F' ■ v • •• " -■ • - s '> -. * • " J K "T —-w.i I. nuupppi ll|. I ermans Continue Their Policy of Sinking Steamers in Naval War Zone HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 44 400 STARVING FAMILIES AIDED BY RELIEF BOD} Hundreds of Suffering Wo men and Children Helped During Winter by Home and War Relief Committee MOST ALL MONEY HAS STAYED IN HARRISBURG $2,000 Needed to Keep Work Going Until April 1; Will Ask Lodges and Sunday Schools to Assist More than four hundred of the city's 1 needy famiiic- have been paid o\ er SUNK) during the past two months tliruugh the Home and War Relief : committee. Then- is on hand sufficient 1 money to carry on the work until March 19, when it must cense unless more money is received. About S 2,0041 is needed to keep the work going until 1 April 1. Members of the ways and means 1 committee heard thoae fact- last night "lien they met for their regular meet- : ing at 7 South Front street. They «le- ! cided to a-k the Sunday *cliools and ; the fraternal organizations of the city ' lo contribute front their treasuries, that the much-needed work might IK* I tarried on until outdoor work for men ' is ready this Spring. Reports front collectors who enn va--o<| the city show that more than 55.M00 was contributed by citizens. ! while the general committee members have personally given more than 54.- «M»0 more. VII of the money has re mained in llarrishurg. Of the nearly I 4K.000 spent to date, two-third- ha been paid out in wage- and the other third has liccn spent with local nier- I chants for the supplies, which, when made into garments, have been frcelj : given to the city's needy families. Onl> tlio-o garments not needed here lia\e been sent abroad. Even with the great number of wo- | men working, the liomc relief commit- [ ✓r reports a waiting list of more than KS, and could easily have doubled what nnmbcr. were they to permit wo men from outside districts to secure work. Susquehanna Valley Gets Brunt of Storm; River Jumping to 17-Foot Stage A probable stace of seventeen feet In the Susquehanna river for to-mor row afternoon is the estimate made in the flood warning bulletin issued by the Water Supply Commission of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows: "The storm which centered over [Continued on Pap' 9.] Washington Woman Has Plan to Make Germany Protect Neutral Ships Sfecul to The Telegraph Philadelphia. I'eb. 25.—1n one of a series of talks on current his tory given under the auspices of the Whitford I.odge committee of the Pennsylvania Association of Women Workers in the Broad Street Theater yesterday Miss Janet E. Richard*, of Washington. vice president of the Women's Peace Movement. presented a novel means for the United States to pre vent Germany from deliberately sinking our merchant vessels within the "war zone." She urged that America refuse the hospitality of her protecting harbors to the thirty-eight Ham burg-American liners, anion* which are such floating palaces as the Vaterland and the George Wash ington. if Germany fails to give sufficient protection to our trading ships which are forced to enter the waters now traversed by threaten ing German submarines. This sug gestion was warmly applauded by the 600 women who sat before her! Miss Richards said that she had even gone so far as to make the same suggestion to the White House. It was not meant as a measure partial tq England, she said, for under the same circum stances she would apply just as drastic a remedy in case of trouble with that country. THE WEATHER For IlarrUhuric and vicinity: l-'alr 10-nljsht anil Friday; colder to night. For KiatrrD l'rnn<.rlvanl«: Fair to-night anil Friday; colder to night: atronjc «r»t Mind*. River Tlie 111 111:..* will continue to fall to-nlicht. The \orth noil \\ e*t brani-hrn will begin to fall hy lii-iuorron morning. The main river will contlnur to riae In Ita lower <-ourae. reaching a atiEr of ahout 14Vi feet at Harrlahurg liy Friday morning. General < ondltiona The area of lon trnprrature which baa caused precipita tion over the eastern half of the t nlted Mate, for the paat thlrty *l* hour*, la paining oIT the northeawlern coaat, being central over the New Kngland wtatea thla morning. It la mill attended by rain. Temperature: S a. 01.. «Un: Itfaea. «:!) «. «e t «, ,V 4» p. m. Moon: Fall moon. March J. 1135 p. m. Hl* er »ta«e: !!.» feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Weather lllgbeirt temperature, 55. I.oTreat temperature. HO. Mean temperature. r,2. .Normal temperature. 31. GIRL SIGHS INITIALS OF MITRMIO HER j ISRANLTLETTERS? Mr. and Mrs. Victor A. Ibach Charge Miss Effie Snyder With Misuse of Name i ! - ; I I A | MISS EFFIE SXYDER 31 rl whom Mr. and Mrs. Victor A. j Ibach. 18-i.i Herr street, charge with having written a "husband-seeking"' letter to the Mayor of Los Angeles. | and having signed the initials "R. | X. P."—which stands for Mrs. Ibach's maiden name, Ruth X.! Paine. Charges were made this morning b»-1 dr. and Mrs. Victor A. Ibach, 18.4 51 lerr street, that a "husband-seeking"! etter sent to the Mayor of I«os An-| reles several months ago, to which drs. Ibach's maiden name initials—i R. X". P."—were signed, was really | [Continued on Page 14.] 1 PENROSE WIS FIGHT FOR POSTAL SERVICE Blakslee's Ideas of Economy Given Severe Setback by Pennsyl vania Senator Washington. Feb. 25.—Senator Pen | rose yesterday led a fight against the efforts of administration Senators to defeat an appropriation of $150,000 providing (or the continuation of the I Griest mail carrier service in towns and villages which are not entitled to 1 city delivery service. Supported by ; Senators Weeks and Swanson, Mr. ] Penrose, by a record vote of 36 to 29. | succeeded in having the appropriation ! continued. He criticised the efforts of the au i thorities to curtail postal delivery fa ■ cilities. am- urged that economy be not [Continued on Page o.] SMLOR LOSES LIFE j WHEN SKIP IS SUNK Fifteen Other Members of British Steamer Deptford Get Away Safely in Lifeboat By Associated Press London. Feb. 25, 11.40 A. M.—One sailor lost his life when the small Brit -1 ish steamer Deptford. 230 feet long and 1,208 tons, was sent to the bot ! torn in twenty minutes either by a German torpedo from a submarine or ! by coming in contact with a mine in I the North Sea at 3 o'clock yesterday ! morning at a point off Scarborough. I The fifteen other members of the j steamer's crew were saved and were ! landed at South Shields at an early i'hour this morning. The engineer of the Deptford savs i [Continued on Page 9.] I French Industries Are Slowly Becoming Normal ' Paris. Feb. 25, 12:15 a. m.—lnves tigations made by Minister of Labor 'Martin show that the activity of j French industries and commerce has recovered to a large extent since the , first month of the war. The number ; of employes now is only 20 per cent. ; less than normal. Figures obtained I from 31,000 establishments employ [ ing over 1,000.000 people show that! about half of them were closed tem porarily by the mobilization order and that they lost about two-thirds of their | workmen at that time. Since mobilization was completed the number of factories opened has In creased 43 per cent, and the number *f workers S3 per cent HARRISBURG. PA., conn SIGNS FARMERS' RELIEF BILL FOR HID Measure Carrying Half a Million to Pay For Cattle Killed Is Approved Today UNCLE SAM GIVES SAME SUM Act to Reorganize Bureau of Standards Also Becomes a Law During Day Governor Brumbaugh to-day an nounced his approval of the bill ap propriating <500.000 for the payment of the State's share of the cost of cat tle killed, property destroyed and other expenses incurred in combatting the foot and mouth disease, a like amount having been made available by the federal government. It is the inten tion of the State Livestock Sanitary Hoard to take immediate steps to put out the money, as many farmers have been waiting for weeks for the State to reimburse them. It is estimated that 20.000 animals of various kinds were destroyed in fighting the disease, making it the most expensive outbreak ever Known in the cattle Industry in Pennsylvania and causing destruction of many val uable herds. Approximately $2 6,000 above the half-million appropriated is claimed in vouchers filed with the board and these and other expenses which may be incurred before the close of the session will be cared for. The national government has already pro vided its half of the expense. The cattle will be paid for as appraised under the provisions of the act of last session and in all probability claims for sums over and above those allowed by the appraisers will be made, an or ganization of cattlemen having been formed to ask for additional funds. The State Livestock Sanitary Board will meet at 4 p. m. to take action on a foot and mouth quarantine against Xew Jersey and to modify county quarantines. The Governor also approved the hill increasing the salary of the chief of the bureau of standards of the Depart ment of Internal Affairs from $2,000 to $3,000. This officer has charge o f weights and measures and the place is tilled by James Sweeney, who organ ized the bureau. The bill signed also provides for an assistant at $2,000. There is now a clerk at SI,OOO. The salary of the stenographer remains at $1,200. RRF.\l> INQUHY BEGINS Pittsburgh. Pa.. Feb. 25.—Inquiry into the plans of local bakers to in crease the price of bread is being made by the Federal Department of Justice here. FREIGHT SITE MORE THAN HALF FINISHED 32,000 Yards of Earth Has Already Been Scooped From Second Ward Job ) What was a thickly built-up ! section of the Second ward in the lo cality of Meadow I.ano and South ! Second street less than a year ago to i day resembles a great big cellar un der the scooping operations of two big steam shovels which are rapidly re ducing more than a block of territory to a suitable site for the proposed Pennsy freight stations. Of the 50.000 yards of earth that | necessarily had to be removed to make I way for the station foundations, about 1 32,000 yards have already been exca [Continued on Pago 5.] SOUTH AMBOY COIL DISTRIBUTION POINT Six Crews From Enola Will Do Classification Work in Yard No. 5 In accordance with a recent Penn sylvania Railroad order Harrisburg will be made a distributing center for South Amboy coal. All shipments for South Amboy, X. J., will be classified at this point! Yard Xo. 5. has been opened and will be used for this class of shipments only. These new arrangements will en able more prompt loading of coal on boats at South Amboy, as solid trains will now tie run from Harrisburg Heretofore coal has been shipped to South Amboy indiscriminately and trains had to be shifted at that point before boats could be loaded, much valuable time being lost. Much of this coal was also assigned to Enola. As a result of the new orders six En ola crews wrll o- transferred to Har risburg to take care of the increased business. Melting Snows Reveal Loss of 2,000 Austrians and Russ at Dnkla Pass Geneva, via Part*. Feb. 25. 5 a. m. —Continued successes for the Rus sians in the battle* which continue to rage furiously in the Carpathians are described in dispatches to Swiss news papers. The Austro-German forces are said to have lost 3, 000 more men at Dukla Pass while melting snow at Ussok Pass revealed the bodies of 2,000 Austrlans and Russians. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25. 1915. GERMANS PLANNING TO EXTEND WAR ZONE TO MEDITERRANEAN "V Robert Lansing, State Department Counsellor * - t Robert Lajisine. counselor of tlv« State J?enartment. is the author of the notes to Germany and England concerning the use of the American flag at sea. The note to Germany, coming as near an ultimatum as could be written without precipitating the country into a war, has been looked on as a model of forceful diplomacy. Taken with the note to England it showed, accord ing to experts in international law. the sympathies of the American Govern ment in the great war. Mr. Lansing is about fifty years of age, having been born in Watertown, X. Y., in 1864. ! LOCAL OPTION TO | GET SQUARE DEAL Speaker Ambler Says That the Bill Will Be Affirmatively Reported to the House The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day ! says: j "Speaker Charles A. Ambler, of the 1 Pennsylvania House of Representa tives, yesterday, in answer to a query as to the probable outcome of Gov ernor Brumbaugh's fight for the pas -1 sage of a local option bill at Harris i burg said: ' "The Brumbaugh county local option ; bill will be reported out fa vorably from the House committee on law and or der on Tuesday next. There is no ! doubt that a majority of that commit ! tee, pledged to favor the bill, will i [Continued on Page 9.] TIFT HAS PUN FOR SIMM SCHOOLS Recommends the Enlarging of Bureau of Education Into University By Associated Press Cincinnati, Oliio. Feb. 25.—Advocat ing a plan whi«>h would make a na tional standard of education practical by enlarging the Bureau of Education into a university, consisting of a corps of experts who would pass upon the [Continued on Page 5.] Steamer Dacia Reported to Be Near Destination By Associated Press New York. Feb. 25.—The steamship Dacia. which sailed from Norfolk, Feb ruary 11. for Rotterdam with cotton in the face of assertions that she would be seized by British men-of-war inasmuch as she had been a German vessel at the outbreak of the war. has i Almost completed her trip across the ■ Atlantic without interference on Feb- i ruary 23. according to messages re ceived here to-day. These messages assorted that the Dacia was 400 miles west of I.ands end. England, on that date and would proceed through the English Channel to Rotterdam if not taken. S.OOO FRANCS FOR CREW Paris, Feb. 25, 4:55 a. m.—French marine assurance companies have turned over to Minister of Marine Augagneur 5,000 francs (»1.000) to be given to the crew of the ship of the second light squadron which sunk a German submarine at Boulogne Tues d«y. CITY PLANNERS NOT INVITED TO SESSION Secretary B. F. Umberger Tells Council in Letter Why Body Didn't Attend Meeting In a letter to City Council to-day Benjamin F. Umberger, secretary of the City Planning Commission explains why the members of the commission did not attend Tuesday's meeting of the city commissioners when the ordi nance authorizing the leasing of a portion of Hargest's island to the Har risburg Light and Power Company for a coal wharf was passed Anally. Council, at a previous meeting had delayed final action for a week and had formally invited the members of the Planning Commission and repre sentatives of the electric company to [Continued on Page 3] 0. S. PROPOSALS ARE BEFORE AUTHORITIES Great Britain May Declare All Food Supplies as Contraband in Near Future By Associated Press London. Feb. 25, 12.43 p. m.—The I proposals of Washington to Great Bri tain and Germany, which are in Lon don assumed to embrace the aban , donment of Germany's self declared 1 war zone and the adoption by the bel j liferents of some definite policy re- I garding foodstuffs for the civilian I populations, have noticeably quickened I the public interest both in this coun [Continued on Pajrc ».] 1 APPOINTMENT INQUIRY OPENS By Associated Press j Washington. D. C„ Feb. 25.—Inquiry ! into the qualifications of President ! ! Wilson s nominees for the new federal l Trade Commission was begun to-day' ! by a subcommittee of the Senate inter- ' j state commerce committee. The com- I mittee had before It for consideration I | data from the White House which had been asked for relative to the noml | nations. WII.I, RESTORE OI.D PRICE By Associated Press New York. Feb. 25.—The wholesale price of bread, which was recently! i raised to five cents a loaf Is to be re-1 [stored to four cents, according to re-1 ports published to-day. The fact that I there was much agitation when the' cost of bread was raised, followed by j investigating into the bread Industry.la! one reason g:ven in the report for the! plan to restore the old prices. 14 PAGES Submarines Are Shipped Presumably For Use in Adriatic Also; Three More British Steamers Sent to Bottom by Either Mines or Submarines; American Pro posals For Cessation of Submarine Warfare Now Re fore British and German Authorities Russians Deny Germany's Claim of Overwhelming Victory in East Prussia and Annihilation of Russian Tent» Army; Dispatches to Swiss Newspapers Assert Rur; Are Winning Consistently and That Ausirians Hav2 Lost 3,000 Men The second week of Germany's sub marine campaign opened to-day with the loss of two more British ships. The steamers. Western Coast and Dept ford, were sunk ofT the English coast, either by mines or torpedoes. Pre viously ten vessels, seven of them British, have been sent to the bottom. Germany apparently is preparing 'o extend the field of these operations, for three submarines have been sent to Pola, presumably for use in the Adriatic and Mediterranean. The American proposals for ces sation of this form of warfare and the admission of foodstuffs to Germany are before the German and British gov ernments but there are no indications whether they will tlnd acceptance. German Claim Denied Germany's claim to an overwhelm ing victory in East Prussia, resulting in the actual annihilation of the Russian Tenth Army is denied categorically by the Russian general staff. The admis 'sion is made that two army corps suf fered he.-.vly during the retreat, but the remaining corps are said to have escaped from the German surround ing movement. Efforts of the Ger mans to clinch their victory by strik ing a decisive blow in Xorthern Po land are leading to continuous battles all along this section of the front, the outcome of which the Russian staff does not attempt to forecast. Hardly less intense is the campaign in the Carpathians. The Petrograd ; announcement claims successes for the i Russians in small engagements. Dls | patches from the front to Swiss news I 1 Word from Guttenburg, N. J., to d -s to the efi ; • that M|ss Helen Irene Cramp, daughter of William Cra: I iwall Pike, *' «red and friends have been una' to locate 1 J f Miss Cramp formerly resided in Harrisburg. Miss Crarr. "s \ I disappearance followed the publicatic nof i ..tory in ' ' New York World, to-day. of the fact 1 ss Cramp, v. . ' I is a school teacherr was foui ' Isaac G. Mi. r a New York cafe ii rles W. Bla k C re, a K grandfather. The story was told at a E board oi Guttenbi and ches from N ( C four, a R ~ oyer the long distance £ had not heard from her daug i J 1 guest of relatives and Miss Bessie rman, a hoc \ keepe rat 7 North Third street. Ed\ I ■ street, an uncie, ani Mrs Hulia L street, an aunt. Miss Cramp and Mr. Blackmore claimc ! 1 \ their little dinner in New York was purely a social affei m with no harm intended. | WILSON NOMINATES 3MB I Washington, Feb. 25.—President Wilson to-day norr. 1 r nated Chauncey P. Holcomb, of I I trict attorney of the United States Court it Shanghai, Chin. ' EAST PA. EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE OPENS ' Heading, Pa., Feb. 25.—The opening ssion of the East i Pennsylvania Evangelical Conference was tsatured by the I address of Bishop S. C. Breyfogel, this He prayed th the war stricken countries open their • , • see the follj I of their course. Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 25.—Bishop W. H. Fouke, oi | Napersville, 111., to-day opened the 2ist annual session oi I the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangeli i cal Church in Emmanuel Church. The annua) report of | I the woman' 6 missionary society showed $37,691 60 was re- I I ceived for missionary purposes, $11,5 of which came P from the Harrisburg district. ' [ MARRIAGE LICENSES i W illlani Karl Helm and Jolianna Cordelia Mn-nflVr, elty ( v i i MnwwiflMowß, and Mnvicle Hoar, city. / " . T i 11.I 1 . r ". lom P' wad \»na Mary *toun>r, city. l.loyd Grour Cleveland NrkluMcr and Anna May Hipper, city. * POSTSCRIPT papers assert that the Russians are winning consistently, and that the A us trians have lost more than a. OOO i.k a at L)ukla Pass. Another Important victory ove i!* ■ Russians was announced to-da l> the German war office in the ci j t t• of the Polish city of Przasnysa. I"> ■ heaviest fignting in Northern I'alaitl since the expulsion of the Ru tluii.4 from East Prussia has occurred in th vicinity of this city and its fall i- : i.l to have led to the capture of i:ioi" than 10,000 Russians. I'etrogr; d hits not confirmed the report. The French and German official communications of to-day Irlicate that the calm on the western f out is unbroken. French attacks in < haiu pagne continue without import: nt i"- sults. A declaration in the house C<• - mons to-day by Sir Edward Grt • in stituted. perhaps, the most lmio , '-"ii political development since th< • - ing of the war. The foreign s< i.iv.- announced that Great Britain was iu sympathy with Russia, lie i ■•rci-i- ,| to Russia's hope of obtainin Con stantinople as a result of a w'.i with Turkey. TRAWLERS IjO A RED WITH MINKS By Associatcd Press London. Feb. 25. 4:12 a in. A large flotilla of German i- nvl-r loaded with mines passed SI . , | night moving westward, sayr (V>- I penliagen dispatch to the • Uait I Mail."
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