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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.
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| 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.
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DISTINCTION TO
BE CONSIDERED
Law Does Not Intend Fine
Points to Be Raised Against
Worthy Claimants
The State Compensation Board, in
an opinion by Chairman Maclcey,
lias dismissed the appeal of the Le
high and New England railroad in
the claim of Clair E. Hayden, Pen
Argyl, who suffered an injury to an
eye which was so severe that the doc
tors claimed that if his other eye was
destroyed ho would be able to see
very imperfectly. The testimony was
that to get anything like use of the
Injured eye the good eye would have
to bo lost.
"The workmen's compensation act
never contemplated such fine distinc
tions," says tlio chairman. "A care
ful reading of this testimony is abso
lutely convincing that this claimant
has lost the use of ills oyo and ought
to bo compensated. It is not. within
the spirit of the law that in the inter
pretation of this act we should apply
any unnatural meaning to its lan
guage in order to dofeat its plain
provisions,"
In the case of Frank Alumboski,
Parsons, who died from pneumonia
There t* mors Ctirr"j In this section of thd
eountry than alt other diseases put together, and
until the last few years supposed to be
Incurable, tor a great uiauy years doctora
pronounced It a local disease and proscribed local
I remedies, and by constantly fulling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced It lueurable. Science
has pro Ten Catarrh to be u constitutional disease
and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
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Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, la the only Constitu
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Take Hall's la mil/ rilli for OPWUpatto*,
after having sustained an injury in a
mine of the Delaware and Hudson
company Commissioner Leech up
holds the referee and says: "Whilse
we regard the point in dispute be
tween the doctors as a close and in
teresting medical question we arc sat
isfied that the referee was fully jus
tified in his finding," which was that
the pneumonia resulted from the in
jury.
The board has approved the new
finding of the referee in the Johnson-
Bethlehem Steel case, which estab
lished the ruling in dependency of a
parent and on which a new hearing
was held and has declared in a claim
from McKean county that thero can
be no compensation for the loss of a
linger because the act "proceeds en
tirely upon the basis of lost compensa
tion."
In affirming an award of a Compen
sation board referee, a case of de
pendency, Chairman Mackey, says
"We have at all times been Keen to
secure compensation to deserving
claimants through the administration
of this law, but at the same time we
have ever been mindful of the fact
that compensation law is not based
upon charity nor is It an insurance
scheme by which those who are in
jured can always be allowed compen
sation." Judgments, he said, must be
based on substantial testimony and
dependency is a question of fact.
In another decision in which testi
mony was admitted by a referee
against objections by the defendant
the board orders a rehearing
because some objections were,
well founded in that a number of
hearsay statements were admitted in
conjunction with a hospital record.
The hospital record is ul.so pronounc
ed to be "purely hearsay." In a tliirH
case a new hearing is ordered because
"a full exposition of the truth can in
jure no one."
The claim of Myers vs. Wehr, a
Pittsburgh case, was refused because
thero was no proof of marriage. The
claimant alleged she was the lawful
wife of a man -rt-liile nt work for his*
employer, but Commissioner Lteoch
says that there is no competent evi
dence that the parties ever entered in
to a contract of marriage. The Com
missioner says that while there is evi
dence that the parties lived together,
there is no uroof of "reputation of
iuarrlago.' : ,
JANUARY 27, 1917. '
RESCUE SHIP'S PASSENGERS
Other Steamships (Jo to Aid of Prince
Jolin, Beached oil Alaska Coast
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 27. —Fifteen
to twenty passengers on the steamship
Prince John were rescued late yester
day by other steamships after the
Prince John l.ad struck a rock and
had been beached on the coast of
Southeastern Alaska. The Prince John
sent out "S O S" calls earlier in the
day, to which several coasting steam
ships responded.
The Prince John has a crew of
twenty-eight and has been plying be
tween Prince Rupert. 15. C., and Skag
way, Alaska. It is believed here she
i,s not in great danger.
The Hululne That I)ops Xat Affect the
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taken by anyone without causing ner
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PONY HOLDS CP EXPRESS
Engineer Stops Train in Time to Save
Animal on Track
Altoona, Pa., Jan. 27. Speeding
west with St. Louis mail, one of tho
fastest, trains on the Pennsylvania
system, which stops only at division
terminals, William Kemp, the engineer
saw a pony attached to a wagon
standing calmly on the track at the
grade crossing west of Johnstown.
Kemp stopped his train, jumped off,
led the pony out of danger, tied it to
a telephone pole, boarded his engine
and arrived at. Pittsburgh on time, al
though ten minutes late leaving Al
toona.
TRAIN TOSSES DYNAMITE
Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 27.
Nathan M. Thompson, of Oorry, Pa
was killed near Salem, W. Va., yester
day when he drove in front, of a fast
express train on the Baltimoro and
Ohio Railroad. A box of dynamite in
Thompson's wagon rolled under tho
train, but did not explode.
QUARTERLY CONFER liNCE
On the evening of February 16 the
annual open quarterly conference will
be held in the auditorium of tho Stev
ens Memorial Church. The Rev. Or.
A. S. Fastck, of Carlisle, will preach.
Reports from all tho various organ
isations of tho church and Sunday
jchool will be made at the meeting.
Turks Must Be Driven
From Europe, Bryce Says
London, Jan. 27.—The demand for
the expulsion of the Turk from Eu
rope, -included among tl.o terms in the
Entente Allied note in reply to Presi
dent Wilson, is justitied by Lord
Bryce in his views on that phase of
the entente reply.
This is the first time the former
Ambassador to tho United States has
appeared in connection with the peace
discussion, for, while he has been
carefully considering President Wil
|son's moves and the responses made
to them, ho has refrained from any
utterance on the subject.
LODGE'S OWN FAULT
White Ilonsc Explains Why Massa
chusetts Senator Isn't at Social
Functions
Washington, Jan. 27. lf United
States Senator Lodge, of Massa
chusetts, doesn't go to White House
social functions or to see President
Wilson on business it isn't, the Presi
dent. nor Mrs. Wilson's fault.
Reports that Senator Lodge and
Congressman Wood, who started the
leak Investigation, were under a
"White House ban" are not strictly
true, it was stated otliclally at the
Executive Mansion.
Senator Lodge received an invita
tion to tho congressional reception at.
the AVhlte House Wednesday night.
Congressman Wood did not, it was
stated.
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A sore throat is a serious matter and ia
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