The SocialPiraies—Opening Chapter HARRISBURG lllllSto TELEGRAPH T "VV V\r •\|„ Q- BY CABHIEIi « CENTS A WBSK. LXXXV WO. O.i MKGLR COPIES » CKXTS. AMERICANS ATTACKED TIME AT PARRAL BY MEXICANS State Department Dispatches | From El Paso Refer to Un- ' Confirmed Reports of An -j other Fight; No Word Has Been Received From Gen eral Pershing For Three Days BIG BATTLE BEFORE CUERNAVACA IMMINENT Advance Guard of Carranza Forces in Plain Sight of Zapata Stronghold; Fears Are Felt For Safety of Americans and Other For eigners in Parral; Censor ship Over Land Lines Is Strict By Associated Vrrst Washington. 15. C„ April 13.—State Department dispatches from El Paso to-day refer to unconfirmed reports of a second fight with American troops at Parral. General Funston td-day telegraphed the War Department that he had not heard from General Pershing for three days. Secretary Baker said that General Funston was urging General . Pershing to rush a report on the Par- •' ral incident. General Funston's message was . taken to indicate that the silence of , General Pershing probably was due < to inability to get information rather 1 lhan to interruption of communica tion. General Funston has been in communication with other authorities , in close touch with the advance expe dition, but had asked General Per- J shlng to report oftener if possible to | keep the War Department advised. Secretary Baker said he still was ; waiting for a report on the confer- i ences between General Pershing and Generals Herrera and Gutierrez. Battle Is Imminent Eliseo Arredondo. General Car- ! ransta's ambassador here, said to-day he bad no further information of the fighting at Parral nor of reports of a later clash and had been advised of ] no developments in General Car ranxa's proposal for the withdrawal of American troops. Dispatches to the Carranza embassy said the arrival of the general and his party in Mexico City was accompanied by a popular demonstration. A battle at Cuernavaca, the Zapata ] stronghold, was reported imminent. The advance guard of the Carranza forces was said to be in plain sight of the fortress. Situation Unchanged Secretary Lansing considered the .Mexican situation unchanged to-day in any aspect. Unless official reports to General Funston disclose a more grave situa tion at Parral, where American troops were lired upon, than is now believed to exist, there was nothing to indicate that a change might be expected in ' the near future. Secretary Baker said General Funs ton had not heard from General Per shing directly for three days. That caused no uneasiness at the War De partment, however, as General Per- i shing has reported only when he had definite and important information to communicate. Reports from other commanders in the field gave no new status to the pursuit of Villa and his bandits. As time passes without official In formation on the Parral lighting from American source, officials are in- , dined to doubt that the clash .was as I serious as described in early Mexican advices. It was considered unlikely ; that the American force was in any ! serious plight since the commander might have sent back messengers to the nearest supporting column. Some army officers thought it i probable that when a report was re ceived. it would show the detachment i had passed in or around Parral since ' the disorder and was proceeding about j its business of pursuing Villa, headed j [Continued on Page 3] THE WEATHER] | For HnrrlNbiirK nnd vicinity foie « n*t* till * p. m., Sunday i l 'nlr to nltfht; Snmlny tncrennlng; clon«l|. • lie***, prohnhl> follonrri 1»y rnin l»y niftht; not much cltnnsc in trm ;>• rntnrc. lowest! to-night about I. degrees. For Kan tern Pennsylvania: Fair to night; Sunday Inerenaing cloudl- I probably followed by rain by night; moderate, variable winds. River The Juniata, Chemung, Upper North and I pper West hranelies will fall to-nlglit and Sunday. The Loner Xorth nnd l.ower West branches will rise slightly or remain near ly stationary to-night nnd fall Sunday. The main river will rise to-night and the upper portion will begin to fall Sunday. A stage of about 11.2 feet Is Indleated for llarrlMburg Sunday morning, with a inn \ I mum stage of about 14.J5 Suntlay afternoon. tiencral Conditions The storm that was central over l ake Ontario. Friday morning, has moved northenstward off the North Atlantic coast. It caused rain In the last twenty-fonr hours over the eastern part of the l-akf Heglon and In the I'pper Ohio Valley, and thence eastward to the Atlantic coast with some snow In \ew Fngland. There has been a general fall of 2 to 20 degrees In temperature over the eastern half of the e untry. Temperature: 8 a. m., 40. Sun: Rises, r»;2tl a. m.; sets, <1:44 p. m. Moon: Fnll moon. April IS, 12:07 a. m. River Staget 11.(1 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, «2. l.owest temperature 1(1. Mean temperature. r»4. .\ornuil temper* • i»re # 30. i \ PAXTANG BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ARE CARING FOR BIRDS IN BOROUGH j V. J I Members of the Junior Audubon Society of the Paxtan* borough schools were awarded a number of prizes ye«ter- i day afternoon for the efforts they exerted in building bird boxes and writing essays on birds. Prior to the awarding addresses were made by the Rev. 11. B. King, pastor of the Paxton Presbyterian Church, anil Postmaster T H Loser' I the iwo men who offered the prizes. The first prize for building the best bird house was awarded to Harry Staub who is shown in the insert. The lirst prize for writing the best essay on birds was given to Dorotliv Myers whose picture appears in the other insert. The group shows the members of the Audubon Societv, oigan/.ied for ihe purpose of protecting birds and providing homes for them. Oth»r prize winners yesterday 'were: McLain King Frederick Holmes I Clarence Cirich. William Sourber. Robert Myers. Edward Kspenshade, Carl Mead, William llorstiek. Martha Staub'l Dorothy Mayliew, Helen Cordr.v and Mary Attlck. The judges yesterday were Daniel M. Hicker and W. Ross Bealor. BIG ARTILLERY I FIGHT IS RAGING AROUND VERDUN Botli Sides Vigorously Pressing Bombardment; Infantry Is Quiet KAISER IS W OHRIED Perturbed Because of Dissatis faction Expressed Ilere Over Sussex Note Heavy artillery exchanges continue' along the front before Verdun but the I German infantry has not returned to the assault. The chief point of attack of the German suns last night was the area between Malancourt wood and hill 304, lo the west of the sector bom barded, most vigorously in the pre-j ceding 24 hours, although severe ar- i 1 tiilery fighting continued in the vi cinity of Corbeaux wood near the west bank of tlie river. East of the : Meuse there were intermittent artil lery engagements. Russians Active .Increased activity on the Galician, [Continued on Pago 2] Amendment Requiring Guardsmen to Take Oath to Obey President Passes Hv Associated Press Washington, D. C\, April 15. —To | j further strengthen federalization of S | the National Guard the Senate to-day, I K3 to 23, amended the army reorgani j zation bill to require guardsmen to i take an oath to obey the orders of the '■ President as well as the Governor of their State. The amendment was pre- ( sented by Senator Wadsworth, who j i said it originated in the National j Guard itself. | "The (thief purpose of the amend- j mcnt is to place National Guard sol- ' diers primarily in the service of the I United States and secondarily in the l ! service of the State," said Senator , Wadsworth. ESCAPES TORPEDO By Associated Press London, April 15. The steamship' lon which Baron Chelmsford, the new j : viceroy and governor general, was | proceeding to India was unsuccessfully | attacked by a submarine which fired a I j torpedo, but missed its aim. Lord | Chelmsford was accompanied by his wife and his four daughters and the I steamship had on board an unusual I number of women and children. A dispatch dated April 4 said that Baron Chelmsford had arrived at ; Bombay. POWDER BLAST INCENDIARY? By Associated Press • Charleston, W. Va., April 15.—0n information that an incendiary caused! the explosion last week in the powder i plant at Nemours, near filuefield, the State fire marshal has ordered that an' investigation be made. A workman and two children were killed by the! explosion. CHILD DIES FROM MEASLES: TWO OTHERS ARE ILL Richard Martin Heller, six months old. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Heller, 222 Myers street. Steelton, died ! last evening from measles. Three of ihe four Heller children are ill with! Hie disease. Funeral services will be k held to-morrow; HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1916, i GOVERNOR ENDORSES PORCH AND WINDO To the Editor of the Telegraph : Yours of the third was duly received. I most heartily approve the plan to which you refer. to rhe beautifying of Harrisburg by the use of porch and window boxes. The capital unquestionably ought to lead in such a move ment and it certainly would be gratifying if the results were great enough to have it called "The Flower City" of the State. Yours truly, M. G. BRUMBAUGH. — j AUCTION OFF I HEIRLOOMS AT RUMMAGE SALE Hospital Benefit Closes To night; Big Opportunity For Buyers "Fair and warmer" —dawned the j last, day of the big rummage sale. 308 j Market street. Fair and warmer, as ! business boomed, were the busy girls ' and ladies who have given of' their '.iliie and energies to making the sale ' "go." Over $2,800 had been taken in ■ during the first two days' sales and I no let-up to-day. A howling success is a mild ap- I pellation. To-night the "howl" will be [Continued on Page II ] HOW CAN RIVER CARNIVAL FUND BE COLLECTED? Newly - Appointed Committee to Discuss Problem at First Meeting Friday llow funds, with which to finance Harrisburg's 1916 river carnival, can 1 best be raised will be discussed Fri day evening. April 21, at a meeting- of jthe recently appointed water sports' committee. ! The session will be the first, to be called since City Planning Commis sioner George VV. Keily announced the personnel of the committee of canoe-; : ists, inotorboatmen and others inter | ested in the promotion of aquatic ac tivities and the development of the ! Susquehanna "basin." Notices will be . ! sent out in the course of a day or two! ] fixing 7.30 o'clock and the park de- j [Continued on Pago 7.] Alderman Kramme to Give Away 2,000 Eggs If you're not a child in Alderman J Fritz Kramme's bailiwick you'll be a; | much envied youngster Raster morn-1 jing because the alderman is going to' give away some 2.000 colored Easter i egßs on (hat occasion. The alderman I will announce the egg-giving time a i later. GOVERNOR HOPES HARRISBURG WILL BE FLOWER CITY j I Endorses Telegraph Plan; Cor respondent Tells of What Has Been Done at Dayton, Ohio In a letter lo Ihe editor Governor i Brumbaugh to-day heartily endorses the Telegraph's plan for the beautl-1 fleation of Harrisburg the coming sum- ! 1 met- by means of porch and window box decorations. Governor Brumbaugh believes that 1 this city, as the capital'of the State.! ! should be a model city in all respects' and he would like to liavq it known j , [Continued on Page 2J FIVE BIDS FOR AUDIT OF CITY TREASURY BOOR l Notable Firms Want to Devise New System of Keeping City's Accounts ij Five bids for auditing the books' and accounts of the city treasury fori the ten years prior to January 1, 1916 1 have already been filed with City Clerk i , Charles A. Miller and more are ex | pected before noon Monfiav, the time ! limit for receiving proposals. At the regular session of Council Tuesday morning the bids will be [Continued on I'age 7.] Federal Nitrate Plant Is Approved by Senate By Associated Press I Washington. April 15. With the! I big contest in the Senate over the i proposal to establish a government' nitrate plant for the manufacture of I explosives and fertilizer, disposed of! by the adoption of an amendment In I ■ corporation provision for such a plant i ! into the army reorganization bill, de-! bate on the measure was resumed to i day under the ten-minute rule. The tight over the proposal is not ended,! however. Kinal action will rest with | a conference between the .Senate and House. A similar proposal was de-1 I feated in the House during considera tion of its arwj iucreusti bill. k « 40-MILE-GALE RIPS OFF ROOF; SINKS STEAMER ; Force Bivermen to Flee With Craft to Sheltered Inlets BIVEB IS ON THE RISE I Blows Down Huge Electric Sign and Puis Street Lights Out of Commission A terrific gale yesterday afternoon and last night which at times reached | a velocity of forty miles an hour, sunk ia steamboat and a number of Hats in j 'the Susquehanna, tore down fences j in outlying districts, tort the roof off la house in New Cumberland and put ! part of the city lighting system out ol ! | service at intervals during the even-] ing. The huge electric sign over the. Emerson - Brantlngham Implemehtl Company building, was ripped ioose by the wind and the framework twisted! into an almost shapeless mass. The sign was 100 feet long and about I !lS feet high. A number of the letters! j and electric light globes were shatter-i I ed. The sign will be replaced, it was! announced to-day. The damage is not heavy in any sec tion but the wind followed suddenly after the rain of yesterday. The rain fall in this section caused a slight rise in the branches of the main river [Continued on Page 11.] Dresses Are Denounced as Curse and Burden to Women; Vote to Wear Trousers New York, April 15. American! I women soldiers will wear trousers as | part of their uniform if they follow. Ihe example set by Ihe 200 members lof the American women's league for I self defense. These women have been ! attending weekly drills here through lout the winter. The style of uniform j came up for vote last night and was 'the cause of animated discussion in | which Mrs. J. Hungerford Millbank. | I head of the organization, asserted I that the suits worn by (he women need ! not necessarily lie uniform. She ob-, 1 .iected to trousers on Ihe ground that | such a uniform would be opposed by j ! husbands. Others denounced dresßes as a ! "curse nnd burden" to women and ad vised the women soldiers to get rid tof them. "When your husbands go to Ihe front," said ono speaker, "you will have to guard your home against, ma-1 rauders. It will be a man's work and; you cannot do it in dresses." The vote: j tor trousers was carried by an over-' i whelming majority. Dynamite Used in Worst Wilkes-Barre Trolley Riot Sfecial to the Telegraph Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 15. Ex plosion of dynamite caps on rails of j the Wilkes-Barre Railway Company in the East End damaged cars on the | East End and Miners Mills lines and i resulted in the worst rioting this see | tion has witnessed since the com pany's 400 employes went on strike j six months ago. Scores of persons were slightly in- I jured by missiles hurled in the ] crowd, and Sergeant Hergert, of the I city detective squad, was rendered un | conscious and had to go to a hospital | for treatment. Thirty State troopers I aided a squad of city policemen iu dispersing the rioters, j The disorder marked the first ef ' fort on the part of the traction com | pany to operate cars over its East End | line. Crowds continued to gather all i evening, and after midnight the plae | ing of dynamite on the rails seemed to be a signal for a general attack on J the police. Equipment Arriving For Keystone Fair Speedway One 30-ton shovel has arrived at the site of the Keystone Slate Fair and Industrial Exposition Company, near Middietown, for use in grading work. One GO-ton shovel is on the road, to gether with three small locomotives nnd forty cars, while a third shovel will be shipped from Cuba, N. T. W. J. Randall, of Bennett & Randall, con ; tractors, will supervise the work, j which will be rushed in order that the j automobile speedway may be built without delay. The plans for the j speedway have just been received from j Graham. Burnham iSc Co., architects, . of Chicago. MORE RAIN NEXT WEEK ! Washington, D. C., April 15. The 1 Weather Bureau's forecast for the | week beginning to-morrow says: A disturbance that was over the i Rocky mountain region Saturday | morning will move eastward and be attended by general rains the first j part of the week over the region east !of the Mississippi River. Generally j fair weather will prevail In the East ern States after Tuesday. Tempera ' tures during the week will average near the normal in practically all parts of the country. U. S. ATTACHE RECALLED Washington. April 15. Lieut. V. ] D. Herbster, assistant naval attache at I the American embassy at Berlin, was j to-day ordered home for duty in the | intelligence bureau. TO BUILD NEW BRIDGE John L. L. Kuhn Company, con j tractors, have been awarded the con tract for the construction of a con- I crete bridge for the Pennsylvania rail road over Spring Creek, east of I Lochiel. The bridge will enrrv one | track. The price was not given! WOMAN FIRES AT GERMAN London. April 15. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Campany says that travelers arriving at The Hague front Berlin report | that a woman fired two shots from a revolver at Or. Karl Liebkneelit while the Socialist member of the Reichstag' I was walking in the street. Both shots missed. The assailant, the report was arrested. | 18 PAGES CITY EDITION TWO HURT WHEN PROGRESS CAR "PICKS" SWITCH Bear End Strikes Couple and Hurls Them Fifteen Feet . to Street WOMAN BADLY INJURED! Bushed to Harrisburg Hospital; May Recover; Many Nar row Escapes Struck by the rear end of a de-j railed car on the Progress line of the i Harrisburg Railways Company, as | they stepped from the curb at Fourth and Walnut streets, shortly after noon j to-day, two persons were hurled to the street and injured. They were: Miss Myrtle A. Beist'ine, 25 North Eighteenth street, bruises of the body] and back, and lacerations. Condition | | serious. Ray I'\ StaulTcr, 118 Crescent street, j | lacerations and bruises of the face and I i head. Will recover. j The pair was hurled twenty feet ' I and Ihe rear of the car was thrown | across Ihe street before it was stop ped. The young woman was picked up unconscious and carried into a i store nearby. A few minutes later bolh were rushed to the Harrisburg hospital for treatment. When Miss Beistline was struck she dropped her pay envelope containing more than s2l. Bystanders said that the car did not j | stop at the corner for passengers and ! that the front truck passed over the j switch safely. Ihe rear truck, liow j ever, -kicked the switch and left the: rails, the car striking the pair just 1 as they were about to cross the street. Witnesses said that, they believed both Stauffer and Miss Beistline intended i to cross diagonally. The car was put out of service be cause several of the cables were cut. Wilbur Brieker was the motorman and I. L. Dunkle was the conductor. Felix M. Davis, superintendent of ! Ihe Harrisburg Railways Company, I ordered an investigation and the j switch was given a thorough test. PAID ONE PREMIUM ON $15,000 Dr. Benjamin Eby, of Xew Cumber- j \ landfl who died this week of hemor rhage resulting when the bristle of a 1 i toothbrush lodged in his throat, was ! insured for 515,000. Dr. Eby had paid I only one premium on the policy, it is | said. SELL BANK STOCK | ! Harrisburg.—Ten shares of Merchants National bank' , stock, par SIOO, were sold a: $386 pei shares of 9 Central Trust, par $25, at slOl per share, and thirty shares U of Blough Brotl ers, in, par k SSO, were disposed of at $66.50 per share at a public auction H of securities on the courthouse steps this afternoon. The , . stocks belong to the estate of Margaret Wingert and were 1 ; l| sold by the Central Trust Company, administrator. A < 1 FRENCH TO FLOAT NEW LOAN j New York, Aprii 15.—The French fiscal agent in this I ! country announced to-day that negotiations for a new loan J not less than $'00,000,000 and may be double that amount ' were well under way. ' 1 |j W. H. BROOKS IS DEAD j ! I ► who introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature the high I ' •P ere to- l I ! : y s a member of the State House of Representa- ■ | . j R tives from 1883 to 1891. ' ) ELECTROCUTED ON HIS WEDDING DAY ( , Lancaster, Pa., April 15.—Elliott Murphy died this ' > morning as a result of falling on a transmission line carry- ;[ ! ' ing 70,000 volts. Murphy was to have been married to-day ' r !and his bride-to-be was at his bedside when he died. A r t* HERBERT TO RUN FOR SENATE Harrisburg. Friends of Alderman George D. Herbert, Eleventh Ward, to-day circulated nomination petitions for ' * his candidacy on the Democratic ticket for State Senator ; from this district. ■ ► 'a i» ■ MARIETTA MAN DROWNS I I . , Marietta, Pa., April IS.—Burd Shellenberger, aged 23, a » | * was drowned this afternoon when he jumped from his boat ' > j I into the Susquehanna river in an attempt to get to shore. L f f , " i MARRIAGE LICENSES<! I Andrew Bo((i nn<l Iva Fold, city. John Robert Hoffman mid Mnry .MartfUfiite Krou, city# » I A Martin I.rroy McCabe nnd Margaret Drutter Maxwell, city. »«M * % GERMANY TO BE GIVEN LOOPHOLE OF ESCAPE IN SUSSEX REPLY Work Is Continued on State ment of American Case Which Will Be Forwarded to Berlin as Soon as Af fadavits Are Examined PLANNED TO BRING SITUATION TO ISSUE Communication Will Be Final Word of U. S. in Submarine Outrages Way; to Be Left Open For Kaiser to Avoid Severance of Diplomatic Relations By Associated Press Washington, April 18. Tlie U. S. Government to-day was ready for its next step in the crisis with Germany over submarine warfare. This was the preparation of a communication to be sent to Berlin designed to bring the situation to an issue. I The communication will go forward within the next few days, at the very latest. The impression prevails here that it will not be dispatched pending [Continued on Page 7.] GRABS SB,OOO PAYROLIJ FROM OIRI-; KSCAI'KS Special to the Telegraph New llaven. Conn., April 15.—Miss I'ranees I. Martin, bookkeeper for the Pflaghar Hardware Specialty Com pany here, was held up In the street at the entrance to the company's office yesterday by an unidentified man and robbed of $3,090, the company ; payroll which she was carrying in a ! satchel. The robber escaped. According to Miss Martin the man stopped her and asked about getting work. Suddenly he snatched th« ; | satchel and ran. She followed him for a block, shouting for help.
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