s-fc'flfv-'B.-Qpv V3STRA NIGHT EXTRA NIGHT EXTRA I VOL;. III. NO. 98 PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY G, 1917 vn iM-.nf. 1017. nt tiif. finite J.seoes CsilrASf PRICE ONE CENT rw"'rfr-:- WVMX, ' IW"' 'l- WP!I If JlVyqtlVi-" ' hS I i W 1 H H H i w ill fS aSv 4$i II ALLIES PLAN WAR MOVES TO BRINGPEACE Entente Soldiers and Diplo mats Meet in Rome Pro ceedings Secret TEUTON CHIEFS CONVENE German Arms Will Force Peace, the Kaiser Declares CONJOINTLY With Iho allied (Ccm U trnl Powers) rulers, I PP' to our enemies to enter forthwith Into nonce negotiations. Our enc S cs refused my offer. Their, hun ecr for power desires Germany's de struction. The war will be continued. Before God and humanity, I declare that on the Governments of our ene mies alone falls the heavy responsi bility for all the further .terrible sacrifices' from which I wished to SaWith justified indignation at our enemies' arrogant crime and with determination to defend our holiest possessions ami secure for the Fatherland a happy future, you will become as steel. Our enemies do not want the understanding offered by me. With God's help, our arms will enforce it. Kaiser's proclamation to the German armu after rcccivmi the Allied note rejecting his peace proposal. ROMK, Jan. C. While the meeting hero of the Kntcntc War Ministers was shrouded In strictest necrocj it generally was beloved today Hint only measures for closer co-operation In tho prosecution of tho war would lie discussed. Keed forsuch an exchange of views was held necessary by tho many recent changes In the War Cabinets of the Kntonto Powers. Representing England arc Premier Lloyd George and Viscount Mllncr. Preiuler Brland. Minister of War Lyautey and Min ister of National Manufactures Thomas aro here In tho interests of France. General Palltzln, of tho Russian General Staff, and Italian officials comprlso tho rest of tho membership. Tho fact that Ronio was decided on as the meeting placo has greatly pleased the Italian press. Tho Corrlero IVItalia says: Tho meeting will have significance that will not escapo liorlln and Vienna, as It will bo demonstrated that tho 12n tentc, instead of being weakened by threats of peace. Is resolved tlnnly to contlnuo tho war until tho objects of the Allies aro attained. LONDON. Jan. C. Interest centered today in war not In peace. Two conferences tho ono by tho Allies, tho other by highest olllelnls of tho Central Powers were cited to Indicate- that both sets of belligerents Intended to lii.iko answer to tho various peaco notes with the force of arms. Tho Allies' conferenco was nt Roma. It was a meeting of tho I'rlmo Ministers and Cabinet olllelals of tho Kutento nations. It was ofllclally characterized as u "get together" session for Interchange of vlows. It was taken hero to forecast a nioro vig orous prosecution of Iho war. Tho Germanic conference was reported In dispatches emanating from Vienna, detail ing "an Important conferenco" at tho Held camp of Kaiser William. Present wcro tho Kaiser, Klcld Marshal Archduke Frederick, Commander-in-Chief of Austria-Hungary's armies; Field Marshal von Iloctzendorff, Chief of Staff of tho Austrian nrmles; Crown Prince Boris, of Bulgaria; Field Marshal von Hlndcnburg and Quartermas ter General von Ludcndorff. Tho Teutonic consors did-not permit dis patches to detail what was considered at this conference, nor tho reason why it was called. It was assumed that this conferenco of military chiefs was connected In some way with the conferenco called for llcrllu next week of presidents of parliament and pre mlers of all Central Powers nations. British public opinion holds thero could be no better answer to German peaco prof fers than the Romo conferenco ' starting today with a professed purpose to obtain greater unity of effort in waging the war henceforth. According to tho British view, the conferenco also, develops utter failure of Germany's scheme to iVcate dissension among tho Allies through her peace pro posal. ... . . PARIS, Jan. 6. frighting far more terriflo than tho last two years has seen will characterize 1917 ays Alfred Capus in the Figaro, In an article summarizing tho war situation. Ho asserts: Discussions of this kind (peace)' would have been dangerous last year It is not a bad thing to fnmlllarizo public opinion today with the possible conditions of peace. Because the enemy vaa kn the Initiative, the case Is re versed this year. r.T.,hl8.'loes not mean tliat Germany Is If,K y. '? accePt ur conditions. Beforo wi'im15 to l,em sna w" u " ., m I! tarjr ana diplomatic resources, ana will strike many desperate blows. f.,i ,W".' Probably bo the character mio feature of lu. Out ofthose a Continued on fuse Two. Column foat THE WEATHER . , FORECAST iJi?.r mielphta and vicinity Fair to- Wi, with lowest temperature about S3 Jlef'' BundaU Ptly cloudy and mod- occowlno light and variable-, I.KNOT1I OF DAY nun sets. -(.tap. m. I Moon soutb.U:12 p! m. BELWAHE KIVEIl TIUK CHANGES W. JHh water 12:10 a Vb I -K Low water tt-Kl ,TT f t nu. .... .n. . WaiPEK.VTBRKATK.lCH HOUK .81 9 ioi llTNim iir-ii""ai TiH jg i" 381 401 401 -UI 42 1 i IJOISSBVAIN MEMORIAL SERVICES IN CAPITOL Mooting With President to Ho Turned Into Tribute tiy SufTraRistN WASHINGTON"'. Jan. A Having staled for n "first time In history" memorial for a woman at tho f'an't'jl In honor of Inca Mllholland llolsscvnln the Congressional fnlon for Woman Suffrage will hold a "first time In history" memorial for th" same noted suffrage worker nt ahe While House. President Wilson, It was announced to day, agreed to meet a "detpfrnllon" of stirfrnglsts next Tuesday, In the past room at tho Whlto House. Immediately after the appointment was approved by the President, suffrngc leaders announced tho "delegation" would comprise "several hundred." Then it became known tho meeting will resolve Itwlf into me morial son Ices for Mm. Doliwvnllt. with features by Miss Maude Younger, of r'nll fornla; Mrs. Karnli Hard Field, of Cali fornia, now en route to Washington from San Francisco, nnd Mrs. Clarence Smith and Mrs. John W. Ilnum.iti, of New York. Ilesojutlons passed at memorial services held for Mrs. Uolssevnln, San Francisco. Now York and at the Cnpltol hero will be read. MAN FOUND DEAD FROM GAS; WIPE UNCONSCIOUS Textile Worker Asphyxiated When Wind Puts Out Litrht Woman Has Narrow Kscapo Gns escaping from a jet nfler the light had' been put nut by tho wind was respon sible for the death of Arthur Greenwood, forty-six yoniB old, of 20.1'S K street, a fln Ishcr In a textile mill, and the narrow escapo of Ida wlfo Clara, forty-four ycar old, from asphyxiation. Both were found In their bedroom this morning by their daughter Ilmlly, who smellcd gns. Greenwood celebrafed his birthday yes terday iiud retired rather late. At 7 o'clock Knilly awoke, nnd. not finding her parents astir, decided to Investigate. She found Iter father' dead by tho door nnd the mother unconscious near tho open window. The Greenwoods had been In the habit of leav ing the gas burn at nights to enable them to kco tho alarm clock In tho dark morning hours. The open window vxtlngulslted the light, it Ik supposed, hut saved tho mother's llfo by tho nlr It let lit. FLOODS CREATE DISASTER IN HOLLAND AND GERMANY Sudden Rise of Rhino and Elbe Causes Serious Devastation Barges Sunk. Villages Damaged ' PAItlS, Jan. fi. Tho sudden rise of tho Ithluo has brought serious (lood conditions In both Holland nnd Germany, according to dispatches from Am sterdam today. In southern Thnbourg many towns nnd .villages have been flooded nnd oxtonslvo damago ilono. Saxony suffered sovorcly. A lteuter dispatch from Amsterdam says, that many villages near tho Austrian .border woro damnged. Thousands of tous of coal, loaded in barges In tho River Kibe, have beon Bunk. Tho town of Clauchau, on tlio Itlvor Muldc, is Inundated. Tho railway between Cologne and Dlcr Inghausen has been wiped out. ami tho fate of tho-populatlon of tho latter city is un known. CARRANZISTA VICTORY LACKS CONFIRMATION Border Now Hears Bandits Aro Win ning in Fight South of Chihuahua City KU PASO. Tex., Jan. C. Federal agents hero wcro without any cpnllrmatlon today of reports given out by Cnrranza olllulaU at Juarez declaring that Villa had suffered n, disastrous defeat at Jlmlnez. Tho Cnrranza olllelals declared that Villa's main force was beaten at Jlminoz with a loss of more than 1000 men and that small bands of Villlstas. who had been harassing the Cnrranza communications south of Chihuahua City, also wore driven off. Tho latest advices received by General Bell stated that u large forco of Vlllistus was engaged with tho Carranzlstaa south of Chihuahua City and that lighting was still In progress, with Villa winning ground. FAT COP PINCHES THIEF; . TRANSOM DOESN'T HINDER a Corpulent Patrolman Caught "Shinny- 'ing" Through After Looter, but Captures His Man NBW YORK, Jan. 6. Wedged In a tran som so tightly that ho could neither get In nor back out, a corpulent policeman cap tured a burglar that wa3 robibng a West Forty-second street jewelry store today and then compelled his prisoner to extrlcato him. ' Patrolman Bucuris saw tho burglar, rjus tax ISllenwall, "shinny" through the tran som. As the doors and windows were lock ed, the patrolman had to do' tho same, but halt way In he BtUck. Training his gun on the burglar, ho made him surrender and then aid him. Kllenwall confessed. Ho Bald ho was an actor, and was trying to get money to replenish his wardrobe, stolen from (dm In Chicago last week. BKUMM UNCONSCIOUS Schuylkill County Judge Remains Critically IJ1 at Pottsville Homo POTTSVILM3, Pa., Jan. 6 Judge C. N. Brumm, who Is lying at his home critically ill from the effects of a paralytic stroke, la still unconscious. Judge Johnson, of Union County, will take the place of Judge Bruuyn at the Janu ary term of criminal court, which opens next Monday, and Judge Fred Moser, of Northumberland County, will specially re side here during the sessions of January civil court. ' " " i ". FK.'UHES IN "LhAK" PROI'.K Above is Augustus P. Gardner, Representative from Massachusetts, who testified today before the House Rules Committee inquiring into the peaco nolo "leak" that llnancinl circles had information regarding the note four hours beforo it was release to the press. Below is Barney Baruch, the New York stock broker, who is said to have made a great deal of money through trans actions made on a basis of tho advance news. CONGRESS URGED TO PROBE Charles B. Towns Asks In quiry Into Habit-Form- ( ing Drug Problem SAYS STATES NEED HELP Pll n Staff Corrrloiirfenf WASHINGTON. Jan. fi. Appointment of u commltteo to Investigate the wholo sub ject of Federal responsibility In tho solu tion of tho hnbit-fortnlng drug problem Is urged by Charles It. Towns, of Now York, in a twenty-pago argument he has sub mitted to Congress, Ah an authority on unti-drug legislation. Mr. Towns takes tho position that In amending the Harrison nar cotic law to correct its shown weaknesses tho services of a special committee should be had. It is tho contention of Mr. Towns that tho Undines of such r' Federal commlttoo would help tho various States to get uni form laws in dealing with tho "dopo" problem. "It would," ho tiuyn, "establish u legislative, medical nnd sociological pro cedent that would give tills country for the first time tho primacy it ought to have in asking other countries to Join witli us onco and for all in terminating this evil." "My findings have shown," said Mr. Towns, "that not more than ten per cent of thoso afflicted with tho drug habit tiro entitled to use drugs continuously because of physical disability. We are sacrificing ninety per cent of thoso who could be well and normal without the drug to alleviate tho suffering of thosa tow Incurable per. sons." In his pamphlet to Congress, Mr. Towns points out that one of tho great, st weak nesses of tho present Federal law Is that a drug taker, or uuy person purporting to be a drug taker, can havo Just a, many physicians prescribing for htm as he may seo (It. Furthermore, ho may demand as much of tho drugs as he desires. prtKscmniJ what patient asks "Tho doctor does not havo to find out whether the person is a confirmed drug taker," says Mr. Towns. "He can take tho man's word for it nnd proscribe Ju what tho patient asks for. ' .V few such 'patients could virtually corner the habit forming drug market, and If they wanted Conllnuril on l'.ice Tldrlrrii, C'uluiim Tlirre MARGIN SPECULATORS RISK ALL, COURT RULES Have No Ground for Action Against Their Brokers, Federal Judge Decides JJBNVHIl, Col., Jan. 6. Persons who deliberately buy stocks on margin do so entirely t their7 own risk, and It the mar kot goes against them and they lose their investments they can have no action against the brokers with whom they dealt, nor are they entitled to redress In the courts. Such is the substance of an opinion handed down by 'United State District Judge Hubert K. Lewis in the case of Sam uel and Mux I.avy. Denver brokers, in dicted in Arizona on five counts of using th,e mails to defraud stock investors of tin Southwest. Judge Lewis turned down the applica tion for the warrant of removal of the Levy brothers to Arizona and discharged them from the custody of the Government. CITES TICKER'S TO PROVE f Gardner Reads Peace News Issued Four Hours in Advance, He Says CALL FINANCE WRITERS Probe Snitl to Narrow Down to CorrcBpoiKJcnl and Em bassy Attaches Washington, ,Tnn. . ticprewntntive Gardner, of Massachusetts, testifying today before the House Rules Committee In tho Investigation of the aliened leak oil Presi dent Wilson's pence noto to the belligerents of Kurope. whereby Interests were said to have made wholesale "elenn-ups," sup ported his emphatic charge that there was aihnnce Information to Wull street, by reading a dispatch which was pent out by n news ticker service four hours In nd :itn'c of oflleliil publication of the fact that the note had bcetilsent. Mr. Gardner made his declination nnd road the copy of the news ticker's report lo the House Itules Committee when It re citmcned to probe the charges of Uepr'e scntutive Wood, Indiana, that some one "tipped off Wnll stret nnd precipitated nn unprecedented downward privo movement on the New York StocK Hxehange " WI1ITWW Sl'SPlfl'TKH. Suspicion of responsibility for a leak on President's Wilson's note to Kuropenn bel ligerents today virtually narrowed down to llnanclal writers mil embassy attaches abroad. Subpoenas were Isrtuod for the entire Washington staffs of tho Wall Street Jour nal and I'Mnanelal America. There was n suggestion that the Journal of Commerce and New York nminercliil representatives would lie Included. The action was taken nl the Instance ol Itepresenlatlve Harrison, uf Mississippi, a member of the committee, nnd It win de cided to subpoena before the committee John Moyle and Henry hi. Kliitul. of the Willi Street Journal Washington Bureau, and the following of the stnlt of tho Wash Inglon Ilureuu supplying the h'lnnnclal American: W. A. Crawford, John Walsh. Ilrnst Knnrr, Jr.. Alfred L. liulger. Nolson M. ShcfWd anil A. M. Jnmieson. Till! TICKHU'S TIP Heprescntntlve Gardner opened his state ment by declaring that tho fact that the Dow Jones ticker service carried a report that a nolo had been sent shortly after Sec retary Lansing's confidential statement to tho reporters, wns irrefutable evidence thero hnd been a leak. He quoted the ticker r port as follows: The renewed selling of the market Is duo to a report received by brokers' private wires from Washington to the etrect that the Administration will in the near future address to the bellig erents some suggestion of proposals In regard to peace. Nothing dellnlto is ob tainable In Administration circles. ".Mind you," said Gardner, "this statement was niado four hours before tho news of tho President's note was given out. There is your proof of a leak. Miracles don't go on tho Stock Kxehange. Dow Jones & Co nro not prophets." I'KIITALV ()!' LKAIC "On the floor of the House, I said: 'I know tliero has been a leak and I state It without any hesitation. The whole stock market shows that thero was a leak." I might have gone farther and added that overybody knew thero was a leak. A lit tle later on I handed lo Speaker Chirk a nolo In which 1 undertook the responsibility of charging that there was a leak, and I Cuiillniiril tin I'ase Tho. I'uIuhiii Tito TWO DEAD, FOUR BURNED IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION Libcrntod Gns Causes Terrific Blast in Shaft Near Wilhes-Ilarro In jured May DU WIKKtiS'IMntm. Pa.. Jan. 0 Two men wero Instantly killed and four others so badly burned thut they probably will die, when a gas explosion occurred in tho Max well mlno of the Lehigh and Wllkes-Barre Coal Company nt Ashley today. Ono body, that of Duffy Martin, thirty flvo years old. Iiub been taken from the mine. Soon after work was sturted this morn ing Murtln, a miner, went to his chamber and blow dawn a part of the roof. A large pocket of gas was llberuteI by the fall, and when tho gns came In contact with Mar tin's naked lamp there was a terrific ex plosion. Tho explosion tossed men about with great force, damaged much of the gangway and created general havoc in thut portion of the mine. First reports wcro that ten 'miners had beon killed. Beseue parties ere Imine dtately sent Into tho shaft, am) up to tho present thoy havo found only two dead bodies nnd tho four others, who ore burned. Tho Injured are receiving treatment in tho flrst-uld hospltalg In the mine. Doctors In attendance havo sent word to the ferfaee that their Injuries will very likely prove fatal. FIUKNDS ME ON S.V.MR DAY Twp Camden Men Succumb in I'neu monla Epidemic Two prominent citizens of North Cam den, Ufe-long friends, died within a short time of eacli other today from pneumonia, Spencer Sharp, fifty-four years old, lit North Fifth street, one of the friends. Is survived by his widow and four children. He was a grocer. Funeral services will be held Tuesday. f Javob Stall!, sixty-one years old, 707 North Second street, was a enter machinist for many years. He is survived by his widow and four children. Funeral services will be held Monday. ' QUICK FINANCIAL PAPERS SILENT ON LEAK PROBE NEW V0KK. Jan. 0. Editors of iMttntiolat American nnd the WnllStrcct Journal, newspapers named In Investlgrttlon of the Al leged -leak" on President Wilson's pence nolo, todny refused to com liimt on the news that their Washington stnffs would bo rtulgaett In the probe. The Wall Street Journal declared there would bo nothing round Irregular when Us Washington dispatches were presented to the committee. BELGIAN CHIEF OF STAFF DIES OF PNEUMONIA tlAVltB, Jan. 0. General Maximilian Wlelenmns, chief or the Belgian general staff, is dead today of pneumonia, lie conimaUd the illnrbs while in the trenches, PRICE OK CRUDE OIL ADVANCED 25 CENTS PER BARREL N'KW YORK, Jan. .- The Tomir Company hns advanced tho price of Cashing crude oil twenty-five rcnti to $1.75 per barrel, tho blithest price ever paid for Okla homa oil. This mlvnnce was followed today by the Prairie Oil nnd Ons Company, which Is now paying $1.60 per barrel, live cents more than tho former high record. no; ships Rinir in American yards last year WA8IIINOTON, Jim. ".-During tho hist HI months American nhlpynrds havo built 1 1 03 merchant vessels of r.'U.S 17 gross tons. Fifty vessels were built for foreign owners. This record has only been exceeded in the years 100S and 1855, when Hie majority of the vessels built were wooden. DEUTSCHLANI) EXPECTED SOON WITH ANOTHER CARGO NF.W LONDON". Conn.. .Inn. ('.. lndlciitlon thnt the fiertnnn merchant nub marine Deiitsclihmd hi expected here shortly with unother cargo from Oermnny was given today in the arrival of more than n score of negro stevedores. Thoy Wero put to work unloading crude rubber and nickel consigned to tho owners of tho Deutschhmd. ISIA.IOR V. .1. LUTZ. IT. S. A., DIES OK APOPLEXY I.AKHDO. Tex., Jim. 0. Major V, .1. I.utz. ot.the Ninth fnlted Stntes liifniltry, died hero last night of an upoplcctlc stroke. Major T,ut7. wan duo to lonvo in n fow clnyti fur n new station at Honolulu. TAX COLLECTIONS INCREASED $0fi I.S70 IN 11)10 A leiiuiiknble Increnso In the payment of taxes is shown by u statement of activities of the department of V. Kreelnnd Kondrlck, Receiver of Taxes, during 10H1. In tlio Inst twelve months the total collections exceed thoso bf' liiir, by $9BI.S70..15, Willie tho collection for l!lli exceeded thoso for 19M by only $183,477.-16. The collections of city taxes for 1D1U are $15.C72,1'JS, ns nguliist $ln, 03,029 In 191E; school lax $S,0lf..7li"i.23 for 1010. ns ngalnst $7,SS4,9S7.10 for 1915, anil personal tnx, $2,110,351.10 for 191C, as ngulnst $,3L'0,90S.70 tor 1915. Collections of wntor rents fell off, $E,024,SS1.32 hovlng been collected In 1910, ns ngnlnst $5,015,052.72 in 1915. MULE'S DEATH CAUSES STRIKE OF GOO MINERS WII'IiKS-CIARItr?. Pa.. Jan. 0. Tho Washington mine of tho I-olilgli and WIlkes-lIniTe Coal Company was thrown Into idleness today when twenty-dvo inulo drivers struck I ecause William Hilhird. n driver, was discharged. Illllnrd waa hold responsible by company olllelals for an accident that cuused tho death of a mulo. Six hundred nro nut. OKLAHOMA TORNADO DEATH LIST REACHES FIFTEEN .MITSKOCiKK, okhi.. Jim. 0. Deaths caused by the tornado In southeastern Oklahoma wcro Increased tu fifteen by tho death today of four nioro pupils of tho Viretou County School, which was blown to pieces by tho wind. Klglit persons nro known to bo Injured seriously. GREEKS DESTROY RRIDGE TO PREVENT AID TO ALLIES SYRIA. Orcece, Jan". C A (Sreek reservist, uccording to tho Ilospcrini, has blown up tlio bridge south of I,urlssu to impede tho transport of tho royalist troops to tlio Peloponnesus, In accordance with tho Allies' demands. MUNITIONS FOR RUSSIA HELD HERE BY FOG Almost $4,000,000 worth of explosives will be curried from tliui port by tho Nor woglan steamship Turus when she tails today fur Vludlvnstuk, Russia. .Tills vessel sol cleared yesterday, but because of tho fog und the dangerous cargo she did not sail, us it was safer to remain in harbor than risk a possthlo collision. All of tho explosives nro for the Russian Government, und this is the first big shipment of ex plosives that has been made from Philadelphia this year. CUBAN ELECTION RULING MAY ELECT ZAYAS HAVANA, Jun. 0. Tho Liberals aro eelubrutlng with fireworks tho decision of the electoral board giving them Cnmuguoy province, which decision. If allowed to stand, would mcun tho election of Doctor Zuyas as president, notwithstanding partial elections which nro yet to be held In Santa Clara provlnco and other placoa.f whoro frauds led to the elections being unnullpd und new flections ordered. NEW YEAR'S TRAIN WRECK KILLS 25 IN MEXICO ' IjARUDO, Tox Jan. , Twenty-llvo persons wero killed und ninety injured In n train wreck near Bun J win del Rio Junuary 1, uccording to Mexican newspapers rouehlng tho border toduy. A itorthlaiund stock train crushed Into u pussonger truln en route from Quorotaro tu Mexicu City bearing many prominent Jloslcans on their way to the cupltul to celebrate tho holldiv- RETURN OF FOURTH STATE REGIMENT DELAYED CAMP BTKWAHTi Tex., Jan. C Tho third humowunl movement of recalled Ponsylvunla trooiw. which wus to havo occurred today with tlio withdrawal of tho fourth Infantry, has beon delayed until Monday. L'liortusc of rolling stock, caused by tho demands mudo upon tho railroads In tho withdrawal of tho Sixteenth Jn fantry and the signal troops within forty-eight hours of each other la primarily responsible. REMINGTONS SPEED WORK ON RIFLES FOR BRITAIN CHESTER, Pa.. Jan. c An effort Iselng made at the Itemlngton Arms Com pany plant in Bddystono to bring tho working forco to tho fullest capacity and strive for tho completion of tho 8,000,000 ritto -rder for Great Britain. On n prominent elevation a pennant has been placed with tho Inscription, "2000 rllles a da.-.' WEST VIRGINIA SUFFRAGISTS GIVE UP FIGHT VHBRMNU. W. Vo- Jan. 6. Tho oxecutlvo board of tho West Virginia. Equal Suffrage Association has decided not to ask tha nest legislature to submit an equal suffrage amendment to tho voters. Tho amendment was rejected In the November election by more than 100.0BO votes. PREMIER TISZA'S CABINET NEAR COLLAPSE LONDON. Jon. C King Charles Is expected to visit Rudajmst nest week lo meet forming Rudai $12 A TON MINIMUM TOMATO PRICE FIXED MOUNT HOI.I,Y. N. J., Jan. 6. Hutilngton County tomato growers have decided to demand $12 a ton for the output furnished to cauners and catsup makers the coming season. The farmers want $12 because they rtgute the cost of producing the avera.Ee crop is 1 10 a ton, and It Is only when they get better than an average crop that they make any money. - NEWS PENROSE -'WAR BOARD' TO FIRE AT BRUMBAUGH i Ton Members Will Prepare Ammunition for Impeach ment Attack . ( TO HOLD SHORE .MEETING Stern Will Introduce Bill to Impeach Brumbaugh r)KSOLUTION to' impeach Gov- ornor IJrumbaiiRh will be intro duced in tho House by Representa tive Isadora Stern, of tho Third Philadelphia District. Plans made for the dofenso of tho Governor. Conference held ' with William .1. Burns and It is rumored James M. Beck has been retained as counsel. Penrose adds to his charjcs of perjury, bribery and malfeasance in office the claim that he controls two-thirds of the voters in tho Leg islature, onoufch to convict. Penrose "war board" formed to confer nt tho shore nest week and plan anti-Hrumbauch proceedings. State Senator Kdwin II. Varo silent on latest Penrose charges. "Let him rave," gays Attorney General Drown. Collapse of John R. K. Scott's gu bernatorial boom claimed as result of speakership fight. A Penrose "ivnr board" of ten members ban been formed to direct tho Impeachment proceedings against Governor Urumbaugh, and tho investigation of tho Stato admin istration, which Senator Penrose dectarod yesterday ho would push after tho Legis lature reconvenes on January 22. Tho-"war board" wns formed Into yes terday, nt tho conferenco of Penrose lieu tenants from all parts of the State. It Is composed of tho most powerful leaders In tho Legislature. Their combined power can hold up every Ilrumbniigh ad interim appointment, nnd direct the Penrose legis lative program of tying up the appropri ations and forcing tho investigation and Impeachment resolutions through tho Senate nnd House. The entire program Hint will bo launched by Senator Penrose ngalnbt Governor. Urumbaugh will bo planned In detail at a four-days' conferenco to bo held In At lantic City starting on Thursday of naxt week. All of tho members of tho "war board1' will be present, and they will decide whether proceedings will bo Instituted In tho Legislature to Impeach tho Governor, or whether tho charges. against, tho Cover nor will stop Just short of Impeachment and will bo investigated by tho Legislature and prosecuted In tho criminal courts of th Stale. SENATOR WILL PRKSIDK Senator Penrose will presldo over tho de liberations of tho "war board." Tho other members are .Stale Senators James P. Mo Nlchol, William ('. Sproul, of Delaware County, and T. Ijirry Uyre. of Chester County ; President Pro Tem of tho Senate 1M ward I', licldleman, of Dauphin : Speaker Rlchnrd J. Uuldivln. Auditor Ooneral-elect Charles A. Snyder. Representative James F. Wood varcl, of Allegheny, chairman of the Houko Slate Committee and slated chairman of tho House Appropriations Commltteo;' W. Hurry Raker, secretary of the Republi can Stato Committee, and William S Lleb, Organization leader in Schuylkill County Tho "war board" was named Just boforo Senator Penrose Issued Ills statement In which. ho declared thut charges of perjury, malfeasance in office und bribery will be rontlnuril on Pane Thlrlren. Column Twe BOY, FIVE YEARS OLD, KILLED BY MOTORTRUCK Struck While Playing on Street Near His Home With Twin Brother Pive-yeur-old llcorge llreenstein. of 1031 Ogden street, was knocked down und killed by a motortruck this afternoon while play ing ut I'lteventh und Poplar streets. Tho boy, it is said, stepped directly In front of the truck und was struck by the, mud guard. Louis Schwartz, tlio driver, curled him to u nearby drug store, and on seeing that he had been seriously hurt took him to St. Joseph's Hospital. The boy died before reaching there. He was playing with Samuel Ureensleln, a twin brother, when struck. , The vehicle belongs to SI. A. Schwartz, a fish dealer, of 10G Pine street. The driver was urrested. The deatli of tho Ureensteln boy is the third automobile fatality in , this city since the first of the year JUOQRE UUGES ACQUISITION OP DELAWARE CANAL, Argument of Philadelphian Beforo Rivers and Harbors Committee Apparently Well Receivod Nit a Staif CorreMvomlwt WASHINUTO.V. Jan 6 -.Having decided to put "new projects" in the next rivers and harbors appropriation bill, which will be reported khortly, the Rivers and Harbors Committee today granted Representative J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, a hear ing, during which he argued for Federal acquisition of the Chesapeake and Dela ware C'aual. Follow In Sir. Moore'4 argument, wlileh was made at au executive session of the committee, members said there 13 a good chance that an appropriation will bo recora mended for the purchase. Representative Sparknuin. of Florida, chairman of the committee is known to be favorably luoliutd and Representative Peter K Coktelia. of Philadelphia, as a members of the committee, is nuking a strong tight for the Inclusion of the canal project is tha bllL .l ( I i
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