■ • . • •• ••• • ■:• • • f" '■ ' ' • * . ; Allies' Warships Are Making Another Effort HARBISBURG WSmSm TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 80 WIN OR LOSE, FIGHT FOR LOCAL OPTION IS TO BE CONTINUED Organization Has Been Formed to Battle For Temperance in Pennsylvania TWO MORE VOTES "DRY" Vickerman, of Allegheny County, Says Vote May Be Delayed Two Weeks That the Williams local option bill will he disposed of in the House of I Representatives within the next two weeks; that a permanent organization has been formed to carry on the fight for local option no matter what the result in the Legislature may be; that Allegheny county is likely to have six votes for the Williams bill instead of four, and that he and County Com sioner J. Denny O'Nell will have an hour's conference vvth Governor Mar tin G. Brumbaugh'to-day on the bill were a few of the important announce ments made to-day by Hepresentative .1. W. Vickerman, of Allegheny coun ty, who is active in behalf of the bill. Air. Vickerman is the friend and confidant of the Governor and has been in the forefront of the light to give counties the right to say whether they want liquor sold within their boundaries and lie carries weight in the House. Any announcements from him are given close attention by the other members. Will or J.ose. Fifth! (iocs On "Kegardlesd of what happens to the Williams bill in the legislature, the tight has already been outlined for the next two years and we intend to go Into tin* counties and give the vot ers the chance, in a clear cut issue, to determine whether they want to see local option or the representatives of the opposition in the Legislature of 1817. (in Monday night the Republi can State local option committee was formed. "Mr. O'Xeii was chosen chairman and 1 was elected treasurer. The! monster gathering of yesterday and! last night were tor the purpose of! kindling the (ires of enthusiasm that will carry this fight through success fully the next time it comes before the people—either as to local option members or in |in election to carry out V the local option law. Mr O'N'eil and myself have a conference witli Gover nor Brumbaugh to-day. Our plans will be outlined at that meeting and the Governor's suggestions solicited. This light is on and will Ik' on in Pennsylvania until all the people have definitely determined their attitude oil the sale of liquor in the subdivisions of the State where thc.v live," said Mr. Vickerman. When asked regarding the time it will take to consider the bill in com mittee and in the House Mr. Vicker man said: "There was to have been a meeting of the law and order commit tee this afternon but on account of the appropriations committee going to Pittsburgh it will hardly be held until next week. Whether the Will will be reported out then I can not say but the chances are that it will. That Is what causes me to think that the bill will be through the House within two weeks from to-day. The child labor bill passed to-dny and the workmen's compensation measures will be out of the House soon. That will clear the decks for the local option bill. On the outcome of the vote 1 will say that it will be close." Hepresentative Vickerman discussed the gatherings of yesterday and com menting on tlie attitude and speech of Senator George T. Oliver at the big demonstration in the Chestnut street auditorium, said: "Senator Oliver's speech has done much for the cause of local option. His speech was to the point, full of straight from the shoulder talk and was a lilg stand for a big man to take. The reception accorded him and the way in which his points were cheered and applauded showed him that the people of Pennsylvania are aroused." Commissioner O'Neil said to-day lhat he hud nothing to add. He de clared that the demonstrations of yes terday had more than accomplished their purposes. SHOO,OOO IIRE IX SHOPS By Associated Press Portsmouth, Vu„ April 7.—Fire last night destroyed the machine shop and blacksmith department of the Sea board Air Line railway shops here. The loss was put at $300,000. VKTKRAX ACTOU 1)1 KS By Associated Press St. Louis, Mo., April 7.—Richard Moncrief. veteran actor and poet, died at an old people's home here last night. He was 75 years old and was known a generation ago, having played with Edwin Booth. THE WEATHER For llarrlNhurK and vlolnHyi Fair «o-nl B lw HBd probably Thuradan Niimetvhiit ciHiifr to-night with loiYFNt temperature aliout 40 de gree*. "or Kantern I'enim.vlvniila: Fair to night and probably Thurndav| moderate northwest wind*. M River The Sunqiiehniinn river and all ltd tributaries will rl»r slightly or remalu stationary to-night and Thursday. A stage of about 4.0 feet Is Indleated for Ilarrlsbnrg Thursday morning. General Conditions The disturbance that was eentral over the enstern portion of the l.nke Region, Tuesday mornlnic. has moved northeastn nrd to the northern New Knglnnd eoast. It caused rain along and near the eoast from New Jersey north ward to Maine and In the St l.nwrence Valley In the last twenty-four hnnrs. Temperature) N a. in., 4S. Sum Rises, B:41 n. m.; seta, rtiJM p. m. Moon: New moon. April 14, Bi3« a. m. llHer Stagei 2.1) feet above low mater mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, «S, I.owest temperntiirf, 40. lllean temperature, .14. Aurmal temperature, 47. THOUSANDS GO WILD W SOUNDS THE LOCAL OPTION TRUMPET HUMMELSTOI BO! SHOT BY mmw Mexican Newspaper Clipping Re ports Execution of Henry Carlson Considerable anxiety as to the fate of Henry Carlson, who was captured three weeks ago by the forces of t'ar ranza in a lonely Mexican mountain pass is felt by his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carlson, of Ilum melstown. Reports concerning his present con dition are very meager and conflicting. A clipping received by his parents from a friend in El Paso contains the information that the young man was taken and executed soon after his cap ture. The Associated Press this morn ing announced that he was a prisoner and while lie had not been shot, grave fears were entertained for his safety. From the combined sources it is learned that Carlson is an expert elec trician and early in the Mexican broil affiliated himself with the forces op posed to Carranzu. He was attached to the staff of Colonel Dominquay who [Continued on Page ■!.] com™ IS DEBATED II HOUSE Governor's Bill Wins on First Test of Strength in Lower Branch of Legislature Efforts to amend the workmen's compensation act so that employers of five persons or less should be exempt from provisions of the act failed In the House of Representatives to-day after a debate of three hours in which many of the arguments made at the reieut hearing were repeated. The vote against the proposed amendment was IOC noes to 88 ayes, the vote against the amendment being the same as against the attempt to amend the [Continued on Page 5.] Three Hurt When Auto Bus Boiler Explodes By Associated Press Hazleton, Pa., April 7.—A steamer automobile bus of the Hazleton Motor Transportation Company while coming from Tamaqua to Hazleton this morning was completely wrecked when the boiler exploded about a mile from Tamaqua. Three passengers were hurt but none of them seriously. They are: Bert Kemmery, Rush township, cut about face and hands; Thomas Bren nan, McAdoo, the chauffeur, face cut; Charles H. Weldy, Tamaqua, right shoulder dislocated. Annville Minister Goes to New Hampshire Church Special to Tltc Telegraph Annville, Pa., April 7.—Word has been received here of the appointment of the Rev. George Edgar Wolfe, of this place, as pastor of the Congre gational Church of Milford, N. 11. The Rev. Mr. Wolfe Is a son of Henry Wolfe, of Manheim, Pa., and Is a grad uate of Gettysburg College. He re ceived his degree at the Hartford Seminary. He has also taken work at the Universities of Berlin and Heidel berg, In Germany: University of Edin burgh. Scotland, and at Oxford Uni versity, England. He Is 3 3 years old. HARRISBURG. PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1915 Great Crowds Cheer and Sing Madly as the Governor Ap pears at Auditorium; "This Is Not a Partisan Ques tion/' Declare Both Brumbaugh and Oliver; Throngs Unable to Gain Entrance to Big Hall; Overflow Meeting in Grace Church; Voters Urged to Forget Party and Unite on Great Issue If the Williams Bill Is Defeated Wlien I was elected to office I did not surrender my rights as a citizen, And it is as orach my business to sw that the proper laws are enacted as it Is to see that good laws arc enforced. I am of that good old Pennsylvania stock that lielleves a pre-election promise Is a post-election obliga tion. Let there be no mistake. No man dare say lhat he did not know where I stood on county loot I option when he voted in No vember. This Is not a partisan question. In these words Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh last evening sounded the keynote of the great light of thou sands of Pennsylvanians for local op tion at the monster mass meeting in Chestnut Street auditorium which closed a whole day's remarkable dem- 55 OF 102 COUNTIES 111 ILLINOIS "DRY" 1100 Saloons Voted Out of Business at Yesterday's Election By Associated Press Chicago, April 7.—A total of fifty five of 102 counties in Illinois are en tirely dry to-day. The new counties— Marlon. Kranklin and Jasper—have been added to the dry column in yes terday's local option elections. About 100 saloons were voted out of business, out of 350 Involved in forty five townships. .The chiefly dry vic tory was in Centralia, which has been wet for sixty years. Thirty-eight sa loons were voted out there. In Wisconsin, cities, towns and vil lages which voted on the liquor ques tion yesterday showed a gain for the dry forces in the number of towns gained, but the larger cities voting on [Continued on Page 5.] Wheat Crop Will Total 619,000,000 Bushels By Associated Press Washington, April 7. of the winter wheat crop, planted last Fall on the greatest acreage in the country's history, were that 619,000,- 000 bushels would be produced. This estimate by the Department of Agri culture to-day, based on the condi tion of the growing crop on April 1, may be increased or decreased accord ing to the changes In condition from that date to the time of harvest. Winter wheat condition on April was 88.8 per cent, of a normal, against 95.6 last year and 87.6, the ten-year average. ATTACK NOT SERIOUS By Associated Press Constantinople,. April 7.—An official statement issued to-day by the Turkish war office says: "No serious attack was made yesterday by the enemy on the Dardanelles. The day before two hostile cruisers bombarded our bat teries at the entrance to the straits but without result. One of the enemy's cruisers and one torpedoboat were struck'by our shells onstration. Governor Brumbaugh made but one speech for the Williams bill yesterday. That was when he took the platform last night. And he was accorded a reception that was probably the most remarkable ever tendered a chief ex ecutive of the Keystone State. The Governor Arrives Coincident with the appearance of the Governor in the vast hail the crowd cheered and sang madly; again and again during his hammer-like talk, the crowd broke into cheers. If there had been any lurking sus picion in the Governor's mind as to just how some thousands of folks felt about the question of whether or not the people shall decide for themselves the gravest question of the years, last [Continued on Page 12.] CHILD LABOR BILL IS NOW IIP TO WE House Passes Governor's Measure, 179 to 6; AH Attempts to Change Voted Down The administration child lahor hill was passed finally in the House to-day by a voto of 179 to 6. The House voted down nil attempts to change the schedule of hours yes terday and there was nothing said in opposition to it to-day. The bill now goes to the Senate for action. It was introduced in the House by Mr. Cox, Philadelphia, on March 3. MINERS GET MONTH'S GRACE El Paso. Texas, April 7.—Francisco Escudero, secretary of finance and au thority in the Vllla-Zapata cabinet, has decreed that all mining properties will be given one month of grace In the payment of their taxes, it was an nounced to-day at Juarez. This Is effective March 31. HARVESTER ARGUMENT OPENS Washington. D. C., April 7.—The ap peal of the International Harvester Company from the decision of the Federal District Court in Minnesota holding it to be a combination in vio lation of the Sherman antitrust law and ordering its dissolution into at least three competing parts was up for argument to-day before the Supreme Court. CHARTMAKERS BLAZE WAY Washington. D. C., April 7.—Chart makers of the Coast and Geodetic Sur vey have blazed the way for the de velopment of the resources in the val ley of the recently discovered great Kuskowlm river, in Alaska, by the compilation of charts of the Kuskowim bay and of the river. PRISONERS PLANNED ESCAPE London. April 7.—A nearly com-, pleted tunnel, through which a hun dred German officers, prisoners, could have made their escape from the in ternment camp at Phllberds, near Mai denhead, has been discovered by the British military authorities, according to the Daily Telegrai HUNT PHONE MEN 111 com Eastern and Western Associations of State Gather Here For Annual Business Session Delegates to the joint convention of the Western and Eastern Pennsyl vania Independent Telephone Asso ciations arrived in this city to the number of about 125. in addition to the association delegates nearly a hun dred operators from various exchanges throughout the State are in the city attending an "operators' school" In the Young Women's Christian Association building. Fourth and Walnut streets. The delegates are registering at the convention headquarters, in the Cum- I herland Valley Telephone building, 227 | Walnut street. Up until noon more [ than a hundred had already regis tered. At 2 o'clock the operators' | school was opened, under the direction I of W. S. Vivian, secretary of the Inde- ) pendent Telephone Association of v , America. The big "social event of the conven tion will be a banquet to-night at the [Continued on Page 4.1 OPEN FIVE BIDS FDR . CITY ASPHALT PLANT Barber Asphalt Co. Is Low at $7,495; Warren Brothers High at $13,400 Bids for the construction of Har risburg's municipal asphalt repair plant which Is to be erected on the McCormlck plot in South Ninth street were opened at noon to-day by City Commissioner W. H. Lynch, superin tendent of streets and public improve ments. Five proposals were received and to morrow the commissioner and City Engineer M. B. Cowden will go over the bids and specifications and pre pare the former's recoiwmendation of the award, which will he submitted to Council for approval next Tuesday. The bidders were as follows: Warren Brothers Company, Boston. $11,450, $10,882 and $13,400. F. D. Cummer & Son Co., Cleveland. $9,768. narber Asphalt Paving Company, Buffalo, $7,495 and $11,875. William H. Gravell, Philadelphia, $9,800 and $9,800.' Hetherlngton & Bcrner, Indian apolis, $8,500. The three prices submitted by the Warren company and the two differ-' [Continued oil Page* 4.] Liquor Question tp Be Taken Up in Meeting of Cabinet in London By Associated Press London, April 7, 11.55 A. M.—The military situation in the Carpathians is competing with the prohibition ques tion in the interest of the British pub lic. The cabinet meets to-day. It Is ex pected that announcement will be made of measures to provide drastic restrictions on the consumption of liquors, but total prohibition is not ex pected. Attention is concentrated on the Carpathian passes, where the Russians are bringing up heavy reinforcements to push their attack, the success of tfhlch is expected on through weight of numbers. 12 PAGES ALLIES MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO DESTROY DARDANELLES' FORTS Cruiser and Torpedoboat Struck by Shells During Bom bardment of Outer Defenses; Hostilities Resumed in Caucasian Campaign; Italy and Serbia Reported to Be Drafting Agreement; German Papers Make Few Comments on American Note to Allies Another attempt to force the Dar danelles apparently is under way. An official announcement from Constanti nople states that a cruiser and a tor pedoboat were struck by shells during a bombardment, of the outer forts on Monday. The bombardment, it is said, was without results and no serious at- | tack wa-s attempted yesterday. No j official information has come from London or Paris concerning this fight- I Ing. The Turkish war office also reports i a resumption of hostilities in the Cau casian campaign. It announces that a Russian force advanced oil the Turks near the frontier, hut was driven back to Russian territory, and that the Turks after eighteen hours of hard lighting occupied several Russian towns. The Rome correspondent of a Paris newspaper telegraphs that Italy and Serbia are at the point of concluding an agreement under which Italy will not object to Serbia's acquisition of territory on the Adriatic provided it Is not fortified. If this agreement is concluded, as is expected, the corre spondent says, Italy's participation in may be considered Imminent. German newspapers make few com ments on the American note to Great Hritaln and France concerning the plan of the allies for cutting off trade to and from Germany. one news paper. however, expresses the opinion that the United States is making a "far-reaching retreat" and is surren dering the principle that a blockade must bo effective. French Make Assault A furious assault on the German positions between the Meuso and the Moselle is being made by the French in continuation of their new offensive movement. The official communlca | tion from Berlin mentions attack after 1 attack and says these onslaughts were I repulsed with "extraordinarily heavy" losses for the French. On some of these battlefields, it is said, the ground is covered with the bodies of the I French. The official statement from I Paris gives few details of the fighting, although it is claimed that ground was EIGHTH CHAPTER PUBLISIIED J London, March 27, (Correspondence of the A. P.) —Th 1 eighth instalment of the French official review of the war I previous chapters of which have been given by the Asso ciated Press takes v up the German losses of officers, the wastage of guns and projectiles, and "the moral wastage o. ' the German army." I VATICAN DENIES REPORT 1 Rome. April 6, 8.50 P. M.—Official denial of the report ' printed in Rome newspapers to the effect t. : l;e Vatican Observatory is pending, a wireless messa. ; is published by the Osservatorc Romano, the organ of the Vatican. The director of the observatory asserts that the Vatican does ' not possess apparatus either for sending or receiving wire less massages. ' ESTABLISH DIRECT COMMUNICATION Sofia, Bulgaria, April 7, via London, 3.15 P. M.—Two Russian delegates arrived here to-day to conclude arrange ments with Bulgarian railroads for the t r iblishment of ( direct communication, between Russian and Saloniki, Greece. •APPOINTMENT SUBSTANTIATED Washington, April 7.—The element supporting General j Gutierrez as provisional president of Mexico to-day made , public the papers giving the appointment by Gutierrez of Juse Vasconcclos as special envoy at Washington and the lengthy formal statement presented by Vasconcelos to Sec retary Bryan on March 24. WILLARD STARTS FOR NEW YORK Havana, April 7. —Jess Willard left Havana to-day for New York where he is due to arrive Friday. A big crowi was at the dock to say good-by to the champion. -29 LOST , " Berlin, April 7, via Amsterdam and London, 4.55 P. M.— , The German admiralty has given out an official statemen in which the loss of the submarine U-29 is accepted. I EITEL HOISTED FLAGS AND BLEW WHISTLE , Newport News, Va.. April 7. —Shortly before 3 o'clock i the Eitel hoisted a line of signal flags and blew her whistle. C The shrill blast was sounded. Smoke was pouring from i both of her funnels. i —« . , MARRIAGE LICENSES Howard C. lteHh and Mrn. Utile Heath, Huiiover townnhlp. Al<m»o H. nufflnicton mid itoxle I.etvlM, city. I.nuin Donlemaek, Wlt'oulipu townntilp, and" (.'emu Garbrage, Newark. I ♦ POSTSCRIPT. , **Jned in some Instances. The Berlin statement says the Ger mans abandoned the village of Dret Grachten, which they had captured from the Belgians, on account of the fire from heavy artillery to whloh it was subjected. Russians Repulsed No further official information wna given out concerning the campaign la the east except a reference in the Ber lin statement of the fighting along the Kast Prussian border. It is said that the Russians were repulsed in battles southwest of Kernel and near Augus towo, one Russian battalion being an nihilated. Two Russian delegates have arrived at Solla, Bulgaria, to arrange for rail way communication between Russia and Saloniki, Greece. The Sofia dis patch containing this announcement does not explain by what means this could be accomplished, as It would In volve the use of railways through neu tral countries. Neither is It explained that Russia desires to use the railroads for military purposes. BULGARIA BF.MEVKD TO BE NEGOTIATING WITH ALLIES By Associated Press Rome, April 6. 10.20 P. M.—Com menting upon Bulgaria's reply to Ser bia's protest growing out of the Valan dovo .Incident (the attack by Bul garian irregulars upon Serbian frontier guards), the Tribuna says the clash must have displeased the triple en tente powers while reviving the hopes of the central empires and Turkey. The newspaper thinks that Bulgaria is negotiating with the allies, while at the same time maintaining intimate relations with Austria and Germany. BERLIN COMMENTS ON NOTE Berlin. April 7, via London, 12.15 P. M.—~ I The Berlin newspapers to-day publish summaries of the American note to Great Britain on the order in council. With the exception of thu Kreuz Zeitung they make no comment upon It.
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