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1 WIT 4 JLL 4 wl WEATHER: Rain to-night and tomorrow; much colder tomorrow night. PRICE TWO CENTS NUMBER 1859 HARRISBURG, FEBRUARY .13, 1923 TtZ TZJXZ. AlilS II AKDIXG PLANS GOVERXOHS' PAULEY WASH1XGTOX. Feb. 13.

President Harding will c-all another conference of governors to consider ways and means for Ktivnstlieninjr prohibition enforcement throughout the country us soon us the new governors have straightened out their affairs, it was said at the White, House today. FOrn HURT IX TUAIX WRECK ALBANY. X. Feb. 13.

One trainman was seriously injured and three others slightly hurt and two engines and twenty freight ears were piled in heaps on a bridge just north of the city when train ran wild down a hill and crashed into another freight standing on tho bridge. BELLEAU WOOD MEMORIAL ASSURED Feb. 13. Purchase of Belleau wood, where the second American division won immortal fame during the World War, and Us consecration as an American shrine in France, is now assured, it was announced here today. The.

last necessary to acquire the site has subscribed according to Charles Moore, chairman of tho Fine Arts YORK MAX CRUSHED TO DEATH YORK, Feb. 13. Caught in the mill head of a giant plane lie was oeratlng, Royal M. Parr, 35 years old. was crushed to death today.

His head was snmshed almost to a pulp and he was dead when fellow workmen went to ids aid. TURKS REPORTED ON" MOVE ATHENS, Feb. 13. Alarming reports concerning Turkish military activity were received in Athens this afternoon, apparently from reliable sources; The Turks are reported to have broken tho Mudania armistice pact, and to have concent rated 85.000 troops in Eastern Thrace where they are arming 8000 Bulgarian Bemlarnies. MORE MINERS OX STRIKE LANSFORD.

Feb. 13. than 500 additional miners employed by a subsidiary company of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, whose eight collieries in the Panther Creek section were tied up yesterday by a general strike of 8300 minors, went on strike today. Body of Cumberland Man Is Found; Fired on Trio After Quarrel Early Last Evening French Forces, Aided by Belgians, Extend Lines As Resistance Increases Wife Gets News Eere of "Pittsburgh's" Captain Knighted for Heroism bottom in mid-Atlantic on the night of November 14 last. Mrs.

Jones, wife of the captain, if now a guest at the home of Mrs. Bufllngton, and will remain here until the latter part of February when she will be joined for a brief time by her husband who is on the way from "Bremen and Southampton to New York, in command of the Pittsburgh. He expects to reach New York February 22 or 23. The Pittsburgh is on her eighth round-trip Miss Kate Darlington Just Before Sailing 5f ft 1 i 'if I. t.

i oj rff' Miss Kate 321 North Front street, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. James Henry Darlington, photographed at the pier in New York, lastj Saturday, just before sailing with her parents for trans-Atlantic trip, which will include a visit to the Holy Iand about Easter. Miss Darlington is very popular in New York and Harrisburg society. City Solicitor's Opinion Asked on Withdrawal of Offer of Land to City City Council decided this morning to get City Solicitor Gcyer's opinion on a notice from the Steelton Har risburg Brick Company, which today formally notified Council that it has withdrawn the twelve year old offer to give the city a strip of land eighty feet wide, for a parkway on either side of l'axton creek, from Relly to Maclay street. Commissioner Gross said he doubts if the brick company can reclaim the ground in spite of the fact that It never gave the city a deed for the strip.

He said the brick company offered the land and It was accepted. The condition was, he said, that the city should straighten and improve the creek and vacate streets in the brick company tract. He declared that the city has compiled In every respect. The parkway would have been improved, Gross said, but the brick company never would give a deed In spite of frequent demands made by himself and his predecessors In office. Even if Warren H.

Manning, the park expert, should recommend changing the route of the parkway, now proposed to extend along the creek between Relly and Maclay, Gross said he thinks the city ought to insist on retaining the creek land as second entrance to Wtldwood. An opinion on tho brick company's legal right'to reclaim the land is expected from the city solicitor within a few days. LOGMGTHE WHAT'S IN A NAME JUST exactly what meaning is contained within that thing -which une calls a name has been a puzzling riuestion ever since Avon's famous bard first put that forth as a problem. In many cases that which Is in a name may be virtually nothing, while in other cases it is quite likely to be exactly vice versa Up at Enola they have been having almost as much trouble getting a name for a street as your ordinary young couple has in selecting a John Hancock for the first born. During the last Summer, the town was all "worked Tip" over tho construction of a new concrete highway from West Fairview, up through Enola and over as far as the corner of Enola Road and Columbia Road.

It was to be an excellent road and one of. the first concrete thoroughfares on the West Shore. WAS "STATE ROAD" AT the time the construction of the highway began the thoroughfare was known as a plain State Road. Whenever one spoke of the Btate Road in Enola, one meant that muddy thoroughfare around which the Enola trolley cars made a loop. It was the "back road," as many also termed it, going through part of West Fairview, the section called Midway and lastly through Enola.

But not all of it was known as the Etate It was known as that as far as Perry street and then came section known as Summit street, the along which the Summit street schoolhouse is located. Summit street proceeded for two blocks and then where there came a bend in the thoroughfaro the highway 'was known as Columbia Road. Columbia Road then continued as far as Enola Road, the thoroughfare which runs along the eastern side of the town, along the Pennsylvania Railroad yards. Then came the completion of the new concrete road, paid for by the State and the county and the township and the Valley Railways Company (at least each of those parties was to have paid a share of the expense). The people of Enola thought that some better name than State Road should be selected for the thoroughfare.

Something more in keeping with modern progress, they believed; something, 'er well, something not so provincial and plebeian something with a better sound to it. 1 A PERMANENT NAME WHEN the dedication exercises were conducted it was the consensus of opinion that the road should be known as Sadler Boulevard in honor the late Lewis S. Sadler, former State Highway Commissioner and a Cumberland countian who had done much to help bring the road to Enola. Sadler Boulevard it was then, not really officially, hut known as that by the people Who didn't fall into the' old-time habit of calling a State Road the1 State Road. But some people Just couldn't forget that it was the State Road and the loop and the back road.

Something had to be done. So the leaders in Enola's civic affairs decided that the question of a name should be settled for all time. They hit upon a name that would contain all the old traditions and the spirit or the town and still have a sound of extreme modernity about it. The new concrete thoroughfare Is now known as THE ENOLA DRIVE and, to quote one of these civic leaders who has pointed out the change in the name "signs have -been posted along the highway to that effect." Ho now we have Tho Enola Drive, Including Summit street and Columbia Road and ending at Enola Road. SUBSIDY BILL SIDETRACKED IN FAVOR OF DEBT WASHINGTON Feb.

13. The administration ship subsidy bill was sidetracked in the Senate today In favor of the British debt settlement bill. This action was taken after party loaders had conferred with President Harding and had then revamped the jirogram announced yesterday for considering the two measures liifiii Sought throughout tho greater part of the night, Jerry Jones, .27 years old, of Dickinson Township, Cumberland County, was found dead early this morning- in the woods about a quarter of a mile from his home. The bullet wounds Indicated that he had committed suicide. Last evening he shot and seriously wounded Mrs.

Carrie Blumenstock, a neighbor, fired three shots at his housekeeper, Minnie Shaffer, and then tried to shoot Farls Blumenstock husband of the wounded woman. All shots fired at his housekeeper missed their mark, while the shot fired at Blumenstock passed through his coat collar. The crime occurred shortly after 6 o'clock last evening in a small hamlet near Mr. Holly Springs, known as Hell's Half Acre. According to the particulars given to District Attorney Merrill F.

Hummel, Jones returned Turn to Page Twenty-one, FEDERAL AGENTS AGAIN INVOLVE U.S.IN DISPUTE International Sorvice WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Prohibition enforcement agents apparently have involved tho State Department in another set of international complications Mmilar that which resulted recently in the release of several British vessels with appropriate explanations by the department. Angered by what they regard as unfair discrimination against a Sis ter republic, Latin-American diplo mats, it was learned today, have launched a "campaign of Information" among the people of the Latin-American countries, calculated to apprise them of the facts in the case of the Cuban yacht Miguel Ferrer, seized by the American authorities and now being held at Jacksonville, Fla. The Latin-Americans assert British vessels seized under clear cut cir cumstances indicating smuggling have been released with apologies, while the Miguel Ferrer Is being held at great cost to her owners in violation of all' precepts of international law.

TURK LEADERS IN IMPORTANT PEACE PARLEY International Xeirt Service LONDON, Feb. 13. An important Turkish military and state council was summoned at Smyrna to discuss various phases of the Near" East situation, said a dispatch from Constantinople this afternoon. Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation in the Lausanne peace conference, announced that he would leave for Smyrna at once instead of going to Angora as he originally Advices from Constantinople during the morning said that Ismet had arrived In that city. A second dispatch this afternoon said he would reach that city tomorrow.

In messages he sent to the Turkish officials at Constantinople he adopted a most optimistic attitude over the whole Near East situation. It is understood thaV Mustapha Kemal Pasha, head of the Turkish government, summoned the parley at Smyrna Instead of Angora to outwit and get away from the Turkish extremists who are crying for war against the allies. Moderate Turks were quoted by Constantinople advices as saying that both, Kemal and Ismet favor acceptance of the Lausanne treaty with slight changes, knowing that Turkey would stand no show In war against the mighty armies and fleets of the allies and perhaps the United the Courthouse about 9 o'clock he gave salutes to the right and to the left. But he had been In the Courthouse only about Ave minutes when somebody Informed htm that Sheriff George Karmany was looking for men for jury service. This rather dampened the realtor's ardor, but he was pleased the fact that ha had been warned in advance, and so he tip-toed gently from the rear, door of the building.

In Jura to Page Twenty-one COMPLETE JURY TO TRY SMELTZ FOR PATRICIDE NINETY EXAMINED The jury to try Lloyd Smeltz, of Washington Township, for the murder of his father was completed at noon today after an examination of ninety talesmen. Four of the twelve jurors were selected this morning from a special venire. The case immediately went to trial. Assistant District Attorney Robert T. Fox completed opening address to the jury just before court adjourned for the noon recess at 12.

"0 o'clock. The opening' address for the defense will be started Turn to Puge Twenty-four Call Extra Venire of 35 In Weaver Murder Case; Accept 8 of 64 Examined A special venire of thirty-five talfismen was ordered at II o'clock this morning in- the trial ot, Boss Weaver for "the "murder of Mrs. Catherine McMullen Enders when the original venire of sixty-four persons was exhausted. Eight jurors were accepted from the original venire, Sheriff Karmany was directed to pick-up thirty-five persons from the streets for the speclul venire In the Weaver case and to bring them into court at 2 o'clock this afternoon. A recess was called until tho venire could be completed.

The eight persons accepted for tnis jury are; Harvey A. Loser, postmaster and merchant, of Progress; Ralph Dlehl, 3312 Brisbane street, Harrisburg; George D. Kissinger, Loyalton; Joseph Krobath, Wico-nisco Township; Klrby Klinger, Elizabethville, K. Fred Koenig, Enhaut; James DcGraff, 117 'Linden street, Harrisburg; William, -C. 229 Maclay street, Harrisburg.

Conscientious objections to capital punishment was claimed by forty talesmen examined for the Weaver jury. They were all excused after careful' questioning by Judge Fox as to the validity of their scruples. Judge Fox, who Is presiding in the Weaver trial, censored counsel on both sides this morning for what he termed "unnecessary delay in the selection of the jury." William McCormick Is Buried This Afternoon Funeral services for William McCormick, son of the late James McCormick, of this city; and editor of the Reading Herald-Telegram and the News-Times, who died in Heading- on Sunday afternoon, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the McCormick 101 North Front street. The services were of a simple nature and were conducted by the Rev. Dr.

C. Waldo Cherry, pastor of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Thomas J. Ferguson, of the Silver Spring Church. Burial was in the Barrlsburg Cemetery.

Services were held in Reading yesterday, in the Olivet Presbyterian Church, of-Which Mr. McCormick was a member. The services there were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Harry S. Eckert, and were attended by city officials and prominent men of Reading, newspapermen and members of the Olivet congregation.

The large auditorium of Olivet Church was filled at the service. PROMOTIONS ARE MADE IN BELL PHONE CO. HERE Important promotions affecting the personnel of 'the Bell Telephone Company In Harrisburg and the Harrisburg district, together with news of enlargement of the territory of the district, were announced here this morning. H. WY Springer, who was district superintendent of plant in Altoona, has been sent to Harrisburg with promotion to the post of division supervisor ot maintenance methods.

A. S. Ellenberger, who has been assistant engineer here. Is transferred to Reading and made district engineer. S.

E. Fitting, wire chief in Harrisburg, has been advanced to the post of supervisor of Instruction in the (Turn to Pao Thirteen DUSSELDORF, FEB. 13. All the railroads of the Ruhr werts taken over today by the French and Bel-giuns. A proclamation was issued announcing: that liencel'orth the roads will be under orders of the occupying forces.

German railway workers will be employed it they agree to obey orders. Trains passing through occupied territory will carry a Gorman as hosT tage in the cab with the engineer, to prevent sabotage. To Resume Traffic The railways are to be run chiefly for the benefit of the French and Belgians. is to meet the needs of German civilians will be resumed, however, as fast as German railway men return to work under military orders. Wesel and Emmerich, cities on the Holland border of the Rhineland, where important German customs stations are located, were occupied by French and Belgians, acting in unison, today.

At the former city, which has a population of about 2 5,000, tho Allied troops seized the customs offices and the city but found the railway station deserted and' all rolling material removed. At Emmerich, the customs house was occupied by troops. There was some little trouble and finally several uermnn poucemen wno refused to salute the invaders were arrested. DUSSELDORF, Feb. 13.

Belgians moved forward at dawn to occupy two new Geman towns," Wesel "and Turn to Page Twenty-one Women Voters' Of ficial Leads Fight Against Schantz Jury Measure The fight against the Schantz bill to excuse women from, jury duty led by Mrs. John O. Miller, Pittsburgh, State Chairman of the League of Women Voters, at the hearing before the Senate Judiciary General Committee this afternoon. "It has taken us seventy years to get what this bill is designed to deny us," declared Mrs. Miller.

"It destroys the right of equality in a matter closely related to suffrage." Senator Horace W. Schantz, Lehigh, who defended his bill against the onslaught of opposition from the women, denied there is any intention of removing this privilege. Senator Schantz and Frank M. RIter, Philadelphia, chairman of 'the Voters League in that city, were the only persons appearing in favor of the bill. RIter aVgued that many women refuse to register and vote, fearing their names wilt be taken from the" registrar's list and place1 on jury wheel.

Schantz said he introduced the. bill in fulfillment of a campaign promise he made to Lehigh County women and to. which he attributes his reelection. He denied that the bill is backed by lawyers who use "professional Jurors in criminal trials." "There are no such lawyers in Lehigh County," he said. Frederick Nun, Kidnaped, Returns to Conevnt After Escaping From Captors HAGERSTOWN, Feb.

13. Kidnaped- by two unidentified persons, Monday afternoon, rendered unconscious by a blow over the head, taken to Baltimore in a large closed car and her garments taken away from her, Sister Cecelia, a music teacher at the Notre Dame Academy, Frederick, later escaped from a Baltimore house in which Bhe was held prisoner and returned to the convent last night. BOND ORDINANCES PASS FINALLY IN COUNCIL TODAY City Council passed finally today the ordinance which paves the way to float $286,000 worth of bonds under the sever, paving and incinerator loans approved last Fall by the 6ity electors. The bonds are to bear four per cent. Interest.

Bids for the sale of the whole lot will be received and opened by Commissioner Burt-nett on March 13, he said today. Three other ordinances were passed, finally. One authorizes the purchase of a Ford auto for the use of the plumbing and building inspectors; another allows Commissioner Lynch to buy a-Garford truck; and the third directs laying a sewer in Cameron street, from Relly to Muench, and extending west' on i Turn to' Pes Twfc, fcnty-lour BILL TO ABOLISH KEPHART'S POST PASSES HOUSE BY BIG MARGIN The Vlokerman bill abolishing the office of Deputy State Treasurer was passed by the House this afternoon by a vote of 140 to 10. The Leslie members of the House from Allegheny alone opposed the bill. Harmon M.

Kepliart, Connellsville, Is the present deputy, the office having been created for him two years ago, at the expiration of his term as State Treasurer. During the treasury audit hearings Kephart said he would ask the Legislature to abolish tho of lice he held. If tho measure passes the Senate and is approved by Governor Plncliot the office will be abolished at once. The, Vickerman bill transferring certain duties from the deputy to the State Treasurer was passed on second reading, i A commission of three to be appointed by the Governor to "inspect any equipment being manufactured thot would prevent fraud at elections Turn to Page Twenty-four SENATE PLANS TO TAKE VACATION OF TWO WEEKS The Senate unanimously passed a resolution this morning to take a vacation of two weeks. The resolution provided that the Senate adjourn today to 9 o'clock Monday night.

Feb-ruary, 26 and that the House be in session next week. The vacation was expected and had been talked' of or some time. The Senate is not busy, few House bills having as yet reached the Senate. The Philadelphia leaders are also eager for the recess in order to have an opportunity to frame the mayoralty slate for that city. 1 A new State Highway in Perry County would be created by a bill introduced by Senator Culbertson, Lew-istown.

The highway would begin at Dromgold, 'Perry County and extend Turn to Ige Twenty-one CROWD NEARBY WINDOWS AT THE FICKLIN FUNERAL A large percentage of the colored population of the city began to assemble before noon today at the Harris A. M. E. Zion Church, 1414 Marion street, to attend the funeral service for Marshall Ficklin, colored political leader and member of many fraternal organizations, whose death occurred Saturday at his home, 514 Calder street. By fifteen minutes after 12 o'clock, Or an hour and a quarter before the time the services started every seat in the church auditorium.

Turn to Page Twenty-one Newspaper Publishers In Legislature Session The Associated Dailies and the Pennsylvania Weekly Newspaper Association are in session at the Penn-Harrls Hotel this afternoon, considering various topics that have to do with legislation in connection with the newspaper. The sessions this afternoon were divided but the two associations will banquet this evening in the banquet room of the Penn-Harris Hotel. The guest of honor will Governor Gifford Pin-chot. Sessions also will be held tomorrow. The opening meeting of the associated dailies was presided over by William L.

Taylor, of the York Dispatch. The banquet this evening will be presided over by E. Stack-pole. Sr. Other guests beside the Governor will be Dr.

George P. Donehoos State Librarian, and Captain William A. Lyon, distinguished Australian journalist. The meeting of the Associated Weeklies was presided over by Charles B. Spatz, of the Berks County The Italian government has just conferred the rank of "Grand Knight Cross," of the Italian Crown, upon Captain Thomas Jones, a brother-in-law of Mrs.

K. I. Bufflngton and of Miss Bessie Lewis, a graduate nurse, both of 1716 Elm street. Captain Jones is commander of the Whije Star liner Pittsburgh, and the decoration is in recognition of the heroism of himself, the other officers and crew in the rescue of tho forty-live members of the crew of the Italian merchant liner, Monte Grappa, just before she went to the WANT DATA ON PLAN TO REDUCE PENSION LEVY Mayor Hoverter introduced, but later temporarily witharew, an ordinance in City Council this morning that provides for reducing, by one-third, the amount Of money which the policemen contribute monthly to the police pension fund. The Mayor also would make, the pension ordinance provide that policemen get back all the money they paid Into the pension fund, if the policemen quit the force and withdraw from tho fund at any time after they have been a member of the fund for two years or longer.

Those policemen quitting before they had belonged to the pension fund for two years would get back only ninety per cent, of the money thev paid in. The policemen now pay three, per cent, of their wages or $45 annually to the fund. The Mayor, would re- Turn to Page Twenty-four PLOTTO EXTORT MONEY IN BOMB CASE REVEALED CHICAGO. Feb. 13.

Ripping the veil from an alleged conspiracy of private detective, agencies to extort money from business men for investigation of radical activities, Arthur W. Bailin today told of the probe in.to the Wall street bonib explosion. Making a deposition to be used at tho trial of William Z. Foster, arrested in a raid on communists at Bridgeman, Bailin, a former investigator for private detective agencies, testified. 1.

A representative of the Burns Detective Agency had offered to furnish him with a bomb, which he was to have thrown at some high official. 2. T. J. Cooned, an official or the Thiel Detective Agency, suggested that "he arrange to have a bomb thrown in the New York financial district, or at Morgan.

Agencies Battle Bailin told of a battle between the two agencies to obtain control of the Investigation into the Wall street bomb plot, in order to get the financial benefit thereof. He read a letter which he said he had received from Cooney, in which Cooney suggested that Bailtn "get in touch with some Jews in Philadelphia or Germans in New York with whom you "Bailin" are connected and investigate their connection with the bomb plot." Bailin declared that he knew nothing of the organlzations'Cooney mentioned. Bonar Law and Curzon See Disaster in Ruhr LONDON, Feb. 13. Premier Bonar Law, in Commons, and Lord Curzon, in the House of Lords, predicted this evening that the French adventure in the Ruhr would end disastrously for France as well as for Germany, McCormick and Walska Remarried at Chicago CHICAGO, Feb.

13. Harold F. McCormick and Ganna Walska were remarried today at the McConmick home in Lake Forest. Turn to Page Thirteen ADOPT PLAN TO START CONGRESS SESSION IN JAN. WASHINGTON, 13.

The Senate today adopted the Norris resolution which would amend the Constitution to prevent defeated members of Congress serving after their defeat. The Norris measure provides that the terms of members of Congress begin on the first Monday in January following their election. The annual meeting date of Congress also would become the first Monday In January. The proposed amendment would change the date of' the President's inauguration from March 4 to the third Monday in January following the election. Bridge Commission Here To Advance Claims for Increased Appropriation The House Appropriations Committee today heard members of the Delaware River Bridge Commission who desire the full State appropriation of $0,750,000 instead of the $3,250,000 allowed by the proposed budget for the bridge's completion by July 1, 1926.

Auditor General Samuel S. Lewis, chairman of the committee of the commission, outlined tho aims of the commission to complete the viaduct on time. If this work is to be done by 1926, he said. It would be necessary to award the final contracts by January, 1924. The Auditor Genernl introduced Ralph Modjeskl, engineer In charge of the work and said he desired later to explain how the State can appropriate the entire sum needed, from Pennsylvania without interfering witli the State's fiscal plans.

A telegram from Mayor Moore, who stated he could not attend the nleet-ing but expressed the hope the com' mission could get its full appropriation. Engineer Modjeski told of the need tor the entire appropriation within tho next appropriation period. He gave details of expenditures so far made and of contracts that should be let next year. Richard Weglem, Philadelphia; Judge John W. Kates, Samuel Van-clain, State Treasurer, Snyder, and others spoke for the appropriation.

1 7 PASS EXAMS FOR THE POLICE ELIGIBLE LIST Seventeen men, out of a total of thirty-two who took the tests qualified In the physical and mental examl- nations conducted by the Police Civil Service Board, and theii; names were today put on the list from which future vacancies on" the city police force will be filled, It was announced in City Council this morning. There are six vacancies and. May or Hoverter Is expected to make appointments at the meeting next Tues- i Torn to Page Twenty-four FARMERS FLEE AS RIVER OVERFLOWS MONROE, Feb. 13. Farmeri and their families were today fleeing from the Oulchlta River basin between here and Smackover, where the stream, swollen by recent snows end rains, Is overflowing and is inundating the countryside.

Ko JtuM, of li has been reported. Sheriff Respecter of None, With Jury Box Unfilled In Two Murder Trials The fate of J. Frank Kohrer, the real estate man, today could furnish Clare Briggs with a cartoon entitled, "And the Day Was Utterly Ruined." Kohrer started out this morning with a hearty breakfast, cheery greetings to his friends and a brisk walk to his office. Be had a lot of business ahead of him and planned to attend to a largo part of It. Things were exceedingly rosy and Uohrer was feeling exceedingly chipper.

For everybody he had a "merry good morning, and as he walked into.