Sir John French Says Scarcity of Ammunition in Germany Will Soon End War HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 67 Clff TO Bllf THREE ACRE TRACT 111 WEST END FOR OLOYGROU! Taylor Completes Negotiations For Purchase of Old Polyclinic Hos pital Site For $27,000 ORDINANCE OFFERED TODAY Deal Will Provide Second Perma nent Recreation Place Bought by Park Superintendent Negotiations have been completed bv Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor, superintendent of parks and public property, for the purchase of Harrls burg'a second permanent playground —a three-acre tract in the West End. An ordinance authorizing the pur chase was offered on lirst reading in City Council this afternoon by Com missioner Taylor. The tract has a frontage of 405 feet in Fourth and Fifth streets and 300 feet in Emerald street and will cost $2 7,000. Mr. Taylor will buy the prop erty from Jonn Orr, who. It is un derstood, bought the ground some time ago In parthersnlp with Redseker Brinser, proprietor of the Harrisburg News Agency, The plot was formerly owned by the Polyclinic Hospital. The ground is admirably adapted for playground purposes and is so sit uated as to be conveniently accessible to the hosts of children who live in that rapidly growing section. Work of preparing the playground lor use this summer will be started lust as soon as the ordinance presented this afternoon becomes a law. By acquiring the West End play ground Mr. Taylor has provided from the SIOO,OOO nark and playground loan at his disposal two permanent recreation places for the children in opposite ends of the city. He bought a tract from the McCormick estate — the new Thirteenth and Sycamore playground—last summer. Another tract in addition to the old Polyclinic site had been under consideration by Mr. Taylor for an upper end playground, but the price, $45,000, was considered too high. Post Office Extension I Indefinitely Held Up Postmaster Frank C. Sites has no information as to when work will bo resumed on the Ilarrisburg Post Office extension, which was interrupted last month by the failure of the con tractors. He was told by an inspector of the supervising architect's depart ment at Washington who visited the city several days ago that no arrange ments have been made for a new contract. The recent failure of J. h. Pennock, under whom the work was being done by contract and subcontract, ts said to have tangled up federal red tape considerably. The con tinuation of the job is further compli cated by the additional appropriation of $75,000 for the work which was passed by Congress after the original appropriation of $125,000 had been given to the Pennock firm. "Lincoln" Not Permitted to Pose in White House Sfecial to The Telegraph Washington, March 23.—A moving ly ictu re machine was unlimbered in iront of the White House to-day just us a tall, elderly looking man, dressed in the attire of a half centurv ago walked under the porte cochere of the mansion. The elderlv looking man had a smooth upper lip and a short beard. He wore a frock coat, tight trousers that were a trifle short and over his shoulders was a thick gray shawl. A black beaver hat topped hts head. The man was accompanied by a small boy, wearing the dreis of t he Civil War period. The policeman on duty at the White House entrance gasped. The resembl ance of the visitor to Abraham Lin coln was startling. Then the movlne pieture machine began to click and the policeman saw a light. "Shoo!" he cried. He made the operator stop turnin" the crank and told the bonis Lincoln to go away. "It's ;igainst the regulations," ex plained the policeman, and no amount of persuasion could make him relent. FII'TTV Slil5UI»I\G MIXERS KIi.MID BY' S\O\YSI,II)K Special t<> The Telegraph Vancouver, B. C„ March 23.—Fifty miners were killed and as many more njured early to-day by a snowslide which swept away several bunkhouses nt tiio Britannia coal mine at Howe Sound. B. C„ according to a dispatch received here. 1 THE WEATHER For TlnrrlNliarK iaiid vldnltyt Fair 'o-nlnlil and Weilnemlaj} not •miWt cliiiiikc In temperature. For r.uMtcrn IVnnn.vl vnnln: <;rnrr nlly fnlr to-nltflit nml Wcilnem «l*y: moderate north™ e*t wlntiN becoming variable. River J\o material chanjccn will occur in river to-night or IYe«lne«. . ?'• .. * M<n Ke of about 1.l feet U Indicated for llarrlMburg Wcd neHday morning. CJ«*neral Condltloim •An area of lon barometric prcMMiire of flight energy over the north eantern part of the «»ountry haa (•aimed unnettled weather gener ally eaat of the Ml*mlnml|»pl river during the laat twenty-four hour* with light precipitation, moMtly anotv fn northern, ft now and rain In central and rain lu aouthern dlatrleta. Temperaturei * a. m. t 38. Sun: Risen, OiOft a. m.t aeta v 6ilf) p. vn. 'loom Full moon, March 31, 12,38 n. an. Rlvrr 4.3 feet above low rrnter mark. Yeater<ln>'a Weather Hlffheat temperature, :<ii, I.nvreat temperature, S3. Mean temperature, .11. ftormal temperature, to. STATE TROOPER IS IK SOLVING LITEST PERRY CO. MTSTEB* District Attorney Rice and Police man Davies Are Investigating Tragedy SUICIDE THEORY FLOUTED Robbery May Be Fixed as Motive j For Crime If Murder Can Be Proved i Special to The Telegraph New Bloomfield, Pa., March 23. I District Attorney Walter W. Rice until State Policeman Curtis E. Davies are to-day engaged in an investigation and | hope that within the next few days they will be able to state definitely the facts surrounding the death of Clinton D. Bixler. portions of whose body were found after the ruins of his home cooled yesterday. Bixler, who resided alone about eight miles rast of Blain, was last seen [ Saturday, an# nis death and the de-1 struetion of his home by fire have proven a mystery which Perry county authorities hope to unravel. Kept Money in House? District Attorney Rice said here this morning that be was at a loss to ac count for the man's death. From the few facta he now has at hand lie says he could not form a conclusion as to whether the man was burned to death while he slept, whether he was mur dered or committed suicide. From various sources the report that Bixler was known to have kept goodly sums of money in his house seems to be substantiated. When t this becomes known authoritatively to the lnvestiva tors the belief Is prevalent that they will have a clue upon which to work and that robbery will be fixed as the motive of the crime if it can be proven crime was committed. Suicide Theory Flouted There are few persons in the vicin ity of the Bixler home who are willing to say that the old man committed sui [Continucd on Page •!.] NO ACTION TODAY ON LOCAL OPTION BILL Meeting Scheduled For This After noon Deferred on Account of Other Hearings No action will be taken by the House law and order committee to-day on fixing- a date for a hearing or a time to report out the Williams local op tion bill. The meeting scheduled for this afternoon has been deferred until to-morrow owing to the big hearings scheduled for to-day on workmen's compensation, full crew repealer and taxation bills Governor Brumbaugh, who last night discussed the local option, com pensation and child labor bills with the Republican platform committee, con tinued his work in behalf of local op*, tion to-day. Dast night Senator Wil liam E. Crow, Republican State chair man, set forth the idea that mem bers should vote as the majority of their constituents desired, a proposi tion not in accord with the Governor's recent interview in which be said that legislators should consider measures from a State-wide standpoint. The most significant thing about the con ference was the silence of Senator E. [I!. Vare, of' Philadelphia, who is re ported as likely to turn in favor of lo | cal option. The Governor saw Senators Vare and McNiehol this morning and discussed |the situation • with them, but no one \wmld make any statements as to what I occurred. It Is generally believed that until the local option, compensation and child labor bills aro out o£ the way the Senate will not act on any recess appointments and the Governor will send in only those which must he : made. Representative McKay, of Crawford, who announced last night that he would introduce a resolution to make an investigation of activity of liquor interests in campaigns, failed to do so. Rumors f were rife that if he did the ! inquiry would be extended lo the | Democratic campaign and the Anti | Saloon League. McKay is a Demo- I crat. John A. Wallace, Twice Postmaster at Chester, Dies After Long Illness B.v Associated Press ! Chester, Pa., March 23.—John A. ; Wallace, who, with Senator William C. | Sproul and Charles R. Long, owned [the Chester Times and the Morning I Republican of Chester, and who was 'twice postmaster of Chester and one of Its most prominent citizens, died ! to-day. Mr. Wallace who was 73 years old, had been ill for more than a year. He had been taken to Flori da this winter with the hope that the mild climate would speed his recovery, 1 but recently his condition became so grave that he insisted on being brought home. A. D. LUNOY DROPS DEAD fly Associated Press Wllliamsport, Pa., March 2i. —A. D. Dundy, state agent for a number of insurance companies, dropped dead to-day at Eldred, Pa., while on a | business trip. He was 79 years old. SHEET IRON MILX.S TO OPEN Youngstown, Ohio, March 23.—Sheet Iron manufacturers whose plants have been Idle under a truce with employes to-day announced that mills would resume operations next Monday. COIiDEGE PRESIDENT DIES Elmlra, N. Y.. March 23.—The Rev. Alexander Cameron Mackenzie. D. D., president of Elmlra Collego, died to day. HARRISBURG. PA., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1915. ITALY MAY FIGHT TO RECOVER TRENT AND ISTRIA i | S " * i~A~ 'I ills map shows 1 lie parts of the Austrian Empire—Trent and Istria- which Jlaly is believed to demand as her price for keeping out of a war against Franz Joseph. The whole Italian population, according to reports from Rome, seems to be forcing the government to action. Roughly speaking. Italy desires a sweep of territory to the north and east which would extend her boundary around the northern end of the Adriatic Sea as far south as Flume, on the eastern coast. This would include the Austrian naval base at Pola, as well as the Provinces of Trent and Trieste, acquisition of which has been Italy's long-cherished aspiration. The concessions which Austria is believed to be willing to make are insigni ficant as compared with the demands. It is regarded ns probable that, under pressure from Germany the negotiations may be extended and Austria may be induced to grant larger concessions than she. now is willing to consider, but the belief fs generally i.ild in responsible quarters that the extreme Austrian concessions would be insufficient to satisfy Italy. The demands of Italy, as outlined to-day. are set forth as follows: To the north she desires the entire Province of Trent, bringing her frontier to Venoste, Passirie, and Breonie. including the districts of Roveredo, Trente, Hozen Meran, Bresanone, and Bruneck. To the east she desires to extend her frontier to the Julian Alps, including the Provinces of Goritz and Istria, with the districts Tolniein, Goritz, Trieste, Pola and Hume. In addition to this she desire the Dalmatian Islands, especially Veg lia, Cherso, Lunga, Brazza, Lesipa, Curzola, Melcda and Lissa. HUNDREDS WORK FDD FULL CREW REPEAL Hearing Before Joint Legislative Committee Attracts Prominent Businessmen A host of men, working for the re peal of the full crew law, were In Har risburg to-day. They came from all parts of the State, and included busi ness, professional, and railroad men. Every train reaching Harrisburg sof ter 8 o'clock this morning, on both the Pennsylvania and Heading lines had from two to five extra cars. Those visitors came to attend the hearing before the joint committee of the Legislature on the full crew law repeal bill. The hearing took place in the Senate caucus room this after noon at 3 o'clock. Previous to tha hearing several hundred of the visi tors called on Superintendent William B. McCaleb, of the Philadelphia divi sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Railroad men gathered at the Harris burg Hoard of Trade rooms for an »n --' formal conference at T1 o'clock. Many Businessmen Many of the most influential busi nessmen of Pennsylvania appeared at the hearing. Among them were Alba [Continued on Page ".] Paul Windlebleck Dies of Lockjaw at Jonestown Special to Tht Telenrapli Lebanon, March 23.—Paul Windle bleck. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Windlebleck, of Johnstown, died on Monday, in great agony, from the ef fects of tetanus, boy had helped to dig garden last' Tuesday, and while thus engaged, a rusty wire nail pierced his shoe and wounded his foot. As the wound did not give him much pain he ignored it until Sunday '.vlien the pain became great. The boy was 12 years old and was a member of a family of : sixteen children, two of whom died several years ago, and thirteen of whom survive him. Germany Mourns Loss of Przemysl Fortress By Associated Press Berlin, via London. March 23, 11.19 A. M.—The press of the German capi tal unites in paying tribute to the de fenders of Przemysl. who, it is de clared. only hunger could subdue. At the same time there is no disposition to make light of the defeat. CHICKENS RAISE COIN FOR ORPHANS' HOMK By Associated Press Sunbury, Pa., March 23.—Shy of the ready cash needed for church work, the members of the congregation and Sunday school of the Trinity Lutheran Church at Danville yesterday called on their chickens to produce. The re sult was a donation of 90 dozen eggs for the Good Shepherd Orphans' home at Allentown, Pa. DR. SPARKS WILL SPEAK AT ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, president of Pennsylvania State College, will be the principal speaker at the commence ment exercises of the Harrisburg Academy on June 3, in the Majestic theater, at 10 o'clock In the morning. Dr. Sparks is well known in this city. WIFE OF MORMON HEAD DIES By Associated Press Salt Lake City, Utah, March 23. Mrs. Sarah Ellen Richards Smith, wife of President Joseph F. Smith, of\the Mormon Church, died yesterday. She was born in this city In 1850. HARRISBURG LOSES METHODIST PASTORS Revs. B. H. Hart and John H. Daugherty Transferred to Other Charges By Associated Press Sliamokin, Pa., March 23. —The Cen tral Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episoepal Church adjourn ed at noon to-day after the announce ment of the appointments of clergy men for the coming year. Following is a list of the changes: Altoona District District superintendent, Simpson B; Evans. Altoona, Grace. David D. Huffman. Fairview, Joseph 15. Bremell. Fifth Avenue, Fletcher W. Biddle. First Church, Edgar E. Ileckman. Juniata. Alex. I.amberson; Juniata Circuit, John E. Lepage. Clearfield, Trinity, Henry R. Ben der and Albert V. Brown; Westside, J. W. Long. Hastings, Isaac Cadnian. I Milesburg and Unionville, William A. I Lopley. ! Patton, Bert A. Salter. | Phillipsburg, Charles X. Wasson. j Port Matilda, J. Earl Jacobs. Sandy Ridge and Clearfield, George |H. Knox, supply. | Shawviile, David J. Brum, supply. Wallaceton, Omer H. Poulson. Danville District Danville district, Superintendent James B. Stein. Calvary, Thomas F. Ripple. Bloomsliurg, Alfred L. Miller. Catawissa circuit. John H. Greena walt. [Continued oil Page B.] Fills Her Skirt With Stones, Then Drowns Self in the Opequon Creek Special lo The Telegraph Hagerstown, March 23.—Mak ing a pocket in ner skirt and filling it with stones, Miss Mary Maud Betz, aged 32, drawing 'nstructor in the public schools at Martin.iburg, jumped into the. Opequon creek and was drowned. Her body was found by a boy after a search. Miss Betz was ill. Calder Post to Receive Maine Memorial Tablet l The first entertainment and patrio tic educational historical review of a serieu will be given in the courthouse Thursday evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of Captain Howard . L. Calder Post No. 31, American Veterans of Foreign Service. Among the speak ers will be Senator E. E. lieidleman. The Maine memorial tablet, recent ly awarded Calder Post by the United States government will be formally presented by Congressman Aaron .S. Kreider and stereopticon views of the Philippines will be lectured upon by- Edward 1.. Wagner, late of the United States marine corps. Grand Army of the Republic Posts. United Spanish War Veterans and Sons of Veterans will attend in bodies, and veterans of the Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippine and China wars will attend. The committee consists of John M. Major, H. L. McLaughlin, Jonas K. Relst, Samuel Forbes and R. L. Lan dis. REMOVE PORTION OF BRAIN By Associated Press Paris, March 23, 4.50 A. M.—An operation performed by Dr. Gulnen by ' which a part of a wounded soldier's 1 brain was removed without the patient l suffering serious consequences was de- I scribed before the Academy of Sciences' last night by Dr. Lavaraln. I 'ACQUIRES TWO MORE | i TRACTS FOR PARKWAY, I Deals For Purchase of Enders and 1 Paxtang Cemetery Acreages Concluded by Park Board Two more links in the unacquired parkway chain between Perrv street i and Reservoir park—the A. E. lend ers tract ol" two and a quarter acres and the Paxtang Cemetery Association tract of twelve acres—liave been pur chased by City Commissioner M. Har vey Taylor, superintendent of -parks and public property at a total cost of ■' $4,100. Negoliations for these important links have been under way for months and the engineering force of the park department has been busy for several weeks surveying the lines for the deeds and in otherwise getting the necessary data in shape for the trans ■ fers. The department was compelled to make all these records before the negotiations could be closed. The Enders tract cost SIBSO and the Paxtang cemetery ground $2250. the latter price is just half what had been originally asked. With the exception of the Helen Boyd Dull and the Pros pect Hill cemetery tracts, the city's : parkway chain all the way to Reser voir is completed. The parkway road that leads through Cameron's lowlands will be continued through the newly acquired property so that a complete circle of the city can be made by automobile. Grading on the roadway will be start ed as soon as the weather permits so that it.is likely that autoists and other tourists will be able to use the new parkway drive by late Spring or early summer. | Relief Committee Sends 27,000 Articles Abroad Eighty-four boxes of supplies con taining more than 27,000 articles have been shipped abroad by the Home and ] War Relief committee, through the 1 Red Cross and Foreign Relief divi ; sions during the past three months. Practically every article excepting the bandages and surgical supplier was made by paid workers of this city who ' have drawn more than SB,OOO in wages. There remains but one more week for this relief work. The last mate rials will be issued to-morrow. They ; may be returned any time until April 1, when the Home and the Supplies di visions close. The Rod Cross and the Foreign divisions will remain open. GREW BRAVE AT END By Associated Press Paris, March 23, 3.05 A. M.—Stand , ing at sulute and shouting "vive la France," the officers and crew of the French battleship Houvet, sunk in the • Dardanelles on March 18 went down with their ship according to the Tene , dos correspondent o fthe Athens Pat • ris who describes the action in which the Houvet and the Gauiois were en gaged. PARIS DEFENSES CRITICISED By Associated Press Paris, March 23, 4.45 A. M.—Georges Clemence*u and other prominent writ ers In the Paris press criticise the aerial defenses of Paris. They declare Zeppelins should not have been able to reach Paris Sunday. I,AST OHH) IX pi AN DIES Toledo, Ohio, Inarch 23.—Mrs. Vic toria Cadaract, aged 105, died last' night in Ottawa county infirmary, near | Oak Harbor. Mrs. Cadaract was a Chippewa Indian and was the fast known of the native Ohio Indians of I the full blood. I 12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. FRENCH BELIEVES WAR WILL SOON END; ITALY PREPARES FOR STRUGGLE Arrangements Are Being Made For Women to Take Places of Men in Mills If Italian Army Is Mobilized; Unfavorable Weather Prevails at Dardanelles and Allied Fleets Have Not Left Their Anchorages; Ger mans Feel Lack of Ammunition The opinion is expressed by Field ' Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British forces In the field, that : the war will not be of long duration. 1 In an interview with a French corre- i spondont he says that Spring promises i I well for the allies, and that he believes! the Germans are feeling a lack of}' ammunition. Italy is preparing rapidly for what- j ever may result from the negotiations : with Austria, now represented as hav-| ing reached an important stage. A royal decree is soon to be signed es- j tablishing rules designed to suppress: spies. Women are to be put to work in the places of men in case of the mobilization of the army. Weather Unfavorable An official Russian communication described the battle which preceded the fall of Przemysl. It is said that ! the troops left the fortress to the east ! ward in a linal erCort to break through ! the Russian lines at any cost, but were defeated quickly. Berlin newspapers do not believe the Russian victory will be of great influence on the campaign as a whole, although the fall of the city is described as a "painful blow" to the Austrian-German right wing. Unfavorable weather still prevailed at the Dardanelles yesterday and no further attacks on the Turkish fortifi cations were attempted. The warships ot the allied fleet did not leave their anchorages. The latest Russian invasion of Ger many is said at Berlin to have met with the same fate as its predecessors. To-day's official German communica tion contains the announcement that the Russian forces which captured ! Memel. at the northern end of East j Prussia, have been driven back and Jthat German troops, pursuing them ■across the border, have captured the 1 Russian town of Krottingen. No con firmation has been received from Rus isinn sources. I The Russians are still on the offen sive In Northern Poland, but so far as the day's dispatches show their at- I tacks have been attended by no lm j portant results. The German war of- I flee asserts that the Russians have INDEMNITY FOR McMANUS' FAMILY I Washington, March 23.—Secretary Bryan announced to- I day that regret for the killing of Jehn B. McManus, an i American in Mexico City by 2,'apata forces has been express- ' ed on behalf of General Zapsia by General Palafax, in I charge i loxico City, ai negotiations for paying in- 1 demnit} o he d««d man's fi .iily were progressing satis- ' factorily, INCREASED RATES SUSPENDED Washington, March 23.—Propoaad increases in ratas on ' live stoc from Buffalo, Pittsburgh and similar points to ( eastern terminals were suspended for investigation to-day J by the Interstate Commerce Commission. WILSON NOT TO INTERFERE HERE Washington, March 23.—President Wilson has no in- j tention of interfering in fractional differences between Dem- I ocrats in New York and Pennsylvania. He told callers to day that he thought the people of each state were able to | look after their owi affairs. , . I BLOWS OFF HEAD WITH GUN i Gettysburg, Pa., March 23. This morning William ' Shultz, from York Springs, committed suicide at hL home by shool- ing himself. Shultz got up at the usual time and went to ■ the barn and fed tha stock. He them returned to the house j and going to his bedroom secured a shotgun, which he tied ' to a bedpost, and using a string to pull the trigger, blew off | the top of his head, dying instantly. PETER KRA'CUS GUILTY ' Wilmington, Del., March 23.—The jury at 2.40 o'clock j this afternoon, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree against Peter Krakus, alias Melba, the murderer of Policeman Francis X. Tierney, on March 6. / MAN KILLS HIS THREE WIVES | London, March 23, 2.18 P. M.—Charged with the mur- der of three women, George Smith, in the Bow street court. ( to-day, heard Public Prosecutor Bedkin declare he had j made away with three of his wivea, the crime in each case | being committed shortly after he had married them. f IU/UUUHUL UCLNbtS . ' I.eater E. llllner and Kllxnbeth Smith. city. pillion 11. Kelly anil Corn >l. Hnohnmn. l.ehanon. , Stanley Hoy Miller and Krnta Kay Itaker, Mllleraburs. i ' been driven back in every instance. Apart from a few small movements such as have been In progress for sev eral months, the initiative in Franco and Belgium yesterday was left to the airmen. Aviators of the allies attack ed Ostend and German aeroplanes 'dropped bombs on Rhelms. The Qcr ] man statement says that a French iaviator was shot down near Verdu,» and that another French machine was forced to descend near Frieburg. Russ Expect Another Big Battle With Austrians London, March 23, 2.55 A. M.—Ac cording to the Petrograd correspon dent. of the Morning Post the Przeinysl garrison opened negotiations for sur sender on Saturday, but nothing came of this. Then during the course of the night of March 20-21 a sortie was attempted. This was the last straw. Throughout Sunday negotiations lor terms proceeded and the surrender was effected Monday morning. The gar rison consisted of 100,000 men, this correspondent says. A Petrograd dispatch to the Daily Telegraph says that simultaneously with the capture of Memel, the Ger mans were expelled from Tauroggea and flung back to their frontier. Information from an Austrian source to the National Tidende of Oo ipenhagen says the Russians are pre paring for a violent offensive cam paign in the Carpathians. They have assembled 750,000 men for this pur pose and will make an attempt to break the Austrian line. A gigantic battle is expectei". as Austria is bring ing up all possible reinforcements to meet the attack. EPIDKMICS NOW I KAItHI) Venice, March 23.—Reports receiv ed here from A'ienna are to the effect that with the approach of warmer weather the Viennese authorities are greatly alarmed oevr the prospect of epidemics of cholera, typhus and dysentery.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers