Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
GENERALPRICE
TALKS ON GUARD
Has Meeting With Governor
and Adjutant General; News
of Capitol Hill Today

Major General w. G. Price, Jr., a
commander of the new National
Guard, who was here last night for
conferences with Governor William
G. Sproul and Adjutant General
Frank ID. Beary left for Wilkes
Barre and Scranton in company with
the Adjutant General. He is work
ing on plans for the organization
of the new Guard.
Officials of the State Department
of Agriculture declined to-day to
comment upon the charges by ex-
Judge David Cameron, of Tioga
county, that the dog license law is a
failure, in the absence of Secretary
of Agriculture Fred Rasmussen who
is on his wedding trip, but data
showing what the State did in the
enforcement of the law in the past
few years will be prepared for issu-
ance after his return. 1t is said
that the figures show good results
in enforcement, but under the rule
prevailing in the department moth
ing can be given out unless personal
ly passed upon.
Frank B. McClain has selected
four instances of rent gouging in
Philadelphia to be taken up for
action by the State Welfare Com
mission.
More arrests are likely to follow
the Strang confession in the North
Penn Bank case according to Spe-
cial Deputy Attorney General Fred
Taylor Pusey.
The State Capitol orchestra be-
gan its rehearsals for the winter
last night, the Senate caucus room
having been turned over to the
MI nj hn ri n
orchestra made quite a hit last win
ter and intends to have numer-
Gus rehearsals and practices this
season and to give concert In honor
of the Governor at the Capitol. The
start of the rehearsals attracted
many people in the building and the
orchestra had plenty of auditors
without knowing it.
Governor Sproul left to-day for
Philadelphia where he will spend
several days. He will return here
Monday.
The State Commissioners on free
ing toll bridges over the Delaware
will meet the commissioners from
New Jersey and New York to-day
1t will be the first meeting of the
three commissions.
Banking Commissioner John S.
Fisher is working out some plans in
building and loan situation, but the
main matter at present is the in
quiry which Frank B. McClain has
under way in Philadelphia into rent
profiteering.
Superintendent of Public Grounds
T. w. Templeton Is in Philadelphia
on State business.
Assurances have been given to
Attorney General Palmer that the
State of Pennsylvania will cooper
ate with him in arranging for con-
ferences of District Attorneys and
Mayors for discussion of food prof.
teering measures after the pending
bills become laws. The State was
represented at the Washington con-
ference of Attorneys General Of the
State by Deputy w. NJ. Hargest, who
has reported to the Governor and
Attorney General. The plan is for
the Governor to call the conference.
Representative NJ. NJ. HollingS-
worth, of Chester, was a visitor here
to-day.
The hearing of the Aldine Coal
Company complaint against the New
York Central Railroad in a claim
for reparation for coal was con-
tinued to-day until October 81.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation
has complained to the Public SerV-
ice Commission against reckless oper-
alton of jitneys and automobiles in
the vicinity of the Hog Island ship
yard and instanced n couple of acci-
dents with request that the Commits
sion make an investigation. The
Commission has authority to recon-
mend revocation OF licenses IL 1T is
found that any common carrier Vio-
lates the law and an inquiry will be
made at once.
The Attorney Generals Depart
ment to-day advised the Huntingdon
4 Reformatory authorities that the
county in which an inmate of the
was convicted and from
which he was sentenced does not
necessarily determine his residence,
but that fact of residence should be
ascertained by inquiry. This action
must be taken in acting in regard
to gratuities.
The Hamburg Gas and Electric
Company has filed notice of an in
crease III it's gas rates and a decrease
in power rates with the Public Serv-
ice Commission. Fayette county
taxicab owners operating in and
about Lambert have filed notices OF
increases.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Cyrus e. Woods, to-day, telegraphed
to the commissioners of seven coun-
ties which have failed to file official
returns of the judicial primary to
the effect that the State desires to
certify ballots as soon as possible
and urging that every effort be made
to complete the counts. The secre-
tary has received some unofficial to-
tails, which the law does not permit