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r3 Nip in I WEATHER: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; colder tomorrow. McFADDEN BANK BILL APPROVED WASHINGTON. March 12. The McFarlrfcn umv bill, restricting establishment of branches by national PRICE TWO CENTS as Second-Clang Matter it it it ic it Post Office at Harrisburg FRIDAY, NUMBER 2813 Published Every Sunday by The MARCH 12, 1926 Entered at the oanKs, ana the Pepper bank tax bill, were approved today by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. The Pepper bill would allow states to tax national banks.

Early action will be asked on both bills in the Senate. DAWES NAMES SPECIAL COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, March special Senate committee to investigate whether President Coolidge influenced the operations of the United States Tariff Commission, will have a theoretical anti-adminstration majority. Vice-President Charles G. Dawes today named two administration Republicans, Senators Wads- Pennsylvania, with Sena worth, New York, and Reed, tor LaFollette, Independent G.O.P.Faces Alternative Of Dropping Senator Or Dividing Strength Special to The Evening yews 1 WASHINGTON, March 12. Unable to slate a candidate for Governor and also unable to Derfect a Killed Former Resident Of Lewistown Is Freed By United Press NEW CASTLE, March 12.

Dorothy Pcgran, 33, this afternoon was acquitted of murdering her paramour, Philip L. Tulley, 40, sergeant, U. S. M. C.

and former resident of Lewistown, after one of the most sensational trials in the history of Lawrence County. The jury of twelve men began its deliberations at 10.30 a. m. and reached its decision shortly after 2 p. m.

TVirniio-Vinnt. triA trial which he- Democratic Senators Robinson, Arkansas, and Bruce, Maryland, to serve on the investigating committee. HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH LAWRENCEVILLE, March Miller, 27, narrowly escaped death here today when she stepped into the room where Robert Lane, her brother-in-law, and Mrs. Lane were quarreling just as Lane is alleged by police to have fired at his wife. The shot went wild plan to prevent a three-sided fight for United States but Miss Miller sustained severe powder burns.

Police Senator, Pennsylvania Kepublican leaders who had been conferring here since yesterday afternoon gave up the ghost this afternoon and returned home. Chaotic conditions face the party as a result. Any one of several things may happen and that quickly. Senator Pepper, the machine's choice for a renomi-nation, may be dropped. Congressman William S.

Vare is conceded to have the whip hand over the machine, as things stand today. By his refusal to get out of the fight for Senator he may force the leaders to drop Senator Pepper, the organization choice, and get behind Vare as the machine candidate against Pinchot. Otherwise, with Vare and PeDDer sticking, there would detained the three on suspicious person charges. HOLD HAZLETON MAN IN NEW JERSEY JERSEY CITY, N. March Mande-ville was arrested here today as a fugitive from justice from Hazleton, where he is alleged to be under a grand larceny indictment charging him with stealing $5200 worth of electrical supplies from Knight Sons Company, last June.

He was held in $10,000 bail to await extradition. be divided machine strength in the primaries and the nomination of Pinchot for Senator would be practically certain. "Not a Penny Left," Says Man Who Took Denies Stealing for Revenge Evenlne Kxeont Patriot Company gan Monday the Pegran woman carried the brunt of the defense work. She told every detail of her life, relating how she left her home in West Virginia when 16 years old and began living with a man in Pittsburgh. She told of her acquaintance with the marine sergeant, which began in Pittsburgh where he had a wife and 8-year-old son.

Later, Tulley and Dorothy came to New Castle, living as man and wife in a rooming house, where the shooting took place on January 20. The woman claimed the shooting resulted from a quarrel during which the sergeant had made revolting proposals. When the police arrived Tulley was dying and the woman was suffering from a self-inflicted wound. She was subsequently indicted and brought to trial before Judge Ililde-brand in criminal court. ir i.ivit.He8 jurors Dazed and apparently on the verge of a collapse the woman heard herself freed of the charge.

Quickly she recovered herself and walked ovef to the jury box where she kissed many of the jurors. Then she turned and thanked everybody, expressing her belief that she knew she "would be freed." There was a demonstration of favor "when the verdict was read and one or two of the spectators cheered. BIG SUM IN AID FUND OF CHURCH WILLIAMSPORT, March 12. The second day's session of the eighty-sixth annual Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evan gelical Church at Jersey Shore, was featured by a report of Dr. J.

R. Nierbarth, of Cleveland, secretary of the superannuation fund of the Church, showing nearly $1,000,000 dollars paid into the fund, through the Ministerial Aid Society in the past ten years. The Rev. Dr. C.

A. Bowman, president of Albright College, submitted his report on the school, showing it in a healthy condition. The annual meetings of the Church Extension Society, the Educational Aid Society and the Ministerial Aid Society were scheduled for this afternoon. Reports of the several districts were heard by the conference, showing a net increase in membership 640 members during the year. The Williamsport District had the largest increase, that-of 250 members.

The York District reported 709 conversions and 687 accessions; Carlisle, 535 conversions and 455 accessions; Lewis- burg, 527 conversions and 614 accessions; Williamsport, 619 conversions and 663 accessions. The York District figures were reduced by a number of deaths and removals, leaving the Williamsport district in the lead. Prof. S. M.

Short, superintendent of the Harrisburg District of the Anti-Saloon League, complimented the conference on its loyal support of the league. Buss, who died of pneumonia, had lived here about a year. After his death an inquiry uncovered a sister, Mrs. Radina Karlson in New York City. Mrs.

Karlson arrived here today and identified Buss as one of the heirs to the estate of the late George Olson, who owned valuable farming land near Minneapolin. HARRISBURG, HARRISBURG R. R. WORKER KILLED AT LEWISTOWN WILLIAM F. LIGHTNER Caught between freight cars which were being shifted in the west end of the Lewistown yards at 3.30 o'clock this morning, William F.

Lightner, 1618 North Sixth street, a brakeman on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Rail road, was virtually ground to death. He was 37 years old, and was married on September 1 to Alice Hoopes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoopes, of Wellsville. The widow, accompanied by relatives and close friends, was at the Maclay street station to receive the body from Train No.

34 at 10.35 o'clock this morning, and she was on the verge of collapse when the Turn to Page Seventeen Prize Winners Announced i New Limerick contest starts today. Cash prizes. See page 30. A Waynesboro man, Guy E. Elden, of 130 South Broad street, that city, won firse prize in Limerick contest No.

14, conducted by THE EVENING NEWS, for writing the best last line to complete the stanza about poor little Rose who dolled herself up in her pretty new Spring clothes and then shivered and froze because the March winds Were so bitter cold. Mr. Elden will receive a $5 reward. The Limerick as ho completed it is as follows: An up-to-date maiden named Rose Invested in pretty Spring clothes But her heart, it most stopt When mercury dropt SHE DEMANDS REDRESS, 1 SUPPOSE. Second prize aas awarded to Le Roy Hughes, iOl North Eighteenth street, Harrisburg, who wrote the following last line: "Rose put a new voit on her nose." Two very similar lines took two of the one-dollar prizes.

One was written by Mrs. J. A. Rishel, 533 Seneca street, who said: "Saves furs for July, I suppose," While Mrs, John F. Gray, 342 Boyd street, wrote: "She'll wear furs in June, I suppose." The winners of the other one- dollar prizes and their, last lines are: "And her prose became belli- Turn to Page Twenty-three Councilmen to Confer on Food Inspection Measure Following the special session of City Council at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the Mayor and Commissioners are expected to have an informal conference on a proposed food inspection ordinance which is to be introduced within a few weeks, possibly next Tuesday.

This ordinance has been in the course of preparation many months. Today's special session was called to pass first reading on Commissioner Doutrich's ordinance providing for the purchase of a La-France motorized pumper for the Hope Fire Company. After the meeting the Councilmen planned to inspect proposed streets in the neighborhood of the new John Harris High School on the Hill. HOPE FOR BREAK IN DEADLOCK IN GENEVA MEETING By United Press GENEVA, March 12. Spain and Brazil are ready to modify their demands for immediate election to the League of Nations council, an official German spokesman said today.

There now is in prospect a transference of the so far insoluble council memberships problem from the council to the assembly, following a long conference of the Locarno negotiators today. The conferees, it was. learned, considered a solution Whereby Germany would be elected to the League immediately while the council would recommend that the assembly create a non-permanent council membership' for Poland. This compromise envisages in the adjournment of Spain and Brazil's candidacies until September, when the council would recommend that they be permanently seated. Brazil would occupy the seat already created and being held for the United States.

Premier Briand, of France, said he believed Sweden, Spain and Brazil would accept this solution. The German delegation asked time to consider it. The Germans have decided to remain in Geneva until the Locarno negotiators have had a chance to confer again. This decision is the first marked indication that the Germans arc optimistic. PINCHOTlEfW SHOWSHOWGANG STIFLED BILLS In a "report to the people," mailed broadcast over the State today, Governor Pinchot tells just what the extraordinary eession of the Legislature, controlled by "the gang" did to his remedial legislation.

The Governor said that the program which he called upon the General Assembly to act upon for "the safety and welfare, honor and prosperity of the people" was ignored. "No program of legislation ever submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania," said, "was completely for the 'common good. Every subject in it was put there with the sole object of protecting the individual citizen against monopolies, corruptionists or criminals. Had it been enacted into law, it would have shielded the plain people of this State from many dangers and evils against Turn to Page Thirty-two ARREST 19 IN ALCOHOLPROBE International iVHr Service CLEVELAND, March 12. Arrests of nineteen additional persons charged with conspiring to violate the national prohibition act in connection with the alleged nation wide $140,000,000 rum running were announced here today by federal authorities.

Nine were taken into custody at Paul, nine at Duluth, and one at Atlantic City. 3 Dead, Hundreds III In Typhoid Epidemic International News Service SCRANTON, March 12. Penn sylvania State health authorities have taken charge of the situation at the town of New Milford, between Scranton and Binghamton, N. where an epidemic of typhoid fever is reported to have taken three lives and left hundreds of persons in a serious condition. Nurses and physicians from Binghamton have been sent to the stricken farming towns.

The Rev. Fred G. Bulgin, 42, Presbyterian clergyman; Elinore Kingley, 7, and Early Hall, 25, are the persons who died from the fever. State authorities who are investigating suspect that the water supply or the milk going into the towns may be responsible for the epidemic. RaceResults Miami FIRST.

$1300; claiming; 3-year-olds up; six furlongs: Highbinder, 115, Horn, 16.10, 6.90, 6.40. Shining Light, 115; Barnes, 15.80, 6.40. Cow-puncher. 115, Thurber, 4.80. Time, 1.14.

Also ran: Dickey Lee, Chef, Who Knows Me, Merry Oblique, John Marrone 2nd, Young April. LAND SALESMAN UESTIONED BY POLICE CHIEF Methoarelrnployed by land salesmen offering lots near Norris-town were questioned by the police this morning when City Detective Hyde Speece brought Harry Davis to police headquarters. Davis was interrogated by Chief Thompson and Detective-Speece. The Harris-burg Chamber of Commerce, which interested itself in the inquiry, issued the following statement: "The Keystone Developing Company of Philadelphia, represented by Davis, last year sent girls in the city to dispose of tickets, some of which gave the holders free lots in the Norristown plot. Davis de-Turn to Page Seventeen Coolidge Favors Special Session for Impeachment Proceeding Against Judge WASHINGTON, March 12.

President Coolidge favors a special session of, the Senate for the impeachment proceedings of Judge English, of East St. Louis, 111., so thai Congress can adjourn early, Representative Tilson, Republican floor leader, said today upon leaving the White House. State Persons Are Urged To Qualify for Ballot PITTSBURGH, March 12. An appeal to the voters of Pennsylvania to qualify as electors in the spring primaries by registering on March 16 and 17 was contained in a joint statement issued today by seven civic organizations, headed by the Pennsylvania State Grange. "We have machine politics because' so many good citizens neglect to enroll and vote in the party primary," the statement read.

"Only 52 per cent, of the voters cast their ballots in the last presidential election. Less than 25 per cent, voted in the party primary in this State." In addition to the Grange, the organization voicing the appeal were the department of moral welfare, Presbyterian Church, Law Enforcement League, Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Women's Christian Temperance Union, State Federation of Women's Clubs and National Reform Association. Republican, Wisconsin, and JOSEPH II. LEVAN TWO DIE FROM GAS POISONING By United Press PITTSBURGH, March 12. A mother and her 16-year-old son were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning here this afternoon while the father was almost unconscious.

The dead: Mrs. Mary Frazier, 50. Thomas Frazier, 16. A gas stove was burning in the room and all the windows were closed. CHAPEL ABOLISHED EVANSTON, 111., March 12.

Northwestern University has given up trying to make students attend triweekly chapel services and announces that chapel has been abolished the balance of the year. people and the blood of these unfortunate' boys and girls is on their shoulders. "Whatever their ideas may be, I firmly believe that they can not affect the great middle class of this Nation, which is the backbone and sinew of America. There are slums at the top of the heap as well as the bottom. In fact I would venture to say that you will find these maudlin conditions in the homes of millionaires, as you will in these dives such as the one in this case.

"And they think this is modernism I "Those so-called society leaders of I today, instead of going around drink ing liquor ana tmoicing cigarets and carrying pugnosed lap dogs might better take to raising children and making better homes." The court then sentenced the proprietor and waiter of the establishment to sixty days in the county jail and ordered the place padlocked for a period of six months. iiilftililBlfli MMWCC a "I was just a 'darned, fool and the temptation to live, beyond my means was too great." Thus spoke Joseph II. Levan, of 1622 Revere street, in a cell at the Dauphin County prison this morning, when asked his" reason for taking $21,000 from the'. Jackson Manufacturing Company during the last two years of his employ meht as a paymaster there. He denied he had been prompted to commit theft by any desire to get revenge against the management.

The accused man, at the advice of his attorney, waived a preliminary hearing in police court late yesterday and was held under bail for the grand jury on a charge of larceny. He had not obtained bail by noon today. Levan admitted that some of the manufacturing company funds were spent on women." Most of the money, he said, was spent on week-end trips to Philadelphia and Reading where he "threw the money away on good shows, expensive meals and other luxuries that the average man of means enjoys." He declared he has not one cent left of the stolen money. Levan voluntarily denied the greater part of a reported interview with him published in a local paper yesterday said revenge against the company had prompted him to steal the money. "The things that the writer of that story said I told him are absolutely preposterous," he declared.

"As for my saying I hated anyone Turn to Page Seventeen $10,000 Fire in Pittsburgh Sweeps Downtown Edifice By United Prees PITTSBURGH, March 12. Fire of undetermined origin today coursed through a five-story downtown building causing damage estimated at $10,000. Two firemen collapsed. from the effects of smoke but their condition is not serious. Part of the time of the longj drawn-out conference was devoted to an effort to get Vare to remain out of the fight.

This he has re-fuspd to do. contending that as a wet candidate he has a chance. As he holds the wftip nana wun uie great Philadelphia Republican majorities it is not likely, he will do anything to save the party. Governor Pinchot, of course, cannot be touched by the men he terms "the 1 The perturbed party leaders are bothering chiefly because of Pinchot. He walked over the Organization four years ago and in a three-sided contest this year they believe he would do the same thing a cram.

Confer Until .3 A. M. State Chairman W. Harry Baker, of W. L.

Pittsburgh, nephew of A. Y. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; State Senator Max G. Leslie, Pittsburgh, and Congressman Vare met here yesterday for the purpose of "saving the Commonwealth" and endeavoring to keep their party intact. They had many stormy scenes at the Washington Hotel where the conference lasted until 3 o'clock this morning.

Later this morning the session was resumed, with Vare out, and this broke up about noon. The meeting is said to have discussed four possible candidates in the gubernatorial race, including John S. Fisher, Indiana; E. E. Bei-dleman, Harrisburg; Judge K.

W. Kephart, Ebensburg, and Auditor General Edward Martin. Probably Fisher and one of the other three will contend for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. There had been an insistent effort to get Vare back to the conference during the morning but he failed to appear and then Baker Turn to Page Seventeen Ex-PittsburghMayorGets Petitions for Governor Word from Pittsburgh today was to the effect that Joseph G. Arm strong, former Mayor of Pittsburgh and now a county commissioner of Allegheny County, has taken out nom inating petitions for Governor.

Among the two score or more Republican possibilities mentioned a month ago, Armstrong's name figured, but he has not been mentioned much in this part of the State since then. One Divorce Marriage STATE CALLS 2 WITNESSESIN MARSHALL TRIAL By United Press PHILADELPHIA, March 12. Three days will be required by the Commonwealth to establish the case by which it hopes to win a first-degree murder verdict, District Attorney Charles Edwin Fox indicated today at the outset of the fifth day's session in the trial of David L. Marshall, confessed slayer of his sweetheart, Anna May Dietrich. Following testimony yesterday in which a background of the girl's home life, and her romance with Marshall, were pictured, the first State witnesse today, Mrs.

Sarah J. Worrell, told of, finding her dismembered body and severed legs in a grove of trees off the Palmer mill road, near Rose Tree, on Thursday, January 21, a day Turn to Page Twenty-two American Warships Move Toward China WASHINGTON, March 12. American warships have begun to concentrate in northern China waters to back up the powers' demands on the Chinese government for safety measures for foreign residents in the fighting between rival Chinese factions, according to dispatches received here today. The Sacramento has left head-quartefs of the Asiatic squadron for Taku, and the Penguin has departed from South China to take up a position north of Tien Tsin. Other cruisers of the Asiatic squadron are being maneuvered to positions to give force to the demands of the powers.

WIFE NAMES MAN CO-RESPOXDENT CINCINNATI. March 12. Suing her husband for divorce, Mrs. Virginia Rowel 20, named a male professor at the conservatory of music as co-respondent. The complaint says Rowell "associated with the corespondent, showing more affection for him than for the plaintiff or their child." for Every Six Licenses in More husbands were divorced from unfaithful wives than wives from unfaithful husbands, nine teen men having obtained decrees for the infidelity of their mates compared with thirteen wives divorced from unfaithful husbands.

Two women obtained divorces on the grounds of bigamy, charged against the husbands. Only three of the 223 cases were contested by the respondents. Two wives opposed the granting of decrees to their husbands and one Turn to Page Seventeen Federal Judge in Court Scores Modern Ideas Prevalent Today County Last Year Sought for 3 Years, Heir In Big Estate Found Dead In Squalid Rooming House Vy United Press -SCRANTON, March 12. "We will not tolerate or permit any such places as this in this country if we can help it," declared Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson in Federal Court here this morning, after hearing the testimony of Federal prohibition agents who declared that young women of about 20 years of age were found upstairs smoking cigarets and drink ing in an establishment raided here.

"Sensible men of today know that smoking is medically injurious," the judge declared-. "Fashionable men and women of indulge in drinking liquor and smoking cigarets and think it is modernism. Their views on the subject will not change the minch of sensible men. "I tell you these modern ideas are leading the young people today to degradation and destruction. "The so-called social leaders who are the real leaders in these modern ideas, are to blame for the young Dauphin County had one divorce for every six marriage licenses issued in 1925, the county courts annulling 223 marriages during that year.

This was disclosed today when Charles V. Sellers, in the pro-thonotary's office made his annual report of divorce statistics in the county to the United States Census Bureau at Washington. Divorces were obtained by 163 wives and- sixty husbands. There were 192 children affected by these decrees, 118 of the divorced couples having had By United Press NEW HAVEN, March 12. Sought for three years that he might share in the estate of a wealthy uncle in Minneapolis, Herman Buss, 34, died in a squalid rooming house here without knowing his relatives were searching for him, it was revealed today..