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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
SPEAKER DENIES
| HOUSE IS |DL|NG
/ Mr.. Clark Resents Charge
That Legislation Is Making
Slow Progress.
SHOWS RECORD OF BODY
OVER WHICH HE PRESIDES
Says Critics Indulge in Loose
Talk" Some "Idiotic" and
Some Malicious.

Despite tho fact that Congress has
still to finish the Drogr@m Of lcgisla-
ton which the administration laid out
for it four months ago. Speaker Clark
has issued Il statement in which he
scolds those who call Congress dilatory
and hehirdhand. Also i'll contradiction
Of what Senator Underwoo said few
weeks ago-that never in all hrs cX-
pericnce in the Capitol had he seen so
much delay-the Speak cr set forth that
the House of Representatives at least
has worked steadily and irdustriously
and has accomplished much.
There has been much loose talk.
continues the Clark statement, some
of it idiotic, some OF it malicious, about
the dawdlin- of Congress.
so far as the House is concerned
there is no truth in it. ! am not un-
derta king to speak for the Senate, be-
cause I know nothing worth while
touching the state of its business; but
the business of the House is farther
advanced than usual at this date. OF
course. it is necessary to pass the ap-
preparation bills. Otherwise the wheels
of government would stand stock still,
and they must be carefully considered,
both in committee and in the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Statement by the Chamber.

The vote Will he taken by means of a
referendum sent out by the chamber
in a statement given out by the cham
Der it is said:
This is the thirteenth referendum
to be taken by the national chamber
with the purpose of ascertaining for
the benefit OF Congress and the Pres-
dent the business opinion prevailing
throughout the United States on ques-
tons of Immediate Importance. 1t puts
up to the country at large the much dis
cussed question a to whether American
business needs legislation permitting
producers of identified merchandise
to fix the price at which such goods
shall be resold"
1t is explained by Elliot II. Good
WIN, secretary of the chamber. that
there are ten members of the commit
tee which has had charge of preparing
the referendum. Its chairman is Paul
I. ChcrlnSton, assistant professor of
marketing in the Harvard Graduate
School of Business Administration. A
majority recommendation favorinS
legislation permitting price mainte-
nance was signed by seven members
Two of them. however. modified their
assent by filing supplementary re-
port. With the majority report came
the comment that a national chamber
committee had rendered Il report a
year ago last February favorable to
the principles of price maintenance,
and the majority members saw no rea-
son in any way to modify the conclu
sions arrived at and given to the
chamber at that time. On the con-
trary, after additional exhaustive in
vestigation it repeated the language
of the committees previous resolutions
it's present report and conclusions,
viz:
To Best Interest OF Public.
Your committee is convinced that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Passes Two Supply Bills.

The House has passed two of the
great supply bills--the legislative. jul
dicial and executive and the Indian
and is now in process of passing the
river and harbor bill, also two def
cheney bills. Two more have been re-
ported. Three more are about ready
to be reported. The House has passed
the Hay military bill, the inlmiGra-
ton bill, three conservation bills and
a multitude of bills of more or less
Importance.
No House in the twenty-five years
that I have been here has worked so
steadily and so industriously as this
one. 1t has not adjourned over sim
gle day since it convened on January
"a remarkable record-and has
worked five, six and seven hours
day. with an occasional night scs-
sion. When two more hours day are
counted in for committee work it
makes a good days work, to say moth
ing of the time necessary for depart
ment work and correspondence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03

railway. on the death of his son, Capt.
the Hon. Alfred Thomas ShauEhnessy.
with the overseas troops along the
French front Capt. Shaughncssy WAS
struck by a shrapnel shell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Railway Traffic Decreased by Autos.

NEW YORK, April 3.-Passenger
traffic on the railroads has decreased
throughout the country, largely on ac-
count Of the use of automobiles, ac-
cording to L. F. Loree, president of the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Com
pany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Lord Shaughnessy's Son Dies.

MONTREAL, April messages of
coincidence from all parts of Canada
have been received by Lord Shaugh-
messy, president of the Canadian Pacific
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
The Passion of Great Minds

One conspicuous trait is common to all these men,
That is PASSION for KNOWLEDGE. That's why they sue
ceeded And curious find how deeply almost all of these
have been influenced by the Encyclopedia Britannica
a at
of
a n library -
Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03

Robert H. Hopkins. fifty-two, hnan-
cial secretary of Calvary Presbyterian
church yesterday a few minutes after
the close Of the services. .-.-..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03

While walking through a tunnel near
Ellenboro, W. Va, Freeman {. Starr.
fifty-five. a Richie county farmer. was
struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train
and instantly killed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03

included in the scope of the jurisdic
ton of the federal trade commission
over unfair methods of competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Did You Miss
a College Training?

There is need to be ashamed if YOU did 81 out of
every 100 American men and American women have
gone without.
But that is no why you should have great
resourceful FUND of KNOWLEDGE. And there is no
place in the world where you gain this quickly as
from the place that Edison and Faraday and Joseph
Pulitzer and Andrew Carnegie and James J. Hill and
thousands others gained thers-frOm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Stirring Appeal to Sinners.

This may be the funeral sermon for
some Of you" Sunday thundered-and
men sat bolt upright. eyes wide and
emotion whipped to white heat; scores
went openly and turned again to gaze.
fairly fascinated, at the man VINO was
fiaying their sins as had no other
prea cher who ever called upon Balti-
more to turn to Christ.
When the evangelist saw the erect
OF his sermon at night. saw the con-
yerts pushing forward in numbers that
bade fair to set a new record. his
face lighted up with JOY which ne
could hardly contain. After the hrst
rush of hand shaking was over ne
sprang upon the platform IN uncon-
trolla BILE eXuberance, took hold OF the
pulpit and swung upon 1t as though
he were practicinS in a gymnasium ;
threw himself face downward on the
carpet to reach the hands OF some be-
press table. grabbed two outstretched
palms at once and said excitedly: This
has been great day in old Baltimore,
boys, a great day:
invitation for trail hitters-which was
really a peremptory summons rather
than an invitation-were more than
fifty men and boys. making up the en-
tire membership of delegation from
Memorial United Evangelical Church.
Then came a Japanese, three negroes.
a white-haired man. father with his
little boy, group Of young men rep
resenting the Spedden Shipbuilding
Company and a number of Red Men.
At the afternoon meeting the trail
hitters were led by probably $50 men,
bers of the Junior Order United Amer
lean Mechanics from delegation
numbering $500. There were three
more policeman. Japanese and a
negro. The afternoon congregation
was made up of $4,000 men and youths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
CITY Of CHANGCHOWFU
DECLARES INDEPENDENCE
Renounces Allegiance to Yuan Shi
Kai-U. S. Marines Land
at Swallow.

Annoy, April 3.-Chanchowfu. one
of the largest cities of China, has
declared its independence of the gov
eminent of Yuan Shi kai.
The officials at Annoy have sent a re-
quest to the American consul, asking
that an American warship be sent to
this port.
Changchowfu is city of about
100000 inhabitants in Fokien prov
ince, twenty-four miles northwest Of
Annoy, which is its port. 1t is seat
of the silk manufacture and has ex-
tensive iron works in connection with
the neighboring mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
But That Isn't Correct.

THAT isn't it at ALL said Henri
Dufresnc. who is just back from the
fight at Verdun. That fight is still
going on as this is being written. Du-
fresno took part in or saw part of
the fighting at Pepper hill and the
Dead Man and was one of the force
which met the Germans 'corpsa-
corps"-body to body-in the streets
of Douaumont and hooked them OUT
with the bayonet. No more rough,
desperate handto-hand fighting has
been reported in all this war. The
men who lived through were stained
and spotted with the blood of their
enemies and their comrades. 1t was
battling of IL medieval type.
"One becomes Indifferent after one
has spent a period in the first trench"
said Dufresne. death seems but an
incident of the day. which may come
to the man at the left, but will never
come to ones self There is much
necessary business tic be done in the
hours just before a battle. One has
no time in which to grow morbid"
When the Veteran Is Nervous.
1t is only when he has been forced
to take cover in the open without a
chance to replying to the enemy's fire
that the seasoned soldier is apt to
feel a tremor of the nerves. this man
believes. In the charge the soldier
is excited. He is almost maddened
by the death he sees on every side.
the smell of blood that fills the air, the
vicious longing to reach the enemy
trench and gain revenge. Even when
he is in a trench under the heaviest
bombardment the hope that the bomb
proofs will afford safe shelter sustains
him.
although ] have seen men in the
advance trenches go mad under the
terror of the shell shower" said he.
land grovel on the ground. and try to
dig shelter holes with their fingers.
and cry and pray and even faint. |
have seen them sit UP rocking back
and forth. singing, and others throw
themselves over the eDlbankment and
run forward toward the enemy simply
because their nerves could stand the
strain no longer
"Brutalized" by War.
But when seasoned men are not under
direct fire Dufresne thinks they do not
experience emotional reactions. To use
his word, they have been "brutalized"
by war. When they go to the repose
camps they quickly regain normality.
Upon returning to the first trench they
almost as quickly recover a state of
savage tranquility which, in the in
tervals of inaction, is not penetrated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
U. S. Marines Go Ashore.

PEkING, April 3.-Marines from the
United States gunboat Wilmington
went ashore yesterday at Swatow.
where the Chinese troops have declared
their independence of the central gov
eminent. The detachment reconnoiter-
ed and found the city quiet
A Chinese gunboat also is anchored
off Swallow which is a seaport of
Kwangtung province, 100 miles south
of Annoy.
President Yuan Shi Kai has issued a
mandate announcing that the state
council must continue acting as a
legislative body until parliament is
regularly elected, in accordance with
the provisional constitution of the
Chinese republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
NEARLY 1000 PERSONS
HIT TRAIL AT MEETING
Billy Sunday Threatens Eternal War
if Sinners Refuse to Submit
to Gods Call.

Special Dispatch 70 The Star.
BALTIMORE. April 81 draw cir
Gle about YOU now, and if you don't in
stautIy step out, God will take it that
YOU do not intend to step out, and 1t
will be war through eternity
Billy Sunday uttered this cry to 20
900 men who made up his afternoon
and evening congregations yesterday,
following the sermon he preached 1t
both services on the text Choose ye
this day whom you will serve" and up
the sawdust trail surged 691 converts.
These. with 149 persons who had hit
the trail at the forenoon service, made
the DAVIS total for the Tabernacle $40.
Ma Sunday preached to $500 women
at the Lyric in the afternoon, and six
teen hit the trail; 1873 more were en-
rolled at outside meetings in the after
noon and evening.
The sermon to men only was one OF
the most dramatic that Sunday has de-
Hyered here, in that it was burdened
with a warning as imperative as that
which John the Baptist uttered in the
wilderness, calling upon unbelievers to
repent turn from wickedness and seek
the true God.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Calls It Fine Record.

That's the hecord-a fine one-and yet
the public is constantly mlsled into be-
lieving that Congress is not working
at all 1t is a bald and malicious lie.
"Of course, some of these critics with
out any responsibility could pass bills
carrying a billion dollars in a few
hours, but members who are RESPONSE
BILE cannot pass bills that way and the
taxpayers who foot the bills do not
want them passed that way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
MAINTENANCE Of RESALE
PRICES TO Be VOTED ON.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce to Hold
Referendum Regarding Fed
eral Legislation.

The question of whether there shall
be federal legislation permitting the
maintenance of resale prices is being
submitted to the business men of the
country by the Chamber of CONNIE rec
of the United States. Members OF the
chamber, whioa now has representa-
tivcs in every state in the Union, VIII
vote for or against the following rec
concentrations:
!. There should be federal lcgisla-
ton permitting the maintenance of re-
sale prices, under proper restrictions
on identified merchandise for voluntary
purchase. made and sold under com
petitive conditions.
II. Federal Legislation should take
the form OF an amendment to the trade
commission act defining the conditions
under which price cutting is an unfaiI
method of competition and authoriZinG
the federal trade commission to pre-
vent such pricc-cutting i'll interstate
and foreign commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
A Richly Illustrated
13O-Page Book About 1t

II it is not convenient to go and see the volumes
for yourself, the publishers have prepared wonder
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of 100 Wonders with 200 pictures-siving YOU
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But there is very little time to lose. for =.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Many persons believe that this magnificent work is
rather for hgh-brows and college professors and rich
folks he examples already ivcn sufficient prove
that it is
And in especial degree the Eleventh Edition,
which cost million and half dollars for its editorial
preparation alone has been designed to the needs of
everyday men and women-partcularly those who did
not go to college
But the price for this edition bar to many
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This new Handy Volume" issue YOU can obtain for
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
Another Thought for Wiseacres. "

zone other thing: Some of these wise
acres who want important measures
far-rcaching in character and vital to
the republic passed while you wait
seek to create the impression that the
President is anxious for Congress to
adjourn before the conventions and
that Congress is wickedly thWarting
him. Every human being with two
ideas above Hottentot knows that
Congress is just anxious to adjourn
before the conventions as the Presi-
dent is Why in Heaven name would
Congress desire to remain in Washing
ton even one day longer than is abso-
lutely necessary for the proper trans
action. of the public business!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-03
To Best Interest OF Public.

Your committee is convinced that
egislation permitting the maintenance
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27
Harrisburg Case on Trial
in Cumberland Co. Court

Carlisle, Pa, Sept. 81. - After be-
Ing postponed for one week because
OF the Carlisle Fair, the Cumberland
county court of common pleas for
September opened here Monday. The
majority of cases listed for trial were
continued. A special session will be
held next week with Judge Staples, of
Stroudsburg. specially presiding.
Much interest has been taken in the
hearing of a case which opened yes
terday and continued to-day. DR.. w.
W. Pease. of Harrisburg, brought suit
against Robert A. Beattie. Of Ship
pensburg, for damages resulting from
an accident which occurred in October
1915, when Beattie's car ran into that
of Pease while it was being driven by
the physicians chauffeur on a trip.
Mrs. Christiana Nease, of Steelton,
and Mrs. Beattie were both injured
IN the crash and were attended at the
Harrisburg Hospital
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27

!WELLYS X CORNER

The Rosewood A. C. hopes to have
one of the strongest basketball teams
in Dauphin county. The five last
season won the Dauphin county cham
pionship and lost to the Tocorca Club
OF Carlisle for the championship OF
the two counties. No first class team
wanting game will be barred.
The Big Five will again look after
the important games at Middletown
This aggregation of tossers will include
q number of former high school and
college stars. The Harrisburg teams
VIII not be overlooked in the arrange
ment of the schedule. Middletown is q
basketball town and has been quite
prominent in past seasons.
Local basketball patrons will not get
league game this year, but will see
several of the crack league teams In
the Eastern and Central and Pennsyl-
vania Leagues and the best independ-
ent teams from all over Pennsylvania
Inc Harrisburg Independents will
shortly take the field and Saturday
night games will again be popular.
With favorable weather on days
football games are scheduled, a record
season Is looked for by both Central
and Tech High officials. This year
both schools have taken on new
schools. There is also unusual interest
In the game to be played with the reg
ular contestants. Something like
championship form is expected by local
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27

coaches about October is. The
Thanksgiving Day battle between the
local schools. which may be the last.
promises battle royal.
Three Harrisburg athletes are sure
of places on the Gettysburg College
eleven. Rote is looming UP strong as
quarterback and Emanuel and Houtz
have been showing remarkable form.
The regular lineup will be announced
within ten days.
Charley Kelchner has placed his
baseball score book on the shelf and
is down to football work at Albright.
He is going to have another crack
eleven this year. He is being assisted
by Paul Hertzler. the 1914 star half
back.
Arrangements have been made to
play all games in the worlds series.
scheduled at Boston on the Braves
held. The seating capacity is larger
and facilities a big improvement over
those of tho American team.
Members of the Keystone Motor
cycle Club will run to Lebanon early
Saturday morning, where they have
arranged for a series of races on the
Lebanon Fair track. The keystone
club has been a big factor in arousing
interest In this sport in Central Penn
sylvania and there Is a hope that a.
track viii soon be provided in the
vicinity of Harrisburg where races of
this kind may be held.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27
SHOOTS LOVER,
RIVAL AND SELF
CONTINUED on Page II

ISO0tnued on Page
police, was a widower and had been
very friendly with Mrs. Belzer.
From cards found in Mrs. Belzer's
handbag the police at first believed
she was Mrs. ]. C. LIE Dur or LIE Due.
The wounded woman in the hos
pital, at first supposed to be Graveur's S
wife, has not made any statement.
Mrs. Apman will go to the hospital
later in the day to see if she can
identify her.
Mrs Apman told the police that her
brother became acquainted with Mrs
Belzer about two years ago. He had
given her much jewelry and the couple
had taken many long automobile tours,
usually registering at hotels as man
and wife. Recently, Mrs. Apman told
the authorities. Graveur became less
attentive to her. Mrs. Apman also
told the police that Mrs. Belzer had
assumed the name of LIE Dur and later
changed 1t to LIE Due, and used the
first two initials of Graveurs name.
The girl in the hospital is described
by the police as younger and prettier
than Mrs. Belzer, who also was a
pretty woman.
Staggers Screaming from Room
Graveurs and the wounded woman
motored to this city yesterday from
New York. They attended a theater
last night and returned to their hotel
half an hour after midnight. They
were unaccompanied, according to
hotel employees, and went Immediately
to their apartments. Shortly after
ward guests on the same floor were
startled by four shots, and rushing in
to the hallway they met the woman
registered as Graveur, who is about 23
years old, staggering from her room
with bullet wound in her breast. She
was screaming Historically and it was
impossible to secure a coherent story
from her. Graveur was found dead in
one corner of his room and Mrs
Belzer, clutching the still smoking re-
Volver in her hand. in another. All
were fully dressed.
How Mrs. Belzer gained entrance to
the apartments occupied by her VIC
tins is not known. Neither has 1t
been established from whence she
came. The police theory, however, is
that she followed the Graveurs to this
city from New York. Mrs. Belzer was
about 25 years old
The other woman, who was removed
to hospital, was still alive at an early
hour to-day, but physicians hold out
little hope for her recovery. She was
hysterical throughout the night and
efforts of the authorities to obtain a
statement from her proved futile. New
York officials have been requested to
help clear up the mystery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27
PAULINE VIRGINIA CONRAD

Funeral services for Pauline Vir-
ginia Conrad, aged Is, who died at her
home, 3210 North Sixth street, last
night, will be held Saturday afternoon
at O'Clock. She is survived by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Con-
rad, two sisters, Ethel and Catherine,
and one brother William. Burial will
be made in the East Harrisburg Gene
terry, with the Rev. David Seigrist pas
tor of the Riverside Methodist Church,
officiating. Typhoid fever was the
cause of death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-27
CASINO LEAGUE
READY FOR GAMES
Season Opens October 9 With
Six Teams; Elect New
President

Plans were completed last night for
the opening Of the fifth annual sea-
son OF the Casino Bowling League on
Monday night October 10. Games
will be bowled Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday. The season ends April
IL at which time cash and merchan-
disc prizes will be awarded for high
scores.
This year S. R. Sides will head the
League and direct it's movements.
Mercer B. Tate is secretary and Miles
Fry treasurer. There will be six
teams. several with new names, as
follows:
Rovers-Jones, captain; Atticks,
thompson, Berkmeyer and Walters.
Orpheums-Ross. captain; Jacoby
w. A. Miller, Bentz and Lightner.
Alphas-Buttorff, captain; Morrison,
Kobb, Farley and Rementer.
jolly Five-Basch, captain Haas
Trace, A. D. Miller and Fletcher.
Electrtcs - Montgomery, captain;
wilson, Ford, G. Martin and Senior.
CaIumets - Barnes. captain; Black,
c. e. Weber, Stigelman and Beck.