10 -M's Reply Wil! Not Be Made Public Washington, Mar. 20. Lieutenant 'Colonel AnseU's reply to statements t>y Major General Crowder, judge nd voeate general, on the subject of military justice, will not be made • public by the War Department. Secretary Baker announced that he had returned the letter to Colonel Ansell, with the suggestion that its publication would not be helpful, and that if the officer had any suggestion :or recommendation as to changes in the court martial system he could make it either to his superior officers or to the Secretary of War. Colonel Ansell to-day said he had no statement to make. His friends as serted it was improbable that he would take any steps toward making public the reply himself, as such ac , tion would be construed as insubordi nation, and would render the officer liable to court martial proceedings on • that charge. Stuck, Off in the Country with your storage battery " dead No starter, no lights, perhaps no ignition. 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"Thieves' Wit," by Hulbert Footner, is the title of one of the most exciting and fascinating detective stories printed, and will appear in daily instalments in The Philadelphia Bulletin, be ginning Monday, March 31st. SATURDAY EVENING, ''"CLOUD COPS" FOR NEW YORK Twenly-Six Fliers Arc Sworn in as Members of Police Reserves By Associated Press. New York, March 29.—Plans of the New York police department for a "cloud cop" section has ma terialized. Twenty-six American, British and French aviators were | sworn in in the office of Deputy I Police Commissioner Rodman Wan ] amaker as members of the police re-' j serves. Colonel Jefferson De Mount | Thompson, who will command the ! police aviation squadron, announced I that planes would be ordered in I May at a meeting of airplane man | ufacturers in Atlantic City, j According to Colonel Thompson, the squadron when completed, will comprise 150 men. including fliers, mechanicians, supply officers, medi cal officers, a chaplain and cooks. British to Attempt to Fly Dirigible Balloon Over Ocean Am fork. Mar. 29.—The Aero Club I of America announces it lias received ■a cable message from the British air I ministry saying it was considering an j invitation to 11 y one of its huge I dirigible balloons across the Atlantic Ito Atlantic City in May while the second pan-American aeronautical exposition is in session there. The British dirigible selected to at tempt the trans-Atlantic flight prob j ably will be the new R33 or the R34. They are rigid, about 700 feet long. S<i feet in diameter. 95 feet high, and life about t!5 tons, including their own weight.'* They can easily make the trip in about forty-eight hours from Eng land. Keystone Auto fl P|j Radiator Works H 91 aii li f"C Hirers and lie- 1 . ■ AIITO RA HI ATOHS, m noons, til i i i.nits Kg mid GASOLINE TANKS M Wt Smashed Radiators, H liotlies mill Lamp H : - | S. RIFKXN CLOTHING, SHOES AND FURNITURE lIOUGIIT AMI SOLD HIGHEST CASH I'KHES PAID 107 Broad Street. Ilarrislmrg, Pa. Hell Phone ililTO-.l LANES COLD & CRIP TABLETS GUARANTEED Reported Killed in Action, Rutherford Boy Turns Up in Prison Camp Reported killed in action in the St. Mihiel drive, Harry R. Gebhardt, son of Harry T. Gebhardt, 142 East Hifh street, Rutherford, was found in a German prison camp in Luxemburg with more than a hundred other wounded men, according to a letter received by the father from Miss Martha Crozler, a nurse attending to these soldiers, now at Coblenz. 'Walter E. Gebhardt, a bugler, and another son of Mi*. Gebhardt, who was seriously wounded, has received a Croix de Guerre for bravery. Corporal wfi'hYs 1/ aol ' harU '' third son, . the Seventeenth Companv, Fifth Marines, Second Division at Nieder breitbueh, Germany, has written an HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Vol. 1, So. 30. HARRISBURG, PA„ MARCH 22-2 S. Our Yank Edltl >n. They Don't Know Where They're Going, But They're on Their Way NEWS OF THE WEEK BOILED DOWN FOR OUR BUSY SOLDIERS Saturday, March 22 Captain M. D. Dctweiler who served in France and Italy arrived in New York to-day. llarrisburg opens its campaign to raise $35,000 for benefit of starving war refugees. Miss Mary F. Holmes, an aide, in the U. S. reconstruction hospital at Fort Snelling, dies of pneumonia, C. Floyd Hopkins buys Gilbert property in Market street which ru mor says will be State headquarters for all motion picture exhibitors. William Phillips is critically stab bed by Harry Cheatem in tight over a woman. Spark from train set fire to home occupied by Daniel Ward in Lemoyne. Ward's furniture, packed for moving, is destroyed. Complaints are made that "tree butchers" are damaging some of the city's finelst shade trees with sense less "trimming." N. A. Walmer, past commander of Post 68 G. A. It. celebrates 78th birthday. Anthracite mine operators ask Gov ernor Sprottl to name auditor to ex amine their books before appointing a commission to probe proposed in creases in retail prices. Grand jury endorses plan to have city and county join in erection of joint city hall and courthouse and for erection of jail in the country. Monday, March 24 Red Cross opens drive to collect old clothing for refugees of south ern Europe and Asia. Hundreds see minister of Gospel Herald Mission baptize half a dozen converts in the cold waters of the Susquehanna. Mrs. Leon Hummel, of York, creates stir when she leaves 5-month-old baby in hotel for five hours. Police search for her when child cries. First all-truck and tractor show opens under auspices of city automo bile dealers. C6unty Commissioners declare as sessments are equitable in Lower Paxton township alter political tilt started by Minority Member Wells. Scores of homes in little towns along mountains near Mount Holly Springs are threatened by raging forest fires. Ten thousand acres of valuable timber land is burned over and more than 400 farmers and others join in beating out the flames. X, W. Dill, automobile dealer, is terribly burned and garage occupied by City Transfer Company and Studebaker-Brockton Service Com pany is gutted in fire which started in an explosion of gasoline. Loss es timated at $50,000. Two attempted holdups reported from Camp Hill. 'Methodist churches of city report big growth during past year, 22,426 persons in district being members. City Coppers hold annual ball to tunes of jazz band. Hammond Gregory who shot a Highspire liquor dealer gets D to 7 years in penitentiary. Catherine Brownman, 1 year old, eats bichloride of mercury tablet. Tuesday, March 25 Declaring that the street super visors created by an act of eight years ago are unnecessary for Harrisburg, Highway Commissioner W. H. Lynch asks council to authorize City Solici tor Fox to prepare legislation to be introduced into the legislature to abolish the office. Estimates of the floor space which will be needed by the city in the pro posed joint municipal hall and court house filed by department beads to day, total 48,245 square feet. The past winter is declared to be the mildest in a generation. Senator Smith's bill authorizing the erection of a Joint city-county build ing passes the Senate. Fires to-day destroy one farm house, two barns and a number of outbuildings near Shiremanstown. HARRISBURG (Ml TELEGRAPH interesting letter of his father in which he says in part: "I was at the Second Division horse show to-day (February 28) and there were some interesting features. The artillery was there with a hundred per cent, outfit, everything shinned up to perfection. "I never saw President Wilson when lie was 'over here' as he was in France most of the time. But one thing I must say and that is 'the greatest man in the world has pass ed away.' 'Teddy' was a man, every inch a man, and a lover of soldiers. We presented arms, or rather saluted him the day he was laid to rest. It certainly was some snappy present arms. "Dad we are not coming home un til August, 1919. That is no wild ru mor, but official dope. None of the regulars will leave until July. The Twenty-eighth Division, the boys from the Ivtystone state, will be home in Ma ysometime." Corporal Gebhardt then gives an account of the tribute paid to the men of his division for their service in crosing the Muese river. Mayor Keister wants power to im pose lines in police court on persons arrested carrying concealed conceal ed deadly firearms. The Rorke bill, which provided for the rescinding of a number of the old Blue laws, to-day was reported out by the House judiciary committee with a negative recommendation. Wednesday, March 26 Manufacture of beer containing two and three-quarters per cent alcohol, is brewed in Steelton. Overcome by Bright's Disease, H. Howard George, a Philadelphia and Reading engineer, who wandered from his home yesterday afternoon was found lying, dead, across a grave in Mt. Calvary cemetery. The second call in the history of the local telephone exchange to be registered to San Francisco, was placed by a Penn-Harris guest. A merchants' council to give special attention to matters that concern merchant members of the Chamber of Commerce, is being planned by the latter body. Levi S. Miller, 70 years old county poor director since January, 1918, and retired farmer, died this morning at his home in Hummelstown from Bright's Disease. Because they could not have a flag-raising like pupils in the Wil liamstown schools, pupils in the Ly ltens schools go on a strike. Thursday, March 27 Methods pursued by Harrisburg in meeting its housing problems, if the results are successful, will serve as examples for other Pennsylvania cities. The old rumor that soldiers who have been reported killed in France, are only disfigured and are reported aead because they do not wish to face their families, has again been revived. Little credence is to be placed in it, it is announced. Enforcement of prohibition in Pennsylvania would be placed in the hands of a prohibition commissioner with eight deputies, each in a district, under provisions of a bill which is now being considered. Lack of tire protection facilities is assigned in a report to State Fire Marshal Blitz, as the reason for the total destruction of the Harrisburg Country Club. Seven "Dope peddlers," alleged to be the heads of the "dope ring" in this city, are held for court under heavy bail. William Bradshaw, claimed to be the "king" of the "ring," is technically released to he turned over to the Federal authori ties for prosecution. Bills to authorize the first of the Capitol Park improvements will be .presented to the Legislature the mid dle of next week. Friday, March 28 Edward Glover, thirty years old, who escaped from the State Lunatic Hospital, was found dead in a small creek in Wildwood park this after noon. Death is believed to have been due to exposure. Ofiicials deny the report that the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company is to be closed. The plant has laid oft 1,000 of the 7,'.'00 em ployes used during the war. Hours of others have been considerably re duced. Mayor Keister calls on Harrisburg to turn the clocks ahead at. 10 o'clock Saturday night instead of 2 o'clock Sunday morning to avoid confusion. Industrial plants will blow their whistles to warn the people of the daylight saving act. The Chamber of Commerce member ship committee opens a week's drive for 400 new members. Fruit trees have not. been injured by the old snap, Farm Agent H. G. Nicsley finds. Council will not submit to vote the proposed loan measure for J300.000 to provide for the city's share of the cost of the new bridge at State street, unless state officials communicate, urging a special election. r - Motorcycle News i When the annual motorcycle, bicycle and accessory show opens April sec ond, the general public will be given an apportunity to view one of the largest paintings ever displayed in a local show window. This painting which is 7 by 14 feet was painted in water colors by B. I. Llngle, of Harrisburg, Pa. The j painting is one that carries you away | from the hot stuffy cities, and pulls at i the heart strings of every red-blooded i lover of sport with that earnest desire to ■ get out in the open country where the j fishing and hunting are the best and ' where the meals are real meals with ' bread cuts as large as your plate. There I is an appeal to the bather, the motor cyclist and the bicyclist—imagine all | of the quiet cool places away from the I roar of the city and you will have a i slight conception of this sportsman's painting. Harvey C. Heagy, the proprietor of Heagy's Sporting floods store Is so en thused over it. that he has decided to award a "kodak" for the best name for this painting. Naming will be in the I form of a contest, the best name to be j selected by three prominent business men. I Heagy's store will be open every eve WE BUY USED CARS What Have You to Offer} Spot Cash Waiting for You Our business is to buy and sell used cars, parts, tires and so forth. Come around and learn the wonderful values we offer and what we will give you for your car, no matter what condition it may be in. WE SPECIALIZE IN REPAIRING Electrical work and all kinds of repairing given prompt attention by experts. A. SCHIFFMAN, Mgr. 22—24—28 N. 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Decorations during the show will be very simple, yet appealing to the great outdoor life. The general public is in vited to attend this showing of motor cycles and bicycles. There will be no admission charged. I Mr. Roy C. Decker, of Lancaster, who ] has had nine years experience in re | pairing Hurley-Davidson motorcycles, is 1 now connected with Harvey C. Heagy's ' motorcycle repair department. Mr. 1 Decker has just been released from the t'nited States Army. While in the ser | vice he was sergeant in charge of a i motorcycle repair park at Carruther's j Field. Fort Worth, Texas. I Harrisburg motorcyclists are plan j ning for tours and runs to be held dur ing the coming summer. Announce ment of dates and destinations will be announced in this paper at a later date | Mr. .1. F. McKellips, of Milwaukee, a representative of the Harley-Davidson ' Motor Company, is spending a few weeks in Harrisburg with Harvey C. MARCH 29, 1919. " I Heagy. Mr. McKellip is teaching the . i latest factory repair stunts and the j ! Harley-Davidson standards of practice j ! to the force of mechanics employed by j | Mr. Heagy. ! Mr. Elmer Yost, a well-known motor- I cycle rider, who has just returned from | the army has taken up motorcycle work j I with Heagy's, of North Third street. Mr. j | Yost was an instructor of repairing and j ' riding of motorcycles while in the Uni-j j ted States service and has been pro- j j nouneed a very elllclent mechanic by I his superior officers. 1 !Use McNeil's Pain Extcrminutor--Ad I jA TCircc jiTl ways to ih I r ° duc ° j E weight Particulars mailed free to any address, Hall Chgrty Co. Dept. B-5Q St. Louis. Mo. j > Almost Miraculous On the lips of everybody is the marvelous rise of the V'elic Light Six. It is only > natural though when you consider that it runs 17 miles on a gallon of gasoline— -1.500 miles on a gallon of oil 6,000 miles on a set of tires and 25,000 miles without the need of overhauling. Ask us for the proof. Rex Garage & Supply Co. THIRD & DELAWARE STS. BOTH PHONES See Us About Used Cars . It you arc on the lookout for a GOOD used car. don't look any further but come to our salesrooms. We can supply you with practically any kind of car you wish and at a price that will meet with your approval —in fact you'll he surprised at our low prices. / \ A Practical Painter N. Front St., near Gibson Steelton, Pa. .i
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