City to Observe Thanksgiving Day in Time-Honored Fashion With Joyousness and Prayer HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • ®ljc Jftar-ftidcpcnftciil LXXXVIII— No. 276 18 PAGES D,,, Lu" ep .\r&orVHSrg Cl,! ' HARRISBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1919. CENTS 23 HOME EDITION TURKEYS PLENTY WITH PRICES UP TO RECORD MARK Ducks, Chickens and Roast in Demand; Accessories For Dinner Sold at Reasonable Figures MANY PROTESTS AGAINST PRICES ASKED FOR FOWLS Thanksgiving dinner witb turkey to-morrow is possible, if you pay ths price—(6 to 80 cents a pound. Local markets offered an abundant supply but the prices put turkeys out of reach for most familios. Ac cessories for to-morrow's dimtor •weve also plentiful and prices were reasonable. The figures quoted above were those asked from tho time the mar kets opened up to t o'clock. ' Many householders refused to buy and be .•tween 8 and 10 o'clock there was a slight drop, but the majority held out for the big profits. All fowls cou.d be had in abundance '''he on'y scarcity was in live turkeys, very tew being offered. A general impression pievailed that many of the turkeys and other fowls would have to be taken back to the fa.'m aid placed in co'd storage. Prottsts against the high prices were tumorous. "Buyers openly re fused to pay prices asked, and farm ers were told some things about profiteering. According to reports, ducks were in greater demand, al though many buyers preferred chickens. The highest priced turkey at. Chestnut street market had a slip of paper pinned on the side on which was written "20 3-4 pounds, $16.65." The highest priced chicken weighed six pounds, and sold for $3.30. Two farmers had rabbits, and one farmer had pigeons. Butchers reported large sales of roasts. This was taken as a further indication that meats were preferred to fowls, becauso of the high prices of the latter. Guineas were plentiful and found purchasers who claimed they were the cheapest fowl offered in market to-day. There was no worriment about ac cessories. Vegetables were reason able in price. Potatoes sold from 20 to 30 cents a half peck. Sweet po tatoes 20 cents u quarter peck; cranberries 12 cents a pint; celery from five to eight cents a bunch; let tuce from five to 12 cents per head; cabbage, five to 12 cents per head and mince meat at 15 centg a pound. There were a few fresh tomatoes offered for sale at 30 cents for a box of four. Onions brought ten cents a box. Fruit showed a slight de crease over prices asked last Satur day. Oranges of a goodly quality sold from 40 to SO cents a dozen. Pineapples were 35 cents each, and bananas 30 cents a dozen. Buyers at early market met with some humorous incidents. One man kicked to a farmer about the price of turkeys, and was told by the farmer that turkeys came higher at raffling matches to some. One woman told the wife of a farmer "that the Lord would punish those who were profiteering." One women said she believed it would pay to wait until Saturday to celebrate Thanksgiving, as prices would in all probability show a decrease . City lo Render Thanks For Blessings of a Prosperous Peace Reverently and with bowed head, Harrisburg to-morrow will once again offer up thanks unto Almighty God for her freedom and liberty, to gether with other bountiful blessings showered upon her and the rest of the great nation. With her soldier youth once again occupying their accustomed place in the home after absences during sev eral years of turmoil and strife, Har rb burg's thanks for her freedom and liberty will breathe with a truer sig nificance of the spirit of the day. Even more significant will be to morrow's observance of this great national holiday than was last year's, the first after the cessation of the great world 1 ostilities. Few veter ans had then found their way back t<j their own roofs, and the thanks of a joyful city were pervaded with some light feeling of sadness at the absence of many of her loved ones. Practical c-vry congregation in the city has arranged for several religi ous services in token of the the great thanksgiving Union services have been adopted in a number of in stances, and programs are scheduled at various periods of the day. While a reverent spirit will fill the entire day. the less solemn affairs of life will have a place in the arrange ments. With fair football weather promised. Important attractions are offered throughout the city. Basket hall. the dance and other important pleasures promise to entertain large portions of the people. I THE WEATHER] Hnrrlebnrc and Vicinity: Rain this afternoon and to-night. t~ older to-night with lowest lemperntore about freeslng. Thursday rain or snow and much colder. Eastern PrnnsTlrnnlni Rain In south, rain or snow In north portion to-nlghtt colder. Thurs day rain or snow, mneli colder. Winds becoming northerly and Incren.slng. River. l The Husquehanna riser and nil Its branches will probably rise slightly lo moderately. 4 singe of nl>out -t.H feet Is Indi cated for llurrlnbtirg Thursday morning. FOWLS SELL AT NEW RECORD PRICE Turkeys—6s to 81) cents a pound dressed. Turkeys— o to 70 cents live. Chickens—ss cents a pound dressed. Chickens—to ocnui a pound live. Ducks —• 55 cents a pound dressed. Ducks—ls cents a pound live. Geese —55 cents a pound dressed. Geese—6s cents a pound live. Guineas—3s cents a Itounil dressed. Pigeons—One dollar a pair dressed. Rabbits One dollar each dressed. WHITE HOLIDAY FORECAST MADE BY WEATHERMAN Drop in Temperature Late Today, With Overcast Sky on Thanksgiving Harrisburg residents may have a white Thanksgiving Day this year. The day will dawn much colder than to-day with an overcast sky. Forecaster E. R. Demuin. announced to-day to inquirers as to Thanksgiv ing Day weather. The temperature will start to go down this afternoon and continue to drop until to-morrow morning, he said. While the sky will be over cast to-morrow. Mr. Demain holds out no definite assurance of snow to morrow, although he does mention it as a probability. No rain to-morrow is expected, it being the belief of the weather bu reau men that rain will cease .falling ..during the afternoon or this eve ning. The cold weather which will reach Harrisburg this afternoon is part of a general wave sweeping over the country. Snowfalls are occurring, or are predicted in many states. Ole Hanson Will Speak in Reading Against I.W.W. By Associated Press. Reading, Pa., Nov. 26.—The Amer ican Legion which prevented the holding of a meeting here last Sun day night at which radical doctrines were to have been expounded, an nounced to-day that all suspected radical meetings will be watched. At every Socialist gathering, rep resentatives of the Legion will be present and a stenographic report of the addresses will be taken. Prose cutions will be instituted at the first signs of disloyalty. Olc Hanson, for mer Mayor of Seattle, who quelled the I. W. W. rebellion in that city, is to be booked to come here to help fight the radicals of Reading. James H. Maurer. president of the State Labor Federation, after being refused Reading police protection to go to Wernersville, because It was outside of the city limits, failed to appear there at the twentieth annual banquet of the Reading Plumbers' Union, of which he is a member, last night. In his stead four members of the American Legion were present from Reading and spoke. ANOTHER .JUDGE RULES FOR WETS By Associated Press. New Orleans, Nov. 26.—Holding the wartime prohibition act uncon stitutional, Federal District Judge Foster to-day granted an injunction restraining government officials from interfering with the sale by the Henry Leisor Liquor Compaiiv of bonded liquor held in warehouses here. SILK HOLDS ITS OWN WITH COTTON AND WOOL HOSIERY Reporter Finds Milady's Ankles Still Are Encased in Gauze Rather Than in Sensible Heavier Wear Woolen stockings as substitutes for silken hose are not being worn to any great extent by Harrisburg women. Such Is the result of an in vestigation to-day in this city, fol lowing the receipt of fashion tips from New York and Chicago on con ditions in those cities. There "all the best dressed women are wearing woolen tockings," the dispatches say. The Chicago dis patch said: "The reason alleged is the commonsense of the women of Chicago, who decline to follow the dictates of n. Paris fashion that would have them expose s lken-elad ankles to the rigors of an Illinois winter. Woolen stockings, they have decided, tire warmer, wear longer, and cost less than silk. This woien hosiery, it Is understood, is not the scratchy, shapeless kind that grand- ANGELES SHOT; CHARGED WITH AIDING VILLA Faced Carranza Firing Squad Early Today; Refused Appeal For Life WAS MILITARY GENIUS Reports From Chihuahua Tell of Great General's Death By Associated Press. < liilmaliiia City. MM.. NOV. 26.—General Felipe Angeles, revolutionist, was executed at at 0.35 a. m. to-day. inside the barracks of the Twenty-first Regiment of cavalry, by a firing squad. Many spectators were present. General Angeles died without visible emotion or fear. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 26.—General Felipe Angeles. Mexican revolution ary leader and famed throughout the world as a military genius, was exe cuted by a Carranza firing squad at Chihuahua City early to-day, foliov.'- ing his conviction with two com panions on charges of rebellion against the Mexican government, ac cording to telegraphic reports from Chihuuliua City this morning. • El Peso. Nov. 26. —General Angeles was sentenced to death by four Car ranza generals in the Teatro de Los Heroes. (Theater of the Heroes), at 10.45 o'clock last night. He was im mediately taken from the building through a rear entrance to await execution, which was set for 7 a. m. to-day. This is the time he was shot, according to the report reaching here. Perfected the 73 General Angeles apparently was en tirely unmoved as sentence was pass ed. Throughout the trial the military leader, famous among military men of the world, as the man who brought the French 75 millimeter gun to per fection and made it admittedly the best piece of artillery ordnance i,i the world, had presented a smiling countenance to his accusers. Expert Chemists Are Examining Explosives By Associated Press. New York, Nov. 26.—Expert chemists to-day began an examina tion of the high explosive chemicals accidentally discovered yesterday In the headquarters of the union of Russian workers when Federal and city detectives entered the building in quest of several radicals for whom they held warrants. An expert from the Bureau of Mines at Washington lias been summoned here to take charge of the examination. A number of little bottles marked "T. X. T." "muriatic acid" and "glycerine sulphate" were found hid den in a secret panel in the wall. Experts of the police "bomb squad" said the bottles contained sufficient explosive material to manufacture at least 100 deadly bombs. Lloyd George Watches American "Dry" Results By Associated Press. Iximlon, Nov. 26.—Lloyd George said to-day that he never had thought Hie introduction of prohibition in Great Britain possible, even during the war, but that he was watching the American experiment sympa thetically, with a mind free from prcconveinced opinions. The premier's reply to a temper ance deputation, to which lie made this remark, foreshadowed legislation before Christmas in connection with the control of liquor. Jersey City Will Continue Plan of Daylight Saving .Jersey City, N. J.. Nov. 26.—Jersey City, like New York, decided yester day at a meeting of the City Com missioners, to continue the daylight saving plan in summer. The clock will be pushed ahead one hour at 2 a. m„ the last Sunday in March of each year, reverting to normal time the last Sunday in each October. HELD FOR THEFT William Hale is in ttie hands of the Harrisburg police charged with the theft of a pair of gloves from a South Fifth street restaurant. He will be given a heuring in police court during the afternoon. Georgie Gore and William Sprat ley. well-known police characters, will be given hearings in police court during the afternoon charged with the theft of a suit of clothes from Charles Collins. 1105 North Seventh street. They were arrested to-day. mother used to make and wear, but a metamorphosed garment of cling ing warmth and grace and beauty." But local Investigations failed to gladden the eye of the Investigator as did the New York Investigation gladden the eyo of a reporter of that city. The unending vartety of pur ples, tan and mixtures of warm and sensible wool, found there, were present in but negligible quantity here. While the prevailing vogue of ox fords and short skirts have made heavy hose almost a necessity for this climate, Harrisburg women are wearing silken hose In almost as great quantity as ever Ail that an ln\rstlgatlon here revealed is that cotton stockings are being worn w'th less frequency than ever be fore. . "7 ivLKCj <J "God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arras." Deut. 33-27. Thru seedtime and harvest, thru chaos of unrest In post-war's deep perplexity, we turn to Tlice! Thru dangers of a secret undermining force, We uphold the vision of the land to be! Thru sad hours and empty, when wells of tears ran dry For graves in Flanders, only Thy dear Hand In benediction placed upon each breaking heart Could heal, for Thou, alone, could'understand! Thru glad days of welcoming the ones brought safely home Our spirits moved in humble gratitude Too deep for spoken words, but o'er our land the Church Has leaped to action with her faith renewed! Thru hearing and heeding the call of all mankind America found a kinship with her Lord To nevermore be lost. Her grateful cry Is, "Help me speak Thy glory, oh my God!" ANNA HAMILTON WOOL). For The Telegraph. $670,000 ADDED TO CITY ASSESSMENT Thirteenth Ward Makes High est Gain of Year, When Its Property Values Increase $119,000; Valuations Now Exceed $63,000,000 Valuations of taxable property of Hurrisburg is increased $670,000 over the valuations of last year as a result of various assessment changes, according to information given out by City Assessor James C. Thompson. The increased valuations of the city properties has resulted through the erection of a number of new properties and the improvement of a number of others. During the year a total of approximately 150 new dwelling houses were constructed, while more than 100 garages were built. The city taxable property aggre gate now wilV be in excess of $63,- 150,000, according to Mr. Thomp son's figure. The increased valuation j of the year, under the present tax I rate, will net an additional $6,700 to the city. City Commissioners will meet on Friday afternoon from 2 until 5 o'clock to hear appeals on the changes. The Thirteenth ward made the biggest assessment gain. Thompson I said, the boost being approximately $119,000. The assessment increases in other wards were: First, $39,000; Second, $50,000; Third, $32,000; Fourth, $19,000; Fifth, $38,000; Sixth, $6,000; Seventh, $90,000: ; Eighth, $40,000; Ninth, $103,000; | Tenth, $48,000; Eleventh, $17,000; I Twelfth, $7,000; Thirteenth, $ 119,- | 000; Fourtenth, $42,000. CONSTITXTIONAL BODY TO MEET DKCEMBKK 0 I Commissions for members of the | Constitutional Revision Commission and a formal call for the body to beet at the State Capitol on De cember 9 are going out from the office of the secretary of the Com monwealth to-day. A number of letters have been received by At torney General William I. Schafl'er, commanding his proposal that the Commission shall proceed to work immediately and that committees should be named as soon as the Com mission organizes and meet at once to begin their studies. PARLIAMENT MEMBERS ASK HIGHER SALARY By Associated Press• London. Nov. 26.—Labor mem bers of Parliament here are agitat ing for an increase in their Parlia mentary salaries, which now are about $2,000 per annum. The pres ent salary, which represents a pre war purchasing value of approxi mately SBOO, is regarded as hope- j lessly inadequate for the mainte nance of a legislator in London. By Associated Press. MANY STRIKERS ARE DEPENDENT O.N AID By Associated Press. Pittsburgh. Nov. 26.—There will he no Thanksgiving feasts In the I homes of many steel strikers to-mor- j row Instead they will have the | regulation relief supplies, which were distributed to-day, and such delicacies as the local committees: will be able to provide. 170 ft FROXT STREET soi.n for *3OOOO Announcement was made to-day of the purchase by the Commonwealth Trust Company of the property at 1705 North Front street from the fctate Tteal Kstate Company for 1,50.000. [n addition, five Thompson street prop erties. Nos. 1321-23-26-27-59. were pur chased bv the company from Harry Tt. Given. The snie price of each was $1,200. Tinri OF VII,I,AGE I.IFE By /i."oc;aled Pre.'.'. Amernnaren. Nov. 28.—Although the former German emperoor appears to havo found the quiet life at Ameroti gen to hie liking. members of his per sonal suite have crown tired of vil lage existence and recently there have been Several Changes In the ex-eniper or's entourage. IR. COOVER HONORED Dr. F, W. Coover, 223 P'ne street. , long connected with the I larrlahtirg Hospital, has been elected surgeon I emeritus of the staff or tin* Institu tion at ,i meeting of Uio hoard of managers. The election was made following the unanimous recommen dation of members of the staff, , NO PAPER TOMORROW As in former years the Hur risburg Telegraph will not be is sued to-morrow, Thanksgiving Day, so that all of its employes may enjoy the holiday. AMERICANS TO WITHDRAW FROM PEACE PARLEYS Polk and Officials lo Leave Paris on December Fifth A FEW EXPERTS REMAIN Program Will Change Only if Senate Acts on Treaty By Associated Press, Paris, Nov. 26.—Plenipoten tiaries of Jugo-Sluviu will sign tiie Austrian Peace Treaty at 5 o'clock this afternoon. They will attach their slKnnturcs simultaneously to the Treaty for the protection of racial minor ities. to the arrangement of rep arations concerning Italy and also to flic tlnaiici.il arrange ment concerning the sharing of expenses in the lllierntton of the former Anstro-Huiigarlan mon archy. Paris. Nov. 26.—Any delay wliich may eventually be found necessary in the exchange of ratifications re quired to put the German Peace Treaty Into effect will not change the plans of the American Peace delegation, it was learned to-day. Under Secretary of State Polk and the other delegates will leave Paris the evening of December 5. Only a couple of experts will be left here to complete the work in band. Tlie subsequent participation by Americans hi the work of the Peace Conference, according to the view here, will probably be extremely limited unless there are indications early in tlie December session of the Senate that a satisfactory rntilieutlon of the Treaty is in sight. Hotelmen Planning For Many Yankee Tourists Paris. Nov. 19.—Hotelmen, seeing fortunes in the expected flood of American and other tourists next year, ure planning to erect "barrack hotels" along the battlefront. The National Chamber of Hotel Keepers, co-operating with the government, is seeking private capital to put -up such temporary buildings during the winter. Officers of the association suid most of tlie liostelries now opening at towns on the front have patrons "sleeping in balls and even on bil liard tables." The firs) efforts are being directed toward making habit able hotels that were damaged dur ing the war and Inducing owners of places destroyed to rebuild them. PRINCESS OF SPAIN JOINS MEDLEY J3F COMIC ERRORS Low Fooled bv Claims of Wealth and Social Distinction Made by the Rather Stupid Baumgartens Further investigation of the doings of the couple who gave their names in Harrisburg as.Mlss Virginia Care and D. L. Baumgarten and also as Mr. and Mrs. Baumgarten show that their "successes" really were only minor skirmishes and that their claims of Boc nl distinction fooled fewer people than may be counted on the fingers of one hnnd. In cluding reporters on one or two newspapers. Only one man can be found who believes llnumga rleil's father is a "millionaire" and the wild tales of social entertainments are said to huve been bunk. COAL SITUATION ! REACHES CRISIS, OFFICIALS SAY Plan Drastic Action to Cur- j tail Consumption in Nation MAY STOP MAKING COKE Cabinet in Session Again in j Effort to Compute Wages By Associated Press. Washington. Nov. SB.—A iloll- j nitc ami tinal agreement on be half of the government hi the coal wage controversy will be , maile to the operators and miners late to-day by I''uel Ad ministrator Garfield. final division was reached by the cabinet at the meeting to day, l)r. Gar Held and Mr. Wil fton said. The fuel administra tor called a joint session of the operators and miners for 5 p. m. to receive the division. [ Washington, Nov. 2ti.—The na-j tional coal situation lias reached u j crisis, in the view of officials here, j and drastic steps to curtail con-| sumption are in contemplation. It l was said to-day that among otlierj [steps an order prohibiting the manu facture of coke had' been prepared. ] j Washington. Nov. 27.—Another cf-J 'fort to agree on a basis for comput-j | ing wago advances lo bituminous! coal miners was made to-day by] [President Wilson's Cabinet while the] operators and miners marked time; in their negotiations for a new wage; scale. Now n National Crisis Meuntime, so many miners overi the country had remained on strike] that the 'coal situation had reached I what officials described as a "nil-! tional crisis." Steps to meet the! situation until something like normal] production had been restored were; under consideration by the Fuel Ad-] ministration's general coal commit tee, with an order prohibiting the manufacture of coke designed us the first move in the nation-wide cam paign. The controversy in the Cabinet centered around tl.e proposals of Fuel Administrator (Jurfield that in computing wage increases the ad vances made to all miners in lite central competitive field be taken into consideration and of Secretary Wilson that the increase to pick miners be the basis. Fewer Day I -aborers The statistics compiled by ■ State I-übor Deportments, Lewis said, show that only 27 per cent, of the em ployes in the central field are day laborers instead of 4 0 per cent, as claimed by the operators. Replying to the position of the operators that the $1.40 per duy In crease in wages awarded day labor ers in 1917 shoulij be given equal weight with other wage advances in computing tlie average increase. Mr. Lewis said this award was made to put the day workers on n parity with men on a tonnage basis and should not be included'in any average. More Plants Closed by Shortage of Fuel Chicago. Nov. 26. The national strike of bituminous coal miners was without marked development to-day regarding the situation at the mines themselves. The gradually decreasing fuel sup ply. however, forced additional shut ting down of plants in the Middle West, and in some parts of the South the regional coal committee request ed all industries which could do so Without heavy financial losses to close this evening until Monday. Production in West Virginia to-da.v held up to the standard maintained since the strike went into effect, with smaller quantities added from the Wyoming and New Mexico mines. In Texas a few miners who had returned to work to-day were out on a second strike. Jn the Central West the coming of cold weather, forecast for to-day, was expected to add to the discomfort which had been held in abeyance by mild temperatures during the last several days. In that section many cities and towns were virtually with out fuel. RENEW STRIKE By Associated Press, Chnrlrston, W. Va.. Nov. 26. Twenty-one mines were down and 2.000 men idle in the Kanawha coal lipid to-day. according to official re ports which reached the Kanawha coal operators' association. The re newal of the strike, it was said, is one result of a sympathetic move ment in support of the miners in the central competitive lield to obtain I their demands in Washington. To-day's development!) show a hu morous side to the Story. It trans pires that a pretty young woman who vis'ted the one family victim ized by the Baumgartens described herself as a Princess of Spain. It is not clear if she is descended from Ponce de Leon or lie Sota, or both. The Baumgarten episode other wise is sordid rather than glittering. Several businessmen upparontlv were mulcted of S2O by Mi3s Care's persistence rather than personality. There is talk of unpaid bills and the rest of the story apparently was imagined as was the tale of his fam ily's wealth. TELEPHONE RA TES CUT BY ORDER OF UTILITIES BOARD Public Service Commission Refuses to Approve Wartime Schedule Put Into Operation by Federal Government REDUCTION OF 20 PER CENT MUST BE MADE IN NEW BILLS The Public Service Commission ini a decision handed down at noon to- I day refused the aplication of the! Bell Telephone Company for con tinuance of the Federal rales after December 1. The effect of this decision is to re-! quire the company to return to the ( rates established by the Commission, in 1917 and which will be effective J until April 1, next, when the com-I pany may come In with new rates. | The decision, which was written by! Chairman W. P. B. Ainey, is by the j Commission and is interesting because' the Commission through the Attorney General, went into court last winter' in an effort to require rates fixed! by the Postmaster General to be) submitted to the Commission. The] United States Supreme Court upheld the Federal authorities. The decision says that there does; not appear, from the evidence atl- j duced, that there would be any de-1 nial. of just revenue by a return to! the State rates. 20 Per Cent. Higher The decision follows: "The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania* lias petitioned this, commission to approve a continuance of the rates established under war- i tinm conditions by the Postmaster General. These rates were approxi- 1 mately twenty per cent, higher than those which this commission, after extensive hearings and investigation, established upon order in 1917. The order referred to was based upon an investigation of the properties and practices, income and revenues of the entire system now owned and operated by the present applicant. The provision of the Public Service Company Law contemplates a period of three years repose following such A, ' R WANTS MORE FOR POLI-CE M - 4 . - Mayor Keister today said he would * * * ' ? * * H " * '1920 budget. Other members of council are d 1 -1 f * the increase. Mayor-Elect Hoverter v * * * * * , , attend the budget sessions. I 11 1,300 ANTHRACITE MINERS STRIKE * ~ 4 I Hazleton. Thirteen hundred miners employed by I * * the G, B. Markle Coal Company are on strike to-day. The ! ' lliery • - " 4 ( 1 of a coal inspector to join the union. - ] , , AUTHORIZE INFANTRY DIVISION 1 .. ( \ Adjutant-General of P.ennsyl 1 •ji* vania was rthorized to-day by the War Department to j i * jjp ient National Guard units in that state to J | JC * * t :: T EOLSHEVIKES DEFEAT FOE A* - General Denikine's army in Southern J | II * $ e days and still advancing .according to X a wireles u: .patch received here from Moscow. 80l- : X ops are entering Ukraine, where they intend to i stay, the dispatch says. Admiral Kolchak's forces in J I £ are retiring rapidly, according to the di J * * • patch, and the reds have reached a point 87 miles east of I I e * Omsk. . l< * J STRIKERS ROUNDED UP BY SOLDIERS ' ** - Sheridan. Scores of coal miners, who declined to I 1 i. >'lll ( eturn to work were rounded up by United Stat- t t | diers in Cai neyville, Wyo., to-day and placed on interban "J I ■ cars for removal td the county jail in Sheridan. All other 1 I • , , I s in t ie town were ordered by Major Warren Dean, . ' * military commander of Northern Wyoming, to return to * ' ®* * * wcrk this afternoon. t t • to ■ MARRIAGE LICENSES 4 I.rwtcr K. Snyder. JHarrUburtt- and Ituth K. Kln|r r . York: Banka* 1 7 S ■ Keller and Minnie M. HUNNII T, Miirrisl.iirtti .Ininm H. Cuatred and a a -* .> V Hoiialc. Jersey shorn Itiohnrd C. ttrar and Hilda H. Cam * w. ;; orders for utility companies and the public affected by them. This is a wise provision of the Public Service Company I.aw and ought not light ly be set aside. "It is true that under the same provision this commission is author ized on application of a utility or complaint of a consumer or patron to make changes in its former or ders, but tinder all the circumstances presented in the pending application, and in view of the fact that the three-year period referred to will soon expire (April, 1920), the com mission cannot assent to the pending request. The evidence with respect to the tinuncial condition, prospec tive revenues and anticipated ex penditures submitted by the appli cant is, in the light of the prevail ing circumstances ,not sufficient to convince this commission of the necessity for the increased prayed for nor of the justness or reasonable ness of the proposal to ndvance the applicant's rates above those which were in effect prior to the period of Federal control. So far as the com mission is advised by the testimony, the increased rates established by the Postmaster General which arc sought to be continued were, not predicted upon a consideration of factors which public utility bodies are required to weigh in fixing rates or in determining allowable, gross revenue. Costs Arc Higher "Undoubtedly the Hell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in com mon with all other public utilities and business enterprises throughout the country has been and still is confronted with increased cost of operation, maintenance and for ex [Continued on Page 18.]
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