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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
MARKET STREET
LADIES WORK FOR
BEAUTIFUL CITY
Mrs. James M. Rebuck and
Others Will Help Window
box Campaign

As an example of the work that is
being done in various parts of the
city for the planting of porch and
window boxes. may be cited the inter
est aroused through the efforts of Mrs
James NJ. Rebuck. of 1424 Market
street. Mrs. Rebuck entered heartily
into the Telegraph's plans for a more
beautiful city next summer and in a
short time has been able to enlist
with her to assist in the decoration of
the section of Market street in which
| they live:
Mrs. Clarence A. Runk, 1919 Mar
ket street.
Mrs. Raymond L. oyars, 1925 Mar
ket street.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sullivan, 1889 Mar
ket street
DR.. II. Hersey Farnsler, 1893 Mar
ket street.
Mr.. Harvey X. Lachman, 1920 Mar
ket street.
Mrs, Samuel F. Metzger, 1890 Mar
ket street.
Mrs. Jacob o. Ambrose, 141S Mar
ket street
Miss Bessie U. Meyers. 1921 Mar
ket tsreet
Mrs, Hugh L. Mclaughlin, 1927
Market street.
John A. Rose, proprietor of Hoses
store at Second and Walnut streets, an
nounces that he will place window
boxes along the Walnut street side of
the store. Mr.. Rose is the second
downtown store to take this step.
\ Flower City
1t is most gratifying to the Tele-
graph that the campaign for a beauti-
full city has been so promptly re-
sponded to in every section of Har-
risburg. Daily the number of persons
who propose to install window and
porch boxes this season Is increasing
and the result is going to be most
attractive.
Efforts are now being made with
every assurance of success to- have
whole business blocks as we'll hs
resident sections adorned with flowers
that shall bloom throughout the sum-
! Imer.
| In this effort every citizen should
have his or her share. 1t doesn't in
volve much expense but does mean
much more than we can perhaps real
ize of benefit to thousands who will
enjoy these blooming flowers.
Already the Civic Club of Harris
1 burg, the Chamber of Commerce and
other bodies have endorsed the move
ment. 1t remains now for the indi-
vidual citizen to do his part.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20

embarked for France from the port
of Archangel on the White Sea, the
only port through which there is free
communication between Russia and
her allies in the West. 1t is consid-
cred probable that the transports
carrying the troops made a wide
sweep out into the North Atlantic be-
fore heading for the Mediterranean to
avoid the submarine danger zone in
the vicinity of the British Isles.
Archangel Closed
In this connection it is to be noted
that word reached New York to-day
through private cable advices that
Russia had closed the port of Arch
angel to all except government traffic.
This may indicate that other troop
movements from Archangel to the
western front are either under way or
in contemplation.
Several times during the war there
have been reports that Russia was
sending troops to the Franco Belgian
tachments had been seen enroute
through, Scotland and England. No
such troops have ever appeared on the
western battle line, however.
French Make New Drive
The French again have taken the
offensive in the Verdun battle and
launched attacks against the German
Paris declared the aggressive move
was successful, resulting in the capture
of portions of German trenches and a
redoubt, and in the taking of several
hundred prisoners.
This operation on the part of Cen
eral Petain's forces follows closely a
German move in a new field in the
struggle for the fortress. This took
the form of drive on the extreme
right flank of the French forces in this
sector, three successive attacks being
delivered at Les Eparges, about 13
miles southeast of Nerdun on the edge
of the Woevre plain.
Crown Prince Frustrated
Military observers have long expect
ed some such operations on the part
of the Germans as part of a squeezing
movement intended to force the eva
cuation of the fortress. The new at
tempt was unsuccessful, however,
Paris has reported, the Germans hav-
ing been driven by a counter attack
out of the two hundred yards of
trenches they had succeeded in oc-
cupying.
According to London dispatch the
British coalition government has been
given new lease of life, a settlement
having been reached in the cabinet
crisis over the question of conscrip-
tion.
plot of wide scope conducted for
the purpose of causing a revolution in
India is announced from London to
have been uncovered as a result of
the seizure last February of German
and Austrian subjects on the liner
China.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
Two Thousand Children
Will Participate in
Steelton's Arbor Day

Nearly two thousand school chill
dren and hundreds of citizens will
take part in Arbor Day exercises to
be held in Luther r. Kelker park,
steelton. next Friday.
At a meeting of the Municipal
League and the Shade Tree Commits
sion of Steelton in the offices of w. T.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
Germans Taking Troops
From Other Fronts to Fill
Gaps in Lines at Verdun
BY Associated Press

in the region of Verdun is compelling
the German general staff to withdraw
large forces from the Teuton front in
Macedonia and Serbia and in Russia,
according to information obtained to-
day from the highest military authori-
ties here.
The first division of the First Ger
man Army Corps and another division
not yet identified are said to be among
the troops which have just been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
ALTOONA TICKET AGENT DIES

Altoona. Pa, April 2O.-Henry l..
Hesser, local passenger and ticket
agent for the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
Company and well known in this city
and Tyrone. died last evening at his
home here. Death was due to uremic
poisoning. He was ~ years of age
and known throughout the Middle and
Pittsburgh divisions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
MRS, Il, j. BAUM

Mrs, Frederick ]. Baum, wife of the
Rev. Frederick J. Baum, who died at
her home in Cobleskill, \. Y, was
taken to Reading this morning for
burial. The Rev. Mr.. Baum is we'll
known in this city and frequently
Visited his aunt, Mrs. ]. P. Keller.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-20
Chinese ports.

Chinese ports.
Tho British officials say they be-
lieve that Franz Boppe, the German
consul general at San Francisco and
other persons under federal indict-
meat there, participated in the plot.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
WALToNEN BLAMES OTHERS.
Positive 0nni Talas Was in Plot to
Rob Mrs. Nichols.

IRONWOOD, Mich, September IA
Arthur Waltonen, accused of participa-
ton in the murder of Mrs Elizabeth
Nichols. wealthy New York widow, and
who is today en- route to New York city
in the custody of detectives, declared
before he left here last night that
there were others who would have to
take their medicine"
He was positive that Onni Talas, now
serving a life sentence in Sing Sing
prison. had a hand in the conspiracy
to murder Mrs Nichols. Waltonen said
Talas. who was his successor in the
Nichols home, had been bound SO as
to make it appear that he had nothing
to do with the affair.
Mrs Nichols, he reiterated, was not
killed, but died of heart disease. proba-
bly, superinduced by fright.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
TO ORGANIZE HAITI POLICE.
Thirty-Five Marine Corps Officers tt
Do Duty With Constabulary.

Thirty-five officers of the United
States Marine Corps have been de-
tacheu from present duties in this
country and elsewhere and ordered to
Hsi... !or duty with the Haitian con-
stabufarv organized under the terms of
the new treaty between the United
States and Haiti
Maj. S. d. Butler. U. S. NJ c.. will
have command of the constabuiary. He
will be assisted by the following on
GERS of the same corps: Mai. II. l..
Roosevelt. acting quartermaster; capts.
A s. Williams, J. X. Tracy. r. O. I'm
derwood. G. NJ. Kincade. p. F. Archer.
acting quaftermaster; G. B. Vogel. CAL
houn Ancrum and J. r. Horton, acting
quartermaster: First Lieuts. c. A. Lutz,
w ". Buckley. f. A. Ostermann, John
Dixon, John Marston. 3D.: c. H. Wells.
A. A. Vandergrift. II. L. Parsons. n. A.
Eastman, r. S. Clarke and c. G. Sim
clair. and Second Lieuts. r. +. Brum-
baugh. J. L. Doxey. J. A Gray. Archi-
bald Young. '. z. Stack. II. =. Torrey.
J.. Z. Pagan, jr.; b. c. Murchison. A II.
Turns ge. q. l.. Davis. d. H. Miller r.
o. p. Burwer. De Witt Peck and o. f.
O'Neill
Evening star., 1916-09-14
FRANCE-U. S. BODY MEETS.
Committee in Paris to Promote In.
dustral and Commercial Relations.

PARIS September 1.-THE France
United States committee, which was
formed recently to promote closer in
dustrial and commercial relations be-
tween the two countries. held its first
meeting last night and appointed a
managing committee under the presi-
dency of G. Ghuisthau, former minister
of commerce.
The committee decided to create Ave
principal local groups-at Nantes,
Bordeaux, Marseille, Havre and Lyons
whose object will be to favor i'm
ports and group freights. The commit
tee also appointed four subcommittee
as follows: Transportation, headed by
NJ Dal Piaz. manager of the French
line; finance, presided over by Baron
de Neu1ize, and on materials and pro-
paganda to which will be Joined a
subcommittee on touring.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
MILE-A-MINUTE MURPHY HURT
Bicycle Cop" Who Earned Title,
Collides With Motor Truck.

NEW YORK. September 14.-Cha rles
NJ. Murphy. the policeman who earned
the nickname of 'Mile-a-Minute Muir
ply" riding a bicycle paced by a loco
motive. is in hospital here with his
left leg fractured and his left knee
broken in two places. Murphy, who has
had many narrow escapes from death.
having been buried in quicksand, hit by
an aeroplane and run over by an auto
mobile. collided with a motor truck
while on a motor cycle last night, and
was thrown to the street 1t was said
that his left leg probably will be too
stiff for riding hereafter.
Seventeen years ago Murphy won his
sobriquet of Mile Minute" by riding
at that rate on a board track between
the rails of the Long Island railroad
behind train. 1t 1t said that he won
1880 prizes as a bicycle racer.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
For First Time Gives Detailed
Consideration to Plans
for Reelection.
BURLESON AND McA0O0
CONFER WITH TUMULTY
Decide to Pay Greater Attention to
Northwest States-Finance Com.
mittee Report Causes Hope.

LONG BRANCH, N. j., September IL
President Wilson today for the first
time gave detailed consideration to his
campaign for reelection. In the ex-
ecutive offices at Asbury Park he went
over reports from political leaders in
various states and began mapping out
his plans for the next two months.
Postmaster General Burleson. one of
Mr.. Wilson's chief political advisers.
is at Spring Lake, near here. visiting
Secretary McAdoo. and this morning
the two cabinet members went over
the political situation with Secretary
Tumulty.
As a result of the conferences it
was indicated that greater attention
would be paid to the campaigns IN
Oregon. Washington. Utah and Caifor-
ministration officials leading them to
believe democratic prospects in those
states are excellent.
Further optimism came with the re-
ceipt of a report from the finance com
mittee of the national committee that
from $4,000 to $4,000 day is being re-
ceived in small contributions.
Several Trips Discussed.
While the President will make no
ANAL plans for leaving here until fur
ther developments in the illness of his
sister, Mrs Anne Howe, several trips
cussed tentatively. Mr.. Wilson will go
by automobile september 2s to Prince
ton. N. j.. to vote in the democratic pri-
maries.
The President visited the executive
Offices for the first time today, motoring
over from Long Branch.
Several thousand persons crowded
the streets around the executive Offices
and cheered the President whenever he
appeared Most of the nearby build
inss were decorated with flags,
, Not Going to New Mexico.
Mr. Wilson decided he would have to
cancel tentative engagement to go to
Albuquerque, n. NJ. early in OctobeT
formally to open dam there. He will
see Chairman Mccormick of the demo-
cratic national committee Monday.
During his visit to the offices today
the President signed large number Of
commissions of postmasters and army
and navy officers and discussed with
Postmaster General Burleson several
recess appointments of postmasters
which will be made soon.
The President also took up the selec-
ton of members for the tariff COM
mission. the shipping board. the rail-
road board and workingmen's compen-
sation board created by Congress in
the last days of the session.
The President found, on his return
yesterday from New London. requests
for engagements from many political
leaders, but he arranged for none. He
has been informed that Mrs. Howe can
hardly live another week and is holding
himself ready to return to New London
Evening star., 1916-09-14
M|LKPR0DUCERS
ASK SQUARE DEAL
Insist Upon the Necessity of
Advancing Prices to
middle Men,
THINK THEY ARE EXEMPT
FROM CHARGE OF COMBINE
Assert at Hearing They Do Not Seek
to Raise the Cost to
Consumer.

Milk producers of Maryland,
Virginia and the District of Co
lumbia gathered in Washington
this afternoon. with representa-
tives of the Department of Agri-
culture and the District of Co.
lumbia health department, in the
endeavor to find some way BY
which the producers may be al
lowed to raise the price of milk
without coming into contraven-
ton of the interstate commerce
laws which forbid combination.
The meeting. which began at 3
o'clock, was held in the Office of Judson
C. Welliver. in the Munsey building,
and those who were present expected
to learn before it's adjournment this
afternoon from Francis G. Caffey, So
ture. who was asked to be present by
Acting Secretary of Agriculture Vroo-
man, whether the producers can be
considered as excepted under the Clay
ton antitrust act from the Sherman
interstate commerce law, which forbids
agreements to fix and raise prices. The
Clayton act contains paragraph
which exempts labor unions, agricul-
turaI organizations and horticultural
orcy 70 he inn 0f f1ao
Sherman law, and the milk producers
who met here this afternoon. who are
members of a committee of the Milk
Producers Association, declare that as
dairy farmers they are an agricultural
organization.
Other officials Present.
DR.. w. C. Woodward. District health
officer, also was present at the meeting.
by R. r. Ashworth, acting
food inspector of the District. From the
Department of Agriculture, in addition to
Solicitor Caffey. there were present w. J.
Spillman, head of the office of farm man
agement of the department, who yester-
day announced that he will have experts
make an inquiry as to the present cost of
the production of milk, as well as B. H.
Rawl head of the bureau Of animal in
dustry and others
At the meeting the milk producers out
lined their grievances. declaring that they
are not seeking any opportunity to raise
the price of the milk they produce so far
as the consumer is concerned, and that all
they want Is for the 'middleman" to give
them square deal. They declared that
they desire some assurance from legal
officers of the government that they are
acting within the law when they propose
to raise the price of their product in
keeping with the increased cost all along
the line in dairy production, such as has
been outlined in the newspapers the past
few days.
It was pointed out at the meeting that
the winter schedule of milk prices paid
by "middlemen" to the producers will
bacome effective October /. Heretofore
the producer has been getting 20 cents
A gallon for milk. and the producer in
Virginia and the District
now wants "a cents gallon for the
CONTINUED on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1916-09-14
PLEAS ARE OvERRULED.
Frank S. Monnett and Jacob C. Tay.
lor Had Accused Prosecutors.

NEW YORK. September 1.-THE pleas
of Frank S. Monnett. former attorney
general of Ohio. and Jacob c. Taylor,
president of Labors National Peace Coun-
ell. that prejudicial conduct by govern
ment prosecutors brought about their in
dictment here were dismissed today by
United States Judge Hand. Monnett and
Taylor and others were accused Of vio-
lating the Sherman law by fomenting
steamship piers
The defendants, in their pleas asking
that the indictment be Quashed. alleged
misconduct by H. Snowcen Marshall.
United States district attorney here, and
Raymond H. Safarty. his assistant, dur
ing the grand jury investigation.
Sustaining the governments contention
that this Inquiry was impartial. Judge
Hand ruled that Monnett and Taylor had
presented no evidence to the contrary.
It was indicated that defendants Will
appeal
Evening star., 1916-09-14
Shortage of Freight Cars in South.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. September IL
Shortage of freight cars in southern
cities for the shipment of ores, fruits
and cotton is beginning to assume
serious proportions. according to re-
ports from many large market centers.
In the Birmingham district the short
age is admittedly affecting the move
ment of coal. pig iron and pther com
mercial products. According to a re-
port from Mobile. the Mobile and Ohio
railroad is said to be facing the worst
car shortage In years.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
Tennessee Troops Ordered to Border.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, September IA
Gen. Funston was advised by the War
Department today that two regiments
of Tennessee infantry have been or
dered to the border for duty. He in
tends placing them at Fort Clark. north
of Eagle Pass and several miles back
from the border, 1t was said. Tennessee
is the fourth state called on for troops
by the federal government since the
general mobilization. A few weeks ago
the troops Of Ohio and Kentucky and
the few remaining in Vermont were
sent to Ell Paso.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
Considering a Border Patrol.

Serious consideration II being given
by the American-Aexican joint COM
mission to the idea Of establishing
some sort Of an international police or
neutral constabulary along the Mexican
border. it became ks}wn here today.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
To sift U. S. Control of Utilities.

CHICAGO. September 14.-Chicago
will be the seat of a thorough investi-
cation of government ownership and
control Of railroads. telegraph lines,
express companies, river and ocean
transportation and other public utilf-
ties. beginning November 20. Senator
Newlands of Nevada announced in an
address before the Chicago Chamber of
Commerce yesterday.
Evening star., 1916-09-14

statement as to what course they are
going to pursue, on account of what
they claim to be loss in general bak-
ing week by week, 1t was evident from
the conversation of many of the man
ayers of local plants that, if the present
high prices of materials keep up, they
may be forced to reduce the weight of
the loaves even further. However, all
seemed to think that this was not to be
done but as a last resource. Each baker
is waiting for some other baker to make
the step.
Evening star., 1916-09-14
REPORT VILLA AT GUERRERO.
Dispatches From Namiquipa Say
Bandit Is Forty Miles Away

FIELD HEADQUARTERS, American n
Punitive Expedition in Mexico. Sen
tember IS (via wireless to Columbus
N. M.)-The best information at hand
at the American headquarters places
Villa at Guerrero. some forty miles be-
low Namiquipa.
Seizures of horses and supplies
from the Mexican people by the
constitutional garrison in the region
which the punitive expedition cleared
of bandits have been reported to the
American headquarters. None but Mex
leans are said to have suffered from
cording to the reports. have seriously
interfered with the restoration OF
prosperity and order in these districts.
Attack on Chihuahua Feared.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, September IL
Gen. Bell at Ell Paso today reported to
Gen. Funston that he has reports that an
attack on Chihuahua City by Francisco
Villa was feared by the Carrancistas. De
facto government troops were being
rushed into the city from the south, it
was reported. Gen. Funston said he did
not know where Gen. Bell got his In
formation Gen Pershing's latest dis
patches placed villa near Guerrero, some
eighty miles west OF Chihuahua City. II
Pershing's latest news Is correct. Villa is
moving away from and not toward Chi
huahua City.
Onicials of the War Department con-
tinue to discredit the reports of Villas
activities in Mexico. A telegram was
received today from Gen. Pershing al
Colona DublAn, Mexico. saying:
Patrols to Santa Clara region report
no indication of Villistas. Patrols by
de facto&troops make same report"
Evening star., 1916-09-14
NO STANDARD SIZE
/. FOR ASCENT LOAF
Washington Bakers May Put
in Legally Whatever
Amount They Please.
D. C. OFFICIALS POINT OUT
THEIR LACK OF AUTHORITY
Local Bread Makers Say Price of
Flour Has Compelled Them
to Give Less.

There is no law existing in the
District to prevent bakers from
baking any size loaves of bread
they please as the standard five
cent loaf. The Washington
baker can shorten or lengthen
"the staff of hfe' at his pleasure,
cut the weight an ounce or SO
every month, and still local con-
sumers have no recourse in law
against this form of raising the
price of bread.
Complaints from residents to the de-
partment of weights, measures and
markets of the District government
that fve-cent loaves Of bread weigh
but eleven ounces bring out the fact
that the local bakers are at liberty to
make their fve-cent loaves weigh what
they please.
Various weighings of the loaves of
various bakeries today revealed that
the loaves vary in weight from eleven
ounces to fourteen ounces. and that the
weight of loaves of bread has probably
been cut an ounce or so In the last rev
months, and the fifteen and sixteen
ounce loaf has not existed IN Washlns-
ton for\several years
Bakers Blame Price Of Flour.
Local bakers say frankly that they
or. "up against it, that the present
h;.b nrice of flour, shortening and all
tho other elements that go to the maxi
n.,er bags in which to wrap the
loayes. have doubled in price recently.
and no relief is in sight.
several of washington's largest bak-
cries have been taken over by other
large bakeries within the last year. and
II ia stated today that perhaps eight or
nine of the smaller bakeries of the city
are now contemplating going out of
business, as they are losing money day
by day. ..
office of the District reveals that there
never has really been a law in the city
defining the weight of loaf of bread.
Justice Sheppard decided. in 1909. in a
test case brought before him that the
old ordinance of the corporation of
Georgetown and Washington of 1858
had been repealed by an act of Con-
gress of 1871. and as consequence
there was no law demanding of a baker
sixteen ounces of bread for cents.
Conditions Never So Bad.
George NJ. Roberts. superintendent of
weights, measures and markets. has re-
Gently received several complaints from
consumers who thought that loaf of
received by mail the other day from q
purchaser in Virginia loaf Of bread
baked by local firm weighing but nine
ounces when received at the office Of
weights and measures.
Conditions have never been 80 bad in
the baking trade as they are today in
Washington, one prominent baker stat
ed this morning. Since none OF the To-
cal bakers were willing to make nat
Evening star., 1916-09-14
Other Items of Expense.

Take the question of paper bags" he
continued. To-day we pay 1915 thou
sand for the bags we wrap our bread
in, whereas last fall we paid 81 cents a
thousand. And today we can hardly get
the bags at all.
Baking tins have all gone up. Pie
plates for baking have gone up 100
per cent, and the paper plates in which
we deliver pies have risen 40 per cent"
Many of the bakers are using -four
which they had on hand, it is said, and
when this is gone they do not know
what they will do The bakers as
sert that the Washington public gets
the best -four in the United States in
its bread. and that many of the largest
bakeries have special men in flour cen
ters to test every carload of -four that
is shipped them.
Although there is no law in the Dis
trict to protect the consumer from
receiving a loaf of bread the size of a
bun for cents, if a baker should choose
to put out bun-size loaf and call it
five-cent loaf of bread. the super
intendent of weights. measures, and
markets, Mr.. Roberts, is of the opinion
that this condition is wrong.
There should be a law" he said, en-
phatically.