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rJi AH La) Li nvo 131 vs H)3 STREET CAR, OiUODVAUIO New CetrUJ Art Rca Dtwa fey TcrJ com f4 aaeUMS i Mf4 ie ef1 eteii tf etMKle alb a M4 oa e4 oatrl I 4nt tta I W4Wli la i bar. kxxfc af taiWfta4, ia ik Hrtiirg ohuI imc14 (iir ii rlie tea Heavy aW. es4 a4 marriad. ee4 ac4 IV. Wxa of New CafttWfUal Tr ete a lae at laejr The tmUmt wrr4 hanJjr ftr I rUck IhU fl4M.

A Kr4 ri.r uh track fe4r. aa4 r.4r. at inul fmxrwr. Hoath iff. aa4 lnta KJUa Hrr, urr.

irl. rriipi Uraac tMawtuiuh. uh. U44ta aaoa lb Whil uatrCag aonh la Mar ku muar. rrsMtnc Mtki rl.

tha radlua bar cauthl la lb aiar apparatua a4 lha machinv lJwl arro ih airaat toaard tha ldalh. uruik ffhoak and un41nc In front of tha brick and ratnnt Ming abova tha antranc to lb omro'a comfort aiatlon. and than hit tha abmmant ltlf. taatiita' aay a Urga atction of lht rn ita coplag and part of tha matal Uyt. Both Barr and hambauch rpcd without Iniurlaa.

but tha machlna badly dmaed. No arraata ha baan m0a. but pollc ara making an Investigation. Thrra la a kign. "No Loafing." within a fr frt of where the two mm who were atruck ware (landing.

Reprimands Promised Waalilngton. Keb. 17 (A.P.) Mijora 11. H. Arnold and H.

A. Iargue. Army Air Service, have been found renponaible for "objectionable" actlvltiea In attempting to influence air aervlce legislation and will be reprimanded. Measurements "Tou tell LndV "Br tbr Irani "How about thl. vmp property? "By the top ration." From tb Lout.

Till Coun.r Jourual. ALCOHOL BILL CONCURRED IN; GOES TO P1NCH0T Senate Approves House Amendments Which May Cover Breweries breweries as well as distillerie were concurred in by the Sta1 Senate early this afternoon by vote of 29 to 12. The session the Senate, was held op an ho, in the hope of reaching Senato W. C. Freeman, Lebanon; F.

If A 1 A.1 (Continued on Page If) For the first time In many months the calendar of the State Board of Pardons was Interfered with by death. Just before the board met a telegram was received Joseph Balqsr, alias Peachie. fentenced to death for first degree murder in had died last night Baker was doomed tb die In the electric chair March 1 unless the board commuted his sentence and tha application waa to. have been argued this afternoon. The case of Thomas Legina, Philadelphia, sentenced to dlo tha same day.

hi listed for hearing i day. It Is from that of Baker. i ed officially. TEN YEARS TELEGRAPH CtCVDY FACES NON SUP1POKT CHARGE AFT xevi 4 paces See ee ii ii 11 Massing of the Ailing SEE MIRACLES tf 17. (A.

A How of hTfuI ltient aero the border to the Xueto Laredo Cemetery for "dtiine healing" at the ramp the four krtir hairrJ Yuotefai In lun tai Urn cheeked by the au. Mexican covernment The elict iuca by Mexican health authoritiei a a protective meaure agaimt introduction of eriou di eae araonjj the congresatuw $: tvmr mvriad paticnti. 4 bjr lUer aad 4 r.rrtxt The 4lvM Jr. Better Bosiness Forecast Xcw York. 17 (A.P.) Preeent Indication! point to better bualneaa.

In li: than last year. Richard B. Mellon, president of tha Mellon National Bank. Pitta burgh, on hla departure for Europe to day said. Fundamental conditions are sound NAT.IE J.

STrHTH CITY FORESTER; SALARY $3,000 New Official Graduate of University of Michigan Hause amendments to ths Sny Henderson Gilbert, president of der alcohol control bill, which i the Shade Tree Commission, an some say will give the State Ad nounced the appointment day of ministration broader powers over jonn smith. 853 Walnut street. amp Hill, as city forester, to take March An annual salary i S3.000 is provided In the budget the position. He is a graduate Michigan State College, 1910, ad for five years has been doing vork on trees for private ludividu get ttem here to vote tor the bill.Mr Smlth hv mre enoughl rate business conducted under 7 I other supervision In order to de There was no debate on the TOte his entire time to his work in amendments. When laid before the! the city.

Senate Chairman P. W. Snyder, "New Messiah" Prepares to Visit Occident 4mmi4 ir. A DISPATCH to Um DMlf Esprwt tnm KaracU. laSV mr IWI Dr.

AaM DMt. pttUmt lW T. mi ltd Sadttr, viaitkiff KaymU, mm awrii tiMtl tlaa wQ aail far Eailaaa I4ay accaaa rirfii ay J. riiifcnmiiTti. i)m "aaw aiTiifih TO FLASH NEWS OF DAUGHTER'S SUCCESS Fatlier of Year OId Girl Takw His First Vacation in Years to Sec Child Operatic Debut .4 rime to Lare4 frI dyi aga.

as became the father of their headQtfartert Jttit Uld future prima donna. Ill aead hi aeta Laredo rcneterr. where proudeel tn i to nuht. i Char! M. Taller, father of Marten long lloei of pereoBt itaa4 awai It.

ki. log Ihrlr tnra for jeocUted Irea wire running out of Among the pattfata. which number 'the Metropolitan Opera tlouae. upward of I.0H. r.mar crip 1" plet.

paralytica, hllad and deaf i from both ildei of the Rio Orandt. Although tha Indiana charge no I tea for their atlaiatratioaa, tkey will accept food and clothing. Their religion la not known hera, but they aik all who ack to he healed It they bellere 'ln Dloa (Cod) and tlat God can cure them of their They refnia lo treat tboaa who do not believe In God. Mlraculoua cures bare been reported aa tha reeult of tha touch 'of the "divine healer." No specific curee. however, have been confirm charge was filed.

GRIEF FOR SON KILLS rhen WIFE, HEWED, IS 175T7 RESIDZtiT OF HILLERSBURG Cluriei W. Beiiel, Hui btnd, Located ia CleTe laid Sought for more than ten years by hla former wife whom he Is alleged to have desrtd with their three children, Charles W. Belsel, Cleveland contractor, formerly of Hurrlahurr. was locittd in the Ohio city and arrested recently on charge of failing to support a daughter. Confronted with extradition papers by James G.

Hatx, counsel for his former wife, Mrs. Elmer 0. Lark, Mlllersburg. R. D.

1, Belsel agreed upon terms of settlement rather than come to Harrisburg. Judge 'Hargeat approved the agreement to day. $500 For Daughter The contractor wU pay $500 in cash tor the maintenance of his sixteen year old daughter, Myrtle E. Belsel, and 11,000 at the rate of $5 a week. Mr.

Hatz said he agreed also to advance S125 toward the cost of the prosecution. Mary Belsel, another daughter, died since he left and Margaret E. Belsel, the third child, is now of age and teaching school. Went to Colorado Belsel, according to 'Mr. Hatz, left his wife fifteen yars ago, going to Colorado.

He obtained a divorce there, remarried and returned to Dauphin county. Mrs. Belsel charg ed him with nonsupport before Mayor Hoverter, thu alderman in the Ninth ward, but before the case was returned to court he left and the $300 bail was forfeited and paid to his wife, the attorney said. Later she remarried and for years endeavored to trace her first husband, finally retaining Mr. Hatz to institute a thorough search.

About two months ago Belsel was located and the second nonsupport "with DYING Funeral Service Held Up Because of Wish Expressed by Woman to Be Buried in Same Grave With Husband; Boy Was Victim of Robbers Pittsburgh, Feb. 17 (A.P.) Grief over the slaying of their son. I. I Gump, victim of robbers who stole a payroll of tha Pitts. burgh Terminal Coal Company on Christmas eve.

ha caused tha death of bis father. Andrew 3. Gump and tha probable fatal 01 nasei of hi mother. Mrs. Martha M.

Gums. The father died last separate conviction Saturday and hone had been prac neatly abandoned to day for the recovery of Mrs. Gump. Funeral arrangements for Mr. Gump have been delayed several days pending the outcome of Mrs.

Gump's Illness, relatives declaring that the aged couple had expressed a desire to be buried In the came grave. A physician, who attended Mr. Gump, stated that a paralytic stroke ha suffered was caused by grief and shock over the slaying of his son. and that the mother's illness resulted from the same cauee. Formerly, an operator for.

Tha AMcUte4 fr and thea a railroad telegtapher at Kanaaa lty. Mr. Taller io nisht will Interrupt hie 0rat real vacation la nineteen years long enough to Rath lo tha world tha new a of hla ainglng "bab 'a" debut aa "tiilda" la "lligo FIRE DAMAGES 3 LOSS IS $5,000 Bhie Results Froa Soot Ifnitinf fa Cfcisney; Spreads Rapidly Fire late this afternoon caused $5,000 damage to one Steelton home and slightly damaged two adjoin' ing dwellings. The home of Mike Geienovich, 710 North Second street, near Franklin, where the fire broke out, was completely gutted on the second floor and tha entire home waa badly damaged by water. Firemen believe the fire was started when occupants of the house started a fresh fire in the furnace using soft coal.

This the firemen believe. Ignited soot in the chimney. The spread rapidly and in a few minutes the entire roof was in a mass of flames. The fire spread to adjoining dwellings, causing considerable damage to a dwelling owned and occupied by a family by the name of McDonald, and another dwelling was only slightly damaged. U.

S. SEIZES PRIZED DOLLAR Baltimore, Feb. 17 (A.P.). The Government to day is in possession of an 18 by 22 inch reproduction of a dollar bill of the Civil War period, seised from Charles W. Steckley, of Harrisburg, Pa.

Steckley recently received an offer of $3,000 for it. Secret. service agents learned of Its existence when Steckley offered it for exhibition at the Philadelphia Sesqul The Government has confiscated It under the law forbidding possession of reproduction of currency Steckley'a "father once risked his life to save, the reproduction' from a burning clubhouse in Harrisburg, where it hung, Steckley said. It was seized hut night by Bart Brat ton, secret service i agent of the Baltimore district. It been in the Steckley family since the Civil War," and the owner said he waa preparing to insure it for $10,000.

I a HdJ as Ckeck Paner JTew Tai, Feb.17. LUlIan WD soa, 11, who said ahe came here from Portland. Ore to become a novelist, was arrested to day, ac cused of passing fifteen worthless checks, i lUttKtSUt'KU. IW, WI UNtUW LVtMNU 1 1 USKt'AKV lev, tU2rt6 DftrLcj AH Prt nszs Ilb Rtctfds Heir pay ciaicits cnor Wa aUja ta ir4 ar, pkk wMao! ra 4 rtlra4 iraSv aarauU'Wt la thai iism. ara Wtsa rar4 aa), uh leaala asoaanat ta faia a l4 $s' dait lha crstkn.

Tha rath le kavtaf a auiiea ef. art la lUrrubau aad ka aar loaadoag coaaaiaalika. Ms ara Mac Ukra oa aad 4a aaveloara ara hwlgiM wtala tha uward of lwa hoar' aartka iNiajr ara gtv. lag daily. Pay ra.ka aVeragiag froa I1J to fill to waeka' work ara rrportrd." Road braka aaa ara rtca lrtag aa avaraie of fi moath aad evtlaesiea aad road actors mora tUaa fioa a mooth.

aad yard rr. aepeclally extra men. ara OUAPI big checia every pay day. Traffic far above tha totals reported daring the bcy daya of lha war ara being surpassed almost fatly In this city aad vicinity. Extra men ara receiving larger pay rhecka than regular employee for their services.

Wore: sixteen hours out of twenty four, with tha other eight for rest, la a rcumoa occur rence these busy dara. Brakemen, firemen, engineers and rlerka ar getting larger pay rhecka for the fttaent rush than ouay old timers ever dreamed of regalar pa itiona, Break Beeerd Dally Coal, livestock, perishable and all manner of freight la being received at tha Harrisburg and Knot. yards of the Pennsy'anla and tha Rutherford yards of tha Readinx dally In a never ending flow. From north, east, south and west come the big locomotives with lengthy trains, making Harri3burg and vicinity one of tha most Important railroad Junctions la the country. While pay checks are large and additional men have been added to the rosters, more freight is belug handled here daily with less men than during the war.

Records for fre'gbt shipments ara being broken almost every day. More than 8.000 cara are' received, classified and dispivthed daily in the Enola yards alciie. Between seventy live and ninety trains are leaving the yards taeie in twenty four hours for various points and a like number received. So great is the rush of freight that fifty two crews are engaged in transporting merchandise between nola and Philadelphia. Extra Official at Work While the.

transportation and clerical forces in the yard here ar busy, the motive pow.r department also is rushed repairing locomotives and cars to meet the demand for equipment. Extra officials are on duty speeding up the handling of freight, while some In Enola have been forced to work more than six months without a day's vacation. Records for car movements on the Middle Division of the Penn sylvania are far above any pre vious Yesterday more than 11,000 cars were handled over the division, and on February 8 the number waa 10,891. In order to eliminate some causes of delay, commissaries have been established at Altoona and Enola to feed the workmen. 13 ARE SAVED FROM ICY WATERS AFTER TUG IS RUN DOWN New York, Feb.

17 (A.p!). Thirteen members of the' crew, of the New York Marine tug No. 6 escaped death in the Icy, waters of East River to day, when their, ves sel was rammed and. sunk by the Fall" River. Hner New Hampshire.

Ten Of Mhe were taken to hospitals, three lit. serious condition suffering from submersion and exposure. Police launches and other tugs searched tha ice Blled waters for hours tof four men who' were believed to havebeeri lost, bat these later were located In hospitals to which, they had been taken after swimming ashore unaided. Da Voluntary bankruptcy procead i Ings were filed to day by Walter W. Houser, Mlddletown merchant, who lUsted his liabilities at $25,151 aad bean GIRLS U0RE DARIKG, IE ASSERTS a av4ie a lia at 4 aa mm te9 Taat tha girl I aaar aaf lac laaa lha Wi.

tMaakthaaaw 99 aad I awed to aawf lr. Samrii per real, ml lha gfctt waa rwaaa lata Kaliallaa artaf hr eW aKusra ara arwawl frK Tba kri. Meach i4 ipii iss eaan lit NsO COOUDGE FORCED HOME BY ILLNESS rrwejlba llMaf airH ha fcaia a 1 1 pprd ena tha raHH traQ I a I araad I bey alar tba blaaaa tm tba asatlaa Hr tar. a daara. 'aad tba aalaa bile." As aa I pawblbltlaa aad aeilf fator Ibrra Is not brttrr raferr.

meat. It was abawa raraatty I bat tba Eplararwllaas tavrw era I wrra not la faiar of a ha age. Aamlra mark bet. tar far what baa beta dene, and I feel It will braelt mare la tiaM." i "Reatere Iba ebarcb aad faaa lly prayar amUaga, thai have been aa (renrrnlly dasartad. Tberaf tS.

ka. a laat tba kUbla la tba pakUe arhaala. Kaadlar af God's ward la ala rarltjr matt ba rtaamad. VIUTE SUPRET.IACY IN DANGER SAYS THE REV.STOUGH "What of America?" He Asks in Grace Church Address Opening his talk by declaring that the greatest problem of today Is whether the white race shall continue to control the affairs of the world, tbjB Rev. Dr.

H. W. Stough, evangelist, surprised an au dience of about a thousand per sons In the Grace Methodist Church here last night with an argument that seemed entirely at variance with the subject he had been scheduled to speak upon, "Revo lution or Revival, Which?" "Unsympathetic. Apparently referring, to Dr. Stough said: "At our Southern door there are forty millions of red men almost wholly unsympathetic toward us." He compared 'the present situa tlon with the time when Mongols (Continued on Page 16) WAGES PAID HERE SHOW INCREASE Harrisburg is one of three cities in, i the entire State able to, show' total wage Increases in January over December, according to" the Department of Statistics and Research of the Federal'' Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Altoona waa first with this city close to it's heels. Lancaster was tne only Harrisburg's gain was three and one half per cent. Physicians who' have been depending upon Harrisburg druggists for liquor which they prescribe tor their patients are worried at the shortage facing the city. As survey i of Harrisburg drug stores which have been holding liquor permits this morning showed that through a recent ruling of tha Treasury epartmentthe quar terly allotment of whiskey has cut is half, and In many (assets at 18.500. Creditors wlin cases tha norM jut.

aiv fi Walter N. Brown and Beulah T. meet March 1, at 3 o'clock, to elect pints left, with no mora in sight Grayson, Harrisburg. unUl after Aprill 1.. Heavy Ccld tfcnja to FVcbnt, Vho TcU to Reel IS NOT S2RI0US Wayataaa, I U.

17. 14 Irt4fl CJlie (tcr 1 a Uk auy ty Uh fr. rrturtiH bU livinj; luartrr in lf While la tk rrlirf from a hcary ctU. 0 Tl lrfMml cwfrrreJ Jut in th nurniitj ilh Ouir man MaiUett of th lluu Ap ftroftriatiiMta Cmmillc anj rrcrivrU a oil front AniLitta kr Kumi of Sjaia, He then cancrllrtl Uth engagement for the thy. Tba Praaideat appeared at bla desk at tba venal lime aad transacted bustaeea drmaadlng bis ias aaediaia aiteailoa.

Ha baa aafferrd for a long lima with a nasal trouble aad baa taken regular I real meat a for n. White lloasa oKlrlsIs did not consider Iba old which ha had con tracted aa serious, but Hi could ba mora quickly dissipated If mora rest waa afforded him. LOW TET.IPERATUHE CHECKS RIVER'S RISE; 11.7 FEET AT 8 A. ddelUaT. anaw.v checked hf'the (lower lemnaralurea of last alaht land thla martilnat hmuah tha river from 11.

feat at I o'clock yesterday morning at 1 o'clock last night, reeling temperature checked tha melting and this morning st I o'clock the level waa back to 11.7 feet. Tha rise Is expected to break the several small gorges and open the giver, but without any attendant danger, rlvermen say. At Duncannon yesterday, the underpass of the Pennsylvania tracks near Juniata Bridge was flooded to a depth of two feet and many motorists were unable to get through. Flood levels were also reported at Speecevllle. The cold weather of yesterday' and laat night was expected to con tlnue through to day and to MILLINERY STORE CHANGES HANDS The Ross Millinery Store at 2031 Market street, has changed management George Groves, New York City, has purchased the stock and fixtures and taken over lease of this store and will con' tlnue to operate at the' present' location.

Mr. Groves plans to dispose of the spring stock already in the store and at the close of the season do extensive' remodeling, restocking on a much larger scale. 1 Mr. Groves, is a former Harris burger, having been active in the millinery In this city about ten years ago: He Is now connected with a chain, of. millinery 'stores throughout Pennsylvania: 15 Condemned as Spie Riga, Latvia, 17.

(A. Fifteen Esthonians charged with espionage were sentenced to death to day at Leninegrad, Russia. trial had. been going on for two weeks. Nine Conricti Shot Salem, Feb.

17. i Nine convicts wir shot and wounded during a riot in the dlnina.1 tiary. WHISKY SCARCE IN HARRISBURG DRUG STORES UNDER NEW RULING Doctors contend that in many cases of severe Illness it abso lutely imperative that, a sUHaulant'. such as brandy fbe and they point with alarm to the presen shortage as menaoa to. health conservation measures.

Many of the drag' stores in the city have bean receiving sixty gallons of liquor quarterly, and the' majority of these have been cut to fifteen and twenty gallons, with tha result that few have more than a pint or twef on hand to last' until AprU 1. ft Egg AT WMTM TIT lUOHM) ii WVUA JlViiiiiiM THOUSANDS DRAWN BY DBCT DIVINE HEALING PROMISE; C7 UAH DAYS Close Border to Preyent csssinPAsss) rL iiUEPsci HiOlASCCPS tsrsd Frta Tip USED FtUKZ mill Carr waa WU lleta Ua far a aaarfai aft 'Daniel lUrr. 1112 North Seventh street, returned Iurne4 recenilr frmn a visit to hie buroe ctmntry, Kuutanu. tut he had teen lack Wog erxMigh to art up a twenty five gallon (till an Hart three barrel of nuh working. Shortly after noon something went wrong with the tiU and while he wai down staii at dinner with hit wife and two children the Hill went out though the door, taking 1th it a cloud of amoke, ateam, tire and unfinished moouahine.

Pomeone turned la a fire alarm sad before the attll coald beie of firemen spaa red oa the arena and Barr waa taken Into custody for tha police who appeared a few minutes later. Tha second floor rear room waa found lo be equipped for business and packed along tba ana; wall were five barrels, with three them containing 'working mash, mawe.from auy 4v.bore system of furnishing fire for the twenty five gallon still placed aa three burner gas stove bad been evolved. 1 A gas Jet in the adjoining, a bath room, had been tapped with a hose and a hole cut through the ad Joining wall. The hose was laid through this hole to the gas stove. Conflscato Sllll Police confiscated the still aad some i finished moonshine, along with a large box of yeast and prunes.

Barr was arrested and taken to police. station. Wall Paper Scorched The explosion blew the door leading to the balcony completely off. taking with It the door Jam and ripping tha bricks out of the wall. Flames scorched the paper from the wall and all the paint off the woodwork of the room.

The noise was heard for over a block. Alderman H. Jttianer's office next door at lllO North Bev enth street, was locked during the entire commotion. Wire Weeping i Mrs. Elizabeth Barr and ner two children were left Weeping in' the kitchen of the': home as the father was taken awayby police.

The woman said that they hid been In the. old country, for 'a month and lately, returned. She waa rather evasive 'as to what had happened and didn't want to even tell her last name when questioned by Assistant vFire Chief, I Patton. "C' The woman sat and wept as, the unfinished liquor leaked through from the upper floor thin streams. 'v Fcbi ttarv 17.

'M2eV Fortcuat Incrcatini cioadiaes to i9ht, followed by rain late tonight or on Thuri4oy. Biting temperature; lowest to night about freezing, i vr To day dawned brlarnt and 'clear, bat yea. eaanot expect that to last, and It wont. Ta 1 moi rew we fet soma more rata" and some mare mad and soma more salt snow, reopla af thh city lira ta eoastaat dread far three daya tbtf wMtber will ba tha aama. Th rrVer.

far ac a waet ed aCalr, ls well this yeu. The stxsa stood at 118 far I fcya, and net to rtsa i warn westter Is Ue zUx. Sktert Th gaeiKas sti it branch will reaisii arsi with tittit rkmuae 'lea rtoaa fa alft. Warmer treat asr; rata, saow eawae aaasa streaata af turn tttem (a rias A ttam mf about ll.t feat ia tmdicated far Uar mburg Taurtamw mtoruing. 4 5..