2 V-69 HIT FAIR EARLY IN FIGHT Steering Gear Damaged Caus ing Vessel to Ham Other Boats Berlin, Wednesday, Jan 24.—8y Wireless, Jan. 2(s.—Details of the en gagement between tlie German tor pedobout flotilla and British - light naval forces on the morning of Janu ary 21 are given to-day in an "Over seas News Agency anouncement. "Immediately after tho beginning of tlie engagement which took place In darkness," says the agency state ment, "the commander's boat, Ihc V -69, received a full hit on the bridge. The commander of the flotilla, captain of Corvette Max Seluiltz, who always had commanded his flotilla with cour age and success was killed as were two other officers and some men. The steering near was damaged, cauaing a collision with other boats. The V -69, in a badly damaged condition, en tered tho Dutch port of Ymuiden without being molested by the enemy. "Tin? boat rammed by tho V-C9, notwithstanding the damage sus tained, continued to participate in the combat and inflicted heavy damage on a British destroyer by ramming it. Bator a German who recognized the destroyer stated that it was in a sink ing condition. The German torpedo boat, although its speed had been di minished by the collision with the V -69 and by ramming the British de stroyer, succeeded in reaching a Ger man base unhindered by the enemy. "A third German boat in the dark ness encountered numerous hostile torpedobnat destroyers. Entering into action, it sank a large hostile de stroyer by discharging a torpedo at short range. Owing to tho superior forces of tho enemy, this boat with drew from tho tight and arrived in port undamaged and unmolested by the enemy." MAKE tIOOM FOR MORE GOBI) Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 27. The vaults at the local mint ore being en larged for the storing of more than! a billion dollars in gold bullion. Up wards of r>00. 000,000 in gold bricks is already in the vaults and prepara-j lions are being made to relieve the! New York subtreasury of about $(100,- 000,000. STANDARD OIL/ DIRECTOR DIES New York, Jan. 27.—The death last night of W. H. Bibby, a director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, was announced yesterday. I Recommend Feruna To ESTTdo" lAII Sufferers J lOf Catarrh In R-J-,. .-IT | have taken four bottles of Peruna, if;S 1 hink 1 arid X can say that it has done me g _______ a great deal of good for catarrh of p. I the head and throat. I recommend g Jtiver r Git Peruna to all sufferers with catarrh, j | Ido not think I ever felt much bet f B TV yf _ U tor. lam really surprised at the work [ | iViUCn j l can do. I ilo not think too much || ; praise can he said for Peruna." wja f-pr ° ur booklet, telling you how to keep S§ I well, free to all. Those *vUo object to liquid inedi- Mr.< William 11. 11 inchliffo. No. 20 cines can now procure Peruna Tab- Myrtle St., Beverly, Mass., writes: "I | lets. 5,026 Telephones to Wliich Vou .Can R USE THE DIAL . With Unlimited No Toll Service Watch the Dial "Dilate" j (Dilate:—To widen; to expand; to enlargf or extend in all directions. "Webster's.' Cumberland Valley Telephone Co. of Pa. Federal Square SATURDAY EVENING, | WEST SHORE NEWS Social and Personal Items of Towns Along West Shore Miss Hose I'age, of Washington, D. C., visited friends in New Cumber land on Thursday. | Miss Blanche Sipc, clerk at tho New Cumberland Post Office, fell on the ice land sprained her ankle, j Prof. C. S. Bice, principal of the , New Cumberland schools, went to Buf ! fulo, N. Y„ where lie was summoned |on account of the illness of his j father. Mrs. Frances Brenneman has rc i turned to her home at Siddonsburg ! after spending several days with her i son, John H. Brenneman, at Shire | manstown. I An interesting meeting of the ! .lies' Organized Bible Class No. 4 ol ! (lie Bethel Church of God was held I last evening at the home of Mr. and I Mrs. Bandis W. Parks, at Shiremans town. I Mr. and Mrs. Abram Hess, of Shire [ manstown, were entertained at dinner ! recently by Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Flem ! ing at their residence at 104 South I street, Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor, of [West Kairview, visited the latter's aunt, at ! hiremanstown yesterday. | Mrs. Elizabeth Hupp, daughter, Mrs. Orrell l>. Kllnk, of Sliiremanstown, spent Thursday in Harrisburg. MISS CON BEY ENTERTAINS New Cumberland, .Pa., Jan. 27. Miss Naomi Conley entertained at her home, corner of Sixth and Market streets, on Thursday night. The young people enjoyed games and music, after which refreshments were served to Misses Verna Bair, Miriam Freeburn, Evelyn Freeburn, Kathryn Good, Eve lyn' McCreary, Dorothy Heffleman, Blanch Sweeney, Dorothy Kauffman, Naomi Conley, Bessie Dull, Annie Osier, Ethel Brown, Bauretta Swet gert: Ross Snell, Clarence Guhl, Oli ver Sipc, Clarence Bowers, Boy Fehl, Robert Parthemore, Clarence Stettler, Clark Bair, Blythe Ruby, Harry Day hoff, John Parthemore, Mr. und Mrs. E. P. Conley, daughters, Othlie, Beat rice, Elizabeth, and William Conley. THREE BADS EXONERATED Reading, Pa., Jan. 27. At a hear ing before Alderman High three young men were discharged in pro ceedings in which lliester A. Bowers, a lawyer, charged them with involun tary manslaughter in failing to save his so from drowning. Edron Bowers, a high school gradu ate, was persuaded by Ernest J. Poole, Jr., Henry S. Knickerbocker and Solon Rhode,'according to the father, to at tempt to shoot tho falls at Hains Bock in the Schuylkill river. Bowers was| drowned and Poole almost lost his life. SWEENEY URGES STANDARD LOAF J Chief of Standards Also Dis cusses the Coverings About Food Packages | "Those who most need the protec tion of the weight and measure law of i Pennsylvania arc those who are com [ pelled to buy in small quantities. Such persons are obliged to pay a heavier toll than those who* buy in large quantities and they should not be made to suffer an additional loss by being short weighted," says James Sweeney, Chief of the Bureau of Standards, a branch of tho Depart ment of Internal Affairs, who discusses the necessity of laws for a standard loaf of bread and to prevent the wrap pings on meats and other articles be ing sold without deduction. The re port of the Chief savagely attacks the practice which has grown up of not including packages of meat in the "net weight" law and says something should be done to relieve those who are forced to pay almost prohibitive prices for food. Charging for cover ings he says is "a crime for which there are no palliating circumstances.'' Tho report of the Chief calls atten tion to the fact that of 1,114,162 in spections made of milk jars, cans, bottles, baskets, barrels, boxes and similar articles used to hold fpod, 21,- 294 were condemned in the State last year and that of 481,500 measuring and weighing devices 33,010 were or dered destroyed or conliscated. In his report the Chief says of the need for new laws: • "The advanced cost of bread has brought about an agitation suggesting specific legislation that would bring the sale of bread within the jurisdic tion of the Weight and Measure De partment. Tho people are accustomed to buying bread by the loaf. The present law governing the sale of com modities does not provide any stand ard weight for a loaf of bread. There fore, the weight of loaves not being "iiiorni the consumers do not have tho protection that is guaranteed to them in the,purchase of other com modities und*r the present law. The Incoming Legislature should enact legislation fixing sixteen ounces us a standard. The establishing of this standard would not prevent the sale of bread in the multiples of the pound, or in any weight in excess of the pound. The purpose is to have a standard established. The multiples could radiate from the standard. "The law should require a label or tap to be attached to bread that is sold unwrapped, and this label or tag should be marked with a true state ment of the weight. On wrapped bread the net weight should be indi cated on the outside of the wrapper. "The necessity for a law compelling Iho sale of bread by the pound avoir dupois was apparent very early in the history of our State. Evidence of this will be found in the enactment of an old law which appears on tlie statute of 1'797. The weakness of the provi sions of that act was the omission of establishing a standard. Bread being one of the principal commodities among tho necessaries of life, any tendency to feduce the quantity which the public is in the habit of receiving for a certain price in many instances works a hardship, especially on tfiose wlio are the least able to bear it. "The fixing of a standard weight for Jjread does not lix the price. This enn only be done through economic causes and competition. The mark ing of every loaf sold, wrapped or un wrapped, would prevent the decep tion that can, under the present con ditions, be practiced upon the public, as the dealer is not required to mark his bread in any way which would guarantee to the purchaser that he is receiving any specific quantity. "The net weight law of Pennsyl vania required that all commodities sold in package form must have the net quantity contained in the pack age clearly marked on the outside of the package. But owing to some'tech nical interpretation of the net weight law wrapped meats are exempt from these requirements. The wrappings on these meats weigh from two to four ounces, which means at the pres ent cost of this class of meats that the consumer is paying from three to six cents per pound for wrappings, which in every respect, are valueless to him. "This great injustice to the pur chasing public should be remedied by legislation. To correct this great wrong the legislation must be of a specific character. The juggling of legal terms makes it necessary that, the present net weight law requiring the net contents to bo marked 011 the outside of all packages in which com modities are sold bo amended so as to include all meat sold in wrappings; or packages of any kind, as package goods. This is the only way that the j consumer would bo guaranteed that. | lie was receiving the amount of meat that he is paying for. There can be ! 110 reason advanced ih opposition to 1 legislation of this character. Its en actment would receive the commenda ] lion of the general public, and at. the present high cost of living the people are entitled to this protection. It is hard to conceive of any rea son for opposition to the enactment of legislation that would prevent the practice of selling to the public some thing which they cannot utilize." STEP TOWARD SCFRAGE Pierre, S. D., Jan. 27. By a vote of G6 to 27, the lower house of the South Dakota legislature yesterday | passed the resolution with the Gover nor's signature, will provide for the submission of an equal suffrage amendment to the constitution in the 1918 general election. The Senate passed the resolution ten days ago. QorQQ Every Niqht For Constipation' Headache,lndigestion, etc. ERANDRETH PILLS Safe and Sure □ tmwmmumMMWwv