LIGHT ON ABSENCE OF CITY PLANNEHS ✓ Umberger Didn't Know His Invitation to Wharf Confab was Meant for Board HE DIDNT TELL OTHER MEMBERS Says They "Feel Injured That Their Absence Was Taken as Indication That Their Action" in Opposing Ordinance "Was Not Sincere How it happened that none of the members ot the City Planning Com mission, which had on February 15 in formed the City Commission of its.op position to the ordinance giving the Harrisburg Light & Power Company the right to bui H a coal wharf on Har gest's Island, was not present at the meeting of the City Commission which !! legitimate reasons for dis approving the plan to permit the light company to build a coal wharf on the island and adds that those reasons no doubt would have been ablv supported fiad the Planning Commission been rep resented at the conference on Tuesday. I'nVberger s letter was received' bv Citv CleWt Miller and it will l>e read to the City Commissioners at their meet log nert Tuesday. The letter in full follows: The Umberger Letter "In view of the fact that vour honorable body passed the ordinance .No. IS6 without the presence of anv member of the City Planning Commis sion, I feel it incumbent upon me to say that no number of our Commis sion. except myself, had notice of your request to be present at vour meeting, through a misunderstanding. The no tice was mailed by the City Clerk to me as secretary of the Commission, and was delivered to mv business office on Wednesday morning, the seventeenth instant. Owing to a death in mv fam ily that morning. 1 did not see my mail until a&out Friday or and then glanced hurriedly through it. 1 took the notiee for a personal one and notified Mr. Taylor by phone I could not be present. "It seems now that the notice was addressed to the Planning Commission, nnd I ought to have notified the other members of the Commission. The fault, if any is to be found, was mine. 1 make this statement so that you mav lsnow no discourtesy to your honorable body was intended, and so that the pub lic may understand that the action of this Commission in disapproving the ordinance was founded on good reasons and made in good faith. Planning Board Feels Injured "This Commission devoted consid erable time and study to the ordinance, and disapproved of the same because the members believed it was against the best interests of the city. Their findings and the reasons therefor were sent to you in a communication of the fifteenth instant, in language so plain they could not be misunderstood. First, that the passage of the ordi nance would not eliminate present con ditions. but only relieve them. Second, that the Commission was convinced that the suggested site is not the only available one. nor the proper location. Third, that the granting of the privi lege asked for would establish a bad precedent. To these reasons was add ed a statement that their decision was reached after very careful considera tion. This language could not be mis ui'derstood. and, in fact, was not mis nnderstood. "While the members of the Commis sion do not want to be understood as practicing discourtesy to your honor able body, yet they feel that all of the facts were before you. They feel in jured that the fact of their absence was taken as an indication that their action wa« not sincere and genuine. Speaking for the other members of the Commission, their probity and standing is such that they would not be guilty of toying with so important a question. Speaking for myself. I am of opinion that the river frout is worth more in dollars and cents to Harrisburg than all the coal in the river. With great respect and sincere regret for per sonal lapse (which, uuHer the circum tsances. I am sure, will be exiyisedV I am, respectfully, "B. F. Umberger, Secretary." Former President Talks to Educators By Associated Press. Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 25.—Advocating a plan which would make a national I standard of education practical bv en larging the Bureau of Education into a university, consisting of a corps of ex- j perts who would pass upon the effici ency. thoroughness and economy of the I various schools system, former President WilliamVH. Taft addressed the Depart ment Su erintendence of the National Educational Association here to-day. No Action Against Judge Dayton Wellington, Fab. 25.—N'o action: will be recommended to this Congress' by the House Judiciary Sab-Committee hearing .-harges against Federal Judge Dayton, of West Virginia. Chairman McCillicuddy began preparing a report! to-day which may serve as the basis of j any action the Sixty-fourth Congresort had been sunk by a submarine has not been borip' out from London, where it has beeu said that this report doubtless referred to the torpedoing of the British steam er Branksome Chine, a government col lier. which was attacked the afternoon of February 23 in the English channel at a point south of Beaehy Head. THE DACIA ALIYIOST ACROSS ATLANTIC WITHOUT SEIZURE New York, Feb. 25.—The steamship Dacia, which sailed from Norfolk Feb ruary 11 for Rotterdam with cotton in the face of assertions that she would be seized by British men-of-war, inas much as she had been « German vessel at the outbreak of the war, has almost completed her trip across the Atlantic without interference on February 23,' according to messages received here to dav. These messages asserted that the Da cia was 400 miles west of Landsend, England, on that date and would pro ceed through the English channel to Rotterdam if not taken. The Dacia is owned by Edward N. Breitung, of this city, whp purchased her from the Hamburg-American Line and changed her registry, placing her under the American flag. Mr. Brei tuug also purchased the Seguranea of the Ward Line, an American vessel, and had her remodeled as a freighter. The Seguranca is now loading with pro visions for Rotterdam and is expected to sail from this port within a day or two. HICH COST OF LIVING IS SHOWN IN U. S. EXPORTS Washington. Ferti. 25. What in creases have been made in the export of foodstuffs from the United States since the European war began was dis closed to-day by the Department of Commerce in a detailed statement of exports for the seven months ending with January. In all. $377,400,000 worth of breadstuffs and meat were sent abroad which, compared with the same seven months of 1914 was an increase of JISS,OOO.OOO. One hundred million bushels more of wheat were exported than last year; 35,000,000 bushels more oats; 10,000.- 000 bushels more corn; 40,000,000 pounds more fresh beef; 34,500,000 pounds more canned beef; 1,500,000 barrels more flour; 1.000.000 pounds more pickled beef: 22.000.000 gallons more gasoline, naphtha, etc., and 111,- 000,000 gallons more jesidum, fuel oil, etc.. was sent abroad. At the same time there was was a great decrease in the export of cotton. GREAT BRITAIN WILL FIIiHT IF FRANCE AND RUSSIA Ql IT London, Feb. 25, 4.15 P. M.—Pre mier Asquith took weasion in the House this afternoon, in replying to a question, to endorse the opinion ex-, pressed recently by First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill in a newspaper in terview that Great Britain would con tinue to fight to the bitter end, even should Franee and Russia withdraw from the war. The Premier pointed out that Mr. Churchill had declared with special em phasis that he eouki not conceive of such a contingency as this, "but " added the Premier, "I am in complete agreement with him. 1 see, no reason to .Hffer from the views he has ex pressed.'' Enough Potatoes to Feed Germans Berlin, Feb. 25, via London, 2.55 P. —The Prussian Minister of Agricul ture. Baron von Sehorlemer, discussing the food question in the Diet to-da" said that quantities of potatoes would be brought in from Poland, and that large supplies were left in East Prus sia. where the Russians had been. "I believe I can express the hope," he add ed, "that the potato supply for human food will suffice.'' Place Ban on Absinthe Geneva. Via Paris, Feb. 25, 5.25 A. M. —The militarv governor of Strassburg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, has prohibited the sale or consumption of absinthe. Persons who violate t#e order will be sentenced to a vear's im prisonment. German Gold for Amsterdam Amsterdam. Via -London, Feb. 25, 6.51 A. M.—The "Telegraaf" says it has learned that a special train is bringing $4,000,000 in German gold from Berlin to this city. f • ' «< ' \ •*' HARRTSBtTRfi STAR-INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1915. IREAT BRITAIN IN ENTIRE ACCORD WnHTRE RUSSIAN DESIRE FOR ACCESSTO SEA i ! London, Feb. 2a, 3.23 P. M. —Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, an i nounced in the House of Commons to i day that Great Britain was in entire [ accord with Russia's desire fat access ; : to the sea. > "With Russia's desire for access to . the sea England is in entire aceorJ," ! the foreign secretary said, iu response to a question from Frederick W. Jo wett, whether England knew of and ap .'proved the statement of the Russian Foreign Minister, M. Sazouoff, in the ' Duma, that "Russia intended perma nently to occup Constantinople." s | The foreign secretary responded he ■ | was uuaware that M. ' Sazanoff had ' j made any such statement but, he ad> i! Ed, "the statement 1 have seen was S that M. Sazanoff had said that tbj events on the Kusao-Turkish frontier ■ would bring Russia nearer realization of ■ | the political-economic problem bound up ,with Russia's access to the sea. "Witn . these aspirations, he continued. "Eng ■ laud is in sympathy. What form their i realization will take will no doubt be ■ settled in the terms of peace." ' The announcement of Sir Kdward Grey marks one of the most important developments iu the European pjlitical situation since the beginning of the war. Russia's desire for a warm wa ter port and unrestricted outlet from the Black Sea has long been one of her most cherished national aspirations. Speaking in the Duma on February 9, Premier Goreuiykin said: "Turkey has marched with our enemy, but her resistance already has been shattred by our glorious Caucasicn troops, and the radiant future of the Russians on the Black Sea is beginniug to dawn near the walls of Constanti nople, '' The attitude of Great Britain in the event that the fortunes of war should favor Russia in the struggle with Tur key has been an open question. NO U.S. WARSHIP TO CONVOY AMERICAN TOBACCO REN New \ ork, Feb. 25.—A committee j of tobacco manufacturers who usually : go to Amsterdam every spring to buy at auction their supplies of Suiuatara j tobacco for six months recently sent a letfer to the Department of State tell ing of their fears to travel through the | war zone and intimating that they | would be glad if the authorities woul 1 j send a battleship to convoy the vessel j on w irfch most of them would sail for Holland. An answer from Counsellor Lansing, of the State Department, made public to-day by the Leaf Tobacco j Board ot' Trade follows: "You ar» informed that the depart ment must for the present, in view of J j the disturbed condition of affairs in Eu rope, leave it to each person contem plating a visit th-re to decide for him-j I self whether or not it would be wiser i , to postpone his visit until affairs there |in shall have resumed their normal j state.'' A* they pay import duties of almost j Slo.ooti.ooo. the manufacturers, it is] stated, expected a different reply to i their request for a convoy. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY Caatlauril From First face. political development since the opening of the war. The foreign secretary an-: nonnced that Great Britain was in sym pathy with Russia. He referred to Rus sia's hope of obtaining Constantinople ' as a result of a '.var with Turkey. The second week of Germany's sub marine campaign opened to-day with the loss of two more British ships. The steamers Western Coast and Deptford were sunk off the English coast, either by mines or torpedoes. Previously ten vessels, seven of them British, have been sent to the bottom. Germany apparently is preparing to extend the field of these operations, for three submarines have been sent to i Pola, presumably for use in the Adri i atic and Mediterranean. The American proposals for cessa i tion of this form of warfare and the admission of foodstuffs to Germany are before the German and British govern ments but there are no indications whether they will find acceptance. Germatl«'s claim to an overwhelming victory in Bast Prussia, resulting in the actual annihilation of the Russian tenth army, is denied categorically by the Russian general staff. The admis-' sion is made that two army corps suf fered heavily during the retreat, but the remaining corps are said to have escaped from the German surrounding movement. Efforts of the Germans to ! clinch their victory by striking a de cisive blow in Northern Poland are . leading to continuance battles all along this section of the front, the outcome of which the Russian staff does not at tempt to forecast. Hardly less intense is the campaign in the Carpathians. The Petrograd an nouncement claims successes for the Russians in small engagements. Dis patches from the front to Swiss news papers assert that the Russians are win ning consistently, and that the Aus trians have lost more than 3,000 men at Dukla Pass. r- AMERII'ANi RED CKOiS DOCTOR SENT TO SEKVIA DIES ABROAD y Paris, Feb. 25, 5.05 A. M.—Dr. i James F. Donnelly, of the American Red ! Cross Mission, sent to Servia» died yes- j terday at Nish, says a dispafVu to the ! Havas Agency from Saloniki. The body j will be sent to the United States bv j way of Saloniki. Dr. Donnelly, whir was a resident of New York and a graduate of the Uni- j versity of Louisville, went to Servia* late in ..ovenvber with five other doc- ; tors and twelve nurses sent out by the American Red Cross. He had seen hos- j pital service in Louisville and in New York. He held a royal medical decree i in Holland. Grateful for American Relief London. Feb. 25, 4.25 A. M.—Bel-! gians in Brussels observed Washing- i ton's birthday as a holiday to Vernon -! strate their gTatitude for the work of j the American Relief Commission, writes | a correspondent in Rotterdam. School ! children were given a holiday and near- j ly eyerv Belgian wore a miniature American flag in his button liole. IT PAYS TO USE STAR INDEPENDENT WANT ADS. I SUGGESTS IDEAS FOR NEW STATE COMPENSATION LAW M. W. Alexander, Safety Expert, Tells Business Men at Chamber of Com merce Luncheon what Should Be Embodied in Proposed Measure * Pennsylvania litis au opportunity to put into its workmen's compensation law a lot of new features of interest to both the employer and employe from the working out of the various laws now in force in tweuty-four States and both and Germany, according to Magnus W. Alexander, the safety ex pert for the General Electric Company, of Lynn. Maw., who spoke at a lunch eon meeting of the Harrisburg Cham ber of Commerce to-day. He gave a general idea of what a compensation law should be, warning the business men who heard him of what provisions should be enacted into Pennsylvania's law, fair to both em ployer and employe. He dissected his subject into foil parts and ably illus trated the points he wanted to make in regard to each. v " He advocated first a measure that would work to promote the prevention of accidents discussing under tbus head ing a provision which makes a single liability on the employer and to work man to receive but one compensation, cautioning the men to see that the Pennsylvania law require* that the money be paid the employe when it i lime him. He said prompt ami adequate medi cal attention to the injured employe is one of the important features of such un act because lack of it often is re sponsible for i'on tinned disability. He advocated a definite scale of compen sation ami impressed on his hearers the advisability of providing a simple meth od of tdministratioii. This, he said, could be done by the Department of Ln-hor and Industry, but- its decisions iu appealed cases might be construed to be in favor of either of the parties •'because of the appointment of the State employed by political affiliation, suggesting that this department collect the available data of an appealed case and present it to a common pleas judge who shall make decisions without a jury. One feature that will giv? a one eyed man, for instance, an opportunity of getting a job under this law he would make it so that the empiover would be responsible for the loss "of but one eye in case of Ins being ren deied blind. This is not in any law so far enacted ami has kept iu numerous instances men from employment when malingers of big businesses do nor care to undertake that liability. In after years a big men out of work will be if this feature is not enacted in s,,uch laws. He advocated first an act that could be accepted 6r allow the parties to take advantage of their common law rights and later a compulsory law. He excepts three cases of injuries from compensation, self-inflicted wounds, in juries due to intoxication and disregard for safety rules and appliances. . Mr. Alexander is au expert on com pensation laws, having been on the orig inal commission which drafted the Massachusetts law, assistant in draft ing the measure which is now before the Indiana Legislature and is now the safety expei t for the General Elec tric Company. More than a hundred members of the Chamber of Commerce heard hint. KIDNAP PAIR OF STORE DUMMIES Contlnnrd From First Pass. j dummies were found The clothing 1 had becu removed from each ami there was some evidence that the robbers each took a punch at the dummies be fore abandoning them. A coat was found in a lot ofT Catherine street and ! a pair of trousers was dropped by the ! thieves on the pavement within a fen feet of the Yoffee store. Although their load was heavy, the men who carried the whiskey bottles speeded away from the stores far fast er than those who carried the dummies. Persons who saw the fugitives say one man carried a dummy on his shoulder, while another |Ait Bis arms about the store fixture and ran. permitting the i dummy's feet to drag along on the ; ground. Back of tfte J. G. Peters department store and cut of the glare of the elec tric arc lan-.f, under which they bad ' been working, the thieves stripped the dummies of the cloth'ng and abandoned them. Constables this morning were | searching for the robbers and later were joined bv Countv Detective Jaines T. Walters, JOKE EMBARASSES t'OI'PLE Use of Her Initials in Matrimonial Quest Annoys Mrs. Ibaeh When Mayor Rose, of Los Angeles, I Cal., in response to a letter containing j the initials, "R. X. P.,'' a fortnight or more began a search for a hus ' band for a pretty HarrM>urg miss, lit tle did he know that he was aiding in i ('laying a prank o.n Mrs. Victor A. Lbach, 1845 Herr street, this city, that j had been planned by a girl acquaint j ::nce in a spirit of fun. The initials given in the letter by the | other girl, are those of Mrs. Ibaeh's | lunie before she was married. The let j ter to Mayor Rose asked him to search for a husband for the owner of the ! initials. Of course, the chief executive was williirg. and consequently many let ! ters addressed to "Miss R. X. P., were ' received at the Herr street home, where I MTS. Ibach and her husband are board ! ers. To-day Mr. and Mrs. I'bach asked th'at it all be explained. They realized, they said, what fun their friends had out of the prank, but the Ibachs began to view the matfer seriously when it got into the newspapers. Now the young woman who caused the Ibachs ail the trouble is sorry, 'cause she never thought it woul-i amourtt to more than a joke. She has quit laughing about it and prefers to let the victim of her joke hljve the last laugh. The huwband of Mrs. Iba<-h is a son of Citv Detective Joseph Iba«'h. Garman for Superior Court Bench Friends of Judge John .M. Garman, of Luzerne, applied to-day for blank nomination petitions in the State De partment, and announced they propose to present his lhame as a candidate for the nomination for Superior Court Judge. Judge Garman is an "Old Guard" Democrat, and was elected to the Luzerne county bench fwithout op position. At a dinner given in his hon or last week in Dallas hie boom for Superior Court Jndge fras launched. PRZASNYSZ IS TAKEN BY THECERMARS AND tO.OOQ . RUSSIANS AJ PRISONERS Cwttiuid Croat Flrat Pats*. ' Russian prisoners. In Po!and| south of the Vistula, the Russians advanced to I Mogily, which is southeast of Boli mow, and occupied this position. Their > forces in this movement outnumbered i ours five to one. Otherwise there is i nothing of importance to report in this i region. i "It is characteristic that the com- I wander of the Fifty-seventh Russian ' reserve division, taken prisoner *1 Au gustowo, asked German ofluers whether , it was true that Antwerp was being besieged by the Germans and soon would fall. When the situation 011 the western front was explained to this Russian officer he refused to believe ; that the German western army was on ' French soil." Although the capture of Przasnyst ' has not been reported from Petrograd, I recent dispatches from that city stated that tieaM* fighting was in progress in the region in which the Gorman victory ' is now claimed in Berlin. Przasnysz in 1 a.bout fifteen miles from the cast Prus sian frontier, almost due north of War ' saw, and has a population of about j 10,000. Following the expulsion of the ' Russian army from East Prussia the Germans inaugurated an aw*iult 011 the fortified line in Northern Poland to ' j which the Russians feel back. Of these i battles the most violent has been in , | progress at Przasnysz. I Do Not Report Przasnysz Fallen Petrograd Via l.otidon. Feb. 25, ~2.37 P. Xf. —The Germans appfiy to , i have concentrated large forces near . j Przasnysz. which is now the center of | their attack in the region north of the . Vistula. The action about Ossowetz, | which had been the chief point of at |l tack by the Germans, is becoming less • i intense. Serious fighting is teported also further to the north, at Shtabin and 1 Yastrzemb, points between Grodno and Augustowo. but there is little informa tion concerning the character of these actions. According to otKeial comment, i the Germans have exaggerated the mag nitude nf their victories along the East ; Prussian front, and from the Russian i viewpoint the fighting in Northern Po land "is only now beginning." The Germans claim that they have I brought to a brilliant finish their win- I tor campaign is characterized here as ' premature. Scattered by Russian Cavalry j The German detachment which cross ed' the river Niemen at three points on February 23 has been scattered by I Russian cavalry ami part of this force I has been captured. Some of the pris- I oners had in their possession explosives and tolls which indicated they were in tending to blow up the railroad lead I ing from Vilna to Warsaw. (. In Galicia the Austro-Ge-man ! fortes have occupied a new front ex tending from the Carpathians to Stan ] islau. The feature ot' this trout is its j thinness. The rear of the Austro-Ger | man lines touches Rumania. The line of communication is riiaintained not | far from the rear but from the flanks being parallel with the Carpathians. It is reported that the city of Wyszo ! grod, on the Vistula, has been damaged seriously by German shells. , Official communication from the Ger man war offices to-day announced the capture of Przasnysz, described in the foregoing dispatch as the center of the German attack. It may be that the j German news is of later date, reporting ' a development in the battle referred to j a^ove. RUSSIAN TROOPS REINVADE 1 Bl KOYYIXA IN NKW ATTACK London. Feb. 25, 5 P. M. —Russian tioops have reinvaded Bukowina and ■ reoccupied Sadagora. 011 the railroad ; four miles north of Czeronwitz, accord ing to a dispatch received by i.he "Evening News" from Mamoruita, in Rumania. The Austrians, the corre spondent adds, are pushing up their j troops toward the Czernowitz to meet this new Russian attack. 6(HI Tons of Flour For Belgium New York, Feb. 25.—Dr. J. L. Mag nes, of the American- Jewish Relief Committee, announced to-dav that he had arranged with the purchasing de partment of the commission for relief in Belgium, to buy six hundred tons of flour, which will be shipped to Pale stine aboard the I'nited States collier Vulcan. , English Aviator Falls to Death London, Feb. 25, 3.17 P. M.—Lieu tenant Dawson C. Downing, of the Royal Navy Flying Corps, was killed to-day in a fall from a biplane during a flight at the central flying school. MRS. FRALICK, 90, DIES TO-DAY Body Brought From Phoenixville to Home of Her Son for Burial I Word was received in this city of j the death of .sirs. .Sarah M. Fralick, ; formerly of Harrisburg, which occurred I in the home of her daughter, '.Mrs. Harry I Weidle, Phoenixville, early this morn ing. General debility was given a* the cause of death. Mrs. Fralick was 90 j i years old. The body was brought to Harrisburg i this afternoon and taken to the home: of Samuel K. Fralick, a son, 2219 Jef ! i t'erson street. Funeral services will be j ' held there to-morrow afternoon at 2 | o'clock, be conducted by the Rev. A. S. Williams, pastor of Curtiu Heights ; tM. E. church. Interment "will be made in the Shoop Church cemetery near [ Pen'brook. Mrs. Fralick leaves seven children as follows: George, Samuel K.. Lewis L, •John H., Louis B„ all of Harrisburg; | Mrs. Adam Bell, Hummelstown, ami j j Mrs. Harry Weidle, Phoenixville. RE-ELECTS DR. SURFACE He Is Also Beekeepers Choice for Secre tary of Agriculture The eleventh annual meeting ,of the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' Asso ciation came to a close last evening with an address on "Relations of Leagues to the Soil and Beekeeping"; by Dr. H. A. Surface, who was re-elect- j ed president of the association. Dr. {Surface was endorsed for Secretary of Agriculture to succeed Secretary N. B. Critehfield, whose term expires this •week. The annual election resukeM! as fol low?: President, H. A. Surface, Har risburg; vice presidents, E. A. Wiemer, Lebanon; C. N. Greene. Troy, and -E. J. Strittmatter, Eberoiiburg; secretary treasurer, H. C. Klinger, Liverpool. CAPITOL STATE PROBING SMALLPOX Farmer Afflict ad With the Disease Travels About Indiscriminately in OtarlQn County The State Health Department was to day informed of a ease of smallpox in Farrington township, Clarion county, from which serious consequences may ensue. A farmer residing at a point near to Kane anil Johnsonburg who has been suffering from the disease has j been traveling about indiscriminately, j and been in contact with many people ; before the nature of the disease was ! discovered. He was at once qua ran ' tined and every precaution has 'been takn to prevent a spread, but it is feared that an epidemic may ensue. Was Commission Counsel James W. King, the Philadelphia at torney who committed suicide by jump ing into the Potomac river at Washing ton, and whose body was found yester day, was a member of the Pennsvlva nis Commission to the Panama-Pacific Exposition and held the position of counsel to the Commission. Governor 'Brumbaugh will appoint his successor, EVANCELICAL CONFERENCE Opens in Reading With Bishop Praying That War Countries Soon See Folly of Their Course By .issocintcd Pi cas, Reading, Pa.. Feb. 25.—The opening session of the Fast Pennsylvania Evan gelical Conference was featured by the address of Bishop S. C. Breyfogel. this city. He prayed that the war-stricken countries open their eyes anil see the folly of their course. Bishoip Brey fogel's annual sermon was on "The Call of the Hour—A More Real Sense of God." He said, among other things: "It is ,1 fateful hour. The church of to-day faces conditions some of whiel* are ap palling. conations which, unless changed, threaten disaster to Christian ideuls and chaos to the moral order. "Sin has left the mark of Cain upon the face of this age. The greed for money lias destroyed the more humane sentiments. Political dishonor has dis credited some of the most cherished in stitutions among men." A memorial service for the departed members followed. The report of the examining board was made. The ex amination for the tirsit year was taken by .1. Harper Kinsey; llarrv Maneval and Charles W. lfarner, second year; .Monroe S. Mumina, for the third year; W. S. Adams an I 0. P. Martin, the fourth year. Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 23. Bishop W. H. Fouke, of Napersville, HI., to-day opened the 21st annual session of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical church in Emman uel church. The annual report of the Woman's Missionary Society of the conference showed that during the last year $37,697.60 was received for mis sionary purposes, or $3,000 more than in. 1913, divided to districts as fol lows: -Ulentown, $13,112.50; Harrisburg, $11,504.85; Reading, $13,080.2'5. PLAN TO RAISE BREAD PRICE Pittsburgh Bakers Agree to the Boost and Federal Department of Jus tice Starts Probe B.U Associated Press. Pittsburgh, Pa., S*eb. 25.—Inquiry into the plans of luwil bakers to in crease the price of dread is being made by the Federal Department of Justice here. i The Master Bakers' Association of West Pennsylvania at a meeting Sat urday agreed to boost the price one cent u loaf on all sizes retailing under ten cents but no date for the advance was fixed. New York, Feb. 25. —The wholesale price of bread, which was recently raised to five cents a loaf is to be re i stored to four cents, according to re i ports published to-day. In faet th.it there was much agitation when'the cost of bread was raised, followed bv inves tigations into bread industry, i 9 one reason given in the re[»ort for the plan to restore the old! prices. Another rea son is that most of the smaller baking companies, instead of following the lead of the big concerns, continued to sell bread at five cents to their retail trade. The Attorney General's inquiry into the increased cost of wheat and bread will be resumed to-morrow. WANT NEW TRI,U FOR BECKER Affidavit of Witness Says Latter Tes tified Falsely at Trial ' By Associated Press, New Vork, Feb. 25.—A motion for a new trial for Charles Becker, the former i police lieutenant convicted for the niijr der of Herman Rosenthal, was made iin the Supreme Court io-day. Bec'ker's ! counsel said he based his motion on : newly-discovered evidence to the effect (that one of" the State's witnesses to a | material fact hail testified falsely at ' Beckrr's second tri^l. Attached to the papers was the af fidavit of .Tames Marshall, made in ■Philadelphia recently, in which Mar shall repudiated a part of his testimony at the second trial. THK NEW KAUFMAN STORES Contract Let For Building to Take Place of One Destroyed David Kaufman, proprietor of the Kaufman Underselling Scores destroye*l by fire, will rebuild at his old location at 4, 6 and 8 South Mfirket square, and has engaged C. Howard Lloyd, an architect, and has let the contract for building to W. 8. Miller. The new building will include the first floors of all three buildings and have eighty feet of window space. The new store will open for business in the fall. The temporary store at 9 North Market square, will be open soon with a new stock of spring goods. William B. Cunningham * William B. Cunningham, 50 years old, 310 street, died in fche H'arrisburg hospital this morning' of heart troubl£ He was admitted to that institution February 21 in a critical condition. PITY THE POOR VIEWERS! EVERYBODY JS KICKING Neither the City, Nor the- Property Owner Who Oets Benefits Nor Yet the Property Owners Who Are As sessed, Are Satisfied With Rulings Dissatisfaction with divisions of the board of viewers who"assessed damages and bemvfitu incident to the opening ami gp».ding of sections of Mulberry, Twentieth and Hildrup streets is being \ expressed from three sources. This is a city improvement that required expen- , sive cuts and fills and left the beautiful old Hildrup mansion now occupied by Arthur E. Nelson, high above the street : level, while the ground back of the house ie much below the street grade. Nelson to-day took an ajvpoal from decisions of viewers, oontemlinig that the damages allowed him are inade quate and th'.lt the tienefits assessed . against him are inequitable. Other | property owners, affected by these grad ing jobs, also appealed. Some of them I said that Nelson rdiould not have been | allowed damages to the extent of those I awarded to him, and that they should ) lie assessed for only such amounts as would be required to finance the im provement. Even the city, through Solicitor Seitz, haji a kick a|gaiiiat the findings of the viewers. The city's objection is centered on the Xclsoii ifosc*4smcnts. The city contends it will be compelled to lay out much money because of this improvement. The appellants, besides the city and Nelson, include W. U Gorgas, who, in cidentally, is oue of the Citv Commis sioners; A. K. Brough. Churl.* A. Kun kel ami W. A. Wioigert. Under the viewers' decisions Nelson will receive something like $2,200 or about a SI,OOO less than he contends he should have been allowed to him. The appeals all were filed with Pro thonotary Holler ami will be consider ed by at a time not yet fixed. FINANCE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS. Furnished by H. W. Suavely. Broker. Arcade Building, Walnut and Court Streets New Fork, Fob. 25. Open. Close. Alaska Gold Mines ... 27% 27' Amal Copper 51'.'. 51' . Amer Beet Sugar .... 37 37 : '*' American Can 26 26% do pfd 9 2 92' r Am (ar and Fiwndry Co 40 40 Am Cotton Oil ....... 45 4414 Am Ice Securities .... 25 25% American Sugar 101% 101'4 Amer Tel and Tel 118% 11814 Atchison 93'., 94 Baltimore and Ohio .. . 63% 63% Bethlehem Steel 54'., 54 Brooklyn R T 86 86 California Petroleum .. 17a/, 18 Central Leather 34% 4414 Chesapeake and Ohio .. 40 40 'Col Fuel and Iron .... 23% 23% Corn Products 9', 9% Distilling Securities .. 10 10% Erie 2O Reward Offered for Body (feorge Reitmyer, father of Howard Reitmyer, who was drowned in the Sus quehanna river at Berwick on Monday, has offered SSO reward for the recovery of the body. A notice of this reward was sent to the Harrisburg police this morning. Schaeffer Signs Federal Contract fl»/ Associated Press. New York, Feb. 25.—Hermann Schaeffer, formerly of the Washington American League baseball club, has signed a two-year contract with the Federal League and has been assigned to the' Newark Club, according to an an nouncement from Federal headquarters here to-day. 9