Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
'BEARY URGING
ENLISTMENTS
Issues Statement in Regard to
Expiration of the One Year
Period in January

Adjutant General Frank ID. Beary
who returned to-day from Wash
ington where he discussed National
Guard matters with officials of the
Militia Bureau, said that the period
for voluntary enlistment of men who
have been in the service and who
desire to maintain continuity will
expire on January IL. II strongly
advise all men who have been hon
orably discharged and who desire to
join the new Guard to enlist before
January IL. officers in commits
sion from the State are authorized
to administer oathS. Enlistments
will be for n year from the date
given whether the unit has been rec
ognized or not" said he. General
Beary communicated with Major
General w. G.. Price regarding this
matter and the general will call at
tention of regimental commanders
to the situation.
The Adjutant General announced
that civilian physicians will be au-
thorized to examine men for enlist
ment in the Guard in places where
there are no army doctors.
The Public Service Commission to-
missed the complaint of the United
Business Mems Association of Phil
adelphia against the Bell Telephone
Company.
Deputy Attorney General B. j. My
ers to-day Informed Banking Com
missioner John S. Fisher in an opin-
ion that banks Incorporated under
the act of 1876 and supplements
have no auth ority whatever to loan
their funds on the security of second
mortgages or any other liens on in
numbered real estate" He adds "a
bank that loans money on a promis-
sorry note and accepts as additional
collateral security to said note, at
the time the loan is made, a mort
gage which is a second lien on real
estate, practices a subterfuge to
evade the clear and distinct pro-
visions of the law and the fact that
such banks are nowhere prohibited
by act of assembly from loaning
money in this way does not empower
them to do so by implication"
Commissioners John S. Killing and
John w. Reed sat to-day to hear the
complaints against the grade cross
ing on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Gordonville. In the complaint
of the State Highway Department
against the Paradise bridge over the
Pennsylvania railroad on the Lin
coin highway the hearing was ad-
journeds until December 23 when
plans will be submitted and costs
apportioned.
The Public Service Commission
to-day announced that the hearing
in the complaint that the Lancaster,
Oxford and Southern railroad has
discontinued train service without
authority of the commission will be
held Monday.> The apportionmento of
costs on the Bingaman street cross
ing improvement at Reading has
been continued until February.
Col. w. III. Zcirdt. divisional in
spector of the New National Guard,
who has been visiting various towns
where requests have been made for
location of units to-day reported
to Adjutant General Beary upon a
number of places. The reports will
be taken up with regimental COM
manders.
The Moorhcad Knitting Company
of this city, to-day filed notice OF
increase of stock from $611, 900 to
$685., 600 and the Hamilton Street
Realty Company, C. Floyd Hopkins,
treasurer, of increase from $4,000
to 100000.
Insurance Commissioner Donald
son yesterday obtained, in Allegheny
Common Pleas Court, temporary
injunction preventing the officers of
the Independent Order of Puritans,
an insurance society, from dispos-
ing of it's assets or transacting busi-
ness of any kind. The petition al
legged that the society, which has
outstanding some s14.000,000 in in
Surance, had attempted to transfer
it's entire business to the American
Guaranty Company, of Delaware,
assignee of Aired Il. Stevens, with
out first having obtained the writ
ten consent, of the Insurance Com
missioner. 1t was also alleged that
the continued existence of the con-
tract and operation Hereunder
placed the society in such condition
that further transaction of business
under and in accordance with the
provisions of the contract will be
hazardous to it's policyholders, it's
creditors and the public"
People at the State Capitol have
bee. following with the greatest in