German and British Destroye/js Engage in Rujwing fight Off Belgian Coast HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH a vvvir v, r i nr cabrif.r n cents a week. LaaaV— J\ O. DO sikgle copies a cewts. AVIATORS SOAR IN SEARCH OF V AFTER DEFEAT Birdmen Seek to Discover Outlaw After He Leaves Dead and Wounded Behind at Namiquipa and Makes Tracks For the Mountains BANDIT MAY BREAK UP HIS COMMAND Army Officers Agree That if He Takes Refuge in Sierra Madre Range With Small Band It Will Be Practically Impossible to Capture Him By Associated Press El Paso. Texas, March 21. —Avia- tors of the United States army wort reported to-dny searching the almost blind trails leading to the passes in lhe Sierra Madre mountains where Francisco Villa may seek to escape after nis defeat by the Carranza forces j yesterday at Namiquipa. Details of the tight in which Colorful j Cano, with about 900 Carranzistas took; part, are lacking, but it is reported that Villa was badly worsted and that he fled, leaving his dead and wounded. Captain B. D. Foulois is in charge of the seven aviators selected for the task of scouting for Villa who. after i his fight with Colonel Cano, Is expected : to scatter his bandits ruther than risk an engagement with the American 1 troops, who arc said to bar his way to the north. Ex|HH't<*(l to Scatter Army officers agree that if Villa breaks tip his command into small bands and turns to the Sierra Madre mountains for a hiding place, it will be almost impossible to capture him- j Villa spent his early days as an out-j law in these mountains, the passes J through which an army and its trans-; port may not move. It takes ten toi t twelve days to negotiate these passes ® nto the Sonora district. Mexicans here believe Villa will hide himself away in the mountain fastness until the American troops have given up the chase. Six Biplanes Join Force Interest was shown in wireless dis patches from the front stating that six biplanes of the First Aero Squadron, j commanded by Captain Benjamin D. Foulois. had joined the American ex peditionary forces. Henceforth aeroplane scouting is ex pected here to play an Important part in the progress of General Pershing's columns. At E' Valle and Cruces, ac cording to travelers in the Santa Maris Valley, there are plenty of locations suitable for aeroplane bases. From these points the army airmen are ex pected to make frequent reconnais sances over the lofty reaches of the Sierra Madre range. If Villa is proceeding in considerable force, the airmen are likely to locate him. If he has split up his command into small units and is keeping under shelter of the oak and pine woods, the task of the observers will become diffi cult. Will Pick Camp Sites It is not alone in spying after Villa forces that the First Squadron will lie employed. The (lying men are ex pected to pick out camping places, watering spots and in some cases path ways over the mountains which the mule trains can follow. No uneasiness is felt here regarding Lieutenant W. G. Kiiner, who left Co lumbus in a seventh machine to go to the front and did not arrive with the others. The aero squadron undoubt edly followed the line of communi cation established by General Pershing in his southward progress. If Lieu - lenant Kiiner suffered any mishap and was compelled to alight, he was almost certain to be picked up at once by some outpost, it is believed. Dis patches arriving from Columbus, N. M., say that although it is now more than ten days since the Villa forces attacked Columbus*and it has been established definitely that the bandit is fleeing be fore the expeditionary force, some of the residents of the town are not with out l'ear that the raid may be repeated. Practically all of the male residents carry firearms. Scholars Tote Guns When the brick schoolhouse on the Mesa was opened for the first time since the raid, a number of the older [Continued on Page I I.] THE WEATHER For narrlsbnrß anil vicinityi Gen erally cloud)' and nomrabat nnrimr to-nlnrht, with lonext trmiierntuiv nbout freezingi Weil nrndn.v partly cloudy and warmer. For Kaatern Pennsylvania i Clondy to-night I warmer in Month por tion! Wednesday partly cloudy and warmert gentle, variable >vlnd*. 4 lllver ~ The Sumiuchnnnii rflver and Ita tributaries will remain ncarly Htatlonary to-nlclit! the tribu taries will probably rise some what Wednesday. The streams now Icebound will remain so, hut the quantity of floating Ice will decrease. A »tage of about iS feet Is Indicated for Harrlsburg Wed nesday morning. General Conditions Pressure hns decreased decidedly over nearly all the country enst of the Rocky Mountains In the last twenty-four hours. Snow has fallen generally over the I.ake Region and In the Upper Ohio Valley. I.ower St. I.anrencc Val ley and the Middle Atlantic States. Temperature! S n. m., 28. Sun: Rises. #:tKI n. nt.i aets, GilS p. m. tlooni Rises, Si4R p. m. River Stage! 4.5 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. 34. l.imest temperature. 20. Wean temperature. 27. .Normal temptra'iire, 3t». International Rotary President Here Tomorrow ALLAN D. ALBERT President of the International Association of Rotary Clubs who will he In Harrisburg to-morrow as the joint guest of the Rotary" Club anil tlie Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Albert is a municipal expert. He will speak at a joint luncheon at the Hariisburg Club at noon and in the evening in the Technical High School on "The Forces That Make Cities." At 6 o'clock he will be the guest of the Rotary Club fit dinner. JULY GATHERING ! OF ENDEAVORERS TO BREAK RECORD Largest Conference of Pennsyl vania C. E. Societies Planned At least 1,500 delegates, several ! thousand visitors, a great chorus of I 200 voices, a big parade, special ex -1 curslons from other points in Penn j sylvania into Harrisburg, an excursion | for delegates to the Gettysburg bat tlefield these are only a few of the j high lights planned for the three-day 1 program of the twenty-second annual j State convention of the Christian En | deavorers of Pennsylvania to be held in Chestnut street hall, July 11-14. Details are being arranged .by the local convention committee and in the I llrst bulletin issued to-day, a general survey of the plans is set forth. The session will open Tuesday, July il and will last until Thursday. July i 14. and in these three days Harrisburg wil be the Mecca for thousands of [Continued on Page 11.) CONFIDENT NOW OF LOCAL OPTION IN PENNSYLVANIA ! Governor Highly Pleased With the Outlook in Western Pennsylvania Governor Brumbaugh to-day re peated at the Capitol the confidence he expressed at Pittsburgh yesterday that | local option was going to win. | The Governor, fresh as a daisy and | cheerful over the receptions given him, reached the Capitol shortly before noon and said that he was delighted with the <'igor shown in behalf of local j option in western counties. He felt [Continued on Page 6.] Bryan Declares He Favors Renomination of Wilson By Associated Press I Lincoln, Neb., March 21. Wl l! liain J. Bryan, in a speech here last [night discussed national questions and ! his relations with President Wilson I whose renomination. he declared, he favored. There would be, ho said, no other candidate at the St. Louis con j vent ion. "I am a candidate for delegate-at large to that convention," said Mr. Bryan, "hut if any of my friends who | have suddenly become friends of Woodrow Wilson can serve him bet jter than myself, let them send some- I one else to the convention. If Wood row Wilson owes me anything he has more than paid It bach by giving him self to the nation as President instead i of lloosevelt." HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1916 MIDDLETOWN, HIT HARD BY FATES, NOW PROSPEROUS Undaunted Courage of Citizens Pulls Town Through Many Adversities Middletown, .Pa.. March 21. Shaken almost to its foundations by the removal of its largest industry and a disastrous fire several years ago, Middletown is fast becoming one of the busiest towns in Central Pennsyl vania and is one of the few towns which really invites labor to come within its borders. A number of years ago the old Mid [Continued on Page 5.] GET INCREASE IN PAY Altoona, Pa., March 21.—-The 1300 employes of the Altoona. Hollidays burg and Juniata silk mills operated by the Schwartzenbhck-Huber Com pany who attain a certain average of working days a month will receive 10 per cent, increase in their wages from March 1. The manager says 90 per cent, of the operatives now average the required time. OWN ARGUMENT MOVES JURY TO GRANT FREEDOM Edward Welsh Tearfully Pleads For "Everyday .lus tiee, Not Sympathy" Sans lawyer, sans knowledge of the law,'sans any special gift of oratory, Edward Welsh, charged with the theft of a handbag from a woman shopper, this morning argued his own cause before a Dauphin county jury. And after twenty minutes' delib [Continued on Page «.] ASQVITH SUIT SETTLED By Associated Press London, March 21. The libel suit of Mrs. Herbert Asquith, wife of the Premier, against the Globe was set tled to-day. The suit was brought on account of publication by the Globe of statements that Mrs. Asquith had vis ited German prisoners of war con fined at, Donnington Hall and had sent presents to them. When the case was called to-day announcement was made that the Globe had consented to Judgment for £I,OOO and costs. NO MORE AtTTOS 'IX) GO INTO ENGLAND By Associated Press London, March 21. Further re strictions on this Importation of luxuries were imposed to-day. At a meeting of the privy council, King George ' signed a proclamation pro hibiting the bringing in of automo biles, motorcycles, various musical instruments, such a s player - pianos and phonographs, and spirits and other strong drink, with the excep tion of brandy and t urn. MUELLER DROPPED FROM SERVICE AS CITY'S FORESTER Council Unanimously Supports Commissioner Gross" Request For His Removal EXONERATE PARK LAND Gorgas Ordinance Goes Over; Seitz' Opinion on Interest Accumulations City Council this morning unani mously voted to dismiss Harry J. Mueller from the municipal service as city forester. The dismissal becomes effective at once. The action was taken at the request of Commissioner E. Z. Gross, superin tendent of parks and public property and elicited no comment after Mr. Gross had stated his reasons In a few words. "Every opportunity has been giyen the young man to work in harmony and co-operate with the department, but thus far he has shown no disposi tion to do so. So 1 ask for relief be cause it has been impossible to get along this way." Mueller to Get Week's Pay After Council meeting Mr. Cross said he will pay Mueller for his ser vices as forester during the past week. Mueller has intimated that he will issue a statement covering his posi tion. Several weeks ago Mr. Gross asked for Mueller's resignation to take ef fect March 15, but Mueller lias re fused to resign. Following the reading of a letter from the Capitol park extension com mission in which the State authori ties point out that properties are cx [Continued on Page fi.] WILL YOU PAY FOR DEFENSE--OR FOR TRIBUTE? Great Photoplay Gives You Chance to Boost Battle- i ship Fund . "Millions for Defense, but Xot One Cent for Tribute," Is a famous saying which is Just as appropriate ajid has just as true a ring to-day as itv did in 1796 when Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, then ambassador to the French Republic, uttered the words which have come down the years' to us. "Millions for Defense" is a possi bility nowadays if this country will only make it so, and the spectacular motion picture film, "Defense or Tribute" which the Telegraph is bringing to this city In conjunction with the New York Tribune and the Marjoric Sterrett Battleship Fund campaign is one of the many ways of bringing to the public the realization of the need for adequate defender if we are to avert war successfully. This instructive and educational [Continued on Page I I.] Sent to Jail For 60 Days For Smoking "Strong" Pipe Special to the Telrgraph Millville, N. J„ March 21. Charged with smoking a "strong" pipe and otherwise annoying the neighbors in West Millville, Edward Brandriff was arraigned before Acting Mayor Thomas Whitaker yesterday who sent enced Brandriff to pay a fine of SOO and spend ten days in jail. The defendant refused to pay the fine and was sent to jail for 60 days. TW6 NEW DIRECTORS IX TEMPDE IRON BOARD Special to the Telegraph Reading, Pa., March 21.—Two new directors, D. E. New York and Isaac Heister, Reading, were elected i directors of the Temple Iron Com pany at its annual meeting. This company owned, until recently, the famous Temple Furnace, the basis of the coal, iron and railway trust dis solved by the Federal Supreme Courts. The company, now inactive, re elected E. T. Stotesbury and E. B. Thomas, Philadelphia; F. C. Smink, Reading: W. H. Truesdale, and F. P. Underwood, of the Erie; W. J. Rich ards, Pottsville and Robert W. De forest, Jersey Central. York Fair Ground May Be Used as Concentration Camp For State's Recruits Ry Associated Press York, Pa.. March 21. —Anticipating ' passage of the administration bill for increase of the regular army, nego tiations are in progress with the York County Agricultural Society for use of its 73-acre fair ground here as a con centration camp for a Pennsylvania i quota of about 1,500 men. This leaked ; out to-day following a conference be tween the fair officials and representa tives of the "War Department, and the i adjutant general's office at Harris- J burg. While the Yorkers taken Into con i fidence were cautioned to observe ! secrecy, it is reported that the scheme | contemplates immediate concent ration | and training of the Pennsylvania re cruits here after army increase is authorized. It is proposed to house the soldiers in the permanent build ings on the fair grounds as a better protection to health than tents would afford and to provide a hospital and other accessories in order that the camp may be maintained for an in definite length of time, possibly all k sUiumer, it ig gaiO, I 200 FACTORIES TO BE SEIZED IN TOBACCO FRAUD Government Making Wholesale Arrests as Result of "Appall ing" Revenue Losses GIGA NT I C CONSPIRACY Firms All Over Country Band ed Together to Sell Cheap Cigars Without Stamps By Associated Press ; New York, March 21. More than ii a score of tobacco manufacturers were ; arrested here and in Brooklyn last night and warrants are said to be out j for many others, as a result of an in j vestigation made by internal revenue collectors who claim that the govern ment has been defrauded of millions of dollars throughout the country by the selling of cheap cigars and cigar -11 ets without stamps to consumers and ■I dealers for the past fifteen years. I .os.scs Appalling •j In a statement issued by the federal i authorities in charge of the investiga tion the losses to the government through these alleged illegal practices was described as "appalling." 11 "The proof so far obtained," the statement continued, "has resulted in . evidence being secured to date war ranting the seizure of about 200 fac tories in New York and elsewhere, which will be accomplished at once and the various offenders prosecuted criminally." Far-reaching' Conspiracy It was said that the investigation ! showed " a far-reaching and gigantic • | conspiracy to have existed." While {the authorities refused to say whether • j any large tobacco firms were involved I in the alleged frauds, they intimated [Continued on Page t l.] GARBAGE HAULERS JOIN ASHMEN IN STRIKE FOR RAISE Pickets Pursuade Fellow Workers to Join Demand j For More Money i;he ashmen employed by the Penn-! sylvania Reduction Company, who went on a strike on Saturday for higher wages, to-day persuaded the garbage collectors of the company, to J join them in their demands. No collections were made In any part of the city as the strike has tied up the company's plant and no agree ment has been reached. When the garbage collectors came out for work they were met at the , stable by a number of ashmen, who said that they would not let a wagon leave the place. After a short argu -1 ment all of the men left, none of them reporting for work. The men demand an Increase of about SO per cent. In wages, which, according to Reduction Company offl cials, cannot be met. A meeting was held yesterday by the officials and rep resentatives of the club which the men have formed but no agreement was reached. Another meeting was held this afternoon. No action will be taken by the City Health Bureau, it was said to-day until it is learned definitely whether the company can : continue to make regular collections of ashes and garftage. Aerial Dreadnaughl Is Baltimore Invention Baltimore, Md„ March 21. Ap plication for a patent for an armored aero dreadnaught, which will be un like any other aerial craft so far in vented, and which, it is claimed will be able to cross the Atlantic ocean in 20 hours, was made in the Patent office at Washington by Adam F. Bautro and L. Emerson Hoffman, of this city. Bautro has been working on plans for his machine since 1896. A company has been incorporated] and the capital stock of $500,000 has been subscribed. The armored dreadnaught will be minus the canvas wings of the mono plane and biplane of the heavier-than air type and shaped like a boat. The dreadnaught will be 60 feet in length, with 11-foot beam. Over the boat will be a steel uiubrella-sltaped para chute. THRKF. APPLICATIONS REFUSED Special to the Telegraph Reading. Pa., March 21. Three more hotel licenses were refused by ] Judges Wagner and Endllcli, who have thus far turned down five new a'ppli- ' cations and three old stands. Eugene H. Gregory, owner of a lodginghouse at. Bally, was refused a bar for lack of necessity. John J. Ruth lost the Cacos.sing Hotel license, in Lower Heidolberg. because of alleged all night parties in his place, and George S. Morris was refused a rehearing for a hotel here. LANCASTER MAN SHOOTS WIFE Lancaster, Pa., March 21. Be cause she was suing for divorce on the ground of cruel treatment, August Roschel. a builder yesterday afternoon shot his wife at her home in St. Joseph street. She is at St. Joseph's Hospital in a critical condition. Ros chel fled toward the Conestoga River and was captured two hours after the shooting.» BIG FIRE AFTER HAM) By Associated Press Amsterdam. March 21. The Tele- 1 uraaf states that the bombardment of German positions on the Belgian coast! yesterday by a squadron of 65 allied; aeroplanes lasted for several hours. It, says a gnat Ore was observed at /c-brugge after the raid over tliat ! Solstt ■' - - GERMANS FLEE BEFORE BRITISH IN SEA FIGHT Four English Destroyers Chase Teutonic Boats Into Zeebrugge MANY SHOTS EXCHANGED London Asserts Enemy Was Hit; Berlin Claims Small Damage and Victory By Associated Press London, March 21. An engage ment occurred yesterday off the Bel gian coast between four British and three German destroyers. Two of the German vessels were hit. Four men on the British boats were wounded. The official account of the action follows: v "Yesterday morning four British destroyers sighted three German de stroyers on the Belgian coast. The German destroyers at once turned and ran for Zeebrugge, chased by our own destroyers. "Shots were exchanged: during this short running tight two enemy boats were observed to have been hit. Our casualties were four men wounded." German Acount Berlin, March 21, via London. The German admiralty account of the battle between British destroyers and German torpedoboats off the Belgian coast follows: "On March 20 off the coast of Flanders a fight which was success ful for us took place between three German torpedoboats and a division of live British dstroyers. "The enemy broke off the engage ment after he had received several direct hits and he steamed out of sight at full speed. "We suffered only unimportant damage." GllOl'F OF SINN FEIN RIOTERS WOUND THREE POLICEMEN By Associated Press London, March 21. Sinn Fein rioters fired on the police la:<t night. Three of the police were wounded. The rioting occurred at Tullaniore, King's county, Ireland. A police ser geant was wounded serious'/ and a county inspector and a distri t inspec tor rei Ived slight wounds. I —~Tp —nr• "tti*—■ *TP' *• TT I "TP"* Tfvt* 1 — GIVE PRESIDENT CONTROL OVER RESERVE •! Wishinp-ton. IVT.irch 21.—T' first action of the , House o-day on the rmy bill wa ado t witl ut debate | > : an amendment to give .the President absolute control over the rese ( , ; PresifVn* would have i gj- es? tt iner< ase the array from 140,000 fighting ♦roops to , r I 175,000 and also to si ! plated re -C : sts. I 1 | Clinton Swigert, Bresr.ier, conductor at the' Pennsyl- I ' i when h< ht between two Hp, was, taken'to I the ' t P REPUBLICANS AD JO Til iN V> O T SELECTION. ' ( Chicago. The subcommitt ( , ® Republican National Committee adjourned without taking | action on the election of a temporary chairman for the Na- I | tional Convention here next June. The subcommittee will B meet again at the call of the chair about the middle of April. I L FLYING COLUMN ON VILLA'S TRAIL 1 - j Columbus, N. M., March 21.—American troops in Sep i arate flying columns have been dispatched to the vicinity of < £ j Crues, where Villa Was defeated by Carranza forces, to co- 'f | operate in an attempt to trap him. i I | ARMY AEROPLANE FALLS IN MEXICO . J Columbus, N. Mi, March 21.—A wireless from the field j' army n aeroplane, one of six to arrive to-day, wa > i 1 . 1 partially wrecked in a fifty-foot fall. The pilot, Lieutenant T. S. Bowen, was injured but not fatally. ! ROUT BANDITS, KILLING EIGHTEEN ' ' Tor; con, Mex., March 21.—Government troops have | routed a band of Villa followers .v. Trinidad, killing eigh-1 » teen and capturing sixteen saddle horses. They pursued i the bandits as far as Jimulco. i J SHOOTS FOUR CHILDREN, KILLS SELF ; Greensboro, N. C., Maich 21. —Daniel G. Patterson, | > toimcily A laihoa man here, shot ; kiUed'his 'four chil dren while they selpt to-day and then killed himself. He is > believed to have been temporarily insane. MARRIAGE '■! <;porKe Wn( moii Krfdrr «nd Hexella Hoover, city. Kmor.v X. Dlrtrlrh, riiumu ta» nr.i. nnd Mary llrnkrra Sloan. Haw-. | (horny. • I 16 PAGES CITY EDITION GERMANS MAKE BIG DRIVE AT FRENCH FLANK Push Southward With Aid of Liquid Fire and Heavy Bombardment RUSSIANS IN ISPAHAN Take Old Persian Capital; De feat Austrians at Vscieczk in Galicia The Germans before Verdun are making; a strong drive at, I he' French let* flank well toward the border of the neighboring Arsonno region and have gained ground south of Malan court, some ten miles northwest of Verdun. Their first attacks took him into the Malancourt wood and to-day's officials statement from Paris shows them to have pushed some distance farther southward, occupying the Avoeourt wood, the southern section of the Malancourt wooded district. The attacks have been made with important forces, with the support of heavy bombardment, by shells of large caliber and the throwing of liquid fire by detachments carrying special de vices for tlie purpose. The Germans attempted a further advance southward, but according to Paris their attempts to debouch from [Continued on Page I I.] Russians Are Reported to Have Entered Ispahan, Old Capital of Persia By Associated Frcss London. March 2t. A Renter dispatch from Teheran says Rus sian forces entered Ispahan, the old capital of Persia, on March lit. Isphan is one of the important cilies of Persia, with H population of some 80,000. It is 21S miles southeast of Teheran. The foregoing dispatch indicates a Russian movement further to the south than lias been reported hitherto. Russian forces after the capture of Hamadan advanced southwest to wards Kermanshah, in the direction of the Turkish frontier. The army now reported at Ispahan evidently is striking southward from the main Russian forces in the direction of the Persian gulf.
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