145,000 New Yotkets March in Plea That Nation Prepare For War HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 109 THINK DE FACTO GOVERNMENT IS MAKING RENEWED EFFORTS IN HUNT Dispatch of 1,500 Carranza Troops Leads Official to Believe Assurance of Co operation to Get Border Raiders Is Sincere SITUATION SHOWS NO SIGNS OF CHANGE Coast Artillery Companies, Recently Ordered Out, Are Reaching First Along Line; Expect All to Arrive Soon By Associated Press Washington, D. C., May 13.—Dis patch of 1,500 Carranza troops north ward toward the border in the Big Bend district of Coahuila, reported in border advices, was regarded by offi cials here to-day as possible indication that the Mexican de facto government is making renewed efforts to capture bandits who have raided American border towns. Reports that the ex pedition might have a hostile purpose were not regarded seriously by ad ministration authorities. They intimated that the action tended to strengthen the belief that American and Mexican military au thorities at El Paso had reached an unwritten agreement on co-operation along the border to prevent further bandit raids. The Mexican situation shows no sign of immediate change here to-day. President Wilson was cruising down the Chesapeake bay on the yacht May flower and did not expect to return before Sunday or Monday. Secretary Baker had taken a week-end trip to Atlantic City and Newark. Sn Antonio, Texas, May 13.—Two companies of coast artillery reached here to-da.\ and pitched camp at Fort Sam Houston, near the militia en campment. It was said at headquar ters that all of the other companies included in the movement will have arrived by night, making a total of seven at this point. Four companies have been sent to strengthen forces at El Paso and Marathon. Major-General Funston will reach headquarters to-night after an ab sence of more than two weeks, necessi tated by the conference at El Taso with General Obregon, minister of war of the de l'acto government. He is expected to outline a program of work which will place the state troops in shape for service within two or three weeks. Marathon, Texas. May 13. One company of coast artillery arrived here from San Antonio. Texas, to-ilay. Part of it will ro south to join Colonel Fred erick W. Sibley's expeditionary force, while the remainder will help garrison Marathon. Colonel Sibley expects to have direct romnmnieation between Hoquillas and Marathon by Susday night. /Vo Idea Now of Calling Pennsylvania Guard Special io the Telegraph Atlantic City, N. .T.. May 13. Call ing out. of the National Guanl of Penn sylvania for service in Mexico or along the Rio Grande border is not even con templated as a remote contingency by the War Department, Secretary of War Maker said here last night, lie added that the situation In Mexico is more "hopeful" than it has been at any time for a week. His further statement that no more State troops are to he called out Is taken as indicating that the War Department is confident of its ability to cope with the situation with the force now at its disposal. "Pennsylvania has an excellent Na tional Guard organization, but I do not think there will be any need for us to avail ourselves of their services at this time," said Mr. Baker. "It is not now regarded probable that any more States will be called upon to put their troops in the field, as the Mexican situation appears to be well in hand." THE WEATHER For HnrrUburg nnd vicinity! Gen erally rlou<ly to-night nnd Sun da \ ; ii• 11 much change In tem perature. For Rnatern Pennsylvania: Gener ally cloudy to-night nnd Sunilny ; moderate north nnd nnrthnrat winds* Itlver The SiiNqnehnnnn river nnd nil Its trllmtnrlfN will probnltly continue to fnll alowly, A klurc of nhnut 4.5 feet In Indicated for llarrla liurit Sunday morning;. General Condition* The Southwest disturbance hns In creased In magnitude and now covers the greater part of the western half of the country with Its center over New Mexico. It has caused light to moderate rains In the Middle Mlsslnslppl V nlley and the Plains States and anonn anil rains continue In Mon tana and Wyoming. The lowest temperature reported this morning was 20 degrees at Winuemnccn, Nevada. Temperaturei » a. m„ 54. Sunt Rises, 4:M a. m.; sets. 7iia p. m. Moon i Fnll moon, May 17, Oill a. m. Itlver stagei 4.t» feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 72. I.owest temperature. ."St. Mean temperature, H3. Normal temperature, GO. BY CARRIER « CEBITS A WEEK. SIKGI.E COPIES 2 CENTS. 145,000 PEOPLE MARCH IN GREAT DEFENSE PARADE Patriots Stream Over Street# of New York in Prepared ness Demand 20,000 WOMEN IN LINE All Walks of Life Represented by Marchers; Reviewed by l\ S. Officials By Associated Press New York, May 13.—New York's belief that the nation should prepare I for war was expressed to-day by nearly 145,000 men and women march : ing in one of the greatest processions ever assembled for the promotion of an idea. Twenty abreast, filling the streets from curb to curb, keeping in step to the patriotic tunes of two hundred bands, the parade that began this morning will last for twelve hours or longer. Many business houses are closed while the city gives itself up to Its celebration of preparedness day. The sidewalks from the Battery to Fifty ninth street, the start and finish of the parade, are crowded. It is estimated that at least 1,000,000 persons saw the demonstration. Twenty thousand women are in the pageant. Workers in two hundred occupations, lawyers and other profes sional men, city officials and city em ployes and 10,000 members of the National Guard and thousands of vet erans of the Spanish war compose the long column. The lawyers are led by I twenty justices of the supreme court. Sixty-four Divisions The marchers were divided Into sixty-four divisions. The hour set for the start was 9.50 a. m. and it is ex pected that the last division will not reach the disbanding point until 10.30 o'clock to-night. Demands for a place in the parade so greatly exceeded the time and space that the promoters were compelled to reject 60,000 applications. Beginning at the Rattery. at the southern end of Manhattan Island, the divisions fell in line at intervals along Broadway, ("enter and Lafayette streets and Fifth avenue nearly to the reviewing stand erected in Madison Square. General Wood on Stand There, from a stand containing thou sands of spectators. Major-General Leonard Wood, Rear Admiral Na thaniel R. Usher, commander of the New York navy yard, and Mayor Mitcliel reviewed the parade. The main body of the march'ng thousands was composed of employes in shops and stores. In addition divi sions were composed of representa ti\cs of the theater and allied arts, engineers, architect*, clergymen, busi ness men, bankers and brokers, phy sicians and surgeons and public schools. Girls Prom Stores In the women's section were teach ers. stenographers, art students, gtrls from the department stores, the Ameri can Woman's League for Self-Defense and the Women's Preparedness Bat talion and representatives of various trades organizations. Anti-preparedness bodies, such as the Woman's Peace Party and the Socialists, endeavored to offset, the pre paredness spirit by circulation among the spectators of circulars. Across Fifth avenue from the reviewing stand the woman's party hung out a banner with the inscription: "There are only 100,000 of you. You are not the only patriots. Two million families, 500 000 mine workers and organized labor of America are opposed to what you and Wall street are marching for. Are you sure you are right?" Thousands See Vessels Maneuver at Charlestown By Associated Press Boston, Mass., May 13.—The Charles town navy yard, in which forty vessels of war had been assembled, was vis ited by thousands of persons to-day, including a "navy day" program, ar ranged by the Massachusetts auxiliary of the Naval Relief Society. Among the principal demonstrations If naval preparedness were the maneuvers of the T-<-l, representative of the latest type of submarines in the United States navy, and the launching of a torpedo by the torpedohoat detrover O'Brien. The fighting ships, ranging from submersibles to superdreadnaughts, were dressed for the occasion. Thomas A. Edison Comes Out Strongly For Col. Roosevelt Special to the Telegraph Oyster Bay, N. V., May 13. Thomas A. Edison has come out strongly in favor of Colonel Roosevelt. He has written a letter to Guy Emerson, sec retary of the Roosevelt Nonpartisan League, in which he says: i "Answering your question as to my views of Colonel Roosevelt for our next 1 President. I would say that I believe - |ne is absolutely the only man who ! j should oe considered at this crucial I • period, lie has more real statesman-I 1 shin, a better grasp of the most impor tant needs of this country and greater executive ability to handle the bis in ternational problems that will arise at the close of the war than all the other proposed candidates put together. His energy, capacity and vast experience in < I large affairs of State and nation for many years, together with his great patriotism and his intense American-! Ism and his great knowledge In all lines j of human endeavor make him decidedly I the most striking figure in American!, life. 1 FIND BODY OF MISSING WOMAN j By Associated Press Lancaster, Pa., May 13. From ar ticles taken from the body of the wo-| man drowned in the Susquehanna river and found on a rock last Tuesday near ' Safe Harbor, Albert O'Brien, of York, late yesterday identified the woman as his wife. She was demented and dis- ; appeared from home January 19. PRINCE BORIS TO WED London, May 13. The announce ment is expected shortly at Vienna of the bethrotlial of an Austrian arch-1 duchess and Prince Ports, heir to the ! throne of Bulgaria, according to an! Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange j Telegraph Company, 1 PRETTY FORD ADVOCATE THRILLING JOURNEY Wm ■ jnpp MISS FRIEDA MYLECRAINE Former Harrisburger with Ford Peace Pa/ty After months of exciting travel I through practically the only accessible 1 neutral countries in Europe with the ' Ford peace party, which sailed frcm New York December 4. 1915, on the Oscar 11, Miss Frieda Mylecraine, for > three years a stenographer with the State Board of Education in this city, has just returned from Europe. Miss Mylecraine is visiting in the city as the guest of Miss Edna Cugler, of the State Board of Education, and wll! leave to-morrow for her homo in Philadelphia. While here she told many of her friends of the trips through Norway, Sweden, Dennu'rk, ! Holland and later in England after £>he ; and Mrs. Joseph Fels, of Philadelphia, { left the Ford peace party. "1 would go again to-morrow if I ] had the opportunity," was her reply to ' the queries of friends, even after she | had told them of how for thirty-six j hours on one occasion everyone on! board wore a life belt the entire time. Arriving with the Ford party In I Christianta, Norway, December 19, Miss Mylecraine said that at first the people greeted them cautious-cordially. but after three or four days showed them the best of courtesies. Christmas Day was spent In Stockholm and New I Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Copenhagen, Denmark. ' Accompanied by Police Here, Miss Mylecraine said, she and Mrs. Fels, together with other "<llll - were warned on New Year's Eve not to venture outside the hotel without a military or police escort be cause of the big celebration. "Our Fourth of July and the Danish New Year's Eve celebration are almost the same," she said enthusiastically as she told of the excitement of the evening. "The hotel windows were boarded up, fireworks set off in the big square, and enormous crowds in the streets until after midnight." STEELTON FOLKS TUESDAY WILL VOTE VIA. BREADBOX Ballots For SBO,OOO Loans Must Be Cast in Separate Recep tacles; County Commissioners Solve Problem in Humble Way Steeltonians who vote for or against the SBO,OO improvement loans next Tuesday Will do so in a very hum ble way; they'll cast their ballots in hreadboxes. This is because the coun ty commissioners decreed to-day that separate boxes had to be provided Y. M. C. A. Will Consider How It May Assist in Preventing Labor Strikes Cleveland, Ohio, May 13. The question of the attitude of the Young Men's Christian Association In Indus trial strikes and how It may assist In preventing and terminating strikes, Will be one of the leading questions considered at the international con vention In session here. This question arose in the industrial section yester day afternoon and it was voted to name a committee of seven to-day to frame a policy for presentation discus sion and adoption Monday. At this morning's program of the general convention President, McK. King of the Hartford Theological Sem inary made an address In connection with a report on vocationa training. He will also speak before the student section this afternoon. ,1. K. BOWMAN' BUYS WAI.NCT STREET PROPERTY John K. Bowman has purchased the annex of Wltmer. Bair and Witmer, 213 Walnut street, occupied by Ed ward Hildebrand, florist. The new owner plans to rebuild the structure and use it for storing automobiles. The transaction was made through S. W. Fitzgerald. , HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1916. The party arrived in Rotterdam about a week later and remained there and in Amsterdam for a short time. "Norway and Sweden, of course, are anxious to remain neutral and our party was treated here with the great est of respect. In Stockholm when we left the people crowded around the railway station and sang national songs. Many Troops In Holland "In Denmark, however, much ten sion is caused by the efforts to pre vent war with Germany. No public meetings are held and the least bit of trouble created tremendous excite ment, but no troops are to be seen. In Holland it is almost the opposite. Three hundred thousand troops are mobilized. Kach morning the lirst sound is the bugle call and the clatter of horses' hoofs, guns are mounted on boats in the canals of Rotterdam ;.nd Amsterdam and both cities are strongly fortified." Miss Mylecraine, aftei the Ford party returned home, remained in Hol land. Denmark, Norway and Sweden a short time, and then with Mrs: Fels left for London, where they spent live weeks. Much difficulty was experi enced in entering and leaving England, hut eventually they obtained passage on the New Amsterdam, sailing from Falmouth, England, shortly after the Sussex disaster. Miss Mylecraine and Mrs. Fels arrived in Bergen, Norway, just before they sailed for England and immediately after the big tire. There was only one hotel in the city that could be used, and it was water soaked. Miss Mylecraine is enthusiastic over the peace work and she is extremely anxious to have all of her friends know that, a permanent peace party has been established in Stockholm -A'ith five representatives from the United States, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Switzerland. for loan tickets, and they had to get them in a hurry. So ten breadboxes, enough for Steelton's ten precincts were hastily bought from a nearby hardware store—and a chisel and a hammer turned the Japanned-tin hold ers into official ticket receivers. Locks were added. Five Joyriders Hurt When Stolen Automobile Crashes Through Fence Driving: up River Road at fifty miles an hour, in a ear owned by Dr. John J. Moflitt, 1727 North Second street. Klmer Fields lost control of' the machine, panions narrowly escaped death when Fields lost control of the machine, and the automobile turned upside down after crashing through a fence. Fields sustained a fractured collar bone; Stanley L. McKay, fractured col larbone and lacerations; Mrs. Stanley McKay, bruises; Frank Weiley, aged 8, cuts and bruises, and Mamie Luckett, lacerations. Fields' companions all re side at 610 Willow street. Walter Acy. aged 15. 132 Liberty street, who was hanging on to the rear of the car un noticed sustained a probable fracture of the skull and cuts -nd bruises. The accident occurred at Fort Hunter about !• o'clock last night. The two men and two boys were treated at the Harrlaburg hospital, and shortly after. Fields was arrested charged with steal ing the automobile. According to city police. Fields lost control of the uuto when he was pass ing around another machine. He is a chauffeur employed by Dr. Moffitt, and started off with the car after he had taken the physician 'to the Orpheuin WILL STRENGTHEN SLOPES OF RIVER FRONT WALL RAMP Park Department Riprap Passageway From Park to Wall AT MUENCH ST. MONDAY If Treatment Proves Economi cal Other Slopes Will Be Similarly Improved Work will begin Monday on the rip-rapping of the ramp on the River Front slope at Muench street with a view to determining whether or not the improvement can be ef fected at a reasonable cost. If the job can be completed at a fairly low figure similar treatment will be followed at Peffer street and later at all the passageways leading from the upper park walks to the River Front Wall. The ramp at Muench street is the longest and will prob ably prove the more costly of any. From sixty to sixty-five tons of limestone quarried from the new park way to the east of the city limits, will be used for the purpose so that the actual expenditure in connection with the work will be limited to labor, hauling, etc. The plan is to set the stones into the slopes for a distance of fifteen feet above the walk and the treatment will be similar to that adopted at the pumping station plaza. By this treatment Commissioner E. Z. Gross and Assistant Park Superinten dent Forrer expect to establish a solid bank of stones on the exposed por tions of the ramp slopes that will re sist the action of the water for years to come. Other Activities While the work on the ramps has been planned for Monday, the park officials and the limited corps of [Continued on Page ».] Eighteen Wealthy Women Believed Strangled by Hungarian "Bluebeard" Budapest, May 13.—Further official investigation into the case of the mod ern Bluebeard in the village of Cin kota, who, it developed, was known as Pela Kiss, shows that the man made a practice for years, according to the po lice, of decoying women by marriage advertisements, obtaining their money on marriage promises and then mur dering them. The police have a record of 18 wo men with whom Kiss was at various times associated, eight of whom have long been "-eported as missing, while the ten oth*-r« have not yet been found. 11l the house he had occupied were dis covered packages of love letters from I all parts of the world, Including the I United States. Four of seven sealed leaden cases found in the dwelling- were opened. Three contained the bodies of strangled women, while In the fourth were seven women's dresses. One was identified as belonging to a young woman who had been missing for ten years. There appears to be no doubt that Kiss died at Valjevo, Sorbla, as pre viously reported. Although he rarely worked, he spent money so generously that lie was known as "the American uncle." BAIIX DKSTItOYED BY FIRE Special to the Telegraph Lancaster, Pa., May 13.—The largo barn on Samuel A. Keen's farm near White Oak, with .100 bushels of grain and some livestock, was destroyed by fire today, causing a loss of $5,000. A spark from a traction engine caused the blaze. U.S. DELAYS WITH BRITIAN TO SHOW HAND IS FREE Blockade Negotiations Post poned Because of German "Conditions" Washington, D. C., May 13. Two I developments In the submarine Issue further emphasized the stiffening in the attitude of the United States Gov ernment toward Germany which has come to be a subject of much com -1 ment in diplomatic circles here. It was announced that instructions were cabled to James W. Gerard, American Ambassador at Berlin, to as certain and report upon the exact character find extent of the "punish ment" meted out to the submarine commander responsible for the at [Continucd on Pago B.] Price Maintenance Law Favored by Chamber of Commerce Referendum A special meeting of the directors! of the Chamber of Commerce was call- i ed this morning lo pass upon the ref-1 erendum vote taken this week among the members on the question of the | maintenance of resale prices. Just 126 out of the membership of 311 voted. 76 being in favor of the l proposition to bring about price main tenance by federal legislation and 50 j voting against. The directors this! morning voted 5 in favor and 3 against, ! 2 not voting. Consequently the mem-1 bershlp vote, which upheld the rec ommendation of the chosen commit-! tee on investigation, was In turn up held by the vote or the directors. Sec-' retar.v McColgin sent the report of the Harriaburg Chamber to the general secretary of the Chamber of Commerce lOf the United Stateß in Washington. GERMANS RESUME FIERCE FIGHTING AT DOUAUMONT Violent Bombardment Is Fol lowed by Attacks; Repulsed With Heavy Loss ARTILLERY IS ACT IV E Encounters in Volhynian Fort ress Triangle; Food Riots Cause Teuton to Resign The Douaumont region of the Ver dun front, where the Germans for more than two months past have been held fairly close to the line of their original advance in the February drive, is again the scene of desperate lighting. Violent bombardment of French po sitions in that sector yesterday was fol lowed by strong attacks in which, ac cording to the afternoon bulletin from Paris, the Germans suffered heavy losses anu failed to gain any ground. Across the Meuse, northwest of Ver jdun, no infantry encounters are re | ported but the artillery is being kept I busy firing on both sides being virtual i ly without cessation. Vienna to-day reports continually increasing activity in the vicinity of | the Volhynian fortress triangle on the [Continued on Pago it.] VANDALS DKSTItOY WIXDOWBOX Vandals last night destroyed the window flower boxes of Mrs. Mary Winemiller, 124 Soi'th Fourteenth 'street. Mrs. Winemiller has two large ! attractive boxes at her home, and ; much favorable comment has been I heard from folks who have seen this display. During last night (lowers in i both boxes were broken, and the | plants at the ends of each box torn out. MAYFI.OWKH AT M.Wi'Oin NKWS By Associated Press I Newport News. Va.. May 1.1. The yacht Mayflower with the President ! and Mrs. Wilson aboard for a week end cruise, anchored off the ship yard here this morning from Washington. CLARK TO RUN AGAIN Jefferson City, Mo., May 13. Speaker Champ Clark to-day filed for I renomination for Congressman from | the 9th Missouri district. i TROOP OUT ON HIKE ? J Pitt i Pa., May 13.—Lieuenant Nicodcrnus, of 1 J c 'uo ■...oi'b Troop, to-day took the men out for a hike J o. tout, uu. ing which they practiced the maneuvers of the | I infann sc vice. This evening the Governor's Troop will m patiol the streets of East- Pitsburgh until the saloons close, f t 11.45 P. M. Trooper Martin left the hospital to-day, but g* 9 Trooper Bittner is still at the hospital although much better. J: I ROTE IN TO-DAY'S GAME ( L j • Harry Rote, high school football and basketball star, ': I appeared this afternoon in the Harrisburg line-up in the in- I | I field, in the game with Lancaster. ? ( ; SIO,OOO FIRE AT YORK I I York, Pa., May 13.—The plant of the York Autobody 9 Company was destroyed by fire to-day. The loss was SIO,OOO. I REFUGEES LAND HERE fl ! New York, May 13.—More than 600 refugees from ' Greece and Serbia were among the 1,400 steerage passeng? i ► I on the p Duca D'Aosta which arrived here I J £ to-day from Mediterranean ports. > 1 ll *■ ' "JEWISH MARK TWAIN" IS DEAD ! New York, May 13.—Solomon Rabinowitz, poet, author * M < ' and playwright, died here to-day after a long illness. He i l was 57 years old. Scholom Alechem was his pen name but ' » ihe was best known as the "Jewish Market Twain.'* In all 1 ] his writings he strove for one aim: Jewish unity and free- * \ dom. , VILLA REPORTED AT HEAD OF 1100 MEN | i Feld Headquarters, near Mex., ? May 12, by Wireless to Columbus, N. M., May 13. j[ < Detachments of American troops to-day are investigating a £ rumor that Villa, at the head of a command of 1100 men, ( ,is in hiding in the mountains about 70 miles from border. • [ i MOTHERS' DAY PROCLAIMED a ► < 1 Harrisburg.—Mayor M«eals this afternoon issued a ! I proclamation fixing to-morrow as Mothers' Day in Harris- g » 1 burg. ' , MARRIAGE LICENSES ( > Knlrii llorilcn nml lt»»l Cnrrk, Mtrrlton. (irorm- Kllanurlh Noriley 11 ml Milrunrrt Cyrilln Knight, ScrantOß. | CITY EDITION 16 PAGES STANDING ARMY OF 206,000 IS INDICATED NOW Conferees on Reorganization Bill Agree Upon That Number 231,000 IN WAR TIME Report Will Be Submitted to Both Branches of Congress For Ratification Washington, May 13. A regulai army of 206,000 men at peace strength capable of expansion to 254,000 men in time of war, was agreed upon to day by Mouse and Senate conferee:; on the army reorganization bill, firs; of the big national defense measures The report, will be submitted to both branches of Congress for ratification next week. In the agreement on the regula' army the Senate bill system of organi zation was retained as a substitute fo the House system which would hav recruited a maximum army of 110,OOt men. The regular line of the army, the bit' now provides, can never go below I'iO,- 000, and its maximum strength i> times of peace would be 175,000 ofii (Continued on Page 0) Food Riots Force German Vice Chancellor to Resign Amsterdam, May 13. Dispatcht 1 from Berlin state that the resignation ' of Clemens Delbrueck, minister of the interior and vice chancellor has lieei ■ officially announced there. Minister Delbrueck has offered his resignation on account of illness which will re quire long treatment. No immediate appointment of his successors is ex pected. Clemens Delbrueck has been minis ter of the interior since July 1914. It the last few months be has been th; subject of attacks in the German newspaper on account of the foo< situation. Within the last few day.- thp Paris newspapers have predictee that his resignation would be forced by the Emperor on account of th< food riots which are reported to havi occurred In the principal Germai cities.
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