tour Unarmed British Steamships Sunk in Latest Series oi Sea Disasters HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 80 GEN. SALAZER IS IN MEXICO WITH PLAN TO CRUSH U.S. CAVALRYMEN Former Huerta Commander, Living in Texas Flees Border and Calls on Na tives to Join Him in the Protection of Mexican Soil BITTERLY DENOUNCES DE FACTO GOVERNMENT Determined to Do All He Can For Protection and Honor of His Country; More Car ranza Troops Are Massed Along Border as With drawal Argument By dissociated Press KI Paso, Texas, April 10.—In Ids flight from tile American cav alry (•Vancist'o \ i 11« is believed to have passed I'arral and with his hand, said to number over 20(l men. Is reported to be heading to I»uraii."o City. Detachments of the Thirteenth Cavalry are hard oil the bandit*B j trail, but 110 official word has come from the front to indicate their position. Mexican reports stated to-day that Villa was a full day ahead of his pursuers. If Villa succeeds in reaching Durnngo City, he probably will be Joined by the forces of the Arricta brothers. \ lio command more than l.OOti men. A statement attributed to Mex ican Consul (iarcia that Villa has escapee! any possibility of capture by the Americans, having crossed a dead line established by Presi dent Wilson and General Car ran/.a. beyond which it was agreed that the American troops would not continue their pursuit of the bandit, was flatly denied by Mr. (iarcia. El Paso. Texas, April 10.—There is considerable mystery to-day over the reported crossing; of the border by j General Ynez Salazar, the former Huerta general, who has been living here and who is said to have gone Into Mexico with avowedly sinister inten tions toward tlie United States. The story of the crossing was told i Ml'e police by n man who had been iosely associated with Salazar. An investigation was made and later the police announced they believed the story to be trvie. Mrs. Salazar was ouestioned and said her husband was away from home, but she did not know where he was. She denied, however, that he had entered Mexico. Calls On Patriotic Mexicans In the meantime a proclamation was discovered, purporting to lie signed by Salazar, in which lie called on all patriotic Mexicans to join him in the protection of Mexican soil. Elfego Kaca, who defended Salazar at his trial for gun-running, declared that [Continued oh Page 12.] Dray Crashes Into Car and Wagon in Walnut St. Tearing down Walnut street, from the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks to Third street, two runaway horses hitched to a heavy wngon owned bv Harrv >l. Cohen, liveryman, at 11T South Third street, and used to move scenery from the railroad to local theaters, crashed into a trolley ear and another wagon owned by T,. G. Clancy, fruit dealer. Captain of Police Joseph P. Thomp son was standing at Third and Wal nut streets as the team approached, and Jumped into a Third street car just be fore the crash. A number of windows in the ear were smashed, but the horses were stopped in front of the Columbus TTotel. No one was injured. Seven Sons Die in War, Father Jumps Into Sea Special to the Telegraph Philadelphia. April 10.—Grief over his seven sons, all of whom fell fight ing for France, drove Lucas Julian, seaman on the British steamship Euterpe, to drown himself while the ship was in mid Atlantic bound for this port. The Euterpe docked yesterday at Port Richmond and Captain Smith told the story. THE WEATHER For llnrrUlnii'K antl vicinity: Fnlr to-night anil Tuesday with slow ly rising tein |>eraturr; lowest to night nltou# :«i degrees. For Kiistem Pennsylvania: Fnlr to-night and Tuesday, slowly ris ing temperature: moderate west erly winds. River The *usi|iitiehnnun river anil nil Its Iriliutai'les will fall slowly or re main nearly stationary. A stage of about 7 ill feet Is Indicated for Ilarrlshuri; Tuesday morning. '•enerol Conditions Jhe storm from Texas tliai nan •-eutral over North Carolina. Sat urday mornluu. has moved north eastward to tlie \ortli Carolina ••oast. It caused uenerally cloudy weather with light ralas and snows In the Middle Atlantic and New England States in the Inst twenty-lour hours followed hy clearing weather. except in Northern New Kngland. n lirre It was snonlnit at time of observa tion this mornliiK. Temperatures have risen over near ly till the western half of the country s they have fallen In snath district* cast of the Missis sippi river. Temperature: s n . , n .. .IS. Son: Hlses, 5:38 a. m.! sets, 11:30 n. m. , Moon: Fall nioou, April IS, |2 S O7 a. in. itlver Magr: 7.M feet ahove low mark. Ye«terda>"* Weather lllshcst temperature. IX l.owest temperature, IKt. Mean temperature. .'IS. Normal tcuiperalure, IS, BY CARRIER " CENTS A WKFK. MNGLR COPIES 9 CENTS. FOUR UNARMED BRITISH SHIPS REPORTED SUNK Loss of Life in Latest Series of Disasters Not Definitely Known THREE MEN ARE MISSING Zafra, Largest of Victims, Touched at Newport News Re fore Crossing Atlantic By Associated Fftss London, April 10.—The sinking- of four more British steamships was re ported to-day. All of them were un armed. Lloyds announces the sinking of the SUksworth Hall, the Glenaimond and the Zafra. The captain and thirty men from the SUksworth Hall have been landed. Three men are missing. The crew of the Gienaimond was saved, latest available shipping records an nounce the Zafra as having touched at Newport News on March 11 for Puerto Padre. Cuba, for Queenstown. A Reuter dispatch from Malta tells of the sinking of the Yonne, formerly the Kastalia. which was sent to the bottom without warning. The crew was rescued. KASTERX CITY SI NK London, April 10. The British steamship Eastern City of 4,342 tons gross is reported to have been sunk. According to Information received at Lloyds the vessel was not armed. The latest report published regard ing the movement of the Eastern City record the sailing of the vessel from New York February 29 to St. Naziere. Grotesquely Attired Student Fishes in N. Y. Gutter For Snowflakes New York. April 10.—George Ed ward Peppis, a student in the College of the City of New York, was initiated into a fraternity yesterday. Thousands of persons on their way to church ob served him, myriads of small boys stopped to ask him about the big idea, and finally the police of the West One Hundred and Twenty-third street sta tion took him in charge and had him arraigned before a magistrate. Policeman Hartwig was walking along Seventh avenue when he saw the youth fishing in the gutter. The urban sportsman wore a red shirt, a brown soft hat, pulled down so that his eyes were hidden, ragged trousers and torn shoes, and about ten yards of red ribbon wound about his neck, lie held a long tlsbing rod parallel to the curb and was apparently fishing in a very small puddle for snowflakes. All efforts of the policeman to get a word out of I lie poser were unavailing. Now and again the apparition would look rtt an alarm clock at his side and expectorate in a cuspidor, a short dis tance away. The policeman look the entire production, with the exception of the cuspidor, to Ihe station. Later lie was taken to court, where Magis trate < 'obb dismissed him with a repri mand. 11-Year-Old Runaway From Newberry Thinks He Tramped to Conn. Special to the Telegraph Middletown, April 10. Walking up to the ticket window in the Penn sylvania railroad station here yester day afternoon. 11-year-old Edward Miller, who said his home is In New- I berry, near Wllllamsport, slapped down $2 beneath the window and de manded a ticket to Bristol, Conn. Pressed by John Peters, the agent, for the reason why he wanted to go to Bristol, the boy broke down and told the agent, that he wanted to visit a sick aunt there. Later he admitted 1 that he had run away from his home and thought that he was in Middle town, Conn. The lad was sent to Harrisburg where he promised to board a train for Williamsport and go home. House Debating Bill For Repeal of Sugar Clause By Associated I'ress Washington, D. C„ April 10. —The ; House bill repealing the free sugar j clause of the Underwood tariff law was taken up for debate in the Senate to day under an agreement to vote on (lie measure as amended by the finance committee to-morrow. The free sugar i clause would go into effect May 1 with ! a consequent loss in governmental revenues of approximately $42,000,000 unless it is repealed in the meantime. ; A lively contest was forecast as a result of the action of the Senate com mittee in amending the House bill so an to provide, instead of a flat repeal, an extension of the present duty of a i cent a pound until May 1, 1920. Con sideration of the sugar repeal bill dis places for the time being the army re organization bill. Work on it, how ever. will be resumed after the sugar measure-is out of the way. Negro Infantryman Is Killed by Texas Ranger Special to the Telegraph I Del Rio, Tex., April 10.—Private 1 John Wade, of 'Company C, Twenty- j fourth Infantry, a negro regiment., was killed hero last night when two rangers and Sheriff Almond attempted to arrest sixteen negro soldiers who had created a disturbance in a house in the restricted district. Three negroes are said to have at- i .tacked the officers while the latter: | were taking them to the jail. Wade jumped on It anger Barter, according to stories told by witnesses, pressed him to the ground and clubbed him on the head with the butt of his re volver. Lying on his back, Itarler drew his pistol and tired over his smoulder. Wade wua killed HARRTSBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1916. HOW STATE STREET WILL : T ~ S "" : V - : . . " : - ; ■ •—' . "" ; ' i ~., ' •s J ?#M . >.-xv 'y'x^*W> The Telegraph photographer has taken a few liberties with the scenery in State street, where the residents hav taken up the matter of window and porch box decorations, and the Telegraph artist has added a touch of his ow In order to show how the street will look next summer with window and porch boxes in full bloom. VERDUN FIGHT RAGING ALONG 13-MILE FRONT In Desperate Struggle For Dead Man's Hill Germans Pene trate Lines HOLD FIRM ELSEWHERE French Hold Upper Hand at AH Other Points; British Plan Other Advances Tn a desperate struggle for posses sion of Dead Man's Villi the French lines were penetrated last night for a distance of about 500 yards in the vicinity of the height. Paris an nounced to-day a battle which raged in the Verdun region along a 13-mile front north of the Stronghold. Elsewhere the French lines stood the test of the savage attacks on the Germans who are bringing notably heavy forces to bear in an effort to [Continued on Page 7] STEELTON MAN WILL HEAD NEW SCHWAB DEPT. \Y. S. Rutherford Will Dis tribute Orders From South Bethlehem W. S. Rutherford, for about fifteen i years manager of the order depart ment at the Steelton offices of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, will be come head of the central order de ; partment of the Bethlehem Steel Com pany, now being organized, it was learned to-day. The change will be i effective about June 1. The new department will receive all orders obtained by the Bethlehem .' Steel Company or any of its subsidiar ies and will be in charge of the distri : bution of these orders to the various 1 plants now controlled by the Schwab interests. Creation of this new department is i in line with the announced policy of the Schwab interests in centralizing [Continued on Page 2] Two Women, One 83, Other 90, Turn First Earth For New Church \ I The first ground was broken for 1116 ' new Messiah Lutheran Church at Sixth and Forster streets yesterday, by Mrs. A. G. Murray, aged 83 years, i and Mrs. Catherine Hatcher, who is in her 90th year. Both have been inem i bers of thfe church for sixty years. Bomb Throwers Attempt to Kill Army Police Chief By Associated fress Amo.v, China, April 10. An at tempt was made to-day to assassinate the chief of the military police. A jbomb thrown through a window of his residence damaged the building badly but no one was injured. The assas sins escaped tothe hills. The cruiser i Cincinnati arrived to-day. DESCENDANT OK I'KW FORCED TO JOIN ARMY London, April 10. Exemption i from service with the colors has been i refused Vernon George Green by the | tribunal at Sheerness, who pleaded ill health and conscientious objection land also made the assertion that he was a descendant of William Penn. | In his written appeal he said: "I was brought up under strict Christian principles not to take life in any form, my amestor being Wil liam Penn. Quaker, fourder of Penn js.\ lvania." STATE STREET ON HILL PROMISES TO BE BEAUTY SPOT Blocks From 14th fo 18lh Being Organized For Porch and Window Box Displays Efforts are now being made by ladies of the district to organize both sides of State street from Fourteenth to Eighteenth stree'ts for tlio porch window box campaign inaugurated by the Telegraph a few days ago. Miss Agnes Zeiders, of 1612 State street, has undertaken the work of organ izing the section of the street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, and Mrs. Thomas March, of 1712 State street, will look after that part of the thoroughfare between Seven teenth and Eighteenth streets. . Meetings will be held in this locality at a number of residences this week at which the ladies will discuss plans for the campaign. A keen but friendly rivalry exists there and if the street is decorated as is contemplated it will become unquestionably the most beautifully planted thoroughfare in Harrisburg and a show place for the entire city. [Continued on I'age 7] SAILORS CRAZED WITH THIRST LICK DEW FROM MASTS Eight Men Rescued From Sink ing Schooner After Week of Terrific Suffering Special to the Telegraph Baltimore, Md., April 10. Eight men, mad with thirst and hunger, huddled like drenched rats on the small, rotted cabin top of their sinking schooner, which bobbed like a tiny cork under the ruthless lash ing of the Atlantic —exhausted sailor men who stared uncomprehending (■Continued on Page 5.] Mob Shoots Negro Dead, Drags Body Behind Auto By .Associated Press Dawton, Okla.. April 10. —Earl Dud ley, a negro, was taken from the Com manche county jail here last night by n mob of 200 unmasked men and shot to death in the jail yard. Dudley was arrested late yesterday on a charge of fatally wounding Patrolman James Hayes while resisting arrest for a minor offense. Hayes died this morn ing. After Dudley had been killed the body was tied to an automobile and dragged through the streets Husband and Wife Lose Lives by Asphyxiation Scranton, Pa.. April 10.—Dying clasped in each other's arms, the dead bodies of Anthony J. Cassese and his wife. Mrs. Anna Richardson Cassese, of this city, were found yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. Cassese's sister, Mrs. Daniel Mills, 901 Duzerne street. An open gas jet. believed to have turned on accidentally, let enough gas into the room to kill them. Coroner J. Norman White declared it was an accident. WANT XIG'HT W ATt'IIMAN TO STOP THIEVING Residents of Paxtang horough are affixing their signatures to a circular and pledging to pay 50 cents each month to secure a night watchman for the town. The papers have been placed in the stores in the borough. Petty thieving has aroused the towns people and they have determined to put a stop to the nuisance. Already quite a number of signatures have been affixed and within the next week or ten days it is likely that a man will be at work patrolling the streets at nigUU J DARE NOT TRY TO INTERFERE WITH JURYMEN President Judge Kunkel Gravely Calls Attention to "Law of Land" STEEL CO. JUROR BEGS OFF Counsel Explains Ile'll Lose His Job if He Serves in April Common Pleas From the Dauphin County Bench President Judge Kunkel this morning pointedly declared that the attempt of individuals, corporations or anyone else to persuade any juror from at tending to the public's duty by serving in court, will not be tolerated. ! The court's declaration was made in connect! >n with the application of | counsel for Wilson P. Noll, foreman of itarpenters for the Pennsylvania Steel i company, for Noll's release from ser i [Continued on Page 7] MORE STRINGENT RULES TO CHECK MEASLES ISSUED Children May Not do to School From Relatives When Home Is Quarantined More stringent measures to check the epidemic of measles went into ef fect to-day. Dr. J. jr. J. Haunick. city health officer, to-day ordered that if a child in any family is suffering from measles rio other children in the same family shall be permitted to go to school un til the quarantine is removed from the house, whether the children re rContinued on Pa fie 2.] Bishop Tells Thrilling Story of Escape From Kaiser's Cruiser Emden How with scores of sleepless fellow passengers he peered anxious-eved into the darkness from the deck of the British steamship "Fooksang," while the quick-eared wireless man waited breathlessly with open key for the first "tip" of the whereabouts of the grim "Emden," the Kaiser's one-time Indian ocean commerce raider, is only one of the thrilling tales that the Rev. Dr. W. P. Eveland, bishop of the Methodist Church, and a missionarv to Asia, told his Hariisburg friends to day. The Bishop is a native of Harris burg but for the last four years ho has been busy at his station in India. For a few days Dr. and Mrs. Eveland are guests of Mrs. J. Austin Brandt, of CO3 North Front street, a sister of Mrs. j Eveland. The Eveland's real taste j of the world war was had when the i "Fooksang" was cautiously ploughing; its way, with deck and port lights darkened, toward Calcutta. And lust before dawn, as the "Fooksang" slip ped into the port, the dim gray sh:ipe I of the "Emden" appeared in the dis- j tant offing and a shell whistled across ' the "Fooksang's" bows. Because of Cold, Wilson Cancels Engagements Washington, D. C., April 10.—Presi- i dent Wilson cancelled a number of engagements to-day because of the cold he caught while down the Poto mac river on the Mayflower last Fri-j day night. The President remained in doors all day yesterday in the hope that lie could keep engagements to-day, but j this morning Dr. Grayson ordered that ' he remain away from his office. He expected to bo well enough to hold the Cabinet meeting to-morrow. j CIVIC CLUB WINS LEGAL FIGHT FOR FLEMING MANSION President Judge Ivunkel Settles Long-Fought Question in Opinion Today CITES CLUB S GREAT WORK "Citizens of Harrisburg Real Beneficiaries" Concludes Dauphin's Jurist In a comprehensive opinion handed down this morning President Judge George Kunkel of the Dauphin coun ty courts, decided that not only Is the bequest of Mrs. Virginia Hammond Fleming to the Civic Ciub of Harris burg of her home, No. Gl2 North Front stret. a "valid clmritahje gift," but that the club is lega'ly entitled to its claim of $258.34 for "rent from Frank Payne, lessee since litigation to determine these problems was begun in the Dauphin courts. The court's decision settles the problem of whether or not the Civic club may occupy "Overlook," the handsome Fleming residence adjacent to City PumpinK station along the Susquehanna, which Mrs. FleminK willed to the organization for club quarters. Whether or noth the case will be [Continued on Page 9.] Compromise Expected on Naval Appropriation Bill By .Associated Press Washington, D. b., April 10.— Preparation of the annual navy ap propriation bill, embracing the ad ministration's five-year building pro gram, was begun to-day by the House naval subcommittee on appropriations. Chairman Padgett hopes to have the matter ready for the House by April 25. Prospects are that the big fight in the bill will center around next year's program for capital ships. Secretary Daniels recommended that two dread naughts and two battle cruisers be authorised as aiiainst three battleships and four cruisers by the navy general board.* It is expected that the outcome will be a compromise between the two views and two battleships and four battle cruisers be recommended. ? WORKMAN FALLS IN RIVER ? I WORKING THIS t f AFTERNOON ON THE NEW CUMBERLAND VAL- t I LEY RAILROAD BRIDGE, C. J. TROY, 1447 BERRY 1 ft HILL STREET FELL THIRTY-FIVE FEET INI 4 J THE RIVER. FELLOW WORKMEN RUSHED TO | ; i BOATS AND STARTED A SEARCH FOR THE BODY. £ T AND THE POLICE HURRIED A PULMOTOR TO I 1 THE SCENE. AT A LATE HOUR THIS AFTE, A T NOON THE BODY HAD NOT BEEN FOUND. } J VILLA BANDITS DEFEATED AGAIN L \ Mexico City, April 10.—The followers of the bandit, ' j I Francisco Villa, have suffered another defeat at the town 1 t ® of an Antonio, Debabonoyoa, State of Chihuahua, accord- ' * I ! ing to advices received by the War Department, j I GERMAN DENIAL OF SUSSEX SINKING COMIN< * , Washington, April 10. Secretary Lansing announced !, to-day that Ambassador Gerard has cabled that tfce German * > l , office .informed him that it would hand ktra a not 1 > ' jbably to-day. j I Harrisburg— J. Lewis Sowers, of Gettysburg, employed | .! by the tment f Labor, snent one day obtaining signa- j | , ' V & >n of C. L. LaMotte, for alternate national < Kf I de! leek for $2.78 to the State Treas- £ ury, saying he could not take pay for a day he had not ' 11 ft worked for the department. LaMotte is an alternate Brum- T baugh delegate. 1 £ Philadelphia, April 10.—Attorney General Brown has • M apponited J. Paul MacElree, West Chester, advisory coun- < l l I , 4 < sel to the commission whcih is investigating the increase of |J < the price of anthracite after the enactment of anthracite coal | was made, it was said, because of the convenience to former ' , I Judge Robert S. Gawthrop, chairman of the commission. 4 1 London, April 10. A Lloyd dispatch from Cardiff, ' * < Wales, says the British steamship Libra has landed the cap | I tain and crew of the Norwegian steamer Skolyst, which was * > sunk without warning by a torpedo from a German subma- ' ! t i I I rine twenty-five miles north of the Isles of OjUessant, off l * ' -thr Ffnr-h rnn-,i. nn-tlii-wf,) nf ttrfstv I ;• MARRIAGE LICENSES <! i Samuel Shelter, Steelton, and Kinma Catherine Mosey, city. i Elmer Teliudy Nye, Derry township; Minnie Annie Oarrctl, Penbrook,. ) Clifford Smith anil Helen Marguerite Chandler, city. 5 CITY EDITION 14 PAGES GOVERNOR SILENT ON HIS RETURN TO HARRISBURG Refuses to Discuss the Oliver Matter or to Talk About the Now Famous Letter BELIEVED NOT FOUND YET Attorney General Brown Issues a Defiance—Alba Johnson as a Harmonizer I Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, central figure in the most notable epi sode of Pennsylvania politics in mora ; than a decade, returned to Harrisburg j a few minutes before noon to-day maintaining his policy of silence re garding the Oliver SI,OOO check trans action. The Governor declined to dis cuss the letter sent to him by David B. Oliver in making the contribution or to talk about any phases of the sit uation created by his anticipation of the publication of the documents In the case held by Mr. Oliver. The Governor came from Philadel phia accompanied by Mrs. Brumbaugh [Continued on Page 5.] Robert C. Morris Favors Roosevelt as Candidate New York, April 10. Robert C. Morris, international lawyer, vice president of the Union League Club, of which Elihu Hoot is president; three years chairman of the Republi can county committee, former presi dent of the Republican Club and n supporter of Taft. in 1912, has coma out for Theodore Roosevelt as the can didate of the Republican party this year. Mr. Morris, in a statement yesterday, declared that the only issues of tha i forthcoming campaign will be Amer ica's foreign policy and the true mean ing of the words "Americanism" antl "Patriotism." lie declared that of tha !( wo candidates to be considered ser iously, Justice Hughes, while an ideal leader in a. campaign to be waged on '• domestic issues, had been unable to announce his position on the burning questions that had arisen since tha | war. Colonel Roosevelt, he said, had mado his position clear and was the logi. I cal candidate of the Republican party.
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