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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-28
DECIDE TO URGE CHANGES
IN Sd Glass CITY ACT

Preliminary to presenting their COM
plants to a Senate committee at a
hearing this afternoon at O'Clock,
members of the law committee of Vhe
League of the Cities of the Third Glass
went into session in the Court House
this morning and framed a number of
amendments which they will ask the
lawmakers to include in the bill now
pending which comes as an amendment
to the Clark commission government act
of 1918.
The committee decided to ask that
the Senate amendment giving the
Mayor appointive power over the police
and other members of his department,
be stricken out entirely. Another pro-
posed amendment which graduates the
amount of the salary of the Mayor ac-
cording to the population of the CON-
munity, will be offered and the sub
stitution of a provision making it inn
possible to increase the salary of the
Mayor after he has been nominated or
elected, will be suggested.
! The committee will further ask to
have restored the provision of the orig.
inal Clark act which designated that
the terms of Commissioners, two for
four years and two for two years, shall
be reckoned according to the number
of votes received by the candidates.
The two candidates receiving the
highest number will be elected for fou,
years and the next two for two years
A Senate amendment provides that the
candidates for Commissioner shall desig
nate the term of Office for which they
seek election, this plan being similar
to the method of electing school di
reetors which now is in vogue.
The committee unanimously opposed
the proposed Senate amendment whicl
provides for the election of City Treas
urers by popular vote. A suggestion tt
be made to the Senate gives the City
Commissioners power to appoint tn,
treasurer and fix his salary. The com
mitteemen were of the opinion, they
said, that the election of reasure
by the people and the fact that now HI
receives salary brings politics into tn,
election.
Belief was expressed by the commit
tee that if the treasurer were appointed
by the City Commission and his salar,
fixed at fair wage, the treasurer would
feel that he has a f'Iboss or superior ,
and not that he is the supreme fsca
officer
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U. S. Steel s FAVORABLE
Showing FOLLOWS REPORT
Makes Initial Gain at Outset Of Mar
ket Transactions To-day-Continues
to Hold Commanding Position and
Makes Further Gains During Day

New York, April 2S.-The quarter
ly report of the U. s. Steel. Corporation
was favorably received by speculative
interests, judging from the course of
the stock and the general market at
to-day's opening Steel made an addi-
tional gain of u of point at the out
set, soon increasing this to a point.
Local fractions, motors and.some of the
industrial specialties rose point or
more. Investment railway shares par
ticipated in more moderate degree.
while New York Central debenture 6s,
with gain of "a, made new high
record. American Tobacco, Central
Leather and Pressed Steel Car were
among the few issues to record de-
clines.
Steel continued to hold its command
ing position, increasing its gain to IN
points on very heavy dealings. Inter-
boro common was really the most active
issue of the first hour and, with the
preferred stock, advanced as much as
steel. Representative railway issues,
which showed early backwardness, later
registered substantial advances, while
in the general industrial and equiment
groups gains of 2 to points were, num-
erous, Westinghouse being most con-
spicuous. The overturn in the first
hour was very large, but diminished
materially later. Bonds were strong.
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CHILD LABOR BILL IS
SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE

In the Senate to-day Senator Sproul
introduced a concurrent resolution au-
thoriZing and directing the Attorney
General, Auditor General and State
Treasurer, for and in behalf of the
State, to compromise and settle all
that litigation pending in the Beaver
county court wherein the Harmony
Society" is defendant, together with
any and all claims affecting the prop
erty and assets of said society.
Mills introduced resolution calling
for an appropriation of $4,000 for a
brick plant at the new penitentiary in
Centre county.
The Gerhart bill exempting life in
surance policies from all claims of
creditors, recalled from the Governor,
passed finally.
The Wickersham House bill limiting
the payment of mothers pensions to
women whose husbands are dead or
permanently insane or who have ehii-
dren under 16 years old, passed finally,
but the vote was soon afterward re-
considered and the bill sent to the
Committee on Appropriations
The House bill imposing liabilities
on persons in second class cities for
the cost of extinguishing fires occur.
ring through criminal intent or wilful
negligence, passed finally.
The Mcconnell bill authorizing the
Governor TO appoint commission tc
purchase the site of old Fort Augusta
erected at Sunbury in 1855, passed
finally.
The Sproul biz authorizing elec
tric light, heat and power companies
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SUM0f s15,500 RAISED FOR
CAMP curtin CAMPAIGN
One Room in New Memorial Church
Will Be Set Aside for Use Of G. A.
r. Men of City When Post Rooms
Are Abandoned

With total of s15,500 raised dur
ing the last eight days, the campaign to
raise funds for the erection of new
"Camp Curtin Memorial M. E. Church .
was formally closed at the final lunch
con of the workers last night in the
present Curtain Heights M. E. chapel,
Sixth and Camp streets.
Announcement was made last night
bv the Rev. A. S. Williams, pastor of
the congregation, that the campaign
will be informally continued until May
"a when the silver jubilee of the church
will be celebrated. Mr.. Williams said
that with $4,000 in cash already in
the treasury, together with the $15,-
500 raised during the campaign, the
building of the new edifce can be
started very soon.
At the suggestion Of prominent G.
A. R. men in this city, it has been de-
cided to set aside one room in the new
Camp Curtin Memorial church where
the local Grand Army Posts can meet.
When the ranks of the boys in blue
are thinner by far than they now are
and it is deemed advisable to do away
with the present post rooms, the room
in the new church will always be open
to the men who fought the nation 8
battles back in 81.
The totals reported by the various
teams last night were as follows:
Men $ Division-B. r. Barnhart
s215; A. s. Benner, $276; George Buf
fngton, S401; w. F. Burgoon, $3.50;
D. w. Cotterel, $726; W. W. Criswell
1898; j. A. Hall, s475; Eli Hollinger
$242; A. Il. knight, $251; j. F. Taylor
$214; Emery Miller, 1884; George
Marshall, 1919; w. H. Brieker, 81 All;
Ed Hammaker, 1912; Mr.. Sollenberger
$476; Edw Rohrer, $14S; C. o. Ely
$52S; Homer Miller, $271; Charlie:
Biting, s2S5. Total, 1892.
Women s Division-Mrs. E. C. Glib
Mons, $685. Mrs. A. C. Benner, sS71
Mrs. c. A. Sollenberger, $573; Mrs
Emma Crist, s425; Mrs. f. E. Darling
ton, $500; Mrs. ID. w. Friese, s464
Mrs. ]. A. Haas, s717; Mrs. Margaret
Holland, 1851; Mrs. Clarence Jeffrles
s412; Mrs. A. Lee Knight, S713; Mrs
J. H. Kraemer, $500; Miss Mildred
Fisher, 1913; Mrs. Emma Wilson, S2S1
Mrs. Emery Miller, $685. Miss Carri,
McCahan. 1924; Miss Florence Pot
teiger, $3.50; Miss Mary Crane, $3.50
MRS. !. +. Walters, s3O6. Total, ST,
SS6. Grand total, s15,505.
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Governor TO help THE
babies OF HARRISBURG
Continued From First Page.

on sale at the Y. NJ. c. A. and at Cor.
gas drug store. The list of patrons
is growing, additional names being an.
nounced to-day as follows:
Mrs. Frank r. Oyster, Mrs. E. E
Beidleman, the Misses Skunk, Mayor
John X. Royal, Vance G. Mccormick
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Jones, Mrs. F. Her
bert Snow, DR.. Martha Pollock, Theo
dore G. Calder, Warwick NJ. Ogelsby
Mrs. c.. E. Ellsworth, Mrs. A. E. Bu
chanan, Mrs. J. E. B. Cunningham
Mrs. V. Hummel Eager, Henry McCor
mick, G. Irwin Beatty, DIR. George R
Moflitt, Miss Clara NJ. Cunkle, Henry
B. Mccormick, Mrs, Henry B. McCor
mick, the Misses Cox, Mrs. d. Bailey
Brandt, Mrs. Rollin A. Sawyer, Mrs
Robert NJ. Rutherford, Mrs. william
Jennings, Mrs. Henry C. Orth, Mrs
Harry C. Ross, Mrs. c. j. Sourbier
Thomas Lynch Montgomery, DIR. F. E
Downes, Mrs. Homer Black, Mrs. Will
liam c. Armour, Mrs. j. G. Balsley
Mrs. Charles H. Bergner, Miss Martht
Buehler, Mrs. Henry B. Bent, Mrs
Sanford D. Coe, Miss Nancy Etter
Mrs. Howard NJ. Bingaman, Mrs. B
F. Blough, Mrs. C. Ross Boas, Mrs
Henry d. Boas, Miss Sarah McConkey
Mrs. A. Carson Stamm, Mrs. John M
Wallis, Mrs. Samuel C. Todd, Mrs. 10
seph Nachman, Mrs. Harry Bowman
Mrs. J. R. Morrison, Mrs. Arthur H
Bailey, Mrs. Roy G. Cox, Mrs. s. J. M
McCarrell, Mrs. George M. Whitney
Mrs. John W. Simonton, Mrs. Lewis Z
johnson and Mrs. Rawn V. Davies.
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DUNN QUESTIONS PROVISO In
HOSPITAL APPROPRIATIONS

Hospital appropriation bills being re-
ported from the House committee car
ry an amendment making it mandatory
for hospitals to be equipped with patho-
logical and clinical laboratories, sub
ject to the approval of the State Board
of Medical Examination and Licensure.
Mr.. Dunn, of Philadelphia, raised a
question in the House this morning,
asking where the amendment came
from. Speaker Amber referred him to
Chairman Woodward, of the Appropra-
tions Committee, who was not in the
House at the time. Sixty-six appropria-
tion bills, many of them carrying that
amendment, were passed on second
reading.
Mr.. Dunn said he was informed that
equipment of these laboratories costs in
the neighborhood of $4,000 and, under
the slim amounts allowed by the com
mittee, many of the hospitals would
have to use the entire appropriation to
equip such laboratories. Mr.. Dunn said
he thought the amendment came from
the State Board of Medical Examina'
tion and Licensure.
The Harrisburg hospital is equipped
with such laboratories.
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EVANGELISM TO BE TOPIC
Seminary Professor Will Preach This
Evening at Fourth Reformed

Devotional exercises at the opening
of the days session at the Fourth Re.
formed church of the Lancaster Chassis
were conducted by the Rev. H. I. Hille-
gass. report was presented by the
Rev. David B. SCHNEIDER, missionary to
Japan, and reports were made by the
committee OH overtures and the COM
mittee on minutes of classis.
This evening at the church the ser
mon will be preached by the Rev. DR..
George W. Richards, of the Theological
Seminary of the Reformed Church of
the United States, Lancaster. His top.
ic will be "Can We Still Be Evangelist.
ic?" The Rev DR.. Ellis n. Kremer
pastor of Salem church, this city, will
preside.
The presiding officer at the business
sessions of the classis is the Rev. Homer
S. May, pastor of the Fourth church
the newly-elected president. The class
is will adjourn tomorrow afternoon.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-28
FAVORS ENLARGING ICE PLANT
United Company Director Says More
Room Is Needed Since Laurel Fire

The destruction by forest fire of the
United Ice & Coal Company's storage
plant at Laurel, Cumberland county,
last Tuesday, will likely result in the
material enlargement of the company IS
local plant at Forster and Cowden
streets, one of the directors said to.
day.
The destruction of the Laurel plant,
which was valued at $4,000, togeth-
er with 1900 tons of ice, has brought
the company face to face with the
problem ultimately of getting more
storage room. In the meantime the
company will be supplied in part with
ice from the Walkermyer plant, at
Laurel, which escaped the flames.
No final decision to enlarge the 10.
cal plant has as yet been reached, but
one of the officials of the company said
he is in favor of the project and in.
tends proposing it at board meeting
soon to be held.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-28
COURT HOUSE
NO DETENTION House Yet
County Heads Defer Action, Awaiting
Return of John H. Eby,
Who Is Ill

The absence Of County Commissioners
John H. Eby, who is ill at his Lykens
home suffering from a nervous break.
down, the other members of the County
Commissioners said to-day, makes it in
advisable at this time to take any def
mite action ON the question of establish
ing house of detention in Harrisburg
where uneonvicted Juveniles may be
kept until court hearings are had.
Also the Commissioners said they
they will not fix the time for the hear
ing at which assessors are to be ques
toned on alleged padding of assess
ment lists until Mr.. Bby returns to his
desk Mr.. Eby to-day was reported tc
be slowly improving and belief was ex
pressed at his home that he soon will
be able to be about again.
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to purchase securities of water COM
panies, passed finally.
The vote by which the bill making
counties pay the cost of primary cleo
tions was defeated on Monday, was
reconsidered and further action on the
measure postponed for the present.
The Habgood House bin making at
torneys eligible to election for District
Attorney after one year s practice,
passed finally.
The Chair announced that memorial
exercises will be held on next Tues
day afternoon for the late Senators
Hall, Elk, and Fisher, Northumber-
land.
The child labor bill on second
reading was referred back to the
Judiciary Special committee on motion
of Snyder, SchylkiH, with the under
standing that it should he reported out
unamended.
The Senate passed finally the bill to
make counties pay primary election
expenses.
On motion of Senator Crow, the
seven bills known as the workmen 6
compensation bill were referred back
to the Committee on Corporations after
being passed ON second reading.
When the Senate reconvened after
recess Senator Snyder reported from
the Judiciary Special Committee the
child labor bill "with the distinct un
derstanding,' as he announced, "that
there shall be no objection to the offer
ing of amendments to the bill when il
comes up on third reading next Monday
night" This, of course, does not i'm
ply that the amendments will be &C
cepted.
The Senate at 1.25 adjourned, tt
meet next Monday evening at 9 clock
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BAND TO PLAY FOR KNIGHTS
Elaborate Program For the st. George
Entertainment Tomorrow

At various times during the year
Branch 1853, Knights of st. George,
holds social functions for it's members
and their friends but never before has
such an elaborate affair been arranged
as that which will take place to-mor
row evening in McCloskey hall, ad-
joining ST. Francis Roman Catholic
church, Market street near Fifteenth.
Several weeks ago a committee COM
posed of NJ. j. Barry, Frank J..
Suter, Simon P. Hare, Thomas Culhane
and Charles Theuer, was appointed to
arrange for an "open' meeting for
the members of the branch and their
friends. For the occasion the Verdi
Italian band was secured and NJ. Cal
derazzi, the director, and G. Gaeta, the
president of the musical organization
began to map out program and ar
range for several special numbers. The
Verdi band now has thirty members
and has become one of the crack
musical organizations of Central Penn.
sylvania.
During the evening refreshments
will be served and there will be plenty
of cigars for the smokers. Arrange
ments were also completed to-day for
the presence of supreme officer of
the knights, who will deliver a short
address.
NJ. Calderazzi, director of the Verdi
band and a crack Steelton musician
to-day announced the following pro.
gram which will be interspersed with
special numbers "Fairest of the
Fair Sousa; intermezzo, "The Red
Devil" march, "Under the Double
Eagle;" selection from "Nerma, u
Belinni; march, "The Midshipman; -
intermezzo, "Un-Bel-Foire," NJ. Cal
derazzi.
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PERRY LIQUOR APPEALS UP
Argument Before Superior Court Starts
Late To-day or Tomorrow

Argument in the several Perry coun.
ty liquor license cases, being appeals ia
ken after the Perry county Judges, un-
able to agree, declined to grant license
applications, win be presented to the
State Superior Court in session in Pitts.
burgh, late this afternoon or tomorrow
morning.
Perry county attorneys are looking
after the interests of the appealing ho-
telmen, while George R. Barnett, of this
city, who opposed the granting of IL
eenses when the Perry county license
court was held in March, is prepared to
argue that the license application pa
pers are faulty. Mr.. Barnett has been
in Pittsburgh since Monday.
The Perry county case is the last on
the list to be considered at the Pitts.
burgh session of the Superior Court.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-28
HARRISBURG TO have few
DAYSOF Relief FROM HEAT
The Weather Man Says Temperature
to Remain Below Eighty Degrees
For Strong Ocean Breeze
Supplants Hot Spell

Harrisburgers will be given some
relief from the heat during the next
few days, according to E. R. Demain,
local forecaster of. the United States
Weather Bureau, who said this morn
ing that the temperature will not ex-
ceed eighty degrees either today or
tomorrow.
The intense heat in Harrisburg for
the past three days has been higher
than in any other city in the United
States, according to weather bureau
figures.
Much relief came late yesterday
afternoon when heavy storm caused
the temperature to drop 25 degrees in
few minutes time. The storm did
slight damage in the city, but during
height of So miles an hour.
The telephone service at various
points in the city was put out of COM
mission for a short time, while the
lights of the Harrisburg Light, Heat
and Power Company were cut off
twice during the storm. The Harris
burg Railways Company reported one
ear derailed for a few minutes, caused
by mud being washed on the track.
During the heaviest part of the
storm much hail fell, especially in the
vicinity of Dillsburg, where it is re-
ported stones as large as walnuts fell
so heavily that they could be shoveled
from the ground following the storm.
One case of heat prostration was
reported, that of j. H. Penfeld a
travelling salesman from Cleveland
Ohio, who was taken to the Shope
hospital.
All cities over which the hot spell
has been prevalent report decisive
drop in temperature this morning. The
disturbance, which was central over
the Southern New England States and
the Middle Atlantic States has moved
further south with a strong ocean
breeze supplanting it.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-28
Dramatic Incident In
Brooklyn Court To-
day When Man Ac-
knowledges Crime
HALTS TRIAL AS
HE PLEADS GUILTY
Calls on Judge to Stop Proceedings as
He Waves Hand and Says He Is
Guilty Before God and the
World
By Associated Press.

New York, April 2S.-Philip t.
White, the $4,000 year manager of
the Masury Paint Company in Brooklyn
on trial as the leader of band OF
highwaymen who held up his employers
bank messengers and robbed them of
$4,000 nearly year ago, rose from
his chair in the court room to-day,
stretched both arms toward Supreme
Court Justice Aspinall on the bench and
exclaimed:
"Stop that; l am guilty; l want to
confess my guilt before God and the
world.
A court room scene seldom equalled
in the annals of the New York juris'
prudence ensued. White, trembling with
emotion, turned from the bench and
faced the jury:
Lived Two Lives, Tells Jury
'I am guilty he repeated. cit is
a bitter cup that is forced to my lips
but it is the Lords will. | have lived
two lives-a decent one and that of a
highwayman. l hope that God will
forgive and that l may live long
enough to make restitution
He reached up to his coat lapel and
fumbled with a gold button in the but
tonhole.
''And I surrender my membership
in the Mystic Shrine,'' he continued,
tearing. the button loose. "I am no
longer worthy to remain a Shriner."
Asked No Clemency
White continued his impassioned
avowal. He freely confessed the de-
tails of the crime, but asked no elem
encv and made no statement as to the
motive which impelled him. When he
sat down, beside his long time friend,
James T. Clinnin, auditor for the
Hackett & Wilhelms Company, in
Brooklyn, who also was on trial on the
same charge, Clinnin arose.
~ wish to plead guilty too, he
said, and sat down.
The trial, which has been in pro-
gress in the Supreme Court in Brook.
lyn for several days, was at once
halted. The jury was dismissed and
court accepted the two pleas of guilty
Sentence was postponed a week.
Scheme In Which They Robbed
Clennin and White were charged
with having devised the scheme under
which two messengers of the Masury
company were roboed OF So,UUO IN
the hallway of the building occupied
by the firm. The actual robbery was
committed by two hhghwaymen acting
under Whites orders. The four after
wards divided the money, White get
ting 5000. This was testified to yes
terday by Robert S. Roberts, the man
who actually took the money from the
messengers hands.
White lived in handsome home al
Elizabeth, n. j. When ne was first ar
rested, after months of investigation
by detectives, his employers. were as
founded, refused to believe him guilty
and assisted him to obtain bail.
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Wants Out of Jail

Artso Dimoff to-day petitioned the
court, saying that he would like to be
released from the Dauphin county jail
and certifying that because of insolv-
ency he is unable to pay the amount
of the verdict rendered against him by
jury in a damage suit brought by
Simo Rusnov because of an alleged ma
licious prosecution. Dimoff wants to
give bond as an evidence of good
faith that he will pay if he gets the
money and the court granted rule on
Rusnov to show cause why this appli-
cation should not be allowed. A hear
ing will be held in the matter on May
s.
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REFUGEES SAY GERMANS FIRED
ON CHARITYHOM ES NEAR YPRES

Paris, April 2S.-Thfee hundred
refugees from Poperinghe, eight miles
west of Ypres, which has come under
the fire of German artillery, have ar
rived in this city ON special trains.
Most of them are inmates of an orphan
age and home for the aged conducted
by Franciscan sisters.
When the bombardment -,of Poper-
inghe was begun on Sunday, the sisters
declare, the institutions were not
spared, although they were flying the
Red Cross flag. Three nuns were killed
while experimenting the removal of
their charges and several of the inmates
were wounded.
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u. S. APPEAL TO TURKSFOR
The RELIEF OF Christians

Washington, April 2S-Adminis-
tration officials to-day awaited the out
come of the American government S
appeal to the Turkish government for
relief for Armenian Christians in Tur-
key as the result of reported massa-
cres and threats of further outrages.
This action was taken in response
to a request of the Russian govern
ment which included an appeal for aid
for the Catholics of the Armenian
church at Etchmiadzin in the Cauca-
sus.
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Prizes for Yellow Flowers

The Woman Suffrage Flower Com
mittee has offered through the outdoor
department of the Harrisburg Civic
Club five prizes of five dollars each for
the best yellow flower gardens in this
city during the coming summer. The
members of the committee are Mrs.
Frank Smith, Mrs. Walter P Mcguire,
Mrs. w. W. Galbrath, Miss Cara Ne.
Conkey, Mrs. Paul Gendell, Mrs. C. NJ.
Cole, Mrs. j. G. Ingram, Miss Maude
Kennedy, Mrs. David Kaufman, Mrs.
c. NJ. Kaltwasser, Miss Elinor Walter.
Mrs. Lindley Hosford, Mrs w. C.
Baldwin, Mrs. Horace Whitman and
Mrs. George B. Kunkel