8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH (A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by j THE TBLESGIIAPH PRINTING CO., | Wtgraph BuildlmiCt Federal Square. X 2. J. STACK POLK, PP est ana Editor-in-Chief !'• R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American A Newspaper Pub- JnaSt' Ushers' Assocla gaggM tlon, The Audit BTjjfc Bureau of Circu lation Mid l'onn |wjl M sylvanla Associat- P ed Dailies. |S| ES Eastern office, ™S SI Story, Brooks & jjmjj |KI Finley, Fifth Ave aSi nue l* u " d ' n &. New ern Story, pjjjyjj Entered at the Post Office in Harrls | Ptirg, Pa., as second class matter. ' ■ By carriers, ten cents a 1 * 6 D,> week; by mail. $5.00 a I year in advance. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16. Every case 0/ melancholia needs to tvork until he perspires freely; pers piration is a great moral agent.— Octave Thanet. RESTORE PARTY HARMONY r' is Inconceivable that potential leaders of the Republican party in this State will continue indefinitely a factional struggle that must even tually break down the party organ ization. No differences, however seri ous, can justify a continuance of the unfortunate controversy and there will be general approval of any honorable plan which shall bring about a restoration of,harmonious conditions. Already the Democratic bosses are showing signs of dismay over the Blight Indications of peace in the Re publican ranks. They have been hop ing that the Republican situation Would become so intolerable that the election of a Democratic Governor in 1918 might be accomplished. These bosses are doing their utmost to foment dissension in the camp of their po litical enemy and every breakdown of Republican harmony is a matter of rejoicing at Democratic headquarters. It is amusing to read Democratic statements about "the meeting of the Legislature of Pennsylvania at Atlantic City" and the distribution of patronage through a group of leaders at the sea shore, especially in view of the fact that the present Democratic organ ization has been controlled absolutely by a small group of men who meet at the White House at Washington or in some cloistered nook elsewhere and distribute the party favors wherever their political interests may dictate. Under these circumstances it ought to be clear to Republican leaders that the time has come to stop silly bick ering within the party and do what is obviously the thing to do in restoring harmony and co-operation all over the State. This is what the body of the Repub licans expect and what most of them demand. They are growing weary of the constant Philadelphia row which involves the party outside the me tropolis. There are some signs of party sanity here and there and a burial of all differences will* be hailed with satis faction throughout Pennsylvania. With the new Supreme Court decision In effect, the liquor men will begin to discover shortly that prohibition really does prohibit. CITY GOVERNMENT IN further consideration of a larger •measure of home .rule for the cities of Pennsylvania, especially those of the third class. It might be well in amending the Clark act to provide for wider latitude in the selection of City Commissioners by providing that these officials shall receive nominal compen sation in the way of salary and be vested with full power of adminis tration through the employment of subordinate officials. Of course, under the present ar rangement, the Commissioners can •mploy such department subordinates as are necessary, but it seems to have been the policy of all the cities to make the Commissioners themselves administrative heads of departments. This has developed all kinds of log rolling not anticipated in the original commission form of government. It is believed that even without an amendment of the Clark act it would "be possible for Harrisburg, for in stance, to change the salary ordinance of the commission here so as to pro vide that each shall receive a nominal salary of not more than SIOO and the amount now necessary for the salaries of the five Commissioners could then be appropriated for deputies or a .single city manager. Manifestly, some change must be made in the present form, else the •whole scheme will fall through public disapproval. Dayton and other cities are quite well satisfied with the city manager plan, because it places re sponsibility in one person. Through the selection of five Com missioners under the Clark act, who shall serve without compensation, men who are greatly interested in the de velopment of the municipality and de voted to civic Interests would be will ing to serve the people for the sake of service and there would certainly be nn avoidance of the political con troversies which seem to have attended the working out of the commission scheme all over this State, Harrisburg has done admirably through a long period of years in the development of its important projects, but for the laßt two years there has TUESDAY EVENING, been a letting down of public interest f and official initiative by reason of the j fact that the people do not keep in touch with public affairs. Political leaders all over the State are finding that the present commis sion scheme is likely to give any political organization more trouble than benefit. As a result these leaders are quite willing that there shall be some change which would relieve them of any responsibility of providing the municipal management. They realize full well that any popular dissatisfac tion with the administration of local affairs is bound to react upon the party in control, notwithstanding the presumption of nonpartisanship in the working out of the commission scheme. Governor Brumbaugh has called at tention to the need of a larger meas ure of home rule and it is the hope of all who are interested in the civics of Pennsylvania that the Legislature will take some definite steps in this direc tion and so amend existing statutes as to provide the local jurisdiction that is necessary to the growth and de velopment of our smaller cities. The difficulty in locating the Gover nor's Troop only illustrates how small a military company is when compared with the size of the country. TELEGRAPH READERS T~") ENEWING his subscription for two years, John Rutherford, president of the Oakland Na tional Bank, Oakland, 111., writes the editor of the Telegraph: I have read the Telegraph since a small boy and am now 72. My father was a subscriber for about sixty years and I have taken it the past fifteen years. Seventy-five years is a pretty good record for one family. Subscribers like Mr. Rutherford and his venerable father have made the Telegraph possible. Scores and scores of readers of this newspaper have had the paper delivered to them ever since childhood. They have grown up with it, and when they left the parental roof for homes of their own the Tele graph has been the one tie that has bound the old life with the new. It has gone, and is still going, to Mexico, to China, to Alaska, to England, to the Philippines—wherever Harrisburg boys have gone the world over the Telegraph has gone also. It has linked the homeland with the faraway, pre served friendships and kept old ac quaintance green; it has been the messenger of joy and of sorrow, the bearer of good news and bad, but ever and under all circumstances it has tried to reflect truly and without bias the everyday life of Harrisburg, es pecially and of Pennsylvania at large and the world in general. It has tried to do its part in the upbuilding of the city and the State. It has stood constantly for what it has believed to be for the best Interests and the ad vancement of the community as a whole. It has striven to be at once informative, entertaining and whole some. The great army of readers who have followed it loyally through the years, supporting and encouraging its management by their patronage and friendly Interest, give proof that It has not striven in vain. More than ever before the Tele graph to-day, now entering upon its eighty-sixth year, is endeavoring to be the mouthpiece of the people it serves. It would have its readers understand that the best interests of this city and the country at large are ever the first consideration of those who shape its editorial policies, and that its constant effort is to be a clean, wholesome home newspaper in all that the term implies. If what Bawson alleges is true, it is easy to understand why the Congres sional committee tried to halt the "leak" probe. A BUSINESS MEETING THE fifth annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Com merce will be held in Washing ton, January 31, February 1 and 2. The bulletin of the Chamber an nouncing the meeting remarks signifi cantly, "The war having opened a new era in world commerce, businessmen are now facing conditions without precedent which will have to be met at its close." It is reported that the tariff will occupy a most prominent place in the deliberations of the Chamber, and a general recommenda tion is expected for a speedy return to the protective policy in order that we may be commercially prepared to meet post-war trade competition. As the Chamber is made up of com mercial organizations all over the country its recommendations will doubtless carry great weight with Mr. Wilson, who is already threatening to make one of his famous double-back airsprings on the tariff. If this Income law on salaries under 11,000 is passed, the next step will be to tax a man for having a job. MISUSE OF CANAL BONDS WHAT a travesty for this adminis tration to issue Panama Canal bonds to cover up its extrava gancel A Republican administration authorized the construction of the canal chiefly out of current revenues. Because Republican administrations did not issue the bonds authorized, there is still legal authority for their 1 ——————— , , The Days of Real Sport briggs CAKE r- — r — - tj / l C/MO'T AFFORD Ta OATTCK < LE/we AMV- , t GOT amy MORSS THAM \ I'LL Neep r—* I'M 6OIMG \ \ r I " / To HAV/E p DON'T TH& SVoosj IT ALL i CAM'T 1 'qi^(II OU_r * JIMIKIY I ? ' J CR,CKLTS 1 -J I V "=3 . S —^ sale. The economy of Republican administrations is to be used as a cloak to shield the Democratic ad ministration from a full official rec ord of its mismanagement. The recognition of Smuts, the War Office assures us, is not to be regarded as a blot on Botha's reputation. New Jersey appears to be all on Edge to-day. Mt ""P tiuvo By the Ex-Oommltteemaa The final lists of the committees of the Senate and House will be discussed by Republican State leaders in Phila delphia within a few days and it is probable that they will be announced next Tuesday. The legislative leaders are now discussing the patronage of the two houses and the plan is to make a fair division, considering the terms of the organization, Penrose men to 'have the first claim, Vare men second and Democrats third. The Democrats will probably fare better than usual. While the lists are being made up much is being discussed regarding the Penrose legislative plans and It is stated by some of the newspapers that the lirst move to discipline the Brum baugh administration will be In the form of presentation of the oft-threat ened bill to place the Public Service Commission under the Secretary of In ternal Affairs, as a constitutional pro position, taking from the Governor the power and ripping certain commis sioners out of office. The next move will be to repeal some of the acts rela tive to the Attorney General's depart ment passed last session, notably that making the Attorney General legal ad viser of all heads of departments and for inquiries into expenditures. The deficiency bill, which will be made up next week, will furnish the way for the firing of the first gun and the administration can look forward to much the same sort of treatment that John R. K. Scott gave the Tener ad ministration in 1913, according to cur rent rumors. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger to-day prints a three column article declaring that William H. Smith was removed as banking commissioner be cause of his assertion of political in dependence. The Ledger says that Governors Stuart and Tener made but one request of Mr. Smith when bank ing commissioner which was that he should keep politics out of the banking department. The Ledger also says that the commissioner was told by Governor Brumbaugh to "do your duty and fear no man" and that the Governor blamed the loss of Chester county upon the commissioner after one of his political fights. Malty inci dents are related in detail in the course of which it is asserted that Public Service Commissioner Magee, Insurance Commissioner O'Neil and others endeavored to play politics and that Senator Vare is reported to have told the commissioner that Philadel phia needed bank examiners and that ho could get men good enough at 53 a day apiece. The Ledger says that Gov. Brumbaugh's followers, lieutenants, committees and captains made a raid on the banking department and would have turned it into a vast political ma chine had it not been for the strong front Smith presented." —Thomas Raeburn White, promi nent in reform afTairs at Philadelphia, has come out with a declaration in favor of a single council for that city holding that sixteen members are enough. lie also raps dual office hold ing. —A dispatch from Pittsburgh says: "Holding a majority, but lacking one member necessary for a two-thirds vote, friends of ex-Mayor William A. Magee in Pittsburgh's City Council of nine failed to-day to override Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong's veto of Coun cil's SIO,OOO appropriation toward the preliminary surveys for the proposed Pittsburgh and Luke Erie Canal. The Mayor's veto was sustained by a four to-five vote, Dr. G. A. Dillinger, politi cal associate of J. Denny O'Neill, State Insurance commissioner, joining the Mayor's three supporters in Council— Robert Garland, Enoch Rauh and W. H. Robertson. It was the first clash since the speakership contest between Mayor Armstrong, one of the Penrose leaders here, and Magee, who directed the Governor's fight in Allegheny county in behalf of Edwin R. Cox. —The Young Men's Republican Club of Chester Is planning to burn its mortgage. It is out of debt and has a waiting list. —Lieutenant R. J. Graff, who has Just returned from the border with his regiment, will be a Republican candi date for the legislative seat vacancy HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! in th& Third Schuylkill district. John Breslin will be the Democratic candi date. —Councilman B. Frank Ruth is starting something in Reading again and is now fighting the sale of the Glenside Water Company to the city. —The scission of the Franklin coun ty auditors is being awaited with in terest because of the manner In which the county commissioners have been figuring in the limelight. There may be some reactions because of the effort to cut down the salary of the county treasurer. —The license courts are being held now in various counties of the State and the attacks are being made with the usual vigor. , —Representative James H. Maurer, the Socialist member of the Legisla ture, opposed the compulsory training bill in Washington yesterday. —Philadelphians are disappointed because of the decision of the Supreme Court against the convention hall plans. It will mean cutting them in half. —Mayor Smith will meet with the committee framing plans for the changes of the city government when he returns from the South. —lt is said that Representative Ed win R. Cox has declined the offer of the chairmanship of the House manu factuners' committee again. He Worried About It The sun's heat will give out in ten million years more— And he worried about it. It will sure give out then, if it doesn't before— And he worried about it. It will surely give out, so the scien tists said In all scientific books he had read, And the whole boundless universe then will be dead— And he worried about it. And some day the earth will fall into the sun— And he worried about it— Just as sure and as straight as if shot from a gun— And he worried about it. "When strong gravitation unbuckles her straps. Just picture," he said, "what a fear ful collapse! It will come in a few million ages perhaps"— And he worried about it. • ® • • And the Gulf Stream will curve and New England grow torrlder And he worried about it— Than was ever the climate of south ernmost Florida — And he worried about it. Our ice crop will be knocked into small smithereens. And crocodiles block up our mow ing machines, And we'll lose our line crops of po tatoes and beans- And he worried about it. And in less than ten thousand years, there's no doubt — And he worried about it—- Our supply of lumber and coal will give out — And he worried about it. Just then the Ice age will return cold and raw. Frozen men will stand stiff with arms outstretched in awe, As if vainly beseeching a general thaw— And he worried about it. Ills wife took in washing—half a dol lar a day— He didn't worry about it— His daughter sewed shirts, the rude grocer to pay— He didn't worry about it. While his wife beat her tireless rub a-dub-dub On the washboard drum of her old wooden tub, He sat by the stove and he just let her rub— He didn't worry about it. -—Sam Walter Foss. Hamilton W. Mabie Dr. Hamilton W. Mabie had as large a circle of admirers among educated people in this country as any other American of this generation. He had written much, lectured a great deal and was looked upon as an authority on many subjects, yet it would be diffi cult to select a single book with which his name is so well associated that would call him instantly to mind. Dr. Mabie was by some considered a dilettante. He was not. He had a fine perspective of life and loved the good, the true and the beautiful. Ho was a sane critic without severity and his effort was ever to increase among his readers or hearers a higher ap preciation of the better things of life. Because -so much of his work was done in weekly Journalism he Is likely to be forgotten soon. That seems in evitable. To achieve literary immor tality one must do something that in striking. Dr. Mabie was content to do that which was useful. So with all the good ho has accomplished in the world he goes to a grave which will be forgotten, although he deserves remembrance far more than those who sought and found the limelight. —Philadelphia Inquirer, WHAT THE CITY WE who knew him in the days before the city swallowed him up (that was forty years ago) had forgotten all about him until the other day when the morning train rolled in and we stood ready to help unload the coffin and then to follow it to the place on the hill prepared for him. Every now and then someone like him comes homo to stay, and it is the same story so far as wo who re main are concerned. Not until the train comes to a standstill and the baggage car door thrown open do we remember—and sometimes it is poign ant. When the city took him he was young, and, though bearing a grievous burden, he went hopefully. When the city gave him back to us he was an old man broken by many griefs, and desolation looked up from the dead face, whereon the majesty of the final peace more often sits enthroned. What the city takes and what it gives back arc always different. Some LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bread Prices Lykens, Pa. To the Editor of the Telegraph: 1 read with absorbing interest, the article that recently appeared in the columns of your valuable paper, en titled "Sealer to Talk Bread Problem With Civic Club," and which had emi nently been developed in the selfish minds of both City Sealer of Weights Harry D. Reel and the president of the Civic Club. Probably if both these persons were within touch surrounding the inflated market conditions of to-day, as per tains to flour, equipment, labor, and the many extra demands that are made by the public, such as wrapping paper, and many other sanitary fea tures as are demanded by law, it would not have been necessary to ever have given their article publicity, for any sane mind would and could con ceive that the manufacturer of baked products is entitled to every fraction of a cent that he may demand for his products. As an illustration let me cite the following reasons: Probably Mr. Seel is only basing his slogan, "Insist upon having your bread weighed—and then buy the heaviest loaf." with the buyer of flour in carload lots, but how about the small dealer, who is compelled, through lack of insufficient capital to pay $lO per barrel. And these are in the majority to-day. Does Mr. Seel know that 7,000 bakers throughout the United States have failed within the past two years, not because they were not masters of tl.elr profession, but simply because the cost of doing business has always advanced faster than the margin of profits to be obtained therefrom. Did Mr. Seel observe a "special" in your paper, issued about December 30 where for the lirst time In fifty years, Middletown, Del., is without a bakery? And that the local bakers were com pelled to suspend business on account of the high price of flour and labor. Take the pretzel situation to-day, the cheapest product that any baker can bring out of an oven. Actual wholesale cost to-day can't produce them for less than 8 for 7 cents. Now. put that same pretzel into a bag, tie it up with a string, and then if the baker demands a cent apiece, ho is exorbitant in his charges. How about the labor wages of to day? How much figure do they cut in re ducing the baker's margin of profit? In America the people demand that ! each loaf be wrapped separately, and t that, too, in expensive wax or parch | ment paper, and where wrapping is made compulsory, the former must be used. And with It all, breed is still the cheapest commodity people can buy, in face of a smaller loaf at a less price, and as is shown in the little "eye-opener" the writer had, while do ing a little shopping for his family the other day. Here is what he pur chased: One dressed chicken .... $ .90 2 slices of ham 2 4 1% lb. smoked sausage .. 2 5 One-half doz. bananas .. 10 Total $1.77 And still they try to create an Idea in the minds of the consumers of bread, that they are paying too much for this commodity. Do you actually believe they are? Now, lot's sum It all up. With the high grade of flour tfie people de mand to be used these days, the molding of bread In so many different shapes, sugar, shortening, milk and JANUARY 16, 1917. times it steeps them in folly and re turns dead wrecks, whereon we look and read an ancient regret for things that might have been better—and per haps in the end, happier. Again it swallows them up in the vortex of the great unceasing, pitiless 'economic struggle, and having sapped brain, body and soul, returns to us the empty shell that once housed our friend. That is what it did to him. • Are not some fated to be bound to the wheel and others to walk in the glad places, and at the end of the Dolorosa Way is not there heavenly compensation ? Perhaps, but some how down deep in our hearts will con tinue the bitterness of an ancient re volt because of empty and Joyless lives, the deep resentment because of that blind fatality, which even through love, wrecks human aspirations and makes of life an unending tragedv.— Tom Bodlne, in the Paris (Mo.) Mer cury. yeast in quantities demanded by the consumer, labor, advertising, pay union rate of wages, and then give the employe his bread for the family, wrap each individual loaf, render de livery service—is a loaf of bread too high to-day, in price, regardless of its weight and size and price? On the other hand, it is a question that should be decided and demon strated by scientific analysis, and not by two people. The food value of the American loaf of bread is higher to day than will determine the right of the baker to his just demands of to day, in the sale and marketing of his products. I am sure your readers will be in terested in reading these facts, and to give this article publicity in your col umns will possibly right an erroneous opinion for the public good. Yours very truly, H. E. HENERY, (Baker), Lykens, Pa. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT] —A "horizontal tax" on imports is proposed, but the effect on the prices to the ultimate consumer will be vertical. —Philadelphia North American. —The Allies made as wry a face when the President suggested peace in a casual way as a bunch of Kentucky colonels invited to a seance at a soda fountain.—Chicago Herald. —The Kaiser no sooner won the iron cross than lie signilied his willingness to make peace.—lndianapolis News. —We all believed such a war could not start, and we are now skeptical abouts Its stopping.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. OUR DAILY LAUGH CONSIDERATE your husband I domestic trou- JMS -j —A ble when ha \ comes home at I al j V||Brk " J ways phone him about them dur Tf lng the day. HIS WANTS. Well, Uttle boy, do you want to buy tf&S. some candy. \ Sure Ido but I I ] E&' I got to buy / J -Q JjEj JUST THE your summ /// UV Pu t away un k M next year "? I'm wearing mj v v wlnter limtittg (Ebal Over 2,000 exhibits of choice fall pippins, big pumpkins, prize vegetables and probably 500 ten-ear exhibits of corn will be among the articles of farm produce to be assembled here next week in the lirst show of the kind ever attempted on any scale in Pennsylvania in the midst of January snowsi The fourth week of January is generally about the worst from a winter standpoint that Harrisburg gets. The fruits and vegetables h~ i elude a number of prize winners frc-'m T the county fairs and similar shows held during the summer and fall of 1916 and tons of them are now in cold storage awaiting the opening of the building. The show was worked out by State officials and officers of allied agricultural organizations and for the first time the State's Capital will have boys Judging corn. Prob ably 50 boys will be brought here to judge corn, being representatives of clubs and the State will attempt to do something like the Ohio plan. "In addition to the choice apples, which will be labelled to show the districts where they are grown there will be exhibitions of other fruits; of wool, which industry is rapidly assuming proportions again in the Keystone State; forty samples of butter, which must bo made within a certain num ber of hours and probably fifty of milk, illustrating the yields of various breeds. Contributions have been made for prizes and they will Include cups and ribbons, which will be as unique as the plan for the show. • • • _ "Blank" days or days when there is ' nothing doing" at the police station are very few and far between. Sat urday especially is usually a big day, but Saturday, the unlucky thir teenth, proved very lucky for the err ing ones whose names have often graced the police docket. Not a single arrest was made on Saturday. All the "inveterates" choose Saturday as the proper day to celebrate because Satur day is generally payday and Sunday the day of rest is a good day to get over the ef fects of the "night before." Not so apparently with last Saturday when not even a case of near tipsy was no ticeable to the police. Police say that this unusual record was more or less due to the fact that, all the Eighth ward joints have been eliminated. The inclement weather also doubtless had something to do with Saturday's good order. A drop in the number of ar rests is always to be noted when the weather is unusually bad. The aver age rounder stays home instead of fac ing the elements when they are nof conducive to good fellowship or curb stone arguments. Capitol Hill guessers are having quite a time with themselves just now over the question whether D. Edward I-iOng, the new superintendent of pub lic printing and binding, can assume the office without being confirmed by the Senate. There were some who held to the opinion that he could as sume his duties and take chances on being confirmed. Those eminent au thorities on the constitution, Gilbert H. Hassler and W. Harry Baker, de cide that the appointment being made during a session of the Legislature, al though the lawmakers may be in re cess requires prompt sending to the Senate and confirmation. The New York monthly Journal, Realty, contains as its leading article for December an interesting review of what Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, the State • Commissioner of Health, means to Pennsylvania. It is by H. Bindley Hosford, formerly secretary to the commissioner, and gives not only first hand information, but much in a way that holds attention, while there are some handsome photographs showing various activities of the department which Dr. Dixon created. Congressman Daniel F. Lafean be lieved in the value of the figure 1. The York manufacturer was here a , day or so looking after an automobile license for which he asked in the fall. He was assured he would get it, but the inability of the prison labor commission to make deliveries has held up the issuance. The congress man is asking for No. 111,111. "What's your loaf weigh " asked a woman in a bakery store the other evening. "We sell by the loaf" was the tart reply of the person behind the coun ter. "Not to me," was the answer to that. "Then we won't sell," was the ulti matum. The woman asked for the use of the telephone and started to telephone to Sealer Keel when she was asked to "cut it out," and Informed that the loaf was fourteen ounces and cost a nickel. 9 # * Governor Brumbaugh's references to Camp Curtin have attracted atten tion of Civil War veterans all over the State, and it is astonishing the num ber of comments being heard on the propostion and the general favor it has evoked. There must have been a •-■rcat many Pennsylvania soldiers who were mustered in or out or both at Camp Curtin and the plan to secure some permanent marking place of tho great mobilization camp has strong support at the start. [~~WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~ —A. Tt. Hamilton, prominent in newspaper work and coal affairs In Pittsburgh, lies been elected vice president of the Barnes Coal Company which has larfe operations in Cambria county. —Bishop McDeVitt took part in tho jubilee services in the Conshohocken church on Sunday. —Harrisburg friends wired con gratulations to ex-Senator Bayard Henry, of Philadelphia yesterday In honor of his birthday. —Robert D. Dripps, who is making a stir in regard to State charitable ap propriations, was for years connected with studies of such work in Philadel phia and director of safety for a time under the Blankenburg administra tion. —R. Francis Wood, who is taking an active part in urging increase of sheep raising in the State, is a wealthy Philadelphian and active in promotion of agriculture. [ DO YOU KNOW | That Harrisburg is going to have the largest midwinter show of agricultural products ever held In the State next week? HISTOmc HARRISBURG The first Inaugural parade was held in Harrisburg in 1813. Japan and the United States Tokio. The Japanese battle cruiser Tsukuba was destroyed by an explo sion in the harbor of Yokosuka. Fir® oil the Tsukuba caused the magazine to blow up. It is estimated that more than 100 men were killed or Injured. Eureka, Cal. , The stranded cruiser Milwaukee, whose crew was taken off safely Saturday night, was washed further toward shore here Sunday. As the hull continued to fill with water hope of salvaging the vessel faded.
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