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MAR SWEEPS
ACROSS FOE'S
BORDER INTO
EAST PRUSSIA
Dashes Ten Miles Into Ger
man Territory at Johannis
burg and Plunges Into
L Heavy Battle at Rypin, as
f Thorn and Koenigsberg
Drives Are Renewed
With Fury Austrians
Ahead in Carpathians.
Violent Fighting Marks Resump
' tion of Battle in Flanders.
Capture of Two Towns on
Ypres-Roulors Line by Bel
gians Reported French
; Maintain Positions in Baga
; telle Forest in Face of Terrific
' Assaults.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARr , 1915.
Certatanr, IBIS, bt mt Pcbmo T.tsani Commht.
PRICE ONE CENT
Omcr dispatch reports that tho town of
Moorslcde, seven miles southwest of
Holders, has changed hands several
times,
Tho battlo for tho possession of tho
forest near Bagatelle, In tho Argonne,
contlhues, and tho French announdo
Hint they nro maintaining their posi
tions against violent attacks.
CZAR ASSAILS GERMANS
ON LONG EAST PRUSSIA LINE
Dashes Over Border at New Point.
Battle on Thorn Route.
PETtloanAD Feb. 3.
North of the Vlstu'n a Brent battlo Is
raging In the region of Itypln, while a
largo Uusslnn force has Invaded Enst
Prussia near Johnnntsburg In nn attempt
to flank the Germnns, who have resisted
every effort to drive them from their
trenches near Mlawa. Having occupied
liypln, the Russians aro trying to press
on toward QulblmJ and Dobrlzyn, wlileli
their cavalry reached In January, only to
be driven back with heavy losses.
To resist the Russian advance on the
front extending from Johatmlsburg
through the Mlawa and liypln regions to
the lower Vistula tho nrrm.in., iini ...-
contrated about four army corps. Manv
heavy batteries have been mounted at
strategic points along this 100 miles front.
By tholr thrust at Johatmlsburg tho
Russians have penetrated East Prussia
for a distance of 10 miles. Their cavalry
raiders are again tearing up tho Ger
mans' frontier railway.
STARS OF WILMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
Belief In Petrograd that tho German
offensive against Warsaw has collapsed
li corroborated by resumption of Rus
sian activity along tho East Prussia
frontier. This shift of heavy opera
tions Is seen In a big battlo raging In
the Serpez region beyond Rypln, which
ibe Slavs havo occupied In their prog
ress to Thorn and In a dash 10 miles
across the boundary near Johannis-
,tmrg, south of tho Muzurlan Lake
country, and affording approach to
Koenigsberg by another route.
Germans aro reported as diverting
troops rrom various sections to protnet
EflSt Prussia at thn nnmnrnna nnf nta
; of attack, ranging westward from Til-
f (It, through Insterburg, Johannlsburg
nd Mlawa to Thorn,
! Vienna reports and Petrograd admits
JKnssian retirement In Bukowlna. Tho
,t . ...w--w..
the Carpathians bordering TranSylVa-
.ley and a shorter distance near Dukla
-Pass. However, tho Russians appar
ently have tho advantage west, in tho
'IJesklds, and near Uszok Pass.
Severe fighting is developing along
E.ths Flanders lines northeast of Yprcs,
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GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY
IN FIERCE FLANDERS FIGHT
Reinforcements From tho Aisne
Hurled Against Allies' Lines.
, ST. OMEIt, France, Feb. 9.
The sbcond battle of Flanders steadily
Is becoming more violent. Tho Germans
are steadily bringing up reinforcements
from tho-dlstrlct about, Ithelms, and they
are being hurled against the Allies' lines.
The German losses nro severe. The hos
pitals at Tloulcrs are overcrowded, and
tho wounded pour In night and day.
The village of Mlddlekcrke has been vir
tually destroyed by the artillery of tho
Allies. ftloorsiedc, soven miles southwest
of Tloulcrs, has changed hands several
times, and most of the town is in ruins.
OTHER WAR NEWS ON PAGE 4.
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An unconfirmed report from Dutch
Mirces declares that the Belgians and
(British today captured Passchendaele
,and Langcmarck, between Roulcrs and
ipres. and that tho German centre at
'Jloulers Is seriously threatened. A Sf.
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$125,000 FINE IMPOSED
ON PACKING COMPANIES
Five Adjudged Guilty of Violating
Anti-trust law.
JEFFERSO.V CITY.' Mo., Feb. 9. Flvo
big packing companies wero adjudged
guilty of violating the anti-trust law by
the Missouri Supremo Court today. Each
was nncd JJ3.000, which must bo paid by
March 11, Tho companies adjudged guilty
are:
Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Morris St
Co., Hammond Packing Company and the
St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision
Company. '
gJYe had a good start yesterday on the
weather for the week. There "Is no deny
ing that. While as a day, a perfect day.
Jt-Traa somewhat subject to criticism.
fWertheless, since such matters aro
fely a matter of comparison, it was
pused by the board of censorship. One
gnnot look a gift horse In the mouth.
Jou understand, and during the siege of
Paris men fought for the privilege of
itwg luscious steaks which had once
ea dog. However, today Is today and
Iue for our chief consideration. After
IJdWng to the office boy and throwing up
LMtraviand consulting the United States
Jwtber map, and calling up Mr. Bliss"
Ipce. and doing all kinds of other use
Qwithlnss, we venture a, prediction. It
LH.J0 be the ntepat Tn..iin.. n.uu u
Rnv.0Lh' 7w flurry about no".
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FORECAST
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jajw flurries today; fair tonight and
incsaay: not much chanae in tem.
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18-YEAR-OLD HEROIN VICTIM
Detectives, Disguised as Tramps,
Haid Rendezvous of Drug Fiends.
A girl not yet 18 years old was found
unconscious from an overdose of cocaine
or heroin In "Tho Arsenal," a restaurant
at 10th and Winter streets, early this
morning when Lieutenant Smiley and De
tectives Stoeker and Barron raided tho
place, disguised as tramps.
Men and women frequenters of tho res
taurant, habitual users of heroin, accord
ing to tho police, boldly attended tho
hearing of the girl before Magistrate
Tracy at the 11th and "Winter streets sta
tion. The girl gave her name as Bcdella
Verona. She lives at 928 Winter street.
Magistrate Tracy Bent her to the House
of Correction for three months.
The lieutenant and two detectives were
about to leave tho arsenal when they dis
covered tho girl, her body halfway undsf
a table. She was unconscious. Attempts
had been made by occupants of the place
to hide Her beneath the table. Physicians
at Hahnemann Hospital revived the girl.
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NORMAN B. REAM DEAD
Millionaire Steel Man Was 71 Years
Old.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 Norman Bruce
Beam, millionaire steel man, died In the
iPresbytcrlan Hospital here today. He
was 71 years old.
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TODAY'S BASKETBALL RESULTS
Central High School 13 11 24
Southern High School 15 10 25
Central High, 2d 2 7 9
Southern High, 2d 17 13 30
West Philadelphia High Schod... 12 12 24
Northeast High School 6 12 18
West Phila. High, 2d 8 5 13
Northeast High, 2d 4 4 g
Lansdowne High 16 19 35
Brown Prep 10 5 15
De Lancey School 12. 13 25
Haverford School 14 22 36
Chestnut Hill Academy, 2d 5 8 13
Germantown High School 4 7 n
Bryn Athyn 18 16 34
Phila. Trade School ., 4 15 10
'MOLLYCODDLES,'
SUNDAY'SREPLY
TODOIBBEN
Evangelist, in Caustic Ser
mon at Swarthmore, An
swers President of Prince
ton in Spirited Manner.
CONNELLY BOWS
TO DEMAND FOR
TRANSIT ACTION
Chairman Announces Coun
cils' Finance Committee
Will Meet Within a Few
Days.
SECRET INFLUENCES
ARE THROTTLING GAS
BILL, AVERS MAYOR
Councils' Finance Committee
Pickles Measure That
Would Save City $70,000
a Year at Least.
SMAiLPOX IN IiEQISLATTJIlE
Arizona Lawmakers Forced to Ad
journ Because of Disease.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. Feb. 9. The Arizona
Legislature was forced to adjourn today
because of smallpox developing among
members In the lower House.
Representative Sam Brisco Is now con-
Jlned In the pesthouse. Reading Clerk
banner was stricken with the disease to
day, and there are several suspected cases
In both houses.
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at Steelton Plant.
HARP.ISBURQ. Feb, 9, The Pennsyl
vania Bteel Company today placed Us rail
mill at the Steelton plant in operation,
after a suspension, on a trial order for
1000 tons .of rails for the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Three hundred men returned to work.
MEDAL POB, BESOTTING CHILD
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-Patrlck W.
Mulligan, of Norristown, Fa., was
awarded a medal of honor by the Inter
state Commerce Commission today for
saving a child's life on the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Norristown, August 19, 1914.
President Wilson wrote a letter of com
mendation to accompany the medal.
Artillery Deserter Caught
FOTTSVII.LH, Pa., Feb. 9.-rPaul S.
Smith, who on January II last deserted
from the lUth Company of the Coast
Artillery, U. S. A., stationed at Fort
du-pont. Del., was arrested Jn this city
today. He Is being held pending the
arrival of army officers, who, will take
him back to Fort du Pont for court
martial and punishment.
Bryan Criticised Ju House
WASHINGTON. Feb. S.-CriUctsm of
Secretary of KUto Bryan for .filling lec
ture M)gcget8t4 "white a war la raging
In r" was mada in tho House today
by Reeraeatattve Mofldeii, of Wyoming.
Jfayor Blankenburg has asserted that
"some mysterious Influences seem to be
at work" to prevent the Finance Com
mittee of Councils from reporting out of
commlttco for action by the councllmanlc
bodies tho ordinance Introduced almost
one year ago to change 11,092 public street
lamps from gasoline to gas.
The measure, If passed by Councils,
would provide work for unemployed by
expenditure of approximately $130,000 to
connect 3697 gasoline lamp3 on existing
mains and to connect 7395 additional gaso
line lamps by extension of gas mains.
That entire expenditure would be made
by the United Gas Improvement Com
pany. There would bo no demand on
Philadelphia's revenues or loan funds.
WOULD SAVE AT LEAST JTO.OOO.
The city would save $8.65 per lamp per
year If the change were made, an aggre
gate saving In excess of $70,000.
As all extensions of the U. G. I. be
come the property of the city In 1927,
under terms of the lease, the property
accruing to the city at that time by the
extension would be increased by about
$500,000. v.
In addition to those features an obso
lete type of street lamp would be dis
carded from the streets of Philadelphia.
In the face of all those benefits for the
city, with no announced or apparent dis
advantage. Councils' Finance Committee,
of which John P. Connelly Is chairman,
for almost one year has refused simply
to give sanction for the work to begin.
MAYOR WRITES MR. BODINE.
Mayor Blankenburg wrote President
Samuel T. Bodtne, of the United Ga
Improvement Company, before the last
meeting of Councils, asking Mr, Bodlne
to notify Councils that the gas company
was willing to do the work as soon as the
weather would permit.
In that letter to President Bodlne, the
Mayor said:
"iris a mystery to mo why this ordi
nance hangs flio. Some mysterious influ
ences seem to be at work which I cannot.
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TffOS. O'TOOLfT,
This aggregation of cage players
met Swarthmore Prep this after
noon.
ALL TIOGA COUNTY SALOONS
CLOSED BY COURT'S ACTION
Applications, Improperly Advertised,
Are Befused.
WELI-SBOnO. Pa., Fib. 9. All appli
cations ' for liquor licenses in Tioga
County were luled out of court today
when Judge Cameron sustained the ob
jections of ntiorncys for remonstrants
that the applications had not been prop
erly advertised.
This decision makes Tioga County
"dry" for one year. Thirty hotels must
close their bars. The defect In the ad
vertisement was In not designating the
residences of applicants.
PENN NINE MAY
PLAY TEAMSIN -
SAN FRANCISCO
Local Collegians Invited to
Participate in Round
robin at Panama Exposi
tion Next Summer.
MAN ENDS LIFE WITH GAS
Suicide Due to His Inability to Work
Because of 111 Health,
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Feb. 9.-Whl!e the
family with whom ho boarded wero at a
movlpg-plcture show last night, Richard
Taylor, for years an employe of the Nor
ristown Brick Company, committed sui
cide by inhaling Illuminating gas. Ho
was 42 years old and had been unfit for
work for nearly two years.
He turned on every gas Jet In the sec
ond floor of the three-story house, mado
a pillow of clothes on the bathroom
floor and lay down to die. He was beyond
reviving by a pulmotor when found sev
eral hours afterward.
LOOKING POB DBOWNED MAN
Continued on I'aio Two
MAN IS WIFE'S ACOTJSEB
Mrs. Bessie Hamowltz was arrested In
her home, at 12th and Lombard streets,
today by Detectives Callahan and Ma
honey,1 of the "Murder Squad," and held
for a hearing in the Night Court on a
charge, preferred by her husband. The
woman made a scene when the detectives
placed her under arrest.
Hamowitz charges his wife wished to
kill him because he had made a will In
her favor for 110,000. Hamowitz, the
police say, told detectives his wife had
made two attempts to kill him by putting
poison in his milk. He alleges, also, ac
cording to the police, she tried to bribe
a Negro named Taylor, to chloroform
him and 'to turn on the gas after he got
in bed.
Western Cities Want Liberty Bell
Telegrams from Mayor Carter If. Har
rison, of Chicago, and Mayor Henry L.
Jost, of Kansas City, were received to
day by Mayor Blankenbiwg requesting
that the Uberty Bell b o.t to the
Eanaros-Paclflc Exposition and reut4 to
fita through c&eh city.
Police Notified an Hour After He
Was Seen to Tail in Blver.
The crew of the pollceboat Stokley are
grappling ,for tho body of an unknown
man who walked off the end of Fltler
rope wharf at Wlsslnomlng, on the Dela
ware River, this morning, and was
drowned.
Stanley Medewski, 2740 Klrkbride street,
walked Into the Klrkbride and Richmond
streets substation about 10 o'clock amy
said he had seen the stranger fall lntol
the river mora than an hour before he
reported the occurrence. By the time the
Stokley got to tbe scene the man was in
the river about three hours.
Medewski said he could not make any
effort to try to rescue' the man, and J!d
not know haw-to notify the police sooner
than he did.
The University of Pennsylvania baseball
team, generally acknowledged to be tho
champion nine of the east last year, was
today invited to talcu part In a round
robin tournament at San Francisco next
summer for tho purposo of deciding the
national college baseball championship.
The invitation was received by graduate
manager Perot and will bo turned over to
the baseball committee for action. The
Invitation, which came from tho ofllclals
of the Panama Exposition, contained the
additional information that the other
teams Invited were the teams which had
won the various sectional championships
throughout the country last year.
Should this year's Quaker team do as
well as last year's nine the committee
would undoubtedly look with favor on
the plan provided the necessary funds
could bo obtained. Last year's team
won its- series from Harvard, Yale and
Princeton, but lost to Cornell and Michi
gan. But neither of these teams played
.anything like the number of hard games
that Pennsylvania did, which accounts
for the fact that the exposition manage
ment seems to figure the Quakers the
best Eastern team. Similar Invitations
have been Issued to Leland Stanford,
Michigan and several other colleges.
Coach Dr. Walter Carles made Ills first
cut in the Pennsylvania freshman squad
this afternoon. There were only seven
men dropped, and the squad still con
tains 7i men. The -entire squad, contain
ing a number of new men reporting
yrsterday and today, numbered 82, the
largest that ever turned out for a first
year team. The men dropped were Ed
wards, Help, Homer, Kaufman, Krantz,
Logan and Slaughter,
The squad is now made up of the fol
lowing: Abt, Allen, Bennls, Berg, Bower,
Burnat. Callahan, Chequtne. Coogan.
Cross, Culbertaon, Chaltont, Darby, De
verts, Dexter. Dunlap, Dunn, Dickson,
Dahan, Eble, Farrell, Fluhrer, Freemont,
Fritz, Gallagher. Geesleman, R, J, Glan
vllle, F, G. GUnvllle, Hagerty, Hoch.
Jackson, Johnson, Jones,. Kolb, Landberg,
Latimer, Lelpslc, Lorcnz, Maley, Mason,
Matter McCabe, McCarthy, McCloskey,
McKee, Milton. Miller, Morgan, Nevlns,
Nuss, Ogden, Purse, Ralne, Rawle, Dau
denbusch Redneld, Rudolph, Scanlon,
Smeltz, Smith. Scott. Swlgler, Stoever,
Sullivan, Sorgenfrle. Todd, Tripp, Vlckers,
Vorberg, Warren, Wray, Wesimun, Wain
kerman, Young.
Anpther cut has been announced for
next week.
"Billy" Sunday delivered one of the
most caustic broadsides of his career to
day at Swarthmore College against those
who criticised him and his choice of
words. Ho did not mention the name
of President Illbben. of Princeton Uni
versity, but his statements followed di
rectly after he had been told of dis
patches from the New Jcney Institution
In which It was set forth President Illb
ben disliked Mr. Sunday's language.
"Mollycoddles" was tho term applied to
his critics by tho evangelist. He said
they sought this method of getting news
paper publicity because they could get It
In no other way. Shaking with laughter
at them, he confided to his audience of
virtually tho entire student body, men
and women, that such criticism doesn't
even touch him.
Students and members of tho faculty
of the famous Quaker Institution, moat
of them familiar with the attitude of
President Hlbben as set forth in dis
patches today, betrayed, nn Intcimn In
terest In tho words of Mr. Sunday.
At tho outset of his talk tho evangelist
with elaborate sarcasm referred to those
who do not like his choice of words, mid
then said ho wouldn't uso nny slang.
Then he launched suddenly and fero
ciously into one of his slangiest sermons.
Ills sentences were alive with the quaint
but often brutally direct Idiom of the
streets. A pastmaster In slang, he rattled
off Ills tirade so rapidly It was almost
impossible to follpw him at times; now
denouncing his critics with bitter taunts
and epithets, now adopting the Indirect
but deadly attack of Irony.
HIBBEN SILENT.
Efforts today to get a detailed state
ment from President Hlbben of his alti
tude toward Sunday and his alleged re
fusal to countenance an Invitation from
Princeton to the evangelist, were futile.
The noted educator refused to give his
reason or to discuss the question In any
way.
Sunday was greeted at Swarthmore by
Joseph Swain, president of the college,
and Isaac H. Clothier, former president
of the Board of Managers.
Doctor Swain, in introducing tho evan
gelist, said:
"I am sure a man of Mr. Sunday's type
will always find a warm welcomo in this
hall."
"I have not come to preach," "Billy"
Sunday said as he waved his hand and
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21 TRAPPED IN FLOODED MINE
Bescue Workers Bushed to Shaft to
Save Imperilled Men.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 9. Twenty
Olio miners were trapped In a mine at
South Wellington, Vancouver Island, late
today, when one of their number struck
into an old working, which Hooded ' the
shaft.
Rescue crews are at work.
GIBL, TBAPPED BY PIBE, DIES
N3W YORK, Feb. 9.-FJorenee Bunsch
row, 16 years old, was overcame by smoke
rand died, and her mother, younger sister
and two brothers were badly burned in
a Are that swept through the three-story
frame dwelling at 263 East Hist street,
the Bronx, early today.
Mayor Beceives $800 for Belief Work
Mayor Blankenburg received 'wo checks
today aggregating i$oo tot the use of the
Citliens' Permanent Relief Committee In
relieving distress In Philadelphia among
tbe uneroaloyed. A, aheck for ?00 came
from Michael Murpby and one, for tlQQ
wa irw W. W. Frailer.
Would Prevent Lusltania Incidents
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Preventlon of
Incidents similar to the hoisting of the
Stars and Stripes on the British liner
Lusltania was proposed in a House bill
introduced by Representative Martin, of
South Dakota, proposing a (10,000 to J1W,
COO fine and. confiscation of the offending
foreign yessel for such an act
Beresford Wants, Balders Hanged
LONDON. Feb. 9.-Lqrd Chart Beres
ford will demand In the House of Com
mons that the German aerial raiders be
treated as raiders and hanged la public
for the, murder of womnn and children
If caugic
Girl Kidnaped in New York
NEW YORK. Feb. 9. The boldest kid
naping in the history of New York was
perpetrated today when four men and a
woman in a motorcar seized Josle Rlz.
zotto, IB years old, a school girl, of 1650
First avenue, and whirled her away in
the car before the startled gaze of many
pedestrians. "
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Southern High Beats Central Pive
The Southern High team again defeated
Central High, leader of the Scholastic
League, this afternoon at JCloverdale
Hall, Tha final score was Vto U.
Tbe Southern nve 14 by In
time. 15-li. Welntl nd SlaVhllliniY DlyJ
Jard ana Joblln, Ctotrsl's orwrd. clonly
In the first halt. GakienbMK and .V'sttmn
out bt tbe game.
Central II
Gold atar forward.
The line-up follow
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minutes. J
In the preliminary miuh Southern Ilfzh'a
second team defeated tbe Crlmion and Gold
atrub quintet. r
West Philadelphia Ties Central
By defeating Northeast High this after
noon. West Philadelphia High ties Cen
tral High for first p&ee in the Scholastic
Leeguo race.
At th end ot the Srlt ball tha Speed Boya
bad a double acora Maataga over tbe Bed
and Black UMkelhallwaJiz to a, Abfaimj, tbe
?et PbOlFeUr tuaxd Ua. uIUe top!!
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Bft-SAXf. tb if ba.vaa-O tntautaa.
John P. Connelly, chairman of Councils'
Finance Committer, sarrrndrrrd to nnlrrnal
public rirmund late tlila nftrmoon. He An
nounced that the Finance Committee wonld
meet within a Tery few day.
ThI mean that the ordinances prorldlng
for (he apeclnl election to Tote on the SS0,
000,000 transit loan held In "pickle" In com
mlttro since January 7, will be considered la
lime to report It out nt the next meetlnar of
Councils on Thursday, February IS.
State Senator McN'lchol, In an Interview
In Harrlsburg today, clearly defined his
position on Director Taylor's program for
real rapid transit for Phlla-
FORiTHtN ueipnia. stripped of elaborate
verbiage, Senator McXichol'a
statement placed him on rec-
ord as pquarely atralnst the
j'luKrurn, uius maaing lie is
sue clear-cut betweeri the open advocates
and the bpen opponents of the Taylor
program.
McNICHOL'S ARGUMENT,
Senator McNIchol said ho did not op
pose the Taylor program for "any ulte
rior or selfish motives." but that he felt
the project was such as would swamp the
city financially. The taxpayers should
know Just what other public Improve
ments would have to be sidetracked,
should the transit plan bo allowed to
stand as it Is, Senator McNIchol de
clared. He said he was strongly In favor of
amending the pending amendment to the
Constitution, so that the money realized
from the proposal to Increase the city's
borrowing capacity from 7 to 10 per cent,
would be available for "pressing and per
manent Improvements" other than rapid
transit and port development.
"The question resolves itself Into this,"
Senator McNIchol said, "Is Philadelphia
prepared to tie up $100,000,000 in new
transit lines and port developments
alone. Ignoring entirely Its other needs?
That would mean taking into account In
terest charges and sinking fund payments
of about $7,000,000 annually out of the
city's revenue."
Particularly Senator McNIchol is op
posed to the building of the business de
livery loop at the present time. This, he
declared, would be an unwarranted ex
pendlture and should be postponed until
all the other proposed lines had been
completed.
"The Blankenburg administration.' he
said, "has estimated that 150,000.000 wH
be required to carry out the municipal
projects contemplated. They include a
sewage-disposal plant, miles of new sew.
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Bunaway Horse Hurts Policeman
Policeman Robert Elliott, of the State
road police station, Frankford, was pain
fully Injured early today when one of
the new horses attached to the patrol
wagon shied, smashed the harness and
then, with his mate, ran away. Elliott
was standing at the heads of the horses
at 2d street pike nnd Benner street, when a
a pleco of paper blew by. One of the
horses shied. Elliott was Jammed against
a tree. The pole of the wagon broke,
parts of the harness parted and the two
animals dashed down the street. They
were stopped by mounted police and one
of the horses was slightly injured.
March's Appeal to Be Heard Today
Counsel for George II. March, who was
found guilty of the murder of B. Lewis
Plnkerton In Delaware County In the fall
of Wit. will begin an appeal In the Hu- I
nrema Court today from a decision in
the lower court. March, together with
Roland W. Pennington, was round guilty
of murder in the first degree and was
sentenced to be electrocuted. The pasa
was to have been reopened yesterday, but
as March's counsel had not stated clearly
the questions to be determined, the court
allowed another day for preparation.
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