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R. News Section Finance Section Comics Magazine 2 Evening Sports 2 The News NEWS OF THE THEATERS HARRISBURG, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Two Killed, Four Hurt in Head -on Punxsutawney Crash ORDER REFUNDS OF $58,957 AT CHAMBERSBURG. The Public Service Commission before it went out of office yesterday ordered the Gas Company to make refunds of $58,957 to 1877 consumers who, the commission claimed, were overcharged for gas under its tariff of rates. The refunds ordered cover six and the calendar 1930, 1931 months December, 31, 1929, and 1932 in the respective amounts of $10,778.53, $18,114.66, $18,643.53 and $11,420.99. The refunds are to bear simple interest at the rate of 6 per cent.

a year from the several dates of payment by patrons to the company to the date of repayment. The refunds are to be paid within sixty days from the date the order is served on the company. The company also is required to submit the several rates designed to produce the revenues fixed by the Commission for the six months ended December 31, 1929, and for the calendar years 1930, 1931 and 1932. The company opposed a 6 per cent. interest provision, contending that Chambersburg banks do not pay as much, but the committee pointed out that it had allowed the company to make 7 per cent.

on its investment. The company has also paid 6 per cent. to its holding company. Complaints were heard by the commission and in 1932, the company's fair value was placed at $380,000 and the allowable gross annual revenue at $85,614. The returns have exceeded this latter figure.

BAKER ESTATE TRIALS START By United Press PHILADELPHIA, April men went on trial in Federal Court today on charges of using the mails to defraud in connection with the allegedly mythical $300,000,000 Jacob Baker estate case. The seven entered not guilty pleas when they appeared before Judge Albert B. Maris, and selection of a jury was begun immediately. The defendants were Emory L. Biddle, Altoona; R.

L. Biddle: John A. Biddle, Hollidaysburg; Warren H. Biddle, Altoona; John Latshaw, Greensburg, and C. A.

McCollum. Martinsburg; C. Walkinshaw, Greensburg. Indictments against the men were returned by the Federal Grand Jury here last February 11, and since then they have been free under bonds of $2500 each. The indictments were the latest returned here in connection with alleged fraud by persons seeking to profit from the Baker estate, which purportedly included valuable properties in Luzerne, Somerset, Berks, Mifflin, Armstrong, Bedford, Allegheny, Northampton, Beaver, Warren, Clinton, Westmoreland, Washington, Huntingdon, Indiana and Lehigh Counties.

E. L. Biddle, a hearing here two years ago, produced a document dated December 27, 1839, purporting to be Baker's will. The will bequeathed 11,000 acres of land in the sixteen counties to his son, Peter, and daughter, Elizabeth. The land, however, has been located definitely, and "scores of persons have claimed to be Baker's heirs.

Numerous arrests have been made by Federal officers who charged fraud in attempts to settle the estate. SEE TRUCK DEMONSTRATION Two Wilkes-Barre firemen, sistant Chief Williams and Mechani-1 cian Herman attended a demonstration of the new Reily ladder, truck, which was tested again at City Hall and then on Market street in front of the John Harris High School. The truck will be demonstrated in Market Square at 12.30 tomorrow afternoon. A Party FavoriteFortune Telling Wouldn't you like to know how to tell fortunes It is easy to do so with the help of the new booklet Fortune Telling. Horoscopes for every month of the year; rules for reading palms and faces, for interpretin cards, tea-leaves, dreams, as well as interesting facts on signs, omens, and superstitions.

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C. I enclose herewith ten cents in coin (carefully wrapped in paper) for a copy of the booklet, Fortune Telling. Name Street City State (Mail to Washington, D. C. Firemen Extinguish Four Minor Blazes City firemen were called by telephone three times within four hours this morning to extinguish minor blazes in different sections of the city.

The Good Will Company went to Harris and Fulton streets, shortly the automobile of Kuhn, after 8 o'clock, to extinguish, fire in 439 Harris street, which, Fire Chief Earl Swartz reported, was caused by a short circuit. Only slight damage resulted. When a pan of grease ignited on a gas stove in the restaurant of Andrew Paulos at 1745 North Sixth street, less than three hours later, the Camp Curtin Company was summoned. The flames were confined to the pan. A dump fire at Greenwood and Girard streets was extinguished shortly after 11.30 o'clock by the Allison Company.

COAL OPERATOR SEES CONTRACT From Page One April 1 is a holiday- "John Lewis Day." Mine Workers, said that if a new a Lewis, president of the United contract was concluded late today or early this evening, he was prepared to telegraph all locals to resume work tomorrow. Desire More Time tI was said that no vote was taken last night by operators on the negotiating committee but that they merely had desired more time to study the proposals formulated by a sub-committee. The last-minute centered, around the controversy, fifty-cent wage increase to $6 a day. About 300,000 of the miners affected work in the Appalachian fields, extending from Central Pennsylvania to Northern Tennessee. The other 100,000 soft coal workers were scattered through several states from Alabama to Wyoming and Colorado.

Wages in mines outside the Appalachian chain are based on the Eastern agreement. Until midnight, announcement of a new contract had been expected momentarily. It was frus-1 trated when operators balked terms of a contract drawn by a sub-committee of six. The points of disagreement were not revealed, but it was. said that the disagreement was among the operator's representatives.

John L. Lewis, UMW president, left the conference room shortly before midnight. His only comment on the committee's failure to sign a new contract was: "No contract, no jobs. Until there is an agreement there will be no work." The union's demands include a guarantee of basic 200 rate working of $6 days a a thirty-hour week and two weeks' vacation with pay. The operators' counter-proposal would lengthen the work week and maintain the present wage scale.

International News Service PITTSBURGH, April The men who mine the Nation's black wealth today celebrated with giant rallies the anniversary of the inauguration of the eight-hour day in the industry. More 200,000 miners in Western Pennsylvania alone were expected to turn out to com-. memorate establishment of the shorter work day in 1898 and the At Crows Nest, near Greensseven-hour day, won in 1933. 1 burg, as many as 80,000 were expected to attend a rally at which Governor George H. Earle will be the principal speaker.

At New Kensington, another 50,000 miners and their families were expected to gather in another giant rally, while at Brownsville, 30,000 were expected to hear T. Fagan, president of the United Mine Workers of America, District 5. Boy, 14, Dies Shortly After He Becomes Ill Less than seven hours after he was admitted to the Polyclinic Hospital, Robert Harry Noggle, 14, one of ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Lester- Noggle, 1545 Fulton street, died last night, at the hospital.

An autopsy, physicians revealed that the boy's death was due to a kidney disease complicated by pneumonia. He was a pupil in the Open Air School and was a member of the Sunday School and the Mission Band of the Second Reformed Church. In addition to his parents, the boy is survived by two brothers, Lester, and Vincent; seven sisters, Esther, Catherine, Mary, Jean, MarDorothy and Carmelita, all at home, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Noggle and Mr.

and Mrs. William Walker, all of Harrisburg. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hoover's, parlors, 1413 North Second street. The Rev. S.

Charles Hoover, pastor of Second Reformed Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Oberlin Cemetery. The body may be viewed tomorrow evening at the funeral parlors. REPAIR WATER LINES The March report of City Plumbing Inspector Paul E. Kurzenknabe disclosed today that 1817 feet of copper pipe were used last month in laying sixty-five new or replaced water service lines.

With his assistant, Kurzenknabe reported 220 inspections last month. Congressmen Attend Focht Funeral Congressmen who worked Focht, of Lewisburg, who was Rogers, deputy sergeant-at-arms of Roland Kinzer, of Lancaster, draped casket from Christ's burial in the Focht family Lewisburg; A. G. Benson, County: Roy G. Finkel, Mifflinburg; Edward Greene, of LABOR SESSION FAVORS CIO From Page One Country." It passed the House March 9 and has rested with the Senate Labor Committee since.

The delegates attending the thirty-sixth annual convention voted to abide by the action of the executive council on the proposed legislation following conferences of labor representatives with Governor Earle and Administration legislative leaders. Approve Sixty Bills Preparing to end the convention which began Tuesday, the delegates considered and approved up wards of sixty bills favoring organized labor, either sponsored or endorsed the legislative contmittee of the State Federation. Among the bills approved were those to A study in the hard provideiditions coal fields by the Anthracite Coal Commission. Miners' certificate and checkweigh systems in the bituminous industry. Rest periods for movie operators.

Full crews and train length lim- its for railroads. Security of tenure for school teachers. Civil service and salary for Liquor Control Board employes. Limit for prison labor. A State "better housing" program.

County wage boards. Maximum working hours and minimum wage sfor women. Collective bargaining and labor mediation agencies. Revision of workmen's compensation and occupational disease laws. Limitation on State institutions from competing with private in dustry.

A check on court injunctions in labor disputes. Abolishment of sweatshops and industrial home work. The convention engaged in a parliamentary snarl over the consideration of a resolution to termine the political policy of labor in municipal election next Fall. Reported by the legislative committee, the resolution finally was referred to committees for study. Other resolutions reported by Joseph Cohen, legislative committee chairman, and adopted would: Approve the Earle Administration's unemployment act passed at the December special session of the Legislature.

Endorse the proposal of Mayor S. Davis Wilson, Philadelphia, that only Pennsylvania-mined coal be used in State and municipal institutions and buildings. Unanimous approval, late yesterday, of a resolution adopting a "hands-off" policy in the current dispute between the American Federation of Labor and the CIO, headed by John L. Lewis, removed practically the only controversial question to come before the convention. Expected discussion on the floor by Mine Workers representatives in the of the bituminous United 1 fields, stronghold of the failed to materialize and a large portion of the soft-coal delegates returned to their homes to participate in "Lewis Day" celebrations today.

The "hands-off" resolution, rec- COLLECTION OFTwo Automobiles Collide SCHOOL TAXES IS On Hill; Two Victims Die AHEAD OF 1936 PUNXSUTAWNEY, April Shortly After Accident Collections of current and delinquent city school taxes in the last nine months ran $95,000 better than in the corresponding period of the previous school tax year; the current tax payments running $57,000 ahead and the delinquent taxes $38,000, according to data obtained today from Albert Peffer, school accountant This means, he explained, that as against a tax duplicate of 402,467.68, collections to this morning aggregated $1,282,711.76, leaving outstanding $119,755.92, compared with $176,250.16 of current tax outstanding on April 1, 1936. The aggregate of delinquent and current taxes outstanding today is $505,000, a year ago it was 000. During April, the current tax payments aggregated $14,250 so that on May 1, the sum, returned to the county treasury to be col(lected with added penalties, was $162,000. At the present rate of paying, Peffer believes not more than $100,000 will have to be turned over to the treasury at the end of this Incounty, cidentally, while the county does the collecting, the penalty accumulates at the rate of 1 per cent. per month.

Five per cent. penalty was added October 1 and since then, the penalty has been accumulating at the rate of half of 1 per cent. per month. Tax authorities at school offices are showing concern about a bill pending in the Legislature which would allow a 5 per cent. abatement instead of 1.

per cent. to taxpayers who school taxes in July, the first month, after the levy. As now operated, about $840,000, or 62 per cent. of the tax duplicate, is paid in the abatement period; the early taxpayers being spared about $8400. If the abatement were boosted to 5 per cent.

and the same amount of tax was paid in the abatement period, the taxpayers would be spared five times $8400 or $42,000. But the school district, on the other hand, would be losing just that much revenue, which is equivalent to half a mill of tax. Moreover, directors fear the loss would not stop at $42,000. They insist that more property lowners would pay their taxes up during the abatement period to save that 5 per and estimate that at least 80 per cent. of the tax duplicate would be paid.

That would be something like $1,121,976 and the reduced income, under 5 per cent. abatement, would be around $56,000. ZION CHURCH VOTE MONDAY Members of the congregation of Zion Lutheran Church, this city, will vote for an elder and six deacons at the annual election Monday from 2 to at the church instead of tomorrow afternoon, as previously announced. Weather Report Forecasts Till 7.30 P. Friday HARRISBURG AND VICINITYIncreasing cloudiness tonight; Friday cloudy and somewhat warmer.

Lowest temperature tonight about 35 degrees. EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA -Increasing, cloudiness, portion tonight; slightly warmer Friday, and somewhat warmer. SHIPPERS' FORECASTS Protect shipments during the next twenty-four to thirty hours from temperatures follows: All directions, mostly above freezing. RIVER- Stages will fall slowly. A stage of about 5.0 feet may be expected for Harrisburg Friday mornling.

WEATHER CONDITION! high over the East States with a crest extending northerly over New York, State, attended by mostly fair weather over the Gulf States, the Ohio valley and the Atlantio States. Low pressure is central over Wisconsin, causing risling, above normal temperature over, the Mississippi valley, Lake region and eastward to the Atlantic Ocean with occasional light rains over the lower. Missouri valley and the lower Lake region. A crest of relatively high pressure covers the north and central Plains with a weak trough of low pressure over the northern Rockies. These are attended by cloudy skies and rains with moderate, abovefreezing temperature over the Rocky Mountain regions and the Pacific States.

River Bulletin Stations- Flood Stage Stage Change Rainfall Hra Hrs. 24 Feet Tenths 6.1 3.5 5.2 5.1 Two persons were killed and four others are in serious condition in Adrian Hospital today following a head-on collision of two automobiles on a hill five miles west of here. Injured fatally were Claire Rummel, 29, North Point, driver of one of the machines, and R. Wilson Hamilton, 51, of Home. Both died shortly after admittance to the hospital.

Rummel suffered internal injuries and fractures of the leg and arm. Hamilton's skull was fractured. The others injured were Harold Roney, 17-year-old Plumville High School senior, Trade City, tractured skull; Homer Hamilton, 19, son of Wilson; Cyrus Rummel, 30, ran, brother 26, of of Loop. The latter three Claire, and John Coch-1 were treated for lacerations of the head, face and body. C.

A. DOEHNE, DIES IN From Page One day morning and died after remaining in a coma for twenty-four hours. He had been in poor health for some months. He was the son of the late George and Anna Koenig Doehne and had been affiliated in the brewing business with his father and brother for many years. The father established the brewery at its present location in 1865.

was a member of Zion Lutheran Church. In addition to the widow, Mrs. Annette Schick Doehne, he is survived by two children, Miss A. Doehne, Virginia Doehne and Charles A. at home: a brother, George John Doehne, McCormick, and a sister.

Mrs. Private funeral services will be L. this city. conducted on Saturday afternoon at residence with the Rev. Dr.

S. Winfield Herman, Zion in the Harrisburg Cemetery. The Church, officiating. 'Burial will be body may 7 be to viewed o'clock on the Friday eve- ning from 8 at Dugan funeral home, 1600 Market street. NORMAL SPRING WEATHER AHEAD From Page One record just the temperature that is expected on a day in early Spring.

A low of 33 degrees was recorded at 7 o'clock this morning. Increasing cloudiness is expected to bring somewhat warmer weather tomorrow. A low of 35 degrees is expected tonight. March proved to be the first sub-normal month since November. It was one-tenth degree colder than January, and it has produced the coldest day of the season, March 10, when the mercury dipped to 18 degrees.

Six days prior to that the mercury soared to 62 degrees. Nine and a half inches of snow fell during the month, and the wind reached a velocity of twentyeight miles an hour at one time. There were several days when a gale of twenty-six miles an hour was blowing. Cows Escape From Pen On South Cameron St. Two cows were captured by city patrolmen in Cameron street, near Sycamore, early today shortly after escaping from a pen at the wholesale meat establishment of John Hervitz at 1146 South Cameron street.

Penn Alumni Celebration The University of Pennslivania Alumni Luncheon Club's seventh anniversary celebration will be held at the Harrisburger Hotel at 9 o'clock this evening. The celebration will be in the form of Monte Carlo party with Dr. A. Hara vey Simmons and Dr. Park A.

Deckard in charge. Guess Who! HI The silhouette published yesterday was that of Dr. J. K. Loewen.

Can you recognize the name of the prominent Harrisburg woman shown here today? EDUCATOR SEES DANGER IN PLAN From Page One beside him in buried yesterday. the House; and Donald Evangelical plot. The secretary to of Mifflinburg; Huntingdon, and commended by "deplores the of organized tain that the ment will be adoption of a this or any issue of like has, or in the ject to decision the authority Congress paid 1 their Those in the Robert F. Rich, of Gingery, of Clearfield. Lutheran Church, to pallbearers were: Lieut.

Congressman Focht; Garfield Phillips, James T. Alter, last respects to Congressman Benjamin upper picture are, left to right: Joseph Woolrich; Harry L. Haines, of Red Lion; Below pallbearers are carrying the be taken to the Lewisburg Cemetery Col. Samuel B. Wolfe, chief burgess Warren S.

Reed, register and recorder of Selinsgrove; W. C. Chambers, of of New Bloomfield. SEIZE BOYS ON VANDAL CHARGES From Page One prehended two youths in the act of breaking the globe of a street light. Other arrests followed until a dozen youths had been arrested on charges ranging from damaging borough street lights to stealing electric light fixtures from vacant houses in the central part the borough.

Acting Chief of Police Joseph N. Sostar, who is conducting the investigations, said today that he expects to have the entire group rounded up within the next twenty-four hours. Borough officials estimated the gang had broken seventy-five street with rocks and air rifles lights. past four weeks. Property owners reported the theft of chandeliers, plumbing fixtures, motors and furnace equipfrom nearly two dozen houses in the borough.

Burgess Coleman said today that definite action would not be taken against the boys until the remaining members of the gang had been rounded up. Seek Use of Island For Spring Circuses City Hall officials received queries from unannounced sources today, asking whether the lower of the flood damaged Island spend could be made available for Spring circus engagements. The subject reached the park department and also the city engineer's staff, which figured out that the Island south of the Walnut street bridge contains about 653,000 square feet or approxlimately fifteen acres. That is a substantially larger than circuses have been using at Twenty-first and Greenwood streets, some said. Park employes said that since the 1936 flood ruined the Island nursery, between the Market and Walnut streets bridges and also carried away or wrecked a number of buildings, the Island grounds "might be brought to the attention of the advance agents of the big top." EXPERTS EXPECT SHARP INCREASE From Page One cellaneous taxes after hearing from the experts.

The experts found that June tax payments last year were abnormally low as compared to March. A reversal of this trend may result in increased collections in June. Increase in taxation, the experts said, may have caused many taxpayers to spread payments over four quarterly periods instead of paying the whole amount March 15. Treasury reports on unusual requests for extensions also were held to forecast heavy collections later on. ENOLA WOMAN INJURED Admitted for observation to the Harrisburg Hospital early today with severe lacerations of the right arm, Mrs.

Elizabeth Liddick, 36, of. Enola R. D. 1, is said by physicians to have reported she thrust her arm through the glass in a door at her John T. Flynn, New York writer and economist, who has denounced the plan.

There were repercussions on Capitol Hill to the attacks on Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes by Senator Minton, Democrat, of Indiana, and on Associate Justice Owen D. Roberts by Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, of Washington. Minton said the Chief Justice had "played politics" by attacking the President's plan in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee while Schwellenbach declared Justice Roberts, whose reversed vote upheld the Washington State minimum wage law, had "more power than Hitler or Mussolini." Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska, foe of the presidential plan, said: "Their case must be woefully weak when they desert the issue and indulge in personalities." Not Certain of Success Bates told the committee he sympathized with the President's objectives and praised his efforts to "relieve distress and promote recovery." He warned the Court plan was a temporary expedient, not certain of success, which raised grave fears for the future of America. "It would certainly impair the prestige and the independence of the judiciary and partially prevent the accomplishment of the very sound purpose which it was provided," said Bates. "No matter how wise and disinterested President Roosevelt might be in appointing additional members of the Court, this bill, if enacted into law, sets an example and offers a means of future manipulation of the bench with the most serious consequences of evil." Since governments and public opinion changes, Bates pointed out, the bill would create a device that could be used time and again in the future to change the constitutional processes.

the executive cleavage in the ranks labor" but "feels cerinterests of our moveserved best by the 'hands-off' policy on other controversial nature that already future, may be subor action through Federation of Labor." Working Conditions Representatives of the building trades unions were to meet with members of the State Authority today to discuss working conditions on all buildings erected in the proposed $62,000,000 building program. It is expected they will demand full recognition of union labor on all projects and close adherence to prevailing wages and working conditions in the several localities in which the proposed buildings will be erected. Settlement of the internal dispute in Philadelphia labor ranks seemed conciliated today with an agreement being reached for CIO and Federation officials to attempt to work out a permanent ment within thirty days. Labor and Industry Secretary Bashore promised full cooperation of the Administration in labor programs and Robert 1 L. Myers, chairman of the Unemployed Insurance Board of Review, explained provisions eral and State unemployed insurance laws at yesterday afternoon's session.

FOUR FACTORIES ARE SHUT DOWN From Page One manufacture of taxicabs and buses. Two brief sit-downs in otherGeneral Motors plants were cleared up before today's strikes were called. At the Buick Motor Company's No. 11 plant at Flint, after 1000 returned to work United Automobile Workers' representatives conferred with the management over alleged discrimReturn to Assembly Lines inatory transfers. At the Cleveland plant of Fisher, key body plant of the General Motors system, workers returned to body assembly lines today after, a short sit-down.

The United Automobile Workers of America, expressing concern over the new industrial outbreak in view of the recent strike settlement with corporation, to say whether or not the strikes had been authorized. Spirit of Adventure Is Still High in American Boys, Explorer Asserts spirit of adventure still runs through, Jacques the veins D'Albert, of a American veteran of the second Byrd Antarctic Expelition, told Kiwanians at their noon luncheon meeting in the PennHarris Hotel. The fact that several thousand men applied for positions on the second Byrd expedition proves this to be true, D'Albert contended. D'Albert, who was chief steward of the Bear of Oakland during its Antarctic exploration, told of the hardships and myriad technical details necessary, in such an expedition. that the spirit of the personnel is vitally District Leaders of Girl Scouts Confer Forty-three persons attended the dinner meeting held last evening at the Girl Scout Little House by members of the Central District Committee for the district leaders.

Long term planning was discussed by the two groups. Mrs. John E. Fox, chairman of the badges and awards committee; Miss Anne McCormick, Girl Scout commissioner, and Miss Marion Leib, chairman of the Pine Grove camp committee, were the speakers. Eastern District leaders will meet with the district committee this evening at 7.30 at the Little House, and the West Shore District Committee and leaders will hold a dinner meeting tomorrow evening at 6.30 at the Little House.

Bill Signed to Provide New Fire Drivers' Tests The method of giving physical exlaminations to applicants for fire driver positions and fire alarm system operators Harrisburg in is third-class citchanged under the Flannery bill just signed by Governor Earle. Instead of having a board of doctors named by the mayor, conduct the physical tests, the physician member of the Civil Service Board will be the examiner. Harrisburg originally made upa fire drivers' eligible list in the same way police eligible lists are obtained, and then cancelled the list because the physical examinations had been conducted by the civil srevice doctor, not by a group appointed by the mayor. De Schweinitz Lauds National Highway Plan Karl de Schweinitz, head of the State assistance work as deputy secretary of welfare, today commended the national express highway plan of Congressman Ira W. Drew, Philadelphia, as a great aid for the unemployed, The highway would incorporate the proposed South Penn Highway eventually.

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