Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-29

and former Coroner of Montgomery
county, was appointed Coroner to
fill vacancy in that county by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh to-day.
All Are Ready.-State draft head
quarters to-day announced that ev-
cry local draft board in Pennsylvania
| had given notice that 1t was pre-
| pared to begin registration of men
who have become 21 since last reg
istration. The registration will start
June 5.
Big Cases started.-The Public
Service Commission has received
| complaints from the borough of Will
kinsburg against the new fare
schedule of the Pittsburgh Railways
Company and from the borough of
Ellsworth against the new rates OF
the Manufacturers Light and Heat
Co., of Pittsburgh. They involve big
questions and hearings will be held
during the summer.
Newport Case Ends.-A decision
dismissing the complaint of the Oak
Extract Co., of Newport, against an
advance in rates by Perry county's
, two narrow-gauge railroads and ap-
proving the rates was handed down
by the Public Service Commission to-
day.
Must Pay .Tax-Insurance Com
missioner Charles A. Amber was to-
day informed that a life insurance
company issuing what are known as
industrial policies can not be relieved
of payment of state tax on ten per
cent. of premiums which represents
the amount returned to policyhold-
ers who pay their premiums for a
year directly to the company and
not through the collecting agents.
The opinion was given by the At
torney Generals Department in the
case of the Metropolitan Insurance
Company, of New, York. which had
deducted $41,615.30 from the gross
premiums received in Pennsylvania,
representing the amount returned to
policyholders making direct pay
ments. The company claimed 1t was
not taxable on this amount.
In another opinion it is held that
an assistant supervisor at a state
hospital is to be classed as a state
employe" under the act of June z,
1917.
Hearings On-Over dozen hear
ings We're held by the Public Serv-
Ice Commission to-day, among them
the application of the Philadelphia,
Castle Rock and West Chester Street
Railway Company, for right to oper-
ate in certain streets in West Ches-
ter for a terminal and the complaint
of the borough of Columbia against
the Philadelphia and Reading cross
ing near that place. The Couders-
port and Upton water cases were
also heard.
Stover Lucl<y-Contract for thir-
ty-three bridges on state highways,
ranging in value from $4,000 to
$500, were awarded by Commission
er O'Neil to-day for structures on
state highways in Berks, Clearfield,
Columbia, Crawford, Indiana, Jeffer-
son, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne,
Monroe, Northampton, Northumber-
land, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, War
rem and Washington counties. Pro-
posals for eleven others were reject
ed because of high prices and these,
with four on which no bids were re-
ceived, will be readvertised. Amos
E. Slower, Palmyra; R. r. Myers,
Lewistown; Evans Sons, Danville, re-
ceived most of the contracts. Stover
got ten.
Case SettIed.-The case of e. L.
Egolf against the Harrisburg Light
and Power Company was reported
settled at the Public Service Commits
sion to-day.
Register Here.-William Conner.
former legislator and Register of
Wills of Allegheny county, was at
the Capitol to-day.
Many JItney Cnses.-Over a score
or jitney cases were heard at the
Pub!:s Service Commission to-day.
The bulk of them were protests by
men who had taken out certificates
and wanted others who were not au-
thoriZed to stop operating.
Going to Easton.-Governor Brum-
baugh will attend the presentation
of the sword to General March at
Easton to-day.
At WashinEtOn.-Adjuta General
Beary has returned from Washing
ton, where he discussed draft and
militia matters with Army officers.
Showalter Presented.-Lewis Sho-
walter, of the Adjutant Generals Of
flee, who will leave for Columbus
Barracks in few days, was present.
ed by the departmental forces with a
handsome wrist watch. General
Beary and Chief Clerk Demming
made addresses.
Nation First.-The Public Service
Commission has dismissed the COM
plant of Henry ]. Schad, of Mildred,
against the withdrawal of trains on
the Bowman's Creek branch of the
Lehigh Valley railroad because the
discontinuance was a war measure.
The opinion, by Commissioner Brecht,
says that in the war crisis sacrifice
must be made in every home and
community and that as long as ne
cessity for traffic support of the
Government continues "the rights and
of the individual and local
community must give way to the
larger and graver needs of the coun-
trt