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PAGE FIVE THE EVENING NEWS, HARRISBURG, PENNA, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1919 which will be followed by the flyers, Unofficial reports Indicated that the 79TII DIVISION YANKS CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE flyers may decide to take the Azores route. Destroyers will patrol this course also. The advantage that the Azores course has is that the planes will not have to carry such a heavy load of fuel the distance to tne Jsianas do ins about 700 miles less than to the fit coast of Ireland. Unnecessary stress Pusey Tells House Of the 28th's Herpism Colonel Fred Taylor division quartermaster of the 28th Division, spoke last night In the hall of the House of Representatives. He is one of the first division headquarters men back and he gave unstinted praise to the men of the division.

"They went away as boys and are returning to you as men," he said amid cheers; "Some, unfortunately, will never come back, and others will not be able to perform their old duties, for many have been seriously wounded. But when you see them marching down the streets In your home cities, you will see as magnificent a body of stalwart Americans as ever assembled anywhere." on the motors will be saved thereby. Crews Named Crews named for the trip are: First crew Commander J. Towers, commanding officer and navigator; Commander H. C.

Rich ardson and Lieutenant L. ti. mcoui lough, pilots; Lieutenant Commander 3 U. S. ENTRIES FORTRANS-OCEAN FLIGHT TO START TRIPS NEXT WEEK By United Presi NEW YORK.

April 29. The Tavy's three seaplanes, the NC-1, NC-3 and NQ-4, practically ready for their trans-Atlantic trip, will "jump iff" early next week, it was semiofficially learned today. Starting simultaneously and preceded by destroyers, the huge flying boats will leave Far Rockaway for New, Foundland. At St. Johns or lome other New Foundland port, the jlanes will alight on the water, replenish their gasoline and oil tanks and head for Ireland.

May Take Azores Route More than a score of' the Navy's Speediest destroyers are already on their way, or being held under or-lors to patrol the Great Circle track, 2 ARE SEIZED IN BRAWL IN WHICH MAN LOSES EAR 4 EUZABETHTOWN, Apr.11-29. Charges of mayhem and assault and battery have been lodjjed here at Squire John E. Brlnser's office against Eugene "Beanie" Sherk, an amateur baseball pitcher, and John Ebersole, a motor transfer driver, as the result of a brawl here Saturday night in which Etter Houser, son of William F. Houser, of Middletown, had the major portion of his left ear bitten off. The defendants have, furnished bail for a preliminary Rearing which probably will be held next Monday evening.

The principals all are well known in upper Lancaster and lower, Dauphin County. Houser alleges he was attacked by Sherk without provocation and that after the first phase of the fight had ended the transfer driver held Houser while Sherk made a second attack and bit off the ear. Houser has retained Maurice R. Metzger, a Middletown lawyer, as special counsel and Metzger today said that charges of mayhem probably will be lodged against Ebersole. The extreme penalty for that offense Is a fine of $1000, of which three-fourths goes to the aggrieved, and imprisonment not exceeding five years.

Witnesses said that both Houser and Sherk got blackened eyes in the scrap. Sherk was a pitcher on the R. A. Lavender, radio operator ana Machinist L. R.

Moore, engineer. Second crew Lieutenant Commander A. C. Read, commanding officer and navigator; Lieutenants E. F.

Stone and W. K. Hinton, pilots; Ensign H. C. Rodd, radio operator; Chief Special Mechanic E.

H. Howard, engineer. Third crew Lieutenant Commander II. N. L.

Bellinger, commanding officer and navigator; Lieutenant Commander M. A. Mitscher and Lieutenant L. T. Barin, pilots; Lieutenant Harry Saden-water, radio operator; Chief Machinist's Mate Kester, To Discuss Re-education With Disabled Soldiers S.

G. representative from the Federal Board of Education, will be at Red Cross headquarters In the basement of the Public Library all day i Friday, to confer with discharged disabled soldiers on the subject of re-education as offered by the with two Liberty motors He has Photograph by Signal Corps, U. A. This is a picture of the rear of Company 313th infantry, 79th Division, taken during actual battle maneuvers at Combres, Troyon sector, France, on October 23, 1918, with the front linefour kilometres away. The 79th contains many Harrisburg boys.

afft Mi saw OBITUARY hich Sort of lan Are You? 3 YANKS KILLED IN NEGRO SCRAP By United LONDON, April 29. Three Amer man of blood and iron, who gets up feeling keen, active and alert $450,000 IS LEFT BY DR. SEIBERT Dr. William H. Seibert, late of Steelton, left an estate valued at $450,000, according to papers filed at the Courthouse this morning when MRS.

JACOB BROWN Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob Brown, who died at her home, 1121 North Cameron street, Saturday, will be held tomorrow afternoon, with the Rev. Dr. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor of the Salem Reformed Church, officiating.

Burial will be in the Harrisburg Cemetery. oft? Middletown baseball team for several seasons prior to last year. Eberso'le ican soldiers were reported today to operates a transfer between here and Middletown. have been killed and thirty Injured in a clash with South African ne S3 the Steelton Trust Company was ap RECEIVE OFFICIAL NOTICE OF groes at a repatriation camp near Winchester, sixty-two miles southwest of London, last night Brttlsb troops quelled the riot. a man of stamina and force who will forge ahead in the business and political life of the country today? Are You Such a Man? Or a man who lacks iron in his blood who has no energy, force nor strength to meet the problems of the day, and wishes he could sleep until noon? SARAH YOUNG Funeral services for Sarah Toung, 50 years old, of 359 Main street.

Steel-ton, who died Saturday at Hamburg, will be held tomorrow noon at the residence with the Rev. M. O. Pelrce, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, this city, officiating. Burial will be in Duncannon.

DICKERSON'S DEATH IN CHAIR The Court received official notice this morning from the warden of the Center County Penitentiary that Hardy Dickerson, slayer of William Leitzer, was electrocuted yesterday morning at 7.11 o'clock. 1 The murder occurred almost a pointed to administer the estate. The personal estate is fixed at $350,000 and the real estate at $100,000. Dr. Seibert was a widower and left no children.

His nearest relatives are two brothers and a sister, John of Hanoversdale; George of Lebanon, and Annie of Steelton. They renuonced their right to administer the estate and recommended the appiontment of. the trust company. The doctor did not leave a will. Urges Teachers to Get In Touch With Homes Declaring that poverty Is due to illness in families more often than to mismanagement of homes, Dr.

John W. Stewart, of Lehigh University, urged In his twentieth lecture to the city teachers in Tech High last night, that the teachers ought to keep In close touch with their pupils' homes apd investigate social conditions. The speaker dwelt much on his theory that a big handicap hangs over children who have sickness in their homes. While defining poverty, its causes and effects. Dr.

Stewart said: "We are Just now getting at the root of the evil." He particularly urged that begging on the streets be discouraged. When persons begin the "panhandle game," he said, they usually find It snch an easy way to get money that they don't try to get out of it. Andrew Musser Dies at Hamburg; Funeral Here The body of Andrew Musser, aged 40 years, who died Sunday at Hamburg, was brought to Harrisburg today. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the family residence, 611 Herr street. Mr.

Musser is survived by his wife and two children. He had been In impaired health for several months. year ago in the Dickerson home on South Ninth street, this WANT TO GO TO PARADE Senator Phipps, of pre. CORPORTIONS WIN IN FIVE TAX CONTROVERSIES Pnnsylvania corporations can not be charged a State tax on money procured or represened by promissory notes, so Judge Kunkel ruled in five decisions filed in court this morning. Three were in as many tax cases, covering three years, against the Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company; another was in a case against the Roxford Knitting Company and the other involved the Lehigh and New England Railroad Company.

In all the cases judgment was directed to be entered in favor of the defendant companies. The tax claims were small. Look around at the men you meet every day. You can tell the ones with plenty of rich, red blood they are strong, healthy fellows, vigorous to body and mind successful in whatever they undertake. One glance is snough to put the others in the weakling class.

sented a resolution before the Senate last evening authorizing the ap That irritable twitch, that fit of de ened tissues and helps to instill renewed enenrv and endurance into the whole v- Springfield Rifles for Penna. Reserve Militia Adjutant General Be'ary today received word from the War Department that it would send 3500 Springfield rifles here for the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia to take the place of the Remingtons now in us4 Notice was also received that the request by the Governor for the battle flags of the Pennsylvania fighting units would be considered. The Adjutant General desires the flags for the Capitol collection in the rotunda. pointment of a committee of six legislators, three to be appointed from the Senate by the president pro tem. tponlency, that fiizzy, leanui reeling and three to be appointed by the 5iH Speaker of the House, to make ar Chamberlain Trial Ends, Findings Are Withheld PARIS, April 29.

Trial of Captain Edmund Chamberlain, V. S. Marine, charged with obtaining the Distinguished Service Cross through forged reports wa8 completed today. The findings, which were not announced, will be sent to Admiral Knapp for review. Afterward they will be forwarded to Secretary Daniels and the Judge Advocate at rangements for the State legislators at the reception to the returning these are the sort of sipnals nature gives tem.

If you are not strong or well you owe to tired, listless folks when the blood is it to yourself to make the following test: Marving for strength-giving iron. Iron is See how long you can work or how far absolutely essential to change food into you can walk without becoming tired; next living tissue, muscle and brain. Without take two flve-grln tablets of Nuxated Iron iron there can be no strong, red-blooded three times per day after meals for two men and unless this Iron is obtained from weeks. Then test your strength again and the foods we eat. It must be supplied in see bow much you have gained.

Nuzated Some form that is easily absorbed and as- Iron will increase the strength, power and iimilated. Nuxated Iron, by enriching the endurance of delicate, nervous, run-down Wood and creating new red blood cells, people in two weeks time in many in- strenpthfns the nerves, rebuilds the weak- siannes. 28th division in Philadelphia. 1 CALLS FOR OPENING OF M'CALL'S DAM FISHWAY Speaker Spangler, of York, Intro "AMERICAN" duced a bill in the House last night 3x5 Foot, Sewed Stripes; Flag, Jointed Pole and Bracket. SUM).

FLAGS CRYSTAL PEP? COl'RT REFl'SES TO GRANT REHEARING- IN BRENNER CASE Following a brief argument in court this morning on a motion for a retrial of the case In which Joseph D. Brenner, a Middletown junk dealer, was convicted of false pretense, Judge Kunkel dismissed the motion and directed that the District Attorney may, at his convenience, move for judgment against 'Brenner. The defendant's attorney made an appeal for a rehearing but the Court said "I guess we'll have to" leave him where the jury placed him." Brenner gave a $1000 check as part payment on a shipment of iron and the check was returned marked: "No funds." requiring the State Fish iCommis-sioner to certify within a year whether adequate provision has been made at McCall's Ferry Dam for the passage of fish. If this cannot be certified, the bill provides that quo warranto proceedings be started against the Pennsylvania Water and Power Company. SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION MEASURE PASSES HOUSE The Sweitzer bill providing that the children of school districts, containing less than ten "pupils may be transported free to the next nearest school, was passed by the House today by 'a vote of 169 to 12 after an animated debate.

Absolutely Fast Colors Mail Orders Promptly Sent THEKENNEYCO. 1314 ASCII, P11LLA. -1 DOZEN FAMILIES FLEE FLAMES IN CHAMBERSBURG Special to The Evening News CHAMBERSBURG, April 29. Fire starting at 2 o'clock this morning in the cellar of the A. M.

Stager Block, running a half square on Lincoln Way drove a dozen families into the street. All escaped without injury, but there were several narrow escapes. The loss will be many thousands of dollars. The stocks of the stores in the building were ruined by water. The volunteer firemen prevented the total destruction of the 3 DEAD IN WRECK NEAR SGRANTON i By United Press SCRANTON.

April 29. Three men were killed and two others injured, one probably fatally when the caboose in which they were riding crashed into a train of cars on the tracks of the L. near the viaduct at Taylor at midnight last night. The dead are: i Fireman John Beretsky, Dallas; trainman 'Jacob Rustein, Kingston; Trainman Ray Kelley, Kingston. The injured: Flagman Harry Dennison, Kingston, and.

Henry Smith. LAPY HARRIS TO MEET Lady Harris Council, 304 North Second street, will meet this evening when the booster committee will form plans for the classification to be held by the Sons and Daughters of Liberty lodges of the middle IT' vcr Thougl MARRIAGE LICENSES Richard Hinton, Shlppensburg, and Earnestine M. Collier, city. Israel S. Hurwitz, Lock Haven and Clara Lepman, city.

Joseph yf. Ryan and Betty M. Get-chell, Benjamin Barrell, Hlghoplre, and Mildred B. Gessey, city. Roy A.

Wingard, Enola and Myrtle L. Dunn, Newport. Raymond E. Matter, Lykens, and Mary E. Stoneroad.

Fishervilie. Daniel H. Keister and Eva E. Her-rold, city. William B.

Smith, Childrews, and Margaret E. Maumgartner, North Port, L. I. High 'Will Prices Go? WOMEN FINED $50 EACH Blanche Twltty and Daisy Major, both colored, arrested on charges of soliciting white men upon the street, each paid a fine of $50 imposed by Mayor Keister in police court yesterday afternoon. Rene Hammond and Joste Jones, colored, arrested for disorderly conduct, were each sentenced to twenty days in jail.

AH llil i FT Meat Firemen Overcome PITTSBURGH, April 29. Two firemen were overcome by smoke and one man was injured in a fire in a three-story store and apartment building in East Pittsburgh early today. The damage is estimated at $10,000. 111 TWO DIVORCES GRANTED Maud L. Powley is forbidden to marry either Harry Grlssinger or Clarence Biddle in- a divorce decree which the Dauphin County Court granted to her husband, John H.

Powley, this morning. Grissinger and Biddle had mentioned as corespondents. A divorce also was granted in the case of Samuel vs. Caroline Johan. mi HOUSE AGREES TO ATTEND 28TH PARADE IN PHTLA.

The House passed the Senate resolution providing for a committee of six to make arrangements for the attendance of the Legislature at the Philadelphia parade of the 28th Division. Thieves Get $10,000 PITTSBURGH, April 29. More than $10,000 in money, Liberty Bonds SERVICE QUESTIONNAIRES Questionnaires to determine the workers who are entitled to certificates an (J decorations for special services rendered during the war were received recently at Red Cross quarters and have been distributed to the auxiliaries of the Harrisburg chapter. An early return of questionnaires is urged. I.

O. O. P. MEETING A special meeting will be held by State Capital Lodge, No. 70, I.

O. O. at the hall, 307 North Second street, at 7.30 o'clock this evening. and jewelry was stolen from the home of E. Hoffman, a confectioner, here, late yesterday.

The police had no clue to the robbers today. BUY SITE FOR STEEL MILL YORK, April 29. C. P. Rice, president of the corrugating works, has just closed a deal with Mrs.

W. H. Miller for eighty-two acres of land on the Grantley road, near this city, for a site for a $4,000,000 steel plant. The new company will employ about 500 men. SCOUT TENDERFOOT TEST The tenderfoot test will be taken by thirty-two girls at a meeting of Sunflower Troop No.

1, Girl Scouts, of Market Square Presbyterian Church, to be held at the home of the captain, Miss Helen R. Hawes, 127 State street, Thursday morning. II ofta Tire Bonus, Mr. Track Owner? Bj, tot mnmpie, yoa 'fmT1 foot driver $1 on miy ringlt tin and 2 on tVerr dual for every thousand otilea over the tntker guarantee. How advantageoe euch a arrangement yoo Hvt Ircm $10 te $20 per thousand milee, Just by spending dollar or two.

And fancy yoor driver how' careful. How he would -mm the track over bum pa, how he would refrain from Pinning the rear wheels, for lest be grind, off dollars. WW GOODRICH DE LUXE Truck Tires under vour load nd tft co-operation from your driver, jrou would write off your original tire invest meat several times. for DE LUXE Truck Tires have iatteirdeep, specially-toughened treads a nateral thrift that can easfiy be broadened by tbe method advanced. Applying Statiorat BUILDING AND LOAN BUREAU IS PROPOSED IN measure: Senator Snyder, Blair, introduced a bill in the Senate today, creating a Bureau of Building and Loan Associations in the Department of 11 INSURANCE CO.

CHARTERED The County Court today signed a charter incorporating the Dauphin Beneficial Association, which is an insurance society organized here six weeks ago. tm fesb; PI 1: 1 of any Medicine in the WwW Swift Company does not know whether prices will go higher or lower. It depends upon country-wide and world conditions that Swift Company cannot control and cannot foresee. All the world needs meat, and only a small part of the world is raising live stock. So live stock is dear now, and meat prices must keep pace.

Competition will continue to keep the "spread" low so that the price you pay for meat will be as close as possible to what must be paid for live-stock. Our profit of only a fraction of a cent a pound, is no greater when prices are high than when they are low. Swift Company, U. S. A.

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