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,EAK STORY LIE
BROTHER-IN-LAW
OF WILSON SAYS
it. W. Boiling Thinks Represen
tative Wood Should Send
Him Apology, Too
'HEAD IT IN PAPERS"
After Short Session, Hearing
Adjourns; Investigation
Unlikely
Washington, Jan. 10. After an
other brief session to-day the House
Rules Committee suspended public
hearings on Representative Wood's
resolution to investigate whether there
was a stock market leak on President
Wilson's peace note. Many Congress
men believe the committee will report
against an investigation.
No formal action was taken by the
committee at its executive session.
Members stated, however, that the
Wood resolution probably would be
adversely reported to the House.
Whether to recommend specific in
restigatlon of Lawson's general charges
of Stock Exchange operations by gov
ernment officials or a broad inquiry
into the Stock Exchange, is the ques
tion now being considered.
With a view to determining the
source of the information which,
caused Dow Jones and Company to
carry a rumor on its ticker on De
cember 20 that a peace note was
coming, the House Rules Committee
has subpenaed C. W. Barron, head of
tl.e ticker service, it was announced
to-day.
R W. Rolling, a brother-in-law of
President Wilson and a member of F.
A. Connolly and Company, brokers.
Washington, was the first witness at
to-day's hearing. He denied he had
anything to do with a "leak."
"I have nothing to say," he said,
"except that whoever is responsible
for bringing my name into this, Rep
resentative Wood, I believe, might
send me an apology at the same time
• hat he sends one to Secretary
Tumulty."
"When did you receive your first in
formation regarding the President's
note?" Representative Henry asked.
"When I read it in the newspaper."
"Did you ever receive from any
source," Representative Garrett asked,
"any intimation of the President's so
called peace note in advance of its
publication?"
"Absolutely not."
"Any other member of vour firm re
ceived such information?"
"Absolutely no member had any ad-
W vance information."
Boiling said he had no knowledge:
of any official of the government or
administration who had' profited by
stock transactions as a result of the
peace note, and was excused after a
brief examination.
Kelsey Again to Help
Plan Color Scheme For
"Black-and-white" Ball
Details of the decorative scheme for
Harrisburg's first "black and white
ball," the annual Charity Ball of
January 30, will be discussed this
evening when Albert Kelsey. a leading
architectural designer, confers with
members of the executive committee
on the subject.
There are a few things to remember
about the "black and white" ball:
Black and white, even unto Pierette
and Pierot costumes, will be worn by
all the guests if possible although this
is not obligatory. The dance will not
be a bal masque nor a fancy costume
affair. The Palm Beach orchestra of
Baltimore and the Sara Lemer orches
tra of this city will play.
The executive committee consists of
Mrs. Mnrlin K. Olmsted, Miss Anne
McCormick, Carl B. Ely, Frank J.
Brady, E. S. Herman, John Fox Weiss
and Henderson Gilbert.
TO PRESERVE LINCOLN PEW
Gettysburg, Pa., Jan. 10.—Work
men have started tearing out the pews
in the historic old Presbyterian church
here, in which Abraham Lincoln wor
shiped on November 19, 1863. How
ever. the pew occupied by the mar
tyred President, which now bears a
bronze plate, will not be disturbed,
while the renovation of the interior is
in progress. Bloodstains under the
several layers of varnish on the pews
that will be removed, are the last
traces of the hospital which was es
tablished in the church during the
battle. The church is nearly 176 years
old.
THE WEATHER
For Harrlsburg nnil vicinity! Rain,
chsnxlDK to hnoiv thla afternoon
or to-night, followed by fair
Thursday; much colder with a
<-old ve( lowest temperature to
_ night nhoot 15 degrees.
For Knotern Pennsylvania i -Rain,
changing to MIMV this afternoon
or to-night. followed by fair
Thursday; milch colder with n
cold wave. Strong, shifting winds
becoming northwest.
River
The Susquehanna river nnd all Ita
hranehea will continue to fall
slowly. A stage of uliout 0.0 feet
is Indicated for Ilarrlahurg
rhursdny morning. A a n result ei
the decidedly colder weather In
dicated the atreama of the Sua
quehannn river ayatem will prob
ably become generally Icebound
again within the next two ot
three day.
General Condition*
I'reasure has continued to fall over
the eaatern half of the country
except over the northern portion
of the l ake Region, where it haa
begun to rise. It IN NOW lowest
near Buffalo, where a atorm of
conalderahle strength la central.
I.lght snow haa fallen along the
northern border from vr Eng
land weatward to Montana and
light rain In the Ipper Ohio
Valley. Middle Atlantic Mates and
Southern New England.
Sunt Rlaea, 7i20 a. m.s sets, 4:58
p. m.
Mooni Rlaea, Sill) p. m.
River Stagei 6.4 feet above low
water mark,
Yeaterday'a Weather
Highest temperature, 45.
lon est temperature, 33.
Mean temperature, 40. •
Normal temperature, in.
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SEEK EMPLOYE
OF ASYLUM IN
MURDER OF GIRL
Key Found in Maizie Colbert's
Apartment One Used at
Rome, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10. Oscar
Brown, a detective sent to Rome, X.
Y., to trace the former possessor of a
key found in the apartment of Maizie
Colbert, reported to detective liead
i quarters to-day that it was one used
at the Rome custodian asylum and
that one of the employes of the insti-
I tution is missing. Efforts to find this
I employe are being made to learn
! whethsr he had possession of the key
> which was one of a bunch of eight
i found in the apartment.
A re-enactment of the murder so
I far as the details of the crime are
i known was planned to-day by detec
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Pair Charged With
Robberies Covering
10 Years in Perry Co.
In the arrest of Ellen Towers, of
Marysville, at Philadelphia on Sunday,
and Edward Bomgardner, of near
Marysville. yesterday. State police and
authorities of Perry county believe
they have the persons who have been
committing robberies in Perry county
for at least ten years.
The woman was arrested by Trooper
Arthur Parker of the State police. It
is claimed she was staying at 613
South Twentieth street, Philadelphia,
and Henry Wtlkins, of that address,
furnished bail yesterday at New
Bloomfieid, for her appearance at
court.
Bomgardner was arrested yesterday
at his home near Marysville" by Cor
poral Curtis A. Davies of the State
police, and has confessed to a number
of the robberies. The arrests followed
after several weeks of investigation by
the two State officers. Both are
charged with stealing hay, corn, fruit,
"coon skins, chickens, and many other
articles from farmers in all parts of
Perry county. It is also alleged that
some of the stolen goods was shipped
to Philadelphia, and efforts will prob
ably be made to locate the exact desti
nation of the articles. District At
torney James M. JlcKee, of New
Bloomfieid, is handling the prosecu
tion.
Johnny Dibble, Aged 4,
Orders Fire Drill at
Central High School
Four-year-old John Dibble, son of
Professor Howard G. Dibble, principal
of the Central High School, paid the
school a visit and inspection trip yes
terday. Just to end the day right he
caused quite a bit of excitement and
anxiety when he made five hundred
boys and girls march downstairs.
The tot was in the office at the
building and in his wanderings dis
covered a nice, little white button—
the one that sets off the fire alarm.
Johnny wanted to see what would
happen if he pushed the button. Fire
bells on each floor sounded, students
hurriedly left their classrooms and
marched downstairs, only to find that
It wan a false alarm.
SERIOUSLY HURT IV FA Mi
John Hutton, New Comberland, was
seriously Injured at the Central Iron
and Steel Company this morning. Hut
ton was working on a 13-foot plat
form when he Bllpped and fell. Both
arms were broken and it is expected
that he haa serious internal Injuries.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1917
DEATH DEALT WINNING HAND
IN GAME WITH BUFFALO BILL
Denver, Colo., Jan. 10.
Colonel W illiam F. Cody (Buffa
lo Bill) is dead. He died at 2.05.
Colonel William F. Cody, "Buffalo
Bill," hunter, soldier, scout and show
man was for many years known to
nearly every man, woman, boy and girl
in America through his wild west show
with which he toured this country and
Europe. He was a picturesque type of
the pioneer frontiersman and lived to
VON MACKENSEN
STRIKES NOW AT
RAILROAD CENTER
Capture of Pantzin Will Inter
fere With Movements of
Russian Troops
Field Marshal Von Mackensen is
, rapidly developing his attack north of
| Fokshani and already has succeeded
I inforcing a passage of the Putna,
across which the Bussians in Southern
; Moldavia retreated after losing the
| Fokshani bridgehead position, pro
tecting the Sereth line in this im
| portant central sector.
Von Mackensen's thrust here ap
parently has the railroad town of
Pantzin for its objective, as Pantzin.
which lies some 13 miles north of Fok
shani, is on the short railway line
from Terutchiu, linking the two north
and south lines runninsr through Mol
davia behind the Russian front. At
last accounts the Teutonic forces were
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Cold Wave Heading For
Harrisburg Says Forecast
A cold wave is heading for Harris
burg, and is scheduled to reach this
| vicinity sometime to-morrow. The
I Weather Bureau to-day sent out a
warning from Washington. D. C., or
dering the hoisting of cold wave sig
nals. The warning issued from the
local bureau follows:
"A pronounced cold wave will over
spread the Middle Atlantic and New
England States: the Ohio Valley: the
Lake Region and Tennessee within
the next tweuty-four to thirty-six
hours, and cold weather will be of sev
eral days' duration in these regions:
advise all interests accordingl;-. It is
causing snows in the Great Lakes re
gions, the upper Mississippi valley and
the north plains States and light rains
in the Middle Atlantic and New Eng
land States."
Snow was scheduled for late this
afternoon with a drop in temperature
to-night to 15 degrees. It was 36 de
gress at 8 o'clock this morning.
Detectives Pose as
Millionaires to Trap
Painted Cabaret Women
New York. Jan. 10. A new phase of !
District Attorney Swann's antivtce cru- I
sade was undertaken last night when |
raids were begun on cabarets from
high to low degree, which, it is alleged, i
are frequented by disorderly women. 1
More than a score of arrests were made. !
One of the places raided was n popu- j
lar roof restaurant in the "White
Light" dlsti let. near Broadwsv and
Forty-seventh street. The evidence I
against the women there was obtained
by detectives who posed as millionaires.
The dancing floor was crowded when
the district attorney's aids made their
appearance. Officers were stationed at
every exit and none of the guests were
allowed to leave until the persons want
ed were taken Into custody. One of
those arrested was a captain of waiters.
The women described themselves as
"dancing instructors," "models" and
"caahiera."
, see large cities built where he once
hunted buffalo and fought Indians.
Colonel William F. Cody was born
in Scott County, lowa, February 26,
1546. His ancestral stock was Spanish,
English- and Irish. His parents moved
west and took up a claim near Leavens
worth. Kansas, then a frontier Indian
post, when Cody was Ave years old. At
ten years of age he found himself the
head of the family owing to the death
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RETAILERS TO
KEEP MILK AT
EIGHT CENTS
City Dairymen's League De
cides to Maintain Present
Price
City dealers will continue to retail
milk to consumers at s cents a quart,
It was decided unanimously last night
at a meeting of the City Dairymen's
League.
Regardless of the action of pro
ducers at their meeting to-morrow
evening, city dealers declared to-day
that they will not go up in price, and
that though the farmers may increase
wholesale prices to 20 cents a gallon,
it is believed it will drop to 10 cents
a gallon in the summer.
President C. E. Cooper said to-day
that the retailers are convinced that
another increase in retail prices at
present would not be fair to consum
ers. Another meeting of retail men
will be held on Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary 6, when by-laws will probably
be presented for adoption.
Action to be taken concerning per
j sons who are delinquent in paying
j milk bills will also be taken up at the
, February meeting, it was announced,
i Members of the Dairymen's League
of Dauphin and Cumberland counties
will meet to-morrow evening in Me
chanicsburg to take action on the
proposed Increase in wholesale prices.
German Socialists Are
Emphatically Against
Ruthless U-Boat War
Amsterdam, via London, Jan. 10.
The German Socialists Vorwaerts As
sociation has declared emphatically
against unrestricted submarine war
fare, according to a Berlin ditpatch
to the Rheinishe Westphalische Zcit
ung of Kssen. The dispatch quotes
Herr Ebert, a Socialist member of the
Reichstag, as saying at a meeting of
the organization of January 8:
'We expect the German government
to leave no stone unturned in support
of President Wilson's efforts for peace.
On no condition must our relations
with neutrals risk being prejudiced by
unrestricted warfare.
Little Girl Scalded to
Death by Boiling Water
Climbing a chair beside a gas range
in her home, five-year-old Mildred
Elizabeth Rudy, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Rudy, 2216 Walnut
street, was fatally scalded yesterday
when she tilted over a kettle of boil
ing water.
The child, whose sixth birthday
would have been on Friday, died this
morning at 4 o'clock. Funeral serv
ices will be held on Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Luther E.
Henry, of the Penbrook Lutheran
Church officiating. Burial will be
made in Shoop's Church Cemetery.
MAN HELD BY
POLICE IS NOT
THAW'S GUARD
Turns Out to Be Oliver Brower
of Utica, N. Y., and Not
George F. O'Byrnes
New York, Jen. 10.—With the police
of many cities searching for Harry K.
Thaw, wanted here to answer to an
indictment charging him with assault
ing and kidnaping Frederick Gump, Jr.,
of Kansas City, Alo.. it developed to
day that the man whom the police of
Philadelphia have arrested is not
George F. O'Byrnes, Thaw's body
guard. alleged to have been involved
in the enticing of Gump to New York
last Christmas.
Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the
Gump family, consulted the district
attorney upon his return here to-day
from Philadelphia. He informed the
prosecutor that the man in custody in
I that city is Oliver Brower, of Utica,
X. V. Brower aided Thaw in Utica
last October when Thaw conducted a
political campaign there against a su
preme court justice who had denied
the man who killed Stanford White a
writ of habeas corpus during Thaw's
legal light to obtain his release from
the Matteawan State Hospital for the
Insane.
According to Mr. Walsh's story to
I the prosecutor to-day, Thaw appar-
I entl.v left In Brower's care, at a Phila
delphia hotel, a number of letters and
I documents. One of these, according to
! the lawyer, is an agreement, drawn up
but not signed, whereby Gump set
forth that he had no objection to being
whipped. The charge against Thaw is
that he lashed Gump with a whip on
three occasions during Christmas night
in Thaw's rooms in a New York hotel.
Brower is held in Philadelphia on a
technical charge. He is not involved
Ift the accusations mentioned in the
indictment against Thaw and O'Byrnes,
but acted, Mr. Walsh alleged, as Thaw's
emissary after Tiiaw left New York
| subsequent to the escape of Gump
from the hotel here. Thaw is under
stood to have sent Brower to look for
Gump in the hope of preventing the
youth from telling of the alleged inci
dents of Christmas night.
It was explained that Brower was at
the hotel where Thaw stopped In
Philadelphia last week and that Thaw
left his papers In Brower's care, not
believing the man would be questioned
|if publicity was given to any story
Gump might tell the authorities. This
accounted for the belief that Brower
was O'Byrnes when Brower was lo
|cated with Thaw's papers in his pos
| session.
Gross Absent, Can't
Confirm Roat Report
Reports were current to-day in city
circles to the effect that Park Com
missioner K. Z. Gross may reopen the
Abe ltoat, Jr., police appointment in
view of reports from the Greene county
courts as to the unsettled status of the
Boat mutter. The report, however,
| couldn't be confirmed because of the
| absence of Mr. Gross, who is In Phila
delphia on business pertaining to the
Fire Department.
Both Mayor Meals and Commissioner
Lynch voted for Boat's confirmation
believing, they said, that his record
| had been cleared. Mr. Gross said that
this had also been "his understand
ing."
REPLY TO PEACE NOTE
London, Jan. 10. The replv of
the entente powers to President Wil
son's note asking the belligerents to
state the aims for which they are
fighting has now received the approval
of all the entente governments and its
delivery In about to be made at Paris.
Publication of the text of the note,
however, will be deferred until 48
hours after it has been received by
the American government.
ALL STEEL RECORDS BROKEN
New York, Jan. 10. Unfilled or
ders of the United States Steel Corpor
ation for the month ending December
Si, reached 11,547,286 tons, an in
crease of 488,7 44 over the previous
month, again breaking all records.
LERCH GUILTY OF
PILING PLANK ON
RAILROAD SWITCH
Sleepy-Eyed Jury Returns Ver
dict After Eighteen and
Half Hours
COULDN'T GET TOGETHER
Acquitted of Jamming Frog
With Stones and Iron
Bars
Sleepy and apparently not in the'
best of humor, twelve of Dauphin j
county's good men and true who re- ]
tired yesterday afternoon to decide
whether or not Mizpah Lerch was
guilty of two charges of deliberately
blocking the car tracks during the
trolley strike last summer, this morn
ing at 11 o'clock, returned a fifty-fifty
verdict —guilty on one charge, and
guiltless on the other.
The twelve had been behind the
burred doors of the Jury room for
eighteen hours and a half. And, ac
cording to one of the jurors, the dozen
"fussed" a good part of the night.
Hence, tlie sleepiness of the talesmen.
So President Judge Kunkel excused
them until 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Piled Planks, Not Stones
Lerch, the first of the several men
charged with "malicious injury to
railroads" growing out of the at
tempted efforts to injure cars and
other property of the traction com
pany, had to face a jury on charges
of piling stones and fishplates in the
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| ARNOLD DALY IMPROVED
New York, Jan. 10. While the
condition of Arnold Daly, actor, was
] still very serious to-day there was a
; slight improvement during the night,
]it was stated at the hospital where
l.e is a patient. Mr. Daly underwent
an operation last night after it was
discovered that peritonitis had set In.
Arnold Daly, motion picture star,
is one of the most popular screen
favorites of the country. He has a
I host of admirers in this city who saw
j him play the leading parts in "Perils
I of Pauline," "Exploits of Elaine," and
I the "Romance of Elaine," serial mo
| tion picture stories which were ex
hibited in Harrisburg months ago.
I THAW IN AUTO AT STROUDSBURG ' * '
T Stroudsburg, Pa., Jan. 10.—Harry K. Th j
I t ■' o friends, arrived here yestcrdi i 1
J .1 delphia about noon and left at j
g enoi j I
* hoti 1 I I
J PENNSY WILL INCREASE DEBT j|
c
I oad Company to-day announced that th< ,
A holdei will be asked at the annual meetin
I approve an increase in the authorized indebtedness of the ;
1 company to the extent of $75,000,000 to provide for the
I cor 1 requirements in the near future including j 1
tmatu obligations.
J. H. FERTIG APPOINTED j
irg. John H. Fertig of Po sville, for four jl
yes
h j I
1 f tive "Reference Bureau at $4,000 per year. lie succeeds >
James McKirdy, Pittsburgh, resigned. C. W. Wacher, Phila- i
I delphia. has been appointed as a compiler. '
A FOURTH MUSTERED OUT AT HOME If
! Harrisburg. Adjutant General Stewart annount
1 that the oi, animations of the Fourth Infantry) now on their I P
' | way to Pennsylvania from El Paso, would be mustered out | ;
L at their home stations instead of at Philadelphia as had been 1 I
■ arranged. No reason for the change by the War Depart - , j
• ment was given. The organizations include units from Lcb- 1 |
i anon, Lancaster, Sunbury, Allentown, Reading, Bcthle- 1
hem, Columbia and other places. The regiment conies via j L
► Shippem'mr; and Harrisburg.
! PENNSY TO TAKE OVER H. P. MT. J. & L. *
J Philadelphia, Jan. 10.—The directors of the Pennsyl- i r*
1 vania Railroad Company to-day decided to ask the stoc!.- ! H
> holders at the annual meeting Maj;ch 13 to approve an agree- f:
i ment by which the company will acquire the property and <
| franchises of the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lr.r.- |
! caste i Railroad Company. The railroad of that company |
constitutes that part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's main " '
, line between Lancaster and Harrisburg,
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'SILENT PICKETS'
PLEA FOR 'VOTE'
AT WHITE HOUSE
Iwelve Women With Suffrage
Banners Stand at Attention
at Two Main Gates
POLICE JUST SMILE
Make 11 Impossible For Presi
dent Wilson to Forget
"the Cause"
Washington, Jan. 10. Woman suf
fragists to-day began their "silent
picketing" of the White House. Twelve
women from the Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage appeared at the
two main gates of the White House
grounds carrying suffrage banners in
scribed:
"MR. PRESIDENT. WHAT
WILL YOU DO FOR WOMAN
SUFERAUE?"
White House officials said nothing
would be done about it so long as the
woman created no disturbance or at
tempted to enter the White House.
The White House polico stood smil
ingly by as the women took their
posts on the sidewalk just outsldo the
entrance.
Each of the women wore a white,
purple and yellow sash across her
shoulders. Their banners could be
read for more than a block.
The suffrage leaders announced that
the picketing would be maintained
from 10 o'clock each morning until 6
o'clock in the evening. The "silent
i sentinels" will be released every three
i hours. The unnounced purpose of the
picketing is to make it impossible for
| President Wilson to enter or leave the
| White House without being confronted
with reminders of the suffrage cause.
Just before the pickets appeared
this morning the President went out
to golf.
Although groups of men and women
quickly gathered about the pickets
they refused to enter into any conver
sation.
President Wilson returned to the
White House from the golf links and
saluted as his automobile passed
through a gate flanked by the silent
sentinels who made no demonstration.