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tin in nn JflU Jl Site WEATHER: Rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow. PRICE TWO CENTS Entered as Second-Class Matter if it if 1t at the Post Office at Harrtsburg; HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 9, 1927 NUMBER 3120 Fubllshed Every Sunday by The IS HfflF (ft to 1 Examiner in Banmiller Case Same Who Found Other Big Defalcations Succeeds A.C. Watson in Important Altoona Job; Other Changes Are Made GOOD WILL FLIERS AT FLORIANOPOLIS FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, March 9. The three planes of the American Army's Good Will flight arrived here at 12.37 p.

m. today from Rio Grande Do Sul which they left at 7.35 a. m. NEW ANTI-VOLSTEAD ACT MOVE ALBANY, N. March 9.

A new move to bring about sale of light wines and beers in New York state was made today by assembly "wets" when Assemblyman Cuvillier introduced a bill authorizing the state department of health to purchase light wines and beers for medicinal purposes and to regulate their sale and use. EXTEND SYMPATHY TO JAPAN WASHINGTON, March 9. Acting Secretary of State Grew today extended through the Japanese ambassador here, the sympathy and condolences of the American Government and people to Japan in the present calamity. GRANTED ADDITIONAL COUNSEL FEES WHITE PLAINS, N. March 9.

Supreme Court Justicce Joseph Morschauser today granted Alice Jones Rhinelander $1500 additional counsel fees to continue to fight the efforts of her wealthy young husband, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, to annul their marriage. Mrs. Rhinelander had asked $5000 to combat Rhinelander's efforts to have the court of appeals in Albany overturn Justice Morschauser's earlier decision declining to annul the marriage on the grounds of fraud. PIPE SMOKING FATAL TO MATRON MALDEN, March Pipe smoking proved fatal to Mrs. Noah Connelly, 83-year-old invalid.

She was burned to death when ashes from her pipe ignited her clothing. QUIZ COPS IN MELLETT MURDER CANTON, Ohio, March 9. A woman of the underworld and several members of the Canton police department involved in the plot to murder Don R. Mel-lett, editor, were questioned today by authorities investigating the confession of the conspiracy given the Evenlnr Except Patriot Company Special to The Evening Newt PHILADELPHIA, March 9. I.

B. Sinclair, superintendent of the Conemaugh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, becomes superintendent of the Middle Division of the Pennsy, with headquarters at Altoona, it was announced today following a meeting of the Pennsy directors in Broad street station. This was one of more than a dozen promotions among superintendents and other officials decided upon today. Sinclair succeeds A. C.

Watson, who recently was transferred to the post of chief engineer of the Long Island Railroad. Other changes of importance included the promotion of J. C. Rill, from freight train master of the Middle Division, with headquarters in Altoona, to superintendent of the Loganport Division. F.

W. StoopSj freight train master of the Panhandle Division, will succeed Rill in Altoona. I. B. Sinclair, the new head of the Middle Division of the P.

R. ha3 many acquaintances in Har-risburg. He was assistant superintendent here about seven years ago when E. J. Cleave was here as superintendent of the Philadelphia Division.

RING BOUGHT FOR GIRL LEADS TO ARREST OF MAN Charged with passing five forged checks totalling Leslie Rockwell, 22, until recently employed as a fireman on the Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is held in a detention cell here following his arrest in Williamsport yesterday. Rockwell was traced through his signature on a lease signed with a jewelry firm in this city, where he purchased a $35 diamond ring on the instalment plan. He admitted the purchase of the ring, which he said he gave to his sweetheart. Rockwell, whose home is in Williamsport, but who had been staying with his brother, Carl Rock-Turn to Page Seventeen Council May Make New Tech High Proposition City Council will have an informal conference tomorrow morning, called specially by Mayor Hoverter, to reconsider the matter of acquiring the old Tech High building for a city hall. It is quite possible that a proposition will be adopted and transmitted to the School Board meeting on Friday evening, when the Board will have before it the city's old offer to pay $315,00 and also the offer of John F.

Sweeney, attorney, to pay $350,000 for the building. A majority of the school directors are known to be willing to sell to the city, and one director today said he would not be surprised if an agreement was reached at the Friday board meeting. FE grand jury by Louis Mazer, under indictment for the IM (9 IU1 The same State bank examiner who turned up the $1,200,000 shortage in the City Bank of York, on April, 1923, and who more recently uncovered an even larger shortage at the North Penn Bank, in Philadelphia, was the man who, with ten assistants, discovered the $200,000 embezzlement here at the Commonwealth Trust Company, which is charged, against A. S. Banmiller, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, who is now in prison in default of $50,000 bail.

The chief examiner, who is rated high by his superiors in the State Banking Department, is R. P. Ferguson, of York, formerly of Char-leroi. He has been examining banks for about sixteen years, having been appointed originally at the request of his former fellow-citizen, former Governor John K. Tener.

Ferguson had been in the banking business for years prior to that time, having worked from the ground up through various positions of the bank, and he was a personal appointee of Tener. When banking authorities explained that Ferguson is the man Turn to Page Seventeen MISS SPRING AND COURT ARRIVE IN CITY TONIGHT Route of Parade Miss Spring and her Court of Honor, accompanied by, their reception committee, will pass over the following parade route this evening immediately following a brief alfresco reception at 7 o'clock at the Pennsylvania Station: Station Plaza, to Market, to Fifth, across Market Street Subway, thence west on Market street, to Second, to Walnut, to Third, to Market, to Fourth, to Walnut, to Third, to Reily, to Second, to Chestnut and dismiss. The parade order will be: Motorcycle escort, chief marshal's car, Commonwealth Band, Miss Spring, Court of Honor, and Reception Committee in new-model automobiles. Miss Spring and her Court of Honor will bring the spring season to the city tonight and formally inaugurate the. 1927 Unison Spring Opening of the retail stores being held under the auspices of the Merchants' Council of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce.

Miss Spring's arrival at the Pennsylvania Station this evening at 7 o'clock will be the signal for the lights to flash on In hundreds of display windows. At that time the city's shopping districts will be transformed into a shoppers' paradise. Not only will the show windows be freshly trimmed with Turn to Page Eleven murder. READING DENIED N. E.

LEASE BY I. C. C. TO PROTECT PUBLIC By Vnited Presi WASHINGTON, March 9. The Interstate Commerce Commission today denied the application of the Reading Company to acquire control of the Lehigh New England Railroad Company.

The commission held the proposed acquisition was "not in the public interest." The Lehigh New England operates 219 miles of line in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, serving the anthracite coal fields in the latter State. The Reading in seeking the lease proposed to "facilitate the movement of freight from points on the Reading and its connections to points on the Lehigh New England and beyond." Claimed Great Economies The Reading claimed great economies in operation would result. The Baltimore Ohio and Western Maryland Railroad favored the lease but the Pennsylvania protested against it. The Reading proposed to pay an annual rental of $1,069,000 to tho Lehigh New The commission held that payment of such a high price for con-Turn to Page Seventeen Freight Traffic Through City Unchanged by I.C.C. Denial of Reading Plea The handling of freight traffic through this city will remain unchanged as the result of the Interstate Commerce Commission refusing the leasing of the' Lehigh New England Railroad Company by the Beading Company, it was stated unofficially in railroad circles today.

C. E. Chamberlin, general manager of the Harrisburg Division of the Reading Company, refused to comment on the ruling, while Agnew T. Dice, Reading president, "had nothing to say" over long distance telephone to his Philadelphia office. The purpose in seeking the lease, President Dice had formerly stated, was to "facilitate the movement of freight from points on the Reading and it connections to points on the Lehigh New At present, the coal traffic originated on the Reading moves to New England principally through Jersey City, thence by barge.

Through Traffle Planned 'The Reading also proposed, upon the consummation of the lease, to Torn to Page Seventeen 6 Arrested After Man Is Fleeced in Alley Five negroes and a white man were arrested today after they are alleged to have enticed Joseph Gil-lett, 35 years old, into an alley at the rear of 1707 North Seventh street, and stole a gold watch and chain and $1 from him. Those arrested are: George Wilson, Frank Brisbane, Calvin King, Alexander Talley, Robert Diggs, negroes, and Charles Snyder, white. They will be given a hearing at police court on Friday on a charge of larceny from the KILLED IN HOME OF HER FATHER IN SCRANTON BY ILL HUSBAND SCRANTON, March 9. Joseph Burall, aged 40, shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Anna'v Silkman Burall, aged 38, then shot himself, in the bedroom of her father's house here at 11.40 o'clock this morning.

Joseph R. Silkman, father of the murdered woman, was in the cellar of the home when he heard the shots. Rushing to the bedroom he saw Burall standing over the body of his dead wife. "Why didn't you shoot yourself?" Silkman asked him. "I will," responded 'Burall, and shot himself in the side.

He was taken to the hospital and is in a critical condition. Mrs. Burall was known as one of the most beautiful women in the city. The couple had been married about twenty years. Burall, who was formerly a well known advertising man here, has been in ill-health for the last four years and has worked only at intervals.

It is reported that he has lost money in the stock market. He fired three shots at his wife, one entered her breast, another her abdomen and the third her head. No immediate cause for the tragedy is known. $20,060,000 Appropriation For Armories Sought An appropriation of $1,000,000 is provided in a bill introduced in the House by Representative Hess, Lancaster, for new State armories. It is to be made to the State Armory B.oard.

It is probable that the Earley bill providing $350,000 for a Harrisburg armory, may be recalled as a result of the introduction of the Hess bill. The earley bill is in the third reading, postponed calendar. FILES PROTESTS AGAINST NEW SCHOOL BOARD International Ifewt Service WILKES-BARRE, March 9. Formal protest was entered in the county court here today against the seven new directors of the Hanover Township school board, named by Judge William S. Mc- Clean to succeed members of the board ousted in connection with the $1,000,000 graft expose.

Petitioners demanded the withdrawal of the appointments on the ground that the action should have been taken by the entire court and i i noi Dy one juage. iwo memoers of the bench dissented when Judge McClean made the announcement of the appointments. It is understood that the court will allow the new directors to function until March 28 when Judge McClean will return from Florida. In the mean-the seven directors will be investigated, it was announced. Retinue Fisher Believes Harris VotingMachineMeasure Better Than Davis Bill ORDERS BOXES OPENED IN FOUR MORE GOUNTIES WASHINGTON, March 9.

Davis S. Barry, sergeant-at-arms of the Senaet, today was given instructions in writing by the Senate elections probe committee to impound the ballot boxes of the November 2 election in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Schuylkill and Delaware Counties. The order was issued in the absence of Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, chairman of the slush fund committee which is investigating political conditions in Senator Reed is in Detroit as counsel for Henry Ford and will probably be there for several weeks, at least, so that resumption of the inquiry may not start until April or late in March. The ballot boxes included in the order of the committee are to be impounded as the result of a suggestion made to the committee last week by William B.

Wilson, Democratic opponent of William S. Varo. Wilson then said that he would be satisfied if ballot boxes of these four counties be added to those already obtained in Philadelphia and Pittsburglw The order to Sergeant-at-arms Barry was delivered by Reed's secretary, who is also clerk to the special Senate committee, Hicklin Yates. It was not known today when Barry will leave for Pennsylvania, but when the ballot boxes are brought here they will be stored in the basement of the Senate Office Building with the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh boxes to await the reconvening of the probe committee. NAVAL UNIT INSPECTION EVANSVILLE.

111., March 9 See-etary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur will inspect Northwestern Univer- ity's naval unit today. The unit is omposed of sixty men and is the mly one in the Deaf Man Hears First Sermon in 40 Years From Station WMBS YORK. March 9. For forty years John Charleston was a regular church-goer, but never heard a word of the sermons.

But Charleston has at last heard his first sermon through the Harrisburg radio station, WMBS. While visiting friends near here on Sunday, Charleston was invited to listen-in on the radio, and the station picked up was WMBS, which was broadcasting services from the Grace United Brethren Church, Penbrook. He was greatly surprised to- hear, with the aid of headphones, every word of the service very clearly. 8 ONE REMOVED FROM THROAT OF LEMOYNE MAN By United Presi PHILADELPHIA, March 9. Harry Eppley, 22, who was brought from his home at Le-moyne to the Jefferson Hospital here yesterday with a bone lodged in his throat, today was resting comfortably after the obstruction had been removed with the bronchoscope.

Hospital physicians said that Eppley, who was accompanied here by his wife, would leave the hospital within a few days. quizIeuhanty -PENNA. RUM RING PROBE By United PretB CLEVELAND, March 9. Federal investigation of the alleged gigantic Pennsylvania-Ohio beer conspiracy in which a $1,000,000 beer traffic between the two states is charged, neared a climax today. A subpena for Frederick C.

Baird, former prohibition administrator for the western district of Pennsylvania, lias been issued to bring him before the grand jury here now in session. The jury decided to call in Baird questioning following the testimony before the body Tuesday of Frank Delahanty, former state representative and major league ball player. Delahanty last November finished a year in Atlanta Federal prison in connection with a Federal seizure of liquor here. Federal agents and United States Attorney A. E.xBernsteen were of the opinion today that Delahanty's testimony yesterday will aid materially in bringing about the thirty indictments has promised in the case.

The officials maintained Delahanty "knows plenty" of the operations of the Cleveland ring which distributed the beer and the channels by which it came from Pennsylvania. WILL REMARRY AFTER 7 YEARS Their differences forgotten in the papain years, Peter A. Vogt, 36 years old, of near Danville, and his former wife, Irene G. VoRt, of Millers-burg', applied at the Dauphin County courthouse this afternoon for a licence to re-marry. The couple and their three children will re-unito for the first time since October 13, 1918, when the two separated.

The marital difficulties began soon after their marriage on May 22, 1915, Mrs. Vogt then claimed, when her husband found fault with her culinary ability. Their disagreement led to more serious acts of cruelty, she then charged, and she obtained her 'divorce on August 30, 191-0. She had not said anything about her ability as a cook today. Neither did her husband.

However, both were happy as they left the 'Courthouse. Man Drops Dead After Attending Sick Wife Harr P. White, 42 years old, negro, of 912 Grand street, employed in the City Highway Department as a street cleaner, died suddenly this morning at his horn. White had been in attendance on his sick wife shortly before he dropped over dead, according to Deputy Coroner Dugan, who said death was due to a heart attack. t.s than fifty tickets rmaln unnold tomorrow evrnlnit's concert by The I'lillhiirmonie Ort-hvatra of New York, Theater, with the famous conduction.

Tickets. $3.80. S2 I8 anl 1.8H. tax lncludod. Tlckt i Kale, Room 8, The Patriot Ilulldlnn.

Market Snuare AdV. OHIO Governor Fisher today said that he believes that the Harris resolu tion providing for a Constitutional amendment that would make possible county option on the question ferable to the Davis bill which gives the election districts no option. There is said to be political opposition to the Harris bill, the politicians ostensibly favoring the Davis bill which would put voting machines into every precinct in the State for next Fall's election. It is said to be the plan of the politicians to pass the Davis bill in the Qonnto linnwinir t.hnt thfl OtlBOsi- UUun. 1 tion of rural members in the House would defeat it.

With this bill dead and the Harris bill bottled up in the Senate committee on elec tions, there would be no voting ma chine bill acted upon amrmativeiy by this session of the Legislature. The Harris bill has passed one legislative session and must pass this one to be placed before the voters next year when a referendum is to be held on Constitutional amendments. The Governor said today that there are small counties where the voting machines would not be wanted and woud not be necessary because' of the small vote. RIVER WILL GO TO FIFTEEN FEET The Susquehanna River is expected to reach a height of thirteen feet in Harrisburg by morning, it was announced today by the State Department of Waters. This means that there will be a jump of approximately four and one-half feet in twenty-four hours.

The sharp rise In the river stage is attributed to melting snows, which have poured into both the West and the North branches of the river. A stage of fifteen feet is forecast for the morning in Wilkes-Barre and of thirteen feet at Williamsport In no cases is the stream expected to reach flood stage. The Juniata River is believed to' have reached its crest today, which in most cases is eleven feet above low water mark. PATROL AND TROLLEY CRASH By United Pro PHILADELPHIA, March 9. Two policemen were hurt and a score of passengers in a trolley car were shaken up in a collision between the car and a police patrol at street intersection MANUFACTURERS TAX MEASURE FILED IN HOUSE Representative Moore, Washington, offered a bill in the House of Representatives today" reducing the State tax on the capital stock of corporations from five to four mills.

The bill provides for a tax on manufacturers' capital. This is the first bill of its kind and while it reduces the tax on capital stock it amends out the provision exempting manufacturers and laundries. Attacked Exemptions Representative Moore attacked the exemptions long granted manufacturers in a statement issued just after he offered the bill. This referred to a report presented to the 1925 Legislature which stated that 7926 manufacturing corporations in Pennsylvania are exempt from payment of a capital State tax ana that the exemptions amounted then to $3,148,549. "A capital stock with no exemptions would solve the problem of 'where is the money coming I he said.

"Since 1885 the capital stock of manufacturing corporations has-been exempted from taxes in Penn-. sylvania. This exemption has been Turn to Page Seventeen Amendment to Ludlow Act Sought in House The Ludlow act is amended by a bill offered in the House today by Representative Welfy, Lehigh. It provides that except1 in cases fit second degree murderers and second termers the minimum sentence should be two-third of the maximum sentence. SINCLAIR OIL CASE RESTED By Vnited Preti WASHINGTON, March 9.

Th Government today rested Its casa against Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate and sportsman, charged wtih contempt of the Senate. The charge grew out of tn famous Senate oil investigation when Sinclair refused to answer committee questions. All Harrisburg Will Welcome "Miss and Her i.