Washington Orders Full Inquiry Into Los HARRISBURG S|l§llib TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 152 DEFER ACTION ON SINKING OF ARMENIAN PENDING REPORTS ORDER FULL INQUIRY INTO SINKING OF SHIP WHERE HARRISBURGER LOST LIFE Freighter Surrendered When German Warcraft Dropped Shell Through Her Skylight; Skipper of Leyland Liner Tried Hard to Make Getaway, Is Report From Avonmouth, England "Brown of Harrisburg" Believed to Have Been Ship's Car penter Who Lived at Middletown Several Years Ago; Probably Drowned When Submarine Shell Cut Falls of Lifeboat; State Department Awaiting Stories of Survivors to Learn Definitely What Warning Was Given. By Associated Press Washington. July 1 Secretary Lansing announced to-day that until more complete reports had been received from Ambassador Page at London on the torpedoing of the British liner Armenian, in which several Americans lost their li\es, Monday, the United States would take no action. Later dispatches detailing how the Armenian made efforts to escape after being ordered to stop caused officials to believe the sink ing of the vessel was accomplished in accordance with international law and that the United States might have no reason to take up the subject with Germany except to verify the truth of statements. Under the rules of international law, it was pointed out that the Armenian which flew the British flag, as well as any neutral vessel could be sunk for refusing to obey a warning to halt and submit to visit and search or capture. Americans aboard such a ship lose pro tection of their government when the vessel offers resistance. Mr. Page reported that the Armenian was engaged in "admiralty business" but the question of" how..far the vessel was under the con trol of the British government by charter, or ownership, seemed to be overshadowed in the minds of officials here, by the reported re sistance to capture. TENSION RELAXES There was a relaxation of tension in official quarters by the news that the Armenian apparently was resisting capture, for what seemed to loom up as a possible complication in the pending negotiation over submarine warfare with Germany appeared to be removed. The report that the German commander had come to the surface and that he megaphoned the Armenian seems to be verified. It was sug gested in some quarters that the German submarine commanders now may have new orders requiring them not to torpedo any ships without warning in the last few weeks. The law 011 the question of charter is not clear, but officials in dicated it would not be a violation of American neutrality laws for an unarmed transport carrying a cargo of munitions or supplies for a belligerent government to sail from the United States and that it never had been definitely determined whether belligent crews were on the ships. If NEVER MIND THE STRING Don't put it off until you get downtown, don't wait another minute. Order the Harrisburg Telegraph to your vacation ad dress. then you won't miss a sin gle issue. You're going for a rest; but you're not going to drop out of Harrisburg life. You'll want to know what's doing at home. Telephone the Circulation De partment or drop a postal card. THE WEATHER For Harrisburg nnd vicinity: Fair to-night and Fridays not ranch change In temperature. For Eastern Pennsylvania i Partly cloudy to-night nnd Friday) not much change in temperature. River The main river and its principal tributaries will rise auhstanMally this afternoon, to-night and Fri day, except the Jnnlata and the upper portions of the North and West branches nlll fnll Frlda-r. A stage of about ."i.O feet Is Indi cated for Harrisburg Friday morning. General Conditions The rain depression that was over the Upper Ohio Valley Wednes day morning, has drifted slowly eastward to the Middle Atlantic coast. It caused general, and In some localities, heavy showers from the I.nke Region eastward and front the Ohio river south eastward to the Atlantic coast, the greatest amounts of rain re ported occurring In the Susque hanna Valley, F.aktern New York and Southern Sew Fngland, where a number of stations re ported from one to two and one, half Inches. Tempera in re i « a. m., 72. Sunt Rises! 4:40 a. m.s sets, 7»37 'p. m. /Moon: Rises, 10:37 p. m. JRlver Stage: Three feet above f low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather H'gheat temperature, 71. (.oweat temperature, «7. Mean temperature, 73. normal temperature, 73. Avonmoilth, England, July 1, 12:26 ' p. m. —There were eleven Americans 1 among the 19 members of the crew j who lost their lives in the sinking of I the Loyland Line freight steamer ■ Armenian by the German submarine U-38 off the coast of Cornwall on i Monday. Some members of the crew ! were killed outright when the German j torpedo struck the ship. The vessel | had a crew of 72 men and carried 96 | men as muleteers. The submarine was first sighted by ' the man at the wheel and though the j ship was pushed to the limit, the ; mosquito craft rapidly overhauled her ■ and commenced shelling. The Ar- I mcnian's efforts to keep lier stern to j the submarine were futile. The faster vessel circled the freighter and the German commander speaking through a megaphone order ed the Armenian's captain to surrender or he would sink the ship. The skipper of the Loyland Liner struggled hard to evade the undersea boat, but the latter dropped a shell through a skylight into the steamer's engine room, putting the engines out of action. The Armenian then sur rendered. Life boats were lowered and the crew and some seventy mule tenders, nearly all Americans, scrambled into them. As one of the boats was being lower ed, a shell from the submarine cut the falls of the boat. The oc<"upants were spilled into the water and presumably were drowned. Five boats with survivors got away. The submarine then fired two tor pedoes into the Armenian and the ves sel sank within 30 minutes. The sur vivors rowed around in the boats until j Tuesday morning when a steam trawler landed them at Avonmouth. Ambassador Page Reports Armenian Was Engaged i "on Admiralty Business" Washington, D. C., July 1. The; Leyland Line steamship Armenian was "engaged on admiralty business" when she was sunk by a German submarine off the Cornwall coast of England two days ago with the loss of a score of I lives. Ambassador Page reported to the State Department to-day that he i had been so informed by British ad miralty officials. Consular Armstrong at Bristol, who j sent first word of the destruction of i the steamer yesterday reported to Am-1 bassador Page that twenty-one of theJ twenty-nine men lost with the A|d menian were Americans. He gavMH additional names, although lists Included only twenty Amei^H The Ambassador's dispatch^H -f Continued on HARRISBURG, PA,. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1915 Americans Believed Lost With Torpedoed Ship E. WILLIAMSON, St. Louis. J. M. MONROE, New Orleans. B. M. GRAN BERRY, Montgom ery. Ala. S. R. SUTTON, Cartersvllle, Va. HARRY STONE, New York City. BROWN (CATTLE CARPEN TER), HARRISBURG, PA. DR. J. S. VISO, Porto Rico. R. H. BROOKS, or WEST ( chief I foreman of muleteers), London (naturalized American). Also the following- negro mule teers: Henry, Leroy, Jackson and Speed, Richmond, Va.; Wall, Foley and Little, Newport News, Va.; King, Small, Rickert and Oakes, Norfolk, Va.; Smith, Portsmouth, Va 1 Identity of Local Man Killed When Ship Sunk Is Not Fully Determined Browns of this city and vicinity are anxious to know who the* carpenter was that was killed when the Germans sunk the Dominion liner Armenian oni Monday night northwest of Cornwall! England. 1 he man who was supposed to come from this city was listed as "Brown, cattle ship carpenter. Harrisburg, Pa." •\o first name was given. Only two Browns who are carpenters are listed in the city directory and both of these are in this city. Residents of Middletown believe that the man who was killed was William E. Brown, known as "Billy" and a former resident of that place. He has not been heard from for sev eral years, and when the last informa tion of his whereabouts was received he was employed on the Great Lakes. Germans Refused to Save Drowning Men ( ardiff, Wales, July 1. Survivors of the sunken Armenian arriving here say that the German submarine ran close to the drowning men who had I been thrown into the water by a capsizing boat but that the crew of the submarine did not attempt to rescue any of them. HUNDREDS OF FOOOS SAMPLED BY STATE Foust's Agents Busy Here and in York and Lancaster; Now in Chemist's Hands Special agents of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner to-day com pleted the most extensive sampling of the food supplies of Harrisburg, York and Lancaster that has ever been un dertaken by the State authorities and 212 samples have been sent to Chem ist C. H. Cochran for analyses. The sampling has been under way for three weeks and practically every store dealing in food products' in the three cities has been visited. In a. number of instances it has been found that dried fruits which had been j treated with sulphur dioxide were sold ; without being labeled as required by i law, and that coffee which contained ■ cereals or which contained chicory j without being marked as required by [the new act. Other foods sampled ! were Hamburg steak, sausage, cakes I and soft drinks. New Prohibition Law of Alabama Most Drastic of Any in Country Atlanta, Ga., July I.—Alabama en tered the prohibition ranks last night at 11 o'clock when the most drastic antiliquor law yet adopted by any State went into full effect. This is the second prohibition law for Ala bama in the last 10 years, the first one failing and being repealed, it is as serted, because it proved ineffective. The present law was designd to over come the defects of the other, and in it, is embodied practically every prohi bitive clause to be found in the various laws of other dry States. Premier Asserts Spain Favors Neither Side By Associated Press Madrid, July I.—Discussing war and internal conditions in Spain, Premier Date said to-day there was no foun dation for the allegation that the ! Spanish government favors the cause of the Quadruple entente. He declared I Spain favors neither side and is act ing as fairly as it can. j Asserting that the constitution , would not be suspended, the premier ! said: "Let us live united, having <n j view only the defense of the county, i That is the principle we will maintain I with firmness." U. S. Submarine H-3 to Be Placed in Drydock By Associated Press San July 1. United j States submarine H-3 which was float i ed late after being wedged | between rocks near Point Sur Tuesday night, ar- I j to determine If was done to her hull. SLU:D ADMIRAIi I LI, ■Pa., July I.—James Mac. one of the oldest re |Hmirals of the United States of Philadelphia, . l wlth paralysis to-day and ■I point of death. Maxim Has Invention to Combat German Poison Gas v J . "• i- .. , . .J. „ S/rt H IRAfI mAX/tri SIR HIRAM MAXIM IN* HIS WORKSHOP According to dispatches, Sir Hiram Maxim, the noted inventor, has just completed an invention to combat the German poison gas. His invention is to force the fumes over the heads of the soldiers. Sir Hiram is 75 years old, but continues to work seventeen hours a day In his laboratory. At present he is deeply engrossed in several Inventions, among them being a bomb Igniter and a device for the defense of trenches against bayonet attack. HOW DID MOOED Ml MEET DEATH? ASK AUTHORITIES Known as "The Old Fisherman," He Told Farmer's Wife; Home in Baltimore With no other clue than the letters "T. W. M." and the figure of an Amer- j ican eagle tattooed on the right arm ( and the figures of a man and a woman : on the left arm, the authorities are en- 1 deavoring to learn the identity of the ' man whose body was discovered in a. ; wheatfleld near Jednota, above Mid-! dletown, yesterday. There is still a mystery in the man- j ner in which the man met his death, i The body was found beneath a tall! chestnut tree on the old Heina pickle, farm, about a quarter mile below Jed- i nota. It was entirely nude and cloth- \ ing was scattered promiscuously about, j A pack, which the man carried, was i opened and the contents scattered in I confusion. The body was discovered by a train I crew passing on the Pennsylvania rail- I road. In the crew were H. M. Beck, j C. U Cless, J. A. C. Wright, S. W. | Beam, H. E. Witman and R. F. Reed, i One of the men was sitting on top of i a box car when he noticed the body laying in the field. The crew told a dispatcher of the find and the dis patcher notified Coroner Eckinger, who turned the body over to H. Wilt's Sons, Steelton. I Mrs. Aaron Reigle, who lives on a [farm near where the body was found, identified it as that of a man who asked her for something to eat on Sunday morning. When she gave the man food, she says, he told her he was known as "The Old Fisherman." A short time later he talked with Frank Freistak, an employe of the Jednota printery. whom he told that his home was in Baltimore. Although there are no visible marks to indicate that the man was mur dered. the authorities are at a loss to understand why his clothes had been removed and the pack ransacked. The body is that of a man about 70 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 125 pounds. The hair and a thick beard are gray, Thrilling Battle in Air Described by Aviator Paris, July I.—A ruse by which he ! destroyed a German aeroplane near Ypres is described by Mark Helson, ai British aviator In the Journal. The' battle took place nearly 6500 feet in the air. "When the enemy machine sighted me it immediately took to flight," said Helson. "I dashed off in pursuit. Af.er about ten minutes rapid fllghl, I came up with him. The duel began at once. "After fighting for some time with out result, I adopted a strategem which I have always found success- j ful and let my aeroplane dive almost! perpendicularly. The German aviator • believing T had fallen, also descended in a gliding flight. I then righted my! machine suddenly and shot above him , at a distance of about only fifteen feet. ; Then we resumed the duel. One of my shots hit the gasoline tank of the aeroplane and the machine burst into flames, crashing to the earth. The ,pilot and observer both were killed." PERSISTENT EFFORTS BIG LEAGUE BALL i 1 . Harrisburg Takes Over Newark Internationals Tomorrow; Plan Big Opening * Baseball Guide For Friday Afternoon 1 12.45—Formation of parade, Front and Market streets. I.oo—Parade moves. 2.ls—Concert at Island Park. . 3.oo—Raisin* of flag. | 3.ls—Baseball game starts. Har risburg vs. Jersey City. Island Park Schedule Saturday, 3 P. M.—Harrisburg vs. Jersey City. Monday, 10 A. M. and 3 P. M.— Harrisburg vs. Jersey City. I International league baseball for | Harrisburg. This is gospel truth. First ! game at Island Park to-morrow be i tween Harrisburg and Jersey City. The transfer of the Newark team to ! this city canie after a hard tight at a I league meeting in New York city ( which ended late last night. Plans for ! the opening game and parade to-mor i row will be completed to-night. President Edward G. Barrow was [Continued on Paee 7.] German Submarine Sinks British Bark Carrying Wheat Cargo I By Associated Press Ijondon. July t. Noon.—The British j bark Tliifltlcbank. which sailed from Bahln Blanca, .Argentina, April 26, | with a cargo of wheat for Queens town, was torpedoed by a < German sub marine yesterday at a point off Fast net. Ireland. Some of the crew were landed at Baltimore, a .small seaport forty-seven miles southwest of Cork. CORK WORKERS GETTING HIGHEST WAGES EVER PAID By Associated Press Connellsvilie, Pa., July I.—Practi cally all the operators in this region have announced that the wages of em . pioyes will be advanci to a parity j with the H. C. Frick Coke Company ; which are the highest ever paid. Operators declare coke prices do not j warrant an increase in wages but say ; that this step is being taken owing to a shortage in labor. STRIKE CI/OSES MtINES By Associated Press Joplin, Mo„ July I.—Ten more lead and zinc mines among the heaviest producers in the Joplin district were closed to-day as a result of the miners' ! strike, which began last Monday. More than forty mines in Webb City and liloplin now are shut down. Three (thousand or more men are out of em ployment. GENERAL SHERMAN'S WIDOW ILiL VParis, July 1, 12:31 p. m. Mrs. Alexander H. Thackaray, the wife of th® American consul general at Paris Is seriously ill. She is the widow of the late General Tecumsfth Sherman. 12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT STOUGH'S EARNINGS IN 1914 $2210, HE TELLS nuns Says Wife Is His Bookkeeper and He Knows Little of Business ADMISSIONS AND DENIALS Delegation of Singers Accom panies Him to Court; $570 Raised For Defense Special to The Telegraph Wilkes-Harre, Pa., July I.—Dr. Henry W. Stough, the evangelist, came here to-day from Hazleton to defend the $50,000 slander suit of W. J. Cul led, Hazleton councilman, and with htm came a carload of singing women and men. At the courthouse they gathered on the main floor and before, going to the court room sang several hymns, making the two million dol lar courthouse ring with their music. One of the main rooms was crowd ed to its capacity when Arbitrators Dilley, Keck and Kleeman called Dr. Stough to the witness stand. He de [Continucd on Page 12.] Italian Captain and a Hundred Men Take Strong Austrian Fort Geneva, Switzerland, via Paris, June 30.—A dispatch from I*aiba<'li, Aus tria. to the Geneva Tribune reports the capture by Italians of a mountain fortress at C'onl Sujnia, 2,500 meters northeast of Ala, in Trentino, which cost the Austrians SBOO,OOO to con struct. The correspondent characterizes the capture as "an audacious affair." He states that an Italian captain with 100 men climbed the steep slope and de manded that the garrison surrender, say liir that the fortress was sur rounded. This was a "bluff," but the garrison capitulated. , Exploding Toy Cannon Kills Meadville Boy Meadville. Pa., July I.—lrvln Abel. 14. son of Charles E. Abel, was killed last night when a toy cannon made of a piece of gas pipe exploded, fractur ing his skull. T I 1e I - fl H jfl I j.ltscc ten >ii:_ ? u-: ~jrl H ..; ■ [ r I I "3 officers an £ J T ■ ' : -- Lcylan" !. : ■t. ■ nan by a G. r I' w 5 ■ ic ■ f H t* M Ifl ▲JP ' • V . sburg. Harry Folk, on? and one-half. year-old <: : , Mr. and Mrs. Harry Folk, 124 Hoyer street, was ad- ' rj I I I to Harrisburg hospital, suffering from internal ; a used by swallowing lye. 5 Ehester, N. Y., July 1. James Edward Quigley, | ' c ■ shortly before 12 o'clock to lay and his death f H c H t i I . . :e.i.l £. M ; 4 om the t . . Co. 1 ; Voik. Ju'y l.— : The Federal Grand Jury to. L I indicted Rudolph Malik, an Austrian, arrested here last T H I night, charged with mailing a letter June 23 to Preaid, I ■ Wi threatening him wih "a political crime" should the *1 I • charged, was demanded as an indemnity for Malik's inabil 'fl I. u I ■ MARRIAGE LICENf '■ ■ K d .^." pd ?• ! y«' al Ell*«b®th Hill. city. f \> llllani Vi *l(rr shearer an«l Km ma C. Bberaolr, city. I John I. Lllley, olty, and C'nrrle J. Mlllhlmr, Enhaut. £ ■i'V— Vti rV| r II TEUTONS CLEMIHIG ' WHY FOR TERRIFIC DRIVE AT WARSAW Austro-German Forces Making Ivangorod Their Objective, Believe Russians REPULSE ATTACK IN BALTIC | German Submarine Activity Again I Takes Center of Stage Through ' Sinking of Armenian The Russian lines are still being swung back in Northern Gnllela and Southern Poland, in an apparent effort ; by the Teutonic allies to clear the way j for a determined more on Warsaw. The Russians admit a continuation of the enemy offensive between the Rug and Vieprz. At the junction of the latter river with the Vistula in Poland, lies Ivangorod, which Russian observers believe is the immediate ob jective of the Austro-German forces in this region. Ivangorod is little more than fifty miles southeast from the Polish capital. Just at present the chief Russian holding power seems to be along the line of the western Rug and the Gnila Lipa in Galicia. Petrograd also re- I cords a repulse of an attempt by the I Teutons to cross the Dneister for Hailed indicating that the line of the Dneister south of that place is still well held by the Grand Duke Nicholas forces. A German attack on Wandeau in Courland, in the Baltic just south of I the Gulf of Riga, was repulsed by the I Russians, the official statement says. ! five cruisers and ninny torpedoboats I participated in the attack and an at | tempt is believed to have been made 'to land troops. One of the torpedo boats was blown up before the fleet re ] tired. Eyes are being turned toward I the Gallipoli peninsula from which , stirring news has recently come and there ure hints from the side of the entente allies that successes just reach- I ed are to be followed by still more | determined attempts to carry Turkish positions. German submarine activity brought ! sharply to the front by the sinking of j the steamer Armenian with the loss |of a number of American lives is I further shown by news of the sinkir.es > j of the British bark Thistiebank, and 1 [Continued on Page 12]
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