-/i r; tamed For Safely of American Steamer Pretolik omtnunipaw Sale
HARRISBURG Qfislib TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— Xo. 287
TWO MILLIONS
FOR PURSES OF
SHOPPERSHERE!
Savings Funds, Associations
and Industrials Put Vast Sunt
Into Circulation
BIG RUSH ALREADY ON
Stores Filled With Thousands
Who Have Followed
"Shop Early" Advice
Two million dollars, it is estimated,
will be turned loose between now and
Christmas in the city and Steelton,
from Christmas savings funds, beneti
oiary and employes' asoclations, and
in salaries to the thousands of people
employed in industrial plants alone.
This big total of money—the largest
amount, it is believed, that has ever
been released for years—will be in the
hands of the thousands of employes in
a few days.
The Pennsylvania railroad, Phila
delphia and Reading Railway Com
pany and the Christmas Savings funds
alone have about $1,350,000 .to be
scattered prior to the holiday season.
The two millions from the indus
trials does not include the salaries to
be received in the business and mer
cantile establishments in the city.
Business in every line in the city, ac
cording to the manufacturers and mer
chants. is at its best, and the pros
pects of a record breaking year, in
output, salaries, and receipts is pre
dicted on all sides.
The enormous amount of money to
be released to the public means much
iti Harrisburg, and based on an esti
mate that 25 per cent, of $2,000,000
will be spent for Christmas cheer, will
mean that one quarter of a million
dollars will change hands and much
of the motiev stay in ifarrlsburg.
Big Kush Is On
Extra clerks, delivery boys, cashiers
.snd floor forces in the stores indicate
that the big rush prior to Christmas is
on. For more than a week, the mer
chants have had their windows and
counters devoted to a display of Christ
mas goods.
With practically every industrial
manufacturing plant within the city
boundaries running full time and ship
ping a capacity output, it is easily un
derstood iiow the big pile of money in
salaries, savings funds, and associa
tions accumulated.
Thousands have started the "Shop
early" movement and the money in
circulation in the next two weeks will
reach startling totals according to
businessmen of the city.
The source of the money is traced
to the savings fund and the railroads
tirst. The banks having Christmas
Savings Funds association announce
that the total of all checks to be sent
out shortly will reach about one-half
a million dollars.
The Pennsylvania railroad in pay
ments to employes being made this
week, are giving three-quarters of a
million in the city alone.
The Reading Railway. Pennsylvania
Steel company, Harrisburg Pipe and
Pipe Bending Works. Central Iron
and Steel company. Harrisburg Foun
dry and Machine Shops, the Elliott-
Fisher Typewriter company, combined
with other industrial plants including
the W. O. Hickok Manufacturing com
pany, the Harrisburg Silk Mill, Blough
Manufacturing company, the Harris
burg fJtoe Manufacturing company,
Lalance-Grosjean Manufacturing com
pany, and all of the smaller companies
will release hundred of thousands of
dollars.
Women's and babies' shoes, socks,
stockings, underwear, mattresses,
typewriters, book binding machines,
tin plating, shrapnel cases, steel cast
ings and plates, air cylinders, silks
nnd cigars are only a few of the many
things turned out in large quantities in
the city and are being shipped to all
parts of the world. Orders for these
supplies are flooding into the offices
of the plants and keeping the ma
hines humming in some places a ful".
24-hour day.
Honolulu Wants National
Republican Convention
San Francisco. Dec. B.—Honolulu
>wll make an effort to get the Na
tional Republican convention and to
'bat end. the island residents have
pledged SIOO,OOO and in addition are
prepared to charter two special steam
ships to carry the delegates, accord
ing to I.orrin Andrews, Republican
National committeeman from the ter
ritory of Haw-aii, who is en route to
Washington to-dav.
THE WEATHER
For HarrlNliurK and vicinity: In
arttied neqther, probably light
ruin thin afifrnoou or to-n Iffhts
Ihurmlnj fair; sliKbtl) warmer
to-night, with lowest temperature
about 35 degree*.
For Eastern IVunKvlvanln: Rain
this afternoon nnd probably to
nights Thursday partly cloudy:
not much change in temperature:
fresh and strong MonthncNt
win da.
River
'J'lie Susquehanna river and all Its
brunches will probaly fall slow
ly or remain nearly stationary. A
stage of about JWI feet Is Indicated
for Harrisburg Thursday morn
ing.
General Conditions
The storm that waa central over
Manitoba, Tuesday morning, has
moved southeastward with In
creasing energy and now covers
the greater part of the country
«*ast of the Mississippi river with
Its center over Ontario.
There bas been a general rfae of 2
to t'J degrees In temperature on
the Mississippi river.
Temperature: H a. in.. 30.
«Un: Rise*. 7i15 a. m.: sets, 4i3t
ti. m.
Moon: First quarter. December 13,
fli.W a. m.
River Stage: 3.7 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 3-S.
f.owest temperature. 33.
Mean temperature. 30.
Normal temperature, 31.
i
SAVED FROM
' j j
Four thousand two hundred Armenians were recently saved from the Turks by the French, who took them
to a camp in Port Said. The Turkish authorities told the Armenians living in Suedia to sell their possessions and
he ready in seven days' time to be moved to a distant part of the country. During their week of grace they
climbed the nearest mountain, which dominates the Syrian coast and there they fought off the Turks for seven
weeks. They could not have held out much longer, when a French warship noticed a large Red Cross flag on Hie
top of the mountain. A boat was sent ashore and, the situation having been explained, other boats were
brought and the entire party of refugees were taken off. The needs of these poor people are now being
taken care of by the Armenians and English of Cairo.
THINKS SHE'S
ONLY 21; FINDS
HER AGE IS 22
Waits Whole Year to Bring
Suit. Believing She's a
Minor
Until pretty Miss Lillian Swails be
gan her suit for $5,000 damages
against the Valley Railways Company
to-day, she never really knew her true
age.
| To-day's her birthday, by the way,
and thereby hangs this tale:
Miss Swails was one of the more or
less fortunate victims of a fatal auto
mobile accident that startled a cele
l brating city on New Year's eve, 1914.
Miss Miss Grace Maugans, Samuel
Weber and .John J. 1 largest, Miss
Swails was motoring down Front
street when a Valley Railways Com
pany car collided with, the machine at
Walnut street. EJoth. it is understood
were speeding. When the autoists
were carefully removed from the
debris of the battered automobile Miss
Maugans was scarcely breathing. Miss
Swails was in little better shape.
Hargest and Weber escaped with more
or less severe bruises. Miss Maugans
died at the Harrlsburg hospital a short
time later without regaining con
sciousness. For weeks it was believed
that Miss Swails might share the
same fate.
Incidentally Hargest, the chauffeur,
j was twice indicted by a Dauphin
(Continued on Pago 12.)
BRIGHTBILL WINS
MAJORITY OF THE
POULTRY PRIZES
i "
Penna. Branch Organizes New
Independent Association;
Show Continues
S. W. Blight bill. of Penbrook, won
the majority of prizes offered for the
finest exhibits at the third annual
poultry show of the Central Pennsyl
vania Poultry Association, being held
| in the Kelker Street Hall this week.
The big prizes for special birds were
awarded this morning, .Mr. Bright bill's
entries taking a number of first prizes.
The awards for the utility pens of
I Leghorns follow: Pinehurst Poultry
j Farm, tirst: E. E. Mrubaker. second;
Klizabethtown Poultry Farm, third:
I. Frank Park, Middletown, fourth;
S. C. Babble. New Cumberland, fifth.
The winners in the White Wyandotte
utility contest are: P. Edgar Hess,
tirst, S. C. Babble and O. E. Brown.
Theodore Wltman, of Allentown, was
the judge of these awards.
M. H. Banks was awarded the S2O
gold inodal for the best cockerel in
the exhibit.
Other awards follow:
Best pen—S. W. Brightbill, Pen
brook, silver cup offered by the Pa
} trlot.
j Best bird in entire exhibit—Park
[ Place Poultry Farm, Allentown, Daced
fContinued on Page 9]
Two Carlisle Women Hurt
in Accident Near Hogestown
Special to The Telegraph
Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 8. Two well
known Carlisle women were injured in
an automobile accident at Bryson's
Bridge, near Hogestown, last evening
about t> o'clock. Mrs. B;. R. Plank,
wife of Dr. Plank, and Mrs. Raphael
S. Hays, wife of the manager of the
Carlisle Frog. Switch and Manufac
turing Company's plant, had been in
I larrisburg during the day and were
returning home in the evening. At a
point near Hogestown the machine
skidded on a bad piece of road, strik-i
ing a telegraph pole with great force.)
<)ne wheel was knocked off and the
<ar otherwise damaged. Mrs. Plank
was severely cut by being thrown into
the broken windshield, but Mrs. Hays,
who was driving, escaped with only
some painful bruises. Harry Bruhl, of
Carlisle, came along in an automobile
shortly after the accident and brought;
the two women to their homes. 4
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1915
MANNING URGES
NEW WEST SHORE
jSUBWAY AND ROAD
| Leads Highway Down From
i Camp Hill to Join With
j Proposed State St. Bridge
By ROBERT P. GORMAN
I Warren H. Manning 1 , the Boston
{ landscape designer and the expert of
the Harrisburg City Planning Oommis-
J sion. recommends a wider subway at
| Walnut .street. Wormleysburg. in con
i lieetion with his plans for the future
! development of the territory adjacent
to Harrisburg.
Mr. Manning, in a letter to the Tele
graph, expresses pleasure at the inter
est West Shore residents are taking in
the plans for the development of the
lower end of Cumberland county and
especially in the proposed road be
tween Wormleysburg and Camp Hill,
which would pass under the Pennsyl
vania and Northern Central Railroad
i Companies' tracks at Walnut, street,
j Wormleysburg. At the present time a
| number of petitioners are endeavoring:
' to have the grade crossing at Ferry
! street. Wormleysburg, closed.
Residents of Wormleysburg do not
j object to the closing of the road, but
I they want the railroad company and
• the county to make the present private
toad through the Walnut street sub
way public and at the same time con
tinue a road to the farms now reached
by the road across the railroad tracks
at Ferry street. Persons in Wormleys
rContinued on Page 2]
ATTEMPT TWICE
I TO WRECK TRAINS
AT MILLERSBURG
find Kails Tied Across Track;
Railroad Detectives Seek
Culprits
Special to The Telegraph
) Miilersburg. Pa., Dec. B.—Two un
-1 successful attempts were made last
, night near this place to wreck trains
Jon the Pennsylvania Railroad by
! placing ties across the rails. Both
I times the obstructions, according to
• reports, were discovered by a track
! walker. Detectives from Williamsport
| and Sunbury were here to-day investi
| gating. They left this afternoon to
j find the trackwalker.
I The first obstruction was discovered
I shortly after 9 o'clock about one
i quarter mile north of the Miilersburg
| station. Train No. 68. coming south.
; was due at 9:52. A brakeman on a
- southbound freight train reported that
| the trackwalker had removed the
, lies.
I One-half hour later the ties were
| again discovered by the trackwalker
; within a few teet from the point
! where they were previously placed.
I This discovery happened about the
i time of the arrival of a northbound
I freight train. This train stopped to
I report that two boys had been found
■ stealing a ride, and to turn the illegal
, riders over to the Miilersburg author
-1 ities.
i At first it was supposed these boys
knew something about the ties. They
| were questioned closely but could tell
; nothing and were later discharged. |
[ The name of the trackwalker who dis
covered the rails was not given.
Young Bride Forgives
Husband Who Shot Her:
' Special to The Telegraph
i Philadelphia. Dec. 8. From her cot
in a hospital. Mrs. Mary Santore. a 15- I
year-old bride, yesterday sent through I
her brother-in-law a message of for
giveness to her 19-year-old husband
Joseph Santore, which contributed to
sei ure his admission to trial by Magis- '
trate Pennock In the City Mall Police
Court, .-'antore was accused of shoot
ing his wife at Broad Street Station
Sunday night in on endeavor to pre
vent her from going to Baltimore to go
upon the stage as a chorus girl.
The message to Santorr declared that
she was glad he had shot her. because
If she had gone to Baltimore with her
winter ami joined the theatrical troupe
uhv might have regretted it.
GERMAN FORCES
CONCENTRATING
AGAINST ALLIES
i Heavy Fighting Reported in
I Southeastern Serbia; French
in Precarious Shape
By Associated Press
I-ondon, Dec. S. 12.12 P. M.—With
the Serbian armies in retreat behind
the Albanian and Montenegrin fron
tiers. it is reported the bulk of the
German and .Bulgarian armies is being
I concentrated against the allied armies
[ holding the southeast corner of Serbia.
Heavy fighting has been in progress
there for the last few days.
There is no confirmation of hints
from various sources that the French
troops have been forced definitely to
abandon the positions heid by them
since the beginning of the campaign*.
The fall of Monastlr and the south
ward progress of German and Bul
garian forces, however, have placed
the northern wing of the French ex
pedition in a precarious situation and
I withdrawal from the an»;le formed by
I the V'ardar and Cerno rivers appar
ently has begun.
Allies Reinforced
I Constant, arrival of fresh forces and
war materials at Saloniki give evi-
I dence that the allies have ncf intention
!of abandoning their efforts in this
region.
Although the Germans have an
nounced the capture of Ipek, Monte
negro, the pursuing Austrian and Bul
(Continued on Page 12.)
| REPUBLICANS TO
i MAKE NO FIGHT
; AGAINST DEFENSE
I Will Take No Partisan Stand
j if Program Is Not Framed by
Democrats in Caucus
By Associated Press
Washington, Dec. 8. Senate Re
| publicans will make no partisan light
on the national defense program if it
iis not (rained by the Democrats in
I caucus.
! Senator Gallingcr, the Republican
leader, told President Wilson to-day
that the Republicans want the army
and navy strengthened and arc willing
to co-operate with the Democrats.
£f ter Mr - Gallingcr said President
vv ilson had told him he would not ap
prove of the Democratic caucus mak
ing the defense plans partv measures.
"I agree with the thought in the
minds of the President and Secretary
I Garrison in the preparation of the ad
(Continued on l'age 12.)
Art Commission and
Sculptor Seek Fountain Site
The city's recently created art com- '
mission filled its first job to-day.
The commission, including Park Su- !
perintendent M. Harvey Taylor, Presi
dent E. S. Herman, of the Planning
Commission: J. Horace McFarland, ot'
| the Municipal league; Mrs. William
I Henderson, o»' the Civic Club: M. J.
j Kast, of tin- Southern Chapter of
| Pennsylvania Architects, and Giuseppe
Donato, the sculptor, made an auto
mobile tour of possible sites for the
I M. S. Hershey fountain with a view to
I recommending the most advisable
| place for Council's consideration.
I .Most everybody knows all about the
| fountain by this time—it s that "Dance
j oi Kternal Spring'' that the chocolate
I king turned over to the city. He did
this after he had lost the suit which
Donato brought in the Dauphin county
| courts to recover $25,000 for his work
|on the splendid piece of art. So It will
suffice to say In referring to it that
the commission wus first taken to the
storage warehouse to view t he statue.
The coverings were taken of!' the three
ladies who dance on the edge of the
fountain bowl and the art commission
saw some reul art.
The trip included visits to Front and
State streets, Third and State streets,
the slopes of Reservoir Park, the for
mal entrance to Reservoir at Twenty
first and Market streets and Harris
Park. J
200 CHRISTMAS
BASKETS TO BE
GIVEN TO NEEDY
Jacob Tausig's Sons, Jewelers.
Will Distribute Yuletidc
Cheer to City's Poor
KNOW ANY DESERVING ?
Just Fill Out Coupon and Asso
ciated Aids Will In
vestigate Cases
Jacob Tausig's Sons, jewelers, of 4 20
Market street, have offered to Rive,
through the Telegraph, SSOO for the
purchase of 200 Christmas baskets for
the worthy poor of the city. This
newspaper has accepted the generous
offer and the baskets will be dis
tributed, the day before Christmas by
the Associated Aid Society.
In order to get the names of persons
throughout the city to whom the bas
kets should be given the Telegraph
will publish In each Issue from now
until Christmas-time a coupon, which
may be tilled out and mailed to the
Telegraph by any person knowing such
a family. The names thus submitted
will be turned over to the Associated
Charities for investigation, and. if
found worthy, baskets will be sent to
the addresses the day before the great
holiday in ample time for preparation
of the Christmas dinner. .
The baskets will be made up not
merely of groceries, but each will con
tain "the makings" of a real Christmas
feast.
In giving bis reasons for this gen
erous offer Herman D. Tausig, who.
with Edwin P. Tausig, constitutes the
Tausig firm, to-day said: "We felt
that we would like to give a testi
monial of our appreciation for the
manner in which the people of Harris
burg have patronized our store. They
have made the Christmas season al
ways a pleasant, one for us all through
the nearly llfty years of our business,
and In looking around for a manner In
which to express ourselves we hit. upon
this Christmas basket idea as likely to
spread holiday cheer in 200 homes
that otherwise might, be gloomy. We
are certainly pleased with the hearty
manner in which the Telegraph and
the Associated Charities have agreed
to co-operate with us."
St. Stephen's May Buy
Alricks Property, South
of Church, For Rectory
The vestry of St. Stephen's Episcopal
Church mot informally last evening
to consider the advisability of pur
chasing the W. K. Alricks property
situated in Front street, just south
of the church and on the corner of
Cranberry alley. St. Stephens has an
option on the property, but before
any conclusion is reached the con
gregation will be given an opportunity
to express their opinion and share in
the purchase, if an affirmative decision
|is reached. No pluns have been for
| mulated as to what shall be done with
I the property when purchased, but it
lis unlikely that the rectory will bo
i moved from its present location at 309
North Front street.
j Colored Civic League to
Be Charitable in Scope
1 A civic league of colored citizens of
j Harrisburg and Steelton was organ
ized at 319 Calder street last evening,
] non-political and non-sectarian in
character. The league is to be
charitable in nature, the object being
community betterment and civic right
eousness. The officers elected are:
Archdeacon. E. B. Henderson, presi
dent: Alphonzo llnrris. vice-president;
Dr. James E. T. Oxley, secretary; the
Rev. C. J. Henderson, assistant secre
tary: John W. Fields, treasurer.
lioard of directors: W. B. Winston,
[chairman: Augustus Stewart, George
I \\". Moody, Albert Shack, Marshall
Ficklin, Joseph B. Butler and John 11.
Keyser.
Second Contingent of Ford
Peace Party Under Way
Special to The Telegraph
New York, Dec. 8. Twenty peace
advocates constituting the second con
tingent of the Ford expedition to The
Hague will sail this afternoon on the
Scandinavian American Bine steam
ship, Frederik VIII for Copenhagen.
Most of the members of the party were
unable to make arrangements to leave
Saturday on the Oscar II carrying the
main Ford expedition.
A list of these additional members
of the peace party as given out by Mr.
Ford's representative, including un
i der-graduates of Yale. Harvard, lowa
I State, Vanderbilt, Washington, Minne
sota. Oregon and Leland Stanford
I universities; representatives of the
governors of Idaho, Arkansas and
Alaska and of fraternal beneficial
societies.
KKEK TO SETTLE STRIKE'
By Associated Press
Wilkes-liarre, Pa.. Dec. 8. —W. D.
Mahon, of Detroit, international presi
dent of the street car men's union,
arrived here to-day to help bring about
a settlement of the strike of trolley
men of the Wilkes-Barre Railway
Company. He said he responded to
the urgent request of Secretary of
Babor Wilson and Mediator Patrick
Gilday, of the State Labor Department.
A conference with the Chamber of
Commerce committee was immediately
arranged.
VICE-PHHSIDISST KOIIBIOIt
IlurßlarM Hiiimack ll"mr \\ hllr Har
mltii 11 Is at \\ Ife'a Klrkhnl
Special 10 The Telegraph
I Indianapolis. Ind.. Dec. S. Burglar*
i yesterday looted tlie residence of Vice-
President Thomas R. Marshall while
ho was at the bedside of his wife in St.
Vincent's Hospital. The thieves ran
sacked the premises but got little, as
the Vice-President has sent most of his
valuables to a safety vault. In prepara
tion for liis return to Washington.
FEARS FELT FOR
ANOTHER VESSEL;
TANKER
Telegram From Alexandria
Reports Communipaw in
Harbor There, Monday
IDENTITY MAY HAVE
BECOME CONFUSED
Reported Torpedoed Off Tri
poli Near Where Petrolite
Was Attacked
London, Dec. 8, 12.4" P. M. —A tele
gram from Alexandria, Egypt, received
to-day by Lloyds says that the Ameri
can steamship Communip.'v, reported
sunk off the coast of Tripoli by a sub
marine, arrived at Alexandria on Mon
day. it is inferred that possibly some
confusion has arisen in regard to the
identity of the vessel torpedoed.
If the report of the torpedoing of
the Communipaw is substantiated she
must have discharged her cargo of oil
and have been on the way lo another
port when attacked. It is recalled
that the point at which the Communi
paw is said to have been sunk corre
sponds closely to the position of the
American tank ship Petrolite when it
was attacked by a submarine on Sun
day.
The announcement from Rome of
the torpedoing of the Communipaw
said she had been sunk near Tobruk,
Tripoli. The position of the Petrolite
was given as off the southeast coast of
the Island of Crete. The island lies
directly north of Tripoli, about 200
miles from the African coast.
British Squadrons Are
Sent After Submarine
fly Associated Press
Rome, Dec. 8, 10:.10 P. M. The
British authorities have given orders
that the squadron of warships at
Malta and the Egyptian squadron give
chase to the submarine reported to
have stink the Communipaw. Descrip
tions of this submarine thus far re-
[Continued uu Pago 12.]
| MOLTEN METAL CAUSES FIRE
I
| lava-like stream at the plant of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, at 2.45 o'clock this afternoon, when a break-out
occurred at No. 4 blast fu • „•. The spurting metal was
I checked by shutting off the wind supplied by the giant
I blowing engines before much of the 300 tons of metal had
escaped. An alajm from box 121 called out the Steclton
firemen.
I Wilmington, Qsl., Dec. B.—Because' of smallpox de-
I veloping; the State wo: ' - njse, here, all the prisoners, up
k ward of 500 were vaccinated yesterday. The disease was
I brought here by a short-urm man from Kent county, on
! Monday. He ha.3 been ser.t to the pesthouse near Wilming
ton.
Amsterdam, via London, Dec. B.—frort Cognellee, one
I of the most imp<
I Belgium, has been completely destroyed by an explosion,
} according to the newsoaper Echo De Beige. The explosion
I is said to ha\c caused the death of eighty German soldiers.
f STATE HOSPITAL INSPECTED
I
1 inspected the Karrisburg State Hospital, examining
1 especially into the accommodations for the inmates. The
I commissioners stated that everything connected with the
v.as ho tug co; c:] satisfactorily.
NO DEPUTY NAMED
I Harrisburg. The State Commission of Agriculture
) did not name any deputy secretary to-day, but discussed
| rural credits, co-operation with State College in field work
| and the plans for next year. The names of E. B. Dorsett,
} Mansfield: C. E. Carothers, Washington, and G. G. Hutchi-
son, Wariiors Mar':, are he 1 about the Capitol as possi
f bilities 'or deputy with the usual string of dark horses.
I MARKET CLOSES STEADY
New York, Dec. B.—Further advances in specialties
\ furnished the only diversion of the dull final hour. The
i
1 closing was steady. General strength in war shares -and
allied issues with some pressure against rails were the out
standing features of to-day's market.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
< hilMlnn Keener, rmbntok, and l.illiau )l«rle Piker, cityi
£ I . -w«-safer© IF, I'Hlni .\. C n nntl Florence shmmftxer,
*sZfl I■■ %•'*« r uharl and llnr.«*l ftlrllr ( runn, cttys IIONM Wilbur Coiilty
MAD KNICIIII >lnl»elle (iorurr, city* <*rorig;r J. WifftttMrller mid Minnie Mflv
\loln <«PMPY, iVupor(| John H. IIOWCTM, Jr.* WawhlagtOH Height*, JUMJ
Florence* MHC AudcrMoo, city.
14 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL
Standard Oil
Awaiting Word From Pet
roUte Which Was Shelled
DO NOT KNOW
WAS SENT TO BOTTOM
Government Officials Are Left
in Suspense by Conflicting
Reports
New York, Dec. S. A dispatch
from Alexandria, Egypt, apparently
confirmatory or tne report received by"
London l>loyds that the tanker Com
niunipaw was safe was received to-day
by the Standard Oil o;ces here. This
message stated that the Communipaw
reached Alexandria on Sunday last
and would sail for New York on Tues
day.
The dispatch came from Captain
Nordftrom of the Com muni pay and
was given out by David T. Warden,
manager of the foreign shipping de
partment of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey.
"We are anxiously awaiting word
from our vessel, the Petrolitc," said
Mr. Warden, "but have received no
news except what we saw in the pa
pers."
Whether a mistake has been made
voyage, Standard Oil officials can only
doed or whether she was torpedoed
after leaving Alexandria on her home
voyake. Standard Oil officials can only
conjecture.
Wouldn't Ho at Spot
The Communipaw could make only
nine knots an hour. Mr. Warden said
and assuming she left Alexandria on
Tuesday, or even on Monday she could
not have gone :!- r >o miles to a point
near Tobruk, Tripoli, off where the
original cable dispatch from Homo
said the ship had been struck. This
dispatch was filed at Home at 7.45
p. 111. Tuesday, the date the Standard
oil company had been advised tho
Communipaw left Alexandria.
"I feel sure the Communipaw is
safe," said Mr. Warden. "Hut we are
still puzzled as to what, if anything,
[has happened to the Pretolite. W'e
do not expect any word from her until
'she reaolies Algiers."