YOUTH IS HELD FOR MURDER OF HIS CHAUFFEUR \ jClarence Cothron Guilty in First Degree, Is Verdict of Maryland Jury By Associated Press Bel Air. Md.. Dec. 4—Clarence Coth ron, of Florida, a 20-year-old white youth, was found guilty here of mur dering John T. Weldon. a negro chauffeur, who was driving Cothron and his wife. 18 years old, from Phil adelphia to Baltimore, last July. Rob bery was the motive of the crime. Tho jury returned a verdict of "murder in the first degree without capital pun ishment," which carries with it life imprisonment. Weldon was killed near Charles town, Md.. July 7. Mrs. Cothron testi fying that her husband shot him to get possession of his valuable dia mond ring. Cothron also was indicted in Mont gomery county. Md.. for the murder of Homer Jones, another colored chauffeur, whose car he is alleged to have stolen, and is charged with kid If KBIW Mother! IVateh IY -j// \ Child't Tonput "California Syrup of Figs" For a Child's Liver and Bowels Mother! Say "California," then you will jet genuine "California Syrup of Figs," Full directions for babfes and children of all ages who are constipated, bilious, feverish, tongue* coated, or full of cold, arc plainly printed on the bpttle. Children love this delicious laxative. Jk THERE IS NOTHING I B*K ■ BS. PP BETTER THAN THIS I PURELY VEGETABLE ■ LITTLE LIVER compound , ■ ■ 4m FOR CONSTIPATION. I B9 ■ I_B_S MINERAL REMEDIES I omj s I THANKS! WE APPRECIATE C ■ =d Seem* at though (f 1 f) KEENLY THE WON- ~Jf: fcj 1 DERFUL WELCOME |]j] ! J-' jj WHICH GREETED J." A THE OPENING OF X ]DL OUR STORE THE NEW KIND \ OF SHOE STORE * The splendid response shows us that after all quality does count; that the public appreciates superior merchandise when its price is right. IT shows us that men have long been convinced that they I are paying prices too high for shoes of quality too low. It convinces us that buyers have not been procuring the kind of shoes they ought to have for present high prices, and they were glad of the opportunity to buy them here at One Profit Only and at Lower Prices It convinces us that wise mothers and forward-looking fathers know they have been paying too much for their boys', little gents' and baby boys' shoes. The response was wonderful and we are certain that every one of our customers will become our friends and that as we go along they will make new friends for us. ' lVc specialize in police viking.). W. A. Withers Shoe Co. 102 SOUTH FOURTH STREET HARRISBURG, PA. <On the Harrlaburg Mile of Mulberry Street HrldK<*l ' Jo.t OIT the Bridge JOTI.V-H. COUNTRYMAN, Manager THURSDAY EVENING, naping a 9-year-old girl in Balti more ami taking her to Florida. Mrs. Cot*.ron is held as an acces sory in these alleged crimes. Cartp Curtin Gymnasium ta Be Opened Tonight At the opening of the Catnp Cur tin Junior High School gymnasium and auditorium to-night for com munity center activities it is antici pated that a capacity crowd of pa trons and many members of the Kiwanis and Itotary clubs will be present. At 7.30 o'clock in the boys' gymnasium the Kiwanis and Itotary teams wjll play a volley bail game, with Horace Geisel as referee, and at the same time in the girls' gymnasium teams from sections 88-4 and 88-5 will play, with Miss Bertha Turner as ref eree. The teams follow: Section 88-5, Alma Miller, Lillian Foster. Helen Hippensteel, Doro thea Wallace, Sarah Wolf, Esther Murlass; substitutes, Mary Ochcn rider and Gladys Fox. The team of Section SB-4 comprises Martha De llart, Frances Selbert, Mary Harris, Beatrice Hunter, Helen C onstan tine, with substitutes Margaret Kel ler and Katharine Miller. After the games motion pictures will be shown in the auditorium. BURNING FENCE POSTS AND EAR CORN FOR FUEL Western States Face Crisis as Coal Supply Continues to Decrease By Associated Press rhlcugo, Dec. 4.—With nearly zero weather in some of the western states | the coal situation is becoming almost unbearable despite the fact that more strenuous efforts are being put forth by state and municipal officials and representatives of industry to con serve the remaining supply of bitu minous coal. At Imperial. Neb., not a pound of coal was In the town and the people were buying fence posts for fuel. Bel last and Wayside. Neb., are also out |of coal. At some places ear corn is be ing burned. Summarized. the fuel situation stands as follows: Federal Troops Called [ Federal troops were ordered to 'Oklahoma last night to protect vol lunteer miners. | Governor Frederick D. Gardner, ot Missouri, announced that his state i would take over the surface mines in ; Barton county for operation by vol i unteers unless the miners resumed work by to-night at the 14 per cent, increase in wages. State troops are on the ground for emergency purposes. Eleven strip mines were in opera tion by the state yesterday in Kansas Trouble was encountered there when a switching crew on the Santa Fe re fused to move a train hauling volun teers and soldiers to the pits. Governor McKelvie, of Nebraska, continued to enlist volunteer workers for the mines in producing states and an offer was made to furnish Mis souri with such a contingent. Wyoming was another state that to-day was facing the system of vol unteer mining as a result of the chao tic situation there. Although union officials bad ordered strikers to re sume work, many of t..e mines were idle. Work Hoars Cat | Chicago and Northern Illinois In dustry and business was put on a six and one-half hour a day working basis to-day. A similar order was is sued for Southern Illinois. Operators in lowa prepared an ulti matum giving the union miners until December 8 to return to work. If work is not resumed by that date, the mines will be reopened with what ever competent labor can be obtained, according to the operators. At Indianapolis the government filed information charging eighty four officials of the United Mine Workers of America with criminal contempt, based on allegations of violation of Judge Anderson's injunc tion against the strike. The railroad administration an nounced a system of discountable credit slips, acceptable at all Fed eral reserve banns, to pay operators immediately for coal shipments. Four of the twelve blast furnaces of the Gary steel works were banked and a shutdown of two more this week was in prospect. ATTENDS CONFERENCE J. Calvitt Clarke, this city, at tended the conference of workers for Near East Relief, held In Pitts burgh on Tuesday. Cuticura Soap AND OINTMENT Clear Hie Skin j Soap.Otabnent.Tklcnm.Ve mmrtm. FKMBPIM i sddrs—i Mn Harrisbttrg telegraph BILLIONS MUST BE PUT IN R. R.'S TO DOWN H. C. L. Howard Elliott Says Other wise the Living Costs Will Go Higher Now York, Dec. 4. —New railroad ! equipment costing approximately $3,000,000,000 must be bought with in the next few years if the Amer ican people are to avert a still higher cost of living, said Howard Elliott, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, before the reconstruction conference of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents here to-day. | Mr. Elliott, who spoke on the sub : joct The Efficient Transportation ■ Machine, a National necessity, said that there could be no higher func tion for the great life insurance companies at the present time than to make it plain to all the people that "our railroads must not be crip pled but on the contrary they must keep abreast of the times and be prepared to serve the great and growing future of the country." Higher Hates Needed. The speaker said that without an increase in freight and passenger rates, a very large number of rail road companies would face bank ruptcy and that very few of those who escaped would be able to pay stockholders. The year would end, there was every indication, he said, with a deficit of perhaps $350,000,- 000 for all railroad operations. The country cannot have an efficient transportation machine nor can in vestments in railroad securities be protected, he said, unless the roads aro given higher compensation to maintain them efficiently. The speaker said that the Asso ciation of Railway Executives in a recent questionaire to some. 6 000 editors, asked them to express their opinion on Government ownership and control, and that 83 per cent re plied that their communities were | in favor of the return of the roads to their owners. He said that eiery one of the 53,923,734 life insurance policy holders in the United States were vitally interested in the solu tion of the transportation problem because among the assets securing their policies were nearly $2,000.- 000,000 of railway securities. These policy holders, with the rest of the. 105,000.000 people in the country, he said, desired to see "a continuous development of the railroads for the purpose of increasing the food and fuel supply and the production of articles necessary for clothing, shel ter and our modern American life." Small Margin of Safety. Declaring that even today, in the months of heaviest business that the Nation's transportation machine was operated virtually at capacity and that there was "a Very small margin of safety," Mr. Elliott said that the American standard of liv ing must decline if the general de velopment of the railroads were checked. "The people cannot sur vive without the railroads and our railroads cannot survive without our people," he concluded. "They go hand in hand for good or ill." Mine Blast Kills Six Men at Jacksonville; Was Badly Prepared By Associated Press. Clinton, Ind., Dec. 4.—Six men were killed and three seriously in jured in an explosion at Bogle coal mine No. 3 at, Jacksonville, near here, late yesterday. All of the men were either mine officials or em ployes in the office of the company, who in attempting to get out suf ficient coal for the boilers set off a badly prepared blast. The mine has been closed by the strike. The dead are: John Stark, Terre Haute: Herbert Campbell and Joe Robertson, Clinton, office men; S. G. Stephens, Terre Haute, civil en gineer; Charles Watson, Clinton, as sistant mine boss, and John Logs don, Terre Haute, room boss. The mine was not badly damaged by the explosion, it was stated, and little difficulty was encountered in removing the injured and the bodies of those killed. Peace Resolution, Plan of Leaders, Not to Be Reported Out By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 4. —The plan of Republican Senate leaders to declare a state of peace by concurrent res olution of Congress struck a snag yesterday in the House. Chairman Porter, of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said his commit tee had no intention of reporting out such a resolution and it was indi cated that House leaders supported this position. The position taken by the House Republicans was said to be that re peal of the war-time legislation which extends until peace is estab lished would be a more acceptable method of restoring normal condi tions and the question of peace was one which the President and the Senate, constituting the Treaty-mak ing power, should determine. Testimonial Raised For Johnson to Go to Hospital For Blind By Associated Press London, Dec. 4.—William E. John son, tlie American anti-saloon organ izer. for whom the Evening News opened a testimonial because of In juries received in a recent "ragging' by students, has written to the paper asking that the money thus raised be sent to St. Dunstan's Hospital for the Blind. Mr. Johnson, whose eye was remov ed a few days ago, is progressing sat isfactorily. Large Payroll Under United States, Charged Washington, Dec. 4.—The Senate resumed consideration of the rail road bill, with Chairman Cummins, of the Interstate Commerce Commit tee, continuing his explanation of the measure. The government has a le gal as well, as a moral obligation to return the roads In as good condition as when taken over. Senator Cum mins said, and it also must pay promptly money owing the roads. Senator, Cummins pointed to the increased number of railroad em ployes as one l of the causes of the Increased cost of operation under Federal control. There were 190,537 more employes on the rolls last July 1, he said, than in December, 1917. TO ELECT OFFICERS Election of officers will take place at a meeting of the Men's Bible I Class of the First Church of God, street, this evening. * / . EDISON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NOTES The general science classes of the Edison Junior High School are now studying the problem of artificial heating of the home. The principles of the stove, fireplace, hot air furnace, pipeless furnace, steant and hot wa ter systems are being discussed and illustrated by oxeperiments. The girls are working on the prob lem of how to operate a gas range most economically. Those who use gas for cooking in the home are per forming certain experiments at home and are reporting their findings to the classes when they assemble at school. The students are showing much Interest in these studies. The young citizens of Edison re ceived the report of their work for the past six weeks at the close of school yesterday. These reports will be returned to the school after they have been properly endorsed by the parents of the students. The call for candidates for both the JSL. At J. H. Troup's "ST Presbyterian Troup Building, 15 S. Market Sq. Dial Phone Cnurch ================= 2497, M 50 SO/fCTRA "Phonographs As Pictured Here —j Ready For Immediate Delivery—Pay Only | f3 Monthly 1111 l bill Hi iff There is nothing ordinary about instrument in mahQgany or oak", i l!| W 811111 these 50 Sonora Phonographs un- with ample record filing space, I Hm l ! iH Hn I H ' ess ' s the low terms on which . . . .. 11l II It i lID I they will be sold this week, or aromatic stop tone control.ng illulltili Ir I 'Untill i while they last. In fact we know device, etc., and possesses that ex llMlll||||[ill| [ BlPpg of no phonograph selling at SIOO elusive tone that has made for the tp ........ | that is quite as good as this Sonora the great reputation it en- I 1 Sonora—illustrated at left—and joys. Ba one of the 50 fortunate fflj —|jb===Kß we - urge you to see and hear this persons to get one of these Sono- W njP- display of 50 at once. ra's. You need pay only $5.00 This Sonoro is a large, handsome monthly. And You May Include Records Up to $lO On the Same Terms Complete Stocks of Vfctrolas, Edisons and Vocations Are Still Here All on proportionately low terms, and all right here for you to see and secure at once, in time for Christmas, from small portable models at $25, $35, SSO and S7O to magnificent cabinet models atsl 10, slls, $l3O, $155, $175, S2OO, $225, $250 and up. one or two instruments and there will be no further shipments this year, or next year at present prices. Come in and make your selection and reservation now. Settle ment and delivery will be adjusted to suit you. If you can't call during the day—r Store closes at 6 PHONE FOR EVENING APPOINTMENT Bell 403—Dial 2497 J. H.Troup Music House Troup Building (Est. mi) 25 So. Market Sq. (Directly Opposite Market Sq. Presbyterian Church) 36 N. Hanover St., Carlisle 38 W. King St., Lancaster i boys' and, girls' basketball teams is ' being temporarily delayed because the I gymnasium floor is not yet available for the use of the teams. The floor wiir soon be finished and it is quite likely that a call will be issued with jin a week. The present idea is to | limit the girls' team to members of : the ninth year and to organize classes I in volleyball for the girls of the j eighth and seventh grade. ; At a meeting ot the Edison General j Council held yesterday during the | activities period it was determined to j divide the remainder of the school j year into two periods. During the ; first period the seventh grade will be i in the auditorium regularly on Wed ! nesday afternoon for activities and . the eighth and ninth year will hold : home 100 m activities. The eighth . and ninth years will assemble regu larly in the auditorium for special ex t ercises each Friday afternoon and the seventh grade will hold special exer j eises in their home rooms. During the second period the eighth and ninth I grades will be in the auditorium on Wednesday and the seventh grade ! will be given the Friday afternoon period. The clubs rre nearly ready to or DECEMBER 4, 1919 ganlzc and hold regular meetings each Thursday afternoon. The assignment of students and teachers to the vari ous clubs was practically completed to-day. NEW ROAD NEARLY HEADY Announcement was made by the Hugh Nawn Company, which is building the concrete highway from Dauphin to Clark's Ferry, that the road will be open for travel by Jan uary 1. About 2,000 feet of con crete must be laid and with good weather this can be done in a short time. SEEK BETTER MILK Plans to secure a better method of pasteurizing milk, so that the city's supply will be improved, will be made by a committee, including Dr. J. B. McAltstor, Dr. H. R. Doug las and Dr. E. E. Darlington and Dr. Jesse L. I,enker, of the Dau phin County Medical Society. Dr. B. S. Behney, Dentist, has re sumed practice at 236 North Becond street. Bell 1814.—Adv. Only at J. H. Troup's is such selection possible. We pick no favorites, endorse no particular machine, but let your own tastes be the judge of the Phopograph you select. Every one should seize this opportunity and make selection at once to be assured of Christmas delivery. RAD^ FOR ALL CONGESTION tad INFLAMMATION U Stronger. CUwtr and Mora COBTMIMI than the Old Fashioned Mustard Piasters — and Does Not Blister. IN BOTTLES - 01 JELL FORM MA TOM ALL DRUGGISTS. 35 Cents and 79 Cents 9
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