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MILLS SHUT FIVE
DAYS AND ON TEN
MONDAYS AFTER
Gallinger Introduces Resolution to Prevent Drastic
Order From Becoming Effective; Official Text May
Permit More Liberal Interpretation; Protests From
All Parts of Country Pour Into Washington
HITCHCOCK ASKS DELAY OF FIVE DAYS;
GARFIELD APPEARS BEFORE COMMITTEE
Passenger Transportation Lines to Be Run on Basis of
Number of Trains Operated For Sunday Service; Rail
roads to Get Coal First; Household Necessities to Be
Second in Matter of Priority
CONGRESSMEN ENDEAVOR TO CHECK ORDER
Washington, Jan. 17. A movement lor suspension of Fuel Ad
ministrator tiinlield s order until alter its necessity is established 1
investigation was set afoot to-day in the Senate. A rcsoluion to that
purpose was prepared by Senaor Gallinger, Republican leader.
The resolution by Senator (inllinscr was prepared after at con.
fcrence with other Republican leaders who were determined to pre
vent, if |H>ssihle, having the coal order go into effect.
News of the agitation evidently got to the ears or the administra
tion leaders, because Fuel Administrator Garfield hurried to the
Capitol.
Washington, Jan. 17.—Protests against tlie fuel administration
order closing down industrial plants began pouring into the White
House and Congress to-day from all over the country. Business,
men everywhere, aroused at the prospect, objected to its enforce
ment and suggested many other remedies.
It developed to-day that under the fuel administration's plan
the government will buy all coal consigned to the suspended
industries. These transactions will be conducted through the'
11 easury Department and it is estimated will cost the govern
ment about $25,000,000. State fuel administrators will re-dis-l
tal-ftc the coal to food plants and other industries permitted!
to run.
Will Issue Rulings
The fuel administration will issue a series of rulings on queries!
:oncerning the conservation order. State fuel administrators will
not be allowed to make rulings and the ruling issued here will
have general application.
The order will not include natural gas nor use of wood as
fuel, nor power derived from water. It is said the exception of!
necessary war industries from the operation of the order might'
be more liberal than first announcements indicated.
The fuel administration meanwhile hurried on the machinery!
for carrying out the plan. Fuel administrator Garfield assembled!
ill his legal staff and began preparation of the formal order, which it was!
promised would clear up many points whteh were indefinite or conflicting
n the abstract and statement issued last night.
Order Not Yet Draw"
It developed that the or-lcr actually had not IK drawn when Mr
• arliclil made ins announcement and when the fuel administration issued
n abstract oi w hat it was expected to be. It was -aid that Hi. full tcvt l
'( the order c<>uld not be prepared in time to be ; lvcn out much before
Ills afternoon an.l there was some doubt as to whether it* text would be
eady for publication in evening papers to-day.
\ seilcs of rulings or interpret!!-1
ions to he issued in connection with
lie order Is expected to make the
itim(ion more clear.
Under a proposition which it was]
lecided this morning' to insert in t]ie|
>rder, tiio government will becornc|
ho purchaser of virtually all coal!
jroduced in the live-day closing |
>eriod. Alines producing coal under 1
•ontract to Iml nutrias which will bo
•lo.sej down will be directed to turn
heir output over to state fuel nd- j
ninlstrators under biil of lading at-j
ached. The Treasury Department!
vlll set aside $25,000,000 for thof
)urchase of this coal.
Coal in transit to industry which
ichools With Coal Fuel Conservation Order
May Remain Open j Will Prove Hardship to
During Monday Holidays Workmen of Small Means
/?v Associated Press
Philadelphia. Jan. IT.—State Fuel
Uiminlatrator Potter issued the Hrgt
rder affecting educational institu-
,ona to-day. It was:
"Schools with fuel on hand can
eep open during the live-day period
nd Mondays, but no coal will be de-
Ivered during the live-day period and
hereafter until the priority orders
ave been tilled. Boarding schools
re excepted from the provisions of
ic rilling."
M STONE'S SPEECH DELAYED
* By Associated Press
Washington, Jan. IT.—Senator
tono's speech on "politics in the
'ar," f-.it for to-day and which he
pd specially requested Senator Pen
aso, •}.' Pennsylvania, to hear,' was
us; until Mond.iy.
will be closed will not be uurehasedl
by the government but merely will 1
bo diverted by the stato fuel admin
istrators and turned over to the con
sumers who come within the prefer
ential list. The coal will be paid'
for by the ultimate, consignee who|
will remit directly to the mines in j
which the coal o-iginaled.
Garfield Keserves Wide Powers
The rulings to be issued in eon-'
iiecfion with tlic order will be gcn-l
eral in scope. I'ucl Administrator i
Garfield has reserved to himself the!
p<>ucr to make interpretations and]
state fuel administrators will be'
permitted to make only special rul-j
ings to tit cases of the gravest emer
[Continued on Page 10.]
By Associated Pres.'
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 17. W. G. j
l ee, president of the Brotherhood of I
Trainmen, in a statement given out'
here to-day giving his views on the!
fuel conservation order, deplores the!
additional hardship and deprivation!
workingmen will suffer who "are
only able to maintain their families
by working every day."
TEXAN APPHOACUKS POUT
By Associated Press
An Atlantic Port, Jan. IT. He
ports received here to-day from the
steamer Texan, damaged in a col
lision with another vessel Monday,
said she was proceeding to port un-!
der her own steam.
IIARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1918
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Garfield's Order Cutting Fuel Consumption
Washington, Jan. 17.—An abstract of the fuel
administration's order for fuel saving covering all
points was given as follows:
1 Until further order of the United States fuel
administrator, all persons selling fuel in what
ever capacity shall give- preference to orders for
necessary requirements:
A—Of railroads.
B— Or domestic consumers, hospitals, charitable
institutions and Army and Navy cantonments.
C—Of public utilities, telephones and telegraph
plants.
T>—Of ships and vessels for bunker purposes.
K—Of the United States for strictly governmental
purposes, not including orders from or for fac
tories or plants working on contracts for the
United States;
F—Of municipal, county or state governments for
necessary public uses; ,
<;— of manufacturers of perishable food or of food
for necessary immediate consumption.
The order further provides that on January 18.
19, 20, 21, and 2a, 1918, no fuel shall bo delivered
to any person, firm, association or corporation for
any uses or requirements not included in the fore
going list until tlie requirements included in the
list shall have been first delivered.
On January IS, 19, 20, 21 and 22. 1918, and also
on each and every Mot May beginning January 28,
1918, and continuing up and including March 25,
1918, no manufacturing plant shall burn fuel or
use power derived from fuel for any purpose
except—
A—Such plants as from their nature must be con
tinuously operated seven days each week to
avoid serious injury to the plant itself or its
contents.
"—Manufacturers of perishable foods.
C—Manufacturers of food not perishable and not
in immediate demand who may burn fuel to
■such an extent as is authorized by the Fuel
Administrator of the state in which such plant
is located or by his representative authorized
therefor, upon application by the, United States
Food Administrator.
I) Printers or publishers of daily papers may burn
fuel as usual excepting on every Monday from
January 21 to March 25, 1918, Inclusive, on
which days they may burn fuel to such extent
as is necessary to issue such editions as such
ENFORCED HOLIDA Y COAL IS RUSHED
KEEPS THOUSANDS TO FAMILIES IN
HERE OUT OF WORK REAL DISTRESS
Harrisburg's big mills and indus
' tries to-day were making hasty pre
parations to close down all opera
tions at midnight to-night for the en
forced holiday for five days ordered
by the federal fuel administrator.
Thousands of workmen in the big
Steelton mills of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, the Pipe and Pipe Bend
ing Works, the Central Iron and
Steel Company and the great num
ber will be thrown into enforced
idleness by the order designed to
conserve coal.
In addition to this the big and
little stores and shops, the theaters
and schools, the office buildings and
street railway systems must observe
a complete holiday on Mondays, be-
GOVERNOR TAKES |
UP FUEL ORDERS;
STATE HAS COAL
All Inquiries Arc lo (io lo Ad
ininistralor Poller, in
Philadelphia
"The relation of the stale govern
ment to the national fuel administra
tion's 'shut down order' will be care
fully studied, but until 1 receive of
ficial advices 1 can scarcely make any
statement about it. I have been in
consultation with the Attorney Gen
eral and heads of departments about [
the matter," .said Governor Brum
baugh to-day.
Numerous messages were received
at the Capitol regarding effect of the
order, but the state officials are
awaiting further information. Com
missioner of Labor and Industry
Palmer, who wired for interpreta
tions of the order, was informed that
all appeals from state residents or
businessmen relative to the new or
ders should be made to William Pot
ter, state fuel administrator at Phil
adelphia.
Attorney General Brown said that!
he was of the opinion that the Gov-j
crnor had no authority to declare)
legal holidays, such matters being!
| for the legislature. Air. Palmer, who!
[was Hooded with inquiries as to ef-1
L'ect on various industries, placed :iev
eral questions before the Attorne:
General who is seeking information
from Washington.
Dr. J. George Becht, Secretary oi
the State Board of Education, said
that he had no information as to i
whether the new order would affoctj
schools, and Superintendent G. A.I
Slireiner, of the Capitol, said he wsj
awaiting orders. The state has
enough coal 011 hand to run its light
and heat plant in the Capitol until
May, but it has numerous bureaus'
In oltice buildings outside of tiiel
Capitol.
Until the official order is received '
here it is improbable that any sta/e- |
ment will be made by the Governor.)
papers customarily issue on important national
legal holidays, and where such papers do not
issue any editions on a holiday, they are per
mitted to issue one edition on the said Mondays.
K—Printing establishments which may burn fuel
on January 18, 19, 20 and 22, to such extent as
is necessary to issue current numbers of maga
zines and other publications periodically Issued.
On each Monday, beginning January 21, 1918,
and continuing up to and including Monday, March
25, 1918, no fuel shall be burned, except to such
extent as is essential to prevent injury to property
from freezing, or the purpose of supplying heat for;
A—Any business or professional offices, except of
fices used by the United States, state, county or
municipal governments, transportation com
panies, or which are occupied by banks and trust
companies or by physicians or dentists.
B—Wholesale or retail stores, or any other stores,
business houses or buildings whatever, except,
that for purpose of selling food only, for which
purposes stores may maintain necessary heat
until 12 o'clock noon, and for the purpose of
selling drugs and medical supplies only, stores
may maintain necessary heat throughout the
day and evening.
C—Theaters, moving picture houses, bowling alleys,
billiard rooms, private or public dance halls, or
any other place of amusement.
On the above specified Mondays, no fuel shall
lie burned for the purpose of heating rooms or
buildings in which liquor is sold on these days.
No fuel shall be burned on any of the foregoing
specified Mondays for the purpose of supplying
power for the movement of surface, elevated, sub
way or suburban cars or trains in excess of the
amount used on the Sundays previously thereto.
The order provides that nothing in this order
shall be held to forbid the surning of fuel to
heat rooms or such portions or buildings as are
used in connection with the production or distribu
tion of fuel.
The state fuel administrators arc authorized by
the order to issue orders on special applications for
relief, where necessary, to prevent injury to health
or destruction o! or injury to property by lire or
freezing.
The order is effective in all of the territory of
the United States east of the Mississippi Uiver in
cluding the whole of the states of Louisiana'and
ginning next week, for ten cortsecu- !
tive weeks.
While businessmen and heads of I
industries here were by no means |
pleased with the order, which was |
said will hurt wage earners who need!
the money they will lose during the
enforced holiday, there was a ells- j
position here this morning to grin
and bear the burden.
"We must be good soldiers," was
the comment made by W. P. Starkey,
general superintendent of the pipe
mill.
Market street businessmen who
studied Garfield's order closely this
morning say that there will be vir
tually no difference between Sunday j
[Continued on Page It!.]
A. S. PATTERSON
NAMES C. OF C.
COMMITTEES
. • '~
Appointed to!
Aid New (*liit*f of j
Trade Body
i
Andrew S Patterson, president of,
llie llarrisburg Chamber of Coiii-j
nierce, to-day announced the vari
ous committees of the chamber to!
curry on its activities during his ad- j
ministration.
In addition to the general commit-!
tees, it is the poiiey ot the cham-i
ber to have the chairmen of those
committees appoint special com
mittees to handle specific subjects,
coming under the heading of the,
different committees' activities where |
[Continued on Page 8 ]
WEATHER FORECAST
For HnrriMburK mid vicinity:
(•morally- fair t-niKlit ami Fri
day) not iiiueli change in lent- I
pcraturcs lon-rut to-night about
Id ileisrem.
CUT OUT "
One Cigar
One Soda
One Ride
One Movie
EVERY WEEK
And lend that quarter
to Uncle Sam and get
for it a Thrift Stamp.
£ST You'll Be
Saving Money >
Deliveries oi' What Little Fuel
Is on Hand Delayed
by Snow
<•„! f .r, V Harrißb ">K dealers received
coal late yesterday and this morning
coallM S " ft ? ri,ls: among the city's
cc alless has been avoided by t lie
main enanee of a fuel supply bureau
?o n ! ( - ha " 1 ,,, pr "f Commerce office
to place orders of sufTerers in the
hands of dealers who have coal
More than seventy-six cases reported
L ,r rio,,s were investigated bv
I the police yesterday, and turned over
'to the ( humber of Commerce, I'oal
Who ® upplied to fifty-five families
I who were reported to he suffering.
I Ibis morning the announcement was
| made that two trucks and a cart have
[Continued on Page 14.]
All Trolley Lines Are
Again in Operation After
Digging Through Drifts
At 10.T.0 this morning Felix M
(Davis. superintendent of transporta
tion 01 (lie Harrison rs Railways
ompnny, was able to announce the
| complete reopening of all traffic
over th. company's lines in Harris
burg and to suburban towns. The
■ast Hue was opened up this morniug,
I u ' ° sweepers, a plow,
I inu !arse gang of laborers under
| H'° . supervision of Mr
Oiivis, had worked on the Cupitai
. .'tieet iino for three hours, the iirst
! ear was run over this line. The
it apt la) street lino was closed up for
| three days and three nights, before I
?. K^ eperH "'anaged to clear a
; path this morning:.
At 9 o'clock last night, service was'
| resumed with Rockviile after a 48-1
.hour shut down. The line to Rock-I
Mile was closed In many places by I
drifts four feet deep that extended I
i for hundreds of feet.
The Linglestown line was opened
up yesterday afternoon after a pans;
wm! | orer l . cleared the paths
with shovels. Service on all subur
ban lines was in full swing to-day '
. Ihe service in the city to-day and !
.last night was normal, the railways!
company reported this morning. The 1
only delays are caused by the heaped !
I up streets, which necessitate traffic I
on the tracks by wagons and nTotor i
| trucks. Cars traveled in pairs a
| great deal last night, but that diffl-l
I on It y has been greatly overcome to- i
: day. This evening will see all traffic
i back to normal, Mr. Davis, said. ]
Germany Sends U. S.
Poisonous Pollen in
Effort to Kill Wheat
San Francisco, Jan. 17. Ger
many's latest attempt to destroy the
wheat crop of California and other
states, has taken the form of ship
ment to this country of powerful
noisnnous pollen to be distributed
by German agents here in such a
manner as to kili the entire output I
I of this state, according to a bulletin I
| issued to-day by the State Council
[of Defense.
TEUTONS BREAK
PEACE PARLEY
! WITH RUSSIANS,
BERLIN REPORTS
i Official Statement Gives Re
ply of German Govern
ment to Russ Proposals;
Negotiations Terminate
IMPOSSIBLE TO
BRIDGE DIFFERENCES
Central Powers Are Com
pelled to Continue War
Against Their Other Ene
mies, the Statement Says
Berlin, Jan. 17.—Via London
—An official statement issued
here to-day giving the reply by
the central powers to the*°Rns
s-ian proposals at Brest-Litovsk
011 Monday says the Russian
proposals concerning the re
gions occupied by the central powers
diverge to sucli a degree from the
views of the central powers that in
their present form they are inac
ceptable.
The official statement says the
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GAMBLERS ARE
SCORED FOR USE
OFPUNCHBOARDS
I Judge Kunkel Imposes Heavy
Sentence on First Oper
ator Before Him
x '
When Jacob T. Brenner, charged
with operating punchboards, defined
under the law as gambling devices,
appeared before President Judge)
George Kunkel to-day to plead guilty
the court indicated violators of this
j law would not be dealt with leni
ently.
Brenner was fined $l5O and costs,
Judge Kunkel intimating that if
necessary prison sentences will be
imposed in order to break up the use
of punchboardd.
In testifying Brenner said he be
lieved many other dealers in the city
j used the boards and also admitted
I when questioned by Judge Kunkel
that one of the men selling th'e
I boards offered to pay half the tine
: imposed.
j The court directed District Attor
| ney Stroup to Inviestigate this state
iment. In Imposing the sentence Judge
Kunkel Kiiid. "It is no excuse for one
| person to violate the law because
; others <lo. \\ e will give the man who
| made promises to you a chance to
I keep his word with you. I am satis
tied he won't. If he does then we can
have the satisfaction of having him
j suffer part of tho punishment."
I There are several other similar!
cases on the trial list for this session !
of court. Some of the defendants ma; !
be called for trial later in the day. j
Christ llofsess held on a charge I
of stealing some meat at an uptown
mai'kcthouse, was on trial this morn-1
ing. The jury returned a verdict of I
guilty of receiving stolen goods. Tie
will be sentenced later. Annie Tuah
-011, accused of larceny of aprons and
dry goods from a small store in Wal
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Congressman Chandler
Will Be Here Saturday
Secretary Beeves, of the Y. M.!
! C. A., announces that owing to the I
j Federal government's order to close!
entertainments of all description |
next Monday night, he has arranged!
to have Congressman Walter M. j
('handler give his patriotic address,
"How the War Comes to America."
ir. Fahnestock Hall next Saturday
evening, January 19, at 8 o'clock, in
stead of on Monday evening, the
21st.
Speed Up Congress to
Adjourn June First
By Associated Press
Washington. Jan. 17.—Speeding up
of all appropriation measures by
avoiding unnecessary hearings and all |
possible delays, with a view to con- ;
eluding all business of the House by
May 15 and readiness to adjourn Con
gress by June 1 was agreed upon at
a conference to-day between Speaker !
Clark, Democratic deader Kitehin and i
the chairmen of all the leading com- ]
mittees of the House.
Single Copy, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA
I. LATE NEWS'!
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<s* MARKET CLOSES HEAVY <l
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* New Yorh—Marine preferred featured the final hour,
<■** makir. i ex" cr.ie advance of five points before another K
?• *t •
realizin movement provoked a general reaction. The
closing was heavy. Liberty 3 1-2's sold at 98.60 to 98.50, '*§*
If *r
first 4's at 97 12 to 97.00 and second 4's, at 96.26 to the ,jj
1 new minimum of 96.08. The government's conservation >2,
j§ policy was almost the sole influence in to-day's market, .*£
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Early weakness was succeeded by strength but much of *L
T* this advantage was forefcited in the final hour. Sales ap- 'f'
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proximated 750,000 shares. 1 '*s
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<# IIYLAN MAY COMMANDEER COAL
c ', a New York—An ordinance erhpowering Mayor Hylan X
*?* to commandeer any surplus coal held by individuals or
Ht*
rj-* corporations in New York City and to use it for the bene*
7 fit of the city was adopted by the Board of Aldermen herr *l*
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|<A to-day. L
H* THREAT M KltfG FERDINAND'S ARREST
W* Petrograd Premier Lsnine to-day signed an order for .t*
<4* the arrest of Kiin Ferdinand of Rumania, who is to be
*l* sent to Petrograd for imprisonment in the Fortress of T
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)£♦ St. Peter and St. Paul. The order for the king's arrest *|*
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I describe* in derail the way it is to be carried out.
k* WLLIAM BAKER FOUND DEAD
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! A* New* York—Scarcely an hour after relatives of Wil-
MI liam H. Baker, former vice-president of the Postal Tele- X
i
j graph Company and former secretary of the Western V
Union Telegraph Company, had asked the police to £
▼ search for him to-day, he was found dead in a room in
| , , tig*
the Artsonia Hotel. The police reported he had shot
himself. .
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£ FUEL COMMITTEE TO PUBLIC 9
Harrisburg—"The Federal F"uel Committee fur
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Dauphin county does not understand that it has any *f"
At J
i authorit yto depart from the instructions issued in the V
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proclarnation,by Dr. Garfield, made January 16, and that $
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;A) each individual or corporation must decide for themselves V
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any question in the interpretation of that proclamation ♦**
f<4* which may be doubtful. The committee will expect
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' At, every seller and user of fuel and power generated by fuel
r|* to strictly and cheerfully as a patriotic duty obey the jjp
jg orders of Dr. Garfield in his proclamation." This state
ment was issued by the Federal Fuel Committee for V
Dauphin county this afternoon. Delivery of coal to
I
At domestic con ;umers is not interfered with by the orders.
4* FORMER EMPEROR ESCAPED, IS REPORT X
£ London- Nicholas Romanoff, the former emperor, and *F
|T his family have escaped from their prison near Tobolsk, f
!4* It is reported in Petrograd, according to a Reuter dispatch
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jJL from the Russian capital. The report, the dispatch adds, ,*f*
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lT lackt confirmation. L
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il* SENATE DELAYS GARFIELD HEARING |
<4* Washington Dr. national fuel adminis- X
i , trator, was e.. .mined by the Senate Coal Committee this ♦*-
afternoon. I'h" Senate agreed to postpone further debate
!
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12 CHARLES THOMPSON KILLED
liarrisburi;—Charles Thompson, formerly a well T
known city policeman, fell from the roof of his home, 913 !*s
i Capitol street, this afternoon while clearing it of snow, X
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i fractured his skull and died a short time after. jf
MUTINY AT KIEL 'j
IT London—A mutiny among submarine crews at th
German naval base a Kiel on January 7is reported in 3 '*|*
T Exchange Tele 0 : aph dispatch froin Geneva. Thirty-eight 'X
oifictib aie aid to have been killed. (X
BRITISH CARRY OUT SUCCESSFUL RAID T
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. London—British troops carried out a successful raid f
last night of St. Quentin, to-day's war office report
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.mUKIAGE
William ii. ShtifAehottom nnl Hckmlc n. Ilncfncr. Udoaalers
Willlnm .1. Mcault Ifirlr, nnd lOilyfla K. Klnl/or, WoniflNdorfi Walter
* **• Hojnlton, nnl Knthryn . Trelobler, Mlddletonn.