THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA. CHER. galt FoaNELS AID WANTS INSURANCE LODGE TO GET INTO FIGHTING ACT IS FAVORED Passage of Crow Bill Now Looks Gertain, WOULD AFFECT THOUSANDS | State Supervision Insurance Department Seeks Over All and Non-Religious Fraternal Insur. Non-Secret ance Societies. Harrisburg, Pa. May 29.—It look: as if the Crow fraternal benefit soci- eties bill will go through both branch- es of the legislature and become a law by signature of the governor. Though a strong effort has been made to kill this measure. or, at least, remave i's tceth, the prob-bility now is that al sueh attempts will meet with failvr-. ! The bi'l is scheduled to pass within , the next ten days. ! Affe ting as it does the thoucanis of mcmbers of fraternal non-secret Photo b+ American Press Association. { lodges throughout Pennsylvania, no LIEUTENANT M'CANDLESS. Lieutenant Byron McCandless ob- lature seems to carry with it more im- Jects to department duty in Washing- pertance than this me-sure Introduced i nat he |! Eon when United States destroyers are In the session by Serator Crow at the | instance of the state department cf rsronce, This bill is desioned to provide a - I spec’de/ method for the cparation of — —————— i societies workine throvgh lodse sy=- HOUSE PASSES BIG | tem and fixing a plan of operation so WAR REVENUE MEASURE | 2! all such societies can absolutely carry out every contract. It was dr~ft- Bill Ibnposes Taxes Aggregating $1, In action in the North sea and has ap- wlied for active duty. He formerly | was on a destroyer. | ed by a committee of the national con- .880,000,000—Vote Is 309 to 76. | venticn of insurance commissioners ty { conjunction with a committee of the i oy : ny | national fraternal congress of the Un't- The war revenue bill has been ed States, to which association practi- bassed br the house. The vote on final {cally every recognized fraternal soci- passage of the bill was 309 to 76; | oty is a member. A number of repre- Ioresent, 4. | sentative fraternal societies of Penn- The bill purposes raising approxi- | sylvania have also given it their in- mately $1,800,000,000 of revenue from dorsement. gaxation. The proposed law requires all fra- Democrats headed by Speaker Clark | tern1 insurance organizations to be :and Floor Leader Kitchin voted solid- | under the direct supervision of the Xy for the bill. Republican Leader | state insurance department, provides Mann was among those voting nay. a new and comprehensive method of The Doremus amendment exempt- organizing new societies, and .reruires ing from the 5 per cent automobile | that all societies shall gradually ad Kax the companies making less than 8 | just their rates on a table of mortality wer cent of their capital actually in- | which has been adopted by the natio=. Wested was eliminated from the bill | al fraternal’ conzress itself. This is Dy a vote of 174 to 233. not required to be dene at once, bu i rrovosed act before the present legis- | The Lenroot income tax amend- ment, retained by the house, makes an increase of 25 per cent in all sur- Taxes on incomes over $40,000, origin- sally written into the bill by the ways snd means committee. The second class mail rate increase Wroposal was adopted by a vote of 256 to 150. The 5 per cent tax on billboard, street car and other advertising than mewspaper and magazine were struck <9ut on Mr. Kitchin’s motion. He said ithe raised price on second class mail “would tax the advertisers sufficiently. Mr. Fitzgerald of New York succeed- each society is given a period of time within which to accomplish this, a cer- tain percentage of improvement being required each year until solvency Is obtained. No Supervision Now. The present laws applicable to fra- ternal societies give the state insur- ance department no supervision what. ever over them. Any five persons can apply to the court and obtain a char- ter which will enable them to operate without supervision from the depart- ment here, or societies from other states con. bv me-elv annlying for reg istration transact business in the sed in amending the bill 'to make in- | State withont sune-vi-ion. ; « content to have the coal taxed for two years, because of the present® scarcity of marines and nine regiments of ;-°f the product and the probability that engineers have been France, and that 10,000 doctors and enany nurses have been ordered to England, hundreds of these having al- weady arrived. Submarine Loss Figures. | U-boat warfare has cost the allies | snd neutrals 2,000 000 tons of shipping rom Jan. 1 to May 1, 1817, or nearly :a million tons 1 ti 1 whole year of 191¢ mated dm opening debate ir th nber of sdeputies on thc subizarii 133ticn. ordered to i the present record prices will continue for that period. The senate last week passed the house bill amending the judges retire. ment act so as to provide that any | judge of the supreme or superior court who has served twenty years shall b- entitled to receive the benfits of the act whether his services are contingm- ious or not and extending the act to TORNADO TOLL MAY PASS 300 Parts of Seven States Swept by Devastating Wind ten. CENTRAL ILLINOIS HIT HARD Ruin Left In Indiana, Kentucky, Ala. bama, Tennessee, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. Partial restoration of communica- tion lines in the seven states that were struck by tornadoes brought additional reports of death and de- struction. Latest returns from the storm-swept sections indicated that the total deaths might number 300. | would not exceed $5,000,000. states follow: [llicis, 95; Indiana, 12; | Kansas, 26; Kentucky, 45; Missouri, 1; Tennessee, 22; Alabama, 31; Ar | kansas, 23. Taking up the task of recovering the i dead, nursing 'the injured and hous- ing and feeding the homeless, Mat- | toon and Charleston, swept by a tor- | nado that took a toll of more than i 100 lives in central Illinois and north- western Indiana, has established sys- tematic methods of relief. Mattoon has forty-seven: known | dead, with a score of persons missing ! and 500 injured, some of whom may died, in the devastation of 140 blocks the north part of the city. The wind razed 496 houses and partly destroyed 146 more, rendering 2,000 persons homeless. These are sheltered with friends, in public buildings and in a tented refuge in a park. Charleston, ten miles east of Mat- toon, with 5,000 population, suffered a larger loss in proportion to its size than Mattoon, the known dead total- ing thirty-seven, with twenty or more missing. Scores were injured in buildings were wrecked, including the Maple hotel, two railroad stations, three grain elevators and a lumber yard. The twisting wind chose its victims in spots and reports from the rural regions indicate that small loss of life occurred outside Mattoon and Charles- | ton and only at widely separated places. Kansas Towns Hit. At least fifteen persons were killed and fifty injured late Friday when a tornado struck Andale, Kan., fifteen miles northwest of Wichita, Kan. Of the fifty injured the condition of at least six appeared hopeless. The property damage was large. Andale has a population of 237. Reports of two other tornadoes stat- ed a number of persons had been | killed between Peabody and Florence and south of Newton. This district | is northeast of Andale, where the first storm struck. : GOETHALS’ PLAN STIRS ROW Vessel Condemnation. The row between General Goethals and the United States shipping board which has been smouldering since the general came to Washington to super- vise the shipping board’s construction program, has burst in a regular con- flagration. Publication of the statement of General Goethals in New York that the wooden ship scheme of the board was “hopeless” and impossible has aroused the indignation of members of the shipping board, particularly Chairman Denman, whose pet project has been the construction of wooden ships to supplement the tonnage that might be obtained from the construe- tion of steel ships. An interesting sidelight on the mat- ter was revealed when Chairman Fitz gerald of the house appropriation committee told the house he had been infcrmed by Chairman Denman of the shipping board that not more than 150 or 200 of the merchant fleet to be constiucted ¥-v’d be of wood and | that all the, oth=rs would be steel. | PICK OF MARINES TO GO Best Men Will Serve at Front Under Colonel Doyen. Only the finest of the U. S. marine : corps will make up the first 2,600 “sol- diers of the sea” who will take their : places by the side of General John J. i Pershing’s forces on the battle line in France. Officers for the force to be com- manded by Colonel Charles A. Doyen : were being picked by Major General Barnett, commandant of the marine i corps. The enlisted units will be chosen from among the veterans of the service. Death’s War Toll Huge. Men killed in the war thus far was estimated at 7,000,000 by Arthur Hen- derson, member of the British war council, in an address. He esti- mated the total casualties of the war to be in excess of the population of the United Kingdom. (The population of the United Kingdom, according to the census of 1911, was 45,370,530). Asquith Declines to Act. Herbert H Asquith, former premier ! common pleas and orphans’ court Jude- es who have served continuously for | twenty years and have reached the ace of gixty-five years. | of England, has declined to accept an Property damage, it was believed, | The latest estimate of deaths by of homes occupied by workingmen in | Charleston also, and some business | Shipping Board Roused by Wooden | HUNGARIAN PREMIER WHOSE CABINET QUITS Photo by American Press Association. COUNT STEPHEN TISZA. Count Tisza’s ministry has resigned, according to Budapest dispatches. , There have been frequent rumors of ' late of friction in the Hungarian cabi- net, responding to the unrest in Hun- gary and progress of the peace move- ment. Count Tisza has been privy councilor and president of the council, as the Hungarian cabiret is called, since 1913. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAS A big squadron of German airplanes —estimated at sixteen—carried out : the most murderous bombing raid of the war on towns on the English | southeast coast. German bombs killed | i seventy-six persons, of whom twenty- six were women ‘and twenty-three | children, and wounded 174, of whom forty-three were women and nineteen children. British aviators made after the Ger- | mans when they flew back after doing ! their work and brought down three machines after a pitched battle thou- sands of feet above the English chan- nel. No British machine was brought down. Italian forces broke through the Austro-Hungarian lines from Casta: gnavizza to the sea, taking more than 10,500 prisoners, says the official sta.e- ment issued by the Italian war de- partment. The new drive is a direct menace to Trieste, from which General Cardona’s troops are now less than ten miles distant. The route lies along the Carso plateau and the advance of the Iial- ! ians over this difficult ground was sur- prising in its rapidity. ; Italy reports having taken 24,000 Austrians since the offensive began while Vienna says 13,000 Italians have been captured. Savage see-saw fighting took place in the west during the last few days. The French have registered an important local gain some twelve miles” southeast of Laon. The Prit- ish frustrated all Teuton attempts to regain lost ground. The Germans as- serted. they repelled all entente at- tacks. . Petain’s new gain was made near the Rheims-Laon railway in the south- eastern part of Chevreux wood. De- spite stubborn Teuton resistance the French made a substantial advance. Numerous Teuton bodies were found in the battered shelters. The Berlin war office admits that the British penetrated the Teuton first line near Loos, but asserts they were driven out again by a counter attack. Ten allied airplanes were “bagged” by German flyers, the statement says. The British transport Transylvania was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on May 4 with the loss of 413 persons. Official announcement was made by the French ministry of marine tha: the French liner Sontay, bound from Salonika to Marseilles, had been tor- pedoed and sunk on April 16 with a loss of forty-five lives. The Sontay was a vessel of 7,247 tons. “We dealt more effective blows at the submarine menace during the past three weeks than during any corre- sponding period,” declared Premier Lloyd George in the house of com- mons. “Our ship losses for May,” he added, “probably will be under those for April. “We are making satisfactory prog- ress.” The premier paid eloquent tribute to the work of the American destroy ers in the patrol fleet. WAITE ELECTROCUTED Slayer of Wealthy Father-In-Law Is Put to Death. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, convict- ed of the death of his wealthy father. in-law, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was put to death in the ‘electric chair in Sing ng prison Thursday night. Waite was coal to the last. He had recently been reading philosophy and had accepted the doctrine of reincar- nation. | | bers were disturbed by the frantic ring- | i i the “all out” signal was sounded. | cer, after a brief survey of the damage | owe you bu‘ $4,500. If. however, the ' loss had been total we would have had ! policy. This offer of the appointment as chairman : of the proposed Irish convention, ae- cording to the Nation. Waite’ mothe: cond: G ;. %OITY Over he: son's fate. | { i | YOUR FIRE POLICY. Have You Read it Carefully? Do You Understand Its Terms? | William Hardwick, Melville's leading grocer, was a man of forethought. He , carried fire insurance both on his store and his residence. The policy applying | to his store he kept in his house and that applying to his house and its con- tents he kept in his safe at the store. Thus in the event of a fire in either property the policy applying to it would escape the flames. One night William Hardwick's slum- ing of the telephone. “Come right downtown,” urged an excited voice. “Your store’s going up in smoke.” When Hardwick arrived the fire was under control, and fifteen minutes later *1 should worry,” reflected the gro- done. “There's about $6,000 worth of stock destroyed. And, as it happens, 1 carry just $6,000 worth of insurance.” And, leaving one of his clerks to watch the premises. Hardwick went back to bed. “Now, then, Mr. Hardwick.” said the adjuster two days later, “my estimate agreesg with yours. Six thousand dol- lars covers ll the damage done. That means that we owe you $4,500.” “What's that?’ demanded Hardwick, indignantly. “You owe me $4,500? What bunco game is this? Why don't you owe me $6,000, the face of my pol- icy?" “Because of the 80 per cent co-insur- ance clause,” explained the adjuster, and be indicated a paragraph in the policy which the grocer had so care- fully guarded. “This clause provides that we shall be‘ liable for no greater proportion of the loss than the sum insured bears to PROFESSIONAL CARDS. FIRE, AUTOMOBILE, COMPENSATION AND PLATE GLASS INSURANSGE W. » ©00K & SOR Meyersdale, Ps. W. CURTIS TRUXAL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, SOMERSET, PA. Prompt attention given to all legal business. WANTED—OId papers, magazines, rubbers and shoes. J. D. DONER, 12-16 2i0 Grant 8t. Vetenarian S. P. Fritz, veteaar:an, castradag a speciality. P. O. Address, Plas Hill, Pa. Economy Phone, Gumbert store, 321 & 309 North Street Joseph L. Tressler Faneral Director and Embalmer Meyersdale, Penna. Office : 229 Center Mree Both Phones. Residence: Economy Phone. 80 per cent of the cash value of the property ‘insured. Your stock is. or was, worth $10,000. Had you carried $8.000 insurance we would have paid you your loss in full—that is, up to $8,000. But as it is, 1 repeat that we to pay you $6,000, the amount of your misunderstanding has arisen, Mr. Hardwick, merely because you have never taken the time to thor- oughly read aiid adjust.your policy. “Your carelessness in this regard has cost you $1,600, Mr. Hardwick. I am sincerely sorry for this, but fail to see that you have any one but yourself to blame.”—H. J. Barrett in New York World. No Time to Read. “Pause, O youth or maiden,” wrote Andrew Lang, “before you accustom your lips to this fatal formula : ‘I have: no time to read.” You have all the time which for you exists, and it is Baltimore & Ohio RAILROAD SPRING TOURS TO WASHINGTON AND 5 BALTIMORE MARGH 3! AND JUNE 7 $6.45 ROUND TRIP FROM MEYERSDALE Tickets valid for all refular trains and good returning 10 days including date of sale. Tickets including 5 days board in Washing ton, side trips, etc., may be secured (upon payment of $20.50 addivional. SECURE FULL INFORMATION FROM TICKET AGENT abundant. What are you doing with it —with your leisure? Mainly gossiping. Our modern malady is gregariousness. We must be in company chattering. “To be always with others, always gregarious, always chattering, like monkeys in treetops, is our ruling vice, and this is the reason why we have no time to read and why you see so many people pass their leisure when alone in whistling or whittling. They have time to whittle.” Profitable Writing. “My writings bring in a lot of money every month.” . “That so? 1 didn’t know you were an author.” “I'm not. I'm the man that makes out the bills for our firm.”—Detroit Free Press. Trials of Authors. “You do not know,” Saint-Beuve wrote to George Sand, “what it is to remain a whole day with your head in your hands, squeezing your unfortu nate brain to find a word.” Silent Haroes. “Father,” asked Tommy, “what are Driving It Homel Let us drive home to you the fact that no washwo- man can wash clothes in as sanitary a manner as that in which the work is dene at our laundry. We use much more water, change the water many more times, use purer and more costly soap, and keep all the clothes in constant motion during the entire process. It is simply a matter of having proper facilities. Meyersdale steam Laundry ‘silent heroes? “Married men, my boy,” replied the father.—London Telegraph. We like to give in the sunlight, to re- ceive in the dark. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA 8 Worleshop their auick The constant strain of factory work very often results in Headaches, Backaches and other Aches, and also weak- ens the Nerves. DR. 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Houses Bu i The agr confiscatio and other archy whi of the old : industrial tricts of c¢ are becom to dispatcl Bessarabia In many tees, by t gucceeded in restrain lation tow. ton and a others, ho ing restra and appro] vate prope anarchy Dp GUAF General Ci Exem Member: tional gua register o scription.l Judge A the army of the law exempt fi strues the been orde: August m in the fe wnnecessa SCORE 133 Repor Forty-ei five memb ish steam lieved to | the sinkin A disp: Telegram of which reports th dispatch second off minutes. Asser The Pr in Dallas, a resoluti suffrage.