Wilson Orders Full Investigation of HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 57 ACTION ON WILL BE PRESIDENT ASKS FOR I, FULL INVESTIGATION Oil LOSS OF VESSEL British Steamer Chascas, One of Eitel's Prizes, Was American Owned and Was on Way to New York to Take American Registry NEUTRALITY BOARD MAY PERMIT SOME REPAIRS Captain of German Auxiliary Cruiser May Be Compelled i to Release All Prisoners on Board Vessel By Associated Press \Va>liinjl THE AMERICAN SAIL ING SHIP WII.I.IAM P. I-'RYE 15V THE GERMAN AUXILIARY CHVISER PRINZ EITEI. ERIED RICH. s\ll»: •"A MOST SEARCHING IN QI'IRY WILL BE MADE AND \\ IIATEVER ACTION is TAKEN WILL BE BASED UPON THE RESULT OF THAT INQUIRY'." Discussion oi' the affair in official quarters was taken to foreshadow a strong protest to Germany against the i sinking of the American vessel. The contention of the German com mander that tlie American ship had contraband of war aboard and, there fore. destruction was justified, lias liecn set up as a plea In other cases, but never has been recognized by the I nihil States as the only justification for such action on the part of a liel ligorcnt. The fact that the Prinz Eitcl Kried rieh was commanded by a German naval officer, under commission from the German government, and the fact j that no lives were lost when the Frye ! was sunk, transferred the case from I the realm of criminal proceedings un- ' dcr the federal statutes under a pos- 1 sible charge of piracy and makes it a subject of diplomatic negotiations with the object of gaining reparation for the owners and a disclaimer of un friendliness. Will Ask for Damages That the I'nited States would ask for damages and an explanation from tlie German government was regarded as certain. Some officials thought the German government would find Itself compelled to repudiate the act of the German captain or abandon the po sition taken b.-- Germany in recent cor respondence with the United States <>n the subject of conditional contra band and foodstuffs. Precedents in international law reveal that the cir cumstances under which neutral gov ernments have acquiesced in the'de struction of their vessels in time of war are very few. The German rule that has been ap plied is that a belligerent warship must take its prize into port unless there are controlling reasons, such as unseaworthiness, lack of a prize crew, danger of recapture and the presence on board of a cargo of contraband \x inch would make certain its condem nation by a prize court. The com mander of the belligerent vessel must preserve the neutral ship's papers and i bring them to a prize court for the entering of a decree. Government in Dilemma Whether the action of the captain •>i the Prlnss Eitel has not placed his government in a dilemma bv sinking • lie American grain ship William P. I 'r.ve was much discussed in official • matters to-day. Assuming that the ■ rye s cargo was not consigned to the l.ritish government, one view is that the German government either must repudiate the action of Captain Tliie richsen and pay for the Frye and her carpro or withdraw its protest to the .State Department against the Ilritish assumption to the right to seize food cargoes bound from a neutral country [Continued on Page 9.] THE WEATHER For Hnrrlaburg anil vicinity; Fair tonight nmf Friday; new much chance fn temperature. For Knutcrn I'ennaylviinia i Fair tonight and Friday; not much change In temperature. River \\ Ith tlie exception of three atn lions, where thrrr has been a allgh-t rlae. a xilglit tall la re ported elaenhrrr by river ob servers. A stage of about 4.« feet I* indicated for Harrlahnrir !• rfday morning;. • leather Conditions There baa been no derided change In the weather conditions over the country during the past twenty-four lioura. Fair weather prevails generally In the AtlantJe States, while over the Southwest • -onrilttoiis continue unsettled, with rain falling; over Southern I evaa and nhow In portions or >ew Mexico and Colorado. Temperature; S a. m„ 34. Mm; Rises. 8;l* a. m.; acts. 6:03 P. m. Moon; \ew moon, >lareli 15, 2-42 p. m. River Stage; 4.7 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday'a Wee;tiler HlskrM temperature, 4ft. I .orient temperature. 80. Mmn temperature. 88. Normal temperature, IW, SINKING OF AMERICAN SHIP BASED ON RESULTS OF INQUIRY 'CRuisER WASHINGTON AND REAR ADMCAPERTON, AND BATTLESHIP G WBimmmmmmmmimmmmHmmmMmammmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — mmmmmrnmmmmm , ill lIS m pHk • IV - ■ -Vi ■ ' J ! V ' *~SA9*i.ns?v ■ ■ V U-SS. .WASHINGTON REAR ADMIRAL CAPERTDN.^ \\ asliiimton, March 11. —The cruiser Washington, with Hear Admiral Caperton on board, and the battleship i ueorsia. commanded by Captain Coontz. have been ordered to proceed to Vera Cru* from Hayti and Uuantanamo, respectively. It is expected that these additional American warships in Mexican waters will have an effect on Car- ' ranza in his reply to the recent note of President Wilson. HOUSE FAVORS MAY I FOR MUIH Baldwin Resolution For That Date Goes Through by Vote of 137 to 19 HOTLY DEBATED ON FLOOR Delaware Member Says Legisla tors Are Wasting lime; Senate Must Concur The House of Representatives to day went on record in favor of ad journing tlie session of the Legislature on May B. A resolution fixing that date, if the Senate concurs, was adopt ed by the decisive vote of 137 to 19, after a debate of over one hour and af ter motions to send tlie resolution to the committee on rules and to defer a vote until Monday night had been de feated. The resolution was introduced by [Continued on Page 9.1 Milk Bottle Rules in Force; Board Seeking Proof of Violations At a meeting of the Board of Health last evening, it was said that the board has ample rules and regu lations now in force to put the new lule requiring the bottling of all milk into force. One rule provides that there shall be no transfer of milk on the streets from one vessel to another and a second rule requires the sterili zation of all milk bottles. A representative of the board said to-day that doubtless there are viola tions of this rule and that prosecutions will promptly follow the filing of com plaints with the proper officers. Wher ever possible unscrupulous dealers are being made to answer for violations and the department requests everybody who knows that bottles are being re filled without sterilization to file In formation with it. Swallows Needle While Eating "Flannel" Cakes While eating llantiel cakes at her home last evening Mrs. Hattie Weaver, of Speeceville. swallowed something which she said pricked "the whole way down." After suffering intense agony Or. A. C. Coble, of Dauphin, was summoned. He sent her to the Ilar risburg Hospital, where an x-ray dis closed that she had swallowed a needle. The woman says the needle must have gotten into tlie cake while she was stirring the batter. An operation will be necessary. Committee of Republican Club to Ask For Bridge While the city commissioners gen- I erally have expressed disapproval of any movement to float improvement lionds to provide for a new bridge at Walnut street this year a committee of i the East End Republican Club has been appointed to formally submit the suggestion to permit the question to l go before the voters in the Fall. The committee consists of John E. 'Gipple, Armer C. McKce, liarry C. | Baum and Harry Klugh. The bridge | will mean an opening to the eastern part of the city from Royal Terrace. This is the section recently developed Iby W. A. Mcllhenny, Mayor John K. 1 Royal and others. SCRANTOX "TRUTH" CEASES PUBLICATION* AFTER 31 YEARS By .Isfociattd Press Scranton. Pa., March 11.—The Scran lon Truth in its issue this after noon announced that after to-day it (Would cease publication. The Truth has been in the evening newspaper field here for 31 years. The Tribune-Republican published i under the management of G. A. So niarindyck, also the publisher of the Truth, announced in its morning Issue a change in its name to the Scranton Republican. It also announced that I John'E. Barnett. who to-day retired as postmaster of Scranton. has become ieditor of the Republican. HARRISBURG. PA., THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1915. HERE'S A TALE, NOT OF COWS AND CHICKENS, MEREL County Commissioners Are Advised by Solicitor Ott That Pullets and Woollies Aren't in Same Class, Legally Speaking j The cow and the chicken may ever i be pais in song and story of life on ; the farm, but the sheep and chicken— , never! ' That the fowls of the barnyard and i the four-footed browser who became j famous by too persistently (railing I Mary round to school may never be in ( cahoots, legally speaking, has been de j eided by Colonel Fred M. Ott. the I county solicitor. His advice had been i asked by tlie County Commissioners I following their receipt of a communi- I cation from a lower end justice of . the peace enclosing a bill from a Sf ORE ill KNELT 111 STREET TOIW Greeks and Warden Caldwell Help Wanderer Who Dropped on His Knees at Girl's Feet i : The story of the wanderer far from home, friendless, hungry, cold, foot weary and unable to speak the lan guage of the alien, of his final re course to prayer and what came of that, is told in a letter from John Tsurkgikos, Greek, of Canton, 0., to his friend, Xick Kelley. . And the tetter solves the "mystery" !of the foreigner, who knelt at the feet of a very pretty but much fright ened girl at Third and Walnut streets ja few weeks ago—and who was hus | tied to jail because of it. j That the wanderer reached home and j friends was doe to the kindly interest j which \\ . \\ . Caldwell, warden of the l Dauphin county prison evinced in the .voting man, who could speak no Eng j lish nor make himself understood de [Continued on Page 2] Railroad Sues Driver of Milk Wagon Because Cowcatcher Was Bruised By Associated Press Newark, X. J., March 11.—A rail road's counter claim for damages to its locomotive figured In the trial of a $25,000 accident suit in the Supreme Court here to-day instituted to-day by !• rank \\. Wilkinson who was struck and severely injured by an Erie railroad train in Bloomfleld last year as he was driving a milk wagon across the tracks. Wilkinson's hips land several ribs were broken and he • was injured internally; his wagon was smashed and the mules which drew it were killed. He claimed the train approached without proper warning. | The company in its counter claim j alleged that by careless driving he struck the locomotive and "bent. |broke, and destroye;d divers, slats or j frames of the pilot or cowcatcher, and I bruised, abrased, mutilated and de stroyed paint and polish on the loco motive." The road asked SIOO damages. Fear Redskins May Fire on Scott and His Party By Associattd Press Salt Lake City, March IX.—Word was received here that General H. 1,. Scott, of the staff of the United States army arrived at HiufT last night and will prepare to negotiate' with Tse-Ne- Gat and his band of Indians to-day. The report says there is some fear that the general's party may be fired on when it attempts to approach the hos ■tile camp. IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE By Associated Piers 1 Geneva, -March 11. via Paris. Sta-! Uls tics oil Swiss trade show improve ment in the past few weeks. This con dition is due largely to orders from England for quantities of wrist watches, for British soldiers, for con densed milk, and for various other articles destined for the British army which arc not classed as contraband of war. farmer whose flock of pullets had suf fered disastrously from the night raid of a neighbor's dog. President Isaac Hoffman remem bered a law that provides that the ' county may reimburse luckless farm- • ers whose sheep suffer from such depredations, but he wasn't sure \ whether chickens could be considered in the same class. And Colonel Ott has decided that settlement of the chicken question must lie between the owners of the fowls and the dogs, respectively, and that the county needn't bother. Mere sheep aren't in the same class. raiiiGM Bam OTHER YE/IRS Dealers, However, Are Optimistic of Future; Many Big Trans fers Pending The prospective amount of business in real estate circles for the first of April is small compared with other jears, according to dealers and agents of the city pnd neighborhood. Many "dickers" are under way and a number of transactions have" been clinched for final closing next month. April first is always the busiest time of year for real estate sales and tenant changes. Considering the general Industrial quietness the prospect is said to be very good and indications for the fu ture are bright. No definite informa tion of individual instances of prospec tive transfers can be obtained but complete lists will be published after transactions are completed. Changes [Continued on Pajfc ».] To Ask State For Half Million "Sunnies" and "Catties" For Wildwood Half a million baby sunfish, catfish anU yellow peich will bo asked of the State Department of Fisheries for "planting" in Wildwood Lake by City i Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, su perintendent of parks and public prop i erty. Commissioner Taylor is now pre paring his request and it will be for warded to the State authorities within a day or two. "For the last couple of years I be lieve no new 'fry' has been put into the lake,'' said Commissioner Taylor to day, "and we thing it rs advisable to ask the department for some more. The character of the fish that thev may wish to give tis we'll let to them to decide as well as tlie time for placing them. However, we've always hue 1 catfish, suntish, perch and carp in the lake waters and I suppose these will be provided again. We'll ask lor lu.lf a million. "Many of the fish have been taken cut of the lake waters during the last few years." said the commissioner, "and I think that the suppiv could be i eplenished nicely at this time. Dur ing the winter and late Fall monMis many lamilles I'm told have depended on the llsh they could take from the lake for their meat supplies." British and French Take Neuve Chappele By Associated Press London, March 11, 11.56 A. M. Under cover of the lire of heavy French artillery Hritish troops have captured Xeuve Chappelle, three and a half miles north of La Hassee. This success, including the taking of 1.000 prisoners and several machine 1 guns, makes it the most considerable advance reported from the north nl • France for several months past. This advance, if made in force, is struteiri-1 eally of great importance, as the posi- I tion commands the road between La Bassee and Lille. Furthermore, it makes the German hold on La Bassee insecure and gives a base for opera tions for the straitening of the allied linos in front of Lille. 10 CONSIDER CITY HOSPITAL TOESOAI Resolution to Be Offered in Coun cil Arranging For Conference With Dauphin Med. Society MAPLE HILL IS SUGGESTED Removal of Nursery Home Would Pave Way For Acquiring Watts Hometead, Says Councilman Council at its meeting Tuesday will consider the recent letter of the Dau phin County Medical Society relative to the erection of a municipal hospital for Harris burg and a resolution pro viding for the appointment of a com mittee of commissioners to confer with the physicians on the subject will be ottered, according to one of the city councilmen to-day. While the question of a site for the | proposed structure is still undecided, j it is understood that the adoption of ] the Maple Hill residence of Mrs. Ma j rion C. B. Watts will be urged. This I building is admirably situated for the I purpose on the maple-grown slopes of j the bluff at Third and Reel streets and I has been occupied by the Nursery | Home, but the institution will so into its new quarters on Eochlel Hill April 1. ' I Whether or not Council will decide 1 | Tuesday on the location of a site is | questionable, but it is understood that | plenty of data relative to the establish j nient of a municipal hospital will be J available for information of the coun j oilmen. The care of patients who ordinarily require treatment at a mu nicipal hospital now costs the county alone about $1,500. The new city hos j pital. it is believed, could be operated I for .$3,000 or less. The purpose of the municipal instl ! tution would be to provide a place | for the accommodation of strangers ; or people who come to the city from out of town and who have no place i to be treated for contagious diseases but their boarding houses. | The intention, it is understood, will j not be to care for the sufferers of I smallpox or similar diseases at the I municipal hospital, but to continue to ! treat this character of illness at the | pesthouse at the county home. Whole Trainload of Ashes to Be Dumped on Wildwood Park Driveway Wild wood Park driveway from the IMa clay street en' nee to the darn is j closed for trave during the repair I work on the roadbed and City Com missioner M. Marvey Tuylor, superin- I tendent of parks and public property, j expects to have the work finished by } the end of the week. Fifteen great "battleship" cars, car . rying forty tons of ashes each, will.be dumped on the highway under the j parksuperintendent'ssupervision. This type of ashes is the same sort that j had been used in the construction and I upkeep of the roadway originally. It I has been generously donated by the (Pennsylvania Railroad Company. While Park Commissioner Taylor j lias been able, with the co-operation of the railroad company, to insure a | perfect driveway through Wildwood before the Spring influx of automobile ] tourists begins, he has also arranged with the Susquehanna township super .! visors to have the 500 or more feet of ; ] roadway north of the dam similarlv , I treated in order to provide a snlen v didlv repaired driveway entire ; width of the park. Begin Construction of New Bridge in Cameron Parkway II Work was begun to-day on the con- I struction of the new concrete arch bridge across Spring creek in the Cameron parkway and by May 1. it is expected, the span will be linished and ready to be thrown open for travel. . All day yesterday the engineers of the park department were busy fin ishing what surveying remained'to be j done for setting out the stakes and as soon as these lines were available Mr. Taylor directed the contractor to start j work. The new bridge will eliminate the ugly curve at the creek crossing which j heretofore had proved such a menace | to vehicular, automobile and pedes i trian travel. PHOTOS WITH PERMITS 5j Associated Press • | Paris. March 11, 5.20 p. m.—Per- I mils of residence issued to foreigners jafter March 20 must have a photo- I graph of the holder attached, certified by the police commissary, says the ; Petit Journal. Persons who fall to | follow these instructions will be pro ceeded against as spies, the paper as serts. MRS.MECI,EL. LAN'S BODY ARRIVES By Associated Press j New York, March 11.—The body of j Mrs. I*.lien ~ McClallan, widow of ! General George B. MeCiellan and ; mother of ex-Mayor George B. Mc i Olellan of this city, reached here to day aboard the steamer Madonna j front Nice. France, where she died. MANY KILLED IX WRECK By Associated t'ress Madrid, via PUris, March 11, 8.30 a m.—Many persons are reported to have been killed or injured last night I when a mail train from Vigo to Mad i rid struck a huge rock which had fall !en upon the track in a deep cut in | Asturlas. Two passenger coaches and [the baggage car were piled on top of j the engine. | PORTUGUESE MINISTER QUITS fly Associated Press Paris. March 11, 5.15 a. m.— Joao ! i 'hagas, Portuguese minister t?> ' ' France, has resigned. "The present : [cabinet is an ••xtrn-pnrliainentarv one ' and I will not serve under a dictator ship." said Senhor t'hngas in reply to 'inquiries as to reason for his retire-j ( nient. j 'SON FOR GOVERNOR WHITMAN, Albany. N. A., March 11.—A son was! born to Governor and Mrs. G. <"harh-y S. Whitman to-day. This is the first j boy In the Whitman family. There is I one other child, Olive, six years old. j 12 PAGES MS. HOSIE'S FATHER THINKS HER INNOCENT Believes Daughter Was Shot by "Whip" Keys in Mistake For Another Woman "NOT INTIMATE," HE SAYS Suicide Was Chauffeur For Fam ily; Acquaintance Might Have Started Last Winter •' I ,i tmmm Bi§ggj|H|&fl^B^^p BBBBBBmbf i_ "WHIP" KEYS Who Killed Self After Attempting to Murder Woman. That "Whip" Keys, the taxicab driver, shot Jlrs. Nora Hosie in mis take for another woman, is the belief of Mrs. Hosle's father, Jeremiah B. Yost, 1624 Xorth Sixth street. .Mr. Yost this morning declared that the information Kiven yesterday by tile police was absolutely incorrect, lie said in reference to reports that Jlrs. Hosie and Keys were intimate: "This man Keys and his car never did stand at my door as the police said. On two different occasions he did drive a car to my door, which T had ordered to take the family on a pleasure trip. Keys was only the chauffeur and 1 never knew his name [Continued oil Pace 9.] " ~ " ~ y !■ M lector cf Customs Hamilton that it was not Ins intention to § 1 intcui 93 the Un ted States refuse . K « to grant him the necessary time for repairs and restra I ik him, the converted cruiser will attempt to « ontinue its voy- j j age of adventure. I J ANOTHER FURNACE IN BLAST Allentown, Pa., March 11.—Furnace number 1, o 1 iokendaqua, was put in blast thi % iving employment to 130 hands after an idleness 8 of several months. ' s furnace .has a capacity; of 2 25 t 4 a ri.iy. ' MAY NOT CONTAIN EXPLOSIVES 1 New York, March il. —Counsel foi Frank Abarno ; ' Carmine Carbone, accused of placing bombs in St. Patrick's '. who claim they were ."framed up" by the police, explor-ives. I ' McADOO HAS APPENDICITIS I $ Washington, March 11.—Secretary McAdoo went to a i hospital to-day to be operated on for appendicitis to-night C P or to-morrow. The secretary was at his office early to-day K r and it was said no complications had appeared. € i Washington, March 11.—Proposed increased rates oh C live stock, dressed beef and packing house products in car- I loads from Chicago to the Mississippi river crossings and 1 other points in the Middle West to Eastern seaboard and ' interior points, including Buffalo, Erie and Pittsburgh, were ' suspended to-day by the Interstate Commerce Commission 1 pending investigation of their reasonableness. J London, March 11, 4.40 P. M.—British forces in France % advanced three-quarters of a mile yesterday, capturing all 3 the intervening positions of the enemy, according to an of- g ficial announcement given out in London to-day. J Newport News, Va., March 11.—The new of the Amen- £ can ship William P. Frye, sunk by the German cruiser M Eitel Friedrich, were released from the Eitel Frierich lat T I to-day and brought ashore. • £ MARRIAdt LICENSES i Weir lilo.xl liHc unci Minnie Hurnt, .\ew Cumberland, J * POSTSCRIPT. GERMANS ARE MAKING ANOTHER UNEXPECTED STROKE AT RUSSIANS Important Battle Developed as Result of Movement of Gen. Yon Hindenburg ALLIES BADLY DEFEATED Fire of Turkish Batteries Slackens Perceptibly During Yester day's Engagement Field Marshal Von Hindenburg has made another of the swift and unex pected strokes which have marked his campaign against tho Russians. Gathering a large force along tlia Prussian border in Northern Poland, he has begun a new movement out ward, apparently intending to strika again at Przßsnysz where the Gor mans recently met the defeat which preceded their general retirement in the north. An important battle has developed as a result of tTils move ment, the result of which, it is said in Petrograd, has not yet been indi cated. With the diminution of activity in Champagne, the western battle front has grown quieter. The German mili tary authorities assert that the allies have suffered a complete defeat in Champagne after undertaking an of fensive movement believed in Berlin to have been designed to relieve pres sure on the Russians. Desultory light ing continues in Belgium, but along the eastern end of the line, where there have been active and almost continuous battles, weather conditions | have enforced a temporary lull. Mombai'diiieiit Resumed Paris reports tell of resumption of 'the Dardanelles bombardment. It Is said that the fire of some Turkish bat teries under attack slackened percepti- I bly during the engagement. I Dispatches from both Newport i News and Washington indicate that I the German auxiliary cruiser Prina j Eitel Friedrichfi which took refuse [Continued on Page fl.l BOMBARDMENT CONTINUES By .4.rscriatrd Prus Paris. March 11, 5.22 a. m.—A va lorous bombardment of the fortifica tions in the Dardanelles, principally b\ French warships, was continued yes terday. Wednesday, according to i Tenedos dispatch to the Matin.