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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
May Enlarge Hotel Senate
and Redecorate Building

If plans of the lessor and lessees
of the Hotel Senate materialize, the
hotel structure will be enlarged,
renovated and repainted and a great
number of improvements will be
made, it was stated to-day. Includ-
ed in the plans is the proposal to
include the Colonial apartments In
the Senate structure, thereby adding
about forty rooms. Repainting of
the hotel proper was begun this aft
ernoon.
1t has not yet been definitely de-
cided whether or not the Colonial
apartments will be incorporated in
the hotel edifice. but this is prac-
tically assured, it is said. In this
event, the lobby will be greatly en-
larged and elevator service will be
provided in both the Colonial and
Senate. The dividing wall will be
thrown down.
Plans for the undertaking have
not all been completed. but it is un-
derstood that the entire building
will also be redecorated. Work on
the contemplated improvements will
begin before August 1, it is said.
John n. H. and Fred H. Menger are
the lessees of the Senate. F. B.
Aldinger owns both the Colonial
apartments and the Hotel Senate
structure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
Shapiro, Accountant,
Wins a Promotion For
Rapidly in Figures

Camp Upton, N. Y, July II. - Pri-
vate Jacob Shapiro. who came here as
a draft man less than two months
ago, has earned himself an assign
ment as statistician at cantonment
headquarters through his remarkable
aptitude at the rapid manipulation of
figures. In the presence of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel T. j. Powers. cantonment
chief of staff, and severl of his Of
GERS. Shapiro totaled three columns
of figures fifteen rows deep in less
than four seconds. called off with a
snap of his fingers the number of
books on a large shelf, and instantly
announced the number of matches
which were tossed from a box to
Colonel Powers desk. He was intro
duced to a gathering of a dozen Of
ficers and within a moment repeated
the rank and full name of each. He
worked out many arithmetical prob
lens given him by the officers with
startling rapidity and accuracy.
Shapiro is 23 years old, was born
in Russia, and has been citizen of
this country for two years. He is an
efficiency expert by profession, and
says he has never given any public
demonstration of his power of rapid
calculation. He declares it is the re-
suit of his ability to rapidly photo
graph figures in his mind and not the
result of practice or tutelage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
TESTING DAUPHIN OATS
FOR SMUT TRACES

Paul L. KoeRig, assistant county
farm agent, is conducting a test of
the various oats fields in Dauphin
county, to determine the amount of
smut in the oats. The test has shown
that there is from seven to ten per
cent. of smut in the average oat field
in Dauphin county. The highest
amount discovered is twenty-five per
cent. This means that in that field
every hundred bushels of oats has
twenty-five bushels which are worth
less. One field was reported that
had no smut. This field had been
treated with the anit-smut solution
recommended by the farm bureau.
The solution is a pint of forty per
cent formaldehyde solution to forty
gallons ow fater. which is sufficient
for sixty bushels of seed oats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
'DRYS' FOLLOW UP
FIRST VICTORY IN
TEST ON WINE
Supporters Insistent That
"Bont Dry" Amendment Be
Kept Before the Senate
BY Associated Press


washington, July 11.-Victorious
IN the first test of strength prohi-
oitfon advocates in the Senate to-
day renewed their efforts for pass
age of the amendment to the emer-
sency agricultural prohibition bill
providing for national prohibition for
the period of the war. Another test
was expected to come to-day with
vote on a motion of Senator
Phelan, of California. to strike wine
from the list of prohibited liquors.
The close vote of SO to 33 yester-
day against sustaining ruling of
Senator Salisbury. of Delaware,
president pro tempore, that the
amendment should be stricken from
the bill as not germane to the meas
ure was not held by prohibition lead
ers to-day to indicate their full
strength. A number of Senators who
voted to sustain the chair favor the
amendment, they said. in predicting
the amendment will be adopted by a
large vote before the end of the
week.
Opponents of the amendment,
which would prohibit the sale-except
for export of intoxicating liquors
after January 1, next, and the man
ufacture of beer and wine after No
vember l were expected to attempt
again to-day to have the measure re-
placed by the House telegraph and
telephone control resolution. Sup
porters of the amendment were in
| sistent that it be kept before the
Senate until a final vote is reached.
Wire Measure Gets Precedence
When the prohibition bill came
up automatically at p. m. to-day
the Senate agreed to lay it aside
temporarily and proceed with the
wire control measure. No objection
to the procedure came from the pro-
hibition advocates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
WAR FAR AWAY
TO NEW TROOPS
NOW OVERSEAS
Nothing But Air Raids Suggest
to Waiting Men the
Din of Strife

Headquarters American Troops
With the British Army I'm France
The war still seems to most of the
newly arrived men of the American
Army here to be still very far away.
Aside from the air raids that reach
far back of the lines there is little
to suggest that a gigantic struggle is
going on almost within hearing dis
tance.
How far is it to this war, any,
way?" asked one of the recently ar
rived men. He was swinging his legs
from the doorway of what would
look in America like toy boxcar as
train pulled into small station on
the way from somewhere in
france" to somewhere in France"
we've been here steen days al
ready, said another, and we've seen
Just nothing that looks like battle.
The distance from that station to
part of the line where some of the
boys may "go in" some day is not so
iar as seems to them, but almost
rlght up to it the grass is still de-
llghtfully fresh and green, the wild
mowers are as thick as they are wont
10 be this season in France, and the
birds sing with as much zest as they
do hundreds of miles from the bat
tie front. The weather aids the il
fusion of peace. There has been just
enough rain to wash the dust from
the foliage along the beaten roads
The nights are just cool enough to
induce good sleep, the days just
bright enough to bring out all the
beauties of fertile region.
The line between this unstricken
region and the country where only
shells have plowed the land for
several seasons is a sharp one. On
the other side the villages have
crumbled. Some larger towns give
out no other sound than the burst
ing of shells and the falling of ruins
None may go into the wreckage for
in the shell holes, among the piles OF
debris turks the subtle poison the
shells bring from the German lines
The streets are kept clean of debris
by the British army. AS soon as q
shell knocks down the remnants OF
wall the masonry is picked up and
carted away.
Just outside this dead zone the vi
bration from the fire of big guns
shakes the branches of the trees, but
the birds perched upon them arc
! unmindful. Shrapnel sent from
German guns in reply bursts all
around but the nightingale's song
goes on quite the same as it does
farther back from the lines where
the war appears to the American
boys to be still so far away.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
Gets Appendicitis When
Ready to Sail For France

Ready to sail to France for over
seas Y. NJ. C. A. duty, Roy Daven-
port of Connecticut, brother of
Frank F. Davenport. who conducts a
restaurant in Market street, was
stricken with appendicitis and forced
to undergo an operation which pre-
vented his sailing to FrZnce for ac-
tive service. Mr.. Davenport had
passed all examinations and had
been accepted for the strenuous
overseas duty which he had been
trying to enter for some time. The
information that his brother had
been detained from sailing because
of illness and been operated on was
received here by Frank +. Daven-
port. whose parents live with Roy
Davenport at Tomfert. Conn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
Pennsylvanians Named
in the War Casualties
BY Associated Prcss

Washington, July 11.-Among the
6s names on the Army casualty list
to-day was that of Corporal William
o. Corner. 1916 Penn street, Harris
burg. reported killed in action, to-
gether with Private Joseph f. Socia,
of Gettysburg, Pa. Other Pennsyl-
vanians named included the follow
ing: Severely wounded: Private
Antonio Ciprino, Nanticoke; Martin
]. Fahey, and Alex. Swiaski, Phila-
delphia; William ]. Wright. Chest
nut Hill. The Marine Corps cas-
ualty list numbered 80, one Pennsyi-
vanian. Sergeant Caude S. Corson, of
Doylestown, being reported severe
ly wounded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
SVEABORG MADE
GOLGOTHA BY HUN
RULE OF DEATH
Julia Daft Cries Out Maledic-
tionS as She Goes to
Doom
BY .Associated Press

Amsterdam, July 11.-Since the
Germans entered Finland $4,000
workmen there have been arrested
and many of them have been exc
outed, declared Hugo Haase, leader
of the minority Socialists, in a re-
cent speech in the Reichstag, accord
ing to verbatim report published
by the Hetvolk. The deputy also
criticised German rule in Livonia
and Esthonia.
After pointing out that those who
provoked civil war in Finland were
responsible for the calling in of the
Germans, Deputy Haase said:
Former Premier Victim
''The list of those sentenced to
death in Finland contains the names
of former premier and fifty Social
ist members of parliament, some of
whom already have been shot. Ow-
ing to the numerous daily executions
the town of Sveaborg has been nam
ed 'Golgotha.'
The speaker then referred to the
suppression of vernacular newspa-
pers in the provinces of Livonia and
Esthonia and added:
Fifty persons recently were ar
rested Mt Dorpat and German mill
tary dictatorship rules everywhere.
A boy aged 10 was sentenced TO q
long Imprisonment for concealing
arms while a boy 10 years old was
sentenced to death for picking up a
manifesto. For a similar offense a
woman named Julia Daft was exc
cuted."
Woman's Last Words
Deputy Haase then read a letter
which said:
Julia Daft is dead but her last
words will live forever, as will the
last maledictions which she flung at
the German hangmen and oppres-
sors."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
York, England, Observes
Holiday to Honor U. S.
Soldiers; Maxwell Lauds

York, England, Wednesday, july
10.-This city to-day observed a
special holiday in honor of American
troops, 500 of those soldiers parad-
ing through the main streets.
The Lord Mayor read a letter
from the American embassy convey
ing President Wilson's thanks for
the helpful visit of the Archbishop
of York to the United States last
March.
General Maxwell in a speech at
the Guildhall said:
THE American soldiers already
have shown their grit in France and
are fighting magnificently."
After the parade the Americans
were entertained. %
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
May Present Opinion
on Fourteenth Ward
Water Supply Plans

City Solicitor John E. Fox may pre-
sent to council next week, an opinion
on what action the city can take to-
ward furnishing the Fourteenth ward
water supply. The commissioners at
their meeting this week passed a
resolution asking Solicitor Fox for
an opinion as the officials declare the
present supply is inadequate and Of
fers practaically no fire protection
for the community. The district is
being supplied at present by mains
owned by a private company.
Solicitor Fox has received a litter
from George \. Shreiner. Superin-
tendent of Public Grounds and Build
ings in acknowledgment of an in
quiry asking for a coference on Capi-
tol Park eXtesion plans. The date
for the meeting will be decided later
pending the completion of proposed
plans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
P. c. Romberger Elected
Head of Association

instrumental in it's organization,
P. c. Romberger, of the S. B. Rom
berger's Sons Company, hide and
tallow dealers, was yesterday elected
first ce-president of the Hide Deal
ers' Association of Pennsylvania,
Delaware and New Jersey. The or
ganization meeting was held in the
Chamber of Commerce building at
Pittsburgh.
Mr.. Romberger, a member of the
local firm, has been serving on the
advisory board to the high price fix
ing committee, and has made sever
al visits to Washington in that capa-
city. Advices received by Ira p. ROM
berger, his brother, and also a men,
ber of the local firm, are to the ef-
feet that the newly formed associa-
ton will work in conjunction with
the Tanners Council of the United
States,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
COL. OFT GRANTS
CITY SOFT. STREET
[Continued from First Page.l

street through his property crossing
Otis lane and running 1000 feet
north to be eighty feet wide.
Second Street Also
Similar grants have been made for
Second street through the Hester
tract above the city and these two
links will establish the width of the
highway at eighty feet all the way
from the present city limits-to Rock
vile, which will make it one of the
most desirable residential thorough
fares in the city when it is finally
opened.
The purpose of the commission in
establishing street widths ahead of
building developments is to avoid
the possibility of narrow streets CIR
the consequential damages that are
always incurred when efforts are
made to widen thoroughfares after
houses have been erected on land
facing them.
The Linglestown road will lead
eighty feet wide to the top of the
bluff at Wildwood Park just above
the lake and beyond, in order to
provide for the time when that sec
ton will be opened for building, Just
as State street in the middle of the
city and the Cameron Parkway to
llt sOllh Will bG Wluc US
possible in order to make them the
main highways into the city with
which lateral streets running in a
general direction of north and south
will connect.
Planning Away Ahead
"The Planning Commission is
much pleased with the generosity of
Colonel Ott," said Chairman e. S.
Herman to-day. HE readily saw
the Importance of the step we asked
to take, which I am convinced in
the long run will add to property
values adjacent and give the city an
important thorOughfare of ample
width to take care of the traffic that
is bound to develop. We are plan
ming for the next twenty-five, fifty
and one hundred years, so that those
who come after us will find the
ground we'll prepared for the growth
of the city and future generations
will be spared the expense and vexa-
ton which haphazard city develop
ment invariably causes. How soon
we shall realize our dreams depends
entirely upon the rapidity of the
city's development"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
HELD FOR LARCENY

Carl n. Schooner, Aurora, III, Is
in the custody of the Pennsylvania
Railroad police on the charge of
stealing the suitcase of a Reading
woman. Harrisburg police say he
reported to the police station at z
o'clock and said he found the suit
case in the plaza in front of the
station, and left it at the hotel
where ne was registered. An Off
Ger went to the hotel with him and
he returned the suitcase over to
him. Later railroad police made the
arrest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
CLASS OF 1918 MAY
RE INDICTED IN ARMY

State draft headquarters to-day
announced receipt of orders that
registrans of 1918 may be individ-
ually inducted into military serv-
ice.
The Sullivan county draft board
which had ordered a saloonkeeper to
change his occupation, has been in
formed that such business does not
come within the orders calling for
men to enter the army or engage
in other occupations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
Gordon Paddock, u. S.
Envoy, Safe at Teheran

Washington, July 11.-Safe arri-
val at Teheran of Gordon Paddock,
United States consul at Tabriz, was
announced to-day by the State De-
partment. Paddock left Tabriz more
than a month ago, with a party of
Americans and Europeans, when
Tabriz was threatened by Turks, who
afterward seized the American con-
sulate there and sacked an American
hospital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
EDIsoN's SON ENLIsTs

Morristown, N. j., July 11.-wil-
liam L. Edison, a son of Thomas A.
Edison, the enventor and honorary
chairman of the Navy Consulting
Board, enlisted to-day in a tank di-
vision OF the United States Army
and left Immediately for Fort Slo-
cum.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11

Police have not yet heard from
Texas regarding the alleged murder
committed there 10y Seben Hen
bricks, 122 Monroe street. who was
arrested yesterday morning on in
formation furnished the police by a
negress who formerly lived with
Aaron Hendricks, brother of the sus-
pected murderer. Because she was
assaulted by her former lover when
she returned to thi scity with, her
husband. the negress supplied the
police with the information on which
he was arrested. Aaron Hendricks,
the suspects brother, declared to po-
lice this morning that Seben had
murdered man in Texas several
months ago, but that the case had
been settled" Police are waiting an
answer from the kilograms they sent
to Texas yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
Italian Troops Continue
Advance in Albania

London, July 11-Italian troops on
their offensive in Albania continue to
advance, says. dispatch from Rome
to the Central News Agency. The
-Hungarians are falling back
on the Skumbi river. 25 miles north
of Berat.
Rome, July 11-Italian advanced
posts at Corrone, oon the Asiago
plateau yesterday drove back Austro-
Hungarian detachments. says Italian
official statement to-day reporting
military operations on the Italian
mountain front. Artillery fire was
lively in the Brenta valley. On the
remainder of the front there were the
usual accommodating and harassing
actions.
Vienna, July 11-via London-Aus-
trian forces in Albania are occupying
a new defense line which has been
organized says to-days war office
report. The repulse of French de-
tachment which was advancing in the
LDevoli valley, also was announced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
NEW AUTO is UsED

The rev five-passenger Ford auto
mobile recently ordered flor the CITY
Health Department. has been reeciv-
ed and Is now In service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11

WHITE GUARDS IN YAROsLAVL
volEda, Russia, Sunday, July Z. =
White Guards have occupied Yaros-
lavl, q town 173 miles northeast of
Moscow and have cut communications
between Moscow and Volgda. Rus
sian Bolsheviki forces have been sent
in the direction of Yaroslvl.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11

street through his property crossing
Otis lane and running 1000 feet
north to be eighty feet wide.
Second Gfrsoaf AISn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-11
Silk Coats one-half off.

Georgette waists-s5.sS waists for S4.95,
$3.50 Petticoats for $2.9S.
$500 Petticoats for $3.50.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-10-17
HUSBAND CHARGED WITH
HORRIBLE CRIME
Hugh Sparks Arrested on Charge of
Beating Wife and Cutting Herr
With knife-Woman in Hospital

Mrs. Hugh Sparks, who resides in
the Householder Flats, along the river
north of Eastwood Park, was attacked
by man who entered her home at
2:3O o'clock last Sunday morning.
She was sleeping soundly when some
one entered her room and struck her
on the head and in the eye. He then
attacked her with a knife. cutting her
severely on the leg, then picked her
up from the bed and threw her thru
the window out into the yard, taking
window. screen and all When the
woman nlnaged TO crawl back into her
house, the man had gone She was
taken to the hospital, where she is
recovering. The home was all COW
cred with blood, resembling veri-
table shanbles.
States Attorney Herigstad visited
the place later that morning and
talked with the neighbors. Some OF
the neighbors were awakened by the
row and heard the man calling to the
woman after he had thrown her out
Of the window, 'Olga, come on II"
The man evidently had been on ia
nliliar terms with the woman, which
leads the States Attorney to suspect
that the assailant was her husband.
a warrant was consequently sworn
out for the arrest of the husband,
VINO however has been i'll at one Of
the hotels, and who was presumed 70
be sick in bed at the time of the as
sault. The landlady states that il he
left his room, she does not know any
thing about it and no blood was
found on his person the next day.
The husband had had several rows
with his wife, beating her up accord
ing 10 story told by reighbors A
warrant had been made out for mis-
arrest on the charge Of non-support
and the States Attorney believes that
this may have angered him 10 such
an extent that ne committed the as
sauit, al any rate he viii attempt 70
connect the husband with the horrible
crime
The husband has been doing odd
jobs about the country, skinning dead
animals for their hides.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-10-17
JESSE ]. HOWARD OF LOGAN
SUCCUMBS TO ISFLUENZA
Well Known Manager of Minnekota
Elevator Co. Died After Short
Illness-is Survived by Wife
and Four Children.

Jesse j. Howard, well known man
ager Of the Minnekota elevator at Lo-
gan, n. D.. passed away at four o.
clock Monday afternoon after an Ill
ness of about week with the Span
ish influenza.
|, Mr. Howard was about 80 years of
age and he Leaves wife, formerly
Miss Theresa Bean, daughter Of Nh.
and Mrs. A. Bean, and four little
children. The wife and children are
all reported Ill in bed With the same
olsease. They are being nursed 5y
Mrs. Wn. johnson of Minot.
Attic Mr. Howard was seriously III
for several days, he would not give up
and remained at his post at the ele-
vator until shortly before his death.
Pneumonia set II causing his demise.
The remains were brot to this city
by J. NJ Rowan. Judge Murray ae-
companying Mr.. Rowan TO Logan.
The funeral was held Wednesday at
Sawyer, where the remains were inter
red.
Mr.. Howard came to Logan from
Wisconsin several years ago and for
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-10-17
JULIUS BERG OF LANSFORD
BURNED TO DEATH
Highly Respected Young Man Found
Death in Ruins of His Home
Which Caught on Fire from

Julius Berg, a prominent young
Lansford man, burned to death in his
home which caught fire from an oil
stove about five o'clock Wednesday
morning. Mr.. Berg had been working
in the country. He had gone to his
home, where he lived alone, sometime
during the night and no one knew that
he was in the ruins until more than
an hour after the building had been
consumed, when his charred remains
were discovered.
The deceased was unmarried. He
had resided at Lansford for a good
many years, being employed at one
time by the Dammann Implement Co.
He was fine young man about thirty
years of age and his death has cast a
deep gloom over Lansford and vicin-
ity.