Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, January 10, 1916, Image 1
Allied IV. McCann Issues Important Message lo All. Read It on Page 9 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXTV— No. 3 i BRITISH FORCE IN MESOPOTAMIA I IS GIRDLED BY! TURKISH ARMY Detachment at Kut-el-amara Is Surrounded Completely While the Main Army Is in Full Retreat Before Over whelming Numbers; 10,-i 000 Men Are Covering Withdrawal; May Mean Abandonment of Attempt TRANSPORT SUNK DURING EVACUATION . j Reported Ship Filled With Allied Troops Went Down Off Gallipoli; Teutons An nounce New Offensive Against French in tV Champagne With Can of Several Hundred Yaiuj of Trenches, 434 Prisoners and Many Guns By Associated Press llerlin, Jan. 10 (by wireless to Say \ille». —The British army at Kut-El- Aruara, in Mesopotamia, lias now been surrounded completely by tlie Turks, according to Constantinople advices given out to-day by the Overseas News Agency, it said the Turks have ad vanced to the main defenses of the British. The main British army in Meso potamia, according to these advices, is in retreat. 10,000 men having been left in Kut-El-Amara to cover the move- j ment. Recent dispatches have indicu that the British expedition in Meso potamia was confronted by Turkish m forces of superior size and that it ™ would have difficulty In maintaining itself at Kut-El-Amara. The defenses of the city, in fact, were attacked by t he Turks some tinie ago, resulting in severe fighting, but the British were able to repulse the assaults. The retreat from Kut-El-Amat'a— [Continued on Page S.] Sleet and Rain Causes Little Inconvenience Sleel and .n. which fell for a short lime ill' ''ling, coating the side walks m s with thin ice, caused much in if nee but little serious trouble ft r i.irrisburgers. Only one mishap resulted in a hos pital case. George Miller, of New Cumberland, fell while crossing Mar ket Square this morning, receiving a lacerated scalp. Fie was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital. PROGRESSIVES MEET By Associated Press Chicago. 111., Jan. 10.—Several mem bers of the Progressive national com mittee arrived to-day to attend the meeting called for to-morrow at which ihe place and time foi holding the national convention will be decided upon. STABBED IN FIGHT Joseph Lukic, 231 Frederick street. Steelton. is being treated at the Har risburg Hospital for two stab wounds of the left shoulder and left arm. I.ukic was admitted yesterday morn ing. He told the physicians "that he had been arguing and then got into a tight. He would not name his assail ant. lie will recover. OVERCOME BY GAS While wording in a boiler of the Harrisburg Light and Power Company this morning "William Belford, 1204 Monroe street, was partly overcome by gas. lie was rushed to the Harrisburg Hospital in a semiconscious condition. He will recover. i Miss I ISIIER UNDER KM I i Margaret Fisher, aged 17. 237 lloas street, was operated upon for appendi citis at the Harrisburg Hospital this morning. THE WEATHER For HnrrUhurg anil vicinity: Id. nettled ii mi vmrnirr to-ninhf. lirohnbl.v light rain*: loweat triupi-raturr nbiMit 311 ilt'Krt't'x; Turailny pnrtl? clouily iiuil anutr nlmt colder, for Enaleru I'r iiimvlvHiilit: Ituln and warmer to-night i Tuesday cloudy and colder, probnhly rnlii north portion: moderate to frmh MOiithw eat to nortbnnl gnlea. The river and all ita trlbutnrlea cept poMNlbly the upper portions of the \orth and Went lirnnehcN. which mnjr rlae aonipwhnt or r«>- main nearly atntlonary, \ »<„*,• of Mbout (1.2 feet la Indicated for llarrlahurit' Tueailay morning. General Condition* ' I'reaure la high nlong thr Atlantic 1-oaat and In thr >orthweat. \ ktorm of eonaldrralile energy la ••entral over the take Superior region and nnother over tl|e I'a- I'ltlc alopr. Main, anow anil alect have fallen genernlly nrrat of thr Rocky Mountalna. In the Ohio and St. I.bti rencr valley*. Temperatures 8 a. m., 30. Suns Rlaeai 7.27 a. m.| acta, 4ißß p. m. llrat quarter, to-morrow, Ili4ft p. m. River Stage: H.K feet above low water mark. Illarheat temperature, an, l.oweat tempernture. 17. Mean temperature. 22. -Normal temperature, 2D. THREE KILLED BY TERRIFIC BLAST IN POWDER MILL Many Others Injured When i Mysterious Explosion Occurs at Du Pont Plant 'DENY REPORT OF PLOT jOfficials Say Rumors Are Un founded; Steamer in River Is Damaged By Associated Press i Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 10. —Three ! men were killed and a number in ! iured in an explosion of smokeless | powder early to-day at the plant of lthe Du Pont Powder Works at Car ney's Point, N. J. The cause of the explosion is not ! known but, according to the superin tendent, there is no suspicion that the | blast was due to outside agencies. The | report that arrests had been made were denied. 'l'he dead are: John Walsh, Nyack, X V.: Richard J. Larney, Philadel phia. and T. H. C. Wynne, address ii known. The superintendent of the plant aid ihe victims were employes but ; that they had no business in that part ! of the works where the explosion oc | curred. The blast was a terrific one j and was felt 25 miles away. Wire i communication with the plant was cut off by the shock with the resuli 'that the wildest rumors prevailed j until daylight cleared up the extent lof the accident. The property loss is Ismail as the explosion occurred in a small building of No. 1 plant of the works. It was some distance front | the main buildings. One of the reports in circulation was that government agents and secret service men from the Du Pont police force had been watching sus picious persons who went to the plant from Wilmington. Del., by boat, and that two, carrying bomb and fuses, had been arrested. C. B. Landis, a fContinued on I'iikc 5.] Wilson May Put Defense Plan Personally Before Country in Speeches; By Associated Press Washington. Jan. 10. President Wilson possibly may put (he question ] of national defense before the country i In a series of speeches as one means J of getting the necessary legislation j through Congress. The President to-day received sev eral invitationj to speak at banquets or meetings here, in Baltimore and New York within the next month and other invitations are known to he J coming. Officials intimated to-day .that the President might take advan tage of the invitations to lay the Ad ministration plan for national defense directly before tlie people. As soon as the submarine controversy is en tirely cleared up tlip President intends to devote his wholf attention to get ting the nation ilefense plans through Congress. 'inning to-mor row the Presuleri ! confer fre quently \ ; 'li l-lousi and Senate leaders on the subject. County Commissioners Organize as Board of Revision and Appeal 1 Dauphin county's new hoard of com : missioners to-day formally organized las a hoard of county tax revision and appeals for 1910 by electing President | Charles C. Cuniblcr. chairman, and Chief Clerk Edward IT. Fislier, secre- I tar i The commissioners immediately be gan an inspection of the lax assess ment books. On January 19 the ap i peals will begin and until that time the commissioners will pare down the ; assessors' lift (ires wherever no proper excuse for raising the values appears. ! The assessors, however, will be given I an opportunity on Hie appeal days to 'explain why they raised the valuations. Thousand School Children Will Hear Seton Talk on Wild Animal Life ; Fully 1,000 of Harrisburg's school ' youngsters from the grammar and I primary grades will pack the auditor - jium of the Technical high school next : Friday afternoon at 3.U0 o'clock, to hear Edgar Thompson Seton talk on "Wild Animals I Have Known." This address will be exclusively for the city school children and no adults will be admitted. So great has been the de mand for tickets from the various principals of the schools, that it is pos sible that a morning talk will be ar ! ranged for. Dr. Seton's talk will be of double in terest to the youth of this city in that | lie was the prime mover in the inaug uration of th# Boy Scout movement in j America. In the evening the ninth I annual Teachers' Association lectures I will be ushered in with Seton's address on "In Search of the Caribou." In this address be will tell of his 2,000 mile trip by canoe to the arctic plains. The lectures will lie illustrated by stereop ticon. 30.0011 SKATERS CHASED OI'F NEW YORK I, A KES | New York, Jan. 10. Thirty thou sand skaters, roughly estimated, were ; chased off Van Cortland Park lakes |in this city yesterday. A squad of po licemen patrolled the Ice and conduct ied regular beats between sign posts ! erected for the purpose of preventing j the hordes of eager red-cheeked girls and youths from risking their lives on the unsafe ice. The minions of the [law had considerable difficulty keeping jt.he vast stretches of ice clear, but all accidents were prevented. SONG WRITER DIES New York. .lan. 10.—Samuel l>ucas. j author of the song, "Grandfather's I Clock." and known as one of the ; most original nntertnlnfrs on the | American stage for nearly half a cen jtury, died to-day. ARRISBURG, PA.. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1916. SHE WILL DO "THE DANCE OF THE VASES" I AT CHARITY BALL TO BE HELD JANUARY 20 V. 1 9 JL ■ f W Ik m wt J r £ w § \ w % 0 pS ; s8:::? ; ::; £ / lIL Miss (Catherine Noland. of Baltimore, who will do a weird dance at the big Charity Hall to be held January -0 in the Chestnut Street Auditorium. COSTS MORE TO CURE GRIP ON WAR'S ACCOUNT Cost of Many Presciplions Doubled by Pharmacists of City Increases in the prices of drugs i have caused a general rise in the cost : of many prescriptions filled by drug- | Sists in the city. In some instancesj the prices of prescriptions have doubled. Pharmacists in explaining the situation to-day said that some of the drugs used in medicines have in creased from 100 to 1000 per cent, owiny to the war and the big demand for them In foreign countries. Disin fectants. bromides for nervous dis orders and the old cold cure, quinine, are included in the list of goods ad vanced in price. Moth balls, still widely used in the Springtime when the winter clothes are buried in big chests, now retail for 25 cents a pound in the city. He tore the war any amount of them could be bought for five cents a pound. lanolin used in many oint ments, and facial massage creams for milady, has advanced about 500 per [Continued on Page 5.] GROWTH OF BANKS IS UNPARALLELED I ' First Year Under Federal He serve System Shows In | crease of $1,743,878,648 | Washington. D. C.. Jan. 10.—' De ■ velopment and growth never parallei |ed in the financial history of any | country" is the way John Skolton ; Williams. Comptroller of the Currency I describes in his annual report to Con- I gress, the operation of the national i banks under his charge, during the period from October 191-1 to Novem- I ber 1915. the first year under the I Federal Reserve system. The report was to-day presented to Congress, j Mr. Williams gives a comparative .statement of the condition of the na tional banks to back up his state , ment. He shows that net resources of the banks increased in the year sl,- I 743,878,648, that deposits increased I $2,081,530.164 and that loans and dis counts increased $917,450,602, Avail j able cash increased In the same period i $862,000,000 and on November 10, 11915, the reporting national banks ; had excess reserves of $891,000,000. "The reserves held by the national banks November 10. 1915," says the report "exceeded by $587,000,000 the greatest reserves ever held at any time prior to the passage of the Fed eral lieserve act. l-.oans and discounts amounted to more than the total loans and discounts of all banks, including national, State, savings and private banks and loan and trust companies —ns late ns the year 1902." Savings Grow Mr. Williams says that the "bank ing power" of the United States—the capital surplus, circulation deposits, ; etc. —of all reporting banks, national and otherwise with an estimate of the 'figures for nonreporting banks, I amounted in June 1915, to $25,397,- ! 100,000, an Increase in a year of about $1,057,100,000. Savings bank de positors increased by 176,256 during the year ending last June with total deposits of $4,997,706,013 an increase of $61,114,163. The average deposit however decreased from $444.30 to [Continued on Page 7.] NEGOTIATIONS IN LUSITANIA CASE NEARING CLOSE Count Yon Hernstorff and Sec retary Lansing Hold Confi dential Meeting By Associated Press Washington, Jan. 10. Count Von Hernstorff, the German ambassador, and Secretary Lansing, had another conference on the l.usitania negotia tions to-day which both agreed should be described as confidential. The ambassador expects to confer with the Secretary again inside of a week and not again on the subject. That fact is taken by those conversant with the status of the case to mean that Germany and the United States have approached a point in the nego tions where only one more exchange between Washington and Berlin will be necessary before the long contro versy is ended. It was stated authoritatively to-day that the next step of the United States will be to ask all of the allies of Ger many to agree that no vessels carrying Americans be attacked until passen gers and crew have been placed in safety. START TO PROBE YOUNGSTOWN RIOT j More Than 200 Are Arrested and Held to Await Action of Grand Jury By Associated Press Youngstown, Ohio. Jan. 10. —The grand jury to-day began an investiga tion into the riot in Fast Youngstown Friday night. More than 200 men have been arrested and a majority of these will be held pending the outcome of the probe which will be made under the direction of A. E. Henderson, prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county. The gates of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company plant which has been tied up because of a strike of laborers, were reopened to-day and preparations are being made to resume operations. Many former employes re ported for duty and were at once put lo work. The exact number to return was not made public. The furnaces are still banked, but workers were as signed to cleaning up and making re pairs. No disturbances were re ported. Both regiments of '.he Ohio Na tional Guard which was been quartered on military property since their arrival early Saturday were removed last night. For the present they will con tinue to occupy their trains near the plant, but will be removed to quarters in other parts of this city and East Youngstown as soon as arrangements can be made. Frederick C. Croxton, mediator, sent here in an effort to settle the strike, continued his conference with representatives of the companies and employes to-day. Mr. Croxton confer red yesterday with James A. Campbell, president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, lie also plans to discuss the situation with T. J. Brady of the Republic Iron und Steel Com pany whose employes are also on a jtriks. HARDSCRABBLE VIEW REVISION GAIN TO CITY $1,311 Less Damages Allowed Than Under Original Schedule COURT (JETS REPORT! Will Remain on File 30 Days For Filing of Excep tions Recent revision of the original |schedule of benefits and damages inci dent to the condemnation of "Hard scrabble" reduced the amount of dam ages allowed from $107,105 to $105,- 794. The change redounds to the city's advantage lo the extent of just $1,311, as the municipality's share of the as sessment is reduced from Jt!4,064.70 to $62,723.70. No change in the original sum as sessed as benefits against the property owners on the east side of Front street from Herr to Calder, was made. The benefits assessed total $43,070.30. Figures Go to Court The new figures incident to the elimination of the "Hardscrabble" district—the section lying on the west side of Front street from Calder to Herr—was presented to the Dauphin county court this morning by Attorney Paul G. Smith, chairman of the board of viewers. Serving with Mr. Smith were James D. Saltsman and Karl Steward. The report was confirmed temporar ily. It will remain on file thirty days, in this time formal exceptions can be tiled. If these be based on technical grounds aimed to set aside the whole viewing proceeding, then the report cannot be confirmed absolutely within thirty days, but must lay out pending Ihe result of regular court proceedings, if the objections be base on the [Continued on Page 5.] Want Pensions For Widows and Orphans of Spanish Veterans Harrisburg Camp, No. 8, United Spanish War Veterans, has decided to put fortn efforts to have Confess grant pensions to widows and orphans of Spanish war veterans. Interesting addresses were a feature of a meeting of Harrisburg Camp No. 8, United Spanish War Veterans, held in the camprooms, 30-! North Second street. A large class was austered in by Captain E. Uaubenstein. Patriotic addresses were made by Captain Laubenstein, William Messln ger, George Drake, H. E. Gabril and others. Each member pledged himself to bring in one or more recruits by June 1. 0. P. Beckley Speaker at Rotary Club Luncheon O. P. Beckley, as the guest of Sam uel Eby, was the speaker at to-day's noon luncheon of the Harrisburg Ro tary Club at the Senate Hotel. Mr. Eby, head of the Harrisburg Hag and Box Company, was chairman and among the guests who were called on for short speeches were J. S. Brown, of the Boston notary Club; S. M. Palm, Thomas Kahres, E. E. Sanford. I>. D. Green, William Kenny and Messrs. Hess and Tate, general salesmen of the New Idea Hosiery Company, Mr. Beckley took for his subject the dignity of labor and the value of fel lowship and co-operation. Tickets were distributed for the Ro tary Club educational night, Tuesday, January 18, at the Technical high school auditorium, when Professor George F. Dunkleberger, of Susque hanna University, will deliver an illus trated lecture on that institution. ; Unfilled Tonnage of U. S. Steel Shows Big Increase fl.v .Associate// Press New York. Jan. 10. —The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation on December 31 totaled 7.80t!.L'20 ions, an increase of 616,731 tons over November. The unfilled orders of 7,806,220 tons reported to-day represent the largest total reached by the steel corporation since January 31, 1913, when the ag gregate was 7,827,368 tons. ADA RE HAN, ONCE MOST BEAUHT'III, WOMAN, DIES Special to the Telegraph New York, Jan. 10.—Ada Rehan, the actress, died at the Roosevelt Hos pital Saturday. She was taken to the hospital December 31. Several days later she underwent a serious op eration. She never recovered from the effects. She was 55 years old. Ada Rehan was once noted as the most beautiful woman on the American stage. PHILADEI.PIIIAN DIES IN SOUTH By Associated Press Savannah, Ga„ Jan. 10. C. H. f'larke. a well-known resident of Philadelphia, died suddenly yesterday at Pineland Club, Harnett. S. C„ ac cording to information reaching here to-day. JUDGE NOYES DEAD By Associated Press Milwaukee. Wis., Jan. 10.—Judge George H. Noyes. 67, well known in legal circles throughout the country, died suddenly at Clearwater. Fta., ac cording to a telegram received here to-day. THE DAY IN CONGRESS Washington, Jan. 10. Senate—Met at noon. Foreign rela tions committee granted hearing for Tuesday to women's peace party. House —Met at noon. Major Gen eral Scott, chief of staff of the army, explained army bill to military com mittee. Hear Addmlral Stanford con tinued his testimony oiS yards and docki before naval committee. 12 PAGES CUSSING MUST BE STOPPED BY POLICE-MEALS If the Cops Must Swear, Let 'em Do It in Private, Says Mayor TO STUDY CITY LAWS Possible That Meals Will Establish School For Patrolmen I Swearing while on duty will mean punishment for attaches of the police department. "1 expect every employe under nie to be a perfect gentleman," said I Mayor E. S. Meals to-day. Asked if any special set of rules would be pro vided for employes of his depart ment. the mayor said: "There will be some organization after January 15. Just as soon as I have the new force working, every man will be told his duty. You can't be a gentleman and swear in public. Of course I realize that there are i times when a man MUST swear. He can do it quietly." Another thing that will be required of patrolmen, will be a thorough knowledge of city ordinances. Mayor Meals said his patrolmen must know the laws. "You can't enforce ordi nances if you are not acquainted with the provisions of the city laws," he remarked. Mayor Meals has not de cided whether there will be a school established for the patrolmen. He is of Ihe opinion that it woudl be a good thing to have someone instruct the olllcers on important ordinances. MAYOR Will.I; MARRY FOLKS BUT HK'S NOT ANXIOUS I "1 am not a marrying Mayor," said ! Harrisburg's executive to-day, when ! asked if he would make a practice of ; marrying couples, as he has a right i lo do under the law. i "1 had but one marriage lo per j forth during my previous administra tion. I will not make any couple unhappy if they ask me to unite them in marriage, but I do not propose to make a. practice of it. If a couple happens in during my office hours, I will do my best to make them happy." I TWO LICENSES TRANSFERRED I Transfers of two hotel licenses were approved to-day by the Dauphin county court. The privilege held by William H. Dreibler at "Shell's Tavern," East Hanover townsh; was transferred to Chester S. Boyer, Grantville. A simi- g lar privilege held by Uriah U. Bollinger at Coxestown Hotel, g Coxestown, was turned over to Frederick Bossinger. g BRITISH LOSE 3,000 IN ATTACK, REPORT 1 Amsterdam, Jan. 10, via London, 4.51 P. M.—A British g force which apparently was on the way to reinforce the £ British at Kut-El-Amara on the Tigris river, lost thr- - g thousand men in an attack on Turkish positions at Sue g Said, according to a semiofficial statement received here to g iday from Constantinople. ■ Harrisburg Peter Gubics was arrested this mornin t . g in Steelton by Chief of Police Longnaker and Detective # Gibb, of that place, just one hour before the time set for M his wedding. Gubics was arrested on serious charges pre- / ferred by a girl in South Bethlehem. He got out on bail g and was married nevertheless. J FEDERAL PURE FOOD LAW UPHELD V> Jan. 10.—The Sheiley amendment of 1902 , I Pu.«e I ood La»v was upheld as const tt day by the Supreme Court. i jßivt WLRL IN KLTRLA ( - I'he Tuiksin ..esopna: g \g w n. .y ith tht Butish # | • ui I ldui occicio y 10, India 1 Washington, jan. 10. —Admiral Wmslow reported to / 1 day lo the Depaitment the sui i ender near Espcra.o C I von.. o Indians and Villa troops to Genetai » Dicgue Villa troops were vJ nmanded by Geneiai X g d .i.. India.;s uy Chief Bachaino. a g ondoit, ja .. 10, j.A'J P.' M.—Sir Peicy Lake has be< % g appointed to command the British forces in Mesopotamia in g g sucCfe'ssii n io Sir John Eccles Nixon who has been g r compelled by ill health to return home, it was announced in ) # the iioui»e of Commons to day by J. Austen Chamberlain, g M Secretary for India. g / MARRIAGE UCENSES | g Hull Ruby I'nrle;', Chamhrrnharc, Had Kffle KlUnbeth Hnlty, % K baric. u « llonnlc < Union Sltnart, l.akrwoori, and Ida Mar Urate, lMUaburKlt. ft # Philip Kberly and Ralbrr B. THetrl«-h. J % Herman William Dolts and Catherine Ireae Hummel, l£a«t Hanover. ( POSTSCRIPT— FINAL TEN PER CENT. * WAGE INCREASE FEB. 1 FOR PA. STEEL EMPLOYES' Officials Now Working ort' New Schedule; Jump in Pay Effects Labor and Salaried Men, Except Where Recent Readjust ments Were Made EFFECTS 6,000 MEN AT STEELTON MILLS i j Boost in Line With Company's Plan of Sharing Increased Profits With Employes; Cambria Adds $600,000 to Its Annual Payroll I Wages of practically all employes of the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Stoelton will be increased February 1, it was learned l'rom usually well-in formed circles this morning. Officials are now working on a new wage schedule which will become ef fective at that time. This schedule, it was said, will grant an increase i-i pay of approximately 10 per cent, on the present labor rate and a somewhat similar proportion in the higher rates, except where readjustments have re cently been made. The proposed increase will affect about ti.OOO men and will add thou sands of dollars to the company's pay roll.' The increase is in line with tho [Continued on Vage 7.]