Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-04


come under the
p n n y v q mia
State compensa-
ton law and there can be no claim
made for his dependents, according
to ruling made by Chairman Harry
A. Mackey, of the State Compensa-
ton Board. The case is that of
Walburn VS.. Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway, the death having oc-
CURED on the Reading near Leb-
anon. In another decision by Mr..
Mackey, Hale VS.. International Ship
building Corporation, Philadelphia,
1t is held that the fact that an en-
ploye is treated at first-aid station
was sufficient to put the defendant
on notice of the accident"
The board has upheld the finding
that compensation should be allowed
in Wolford VS.. Reading Dye Works,
Reading, where a girl playing tag"
at lunch took hold of n shafting and
was hurt, this decision following
similar ones regarding play by en-
ployes at lunch hour; and in Kerns
VS. Keystone Trap Rock Company.
Lancaster; while in Baker VS.. Penn
sylvania Railroad, Hollidaysburg, it
is held that the deceased stood in
the relation of a parent to tha
illegitimate children of his step
daughter, because they were mem
berS of his household after his mar
riage with their grandmother to
whom the compensation is to be
paid.
New hearings have been ordered in
Jackubic VS.. Jones & Laughlin Steel
Company, Pittsburgh; Hieber VS..
Gressel. Philadelphia; Sacri VS..
American Ice Company. Philadel-
phia; Taylor VS.. Lester Piano Com
pany, Philadelphia.
Members of the State Industrial
Board have been summoned to meet
in Philadelphia on December Is to
begin the revision of the safety
standards for various industries in
PENNSYLVANIA and the regular meet
ing to have been held here next
Tuesday has been postponed until
the Philadelphia session. Meanwhile
members of the board will work on
studies for changes in the stand
ards.
The first meetings of committees
charged with the duty of recon-
mending changes to existing codes
are being held to-day in Philadelphia
and it Is expected that about so per-
sons, including state officials from
New York, New Jersey, Ohio and
Massachusetts, as we'll as representa-
tives of large steel and other plants
and of labor organizations, will at
tend the first session when power
transmission will be discussed. Fri
day a similar meeting on machine
toll regulation will be held at Pitts
bursh.
Licenses OF 10 automobiles have
been revoked by the State Highway
Department for violation of the mo-
tor vehicle code of 1919. There are
close to 100000 licenses in force.
Four of the licenses revoked were
nonpaid drivers, one of a paid
driver and five of the car.
The Public Service Commission
will hold the largest hearing on jit-
ney cases in Philadelphia next week
that it has ever listed. Over so ap-
plications have been entered thus
far.
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
said in regard to published reports
of extensive investigations reported
as having been just undertaken by
his departmental force that ever
since he had been in office he had
endeaVored to be as thorough as
possible in getting at the values of
the holdings of corporations paying
taxes to the State whether they were
of securities or natural resources.
The officers of the Cooperative
League of America a Pittsburgh
concern composed of ten men oper-
ating under trust agreement, have
been given 10 days in which to file
an answer to the report of P. n.
Goldsmith, expert who investigated
the concern for State Banking Com
John S. Fisher. The mat
ter came up for a hearing before
b. ]. Myers, deputy Attorney Gem
eral, and after the report which
scored the method of procedure and
the financial standing of the con-
Germ had been read an answer was
ordered.
Men who place markers of vari-
GUS kinds along State highways and
who happen to get within the legal
limits of the road have no ground
for complaint if the markers are
covered with whitewash. This is the
dietum of the State Highway Com
missioner who will not permit any
even of branch roads and
trails within legal limits unless it is
a departmental property.