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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Excess Profits Tax
May Strike a Snag

Washington, d. c., Feb. S.-Demo-
cratic members of the Senate finance
committee conferred last night on
plans for consideration of the ad-
revenue bill which passed
the House yesterday.
Hearings have been asked and prob
ably will be granted on the provision
of the bill for a tax of s per cent. on
net incomes of corporations in excess
of an exempted $4,000 and per cent
profit on investment.
Many protests against the excess
profits tax have been received and
some of the Democratic senator's do
not look upon it with favor. Senator
Simmons. chairman of the finance
committee, would not discuss his indi-
vidual view of the bill. but there are
indications that the committee will
make same changes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
JACKSON BOOMS
AMERICAN PLAN
Commissioner of Labor Sets
Forth For What He Stands
as an Official

DR.. John Price Jackson, State COM
missioner of Labor and Industry, to-
day announced that he was formu-
lating plans not only to supplement
the departments Safety First" cam
paign but an America First" move
ment among the workers of alien birth
employed in the industrial establish
ments of Pennsylvania. One of the
plans will be to establish English
classes and to encourage naturalization.
Every labor union and every indus
trial plant has been sent letters urg-
ing them to join in the movement
y statement issued to-day says:
In connection with the American
ization campaign Commissioner Jack
son has been directing the mobilization
of statistics to indicate the location,
product and capacity of every indus
trial plant in Pennsylvania for a co.
hesive and readily available reference
work in any emergency.
Commissioner Jackson announced
to-day that during 1915 Pennsylvania
produced in its manufacturing plants
powder and other explosives with a
market value of S11, ,410,S 500, while in
1914 the market value of powder and
other explosives produced in Pennsyl-
Vania aggregated only 5,450,200. The
number of employees working in such
plants increased from 1,190 in 1914
to 3.527 in 1915. The total number
of plants increased from 2S to A in
1915 and the total wages paid en-
pioyes in explosives plants increased
from S97S,600 to S2,127,7OO.
Commissioner Jackson said to-day
that the production statistics for such
plants are now being collected for
1916 and, he believes, will show an
enormous growth over 1915. both in
wages paid and in the total market
value of the product.
"A compilation of 10000 Pennsyl-
vania industrial establishments has
been published in the Department of
Labor and Industry within the last
two months. This volume for indus
trial preparedness contains lists of
those establishments by alphabetical
classification, by class of industry and
by county distribution. The work has
already been turned over tc the Naval
Consulting Board of the United States
as a directory where munitions and
supplies may be obtained in Pennsyl-
Vania.
AT the request of DIR. R. f! Bacon,
of the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh,
chairman of the Pennsylvania board
of directors of the Naval Consulting
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
RAIDERS INITIATE
KU KLUX KLAN
Germans Seek to Cross Snow
Covered No Mans Land Clad
in White Sheets

With the British Armies in France,
Feb. 2, via London, Feb. 3-(From a
Staff Correspondent of the Associated
Press):
The German raiders who made two
attacks yesterday morning against the
British trenches south of the Ypres
salient looked for all tie world like
the famous Ku KluX Klan, the cru
Southern States of America. They
were clad in white sheets fashioned
into a sort of smock, wore white hoods
and masks and sought thus to cross
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
Prayers For President
and Nation in Crisis to
Be Made in Churches

With war clouds gathering over the
United States following the severance
of diplomatic relations to-day with
Germany pastors and congregations
in all city churches at the services to-
morrow will give special prayers ask
ing for Divine guidance of the officials
of the country.
y number of ministers had an
nounced sermons on the possibility of
peace, but it is anticipated that many
pastors will devote the entire time of
services tomorrow for prayer for the
safety and future prosperity and sue
cess of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
MEDAL FOR MRS. DEPEw

Paris. Feb. 2.-President Poincare,
on recommendation of the minister
of war. has conferred q gold medal
upon Mrs. Chauncey Mitchell Depew
for. her hospital work at her home,
the Chateau d'Annel. near Compiegne.
Mrs. Depew, who is a daughter of
Julian Callan, of New York, and widow
of Trenor L. Park. married Mr.. De-
pew, a nephew of ex-United States
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, in 1915
in London. They were divorced last
year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
BERLIN WITHOUT POTATOES

Amsterdam, Holland, Feb. (via
London) - The Berlin Lokal An
zeiger says that owing to the preva-
lence of low temperatures, endanger-
ing potatoes in transit the supply for
Berlin has been cut off. The mu-
therefor, the newspaper
states, will be unable to distribute any
potatoes next week and as a substi-
tute bread flour will be distributed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
EMPLOYING GIRLS

Hazleton, Pa. Feb. 3.-The Jeanes-
Vile Iron Works, which is making
munitions for the Russian armies, be-
gan hiring girls yesterday to turn out
shrapnel Officials of the plant, where
a force of $500 men and boys is en-
ployed, declared that no curtailment
of business was in sight for a year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
READING BANK CASHIER DIES

Reading, Pa, Feb. 3.-Morris V. r..
Custer, 67, for twenty-five years
cashier of the Schuylkill Valley Bank,
this city, died at his home at Doug
lassville yesterday of debility. He was
a member of a pioneer family.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
U. 5. ADMIRAL SIMS
 GOES ID LONDON ID
 CONFER UPON NAVY

WASHINGTON. April 13.- Rear Admiral Wm. s. Sims. president of the naval war college at Newport, whose arrival in Great Britain has been announced ii London private dispatches. was sent there 10 act as an intermediary between British ad- miralty officers and the navy depart ment in the working out of problems involved and the navy department in the working out of problems involved in participation by the American navy in the ranks of entente powers. His mission was admitted at the navy de partment today after news of his safe voyage had been received.
 The admiral also is charged with the duty of keeping the department fully advised as to the conduct Of the war and of supplying such informa- tion as the navy needs in preparing itself for the tasks ahead. Conferences between the French. British and Am erican naval officers, now in progress here are expected to produce an early agreement for concerted action be- tween the naval establishments. in ad-
 dition to the duty of patrollins the
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
DOG RACERS NOW
 UPON LAST LAP
(By Review Leased Wire)

NOME. Alaska, April 13-With ths trail fast. the sky clear and the tem perature slightly above zero. the thre, leading teams in the 'all-Alaska sweep stakes dog race. from Nome to Canal, and return. 412 miles for a S250o purs, and the worlds championship. ara speeding southward today over tn, snow-covered tundra. When the team. of Leonard Seppala. Fay Delzene ant Victor Anderson left Gold Run, IS. miles from Nome last night, all seem cd to be in good condition. Sepall; has been slightly in the lead most 0 the way. with Delzene generally sec ond and Anderson third
 Paul Kjegstad seeking to maintain his reputation for hardihood loadet his dead dog and sick dog on a sle, east of Solomon. after disaster whicl overlook him in Mondays blizzard and is plodding over the trail far bo hind the three leaders.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
FAMILY AVOIDS
 SERIOUS SICKNESS
sy Being Constantly Supplied Witb
 Thedi1rd's Black-Draughi.

McDuff, Va.-"I suffered for seyersi Tears," says Mrs. B. Whitaker, O. his place, "with sick headache, ant Itomach trouble.
 Ten years ago g friend told inc 10 fry Ghediord's Black-Draught, which did Ind found ii 10 be the best family medi- :iRe for young and old.
 keep Black-Draueht on hand all the ime now, and when ny children feel 3 title bad, they ask me i6r a desc, and il does them mors good tilan any medicine shey ever tried.
 We never have a long spell of sick IeSS in our family, since we commenced Ising Black-Draughi."
 Thedford's Black-Draught is purely vegetable, and has been found 10 regu- ale weak stonachs. aid digestion, re- ieve indigestion, collie, wind, nausea, ieadache, sick stomach. and similar iymptomS.
 If has been in constant use for moro han 70 years, and has benefited moro nan million people.
 Your druggist sells and recommends 5lack-Draugnt. Price o. :. Gets 2clIsge to-day. Ncm
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
Fl PAS0kNS HELD FOR TRYING ID SELL
 FAKE MUNITIONS

DOUGLAS. April 13.-That the two 'undred thousand ro4ds Of ammuni- ion the conspirins 10 sell for which
 K Fl Paso men have been indicted " the federal grand jury, is worth . 'ess. was the. statement made tonight ly Ives c. Lelevier. Mexican consul here. The same shipment had been 'efused by the Carranza officials in
 915 and again last year and a third ime a few months ago. By actual
 est. he said. not more than one cart -idge in every ten or fifteen would ex- 7lode Lelevier denied that any Car ranza officials wished to purchase the ammunition or would do so.
 The history of the ammunition. as
 elated by local men claiming to be familiar with it. shows that it was sold by an eastern firm to the Hrarta -ovsInment shortly before the occu- Tation of Vera Cruz. The schooner ln which it YVES consigned was sunk 1T Galveston. Texas. in a storm and ror several weeks the cartridges were soaked in salt water Later they 5alvaeed and sent to Douglas in No Temter. 1915. when Villa attacked ieua Priets. An embargo existed at
 hat time and the Carranza govern ment could not examine or receive the cartridges until the following Jan oary. Then an official test showed the ammunition to have been dam aged ard they were refused. After 1eine held for several n'onths under military guard in a freight warehouse hey were re-shipped to Fl Pasc last September and sold for transportation charges Later two Douglas Mexicans bought the ammunition and had it re- packed and shipped back here. Again 1t was refused by the Carranza gov arnment IL came into the hands Of Schuster and his associates at that time. il is believed
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
Atlantic in this hemisphere already assigned to the United States.
UNDESIRABLE ALIENS
 HELD AT N. '. MAY BE
 PUT OUT UPON FARMS
Ellis Island Houses 5000 Of Them and They Can't Be Deported During War.
 Some Germans Are In Lot.
tBy Review Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON. April 1$-All aliens now detained because of inability to qualify for admission to the United States will be given an opportunity to grow their own food if the immigra- ton service can ind farming commu- mites suitable for their needs. Ellis Island and other stations. jammed with some 5000 aliens the country cannot deport because of the war, will be cleared under the plan.
 Crews taken from the German and Austrian merchant ships in American harbors will be included in the nov ing order. No aliens turned back at the nations eastern gates have been deported since the war began because Of the perils of transatlantic travel
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
MEXICAN TROOPS CONCENTRATE AT
 COLORADO RIVER
(By Review Leased Wire)

YUMA. April 13-The Mexican gun boat ZaragoSa which was recently re ported to have brought 150 Carranzs soldiers to Port Isabel, at the moutt Of the Colorado River in the Gulf O. California. was reported today to have returned to Guaymas, Sonora, for re Inducements. It was said that thret hundred men would be brought back Mexican officials at the time of tht first trip said the detacnmen ent was co operating with the troops of COlOne Esteban Cantu, military governor O Lower California. in pursuit of Villa bandits.
 RumOrs that the endorsements 0 Mexican border troops was directed against the United States or against Colonel Cantu's control of Lower Cal ifOrnia. were denied.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
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 If we had an establishment in Bis bee you would patronize it-surely- but. if you were 10 walk right ntO UT parlors (which We invite you to io when in Los Angeles) we could net give you more perfect satisfaction than you will derive from our perfect mail order method
 Style, workmanship and quality of material superb. with moderate pIic- ng. makes this offer most attractive.
 Every street, afternoon or evening gown made to your measure.
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Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
ALLIES ID HELP U. 5. AVOID
 MISTAKES
International w ar Council Next Week Will Also Take Up Discussion of Terms of Peace At Wars End.
(By Review Leased Wire)

WASHINGTON. April IS. - The international war council to assemble here within the next week and to which Great Britain and France are sending emminent statesmen. soldiers end sailors. was stated officially today sto have very largely for its purpose enabling the United States to avoid the mistakes and difficulties which be- set the allies when they entered the war.
 American officials in all departments will have the opportunity, it was stat ed, to meet the foreign commissioners personally. discuss with them the les sons taught by the war, and consider the broad principles whereby the United States can marshal its forces for the great struggle with the mini mum of waste and delay.
 It is realized everywhere that this. country faces stupenduous task in converting itself. almost overnight, from peace basis to a universal mil itary. naval. industrial and asricul- tural mobilization. The problem IS to fill all these separate ana uneX- pected demands without having each cripple the other.
 Closely allied to this phase of the conference will be the information gained at first hand as 10 now Amer ica's resources can be best distributed against the common enemy. Study will be made as to how this country's power can be dOvetailed into that If the entente. is that the United States will be free 10 dedicate itself only to the essentials and save duplication of effort.
 There will be some discussion in the conference of the attitude of the United States toward the ultimate peace terms. It is thought the en- tente powers intend to agree to such terms as will warrant the United States in fighting unreservedly with them.
 The highest honors that the United States can offer are planned for tse British and French commissioners. The chiefs of the commissions, includ- ing Foreign Secretary Balbour and others of the English group and Min ister of Justice Viviani and Field Marshal Joffre of the French, will be welcomed by the highest officials of the government and entertained as guests of the nation.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
Silb Reward. S1a0

The readers of this paper will be pleased to earn that ;hcre IS at least Ode dreaded -disease that science has been be Go cure in a.i its stages and tha. is Catarrh Halr7 Catnrrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medica fraternity. Catnrrll being constitutional disease. requires go constitutional treat ment Halls Calarrh Cure is taken in Jernallv. acting directly unCr .he blood and murous surfaces ot the syeiern. there by destroying fine fouudIticI of the dis ease. and giving tha patient strength hy building up fhr consultation aJ.d sssstiu.- uatur, iU doiuC it. work The prunrictors have so much taith in its curative pow eys that they oTeI one tlUuured Dollars for any case that if taiis to cure. Send for list of testimonials
 Address; Gitf..EY S 70. Toledo. O
 Sold hs ali prrl gi7ts s5r
 reEs Halle aulul Pills for co01fipafiHn
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
5e,734,oCo POUNDS WOOL
 OFFERED TO GOVERNMENT

BOSTON, April Accountant employed by the Boston wool trad association reported today that thcr. were 59.734.SI2 pounds of wool or hand Or in transit Co this city th largest wool market in the worlt This entire stock was offered the gov ornment at prices Qvoled the da President Wilson asked congress C declare a state oi war but was dc clined yesterday because the govern mcnt found |, impossible Go make us, of it at ihis time
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14

MENICALI. Mex, April 1i.7-Omc ials Of the Cantu government here as serted today they had no knowledge of the movement of Carranza troops in the vicinity of Port lsabela, Sonora near the mouth of the Colorado river
 They said inquiries would be mad' of Colonel Estaban Cantu, militar. governor Of Lower California, to a. certain if he was aware of the pres ence of the troops. Cantu has beer at Ensenada on the west coast O. Lower California.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-14
NACOzARI BANDITS RAID RANCH AND
 KIDNkP MANAGER
OBy Review Lease4 Wire)

DOUGLAS. April l5.-General Jose M. Acosta and 24 followers raided the ranch of s. Nj. Sherman. an American % miles south of Nacoza-i, Thursday according to arrivals here. Food l- idr.es and saddles were taken ana Ramon Leon. the manager. forced to accompany the bandits when they left riding southward
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09
APPLYING COUNTY FARMER OFFERS PRIZE
OF BEST SUIT OF CLOTHES IN GEORGIA

want to breed them up and am ready
to buy pure bred bulls as soon as this
county is tick-free, which | hope it
soon will be as a result of the Davis
Townsend tick law. can testify that
dipping in an open range country is
not difficult, if man Just sets out to
do it as he does anything else. ! have
never lost a single animal :icm dip
PING and ! am confident ! have raised
40 per cent more calves from my cows
than did before dipping; and it is
easy to dip them; they practically dip
themselves after the first few dip
pings. They run out on the open range
with other undipped cattle and they
look SO much better than the tick in
tested cattle on the same range that
| will offer the best suit of clothes that
can be bought in Georgia to you or
any other experienced cattle man who
cannot go out on the range and pick
out every head of my cattle, though
they are no better bred than all the
others. This offer is made in good
faith, and wish you would send me
somebody who is opposed to tick ers j.
ication to earn the suit of clothes.
"Yours truly,
&c. N. WEATHERLY."
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09
ADVERTISEMENT BY ADMIN
ISTRATOR FOR SALE OF
LANDS

BY virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Ben Hill coun-
ty. will be sold at public outcry on
the first Tuesday in December, 1917,
al the Courthouse door in said county,
between the legal hours of sale, that
tract or parcel of land in said coun-
ty of Ben Hill containing Ninety (90)
acres, more or less, described as fol-
lows;
All that tract or parcel of land ly-
ing and being in the county of Ben
Hill, State Of Georgia, and described
and known as Twenty-Acre-T Tracts
Nos Forty-two Hundred Twenty
four (4224), Forty-two Hundred
Twenty-six (4226), Forty-two Hun,
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09

c. NJ. WeatherIy of Bailey, Georgia,
has great confidence in Georgia, and
its future as cattle producing state.
But he is equally convinced that it can
mol come into its own until the cattle
tick is eradicated. He has dipped his
100 head of cattle every two weeks for
the past two years; but they run on
the open range and collect ticks drop
ped by his neghhors' cattle, and he
is afraid to buy pure bred bulls to
breed up his herd. He is so anxious
to have his neighbors from his own
and adjoining counties join in asking
their County Commissioners to build
dipping watts, so that they can get rid
of the tick all in one season, that he
has written President A. X. Seasons,
of the Georgia Land Owners Assoca-
ton offering a prize in a very unique
manner. His letter to Mr. Seasons
follows:
Bailey, Ga, Oct. 10, 1917.
Mr.. A. X. Seasons, Pres,
Georgia Land Owners Assn,
Dear SIR
! have been dipping my 100 cattle
every two weeks for two years; they
are common piney woods stock; !
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09
YOU CAN'T SAVE TOO
MUCH FOR YOUR BOYS
Spending Economically Is Saving
Wisely And Well

Every housewife has been asked to
save wheat, meat, fats and sugar that
larger supply may be available for
our fighting men. II you have not Sc
cured the Home Card of the Food Adj
ministration. write to Mr. Hoover in
Washington. This card epitomizes the
work of the administration and gives
suggestions that should be followed in
every kitchen in Georgia.
USE VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Says the Home Card, 1--WE have a
-superabundance of vegetables. Dou.
bic the use. of vegetables. They take
the place of wheat and meat and at
the same time, are healthful. Use no
'atoes abundantly Store roots prom.
eriy and they will keep. Use fruits
generously" Study the card and fol.
low its suggestions
Says the Administration again. we
do not ask the American people to
starve themselves Eat plenty. but
wisely, and without waste" If we
would eat no more wheat bread. save
all of the pork, and cut our consump.
ton OF sugar and fats in half we
wouldn't be doing one-tenth as much
as the man who goes to the front
Remember that spending economically
is saving wisely and that saving wise.
~ is serving faithfully.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09
sHERIRF's SALE
Georgia, Ben Hill County.

georgia, Ben Hill County
Will be sold on the first Tuesday
IN December, next, at public outcry
at the courthouse in said county, with
IN the legal hours of sale, to the high
est bidder for cash, certain property,
OF which the following is a full and
complete description, to-wit:
A tract OF land containing two hun
bred and forty-five acres more or less.
being part OF land lot two hundred
and thirty-six, in the third land dis
rtict OF Ben Hill county, Ga, and
bounded as follows: On the cast bv
the original land line; on the north
by the original land line to a made
corner near the center; on the west
by a made line to the South Prong
OF House Creek; thence due South
along said Branch ~ Waste>Way OF
Players Old Mill to original south
line; thence south line to starting
points, that is, east original line, plat
and survey of which is attached on
the record ora certain deed recorded
on page 384 in Deed Book s, in the
office Of the Clerk of the Superior
Court, Ben Hill county.
Said property levied on as the
property of defendant to satisfy an
execution issued from the superior
court of Ben Hill county, Ga, against
Otis H. Elkins, and said property be-
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09
SCALDS, CALLS, SCRATCHES
SORES, HURTS, SCREW
WORMS

To make the best cure for SUI
troubles, buy pint of linseed o,i,
if you prefer healing oil, or 4
pound Of hog lard or vaseline if y.u
want a salye and add a SOC bottle II
Farris Healing Remedy. 1t Simply
can't be beat by any salvc or hrj-
ment made. And see what you ST
"a full pint for not over 90 cents.
Farris Healing Remedy is sold ~
us on. the Money Back Plar.-Wast
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