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Wfat Foley Acquitted By Jury On Beer Bribery Charge Jersey Brewer and Prohibition Agent Also Freed. Deliberations Lasted Thirteen Hours NEW YORK, March 30. Other prosecutions may grow out of the trial i which ended last night with, the ac jqulttal of J. Harry, Foley, New Jersey superintendent of weights and measures, and Herbert I. Katz, a Paterson, N.

brewer, who were arrested last October on charges of having bribed prohibiten enforcement agents in a conspiracy to permit New Jersey brewerkj to manufacture and sell illegal beer. Walter R. Winne, United States district attorney for New Jersey, said to day that he soon would talk with Mr. Wayward about the evidence which was 'given at the sensational trial. want to see if there is anything I warrant prosecution of anyone else hose name was dragged into the trial," Mr.

Wlnne said. Out Thirteen Honrs. The Jury was out thirteen hours and Ave minutes before it brought in the verdict before Federal Judge NMack shortly before midnight Saturday. The verdict was reached fifteen minutes after Judge Mack had told the Jurors that be would lock them up Railway Company and Union Officials Fail to Agree on Points at Issue BOTH MAKE STATEMENTS Coleman Says Union Would Arbitrate Wage Increase, But Not Rush Hour Runs CALL "PEACE CONFERENCE" Commercial Association Planning Another' Effort to Bring About Adjustment Negotiations between officials of the Scranton Railway company and representatives of Division 168, of the street car men's union, which were resumed yesterday afternoon after a four day break, in an effort to adjust the wage controversy which has brought about the threatened strike scheduled for midnight, broke following a short conference in the company's office, with the two sides apparently as far apart as ever. No further meeting was agreed upon by the union leaders and the company representatives, and unless intervention by a third party today is successful, the strike will become effective when the late run crews have completed their shift tonight.

Union Issues statement Members of the executive commit tee of the union Issued a formal state ment signed by all of them, explaining their stand, while Jilson J. Coleman, general manager of the trolley company, also pointed out the position of the concern In a statment which ho made after the conference. Directors of the Commercial association, who on Friday Initiated a movement to (bring the two sides together at a conference with prominent business men and have renewed their efforts and will attempt to hold their "peace confrence" at' 10 o'clock this morning at Hotel Casey. This session was scheduled for Saturday (Continued on Page Two.) 15 MEN ON LIGHTSHIP IN DANGER AS FREIGHT SHIP RAMS HER IN FOG NEW YORK, March 30. A gaping hole that extended to her waterllne, was torn in the portside of the Fire Island lightship today when 'She was rammed by the British freighter Cas tilean in a fog.

At first It was feared the lightship would sink and S. O. calls sent the steamer Dorothy Luck enbach, the coastguard cutter Gresham and the lighthouse tender Spruce to her assistance, ready to take off the crew of fifteen men. The lightship was able to stay above water, however, and her crew remained on board while the steamer and cutter 'stood by. The Castilean, apparently, was not damaged, as she proceeded under her own power to an anchorage in the bay.

She probably will dock to. morrow morning. UNIFORM DIVORCE'LAW WOULD BE MENACE TO MORALITY, REPORT SAYS NEW TORK. March 30. A national uniform divorce law woum oe a menace to morality, in the opinion of Leonard McGee, chief attorney for the T.peal Aid society, an organization which annually disposes of thousands of cases of marital mishaps.

"Th inquiry arises," says the re nort. "whether or not. In those com munitles where citizens have been able to achieve a relative amount of happiness and satisfaction under the marriage laws as they exist. The passage of uniform and possibly more rigid divorce laws would make lor more discontent and greater Immor ality." over Sunday. To report Monday morning, If they did not arrive at an agreement before midnight.

The testimony brought into the record the names of United States Senators Edwards and Edge, former Attoi ney General Daugherty, former United States Senator Frelinghuysen and a number of New Jersey political leaders of more or less prominence. Foley formerly was secretary to Edwards when the latter was governor of New Jesey. ANTI SALOON LEAGUE SUPERINTENDENT DIES WESTERVILLE, March SO. Dr. P.

A. Baker, (5, for 20 years general superintendent of the National Anti Saloon league, died at his home' here lata today. Mr. Baker had been fn ill health for almost a year. He had recently announced he would present his resignation as general superintendent mt the league due to ill health.

Daugherty Will Stand By President, He Says In Formal Statement Former Attorney General To Carry Through Program Th'lg to American People Predicts LP idication By The Associated Preaa. ATLANTIC CITY, March 30. Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, In a formal statement issued here tonight, declared he has no personal feeling against President Coolidge and made known his lntes tion of helping the chief executive any personal sacrifice." I Mr. Daugherty disclaimed any in tlon of issuing an extended state as to "what has taken place and w.

it all may mean." He expressed surprise that such a thing (apparently meaning President Coolidge's request for his resignation after he had announced his determination not to quit under fire) could "take place In free America." Praise for Coolldge 1 "We should all pull together, un TO FILL DAUGHERTY POST DURING WEEK President, However, Has Not Yet Tendered Attorney Generalship to Any Person NEW ANGLE TO THE PROBE Committee Will Vote Today on Advisability of Investigating Record of Department By The Amodatea Press, WASHINGTON, March 30. While Presldert Coolidge is occupying himself with the selection of a successor to former Attorney General Daugherty, the Senate Daugaerty investigating committee sought today a new direction for proceeding with its Inquiry. Subject to ratification in a formal executive session tomorrow, members of the committee planned to put out of the scope of. inquiry, for the time being, consideration of the various charge, against Mr. Daugherty personally, and to bring under examination the record of the Department of Justice in anti trust prosecutions.

ear Up Situation "Our purpose wlll be to show up corruption if there has been corruption, both in the non prosecution of anti trust cases and in non prosecutions of war frauds," Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, the committee prosecutor, said'. "The object will be to clear up the situation for the new attorney general." The President was said authoritatively today to have given no Particular thought to Individuals named In connection with the cabinet place Mr. Daugherty vacated, but to have (Continued on Page Two.) IMMIGRANTS COMING IN ON FORGED PASSPORTS Buenos Aires Gang Still Flooding Country By CLAUDE o. fhi. CoDTrlirht.

1924. by The Scranton Republican, special Cable to The Kcrnnton Republican and I'Mcaeo iiany newt. BUENOS AIRES, March SO. The number of southern European emi grants slipping toward the United States by means of false documents purchased here asserting they, have resided five years in Argentina, continues large. It is asserted on reliable sources that not more than one hundred of the emigrants that sailed yesterday on the Munson liner Pan America were not using false papers on which a vise had been secured.

The local American consulate had been forced to vise such papers, since they are presented orfi ciajly as government documents, although consular officials are convinced the applicants have not resided the five years in this country which the United States immigration laws de mand, The disclosures shotving that there is a gang selling false papers In Buenos Aires came as a result of the examination of passports on the Pan America by the staff of the consulate. It was shown that some of these false papers had been sent to the American consulate at Rosario for the vise of Vice Consul Moses. An emigrant who presented such a passport admitted he had arrived In Argentina no earlier than October, 1922. and that he never had been In Rosario, the passport having been setn there by mall by the parties selling some. Since the local consulate has been endeavoring to break up this" gang, three attempts have been discovered to "frame up" Consul General Morgan and members of the stag.

GIVES "LARGE WRITE JEWISH HISTORY PHILADELPHIA. March 3ft An nouncement of the receipt bv the Jew ish Publication Society of America of larse sum" for the nublicition nf a history of the Jews was de tonirht the annual meeting of the society. The money was received through the will of Mi.s Rosetta M. TT1 man nt Willlamsport, and' It was he history would be prepared by Prof. Max Mnrgolis of Dronsie colleee and Prof.

Alexander Marx of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. SI nton Miller of Philadelphia was elected president of the society and Adolph Ochs. New York, first vice president. Other oClcers chosen in cluded Henry Femberger, treasurer, and I. George Bobsevage, secretary.

Among the trustees elected were Se ligman J. Strauss. WilKes Barre, Rev. Nathan Krass, S. Charles Lam port and Cyrus L.

Sulzberger. New York. nd James Becker and Rev. Louis Mann, Chicago. Mr.

Miller said the society aimed to place a Jewish Bible in every Jewish home lifjAmeriea. Full Report of Full Report of Consolidated Press: iated Press ESTABLISHED 1867. VOL. 126, NO. 78 MEMBER 07 THE SCRANTON, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924 TWENTY PAGES PPTPW.

Twn rw.vTci ASSOCIATED PRESS RjOODWAIEKS DESOLATION WAS RECEDE, LEAMiMf i iiD Carmen's Conference Ends In a Deadlock Strike Seems Certain MURDERS WIFE AND THEN ENDS OWN LIFE Joseph Golaszewsky Commits Suicide After Shooting His Mate QlVED IN WEST SCRANTON Man Received Treatment at Institution for Insane Several Years Ago Golaszewsky, 63. of 1420 Cornell street, believed by the police to be mentally unbalanced, ehot and killed his wife, Josephine Golaszewsky, 44, as she was leaving their home yesterday morning shortly before 8 o'clock to attend church, and then committed sui alde by sending a bullet through his brain. Police Investigation show that Golas lewsky, who made a living by buying old rags, paper and junk, had threatened, to take tha life of his wife on several occasions. They separated some time ago, although both continued to live In the same building, with Golaszewsky occupying the basement and his wife and other members of the family the floors above. I Walti Beneath Porch for Wife.

According to stories told the police by Ignatz Davis, 1412 Cornell street, and Mrs. Walter Gibson, 1423 Cornell street, "Witnesses to the tragedy, Golas zewsky waited beneath the front porch for his wife. As ehe passed Mm Golas zewsky followed her, and just as she was about to pass through the gate he fired three shots from a thirty two oall i ber revolver In rapid He then pressed the barrel of the gun I against his left temple and fired a I fourth shot.4 When neighbors reached the scene a I few moments later Golaszewsky and his wife Were dead, their bodies lying In pools of blood. A post mortem by Coroner D. J.

Jenkins showed that one SyM penetrated Mrs. Golaszewsky' another shattered her left Jaw, 7 (Continued on Pa ge Eleven) COOLIDgTpRAISES AIR 1 PILOT WHO MADE FIRST trans Alaskan journey Washington, March 30. presi dent Coolldge has written a letter of I congratulations to'Carl B. Eielson, air mall pilot, who, after being lost at i night over the wilds of Alaska, with i no guiding' lights succeeded in completing the first experimental air mall rip between Fairbanks and McGrath. Eielson made the trip with mail In three hours as compared with sixteen to eighteen days Cy dog team, nut on his return voyage he lost his way and wandered around In the dark for hours following faintly traced streams.

A small light brought him down from high altitude once, but deciding It was a trapper's cabin, he did not attempt to land fearing to wreck his plane. Further scouting finally disclosed a flare in the distance which turned out to be his home field In Fairbanks, where the town's entire population was waiting for him. Eielson's report so thrilled Postmaster Generil New that he read it to President Coolidge and his fellow cabinet members. CARDINAL MUNDELEIN j2 GIVES FORMAL DINNER i TO COLLEGE STUDENTS Bt The Anwvtatfd Prwu. ROME, March 30.

Cardinal Munde fcln tonight gave the formal dinner which devolves upon one who is I raised to the purple to the students of his alma mater in the Propaganda Lflde where he studied In Rome. There were 150 students present from all drts of the world and representative a score of rations. The new American cardinal, acting as host, gave a short aaciress in wnicn he urged the students to go out Into the woild on the mission for which the college for the propagation of the faith wis formed. Cardinal Hayes will take charge of his titular church Santa Maria in Via Lata, next Thursday, and will leave for the United States April 10. Cardinal Mundelein will take over his titular church on April 21 and is expected to start back home during the first week of May.

Declares Fcutive Is Trying selfip to is 2w jy personal sacrifice KJent," he said. "He trying to put through means to the pic." iVlT waste any time "worrying ex attorney" and expressed tion that he will be "fully when reason is restored." doing to Capital handed the statement lo a g. of newspapermen who gathered In his room at the Hotel Traymore, Mr. Paupherty announced that he intended to leave for Washington about two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. "I have quite a few things to look after," he said, "and then I want to move Daugherty, who has been (Continued on Page Credit Pinkerton Men With Identifying Hold up Suspect Prisoner Held at Pittsburgh Is Believed to Have Been Implicated in Laurel Line Robbery Operatives of the Pinkerton National Detective agency, active in the investigation of the Laurel Line holdup and payroll robbery at Moosic last July, are credited with the first identification of a man arrested at Pittsburgh last Wednesday, and describing himself as Louis Bianco, as Toreso Burchanti, alias Borlanti, 28, a former employe of the West End Coal company at Mocanaqua; and sought as one of the bandit crew that got away with the 72,000 payroll of that concern.

Burchanti is one of three men who worked for the coal company at its Mocanaqua operation from early in the Spring until a short time before the holdup on July SO, when one passenger on the Laurel Line car: was killed, and the company's the motorman of the car, and another passenger were shot and wounded. To "date, Burchanti has been identi POINCARE POLICY:" IS DECIDED UPON Ministerial Declaration of New Government. Will Be Read to Chamber Today VOTE TO COME TOMORROW 1 Reported That Foreign Attitude is the Same As That of Last Cabinet By The Associated Pra. PARIS, March 30. The ministerial declaration of the new Poincare government was completed In cabinet council at four o'clock this afternoon and was approved and ratified by the council of ministers presided over by President Millerand at Elysee Palace a little later.

It will be read in the chamber by the premier at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and in the senate by the vice president of the cabinet, Edinond Lefebvre Du Prey, at the same hour. Premier Poincare will demand that the discussion of the declaration shall be postponed until Tuesday. Thus, the chamber's approval or disapproval of the new government's policy will not be known until late Tuesday night or perhaps Wednesday. Blie of Majority All groups of the political parties are agreed that M. Polncare's new com bination will be received favorably by the house, the only speculation being on the size of his majority.

The greatest secrecy is being maintained regarding the text of the dec. laratlon, but those close to M. Poincare say that the premier's announcement, especially where it refers to foreign policy is strictly in accordance with the general lines followed by the late cabinet during the past fifteen months. FaSTOB DISS. JOHNSTOWN, March 30.

After a brier Illness, tne Kev. u. nenry Beiderbecke, aged forty five, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, died today. He was born In Southwest Africa, where his father and grandfather were Lutheran mission workers.

His father, a prominent minister now retired, was pastor of a Lutheran church, in the Bronx, New York, for many years. Savant Finds New Short Road To Beauty in Wrinkles Disappear, Complexion Becomes That of Youth, and Even the Expression Changes, Report Says By Tli Atnooiated Frea. NEW YORK, March 30. The dis covery of a short road to peach bloom beauty' via the ray was announced today by authorities at Beth Israel hospital in the heart of the lower east side ghetto after a series of experi ments with a method recently dis closed before the eastern medical society by Dr. Oscar Levin of this city.

Under the method Jn use at Beth Israel the patient's face is exposed to direct rays from eight to twelve times in as many weeks. The greatest precaution, are taken In admlnistrat German Papers Charge Government Tried To "Lure" Bergdoll Home Declare Draft Evader Was Told, by Alleged "Representative" of State Department, of Dire Threats by Veterans When He Failed to Leave Eberbach By The Anwciated Print, EBERBACH, Baden, March 30. Charging the American government with an attempt to lure Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. back to the United States with a promise that he would be given a light sentence, thereby providing the American public with a fresh sensation which would divert interest from the "oil scandal," the Eberbach newspaper "Messenger," today publishes details of alleged parleys with Bergdoll, carried on by three representatives of an American newspaper, syndicate and a man named Leighton Blood, allegedly a repssent atlve of the American State Department, but who. the newspaper declares, is suspected of being the spokesman for the American Legion.

According to the Messenger and other local newspapers, the four agents are alleged to have carried fied merely as one of the suspects believed to have had a hand in the holdup and robbery, although the company's paymasters and employes have identified him from photographs as one of the former employes, and by passengers, on the car as one of the bandits. He is a brother of John Burchanti, who was acquitted in Pittsburgh a short time ago of the slaying of J. Ross Dennis, superintendent of the Beadltng mine of the Pittsburgh Coal company, during an attempt to steal a payroll. The police believe that Toreso Burchanti was one of the bandit gang in the Beadling job. Efforts ef the county authorities of Allegheny to get any information from their prisoner as to his accomplices in the payroll robbery attempt which resulted in.

his arrest last Wed nesday, nave been futile thus far. Burchanti has maintained A stolid (Continued on: Page Two.) PRESIDENT PAYORS NEW ARMS PARLEY But Executive Qualifies Stand by Proposing Some Pre Call Reservations TO' (JET ATTITUDE FIRST Would Find Out How Powers Stand on Reduction of Sub marines and Airships By J. TBUEDEBXCX XSBAJtY. Special The Republican. WASHINGTON, March 30.

Presl dent Coolldge in favor of a second disarmament conference, proposed by the 'House, but with reservations. He desires to know in advance if the nations which might accept an other conference Invitation will take up all those issues raised at the Washington conference upon which there was no agreenssat. What Be woald Ascertain. Specifically this government will wish to know if the powers are'feiow ready to discuss th limitation or re ductlon or both of. 1 Land forces such as standing armies and the military establishments oacK or sucn armies.

2 Construction of submarines and the charecter of submarine warfare In the future. Aircraft construction for mill (Continued on Page Two.) NO CLUE FOUND IN MRS. BAUER SLAYING NEW YORK. March 30. Police In vestigating the murder last Tuesday of Mrs.

Maude Bauer, on Staten Island, tonight were still without a clue to a solution of the crime after questioning for two hours the Staten. Island poli tician and banker whose name was linked with the case In an anonymous communication received by the author ities. The investigators were convinced that the man, whose name was not made public, knew nothing of the mur der. and he was permitted to return to his home. He was questioned by District Attorney Fach and police officials, Ray Treatment lrig the rays.

The patient's scalp, ears, eyes and eyebrows are covered with lead foil and the chest and neck with heavy rubber. Change Contour of Taee The rays not only burn away any skin disease that may exist but, according to those in chatge of the experiments, the rays so stimulate the facial nerves and the circulation of blood as to change the contour of the face. Wrinkles disappear, it is reported, and the old tissue replaced with new of such vigor that the ex tt ityrotb. credentials from Secretary of State Hughes and the President of the American Legion on the strength of which Bergdoll was assured that he would be given a maximum sentnrfce of four months' Imprisonment provided he returned to the United States before March. Equipped With Passports.

Blood, according to local reports, was equipped with a passport Issued in the name of "Bryant" and official German documents which would Insure 'itergdoll's unhampered exit from Germany. Bergdoll's failure to get under way before March 20. It is as sserted, brought a notification from an American newspaper correspondent to the effect that the State Department had withdrawn its promise of partial immunity, but that two days' grace was obtained by the corres. (Continued on Page SENATE WILL VOTE ON BONUS MEASURE Present Plan of Republican Leaders Is to Give it Preference Over Tax Bill MELLON RESOLUTION TODAY Democratic Senator From Tennessee Will Call Up His Inquiry. Proposal for Action WASHINGTON, March 30.

Hopeful that congress will find its way clear to bring its present session to a close before the June political conventions, house and senate leaders expect to make substantial progress this week toward disposing of presslrtg legislation. The senate probably will receive the tax and bonus bills from its finance committee, the present plan of Republican leaders is to give the bonus bill right of way with action on the revenue measure next In order. least Dispose of Bills These two proposals, together with the annual supply bills, must be die posed of, in the oplnton of both Republican and Democratic leaders, be fore the wlndup of the session. Thus far only one appropriation bill, the dificiency meaurse has been whipped Into shape for transmission to the White House. The Mellon Inquiry A dozen investigations continue to divert attention in both the senate and house.

Tomorrow Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee, intends, to call UP his resolution which would authorize an inquiry to determine whether Secretary Mellon is holding his post as head of the treasury department in violation of the federal statutes. So far as known, there is no disposition on the part of Republicans to oppose con sideration or adoption of the resolu tion. On the house side, the committee which is Investigating charges against Representative Langley, of Kentucky, and Zihlman, of Maryland, Republicans, will get down to work on Wednesday with the probability that It first will look into accusations against Mr. Zihlman. FRUIT ROTS ON WHARYES IN GERMAN DOCK STRIKE Supposed Poor Country Still Buys Luxuries By WEUXAV B.

WASH. CopjTiutit. 1521. by Tbe Scranton RfDuMican. By Radio to The Scranton Republican and Chtcasw Dally News.

BERLIN, March 30. Millions of dollars worth of fruit lies rotting on the wharves at Hamburg and Bremen, while Germany's dock strike continues. This brings to light the fact that the extravagant sum of 680,000,000 marks, the eouivalent of 1160,000,000, has been expended on the importation of exotic southern fruits Into this supposedly poverty stricken country in one month of the current year. Dissension has broken out in trades union ranks over the terms of settlement for the dock workers' strike, one faction declaring Itself satisfied more or less with the government procla mation sanctioning in principle the maintenance of an eight hour day, and another faction, composed of communists, demanding further concessions. The government proclamation Is worthless, aceordlng to the radicals, because its promise "In principle" is vitiated by numerous "other reserves." Serious disorders may spring from this dissension.

It is feared. The communists are threatening mob action; the moderate workmen want to work; the union authorities do not know what to do. The communists are strong In Ham burg. To them were due the bloody street risings of last November. Their wing oof the dockers' union Is said to comprise over fifty per cent of the wprkers.

ACQUITTED MAN FEARS TO LEAVE HIS PRISON BRIDGETON, N. 'March 30 Thompson Dickson, aged Bricksboro farmer, acquitted Friday night on a charge of having murdered his 15 year old daughter, Emma, continues to make his home at the county jail. Rather than return to his home, he chooses to sleep In the cell where for more than two months he calmly awaited trial. J. Roy Oliver, a friend who assisted in conducting Dickson defense, visited him at the jail today, but gave no Indication as to plans for the future.

It was Oliver who advised Dickson not to return to his home. 13 Persons Drowned And Great Damage Is Done Reports of Casualties Slowly Coming in From Stricken Towns of the State RAILROADS HIT HARDEST Four Span Steel Bridge Across the Potomac Among Struc tures Away OTHER SECTIONS SUFFER Red Cross and Various Relief Organizations Working in Mid Western Section Floods In Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland caused, by warm rains and melting snows in the mountains had devastated a wide area in those states tonight, taking a toll of 13 lives and caused millions of dollars damage to property. After having flooded an area of 175 miles, extending from its headwaters at Gorman, to Harpers Ferry, W. with the greatest damage done at Cumberland, the Potomac river was rapidly returning to its channel. In the western Pennsylvania district the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, meeting at Pittsburgh to 'form the Ohio, swept over the lower sections of their valleys and the Youghio gheny river, down the Allegheny mountains, flooded a section extending from Connellsville to McKees port, a distance of 40 miles, I KITZMILLER.

March 30 Five persons, members of an entire family, were drowned yesterday, when a tree to which they were clinging was uprooted and away by the flood waters of the Potomac river. Two of the bodies were recovered today. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Beeman, their two children and David Beeman, grandfather of th children.

They had left their home when it was flooded and had sought safety in a tree. The force of the current with their added weight uprooted the tree and swept it away. The bodies recovered were those the two children, a boy and a girl. Homes Carried Away Fifteen homes in this town were carrlea away by the flood. The bank building was the only structure left Intact in the business section.

A 1 00 foot bridge connecting Kits miller ar.d Blaine, w. was move from its foundation but not swept away. ZXOOB WATBBS BBOB9B CUMBERLAND, March 30. The flood waters of Wills creek and the Potomac river were returning to their channels today, leaving scenes of desolation in their wake. Only one small section was under water in the city proper and the water was receding rapidly.

Ridgley and Dixie, however, two towns on he West Virginia side of the Potomac, remained inundated, as was a wire area in the lower Potomac valley. Tracks Washed Away Great havoc was wrought by the flood. Many miles of railroad track were washed away two big steel bridges and a number of smaller (Continued on Page Two.) LLOYD'S BETTING ON DRY ENGLISH SPRING LONDON, March 30. Lloyd's, the well known brokers, are laying insurance at odds of 3 to 1 that "the coming Spring will be one of those beautiful seances of nature which the poets tell about, but which the foreigner in England waits in vain to see. A Lloyd's is doing a good business among shopkeepers and amusement park operators, insuring against a certain number of days of rain this Spring.

In some cases they are said to have placed money against rain on more than 20 per cent, of the days of the Spring and Summer months, something rarely experienced on this moist island. RECORD SEVERE QUAKE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA VICTORIA, B. CV, March 30. A severe earthquake disturbance, 440 mites south of Victoria, beginning at 4:10 o'clock Saturday afternoon and continuing for two hours, was recorded by the seismograph of the Dominion Meterological Bureau, it was announced tonight. Hotelman Wounded As HeH Flashes Gun Before Bandits Intended Victim of Hold Upl Fires After Falling and Bullet Strikes Alleged Robber Special fe The Kepnblletn.

PITT8TON, March 30. Paul Baranauskas, age thirty four years, proprietor of a hotel at 8 South Main street, lies seriously wounded on a cot In the Plttston hospital with a bullet wound through his liver and kidneya Across the aisle in another cot, with a police officer on guard fearing he might escape, lies Joseph Pulltano, age seventeen years, of 68 Vine street, this city, who was shot in the chest when he is alleged to have tried to hold up the hotelman this morning at 1:15 o'clock in front of the letter's home, 28 Vi East Railroad street. Baranauskas, accompanied by his bartender, Mike Nahlrlnlck, of 138 Elizabeth street, locked up the hotel and left for home at 1 o'clock. They walked down South Main street and then up East Railroad street As Mr. Baranauskas was about to enter the hallway of his home, which leads right Off the sidewalk, three young 'men blocked the way.

"Got a match one of them asked. "No, I do not amske, 1 to Property GREATEST FLOOD HITS PITTSBURGH Twenty City Blocks Inundated When Allegheny and Monon gaheia Rivers Rise PAMII ICQ CI CC UOMCQ I mill Iwl sa aWls lM UWIVIlaW Thousands of Basements Are Flooded and Rowboats and Canoes Pressed Into Service PITTSBURGH, March 30 A score of city blocks In the lower sections were Inundated, and sections for several miles upstream laid waste, when both the Allegheny and Monongahel rivers, meeting here to form the Ohio, left their banks today in Pittsburgh's greatest flood in ten years. No loss of. life was reported. Much damage was caused to steel mills located along the river banks.

Tracks of both the Baltimore and Ohio and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads were flooded In sections. Many families were forced to leave their homes. low Beeesslon Begins. The crest of the flood was reached at 1 o'cloclc today at 29.2 feet, seven feet above the flood stage. A slow recession began at dusy.

Railroads following the courses of the various rivers were greatly affected. Baltimore and Ohio lines between Pittsburgh and Baltimore wer under water at various points and trains were rerouted over the Pennsyl vanla to Baltimore, where they proceeded on their own lines. Traffic was delayed for twenty four hours over the Prttsburgh and Lak Erie lines through the Mnnongahela valley, and the JJooding of the Pittsburgh terminal tracks caused trains to be rerouted at McKeesport to the Baltimore and Ohio tracks and run into the Pittsburgh terminal of that road. A landslide oc the Pennsylvania, but was cleared away within a few hours. Basements Are Tlooded, Thousands of.

basements in the af fected area were flooded and many Industrial plants along both Mononga' (Continued on Page Two.) BRITISH HANGMAN RESIGNS FROM POST; 23 YEARS IN SERVICE LONDON. March 30. John Ellis, the official hrgman of Great Britain, has res'gned his job, but has not given any reason for doing so. For er twenty three years he naa heM the position, and dozens of criminals, notorious and otherwise, passed through his hands to their doom. Among them were Crippen, Roger Casement and Edith Thompson, the last woman executed In England.

Ellis lives at Rochdale, where; for several years he had a barber He I V.t, 'n a "im IS Very aevoieu in miuuo'iei, no io reserved and intolerant of the morbid curiosity of those who would attempt to draw h'm out n's experiences. He Is a student of criminology and reads the accounts of murder trials in the newspapers wun proiconioiim tret. Ellis Is a breeder of poultry, and It in said that he Is so devoted to his birds that he gets a friend to wring the necks of those he wants to Wll. His fee for dispatching a criminal was 60 shillings and another BO shillings for "good conduct." The latter amount was paid In consideration of the fact that he was forbidden tcr Stay at a public house near the scene of an execution end earn a commission for attracting oiitom, as was the executioner's privilege In former years. BTTKOIiAKS OBT $3,000.

PHILADELPHIA. March 30. Burg, lars early today cracked a safe In the office of the Tarkway Baking company, stole J3.000 In cash, $1,200 worth of Liberty Bonds and certificates. Three young men; one of them giving his name as Edward Stall, Utlca, N. later were arrested as suspects and held by a magistrate In $1,500 ball each for a further hearing.

JUS. XOOBETSX.T HOStB. NEW YORK, March 30. Mrs. Edith Roosevelt, widow of the late President, returned from Europe aboard the steamship Conte Rosso today, completing a world tour of several months' duration.

and do not carry matches," replied the hotelman. "I have one," said the bartender as he began to reach into hia vest pocket for a match. Ordered to Hold Vp Zand. "Stick up your hands, then. If yea have not got a match," one of the robbers demanded.

Baranauskas, who had 8600 on. hi (Continued on Page Two.) THE WEATHER Eastern Pennsylvania Fair and colder Monday; Tuesday fair and' continued cool. lOCAI. BJBPOB TO SCBAJTTOV (for the 24 hours ending at 8 p. March 30.

1824): Maximum temperature at 12, Minimum temperature at 8p.m...J7 Average temperature 48" Normal temperature 40 Total precipitation 04 8 a.m. 12 8 p.m. Dry Bulb temp. ...42 68 41 Wet Bulb temp. ...43 63 Dew Point .......42 .50 35 Relative homidUy.

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