Torpedoed Dutch Steamer Goes to Bottom in Six Minutes; Five Are Drowned HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T V W\7 V „ on BY CAKIMICK f» CENTS A WEKK, LAAav AO. lAJ KINGI.K COPIES 'J CENTS. HOLD TROOPERS , IN READINESS TO REINFORCE ARMY IF NECESSARY ' Soldiers Being Moved From Points Along Border to Base at Columbus So They Can Quickly Advance to Aid of General Pershing; No Efforts Being Made to Capture Villa CARRANZA FORCES TO MAINTAIN ORDER Not Gathered in Parral Dis trict as a Threat to Amer icans ; Mexican Consul Claims Work of Expedition Is Concluded and Hopes For Early Withdrawal From Mexico By Associated Press El Paso, Texas, April 21. —Move- ments of American troops from points along the border to the army base at Columbus, N. M., where they will be held In readiness to reinforce General Pershing's army in case of necessity, continued to-day. Dispatches from the front indicated that American troops were awaiting developments at Washington before making any fur ther effort 1o capture Villa. Officials of the de facto government said there was no basis for the reports that uprisings were Imminent in north ern Durango and lower Chihuahua. It was explained at Juarez that the move ment of the Carranza troops into the Parral district was not intended as a Ihreat to bar the further advance of the American forces, but that the dt: facto soldiers had been sent there to preserve order and prevent destruc tion of private property. Andres Garcia, Mexican consul, said to-day that the work of the American expedition was concluded and that he hoped that in a few days the order would come from Washington for the troops to be withdrawn. "We have the situation in hand," : said Mr. Garvin. "The Villa cause is broken, and if Villa still lives his pres tige is destroyed." Air. Garcia said the government on the first of next month will demand that all import and export duties be paid in gold. The Mexican consul did not credit the reports that the law de manding gold for such duties would create trouble. ixtkrkst ix co\ri:i{i.\ci: By Associated Press San Antonio, Mexico, April 21.—In terest in the Mexican situation cen tered to-day in the conference to be held here between General Scott, chief ot staff of the Army, and General Funston. General Scott, who is due to arrive from Washington to-night, is [Continued on Pace 20.] MONTANA r.I.KI'TING By Associated Press Helena, Mont., April 21.—Montana voters to-day are casting ballots i" a presidential primary. Presidential electors ami delegates to the national nonventions are also being chosen. There are four names on the ballot as presidential candidates—Wood row Wil son, Democrat: Senator A. B. Cum mins. of lowa, and Edward 11. AVoods, of Pennsylvania, Republicans, and Alton IJ. Befison, of New York, So rialist. jTHEWEATLER For llxirrlnlMirs: ninl vlelnllyi In probably nhouem lo- HIKIII anil Saturdays warmer to night, wltli lo%vent temperature about r.r» decree*; cooler Saturday. For Kastern Penanylvanla i I'rob iilily Mliowerw to-iilnlit and Satur day; warmer lu south portion to nlKlit, nomewhat eooler In Noutli portion Saturday; moderate Moutlierly wind*. River The miiin river will probably eon 11IIUe to fall nlowly. The tribu taries* will probably riMe MOuie u bat or remain nearly Mtation ary. \ staue of about 1913, she leaned over the banister one night just in time hear Airs. Fritchey say to Van Buskirk: 'is oo hungry. Ttihby dear? If oo Is I'll make oo some bouillon." This aroused Mrs. Van Buskirk's sus picions, so she said, and she engatred detectives. She added that she and the detectives surprised Van Buskirk apd Mrs. Fritchey in the pink guest room a few days later. Van Buskirk asserts the whole affair is a "frame-up." Mrs. Fritchey says so too. In her testimony she said she sur prised Mrs. Van Buskirk and Franklin Briggs. an undertaker of HaqkensacK, together one night. She said Briggs was attired in pink silk pajamas and Mrs. Van Buskirk had on a pink silk night gown. Briggs denied this. Find Quaker Oats Co. Not Operating in Violation of Sherman Antitrust Act Chicago. April 21. The Quaker Oats Company is not operating in violation of the Sherman act, accord ing to the decision by judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals here to-day. The finding came after two days of argument based upon testimony taken in various cities of the country since the suit was filed )n June 1913. Judges Julian W. Mack and Francis E. Baker found that the government had failed to make out a case against, the defendant but Judge Samuel Alf-chulrr dissented. The jurists have been sitting as a district court in order to facilitate possible appeal of the case to the Supreme Court of the 1 United States. Mob Attempts to Take Rioters From State Police By Associated Press Wilkes-Uarre, Pa., April 21. An-! other. Industrial Workers oC the World riot, broke out to-day at a! | colliery near Pittston. Several per j sons were injured and three arrests : [made by the State police before the! i trouble was suppressed. A mob followed the police as they j took their prisoners t<> .iaii and aev-1 oral times attempted to rescue them. > Juniata College Man Wins Oratorical Prize Edward C. Dielim, of Juniata College, won lirst prize of $75, and Everett T. Jones, of Bucknell College, second prize of $25, at the sixth annual contest of the Intercollegiate Oratorical Society,, held in the Technical High School Audi torium last night under the direction of the Harrisburg Branch of the Penn- i sylvania Arbitration and Peace Society. 1 Mr. Diehm spoke on "God's Path to 1 i Universal Peace," and Mr. Jones on I "War and Public Opinion." Dr. John J. ; Mullowney presided at tlie contest, and j Headmaster Arthur E. Brown, of the I Harrisburg: Academy; Or. Charles 8.1 Kager, Jr., of Technical High School, (and Professor Howard (2. Dibble, of Central High School, acted as judges. , Announcement of the winners was made ' by Professor Dibble. Governor Likely to Return Tonight Governor Martin <5. Brumbaugh is; I expected to return from Washington i | to-nisht or to-morrow. Word was received to-day that the i Governor was in much better condition | and that he bad recovered from his i attack of Friday. He has been in se j elusion ever since at the home of a j friend in Washington and under ex- j | pert medical care. The Governor's office was closed to- | • day and no otliciai statement regard- I inr; his condition wns issued. Changes Are Made in Russ Embassy Here Washington, D. April 21. Jo soph Loris-Melikoff, first secretary of I the Russian Embassy here, to-day re ceived notice of his promotion to be Russian Minister to Slam. A. Hcherbatskoy, counsellor of the embassy, who is leaving soon to be i come Minister to Brazil, prohabl'* will be succeeded by Constantl Onlu. now a member of the Russian (negation at | The Hague, and who has also been at taclied to the Russian HJmbnssv at Con ■ stantinople. ( HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1916 I EL PASO GIRLS CHEER WOUNDED SOLDIERS \ >. I <3 WOUHDEO SOhOJ £>£» (&4/STL* S£Wi f/C*. NURSING A WOUNDED SOLDIER Being wounded by a sniper's bullet in Mexico is not as bad as It sounds, if the wounded man can be sent to El Paso, Texas, to recuperate The Blrls at El Paso have formed a club, the object of which Is to visit the wounded United States soldiers at the Fort Bliss military hospital. This photograph shows one of the troopers enjoying a visit from the club members. The girls brought with them flowers and hooks for the wounded | and sick soldiers who were sent to the base hospital from stations in Mexico. PAXTANG GIRL'S CLOTHES BURNED FROM HER BODY Lighted Match Dropped in Coal Bucket Sets Skirt Afire While preparing breakfast this morning at the home of Harry 1... Holmes, manager of the Holmes Seed Company, at Paxtang, Miss Blanche Lehman aged 20, was horribly burn ed when her clothing caught fire from a lighted match which she, threw into the coal bucket. The girl had Just lighted the gas stove and forgot to extinguish the match before throwing It away. Iler dress caught fire and in a minute she was enveloped in ilames. The family and neighbors heard the girl's screams and rushed to the kitchen. Before the tlames were extinguished, more than two-thirds of her body had been burned. Miss Lehman was hurried to the Harrisburg hospital by W. Boss Beal or. in his automobile, where she was treated. Physicians said this afternoon that her condition was critical. Prac tically all of the lower part of her body is covered with burns. HOPE TO OPEN UPPER WILDWOOD ROAD IN WEEK Construction of Culvert in (lully Is Being Pushed by Department Within the next week, weather per- ' mitting, the bluff road along Wildwood I j lake from the dam to the Linglestown , road will be ready to open again to truffle, as-the finishing touches to the great pipe culvert in the gully north 1 of Hepford's farm are tietng made to -1 day. | The 30-incli pipe which will serve to j drain the little ravine in the first abrupt curve of the bluff road was) placed in position to-day and work was started on the construction of the concrete wing-walls. The earthen till that will be used on the job will ! ! be cut from the sharp curves in the j highway. The setting of the culvert i [Continued on Page i:y PETITIONS OF | YATES RETURNED BY OFFICIALS , .Not in Accordance With State> Law, Department Holds; (). P. Beckley Withdraws The petitions to place the name ofj the Rev. Dr. W. N. Yates, of this city, on the Republican and Democratic! State senatorial primary ballots were returned to him to-day by the depart ment of the Secretary of the Com-, ,mon wealth as not in form. The pa-: i pers were filed within a short time of! jthe expiration of the period for filing j j [Continued on Pago] us FRENCH WREST MORE TERRITORY FROM GERMANS I Return to Offensive Operations at Dead Man's Hill and Take Trenches | operations by the French 1 on both flanks of the Meuse in the , 1 Verdun region have resulted in the! j wresting of territory from the Ger ' mans. Following up their success of yes- 1 ijterday in the region of Dead Man's, ■ i Hill, where the Crown Prince's troops | were driven out of some elements of; ' trenches. General Petain's forces re-\ 1 turned to the attack last night and, 1 ! ' according to this afternoon's Paris 1 bulletin, captured additional trenches land took four officers and 150 men 1 j prisoners. In the Haudremont wood region '! east of the Meuse, where substantial German gains were scored recently, ! 'jthe French have been counter-attacli -1 ing and report having made gains In ! last night's lighting. The repulse of a 1 [Continued 011 Page] 28 ATTACK CHANGES WHOLE ASPECT OF VILLA CAMPAIGN Carranza Forces at Parral Blocked Excellent Opportun ity For Capture of Bandit Pershing's Camp at Front, April 15, via Aeroplane to Columbus, N. M„ April 21. —The fight at Parral, where, according to indisputable evidence reaching here to-day, Carranza troops in force attacked the cavalry command of Major Frank Tompkins, has , changed the entire aspect of the Villa ! chase so far as immediate military • plans are. concerend. This attack upon ' an American force which went In per fect good faith into Parral, in the most friendly fashion, blocked what seemed to be an excellent opportunity for either the capture of Villa or the dis- I posal of one of his strongest bands. Heretofore the American troops [Continued on Page 13] ERECT DONATO FOUNTAIN WITH AUDIT BALANCE? •Bowman Says He Wouldn't Ob ject to I'se of Money For Setting Up Group I City Council's decision to award the ! contract, for auditing the city treasury accounts at a cost of $2,000 less than the sum appropriated for the purpose may lead to applying the balance to a fund to provide for the erection in River Front Park of Giuseppe Don ! ato's sculptured fountain Kroup — j "thu Dance of Eternal Spring." | [Continued on IB.] ROBBED OF SIBO, LOCKED IN BOX CAR THREE DAYS Yardman Find Man Nearly Dead From Starvation and Exposure _ HEAR FEEBLE CRIES Two Men Got His Roll in Balti more, He Tells City Police Almost unconscious from starvation and thirst, after being: penned in a boxcar since Tuesday, Fred Williams, who said that his home was in Charleston, W. Va., was released this morning by yardmen of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, and hurried to the Harrisburg Hospital. Williams after being revived, told! j the hospital physicians, that he rep- j resented the Rufner Company, of Charleston, and that he went to Balti more on business on Tuesday. While in that city he met two men, and the party visited Roland Park, Baltimore. Here Williams said, he j did not know what happened and only remembers that he was robbed of SIHO. This morning he regained consciousness and found himself locked in a boxcar. His feeble cries were heard by trackmen j>assing the car, who opened the door. Williams is being treated at the j Harrisburg Hospital, and the police I are investigating. Physicians believe that he is suffering from the grip, ■ which developed from his exposure. Williams said at first that he believed he was poisoned but physicians made a thorough examination and found nothing to confirm the opinion. Torpedoed Dutch Ship Sinks in Six Minutes; Five of Crew Drowned By Associated Press London, April 21. A Lloyd's dispatch from Ymulden, Holland, nays the Dutch steamship Lodewijk Van Nassau was sunk yesterday after noon. She went down in six minutes, j Five of her crew were drowned. Thirty-six survivors have been landed at Ymulden. The Lodewijk Van Nassau sailed t from Chile in February with a cargo of saltpeter for Rotterdam. A Ber lin wireless dispatch of April 9 stated t she had been held up in the Downs by the British authorities since March j 22 and that her detention had aroused public opinion In Holland as the Dutch farmers feared the saltpeter woiibi arrive too late for their use this : Spring. Chicago Woman Found Not Guilty of Forcing Employe to Split Pay i Chicago, 111., April 21. Mrs. Louise Osborne Rowe, Commissioner of Public Welfare, was found not guilty by the city Civil Service Commission, in a formal j report made public to-day, of the 'charge that she compelled Mrs. Page Waller Baton, former superintendent of social surveys, to contribute a part |of her salary for the benefit of Sirs. ; Margaret 10. Miveiaz, a sister-in-law of j Mayor William Hale Thompson. | The commission found that the testl \ mony of Mrs. Eaton. Mrs. Howe's ac cuser. was unsubstantiated and uncor roborated. ' The investigation was begun by the commission on orders from Mnvor j Thompson after Mrs. Baton charged I that Mrs. Rowe compelled her to | her $:S.OOO a year salary. Mrs. Katon | alleged that she contributed a total of i SSOO to Mrs. Howe, her superior officer ; In the Department of Public Welfare, i the payments extending over a period ! of approximately six months. "Mazle i says you've got to come across." a i nlirase imputed to Mrs. Howe by Mrs. | Katon and referring to the wife of the j mayor, became prominent in the Inves i ligation. Dr. Fox fn Hospital: Will Undergo Slight Operation Next Week I Letters received to-day from the 1 Rev. Dr. John D. Fox, pastor of Grace i Methodist Church, who is in a Phila delphia hospital, are of a most cheer | ful character. Dr. Kox says he Is looking forward confidently to a slight I operation which he linds necessary to I have performed next week. His gen eral health is good and he regrets'very , nu;ch that his physicians feel it j necessary for him to remain in the hospital over the Master season, which he had planned to spend with his ! congregation. Miners Expect to Settle Wage Negotiations, Soon By Associated Press I New York, April 21. When the joint subcommittee representing the operators and miners in the anthracite fields met again to-day it was inti mated by Representatives of both sides that they expected to eloifo the j negotiations on wages and working conditions by to-morrow. lj The miners said they expected to receive a final proposal before to , day's session ends, containing con cessions. but whether tnese would meet the minimum demands 'of the | workers no one professed to know. Members of the miners' general com mittee declared that any proposal offered by the operators must include 1 the eight-hour day and recognition of the United Mine Workers as a j union and a substantial Increase in i wages. CHILD DIKS PROM IX.TCHIKS Leroy L. Sheesly, two-year-old son ;! of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Sheesly, of i j Lucknow, who was run down by a j trolley car yesterday at noon near , his home, died last evening at 5:2(1 'j o'clock in the Harrisburg Hospital ' from his injuries. Roth of the child's j legs were crushed and horribly | mangled. The boy died without re t gaining consciousness. JAPS OBJECT TO PARTS OF ASIATIC EXCLUSION BILL Ambassador Chinda Confers With Wilson on Pending Immigration Measure DRAWS RESEN TME N T Memorandum on Entire Sub ject Is Presented lo Stale Department By Associated Press Washington, April 21. Viscount! Chinda, the Japanese ambassador j conferred with President Wilson to- j day over tlie provision of the pending l immigration bill which proposed to. | enact into law the so-called gentle-! man's agreement restricting the imiui- i j gration of Japanese laborers. A mem orandum on the subject has been pre-! sentcd to the State Department. Tlu proposed inclusion in a law of an informal agreement which! Japan has promised on honor to ful fill, according to the Itoot-Takahira! j agreement. Other proposed Asiatic exclusion i features in the Mil as it has passed j the House and has been reported toi the Senate are understood to be the subjects of objection. For many obvious reasons the atti tude of the administration is said to lie one of disinclination to irritate the situation between Japan and the Unit j ed States which has been smouldering (Continued on Page 17.) i Steelton's Arbor Day Plans Include Exercises by 2,000 School Pupils Committees of the Municipal League, of Steelton, have about completed plans for the hip: Arbor Day celebration to he ho hi in Luther K. Kelker Park next Friday. The Shade Tree Commission, of Steelton, and the School Board will I co-operate to make the planting a suc cess. ! Til the morning the 2,000 pupils in the borough schools will participate in special exercises to he held in the vari ous schools, and at noon the scholars i will be dismissed and spend the after noon planting trees in the park. It has been arranged to have a gang | of workmen prepare holes for the trees in the morning and grub and clear away underbrush in the park. VILLA REPORTED FROM MANY LOCALITIES £ El Paso, April 21.—The continued absence of any confir- | mation of the report of the death of Francisco Villa has vived again the popular industry in El Paso of locating the f bandt. During the last two days he has been reported, from | "reliable Mexican sources ' as in Durango, Zacateca and Coa- i huila. His last location was given to-day by a Mexican road man at San Isidro, a litle town about thirty miles south I of Parral, in Durango. NO ACTION ON BRANDEIS NOMINATION S Washington, April 21.—For two hours to-day the Senate! Judiciary Committee considered the nomination of Louis D. \ Brandeis for the Supreme Court without reaching a vote. The $ will be considered further Monday. J I CHANCELLOR TO BE AWAY OVER HOLIDAYS i> & Paris, April 21.—The visit of Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg.T | the German chancellor to the headquarters of the general staff | | will extend over the Easter holidays according to the Geneva I % correspondent of the Havas News Agency. The chancellor left > for headquarters, Wednesday night. | j ' SHED AFIRE & Harrisburg.—Youngsters playing in an open lot at Fif- $ | teenth and Naudain streets, accidentally set fire to a small shed ] * owned by Kuhn and Hershey, contractors, causing $lO dam- a I I age. Allison Hill companies responded to an alarm from box? 64, Sixteenth and Berryhill streets. 5 U. S. ATTACHE IN GREECE Athens, April 21.—Captain Edward Davis, of the 13th United States cavalry, the first military attache to serve at the i American Legation in Greece, arrived at Athens to-day from \ the United States. TWENTY DIE IN EXPLOSION Bordeaux, April 21, 4.40 P. M.—An explosion in the \ | powder branch of a grenade factory here to-day resulted in the 1 I killing of twenty persons and injury to a number of others. WILSON TO SEE NEWEST GRANDCHILD \ [Washington, April 21.—President Wilson will go to Phil- # adelphia this afternoon to see his newest grandchild, the daugh-L ter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, born there recently. The*> President probably will return to Washington to-night. He I shortened a cabinet meeting in order to leave. ITALIANS MAKE GAINS ? H" Athens, Greece, April 21.—Italian forces have occupied? | Thanassi, Fagheon and Kiorka Heights, in Northern Epirus.near 2 ithe Greek-Albanian frontier. They are fortifying these posi-<^ Stions with heavy artillery. X | COLONEL BROWN REPORTS VILLA WOUNDED 1 c i Pershing's Camp at the Front, April 15, by Aeroplane to> i "Columbus, N. M., April 21.—After the Parral fight, Colonels W. C. Brown, of the Tenth United States cavalry obtained if fairly reliable evidence that Villa wounded, was being by an escort southward toward Durango. Villa himself, with f an escort of 150 men, was said to have passed through El Valle, J a small place about twenty miles west of Parral, bound south. A B/iAkIUAGL UCLMSES