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Dine in DONAHOE'S CAFETERIA Today' Week Will Be Busy One for Congress AM KNUCKLE With Homemade Sauerkraut and Potatoes Mashed in Milk Special Today: Bottles Hurled by Wife, Who Wouldn't Cook, Says Spouse; Gets Divorce Sweet Alice Dislikes Europe She'll Leave, But Without Husband Soup Iure of Split Teas with Croutons today aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas-'- rwijvw vrnvmm DR. B. F. FARBER ACCEPTS CALL OF NEW YORK CONGREGATION Squirrel Hill Pastor To Leave About March 1. RESIGNATION IS SURPRISE N.

B. Try DONAHOE'S $1.25 Evening- Dinner served daily from 4:30 to 8 P. M. We KNOW that it is the most satisfying meal you can buy in Pittsburgh at anywhere near this price. Courteousi waitresses serve you quickly.

XXVtMERICAS FINEST CAFETFPll Z42 FIFTH AVENUE Between Wood and Market at 421 Smithfield St. Store i yr- -t fk I t- -4- fry- "Na ft) x) GREENSBrRG, Jan. 10. She bombarded him with battle, she kicked him, spit In hi fare, wouldn't eook for him. wouldn't waah his clothes, on rolil nifthts denied him sarfleient bed covers to keep him warm, and she contracted a habit of sleepinc; with a dflter under her pillow, intimatins; it was for use on him.

AH these attentions Joseph $uieram of New Kensington testified were trne in his petition for a diTorce from his wife. Klisabeth Pnpernno. "Twa cruel aiul bnrbsroiK treatment." ftaid the huKhand's petition. He stood it years, more or les, the eonple ha vine been married February S. laul.

and lived toirether until October ltt, he told tlie master. tier harlot I). Copeland it ranted the divorce. The couple hare eigrht children. Bishop Brown Plans Civil Court Appeal Unfrocked Clergyman To Take Action In New York.

BY THK ASSOCIATED PRKSS. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. William Montgomery Brown, fromer Protestant Episcopal bishop of Arkansas, who was deposed from the bishopric at the New Orleans general convention last October for alleged heretical teachings, will take his case to the New York state courts within a month in an effort to force reinstatement, he announced tonight. He is awaiting the arrival of his attorneys.

Joseph W. Sharta. of Dayton. and Edward Bushnell of Cleveland, before starting action, he said. "I want the Associated Press to announce that I have only beun my career," the aged clergyman said.

Bishop Brown took public communion today in the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. "I am supposed to be an outcast from the church as a bishop," he mi'ul, "but even the Protestant Episcopal Church does not question my orders cr standing as a layman. 'I am not fighting the church," Bishop Brown said. "I am for the church.

I want to forca the doors of the church open to whatever we find to be true." PROBES, FARM LAWS, RAILROAD MATTERS COME UP AT CAPITAL Vote on Seating Of Nye Will Be Taken In Senate. WORLD COURT TALK TO GO ON BT THK ASSOCIATED PRK.HS. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.

While the rubber and aluminum lnrestisations ar gotnjr forward this week, both House and Senate committees will begin hearing. Farm legation will occupy committees at each ile of the Capitol, while the Senate interstate commerce committee will begin consideration of the railroad consolidation bill. While the House agricultural committee will srive first attention to the administration co-operative marketing measure, it is practically certain that It eventually will report out also some form of legislation for di.Tosinu of he exportable surplus of farm product NYE CASK VOTK DL'K. With most of the major committees sroingr ahead at full speed, the Senate will vote on the Nye case and again tnke up the World Court, while the House will pass the interior appropriation bill and act on the foreign debt Kettlemcnts and the $50,000 appropriation for American participation in the preliminary disarmament conference ut Geneva. As the Democrats have agreed upon their tax reduction program, the Senate finance committee expects to complete tho tax bill before the end of the week, and Chairman Smoot hopes to have Senate consideration started a week from tomorrow.

Since there is no posstbility of a vote on the World Court before that time, final decision on this question is likely to be deferred until after the tax bill has been enacted into law, probably around March 1. I. C. C. APPOINTMENTS IT.

Besides takinjr up the railroad consolidation, the Senate interstate commerce committee will continue public hearings on the nominations of Thomas F. Woodlock. of New York, and Richard V. Taylor, of Alabama, to be members of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Woodlock appeared in person yesterday and Taylor is to be heard tomorrow.

Continuation of the Senate inquiry into whether the Department of Justice exercised due diligence in conducting the investigation into the Aluminum Company of America has been deferred until Tuesday, as the Judiciary committee has other matters to consider at Its regular meeting tomorrow. MEN'S Cafeteria Service Also Winking Girl Gets $50 by Holding Up Woman in Grocery PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 10. (A.

A pretty girl with a twitching right eye and an abundance cf nerve, today obtained $50 from a woman grocer. The girl entered the store Of Mrs. Josephine Gentile, carrying a shorpibs bag aisd a long list. As she called off each purchase she placed the proper amount on the counter. Then sho called for an article on a high shelf, and Mrs.

Gentile mounted a ladder. Then the shopkeeper heard a voice say "Now don't you turn around, or I'll shoot sou full of lead." Mrs. Gentile didn't until she heard the door slam. The girl had gone after removing $50 from the cash register. The purchases and $1.80 on the counter were left behind by the girl with the wink.

"HAZEL'S" NINE LIVES END All nine of the proverbial lives of "Hazel," mascot of police of the Hazel wood station, were snuffed out last night when Sergeant James Newman, a rotund officer, stepped on the kitten as he arose from a seat behind a typewriter. The kitten, taken into the station about a month age, had become a pet with the patrolmen. E3 COUNTY CAUCUS OF DELEGATES TO LEGISLATURE SLATED TODAY Oh, No, Neither Think ing of Divorce, They Say. REX LIKES LIFE ON CONTINENT By A NO DOSfn-FLECROT. (CopjTiclit, 19-', N.

Y. World News Service.) PARIS, Jan. 10. Alice Terry, it is reported from Nice, will return to California as soon as she finishes the film she Is about to start. Her husband.

Rex Ingram, however, will remain In Nice. He says he likes life over here and with all due respect to California he is going1 to stay. Miss Terry replies that Europe stifles her, she doesn't like European life and can hardly wait until she heads toward home and breathes again the air of the west. NO DIVORCE INTENDKI). They explain this does not mean that either will seek a divorce but that each is sufficiently attached to his and her choice to forego living with the other.

Their decision is the major topic of discussion in Montparnusse. The argument whether an American artist coming to Paris for inspiration and technical training should continue to work here or return to America to produce rages wildly. The majority decide in favor of America, but it is significant that most of the participants in the debate are habitues of cafes where they have been seen for years without any apparent intention of putting their theory into practice. Accepts Call Dr. B.

F. Farber. Coolidge's Uncle To Fiddle Today Trifle Nervous on Eve Of Contest; Has Cold, Too. By CARI. 1IVRKI1.

United News Stafr Correspondf-nt. HOSTON. Jan. 10. Confined to his hotel room with a heavy cold and a slijrht attack of "nerves," president CooldigeJ 80-year-old unoel, John J.

Wilder, tonight was as fidgety as a newly crowned prize figrht champion on the eve of his first vaudeville en-cement'. The little, gray-haired old man who left his farm at Mymouth, to do a fiddling: engagement for a local theater sat propped up in a chair occasionally sipping1 cough syrup. Uncle John isn't exactly sick but, in his own words, is just a bit under the weather. You see. a theatrical representative explained.

"The President's uncle wore himself out on his visit with Henry Ford yestenlay. Mr. Ford was so enthusiastic over Uncle John's fiddling: that he kept him for dinner, and Uncie John ate considerably too much." Uncle John is scheduled to make his start as a contestant in a fiddler's contest tomorrow at the liowdoin Square Theater, a second-rate vaudeville house. cepted the post of chairman of organization, that she has made plans for active participation and will direct the work of organizing the women of the entire state in the Pepper canvass. In her statement Mrs.

Warburton says: "To my mind there is every reason why tlcorge Wharton Pepper should be re-elected to the United States Senate. The office of the United States senator is far too important to be regarded lightly and Pennsylvania occupies too dominant a place in the Union to be represented by anybody other than a statesman of outstanding ability and character in complete support of the National administration. MERITED CONFIDENCE. "From The day that United States Senator Pepper was appointed by Governor Sproul and later was elected by an overwhelming majority every citizen has felt a sense of pride in the progress of the senior senator. He is a National figure of reknown.

He has given large service to our state and country. He has merited out confidence and esteem in such a manner that there can be no sound reason to remove him from the place simply to make way for an unknown quantity. "One of his great concerns has been the support of every sound measure affecting the home life of America. He has been a friend to the women voters of Pennsylvania, givyig sympathetic hearing to all their suggestions, earnestly aiding in their civic aspirations. "Kor these reasons I intend to support George Wharton Pepper and do I can to bring about his nomination and election.

jpittsbur necessitating her removal to the Allegheny General Hospital where it was said her condition is serious, according to Northside police. Mrs. Lucas and Joe were lodged in the Northside police station charged with disorderly conduct. HELD FOR ROBBERY ATTEMPT Attempting to force an entrance into the. Eighteenth street public school, in Sharrsburg, Saturday night, Mike Palcha, of Braddock, was arrested after a short chase and lodged in the borough lockup.

ARRESTED AFTER FIGHT Following an altercation in a rooming house, in Carson street, last night, John Stopski was stabbed in the neck. Louis Kernski. who is alleged to have stabbed Stopski, fell downstairs while attempting to escape, it is said, and suffered body bruises. After their wounds were dressed in tZte Southsidc hospital, they were lodged in the South Thirteenth street police station, along with Frank Rice. Mike Hatt.nian and John Baren.

roomers in the place, who are being held as material witnesses. OVERCOME BY MONOXIDE Overcome by monoxide poisoning in his room at 1230 Locust street, McKeesport, at noon yesterday, Peter Laurini, 45 years old. was removed to the McKeesport Hospital where it was stated his condition was serious. FINED ON THEFT CHARGE Joseph Wasock, of South Thirteenth street, was fined $25 in the South Thirteenth street police station yesterday. He was arrested Saturday-while, poll' say, he was attempting To escape -with 12 brooms said to have ben stolen from a South Twelfth street merchant.

NOTICE Owing to the death of Mrs. A. Conforti, wife of A. Conforti, The Nixon Restaurant will be closed Monday, January 1 1 CLOTHING SECTION THIRD FLOOR. Dr.

Henjamin Franklin Farber, pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian church, ForbeFt street and Murray avenue, for the past seven years, will leave Pittsburgh alxut March 1 to become pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of New York City. Though no hint of his intention to leave was given to members of his congregation yesterday. Dr. Farber made the announcement to 25 officers of the church immediately after the morning service. His new call is expected to receive the approval of the presbytery.

MANY STUDENTS ATTEND. Located at 91st street and West End avenue in New York, Dr. Farber's new pastorate became nationally famous through the ministries of the late Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, and the last pastor.

Dr. Edgar Whittaker Work. It is near Columbia University and ia attended by hundreds of students during the school year. Last year more than 1,800 students declared themselves to be members of the Presbyterian Church. Dr.

Farber's work among the students of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh, commanded the attention of the 'committee of the Fourth church In seeking its pastor. He was the committee's unanimous choice. During Dr. Farber's ministery in Pittsburgh, the Squirrel Hill church has grown from 812 to 1070 members, comprising a united people interested in the work of the church. Work among men and organizing men's brotherhoods stand out as his greatest achievements.

ORDAINED IN 1909. Dr. Farber was born in Thornton, Indiana, July 13, 18S2, a son of Senator John C. Farber. He graduated from Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, in 1905.

In the fall of 1906 he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. and graduated in 1909. Princeton UniTersity conferred the degree of Master of Arts on bim in 1908. The degree at Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him in 1921 by Washington and Jefferson and Grove City Colleges. Dr.

Farber was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church in 1909, after which he became assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Fa. In the fall of 1910, he became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth, Mich. Ho remained there until 1917, when he became associate pastor of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Mich. His next call was to the Sixth Presbyterian Church. During the World war, Dr.

Faber served in France with the Y. M. C. A. District Attorney May Bring Charges Against Garland ALLENTOWN.

Jan. 10. (A. Charges may be brought against Charles Garland, the eccentric Massachusetts millionaire of "love nest" fame following revelation of the establishment of a colony in Lehigh county, which a master in charter recommended be refused a charter because of what he considered "free love" tendencies in the conduct of the place. District Attorney Orrin E.

tonight said he would bring charges against Oarland. the basis of the charges being the information contained in a death certificate issued last October for the burial of a thrce-month-old baby. The certificate was issued by Kay Young of Coopersburg, near where the colony is located. Th crtificate contains the information that the child was born to Charles Garland and Bettina Hovey. Son Fells Father With Rolling Pin To Protect Mother When the confusion and excitement of an altercation in the family of Joseph Sackett.

56 years old, of 5120 Stanton avenue, had cleared away at noon yesterday, Sackett was in the St. Margaret's Hospital in a serious condition; Charles Sackett, 18 years old. his son. sat in a cell in the Forty-third street police station, and Mrs. Mary Sackett, 50 years old, the mother, paced the floor at home.

Young Sackett said tJt his father had threatened to hit his mother and he nicKed up a rolling pin and hit him with it. RIVER TELEGRAMS. rOlNT PLEASANT. V. Rtrer.

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2 fret, 10 Inchr nrt fallinc. Cloudy. GAi.LJPOl.IS. O. 14 fet r.

falling. CluuUy. Down, Julias KieiscbmSLDn with coal. MORGANTOWS, W. V.

Hirer. 7 fret, ato tlonarr. Cludv. WARREN. RiTer, 1 foot.

inches. CluaJy. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Port Arrived Freeman tl Oirtnthta. Southampton Homeric Liverpool Said BATTERIES TESTED CHARGED REPAIRED Iron City Electric Co.

BaUiro Booltrmrd a MtJaod fit. American Woman Lauded By Savant "Flapper O. But Her Mother Ah Visitor Raves. BT T11K ASSOCIATED PRKSS. NEW YORK.

Jan. 10. The American girl with her rolled stockinrs. cigaret. bobbed hair and petting parties is only a "bit more sophisticated" than her French sister, but 1h? American mother is the outstanding "feminine figure of the world," Prf.

Charles Cestre of the Sorbonne said today. He was discussing the woman of both continents at a luncheon t-the Alliance Francaise. The American woman mother of the flapper by her thirst for education, her record in public life and her birilliant combination of business am; pleasure, has made for herself an unparalleled place of distinction in world, the French scholar said. Emile Daeschner, retiring French ambassador, commended that lack of opportunity kept the French woman from playing the same important role as that of the American woman. Dr.

Adolf Lorenz, noted Austrian surgeon, who is visiting New York with his son. also paid a tribute to American women. A. TUCCI AMUSEMENTS. VS2 VENIRIGQUIST CORAM Jnrrlrr Krtil IS: PCTROVA FRIDAY' MGIIT Boston vs.

Pirates 8:30 Afternoon tnd Kvrainc. Satartlav Mnrninr. Sjiturla.T irlit. Ihne- Muflowrr Kramer Downtown. TOXIGBT Main.

TharKda? Hid WnrdUvy Prices Hisiits ft Sit. Mat. 50c to $1.50 Tborsday Mat. 50c to $1.00. Pins Tax NIXON TONIGHT 8:15 MATS.

WED. AJftt PAT. Smith College Benefit Tonight Jok tdfea'i tat an) Grtaetaf Law Ctani With mr.KKST. 1CT8 TVAWTLAT A BH1UJANT CAST Kxt 9 A. M.

MATS. Wr.I). BAT. 7th Annual Production Original N. Y.

Cat Intact. Nisrhts to 93.8.-,. Mai. 91.10 to AT THE SIGN OF THE 57 hoffpltxlity I dljpnl to a.il the fri-r4 of H. J.

Hwuz -'ompuy. You will be wel ome and orta will tak r.lea.f.u-' in showing yuu ibrouarh the Main I'hh'. Come during business hours on any ijay eii-pi Saturday. Take tar No 1. 2.

or 4 on 11th street at Liberty to I'rcfrwJ Mreet. or take ontoound Liberty avenua route and transfer at 15th strett to Pioi-reaa street. 1 9 I lk I I I 1 LJKku Values are outstanding in this sale men's nigh grade suits iS'TT- tmtft $32.50 $42.50 $52.50 (Continued From Page One.) counted on as friendly to present disturbances of the election laws, excepting they be made state-wide and general changes, and not pointed particularly at Allegheny or Philadelphia counties or both. It waa reported yesterday that the House and Senate will be in session Wednesday night and part of Thrus-day and will then adjourn until the following Monday. There had been an expectation in some quarters that the two bodies would recess immediately until after the primary elections, in order to prevent the.

injection of bitter factional politics into the consideration of the measures proposed by the governor, but it was freely alleged last night that 27 members of the Senate, including Senators John P. Harris, W. D. Mansfield and Cadwalader of Allegheny county, had been "lined up" back of the governor's policy and would prevent any recess of the sort. W1IJL, Sl'PPOKT PKPPKK.

Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, former vice chairman of the Republican state committee and one of the most promi- nenet women in the affairs of the party both in Pennsylvania and nationally, has announced that she intends to support the candidacy of George Wharton Papper lor re-nomination and re-election to the United States Senate. Mrs. Warburton has issued a statement giving her reasons for her action and at the same time d' daring that she will be active in tht primary campaign on behalf of Senator Pepper.

It is given out from the Pepper campaign headquarters in Philadelphia that Mrs. Warburton has ac 3xi (Greater REP AVE TWO AND O.NE-Ol AK TEK MILES Approximately two ami one-quarter miles of city streets were repaved in McKeesport during the past, year, according to a report submitted by Councilman J. Zwingler, superintendent of the McKeesport street department. The report shows that the city's share of this work was The money was provided for in a bond issue to the extent of 120,000, which the city council authorized. AI NEW BUILDING" CODE Mc-Keesport's new building code, recently approved by the city council, goes into effect next Monday and the issuance of building permits will be turned over to Duilding supervisor Daniel Straaton, who formerly was a member of city council.

The new law provides for a $2 fee for every $1,000 of the estimated cost of the proposed structure. LAMP BURNS KILL CHILD Anne Guco. 3 years old. who was burned when her dress was fired by a carbide lamp last Thursday, died at home yesterday morning. The child was in a room alone and her dress became ig-nited when she picked up the lamp.

FOUND DEAD IN OCTHOUssE The body of John Jones. o5 years ok of 55 Ceres way, was founw in an outhouse in the rear rf 76 Carnival way. shortly after 9:30 o'clock last night. Deat was report e-! due to pneumonia. BEAT NEIGHBOR, ALLEGED Because Mrs.

Maria Csiia, 29 years oii. of 513 East 1 -a cock street, made too much noise coming in la.st night. Mrs. Dorothy Lucas. 53 years old, and Tre 17 vears old of The u4 dress, gave her a severe beating.

tt'JP A It's the aunual January cloarauce of men's better class suits broken lines of much higher priced suits from rcsrular stock hundreds of them Society Brand and other noted makes size, color and model selection practically as pood as any time of the year. Most of them in weights that men wear all year round. Values that are outstanding because prices were right before they were reduced they are simply marked down from iigures that were never marked up. Xo sweeping genernl discount in this sale the year round policy of moderate mark-up prevents that but good legitimate savings on prices that were low before thev were cut lower. Now 32.r(0, A.

CONFORTI AMUSEMENTS. this i micc ci OBCiirc nccn JIMMY SAVO With Jou'lVuu in "Slow Motion" Mrhiinirn- illimJO Neil Mrkmy I DUQUESNE Hockey GARDEN: re SkaJinc lineincr Ticket Last 8 Times Main. fc'l Mnl IJlortouH of Mimicml Plys Mrtsrv shnbrrt Prrsent 1317- Whole Town's GoinsI Co. 15 Male Chores GO Oreh. 30 NithtK.

ROr to S3; Mat. to S.U; MM. Sat-. 50e to $2.50. Plot) Tai Hurry for iSratta ISreauw You'll Want To It Twp and OfLrner.

NEXT WEEK Orders Now. Sau Thursday. New Scenes WC(y wn ttTioei aa POULTRY SHOW ALL WEEK Mtr Square Garden 2 :15 I-ilii-' nanfain Matinee Ieilj "MUTT AND JEFF" With BOB CAITtON, KICKY SITU. IVAN GIANNINI tlRAMATIC SOl'IHMI. CAKF.i;ii: HA I.I, TOMOHKOW KVF -ki Mr i.Mi:.

4.zr t. i.io EDITH. TAYLOH XJ10MiO CO'CKTS. MISS FLORENCE REED on mm to Tonight's Papers Carry the Neivs of the sale handkerchiefs GREATEST THING OF ITS KIND ANYWHERE. A sale of widespread appeal and country-wide reputation the leader of its kind.

All manner of handkerchiefs for women, men and children. Prices truly The complete story in tonight's papers. Buhl OGGS.

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