6 SUBCOMMITTEE BACKS BILL OF WIDE POWERS I Overman Measure, Granting President Much Power, Receives Endorsement Washington, Feb. 22.—Systematic direction and control over the indus tries of the country is contemplated by the administration if the Over man bill, granting broad powers to the President, which the subcommit tee of the Senate Judiciary Commit tee voted yesterday to report to the full committee, shall be put through Congress with sufficient speed. Tins control, it was said, will be exercised through a central board, which will direct not only all pur chases of the various departments of the government to eliminate the present system of competitive buy ing, but will supervise production in accordance with the needs of the na tion and the Allies. According to present arrange ments, officials stated, the war in dustries board, which has been the chief dependence of the various de partments in obtaining materials and placing orders, will be absorbed and its utilized tinder Food Will Win the War —Don't Waste It Genuine Reductions on certain lots of SHOES make the following numbers of special inter est to you. Men's Dress Growing Girls Shoes Shoes in black, gun-metal, in Patent Colt Button good - year welts Jow heels. Sizes 2 1-2 Neolin soles, broad or to _ 4 - r A g° od S 3OO English toes. $3.50 value for values for $1.95 $2.45 I Ladies' Patent All Sizes Leather English Ladies' High Lace either ® white Boots , tops. Mostly all wel- Louis heels, either ted soles, with mili solid black or com- tary heels. All sizes bination colored tops. *3 A, £* $4.00 values $2.95 Ladies' Black All Sizes English Shoes i j jrv i rp Sizes 21-2 to 4 Ladies Dark Tan rj 'm English Lace Boots Ladies' Colored military heels. Sizes Cloth Top Shoes 1 *: den township, died from a complication of diseases. She was 4 7 years old and besides her husband is survived by live children, her aged father and a brother. Fair Food The following statement, revised to February 22. regarding fair prices for food necessities, was issued to-day by the local Federal 1-ooa Administration. „ . Consumer prices are figured on a quotation "cash-and-carry oasis. Credit and delivery prices may be higher. The Federal Food Adminis tration has no authority to fix prices. It may, however, determine what are fair prices, based on reason able profits to the wholcs&ler and re tailer. If your retailer charges more on a "cash-and-carry" basis than the prices named below, report him by letter to the Federal, Food Ad ministration, Chamber of Commerce. _ Retailer Consumer puys should pay BKANS „„ Navy (pea), lt> ' 15V4 to ltic 17 to -0c Gray (marrow), lb .... St to 11c Lima, lb 16 to 17c. 18 to .Oc White (marrow), lb - 17% c 1J to -Oi. BUTTER . Creamery, lb S3 to 57c M to 60c Creamery, 1 lb. prints, lb. . 51c 5-1 to bc Freeh Print, lb 54c Tub, storage, lb 49c * to sjc CORNMEAb Package of 2 , / 4 lbs., pkg 17c 18 to .0c Bulk, lb • 6Hc \ to 8c City Market, lb. ,u EGGS Fresh, doz 55 to 60c ®0 to 65c City Market, doz 55 to bOc Storage, doz FLOUR 50-50 flour, 10-tt). bag .J 0c W4nter, 24-tb. bags 7., 11.33 $1.40 to 1.40 Spring, 24-lb. bags $1.55 to $1.60 $1,70 to SI.BO LARU Lard, lb f. 18 to 31% c 32 to 35c Compound (substitute) 23 to 240 28c POTATOES N Pennsylvania, No. 1. bushel $1.50 to $1.60 $1.75 to SI.BO City Marr.et, bushel $1.35 to $1.50 SUGAR Granulated, cwt $7.85 lb. 9 to 9Hc Complaint has reached the local Food Administration that flour and like commodities sold in bags and marked to contain certain quantities has not been holding out as net Weights. We suggest that consumers experiencing this trouble get in touch with their local Weight and Meas ure Bureau. The following are the authorized substitutes for wheat flour: Hom iny. corn grits, cornmeal, corn flour, edible cornstarch, barley flour, roll ed oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour, buckwheat 'flour, potato flour, sweet po tato flour and sugar bean flour. > Dauphin County Food Administrator McCormick is in receipt of the following advice from the Shredded Wheat Company: "Gentlemen, this is to advise you that shredded wheat may be sold without substitutes." CALIFORNIA ORANGES NOT TO BE HAD IN THE CITY California oranges, better known t as th'e "seedless" variety, are hardly r to be had in Harrisburg, and a con- t tinued scarcity if not an actual famine, of the fruit is anticipated by wholesale fruit dispensers here, r This wa sthe opinion of two of the * leadinv fruit distributors in the city J this mornlpg. As a result of the scarcity, con- ' sumers are paying twice as much for * California oranges as they did at this . 1 time last year. A box of California j "Gold nuggets" which arrived in the i s city yesterday was deposed of at j v $7..50 wholesale. A *go aln similar box would have sold for $3.50 ; i: t the retailer. j 1 Fruit dealers give three reasons! t for the shortage of seedless oranges. 11 In the first place the car shortage j has cut down the shipments of or- | I anges from California fruit dealers j t to almost nothing. The long haul ' s from fhe Pacific to the Atlantic I a coast is also cutting down ship-1 r ments of oranges to eastern markets, j I The length of time required in the | r transit from California to local mar- j a kets in ordinary conditions is 14 a days. Ordinarily the oranges can s stand this amount of refrigerating without ill effects. But under pres. d ent freight condition the oranges are v uonietimes in transit from 30 to 40 f Gives Charming Memory [t. Portrait of Lincoln, Saviour of His Country [| The Civil War was calling men jJJ and women to duty. "We are com- | a ing. Father Abraham, six hundred j h thousand strong," sang the men. j But there was need of women as i nurses. That was before the day \ A when well equipped, trained nurses to weic ready for service. Among the f, many agencies rfor relief was one _ got up by the Ohio Military. Agent. A party of Ohio men were to 1 go to help as best they could, under the j j leadership of an earnest, practical j Methodist minister. One experienc- I 1 ed woman was ready to go, and as j j one woman could not go alone, 1 t j was added as a junior member of I the group. j We had been tried at Aquia Creek, j < where the poor bruised and broken ( ■ men wete brought from Fredericks- j j burg alter the battle on their way to | i Washington hospitals. Our party j j had l>cen sent to several different j points where there was plenty,of op portunity for all our ministry under j the direction of the doctors in charge. We had been so close to the front that we had heard the can- j. nonading. and had cared for the | men, black from the rifle pits. At last our party was at City Point; our supplies did not arrive as i quickly as had we. The barrels and j [ lioxes and bundles were on their j A-av, so that the first night at the ; Point we had only a tent. The grass , was thick and clean, and could serve j jas bed and chair. Johnny, the | drummer boy, rolled in a log, sa>- , J ing, -Here's a pillow for you. Sis ter Ohio." At dusk a tap on our i< nt pole showed us a caller. "Will j vou ladies take in for the night, ask- ■ ed an officer, "Miss Barton? There is no place for her tonight. She has business in the morning at head- j quarters. We cannot place her, as j our supplies are not here." We gave to Clara Barton a most j cordial welcome. She slept beside me, with the grass for a matures.;, p;,rt of the log for a pillow, and half! of my mother's big warm plaid . Mank'.t shawl for a covering. In j the morning, when she had gone, 1 , >vas standing at the tent door, look- j ing out upon the scene of the camp j activity, when not far awaiy, just ] goo.l photographic distance, | those two great men, Lincoln and | iran\, in earnest emiversatlon. Tiiere wore only a few flags flying and there was no music; no glimpse of a funny story on those strong, sad lips The President looked as | though he might have been awake a J large part of the long night and in t prayer. At a respectful distance | from the two men stood a soldier, as i motionless as a statue. They did notj see me and I was careful not to move; but upon my heart and mlndl is graven a picture in which every line of that face, that bent form, I the earnest attention as he listened . or spoke to the general near him i stands out to-day.—Lucy S. Bain- j bridge In the Outlook. Captain of Steamer Got Prescription by Wireless Galveston. —The captain 'of a tramp steamer in the Gulf of Mex- I ico was lately taken 111 with pto- i maine poisoning. With death star- i Ing him In the face, on account of inadequate medical aid, he decided to call, by wireless, for assistance from the physicians at a naval sta- j tior 100 miles away. The mrssago was picked up by a 1 liner 700 fniles away, and the ship's ' HARRISBURG TELEGRAFHI [ days. Tto use the words of a loaal receiver, when they arrive they are I! in an "extremely deplorable con dition. Severe Frost Added to the difficulties of trans- j portation, is the fact that an almost ! unprecedently severe frost in Cali fornia fruit regions during Decem ber cut the orange Gjrop fifty per cent,, say local denlers. This is forcing California sliippars to sell , tlieir oranges locally. The time is rapidly approaching, I say Harrisburg wholesalers, when it! will be impossible to secure seedless ! oranges in the eastern markets.. This j is because California dealers will no | longer take the risk of shipping j their choice oranges, only to have them spoil in transit. The crop from Porto Rico and ! Florida is normal, dealers says, but j this variety ofh oranges only aggre- j gates 50 per cent of the total or- I ange sale in this vicinity. For this ' reason the price of Florida and j Porto Rico oranges has jumped al- j most 100 per cent. The same or anges that sold a year ago for $3.50, | are now selling for $6.50, dealers j say. "To tell the honest truth," said a j dealer this morning, "Oranges aren't | worth a third what they're selling j for, but what are we to do?" surgeon made all haste to reply to j this strange "S. O. S." with full and detailed prescription, which was I without difficulty made up from the tramp steamer's medicine chest, and the captain's life was saved. ' I A fireman on a Canadian-Pacific j liner which carries no surgeon was j attacked in mldocean with internal j hemorrhage. Wireless communica- | tion was secured with an Alau liner ; and details of the symptoms trans- J mitted across 1,000 miles of ocean, j A prescription was not only received 1 but daily consultations took place for some flme, and the medicine was j "changed" several times. j With Fingers! j Corns Lift Off! t t 1 | Doesn't hurt a bit to lift an/ ; | corn or callus rijght off. Try itl j Li. IH IIIH I I ■ ■ ■ ■■■ II t j For a few cents you f 1 ™S can get a small bottle ol the magic freezone re-j v— J© cently discovered by a! | 1 I Cincinnati man, j \ / Just ask at any drug II store for a small bottle j] of freezone. Apply a few I I drops upon u tender, j I aching corn or callus anil! I I instantly all soreness I II disappears and shortly] M you will find the corn orj Jf callus so loose that you] lift it off with the ting- i isiQfci ers Q* j Just think! Not one'bit la || of pain before applying! Jl' ill freezone or afterwards. It doesn't even irritate > the surrounding skin. I T j 1 Hard corns, soft corns I I ■! or corns between the |" 1 toes, also hardened cal-l J, Itises on bottom of feet, JJI V shrivel tip and fall off ASK without hurting a parti- . j cle. It is almost magical. I readies! Keep a tiny ; \j y bottle on the dresser and 1 1 L never let a corn orj cal lus ache twice. —Adv. Big Special Sale Men's Working i Shirts and Trousers Special Value Trousers $1.50 up Shirts 85c up These Arc AII I*rc-YVar . I Vices pnd Qualities—Act Now Consylman&Co. 1117 N. Third St. I WM. STROUSE I THE MAN'S STORE OF HARRISBURG I Delivering the Goods- I That's the main thing. That's what Mk MHMA[ That's what George Washington did 'tmM % a ud that's why this country is the great •' big free land it is to-day. 4 * He fought a great fight for a great IMp . cause and he had the courage of his eon- Every word he wrote and every word lie spoke was believed by everybody. v?! Ie implicit confidence people had /j) \ * n llia^e bim a success and he Kjj lield that confidence as the most precious I IIL^ N hJ Every time you think of Washington I S illtfi you revere him for the intrinsic worth he i ymWrnJnffi- was to our Nation in its beginning. . fff j jPj |' • What a wonderful reputation. He IwW '/I lives TODAY in greater esteem for the V ? V.- good he did THEN. Our Final Reduction Sale lis a great work for a great cause in our business. We never carry goods from one season to the next. That's the grtjat cause for OUR FINAL REDUCTION SALE. And we'll stick to our policy even against the rise in prices for next year's merchandise. The implicit CONFIDENCE the people have in our word and our methods is the BIG REASON why our FINAL REDUCTION SALE has met with such SUCCESS. Every man and young man in this town should Get His Suit and Overcoat Now Hundreds and hundreds of men have already shared in the opportunities this sale provides and there are hundreds more equally large opportun ities awaiting those who come now. No merchant can foretell what he will be up against next year in the way of merchandise and prices but he can bet dollars to doughnuts that prices will be MORE very MUCH MORE than they are now and there is noth ing in sight to stop it excepting, the end of the war and goodness knows we would all give everything for that. 1i Make Saturday YOUR day to get that Suit and Overcoat Were $15£L,511.75 Were Were slS£Us 13.75 Were $25£%.519.75 Were $20^515.75 Were $30£1523.75 Were s3sff ,$27.75 , Boys' Suits, Overcoats and Mackinaws Were $5- 00 Were $6-50 Now-* $4.85 Were sl2-75 Now-*. $9.85 Were $7-50 Now-*55.85 Were sls-00 Now-. $i 1.85 | roar Money OUR POLICY : Built - Refunded DO IT KETTER Values' I THE NEW STORE OF WM. STROUSE—EVER NEW—3IO MARKET ST.