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DIFFER MUCH
ON AGE LIMIT
Senate .and House Conferees
Also Have Trouble Over
Question of Temperance
21 to 31 MAY BE AGREED UPON
U-Boat Warfare of Germans Causes
Government to Appropriate Pro-
ducts of Steel Plants—Aliens
will Be Interned in Camps.
Washington, D. C.—That provision
of the selective draft army bill voted
into the measure by the Senate,
which would make it a crime for
an American soldier in the trenches
to accept from his British or “French
comrade a drink of ale or light wine,
is the principal obstacle at this time
in the way of an agreement of the
conferees upon the provisions of the
bill. While the conferees are wrang-
Ying over this amendment, forced
into the bill by the prohibition ele-
ment in the Senate, all steps for
the organization of this conscript
army of more than a million mens
are halted.
The age limit is a matter of point-
od discussion, the Senate having
fixed the age limits from 21 to 27,
: while the House made them 21 to
40. It is understood that the Senate
conferees will yield to the extent of
raising the maximum limit to 31
years, and upon this basis there is
a prospect of agreement.
A provision of the Senate bill
which the House conferees are de-
terminedly fighting is that which
authorizes the President to accept
the Roosevelt Legion as a division
of volunteers.
intern. Enemies in Camps.
Washington, D. C. — Arrangement
for placing all interned alien ene-
mies in permanent detention camps
‘where they will be well housed and
given work at fair wages have been
letad by Secretary Wilson of
the labor department. An official
announcement says the first camp
will. be established on a 500-acre
tract of agricultural land in the
mountains of North Carolina and
that the 1,800 officers and sailors
taken from German merchant ves-
sels in American harbors will be the
first aliens to go there. The state
ment adds that Secretary Wilson ex-
pects the necessity will goon ‘arise
for the establishment of ‘additional
asked for $1, aa for construc:
tion of a, great merchant fleet to
“ preak the ‘German submarine block-
ade. The government shipping. ‘board
thas determined to build at least 5,
©00,000 tons of steel _ ‘and wooden
ships, within the next two years.
“To carry out the plan, the ship-
ping board contemplated legislation
to divert for government use the
products of steel mills of the coun-
try and to provide for cancellation
of contracts already existing between
steel manufacturers and consumers.
Contracts for railroad construction
and for work connected with na-
‘tional defense would be exempt from
<ancellation under the shipping board
plan.
Many Want to Be Officers.
Washington.— More than 209,000
‘men—five times as many as can be
accommodated—have applied for ad-
mission to the 16 officers’ training
camps which are open to begin de-
veloping the men who will lead new
American armies to be raised within
‘the next four months. ~ About 60,000
have qualified for admission, and,
from these, 40,000 will be selected
and placed under intensive instruc-
tion within the next 10 days.
Lid Down on War News.
* Washington. — Secretary of State
Lansing declared that he will dis-
miss from the service instantly any
person connected with the state de
partment who gives out information
leading to criticism of the adminis-
tration’s policies. He made the
statement when asked how far the
department would go in carrying out
the closing of chamnels of informa-
tion in the department, other than
the secretary himself, and his for
eign intelligence board. He said,
further, that he would - dismiss any-
one found guitly of explaining the
intent of administration policies.
' Six Break Jail; 20 Refuse to Go.
Steubenville, Ohio. — Six Jefferson
county jail prisoners sawed window
bars and jumped 20 feet from a sec
ond story window to the jail corri-
dor and escaped, They were serv-
ing light sentences for intoxication
and disorderly conduct. Twenty oth-
er prisoners refused to avail them-
selves of a chance to escape.
Woman Prosecutes Woman.
Toledo, O.—A woman in criminal
court used all her persuasive pow:
ers and eloquence to send another
woman to death in the electric
chair. The first woman was Miss
Esther Antin, assistant prosecuting
attorney of Lucas county; the sec-
ond was Mrs, Evelyn Marleau, on
trial on an indictment charging her
with the murdering of Alvin Czae-
lustra. Miss Ant fair toward
the woman d n her argu-
ment to th she made no
allowance 1er Sex.
200,000. MEN.
WITH ROOSEVELT
Force from 46 States Could Be
Mobilized for Foreign Service
in 6 Weeks if Accepted.
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ALL BEYOND DRAFT AGE
Plenty of Money Offered—Southerner
Says He Will Raise $1,000,000; if
That Sum Would Get Expe-
dition to Front.
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ABOVE DRAFT AGE
Volunteers who have applied
to go with Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt «to France to fight as
enlisted men are as given below
“according to the official liste now
on file in the Colonel's recruiting
headquarters. All of these men
are above the age which would
render them liable to service un-
der the administration’ s selective
draft bill:— -
Individual applicants..... 12,000
74 regiments. ............133,200
89 companies............ 13,350
10 infantry squadrons.... 6,000
10 cavalry squadrons..... 4,312
14 cavalry troops......... 1,600
7 artillery batteries..... 1,197
12 mach. gun companies. «1,200
Negroes .......... os sie 15,000
Engineer regiments. ies 13000
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Total Sivaxuxis vases + 190,550
With the officers necessary for
such an army the total is in ex-
cess of 200,000 men, or more
than eight afmy divisions.
3A XR XARA XA NA SE RRS SSRI RES
New York.—Col. Roosevelt's mili-
tary plans, revealed in detail for the
first time, ‘Will surprise the general
publie, including even that portion of
it which hails the Colonel as the
most strenuous and influential cam-
paigner of the age.
‘While it has been supposed that he
was raising one volunteer division for
service on the battle line in France
under his command, if the War De-
partment should grant his application,
the Colonel has in reality tentatively
recruited an army approximately of
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has perfected arrangements so that
in six weeks, .and its first units start
F to
way of ‘good measure, is representa-
ed volunteers, and, not one “of these
volunteers, by reason of age limit,
could serve under the new gelective
draft measure. Not one of them has
‘been drawn from ‘the National Guard
of any State.
All this has been carefully ‘superin-
tended by the Colonel, who is just as
strong for the war measures of the
Administration as he is for the ful-
filment of his own heart's desire to
get into the big fight somehow just
as soon as he can. He believes that
a physically sound man in middle life
can fight all right—hence, his recruits
range between the ages of twenty-
five and fifty years. T
All of these recruits, as the official
documents show, are actuated by two
convictions—faith in the leadership
of Col. Roosevelt and faith in the
Colonel's theory that they should be
sent to the fighting front at once to
fill the gap until the great army to
be raised by selective draft is ready.
The old-time “cowboy” and "bronco
busting” elements are not much in
evidence. Only about twenty-five of
the Rough Riders who followed the
Colonel at San Juan Hill are among
the tentative recruits.
tial following is made up of solid men
of business. and affairs—lawyers,
bankers, brokers, college professors,
legislators, preachers, merchants and
clerks. It is officially declared that
the large majority of these men are
earning from $2,660 to $30,000 a year
and that their death in battle would
not entail ¥estitution on those de-
pendent bn them.
WOMEN LOOT FOOD SHOPS
Police. Charge Rioters in Swedish
Cities and Many Are Hurt.
Stockholm. —Women who stood in
line to buy potatoes in the southern
part of Stockholm became unruly
when informed that the stock was ex-
hausted and began a demonstration
which assumed proportions that kept
the police busy until after midnight.
Several policemen were injured by
stones thrown and a number of the
rioters received scalp wounds from
‘the police sabres.
SEEK EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN
Suffragists ‘Expect Success From
Their Nation-wide Campaign.
‘Washington.—Equal pay for equal
work for women who will fill ‘the
places of men called to military duty
is being demanded in a campaign
started by the National Americar Wo-
man Suffrage Association. Suffrage
leaders say the success of the cam-
paign is assured through the f
replies received from the
Mrs. Carrie Ci
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200,000 men, exclusive of officers, and time to keep the divisions from eac
this entire foree could be ‘mobilized i 1—New. ns States.
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‘army corps and an extra Aiviston by |;
‘tive of the whole Nation. Every one 25th and 23rd Congr
of the forty-eight States has contribut- |
The bulk of the Colone’s new mar-
GONSCRIPT ARMY 528,659 MEN
PLAN FOR AMERICA’S FIRST FULL
FORCE FOR FRONT.
Officers Will Be Obtained : From
Reguiar, Army, National. Guard -
and Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Washington—The War Department
for the first time announced the com-
position of the forthcoming army of
500,000 men which is to be raised by
The army will be com-
The etom-
conscription.
posed of 216 commands.
position follows:
16 infantry divisions of 913 officers
and 27,245 men each.
16 divisional hospitals, of 24 officers
and 222 men each.
70 camp infirmaries, of 2 men each.
2 cavalry divisions of 607 officers
and 16,021 men each.
2 divisional hospitals of 24 officers
= 228 men each.
Coast artillery corps @f 666 officers
and 20,000 men.
Medical corps of 238 officers and
1,000 men.
16 brigades of field -artillery
(heavy), 48 officers and 1,319 men
each.
8 aeroplane squadrons of 10 officers
and 154 men each.
8 balloon companies of 19 officers’
and 154 men each.
10 field hospitals of © officers and
73 men each.
10 ambulance companies of & offi-
cers and 150 men each.
22 field bakeries of 1 officer and 67
men each.
6 signal battalions of 10 officers and
215 men each.
16 pack companies of 14 men each.
6 ammunition trains of 4 officers and
825 men each.
6 supply trains (number of men not
given).
Grand total—18,538 officers and 528,-
659 men.
The 28,659 men in excess of the
500,000 represent the number of non-
commissioned officers toc be in the
army. These, as well as the 18,638
officers are to be obtained from the
regular army, the national guard and
the officers reserve corps, and are to
be in addition to the 500,000 enlisted
men.
The department, also announced that
the nation had been divided into 16
military districts, each of which will.
have to bear its share of the burden |
of raising the army under the .con-
scription measure.
tricts will thereafter be required to
at full war strength. The distrieta
follow:
the 10th, 11th, 14t
ssi
of Pennsylvania. “4.— Remainder.
Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh. 5.—New Jersey, Dela-
ware, Maryland, District of Columbia
and - Virginia. 6.—North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee.. 7.—
Georgia, Alabama, Florida. 8.—Ohio
and West Virginia. 9-—Indiana and
Kentucky. 10.—Ilinois. 11.—Michi-
gan and Wisconsin. 12.—Arkansas,
Migsissippi and Louisiana. 13.—Min-
nesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South
Dakota and Nebraska. -14.—Missouri,
Kansas and Colorado. 15.—Oklahoma
and Texas. 16.—Montana, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon, California, Ne:
vada, Utah, Wyoming, ‘Arizona and
New Mexico. ik >
CANADA TO CUT WHEAT PRICE
Announcement Made at Ottawa of
Joint Movement.
Ottawa.—Announcement was made
in Parliament by Sir Thomas White,
the minister of finance, that plans are
under way for joint action by Canada
and the United States to reduce the
price of wheat.
Chicago.—The highest prices ever
paid for a car of cash wheat on the
Chicago market was realized when a
city miller paid $3.14 a bushel for one
car of Turkey No. 2, Hard on track.
AAA AAAS SASS SSIS INS SSI
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS
EEN
The British by successive - blows are
tightening their grip on the village
of Bullecourt, which lies in the orig-|. °
inal Hindenburg line south of the
Arras-Cambrai road and due east of
Croisilles. This is the front held by
the Australians.
General Gurko, Russian commander
on the western front, issued an or-
der declaring that the fraternizing
of Russian with enemy troops must
be stopped. . This will stop the Teu-
tom spy ruse to get information.
A school for Americans seeking com-
missions in the French army was
opened in France.
Austrian detachments were repulsed
with heavy loss in an attack on
advance Italian lines on Dosso Faitl
on the Carso front, says the italian
War Office statement. Italian artil-
lery caused a big explosion on the
slopes of Mont Seluggio, in the
Astico basin.
Lord Devonport, Foed Controller for
Great Britain, considered as a model
the Hoover scheme of organization
in the work of Belgian: relief in the
event the rationing of the United
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FRENCH MASTERS
OF AISNE HEIGHTS
Occupy All but Small Section of
6,100 PRISONERS CAPTURED
e
Germans’ Efforts Everywhere Broken
against the French north of the Aisne
and in the Champagne. Shattered and
‘everywhere.
en cannon have. been taken by the
ailes separate Nivelle’s troops from
8 persed, being thrown back
The separate dis-|-
our gains.” : a
‘has made the French the masters of
jathing themselves in the breach they
Chemin des Dames, Despite
Heavy Enemy Attacks.
ss.
Down and Forces Dispersed, General
Reports—W ith Enemy Exhausted.
He Is to Resume Drive.
London—Waves upon waves of
German storming columns were flung
beaten they floated back in thin lines
Those who were not cut, to pieces
by the hurricane of shells from the
French barrier fire leapt on to grapple
the poilus man to man. They ran into
@ esome picket net of bayonets and
sealed their heroism with death.
The victory belonged to the Repub-
lic’'s soldiers. It was the third day
to be crowned with absolute victory,
not an inch of the ground conquered
by the French lines was wrested from
them.
‘When the dusk settled upon the
battlefield Gen. Nivelle was victor in
the greatest battle of the year, on a
front of 18 miles. Another thousand
prisonera were added to the captures,
the total announced being 6,800. Sev-
victors. ; ®
France hailed Petain, savior of Ver-
dun, as the “man of the hour,” who
has begun this deliverence of the Re-
public’s soil from the invader.
Now that the Germans orce more
have exhausted themselves in vain
counter thrusts, he is expected to re-
sume his drive on Laon. Only 12
that keypoint in the Hindenburg line.
Under Petain’s new plan, it seems,
there is to bé no let-up.
“Everywhere,” says the official re-
port from Paris, “the enemy’s efforts
were broki en down and his forces dis-
or at the point of the
We have fully. maintained
¥ Consolidation of the sraund won
2 ridge crowned by the
§ “which ‘the military “writers
rank only second to the Baitle of the
‘Marne, in importance. ..
' The British are successfully main-
ve made in the Hindenburg line
near Bufiécourt.
- Russian troops, in a new aggres-
sive against the Germans in the
Kovel district, have blown up a num-
bér- of German munition storehouses
in a furious cannonade.
PASS MODIFIED SPY BILL
Question of Guilt ie to Be Decided by
Jury.
Washitigton ~ Win most ot its teeth
drawn, the espionage bill was passed
by the House.
- The censorship section of the Ad-
~ministration’s bill, modified so that
publishers must follow directions from
the President on the character of news
and criticisms that may be published,
but leaving the question of guilt: to
juries to decide, was passed by the
House, 260 to 105.
The original censorship section had
been stricken from the bill by a vote
of 220 to 167 and the anti-censorship
members had left the chamber ac-
claiming a victory, when the modified
substitute measure was introduced by
Representative Gard, Ohio, and passed.
Charges of bad faith against the rep-
resentatives who pushed through the
substitute while the antis were out
were made by Representative Graham,
Pennsylvania, leader of the fight
agaipst the President’s measure. He
sald that Representative Gard had vio-
lated a gentlemen’s agreement in tak-
ing advantage of the absence of mem-
bers. But the action of the House
stood, and the substitute, it was said,
was acceptable to the President. -
TEAR-GAS AMERICAN IDEA
Dr. Wood, of Johns Hopkins, Sent
Formula to Paris. .
‘Baltimore.—It became known kere
that the lachrymose or tear gas used
by the Allies is the invention of Dr.
Robert W. Wood, professor of experi-
mental physics at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity. Professor Wood sent sent
the formula for it to a friend, Pro-
fessor Cotton, in Paris; and it was
turned oyer to the Fench War Oe-
partment. -Dr. Wood is a member
of the Naval Consulting Board.
ADVOCATES SENDING TROOPS
Army and Navy Journal Changes Re:
garding Expeditionary Force.
Washington.-——An editorial im the
Army and Navy Journal says:
“It might be well to send some of
our partially trained soldiers abroad,
where they could secure in the short-
est space of time the intensified train-
o fit them to meet the conditions
rn warfare.”
circles there has
rent of feeling aj
edition: Y at O1
U. S. LABOR ARMY FOR FRANGE
WAR DEPARTMENT TO SEND $
REGIMENTS OF ENGINEERS.
To Fly Engineer Corg. Pennants, But
Not to Be Part of Or
ganization.
Washington—Nine new regiments
of army engineers, to be composed
exclusively of highly trained railway
men, will be the first American troops
to be sent to Europe. They will go
“at the earliest possible moment,” the
War Department announced, for work
4 on communication lines, but specula-
tion as to exactly when or to what
points they will be sent is forbidden
because of the submarine menace.
The new forces will be volunteers,
raised at the nine great railway
centres of the country. Each regi-
ment will be commanded by an engi-
neer Colonel of the regular army, aid-
ed by an adjutant. All other officers
will be railway engineers or officials.
Subway Engineers to Go.
The expedition will have a total
strength of betweeft 11,000 and 12,
000 men, each regiment being com-
posed of two battalions of three com-
panies each. Every branch of rail
way workers necessary to the build-
ing or operation of lines will be repre
sented in the ranks. The officers will
be made up largely of trained tech:
nical men, but such training will not
be so rigidly required of the enlisted
personnel, it is understood. New
York’s regiment, according to reports
will have in it many of the engineers
who have been employed in subway
work and similar undertakings there.
Railroad copstruection will be the
main task of ‘the contigent from
America. Rails will be shipped from
this country as well .as a great part
of the rolling stock. The output of
American locomotive plants and car
factories will be diverted to a great
extent to France and in some cases
existing rolling stock will be taken
over by agreement with the owning
railroads and shipped abroad.
New York Unit Forming.
New York City will have one of the
nine central recruiting stations. Ma.
jor William Barclay Parsons several
weeks ago was assigned to the regi-
ment which is being raised in New
York and it is- understood here that
the organization of the New York unit
is almost complete.
The announcement of the War De-
partment follows:
‘The War Department has sent out
orders for raising as rapidly ‘as pos-
sible nine additional regiments of en-
gineers, which are destined to pro-
ceed to France at the earliest pos-
o- | sible moment for work on the lines
no speculation. or rumors be carried
by the newspapers other ‘than given
out by the War Department. The
details regarding the force will be
released by the Department as fast
as compatible with the best public
interests.
These regiments will have as their
central recruiting points the follow-
ing cities: New York, St. Louis,
Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, |"
Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadel:
phia. -
The nine regiments first to go to
France will be organized under the
national defense act, which aliows the
President in time of emergency to
call for the formation of special units.
Unions’ Aid Is Expected.
Recruiting for the regiments and
the organization of each force will
be directly under the Colonel of each
regiment. Recruiting machinery of
the regular service or the National
Guard will be placed at their service
and it is hoped the enrollment of the
troops will take little time. Officials
believe the great . railroad brother-
hoods will co-operate, throwing the
strength of the unions behind the
recruiting efforts. The railway com-
panies already are so organized under
the Council of National Defense that
their co-operation is assured. The en-
gineers and officials of the lines who
offer themselves will be selected in
such manner as not to cripple the
operating forces of any company.
APSA NI PP PPPS ANI NIP PINS
WORLD’S NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM
RIO DE JANEIRO.—According to
an interview with the new Foreign
Minister, Brazil will put the entire re
sources of the country at the disposi
tion of the United States.
WASHINGTON.—Mr. Lansing, Se
cretary of State, announced that all
official comment on foreign news in
the State Department was barred ta
American newspapers. .
NEW YORK.—Two novices in the
army aviation camp at Mineola, L. I,
took up a giant aeroplane without per:
mission and after plunging about in
the air for half an hour dived to
death.
PETROGRAD.— Workingmen and
soldiers in Russia received the report
of its executive counsel and loudly ac-
claimed the statement that the govern-
ment is worthy of the people's trust.
WASHINGTON. — Clearing misap-
prehension following the statement of
W. L. Saunders, chairman of the
Naval Consulting Board, Lawrence
Add of the Special Navy Prob-
g tests were
evice to destroy U-Boats.
officer res
nested ot" ‘the press that
Committee of the Board, sald | §75
being made |
YORK.—Enrollm 8 in the |
KEYSTONE BRIEFS
Knights of Malta are holding their
twenty-fifth annual convention in
Pittsburgh.
Many cities and towns throughout
the state are forbidding the sale or
use of fireworks.
Bishop J. L. McCloskey, consecrated
for a Philippine see in Philadelphia,
is a native of that city.
Automobile accidents resulted in
10 deaths in Allegheny county in
April. >
Judge Joseph Buffington of the
United States court, looks for a pro-
tracted war, according to an address
he has delivered. .
Fred C. Hanyonof Scranton, has
been elected for the third time as
grand treasurer of the I. 0.°0. F. of
Pennsylvania.
Levi Smith, 76, the millionaire oil
refiner and philantropist, died at
Elkhart, Ind., while en route to his
home in Warrefi, Pa.
Automobiles and light motor trucks
have been used to plow for spring
crops in Greensburg owing to scarc-
ity of teams.
Bethlehem Steel Works has con-
tracts for 4,800 small cannon for the
United Stafes ranging in size from
three to six inches in diameter.
Thomas Reisinger, aged 28, owner
of the Reisinger Motor Car Company,
died suddenly at his home in Union-
town.
Harbor Creek, 12 miles east of Erie,
was threatened with destruction when
fire ruined the business center of the
town.
J. Lord Rigby, the new chief of
corporations under Auditor General
Snyder, used to be recorder of deeds
of Delaware county.
Howard Heinz of Pittsburgh, has
beenfappointed director of the depart-
ment of food supplies of the commit.
tee of public safety for Pennsylvania.
After |1-ceiving several threaten-
ing letters, the barber shop of Tony
Marcinelli in Trafford, was blown up
in the night by dynamite.
In a special order handed down by
Judge J. W. King, etail liquor deal-
ers in Armstrong county were direct-
ed not to sell any bottle goods.
_ Reports from all sections of the
state indicate that the acreage planted
in food crops this year will be greatly
in excess of former years.
J. Denny O'Neil, state insurance
commissioner, has been appointed re-
cetyer for the Pittsburgh Life and
Trust Company, wrecked by New
York speculators, it is alleged.
Dr. John Royal Harris, pastor of
the Shady Avenue Baptist church,
Pittsburgh, has been appointed super-
intendent of the Dry Federation of
Pennsylvania.
H. H. Althouse, who is to make the
investigation of grade “crossings in
‘Reading for the civic authorities of
that place, used to be «hlef engineer
for the Erie railroad.
Two men are dead and a third is
suffering from wounds as the result
of a shooting affray during a card
game in the home of Joe Rabino in .
Ellwood City.
The Public Safety Committee of
Uniontown announces that it will
have on sale a carload of seed pota-
toes to be supplied to such farmers
as have not money -to buy seed.
Notes of the farmers will be taken.
The Supreme Court in Philadelphia
has reversed the Fayette county court
in appointing receivers for Josiah V.
Thompson of Uniontown: The case
now stands the same as before the
proceedings for a receiver began.
Director of Safety William E. Wil-
son, of Philadelphia, says that men
who do not work should be arrested
and has issued orders to round up
tramps.
The Connellsville Women’s Suffrage
party will aid in garden production
by giving 1,000 tomato plants and 1,000
cabbage plants free to girls of 13 and
over, who form garden clubs. Prizes
will be awarded for the largest crops.
Pennsylvania railroad shopmen at
Altoona say they will declare a boy-
cott on the barber shops, which have
recently increased the price of hair
cutting to 35 cents and shaves to 16
cents.
The 20 girls of the domestic
science class of Irwin High school
are going in for gardening in a
wholesale way. The school board
has secured several acres near the
building and had the ground pre-
pared for planting. The tract will
be called the “Irwin War Garden,”
and will be worked by the girls en-
tirely. Corn and beans will be grown
and canned by the girls, the depart
ment to furnish the canning utensils.
Mayor Charles E. Rhodes, of Al-
toona, has received a check for $1,000
from Benjamin Cohn, a lpcal business
man, to be used for the purchase of
seed potatoes for those who are culti-
vating gardens but who cannot afford
ta pay the prevailing prices. The seed
potatoes are to be loaned to the re-
cipients, who are to return them after
harvesting their crops. The returned
potatoes are then to be turned over to
the Sunshine societies to be distri-
buted among the poor during the win-
ter.
Two children of John Steiner, a
farmer living near Bloomsburg, were
burned to death when their home was
burned. The father had called the
children when he discovered the fire,
but they went back to bed. The other
members of the family saved them-
selves by jumping from windows.
A petition asking for the.court’s ap-
proval of a deal involving more than
acres of coal lands and over
)0 was presented in court at
1 by Attorney E. C. Higbee
f a receiver.
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