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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.