r .iiHJi.yi'-, ! —•" 11 1 - - Delegates Fron All Over Country Ari Considering Daylight Saving Proposition HARRISBURG SgllgSlJ TELEGRAPH LXXXVI— No. 26 14 PAGES BARUCH MADE $476,168 PRIOR TO PEACE NOTE Heavy Short Seller Denies He Had Any Advance Infor mation BERNSTOBFF DBOP PE D Name of German Ambassador Suddenly Eliminated From Leak Testimony New- York, Jan. 30. Barnard Bar i:ch. Wall street speculator, $50,000 contributor to the last Democratic campaign fund and heavy short seller in the stormy days preceding the is suance of President Wilson's recent peace note, testified at the "leak" in- 1 quiry to-day that his profits on the market between December 10 and Do-! cember 23, were $476,168. Every cent of this profit, he de- j clared, was due to his foresight in in terpreting speeches by Von Bethmann- Hollweg and David Lloyd George as meaning peace was coming. Not a single transaction he made, he said, was influenced by advance infor mation that the President was about -to dispatch a peace note. He receiv ed no such information, he said, and added that he had no secret sources of information in Washington on which he based any of his stock oper ations. Received No Information Touching on his December 19 deals, Whipple asked Baruch if they were affected by any information from Washington regarding the administra tion's attitude towaru peace. ''Absolutely not," he replied. "Did you receive and information (Continued on l'nge t I) Harold Clark, Athletic Star, Wins Honors in Scholarship at State j Harold A. Clark, of this city, presi dent of the senior class at the Penn sylvania State College and captain of the Blue and White football eleven during the last season, has been elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi, the national scholarship frater nity. The semiannual elections at State College were announced on Mon day at the midyear convocation. Those honored comprise the high-rank stu dents in the senior class. Cumberland Court Makes Newville Borough "Dry" Carlisle, Pa.. Jan. 30. By the re fusal ot Judge Sadler to grant a license to Daniel Huntsberger for the Central | Hotel at Newville, that town becomes! entirely "dry," it being the only li censed hotel there. But one licensed ! hotel remains in the County west of! < arlisle, the one at Newburg, conduct ed by John C. Baseliore. Judge Sadler this morning granted I all the licenses asked for, except i Doubling Gap Springs Hotel and that | at Newville. All places remonstrated j against in Carlisle and Mechaniesbnrg I were granted, but the court made a I statement, in reference to the Morrett I wholesale application at Mechanics burg. The remonstrance was signed I by one-fourth of the adult popula tion of the town, but the court said | he would grant it this year, but if the same conditions exist next year it will be refused. NO PASTOR: WHY? TWINS Home, N. V., Jan. 30.—There were no services at the Presbyterian church in Knoxboro Sunday. The congre gation had waited half an hour rest lessly. Then one of the ushers went to the home of the pastor, the Rev llobert Duncan. A nurse at the door said "Twins." T. K. MAY HEAD <J. O. P. CLCB New ork, Jan. 30.—Supreme Court ! Justice Cropsey yesterday approved a I certificate of incorporation of the newly formed Republican Club of Nas sau' County. Ex-Ambassador Robert L. Bacon is president. Theodore Roosevelt, it is said, will be elected its honorary president as soon as the ar ticles of incorporation are tiled at Albany. THE WEATHER] For IlnrrlMbnrK unl vicinity: Fair and colder to-nltbt. with lonrnt temperature about 25 drgrcraj \VrdiiPMda.v IncrriiMliiK cloudiness, followed, probably, by miiow or rain. I'"or lCaiiterii I'ennxy I vanla: Fair and colder to-nl K ht| Wednexday InrreasltiK clouillneMN, followed by rain or snoni moderate north went yylihln. River >o material chnnKen will occur In river MtageN or Kenern | | ce coadl t ion* In the SiiNtiuehanna river and it* trlhutarlcM during he next fort.r-elKht hour*. A tn K e of about H feet I* Indicated for llnrrlsburic Wetlnearlay morning, Oenernl Condition* Ihe storm from the Morthwent thnt w-ii* central over the lake Ile- Blon, Monday mornliiK, ha* pann ed northeastward off the Netv Knurlaud coaat. It cau*ed rain and *now In the la*t twenty-four hour* generally from the Great I.ake* eastward to the Atlantic eon*t and *outh and ea*t of the Ohio river. Snow and rain have fallen al*o In the Pacific .State* the Northern Rooky -Mountain' Rckloii and in Alberta and Ilrit- Inh Columbia a* a renult of a dl* turbance central near Ureat Salt Luke. Temperature! S a. in., 4!!. Sun: Rl*r*, 7ilO a. m. Mount Full moon, February tl, 10i"S a. m. River Stavei 7.S feet above low water mark. Ye*terdn.v'* Weather Hlßhent temperature, .HI. l.owe*t temperature, 24. Mean temperature, !UI. Normal temperature, SH, DAYLIGHT SAVING PLAN CONSIDERED AT BIG MEETING Delegates From All Parts of Country Discuss Proposition to Turn Clocks Ahead WILL SAVE $10,000,000 If Adopted Time Will Be Ad vanced April 29 and Turned Back September 30 | New York, Jan. 30. The national ] daylight saving convention opened a I two-day session here to-day to con- I sider the proposition to turn the clocks j of the United States one hour forward | after midnight on the last Sunday of April and turn them back after mid night on /the last Sunday of Septem- I ber. j Delegates from all over the country 'including ten from the American Railway Association, which fixes the time zones for train schedules. Among the organizations supporting the organizations supporting the move ment are the New York Daylight Sav ing committee, under whose auspices the convention is held; the Chamber of Commerce of Chicago, Hoston, Cleveland, Rochester and Pittsburgh; the Merchants' Association pf New York and the More Daylight Club of Detroit. "The results anticipated and al ready experienced abroad," Marcus M. Marks, president of the borough of I Manhattan, and chairman of the New York Daylight Saving committee, told the convention, "are eionomy through reduction of lighting bills, saving eyesight through the use of less artificial light and more daylight, and health-building through working one hour more in the cooler morning and one hour less in the hot summer I afternoon. An extra day light hour is I thus added for recreation. Plan Publicity Campaign I Mr. Marks suggested the organiza | tion of a national daylight saving committee with officers and members representing each part of the country, Its purpose to be the general educa (Continued on Page 11) Huston Leiby, Clerk in Newport Post Office, Arrested by Inspectors Huston Leiby, a clerk in the New port post office, was arrested late yes terday afternon by post office in spectors charged with stealing valu able matter from the United States mail. Post office inspectors say I.eiby's ar rest will clear up the disappearance of valuable mail at the Newport post office, which has been occurring for several months. In a short period five valuable letters were lost in a fifteen mile transit between Newport and an other post office. Two Newport banks land the firm of Hitter and Jacobs lost | heavily. I Repeated complaints were made to ! post office inspectors and several re |cent disappearances stung the inspec | tors to action. ■ John S. former Newport post -1 master, father of Huston Leiby, rcsign !ed several mouths ago. ! The Leiby family has been proml- Inent in Democratic politics in Perry county for many years. Literacy Test Again Causes President to Veto Immigration Bill i Washington, Jan. 30. President Wilson yesterday vetoed the Immigra tion hill passed recently by Congress because or its literacy test provision. Owing to the congested condition of the legislative calendar in Congress, it is regarded as unlikely that both houses will bo able to take the time necessary to pass the bill over the executive veto. Supporters of the i measure, however, claim a clear two- I thirds majority in both houses. | The bill which the president vetoed i passed the house last March by a vote lof 308 to 87, and the Senate in De cember, by 64 to 7. It was the second" time that Presi dent Wilson has vetoed an immigra tion bill because of the literacy test, and for the same reason similar meas ures were vetoed by President Taft and Cleveland. \A hen President Wilson's message was read in the house it was ordered to lie on the table until Thursday morning, and champions of the bill began laying their plans for an effort to override the veto. "CAP'N" JACK CRAWFORD, "POET SCOUT," IS DYING | New York, Jan. 30. "Cap'n" Jack Crawford, scout for Custer, Cook and | Ruell, "pardner" of Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill and Colorado Charley, and poet at-large, is dying in his home, at Thrall avenue, Woodhaven, Queens. I He is seventy years old and is suffer-! Ing from asthma, Bright's disease and 1 pneumonia. DEATH IN SIGN HE GAVE Victim or Shooting Hail Put Silent' Slur on Other's Wire Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 30. Sign language as used by Sicilians to con vey an accusation In the presence of witnesses, cost the life of August ! Siandro. aged 33, of Hughestown, last night. Four shots, the last landing in the heart of Siandro, were fired when the latter raised two fingers to Angelo Ponsano to indicate that Ponsano's wife was unfaithful. The fight took place after a day of drinking and feasting and police of ficers are ready to testify that Pon sano fired the shots, but the accused man denies guilt, nlthough admitting the insult had been passed. Siandro dropped dead in the arms of Police man Tast, who had been attracted by the shots. SHAMOKIN PRIEST DIES Shamokin. Pa., Jan. 30. Monsig nor John Joseph Koch, rector of St. Kdward's Roman Catholic parish since tv creution here in 1866, died to-day from a complication of diseases. He was 77 years old and the oldest priest •i service and age in this portion or >he State. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JA NUARY 30, 1917. HOW SUSQUEHANNA IS JAMMED FROM CITY TO SAFE HARBOR | ' i: While the Susquehanna river is jammed with ice from near the Cove, north of the citv. to Safe Harbor and beyond, downstream, there is no immediate danger from ice jams and possible flood, believes Ralph II Hosmer, State Flood Forecaster in the Water Supply Commission offices. Telegraph Building. .' " e , water Supply Commission employed an expert to travel the banks or the river from this citv to Safe ! „Z. ?,' - i ~ in ® Photographs of the river conditions along the way. The pictures all show the ice to be jammed \er> thickly at all points along the stream. No big gorges exist, however. In many places the cakes are standing on edge for miles at a stretch, and immense quantities of ice arc lying between Harrisburg and the bay E. I*. Demain, the local forecaster, this morning said the real snow months are yet to come. February is u f.Yi month of greatest snowfall and very often March. The rain and snow' that has already fallen is still frozen in the ground, very little of it having passed into the streams. ARCHITECT OF UNBIASED IDEAS TO DRAW PLANS Comfort Station Specifications Will Re Made by Man With out Fixed Opinion COUNCIL TO RATIFY .First Will Study Conditions, Then if Plans Are Unsatis-' factory, Out They Go ! That the architect who is selected jto draw plans for the footwalk in j Market Square and public comfort i station, will be one who has not j lormed an opinion as to just how these improvements shall be made, was the statement made by City Com missioner William H. Lynch, who has been authority by council to carry out preliminary plans for the work. "When the plans are completed they will be submitted to council and the City Planning Commission for re jection or acceptance," Commissioner Lynch continued. *'l intend to have council approve my selection of an architect, also. It is my intention to pick a man who hasn't a set idea about these improvements. What we want is an architect who will study traffic conditions and the needs of the city before making any suggestions. "Then, if the plans he decides upon are not satisfactory council and the Planning Commission will be the ones to reject them. So far nothing de | finite had been done about this lm ■ provement and my only reason for submitting an ordinance authorizing the employment of an architect, was ito get. definite plans drawn and pre j sented so that action can be taken." In speaking or traffic conditions in Market Square, Commissioner Lynch ! declared lhat should the Valley Rail ways Company build a terminal in Walnut stredt, much of the congestion in the Square, and at Second and Wal- I not streets, will be overcome, leaving more room for automobiles. "I have heard that the Valley Rail ways Company may erect a terminal in Walnut street, but know nothing officially about it. If the company I should make this improvement it will ibe a big help and will aid in reliev ing traffic congestion in the Square," j Commissioner Lynch said. . 3,455 Autos Valued at $1,900,250, Stolen by Gang of Sixty Chicago Thieves } Chicago, 111,, Jan. 30.—State's At- I torney Hoyne said to-day that various confessions of automobile thieves show that the gang numbered sixty persons and that between January 11, 1916, land January 29, 1917, they stole 3,455 ! machines, of which 2,437 were recov • ered. j Two detectives, lie said, aided the I thieves. The averuge aggregate value j of the cars was $1,900,250. Austrian Destroyer Is Disabled in Sea Fight Rome, vial Paris, Jan. 30! The Austrian destroyer llussur was put out of action in a naval engagement 1 In the Adriatic a few days ago, accord i ing to the Tribuna. ! The paper says that two Italian de stroyers engaged an Austrian flotilla and that the Hussar was hit several times and set on fire. She was towed into a neighboring port by torpedo boats. The Italians suffer.ed no loss, the report says. The engagement was fought in the midst of a tempest. SPECIAL TRAFFIC HULKS FOR CHARITY BALL The police department have issued special traffic regulations for . this evening to prevent congestion near the Chestnut Street Auditorium where the Charity Hall is to be held. All automobiles must enter Chest nut street from Second and leave by Third street. No parking will be per mitted In Chestnut street between Second and Third streets. Special po licemen will be stationed at corners to see tliut these rules are carefully observed. WOULD PERMIT CITY COUNCIL TO FILL VACANCIES Law Committee of Third Class City League Favors Amend ment to Clark Act PEOPLE TO ELECT Man Appointed to Serve Only Until Voters Can Act in Regular Election Amendments to the Clark act giv ing City Council the power to fill vacancies by a majority vote within thirty days after a vacancy occurs; or In case vacancies exist in the en tire council, giving the Court of Com mon Pleas the right to appoint mem bers to fill unexpired terms, were fav ored this morning by the Law Com mittee of the Third Class City League. The amendments which will be sub- I mitted to the Legislature were iptro [duced by City Solicitor John E. Fox, of Harrisburg. They provide for filling [Continued on Page ] Sproul Resolution For Probe of State Affairs Laid Over The Sproul resolution for a probe of government in Pennsylvania was to day postponed until Monday by the State Senate, which will adjourn for j the week late this afternoon. ' The motion for postponement was made by the sponsor for the bill, who denied that it was because he did not have the voles to pass it. It is under stood that the postponement was the result of an agreement, us some sen ators desij-ed to be away, while others were hopeful of something occurring which would relieve the tense sit uation. The resolution will be on third read ing on Monday night. The plan was to pass it in the Senate to-dqy and send it to the House. Philadelphia Newspapers Forced to Raise Price Philadelphia, Jan. 30.—The Phila delphia newspapers have increased their price to 2 cents, owing to the increased cost of paper and the limi tations placed on the supply of news print paper by the manufacturers. Last week the city had four 2-cent morning papers and three 1-cent even ing papers. To-day every paper in the city sells for 2 cents. In announcing the change in price the newspapers explain the enormous increase in the cost of paper, which for a single newspaper, for example, means an added expenditure of $250,000 a year, and for eight papers in Philadelphia would mean, provided j they use the same quality of paper as last year, an increased expenditure of upward of $2,000,000, while the cost of many other materials needed for publishing a newspaper have advanced from 20 to 400 per cent. DOG HAS FUNERAL HABIT Tramp Wins AVny Into Hearts of Peo ple Who Used to Kick Him Nesquehonlng, Pa., Jan. 30.—Nes quehoning has a dog which amazes everybody because of its fondness for attending funerals. , Since attention was drawn to his habit the dog has never been known to miss a funeral. He always walks alongside the hearse, and will go into the church if permitted. He has fre quently been kicked out, but always loiters outside and accompanies the cortege to the grave. He is only a plain, white tramp dog, but since he has shown humane in stincts people are taking kindly to him and where he was formerly kicked or ignored ho is now being treated with the utmost consideration. He has no home, but'he is frequently observed to share the morsels of other dogs. DENY ARMED SHIP HUMORS London, Jan. 30. The Times claims that it is authorized to state that the allegation that Great Britain is preparing to arm merchantmen with guns forward as well aa astern is untrue. CAMP CURTIN TO BE MADE STATE PARK UNDER BILL j Senator Beidlenian Introduces Measure Appropriating $25,- > 000 For Purpose MONUMENT IS PLANNED Governor Authorized to Name Commission of Seven to Serve Without Pay A bill to appropriate $25,000 for the purchiise of part of the site of his toric Camp Curtin for a State park within this city was introduced in the Senate by President pro tem EJ. Z3. Beidleman. This project was urged by Governor Brumbaugh in his mes sage to the Legislature, the Governor having visited the upper part of this city and studied the situation in re gard to the tract occupied by the great mobilization camp of the Civil War. The Beidleman bill recites that a small portion of the original tract remains unimproved and an item of SB,OOO for the purchase is made in the bill with SIO,OOO for erection of a suitable monument, while $7,000 is carried to put the grounds in suit able condition for park purposes. The Governor is authorized to name a commission of seven to bo known as the Camp Curtin commission, the members to serve without pay. I German Food Supply For Spring yery Scanty Is Indicated by Batocki Amsterdam, via London, .Tnn. 30. According to the Berlin Vorwaerts. Adolph Batocki, president of the food regulation board, clearly indicated in a recent speech that the German food supply for the spring was very scanty and would require the most careful distribution and economical use. Cal culating potatoes in the value of wheat, he said that for the current year there were 2,000,000 tons less of both available for animal and human consumption than there was last year and that, owing to the prohibition of wheat for aninial feeding this would greatly diminish the yield of animal products. Even turnips cannot now be used for animal fodder. Herr Batocki pointed out that im ports from neutrals were a slender factor in the situation and that the assets gained in Rumania, while valu able, could improve conditions only gradually owing to transport difficul ties. He defended the system of dis tribution of foodstuffs with the re mark: "The scarcer the total quantity of supplies the more necessary is a system of management." House Takes Up Revenue Bill of $402,000,000 With Prospect of Early Vote Washington, Jan. ,10. The new revenue bill to provide about $402 - 000,000 was taken up in the House to day. Democratic Leader Kitchin in charge of the measure announced that he hoped the House would close de bate and vote late The debate was "opened by Mr. Kitchtn in a long speech in which he put the responsibility for the necessity of new revenue legislation squarely upon "preparedness" and upon the Democrats and Republicans alike. "Every dollar of the tax of last year's bill and in this pending bill was made necessary," he told the House, "by your votes for the marvelous, tre mendous increase in army, navv and fortification acts, which the friends of those increases euphoniously called preparedness. You Democrats and Republicans alike are responsible tof the necessity of some additional rpvenue legislation." Ml-. Kitchin ex plained the features of the new measure. MILK MK.V TO MIS IST The l>airymen's League of Dauphin and Cumberland counties will meet to morrow evening in Penbrook Hall Penbrook, to hear a report of the com mitleu on membership. STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION MEASURE IN Rill Introduced in House by Representative Mitchell, of Jefferson NOT ULTRA-RESTRICTIVE Does Not Prevent Manufactur ing Wine or Cider For Personal Use State-wide prohibition to be effec tive January 1, 1918, is proposed in a bill introduced in the House to-day by Representative Lex N. Mitchell, of Jefferson. The bill forbids the manufacture and sale of liquor "for beverage pur poses, ' but does not prohibit any per son from manufacturing wine or cider for his own use nor the making and sale of liquors for sacramental, medi cinal, scientific and mechanical pur poses. Neither does it provide for seizure of liquors in homes or serv ing to personal guests in a home. Regulation Amendment Representative Richard Powell, of Luzerne, introduced a bill to amend [Continued on Page 9] French Continue Efforts to Expel Germans From Hill 304 at Verdun The region of Hill SO4 northwest of Verdun was the only one in the European war field in which activity of note developed during the last 24 hours so far as to-day's official reports from the German ana French war offices reveal. Berlin's statement indicates that tho French are continuing their at tempts to regain the ground recently lost there, which the German accounts declare have been fruitless. Last night's efforts were as unproductive as those preceding them, it is de clared, the crown prince's troops re pulsing all the attacks made. Paris, in reporting on the fighting in this region, mentions only a Ger man hand grenade attack on a French trench which was stopped by gunfire French airmen brought down three German airplanes in engagements yes terday, Paris announces. SAYS WILSON WOULD DRAG U S. IN WAR Washington, Jan.. 30—Opening del in the Senate to-day on President Wilson# world peace proposals, Sena tor Cumfnlns, Republican, declared that to do what the President suggests would involve the United States either in alrrfost constant world v.'ar or constant rebellion against • the authority of world sdvereignty the President proposes. Asserting that he stood with the President in every moral effort possible for him to exert to bring an end to the cnt war, Senator Cummin; -..aid he refused to follow him "when he leads the way toward tiic world sovereignty which he has proposed/' * FAVORABLY REPORT GRAYSON NOMINATION Washington, Jan. 30.—1 he Senate NaVal Committee ordered a favorable report 3-day on the nomination of Dr. Cary I. Grayson, Presidei.i Wilson's n: al aid and per sonal physician, tu be mec al director in (lie navy and a rear aduiifal. The Republic a s of the committee opposed it. Senator:, Lodge and Poind iter leading the opposition. A fight on the floor was indicated. v PENROSE SCORES BRUMBAUGH Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 30. lf Governor Brumbaugh vcfoes the Legislative investigation, approved by the State Sdiate last night and which now goes to the House of Representatives, three proiwinent Penn&ylvanians will con tribute $25,000 each tpward a $200,000 fund for an inde pendent investigation, Senator Boies Penrose to-day de clared. Senator Penrose dictated the following statement: "The Governor's message to the Senate was an unwar ranted interference with the Legislature; is.evasive, in sincere and can have no other purpose excepting to avoid or .curtail a real investigation." / AUTO LICENSES FOR 1910 EXTENDED TO FEB. 15 Harrisburg.—The State Highway Department ,has ex tended the use of 1916 auto licenses for pneumatic-tired machines only to February 15, due to delay in receiving plates. Washington, Jan. 30.—Henry P. Fletcher. American " f ambassad<y to, Mexifo, will leave for Mexico City in the near future 1 , it wai officially announced to-day. _ • ■ MARRIAGE LICENSES ft.vlvan Merl Ilartiunn. Falrvlcn tonnaklp, York county, and Mabel Km ma lludj, ,\rw iuiiiberlnnd. Mlddletown Kllrl Shctro "- nnd Marsnrette Kliiabetk Nlckey, Mlddletowi" r,or M "*" ,ber * er ' Aaprrn, nd Sarah Kllaabetk Zimmerman, Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT ASH COLLECTION WILL BE BACK ON SCHEDULE SOON Situation About Cleared Up by Reduction Company Council Hears MORE TEAMS AT WORK President Gardner Declares Mis Losses Have Reen Heavy; Asks Co-operation City Council was assured this morn ing that by next Monday practically all ash and refuse accumulations in the city will be collected and wagons will maintain regular schedule until the expiration of the present contract. Edward P. Bailey, of the American Surety Company, bondsmen for the Pennsylvania Reduction Company; Edward F. Doehne, attorney for the latter company, and City Health Offi cer John M. J. Raunlck, met with Council to report on the situation. It was explained that one gang of men are to work entirely in the Alli son Hill district. four other gangs of men will cover the downtown, cen tral and West End districts each week. This plan was started yester day after general clean-up measures were put in force last week, and the problem has been solved for the time being, it is believed. Seven more [Continued oil Page 9] PATTERSON NOT JAILED Fraternity Brothers Pay Judgment Sum Pending Receipt of Check Dispatches from Binghamton, N. Y., to the effect that W. Kenneth Patter son, 208 South Thirteenth street, this city, had been arrested and placed in jail for failure to pay a $2 93 damage judgment against him, were not founded upon fact, it was learned to day. Patterson was not jailed, as the dispatches said, for his fraternity brothers at Cornell University fur nished the money to cover the judg ment pending the receipt of a check from his father here. Patterson was detained in the sheriff's office until the money was raised by the "frat" men and then released. As soon as word was received here of the affair, Patter son's father sent him a check to covei 'the damage judgment.
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