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HARRISBURG Sfilllli TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 278 16 PAGES
BOYCOTT DRIVES
DOWN PRICE OF
STORAGE EGGS
New York Women Continue
Active Missionary Work to
Discourage Their Use
DINNER TO COST MORE
Retail Prices of Everything
Used in Thanksgiving Meal
Is Much Higher
New York, Nov. 29.—The price of
cold storage eggs at wholesale was
1 and 2 cents lower to-day than yes
terday morning, when the boycott be
gan. Eggs sold at 34 to 38 cents a
dozen, according to grade. The aver
age price for fresh eggs was 63 cents,
as compared with 55 at this time a
year ago. The price of fresh eggs
showed no change from yesterday.
Referring to the boycott, the Pro
ducers Price Current says:
"The demand (for eggs) is naturally
restricted by the high prices ruling
and by an abnormal effect of boycott
and newspaper agitation, but the re
quirements of fine fresh stock are suf
ficient to absorb the small supply of
such available at firm prices."
Some of the wholesale dealers as
serted that the boycott would play into
the hands of foreign buyers They said
that men who want eggs for export
are waiting for a reduction in price.
An official daily report issued for the
benefit of produce dealers said:
Work Endless Chain
"Storage eggs are lower under a
reduction of speculative support and
a disposition on the part of distribut
ing trade to hold off and use the stock
on hand."
The Housewives' League to-day con
tinued active missionary work to dis
courage the use of eggs. One method
is an endless chain of telephone ap
peals. One woman called up twenty
five of her friends, asked them to ab
stain from eggs for two weeks and
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E. M. Bigelow Is Taken to
Hospital, Health Broken
Pittsburgh, Nov. 29.—Ex-State High
way Commissioner Edward M. Bige
low, whose appointment to the" direct
orship of the department of public
works was announced Monday by
Mayor Armstrong, was taken to the
West Penn Hospital yesterday after
noon ostensibly to undergo an op
eration for intestinal trouble.
ASK UKD CROSS TO DISCONTINUE
Washington. D. C., Nov. 29.—Aus
tria-Hungary has asked the American
Red Cross to discontinue relief work
in Belgrade and in other parts of
Northern Serbia conquered by the
Teutonic forces when supplies now
on hand have been distributed. The
suggestion reached here to-day
through Ambassador Penfield at
Vienna. The Austrian government
expressed its deepest gratitude to the
Red Cross for what it has done and
gave no reason for asking its discon
tinuance.
Cheer Up!
Fair and Colder
Cheer up. Fair and colder
weather is promised for to-mor
row. Rain is scheduled for to
night, but it will clear to-morrow
morning, and in the afternon cool
breezes will make it just right for
the football crowds, believes the
weatherman. To-day's forecast
calls for cooler weather Friday and
Saturday^^
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg nnd vicinity; Un
settled, probably light rnln this
afternoon nnd to-night; Thursday
fair; colder In the afternoon and
nt night.
For KaMrrn I'cnnsylt nnla: Occa
sional rnln thin afternoon and to
night; Thursday partly overcast;
eolder Thursday afternoon anil
night; moderate, southerly nlnda.
River
The Susquehanna river and Its
tributaries will probnlily fall
slowly or remain nearly station
ary. A stage of about 4.S feet is
Indleated for Harrisburg Thurs
day morning.
General Conditions
The disturbance from the Xorth
Pnclfle ocean has moved rapidly
southeastward with decreasing
energy and Is now central over
the I.ake Superior region, with Its
southern end reachitiK into the
Lower Ohio Valley. It tins de
creased In strength, I.lght to
moderately heavy rains have
fallen In the last twenty-four
hours In the South Atlantic nd
Fast liulf Stntes, Tennessee, Vir
ginia, the Ohio, I'ppcr Susque
hanna and I'pper St. I.awrenee
valleys nnd over a part of the
l.ake Region, the heaviest report
ed occurrlnar In Alabama. Ught
snow fell In Minnesota nnd In
Manitoba, Canada. A further
rise of 3 to 14 degrees In tempera
ture has occurred generally south
and east of the Ohio river and in
the I.ower Missouri Valley, Okla
homa, the Interior of Texas and
Southern California. It Is colder
In the West.
Temperature; S a. m., 40.
Sunt Rises, 7;0O a. m.; sets, 4; 10
p. m.
Moon i First qanrter, December 1,
8;51 p. m.
River Stage; 4.3 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 4S.
I.owest temperature. SO.
Mean temperature, SS.
Normal temperature, 37.
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No Paper Tomorrow!
In accordance with a long-estab
lished custom, the Harrisburg Tele
graph will not be Issued to-morrow,
Thanksgiving Day.
. So who cares if turkey is high?
DIXON ORDERS
SUIT AGAINST
HARRISBURG
State Health Head Says Noth
ing Remains but Legal
Proceedings
SEWAGE EDICT IGNORED
Letter Sent to Council to Notify
Commissioners of Intended
Action
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon. State Com
missioner of Health, this afternoon
sent a letter to Harrisburg City Court
ed to the effect that the order of the
State Health Department requiring
Harrisburg to treat its sewage with
disenfectant before permitting it to
get into the river, having been offic
ially ignored, nothing remains but
legal proceedings.
Dr. Dixon will at once notify Attor
ney General Francis Shunk Brown to
begin suit against the city.
When the typhoid fever outbreak
was at its height Dr. Dixon ordered
the city to disinfect its sewage before
dumping it into the Susquehanna and
council made an appropriation for
the purpose. Yesterday council de
cided to stop using disenfeetants on
account of the heavy expense involv
ed. The action of Dr. Dixon was
taken as soon as the resolution of
council was brought to his notice to
day. ~ The exact nature of the pro
ceedings have not been determined.
Porter Gets Raise and
Reward by Returning Wallet
John Olby's honesty in returning
$25,000 which he had found to the
person who lost it won him a reward
of $25 and a promise of an increase in
salary. Olby is a colored porter at the
Hotel Plaza and while working yes
terday ho picked up a wallet contain
ing $5,000 in cash and $20,000 in
securities. A few minutes later the
frantic owner was found and the wal
let returned. The hotel management
declined to give the name of the ow'ner.
Verhaeren, Belgium's
Great Poet Is Killed
Paris, Nov. 2 9.—Emile Verhaeren,
the Belgian poet, was crushed to death
last night at Rouen while endeavoring
to board a train.
The French government has been
requested by Senator Marchand to
hold a national funeral for Verhaeren.
He suggested that his body be placed
in the Pantheon, there to be held until
Belgium is freed.
His verses denouncing the Germans
for alleged atrocities in Belgium at
tracted wide attention and evoked
most bitter responses from former lit
erary friends of Verhaeren in Ger
many. His last work, "L, Belgique
Eanglante" ("Bloody Belgium"), was
published in 1915.
Pittsburgh Evening
Papers to Be 2 Cents
Pittsburgh, Nov. 29.—A1l afternoon
papers in this city announced yester
day that effective December 1 the
price of their editions will be doubled
and that advertisers and others here
tofore receiving free copies will have
to pay the advanced price, 2 cents.
The papers are the Chronicle Tele
graph, Evening Leader, Press and
Sun.
"Owing to the enormous increase in
cost of white paper and other mate
rials used in th<> production of news
papers, it is impossible to produce a
newspaper selling at 1 cent," the an
nouncement says.
Williamsport. Pa., Nov. 29. —The
Williamsport Sun announced yester
day that beginning December 1 its
price will increase to 2 cents per copy
and to 35 cents per . , onth.
Buffalo. N. Y„ Nov. 29. Commencing
December 1, The Buffalo Evening- News
will be two cents per copv. The raise
in price is necessitated by the increased
cost of paper and other materials used
in producing a newspaper.
JIT LAW IN EFFECT SATURDAY
Formal certification of the vote on
the jitney ordinance will be submit
ted to City Council at Its special meet
ing Friday so that the new law will
become effective Saturday.
Dean of U. of P. Dental
School and World-Famed
Expert Here on Friday
DR. E. C. KIRK. •
Large attendance, both from Har
risburg and out of the city, is ex
pected at the lecture to be given by
Dr. E. C. Kirk, dean of the University
of Pennsylvania Dental School at the
Technical high school to-morrow
evening. Special invitations have been
extended by the Harrisburg Dental So
ciety to the school directors and school
teachers of Harrisburg. Dr. Kirk is
one of the most noted dental authorities
in the entire world. His research
work has attracted attention both in
this country and Europe, where he has
studied and lecturing. His writings
are highly regarded. He will illus
trate his lecture to-morrow evening
with views from his own collection.
His subject will be of popular Inter
est, thf> relation of teeth to health, and
he will have a word to say also re
garding the Importance of caring for
the teeth of children.
HARRISBURG, PA..WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1916
THANKSGIVING!
V
J
'SERVING
THANKS BECAUSE THE FAMILY R
AND TEN INVITED (FEUTIVES
HAVE FINISHED EATING AT LAST.
CITY TO VOICE
THANKSEVEN IF
TURKEY IS HIGH
All Harrisburg Is Planning
Pretty Big Day; "Fixin's"
Reasonable, Anyway
Once upon a time—all regular fairy
tales begin this way—turkey and
| "fixln's" formed the central theme
about which most of the pre-Thanks
giving stories were written.
The national bird and the things
jthat flank it, it was generally pointed
| out, were among the things for which
one could be thankful.
One can feel pretty well satisfied to-
I morrow if one can afford the "flxin's"
alone. There should be considerable
j cheer, however, for the folks that fix
i the prices. (Which introduction hav
| ing been typed off, the story would be
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Jellicoe Named First
Sea Lord; Succeeded by
Beatty; Admiralty Changes
London, Nov. 29.—Rear Admiral
; Sir John R. Jellicoe, commander of
the British fleet, was to-day appointed
'first sea lord of the Admiralty, being
succeeded in command of the grand
| fleet by Admiral Sir David Beatty,
twho commanded British battle crui
;ser squadron in the Jutland naval bat-
I tie.
! Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson, the
; present first sea lord, has been ap
pointed president of the Royal Naval
: College at Greenwich.
Awards Contracts For
Twenty-Nine Submarines
I Washington, D. C., Nov. 29. Sec
i retary Daniels to-day awarded con
tracts for 27 coast defense and two
I 800-ton fleet submarines. Eighteen
j coast defense submersibles went to
i the Electric Boat Company at $697,-
000 each; six to the Lake Torpedo
boat Company at $694,000. Three to
j California Shipbuilding Company on
| Lake designs at $698,000.
One fleet submarine went to the
; Electric Boat Company at $1,195,000
i and the other to the Lake Company
at $1,195,000.
Some minor modifications remain to
he fixed but the Navy Department has
insisted upon certain features of con
struction.
All the bids are close to the limit.
It will be about two years before the
first of the ships are delivered to the
government.
City Forbids Employes
to Drink Intoxicants
Joplin. Mo.. Nov. 29.—A1l city em
ployes of Joplin were forbidden to
"drink intoxicating liquors at any
time" in a resoution adopted by the
Joplin City Commission in executive
session here yesterday. Five city fire
men immediately resigned.
FARMER'S THROAT CUT
Sunbury,* Pa., Nov. 29.—John Gul
liver, 50 years old, a prosperous
farmer, was found with his throat cut
in a barn on his property here early
to-day. Before dying he declared "he
got me this time." District Attorney
Sharpless believes Gulliver committed
suicide.
SAFE BLOWERS GET 12,000
Hazelton, Kan., Nov. 29.—Entering
the Hazelton State Bank early to-day,
four bandits blew the safe and escaped
with $12,000. The robbers took the
two men night operators in the tele
phone office out of town wih them in
an automobile to prevent them giving
an alarm.
'pvcudcd^CcovQ
Our Pilgrim Fathers raised, on bended knee,
An epitome of gratitude to Thee.
Have we not, Lord, more cause a thousandfold
To thank for blessings through the years untold?
Theirs was a freedom from a force unjust;
Ours is a freedom from a war god's lust.
Simple and strong, their faith outshone their fear.
We, through a world's unrest, have found Thee near!
From shore to shore our Nation keeps this day,
A land where peace and plenteousness hold sway.
While want and war stalk grim beyond the sea,
We raise, O Lord, our thankful hearts to Thee!
—ANNA HAMILTON WOOD,
Written For the Telegraph
HEARTILY BACK
MOVE TO LOCATE
FARM AGENT HERE
Both U. S. Agricultural Expert
and Governor Endorse Plans
of Chamber of Commerce
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce's move for the appointment of
a farm agent for Dauphin and Cum
berland counties reached a climax here
to-day when Carl Vrooman, assistant
secretary of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, and Governor
Brumbaugh addressed more than 400
members of the Chamber, a big dele
gation from the Carlisle Chamber of
Commerce and a number of distin
guished guests following a luncheon
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Somewhere in the City a
Heartless Groom Guffaws
Somewhere In '.he city to-night a
heartless new groom guffawed like
the brute he Is. somewhere a pretty
new bride has sobbingly turned a per
fectly lovely bit of old Val. —one of
the kerchiefs the girls Rave her at the
linen shower—lnto a bit of wet rag
with her tears.
Here's the story of the disillusion
ment:
In Verbeke street market house this
morning a very dainty bride—she had
all the appearances of being "missus"
of but a few days—was evidently on
her first marketing tour. She was
seeking a turkey. At a stall a nar
row-eyed farmer's wife selected a fowl
which she declared was a bargain—
nine pounds and more—at a perfectly
lovely price, only two-twenty-five.
And when she proudly showed th
feathered evidence of her ability as
an economic marketer sympathetic
neighbors told her the truth. The
nine-pound "turkey"—was a rather
handsome Brahma rooster.
Hence the bridal tears and the guf
faw of a new husband, the b-b-brute.
Kansas to Be Represented in
Electoral College by Woman
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 29. A woman
probably will go to Washington to rep
sent Kansas in the Presidential Elec
toral College. Hubert chair
man of the Democratic State committee
said to-day preparations were being
made to choose Mr*. R. C. I.avman of
I Hutchinson, to represent the Kansas
electors. Mrs. Layman Is the first wo
man to be named as a Presidential elec
tor In the State.
"Women of Kansas aided materially
In giving President Wilson his 37,000
plurality In this State," said
'•I think It Is fitting recognition of the
new voters to send a woman to Wash
ington with th Kansas vote."
MOVIE BANNERS
DOWN; NO MORE
GO UP-WETZEL
Police Chief Says Tickets Were
Left at Station With Request
They Be Used
The theatrical advertising banners
on Market street have been removed.
Chief of Police J. Edward Wetzel was
on the job at 8.3d this morning. Fire
Chief John C. Kindler furnished the
Mount Vernon ladder truck and city
linemen pulled flown the banners. The
latter were returned to the theater do
ing the advertising. The football ban
ner was removed yesterday afternoon.
Chief of Police Wetzel said:
"The incident is closed as far as I
am concerned. The banners are down
and will stay down. No more banners
will go up on Market street or any
other street. They never went up with
my consent.
"The New York representative of
•he production advertised came to my
office and left some tickets with in
structions that he would like to have
Mayor Meals and others attend the
opening performance. He told me that
later on he could probably do some
street advertising with banners. I told,
him he would have to see me before
he did it. To my surprise, the banners
were up the following day. I called
on the manager of the theater and told
him the banners were objectionable
and the public would not stand for it.
I was given to understand they would
be removed. When I found the man
agement was not removing the ban
ners I decided to net."
At the theater it was said the tickets
issued to the Police Department had
been canceled nnd that nothing was
known at thts time as to what future
action would be taken.
562 MILKS OF ROAD BUILT
Washington. D. C., Nov. 29. The
equivalent of 562 miles of fifteen-foot
roadway was constructed under su
pervision of the Federal Public Roads
Bureau during the year ending June
30, according to the annual report Just
Issued. This was more than double
any previous annual record. Post
roads constructed had mileage of 397
and the balance were experimental
and county highways and roads in
national parks or forests.
BRIXQ SHU'WBKCKKD AMKRICAM*
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 29. The Nor
wegian steamer, norghlll, which ar
rived to-day from Oran, Algieres
brought seventy-two shipwrecked per
sons from American schooner
Oeorgietta. which sailed from New Bed
ford, Mass., November 12 for the Cape
Verde Islands. Among them were two
small children, whose mother had died
on the voyage. The Borghill had lost
her foretop must.
Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT
HOSPITALS MUST
BRACE UP ALONG
THE STATE LINES
Report of Medical Education
Bureau Scores Conditions
Found in Institutions
DON'T MEET DEMANDS
Sharp Report Filed With the
Governor as a Result of the
First Inspection
Duplication of hospitals, failure of
hospitals to provide clinical and path
ological laboratories and to give pro
per attention to anesthetics and isola
tion rooms, lax business methods and
use of State emergency hospitals for
general surgical work are among some
of the points of sharp crittcism in the
report on hospital standardization is
sued here to-day by the State Bureau
of Medical Education and Licenseure,
The report was made to Governor
Brumbaugh as the result of a State
wide inspection to ascertain how hos
pitals receiving State appropriations
were complying with requirements of
the Legislature and which could be
approved by the bureau.
The report admits that the first ef
forts to secure standardization brought
about many perplexing situations and
praises efforts of managers and super
intendents to meet the demands of the
Commonwealth, alth(>>igh it is de-
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INCREASE BELGIAN' LEVY
Paris, Nov. 29. The German au
thorities have issued a decree impos
ing a further payment of 10,000,000
francs a month on Belgium, accord
inn to a Havas dispatch from Havre.
This is additional to the existing levy
of 480,000,000 francs. The dispatch
says that the provisional councils
have been convoked for December 2
in order to approve the new imposi
tion.
PRETENDER TO THRONE JAILED
Venice, via Paris, Nov. 29. An
individual calling himself Prince Ed
ward of Bourbon, pretender to the
throne of Albania, has been con
demned to three years' imprisonment
for defrauding hotels in the war
zone. He is said to be a gas collector
of Milan named Carl Lorito.
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Department say the submarine which sunk the American
stcr mcr Chemung on November 26 flew the Austrian flag
; NEGRO IS LYNCHED
Clarksville, Tex., Nov. 29.—Buck Thomas, a negro, who
® it was charged, entered thr- house of Austin Bishop, March
23 last, and attacked Bishop and his wife with a club, wa
! taken from Deputy Sheriff Will Lum, four mile*? west cf
Clarksville last night and hanged. According to officers e
ing him in a buggy to Chrksvillc'to appear before a gran--
CHANGES IN AUTOMOBILE LAW
■ Hart teburg.—O ric a ! t of the Pennsylvania tfotot,
I Federation to day in conference, with Highway Commit*
i
State. The entire act V. T.J discussed and numerous .changes
■ STREAM POLLUTION CONFERENCE
Harrisburg. Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Commis-
I sioner of Health, addressing the conference on "stream
; pollution" at the Capitol to-day said that untreated rcwage
in the. streams is the greatest source of disease with which
, the department has to contend. He discussed the measures
the department has taken to remedy the evil. Attorney
( General Brown who presided, told those in attendance to
"speak their minds in full" and asked for vicw.s JS to the
1 steps the State should adopt, to stop pollution of aU kinds.
• Not only sportsmen but railroads and industries had com
plained of conditions, he said.
I • TO FIGHT FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
Harrisburg—Dr. R. M. Staley, of the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture, was dispatched to Nebraska to-day to
investigate the foot and mouth disease outbreak there, in an
effort to prevent the malady from being re-introduced into
1 Pennsylvania. There has been no case of the disease in
this State for more than two years.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Jerome Murphy, Wlconlnco, and Urania H. Bailey, Lykena.
* l.lnford Houae Serbert and Beatrice Edna Smith, Philadelphia.
RECONCILIATION
WITH ENEMIES
IS IMPOSSIBLE
German Paper in Article on
Peace Says Kaiser Aims to
Push to Ocean
FRANCE MUST PAY
England, Too, More Assailable
Than Russia; Urges Prestige
of Flag on Seas
London, Nov. 29. The Rhenish,
and WestPhalian Gazette in an article
on the principle of German peace, de
clares that the reconciliation of Ger
many and her western enemies is Im
possible, according to an Amsterdam
dispatch to Reuter's. The paper de
clares that it believes Chancellor Von
Rethmann-Holweg recognizes this and
adds:
"Our ultimate aim is to push
through to the west and the ocean.
Whatever offers resistance must be
crushed," Referring to the Balkans
the Gazette says:
"What the victor gets he holds." In
respect to the lost German colonies the
Gazette is quoted as saysing:
"If we do not succeed in reconquer
ing them the French provinces are
worth twice our colonies and we will
take our compensation out of France.
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Candy Plants Unable to Get
Help So Are Closing Down
Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 29. The
high cost of materials and a shortage
of girls for the plants has created a
serious situation for Pittsburgh candy
makers who declare the supply is
rapidly diminishing. One of the
largest plants in the country located
here has practically closed down
through inability to secure enough
help.
Orders are accepted only on condi
tion of shipments being made when
ever the manufacturer is able to do
so. This plant has quit making all
its cheaper grades, especially the
kinds that cost a penny. Other plants
are following suit. More are ex
pected to close. It was stated to-day
that the holiday trade is seriously af
fected.