Several Americans Reported Aboard Italian Liner Attacked and Sunk by Ausirians
HARRISBURG laglSgS TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 264
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INVESTIGATORS
NOT ENDORSED
BY AUTHO
Investigations Made by Charities Organization in Cleveland
and Rockefeller Institute Show American Civic Re
form Union Not to Be in Very Good Standing
Letters Show That Speakers Go About Making "Morbid
Addresses" and Then Get What They Can Oat of
Audiences, It Is Alleged; Did Not Ask Police Here to
Co-operate
CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF
"NEVER HEARD OF"
VICE INVESTIGATORS
llarrlnhurfc Telegraph.
tVnrrlshurg:, Penna.
Made Inqulrlen; never heard of
Captain Owen O. >\ lard: «lld not
know there wn* nueh an oricnnl
cation an the International An
noefatlon of lJeenned Detective*
In exlfttence; no wUICNMM
here, vice district eliminated.
P. I>. O'BRIEN,
thief l>et.
Captain Wiard is the man who
says conditions are worse in Har
risburg than in Chicago. He claims
to have conducted investigations of
vice conditions in the Windy City.
A. >l. White, State manager of the
American Civic Reform Union, who
with Captain Owen O. Wiard, presi
dent of an International Association
of I.icensed Detectives, has been in
vestigating; alleged vice conditions in
this city, has given an6ther statement
to the press.
Mr. White insists that he does not
want to give the city a black eye and
declares that his only wish is to see
that Harrisburg is "cleaned up."
One place in his statement of to
day he says: "When police organiza
tions accord support, we gladly co
operate.' Mr. White admitted how
ever. when questioned, that he at no
time has asked the police of this city
to give his organization any support.
Yesterday the self appointed "vleo
Investigator" when asked why he did
not ask the police to make arrests
Instead of chattering about alleged
evils before mixed audiences, said:
"We are not ready to ask the police
to take action."
"In Due Time"
To-day when Mr. White was asked
why he does not lay his evidence con
cerning law violations in the so-called
"winerooms" of the city before the
court the investigator said: "We will
in due time."
Mr. White was asked how he knew
conditions in this city were as bad
here as in Chicago and Pittsburgh.
"Have you ever been in Chicago
and Pittsburgh " was asked.
"Certainly I have," assured the in
vestigator.
"But have you ever investigated
conditions there?"
"Well, no, I haven't," said Mr.
White.
"How. then, do you know that con
ditions In Harrisburg are worse than
in these two cities?"
"Captain Wiard says so. and he con
ducted an investigation there once,"
was the reply.
Acting Chief of Police Joseph P.
Thompson yesterday said that he was
surprised that the ministers of the city
"fell for such fakers." To-day Mr.
White was asked who pays them for
thelr_ "investigating."
"We receive no fixed sum," explain
ed he, "the churches pay us what they
see fit."
I.lve by ''Passing the Plate"
Investigation made by the Telegraph
of the American Civic Reform Union
—which ' ' • ' Mr. White
represents—disclose that its head
quarters are in Cleveland, 0., and that
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GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED
By Associated Press
Paris. Nov. 10, 2.30 p. in.—A Ger
man attack near the forest of Glven
'•hy was easily repulsed by French
troops, according to an announcement
made this afternoon by the French
war office, while at the same time
French batteries in the Champagne
district, near Tahurs, responded with
energy to a German artillery attack.
THE WEATHER
For llarrloharg nnri vicinity: Fair,
continued rcld to-night with Iow
o»t temperature about 34 iiegreeai
Thuradav Increasing eloudlneaa
and warmer, probably mln in
the afternoon.
For Kantrn Pennsylvania: Fair
and continued cool to-night)
Thnraday Increasing eloudlneaa
and warmer, probably rain In the
a afternoon or by nights light north
T winds becoming freah southeast.
River
The »u«<iuehnnna river and all Its
tributaries fall slowly or re
main nearly stationary. A stage
of about 3.5 feet la Indicated for
Harrisburg Thursday morning.
<>eneral Conditions
Treasure la high over the eastern
part of the country, except the
northeast portloa. A disturbance
J»f *yeat magnitude covers near
ly all the territory nut of the
Mississippi river, except the Ta
ctile States, with Its center over
the Southern Rocky Mountain re
gion.
Temperature! S a. ra.. 40.
Snni Rises, 6i48 n. m.t acta, 4iS3
( p. m.
M °.°™ l First quarter. November 18,
«iO3 p. m.
River Stagei B.S feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, fll.
l.owest temperature, 42,
Mean temperature, 113.
formal temperature. 44.
MILLIONS LOST IN
I FIRE IN SCHWAB'S
BETHLEHEM PLANT
Machine Shop No. 4, Recently
Rebuilt, Destroyed by
Flames
EMPLOYED 2,000 MEN
Guns Worth $1,000,000 Were
in Course of Making and
Were Ruined
By Associated Press
South Bethlehem, Pa.. Nov. 10.—
Early this morning a fire, which
started in a pool of oil, destroyed ma
chine shop No. 4 of the Bethlehem
I Steel Company. The loss will be heavy,
as only recently the building was re
built and expanded and equipped at a
cost said to be J3.000,000. The build
ing destroyed was 200 by 700 feet
long, four stories high and employed
I 2,000 men. about half on the night
I shift. The building was given over to
| the manufacture of guns of various
j caliber for the United States. England
j and her allies, and some 800 of these
I guns were in process of manufacture
I when the tire broke out. The value
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American Steamship
Forcibly Searched by
British Cruiser Crew
By Associated Press
! Washington. Nov. 10.—' lie Ameri
can steamer Zculandia was forcibly
searched by a party from a British
cruiser last week while lying lu the
port of Progrcso, Mexico. The Amer
ican consul there reports the cruiser
now Is lying outside, presumably wait
ing to seize the ship.
On the face of such a report as the
consul sent, even though incomplete,
the official conclusion here is that the
British naval authorities not only vio
lated Mexican neutrality, hut far ex
ceeded tlielr rights in forcibly search
ing an American ship in a neutral
|K>rt.
The forcible searching of an Amer
ican ship in a neutral |M>rt probably
would constitute one of the most se
rious issues to arise Itetween the United
States and Great Britain in the eontro-
I vcrsy now within the channels of <ll
- plomacy over the British navy's con
! duct toward American shipping,
j Willie awaiting further details oili< ials
were silent. A thorough investigation
will be made.
Asquith WiU Ask For
Vote of Credit in House
By Associated Press
fjondon. Nov. 10. 12:02 P. M.
Premier Asquith will ask the ilouse
,or Commons to-day Tor a vote of
credit of £400.000,000 ($2.000 000.-
000). Tills will make the total
amount voted for war purposes In the
current year £1.300.000.000, (5f1.500.-
000,000).
| Governor Wants to
Hear Views of City
on Park Zone Plans
j The State board of public grounds
!nnd buildings, the City Planning Com
| mission. City Council, Mayor-elect
| Ezra S. Meals. Commissioner-elect E.
Gross and a number of other well
known citizens who are interested in
the development and improvement of
Harrisburg will meet Warren H. Man- i
ning. the park expert next Tuesday!
evening at the executive mansion as i
guests of Governor Martin G. Brum-'
b&ugh.
Governor Brumbaugh, it is under
stood, is anxious to obtain the views I
of the people of the city with rela
tion to the development of the capito!
i park extension zone by the State. The
city and State authorities should work
j together to bring about the best re
sults in the governor's opinion, and
in order to discuss the various phases
of the problem the conference has
been called.
The present Council which has had
so much to do with the development
of the city's park and public Improve
ment program will not have the work
ing out of new problems, however.
Mayor-elect Meals and Commissioner
elect Gross will be members of the
new City Commission after January 1.
BUFFIXGTON TO BE A CLERK
Harry E. Bufflngton. formerly clerk
to the County Commissioners, a well
known upper end Independent Repub
lican and a director of the Gratz Fair
Association, has been spoken of as a
probable successor to William A. Mcll
henny as clerk to the commissioners
should the latter become Jail warden.
HARRISBURG, PA.. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10. 1915
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THE ROCHAMBEAU
The great French liner Rochambe&u, which left New York Saturday, November 6, with a large quantity of
munitions of war, put into Halifax after an announcement by wireless from Captain Julian that fire had been dis
covered in her hold. The flames came from the reserve coal bunkers. While denials were made that the Are was
the work of German spies in New York, it was the general suspicion when the wireless was received that they had
placed a bomb In the bunkers as they have done on many other ships leaving American ports with munitions.
MAY PROBE MAYOR
ROYAL'S CONDUCT
OF POLICE FORCE
Councilmanic Action Not Im
probable, City Commis
sioner Intimates
Investigation of the conduct of the
police department throughout Mayor
John K. Royal's administration may
be asked by Ciy- Council.
One of the city commissioners inti
: mated that possible move in discuss-
I Ing to-day the various phases of the
I controversy growing out of Mayor
| Royal's request yesterday for the dts
i missal of Joseph P. Thompson as act
! ing chief of police.
"If things are as bad as the Mayot
seems to think they are," said the
councilman, "why I'd suggest that the
whole department had better be in
vestigated. Other things might be
found."
Square Deal for Thompson
What steps Council will take on the
j Mayor's demand for Acting Chief
; Thompson's dismissal could not be
| foretold by the commissioner, but he
| said he personally believed the officer
involved should be given the benefit of
a square deal at least by allowing him
a chance to tell his story.
The action of the Mayor in bringing
the Harry Deen matter before Council
j with the evident intention of connect
j ing the prisoner in election matters,
j to the detriment of some of Ills col
leagues in Council, caused a sinile In
municipal circles to-day. The Mayor
wants Thompson dismissed because
that officer, as acting chief, followed
precedent by authorizing the release
of Deen. City commissioners and other
officials think the Mayor only meant
to relieve his feelings over Tuesday's
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BROWN REOPENS
COAL TAX CASE
! Attorney General Files Petition
Asking Court For Re
argument
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, Nov. 10.—Attorney
General Brown to-day filed a petition
in the State Supreme Court asking for
a reargumcnt in the anthracite coal!
tax case. That court recently decided j
that the law of 1913, levying a tax on j
; hard coal was unconstitutional. Eleven
■ reasons are given tor another review.!
among them being that the opinion
of the Supreme Court Is "contrary to
I all precedent in Pennsylvania because
it is the first time in the history of the
| jurisprudence of the State that classi
fication lor the purpose of taxation has I
not been sustained;" and that it is the
!first time in the history of Pennsylva
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Bryan Attacks Wilson
For Quoting Scriptures
in Support of Program
By Associated Press
Washington. D. C\, Nov. 10.—Kx-Sec
retary Bryan to-day added a chapter
to his disagreement with President
Wilson over the question of national
defense by Issuing a formal statement
' in comment on the President's recent
quotation from the Scriptures in sup
port of his advocacy of military pre
paredness. The same quotation had
been used by Colonel Roosevelt In re
cent published articles.
"It is not surprising that Mr. Roose
velt should consult the Old Testament
rather than the New." said Mr. Bryan's I
statement, "because he classes Christ!
with the mollycoddles: but why should
the President, a Presbyterian elder.!
pass over the new gospel in which love!
is the chief cornerstone and build his 1
defense upon a passage in the Old j
Testament, written at a time when the I
children of Israel were surrounded by!
enemies?
"It is all right for Mr. Roosevelt to
sound the trumpet because all colors'
are red to hipi. What the world needs j
to-day is a Pentecost, not an Anna- |
geddon." j
POLICE HOLD MAN
ON SUSPICION OF
BEING MURDERER
Say Thomas B. Smith Answers
Description of Man Wanted
For Slaying Aged Woman
In the arrest last night of Thomas
B. Smith, colored, on a charge of
larceny, the police department be
lieve they have a man who may know
something about the murder of aged
Mrs. Ella Albright last June.
Smith it is said, answers the
description of the man seen prowling
about the Albright home at Fifteenth
and Briggs street on the evening prior
to the discovery of the murdered
woman's body.
Smith disappeared the following
day and his whereabouts were un
known until last night when ho was
arrested in State street by Rounds
man McCcnn, and Patrolmen Balt
haser, Owens and Brine. Before his
departure from Harrisburg last June,
Smith is said, went to the store of Mrs.
Anne Levine. Cranberry and Tanner
streets, and demanded money.
He pointed a revolver at Mrs. Le
vine and told her to get away from
the cash drawer. Smith opened the
drawer, took out several dollars,
dropped the revolver and ran out of
the store. Following a hearing on the
larceny charge, residents from the
vicinity of the Albright home will be
called to try and identify Smith as the
man seen in that neighborhood
previous to Mrs. Albright's murder.
BRITISH DESTROYER WRECKED
London, Nov. 10, 1.50 p. m. The
British torpedoboat destroyer Louise
has been wrecked in the eastern Medi-
I terranean. No lives were lost.
BRITISH CRUISER
SINKS U-BOATS
London Also Announces Loss
of Torpedoboat Destroyer;
Crew Safe
I A British cruiser has sunk two Ger
man submarines in the straits of Gib
raltar, according to a teleisr&m from
Algecires, Morocco, to London.
The British admiralty announces
the loss of the British torpedoboat de
stroyer Louis, of 965 tons, wrecked in
the eastern Mediterranean. All on
• board were saved.
A Sofia report by way of Budapest
and Berlin says that in a battle be
tween Krlvalka and Priiip in Serbia
the French and British v ere badly de
feated and suffered heavy losses at the
hands of the Bulgarians. The allies
are said to have been attacking the
Bulgarian defensive positions.
The town of Veles in southern Ser
bia has been recaptured by the
French, according to advices received
by the Serbian legation in Athens, for
warded by the Athens correspondent
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300,000 Allies Landed
at Salonici, Is Report
By Associated Press
London, Nov. 10.—Newspapers of
Berlin, as quoted by the correspondent
at Copenhagen of the Exchange Tele
graph Company, say the allies alreadv
have landed 300,000 men at Salonici.
Bome, Nov. 8 (delayed in trans
mission).—What appears to be a fore- 1
cast that Italy will send troops to I
Albania to aid the Serbs is contained
in a semiofficial note, which says that
while Italy has not participated in the
Salonici expedition of the allies, she
has found a better way to oppose the
Austro-Gernjan-Bulgarian attack upon
Serbia.
This way. the note says, was opened
by the Bulgarians themselves when
they threatened to invade Albania to
reach the Adriatic, a design so dan
gerous to Italy's interest that "the
mere threat must oblige Italy to take
appropriate measures to frustrate it
Immediately."
COMPLETE CHANGE
IN SCHOOL SYSTEM
BEING ADVOCATED
Would Have Teacher Instruct
Same Pupils 4 or 5 Years In
stead of One Term
Advocating a complete change in the
school system now used in the United
States, Dr. P. P. Claxon, United States
Commissioner of Education, in an ad
dress this morning in the House of
Representatives before 400 teachers
in Dauphin county schools, predicted
that eventually one teacher will have
the nme pupils for three of four yeays
of school work, advancing them
one grade a year.
This change, he said, would cause a
reorganization of the present method
used, in which the teacher c< itinues
the same grade and receives new pu
pils each year.
The method which Dr. Claxon fav
ors was presented this morning in hts
address on "Vital Relations in Educa
tion." His theory startled the many
instructors, particularly the superin
tendents and principal of schools in
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British Cruiser Sinks
Two German Submarines
By Associated Press
London, Nov. 10, 12:15 P. M.—Tele
grams received here from Algeciras,
Morocco, by way of Madrid report a
British cruiser has sunk two German
submarines in the straits of Gibraltar.
WEDDING GIFTS
INTEREST CAPITAL
Official Washington Discusses
What Should Be Done For
Mrs. Gait
Washington. D. C.. Nov. 10. The
propriety of an official wedding present
to Mrs. Norman Gait on the occasion
of her marriage to President Wilson
next month is a subject of much dis
cussion among Senators and Represen
tatives returning to Washington for
tne next Congress.
More properly It may be said the
lawmakers' wives are doing the dis
cussing, as even those Congressmen
who venture an opinion in the privacy
of club or home are most emphatic in
saying they are not to be quoted. Ac
cording to the wife of a high official
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SINKINCi CAUSES ANXIETY
By Associated Press
Rome. Nov. 9, 8.20 P. M., via Paris,
Nov. 10, 10.45 A. M.—Few details have
been received here at this hour con
cerning the sinking of the Ancona.
News of the loss of the vessel caused
the greatest anxiety in Rome.
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300 DROWNED
AS TORPEDO
SINKS LINER
Americans Reported to Have Been on Board Italian
Steamer Ancona When She Was Attacked by Austrian
Submarine; Prince Cassano Zunica Was Among the
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Passengers; 130 Survivors Have Reached Bizerta
By .-Issociatcti Press i
LONDON, NOV. 10. 1.32 P. M.—A
DISPATCH TO LLOYDS FROM 111-
ZERTA SAYS THAT 300 PERSONS
ON THE ANCONA WERE DROWN
ED.
MOST OF THE M)ST. THE MES
SAGE SAYS, WERE WOMEN AND
CHILDEN. ONE HUNDRED ANI)
THIRTY SURVIVORS HAVE THUS
FAR REACHED HIKERTA.
I I/ON DON, NOV. 10, 1.20 P. M.—A
DISPATCH TO LLOYDS FROM BI
ZERTA STATES THAT SOME AM
ERICANS ARE SAID THERE TO
HAVE BEEN ON BOARD THE AN
CONA.
Cape Hon, Tunis, Nov. 10, via Lon
don, 12.12 p. m.—Two of the Ancona's
boats with 54 members of the crew
landed near this point. Some of the
women were injured.
Rome, Nov. 9, 9.20 p. m., via Paris.
Nov. 10, 10.45 a. m.—Prince Cassano
Zunlca was aboard the Ancona.
London, Nov. 10, 12.30 p. m.—A dis
patch from the Stefani News Agency
of Rome says that 100 shells were
tired into the Ancona before she was
torpedoed.
Rome. Nov. 9, 9 20 p. in., via Paris,
Nov. 10, 10.45 a. ni. The Italian
liner Ancona, sunk in the Mediterran
ean by a submarine, had on board 83
first cabin passengers. 60 second cab
in and 339 steerage.
Washington May Make
Demands on Austrians
By Associated Press
j Washington, D. C., Nov. 10.—Defi
nite information concerning: the sink
TWO MORE STEAMERS SUNK
London, Nov. 10, 4 P. M.—The British steamers Cali
fomian and Moorna have been sunk.
Washington, Nov. 10.—M. Deleval, a Belgian, employ
ed by the United States as counsellor to the legation at
Brussels, has left Belgium and will not return to his post be
cause Germany has given notice that he is persona non
grata. The State Department will not admit that Deleval
has been removed but announced to-day that he had left
Belgium and will not return.
New York, Nov. 10.—A short circuit of electric wires
which ignited oil in one of the smaller boring mills caused
fire in one of the shops of the Bethlehem Steel Company to
day according to a statement telephQned to the local office-,
here by A. D. Mixsell, vice-president of the company.
Rome, Nov. 10, via Paris, 4.15 P. M.—The assertion i
made by survivors of the Ancona, according to report
which reached Rome to-day, that the submarine which sank
the steamship was German ahho igh flying the Austria
colors. :'his has not been confirmed officially.
Harrisburg. Thirty-eight counties have filed official
returns at the capitol. For Superior court judge these coun
ties give Head, 156,964; Huselton, 74,036; Orlady, 157,194;
Palmer 84,116; Wallace. 76,979; Williams, 124,059. The
suffrage amendment received 132,878, votes to 120,251
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against. The compensation amendment has 128,568 in it;
favor to 68,907 against.
Harrisburg. The Board of Tax Revision and Appeals,
sitting for the first time to-day, was asked by the Pennsyl
vania Steel Company to reduce the assessment on the old
Lochiel furnaces from $40,000 to $15,000/ The Ben Weaver
& Company asked that no assessment be made on the build
ings of the old Hoffer Mills, in the £"trst Ward.
Wilkes-Bane, Pa., Nov. 10.—An extra troop of State
Police arrived in this city to-day in response to Sheriff
Lewis P. Kniiten's call for extra forces to handle the situ
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ation in the local street car strike. Forty-four men under
Captain Wilhelm came here from the barracks of Troop C,
at Pottsville. Tliey have joined the fifty-two men stationed
at the bariacks at Wyoming, near here.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
ffy. l " K. Hllry, Enhaut. and Minnie V. Rodker, Jobnatona.
William Alexander Maialnc »d Carrie Edna Haaa, city.
iwISI •»«* Elliott, Hushesvtlle.
Arthur K. Hartmell and Mertle M. Snyder, elty.
ing of tin* Italinn liner \ncona by n
submarine flying the Austrian tlag was
anxiously awaited to-day by oHi< ials
of the United States government.
Dispatches containing little informa
tion other tlinn that the ship had Iteen
sunk «ith 27(1 aixl possliily more of
the persons aboard saved received here
early to-day treated n sensation In
official circle*.
Should it develop that Americano
aboard lost their lives and (hat the
steamer was tornedoed without warn
hiu, the American government prob
ably would demand of Hie Austrian
government disavowal of the aet, repa
ration and assurances that there will
IK- no repetition.
If administration oitieials decide
thai the matter is one calling for diplo
matic exchanges, the lirst step prob
ably would he to secure through Am
bassadors l'cnlicld, at Vienna, and
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Want to Travel 90 Million
Miles and Back on Nov. 22 ?
Harrlsburg folk* will have the op
portunity of traveling ninety odd mil
lions of miles and viewing the im
mense orb of day at very close range
when Prof. S. A. Mitchell, formerly of
Columbia University and now liead of
the department of astronomy at the
University ol' Virginia, talks on "The
Sun" under the auspices of the Har
risburg Natural History Society .Mon
day evening. November 22, in the
Technical High school auditorium.
Many remarkable lantern .slides made
from actual photographs will show
the raging and untamed fires, active
sun spots, magnetic storms, terrific ex
plosions and tongues of flame so long
that they could wrap themselves more
than four times around our globe,
etc. Prof. Mitchell has had much ex
perience upon the lecture platform
and has himself made a number of Im
portant contributions to recent knowl.
ledge of the sun.