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TWO STEAMERS
AREBLAMEDFOR
HALIFAX BLAST
Explosion Occurred When
They Collided, Is Court
Decision
By Associated Press.
Halifax, N. S., May 23.—Respon
ait>ility for the Halifax explosion,
which devastated the greater part
the city and exacted a toll of
1,600 lives in December, 1917, rests
eqpally upon the steamers Mont
Blanc and Imo, according to a de-*
cision handed down by the Supreme
Court at Ottawa, it was announced.
The explosion 'occurred when the
two steamers collided.
The decision reverses one by Jus
tice Drysdale, of Halifax, in the
spring of 1919, placing the blame
on the Mont Blanc. Responsibility
for the explosion will involve lia
bility for claims aggregating many
millions, it is said.
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itchtng instantly* draff, and form a most
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"Harrisbury's Dependable Store"
TT has always policy of Wm.Strouse & Co, to give the
x public the greatest amount of two things—SERVICE and VALUE, for after all
it is on the merits of these, that a store stands or falls.
But there is a distinct difference between true values and the values that are
apparent only in newspaper advertisement-
It is the TRUE VALUES that Wm. Strouse has ever strived to give and it is
because he has convinced the people of this city that he is giving the REAL THING
that we are known as "Harrisburg's Dependable Store."
Our buyer has again returned from the market, and we have consequently
received a lot of new models in waist seam suits—made in the usual Wm. Strouse
standard and priced
$25 - S3O - $35
Now Is the Time to That
STRAW HAT
—We Have the Newest and Finest Braids
Underwear Shirts Neckwear
310 Market St. Harrisburg, Pa.
FRIDAY EVENING, 1 BARRfflBunQ tEtEGRAFU MAY 23, 1919.
U. S. RED CROSS NURSE USES
RAZOR, THREAD AND ETHER
TO AMPUTATE MAN'S LEG
Greek Soldier, Who Was Near Death, Now Wears Arti
ficial Limb Made at Red Gross Factory
Drama, Macedonia, May 23.
With a razor, a spool of cotton
thread, and a small portion of ether
and chloroform Miss Maria P.
Kouroyen, an American Red Cross
nurse, performed a life-or-death
operation here as the result of which
and her other errands of mercy she
has come to be known as "the
American angel" by the homeless
and starving Greek refugees.
Born of Greek parents, Miss
Kouroyen is a graduate nurse of
the Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston. Because of her knowl
edge of Greek the American Red
Cross sent her to Macedonia, whero
typhus, smallpox and cholera tread
on each other's heels and where the
refugees bury their dead beneath the
dirt floors of their shell-shattered
shacks so that the bread cards of
the dead member of their family
shall not be taken up.
A Greek soldier, one of whose
legs had been crushed, was brought
to the boxcar on a railroad, siding
in which Miss Kouroyen was living.
Something had to be done for him
at once.
Miss Kouroyen spent no time in
talking. Borrowing a razor from
Lieutenant Abner J. Cobb, of Den
ver, Col., an American Red Cross
field worker who was shaving by
candlelight in the boxcar, Mies
Kouroyen anaesthetized her patient
with her small supply of ether and
chloroform, and performed an am
putation, using cotton thread to "tie
off" the arteries and veins.
Despite the prophecy of a local
doctor that the aged patient would
not live through the night. Miss
Kouroyen some time later received
a visit from her patient. He had an
American artificial limb made for
him in the American Red Cross arti
ficial leg factory for Greek war
mutiles in Athens.
Franklin County Farmers
Make Their Own Brooms
Chambersburg, Pa., May 23.
Franklin county farmers have taken
hold of the broom question and
solved it. Brooms sold here last
winter as high as $t.25 each. Not
much of brooms at that. Many
farmers combined and brought
broom-making machinery and work
ed up their broom corn into brooms
and the same readily sold at 75 cents
each, affording profit to the farmers
and satisfaction to the housewives
as well. '
FRECKLE-FACE
Sun and Wind Bring Ont Ugly Spots.
How to Remove Basil y
Here's a chance. Miss Freckle
face, to try a remedy for freckles
with the guarantee of a reliable
concern that it will not cost you a
penny unless it removes the freckles;
while If it does give you a clear com
plexion tho expense is trifling.
Simply get an ounce of Othine —
double strength—from any druggist
and a few applications should show
you how easy it is to rid yourself of
the homely freckles and get a beau
tiful complexion. Rarely is more
than one ounce needed for the
worst case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for
the double strength Othine, as this
strength is sold under guarantee of
money back if it fails fo remove the
freckles. 1
AVERS REPORTS
OF POGROMS IN
POLAND FALSE
Smulski.Urges Wilson to Curb
Anti-Polish Dem
onstrations
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 23. Declaring
all reports of pogroms in Poland
false, John F. Smulski, president of
the National Polish Department of
America, urged President Wilson in
a cablegram to take steps to curb the
anti-Polish "demonstrations" which
he said were being conducted by'
Jewish people of the United States
and creating a "bitter racial an
tagonism between Jewish and Po
lish citizens of the country."
"In the principal newspapers of
| New York and other cities," said
Mr. Smulski's message, "advertise
ments, flatly charging the Poles with
I having slaughtered Jews in Poland,
• are being spread, and mass meetings
are being held, at which mere hear-
I say stories are spread as authenti
j cated facts.
| "We know these stories of po
l groms are false, for the men against
I whom these crimes are being charg-
I ed are our brothers, our fathers, and
! many of us from Poland have had
j close friendship with the Jewish peo
ple in Poland/whose love for Poland
J is unsurpassed."
Wilson Cables Regret
to Widow of Bishop
David H. Greer
I New York, May 23. President
j Wilson cabled the widow of the late
Bishop David Hummell Greer, of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
New York, who died here Monday,
his and Mrs. Wilson's condolences on
the death of the distinguished
churchman.
"Please accept Mrs.- Wilson's and
my assurances of heartfelt sympathy
in the death of your distinguished
husband, who will be sadly missed
by the community and the nation,"
the message said.
Wilson Considers
Constantinople as
Mandate For U. S.
London, May 23. —A dispatch to
the Central News from Paris says
the correspondent understands from
an American source that President
Wilson again is considering the ac
ceptance by the United States of a
provisional mandate for Constanti
nople, instead of for Armenia.
OLD TROOP TO
BE WELCOMED
Veterans Named on Commit
tees to Greet Men of For
mer Organization
"Members of Batteries E and F,
formerly members of the old Gover
nor's roop, about 40 in all, will be
home in all likelihood late to-mor
row," said H. W. Long, of the Home
Folks' Victory ssociation, who was
at Camp Dix yesterday, where he
met the soldiers and learned o? their
plans.
"There is no trouble • about delay
in discharge of the men, but the of
ficers in charge are unable to pay
off more than 2,000 men a day. The
men of Battery E, who will be paid
off first have agreed to wait several
hours, if necessary until the men of
Battery F also are paid, so that they
can come home t-ogether. They are
anxious to get home but are willing
to wait on their comrades in order
to come home together. They are in
good health and spirits but naturally
bored by the delay.
"I took dinner with them and had
a fine time. Major Roberts agreed
to assist us in any way possible and
I arranged with the men that they
should notify Mayor Keister upon
leaving camp for home and again on
leaving Philadelphia. They have
promised to make special efforts to
this end. All indications are that
they will be paid qff to-morrow, and
will head directly for home."
Mayor Daniel L. Keister has
appointed committees to arrange for a
parade in their honor. Colonel Fred
erick M. Ott, a former commander of
the Governor's Troop, has been selected
to act as chief marshal of the parade.
The Mayor has named on his commit
tee both former members of the old
Governor's Troop and a number of
Harrisburg returned officers of the
World War.
The Governor's Troop men named are:
Colonel Frederick M. Ott, chairman;
Captain George C. Jack, Captain Charles
P. Meek, Captain Charles H. Berg.
Lieut. Edgar C. Hummel, Lieutenant
George W. Shoemaker, Lieutenant
J. Grant Koons, Lieut. John A. Good,
Sergeant Samuel Fitting, Sergeant Wil
bur Shetron, Sergeant Hummel K.
Maeyer. Sergeant Jonas Reist, Sergeant
J. Frank Page.
Veterans of the World War who are
serving:
Colonel Edward H. Schell, Major H.
M. Stine, Major R. L. Perkins, Ma
jor John S. Splcer, Major James E.
Wright, Major James Wheeler, Captain
Jack Boyd, Captain Meade D. Det
weller, Captain Joshua G. Swartz, Cap
tain William L. Hicks, Captain Frank
H. Mikle, Captain J. J. Hartman, Cap
tain O. M. Copelin, Captain E. Lauben
stein. Captain H. H. Baker, Captain Wil
liam McCreath, Captain E. J. Stackpole,
Captain Henry M. Gross, Captain John
T. Bretz, Captain Robert D. Jenkins,
Captain James T. Long, Captain Leo A.
Luttringer, Lieutenant Charles W.
Thomas, Lieutenant Josiah Wilbar,
Lieutenant Robert Meek, Lieutenant
Paul Porter, Sergeant John K. Spang
ler.
The newly-appointed committees will
meet at the Mayor's office this evening
at 7.30 o'clock to make arrangements.
The reception being arranged for the
men will be held in the Chestnut Street
Auditorium on Thursday evening, May
29. Many men of the Twenty-eighth
have been coming home unannounced.
Chambersburg Officer Will
Be Candidate For Sheriff
Chambersburg, Pa., May 23.
There is ,a_ strong probability that
Captain Roy R. Kriechbaum, com
mander of Company C, One Hundred
Twelfth Infantry, during the war in
France, will be a candidate for sher
iff on the Republican ticket at the
primary. Captain Kriechbaum is
now at Camp "Dix settling up the
affairs of the company and expects
to be discharged soon. He will re
turn here and will then make up his
mind about being a candidate for
the nomination. His father, the late
Chief of Police Cassimer B. Kriech
baum, was long active as a Republi
can worker in town.
He has a brilliant war record and
suffered three severe wounds.
Salvation Army Will Fight
For Homeless, Hungry Poor
New York, May 23. —Commander
Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation
Army, announced that all the funds
obtained in the organization's
"Home-Service" drive will be used
to expand Salvation Army facilities
and strengthen its personnel for a
practical effort to "nail the great
unrest" which is sweeping the coun
try in the wake of the war.
Salvaging of saloons, to be run on
the "boozeless plan" as clubs for
workingmen, is but an incident of
the general plan, it was explained.
The idea contemplates giving quick,
substantial aid to families found to
be suffering because of evictions,
hunger and idleness.
Doorknob Cuts Fingers,
Pianist Seeks Damages
Reading, Pa., May 23.—Miss Grace
daughter of William S.
Hollenback, organist, in the Second
Reformed Church, to-day entered
what is probably the most unusual
damage claim ever filed with State
Compensation Referee Seldel, of this
district.
She is a singer In the same church,
and cut both hands recently In turn
ing a porcelain knob, when it broke.
The sense of touch is impaired in
both index fingers as a result. The
church carries compensation insur
ance. Miss Hollenback, a profes
sional pianist, claims her earning
powers are Impaired.
JUDGE LAYS OFF 12 JURORS
Scranton, Pa., May 23.—I'm glad
to see that you approve of stealing,"
said Judge Newcomb yesterday, after
members of a Jury had returned a
verdict of not guilty in the case In
which Walter Nandermark and
James Paradise were charged with
larceny and receiving. Taking the
report from the court clerk and toss
ing the paper aside, the Judge con
tinued: "That's a fine verdict. I
guess you will not be needed any
more this week."
PLAN BOX SOCIAL
A box social and cake walk will be
held by the degree team of Mt. Ver
non Council No. 833, Order of In
dependent Americans, Tuesday night,
June 1. Plans are being made for a
big celebration. Music, cake walks,
speeches and other features are be
ing arranged.
FINE UPRIGHT
Piano, handsome mahogany carte,
like new. This piano has not been
used much and is a big bargain.
Yohn Bros.
- 13 N. 4th St ~
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Insurgents, Minus War
Material, Are in Flight
By Associated Press.
San Jose, Costa Rica, May 23.
The Minister of War, who has been
personally conducting operations
A tin spoon costs less than
a silver spoon.
"Bundle" cigarettes cost less than Helmar
100% pure Turkish—the Mildest and Best
tobacco for cigarettes.
If you don't like Helmar return the package
and got your money back.
We are anxious to have you spend your
money lor your money's worth—-that's why
we call your attention to Helmar*
//f 1 . Makers cffoHtifaGradeflurftish
andEj§phanQ^inlheVtbrU
against the revolutionists iti the
northwestern part of the country,
; returned here lust night and re
ported thut the insurgents were
j lacking ammunition and food and
were retiring toward the Nlcaraguan
frontier. They are being pursued
cavalry
men The dcmobUizati n of the
• government troops has begun.
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