;
Fleet ofSixty-five Allied War planes B
HARRISBURG ll9si§ TELEGRAPH
* VYY\r \T rt /"') BY CARRIEIi n CKNTs A WEEK.
LAAAV AO. O- SIXGI.B COPIES a CEXTS.
PROBLEM OF GRANTING TROOPS
RIGHT TO USE
MEXICO IS CAU
Imperative That Trains Be
Used to Bring Up Supplies
as Speedy Transportation
Facilities Are Essential to
Further Progress
WILSON TO FORWARD
REQUEST AT ONCE
Favorable Decision by Car
ranza Bound to Be Serious
ly Misconstrued by Mexi
cans; Expeditionary Force
Reaches Galeana; Villa
Reported on Hearst Ranch
Carranza Forces Are
Withdrawn to Border
By Associated Press
El Paso, Tex., March 20.—Car
ran7.11 troop-, stationed at Casas
«.ramies anil other points ol' that
section at the time General Per
shing began his march into Mex
ico now are located a I Juarez,
opposite El Paso and in the rear
oi" General Pershing's columns, it
was authoritatively statcil to-day.
No reason has been assigned for
I lie transfer of troops from points
inland to the howler.
From reliable sources it is stat
ed that a Carranza detachment
allowed \ ilia to pass southward
on receipt of a message from the
bandit leader that he was not
warring against Mexico.
By Associated Press
iOI Paso. Texas, March 20. —The
problem of granting the United States
government permission to use Mesican
railways to transport supplies to
American troops pursuing Francisco
Villa overshadowed everything else in
the Mexican situation here to-day.
The reply of General Carran-a to
the request of the government for per
mission to use the railroads was ex
pected to be sent forward to Washing
ton to-day. A refusal will embarrass
i he operations of the American troops,
while the granting of the request, it
was declared, would be bound to be
seriously misconstrued by a consid
erable section of the Mexican people
and to be exploited by the enemies of
General Carranza
The unexpectedly rapid advance of
i he expeditionary columns under Gen
eral Pershing has forced the railroad
question to an issue. Americans
familiar with the country into which
the columns are now entering assert
that it is imperative that the railroads
be placed at their disposal for the
bringing up of supplies. Dr. 1. J. Bush,
formerly chief surgeon of Madero's
army, asserted to-day that the speedy
transportation facilities were essential
IO further progress by the American
soldiers.
The American force* ure reported
Ht Galeana.
■Mexicans Have Advantage
"Twenty miles south of there is El
Valle and from that point the only
practicable way of bringing up sup
plies is by railroad," said Dr. Bush.
"The valley converges here into a
narrow deep gorge in which about 2,-
000 people live. The territory in which
Villa probably will remain is em
braced by an imaginary line between
Chihuahua and Minaca with the
Mexican Central Railroad on one side
ind the Sierra Madre on the other.
His soldiers have the advantage over
'lie Americans in that they will travel
light with only a few days' provisions
ind are seasoned men. well able to
stand the hardships of mountain cam
paigning in that climate."
Dr. Bush said that lie had no doubt
hat Villa was spreading stories of his
wonderful victories over the Amer
icans of how he had captured Texas
and that Carranza had gone over to
Ihe t'nited States. It would be easy,
he said, for him to make the ignorant
peons, among whom he is operating,
believe the wildest stories.
A shallow river and a winding wagon
road, cutting like the two blades of a
pair of scissors through the heart of
i he Sierra Madre Oriental mountains,
10-day are the connecting link between
Francisco Villa's retreating command
and Hie pursuing columns of Hrlgadier-
General John J. Pershing, if latest re
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THE WEATHER
For Harrlaburir mill vicinityi In
creiinintc <liiu<llue»« thin after
noon, prohnlily follunol by light
■now. turning to rnln to-t.lßlit;
Tueailny rnln; warmer to-nlicht
nnil Tuemlajj lo«e*t temperature
to-nlurht ahout 25 deKreeK.
J'or Kaatern Pennsylvania: Inerean
ln«c elnudlneaa nnil warmer to
il iUh 11 proltahly rain or Know In
northi-rn and wmtrrn portion*;
Tuesday rain or anon and
warmer; moderate, variable wind*
becoming southeasterly.
Hlver
The Suaquehanna river and all It*
tributaries will remain nearly
Stationary to-nlsht. The tribu
taries will probably ItcKin to rise
Tuesday. * staite «f about 4.3
feet la Indicated for llarrlsburg
Tuesday momlDK.
General Conditions
The slight disturbance that was
over tbc Southwest, Saturday
morning;, has passed rapidly*
northeastward to the North *t
lantle coast, followeil by an area
of '-iKh pressure from the !Vorth
west that now covers most of the
eastern half of the country, with
Its center over Pennsylvania and
Maryland.
Temperature has risen from 2 to
denrees.
Temperature; 8 a. m., ao.
Sun: lilacs, OiOft n. m.; sets, 0:17
p. m.
Vloon: Itlsea, 7i!W p. ill.
Hlver Stnstci 4.1 feet above low- |
water mark.
Weather
II iu hest temperature.
I.owest temperature, IS.
Mean temperature, 241.
.Normal temperature, 30.
MARJORIE, OF BATTLESHIP
V /
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MARJORIES STERRETT IN HER FATHER'S CIJOAK AND CAP
MAR.JORIE'S FUND
TO GET A LIFT
ON WEDNESDAY
"Defense or Tribute?" Is Spec
tacular Production; Contribu
tions Pass *IOO Mark
It. was this little Brooklyn school
girl's great idea that started news
papers all over the United States boost
ing for contributions to the Marjorie
Sterrett Battleship Fund. Seventy-five
newspapers have thrown their respec
tive hats in the ring and the girls and
boys and the older ones as well, have
joined t|ie campaign with a will and
already—so the New York Tribune
telegraphs—the amount raised is well
over SIO,OOO. Between 00,000 and
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FLEEING BANDITS, MOTHER
HIDES WITH BABY IN MINE
Mrs. Wallace Rogers Took Child 1,500 Feet Into Abandoned.
Shaft: Only British Flag Respected
El Paso. Texas, March 20. Mrs.
Wallace Rogers of Detroit, Mich., ar
rived here yesterday with her fifteen
months' old baby and told how she
had hid with the child for two
days in the shaft of an abandoned
mine near Cananea from Mexican
bandits. Mrs. Rogers' husband is
interested in mining property near
Cananea, but was away from home
when the little colony tied on the ap
GOVERNOR CALLS
FOR LOCAL OPTION
i
Makes Ringing Address For
Enactment of Law by the
Next Legislature
Governor Brumbaugh yesterday!
called upon the people of Western
Peneylvanla to unite with those in
tho interior counties for the election I
l of a local option Legislature. In a
aeries of addresses delivered in Pitts
burgh and heard by thousands the
State's executive made strong pleas
for enactment of local option. Follow- 1
Ing his speech on Saturday afternoon
on home rule he drove home his
points in Savor of local option with
forte and was everywhere given as
[Continucd 011 I'a«e 7.]
Two Associate Judges
Overrule Superior and
Grant Liquor License
11 y Associated Press
Stroudsburg, Pa., March 20. At
the Monroe county license court to
day Frank Weinett, of Effort, was
hrunted a license, the two associate
judges having voted for it, thus over
ruling President Judge Staples who ,
refused it a year ago when violations
of the liquor laws were charged
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1916
ALLEN D. ALBERT
TO BE GUEST AT
JOINT LUNCHEON
Municipal Expert to Speak at
Noon and Again in Evening;
Guest at Rotary Dinner
Great preparations are being made
by the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce, the Harrisburg Rotary Club
and the Harrisburg Civic Club l'or the
reception of Allen D. Albert on Wed
nesdaj.
Mr. Albert, who conies here as the
joint guest of the Rotary Club and the
Chamber of Commerce, is president
iof the International Association of
Rotary Clubs and one of the most
noted municipal experts in the coun
[Continued on Page 14.]
proach of the bandits.
"The whole country around where |
1 was living," said Mrs. Rogers, "Is,
filled with abandoned mines, the i
shafts of some of w r hich have been:
sunk 2,000 feet or more. Most of the
American men were away when we
heard of the approach of the bandits. !
"We lied to one of the abandoned
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I
BUSINESS FIRST
SAYS CUNNINGHAM
State Highway Commissioner
Tells His Engineers to Re
pair Roads
Engineers, inspectors and superin- i
tendents of two departments of the
State Government met at the Capitol
to-day for Spring conferences on
their work and arranged for various
details to be undertaken without de
lay. The Public Service Commission
was also in session with a big list of
hearings scheduled.
The engineers and superintendents'
of the State Highway Department,
[Continued on Page 7.]
Garbage Officials Hope
to Settle With Strikers
Regular collections of ashes by the'
Pennsylvania Keduction Company j
stopped this morning when fifty-six I
ashmen went on a strike for higher i
wages. Officials or the company at I :
noon said that they had not. employed I
other men to till the, places of the '
strikers, as It Is believed an agree-''
ment will be reached by to-morrow :
between the company and the em- i
ployes. All of the garbage collectors 1
reported for work this morning. Every <
effort will be made. It was said to-day, I 1
to have the ashmen on duty within a I
few days.
ESCAPED PRISON
IN WAR PLANE
STOWAWAY SAYS
Son of Newspaper Man, For
merly Head of Ledger Bureau
Here, Tells Thriller
SAVED BY AN AVIATOR
Imprisoned For Breaking Cen
sor Rules While in Cana
dian Ranks
With a tale of strange and wild ad
venture Thomas A. Price, a free lanco
! news writer and son of Frank J.
Price, who for some time was in
J charge of the llarrisburn Bureau of
the Public Ledger, reached New York
: yesterday as a stowaway from the Eu
| ropean battlefields.
The adventures of Price range all
the way from court martial and death
in France to prison in Belgium, sub
sequent on a warplane the English
channel on a warplane and wind up
[Continued on Page J2.]
Baby Burned to Death
by Bowl of Hot Soup
Upsetting u big bowl of hot soup at
1 (he home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
: Frank (Jorrnich, sfi Franklin street,
Steelt.on, yesterday afternoon, little
John Gormich, aged 2, received burns
: from which he died a few hours later..
The bowl of steaming broth had
i been set upon a chair in the kitchen
! while the mother busied herself about
I the stove. Unnoticed, the tot grasped
! the edge of the bowl, toppling its con
j tents over his head, face and chest
. in a stream.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow morning in St. Peter's Catholic
i Church. Burial will be made in Mount
! Calvary Cemetery.
Subcommittee Completing
A/rangements For National
Convention in Chicago
By Associated Press
Chicago, 111., March 20.—The sub
; committee of the Republican national
' committee assembled here to-day for
the purpose of completing arrange
ments for the national convention next
June.' A few of the committeemen
i arrived Sunday, but a majority, canie
on early trains to-day.
Thieves Pick Lock
to Steal S2OO From
Middletown Butcher
Entering the home of Edward
Schuetz. Catherine street, Middletown.
I by picking a night lock on the kitchen
1 door, thieves last night forced open a
I desk in the library and stole S2OO in
j cash. A bottle of ten-year-old whisky
was also taken. Nothing else was dis-
I turbed.
Mr. Schuetx, a butcher, had the
I money on hand from Saturday's busi
ness and his receipts from a number
jof his tenants. It is believed that the
robbers knew the money was in the
| desk.
BETHLEHEM STEEL
:TO LET U. S. FIX
PRICE OF ARMOR
Government Given Opportun
ity to Find Out What Bill
Would Be
| That, the year's total earnings were
'524,821,408.25; that its orders on
I hand January 1 amounted to $175,-
432,895.19: that its employes number
ed 22,064 in the United States; that
jthe company was willing to manufac
ture armor plate for the government
|at practically the government's own
i price—these are some of the high
j lights in the annual report of the
j Bethlehem Steel Corporation issued
I to-day.
; Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the
I board oi uirectors, and E. G. Grace,
[Continued on Page 11.]
Combatants Found to Be
Still Strong, by Morgan
Special to the Telegraph
New York, March 20. —.T. P. Morgan
head of the banking house of J. p.
Morgan & Co., who arrived here yes
terday from Liverpool on the steam
ship Philadelphia, reiterated the de
nial recently issued from his office
here, that a new credit against Am
erican securities said to have been
; mobilized in London, had been ar
ranged by him for the entente allies.
Thomas Taggart Appointed
Senator to Fill Vacancy
By Associated Press
Indianapolis. Ind., March 20.
Thomas Taggart, Democratic national
i committeeman, was appointed United
States Senator to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator Benja
min F. Shively by Governor Ralston
to-day. Mr. Tagfiart expects to leave
for Washington Immediately.
The next Senator has been promi
nent in politics in Indiana for 25
years and has maintained the leader
ship of the Democratic party in In
diana practically all of that time. The
only offices Mr. Taggart has ever held
were auditor of this Marlon county
for two terms and three times mayor i
of Indianapolis.
LAW UNTIES LAST
KNOT IN TANGLED
BULGARIAN STORY
Divorce ol" Sevasiia and Spiro
Evanoff Is Proclaimed
by Courts
"OTHER MAN" IN SERBIA ?
■■ jShbe.. • «n|
j*Bt4
Hi^HK
|HPv
SEVASTIA EVANOFF
tlio final chapter Jn the unhappy
story of Sevastia EvanofC, the prettiest
maid In Steelton's Bulgarian colony,
anil her husband, Spiro Evanoff, was
written into the records of the Dau
phin county court to-day when Presi
dent Judge Kunkel was asked to issue
a formal proclamation in divorce as
appealed for by dark-eyed Sevastia.
The story of the Evanoffs is the age
old story of the triangle; the other
end of the tale is lost somewhere in
the mountains of faraway Serbia
. when the hosts of Ferdinand of Bul
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"BABY WEEK"
IS ENDED IN BIG
BLAZE OF GLORY
More Than SIOO Contributed by
Organizations to Make It a
Sucess Financially
Well, it's all over, but it certainly
i ./ds splendid! An*l did you ever see
, such adorable babies—and such strong
|and healthy ones? They don't raise
evil anv better tliun right here in Har
, rhtburg. and everybody says the Visit
ing Nurse Association and the Asso
ciated Aids and the other organizations
i deserve all the credit thev are getting
for their work for better babies and
a better nation.
! "Baby Week" has come and gone.
, Pi- by has made his bow to the public
[Continued on Page 7.]
"GENTLE" SPIiIXG TO II.WD
CITY SOME MOKE KNOW
Spring' will be ushered in at 5.39
o'clock this afternoon with light snow
turning to rain later in the evening'
according to the forecast of E. R!
Demain in the local weather bureau]
Slightly warmer weather will follow
tomorrow, with the lowest temperature
23 degrees.
TO OUT MUELLER
Permission to formally take posses
sion of Harry J. Mueller s desk as
city forester will be asked to-morrow
or city council by Commissioner E. 5i
Gross, superintendent of parks and
Public property. Mueller had been
requested to resign by March 15 and
'Commissioner Gross has notitled him
I that his final pay check was issued to
him March 14. Mueller however, has
refused to quit his office declaring
that council having appointed him,
must dismiss him.
BOXER KILLED I V ACTION'
By Associated Press
London, March 20. Captain
Dewar, son of Lord Dewar, sensator
of the College of Justice of Scotland,
bufc been killed in action. He was
champion lightweight boxer of the;
public schools.
CARDINAL GOTTI DIES '
By Associated Press
Rome, March 20.—Cardinal Jerome
Mary Ootti, prefect of the propaganda
died yesterday.
Cardinal Gottl was born in 1834 at,
Genoa and was made a cardinal in I
189 D,
PLANES OF ALLIES
BOMBARD GERMAN
SUMBARINE BASEi
Sixty-Five Machines Drop De
structive Bombs on Zee
brugge and Houttadc . 1
9 DKAD IN KENT RAID
Four Teutonic Seaplanes In
jure Thirty-one Others in I
Attack on England
By Associated Press
London, March 20.—Sixty-five al- j
lied aeroplanes to-day bombarded the
Belgium coast town of Zeebrugge. All
returned.
Zeebrugge is on the Belgian coast i
12 miles northeast of Ostend. Since!
the German occupation this port has j
become of considerable importance,
particularly as a German submarine
base. It is one of the principal points
from which submarine operation in
the North sea are directed.
The following official statement was
made:
In the early hours of this morn
ing a combined force of approxi- !
mately fifty British, French and
Belgian aeroplanes and seaplanes. j
accompanied by fifteen fighting
machines, left and attacked Iho j
German seaplane station at Zee
brugge and the. aerodrome at
Houttade, near Zeebrugge.
Return Safely
Considerable damage appears
to have been done. The machines
on the average carried 200 pounds
of bombs.
All machines returned safely.
[Continued on Page 12.]
Visiting Boy Shoots Son
of Host at Lewistown
Playing With Revolver
Special to the Telcgrapii
Lewistown. Pa., March 20.—Charles
Slienk, aged IS years, son of Daniel!
1 Slienk. was accidentally shot near the
hear! by Reuben Young, aged 12, with j
a revolver here yesterday. The Rev.
D. Young and his son, of Altoona, were |
visiting at the Shenk home when the
accident occurred in the boys' room. ;
Young Shenk's condition is critical I
to-day.
!— "V'" ' ** y** Tfr r>ll TA l 'E3
FIRE DESTROYS STEELTON HOME « t
Steelton.—Fire, the origin of which has not yet been : [
I [
street, owned by the Oeorge W. Cumbler estate, and occu- j'
pied' by a colored family, shortly after 3 o'clock this after- g i
1 noon. For awhile the flamis threatened the entire row of I
I ; about a dozen houses but prompt work of the firemen con- JL
J R fined the blaze to the one building. X
, I DIVIDE COST SUITS |
j I Harrisburg.—Costs were directed to be divided in the r g'
suit brought by Edwin Snyder against Park officer Henry I
,j| Sears, charged with assault, by a March quarter sessions ¥
jury late this afternoon. The charge of assault and battery I
4 i against Henry Woodon was ignored. .
* WIFE MURDERER DIES IN CHAIR j
' , Bellefonte, March 20.—Martin Kristan, of Pittsburgh, &
* was electrccuted at the penitentiary to-day. Aside from •
1 , bidding his condemned man had no i
I! ing to say. Kristan was condemned to death for the murder £
j■ of his wife in Alleg h< cc u»t . September 23, 1914. J
< "IMMEDIATE PEACE TN SIGHT" >
Galveston Tex., March 20.—"Immediate peace is in f
< I sight," is one sentence of a cablegram received to-day from • '
1 j London by a Galveston shipping firm, cancelling arranf t- ; 'j»
fments made for considerable amount of ton- | >
nage. ;!,
KENTUCKY SENT TO GALVESTON
! Washington March 20.—Sailing orders of the battleship >
* Kentucky, which had been ordered from New Orleans to '.
! I
Vera Cruz were changed to-day to send the ship to Galves- ll
► ton. Secretary Daniels said there was no need for the ship f
at Vera Cruz and that reports from the gulf coast of Mexi :o 1
*■ . .
► were optimistic. t
1 CLASH WITH VILLA IMMINENT I
► Paso, Tex., March 20.—A clash between the Villista ip
t and Carranzistas forces is imminent, according to advice:, ]'
t receieved to-day through General Gavira. Villa, fleeir.g if
[ south before the rapidly advancing American tropps, is ap- J <
' parejitly trying to break through the Mexican-American 4 »
' rnr,lcn in r.n him . ■ •
MARRIAGE LICENSES
► Joarpb Falonr.v ami Florence Crlmlla Cilhrrraan, Strellun.
, John Robert Hurtling anil Knimn >loorc. city. !
I William Uinanuel Clark, llockrr»vlllc, an,l .Mluiilp Mantle \yc. n»rry
(ownNhlp.
i (jluieppf Verrovla and Conknnr.n Ormo, Steeituii. - >
f U°J*® Au*wntii* Fulmer, city, and Alice Mabel Meycriy lluniuuoiidale.^
W Hnlpli K. Ingram, city, ami Mary K. Sunder*, Steel ton. I
3 1 yl p Ml
14 PAGES CITY EDITION
ANOTHER GERMAN
ATTACK ON FORT
IS BEATEN BACK
Repulsed in Drive at Position?
on Pepper Hill; French
Advance in Balkans
ABANDON NEUTRAL ZONE
i Entente and Central Powers
Forces Arc Face to Face
Along Greek Border
By Associated Press
\ Fighting about Verdun has again
slackened, according to to-day's Paris
statement, the only Infantry attack
reported being an unsuccessful one
by the Germans on the French posi
i tions on Pepper Hill, north of the
| fortress. The artillery activity has
| been intermittent, reaching consider
j able violence, however, in the vicinity
of Malanoourt on the west bank of
the Aleuse.
French in Balkans Gain
There is renewed activity in the
Balkans, north ol' Salontki, a French
column having advanced from the en
trenched camp and occupied village*
| near the Gr.ek border which Tou-
I tonic and Bulgarian forces had en
tered, according to news agency ad
! vices from Salonikl. The neutral
frontier zone has now been efimi
j nated. it appears and the forces of the
! entente and the central powers are
face to face along this part of the
front.
Allied War Conference
A war conference of probable mo
mentous importance is about to open
in Paris where military and political
representatives of the entente allies
are gathering. The Joint policies to
, be pursued by the entente in the next
I period of the war will be decided upon
1 by the conference, which will be pre
[('ontinncil on Pago 7]
Kahn Amendment to
House Army Bill Is
Debated For Two Hours
By Associated Press
j Washington, March 20. Repre
sentative Kulin's amendment to the
I House army bill to make the peace
stiength of the army 220,000 men in
; stead of 140,000 was taken up for twe
I hours' debate to-day when the llousi
resumed work on the measure.