2 BAKER TOLD OF DIFFERENCES IN ! ARMY SENTENCES Similar Cases With Verdicts of Wide Range Brought to His Attention By Associated Press Washington, March I.—Three ad ditional cases of soldiers in this country sentenced to be shot by courts martial for military offenses and whose sentences were either remitted or corhmuted by President Wilson were made public by the War Department. Private Nicholas Locassle, of the Fourth Training Battalion, replace ment group, medical department. Camp Greenieaf, Ga., was convicted on charges of having refused to put on the prescribed military uniform and two-thirds of the members of the court concurred in the death sentence. The President reduced the sentence to a prison term of fifteen years. Privates Benjamin Breger and Herman D. Kaplan, of the quarter master corps. Camp Funston, Kan., were charged with refusing to put on the uniform and also with hav ing refused to do noncombatant military service of any kind. The President disapproved both findings and sentences and ordered the sol diers released from confinement and restored to duty. Secretary Baker's attention was called to-day to the fact that on very similar charges between the cases of Private Eocassle and cases of Privates Breger and Kap lan the final action was to restore the two Funston men to duty while Eocassle was given a fil'teen-year prison term and dishonorable dis charge on his release from confine men t\ The case of Eocassle. he indicat ed, probably was in that group of cases which needed still further at tention by the reviewing authorities and that it was probable that the 15-year sentence ultimately would be greatly reduced. SENATOR KNOX SEES GRAVE DANGER [Continued from First l*c.] include the central powers and their allies in the war. "Thus the Eeague of Nations in the sense of all the nations is not cre ated by this document, nor are the states members of the league treated as equals. "The term 'league' is a misnomer in another and really vital matter. For a league connotes a confeder ation, and a confederation implies a \ rig ain the several parties to with- | draw at their will. But. there is no right of secession within the four corners of this covenant. On the other hand, the association here pro vided for is a union in the full sense of that term as applied to our own political institutions. Once in this union we remain there, no matter how onerous the gigantic burdens may become. Sees Hard Way Out "No matter how great the distates and revulsion our people may have for it . we must remain members un til cither we persuade all the states represented in the executive council and three fourths of those represent ed in the body of delegates to bid us depart in peace, or until the league crumbles of its own weight or is destroyed by its enemies, or until we fight our way out against the British empire, France. Italy, Japan, and all the lesser states they ar<t able to persuade to join the league." Senator Knox took up the six op erative bodies of tiie league and criti cised them' one by one. As to the body of delegates his chief criticism was that the consti tution contained no provision for lh£ir appointment, removal, compen sation or tenure. lie objected to the formation of the executive council because it would be composed of only nine of half a hundred states and practically would i be given the power to declare war, j make its own laws, sit as a court and pass judgment and then determine the means of enforcing its judg- ; ments. I 111011 Im Abhorrent "A body clothed with powers such i as given to this council is an m chronism," he said. It belongs to the! days of the Medes and Persians. A | union more abhorrent to our tradi- I tlons, free institutions and the trend ! of all civilized government could not be devised." Provisions for the mandatory com mission, the Senator thought, were indefinite as to organization and op eration. Of tiie bureau of labor he asked whether if was the intent to put labor of all countries upon an equality. "If this Vie 4lie intent, labor of this country, may consider, inasmuch f.s France already lias given notice it will be impossible to put French la bor on an equality with American whether it is proposed to bring American labor to the level of French labor, in order that there may be j equitable treatment of (he commerce , of the two countries." Possibility of AVnr Greater Senator Knox assailed many of the 1 other articles, adding that (o the i mind they held out assurance of 1 future world war, g -eater than any ! before. "in this alleged Instrument of peace." he asserted. ' war was legal ized in seven cases und made com pulsory in three." He said the provisions of the pro posed league took away the right cf Congress to declare war, iho raise armies and support a navy, and he declared that with war legalized by the league, "this may spell over whelming disaster." "Pause and consider that it is pro posed," said the Senator, "to take from the. social organism not alone the right, but the power of self-de fense. We shall stand not only nak ed, but bound and helpless." Injured by Bull, He Seeks $5,000 Damages Hollitluysburg, Pa., March I.—An odd lawsuit was instituted in the Blair county court yesterday by Jo seph Stino to recover $5,000 dam ages for personal injuries sustained while being tossed by a vicious bull belonging to the "William H. Herr estate. The bidders and spectators, at tending the .public sale on the Herr farm were attacked by the bull and several were injured before the' animal was subdued. It is alleged- that the owners were negligent In permitting the bull to roam at large. SATURDAY EVENING, . hxrrisburg telegrilph: MARCH 1, 1919. THREE GETTYSBURG BO YS HAVE GREAT SURPRISE WHEN ARMY REACHES COBLENZ Waller Sterner Wries of Meeting Comrades From Home Town in German City; Soldiers Enjoy Seeing Sights While With Army of Occupation Gettysburg, PH.. Mar. 1. —Three Gettysburg boys had a happy time in the German city of Coblenz when they accidentally met there as mem bers of the army of occupation. Walter Sterner has written a letter to his brother here and this is what he says: "Well, I am here in Germane and in good health. I was in Cob lenz yesterday and had one of the greatest surprises I have had since I i came overseas. There were twenty-five hundred of us out of the Fourth Division who were sent on one train. We had good old United States box cars to ride in. AVhen we got to Coblenz we were all given mess tickets for dinner and supper so at the dinner table whom did I find but Eddie Thomas. I was glad to see him, of course. I had not seen him since the second front we were on. But the best of all, he and I stepped out together, and on our way back from crossing the Rhine river and seeing the Kaiser monument and traveling over the streets of Coblenz, who do you sup pose wo should run into but an old chum from Gettysburg Howard Spangler. I was surely surprised, for that was the first fellow I ran across over here that I knew be side Thomas." —Foxes are reported to lie unusually plentiful in the neighborhood of Arendtsville. George E. Gulp and several of his lioys have shot twenty-eight since last fall and have received good prices for the pelts. Lieutenant Earl G. McClellan, son of George A. Poor Director Loudermilch and Steward Early Resign; Lykens Man Is Appointed FERNANDO LOUDERMILCH Fernando Loudermilch, of Halifax, tendered his resignation to-day as a member of the board of directors of the poor, effective March 15, and John H. Lehr, of Lykens, was named by the remaining directors, Frank B. Suavely and Levi S. Miller, to fill the unexpired term from that date* to next January, At the same time the resignation of John W. Early as steward at the county almshouse, was received, ef facturing plant in Lykens. Mr. Loudermilch, who conducts a shirt manufacturing plant at Halifax, is widely known throughout the-county, fective April 1, and Mr. Loudermilch was then named as his successor. Mr. Early is retiring, it is said, because of his health, lie has held the posi tion as steward for more than three years, and prior to his last appoint ment had been steward before for a three-year term. Mr. Lehr, Hie new director, at i present is in charge of a box manu-i Six German U-Boats Will Be Brought to U. S. For Exhibition By Associated Press Washington, March I.—Six of tiie German submarines surrendered in ! British harbors are to be brought lo the United' States soon for exhi bition to the public and for study by American experts. They will be representative of tbe various types of U-boats, from mine planters to the great deep sea cruisers. In announcing that, arrangements for bringing the submarines across the Atlantic had been completed, the Navy Department said the six craft were not part of any allocation of submarines to the United States. The ultimate disposition of the Ger man under-sea tieet, together with the other surrendered German war craft still is subject to the decision of the Peace Conference, it was stat i ed officially. GERMANY SHOWS SIGNS OF ANARCHY [Continued from First Page.] ! will be a strike by the bourgeoisie as j a protest against disorders, i The Soldiers' and Workers' Con ! gress at Munich has declared mar ! tial law for all of Bavaria, according i to a Zurich dispatch to the Paris Matin. German Red Leaders Escape Muenster government troops en tered Dusseldorf on Friday and oc cupied the railway stations and public buildings. Spartacan leaders escaped and the town is quiet, ac cording to Berlin advices received here. A dispatch from Coblenz says that owing to reports of recent attempts to interfere with food shipments to American troops in occupied sec tions of Germany, the number of guards on all cars containing ra tions has been increased. Five cars of provisions for Amer ican troops in Berlin and at the twenty Russian prisoner camps left C-oblenz yesterday, each car being in charge of ten soldiers, all of whom were armed. There were, in addi tion, ten men riding in the cars. FRED 14. VAN BI'SKIRK Fred E. Van Buskirk, 32 years, who died tills morning nt his late residence. 2921 Bank street, Pen brook. He is survived by his wife and mother. Funeral services will be held at ills late home on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. McClellan, adjutant at Camp Han- | cock, Ga. has been re-appointed a , first lieutenant in the regular army j and ordered to proceed to Amatol, j N. J., to be permanently stationed at the arsenal at that point.—To have ■, been one of the surviving men of Company A, Three Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry, that went into battle on three fronts, two hundred and twenty-five strong, to have suf fered a slight dose of gas, to have been wounded in the left thigh, the right log and the left side of the face, and to have climbed down an eighty foot rope to safety in a life boat when the Northern Pacific, on which he made the return trip, was grounded—these are among the va ried experiences that fell to the lot of Bugler Harry M. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller, of New Oxford, during his six months of strenuous service overseas. He is now at his home. —Sergeant Ray 1,. Sheesly sent his uncle, Jacob Melhorn, of McSherrystown, a Ger man pipe. The pipe is fifty inches long and is in eight parts and con sists of metal, rosewood, rubber and horn and is decorated with two tassels of the German colors. The bowl of the pipe holds about an ounce of tobacco. —William T. Ja cobs, of iHitimore township, suffered painful injuries recently in a pecu liar manner. He was attempting to cut the throat of a bull that had been dropped by a bullet and the dying animal threw back its head and its horn struck Mr. Jacobs in the side breaking a rib. WOULD RATHER BE WRITER THAN BE PRESIDENT By Associated Press. Washington, March I.—ln re gard to published reports that President Wilson told Democratic committeemen who lunched with him yesterday that he would not accept nomination for a third term, it was stated to-day at the White House that the subject of President Wilson again being a candidate was not mentioned. It was explained that the President merely remarked to liis guests that he yearned to get back to writing and that he had in con templation the compiling of a history. Grantham Crossing Called Dangerous; Two complaints against the United States railroad administration were entered at the Public Service Com mission to-day, one raising the ques tion of legality of railroad rates for intrastate traffic filed by orders of the director general and the other against a grade crossing. The Lehigh Navigation Electric Company, which operates a number of electric plants in Eastern Penn sylvania, entered protest against the rates lor hauling coal within the State now charged by the Lehigh and New England Railroad, contend ing that such rates can be enforced only by approval of the Public Serv ice Commission. This raises a ques tion similar to that taken before the Dauphin county court by At torney General Schaffer in the tele phone rates. The other complaint attacks the grade crossing at Grantham, Cum berland county, being filed by Enos If. Hess, who contents that the cross ing is obscured by a covered rail road bridge and that the Reading's tracks approach it through a deep cut and on a sharp curb. An average of eighty trains a day pass over the crossing and it is alleged that it is dangerous and a menace to the in creasing volume of traffic over the crossing. , Residents of Greensboro asked the commission to suspend new rates filed by the Greensboro Gas Com pany. All Liquor Licenses Are Lifted by Hotel Keepers Every liquor license granted this year by the county court was lifted the last" two dealers paying their taxes late yesterday afternoon, as the 1919 license year begins on i March 1. At the county treasurer's office, Deputy Treasurer John E. Ruther ford reported that $1 4,325.42 had been received so far this year from the dealers as taxes under the pro visions of the new bill permitting monthly payments. The great major ity of tlie hotel and saloon proprie tors paid a four-month tax in ad vance which will permit them to sell liquor until July 1. Others who paid monthly must make additional pay ments of taxes before the first of next month. East year dealers in the city and county paid about $55,000 into the treasury, which eventually was di vided some of it going to the State, part to the county, city, boroughs and townships. Brewers even paid ia tax for 1919, although under fed j eral order they are not permitted at j present to manufacture beer. Frohman Left $451; Hayman, $1,692,815 Now York, March I.—Appraisals nmde by the state controller's office of the estates of Charles Frohman, who was lost on the Rusitania on May 7, 1915, and of bis partner, Al Hayman. who died on February 10, 1917, filed with the surrogate's court yesterday, show that the net estate of Mr. Frohman, after all debts bad been paid and legal deductions made, was only $451, while Mr. Mayman's net estate was $1,692,815. Mr. Frohman's gross estate was $919,383 and Mr. Hayman's was sl,- 852,479. The reports show that Mr. Froh man's two brothers and four sister| who were his heirs got only $75.30! each. Mr. Frohman's debts were more than $900,000, of which $354,- 140 was a claim of Al Haynian foj loans. HARRY H. ALBRIGHT Harry H. Albright, forty-seven years old, died this morning at the home of his mother, Mrs. 264 Calder street, from a complica tion of diseases. The body will be taken to Atglen on Tuesda ymorning at 8.45 by Undertaker Sourbeer, Fun eral services will be held in the At glen Methodist Episcopal Church, and burial in the AtgV,en Cemetery. His mother and three brothers, John, Harry and Walter, all of this city, survive. TWO LOCAL BOYS FROM OVERSEAS ARE AT CARLISLE 'More Pennsylvania Soldiers Removed From Hobokcn Institution By Associated Press Carlisle, Pu., March 1. —Two Har risburg boys, overseas convalescent soldiers, were admitted to the United States Army Genearl Hospital, No. 31, at this place, from the United States debarkation hospital No. 3, at Hoboken, N. J. They are: Russell Challenger, a son of Mrs. Ellen Challenger. He was a wag oner in Battalion F, of the field ar tillery. William Schreck, a son of Mrs. Agusia Schreck, 1122 Cameron street. Schreck was a private In Company C, 146 th Infantry. Other Pennsylvania boys received at the institution at the same time were: Alfred Westbrook, of Hunt ingdon; Leroy Spence, of Carlisle: Ralph Kern, of New Cumberland; Charles Arthur, Carlisle; George Ellvein, of Wrightsville; William Neff, of Tyrone; Cailo llocci, of Al toona; Lester Lopus, of Waterford; Newton Herb, of Hcgins. Trade Expert Who Will Speak to Businessmen |§Fy < Y / vßrlffflr CHARLES LYON CHANDLER Reservations for the Chamber of Com merce luncheon meeting- in the Penn llarris hotel Tuesday noon, should he phoned or mailed to the Chamber offices, Monday afternoon, it was said this morning, as the reservation list closes Tuesday morning at. 9 o'clock. The speaker, Charles Lyon Chandler, an international trade expert, will ad dress the business men on the subject, "The Business Outlook During the Re construction Period." His interesting career as representative of the United State government to Japan, Switzer land and South America, qualify him to speak With a broad knowledge of his subject. Millersburg Council Can Issue $50,000 in Bonds Middlcburg, Pa., .March I. The | Public Service Commission this week | gave the borough council permission | to float a bond issue of $50,000 for I the Middleburg Water Plant pur- ! chased last July. The water plant j was owned by Frederick Bruden batigh, of Millersburg.—At a meeting of the council of the Emmanuel Lu theran Church Monday evening Pro fessor Paul Bilthart was elected or ganist. Mrs. George Ilassinger, who was organist for the past twenty years, resigned, and Calvin Stetler who has been choir leader for forty seven years, also resigned.—Mrs. Kd win Bower who had been visiting friends at Columbus, Ohio, return ed home on Monday.—Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Schoch spent several days of last week in New York City.—Her bert Stetler was takpn to the Geis inger Hospital at lJanville, \vhere he underwent an operation. The Home Study Club was entertained at the home of Miss Beulah Uathfon, Monday evening.—Miss Cora Thomp son, of Mexico, is visiting her broth er, James U. Thompson.—Mrs. Les lie Krebs, of Shippensburg, is visit ing at the home Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Kern. —Miss Gertrude Dunkleherger is spending several days in Phila delphia and New York City. Attends College Classmate's Wedding at Yeagertown Tliompsoiito wn, Pa., Mar. I.—Tile Rev. Walter Brown attended the wed ding of his college classmate, the Rev. Guy H. Middleswarth, of Osterburg. to Miss I.illian Price, of Yeagertown, at the bride's home at Yeagertown on Wednesday afternoon.!— Miss Kdith Krug is visiting Mrs. W. F. Bergstres ser at Greensburg.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, of Cocalamus, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Brant lioffer on Sunday.—Paul Smith, of llar risburg, spent tlie week-end with ids parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Smith.— ('harles Allen went to Now York 'on Friday to see liis brother. John Allen, who lias just returned from overseas and is in the hospital at New York.— J. Frank Patterson, of Mlfllintown, was in town Tuesday.—Mrs. George Krug was at Hurrisburg on Monday.—Mrs. C. P.. Nelson and daughter, Ruth, spent several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Kinzer, near Bast Salem.— Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Haldoman, C. R. Haldeinan. George Mahlin, of Mal vern ; C. Waldo Haldeman, Jr., of Swarthmore; Mrs. Klla Wenger and daughter. Miss Ruth Wagner, of Har risonburg. Va., and Aaron Weaver, of Waynesboro, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Haldeman.—Miss Maude Hoopes lias returned home from Duncan non. —M. K. Schlegel and Miss Mary Detra, daughter of Mr. and -Mrs. Brad ford Detra. were married at Harris burg on Tuesday.—Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gross spent the beginning of the week with friends at Harrlsburg. JIEET AT \VIKKS-BARKE 12 Mlentown. Pa.. March I.—The ID2O session or the LTnited Evungel ical conference will be held in Wilkes-Barre, beginning on the last day in February. This, was decided at this morning's session of tlie con ference no wbeing held in this city. NKEFK IS APPOINTED L. F. Neefe, president of the Hur risburg Ktwanis Club, lias been named by tlie board of directors to represent the organization at the international convention to bo held in Birmingham, Ala., in May. MADRID PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW IN RIOTING Trouble Hcgins in Spanish Capital When People At tack Food Markets By Associated Press Madrid, March I.—Martial law has been declared in Madrid and troops are patrolling the streets. Order lias been restored, but some theaters have been closed. This ac tion was the result uf rioting against profiteers yesterday, provis ion and butcher shops being attacked by mobs. The gov ernment has taken possession of all bake shops. Premier Romunones has issued a statement saying that protests against provision dealers had as sumed sucli an aspect that it was necessary to take serious precau tions and that martial law had been declared, so as to enable the gov ernment to work better for a set tlement of pending.social questions. The 1 rouble began Friday arier noon when attacks on bakeries and food sjiops occurred, principally in the suburbs, and in the evening the people occupied the butcher shops. Skirmishes with some stqne throw ing occurred between the demon strators und the police around tne markets. Little Folks Enjoy Party on Companion's Birthday LUCILLE T. CUMBLER Yew Port, March I.—A number of little folks gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Clouser, 51 South Fifth street, on Saturday afternoon to cele brate the sixth birthday of their little grand-daughter Lucille T. Cumbler. afternoon was spent in playing games, and refreshments were served. The little girl received many pretty and useful gifts. Those present were Paul ine Whitekettle, Christine Soule, Cora Weaver, Mary Louise Fry, Mary Shar row, Grace May Arndt, Geraldine Jones, Margaret Verne Givler, Lucille Cumbler, Norman Stalil, Earl ltowe. Blair Paden. Wilmer Hoke, Carl Buffington, Kenneth Mitchell, Ralph Gussler, Jack Sander son and Percy Deckard. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Clouser, Mrs. G. H. Givler. Mrs. C. B. Gault, Mrs. Hershey Miller and Mrs. Nellie Cumbler. Membership Contest in Lewisberry Sunday School la'wisbori'y, Pa.. Mar. I.—A mem- J bership contest is now on in the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School. The male members use the red but ton with J. 'F. Sutton, chairman; and the female members are using the blue button with Miss Edith Oline in charge. On Sunday the mission ary class offerings will be handed to the pastor, closing this confer ence year.— Mrs. L. I-. Owens is visiting relatives at Bellwood. There she lias spent the past two months. She will not come back until after conference. She was called to her mother's bedside on account of ill ness.—Mrs. L. S. Reiff of New Cum berland was a guest of Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Parthemer.—Oscar D. Byers, of Steelton, spent several days with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. ('. I-larlaeher. —The Rev. L. L. Owens will deliver a sermon in the morning instead of the regular time in tho evening in the Methodist Episcopal church, on account of the union revival services, he and the Rev. A. L. Kriner are holding in the churches at Lisbon. The Senior Kpworth League will have charge of the evening service, open ing at 0:45 o'clock, leader, Mrs. J. F. Sutton; topic, "High Hearts for Great Days." Lieutenant Bruce G. Nebinger and Private Raymond Stonesifer will each give a talk on army life. These two soldiers ar rived at their homes last week.— H. M. Sutton, teacher of the South- Point school, makes the following report for the sixth month ending February 20: No of boys, 8; girls, 12. Boys 99 pgr cent, and girls 99 per cent. Pupils not missing a day during the month are: Iselene Snyder. I.aura C. Parthemer, Ada line S. Shettel, Ruth V. Shettel, Pauline S. Slieltel, Diana 11. Miller, Bertha J. Miller, S. Mildred Dear dorff, Elizabeth B. Conley, Anna B. Conley, Israel B. Conley, George B, Conley. Gordon B. Parthemer, Ervin A. Welgle, Herman R. Potts and Walter L. Boring.—The Rev. L. L. Owens, pastor of the Methodist church resigned as principal of the Lewisberry High school. Lieutenant Bruce G. Nebinger. Thursday took up -the work as principal. The Rev. Mr. Owens will now attend to his ministerial duties as he soon leaves for the annuul conference to be held at Sunbury, opening on March 19. The Rev. and Airs. C. S. Messner and son Spurgeon of Lewisberry, and Ralph Nesbit Straley, of Pine town, were guests this week at tlie home of John R. Laird. —Mr. Neidlg, removed bis family from the Bald Hills to Ervin Flckles bouse in the borough lately vacated by George Slioop and family, who removed to Camden. N. J.—Mrs. Elmer Delp and Miss Blanche Laird spent Saturday with friends in Lemoyne and Harris burg.—Frank P. Straley will leave Monday for a trip to Canada. He expects to remove his family to that place in the near future. i ROBERT I\ H INTER Funeral services for Robert F. Hunter, who died suddenly at the home of his son-in-law. D. F. Warsel, of Holltdaysburg, will be held on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in tlie Westminstef- Presbyterian Church. Burial will be made in tlie Harris burg Cemetery. AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN FRANCE SING SONG ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA TOWN Franklin County Boy Hears Truck Men Render Compli mentary Verses, Composed by One of Their Mem bers, "Oh, That Dear Old Chambersburg" (hnnihrrsliiiru. Pa., March I.— That Chambersburg's hospitality to wards soldiers with truck trains which pass through here from De" troit to Baltimore is not soon for gotten is borne out by Norman Stam baugh, of Nyesville, this county, who recently returned from service in France. During his service in France young Stambaugh cam e in contact witli quite a number of men who had been through this place with truck trains and all of them, he says, hold Chumbersburg high in their estimation. STATE WILL GET. MONEY'S WORTH Commissioner Sadler Says That "Rat 11010" Method of Doing Business Is Over Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler late today issued a statement in which he set forth very clearly that there would be "no more throw ing money into rat holes" in regard to road construction in Pennsylvania. "Governor Sproul has determined that the Commonwealth, in Its con struction of highways, will not be a party to the making of an im provement which will have disap peared or will have become useless before the maturity of the obliga tion undertaken to pay the cost," said Highway Commissioner Sadler today. "Xlie life of tlie bonds issued to j pay for Pennsylvania's highways will j be much shorter than the life of j the roads built," the commissioner! continued. "The bonds are to ma ture in 30 years. It would be folly, and criminal waste of money, if When the roads were entirely gone we were still paying off the bonds. That isn't business. The founda tions we are going to put down will | last longer than we live, by a great i many years. The life of the road is! to be much longer than the life of the bond. We do not propose to burden the next generation with the cost of an improvement made now. One road system will be In the | nature of a legacy 1o the citizenship i that is coming—like the hundred-! year-old- highways of Prance ate a I legacy to the people of that coun-j try. When our bond 3 have matured , and been paid off our roads will still be in the youth of their service, j That is Governor Sprout's idea; and that is the idea of this department.") The construction of permanent) highways for Pennsylvania includes a program of unchangeable routing. The State highway department will not, for example, permanently con struct a route which in the course of time would be diverted so that j grade crossings cotihl be done away | with. "Avoid grade crossings." ts I one of the orders issued by Governor I [Sproul. On one western Pennsyl vania route not over fifteen miles in length twenty-three gtade crossings have been done away with through straightening the line. The highway department's plans for the primary highway system includes the elimi nation of hundreds of dangerous grade crossings. Highway Commissioner Sadler next week continues his conferences with delegations from various parts of the State. His engagements in clude the following: ' Monday George L. Patterson, New Castle Board of Trade: delega tions from Lawrence county. Tuesday Senator R. E. Jones and delegation from Susquehanna county; Deputy Attorney General Charles A. Johnson, Representative T. T. Haldeman and delegation from Montgomery county. Wednesday Representative Coc hin and delegation from Mifflin conn-I ty; Representative Shellenberger, ex-i Senator William H. Manbeek and j delegation from Juniata county: Dr. | E. L. Piper of Export and delegation from northern Westmoreland coun ty; Representative Commerer and delegation front Fulton county; com missioners of Erie county.• Thursday —H. N. Blunt and dele gation from Carbon county: Xorman C. Ball. Samuel Wilson and others from Clarion county. Commissioner Sadler has written the commissioners of Carbon, Col umbia and Luzerne counties, invit ing them to a conference lierp Mon-1 day, Tuesday or Wednesday of next) week. Courthouse Notes I'ten* of Guilty.—Three additional pleas of guilty have been listed for Monday as follows: Henry Johnson, felonious entry and larceny: Edward Hunter, larceny; Reuben Knoll, felon ious entry and larceny. Attorney Gets lilrorce. —The York county court has granted a decree in divorce In the action of Frank M. vs. Maud K. H. Gray. Mr. Gray is an attorney, formerly residing in the city and practicing law as a member of the county bar. He has been liv ing at York for some time. Deser tion was charged In the proceeding. Dlvoree Granted, -A decree in di vorce separating Samuel t from Hazel M. Moore has been granted. Deser tion was charged by Mr. Moore. New Airplane to Possess Speed and Climbing Records Hy Associated Press Washington, March 1, —Establish- ment of an American built and de signed airplane of what officials be lieve are new world's records for speed and climbing ability is dis closed with receipt by the War De partment of resujts of preliminary tests of a machine constructed at Ithaca. N. Y. Tn the test the plane attained an officially timed speed of lti3 2-3 miles an hour and climbed 10,000 feet in 4 minutes and 52 seconds. , The best previous climbing per formance, according to War De partment records,, was 10,000 feet in a little more than six minutes. ENTERTAINED AT UIHKR Yew Cumberland, Pa.. March 1. Mrs. H. A. Bixler entertained the following guests at dinner at her borne on Sixth street on Thursday: Mrs. E. Lucking, of Pittsburgh, Kan sas: Mr. and Mrs. Baker and F. M. Davis, of Uhrichsville, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Bender, of Altoona, Pa, One night Stambaugh ran across a whole cdmpany of soldiers who had visited this plac e on one of their trips and he found the soldiers sing ing an original song, composed by one of their number, entitled, "Oh, That Dear Old Town of Chambers burg." Stambaugli conversed with the boys after he learned that they were sing ing of the county seat of his homo county and the soldiers were unani mous in voting Chambersburg the best town on the whole route from Detroit to the coast. Whisky! A number of cases were dis posed of by Mayor Keister in po lice court this afternoon. Whisky was the cause of the downfall of all the yii3creants brought before His Honor. Mrs. Elizabeth Stouffer, who J was arrested in North Third j street last night on the charge of I begging in the streets for the pur pose of satisfying her, craze for whisky, was among the persons listed for trial. Mary Astrich, South Ninth street, was charged with drunkenness, having been found on the Walnut street bridge last night in a terribly intoxi cated condition. Whisky proved the downfall of three others who received sen tences in to-day's session. Ken ton Snowden. Pete Raglan and doe Renol, well known to the po lice, were charged with larceny. They unlocked the outside cellar door of John Klseheid's hotel, police say, and made away with a | case of whisky. They were start ing to appropriate the contents of the case to their own use in an extended orgy at. No. 12 Cowden street, where they live, when Policeman Schelhas and Detec tives Carson and Speese arrested them. Golden Anniversary of Trinity Reformed Church at Marysville Tomorrow; Kf • if THE REV. RALPH E. HARTMAN Marysville, Pa.. -March 1. —The an niversary services proper in the golden anniversary celebration of the Trinity Reformed Church, will he held tomorrow, when a special pro gram has been outlined for morning, afternoon and evening. All arrange ments are in charge of the pastor, the Rev. Ralph E. Hartman. At tomorrow morning's service, the j history of the congregation from * the time of its organization in De- j cember, 186S, will he read by the' pastor, the Rev. Ralph E. Hartman. I The Rev. U. O. H. Hellman, of Leba L non, one of the early pastors of the | congregation and the only former minister who will be in attendance. I will he the speaker. His subject will be "Retrospect and Prospect." The afternoon's service which will j be held at 3.15 o'clock will be a "community service." A special mu-! steal program iias been prepared, j The evening's service will be the concluding one of the observance. ' Dr. Charles E. Schaeffer, of Philadel- I phia, one of the leading members of thf> Reformed Church, will be the speaker. His subject will be "The ! New Church in the New America." ] Prc-anniversary services have been j held each evening throughout this week. Hp 'alters at these services were: Tuesday, the Rev. Alfred N. Sa.vres, of Harrlsburg Second Re formed Church; Wednesday, the Rev. Homer Skyles May, Harrlsburg Fourth Church: Thursday, the Rev. GUIs N. Kremer, of the llarrisburg Salem Reformed Church: Friday, the Rev. O. H. Kerchner, of the New port Reformed Church of the Incar-1 nation. York Haven Young People to Organize C. E. Society York Haven, Pa., Mar. I.—A meet ing of the young people of the York Haven L'nitcd Brethren congregation will bo held tomorrow evening, at I 6.30 o'clock, when a Young People's christian Endeavor society will he' i organized. j Rehearsals are in progress for (he Easter cantuta at Si. Paul's Luther an church. Harry Krufft, who has Recently re turned from overseas, spent several days tills week with his brother, Phares Krafft and family. Mrs. A. C. Kauffman and grand children, Pauline and Albert Lesher of Millersto.wn, Perry county, were recent guests of Dr. and Mrs. I, M. Anspach. Preston Meredith, of Harrlsburg, spent several days (his week with his aunt, Mrs. Keba Melhorn. Mrs. Joseph Krafft, who was taken suddenly ill at week ago. is reported to be in a serious condition. "The Dust of the Earth," a comedy playlet, was given in St. Paul's Hall, on Thursday night by the Senior class of the Manchester High School. I DAY and NIGHT SCHOOL Open All Year. Enter Any Time. Individual Promotion. BECKLEY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE 121 MARKET ST. ( Hell 125 (Opp. Senate) l>lnl 401 A VISITING NURSES ■ PERFORMED BIG ■ TASK LAST YEAIB An average of one out of six or seven Harrisburgers re^H ceived aid in time of from the Visiting Nurse tion, according to the which sho& that more than visits were made poverty sickness-stricken home durin^H The work will be greater year, for times may not be good and the maiming of the influenza has left temporary or permanent new valids In the epidemic's At least one additional whose salary and expenses $1,200, is'absolutely essential, there must be funds also for regular ilxed expenses of the sociation. (M The public alone must these funds, and appeals are being sent through the mails cash contributions from who have contributed in . years and from other who are considered able to financial aid to the work. sons desiring to contribute, whonH these appeals may not reached, should send their to the Visiting Nurse Room 210, Arcade Building, Har-fl risburg. js LABOR BUREAU GETS I JOBS FOR VETERAN! [•Sn,| jsjt.x iuojj Panirnno.-> ] Ilj securing satisfactory employes employers. Numerous instances wc! recounted of queries for being filled in twenty minutes. Onfl this week a request for 123 employ<H including iifteen carpenters was rl ceived laTe one afternoon to be fillip! until noon of the following day. fiH means of the complete indexing teni in use and with the aid of I eral automobiles, the necessary ber of men was rounded up and readH for duty at the designated time. H "Every kind of workmen laid dowH his tools to enter the army servicH and we are placing first these men iH they return. In addition to manH others thrown out of through the sessatlon or slownH down of war industries,'*. DirectoH Lightner told. I The service Is entirely free to botH men and employers, Director IJgiitH ner explains, if no position is availH able for the man at the time his apl ( plication is received it is carefullH filed. Employers' needs are cared foH likewise, but at present employerl I are securing men to lit their needl I without any waiting. |J| ! The system in use at the Employ! I ment Bureau is much the same al that used in the personal work whicfl has been used in the American Arm I since tlie declaration of war. Eacl applicant fills out a card giving del talis of every kind of work that hi is able to do. These cards are carel fully tabbed and filed away thai when occasion arises, the right mal may be secured for the position. I Director Lightner has had soml ludicrous experiences however, in hil effort to keep the unemployment fig! ure as low as possible. Several weeks ago. he was called to one towl to address a meeting of citizens oil the employment question, was mel by a big hand, which together witll an orchestra music at till meeting i H/the town opera house! only to be obliged to ride on a freigli train to make a railroad counectioi that he might return home in suffiet ent time. He was accompanied oi this trip by Herman Knisle.v, of tin Department of Municipal Statistics who spoke on the desirability of rusli ing municipal improvements of al kinds time to furnish employ inent tcT men who had been engagei In the military service and war work WINTER'SMILDNESS CAUSES COAL DROP [MSn.I 15.11.1 lUOJj I><UHI|JUO,) 1 I only a local condition, decided upoi I by the dealers. Explains 50-eent Drop In regard to the fifty cents a ton | reduction, a coal man explained I the situation in the following maii- I ner: "Before his resignation. Dr. Gar j field. Federal fuel administrator, de clared that he was in favor of al- I lowing the operutors to charge an I increase of fifty cents a ton for an l thrueite. Therefore, it is my belief | that when they make up what they call their winter schedule they will ' include the advance of fifty cents a I lon. "it is customary every spring to lop off lircy cents a ton from the winter schedule, usually effective April t. Each month thereafter the price is advanced ten cents, until the winter scheduled is reached, which would be within five months. The operators, therefore, before making their fifty cents reduction this spring, likelv will raise their prices fifty cents, so that after the spring re | auction, the price will remain the ! same as at present." 1 Other dealers shared in this view. | while still others said they Gould ! not predict what, action the opera i tors will take before April 1. AMERICANS TO IMEET Members of Mt. Vernon Council, No. 333, Order of Independent Amer icans, will meet to-niglit in Fackler's hall, Thirteenth and Derry streets, for a special gathering. Members of the degree team are asked to be present at 6.30 and the regular mem bership at 8. FAIRBANKS SCALES ; We solicit your weighing j Problems Expert Knowledge Without Obligation Henry Gilbert & Son j
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