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Courtroom: tawyer "11 "fS ffl EDITION EXTRA lull WEATHER: Thunderstorms tonight and Saturday; not quite so warm. PRICE TWO CENTS PENNA FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1921 NUMBER 1381 Published Sunday Ijy Policeman RAILROADS MAKE CONCESSIONS WASHINGTON, July 29. The demand for reduc-tion in railroad rates brought a concession today from the eastern roads. The Association of Railway Executives announced that the eastern roads have agreed upon a reduc- tion of five cents per hundred pounds in export rates for wheat, corn and rye from Buffalo, Erie and Fairport io eastern export points. A reduction of three cents in ex-! port rates on barley and oats was also announced.

The i reduction in wheat, corn, and rye rates amouts to about i twenty-five per cent. GOULD DIVORCE LEGITIMATE NEW YORK, July 29. Frank J. Gould, III, is free; to marry as soon as he likes, according to Judge George V. Mullan's ruling in the Supreme Court here this afternoon.

Gould had obtained a divorce from his second wife, Edith Kelly Gould, in Paris in the Spring of this Mrs. Gould brought action to have the divorce declared! unsound. U. S. OUTLINES OBJECTIONS WASHINGTON, July United States has outlined to Great Britain America's final word of opposition to the proposals for a preliminary conference to thei Washington disarmament and Pacific conference, it was1 learned today.

TO RESUME RUSSIAN TRADE Part i Attorney Shoots Himself i By United Press CHICAGO, July 29. Jult as Judge Charles A. McDonald sentenced Desk Sergeant Harry D. Kellogg to -serve sixty days in jail today, the policeman drew a revolver, killed Lemuel Ackley, attorney, and then shot himself. Five shots were fired in the crowded Court of Domestic Relations, throwing the spectators into a panic.

Four shots struck the attorney, killing him instantly, while the fifth was fired by Kellogg into his own body. He was believed to be dying when rushe'd to the County Hospital. 'i The judge, after hearing the case, in which Kellogg had been ordered to vacate some property, sentenced the policeman for contempt of court. Kellogg pulled his revolver from his holster and rushed toward the judge's bench. Judge McDonald crawled under the bench.

A bailiff rushed between the judge and the assailant. Entered at the TROLLEY VIGTI WILL BE BURIED TOMORROW JAMES KIIOADS Funeral services will he held tomorrow morning' at 9 o'clock In St. Francis Catholic Church, Market street, near Fifteenth, for James Rhoads, la-years old, who was almost instantly killed last "evening when he was run down by a Valley Railwis trolley car on yie wainut street image, near Front street, while he was, returning home from the( municipal bathing beach. Spectators said the' lad stepped' from the bridge footwalk directly in front of the Enola -car. The motor-man, Daniel F.

Wagner, of 209 Herman saffi the accident, occurred so quickly he didn't realize what had happened until he felt' the jolt. The youngster was dead when- admitted to ithe Harris- Turn to Pago' Eleven Held Under; $800 Bail On Charge of Theft Virgil Hardy, arrested in Gettysburg and brought to this city, last night by Detective Murnane, of the Harrisburg Police Department, was held under $800 bail or court by Alderman Herbert, sitting In police court this afternoon. The charge' was larceny, It being alleged that Hardy, had', robbed the Army and Navy store, on Market street, 4 this city, of $25 and some clothing. Mayor Hoverter was unable to conduct the police court hearings today, due to Illness, and several cases scheduled for this afternoon, including that against three men charged with attacking a patrolman, were continued until- Monday. 93 2JU sf Bail Hold-Bp 7 NEW YORK, July 29.

Direct trade relations with the Russian Soviet government will be resumed Sunday, according to the American Producers Export Corporation, which today announced that it will ship 2000 tons of flour to Petrograd in the Norwegian steamer Storaker. JUDGE ACQUITTED OF BRIBERY SAPULPA, July 29. District Judge Lucien B. Wright was acquitted on a charge of bribery in court here today. The charge that Judge Wright had accepted $10,000 of a $100,000 bribe in connection with his decision in Tommy Atkins' $2,000,000 oil.

lands controversy was ordered dismissed on grounds of insufficient evidence. "DICTATOR CAN SAVE ITALY" ROME, July 29. "Only a dictator can save was the sensational declaration made in the Senate today by General CavighX commander of the Italian troops; that defeated Gabriel d'Annunzio and drove the followers of the warrior-poet from Fiume. BRIAND DRAFTS ENGLISH NOTE PARIS, July 29. Premier Briand began this afternoon to draw the text of a note to Great Britain, dealing with the Upper Silesian situation, which would, it was declared in government circles," strengthen the Anglo-French alliance." SEEK TO UNEARTH BERGDOLL GOLD WASHINGTON, July will be made by the Federal government to force Mrs.

Emma Bergdoll, mother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the Philadelphia slacker, to dig up the $105,000 in gold her son is alleged to, have buried somewhere in Maryland or West Virginia. ROBBERS DEMAND WHISKY CLEVELAND, July 29. Two masked burglars routed John and his wife from bed in their home early today and compelled them to surrender more than $3000 worth of jewelry. The burglars first asked for some whisky, Davis said, and when told he had none, demanded his ready cash, which amounted to $85. HOUSE LEADERS NEED URGING WASHINGTON, July 29.

Further efforts to place House leaders behind the legislative program agreed on by President Harding and Senate chiefs probably will be necessary, it appeared today. as' Second-Class Matter Poet Office at Harrisburg Permission to -discontinue all steam heat service from its lines on Third and Sixth streets, north of Forster street, was fesked today by the Harrisburg Light Power Company-in an application filed with the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania. The date the company sets for discontinuance is May 31, 1922. This announcement follows close on the heels of the statement several days ago by officials of the company to the effect that a loss has been sustained in its steam heating service during the last several years. Ninety-three consumers would be affected if the Public Service Commission sustains the plea of the firm to discontinue this A total of 2250 feet of steam lines in Third street, all those lying between Forster and Reily streets, and 1400 feet of lines in Sixth street, those lying between Forster and Ver-beke streets, would be abandoned.

Tlie Company's Renson. i Of the ninety-three consumers who will be without steam heating service if the application is upheld, sixty-three are served by the Third Btreet stato Police officials this morning establishedlVe." validity of the p4 mit granting the transportation 0.1 the whisky which provided the inducement for the dang night holdup near tfie western approach of the Clark's Terry bridge, early yesterday, and wheih resulted in the arrest of five Harrlsburgers on charges of highway robbery; As a result of. the' investigation into what at first had been sus-traband liauor the- truck, containing the full 200 cases or snerwooa niaKy, was released this morning, and the four men, who had been: with the truck, and who were being detained here on suspicion, discharged. The four, 'with the truck, started for Wilkes-Barre shortly 'before 9 a. m.

They had secured the whisky at the Sherwood Distillery, near Baltimore, in Maryland, and were taking it to Wilkes-Barre fordelivery to a medical supply station. Additional charges of Impersonating State policemen will be brought against the five "Harrisburg men.uji-der arrest. Major Lynn G. Adams, onnerintenrient of State police, today said that he had been having much trouble with highwaymen Bteanng whisky in transportation by misrep-selves as State police and that one of the local men yes terday represented himseit as a iieu-tonnnt while another' Claimed' to 'be a sergeant In plain clothes. -Five Put Under Ball bandits, all from this city, were released from custody Turn to Page Five -it' 7 4 Suspend: Five Under Iii Booze Every Evening Except The Patriot Company Kills Mrs.

Stella Hickley, daughter of Kellogg, who was in the court room, screamed and fell in a faint. Seeing his way toward the Judge blocked, Kellogg turned and fired at the attorney who' was standing five paces away, near the bench. Screams went up from the crowds in; the court room as they pushed and jammed toward the doors. i After killing the attorney, Kellogg turned the gurif on himself. Thirty years Kellogg was a member of police; force for thirty years.

During the trial he sat mumbling to himself: v- After the shooting Judge, McDonald said he believed the shots which struck Ackley were intended for The land which Kellogg was ordered to vacate was owned by Mrs. Salina E. Bartow. She, was represented in court by Ackley. previous notices had ben served on Kellogg to vacate the but he had ignored the court's-ruling each time.

Lieut. Elder's Body- Brought From France Arriving In this city last night, the body of Lieutenant James Gault Elder, who was killed in action near Sergy, France, on July 31, 1918, was taken to the Elder home, on Derry street, near Paxtang. The funeral ser vice Is to be conducted next. Tuesday. Elder, a graduate of Technical High School, and later a student at' Mer- cersburg and Princeton, went in training at Fort Niagara, N.

in the first officers camp, and was commissioned a second lieutenant. He went-overseas with Company 47th Infantry. During the second battle of the Marne, near. Sergy, France, on July 31, 131S, he was killed when struck by a shell. He Earned a Bike JACOB W.

ALSPAUGII Jacob W. Atepatigh, of 125 Kat Ixutler street, Carlisle is another of tlic many boys made happy upon learning that he will get one of the Range bicycles given by THE PATRIOT mid THE EVENING NEWS for having obtained twenty new subscribers for those newspapers. The last of the subscriptions he obtained were verified a couple of days ago and thereupon the' order for liis motor-bike was sent -to the factory. Boys aud girls have seven more weeks to try to win a bike. The t-on-test docs not close until Sept.

16, HARRISBURG, ervice line and thirty are served by the Sixth street line. In addition, thirteen or more applications for service In the affected district are now pending. None of these have been favorably acted on by the company, 'it states, because it has been felt that to serve them would make the steam heating service of tho district even more, inefficient than it now Is, the application says. The company's inability to serve these districts efficiently and economically is cited in the application as the reason for its desire to abandon these lires. When the lines were originally built, under the direction of American District Steam Company, according to the application, the public utility company had been warned "that caution "must be observed in going northwardly as, in view of the removal of (the plant hereinafter referred to, the economical distance of the existing pipe lines had been reached." This was in 1915 when the Third Turn to Page Twelve VET; KILLS SELF WITH A PISTOL The hallucination that he was.

the subject of. unfavorable comment by persons, In the neighborhood is believed to'' ha.ve responsible for the suicide early this morning, of Charles Fields, 38 years old, a World War of 'altonville, near Hummelstown, who shot himself in the head wih a bullet from a revolver. Fields dfed shortly after 1 clock this afternoon in the Harrisburg Hospital, where he had been in an unconscious condition 7 o'clock this morning. Virtually no hope was held for his recovery from the first. The bullet entered the head near the right temple and is believed to have taken a downward course.

Trioio' oonnpilliic i. to relatives. served in France during the World War, and since his return nas ueeu tn fita of melancholia. His actions during the last few days had been unusually queer, ana naa oeen the subject of considerable comment. He was employed by the Walton Turn to Page Nineteen Half a Mile 4W X.

is NORTHCLIFFE IS BANNED AT THE-BRITISH EMBASSY WASHINGTON, July 29. A major-British political battle was being fought out in Washington today. The feud between Viscount North-cliffe, English publisher, and Premier Lloyd-George, was shifted to Washington when the British embassy refused to entertain him on his arrival here. This was considered retaliation for Northcllffe's editorial denunciation of Lloyd-George and Lord Curzon, foreign minister, as being unfit to be members of the British delegation to the Washington disarmament conference. Denied admittance to his" country's embassy where a dinner had been planned, and hen cancelled North-cllffe gave out a statement blaming Curzon for this development.

1 He also declared incidentally that Curzon is "hostile" to Americans. Washington diplomatic circles were frankly amazed at the bold Turn to Page Nineteen King Drawn Into the George-Northcliffe Row July 29 King George today was drawn into the Lloyd-George-Lord Northcliffe feud. The Premier, carrying his fight on Northcliffe Into the House of Commons, read a message from the king repudiating the accuracy of a statement said to have been made by Northcliffe In In this statement as cabled here Northcliffe was represented as saying that, the King- told Lord-George there must' be no more killings in Ireland. i "I Lloyd-George told the Commons, "that the King's statement may do something to sterilise. feet of the criminal malignity which, for personal ends, is endeavoring to stir up 'mischief between the Allies, and misunderstanding 'between the British Empire and he 'United States artd'frustrate" the hope of peace in Ireland;" ALIBI OF BLACK SOX IS TARGET OF STATE ATTACK By United Pres CHICAGO, July 29.

The Black Sox alibi was the state's target Prosecution attorneys presented witnesses to refute, the testimony of the defense which Whitewashed the former White Sox rftars of any part ii ''throwing" world series. "Alfred Austrian, vice-president of the White Sox, who aided In the grand jury baseoail probe, was called. His testimony was designed to bolster up the statements of Harry Redmon, East St. Louis, who impli cated Carl Zork, alleged gambler. The state maneuvered to prevent the case from going to the jury Saturday, fearing a quick "Sunday" verdict." In view of this, the jury will not decide the fate of the "Black Sox" until the first of next week.

Stony Creek Bathers Face Trespass Charge Five of sixteen bathers swimming In Stonj' Creek, at Slngervllle, a mile or so back of Dauphin, have been ordered to appear before Bertha Haw Justice of the Peace at Dau phin, at 10 o'clock tonight for a preliminary hearing on the charge of trespassing. Those arrest include, it. is said, two Harrlsburgers, and one each from Philadelphia, Dauphin and Singervilie. r- A lawyer for one -of the bathers was talking about walvliig a hearing and appealing the case to court. Mrs.

Ramsey Makes Miss Buehler Her Legal Heir Wickersham signed an order this morning' permitting Mrs. Katherlne Buehler Ramsey to adopt her niece. Miss Mary Elolse Buehler, as her legal heir. Miss Buehler, who is more than 21 years old, consentd to the adoption. will not change her name.

Mrs Ramsey was a sister of Miss Buehler's father, Nomination Petitions for The 3 Local Judges The Republican nominating petitions for the three present Dauphin County. Judges, Hargest, Wickersham and Fox, were filed late this afternoon with, the Secretary of the Commonwealth. ARRESTED FOR THEFT Charged with stealing 1 $25 and clothing from the Army, and Navy Market street, Virgil Hardy, North Seventh street, was arrested in Gettysburg yesterday. He was scheduled to be given a hearinif in police court this afternoon. 1- DEVINE LEADING LANCASTER MAN IN GOLF FINALS Tom Devi no, of the llarrls-burg Club, and Donald Brown, of the Lancaster Country Club, watersoaked but smiling and confldVnt, started on the final nine 'boles of their' match for the 1 Indi-i Tldual championship of the Central Pennsylvania Golfers' Association shortly, after 3 o'clock this after-noon, with Devine leading by one up on the.

first nine holes. Brown won the first hole of first nine, four strokes to five, his second I drive going on the green, but Devine i evened up on the second, five to six. At the tee for the third hole the i two players were drenched in a heavy downpour of rain, and the water upon their hands affected the grip upon the clubs, Devine missing one strike Brown won the hole 46. Devine evened matters up again, however, when on the fourth hole he drove on the green in one and holed in The score was 3-4. In the fifth Brown made 'an ex-j oellcnt drive, but later landed in a i pit, and Devine, through good put-: ting, won the hole, 6-9.

Brown stopped counting after seven, but he sent his drive for the sixth hole on the green and evened up with a 3-4 score. Devine made a beautiful drive, starting off the seventh, but Brown came through with a 4-5 score by neat putting. The advantage was short-lived, Devine evening up matters at the next hole, 4-5, both players making good drives. On the ninth hole Devine won a putting duel with Brown winning 4-5 after Brown had sent his ball to the green on his second Brown, who won last year's Central Pennsylvania Association tournament defeated Sam Nissley, of the Colonial Country Club, in the semi-final round this morning by a scare of 2 up. Devine reached the finals by putting Churlie Zimmerman out, five up and four to play, after an exhibition of unusually good golf.

Four scores in the eighteen-hola handicap medal play, made this morning, follow: Schmidt, York, handicap 26, net 78; Mehring, York, handicap 30, net 73; Dempcroft, handicap 45, net 88; Stoeder, handicap 16, net 78. Yesterdav's scores follow. FIRST SIXTEEN Morning Round Nissley defeated Lucas, 3-1; R. Turn to Page Four Council Places Ban on Selling Refreshments City Council this morning, In special session, passed finally the ordinance prohibiting indiscriminate selling of refreshments on the river and on unclaimed islands at the municipal bathing hach. City Commissioner Gross Baid he would give notice this afternoon to the man operating the portable store.

Just outside the beach to stop doing business at once. No more warnings will be given. Hereafter, the city officials said, the sale of ice drinks from tubs, floated on the river, will not be permitted. Ten Years Old, and Swims Bryan May Be Named University President WASHINGTON, July William Jenlngs Bryan may be president yet. A movement has been started here to have Bryan named president of the University of Missouri.

LIVE WIRE KILLS THREE NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, July 29. Three persons, a her 10-year-old son and'another boy, are dead at Strasburg, near here, and one man, the husband of the dead woman, is badly burned as the result of the two boys coming, In contact with a fallen wire that carried 2200 volts of electricity. The man a.nd I woman sought to recover their bodtes. Japan Will Propose Freedom of Pacific LONDON, July 28. A declaration' for "freedom of the Pacific" will be proposed by Japan at the Far East conference in Washington, said dispatch to the London Times.

The Tokio correspondent stands that the Japanese Foreign Of--flee and the War and Navy Depart-, ments are considering the advisabil-i ity of suggesting at Washington tha; the island zone of -the Pacific shall not be fortified. MAY DELAY COL'M'IL MEETING PARIS, July 2i. Following a meeting of the French Cabinet today, it was reported that France will withdraw here her consent to a meeting of the Allied Supreme Council on Augurt: -1. find will suggest a further delay until August 11. deepest horror is to be found in the extreme corruption of the age and people to which the Empress be-, longed.

Peter the Great said of his country: "Russia is rotten before she is ripe," and to realize the truej meaning of these words and the full- i ness of their implication, one must, studyin detail the reigns of Elizabeth and Catherine II. Never wa there such a mixture of squalor and magnificence as in the palace of the former. Filth and splendor alternated throughout the royal apart- Turn to I'nge Twenty-one History's Mysteries NO. 32. THE MURDER OF GRAND DUKE PETER Copyright.

1921, by wnceler Syndicate, lno 4 Highspire has a prospective swimming champion in the person of Martha Bailey, 10 years old, daugh ter of V. K. Bailey, judging from the start she has made. On July 6, four days before little Miss Bailey reached her tenth birthday, she established a record for her self by swimming a half mile across current in the Susquehanna River. Her starting point was Bailey's Island In mid-stream, between Steelton and Highspire, and she went toward the York' County side of the river.

At places the v.utci' was twelve leet Surrounded by 'a cloud of rnmor and concealed in a haze of official secrecy, the murder of the Grand Duke Peter, husband of Catherine II, of. Russia, remains one of the many unsolved mysteries connected with the Empire' of the North, particularly since it is coupled with the ni'Dni-'iIIti' rit nrte nf tho mnat markable figures in the annals of royalty Catherine the Oreat. The story of Catherine II, the Peniiramis of the North, as her contemporaries delighted in calling her. in revolting not only because it is the jstury of a profligate woman but its.