14 STATE TOSSERS HERE SATURDAY Wilkes-Barre Five Will Play Independents; Locals Lose to Lancaster, 68-18 Wilkes-Barre State League tossers •will be the attraction at Chestnut Street Auditorium Saturday night, when they will play the Independents team. The local five will practice to morrow afternoon in preparation for the game, as it is one of the hardest on the season's schedule. The Wilkes- Barre team is tie for first place with Carbondale in the State League. Last night with two regular play ers out of the line-up the Independents lost to the Lancaster Professionals, 68 to 18. The summary: INDEPENDENTS Fd.G. FI.G. Totals Crane, forward 1 0 2 McCord, forward .... 2 4 8 Gerdes, center 2 0 4 G. Ford, guard 1 0 2 Colestock, guard 1 0 2 Totals 7 4 18 LANCASTER Fd.G. FI.G. Totals Evans, forward 6 0 12 Buckius, forward .... 0 0 0 Hoover, forward 8 0 16 Ranck, center 4 12 20 Butler, guard 3 0 6 Shaub, guard 7 0 14 Totals 28 12 68 Fouls called on Harrisburg, 18; on Lancaster, 20. Referee. Deal. Bowlers Kept Busy; Lively Duckpin Games Casino Tcnpin League Electrics 2 595 Rovers 2438 Montgomery (Electrics) 214 Berkmeyer (Rovers) 595 Casino Duckpin League Readings 1343 Audlons 1285 Kozel (Readings) 123 Kozel (Readings) 295 Allison llill league Wolves 2206 Rabbits 2181 Stringer (Rabbits) 190 Stringer (Rabbits) 517 Academy Duckpin Officers 1555 New Ideas 1518 Harmon (Officers) 149 Harmon (Officers) 386 F.nola P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Emeralds 1423 Sapphires 1385 Snyder (Sapphires) 191 Fardney (Emeralds) 517 Solvay League Team No. 1 2091 Team No. 3 1774 Butcher (No. 1) 193 Schriver (No. 1) 450 M i socllaiieous (Fickes alleys.) Academy Stars 2372 Lemoyne 2243 Speaker (Academy) 205 Speaker (Academy) 571 STANDING OF THE TEAMS Casino Duckpin League Won. Lost. P. C. Majesties 7 2 .777 Strollers 5 4 .55 5 Pennsys 6 6 .500 Audions 4 5 .444 Nobies • 4 5 .4 4 4 Readings 4 8 .333 Allison Hill League Won. Lost. P. C. Wolves 1 4 .733 Lions S 4 .666 Rabbits 9 6 .600 Cubs 6 9 .400 Tigers 4 8 .733 Leopards '. 4 1 .266 Academy Duckpin League Won. Lost. P. C. Officers 22 11 .667 Barbers 18 12 .600 Bakers 14 13 .520 Bitters 17 11 .515 Factors 10 20 .333 New Ideas 9 18 .333 Schedule for Friday Bakers vs. Barbers. Enola P. R. R. V. M. C. A. Won. Lost. P. C. Emeralds 6 3 .667 Rubies , . . 5 4 .555 Sapphires 4 5 .445 Diamonds 3 0 .333 Solvay League Won. Lost. P. C, Team No. 1 12 6 .667 Team No. 4 9 6 .600 Team No. 2 5 7 .417 Team No. 3, 4 1 .267 Schedule for Friday evening. De cember B—Team No. 1 vs. Team No. 2. CENTRAL GIRLS HAVE FIVE VARSITY PLAYERS IX SQL*AD Five members of last season's var •ity squad of the girls' basketball team at the Central High School will be among the candidates for the five this year. The members who will re turn are Helen Rote, captain; Bertha Mumma. Ruth Richards. Susan Hep ford and Helen Smith. Practice will be held on Tuesday and on Friday each week. "Ike" McCord will coach the team again. Games are being ar ranged with girls' teams from Cham bersburg High, Lebanon Valley College, Williamsport, Hanover and Tyrone high schools. Bringing (Jp FCither (jj) Copyright, 1916, International News Service ||| gy McMdnilS / * \ I \ K^ PHIW " ' 5 THURSDAY EVENING, Academy Five to Open Season With York Team Harrisburg Academy basketball players will start practice in a day or two to prepare for the opening game of the season against the York County Academy. The season schedule as announced by Manager Shreiner includes two games with Central High and two games with j Technical High School fives. Bruce is ' captain of the team this season, and ! Coach Schlichter with Froellch and j Phillips of last year's team expects to bu.ild up a fast combination. All home ' games will be played on the Cathedral I floor. The schedule follows: January 6. York County Academy at ! York; January 12, Central High School, 1 Chestnut Street Hall; January 20, Mlnersville Normal School, away;' January 26. Technical High School at | home: February 2. Camp Hill at Camp j Hill; February 10, York County Aca- j demy at home; February 17, Camp j Hill High School at home; February 23, Technical High School Armory j floor: March 3. open: March 7, Cen- ! tral at home; March 10, F. and M. Aca demy at home; March 17, Minersville Normal School at home. Tech High Tossers to Open Season Tomorrow Tech High School's basketball toss- | ers will open their season to-morrow j night, when they will play the Alumni j in an annual contest. The graduates ; will have a team on the floor that will 1 make the Maroon extend itself to the limit. "Pa" Tittle is in charge of the Alumni squad and will place 011 the floor "Pete" Steward, "Dope" Trump and Sourbier as forwards; the Kil linger brothers will take care of the defense, while Tittle himself will be at j center. If Tech can take the measure of these players,, there can be no: doubt of their being assured of a sue- I cessful season. Ira Arthurs will likely | handle the indicator during the game. 1 Those who are likely to break Into the game for-Tech are Harris. McFar- | land. Ebner, Holland. H. Miller and | Lloyd; at center. Walker and Crist | look promising. "Muzz" Miller, "Bud" Bell. Pollock and Davies have been j playing strong games. While all of j these players may not get the oppor tunity to play against the Alumni, the j competition among them is keen. Bits From Sportland —Richard Robinson. Central High j Freshman, won the Boys' singles in 1 the school tennis tourney, defeating I Seymour Nlssley. 12-10, 10-8. —Moorhead Knitting tossers won from the Uptown All-Stars 37 to 26. j —A call has been made for candidates j for the Middletown High basketball 1 team. —The P. R. R. Apprentice eleven won | seven and lost one game this year. The | Apprentices scored 129 points and their j opponents 25. —Principal H. G. Dibble of Central i High School will announce the "H" men to-night at the banquet to be given j in honor of the football squad. —Harold Fast, former Central High ; athlete is looming up for a regular j position as guard on the Penn State j basketball team. —Technical High School "T" men of the 1916 football squad were announced late to-day. —College teams are electing cap- j tains. A. L. Gates has been selected to lead the Yale eleven next year; C. C. 1 Smith will head the Michigan team; John Zian has been selected captain of Albright's squad. —A dispatch from Ann Arbor brings prospects of a game between Michigan and Princeton next year. —Officers of the National Trotting i Association said to-day that the plan to revise rules of harness racing may not I succeed. Welly's Corner Local schools are getting in shape for their basketball games. Tech opens to-morrow night: Academy <and Central l In January. Steelton and Middletown I fives are being organized and some good games are expected. Talk from Ann Arbor points to a game between Princeton and Michigan next year. Northwestern served notice also, that it Is after eastern games for the 1917 schedule. Many stories are coming in from deer camps in Mifflin and adjoining counties. Some big bucks have been bagged In the last few days. Hershey and Eiizabethtown will have teams in a bi-county league to be organized to-night according to re ports from Lancaster. PLAN THIKU MAJOR LEAGUE Chicago. Dec. 7.—A plan to form a tliird major baseball league out of the | International League and the American | Association may be taken up at the an |nual meeting of the club owners of ! the latter organization in Indianapolis | to-morrow, according to the Herald to , day. I SHOOT FOUR-PRONGED BUCK ' Charter Oak, Pa., Dec. 7. Mem bers of the Irving Hunting Club, lo ; cated at Charter Oak, Huntingdon ! county, shot a four-pronged buck. [ Those in the party are David Cad -1 walader, Harry Whltmoyef, B. F. \ Langlotz, James Wallace and S. F! | Mentzer, of Harrisburg; Mark Mum ma, John P. Croll, T. J. Bittner, Nor ■ man Helf of Steelton, and Russell ! Ewing of Charter Oak. URGE SWEEPING RATE CHANGES Interstate Commerce Commis sion Wants Methods of Es tablishing Charges Altered Washington, Dec. 7. The Inter-1 state Commerce Commission In Its j annual report to-day to Congress rec- | ommended a sweeping change in j methods of establishing freight and passenger rates so that shippers would J not longer be compelled to show a. proposed rate unreasonable or see it j become effective. Carriers seeking to j alter a rate would be compelled to j show the change was reasonable. The recommendation is "that by statute Congress fix the interstate rates, fares, charges, classifications, rules and regulations existing at a specific date, prior to that of enact-1 ment, as Just and reasonable for the past and provide that no change there in after that specified date may be made except upon order of the com mission; with provision that such statute shall not affect the proceedings pending at the time of enactment." The purpose of the suggestion is said to be mainly to correct flaws in the present method by which an in jured shipper seeks reparation for payment of a higher rate than subse- | quently is approved by the commis- 1 sion. It was said, however, that the effect j of such legislation would be radical! upon methods of rate establishment. ( At present tariffs proposing rate changes filed by the railroads become j operative on a fixed date unless BUS- j pended by the commission and shown I 011 hearing to be unreasonable, un just or discriminatory. If existing rates j are declared by statute to be just and reasonable, it was pointed out, the burden will be on those who wish to change them. The commission further recom mends that unless the suggestion for fixing existing rates by statute is fol lowed, the law be changed to curtail the present period of suspension and i resuspension of a filed rate from 141 months to a year and that railroads, be required to give sixty instead of the present thirty days' notice of proposed \ rate changes. It also asks for legislation to permit j punishment of any attempt to Intimi date witnesses before it or disorderly , conduct or contumacy by a witness. ! The physical valuation of railroads, | the report declares, has gone far, enough to predict that the same rate ! of progress in the future will see road j and track surveys completed byi January J, 1920. Under investigation of accidents the 1 Commission savs the year has demon- 1 strated the imperative need of a re- j vision of rules for the observance of 1 caution signal indications on lines, where automatic block signals con trol. The recommendations made last I year for an increase in the commis-1 sion's membership, for its control j over railroad securities' issues, to in-! sure access to the correspondence of: carriers and to require use of steel j passenger cars, are renewed. Recommends Abandonment of Present System of Naming West Pointers Dec. 7. Efficient, military organization of the nation de- | mands abandonment of the present j system of selecting candidates for ad- I mission to the Military Academy, Sec- j retary Baker declares In his annual report, made public to-day. Instead of having the President and members j of Congress designate students to take the entrance examinations, the Secre- | tary urges that preparatory schools be j established by the government and graduates of these institutions who show the greatest fitness be further I trained at West Point or Annapolis. "It seems likely," Mr. Baker says. 1 "that schools of this sort would spread the field of selection ideally over the country and make tha cadets at West j Point and midshipmen at Annapolis l bodies of young men selected by a demonstration of their special atti- 1 tude for the pursuit of military serv -1 Ice." • Mr. Baker calls attention to the fact | that he did not take office until March j | 9, 1916, suceeding General Scott who was secretary-ad interim after the 1 : resignation of Secretary Garrison. He j j reviews briefly the history of affairs] ! on the Mexican border beginning with : the raid of Columbus. N. M., and carrying it forward to November 20, • the date of the report. On that day, 1 | he says, there are still 110,000 officers ; and men of the National Guard on the , j border in addition to approximately I 48.000 members of the regular army. Under the sub-heading "The pre - ] cnt situation," the report continues: "The mere presence of this enlarged j force has served to preserve peace j and protect life and property. Dis | turbances by outlaws and bandits in Northern Mexico have continued and 1 roving bands of various members have i moved through the territory, harrass | ing Mexican forces and raiding Mex j irun communities, but they have not j ventured on attack upon the people of the United States. In the meantime j the militia forces on the border have been drilled and their organizations : perfected and their personnel accus tomed to life in camp in the perform ance of this defensive duty." The report shows that on June 30. ' 1916, the authorized total strength of 'the regular army was 5,013 officers J and 122,693 enlisted men. an increase lof 184 officers and 25,445 men over j the preceding year. The actual strength on that date Vas 4,843 offi cers and 97,013 enlisted men. or a net gain during the year of 227 officers and 1.248 m<yi. Analyzing the National Defense Actj HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH the report finds that the maximum en listed peace strength authorized Is 223,580, while the war strength would reach a total of 298,000. The strength of the National Guard contemplated by the bill is fixed at 17,000 officers and 4 40,000 men, but the report says nothing as t#the prospect of enlisting enough men to till up either service. Public Lands Nearly All Taken by Homesteaders Washington, Dec. 7. Public lands In the United States are being taken up by homesteaders in rapidly In creasing quantities as shown in the annual report of Secretary of the Interior l>ane made public to-day. Twenty million acres were claimed by private owners in the year ending with June 30,„ as against seventeen mil lions for each of the preceding two years and a still smaller average for previous years. Of the two hundred and fifty mil lion acres of public land still left in the United States much is in the arid region. The Reclamation Service carried on construction work on 24 irrigation projects, completing ten and adding 5,000 farms to territory for which irrigation water is avail able. Irrigation water is actually going now to nearly 20,000 farms. A section of the report dealing with the pension office shows 709,572 names on the pension rolls at the end of the year, a decrease of 38,575 for twelve months. Civil War soldiers on the rolls numbered 362,277. Deaths of Civil War soldiers during the year numbered 34,252. The amount paid for pensions for the year was $159,- 155,000- aginst $165,518,000 for the previous year. A patent office report gives the number of applications for patents during the year is 70.000. Forty-eight thousand were granted. Warn Against Threatened Migration of Japs and Chinese Here After War Washington, Dec. 7. Warning against a threatened migration of the populations of Western Asia to the United States is contained in the an nual report of Commissioner General Anthony Caininetti of the Imnrigra tion Service, made public to-day. The war and conditions immediately after its close will stay the stream for a time, but steps to head it off, must be taken before transportation inter ests begin to cull the field for their business, the report says. Immigration from the far Orient, too, is a problem still unsolved, the report sets forth. The systems here tofore devised to deal with it do not promise much improvement and ma chinery for enforcement of the Chin ese exclusion act is not adequate or well adapted, it says. Arrangements for the admission of Japanese, it is declared, should be amended to fit conditions better. Smuggling of Chinese, the report says, has been eombatted vigorously with the result that amateur smug gling has been stamped out to a large degree. Higher prices that Chinese are willing to pay therefore, it is said, has attracted to the business an expert class of criminals who use more 'scien tific methods. A bigger appropria tion is asked to meet the problem. The war situation, the report says, has presented many difficult legal and administrative questions at seaports and along the Canadian border. Recommends Expansion of Government's Public Employment Service Washington. Dec. 7. Expansion of the government's public employ ment service by creation of a separate bureau of employment within the De partment of Labor is the chief rec ommendation of Secretary Wilson's annual report made public to-day. The work, it is declared, has out grown the facilities of tlu- bureau of immigration, from where it has been directed. Beginning in a small way in 1907 it now covers the country through the post office and other de partments. One feature of the employment work emphasized in the report 'is the Department of Labor's co-operation with State and city public employ ment work. The department's aim. "it is declared, is to make the work "so I • % ll tj §S Entire Week of Dec. It | J mm Tickets Now on Sale at following places: Bowman's IB . AK m Dept. Store, Sigler's Music Store, j^—liJjßg Golden Seal Drug Store, Harry's K M Two Shows Daily—2.ls and 8.15 HWCHMS General Admission, 25c and 50c extensive as to comprise the whole country and to em brace all Its, industries, yet so Inten sive as to discover every opportunity for work, however obscure, and to reach with a helping hand every wage-earner needing employment or wanting better employment." I The department's attitude towards ! strike-breaking is set forth In con | nection with its public employment | policy in these worsts: "The Department of I,abor should not make Itself a medium for conve>- ; ing information of demands for wage earners where labor disputes are the cause of the demand. That there Is { already a sufficient supply of labor l there Is as true if It is unemployed ! on account of a dispute over terms las If it were unemployed from lack lof employment opportunities from I the other causes." Extension of the service Is urged to i provide for the employment of the aged. Modern it is de clared, Condemns to the scrap heap I too many able-bodied and active- I brained men, whose only defect Is their having passed an arbitrary age limit. Complete Divorcement of Transportation Lines From Production Is Wanted Washington, Dec. 7. Complete divorcement of transportation from production by amending the com modities clause of the Interstate Com merce law; authority to sue corpora tions wherever they transact business; perfection of neutrality laws and ex tension of the right of search war rant in criminal cases are among the recommendations of Attorney General Gregory in his annual report to Con j gress, made public to-day. Employment for federal prisoners ! and 'an amendment to the criminal I code to prohibit the false labeling of ' packages which contain arms and am munition are among other recom mendations. The last is to meet eva sions of the embargo on arms to Mexico. The report says considerable pro gress has been made in the govern ment suits against the Southern Pacific Railroad affecting title to oil lands. The lands Involved in the litigation, Mr. Gregory says aggregate over 150,- : 000 acres said to be worth $500,- ; 000,000. Enforcement of the white slave j traflic law led to 494 indictments, 334 [convictions, 54 cases nolle prossed, 45 ; acquittals and 400 cases still pending. I Since the law was passed there have ! been 1537 convictions, sentences ag ! gregating 2,468 years and tines total | lng $172,060. Legislation is urged to I enable wives to testify against their j husbands. Despite country-wide investigation of reported breaches ot neutrality and other criminal acts arising from the war, many of the cases were found to have violated State rather than fed eral laws. Most of the plots involved difficulty in obtaining evidence. The Mexican situation has led to 13 in dictments, affecting (50 persons, of whom 25 have been convicted. "Mere plotting alone," says the re port, "is not criminal. Planning or preparation in this country of a mili tary expedition designed to start from a point outside this country seems not to be forbidden by law Hence many activities which produce constant friction cannot at present be reached." ms TO-DAY ONLY LENORE ULRICH In a thrlllluff drama, THB INTRIGUE." TO-MOHHOW AMI SATURDAY JESSE F. liASKY prencutn FA.\'MK WARD In the Columbia Lniverxlty prle photoplay, "WITCHfRAFT." C'omlnK >1 on., Tuea., aud Wed. The Seaon*M Ileal SenMatlon, ••PURITY," featuring AUDREY MUNSOtf, the world'* faiiiouM artlnt** model. Special AdinlHlon Price 10 A. M. till il P. M. Loner Floor—Adults. 15cj Children, lOo: llnl cony, 10c. EvenliiK—AdultM, 25c; Children, 15c; llnleony, 15c. AlmlNMlon, AdulU, Kk'j Children, sc. v * ✓ DECEMBER 7, 1916. IISUAI, HOI.II)AV CONCERT I The Camp Hill Music Club announces I Its annual Christmas concert. Tuesday j evening, December 12, at 8 o'clock. In ! the Fire Company's Hall, Camp Hill. All classes of members will be admitted by membershlyp cAJ and a silver oftei ingr will be taken. c Mvv Arrow JcrmJit COLLARS are curve cut to fit the shoiMas perfectly. 15" cents each, 6Jorq<y CLUETT. PEA BODY &00; INCjUattrt ; ■■ HOEOiJILDB B1 ■ ngfc O SjAl! n d q liS mm&siw a m y □ To-day, To-morrow and □ U Saturday D i ES Shown every two hours i Ml beginning at 9.30 A. M. H EB Last show 9.30 P. M. gg| fcg ADMISSION Ifflt First Floor 20c M Bj Balcony 10c w | Children 10c ! M EIIEHEQEIZ3 On / V Royal & National Theaters SHOWING TO-DAY Ilradye-mude Feature la 5 Porta, featuring Clara Kimball Young la "THE DARK SII.ENCE" AdmlaaUni Adults 10o( Children Sc. DOX'T MISS IT. J V—— mmmmmmS W mwm | SHOWS DAILY AKSlssmlSAsse, [WILMER & VINCENT VAUDEVILLfc Hello! Honolulu! A Die Olrl Act With a Rich Hawaiian Flavor anil That Means Sonffa, Danrra, Mimic and Fun. 4 Other Standard Keith Vaudeville Features 1 I HUHH Hi Leopold Godowsky Miss Belle Story The World's Greatest Pianist Prima Donna Soprano The Two Great Artists Appear at the Orpheum Theater To-morrow Evening as the Third Number of the Orpheum Musical Course. Reservations of Seats Are Now on Sale at the Box Office. Prices, 50c, 75c, SI.OO, $1.50 and $2.00. Choice Seats in all Divisions Can Now Be Obtained. Keystone Concert Course p?" THIRD CONCERT OF COURSE. THURSDAY EVE., DEC. 14, 8 P. M. Ethel Leginska I Paul Reimers Tho Pndorowska of l.aly Pianists j America's Foremost IjCidor Tenor Special Student Tickets. 75c for choice seats. Seats on sale at Sigler's Music Store, 30 N. Second Street. No Pianist before the public this season has been received with the enthusiasm and unanimous praise which has attended Miss Leginska. Her appearance at Carnegie Hall, New York, Dec. Ist, was the sensation FRENCH IVORY Hrosli, Mirror ami Comb SoW, Mirrors, Brushes, Toilet Articles GORGAS 10 N. Third St. Penna. Station *- J AMXJ SEMENTS COLONIAL LAST TIMES TO-DAY Douglas Fairbanks with nil lilm "pep" and personality in "American Aristocracy" A love story with a punch. Added Attructloni CIIANE WII.UEK In A NATION'S PERU," FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FRANK KEENAN lu "JIM GRIMSBY'S UOY" I V IORPHEU M TO-INIC3MT IIEIIII, KELLY A DAMSEL announce Pacemakers Special Feature: LA BERGERE AND TIIE ALL-STAII CAST. SAT. DEC. 9 A DRILIANT REVIVAL The Prince of Pilsen PIXLEY A LIJDER'S FAMOUS INTKitNATIONAL TRIUMPH. Flr*t time here lit these prices: MAT., 25c, 50c, 75c. EVE., 25c to SI.OO.
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