Cracksmen Loot Safes in Pittsburgh Building Pittsburgh, July 9.—After looting seven safes in offices of the First National Bank Building 'Sunday night, safecrackers escaped with S4OOO in cash, Liberty bonds and Thrift Stamps, leaving no clew. Numerous robberies have oc curred in downtown office buildings within six months, and only two months ago the office of the Bab cock Lumber Company, of which Mayor E. V. Babcock is president, was entered and valuable stocks and bonds stolen. The robberies in the bank build ing were discovered this morning. Jn the office of Schmeltz & Nuttall, brokers, the private safe of Mr. Schmeltz was broken; two safes in (he accounting rooms were entered, and tljieves got S2OOO worth of Lib erty bonds and SSO in Thrift Stamps. Liberty bonds to the value of $750 were stolen from a safe in the West Virginia Lumber Company office, and SIOOO in Liberty bonds and I'll rift Stamps from two safes in the Canonsburg Gas Company offices, besides S2OO in jewelry and cash taken from the Home Life Insur ance Company's safe. Detectives ascertained that a key was used to enter the offices. A heavy hammer was used on the com bination of the safes, while desks in the offices were pried open with a jimmy, resulting in S3OOO dam ages. PARKWAY Which Is Which? In Our Windows Are S2O, $22.50, $25, S3O and $35 Suits Try to pick each one out infN I f you can, ' you are a good enough buyer to buy anywhere. yTBPS if you cannot you have to buy Maftschffiur by the reputation of the store, i Cloth"* ) And that is the way most men NJt/ buy. The Harrtabury Home of . ~ , , . Hart Schuffner S: c cannot all he cloth " nig experts. Beware of the u, ' x -tore that sells by price alone. a,l( l \ cut price ticket on a suit Society Brand doesn't mean anything. Qual- Clothes ity is the thing that counts. H. Marks & Son Fourth and Market | "The Daylight Clothing Store" Big Summer School Who? University and College Students high School Students Eighth Liaue Women Registered, Married, Single, Young and Old Teachers Boys Men ! City, T own and Country Under Draft Age Over Draft Age BECOME, This Summer, a Stenographer, Typist, Book keeper, Accountant, Cashier, Office Clerk, Copyist. NO ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, Personal Help, In dividual and Class Instruction. Intensive Training. See D. L. M. RAKER, Principal Y°ur Country in Civil Service —- To Help Keep Local Business Going To Help Your Home and Yourself WV| p rp ? At The SCHOOL OF COMMERCE - The Standard and Accredited Business Sclio..•! WVIPD V NEXT MONDAY or Any Day This Summer By prompt Decision and Action. By saying "1 11UVV * CAN" "OTHERS WILL, I WILL." You'll be sur prised what you can do in this School with Personal Help—TßY IT. Call For Catalog, or Phone Bell 485, Dial, 4393 SCHOOL OF COMMERCE Troup Building, 15 South Market Square The Oldest, Largest and Best Business School in Harrisburg Summer Session Opens Now No Summer Vacation Fall Term (Night School) Opens in September - TUESDAY EVENING, Wife and Stenographer Fight in Doctor's Office Pittsburgh, July 9. —"Yes. that stenographer is .to blame; she's re sponsible for all my troubles," said Mrs. I.,angfUt, wife of Dr. W. S. LangP.tt, a prominent physician, fol lowing her arrest last night on charges of attacking her husband's pretty stenographer. Miss Mazie L Snyder, 27 years old, while the lat ter was at work in Dr. Langlilt's office. A crash of glass on the eighth floor of the Jenkins Building at tracted Detectives McGonlgal and Dillen, who entered the physician's office and found Mrs. Langtitt in a lively encounter with the sten ographer. A window had been broken in the encounter. Both women were arrested and later re leased on depositing forfeits for a hearing to-morrow. "Of course, I want nothing said about this, because it may interfere with my husband's practice," said Mrs. Langfitt, who is 32 years old. "I was with the doctor until 8 o'clock last night and left him in front of the building. .He said ho was go ing out on a call. I went to the office and there found the stenog rapher. The doctor cafne in a few minute" later, but when he saw me ho left in a hurry. The conditions I found there caused the trouble." TO REPOKT ON AI.I.KGEII PKOI-ITBUItING IN HUNTS Preparation of a report on the in vestigations of alleged rent profiteer ing in the city was started yesterday at a meeting of the joint committee appointed by Mayor Keister and the llarrisburg Real listate Board. An other meeting will be held on Friday afternoon, when linal action on the report, now in tentative form, will likely be taken. Members of the committee with held any statements on the contents of the report other than to say that it will take up both sides of the rent question! giving the views of land lord and tenant. 'I SEES BAD SIDE OF THE WAR Cleveland. Ohio, July 9.—An other case of "be careful what you say on a street car" caine up recently at an hour when men and women are going to and from j their places of business. "Well, how much longer do you think the war will last?" ask ed a man of his seatmate. "Can't last too long for me," chuckled the seatmate. "I'm making money right along." A woman sitting opposite heard the remars, Arising from her seat, she walked over to the sec ond speaker and hit him a sting ing blow across the face. "That is for my boy in France," she said. "And this," giving him another stinging slap, "la for my other son on the Mexican bor der." A very rod-faced man remaln j cd silent during the rest of the journey downtown. More Books Needed For Camp Hancock Colonel Robert B. Bliss, in charge j of the camp library at Camp Han- I cock, on a visit to Harrisburg last ; night, made an appeal for books for ! the soldiers at Camp Hancock. In | civil life Colonel Bliss was assistant i secretary to the State Library Com | mission, lie declared last night that | the demand for books of all descrip- Itlons is SII great that it is a patriotic duty-for every one to send them. He said that there was a circulation of I 15,000 copies In the camp library dur ' ing one month. READINii HItAKIOMAN IS Kit.l,lol) IN WRECK Howard Marks, 1G22 North street, a ' passenger hrakeman on the Phila delphia and Reading railroad for a number of years, wns killed at Al ; lentown late" yesterday afternoon i when a freight train, running wild, < crashed into his passenger train as ' it was moving into the Allentown sta tion. The passenger train was empty at the time. The wreck occurred aft ; er the engineer of the freight train. ' with seventy-three heavily-loaded cars, lost control of it. Marks noticed the approach of the wild-moving train and jumped to a position which would have meant • safety fqr him, but within less than > a minute he returned, reboarded the : train and was killed. I KIW VMS CLX'B PLANS FOR UK.* MEETING An enthusiastic meeting of Kiwanis ; Club members is planned for to-mor row., when the assemblyroom of the V. M. C. A. building, with the twenty ' four sales representatives of the Moorhead Knitting Company as , guests. With the salesmen will be R. ! W. Moorhead, big chief of the com ' pany that has put Monlto hosiery on i the map. The amusement and enter ; tainment will be furnished by the j hosiery sellers, under the direction of { William C. Alexander, general sales manager of the Moorhead plant. H. S. Parthemore, manager of the I Walk Over Boot Shop, has promised a j pair of Walk Over shoes as this week's j attendance prize, and next week Ern est Eppley, of Cotterel's stationery I store .will give a Conklin self-tilling fountain pen. Among the many in ! teresting things scheduled for tb morrow's luncheon will be the report jof the entertainment committee on I the club picnic, to be held at the 1 home of H. C. Claster, Summerdale. j The committee is arranging for a I splendid outing, members say, and it i is expected that a large percentage of the membership will attend. HAHJRISBURG TELEGRAJPH! GREAT HOST OF BABES IN 1917, ! RECORDS PROVE \ Net Increase in Population in Country Estimated at Million Xcw York—lnfant mortality sta- •. tistics compiled by the New York Milk Committee reveal the fact that there waa a bumper baby crop throughout the United States in 1917. Basing its conclusion on the ligures gleaned from 163 of the ! largest cities in the country, the committee estimates that the number ; of births throughout the nation tu i tailed 2,678,000 and the number of I deaths, 1,648,000, leaving a national • iimrease ih population of over 1,000,- j 000. New York City's baby death rate t for the year was the lowest in its history,. the committee's statistics showing 4,041 fewer deaths for the greater city than in 1907, and that in spite of the fact that during the . i intervening years the population ol the metropolis increased with rapid strides. In 1907 New York's infant nior tality rate was 135.8. Last year it wa.* only 88.8. This decrease the committee attributes to tile wide spread application of the parental treatment which it introduced and which is now being carried on by | the Maternity Center Association in connection with the Milk Committee ] and other organizations. Four Itoroughs Gain Last year 12,568 babies under one ! year of age died in this city, | whereas in 1907 the deaths totaled i 16,000. While there was an im ! provenient in the death rate in all I the five boroughs of the city, ex | ccpting the Bronx, where there w£s |an unexpected increase of more ! than five points, the most marked j decrease was shown by Manhattan where the rate fell from 102.2 In I 1916 to 94' in 1917. "The steady fall of the baby j death rate in Manhattan," says j. I H. Larson, secretary of the New I Vork Milk Committee, in his report, "is proof conclusive that medical ! and nursing care for expectant I mothers gives the baby a square deal i from the start. Organized welfare I work in many parts of the country | shows gratifying results but this is I particularly true of the outcoma I o fseveral years' efforts here in New j York. I "With the government fathering ! a national drive to .save 100,000 ba j bies during this the second year of | America's participation in the war, i the infant mortality rate . for 1918 j should reveal a further decrease. I This is the time when the need of ! parental care should be spread I everywhere, for healthy babies are the only means whereby the nation , can hope to preserve its population i in the face of the loss of thousands j of men in battle and the surcease of I immigration." j An analysis of the 163 cities whose" | statistics form the basis of the com j mittee's report shows that the muni cipalities with populations under I 50,000 have the best environment for i children and that the death rate i among babies in the bigger cities, | where poor people are more abund- I ant and living conditions more con- I gesled. is comparatively high. Cities under 50.000 in 1917 had an aver i age death rate of 90.9; those from 150,000 to 100,000, 97.4, and those | with a population over 100,000, 98.2. Omaha Has Honor Place Among the cities of the last ' named class Omaha claims first t place with a death rate of only 59.2 | and Seattle comes second with a | rate of 59.2. Nashville, Tenn., had j the highest rate. 182.2. Seventeen ! other b;g cities showed death rates of over 100 per thousand for 117. I The.v are: Chicago, 106.4; Phila delphia. 110; Cleveland 104.9; Balti more, 119.3; Pittsburgh, 116.2; De -1 troit, 103.6; Buffalo, 103.7; New Or leans. 113.5; Jersey City, 113.3; Louisville, 110.5; Syracuse, 101.9; I Birmingham, 147.5; Memphis, 145.7; Itichmond. 134.5; Fall River, 153.8; Ciranfl Rapids, 134.9 and Albanv, | 103.2. The five honor roll cities boasting death rates under 50 per thousand | are Berkeley, Col., with a popula- . tion of 10,434, 4 3.4; Everett, Mass..! with a population of 33.484, 45.5; I Brookline, Mass., with a population of 37,792, 41.2: Tlameda. ('ill., wttilj a population of 23,383, 4 0.7 nd La- Cross*, Wis., with a population of' 30,417, 42.2. I >M.\Y MOW KA.IIKS ADDGD TO niItKI'TMIIV Boyd's new city directory is just off the press and will be distributed throughout llarrisburg within the next several days. Forty thousand, three hundred and ten families reside In llarrisburg, the directory shows, which Is 1,762 more than the 1917 directory showed. The changes in the year's book totaled 11,012, with 8,381 additions being made and 6,576 names being dropped- As usual, the Smith family has its name appearing in the volume more than any other family. Four hun dred and eighty-one members of the family have their names mentioned. The are second with 456; Urowns, third with 198; Hnyders, fourth with 192, and the Joneses, llfth with 118. GAIIUKK LOSSES I.KS9 With the offer of a J25 reward for lie arrest of the thieves who had been making depredations in the war gardens, the thefts of the produce have stopped. There have been no large losses reported since before the offer of the reward. A. R. THANKS OWNKRS WHO PROVIDED AUTOS Members of Post No. 58, Grand | Army of the Republic, at its last ' meeting tendered a vote of thanks to I the citizens who gave the use of j their automobiles to the veterans for | the Fourth of July Americanization j parade. The appearance of the Civil War Veterans was one of the feu i tures of the great demonstration j which made a marked patriotic Im pression on the many thousands .who ! saw the parade. Berlin Paper Wails Against Clean Linen Amsterdam—There are people in Germuny who put on a clean boiled shirt and a collar, and sometimes two collars each day, wails the Deutsche Tageszeitung. It adds: "If they want to ruin their linen by overwashing, that is their affair, but we say It is a waste of valuable starch, and it cheats others out of their just share because laundries are everywhere apt to favor their best customers." Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. | Bad News For Girls Boston, July 9.—More bad j new* for the girls. Leading manu- j facturers of the nation, following - the wishes of the government, to- : day announced at the annual shoe and leather style show at the Copley Plaza that the following will shortly become extinct: Champagne, gray and wine colored shoes. Shoes with fancy hieroglyphics. ! Shoes boasting tops more than eight inches high. High leather : heels. The array of spring 1919 models is "sad" to the girls who like to "dress." The models are all shown in but two modest shades of brown, black and white. < j Heels are very low and mannish, j The shoes are decidedly "safe and j sane." Yet, while the new "war shoes" lack frivolous lines, they aro I smart, nevertheless. Dealers are | confident they will become popu- 1 lar when the women folks get j used to them. Some of the wo men think so, too, and some— | well, they aren't so sure. l —————- ————— French Refugees Refuse Sausage on Meatless Day Paris—To insure that the utmost limit In effort should be reached by all to defeat the Hun, hundreds of refugees arriving here refused to I eat bologna because it was a nieat leiM day. These refugees, tired and heart sick after hours of travel, chose to go hungry rather than suffer the: slightest slackening of their patriot- j ism. An American soldier desiring to! ?ho\v his affection for a certain j French family by offering a box' of chocolates to them was astounded ' by their refusal on the ground that j it was not helping to win the war by the use of sugar in that way. Hotels Help Draftees Take on Needed Weight New Orleans—Scores of young men, informed by Army and Navy ] doctors that they were underweight, ; have hied themselves to the Uulf Coast and explained to hotel or boardinghouse proprietors that the; duration of the war depended upon i their gaining pounds in a certain I length of time. At tirst some of the boardinghouse i proprietors were unenthusiastic over the prospects of a disappointed i would-be soldier or sailor and loss' of patronage to their establishment.' Later according to those who have < returned, whenever a youth, rather j pale and slim applied for board hr i was greeted with the question, "how ! much do you have- to gain and when 1 must you report?" "It's easy when you know them,"' one boardinghouse proprietor ex-j plained. "They go out and swim ! in the salt water, get an enormous : appetite and We feed them coarse, I nourishing food, nothing fancy. They | gain several pounds a day, some of them." JSjoamumZ __ BELL. 11(91—l iVITISD HAHKISBURfi, TUESDAY, JULY 0, 1918. FOUNDED 1871 ANNOUNCING i " The Friendly Clothes " The charm and simplicity of these garments "CTV make them most desirable for all out-door oc- ' (fry/C\ casions. For home or vacation, at the seashore or mountain, they leave nothing to be desired in their smartness. Fashionable and economical, Tweed-O- /■' |jV Wool suits and coats, have an air of assured /. \L prestige and inherent which makes them ' L} \ always smart—their third season as well as / their first. f Their fabric is a new knit-tweed of pure worsted which does not wrinkle or crush and A fr\ n\ stands an almost endless amount of wear. /&-J- j /y Careful tailoring gives them clean swinging /y/jCuT j \ lines and a swagger finish. # l\ (T^ P A comprehensive showing can now be seen \P I , in beautiful shades of the ultra-fashionable V] V /I \ Yi heather mixtures. lu \ (\ Sold Exclusively at. BOWMAN'S—Third Floor. n NEWS-GATHERING AGAIN ROMANTIC Associated Press Tells How Tidings From Jassy Reached U. S. 1/oik lon—The war has restored some of the old-time romance to the business of news-gathering from places that Americans might regard as the far ends of the world. When the American settles down into his easty chair at night and lets his eye run casually down the column of his favorite paper over the date-lines of the far of the world he does not always realize what an ef fort it often cost to lay before him the news of these far places. Take some of the Associated Press dispatches from Jassy. the capital of Rumania, for an example. Things were going pretty bad for little Rumania last March. The Bolsheviki had turned thing;-; topsy turvy in Uussia and King Ferdi nand's country was left alone on the eastern front to face the hordes of Germany and Austria Rumania was quarreling with the Bolsheviki over the disposition of Russian troops which had been on the Ru manian front. There were serioua possibilities for Rumania in the sit uation. There was an Associated Press cor respondent in Jassy, but the only way of getting news out was by the way of Odessa, where the Bolsheviki .held sway. Co"-"*" union Hon with Odessa was impossible and no trains were running as bridges were de stroyed. The Rumanian government was sending Colonel Joseph Boyle for merly of the Canadian Army from Jassy to Odessa in an airplane with a peace treaty and when Colonel Boyle flew 200 miles over the rrtoun tains he carried not only the treaty but dispatches from the Associated Ti ess correspondent for forwarding to the United States. That is how some of the news started on its way from Jassy, through Russia. Finland and Sweden to London and Anally to America. His "Circular Saw" Would Finish War l.onUon—Joe Ingram, a native of Oakham and a well known char acter, claiming to have walked 90,- 000 miles during his life of 70 years, turned up a Peterborough yes terday on his "final 10,000-niile stunt." He claims to be the original in ventor of the submarine and aero plane and his latest design is an airplane fitted with a circular saw, which, he states, "if it gets among the Germans will settle them." BIG SHIRT DISPLAY An extensive window display of men's shirts which has attracted at tention on the part of passersby is that of the Doutrieh store, in con nection with its midsummer shirt sale. Both windows are given over to the showing, which a member of the firm states involves an invest ment of ten thousand dollars. JULY 9, 1918. German Soldiers Fight in American Uniforms Buffalo. N. Y. That German soldiers who lived in the United States before the war, thus being able to speak the American lanKuage fluently, nre being sent to the front clad in American unifo'rms, is the Information conveyed to John La- Tour of this' city, by his brother, James Donohue, a private in the United States Marine Corps and the first American prisoner to escape from a German prison camp and make his wuy bac-k to the American lines. "I saw a number of German sol diers in American uniforms," wrote I Donohue, "and all of them could "T FEEL that I must write and tell you the great benefit I have ex perienced from using Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep sin. I had always suffered from indigestion but since taking Syrup Pepsin I am no longer troubled in that way, and I cannot praise it too highly as a laxative." (From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written bj\ Mrs. Geo. Schaeffer, 1103 West Aye. 1 Utica, N. Y. / Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. Q::) SI.OO A combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, mild and gentle in its action, that re lieves constipation quickly. A trial bottle can be obtained free of charge by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Washington Street, Monticello, Illinois. Pictures of the Parade The iiairisburg Telegraph has on exhibit at its business office many tine pictures of Thursday's parade. So many requests have been made for prints that the newspaper has arranged to supply those who desire them. Prints may be ordered by cash deposit of a nominal sum at the business <. flee, the purchaser having his choice of photographs from one to thiriy-six. speak English fluently. One of them asked me where I was frofa ana when T told him Buffal.->, he laughed and said he had been a walfer in a restaurant there at one time." ROLL MORE BANDAGES Women declare they can accom plish five times as much work with ! the aid of a device for bandage fold | ing, perfected by D. H. Martin, Pax : tang, subinspector of ordnance in the Navy. The machine is now In use in ' the Market Square Presbyterian Red Cross auxiliary, MOOSE LODGE GROWS A total of 3,500 members from Harrisburg will be reached July 18 if plans of the Loyal Order of Moose 1 are realized. On that date they plan to initiate 150 members. 3
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