Washington Turns V\tilh Grave Expectancy to Berlin For Reply to Note HARRISBURG ifSl& TELEGRAPH LXXXY— Xo. 80 u. S. HAVING SAID LAST WORD TURNS GRAVELY EXPECTANT TO BERLIN FOR Decision Rests With Germany Whether Imperial Govern ment Shall Abandon Present Methods of Submarine Warfare or Break With Washington; President Will Wait Until End of Week For Answer to Virtual Ulti matum REPLY WITHIN THREE DAYS IS PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY, DIPLOMATS ASSERT Necessary Consultations With Officials Will Take Week, Count Von Bernstorff Tells Secretary Lansing at Con s lerence; Prospects For Amicable Settlement of Con troversy Are About Even; Ambassador Will Send Long Message to Kaiser Washington. April 20.—The United States government, having said its last word to Germany in the submarine controversy, turned to-day.with grave expectancy to Berlin, where rests the decision whether the imperial government shall abandon its present methods of submarine warfare or break with Washington. President Wilson probably will wait at least until the end of the week for Germanv to reply to his virtual ultimatum, which declares the intention of the United States to sever diplomatic relations un less the Berlin government "immediately" gives up the use of sub marines against commerce and squares her submarine policy with the principles of humanity and international law. Xo time limit was set in the communication, but the President is known to hold the opinion that three or four days would be a reason able period to allow to Germany for a decision. If none is forth coming within a reasonable time the step accomplishing a break in relations with all its grave possibilities, will be taken. Count \on Bernstorff, Germany's ambassador, would receive his passports and American ambassador Gerard at Berlin would be instructed to come home. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, went to the State De partment to-day for a conference with Secretary Lansing on the submarine warfare situation and also to discuss !he arrest in New York of Wolfe von tgel, secretary of former German mili tary attache Yon Papen. They were In conference fully twenty minutes. After the ambassador had left, the Secretary of State would make no Statement regarding the discussion which took place. Early Reply Impossible After the conference it was learned that German diplomats regard the re ceipt of a reply from Germany within two or three days as physically impos sible. It was thought a reply could not be received here before ten days. It was pointed out that Easter Mon day is a holiday in Germany and that necessary consultations of officals would cause almost another week to elapse before the German decision could be transmitted here. Ambassador Bernstorff refused to discuss his convention with Secretary Tensing but indicated his coll was not prompted by the arrival of instruc tions from his government. Prospects About Kven Regarding the liope hold by Ger man officials here for an amicable set tlement, one official described the prospect as a "toss up." Secretary Lansing explained in de tail to the German ambassador the position of the Cnited States and is understood to have expressed the sin rere hope that the attitude of the German Government would t>e so ad justed as to meet the position taken l\v the United States. The ambassador was understood to have informed the Secretary of tlie fic-iails of a message he sent yesterday t 1 his government making certain r> commendations which he believed, if acceptable to his government, would he satisfactory to the United States. Xot Sanguine In addition the ambassador in formed the Secretary of a fnessage of highly confidential nature he had re ceived from Berlin. l.ast night Count von Bernstorff ap peared hopeful that some way would be found to prevent a break of rela- President Wilson's Xote to (iemianv Will bo Found on I'age 13) THE WEATHER For llarrlsburg nml vicinity: Prob ably nliowers to-night and Fri day: warmer to-night, uith low- ••m (rmprrnture about 50 degrees. For Hastern Pennsylvania: l'roh ably Nhoucm to-night and Fri day; Marnier t<»-nlglit: moderate aontheaNt and Month wind*. River The *u*<|iiclinnim river and all Km tributarily will fall Mlowly or re main nenrly stationary. \ »tage of O.s fret IN ladlrated for llar rlsburg Friday morning. tieneral <'ouilltlons Tbr western illMturbnnce lias mov ed nlowly northeast w ar«| wltli Jittle ehange In intenMity and IN 'ow eentral over Southern Mln ne»o'i. It haM cauMi'd Nhowern In the last twenty-four hourM over the Plains State*. Upper MlMMlN sippl Valley and In the Take Ite gion anil local ralnn and nnowi lu the .\orthern liocky >louutnin region. There haM been a general rlNe of 2 to 14 degree.** In temperature enMt of the Mississippi river auil In the Northwest and extreme Southuent, while from the Roeky Xoun talnM eastward to the Mis sissippi river temperatures gen erally have fallen - to IS degrees. Temperature: 8 a. in.. 50. Sun: Rises, 5:11) a. m.; sets, ttiJfi p. m. Moon: Rises, 10:11 p. ni. River Stage: 7.5 feet above low water mark. Yesterday'* Weather Highest temperature, til. T/Owest temperature. 4t». Mean temperature, 5-#. formal temperature, 52. NY CARRIEK 0 CENTS A WEEK. SINGLE COIMES a CENTS. tions. His manner to-day Indicated that he was not so sanguine. After returning to the embassy. Count von Bernstorff prepared a long dispatch which probably will be sent to this government before night. The ambassador was authoritatively rep resented as having sought the Secre tary's views in regard to a tentative proposal that Germany issue imme diately a declaration covering all sub marine operations similar to that Is sued on January 7 for the operations in the Mediterranean. How the sug gestion was received was not divulged but the general belief is that 110 step will be considered until some direct response from Berlin has been re ceived by the Secretary of State. Urges Immediate Action Ambassador Bernstorff was under stood to have been impressed by the necessity of prompt action by' Ger many. In his message yesterday to [Continued on Pago 13] Removes Ban Against Children Attending Services on Easter Dr. J. .M. J. Raunick. city health officer, announced to-day that all chil dren. regardless of age, may be ad mitted to services 011 Easter, removing tlic ban which kept boys and girls under years of age from Sunday school April 9 and It!. Although last week it seemed almost necessary to close the Sunday schools to children again on Easter because of the measles epidemic. Dr. Raunick said to-day that the co-operation dur ing the last few weeks made it possible to remove the ban from the Sunday schools. Only twenty-five near cases Oi measles were reported to-day. The Health Bureau at its meeting last night authorized Dr. Raunick to select the date for the annual Spring • lean-up in Harrisburg, but the health officer said to-day that unless the Pennsylvania Reduction Company gets back on schedule in making ash and garbage collections it will be almost impossible to have a clean-up week. The bonding company for the reduc tion organizatoin was notified to-day of the situation here since the recent strike of ashmen and will probably take action. Get Reservoir Tennis Courts Ready For the Big "Opening" Saturday If the weatherman only continues |to behave, Reservoir Park tennis courts will be ready Saturday for the Spring "opening." Two of the courts, the upper-tier pair on the Whitehall street side, were rolled and lined to-day and by Satur day V. Grant Forrer, assistant park ! superintendent, expects to have the others in condition for the scores of ent usiasts who are patiently await ing a chance to limber up for the i Spring. j The weather of the last few days j has stirred the tennis players all over 1 | town and the phone in the park de j partment offices has been jingling' right along with inquiries. Troopers Quell I. W. W. and Mine Workers Clash By Associated Press j Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. April 20. State i troopers 'rom the Wyoming barrack* I were r ailed out to-day to quell trouble ! between organizers of the Industrial . j Workers of the World and members of the I nitfd Mine Workers of America at 1 two collieries of the Pennsylvania Coal Company here. Tin- Industrial Workers of the World i men appeared early to-day at the But- I ler Colliery and the Boston settlement) colliery and attempted to detain th* i union men from going to work. A i number of clashes occurred before the I State troopers drove away the Indus trial Workers of the World men. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 20. 1916. AMBASSADORS LIKELY TO RETURN HOME COU»T | H W The President's ultimatum to Germany on the U-boat issue has made the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany highly possible. In the event of the severance of relations, Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to Washington, will be handed his passports, and James W. Gerard, the United States ambassador to Berlin, will be recalled. BRYAN HERE, IS FLATLY AGAINST WILSON'S MOVE Dclares It Would Be Crime Against Civilization to Go Into War William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State, who passed through 1 Harrisburg to-day on his way to Wash ington, let it be known that he is de cidedly against the President's latest move in the German controversy. ."I believe it would be a crime against civilization for this country to go into this war, and therefore unwise for the country to do anything that would increase the chances of going l into war," declared Mr. Bryan. The ex-secretary was en route from St. Louis to Washington, D. C. He had intended going to .New Orleans to attend a teachers' meeting there, but after reading the ultimatum to Ger- , many in the papers he decided to go to the capital. The train from the West was late and stopped in Harrisburg but five minutes. Mr. Bryan bought : s<\eral newspapers and shook hands with half a dozen station attaches. ' FATHER SHOOTS DAUGHTER, THEN TAKES OWN LIFE Former Customs Collector Sends Two Bullets Into Back of Young Girl Bingliamton, N'. Y.. April 20.—Al fred L. Sharpe, for several years pre vious to coming to this city, collector of customs at El Paso, Texas, Is dead, | and his 18-year-old daughter, Holland, is in a hospital to-day, seriously wounded, following a quarrel last night between father and daughter which ended when Sharpe seized a revolver and after shooting the girl twice in the back, sent a bullet through his own heart. Doctors say the girl has a chance to recover. The bullets passed through her left lung and out of the breast. Sharpe until recently had been build ing superintendent for his cousin, Wil lis Kilmer. of this city. Money matters are said to have caused the quarrel which led to the shooting. Sharpe, according to report, had recently lost heavily in a business deal in Texas and his daughter want ed him to relinquish the trusteeship of property left by her mother and turn it over to the lawyers in San Antonio. This Sharpe refused to do and the shooting ended the quarrel. Two Killed, One Hurt When Speeding Auto Overturns By .Associated Press , Easton, Pa., April 20.—Stanley E. Gtomringer. 25, taxi service proprietor of this city, and Frank Schmid, 26, architect, of Phillipsburg, X. J., were killed and Thomas T. Miller, 22, of this city, received lacerations about the head, hands and face when the automobile in which they were riding struck a rut and upset at Broadway, N. J., ten miles from here, late last night. Miller is in the Easton Hos pital and it is said that he will re cover. Gomringer and Schmidt suf- ! fered fractured skulls when the ma- j chine upset and they were thrown out. I FATHER SAVES CHILDREN FROM BEDROOM FIRE Flames For Time Threatened Big Section at Tenth and Market Streets Crossed wires in the celling: of the i first floor of 1016-A Market street, owned l>y T. R. Lyme, plumber, started a blaze early this morning that for a short time threatened a number of other properties in the block, used as apartments and small business con cerns. The fire was discovered by Sirs. Fred Harris, who with her husband and three children, occupy three I rooms in the building, over the plumb ing shop. Mrs. Harris awoke about 4:30 o'clock and found the rooms filled with smoke. She called Mr. Harris who first rescued his small son, John, aged 7, and his two little daugh ters, Martha, aged 2, and Anna, aged j5. carrying them downstairs in their nightclothes. The children were re ' vtved with difficulty. An alarm was sent in a minute later ' [Continued on Page 9.] GOVERNOR HOPES TO BE BACK IN TOWN FOR EASTER Illness Not So Serious as He ported; Speaks in Boston Tuesday Governor Brumbaugh expects to be back in Harrisburg for Easter Sun day according to word which came from Washington shortly after noon to-day. The Governor is rapidly re covering from his of gail stones and present plans are for him to keep engagements in Boston next week and to make speeches in his campaign the following week. Private Secretary William 11. Ball to-day received a telephone message ftom Mrs. Brumbaugh from the home of Mr. Crosby, a personal friend of the Governor, with whom the Brum baughs have been staying, to the effect tihai the Governor was much im proved and eager to return to his worl; at the Capitol. The r.hysicians will probably allow him to leave Saturday, although if he I\T RKCEIVI RS FOR BIG RFAL FSTVrK FIRM By Associated Press New York, April 20.—Federal re ceivers forth» American Ueal FRtatc Company, capitalized at $3,000,000 and holding properties in and about New York city appraised at about $2 4,000,000, were appointed to-day by | United States Judge Hand in an equity suit brought by Olin J. Stephens, Inc., j and others on behalf of the mortgage I bond holders. ELEVEN KILLED, SCORES HURT IN WESTERN STORMS Succession of Tornadoes Sweep Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri TOWN LAID IN RUINS Six Dead and Fifty Injured in Stover; Relief Trains Are Sent By Associated I'rcss Kansas City, Mo., April 20.—Eleven persons were reported dead to-day and scores injured, several seriously,' in a succession of tornadoes which swept through the central portions of Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri last night. Property damage is believed to be heavy, although accurate information was unavailable early to-day because of disabled telegraph and telephone service. The storm areas centered; north of Topeka. Six persons are reported dead and ! about fifty injured in Stover, Morgan ; county, Missouri, with the town laid. in ruins as the result of a tornado last night. A special train was sent from Eldon, Missouri, to the relief of the stricken populace Of Stover. Congress Will Enact Legislation Repealing Free Sugar Clause By Associated Press Washington, April 20. Legislation repealing the free sugar clause of the tariff, which was to have become ef-' fective May 1 next, will be enacted im mediately by Congress. This was decided upon at a caucus of Senate Democrats last night when they voted to accept the House repeal iiiii instead of the Senate substitute providing for the retention of the ex- i isting duty of one cent a pound on sugar until 1920. As a result the pres ent duty will be continued indefinitely. The caucus action was influenced by arguments of House leaders that the government was greatly in need of revenue. Senate leaders had hereto fore insisted upon free sugar, con tending that a tax on a necessity of life was contrary to Democratic pol icy. The Senate majority were to vote to-day to recede from the disagree ment with the House, thus putting the I caucus action into effect. River Sports Committee Will Discuss Ways For Raising Carnival Funds I Card notices of the meeting Friday j evening at 7:30 o'clock of the river ! sports' committee recently named by i City Planner George W. Reily have | been sent out to the members and a : big attendance is expected. The ses ; sion will he held in the offices of the i park department. Discussion of ways and means for raising funds with which to conduct j Harrisburg's water carnival during the i coming year will he the feature of the 1 evening's program, it is understood. | The committee may formally put the | question up to Council as a request, | and, if funds are unavailable from j this source, the co-operation of the ! Chamber of Commerce and similar i bodies will be asked. 750,000,000 Barrels of Oil on Public Domain ; By Associated Press Washington, April 20.—The Senate: Public Lands committee had before, , it to-day for its information a com- < munication from Secretary Lane in which he estimates the petroleum con tent of the public domain at 750,000,- 000 barrels. j The area of oil-bearing lands in | public ownership is placed at approx-■ imately three million acres, most of 1 which is in Utah, Wyoming, Califor- , nia and Montana, with small acreages in Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota I and Louisiana. In addition, mention I is made of the two naval petroleum ; reserves in California and Wyoming, i embracing a total of nearly fifty thou sand acres. Rioters Beat Conductor and Smash Trolley Car New Kensington, Pa., April 20.—A j street car on the Allegheny Valley di- , vision of the West Penn Traction Company's lines where a strike has ( been in progress for eight months, 1 was attacked late last night by a mob and almost demolished. A. Keener, the conductor, was drag- ■ ged from the car and beaten into In- | j sensibility. He was rescued by the | police who beat a path through the : mob with the!:- clubs. The riot marked j the close of a labor demonstration In ' which fully 2,500 workmen of the J tower Allegheny Valley towns took part. FINDS 180(1 QUARTKR Foreman Picks Up Coin While at | ' Work on Tenth St. Operation j An old silver quarter, dated 1806, ! was dug up this morning on South < T«n*h street near Mulberry by George! < Sible. a foreman employed by W. S. Miller, contractor in charge of the con- ' struction of a new warehouse for I Montgomery & Co. Foreman Sible i found the coin in a pile of black dirt. I Later he discovered bones of horses and parts of leather harness. Tho ro'r. was found about sixty feet from the T-nth street line. It was < learned that during the Civil War the ( Fnlted States government had stables I in the vicinity of Tenth and Mulberry sLr«eie. FORI>T I IIM. IV YORK HILLS | Marietta, Pa , April 20.—A forest 1 fi;'3 is racing on the York county hills, < opposite Painbridge. There are no 1 buildings in close proximity, but the J loss to the timberland will be consid- i 5 erable. \ STRONG FORCE IS SENT TO WESTERN FRONT BY RUSSIA TO HELP ALLIES Large Number of Soldiers Land in France to Aid En tente in Great Struggle; Transports Believed to Have Sailed From Arch angel and Made Wide Sweep in Atlantic to Avoid Submarines FRENCH LAUNCH NEW DRIVE NEAR VERDUN Capture German Trenches, Redoubt and Many Prison ers on East Bank of Meuse; Fierce Counter Attacks Frustrate Crown Prince's Plan to Get Squeezing Tac tics Working on Right Flank Russia lms conic to the aid of France and Great Britain in the great struggle on the western front, sending a strong force of troops to light with the entente allies there. The Russians disembarked at Mar seilles at noon to-day, their arrival being noted by General Joffre, in the order of the day, the French com mander-in-chief citing their coining as another striking proof of Russia's de votion to the common cause of the allies. The Russians are believed to have [Continue), on I'age <>.] BRITISH ART C RITIC DIES Eondon, April -o.—The death is re ported at Florence of H. P. Thorne, one of the foremost British art critics. A. W. BRAY IS DEAD Orange. .\. J., April 20.—Andrew Watson Brqy, former vlce-p-esident general of the Sons of the American Revolution, died at his home here yes terday at the age of 61 years. £ I ; lees- L ' I lear his He i It and risburg a 5 FIRST NATIONAL J ? cr, teller at the First Na- ' I ssistant cashier, > e of the * Ihas be . Water 1 Company, Lemoyne. The changes were made at a meet ing of directors yesterday. I NOTE RECEIVED BY GERMANY « Barlia, April 20.—The America* note to Gef iarriv-j ■ ed im Barlia Ist* feat evartim*. Ambaeeador Garari will I L probably present v. to the fo t m office ear' 7 this afternoon. { KOLB SAYS GOVERNOR IS "DOING FINE" J | Philadelphia, April 20.—Governor Brumbaugh, who is ! I ill in Washington at the home of Charles I. Corby, form- 1 P erly a business associate o; y, the I Governor's close friend, was said to-day to be improvin 1 P rapidly and "nearly his old self." Mr. Kolb gave the first P definite information as to the pa* : :ts and told ■ I of his condition. He said he had talked with the Governor ■ yesterday by telephone and was assured that he was "doing ' I fine." £ CARRANZISTAS FIRE ON AVIATORS 1 Ganeral Pershing's Camp at the Front, April 15, via I Aeroplane to Columbus, N. M., April 20.—American aero- i I planes have baen fired upon several times by Mexicans and lin at least one case the assailants were Carranza soldiers. | | ley, 2 yaer-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Shesley, Lucknow, I CABINET CRISIS SETTLED t P London, April 20.—1t is stated authoritatively that a I settlement has baen reached ia the cabinet crisis. . MAURI AG£ LICENSES L CJuy M. StrnwMcr, JHi Hern burn, ami l«ulu >l. lftrmvn, Ifcrmlon, I'm. * P Outlier (ieoritf IfclMt aml Mary Pearl Lflio, city. 1 SI, entile lOnrl W olfc nn«l Alice .fane Pe«'k, city. Ilnymoml Fouler llojcner nn«l Knthryyn Koulk, city. t.eoritc Wnnlilnicton I Sltuler ami Olive Olenr l.cctfy. city. W alter Speck (iaatlrie ami Sylvia \ lain <'uf*'eiti!cr. < itaml»ci**l»tiri;. m t hnrlcM AuruMIIM SMcllenlterK nod Sue \\ lllii:iii*<»u, city. P Warren linnkn Free and Mm. ARJICM Daclinc Peter*, city. CITY EDITION 16 PAGES ARMY MEN FEAR TROOPS WILL BE FIRED ON WHEN THEY WITHDRAW Express Belief That Should Order Come to Return to American Soil, Marauding Bands Will Raise Cry That Soldiers Are in Retreat With Result That They Will Be in Dancer of Con stant Sniping CONNECTING LINES BEING STRENGTHENED General Pershing Is Prepar ing to Move in Large Units to Prevent Such Warfare; Believe Men Will Encoun ter More Difficulties in Re turn Than During Ad vance; Villa Last Report ed in Durango El Paso, Texas, April 20. While tlie American punitive expedition is j marking time to-day in its pursuit of Villa, efforts are being tliadc to strengthen the army bases and lines of communication. Fears are openly expressed by army officers that should an order come to withdraw the American troops, the Villa and other marauding bands will raise the cry that xlie American troops are in retreat with thr result that American soldiers will be subject to constant night attacks and sniping as | they retire from Mexico. To prevent such warfare against his columns, General Pershing is pre paring to be in a position to move his forces in large units. The belief is general at Fort Bliss that the troops will encounter more difficulties in a withdrawal from Mexico than they did [Continued on Page IS]