Railway Officials Plan lo Confer With Brotherhoods on Length of Working Day HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 19 HALF MILLION MEN IS BRITISH LOSS IN BATTLE Official Figures Arc 549,467; Balkan Situation Under- going Change AUSTRI AN S ADVAN CIN G Greeks Are Reinforcing De tachments Along Albanian Border Afore than half a million casualties have been suffered by the British forces so far in the war. The official figures pivinp the total up to January 9. made public to-day, place them at 349,467. the number being made up of 24.122 officers and 525,345. men. Operations which may have an im portant bearing upon the Balkan sit uation are now taking place in Al bania. The situation there is some what clouded, but it appears that the Austrians and Bulgarians jointly are making the most of what appears to be their present opportunity to over run the country, in which little effect ive opposition to tlieir action is appar ent. The entente powers seem to be placing reliance on Essad Pasha, who favors their cause, to hold the forces of the Teutonic allies in check tem porarily, but what measures, if any. are being taken to assist him are not yet apparent. Greeks Strengthen Force . i'! 1 # Greeks are said to be rein-, forcing their detachments at Albanian border points and developments as to the attitude to be adopted by the Greek government, in view of the Bul garian activities in Southern Albania, are being closely watched by entente [Continued on Pajre 21.] Garbage Collecting Co. Fined SSO For Failure to Follow Schedules Fines aggregating S3O have been imposed upon the Pennsylvania Re duction Company for failure to make proper collections of garbage in var ious parts of the city. The penalties were ordered by the City Bureau of Health and Sanitation and grew out of the unusually large number of complaints that had been received around the first of the year from many parts of town. Scores of residents kept the phones and mails busy with bitter messages to the Health Board offices as to the appar ent indifference of the garbage con tractors. Child Poisoner Forces Acid Down Baby's Throat While Mother Is Nearby By Associated Press New Tork, Jail. 28.—Four-weeks old Julius Clemens died to-day from the effects of a quantity of acid forced down his throat by an unidentified man while the child was sitting in a go cart outside of a candy shop in the Bronx yesterday. Mrs. Charles Clemens, the baby's mother, had stepped into the shop, leaving her 4-year-old daughter to watch Julius. When the mother rushed to the street in response to the girl's screams she found that the baby's mouth, chin and neck had been burned by a strong acid and the child was crying. "A man did it." said Leonia. "He gave baby something." The police have been unable to ob tain a clue to the identity of the child poisoner, and also are at a loss as to his motive. Warden Drops Dead After Electrocuting Negroes By Associated Press Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 28. —Warden Sale, of the North Carolina peniten tiary here died of apoplexy to-day after he had superintended the electrocution of two negroes. The warden appeared agitated as he unstrapped the bodies of the negroes from the electric chair and shortly afterward became unconscious. He was dead when physicians reached him. 1 THE WEATHER] For Harrlnburg nnd vicinity: Grn ernlly cloudy and colder to-night nnd Saturday: lonrit temperature to-night about freezing. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy nnd somen hat raldrr to-night and Saturday, probably rain In south nnd rain or anon In north portion) moderate northwest to north wlnda. River The \orth llranch will eontlnue to rl«f alovly, except the upper por tion will heKln to fall late to night or on Saturday. The Junl nta nnd Went lironrh will fall slowly or remain nearly station ary. The main river will IteKln to rlae alowly to-nlicht and con tinue to rlae Saturday. A stage of about 0.3 feet la Indicated for llarrlshurg Saturday morning. General Conditions The atom that centered near Chl cngo. Thuraday morning, haa moved rapidly northeastward to the .North Xtlantlc const, follow ed by the cold, high preaanre area whleh la central over Alberta, "UK Ita front extending aoutli eastward Into the l.ower Ohio X alley. 1' I* 111 to 34 degreea colder In the lake rralon. l.ower Ohio. Middle and I ppcr Mlaslsalppl valleya. Temperature: S a. m„ 52. «Un: Ttlaea, 7:17 a. m.| aeta, 5:18 P. m. Moons New moon, Febrnary 3, lltofl u. m. Hlver Stage: 111 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a YVenther Highest temperature, US. I.« west temperature, 47. Mean temperature, US. Normal temperature, 28. NAMES BRANDEIS TO FILL SUPREME COURT VACANCY i President Wilson Selects Widely-Known Lawyer to Be Associate Justice IS COMPLETE SURPRISE! I LOUIS D. BRANDEIS By Associated J'ress Washington, Jan. 28. —President Wilson to-day selected Louis JD. Bran deis. of Boston, to be associate justice of the Supreme Court to succeed the late Justice Lamar. Mr. Brandeis' nomination went to the Senate to-day. It was a surprise everywhere in official circles. Mr. ! Brandeis had not even beetj mentioned for the vacancy. -Mr. Brandeis is a lawver who has been much in public life during the last three years not only in legal work, jbut in various movements for social betterment. He is a Kcntuckian bv birth and is 60 years old. He was born and educated in Louisville and later at | Harvard University and in ISTS began [Continued on Page 21.] DUCKS FLY NORTHWARD, BEES HUM,-BUT^KEEP Mercury Didn't Fall Below 52 Last Sight; Cold Wave on Way brom \\ est Will Soon Hit Harrisburg Dillsburg, Pa.. Jan. 28. —The mild weather of the last week is causing the trees to bud. particularly the ma ples. ■ Wasps and bees were seen fly- j ins around yesterday in sections near here. Dauphin. Pa., Jan. 28.—Ducks were I seen here yesterday flying northward. | Colder weather with a drop in tem perature to freezing is forecasted at Harrisburg's first touch of the cold wave which is moving eastward. Must Keep Typhoid Records at Hospital in Accurate Manner More accurate and efficient meth ods of keeping records of the typhoid and other contagious disease cases at the Harrisburg Hospital will be in sisted upon by the City Bureau of Health and Sanitation. The question of failure to report typhoid cases as they develop in the hospital will be considered at a spe cial meeting of the bureau to be held next week, probably Thursday. The t bureau is now probing the apparent neglect on the part of the hospital to file a record of certain cases. The State Health Department rules require the filing of reports of typhoid and similar cases as they develop. In quiry has been made by the State au- I thorities. however, as to the failure iof the local hospital in a few in | stances to comply with the regula | tions. This will be insisted upon, ac cording to Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, even | if a new system of record keeping j must be installed at the hospital. Hundreds Made Homeless by Heavy Floods in Ark. By Associated Press Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 28.—Hun dreds of persons are homeless and have asked for aid and thousands of I acres of land are inundated in the lower reaches of the White and the Arkansas rivers. Upstream, with the Arkansas four miles wide at Mulberry, I is a volume of water which rivermen I believe will cause the worst flood in 25 years when it pours down stream and into the overflow that is backed up because of high water in the Mis sissippi. CRI'DK OIL I who attempted to "humbug" lilrn stir ■ i red his audience to laughter. The II President put in a sixteen-hour day ': here. 11 The President spoke earnestly on t the subject he had selected for him i: self, sounding time and time again [Continued on Page 12.] Last night the mercury did not go below 52 and to-day climbed slowly, but the cold wave is expected to pre vent a record similar to the one made yesterday, when the thermom eter registered 6S before 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Big drops in temperature were re corded in the Middle West this morn ing. The storm center causing the warm weather of the last week, has moved out to sea off the northeastern coast, and is being followed by colder weather in practically all parts of the country. t Grave Anxiety Felt For British Steamer With 300 on Board, Long Overdue By Associated Press London, Jan, 28.—Grave anxiety is felt regarding the British steamship Appam, which left Dakar for Ply mouth on January 11 with 166 passen gers and 134 in the crew. When about | four days out wireless communication with the vessel suddenly ceased. A dispatch from Hull to Lloyds says that the British steamship Tregantle re ' ports having passed at sea on January i 16 a lifeboat with the Appam painted [ on the stern and the bok knocked away. , Two or three other steamships com ing in the same direction as the Appam . a e also overdue. Among the 166 passengers on board i the Appam were Colonial officials. A report from Lisbon recently an nounced that mines had been discov ered in the Bay of Biscay. The lifeboat with the name Appam painted on the stern reported by the steamship Tregantle was passed by that vessel in Latitude 3 3.2 4, North Longitude 14,32 West. The Appam, of 7781 tons gross, 425 [ feet long and 57 feet hoam was built > in 1913 by Ilarland and Wolff at Bel i fast, Ireland. She was owned bv the , British and African Steamship Xavi , gation Company. STEAMER DISABLED Queenstown, Jan. 28.—The Allan line steamship Pomeranian arrived here yesterday in tow. A dispatch from Queenstown on January 25 announced that the Pom eranian outward bound from Glasgow for Canada, had been disabled in a • terrific gale, had lost one of her pro i pellers and her rudder and was mak ; ing for Queenstown, escorted by an other vessel. It was stated that all on board were safe. , (MAY SOON BE EMPEROR AN 1 V. 1 J ARCHDUKE CARL AND ARCHDUCHESS ZITA According to dispatches from Rome, the aged Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria has suffered two strokes of apoplexy and is now in a critical condi tion. Archduchess Zita. wife of the Archduke Carl, nephew of the Emperor and heir to the throne, is in constant attendance on the aged monarch. Arch duke Carl is with the army in the field. $13,000 RAISED ! BY TWO JEWISH j RELIEF BODIES Small Collectors (lather More Than $1,600 in "Tag Day" Campaign Jewish war reKef contributions from this city and vicinity will total more than $13,000 it is estimated. , The propoganda to raise money to] relieve their hundreds of thousands! of eo-religlonlsts 011 the war fronts of | Europe was begun in this city January 16 when a Huge mass meeting of Jewish people was held in the Technl- I cal High School. At that time morel than $6,400 was raised in an hour] and a half. The campaign was culminated yes-1 terday in a widespread observance of "Jewish war relief day." This date had been fixed for observance throughout the nation and the State by proclamations issued by President Wilson and Governor Brumbaugh. Jews and Gentiles were urged to con tribute what they could. Two committees conducted Harris burg's campaign. One headed by David Kaufman operated under the jurisdiction of the American Jewish war relief commit tee. The other headed by Kabbi i Silver conducted its campaign on be j half of the Central Relief committee lof New York. Both committees were served by scores of young Jewish men and girls who acted as solicitors. The amount raised yesterday by the Jewish war relief committee can -1 not be definitely announced until all jthe checks and cash contributions are I totaled. At a meeting held in Lebanon i last evening Rabbi Freund collected : S7OO. Steelton also contributed several 1 hundred dollars. Checks are still | coming in from various people in tho I city and surrounding towns. The synagogues have not all been heard from. . Rabbi Silver reported to-day that his group of volunteer workers col lected SI6OO. including the contribu ] tions from Steelton. This, with the ; sum already raised prior to yesterday, ; brought the total up to something 1 like $5,600. All the money collected, |of course, will go to the aid of the i Jews on European war fronts. This I fund raised by Rabbi Silver and the | money raised under the direction of jthe Jewish war relief committee, I amounting to something over $6,400, ! will run llarrisburg's contribution to jat least $13,00(1 and probably more. Thirteen Arrested in | Chicago Bank Robbery; Much Booty Recovered By Associated Press Chicago, Jan. 28. Much of the j $15,000 stolen from the Washington ; Park National Bank in the raid yes terday, was recovered to-day by the police and among thirteen persons taken Into custody the authorities be lieve they have the five who partici -1 pated in the robbery. Through a woman who was ar rested with one of the suspected men word came to the police to-day of rooms which had been recently rented in a West Side apartment building. Detectives went to the place and forced their way into a room occupied by five men and three women. While they were breaking down the door a newsboy in the street outside saw a pasteboard box fall at his feet. He kicked it and ten and twenty dollar bills fell out. The boy called a policeman nearby and they replaced the money In the box. Then the squad of detectives appeared with their prisoners and took charge of the moneybox. | At detective headquarters the money was counted and it totaled $7,800. JAPS CAPTURE COTTON TRADE By Associated Press Washington. Jan. 28. Japanese manufacturers have captured the American cotton goods trade in China so completely, says a Department of Commerce report issued to-day that all hope of renewed American business lies in an entire change of the class of goods manufactured for Oriental ex port. EVEN IF MECA IS A TRUANT HE IS NO LESS POLITE 12-Year-Old Steclton Foreign Boy Untangles Little Con- < vcntionalitv Even if Meca Vueltic, aged 12, docs play "hookey," a lack of politeness can't be churned against lum. Ha aired his knowledge of the conventions in January juvenile sessions this morn ing. Meca. who is * 4-foot-2-lnch Steel ton youth, talks splendid English. Only he doesn't care for school. And so the truant officer got him. Assist ant District Attorney Wickersham quizzed him this morning as to his indifference to school work. "You go to Pearl Hill, don't you?" inquired the county prosecutor. "Don't you like her?" Meca didn't answei-. "Ton go to Pearl Hill, don't you? Pearl Hill is your teacher, isn't she?" "No, sir," said Meca. "Why, who is?" "Miss Hill," said Meca. He was released on probation. An Echo Another echo of the North Third street tragedy of several years ago which sent Mrs. Louisa J. Bryan, mother of Mrs. Martin Fleming, to her death—and the husband to spend the remainder of his life behind the bars of the Eastern Penitentiary—was ; heard in juvenile court this morning when John Bryan was arraigned for stealing. John, with four other young sters, who purloined some flashlights, small tools, etc., from the stores of Andrew Redmond and the West End Electric Company. All were probated. John's mother was Mrs. Louisa J. Bryan. Up until the dreadful hour when Martin Fleming's bullet ended her life she had cared tenderly for the boy. Since her death John's life hasn't been exactly one of froses, according to the juvenile court officers. His father's religious faith is not the son's, the court, was told. And when John was arrested he begged the probation offi cers not to tell his father that he fre quently attended the church of his mother. Some Advise to the Court Another youngster who had to face the court on a truancy charge en lightened Additional Law Judge McCar rell somewhat on the school regu lations. In releasing the youngster the court advised the boy to attend school every day. "Go to school every day and on Sun day," suggested Judge McCarrell. If [Continued on Page 12.] Cumberland Valley Phone Company Buys Perry Line The Cumberland Valley Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 227 Federal Square, this city, has purchased the line of the Eastern Perry Telephone Company for $10,025. The line ex tends from West Fairview, through Marysville, Duncannon.New Buffalo to Montgomery's Ferry. The sale was made at a meeting of the Perry Company's stockholders at Duncannon. Formal acceptance of the sale was received by the C. V. T. I this morning. The sale must now be ! confirmed by the Public Service Com- I mission. , Watch Several Suspects of School House Fires State authorities are continuing their investigation of the three school building fires on the Hill more than a week ago but as yet no arrests have been made. Several persons are be ing watched, according to Information available and a number have been