»r the lOftth at the West Plttslon camp und Colonel Miner's return to this city was shown. For the flrst time the I otonel .-iiid his family had the oppor¬ tunity of witnessing the gallant organi- i-aiion in army practice depicted on tlio bcieen. Jarac# C. Iteed. chemist of the com- p.i!';- waa the master of ceremonies arid through hia efforts the hours were Paris, Feb. S.—France was looking toward Germany with increasing imeaslness tonight. The enemy's attitude was rojfard- ed as becoming daily more insolent Chancellor Ebert's speech at the opening of the national assembly in Weimar, when he warned the Allies that Germany would refuse to p.ix- Ucipate in the peace settlement If the terms were too severe, -w-Tis felt to be actualyl menaiclng. The armistice Is to be ranew^ed February 17. French newspapers demand that action b« t.iken then to render Germany incapable of re¬ newing hostilities. They point out that terms of the armistice have been wilfully flouted. Allied de¬ mobilization is greatly desired, but the press contends :; Is impossible until the menace is squelched. They charge Germany with p'aying for time as she openly speculates on dissension among the Allies, "Delay means a muddled peace." declared tha Temps. "We must oblige Germany to furnish addi¬ tional guarantees. A might} outcry ¦would be certain from Weimar and the various German tactions doubt¬ lessly -would unite against us. Nev¬ ertheless, decisive action Is Impera¬ tive." A Bemo disi>atch today said that El>ert's speech wns lauded through¬ out Germany. The Berlin Tageblatl demanded that the Gorman govern¬ ment refuse to sigrn a "dictated peace." MINE FIRE FOLLOWS GAS EXPLOSION HERE A fire resulting from an explosion of gas raged last night in the underground workings of the Stanton colliery of Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. After an all-day fight agmnst the flames by the miners at the colliery, officials of the com¬ pany announced last night that the situation "was under con¬ trol. The fire is expected to be extinguished today or to¬ morrow. The fire began yesterday at noon as many of the miners were leaving their work for home. A pocket of gas unusually large in size was ignited by a miner's torch. The explosion that followed knocked down timbers. The fire communicated to the debris and spread to the "walls of coal. The miners at work in the section escap)ed without injury, it was claimed. Douglas Bunting, generad superintendent for the com¬ pany, said last night that the fire is in a remote section of the mine. He said the other portions of the colliery were able to continue work, although a good number of the men are en¬ gaged in fighting the advance of the fleunes. He said the loss will not be great, as the scene of the accident is removed from the more active chambers of the mine. Airplane Flight Across the Sea LOCAL MINES CLOSE ICONSH FOR WORLD POIRS DEFEAT OF KENNEDY Notices Posted and Officials Figures Show Tremendous Vic- Say They Have No Plan to tory For Regular Forces Offset Conditions Will Be Submitted to Public', Opinion This Week as a Panacea for War CENTRAL CONTROL Paris, Feb. 8.—The first world's con¬ stitution, practically complete tonight, will be given tho test cf universal pub¬ lic opinion next week. Official announcement was made to¬ day that the committee compiling the draft for re-organisation of the Lea¬ gue of Nations had accepted all of the 22 articles and had referred the con¬ stitution to a sub-committee for a partial re-draft necessitated by some minor chongca In less than a week the first step In complete revolution of International re¬ lations has thus tieen accomplished, the League committee having held Its flrst meeting Monday. This has been UNION CAMPAIGN ON Miners employed by the local coal companies have begun to feel the ef¬ fects of a market well supplied with coal aided by a mild winter. Notices wero posted yesterday at all thfe col- lieriea of the Lehigii & Wllkes-Barre Coal Company annobncing that there will be no work tomorrow. The Sus¬ quehanna Coal Company will have Its mines In operation tomorrow bi't will likely be idle on Tuesday. During the past wp''t this latter company worked only two day.«, its miners being idle four days. Other companies will ptart this week to declare temporary sus¬ pensions until market conditions im¬ prove. In the meantime the thousands of anthracite miners will be subjected to short periods of idleness which will continue for some time, due to the un¬ usual conditions. Throughout Coal Regions DISTRICT LINE-UP Complete victory for the admin- I istration forces in the recoct election j held throughout ti^e country by the i United Mine Workers of America wa.s ! announced yesterdsy when totaT^oTeT Waahinpton, Feb. 8.—An airplane flight across the Atlantic will be attempted soon by American a'via- tors. Orders late today disclosed this by the assignment of Commander John Towers, one of the foremost naval aviators, to the project He is to be "tn charge of the develop¬ ment of plans and the assembly of material and personnel for the pro¬ posed Iran*-Atlantic flight." The Navy for more than a year has con8id3red the plan feasible and late last summer a trial was to be attempted but It was delayed on account of the necessities of us¬ ing all mac hlneo ar.d pilots for war work. The flight probably will start from Halifax, as It was planned to start the flight there last year, this being the closest point to Europe. The Navj's new monster flying boat, the N. C. L., which recently carried 50 persons, probably will be used in the attempt, because it carries much larger amounts of gasoline, fuel and other supplies. It has three lilierty motors and is the largest flying machine In the world. Ev|ery teit of the boat has been successful. Sleeping compartments for three men aro provided in the boat. It carries a crew of two or three pilots, three mechanics and a radio operator. Na-val aviation experts believe the roost feasable plan to cross the Atlantic by air would be to string a fleet of destroyers and supply carr>-lng ships along the entire route and send two or three planes to¬ gether to avoid the danger of losing one. The destroyers could come to the rescue of a disabled plane as could one o? the escort planes. Communication could be main¬ tained by radio. Thirty to thirty-six hours flying time, it is expected, -will be required to make the trip and this, experts believe, necMsitates at least one stop in mid ocean. Aerial naviga¬ tion has been so perfected during the war that there will be Ilttle danger of the plane getting off the course. The compass Is their main reliance for direction. Keen rivalry has aiisen between the Brltisii and Americans for makinjr the flrst trans-continental flight and the American Navy Is making ev.?ry effort to beat the Btitons to It. ^he night wil! be all-Amcrican. Liberty motors will be used and PEOPLE MUST SHOW WILLINGNESS TO BUY TO UPHOLD IDEALISM E J WIOOT ANY CHANGE SAYS CARO GLAS5' Child Labor Amendment Only Subject for Contest That Fails to Reach Goal FUNDS MUCH NEEDED Purely a Matter of Proving to World Faith in Struggle for Freedom > i MAKES AN APPEAL Washington, Feb. 8.—The Hou.se late ! tonight adopted the conference report I on the six billion dollar revenue bill. I The vote was 310 to 11. with 12 voting "present." The bill as it came from the confer¬ ence committee waa not changed by the House In any particular. The House action today leaves only the Senate ratification of report before the biggest revenue bill in history Is ready for the President's signature. The only fight on the conference re¬ port was one by Missi.ssippi congress- rjturna were compiled. Frank J Hayes of Illinois was re-elected prcsi- i every part of the machine will be dent, John I* Lewis also of Illinois j made in America was named \\ce president. Wliliam |V Green of Ohio was elected secretarj-- { treasurer of the miners* organization.' The election held great interest for | the miners In the three anthracite dis- i tricts. The candidates badted by the old guard of the miners and their op¬ ponents known as the insurgents made a f«pecial play for the votes of the hard coal workers. While Hayes did not get a majority of the total vote caat In District Xo. I. No. 7 and No. 9, comprising the anthracite fields, he did secure majorities In Districts Pittsburgh Pa. Feb. 8.—Forecasting a subscription equal to any previous loan, SecretarV of the Treasury Glass prepared the ground for the flotation of a loan of $5,000,000,000 op $6,000,- 000,000, in a speech before the Cham¬ ber of Commerce her© tonight Patriotism, the nation's honor to meet its commitments, and a con¬ science transfigured by the war, must win. Glass said. These must induce the purchase of Victory Liberty Loan bonds over the cold-blooded argument of commercial investment, he added: "A little thought will teach the wisest men on the child labor amendment i among our financiers that It Is impos- whlch taxes profits from the product' sible now 16 float a loan of $5,000,000.- of child labor. The fight was lost on a 000 or $6,000,000,000. purely for Invest- \ motion to recommit the bill by Repre¬ sentative V'enabie of Mississippi, 171 to 15. Venable and Humphreys of Mississ¬ ippi, declared the child labor amend ment purposes," Gladd said. "We aro not going to float it strictly on a com¬ mercial liasis. That cannri be accom- i plished satisfactorily. We have got to appeal lo the patriotism of the Ameri- TO FINANCE NEW LABORS Washington. Feb. 8.—AppeaUng ment was unconstitutional and an un- jean people and it will not t>e done in warranted assumption of Stale police i vain. power by the federal government. ! "While Congress ia writing off the On the flnal roll call, four Mississippi j-books $:5,000.000.000 in authorized congressmen voted against the bill. ; public funds which would have been Ropresentative Moore of Pennsylvania, ; expended had tht war not terminated I Republican member of tha ways and ^ so suddenly, the government still Is I means committee, called th_e_measure a ^spending aboul two billion a monlh to i "flftaacial chamber of fiorrors,** but ; meet its honorable commitments. 1 voted for it ; Nation's Honor at Staks. The speech of Chairman Kitchin of I "The honor of the government ! the House ways and means committee, ' therefore, ia involved In th© success of In opening up tne debate, was largely a i ihe next loan. Being your government j protest against the recommendations of : It is your honor that ia Involved. And former Secretary of the Treasury Mc- • I know that the appeal of the Amerl- Adoo and President Wilson that the j can government to the American peu- blll should be reduced from 18,000.000,- i Ple will meet a response of which the 000 to $6,000,000,000. i nation will be proud." Need Twenty Billions i Glass said he was being told in a Kitchin also made accu^^ations that ¦ "rather consistently disconcerting i there was a propagand.^ to defe.it the : way." by well known financiers that I bill, so that the present law would re- | future loans must be handled cold- 1 main in force. ^ M'oodedly. They argrue. he said, tb.at The House conferees, he said, agreed jthe attitude of the people has changed: for I to drop many of the House provisions th.it' thingti have assumed a different plM..i«.nij'spent. J E, "Kx" Alexander |'don«= through dint of hard work. All j J^'^lf'" ''ll'if.„V"li!r. ^«.^i!"^*^ b.i ,n 11.,^ siiig.iiK and Wppciibelm's or- Ithe members were anxious to complete ^^ >? aJ!?,?,^ L ^^'^^^'^^ 'f'* ctoi,UTi attended the draft but the Europeans generally i "'*5ht ir admitting they will close tho iwera accustomed to more leisurely i'""'fP^''^'" »">"«» tomorrow because (Continual on Psgs Two) NIGHT WATCHMAN WANTED Wanted: .\ night watchman. Must have had prevloub experience and be able to furnish reference and bond. .\ddres8 Box 4S, Sunday Independent Wllkes-E.TTre, Pa. TWO VOUNQ MEN WANTED Wanted: Two .\oung men. 17 to 'J5 years old. to travel with manager. Sec Mr. Wuinn, Hotel Lincoln, between hours of la-o and five o'clock in the afternoon. methods and the night sessions occa- tliere is no market demand for coal, sioned some surprise. President Wil- ^'°*' mined during the past month Is son as chairman for ths committee was ^tlll on the market and the sales responsible for the fact that every' agents for this company can find no minute was occupied In welding the! ^^'^ channels of distribution. The various plants into an acceptable I "ilriers will report back at work on whole. When the discussions showed a ten¬ dency to drift, the President diploma¬ tically wound the conversation back to the Immediate subject Professor Ferdinand Lamaude, French member of the committee, out¬ lined the main points of the consti¬ tution. As he expressed it the organi Tuesday when the breakers, washer ies and other departments will re¬ sume. An effof^ -will be made to work the balance of the week but shc-ild conditions become -worse than they are at present there will be another day of idleness, officials say. Unions Gain Strsngth. Miners employed by the Susque- zation of the League will be similar to i hanna Coal company will work tomor- U. S. MAIL CLERKS WANTED t;OVP:R.NMK.VT will hold Hallway Mail Clerk examinations In Wilkcs- Harre March 15th. 92 month. Kxperi- <?nce unnecessary. Men. 18 or over. I desiring clerkships write for free par-| Ucular<>. J. L. Leonardf former Civil tServico Kxemlner). 1300 Kenols Build tug, Washington. WANTED RAILROAD TIES Ties wanted by I/ehigh Valley nail- mad Good prices. Address H. J. McQuadc, Purchasing Agent, 143 Lib¬ erty St, New "^'ork. TYPEWRITERS Remingtons. Royals. Underwoods. Olivers. $8 and $4 monthly. Largest slock of Typewriter Supplies. Bell Phone S81-M. The Multigraphing Co., 1013 Coal l^change Building, top floor. the ITnlted States. The League's af fairs will be administered by an execu¬ tive committee, with greater powers, however, than those of our President. The Judicial and legislative branches will be under the executive committee. The delegates have approved limi¬ tation of armaments, Lamaude said. Land and sea forces will tie controlled by the league, except in the case of internal matters. The much debated question of the matter of enforcement of.tbe league's mandates apparently will rest w'th moral suasion. In the ca&e of a dis¬ pute, Lamaude explained, the party nations will be summoned before llie league. In the event a nation refuses the Judiciary's ruling and all other at¬ tempts at settlement, the plan Is to let row but there Is a probability that they will be Idle the following day. It ¦was announced. The coming week will be a slack one. Last week the miners worked only one-third their usual time. Manager R. A. Quin said last night that the officials know of no po sible way in which to relieve con¬ ditions. The men must wait for the market to Improve and the demand for coal No. 1 and No. 9. The insurgents car¬ ried No. 7 district by such a big ma¬ jority that the majority gained in the other two districts by the admin¬ istration candidates was wiped out. In being re-elected to the presidency I of the United Mine Workers, Hayes de¬ feated John H. Walker of Illinois, by ; 25,487 votes. He carried 20 out of 25 ' resumption of building activities I i^^^J' !^'l*'«<^ '" "and Jiy because they phase, I feared their insistence might aid this throughout the countir. tl'.e Treasury Department tonight declared valid rea- I sons no longer exist for the withhold- ( ing of credit for constmction work, j Blame for the innctivity in construc- j tion lines w.^s traced in an official statement to high cost^ of m^iterial. 'The impression seems lo exist that districts in the country. This plurality j Po'l^^'^^ initiated during the warjjy was far beyond the even the most ardent supporters back propaganda." j "The espienditures of the government this fiscal year will be nineteen, if not ' twenty billion dollane," Kitchin said- "By bonds and taxes we have raised ' only fourteen billions thus far. This ¦ means a now bond issue of five or six • biliion dollar.^. If the expenditures run ! to $20,000,000,000. the secretary of the Reciting a long li..!t of "Impossibili¬ ties" which have become verities, tha treasury secretary said he could not believe -a reactionary spirit had ho completely gripped the American peo¬ ple that they would diminish glorious achievembnts of war by an inglorious exhibition of avarice in time of peace. He declared that if al! he had been told is true, he has come to doubt the of Hayes. An andicatlon of Hayes' strength was given by the fact that John P. White, who resigned during the war from the presldentcy, defeated Walker by only 8,576 votes. The re¬ cent contest was the third in which Walker was a candidate for president. He flrst ran against T. L. Lewis in 1912. He ran against White In 1916 when he was again beaten. During the last campaign he was grroomed by the insurgents for the chief office but Hayes' good work among the miners since he held office was loo strong a recommendation to overcome. It was the contest for the office of vice president of the International or¬ ganization that occupied the attention of local miners. Thomas Kennedy, president of the miners in District No. 7, waa named a candidate for the office by the insurgents. His opponent was expectations of ' Secretary McAdoo and ihe Federal Re-; tre.isury will have to get a new bond; *'""'>" o^ the .\merican people to serve board for the < onscr\ation of: a-Jthorization from Congress." p°P* ^''h peace-time problems con- credit are still fullv active and re- Turning to the expenditure.'! for the ''"ontlng them. sponsible for Innctivity in the build- next fiscal year from July. 1919, to ing trades." the statement said. "Thei July. 1920. Kitchin said expenditures I activities of the country bave under--would not be less than $10.000 000.000 gone a great change since the signing . "While the bill raises only four billions. of the armistice. Many industries which were engaged in the production of war nuiterial and for which credits leaving a deficit of six billions. Want Share of Profits. "When we think of the enormous were essential, are now directing their | burdens the people must airry we can TROOPS TO STOP STRIKE. Sacramento. Cal., Feb. 8.—Two spe¬ cial trains filled' with soldiers from San Franf-isco passed through here late today going north. Railroad em¬ ployes said they were bound for Seattle. to become normal. He said that the John L. Lewis of Illinois. Kennedy present condition is to be expected in view of the fact that Jhe mines work¬ ed every day for two years during the war ar.d that all homes, business places and industrial plants stocked made a hard fight in the local districts and secured a good vote but Lewis' plurality over him was even grreater than that of Hayes over Walker. Lewis defeated Kennedy by 65,340 votes. iip with as much coal as was possible j Kennedy and Walker carried District to secure. I No. 7 where they got a blgvote, but I BAR SOLDIER WORK Officials of the United Mine Workers the majority of the miners in No. 1 and energies toward other lines more nearly related to normal activities of peace. Consequently many policies enacted during the war nre now out of date. "The Department's impression is that inactivity in the building trades is directly traceable to insufficienc>' of credit and abnormally high costs. The building tradis of the country respond¬ ed promptly to the previous policies and co-opera;ed in a patriotic way with the government in Its program for the conservation of credit during the war. Now, apparently there is no valid rea¬ son why suff.cient credit should not bt made available for useful building operations." the disputants fight The committee of America claim that the slack period No. 9 districts voted against them WATCH REPAIRING Is your Watch or Clock reliable? Main springs put in while you wait 30c. Watch cleaned and oiled 30c. fctep in and havo your watch reg¬ ulated >"Vee. Railroad watches our spodalty. CRESCENT JEWELRT CO.. 145 S. Main St BIRDS AND DOQGS BIRDS AND DOGS FOR .SALB>- Canarles. best singers in America. Toy Boston Bull pups. Beauties. Peranto. comer Lincoln and tjouth street, Wllkes-Barre. apparently luis decided that by time the Judlciar>- hands down jis decision tho affair will have received sufficient airing through the news¬ papers to ha""e generated enough pub¬ lic sentiment against recourse lo force as to niMke actual warfare practically impossible. EXPLOSION OF GAS HAS FATAL RESULTS the'now experienced by the miners haej William Green had .an easy time de- proved to be a good membership boos- | feating John L. Sinh of Indiana for ter for the organization. Many min- secretary'-treasurer. Green recclved ers who had previously refused to be- almost 100,000 votes over his opponent, come members are flocking Into the' Official figures give his plurality as DRAPERY HANGER WANTED Loca] department store Iws a 'acancy in their drapery and win- icrw shade department One fa- Madison, Wis., Feb. 8.—Eight known dead, fifteen Injured, five missing and a property loss totaling $400,000, wa3 the toll of a terrific gas explosion at Platteviiel, Wis., today. Nine stores and offices were -wiped out "While spectators watched flremen battled a supposedly incipient blaze In the Forehand block. In tbe heart of the business section. Gas, evidently accumulated from a leak In a city main, exploded with a fores that levelled the walls of the building. Spectators and tnilisir with hangvig and making firemen nearest the explosion had no ;>referred. Address Box 9 t. i means of escape and were buried under 1 _J„,. 1..J—.-.».r]-.,» \I/;IU-. tons of debris. Bricks were hurled >tjnday Independent. Wilkes-, ^^^.^^ t,,^ ^j^^, ^^^^^^^ .^^^ injurins iarre. Pa. t bystanders. union ranks in the belief that what¬ ever hard times come in the future may have their sting partly remo-ved by the assistance of the union. 94,306. The terms of the newly elocted of¬ ficers begin April 1. They will sei^-e for two years. They will be largely Local industrial plants. It is said, are [ responsible for the terms of the next laying men off. The Sheldon Axle ] ..j^freement between the operators and Works, the Hazard Wire Rope Works; min^Ts under which the coal Industn' and the Viil^f\. Iron Works are said' to have :¦ by the dis men and w ;^ FOR ROAD BUILDING Washington. Feb. S.—Tho Senate to¬ night adopted an amendment to the $400,000,000 postofflce appropriation bill, prohibiting the employment of American soldiers. ..jailors or marinea, while still in service. In building of roads. This amendment was designed to prevent th«» use of soldiers returning to this countrj' and not yet discharged in carrying out a $200,000,000 road well doubt the policy of making large reductions, especially when industry has made such large profits. Representative Rainey. Illinois Democratic member of the Ways .and Means committee, predicted that ^he growth of governmental expenditures as outlined by Kitchin would force a revision of congress' methods of ap¬ propriating money. ' "We need some kind of budget sys¬ tem." Rainey said. "We need some Sbange in procedure that will prevent submission of amendments from the floor of 'purely sentimental reasons, when those amendments mean mill¬ ions to the federal treasury." Represent Fordney of Michigan, another of the House conferee.o on the bill, said he had fought for more than a $60 bonus to soldiers as carried in the bill but had been unsuccessful. Eleven members voted against the conference report, seven Democrats and four Republicans. They are: '!"'es. Texas; Huinphreys, Miss.; Stevens. Miss.; Venable. Miss.; Sissoii, Miss.; Blackmon. Alabama; Ualburn. Texas; Dyer, Mls.souri; I.aiigley. Ken¬ tucky: Powers, Kentucky; Sells, Ten¬ nessee. TO YEAR CALENDAR rklng forces ral hundred AUTO ik*MH KILLS FOUR Coraopr': *, 'A.; F«fc. *.—four persons were ins-; .ntly'TtlWed. their liodles mangled be*Jn<J Vo*bjipldUon. when the Buffalo flyeipWSrti^ » rnotor truck on which the>- tIMM AdiAk tk the Mulberry- street crossing'^iftllsrtWisburgh and La.ke Erie TMJWMd: -:¦¦ John KanK^: S^Mt* Shoop. 25; Ludwig "^'aMtlssna ": Lugi Quag- letti, 27. ;. ¦ -. delM. by the building program authorized win again be placed on a peace basis. \ bill. During the recent campaign among ^n effort to kill the rural motor truci the miners one of the most active sup¬ porters of the administration candi¬ dates was John B. Gallagher, a union service -was defeated. The Senate voted to continue for another year the experiment begun a year ago, to deter District No. 1 for Hayes, Lewis and Green. Their big -vote in this county was one of the results of his work. official of this city. Gallagher stumped , mine whether by the uae of motor trucks the producer and tho-city con¬ sumer can be brought closer together. Southern Senators defeated an amend- RICKENBACKER'S FUTURE. ?',«nLS*^'"^.,'*'''' "° ""^f °^u ^^l New York, Feb. 8.-Caplaln Eddie! J^OO.OOO.OOO road appropriation should Rickenbacker who recently returned! ^^ "P*."^ °" '¦°*<*» ^'^''^ ^^ the govem- from PYance as the accredited ace ofl'**^"'^ '" connection with military con- iTt» Ol v'oraoplis. All were It Is belie disregarded^^ tried to era aces of the American flying forces an- j nounced tonight that he would seek his I release from the army so that he ihight RAILROAD BUILDING TO RELIEVE IDLENESS tonmenis The $'.100 000.000 road provision was adopted in the fact of charges that It tlB*'d»ifei of tho truck'l>c free to devote his future time to hisj*'^'' a Po«k barrel appropriation, ^ signal andi family. He will probably i,o vn ihe The Postoffce appropriation bill was j tion of building work on railroad im- ngine. i lecture plaKornt | adorned late lonlshu IflrovuataXs ia, tiubir citv. Washington, Fqb. 8.—A policy of "going ahead with railroad improve¬ ments wherever feasible," haa been adopted by Director General Hines. Regardless of congressional action. Hines has determined that where the consent of teh railroad corporations can be obtained, improvements de¬ cided upon will be pushed In order to aid in relieving unemployment. Announcement of the railroad ad ministration's plan to lead, instead of follow. In resuming conMtrucHon work was adopted by Hines in a speech to a delegstton of Chicago aldermen late today. The aldermen sought resump New York, Feb. 8.—A plan to sav« fifty millions of dollars a year In time and fifteen millions in .-noney by the adidtion.." of one more month to tho twelve now in a year, has been launch- j ed by the .American Kiiual Month Cal- t endar .\ssociation. according to an- I nouncement made by that organization tonight The idea Is to divide the year up Into thirteen months of 28 days each, nuik- Ing each month begin with a Monday. This, of course, will leave one day lying around loose in an ordinary year, so It Is proposed lo make that day New Years Day, an independent legal holi¬ day located between the last calendar day of the previous year and the flrst day of the following year. On leap years the extra day will aliro bo made an Independent holiday and will be slipped in between two months where it will tiot be noticed. The thirteenth month, or rather the extra, morrth, under the proposed sys¬ tem, will be called "Liberty" to make the calendar niore American, the of¬ ficials of the association say. Thua the calendar -will read: January, February. Liberty. March, etc. The saving In money will he through the abolis'nment of printed calend.irs. That i.« where the savin;? of time and labor will come in it ia averred. The offi that fhe bi pro\ides thi place on Suj It wil! shoi »!Xes3. t.^a»yt*«l^«fl*-*At»,!¦¦&^^•.^i.«-.
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Date | 1919-02-09 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 1919 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre |
Type | Sunday Newspaper |
Source | Microfilm |
Format | tiff |
Subject | Wilkes Barre PA Sunday Newspaper |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Rights | Public Domain |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Date | 1919-02-09 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 1919 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre |
Type | Sunday Newspaper |
Source | Microfilm |
Format | tiff |
Subject | Wilkes Barre PA Sunday Newspaper |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Rights | Public Domain |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 300 dpi. The original file size was 39139 kilobytes. |
FileName | 19190209_001.tif |
Date Digital | 2008-04-04 |
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Tiie Favorite Sundav
Paper in I 17,000 Homes
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
LEASED WIRE TEL-EGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A. M. SUNDAY
THE WEATHER
Washington, Feb. 6.—Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair Stmday and Mondav: little change.
Tbs only Bandar Newspaper Published In Lussmo CouDtr.
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1919
Entered at Wllkes-Barre, Pa, SLS Second Class Mail Matter.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MINER REVEALS TRIALS OF 109tll REGT.
SIX BILLION LOAN TESTS PATRIOTIS
EQUIPMENT
IN BATTLE I
' WAS poor!
i
Hero Leader of Home Forces! Tells How Soldiers Suffered From Unpreparedness
PLEADS FOR TRAINING
FRANCE FEARFUL OF GERMAN PLAN
National army mon Were sent into' KatUs half trained and crack units j ¦w»ro only half equipped because our' nation -was unprepared for war. de-1 clared Oelonel Asher Miner, gallant; Isader cT the 109th Field Artillery and , hero of Apremont who lost a leg in ; battle on October 4. last night In ad- \ dressing nearly two hundred em- ' ;Hoyees of tho MIner-Hillard Milling' cemi>any at a banquet in Hotel Red- { Ington. I
Colonel Miner's declaration ofl .Uaerica's unproparedness came as a' Burprlso when thei leader of the home i regiment commented on the efforts of j national leaders to have universal J militarj- training for the young men I of the country. "If wo had nillltar>' ¦ training there would be no wars," ho | said. "League of Nations or no League | of Nations, this country must be ready ( and not unready. We were not ready ¦»'hen this war begran and not pre¬ pared even when tho war ended.
"The lOJlh went into battle half equipped, that's what we had lo do. We lacked aeroplanes and other neces¬ sary equipment" he pointed out. Con¬ tinuing he satd: "I saw thousandsi of National army men pushed into the hell with three months of army ex¬ perience and only one week's real train¬ ing.'
Colonel Miner in bis long talk told of what the Wyoming Valley boys accom¬ plished In the world w^ar. He ex¬ pressed his pleasure in Joining with his employes in a happy reunion and deplored that other men of his com¬ pany who are in service could not bave saipe;-fencc |
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