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Johnstown Mayor Bans Sunday Trade

Will Even Block Choir Singers to Probe “Absurdity’’ of Blue Laws.

By the Associated Press.

JOHNSTOWN. Pa January 20 —A much perturbed and a little defiant citizenry tonight faced a Sunday without movies, sodas or gasoline as Mayor Eddie McCloskey prepared to show the people just how “ridiculous’’ blue laws are anyway.

Every business house got orders from policemen today to “pull down your blinds tomorrow and keep them down” under an edict of the mayor that a blue law of 1913 will be enforced to the last letter.

The mayor said he will back up the old law so well “that the paid choir singers will not be permitted to appear in the churches.”

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New England Cities Will Be Linked by Air Route

Operating Base Already Established at Portland and Boston—Plan System of Relay Planes—Tech Professor Sees Big Increase in Commercial Flying During Coming Year

Boston, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Announcement that the leading cities of New England will be linked in a air route next summer was made today at a joint meeting of the Aero Club of New England and the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. Operating centers already have been established in Boston and Portland, Maine, it was said, and negotiations are under way for connections at Hartford, Conn.

Posted inDaily News Local Histories Transportation

Auto Collides with Wagon; Three Are Hurt In Crash

Dr. Ramsay’s Buick Is Overturned in Darkness Between New Brunswick and Metuchen.

TWO TAKEN TO CITY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Ramsay and Chauffeur Conquest Brought Here-Miss Brennan, of Metuchen, Taken Home.

Mrs. Ramsay, wife of Dr. William E. Ramsay, and Alexander Conquest, proprietor of the Packer House garage, are in the city hospital at the result of an automobile accident between Metuchen and New Brunswick about 6 o’clock last night. Miss Olive Virginia Brennan, a niece of Col. C. C. Weber, of Metuchen, who wae also badly Injured, wag removed to her home.

As a result of the accident Mrs. Ramsay has a broken collar bone and is suffering from shock, but her injuries are not regarded as serious. Mr. Conquest has a slight concussion of the brain and is bruised about the body. The latter, when seen by a reporter this morning, said that his head hurt him and there was a soreness all over his legs, and his back pained him considerably.

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The Portsmouth and Norfolk Sufferers

The details of these fever-infected localities, instead of affording hope that the plague has nearly expended its power, acquaints us of increased distress and mortality, arousing the feeling, already excited, to a more expanded sympathy In view of these awful, appalling statements, it becomes the duty of our citizens to arouse themselves to further effort for the relief of their truly afflicted neighbors.

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Story of the Greatest Tragedy in the World

EDITORIAL

The greatest tragedy in the world occurred in the lives of five Seattle boys Friday.

The dog-catcher got their dogs!

More than 1,000 boys trooped merrily to Volunteer park to take part in The Star’s annual coaster race. Naturally their dogs went along., There must have been more than 100, barking at the heels of their small owners, chasing the flying coasters and having the time of their lives.

Maybe every man has a heart. We don’t know. Perhaps they have ’em and, on some days, they’re not in working order. But we can’t see how any man with a heart could have interfered with that juvenile celebration by calling the dog-catcher.