24 ALIENS ARE
MADE CITIZENS
BY LOCAL COURT
Testimony of Saloon Com
panion Not Accepted by
the Examiner
•y Meeting: all the requirements to
become naturalized citizens of the
United States twenty-four foreign
born, residents of the city and county
' were admitted to citizenship at a
session of naturalization court held
by Judge S J. 11. McCarrell, with
J. M. Ournett, of Philadelphia, as
examiner.
" While many more applications for
naturalization were heard, a number
were continued for various reasons,
some of the men not having satis
factory witnesses, others not com
plying with requirements of proof
of residence
Five applications were dismissed.
One of these was made by Enea
Testi, formerly of Cherry street, this
city. Mr. Gurnett explained to
Judge McCarrell that Testi had been
divorced from his wife who alleged
cruel and barbarous treatment. He
was married in 1910. A few years
later his wife In the Dauphin county
courts gave uncontradicted testi
mony of cruel actions on the part
. of Testi.
* Many Born In Italy
Another applicant had one wit
ness who had known him for six
years. The second witness he said
he met in a barroom and knew him
for five and one-half years. The
examiner told the applicant, he
should get a man of good moral
character who had kpown him for
six years, and that he should not
look in a saloon for-such a person.
One of the men who was ac
cepted and who wiU take the oath to
support and defend this country as
a native citizen was Jacob Gordon,
who rame here from Russia in 1902.
His two brothers, Abr&haTn and
Aaron Gordon, were witnesses for
him.
An unusual feature of the ses
sion was the substitution of wit
nesses necessitated in one case. The
applicant had named the witnesses
who had known him for the neces
sary length of time but one of
them died s I >rtly before the time
fixed for the court session. Unable
to get another witness except a
native of England who was ad
mitted as a citizen to-day, the ap
plicant was compelled to wait until
his friend was given the oath. The
latter then was qualified to testify
and the court agreed to the sub
stitution.
The majority of the foreign born
tnen to be accepted and who will
become citizens were • natives of
Italy. v
Soldiers Must Be
Protected From Drink,
Says Secretary Baker
Governor Brumbaugh to-day made
public a telegram from Secretary of
War Baker, urging that communities
not relax efforts for the wel
fare and protection of soldiers.
The telegram says:
Signing of armistice in no way
lessens responsibility of civil
communities for protection of sol
diers from prostitution and sale
of liquor. Our states and cities
ought never to lose the control
which has been established or
stop so vital a work. The gov
ernment purposes to leave no
measure unused In repression of
these evils from now until de
mobilization is fully accomplish
ed. War Department is deter
mined to return soldiers to their
families and to civil life uncon
taminated by disease. Laxity in
your state after so much has been
done would be a disaster to our
soldiers and their families. I
am telegraphing mayors of larg
est cities of your state accord
ing to above. You are requested
to telegraph this message ver
batim to mayors of all cities and
towns therein.
NEWTON D. BAKER.
> Secretary of War.
Christmas Boxes For
Soldiers Abroad Must
Be Packed at Once
Those in charge of the sending of j
Christmas parcels to soldiers In
France to-day issued a request to all
thobe who have cartons in their
possession to fill them as rapidly as
possible and bring them to the head
quarters.
Miss Cameron, who is at the head
of the work, emphasizes the fact
that November 20 is the very last
day for forwarding packages and
that in order to avoid a rush with
the possibility of some parcels being
received too late for shipment, thope
who have cartons to be filled should
see that they are packed and re
turned at the earliest possible mo
ment.
FIGHTING Flhua in SMALL
t'OM.MIMTIKS DEMONSTRATED
The State Fire Marshal's office at
3 o'clock this afternoon held a dem
onstration of fire fighting apparatus
for small communities along the Sus
quehanna river near Walnut street.
For some time the department has
been endeavoring to find a piece of
apparatus designed for this especial
purpose, one that would be effi
cient and at the same time within the
price which communities of limited
capital can afford. The machine
shown this afternoon is built with
those points in view.
FORMER CROWN PRINCE
1,1 MBOI'RO RULER'S GUEST
London, Nov. 14.—The former Ger
man Crown Prince has not been shot,
but is staying at the residence of the
Governor of Llmbourg at Maastricht*
the Dally Express says It learns.
He crossed the Dutch frontier ac
companied by a dozen intimate mili
tary associates.
BABY KNITTER MAKES ROBE
Los Angeles, ' Nov. 12.—Perhaps
the youngest knitter in Los Angeles
and certainly the quickest for her
age is little 6-year-old Helen Perine,
daughter of Mr. und Mrs. Frank C.
Perine, of 2229 Gramercy street.
The little lady has just finished a
warm knitter robe, which is to be
sent to a soldier boy, the labor of
love having taken the tiny mite al
most two years to complete.
It is some 6x6 V 4 feet In dimen
sions and Is of a rich blue with the
Insignia of the Red Cross outlined
in white gleaming from its woolly
warmth, and should gladden some
soldier's heart.
Helen commenced the work when
but little over four and has labored
In her ever nine*,
THURSDAY EVENING
ICE CREAM MEN
HERE TO STUDY
MANY PROBLEMS
Difficulties of Securing Raw
Materials Discussed at
Convention
About 400 members of the State
Association of wholesale ice cream
manufacturers assembled at the
Chestnut Street Auditorium for thet*
annual convention at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. Besides this afternoons
session, to-morrow morning and af
ternor*i sessions will be held. The
convention will adjourn to-morrow
evening.
Officers will be elected to-morrow
morning, and the place for next year s
convention will be decided. The
board of directors will decide upon
the next plaee. During the present
convention, the Columbus hotel will
be headquarters for the delegates.
Mayor Keister made the address of
welcome ut the opening session tills
afternoon. Robert Crane, of the
Crane Ice Creeam Company, of Phil
adelphia. and president of the Whole
sale Manufacturers' Association, pre
sided. J. W. Neuman is secretary.
Big questions which will be consid
ered at the convention will include
the raw material situation, such as
sugar, dairy products, butter fats,
machinery and equipment markets,
and the ammonia supply. The last
named has been an acute factor in
the ice cream industry for the past
year. It is likely that Herbert Hoover
or Howard Heinz, national and state
food administrators respectively, will
be questioned as to the attitude of
the food administration toward the
ice cream industry during the next
twelve months, an official said.
There will not be the usual dinner
and other social functions uttendant
upon the annual conventions, ijad a
regular program of speakers has not
been arranged, owing to the uncer
tainty of holding the convention due
to the recent influenza restriction on
public meetings.
B. M. Ogelsby Recovers
Stolen Automobile in
a Peculiar Manner
B. M. Ogelsby whose automobile
was stolen from in front of the Ma
jestic theater last night recovered
the machine this afternoon in a most
peculiar manner.
Early to-day Mrs. Robert S. Stuart,
of Baltimore, called up Mrs. Ogelsby.
her daughter nd informed her that
she was coining to Harrisburg for
an automobile ride. The two women
discussed over the phone the, loss of
Mr. Ogelsby's automobile. Mrs.
Stuart was given the machine's li
cense number and asked to keep a
lookout for it along the road. At
1.15 o'clock Mrs. Stuart called up
from Lemoyne and said she was
standing guard over the automobile
in front of a garage there. It ap- #
pears that the thieves stalled the au
tomobile on a trolley car track and
pedestrians had pushed it to one side.
It was recovered undamaged.
Big Steamer Valve Gives
Away; Two Are Killed;
Fragments Carry Death
Now York, Nov. 14. —Two men
were killed, one of them a lieutenant
of the United States Naval Reserves,
and two were badly scalded when a
steam valve burst on the American
steamship Louisville, in the service
of the Navy, while at her dock here
to-day. ,
The men killed were Lieutenant
Alexander \V. Wall and Sylvester
Tennoyer, foreman of a civilian crew
of machinists employed In making
the ship ready for sea. Harvey L.
Mercer, fireman, second class, and
Paul Turuer, firemen, first class, were
the men burned.
The accident occurred in the en
gineroom of the ship. Lieutenant
Wall and Tennoyer were said to have
been struck by fragments of the
valve and killed instantly.
A similar accident occurred on the
ship about a week ago when twelve
were seriously burned.
Americans Released From
German Prison Camps
Paris, Nov. 14. —More than 2,532
American .irisoners in German
camps were released immediately by
the signing of the German armistice,
according to the latest figures pre
pared by the American Red Cross in
Switzerland.
This number .includes all the
Americans captured to November 1.
►lt is estimated that only a few hun
dred more Americans were captured
after that date".
This is taken to indicate that Dau
phin and Cumberland soldiers cap
tured in battle have been released.
DRAFT BOARDS NOT TO
EXAMINE YOUTHS OF 18
Washington. Nov. ,14.—New orders,
further curtailing operations of the
national machinery of draft boards,
are to be issued short'y by Provost
Marshal General Crowder. "Stoppage
of all physical examinations in con
nection with the ®iHsifioatlon of 18-
year-old registrants is likely, on the
ground that the results obtained will
he of little value in six months on
accounts of the physical changes un
dergone by many maturing youths.
PEACE FLASHES
OFF THE CABLE
By Associated Press
Purls. The British Foreign Sec
retary, Alfred J. Balfour, is to arrive
here to-day, to be followed shortly by
the British .and Italian Premiers,
George and Orlando.
London. —• The American Meat
Trust was criticised severely In the
House of Commons yesterday during
discussion of the food question and
control of the meat supply.
Paris. Turks residing in Switzer.
land say Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha
and DJemal Pasha have fled Constan
tinople, accused of embezzlement and
other crimes. Talaat Pasha formerly
was Grand Vizier and his comparlots
Minister of War and Marine, respec
tively.
Copenhagen, Polish troops, se
cording to a dispatch from Berlin,
have entered Upper Silesia, Prussia.
Basel. All the Imperial power in
German-Austria has passed to the
State Council, which is to retain that
power until a constituent assembly
has definitely established a constitu
tion.
London. The attitude of the Ger
man Navy toward the armistice terms
Is watched with eagerness by Entente
officials for the reason that problems
connected with the policing and pro
visioning Russia and the Central
Powers hinge primarily upon the Im
mediate disarmament of the German
fleet, the Russian warships and those
under control of the Ukrainian gov
ernment in the Black See.
HURRAH! AND HURRAH!
Hurrah! And have you heard the news—
The good news going 'round?
Set all the Joy bells ringing:
Walter Shaffer has been found!
The loving hearts that beat for h.lm,
The daring, smiling boy,
Are tremulous and burdened ?
With a wondrous sense of joy.
Our hopes have sometimes faltered,
. As the days so darkly passed.
But now we laugh at danger
For we know he's safe at last;
Thanks to his guardian angel.
Who through all the thrilling days
Preserved him from disaster.
As he won the nfttion's praise.
Sound the drums, let flags be flying,
For the brave boys over there;
For the boys who fight for freedom,
For the boys who do and dare.
And as for Walter, bless his heart!
There's lots that could be said;
But this we know: when he comes back
We'll paint the old town red.
Hurrah! And "have you heard the news—
The good news going 'round?
Set all the Joy bells ringing:
Walter Shaffer has beenjfound!
—F. H
NEWS OF STEELTON
WAR WORK DRIVE
FALLING BEHIND
Residents Are /Offering All
Kinds of Ridiculous
Excuses
With about a fourth of the reports
from solicitors received this noon,
only about four thousand dollars In
cash and pledges have been received.
This means that If Steclton is to raise
its quota of $20,000 for the United
War Fund drive great effort must be
put forth In the remaining time, and
that many of the people who have
refused payment on pretexts of vari
ous kinds must make good. Solicitors
report excuses such as: "Living too
high; "Can't afford it," "Must pay
on Liberty Bonds," and excuses of a
similar nature. The trouble is that
they are plainly excuses and not rea
sons. The high cost of living
all and not only a few; all have pur
chased Liberty Bonds, and they are
an investment not a matter of giv
ing freely such as this. It seems a
hard matter for people to realize
that the money is needed even though
Germany has been defeated. Ap
parently it has never entered the
minds of some that our soldiers must
remain abroad for some time to
come, and while they are abroad
there is really more need for the Y.
M. C. A., Knights of ColumbUß and
the other organizations now than
there was during the time of hos
tility.
The meeting of solicitors, which
was called for to-night in Frey's hall,
has been changed to the High school
Auditorium, at which meeting fol
low-up committees will probably be
appointed.
May Send Christmas Parcels
to War Workers Overseas
Provision has Just been made by
government officials for sending of
Christmas parcels to workers in the
various organizations doing relief
work at the front, such as the Red
Cross, ¥. M. C. A., K. of C„ Salvation
Army, and similar organizations with
the army or navy abroad. Parcels
may also be sent to individuals serv
ing in the armies of any Allied coun
try. Packnges so shipped must con
form in size and contents to the regu
lations issued governing the send-*
lng of parcels to men with the Amer
ican Expeditionary Forces abroad.
No labels have been issued to these
people abroad, but they can be se
cured by relatives here by applying
to the local chapter of the Red Cross.
In order that the number of pack
ages' may not be so great as to con
gest the transportation .facilities,
only the nearest relative is allowed
the privilege. Mrs. Nell is in charge
of the parcels committee and full In
formation can be secured from her
at any time before Monday evening,
when all packages must be at the
Red Cross rooms for inspection.
ABANDONED AUTOMOBILE
RETURNED TO OWNER
During the peace celebration last
Monday an automobile was abandoned
in South Front street. The police
took it in charge and returned it to
its owner, William Brown, of Pax
tang. It had been stolen from Har
rlßburg on Monday and abandoned
In Steeljon.
STRUCK FELLOW WORKMAN
Emilo Ciampaglno. of 130 South
Fourth street, was this morning re
leased from the borough lockup on
bail pending a hearing before Squire
Dickinson for assault and battery.
The complainant Is Daniel Seasholtz,
of Harrlsburg. who alleges that
Emilo struck him while at work in
the local steel plant last Friday. The
hearing will be held to-morrow.
SLIGHT BLAZE IN THIRD STREET
A little after eight o'clock this
morning the flit companies were
called out on an alarm at Third and
Eleanor streets. On their arrival
they found the lire already extin
guished. It had been but a slight
blaze at 555 North Third street.
American Casualties in War
100,000 Is Official Estimate
Washington, Nov. 14.—Officials'
here estimate that the total casual
ties of the American expeditionary
forces in the war will not exceed
100,000, including the men killed In
action, wounded, 01ed of grounds,
disease and accidents and the miss
ing who never will be accounted
for. Some of those who hgve been
missing probably will be accounted
for when the prisoners are returned
from Germany.
It was said to-day that itvprob
ably would be several weeks before
the record of casualties can be com
pleted. It is regarded as almost
certain that many of the casualties
In the recent heavy fighting by the
first and second American armies
have not yet bees reported.
HABHI3BUTIG tjSS&L TELEGRAPH
Red Cross to Elect Officers
Next Wednesday Evening
Steelton chapter of the American
Red Cross will hold Its annual meet
ing next Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock at the chapter headquarters,
112 Harrisburg street, for the elec
tion of an executive committee for
the coming year. Reports of the
year's work will be received, and
such other business will be transact
ed as may properly com# before the
annual meeting. The officers are
urging a full attendance of all the
members of the chapter.
A telegram from the state head
quarters showing the need of keep
ing up the lted Cross work has been
received by the local chapter. The
message follows:
"A telegram just received from
national headquarters directs me to
advise chapters that all production
activities must be continued with
the single exception of production of
surgical dressings, tvork on which
should be immediately stopped. This
does not apply to those chapters
working on the United States Army
dressings, which include front line
parcels numbers two and three,
pneumonia Jacket and weigh bags,
and all dressings covered by our
allotment order number one hun
dred and seven, duted October third.
These Army dressings should be
completed without delay. You are
instructed to hold until further no
tice all unfinished supplies of surgl
ca dressings except Army orders.
There arc in our storehouses in
France and the United States am
ple supplies of surgical dressings to
meet any contingency which may
arise.
'The calls from our commissions
in many parts of the world have
shown the unlimited need for civi
lian relief. You are therefore in
structed and urged to finish at once
all uncompleted orders for refugee
garments so as to be prepared for
'additional orders. With the near
approach of winter, one garment now
will be of infinitely greater service
in saving life than garments three
or four mbnths later.
"We appreciate that to increase
this production of refugee garments
will necessitate the diversion of sur
gical dressings workers to this dif
ferent held of uctivity. Red Cross
workers have never failed to meet
any emergency and we feel sure that
there will be no difficulty whatever
in enlisting their sympathetic and
active support In the work to which
the Red Cross is committed.
Carry On !
"The moment is now come to pre
pare for Peace. But even with peace,
let no one suppose that the work
of the Red Cross is finished. Ow,fng
to the shortage of shipping it may
take a year or more to bring our
boys home from France. Let every
Red Cross member and worker show
our returned soldiers and sailors
that to care for their health, wel
fare and happiness, we are enlisted
with them to the end.
"On behalf of the Red Cross War
Council, we accordingly ask each
member of our splendid body of
workers throughout the land to
bear in mind the solemn obligation
which rests upon each one to carry
on. We cannot abate one instant in
our efforts or in our spirit. There
will be an abundance of work to do, j
and specific advices will be given,
but even at the moment of peace let
no Red Cross worker falter."
WILL BIILD G.tRAGK
A building permit was issued this
morning to R, L. Herr for a frame
garage on his property at 2643 South
Second street.
Westminster Session
Meets Tonight on Vacant
Pulpit; Supplies Named
To discuss the vacant pastorate !
the session of Westminster Presby
terian Church will meet this even
ing. It is learned the scssipn has
received a number of applications
for the pastorate, these coming
from widely diverging points. There
are applicants from New Jersey,
Kentucky and Indiana. The meet
ing of the session to-night will be
held primarily to provide for tilling
the pulpit until the vacancy is filled.
Carlisle Presbytery has appointed
supplies for alternate Sundays up
until April. The Rev. H. E. Hall
man has been named moderator of
the congregation until u pastor shall
have been called and installed. The'
ministers named by Presbytery fol
low: ;
November 24, the Rev, R. H.
Taylor, Hershey; December 8, the
Rev. L. M. Conrow, Greencastle; De
ceifiber 22, the Rev, Dr. Ethelbert
D. Warfield, president of Wilson
College, Chambersburg; January 6,
the Rev. E. P. Robinson, Harrisburg;
January 18, the Rev. J. H. Wolf,
Dtllsburg; February 2. the Rev.
Ueorge Fulton, Mechanicsburg;
February 16, the Rev. C. B. Segel
ken, Steelton; March 2, the Rev. H.
E. Hallmefn; March 16,. the Rev
Howard Rogers; March 30, the Rev.
R. A. Ketchledge, Camp' Hill. -
The Rev. Harold H. Baldwin, as
sistant pastor of Pine Btreet Pres
byterian Church, will officiate next
Sunday morning in the church.
The Rev. Harold Rogers of the Mar
ket Square Preshyterlan Church will
be in the pulpit In the evening.
MUST RETURN QUESTIONNAIRES
Men over 37 are not to fIH out
questionnaires sent them by draft
i boards. are to return them.,
\ ■
HUNS OPPOSITE
YANKEE ARMY
MOVING NORTH
Advance Guard of Released
Prisoners Reach Amer
ican Lines
'1 By Associated Press
With the American Army In Prance,
Nov. 14—The Germans opposite the
First American Army north and
northeast of Verdun are reported to
be moving northward rapidly.
Preparations begun by the enemy
several days ago to withdraw in force
now are becoming effective. Great
railroad activity is reported at Met*
and other railroad Junctions. '
The advance guard of several hun
dred Russian, Polish and Italian sol
diers freed by the Germans in Lor
raine reached the American lines in
tfie region of Bt. Hilaire to-day. The
first group numbered 45.
They said they were released sev
eral days ago. the Germans telling
them to start for the American lines
Immediately. The released prison
ers were attired principally', in Ger
man uniforms. They expressed the
opinion that the Germans had set
them free so as to be rid of them
durfng preparations for " moving
northward.
The arrivals were taken In charge
by American officers and furnished
with additional clothing and plenty
of food. i
NEWS BRIEFS FROM
NATION'S CAPITAL
By Associated Press
Washington. Men who left col
lege to enter the Naval service will be
permitted to resign. Secretary Daniels
said to-day.
Washington. Thomas G. Masaryk,
former president of the Czech-Slovak
Council, is to leave here to-morrow to
assume the presidency of the new Re
public of Bohemia.
Washington. Until Secretary Mc-
Adoo submits a statement of prpbable
future needs, readjustment of the war
revenue bill to meet changed condi
tions will not be made by the Senate
finance committer.
Washington. Under the plan for
reinsuring the lives of the 4,250,000
men in the military or naval service
now holding government insurance,
the men are to he permitted within
five years after peace is declared to
convert it into any prescribed form
of insurance they choose.
Washington. A credit of SIOO.-
000,000 has been extended Italy, the
Treasury Department announced to
day.
Wafthlngtoß. Austria has asked
President Wilson to invoke the Allies
for a modification of the Torkish
armistice terms.
Washington. Withdrawal of all
voluntary censorship requests, under
which American publishers have been
working since the United States went
to war. is announced by George Creel
to-day.
Premier George Urges
Reign of World Peace
Ixindon, Nov. 14.—"One of the
prlcipal issues at the forthcoming
general election will be the nature
of the peace settlement. It will mean
the settlement of the world." Pre
mier Lloyd George made this an
nouncement in un address to his Lib
eral supporters on November 11.
"What are the principles on which
that setlement is to be effected?" he
asked. '"Are we to lapjie back into
the old national rivalries, animosities
and competitive armaments, or are
we to initiate the reign on earth of
the Prince of Peace? It is the duty
of liberalism to use its Influence to
insure that it shall be a reign of
peace.
"What are cfctjditlons of peace?
They must lead to a settlement which
will be fundamentally Just. No set
tlement that contravenes the prin
ciples of eternal Justice will be 4 per
manent one. The peace of 1871 im
posed by Germany on France out
raged all' the principles of Justice
and fair play. Le us be warned by
that example."
Draft Army Is to
Be the First Home
Washington, Nov. 14. —The selec
tive army drafted into service will
be the first troops brought buck to
the United States. This was the in
terpretation yesterday of officials of
the War Department and of the Mili
tary Committees of both houses of
the law under which the men were
taken Into the service. The policing
of the upset countries of Europe so
far as America's part In It is con
cerned will bo performed by the
standing army and whatever of the
Federalized National Guard may be
needed. The view of these officials
and Congressmen is founded on pe
rusal of the law.
JOHN M. HARB<J\LD
John M. Harbold, aged 46 years,
died Tuesday at the Harrisburg Hoe
pita lafter a six months' Illness from
a complication of diseases. He Is
survived by his wife; four sons,
William Harbold, in the United
States Army; Earle, Augustus and
Charles Harbold; three daughter,
Carrie, Helen and Mildred llarhold,
and two sisters, Mrs. Joseph EUinger
and Mrs. John McLane.
Funeral services will be held at his
home, 1919 Brookwood street, Sat
urday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial
will be made in the Oberlln Ceme
tery. Relatives and fiionds have been
invited to attend without further
notice.
CHARLES E. MUKBKR, JR.
Charles E. Musser, Jr., five-weeks
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Musser. 613 Cumberland street, died
last evening. Funeral services will
be held at the home of his parents
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Tlte
Rev. Millard Osmore Peirce, pastor
of the Tabernafcle Presbyterian
Church, will officiate. Burial will
be in the Penbrook Cemetery.
U-BOATS DAREN'T GO HOME
IxiiMlon, Nov. 14. —Five German
submarines arrived at Landskrona,
Southern Sweden, Wednesday and
requested the naval authorities to
intern them, according to a dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph from
Copenhagen. • The submarine com
manders said they did not dare re
turn to Germany.
MAP ON DISPLAY
The map for the Third ward Is on
display in McFall's window, and the
ward leader requests that all people
in the Third ward consult the map
so that they can tell when their block i
has tuxaod to rod. I
ENDLESS TELEPHONE CHAIN
AID IN WAR WORK.DRIVE
Impossible lo Estimate Number of Pledges Received by
Novel Method Adopted by the Y. W. C. A.
Several hundred persons in Har
risburg sat up all night trying to
estimate through the choice and
chance division of mathematics Jußt
how many pledges to the United War
Work Campaign Fund have been
made through a fertile idea of some
thoughtful-minded members of the
local V. W. C. A.
The scheme provides for each per
son who receives a telephone call
from a friend asking for his or her
support of the United War Work
Fund to call up seven other friends
and ask the same support, who In
turn will call seven others. And so
the pledges of support when the col
lector calls multiply sevenfold, by
sevenfold, and perhaps you can esti
mate the possible pledges gained in
a day through this means.
The whole thing is reported to
have begun yesterday in this way:
Mrs. William Jennings, chairman of
the Home Service Division of the
local chapter, is said to have re
"COAL CLAUSE"
CASE ON 26TH
Justice Simpson's Account
Shows $5,000 Given by Him;
Meade Board Meets Sproul
The Public Service Commission to
day announced that November 26,!
at Harrisburg had been fixed for the
hearing irt the so-called, "coal
clause" electric rate case, which
arose in a complaint by the Fleet
wood and Kutztown Electric Com
pany against the Metropolitan of
Reading and in which the State
Electric Association will take part
to uphold the legality of the clause
in contracts.
Governor Rrumlmngli said to-day
that the Meade Memorial Commis
sion would meet Saturday morning
In the office of Attorney General
Brown in Philadelphia to discuss the
plans and that Governor-elect Sproul
had been invited to attend.
Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr.,
filed his expenseaccount to-day,
showing that he hud contributed $5,-
000 to the lawyers committee form
ed In his interest and had made no
other payments. The justice had no
contributions. E. L. Whittelsey, of
Erie, Prohibition candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, certified to spend
ing less than 850.
L I'. Kiiiffon, of Wllkcs-Burro,
was reappointed a member of the
State Board of Undertakers.
The Reading system to-day paid
$668,000 to the state as Taxes which
had been in process of settlement for
some time.
The borough of Groat Bond to-ilay
complained to the Public Service
Commission against the new rates
of the Susquehanna County Light
and Power Company.
The Altoona and lx>gan Valley,
Carlisle and Mt. Holly and Valley
Railways systems were respondents
at henrings held by Public Service
Commissioners to-day at the Cap
itol, rates and service being objected
to. In the Blair county case the at
tack was made by the Bellwood
Chamber of Commerce. The town of
Bloomsburg and the borough of Pal
myra presented complaints aguinst
the water companies operating in
those places and the borough of
Middleburg asked the right to ac
quire the plant of the Middleburg
Water Company, and furnish its own
supply. None of the cases was con
cluded. In the Valley complaint
churges against the service were
withdrawn and the matter concen
trated on a seven-cent fare, the
compuny announcing that it was
having a valuation made.
Governor Brumbaugh to-dny ap
pointed Frank 8. Burr as Justice of
the peace for Caernarvon township,
Lancaster county; M. W. Hurley for
Covington township. Lackawanna
county, and D. C. Gillies for Export.
John S. Englert Was appointed al
derman of the Ninth ward of Mc-
Keesport. .
Capitol visitors included Judge J.
N. Langham. of Indiana county;
Senator A. F. Daix, Philadelphia,
and Representative M. B. Rich, of
Clinton county.
The Dauphin county treasurer to
day paid $6,197.30 as revenue from
hunters' licenses.
Commissioner of 1 Jibor and In
dustry McNtchols to-day outlined
plans for the remainder of the year
with the heads of all bureaus of" his
department. The new commissioner
said everyone-was to work. ,
Governor Brumbaugh will give n
dinner for the Public Service Board
to-night.
"Commissioner of Health Royvr is
in Philadelphia.
C. I*. Rogers, Jr., of the Auditor
General's office Is in Philadelphia as
a witness in the suit over the Phila
delphia primary bills, which the
state declined to pay.
The .State t'oinpcnsutioii llounl is
in session in Phtlidelphia to-day.
Sergeant Jerauld, 111
With Pneumonia, Now
on Road to Recovery
From the Army Hospital at Camp
Wadsworth, Spartansburg, S. C.,
came a wire last night to D. P. Jer
auld, 14 Evergreen street, grandfa
ther of Sergeant Dwlght W. Jerauld,
a member of the Sixtieth Pioneer In
fantry Band, stating that Sergeant
Jerauld, who has been critically ill
with pneumonia, has passed the dan
ger mark and is well on his way to
recovery. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Jerauld,
parents of Sergeant Jerauld, who
went to Camp Wadsworth last Fri
day to be with their son, are expect
ed back to-night. Sergeant Jerauld
enlisted two years ago In the old
Eighth Regiment, which was later
affiliated with the Sixtieth Pioneer
Infantry Bond. He plays the bass
horn.
Hoover Likely to Go
Saturday to Direct U. S.
Food Gilts to Starving
By Associated Press
Washington, Nov. 14.—Herbert
Hoover and other food administra
tion officials will sail for Europe on
the White Star liner Olympic proba
bly on Saturday, it was learned at
the Food Administration to-day. Mr.
Hoover goes at President Wtson's
request to direct the work of feeding
the starving po&ti fctlon of war-torn
Europe.
PREPARATORY SERVICES
Services preparatory to the Holy
Communion will be held In the Re
formed Salem ChaYch, Friday even
ing at 7.46 o'clock \ ' <
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NOVEMBER 14, 1918.
marked to Miss Lois G. Scott, indus
trial secretary of the Y. W. C. A.:
"I believe It would be a good thing
if you would call up seven of your
friends and ask them to be ready to
give money to the campaign fund
when called upon, and also ask each
to call seven friends, making the
same requests." 'That's a line idea."
said Miss Scott, "and I'll do it!"
These were the seven friends Miss
Scott called: Mrs. L. F. Harris, Miss
Doris Itothert, Miss Mary McKeo,
Mrs. J. C. Lusk Jr., Miss Ruth Ar
nold, Miss Helen Telghmann and
Miss Ruth Webster.
These in turn have called up seven
friends, and, their friends seven
friends, and so the pledges have
rolled up by geometric ratio. At
first it was thought that perhaps
there might be some objections by
the telephone companies, but upon
inquiry these companies actually in
dorsed the plan because of the good
purpose for which it stands.
VERBEKE PUPILS
ARE PATRIOTIC
Miss Ryan's Room 100 Per
Cent. For War Work Fund;
Other Pupils Help
Miss Ryan's room In the Vcrbeke
building registered 100 per cent, in
pledges to raise live dollars per pupil
for the War Work fund through the
Victory Boys and Girls, and when
the other pupils of the building
leurned what they had done they
promised to help the girls earn the
money.
"The spirit of the children is beau
tiful," suid Miss Ryan to-day.
"When the others leurned that every
girl in my room b af l pledged herself
to raise $5 by personal effort they
offered to give whatever assistance
they can in the raising of the money.
Each girl will 'do her bit.' They will
sell candles and cakes of their own
making und their fellow pupils many
of them have pledged themselves to
buy their Thanksgiving und Christ
mas goodies from my girls."
The girls who are on the 100 per
cent, list are as follows:
Sarali Anwyll, Kathryn Bowman,
Helen Capin. Esther Crosby, Gertrude
Diffenderfer, Ethel Dodd. ' Mary
Flagle, Helen Handler. Kathryn Kies,
Lee Anna Knupp, Hannah Lapkin,
Evelyn Long, Beryl McGratl, lrefle
Malseed, Edith Martin, Sarah Miller,
Rose Miller, Florence Morrison. Mary
Ream, Suzanne Rupp, Margaret
Rauch, Betsy Shank, Eliza Shupp,
Dorothy Stoncr, Edria Thompson,
Louise Veaner, Edna Wallower.
Great Sage Fortune
Goes For Uplift; Each
Servant to Get $5,000
Now York. Nov. 14.—Four-fifths
of the $50,000,000 estate of Mrs.
j Russell Sage is to be divided among
j thirty charitable and educational
institutions named in her will which
was filed yesterday. Bryn Mawr
College is one of the beneficiaries.
Joseph Jermain Slocum, brother
of Mrs. Suge, receives a bequest of
$8,000,000 of which $1,000,000 is to
' be held in trust during his life, the
] remainder to be divided among his
i children or their heirs. Each servant
\ who had been in the employ of Mrs.
] Sage for ten years or more at the
| time of her death, receives $5,000,
j while those who had been in her
j employ for five years or more re-
I celve $2500 each.
The $40,000,000 set aside for char
| itable and educational purposes is
i divided into fifty-two parts. Seven
[ parts will go to the ltussell Sage
! Foundation, which was established
'by Mrs. Sage in 1007 by a donation
lot' $10,000,000.
J The Female Seminary will get two
parts in addition to a special be
quest of $50,000. Two parts are
left to the Woman's Hospital in the
state of New York. Two parts are
left to the woman's executive com
mittee of the board of home mis
sions of the Presbyterian cnurcn
and two parts to the Roman's board
of foreign missions of the sume
church. ( ,
The Children's Aid Society, the
Charity Organization Society, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Americun Museum of National His-
Ijf.ry and Syracuse University also
receive two parts euch, while Yale
University, Amherst, Williams Col
lege, Dartmouth College, Princeton
University, Barnard College, Bryn
Mawr College, Yassar College, Smith
College, Tuskegee Institute and
Hampton Institute receive one part
each.
Special bequests are made to
many in various parts of the coun
try. It is estimated that Mrs. Sage
in the years following the death of
her husband distributed at least $35,-
000,000 among charitable Institu
tions.
Jobs For All When Peace
Basis Comes, Says Felton
Philadelphia, Nov. 14. —"There
will be a Job for every man in the
readjustment of labor from a war
time tp a peace basis."
E. C. Felton, Federal director of
employment. In Pennsylvania, made
this statement to-day in discussing
the slight temporary disorganization
that has occurred in certain war in
dustries as a result of the signing of
the armistice.
All employers of labor in war in
dustry and those seeking labor for
peace-time activities arc urged to
co-operate with the Government em
ployment service to prevent any
temporary jierlous disorganization of
labor resources.
Extra time and overtime have
been eliminated in all munition and
ordnance plants.
"Steel and Iron mills will continue
as usual. Building materials will
be In demand. Many activities forced
to curtail their output will resume.
This, together with the big rehabili
tation work abroad, will supply
work for every man," said Mr.
Flton.
BOOMS FOR JUDGE
The names of Senator Charles H.
Kline, of Pittsburgh, and Judge C. V.
Henry, of Lebanon, are the latest to
be heard in connection with ap
pointment to succeed Judge John W.
Kephkrt on the Superior Court bench
when he goes to the Supreme Court.
COMMISSION MEETS
" The State Commission of Agricul
ture Is In session at the department
to-day. Most of the work Is being
done on, t&e new budget.
AUSTRIA FACES
STARVATION IN
WAKEOF PEACE
Scenes Along Railway Not Un
like Those on Battlefield;
Bodies Along Lines
By Associated Press
Italian Headquarters, Nov. 14.—-
G. D. McLeed, of Montreal, an avi
ator, and C. M. Young, of Des
Moines, lowa, who were taken pris
oner by the Austrinns during the
Italian campaign, have been released
and have reached the Italian lines.
"Horrible food conditions prevail
In Austria," said McLeed to-day,
"and it is quite possible that a mil
lion persons will die there this win
ter from lack of food, weakness and
disease. The country is quiet now,
but another Russia may grow out of
the situation as soon as the troops
returning from the front discover
that the end of the war has not
brought relief.
"Bcenes along the railways are
like those on the battlefield. We
saw bodies scattered here and there
as a result of men crowding on the
tops of trains and being swept off
by tunnels. There also were bodies
of wounded men who have been
taken from the Red Cross and left
to die."
Jersey Student Slips
on Ledge and Falls to
Death at Mercersburg
ChnmlierHliurg, Pa., Nov. 14.' —Alfred
E. Swain, aged 18, of Bridgpville, N.
J., was instantly killed at Mercers
burg Academy, last night, by falling
twenty feet to the concrete walk, frac
turing his skull. He had visited other
students in their rooms after hours,
and was trying to steal bark to his
room, walking on an outside ledge,
when he fell. His body was discover
ed when the carsh was heard.
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LAST TICKS OFF
THE NEWS WIRES
By Associated Press
Wutertown, ,Y. Y. The steam
er Sturell, of the Webster Stecamship
Company, of Montreal, which went
ashore Tuesday on Stow Island, in
the St. Lawrence river, neear Alex
andria Buy, is being towed to Mon
treal.
Philadelphia. Stockholders of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at a special
meeting to-day ratified the proposed
contract for government operation
of the road.
Basel. The revolutionary govern
ments at Mannheim, Rastatt, und
Heidelberg have smmoned tho Grand
I Duke, of Baden, to abdicate.
Uusel. The revolution movement
is spreading strongly in East Prus
sia. Koenigsberg, Allensteln, In
sterberg. Gubien and Loetzen are in
the hands of the revolutionists.
Berlin. Tho German lighth cruis
er Koenigsberg on November 13 at
one o'clock p. in., put to sea with
plenipotentiaries of the Workmen's
and Soldiers' Council of the German
fleet in order to meet the represen
tatives of the British admiralty.
London. The British labor party
at a conference to-day decided by a
large majority to withdraw its mem
bers from the cabinet at the close of
the present parliament which is ex
pected to take place shortly.
FOCH TO ENTER
METZ ON SUDNAY
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to the already serious food prob
lems.
Copenhagen advices say Polish
troops, according to a Berlin dis
patch, have entered upper Sliesiu,
Prussia.
Italy Gets Credit
The United States to-day announc
ed a credit of'sloo,ooo,ooo for Italy,
to be used largely to pay for food
stuffs und war supplies already or
dered by the Italian government in
this country and in process of manu
facture or export.
The new government of Germany
has advised the Allied powers that
the period of evacuation of invaded
lands as provided for in the armis
tice terms Is too short and reiterates
the fear expressed verbally that
anarchy and famine will follow the
literal execution of the conditions.
•The statement Is made public in
Paris, where' it has been stated the
conditions were ' fully considered
when the amistice terms were placed
in the hands of Marshal Foch, the
commander-in-chief of the Allied
Arrfiies.
In the presence of President Poin
care and Premier Clemenceau, Mar
shal Foch, commander-in-chief of
the Allied Armies, is to mako solemn
entries into Strassburg and Metz on
Sunday. \t is announced from Paris
that American troops have crossed
the German frontier toward these
cities.
Advices from Ghent indicate that
Brussels is in a state of excitement
following tho collapse of the German
war machine. It Is reported thai
German soldiers mutinied and shot
their oliicers und began pillaging and
burning the cjty.
Friedrich Ebert heads the new
German government, a Copenhagen
dispatch states. Hugo Haase is the
new minister of foreign affairs and
Philipp Bcheidemann, minister of fi
nance and colonies. Wilheim Ditt
mann is minister of demobilization,
transport, justice and health. v
Reports as to the former German
Crown Prince continue to be con
flicting. It now is stated he is with
his troops at the front. The report
that he had Joined his futher in Hol
land is denied in a Berlin dispatch
bearing Tuesday's date.
Itavuria Complains of Armistice
A manifesto has been sent from
Munich to the new federal govern
ment of Germany, asking that com
plaint over the conditions of th<
armistice be sent to the Entente pow.
era. It was said the terms agreed
to by Germany in stopping hostill
ties are of such a nature as to pre
vent rapid re-establishment of ordei
in Bavaria.
The abdications of Leopold IV,
prince of Lippe and Duke Edward ol
Anhalt an- reported from Berlin, Th
later has resigned the throne in f&voi
of his son, Joachim Ernst, who wai
born January 11, 1901.
W. W. ANSPACH VISITS HERE •
W. W. Anspach, of Milton, presi
dent of the Reid Tobacco Compan]
of that town, visited County Record
ed James E. Lentz to-day. He look
ed over the United War Work cam
paign activities In the Gilbert stori
room where Mr. Lentz Is assslstant
county manager, and expressed con
fidence in the ability of the countj
u ovr*4becrlbe Its quota.
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