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News Pictorials Magazine Comics Section 2 Finance Theater News General News Section NEWS OF THE THEATERS HARRISBURG, DECEMBER 20, 1926 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Pennlvama January 5 28 Call Him Dad FISHER HERE TO Structure Cost More Than Many Exhibits Already Returned Jewish Philanthropies Seeking State Charter The Federation of Jewish Fhilan-throplei, of this city, applied in the Dauphin County court today for a State charter. Several Jewish welfare organizations of the city comprise the federation. A hearing in the application will ANNOUNCE LIST OFASSESSM'NTS FOR PAVING WORK Street paving assessments to be NEW ELECTION LAW PROPOSED From Page One mav be spent in his behalf by committee or friends. The phrase, "expenditures of, for and on behalf of candidates" is used repeatedly in the summary of the proposed act Kxpenditures for any group of candidates are also limited to an amount not to exceed the largest amount which might be expended under the proposed measure for any individual candidate. Each candidate must appoint a primary agent, or name himself as nich.

and there must be group BRAKEMAN DIES AFTER ACCIDENT ft? 11 Georgia's champion father is of twenty-eight. This photo was taken as he left the White Houso after receiving the President's congratulations. With him is a son, L. P. Gentle (left).

Questions Right of Pepper To Keep Seat in Senate in View of Big Expenditures The Pennsylvania Building at the Sesqui-Centennlal Exposition is to bo sold to the highest bidder January 5 at 2 o'clock in the after noon. The Pennsylvania Sesaui- Commission and the State Department of Property and Supplies will receive bids for the structure up to that hour. Bids are to be received at the Philadelphia office of William M. Anderson, secretary of the commission. The building cost more than $300,000, but will brinp; but a fractional part of the investment in re turn when wTeckers make their bids.

The exhibits in the buildings are now being returned to the various State departments and to individual exhibitors. The Violet Oakley murals that will hang in the State Supreme Conrt room here have been returned to Miss Oakley, and will be brought to Harrisburg as soon as she has completed her series. Furniture and other accessories used to equip the building will be turned over to the Department of Property and Supplies. SHERIFF ULSH NEARING PERRY From Page One Sheaffer, closely guarded in the automobile of Sheriff Ulsh and his two deputies, P. R.

Flurie, former Perry County sheriff, and Albert Welcomer, left Chambersburg after a brief respite for lunch. The same stoical, indifferent at titude that Sheaffer has mam festcd since his arrest last Thurs day in the North Carolina city, was apparent at Chambersburg, dis patches say. Ignoring the curiosity of watchers, who had learned by some mysterious manner of his identity and the murder charges against him, Sheaffef conducted himself as though bored with the entire proceedings. The fatigue and strain of the 800-mile trip was visible in the faces and drooping 'figures of the sheriff and his deputies, but Sheaffer seemed possessed of the controlled energy of a spring. He evidently has been given splendid treatment on the trip from Greensboro.

That Sheaffer will be greeted by a large crowd at New Bloomfield is a certainty. Last night hundreds of persons eager to get their first glimpse of the accused murderer circulated In the streets near the Perry County jail, but near midnight the watchers separated when it became apparent that the arrival' of Ulsh and his deputies and their prisoner would not material ize. Throughout the morning au tomobiles entering New Bloomfield were closely scanned. When it was learned shortly after noon that Sheaffer would arrive later in the afternoon, the excitement engen dered with the departure Friday of Sheriff Ulsh was greatly stimu lated. DISCUSS PLANS From Faice One "and so far there is nothing defi nite to say about the Follow Usual Methods The tentative plans follow in a way the recent inaugurals here.

The ceremony will be held at the State street entrance to the Capitol and following the administra tion of the oath of office and the address of the new Governor, there will be the parade consisting, probably, of a military, civic and firemen's sections. The Vare and the Houck mrching clubs will be in line with many others. The reception will probably be held in the afternoon in the rotunda of the Capitol, following the precedent of Governor Finchot. The latter's predecessors had held evening receptions. It is planned to have the entire day's activities over by eariy evening, so that the vast crowds expected here can get to the trains and home.

"I nave nothing to say about appointments at this time," said Mr. Fisher. He was told there have been many rumors regarding his possible appointments. "I have heard many names from the newspapermen," he "One Philadelphia newspaperman took a new slant on the question of appointments. He said: 'You are not going to fire Secretary of Banking and I replied that I wasn't considering, it.

From that he drew the inference that I would reappoint Mr. Cameron and said so. But outside of my naming two newspapermen as secretaries I have announced no names." Mr. Fisher and his daughter, Miss Mary Fisher, have been invited by Governor and Mrs. Pin-chot to be their guests here prior to inauguration day.

January 18. "I do not know when I can come here." he said. "I have made no plans and events will regulate my future movements." Steelton Man Stabbed In Early Morning Fight John Pendleton, a negro, of South Fourth street, Steelton, suffered severe knife wounds about the face early yesterday morning: in a fight that took place in a South Fouth street house. He was admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital. Mile Johnson, also a negro, of South Fourth street, Steelton, was arrested by Sergt.

Daniel Sullivan, and is being held for a hearing on a charge of aggravated assault and battery. Man Injured When Tractor, Truck Collide Henry' C. Mosebach, 22 years old, nf 1213 Nnrth Tpnfh atraot a d- mitted to the Harrisburg Hospital early this afternoon suffering from probable fracture of several ribs, which he received in the collision of the tractor, which he was operating, with a truck. The accident oc curred at Sixth and Boas streets Mosebach was employed by the Central Construction Company. RECORD MONDAY SHOPPING CROWD From' Page One being purchased for dad, mother and other relatives and friends.

Although Saturday's prodieious shopping desolated the shelves and cases of many of the stores, these were again in full bloom this morn ing as workers delved into stock rooms to replenish them. A new note is discernible in Christmas buying this year, store owners assert, and many customers are armed with lists when they in vade the shopping district. This not only expedites their buying but also lightens the burdens of clerks. who are freed of the burden of making suggestions. Some of the stores are remain ing open later than usual at night.

most until 9 o'clock, but other stores are continuing to close at their usual times. Police are centering their efforts on keeping the heavy traffic moving and so far no serious delays have been experienced. In addition, detectives are circulating among the crowds watching for unworthy mendicants and crooks who generally reap a fat harvest by stealing pocketbooks and shoplifting. Exchange Club Gives $50 to Salvation Army The Christmas party of the Ex change Club was held today at Craver tea room, when E. J.

Hockenbury gave a talk on "The Evolution of Community Financ ing, ihe speaker said the first organized movement to collect any large sum of money was brought about by a Y. M. C. A. secretary, who endeavored to raise $60,000 in sixty days.

Tne Exchange Club gave $50 to the Salvation Army of the city to buy clothing for poor children. Each member of the club was pre sented with a Christmas gift. 4r turn (1 Leander C. Gentle, of Atlanta, father lican, Pennsylvania, for whom $800,000 was spent in the campaign in which he defeated Pepper. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, has received a copy of Judge McKeown's charge of bribery against Senator Gould, Republican, Maine, made in a New Brunswick, civil suit, and is seeking further evidence to present to the Senate investigating committee when it opens hearings on January 4.

The fight over Frank L. Smith's appointment as senator from Illinois will go over until after the holidays. Smith ip understood to have informed Senate leaders he would not appear for the present to attempt to gain his seat. With Republican leaders opposing any extensive battle to seat him and Democrats almost unanimously against him, it is considered unlikely he will force the fight over his primary expenditures. newspaperman in Harrisburg.

He possesses unusual familiarity with the working of the State government and has a wide acquaintance and a gift in dealing with men and problems that I think will make him especially valuable. "Mr. Rigby is an energetic and capable young man who has been ti: t. from his capabilities for his work, is a distinct recognition of his serv ices during the World War. "He served three years and seven months in the flying squadron of the British army, which he enlisted at the outbreak of hostilities between England and Germany, although he is an American-born boy.

"He received several decorations from both the English and French governments for valor in conflicts. Both of these appointments are purely personal. FOUR INJURED AS AUTO SKIDS On their way from Dillsburg to their homes in Carroll Township, York County, yesterday morning, four, men were injured when their slipped off the highway on the outskirts of Dillsburg, crashed into a telephone pole and turned over on its The injured men are Charles about 45, the driver; his son Lawrence, Granville Klinedinst and Preston Baum. The elder Martin, who was the most seriously injured, was admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital after receiving first aid treatment from Dr. W.

L. Crawford, Dillsburg. Physicians say he is suffering from a probable fracture of the skull and other injures. He was unconscious this morning and his condition was regarded as critical. Baum suffered a fracture of the right shoulder, while the younger Martin and Klinedinst received contusions and lacerations.

ROBERT C. HOKE Robert C. Hoke. 48 years old. died suddenly of heart disease yesterday at 1126 Cowden street, where he resided.

He was a member of tin Eagles, Good Will Fire Company, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Veteran Firemen's Association. 1 He was a member of the Orioles at Lancaster. Three daughters, Thelma, Beatrice and Edith, and two sons, George and. Robert, survive him. The following sisters also Mrs.

Edward Fisher, Mrs. Frank Magaro, Mrs. J. Frank Hitter, Mrs. William Moore and Miss Dorothy Hoke.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from 1126. Cowden street. The Rev. Mr. Sheets, of Nagle Street Church of God, will officiate.

Burial will be in Harrisburg Cemetery, -A -ft I be held in January. Officers of the I federation are: President, Joseph Claster; secretary, Paul Goldblass; i treasurer, Simon Michlovitx. Samuel Handler filed the petition. WILLIAM HARM Funeral services for Willlair Harm, 77, veteran employe of the Bethlehem Steel Company, who died Saturday at the home of his son. Paul Harm, 341 Hummel street, will be held from the home of the son at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

The Rev. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor of the Salem Reformed Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Prospect Hill Cemetery. He leaves wife, Mrs.

Fredericka Harm; two daughters, Mrs. H. E. Wright, of Miami, Fla, and Mrs. E.

J. Perrine, of Seattle, two sons, Paul W. and Albert both of this city, and ten grandchildren. The body may be viewed at the home from 7 to 8 o'clock this evening. JOHN PHILIP PRESSLEY John Philip Pressley, for many years an engineer in the Maclay street yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died Saturday evening at his home, 1922 Forster street.

Death was caused by a stroke induced by high blood pressure. Mr. Pressley was born February 1, 1868. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a stepson, C. B.

Cook; one brother, George, and one sister, Mrs. Roy Glosser. A granddaughter, Evelyn May Cook, also survives. Mr. Pressley was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

Funeral services will be conducted at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev. James E. Wagner, pastor of the North Street Church of God. Burial will be made in East Harrisburg Cemetery. MILTON MILLER FUNERAL Funeral services were held today for Milton Miller, 78 years old, who was found dead in the yard at his home at Ironville Friday, lhe services will be held at 10 o'clock at the Ironville United Brethren Church, with burial in the Silver Springs Cemetery.

He is survived by one son, William Miller, lronviue; two daughters. Mrs. Henry Strickler and Mrs. Susan Elslager, both of this place, and eighteen grandchildren and twenty-three great-granacMiaren HARRY M. BOYD Harry M.

Boyd, 32 year old, son of Hugh S. Boyd, 627 Sixteenth street, New Cumberland, died Friday night at a local hospital. During the World War he served as a lieutenant in the Aviation Corps of the Army at San Antonio, Texas, and Hampton Roads, Va. After tne war, until his illness, he was a traveling salesman for tne Burroughs Adding Machine Company. He was a graduate of Harrisburg Central High School and a member of Com munlty United Brethren Church, New i Cumberland; Harrisburg Lodge, No.

of Foreign Wars-. Burial will be in charge of William Nauss Post, American Legion, of New Cumberland. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Rev. D.

Floyd Mowery, pastor of Community United Brethren Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The body may- be viewed at the home from 7 to 0.80 o'clock tonight. He is survived by his parents and a brother, Keith L.

Boyd, at home. MRS. AMELIA K. EVANS Mrs. Amelia Temple Evans, 63 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

William Nunemacher, 1936 Berrvhill street, Saturday night She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Nunemacher; a sister, Sophia Temple, and two brothers, Alfred and Samuel Temple, all or wiinamstown. The funeral will be held from the home at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Ralph R.

Gresh, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Ke deemer, Nineteenth and Kensington streets. Burial will take place in the Williamstown Cemetery. The body may be viewed between 7 and 9 o'clock this evening. MRS. ELIZABETH WHISLER Mrs.

Elizabeth Whisler, 71 years old, wife of A. K. Whisler. a resident on a fruit farm near Goldsboro, died yesterday after an illness of about four months. She was born on October 15, 1855, in York County, and was a member of Paddletown Evangelical Church.

Surviving her are her husband, and two sons, Edward and Robert E. Whisler at home. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1.30 o'clock on Wednes day afternoon. Further services will be held at 2 o'clock at the Evangelical Church. Burial will be in the cemetery adjoining the church.

BARTON J. CARPENTER Barton J. Carpenter, 87 years old. a veteran of the Civil Wa, died on Saturday morning at the home of a daughter. Mrs.

J. M. King. Neiman Hill, Newberry Township. He served for fifteen months in Company First Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and was discharged in April, 1864.

He was a member of Post 116, Grand Army of the Republic, this city. Surviving him are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. King, of Newberry and Mrs. Re becca Baker, of Juniata County; three sons, Harry Frank B. and James S.

Carpenter, of this city, and William B. Carpenter, of New Cumberland; a brother, James F. Carpenter, of Thorndale, Chester County, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Woodward, of Coatesville, and Mrs. Mary Dollar, of Thorndale.

Funeral services will be held at the homAof his son, William B. Car-pente, 425 Fourth street, New Cum-bc'icnd. at 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be in East Harrisburg Cemetery, paid by abutting property owners on five different city streets that wcre improved this year ranged from $5.82 to $5.92 per foot front, it was revealed today when the City Engineer's office issued the schedules to the affected property owners. One man complained against an assessment for paving an alley, on the ground that he had not petitioned with the majority for the alley improvements, but he did not take exceptions to the method the assessment was figured and went away apparently satisfied.

Several other owners went to the engi neer's office only because they did not know what to do with the as sessment notice, not because they had any complaint to make. On Swatara street, from Twenty-first to Twentysecond, and on Twenty-second, from Swatara to Rudy, the charge was $5.92 per foot front. On Forster, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth, and on Rudy, from Twenty-second to Field lane, it was $5.90 per foot front. Boas street, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth, was $5.82. The amounts, in all cases, varied with the contract price of the paving.

For paving three alleys the rates were: Spotts alley, Eugene to Ellerslie, $2.82 per foot front; ten-foot alley, east of Jefferson street, from Wharton to Camp street, $1.38, and another unnamed ten-foot alley, east of Reel street, from Radnor to Wiconisco, $1.30 per foot front. CLAIMS ARISING FROM MARKET ST, GRADING DENIED All damage claims of property owners in connection with the grading of Market street between Tewtny-thlrd street and the Prospect Hill Cemetery have been refused and the costs of the improvements apportioned as benefits among the owners of abutting properties by the court viewers, who filed their report today. As a result of the street grading, the Central Real Estate Syndicate claimed its property was damaged to the extent of $2500 and E. Eggert filed a property damage claim for $500. They are contemplating appealing to the court from the decision of the viewers.

The court will act later on the viewers' report. The total cost of the improvement was $7987. Of this sum the Central Real Estate Syndicate is assessed $2579. Benefits of $170 are assessed against the Eggert property. remainder of the cost is apportioned among J.

A. Kline, Emma F. Stees and the Union Real Estate Company, property owners. H. E.

Fox, H. O. Smith and Harry Fahnestock were the viewers. Viewers to assess damages or benefits for three other city grading Jobs wera named by the courts today. The viewers and dates they will hear claims aret Brookwood street between Seventeenth! and Nineteenth streets, January 10, and Karper street between Brookwood and Benton streets, January 12, H.

E. Fox, J. William, Rodenhaver and Elbridge Cow-den; Atlas street, between Seneca and Schuylkill streets, January 14, H. E. Fox, Harry Fahnestock and H.

O. Smith. Cigars Taken by Thief Twenty-five thousand clgarets and a thousand cigars, valued at $200, were stolen from Drexler's Smoke Shop, at 1301 North Sixth street, last night. Entrance was gained by removing a pane of glass from a rear door. Robert S.

Buffington, proprietor of the confectionery stand in the lobby of the Majestic Theater, told the police that candy valued at $62.75 was stolen from his supply room in the theater over the week-end. He discovered the theft this morning. According to the police, the thieves gained entrance by breaking a lock on a door of the supply room. Hearing Postponed For the third time hearines of liquor charges against three mem bers of the Moose Lodge, No. 142, of Lewistown, have been postponed, it was announced today by United States Commissioner Levin.

He said he will conduct the hearings Thursday instead of Wednes day. The accused men are chare-ed with the illegal possession and manufacture of intoxicating liquor as the result of a raid at the lodge-rooms by State Police on November 5. They are R. E. Baker.

Stan ley Craighton and Herbert Smith, all of Lewistown. MRS. MARY H. MORTON Mrs. Mary Helen Morton, 65 years old, widow of William Morton, died on Saturday at the home of Mrs.

Joseph H. Emmanuel, 113 South Cameron street. She is rurvived by one brother. Funeral services will be held at the Hawkins Estate funeral parlor, 1207 North Third street, at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Eurial will be East Harrisburg Ceraeterjr, M.

O. Sechrist, 32 years old, of 2433 North Fifth street, of this city, a Pennsylvania freight brakeman, was thrown under the wheels of a freight car which he was attempting to climb Saturday. He died early yesterday morning in the Chester County Hospital, West Chester, from injuries received. Sechrist told hospital authorities that he was trying to jump on a flat car attached to the train but slipped and the rear wheels passed over his legs. His condition would not permit an operation.

The crew was soon to start on the return trip to Harrisburg when the accident Happened, near Knickerbocker on the Trenton cutoff, while the crew was shifting. Mr. Sechrist was a single man, and was a son of Mrs. Mary E. Sechrist, and the late Ross Sechrist.

He wu employed as a freight brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad between six and seven years. Beside his mother he is survived by his two brothers, Ira J. Sechrist, of Pittsburgh, and Ardie R. Sechrist, of this city, and one sister, Miss Edna Sechrist. An inquest was held in Chester County yesterday, and the body is expected to arrive here today.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock at his home, with the Rev. A. M. Stamets. pastor of the Augsburg Lutheran Church, of which he was a member, officiating.

Further services and burial will be held at Union Cemetery, McClure on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. REPORTPLEASING TO GOVERNOR From Page One report of the Commission of Seventy-six on legislation for clean' elections," lie said. "The most important new point in the report, in my view, is the recommendation that a candidate who either himself or through his authorized agent has broken the election laws shall forfeit the nomination he cheated to win. That means that the penalty for election frauds would no longer be confined to putting some understrapper in jail, but the cheating would defeat Its own object because the man who cheated would not receive what he cheated to get. "The man who is guilty of a foul in a race or in any contest of strength or skill forfeits the victory.

An election fraud is a foul, and ought to meet with the same penalty as any other foul. The man who fouls loses, is a very healthy rule. "I believe there is immense power to prevent election frauds in such a provision as this, and I hope it will have very careful consideration when the question of clean elections comes up in the next Legislature." by Auto Waynesboro Chamber of Com merce. One of the wheels of an automobile operated by Elfier Spotts, 1723 Walnut street, is reported to have passed over the leg of Forster after the machine had knocked him down in Blackberry street, near Court, last night. Dr.

J. E. Dickinson, of 228 North Second street, and Melvin R. Dare, of Harrisburg R. D.

4, were the drivers of automobiles that collided at Second and Walnut streets yesterday morning. Automobiles operated by W. S. Coccoran, 22 Seneca street; Peter Smith, of 668 Boas street, and J. B.

Guise, of 2039 North Fifth street, were damaged in a triple collision at Front and Walnut streets yesterday afternoon. An automobile operated by Henry A. Zeiders, of 2470 Reel street, turned over on its side in a collision with an automobile operated by William B. Sheetz, of Oberlin, at Fifteenth and Herr streets on Saturday afternoon. In another accident on Saturday afternoon, automobiles operated by Putman Brandt, of 25 Mill street.

Middletown, and one owned bv Jessie Arnold, of Dills- burg, collided in Cameron street, near the approach of the Mulberry street bridge. An automobile owned by C. J. Kistler, of 1312 Susquehanna street, and operated by Mrs. Alice M.

McCollins, of 1524 Wallace street, was damaged in a collision with another machine operated by A. J. Musser, of 434 Market street, on the Walnut street bridge on Saturday afternoon. agents also. Every candidate inJ the group is held equally responsible for and chargeable, with any violation of the law which the group's primary agent may commit.

Certification of the names of agents and sub-agents, which may be chosen, must be maae to me sheriffs of the districts in which the candidates run. All persons jnaking campaign contributions must do so in their own names. Fine and Jail Term Payments made contrary to the provisions of the bill mean if the contributors are convicted a $500 fine and a one-year term in jail. It is provided that all payments exceeding $5 be made by check. Personal expenditures by candidates are limited to 200 and further personal expenses must be paid by the agent.

The measure omits as legal expenditures for "dissemination of information," "employment of watchers" and "transportation of voters to the polls, but would admit as a legitimate item of expense "the rental of radio facilities." Candidates who exceed the limits set for campaign expenses, either personally or through events, are barred from taking office. The committee suggests provisions for appropriate penalties, including mandatory pail sentences for any violation. Can Be Voted on 1933 It is suggested by the committee i also that Constitutional amendments should be adopted abolishing the tax qualifications for voting and giving the courts the power to appoint overseers of election from outside the district In which they are to serve. Such amendments could not be voted upon prior to 1033. The 1926 special legislative session passed for the first time a voting machine amendment of the Constitution and this will come before the regular session this winter.

The report of the executive committee was signed by Judge Joseph H. Taulane, chairman; Thomas Eaeburn White, Mary Flinn Lawrence, Charles C. McGovern, Guy W. Moore, Vance C. McCormick, Mrs.

Samuel B. Scott, Melville F. Ferzuson. Mrs. J.

O. Miller and former Judge Benjamin H. Ren shaw. I Letter of Committee To Pinchot "Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, "Sir: "As requested by you, the Executive Committee of the Committee of Seventy-six respectfully begs leave to submit to you a final report.

"The Committee of Seventy-six. iC non-partisan body, wbb created to suggest means for preventing a repetition of the electioh frauds in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and elsewhere which in the fall of 1925 shocked every decent citizen of Pennsylvania and disgraced the State. "It studied the defects in our present statutes regulating the nomination and election of candidates for public office, and after the most serious consideration called upon you to recommend to the Legislature for immediate adoption twelve measures which it believed would render election frauds both more difficult and more dangerous. "You called a special session of the Legislature in January, 1926, and all of these measures were introduced. None of them was Adopted, although one of the proposed constitutional amendments, that relating to the use of voting ma-Turn to Page Twenty COSTlFTuRKEY IS STATIONARY Turkey prices here this week are to be about on par with what thsy were at Thanksgiving and also at last Christmas, local dealers said today as shipments were received.

This means that live birds will retail around fifty-five cents a pound and seventy-five cents drctesed. One prominent dealer, whb has been selling one or two carloads at Christmas time for the las4Rlteen years, received his first carty 1600 birds last night and he exp'fcts another shipment of 1150 tomorrow. These are Virginia and Ohiof'irds. Not a turkey was lost ia thai first shipment. in WASHINGTON, Dec.

20. Mov-ing into the third week of the congressional short session, the Senate today gave its attention to the two new developments of the political reforms issue. The Senate Judiciary Committee met this morning to plan an in vestigation of charges that Federal offices have been bartered for money and political advantage in Southern States. It is expected to report to the Senate a resolution urging appointment of a committee of five to call witnesses and hear evidence. Next the Blease resolution came before the Senate today under the rules.

It calls attention to the fact that the. backers of Senator Pepper, Republican, of Pennsylvania, spent more than $1,600,000 in the Pennsylvania primaryi and yet he is being permitted to keep his seat while contests are being organized against Senator-elect Vare, Repub FISHER SELECTS A. B. HAMILTON From Page One first of the year. The only State official now sure of reappointment is Peter G.

Cameron, Secretary of Banking, although the next Gover nor has not formally announced a reappointment. Mr. Fisher spent last niirht here after belnsr in Phila delphia for several days, but said he has no further announcements to make now. The two secretarial appointments were made purely on personal grounds, Mr. Fisher said.

Mr. Hamilton has been an adviser of the next Governor during his primary and general election contests and Mr. Kigby accompanied me candidate on his tour of the State. Mr. Riirbv has secured a residence on Front street, where he will re side for the next four years.

Mr. Hamilton began his newspaper career on THE PATRIOT after leaving the University of Pennsylvania. He is a son of the late Dr. Hugh Hamilton and the member of a family that for three generations has been closely identified with the newspaper publishing business in Harrisburg. He was city editor of THE PATRIOT before he was 21.

Following a period of a few years, during which he worked on other papers, he returned to THE PATRIOT in 1903, remaining there until 1907. He was Associated Press cor respondent and political editor of the Harrisburg leiegraph lor years and has also been the cor respondent for some of the State's largest dailies. With Samuel S. Lewis, State Treasurer, he conducted the Cen tral Pennsylvania Campaign Com mittee which had charge of the Fisher campaign in a dozen central counties. He was active again during the fall campaign.

Mr. Hamilton is president of the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents' Association, a mem ber of the executive committee of the Historical Society of Dauphin County, a trustee of the Harris burg Library and a member of sev eral local clubs. Mr. Rigby. who is a war vet eran, will have a new position as executive secretary.

He will suc ceed Richard W. Heagy, of Camp Hill, who is executive clerk, and will incorporate in his work some of the duties of Jacob Swartz, publicity director for the Governor. The salary of the private secre tary is fixed at $7500 a year, while that of the executive secretary will be fixed by the Executive Board. My hat is off to two newsnaoer boys." said Governor-elect Fisher when announcing the appointments. Mr.

Hamilton has been for a lonar time a devoted friend. I have known him since he was a young Woman, 60, Is in Critical Condition After Having Been Hit Two persons were injured and a number of others narrowly escaped injury in a series of automobile ac cidents in the city over the week end. The injured are: Mrs. George H. Free, 60, of 3317 Brisbane street, and John Forster, of 507 Hamilton street.

Mrs. Free was reported t3 be in a critical condition at her home today suffering with severe injuries of the right side. Forster received treatment from his family physician for an injury to the leg. Citv nolice are investigating a report that the driver of an automobile that struck Mrs. Free is not known.

She was run down just In side the Maclay street entrance of the Harrisburg State Hospital on Saturday afternoon while she and another woman, who escaped injury, were on their way to the hospital. After the accident, according to the injured woman's husband, the motorist stopped his machine and offered to assist Mrs. Free, but drove away without giving her his name when she said she did not believe she was injured seriously. She managed to reach her home by. trolley car.

Upon her arrival at her home, however, she collapsed. The police said they believe they will be able to locate the motorist through a Chambersburg tag which his automobile is said to have borne. Mrs. Free was the mother of the late Robert Free, who was for years a local newspaperman here. He died several years ago while jfierving aa secretary or, tne,.