HARRISBURG ifSlljS TELEGRAPH .. n rrvT V WIiCK. LXXXV — No. 73 ?, V NO cViES A CEVTS. CAPTURE OF : RIP PLE BY FLYING L S. CAVALRYMEN IS NOW BELIE/ED TO BE IMMINENT i Troopers Are Combing Moan- j tains For Outlaws Scat tered Into Small Bands by Smashing Defeat; Injured Leg Will Prevent Villa From Making Long Flight DO NOT CREDIT REPORT HE HAS BEEN TAKEN Army Officers Do Not Believe Rumor That Chief Is Being Taken to Base at Casas Grandes; Operations Will Be Continued Against Flee ing Forces to Prevent Their Concentration By Associated t'rc.'S El Paso, Texas, April l.J —The cap ture of Francisco Villa by the flying squadrons of Americas cavalry searching the Sierra Madre mountains is believed by army officers at For' Rliss to be only a question of days. His forces scattered into smai lands after their smashing defeat c Wednesday by forces led by Colonel Dodd, Villa is reported to-day to havj sought, safety in hiding in some re cesses of the continental divide. Th bandit's injured leg, said to have bee> broken by a gunshot wound, or a fa from a horse, will doubtless preveit him from making any long flight ov. the rugged mountains. Rc|x>rte<l Captured That Villa already had been cai tured and was being brought back t he army base at Casas Grandes, w: report heard here to-day but it w ot credited in official quartet T exican Consul Andres Garcia had 1 rtord of any further engagements b> tween the American troops and ?')! forces. While the hunt for Villa contlnuf General Pershing will continue h operations against the tleeing bands ■ Villa men to prevent their concentr;- .ion and to destroy them. The fact that three days ha elapsed since the smashing blow d tivered at the Villa band in the vail of Santa Mara, without any furth news from General Pershing, h given birth to the most cxtravaga' speculation and rumors. The chief argument of time is th If Villa was as desperately injur as reported he should be by now the ban Is of his pursuers. Hut oth< retort by pointing out the w character of the country in which is hiding and the fact that mosi the natives of the mountains arc si to do all they can to baffle the Am ican soldiers by giving them false formation. All Depends on Speed Everything apparently depe upon the speed witli which Villa able to move. If his injuries h; forced him to seek safety in the moi tains of the divide, it is believed tl; . he cannot escape capture although o may elude his enemies for many d. s yet. On the other liands, if he has been able to push east or southeast, t>e ought by this time to have reachen a country where traveling is com paratively easy, water and food plein ful and his adherents numerous. The one thing that seems reas" nbly certain is that before the cl of to-day or to-morrow at the lat it must be definitely known if Vill a disabled and deserted fugitive m the mountains, or if he has again v > freedorp from the. cordon thriyr about him and is maintaining flight southward. In the height o excitement caused by the news ot • battle of Pan Geronime, interest. I is temporarily faded here in the questi ~. of the use of the Mexican railroads for transporting supplies to General Pershing's columns. Apparently the solution of this problem is still far from found. A good deal of curiosity has been aroused over the failure of any train to arrive at Juarez o\ei the Northwestern Railroad for a >veef No [Continued on Page 5.] THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and vicinity VTH tu-uieht and Suuda>; ••older Sunday. For Knutern I'mnnjtvnnin: lug cloudiness. followed l or* late or lfll somewhat lower Sunday) moderate south >"<• ■> Riirr M) : The .lunlntn, West Jl*""* 1 ' jM / Cticmung rivers are hr W North Ilrnnch roue to I*-' frel • Townnrin nlnce Init report. miV had fallen to 17.5 t S • • 1 *-| dan < wa reported rl*'''' "*! lllnKhnmton and w Ihl. morning. Th" aln rlter * rlslnic nlowlr at fin. ia " . root Inue to rise slowly J. "|j nearly Ma denary t-n Sunday. A stnte of " '"ri.h .iu feet U Indicated far Sunday mornlnar. and the '■■•*{ Sunday "111 probably ' n 1 IS feet, unless considerable in in falls. The North Branrfc altlve and In a conditio" re spon.l promptly to rain ad "#*ir trmperatureH. both Of wh are Y^ril rain falla In the neit &'"• l* hour*. General Conditions , Two center- of disturbance P esr 1 ntrengtli over Southern •* t Moon"' New moon, to-morrow. , Rlve'r ' St'nKei 17.1 feet -hove l.n- , , >iater mark. Vf terilay'a w 'jS? her Highest temperature, *• l.nnmt i. Mean temperature,,lii. isormal temperature. **■ . a ARm OFFICZRS l| NEKAL P. ELI AS CAL.LES, CARRANZA GOVERNOR OF SONORA Vrmv officers at Douglas. Ariz., held up mormons shipments of ammuni lireeted to General P. Elias Oalles, the i'arranz:i governor of the IIPX- State of Sonora, directly south of them. On orders from Washington the unition was released. Arizona people feared some of the bullets might ted against Americans. } M TRANSFERS ' OPPLE APRIL 1 IEALTY RECORDS ■order's Clerks Arc Busy' Throughout Half-holiday i Filing Deeds ' April 1 realt. ords of many years; 'PPled to-da\ ho unprecedented i ish of busin. i . the County Re- j order's office xlicative of activity in real estate ci .s. Int 111 close i , o'clock this after noon, Recorder .„ U ies K. Eentz kept open house f.ir the benefit of the late comers i ihat the actual num lie!• oi deeds and othur transfers can no- be determined itll the number Is totaled. Ihat the .business ran away ahead j [Continued qp Pag-e 7] IUERY CONFESSED SPY ON PLOTS TO CAPTURE VESSELS erniun Who Took Possession of Matoppo Taken From Lewes to New York New \ork. April 1. Accompanied j>y a detective, Ernest Schiller, the ernian stowaway who alone and un . aided took possession of the Britisli steamer Matoppo at sea last Wednes day night arrived at police head [Continued on Page ! I.] Penbrook Paving Matter Attracts Much Attention i So great is the interest in the Pe:-J l,. 1 ." 0 ? 1 ' I ,uv lns Mtnation that the Mot>r I' ''it' of Ilarrisburg has come to t)e 1 !, lei , of t I't* progressive citizens >1 , the borough who have been doi'ft /' tneir level best to save the State-fid .tuna which has been set aside by Coiir nitsstoner t'unningham for the pavltg' ; o1 1 iic main street under specification ired months ago. More than fo'£- ol 'he abutting property omr! ers iiavc already signed the petite J<" paving and others who hi4e| Hesitated at the risk of losing He' sevi ral thousand dollars which woAl "e paid bj the State are now falW! into line. T ' 'imp within which the wtole 'Mu si ion must be determined in oderj make available the State-aid V s : '•••"it extended to Tuesday next arfpl 1 l oped the ouncil of Penbrook Vll' ' f'ako favorable ;action Monday nitli l It ts believed ihat the council wllia< -t further delay inasmucl p s 'nonresidents of the borough are siotv-. ing every disposition to prevent#" unfortunate ending of the pafS I movement. 1 Newspapermen of State tr Hear Prominent Spealfrs (jl'hiladelpbla, April I.—Thp State dl idVial Xssoclatlon. Including the ate weeklies and th<- State associated >ll- I ' Ipf. which latter includes the I ll 'Jelphia Pittsburgh and all the lei lug ' Uilie- Of thr- State, will hold a >lnt ii gathering at the Hotel VVI lon, Aid'i L'L', witii morning, afternoot and ; •I'liiiß sessions. ll tt will be a luncheon at ! mn, whin addresses will be made b; Ma iJGeneral Leonard Wood, ex-S< itor ' lv*>x and other prominent persoi ges. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1916, BOOM GROWING AS COLONEL AND ROOT HEAL FEUD ; Shake Hands at Luncheon At- 1 . tended by Senator Lodge; Hatchet Is Buried Special In the Teh graph I New York, April 1. Colonel : Theodore Roosevelt had luncheon yes terday at the home of Robert, Bacon, 1 Park avenue, with former Senator Elihu Root, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, who is a leading candidate for temporary or permanent chairman of the coming i Republican National Convention, and General Leonard Wood. Announcement of this event at jwhich Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Root, [Continued on Page 7] RAIN ALONG NORTH BRANCH MAY SEND I KIVER UP HIGHER i If Weather Continues Fair Lit tle Trouble Is Expected trom Susquehanna I K Unless more than, half an inch of] rain falls along the North branch watershed of the Susquehanna river tonight and along the m-iin stream the flood waters win 17.0 tee' to-morrow morning accord ing to the prediction of R. n Demaln, forecast" in tho local offl, e of the I nited .States Weather Bureau. m " ln river rose slowly during [Continued on Pam- r>.] i 1,000 Cigar Factory Workers Get Voluntary Ten Per Cent. Increase j An in rease of 10 per cpiit in waires 1 v ir T oy ' lia? 1 Increase "was Vsfm- 1 1 the Steeiton ri g HM?omM, fl ' l s'°i re 'i° f ! Bay uk Hi ot hers of ,\Vw fact^n 8 ' ! plants' bot ", "■"'•burg "steeUon ' p JyeVknW aj' l V' 000 ""i rollers. NoUce S* the ?n?rJ ak ' rS Harriabuig ten in'imin ( ?" c reached ployes had | P f t f ol . the i" C .hV plant Shuts down Vverv as o'clock in Hio morninc ' a ' m 'dsy st 11 ent Koy : K Superintend plants Tiiis \'nvr'ea raT° 1 ' hl ''* at ?i UI I received ihe good newJ e #° lunU y " 1 body ha<t left for the i a , af,pr ver ''-, to tell It UM Monday ' Hnil will have | Judiciary Subcommittee Recommends Confirmation oi Brandeis Appointment 1 firmatipn to tiu °e ,th- e 'r o "" ,U,n<l CO "' Those VIFTTRIO. R E °H' Hl illee. Senators ' h ltoii wXh r,, ' 6tlon PEACE OR FIGHT HINGES ON NEW NEGOTIATIONS Bepublicans Endeavoring to Bring About Compromise . on Ambitions ,4 MAY BE SETTLED TODAY ! Senator Penrose and Governor . Brumbaugh Have Been In formed of Dangers The next forty-eight hours will (A, termine whether there will be h mony in the Republican party J 1 Pennsylvania at the May primaries of! whether there will lie a factional con- 1 test with all its unpleasant features, j, Men interested in preventing a| State-wide fight which will endanger; the election of Republican congress men and legislators and even of the j, State ticket are endeavoring to work' out a. plan which can be accepted by i i the leaders of both sides. Governor i Brumbaugh is understood to have j been told by men not Interested in ! the success of any faction of the pos- i 1 sibilities of a battle at the primaries. Senator Penrose has been tcld the ! same thing. Mutual friends have been busy here, at Philadelphia, at Pitts burgh and at Washington in an effort j to reach a compromise. Philadelphia advices are that Sen-1 ator Penrose is meeting his lieuten- : ants and preparing for war. Attor-i ney General Brown is doing the same' fContinued on Page 7] AUTOMATIC PHONE SYSTEM FOR H'B'G | ANNOUNCES C.V.T. Cumberland Volley to Replace Manual Exchange With Newer Apparatus | Cameron T/. Baer, general manager |of the Cumberland Valley Telephone I Company of Pa., to-day announced ! that the C. V. T. has completed ar- j rangements for the installation of the ! "automatic" telephone system in its 1 Harrisburg and Steolton districts at a ; cost of thousands of dollars. The contract, for the installation of | the new system has been signed with ■ the Automatic Electric Company of Chicago and Granville S. Herbert, en gineer of the Cumberland Valley Tele j phone Company, is now in Chicago going over the specifications. In Operation by Fall By early Fall the automatic system | will be in operation, announces Mr. | Bar. All telephones now on the I Harrisburg and Steelton manual ex change board will be made automa tic and C. V. T. subscribers will be I enabled to make connections with | out the necessity of calling exchange |as under the present system. I This change from the manual ex [Continued on Page 5.] Germany Does Not Have Official Knowledge of Attacks on Steamers ! Washington, April I.—Ambassador Gerard cabled the State Departmefct j to-day that he had been informed b}' the German government that nothing was known officially there of attack on the steamers Sussex and Englishman, but that an investigation was being made. He said the Ger man government informed him they had only newspaper reports of the two i cases up to the present. ! The contents of Ambassador Ger iard's dispatch, the first received from | him since inquiries about the two (ships were forwarded to Berlin several I days ago. was immediately sent by i wireless to President Wilson, who is taking a week-end trip down the tomac river on the naval yacht Si flower. The investigation promised may taKe a week or more. Submarine com manders at sea will have to report, be fore the German government will be in a position to say definitely whether one of its submarines attacked the Sussex or Englishman. Ex-President Taft Pays Social Call on Governor Prof. William Howard Taft. former i President of the United States, drop iped into Harrisburg about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was on his i way to Mercersburg to deliver a lec 11ure and had an hour to wait. He I strolled along the River Front and then to the Capitol. When he walked into the executive department unan nounced. Executive Clerk Deininger was in charge of the office and he 'promptly called up the Governor at the Executive Mansion and escorted the former President to the official home of the Governor. A year or so ago Mr. Taft was the guest of the Governor when he spoke tothe students of the Harrisburg Academy and the members of the Leg islature and it was a pleasant visit. The former President said that his call was purely social and the Gover nor said the same thing. When the former President left the mansion in the watchful care of Mr. Deininger, who was charged to see that he made his train, he remarked on the pleasure it had given him to greet his old friend again. PRESIDENT TO OPKN Ills CAMPAIGN AT BIG DINNER Special to the Telegraph Washington. April I.—President Wilson will open his campaign for re-, election at a dinner of the Common] Counsel cl ib, consisting of Cabinet! members ou Jeff arson Da/, April It, j ENCIRCLING NET AT VERDUN BEING PULLED TIGHTER Forces of Crown Prince Shift Attack and Gain Footing in Vaux SHELL M A L A N C O U R T Assault Is Not Renewed; Bus-, sian Port of Archangel Soon i to Be Opened The German Crown Prince has agai; shifted the point of his attack upon Verdun, delivering an effective blow to the northeast of the strong hold, gaining & footing in the village of Vaux, and drawing the net still closer about the fortress. West of the Meuse, where Malan court village was taken fpsterday tte assault was not resumed, but German artillery continued to dclugo the French positions with shells. The White Sea port of Archangel, | through which in the open season Russia receives great quantities of war i supplies, is expected to be again avai lable for traffic about the middle of I April, according to advices from Co penhagen. FIVE CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH; MOTHER IS DYING Overheated Stove Starts Blaze j Fatal to Youngsters All Under 10 Years of Age * By Associated Press Scranton, Pa., April 1. Five chil- j "dren were burned to death at S o'clock ! this morning In a fire which destroyed the home of Patrick Marion in North Keyser avenue, this city. They were: Loretta, 13 months; Margaret, 4 years; Mary, 7 years; ' Anna, 8 years, and Joseph, 10 years. The mother is in the State Hospital ' seriously burned a"nd suffering from injuries received in leaping from a second story window with her infant, ' i child, whom she had picked out of j its crib, already dead from burns, In her arms, i Burns to Ground A boarder, John McNamara. was J also badly hurt In .lumping out of a . window and Mr. Marion is suffering . from bad burns. Two others in the , , house escaped practically unharmed. The house was burned to the ground , j before firemen could get to the place, jthe trucks sticking in deep mud on _ ! the way. The fire is supposed to have started from an overheated stove. William B. Broadhurst Appointed to Annapolis by Congressman Kreider William Burgess Broadhurst. a grad j uate of the 1915 class of the Harrisbur* '! Academy, to-day was nominated for to Annapolis by Represen-I ' tative A. S. Kreider, who sent the nom- ! ; Ination to the Navy Department at a Washington. Broadhurst was named I as principal and Paul Revere Carl, son , of L. C. Carl, of Williamstown, was named as first alternate. Broadhurst completed his course at r the academy last Spring. He was ac > tlve In athletic circles also, playing on the football team, and participating . in track events. He was also a mem- i her of the debating team of the school and on the staff of the Academy Spec j | tator. Find Girl Unconscious on Reservoir Park Slope ' After lying unconscious for several • hours on a slope in Reservoir Park, • Miss Jeanette Armor, aged 16, daugh ; ter of Frank Armor, 263 7 Penn street, " Penbrook, was found late yesterday i afternoon by men returning from work. They called the ambulance and sent the girl to the Harrisburg Hos pital where she responded to treat ment. Physicians believe she suf- I . fered an attack of vertigo. The girl ! i left the Harrisburg bag and box fac- ! tory yesterday afternoon, where she ! • was employed, complaining of not j ■ I feeling well. ! McClintic-Marshall Buys ; Largest Steel Plate Mill in World; Price Is Secret , Pittsburgh, Pa., April I.—An lm-' , portant steel deal completed in the I Pittsburgh district, the largest, for a . number of years was announced to-dav ' when the McClintic-Marshall Construe-! I tlon Company took over the holdings lof the Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company at Leetsdale, Pa. Included in the transaction are slxtv flve acres lying between the Ohio river! and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wavne and Chicago railroad and the largest plant • in the world devoted to steel plate con struction. One of the main buildings . covers eight acres. The Riter-Conlev i Company was engaged in filling Import ant contracts for China. The monetary consideration was not made public. MOVING ? > In orilcr to avoltl mlnalnic n slnglr 1 JHHIIC of the Telegraph, xuliscrlbrrs who contemplate movlnic an- re quested to notify the Circulation || f . part men t promptly of chaiiKe of ad dreaa. . Don't fall to slve your old aa well j aa your new addrea*. ZEPPELIN FALLS IN THAMES AFTER RAID ON ENGLAND Damaged Flyer Is Captured by British Patrol Vessel, but Breaks to Pieces NINETY BOMBS DBOPPED I wenty - second Depredation; Anti-air Craft Guns Turn Raiders Back By Associated Press I—TWKXTV- L :-' < ; IIT , PERSONS WERE KICI.ED \M> FORTY-FOUR TN.TL RED IN ! E\ST NIGHT'S AIR RAID, ACCORD ING TO OITTCI.VIi FIGURES GIVKN OUT TO-DAY. IT WAS OFFICIALLY AN- I NOL NCFD THIS AFTKRNOON THAT ! THE ZEPPELIN DIRIGIBLE R\l._ ; LOON WHICH FELL INTO THE SEA ' WAS THE 1,-15. London, April I.—One of five Zeppe- J lins which visited the eastern counties of England during the night, dropping some ninety bombs, was damaged, pre sumably by British anti-aircraft guns, and came down off the Thames estuary. It surrendered to British pa- : trol boats. The crew was saved, but [Continued on Page Compromise Offer of Eleven Per Cent. Raise Is Accepted by Scranton Trolleymen By .Issacialed Press Scranton, Pa., April I.—The Scranton railway company's compromise offer of II per cent, increase to motormen anil conductors and 10 per cent, to machin ists and barnmen was unaniinously ratitled by the employes to-day. The demand was for cents an hour. The increase granted reaches and -!i cents for motormen and conductors according to years of service. The other employes got their demand. The j agreement is to run three years. IHSCI'SS HYDROELECTRIC PLANT By Associated Press Washington, April I.—Plans for a government hydroelectric plant to take nitrates from the air was discussed at ; a conference to-day between Secretary Baker, General Crozier, chief of or ; dnanee, and Senator Shields, author of I the water power bill. No conclusion i was reached. • CHIHUAHUA HEARS VILLA IS CAPTURED \ EL PASO. TEX., APRIL I.—A CHIHUAHUA DIS- | PATCH RECEIVED BY MEXICAN OFFICIALS IN I JUAREZ THIS AFTERNOON STATES THAT THERE 9 IS A REPORT IN CHIHUAHUA THAT VILLA HAS | BEEN CAPTURED IN MINACA. EFFORTS TO CON- FIRM THE REPORT HERE WAS WITHOUT RE- J SULT. 1 ASSERT RUSS LOSSES ARE 140,000 I Berlin, April I.—Ey Wireless.—Russian casualties in j I the recent oiTenrivc on the northern part of the line were not 1 | I less than 140,000 men the German war office estimated to- ' , day. 'j , DR. WAITE WILL GO OH TRIAL SOON l | New York, April I.—Dr. Waite will be placed on trial ! for the murder of his wealthy father-in-law within a month. , 1 He will be arraigned on the charges Monday morning if his , condition permits his removal from the hospital. STEAMSHIP AND SCHOONER ARE SUNK J " London, April I.—Lloyds reports the sinking of the ' 1 Norwegian steamship Nerne and the British schooner John ] | Pritchard. The crews were rescued. 1 ! 1 THREE HURT IN OIL PLANT FIRE Middletown, N. Y., April I.—Three persons were in- * jured, one perhaps fatally, in a fire which destroyed the oil plant of D. W. Fenton and Co., and threatened the eastern ? section of the city to-day. The loss is $25,000. ' ! . ' [ MARRIAGE • I (\\ 111 lo 111 1, Hfirtiiiim, Falrvlew townAhlp, lurk ruuntj* niiil Mury K, Nickel, city. b .lue* Henry Wde mid Hub* Andrew, city. I J t'harlea J. Bowman, Lucknoir, and Pearl M. Bechtel. city. 16 PAGES CITY EDITION GERMAN TORPEDO SINKS RED CROSS SHIP AT ANCHOR 115 Sisters of Charity, Medical Men and Wounded Are Drowned in Black Sea BOAT SINKS IN MINUTE Submarine Creeps Within 60 Yards and Fires Two Projec tiles in Vitals of Vessel Petrograd, April J.—The sinking of the Russian hospital ship Portugal in the Black Sea is thus described In a dispatch received from M. Goluboff, delegate-general of the Red Cross with the Caucasian army: "Yesterday at 8.30 o'clock in the evening, near Shade, our hospital ship Portugal, which was at anchor, was sunk by an enemy submarine, which fired two torpedoes from a range of sixty yards. After the second torpedo, which struck the engineroom, the ship sank in less than a minute. Save Kleven Sisters "Lifeboats from trawlers and from a torpedo boat which came up rescued eleven of the twenty-six sisters of charity who were aboard. They also saved three commanders, including thf French commander Duvent, and tw> , doctors, one priest. 120 men of tb< ! Russian naval medical corps and 1 men of tho French crew. "The missing include Count Tatist choff. delegate of the Red Cross, i' doctor, the senior sister of charity. Baroness Meyerdorff, and It othei sisters of charity. >">o men of the Rus sian medical service and 2!) of tin I French crew. 1.">8 Arc Saved "According to the commander, tic 1 Portugal had 273 persons aboord, o 'whom 15S were saved. On receivinr news of this outrage T proceeded ti j the spot and interviewed the survivor.* at the Red Cross hospital on shore. "We are exploring the nearby coast in search of further survivors. Then are a few wounded among the sur vivors. "The Portugal carried th usual Reii Crosa signs prominently displayed."
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