»<«" "IIM J\.] piBJUJIL... -"■ H1..1 llliwuqp.'.. ■ -"- V" '• WMMpiy ' ' *.l.li'lii «w • Austria Hungary's Reply to Ancona Note Believed to Be Unsatisfactory to U. S. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 294 ' PLANNERS URGE EARLY ACTION ON PARK ZONE PLANS Conference on Capitol Treat ment Between State and City Bodies TWO EXPERTS SUGGESTED Appointment of Landscape Architect anl Agricultural Engineer Advised Early action in the preparation of the proposed plans for the treatment of the Capitol Park extension was the keynote of the conference that was held at 2:SO o'clock this afternoon be tween the City Planning Commission and the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings of Pennsylvania. The session had been fixed for Tues day but it was deferred because of the absence of Governor Brumbaugh. He was in Washington, urging the selec tion of Philadelphia as the next city for the national Republican conven tion. v, The development of the Capitol Park zone, the widening of North. U'alnut and Third streets, the method of accommodating trolley traffic, the planning of a proper outlet to the Hill section either by subway or via duct at State street—these were among the questions threshed out this after noon. Among other things the Planning Commission suggested the appoint ment of an architectural expert as well as a landscape architect to work out the development scheme. In addi tion to providing for anything effect ing the building after the landscape idea hnd been fully completed, the architect, it was pointed out, could of fer invaluable advice as to uniformity of building line and style for the structures to be erected around the park zone. That early and definite ac tion on the preparation of plans is essential, especially a solution to the highway problem to the Hill district, was urged by the city official board. The commission submitted a map of the proposed zone, the streets, etc., carefully marked with the location of trees that would be affected by the changes. Just 102 trees will have to be changed or moved if Third street from Walnut to North, and North and Walnut from Third to Fourth, are widened to 105 feet as suggested. Not all of these trees will necessarily be lost, however: some would have to ] come out anyway; others need only be j changed in planting spaces. Body of Man Is Found Crammed in Trunk by Gang of Cellar Diggers Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia, Dec. 16. Discovery! yesterday ot the badly decomposed! body of a man. or a large boy. j crammed into a trunk, which in turn ! was incased in a big wooden box, dug ; up by laborers who were deepening the cellar of a building at the north- i west corner of Kensington and Adams avenues, gave the police one of the j most baffling murder mysteries with which they have had to deal in years. ! After working on the case for lifteen : hours detectives were without a tangi- I ble clue as to the identity of the vie- • tim or the name of his slayer. Quicklime, which had been spread , over the corpse, had eaten awav most of the clothing and flesh, and" Coro- 1 ner's Physician Wadsworth, after a postmortem examination at the ; morgue, declared it was impossible pending further tests, to say what 1 caused the man's death. WARN ITALY THAT GERMANS \YIM, DESTROY SHIPPING; By Associated Press Milan, Italy, Dec. 16, via Paris. 5.10 A. M.—The Secolo asserts the British government has warned Italy that German emissaries have left United States ports with the purpose of com- i initting acts of violence in Italy, par ticularly against merchant shipping. In this connection the Secolo calls at- | tention to recent fires on a steamship at Naples and on the docks at Genoa. \ IMPORTATION OK GOWNS FROM PARIS INCREASES By Associated Press Ne York, Dec. 16.—Importation of i Paris gowns to this country during De cember has exceeded that of anv other ! corresponding period within the mem ory of customs officials here. Imports for the trade have increased, but most ■ of the gowns have been for private ' individuals. I THE WEATHER] For Hnrrflnluirg: nti«l virinltyi Snow and «nrmt*r to-nluht; lonfNt leni- I prraturr nhout 'l7* «l«*Kree*j l-'ri«l «ln>, rnin or nnow nnil warmer. For Eastern IVnn*> l\ania: Snoiv to-nitchf. unrmer In NOUUI por tion; Friday rain or NOOW and < warmer; moderate variable lirromlnK easterly. River I.oral rl«f» and fall** will probably continue in the SuMquebnnnu A rl\cr and ItM branches*, due to the I choklaac of the channel by Ice. A Ktaicc ot about 3.1 may be expect ed at llarrlnhurK Friday morning. I nder exlMtlnK condition** the ac curate forecaNtliiK of probable Mtaic K IN ImpOMMlble. (■eneral Condition!* The northenntcrn ntorm haw pa*»ed , off the \orth Atlantic coaxt and It* Influence I* no longer felt In the I nlted State*. There ha* been a tceneral rl*e of 2 to 20 deKreeM In temperature over | nearly all the ea««terii half of the country. Temperature: H a. m., 22. Son; Rlnen, 7;21 a. M.i sets, 4:40 i p. m. Moon i Full moon, December 2f, 7*52 a. m. River Stairc: 2.8 feet above low- | water mark. Yesterday'* Weather Hlirheat temperature, 30. I/O went temperature. 20. Mean temperature. Zr*. Aornial temperature, 33. | EVEN FRENCH BABIES DISLIKE GERMANS I This is what happened when a French mother tried to put a captured German helmet on her little girl. NAME WINNERS IN "WHO WROTE THAT" CONTEST Miss Miriam Stevens First; Valentine H. Fager, 2nd; Robert M. Fager, 3rd In announcing the results of the lit erary contest which the Telegraph has been running for four weeks under the title. "Who Wrote That?" the Tele graph takes this opportunity of thank ins? those contestants who. put their time and thought into the work with out material reward. The Telegraph ventures to say, that if followed up, the hours of infinite pleasure from the close acquaintanceship with the. many standard works whose surface have been scarcely scratched in this open ing wedge, will amply compensate for the labor expended. The Telegraph takes pleasure in an nouncing as the winner of the con test: Miss Miriam Stevens. 160S North Fourth street. Harrisburg, a student at the Central High school. Her an swers were in every deta'il absolutely correct. Valentine 11. Fager. ,Jr., 410 North Second street, a student at Technical High school, second prize. Robert M. Faster, student at Tech nical High school, third prize. Miss Margaret Myers, 1700 State street, a student at Central High school, fourth prize. J. I. Ilolsappic, 621 North Seven (Continued on Page IB.) 913,000,000 OF m: POXT CASH FOR WII.MIXttTON PEOPLE Special to The Telegraph "Wiiniinsrton, Del.. Dec. 16. A golden stream poured into the pockets of shareholders of the Du Pont Powder Company to-da.v, representing the dec laration of tilt- 30 per cent, dividend on the new common stock. This represents a distribution of shout $18,000,000, arid it is estimated that —ore than $13.00,- 000 was paid to residents of Wilming ton and its suburbs. HOW TO TRAP SHERLOCK HOLMES AND GET THAJ $25 REWARD Magic Words Must Be Used in Tagging Gentleman of Mirth and Mystery; Keep Reading and Watching 'You are the mysterious Sherlock 1 Holmes, .Jr., of the Telegraph. Those are the magic words with j which to make this mysterious gentle- I man acknowledge his identity and re- j ceive $25 cash from the Telegraph for! youi* trouble. • In using the above sentence no | words must be added to or taken from or arrangement changed. They must' be said exactly as published, other-: wise Mr. Holmes will not acknowledge his identity. Simply go up to the man J you suspect and use the sentence as above published and this paper' vouches thai Mr. Holmes will im- j mediately acknowledge his identity, j and the money will be promptly paid, i even should you get the right man within fifteen minutes after this con test starts. When Sherlock Holmes. Jr., arrives! ' N Tausig Christmas Benefit IF you know of n worthy poor family la Ifnrrl*bnrK whone hom<> Is likely to lack ChrlMtmnn cheer thin year, till out the hlnnk below and forunrd It to tlie Telegraph. The firm of Jacob Tuiimlk'n s«»na jeweler*. 420 Market atreet, hn* ntven the Telegraph with which to purchane <hrl*tinn* banket* for 200 fauillle*. The A**oclated Charities will Inventliratc the naiiien Kent to it and will deliver the bUMketa the dit before ClirlKtma*. Fill out below. Following I* the name anil itddre** of a worthy poor family I iurir»* mm worthy of a Tmunlu ChrUtuia* banket: ! \nnie Street addreaa si trued i v_ ) | HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1915. DO YOU WANT A REAL BABY FOR I CHRISTMAS DAY? ; Children's Aid Society Has Quite a Number You Can Rorrow or Keep If the angels' hymn of the ages has I really reached your ears from out the I shadows of ninteen hundred years, land you wish to show that the mes | sage has truly touched your heart, j why not answer In a really, truly 'Christmas way? | As always the Children's Aid so jciety has a nnmebr of very small, very j round, very gay, very typical Christ j mas babies on its hands. They're •smp.il folks as a rule for whom -there j isn't quite enough room at home; or I perhaps theirs is the story of no home, j Anyway It has been customary for the 'society to "loan" to and folks who wish I to borrow, a regular laughing baby for over the Christmas holidays or for as long afterward as the borrowers may wish. Home without the patter of little feet and the music of tender little voices will be a cheerless place for i many on Christmas Day, unless the j little arms that are held open to pros- I pective foster mothers make their ap peal strong enough to be taken In. The Children's Aid. locat'd at 5 Mar- I ket Square, is ready to supply the | wants of all the Silas Marners that | apply. 30 Americans May Be Expelled by Gen. Villa By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Dec. 16.—The thirty Americans detained by General j Villa at Madera. Mexico, may be ex -1 pelled from Villa territory, as the \ Spaniards were at Torreon a year ago, j but are not believed to lie in danger ■ of execution, according to advices to j the State Department from El Paso ! whose receipt was announced to-day. j It is unlikely that the department I will protest to the Carranza govern ! ment, the only recognized government in Mexico, against their detention. tin Harrisbuig, he will make himself very much at home. You are liable to run against this elusive gentleman ! in the most unexpected places, for Mr. ; Holmes is a sociable fellow and is ■ never so happy as when mingling with j the people. You may meet him in | the post office, sit next to htm in one of the theaters or rub elbows with the 1 gentleman in the streets. Each day Sherlock will tell you ' through the columns of this paper ] where he goes, who he sees, and what Ihe does, and in fact give you each : day a complete history of his doings ! the previous day, and in many ways, |to be announced later, give you op | portunltles to captin*e him. The contest, will be inaugurated the coming week and it will be well to ! watch the Telegraph for further de : tails. GERMAN THREAT AGAINST EGYPT LOOMS LARGER Railway Line From Damascus to Frontier Nearing Com pletion ALLIES NEAR SALONIKI Occupy Strong Positions; Re treat Is Regarded as Mas terly; Safe From Teutons By Associated Press Rome, Dec. 16. The Turko-Ger man threat against Egypt is becoming more grave daily in the belief of mili tary men here. The construction of a railway line . from Damascus to the Egyptian fron | tier has been pushed with extraordin- I S .? ee< ?: 11 is stated, and it is said I that It will be finished by February 1, there being only 50 miles more of track to lay before the Sinai peninsula is reached. This railway, which has double tracks, is considered by mlll ,"en to P er, nlt of a concentration ot halt a million men in one month together with the necessary supplies and ammunition, at the Egyptian frontier. Drilling Turks About 300,000 Ottoman troops, commanded and drilled by German °™ ers ' already have been concentrat ed between Alessandretta, Aleppo and Poms, it is stated. Army engineers are laying miles of tubes for carrying drinking water across the desert and also are providing material for the construction of bridges with which to cross the Suez canal. Turko-German emissaries are said to be urging the Senousl to attack Egj pt from the west, while an attempt (Continued on Page 16.) Swiss Genera] Believes President Wilson and Pope Can Stop War Berne. Switzerland. Dec. 3 (corre spondence of the Associated Press). General Wille, commander-in-chief of ' r e ,?, wiss arm >% a soldier of the school of Hindenburg and Joffre, to-day ex pressed the belief tHat the time had come for "the two most powerful torces in the world" to combine to put an end to the European war. These two forces, he said, were the president of the United States and the pope at Rome. ] In suggesting a p ea o e proposal at I this time from President Wilson and ] Pope Benedict, General Wille said: "A united appeal from these two most powerful influences in the world, I seconded as it would be by other neu- I trals. could not but be heeded by all I tlie_ warring nations." General Wille said he was not him j self a Catholic. ALL GUESSING AS ! TO COUNCILMANIC | VOTE COALITIONS Do Bowman-Lynch Combina tion, Not Meals, Hold Bal ance of Power? : The most open-minded, nonpartisan i thinking citizen these days can't help ! nuessing the answer to the momen tous question that has been agitating ] city circles since November 2: I "How will the new City Council 'line up?' " | Commissioners Bowman, Lynch and (Taylor, despite criticism from queerly j "nonpartisan" sources, followed out a | thoroughly constructive policy for the [Continued oil I'agc 6.] $3,000 in Liquor "Ads" Is Rejected by Towanda Paper Special to The Telegraph I Towanda, Pa., Dec. 16. The 'Towanda Daily Review, credited with ' having the largest circulation of any I daily newspaper in the world pub ; lished in a town up to 5000 popula ) tion, has refused whisky advertising I contracts amounting to more than $3,000 in the last two weeks. Heretofore the Review accepted such advertising, but as Bradford i county is strong for temperance, the ; new order is made in deference to the paper's readers. SKATING SAFE AT WILD WOOD J. Ray Hoffert, assistant superin tendent of the City Department of Parks, announced to-day that skating on Wildwood for fair-sized crowds will be safe. Large patches of smooth ice have frozen offering lots of room I for the outdoor sport. The red fiagj will not be raised, however, because | Mr. Hoffert does not think the ice is safe enough for large crowds. GET WRONG MAN Special to The Telegraph Chambersburg, Pa., Dec. 16.—Little! Ruth Huber, six-year-old victim of a • brutal assault on December 10, yes-1 terday failed to identify James! Dever, the tramp arrested at Lemoyne I and brought to this place at noon! i The man will be held pending further I inquiries. SIIARON ORDNANCE CO. GETS BIG WAR ORDERS By Associated Press Sharon, Pa., Dec. 16.—The Driggs- Seabury Ordnance Company, it was | announced to-day, has closed a con- | tract with the British government for 10,000 aeroplane guns and another contract has been closed for 500 can- ' non and a large number of six-inch j high explosive shells. j GAS BOMBS ADD NEW TERROR TO AIRSHIP RAIDS Asphyxiating Fumes Paralyze Many in Poor Sections of Venice EFFECTS LONG LASTING Victims Remain in Semi-Con sciousness Four or Five Days; Faces Turn Green Venice, Dec. 2 (correspondence of the Associated Press).—The use of asphyxiating gas in the bombs dropped I on Venice has added a new terror to these aerial raids. These asphyxiating ] bombs have been used in the trenches, I but not until the air raid of November | 18 was the deadly gas used in bombs dropped on cities, so far as is known. I The air raid on the 18th was not made known at the time, even Rome } and other cities not knowing that it I had occurred, RH the military authori ties threw a rigid cordon of silence I around the city. It was not a serious raid, in people injured or damage done, I but its chief importance was in brlng | ing for the first time the shower of asphyxiating bombs. Poor Suffer Most The raid occurred near the arsenal, which is the chief point of attack for these raids. None of the bombs, how ever, fell inside the arsenal grounds. But outside there is an extensive quar ter occupied by the poorer people, with ] narrow streets and low houses. It was in this section that the bombs fell, spreading the effect of their futnes among the civilian population. Only one death occurred, but a great num ber of the poor people suffered from the paralyzing effect of the gases. Effects Are Lasting The effect of the gas is described a§ singularly lasting upon the organs af fected and on the vitality of the people stricken. Some of the patients remain in a semiconscious state for four or five days, the face taking on a greenish ■ pallor. The recovery is very slow after ithis, the gases appearing t<y carry poi son to the whole system. The appearance of the gas bombs !' has changed the feeling here about these air raids. At first the people were on the watch for the explosions, I and over such a wide area the indl ! vidual danger was comparatively | slight. So crowds gathered and | watched the hostile airships. Now, i however, the widespread effect of a i gas bomb< has terrified the poorer I people and Ihey flee to places of refuge whenever the rumor circulates that the aircraft are coming. HOLD NEW SUSPECT John Connor, a tramp, Is being held by the local police as a suspect in the I Chambersburg assault case in which 16-year-old Ruth Huber was attacked. The man, the police say, answers the assailant's description. 1 BEER, NOT MILK, DRINK OF MANY SCHOOLCHILDREN Youngsters Openly Confess Drinking Stuff Daily to Tele graph Investigator (By ANNA H. WOOD) [This IS3 a third of a series of articles by Mrs. Wood on the mal nutrition of children in the public schools.] In making an investigation of the Harrisburg schools to ascertain the I percentage of children who attend without sufficient nourishment, the representative of the Telegraph asked the teachers in several instances to inquire just what the children were accustomed to drink. At the word [Continued on Page 6.] Penna. Steel Gets Order For 85,000 Tons of Rails From French Government I Philadelphia, Dc<\ J«. President ! Eelton, of the Pennsylvania Steel Coni | pany, Announced to-day that the I French government had placed with jthat cori>oratioii an order for 85,000 ! tons of steel rails. - Kissing Couple Will Not Agree to Reconciliation I New ork, Dec. IC.—Attorneys for: Mrs. Ada Brown Ketclium in her suit' I for separation from E. P. Ketchum, ] will notify the court that their client 1 | will not ag.ee to a reconciliation. Juwt i ■ before the conclusion of the trial, fam- 1 ous for its kissing testimony, Mrs. Re-1 I becca Wilson, housekeeper for the I i pair, testified. "Do you think the kisses we/e im-! i proper?" asked Mr. Levy. I "Certainly they were," replied Mrs.! I Wilson. "I seen kissing in my time, I | but not that kind. I have been taught I that that kind Is not proper." "Did the kissing bother you?" "Yes, the first time, but after that Ii cut the dinner courses down to two. I I'd run up to the dining room and j serve one and then hurry back to the I kitchen and stay until they called fori ,the next. Mr. Ketchum would pick' up an olive ar.d try to eat it, but Mrs. Ketchum would put her arm around j his neck and cheat him out of thai olive by kissing and kissing him. He l couldn't eat anything. It's a wonder! i they didn't both starve.'* AUSTRIAN REPLY TO ANCONA NOTE UNSATISFACTORY Answer Delivered to Ambassador Penfield at Vienna States That Country Is Prepared in Principle to Enter Into an Exchange of Opinion; United States Will Nof Accept Suggestion of Engaging in Any Prolonged Correspondence . London, Dec. 16.—The Austrian reply to the note from the L nited States regarding the Ancona case has been delivered to Fred erick C. Penfield, United States ambassador at Vienna, it is an nounced in a dispatch received here. The reply states that the Aus tro-Hungarian government is prepared in principle to enter into an exchange of opinion with the American government and leaves it to the Washington cabinet to draw up the individual legal maxims which the commander of the submarine that sunk the Ancona is alleged to have violated. The government expresses sympathy with the American victims. Washington. Dec. 16.—While the State Department has no offi cial word from Vienna whatever on Austria's reply to the Ancona note, it was made clear authoritatively that the United States will not accept the suggestion of entering into diplomatic correspondence which may be prolonged. Asserts Representation of Circumstances Allows Numerous Doubts to Arise By Associated Press London, Dec. 16.—The reply of the Austro-Hungarian government to the note from the United States relative to the sinking of the steamer Ancona by an Austrian submarine was handed to Frederick G. Penfleld, United States ambassador at Vienna, on Tuesday, according to a dispatch from Amster dam to Router's Telegram Company. TJie correspondent quotes from the reply as follows: "From the sharpness with which the government of the United States be lieved it ought to censure the com mander of the submarine and from the firmness with which the demands addressed to the Austro-Hungarian government appears to have been brought forward, it could be expected that tlio American government would (Continued on Page 10.) • I CHILDREN LED FROM FIRE I Doylestown, Pa., Dec. 16.—Sixty children, ranging from J c :c to eight years of age were safely taken out of a burning J dormitory of Christ's Home for Homeless and Destitute £ Children at Warminster, near here, to-day. 2 TO ASSIGN REFEREE DISTRICTS # .Harrisburg. The State Workmen's Compensation J I Board will assign the districts to the referees at the meet- » ing to-day. It is understood that Harrisburg will be the # headquarters of E. K. Saylor, of Lancaster, « ASK INVESTMENT BIDS $ Harrisburg. —The State Sinking Fund Commission has F asked for bids for investment of SIOO,OOO new held in the i State Fire Insurance Fund. The bids will be opened Janu- M ary 11, 1916. ? CONSIDERATION SITUATION IMPROVED C Vienna, Dec. 15 t via Berlin, and London, Dec. 16, 3.55 t P. M.—The situation as regards Austria-Hungary and the { United States is considered here to have become less tense * i since the reply to the American note was disfratched. M ! ' FORMER,LEGISLATOR DIES !Newville, Dec. 16.—John Graham, former member of % the Legislature and prominent in Newville, died last night g at 10 o'clock in the John Hopkin's 'Hospital, Baltimore. He 1 is survived by his wife. Funeral arrangements have not j) ibeen completed. I OVER 1,100 BUCKS KILLED \ Harrisburg. Officials of the State Game Commis- ') sion to-day estimated that the kill of buck deer in Penn- % sylvania in the season ending yesterday would exceed that 5? of 1,102 bucks killed last season. Detailed reports on the J kill in each county have been asked of the wardens. -J ( PRESIDENT GETS MARRIAGE LICENSE ]) Washington, Dec. 16.—A marriage license for President 11 Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait was issued to-day at 9 ' the local bureau. The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of J I ( the Episcopal Church Mrs. Gait attends, will officiate. r 1 | The license gives the President's age as 59 and Mrs. Gait's C i as 43. M MARRIAGE | Jeremiah fttetler ami Untlier C. Houaer, Middletown. C Frank PI out I and J<m«»i»liin«» Miijr»elll, Stevltou. JF | Harry ~tee» anil Floreu"* M. Hamer, eltv. I Wllllaai Steele IlammLil and Mary Arthur OeMhoiiK city. 18 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL Diplomatic Relations Between Two Countries Are at Breaking Point By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Dec. I(l.—Aus tria's reply to Secretary Lansing's note on tlie Ancona Is regarded, on the basis of the unofficial reports received to-day from London and Amsterdam, as wholly unsatisfactory, unacceptable ant] disappointing to the United States. Diplomatic relations between the two countries may safely he described as standing at the breaking point. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing are reserving comment until they have read the official translation, hut It is stated authoritatively fhat the United States will enter into no ex change of opinions as the Vienna for eign office Is represented as suggesting l and absolutely will decline to discus.< the facts of the torpedoing anil shell* (Continued 011 Page 10.)
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