Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-19

@.Sas7%9soT1 time business Is
made by the State Board in an opin-
ion in a Philadelphia case wherein it
was shown that such conditions ex-
list. The statement is made "It may
be that the Board cannot cancel an
agreement voluntarily entered into
between the parties for the payment
OF compensation on account of injury
to an employe while engaged in
marltlme pursuits and declare the
agreement as such of no binding
force and effect by reason of ignor-
ance or Misrepresentation of law on
the part of either party to the con-
tract, but we think the Board can
and ought to rescind it's approval of
a compensation agreement, as such
when 1T is made to appear that the
State Workmens Compensation
Board had no jurisdiction over the
contract of service between the en-
ployer and employe nor of the oc-
cupation in which the employees in
jury was suffered at the time of its
approval of the same"
Notice to insurance carriers in
compensation cases to use care in
appeals is given in a decision rem
dered in q coal mining case in which
a man while cutting weeds and vines
at the mouth of a mine came in con-
tact with poison ivy and lost the. sight
of an eye. The insurance carrier con-
tended that it had no notice and the
Board says ut is not clear from the
record that the insurance carrier put
itself in position to complain. The
appeal is taken by it and not by the
defendant and there does not appear
to be any power of attorney on file
or anything to show it's right to COM
plain. Besides the mere fact that
the defendant f-rinr haU
been notified by the bureau or that
the defendant itself failed to advise
it's insurance carrier is not sufficient
ground to reverse the award and
findings of the referee"
"Made in rmany.'-Ohicials of
the State Department of Agriculture
who have been investigating the pine
blister rust, which has ravaged half
a dozen states and which Pennsyl-
Vania is making strenuous efforts to
keep out of this commonwealth, be-
eve that the outbreaks in two coun-
ties are directly traceable to Ger
man expectation of infected stock
which could not be sold within the
empire. In both instances the stock
where the disease appeared came
from Germany, Hamburg being said
to be the point where it was started
for this country. The points are in
Berks and Cambria counties and the
trail has gone to q nursery which the
German government had refused to
allow to sell in that country. The
pine blister rust has done an inn
mense amount of damage in other
states and the state is spending many.
dollars in an effort to localize the
outbreak in Pennsylvania. Hundreds
of trees have been cut down and
burned.
Allen in Demand-The United
States bureau of the insurance and
compensation features of the mill
tary and naval service has asked
Albert l.. Allen, assistant manager
of the State Workmen's Insurance
Fund, to give assistance in working
out the details. Mr.. Allen has been
at Washington several days in con-
sultation with the men in charge of
the bureau.
Commission Called. - The State
Commission of Agriculture has been
called for a meeting on Thursday
when winter work will be discussed
and some action probably taken in
regard to the bureau of markets,
whose officers have been securing un-
loading of cars of foodstuffs.
New Rules Begin.-The new rules
of the State Board of Pardons will
,e put into effect at the meeting to
be held on Thursday. The list will
be called and counsel not appearing
will be laid aside until the close of
the hearings when they will be called
again. If continuances are not asked
the cases will then be stricken from
the list.
Cases Put Off.-The Schuylkill
county complaints against rates of
public utilities which were fixed for
hearing by the Public Service Com
mission this week have been contin-
ued until December 19.
Big IncreaSeS.-Two notices of in
crease of stock of companies to
million dollars have been filed at the
State Capitol. One was by the Key
stone State Construction. Co., the
McNichol concern, Phila delphia,
which increased capital from $780,
900 to $1,O00,000 and the other the
Lewis Foundry and Machine Co., of
Pittsburgh, which increased from
100000 to S $1,000,00O.
Compensation Case.-The State
Compensation Board has arranged to
hear appeals from the Central Penn
sylvania district at a meeting to be
held in Harrisburg on November %.
Surgeons to Meet.-Industria ply
sicians and surgeons of the state will
have a conference at the Capitol to-
morrow under auspices of the in
dustrial hygiene and engineering di-
vision of the Department of Labor
and Industry at which medical off,
GERS from the United States Army
will discuss new methods in treat
ment of wounded soldiers and their
application to industrial workers who
may be hurt in these days of speed
ed-up establishments. Surgeons from
the United States public health serv-
ice, medical reserve corps and hos
pitfalls, steel, coal, gas and manufac-
turing companies of Pennsylvania
and state officials will participate.
Highway 33."-The State High
way Department to-day hung out q
service flag at the State Capitol show
ing thirty-three stars, one for each
of it's men who had gone into the
United States service.
Somebody Busy.-Capitol Hill was
'buzzing to-day with rumors that
anywhere from twenty to one hun
dred' and twenty men were to be
dismissed from state service because
of their attitude in the recently
mayoralty election. Most OF the ru-
mors appeared to be emanating from
the State Agricultural Department
where somebody was very, very
busy. At the Governors office it was
said that there was no beheading
program undew way just now.
O,NeiI's Plans. - Highway. Com
missioner O'Neil and Chief Engineer
Uhler will leave tomorrow night for
the Cumberland Valley to meet offi-
cials and talk roads. They will then
go into western and northwestern