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Germans Resume Violent Offensive-Operations
HARRISBURG ifiSliii TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV — No. 7
•SIX-CERT BREAD Oil
SMALLER LOAVES TO
BE SOLD HERE SOON
Likely to Raise Price as Change
in Size Means New Bake
shop Pans
SAY SOMETHING MUST BE DONE
Practically All Large Bakers Agree
That Increase Must Come
as Flour Mounts
Whether to raise the price of bread
to six cents or to reduce the size of
the loaf from 16 to 12 ounces will be
discussed by Harrisburg bakers at a
conference to be held soon, possibly
next Monday.
That something must be done soon
on account of the soaring price of
flour is the individual opinion of prac
tically every baker interviewed.
Flour used by the bakers is from
two to two and a half dollars a barrel
higher now than before the war and
a probable further increase is mak
ing the bakers sleepless. They see all
their profits vanish as they are ob
liged to replenish stocks of flour at
the high prices.
An increase of one cent a loaf and
maintenance or the same size is con
sidered by several of the largest bak
ers as just to consumers and baker
alike. Reduction In size would mean
change in bakeshop pans as well as
more uncertainty on the part of the
consumer as to how much he really
got for his money.
Althousti there is no bakers' asso
es more uncertainty on the part of
elation in llarrt3burg, it is understood
that the larger producers will attempt
to work together agreeably in any
sweeping change, such as the present
situation demands. Informal nego
tiations between the big bakers have
been begun with a view toward the
most satisfactory adjustment.
i<. M. Brlcker of the West Shore
Bakery said this morning: "If things
keep on as they are now, there is only
ime thing to do- —charge more for
bread: bakers cannot continue mak
ing bread at a loss, and we can't re
duce expenses of labor or mainlain
vnce. I favor a six-cent loaf rather
than a reduction in size of a five-cont
loaf.
I,eft overs Hold I'p the Price
we could do away with the com
n practice of the return of stale
* "bread, which is the bakers' greatest
•source of loss, we could continue to
make a full sixteen-ounce loaf for five
cents so long as flour is on the under
Hide of eight dollars a barrel. Ac
cording to tho present custom the
grocers do not buy bread outright
from the bakers, but they return un
sold loaves the second day. and we
have to dispose of this bread to cheap
hotels, boarding houses, poor people,
or as chicken feed at a price lower
than cost. If the grocers would buy
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Police Sergeant Shot
to Death by Robbers
Who Escape With $4
St. 1-ouis, ,lan. 9.—Michael Gibbons,
a police sergeant, was shot and killed
to-day by two robbers on a suburban
station of the Wabash railroad. The
men were robbing the station safe
when Gibbons saw them through a
window. As he opened the door he
saw the watchman sitting on a chair
and one man holding a revolver over
him. The other man who was back
of the ticket window and just about
to blow open the safe, llrcd a shot as
Sergeant Gibbons entered, killing him
instantly. The robbers then blew
open the safe, from which they took
four dollars and escaped.
Training School Students
Attend Talk by Miss Eaton
Forty students in the teacher train
ing school, of which Miss Anne Wert
is principal, attended the regular
biweekly lecture, given yesterday by
Miss Alice Eaton, librarian of the
Public TJhrary. Miss Uaton spoke on
"Children's Picture Books and Their
Illustrators." The subject of the next
address is "The First Heading Books
for the Child."
The course for the training school
was begun last October and will con
tinue until the close of tho school
year. It is divided into two sections—
first, the proper arrangement of books
And the use of the library. The sec
ond part will be devoted to study of
children's books.
THE WEATHER
For llarrlahuric mill vlelnltyi Fair
tn-nlicht nud Sunday, uot much
• hniiKr In temperature) lowest
temperature to-night about S8 de
cree*.
For Fantern IVnnxj l» nnln : t 'nlr to
n'Kht and Sunday: gentle wind*,
moNtly went.
River
The SuMijueliiinnn river anil nil Its
trl litrtarlen above llnrrlnlinrK are
now fallliiK, nml practically all
the Ire mm afloat In In the mailt
4 river or haa pnnaeil out Into the
b«- The river anil all It*
brnneliea vrlll fall to-nleht anil
Mula.v. A ntaice of about 10.-1
feet In Inillenteil for Harrlaburg
Sunday morning.
fieneral < ondltlonn
Under the influenee of au area of
hlKh barometric preanure that
covera the eaatern half of the
1 nlted States, nltli Ita eenter
over the l.owrr olilo Valley, fair
lventher pretalla In praetlenllv all
dlntrleta cant of the Roek.v Moun
tain*. except In Southern Florida,
where rain wan falling; thla morn
ln«r.
Temperature! R a. m., 3«.
Sum nines. 7:27 a. m.; acta. 4:5#
p. M.
Mooni New moon, January 15. Hit!
n. m.
ni»er Stagri 12.3 feet above low
wnter mark.
\eaterday'n Weather
lllgheat temperature. 42.
l.oweat temperature. 111.
Mean temperature, 341,
Kurtual 'temperature, 2t».
HOST OF FRIENDS
WILL HONOR TENER
Covers Will Be Laid For 100 Per
sons at Dinner For Retir
ing Executive
DINNER WILL BE UNIQUE
Harrisburg Club Profusely Deco
rated For Event Planned to
Exceed All Others
Governor John K. Tener will be
guest of honor to-night at a dinner
tendered to him at the Harrisburg
club by a number of his personal
friends in Harrisburg. More than 100
covers will be laid and In many re
spects the dinner will be unique, as it
Is the first given in honor of a retir
ing executive in which so many people
will participate.
The dinner will begin at 6.30 and
will be marked by beautiful decora
tions. The entire banquet hall has
been lined with Southern smtlax by
Florist (Miarles Uttley. At the gal
lery a patriotic touch is given by
American Hugs and festoons of red,
white and blue surrounding a por
trait of the Governor framed in elec
tric bulbs. American Beauty roses
will be the table decorations with a
huge mass of flowers in front of the
Governor. Carnations will be at each
place.
The committee in charge consists
of Charles H. Bergner, John T. Brady,
John P. Dohoney, Kobert C. Neal, Jr.,
George W. Reily, Charles C. Stroll
and William M. Donaldson.
The subscribers to the dinner in
clude many men prominent in the life
of Harrisburg and vicinity who have
been guests of the Governor at various
times and who are his personal friends
here.
Hospital Managers Select
New Superintendent
William M. Condon, of Brooklyn,
X. Y.. was elected superintendent of
the llarrisburg Hospital by the hoard
of managers yesterday. He will suc
ceed Charles A. Lindblad, who re
signed December 1. I9li.
Mr. Condon is well trained for the
work. He can speak the German, He
brew and Italian languages. He was
assistant snpanntendent of the New
York Post-Graduate Medical School
and Hospital for three years and aft
erward superintendent of the German
Hospital of Brooklyn for six years.
Mr. Condon also had eight years of
business experience before entering
the hospital work. He has not an
nounced when he will take charge of
the institution.
TWO SVSPKCTKI) OF LARCENY
Two stone pile graduates were
picked up by Harry White yesterday
on suspicion of larceny. The pair,
George Graham and Crist Kevlll, were
arrested while trying to sell several
pairs of new socks and a suit of under
wear. The men said they got the
goods at Duncannon.
STAND PLANS HAVE
BEEN COMPLETED
All Arrangements For the Place
of Inauguration Are Well
Worked Out
Erection of the stand for the cere
| monies attending the inauguration of
| Governor-elect Martin G. Brumbaugh
[ will be started next week and the de
tails of the ceremonies are about
completed by Chairman Edward E.
Beidleman, who lias been in close
touch with the new Governor.
General E. DeV. Morrell is out
lining tbo inaugural parade and an
nouncement o[ its composition will bo
! made In a iJay or so. The members
of the subcommittees have thing's iu
excellent shape for the oig day.
Judging from reports which are
reaching this city the Juniata Valley
is coming in force to tlio Brumbaugh
inauguration. The people up that way
[regard the doctor us one of their own
because h<> was born and raised in
Huntingdon county and there will be
special trains from up as far as Al
toona rolling into Harrisburg for the
ceremonies and the eights and scenes
!of the nineteenth.
11 nnl ingdou county people are ar
ranging for special cars to come to
the city for the events of the day and
Blair county will come in force. In
addition to Altoona people thyre are
districts like Martinsburg. Ttoaring
Springs and Claysburg where they call
Dr. Brumbaugh "M. G.," who will jam
special trains to this city.
A Huntingdon dispatch says: "To
night at a public mass meeting, which
promises to be largely attended, final
arrangements will be made for Hunt
ingdon county's part in the inaugura
tion of its noted son, Martin Grove
Brumbaugh, as the next executive
chief of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg,
Tuesday. January 19. Indications are
that at least a thousand citizens, half
a dozen bands, the local company of
National Guard and last but not least
the Governor's octogenarian father,
the Rev. George Boyer Brumbaugh,
of Marklesburg, will see the next Gov
ernor take his oath of office."
COTTON GINNING INCREASES
Washington. D. 0.. Jan. 9.—Cotton
ginning during the last two weeks of
December surpassed the same period
of every other year except the record
production year of 1911 and brought
the total cotton ginned from the crop
of 1914 up to 14,447.(>23 bales, a quan
tity greater than ever ginned in any
other year to January 1 and 130,000
bales more than in 1911.
BOY STRUCK BY AUTO
George Shaeffer. 7 years old. 259
Delaware street was struck by an
automobile yesterday at Third and
Muench a fractured
lcfc leg. He was taken to the Harris
burg Hospital.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1915.
WILSON INTIMATES
CANDIDACY IN 1916
American People May Have a
Chance to Judge His Steward
ship, He Says
IN WASHINGTON LATE TODAY
President Gives Notice He Is Fully
Prepared to Push Ship
Purchase Bill
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Jan. 9.—On Board Pres
ident Wilson's Train.) —President Wil
son was on his way back to Washing
ton to-day after making his first pure
ly political speech since he assumed
the presidency. He will arrive at the
capital at 4.40 o'clock this afternoon.
Gossip was rife among the Presi
dent's friends over the meaning back
of his statement In his Indianapolis
speech that "there may come a time
when the American people will have
lo judge whether 1 know what 1 am
talking about or not."
Some of his friends insisted that
the President was merely referring
to the fact that future generations
will judge his actions and that he did
not intend to convey the impression
which was gained by the crowd that
he might be a candidate again for the
presidency.
Other of his friends pointed out
that he evidently realized, because of
the cheering, the construction that
had been placed on his words, and
yet he did not correct the impression
beyond saying, "X didn't intend to
start anything then."
The President is returning to Wash
ington fully prepared to push his gov
ernment ship purchase bill. Vie serv
ed notice in his speech yesterday that
he will do everything possible to over
come opposition to the bill.,
Mr. Wilson will seek to send to the
Senate the nominations of the trade
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VESSELS WHICH HIKED FOR
$5,000 NOW VP TO SIO,OOO
Special to The Telegraph
Philadelphia. Jan. 9. Some evi
dence of the enormous rates being ob
tained by steamship companies for the
hire of their vessels since the beginning
of the war was disclosed yesterday in
the admiralty division of the United
States District CouVt during an argu
ment before Judge Thompson on a
motion to reduce a bond In the suit
instituted on Thursday over an alleged
breach of contract Involving the char
tering of the Italian steamship Pru
denza. According to the statements of
counsel and witnesses, vessels that
hired for SB, 000 a month during
peaceful times are now bringing as
high as $40,000 for the same period.
NIGHT SESSIONS IN VIEW
By Associated Press
Washington, I). C.. Jan. 9. The Sen
ate to-day was confronted with pos
sible night sessions to consider the
Government ship purchase bill. This
possibility lias arisen because but little
progress lias thus far been made In the
consideration of the measure.
Central High Girls Must Eat
Completed Examination Problem
Teacher Wards Against Dyspepsia in Future Husbands by
Making Students Swallow Own Dose
Here are just a few of the things
Miss Frances Hamilton, head of the
Central high school cooking depart
ment, told the girls of her classes re
garding the midyear cooking exams,
which begin next Wednesday:
"If you have a button off a shoe or
your apron, that means a lower grade.
"If your uniform is not scrupulously
clean and smartly laundered, down
comes j'our grade.
TWO MORNING FIRES
CAUSE SLIGHT GAUGE
Backfire Sets Auto Ablaze; Over
heated Stove Starts Fire
Uptown
Fire damaged the delivery auto of
Brown & Co., 1217 North Third street,
this morning. While the auto was be
ing started preparatory to taking it
from the garage in Hay alley near
F'ulton street a backfire set the oil in
the drip pan ablaze. An alarm was
sent In from Box 24, Sixth and Cum
berland streets. The damage was es
timated at $2 5.
An overheated stove started a small
blaze at the home of Thomas Ames,
1219 North Seventh street, shortly be
fore 7 o'clock this morning. The fur
niture, carpets and walls were dam
aged to the extent of SSO. Firemen
responded to an alarm from Box 47,
Seventh and Verbeke streets.
TARIFF BOARD BILL OFFERED
Special to The Telegraph
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.—The cre
ation of a tariff board, with power to
in\est.igate tariff schedules and the
prices of commodities at home and
abroad, as well as authority to stimu
late international trade, is proposed In
a bill introduced by Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma. This is the first Intimation
that has come from the Democratic
side of the necessity to take out of
politics and intrust the making of a
tariff law. In part, to a body of experts.
BOXING LAWS SUCCESSFUL
Milwaukee. Wis., Jan. 9.—Boxing In
Wisconsin under state regulations lias
been a success and the commonwealth |
has profited more than $12,000, ac
cording to a report of the State Ath
letic Commission prepared and issued
to-day for presentation to the legis
lature. <
THREE BIG
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New York, Jan. 9.—Here ore the
views of three very important men on
prosperity—Thomas A. Edison, who,
after the burning of a $3,000,000 plant,
is not discouraged;: Judge K. H. Gary,
chairman of the hoard of directors of
the Steel Trust, and James A. Earreil,
president of it and executive over
160,000 workers.
This is what Mr. Edison had to say
about worry in connection with the
business conditions:
"When anyone talks about worry
he might apply my new standard of
"It your hair is not neatly done up,
with no loose ends flying, so many
points will come off your average for
the term.
"If your hands or finger nails show
a speck of dirt, your mark will suffer.
"You will be given a receipt and the
Ingredients to make the dish—then
it's up to you.
I "And you must eat what you cook."
■IS IDE '
CLEANER CITY IN 14
Redlight Was Cleaned Up; Fewer
Strest Wnllwrs; New Clerk
Is Needed
Statistics showing that 1 larrisbutg
has made a considerable gain morally
during 1914 will be embodied in the
annual report of Colonel Joseph B.
Hutchison. Chief of Police. The
Colonel will refer to the cleaning up of
the red light district and probably
have something to say regarding re
sults of reform activities along other
lines.
The report may not reach Council
for at least three weeks. Statistics
showing the number of arrests, fines
paid and other details are now being
compiled. As soon as definite figures
are available Colonel Hutchison will
get busy on his part of the report. He
expects to renew his recommendations
for more patrolmen. The need of an
other clerk and increased Berttllon fa
cilities will be pointed out.
Colonel Hutchison's report will Bhow
a big decrease In the number of street
alkers arrested and that there have
been few cases of stealing from for
igners in t->e ward.
PRESIDENT HT.I.U I*RISO!\KIl
By dstoiialed Press
Washington. D. C., Jan. 9. Details
of the recent revolutionary outbreak at
Asuncion, Paraguay, where rebels cap
tured the President and held him pris
oner for twelve hours. were before
State Department officials to-day In a
cablegram from American Minister
Mooney. The dispatch says that not.
more than seventy-five were killed and
wounded in the outbreak.
| LANCASTER WHEAT lip 5 CENTS
Lancaster, Pa.. Jan. 9.—The Lan
caster grain dealers yesterday ad
vanced the price of wheat to $1.30 a
bushel, an advance of 5 cents a bushel.
They expect it to go to $1.50.
worry. Just think of the Kaiser, now
on the defensive, with nearly 900 miles
of battle front, all told, on the east
and west. Why, the average man's
worries sink into insignificance com
pared to this. Another standard of
disaster is Belgium—little, gritty Bel
gium!
"It has surprised me to see how
Americans have become weak-kneed
over this war. They seem to be
stricken wifch a sort of commercial
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BROKER ENDS LIFE
WHEN FIRM FAILS
Counsel For Company Says Rise
in Wheat Price Led to
Rash Act
By Associated Press
New York, Jan. 9. G. K. Stringer, Jr.,
junior member of the Stock Exchange
firm of Stringer & Co., shot himself
and died instantly in his office shortly
before the suspension of the firm was
announced to-day on the floor of the
Stock Exchange.
The lirni of Stringer & Co. was or
ganized May 23, 1912. It consisted
of G. E. Stringer, Sr., and his son of
the same name. At the time of its or
ganization the younger Stringer had
not attained his majority. Recently,
after he had reached the age of 21, he
was admitted as a partner. He was
married.
A few minutes before the opening of
the Stock Exchange to-day Stringer, Jr.,
left his own office and entered that
of the Guanajuato Development Com
pany, in which the llrir. of Stringer &
Co. had an interest. When the ex
change opened the failure was an
nounced. Not long afterward the body'
of Mr. Stringer was found lying on the
floor under .i desk in the develop
ment company's office with a revolver
a few feet away.
Announcement Withheld
A physician and a policeman were
summoned. For more than an hour,
however, no announcement was made
of Mr. Stringer's death. He had shot
himself in the mouth.
The firm did a commission business
in small proportions. For some years
past it had been Interested in Mexican
properties, especially mining com
panies. The unsettled political con
ditions in Mexico, It was said, embar
rassed the firm financially and Its sus
pension was attributed primarily to
this.
Young Stringer recently returned to
New York from Mexico, where he had
gone to look over properties in which
his firm was Interested.
To the sensational rise in wheat
within the past few days was at
tributed the failure of the firm by C.
A. Decker, its counsel. Mr. Decker
said that Sprlngor & Co. had been
"badly caught on the short side" of
the market and had failed for about
$160,000.
MEMBERS' OF STOUGH PARTY
TO VISIT FRIENDS HERE
Announcement was made late this
| afternoon that Professor D. 1,.
Spooner and Mr. Irvin, chorister and
[ pianist, respectively, for the Stough
party, would arrive in the city Mon
day afternoon from Altoona to at
t<yid the. meeting o fthe tabernacle
chorus In the evening, when. It is ex
pected, a permanent organization will
be effected.
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DUAL ASSAULT
MADEONRUSS
NEAR WARS A W
Petrograd Says Fighting Has Become More and More Des
perate and Admits Germans Made Some Advances
but That They Were Subsequently Driven Back;
Armies in West Remain Comparatively Inactive;
Austrians Reported Trapped in Galicia
German armies are again striking i
at Warsaw, from two directions, j
Along the Vistula, to the west of the j
Polish capital, heavy fighting has been ;
resumed, and at the same time a new
attack has been launched from the |
north. The Petrograd war oHce de
scribes the fighting as "more and!
more desperate," and admits that the j
Germans made advances at many'
points, but states that they were sub-1
sequently driven back again.
Coincident with the Russian sweep
through the Austrian province of'
Bukowina. plans are under way in
the adjacent country of Rumania for
mobilization of the army. Unofficial
advices state that the entrance of Ru
mania into the war is expected.
A Geneva report says that an Aus
trian army hns been trapped in Gal-
Icia by the Russians, who by an unex
pected movement caught , the Aus
trians at a disadvantage on difficult
ground and placed them In a precari
ous position. There was no contlrma- 1
tion, however, of this report.
In contrast with the heavy fighting
in the east the armies in the west, so
far as was revealed, remained com
paratively inactive.
French Advance Checked
The French advance in Alsace ap
parently has been checked. Both the
French and German official state
ments of to-day tell of the recapture
by the Germans of Burnhaupt-le-
Haut, the town south of Stelnbach,
capture of ,vh..n by the French was
announced yesterday.
In the Argonne violent fighting is
again in progress, in one charge the
French lost a number of men as the
result of a trap set. by the Germans,
who permitted them to occupy a
trench and then blew it up.
Fighting has been resijmed in the
Aisne region, where the "allies claim
to have captured three lines of Ger
man trenches covering 600 meters of
| the front. The German statement,
m
M President Wilson spoke informally to crowds which co!-
I !-.c- ' I! i.' i>.buri; ' y as he p • *.i
S tiii i.,L on his way to Washington. He alighted from his
M. piiva ands with many people.
1 ' PARDONS FOR 1300 MEN
J Columbia, S C., Jan. 9.—Full pardons to about 1300
W persons convicted in.South Carolina of various Crimes, and
m pa;ole<! since January 1, 1911, were granted to-day by Gov-
M ei n< ; Blcise.
£ Federal League in its
£ linst organized baseball probably will be
* > ! e Landis in tbe United States Dis-
C
£
f iin, Jai M.45 A. M.—Tobacco
of war will 1;
mi: d::ty. The Span'.h embassy in Ber
. ft~r French int- -sts, received v. ; rd
f in C .-man am" orities.
I'i . .IN MEXICO NEAR?
-P i t •«> (} . satiations between
in Mexico by wl>i "the problcnjL. o£
K tibn of Mexico has practidfny been solved" werflp
C noai last ni & ht to the convention in Mexico City by Gen
leial GuijaJrez.
POPE HEARS OF CARDINAL'S CASE
F.on :, Jan. 9, 2.30 P. M.—The Pope to-day again re
ceive in p ivate audience Monsignor Deploiga, president
of the Institution of Philosophy at Louvain and had a pro
longed conversation with him concerning conditions in Bel
gium and the case of Cardinal Mercier.
ARREST CANADIAN IN LONDON
London, Jan. 9, 1.25 P. M. Benjamiq Hill Smith, a
... ian biith, was to-day remanded in the Bow
oace couit on the charge of grand larceny. This
action was taken at the request of the New York police au
thuuues. Wo details oi the case against him are to be had
here.
1 MARRIAGE
Mrphrn Paaavrr, Mrrllon, anil l.uba Dlajaa. city.
I.eonard Halara and Mary Joknann, city,
tirurge Uobfl and Margaret Hupcrt, Hteelton.
Htrhrrt W. Hodrnhabcr and Florence HoMlnger, city.
Kurle Manfrrd and Catherine I>. 4«Girv«y, Mlddlrtunn.
Robert J. Miller and B. Ireae Arthur, city.
,however, says that the French attacks
in this region were repulsed.
| GERMANS MAKE AN ATTEMPT
TO REACH WARSAW FROM NORTH
By .Associated Press
| Petrograd, via Jan. 9. 4.21
I A. M.—Taking advantage of the con
tinued and increasing cold weather,
| which has frozen the marshy land
| adjacent to the numerous rivers of
I North Poland, the Germans are now
1 initiating another attempt on Warsaw
| from the north, having contented
! themselves with fortifying and taking
I the defense west of' Warsaw, alonK
! the hanks of the Bzura and southward
; between Skierniewiee and Grodzick
! and further southward along the left
i bank of the Vistula, the Germans are
| now reported massing in the north
j preparatory to an advance.
OBJECTS TO SHIP PURCHASE
By .Associated Press
London, Jan. 9.—The Spectator, in
i discussing the question of t.ie pur
j chase by the United States of Ger
| man ships, says that unfortunately the
Itlme chosen for the "experiment" was
1 a moment when critical international
! questions must he raised by the new
i departure. The legality of the trans
| fer is doubtful for the purchose must
benefit the belligerent, says the Spec
tator.
SERIOUS FIGHTING CONTINUES
By Associated Press
Petrograd. Jan. 9.—An official com
munication given out bv the General
Staff last night says: "On the left
of the Vistula front, at the villages of
Soukna, Metarlc and Moghely, th®<
fighting has assumed a character mors
and more desperate. The Germans,
notwithstanding the great losses they
have sustained, continue attacks at
different points."