22 Plan to Lay Axe at Root of Tree of Social Evils By Associated Press Pittsburgh, March 9.—Nine angles on what is being done in the United States to "lay the axe at the root of the tree of social evils," will be pre sented by welfare and social workers at the forty-fourth annual conference of charities and corrections to be held June 6 to 13, in Pittsburgh, accord ing to the preliminary program issued to-day. The conference will consist of nine divisions, as follows: Chil dren, community, corrections, family and community, health, mental hy giene, public charities, rural social problems and social insurance. t Among the speakers will be: Wil fred S. Reynolds, superintendent of tho Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, Chicago; George B. Mangold, director of the.St. Louis School of Social Economy: William J. Norton, director of the Cincinnati Council of Social Agencies, and Thomas Mott Os borne, former warden of Sing Sing prison. 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Score Unsigned Charges of Gambling Operations Declaring her husband Ims lost most of his month's pay at a gambling den. another woman has written to District Attorney l.tehael E. Stroup, asking him to act. The letter was unsigned. District Attorney Stroup and Chief of Police J. Edward Wetzel both rap ped reports of gambling den opera tions sent to them In anonymous let ters. Chief Wetzel said: "These people who write about gambling resorts give us no assistance when they do not sign their names. Of the many unsigned communications we receive, after in vestigation. it Is shown that many of the charges are not based on fact. We can't prosecute for alleged violations of the law unless we have evidence. As soon as we get cuffielent Informa tion we make arrests, but we can not act on information sent in unsigned letters." "If writers of anonymous com munications to tho authorities want prosecutions, let them iomp to us and give us the information," District At torney Stroup declared. "How can we act if informants make only indi rect charges, and also conceal their own identity?" TEUTON PLOTTER NABBED AFTER A 10-MONTH SEARCH German Naval Officer Alleged to Have Conspired to Blow ' l"p Welland Canal By Associated Press l.os Angeles. March 9. Captain | Alfred Fritzen, said to be a Germanj naval officer, was arrested at Hart-' wood, near here late last night by a | special agent of the Department cf j Justice and held in the city jail on sus- i picion of felony. The authorities said j he was wanted in connection with the alleged plot to destroy the Welland canal. The arrest was made on orders from Washington. "What 1 know I cannot tell," was the only statement Fritzen would make concerning charges made aga'nst him. He said he had been in the United States three years and recently hod made a tour in Cuba. Ilu* Distinguished Hearing Federal agents here have been on: the watch for Fritzen for six month:! j they said. They learned that he re turned to California three days ago i and that he arrived in Los Angeles! yesterday. Several months ago he was j here, it was alleged, under the name | of 'Piper" and worked for a time as a farm hand on the ranch of Frank ! S. Hart, a wealthy music dealer. Ilisl distinguished bearing is said to lia\ej impressed the Hart family in such | fashion that when he returned yester day he was taken Into their home as! a guest. No papers nor anything of incrlmi- j Bating nature have been found in Fritzen's possession, It is said. • Eniil Roedel, former German con- j sular agent here, federal authorities said, has aided Fritzen but whether simply because of his nationality or for other reasons was not stated. IS UNDER INDICTMENT By Associated Press New York, March 9. Alfred A. j Fritzen, arrested at Harwood, Caiif., j last night was indicted by a federal I grand jury In this city on April 17, | 1916, in an alleged conspiracy hatched! in the United States to blow up the I Welland canal. Indictments were re-: turned at the same time against Cap-' tain Franz von Papen, former military attache of the German embassy. Wolf; von Jgel, his secretary: Captain Hans Tauscher, agent in America of the| Krupps; Captain Boy-Ed, former j I German naval attache: Franz Rinte-; len, a German agent, and Constantine i Covani, alias Giovanni Gonzales. Repeat Evidence in Plot to Kill Lloyd George By Associated Press London, March 9.—The taking of new testimony in the trial of Mrs. Alice Wheeldon, her two daughters, j and Alfred George Mason, husband of ! one of the daughters, was resumed to day before Justice Low in the Old Bailey, where the prisoners are charg ed with conspiring to murder Pre mier Lloyd George and Arthur Hen derson, labor member of the war council. The case was delayed yes-! terday because of the illness of a 1 juror, which necessitated the swear- j ing in of a new jury and the repeti tion of the testimony submitted up | to that time. All the evidence given before the previous jury having been repeated by this morning. Mrs. Wheeldon' con-! tinned her testimony. Replying to j Judge Low, she admitted that she i often had expressed the hope that the j premier and Mr. Henderson would : soon be dead. At the moment of this : expression it represented her wishes,' she testified. I,AY OFF SHOPMEN By Associated Press Decatur. Ills., March 9.—The Wabash Railroad will lay oft 250 shopmen here next Monday, for an indefinite period. A statement issued at the Wabash offices here says a reduction in force is necessary because of the decrease in earnings caused by the blockade of freight on eastern connections. It is said other shops on the system will I reduce their forces. Stomach Upset? Stop Indigestion, Gases, Sourness-Pape's Diapepsin Instant Relief! Neutralize stomach acidity and stop dyspepsia, pain, heartburn, belching. Try it! Wonder what upset your stomach— ; which portion of the food did the dam i age—do you? Well, don't bother. If | your stomach is in a revolt: il sick, j Kassy and upset, and what you just ate I has fermented and turned sour; head dizzy and aches; belch gases and acids j and erucate undigested food; breath I foul, tongue coated —just take a little Pape's Diapepsin to help neutralize acidity and in live minutes you wonder ; what became of the Indigestion and ■ listress. Millions of men and women to-day BERLIN RELEASES AMERICANS HELD ONYARROWDALE Problem Now Is How to Get Men Back to the United States Bv Associated Press j London, March 9.—A dispatch from I Berlin says that the Americans and I other neutrals who were on board the I captured British steamer Yarrowdulo j left Germany on Wednesday. I The Spanish, American and Brazilian Yarrowdale prisoners were sent from the prisoners' camp at Brandenburg to Switzerland byway of Linden on Wednesday afternoon, according to a Berlin dispatch to Reuter's byway of j Amsterdam. Members of other neutral crews were sent home through vari ous frontier towns. The dispatch says that the prisoners were released on the expiration of the quarantine im posed by the discovery of a case of spotted fever. Copenhagen, Thursday, March S, via : London, March 9. The situation in ! regard to sending home the Americans j who are here Is unchanged. Dr. Ea.st- i i man, professor of surgery in the,ln-I | dianapolis University, together with | I other American doctors, called on the , British minister in behalf of Ameri-j , cans connected with the Red Cross and | | many others. The minister said that i lat present no facilities were being! 'granted for ships carrying passengers I j to avoid calling at Kirkwall and lie) regretted therefore that he did not feel j i justified in telegraphing the British | ; authorities on the subject. He added i ( tliat as soon as tjie situation changed I j he would communicate with Dr. East- j ' man. Courthouse Notes To Rolca.sc Woman. Habeas cor- i ! pus proceedings in Dauphin county] j court to-day won for Nora Dunkle- i berger, of Sinking Spring, three ! months liberty from the Pennsylvania j State hospital for the insane, under ; parole. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dunkel : berger, parents of the young woman, started the proceeding*!. Cliil> .Chartered. The .Dauphin county court late yesterday granted | | the charter of the Keystone Republican j ! Club, this city. The application was ; made several months ago. Objections! j were filed because of slight technicall- t I ties and the petition argued twice In j argument cort. Changes were made ! and the objections withdrawn, the j court then granting the charter. Entertain Friends. Mr. and Mrs. ! Frank Snavely entertained a number J of friends last night at their home at Gromore, near Hershey. Dancing was 1 enjoyed after which dinner was serv 'l ed. Mr. Snavely is one of the Direc -1 ton* of the Poor. Stnrt Quo Warranto Action.— Tile Attorney General's department yester-1 day began quo warranto proceedings) | to disfranchise four State corporations! : that are no longer doing business. Additional Law Judge McCarrell will dispose of the cases March 19. The companies include Bradford Power Company. Northern Pennsylvania Wa ter Company; Farm Lands Develop ment Company and Chemung LAnd I Company. Ushers Resign Rather Than Seat Strangers in the Vacant Pews By Associated Press New York, March 9. All the ush ; ers of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian | Chuch have resigned as a result of a ! dlasgreenient with their pastor, the ! Rev. John Henry Jowett, over the ! course to be followed in seating j strangers. This church is crowded j nearly every Sunday with visitors from 1 outside the city, and Dr. Jowett, ba'ck i ed by the session, has insisted that i; places left vacant by pewholders . | should be held no later than 11 a. in. | Two weeks ago, observing some vacant ■ pews, the pastor announced that if ; he found any more vacant seats he ' would read oft the names of pewhold i ers. The ushers are all volunteers. 1 and many of them have served for fifteen or twenty years. know that it is needless to have dys pepsia. A little Diapepsin occasionally keeps the stomach sweetened and they eat their favorite foods without fear. If your stomach doetfti't take care of your liberal limit without rebellion; if your food is a damage instead of a help, remember the quickest, surest, most harmless relief is Pape's Diapep sin which costs only fifty cents for a large case at drug stores. It's truly wonderful—it stops fermentation and acidity and sets things straight, so gently and easily that it is really as tonishing.—Adv. U. S. STEEL TRADING FEATURES MARKET Many Stocks Added to Strong Issues in Early Dealings; Advances of Two and Three Points Made by Several Specialties By Associated Press New York, March 9. —(Wall Street) —Heavy trading in United States Steel f individual lots ranging from 1,000 to j 6,500 shares, was the feature of to- ■ day's early operations. The stock made only a slight advance, however, ; being quoted at 110% to 110%, an ex- j treme gain over night of % of a point. 1 Among specialties advances of 2 to almost 3 points were made by Ohio i Gas and Montana Power, with a point each for Columbia Gas, American j Woolen, Central Leather, shipping > and Gulf States Steel. Later Crucible 1 Steel, Texas Company, International • Paper and Candian Pacific were added to the other strong issues.* , Advances were extended during the active forenoon, United States steel rising to 111% with gains of 1 to 2% points for Crucible, Lackawanna and Gulf States Steels, Republic Iron, Col- j orado Fuel and Virginia Coal and Iron. As trading broadened equipments, oils, motors and fertilisers were added to i the list of strong stocks. General Mo tors rising 5 % points with 7 % for American Tobacco and 15 for South , Porto Kico sugar. Aside from the Pacifies and a few minor shares, rails were dull and irregular. Extensive buying of foreign bonds at substantial fractional gains was attributed to the I removal of restrictions by the Federal j Reserve Board. NEW YORK STOCKS I Chandler Bros. & Co., members New York and Philadelphia Stock Ex | changes, 3 North Market Square, Har irisburg; 1338 Chestnut street, Phila i delphia; 34 Pine street. New York, • furnish the following quotations: New York, March 9. 2 p. m. Open. Quot. Allis Chalmers 28 28% I Amer Beet Sugar . 92 ' i American Can '46% iAm Car and Foundry Yo 67% J;? I'* 1 '* ; Amer Loco 71 72 % Amer Smeltin.g 103 105 % American Sugar 110% 110% Anaconda 84% 84% , Atchison 101% 101% ! Baldwin Locomotive ... 53 54%; Baltimore and Ohio 75% 75% I Bethlehem Steel 141 141 i Butte Copper 47% 4 8 . California Petroleum ... 24% 24% | Canadian Pacific 153% 153% j (Central Leather I Chesapeake and Ohio .. 57% 57% Chi Mil and St Paul 80% 81% < Chino Con Copper 60% 60% | Col Fuel and Iron 47% 47% , Corn Products 24% 24% I Crucible Steel 66% 68 Crucible Steel pfdf 112% 112% Distilling Securities .... 21 21 Erie 26% 26% General Motors Goodrich B F 55% 55% I Great Northern Ore subs 35% 35% ! i Inspiration. Copper 60 61 % j j Interboro-Met 12 % 12% | Jnterboro-Met pfd 66 ' : Kennecott 45% I i Lackawanna Steel 84 84% | i Lehigh Valley 68% 69% j Maxwell Motors 55 54 > 1 Merc Mar Ctfs 27% Merc Mar Ctfs pfd 7 4 75% i Mex Petroleum SB% 89% Miami Copper 41% 41% j NY N H and H 44 43% j New York Ont and Northern Pacific 103% 102% | Pacific Mail 23 V* 23% | Pennsylvania Railroad.. 54 54 Pressed Steel Car 80% 80% Ray Con Copper 28% 29% i Reading 92% 93% | Republic Iron and Steel. 80% 81% j Southern Pacific 92% 93% Southern Ry 27% 27% Studebaker 101% 103% Union Pacific 134% 134% U S I Alcohol 119 120% U S Rubber 59 59 U S Steel 110% 111% U S Steel pfd 117 % 118 Utah Copper 113% 113% West Union Telegraph.. 50% 50% Willys-Overland 34% 35 C. 1. & S. Receivership to Soon Be Dismissed The Central Iron and Steel Com pany is now in the midst of a boom and the receivers which were appoint ed three years ago will be dismissed, j according to an announcement made yesterday. j The receivers are Charles L. Bailey, ;J. V. W. Reynders and James M. I Cameron. The new officers who will, take charge within the next half year are: Robert H. Irons, president: Francis J. Hall, vice-president; L. D. Perry, secretary and treasurer; J. M. Cameron, Vance C. McCormick, Chas. L. Bailey, Jr., and Edward Bailey, directors. ORLEANS AMERICAN SUSPENDS New Orleans, La., March 9. Hugh A. O'Donnell, of Philadelphia, now un der sentence of six months' imprison ment and SSOO fine for libeling Mayor Behrman and other city officials and , under other libel charges in the crim . inal courts for attacks on the race tracks and saloons of New Orleans, , announced that the Orleans American, : of which he has been editor, would not publish to-morrow. PROPOSE "BONE DRY" LAW u j Atlanta, Ga., March 9. Governor • [ Harris to-day called a special session II of the Georgia legislature to meet > | March 20, to consider a "bone-dry" ■ j bill and a deficit of SBO,OOO in the con federate prison fund. riill.ADKl.rillA PRODt'CB i By Associated Press Philadelphia. March 9. Wheat Higher; No. 2. red. spot and March, $1.99@>3.04; No. 2. Southern, red, $1.97® 2.02. Corn —Market higher; No. 2, yellow, $1.23® 1.24: No. a, yellow, $1.22® 1.23; No. 4, yellow, $1.20® 1.21; No. 6, yellow, $1.18St;1.19; No. 3, Southern, yellow, 91.19 1.20. Oats The market is higher; No. 2, white, 75@75 1 / 4 c; No. 3, white, 73® 73 He. Bran la scarce and firm; mills, winter, per ton. s3t>.uo; west ern winter, per ton. $26.60; soft, winter per ton. $42.50@43.50; spring, per ton. *41.00® 42.00. Refined Sugars Quiet, but steady; powdered. 7.10 c; line granulated, 7.00 c; confectioners' A. 6.90 c. Butter—The murKet Is steady; western, creamery. extras. 41® 42c; nearby prints, fancy. 44c. Eggs The market is easier; Pennsylvania, and other nearby firsts, free cases, $8.70 per case; do., current receipts, l'ree cases, $8.4714 per case; western, extras, firsts, t'reo cases. sß.ioi per case; do., llrsts, free cases, $8.55 per case. l<ive Poultry—Firm, good demand; fowls, 22®23c; old roosters, 16®47c, do., staggy. 18%20c; spring chickens. 23®24c; ducks, 23®24c; geese, 19© 22c. Dressed Poultry Mai'ket Arm; fowls, fancy, 23Vs®2lc; do., good to choice. 22 , / £®23c; do., small sizes, 19© 21c; old roosters, 20c; roasting chick ens, western. 21®2be; oroiluiu inn-Kms western, lS@26c; do., nearby, 30@25c; spring ducks, uearoy. 23 ur 2t>c; do western, 22®24c; geese, nearby, 19© 21c; do., western, 18®20c; turkeys, fancy, iurge. nearby, 32®33c, do., weal em, fancy, large, 32@33c; do., western, fair to good. 3o®-1lc; do., common. 24<u 27c; do., old toms, 29@30c. Potatoes Market dull and weak; Pennsylvania, per bushel, $2.50®2.75; New York, per bushel. $2.50®>275; Jersey, per basket. $1.40@1.65. Flour Market quiet, but steady; j winter, clear, $.15®8.4U; do., strmglit. 1 $8.60 <tt> 9.00; do., patents, $9.00®9.35; 'spring firsts, clear, $8.75@9.00; do.. I patents, $9.40®9.75; do., favorite brands, : *9.60®10.00. | Hay Firm with a fair demand; ; new timothy, No. 1, large oalea, $18.ou; No. 1. small bales, slß.oo® 18.50; I No. 2. $15.50® 16.00; No. 3, $13.00@14.00; sample. * I u.uu "" 12.u0 Clover mixed. Light mixed. $16.00© I 16.50; No. 1. do., f15.00® 16.00; No. 2. do.. | 413.00© 14.00. CHICAGO CATTLE Bv Associated Press Chicago. 111., March 9. Cattle Re | ceipts, 2,000; strong. Native beef cat tle, sß.sofa 12.50; stocker.s and feeders, I $6.60®9.60; cows and heifers, $5.60® I 10.50; calves, $9.50© 13.00. Sheep Receipts. 9,000; firm. I Wethers, sll.oo® 12.40; lambs. $12.10 j © 15.05. I Hogs Receipts, 18,000; strong, 10c 1 above yesterday's average. Bulk of I sales, $14.60® 14.95; light, $14.20© 14.90; mixed, $11.45® 15.05; heavy, $14.40® 15.05; rough, $14.40©14.55; pigs, $11.35 @13.75. CHICAGO HO A HI) OK TRADE By Associated Press Chicago, ill., March 9. Board of ! Trade closing: ! Wheat—May. 1.87' i; July. 1.56V4. I Corn—May, 1.09U ; July, I.oß'i. Oats- —May. 59V; July, 57 l Pork—May, 33.20; July, 32.47. ' Ijird—May, 18.80; July, 18.77. ! Ribs—May, 17.37; July. 17.12. Former U. S. Officials Now oh Way Home J Washington, March 9. Former American officials and government ! employes in Germany who arrived in j Havana March 5, on the steamer Al fonso XIII, and are now on the way I to their homes, according to the State Department to-day, include H. G. I Seltzer, formerly consul at Breslau, of I Hamburg, Pa.; Miss Ella White, em ] bassy clerk, and her mother, of Hon olulu; Miss Meta Winter, embassy cloK, of Detroit; Miss Ruth Lehmann, clerk, of Cleveland, and Miss Vivian Stermer, clerk and her mother, of Boston. Ambassador Gerard and another party of embassy and consular offi cials, who left Corunna, Spain, on the steamer Infanta Ysabel, are expected at Havana shortly. GEORGE W. PATTERSON* DIES George W. Patterson, aged 36, died yesterday at his home, 1166 South Cameron street. Funeral services will be held from the Marion Street Mis sion, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Patterson is survived by a wife, a son, his mother, two brothers and two sisters. INBW LOCATION Our Sales and Service Departments are now lo cated in Rooms 105-107 and 109 Telegraph Building, Harrisburg. BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE CO. R. W. DOWDELL, Sales Manager TKLEPHONESI Hell (ITU W C. V. 3<INI REMOVAL NOTICE—N. BRENNER COSTIMER AND PAWNBROKER Announces Removal of Rls Store From 426 WALNUT STREET TO 1315 NORTH THIRD STREET Spain Cuts Down on Lighting to Save Fuel Ly Associated Press Madrid, via Paris, March B.—As a result of a cabinet meeting at which the growing difficulties In the food and fuel situation were considered the min ister of thu interior has instructed the provincial governors to reduce by one- I half the lighting of cities and towns ! after 10 o'clock at night anl to econo mize coal. A number of passenger trains are likely to be suppressed in a short time and the government also foresees the early adoption of a uni form loaf baked from uniform flour ns in France. The labor crisis and the food prob- . lent are still further aggravated by the great storm which had raged for two days throughout the country. In Andaulusla a Hood on the Guadalqui vir swept away several bridges, isolat ed many places. Dispatches from Ferrol, Valencia, Bilboa and Almeria report great destruction of property. In Avilia snow has t>ompletely stopped the trains. The general commanding the troops in Morocco reports that tor rential rains have caused great havou there. FIRE IX GRAIN* ELEVATOR By Associated Press Detroit. Mich., March 9. —The grain elevator of the Detroit Terminal Rail road Company caught lire shortly be fore noon to-day. The. flames spread I quickly through the building, which contained several hundred thousand bushels of wheat. It is feared the ele vator and contents will be totally de stroyed. Legal Notices NOTICE is hereby given that an ap plication will be made to the Governor of Pennsylvania on or after Monday. April 2. 1917, by J. E. Crass, Fred. ('. Peace and Arthur D. Bacon, under the Act of Assembly, entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation and regu lation of certain corporations," approv - ed April 29, 1874. and the supplements and amendments thereto, for the char ter of an intended corporation to be called HARRISBURG COCA-CODA BOTTLING WORKS, the character anil object of which is manufacturing, bot tling, buying, ' Selling and dealing in coca-cola and other non-alcoholic bev erages, carbonated, prepared and na tural waters, and all articles of a simi lar or cognate character, and the trans action of all business incident or ap purtenant thereto, and for these pur poses to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of said Act of Assembly, and supplements and amendments thereto. OLMSTED, SNYDER & MILLER, Solicitors. NOTICE Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Charlotte Yeager. late of ; Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa., de ! ceased, having been granted to the un ; dersignea residing in Wilkes-Barre and , Harrisburg, all persons indebted to said I Instate are requested to make immedi- I ate payment, and those having claims will present them for settlement. E. C. WIDEMAN. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; WM. R. BOLLENDORF, 26 North Seventeenth Street. Harrisburg, Pa., Or to Executors. | EARLE E. RENN, Attorney-at-Law. Russ Building. \ I H r Father Huntington will preach , in St. Stephen's Church to-night i at 8 o'clock and on Saturday even -1 ing at the same hour. The Sat . urday evening service will be the 1 closing service of Father Hunt ington's conference.
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