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HARRISBURG lflllil§ TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII — No. 23
SALODNLESS COUNTY
BY 1915 IS AIM OF
NO-LICENSE PEOPLE
Fight to Wipe Out Liquor Traffic
Will Have Strong
Support
AFFECT ORGANIZATION TODAY
Constant Watch Will Be Kept on
Every Holder of the
Privilege
That the movement to wipe out the
saloons in Harrisburg and Dauphin
county will be strongly supported is
shown by the desire of individuals
and organizations to whom no formal
notice was sent to attend the meeting
this afternoon in the Masonic tem
ple.
Gilbert Aldinger. superintendent of
temperance work of the Dauphin
County Sabbath School Association,
who issued a call for a meeting to
organize a temporary no-license lea
gue, said this morning that he ex
pected a large attendance this after
noon.
At this meeting a temporary or
ganization of the Dauphin County No
license League will be affected and the
methods used in Chester county, where
a no-license league has had great suc
cess, will be explained by the Rev. \V.
t». Xyce. of Chester county.
Mr. Aldinger says it is not the in
tention of the league to make any
strenuous campaign between now anil
the license court in February because
not sufficient time remains in which
to obtain evidence, except perhaps in
a few instances.
"We shall organize the league per
manently in the city with subdivisions
throughout the county, so that a con-1
stant watch can be maintained over
every license holder in the county dur
ing the coining year. When any in
fringements of the law are discovered,
members of the league will make re
ports and If sufficient evidence can be
procured, efforts will be made to have
the license of the offending hotel
keeper revoked.
When Climax Will Come
"Naturally, the climax of «>ur pres
ent efforts will come in February,!
1915, at the license court, when we
shall throw all our forces together in
nn attempt to have every license in
the county revoked. of course we
ian't accomplish everything In a few
months or possibly In a year, but from
the enthusiasm that seems to prevail
among those who will attend the
meeting this afternoon, there can be
no doubt that Dauphin county is as
much aroused against the saloon as
are other sections of the State where
tbese campaigns have been started."
The meeting which will be held at
4.30 this afternoon at the Masonic
temple was called by the Sabbath
School Association of Dauphin coun
ty, for the purpose of organizing a no
license league.
Invitations were sent to the Anti-
Saloon league of Pennsylvania, the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
the City Councils of Harrisburg
i-hurches, and numbers of individuals,
ministers and laymen.
Since the call was Issued, represen
tatives of the local Christian Endea
vor societies have announced their de
sire to attend the meeting and many
individuals to whom notices were not
sent will be there.
She Gave Stocking
With Hole in It to
Beer Fund, He Says
William Lewis, known as "Pitts
burgh'' Lewis, started a law suit
against Alice Williams, last nfght, be
fore Alderman Bayles, because Alice
save him a pair of stockings in which
lie found a hole.
He said the .stockings were the con
tribution of Alice toward a keg of beer.
When he found the hole in the stock
ing, he refused to give her a share, but
lie said she took it any way. This
formed the basis for a larceny charge,
lie said, but Alderman Bayles" thought
lifferently. when lie learned that Alice
liad also contributed a dime.
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Late News Bulletins
"HARDSCRABBLE" PROJECT UP
Ross Hickok. at the conference between the council and members
of tlie Municipal league this afternoon, suggested that the damages in
cident to the condemnation proceedings in removing "Hardsc rabble" be
paid from the money authorized in the loan for |>ark purposes. Vance
C. McCormick talked generally on the city planning, shade tree and isle
of safety plans, and J. Horace McFarland talked of the dangers of tree
trimming and the needs in the city parks.
YOUTH GUILTY OF 16 BOMB OUTRAGES
New ork. Jan. 27.—Alfred D. I-china 11. an undersized youth
scarcely out of liis teens, sat iu the witness chair to-day and confessed
to having partaken in sixteen bomb outrages, revealed knowledge or
eighty, cleared up the mystery of two murders and furnished informa
tion coneerniii} a iiumlter of lesser crimes, including arson and bur
glary.
NATIONAL CITY BANK IN RESERVE
New \ork, Jan. 27.—Directors of the National City Bank, the
largest financial institution in tlie United States, voted to-(lav to join the
federal reserve system.
NEGRO MURDERER HANGED
West Chester. Pa., Jan. 27.—Wilmer T. Potts, colored, aged 19
years, was hanged here to-day for the* murder of his wife In Coatesville
more than a year ago. Twice Potts received a respite and a commu
tation of sentence was hoped for up to the last moment.
MRS. FLORENCE H. POOLEY DIES
Leavenworth. Kau., .Tan. 27.—Mrs. Florence Helen Pooley. grand
daughter of one of Napoleon's guards at SI. Helena, died at her home
here to-day. She was born on the island of St. Helena, fifty years ago.
Her husband, Rev. R. K. Pooley, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church here, survives her.
MAY USE RUBBER ON WARSHIPS
London, Jan. 27.—An invention Tor rubber plating battleships is
being experimented with by the British Admiralty. The process con
tests of sandwiched sltects of robber between layers of toughened steel
and the inventors declare that a wall of rubber will have the same ef
fect on cannon shells that. sandbags liave on rifle bullets.
Vi J " Jan ' 27 -— T,l< Legislature In joint session to-day
selected Edward I. Kd wards, of Jersey City, as state controller for three
years at a salary of SO,OOO annually.
New >ork. .Lan, 27.—The market closed linn, Hear operations were
resumed for a time, but support appeared anil the list again hardened
Reading and Canadian Pacific ended with gains of about a point and a
point and n half, respectively, but otherwise there were no ini|M>rtaut
changes on the day.
£
COL. 60ETHALS IS
APPOINTED CIVIL
GOVERNOR OF ZONE
President Wilson Signs Executive
Order Putting Permanent Gov
ernment Into Effect
OPERATIVE ON APRIL 1
CO/* GEO. W. UOETHALS
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Jan. 27.
President Wilson to-day signed
an executive order putting into
operation on April 1. a permanent
government for the Panama Ca
nal zone and naming Colonel
George W. Goethals as the first
civil governor.
miSMISES
nu MICE
3D PER CEM.--IRT
One Nonchurch Goer Says "Now
You Are Using Common
Sense"
Tn three weeks attendance at the
Sundav services at the Fifth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church lias in
creased thirty per cent. The increase
is attributed to advertising methods
adopted bv the church, the Rev. B. H.
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Injured Miner Offers
11-year-old Daughter
in Marriage to Man 45
Sfecial to The Telcerafh
Wilkes-Barre, Jan. 27. —John So
dusky, of Lopez, who for several
months has been bedfast from in
juries he sustained in the mines, of
fered Anna Sodusky, 11 years old, his
daughter. In marriage to John Sko
bon. 43 years old, on condition that
Skobon care for the crippled miner
the balance of liis life. The offer was
accepted, and, despite protests of the
girl, arrangements for the marriage
were quickly made. The county court
interfered, however, and ordered the
child to be placed in a charitable in
stitution.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1914.
SAYS POLICE CHIEF
WAS URGED TO PULL
CAPITAL ST. HOUSE
Rev. Mr. Pringle Thinks It's Queer
Police Can't Get
Evidence
DECLARES PLACE RAN 19 YEARS
Publicity Is Best Weapon to Use
Against Vice Is His
Opinion
Claiming the police department
knew of the existence of the Capital
street resort in time to make a raid,
the Kev. H. N. Pringle. of the Inter
national Reform Bureau of Wash
ington, D. C„ to-day expressed sur
prise at statements made by Colonel
Hutchison, who said yesterday that
tco much publicity made good work
by the police impossible.
The Kev. Air. Pringle also takes ex
ception to other things Harrisburg's
chief of police said. He said this
morning:
"I was surprised to learn from the
evening papers that an investigation
of Harrisburg's brothels, by the Inter
national Reform Bureau had spoiled
'chances for arrests.' Fifty policemen
ought to inspire more fear among law
breakers than one preacher, and they
do when they are on the job.
"It is indeed unfortunate that the
Capital street resort, which has run
nineteen years without an arrest or
a raid, was disturbed by public men
tion, just three days before Chief
Hutchison was going to 'pull' it.
"A group of men tried to induce
him to raid it last Saturday night,
before anv public mention was made.
The chief acknowledged that he knew
of the character of the place, but he
did not explain why it had been omit
ted from the list which he submitted
to the court a few days ago. The pa
pers report that the investigator for
the police department could not get
into the resorts and, through doors
partly ajar received this message, 'so
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FRITCHEYS JOB IS
TO BE Wise BY
COIUIIIII LEU
Is Doing the Work Himself and
There Is No Further
Use For It
Definite announcement that the of
fice of highway commissioner is not
to be continued under the department
of streets and public improvements
\Vas made in City Councils this after
noon by City Commissioner William H.
Lynch.
Commissioner Lynch made the
statement in offering the long expect
ed, much discussed resignation of El
mer E. Fritchey as highway commis
sioner. The resignuti n becomes ef
fective February 1.
With it was a resolution authorizing |
the acceptance of the resignation.
All the councilmen but Mayor Royal
voted to accept it.
"Is it your purpose, Mr. Lynch,"
asked the Mayor, "to do away with
this office?"
"Tea, because I don't think there is
any use for it," answered the Superin
tendent of Streets and Public Improve
ments. "I am doing this work my
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Office Created
by P. R. R. Company;
Atterbury Director
By Associated Press
Philadelphia. Jan. 2 7.—The directors
of the Pennsylvania Railroad to-day
created a new office, that of vice-presi
dent resident in Chicago, and A. M.
Sehoyer, at present general manager
of the Vandalia Railroad at St. Louis,
was elected to the position. The va
cancy on the board created by the
resignation of Joseph Wood, also a
vice-president, was given to W. W. At
terbury. J. J. Turner, now second
vice-president, was elected to succeed
Mr. Wood in general executive charge
of the lines west of Pittsburgh.
Whitman Is Urged to
Investigate State Graft
By Associated Press
Albany, N. Y.. Jan. 27.—Plans for
conducting a legislative State-wide in
vestigation of alleged graft in State
departments were discussed in a. con
ference of the Republicans of the
Senate and Assembly held last night
but no decision was reached. Several
speakers warmly endorsed the plan
and urged the selection of District
Attorney Charles S. Whitman of New
York county, for inquisitor in case
the investigation is determined upon.
Two plans for conducting the hear
ings were considered. One plan Is to
entrust the matter to a standing com
mittee of the assembly while the other
proposes the appointment of a spe
cial committee.
Another conference probably will be
held soon to decide whether an in
quiry shall be undertaken in behalf of
ithe legislature.
WHITMAN IS SILK XT
IBy Associated Press
New "York, Jan. 27.—1n reference
to the Nelson resolution introduced
in the assembly naming District At
torney Whitman as the men to con
duct a State-wide graft inquiry, Mr.
Whitman said:
"I will not dlsi uss the suggestion
until aTter I have heard officially from
j Albany."
MRS. CERHOLD SAYS
SHE COURTS INQUIRY
AND WILL NOT LEAVE
Woman Accused of Murdering Her
Husband Says She Can Prove
Her Innocence
ARREST HAS NOT BEEN MADE
District Attorney and State Police
Are Busy Gathering
Details
Special to The Telegraph
t'hambersbnrg, Pa.. Jan. 27.—Dis
trict Attorney W. C). Xicklas told a
Telegraph representative this after
noon that no arrest had yet been made
in the Floyd Keller murder case be.
cause the evidence was not yet all
gathered in. State Policeman Curtis
Da vies Is again at St. Thomas and
may make an arrest to-night or to
morrow. It is known that Daviea last
night met Mrs. Lewis Gerhold, widow
of Floyd Keller, In the presence of
her father. Reuben Kicker, of Wil
liamson. and had a long interview
with her. it was said that talk
concerning a confession was entirely
without basis and Mrs. Gerhold was
quoted as saving that she intended
staying right where she is and courts
investigation, expressing her entire
faith In her ability to prove her inno-.
cence of any of the charges so widelyj
circulated over the county against her.
Meanwhile Davies is busy to-day again
ana the district attorney says an ar
rest will surely come.
NO DANGER OF DISRUPTION
Kast Liverpool. Ohio, Jan. 27.—Offi
cial announcement was made to-day
that the referendum of members of
the National Hrotherhood of Operative
Potters upon the proposed division of
the $500,000 defense fund of the order
had resulted in the defeat of the
project by a ratio of 9 to 1. This
obviates any danger of the disruption
of the union by the scattering of its
defense fund.
WILSON OPPOSED 10
EXEMPTING AMERICAN
VESSELS FROM TOLL
Senators Say His Position Inclines
Toward Contention of
England
By Associated Press
■Washington, Jan. 27.—That Presi
dent Wilson is opposed to the exemp
tion of American coastwise ships from
Panama Canal tolls was flatly asserted
at the Capitol to-day by those who
know what took place at the confer
ence last night between the Presi
dent and Senate foreign relations
committee.
Senators who talked with the Pres
ident said that Mr. Wilson fully ex
plained his position on the tolls ques
tion, that his views incline toward the
contentions of Great Britain and that
he would make public his attitude in
the near future.
Several senators expressed surprise
that in view of the President's posi
tive attitude he had not urged some
action at the extra session of congress.
Two Views Expressed
What the President may recommend
was not disclosed in to-day's reports
of the White House conference, but it
was pointed out that two ways might
meet the views of the President. One
would be to repeal the exemption pro
vision of the act. The other would be
the passage of the Adamson resolu
tion to suspend for two years the op
eration of the exemption clause and
thus demonstrate whether the canal
could be self-sustaining without tolls
from American ships.
It is said to-day that the President
was not opposed to toll exemptions as
such but that he was strongly of the
opinion that they would be a discrimi
nation which would not agree with the
provisions of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
Lifting the embargo on arms for
Mexico also was discussed at last
night's conference.
Would End Hostilities
Some senators favored it on the
ground that it would hasten hostili
ties to a conclusion. One senator said
to-day he believed the President was
inclining more and more to that view
and might life the embargo soon.
It was the general opinion of sena
tors after their talk with the Presi
dent on the Japanese situation that
officials in Japan were friendly to the
United States but were being pressed
by radicals.
Woman Loses Her Life
in Automobile Accident
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 27. Miss
Grace B. Swank. 28 years old. of this
city, was instantly killed, and five
others were severely hurt when a
large touring car got beyond the con
trol of the driver and crashed into a
tree early to-day. The accident oc
curred at the base of a steep incline
in Chesapeake avenue at Towson, a
suburb.
AI/ASK VS REINDEER ABE
R.\ PI I > liV D EUK.V Kit ATI N G
Washington, D. C., Jan. 27. —Alaska's
reindeer are rapidly degenerating be
cause of lack of more careful selection
of breeding animals and in danger of
complete extinction unless stringent
government measures are taken, the
Department of Agriculture announced
to-day. At the present time there are
approximately 30,000 domesticated
reindeer in Alaska and upon this foun
dation, the department states, a great
industry may be built ir scientific
I management is applied.
PIONEER SAYS RADIUM AND SUN '
RAYS ARE CURE-POWERS
j vy ■**
V Jlk ■ 1
DR. JOHN KGE AND PART OF HIS COLLECTION OF RADIUM TUBES
Reading, Pa.', Jan. 28.—Recent exploitation of the marvelous curative
powers of radium rays has raised Dr. John Ege, who lives on the outskirts
of this city, from the position of a modest country practitioner to the dignity
of one of the greatest medical saviors of mankind. It has now developed
that Dr. Ege was one of the tirst medical men in this country to realize the
value of radium rays as an aid to surgery In curing cancer, appendicitis and
tuberculosis of the joints. Dr. Ege is also know to have cured a man's fall
ing sight by application of radium. Poverty has never been a barrier to
those who sought treatment from Dr. Ege, and he declares there are scores
of his former patients who are enjoying good health to-day and who would
have now been in their graves but for his applications of radium.
BRIDE WHO WISHED
ANNULMENT MAY BE
RECONCILED, REPORT
Father of Bridegroom Says Youth
Has Good Prospects; Maeyer
111 From Worry
I Possibilities of a reconciliation be
tween Horace C. Maeyer, of 1714
Green street, and Mrs. Editli Miller
Maeyer, who left him twenty-four
hours after she married him, return
ing to her home in Mechanicsburg,
asking for an annulment, seemed
brighter to-day,
Mr. Maeyer and his mother called
at the home of the Miller family In
Mechanicsburg yesterday, they say,
and were treated very well. This
morning, Hummel Maeyer, the father
of the young man, was reluctant in
talking about the matter, except to ex
press a hope that the matter might
soon be settled. From his expressions
It is believed the Maeyer family be
lieve the Miller family would not ob
ject to a reconciliation.
Young Maeyer himself could not be
seen as he was In bed most of the
day, browen down by the worriment
of thd past few days. Ho has had
little sleep, his father says.
According to Mr. Maeyer, the pros
pects of his son were bright. He said
the boy is a hard worker, is ambitious
and the future would have taken care
of itself without any trouble. "Hor
ace has pood prospects," he said, "and
is not afraid to work. There is no
reason why he should not get ahead."
Among friends of the young man
in this city much sympathy is ex
pressed for him, and the action of
the young girl he married cannot be
understood.
GIGANTIC REVIVAL
FOR HIISBURG IS
BEING CONSIDERED
Hill Christian Association Man
agers to Confer Tonight
With Evangelist
Harrisburg soon may have a gi
gantic revival.
While nothing definite has been
done as yet in the matter a committee
of laymen has been working for some
time on the question of holding a
sweeping evangelistic campaign in
the city and the matter may be defi
nitely settled to-night.
One of the most powerful of the
influences which are urging a revival
for the city Is the Hill Men's Chris
tian Association and this evening at 9
o'clock the board of managers of that I
association will meet in SDecial ses
sion to consider the revival question
In the Derry Street United Brethren
church, Fifteenth and Derry streets.
During the last month, R. F. Webs
ter, 233 South Fourteenth street, and
E. F. Weaver, Sixteenth and Hunter
streets, two officers of the Hill Men's
Association, have been visiting var
ious cities where revivals were being
held on a gigantic scale. Among the
more notable revival meetings visited
by these two men were the Bieder
wolf meetings at Waynesboro and the
Cartwright services at Sunbury.
As a result of this inspection of
the revival field, the Rev. F. T. Cart- :
wright, representing the Stough Evan- !
gellstlc Campaigners, now at Sunbury,
haa been Invited to visit this city and
he will confer| with the association
.board of managers at the meeting
scheduled for to-night. |
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STORM ON PACIFIC
COIST COSTS LIVES
OF EIGHT PERSONS
High Water Causes Much Damage
to Property For Hundreds
of Miles
MANY FAMILIES ARE HOMELESS
Railroads in Several States Suffer
as Result of Wind
and Rain
By Associated Press
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 27. —The
Pacific Coast was emerging early to
day from the grip of a storm that has
drenched the entire region from tha
Canadian to the Mexican line. Latest
reports place the storm's death toll all
eight. High water has caused much
damage to propertj*, particularly in
Southern California, and railroad ser
vice In this State and In Nevada has
been badly crippled. Traffic conditions
were expected to Improve to-day, how
ever.
The rainfall yesterday In the south
ern part of the State was tremendous.
At Pasadena the total for twenty-four
hours amounted to nearly five Inches.
The Ventura river is on a rampage
and many bridges have been washed
away, causing a loss for that one item
of more than SIOO,OOO.
Beveral towns have been partially
submerged and hundreds of persona
living in the lowland have been forced
to move.
With the Kern river out of its banks
and rain still falling, the situation at
Bakersfield was regarded as critical
to-day. Close watch is being kept on
the levee there.
Sudden rise of the Kaweah river is
threatening the inundation of 100,000
acres of grain near Hanford.
Backbone Has Broken
The backbone of the storm has been
broken north of the Tehachapi moun
tains and the Sacramento and San
Joaquin rivers have cleared them
selves of an overplus of water that for
a while caused fear for the safety of
several towns. At Sacramento the
river climbed almost to 28 feet, the
highest since 1909.
Washouts have disrupted train ser
vice in various parts of the State.
Through service between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles has been im
poesible for forty-eight hours. Heavy
snowfalls and washouts have tied up
traffic In various parts of Nevada. A
Southern Pacific train is stalled be
tween Wabuska and Hazen. Several
miles of track were swept away by
high water on the Nevada, California
and Oregon road and tie-ups on the
Virginia and Truckee line have cut off
Virginia City. Rotary plows have
cleared the Southern Pacific. Ogden
line tracks in the high Sierras and
snowbound trains were released.
In Oregon and Washington consid
erable damage has been caused by
heavy winds.
OBSERVE EMPEROR'S BIRTH
By Associated Press
Washington. Jan. 27. —Official so
ciety of Washington will attend a re
ception to be given at the German
Ambassy here to-night by Ambassador
Count Von Bernstorff In honor of tha
fifty-fifth anniversary of the birth of
Emperor William.
For Harrisburg and vicinity) l'«-
settled weather and warmer to
night* Wednesday unsettled,
probably light ralnt lowest tem
perature to-night about 40 de
green.
For Eastern Pennsylvania! Unset
tled to-night and Wednesday,
probably local ralnsi warmer to
night! moderate to brisk east to
south winds.
lUver
Higher temperature and probably
rain over the Susquehanna basin
will likely cause a rise in all
streams of the system within the
next thirty-six hours.
General Conditions
Pressure Is below normal over tha
entire country, except In tbe At
lantic and Gulf States and in -the
Upper Ohio Valley aid Tennes
see, with several centers of de
presxlon, the deepest being over
Washington State.
Temperatnrei 8 a. m., 32t 2 p. m., 48.
Sum Rises, "i2O a. m.; aets, 5i20
p. m.
Moon i New moon, flrst quarter,
5:33 a. m.
River Stage: 5.9 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday'* Weather
Highest temperature, 37.
Lowest temperature, 24.
Mean temperature, 32.
Normal temperature, 28.
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Do You
PLAY FAIR
Mr. Storekeeper?
Of course you would resent any
idea that you did not play fair
with your customers.
But do you play fair with the
manufacturers who help youT IJO
you plaly fair with youraelff
When a manufacturer place*
his advertising in the newspapers
of your town and makes a mar
ket for you do you back him up?
Do you let the public know you
have the goods?
If not, why not?
This Is a fine of questions you
should ask yourself until you
find a satisfactory answer.
The right answer will go far
towards building your business
and Increasing your sales in 1914.
The dollar wagon Is starting.
Now Is a good time to olimb
aboard!
The Bureau of Advertising,
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, World Building, New
York, solicits correspondence
with manufacturers Interested In
newspaper advertising and co
operative dealer work.