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News Pictorials Comics Magazine Section 2 NEWS OF THE THEATERS HARRISBURG, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Discovery of Beer Lines Spurs Lancaster Finance Section Theater News Railroad News Graft Probe Mrs. Sarah J. Hay Dies; Penn Seniors Learn Who's Who Workman's Hatchet Severs Beverage Hose Run Through City-Built Sewer Channels OLCOTT, FAMOUS BALLAD SINGER, IS DEAD AT 71 By United Press MONTE CARLO, March 18. Chauncey Olcott. famous ballad singer, who introduced the song "Mother Machree," died early to BITTER DISPUTE ON RELIEF MAY BEAT BANK BILL taa MM4: In the opinion of their classmates, VICTORY OF TAX BILL TO BALANCE BUDGET IS SEEN WASHINGTON, March 18.

The battle of the bi-partisan leadership of the House for a tax bill to balance the Federal budget next year was virtually won as the House today began the work of voting the individual items to make up a $1,100,000,000 bill. Leaders also were confident the Ways and Means Committee bill, with its high income, gift and estate levies and the manufacturers' sales tax, would be passed with only minor amendments. Harassed by the specter of an oncoming election and the wrath of heavily taxed constituents, the House struggled for an escape from the budget balancing program without avail. With the Federal government running behind $7,800,000 a day, the House not only prepared to vote taxes, but to cut appropriations still further and probably to slash salaries of all government workers. The 2,500,000 income taxpayers of the Nation were slated for a jolt today while opposing forces on the sales tax continued to seek votes for the showdown on this provision.

Party whips counting on 150 Republican votes and sixty Democratic votes for the sales tax, said they expected the vote tobe close. Fire Causes $25,000 William Penn High School Senior class have some qualities they should find useful after graduation. Reading from left to right, they are: Kenneth Spengler, voted the most to be admired; John Stuempfle, most beneficial and also faculty pet; Henry -Dienna, most popular and best looking. 4 Lived Here Half Century Mrs. Sarah J.

Hay, 84, widow of Dr. John W. Hay, and for more than a half century a resident of this city, died today at the home of her son, Charles L. Hay, 2433 Reel street. She is survived by four children, Charles L.

Hay, M. L. Hay and Mrs. Charles Record, all of Harrisburg, and Mrs. S.

A. Breese, of Elmira, N. six grandchildren nd two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock at her home. The Rev.

E. Martin Grove, pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in the Harrisburg cemetery. The body may be viewed on Sunday evening, RANK OUTSIDER IS VICTORIOUS IN STEEPLECHASE AINTREE RACE COURSE, LIVERPOOL, England, March 18. Forbra, a rank outsider at 50 to 1, won the historic grand national steeplechase here today.

Egremont was second and Shau Goilin, a former winner, third. The victory of Forbra once again spiked the hopes of thousands of American racing fans, who had backed the thirteen American-owned entries who went to the post In the ninety-first running of the most gruelling test of horseflesh in the world. Forbra, never once mentioned as a possible winner, is owned by W. Parsonage and was ridden by J. Harney.

His sensational victory once again proved the maxin that the grand national is anybody's race and in nine times out of ten it is an outsider that wins. Holy Week Services To Be Held Next Week WORMLEYSBURG, March 18. -Holy Week services have been arranged by the Rev. George A. Heiss, pastor of St Paul's United Brethren Church, for each night next week except saturdav.

The Rev. J. H. Schmitt. pastor of the First United Brethren Church.

New Cumberland, will preach at the opening service on Monday night the Hev. L. Buchart, of Worm- leysburg, on "Meaning of the Cross, Tuesday; the Rev. A. B.

Mower, of this borough, a former pastor of the cnurch, Wednesday; the Rev. Mr. Heiss, Thursday and Friday nights. There will also be special music. The Women's Missionary Association will have charge of a special service at the church at 2.30 "Good Friday" afternoon.

On Sunday a baptismal service will be conducted by the pastor in conjunction with the morning worship service. He will preach on "Palms and Victory," in keeping with the observance of "Palm Sunday." On Easter Sunday morning a catechetical class will take the vows of confirmation during the morninjj worship seadce, and Holy Commun- ion will be celebrated. The church choir sin? choral cantata. "The Crucifixion," by Steiner, on Easter bunday night. Gelbert Will Join Team for "Parley" AMBLER, March 18.

Charlie Gelbert, St. Louis Cardinal shortstop, and star of the 1930 World Series, entrained today for Bradentown, Cardinal training camp, "for a conference." his father told International News Service. Gelbert, said the elder Gelbert, a veterinarian, received a telegram last night from St. Louis officials asking' him to come to the training camp. Although refusing to divulge the contents of the telegram, Doctor Gelbert said "I believe he'll get a raise, but not what he asked." War Minister Blames Deposed Manchu Chief TOKIO, March 18.

War Minister Lieut. Gen. Sadao Araki issued a communique today charging Gen. Chang Hsueh-Liang, deposed Man-churian warlord, with instigating and financing the stubborn guerrilla warfare against Japanese in Manchuria. He indicated that Japan suspects the Chinese of planning extensive guerrilla operations from Jehol and that action will be taken against them.

Prisoner Drops Dead In Lebanon Co. Jail LEBANON, March 18. Han Wolfe, 54, a native of Sheridan, died suddenly yesterday morning in the Lebanon County jail, where he was serving a ten to twenty-year sentence. Death was due to a heart attack, according to Coroner Man-beck. Non-Affection Wins Her Divorce International News Servict CINCINNATI, March 18.

No hugs or kisses for thirteen years; only "jawing." Mrs. Bertha M. Hundley, a missionary worker, today made that the basis of her suit for divorce against Elmer Hundley, 58, superintendent of the Lockland, Ohio, post office. Her husband also told friends he was living with her under protests, Mrs. Hundley testified.

-WAS-StV -(. vwfcWw wVf: Photo hy EnaminKar who" elnrtinn. thorn, memhir nf thu SUIT WILL TEST LIABILITY OF OWNERS OF BANK A test suit to determine the liability of a stockholder of a closed State-charter hank has been insti-' tuted by Dr. William D. Gordon, State Secretary of Banking, against a shareholder of the closed Susquehanna Title and Trust Com pany, Philadelphia.

The purpose of the suit, filed in Common Pleas Court, No. 2, Philadelphia, is to collect from the stockholder an amount equal to the par value of his holdings, in order to pay an additional sum to depositors. The suit will be heard in April. The decision of the lower court, it is generally understood, will be eventually carried to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, so that the question of stockholder liability in a banking institution operating under a State charter can be finally established. Opinion among a number of lawyers conversant with the banking laws of Pennsylvania heretofore has been that stockholders in a trust company are not subject to liability in the event of the failure of the institution to pay its depositors in full.

In the case of national banks. stocknoitiers are liable to nn assessment equal to the par value of their holdings in the event that the bank, after closing, has not sufficient assets to pay its deposit liabilities. University Professor Traps 3 Extortionists International Sews Service CHICAGO, March 18. Three men were in police custody here today facing extortion charges after being trapped by a University of Chicago professor. The men, Edward Belson, of Chicago, and Jack Grablick, alias Gleason, and John L.

Murphy, alias Walkin, both, of Detroit, extorted $2500 fron Jerome G. Kerwin, nationally known educator and author, and attempted to secure an additional $5000. Kerwin notified police, made 'an appointment with the trio to pay them the $5000 and they were arrested. PERMITS FOB TWO GARAGES Building permits for two garages were issued at city hall today. John G.

Bachman will erect one at 2736 Lexington street, and Abraham R. Burkholder will build the other at 2726 Lexington street. Each will cost $350. BEVERLY HILLS, March 18. I see where a bunch of 'em are trying to defeat the sales tax.

Canada and everywhere that have tried it have found it absolutely satisfactory. The idea that a tax on something keeps anybody from buying it is a lot of hooey. They put it on gasoline all over the country and it hasn't kept a soul at home a single night or day. You could put a dollar a gallon on it and still a pedestrian couldn't cross the street with safety without armor. We are three billion In the hole and will be three more next year, and not a Congressman- has got the nerve to ask his voters to pay part of it.

You can talk hoarding, you can talk lack of confidence, but the biggest handicap to a return of prosperity is that there is an election this fajl. Yours, lilt. MeNaug hi ly4lu. Im fsy Rogers 'says: 7nteTna(ionnl A'ficj Service LANCASTER, March 18. "Beer" was on everybody's lips today, verbally, but Lancaster was fast going dry after a workman accidentally made the sensational disclosure that the beverage was flowing as fast as sewage and in virtually the same channels.

Repairing a manhole, the worker "tapped" trie startling line of information and instead of beer, a storm was brewing in Lancaster today. The man's ax struck the hose as he was at work and a stream of beer showered him Already rocked by revelations of: vice and police graft, the city girded itself for a war to the finish" on vice lords, beer barons and police corruption. "I want action," was the battle cry of Mayor T. Warren Metzger. The beer line was an ingeniously contrived arrangement whereby a hose, sections of it made from fire hose, guided the illegal fluid under busy city streets and through the same trenches that carried the municipal sewer system.

The source of the flow and the terminals were not immediately discovered but a probe to the end was promised as the district attorney's office pre dicted a dozen arrests before night- tail. Revelation of the beer line followed on the heels of the dismissal of Chief of Police Raymond Whit-comb after Alois Edtmiller, hotel proprietor, charged in court he paid the official $10 a week for slot machine privileges. Ironically enough, the theory that the beer channel had been con structed at city expense and installed with the sewer lines was advanced. The district attorney's office started a separate investigation of this angle. PANIC FEATURES HOSPITAL FIRE I By United Press ROME.

N. March 18. A score of women and children, some in critical conditions, were carried from the James A. Murphy Memorial Hospital today after fire broke out in the wooden addition on the north side of the structure. Several panic stricken women, with babes in their arms, rushed out into the snow in their night clothing.

Others were taken from the second floor by ladder, after flames made the stairs impassable. The rescued were transferred in fire trucks and private automobiles to the Rock Hospital. The flames were confined by firemen to the annex and kitchen. Damage was placed roughly at $10,000. Legion Makes Progress In Job Hunting Work By United Press PHILADELPHIA, March 18.

Reports to State headquarters of the American Legion from various posts throughout the State showed the following number of men have been given work during the past twenty-four hours: Ardmore, Crafton-Ingram, Hanover, 25; Kennett Square, 16; Leechburg, 283; Monessen, Mt. Joy, New Castle, 18; Pine Grove, Shamokin, Titusville, 237; Washington, Weterby, 2. Home Wreckers Got To Wrong Residence International A'ews Servict NORFOLK, March 18. House wreckers should be able to count at least up to fifty. In a town like Norfolk where streets are named numerically, it would eliminate confusion and embar rassment.

Consider E. S. Hargrove who owned a ten-room residence at 1042 Forty-third street. The house disappeared and Hargrove notified police. A mistake had been made.

The boys startpd out to tear down a house for James McCoy at 1012 Forty-first street, but became confused in their mathematics, and then pounced on the first "1042" they found. McCoy refuses to pay for the job. Refuses Job, Decides To Stick to Fast Bt) United Press WASHINGTON, March 18. Dr. Frederick F.

Wolter, 57, German' born librarian with a long: scholastic record, refused to break his vow of starvation when a Job was offered him last night, so today he entered the nineteenth day of his fast. He is determined to die in protest against unemployment In general and his own in particular. When his slow suicide became known he was offered a temporary job In a library, through the intercession of the Washington Herald. The position would have paid $15 a week to start. I I day from pernicious anemia.

He was 71 years old. Olcott's wife, son, and daughter were at, his bedside, at villa here. The body of the singer actor will be buried in New York, they said. Olcott was a native of Buffalo, where he was born July 21, 1860. He was developed as a singer by the late R.

M. Hooley and became famous as the "Irish tenor." He married Margaret O'Donovan, of San Francisco, in 1897, traveled with Company several years, appeared with various minstrel and opera troupes, and then went to England to sing in comic opera. Olcott succeeded W. J. Scanlan as star Irish musical dramas and re turned to America to introduce "Mother Machree," the greatest song hit of his career.

Other Irish songs which dcott made famous before his serious illness in 1925 included "I Love the Name of Mary," "A Little Bit of Heaven, Sure They Call It Ireland," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," and many sentimental ballads of that type. 15 Year 8 More Is Given "International Thief" Bu United Frr.ii PITTSBURGH, March 18. Robert Considine, described as an "international thief," who has spent thirty of his 55 years in prison, must serve at least fifteen years more in the Western Penitentiary. Considine who pleaded guilty to charges of leading a burglary i i i i i Kng, Denevea responsmie ior forty-five robberies in Pittsburgh, was sentenced to fifteen-thirty years late yesterday. Considine has served terms In prisons in England, South Africa, Devils Island and a number of American cities.

Two of his companions, Philip Moran and Raymond Miller, are to be sentenced later. They are tbe called as witnesses in the trial of Miss Nettie Gordon, Pittsburgh, on charges of buying stolen goods from the Considine group. Four Bandits Hold Up Restaurant; Get $500 International JTftrn Service PITTSBURGH, March 18. Herding fifteen customers and a waiter into a rear room, four bandits armed with sawed-off shotguns, escaped with $500 here today after forcing a restaurant owner to open a safe Tlie monpv. nccordino- nnliVn was left at the restaurant, hv Tv.

eral hunters who feared the risk of losing it in their unoccupied homes. No attempt was made to take any money from two cash registers. Fire Alarm Nearly Costs Fireman's Life fit ited Press MEYERSDALE, March 18. Edwin Meager, Meyersdale fireman, nearly lost his life when a fire alarm sounded as he was being shaved. Meager leaped from the barber chair at the sound of the alarm.

The barber's razor cut a deep gash in his neck, penetrating but not severing the jugular vein. A surgeon stopped the flow of blood and dressed the wound. Wilkes-Barre Man Held As Knife Victim Dies International Xeun Servict WILKES-BARRE, March 18. Ig-natz Turan today was held without bail in the Luzerne County jail in connection with the death of Joseph Yebenic, 40, from tetanus, said to have developed from a stab wound. Police said the men' participated in a free-for-all fight at a boarding house where they lodged.

No charges have been preferred against Turan. Awarded $5138 Damages For Auto Accident WAYNESBURG, March 18. Ruby Marie Headley, minor daughter of Allen Headley, Windridge, was awarded a verdict of $5438.20 from Dr. Luther Davis, Fairmont, W. physician, yesterday, as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident.

SUFFRAGE LEADER DIES HAVERFORD, March 18. Mrs. Rebecca Chapman Winsor, woman suffrage leader and former chairman of the board of lady managers 'of the Bryn Mawr Hospital, died today at her home here. LOCKS STOLEN FROM GARAGES The theft of six locks from garages owned by O. L.

Schiefer, of 1944 North Sixth street, in Wallace street, between Delaware and Peffer streets, was reported to police today. Nothing was stolen from the garages. REPORTS THEFT OF TIRE H. C. Keddy, of 1256 Walnut street, reported to police today the theft of a tire, valued at $9, from his automobile while it was parked last night in a vacant lot near his home, By I'nitrd Frem WASHINGTON, March 18.

Legislation for relief of depositors closed hanks today i involved in an angry dispute which will delay and may defeat the measure. The relief project to create a $700,000,000 fund for quick liquidation of a closed bank's assets figures in the dispute only because it is part, of the general Glass banking bill. Administration Senators and Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, brought the bill to the Senate yesterday in apparent amity. Within a few hours they were battling in press statements regarding the nature of their agreement. The United Pres is informed on unquestioned authority that the Administration will fight certain provisions of the Glass bill on the grounds that they would provide permanent deflationary amendment of the Federal Reserve act.

The issue now is in deadlock. Senators Townsend, Republican, Delaware, and Walcott, Republican, Connecticut, who served for weeks with Glas3 on the subcommittee which prepared the final draft of the bill, announced after it was introduced that "a few sections can be improved materially." "It is of the utmost importance," their joint statement continued, "at this' time that no permanent changes in the banking law of the Federal Reserve System be madf which might be construed as deflationary." Move Postponement of Honor Slaying Trial International Xews Servict HONOLULU, T. March 18. Attorneys for four Americans charged with the "honor slaying" of a native today moved to postpone the trial from March 28 to April 11 to allow defense attorney Clarence Darrow time to arrive from the mainland and study the case. The Americans are Mrs.

Grace Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas H. Mas-sie and two naval enlisted men charged with killing Joseph Kaha-hawai, one of five natives accused of criminally attacking Lieutenant Massie's young bride, Mrs. Thalia Massie. Territorial attorneys will insist the trial be started March 28.

The motion of defense counsel to postpone the trial will be heard Monday before territorial circuit Judge Charles S. Davis. Mexico Assigns Men To Lindbergh Case International h'eics Service MEXICO CITY, March 18. Twelve of Mexico's crack secret operatives were assigned today to look for the kidnaped Lindbergh, baby. The men, said to be the most observing and able criminal investigators in the Federal district are functioning under the direction of Prof.

Benjamin Martinez, Mexican finger print authority. The new detectives will augment a force designated by President Ortiz Rubio two days after the kidnaping to watch the Mexican-United States border as exclusively revealed at the time by International News Service. Urich Hearing Postponed The case of J. M. Urich, 1909 North street, who is held in $1000 bail on a charge of tlninken driving, was postponed until Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Justice of the Peace W.

Scott Coble, Wormleys-burg. Hearing in the case was to have been held yesterday. Urich was arrested after his machine struck a culvert a mile east of Enola. Two persons were injured in the accident. EIGHTEEN RETIRE At the recent meeting of the School Employes' Retirement Board eighteen school employes were granted retirement allowances.

They had served in the public schools of Pennsylvania for periods ranging from ten to forty-nine years. They were: T. S. Allison, Huston Washington County; Josephine B. Brown, Philadelphia; E.

Myra Cloos, Townshfp, Potter County; G. B. Crump, Wilkes-Barre; Lillian M. Gault, Pittsburgh; Chrissie R. Hutchinson, Pittsburgh; R.

P. McHenry, Bloomsburg State Teachers' College; Margaret McDonald, West Pittston; Samuel B. Miller, West Buffalo Township, Union County; F. E. Yocum, Bloomsburg State Teachers' College; Anna M.

Wall, Philadelphia: Benjamin E. Biswanger, Philadelphia; Belle H. Browning. Philadelphia; S. Anna Cobler.

Altoona; Clara Henderson, Pittsburgh; Emma W. Knight, Philadelphia; Mildred E. Barr, Bellevue; Sara E. Frey, Altoona. determined by the annual "who's From Page One most beneficial of the boys, John Stuempfle was found also to be the faculty pet.

The complete list of selections is as follows: But athlete. Minnie Holtzman and Homer Bolan; best pport. Caroline Wan. bauKh and Isreal Michlovitz; most popular, Rosalyn Walter and Henry LMenna: most aihool aDirit. Theodore Heard and Justice Roberts; wittiest.

Florence HutHi-ins and Edward MncAvoy; cla clown. Kvelyn Cramer and Jamea King; gi'u-cler. Mary Alice Klough: class critic. Elizabeth Sutton and John Kager; musician, Alice Klough and Isreal Koplo-vitz. Cutest, Dorothy Helmerdinjrer; quiet-eat.

Anna I'effer and Paul Zook: most studious. Mildred Goldman and Robert an Horn: best dancer. Zelda Richmond and Morris Furman; beat socializes Rosalyn Walter and Eugene Sliellcv: most conceded, Rhea Robinson and ChRrtea Zell: blBirest baby. Adele Kuehel and James King; most modest, Charlotte fomn and Frank Akers; best nebular, Mildred Goldman and John Fager. Man hater.

Bertha Buch: woman hater. John Kochenour: office pest. F.leanor Sides ann Mtuarc itaring; most beneficial, Mildred Goldman and John Stuempfle; most dignified. Mary Elizabeth Slone and Lewis Brltton; sweetest, Dorothy Heim-erdinger; best looking, Henry Dienna; most to be admired, Florence Kpnlev and Kenneth Xpengler: shortest. Caroline Wamhaugh and Roy Stetler; tallest.

Alda Smyxer and Kenneth Spengler: most original, Rosalyn Walter and Edward MacAvoy; sleepiest. Anna Elizabeth Moore; laziest, Stuart Harlng; faculty Mary Elizabeth Stone and John Stuempfle: hest orator. Alda Smyser and Harrx Miller; best iiatnred. John Uretz, and class sheik, Ruhsell Hell. PUPILS PRAISE RETIRING COP Victor H.

Bihl, 1620 Park street, who was retired Tuesday from the city police force after twenty years of service as a city patrolman, is commended warmly in letters received at police headquarters today for the services he rendered pupils and teachers of Lincoln Grammar School while protecting them from the hazards of traffic. The letters also contain expressions of deep regret over his retirement. One of the letters was written by children of the Sixth Grade in behalf of the Lincoln student body. The other was written by Miss Anna P. Harris, Lincoln school teacher.

The letter from the pupils follows: "Dear Mr. Bihl: We appreciate the service you have done for use while you were on duty at Sixteenth and State streets. We are sure we could not have gotten along so well with out you. Because of your protection. we have been safe from danger while crossing State street.

"We are sorry to have you leave. We hope you have many happy years after you retire. Come back to see us sometimes. We thank you very much for the kindness to us. "We hope the policeman who succeeds you will be as kind to us and faithful as you were.

He will have to keep on the job to do as well as you have done. Your friends, The Lincoln Children." Part of the letter written by Miss Harris to Mayor George A. Hover-ter, follows: "The pupils and teachers are deeply grateful for the fine way in which he (Mr. Bihl) has taken care of us. "We hope the man who takes Mr.

Bihl's place will be as much interested in the childrens welfare as Mr. Bihl was." Atlantic City Stores Threatened by Fire International Nexvi Service ATLANTIC CITY, N. March 18. Damage estimated at $5000 today lay in the wake of a fire which burned three buildings and for a time threatened to destroy a block of frame stores on the boardwalk here. The fire started in the rear of a photo gallery and spread rapidly to the buildings adjoining it.

Stephen Marney Dies At Steelton Home Stephen Marney, 67, a policeman employed at the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company, died last night at his home, 724 North Second street, Steelton. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Kathryn El-wood, of San Pedro, California. CHILD'S FACE LACERATED Suffering lacerations of the face when he fell acainst a bed at his home, 3-year-old Valentino Dam- brosio, 418 South River street, received treatment last evening at the Harrisburg Hospital, HITLER LABELS FASCISM AIDS POLITICAL MOVE International News Servict BERLIN, March 18. Adolf Hitler, Fascist leader, today labeled as a "campaign' maneuver" the Prussian government's action in raiding Nazi (Fascist) headquarters throughout Prussia in the greatest group of raids in recent German history.

Prussian police, on orders from government officials, who declared the Nazis were planning "civil war" and were concentrating the "brown shirt? forces to seize the government by force, began simul taneously to invade hundreds of Nazi offices in search of documentary evidence. Hitler admitted he had authorized concentration of his army, but said it was only for protection against Reds, whom, he said, had killed forty of his men and injured thousands during recent weeks. Girls' Vagabond Trip Ends; Pair Return Home United Prets DETROIT, March 18. Their carefully saved lunch money exhausted, two Grosse Pointe high school girls who started out Tuesday to "fee the world" were back home with their parents today after a vagabond trip to Toledo, Ohio. The girls, Joan McPherson, 13, and Margaret Menzel, 12, returned late yesterday while police were still tracing a telephone call they made from Toledo.

Joan is the daughter of John H. McPherson, assistant attorney general Margaret's father is Stephen J. Menzel, an executive of the Graham-Paige Motor Corporation. Neither the girls nor their parents would reveal details of the trip which started when Margaret took her father's automobile from the Menzel garage. It was learned, however, they registered at a Toledo hotel Wednesday under the names of Diana Lindlow and Mar-jorie Pemberton.

Pola Negri Collapses In Hotel International New Bvrvice NEW YORK, March 18. Pola Negri, famous motion picture actress, collapsed today in her suite at the Ambassador Hotel as the result of strain brought on by a six week's tour. According to her physician, Dr. Jerome Wagner, she will not be able to resume playing for a week. Decide Against Tax On Copper and Whisky By United Pren WASHINGTON.

March 18. the House Ways and Means Committee today decided against proposed taxes on copper and whisky. The committee rescinded its action of yesterday, contemplating a duty of four cents a pound on imported copper, and decided not to submit the proposition to the House. The vote was 14 to 8. The committee overwhelminely voted down the Dickinson plan to tax medicinal whisky and wine $5 a gallon.

RELEASED UNDEB BAIL LEBANON. March 18. After fur nishing $1000 bail C. F. Marshall, of Northumberland, jointly charged with robbery and larceny with Rich ard Smith, of Sunbury, was released irom the county jail.

Loss in Berwick BERWICK, March 18. Fire believed to have been caused by defective wiring resulted in a loss estimated at $25,000 at the Y. M. C. A.

building here last night. The blaze, which was brought under control shortly before midnight, is believed to have originated in the attic of the building. The first and second floors of the building were damaged by smoke and water. There was also much loss caused by the flooding of the basement of the building, where the bowling alleys had been installed. The fire was discovered by one of the twenty-five roomers who occupied the building, on his return to his room about 11 o'clock.

The blaze was confined to the attic of the building, according to fire officials, who said the greater part of the damage was caused by smoke and water. Firemen assisted the roomers in carrying their personal effects from the building. Commutes Sentence of Aged Chinese Slayer Bi United Prena SANTA FE, N. March 18. Woo Dark San, aged and diminutive Chinese, has escaped the electric chair alter a five-year fight for his life.

Woo Dark San was convicted five years ago of murder. He was sentenced to death, but appealed. His case hung in the courts for some time, and the Chinese fatally volunteered himself for a scientific experiment. His offer found no takers, but yesterday Governor Arthur Selig-man commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. BOY CHARGE MURDER SHENANDOAH, March 18.

Edward Morris, 21, today faced a charge of murder in connection with the death of 4-year-old John Haverstick, who, according to police, was fatally ecalded during a drinking party at' the Haverstick home here. Morris is alleged to have thrqwn a kettle of boiling water at the boy's brother. The water, police said, missed its intended victim and the boy was showered with boiling water. He died in the Ashland Hospital. Driver of Pig-Killing Automobile Arrested International Xewt Service PITTSBURGH, March 18.

Five were killed and two injured when the auto of John Cooney, 22, plunged into a crowd in East Ohio street today. Cooney was arrested on a reckless driving charge. The dead and injured all fine fat pigs were taken to the slaughter house to which they, with about 100 others, were being driven when the accident occurred. Uniontown to Abolish Jobs and Save Money UNIONTO.WN, March 18. Uniontown school board has announced $12,000 will be saved annually by abolishing a number of positions, including superintendent of buildings, dental hygienist, assistant school nurses, supervisors of art and music and grade school supervisor..