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?SIX-CERT BREAD OilSMALLER LOAVES TO
BE SOLD HERE SOONLikely to Raise Price as Change
in Size Means New Bakeshop Pans
SAY SOMETHING MUST BE DONE
Practically AllLarge Bakers AgreeThat Increase Must Come
as Flour Mounts
Whether to raise the price of breadto six cents or to reduce the size ofthe loaf from 16 to 12 ounces will bediscussed by Harrisburg bakers at aconference to be held soon, possiblynext Monday.
That something must be done soonon account of the soaring price offlour is the individual opinion of prac-tically every baker interviewed.
Flour used by the bakers is fromtwo to two and a half dollars a barrelhigher now than before the war anda probable further increase is mak-ing the bakers sleepless. They see alltheir profits vanish as they are ob-liged to replenish stocks of flour atthe high prices.
An increase of one cent a loaf andmaintenance or the same size is con-sidered by several of the largest bak-ers as just to consumers and bakeralike. Reduction In size would meanchange in bakeshop pans as well asmore uncertainty on the part of theconsumer as to how much he reallygot for his money.
Althousti there is no bakers' asso-es more uncertainty on the part ofelation in llarrt3burg, it is understoodthat the larger producers will attemptto work together agreeably in anysweeping change, such as the presentsituation demands. Informal nego-tiations between the big bakers havebeen begun with a view toward themost satisfactory adjustment.
i<. M. Brlcker of the West ShoreBakery said this morning: "If thingskeep on as they are now, there is onlyime thing to do-?charge more forbread: bakers cannot continue mak-ing bread at a loss, and we can't re-duce expenses of labor or mainlain-vnce. I favor a six-cent loaf ratherthan a reduction in size of a five-contloaf.
I,eftovers Hold I'p the Pricewe could do away with the com-
n practice of the return of stale*
"bread, which is the bakers' greatest?source of loss, we could continue tomake a full sixteen-ounce loaf for fivecents so long as flour is on the underHide of eight dollars a barrel. Ac-cording to tho present custom thegrocers do not buy bread outrightfrom the bakers, but they return un-sold loaves the second day. and wehave to dispose of this bread to cheaphotels, boarding houses, poor people,or as chicken feed at a price lowerthan cost. If the grocers would buy
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Police Sergeant Shotto Death by Robbers
Who Escape With $4St. 1-ouis, ,lan. 9.?Michael Gibbons,
a police sergeant, was shot and killedto-day by two robbers on a suburbanstation of the Wabash railroad. Themen were robbing the station safewhen Gibbons saw them through awindow. As he opened the door hesaw the watchman sitting on a chairand one man holding a revolver overhim. The other man who was backof the ticket window and just aboutto blow open the safe, llrcd a shot asSergeant Gibbons entered, killing himinstantly. The robbers then blewopen the safe, from which they tookfour dollars and escaped.
Training School StudentsAttend Talk by Miss Eaton
Forty students in the teacher train-ing school, of which Miss Anne Wertis principal, attended the regularbiweekly lecture, given yesterday byMiss Alice Eaton, librarian of thePublic TJhrary. Miss Uaton spoke on"Children's Picture Books and TheirIllustrators." The subject of the nextaddress is "The First Heading Booksfor the Child."
The course for the training schoolwas begun last October and will con-tinue until the close of tho schoolyear. It is divided into two sections?-first, the proper arrangement of booksAnd the use of the library. The sec-ond part will be devoted to study ofchildren's books.
THE WEATHERFor llarrlahuric mill vlelnltyi Fair
tn-nlicht nud Sunday, uot much? hniiKr In temperature) lowesttemperature to-night about S8 de-cree*.
For Fantern IVnnxjl» nnln : t 'nlr to-n'Kht and Sunday: gentle wind*,moNtly went.
RiverThe SuMijueliiinnn river anil nil Its
trl litrtarlen above llnrrlnlinrK arenow fallliiK, nml practically allthe Ire mm afloat In In the mailt
4 river or haa pnnaeil out Into theb«- The river anil all It*brnneliea vrlll fall to-nleht anilMula.v. A ntaice of about 10.-1feet In Inillenteil for HarrlaburgSunday morning.
fieneral < ondltlonnUnder the influenee of au area of
hlKh barometric preanure thatcovera the eaatern half of the1 nlted States, nltli Ita eenterover the l.owrr olilo Valley, fairlventher pretalla In praetlenllv alldlntrleta cant of the Roek.v Moun-tain*. except In Southern Florida,where rain wan falling; thla morn-ln«r.
Temperature! R a. m., 3«.Sum nines. 7:27 a. m.; acta. 4:5#
p. M.Mooni New moon, January 15. Hit!
n. m.ni»er Stagri 12.3 feet above low-
wnter mark.
\eaterday'n Weatherlllgheat temperature. 42.l.oweat temperature. 111.Mean temperature, 341,Kurtual 'temperature, 2t».
HOST OF FRIENDSWILL HONOR TENER
Covers Will Be Laid For 100 Per-sons at Dinner For Retir-
ing Executive
DINNER WILL BE UNIQUE
Harrisburg Club Profusely Deco-rated For Event Planned to
Exceed All Others
Governor John K. Tener will beguest of honor to-night at a dinner
tendered to him at the Harrisburgclub by a number of his personalfriends in Harrisburg. More than 100covers will be laid and In many re-spects the dinner will be unique, as itIs the first given in honor of a retir-ing executive in which so many peoplewill participate.
The dinner will begin at 6.30 andwill be marked by beautiful decora-tions. The entire banquet hall hasbeen lined with Southern smtlax byFlorist (Miarles Uttley. At the gal-lery a patriotic touch is given byAmerican Hugs and festoons of red,white and blue surrounding a por-trait of the Governor framed in elec-tric bulbs. American Beauty roseswill be the table decorations with ahuge mass of flowers in front of theGovernor. Carnations will be at eachplace.
The committee in charge consistsof Charles H. Bergner, John T. Brady,John P. Dohoney, Kobert C. Neal, Jr.,George W. Reily, Charles C. Strolland William M. Donaldson.
The subscribers to the dinner in-clude many men prominent in the lifeof Harrisburg and vicinity who havebeen guests of the Governor at varioustimes and who are his personal friendshere.
Hospital Managers SelectNew Superintendent
William M. Condon, of Brooklyn,X. Y.. was elected superintendent ofthe llarrisburg Hospital by the hoardof managers yesterday. He will suc-ceed Charles A. Lindblad, who re-signed December 1. I9li.
Mr. Condon is well trained for thework. He can speak the German, He-brew and Italian languages. He wasassistant snpanntendent of the NewYork Post-Graduate Medical Schooland Hospital for three years and aft-erward superintendent of the GermanHospital of Brooklyn for six years.Mr. Condon also had eight years ofbusiness experience before enteringthe hospital work. He has not an-nounced when he will take charge ofthe institution.
TWO SVSPKCTKI) OF LARCENY
Two stone pile graduates werepicked up by Harry White yesterdayon suspicion of larceny. The pair,George Graham and Crist Kevlll, werearrested while trying to sell severalpairs of new socks and a suit of under-wear. The men said they got thegoods at Duncannon.
STAND PLANS HAVEBEEN COMPLETED
All Arrangements For the Placeof Inauguration Are Well
Worked Out
Erection of the stand for the cere-|monies attending the inauguration of|Governor-elect Martin G. Brumbaugh
[ will be started next week and the de-tails of the ceremonies are aboutcompleted by Chairman Edward E.Beidleman, who lias been in closetouch with the new Governor.
General E. DeV. Morrell is out-lining tbo inaugural parade and an-nouncement o[ its composition will bo!made In a iJay or so. The membersof the subcommittees have thing's iuexcellent shape for the oig day.
Judging from reports which arereaching this city the Juniata Valleyis coming in force to tlio Brumbaughinauguration. The people up that way[regard the doctor us one of their ownbecause h<> was born and raised inHuntingdon county and there will bespecial trains from up as far as Al-toona rolling into Harrisburg for theceremonies and the eights and scenes!of the nineteenth.
11nnl ingdou county people are ar-ranging for special cars to come tothe city for the events of the day andBlair county will come in force. Inaddition to Altoona people thyre aredistricts like Martinsburg. TtoaringSprings and Claysburg where they callDr. Brumbaugh "M. G.," who will jamspecial trains to this city.
A Huntingdon dispatch says: "To-night at a public mass meeting, whichpromises to be largely attended, finalarrangements will be made for Hunt-ingdon county's part in the inaugura-tion of its noted son, Martin GroveBrumbaugh, as the next executivechief of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg,Tuesday. January 19. Indications arethat at least a thousand citizens, halfa dozen bands, the local company ofNational Guard and last but not leastthe Governor's octogenarian father,the Rev. George Boyer Brumbaugh,of Marklesburg, will see the next Gov-ernor take his oath of office."
COTTON GINNING INCREASESWashington. D. 0.. Jan. 9.?Cotton
ginning during the last two weeks ofDecember surpassed the same periodof every other year except the recordproduction year of 1911 and broughtthe total cotton ginned from the cropof 1914 up to 14,447.(>23 bales, a quan-tity greater than ever ginned in anyother year to January 1 and 130,000bales more than in 1911.
BOY STRUCK BY AUTO
George Shaeffer. 7 years old. 259Delaware street was struck by anautomobile yesterday at Third andMuench a fracturedlcfc leg. He was taken to the Harris-burg Hospital.
Here are just a few of the thingsMiss Frances Hamilton, head of theCentral high school cooking depart-ment, told the girls of her classes re-garding the midyear cooking exams,
which begin next Wednesday:"If you have a button off a shoe or
your apron, that means a lower grade."If your uniform is not scrupulously
clean and smartly laundered, downcomes j'our grade.
TWO MORNING FIRESCAUSE SLIGHT GAUGEBackfire Sets Auto Ablaze; Over-
heated Stove Starts FireUptown
Fire damaged the delivery auto ofBrown & Co., 1217 North Third street,this morning. While the auto was be-ing started preparatory to taking itfrom the garage in Hay alley nearF'ulton street a backfire set the oil inthe drip pan ablaze. An alarm wassent In from Box 24, Sixth and Cum-berland streets. The damage was es-timated at $2 5.
An overheated stove started a smallblaze at the home of Thomas Ames,1219 North Seventh street, shortly be-fore 7 o'clock this morning. The fur-niture, carpets and walls were dam-aged to the extent of SSO. Firemenresponded to an alarm from Box 47,Seventh and Verbeke streets.
TARIFF BOARD BILL OFFERED
Special to The Telegraph
Washington, D. C., Jan. 9.?The cre-ation of a tariff board, with power toin\est.igate tariff schedules and theprices of commodities at home andabroad, as well as authority to stimu-late international trade, is proposed Ina bill introduced by Senator Gore, ofOklahoma. This is the first Intimationthat has come from the Democraticside of the necessity to take out ofpolitics and intrust the making of atariff law. In part, to a body of experts.
BOXING LAWS SUCCESSFUL
Milwaukee. Wis., Jan. 9.?Boxing InWisconsin under state regulations liasbeen a success and the commonwealth |has profited more than $12,000, ac-cording to a report of the State Ath-letic Commission prepared and issuedto-day for presentation to the legis-lature. <
Central High Girls Must EatCompleted Examination Problem
Teacher Wards Against Dyspepsia in Future Husbands byMaking Students Swallow Own Dose
"It your hair is not neatly done up,with no loose ends flying, so many
points will come off your average for
the term."If your hands or finger nails show
a speck of dirt, your mark will suffer."You will be given a receipt and the
Ingredients to make the dish?thenit's up to you.
I "And you must eat what you cook."
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CLEANER CITY IN 14Redlight Was Cleaned Up; Fewer
Strest Wnllwrs; New ClerkIs Needed
Statistics showing that 1 larrisbutghas made a considerable gain morallyduring 1914 will be embodied in theannual report of Colonel Joseph B.Hutchison. Chief of Police. TheColonel will refer to the cleaning up ofthe red light district and probablyhave something to say regarding re-sults of reform activities along otherlines.
The report may not reach Councilfor at least three weeks. Statisticsshowing the number of arrests, finespaid and other details are now beingcompiled. As soon as definite figuresare available Colonel Hutchison willget busy on his part of the report. Heexpects to renew his recommendationsfor more patrolmen. The need of an-other clerk and increased Berttllon fa-cilities will be pointed out.
Colonel Hutchison's report will Bhowa big decrease In the number of streetalkers arrested and that there havebeen few cases of stealing from for-igners in t->e ward.
PRESIDENT HT.I.U I*RISO!\KIl
By dstoiialed PressWashington. D. C., Jan. 9. Details
of the recent revolutionary outbreak atAsuncion, Paraguay, where rebels cap-tured the President and held him pris-oner for twelve hours. were beforeState Department officials to-day In acablegram from American MinisterMooney. The dispatch says that not.more than seventy-five were killed andwounded in the outbreak.
| LANCASTER WHEAT lip 5 CENTSLancaster, Pa.. Jan. 9.?The Lan-
caster grain dealers yesterday ad-vanced the price of wheat to $1.30 abushel, an advance of 5 cents a bushel.They expect it to go to $1.50.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1915.
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This is what Mr. Edison had to sayabout worry in connection with thebusiness conditions:
"When anyone talks about worryhe might apply my new standard of
worry. Just think of the Kaiser, nowon the defensive, with nearly 900 milesof battle front, all told, on the east
and west. Why, the average man's
worries sink into insignificance com-pared to this. Another standard of
disaster is Belgium?little, gritty Bel-gium!
"It has surprised me to see howAmericans have become weak-kneedover this war. They seem to bestricken wifch a sort of commercial
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BROKER ENDS LIFEWHEN FIRM FAILS
Counsel For Company Says Risein Wheat Price Led to
Rash Act
By Associated PressNew York, Jan. 9. G. K. Stringer, Jr.,
junior member of the Stock Exchange
firm of Stringer & Co., shot himself
and died instantly in his office shortlybefore the suspension of the firm wasannounced to-day on the floor of theStock Exchange.
The lirni of Stringer & Co. was or-ganized May 23, 1912. It consistedof G. E. Stringer, Sr., and his son ofthe same name. At the time of its or-ganization the younger Stringer hadnot attained his majority. Recently,after he had reached the age of 21, hewas admitted as a partner. He wasmarried.
A few minutes before the opening ofthe Stock Exchange to-day Stringer, Jr.,left his own office and entered thatof the Guanajuato Development Com-pany, in which the llrir. of Stringer &
Co. had an interest. When the ex-change opened the failure was an-nounced. Not long afterward the body'of Mr. Stringer was found lying on thefloor under .i desk in the develop-ment company's office with a revolvera few feet away.
Announcement WithheldA physician and a policeman were
summoned. For more than an hour,however, no announcement was madeof Mr. Stringer's death. He had shothimself in the mouth.
The firm did a commission businessin small proportions. For some yearspast it had been Interested in Mexicanproperties, especially mining com-panies. The unsettled political con-ditions in Mexico, It was said, embar-rassed the firm financially and Its sus-pension was attributed primarily tothis.
Young Stringer recently returned toNew York from Mexico, where he hadgone to look over properties in whichhis firm was Interested.
To the sensational rise in wheatwithin the past few days was at-tributed the failure of the firm by C.A. Decker, its counsel. Mr. Deckersaid that Sprlngor & Co. had been"badly caught on the short side" ofthe market and had failed for about$160,000.
MEMBERS' OF STOUGH PARTYTO VISIT FRIENDS HERE
Announcement was made late this| afternoon that Professor D. 1,.Spooner and Mr. Irvin, chorister and
[ pianist, respectively, for the Stoughparty, would arrive in the city Mon-day afternoon from Altoona to at-t<yid the. meeting o fthe tabernaclechorus In the evening, when. It is ex-pected, a permanent organization willbe effected.
WILSON INTIMATESCANDIDACY IN 1916
American People May Have aChance to Judge His Steward-
ship, He Says
IN WASHINGTON LATE TODAY
President Gives Notice He Is FullyPrepared to Push Ship
Purchase Bill
By Associated PressPittsburgh, Jan. 9.?On Board Pres-
ident Wilson's Train.) ?President Wil-son was on his way back to Washing-ton to-day after making his first pure-ly political speech since he assumedthe presidency. He will arrive at thecapital at 4.40 o'clock this afternoon.
Gossip was rife among the Presi-dent's friends over the meaning backof his statement In his Indianapolisspeech that "there may come a timewhen the American people will havelo judge whether 1 know what 1 amtalking about or not."
Some of his friends insisted thatthe President was merely referringto the fact that future generationswill judge his actions and that he didnot intend to convey the impressionwhich was gained by the crowd thathe might be a candidate again for thepresidency.
Other of his friends pointed outthat he evidently realized, because ofthe cheering, the construction thathad been placed on his words, andyet he did not correct the impressionbeyond saying, "X didn't intend tostart anything then."
The President is returning to Wash-ington fully prepared to push his gov-ernment ship purchase bill. Vie serv-ed notice in his speech yesterday thathe will do everything possible to over-come opposition to the bill.,
Mr. Wilson will seek to send to theSenate the nominations of the trade
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VESSELS WHICH HIKED FOR$5,000 NOW VP TO SIO,OOO
Special to The TelegraphPhiladelphia. Jan. 9. Some evi-
dence of the enormous rates being ob-tained by steamship companies for thehire of their vessels since the beginningof the war was disclosed yesterday inthe admiralty division of the UnitedStates District CouVt during an argu-ment before Judge Thompson on amotion to reduce a bond In the suitinstituted on Thursday over an allegedbreach of contract Involving the char-tering of the Italian steamship Pru-denza. According to the statements ofcounsel and witnesses, vessels thathired for SB, 000 a month duringpeaceful times are now bringing ashigh as $40,000 for the same period.
NIGHT SESSIONS IN VIEW
By Associated PressWashington, I). C.. Jan. 9. The Sen-
ate to-day was confronted with pos-sible night sessions to consider theGovernment ship purchase bill. Thispossibility lias arisen because but littleprogress lias thus far been made In theconsideration of the measure.
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DUALASSAULTMADEONRUSSNEAR WARS AW
Petrograd Says Fighting Has Become More and More Des-
perate and Admits Germans Made Some Advances
but That They Were Subsequently Driven Back;
Armies in West Remain Comparatively Inactive;
Austrians Reported Trapped in Galicia
German armies are again strikingiat Warsaw, from two directions, jAlong the Vistula, to the west of the jPolish capital, heavy fighting has been ;resumed, and at the same time a newattack has been launched from the |north. The Petrograd war oHce de-
scribes the fighting as "more and!more desperate," and admits that the jGermans made advances at many'points, but states that they were sub-1sequently driven back again.
Coincident with the Russian sweepthrough the Austrian province of'Bukowina. plans are under way inthe adjacent country of Rumania formobilization of the army. Unofficialadvices state that the entrance of Ru-mania into the war is expected.
A Geneva report says that an Aus-trian army hns been trapped in Gal-Icia by the Russians, who by an unex-pected movement caught , the Aus-trians at a disadvantage on difficultground and placed them In a precari-ous position. There was no contlrma- 1tion, however, of this report.
In contrast with the heavy fightingin the east the armies in the west, sofar as was revealed, remained com-paratively inactive.
French Advance CheckedThe French advance in Alsace ap-
parently has been checked. Both theFrench and German official state-ments of to-day tell of the recaptureby the Germans of Burnhaupt-le-Haut, the town south of Stelnbach,capture of ,vh..n by the French wasannounced yesterday.
In the Argonne violent fighting isagain in progress, in one charge theFrench lost a number of men as theresult of a trap set. by the Germans,who permitted them to occupy atrench and then blew it up.
Fighting has been resijmed in theAisne region, where the "allies claimto have captured three lines of Ger-man trenches covering 600 meters of
| the front. The German statement,
,however, says that the French attacksin this region were repulsed.
| GERMANS MAKE AN ATTEMPTTO REACH WARSAW FROM NORTH
By .Associated Press| Petrograd, via Jan. 9. 4.21I A. M.?Taking advantage of the con-tinued and increasing cold weather,
| which has frozen the marshy land| adjacent to the numerous rivers ofI North Poland, the Germans are now
1initiating another attempt on Warsaw| from the north, having contented! themselves with fortifying and takingI the defense west of' Warsaw, alonK! the hanks of the Bzura and southward
; between Skierniewiee and Grodzick! and further southward along the lefti bank of the Vistula, the Germans are| now reported massing in the north
j preparatory to an advance.
OBJECTS TO SHIP PURCHASEBy .Associated Press
London, Jan. 9.?The Spectator, ini discussing the question of t.ie pur-
j chase by the United States of Ger-| man ships, says that unfortunately theItlme chosen for the "experiment" was
1 a moment when critical international! questions must he raised by the newi departure. The legality of the trans-| fer is doubtful for the purchose mustbenefit the belligerent, says the Spec-tator.
SERIOUS FIGHTING CONTINUES
By Associated Press
Petrograd. Jan. 9.?An official com-munication given out bv the GeneralStaff last night says: "On the leftof the Vistula front, at the villages ofSoukna, Metarlc and Moghely, th®<fighting has assumed a character morsand more desperate. The Germans,notwithstanding the great losses theyhave sustained, continue attacks atdifferent points."
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S tiii i.,L on his way to Washington. He alighted from his
M. piiva ands with many people.
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PARDONS FOR 1300 MENJ Columbia, S C., Jan. 9.?Full pardons to about 1300
W persons convicted in.South Carolina of various Crimes, andm pa;ole<! since January 1, 1911, were granted to-day by Gov-
M ei n< ; Blcise.
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£ linst organized baseball probably will be* > ! e Landis in tbe United States Dis-
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mi: d::ty. The Span'.h embassy in Ber-
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f in C .-man am" orities.
I'i . .IN MEXICO NEAR?
-P i t ?«> (} . satiations between
in Mexico by wl>i "the problcnjL. o£
K tibn of Mexico has practidfny been solved" werflpC noai last ni&ht to the convention in Mexico City by Gen-
leialGuijaJrez.
POPE HEARS OF CARDINAL'S CASE
F.on :, Jan. 9, 2.30 P. M.?The Pope to-day again re-
ceive in p ivate audience Monsignor Deploiga, president
of the Institution of Philosophy at Louvain and had a pro-
longed conversation with him concerning conditions in Bel-
gium and the case of Cardinal Mercier.
ARREST CANADIAN IN LONDONLondon, Jan. 9, 1.25 P. M. Benjamiq Hill Smith, a
... ian biith, was to-day remanded in the Bowoace couit on the charge of grand larceny. This
action was taken at the request of the New York police au-
thuuues. Wo details oi the case against him are to be had
here.
1 MARRIAGEMrphrn Paaavrr, Mrrllon, anil l.uba Dlajaa. city.I.eonard Halara and Mary Joknann, city,tirurge Uobfl and Margaret Hupcrt, Hteelton.Htrhrrt W. Hodrnhabcr and Florence HoMlnger, city.Kurle Manfrrd and Catherine I>. 4«Girv«y, Mlddlrtunn.Robert J. Miller and B. Ireae Arthur, city.
