President Wilson, Supported by Nation, at Work on Future Pdkv of IkjS. HARRISBURG |fSl§§te TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 108 •WILSON, SECLUDED, WORKS ON FUTURE POLICY OF AMERICA BERNSTORFF EXPRESSES HIS REGRET AT LOSS OF SO MANY AMERICAN LIVES Jury Investigating Cause of Disaster Makes Public Its Finding at Kinsale; Identification of Dead Progresses Slowly; More Bodies Are Being Brought to Shore; Liverpool Cotton Exchange Refuses to Permit Ger mans or Austrians on Floor. The eyes of the entire American nation were turned toward Washing ton to-day. anticipating an early announcement of the policy which the United States will adopt with Gcrmanv as a result of the killing of American citiaens aboard the ill-fated Lusitanla. President Wilson, who now lias the support of the whole country In his effort to pass the crisis peacefully, re mained at the White Hotise in seclusion, outlining the course which this gov ernment will follow. Some reference to his views is exittfted to be voiced by the President wlien he addresses newly naturalized citizens at a rei eption in their honor in Philadelphia this evening. Congressmen and men prominent in the life of the nation Hooded the national capital to-day with telegrams offering their support to lVesident Wilson during the trying times through which lie is passing and while •■ome of theni counseled an Immediate open break with the Kaiser, the ma jority of them urged the President to follow a course not designed to draw America into the great European conflict. President Wilson hopes to see the country come through the present difficulty with honor and credit, but at the same time the policy of Uie I'nited States probably will include a denunciation of this act of Germany [Continued on Page 10.] U-39 Responsible For Sinking of Lusitania By Associated Press 'London, May 10.—The Central News has received a dispatch from its cor respondent at Genoa who says a tele gram received there from Munich de clares that the German submarine U-39 was responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania. FIVE PIE IX BLAZE Pittsburgh. Pa.. May 10. —Five per sons were burned to death, two were seriously injured an da number were saved by jumping: from third story windows into a iifenet when fire early to-day destroyed an Italian tenement house. The fire started in a barber shop on the first floor. Tell the paper hanger you'll ••Rny-It-Now." VV hat you pay him will pro vide more money for hiiu to pay to the manufacturer who vrlll use It to hire more people. v»ho can then have wages to spend for what you hate to - sell. This Is the time of all time for the V. S. A. to make vast strides. —Let's all get busy. Buy-It-Now THE WEATHER For Rarritbort and vtctnttr: Fair, nnllionl rnol 10-nlabt with lon *•« trwptritnrf about 4« dttnti: T»»d«y fair nad warmer. For Eaatera Pcaaaylvanta: Pair, roatlaarit cool tn-nlclit: Tne«<!nv talr and ntmeri (ratlr shifting wlnda. River ~ The Snafloehanna river and all Ita «ribatarfes will fall nlowly or re maln nearly stationary. A Maiee «f about 4.2 fee* la Indicated for Harrlabarg Tnncdaj mornlnn. General Conditions rbf disturbance that vraa central north of the I.ake Rr|lon on «at ardar mornln*. baa passed off northeastward and an area of kick preunre from the tlwt ion covera the eastern half of the eoaatry with Ita center over the Ohla Valley. Temperature: 8 a. m.. SJ. fina i Rlaea. 4:M a. m. I nets, 7KW p. m. Moon i Slew moon. May 13, lOtSO ». m. _ River Stage i tJ feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather ■lgkwt tempera tore. IW. tToweat tempera tare. IW. Wean temperature. «a toraal temperatare. <lO. ITALY MAY DECLH WAR ON TURK FORCES Situation in Flanders and Car pathians Reported to Be Still Obscure GERMANS ARE MAKING GAINS Four Zeppelins Said to Have Taken Part in Latest Raid in England 1 An aerial raid within forty miles of Ijondon was made earl) tu-day. Vari ous conflicting report.- were received from the E-sex coast, one of which said serious damage to property and some loss of life had been caused by bombs dropped by the raiders. It was reported aLso that four Zeppelins took part in the raid. Another dispatch. ' however. -aid that while several air craft took part, it h<td not been eatab , lished whether they were Zeppelin or ueroplaueM. The towns of Sooth End. j Westclitr-on-Sea and Lehigh appears to have been attacked. The Italian government is now ex pected to reach shortly Its decision for lor against war. in this connection Rome regards as of significance the Tisit to the capital of Signor Giolitti. former premier and a member of the neutralist group. It is reported In Rome that if Italy decides to enter the war she will do so by declaring war on Turkey. The situation In Tlanders and the Carpathians, where the critical battles of the present phase of the war are be ing fought, is still obscure. On the western front both the Germans and their opponents claim considerable gaini*. In the Carpathians a similar situation exists; for though the Rus sians admit reverses at the hands of the Austrians and Germans they con cede no such serious defeats as are indicated by the statements from Ber lin and Vienna, and assert that the Teutonic allies are now being check ed. WANTS TESTIMONY ERASED By Associated Press Syracuse. N. Y.. May 10.—Counsel, for William Barnes In his suit for Ilhel against Theodore Roosevelt planned , to present arguments in the Supreme j Court here to-day in an effort to have granted motion to strike from the re: cord much of the evidence presented for the defendant in justification of ; the charges he made in the article: upon which this suit is based, * 1 HARRISBURG. PA.. Rich Philadelphian and Children Among the Victims I - $ \\ I //1 1 imn f iiairtjMirtii ii- T'ir»jHi'rnm r <~ . W. BTERLJNG HODGES AXD HIS TWO ROYS W Sterling Hodges, who was a passenger on tha LmaiUnla. was tha Paris representatlvß of the Baldwin lxn oraxtlve Works. He was returning to Paris to take up his duties after a short stay in this country. He was accompani ed by Mr*. Hodges, and their two small children, Sterling Hodges and Dean TV. Hodges. When in Philadelphia the Hodges live at 2926 avenue. They closed their home last week. It is believed that the trip of Mr. Hodges and narry J. Keser. had to do with plans for the sale of equipment and possibly other munitions by the Baldwin I.ocomotive Works to the allies. It was reported the trip of Mr. Hodges was in connection with the sale of locomotives to the Government of France. LUSITANIA DEAD ARE DIG BURIED Unidentified Victims Carried Along Winding Path to Cemetery on Hill U. S. FUGS COVER AMERICANS Affidavits of Survivors Obtained as Permanent Records of Disaster Queenstown. May 9, via London, May 10, 1.57 A. M.—Affidavits made by Miss Jessie Taft Smith, of Brace ville, Ohio; Dr. Howard L. Fisher, Ma jor F. Warren Peari and Robert Ran kin. of New York, are the only per manent records of the Lusitania dis aster obtained by the United States consulate here. All are brief and none reflect seriously upon the behavior of the Lusitania'a crew except what some witnesses consider the lifeboat fiasco. The affidavits of Miss Smith and Mr. Rankin were cabled last night to Sec retary .->f State Bryan, while those of Major Pearl and Dr. Fisher were sent to Ambassador Page at London. Beginning at noon to-day at Con sul Frost's orders the bodies of the identified Americans, covered with the Stars and Stripes were removed from scattered morgues and placed side by side in the Cunard line offices on the waterfront. As they were carried [Continued on Page 1-I.] "Murder, Foul and Most Unnatural," Says Speaker By Associated Press London. May 10, 1.40 P. M.—"Our enemies have reached a degj-ee of in famy, culminating in the destruction of the Lusitania. which it is simply hopeless to attempt to describe." said Andrew Bonar-Law. leader of the op position in the house of commons, in a speech to-day. Mr. Bonar-Law's re marks were delivered on the occasion of the presentation of a medal to Cap tain Bell, of the British steamer Thordis. which rammed a German submarine off Beachy Head in Feb ruary. "This not an act of warfare." Mr. Bonar-Law continued. "It is simply murder, most foul, most unnatural." Saying that up to the. presrnt no "effort to protest" had been made by any neutral country, he nddcd: ""VVhat will hanpen now? That great proud nation—the T'nited States—is the neutral country most closely af fected by this latest outrage. The sim ple fact is thai citisens of that rreat country have been barbarously mur dered." MONDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1915. GERMAN MUMI EXPRESSES REGRETS Sorry of Loss of So Many Americans, He Teiis Secre tary Bryan PUSHES ASIDE QUESTIONERS Only Real Response Was That He Had No Appointment With President By Associated Press Washington. May 10.—Count Bern storff. the German ambassador, called on Secretary Bryan to-day and ex pressed "deep regret that the events of the war led to the loss of so many American lives." After a halt' hour's conference be tween the ambassador and Secretary Bryan the following was, by mutual agreement, given out by the secre tary: "The German ambassador called at the State Department ami expressed his deep regret that the events of the war had led to the loss of so many American lives." While neither the ambassador nor Secretary Bryans statement mention ed the I..usitania disaster by name it was known that the two officials talk ed of it specifically. It was the am bassador's first visit to the department [Continued on Pa#« 10.] •ISASTI K DOMINATES MARKET Kew Yoi;k. .May 10.—The Lusitania (llAster to-day continued to dominate tIW local stock market, prices falling away soon after a firm opening. De clines were moderate at the outset, but gained in breadth and extent dur ing the first hour. War specialties, particularly Bethlehem Steel and Westinghouse Electric were weak from the start, losing 3 to points. H # S Greatest Achievement of War, Say Germans By Associated Press Amsterdam. May 10. via London 42:26 P. M. The Cologne Volks Zeitung says: "The alnklne of the Laaltanla la a aarceaa of oar aubmarlaea which mnat be placed bealde the areateat achievement of thla war. The alnk Ins of the fftaat Enfllab vleamrr la a ancceaa of moral nlcafacaace which la still greater than material ancceaa. "With Joyful pride we ronlrn- ' plate thla lateat deed of our nnw ft will not be the laat. The Racllah wlah to ahandn a the ticrman people to death by atarra. 1 tlon. We are more humane. e ■ Imply aank an Rasllah ahlp with paaaeaitera. who. at their own rlak and reapaaalblllty, entered the aoae of operatloaa." * 250 HARRISBURGERS BOOST CITY IN BIG AUTO PUBLICITY RUN 66 Cars Leave For Three-day Tour of Pennsylvania, Jersey and Delaware Towns AT ATLANTIC CITY TONIGHT Receptions Planned in Every City Along Route; Reach Philadel phia at Noon Special to The Tclcf.ifh (ilouccsilor, X. J., May 10. Warm i welcome was accorded Harris burg iuo-' torists In every city through which | the route ran to-day. At Heading, | Pottstown, ColleKeville and Norristown j members of commercial btxlies. cltl-' zens and officials met the tourist* ami ! escorted tlient to the checking stations. I.uiich was served by the Xorristown Auto Club. At Philadelphia traffic regulations were forgotten In the re ception to the Harrisburg vllstors. "Boosting Harrisburg" will keep 1240 Harrisburgers active to-day, to-1 morrow and Wednesday. The 200 are I participants in the big Publicity liun i of the Motor Club of Harrisburg which started early this morning. The boosters filled sixty-six cars and ! were given an enthusiastic send-off by j thousands of people in Market Square | and along Market and Derry streets. Each automobile carried flags, pen- | nants and signs. Harrisburg will be I advertised in thirty different cities en-! route, and in each city elaborate pre- j parations have been made for recep-1 tions, banquets and luncheons for the tourists. Handsome silver trophies' ami special prizes will be awarded to i cars making best schedule time, for, [Continued on Pa*c 10.] Leo M. Frank Is Again Given Sentence to Die By Associated Press Atlanta. Ga.. May 10. I«eo M. j Frank to-day was resentenced to be j hanged on Tuesday, June 22. for the i murder of Mary Phagan. Frank, when brought before Judge HUI to be resentenced, mauls this state ment: "Again I stand before you. Again X can but reiterate that I am innocent of the murder of Maty Phagran. t have absolutely no guilty knowledge of that tragic occurrence. "I am innocent of this charge and 1 assert that the record of the evidence conclusively proves this. No appellate tribunal has ever passed upon this evi dence. The only judge who has ever' heard It stated that he hod the most serious doubts as to my guilt. "My execution will not avenge Mary Phagan's death. A life will have been taken for a life, but the real culprit will not have paid the penalty. I will ! suffer for anothers crime. "My trust is in God. who knows that ! my protestations of innocence are the i truth. At some future date the whole mortal world will realize it." Wants U. S. to Send Ships to Take Part in Search By Associated Press Washington, May v lo.—The State department to-day cabled Consul Frost to get in touch if possible with the captain of the American liner St. j Paul and ask about the report that Ithe St. Paul passed floating bodies. I T. P. Litt'.epage of New York, attor ney for the Pearson interests, con j ferred at the White House and at the I State department to-day to ask if the j United States could not send some ] ships to co-r.perate in a search for the bodies. He was told that the nearest | government vessel was In the Medi terranean, but Consul Frost was asked ' if the use of private craft seemed war- I ranted. ! TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SCRAN TOX I Philadelphia. May 10.—The State Supreme Court to-day affirmed the Lackawanna county Orphans' Court in j'the case of the Johnson estate of \ Scrantoji. The decision means that a large manual training school will be built in Scranton under the terms of a bill of Orlando Johnson. About a million dollars was involved. j GERMAN FORCES REPULSED I fly Associated Press I.ondon, May 10. 2.47 P. M.—The • Exchange Telegraph Company pub • lishes a dispatch from Its Copenhagen correspondent declaring that the Ger ! mans have met a severe check to the ; westward of Milau. capital of the Russian province of Courtland. Nu merous forces of Russians In strong | positions compelled them to retreat. SAFFORD GETS 9 MONTHS By Associated Press New York. May 10.—Frank D. Saf ford, the 60-year-old hotel clerk who was convicted of perjury because of testimony given in connection with the $50,000 breach of promise suit of Miss Rae Tanzer against James W. Os borne, was sentenced by Federal Judge Hough to-day to nine months Im prisonment. ANOTHER CUXARDER SAILS By Associated Press New York. May 10.—Announcement was made to-day at the Cunard offi ces that the Anchor Liner Tuscania, with 431 passengers, sailed from Glas gow on Saturday and from Liverpool Sunday for New York. This is the first passenger steamer identified with the Cunard line to sail from the Rrlt ish Isies for the United States since 1 the slnktqg .of the Lusitania. SI,OOO FOR SUFFERERS By Associated Press Washington. May 10.—The Needle Guild of America, which has Just elos-! Ed its annual conference In Philadel-; phla, to-day forwarded 11,000 to the! Red Crosa for relief to the Lusitania j sufferers. i ENTIRE IUTION TURNS EYES Oil won President Wilson Has the Support of the Country in Present Crisis OUTLINING POLICY OF U. S. Germany's Act Denounced as In excusable Under Laws of Na tions and Humanity By .Associated Press Washington. D. C., May 10.—Specu lation a.s to wliat the United States prolwhly would do as a protest against ; the torpedoing of the I/ti*ttanlu, with tlie loss of more than a hundred American lives, developed among offi cials and diplomats to-day the general opinion that President Wilson would express In the policy he pursues a de nunciation of the act as Inexcusable under U»e laws of nations and humanity. The extent of his action—whether it would go beyond an emphatically | phrased note to an actual severance of : diplomatic relations with Germany— I still was undetermined. l>ate to-day the President will go to Philadelphia i (•i 'dress a gatliering of four thou naturalized Americans. It la I M.- i illy expected that he will refer i i ihe situation produced by the sink- ! ii ur of the I.usitania. Uiough not i dhulging definitely the course the I United States government intends to pursue. When the Cabinet meets to-morrow the President will probably present to I his colleagues his ideas of what tl»e government's policy should be. NO EXTRA SESSION It Is now certain that the President does not inteud to call Congress in extra session. This disposes for the present at least of the suggestion that Germany's action will cause the United States to lie drawn into the European conflict. Considerations such as the mllltar.v importnnce of the United States to ulTe< t the course of the struggle abroad and llie possihiliu that the entry of this country into the war would auto math-ally cause a reduction in supplier of ammunition to the allies Itecause of the !Tcater need at home have In fluenced many officials to the belief that the disapproval of the United i States can be \ oiced in a far more ! effective way without declaring war. I The withdrawal of Amhasaador [Gerard without actually severing diplo- I matic relations has been suggested In ! some official quarters as one way of | Indicating the feeling of the American [Continued on Page 10.] £ REACH PHILADELPHIA WITH CLEAN SCORES* ~ i Philadelphia, May 10. With perfect scores sixty-six 1 cars, in the three-day run of the Motor Club of Harrlsburg, 5 arrived here shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon. Heading f t the cars was the pathfinder in which were seated J. Clyde I f Myton, and V. Grant Forrer, referee. The first car to arrive I at the Hotel Walton was that of I. W. Dill and following A ® closely was that of Conover and Mehring, which started | sixth in the race. No serious accidant occurred during the *5 I first leg of the run excepting, just below Reading, where one f of the cars collided with a trolley. The close of the run K I will be at Atlantic City. 1 ST PAUL PASSES FLOATING BODIES g | Steamship St. Paul, via wireless to London, May 10, j j 4.20 A M.—Many floating bodies were passed at 11 o'clock l , yesterday morning twenty mile® west of Kinsale. ' UNFILLED TONNAGE DECREASES 1 New York, May 10.—The unfilled townaje of tke Unitea ' b I States Steel Corporation on April 30 totalled 4,162,244 tons, t a decrease of 93,505 from March. ■ > ► Chicago, May 10. —President C. H Canby, of the Chi | > * cago Board of Trade, posted the following notice to-day ; '*The officers of the Board of Trade will hold to strict ac ► countability any member found guilty of originating or dis- ' * seminating false rumors." The notice was inspired by ru » mors, first spread among brokers for the purpose of causing ' k declines that President Wilson had been assassinated, i New York, May 10.—At the offices of Austin Baldwin ' * & Company, exporters, it was said to-day that all hope had j been abandoned for Henry Bradley Baldwin, head of the ■ ► firm, and Mrs. Baldwin, who were first cabin passengers on ' the Lusitania. Fifty-eight cablegrams detailing efforts to I J find Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin had been received by the firm > since last Friday. , ' London, May 10, 3.52 P. M. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Spencer Churchill, stated in the House I of Commons this afternoon that Captain Turner of the Lusi- ' ' tania had acknowledged receipt of messages from the ad l miralty giving him warning and directions for the course he ' * was to take. . ' ' John Henry Moyer anil Anna Mae Graher, Campb+Jlatown. Irnnk Oliver Jackaon and Beaale l.ee Thoaaai, rtty. i Jaoob F. Schleter. Londonderry, and Martha Mary Salwajr, SlMltoa. ( J *1 W ll ■» W" win «. ' . -4 i * POSTSCRIPT. 14 PAGES IZEPPELIB AIRSHIPS DIP MODE BOMBS Homes in Various Parts of West cliff-on-Sea Struck Early This Morning NO FATALITIES ARE REPORTED Forty Explosive Shells Are Said to Have Been Dropped on One Town By Associated Press London. May 10, 10.15 A. 51.—Two Zeppelin airships are reported to have dropped bombs on Westcllffe-on-Sea, near Soyth End. but no fatalities have been reported. Warning of the aproach of hostile aircraft was given South End at 2.f>B o'clock this morning. Several ma chines took part in the raid, but whether they were Zeppelins or aero planes the residents were unable to state, as the weather was cloudy. Bombs struck houses In various parts of the town, but no deaths have been reported. One man and his wife were badly burned in a fire started by an in cendiary bomb. One resident told of three bombs dropping near his home, none of which caused damage. It Is reported that several shops were burned at Leigh, a town near South End. Four Zeppelins are said to have dropped forty or fifty bombs there. BRITISH MOBILIZE TO KEEP GERMANS FROM EXCHANGE By Associated Press I.ondon. May 10, 1.13 P. M. —Be- tween 200 and 300 British members of the Stock Exchange have mobilized to prevent, forcibly if necessary, the entry of any Germans who might be brave enough to attempt to make their way into the house in disregard of i the warning issued by the Stock Ex change Committe# advising them to [ remain away. Excitement ran high around the ev- I change and a huge crowd collected in the vicinity in the expectation of 'disorders. Only a handful of natural- I ixed Germans appeared in the nelgli i borhood, however, and they did not j attempt to enter the exchange. They were hustled away and warned not to j return. I 10.000 GERMANS I,EAVE (ITALY Berne. Switzerland, May 10. vl* 'Paris. 5.40 P. M.—lt is estimated that : 10,000 Germans from Italy crossed i the Swiss frontier Saturday and Sun ! clay. Four thousand arrived at Luga* no alone.
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